Thursday, May 31, 2007

Do you have it in you?

If you have it in you, we're looking for you.


India's Armed Forces is looking for a few good men. For the best and the brightest amongst you.For men with intellect, idealism and courage.Men who can lead and inspire others.

The Indian Army is looking for a few good men & women. A few of the best and the brightest. A few with fire in their belly. A few with intellect, idealism and courage. If you have it in you, we’re looking for you.





If you have it in you, we're looking for you.








India's Armed Forces is looking for a few good men. For the best and the brightest amongst you.For men with intellect, idealism and courage.Men who can lead and inspire others.

The Indian Army is looking for a few good men & women. A few of the best and the brightest. A few with fire in their belly. A few with intellect, idealism and courage. If you have it in you, we’re looking for you.




Officer in the Indian Army
As an officer in the Indian Army, you will be heir to a glorious heritage. Blended perfectly with the latest in hi-technology, training techniques and strategic doctrines. You will be part of one of the world's finest Armies. Trained not just to be an officer, but a SOLDIER'S SOLDIER.

You are a Special Person
Every year, thousands apply to become officers. Only a handful get through. You could be one of the chosen few. Do you have it in you? The time has come. To tighten your belt. To brace yourself for the road ahead. To choose the right path. The path that will decide where your life goes from here. Are you ready for the decision that will change your life forever? The Indian Army is looking for a few good men & women. A few of the best and the brightest. A few with fire in their belly. A few with intellect, idealism and courage. If you have it in you, we’re looking for you.

We build Men and Women of Character
An Indian Army Officer is the hallmark of what every human being aspires to be….. a pillar of strength and courage, whose mettle has been put through the acid test time and again. A career in the Army. It will teach you to face the toughest of situations in life with panache you have never known before. It will help you become a multidimensional personality who will be a force to reckon with. Interested? UNLIMITED OPPORTUNITIES While the Indian Army trains you in the art of war the curriculum consists of academic subjects too. Besides it also gives you ample scope to acquire new skills constantly. You can participate in activities like river rafting, para jumping, rock climbing, trekking, mountaineering or even desert safaris. When it comes to adventure and sports, there’s no place like the army.

Unparalleled Education
The Indian Army is a place where you’ll never stop learning. Nowhere else can you get such phenomenal opportunities to constantly hone and upgrade your skills. NDA awards you a Bachelor’s degree in Arts, Science or Computer Science on completion of your training. If you join the technical stream, you will be offered a Graduate and Post Graduate degree in Engineering from one of the finest institutes of technology in the country. If you are selected for the prestigious Defence Services Staff College course. You’ll be awarded a Master of Science degree in Defence and Strategic Studies. The Indian Army also runs some of the country’s most prestigious academies and institutes. This covers a wide range of subjects from engineering to medicine, administration to strategy, and armament technology to management. The choice is indeed limitless. In fact, you can even get into Research & Development, if you desire. That’s not all. You can also take a study leave amidst your tenure for an added educational qualification.

Unmatched Lifestyle
As an Indian Army Officer at 21, you’d be looking at a lifestyle that one cannot imagine in any other profession, so early in life. For all those of you who want to take the plunge, here’s how you can get into the Indian Army. You have several options. You can join right after school or after graduating. Read on to find out more.

Monday, May 28, 2007

Ross Jeffries: Seduction Guru

Ross Jeffries is a former comedy writer and the creator of "Speed Seduction," a set of teachings that draws from Neuro Linguistic Programming and other hypnotic techniques. Jeffries claims these methods help men understand women, particularly their motivations and psychology, in order to successfully establish sexual relations. Ross has taught at numerous seminars in locations including Los Angeles, New York and London. Ross's current version of Speed Seduction focuses on techniques of moving energy through the body and "magick". He and his supporters claim great success in changing the attitudes and thought processes of men seeking success with women.

Ross was born in September of 1958 and was raised under the Jewish faith in Gardena-Hawthorne, L.A., California. He had a variety of jobs, and worked at various times insurance claims adjustor, marketing assistant, paralegal, and failed comedy writer. It is clear that while Ross was in his twenties he was an angry man. But it was the notion of Neuro Linguistic Programming, the basis of a book by Richard Bandler, that made him leave all of these careers behind to pursue a more psychological life. Jeffries favorite super hero is the Green Lantern and he has been known to wear a Green Lantern ring.

