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Beauty by Lia is an on-location hair and makeup artist in San Francisco, California, specializing in wedding day looks. Lia Negrete is a licensed artist who welcomes destination weddings, elopements, and same-sex weddings. With over 18 years of experience, Lia has worked with clients from various backgrounds and cultures and will bring her fun, creative spirit to your event.
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Beauty by Lia offers a selection of beauty, hair, and makeup services for groups of up to 12 people. Hair and makeup trials are available, and Lia is able to do on-site hair and makeup for your wedding. She brings clean makeup brushes to every event to give you a beautiful, healthy look. Lia can do blowouts, hair extensions, and updos/styling, paired with airbrush makeup, contour makeup, fake lashes, natural makeup, and wedding party makeup.
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Crystal Barba- Gómez · Married on 10/24/2019
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I'm so impressed by Lia's professionalism and talent. Also by the fact that the was willing and ready to do my wedding hair and makeup at 4am in SF! I absolutely LOVED my hair and makeup.
I'm incredibly grateful and highly recommend Lia!Sent on 11/15/2019
Lisa · Married on 04/27/2019
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From beginning to end, Lia was a great person to work with. She was professional and prompt in our email correspondence, and she arrived and left on time the day of my civil ceremony. Lia made me look my best, and was flexible and willing to make the little tweaks that I requested. On top of it all, she was fun to hang out with. I will totally hire Lia again if I ever need my hair and/or makeup done in the Bay area.Sent on 11/08/2018
Jocelyn · Married on 08/10/2018
Lia was AWESOME!Sent on 08/22/2018
I knew I was going to be a beautiful bride after she did my trial for our friends' wedding. For my trial she did an up-do and a light bronze makeup and I was so in love with what she did I couldn't stop looking at myself. LOL! We were out until 2 a.m. and both my hair and makeup lasted through the dancing and sweating.
So for my wedding, my makeup and hair were the least of my worries (both were beautiful, by the way, and I received lots of compliments) since I knew Lia was going to do an amazing job which was a good thing since I had the worst wedding day jitters! But after 10 minutes with Lia, my nerves dissipated. She is so easy to talk to and has such a great attitude that she really put me at ease. She even gave me trail mix since I hadn't had anything for breakfast except for juice!
Lia, for me, was worth every penny. She not only made me beautiful for my wedding but she also gave me peace of mind on a day that can feel very overwhelming and stressful.
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Lia is great to work with! She's professional, accommodating, sincere, and skilled in her art. Lisa, the bride who hired both of us, was elegant and beautiful on her wedding day - all of which showed well on camera.
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Kate Spade's Fall 2019 Runway Show will broadcast from the eloquent Cipriani on Broadway in New York City today at 12 p.m. EST, here's how to watch the fashion celebration online.
All eyes will be on Kate Spade Creative director Nicola Glass' vision for the brand's Fall 2019 line today. Glass told Fashion Week Daily during an interview that, "The collection is more modern and less retro. It has a youthful spirit and a '40s-meets-'70s silhouette," emphasizing changes are a-coming. You can catch the statement, Runway Show live online at Kate Spade's official Instagram page today at 12 p.m. EST.
Ozark's breakout superstar Julia Garner was one of the faces chosen to represent the brand for the Spring 2019 campaign, along with actresses Sadie Sink [Stranger Things] and Kiki Layne [If Beale Street Could Talk]. Directed by Emma Dalzell, the promotional campaign was well received by Kate Spade fans.
shared moments between friends on a girls weekend away is the joyful backdrop for our spring 2019 campaign. starring julia garner, kiki layne and sadie sink. directed by emma dalzell. #loveinspades https://t.co/cikPLLFf87 pic.twitter.com/KRqJ5ZDhGb
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Garner, an NYC native recently returned back home and was elated to encounter #loveinspades posters with her likeness across town. NY local Ozark fans are likely to be greeted by Ruth Langmore at some point during their next stroll through the city, courtesy of Kate Spade.
The star actress told Vogue UK in an interview, "I've always had fun with clothes, because my dad is a painter. Some of the spring/summer 2019 collection looks like Matisse pieces, particularly his cut-outs. Others have little aspects of Monets in them," when asked what brought her on-board to the Spring campaign 2019 originally.
Garner will potentially be part of future campaigns for the Kate Spade brand although there's nothing officially announced as of yet. The fact Garner mentioned today's Runway Show on Instagram and being excited about the fall line likely means the relationship is on-going… Although it could just be natural curiosity as a fashionista and model herself.
Kate Spade Fall 2019 Runway Show live stream details:
Date: Friday, Feb. 8
Start Time: 12 p.m. EST
Streaming Platform: Instagram
Live Stream: Watch live on Kate Spade's official Instagram page.
Watch the Spring 2019 Runway Show from this past September in the video below.
Follow Kate Spade's brand page on Twitter @katespadeny for minute by minute updates for today's Fall 2019 Runway Show.
FashionHeidi Mae opens up on Instagram competition, truth of reality TV
Instagram's champagne haired influencer Heidi Mae spoke to The Natural Aristocrat about the art of taking the perfect photo and why she'll never do reality TV again.
The Natural Aristocrat [Nir Regev]: Do you feel there's a need to go the extra mile on Instagram these days because of competition rising exponentially all the time?
Heidi Mae: You know, that's something I've thought about a lot… I don't know if it's going the extra mile, so much as it would be finding your own voice. I don't want to create things just to get engagement, which is always sort of the trap. "Oh, I want to get more engagement, so I'll post something that will get more engagement!" That can really make you suffer artistically. So, I've been focusing on creating stuff that I resonate with and trying to be more honest with people.
This year, I started opening up about some mental health issues that I've had, and advocating mental health awareness. I don't need to have a million followers. But what I would like is to have is a positive impact on whoever sees what I create.Photo Credit: Heidi Mae
I feel your Adobe Lightroom "Vibrant Life" Presets give your photos an artistic, personal touch other Instagram influencers lack. Something beyond the usual filters everyone already uses. This desert photo comes to mind with the purple/pink hued sky and synthwave cover-esque sun. What made you experiment with Lightroom originally?
I love photography, I'm a big photography nerd! (laughs) I just love the way light plays on things. I've had a camera since I was like 18, way back in the MySpace days! When I take a picture, a lot of times, I want to reflect a feeling and create an emotion when people look at it. For me, a huge part of that is editing the tones, colors, and shadows to where each picture creates an emotion and has a feeling to it. You know, instead of just going straight from the camera.Photo Credit: Heidi Mae
The biggest difference for me is just the fact that I feel much happier, and I enjoy the pictures a lot more when I look at them. I feel proud of them and that they will reflect what I was trying to capture. I read this quote once that said, 'A picture is how a camera sees the world and the edit on the photo is how the photographer sees the world.' It resonated a lot with me.Photo Credit: Heidi Mae
When I edit a photo and change the colors and shadows or put something like the sun in it, that's how I felt in that moment. That's how I experienced that moment in time when I took the photo.
