New Comedy and Satire Book Really Sticks it to the Washington Post!
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The Washington Toast
Articles the Washington Post Wouldnât Print
Washington DC - December 11, 2007
New Comedy and Satire Book Really Sticks it to The Washington Post!
The Washington Toast is the funniest thing to come out of Washington Since Congress.
The Washington Toast, a humor and political satire book, makes its official debut today on December 11, 2007. If you haven’t been clued in to what the Toast does, it is a dead-on, straight faced parody of American newspapers. It is beautifully crude and sophomoric in a manner Mad magazine no longer aspires to, and for readers looking for some deathly funny satire in this politically-correct, can’t-we-all-just-get-along, sissified age, it is a lighthouse in a stormy sea.
For those of us who have long desired a good dose of wry and winsome humor The Washington Toast, is a treasure trove of biting satire and clever use of modern language. Somehow the writers manage to tickle our funny bones as they educate and entertain us with their insight and insider’s understanding of the madness we know as politics. In this provocative web site, the writers most often approach the subject at hand via parody. They are almost monotonously brilliant, nearly uniformly informative, and best of all, universally irreverent. This is one web site which might force you to bring your lap top to the rest room folks, for it will have you enjoying life’s most personal moments with tears of laughter as the unavoidable net result.
The editors and writers at the Washington Toast, will routinely attack the most sacred shibboleths and taboos of society, ranging from oil derricks erected on the White House lawn to a sagging Washington monument. From sexism to congressional hearings on defective home surgery kits, and from politics to the dangers of traveling to Atlantic City on a steeply discounted tourist bus. To be sure, the humor that results is by its very nature often tasteless and even a little but crude, so if you have a delicate stomach or a fragile disposition this collection of satiric pieces may not be something you would enjoy. But those of us with a taste for such bawdy fare will read the pieces again and again, until our eyeâs bleed and our lap tops begin to smoke. All in all, itâs nice to have all this stuff online and available for instant replay. Enjoy!
The Washington Toast is available at www.washingtontoast.com
Joey Thomas, the editor and founder of the Washington Toast, works as a television news producer in the Washington DC market. The contributing writers, some of whom wish to remain anonymous, work as writers for various news rags and in public relations in Washington DC.
Contact - Joey Thomas
202-256-7861
dctoast@aol.com
Joey Thomas
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Food and Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Göteborg International Film Festival, Hollywood Songcrafting Seminar
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The same Australian acting techniques that launched the careers of Russel Crowe, Cate Blanchett and Hugh Jackman can be sampled when the Australian Institute of Dramatic Arts offers several sessions in selected cities, including Hollywood, through January 10. Tucson Slow Food and Film Festival is an extended weekend of classic food films, culinary events and cultural discussions that combine screenings of feature films, documentaries, shorts and animation with panel discussions about the cuisines, cultures and traditions shown on the screen, along with culinary events at restaurants, all happening in Tucson, through January 11. For the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab, writers selected through a year-round staff search/outreach receive feedback and help with their projects at the Park City facility from January 9-14.
The Slamdance Film Festival, running this year from January 15-23 in Park City, is best known for its annual film festival. But Slamdance will now also serve as a year-round showcase for the discovery of new and emerging musical talent, in addition to the recently formed online venture with INDIEROAD.NET, a website created by a team of veteran entertainment and business executives to address the lack of robust distribution options available to promising new talent in the independent film field. From January 15-25, Sundance Film Festival, organized by actor Robert Redford in 1981, continues its festival, held primarily in Park City, and dedicated to the support and development of emerging screenwriters and directors of vision, and to the national and international exhibition of new, independent dramatic and documentary films. The International Film Festival Rotterdam offers a quality selection of worldwide independent, innovative and experimental cinema and visual arts, and will be running this year, January 21 through February 1.
Interaction is encouraged for audience members during the run of the Children’s Film Festival Seattle, to sharpen their critical eyes through workshops with professional actors, directors, writers, technicians, and producers, during the run of the festival from January 23 to February 1. Göteborg International Film Festival, opening January 23 through February 2, functions as a meeting place for the Nordic film industry and has become an integral link for new Nordic film, hosting about 200 specially invited buyers, distributors and festival representatives from all over the world. Steve Seskin and Pat Pattison will present a Hollywood Songcrafting Seminar in Los Angeles, January 24 & 25, sharing their knowledge and passion for writing songs. Honoring excellence in the field of animation, Annie Awards will be presented in the categories of animated theatrical feature, television production, television commercial, short subject and video games, and the people who have worked in these areas, January 30 in Westwood.
