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Want to know about Aquarius? Aquarius is an air sign that has a restless spirit. They are bright eyed and bushy tailed every moment of the day. They are geniuses when they want to be, and stubborn when they don't feel like it.</div>
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They have a natural curiosity that follows them through life and drives them to be great students and interested in many different things.</div>
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While there are not two distinct sides to an Aquarius, there is still a private side to them that few people ever get to see. They don't see the need to tell everyone all about themselves, while finding out all about you.</div>
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This is a free spirit that enjoys doing their own thing. While most born under the Aquarius sign enjoy the company of people, they nevertheless are independent thinkers that don't want to be pushed around. They'll figure out what they believe on their own, with no help from you, thank you very much!</div>
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Eccentricity is a hallmark of Aquarians. They enjoy doing things just to be different and want to stand out from the crowd. They're great at pairing odd outfits together and wear them with their own sense of panache. They tend to have outrageous personalities and they like it that way.</div>
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An Aquarius is unpredictable. They walk to the beat of their own drummer and don't mind changing the tune when they feel like it. Just when you think you have them figured out, they'll turn around and do something completely unexpected. They definitely keep us lesser mortals on our toes.</div>
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An Aquarian loves their freedom more than anything else. They'll only enter into a relationship with others after they've established a boundary that ensures they get to keep their freedom. Take it away (if they let you) and you'll destroy not only their trust but also one of the traits that makes an Aquarian, an Aquarian.</div>
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Above all else, Aquarians are the 'big helpers' of the world. They have a strong desire to change their world and make it better for everyone. They easily take up causes that they believe in and it's not unusual to see an Aquarian friend on television protesting against one idea or another. They're the big brother or big sister in their group of friends who is always looking out for them. Quick to extend a helping hand, they never hold anything back. If you need something, they're there to help.</div>
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At work, Aquarians enjoy developing their humanitarian side. They're drawn to careers that improve the life as many people as they can reach. With their intelligence, any career is a possibility though they prefer ones such as in medicine, research, social workers and inventors. Although Aquarians are independent, they enjoy working with others and make great team workers.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #363636; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px;">For the study, researchers performed a series of 11 different experiments involving 2,250 adult men and women to compare typical self-reporting methods of measuring narcissism. Turns out, the way to figure out if you're egotistical is pretty simple. Just ask yourself, "To what extent do you agree with this statement: 'I am a narcissist.' Note: The word narcissist means egotistical, self-focused, and vain." The participants responded to this question using a scale from one to 11, one being, "this is not very true of me," and 11 being, "very true of me." The participants' responses to this question were about as accurate as other measures of narcissism, like the Narcissistic Personality Inventory.</span><br />
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Although you might assume that people who think very highly of themselves wouldn't admit to having this flaw, the study authors say that this research is proof that they actually would. "People who are willing to admit that they are relatively more narcissistic than others actually are," the researchers wrote in the study. However, they noted that while this question does predict some behaviors strongly associated with a narcissistic personality, it's not as reliable as other more involved measures, which study multiple aspects of a person's personality.</div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #363636; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px;">While it might not be the <em>most</em> accurate way of telling if someone is a narcissist, this question might help shed some light on how much you, your friends, or even that guy you just started dating <em>really</em> loves themself.</span><br />
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Silver Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17162481813846707848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306700103865846685.post-84762192036607539982014-06-23T08:05:00.001-07:002014-06-23T08:05:47.198-07:00Women make lemonade out of life's lemons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwfG8SRXpZ9GT8SU-TgqJQVY1ICssi8oVTDgbLSljQ2BOcUX-DQuLab_hQe6Vda9930fqyhSCWAyav86xmannEJgdpIPze9j7fX2ZPdqyqgQPwoxvpW9SC1Fg8rLtc9repvdazdoqgFM0/s1600/Screen+shot+2014-06-23+at+10.05.01+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwfG8SRXpZ9GT8SU-TgqJQVY1ICssi8oVTDgbLSljQ2BOcUX-DQuLab_hQe6Vda9930fqyhSCWAyav86xmannEJgdpIPze9j7fX2ZPdqyqgQPwoxvpW9SC1Fg8rLtc9repvdazdoqgFM0/s1600/Screen+shot+2014-06-23+at+10.05.01+AM.png" height="165" width="320" /></a>ENID, Okla. — When life gave some local women lemons, they made lemonade.<br /><br />On the inviting wooden deck in the backyard of a suburban home in Enid, women gather to share their stories with cold glasses of the tart drink in hand.<br /><br />This isn’t your average social get-together. This is Lemonade Ladies, a brand new group designed to help middle-aged or older women through issues like depression and emotional trauma.<br /><br />After fighting her own battle with depression, Shelley Stutchman said she saw a need for a support group for women ages 40 to 75. With the help of two friends, Lemonade Ladies was born.<br /><br />The group’s name came from Stutchman’s love of lemon pie, and now the women serve lemonade at every meeting.<br /><br />“We didn’t really have any expectations,” Stutchman said. “It was an experiment to find out if women needed this — middle-aged to older women.”