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The Intention Experiment - The Largest Mind-Over Matter Experiment in History. Arbinger Community - A path to peace ... both individually and globally. Index of free personality tests and intelligence tests. Personal Growth Map » Home. Writer's block? Cure writer's block with creati...

33-Part Guide to Abandoned Places. Ultimate 33-Part Urbanist Guide to Abandoned Places Article by Urbanist, filed under Urban Exploration in the Travel category. (WUltimate guides – Collecting the Very Best of WebUrbanist Past and Present) WebUrbanist has covered everything from abandoned wonders of the world to the illicit art of exploring deserted places. These thirty-three core articles cover hundreds of abandoned buildings, vehicles, towns and cities from around the world – highly organized, summarized and collected for the very first time.

Consider this our must-bookmark essential guide to the world of haunting abandoned places and daring urban exploration. 7 Abandoned Wonders of America (Part Two – Part Three): Most Americans don’t realize just how close their nearest abandonment might be. 7 Abandoned Wonders of the European Union: While American abandonments are impressive, European ones can be even more so. 7 Abandoned Wonders of Asia: Asian design has long held fascination for those of us in the West. Scirus - for scientific information. Indian Subcontinent 2008 - 2009. Time To Think - Profile of Nancy Kline. Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi, the great Anatolian ph... Food cravings... Lessons for a Woman presented in Culture section. Education in the Confucian classics increasingly became one of several avenues to a position of social and political power in Han China.

Confucian doctrine, however, did not accord women a status equal to that of men, because women were generally regarded as unworthy or incapable of a literary education. In fact, the Confucian classics say little about women, which shows how little they mattered in the scheme of Confucian values. Most Confucians accepted the subservience of women to men as natural and proper. In their view, failure to maintain a proper relationship between two such obviously unequal people as a husband and wife or brother and sister would result in social disharmony and a breakdown of all the rules of propriety.

Yet this was only part of the traditional Chinese view of women. Both Confucian doctrine and Chinese society at large accorded women, as both mothers and mothers-in-law, a good deal of honour, and with that honour came power within the family structure. Rich Woman - Financial Literacy for Women. A Low Impact Woodland Home. P&G Skin Care Research, A Scientific Companion. Ansiform - ambient netlabel. NIYAZ - World music for the 21st Century. Azam Ali. Helium - Where Knowledge Rules. The Pagan's Path ~ Witchcraft & Shamanism - 200... Cell biology animation.

Guido Daniele - bodypaint. Get Music Industry Contacts. You know that making the right music industry contacts is a key factor in developing a successful music career. The problem is, most musicians really don't know 'who' the most valuable music industry contacts are, where to find them, how to actually transform a 'first contact' into a meaningful relationship, what it really means to have the 'right music industry connections', etc. If I gave you my complete list of music industry contacts (key industry people I have established important relationships with), do you think it would help you develop a successful music career? … NO! Why? Because a mere 'contact' is not worth anything. Music industry contacts need to become meaningful music industry connections. However, even if you have good relationships with the right people, this won’t help you until and unless you work on having the right things in place which enables your industry contacts to feel confident enough to work with you.

. • Who are the most accessible music industry contacts? About Zen Buddhism. ILX Group Training - PRINCE2, MSP, APM, ITIL, I... Tracing South Asian Roots. Yuva Eco Holidays by the Aegean Sea, Turkey · H... This is the perfect place to let go and to enjoy a healthy holiday. Choose to join a week with optional group activities, or take an ‘Independent Break’ and create your own programme. On group weeks a typical day starts with a body-work class. After a leisurely breakfast there is a further group session or other activity, and then plenty of time to rest, swim, snorkel, walk in the mountains or to a secluded beach.

Or take the local bus to Ölüdeniz, the nearest resort, about 25 minutes drive. From Ölüdeniz you can scuba dive, paraglide, take boat trips, archaeological excursions... These holidays are ideal for individuals, couples and environment oriented families. The food at Yuva is simple village-style Turkish vegetarian/vegan, using many local organic ingredients. At night, under the milky way, you can meet with new friends at the kösk (a traditional raised platform), share a song, dance or game, listen to traditional music and the gentle sound of waves on the rocks. NB. Ian's Shoelace Site - Shoe Lacing Methods. Mathematics tells us that there are more than 2 Trillion ways of feeding a lace through the six pairs of eyelets on an average shoe. This section presents a fairly extensive selection of 50 shoe lacing tutorials.

They include traditional and alternative lacing methods that are either widely used, have a particular feature or benefit, or that I just like the look of. 50 Different Ways To Lace Shoes Criss Cross Lacing This is probably the most common method of lacing normal shoes & boots. Over Under Lacing This method reduces friction, making the lacing easier to tighten and loosen plus reducing wear and tear. Gap Lacing This simple variation of Criss Cross Lacing skips a crossover to create a gap in the middle of the lacing, either to bypass a sensitive area on the instep or to increase ankle flexibility. Straight European Lacing This traditional method of Straight Lacing appears to be more common in Europe. Straight Bar Lacing Hiking / Biking Lacing Quick Tight Lacing Ukrainian Lacing- New!

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Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes. Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes You want to write your name in Elvish, but every place you go seems to make it harder than it ought to be. Elvish writing looks beautiful and mysterious, but does it really have to be impossible to understand? Why doesn't somebody just spell out the alphabet so you can simply substitute the letters and get straight to the result? That's exactly what I've done here. Learn to write your name in Elvish in ten minutes. It's not very hard. Here's the alphabet. That's it. Generally the vowels go above the consonants, but sometimes, in the case of Y and silent E, they go below.

