Who 's the fairest of them all?
Mirror Mirror on the wall...
Who's the fairest of them all?
Tonight it was a tossup between aformentioned council members Dom Betro and Frank Schiavone the two former idealists of different corners, who came out of those corners to weld swords at a common enemy.
Business owners and community members showed up enmasse to protest the prolonged contruction project which has made University Avenue virtually unpassable for nearly a year. What began as a 40-day-long street improvement project stretched into a fiscal nightmare for the businesses which line both sides of the street, from Commerce to Park.
The unusual rainy season had served as the scapegoat for the delayed completion of the project. However, the powers that be at City Hall could have avoided this rainy season if they had scheduled the project to piggyback off the completion of the project to improve the portion of University Avenue closest to the University Village. Four out of five of the last winters were drought-dry. Much less money and time could have been spent on the project during any one of those years.
But the city waited and then decided to start the project on the portion of University Avenue which was closest to that other jewel in Riverside(besides UCR)--downtown Riverside. And so the project...aka the nightmare began...
The rains poured. The gas lines ruptured. The 100-year-old(according to carbon dating) water mains broke. 40 days and 40 nights became nine months of misery and deep financial loss to businesses in the affected area.
Susan Medina, who's family founded Zacateca's restaurant was greatly concerned. Although Zacateca's serves really good food, it's also known as the heart of the Eastside and Riverside's abeit small, progressive activist community.
So people came out in droves to speak in support of Medina, Zacatecas and other restaurants and businesses in the construction zone. Which of course, made city council members nervous.
posted by river rebel | 1:50 PM
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A much better description comes from the Free Online Dictionary which states that hypnosis is: an artificially induced state of consciousness, characterised by heightened suggestibility and receptivity to direction. So what does this mean and how can it be used to your advantage?
Well, the subject of hypnosis has been discussed and pondered since the late 1700s. Many explanations and theories have come and gone though science, however, has yet to supply a valid and well-established definition of how it actually happens. It's fairly unlikely that the scientific community will arrive at a definitive explanation for hypnosis in the near future either, as the untapped resources of our 'mostly' uncharted mind still remain something of a mystery.
However, the general characteristics of hypnosis are well documented. It is a trance state characterized by extreme suggestibility, deep relaxation and heightened imaginative functioning. It's not really like sleep at all, because the subject is alert the whole time. It is most often compared to daydreaming, or the feeling you get when you watch a movie or read a captivating book. You are fully conscious, but you tune out most of the outside world. Your focus is concentrated intensely on the mental processes you are experiencing - if movies didn't provide such disassociation with everyday life and put a person in a very receptive state then they would not be as popular (nor would TV advertising be as effective!). Have you ever stated that a film wasn't great because you just couldn't 'get into it'???
This works very simply; while daydream or watching a movie, an imaginary world becomes almost real to you because it fully engages your emotional responses. Such mental pursuits will on most occasions cause real emotional responses such as fear, sadness or happiness (have you ever cried at a sad movie, felt excited by a future event not yet taken place or shivered at the thought of your worst fear?).
It is widely accepted that these states are all forms of self-hypnosis. If you take this view you can easily see that you go into and out of mild hypnotic states on a daily basis - when driving home from work, washing the dishes, or even listening to a boring conversation. Although these situations produce a mental state that is very receptive to suggestion the most powerful time for self-change occurs in the trance state brought on by intentional relaxation and focusing exercises. This deep hypnosis is often compared to the relaxed mental state between wakefulness and sleep.
In this mental state, people feel uninhibited and relaxed and they release all worries and doubts that normally occupy their mind. A similar experience occurs while you are daydreaming or watching the TV. You become so involved in the onscreen antics
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