<br /><br />Apparently, they did. Stutchman said a dozen women showed up to the first meeting in April, and the group’s success has reached people nationwide. Stutchman has received emails and phone calls from women far and wide, wanting to share their experiences.<br /><br />Dena Patterson, one of the group’s three leaders or “Three Keys,” is a participant in the group, but she also has a background in therapy. She said the meetings allow women to form a support group that gives them stability.<br /><br />“Often when people go through difficult or traumatic situations, they feel alone, and we want women to know they’re not alone,” Patterson said. “There is a safe place they can talk.”<br /><br />Confidentiality is a vital part of the Lemonade Ladies meetings. Linda Pope, another “Key” who contributes her experience as a pastor to the group, said the confidential nature of the meetings is her favorite part.<br /><br />“What I like is the trust level in the group right now,” Pope said. “The confidentiality and the trust level are high, and people feel they can share anything.”<br /><br />With topics like broken hearts, rape and emotional abuse on the table, trust is essential. The women need a place to vent, but the purpose is to grow and strengthen one another, Pope said.<br /><br />“We’re also really clear that we want to grow,” Pope said. “We’re not just getting together for a pity party.”<br /><br />Pope also said the group is not meant to have a “man-hater” spirit. However, the women may feel more comfortable in the company of other women with the sensitive nature of topics discussed at the meetings, she said. <br /><br />Stutchman said there might even be plans in the future to start a men’s group. She has received emails from several men who would also like a safe place for discussion.<br /><br />The “Lemonade Ladies” have plans to expand in all directions. They have speakers lined up for meetings through September. With renowned public speaker Dave Ross coming to Wednesday’s meeting, the group will certainly need more room or another chapter soon.<br /><br />Stutchman said they will soon put the lesson part of their meetings on YouTube for anyone to watch. Until then, the Lemonade Ladies will be working hard to give women the support they need.<br /><br />“A lot of women at this age I think are embarrassed to admit they have these types of problems because they think they’re supposed to have it together,” Stutchman said. “But the fact is, there’s definitely a need for this kind of support.”<br /><br />The Lemonade Ladies said any women from age 40 to 75 are welcome to come to a meeting. The group meets at 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month at 2017 Windmill Ln.<br /><br />For more information about meetings, call Stutchman at (580) 603-1372 or send an email to lemonadeladiesenid@gmail.com. Visit the group’s Facebook page at facebook.com/lemonadeladiesdreams.</div>
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<span>A Few years ago, my wife and I moved into a retirement development on Florida's southeast coast. We are living in the "Delray/Boca/Boynton Golf, Spa, Bath and Tennis Club on Lake Fake-a-Hachee". There are 3,000 lakes in Florida; only three are real.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Our biggest retirement concern was time management.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">What were we going to do all day?</span> Let me assure you, passing the time is not a problem. Our days are eaten up by simple, daily activities. Just getting out of our car takes 15 minutes. Trying to find where we parked takes 20 minutes. It takes a half-hour in the check-out line in Wal-Mart, and 1 hour to return the item the next day.<br /><br />Let me take you through a typical day: We get up at 5:00am, have a quick breakfast and join the early morning Walk-and-Fart Club. There are about 30 of us, and rain or shine, we walk around the streets, all talking at once. Every development has some late risers who stay in bed until 6:00am. After a nimble walk, avoiding irate drivers out to make us road kill, we go back home, shower and change for the next activity.<br /><br />My wife goes directly to the pool for her underwater Pilates class, followed by gasping for breath and CPR. I put on my 'Ask me about my Grandchildren' T-shirt, my plaid mid-calf shorts, my black socks and sandals and go to the clubhouse lobby for a nice nap.<br /><br />Before we know it, it's time for lunch. We go to Costco to partake of the many tasty samples dispensed by ladies in white hair nets. All free! After a filling lunch, if we don't have any doctor appointments, we might go to the flea market to see if any new white belts have come in or to buy a Rolex watch for $2.00.<br /><br />We're usually back home by 2:00pm to get ready for dinner. People start lining up for the early bird about 3:00pm, but we get there by 3:45 because we're late eaters. The dinners are very popular because of the large portions they serve. We can take home enough food for the next day's lunch and dinner, including extra bread, crackers, packets of mustard, relish, ketchup and Splenda, along with mints.<br /><br />At 5:30pm we're home, ready to watch the 6 o'clock news. By 6:30pm we're fast asleep. Then we get up and make five or six trips to the bathroom during the night, and it's time to get up and start a new day all over again.<br /><br />Doctor-related activities eat up most of our retirement time. I enjoy reading old magazines in sub-zero temperatures in the waiting room, so I don't mind. Calling for test results also helps the days fly by. It takes at least a half-hour just getting through the doctor's phone menu. Then there's the hold time until we're connected to the right party. Sometimes they forget we're holding, and the whole office goes off to lunch.<br /><br />Should we find we still have time on our hands, volunteering provides a rewarding opportunity to help the less fortunate. Florida has the largest concentration of seniors under five feet and they need our help. I myself am a volunteer for 'The Vertically Challenged Over 80.' I coach their basketball team, The Arthritic Avengers. The hoop is only 4-1/2 feet from the floor. You should see the look of confidence on their faces when they make a slam dunk.<br /><br />Food shopping is a problem for short seniors, or 'bottom feeders' as we call them, because they can't reach the items on the upper shelves. There are many foods they've never tasted. After shopping, most seniors can't remember where they parked their cars and wander the parking lot for hours while their food defrosts.<br /><br />Lastly, it's important to choose a development with an impressive name. Italian names are very popular in Florida. They convey world travelers, uppity sophistication and wealth. Where would you rather live: Murray's Condos or the Lakes of Venice? There's no difference -- they're both owned by Murray, who happens to be a cheap bastard.<br /><br />I hope this material has been of help to you future retirees. If I can be of any further assistance, please look me up when you're in Florida. I live in the Leaning Condos of Pisa in Boynton Beach.</span></div>
