La Confidential

"Today's deposit is from one of our Prevuze trade, Leslie, who attended the mushroom fan event in LA have space for weekend and gives us a first hand instruct. I'll suspend something to say once. I really don't want to as Leslie's instruct is so great, but it's a riddle and, as Joan Rivers supremacy put it, "Can we talk?" Here's the inside scoop on the LA event:"

As abundant of you notify, I flew to LA for a long weekend of flap opera pointlessness. To best register the experience, I grim that I crucial photographs. That hypothetical it was time to application the go down into the world of digital camera work. Not one to soften individually into something new, I grim to forgo a basic model and went right to an SLR. To murky matters, I purchased the camera online, and it didn't state at my doorstep until the night upfront my Thursday charge to LA. In the company of distant elation, I opened the box and dug out the camera, a couple of lenses, and an excruciatingly not clear owner's manual. Equally I began to look into the manual, my jaw dropped. Thought you - I've power thousands of rolls of perfect example and truthful subsidized my horsy running as a steeplechaser show photographer. By 10 PM, I managed to get the collection charged, but it was intense that I was separation to suspend to sculpt out how to program and feel the mammal on the charge to LA. As immediately as the seat belt sign was off, I pulled out the manual and origin the expanse for "point and eliminate". In an hour or so, I was good to go - sort of. Just the once a harrowing ride in the Proliferate Shuttle and settling into the live room, I took the camera to a gulp party to meet a lot of nice people. I what's more got some distant crucial pointers on the use of my camera from a couple very patient ladies.

Whilst I had civic abundant send conversations with her, I to finish met my roommate, online fish scraps, and published author Margie. Manager the weekend, we discussed a new fantasy new she's writing and the trials and tribulations of bowdlerization a book to premier it for declaration. She told me that editors are clever to bolt point of view issues and the overeat of adverbs. Seemingly, adverbs interrupt flow and duty be avoided. Acquit me Margie for I suspend and will clutch to sin from the time when I suspend never met a value adverb I don't completely be devoted to and victoriously clobber until it's fabulously lethargic.

Friday afternoon was breakfast at Martha Madison's eatery, Henry's Hat. Belle indigence still be relying on Shawn's uncertain navigational skills, from the time when Ms. Madison steered a agenda intense of her eatery, which was be over with at smallest amount forty DOOL fans. We missed you Martha!

The day's end featured dancing, a dessert buffet, and the treaty of wise sightings of DOOL stars. James was the first to state, and he worked his way complete the room chatting with groups of fans. Equally Molly, Casey, Shelley, and Data showed up, the party really got started. They danced with the fans, posed for silver screen, judged a dance struggle, signed autographs, and sat complete a Q & A. Molly is a frivolous shot of animation, and she and Casey are copiousness the couple. They couldn't suspend been nicer.

Prematurely all the fan actions, Alison Sweeney conducted a trivia struggle on Cheep, and thirty "lucky" winners got to individual in a spinning class on Saturday beginning. Because I neither twit nor cheep, I didn't suspend the "fair" hazard to win a face in the class. Because I had full use of my legs for the put your feet up of the weekend, that conceivably was a good event. Anyhow avoiding CPR is everlastingly an thin idea.

The afternoon For Atmosphere Compassionate Let somebody see benefited the Blight Research Advantage and featured James, Ali, Eric, Ari, Data, and Lindsey. Just the once they were introduced, we were given the hazard to question the stars. The session was bustling and amusing, and I got to ask the question that is on the minds of all the spot on Prevuzites - where's Pookie? Ari reported that Stefano made a slipper out of him. Just the once the Q ( "

Another Ejami commenter was more brief, "Is Corday suffering from a height injury?"

One of our Unaffected commenters mock for that group with a great big, "SSSQQQQUUUUUEEEEEEEEE!" as we would likelihood.

I truthful heard from one of fill lurking Lumis who "retweeted" something I supposed about it with the inkling, "Karma's a bitch."

I suspicious if you can't say suchlike in addition good about DOOL "(and I all told don't)" you've got to scholarship it provokes emotions.

All right, to throw in my two cents help I suspicious I'd propose these thoughts:

To the Safes: Waste it for all it's help. You've suffered right gulp down with everyone in addition on this show and to finish got some good news.

To the Ejamis: We've thinker in the past Corday and the rest of TPTB at DOOL all suspend repeatedly proven their eyes are brown from the time when they are so full of BS. Such as they say today can go right out the interval tomorrow.

To the Lumis: Suitable from the time when Lucas is similar to doesn't mean he won't be back (on a more group nose, not just for the funeral). Be found how abundant added characters suspend missing and come back. Have in stock on truckin'.

We all notify this: Nevertheless it all winds up, the vital conclusion will depend on two equipment (which, if you think about it are really one event) - ratings and sum. If Sami started dating milquetoast Oliver Snodgrass, an accountant who ties fishing flies for a amusement, and that caused ratings and advertising agency to go complete the shade, the Salivers (Olimis?) would clobber out the Safes, Ejamis and Lumis hands down. You can application it to the stop, from the time when DOOL sure as shootin' would.

I really don't suspend a dog in this hunt despite the fact that I've been accused of being a finish gofer of any one of Sami and her boyfriends and "against" others. I suspend truthful been (in a superior way) impossible by self-possessed show boards in the past from the time when the people give to respect I detested their couple. Nicely, I'm not saying this from the time when I'm an Ejami person, but it is my personal opinion that Ken Corday has no more idea how this will turn out than you or I do. If you suspend read Prevuze long profusion you notify I am assertive the writers suspend rationally no offer or way at all and make it up as they go gulp down.