The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the “Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events” page at actorschecklist.com/news.html. Video and podcast versions of this news summary are also available at popular video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, Daily Motion, as well as on The Actor’s Checklist podcast blog at actorschecklist.com/loudblog, a great place to get your iPhone, ipod or Apple TV download from. The Free Home Video Showcase at actorschecklist.com/video now serves as an archive for all past video presentations. This month on video you will again see an interesting array of performing artists from the indie sector on video. Newly introduced this month to The Actor’s Checklist website is Google Friend Connect technology where visitors may now sign in with their Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account. You are encouraged to explore the entirety of the site for instances of Google Friend Connect deployment, including its use on the news page at actorschecklist.com/news.html. Happy New Year to all from The Actor’s Checklist!
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TV for Pc – Satellite TV for Pc – Pc Tv, Watch Reality Television, Action/adventure, Comedy,news, Cnn, Nbc, Hbo, Abc, Mtv, Discovery Channel
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TV FOR PC:
TV for PC simply refers to a program that enables you to watch television on your computer. It is also referred to as Satellite TV for PC because this program gives you access to watch up to 12000+ TV channels on your desktop PC or laptop via the internet.
TV Shows:
At a one time registration fee of 44.95$ Only, you will download a simple software and TV viewers which will enable you access the satellite TV for PC site and watch over 12000+ free TV channels, videos and TV shows from all over the world, there are no monthly charges and no purchasing anything once you are registered. Click here for more detailsâ¦
Some of the TV Channels you will access are:
CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, PBS, UPN, PAX, Comedy Central, Discovery Channel, ESPA, BBC, MTV, CARTOON NETWORK, HBO, CW, Movie Stations, Animation TV, Al jazeera, Animal planet, TBN â¦.and thousands of other live TV channels from all over the world.
Some of the TV Categories available are:
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Never miss your favorite shows again, because when you watch Satellite TV for PC
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OPERATING SYSTEM:
Windows XP (Professional or Home edition), Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows95, Windows98, or Vista Home or Professional Platforms. MAC users will need to have a current OS X version with .exe download abilities.
INTERNET CONNECTION:
Use Satellite TV for PC on a broadband cable/DSL connection with 128K minimum speed for optimum performance. However, this will work on a 56k dial up as well. You will just need to wait longer for the TV channels to buffer (download).
You can use satellite TV for PC on as many as six computers with one membership, provide everyone in your household with this service, or install at your work or business. You will be allowed to download and view on up to six computers or laptops with one membership.
NOTE: IN FEBRUARY 2009 YOU WILL NEED TO SWITCH FROM ANALOG TO DIGITAL TVâ¦.
You will have three primary choices:
1. Contact your local cable company to purchase a converter box and service.
2. Purchase a satellite TV service.
3. Purchase an Internet TV service such as Satellite TV for PC at a ONE-TIME price and get more channels than the others. Depending on your computer set up it is possible to transfer the TV signal from your computer to your TV set.
Satellite TV for PC will be uninterrupted by the transfer. As a matter of fact Satellite TV for PC is expecting more TV stations once the transfer takes place in February 2009. No need to wait. Click here to purchase Satellite TV for PC.
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Anyone Wanna Buy a System?
