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This session includes three characters:
- Arianrhod Monica Trengove (aka Aria), the succubus and Perfect Yandere of War who believes Psyche is Doing the Right Thing and is Lost Outside the Hierarchy
- Sophia Ecks, Ainur of the Interface and Virtual Apex Predator who lives on The Bleeding Edge
- Sarah Gow, a Napoleonic Werepanther from an Urbanized Tribe who's a Practiced Shapeshifter
|Government Vagueries
After some discussion, Sarah, Sophia and Aria convince Agent Yamauchi to take them to a rarely used Psyche safehouse in the area with a basic circle set-up. Aria intends to use the facilities there to help her treat Sophia's lost arm. Sarah opts to remain behind to watch the site.
The young succubus hasn't done much to accelerate metabolism before, at least not with an eye towards healing. Once there, Sophia observes the simple circle with her minimal psychic training and starts trying to upgrade it.
Sophia's arm is still not quite bleeding, the blood seems almost to realize that there's no arm there and turns back around to go back into the body. This is a part of her nature as a luminous being, specifically an Ainur and former Visionary. While a life-force injury might cause her to slowly die, a physical injury will not worsen and will eventually heal completely.
"Is it all aright for her to be cutting into the floor like that?" Yamauchi asks.
"Oh, she's an expert," Aria says. "I'd trust her to upgrade my PC."
"But she has only one arm and this isn't a PC," the agent protests.
"Hey, our whole purpose here is to handle the magic mumbo-jumbo stuff so leave that to us, okay?"
Sophia does manage to upgrade the circle a little bit and Aria combines her growing facility with illusions, which she can now make tangible, to create a sort of illusory prosthetic while she accelerates the healing of Sophia's injuries. In doing so, Sophia's life-force latches on to the framework of the illusory arm and starts to fill in before healing and rebuilding the arm. As she does so, her body thins out, muscle seeming to atrophy as it appears that she has gone weeks without food in order to replace the lost tissue.
The young succubus biokinetic and illusionist becomes ecstatic over this. The little bit she knew told her that that should have been impossible. While she was aware of people who could regenerate limbs and people who could induce such regeneration in others, she was not trained in such things and the little bit she knows doesn't explain any of the procedure of how to actually do it. But now it seems that she has stumbled on exactly how to heal limbs and walks away gloriously happy and walking away from the situation convinced she can replace lost limbs and unaware that she just sped up what Sophia's body would have done naturally.
Nobody bothers to correct her and Sophia's "upgraded" circle bursts into yellow and green flames for a moment leaving the room a charred mess.
"Oh, well, they'll replace it," Aria says.
Back at the site, Sarah is watching as a SIA hazard containment team is quietly addressing the abandoned lab in guise of a clean up company going into an abandoned building to prep it for deconstruction. She notes somebody in the crowd trying to take pictures and gets taken by an urge to be the official person pushing someone around for once.
Using her shapeshifting abilities, she conceals her Brazilian heritage and steps up to start interrogating the person. The man reacts a little bit in surprise but Sarah doesn't seem to be all that frightening. She also manages to blow the small cover the hazard team has by suggesting that she is a Japanese official and that the man would be in a lot of trouble if he doesn't hand over the camera.
As it becomes apparent that the man is a reporter, she starts to realize her mistakes in assuming he was an Agent of Mother (not to be confused with Agents of SHIELD). Fumbling about quickly, she tries to find a way to fix the fact that she just blew there was a government group doing hazmat clean up in the middle of Sendai. Eventually she hits upon the idea of convincing the man that she's another reporter trying to send him on a wild goose chase. This finally works and the reporter starts to leave, disgusted that he was almost set on a course to get his paper sued for libel.
Sarah starts to return to her perch and at the last minute catches sight of a man with a rocket launcher atop a building. She manages to shout a warning down to the government agents. Her warning comes quickly enough that one of the men outside gets into the "cleaning company" trick and manages to drive it in front of the building. The rocket destroys the truck and its equipment and the heroic driver is cast out bodily during the crash. The building, however, goes without damage.
Casting the injured man a salute, Sarah sets out to chase down the assassin. She uses her shapeshifting to create a body with longer legs for better running and takes off in pursuit of the assassin who was parkouring across the roof-tops and fire-escapes above her. She combats his parkour proficiency with her tactical planning and great speed. She almost loses track of him a couple of times, but her own understanding of paths on the ground and sprinter's form help close the distance with the man.
In a moment of desperation, the man tosses a grenade out at a crowd but Sarah manages to catch the grenade and toss it back up, causing it to explode within a building under construction and empty of people thus cutting off the man's planned direction. Though the man's skill does let him get the edge on her again.
For a moment it looks to both of them as if the assassin has got away when Sarah takes a wrong turn that luckily sends her right into the place where the assassin had planned to get out of sight. The assassin sees her as he hits the ground and tries to make an attempt to get back to the high ground to keep his parkour advantage. This is countered when Sarah takes one of her batons and whacks it into the fire-escape which the man was trying to use to catch up. The reverbating vibrations sends him dropping to the ground.
The assassin however manages to land on his feet and takes off running. Irritated, Sarah takes off as well, shifting angrily into panther form as she pounces upon him.
Elsewhere, Sophia and Aria have come to a SIA safehouse with a full clinic. The doctors are flabbergasted at her advanced state of starvation and Sophia is suffering from hallucinations and fatigue in relation to the rapid healing. Yamauchi comes into the room telling Aria to check the TV where there are reports about a terrorist attack downtown. Contact with the hazmat team confirms that it is their site but the fungus is contained and not at risk of getting out. Sarah is reported to be in pursuit.
Sophia opts to try to digitally find where Sarah is though her physical condition makes things difficult for her while Yamauchi drives Aria to find Sarah.
"Hey, Aria, the pink birds are giving me good advice."
The instructions however aren't completely relayed clearly from Aria to Yamauchi and the two are slightly delayed until Sophia starts playing "Red Light Green Light" with traffic to channel them to the proper site.
Sarah meanwhile has pounced and pinned the man to the ground. His initial attempts to struggle are interrupted when she growls at him to just lie still. He is properly terrified of the sort-of talking big cat as Aria jumps out of the screeching car and plops over to slap some cuffs around the assassin's hands.Yamauchi asks where Aria got some handcuffs and Aria notes she doesn't have any and asks to borrow the agents. She uses the real handcuffs to then and allows the phantom hand cuffs to vanish.
"I'd like to have some clothes eventually," Sarah notes after slipping into the open car door. However, this comes out as "Mwror mow rrroar mrarrr mow" and a couple of teenaged onlookers of questionable judgment decide to start using their smartphones to film because "aww, the big kitty is trying to talk."
With the assassin transferred to SIA custody, the attention is turned to the servers they captured from the M5:9 facility. The server is both damaged and encrypted. Sophia decides to reach out to her dark net contacts for advice but nobody seems to know anything about this encryption (either that or they're put off by her currently adjusted mental state). She then decides to set up a connection to her home facility and goes about overclocking the SIA computers while Yamauchi looks on nervously. However, computers are very much more in Sophia's court and she is able to get a strong connection to her home computer and its AIs.
Then comes the matter of tackling the server. Repairing the damage is relatively easy, but the encryption starts out as a real problem requiring her to put forth a heavy effort. Still, she manages to make it look easy to everybody else. There is something about the encryption that strikes her as a bit odd for a Visionary. This encryption is still insanely advanced but it's...off somehow...at least in relation to being written by a Visionary.
The information confirms that she has been studying how to create various powers using reproductive cells cloned from "the original body's genetic codes" in combination with various other genetic codes. At the start, this was a matter of curiosity, but then sometime between the first and second batches of "daughters" she gained this obsession for recreating the evolutionary jump from human to Visionary. They are aware that the first batch had a variety of environmental control powers, the second batch had a variety of sensory powers, the third had physical enhancements, the fourth had energy projection abilities and the fifth are still immature but seem to be producing gifts of a mental or intelluctual ability.
They also learn that the woman has the belief that she can only devour people who invade her mind. As such she has been tricking her daughters into contacting her mind where she can devour their minds and souls to claim their bodies as her own. It's not certain where this obsession came from but at least it keeps her from becoming as dangerous as a devourer can get. Unfortunately there is no telling how long this delusion will remain.