I've read you already started singing at the age of two! Longtime fans have obviously heard your voice on the cosplay parodies on YouTube. Did you want to be a vocalist in a band growing up?
(laughs) Yeah! When I was younger, I wanted to be a singer or an actress or a Russian Supermodel! Not even taking into account that I wasn't Russian. (laughs) I grew up around music. My dad was a one man band and played every instrument.Photo Credit: Heidi Mae
My family had a traveling theatre show that we did at events and traveled around six to nine months out of the year, non-consecutively. So, it would be like six weeks at a time, eight weeks at a time. Always home for winter! The older I got, the more photography and travel became what I was passionate about making.
According to The Houston Herald, you and your siblings used to go to Texas County Library for the WiFi to upload those YouTube parodies. As the internet wasn't strong enough countryside where you lived. Do you still have to do that?
(laughs) Not anymore! A couple years ago, the phone carriers here started offering unlimited data which they didn't before. I mean they did at the very beginning and then they stopped. I switched carriers, so I could actually use the data at my house. When I used to upload a video or wanted to look something up, my cell phone reception and internet was so slow that it would take hours! I remember one time I wanted to upload one of the parodies, it took like a day and a half.Photo Credit: Heidi Mae
You mentioned wanting to be an actress earlier. Many of your Instagram fans remember you being featured on season 6 of ABC's Wife Swap. How did that opportunity arise and would you do something like that again?
That opportunity arose because of my family's theatre show,The Caboodlestoppers. I don't… I don't think that I would do reality TV again. The reason is because I learned the hard way that reality TV is a story that the producers want to tell. And they will 'accomplish' that story by whatever means necessary. You do not know going into it what story they want to tell, until you're in the middle of it… You know what? I would not do reality TV again! (laughs)
I see fans commenting on it on your Instagram all the time still!
Yes, yes. (laughs) There are actually quite a few moments involving me on that show that are absolutely not true! They used some copy and paste audio in an episode to make it seem true. There's actually a conversation I had where they chopped up what I said, and then just didn't show me talking when I said it. So, you can't tell that's not what I said. I'd actually had a boyfriend before, my family had a home that was 74 acres but that didn't fit the story they were trying to tell. 'So, let's just not say that!' (laughs)Photo Credit: Heidi Mae
What are some of your style inspirations, fashion wise?
I follow Revolve because I really like a lot of their looks. It's an online clothing company and they have designers there that create really unique things. A lot of my fashion actually evolves because of photography. A couple of years ago, maybe 4 years ago, all I ever wore was like black and gray. All the time! Then as I started doing photography more as my social media started taking off… I started noticing that the colors of black and gray don't translate to the mood of an image very well.Photo Credit: Heidi Mae
If I'm on this beautiful expanse of land and I'm wearing all black, it doesn't lend itself to the feeling I wanted to create in the photos. So, I started steering more towards lighter colors and more romantic looks. And I started noticing, "Oh, I really like this!" The clothing lends itself to the images much more to where everything felt complete in the picture versus say at opposition with each other.Photo Credit: Heidi Mae
How vital do you feel wigs are to your YouTube videos? Do you prefer to do your hair naturally if you can?
I definitely prefer to do my hair naturally. It's so much more comfortable that way! (laughs) Especially, when I did some Harley Quinn looks for Suicide Squad, the wig was in pigtails and it was such a nightmare. Because you're pulling the hair up but you're glueing it to your scalp so it's always like trying to peel away from your skin. It was horrible!
So, I definitely prefer to use my real hair with the exception if it's like a crazy color. I definitely don't want to dye my hair green, so I'll use a wig for it! (laughs) So, any extreme colors or if I really feel like it will lend itself to the image well, I'll use a wig.
I recall you mentioned the process of glueing that Harley Quinn wig on during a fan Q & A video. Speaking of that Q & A video, it's been about two years now since it was posted… Are you ever going to do a followup?
(laughs) That's a very good question! Yes, I'm going to! Filming more video blogs has been on my to-do list. I'm much more proficient at photography than I am at video. So, recently I've been pushing myself more to do more videos. Like the Instagram videos that I've been posting recently. It's sort of like, "Okay, let's get out of your comfort zone and push yourself a little bit!" Instead of just like sticking with what I'm comfortable with. Which can kind of be a human tendency at times.
What has the experience of your YouTube cosplay parodies going viral taught you?
I think what it taught me is if you set your mind to something and you try hard enough then you can make it happen. It might sound cliche but it's true. Those parodies were the result of quite a few months of research, planning, and creating the costumes. I think the Suicide Squad one took about a year, including writing and recording.
It definitely taught me if I want something bad enough, and I work hard enough at it, I can find a way! Even if it's not exactly what I originally set out to do. It can be a little different. I can still achieve that end goal!
My last question, going back to that fan Q & A… Two years later, do you still listen to the Backstreet Boys?
(laughs) Yeah! Funny you should ask that! I just went on like a three week road trip with my mom to California, and we found this 2000 through 2019 Pop Hits Playlist. Backstreet Boys are definitely on it, and there's definitely singing along in the car!
Thanks Heidi!
Thank you!
Follow and subscribe to Heidi Mae on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Read up on Heidi's latest adventures blogging at her official website.
Be sure to check out Heidi's custom Adobe Lightroom "Vibrant Life" Presets to bring the magic to your own photos!
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Rhode Island Democratic Party Women's Caucus Hosts its Inaugural Fundraiser
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo and Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea are set to host the Rhode Island Democratic Party Women's Caucus' inaugural fundraiser on Tuesday, November 7, 2017at the Roger Williams Park Casino at 6PM. The caucus was founded in January by its four co-chairs, Representative Lauren Carson, Representative Grace Diaz, Senator Gayle Goldin, and Representative Shelby Maldonado. Hundreds of women have attended caucus meetings since January.
"The women of the caucus have worked hard to bring this fundraiser together, and I couldn't be more proud of the work we have done," said Representative Carson, chair of the Fundraising Committee. At least 150 people are expected to turn out at the caucus' first fundraising event, which will include remarks from the Governor and Secretary of State as well as Representatives Carson and Maldonado.
The purpose of the RIDP Women's Caucus is to "ensure gender equality in our laws, our Democratic Party, and in our government representation. We believe that a strong Democratic Party values and includes the diverse voices of our party."
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Lessons to the Young (and not-so-Young)
Can society's elders teach the young anything? History often dictated the young had to experience disaster for themselves before believing they were heading into it. This has frustrated many parents. But the enormity of the 2008 financial collapse may provide the lesson and opportunity to steer the young in the right direction.
Seeing how much people lost because of unwise investment choices could cause a reaction in the wrong direction. It could encourage the feeling that you might as well spend the money while it's worth something, instead of saving it. That's not the response that we have been witnessing. Observing the reaction of those nearing retirement, despairing at their lack of funds, may have something to do with it. It's interesting to see how 'twenty-somethings' are turning to financial professionals ensuring they are set on the right course.