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So I got me a little snifter here. Jackâs been working his way through some freebies â a new supplierâs trying to break into supplying the casino. Reckons he needs to make sure all the right people get their taste of the good stuff and weâre both of us out to oblige him. Damn, but some of this stuff is good! Makes me wanna give up the poker and the slot machines, and settle down with a bottle or two to enjoy my retirement. Anyways, the young fellah just called. Caught me in a mellow mood for once. He thinks â well, we can suspend judgement on that for so long as he keeps paying me â he thinks I should explain myself. In one piece Iâm saying thereâs, âa proper mathematical playing strategy for video poker.â In the next, Iâm saying thereâs a gamblerâs fallacy and you canât predict the cards. He thinks they doesnât fit right together. So hereâs a few words to make it all crystal. Did you ever see Oceanâs 11 â donât matter whether it was the original Rat Pack version or the new ones with George Clooney and his pals? Did you notice how they always robbed the casinos. There was never a hint of walking through the door with a system for winning at the tables or on the slot machines. Hollywood got it right for once. The only way you guarantee a big score at a casino is as a thief â and youâve to be lucky to enjoy your âtakingsâ and avoid the hail of bullets if you get caught by wrong people. Look around online. Youâll see a small army of people touting their systems for beating all casino games with a house advantage. Play slot machines, win big. Win at blackjack without counting. When I was growing up, my mother used to play 78s all the time. She loved the musicals of the 1920s. Sheâd never been on the chorus line, but sheâd a hankering for it. Her parents disapproved of theatrical folk and that was an end of that. Anyways, one of my favorites was Banana Oil â kinda like snake oil but always applied to lounge-lizard lines. âWhen he tells you, âI adore you,â that’s banana oil.â In other words, everything he said to get his mark into bed was bullshit. Well, the same goes for all these salesmen pushing betting systems for slot machines. Theyâre trying to scam you outa your money. Take it from me. There ainât no system around that even dents the House edge on games where the probabilities are set in the Houseâs favor. Math is math. Mind you. Itâs not my money â you wanna fool yourself you can shade the odds in your favor on video poker, then feel free. So, how do these systems work? Youâre supposed to base your bets on the most recent outcomes. Take roulette as an example. Wait for a run of blacks, then bet on red â the longer the run, the bigger the bets on red. If you see a pattern emerging, youâre supposed to think that the probabilities of the game itself have changed. When I worked for casinos, we always nodded wisely when someone cautiously asked if they could play a system. Another little chicken ripe for the plucking. My father was counting deaths by the million over decades for the life companies. Probabilities and statistics only make sense in the long view. Short-term, youâll find anomalies in all slot machines but, over time, the basic patterns are set in stone and in the Houseâs favor. Youâll see lucky streaks that look like theyâre never going to end. But, so long as the House keeps its nerve, the winner will lose it all back again. Itâs the same with the so-called systems. They aim to build up the small wins to offset the big losses. If youâve the bankroll, you can often win over a session. But youâre obsessional kind, ainât ya? Youâve invested that money in a system. Youâre not going to quit while you’re ahead, are you? Which means that any small winnings you picked up on the good days will all get given back to the casinos on the bad days. Itâs just the way the House edge works. Like I say, you canât beat the math. Which leaves me with my strategy, which Iâll get back to when Iâm good and ready.
Elizabeth Tudor
http://www.articlesbase.com/online-gambling-articles/anyone-wanna-buy-a-system-723695.html
Bride Wars: Comedy Down the Aisle
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“If I were your wedding, I would be sleeping with one eye open. . .” - Liv
     Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson team up as two best friends in the funny and romantic comedy Bride Wars as powerhouses Emma (Hathaway) and Liv (Hudson) living in New York city, close with one another after years of friendship strengthened by their love of two things: the extravagant Plaza Hotel, and, of course, their weddings.
    Liv and Emma seem like typical best friends; they’ve planned their weddings since they were children, and have always loved the idea of getting married at the Plaza Hotel, a desired location for elegant and modern marriages. The two twenty-six-year-old women do almost everything together, and as they see many of their friends begin to marry, are excited to wed themselves and hope that their boyfriends propose.
    Although the two are opposites, they’ve managed to stick together over the years. Liv is a completely in control and cool, composed lawyer who tries to have everything ultimately perfect, while Emma does her best to remain calm and collected as a school teacher of a local secondary school, always settling for what she has and never quite able to take risks. (This may seem like a bit unrealistic or a somewhat overused idea to viewers with opposites attracting, but both Hudson and Hathaway do eventually find a way to add more depth to their friendship near the end of the movie.)
   Everything seems idealistic when both Liv and Emma are suddenly engaged, just within days of one another due to their surfacing competitive nature withtheir upcoming weddings. Things seem absolutely perfect; they are both able to hire Marion, a famous wedding planner in upper-class New York, to help book their weddings at the Plaza Hotel. Both Liv and Emma have their perfect dates set: the 6th of June for Liv, the same date as her deceased parents’ anniversary, and the 27th of June for Emma.
