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Monika Firl
Tatiana Shriver
Aliza Sherman, President, Cybergrrl Incorporated, founder, Webgrrls International
May Leong, Director, Webgrrls International
This text has been professionally transcribed. However, for timely distribution, it has not been edited or proofread against the tape.
MONIKA FIRL: There's a terrible problem of instigated violence. And so the question of trust and safety is, becomes a very, very real concern of peoples. In a context that one lives here in Chiapas, it's, it's—you just can't afford to be too trusting.
KRISTIN MC HUGH: This week on Common Ground, coping with conflict in Chiapas, Mexico. And later, we'll hear about women on the World Wide Web.
ALIZA SHERMAN: I began getting e-mails from women around the world asking, "Can I start a Webgrrls chapter too?" And very organically this network grew—both on-line and off-line—it now represents almost 100 chapters around the world. This is an opportunity for women at all different levels to share the information and share the experiences and knowledge that they have with other women so we can help each other succeed.
MC HUGH: Common Ground is a program on world affairs and the people who shape events. It's produced by the Stanley Foundation. I'm Kristin McHugh.
In December of 1997 a group of Tzotzil Indians in the village of Acteal in Chiapas, Mexico, were ambushed inside a church, dividing up clothes that had been donated to the community. Everyone tried to flee but they were chased and in the end 45 people were killed, mostly women and children. After the massacre many more people fled the community for fear of further attack. Some 10,000 are still refugees in their own country. A year-and-a-half later reporter Tatiana Shriver visited Acteal to find out how the community was coping and what their hopes are for the future.
TATIANA SHRIVER: Once you live the village of San Cristobal de Las Casas, the thriving tourist-oriented colonial city in the mountains of Chiapas, any sense of comfort you might feel as a tourist quickly falls away. To get to Acteal or any of the communities in the so-called "conflict zone" you go through several army checkpoints.
[sound of soldiers conversing with tourists]
SHRIVER: The soldiers are young men, mostly indigenous Tzotzil and Tzeltal Indians like the majority of the peasant farmers who live here. They say they are part of an effort to crack down on drug trafficking and they insist on seeing identification for all Mexicans and passports for all foreigners. You're asked where you've come from, where you're going, and how long you'll be.
[sound of soldiers conversing with tourists]
SHRIVER: In 1994 an armed uprising in southern Mexico surprised Mexican leaders and others around the world, especially because the brief but intense fighting came just as Mexico was joining the US and Canada as a trading partner in the North American Free Trade Agreement. The government quickly moved to negotiate with the Zapatista rebels, who are calling for broad rights and political autonomy for indigenous people. There's been an uneasy peace over the last five years but militarization of the region is escalating. Some 70,000 soldiers are based in camps around the communities thought to be sympathetic to the Zapatistas and several anti-Zapatista paramilitary groups operate in the area as well.
After passing through the Army barricades outside Acteal the community requires a letter of introduction from one of the human rights organizations that work in Chiapas.
[sound of people conversing]
SHRIVER: But visitors are welcome. In fact, a new visitors' house is being constructed so that foreign observers will have a place to stay.
[sound of people conversing]
SHRIVER: The house, like most here, will be of wood planks with a corrugated tin roof, nestled among coffee plants and fruit trees providing shade from the hot sun.
[sounds of hammering]
SHRIVER: The people who were attacked in the massacre here are members of the civil organization called "Las Abejas," "the bees." They're a pacifist Catholic group and they believe they were targeted by paramilitaries because they refused to take up arms against the Zapatistas.
[sounds of person talking]
SHRIVER: Mariano Perezcura leads a human rights delegation into a tiny wooden structure with a dirt floor. The church, were in December 1997, 45 people, including 21 women and 15 children, were killed when the building was ambushed.
MARIANO PEREZCURA: [via a translator] So on the 22nd some people were here to give the clothes out to the people and others were praying there for peace, when at around 11:20 people came from different directions, from there and from over there, to attack the people who were praying. And so people started fleeing down there to a little creek and to the other side as well. But they were coming from all sides, heavily armed. And the shooting started at around 11:30 and didn't end until about 4:00, when they actually went, got to the creek and started shooting there as well.
[sound of people conversing in Spanish]
SHRIVER: The building is empty now except for a small altar. On the walls marked by bullet holes, signs in Spanish and English call on visitors to pressure the government to punish the perpetrators of the crime and remove the Army and police from the community. After the massacre a large military base was installed 100 meters from the village. Augustine Vasquez is a leader of Las Abejas in Acteal. He says the presence of the military has changed daily life.
AUGUSTINE VAZQUEZ: [via a translator] The presence of the military makes life different and sad. Because they bring war and they violate the rights and they violate women. They have orders from the government. Las Abejas tries anyway, try not to get very sad. You always have to have time for happiness so that people do not get sick because they feel frightened. There must be days in which we have, we have to think about happiness and about continuing and that is how the struggle goes on and the resistance continues.
[sound of Mexican music]
SHRIVER: After the massacre about 4,000 members of Las Abejas left the area for fear of another attack. Some 6,000 members of pro-Zapatista villages nearby also fled to the safety of three large refugee camps. Last year these displaced people lost their entire coffee harvest, the only source of income for most farmers in this area. This year, not wanting to depend entirely on humanitarian aid, they tried to return to their fields to harvest the crop.
[sound of people working and talking in the fields]
SHRIVER: The coffee fields are like a thick forest cultivated up and down the steep mountain slopes.
[sound of people working and talking in the fields]
SHRIVER: Meeting a group of Tzotzil women hiking uphill with their coffee baskets, Andres Perez Perez says they're a brigade formed to help Maria Vazquez Gomez, a woman who lost nine members of her family in the massacre.
[sound of people working and talking in the fields]
SHRIVER: Perez explains that in order to harvest this year a team of observers from two human rights groups and the Red Cross accompany each farmer to the field. In one community the teams were confronted by armed men who threatened their lives, so they had to turn back.
[sound of people working and talking in the fields]
SHRIVER: Perez and Maria Vazquez Gomez are among a small number of Abejas still living in Acteal. Maria, speaking Tzotzil, says that after the massacre she couldn't work at all because she was too sad.
MARIA VAZQUEZ GOMEZ: [via a translator] After the massacre, when I realized that everyone had died, I wanted to go somewhere else, to look for another place to live. There was no one with me. I thought I was going to die also. Now, it's a little more relaxed. I don't feel the same way as before, when all my people died. I am working, more or less. It's not like it was when my mother and my siblings were alive. I'm suffering. I always remember my mother and my siblings but now they are all dead. But I can't abandon the land. I can't abandon theparcela, nor can I abandon the children that are with no parents, as I am now.
SHRIVER: Vazquez Gomez says working herparcela, or coffee patch, has given her some hope for the future and a happier life for the children.
[sound of children playing]
SHRIVER: Eleven of the displaced families from the highlands are living in a religious community in San Cristobal, called "La Nueva Primavera," "new spring."
[sound of people talking]
SHRIVER: Most of the houses here are wooden, a sign that they're temporary and the family still hope to return home. But Alonzo Lopez Mendez is building a two-room concrete house on rented land nearby. And though they have no furniture or shelves, he's moved in with his wife and three of their six children.
[sound of children playing]
SHRIVER: The children, happily playing on a mat in the corner, seem to be doing fine. But the pain their parents feel is evident. Alonzo and Faustina still seem shocked trying to understand what happened to them.
ALONZO LOPEZ MENDEZ: [via a translator] They want us to take up arms and kill our brothers, the Zapatistas. But we are not just an organization. We are catechastias. We are followers of God, of the Bible. Why should we kill our brothers? We are the same blood, the same race. That's the way we feel. But the Priistas, the paramilitaries, they say, "Ah, you are Zapatistas, because you don't want to help us."
SHRIVER: Lopez Mendez and other members of the Abejas are convinced that the paramilitaries are sponsored by the ruling party, the Pri, so when they talk of the paramilitaries they often say "Priistas" in the same breath. The government denies any connection and some 80 arrests have been made of those thought to be responsible for the massacre. But Lopez Mendez says he can't go back, because some of the perpetrators are still free in the community. And Faustina, speaking in Tzotzil, says she's doing better here.
FAUSTINA VAZQUEZ PEREZ: [via a translator] And now I feel a little bit calmer. And in my community I was locked in my house and people were ready with their guns. Here I am not suffering any more. I don't feel afraid. We see that people from all around the world come here and we feel that we are not alone and that we are many.
SHRIVER: When her husband was forced to flee under threat, Faustina was left alone with her children. She says the paramilitaries made her pay thousands of pesos or they'd burn down the house and kill her children. She gave birth to her youngest daughter, now 16 months old, while still alone in the house.
