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Apples iPhone has brought about a momentous change, something like a gift from the gods for Xavier J. Buyse Consejero Delegado at ADS Media. It brings true mobile internet to your palm, creating a pioneering excellent experience on the mobile device. Now those of you with newer Nokia mobile devices know that the operating system Safari has been on the s60 Nokia’s for at least a year now. The mobile web user experience, which was demonstrated earlier this year when the Apple iPhone was shown off looks close to to the experience of the new Nokia devices. Saying that Apple has made significant user interface refinements to make it more intuitive to use and a comparatively pleasant experience. Something which will help the industry as a whole as well as entrepreneurs like CEO of ADS Media Xavier Buyse.

The ubiquitous iPhone solves one of the biggest set backs of the mobile phone, entering information for a desired response. Apple have fixed this with a touch screen allowing for more than one finger taps, creates a dynamic user experience allowing for a qwerty keyboard to appear on screen when it is needed.

In addition, Mr Xavier Buyse CEO must be thanking his lucky stars that Apples iPhone will bring two communities together for the first time, the mobile community and the internet community. These groups have been apart for a long time. And the introduction of the first mobile computing unit that web developers and designers can unite over has created a hugely positive impact for mobile internet content creation.

in the climate as it is it is tricky to get anything other than a passing interest in web developers, meaning hardly any content creation, less consumer interest. But given that members of the web community are likely to carry The ubiquitous iPhone like a badge of honour, always have it at their at their side, I expect an enormous increase in mobile internet content in the next coming months.

A touch screen is nothing unique in phones, but being able to carry out multiple taps on top of this as gesturing for zooming in and out, resizing, etc, I believe Apple has discovered an intuitive method of doing complex tasks easily.

To me it is output rather than input which is important. The touch screen on the The iPhone is remarkable. Text is cristal clear, with a resolution that is simple to read and use. Mobile phone displays aren’t something which have ever been something to write home about. Most cell phones look almost identical, resorting for pixelated text that one comes in only a few different font sizes. Usually the only difference is brightness. The ubiquitous iPhone makes content on a mobile device look comparable to hardest to duplicate screen of them all, a real life page with print on it.

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Child Victim to Survivor!

The innocence of a child, will not allow their mind to comprehend what terror is being put upon them during abuse. They can no more think killing their abuser than they can a fly. It worsens when the child knows the abuser, because they have a love and trust that is so innocent, they cannot mistrust. This is where the confusion is set deep into their psyche, causing them to have conflicts with feelings throughout their life. In place of learning love through hugs and smiles, they are taught love through sexual abuse and threats. They have already learnt that the world is not safe. Children quickly learn through instinct to remove their minds from their bodies. They also can manipulate their bodies to go numb in order to not feel any physical contact with the abuser. Abused children are also taught to mistrust any form of verbal love and appreciation.

The abuser will tell them things like, “Daddy loves you and wants to show you how much”, or ” I am teaching you what daddy’s teach their daughters so that you will grow up and know how to be a good woman”.

So much deception and lies from someone that a child holds dear to their heart. To doubt their abuser when it is their father, only makes them feel like a bad child. They know that their father wants them to love them and smile for them. This makes daddy happy. It is what every child is naturally driven to do. They thrive on their parents smiles and happy feelings. This is the exact thing that an abuser takes advantage of and also poisons through the abuse they inflict on the child.

The child will also think in two identities if the abuser is her father or her uncle. She will think simply in two parts. Good daddy, bad daddy. This helps her to keep her good daddy image safe, where he is suppose to be. The second daddy will be a figure in a bad dream, not real to her world at all. A child may turn to drawing pictures of her good daddy and bad daddy. Or write very obscure, negative, even offensive poems or stories. These are true signs and most certainly cries for help. Please do not ever underestimate the power of the pen. It will either be a cry for help from someone that cannot use words, or it could be the key to ones doors of healing.

When the abuser is a family member, this factor alone robs the child of what would be known as a safe nest. The child will never know what a healthy role model is. Nor will this child ever have the experience of innocent nurturing. Unless this child through years of growth, learns to identify with their abuser and confront the abuse, their healing will never begin. Without this inner healing and peace, one is likely to repeat this horrible act of abuse that they were lead to believe to be a common practice in parenting.

