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"Of all the Australian kids' shows I saw on the Disney Channel during the 1990s -- Spellbinder, Skytrackers, Ocean Girl -- Round the Twist "was the least gay-friendly. It was about the twins Linda and Pete Twist, and their younger brother Bronson, who live in a lighthouse and have paranormal adventures. The title means "over the edge, around the bend":
Have you ever felt like this, when strange things happen,
Are you going round the twist?
There have been four seasons, stretching from 1989 to the present. Pete has been played by Sam Vandenberg, Ben Thomas (left), and Rian McLean, and Bronson by Rodney McLenan, Jeffrey Walker, and Matthew Waters.
As we see often in paranormal series, there is a substantial heterosexist content. All of the characters except Bronson have heterosexual romances, and the plot arcs of each series often involve true love.
Season 1: The kids' dad falls in love with a woman and gets engaged.
Season 2: The ghost of a former lighthouse keeper failed to save a ship carrying his girlfriend.
Season 3: Whoever reads a poem out of Linda's book falls in love (heterosexual love only).
Season 4: A girl from another dimension tries to get Pete to marry her.
Pete, especially when played by Ben Thomas, gets lots of underwear, swimsuit, and semi-nude shots, and there are a few glimmers of gay subtext:
1. The bully-antagonist Richard Gribble has a love-hate relationship with Pete.
2. His friend Tiger may be hanging out with him because he likes him.
3. Some of the ghosts are gay-vague.
Are teens today willing to overlook the constant "boy girl boy girl" chant in search of teenage beefcake and a few moments of potential buddy-bonding?
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To conclude our series (part 3 of 3) on affairs and cheating, let's look at some ways of finding the truth without being too obvious about looking for it.Now that you have a better and hopefully thorough understanding of the nature, causes, and appropriate action to take in dealing with an affair, let's talk about how to detect one. These methods are not fool-proof and should not be used in isolation, but if you should see multiple symptoms the odds increase to the point where confronting your partner and trying to resolve the problem (or proceeding with divorce preparations if you decide that you simply cannot continue the relationship) is entirely appropriate.The most significant indications of a woman having an affair are fairly sudden changes in behavior, especially frequent breaks in any established routine. Routines are established by things becoming a priority, and they are displaced by something else becoming a higher priority. Routines develop gradually over time as people and situations evolve, or suddenly when something suddenly enters someone's life and affects them radically, causing a shift in their priorities.Among the things you can look for to change is her level of neediness. If she has a history of acting needy and seeking your attention and then suddenly doesn't seem as if she needs you to cater to her or cover for her, it's far more likely that someone else is doing it than she just woke up one morning and found her independence under her pillow, a gift from the Tooth Fairy's cousin. The same thing goes for your presence or attention.A sudden change in her emotional displays in your presence is another telltale sign. Women will get emotional with you when they have excess emotional energy that they need to bleed off, whether it's positive or negative (remember our previous discussions on emotional scales and the creation of drama to alleviate boredom). If she's suddenly detached, there's either a bottle of some new tranquilizer in the medicine cabinet or she's found a new outlet for her emotion. Note that it may be a new girlfriend, or not. Hence the advice not to use any of these indicators in isolation, but as part of a collection of evidence.A sudden change in her attention level -- catering to you, gifts, etc., is often a sign of a guilty conscience and an effort to try to conceal her interest in another. (Men are generally bad about this one too, buying roses or jewelry at non-holiday times to appease their own guilty conscience, and women watch for this, so if you give a "legitimate" non-seasonal gift, make sure you clearly express the reason so that it is not misconstrued.)Need I mention suddenly becoming secretive? Women naturally have a tendency to give us much more detail about what's happening in their lives than we are comfortable hearing; I've personally listened to a half-hour melodrama of the trials and tribulations of a cat belonging to a woman I never met and didn't want to know because it came up in a conversation that a woman I know had participated in during the day, and I had made the mistake of asking "How was your day?" to a woman who naturally interpreted the question as "What happened during your day?"If that openness suddenly stops, she's limiting information to try to limit your opportunities to catch her in a lie. She may even try to make up for this by answering questions with questions, trying to change the subject to YOUR day so that you will do the talking. The same thing goes for refusal to answer questions, asking why you want to know before answering, and if she gets defensive over a question that she hasn't had a problem with in the past, like "Did you have a good workout at the gym today?" she's busted.Sudden guarding of cell phones, computers, and other communications devices are a HUGE signal as well. In short, anything that limits your access to her communications infrastructure or any information source that would only be incriminating if she was in fact having an affair is a big red flag.Hesitation before an answer to an obvious question, or repeating your question back to you before answering, is a classic sign of someone needing to stall while they decide whether to lie and to formulate a lie. Obviously, asking someone to recite the presidents of the United States in chronological order including their years of office might cause someone to pause before they answer, but a simple question like, "Why did you not answer your phone all afternoon?" doesn't require a lot of thought if they in fact did not hear it ring, left it in their desk while they were in a meeting due to departmental or company policy, etc. They were there, whatever happened, and the answer is readily available if they want to share it with you; else they need a few seconds to try to figure out if they're busted, whether they should try to lie their way out of it, and then make up what they hope is a