Most importantly of all, the files mention a facility in Hokkaido.
The chase was initially going to be a battle between the NPC's Free Runner advantage and Sarah's Fleet of Foot advantage. This gave Sarah a moderate advantage save that it didn't solve the altitude problem she had to face. However, she did manage to get the situation into position where the assassin thought it was safe, even preferable, to come down to the ground. I thought he was going to escape for a moment, but she ended up being more clever than fast though her irritation did push her to shapeshift to take him down and pin him.
As to the healing arm, Sophia has spent points on abilities to deal with severe and extreme consequences a little better than most. I had initially thought that the stump would be healing slowly over time, but when she added the illusory hand supported by the fact that she had tangible illusions was such that it made sense that the hand would heal now. Typically, by mechanics, Aria doesn't have a high enough Manipulative to actually heal limbs, but Sophia's built in regeneration deals with that and I thought it was amusing to have her see if she made the reasoning connect because her understanding was that she shouldn't have been successful there. She failed miserably, giving her the false impression that she can heal severed limbs.
Aria's player has also realized that she has spent the most effort improving on her illusions. She hasn't yet spent the points necessary to be able to make illusions with enough strength to deal physical damage, but she can still of course use them to startle people and terrify them. The idea of creating an illusory upright (mecha) was brought up.
Note that Sophia's two upgrade challenges had different results. The first one was a subject a bit outside of her normal area of expertise, thus higher difficulties. She also rolled a failure and opted for success with cost resulting in the circle self-destructing when they were done. The second was a type of technology she was much more comfortable with: electronics. She also rolled two ties instead of a failure. As such I allowed her to improve the strength of connection to her own facility by 1.


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We spent the evening in Scottsdale, starting with a little bath and beauty product shower for Sarah (so much Lush!) at our hotel, the Hotel Valley Ho. I adore the Valley Ho, and it's one of the cutest spots in town for both a little stay-cation or a cocktail. It's a mid-century modern resort so there is eye candy everywhere, and around every corner there's something beautiful. After we opened presents, ate some candy and toasted with pink champagne, we headed to dinner across the street at Grazie (delicious pizza, salad, and wine - highly recommend it), then spent the evening being silly in Old Town Scottsdale.
Overall it was such a fun night. I got to spend a lot of time with some of my favorite ladies having a super fun girls' night and laughing, laughing, laughing! We went to sleep around 3:30am, and due to my "awesome" internal clock, I woke up at 6:30. Oh boy. The rest of the day was all about relaxation, and I definitely enjoyed an early bedtime last night.
I am happy we could treat Sarah to such a good time - she's such a great friend to all of us and it was neat to be able to have a fun night in her honor. Next up, the wedding! So excited.
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#356 – License Plate Number
That's right. I said humdinger.
Anyways, there are a lot of other numbers I have confidently memorized. My social security number, my birthday, my weight, my bank account balance (roughly), the time both of my alarms go off in the morning, my cell phone number, my pin number for my debit card, and the number of times I've watched Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition).
But my license plate number?
Nope, nope, nope.
Question of the day: How much, say on a scale of 1 to 10, do you want to throw empty water bottles at those people with personalized license plates like 2BLND4U, CONDUMB, GURUGLY, and TOO HOT?
I'm a 7.
Did you find, what you wanted?
Another match, for the straw man
I've had enough, it can bleed through
You think your tough well
This is the last one
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Coming to Krishna—and Staying with Krishna (Through Tests, Challenges, or Growing Pains)
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After the last two blogs, while further thinking about the topic of associating with advanced devotees, I also thought about other ways we can make connection to spirituality, since even those who are blessed to hear from and serve devotees of high spiritual standing don't usually have that opportunity perpetually. In their absence, we can also serve the instructions of our guru, or someone who inspires us spiritually (a sadhu), and in that way feel their presence and blessings. On a regular basis we can adopt other devotional actions to keep the flame of spirituality alive within that first came to us by the grace of a devotee, either from their personal company, or through their recorded talks or books.
Such spiritual practices, or sadhana, include reciting scriptural prayers, or making our own unique outpourings. We are recommended to also regularly chant the holy name in meditative japa, or musically in kirtan, read the scriptures, give in charity or help spiritual people, prepare food for offering and then eating (honoring) prasadam (blessed vegetarian food). Additionally, we can visit holy places and temples, offer respects, glorification, and service to Deities at an established Temple (or our own, or a friends), and sow and serve the tulasi plant (so dear to Krishna), from whose branches our chanting and neck beads are made. This list gives ways highlighted in the scriptures for spiritual advancement. They are all methods of remembering Krishna, purifying our consciousness, and creating a fertile ground in our heart to desire saintly association, and taking advantage of it when available. We have to keep in mind that a harshly critical attitude toward other devotees, or focusing, or looking for the negative qualities, will greatly stall our spiritual progress by creating offences to the holy name.
Some disciples, such as me, didn't properly take advantage of Prabhupada's association because of our immaturity and lack of spiritual development. One can make more advancement by diligently applying oneself with faith to one considered by others to be a less advanced guru, than to not apply oneself with a celebrated, superlative one. Initiation by a guru means, as the word suggests, the beginning, when we formally initiate our spiritual practice under proper guidance.
What we receive from our guru is our personal perception. Those without faith in him or her, won't understand our experience, and regrettably, may even criticize us for our faith in a particular agent of divinity. The Bhagavad Gita 4.11 teaches us that Krishna reciprocates with our level of interest and necessity, or in other words, He gives us what and who we need at every stage of our spiritual journey. This is why there is no limit to the number of shiksha (instructing) gurus one may have. Guru is one in principle and purpose. Initiating (diksha) and shiksha gurus are considered equal manifestations of Krishna, though this point isn't always understood.
While some talk of wanting or having a great guru, they may not be serious, or advanced enough to recognize one. Humility, by an honest assessment of our material needs and spiritual standing, is essential. We should ask ourselves what our interests are—in other words, how much do we really want to be Krishna conscious, and how much are we attached to material facilities and enjoyment? In considering the answers, it is helpful to study what it means to be a good disciple and the nature of commitment to our spiritual path. After being on the path for some time we will discover that we need to continually recommit to our spiritual practices, while never being complacent, or thinking we have everything figured out (keeping a beginner's mind). One of our tasks is continually find ways to keep enlivened to go forward.
Thinking of this fact, I came to an obvious, though I think rarely discussed topic, that in beginning our walk toward Krishna we have simpler needs for association, and as we mature, we require more personalized and knowledgeable association for remaining on the path for a lifetime. A Krishna conscious book or Back to Godhead magazine, or anyone who is slightly Krishna conscious may be all we need initially.
I came to Krishna as a very simple, yet materially dull youth— open to the transcendent, yet quite immature and apparently unstable, but I feel Krishna made amazing arrangements for me by opening internal and external doors. This made taking up bhakti seem like the most natural choice. After I stabilized and matured, and felt Krishna consciousness was my path, I began to better understand my conditioned nature, with the necessity to use it in relationship to my devotional practice. As much as this is a big part of applying Krishna consciousness, in those days of glorified external surrender, and "doing the needful" to meet the needs of the temples, this was news to me to apply it personally.
Call them tests, challenges, fine tuning, or growing pains, we all have to make adjustments within and externally, according to changes in our circumstances, desires, and our spiritual progress or regression. We have to be committed to doing what is required to remain on the path of bhakti for the long haul of a lifetime of devotion. My main tests came when my guru, Shrila Prabhupada, left the planet, when some, who attempted to act as gurus failed in their attempt, when I realized I need to be married, finding my occupational identity, sorting through my childhood liabilities and adapted strategies, the shortcomings of spiritual institutions along with immature practitioners, and having to rediscover Krishna consciousness in a way that worked for me after all I had been through.
I should also say that my own shortcomings, or my conditioned nature, as well as my lack of spiritual interest and taste, has been a struggle throughout my devotional life. It is much easier to blame circumstances or people for our problems, and much more difficult to take personal responsibility for our lives, seeing everything as favorable for our bhakti. As I have mentioned before, success in life doesn't come from what happens to us, but we do with what happens to us—which means who we are as a person.
