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Also, I usually edit my pictures on picnik.com, which unfortunately is closing on April 19th so I knew I'd need a new way to edit my pictures so I downloaded a free trial of Photoshop. I am really really really not good with computers. So to edit my pictures today I followed, step by step, Meredith Jessica's photoshop tutorial. I think they came out really well. My eyes look so bright! Generally when I'm editing my pictures, I edit the contrast so my black looks black like it does in person and every once in a while I'll edit the color temperature depending on my lighting. Sometimes I slightly alter colors, but that's just to make them appear in my picture the way it does in real life. So this was my first attempt at photoshop!! Here's my look!
Sunday, January 29, 2012
It's a Poison Plum kind of day!
Also, I usually edit my pictures on picnik.com, which unfortunately is closing on April 19th so I knew I'd need a new way to edit my pictures so I downloaded a free trial of Photoshop. I am really really really not good with computers. So to edit my pictures today I followed, step by step, Meredith Jessica's photoshop tutorial. I think they came out really well. My eyes look so bright! Generally when I'm editing my pictures, I edit the contrast so my black looks black like it does in person and every once in a while I'll edit the color temperature depending on my lighting. Sometimes I slightly alter colors, but that's just to make them appear in my picture the way it does in real life. So this was my first attempt at photoshop!! Here's my look!
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Wow! The Photoshop is so subtle it looks amazing! You can't even tell they were edited at all! I actually didn't know you edited your photos in the first place! Wonderful job on both look! I love the second one! So pretty!ReplyDelete
Welcome to the Photoshop club! :D lolReplies
Thank you! Yeah, in my pictures my black never looks as black as it does in person and it drives me nuts haha!Delete
Gorgeous! And I haven't forgotten I need to do a look with those UD shadows lol.ReplyDeleteReplies
Good! I can't wait to see it!!Delete
Both of these looks are simply gorgeous! Great job with Photoshop. I use Photoshop & do the same- make sure the colors and lighting look more like real life. You did a great job! I looove your purple smokey eye! I need to do something like that. Edgy, fun & simply smashin'!ReplyDelete
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Thank you very much! I'm all about the purple smokey eye!!! If you do it, you won't regret it!!Delete
Very pretty colors! You have such pretty eyes! I wish I knew how to edit my pictures lol, I just know how to crop them.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you! Well, while it's still up, you should check out picnik, they make everything super easy on there!Delete
Love these looks. I've had my eye on Poison plum for a while but never purchased it since I have so many purples already.ReplyDelete
It's a pretty color but I honestly prefer a more blue purple so I think that's why I don't reach for it that often.Delete
Both looks are simply stunning! I'm really bad at editing my photos, so maybe I'll give Photoshop a try as well.ReplyDeleteReplies
Haha Meredith's tutorial was quite easy to follow, even for me!Delete
Great looks! An alternative to the traditional photoshop which runs $4-500 is photoshop elements. The full version runs about $90-100. Unless you're going to be doing a lot of heavy photo editing and manipulation like a professional graphic artist or photographer you don't really need the full version. I've used elements for years and have not run into problems.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you! I'll definitely be looking into that some more!!Delete
First of all: when 'editing' your pictures there was like NOTHING that needed editing. You have flawless makeup and skin to begin with. Second of all: I'm so happy that you found the tutorial easy to follow because the results are supremely gorgeous. I look forward to seeing all your amazing makeup in its full glory from now on.ReplyDeleteReplies
Sometimes my skin is against me and needs more work, just not this day haha. Yeah, for real, if I was able to follow your tutorial, anyone can! Thank you for that!!Delete
Love love both of these looks. In my personal opinion, though, you don't need to photoshop your skin so much (it looks alright in your edited version, but not the one Meredith did of you). I actually rarely visit Merediths blog, despite loving her looks, just because her very obviously non-porous-almost-glowing photoshopped skin is so distracting. I don't think anyone expects bloggers to have perfect skin, and maybe it's just me, but I like to look at fairly realistic pictures. I don't care about boosting brightness/contrast, and playing with the colors a bit to make it look more like it does in real life, but when it becomes so obvious a picture has been photoshopped, the looks seem more unattainable to do irl.ReplyDelete
Just my two cents haha. You're gorgeous as it is <3Replies
I understand where you're coming from. For me, edited skin doesn't detract from looks because I understand why someone would want to edit their skin and it makes a look feel more polished. However, once someone starts manipulating makeup colors and adding things that weren't there at all to where it doesn't look like it does in real life, that bothers me. I don't think I'll edit my skin too much as I don't want to look super fake but sometimes I need a little help haha. Thank you very much!!Delete
Also (I forgot to say this) the whole reason I started wearing makeup is to make my skin look better. I don't want to rely on editing for that, I want my skills to be able to do most of the work.Delete
Typically I don't mind edited skin - I don't think any of us can deny doing that. It's just over-edited skin that bugs me. One reason is because if it's TOO much it just screams fake, and a second would be it makes me feel inadequate haha. I like knowing that even gorgeous people don't always have perfect skin.Delete
I do understand the need/want to edit a bit, though. I have horribly red skin due to a skin condition and am definitely guilty of having edited that out of pictures now and then. I just like the bloggers I follow to remain looking human ;)
But all that aside, you ARE gorgeous, and I absolutely love your looks. I've been in a neutral rut lately (more like the last 1-2 years, boo) and you always make me want to use more color. Maybe I'll actually do it one of these days :D
I kinda have to agree with Shanna. If I see the fake skin look, I can't help but wonder what else isn't quite accurate especially if it's a review. I wouldn't want to rush out and buy a purple eyeshadow that I thought was going to be vibrant, but get disappointed when it doesn't turn out like the blogger's photo. I understand editing unsightly zits because sometimes those are so unexpected!Delete
I do like that you take your photos outside or in natural lighting so I believe that your colorful looks are accurate. I always love coming to your blog to see what you've done next!
I see what you mean. And I agree. Sometimes when I see someones skin looking perfectly edited, I do assume that their makeup colors are also edited.Delete
I can tell you that I won't have an easy time doing that though haha. I actually am having a hard time how to make the colors look like they do in person using photoshop! When I edited my Giants look the other day, I called my husband over and asked him if the picture looked the same as my makeup and he said, "your makeup is brighter in person" and I just can't figure out how to do it!