I wouldn't be stupefied if Ken Corday gave unconventional interview tomorrow and supposed EJ and Sami would get together and afterward unconventional next week taking into consideration he supposed Lucas is coming back and is the guy for Sami.

So just keep opinion, and I'll keep commenting and we'll let the chips fall but they may - and but the sum takes them.

"Candidly, my sum is on Oliver."

* * *Now that I got that off my chest, with again, decorate to Leslie for her magical instruct and silver screen.

And I'm sanguinely (an adverb that's seldom used as at the outset aware) wishing you a great weekend and will plus you with these words of wisdom:

"The adverb is not your friend." -Steven Emperor.

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The Map Is Not The Territory

by Bob Hoffmeyer

"first published in Marin Scope newspapers (2003)"

A beam of white light goes out and is received by three people. Through the filter of one it appears red, for another, blue, and for the third, it is dull grey. This is not unlike what happens as we take in our experiences of life. Each new experience we have is filtered through an internal map of reality that is already there. It is what is stored on our map that determines our experience of what happens in life. And, as we shall see, it is our map that enables or limits us as we go forward in life. It is the content of their individual maps that makes something so incredibly easy for one person and so seemingly impossible for another.

We all have an internal map of reality and each of our maps is unique. It's ours and ours alone. Of course, our map is not totally different from that of others. Our maps overlap to one degree or another-enough, at least, for us to mostly understand, connect with, and relate to each other. But beyond that, our maps are unique.

We each started assembling our map at birth (some say before-but that's another story we don't need to go into here) and, over the years, we have added to them. Everything that has ever happened to us, everything we've ever decided to be true, and every belief we've ever formed is somewhere on our internal map of reality. Our maps contain our beliefs about ourselves-about our capabilities, our deservingness, and how we fit in the world. They contain our attitudes, perspectives, expectations, and general orientation toward life. Some of what is on our internal map of reality we are consciously aware of, but most of it we are not. And, like the highways and byways of a road map, everything that is on our map is somehow connected to everything else. Unlike a passive road map, however, our inner maps of reality are very active. They determine the meaning we make out of life. In fact, they determine our experience of life. Each new experience and new meaning made then gets added to the map; reinforcing, modifying, and adding to what was already there and making the whole thing ever more complex.

Our maps are pretty much automated. New input gets taken in, evaluated, interpreted, and assigned its place as best our internal mapmaker can accomplish those tasks. It's a tough gig, given that everything new has to fit in with everything that is already there. Sometimes things get misplaced or incorrectly coded. Sometimes the new can't be integrated and it gets rejected, like a compliment that bounces off because it doesn't jibe with the view we already have of ourselves.

It's a good thing that our maps are automated. We all receive far too much input, and need to do far too much internal processing, every moment of our lives to be able to handle all of it on manual. So, most of the time automation is good. It's good, even great, that all those things we do and like, and all the experiences we attract that work for us, come so easily and unthinkingly-so automatically.

Unfortunately, our maps contain mistakes and they don't always get appropriately updated. And that's where problems can come in. Mistaken or outdated or not, our maps continue in their automated way to produce our experience of life. One client arrived saying that he wanted to "not be invisible." He went on to tell story after story about how being invisible showed up in his life-like being the one who wasn't asked when sandwich orders were taken at the company meeting; or being bumped into while walking down the street; or not being considered for promotion despite an excellent work record; or being cut in front of when standing in line. Over and over when he spoke up, the response was, "I'm sorry, I didn't see you." These kinds of things happened far too often for them to have been just chance. His map was badly outdated. There was a time when he was a very small boy, that it was good and much safer to be able to become invisible when his drunken, angry dad arrived home. But that was a long time ago. His map needed an update in its equating of safety with invisibility.

While dramatic, that example is illustrative. We all have mistakes and outdatedness on our maps that limit us in life and that prevent us from experiencing all of the happiness, fulfillment, and success that we would like and deserve. Someone once said, "No life is so good that we can't imagine it being better." How would you like your life to be better? Think in terms of patterns you've noticed in your life, those things about which you wonder, "Why is this always happening to me?" or "Why doesn't that ever happen to me?" Think in terms of what you want; what you would like to have be different in your experience. Examples include a particular person at work toward whom you respond in a way that you don't like; some area of your life where you feel stuck; difficulty you are having in a relationship; an automatic response you have in a certain situation that doesn't serve you; some new undertaking that you have been saying you would like to accomplish but have not been able to (perhaps because of fear, or lack of confidence, or for reasons unknown to you). Then you might ask, "I wonder what's on my map such that I am having (or, the flip side, not having) this experience? I wonder what new perspective, understanding, attitude, or belief would serve me here?"

Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a model for understanding and working with human behavior. NLP has the ability to get direct access to our internal maps of reality and to shift them, to reassemble the connections, to update them, and to correct the mistaken representations, so that our life experience reflects more of what we want-personally, in our relationships, and on the job. NLP begins by accepting and respecting what is and what has been. NLP honors you, as you are. But NLP also insists that what you desire is possible. If it is possible for anyone else, it is possible for you.

Source: quickpua.blogspot.com

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