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Come on, throw the ball, throw the ball, ~~ ~~ I'm ready ~~ ~~ yeah ~~ throw it!
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Come on, throw the ball, throw the ball, ~~ ~~ I'm ready ~~ ~~ yeah ~~ throw it!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-KPGh3wysw
After getting triggered into looking at our old photo albums, I found these, and scanned them in. Here are nine pages from our youngest kid's albums. We have about a dozen albums per kid. Seven kids. Each album is 2-3 inches thick. Then we have drawers stuffed with photo envelopes stuffed with photos. Nobody with a life is ever going to convert it all to digital. These are in chronological order.
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Hatshepsut
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Ya wanna make a bet that it's her first lifetime with a paintbrush in hand?
Myself, I'd wager she use to do "piecework" on a commission basis for a certain large religious cult some time back.
Mark A. Baker
And some pieces were bigger than others
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And some pieces were bigger than others
As always with women, size matters.
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Hatshepsut
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It's a good thing the Catholics don't believe in reincarnation..she might have to finish a job or two
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It's Midnight here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHBCf5ioge0
Skip Spence's son Omar singing lead. Skip founded Moby Grape when he left the Airplane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNqPwL2jbhU
gracie and crew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMbEHKJoNs0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHBCf5ioge0
Skip Spence's son Omar singing lead. Skip founded Moby Grape when he left the Airplane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNqPwL2jbhU
gracie and crew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMbEHKJoNs0&feature=related
CarmeloOrchards
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Well, that's not what I meant. BUT, I just typed in biggest Michaelangelo statues and got this
It's a good thing the Catholics don't believe in reincarnation..she might have to finish a job or two
The Catholic Church has its under belly too.
Hatshepsut
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That's terrific!!!! (^^^the link that was formerly not opened)
(^^^the link that was formerly not opened)
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That's terrific!!!!
that |ðat; ðət|
pronoun ( pl. those |ðōz|)
1 used to identify a specific person or thing observed by the speaker : that's his wife over there.
• referring to the more distant of two things near to the speaker (the other, if specified, being identified by “this”) : this is stronger than that.
2 referring to a specific thing previously mentioned, known, or understood : that's a good idea | what are we going to do about that?
3 [often with clause ] used in singling out someone or something and ascribing a distinctive feature to them : it is part of human nature to be attracted to that which is aesthetically pleasing | his appearance was that of an undergrown man | they care about the rights of those less privileged than themselves.
4 ( pl. that ) [ relative pron. ] used to introduce a defining or restrictive clause, esp. one essential to identification
• instead of “which,” “who,” or “whom” : the book that I've just written.
• instead of “when” after an expression of time : the year that Anna was born.
What noun are you referring to?
CarmeloOrchards
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Lakey is going to be posting pictures of his girl friends, so I thought I'd give him a good lead in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8LmMtScH3g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8LmMtScH3g&feature=related
CarmeloOrchards
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Oscar-nominated actress Jill Clayburgh dead at 66
By DERRIK J. LANG, AP Entertainment Writer
Jill Clayburgh, the sophisticated Hollywood and Broadway actress known for portrayals of empowered women in a career spanning five decades, highlighted by her Oscar-nominated role of a divorcee exploring life after marriage in the 1978 film "An Unmarried Woman," has died. She was 66.
Her husband, Tony Award-winning playwright David Rabe, said Clayburgh died Friday surrounded by her family at her home in Lakeville, Conn., after a 21-year battle with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. He said she dealt with the disease courageously, quietly and privately, "and made it into an opportunity for her children to grow and be human."
Clayburgh, alongside such peers as Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine and Jane Fonda, helped to usher in a new era for actresses in Hollywood by playing women who were confident and capable yet not completely flawless. Her dramatic turn as a divorcee exploring her sexuality after 16 years of marriage in "An Unmarried Woman" earned Clayburgh her first Oscar nod.
"There was practically nothing for women to do on the screen in the 1950s and 1960s," Clayburgh said in an interview with The Associated Press while promoting "An Unmarried Woman" in 1978. "Sure, Marilyn Monroe was great, but she had to play a one-sided character, a vulnerable sex object. It was a real fantasy."
The next year, Clayburgh was again nominated for an Academy Award for "Starting Over," a comedy about a divorced man, played by Burt Reynolds, who falls in love but can't get over his ex-wife. For the next 30 years, Clayburgh steadily appeared in films and on stage and television, often effortlessly moving between comedic and dramatic roles.