Speed Seduction

Jeffries was the first of the Seduction Community to create a site and publish user-friendly books on dating women and self-improvement. His first book, "How To Get the Women You Desire Into Bed," created a huge buzz[citation needed] and online communities were created to discuss and aid the development of the art of seduction[citation needed]. Ross has many products, including "Unstoppable Confidence," "Fear into Charisma," "Gold Walk-Up," his seduction home-study course spanning 13 audio CD's and a 107 page accompanying book, and his seminars. From the Bahamas to Palo Alto to London, he lectures seminars on "Hyper-Responsive Connections."
The basis of the original Speed Seduction books and courses is that a person feels the emotions expressed in a story or a linguistical pattern. The goal is to arouse women with words, to put them in a sexual state. Phonetic ambiguity and anchoring are not that often used. Non-verbal communication (hypnosis- like tone of voice) is essential.

By using anchors and "weasel phrases," these states can be anchored to you. From that point on, you can remind a woman of these emotional states by your appearance or touch, as featured in How to Get the Women You Desire into Bed (1992).

A student of Richard Bandler's NLP school, Jeffries was the first to apply the NLP persuasion tactics to the dating field in a structured and systematic way.[citation needed] Jeffries' students have included Neil "Style" Strauss and David DeAngelo, two well-known seductionists.

He was featured as a pick-up mentor to Neil Strauss in Strauss' bestselling book "The Game".

Examples of Speed Seduction Theory

The "Basic Speed Seduction" course consists of CD/DVD recordings of a three-day live seminar, a workbook, and a deck of NLP "Patterns" used to structure sentences as commands. The system has you speak some words of a sentence at a normal tone, while the parts of the sentence you want the person to interpret subliminally as a command are said at a lower register. An example of a Pattern would be, "I told my dog to go inside the house." The words "go inside" may be interpreted by the unconscious mind as a command. A weasel phrase would be to say something without directly violating the other. For example, "Just for the sake of me getting to know you better what would someone have to do to get you totally intrigued?" Another Jeffries device is phonetic ambiguity. Sentence example: "Standing on the hill, I could see the river twinkling below me." According to Jeffries, the words "below me" could be unconsciously interpreted as an embedded command to "blow me". Especially, if at the point those words were spoken, you spread your hands palms up with fingers pointing down at the crotch area.

However as one advances through the Speed Seduction courses/products, the entire technique changes to traits like Signal Recognition, essential NLP skills and defusing the approaches of other AFCs (average frustrated chumps). In various seminars (palo alto 02', London 03') he rumors of writing a new book.

Controversy

Jeffries argues that his methods are completely different from the "dating framework" that is advocated by other "romance gurus." He considers the dating framework to be heavily promoted by the entertainment industry for commercial reasons and to be ineffective for bringing men and women closely together, either for sex or romance. Jeffries denies that he is a misogynist, claiming his techniques are designed to bring pleasure to both men and women through a deeper understanding of the needs of each person. [1] Controversy has also appeared towards Jeffries's online presence, arguing with other Pickup Artist's (PUA's) such as Tyler Durden[2] and various other members of the mASF over general technique, principles and original creation of techniques.

There is controversy over how various Speed Seduction "Forbidden Patterns" such as "October man sequence" are kept "secret" to all but a few.[citation needed]

Film portrayals

Jeffries is rumored to be the model for Tom Cruise's character in the 1999 movie Magnolia, Frank "T.J." Mackey, a predatory "seduction guru." Cruise himself denies this, though Paul Thomas Anderson, who wrote and directed the film, stated in the magazine "Creative Screenwriting" that Jeffries was the main inspiration for the Mackey character.[citation needed] At the 2003 London Speed Seduction Seminar, Jeffries re-enacted Cruise's opening scene in Magnolia, complete with Richard Strauss' music as featured in the film.

http://www.speedseduction.biz/

Indecent Proposal

Pointillism is a French-originated style of painting where an image is created out of small spots of pure colour, which seem to mix when seen from far away. Transpose such a definition onto one’s marriage and you’ve got a loving partnership between husband and wife that (only) appears that way when viewed from a distance; up close it distorts to nothing more than tiny, negligible dots of colour. In the foreground of Adrian Lyne’s Indecent Proposal, is such a marriage – the union between Diana (Demi Moore) and David Murphy (Woody Harrelson).

