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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Clan Reward Sesion 5


Inilah hadia untuk juara clan sesion wow hebat banget ya bajunya jadi ke pingin de.
pada gambar 1 na ini dia juara satunya mendapatkan sebua jutsu

pada gambar 2 itu untuk juara 2 sesion 5 mendapatkan weapon dan baju clan yang sangat maco

pada gambar 3 itu untuk juara 3 sesion 5 hanya mendapatkan token dan baju


haha....bersenanglah bagi clan yang mendapatkannya ^_^

Just when you thought you were having a bad day at work......

Watch this guy.....


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My Three Songs: 08/31/10

  1. Poison - Something To Believe In
  2. Nirvana - About a Girl
  3. Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary
Theme :: There's Something About Mary.  Star of the film, Cameron Diaz, turned 38 yesterday.  Still no word on what the hell Brett Fav-ruh is doing here.
Or if she's still using that same hair gel.

Go Get Her, Ray!

You're hungry for a delicious snack that will get your energy up, but may also bring about the end of the world.  You must choose the form of the sugary Destructor.  So you try to think of the most harmless thing. Something you loved from your childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us.  What just pops into your head?

It's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

And now, you can finally purchase Stay Puft marshmallows.  They're "gourmet."  They're officially licensed.  And they're caffeinated, which means that you'll be able to stay wide awake through the coming of Gozer the Gozerian (or a screening of Ghostbusters 2).

I just ordered a box for myself.  I'll let you know how they taste in 7-10 business days.

New Blog

Just a quick note: I decided to create a blog and post about contests and giveaways. I named it Contests and Giveaways, because I'm not very creative this morning.

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Monday, August 30, 2010

WITCHES AND THEIR FLYING MACHINES-PART TWO!



   Another documented account is known as the New England witches and dates back to 1692.  Two selfprofessed witches including a Mary Osgood, confessed to riding on a pole and being carried through the air to five-mile pond and back again.  Wonder where to? Why, pray, a witches meeting of course.
   Other stories reveal even juicier details.  There's even one detailing a flight accident.  Not only did the two of the witches named in this documented story independently of each other confess to being carried through the air by the Devil, but both confirmed that they experienced a crash because one of their broomsticks broke.  One witch apparently hung about her fellow colegue's neck for a while and then dragged both of them down.  They were injured and one of them was bed ridden for months afterwards.
  If the possibly quite strange body position that broomstick flying was likely to have required would have been viewed with utmost suspicion at the time, the punishment of witches might have mimicked such bizarre bodily positioning.  Many accounts reveal that the preferred punishment for suspicion of witchcraft (which often ended in death) was a water ordeal in which a person was tied with his right thumb to the left big toe and the left thumb to the right big toe and then thrown in the water.  If the person sank, they were considered innocent, but if they somehow kept floating, they could end up being killed.  The test would be conducted not by the masses (something that happened in many other circumstances, when hoards of people would turn against a person suspected of being a witch, usually after an incident) but by a few high placed people, in England usually the minister of the parish and other highly regarded persons.
   There are some scientific explanations for the act of flying on a broomstick or "tree riding" as the activity is known in historic records too.  Witches were said to fly through the window or up a chimney.  Murray's study documents that one of the earliest cases on record of stick-riding does not definitely state that the witch flew through the air they way you still read about in fairy tales or Harry Potter stories.  She cites the case of Lady Alice Kyteler.  Historic texts reveal that a pipe with ointment was found in this lady's closet, apparently for the use of greasing a stick "upon the which she ambled and galloped through thick and thin, when and in what manner she listed".  Similar accounts are found elsewhere in the U.K. and the wording is also quite close to the way the stick-riding of Arab witches is described.
   The potion stories are most believable and scientifically correct.  Historic records of confessions of witches also include other means of flying, including simple sticks, pitchforks, poles, faggots, shovels, flying goats, heads of strange animals, cats, bats and humans transformed into animals.
   Scientists say that the recipes for potions or unguents that had been given to the witches by no one less than the Devil himself, are sufficient proof to explain the phenomenon.  Apparently, there are the natural herbs mixed together to form the secret ingredients for the "flying" ointments that were said to be applied to the broomsticks, which are really rather phallic, include parsley, water of aconite, poplar leaves, and soot, sweet flag, cinquefoil, bat's blood, deadly night shade, and oil and baby's fat.
   Scientist say that its the mixing together of these ingredients and their effect that likely created the flying stories.  Because if you mix up these goodies, you are sure to end up with a pretty hefty poison.  "These prescriptions show that the society of witches had a very creditable knowledge of the art of poisoning: aconite and deadly nightshade or belladonna are two of the three most poisonous plants growing freely in Europe", say Murray.

