"National proverbs: Serbia"

Each swipe of the dish-sponge is anger or regret,
choices have consequences, consequences constrict
to the tightness of skin on a fruit, this feijoa
I slice into, savagely, and stop. Pineapple-scented.
The soft, fragrant jelly within.

MIRIAM WEI WEI LO

Australia – Poetry International Web 

foto – fruit on a coldstream street tree ulmarra nov 09.

Introducing a new form of education tool. This will be a series of helpful tips for software / design etc that I’ll continue until I get the correct legal documents or bribe needed to stop  it…
I am starting off with an easy one…

Pen Tool [p] and Fignütts : no#1 : DYI Illustrator Patterns Rated R (for Really mature designers over the age of 18 will hate this) 

By now, you will most probably realise I like to change and adapt old sayings. In an earlier post, I talked about ‘giving what you lack more’, and this post builds on that idea:

“From tiny acorns great oak forests do grow…”

I enjoy taking most thoughts and ideas to their fullest and greater end. Why stop with an oak tree? One oak tree produces many more acorns, which continues the cycle. Just stop and marvel at the Creator for just a second. You could take a barron field, plant just one acorn, and return in just 100 years and not recognise the field. This is a great, natural law: one small seed that grows will produce many times over.

No matter how successful we are, or wish to be, we can all do with more encouragement along the way. Have you noticed how much better you feel when somebody else encourages you? Have you seen a change in productivity or emotional state when you encourage somebody else? Isn’t any environment better when it is filled with positive, uplifting and encouraging people? Cheerleaders may seem unimportant to a sports game, but can you image how much harder the team would have to play to win, if they didn’t have fans and cheerleaders encouraging them?

Today, as you go about your everyday activities, be more encouraging to those around you. Recognize the good work being done. Don’t focus on the little things that people haven’t done, or have done wrong, focus on what they have done well and right. With your children, congratulate them on getting ready for school, remembering their book bag, having a smile on their faces. The more you encourage those around you, the better you will instantly feel, because you are focussing on the positive, but also you will be surprised at the encouragement you receive as a result.

Encourage as many people as you can today: the bus driver, the road sweeper, the doorman, tell them what a great and important job they are doing. Tell your parents what a great job they are doing at raising a family (whether you realise it or not!) Focus your mind on noticing where you can encourage people rather than criticise them.

Spread the encouragement 1% more today and observe what positive changes happen in your environment. You are planting the seeds of a great oak forrest today… enjoy!

A year or two ago a young couple lost their two-month-old son. They had him in bed with them and one of them must have rolled over on him in the night because when they woke up in the morning their beautiful baby boy was dead. A pastor friend of mine and I went over to their house that night. You talk about heartache! The boy’s daddy, a young fella, kept wallowing in the floor saying “God is judging me – God is judging me!” The pastor was trying to show them some scriptures when the mother blurted out: “I just don’t see how there can be a God.”And before you criticize her, you just wait till you wake up beside your dead baby.

I  said “Ma’am my heart goes out to you – I won’t try to say I know what you’re going through because I don’t. But I was reading a story this afternoon about a lady who had lost her baby boy too. She went to her pastor and said “Where was God when my boy died?”

He was stunned by the question like we all would be but he thought for a moment and said “Ma’am, God was in the same place He was when His Son died 2000 years ago.” And I’m telling you there’s a God in heaven that knows what it’s like to lose a baby boy. He knows what it’s like to lose a loved one and He can sympathize with your pain.

On top of that, I believe the grace of God takes care of little children and that baby’s in Heaven right now. And if mama and daddy are Christians – they might have to spend 40, 50, or even 60 years apart from their child and I know that sounds like such a long time. But looking back, 10,000 years from now, it won’t seem like that long at all.

Well I wrote a little piece earlier about how I got to my first experience of mental health and over time I will add a little bit more about what happened next. For now, I have decided to tell you about the help I have needed for such a long time and how I came by it.

Once again I hadn’t been feeling myself. I was going from extreme highs to lows, hating the world, not wanting to go to uni or do my work, I felt alone and isolated…I couldn’t function. The final straw was breaking down on my bed and hiding under the quilt, because it felt safe and I couldn’t see anyone.