But I do understand and agree. And Shanna, thank you! I'm so glad you're at least considering using color! I LOVE me some color! Even if it's just on my lid and then I blend up from there with some brown!
you're skin really is perfectReplyDeleteReplies
It was having a good day haha! But thank you!Delete
beautiful beautiful job! I need to get some sugarpill products asap!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you! I need some more of their products! I just have the Burning Hearts quad and I'm running out of ideas!!Delete
Wow both looks are great I just love the second look amazing!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you so much!!Delete
Both looks are amazing! I love them, and pretty much every other look you've created as well! lolReplyDelete
Aw, thank you!!ReplyDelete
Those looks are so pretty! Why aren't you on YouTube? You would make CRAZY tutorials!ReplyDelete
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I do have two videos on YouTube but I don't really like them haha. I'm hoping to figure out a better system and maybe not be as shy haha! http://www.youtube.com/user/starryskies214?feature=guideDelete
Wow both these looks are amazing! You really are stunning!ReplyDeleteReplies
Aw thanks Natalie!Delete
As always, your looks are to die for. I am in love with your eyeballs by the way. I love the way they pierce into my soul ;)ReplyDelete
I think both look great! Your skin always looks good in your pictures, I don't think you need to focus on the editing. You are gorgeous and don't need it! and neither does Meredith! :) You two were some of the main reasons I started going bolding with my looks and I get soooo many compliments, just wish you guys lived closure so you could do my wedding makeup. I think I'll be too nervous :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Aw, thank you! Sometimes it's nice to see my skin looking completely flawless. And honestly, I posted the edited pictures on Makeupbee and Beautylish and they've gotten quite a bit of love so it does make me confused haha.Delete
I wish I lived closer too! I'd love to do your makeup (I need practice on other people!)!! I think if you practice enough and try to get the look you'll be going for, you can definitely do it!! Or post some pictures and see what other people suggest?
I personally am always scared to let someone else do my face makeup. I have a very specific routine that works very well for covering everything on my face and I'm always afraid that if someone else does it, either not everything will be covered or the makeup will look cakey and nobody likes that!!Delete


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City of Eden PrairieHome Menu
Rear Parking Lot and Entrance Availability
During high-volume periods the Community Center offers additional parking and an entrance in the back lot near the high school. Guests who use this lot are able to access the facility's back entrance.
June 11–Aug. 31: 5 p.m.–10 p.m., Wednesday; 8 a.m.–noon Saturday
Sept. 1–June 10: 3 p.m.–10 p.m., Monday–Friday; 5:30 a.m.–10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Additional information about parking in the back lot:
- Enter through the back doors, on the south side of the lot.
- Walk through Rink 2 and follow the hallway to the front desk.
- Swimming lesson participants walk through Rink 2 and follow the hallway to the front desk, and use the pool entrance.
- Skating lesson participants needing rental skates walk through rink 2 and follow the hallway to the front desk.
- Open swim and skate participants follow the hallway to the front desk and open skate participants receive a stamp.
- Developmental skate/hockey participants are asked to check in at the front desk and receive a sticker/wristband before going on the ice.
We ask that our patrons:
- Use the back parking lot and entrance when the front lots are full.
- If back lot is also full, please park in the High School lots on the north side of Eagle Way or at
Round Lake.
- Arrive early so you do not feel rushed to make your scheduled activity.
- Review the schedule of high traffic times and hockey games listed in the Monthly Member News .
- Check our fitness class schedules for alternative times to attend classes.
- Do not leave your car unattended in the front drop-off and pick-up circle.
Student Parking Permits
Each school year, a portion of the parking spots at the Community Center and at Round Lake Park may be purchased by Eden Prairie High School students for use during the school day. Permits are sold on a first-come first-served basis.
Students have the option to park at Round Lake Park or at the Community Center for the length of the school year.
Community Center staff are reaching out to those who purchased parking permits for the 2019–2020 academic year from the Community Center, and processing prorated refunds for the amount of time the pass was unusable.
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AN expert in international organised crime yesterday said it is no surprise that Scotland is a haven for mob firms and cash.
Misha Glenny, author of McMafia, said: "International crime is organised regionally – and Scotland falls very much in the category of what I refer to as the retail zone.
"You have production zones, such as Afghanistan and Columbia, if you are talking about narcotics or Burma or the former Soviet Union if it's the trafficking of women.
"Then you have distribution zones, such as the Balkans or Mexico, through which people or narcotics are transited.
"These are very important as they involve crossing the borders into the retail zones - which is where everything takes place in terms of sales.
"In the UK, Edinburgh and Glasgow, for example, are very big markets for narcotics - heroin in particular. They are also a market for women trafficked for sexual purposes.
"In production and distribution areas, organised crime seeks to corrupt organisations such as customs, so they can control goods coming in and out of a country.
"Here, organised crime is very low-profile to avoid the attention of law enforcement.
"If violence does flare, it tends to be turf wars between competing organisations.
"Their problem is that, if there is a clash between two groups and you get violence, then violence attracts the attention of the media and of the police.
"So they are reluctant to use their capacity for violence – but they have to have the ability to wield violence or to threaten it credibly - otherwise they are not in the game.
"Organised crime also require money-laundering facilities - and Scotland is not far from London, which is one of the biggest money-laundering centres in the world.
"Purchasing property is also a good way of turning illegitimate money into legitimate assets.
"Anywhere the property market is going to hold up is ideal - and Edinburgh, in particular, is an example of a good place to do it."


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Play 2.0 is out. But it's got a curfew.
According to the movie trailers, "Play 2.0 is still under heavy development and APIs are likely to change, but you can already have a look and download the preview version."
Of course, this does beg the question: "do we really need another Java web development framework?" If anything, more and more enterprise development shops are moving away from the world of bloated frameworks, and going back to basics, with simple Servlet and JSP applications that leverage the latest JavaScript libraries like JQuery and DOJO to do the cool stuff up front, and connect to simple, RESTful web services on the back end to do the hard stuff. There's something to be said for keeping it simple.
But having said that, Play keeps gaining traction in the industry. Over the past couple of years, we're seeing more and more people talking about Play and Vaadin in our surveys. Clearly the community hasn't hit the saturation point.
So, if you're up for learning another framework, check out Play. Lots of smart and handsome people seem to be adopting it.


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T-Mobile announced that it will start offering Data Stash to its Simple Choice prepaid customers starting on Sunday, March 22. Today's announcement comes three months after the carrier unveiled rollover data as part of Un-carrier 8.0 for its postpaid subscribers.
Each prepaid voice customer with a Simple Choice plan will receive 10GB of data on the house. Once that data is consumed, unused data rolls over every month. Data that rolls over must be consumed within a 12 month period.
T-Mobile also took a shot at the other carriers in its release, revealing that over 40,000 tweets were sent out last year from wireless customers asking to keep their unused data. T-Mobile CMO Andrew Sherrard also made an interesting analogy comparing the other carriers to a gas station that takes back the gas in your car that you didn't use up at the end of the month.
The T-Mobile execute noted that AT&T's rollover data plan only carried unused data for 30 days before expiring. He also made reference to the statement made Verizon's CFO Fran Shammo who said in January that the carrier won't participate in offering rollover data, stating "We're a leader, not a follower."
Sherrard also noted that 27% of T-Mobile subscribers covered by the Data Stash program have already used some of the unused data they've banked.