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As your plane descends upon New Delhi, a soft orange haze engulfs you, drawing you in. A cascade of shanty-towns drift below, clogged arteries of traffic dividing the landscape into innumerable scattered shards of populace. If you land in the evening, the haze throbs over the country with a dull glow in the speckled city lights. If you land in the afternoon, then the haze is a giant mass of incomprehensible dust — some amalgamation of smog, smoke, dirt, and fog — and no matter how far away you go, or how far you get, you never completely escape it.</div>
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I have been to 40 different countries. Yet India made the most indelible impression of any of them. And not for all of the right reasons. Frankly, it’s not a pleasant place to be. Anyone who tells you otherwise lacks perspective. India’s full of contradictions: horrors and delights, achievements and atrocities, often on the same city-block. And despite the immense history, the monuments, the spectacular sites of human ingenuity, one can’t help but ask themselves repeatedly what they’re doing there.</div>
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The first thing that strikes you about India is how dirty it is. In a word, the place is disgusting. All of it. The entire country. Never before have I seen mountains of garbage the size of a small house stacked on the side of a road, in broad daylight, in the middle of a city, repeatedly. Dumpsters tipped over and overflowing. Mounds of trash — wrappers, cups, papers, napkins, strewn all about, mixed with sludge from the soda and urine and spit coagulated from thousands of daily passersby.</div>
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<span id="more-3353"></span>Like the dust, the garbage never ceases. And along with the garbage, there is an unending stream of humanity. It is impossible to spend a full day in the middle of a major Indian city without lobotomizing yourself trying to figure out where the hell all of the people come from. I’ve been to Hong Kong. I’ve been to Manhattan and Beijing. I’ve been to Mexico City. And the swarm of humanity crawling through India’s cities is unparalleled. There’s no comparison. Many streets more closely resemble a bee hive than a functioning human society. When I flew into Mumbai, there were homeless people sleeping on the tarmac. Take a moment for that to sink in: <em>the city is so crowded and disgusting that people decide they’d rather sleep on the airport runway</em>.</div>
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And that is the second thing to strike you about India. The poverty. It is legitimate take-your-breath-away poverty. Like the kind you see on TV charity ads but far worse. And far more real. Limbless men stewing about in their own feces. Emaciated children playing on a piles of garbage. A man with his leg literally rotting off to the bone, maggots and all, laying on the curb. It’s everywhere. The amount of suffering is indescribable. And it is unceasing. After a couple days, I was excited to hire a driver to go to Agra because I figured I’d be able to see some countryside and escape the stench and horrors of the city. But no. The entire four hours between Delhi and Agra was an unending stream of people, garbage and cars, with billows of dust drafting in our wake the whole way down.</div>
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My initial reaction the first few days was pure shock. But it quickly evolved into anger. How could a place like this be allowed to exist? How could normal people walk around with a clear conscience with so much shit and squalor festering about them? I felt indignant. Where was the social accountability? Where was the charity? Where the fuck was the <em>government</em>?</div>
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For the first time in my life, I finally grasped what inspires people to drop everything and move to a dirt-hole in the middle of Africa and start feeding people. When confronted with that much suffering, it seems insane NOT to do it. People like Mother Teresa or Princess Diana or Bill Gates didn’t seem like such foreign actors anymore. I could feel what they must have felt, even if just for a moment. With my driver taking me on a full-day trip to Agra, I watched the endless poverty scroll by like a demented video game. I had an overwhelming urge to stop at an ATM and withdraw 25,000 Rupees and start handing money out to people at random. I started doing the math in my head. That’s roughly $500. I could hand out $25 to twenty people. $25 could probably feed these people for almost a month. How much of my monthly income would I be willing to give up to feed 20 people each month? At what number would I no longer be willing to do it? At what dollar-amount did my morality begin and end?</div>
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The numbers began to make my head swirl. I was calculating my personal morality. I felt pathetic. And powerless. Like Oscar Schindler at the end of <em>Schindler’s List</em>sobbing that his gold ring could have saved one more Jew, self-pitying yet noble at the same time. That Big Mac I had in the airport could have saved one more Indian! Damn you, value meal!</div>
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Things only got more surreal from there. At a security checkpoint a kid brought up a real live cobra to my car window, scaring the living shit out of me and my fellow passengers. He then asked us for a rupee. We didn’t give him one. In another scenario, a Swedish girl in the car with us mentioned she should have given some starving boys her box of cookies. When we asked her why she didn’t, she calmly replied that little boys shouldn’t be eating cookies, that it’s bad for them.</div>
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In a Pizza Hut, every table had its own waitress. When I ordered hot wings as an appetizer my waitress duly congratulated me on making such an excellent culinary decision. Seriously. That’s what she said. As I looked around the restaurant, I saw each table occupied with fat, well-dressed Indians. I was reminded of the line from<em>Monty Python and the Holy Grail</em>:</div>
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“He must be a king.”<br />“What makes you say that?”<br />“He doesn’t have shit all over him.”</div>