Couldn’t see anyone? I was on my own! It didn’t feel like it though. It felt as if there were all these black figures around me, looking at me, waiting for me to slip up or do something wrong. They were NOT there!

When I came out from under the quilt, I started to calm down and managed to get in touch with a mate to get me out of the house.  We agreed I needed to go to the doctor and tell them.

The next day I went off to the doctors, and as usual when I feel like this I cried, but at least I told the truth. She decided I should be referred and within 2 weeks I got an appointment with the mental health team.

The mental health ‘team’ consisted of ONE man. A nice man though, he chatted to me about the process of this initital meeting, and we got started.

He asked all about myself and the past issues ( I’ll write about them at some point), but the one thing that made me feel so calm and more confident was his very first question:

“WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM THIS?“

In a bit of shock I didn’t know what to say, but I had already been talking to friends and a couple of people from work. It was agreed that maybe it was time to see a psychiatrist. I told him this and he agreed to try and get me an appointment to see one, but there was NO guarantee.

There was however, a guarantee that he wouldn’t just leave me in the lurch and if the psychiatrists refused to see me, then he would try another route to get me further help.

My referral to see a psychiatrist was reviewed 5 days later on the Monday and it would probably take 2 weeks before I heard anything. WRONG! The day after I got a phone call from the centre I had been referred to.

My referral had been successful, I was offered an appointment: Tuesday, December 8 with Dr. Katherin Thompson.

Finally, will I get the help I need?

Nu er tiden hvor alle skal hygge sig og vi skal have gode gaver og masser af god mad.

Vi nyder familien, venner og har det i det hele taget rigtigt godt.

Derfor vil det være en god i det at give en ged til nødhjælp.

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November 22, 2009 By Kevin Morrow

So it’s 5:45 am and I am awake before the birds. I spent most of the night sorting through ideas that were flooding into my mind. I should be sleepy, but I’m not. This is very cool. Temperature wise as well, it’s kind of cold right now in Corona.

I will be at University of California Irvine in a couple hours winning a basketball tournament. Just putting that out there. Moving on…

My gut told me to make a post listing 5 ways to be yourself.

Drum roll please…

For some fun and enjoyment I’ve placed one of my favorite music videos below…

1. Decide for yourself

In my life that I experience, a lot of people defer their decisions to me. I started catching on to this not to long ago. People will always say, “what do you think?” or “What should I do?” For even the most simple things like grape jelly or strawberry. I have also done the same.

I’ve found that this leads to indecision and to be myself I must be decisive. I even started to realize that if so many people are asking me what I think, maybe what I think is pretty valuable.

I don’t require the approval of others, only the approval of myself. So when my inner self is directing me nothing else is effecting me.

This means that I must make my own decisions using my intuition. The more I become decisive in my decisions, the more I actualize who I really am. My decisions must reflect the fact that I see myself as perfect love. If my decisions are cloudy then they are not my decisions.

So the first way to be yourself is “Decide for Yourself”

2. Be Fearless

This one is simple, if you know who you are, you can’t become what you fear you are not. If someone calls me “stupid” I won’t believe it unless I fear that I am.

Also to be fearless you must redefine what failure is. To me there is no failure. If you do “fail” put it out there as a way “not” to do something and move on.

I know who I am, which is perfect love, anything other than that is not real to me. Being fearless is just recognizing who I am.

Remember there are different levels of fear, I’m talking more along the lines of social fears.

3. Don’t be afraid to be wrong

Here is what most people fear, being wrong. Let’s look at this for a moment. You are punished in school for being “wrong”, punished at work for being “wrong” and punished at home for being “wrong.” But what is wrong?

Does everyone have the same wrong? When I say don’t be afraid to be wrong, I mean don’t be so afraid to get “it” wrong, that worry becomes your minds “cell mate.”

If you worry about getting a question on a test wrong, chances are you will get it wrong just because that’s how you feel. If you worry to much about that girl or guy liking you, then chances are they won’t like you. But if they don’t , okay move on. See what I’m saying?

In relationships someone usually feels like they have to be right in an argument. I look at it like let me save us both some time and just acknowledge that I don’t have to seem right, and I can admit when I make mistakes. Everybody does. Just like everybody eats and sleeps, am I wrong if I don’t sleep as long as you?

People tend to have varying points of view.