    When a strange mistake occurs and the two women discover their weddings have been accidentally booked on the same date - the 6th - both are, at first, quite levelheaded about the situation they are in, trying to compromise . . . Soon after, things go downhill from there on, and it won’t be long until they two are at war.
    Hathaway and Hudson provide many laughs for the audience, portraying their characters well; Hudson is very comedic as a control-freak that has a strange obsession with sweets ( she’s referenced as an “Ex-heifer” by Emma’s co-worker ), and Hathaway shows her usual dynamic and hilarious acting skills when she lets Emma’s wild side break loose and has a wonderful time getting sweet revenge instead of staying on the sidelines.
    Bride Wars also has an array of funny and well-casted actors that occasionally give the movie a realistic feel and also serve laughs for viewers. Emma’s fellow teacher, for example, is absolutely hilarious with her oblivious attitude, and her offhand comments are entertaining due to their forwardness and their sarcasm.
    Although the movie serves well as a romantic comedy, Bride Wars occasionally fails with providing a stable plot in the movie, and can often get wrapped up in only the silly revenge of the two former best friends. Also, viewers may not be pleased with the typically overused storyline that could seem stale and even ridiculous; the plot of a wedding as the main conflict in a movie can easily be said to be slightly too J. Lo ( think Wedding Planner or Monster-in-Law ) and boring, or flat-out pointless.
    Besides the lack of plot, skeptics may easily be wondering: why are these women so desperate to settle down and get married to a man at the young age of 26? Even to the fans of Bride Wars, this does take away from the overall positive view of the film, not including how insanely angered and flat-out crazy with revenge the two brides act throughout much of the film.
    Overall, Bride Wars is a cute chick-flick that provides laughs, a few good bits of comedy here and there, and traces of a heartwarming relationship that is timeless between two best friends. Don’t forget to keep in mind when going to see the movie: you won’t have to truly think to process anything, so if intelect is your style, you should either let your mind rest for an hour and a half or see a serious flick like Benjamin Button or Gran Torino.
Alexa Shelby
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Dubrovnik- Pearl of the Adriatic
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Dubrovnik is a place of history, wealth and culture, being the arts center of Croatia. Many artists, poets and writers originate from the South Coast, making it one of the most popular resorts on the Mediterranean. Dubrovnik is a resort for the elite, with hosts of celebrities holidaying or buying property there. The beauty of this city with its stretches of harbors and stunning coast line makes visiting this wonderful place a must.
Unfortunately, Dubrovnik was hit hard during bombing of the Montenegrin Navy from 1992-1993. Statistics show that almost a third of Dubrovnikâs buildings were damaged during the war, but by visiting the city you would never have thought it. The city has obviously worked extremely hard in restoring its building. Only if you look very hard can you see spots in the cobbles where a bomb has hit or a gun has been fired. Many people would agree that this only gives the city more character.
You wonât be disappointed in the range of activities Dubrovnik has to offer. A must-see attraction has to be Sponza Palace, one of the original buildings to survive the destructive effects of an earthquake in 1667. The Palace is home to important historical documents and is an extremely interesting visit; its amazing gothic architecture is really worth seeing. Another place you should certainly visit is the Church of St. Ignatius and the Jesuit College. This is a beautiful Baroque Church located on a small hill. The exterior and interior is astonishing, and well worth a look. For those interested in this kind of sightseeing, there are countless Churches and monasteries in Dubrovnik to visit.
If you are lucky enough to visit Dubrovnik in the summer months, make sure you make time to go to Dubrovnik Summer Festival. This festival has run every year since 1950, and occupies most of July and August. The festival includes a mix of musical and theatrical performances, all of high quality. The summer months will be busier than the rest of the year, but the vibrant atmosphere of this festival shouldnât be missed if possible.
Dubrovnik hotels are high in quantity and quality. With hosts of celebrities flocking here for their holidays, there is a high number of 5* hotels in Dubrovnik, perfect to really spoil and indulge yourself. Alternatively, you will be able to find many cheap hotels if you search online.
