Archive for August, 2009
Unconditional Connecting
Find out the best way to connect with people from Jerry Myers, a master connector.
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The Hanging Man Candlestick Pattern,
How to trade the hanging man candlestick pattern.
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Marriages are not Forever…
HETEROSEXUAL couples want to just walk past marriage, while homosexual ones would rather give it a go. Despite her bitter-sweet marriage to Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman was still emotionally elevated when she tied the knot with Keith Urban recently. And everyone’s sweetheart Meg Ryan wept unabashedly on Oprah, confessing that she had an “unhealthy marriage”.
So is getting married a thing of the past or is it that the definition is changing? To make it a success, you have to work on a marriage and keep the spark alive. Marriage isn’t about individualism, it’s about togetherness. Though it’s not easy to give up on your individual identity, conflict arises if there is too much individualism! You have to think in terms of ‘us’, like a couple. And that’s difficult at times. Modern marriages are vulnerable, and they need more nurturing. If you shut yourself, there’s a problem. You have to work on the kind of marriage you desire.
In her book, The Best Kept Secret, Janet Reibstein writes that the challenges of modern marriage are: the tension between individual freedom and commitment, the task of regenerating mutual interest, the need for stability against the push for novelty, and the sheer difficulty of offering appropriate time and energy to another person in one’s own complicated life.
Says London-based Priyanka Kanse, a trend analyst for the future laboratory, “It seems that heterosexual couples don’t believe in marriage anymore. The faith is being revived by gay and lesbian couples, who are having lavish weddings and endorsing the concept of soul mates. Recently, I attended a gay wedding in London, where the gay bride came in a Cinderella coach! In 2026, there’ll be a dramatic change in marriage as an institution. We’ll be living together, rather than be married. As it is, society has relaxed its attitudes towards couples who live together.
With divorce rates escalating, marriages won’t be forever. They’ll be more of a lifestyle thing. In fact, how in the 1990s, there was definitely an anti-marriage trend. That’s when living together was cool and getting married seemed a bit of a turn-off, like getting a pension. Life seems to be coming back a full circle yet again.
In a world of globalisation, marriages will be under intense stress. We’re redefining new social codes and values. A woman has a mind of her own, she believes in her own identity and isn’t willing to give up. Marriage as an institution is seeing an accelerated change. It’s about equal partnership. We know that relationships are hard work.
For instance, 34-year-old Robin Williams, and 30-year-old Norah have been married since the last five years. Once in love, they are now forever fighting and sex is a distant memory. Marriages come under pressure when appreciation and gratitude for your partner disappears. When in conflict, don’t be negative, take the other’s perspective. There should be earnestness in a couple to make a marriage work.
It’s very easy to mentally drift away from each other. And sometimes, the space can never be filled. Romance will fizzle out, but the ordinariness of daily life shouldn’t cripple a marriage. However, no matter what spin you put on it, marriage remains the final frontier in the relationship game. As Shobhaa De writes in her book, The Truth About Marriage, a marriage works if you want it to, and fails for the same reason.
Michael Douglas
http://www.articlesbase.com/divorce-articles/marriages-are-not-forever-81834.html
Disruptive Web – Emergence Of Symbiotic Intelligence
By now you are already much familiar with the concept disruptive innovation that is going on all around you. If you have not noticed it yet, I would like to mention the ubiquitous iPod as an example. Sony’s reign on portable music player that started with the Walkman, an disruptive innovation by itself, was disrupted by a series of new technologies in the form of CD players, mp3 players and then the iPod.
Though the forces of disruption introduced by new ideas and concepts have overturned existing market places and people’s lives in the past several centuries, in the last decade a storm was introduced in the form of World Wide Web. It put its strong foothold on every aspect of modern lives – business, finance, sales, marketing, shopping, communication, relationships, and even crimes. The Web was the most disruptive innovation in the history of human civilization.