Lindsay is a good example. As soon as she was eligible to join her company's Group RRSP plan, she made sure she contributed enough to get the maximum employer match. The plan representative helped her in her decision by showing her the all-too-familiar graph detailing the effect of compounding gains. It really is amazing how much the first 10 years of investing can affect the final outcome.
She intends to contribute 1% more each year, even though there was no additional employer contribution, because of the tax savings. With that attitude, she can look forward to a well-funded retirement, almost regardless of the market fluctuations on the way.
The chief element influencing returns from investing is the asset allocation model that you adopt. It's easy to talk about equity funds versus bond funds, but asset allocation goes far deeper than that. With any type of investments, a fund can't be judged simply by it's name. You need to investigate deeper to understand what types of investments are being held and what the investment goals are. For instance, a 'value' fund may invest a substantial part of the portfolio in what might be considered 'growth' stocks.
By taking an active interest in her future, coupled with what financial professionals are telling her, Lindsay is learning a great deal about wise financial choices. These steps will allow her to understand and discuss her advisor's recommendations. After all, we all have different risk tolerances, which is why we need advice tailored to our propensity for risk. Those who have more years before their retirement will tend to carry more equity investments in their portfolio. However, there is no 'one-size-fits-all' perfect answer. Perhaps with greater awareness, the younger generation will avoid some of the pitfalls affecting those near retirement.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
A treat for me...
I'm heading out for a much anticipated, long awaited, and very neccessary vacation tomorrow--to celebrate 10 years of marriage, really good friendships, and wonderful food and wine. It's going to be a heavenly little sojurn to Napa with some of the best people on earth.
While I'm away though, I've planned a treat for you as well! The fabulous folks at Seattle Metropolitan Bride and Groom just sent five copies of their brand new, hot off the presses issue...for you! So, I'll be showing little snippets each day while I'm away, and as soon as I get back, will announce who will be receiving their own copies.
If you don't live in Seattle, you might not be familiar with our little hometown mag. It's gorgeous. It's huge (more like a coffee table book size, not a normal 8.5" x 11" shrimpy size). It has brilliant ideas. I'll pay the postage to wherever...so definitely enter so that you can get your hands on a copy!
To get one, please just leave a comment on this post, with a little note (it can be brief!) describing your favorite wedding or decorating detail you've seen lately. (Me? Do not ask me to pick a favorite between the bubble table and tie tree. Impossible.) Five readers will be chosen at random when I return next week. Have fun (I know I will be)!
6 comments:
- Becky said...
Love your blog! My favorite wedding detail right now? Hmm... that's tough. Anytime flowers are involved though, I'm in love with it. I also love the photo booth idea.
- July 17, 2008 at 4:50 AM
- tdm said...
I just love your blog. My fave wedding detail is those super cute bird cake toppers. I like the details that are a "surprise."
- July 17, 2008 at 8:57 AM
- please sir said...
Oh yay - have a ton of fun and RELAX!!
- July 17, 2008 at 10:27 AM
- Caitlyn said...
my husband is indian and at our wedding we used bangles as napkin holders, which people then put on and danced!
- July 17, 2008 at 6:21 PM
- cara said...
I hope you have a wonderful wonderful holiday!
My favourite wedding detail just now is the booklets that had table numbers printed on the outside and had different requests on each page like 'a favourite spot for a romantic meal', 'most romantic country in the world' and the guests filled the book in with their thoughts. I can't remember where I saw it now though :(
- July 18, 2008 at 3:05 AM
- rebekah said...
My favorite details? Anything handmade! I'm really into simple placecards right now.
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Previously I have mentioned about my face suffering from cystic acnes and becoming very sensitive. Then I decided to see a dermatologist and use special treatments. Thus from January 2014 to February or March this year, I've been using the skin care regime from Klinik Permata (owned by Dr. Wong).
Anyway, this post is meant for C&C foaming facial wash, so let's get to it right now.
My Cleansing Routine from Dermatologist Vs. C&C Essentials Foaming Facial Wash
So, when I was shopping at a supermarket, I saw this C&C product and just because the liquid looked mild and the bottle's cute, I decided to give it a try. Ah ya, it was also very cheap. For IDR below 20K or less than US$ 2, you get 100ml pack :)
Unlike any other facial foams that are sold in supermarket, this facial foam comes in a cute orange plastic bottle with a screw cap. It might not be the most preferred kind of cap for most people, but for me it's acceptable since flip cap sometimes can easily be broken. The plastic is pretty thick and the size is just right to carry on my toiletries bag when traveling.
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The liquid is really mild and gentle, which reminds me of a baby shampoo. And the scent is very soft and slightly citrussy. It lathers quite a lot but the bubbles are not drying to my skin. It feels smooth and leaves my skin with delicate and moist feelings.
Even after using it for a while, I haven't noticed any new pimples coming out (except on my PMS period). Now, I've been using it for 2 months and so far I'm extremely happy with it. Not only because it works beyond my expectation, but the price is also very friendly to my pocket :):):)
I give this C&C Foaming Facial Wash 5 out of 5 stars for the product efficacy, packaging and price. This has been added to my holy grail list =)
PS: Right now, my makeup remover product lists are only Biore Cleansing Oil & C&C Essentials Foaming Facial Wash.


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Linus Pauling said, "The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas."
Microsoft® OneNote® is a great place to gather brilliant ideas from talented people. In addition to being a great note-taking application, OneNote makes a superb collaboration platform. And you can collaborate with others when OneNote is stored in the cloud.
All these features also make OneNote a great place to manage projects, especially when those involved are not necessarily all in one office, or even in the same company!
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In addition to my full-time business & my full-time day job, I'm also on the PR committee of the local Habitat for Humanity's Women Build. This year, we are raising money AND building a home for a very deserving mother & daughter in Stephens City. If you ladies haven't heard of the Tiara Tuesday celebrations by now, then you are seriously missing out! One Tuesday every month we have a get-together of women dedicated to raising money & awareness for our project (and by "get-together", I mean usually over a hundred women turning out for music, food, beverage & fun!). Each month is hosted by a different location, and each time I am amazed by how many women come out & how much fun we have. I always take lots of photos & post them up on our own Women Build Shutterfly site that I created so everyone can see them & share with other women to get the word out. One of my good friends (and also one of my bridesmaids!), Erica Zambanini of Cabana Blue Creative, runs a fun blog dedicated solely to Women Build. Check it out here for more information on how to get involved in the build, or where to come for the next big party!
Here's a slideshow of some of the fun times we've had over the past several months… I even snuck into a few of the shots, so see if you can find me 🙂


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Ancient tales of the Panchatantra, composed in Sanskrit about 200 BC in Kashmir, provide a fascinating insight into the intricate world of basic knowledge and wisdom through ageless fables which, if grasped in the right sense and spirit, could make life "richer, happier and fuller". Historically, these stories are said to have been on the natives' lips for more than five thousand years.