Padre Rodrigo is a Catholic priest who came to Chiapas to work with the displaced. He says one of the hardest things for them is to be away from their land.
PADRE RODRIGO: [via a translator] They consider the land as the axis of their life, fundamentally. To be so removed from the land has hurt them very deeply inside. It has changed their vision of the world, their sense of security, and culturally speaking, it's a verity.
SHRIVER: In the past, members of Las Abejas sold their coffee through a cooperative called Mahamut. But, since the massacre, for various reasons most of the Abejas stopped selling through Mahamut. Monika Firl is a staff person with the coffee producer organization in Chiapas called "campesino a campesino," "farmer to farmer." Firl and others say the presence of the paramilitaries in the communities has sown seeds of mistrust.
FIRL: There's a terrible problem of instigated violence. And so the question of trust and safety is, becomes a very, very real concern of peoples. So I think it's forced a lot of organizations to split. In a context that one lives here in Chiapas, it's, it's—you just can't afford to be too trusting.
SHRIVER: Now the Abejas want to start their own organic coffee enterprise. Despite the splits and mistrust, Father Rodrigo believes the Abejas, because of their particular values, are playing an important role in Chiapas, that could contribute to real peace in the region.
RODRIGO: [via a translator] It's very moving to see this in the relatives of the victims. I can testify that I haven't heard them say anything bad against the aggressors. No, I've found this other attitude, this desire to overcome the situation, find harmony within their communities and with other indigenous people even though they belong to other organizations.
SHRIVER: But for many individuals, like Faustina Vazquez Perez, reconciliation may be a long ways away.
VAZQUEZ PEREZ: [via a translator] Our brothers in Acteal didn't do anything. They were just praying. Why? Why, why did they kill them? Because we don't want to kill our brothers. They too away all of our things. And we were left with nothing. We didn't do anything. That is why our hearts changed.
[sound of people singing]
SHRIVER: In the Catholic church in San Cristobal Bishop Samuel Ruiz presides over a special mass commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Human Rights Center's work in the region. In the front pews are two rows of Zapatista delegates who've come to San Cristobal to promote a national plebiscite on indigenous rights. The Abejas and other victims of the violence now prevalent in Chiapas are putting their hope in this and other movements, away from armed conflict, and towards negotiated peace.
For Common Ground I'm Tatiana Shriver.
MC HUGH: Coming up next, a report on an international organization for women on the Web.
SHERMAN: The Internet is absolutely an amazing communication tool across the board, perfect for organizing. Webgrrls is extremely specific about what we stand for and what we're here to do. We are here to empower women to use technology for their personal and their professional gain.
MC HUGH: Printed transcripts and audiocassettes of this program are available. Listen at the end of the broadcast for details. Common Ground is a service of the Stanley Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that conducts a wide a range of programs designed to provoke thought and encourage dialogue on world affairs.
MC HUGH: From its beginning, the World Wide Web has had a predominantly male and predominantly American user base. Common Ground Senior Producer Keith Porter spoke with a couple of women who are trying to change that.
PORTER: Aliza Sherman is President of Cybergrrl Incorporated, and founder of Webgrrls International. In both cases "girl" is spelled "grrl."
SHERMAN: Webgrrls International is a networking group and so much more. It is an opportunity for women to meet in the real world, to network about the Internet, technology, new media. To mentor one another, to teach skills, to learn, to intern, all around trying to get women involved in technology, be part of the process of creating it, and to use it in their everyday lives as well. The mission of Webgrrls is to help women succeed in an increasingly technical workplace and world. And it is really a bridge to get them from the learning process to the using process and the creating process, of technology.
PORTER: Webgrrls is spelled with two "r's" and no "i." How come?
SHERMAN: For no major political reason or anything more than when I first went on the Web and I created my personal home page and I was calling myself "Cybergrrl," I didn't want to spell it g-i-r-l; it sounded like a little girl. I tried "Cyberwoman" and it didn't quite have the right ring to it. Cyber came from William Gibson's Neuromancer, and I switched the "i" to an "r" and I liked the attitude. I thought it had a sense of humor. It was playful and it was representing a cartoon character, which was representing me. And she was a cyber super-heroine, champion of women on-line. When I discovered other women's web sites and wanted to link to them from my Cybergrrl web site I wanted to give them a name and I called women with web sites "Webgrrls." And the name has since evolved to really express the Web and the network that we've created around the world for women. So it's taken on more of a meaning. You don't have to have a web site to be a Webgrrl.
PORTER: Now, you mentioned the worldwide aspect of this. Tell us something about that?
SHERMAN: Cybergrrl Inc., as a company, based in New York City; the most amazing thing about what we do in terms of creating web sites for women and resources for women, is the fact that we can reach an international audience. Webgrrls, when I first met other women who had web sites and they happened to live in New York City, in April of 1995 we met in a cyber-café here in the City, in the East Village, and we had the common thread of a our web sites. And we enjoyed meeting one another and we continued to meet and I started to write about it on my web site. I began getting e-mails from women around the world asking, "Can I start a Webgrrls chapter too?" And very organically this network grew—both on-line and off-line—it now represents almost 100 chapters around the world, of women, everything from women in college, graduating from college, entering the workplace, to women who are established in the industry, transitioning from other industries, starting their own businesses, executive women. It runs the gamut. This is an opportunity for women at all different levels to share the information and share the experiences and knowledge that they have with other women so we can help each other succeed.
And then it crosses borders. Because of the Internet. Because of the fast communication of e-mail and using the Net and the Web to connect. It truly is unlike any traditional professional women's organization out there.
PORTER: As you've expanded worldwide have you found cultural differences or things that you've had to overcome that you wouldn't have thought of otherwise because you've moved into other countries in other parts of the world?
SHERMAN: Well, absolutely. Because of the international reach there are many subtleties and issues that we never would have imagined, if your just dealing with an American or regional or local group. One incident that comes to mind immediately is a woman joined from the Middle East. And was very anxious to be in touch with women from other countries and to learn a lot more about technology. And unfortunately she was very taken aback by the active and lively debate on our e-mail list, which is the way that the leaders communicate. We all subscribe to an e-mail list and communicate almost daily via e-mail with one another. And these conversations can get pretty colorful as we talk about our different philosophies, about business and the Internet. And she was not used to that and actually dropped out because she just felt it was completely foreign to her. And actually she was offended.
And it really opened our eyes to the fact that even something as simple as an open debate via e-mail can pose a threat or be taken in a different way than what we're used to. We're so used to freedom of expression. So I think being more sensitive to different cultures, different needs, is very important, because we do reach so far around the globe.
PORTER: Do you have men who want to be a part of this?
SHERMAN: Every once in a while we do get the occasional e-mail or phone call from a man who more often than not is demanding to be involved. And I would welcome anyone who would like to participate if they truly believe in the mission, if they can contribute to it in the same way that all the women are contributing. But ultimately when you explain to a man, "you know, it's really nice for a women to have an environment that's noncompetitive, where they have the opportunity to feel comfortable about being vulnerable or saying what they don't understand, and to give them that opportunity to catch up," almost every man says, "You know what? It's awesome. I'm gonna send my wife," "I'm gonna send my girlfriend," "I'm gonna send my sister." Which is really great.
We certainly don't exclude men but a lot of men who do attend, they'll sit in the back and they'll observe and afterwards they'll come up to us and say, "You know, it's a really wonderful network. I totally don't belong here. But if I have some job leads I'll certainly let you know." So it's unique, it's a unique environment. And I think that there's a place for it. Otherwise there wouldn't be such a big demand.
MAY LEONG: I was teaching at a small university located in the middle of rice fields, three hours north of Tokyo.
PORTER: May Leong is Director of Webgrrls International.
LEONG: It was a very small university, the International University of Japan, which was a two-year graduate school and students got their MBA's or M.A. in International Relations. And the student body was about 200, mostly men. And our school went from old bit net connection to suddenly a T-1 connection. And it was a great opportunity for me to get on the Internet and read CNN news without having to wake up at 6:00 a.m. in the morning. So at that time I was thinking about transitioning away from teaching and trying to look for a project that I could sink my teeth into.
Well, I read an article about Aliza Sherman in the New York Times on-line. And when I read about the noncompetitive alliances and, you know, what the Webgrrls' mission was about, the light bulb went off in my head. And I thought, "Okay, the Internet is very new in Japan, it's something I'm interested in, it's something that women need here." And I thought, here was a great opportunity for me to meet other women that, who I could learn more Japanese from and also be doing something that I really enjoyed, and that was using Internet and technology in general.
PORTER: English has become the universal language of the Internet. Does Webgrrls operate exclusively in English?
LEONG: Well, right now out of headquarters we are operating in English. Yes and No. No, because we do have groups in Germany and if you go to their web site it's all in German. In Japan the web site is mostly in English but, however, right before we left we had our first Japanese html class, which I was so happy about. So what we do want to do is eventually get into having more materials and be operating in the different languages. That's my ultimate dream.