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In Pizza Hut, the Indian people did not have shit all over them, therefore I assumed they were kings. That and they all conspicuously had their Blackberry’s out for one seemingly nonchalant reason or another, silently bragging to one another across the restaurant between garlic sticks.</div>
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Meanwhile, out the window in front of the restaurant, a homeless boy (covered in shit) was attempting to pry open a boarded-up hot dog stand, presumably to find some scraps of food left inside. Stray dogs licked their open sores nearby. Trash milled about, blown by dust. And we, the fat, rich kings of Pizza Hut had our appetizers congratulated by personal staff. The mind boggled. The contradictions mounted. My cognitive dissonance flared. When the manager came by to ask me how I was enjoying my meal, my first thought was “This is fucking Pizza Hut. What’s wrong with you?” But I didn’t. I smiled and said “Fine, thanks.”</div>
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But the bizarro world of India didn’t always lead to anger. It could be charming as well. At the Taj Mahal, I was approached by an Indian guy my age who asked me to take a picture. I said sure and reached out to take his camera, assuming he wanted me to take a photo of him in front of the monument. But instead, he stepped away from me, pointed the camera at me, and as four of his friends surrounded me and draped their arms around me, snapped a photo. Minutes later, a small family of four requested the same. And then another family, but this time just me kneeling with their kids. Then a group of teenage boys who wanted a picture with my tattoo. As a tourist, I became part of the tourist attraction myself. Here we are at the Taj Mahal. And here we are with a white person. And here’s little Sandeep flexing his arm next to the big white man. Soon a crowd had gathered. Many of them hung around, nervously trying to speak English with me. Some of them simply stared for minutes on end. All of them beamed smiles of excitement.</div>
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The dust pervades every city and town, some with a smoggy golden hue, others with a gentle grey haze. It cakes the cars, the streetlights and the dead stray animals. It scratches at your throat and turns your snot black.</div>
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Indian culture itself is quite disorienting. The people can be incredibly warm and hospitable, or cold and rude depending on the context and how they know you. The conclusion I eventually came to is that if they already know you, or if they’re somehow benefiting from you, then they can be incredibly warm and open people. But if they don’t know you, or if they’re trying to get something out of you, then they are a prickly, conniving bunch.</div>
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The local I got to know the best was Sanjay, the 20-something year old who ran a hostel I stayed in. He had studied in London and been all over Europe so he was fairly westernized. He and I would stay up late together drinking cheap vodka regaling each other with our travel stories. There was little else to do after nightfall in India but get drunk. And little felt more appropriate.</div>
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But what Sanjay told me about Indian people is bizarre but true. He said Indians will rarely, if ever, resort to violence. As a foreigner, you never have to worry about being robbed, or having a knife pulled on you, or getting beaten up by a gang of thugs and having your kidney carved out of you. And this is true. I’ve been to many shady parts of the world. But never did I once feel unsafe in India. Even late at night.</div>
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BUT, Sanjay said, an Indian will lie to your face. He’ll say anything to get what he wants from you. And most of them don’t see it as immoral or wrong. So on the one hand, they won’t stick a gun in your face to take your wallet. But they’ll hand you fake business cards and offer to sell you something that they don’t actually have, so that you’ll voluntarily empty your wallet to them on your own accord.</div>
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And I have to give them credit, they’re really convincing salespeople.</div>
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In Agra, our driver brought us to a handcrafted rug shop. Inside the shop I immediately knew what was coming: a “tour” of the rug factory where we would be cornered (literally) and pitched to buy one. I had seen this before in other countries and here I saw it coming a mile away. Yet the man came across as so unassuming, so genteel, so incredibly polite, it was impossible to not be won over. He showed us the individual thread counts of the rugs, how the rugs are meticulously woven by hand. He showed us how they design the patterns on elaborate grids and then translate them to their wooden weaves. He then took us downstairs, gave us beverages and launched into one of the most impressive sales pitches I’ve ever heard in my life. The man should be selling luxury cars in the United States. By the end of it, I was busy deciding which rug my mother would like the best. After some gentle bargaining, and some friendly gestures, I made the purchase and arranged to have it shipped to her in the US.</div>
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It was about an hour later in the car when I realized what had just happened. The elaborate setup. The way packages with American addresses had been set out just right for us to see. The pictures of “satisfied customers.” I knew what they were, and they were good. My stomach dropped. I’d been had. My mother would never see that rug.</div>
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But with only a couple hundred dollars lost, I got away fairly unscathed. An 18-year-old Canadian kid staying in our hostel got taken for thousands of dollars. A couple Indians stopped him on the street, and with perfect English convinced him they worked for a travel agency. They then led him to their “office,” where they handed him “brochures” and “planned” out over a month’s worth of traveling and lodging, telling him the entire time that they were getting him the best deals and that they would pre-arrange every relevant tour. By the end of the hour, he had spent close to $2,000 and felt good about it. By the time he got back to the hostel his face was white. He realized what happened. He asked Sanjay about it and Sanjay told him to immediately call his bank in Canada and cancel the card. Tell them it had been stolen. There was no trip. No lodging. No travel agency. Just two Indian guys with silver tongues.</div>