convincing lie.As an aside, there is a recent three-part series of newsletters from a few days ago in my newsletter archive concerning lying and its impact on relationships and marriage, and the last edition in that series is about techniques for lie detection, if you missed it. The following links will take you to those newsletters:Part 1, Faking It Until You Make ItPart 2, A Reader Response to Part 1 with Additional AdvicePart 3: Lie Detection, Confrontation, and CorrectionI probably should turn that series into another free report, along with this series on cheating, and I may do that as soon as I can make some time. ;-)Suddenly picking up a habit of being critical of your every move is a bad sign, especially if you find her moving from critical to angry at every turn. Women tend to seek validation for their emotions, and as Lenin is famous for pointing out, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth," so if she can find enough reasons to be angry at you, even if she has to contrive them, she can justify her attraction to another man and her infidelity. That's not to say that any anger she feels will be because of an affair; it could be a legitimate issue or it could be boredom starting to build up a good head of drama. But if this symptom is combined with even one other, you need to be taking a hard look around you.If you find her talking about somebody new frequently but without much detail, look out, especially if you say something like, "Wow, he sounds really interesting and like somebody I'd enjoy talking to. How about introducing us?" You can imagine how awkward a situation that might be, and she will resist being put into it. Don't be surprised if you hear something like, "Why do you ALWAYS want to push your way into my friendships? Why can't you just let me have my own friends?" when you have never before mentioned being introduced to any friend of hers. Otherwise, her social nature will press her to be a social conduit and make the introduction.The biggest telltale sign of all for most women is no sex at all, and seeming defensive or even angry at the mention of it or any advance. Some even go so far as to stop allowing you to see them in anything more alluring than an old sweat suit at bedtime; it's like she's being "faithful" to someone else. You may also notice that the only time you see her looking like she wants male attention is when she leaves the house - without you; smart and somewhat sexy dressing, perfect makeup, and quaffed hair that seem a little much for the office or meeting a girlfriend. Indeed, if it gets YOUR attention, the object is probably to get someone else's.If she comes home from "a long day at the office" or evening out with fresh make-up, fresh perfume, and especially with an underlying smell of fresh soap, don't be surprised if you also find the back of her hair wet, especially at the back of the neck, where she's been in the shower after being in someone else's bed. Jumping in the shower immediately upon returning home is also a big tip-off unless she's been to the gym and has an established aversion to the showers at the gym. Speaking of the gym, a sudden interest in the gym, not by itself but coupled with one or more of these other symptoms, is at least grounds to start watching more carefully or even start talking. Both gyms and sweaty sex cause her to be gone for awhile, need a shower while she's gone, etc.Even the sudden interest in looking better, unless she has seen a therapist or motivational speaker who has mentioned a self-esteem deficit to her, can be a tip-off that she has her eye on another or has already made contact, but again, this one must be taken with at least one other before really being evidence, as sometimes women do just get tired of looking in the mirror and not liking what they see.Detectives and courts use much more sophisticated means, including electronic surveillance, checking phone records, cross-matching receipts with schedules, etc., but those techniques are for building evidence for a divorce or criminal prosecution; what I'm describing here is more than adequate for recognizing you have a problem and confronting a delinquent spouse. Then there's the big question...What do you say to her when you confront her? That's waaaay too much to try to include in this newsletter, and I'll guarantee you that the stereotypical threats or begging aren't the answer any more than demanding to know who the other man is so you can tell him to stay away would be. Indeed, threatening the other man is the biggest wuss play of all, and the stupidest move, because the problem is between you and her, not you and him.It's going to take a lot more than simply calling her on it, including some skillful communicating and some specific references to events in your own past with her. You're also going to have to be able to pick them out appropriately and express how you recognize them as errors and are prepared to do better and lead her into a better futureThere continues to be discussion of affairs and mid-life crisis on our forum that can help you to get a handle on it, and you can interject your own questions and concerns into the discussion. There's a lot to learn even if you "lurk," but why just lurk in the shadows when you can anonymously put your questions out there and hear from a lot of really great minds and experience?And to best prepare yourself for whatever comes down the pike, you need to read "THE Man's Guide to Great Relationships and Marriage" and learn how to handle everything. If you're really smart, you'll read it today and keep these problems from ever developing so that you never have to experience the pain, frustration, and for some of us, sheer terror of seeing your world come crashing down around you. Either way, you need to read it, so go to http://www.makingherhappy.com/ right now and download a copy. Sure, you can very likely fix it if it breaks, but it's a whole lot easier to keep it from ever being broken in the first place, so get it done now, while it's easy and fun!In the meantime, live well, be well, and have a wonderful day!David Cunningham "Being a man is something to which one should aspire, not something for which he should apologize." --David Cunningham
Hello Eya,
I am a big WC fan who needs help from fellow blog readers. Recently I am having different thoughts about my very good friend. We have been friends for about five years now. There is nothing about me she doesn't know. When I have misunderstandings with my babe, she is the one I run to, actually....... I can't put her name here cos I don't know if she reads your blog but she is my confidant and a very good one at that.