T-Mobile has an event scheduled for March 18, in New York City, where Un-carrier 9.0 may be unveiled. We can't wait to see what T-Mobile has in store for us next.
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A Russian court has made it easier for the government to block the Telegram messaging app after its creators refused to turn over access to its users' encrypted messages.
According to The New York Times, Roskomnadzor, Russia's state communications watchdog, requested the authority to block the app's use in Russian territories. The group explained that authorities need to be able to decrypt messages sent by potential terrorists, but Telegram missed an April 4 deadline to turn over keys that would make that possible.
The court didn't take long to agree, granting the request after just 18 minutes of deliberation. Telegram lawyers declined to attend the hearing in protest. The ruling now makes it possible for Russian communications regulators to order the country's ISPs to block the Telegram protocol or Telegram servers on their networks.
The news comes one month after Telegram lost a lawsuit against Russia's security agency, the FSB, which called the app the messenger of choice for "international terrorist organizations in Russia." The agency claimed that Telegram was used by a suicide bomber who killed 15 people on a subway in St. Petersburg last year.
In 2016, the Kremlin supported an anti-terrorism law that required authorities to be given backdoor access to encrypted applications.
But Telegram claims its app is developed so that it is impossible to provide authorities with a universal key that decrypts end-user messages. And in an online statement, Telegram founder Pavel Durov said the government lacked the ability to punish his company for its noncompliance.
"At Telegram, we have the luxury of not caring about revenue streams or ad sales," Durov, a Russian who fled the country in 2014, wrote. "Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed."
Telegram has the right to appeal the ruling, which could take anywhere from 10 days to one month.
The app, which reportedly has 200 million users, is widely used by lawyers, reporters and government officials, including those in President Vladimir Putin's press office. Russia's Foreign Ministry has announced that it is moving to the Viber messaging app.
The pressure on banks to modernize their payments capabilities to support initiatives such as ISO 20022 and instant/real time payments has been exacerbated by the emergence of COVID-19 and the compelling need to quickly scale operations due to the rapid growth of contactless payments, and subsequent increase in digitization. Given this new normal, the need for agility and optimization across the payments processing value chain is imperative.


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T-Mobile to End Mobile Money Program in July
T-Mobile users will no longer be able to use the company's Mobile Money program as of July 27, 2016. The phone provider will be ending its "banking alternative" due to the competitive nature of the prepaid payments industry.
Mobile Money was T-Mobile's solution for helping unbanked Americans manage their money without the costly fees associated with most standard prepaid cards. The program allowed users to load money onto their T-Mobile Visa Prepaid Cards and withdraw it for free from a network of over 42,000 ATMs. The card did not have any monthly fees, and reloading was free if completed at T-Mobile stores.
Starting today, April 11, users will no longer be able to load their cards at T-Mobile stores. They can still do so at merchants who sell Reloadit packs, which can be found through this online store locator.
Users will not be able to load money into their accounts after June 27, exactly one month before the program's cancellation date. They can then spend the remainder of their money until the program officially ends. T-Mobile is encouraging users to remove recurring debits and direct deposits on their accounts before this time to avoid having payments declined.


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Contador — The biggest danger in the Pyrenees is having a bad day
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Alberto Contador in the Tour de France
"The biggest danger in the Pyrenees is having a bad day"
Alberto Contador will face starting tomorrow the Pyrenees, where since the beginning of the race he said they were going to decide the 2010 Tour. A 31 seconds to Andy Schleck, his strategic position is quite favorable, waiting for these four stages in which, he says "the biggest danger is having a bad day".
Contador, after having "a good day at the Madeleine and also yesterday", added that must exercise caution. "Here, you may have a good day and then, maybe one bad. And in the Pyrenees, with the toughness they have, the question will be not to fail even than take time differences".
The 10 seconds of Mende are "not many, but you never know if they can be definitive at the end. Psychologically were pretty good". Although he sees Andy Schleck "fairly well. We have spoken many times and I know him well. Is a man who does not give up, I'm sure he want to reach the mountain again to see what he could do".
Alberto tactic raises a bit tricky to tackle the Pyrenees. "My situation is good. If I do not see things clear I'll try not to attack, because my position on Andy is good and I will not risk more than I need". Even to take time. "You always like to be ahead and if I can, I'll try, but I have the advantage of the time trial if I need to recover some time". He also has the Andy Schleck's need. "He need more that me to try something in the mountains", he says, without giving much importance to the nerves that his rival says he has. "I do not know exactly who is more nervous, if he or me", he replies.
His analysis of the four stages of the Pyrenees has not changed. "As I said before the Tour, the Pyrenees will be the judges of the race. I hope to have good sensations, because every day I'm feeling better. I hope to take these stages so hard to get differences of time and, if possible, get ahead of Andy Schleck".
While recognizing the four stages of the Pyrenees, Alberto Contador is well aware of the course. "The first pass is very hard, Palhieres, with huge percentages and a fast descent before the climb to Ax 3 Domaines, short but tough. The differences will be very important. The next day is marked by the climb to Bales, a long and very hard pass before the finish, with a descent very bad. This stage is similar to that of Madeleine. There may be attacks and people who play it down. The stage of Bagneres de Luchon-Pau will be a difficult day, because it begins with the climb to Peyresourde and then have to overcome the Tourmalet and the Aubisque, but since there will still be 60 kilometers until the finish. Let's see what movements people do. Finally there is the arrival at the Tourmalet, which is that everybody talks about, with two pass before, Marie Blanque and Soulor. That day we will have to look at the classification to decide what to do. But in general the most important thing is not having a bad day in the Pyrenees, otherwise we risk to throw all the options. That is the most dangerous".
Alberto Contador believes that, faced with Andy Schleck, the possible match will be "quite equaled. One day is one better than the other and vice versa. But it is true that I have some relax with Bordeaux time trial in case I could not be capable to reduce differences or even if he take me something more".
And about the rest of rivals, Alberto says there is a group of riders "with a high level, but the danger will be the movement from afar, because in the last climbs the differences that they can make are not too big".
(Automatic translation. Forgive inaccuracies).
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Hi Scrappy Peeps - It is time for Scrap Our Stash's November Tic Tac Toe Challenge
What a FUN board this is!!
I couldn't just pick one row, so I picked 2 !!
I selected -
Row #1 - Echo Park, Fall Theme, The Color Brown and
Row #2 - Tab(s,) Fall Theme, Journaling Card
Here is my DT layout for your inspiration:
|I love the smell of the turkey roasting in the oven! I also love how these chipboard leaves that I colored with Ranger Distress Stains, came out too!
|Yes, that is my Thanksgiving plate! I love the "I ate this" tab from Dusty Attic - I also used Ranger Distress Stains to color it!
|I cut the title out of a journaling card from the Echo Park "I Love Fall" Collection, and matted it on orange cardstock. I used some lace sticky tape that I've had for years and Prima "Say it in Crystals" that have been around for some time too!
|Mixing patterns and textures makes me happy!
|I tucked this tag behind the Turkey photo. I used 3M Foam Tape to make a pocket and slipped it in behind it.
|I then added my journaling of our family favorites to the back, adding washi tape to the bottom, and as a pull tag.