Number 3 was “Don’t be afraid to be wrong.”

4. Confidence and Responsibility

These to are deeply related.

What is confidence?

To me confidence is loving yourself and others. Where there is no love, there is no confidence. Because where there is lack of love there is fear.
So from my point of view fear does not exist.

When I fear I am not confident in myself. When I’m not confident in myself I’m not responsible for myself.

Let’s look at an example. If I am living with my parents because I fear that I can not make enough money to support myself, then subconsciously I fear and have no confidence in myself in that department of my life.

In order for me to change the situation I have to build my confidence up by realizing that the fear is an illusion. I’ve seen many parents who belittle their kids and break their confidence as if that will motivate them to get out on their own. But in my opinion that will only make it harder for them.

A person has to feel their inner confidence to achieve anything there is to achieve, and that’s just how life goes. I have to take responsibility and choose to be confident, because confidence comes from within.

5. Face Your Fears

Things like depression and failure are fears. If you don’t face them you will remain in their illusion. It’s just like the “Santa Clause” issue for a lot of kids in the United States. What they believe is real is really just a representation of an idea. As soon as they free themselves from it, they come closer to what is really going on.

Fears just show you what you are not, and when you face them you find out who you ARE. If I fear success and fear is not real, then my success must be real. The fear of my success is the santa clause of the situation.

When you know yourself you succeed even in failures, because “failures” are more like unwrapping your birthday present. Failures are just the wrapping paper to what is really underneath. You can shake the gift and try to sneak a peak, but until you unwrap the gift you won’t see what it is.

Facing your fears is a way to tear apart the wrapping paper. A person who is not them self will hide from fears and remain the same person they are not.

There you have it, 5 ways to be Your Self

Scientists have found that hearing specific sounds during deep sleep can improve memory and recall.

The technique could also help anyone studying a foreign language or actors trying to learn their lines, they believe.

The findings add to growing evidence that we consolidate memories as we sleep and that we can influence which ones we will later remember more strongly.

Scientists asked a group of students to look at 50 objects, including a cat and a kettle, which were all paired to a specific location on a computer screen.

They then asked the volunteers to lie down and as they slept played them a series of sounds related to half of the objects, including a miaow and a kettle boiling.

Tested later the students were better able to correctly place an object whose sounds that had heard with their locations.

“The research strongly suggests that we don’t shut down our minds during deep sleep,” said John Rudoy, from Northwestern University, in Chicago, who led the study. “Rather this is an important time for consolidating memories.”

The team behind the research also believe that the same process could be someday be harnessed to help people forget unwanted memories.

The findings are published in the journal Science.

Ho aperto una nuova sezione: Risoluzione problemi, dove verranno raccolti, man mano, tutti gli articoli della categoria Help e della relativa sotto-categoria Help-Original.
Inoltre ho abilitato i commenti in quella sezione, in modo da permettere a chiunque di proporre un proprio problema e, se risolto, da essere aggiunto alla lista per una maggiore lettura da parte di tutti gli altri.
Spero che la cosa sia di vostro gradimento

Problemi con il DLC in gioco

Il seguente articolo non è ancora stato tradotto, quindi viene riportato in lingua originale.
Fonte del testo.

If your downloadable content page is blank, like the screen shot above, then the Dragon Age Update service is not running. This service is used to check for game and content updates and to manage those downloads.

If your Dragon Age Updater is not starting when your system starts, you may need to change the service settings to enable it. To enable the Dragon Age Updater:

• Run services.msc from the Run menu option in Windows. Pressing the Windows key + R will bring up your Run menu. Simply type “services.msc” into the window and click OK.
  • NOTE: Services.msc controls essential components of Windows. Errors in configuration can prevent the system from operating correctly. Any changes you make in services.msc are made at your own risk.
• Find the Dragon Age: Origins Updater service in the list.
• Double-click on the service to bring up the properties.
• Press the Start button if the service is not currently running.
• Change Startup type to Automatic.
• Close the Properties and Services interface.