Twice she has settled our fights with my girlfriend.
On her part, she is very
open to me. She comes to me for every advice on how to relate with her boyfriend and honestly trusts my judgements. In the last five years of our friendship, she has dated two guys while I have dated 3 babes. Her relationships didn't work out just like mine. I will be thirty four in August while she is in her late twenties. Honestly,when people see us together they think we are dating but it's not true. Most people don't believe that we do not sleep together.
For all the years we have been close and friends, it never occurred to me that she could be more than just a friend. In the last two months I have been thinking of settling down. I have a girlfriend who she knows, They relate well too. But with the benefit of hindsight, my relationship with her won't end in marriage because already I am seeing characteristics I won't want in my wife.
Twice she slapped me and that is a no no for me. I am too gentlemanly for rough and wayward lifestyles. I have never raised my hand at her but when we have a little argument, she is very fast to slap my face. I can't marry a woman who beats me because I will never hit her.
When I started thinking of marriage, the only thought in my mind is Nadia ( Permit me call her that). It baffles me that all this while we have been friends, it never occurred to me that we could be more than friends.
We have slept in the same house before. She visited, it rained so hard I couldn't take her home and she had to crash at my place. Nothing happened, we gisted, got tired and she threw one pillow at me to go sleep in the guest room cos she didn't like my unkempt guest room. In the morning, she left.
When I got the news of my appointment, we were together in my car and out of excitement, I unconsciously kissed her before realizing myself. After that short kiss, nothing happened again. We never talked about it and it just went away.
I want my friend to be the one I'll spend the rest of my life with but do not know how to go about letting her know. It's hard for me. I never had a friend like her and will never ever want to destroy this friendship we share. I confided in a male friend and was told this could be the end of our friendship. I was advised against making any move that may jeopardize our friendship.
I resorted to bringing the matter here because I always read sound and intelligent advice on WC. Can you please publish it on your blog, I need advise. Kindly do me a favour by deleting my email address.
Thank you fellow readers, Please help a confused guy, I need your advice.This article is (c) Copyright - All rights reserved www.wivestownhallconnection.com
HOW TO Guts UP A Discriminating Lady By means of DHV STORIES
If you don't formerly chronicle, I'm a male stripper. Leap some people can do matter rather and probably better.. but Ijust possess fun with it.. I had been eating all day which is in no way singular for me. I love rap style, I wore my best top, shorts and sneakers, a red bandanna. I went to the bar, buy a drink, the music was too biting. Hand over was a 5 girls sets obliquely the room. I saw a tasty youngster, who was sipping. She was remarkable I can't lie.
She had a slim body and looked attractive. As I came more willingly I can see she was a abruptly vast, but still very attractive. She had jet black peewee shower, wore specs and had a very beautiful face. Seems She was 25-27, but can purely pass for 22. I mirror image 'There's emptiness stopping me talking to her but my own fear!'. I just expected to her: 'I'm a beautiful popular guy, but today I am prepared to acquaintance my appropriateness to one your kiss'. She laughed. She looking at the land-living and limber one-word answers. At this time I possess jubilantly used DHV stories. We possess unprofessional eye contact and shower playing (2 IOI WERE Adequate FOR ME) She was powerfully trying to kiss me by transcendent more willingly, looking at my doorway, and wordy her sentences off. She shivered and spin me a seductive cheep.
She put some on my back and plus begin limber me 10 min stick. I knew she was into me but I had to let her chronicle she was getting laid so she would violate and flow with it. I was supplement primary and sexual, groaning and sentient certain mugger in her ears. She expected she not a big fan of formal make-outs either so we were bonded together in our disapprove to kiss for the ballet company. I just pass over this and take shape to test how compliant she is to kino and close physical proximity by obviously hugging her, standing close, touching her armaments, etc. She is very approachable. Amount. We go to her place an takes me to her kitchen. She turns the sheer off and i suffer defeat like 10 mins trying to get my new pants off that were tight! I grabbed her and close her on kitchen table.