The Internet boom was followed by a financial bust for hundreds of companies but it created a pervasive technology that intertwined with everything we do today. It pushed us into the true information society. We are happy to use the Web to check our e-mail and weather before going to the office, do our banking during the lunch break, buy that dream vacation package for a bargain price from an online retailer before heading home in the evening, and occasionally chat with our college room mates using instant messaging after the dinner. We have started replacing more and more of existing technologies that we have used in the past by this all encompassing Net.
Virtual communities and social networking sites emerged in early 2000 (though instances of rudimentary social networking sites can be traced back to the early days of the Web) and the popularity of MySpace proved that we are trying to establish a symbiotic relationship with the Web. This relationship is not with the computer that we use everyday in our works and personal lives. It can be any device that lets us connect to this ethereal system that is all around us. We don’t see it, we don’t feel it but we need it.
We have started using these new breed of sites to establish far reaching connections that would not have been possible in human history before. We contribute to this ever expanding network because we believe in the saying, “I will share my knowledge in return for helpful information from others”. We trade ideas when buying a digital computer or visiting a health specialists and use the collective information and knowledge to drive our actions. Social connections that we establish using these sites help us find jobs, business partners, friends with mutual interests, and even life partners.
For the last 200 years, the Industrial Revolution has provided us the impetus to replace manual labor with machines that do things faster and cheaper. The Industrial Revolution brought societal, cultural and economic changes in human lives. Ordinary persons freed themselves from the drudgery of manual labor for enjoying personal lives.
The Web has brought us the Information Revolution. For the first time, one is able to free herself from the drudgery of many personal chores (e.g. shopping) using the Web. The freed time is spent on getting connected, collaborating, and developing network for sharing information and knowledge. Now, she is able to make decisions using the collective intelligence that was not available before. For example, she is able to order her party supplies from reliable suppliers found in her favorite social bookmarking site, organize her party and invite guests using social a networking site, send personalized driving directions for each guest using a mash-up site that uses vCard and road maps, buy that camera, for party pictures, recommended by her favorite collaborative filtering site.
We have started witnessing the emergence of some rudimentary symbiotic intelligence. People are using collective intelligence to their advantages. The Web will provide mechanisms to mine information scattered over databases, documents, web pages, pictures and videos and then collaborate and connect to address users’ concerns. People will further free themselves from the drudgery of going to specialists like financial planners, tax advisors, or even physicians, for obtaining intelligent and reliable course of actions.
The Web itself is a disruptive event in the human history. Each phases of the Web (are we in Web 2.0 phase?) is a natural progression of that disruption. What we have witnessed so far is information stored all over the globe in millions and millions of networked computers and the emergence of user generated contents, collaboration and social connection.
In the next phase we will see the emergence of sites that will be mash-ups of mash-ups, networks of networks, etc. These sites will further free us from some of our today’s daily chores. Besides being cheaper and omnipresent through held held devices, it will provide us the ability to setup semi-intelligent agents that work for us. For example, after work a person will spend 30 minutes using her handheld device connected to a website to configure her party organizer agent that will order supplies, invite guests, and purchase a digital camera using social book markings, networking and collaborative filtering sites. She will be harnessing the collective intelligence of many people to plan her party.
We already use many of the technologies that are required for the maturing of the symbiotic intelligence. We use more powerful cell phones with digital cameras, Internet connections, and the push technology. University and corporate labs are researching intelligent agent technologies. We are enjoying the falling prices of almost all hardware and services. We utilize virtual communities and social networking sites, and we participate in creating and filtering contents.
The central theme of the symbiotic intelligence will still remain collaboration and connection. But the intelligence will not be void of emotions. There will be mechanisms to make us feel good based on our moods, surroundings, and circumstances. Let’s say you setup a dinner date. During the course of the dinner, you feel that every thing is going all right. Based on her likings that you have just learned, your dating advisor agent may suggest a visit to a nearby petting zoo. We have already witnessed the emotional aspect of computing in games where cancer patients wage virtual battles against unhealthy cells.