Besides appearing in such movies as "I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can," "Silver Streak" and "Running With Scissors," Clayburgh's Broadway credits included Noel Coward's "Design for Living," the original production of Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers," and the Tony Award-winning musicals "Pippin" and "The Rothschilds."
Clayburgh's work also stretched across TV. She had a recurring role on Fox's "Ally McBeal" as McBeal's mother and most recently played the matriarch of the spoiled Darling family on ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money." She earned two Emmy nods: for best actress in 1975 for portraying a tell-it-like-it-is prostitute in the ABC TV film "Hustling" and for her guest turn in 2005 as a vengeful plastic surgery patient on FX's "Nip/Tuck."
Clayburgh came from a privileged New York family. Her father was vice president of two large companies, and her mother was a secretary for Broadway producer David Merrick. Her grandmother, Alma Clayburgh, was an opera singer and New York socialite.
Growing up in a such a rich cultural mix, she could easily have been overwhelmed. Instead, as she said in interviews, she asserted herself with willful and destructive behavior — so much so that her parents took her to a psychiatrist when she was 9.
She escaped into a fantasy world of her own devising. She was entranced by seeing Jean Arthur play "Peter Pan" on Broadway, and she and a school chum concocted their own dramatics every day at home. She became serious-minded at Sarah Lawrence College, concentrating on religion, philosophy and literature.
Clayburgh also took drama classes at Sarah Lawrence. She and her friend Robert De Niro acted in a film, "The Wedding Party," directed by a Sarah Lawrence graduate, Brian DePalma. After graduating with a bachelor of arts degree, she began performing in repertory and in Broadway musicals such as "The Rothschilds" and "Pippin."
Alongside Richard Thomas, she headed the 2005 Broadway cast of "A Naked Girl on the Appian Way," Richard Greenberg's comedy about one family's unusual domestic tribulations.
Director Doug Hughes, who directed her in a production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" at the Westport Country Playhouse in 2003, called her for "Naked Girl."
"That she has the time to do a run of a play is just an extraordinary boon because I've had the pleasure of seeing her play a bona fide tragic American role beautifully, and I have had the pleasure of directing her in a very, very smart light comedy and be utterly brilliant in that," he said in 2005.
During an interview that year, Clayburgh explained the unglamorous side of acting.
"One of the funny things about actors is that people look at their careers in retrospect, as if they have a plan," she said.
"Mostly, you just get a call. You're just sitting there going, 'Oh, my God. I'm never going to work again. Oh, God. I'm too old. Maybe I should go and work for Howard Dean.' And then it changes."
Clayburgh will next be seen playing the mother of Jake Gyllenhaal's character in the upcoming film "Love and Other Drugs."
She is survived by three children, including actress Lily Rabe, Michael Rabe and stepson Jason Rabe.
There will be no funeral, Rabe said. The family will have a memorial in about six months, though plans have not been finalized.
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Associated Press writer Rodrique Ngowi contributed to this report from Boston.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxk9sd8tFj0
By DERRIK J. LANG, AP Entertainment Writer
Jill Clayburgh, the sophisticated Hollywood and Broadway actress known for portrayals of empowered women in a career spanning five decades, highlighted by her Oscar-nominated role of a divorcee exploring life after marriage in the 1978 film "An Unmarried Woman," has died. She was 66.
Her husband, Tony Award-winning playwright David Rabe, said Clayburgh died Friday surrounded by her family at her home in Lakeville, Conn., after a 21-year battle with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. He said she dealt with the disease courageously, quietly and privately, "and made it into an opportunity for her children to grow and be human."
Clayburgh, alongside such peers as Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine and Jane Fonda, helped to usher in a new era for actresses in Hollywood by playing women who were confident and capable yet not completely flawless. Her dramatic turn as a divorcee exploring her sexuality after 16 years of marriage in "An Unmarried Woman" earned Clayburgh her first Oscar nod.
"There was practically nothing for women to do on the screen in the 1950s and 1960s," Clayburgh said in an interview with The Associated Press while promoting "An Unmarried Woman" in 1978. "Sure, Marilyn Monroe was great, but she had to play a one-sided character, a vulnerable sex object. It was a real fantasy."
The next year, Clayburgh was again nominated for an Academy Award for "Starting Over," a comedy about a divorced man, played by Burt Reynolds, who falls in love but can't get over his ex-wife. For the next 30 years, Clayburgh steadily appeared in films and on stage and television, often effortlessly moving between comedic and dramatic roles.