Due to any of these factors I could have gone away from Krishna, yet somehow I have kept on the Krishna Mountain, through many ups, downs, roadblocks, dead ends, deserts, and valleys. The road to Krishna can sometimes be a rocky or narrow one, sometimes seeming to disappear, and there are many surprises in store for us. However, I have found much sweetness and reciprocation from Krishna, despite my shortcomings. I can tell you that if you always prayerfully keep Krishna in mind while avoiding a critical mentality, you will become convinced that any difficulty is temporary, can be surmounted by the mercy of guru, Krishna, and other bhakti practitioners, and will be spiritually helpful in the long run.
Understanding that there are stages of development in our material and spiritual lives can encourage us to persevere through the ebb and flow of the current of bhakti. As we traverse a lifetime of devotion, we have to find those means of support and association that are relevant to where we are on our exciting journey toward Krishna.
"There are six principles favorable to the execution of pure devotional service: (1) being enthusiastic, (2) endeavoring with confidence, (3) being patient, (4) acting according to regulative principles [such as sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam [SB 7.5.23] -- hearing, chanting and remembering Krsna], (5) abandoning the association of nondevotees, and (6) following in the footsteps of the previous acaryas. These six principles undoubtedly assure the complete success of pure devotional service." Rupa Gosvami's Nectar of Instruction verse 3
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Since I came back from Germany after a five-months long research stay, I have been considerably happy and somewhat comfortable with life around here. I have been hogging on all those missed food items like crazy and my Punjabi family is just contributing to it with their extensive breakfasts and dinners. I re-visited all my favorite places in Delhi which I missed much.
But life back home also means I have to reluctantly bring some changes in my lifestyle. Things that I could care about least are now top priority.
The first and most important change that I made as soon as I was back was to put some 'extra' things in my bag. These 'extra' things are my self-defense weapons whom I also fondly call "mere do anmol ratan" (okay, I'm just humouring myself).
These are: one, a pepper spray which I have since December last year for obvious reasons. Second, a Swiss knife that I recently bought which is pretty handy. I occasionally also carry a scarf with me because I don't drive (read: I can't drive) and therefore travel a lot via public transport.
I have the scarf because you see, exposing your neck, arms and shoulders can be too provocative for some and after all as we have recently learned, "It's our fault", it is better to be safe than sorry.
There are two incidences which happened shortly after I came back. One was of street harassment and the other moral policing. I would like to describe these two in detail, I hope you will bear with me.
As mentioned above I usually carry my defense weapons in my bag whenever I go out, but this time as I was only walking in my own locality, I didn't bother to take my bag or my weapons. But, you see, as soon as you step out of your Lakshman Rekha, danger hovers over you like a fly hovers over a box of Haldiram's sweets.
…as soon as you step out of your Lakshman Rekha, danger hovers over you like a fly hovers over a box of Haldiram's sweets.
So it was daytime, I was walking in my locality and there came this big white car (sorry, don't know which one, it can be a City or an Accent, I'm really bad at this and I hardly care) with three young guys and drove past me. They were really young must be between 18-21. At least they looked younger than me. The driver slowed down the car and ogled at me through his side-view mirror.
I ignored them for the first time. I walked further peacefully. As I was on foot and they in a car, they drove past me twice and repeated the entire procedure again. I ignored them again. But this didn't deter their high spirit of scoring and they tried their luck for the third time. They drove past me again and stopped their car nearly a meter ahead of me. I lost my cool and showed the driver the 'middle finger' through his side-view mirror. As expected his big inflated hot air balloon male ego deflated as if someone has pinched it with a pin. He stopped the car, got out and waited for me. By this time, even I was very furious and decided to take on the rage. The conversation went on something like this:
He: Why did you show me the middle finger?
I: Why the f&%^ were you ogling at me and driving your car past me after every two minutes?
He: I did not stare at you and I was waiting for my friend.
I: In that case, I did not abuse you. I was motioning to some stranger on the street.
Before he could conjure up any other accusations at me, I walked away and the entire drama ended there and then. Also, I guess because it was day time, there were people on the streets, the guys didn't dare to take any action against their recently hurt ego. Now imagine the same incident at night. A woman walking down the street, three young guys in a car, dark, and fewer people around. They would have very easily pushed me into the car, silenced my wails and took me away. Further what would have happened, I will not dwell into as we all very well know.
The next morning's newspapers would have flashy headlines and my family would supposedly go into shame. I would be blamed for walking alone at night and ruining those young boys' future.
I would be blamed for walking alone at night and ruining those young boys' future.
The other incident which is on a more lighter note left me both angry as well as laughing. So I was in a mall wearing a top which had a deep cut at the back. I was looking for some stuff in the women's section when this middle-aged woman in a sari comes up to me from behind and touches me right at the open slit of my top (creepy).
Woman: Ye aapka top yaha se fata hua hai kya? (Is your top torn from here?)
I (with a stern face): Nahi, ye aisa hi hai. (No, it is like that.)
Woman (shocked and amused): Aisa hai? Par isme to peeche se dikh raha hai.. (Like that? But your back is visible.)
I (furious): Aapka bhi to pet dikha raha hai saree mein se (Even your tummy is visible from the saree.)
The woman is highly offended and is about to say something but her friend interrupts her, shushes her down and asks her to get away. Fortunately for her, she is saved from my wrath because I sure had some more very interesting and offensive things to say. I look around, there are a few witnesses to the incident who are just staring back at me, in awe or in disgust, I couldn't tell. With a cold face, I find my mom who is in some other section and narrate her the entire incident. She laughs it off and as compensation, I get treated.
I don't understand why people can't mind their own business and how can one just come and touch a random stranger, that too from behind. One can't give the excuse that you belong to the same gender or that it was for your own well being. I mean, if somebody touches me from behind, the first thought that will come to my mind is that the person is harassing me and my instant reaction would be to turn around and slap the person black and blue in the face.
It is very interesting to know how the keepers of culture have taken their own eccentricities for granted and normalized it. So when it comes to a saree, a lehenga-choli and other such traditional Indian dresses, it is totally normal to expose your tummy, back, cleavage and what not.
It is very interesting to know how the keepers of culture have taken their own eccentricities for granted and normalized it. So when it comes to a saree, a lehenga-choli and other such traditional Indian dresses, it is totally normal to expose your tummy, back, cleavage and what not. But if you're wearing a "western" top with a slit at the back, you automatically become a "carrier" of western culture which is infiltrating our very pure and pious Indian culture. Now I think I should have also poked her tummy. It would have been more fun!
What did I learn from these incidents?
1. Carry your self-defense weapons whenever and wherever you go. It doesn't matter even if you are standing right outside your house.
2. People who don't mind their own business need a taste of their own medicine.
3. When walking on the street, don't look down, walk confident, shoulders out. Don't give the impression that you are scared. Better, if possible, walk with a pissed off expression on your face especially when walking past a group of rogues.
4. No matter what you do, what you wear, how you walk, talk, etc, people are going to say something because that's their work. So don't give a damn about "log kya kahenge" and continue to stay amazing!
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I smash the patriarchy for a living! Founder & Editor-in-chief of Feminism in India.
Ooooh, how much I love this piece. I really wish you had poked her tummy!
Thank you Riti! Regarding the tummy, there's always a next time 🙂
Sister,,, it seems like you seem to have a tendency to inviting trouble… those who ignore are not fools… there are better ways to fight things you believe in…
//Sister,,, it seems like you seem to have a tendency to inviting trouble…// *slow cap*
have seen ur post…just wana to say thnx for awareness ..stay blessed
May god bless you…
Please please next time… If I get a chance to, I will poke the tummy… :d what about those backless blouses that people wear with the saree?
I really likedd ur post. And its so true, our society be it man or woman find the needless urge to dig comments.
hypocrisy well exposed
As always, I loved your post! I wish you had poked her tummy, she wouldn't have dared moral police anyone ever 😀 I had one such encounter once, when I was went to a neighbourhood park in a kurta and jeans (I live in a neighbourhood where jeans = evil) and had one lady (around the same age as mine) point out, "arey aap jeans kaise pehen rahe ho, isme to poore legs dikhte hain." And I had to respond, "back aur front dikhne se accha hai ki legs dikhe, hai na" (a reference to her low cut salwar kurta) 🙂
Thank you Arunima, these people need a taste of their own medicine 🙂
ohh i soo wish u had poked her tummy and said those words aapka ka bhi to dikha raha hai….it wouold have een a million dollar expression from aunty ji….we have such a hypocrite society
That was really unpardonable, coming and poking you from behind. So what if she is of the same gender?! Many women like her do not think anything of the way THEY show acres of THEIR flesh, but have to moral police those that dare show skin in what they deem as modern/Western wear.