Victims have no choice but to survive. If they do not commit suicide, they learn to cope. I have mentioned in another article that some use drugs, alcohol, food, cutting ones self and even sex. These are common coping strategies. NO they are not good ones, but for most of the victims that choose that road, it’s the better of the two evils.

Other victims choose to forget it ever happened, down play the abuse or rationalize it as if it were nothing more than a simple hug or touch. They even go as far as excusing their abusers actions or temper, saying the was drunk or too stressed out from working. Victims will even try to understand and feel sorrow for their abusers. Anything to not accuse them and have to deal with the confusion of the why’s. Some even become so withdrawn into themselves, fearing that they may talk too much, or give a clue to someone about their nightmare. Then all their shame will be seen. So they choose silence instead of risk.

Denial is another way around facing the reality. But denial has a way of twisting around and returning with a vengeance. To not allow your pain to come up front so you can deal with it, only gives it more time to grow inside of you and get a stronger hold of your mind. Reality and fantasy will also get confused at this point. People will confuse your actions and words with mental illness. Then not only will you have your abuser to contend with, but now others will be trying to force you into another victim situation. Yes, you have done whatever it took to survive this horrible abuse, so now rise above it. It was nothing more than a cause and effect battle. A battle that you have over come!

I continue to show you patterns that are caused by neglecting yourself and allowing yourself to be totally absorbed by an action that was NEVER in your control. Now it is in your control. Now you can do something about it. SO, what are you waiting for? FIGHT!!!! Fight like you are trying to save the life of someone dear to you. Fight like a master and use your power to say, “Go to hell”. Scream this as loud as you can, “I see you, I hear you and I will not allow you to abuse me any longer!” You must feel the freedom that comes with this new fight that is awakening inside you. Once the fight is over, you will live a new life. A new book has just been written.

You are FREE! Free to Live, Love and Laugh!!

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I am ready.

I am now.

I can.

I will.

-David Viscott

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I accept what I am,

and

how I got here

-David Viscott

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If you really want to get a feel for opinion on the street, there can be few better pit stops than the message boards from BBC America where the entertainment value is a good deal higher than the shows themselves. The comments are not confined to The Antiques Roadshow alone as there is a burgeoning interest in Flog It, Bargain Hunt and Cash in the Attic too. The most revealing aspect, in more ways than one, is the unerring focus on the personal attributes of the presenters by female viewers. There really is no end of drooling and these ladies let it all hang out, so to speak. There are no less than thirty five postings on the accent of Bargain Hunt presenter, Paul Hayes, one of which relates

“One of the reasons I watch BBCA – in addition to the fact that I don’t see any of the shallowness I find in the shows or people as in my native US – is the ACCENTS! I’m currently working on picking up the difference between a Scotch and Irish accent.”

There must be some pretty desperate housewives across Middle America, and indeed Middle England, if they feel sufficiently compelled to convey such innermost thoughts to a global audience. Yet an appreciation of regional accents on a daytime TV show takes on the mantle of academic enquiry compared with the interests of the sisterhood elsewhere. You will have to read a great many websites before you come across anything close to the unadulterated drivel posted by some of these fans

“A big thank you to Alistair Appleton’s parents for blessing us with his presence.”

“Yes, I must agree they are all delicious. I must stick with Alistair though! My mum, however, is in heavy lust over Phil T. She stops what she is doing when he is down to a tank top on Invaders!”

The debate and angst over the sexuality of Alistair Appleton and Leigh and Leslie Keno, brothers and co hosts of the US version of The Antiques Roadshow, reached a level of intensity on these boards that made the G8 summit on debt relief look no more than a minor squabble between friends. It is reassuring to know that dimples and a lack of facial hair can be such a vote winner in these troubled times.

Part three in the series of articles by Howard Lewis.
(Read parts one and two in the www.invaluable.com blog).

Howard Lewis,
Chairman, Invaluable group of companies.

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They were fierce hill tribes in what is now Scotland, and we called them Picts. The name seems to mean “The Painted People” for they were known to love bright body art and multi-coloured clothing. They were artists, prolific carvers of stone and from the carved standing stones still found in the region around Loch Ness, we can see that the Picts were fascinated by animals, carefully etching their likeness into the surface of the stone. And they left us a mystery.