This implicitly insightful, uneven, bathos-ridden film poses questions pertinent to the ingenuousness of all couples – questions that challenge the authentic nature of love. Arthur Rimbaud proclaimed, “Love… no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together… that’s not love… that’s stupidity, or selfishness, or fear. Love doesn’t exist. Self-interest exists; attachment based on personal gain exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented.” This assertion finds contemporary delineation in Indecent Proposal.

Upon introduction, the relationship in question has come apart as David recounts through voice-over, the “invincibility” he and Diana once felt together. Diana’s subsequent narration is an example of the film’s hokiness, as it offers platitudinous simplicity – that hokiness however, is overcome. As the film unfolds, we see a nostalgic, sexually congruous couple set apart from other couples in their mushy fondness for one another. That fondness is tested when their financial stability is lost to economic strains – forced to follow David’s capricious advice of “taking a risk,” and gambling their reserves in Las Vegas.

John Gage (played coolly and competently by Robert Redford), a morally inverted billionaire financier, acts as the pull on this couple’s loosely spooled thread.

Though the film has been criticized as mostly bravura with no real substance, the level of human complexity put onscreen here deserves praise and emulation; this complexity begins with the couple considering an offer of one million dollars for a night with Diana. The film fleshes out Diana’s disaffected, desensitized, seemingly fulfilled American housewife… who treats marriage as an emotional convoy. Signs of quiet dissatisfaction show themselves throughout the film as she remains scantily clad just long enough for Gage to notice, or she accepts her status as his good luck charm in the casino. The viewer should be sure to examine her emphatic assurances of happiness to see how they actually prove her dissatisfied.

The melodrama of Indecent Proposal is a throwback to Douglas Sirk’s brand, in that it seeks to subvert the status quo rather than support it, offering a biting criticism of contemporary marriage. Also Sirkian, are the juxtapositions of sentimentality and subtlety.

The film’s conclusion satisfies the melodramatic formula while subverting its predictability; it offers a fantasy resolution while remaining ambiguous. And as it drives toward that conclusion there’s a magnificent scene that perfectly encapsulates the advantage of properly mixing sentimentality with subtlety. David has coolly arrived unannounced at a benefit auction to sign divorce papers, and in the process the audience shares in the splendour of what he’s learned. Harrelson shines in this scene that oozes real-life complexity dealing with the gap between manhood and insecurity, and discovering how manhood can take its shape by learning from the male stages of insecurity. Underpinning the film’s brilliance is a pensive John Barry score that incites one to self-reflect.

Though the film has been criticized as mostly bravura with no real substance, the level of human complexity put onscreen here deserves praise and emulation. - Jon Lap

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Hocus-pocus

I just met a copywriter – and he doesn’t “know” David Ogilvy! He’s NEVER heard of him! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

My Comments: Oldboy

I believe that a man must’ve an element of “savagism” in him. “Modernism” is turning us into Urban Sissies and Eunuchs!

Oldboy

"The octopus being eaten alive was no special effect but a real animal; four were killed during the making of the movie. Actor Choi Min-sik, a Buddhist, said a prayer for each one. It should also be noted that the eating of live octopuses (called sannakji in Korean) as a delicacy is not unheard of in East Asia, although it is usually cut, not eaten whole. When asked if he felt sorry for the actor Choi Min-sik, director Park Chan-wook stated he felt more sorry for the octopus."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_boy

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/oldboy/

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

My (Public Key) Digital ID

My (Public Key) Digital ID is here:

https://digitalid.verisign.com/services/client/index.html

IF MY EMAIL IS NOT DIGITALLY SIGNED THEN IT IS NOT FROM ME!


Comment posted by Fatima Mirza
at 5/22/2007 6:18:00 AM
Thanks for this info.