Thanks for stopping by - I hope I have inspired you to, play along with us at the Scrap Our Stash Blog - please stop by the SOS Blog, and play along with us this month!
Happy Scrapping and Happy Thanksgiving!
May your Turkey be moist, your stuffing flavorful, your mashed potatoes and gravy be free of lumps, and don't forget the cranberry sauce!
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Echo Park - I Love Fall Collection - Journaling Cards
Core'dinations - The Chocolate Box & Core Essentials Collection
Simple Stories - Harvest Lane 6x12 Page Elements
Studio Calico - Yearbook Trapper Keeper
Decollections Lace Tape
Prima Say it in Crystals
Distress Stains - Evergreen Bough, Peeled Paint, Carved Pumpkin, Vintage Photo, Fossilized Amber, Aged Mahogany
Distress Inks - Mustard Seed, Fired Brick


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Look around and you'll see them; things that many people do, but relatively few do well. Whether attempting home improvements, cooking, dancing or ordering wine in a restaurant, most of us know we're not experts but due to necessity (trying to save money), foolish pride (trying to impress someone) or both, we make the effort.
The same phenomenon exists when it comes to B2B demand creation tactics. Despite their ubiquity, we commonly get questions about how to improve their performance, including when/how they should be used and for whom. To address these queries, SiriusDecisions launched a series of "deep dives" focused on optimizing a range of demand creation tactics. In this issue, we take a closer look at demos.
The term "product demonstrations" has often been used as a catchall for a wide range of evaluation activities. SiriusDecisions has defined three categories of product demonstrations, all of which are designed to give prospective customers different looks at a vendor's offerings and capabilities:
Self-guided demos are effective at the beginning of a buying cycle, as they save sales from wasting time on prospects that are only gathering information. These demos are comprised of a narrated series of screen shots or interactive vignettes that illustrate business issues and how a particular offering can ease a pain point or help achieve a vision. Self-guided demos usually leverage multimedia technology, such as Flash or video, to make them visually engaging and interactive. We recommend that guided demos are aligned to key customer segments such as industries, geographies or job roles; messaging, vernacular and visuals should be specific and relevant to the segment.
In-person demos are usually leveraged during the middle stage of the buying cycle to help reps articulate a value story, and to demonstrate alignment between the prospect's specific needs and the proposed solution. Their configuration typically requires a great deal of effort; an engineer or rep must be able to interpret a buyer's business issues/needs, then tailor the demo accordingly. Because it's nearly impossible to create a demo that can target all opportunities, demos must allow a sales engineer or specialist to customize the data, fields, content or features to a prospect's unique situation.
The fact that demos are used in almost every B2B sales process doesn't mean that most – or even many – organizations maximize their effectiveness. Following are the five most common mistakes we see organizations make when it comes to creating and executing demos:
Product or solution marketing must play a critical role not only in demo creation, but also in enabling sales to effectively deliver demos by architecting the storyline and creating content. Sales operations or field marketing typically owns the infrastructure, process and support of the online demo center and the internal demo library. These teams are also responsible for defining sales requirements and driving the enterprise-wide demo strategy, and collaborating with product/solution marketing to ensure alignment with sales' needs.
While demos are a necessary component of any B2B high-tech sales process, they are often overlooked by product/solution marketing as a tactic for sales enablement, and by sales management as a distinct behavior that must be cultivated through dedicated training and skills development. When either – or both of these – occur, chances are you'll be demonstrating an inability to understand your buyer's business issues, and to communicate to them effectively. Talk about the best laid plans backfiring.


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I have a quick post for you today to share a card I made using the Hero Arts color layering Koala and the Bamboo bold prints. I stamped the koalas using the gray shade inks onto snow layering paper and die cut them. As well as I die cut a circle from vellum.
I stamped the background onto foliage layering papers with Versamark and embossed with Ultra Fine embossing powder.
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Those individuals fled from the scene, at which time the main actors and a woman returned to the store. The male suspect with the gun stood in the doorway, pointed the firearm at the clerk, and the female stole more merchandise.
The suspect with the gun is described as a black male, between 25-30 years old, standing 5'8"-5'10" tall, with a dark complexion and a medium build. He was last seen wearing a gray tank top and blue jeans with a letter "V" type of design on the rear pockets. The female was seen wearing a multi-colored shirt with horizontal stripes.
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A recent article by Gavin Evans in the Guardian has drawn attention to a resurgence in the idea that race and intelligence are linked.1 These terms, though commonly used, are quite difficult to define…and for good reason. (see separate boxes)
In the 19th century, despite the religious tradition that "God… hath made of one blood all nations of men," it was axiomatic that there were different races with different abilities. Since European powers were dominant, "Caucasoid" (white) peoples were held superior. Other races were divided into Mongoloid (yellow), Malay (brown), American (red), and Negroid (black), in a hierarchy linked with the darkness of their skin.
For Darwin, the races were too similar not to have descended from a common ancestor but others held that the races had evolved separately. White slave-owners held their African slaves to be of a different, inferior, species which justified their enslavement. This idea that inferior races were liable to enslavement was unaltered by the fact of millions of white slaves being held by the Ottoman Empire from the 16th to 19th centuries, captured by Barbary pirates from as far north as Iceland.
Despite Darwin, as late as 1939, the prominent anthropologist Carleton S Coon divided people into Caucasoid, Congoid/Capoid, Mongoloid (including native Americans), and Australoid, believing them to be descended from different populations of Homo erectus, a view which some hold even now. Coon's views were certainly of interest to those who believed in a hierarchy of races. However, another prominent anthropologist, Alfred Kroeber (father of Ursula K Le Guin), actively opposed racist interpretations of human differences throughout his long career.
It is now accepted that Homo sapiens is one species with superficial differences in facial features, hair, eye and skin colours, and so on. Genes2 for these are distributed according to environmental factors such as temperature or sunlight. Other genes seem equally distributed and equally variable, with some exceptions, such as genes for lactose tolerance in dairy farming societies, genes for sickle cell trait in areas where malaria is prevalent, and genes for cystic fibrosis where tuberculosis is common. These genes have survival value in these environments.
However, this doesn't stop some people asserting that there are genetic differences between ethnic groups which affect characteristics such as intelligence and tendencies to violence (e.g. alt-right hero Steve Bannon, fan of the Front National). DNA structure discoverer James Watson also strayed out of his field to assert that melanin was linked to libido.
There are appreciable differences in habitats occupied by different groups of humans, and in their cultures, but there is no evidence that humans of particular groups are genetically any more or less able to adapt to, act on, or alter their environments. The differences in the state of "advancement" of various human cultures already have an adequate explanation, as Jared Diamond says.