Rachael Miller
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Stand Up Magic and Comedy
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 Funny how these days stand up is associated mostly with comedy. Maybe it’s natural in a sense that stand up comedy has made a major break trough in this new millennium. The word originally means performing for an audience standing up, in front of the audience. It could be a big or small group; the performance is done standing in front of them.
In this way, all performing arts that meet those qualifications are stand up performances. And this is what the word originally means.
I live in Finland and I’m a professional magician. I once got an email from a local comedian who said that I should remove the word “stand up” from web site, because I was a magician not a comedian.
I gave him a small lecture how things are and told him I had been doing stage magic professionally for 15 years and since I had a web site, I have been advertising stand up performances along with close up performances.
Later he apologized, but this phone call actually reflects the way people think these days.
Sometimes I get requests for gigs, where the client asks me to do little close up, then a performance for all and in the end little stand up…
When a word gets branded, it seems to establish a new meaning and people start to take some things for granted.
Of course I tell my customers how things really are, but I have changed some text on my website so that people can more easily understand the difference. I also advertise myself only as a magician; I have a link on my pages that says “stand up” which lead my customers to my stage performance page, but seems many don’t read this page at all, they just understand it the way they have learned it.
Actually for me this isn’t so bad.
I get requests for gigs where the client wants me to do stand up. Well, they understand it as stand up comedy only, but comedy is what I do also. I mix magic and comedy and my performances are actually very funny, so what do I say?
I say nothing; I say perfect, I do it exactly the way you want!
This has happened many times and my clients have never complained, because only thing they are concerned about is getting a performer that does a good job. I am a professional entertainer, so I do a good job - case closed and money in the bank 
In this way comedy, being so popular as it is these days, helps me in a way also. Still I feel I am not doing anything wrong and I am not trying to deceive or mislead people in any way on my web site; I let them know exactly what they are getting in detail.
To me stand up is a very logical word to use, because I’m doing close up also. Close up for small groups at a time and stand up for larger audiences.
If we still think about the word, what it originally meant, as I explained before, to me it can mean a thousand different things. Anybody on stage in front of their audience is doing stand up, and I don’t want to complain, looks like it only means more job for anyone who is doing comedy in one form or another.
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Kim Wist
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Broadway Curtains Tickets - the Revival Musical Hit
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The tale of love and relationships hits New York with both comedy and drama and pulls it off with style. The new musical on the stage of the “Great White Way” has opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in November 2006 and Broadway Company ticket are the talk of the town. This production is a revival and considered to be a musical. Looking deep into the need for long term meaningful relationships and why they are so important to our society. Created by Stephen Sondeim, who has an award winning history in theater based this musical on a collection of one act short plays and then molded it to be the full Broadway musical it has reached today. The show originally played in 1970 and actually was a huge hit taking home 6 Tony awards and it was one of the first shows in New York Broadway to deal with more serious adult problems in a musical for, rather then a play. Tickets for Curtains are selling on average of $65.00 with premium seating for tickets for Curtains reaching over $200.00
The Story Of Curtains on Broadway
The setting is in New York City and is based around the main character Bobby who is a typical 35 year old bachelor surrounded by his best friends who are all married. Bobby also has three girlfriends who are involved in his life at this critical time. The story takes off with his birthday and his desire for a perfect girl for his important evening. The epiphany is realized at this time when he seems to understand his relationships with women have had no meaning nor an ability for commitment. Bobby is able to see that although his friends have to deal with problems they remain happy within their committed relationships. He quickly begins to see the positive and negative aspects of a non committed relationship as well as those aspects of a committed relationship.
Stephen Sondheim created the score for Curtains and has his name already in the theater scene with such shows as Gypsy and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. He also can be credited for writing the lyrics for West Side Story. His award winning history is quite impressive, an Academy Award, several Tony Awards, a Grammy Award and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama with the very successful Sunday in the Park.
Curtains has a nice history on Broadway and was a ground breaking show in it’s day. Unconventional in the way it used a musical genre to accomplish a deep storyline. Still today Curtains proves to have an unconventional look at love and commitment in a changing and sometimes harsh world. The musical has not become dated at all and perhaps was ahead of it’s time in the way love and relationships have progressed from the 1970s to today.