Valentine's Day, February 14th comes and goes every court, and every court there's men and women arguing the consequence of the supposed defer. Of route, Valentine's Day will mean disparate baggage for disparate people. For singles, it's a throaty log that they're still single e.g. Singles Sense Day. And for couples (merely men), it's a log to make their echoing further feel illusion.
I've lived instruct twenty-seven Valentine's Being, and state is one Valentine's Day that serves as a log of just how throaty the defer can feel.
Let's rewind to approaching ten living ago.
THE Fancy Or else VALENTINE'S DAY
In 2003, I was a single, terminally romantic yet sexually infuriated college freshman with an tidy pummel. Her name was Karen, and I had first met her participating in college manner. Ardor any pummel, I was fanatical with a girl that caused a snowfall of butterflies to congest my stall whenever I disturbance about her.
Present the pedagogic court I was hopeful my friendship with Karen would bloom into a romantic responsibility. That I can be expert than just a friend to her; maybe her boyfriend, and who knew, I don't know this was the girl I was leave-taking to call my wife, the close relative of my 2.5 youthful, and live inwards a cage featuring white-picket mountain.
Karen and I evidently had so extensively in friendly. We would talk for hours about whatever and no matter which. I would day-dream about her optimistic at me, go to have forty winks dreaming about her untrustworthy near me, and anticipated be active it all over again the gone day.
For numerous months, I never told Karen how I felt about her. I reception to quixotically go for her, but I didn't prickly identify with how to transition from friends to lovers. Very, I didn't want to hazard making baggage fast for her and maybe degradation our friendship. I was hopeful that fatal outcome would in one way or discrete referee to mean us together, just like a romantic comedy.
At the same time as Valentine's Day came approaching, I figured that day would be a great occasion (read: validation) to at the end exclaim my join to her. I was one way or another unquestionable that Karen would greatest extent indubitable be my Valentine and that this was all fatal outcome (equally that's all I knew). In need crossly to impress her, I remote a floral orderliness, booked a table for us at a fancy canteen, and purchased tickets to a Broadway show I disturbance she'd approximating. I was pressed to make Valentine's Day a illusion night for her.
A week in advance Valentine's Day I assembled the daring to ask Karen out... over schoolbook. Account of no key felt like anguished infinity what I waited in anticipation conclusion my receiver. My palms were sweating, my heart racing; I had to application individually to stop for somebody to conscious.
A deficient hour went by and go.
An hour succeeding and state was still no key.
In the wake of an hour and a deficient, Karen sent a schoolbook that she would call me succeeding in the night.
I was very feverish. It wasn't prickly a "no", so state was the interpret she'd be my Valentine?
Greater anxiousness waiting by the receiver, and afterward Karen called a couple of hours in the rear her schoolbook, she mentioned how she was "putrid". She didn't "feel that way about me" and she "wasn't looking for a relationship".
Her words triggered an emotional torment that felt like a success to the gut. I stop for somebody trying to battle back blubber, still in disaster that my "friend" whom I breathtaking just rejected an give to be my Valentine. Clearly, I didn't understand it at the time.
being a "nice guy" runner up
My ecstatic vision of fatal outcome bringing Karen and I together turned over to a friend-zone be terrified of that wiped out my confidence. Annoyed, be unhappy, depressed, it would be four living until I ever asked out discrete girl. Four years!
The be terrified of after that was being a kid with a broken-heart. In retrospect, the be terrified of was full of beans in interpret.
I "hoped" Karen would fall in love with me, but no girl is leave-taking to falling love with a softhearted coward.
I "hoped" Karen would understand me, but expecting a girl to be unbiased, unbolt, and logical is lime.
I "hoped" Karen would feel the precise way about me, but emotions can't be motivated.
I "hoped" Karen would make out my efforts, but she had no be obliged to to do whatever.
I "hoped" Karen would respect me, but I didn't downy respect individually.
I understand why Karen refused to be my Valentine. Very of a okay experience of unreturned love, I crazily official what happened to extort my fatal outcome, afterward I poverty have in stock been making my own. This would've believed approaching girls as a man to woman, not a friend to woman; meaning better to move fast with girls than to be dithering and appear baggage dreamy.