Besides appearing in such movies as "I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can," "Silver Streak" and "Running With Scissors," Clayburgh's Broadway credits included Noel Coward's "Design for Living," the original production of Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers," and the Tony Award-winning musicals "Pippin" and "The Rothschilds."
Clayburgh's work also stretched across TV. She had a recurring role on Fox's "Ally McBeal" as McBeal's mother and most recently played the matriarch of the spoiled Darling family on ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money." She earned two Emmy nods: for best actress in 1975 for portraying a tell-it-like-it-is prostitute in the ABC TV film "Hustling" and for her guest turn in 2005 as a vengeful plastic surgery patient on FX's "Nip/Tuck."
Clayburgh came from a privileged New York family. Her father was vice president of two large companies, and her mother was a secretary for Broadway producer David Merrick. Her grandmother, Alma Clayburgh, was an opera singer and New York socialite.
Growing up in a such a rich cultural mix, she could easily have been overwhelmed. Instead, as she said in interviews, she asserted herself with willful and destructive behavior — so much so that her parents took her to a psychiatrist when she was 9.
She escaped into a fantasy world of her own devising. She was entranced by seeing Jean Arthur play "Peter Pan" on Broadway, and she and a school chum concocted their own dramatics every day at home. She became serious-minded at Sarah Lawrence College, concentrating on religion, philosophy and literature.
Clayburgh also took drama classes at Sarah Lawrence. She and her friend Robert De Niro acted in a film, "The Wedding Party," directed by a Sarah Lawrence graduate, Brian DePalma. After graduating with a bachelor of arts degree, she began performing in repertory and in Broadway musicals such as "The Rothschilds" and "Pippin."
Alongside Richard Thomas, she headed the 2005 Broadway cast of "A Naked Girl on the Appian Way," Richard Greenberg's comedy about one family's unusual domestic tribulations.
Director Doug Hughes, who directed her in a production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" at the Westport Country Playhouse in 2003, called her for "Naked Girl."
"That she has the time to do a run of a play is just an extraordinary boon because I've had the pleasure of seeing her play a bona fide tragic American role beautifully, and I have had the pleasure of directing her in a very, very smart light comedy and be utterly brilliant in that," he said in 2005.
During an interview that year, Clayburgh explained the unglamorous side of acting.
"One of the funny things about actors is that people look at their careers in retrospect, as if they have a plan," she said.
"Mostly, you just get a call. You're just sitting there going, 'Oh, my God. I'm never going to work again. Oh, God. I'm too old. Maybe I should go and work for Howard Dean.' And then it changes."
Clayburgh will next be seen playing the mother of Jake Gyllenhaal's character in the upcoming film "Love and Other Drugs."
She is survived by three children, including actress Lily Rabe, Michael Rabe and stepson Jason Rabe.
There will be no funeral, Rabe said. The family will have a memorial in about six months, though plans have not been finalized.
___
Associated Press writer Rodrique Ngowi contributed to this report from Boston.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxk9sd8tFj0
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False Teachers, Gurus, Fakes & Frauds
Posted by Dr.Morris at July 21, 2002
http://meditationmastery.ca/2010/11/02/false-teachers-gurus-fakes-frauds/
In Shadow Strategies (192-195) I describe the characteristics of false guru or spiritual psychopaths, drug dependence, and delusional paranoids. These are general warnings concerning what the seeker should probably avoid. However, as Hatsumi-soke says, “you get the teacher you deserve.”
Hatsumi-soke teaches from all three categories and mixes his style, but the Confucian in him prevails. Those of us in the Booj who have observed each generation of young masters returning from Japan with “the word and the way” continue to be grateful for the annual taikai for many reasons.
What giri do we owe the half-baked ‘master’, the ignorant master or the incompetent? Not much as long as you are paying for the lessons. Usually, one moves on to a better teacher and when you are in a ryu, you can move on as the obligation is to the soke, not the instructor.
The scary question becomes what is our obligation to a false teacher and on a certain level, does such a thing exist? Hermetic wisdom states that if you’ve followed a teacher for twelve years with no progress, you are free to leave. Personally, I’d run fast and far. However, the attentive person learns from everyone with whom they interact and the astute realizes that all relationships are opportunities for advancement. If we escape the insincere, what have we learned and if we don’t what is the lesson we have yet to learn? I think it is very important for a deshi wannabe to carefully investigate and observe the master before committing to the lineage. The student should search for rumors of sexual harassment, rape, coercion, manipulation, grave physical injury, drug dependence or dealing, and death. A real master usually has followers. Take a long hard look at them. Are they people you admire?