For all the animals depicted on the Pictish stones are lifelike and easily recognisable, except for one. This exception is a strange beast with a long elongated beak or muzzle, a head spout, and with flippers instead of feet, somewhat like a swimming elephant. This Pictish beast is the earliest known reference to the belief that took hold in the Scottish Highlands at least 1,500 years ago, that Loch Ness is home to a mysterious underwater animal. The Loch Ness Monster.

Columba stood for no nonsense, even from a monster. He had ordered one of his monks to swim across the loch to fetch a boat when, halfway across, the beast appeared and rushed at the swimmer, roaring in a most frightening way. The Saint himself jumped in the loch crying out at the monster “Go no further, nor touch the man! Go back!”. Thus commanded, the monster fled. The great Columba converted most of Scotland to Christianity and apparently converted Nessie too, for it is said that until he went out on the waters and soothed the beast, she had been a murderess.

In Scottish folklore, large animals are associated with many bodies of water from small streams to the largest lakes, often labeled Loch-na-Beistie on old maps. These water-horses, or kelpies, are cousins of the Irish Pooka and have similar magical powers but often malevolent intentions. They are dragons under water, lurking with ravenous intent, waiting for the onset of darkness in the long Northern nights before they come forth and devour the Innocent.

The monster, sea serpent, kraken and other mythological creatures have formed a part of folklore since the beginning of time. Around the world there are reputed to be sea serpents or monsters in many bodies of fresh water. Nessie in Loch Ness, Morag in Loch Morar, Shielagh in Loch Shiel, Lizzy in Loch Lochy, Champ in Lake Champlain, Ogopogo in Lake Okanagan and, quaintly, Wally in Lake Wallowa.

While research has been conducted at many of these lakes, Loch Ness is the icon for monsters and Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster is, without doubt, the grandmother of them all. It is to Loch Ness where myriad researchers have flocked with their cameras and sonars, webcams and mini submarines, their hopes, fears and dreams of solving the mystery of Nessie.

She is reported to have an elongated neck that quite often protrudes from the water with a small head, diamond shaped flippers and three distinct humps on her back followed by a tail. Sone say that she lives under or around Urquhart Castle and many photographs (mostly fake) have been taken of her in the vicinity.

The sedimentary rocks which cradle Loch Ness are some of the oldest in the world. The sandstones were originally laid down in warm seas when Scotland was located in the latitude where Australasia is today. As the continents drifted northwards the land became squeezed into the dry centre of the super-continent Pangaea.

400 million years ago, the Great Glen side slip fault was created. This Great Glen, almost cutting Scotland in two, is home to the black waters of Lochs Ness, Oich, Lochy and Linnhe

As the continents began to break up and cluster around the north pole, great Scottish mountains, which would have been Himalayan in size were gradually worn down to the stumps which you see today. Scotland was still in the grip of the ice twelve thousand years ago, but the main advances were over and the land was beginning to rebound from being depressed into the mantle. The surface of Loch Ness would have been at a similar elevation to sea level.

Anything living in the Loch today must have arrived from the freezing North Sea up the River Ness after the final retreat of ice.

Many scientists and zoologists will admit to half- believing that a large aquatic animal does in fact exist in Loch Ness. There are numerous theories as to her identity, including a snake-like primitive whale known as a zeuglodon, a type of long-necked aquatic seal, giant eels, walruses, floating mats of plants, giant molluscs, otters, a “paraphysical” entity, mirages, diving birds and most popularly, a plesiosaur. Nessie was even given a scientific name “Nessiteras rhombopteryx” named by Sir Peter Scott so that Nessie could be added to the British Register of officially protected wildlife.

The name, translated from Greek means “The wonder of Ness with the diamond shaped fin”. Over the years many have noted that if you rearranged the letters of Nessiteras rhombopteryx, it can be made to read “Monster hoax by Sir Peter S”.

This may mean something – or it may mean nothing at all.

Nessie is either there, or she’s not. I like to think she has outwitted our efforts to trap her, pin her down, categorise her, tame her and turn her into tea towels. And one day you may get to see her yourself. Long may she live in the loch !

Susanna Duffy is a Civil Celebrant, grief counsellor and mythologist. She creates ceremonies and Rites of Passage for individual and civic functions, and specialises in Croning and other celebrations for women. http://celebrant.yarralink.com

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