And the young boys who think nothing of ogling and stalking! When will society wake up enough to take its wayward sons into hand rather than keep the daughters forever oppressed!
Awesome observation. Am going to use this the next time someone talks about "indecent" exposure.
You should have poked her tummy 😀 You are right about our society being total hypocrites. I see women all around me wearing the so-called sabhyata waali saree, but worn in a way that leaves nothing, absolutely nothing to the imagination. It just looks fugly!
i hear you. well done and well written japleen.
Thank you Suk! 🙂
Now that's a piece after my own heart ! Loved it 😀
Thank you Sonali! 🙂
you go girl! great post, especially loved your repartee to that nosy woman 🙂
Bang on girl! The saddest part is in our society, instead of standing with you, other women primarily blame you.
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When asked to say something about "collecting," the first thought that enters my mind is a negative one: it is not "accumulating." And a second negative: it is not "investing." What then, stated positively, is collecting? It is acquiring objects that have some relation to each other and putting those objects into the kind of order that reflects the collector's response to them. Each true collection achieves a personality beyond and apart from the sum of the objects. This personality is definable and has a value in itself. It is lost if the collection is dispersed or mutilated.(FN1)
All the above is true, I believe, of collections of baseball cards, beetles and butterflies, stamps and coins, and many other categories of collecting and ordering, but true only peripherally. It is the category of art collecting that concerns me here, and this is the category in which what I call "personality" is most apparent and, somehow, central. I include decorative arts. The fine and the decorative arts are also most vulnerable to the accusation of appearing to be mere accumulations where the ordering function is absent or minimal. This can be noted in private collections as well as museums. True collections are never only an assembly of accidents or lucky finds, although individual pieces or sections may be so characterized.
The true art collector must have some initial instinct and preference for the field chosen. But, while instinct and taste are crucial, so is scholarship. Studying books, visiting other collections, consulting experts, learning about condition and conservation, and, generally, developing experience and expertise are also crucial aspects of the intelligent collecting of art.
All of this sounds so virtuous, so boring. What about the late John Gere, a curator at the British Museum, who collected plein air oil sketches? He is reported to have rushed away to a dealer's office in London to buy a rare sketch that his fiancée Charlotte had spotted for herself.(FN2)
What about that late genius of collecting, Norton Simon, who seemed to get as much pleasure from outwitting the dealers and auctioneers as from the art itself? He would often not buy until he showed the painting to his butler, his cook, his chauffeur, or other laymen to test its "popularity quotient."
When Plato insists that the search for Beauty is allied to the pursuit of the Good, he clearly had no premonition of the art market of the last hundred years or so. The phrase "he would sell his mother to obtain that picture" has been heard in all its variations so often that the thought of collecting as a compulsion rather than as a purely rational activity certainly occurs to one. Where collecting becomes contaminated by "investing," the objects purchased for the primary purpose of sooner or later being resold at a profit, then the "personality" of the assemblage is non-existent and the sense of order among the objects is similar to the exhibitions mounted before an auction sale. Of course, good collections, with plenty of order and personality, are sometimes dispersed at auction, their catalogues, often well produced by the auction houses, serving as a similar kind of memorial to the collector's taste and skill as a museum catalogue. More often, however, an auction bearing a great collector's name is only a fragment of the whole, what remained at death or after a change of interests, or after numerous masterworks had been donated, sold, given to children, or otherwise removed from the core.
I have observed, over the years, that collectors form a kind of loose confraternity. We all tend to know one another within our geographical limits and, although we compete sometimes, we tend to support and encourage each other emotionally. We are happy when a fellow collector makes a great discovery or a great buy and have very little "schadenfreude" when he or she buys a mistake. There are many lavish apartments and houses with good paintings in New York along Park and Fifth Avenues and in the best suburbs of Dallas, Houston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, but very few real collections as I am using the term. Someone who stops acquiring Monets or Picassos when the house is decorated is not a collector, by definition.
So is it a mania, then, that makes one continue to add, to refine, to put in order a collection of works of art? Are the dreadful Freudians right, after all, that collectors must have had unhappy childhoods? That they cling to possessions like an unloved child clinging to fuzzy toys as a substitute for maternal affection? Does the retentive habit follow through one's life because of poor toilet training?
These traits and these explanations are offered in a recent book on collecting by the well-known Freudian analyst (and collector) Dr. Werner Muensterberger. It was published by Princeton University Press,(FN3) so it must have passed expert readers who did not consider such ideas complete nonsense. Yet, nonsense they are, and Muensterberger's examples of so-called collectors feature Balzac, who bankrupted himself by filling his Paris "hotel particulier" with carloads of meretricious decorative junk, and the nineteenth-century book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps. He was the paradigm type of "accumulator," buying enormous quantities of books and manuscripts from catalogues of booksellers and auctions. He hardly ever saw his purchases, the unopened packages piling up in his several residences, only to be revealed after his death in a long series of book auctions from which many of todays major libraries trace some of their greatest treasures. Phillipps, however, in his behavior to his wife and family as well as to the world around him, was certifiably insane.
I am not competent to demolish the Freudian put-downs of our humanity, and I believe much of that work has by now been done by competent others. Nevertheless, as a collector myself for nearly fifty years, I can admit that some compulsion plays a role and that sometimes the urge is hard to control. Certainly, then, there is a psychological factor, sometimes called a "passion." But what is wrong with a passion to collect? How about the passion to breed racehorses and win the Kentucky Derby? Or for building one great yacht after another to win the America's Cup? It has been said that rather than being critical of the affluent who spend large sums to acquire works of art, one should be critical if they didn't.
Not everyone who can afford to collect likes or understands works of art. Not everyone who likes and understands them wants particularly to possess them. There are, after all, more than enough on public display in museums and commercial galleries to satisfy most people's tastes and desires for aesthetic experience. That some of us must physically possess some of these art objects has, I believe, one significant cause. By possession one is able to experience the object more intimately and more completely than even the most thoroughly attentive viewing at an exhibition. Also, concentrating on the original work over illustrations in art books, computer images, or the projected slides of university art lecturers is a kind of cultural rebuke to the trend of our times not to care about the unique impact of originals, but to look for economic, political, gender, or other issues for which reproductions are all that is needed. I used to host a session of the Museum Course at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts every year when I was dealing in art. I was continually saddened by the lack of interest in the major old master paintings I would pull out of my closets and display on a lighted easel. Some graduate students might be interested in the back of the painting to notice labels or the type of relining, but most were immobilized by such proximity to an original master painting and could only mutter some clichés about the price or the social conditions and patronage that underlay its production. No analysis or enjoyment of the painting itself. No budding art collectors there.
Of course there are economic concerns which the most passionate and serious collector needs to be aware of. Nothing concentrates the mind like the need to write a large check for an object to take home and add to an ensemble which has long proven its quality and resonance. Will the newcomer hold up in its place and under severe scrutiny? Does it fill a gap or does it refine the intelligent order of the assemblage? By all this I mean that collecting consists of many rational decisions and is an intellectual activity in spite of factors such as instinct, taste, passion, and other such concepts. We are not animals, nor are we deprived children shouting "mine, all mine" at an exhibition of art for sale, but rational beings making careful choices and carefully examining our instinctive reactions so as not to let them seize control.
Real art collectors often feel the ability to apply their talents to any field of art. The late Jacques Gelman(FN4) once told me that, should the supply of the kind of great modern paintings he collected dry up, he would collect Chinese ceramics with the same search for quality and the same satisfaction for his eye. I myself have collected seriously in at least three different fields, Master drawings, American Indian art, and Nomadic art of the Eurasian steppes. I have several other categories up my sleeve that could mature into collections showing order and rational choices should I live long enough.
But today the odds are stacked against the activities of the true collector of most kinds of art. National borders are rapidly closing; the United Nations is sponsoring ever more restrictive international treaties prohibiting the collecting of any art except that of one's own country. Our State Department and its compliant advisory arm, the Committee on Cultural Property, is toadying to the demands of so-called "source nations," seizing and returning objects or paintings that might be legally imported but are "stolen" in the eyes of nations that claim that all art belongs to the State.