To bee continued.....part three!!!

 

auditions mary byrne new susan boyle subo x factor

i liked last weeks x factor auditions show, and thought exactly the same thing that a lot have thought since the last episode of x factor that mary byrne could be the new susan boyle or subo for short, wonder what mary could be called to have a shortened stage name like susan boyles subo?.

mary byrne or maby?, does that rhyme at all?.

well mary byrne sung a big tom jones song that was said by simon cowell the best audition so far in the new series of x factor.

it was one of those big ballad big voice type songs and really went down well with the irish crowd, so another new favourite at this stage of the competition must be mary byrne.

the judges had a difficult time in ireland, with the lack of stand out auditions but there was a few good stand out auditions that just about saved the day over in ireland.

The X Factor: Mary Byrne's X Factor Audition (Full Version) - itv.com/xfactor



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My Three Songs: 08/30/10

  1. ZZ Top - Pearl Necklace
  2. Ram Jam - Black Betty
  3. Aerosmith - Big Ten Inch Record
Theme: Pearl Jam's "Ten" - their debut album was released this week in 1991.

Mario Kart Bike Lanes!

Next time I'm visiting my brother in Portland, OR, I'm bringing my bike.  And I'm aiming for that blue shell.



Note that all the bicyclists avoid the banana.  Awesome!

My Life of Crime


In the Creative Writing course, we have several assignments. One of them is a memory flashback called "As a child..." I'm supposed to write a memory flashback from my childhood. I immediately decided what to write about when I read the description. Aaaand today I wrote it, although it's not due until September 24th. I understand that I might have to change it as I learn, but this is what I have for now:


My Life of Crime 

When I was ten years old, I stole for the first time in my life. I was at a school-buddy’s house and we were playing with her dolls. When she went to the bathroom, I snuck this Lego-sized rubber baby-doll into my pocket and took it home. She later accused me of stealing it, but I denied it. She had no proof, so I got away with it. Needless to say, she didn’t invite me back to her house. She wasn’t my best friend, anyway.

That doll was precious to me. It had a tiny little head, tiny limbs and a teensy body. The hair on its head was also rubber, but it still had a stylish “hairdo”. I made it tiny little clothes to wear, I built it a home out of Lego blocks, and I even gave it a holiday home in one of my ceramic Christmas house that’s supposed to hold a candle inside. I’d wrap up tiny little things before Christmas, and then I’d unwrap them before I went to sleep at Christmas Eve, making my doll jump up and down in excitement. It was always the baby in my doll games, but it could also be an adult in other games. In every game I played, this doll had a major role. Of all the dolls I owned, I loved this one the most.

I did other things considered illegal. I broke into a building with a good friend of mine. It was a construction site with locked doors. There was no glass in the windows, so my friend managed to help me climb inside. We’d play in the seven-story high building for hours. Looking down the gaps next to the stairwell had my stomach in a knot, so I would go down the stairs on my bottom, much to my friend’s amusement. As a boy, he wasn’t afraid of heights.

I also broke into a patched-up hut, built by a kid in my neighbourhood. With the same friend-in-crime, we crawled through a hinged-flap on the roof. There were no doors or windows. There was nothing of interest inside but soggy wood and spiders, so it wasn’t as much fun as my friend had made it out to be.

At school, a different friend of mine and I were sometimes allowed to go to a separate room to study. I’d have my crayons in my backpack. She’d ask me to fish them out, and together we’d go to the furnace and melt the crayons on it. By the end of the year, the furnace was very colourful – a piece of art! One day, I was on my way outside when I heard the teacher discover our little secret project. My friend was still inside. I was scared, so I didn’t go back to confess that I had taken a part in the vandalism. I doubted the teacher would let me leave if I told her that it was all my friend’s idea. My friend had to spend the rest of the afternoon scrubbing the wax off the furnace. I got away scot-free.

The break-ins, and single act of vandalism were initiated and encouraged by my friends. If it hadn’t been for them, I wouldn’t have done any of it. But the doll-theft was my own little act. My own little spontaneous act to obtain something I wanted, no matter the consequences or the hurt feelings of another human being. An act I made to prove to myself that I wasn’t the blonde, longhaired, pink-coated, quiet little girl everyone saw me as. I wasn’t the goody-goody only child, who never caused any trouble. Not really. I was capable of doing bad things just like anyone else! No one needed to know that I had it in me, as long as I knew it.