I often glance through Arthur W. Ryder's Panchatantra which is an English translation from Sanskrit (Jaico Publishing House) for possible clues and pointers to the present complexities of the rulers and the ruled, of vices and virtues, of loyalty and royalty, of sacrifice and greed, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil and so on. Amidst the varied pulls and counter-pulls man is subjected to, what makes a difference between true human happiness and beastly thrills of greed, avarice and intrigues is the use of intelligence and the spirit of freedom.
For, if there be no mind
Debating good and ill,
And if religion sends
No challenge to the will,
If only greed be there
For some material feast,
How draw a line between
The man-beast and the beast?
The Nitishastra and other holy scriptures tell us candidly life's secrets and guide us as to what is right, just and fair and what is wrong and unfair. However, somewhere down the line, we seem to have lost the path of wisdom shown by the Panchatantra where the animal characters cleverly expose all that is humbug and falsehood and the intrigues of those who go astray while in command.
The basic problem in our country is the never-ending drift and the sharp deterioration in the quality of governance. The phenomenal rise in corruption and corrupt practices speaks volumes about the depth of decadence.
Not that the total system has failed, but a number of misdoings and visibly corrupt practices have shattered the people's confidence in fairplay and the justice system we have sustained for the past 72 years.
What will be the quality of democracy conducted on the basis of shady deals and falsehood? Wouldn't tainted money produce tainted democracy? Haven't black money operations given rise to a "parallel democracy" controlled by operators, manipulators and mafia gangs?
This cannot be called rhetoric. Danger signals can be seen everywhere and in every segment of public activity. Look at the massive machinery of bribery at play.
Examine closely illegal transactions and shameless trading of jobs. Look at money laundering and political links and the underworld. Have a critical look at the electoral money pipelines. Their sources would put people with a conscience to shame.
The question here is not only of quantum but also of the very dimension of such operations which are eating into the vitals of our nation. This raises the fundamental question of values and morality of persons at the helm in different segments of public life.
Values are under attack as the country is caught badly in the crossfire of conflicting interests of varied shades. Indeed, what can be more tragic if wheelers and dealers were to decide people's fate in the name of democracy? For, it needs to be borne in mind that bribery and shady deals endanger not only the economy but also the polity.
Should this mean that there is no hope? I don't subscribe to this theory of helplessness and disgust. I see a silver lining in every situation, howsoever gloomy and horrifying.
I have said earlier that the nation is still vibrant and the public vigilant. All that is required is to keep up public pressure through free flow of information, transparency and closer monitoring of murky goings-on in all areas of governance.
Secretiveness is conducive to an atmosphere of intrigue and unhealthy curiosity. It indirectly aids corrupt practices and corrupt persons.
Less of secrecy and more of openness along with accountability are the basic requirements for building a corruption-free society. Such an approach alone can strengthen the roots of democracy. Everyone in position of power, including the judiciary, needs to take due notice of this plain truth.
I would once again like to reproduce below a saying from the Panchatantra, narrating the basic message in the fable of how an intimate friendship between "the forest lion" and "the bull" was "estranged" for the "greedy and malicious ends" of a jackal. The nasty situation could have been saved by the right advice to "the master" by counselors around him.
Where the parlance harbours servants
Kindly, modest, pure
Death to enemies and deaf to
Avarice's lure,
Foes may struggle but the royal
Honour is secure.
Speak the truth, though harsh it be
Blarney is true enmity.
And yet again:
When royal servants, asked or not,
Indulge in pleasant lies
That lead the royal mind astray.
The royal glory dies.
Looking beyond, the challenge before us to build a good and just society.
I was reminded of these tales from the Panchatantra after reading a news item in Indian Express of September 4 wherein a great intellectual and veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi talked about a larger issue of governance and leadership at the memorial meeting for Congress leader and former Union Minister S. Jaipal Reddy who died on July 28 in Hyderabad. Present at the event were Vice-President N. Venkaiah Naidu and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
What has impressed me most is Dr Joshi's observations while giving a tribute to Dr Jaipal Reddy who was part of a key parliamentary forum for discussion on Intellectual Property Rights in the 1990's. Dr. Reddy would often veer from the then government's line of thinking.
In that context, Dr Joshi said:
"I believe that today there is a dire need of a leadership which expresses views clear, can debate with the Prime Minister based on principles, without any hesitation and not worrying about making him happy or sad".
This is saying a lot on the state of affairs prevailing today amidst "a climate of fear". I do not wish to dwell at length from gaurakshaks to online trolls which often give wrong signals to the people from the ruling establishment.
Ironically, murky business makes our society look more sick than before. I do not blame the Prime Minister. He has many qualities of heart and mind. I expect him to act firmly in cases which go against the people's right of free speech and expression granted under Article 19(1) of our Constitution.
A proverb in a Panchatantra tale says:
"When those appointed to advise
Speak wholesome truth
They cause a surprise.
But one prepared to hear
Or speak unwelcome truth
Is far to seek".
Dr Murli Manohar Joshi has rendered a great service to the nation by raising governance issues which are relevant to the country's quality of democracy. It is for us to think as to how and where we are going wrong!


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Early in Mark's gospel, Jesus makes what I believe is one of the most awesome statements in His ministry. Walking by the seaside in Galilee, He sees Peter and Andrew and He calls out, "Follow Me and I will make you become fishers of men." (Mark 1:17)
It's not, "you guys already have it together."
It's not even, "Follow me and you will become…"
He said, "I will make you become…"
Jesus was asking for surrender, then HE would do the work.
So many times we… I… see the task Jesus has for me and I shy away. "Fisher of men? I don't even know what that means, exactly. How do I start? Has anybody else done this? Am I the only one? I'm not sure 'fishing' is my spiritual gift."
He said, "I will make you become…"
He stands ready to see that we accomplish the great things He has in mind. He's waiting for us (for me) to surrender and follow Him.
"He who began a good work in you, will complete it…" (Phil 1:6)


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Nitric acid
Poisoning from exposure to nitric acid.
Poisonous Ingredient
Nitric acid
Where Found
- Agents used to clean metals (such as gun barrels)
- Electroplating systems
- Fertilizer manufacturing
Note: This list may not be all inclusive.
From swallowing:
- Body as a whole o Severe pain in the mouth o Burns to skin or mouth o Fever
- Respiratory o Inability to breathe due to the throat swelling shut o Severe pain in the throat
- Ggastrointestinal o Severe Abdominal pain o Vomit containing dark-colored blood
- Rapid drop in blood pressure
From inhalation:
- Body as a whole o Weakness o Tight chest
- Respiratory o Coughing o Shortness of breath o Coughing up blood
- Choking
- Bluish colored lips and fingernails
- Heart and blood vessels o Low Blood pressure o Rapid pulse
- Dizziness
Home Treatment
DO NOT INDUCE Vomiting. If the acid is on the skin or in the eyes, flush with lots of water for at least 15 minutes.
If the acid was swallowed, give water or milk IMMEDIATELY. If the patient is Vomiting, keep giving water or milk. Give milk of magnesia, 4 to 6 oz., if possible.