Because these dramas are now taking place in the antiquities field, all art collecting has come under a cloud. The archaeologists and anthropologists who stress context want to forbid collecting because art markets, they claim, cause the illegal digging and despoliation of sites that source nations are too poor to protect (or too corrupt). No collecting, no markets, no value, i.e., no digging. QED. Of course it's not so simple, and the value that collectors and art markets create have been in most cases the only reasons that much of the world's art has survived. This has been a phenomenon since Roman times and has preserved at least something in the face of history during which gold, silver, and bronze objects were regularly melted down for state debts and cannons.
This is not the place to argue the long and complex issues of international art markets. It is enough to say that the movement of art has always been affected by the economic strength of one part of the world versus another. The Chinese, just now, are emerging as the strongest competitors for their own historic art as their economic boom continues its dramatic rise. Such are the natural and beneficial economic waves that, like free trade, should be encouraged, not stifled by nationalistic restrictions. Great and merely good art, like literature or music, is international and will only suffer and die if confined in a political straightjacket. The Elgin Marbles should stay right where they are in the British Museum.
But what to do or to say about the sadly diminished reputation of the art collector, both private ones and museums as collectors, in our peculiar times? What was once a prestigious and admired activity, thought to have public benefits for education and aesthetic pleasure, has now become a dirty word, joining the denigration of both "connoisseurship" in the study of art history, and the concept of "quality" as applied to the art of the present. These notions are lumped into the convenient and amorphous rubric of "elitist"–a term that has lost all earlier definitions and now means, very specifically, that one is against minority cultures, women's art, poor people, children, etc. If the collector is seen to spend a large sum on a Degas or a Pollock, somewhere criticism is likely to flow that the money would have been better spent on a neighborhood youth center or the battle against AIDS. What used to be seen as part of the general support for civilized values is today seen as having no value. Art collecting is seen as obsolete, with countries like England no longer financially supporting many great cultural institutions as they normally did, but instead are seeking to transfer the money needed for so-called "High Culture" to popular cultural themes which, because popular, are usually financially successful on their own. As a consequence, the British Museum, for the first time in its history, is firing expert scholarly curators (called "keepers") in order to keep the doors open.
The overwhelming majority of those who call themselves collectors collect contemporary art. Highly acclaimed contemporary art is, and always has been, the most expensive kind of art to pursue. A fine Jasper Johns can cost more than a great Monet or a pretty good Rembrandt. The number of people world-wide who collect seriously and internationally in the areas of antiquities, tribal arts ("primitive art" is no longer politically correct to say), old master paintings and drawings, and museum quality Oriental arts is minuscule in comparison with contemporary stuff. Those who do are probably a dying population in the culture wars. But possibly the tide will turn, and, as all the postmodern nonsense fades into satirical footnotes, art collecting and its adjuncts, connoisseurship and the search for quality, may once again see their reputations restored.
1 This essay is occasioned by two exhibitions now on view in New York. "The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, Acquisitions Since 1994" opened at The Morgan Library on September 27, 2002 and remains on view until January 19, 2003. "Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other New York Collections" opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 1, 2002 and remains on view until January 5, 2003. On September 10, 2002, Mr. Thaw was elected an Honorary Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum.
2 "A Brush with Nature, The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches" was on view at The Frick Collection, New York, from September 12 to November 12, 2000, and at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England, from January 12 to March 25, 2001.
3 Collecting, by Werner L. Muensterberger; Princeton University Press, 324 pages, $55.
4 Whose great collection of historic modern art, the Jacques and Natasha Gelman collection, is at the Metropolitan Museum in its own galleries.
Source: New Criterion, December 2002, Vol. 21 Issue 4, p13, 4p
Oral history interview with Eugene V. Thaw: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-eugene-v-thaw-13687
Articles with Eugene V. Thaw on Architectural Digest: http://www.architecturaldigest.com/search?query=eugene+thaw&sort=score+desc
Eugene V. Thaw speaks on the pursuit of quality: http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/03/collector_eugene_victor_thaw_s.html


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Aleksandar Dobri Urosevic: "This is my Third time as a captain and during my time we had first woman fighter, and she was fourth in "Polearms", team is in good shape and I expect a lot of them. Problem is that we have to drive over 2500 km to get to Barcelona, and that may interfere with our level of fighting, but not much. All my male teammates and of course I will support and help the female fighters of our team. They are our treasure! Also we are happy to be part of such big family".
Mr. Urosevic loves HMB-sport and is sure that nothing can stop you from doing what you love.
Aleksandar Dobri Urosevic: "This sport is not that demanding if you like it. I have Multiple Sclerosis and still fight with my team. This is my fourth year to have MS and to fight at the "Battle of the Nations". And I`m planning to participate as a fighter this year too".
HMBIA and our editorial office wishes the Serbian team a lot of interesting fights and cannot wait to see them on the list of the "Battle of the Nations" -2017.
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Dave is presently heard weekdays from 12-3 PM on ESPN1100 in Las Vegas, and recently enjoyed an exclusive interview with newly elected President Barack Obama. Cokin is a featured columnist in several national publications and is regularly in demand as a gaming insider on numerous sports talk shows throughout the land. No wonder Dave Cokin was tagged by noted author Martin Mendelsohn as the "Ted Williams of the sports service industry." Perhaps the only difference is that Dave occasionally tips his cap.


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Dristi (Sanskrit, also dṛiṣṭi; Pali diṭṭhi; Tibetan: 'lta ba) - is translated as "wrong view", "afflicted views", "belief", "opinionatedness", "deluded outlooks", etc. It is defined as seeing wrongly; it's characteristic is unwise interpretation of things.[1]
Dristi is identified in the following contexts within the Buddhist teachings:
- One of the six root kleshas within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings
- One of the fourteen unwholesome mental factors within the Theravada Abhidharma teachings
Bhikku Bodhi states:
- Diṭṭhi here means seeing wrongly. Its characteristic is unwise (unjustified) interpretation of things. Its function is to preassume. It is manifested as a wrong interpretation or belief. Its proximate cause is unwillingness to see the noble ones (ariya), and so on.[2]
Nina van Gorkom explains:
- What is wrong view? It is a distorted view of realities, a misinterpretation of them. Do we, for example, know hearing as only an element which hears or do we still cling to an idea of self who hears? Do we know sound as it is, as only a reality which can be heard, or do we take what is heard for a "person" or a "thing" such as a voice or a car? Person, voice and car are concepts we can think of but which cannot be heard. Hearing and thinking occur at different moments and these realities experience different objects. Only one object can be experienced at a time through the appropriate doorway, but we still have many misunderstandings about reality. Through the study of the Dhamma we may have acquired theoretical understanding of realities as being impermanent and non-self, but wrong view cannot be eradicated through theoretical understanding. It can only be eradicated through the practice, through the development of the eightfold Path.[3]
The Atthasalini (II, Part IX, Chapter I, 248) gives the following definition of wrong view, ditthi:
- ... It has unwise conviction as characteristic; perversion as function; wrong conviction as manifestation; the desire not to see the ariyans as proximate cause. It should be regarded as the highest fault.[3]
The Atthasalini (II, Part IX, Chapter II, 253) also states:
- ... From being not the right path, it is a "wrong path". For just as one who is gone astray, although he holds that this is the path to such a village, does not arrive at a village, so a man of false opinions, although he holds that this is the path to a happy destiny, cannot get there; hence from being not the right path it is a wrong path...[3]
The Khenjuk states:
- Tib. ལྟ་བ་(ནི་ཤེས་རབ་)ཉོན་མོངས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལྟ་བ་སྟེ། ལྟ་བ་ངན་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རྟེན་བྱེད་པའོ།[4]
- Beliefs are all the views of afflicted wisdom. They form the support for all unwholesome beliefs. (Rigpa Translations)
- Belief is the view of all kinds of disturbed [discrimination]. It forms the support for all unwholesome beliefs. (Erik Pema Kunsang)
StudyBuddhism states:
- Deluded outlooks view their objects in a certain way. They seek and regard their objects as things to latch on to (yul-'tshol-ba), without they themselves scrutinizing, analyzing, or investigating them. In other words, they merely have an attitude toward their objects. They occur only during conceptual cognition and are accompanied by either an interpolation or a repudiation. As mental factors, however, they themselves do not interpolate or repudiate anything.[5]
Alternative Translations
- wrong view
- beliefs
- opinionatedness
- defiled view (Padmakara)
- afflicted view
See also
- Mental factors
- Identity view (sakkāya-diṭṭhi, a fetter of the mind on the Buddhist path)
- Sammaditthi Sutta (early discourse on right view)
- Kalama Sutta (early discourse about misguided beliefs)
- Samma Ditthi
- ↑ Bhikku Bodhi (2012), Kindle loc. 2288.