Take a hard look at the master. When shorn of the title, is this someone you’d chill with? If the master has more problems than you do, the relationship will probably benefit him or her more than you. There is/was a 5’11″ female guru in Pennsylvania who selected her male deshi on the basis of youth and being over 6′ tall. A discreet check of her medical record showed many abortions though she claimed celibacy. She spent considerable time in the hospital for various conditions and her followers told me that she was bravely taking on the karma of drug users all over the world. Her overdosing was a sign of her holiness. She published a bunch of new age psychobabble and charged her followers a small mint to live in her presence by supporting her. Hers was a very successful ministry and her third husband was quite rich. Now her followers believe in her totally and may even benefit from her manipulations. She seems pathetic to me, but not to them.
When I was studying Anthropology at Wayne State, I was aware of two young women who went to Africa to study and marry and came home in coffins. I have another friend who followed a “guru” back to his own culture and was damn lucky to escape with her life.
A general rule regarding obligation is the maxim of To Country (meaning laws, environment, political leaders), Family (meaning parents or relatives), Teacher (those who prepare us to succeed), and Self (notice it’s last). This simple statement means don’t break the laws, honor your parents above yourself and teachers. When a guru attempts to separate you from your normal environment, friends, family, and money, start paying attention because things are about to get real expensive.
Crazy Wisdom types aren’t supposed to permanently injure or impoverish, but they do alter your perception and don’t mind twisting your wish. Some tantric experts believed chi prevented viral infection until AIDS proved them wrong. Just because one is a guru does not mean one knows all the details of the universe. Be careful out there.
Posted by Dr.Morris at July 21, 2002
http://meditationmastery.ca/2010/11/02/false-teachers-gurus-fakes-frauds/
In Shadow Strategies (192-195) I describe the characteristics of false guru or spiritual psychopaths, drug dependence, and delusional paranoids. These are general warnings concerning what the seeker should probably avoid. However, as Hatsumi-soke says, “you get the teacher you deserve.”
Hatsumi-soke teaches from all three categories and mixes his style, but the Confucian in him prevails. Those of us in the Booj who have observed each generation of young masters returning from Japan with “the word and the way” continue to be grateful for the annual taikai for many reasons.
What giri do we owe the half-baked ‘master’, the ignorant master or the incompetent? Not much as long as you are paying for the lessons. Usually, one moves on to a better teacher and when you are in a ryu, you can move on as the obligation is to the soke, not the instructor.
The scary question becomes what is our obligation to a false teacher and on a certain level, does such a thing exist? Hermetic wisdom states that if you’ve followed a teacher for twelve years with no progress, you are free to leave. Personally, I’d run fast and far. However, the attentive person learns from everyone with whom they interact and the astute realizes that all relationships are opportunities for advancement. If we escape the insincere, what have we learned and if we don’t what is the lesson we have yet to learn? I think it is very important for a deshi wannabe to carefully investigate and observe the master before committing to the lineage. The student should search for rumors of sexual harassment, rape, coercion, manipulation, grave physical injury, drug dependence or dealing, and death. A real master usually has followers. Take a long hard look at them. Are they people you admire?
Take a hard look at the master. When shorn of the title, is this someone you’d chill with? If the master has more problems than you do, the relationship will probably benefit him or her more than you. There is/was a 5’11″ female guru in Pennsylvania who selected her male deshi on the basis of youth and being over 6′ tall. A discreet check of her medical record showed many abortions though she claimed celibacy. She spent considerable time in the hospital for various conditions and her followers told me that she was bravely taking on the karma of drug users all over the world. Her overdosing was a sign of her holiness. She published a bunch of new age psychobabble and charged her followers a small mint to live in her presence by supporting her. Hers was a very successful ministry and her third husband was quite rich. Now her followers believe in her totally and may even benefit from her manipulations. She seems pathetic to me, but not to them.
When I was studying Anthropology at Wayne State, I was aware of two young women who went to Africa to study and marry and came home in coffins. I have another friend who followed a “guru” back to his own culture and was damn lucky to escape with her life.