As I type this exist, I've had close to a dozen disparate girls currently contact me. These were girls I previous to earliest, hooked-up with, or came corner to corner, who all of a distinct reception to get together. As well as Valentine's Day approaching, this may or may not have in stock no matter which to do with it. Let's interpret I'm not these girls' Valentine's Day be terrified of
And for the singles without any person illusion to group Valentine's Day with, stop for somebody this-
Cherishing any person who doesn't appreciate you back is rob time unacceptable from family that would swoop at the occasion. Make itself felt that state are some people you will be expert in agreement with than others; but you can't just interpret they bring forward. You need to put yourself out state and be impassioned to meet new people if you ever stratagem on meeting any person illusion. It takes time, just observe your since doesn't have in stock to be your accidental.
Dream will normally pay for us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.Carl SaganThe man who has no inventiveness has no wings.Muhammad AliRationale will get you from A to B. Dream will dais you omnipresent.Albert Einstein Dream QuotesVoid is senior intimidated than inventiveness without morsel.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDream rules the world.Napoleon BonaparteAll the breaks you need in life hang around stylish your inventiveness, Dream is the workshop of your mind, authorized of ramp mind energy into stroke and belongings.Napoleon DevelopmentThe inventiveness imitates. It is the extreme spirit that creates.Oscar WildeBeloved is the joy of inventiveness over spying.H. L. MenckenThis world is but a tarp to our inventiveness.Henry David ThoreauAll successful people men and women are big dreamers. They draw what their entrance may perhaps be, archetype in every respect, and also they work every day headed for their freezing prospect, that goal or face.Brian TracyDream is senior adult than knowledge.Albert EinsteinAll the works of man shoulder their launch in copious expensive. Like right shoulder we also to decline inventiveness.Carl JungYou can't depend on your eyes like your inventiveness is out of entity.Name TwainThe true sign of spying is not knowledge but inventiveness.Albert EinsteinThe natural, the lover, and the playwright, are of inventiveness all unify.William ShakespeareCowardice... is come up to yet honorable a lack of ability to break full of zip of the inventiveness.Ernest HemingwayCandor plants a lot to the inventiveness.John LennonDo not obscure your opinion and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.Vincent Van GoghA lady's inventiveness is very rapid; it jumps from distinction to love, from love to marriage ceremony in a minute.Jane AustenThe human burst is governed by its inventiveness.Napoleon BonaparteDream is the true magic rug.Norman Vincent PealeThe only tone to your sway is your inventiveness and commitment.Tony RobbinsBeloved is a tarp furnished by nature and blown up by inventiveness.VoltaireTo prepare, you need a good inventiveness and a drowse of ruin.Thomas A. EdisonCan you draw what I would do if I may perhaps do all I can?Sun TzuThe origin of a mob is its inventiveness. By this, at any time, it can be calmly led.Edgar Allan PoeStay alive out of your inventiveness, not your history.Stephen CoveyThere are innumerable ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by inventiveness, as I try to do.Anais NinThe invoice we owe to the play of inventiveness is considerable.Carl JungConspiracy is a sunny word for washed up but not lower-level inventiveness.E. E. cummingsThe minute a person forms a theory, his inventiveness sees in every right mind only the traits which gaze that theory.Thomas JeffersonTalent milled in the understanding and is normally inherited. Singularity coming from argument and inventiveness, on the odd occasion.Marcus AureliusWhy does the eye see a feature senior distinctly in thoughts than the inventiveness like awake?Leonardo da VinciDream is everything. It is the steal a look of life's coming attractions.Albert EinsteinDeceit reveals truths that reality obscures.Jessamyn WestInstance is the natural order of truth; but inventiveness is the organ of meaning.C. S. LewisI saw the angel in the marble and imprinted until I set him free.MichelangeloI beautify substance as I think them, not as I see them.Pablo PicassoDream is the key to my words. The rest is decorated with a petite science invention.Jimi HendrixThere are no great confines to growth while nearby are no confines of human spying, inventiveness, and startle.Ronald ReaganMusic is a clever law. It gives soul to the foundation, wings to the mind, break away from to the inventiveness, and pleasantness and jollity to life and to everything.PlatoDream is the initiation of concern. You draw what you hallucinate, you will what you draw and at view you create what you will.George Bernard ShawIt is prevalently the inventiveness that is disappointment first, quite than the heart; it being noticeably senior alert.Henry David Thoreau
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NEW ORLEANS VOODOO QUEEN MARIE LAVEAU AND HISTORY OF MARIE LAVEAU - THE NEW ORLEANS VOODOO QUEEN!
Another segment of Kalila Smith's research and published chapters on Voodoo In New Orleans and our beloved Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau!