- ↑ Bhikku Bodhi (2012), Kindle Location 2288
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gorkom (1999), Wrong View (ditthi)
- ↑ Supplemented with Khenpo Nuden.
- ↑ * Berzin, Alexander, Primary Minds and the Fifty-one Mental Factors
- Bhikkhu Bodhi (2012). A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma: The Abhidhammattha Sangaha. BPS Pariyatti Editions. Kindle Edition.
- Guenther, Herbert V. & Leslie S. Kawamura (1975), Mind in Buddhist Psychology: A Translation of Ye-shes rgyal-mtshan's "The Necklace of Clear Understanding" Dharma Publishing. Kindle Edition.
- Kunsang, Erik Pema (translator) (2004). Gateway to Knowledge, Vol. 1. North Atlantic Books.


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Community participation is essential for the management of a watershed, not only in infrastructure, but through the efficient use of water around the watershed both for irrigation and domestic, manufacture wells infiltration in every housing / estates, creating containers rainfall, prevention of erosion on agricultural land by building terraces and planting trees with economic value which will benefit the Watershed as well as for the user community.
In this case the river basin management interpreted as an attempt to control the interrelationships between humans and all its activities with the natural resources of land, water and vegetation in the basin, in order to obtain optimum benefit, sustained in ekossitem matching, in order to obtain optimum benefits then saah the principles of watershed management is togetherness is togetherness of all of its components (stakeholders) of the watershed is concerned, togetherness form of responsibility in keeping the natural resources of land, water and vegetation in the watershed provide optimal and sustainable benefits.
The main problems in watershed management and soil conservation practices related to institutional issues such as:
1) The difference in the value system (value) community with regard to scarcity of resources, so that the handling problems in Java is different from the outside Java.
2) a strong economic orientation is not balanced commitment to environmental protection function which implies the emergence of problems in the implementation of spatial planning.
3) The problem of latent related to agrarian issues and d. Emptiness institutions / agencies controlling the implementation of the program.
According Asdak C. (2007), the biophysical linkages upstream-downstream region of a watershed, things mentioned below should be a concern:
1) Effective Institutional linkages should be able to reflect the biophysical and socio-economic environment in which it operates. If the management activities upstream. DAS will pose a real impact on the biophysical or socio-economic environment in the lower reaches of the watershed the same, hence the need for decentralized watershed management involving upstream and downstream as a single planning and management.
2) Externalities, is the impact (positive / negative) an activity / program or policy that experienced / felt outside the region where the program / policy implemented. The impact is often not internalized in planning activities. It can be argued that the negative externalities may interfere with the achievement of sustainable watershed management for: (1) the public outside the area of activity (spatial externalities), (2) the people living in a certain time period after the intervention ended (temporal externalities), and (3) the interests of the various economic sectors that are off site activities (sectoral externalities).
The strategic role of watershed as the unit of planning and resource management more evident in a watershed moment can not function optimally as a media regulator and guarantor water water quality that is reflected by flooding, drought and high sedimentation rate. In the process, the incident-kejaian is a phenomenon that arises as a result of disruption of the watershed function as an integrated system involving hydrological complexity of the process that applies to watershed. One indicator that the dominant cause disruption of the hydrological function is the formation of critical lands.


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The primary objective of this study is to provide an overview of financing urban infrastructure in India. The design of this detailed study incorporates - preparing an inventory of available studies, preparing representative descriptions of urban finance by local bodies, evaluating innovative resources of finances, recommending rationalization of existing major sources of finance, evaluating the urban financial role of state and parastatal bodies, differentiating institutional finance by large and small urban areas and lastly evaluating the extent and mode of private sector participation.
The study includes a national overview as well as case studies of Bangalore, Visakhapatnam, Aurangabad and Mangalore. The national overview provides the aggregate perspective on urbanisation trends, the level of urban infrastructure services, the institutional arrangement and financing mechanisms.


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(CNN) – Michelle Obama may be the first first lady who can kick your butt.
In comments as part of a "Twitter Town Hall" she hosted Monday morning, the first lady said kickboxing is her favorite stress reliever. Of course, she also said children should be exercising 60 minutes a day and that they should steer clear of processed foods whenever possible.
.@Niavski To relieve stress I love kick boxing -mo #AskFLOTUS—
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Questions ranged from how to encourage healthy eating habits among children to what steps can be taken to combat negative body image among young adults.
The first lady emphasized serving fruits and vegetables at a young age is key to developing health eating habits and said it is important to "Focus on how kids feel, not how they look."
And what about Mrs. Obama's favorite winter recipe?
"I love turkey & veggie chili," she said.
.@GracieFoxwell I love turkey & veggie chili -- lots of great recipes here: pinterest.com/MyPlateRecipes/ -mo #AskFLOTUS—
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She's such a horrible person. Here she is wanting kids to eat healthy, live longer lives and be more productive. Can't she find better things to do?
Keep up the good work First Lady. Eating healthy benefits everyone. Lower healthcare costs, longer lives and better self esteem.
Give me a hot and hearty soup when it's cold outside, and I'm happy.
What she is doing is remarkable and appreciated, BUT it looks like a short term effort. Who will take over her good work as soon as she is former First Lady?
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What she is doing is remarkable and appreciated, BUT it looks like a short term effort. Who will take over her good work as soon as she is former First Lady?
Hopefully, the kids' parents will. Who, in turn, will hopefully grow up and impress the same values upon their own kids. And somehow I doubt that the effort will cease when she is no longer first lady.
Since so many in this country will be unemployed and without healthcare due to Obamacare, and with the increase of those on food stamps – the obesity rate is sure to go up. These efforts are counter-productive to her husbands destructive policies.


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Very few wear vintage head-to-toe with the same refinement and creativity as my friend Yo Miyamoto. Yo is a freelance journalist and blogger and takes pride in his multi-tinted and multi-textured Salvation Army looks that cost him next to nothing. If I only had the diligence to regularly scour through racks of second-hand clothing, and the courage to wear more color, my life would be more moneyed and more joyfully-hued.
vintage coat, sweater, and shirt, Comme des Garcons drop-crotch trousers, vintage Premiata shoes
Yo's favorite date spot in NYC is a wine bar called The Immigrant in the East Village, and the last song he downloaded was Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
texture and pattern play: a bleached denim coat, a crinkled polyester sweater, and a lace-print shirt
an odd assortment of vintage rings, all in silver
an ornate vintage brass cuff
Henrik Vibskov socks and clowny-cool vintage Premiata shoes
blue, crinkled, and Miyake-esque
Many of Yo's thrifted pieces are women's, but I commend him for the masculinity with which he puts everything together.
just like Omotesando
Yo was recently photographed by Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist in a post entitled "Advanced Style". See the post here.
Yo's street style blog Otomayim B Dipper


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Here in late 2017, the biggest trends are: the 24 hour news cycle, animosity in broadcast and online media, fatigue from constant connection and interaction, international threats and our political climate. The holiday season is in the background struggling for attention.
How are people tuning out of this cacophony to get in the mood for the holidays?
The answer: Christmas movies! And which channel has 75% share of the new movies in 2017? If you have watched any TV since October, you'd know that it's The Hallmark Channel. THC has produced over 20 original movies for the 2017 Christmas season and has seen viewership grow by 6.7% per year since 2013. THC is on track to surpass the 2016 season in viewership and its brand image is solidly wholesome.
Starting in October, THC runs seasonal programming with its successful "The Good Witch" series (no vampires!) and continues with "Countdown to Christmas" featuring original Hallmark-produced content.
