[Helpers] Helpers Digest, Vol 10, Issue 3

Tue Mar 21 15:19:58 PST 2006

At 03:09 AM 17/03/2006, Tommy Kristensen wrote:
>Hello everyone
>
>I am one of the lurkers. I am not a pervert just not as clever as you :)

   I did not say anyone was a pervert. A voyeur is like a lurker, someone 
who watches but does not participate.

>  I really wanted to help.. but i dont understand many of the mails. I 
> hate being the dumb kid in the class but i guess i am in this :)

   Yeah, I guess most of what I need help with, is pretty technical. Thanks 
for your good intentions, but I really want only helpers on the helpers 
list. It is like, only stage hands and actors are allowed backstage.

>
>I wish you all the best, and good luck with the site.

  Thanks!

>I would like to hear more about the european tour though?

   Exciting stuff!! The tentative schedule is at
http://kundalini-teacher.com/tantra.html
and news will be posted to the Messenger list.
   Dang! I see I forgot to upload the new index page... the work never ends!

>
>God bless
>Tommy
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>Today's Topics:
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>1. Stuff & things... (Mystress Angelique Serpent)
>2. Text editing? (Kimberly)
>3. Re: Stuff & things... (Gustaf Grefberg)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:21:07 -0800
>From: Mystress Angelique Serpent
>Subject: [Helpers] Stuff & things...
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>Heya:
>
>Sorry if it seems quiet around here... it is just that I am incredibly
>busy. March is half over already, and Europe draws near. Spring is making
>me hyperactive as usual and it is hard to sit still at my desk... but I
>still have a lot of website updates to do.
>I've been working on plans for Europe, proposals, content, wardrobe,
>flights, advertising, luggage, passport, etc..
>
>Despite feeling overwhelmed, I am really happy at the turn my work is
>taking. Excited about Europe but scared too. Lori getting back to me with a
>schedule was comforting, I am getting more confident that I will at least
>break even on the trip.
>
>The FST update is hard because I tend to read from memory and not
>actually see the content. I finally hauled out my old double-spaced
>hardcopy of the course, (a 5" thick binder!) and put it on a giant book
>holder on my desk, so I make notes there (sometimes in the jacuzzi!) and
>then paste the content into Word for editing, Canadian spellcheck and
>grammar... but then I end up adding more after I paste it into the web
>page, and then it becomes an issue of version control. I lose track of
>whether the word version or the web version is most up to date.
>The lesson I accidentally posted to this list was a draft version that was
>later updated.
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>It is very slow going, every time I decide an essay is "done" I later
>get new inspiration, and with some of the essays I get a feeling that what
>I am adding actually belongs in a different lesson. My new "introduction to
>Kundalini" has a lot of stuff that might be better in the Serpents lesson.
>Sigh.
>
>I'm thinking it is better for me to just focus on the content, so I am
>saving the word docs and when there are many I'll upload them to the fscnew
>site, and hopefully someone else can add paragraph breaks and paste them
>into the lesson.
>
>Some of the new essays are so much better than the old, I am wondering
>if the new ones should be pasted into the live site as they are completed.
>b0b's post made me think perhaps the live site should be updated
>concurrently with the new design. I'm impatient to have the new site up,
>but there is still so much to do!
>
>Dreamweaver is a learning curve I just don't have time for, right now.
>I tried to update a lesson, (tantra/01cintro) and when I uploaded it, it
>was messed up. Sachiko, can you fix it? That lesson is meant to be called
>01stdyguid.html and you will find a file by that name that has the correct
>content, but I messed it up too!
>
>How do I tell Dreamweaver the local directory is a mirror of the web, so
>it doesn't download all the images each time I want to look at a file?
>Something to do with projects?
>
>The good thing is that some essays look fine to me and don't need
>editing... but I still have to add homework and experiences, and
>experiences links to them! Ack. So much to do!
>
>Sandra C: Adding experiences means searching the tea room archives for
>keywords of each topic, and deciding what posts have information that
>enhances understanding. If you will select posts, then I will go through
>them and choose one to edit and add to the lesson... I'm open to
>suggestions for that... keeping in mind that the finished update will
>become a book, I really need to be emailing the members whose posts I use
>in the lesson and asking permission. Not for the links to the tea room,
>just for the experiences area.
>
>I'm also thinking of eliminating the "Experiences links" box from each
>lesson and just adding the links to the bottom of the main experiences
>section. Changing the form at this point feels like going backwards... but
>I feel it would be smoother.
>
>Getting experiences from the K-list archives is a whole other deal and I
>have no idea when or how that will happen.
>
>Question: does it make more sense to have the homework box at the
>bottom, or below the experiences section instead of below the essay?
>