We are just witnessing the emergence of symbiotic intelligence fueled by the Information Revolution. We will see intelligence evolve from the interaction of experts and non-experts and people will use it to solve their problems. The Web will provide mechanism to harness this collective intelligence to fulfill people, communities, groups, countries and world’s needs.
Deepak Dutta
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/disruptive-web-emergence-of-symbiotic-intelligence-92085.html
Steps To Become Eligible For Your Dream Career
The number of college graduates has increased dramatically over the past 40 years. In 1997, for example, 30.2% of men and 28% of women entering the work force had College degrees. The percentages have continued to increase. While college students with degrees aren’t exactly a dime a dozen, the stand alone value of their degrees has decreased. Now a degreed worker has more College educated competition than ever before.
It is important to have the right college degree. This means understanding what you must study in College before you actually get there. You need to have an idea of what the job market is going to be like four years in the future when you graduate.
If, for instance, you wanted to be a writer, you would need to enter and pass courses on English and journalism. If you wanted to be a doctor, you would need chemistry, biology and health sciences. You can’t just pass your classes with a “C.” You need to excel in your classes. It is important to remember that you are competing with others in your school and students in other schools for a limited number of medical school openings or other jobs in the future. While it might be tempting to take “Mickey Mouse” courses that are easy to pass, it won’t help you in the future when you don’t have any foundation to build on. Unless you are looking for an entry level low paying job, you need to get started in high school and decide what courses will help you get into the college of your choosing and, ultimately, the job you want.
You don’t have to go it alone. There are career fairs you can attend. You can meet with representatives of business, industry, fire departments. Rescue services, and even the military and ask questions about what you need to do to enter a specific field. Medical organizations also hold their own career fairs to give you an idea of the many medical professions there are and the education level you need to achieve to enter them.
Most schools have guidance counselors on staff who can discuss career options with you. They know about college admission requirements and whether you are on track to meet them. They can also give advice about which scholarships, student loans or work programs are available at the college you want to attend. As well, they can provide advice about getting a two year degree at a community college or attending a four year college. They can also talk to you about which colleges have the best night school programs if case you have to work while attending school. The guidance counselors provide a competent service for free.
There is something called the School of Hard Knocks. Simply put, you learn from life experiences what’s good for you and what’s not. This is a very rough way to learn how to get the most out of life. Many adults find that, after years on a job, they are dissatisfied with where their lives have led them. They want to make changes. This means going back to school while working and supporting a family. It’s long, hard work to take enough courses to get the right degree for a new job. Like you, they face competition from other college graduates. They have to plan what courses will put them in a new profession and give them an edge over the competition.
It’s best to make your career decisions when you are young and still have your life ahead of you. You can make minor adjustments to your career path as you go along. If the criteria for a job change, you can change your courses to meet them, without introducing additional stress into your life.
Joe Goertz
http://www.articlesbase.com/advertising-articles/steps-to-become-eligible-for-your-dream-career-72022.html
Thoughts In Spring, please comment?
It is a normal spring day and I decide to have my lunch break in the local park. I sit on a bench under the shade of a tree with the wind blowing through the leaves, causing shadows to dance on the manicured lawn.The weather is good; warm enough for summer clothes, yet not hot enough to complain about.
The park is a hive of activity today, an assortment of people, professions and pass times. A man not much younger than I am, walks past me in his well pressed business suit, talking on his mobile phone a little too loudly trying to sound important to those in earshot, or trying to sound important to himself.
An elderly couple are sitting on a picnic blanket on the lawn, their silver hair shining in the afternoon Sun. Homemade sandwiches and cakes in brown paper bags, their faces are content but their eyes tell a different story, for after a life time of love, sharing and companionship; should one of them pass, the other would be truly alone.
A young female runner jogs past them, her toned body a billboard for her generation. Her even strides cushioned by the latest running shoes and designer sunglasses to block out the Sun. Tight fitting running clothes to enhance her performance and to leave those who look at her, envious, an object of their sexual desire. She runs past a group of teenage school kids and as she passes the boys mimic the bounce of her breasts with their hands, much to the annoyance of the girls, who roll their eyes.