Hallmark spent decades preparing to capture the benefits of these trends. It had become a source of family oriented, holiday-themed programming especially popular in recent years. Once only an ink and paper company, Hallmark expanded strategically in the 1970s with ornaments and cultural greeting cards and again in 1984 with its acquisition of Crayola drawing products. The company moved into direct retail in 1986 and ecommerce in the mid-1990s. Hallmark eCards was launched in 2005.
Hallmark capitalized on branded media content originally to support the core business and it now generates profits as a standalone business. In 2001, the Hallmark Channel was launched. The Hallmark Movie Channel was developed in 2004 which became Hallmark Movies and Mysteries in 2014. This year, the Hallmark Drama channel was launched further leveraging the brand.
Many companies sponsored radio shows in the 1920s through the war years. Serials featuring one company's products appeared in 1928 on radio. In 1952, Proctor and Gamble sponsored the first TV soap opera featuring one company ("The Guiding Light"). But The Hallmark Hall of Fame was there first on Christmas Eve in 1951 sponsoring a made-for-TV opera, "Amahl and the Night Visitors."
Written by Gian Carlo Menotti in less than two months and timed for a one hour TV slot, "Amahl" has become, probably, the most performed opera in history.
Hallmark wasn't the first mover in sponsored media content, but it had learned to experiment with new media. The company was positioned to take advantage of the trend toward family friendly broadcast content and this year was ready to give the nation a place to rest and escape from the chaos. A bit like the story of Amahl and Christmas itself.
Once just a card company, Hallmark followed market trends to expand its business and become a leader in content marketing which is now one of the hottest areas in all marketing. And both the new video content and large library were ready for the current trend- streaming video!


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Discussion in 'Basses [BG]' started by scottos150, Aug 16, 2002.
Is it usually pretty safe to order a bass on e-bay?Im looking at G&L's.
which G&L's? as in are there any current auctions that you're particularly curious about?...
Yes most of the time it is...but make sure you look at the sellers feedback, if there are any negatives do not buy from them. Also if they have no feedback, get thier home phone # and address and call them to make sure they are valid. But be carefull, also never ever buy or sell to Micro-Asia! I have heard numerous stories of people selling and buying to/from Indoniesa and getting riped off. Ebay is a great thing if people are honest.
I agree with everything that Johnalex, except the negative feedback. I have one negative with almost 80 positives. The guy that left me the neg. never contacted me about any problems, and left the neg 3 months after the end of the auction.
Contact the seller and make sure you feel comfortable with their responses.
Side note I am thinking of selling a G&L L2000 fretless I just bought off of ebay if you are interested email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
I agree with Dhuff. I also have one negative feedback from a guy who won a bid and then backed out. In the end, he wound up with a feedback rating of negative one.
eBay is a great place to buy basses if you know what you're looking for and don't let yourself get carried away.
Figure out the most you're willing to pay for the item and bid that amount. Don't get caught up in a bidding war... sometimes feeling the need to beat out somebody ends up costing you more than the item is worth. Search for the same item in recently completed auctions to see what the going price appears to be. if you have questions or concerns, ASK BEFORE BIDDING... I love ebay!!
Ebay is cool, but here are a couple of tips
1) Mkae your first bid your highest. Maintain self control and don't over bid because some one else out bid you.
2) Don't bid more than about 70% of what it sells for new. I've seen people bid up and over $200 for a used Squier Jazz bass.
3) Read through the sellers feedback, and check out some of the stuff they have sold. If it is their first high dollar item, be cautious.
4) Don't be afraid to contact the seller with questions.
i got two custom conklins off of ebay. it works if you are careful.
I bought a beautiful 2 week old Peavey Cirrus on ebay the guy was a pleasure to do business with. Just use common sense.
I have never bought a bass, but I have bought some other gear off of Ebay, and have had very good luck. I have also sold numerous items there as well, and the deals have always turned out very well.
I just bought my cab off of ebay. I have bought a bass on ebay, which I later sold on ebay. I have baught pick ups, pick guards, bridges, tuners, and other gear and hardware from ebay. Pretty good deals most of the time.


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Lots of Parking, September 1964
Photos of the old Disneyland parking lot have proven to be more popular than I ever would have expected, so hopefully today's main photo will bring joy to the hearts of millions.
We've seen this nice lady on board the Columbia, and in Tomorrowland in front of the House of the Future, and shaking hands with a monkey on Main Street. We're talking two different trips, you understand! But before she got there, she had to brave the vast Disneyland parking lot.
I'm a bit discombobulated, does anyone know what part of the lot she is standing? There isn't much to go by, I admit. You can see the striped tram back there, she'll never make it.
If I zoom in we can try to make out what the distant buildings are to the left, while there appears to be exposed, diagonally-crossed steel beams, part of a railroad bridge, to the right.
Well, wherever she was, she's arrived at the entrance, and is celebrating by hangin' with Pluto.


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Bush names food-industry flack as FDA chief
That would have been a bold move, even for Bush, given the FDA's recent record of approving dangerous drugs from the likes of pharma giants Pfizer and Merck. Of course, Bush's move was typically bold in one sense: just as he promoted his national-security adviser after she badly misinterpreted (or misrepresented) the national-security threat posed by Iraq, and he bumped up a Justice department official who disastrously promoted torture as a policy, he's chosen as FDA head a man who has been, according to the Wall Street Journal, "a high-level official at the FDA while its handling of antidepressants and other drugs has come into question."
The great paper is a bit more polite in describing the food-industry ties of the new FDA head, Lester Crawford. "Dr. Crawford, 66 years old, has worked for a food-industry group, but spent most of his career at the FDA and the Agriculture Department, as well as in academe," the paper reports. And that's the last mention of his food-industry ties.
Here's a brief bio, which reports that Crawford has been director of the Virginia Tech Center for Food and Nutrition Policy and executive vice-president of the National Food Processors Association.
A cursory web search exposes the Virginia Tech Center for Food and Nutrition Policy as an industry poodle. Here it is denying that high-fructose corn syrup is a cause of obesity; here it's commiserating with food processors about how mean Europe is for demanding labelling of genetically altered food; and here it's downplaying the well-established health-ruining qualities of partially hydrogenated oil.
The corn-syrup defense is a particularly dear topic to the barons of the industrial food system. All that cheap, subsidized corn has to go somewhere; the food industry, led by Archer Daniels Midland, has successfully kept pressure on Congress to keep sugar tariffs high, thus making high-fructose corn syrup the sweetener of choice for the food-processing industry. Richard Manning, in his book Against the Grain, lays this sordid story out. I'll be returning to this theme in BGJ.
No need to fixate much on the National Food Processors Association. Suffice to say that its board is chaired by a Kraft exec and includes representatives from the likes of Tyson, Archer Daniels Midland, Unilever, and many more.
In fairness to Bush, there's no reason to believe that Kerry would have picked an industry critic to head up the FDA.
The UN is evidently sending a banned genetically altered corn strain to Guatemala in the form of food aid. Let's hope cross-pollination doesn't let this rogue corn ruin ancient strains in the homeland of the Maya.
This WSJ article describes a polemic between the US and Mexican governments over the collapse in the monarch-butterfly population. The Mexican government blames industrial ag, including crops engineered to contain pesticides, in the US midwest; the US blames bad forest management in Mexico.
"Some widely publicized laboratory experiments, Monarch butterfly caterpillars did die after eating milkweed coated with genetically modified corn pollen. In its own studies, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said there probably is little risk to butterflies," the Journal says. But why wouldn't corn designed to kill bugs, kill bugs?


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- Making Quick Fix Edits
- Making Touch Up Edits
As you'll discover in the rest of the book, Photoshop Elements is a sophisticated image editor, enabling anyone to make photo corrections that would have been absurdly difficult years ago. But sometimes you don't want to be an image expert. Let the computer do the work for you, analyzing photos and correcting them automatically.
When you don't want to mess with the particulars, or when you know that a photo needs just a bit of tweaking but you want a bit more control over the adjustments, turn to the Quick Fix features. You can experiment on your photo—ranging from slight tonal changes to radical tints and lighting adjustments—and then undo those changes if they seemed better in your mind's eye than they look on the screen.
The concepts behind the tools in Quick Fix, such as adjusting levels and sharpening, are dealt with later in the book. Use this chapter as a jumping-off point.