Diamond, an expert on the birds of Papua New Guinea, was talking to a local politician who asked him "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?" Diamond rejected the simplistic explanation that different "races" had different levels of ability and looked instead at their different environments.
He argues that indigenous New Guineans and Australians are probably more intelligent than the white colonists, despite their "stone age" technology, since they easily master advanced industrial technology when given the opportunity. Caucasians were simply luckier: their civilisation arose in an area where metals could be obtained, plants and animals suitable for domestication existed, and the resulting denser populations encouraged the development of resistance to disease.
All this begs the question of what intelligence is (see box). It is often assumed that the complex abilities humans have to share ideas and work with each other to gain their living can be measured, not in real life tasks, but with pencil and paper! This has given rise to IQ testing which inevitably reflects middle class Caucasian culture. Diamond speaks of how "stupid" he felt in the company of New Guineans who could follow faint jungle trails or erect a shelter but who would fail dismally in an IQ test!
Early IQ testing led to theories about the intelligence of immigrants to the USA. Robert Yerkes' tests, used to evaluate draftees in World War One, showed that southern and eastern European immigrants had lower IQs than native-born Americans; that Americans from the northern states scored higher than those from southern states; and that African Americans scored lower than White Americans. Some began to talk about a "Nordic" race as being the most intelligent.
Partly driven by revulsion at the Nazis' racist policies, scientists began to recognise the unscientific nature of IQ testing, ignoring as it did environmental and cultural factors. However, anti-immigration, eugenics, and segregation lobbies continued to use IQ tests to support their theories.
Modern racist theories of intelligence emerged some 60 years ago with arguments that genetic differences made it necessary to segregate black and white children in school. In the 1960s, transistor inventor (!) William Shockley claimed that black children were innately unable to learn as well as white ones and psychologist Arthur Jensen argued that it was pointless trying to improve education for black children as their genes were to blame for their poor attainment (rather than poverty, discrimination, racist violence, unemployment, poor housing, and worse schools).
Murray and Herrnstein's The Bell Curve (1994) refined the race and intelligence theory to argue that poor, especially poor black, people were inherently less intelligent than white or Asian Americans. They argued for reducing immigration, against welfare policies that "encouraged" poor people to have babies and against affirmative action. More recent opponents of affirmative action include Jordan B Peterson and James Damore (author of the Google memo opposing inclusion and diversity policies).
Damore's is an interesting case. He argues that women are inherently less likely to excel in software engineering for biological (i.e. genetic) reasons but then argues for dropping all diversity and inclusion initiatives, including those for black and Hispanic people. Logically, he must feel that they are also genetically unfitted for software engineering…
Intelligence is not what intelligence tests measure. Practising intelligence tests can improve one's attainment (as can having a good breakfast!) but doesn't necessarily mean that one is more "intelligent." But even if intelligence was simply determined by genes, it would still be the case that people should be encouraged to fulfil their potential.
I don't normally agree with the CBI but, when they said recently that thoughts, questions, creativity and team-working were just as desirable outcomes of education as academic achievement, they referenced a wider and more humanly relevant concept of intelligence.
What is intelligence?
In Latin, intelligens means understanding and comes from inter (between, among) and legere (to choose, select or pick out, and later to read).
An excellent definition of intelligence is "the ability to use what you have got to get what you want."5 Modern dictionaries have subtly changed this: "The ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations; the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)."6 [my emphasis]
Thus, a general ability to understand one's environment and manipulate it has become reduced to skill with abstract tests of certain abilities which produce a number. Other tests that produce numbers are to found in the educational system but, as the CBI recently complained, success in "exam factories" (i.e. schools) does not necessarily lead to success in work and life.
But are there genes for it? Yes — human genes!
We all share the vast majority of our genes and those genes give us our large (but not so large as Neanderthal) brains and they give us the ability to learn, which is key to mastery of our environments. But are there genes for the narrowly-defined intelligence which is measured by intelligence tests? No doubt! A study published in 20177 analysed the genomes of 78,000 people of European descent and identified up to 52 genes associated with a general intelligence factor, g (a measure that various IQ tests seem to share).
What this means is that these genes, which all humans possess, occur as two or more slightly different alleles:2 some alleles are associated with higher values of g, others with lower. Most of these genes seem to be involved in brain development or nerve functioning. There is a massive correlation between educational attainment and certain alleles but this is hardly surprising since intelligence tests measure the sort of knowledge and abilities taught in schools and tested in exams.
There are also moderate positive associations with brain volume, autism spectrum disorder, giving up smoking(?), longevity… and moderate negative associations with Alzheimer's disease, depressive symptoms, ever having smoked, schizophrenia, "neuroticism"… Other factors, such as BMI, insomnia, ADHD, have weaker negative links. These are modest conclusions, given the size of the study.
It would seem that knowledge of an individual's genes would allow little to be predicted apart from educational attainment…but this can be found out anyway through the education process. It is difficult to see why this research has been done and what lessons it has.
Is there such a thing as race?
According to scientists neither of the biological concepts of race, genetically distinct or geographically isolated groups of a species, apply to humans. Svante Pääbo, an eminent evolutionary anthropologist, says "What the study of complete genomes … has shown is that even between Africa and Europe … there is not a single absolute genetic difference, meaning no single variant where all Africans have one variant and all Europeans another one, even when recent migration is disregarded."
1. Gavin Evans 'The unwelcome revival of race science.' www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-revival-of-race-scie…
2. Genes occur in different forms called alleles. All humans have the same genes but the different forms (alleles) are present in differing proportions in different populations. However, there is no general pattern to these differing proportions that would support the idea of separate races.
3. Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond (1997)
4. See www.workersliberty.org/story/2017-09-21/google-memo-and-real-bias
5. David Adam in The Genius Within (2018)
6. Merriam-Webster online
7. Sniekers et al. Nature Genetics 2017;49(7):1107-12
8. See https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-construct-s… and Biological races in humans https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23684745


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Bali Denpasar Information.
Bali Denpasar information, geography, history and places of
interest about Balinese cultural, tradition, nature, temples,
sightseeing and historal places. Bali is the capital of Denpasar and
are provides all the information where to go, what to see and do
such as Kuta, Tanah lot, Uluwatu, Kintami, Ubud and Monkey forest.
The capital of the Bali Province is Denpasar. Penida Island and Lembongan Island are included in this province. About three million people reside in the small island of Bali. Bali is also called "The Island of the Gods" and "The Island of Thousands Temples." Bali has many beautiful beaches, such as Sanur, Kuta, Nusa Dua, and Lovina. Bali is also very famous with its traditional dances, gamelan music, crafts, paintings, woodcarvings, and ceremonies, especially the temple and cremation ceremonies (Ngaben). Every single Hindu-Balinese, from birth to death, undergoes various rituals. It is a mandatory custom for the Balinese children, especially girls, to learn dancing since they are very young. Bali is an Indonesian island located at 8°25′23″S, 115°14′55″E Coordinates:8°25′23″S, 115°14′55″E, the western most of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. It is one of the country's 33 provinces with the provincial capital at Denpasar towards the south of the island. The island is home to the vast majority of Indonesia's small Hindu minority. It is also the largest tourist destination in the country and is renowned for its highly developed arts, including dance, sculpture, painting, leather, metalworking and music.