PORTER: I have one last question for you Aliza. There's a lot of talk about the fact that the Web is a incredible political organizing tool. Do you or your chapters have, do you use it for that purpose? Or do you have plans to use it as a political organizing and an issue-oriented organizing tool?
SHERMAN: The Internet is absolutely an amazing communication tool across the board, perfect for organizing. Webgrrls is extremely specific about what we stand for and what we're here to do. We are here to empower women to use technology for their personal and their professional gain, to provide them with a platform and the resources and the benefits, and the network in order for them to achieve. We are very, very specific that we're not a political organization, we do not encourage any chapter to get involved in political or cause-related issues that are not directly related to empowering women and girls to use technology. There's been a lot of opportunity, there's been a lot of discussions about this, and debate—colorful debate—about that. And yet there are so many organizations out there that do that. We want to remain focused, we want to remain very accessible to anybody regardless of their personal politics. This is not about personal politics, this is about the general empowerment of women. So, while it is a fantastic political tool, people have definitely said that because we are Webgrrls, because we are women-oriented, that that's a political statement unto itself. Well, that's the side issue. We're really here focused trying to make sure the women aren't left behind and that they're recognized for their achievements in technology areas, and that they can truly be part of the creation of the technology we're all going to use today and in the future.
PORTER: That is Aliza Sherman. She's founder of Webgrrls International. You can see the organization's web site at www.webgrrls.com. And remember, Webgrrls is spelled "w-e-b-g-r-r-l-s. For Common Ground I'm Keith Porter.
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What is karma and how does it work?
The law of karma has the same principle as the law of the action and reaction in our material world. This means: If I hit the table with my hand, the table will hit my hand with the same power. The law of karma means, that some situations we experience today, are the result of the past events, which were set in motion by our behaviour or actions. If we did something, what had negative impact, then we speak about bad karma. If we did something good, we speak about good karma. Good karma is, for example, when someone is having very nice life without any need to make some special effort. The word karma means in Sanskrit deed or action. Karma starts to work with our first deed as a human being, which possess an ego. Ego in our meaning is the perception of being separated (recognising oneself as a separated individual being) from the rest of the world. Karma is a consequence of human right to use a free will (which can be or doesn't have to be in resonance with the universal laws). We know that animals don't have any free will, they are let's say pre-programmed. That means, that cat will always react as a cat. Dog will always behave and react like a dog. It is impossible for dog to react in other way.
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So, human being in his development followed on the first place only his own needs and desires. Then the consequences of his actions started to show him, which choices brought good results and which choices brought negative results. If a human being was able to see it, he moved to the next step of his development. He wanted to have good results, because they didn't bring pain. He also realised, it wasn't easy to do so. He found out, that in some situations, his reactions were different from what he wanted, they were automatic (without any prior choice). This brings realisation, that the choice is not his, but the choice was made by his subconscious mind. With this realisation comes also the knowledge, that one can influence his own subconsciousness and modify it (for example with the help of meditation). This means, that human being is born with certain skills, personal traits and character, but they are not solid and can be changed or modified (through effort and training). For example: A person with fear of water can overcome this fear and can learn to swim. Or, someone with poor communication skills can improve these skills by proper focus and training. Or someone, whose anger was toxic, can learn to manage it is peaceful way and this change will also change his future, he will modify his karma! Everything is possible through effort, will and endurance!
White Magic
Karma begins, when a being is born as a human for the first time. The law of karma creates balance and justice. When someone steals something, he will be also robbed. In the same life, or, in the next life. If someone kills other human being, he will be also killed. Or, there is also an option to pay this negative deed back in a positive sense, to save someone's life. The most probably, the sinner will save life of the same soul, which he killed before. This is the way, how is karma created. It is the law of action and reaction. This law says, that whatever we do, it will come back to us. This situation, which we are facing, is our karma. For example, if someone experiences in her life something negative again and again, it means, she has a bad karma. This doesn't mean, that she needs to suffer whole life. The karma can be changed in any moment. How? Again, by positive deeds and goodness. Karma is like being in a circle. What we send, that we receive from the other side.
For example: Someone was in his previous lives a thief. He robbed many people. In this life, he can establish a charity and help people in need. This way, he is creating something good and this good can prevail and cut the negative karma, in which he could be robbed or killed. So, there is always a way out. This way out is good and positive deeds towards others.
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The time for being in trouble depends on how much negative karma was accumulated in previous lives. If, for example, someone was a soldier and he killed 500 people, exact thing will be returned to him, or, he may have a possibility to pay it back in the next life by being a doctor and save 500 lives through his skill and commitment. This way, the karma will be balanced, at the zero point.
Another examples: If someone helped a beggar, the fate will return it back to him and he may receive a help in need, too. Or, someone was born in a place, where was a flood and during a disaster, she saved 20 people. This means, these 20 people are from karmic point of view indebted to her. She may experience something positive from all of them in the same or in the next life.
Or, someone is born as a merchant, and he is very nice to people around him, he gives them job, he learns them to read and write etc. This means, that all of this will be given to him later. If he is in need, there will be someone, who will help him, give him education or job. Or, he will born in his next life into a rich educated family, which will give him best education and abundance. Note: When someone is born into a rich family, it doesn't have to mean, that this is a good karma. It can be the opportunity to pay back the past bad deeds through generosity and helping others.
So we can say, that negative deeds can be paid back in two ways: in a negative and in a positive way. Let's take an example of a man, who killed during his life one thousand people.
Positive way - he can pay his bad deeds in a way, that he will born as a doctor or scientist and he will save 1000 lives through his work. Or, he could be very rich man and use his money for poor people and this way, to safe 1000 lives.
Negative way - he can pay his bad deeds in a way, that he will be killed 1000-times. He could born in some country with a civil war and he will be killed as a child. If the amount of negative burden is too high, his soul can split into thousand of parts, incarnate into thousand of human beings, who will have bad and violent life and end, being killed or raped. This way, his karma will be balanced.
If someone is a black magician, his karma is burdened in the worst way. The black magician will after his death serve the demon, who helped him during his incarnation, till the demonic entity will not die itself, or, will to achieve higher level of awareness and therefore release him from its services. Only then can this black magician incarnate again. This can last many thousands of years.
The Law of Attraction
Besides the working of karma, there is another aspect, which influences our life. It is our way of thinking and feeling. This aspect gets into motion the Law of attraction. We can perceive every situation form positive or negative point of view. How we take it, influences what will come to our life next. We recommend to read more about it in the book Happier than God from Neale Donald Walsch. We recommend this book more than The Secret, because it explains in much deeper level the connections and causalities.
Before a soul is born, it may to choose, in which way it will pay accumulated karmic energy. It can be done in positive or negative way. But if a soul vibrates on a low level of energy and understanding, it cannot choose and avoid some things, it has to experience them. In this sense, the karma has to be manifested in the next life, whether human being wants it or not. It is logical, that we do not want to experience negative and painful things. But the free choice in some cases is not allowed, even if someone feels "I don't want to experience this!"
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But whether someone wants it or not, s/he HAS TO experience that, because it is neccessary to feel the consequences of our own creation. It is no way out. This is the divine justice and every deed has the consequences.
The pure choice of being born as– who, how, when and where you want, belongs to those souls, who achieved enlightenment. Only people, who are on 6th and 7th level according to the book Initiation from Elisabeth Haich (that means the degree of prophet and God-human) are completely free to choose, how, who, when and in which circumstances they will be born. It is because they are not burdened by any negative karma, there is nothing more they need to experience. In order to achieve this degree, a person needs lots of positive karma. This is the rule.
If someone has in his/her life enough time, intelligence and opportunity to deal with spiritual teachings, train and educate him/herself, this is the sign of really good fortune and highest good. Because this didn't come out of nothing! It is most probably the result of very positive karma.
What about souls of very negative people, like Adolf Hitler? These souls will be burdened with their negative karma till they will pay everything back. That means, Adolf Hitler has to safe life to so many people as he killed. If he will not do that or will say, he doesn't want to do that, he has to incarnate at once into many bodies and he will experience in all incarnations very miserable and violent lives. This way, he will pay it back in shorter time and he will experience cruelty and violence on his own skin.
Taking over or alleviation of someone else's karma
In order to be able to take someone else's karma over, a magician has to accomplish two things:
- S/he has to be on sixth or seventh level of development, six level has to be almost accomplished,
- and s/he cannot be born from karmic reasons, current incarnation has to be his/her own decision out of compassion towards other human beings.
If magician doesn't fulfil these two conditions, s/he cannot bear someone's else karma and destiny. Person, whose karma can be this way alleviated, doesn't have to fulfil any special conditions. This decision depends solely on magician and s/he is doing this only if it has some deeper reason and meaning.