Making Quick Fix Edits
When you want Elements to take over and make corrections according to its analysis of a photo, the speediest method is directly in the Edit Quick pane.
Using the Quick Fix editor
Quick Fix is a component of the Editor workspace and gives you a bit more control than the buttons in the Fix pane.
To edit photos in Quick Fix:
- Open a file in Photoshop Elements and then choose Edit Quick from the Edit pane's drop-down menu. The Quick Fix workspace opens (Figure 4.1).
Figure 4.1 The Quick Fix workspace includes your image and a set of common photo manipulations.
To set view options:
- From the View menu located below the photo, choose whether you want to see the end result (After Only), the original (Before Only), or a comparison layout (both the Before and After options) (Figure 4.2).
Figure 4.2 The Before and After options offer split-screen views of how fixes are affecting the photo.
Use the Zoom field and slider to specify how zoomed-in you want to be (Figure 4.3). In the Before and After views, the zoom level applies to both versions.
Figure 4.3 Use the Zoom field or slider to view the photo close-up.
When the Zoom or Hand tool is active, you can also click the Actual Pixels, Fit Screen, or Print Size buttons to switch to those zoom levels.
- If Elements did not rotate your image correctly during import (or if you just prefer a skewed worldview), click the Rotate buttons to turn it clockwise or counter-clockwise in 90-degree increments.
Applying Quick Fixes
The following tools perform common image correction tasks, but we want to start with the most important command first: Reset.
To reset and undo changes:
- After making an adjustment using the tools described in this chapter, click the Cancel button that appears in the tool's title bar (Figure 4.6).
Figure 4.6 Clicking the Cancel button restores the image to the state before you made the adjustment(s).
- Choose Undo from the Edit menu to undo the previous command.
- If you've made several edits and want to revert to the original image, click the Reset button. This removes any Quick Fix adjustments.
To select areas for applying edits:
- Select the Quick Selection tool from the toolbar.
- Draw within an area that you want to select. Elements makes a selection based on the colors of the pixels you drew upon (Figure 4.7).
Figure 4.7 Drawing with the Quick Selection tool creates a selection based on that area.
To apply lighting, color, and sharpening fixes:
- To apply fixes to a specific area of the image, use the Quick Selection tool to select an active area. Otherwise, skip to step 2.
- Click the Auto button for one or more fixes in the Smart Fix, Lighting, Color, Balance, or Detail panes.
- Drag the sliders for specific adjustments (such as Lighten Shadows) to fine-tune the settings (Figure 4.8).
Figure 4.8 Use the sliders associated with each type of fix to adjust the After image.
- Click the Commit button (the check mark) to apply the fixes.
To apply fixes using previews:
- Click the grid icon to the left of an adjustment slider to reveal thumbnails of the range of that fix's settings.
Move your pointer over a thumbnail to preview the edit (Figure 4.9).
Figure 4.9 The preview grid gives you an immediate sense of how the adjustment will appear.
The slider is still available for fine-tuning, but there's a better way. Click and drag left or right within the thumbnail to make smaller adjustments.
- Click the thumbnail to apply the setting.
To crop the image:
- Select the Crop tool from the toolbar.
- In the image's After version, drag to select the area you wish to keep (Figure 4.10).
Figure 4.10 Drag a selection using the Crop tool to keep only that area and discard the rest of the image.
- Click the Commit button (the check mark) that appears outside the selection to apply the crop.
To remove red eye:
- In the General Fixes area, click the Auto button next to Red Eye Fix.
- Select the Red Eye Removal tool from the toolbar.
- In the After version, drag a selection around the red-eye area. The fix applies when you release the mouse button.
To apply all edits:
- Choose File > Close, or click the close button in the upper-right corner of the workspace.
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uMhlanga Rocks has launched an area APP — a single, inclusive source of information on uMhlanga Rocks for residents, visitors, employees, Durban locals and tourists. Download the APP now and stand a chance of winning one of five jam-packed uMhlanga Rocks gift hampers.
All you have to do to win is download the APP free from iTunes or the Google Play Store, and feedback on your experience of using it on any of their social media channels https://www.instagram.com/umhlangarocksu https://www.facebook.com/uMhlangaUlP/?fref=nf using #umhlangarocksapp as the hashtag.
All feedback received will be entered into the magical hat and the prize draw will take place at midday on Thursday 20th July 2017. Winners will be announced via social media channels — so make sure you are following uMhlanga Rocks!
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The APP can also be downloaded by clicking on the link on the uMhlanga Rocks website www.umhlangauip.co.za
How easily can you find out what you need to know about uMhlanga Rocks?
Do you know what time the lifeguards go off duty, or where to buy a pair of shoes? How about which beaches are dog-friendly, or where to get your nails done?
While a few seconds on a search engine will give you reams of information on uMhlanga Rocks, what seems to be lacking is a central hub of information that is more than a business directory, but actually provides "insider-info" on the place. It is this lack of a single source of information that sparked the development of the uMhlanga Rocks APP.
Funded by the uMhlanga Rocks Place-Making Committee as part of its work to improve the experience of uMhlanga Rocks for all its' users, the uMhlanga Rocks APP is user-friendly and intuitive with information captured under easily identifiable icons. "The APP is aimed at anyone from the Durban local looking for a wedding present, or a day visitor wanting to know about umbrella hire, to an uMhlanga Rocks employee on a lunch break or a tourist wanting evening entertainment, and as such we have grouped similar information together making it easier for people to access the exact information they need," said Cara Reilly of the uMhlanga Rocks place-making management company UrbanPLACES.
So what information is available on the APP?
- The Emergency button allows for instant dialing to a 24/7 manned security control room; The Report A Fault button allows users to report a problem / concern in public space via an email form with an option to take or load an image to send with the mail;
- The News button directs users to the news section on the uMhlanga Rocks website;
- The Area Info button provides general information on the area broken up into the
- Promenade and Village, and tells you everything from the municipal clinics operating hours, to the history of the lighthouse and everything in between;
- The Directory is a A-Z listing of all the businesses and services in uMhlanga Rocks broken down into searchable sub-categories;
- Under Eat Here, users will find a categorised and searchable listing of all restaurants, bars, coffee shops and food outlets in uMhlanga Rocks;
- Under Shop Here, the same type of structure lists all the places to shop in uMhlanga Rocks. The Stay Here button gives users information on all aspects of accommodation; and The Contacts button provides users with details of a range of important contacts, from the uMhlanga Urban Improvement Precinct (UIP) to emergency and municipal contacts.
- One of the great features of this APP is the Line-Up function, which links users to everything happening in Durban, from major events to a live sports screening at the local pub.
"Understanding that uMhlanga Rocks is part of the greater Durban offering, we have linked with the Vibe Durban APP and the Durban Routes group, who both provide a diverse range of event based information for Durban," said Cara. Local businesses are encouraged to send through information on their upcoming events for inclusion in this section of the APP.
Additional features of the APP include a link to a stunning video that captures the essence of uMhlanga Rocks; a link to the UIP website; a link to the uMhlanga Tourism website; a link to a form for business and or event listings, as well as a map of the area.
But why the need for an APP when uMhlanga Rocks has a website; Facebook page and Instagram account?
According to international Statistics Portal Statista, some 2.3 billion people worldwide own a smartphone, with South Africa accounting for 16.1 million of those users. And for most of those people their Smartphones have become an inseparable part of our daily lives — almost a physical appendage from the moment your phone's alarm wakes you up in the morning! In this way, providing simple access to information via mobile phone is becoming more of a necessity than a nice to have, with a recent Forbes article going as far as saying that " …a mobile app is a standard component of any business in the future."
While businesses in uMhlanga Rocks are listed on the APP and thus gain a level of exposure, this APP is primarily about access to information and ensuring that the experience users in uMhlanga Rocks have is as easy and enjoyable as possible.
Asked if all the bases were covered, uMhlanga Rocks Place-Making Committee Chair Shantelle Walters noted that the team, including APP developer Geoff Austin and APP Fabulous, had been working on the APP for some months now but that once in use, they would look at any necessary updates to improve functionality. "From creating the structure of the APP, to loading relevant content, we have tried to be as comprehensive and inclusive as possible, but that is not to say that we haven't missed anything or anyone, so please if you have a business or service located in uMhlanga Rocks that is not listed on the APP you must let us know," she said.


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