For inhalation poisoning, move the patient to fresh air.
Before Calling Emergency
Determine the following:
- The patient's age, weight, and condition
- The name of the product (and ingredients and strengths, if known)
- The time it was swallowed, inhaled, or touched
- The amount swallowed, inhaled, or touched
Poison Control, or a local emergency number
The Poison Control or local emergency telephone representative will instruct you if it is necessary to take the patient to the hospital. See Poison Control centers for telephone numbers and addresses.
Take the container with you to the emergency room.
What to expect at the emergency room
Some or all of the following procedures may be performed:
- Support the patient's airway and breathing
- Dilute or neutralize the acid
- Treat the pain and symptoms
- Upper GI endoscopy
Expectations (prognosis)
The prognosis (probable outcome) depends on the amount and route of acid exposure. Extensive damage to the mouth, throat, and stomach are possible. The ultimate outcome depends on the extent of this damage.
by Janet G. Derge, M.D.
Medical Encyclopedia
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Singer and Songwriter K.Flay has debuted her new 'Run For Your Life' song for the upcoming 'Tomb Raider' movie, that hits theaters March 16th.
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"I wrote "Run for Your Life" in a hotel room in Johnson City, Tennessee, a few hours before my show that night. I think the frantic energy of touring found its way into the track," says the K.Flay. "This track was a new challenge for me — writing a song from a perspective outside my own, trying to capture the spirit and energy of a film I hadn't seen in full yet. (PS I've of course seen it now and it's awesome)," see added.
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Top No Originality Quotes
Browse top 41 famous quotes and sayings about No Originality by most favorite authors.
Favorite No Originality Quotes
1. "The thing about you, her mother used to say, is that you never act out of character. You have no originality. But Nigora knew this was not true. Because she was going to act out of character, She was going (thought Nigora) to be herself. And yet: how could she? How could she?"
Author: Adam Thirlwell
Author: Adam Thirlwell
2. "I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice."
Author: Amy Tan
Author: Amy Tan
3. "It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired."
Author: Angela Phillips
Author: Angela Phillips
4. "[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion."
Author: Anton Chekhov
Author: Anton Chekhov
5. "Put the price only on products and not on a person, either self or anyone, as products need packaging and place for promotion while a person needs originality to create own space and firstly BE HUMAN"
Author: Anuj Somany
Author: Anuj Somany
6. "The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."
Author: Arthur Koestler
Author: Arthur Koestler
7. "A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents."
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
8. "No man who cares about originality will ever be original. It's the man who's only thinking about doing a good job or telling the truth who becomes really original -- and doesn't notice it."
Author: C.S. Lewis
Author: C.S. Lewis
9. "No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'. ... [I]f you compare it with the creation legends of other peoples--with all these delightful absurdities in which giants to be cut up and floods to be dried up are made to exist before creation--the depth and originality of this Hebrew folk tale will soon be apparent."
Author: C.S. Lewis
Author: C.S. Lewis
10. "I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre."
Author: Charlotte Brontë
Author: Charlotte Brontë
11. "Only those with no memory insist on their originality."
Author: Coco Chanel
Author: Coco Chanel
12. "To return to the moment of radical innocence. To paint. To stretch canvas. To find the point of originality. It wasn't a hippie idea. Both of us always hated the hippies, their flowers, their poems, their one idea. We were the furthest thing from hippies. We were the edge, the definers."
Author: Colum McCann
Author: Colum McCann
13. "Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."
Author: Criss Jami
Author: Criss Jami
14. "Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought."
Author: Edward Carpenter
Author: Edward Carpenter
15. "If originality is a "sense of novelty and freshness" then, in the act of constructing ourselves, originality is not the goal. We construct a self-portrait, relying on existing objects – books, quotes from authors and artists, images, art – that we are more than happy to show off to others for them to use as masturbation material or for the material by which they align themselves. This is the new action painting – the curational archive. The referential self portrait. The portrait of any other artist could be readily used to explain yourself, just reblog it and caption it with "same." The past consistently becomes the present, not through linear time, but through the constant reconstruction and relabeling of it."
Author: Gabby Bess
Author: Gabby Bess
16. "Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality..."
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Author: George Bernard Shaw
17. "...to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States... and that is its aim everywhere else.(writing of public education in the April 1924 The American Mercury)"
Author: H.L. Mencken
Author: H.L. Mencken
18. "Each day he made attempts … but produced nothing but quotations, thinly or well disguised, of his own work. Nothing sprang free of its own idiom, its own authority, to offer the element of surprise that would be the guarantee of originality."
Author: Ian McEwan
Author: Ian McEwan
19. "Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing."
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
20. "Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don't bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to."[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]"
Author: Jim Jarmusch
Author: Jim Jarmusch
21. "John Dalton was a very singular Man: He has none of the manners or ways of the world. A tolerable mathematician He gained his livelihood I believe by teaching the mathematics to young people. He pursued science always with mathematical views. He seemed little attentive to the labours of men except when they countenanced or confirmed his own ideas... He was a very disinterested man, seemed to have no ambition beyond that of being thought a good Philosopher. He was a very coarse Experimenter & almost always found the results he required.—Memory & observation were subordinate qualities in his mind. He followed with ardour analogies & inductions & however his claims to originality may admit of question I have no doubt that he was one of the most original philosophers of his time & one of the most ingenious."
Author: John Dalton
Author: John Dalton
22. "People think genius a fine thing if it enables a man to write an exciting poem, or paint a picture, But in its true sense, that of originality in thought and action, though no one says that it is not a thing to be admired, nearly all, at heart, think that they can do very well without it. Unhappily this is too natural to be wondered at. Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. They cannot see what it is to do for them: how should they? If they could see what it would do for them, it would not be originality."
Author: John Stuart Mill
Author: John Stuart Mill
23. "Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not."
Author: Joseph A. Schumpeter
Author: Joseph A. Schumpeter
24. "There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity."
Author: Katherine Dunn
Author: Katherine Dunn
25. "...the Beatles were hard men too. Brian Epstein cleaned them up for mass consumption, but they were anything but sissies. They were from Liverpool, which is like Hamburg or Norfolk, Virginia--a hard, sea-farin' town, all these dockers and sailors around all the time who would beat the piss out of you if you so much as winked at them. Ringo's from the Dingle, which is like the f***ing Bronx. The Rolling Stones were the mummy's boys--they were all college students from the outskirts of London. They went to starve in London, but it was by choice, to give themselves some sort of aura of disrespectability. I did like the Stones, but they were never anywhere near the Beatles--not for humour, not for originality, not for songs, not for presentation. All they had was Mick Jagger dancing about. Fair enough, the Stones made great records, but they were always s**t on stage, whereas the Beatles were the gear."