Bali Denpasar Information and Places of Interest.
Bali has been inhabited since early prehistoric times firstly by descendants of a prehistoric race who migrated through mainland Asia to the Indonesian archipelago, thought to have first settled in Bali around 3000 BC. Stone tools dating from this time have been found near the village of Cekik in the island's west. Balinese culture was strongly influenced by Indian, and particularly Sanskrit, culture, in a process beginning around the 1st century AD. The name Bali dwipa has been discovered from various inscriptions, including the Blanjong charter issued by Sri Kesari Warmadewa in 913 AD and mentioning Wali dwipa. It was during this time that the complex irrigation system subak was developed to grow rice. Some religious and cultural traditions still in existence today can be traced back to this period. The Hindu Majapahit Empire (1293–1520 AD) on eastern Java founded a Balinese colony in 1343.When the empire declined, there was an exodus of intellectuals, artists, priests and musicians from Java to Bali in the 15th century.
The First European contact with Bali is thought to have been when Dutch explorer Cornelis de Houtman arrived in 1597,though a Portuguese ship had foundered off the Bukit Peninsula as early as 1585.Dutch rule over Bali came later, was more aggressively fought for, and was never as well established as in other parts of Indonesia such as Java and Maluku.
In the 1840s,a presence in Bali was established, first in the island's north, by playing various distrustful Balinese realms against each other. The Dutch mounted large naval and ground assaults first against the Sanur region and then Denpasar.The Balinese were hopelessly overwhelmed in number and armament, but rather than face the humiliation of surrender, they mounted a final defensive but suicidal assault, or puputan.Despite Dutch demands for surrender, an estimated 4,000 Balinese marched to their death against the invaders. Afterwards the Dutch governors were able to exercise little influence over the island and local control over religion and culture generally remained intact.
Japan occupied Bali during World War II during which time a Balinese military officer, I Gusti Ngurah Rai, formed a Balinese 'freedom army'. Following Japan's Pacific surrender in August 1945,the Dutch promptly returned to Indonesia, including Bali, immediately to reinstate their pre-war colonial administration. This was resisted by the Balinese rebels now using Japanese weapons.
On 20 November 1946,the Battle of Marga was fought in Tabanan in central Bali. Colonel I Gusti Ngurah Rai,29 years old, finally rallied his forces in east Bali at Marga Rana, where they made a suicide attack on the heavily armed Dutch. The Balinese battalion was entirely wiped out, breaking the last thread of Balinese military resistance. In 1946 the Dutch constituted Bali as one of the 13 administrative districts of the newly-proclaimed Republic of East Indonesia, a rival state to the Republic of Indonesia which was proclaimed and headed by Sukarno and Hatta. Bali was included in the "Republic of the United States of Indonesia" when the Netherlands recognized Indonesian independence on Dec. 29, 1949. In 1950 Bali officially renounced the Dutch union and legally became a province within the Republic of Indonesia. The 1963 eruption of Mount Agung killed thousands, created economic havoc and forced many displaced Balinese to be transmigrated to other parts of Indonesia.
In 1965, after a failed coup d'etat in Jakarta against the national government of Indonesia, Bali, along with other regions of Indonesia most notably Java, was the scene of widespread killings of (often falsely-accused) members and sympathizers of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) by right-wing General Suharto-sponsored militias. Possibly more than 100,000 Balinese were killed although the exact numbers are unknown to date and the events remain legally undisclosed. Many unmarked but well known mass graves of victims are located around the island. On October 12, 2002, a car bomb attack in the tourist resort of Kuta killed 202 people, largely foreign tourists and injured a further 209. Further bombings occurred three years later in Kuta and nearby Jimbaran Bay.
Topography of the island
Bali lies 3.2 km east of Java and approximately 8 degrees south of the equator. East to west, the island is approximately 153 km wide and 112 km north to south (95 by 69 miles, respectively), with a surface area of 5,632 km².The highest point is Mount Agung at 3,142 m (10,308 feet) high, an active volcano that last erupted in March 1963.Mountains cover centre to the eastern side, with Mount Agung the easternmost peak. Mount Batur (1,717 m) is also still active. About 30,000 years ago it experienced a catastrophic eruption — one of the largest known volcanic events on Earth. In the south the land descends to form an alluvial plain, watered by shallow rivers, drier in the dry season and overflowing during periods of heavy rain. The principal cities are the northern port of Singaraja, the former colonial capital of Bali, and the present provincial capital and largest city, Denpasar, near the southern coast. The town of Ubud (north of Denpasar), with its art market, museums and galleries, is arguably the cultural center of Bali.
There are major coastal roads and roads that cross the island mainly north-south. Due to the mountainous terrain in the island's center, the roads tend to follow the crests of the ridges across the mountains. There are no railway lines. The island is surrounded by coral reefs. Beaches in the south tend to have white sand while those in the north and west black sand. The beach town of Padangbai in the south east has both: the main beach and the secret beach have white sand and the south beach and the blue lagoon have much darker sand. Pasut Beach, near Ho River and Pura Segara, is a quiet beach 14 km southwest of Tabanan. The Ho River is navigable by small sampan. Black sand beaches between Pasut and Klatingdukuh are being developed for tourism, but apart from the seaside temple of Tanah Lot, this is not yet a tourist area.
To the east, the Lombok Strait that separates Bali from Lombok marks the biogeographically division between the fauna of the Indomalayan ecozone and the distinctly different fauna of Australasia that is known as the Wallace Line, for Alfred Russel Wallace, who first remarked upon the distinction between these two major biomes. When sea levels dropped during the Pleistocene ice age, Bali was connected to Java and Sumatra and to the mainland of Asia and shared the Asian fauna, but the deep water of the Lombok Strait continued to keep Lombok and the Lesser Sunda archipelago isolated.
Three decades ago, the Balinese economy was largely agriculture based both in terms of output and employment. Tourism is now the largest single industry and Bali is as a result one of Indonesia's wealthiest regions. The economy, however, has suffered significantly as a result of the terrorist bombings of 2002 and 2005.
Although in terms of output, tourism is the economy's largest industry, agriculture is still the island's biggest employer, most notably rice cultivation. Crops grown in smaller amounts include fruit, vegetables and other cash and subsistence corps. significant number of Balinese are also fishermen. Bali is also famous for its artisans who produce batik and ikat cloth and clothing, wooden carvings, stone carvings and silverware.