For example:, someone killed himself in previous seven incarnations due to his hot temper and inability to evaluate risk and therefore, this person didn't move in his development any further. Therefore, he has in current incarnation paralyzed his arms and legs, so that he cannot hurt himself again and can develop further. True magician will not heal this person, because health will lead him again to death. Magician in sixth or seventh level can see these things and judge them properly.
S/he is able to see, when his/her intervention will speed up someone's development and when it will slow it down. This is also the basis for the relationship of a student and guru. Master tries to put positive karma of the student more forward and delay the negative karma, so that the student can speed up his/her spiritual development.
For example: Karma of a student says, that when he will be 30, he will have bad car accident and he will stay paralized. Master can delay this event and it will happen when student will be 60. He can also put forward positive things, so that student can speed up his development, change himself in positive sense and then, if he is able to use this chance, negative situation will not happen at all, because it has no meaning anymore. The reason of being paralyzed in this life was for example, that he caused someone death or health problems. If this student will be able to create lots of positive karma through his life and actions, this accident will not happen or it will happen only with small consequences. He may have accident and stay in hospital for three months, but at the end, he will be ok and healthy again, no wheelchair. This is the basis of work in the master-student relationship. This can be done also in opposite way. If master sees that student is not doing what he was said and he creates something negative, master can make this negative event to happen earlier, so that student can come back into his senses.
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In 1995, Dr. Antonio Barro founded South American Theological Seminary (SATS) in Londrina, Brazil. He began with a typewriter and a desk in his home, and a vision for a school that would bring the truth and hope of the Gospel to bear on issues facing the Church in Latin America.
In 2010, SATS celebrated its 15th anniversary, and is one of the most effective and fastest growing seminaries in Latin America. The school – now with extension programs at various sites in Latin America and Portuguese-speaking Africa – has trained more than 500 church leaders. Antonio has written books and dozens of articles advocating a theology of holistic mission for serving Brazil.
As ScholarLeader of the Year, Antonio traveled to Manila where he presented the work of SATS at the Deans' Seminar hosted by the Asian Theological Association. His presentation enabled theological leaders in Asia to consider a unique seminary model that addresses contextual realities in the Majority World.


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In his first solo show in the UK for 10 years, Steven Pippin continues to push the limits of photography and the photographic process. Alongside modified cameras, the exhibition features works from Pippin's ongoing series 'Non Event' in which he captures the final image possible from a camera when a bullet is fired through lens and film.
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Jeremy Clarkson has spoken out again following his recent 'Top Gear' suspension, admitting that he thinks it's likely he'll be sacked from the show.
- Jeremy Clarkson Suspended From 'Top Gear'
- The BBC Just Had The Worst Afternoon Ever...
- Was Bad Catering To Blame For Clarkson's 'Fracas'?
- 'Bring Back Clarkson' Petition Gains A Huge Number Of Signatories
- Clarkson: 'I'm Having A Nice Cold Pint And Waiting For This To Blow Over'
- Katie Hopkins Defends Clarkson: 'Enough Lefty Lunacy'
- 17 Other Times Jeremy Clarkson Did Something Utterly Outrageous
- BLOG: BBC - Turning A Fracas Into A Crisis
However, Jeremy might be comforted to know that an online campaign calling for him to be reinstated as presenter has become the fastest-growing change.org petition of all-time.
Jeremy Clarkson attended the Chelsea match last night
The Metro reports that, when asked whether he was worried about losing his job, Jeremy stated: "Well it's coming, isn't it?
"Honestly, it's very soon. Let's just let sleeping dogs lie for the moment."
Meanwhile, the 'Bring Back Clarkson' petition, that was started just hours after the BBC released their statement, now has over 650,000 signatures.
Jeremy was spotted leaving his London home for the first time since the drama unfolded on Wednesday afternoon, where he managed to crack a joke about going to the job centre.
Despite the fact Jeremy is currently suspended, rather than sacked, there's been no shortage of talk over who could replace him and Piers Morgan has even thrown his hat in the ring.
The presenter's suspension was announced by the BBC on Tuesday, with a statement that read: "Following a fracas with a BBC producer, Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended pending an investigation.
"No one else has been suspended. 'Top Gear' will not be broadcast this Sunday. The BBC will be making no further comment at this time."
Later reports suggest that the now-infamous "fracas" took place between Jeremy and one of the show's producers, when catering wasn't provided after filming.
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[sc:astop]Cammien Ray and Martin the Flash review the close of the Arrow world in this series finale. With tons of returns, tons of goodbyes, and tons of feedback from listeners, you may need not one but two bottles of wine for this one. Thank you experiencing these stories with us.
This season Arrow aired on Tuesdays at 8pm ET. This content stream is now closed. We will continue to monitor feedback and will also continue maintaining the social media pages for Arrow Squad, so if you're re-watching and would like to chat, that remains available!
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I'm running the following equipment:
MXTA26 on a tunk lip mount.
I drive a small car (Honda Fit) and am not too keen on making any holes. I have had magnetic bases in the past which have worked wonderfully.. but unless you're more attentive than I am.. after time you start getting "wear" marks on your roof.. or worse, rust if your not careful.
Because of that, I thought I'd try the trunk lip mount. It seems to work fine.. but I'm curious if there are any negative consequences to how it's angled. The only place I can seem to fit it on my hatch is towards the side, so it angles to one side of the vehicle or the other. I can't put it in the middle because it will hit the roof when I open the hatch. I could also put it in the front on the hood, but it would do the same thing (but he lower).
Does anyone have any input on antenna placement like this? What are some other options (including a magnetic mount) that might be better.. and potentially how much better? For instance if a mag mount in the center of my roof would work 10x better I might try it.. but if it may only marginally approve, I might not.


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Law permeates our social lives. It is not surprising thus that legal phenomena have made their way into our information systems and have become a common subject in conceptual modeling. In the last decades, several approaches have been proposed to address the conceptualization and representation of legal phenomena, addressing normative notions, e.g., rights, prohibitions, duties, claims, etc.
Despite the advances in the literature, we have observed that existing approaches often fail to capture some important aspects of legal phenomena. For example, many of the existing approaches lack support for legal relations between parties, given their root in monadic (standard) deontic logics. This poses a challenge to the adequate representation of a number of real-life settings involving legal relations, such as legal contracts in general, and service contracts in particular. Moreover, much of the existing work in the conceptual modeling of legal aspects has emerged from the disciplines of computer science (and logics) and has failed to incorporate the state-of-the-art in legal theories. As a consequence, they often leave out key concepts underlying complex legal phenomena (such as power and legal liberty).
Our response to these challenges is the UFO-L Legal Core Ontology. UFO-L is based on Hohfeld's seminal theory of fundamental legal concepts and Alexy's relational theory of constitutional rights. As a result, UFO-L accounts for legal notions that include: rights and duties, no-rights and permissions, powers and liabilities, disabilities and immunities, as well as liberties. A key aspect of the approach is the representation of legal relations based on the notion of relator from the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO).