Author: Lemmy Kilmister
Author: Lemmy Kilmister
26. "Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The Aeneid, he didn't invent Aeneas; Aeneas was a minor character in Homer's Odyssey whose unauthorized further adventures Virgil decided to chronicle. Shakespeare didn't invent Hamlet and King Lear; he plucked them from historical and literary sources. Writers weren't the originators of the stories they told; they were just the temporary curators of them. Real creation was something the gods did.All that has changed. Today the way we think of creativity is dominated by Romantic notions of individual genius and originality, and late-capitalist concepts of intellectual property, under which artists are businesspeople whose creations are the commodities they have for sale."
Author: Lev Grossman
Author: Lev Grossman
27. "The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence."
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
28. "I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit. Hitherto I had regarded it chiefly as an annihilating force which suppresses the originality and even the awareness of one's perceptions; now I saw it as a dread deity, so riveted to one's being, its insignificant face so incrusted in one's heart, that if it detaches itself, if it turns away from one, this deity that one had barely distinguished inflicts on one sufferings more terrible than any other and is then as cruel as death itself."
Author: Marcel Proust
Author: Marcel Proust
29. "Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has a superb and amazing and infinitely varied equipment of old ones, but she never adds to them. She repeats--repeats--repeats--repeats. Examine your memory and your experience; you will find it is true."
Author: Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain
30. "All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the gardener with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing."
Author: Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain
31. "From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique."
Author: Michael Keaton
Author: Michael Keaton
32. "Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality."
Author: Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Author: Nicolás Gómez Dávila
33. "LAW 38Think As You Like But Behave Like OthersIf you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness."
Author: Robert Greene
Author: Robert Greene
34. "As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn't have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself.That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything – from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it."
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
35. "Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had."
Author: Robin Cousins
Author: Robin Cousins
36. "Every child is a one of a kind mini-masterpiece. No known duplicates exist. They each have distinctive fingerprints, heart rhythms, eye patterns, and blood constitution. Even identical twins can be physically alike and yet light years apart in how they are mentally wired and gifted. Our children do not just grow up different; they show up different. Though circumstances and training will greatly affect their lives, the originality that is already ingrained into each of our children reflects brilliant preplanning. Every birthmark is a trademark. Every special feature is a signature of divine design."
Author: Stephen Kendrick
Author: Stephen Kendrick
37. "Every detective has a certain kind of case that he or she finds almost unbearable, against which the usual shield of practiced professional detachment turns brittle and untrustworthy. Cassie, though nobody else knows this, has nightmares when she works rape-murders; I, displaying a singular lack of originality, have serious trouble with murdered children; and, apparently, family killings gave Sam the heebie-jeebies. This case could turn out to be perfect for all three of us."
Author: Tana French
Author: Tana French
38. "Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no."
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author: Terry Pratchett
39. "Flocks of magpies have descended on our yard. I cannot sleep for all their raucous behavior. Perched on weathered fences, their green-black tales, long as rulers, wave up and down, reprimanding me for all I have not done.I have done nothing for weeks. I have no work. I don't want to see anyone much less talk. All I want to do is sleep.Monday, I hit rock-bottom, different from bedrock, which is solid, expansive, full of light and originality. Rock-bottom is the bottom of the rock, the underbelly that rarely gets turned over; but when it does, I am the spider that scurries from daylight to find another place to hide.Today I feel stronger, learning to live with the natural cycles of a day and to not expect so much from myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase. And the energy we expend emotionally belongs to the hidden side of the moon...."
Author: Terry Tempest Williams
Author: Terry Tempest Williams
40. "Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions."
Author: Thomas Couture
Author: Thomas Couture
41. "Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality."
Author: Walter Kaufmann
Author: Walter Kaufmann
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Kontaktujte nás | Jazyk: čeština English
|Analysis of Companies' Performance (Manufacturing of Transportation Machinery Parts Sector in the Czech Republic) With a Focus on Japanese Companies
|Blahová, Michaela; Pálka, Přemysl
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|Článek ve sborníku (English)
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|Finance and the Performance of Firms in Science, Education and Practice 2013. 2013, p. 113-125
|This paper deals with an analysis of performance of companies located in the Czech Republic that focus on a sector of manufacturing of transportation machinery parts. The main aim of the research was to analyze performance of Japanese companies located in the Czech Republic that focus on manufacturing of transportation machinery parts (due to their largest share in manufacturing industry in the Czech Republic), compare their results with financial situation of firms in the same industry in the Czech Republic (irrespective the owner's country of origin) and find out whether Japanese companies achieve better results in performance based on ROE (Return on Equity) than other companies in the same industry due to Japanese management practices utilized in every subsidiary of Japanese companies all over the world.
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What makes a good suburb? According to Business Insider's ranking of the 50 best suburbs in America, it's a combination of decent commute times, low crime rates, affordable housing and good schools. We'd have to agree.
Interestingly though, there are only two New York City suburbs included on the list—and both are in New Jersey. That's right: Long Island, Connecticut and New York Times favorite Westchester were left entirely out of the list. In fact, it is dominated by the Midwest (Ohio appears seven times, including at No. 1 for New Albany). The reason: Lower housing costs, most likely.
So the two best choices for New Yorkers looking to escape the city? Chatham and North Caldwell.
Here's what BI had to say about each one, and two current homes in each that we found available in case you want to take the plunge:
Chatham, NJ - Ranked #43. Schools score: 10
"Twenty-four miles west of New York City, Chatham offers the charm of a New England town with vast green spaces, extensive recreational programs, and a historic downtown district. It's home to top-rated schools and a direct rail to New York. The median household income is $146,083," BI reports.
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You might think studying in Australia as a Filipino student is a walk in the park, given the lack of a language barrier or its relative distance from home. But don't be fooled just yet. There's still a lot to prepare before you make your trip down to the land of cuddly koalas and excellent surf spots. Research is key to nailing your international student experience.
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Studying in Australia starts with narrowing down your options, location-wise!
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Let's get real first before you start applying. While the quality of living in Australia is amazing, the cost, however, ain't cheap. Sydney and Melbourne have amazing universities and are usually on most lists of highly livable cities in the world. But if you're looking to save on living expenses, you'll likely be dorming or staying further out of the CBD. Try out other Australian capitals, go somewhere you've never heard of, which have wonderful sites and unis as well.
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Sometime in August the Dark Side disappeared. I did it.
It was an accident. I intended to destroy the Dark Side, yes, some day, in some special way, but the actual doing it was quite an accident. I was surprised when it happened.
I was working on the first phase activation of the countries. I found a small bunch of countries, among them my birthplace, that registered as "gone over to the Dark Side" and their vibration was low, and they weren't accepting the activation.
Then I was working on a person, a tester, and felt that somehow the Dark Side was wedged between him and myself. I asked Source if I can just download the activator to the wedged Dark Side. The answer was yes, so I did it. It went through. It left silence and peace in its wake.
Muscle test showed that it went to 0… before that it was gradually diminishing, from 55% when I started in July to… 5 or 10%, I don't recall.
I was elated. I was really happy.
I frequently measured after that, and it stayed at zero for three months.
Then it started to show an increase. It's at 2% now.
It's all fine and dandy, but what is Dark Side?
