Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics
Mount Igman Ski Jump in 1984
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Wednesday, 3 September 2014
HOW EATING JUST ONE ‘INNOCENT’ THING IS CAUSING YOUR PAIN
When was the last time you felt 100%? I asked three friends in their
40s that same question last week. 2 of them said they hadn’t felt 100%
since they were in their 20s. Life and old age; two things we can’t avoid. And we blame getting
older and the stress of every day life for the pains we feel; headaches,
back pain, lack of concentration, anxiety, depression and more. We’ve been told that it’s kind of unavoidable. Just get on with it and hope that you can take a break once a year to relax. But I couldn’t deal with the pain anymore.
I had frequent head aches and back-pain every single day. I’d seen many doctors and they prescribed me with a mind-numbing array of drugs with a self-confident ease.
I won’t lie to you. The drugs sometimes gave me temporary relief. Until they didn’t, and I had to take more drugs and different drugs
as my body built up a natural resistant. Then there was the side-effects
which could be even worse than the problem! But everything changed when I was introduced to a program developed by Dr Patel, and his co-editor Ken Drew.
They said one thing that resonated with me:
“If you are well one minute. Then ill the next. Then back to better in a few days. Then you DO NOT have a disease that can be treated with pharmaceuticals.” – Dr Patel
Think about that. My back pain was here one day, then gone the next
only to strike a few days later! Nothing appeared on the x-ray and the
Doctor called it “stress related”.
What if I was to tell you that the problem you face – whether it’s
Depression, Back Pain, Heart Pain, High Blood Pressure could be the
result of a seemingly innocent thing you may be eating every single day.
I was amazed when I started to learned about Dr Patel, a 102 year old reclusive Doctor, and his controversial ideas on immune system response and disease.
His solution is as simple as identifying the one food you should stop
eating and letting your body do the rest. But why? And How? Watch the
video presentation.
ESCAPE THE FRIEND ZONE: STEP 1
By Jason
I am going to give you some highly coveted information why 95% of
guys fall into a sadly unenviable position with women called “The Friend
Zone”.
Getting out of that so-called “Friend Zone” is one of the most common questions I get from guys. Let me explain. There are two major reasons that you are stuck in “The Friend Zone”
and you are most likely doing both without ever realizing it.
- not touching enough
- skipping the attraction stage
Let’s begin with touching.
Building rapport with a woman is great. However, rapport does not create the physical connection. To break the bonds of pure rapport and create anchors of sexuality, you need to break the touch barrier early on and intensify that touch over time.
Building rapport with a woman is great. However, rapport does not create the physical connection. To break the bonds of pure rapport and create anchors of sexuality, you need to break the touch barrier early on and intensify that touch over time.
Here’s how…
One of the most amazing methods for creating sexuality and emotional
anchors is to take her intrigue and curiosity about you to new levels
through simple but brief touch. This can be as straightforward as slight
and casual touch of the hand or shoulder for two to three seconds or
less during the course of conversation. Yet, you should be consistently
creating these emotional anchors of trust and connection at least once
per minute. Otherwise, you may well be headed to “The Friend Zone.”
Rule of thumb…Increase your touch 300%. In other words, touch 3 times more than would normally.
The other tendency most guys have is to skip the attraction stage
altogether and go head-first into deep conversation and rapport
building. Trust me, there is a time and place for rapport building;
however, what typically happens is most guys never reach the peak level
of attraction needed to stimulate desirable magnetism beyond friendship.
HOW TO GET OUT OF THE FRIEND ZONE
As I said, there are only a few ways to get out of “The Friend
Zone.” First, let me warn you. It takes patience and it takes work. It
seems that the male species has an imprint old thoughts and concepts
that DO NOT work. If you are used to asking women to go out to dinner or
have a drink, toss that thinking out of your mind right now. Getting
out of “The Friend Zone” requires a shift in the paradigm of your
connection with women.
This new way of thinking creates a win-win situation for you and for her.