A general rule regarding obligation is the maxim of To Country (meaning laws, environment, political leaders), Family (meaning parents or relatives), Teacher (those who prepare us to succeed), and Self (notice it’s last). This simple statement means don’t break the laws, honor your parents above yourself and teachers. When a guru attempts to separate you from your normal environment, friends, family, and money, start paying attention because things are about to get real expensive.
Crazy Wisdom types aren’t supposed to permanently injure or impoverish, but they do alter your perception and don’t mind twisting your wish. Some tantric experts believed chi prevented viral infection until AIDS proved them wrong. Just because one is a guru does not mean one knows all the details of the universe. Be careful out there.
Ted
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The Dalai Lama Says...
Dalai Lama: "I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good heart, a warm heart, warm feelings, we will be happy and satisfied ourselves, and our friends will experience a friendly and peaceful atmosphere as well. This can be experienced community to community, country to country, continent to continent."
Dalai Lama: "I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good heart, a warm heart, warm feelings, we will be happy and satisfied ourselves, and our friends will experience a friendly and peaceful atmosphere as well. This can be experienced community to community, country to country, continent to continent."
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Stairway to Heaven
Here's a pee-your-pants video.
I'm old-fashioned like the people who did not think a man should ever go faster than a horse could run. I am certain my body was never meant to climb higher than the sturdy branches on the tree in my back yard.
http://www.liveleak.com/mp53/player.swf?config=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.liveleak.com%2Fmp53%2Fplayer_config.php%3Ftoken%3D07b_1284580365&embed=1
Here's a pee-your-pants video.
I'm old-fashioned like the people who did not think a man should ever go faster than a horse could run. I am certain my body was never meant to climb higher than the sturdy branches on the tree in my back yard.
http://www.liveleak.com/mp53/player.swf?config=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.liveleak.com%2Fmp53%2Fplayer_config.php%3Ftoken%3D07b_1284580365&embed=1
Royal Prince Xenu
Trust the Psi Corps.
Chapter 22
“Eliminating the Hostile Vibrations“;
I would love to see a Final Star Wars Trilogy that explored, discovered and ultimately offered us ways to eliminate the underlying source of personal and galactic war. Here is one possible scenario that I humbly invite George Lucas to consider.
The general theme could center on the idea that the Jedi and the Sith gradually discover, reject and finally accept the truth that the external wars and realities that they seem locked into are the result of internal conflicts they have failed to resolve.
In Episode VII, under the guidance of the spirits of Yoda, Obi-Wan, Anakin (Darth Vader) Skywalker and a few other members of the spirit community, Jedi Knights begin to discover correlations between their self-created internal conflicts and the outside wars they seem compelled to tune into.
Some of the dialog could go as follows:
MASTER KERON
We have no choice.
YODA
A choice you always have.
MASTER KERON
If we don’t defend ourselves all that we stand for will be destroyed.
YODA
Defend yourself and destroyed you already are.
OBIWAN
You must understand that when you seek to defend your point of view you are empowering the idea that it needs defense. When you do that, you feed energy to the conflicts that you say you do not want.
MASTER KERON
(sarcastically)
Try telling that to the Sith and see what happens.
ANAKIN
We are, and some of them are beginning to see as I did, that love, not conflict, is the way to get the things we desire.
By the end of the 1st episode, the Jedi have had a number of personal experiences that enabled them to realize that the external reality is being created by their internally created beliefs and concepts. These experiences convince them that they have the key to creating peace throughout the galaxy.
In Episode VIII the Sith Lords and the ultra secret Counsel of Duality demonstrate to themselves and the Jedi just how entrenched they are in the dark side of the force. Like the mental battles in EE “Doc” Smith’s Lensman series, the spirits of the dark and the light side nearly annihilate each other. As a result of this, the Jedi find themselves ensnared back into the idea that peace is virtually impossible.
In the concluding Episode IX, the battles reach a climax as both Sith and Jedi are guided to discover that the external realities they are experiencing truly are springing from the ideas and beliefs they tenaciously have clung to.
Wow... This is cool... Entertaining people into a way to vanish conflict from their lives... I look forward to all my friends being at the premier of the 3rd Star Wars Trilogy.
Oddly, I tripped over this post whilst searching for something else. There never was a first or third "trilogy", eps 4, 5 & 6 were published in the 20s (I have a friend with an original copy). That is why the first "trilogy" sux so badly when compared with 4, 5 & 6.