People that come to my site to look for stories of the Dark Side, movies, etc. depict Dark Side as an organization hellbent on destroying life on the planet. Right? Conspiracy theories. The Dark Planet…
But just like I got a new definition of what's evil a few months ago, yesterday I got a new definition of what is Dark Side.
Let me first give you the definitions before I give you the story."
OK, Evil. In my conversations with Source it has become clear that evil is a simple (as in uncomplicated) phenomenon. It is simply desire for the self alone.
Even simpler put, wanting something that gives you what you want by taking it away from another or others. Taking something that belongs to another. Like making someone wrong. Like shaming a child. Like gossiping. Like avoiding responsibility. Like blaming. Like justifying yourself. Like making someone look bad. All the moves of ego.
Without human interaction, there is no evil in the universe. Evil is an entirely human phenomenon because only humans have ego. Only human can want something for themselves at the expense of another.
A lion chasing, catching and eating an antelope is part of life. It is part of the great circle of life. But for a human it looks like the "poor cute" antelope is more important than the lion and therefore the lion should starve. What the human does is desire for the self alone. The human sacrifices another for their idea of what's right and what's wrong.
The humna, you! interfered with the order of life… and you decide who is deserving and who isn't.
How is that desire for the self alone? Good question. It is you, the self-righteous one, who is the evil. The self appointed judge, You, are right and declare everything that is life wrong. You interfere. For your own selfish gratification of being right.
Evil is about being right, looking good, dominating, winning, justifying, assigning blame, and avoiding responsibility at the expense of life. Life as a whole. Reducing space for all of life. To gratify your ego.
Government can become a tool of evil. Church can become a tool of evil. Reforms, laws, groups of men, organizations, KKK, etc… can become a tool of evil. If they "rig" life, they are.
Simple. A corporation that destroys or poisons the environment pretending to do good is a tool of evil in doing that. But only that part of the corporation is that. The main activity of the corporation is good. It serves the public, it creates products that people are willing to pay for. Business is good. It creates progress, it creates jobs, it serves people, it serves life. But a business, an entity that has ego, when it is ego serving, it is on the side of evil.
OK, then what is Dark Side? Isn't that the same as Evil? The people that do evil for the Dark Side… it would make sense. Surprisingly that is not the case.
Dark Side is the pre-occupation with perceived evil.
Dark Side is looking for evil outside of you. Dark Side is thinking that you are good and others are engaged in wrongdoing.
Dark Side is more dangerous than Evil, because Dark Side is a thinking phenomenon: it is creating that which it thinks about.
When in early August Dark Side got eliminated, evil was doing what evil does, acts of desire for the self alone. People did what they did before. But, compared to before, there was a deep silence in the world. It was tangible for an empath like myself.
Dark Side is a buzzing, a vibration. It's the engaging in opinionating, writing, thinking, weeping, complaining about perceived evil.
So when you are complaining about government, about the guy who didn't pay you, about the rapists, the murderers, the thieves, the thugs, the good old boys club, the monopolies, the secret societies, the conspiracies, the catastrophes forthcoming in 2012, you are creating and strengthening the Dark Side and at the same time you are engaging in Evil-doing.
When you just simply do evil, (desire for the self alone) you are only hurting some people. When you focus your thoughts on "evil" you are creating it as an entity, poisoning the planet, poisoning the environment, killing all of life.
When man ate from the Tree of Good and Evil, the Tree of Knowledge (could be called the Tree of your opinion!) Dark Side was born.
Did people do acts of desire for the self alone before this turning point? Yes. Of course. Selfishness is our nature. But we didn't dwell there, we didn't walk around with our fingers pointing at others and pronouncing them good or evil. No, we were busy doing what it took to stay alive. Doing what we did, hunt, gather, love, hate, kill, give birth… whatever we still do. Except this opinionating part. We do more of that today… again.
So, let's see what happened to me that I could finally see how this works. As usual I had to go through pain to learn. Oh well, I guess this is how it works for the "chosen" people, lol.
A week or two ago a classmate of mine proudly announced that her first article was published on Technorati, a famous website. I went to read it. The article was about the Penn State scandal. I had heard nothing about it, so I researched it.
The story hooked me. It was like an single cigarette to an ex smoker. It was like a sip of drink for a recovering alcoholic. It (the addiction machine) wanted more… and I felt myself falling deeper and deeper into the abyss of victimhood and blaming.
Lucky to us, I kept my eyes open. I was observing it while another aspect of mine was in it. 1
There should be an anonymous group for victims, where the first sentence is instead of "I am powerless over alcohol" it would be "I declare that I am powerless over victimhood" in the AA group for recovering victims.
There is a victimhood nerve path that is just thinly covered with "life" but it's there, ready to take over life, and turn your life back into "they did that to me" and "they are evil" "poor me" "poor them" baaah baaah baaah.
You don't know it's horrible until you spent a few years outside of it, like I did. You feel so justified! You feel that if you don't say what you "need" to say, it will be horrible for the whole world!
Activists are like this. Most charitable organizations are like this. Trying to save people from the wrongdoing of others. Having to, needing to, wanting to, and should… the main moves of the machine.
One of my closest friends is an expert at that… she fell back to it at the same time as I did. We had a long talk last night, and she is back at life, she is free, she is happy.
When I muscle tested, Dark Side was back to 2%.
It is time to put attention back to life and away from the perceived evil. You, me, all of us that want Life to win.
We do want that, don't we?
Sign up to my Daily Connection Course. They gently hold your hand and teach you the machine under the hood, the machine that has kept humanity trapped since the Garden of Eden incident. It also shows how to reclaim your power.
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- A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.
"he looked through her belongings in the hope of coming across some information"
synonyms: aspiration, desire, wish, expectation, ambition, aim, goal, plan, design
- archaic
a feeling of trust
- want something to happen or be the case.
"he's hoping for an offer of compensation"
synonyms: expect, anticipate, look for, be hopeful of, pin one's
hopes on, want
This is Google's definition of "hope". When I was a little girl, living with my father and step-mother, waiting for my mother to pick me up for my weekend visit I would sit in the window and hope that she wasn't going to be late because I would lose time with her. When I was a teenager, I hoped my boyfriend would call me the day after we kissed. When I was married, I hoped we would have healthy children and a strong and happy family. Today I have two spiritually and physically healthy adult daughters with strong and happy marriages as well as two healthy and happy grandsons, oh yea, and two failed marriages. So now I hope that I have grown, healed and will continue to live a whole and authentic personal and professional life. Most of my hopes are for others – for my family, friends, my church and the world. I hope to be healthy for a long time so I can continue to practice the presence of God and give God's love away. I hope to dance with my grandsons at their weddings. I hope to finish my books, record my songs and make people laugh and ponder until my last breath.