The key is to invite her to “meet up” in a comfortable social
setting. ‘Meeting up’ can help alleviate feelings of pressure for you
both. Yet, there are a few critical aspects of this ‘meeting up’
philosophy that can help create the right environment for creating
sexuality and emotional anchors. One of the coolest things I suggest to
guys who ask me about getting out of “The Friend Zone” is to invite your
friends to meet up at the same location. In particular, inviting
attractive female friends not sexually interested in you. When you meet
up with her and follow this system, you will see a transformation in the
way she interacts with you.
Why does this work?
Well, for starters, when she sees you interacting equally in a group
conversation and creating eye contact with everyone — female and male —
not just focusing just on her, you become more attractive.
When she sees other women are attracted to you, you show value. She starts to desire your attention. However, to get your attention she has to do something to create attraction.
This becomes your opportunity to be extra playful, a chance to flirt and follow the “Attraction Blueprint.” Remember, this is not the time for deep conversation, but rather the time for attraction through laughing and touching. When you have set the stage at the height of attraction, you now have the opening for building rapport.
Do not put attraction on the back-burner here. Touching is still
crucial because you are still providing value in a number of stimulating
ways.
As you can see, getting out of “The Friend Zone” means recognizing
your own behaviors when it comes to women and changing the way you
interact.
You are not just another nice guy. You are not one of the 95%. You can provide her value and create emotional anchors that will show her a new part of you that she hasn’t seen.
3 REASONS YOU AREN’T GETTING THE KISS ON THE 1ST DATE
3 REASONS YOU AREN’T GETTING THE KISS ON THE 1ST DATE by Jason
You’re Not Touching Enough
I’ve taught many guys who have a hard time getting down the concept
of touching women that they’re interested in. It’s most likely because
you’re raised thinking you should keep your hands to yourself. Then
again I was also raised believing that you’re only allowed to urinate in
bathrooms, yet I’ve marked my territory in every New York City phone
booth I’ve encountered. So sometimes the things you’re taught as a kid
are complete bullshit?
If you have ever been rejected for a kiss it’s most likely because
you haven’t touched enough. If you kept your hands to yourself all
night, and then suddenly try to get a kiss, you’re going to come off too
strong. It makes you seem like that creepy cousin at the Christmas Eve
party who collects insects, and smells funny, who is quite all night,
but after a few drinks he has his arm around you, telling you how much
he loves you and that you two should hang out more often.
So do yourself and your date a favor, start touching more.
The Date Spot
According to romance movies the ideal first date is dinner and a
movie. Then again according to romance movies it’s completely acceptable
to wait outside a girls window and watch her sleep, so is pretty much
any other form of stalking. But in reality if you text a woman too much
she’ll be turned off, and if you watch her sleep from a tree outside her
window you’ll probably end up sodomized in your friendly local state
penitentiary.
So if you take a girl for dinner and a movie on the first date,
you’re most likely going to be spending a ton of money and end up going
nowhere. Conor likes to take girls to happy hour at his favorite bar,
and I like to take girls on picnics, and usually end up spending about
twenty bucks.
You should be doing what you like to do, and not what you think you
should be doing. Because what you think you should be doing probably
hasn’t been working out too well.
You’re NOT Talking About Sex on the First Date
My mom used to tell me it was rude to talk about sex with a woman,
unless you guys were exclusively dating. And I’m sure many mothers have
told many children the same thing, because “that’s not what gentlemen
do”. Just because I would do consensually unholy things to a woman and
her vagina in a public bathroom, doesn’t mean I won’t hold the door for
her after we’re done. Talking about sex doesn’t have to be rude. As a
matter of fact have you ever met anyone who doesn’t like sex? So why
wouldn’t someone want to talk about it?
If you transition the conversation in a matter that makes sense no
one will be offended for talking about sex. If she’s talking about her
recently deceased dog, and you say “Interesting…did you lose your
virginity before or after you got your puppy” then it’ll just seem like
you’re an idiot. So guys don’t be afraid to talk about sex, everyone
likes talking about sex in the right setting.