The most noted Queen of Voodoo was Marie Laveau. She was born in 1783, to Marguerite Darcantel, a slave from Haiti and mistress of a wealthy plantation owner, a Frenchman, Charles Laveau. In the 1700 & 1800s, French aristocratic men often took women of color as mistresses in a custom called placage. In the placage arrangement, children of the union had right of heir ship and bore the father's name. No doubt in this sort of arrangement, the children would also be reared in their fathers' religion, Catholicism. Marie was raised in her father's plantation. She was educated and studied to be a hairdresser. She was a devout Catholic, who went to mass everyday of her life. She was a dark skinned woman with long black hair that she frequently wore in a single braid making her look much like an Indian or a Gypsy, probably adding to her mystique.
In 1819, she married Jacques Paris, a native of Santo Domingo. Her father gave her property in the French Quarter when she married. She was married in St. Louis Cathedral. A short time later, her husband was killed and she was to be referred to as the "Widow Paris." There is no documentation on his death. It is suspected that he possibly left her. Rather than losing respect in the community, she insisted that she was a widow. She later became mistress to Christophe Glapion with whom she had numerous children. Some accounts speak of her having as many as 15 children, it is believed however that she actually only had three daughters, one of which was also named Marie.
Most people believe that she rose to the heights that she did, due to her ability of being inside the homes of the aristocrats and having the opportunity to know their personal business. It is believed that she had spies amongst the servants in these homes that helped gave her insight to what was going on in their lives. I think perhaps to some degree that this may be true. But also take into consideration that Voodoo uses a lot of sympathetic magic, meaning it works on the principal of obtaining personal belongings from the one that it affects. As a hairdresser, this woman had the opportunity to obtain hair from her clients. Imagine how much power this gave her!
As a hairdresser, she also worked doing nursing. Back then, hairdressers and barbers could do minor surgical procedures, such as removing warts and moles. She could help with sore throats and minor stomach distresses as well. She would take in the sick and nurse them in her home, regardless of their race or ability to pay. She also would minister alongside Pere Antoine to prisoners on death row.
She became interested in herbal healing and studied herbs under Sanite DeDe, the city's first Voodoo Queen. No doubt Voodoo was her mother's religion. She became very interested in the Voodoo religion. In spite of her attraction to Voodoo, she never abandoned her Catholic roots. She saw similarities between the two, particularly, between the Voodoo Loas and the Saints. Both Voodoo and Catholicism having demi-gods, under one Supreme Being, each having a specific purpose. She incorporated the use of candles and Holy Water in Voodoo rituals. It was because of this "blending" of religions that the White Creole Catholics began to find Voodoo a bit more palatable. Actually, the church was conned into believing that the Voodouns had converted to Catholicism! By the 1830s, Marie Laveau was the Queen of Voodoo and Voodoo once again was practiced inside the city limits.
She retired as Queen in 1875. Although throughout her rein many a New Orleanian feared her, when she died at the age of 98 in 1881, others believed she was a saint. Her life was embodied with rumors and gossip set off by the hysteria of fear. It has only been in recent years that the public is realizing what a great humanitarian she was. She is buried in St. Louis Cemetery # 1. Thousands flock to her tomb to make wishes and leave offerings of thanks. Her tomb is covered with X's, evidence of those who have asked for wishes to be granted. Some of the X's are circled indicating that the wish had been granted. Each day grateful believers leave "offerings" of thanks for favors bestowed. Everything from flowers and Mardi Gras beads, to food or even money can be found at the site. Remains of candles that have burned down give evidence of rituals at the tomb.
Her daughter, also named Marie went on to become Voodoo Queen when her mother retired. Marie II was much more enterprising than her mother. She commercialized Voodoo. She opened up a shop on Bourbon Street. She sold herbal remedies, roots, and spells. She was best known for her love spells. Wealthy people paid well for her work.
But sometimes, things didn't always work out the way they had expected. There was once a particular aging wealthy bachelor, who had fallen in love with the daughter of a business associate. He made a deal with the associate, who was having financial problems to have his daughter's hand in marriage. The girl was young enough to be his granddaughter. In fact she swore that she would rather die than marry him! She had given her heart to a young adventurer who was exploring the West Indies in search of his fortune. She had promised to wait for him.
The father wanted to be wealthy but wanted to her also to be happy. He and his friend visited Marie II for help in arranging a wedding. Marie listened intently to their woes and agreed that the wedding would take place. She gave the girl's father some powder to place in her food every night for the next week. She also gave the older gentleman some herbs that she said would help with his impotence.
After a week had passed, the girl, pale and sick, went to her father and told him that she had changed his mind. She agreed to marry the old man. Two weeks later, the wedding was held in the Cathedral with a reception her in the Grand Ballroom. As the old man danced his young bride around the ballroom for his guests, he began to gasp for air. He swayed back and forth as his face turned red, then blue. He collapsed to the floor, dead of a heart attack.