These are my hopes, but what is the Biblical definition of hope? I don't think it's "I hope the Dallas Cowboys win the Super Bowl". Biblical hope is not a hope-so but it is a know-so. It has nothing to do with feelings and it isn't a waiting game watching for things to turn out the way we wish. Hope is about possessing knowledge of facts. Lately, I have heard many people say, "I hope things turn out the way we hope" but these good intentions do not provide any guarantee. To possess a biblical hope is to live into the anthem the choir sang last Sunday which encouraged us to place the anchor of our soul into the Rock of who God is and will always be. Hoping in God's nature and God's desires for us has nothing to do with wishful thinking which is completely powerless to make anything happen. As a Christian, a follower of the ways of Christ, my hope is concrete in the unchanging heart of God who cannot lie (Hebrews 6:8). My hope is wrapped up in "the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1).
This coming Sunday we will enter the Season of Advent where we hope for the coming of Jesus. I know that no matter what unfolds between now and Christmas Day, my faith will not be shaken by what I see or do not see, for I know and trust God because I have seen his/her faithfulness to me. The Star of Hope is already in the sky. I invite you to join the Jedi Magi and me as we find the manger underneath a Death Star and rescue the promised Holy Jedi. The Force is with us so if you need your hope to awaken, come join The Force. God promises you will not be disappointed. I don't know what is coming, but I know we are not alone.


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A temporal rift in the clouds expelled a Time Pod that displaced flurries of snow. The Leader positioned her Prime Combat Mech between the crash site and a charging Vek Beetle. She died on impact.
They carried her body in a stretcher covered by a Detritus Disposal flag. Those who were idle removed their hats and saluted in solemn respect. The Mech's hands needed to be washed of mucus and mud and melted ice. The air smelled of coolant gel and disinfectant.
We were mobilized across the continent to the Pinnacle Robotics HQ. Mess hall tables buzzed with gossip over the rescued time traveler, our only remaining human pilot. Legend said he'd made over a thousand jumps; how many of those timelines ended in annihilation is uncertain. To some he was a miracle from heaven, to others a rushed hotfix for a system approaching catastrophic failure.
I didn't know what to think. I'd seen The Leader coordinate elaborate attack patterns like a choreographer directing a ballet. I watched her Rift Walkers decimate invasions with ruthless precision. She left the battlefield littered with Vek corpses smoldering from cannon fire or crushed against a mountainside. She commanded her giant with the grace of an ocean wave and the ferocity of a pre-war silverback gorilla.
But she also let many die. When I stare at the barracks ceilings at night I see entire blocks of skyscrapers perforated by a Firefly's accelerating thorax. I hear the screams of those who looked to her to save them. I see her back turned to the calculated loss, her armored fists ready to counter-attack.
On one of those sleepless nights, I decided to grab my gear and run some tests to take my mind off the impending battle. At 0300, the hangar was dark except for a smattering of faces illuminated blue by the laptops warming our legs. I was nestled in a web of fiber optics leading to the Combat Mech's Titan Calibration Architecture, elevated to the height of its chest.
He appeared like a ghost amid the din of rumbling engines. The time traveler glided along the floor in a long black coat. The whine of the power lift brought him slowly to my level.
His face was cut deeply like a canyon wall. I could see a faint resemblance of a man behind an impenetrable veil. He looked at me the same way a mathematician would regard a geometric shape. It was in that moment I thought I could ask God a question, but the gravity in his eyes told me everything I'd need to know.
The Original clambered towards the cockpit and sunk hard into the weathered seat that had grown cold. He settled with the estranged bedfellow who swallowed him whole. He bowed his head and began to dream. I watched as he reached across realities to communicate with an old friend.


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Hello Ladies and Gentleman,
This week I gave a speech in front of over FIVE HUNDRED people at school with my friend Arush. This is the largest number of people I have ever given a speech to, and probably will do again, at least for a few years. The speech that Arush and I gave was a school council presidential election speech – and we were the youngest candidates to run for president. We did not win the vote this time, but hope to try again in the future. This is a picture of all those who were standing for president.
On a rainy Saturday afternoon, we went to see a tap dance performance called "Tap Dogs". It was really entertaining and we had very good seats at the front of the balcony. A group from Australia formed tap dogs after performing at the opening ceremony of the Sydney olympics. Somehow they even made tap dancing funny without speaking.
Afterwards we went to Jing'an shopping centre – and saw a very good, yet very expensive vehicle, which I tried out:
Then afterwards we went for dinner at The Commune Social. Still my favourite restaurant in Shanghai.
Sadly I woke up with a cold today, but some Taiwanese friends came over for lunch (we met them in Tokyo & they have just moved to Shanghai after 3 years in Paris) which cheered me up. Ken & I showed each other some amazing card tricks. Then, after loads of homework, we made some cakes. Mum made pop cakes for the first time & I practised some of my Chinese colour characters in chocolate writing:
For those of you in England, I may see you next week!


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Bahria Orchard Phase 2 New Deal Announced of 5 Marla Plots. Bahria Town Pvt ltd Announced deal of 5 Marla Plots in Bahria Orchard Phase 2 All Plots Are Fully Developed and ready for construction. theses plots are sold before due to some reasons Customers not paid dues to Bahria Therefore Bahria Canceled those plots and give all remaining dues to customers. now they give the Bahria Orchard phase 2 New Deal Where some plots available in OLC A, Block C, Block E, Block F,Block G.
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Project Attraction: Arena, Food court & Shopping Mall
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The Japanese city of Sapporo is reconsidering plans to host the 2026 Winter Olympics in favour of an improved bid for the 2030 Games, officials said on Monday.
Sapporo, which staged the Winter Olympics in 1972, appears to have decided that waiting an extra four years for bullet train and road projects to be completed would give it a better chance of winning hosting rights.
"Sapporo's urban development is unlikely to be fully ready by 2026," Sapporo mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto told a joint news conference with Japanese Olympic chief Tsunekazu Takeda.
"By 2030 they will be ready to a degree, so we are currently discussing whether to go forward with our bid for the 2026 Games along with the possibility of looking instead at 2030."
Akimoto insisted Sapporo had not yet decided to pull the plug on plans for 2026, but the northern city may also be conscious of the fact it would be Asia's third successive Winter Olympics and fourth overall.
The 2018 Winter Olympics were held in Pyeongchang earlier this year, the 2020 Summer Games will be in Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force are seen raising Olympic flags in Sapporo.
"We have heard (from Sapporo officials) that the city would have a better- prepared environment in 2030," said Takeda.
"It is essential for an Olympic host city to have that development and 'shinkansen' (bullet train) links. It will be a powerful factor in an Olympic bid."
Sapporo is one of seven cities that have expressed interest in 2026, and faces competition from Calgary, Stockholm, Graz in Austria, the Swiss city of Sion, Erzurum in Turkey and a joint Italian bid from Cortina d'Ampezzo, Milan and Turin.
The International Olympic Committee is expected to select the winner in September 2019.
Sapporo, located on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, could also face a strong challenge for 2030 if it opts to delay by four years, with former Olympic host cities Lillehammer (1994) and Salt Lake City (2002) suggesting they were prepared to bid.


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Sunset on evening of storm with calm seas and sun on fire.
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Year Produced: 2011
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