Buying Broadway Curtains Tickets
When buying tickets for Curtains it is always best to plan ahead and call the box office at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. This will save you time and money and guarantee a legitimate Broadway Curtains ticket at face value. If you want to see the show last minute using a ticket broker for the tickets will cost you a bit more money. Regardless of which avenue you must use to obtain tickets for Curtains, catching an off night show or matinee will help to reduce costs and have more tickets available.
Al Terry
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Better Living Through Hypnosis
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Hypnosis is a trance-like state characterized by extreme suggestibility, relaxation and heightened imagination. While the person hypnotized may seem to be asleep, they are actually hyperattentive. It is most often compared to daydreaming, or the feeling of “losing yourself” in a book or movie. You are fully conscious, but you tune out most of the world around you to focus exclusively on just one thing. Have you ever been making a familiar drive, like coming home from work for example, and then suddenly realize you had “zoned out” for the last 15 minutes? If this has happened to you then you have probably experienced a form of self-hypnosis. Our thinking is carried out by the conscious and the sub-conscious mind. Both are important and work hand-in-hand. For instance, as you read this page the information you are reading and actively processing is carried out by the conscious mind, the sub-conscious is doing things like blinking your eyes if they start to dry.
Popular theory is that hypnosis allows us to bypass our conscious mind by deep relaxation and focusing, and interact directly with our sub-conscious. Our conscious mind is still working, we’re still fully aware, it’s just allowing the sub-conscious to take the center-stage. Since the sub-conscious is where memories are stored and physical and emotional sensations are interpreted, by direct interaction you or a clinical hypnotherapist can effect change on behavior. A therapist might counsel an agoraphobic (afraid of the outdoors) for example and find that they had been bitten by a dog once at a park when they were younger. The patients juvenile mind made the association between pain with being outside, perhaps on the first warm day of spring. A therapist counseling a long-term smoker wishing to quit may work with them to alter their perceptions of the nicotine cravings.
Entertainment hypnotist, the ones you see at comedy clubs, pretty much do the same thing. Obviously they’re not going to muck about in your memories, but they might suggest you alter your perception a bit. What they suggest is that you’re the star of the show, without your conscious mind telling you otherwise, your sub-conscious plays along.
In order for someone to be hypnotized they must: 1. Agree to be hypnotized 2. Believe they can be hypnotized 3. Be relaxed. If someone does not meet these criteria no amount of coaxing will get them to succumb. The hypnotist will often test the persons susceptibility first by using minimal relaxation techniques and suggestions. This usually is in the line of “close your eyes, hold out your arms. Imagine your left hand is holding a heavy dictionary, while your right hand is holding onto some helium filled balloons.” The persons whose left arms drop while raising their right arms are therefore more likely to fully imagine what the hypnotist suggests.
To initiate a hypnotic trance, hypnotist will use a variety of methods, including:
1. Fixed Eye Induction Method or fixed gaze induction. The hypnotist will have you focus on an object, candle flame, spot on a wall, etc and focus on this thing to the exclusion of all other thought. This method is also popular with self-hypnosis
2. Rapid Command Method. This method is popular with the stage hypnotist, as it is a quick way to find out if someone is highly susceptible. They issue a series of rapid commands in an authoritative voice. The highly susceptible, whose conscious mind can’t keep up with the commands, will relinquish control.
3. Progressive Relaxation Method and / or Imagery Method. This method is popular with hypnosis cd’s and tapes. It relies on the person closing their eyes and letting a soothing voice describe a relaxing scenario for the person to try to envision.
4. Repetitive Rocking Method or Loss of Balance Method. This method is most often employed by mothers, rocking their babies to sleep, but chances are you’ve experienced this since then if you’ve ever ridden on a jostling train or an open boat.
Better Living Through Hypnosis. You can be hypnotized to improve various aspects of your life such as to lose weight or diet, quit smoking, be more assertive, and have more confidence. With discipline you can improve virtually any aspect of your life and character.
Ed
http://www.articlesbase.com/meditation-articles/better-living-through-hypnosis-94699.html
On the Resolution of Screens the Liquid Web Design and Static Web Design
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I have met frequently in the position of having to choose between adequately covers all possible resolutions and losing accuracy, or fit a couple or three of them being able to design exactly as you imagine it or drawing on paper. I think many other designers novice like me will have been seen in such circumstances, and although it is not easy to develop a universal rule, at least pretend to explain the advantages and disadvantages here that I see over and over how to design.