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The scams aren’t limited to high-end tourist items either. Pirated DVD’s that don’t work. Taxis that let you off at the wrong place. Hotels that add suspicious “fees” at the last minute. You get harassed constantly on the streets: vendors following you for half a block trying to hock their useless shit to you. Luckily, I learned long ago the perfect remedy to street touts: iPod + sunglasses. Crank that shit up to 10 and just keep walking. What you can’t hear or see can’t bother you. Would-be harassers and hagglers bounce off you like flies.</div>
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But, to be fair, many Indians will go out of their way to be honest with you. There were multiple times where I thought the guy had asked for 50 Rupees when he had actually said something else, and instead of taking the extra money he gave it back. Or like the time a taxi driver offered to show me a famous Minaret for free, for no other reason than because he was Muslim and thought I should see it. Or the kid in Gaya who rode me all the way back to my hotel on the back of his bike, for no other reason than he was excited to practice English with me. Or Sanjay, who on our third night drinking together, surprised me with an entire home-cooked meal made especially for me. Or my tour driver, who after dutifully driving us around for over 13 hours straight, teared up and hugged me when I gave him a 50% tip.</div>
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Like anywhere else, Indians aren’t all good or bad. You simply get more of each social extreme. It’s unpredictable. Not to mention emotionally draining. The constant need to be on-guard is taxing on one’s psyche.</div>
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In Bangalore, I snapped. My taxi driver from the airport “forgot” to turn on the meter. Realizing this, I watched his odometer and counted the 30 kilometers we traveled. When we arrived, he tried to charge me for 50 kilometers. A shouting match ensued. I threw the money for 30km at him, grabbed my bag and walked into my hotel. He followed. He began pleading to the hotel clerk that I had refused to pay and that his price was the appropriate price. Now, with four people watching, I pulled out my laptop, connected to the wireless network, loaded Google Maps, and showed him that it was, in fact 30 kilometers from the airport to the hotel. My hands were shaking with anger by the time it finished loading. Luckily, he took my money and sulked off. At the door he turned around and said, “But you need to sign the receipt.” I shouted back, “Go fuck yourself.”</div>
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I moped into my room, frazzled and bitter. After almost three weeks of dealing with such nonsense, I was reaching my wit’s end. I would not be surprised if I ended up punching someone over something menial soon. I lost it with the taxi driver. And when I did the math in my head, it was just $4. I freaked out over $4.</div>
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Luckily I was leaving soon, heading to Singapore in a few days, back to civilization. I laid out on my bed, took a deep breath and opened my laptop. In the inbox was an email from my mom: “Thanks for the rug, I love it!”</div>
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In the northern foothills of the Himalayas, the dust morphs into an awkward haze. It sticks to the horizon. Trash still permeates the small villages, although in smaller heaps, many of them charred from their daily burnings. The beggars seem less down-trodden. Cows sprinkle the roadways in between tuk-tuks and overflowing caravans. For the most part, the crowds have dissipated.</div>
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India attracts a wide variety of spiritual-seekers, lost western souls criss-crossing its geography in search of meaning or of themselves. India is the cradle to two of the oldest major religions in the world: Hinduism and Buddhism, both of which, unlike their western counterparts, focus predominantly on a first-person perspective of spiritual development. Having been interested in Buddhism for over a decade and having spent much of my college years meditating and attending retreats, my interest was piqued by the plethora of ashrams, gurus, and Dharma groups available.</div>
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The reality was a let down. There’s no other way to describe the phenomenon other than what it is: spiritual tourism. Which is somewhat of an oxymoron, especially in Buddhism. And also disheartening as it falls victim to the same scam-inducing practices as India’s other tourist markets. Scattered around places like Bodhgaya and Goa, flyers are shoved in your face, street peddlers try to convince you that they can take you to the best ashram in town (as if there’s a “best” way to do yoga). Some even promise enlightenment… for 10,000 Rupees a week. Now, I’m sure there are legitimate and profound retreats and ashrams in India. But the whole process felt cheap and inauthentic.</div>
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Children tried to sell marijuana around yoga retreat centers. And it was apparent why: the dreadlocked, tie-dyed, mid-life-crisis’ed Western clientele who streamed through enthusiastically buying from them told you all you needed to know about the scene. Two westerners I spoke to in Bodhgaya, where I considered sitting in on a retreat for a couple days, told me that they had never meditated before and were excited to learn it in India. When I mentioned that one could learn to meditate in 10 minutes at home to see if they actually liked it, they replied, “Yeah, but it’s so much cooler to do it in India.” My mind’s eye could just see The Buddha face-palming at that statement.</div>
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One girl tried to brag to me that she had had visions of Krishna in the northern mountains and that she thinks she may convert to Hinduism. When it came out that she had been smoking local hashish every day for weeks on end, I pointed out that these two things may not be a coincidence. She didn’t like hearing that.</div>
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Perhaps it was my own arrogance, but it saddened me. My belief has always been that spirituality is something that is experienced personally, not measured, compared, or quantified. Meditating on a loud bus in Chicago can be just as profound as meditating under the Bodhi Tree itself. In a religion whose whole belief system revolves around impermanence, unattachment to the material world, and equanimity, making a 4,000 mile pilgrimage to a tree in the middle of Nowhere, India, for bragging rights seems, well… counterproductive. I can see the interest historically, and perhaps emotionally, but spiritually, there’s not a whole lot of difference. And so as I passed the flyers, and the hippies with their braids and skullcaps, it became harder and harder not to be a little bitter. I understand that pilgrimages and capitalizing on your most holy site are pretty standard for all of the world’s religions. But I guess in my mind I held out hope that Buddhism was different. And actually, Buddhism IS different. Its the followers who aren’t.</div>