Publications describing UFO-L and applying it to conceptual modeling of legal aspects include:
series = {Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications},
title = {Legal Theories and Judicial Decision-Making: An Ontological Analysis},
volume = {330},
isbn = {9781643681283, 9781643681290},
issn = {09226389, 18798314},
url = {https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA200661},
doi = {10.3233/FAIA200661},
booktitle = {Formal Ontology in Information Systems},
publisher = {IOS Press},
author = {Griffo, C.L. AND Almeida, J.P.A. AND Guizzardi, G.},
year = {2020},
pages = {63--76},
collection = {Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications}
doi = {10.1016/j.is.2019.101454},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2019.101454},
publisher = {Elsevier {BV}},
author = {Griffo, C. AND Almeida, J.P.A AND Guizzardi, G. AND Nardi, J.C.},
title = {Service contract modeling in enterprise architecture: An ontology-based approach},
journal = {Information Systems},
volume = {101},
pages = {101454},
year = {2021},
issn = {0306-4379}
title = {{Conceptual Modeling of Legal Relations}},
author = {Griffo, C. AND Almeida, J.P.A. AND Guizzardi, G.},
booktitle = {{Conceptual Modeling - 37th International Conference, ER 2018}},
pages = {169--183},
publisher = {{Springer}},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-00847-5_14}
title = {{From an Ontology of Service Contracts to Contract Modeling in Enterprise Architecture}},
author = {Griffo, C. AND Almeida, J.P.A. AND Guizzardi, G. AND Nardi, J.C.},
booktitle = {{2017 IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC)}},
pages = {40--49},
doi = {10.1109/edoc.2017.15},
year = {2017}
title = {{A Pattern for the Representation of Legal Relations in a Legal Core Ontology}},
author = {Griffo, C. AND Almeida, J.P.A. AND Guizzardi, G.},
booktitle = {{Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2016)}},
pages = {191--194},
doi = {10.3233/978-1-61499-726-9-191},
publisher = {{IOS Press}},
year = {2016}
title = {{A Systematic Mapping of the Literature on Legal Core Ontologies}},
author = {Griffo, C. AND Almeida, J.P.A. AND Guizzardi, G.},
booktitle = {{Proceedings of the Brazilian Seminar on Ontologies (ONTOBRAS 2015)}},
pages = {1--12},
publisher = {{CEUR Workshop Proceedings}},
year = {2015}
title = {{Towards a Legal Core Ontology based on Alexy's Theory of Fundamental Rights}},
author = {Griffo, C. L. AND Almeida, J.P.A. AND Guizzardi, G.},
booktitle = {{MWAIL2015 ICAIL Multilingual Workshop on AI \& Law Research}},
pages = {89--100},
publisher = {{Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft}},
year = {2015}
The Ph.D. thesis of Cristine Griffo discusses the development of UFO-L in detail (Portuguese only):
title = {{UFO-L: Uma Ontologia Núcleo de Aspectos Jurídicos Construída sob a Perspectiva das Relações Jurídicas}},
author = {Becalli, Cristine Leonor Pereira Griffo},
institution = {Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo},
year = {2018}
Our work on UFO-L also led us to contribute to legal theory:
title = {Casting the Light of the Theory of Opposition onto Hohfeld's Fundamental Legal Concepts},
doi = {10.1017/S1352325221000070},
journal = {Legal Theory},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
author = {Lima, J.A.O. AND Griffo, C. AND Almeida, J.P.A. AND Guizzardi, G. AND Aranha, M.I.},
year = {2021},
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A vaping craze has swept across the country in recent years leading to an upswell in vapers and increasing sales on vape products across the board. This craze seemingly culminated with vape being named the 2014 Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Year. Much like the vaping craze that has already swept the nation we are now seeing the idea of instituting a tax on vape products (similar to the tax seen on tobacco products) sweep through local and state governments across the nation.
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In one such instance Washington governor Jay Inslee is proposing a 95% tax on any and all vapor products in an effort to help fill the state budget gap. Kim Thompson, who owns a vape shop in Washington knows how detrimental a 95% tax would be to the burgeoning vaping industry in the state. "One, it would demonize a product, make it look as though it was as bad as smoking. The other thing is that it would make vaping and traditional cigarettes more similar in pricing. It would give us less incentive to the smoke to say, hey, give this a try," she says. Not only would this tax shrink profit margins for vape shop owners, it could potentially drive e-cig users back to more traditional tobacco products like cigarettes. You could make the argument that it would effectively tax small business (vape shops) out of business.
On the other hand the tax would bring vape products up to the same tax level as tobacco products like snuff and some cigars, which are both taxed at 95% in Washington. The major difference being that most vape products contain nicotine and not tobacco.
According to the American Vaping Association Minnesota and North Carolina are currently the only states that tax vape products and in those cases they only tax vape products that contain nicotine. Inslee's proposal would do that in addition to approximately doubling vape products that do not contain any trace of nicotine.
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Washington D.C. is also considering a tax on e-cigs. D.C. is looking to tax e-cigs at 70%, which like Washington state is the same rate for other tobacco products in the district. With a tax rate that high e-cig users within the district could decide to purchase their vaping products in Maryland or Virginia which will only hurt D.C.'s bottom line and put D.C.'s vape shops out of business risking both current and future job growth in the industry.
Taking a page from the book of Washington state and Washington D.C. 21 other states have introduced legislation for some of form of tax on vape products since the start of the year.
Clearly lawmakers need more information on the nature of vaping and vape products to develop a satisfactory tax solution for all parties.


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It's that time of year again when eCommerce businesses ramp up their marketing in time for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the holiday rushes that follow.
In 2021, Cyber Monday alone resulted in $10.7 billion in spending. This year looks to be even bigger as online businesses apply what they learned from the pandemic to continue to grow throughout the 2022 holiday season.
However, some common pitfalls can prevent businesses from performing their best around the holidays. Instead of focusing on discount blitzes alone, businesses should look for ways to increase customer loyalty and improve customer experience with strategies they can benefit from the whole year through.
Today, we'll look at some common mistakes eCommerce businesses make around the holidays and offer tips on improving performance.
Avoid Common Pitfalls
As consumers, we are well-versed in the Black Friday marketing script. Huge sales, mind-blowing discounts, and free giveaways abound. We may no longer wait in line at the mall at 5 am for stores to open their doors, but the digital equivalent is still alive.
While focusing on discounts and mass advertising can help companies boost their revenue around the holidays, there are more sustainable ways to do it.
For one thing, when most people get a sales-y-looking email, they ignore it. Or worse, it gets filtered straight to their junk folder.
When shoppers look for deals around the holidays, they might be more likely to take the bait. But click-through rates can still be substantially improved with more personalized engagement tactics.
Moreover, shoving discount after discount down your target audience's throat will not be maximally beneficial for your business. You shouldn't always aim to sell them the cheapest thing, even on Back Friday.
Offering discounts and free gifts can be a good way to entice new customers, but you also need to think about how likely those customers are to buy again.
Another final common mistake - particularly for new and small businesses - is underestimating how the holiday rush will impact operations.
Properly anticipating and planning ahead for the influx of web traffic, burdens on supply chains, shipping, etc., are vitally important to avoid disaster. After all, your marketing efforts will all be for naught if you can't make sales because of technical or logistical difficulties.
To that end, read on to learn how to better prepare for the holiday season to avoid these common errors.
4 Steps to Guarantee Holiday Sales Success
The holidays are certainly a good time to look for a revenue boost, but you should consider how your seasonal business strategy fits in with your larger goals.
- Audit your sales funnel
- Upsell and cross-sell
- Be consistent
- Prepare your website
You can formulate all aspects of your marketing and sales to thrive during the holiday rush and remain profitable into the next year.
1. Audit your sales funnel
There is no better time to perfect your sales process than before the holidays. Prospects will seek out particular products more actively than at other times of the year, making them more likely to convert. So, you should look for gaps in the conversion process to avoid losing sales.
One important area to audit is your checkout process. Walk through your own system like a customer would, paying attention to the ease of accepting payments and loading speeds during transactions.
If your users can't fill their online cart, apply discount codes, and check out within a few clicks, you have some work to do.
Similarly, if you use a PayPal button, ApplyPay icon, or the like, ensure it is obvious so users know they have multiple payment options.
Also, never add hidden fees or charges at the end - prices (including shipping) should be apparent from the get-go to avoid cart abandonment.
2. Upsell and cross-sell
Thanksgiving weekend is known for its sales and discounts, but this doesn't mean having to short-change yourself to entice customers. Online businesses can use upselling and cross-selling to increase the average purchase value while still offering customers great deals.
For example, if you sell small electronics and notice that customers often buy a particular phone and headphones together, consider offering the two as a bundle.
You can even use a phone case as a free gift to round out the offer. Customers will be pleased to get the three items cheaper than if they were sold separately and you just sold two products instead of one.
Moreover, the benefits of Black Friday aren't just about the sales. Many shoppers may take advantage of a freebie promo to make one purchase and get some giveaways.
But you should think about each new customer not just as a sale but as a new lead with the potential to become loyal, long-term customers.
In addition to marketing sales and deals, you should try to get prospects to respond to other calls to action. Get your prospects to sign up for your newsletter or join a discount club to get a deal.
This way, you can learn about their interests and preferences and tailor your future marketing to keep them engaged.
3. Be consistent
A big problem many eCommerce businesses face is inconsistency or complexity in their omnichannel marketing. You will likely present discount codes and other marketing messages on your website, various social media platforms, industry partner sites, etc.
Inconsistencies can become particularly pronounced if you try to get too complicated with discounts and promos.
Using different codes across different channels will result in technical difficulties, so make your life easier and keep your discounts simple. If you offer codes, ensure they work as expected so people don't abandon their carts or inundate your customer service chats.
There are ways to make deals fun without having too many tiers or add-ons. For example, you can create a sense of urgency with countdown timers so customers know when your deal will start.
And even if you have short-term deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, consider launching other promotions that last longer to get a healthy mix of buyer types.
Not everyone is into the 24-hour blitz sale, and some may need more time to decide.
4. Prepare your website
Your website will impact your Google rankings, which will impact your visibility during a time when tons of customers are coming around with money to spend. This makes website maintenance a crucial part of any holiday strategy.
For one thing, optimizing for mobile to improve your user's experience for your online store. Mobile accessibility is not only a Google ranking factor. It is also the way about half of your prospects might be doing their shopping.