If you would like to disable the Dragon Age Updater service:

• Run services.msc from the Run menu option in Windows. Pressing the Windows key + R will bring up your Run menu. Simply type “services.msc” into the window and click OK.
  • NOTE: Services.msc controls essential components of Windows. Errors in configuration can prevent the system from operating correctly. Any changes you make in services.msc are made at your own risk.
• Find the Dragon Age: Origins Updater service in the list.
• Double-click on the service to bring up the properties.
• Press the Stop button if the service is currently running.
• Change Startup type to Disabled.
• Close the Properties and Services interface.

If you do not see the service in the list, then it may not have installed when the game installed.

If you are a Steam customer, you should be able to run the updater manually by going under C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Dragon age origins\bin_ship\DAUpdaterSvc.Service.exe

Stardock customers, please download the following file and add it to our Dragon Age\bin_ship folder.

http://stardock.cachefly.net/zoomba/service.cmd

Once you have saved this file to the folder, run the file. This will attempt to install the updater service.

He who asks does not go wrong, but his secret is dug up.

The first part of this proverb is very commonly used by itself with the meaning, " Always ask if you are in doubt."

The meaning, as it stands, is — before you ask for information be quite sure that it will not give away your object, i.e. if you wish to conceal it.

"Hausa proverbs"

foto – izzy foreal armidale 2008

So, if you read my previous post, you know that I was stupid enough to delete my Twitter account in a fatal moment of confusion. You also know how devastating it was for me to realise I’d lost the community I’d grown to depend on every day.

Let me tell you how something devastating turned into something heart-warming.

My first reaction was to tweet out my loss and ask everyone to follow me again. But, hang on a minute, I couldn’t do that because I no longer had a community. Well, not on Twitter. I still had Facebook, and some of my Twitter contacts were also on Facebook.

The response to my status was immediate. One of the first people to respond was Jo McLeay aka @jomcleay who reassured me with the simple but powerful message, ‘We’re still here for you’.

After finally admitting my account wasn’t going to be reinstated, I decided to start a new account from scratch. It was no fun thinking about  how long it would take to rebuild. I wrote a blog post about the experience, but couldn’t tweet it out as I usually would. I could, however, throw it up on Facebook and ask my FB people to tweet it out. Would that work?

The response was swift and very touching.

Soon my message and blog post were being retweeted all over the place. I started following people again, and in less than 24 hours I had a community of people again, over 200 of them, and only a couple of days later, over 300.

My personal learning network had rebuilt one of the most important platforms I had for communication and professional interaction.

I was back in business!

Thankyou, everyone, for all your help and support.

Yes?

Okay we can move on…..

Having problems with him/her?

Well you came to the right person!

VOI CHE SIETE COMPASSIONEVOLI AIUTATE I POVERI MALATI TRA CUI IO..

siccome ci sono stati tanti malati non è che qualcuno riuscirebbe a caricare i nuovi appunti? a me servirebbero gli ultimi di fisica, di matematica e di italiano..davvero sarebbe utile..non so caricate le foto degli appunti..TROVATE UN MODO!!

almeno i malati si porterebbero avanti ed eviteremmo di fare miliardi di fotocopie sprecando carta inutilmente dato che abbiamo qui un bellissim blog da poter sfruttare!

vi supplicoooo…

Tanti saluti malati dall’ammalata alias Alice T.

Hey all, this is VPR from India(chennai) and i have researched in several fields and have completed several projects mainly focusing in Engineering, for which i had also been invited to present papers in spain, egypt, pondicherry, etc.. I have also guided several projects in engineering and medicine to a good success. So i would like to pass on my experience to help any student struggling through their research projects. Here is the deal, just ask me anything you want regarding your projects and i will get back to with an answer to your problem within a week. Just for your reference this is my e-mail id and feel free to send me your queries. vpr2noir@yahoo.co.in

REMEMBER! THE SOLUTION WILL BE WITH YOU BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, SO TRUST ME!

Letter from Umm Ibrahim, Wife of an Italian Terror Suspect

Source : Helptheprisoners.org

Date : 19th November 2009

Asalam alaykum. My name is umm ibrahim and I pray that this letter finds you in good health and imaan and high spirits. I am writing to you to tell you some problems that wives of accused muslims face.