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(Or maybe I just don’t like hippies.)</div>
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But I can’t help but feel that the volume of poverty in India is related to the solipsistic tendencies of the religions based there. I also can’t help but feel that foreigners regularly mistake being pushed so far out of their cultural comfort-zone as some sort of spiritual experience. When the human mind is presented with paradoxical conditions, it usually reacts with inexplicable feelings and often invents a supernatural explanation for them. And India is rife with paradoxical conditions.</div>
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The most beneficial effect of traveling that I’ve found is that it forces you to become more confident and independent in a million, tiny, unnoticeable ways that add up to a great, noticeable whole. The more difficult and exotic the culture, the more it challenges you, the more it engages you on an emotional level, and the more you grow in intangible and personal ways.</div>
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Perhaps there’s nothing inherently “spiritual” about the sub-continent, it’s just the most extreme cultural experience a westerner can subject themselves to and as a result grow from.</div>
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Every country we go to, our natural inclination is to search for some kind of greater meaning. “China’s finally making the leap,” or “Latin culture is exceedingly passionate,” or “Corruption dominates Russia,” — all of these trite little platitudes that we bring home with us and spill amongst our friends and loved ones to show that we did something significant, that we learned something interesting. This is where I went. This is the meaning. All in one or two sentences.</div>
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There’s no single sentence for India. The place is a fucking mess. And it’s the only country that I’ve ever been to where I left more confused than when I arrived. My search for meaning came up empty time and time again.</div>
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One day in Bodhgaya, a small town of maybe a few thousand people, I ate at an outdoor restaurant in the town square. Beggars, shirtless children and cows littered the square, along with a few assorted street vendors. I had just returned from touring the temple built for the place The Buddha had become enlightened. Looking out over the town square from my large plate of curry, I watched the beggars stew about, completely ignored by the townspeople. By this time my search for meaning in this land had become frantic, and my emotions fried. I looked at the mound of food before me. It had cost $2.50 US dollars and could feed multiple people. I called the waiter over and ordered another one.</div>
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The two nearest beggars were an old man and woman together, huddled on the ground, clothes tattered, white hair and beard matted and dirty. They looked up at me with their emaciated arms outstretched in cups, the same cupped hands one would use to drink from a river. Their eyes sank into their sockets. They seemed to look beyond me. I put the second plate of food down in front of them like a pair of dogs. They looked at it wide-eyed for a moment, and began shoveling the food into their faces as fast as they could.</div>
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Curry dripped from the man’s beard. Rice mashed into his black fingernails. Bits of chicken spattered on the ground below them. I stood there watching for a few seconds, expecting something. What? I don’t know. But I wanted to feel something. I wanted to feel like there was some purpose to all of this. That I could walk away with something important from my whole experience.</div>
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But instead I felt helpless. It was like I had just put a band-aid on the Titanic. He’s going to go digging through garbage again in a couple hours. He didn’t even look at me. What’s the point?<br />Obviously, I’m no Mother Teresa. And it’s just as well, Mother Teresa couldn’t save this society from itself. Sometimes human systems become so large that they hurt people, not by design, but by inertia. And it’s beyond any of our ability to grasp, let alone control.</div>
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The townspeople had seen what I had just done. And within seconds, a boy approaches me and asks me to buy him a soccer ball. I tell him no and begin to walk away. He follows. Then another man comes up wanting to sell me pirated Bollywood DVD’s. I also tell him no. He gets upset, “You give food to a beggar, but you won’t even buy a DVD from me? Why not?” He felt like I committed some terrible injustice against him.</div>
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A crowd was beginning to form around me, looking for handouts. I quietly put on my headphones and sunglasses, turned my iPod up to full blast, and walked through the dust.</div>
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<li><span>Stuff a miniature marshmallow in the bottom of a sugar cone to prevent ice cream drips.<ul>
<li><b>The Real Woman's Way:</b></li>
<li>Just suck the ice cream out of the bottom of the cone, for Pete's sake. You're probably lying on the couch with your feet up anyway.</li>
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<li><span><b>Martha's way #2</b>:</span></li>
<li><span>To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with the potatoes.<ul>
<li><b>The Real Woman's Way</b>:</li>
<li>Buy Hungry Jack mashed potato mix and keep it in the pantry for up to a year.</li>
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<li><span><b>Martha's way #3:</b></span></li>
<li><span>When a cake recipe calls for flouring the baking pan, use a bit of the dry cake mix instead and there won't be any white mess on the outside of the cake.<ul>
<li><b>The Real Woman's Way:</b></li>
<li>Go to the bakery. They'll even decorate it for you.</li>
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<li><span><b>Martha's way #4:</b></span></li>
<li><span>If you accidentally over-salt a dish while cooking, drop in a peeled potato and it will absorb the excess salt for an instant "fix me up."<ul>
<li><b>The Real Woman's Way:</b></li>