The straight line underneath is just one way to make one character do the work of two. The line above a consonant means that a nasal N or M precedes the consonant in question. Here's one last example with two different letter combinations. I am often asked how to handle double vowel situations. That's all you need to get started. Good luck! Ned Gulley Want an Elvish tattoo?

Earth View. Loans that change lives. Manager Tools. Many Eyes. Synaesthesia Research. Synaesthesia is a joining together of sensations that are normally experienced separately. Studying synaesthesia may help us to understand how the brain segregates and integrates different sensations and thoughts. The Synaesthesia research group here at Sussex look at a wide variety of topics related to the phenomenon, encompassing the neurological and behavioural aspects as well as the potential application of synaesthesia research.

Our website is designed to help you discover more about synaesthesia, to provide links to other sites, and to invite you to take part in our research. We hope you will find it useful! The images at the top of the page were kindly given to us by Samantha Moore. A synaesthete may see colours when looking at letters. The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts. The Bible tells us that God created Adam and Eve just a few thousand years ago, by some fundamentalist interpretations. Science informs us that this is mere fiction and that man is a few million years old, and that civilization just tens of thousands of years old. Could it be, however, that conventional science is just as mistaken as the Bible stories? There is a great deal of archeological evidence that the history of life on earth might be far different than what current geological and anthropological texts tell us.

Consider these astonishing finds: The Grooved Spheres Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal spheres. Origin unknown, these spheres measure approximately an inch or so in diameter, and some are etched with three parallel grooves running around the equator. The Dropa Stones In 1938, an archeological expedition led by Dr. The Ica StonesBeginning in the 1930s, the father of Dr. Ancient Model Aircraft Impossible Fossils. Search Masters International : Communication St... SmallBizPod - the small business podcast. Aspen Ideas Festival. Successful Communication Tool - How to Write a ... Drawing up a communications strategy is an art, not a science and there are lots of different ways of approaching the task. The advice provided below is only a guide. Whether your communications strategy is designed for a specific project or for the same period as your organisational strategy, it should establish the following: Objectives Audiences Messages Tools and activities Resources Timescales Evaluation and amendment ObjectivesYour objectives are the key to the success of your communications strategy.

They should ensure that your communications strategy is organisationally driven rather than communications driven. Aligning your communications and organisational objectives will also help to reinforce the importance and relevance of communications and thereby make a convincing case for the proper resourcing of communications activity within your organisation. AudiencesYou should identify those audiences with whom you need to communicate to achieve your organisational objectives. Tooling Up Index - Science Careers - Biotech, P...

Ancient India and Hinduism to 1000 BCE. Home | before 1000 BCE CIVILIZATION in the INDUS VALLEY (1 of 3) Sometime around 6000 BCE a nomadic herding people settled into villages in the mountainous region just west of the Indus River. There they grew barley and wheat using sickles with flint blades, and they lived in small houses built with adobe bricks. After 5000 BCE the climate in their region changed, bringing more rainfall, and apparently they were able to grow more food, for they grew in population. They began domesticating sheep, goats and cows and then water buffalo. The climate changed again, bringing still more rainfall, and on the nearby plains, through which ran the Indus River, grew jungles inhabited by crocodiles, rhinoceros, tigers, buffalo and elephants. One of these cities was Mohenjo-daro (Mohenjodaro), on the Indus river some 250 miles north of the Arabian Sea, and another city was Harappa, 350 miles to the north on a tributary river, the Ravi.

Sources. Zen Habits | Simple Productivity. Rumi. Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى‎), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمد رومی‎), Mawlānā or Molānā (Persian: مولانا‎, meaning Our Master), Mawlawī or Molavi (Persian: مولوی‎, meaning My Master), and more popularly in the English-speaking world simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian[1][6] poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic.[7] Iranians, Turks, Afghans, Tajiks, and other Central Asian Muslims as well as the Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy in the past seven centuries.[8] Rumi's importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic borders.

His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats. In 2007, he was described as the "most popular poet in America. "[9] Name Life Jalal ad-Din Rumi gathers Sufi mystics. Why should I seek? Hussam implored Rumi to write more. Teachings Major works. In5d's Esoteric, Spiritual and Metaphysical Database. Persian poetry @ blissbat. Calendar & Easter Topics. Human Protein Atlas. Starting a Business: Ad... If you’re like thousands of other designers, programmers and other creative professionals out there, at one point in time you’ve considered starting your own business.

Unlike most, you’ve gone against common sense and decided to open shop for yourself. And not just freelance full-time, mind you, but file for the company name, get some stationery, and wade through the legal mumbo-jumbo. Maybe even get a real office with a water cooler. This article offers real-world advice from the trenches of a small start-up, and is applicable to designers, web developers, copywriters, usability experts and all manner of service providers. Freelancers take heed: there are several items that are just as pertinent to your profession. Write a Business Plan#section1 The most important thing you can do to prepare for starting and operating your own business. A few years ago, new age business rhetoric said forget the business plan and just run with it.

File for a Fictitious Name#section2 Funding#section3 Good: Ei: What was wrong in apartheid S. Africa is wrong in Palestine. Try talking in Boulder, Colorado about Israel’s policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and you might think you had stepped into a time warp: a time when “foreigners” and their religion could be trashed with impunity, colonialism was something to be proudly embraced, and apartheid in South Africa still had supporters. In September, I participated in what was supposed to be a panel discussion following a performance of “My Name is Rachel Corrie.” The play is based on the diaries and emails of 23-year-old Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in March 2003 as she stood to defend a Palestinian home from demolition.

The play describes the conditions facing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, whose ability to resist their own destruction was steadily and systematically being undermined by Israel. Today, of course, the situation is much worse. Ida Audeh is a Palestinian from the West Bank who works as a technical editor in Boulder, Colorado.