>With regards to the new right corner image... I sometimes get emails
>like this:
>
> >country = indonesia
> >body = Good Morning / afternoon / evening. Iam from Indonesia.
> >I followed rei ki tummo trainning. I don't feel kundalini energy as
> >perfectly yet. I want to my kundalini is growth without prolem. Someone
> >told me, your picture could help to kundalini growth. If this is right and
> >if you don't mind,please send me your picture.
> >Thank you very much to your attention.I am sorry, if my english rather bad.
>
>Been getting them for a few years now. It kind of blows my mind to know
>people all over the world meditate on my photo to get Kundalini... just
>weird, but I cannot think of a reason to discourage it. People all over the
>world masturbate to my fetish pix, and I got used to that .. but it is
>still odd to think of people looking at me to raise K. like they do with
>Sai Baba or Grandma Devi.
>
>Anyway, in light of this phenomena, I think I'll use a different pic of
>myself for the new right corner image for the lessons. The videos have some
>lovely images with mudras I use spontaneously.
>
>Gustaf please select a few stills from the vids, when you edit them, and
>then I can mess with one in photoshop to add a fun aura or something that
>will fit the site design.
>
>I am also concerned that your editing the vids will interfere with your
>progress of the course. The vids were not recorded in the lesson order, and
>are not even labeled as which vids go with which lessons! I'm trying to
>take notes as I go, but I am getting hyper and spaced out from my own
>Shakti coming back at me! Whoa! I hope it doesn't overwhelm you, too.
>
>I'm not sure whether the magnetic tape is degraded or whether the video
>quality was not good to begin with, but I am seeing colour bleed on the
>videos. The worst is when my teeth flash bright yellow, picking up the
>background colour of the gold cloth on the chair. Really bad! Distracting
>and unattractive. Can this be fixed?
>
>There are a few people who are on this list who are not actually doing
>anything, and have not done anything. I appreciate the good intentions that
>moved you to join, but this is not a list for lurkers or voyeurs so please
>either volunteer to do something or unsub yourself. Thanks.
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>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:26:06 +0100
>From: "Kimberly"
>Subject: [Helpers] Text editing?
>To:
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>Hi Mystress!
>
>I have been lurking around the list for like a month or something now,
>and I haven't said anything yet. I was kinda waiting because I wasn't
>sure if you wanted to deal with the text editing yet for the lessons
>themselves. With all the other rearranging that you are doing (which I
>barely understand at all), I thought maybe it would be too much to throw
>that into the mix as well right now. :-)
>
>But, I'm here and would be more than happy to help with any text editing
>needs that you have for the lessons, or help organizing things into book
>form or both. whatever! Let me know what I can do or where I can start.
>:-)
>
>Blessings,
>Kimberly
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>Message: 3
>Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:41:10 +0100
>From: "Gustaf Grefberg"
>Subject: Re: [Helpers] Stuff & things...
>To: "FST Helpers list."
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> > Gustaf please select a few stills from the vids, when you edit
>them,
> > and then I can mess with one in photoshop to add a fun aura or
>something >that will fit the site design.
>
>Gotcha. :)
>
> > I am also concerned that your editing the vids will interfere with
> > your
> > progress of the course. The vids were not recorded in the lesson
>order,
> > and
> > are not even labeled as which vids go with which lessons! I'm trying
>to
> > take notes as I go, but I am getting hyper and spaced out from my own
> > Shakti coming back at me! Whoa! I hope it doesn't overwhelm you, too.
>Well I've gotten pretty far into the course now, to the Empathy lesson,
>I don't think there are all that many left before the graduation
>classes. It's the graduation videos I need to watch out for (until I've
>actually done those classes, of course) And I'm sure it will overwhelm
>me a bit from time to time! But Goddess won't give me anything I can't
>handle in the end. :)
>
>And I will definitely need some notes to help me discern which videos
>that goes with each class, and any notes about any versions you prefer
>would be very helpful, too. LOL Shakti kick huh? Will have to do some
>thorough grounding before each editing session. Never thought I'd have
>to get grounded for that!
>
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> > I'm not sure whether the magnetic tape is degraded or whether the
>video
> > quality was not good to begin with, but I am seeing colour bleed on
>the
> > videos. The worst is when my teeth flash bright yellow, picking up the
> > background colour of the gold cloth on the chair. Really bad!
>Distracting
> > and unattractive. Can this be fixed?
>
>It depends on if it only affects areas of the picture, or the entire
>picture. If it's color anomalities of the whole picture it's easier to
>fix. Vegas has a bunch of filters that can be applied before rendering,
>a lot like in Photoshop. I will keep an eye out for your teeth :D
>
>Namaste
>Gustaf
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