IF THIS DOESN’T GET YOU LAID. NOTHING WILL
IF THIS DOESN’T GET YOU LAID. NOTHING WILL
by Jason
There was a medical study last year that said being lonely is as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes per day.
It was a shock to me that my inability to attract women was damaging not just my happiness, but my health. But just like you can choose to stop smoking you can choose to be better with women. And I was ready to give up being crap with the ladies.
Quitting smoking is one of the most difficult things the average person ever attempts, first time failure rates are over 83%. But those that do it with the guidance and support of others, have a 312% higher chance of success.
This made me realize; I needed help attracting women, I was willing
to obtain knowledge and put it in to action and I was going to become
the successful man I wanted to become with the help of someone already
attracting the type of women I wanted (read: intelligent and hot).
You see, I used to be pretty lame (ok, very lame) when it came to meeting and chatting with women. I was fine around women I wasn’t attracted to, but put me in front of
a woman I actually LIKED… and my confidence level dropped to that of a
frightened mouse.
One female friend gave me the advice, “Just be yourself”. But that
didn’t help. In fact, that was precisely the problem! I WAS being myself
around these women… a frightened little mouse, with no confidence at
all.
“Well then, just be confident!” she would tell me. I began to suspect she hadn’t approached and chatted up all that many women 
How was I supposed to BE confident, when I wasn’t? It’s not like I
had a “Confidence” switch on my body that I could just turn on and off
whenever I wanted.
My real breakthrough came when I stumbled across a story about a fish told by a man called Joshua Pellicer and I applied the first 3 things I learned from that story.
Josh has helped thousands of men go from loveless to master of attraction. After being featured on NBC’s “The Today Show” his system sold
hundreds of thousands of copies and enabled him to make a community of
men from nearly every country in the world with one aim; help single men
become successful with women.
My journey to finding Joshua and his teachings took nearly 6 months, and during that time I tried and tested many methods like:
1. Online Dating
My logic was simple. I can’t talk to women, but I can type like a
boss. With online dating I could create a profile and persona that would
highlight my good qualities and have women messaging me. Little did I
realize just how foolish this was; my writing contained all the mistakes
that my real life personality had. Without learning some fundamental
rules first, I wasn’t going to get anywhere.
2. Hypnosis/NLP Course
I was convinced that my lack of confidence was the root of my lack of
success. If I could just be more confident I would pull in the pretty
ladies. I dropped $150 on a hypnosis course that required me to listen
for 1 hour every day for 28 days. The “subliminal” messages and
“unconscious” suggestions were to take me from shy to stud. But my
behavior didn’t change, I was still nervous around women and after 33
days I labelled this method an expensive failure.
3. Tao Of Badass System
At first I was reluctant to even try this. I claimed that I didn’t
want to use psychological “tricks” to influence a woman. Really, I was
scared of the hard work. At over eighty pages plus many hours of video
content, a members forum with thousands of Q&A and not to mention
the 12 additional “bonus reports” I was just overwhelmed at how much
there was to learn.
But I soon stumbled on to something; have you ever heard of the
Pareto principle? It states that 20% of your effort creates 80% of your
results. Once I committed myself to learning and TAKING ACTION on just
20% of what was on offer in the Tao of Badass System I was generating 80% of the results of someone who had truly mastered the system.
From day one I learned little things like:
- How to stop locking yourself in the friend zone by doing just one thing.
- 10 Undeniable ways you can be guaranteed a woman is into you, no matter what she says.
- How the way you’re sitting is INSTANTLY turning women off.
- How to tweak your walk one way that will have women turning their heads to look at you.
- 5 Mind Hacks that will have women wanting you…uncontrollably.
- How to quickly start interesting conversation with any woman.
But these things, these things are just the cherries on top of the cake. Because most importantly I now had a structure to follow. A way to take myself from where I was, to where I wanted to be. A tried and tested formula that relied on scientific principles and not cheesy “self-help” motivational ideas.