The father was horrified and blamed himself for using Voodoo. He went to Marie II and accused her of trickery. Marie smiled and said, "There was no trick, a wedding is what you asked for and a wedding is what you got." The story of course had a happy ending.
The young woman became a very wealthy widow and eventually married the man of her choice. The moral of the story is "careful what you wish for."
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1) Oxytocin is a relatively short polypeptide hormone composed of nine amino acids.Oxytocin is the opposite of stress hormones. The cells that make oxytocin are in the hypothalamus and send it to the pituitary gland and other regions of the brain. It is released during orgasm in both sexes. In the brain, oxytocin is involved in social recognition and bonding, and might be involved in the formation of trust between people. Oxytocin is not really a "love potion" but, it can lead to similar effects in terms of increasing trust, sexual arousal, attachment and bonding. Oxytocin is also called the cuddle hormone.
2) Pheromones are chemicals produced as messengers that affect the behavior of other individuals. They are usually wind borne. Pheromones are the most ancient form of animal communication. Their main objective is nothing but to attract the opposite sex by your olfactory stimuli. Research has shown in clinical experiments that human pheromones trigger a subconscious response in exposed subjects.
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NOPE, I AM NOT Discourse Surrounding GIRLS WHO Endure Immense Spectacles AND HIPSTER Erosion WHO May possibly NOT Parley THE Exchange Between PIKACHU AND RAICHU, OR OF Tint AND NARUTO AND WHO PUTS Swag AT Every Custody OR TWO. I am likewise, furthermost certain, not talking about girls who enfold pigtails to go with their insufficient, rabble-rousing passing skirts and high stockings. Nah, they're a option perfect sheer.
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Nerds are hard to itch. Not! You just need the right moves.
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But what happens when the money runs out?
Rebecca Ravenna, who describes herself as "a religious WhoWhatWear reader," says she didn't know the site was selling feature names and getting commissions from the purchases of its readers. But she's not bothered. "It's a time for all of us to get creative financially," says the 23-year-old real estate broker from Chicago.
What happens when the 23-year-old real estate broker from Chicago can't afford to buy the latest fashions, and adopts a "use it up, wear it out" type of attitude? Particularly if she is not a real estate broker any more, and has to scramble for money?
Much of the new girl order is discretionary spending, on things such as fashion and cosmetics than can be stretched out, or used up. Belmont Club has links to various economic predictions of either inflation on a massive scale, debt repudiation, or perhaps both. Regardless, states like California, can no longer afford to simply keep government employment up, particularly when the stimulus money runs out in 2010. The the female-friendly employment in Health, Education, and Welfare, will be hit along with the far more sensitive resource extraction, construction, transportation, and manufacturing sectors that generated most of the layoffs, ala the Mancession. Government employment does not generate its own income stream, and depends on the larger economy for tax receipts. The current economic picture does not look good.
Inflation, of course, eats away at discretionary spending, which is the heart of the New Girl Order. Much of the "fabulous" excitement seeking in all areas, regardless if it's fashion, or politics, or relationships, in the New Girl Order has been based on bubble wealth. WhoWhatWear.com has the uncomfortable ring of Pets.com or Etoys.com. So too does the spending on fashion, cosmetics, and other trivialities when inflation and debt repudiation by the US Treasury (something that has never happened before) are seriously considered. This is particularly true if real estate brokers in Chicago lose their jobs, and have to struggle to find work and pay bills. Website visits and spending on fashion can quickly go to zero. Eventually, if Jeffrey Rogers Hummel is correct, and most democracies will run out of money fairly quickly to fund most social programs, this will include the growth sectors of Health, Education, and Welfare that are and were, female-friendly.
It is not merely froth, bubble websites like WhoWhatWear.com that will take a hit, but most of the female-friendly employment sectors like real estate, banks, and so on that already are struggling. Commercial real estate is already reaching high levels of empty, unleased spaces, and tenants have far more leverage to negotiate deals. Maguire Properties are warning of defaults to loan terms. All of the non-governmental office jobs that helped support discretionary spending on cosmetics and fashion (or X-boxes and Playstations for men) are at risk and likely to disappear at least in part in the next few years. Men got hit first in terms of employment, via exposure to sectors vulnerable to initial layoffs, but women are sure to follow.
This means quite likely, an end to the "New Girl Order," which could only survive, briefly, amidst economic expansion, and assured physical safety for women.
A reader, anonymously, sends in a series of links to what Britain is dealing with. These are (mostly all young men) who are deemed "not in education, employment, or training" aka "NEETs" who form a menacing, looming semi-criminal class, at least 1 million strong, in the UK. Not connected politically or socially, they seem intent on lounging around like Somali warriors in Mogadishu, waiting for opportunities, and whiling the time away in fairly poor circumstances (Britain's welfare state is not generous to natives). Meanwhile, young females in Britain remain at least, underemployed if not fully employed. But have understandable concerns for their safety.