As for Dark vs Light, it would be more appropriate for both sides to realize that they had MUs that, if cleared, would mean that they were both on the same side after all.
lkwdblds
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This Jew would love to satisfy those 3 shicksas singing
This Jew would love to satisfy those 3 singing shiksas and throw them a bone by servicing them. I am 100% Jewish genetically but in my spirit, there is not much Jew in me I came to believe that I did not "look Jewish". being always mistaken for Italian or Greek when in Europe and being mistaken for being Lebanese or Palestinian here in the States, especially when eating in middle Eastern restaurants.
That myth was shattered last year in a small train station in the Czech Republic where I needed to switch trains to complete my journey from Berlin to Vienna. A scant 60 miles from Vienna, the train which had left Berlin stopped and I had to get on another train bound for Vienna. I did not know what track the Vienna bound train was going to be on. A man, Leonid. and his wife, were watching me as I failed to get directions from the Czech info counter because no one there spoke English or German. They were about 50 yards away from me but could hear that I was speaking English.
It turned out that Leonid was a Russian born Jew about 75 years old (I was 69 at the time). He approached me and the first thing out of his mouth was a question, "You are Jewish aren't you?" I was astonished and said that I was and with incredulity, I said, "How could you possible know that? I do not look Jewish?" Leonid smiled and said, "I grew up in the Soviet Union in an all Jewish distrrict during WWII. I know a Jew when I see one. I can literally smell a Jew from a quarter mile away. I told my wife immediately that you were a Jew as I watched you try and get information." My myth of feeling that I did not "look Jewish" came crashing down upon me!
Yes, I spoke with Carmelo by phone yesterday and for the second time, he walked me through how to post my photos on the internet. Posting photos from my camera or from a CD supplied by others is totally alien to me. I have no conceptual feel for the various steps. My only slightest chance is to make a cook book type set of instructions. Back about February or March, Carmelo had talked me through it and I made notes but the notes were incomplete. My ex wife was kind enough to assist me. She insisted that I take full and complete notes and type them up on Word Perfect. I did that and put them in a file labeled "How to post pictures on the Internet"
Recently, I went to post my new photos and opened that file and only Carmelo's sketchy instructions were in the file folder. The detailed typed files were not in the folder. I was mortified but I thought, "No problem, I saved the file so I will just retrieve it but lo and behold, I did not save the file!!!! I tried to post using Carmelo's old sketchy notes and failed miserably.
I did post links to a whole series of files posted on Facebook by my friend Lorinda Howard. I did not know it, but using Faceook files, when you link there, you have to log on to Facebook with your username and password. There is no charge to join Facebook and most ex Scios seem to be members of Facebook already. Carmelo is not a member and does not want to join so he could not view those photos.
Attempting a task such as posting my photos onto ESMB is a major challenge for me. I need to be well rested and have several hours at my disposal before I will even approach the project.
I learn new technical applications the old fashioned way by reading a manual and doing trial examples having each step written out in a "cook book" format. I can find no such manual anywhere to explain how to post pictures. Once I get a conceptual understanding, I start to learn and get a feel for it by doing it over and over, making and correcting the various steps as I go. After maybe 6 sessions of reading and trial and error application, I usually will get the basic idea and be able to do it.
THE LACK OF ANY WRITTEN SOURCE BEING READILY AVAILABLE REALLY KEYS ME IN!!! I am going along on a daily basis almost totally like a Book One Clear or better yet, a NOTs completion. My mind is totally still with no background noise whatever going on nearly 24/7. For minor distractions such as someone cutting me off in traffic, or giving me the finger, I just yawn and blow any charge which appears by inspection.
There are only 3 things now which can destroy my equanimity.
1. Being yelled at and invalidated by my ex wife. This will soon be ending as I am now in escrow for a new condo and will be moving out on my own around Christmas time. Until then, we live togeter, mostly on good terms but occasionally there is a flare up.
2. Being turned down or rejected in a 2 D type of situation. This is not happening much if at all at this time. About a 4-6 weeks ago, this did happen and I fully dramatized it here on ESMB and probably lost a lot of viewers who had previously respected me.
3. Trying to get something done such as post photos and not know the tech of how to do it nor be able to find a cook book type of write up to explain it. The frustration and exasperation which this causes me is intense and a full plethora of case phenomena turn on. I head right to the bottom of the tone scale when I try to do something with no conceptual understanding of what is taking place!
I am going to post my photos now. I would say my chances of success are at best 50 - 50, despite Carmelo explaining to me how to do it for around 45 minutes yesterday with me taking extensive notes.