I became confident with women because I was no longer playing
the game without knowing the rules. I was no longer trying to fix a
problem without the right tools.
And it all started with a story about a fish.
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Haunting Photos Of Abandoned Olympic Stadiums
Haunting Photos Of Abandoned Olympic Stadiums. It's Scary To Think Sochi May Be Next...
Judges stand
Athens 2004 Summer Olympics
Main Fountain Entrance
1972 Munich Summer Olympics Abandoned Train Station
2008 Beijing Summer Olympics
“Bird’s Nest” Opening Ceremonies Venue
1936 Berlin Summer Olympics
Olympic Village
The Olympics are a
wonderful way to bring the world together, but this is an aftermath most
people don't see. With the 2014 games wrapping up in Sochi, you have to
wonder what the $50 Billion pop-up city will look like years from now.
Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympics
Main Swimming Stadium
The Olympics are a
wonderful way to bring the world together, but this is an aftermath most
people don't see. With the 2014 games wrapping up in Sochi, you have to
wonder what the $50 Billion pop-up city will look like years from now.
Abandoned Route 66: The Tourist Trap Ghost Town
Route 66;
where all those wonderfully off-beat attractions of ‘Roadside America’
culture first sprouted. By the 1920s, Route 66, known then as the
National Trail, was fast-becoming the most popular road in the country
for Westward pioneers travelling across the Diablo Canyon. A 19th
century isolated trading post in Arizona suddenly became a bustling stop
for drivers seeking gas, food, lodging and entertainment. Today, the
only thing you’ll find in the barely-there town of Two Guns is the
extensive ruin of a 20th century tourist trap.
The last caretaker’s mobile home has been deserted and stripped, and the rare visitors passing through can roam the site freely. It is believed the roadside town is
cursed by a ghost tribe of Apaches who were burnt alive in a nearby cave
in 1878 by the Navajos. Looking back at the events, it would seem the
site was doomed shortly after an eccentric entrepreneur Harry “Two Guns”
Miller came into town with dollar signs in his eyes.
Mr. Miller had got wind of the growing
prosperity at the canyon lodge and made a deal with the landowners,
Earle and Louis Cundiff, to lease a business site. He transformed the
desert land into a full-blown tourist trap, complete with gas station,
lodging, food emporium and of course, a zoo.
Miller, who claimed to be full-blooded
Apache, also started giving tours of the canyon, which during the 19th
century, was the site of the gruesome confrontation between the Navajos
and the Apaches. He cleaned up the cave which had essentially served as
a tomb for the remaining skeletons of 42 Apache men that had died there
in a surprise angry retaliation from the Navajos for attacking their
villages.
Miller called it the Apache Death Cave and built
fake ruins around it and sold the Apache’s skulls as souvenirs. To make
it a little less morbid, he later strung some lights, added a soda
stand and renamed it the “Mystery Cave”. This is when things started to go very wrong for Two Guns.
A series of unfortunate events began to
plague Miller and the tourist town. Two Guns suddenly spiralled into
misfortune after a major robbery of the trading post. Tension between
Miller and his landlords, the Cundiffs, resulted in a heated dispute
where Miller shot and killed Mr. Cundiff. He was acquitted at trial but
incredibly, he was soon after mauled by mountain lions, twice,
on separate occasions. Next he was bitten by a native venomous lizard
known as the Gila monster which left him with a disfigured arm. Finally in 1929, a devastating fire
engulfed the roadside town of Two Guns. After losing his greedy court
battle with Mrs. Cundiff to keep the land, Miller finally left. Louise Cundiff and her new husband tried
to rebuild the site but by this time, the heyday of Route 66 was over.
It had been rerouted to the opposite canyon and the tourists had stopped
coming.