<li>If you over-salt a dish while you are cooking, that's too damn bad. Please recite with me, The Real Woman's motto: I made it and you will eat it.</li>
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<li><span><b>Martha's way #5:</b></span></li>
<li><span>Wrap celery in aluminum foil when putting in the refrigerator and it will keep for weeks.<ul>
<li><b>The Real Woman's Way:</b></li>
<li>Celery? Never heard of the stuff.</li>
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<li><span><b>Martha's way #6:</b></span></li>
<li><span>Brush some beaten egg white over pie crust before baking to yield a beautiful glossy finish.<ul>
<li><b>The Real Woman's Way</b>:</li>
<li>The Mrs. Smith frozen pie directions do not include brushing egg whites over the crust so I don't do it.</li>
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<li><span><b>Martha's way #7:</b></span></li>
<li><span>Cure for headaches: Take a lime, cut it in half and rub it on your forehead. The throbbing will go away.<ul>
<li><b>The Real Woman's Way</b>:</li>
<li>1 1/2 oz. vodka plus one quarter of a lime mixed with tonic and taken hourly makes more than just those throbbing headaches go away. It will improve your entire outlook on life.</li>
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<li><span><b>Martha's way #8</b>:</span></li>
<li><span>If you have a problem opening jars: Try using latex dishwashing gloves. They give a non slip grip that makes opening jars easy.<ul>
<li><b>The Real Woman's Way:</b></li>
<li>Go ask the good looking neighbor to do it.</li>
<li>And finally the most important tip...</li>
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<li><span><b>Martha's way #9:</b></span></li>
<li><span>Don't throw out all that leftover wine. Freeze into ice cubes for future use in casseroles and sauces.<ul>
<li><b>The Real Woman's Way</b>:</li>
<li>Leftover wine????</li>
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</div>Silver Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17162481813846707848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306700103865846685.post-41097179406542194702012-06-10T18:03:00.003-07:002012-06-10T18:03:41.544-07:00Only in America......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">This just proves how stupid people can be:<br /><br />1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.<br /><br />2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.<br /><br />3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.<br /><br />4. Only in America......do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a DIET coke.<br /><br />5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.<br /><br />7. Only in America......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.<br /><br />8.Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.<br /><br />9. Only in America......do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and<br />'tics' meaning "bloodsucking creatures"<br /><br />10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM's with Braille lettering.<br /><br />11Further.........you did not notice that #6 was missing.<br /><br />EVER WONDER...<br />Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?<br /><br />Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?<br /><br />Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?<br /><br />Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?<br /><br />Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor,and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?<br /><br />Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?<br /><br />Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?<br /><br />When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?<br /><br />Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?<br /><br />You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff??<br /><br />Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?<br /><br />Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?<br /><br />If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?<br /><br />If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?<br /><br />In case you needed further proof that the human race is doomed through stupidity, here are some actual label instructions on consumer goods:<br /><br />On a Sears hairdryer: Do not use while sleeping. ( but that's the only time I have to work on my hair!)<br /><br />On a bag of Fritos:! ..You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside. (the shoplifter special?)<br /><br />On a bar o f Dial soap: "Directions: Use like regular soap." (and that would be how???....)<br /><br />On some Swanson frozen dinners: "Serving suggestion: Defrost." (but, it's "just" a suggestion)<br /><br />On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert (printed on bottom): "Do not turn upside down." (well...duh, a bit late, huh!)<br /><br />On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding: "Product will be hot after heating." (...and you thought????...)<br /><br />On packaging for a Rowenta iron: "Do not iron clothes on body." (but wouldn't this save me more time?)<br /><br />On Boot's Children Cough Medicine: "Do not drive a car or operate machinery after taking this medication." (We could do a lot to reduce the rate of construction accidents if we could just get those 5-year-olds with head-colds off those forklifts.)<br /><br />On Nytol Sleep Aid: "Warning: May cause drowsiness." (and.. .I'm taking this because???....)<br /><br />On most brands of Christmas lights: "For indoor or outdoor use only." (as opposed to.....what?)<br /><br />On a Japanese food processor: "Not to be used for the other use." (now, somebody out there, help me on this. I'm a bit curious.)<br /><br />On Sunsbury's peanuts: "Warning: contains nuts." (talk about a newsflash)<br /><br />On Japanese knife: "Keep out of children." (Wow, that never occured to me.)<br /><br />On an American Airlines packet of nuts: "Instructions: Open packet, eat nuts." (Step 3: maybe, uh...fly Delta?)<br /><br />On a child's superman costume: "Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly." (I don't blame the company. I blame the parents for this one.)<br /><br />On a Swedish chainsaw: "Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands." (..was there a lot of this happening somewhere?)<br /><br />And this is why the Human Race will be Doomed!!<br />-not by me</span></div>Silver Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17162481813846707848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306700103865846685.post-23474453500549168252012-05-13T15:50:00.000-07:002012-05-13T16:00:22.547-07:00The Goldberg Brothers<br />
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>When you have to visit a public bathroom, you usually find a line of women, so you smile politely and take your place.