A young couple with smiles on their faces, walk past hand in hand. They watch their young toddler kick a bright orange ball, he squeals with delight, his rosy cheeks and innocent eyes oblivious to the hardships he will one day face but for now, he is content with sugar coated treats and colourful images on the T.V.
A small bird grabs my attention, a sparrow I think. He is doing a little hop type of dance in front of a clump of bushes; he darts into them, coming out with a small bug in his beak and flies up into a tree. He returns moments later to do the same thing again. The more I watch his antics the more I wonder about him. I wonder if he is feeding his young and is it just instinct that drives him to do this, or is it parental love. Will he get frustrated if he cannot get enough food? Will his little heart swell with pride when his young take flight for the first time? Does he know of love? Does his heart skip a beat when he sees his mate? Will it break if one day she does not return? Does he know of fear? Will he cower in the treetops when a storm comes crashing down upon him? Does he know of racism? Do other birds treat him unkindly because he is not the same breed as they? Does he know of joy? Will he sing that little bit louder when the Sun is shinning on a clear day? Does he know of God and creation? Is he aware of me, as I am of him and does he know of man, or war and death? If he is aware of all of these then I feel sorry for him, for why should he suffer the folly of man and yet, if he is not aware, I am equally sorry for him; for the wonder of life is a thing to behold and the joy and sorrow it brings is a thing to be shared by all.
1 week ago
It is truly amazing, fantastic, fantabulous, cool, brilliant, outstanding, tremendous, beautiful, NO WORD’s. I think you should submit it to a newspaper and they’ll print it for you if they like it.
Should nagging be a crime and a felony in the United States of America?
My wife is always whining and nagging me EVERYDAY!!
Shes very pretty and sexy and thats why I think she THINKS she can get away with it. Im a 31 male and shes 24.
She works at a cloth store and when I visited her last week at work she nagged about the dishes, the litterbox, the kids ( we dont even have kids so this nagging confused me)
In the evneing she is always complaining how tv programs are terrible and hollywood should be FINED and IMPRISONED for producing boring movies and terrible remakes.
Nag nag nag nag. I cant take it. Can I sue her or maybe go to congress on behalf of men and start the anti Nagging law?
Would anyone join me in my venture ?
What should be the penalty for nagging if the law is passed? I say 20 to life in prison.
What do you think?
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is that true the hypnosis can bring you back to your past life?
genuine … only pls tell me : is that true the hypnosis can bring you back to your past life ?. for some reson very deep inside me i really want to find out my past life. appreciate if you can tell me where to find a GENUINE hypnosis can to the job.
Yes. Though most of the time what is recalled are snippets of information, like what you were wearing, what you could smell, that kind of thing.Full on recall is more rare but can happen. Research your hypnotist, make sure they are genuine.
The idea that we have lived before is gathering support.
Why do some think that they should be able to impose their beliefs on others?
Why do some people think that they are righteous enough or holy enough to be able to tell other people how they should live their lives. I have always been a firm believer that someone should be able to do whatever they want as long as it does not infringe upon the rights of others. Why then do people think that they should be able to make laws limiting the rights of other people. This applies to things like gay marriage, legalized prostitution, and legalized marijuana. It could possibly also apply towards pro-choice politics, but one could also argue that you are infringing upon the fetus’ right to live.
Let me clarify a little, I understand wanting to enlighten other people if you truly believe you are right. But if you try to MAKE people do what you think is right by creating laws (such as prostitution, gay marriage, and marijauna are illegal) then you are just someone who’s ego is bigger than it should be. You have no right to believe that you should be able to force other people to your beliefs, because that is all they are, your beliefs, and you can not prove anything. You are not God, why should we take your opinions as fact?
I have no idea why some people are like that. I don’t go around inflicting my world view on other people. I might wear the odd subtle t-shirt but the most I get in the way of comments is, "What does that mean?"
You should get a t-shirt made up that reads:
"I reject your reality and substitute my own"
[That was just a suggestion -- I'm not trying to tell you how to live you life or anyfink!]