You also should consider how an influx of traffic will impact your website's availability and speed. Check with your hosting provider to make sure there are suitable resources to accommodate the holiday rush.
For example, web development expert Alex Williams of Hosting Data, cloud hosting will help reduce the risk of downtime with heavy web traffic.
"It's far less likely that several servers worldwide will crash at the same time, thus sending your website down the chute," says Williams.
"If your site suddenly needs a surge of resources to handle a spike in traffic - no problem. Take advantage of viral attention without worrying about your site squeezing your bandwidth, as a shared hosting setup would automatically do."
If you don't use cloud hosting, consider having a backed-up server site if the main one goes down. The same goes for your payment software or other external systems you rely on.
You can even integrate social media messaging as a customer service chat option or use chatbots to automate less complex customer service queries to decrease the burden on your staff during the holidays.
Don't fall into the typical trap of forcing blowout sales at the expense of your business.
The holiday season is a busy and lucrative time of year for online businesses, but that doesn't mean you should skimp on your usual dedication to customer experience and engagement.
Follow these tips to perfect your holiday strategy and make the most of the upcoming rush.


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Whether the reason for attending a yoga class is to develop a more mindful movement practice, to try and switch off from the busyness of life, or just to get more flexible, people rarely turn up with the sole purpose of building muscle.
'Does yoga build muscle?' is one of the most common questions I get asked by beginner yogis attending my classes. So, does it? The answer is absolutely (depending on the style you are practicing)!
Admittedly, you aren't going to be using Yoga Nidra or Restorative Yoga for muscle mass building, but there are definitely particular styles of yoga that will get you this benefit.
I have certainly been in classes that have challenged my body more than a traditional weight training session (I'm looking at you, Ashtanga!), and this could be hard to believe if you've never attended a yoga class like this.
Often people turn to yoga as a way to improve their mobility, flexibility, or balance and prioritize weight lifting in order to build muscle. This means a whole host of people are missing out on the fantastic, holistic benefits of yoga with the added advantage of getting stronger.
This article will look at the following:
- How We Build Muscle
- Why Muscle Is Important
- How Does Yoga Build Muscle
- Best Yoga Styles For Muscle Building
- 6 Poses to Build Muscle
How Do We Build Muscle?
When we expose our muscles to stress, we damage our muscle fibers which cause tiny, microscopic tears (micro-tears) in the muscle. In short, the body sends nutrition and blood to help heal and rebuild the area and, over time, this turns into muscle mass.
If you want to think of it in more scientific terms, the body's injured cells released something called cytokines. Cytokines send a signal to the immune system that it needs to get to work repairing something in the body.
This is when the muscles begin to get rebuilt. Over a longer period of training, a cycle of tear and repair takes place in the body which eventually leads to bigger, stronger muscles as they adapt to a progressive overload of resistance.
It's important that we keep increasing the demand on the muscles if we want to build their strength, otherwise, they will plateau as they become accustomed to our everyday requests of them.How does yoga build muscle?
We know how muscles are strengthened, so exactly how does yoga build muscle?
We answer this in the same way as any other workout during which muscle is built, even weight lifting. In yoga, the only difference is we aren't using external weights, we are using our own body weight.
If muscle building is essentially tearing and repairing fibers, then this is exactly what holding certain asanas does for us. The principle of this is no different to weight training.
If we are looking at asanas solely in terms of using yoga for muscle mass building, then when we do these poses we are fundamentally bodyweight training. Bodyweight training is a central component of any successful strength-building regime.
Although, if you are looking to quickly increase bulk, it's unlikely that yoga alone will be able to achieve this. This is because we are not adding on extra resistance to our movements, such as plates, bands, or kettlebells.
Yoga is a great compliment to other forms of training, though. Not only for bodyweight training but for:
- Muscular endurance
- Functional fitness
- Reduction in likelihood of injury
- Flexibility
- Mobility
- Cardio and circulatory health
- Eccentric contraction of muscles
Eccentric contraction means that muscles are lengthening whilst they are under tension or contracting. This is the opposite of many weight-lifting exercises, which are concentric contractions and lead to shortening of the muscles.
Evidence suggests that eccentric contractions promote 'greater gains in strength, muscle mass, and neural adaptations'.
Why Is muscle strength important?
We don't just want to build muscle for aesthetic reasons; muscle is super important for all aspects of our life. You may have heard of the phrase 'use it or lose it', and this certainly applies to our muscles.
For example, a study demonstrated how athletes lost muscle strength just three weeks after they stopped training! Although, technically, we don't 'lose it' and it doesn't mean that you can't regain the strength that you once had.
This is because we have something called 'muscle memory', which means our muscles 'remember' all those months of swimming, weightlifting, or marathon training.
Where we once had this mass, and hence when we then retrain our muscles after a period of rest, they grow quicker and more effectively. So, 'use it or lose it' may be more accurately described as 'use it or lose it, until you start to retrain it again'.
So, if you used to have a solid strength-building routine and then lost it (like many of us did during lockdown), all is not lost! With some dedicated practice, you will be able to regain and even increase your original muscle strength.
When we have stronger muscles, it reduces our risk of injury in general life as well as in sports activities, as strength training reinforces our tendons and increases our bone density which reduces the likelihood of injury.
This is especially important as we get older, as we gradually begin to lose our bone density from the age of 35.
As well as this, increasing our muscle mass can control blood sugar levels, reduce the risk of cancer, improve our cognition, and even contribute to a longer life span.
Styles of yoga for muscle Mass building
In order to progress, we want to have a varied yoga routine and work at increasing the difficulty level of our asanas over time. This leads to muscle activation and therefore muscle growth.
Luckily, the extensive variety of yoga styles and asanas means you have a lot to choose from!
1. Hatha Yoga
Hatha may be an underrated style for building strength as it's usually considered to be a more gentle style of yoga. However, a study found that 12 weeks of Hatha Yoga improved muscular strength and lower back flexibility!
Its focus on longer holds with emphasis on the breath means Hatha is great for building muscular endurance, particularly with asanas such as Bakasana, Navasana or any Virabhadrasana poses.
2. Vinyasa Yoga
Depending on the type of class you attend, a vinyasa flow may be calming or powerful. This style of yoga can definitely be a whole-body workout, inside and out!
Physically, it will work on stabilizing your core and building its strength, improving your cardio, and increasing your muscular endurance and strength.
3. Ashtanga Yoga
Considered one of the harder styles of yoga, Ashtanga is a very dynamic practice that follows the same sequence of asanas, meaning you should know what to expect during every class.
Because of the asana repetition, it will build your cardiovascular strength as well as strength across the whole body – especially in the arms, wrists, core, and legs!
4. Power Yoga
Power Yoga has a strong focus on fitness and physical asanas, whilst it is still as dynamic as ashtanga, it follows less of a set structure.
This is a vigorous style of yoga that is targeted at those who want to work up a sweat!
5. Rocket Yoga
Rocket Yoga is another fast-paced flow that was created by a dedicated ashtanga student, Larry Schultz.
There are levels of Rocket Yoga:
- Rocket I
Based on Ashtanga Yoga's primary sequence and focuses on the lower body.
- Rocket II
Moves focus away from the legs and more onto the upper body – particularly the back, upper body, and core. Think arm balancing, backward bending and twisting.
- Rocket III
Combines all aspects of the previous two series, it's often referred to as 'The Happy Hour' by rocket yogis because there are lots of fun transitions and challenging asanas.
6 Yoga Poses for Muscle Building
1. Any Style of Phalakasana/Plank
We all know that the potential this asana has to build muscle is undisputed – I know this mainly from the groans and moans of my class when I cue this pose.
This could be a full plank, half plank, side plank, upward facing plank, forearm plank, one arm plank, and the list goes on…
It works the entire body and is especially important for building core strength and endurance.
2. Utkatasana/Chair Pose
Another asana that many people tend to have a strong preference against, for good reason (it's hard)! Chair works your thighs, hamstring, knees, calves, ankles, shoulders, upper back, and lower back.
This is a really good asana to hold for as long as you can if you want to build strength in the above muscle groups.
3. Navasana/Boat Pose
Navasana will work you out from head to toe. If you can't quite hold full navasana yet, you can work on half boat pose.
This one's particularly good for the core and hip flexors. There are so many benefits to strengthening our hip flexors but they are often overlooked in a training regime.
4. Chaturanga Dandasana/Four Limbed Staff
If you have less strength in your upper body, this might be an asana that you have to build up to in order to maintain proper alignment. Often people tend to collapse into this pose which doesn't actually help to build strength.
You can try it with your knees on the mat or try building up to it.
If you're here and you want to go further, try holding the asana or repeating the sequence of pushing up from Chaturanga Dandasana into Phalakasana, then lowering back down and repeating.