My life of crime didn’t last. I doubt there’s a straighter arrow two hundred miles away. I have never been stopped by the traffic police, because there’s never been any reason to. I always give back excessive change – even that extra 5000 kr. bill I once got by mistake. I turn in valuable jewellery I find to the lost-and-found desk – even though that pearl ring was absolutely gorgeous. I don’t cut in line. I don’t lie. I don’t cheat. Not even in cards.

But deep down, I know that I once stole a tiny little item, and that memory is precious to me.

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Now you have something to distribute to the tabloids if I ever get famous :P

Edited to add: Of course I feel guilty about stealing the little doll (today, even though I didn't feel it as a kid - kids do stupid things). I even wish I could go back and undo it, but that's not possible. Instead I just smile at that single act of rebellion of always being thought of as the good girl.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

WITCHES AND THEIR FLYING MACHINES





Stories about air born witches have intrigued the world for a long time.  Even
though there is little evidence that broomstick flying ever took place, the eery consistency of the stories of broomstick flying is too persistent to ignore it.  So what was it with broomsticks?
   In many cases, historic records-mostly of courtcases, leave us a quite precise description of the way witches were perceived to be operating their wicked or evil magic on the rest of society in the Middle Ages.
   In England, witchcraft was outlawed in legal act in 1542 and 1736, but the laws did not forid flying.  Probably because the legal profession did not believe it a possibility.  But there are still many accounts of witches having been seen leaving one place only to turn up several miles away without passing by on the road.
   A linked belief was that witches knew far too much about other people's business, reporting secrets they could not have known or overhearing conversations from far off, says Shantell Powell, who runs a research site on the issue call shanmonster.com.
    Often the accounts of witches' ability to conduct supernatural acts were made by the people in their immediate environment.  Historians say that the persons telling the court what they believed they'd witnessed in very many cases shows that they clearly misunderstood some happenings and that in as many cases gross exaggeration was employed to make stories fit.
   Yet the many misgivings revealed by the old historic records do not necessarily mean that the actual accusation themselves were never based on any truth whatsoever.
    "The broomstick flying can be accounted for when the form of early mound-dwellings is taken into consideration", says Margaret Alic Murray, author of "The Witch Cult in Western Europe", an extensive work not only of witch trials but also a well documented study of the beliefs of ancient witch organisations.
   Murray believes that savage European tribes tended to maintain elaborate taboos connected with the door that can be linked to witches' preferred means of departure through windows and chimneys.  She also says that the broom was connected to fertility rites, an issue that of course creates the necessary hype in that it is intricately mysterious easily explaining any links with older women.
   For their extent to which broomstick flying stories are part of may European, North American, Asian, African and Middle Eastern countries' folklore, the number of direct confessions or testimonial account of broomstick flying is very small, Murray writes in her research.  One eye witness account historically recorded is made by a certain Julian Cox, a woman who in 1664 testified that one evening about a mile from her house, she saw riding towards her three persons on as many "broom-staves."  The three were flying at a height of one and a half yards from the ground, she said.

   To be countinued..........

  


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BABA YAGA THE RUSSIAN FOLKLORE WITCH



   Myths and legends are a part of virtually every culture.  One of the most interesting legends of Russian culture is that of Baba Yaga.  She is, however, not unique to Russia.  There are similar stories about her, under other names, in Poland as well as in the Czech Republic.
   The figure of Baba Yaga is most often pictured as that of an old hag on a broomstick, reminiscent of the kitchen witches we often see today.  Some believe that she might have been the precursor for the ugly, old crones that most often represent witches at Halloween. 
   In truth, however, Baba Yaga is a complicated creature associated as much with fertility and fate as she is with death.  Some believed that she also had the gift of prophecy and great wisdom.  However, for reasons never understood, she seldom chose to use those skills without exacting a gruesome payment.  Anyone wishing to partake of Baba Yaga's wisdom had to take on a challenge, which began with a trip to her home hidden deep within a treacherous forest.  Those arriving there would often decide to turn back without confronting the hag because of the gruesome look of the house itself.  As legends have it, Baba Yaga's home sat atop four chicken legs that allowed her to move it from place to place at will.  Surrounded by a black picket fence adorned with flaming human skulls, those arriving on her property were no doubt scared about what they were about to encounter.
   Inside the house, it was said that the crone sat at a spinning wheel, spinning with thread made from the tendons and muscles of human beings.  Not prone to help anyone out of a sense of kindness, Baba Yaga would put those who sought her assistance through a series of tests before agreeing to help them.
   Few ever completed them and even some of those who did were never seen again because they dared to anger the old woman in the process.  She then turned on them with her sharp teeth.  It was said that she could rip apart an animal or a human in less that 30 seconds.
 

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