Lakey
This Jew would love to satisfy those 3 singing shiksas and throw them a bone by servicing them. I am 100% Jewish genetically but in my spirit, there is not much Jew in me I came to believe that I did not "look Jewish". being always mistaken for Italian or Greek when in Europe and being mistaken for being Lebanese or Palestinian here in the States, especially when eating in middle Eastern restaurants.
That myth was shattered last year in a small train station in the Czech Republic where I needed to switch trains to complete my journey from Berlin to Vienna. A scant 60 miles from Vienna, the train which had left Berlin stopped and I had to get on another train bound for Vienna. I did not know what track the Vienna bound train was going to be on. A man, Leonid. and his wife, were watching me as I failed to get directions from the Czech info counter because no one there spoke English or German. They were about 50 yards away from me but could hear that I was speaking English.
It turned out that Leonid was a Russian born Jew about 75 years old (I was 69 at the time). He approached me and the first thing out of his mouth was a question, "You are Jewish aren't you?" I was astonished and said that I was and with incredulity, I said, "How could you possible know that? I do not look Jewish?" Leonid smiled and said, "I grew up in the Soviet Union in an all Jewish distrrict during WWII. I know a Jew when I see one. I can literally smell a Jew from a quarter mile away. I told my wife immediately that you were a Jew as I watched you try and get information." My myth of feeling that I did not "look Jewish" came crashing down upon me!
Yes, I spoke with Carmelo by phone yesterday and for the second time, he walked me through how to post my photos on the internet. Posting photos from my camera or from a CD supplied by others is totally alien to me. I have no conceptual feel for the various steps. My only slightest chance is to make a cook book type set of instructions. Back about February or March, Carmelo had talked me through it and I made notes but the notes were incomplete. My ex wife was kind enough to assist me. She insisted that I take full and complete notes and type them up on Word Perfect. I did that and put them in a file labeled "How to post pictures on the Internet"
Recently, I went to post my new photos and opened that file and only Carmelo's sketchy instructions were in the file folder. The detailed typed files were not in the folder. I was mortified but I thought, "No problem, I saved the file so I will just retrieve it but lo and behold, I did not save the file!!!! I tried to post using Carmelo's old sketchy notes and failed miserably.
I did post links to a whole series of files posted on Facebook by my friend Lorinda Howard. I did not know it, but using Faceook files, when you link there, you have to log on to Facebook with your username and password. There is no charge to join Facebook and most ex Scios seem to be members of Facebook already. Carmelo is not a member and does not want to join so he could not view those photos.
Attempting a task such as posting my photos onto ESMB is a major challenge for me. I need to be well rested and have several hours at my disposal before I will even approach the project.
I learn new technical applications the old fashioned way by reading a manual and doing trial examples having each step written out in a "cook book" format. I can find no such manual anywhere to explain how to post pictures. Once I get a conceptual understanding, I start to learn and get a feel for it by doing it over and over, making and correcting the various steps as I go. After maybe 6 sessions of reading and trial and error application, I usually will get the basic idea and be able to do it.
THE LACK OF ANY WRITTEN SOURCE BEING READILY AVAILABLE REALLY KEYS ME IN!!! I am going along on a daily basis almost totally like a Book One Clear or better yet, a NOTs completion. My mind is totally still with no background noise whatever going on nearly 24/7. For minor distractions such as someone cutting me off in traffic, or giving me the finger, I just yawn and blow any charge which appears by inspection.
There are only 3 things now which can destroy my equanimity.
1. Being yelled at and invalidated by my ex wife. This will soon be ending as I am now in escrow for a new condo and will be moving out on my own around Christmas time. Until then, we live togeter, mostly on good terms but occasionally there is a flare up.
2. Being turned down or rejected in a 2 D type of situation. This is not happening much if at all at this time. About a 4-6 weeks ago, this did happen and I fully dramatized it here on ESMB and probably lost a lot of viewers who had previously respected me.
3. Trying to get something done such as post photos and not know the tech of how to do it nor be able to find a cook book type of write up to explain it. The frustration and exasperation which this causes me is intense and a full plethora of case phenomena turn on. I head right to the bottom of the tone scale when I try to do something with no conceptual understanding of what is taking place!
I am going to post my photos now. I would say my chances of success are at best 50 - 50, despite Carmelo explaining to me how to do it for around 45 minutes yesterday with me taking extensive notes.
Lakey
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