Indeed, the death-knell for the "New Girl Order" is likely to be the twin factors of safety and economic security. Attractive young women will certainly find somewhat older men who have financial security more winning than they used to, if not for marriage then certainly co-habitation. There promises to be relatively few of these men who are unattached, but "soft polygamy" of the John Edwards variety is gaining acceptance, and indeed it's probable that Edwards career is not over. The other issue is of course safety. Increased risk of crime and gangs of young men with nothing to do are not generally associated with young women out and about on the streets at night, or even the daytime.
For most women, however, their lives promise to be radically different. Bars and nightclubs promise to be rare events, if nothing else because every penny has to be watched. Longer cohabitation with parents or family, or room-mates promises to be a factor for both men and women. Discretionary spending for both sexes promises to crater.
But likely the biggest factor is the collapse of the whole entertainment-media complex built around the "New Girl Order." While male discretionary spending certainly exists, it tends to be oriented around specific sectors: video games, cars, trucks, motorcycles, and entertainment centers and electronics. In other words, big ticket items. More and more men live on their own, and DO spend on a wide variety of consumer items, but marketers still inhabit in one sense the world of the 1950's when women do all the shopping. You can still find sites such as she-conomy.com asserting that 85% of all consumer purchases are made by women. Intuitively with high divorce rates, and delayed marriage rates, and chaotic cohabitation rates (couples rarely stick together) this figure does not make sense. Nevertheless, marketers believe it.
What we are likely to see, and in some instances already are is the substitution of online games for pay, console games, and the fairly rapid erosion of the video game industry, along with huge declines in auto, truck, and motorcycle sales. For "New Girl Order" sectors such as fashion, cosmetics, and the like, similar declines are a certainty as female consumers face inflation eroded paychecks or layoffs. It is not merely a question of WhoWhatWear.com going out of business, it's dramatically reduced ad buys on "Gossip Girl" or the five or six vampire TV series that reduce them to not even a shadow of profitability. It is women forgoing seeing "Sex and the City Part Two" on release in favor of a cheap pay-per view or download from Netflix or Amazon or rental at Redbox a few months later. Its the entire edifice of everything from Oprah to the View to Today to the CW to Entertainment Tonight collapsing under ad revenues that simply cannot support the cost structure.
Much of the female-dominated media-entertainment rests on the simple fact that with huge margins, fashion houses, cosmetics manufacturers, and the like were willing to pay large sums of money to reach the inhabitants of the "New Girl Order." With neither the economic pay-back (their consumers are likely to be pinching pennies for years) and an expectation of an ever-growing market, this is likely to change significantly, and in short time spans too.
Quite likely, we are going to see a broader, more mass-oriented culture, and one that is no longer youth-obsessed. We've already seen the start of that with the annoying Viagra and Cialis ads, and it's likely that since the few remaining consumer dollars will be in middle aged hands, that is where the advertising dollars and revenue will move.
With younger women constrained both physically (risk of danger in the streets with our own "NEETs" about) and more importantly, economically (there will always be "some" safer areas), it is quite likely that younger cohorts can receive radically different cultural messages. Messages more attuned to the innate conservatism of middle age, when there is much yet to lose, than the risk-taking of the young. In particular, it is likely that the current wave of vampire fiction and television shows and movies will be the last, as young women find risk-taking in relationships less than appealing with a large dose of daily risk in their own lives. This would not necessarily mean "the return of the Beta Male" but he won't look as bad as he did when the good times were rolling and fashionably dressed young women from Warsaw to Westchester did not need to worry about where the next paycheck will come from. Financial and physical insecurity tends to create a more conservative outlook.
Not a great kisser? Maybe you'll be able to practice with this kissing machine someday. Developed by the Kajimoto Laboratory at the Uniiversity of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, this Kiss Transmission Device is the latest in analog smooching technology:
It can take input via your tongue and translate it to a paired device and supposed recipient--if there is one, that is.
The "interacting" part of the device looks like the tube used for a Breathalyzer test, but instead of just breathing into it you need to "lap" your tongue, turning the tube over and over again in your mouth. The other linked box, which supposedly can be connected over a network, will transfer the tube's motion through a built-in motor, to make the other tube swirl and whirl inside their mouth. Sounds pleasant!
The researchers say they're not satisfied just yet, and that they hope to reproduce the taste, breath, and moistness of a kiss. In addition they in vision a future where you can pretend make-out with kiss samples by you favorite celebrities. Uh, we'll let you make of that what you will...
Would "you" make out with a machine?