Although significant tourism exists in the north, centre and east of the island, the tourist industry is overwhelmingly focused in the south. The main tourist locations are the town of Kuta (with its beach), and its outer suburbs (which were once independent townships) of Legian and Seminyak, Sanur, Jimbaran, Ubud, and the newer development of Nusa Dua. The Ngurah Rai International Airport is located near Jimbaran, on the isthmus joining the southernmost part of the island to the main part of the island. Another increasingly important source of income for Bali is what is called "Congress Tourism" from the frequent international conferences held on the island, especially after the terrorist bombings of 2002; ostensibly to resurrect Bali's damaged tourism industry as well as its tarnished image.
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The population of Bali is 3,151,000 (as of 2005).
Unlike most of Muslim-majority Indonesia, about 93.18% of Bali's population adheres to Balinese Hinduism, formed as a combination of existing local beliefs and Hindu influences from mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. Minority religions include Islam (4.79%),Christianity (1.38%), and Buddhism (0.64%).These official statistical figures do not include immigrants from other parts of Indonesia.
Immigrants from other parts of Indonesia have drastically changed the demographics in Bali. Although the majority of the population of Bali adheres to Balinese Hinduism, recent years have brought an influx of people from other islands seeking to benefit from the tourist industry, export of local handicrafts and other factors, making Bali the most affluent island in the region. The bombings in Bali by Muslim militants and the numbers of wealthy Muslims from Jakarta with political connections buying prime real estate for development has started to create Hindu-Muslim tensions where none existed before.
Balinese and Indonesian are the most widely spoken languages in Bali, and like most Indonesians, the vast majority of Balinese people are bilingual or trilingual. There are several indigenous Balinese languages, but most Balinese can also use the most widely spoken option: modern common Balinese. The usage of different Balinese languages was traditionally determined by the Balinese caste system and by clan membership, but this tradition is diminishing. English is a common third language (and the primary foreign language) of many Balinese, owing to the requirements of the large tourism industry. Staff working in Bali's tourist centers are often, by necessity, multilingual to some degree, speaking as many as 8 or 9 different languages to an often surprising level of competence.
Bali is famous for many forms of art, including painting, sculpture, woodcarving, handcrafts and performing arts. Balinese gamelan music is highly developed and varied. The dances portray stories from Hindu epics such as the Ramayana. Famous Balinese dances include pendet, legong, baris, topeng, barong and kecak (the monkey dance). National education programs, mass media and tourism continue to change Balinese culture. Immigration from other parts of Indonesia, especially Java, is changing the ethnic composition of Bali's population.
The Hindu new year,Nyepi, is celebrated in the spring by a day of silence. On this day everyone stays at home and tourists are encouraged to remain in their hotels. On the preceding day large, colorful sculptures of ogoh-ogoh monsters are paraded and finally burned in the evening to drive away evil spirits. Other festivals throughout the year are specified by the Balinese pawukon calendrical system.
Kertha Wisesa
The Grand Master of Kertha Wisesa began his journey in 1972 traveling to the mountain areas around the mother temple district teaching the art and philosophy of traditional Silat Bali. Today, across the entire island one organization stands out as being ubiquitous in every district and every village. It is called Kertha Wisesa and teaches the traditional Martial Art of Silat Bali. Each day between 5pm and 6pm you will see children and adults dressed in traditional black uniform gathering to practice traditional Silat.This tradition differs from the more modern sport version of Silat called Pencak Silat that has world and national championship competitions. It involves a deeper understanding of the religious and ceremonial world in which the Balinese people live as well as being more combat oriented.
Environment And Wildlife
Bali has around 280 species of birds, including the critically endangered Bali Starling. The only endemic mammal of the island, the Bali tiger, became extinct in the 1930s.The Bali Barat National Park is a refuge for wildlife such as the pangolin, common muntjac,chevrotain,leopard cat, black giant squirrel, macaque and leaf monkey.
Bali Denpasar Information.
The capital city of Bali, Denpasar has many community temples
called "Pura". One is the Museum called Pura Jagatnatha which is
dedicated to the Supreme God. Sang Hyang Widi Wasa. The statue of a
turtle and two dragons (prevalent in all temples) signify the
foundation of the world.The Museum offers a fine variety of
prehistoric and modern art, whereas its architectural design
resembles that of a palace. The government supervised "Sanggraha
Kriya Hasta" has a wide variety of handicraft and works of art. The
"Werdi Budaya" presents a yearly art festival between June and July,
with performances, exhibitions, art contest and so on.
Art Centre
The Werdhi Budaya Art Centre was started in 1973 and finished in 1976: the largest and most complete in a series of cultural centre built throughout the archipelago by the Indonesian Government over the last decade. Designed by Bali's foremost architect, Ida Bagus Tugur, (also architect for Indonesia,s new National Art Gallery) the vast complex is, apart from its very real cultural function, a showplace for Balinese Temple and Palace Architecture at its most opulent. The open stage Arda Candra with its towering candi gate and the almost rococo main Art Museum, sprawling park, Balinese pavilions and follies have, become a regular architectural attraction. Built on one of the few remaining coconut groves in central Denpasar, the centre has quickly become a busy forum for the performing and fine arts. With three Art Galleries and a host of stages, the Centre is only rivalled by Jakarta's Taman Ismail Marzuki as a venue for diverse and rapidly changing cultural programs. Since 1975 the Centre has been home to the islands Dance Academy (ASTI) a tertiary level Conservatorium, Dance and Drama School for traditional Balinese Performing arts. With the islands Art Scholl situated next door, the centre's seminar halls and exhibition space are devoted to the encouragement and education of local art students.
The most important institution in Bali, temples reflect the important role religion plays in the life of the Balinese. A temple is a place for communicating with the divine spirits through offerings and prayers. On holy days, when the deities and ancestral spirits descend from heaven to visit earth, the temples, become centres of activity. Temple festivals are guide by purification by the sprinkling of holy water. Whole communities take part in these festivals, bringing baskets of food and flowers for offerings. While pura means temple, a purl is the residence of the local prince, which may function as a cultural centre. Music, dances, food, flowers, and fruits sacrificed began as part of temple rituals to please the gods and to placate evil spirit. Following the caste system of Hindu and some of its other rites and beliefs like reincarnation, one of the greatest ceremonies are cremations, meant to liberate the souls ready for rebirth. Burial is only temporary to give the family time to prepare or waiting more to have a common cremation with the community.
Tanah Lot
One of Bali's most important sea temples, the temple sanctuary at Tanah Lot is built atop a huge rock which is surrounded by the sea.Built by one of the last priests to come to Bali from Java in the 16th century, its rituals include the paying of homage to the guardian spirits of the sea. Poisonous sea snakes found at the base of the rocky island are believed to guard the temple from evil spirits and intruder. The best time to see Tanah Lot is in the late afternoon when the temple is in silhouette.