5. Virabhadrasana II/Warrior 2
Just by the name of this asana, you might be able to tell that it's a strong pose. As well as opening the hips, it engages the lower and upper body. If you hold this for an extended period, you can really start to feel your shoulders and thighs fatiguing!
6. Ardha Chandrasana/Half Moon Pose
Any posture where you're balancing on one leg recruits a lot of muscle groups and is therefore a great muscle builder.
This engages our entire leg muscles as well as the core.
There are so many other asanas that you could add into your practice to build strength, you can start by looking at some of the styles mentioned above or Youtube classes such as this one!


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The Soo Locks Visitor Center is located in Sault Ste Marie in Michigan's Chippewa County. The center is fittingly situated in the Upper Canal Park. The Park serves as an excellent place to watch passing boats going through the Locks at the observation platform. The Visitor Center is a great place to stop and ask for information on the Soo Locks, the surrounding area and everything it has to offer. A number of displays chronicle the construction of the Locks as well as thirty minute movie that details the history of this maritime marvel.
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Tayla then explained that at the start of 2020, her pain and symptoms "heightened to a whole new level."
"I was having excessive hot flushes, excruciating period pain. As you can see in the pics, I would have a hot pack on my bare skin, so that pain would hurt more than the pain of the cramps," she explained.
The 24-year-old added that she would feel nauseous around the times she was ovulating and had her period and endured abdominal pain whenever she ran or did any HIIT (high-intensity interval training) workouts.
Tayla also suffered from fatigue which she struggled with as she would appear well, but on the inside, she knew something was wrong with her body.
However, Tayla took her health and wellneing into her own hands when she went to hospital in early 2020 with pain that turned out to be cysts.
"From here I was recommended to see Dr Catarina Ang. She was the first gyne to listen," Tayla explained.
"I had my first laparoscopy on Friday to confirm if I had Endometriosis (a disorder in which tissue that normally lines the uterus grows outside the uterus).
The endo was discovered growing on the left tube but thankfully I only had a very small amount. We also discovered I have an overactive pelvic floor which is where most of my pain comes from so I'll be doing lots of physio therapy to get that under control."
Despite admitting that she's still "in lots of pain", Tayla expressed her gratitude that she finally has some answers, an amazing doctor and nurse team helping her as well as the fact that only a small amount of endometriosis was found and has now been removed.
Tayla also thanked two of her close friends, including Love Island season one runner-up Erin Barnett who has also spoken about her experience with endometriosis.
"This post is to remind people to listen to their bodies. If it wasn't for people like @erin.alysha and @kylie_m_brown always sharing their symptoms and pain, I wouldn't have related so much and wouldn't have had the balls to keep investigating until I had answers. Also big love to all my incredible friends and family for your constant check ins."
Not long after posting, many Aussie female celebs thanked Tayla for her candour and sent her their well-wishes.
"Sending lots of love babe," Love Island host Sophie Monk wrote.
"Feel your pain babe," Married At First Sight star Ines Basic penned.
Former Bachelorette Angie Kent, who has spoken openly about her own endometriosis struggles also wrote: "You're not alone girl, it's just that we're finally getting answers and can help other sisters who are suffering in silence! Let the healing begin. It's a long one, but it's totally worth it, love and light."
Back in 2018, Tayla famously won the first ever season of Love Island Australia with Grant Crapp, but the pair called it quits just days after the finale when Grant returned to the secret girlfriend he'd been dating before the show.
"In the nicest way possible, that wasn't heartbreak to me, that was more embarrassment. That was more 'Ok this situation sucks and I fell for this,'" she stated on the Shameless podcast last month.
"It was six weeks – it was not 'This is the person that I'm going to marry.' Yes it felt like that being trapped in a little bubble at the time but then coming out and realising that I felt so much more heartbreak over past relationships, I looked at this as 'You know what, you're nothing, get away from me.'"


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PUBG Whatsapp group Links
{tocify} $title={Table of Contents}PUBG is where all the other cats in my group call it or say that they would do so. I wrote this here to show you how we use it too! You'll notice that when you click on Pubg (or similar), you will receive an email (with the link) to a group in Pubg (where you're also invited to join). Your group starts at the pubg name, so your group name will be "internal" if you have created one.
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Pubg knows if the group exists, and you can add people to the group without them even seeing your group name, but they can see and join your pubg group if you invite them (yes you can set this up manually too!). We are currently in Group 8 (north american users) and Group 4 (european users), and I'll be back to update you on group numbers as soon as we move onto the next groups, and get the ones sorted.
As for the whatsapp group in my group (Hypepotamus pubg) Like the pubg groups, you can add people to the whatsapp group by adding their name to a new group in whatsapp (sub-group within your whatsapp group). This is how we currently set up our whatsapp group:
The group name is going to change based on whatsapp groups, since there is no universal standard on whatsapp groups yet. We're going to keep our group name simple though. For whatsapp, we have to join our whatsapp group through whatsapp. Its just the phone app itself. For group settings, you will want to visit whatsapp.com/group and then click "create a new group". There are instructions on whatsapp.com/whatis about whatsapp groups.
PUBG Whatsapp group
Once you have created a whatsapp group, you can add people to it too, but whatsapp groups require a phone number. Whatsapp gives you up to 10 people to add to your group in one go, so you can invite a few people (or a group) of your choice. You can't add a whole group at a time! Whatsapp groups are different from whatsapp groups (i guess because whatsapp groups are less popular than whatsapp groups).
We use whatsapp groups for a bunch of different things here. We used them to get the support of the other devs and clients into our pubg group. We also have a whatsapp group for the pubg team. We have people added to our whatsapp group through whatsapp groups. We have a whatsapp group with the other devs for serious messages with the pubg team. It's where we discuss new client features, and where we hang out, and mess around a bit (often debating whatsapp group compatibility issues).
We use it to hang out in a pubg group whenever we want a group where we don't have to worry about annoying people or spam. There are some other things we use it for (work stuff etc.), but thats it. That's the group that is heavily used here.
PUBG Whatsapp group |
We've had all the groups in Pubg set up to be online (and required for chatting in whatsapp) since we moved here, but I haven't been able to actually use them in public. This is what it would look like if you could go to pubg and chat in the pubg whatsapp group:
As you can see, there are people already in the group, and you can add new people to it with your name as well (but people have to add themselves to your pubg whatsapp group first to be able to chat in your pubg whatsapp group). There's no group setting in pubg yet that allows anyone to join a group (see next point). This is what a chat in the pubg whatsapp group looks like, just to show you what I'm talking about.
You can also tell your chat that they are already in the pubg whatsapp group. This happens after you have created a whatsapp group for pubg, and have invited a few people into your whatsapp group through whatsapp.
Rules and regulations to join in whatsapp group for PUBG
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Two different clinics aimed at reproductive, sexual or menopausal health have started up in Whitehorse.
The Yukon Sexual Health Clinic and the Yukon Women's MidLife Health Clinic opened this week.
The sexual health clinic is targeted at youth, men of all ages, and women younger than 40.
The mid-life clinic is aimed at women older than 40.
It's all about access, say the many women involved in making these clinics a reality.
If you don't have a family doctor, getting access to routine medical care, screening and information around sexual health and menopause can be difficult, they say.
It might mean a trip to a walk-in clinic or even the emergency room.
"Now baby boomers have all reached menopause age. And women are living in menopause or post-menopause for another 40 or 50 years," said Dr. Xiu-Mei Zhang with the mid-life clinic, run out of the Pine Medical Centre.
"So this is becoming more and more an issue in health care."
The sexual health clinic will offer things like birth control counselling and low-cost contraceptives, tests for sexually transmitted infections, pap tests, pregnancy testing and options counselling.
It's also a place for general information on reproductive health. It's being run out of Whitehorse Medical Clinic.
"It's difficult to get good numbers on how many people who don't have family doctors. But certainly a number of doctors have left and not replaced themselves. New people coming to town haven't been able to find family doctors," said Dr. Cindy Breitkreutz, who is involved with the sexual health clinic.
"We certainly think that there's going to be an ongoing need."
The MidLife Health Clinic offers similar services, but also includes perimenopause and menopause counselling, assessment and management of osteoporosis, anxiety and depression. Along with pap testing, it will also offer endometrial biopsies.
The MidLife Health Clinic is open Mondays and Thursdays for appointments with walk-in hours Thursday evenings.
The Sexual Health Clinic is open Tuesdays and Wednesdays with walk-in hours Tuesday evenings.
The services at both clinics will be delivered primarily by nurse practitioner Michelle Wolsky.
As a nurse practitioner, Wolsky is able to write prescriptions, diagnose and perform tests as well as refer patients to other medical professionals.
If needed, a rotating group of doctors are also available.
Wolsky's appointments will be 30 minutes long, longer than is sometimes possible when seeing a doctor.