At present, the computer is an essential part of our life, enables us to obtain results that hardly get in another way. And to be so important, computing is evolving at a rapid speed in most cases we can not fit. NEVER be able to have the latest system software, the latest software, there will always be some piece of our team that this outdated, even for a few days or few months. It is clear that the main reason is our pocket, but we must also think that not everyone has the time and / or the knowledge needed to keep up.
Why do I say this? It’s simple, I intend to say that based on these circumstances, not everyone has the same monitor, in the same browser or the same programs, and this hinders the form of design. In this article I will focus on some of the biggest problems of the current web design: Unlike the resolutions. As we do not know how many pixels will have wide web, we do not know who put the size of our design. This issue divides how to design in two: the design liquid, which is suited to all possible resolutions, or the static design, which can only bring two or three.
Liquid web design
The idea of the design is based on liquid that measures of the components of the web are related, that is, having sizes percentage. If you put a table width as 100%, that table will have a width of 800 pixels resolution if the computer is 800×600, or 1024 pixels of resolution if the computer is 1024×768 pixels, and thus with all resolutions. Similarly, if we put a 50% size, the slab measured half the width of the resolution.
It would seem that this form of design is the panacea for all our problems, but obviously not the case. And this is not the case for many reasons: think of an image, the size has to be absolute, therefore we can not make that image occupies the entire width of the screen; what if that image is the “top”, which is logo, which also has static measures, and where there is a Pad of a certain width? There are tricks to solve certain parts of the problem, I will discuss later, but I think the idea of the design liquid and its main problem have been made clear.
Static web design
The idea of static design is based on the components of the Web have absolute measurements. That is, we’ll give you a width in pixels to anything, whether table, image, form field … In this way, and taking into account that most of the designers distribute the elements of your web pages using tables or CSS divisions, we have a system that allows us to be precise, will always know where each element, because the resolution will not make change its position.
But of course, not everything was going to be good, if you stop to think a little, it is clear that with this system we chose the width in pixels on our page, and of course, if you make a webpage of 800 pixels wide and someone has a resolution smaller, you have to use the odious horizontal scroll bar, and if your resolution is bigger, you see a small page. Usually the people who design this way, make their web pages with a size between 740 and 755 pixels wide, to understand, adapt to the resolution of 800×600 and thus the page looks good in resolutions of 800×600 and 1024×768, which are the most used according to the statistics.
One possible solution, web design mixed
One possible solution to alleviate the problems of earlier forms; the design is mixed, but still is far from a panacea. Is to mix the two forms of design, to achieve an outcome that is compatible with all resolutions and has a minimum of accuracy. Imagine that we want to make a kind web portal, so typical, two menus, one on each side and the content in the middle: Well, we can take action is likely to menus, and on the center, for example, we can put 100 pixels wide Each menu, and the downtown area 100%. That way each menu would be 100 pixels wide and the central area would take the rest of the screen size. For example in a resolution of 800×600 pixels each menu would have 100 and the central area would have 600, and in 1024 the menus would have 100 pixels and the central area would have 824 (measures of the central area are well placed to simplify the way, but we should always Remove the width of the vertical scroll bar, and one more thing that takes the browser).
But this system remains a problem, we still do not know the exact size of the central area, because it varies with each resolution, and therefore we still lack precision.
The big decision seen from different points of view
The first method is almost impossible to do, because unless you have only text, it is practically impossible to provide measures for everything. So compare the system is mixed with static system. Those who defend the mixed system, saying that they do have to respect all users by giving them facilities to view the contents of your site the same way that the whole world, it’s about giving equal opportunity to all. Whoever defends the method is based on the statistics, saying it prefers to give the best of himself to an 80% or more people (anything anyone can view a site, but have to use the horizontal scroll bar), which give a worse result at 100% of people. If we neither look coldly nor are like Web pages with different browsers or with different plug-ins. âItâs essentially seek a balance between accessibility and design. It also has much to do the kind of site you are going to design, because you will not in the same way for a web of technology that for a comedy. And as always the best you can do is to design according to your own experience and seeing many, many websites, to learn different methods, different designs and different ways of reaching the public… by Web design India
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