Sanur beach has long been a popular recreation site for people from Denpasar and elsewhere. The palm lined beach curves from the Bali Beach Hotel toward the south, facing the Indian Ocean to wards the east. Sanur offers many good hotels, restaurants, shops and other tourist facilities. It is only a shot distance from Denpasar public transportation to and from the city are easily available until well into night. Offshore reefs protect the beach againts the waves and make it popular for windsurfing, boating and other watersports.
Once alonely village on the road from Denpasar toward the Bukit Peninsula, Kuta is now a thriving tourist resort, popular mainly among the young. It is a popular beach for surfing although currents make it less suitable for swimming. Coast guards, however, are on constant duty during the day. Kuta faces toward the west offering beautiful sunsets. Accommodation ranges from international hotels to home stays. The village abounds with restaurants, shops, discotheques and other tourist facilities. It is easier to find regular performances of Balinese music and dance in Kuta, staged specially for tourists, than anywhere else in Bali. Some performances are staged nightly. The village is ideal for meeting and mixing with other people, locals as well as visitors from abroad.
Nusa Dua
The Nusa Dua tourist resort is part of the Bukit Peninsula in southern Bali. Some of the most beautiful and luxurious hotels
are found here. The resort is known for its clean white beaches and clear waters. The surf is gentle along the northern side
of the peninsula, bigger along the south. The most convenient form of transportation to and from Nusa Dua is by taxi.
Driving northeast from Denpasar, stone figures on the roadside mark the village of Batubulan. Divinities and demons are carved from sandstone for ornaments of houses and temples. Workshop can be visited to watch artists at work.
Northeast of Denpasar, the village of Celuk is noted for its silver and gold works of jewelry in many styles.
The centre of Balinese painting, Ubud's Museum "Purl Lukisan" has a permanent collection of modern works of Balinese art dating from the turn of the century. There are also several art galleries and homes of famous artists here, including that of Dutchborn Hans Snel and American Antonio Blanco. The "Young artist" style now popular in Balinese painting was introduced by the Dutch painter Arie Smith. In the past, other foreign painters inspired Balinese artists to adopt western techniques but traditional Balinese paintings are still made and sold another museum called "Neka Museum" has a wide collection of paintings both by Indonesian as well as foreign artists who used to live in Bali. Ubud has several small hotels. Located on a higher altitude with a pleasant climate.
Peliatan is located between Ubud and Mast It has been known as the centre-of traditional music, and dances. The fine art of local woodcarvers started a new style of wood carving producing such things as fruits, flowers and trees in their real shapes and colorings.
Goa Gajah
Goa Gajah, dates back to the 11th century and is believed to have been built as a monastery. Carvings on the wall show a demon head over the entrance, flanked by two statues. The cave contains a statue of Ganesha. Excavations have uncovered a bathing place with six statues of nymphs holding water-spouts.
Tampak Siring
The temple of Pura Tirta Empul is built around the sacred spring at Tampak Siring. Over 1000 years old, the temple and its two bathing places have been used by the people for good health and prosperity because of the spring water's curative powers. Regular ceremonies are held for purification. Specialities of the area are bone and ivory carvings, and seashell ornament.
The villages of Kintamani and Penelokan give a view of the active Mount Batur and Lake. The caldera of Batur is impressive: 7 miles in diameter and 60 feet deep. From Penelokan, a road leads to Kedisan on the shores of the lake where boats can be hired
to cross over to Trunyan. This ancient village is inhabited by people who call themsleves "Bali Aga" or original Balinese who have maintained many of their old ways. The Puser Jagat temple has an unusual architecture and stands under a massive Banyan tree.
An old and famous centre of the arts, it is now known for its dancing, wood panel carving and paintings.
Pura Kehen is situated in Bangli, Bali's second largest temple. Three terraced courtyards are connected by steps, and their balustrades are decorated with carvings and statues. A large Banyan tree with a tower shades the lowest and second courtyard, while in the third courtyard several shrines for the gods and ancestors are found.
The former seat of the Javanese Hindu Kingdom in Bali from where Balinese royalty draws its blood line, Klungkung was the oldest kingdom on the island and its "Raja" the most exalted. The Kerta Gosa or Royal Court of Justice built in the 1 8th century, is specially known for its ceiling murals painted in the traditional wayang style pertraying punishment in hell and the rewards in heaven and other aspects of moralities. The floating pavillion, garden and lotus ponds in this walled- in complex, located on the main intersection of town are a reminder of the former glory of this kingdom.
Goa Lawah
Nine kms from Klungkung is Goa Lawah or bat cave. The roof is covered with thousands of bats and its entrance is guarded by a temple believed to be founded by a sage nine centuries ago.
Known as the "mother Temple of Bali, the sanctuary of Besakih on the slopes of Mt. Agung is the biggest and holiest of all Balinese temples. Over a thousand years old, steps ascend through split gates to the main courtyard where the Trinity shrines are wrapped in cloth and decorated with flower offerings. Around the three main temples dedicated to the Trinity: Shiva, Brahma and Wisnu, are 18 separate sanctuaries belonging to different regencies and caste groups. To the Balinese, a visit to the temples sanctuaries is a special pilgrimage. Each has its own anniversary celebration or "Odalan". The sight of the temple against the background of the mountain is impressive and during festivals, coloured banners add a touch of gaiety.
Menjangan island
This little island off Bali's west coast is known for its beautiful coral reefs found nearby and the wealth of tropical fish inhabiting the waters around it. The island itself including Terima Bay, are by themselves worth a visit because of the beautiful sceneries they offer.
The village of woodcarvers, many of Bali's old masters still live here. Art galleries exhibit some of their best works. Visitors can wonder through the Balinese style houses to view the carved wooden pillars and the artists at work or instructing apprentices who work in groups.
Ten hectares of nutmeg trees in the Sangeh forest abounds with monkeys. The forest is considered sacred, sono wood is allowed to be chopped here. Two temples stand in the middle of the forest and another at the edge. As they live in this sacred forest, the monkeys are also held sacred and are rather tame, but it is advisable not to play with them.
The mountain resort of Bedugul, 18 km north of Denpasar, is known for its excellent golf course. Located besides Lake Bratan, it is surrounded by forested hills. A beautiful sight is the "Ulun Danu" temple which sems to rise out of the lake. The area offers good walks. Boats are available for hire. Water skiing, and parasailing is done as well. The Bali Handara country club has bungalows for rent and a restaurant.
Protected for centuries from the outside world by its surrounding walls, the village of Tenganan has maintained its ancient pre hindu customs through a strong code of non-fraternization with outsiders. Here unique rituals offering dances, and gladiator-like battle between youths take place. Tenganan is famous for its "double ikat" woven material called gringseng, which is supposed to protect the wearer with magic powers.
Yeh Saneh
A little further east on the coastal road is Yeh Saneh an idyllic spot few people know of. Only a few maters from the splash of the surf is a cool freshwater spring around which has been built a large pool and gardens for bathers and picnickers.