"Perimenopause and menopause health conditions are complicated. It's very difficult to solve these conditions in 15 minutes of a visit. So we are willing to take more time to really break down people's condition and really help to manage this," Zhang said.
Wolsky said nurse practitioners are part of collaborative care - the idea that there should be a team of people available to look after a person's health.
"We're nurses first, so we practice from a nursing perspective. So we have the luxury of the time to talk about your mental health, how your kids are doing at school, whether you have housing.
"That whole bit that sometimes you don't have the luxury of doing in a 15-minute appointment. We just kind of round out your whole health-care experience."
Wolsky said menopause is more complicated than just not getting your period anymore.
"It's about your heart health, your bone health, your mental wellness, and all those different pieces," she said.
Wolsky will see patients with a family doctor, and those who don't have one.
Zhang said having the clinics open for longer hours with walk-in times is important when it comes to attracting the most people.
"I find lots of newcomers are without a family doctor and working two or three jobs, then they can't afford to take time to go and see (a doctor for) a routine physical exam."
Zhang said she is currently seeing two women in the Yukon with advanced gynecological cancers.
"They find lots of immigrants have endometrial cancer or cervical cancer which totally can be preventable. But they don't have access to full routine exams."
In 2012, Yukon passed legislation to enable licensing of nurse practitioners to work in the territory. The first nurse was registered in 2013.
There are currently two nurse practitioners working in the territory. A third one will be starting in December, Wolsky said.
"It's exciting to see this new model of health care get into the public eye," she said.
"My position is the first one that's fairly publicly visible. The support has been really overwhelming from the physician community, other health-care professionals and the general public. People are curious."
The cash for both clinics is coming from a fund designed to pay for collaborative care.
For now, money is only guaranteed for three years.
More information on both clinics can be found on the Yukon Department of Health and Social Services website.
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StarLink commences its 8th Annual IT Security Roadshow
Focusing on Securing the Hybrid Enterprise through Innovation
Wednesday, April 04, 2018 - Dubai, UAE - StarLink, the fastest growing "True" Value-Added-Distributor (VAD) in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region announced that its Annual IT Security Roadshow, in its 8th consecutive year is all set to hit the road traversing 9 countries in the META region, namely Oman, Egypt, KSA, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Turkey and South Africa, in sequence, starting 9th April to 10th May 2018.
This multi-city event will witness the presence of top level IT security professionals from various business verticals who look forward to attending, gaining perspective into the most prevalent IT security trends and updates from product experts and networking with industry peers who face common business challenges and of course, be an integral part of this annual extravaganza. This year, StarLink hosts 11 key vendors - Infoblox, FireEye, Gemalto, ForeScout, Citrix, FireMon, LogRhythm, Lookout, Symantec, Centrify and LinkShadow.
Nidal Othman, Managing Director at StarLink commented, "With digital transformation taking centre stage, it is inevitable that organizations will need to adopt innovative, integrated solutions to safeguard data spread across systems, apps, devices and the cloud. Hence the event theme 'Securing the Hybrid Enterprise through Innovation' is very timely and we are excited to support our customers in their endeavor to build a secure hybrid enterprise."
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The Central Bank forecasts the inflation rate will grow by 2.6 percent this year, describing the increase in the general price level of goods and services as "manageable".
In its latest report, the National Bank of Cambodia predicts a 0.1 percent growth in inflation for 2019, describing current inflation as "stable".
Inflation will grow 2.7 percent in the first quarter of the year, 2.5 percent in the second, 2.7 percent in the third, and 2.5 percent in the last quarter, NBC forecasts.
Food prices will rise by 3 percent, faster than 2018's 2.5 percent, the result of an increase in global food prices and local agricultural commodities.
The price of petroleum-based products will rise by 2.6 percent, slower than last year's 3.7 percent, NBC notes.
Chan Sophal, director of the Centre for Policy Studies, said these inflationary trends reflect the current economic performance of the country, adding that inflation was under control.
"Inflation means our people can earn more and afford their daily expenses while producers can earn higher profits.
"At this rate, inflation is not a concern. As long as it stays below 5 percent, it shouldn't be a problem to the economy," he said.
A bigger concern, he said, would be if inflation reached zero. "If the inflation rate falls to zero, it will impact profits for producers. That would be a real problem."
NBC governor Chea Chanto said the country's economy is expected to grow at seven percent this year with a lower inflation rate and a stable US dollar-riel exchange rate.
He said international reserves will reach $11.3 billion, enough to ensure the import of goods and services for the next five months.


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Does pricing cost you?
September 3, 2009 By Chris Skalkos
When speaking to Canadian glass contractors I often bring up the topic of pricing. All glass shops have their own formula for setting rates or bidding on projects but what should be your determining factor? Should you base it on cost, estimated hours, utilization of resources, market influences or what your closest competitor might be bidding?
When speaking to Canadian glass contractors I often bring up the topic
of pricing. All glass shops have their own formula for setting rates or
bidding on projects but what should be your determining factor? Should
you base it on cost, estimated hours, utilization of resources, market
influences or what your closest competitor might be bidding?
When the economy is in a slump it is tempting to cut quotes to keep
your crews busy. However, instead of gaining more market share you
could end up triggering a price war that cuts into everybody's profits
and set a trend that would be very difficult to reverse when the
economy bounces back.
You don't need to compete on price to compete in the glass business.
Competition is healthy but it can also be destructive if you are
cutting prices for the wrong reason. Low bids may increase jobs but
will give you less profit.
But let's face it, developers and general contractors are more
concerned with their bottom line than yours and may not ask how you can
possibly make a profit on such a low bid.
It's inevitable that the state of the economy will influence your bid.
Complicating the issue is the sluggish economic recovery and the shift
of raw material production from North American manufacturers to
offshore companies. In this climate somebody will always be "less
expensive" than you.
But getting the job over a competitor's lower bid depends on your
ability to convince the decision makers that your prices are based on
the quality of work you provide, which can save building owners money
from bad workmanship in the long run.
The savings a building owner enjoys from going with the lowest bid can
be grossly offset by the repair cost when moisture is penetrating the
building envelope after the glass is installed.
There are many other factors that need to be considered when bidding on
projects. The key is to focus on the value of your service and
understand how a "low-ball" bid can have a big impact on your bottom
Welcome CWDMA
For years Glass Canada has strived to help industry associations
communicate directly to the readers of this industry publication and we
are delighted to welcome the Canadian Window and Door Manufacturers
Association (CWDMA) as a regular contributor.
The association has been successful in providing a variety of benefits
to its members and to the window and door industry across the country.
It is an association in motion taking educational seminars and code
updates directly to its members while its highly successful trade show,
Win-door North America, continues its tradition of hosting a highly
focused trade show for the fenestration industry. Regular columns by
CWDMA president Kevin Pelley will let readers know about the
association's progress and developments and Matt Kottke, chairperson
for Win-door North America, will update readers about the upcoming
trade show in November.
The glass industry is constantly changing, and glaziers, manufacturers,
dealers and suppliers need to keep updated. The first stop is learning
more about your association and what it can do for your business. And
you can stop here to read all about it.
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As the year is about to end there have been some chartbuster songs and the ones who wrench the heart. The rap culture has taken over Hindi language as well and artists are making some phenomenal hits. Laila main Laila from Raees was the first chartbuster of this year as it grossed more than 180 million views on YouTube. Sunny Leone's item number was a Helen song in the 70's modified to be played in the year 2017. The song instantly become a chartbuster on all the platforms and the nation grooved to it's tune. Ye Ishq Hai from Vishal Bhardwaj's Rangoon was a melodic track in the voice of Arijit Singh that spoke in metaphors about how love is connected to their conditions in life now.
One of the biggest musicals of the year was Half Girlfriend and the song Tu Thorri derr in the voice of Farhan Saeed melted many hearts in 2 version with in the album. Once very popular song Raabta from Agent Vinod was used in the film Raabta and it sounded a whole lot more wonderful than the original one. Sushant Singh Rajput, Kriti Sanon starrer Raabta had a beautiful song in the voice of Arijit by the name of Ik Vaari aa.
Jagga Jasoos was a musical film in nature and the song Galti Se Mistake sung by Arijit Singh and Amit Mishra was a chartbuster and became very successful in all leading digital platforms. Jab Harry met Sejal could easily be called as musical of the year with chart-pumping and softer ones from the exceptional mind of Pritam. Hawayein from the film was the biggest hit but songs like Ghar, Jee ve Sohneya, Parinda, Raula, Phurr, Radha, Butterfly are all classics with their respective listening ears. jee ve Sohneya sung by Nooran sisters was about as close as anybody will ever get to Imtiaz's Rockstar. Overall the year was a decent mix of music but brilliant music from Hindi cinema is almost getting replenished.