My husband is in prison at the moment facing terrorism charges. From the moment they arrested him, everything changed for me and my family, and the kids as well. I always praise Allah(swt) still though for the favours he has given to me. I am your sister, wearing the niqab, and already this is a big problem in this country. Everyone looks at you with suspicion and prejudice. I didn’t mind too much before, but since my husband was arrested they start to shout at me and insult me, in front of my kids on the street or on the bus. The Italian authorities are trying to take my children away from me because their father is in prison. The landlord also wants to kick us out of the house, as soon as he heard my husband was arrested. We are also entitled to some state benefits, but they refuse to provide any help whatsoever.

In Italy, there is no organisation to help us, because anyone who does help is threatened by the government. We have four children, aged 10,7,6 and 4, 3 boys one girl. My husbands family in his country (Tunisia) suffer a lot of persecution from the Tunisian government. One of his brothers has been tortured and humiliated by the Tunisian security services. His whole family are under stress continuously.

My husband has the same nationality as me, Bosnian, but the Bosnian government took away his citizenship, so that they can deport him to Tunisia. In Tunisia he has already been sentenced to 50 years imprisonment in absentenia.

Every day is a hard day for me in this country (Italy). The neighbours, the state are all against me and my family in every way. It’s a lot of oppression against me and my family, and only for reason : that I am a muslim.

My brother I have many battles to fight in this country every day, may Allah(st) help me. I am just writing to you so that other muslims around the world may know my story, and if they can help in any way whatsoever. Imagine I had a court hearing with the government, they tried to take my children away from me because I was wearing the niqab! With my husband in prison it is so hard to fight this by myself.

May Allah(swt) give us all the patience to continue, ameen.

Wa Salamu Alaikum, may Allah(swt) give the good end, ameen.

Umm Ibrahim

p.s. If any of the sisters wish to write to Umm Ibrahim, please send an email to helptheprisoners@yahoo.co.uk

Pieter mejlar en lista på de bästa Beatles-låtarna. Av bara farten kommer det med Stenarnas tre bästa också.

Beatles:

Strawberry Fields for Ever (den bisarra, originella ljudbilden i kombination med en mystisk, snudd på mytisk, text samt naturligtvis – en oefterhärmlig melodi).

 Getting Better (Ett distinkt sound med gitarrackordet som återkommer och upprepas, medryckande gladpop av bästa märke, en optimistisk refräng som vi alla vill tro på samt Lennons självutlämnande bekännelse som etsar sig fast: ”I used to be cruel to my woman I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved…”)

 A Day in the Life (Tja, så mycket bättre kan det väl inte bli. Lennon och McCartney i ett av sina sista samarbeten – McCartney skrev sticket:  ”Woke up, felll out of bed”. Det låter storslaget, som om bandet spelar i just Albert Hall. Producenten George Martin är i hög grad medskyldig till detta mästerverk! Ringos trummor, som många s k förståsigpåare fnissar åt,  är i själva verket djupt originella med pukor och virvlar som lyfter arrangemanget. Låtmakarna Lennon/McCartney sade sig i denna låt vilja efterlikna en LSD-trip och jag tycker bandet lyckas. This is the ultimate trip! Och vem glömmer det sista utdragna ackordet – jordens undergång? 

Stenarna:

It´s all over now (ett jordnära, pumpande ös som man inte hade hört maken till på 1960-talet. Lyssna på Keiths (eller om det är Brians?) minimalistiska solo som ger gåshud!).

 Brown Sugar (Keiths fläskiga ackordintro håller än idag. Mick sjunger med sydstatsdialekt om sadosex: ”Hear him whip the women just around midnight!” Stenarna är samspelta och levererar här ett ös som Beatles sällan eller aldrig kom upp till….)

 Sympathy for the Devil (Visst är låten sönderspelad och uttjatad, men…Det får inte dölja det faktum att det är en djupt annorlunda, suggestiv och medryckande låt. Snudd på brasilianska rytmer, en förtätad stämning som förebådar Altamont och sextiotalets fall, en text som är poetisk och tål att lyssnas på än idag: ”I shouted out, who killed the Kennedys, well after all, it was you and me!” Jag tycker detta är Stenarnas mästerverk.

Om jag skulle våga mig på att ha en egen uppfattning, och det gör jag, så ser min topp tre för Beatles ut så här:

1. Strawberry fields for ever

2. Help!

3. In my life.

Stones har jag aldrig begripit mig på, men Out of time har jag alltid gillat.

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