A derelict Two Guns was sold and leased
numerous times during the 1950s, remaining in a sorry state. In 1960s,
as a new Interstate 40 was being built that would give the old
attraction its own highway exit and new visitors, an ambitious new owner
began re-building a restaurant, souvenir shop, gas station, another
zoo, and restoring the tourist trails to the Apache tomb cave. Things
were looking up for the attraction but in 1971, it all went up in flames
again when another devastating fire swallowed up the last hope for the
Two Guns. It has never been inhabited since.
Dare to visit? The barbed-wire fences
have open gates so all of the old and newer buildings are accessible.
The old stone buildings are intact, despite heavy graffiti. Today, Two
Guns has an unlikely Hollywood guardian in Russell Crowe, who purchased
the property in 2011 to film a remake of WestWorld. No word on
when production will start (status: ‘in development’ on IMDB.com), but
it would probably be wise to make a ‘no smoking rule’ a priority on set.
Until then, the site is completely abandoned; no caretaker, no soda
stands, no nobody…
The Abandoned Land of Oz
Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Abandoned Land of Oz
When I was a kid, I was cast as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
for my school musical. I was a very serious ten year-old and so I took
the role very seriously. Another student had been cast as Dorothy’s pet
dog, “Toto”, and stood next to me the entire time on stage wearing a
fluffy bear costume (they couldn’t find a dog one), panting and barking
after I delivered every line. Looking back, it was the performance of a
lifetime. And so friends, I felt most compelled to share a recent
‘forgotten’ find, the 1970s defunct theme park, Land of Oz….
In the resort town of Beech Mountain,
North Carolina, lies a neglected theme park that survived for just ten
years before it closed its doors and fell into disrepair.
Entrepreneur Grover Robbins opened the park in 1970 with the investment
of veteran Hollywood actress Debbie Reynolds, who bought several props
and costumes from the 1939 Wizard of Oz film from MGM studios
to display in the small museum. Visitors could walk down the Yellow
Brick Road, “experience” the tornado which struck Dorothy’s house, and
visit with the Scarecrow, Tinman, the Lion, and the Wicked Witch of the
West.
But don’t forget the munchkins! As you
can see, they look super friendly and cute– not at all like ghost
children that have been turned to stone and sentenced to live in the
overgrown woods of an abandoned theme park….
A not at all creepy ‘munchkin house’. (c) Thomas Kerns
Dorothy’s replica house, which you can actually rent for $165 a night (Land of Oz included in the backyard), but more about that later….
In 1976, a fire destroyed the park’s
Emerald City at the end of the yellow brick road and some artifacts in
the museum, as well as one of the dresses worn by Judy Garland as
Dorothy in the movie. Despite attracting over 20,000 visitors on it’s
opening day in 1970, the park failed to bring in the crowds in later
years and finally closed in its tenth year. Left to the elements and
vandalism, props and entire houses were stolen. Some efforts were made
to restore parts of the park after a decade of abandonment, but the Land
of Oz would never be the same…
I’ve found some photographs from an old album on flickr of a family who visited in 1973. Photos by Billie Nenninger.
The Land of Oz in it’s prime, 1973:
An artificial balloon ride (a specially modified ski lift) allowed visitors to get a bird’s-eye view of the park and breathtaking mountain scenery before leaving Oz….
(c) Billie Nenninger
You’ll be glad to know that the Land of
Oz hasn’t been totally forgotten however. In the late nineties, former
employees began organising a reunion at the decaying park once a year
and bringing it back to life for a day. It eventually became an annual
two day festival called Autumn in Oz. The yellow brick road might still
be missing quite a few of its yellow bricks, but locals and non-locals
now travel to the park every year to resurrect this surviving relic from
its slumber.
Dorothy’s replica farmhouse can be rented from May 1st until January 1st.
“This
perfect private farm tucked away atop Beech Mountain has an antique
kitchen & parlor, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, down comforters, every
appliance, great views, lots of adventure!”
Rates start at $165 per night, $400 for
the weekend and $1000 for the week and you’d be renting it from Cindy
Keller, Oz’s keeper for the past 17 years. The park also can be rented
for private parties and weddings.
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