Once it's your turn, you check for feet under the stall doors. Every stall is occupied.
Finally, a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall.
You get in to find the door won't latch. It doesn't matter, the wait has been so long you are about to wet your pants!
The dispenser for the modern "seat covers" (invented by someone's Mom, no doubt) is handy, but empty.
You would hang your purse on the door hook, if there was one, but there isn't - so you carefully, but quickly drape it around your neck, (Mom would turn over in her grave if you put it on the FLOOR!), yank down
your pants, and assume " The Stance."
In this position your aging, toneless (God I should have gone to the gym!!!) thigh muscles begin to shake.
You'd love to sit down, but you certainly hadn't taken time to wipe the
seat or lay toilet paper on it, so you hold "The Stance".
To take your mind off your trembling thighs, you reach for what you
discover to be the empty toilet paper dispenser. In your mind, you can
hear your mother's voice saying, "Honey, if you had tried to clean the
seat, you would haveKNOWN there was no toilet paper!" Your thighs shake
more.
You remember the tiny tissue that you blew your nose on yesterday - the
one that's still in your purse. (Oh yeah, the purse around your neck,
that now, you have to hold up trying not to strangle yourself at the
same time). That will have to do. You crumple it in the puffiest way
possible. It's still smaller than your thumbnail.
Someone pushes your door open because the latch doesn't work.
The door hits your purse,which is hanging around your neck in front of
your chest,and you and your purse topple backward against the tank of
the toilet.
"Occupied!" you scream, as you reach for the door, dropping your
precious,tiny, crumpled tissue in a puddle on the floor, lose your
footing altogether, and slide down directly onto theTOILET SEAT.
It is wet of course.
You bolt up, knowing all too well that it's too late. Yourbare bottom
has made contact with every imaginable germ and life form on the
uncovered seat because YOU never laid down toilet paper - not that
there was any, even if you had taken time to try.
You know that your mother would be utterly appalled if she knew,
because, you're certain her bare bottom nevertouched a public toilet
seat because, frankly, dear, "You just don'tKNOW what kind of diseases
you could get".
By this time, the automatic sensor on the back of the toilet is so
confused that it flushes, propelling a stream of water like a fire hose
against the inside of the bowl that sprays a fine mist of water that
covers your butt and runs down your legs and into your shoes.
The flush somehow sucks everything down with such force that you grab
onto the empty toilet paper dispenser for fear of being dragged in too.
At this point, you give up.. You're soaked by the spewing water and the
wet toilet seat.
You're e-x-h-a-u-s-t-e-d.
You try to wipe with a gum wrapper you found in your pocket and then
slink out inconspicuously to the sinks.
You can't figure out how to operate the faucets with the automatic
sensors, .....so you wipe your hands with spit and a dry paper towel
and walk past the line of women still waiting.
You are no longer able to smile politely to them.
A kind soul at the very end of the line points out a piece of toilet
paper trailing from your shoe. (Where was that when youNEEDED it??) You
yank the paper from your shoe, plunk it in the woman's hand and tell
her warmly, "Here, you just might need this".
As you exit, you spot your hubby, who has long since entered, used, and
left the men's restroom.
Annoyed, he asks, "What took you so long, and why is your purse hanging
around your neck?" ...........
This is dedicated to women everywhere who deal with a public restrooms
(rest??? you've GOT to be kidding!!).It finally explains to the men
what really does take us so long. It also answers their other commonly
asked questions about why women go to the restroom in pairs. It's so
the other gal can hold the door, hang onto your purse, and hand you
Kleenex under the door!
Send this to all women that understand what bonding in the bathroom is
all about!
A Friend Is Like A Good Bra...
Hard to Find...
Supportive....
Comfortable...
Always Lifts You Up...
Never Lets You Down, or Leaves You Hanging,
And Is Always Close To Your Heart!!!
Share with anyone who needs a good laugh!</tt></pre>Silver Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17162481813846707848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306700103865846685.post-90351528362900867522012-04-20T21:39:00.002-07:002012-04-20T21:39:20.988-07:00Do You See Black Dots?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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