Left At East Gate

You have probably heard this from the internet guru's before or somebody aspiring to be the next guru online. They will tell someone who wants to be the next internet affiliate super star to find a niche that you have a lot of knowledge on, or build a website or blog around something that you are passionate about. What these guru's do not know is that they have actually contributed to setting up these future entrepreneurs for complete failure. Many of these hungry new affiliates will start off with high expectations only to be let down with results that don't meet their goals. Just following your passions is ultimately the start of what could be a very unsuccessful attempt to make money with...

Why is it that some things from the past are considered old-fashioned and out-dated whereas others are quirky or retro? There doesn't seem to be any way of knowing which fad or fashion is going to come round again and which will make a quiet and graceful disappearance. Flared trousers have come around more times than a carousel horse yet dungarees haven't been acceptable on anyone but children or workmen for years. But there is something reassuring about seeing our old favourites come back into fashion and reminding ourselves how things were when we were young. Inevitably we tend to conclude that everything was so much better 'back in the day' when things were simple and our days were carefree...

There was a time when the term "colorized movie" was so derogatory it would bring an angry, scarlet flush to the cheeks of movie purists. Oh, it sounded like a great idea in the late 1980s... until I picked up THAT VHS tape of It's A Wonderful Life and discovered Jimmy Stewart's face was as green as a Roswell alien. Stewart even wrote a letter to a 1987 U.S. Congressional panel studying the issue, saying that the movie looked like it had received ''a bath of Easter egg dye.'' And dancing diva Ginger Rogers didn't like what she saw in the colorized version of 42nd Street, telling the same panel: ''All those lovely girls in 42nd Street suddenly had the same orange face, the same orange legs, the same...

"Go green" is a slogan that everybody wishes to follow especially with the increasing awareness about global environmental issues. You will be interested to know that you can play your part in making the world a healthier and better place to live in while you add style to your room. As many home owners and room décor experts will attest to, changing dresser knobs or drawers can change the entire look and feel of the room. These tiny detail adding items can give the room any mood you wish it to have. Furthermore, they can update the space and make it livelier instantly and very inexpensively. Local retail stores and the internet are loaded with companies and small businesses that offer thousands of...

With Star Wars, science fiction movies began to move onto a whole different level of action and entertainment. Though Star Wars was the most fantastic science fiction movie of the 70s, there were many remarkable movies released before it. However, these earlier movies did not have the kind of cinematic settings and the grandiose that Star Wars showcased. Looking back at the 50s, this was the time when sci-fi movies came out on their own as a separate genre. Developments in science such as the Atom Bomb, the Cold War and a plethora of science fiction stories fueled the upcoming of sci-fi movies. The most noted among the lot were The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956...

So, it turns out that flying saucers aren't occupied by little green men from outer space after all, but by time travelling civil servants from the year 2130. At least, that is according to this television film from 1980 that was filmed as part of the acclaimed BBC's Play for Today series. 2130, 131 years after the nuclear apocalypse of 1999; society has become very ordered. Out of necessity, people have learned to take orders, to follow rules. If one is told not to go outside because of the radioactivity, then one is likely to follow that order, and so, obedience has become something of a habit. Dominick Hide (Peter Firth), tired of his sanitised, empty life, craves more. When we first encounter...

Sometimes inventing something can be a protracted affair.   William Russell Frisbie founded the Frisbie Baking  Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut  in 1871.  Frisbie's pies came in tin pie plates with the name of the bakery on the bottom.  It is unknown whether people of the day played with the empty pie tins by sailing them through the air, but by the 1940s, students at Yale--and possibly other colleges--were doing so.  In the 1950s, a decade that saw a spate of films about space aliens and flying saucers, Walter Frederick Morrison, a World War II vet who was fascinated by flying saucers and the possibility of extraterrestrial beings, developed a toy flying disk of lightweight metal...

A Chinchilla is a small animal commonly now kept as a pet. The Chinchilla is part of the rodent family and is similar to rats, sugar gliders, ferrets, guinea pigs and hamsters. Naturally you will house your pet Chinchilla in a cage made out of wire mesh, metal or wood. In this article we examine how to look after your Chinchilla in its cage and how to provide ways of allowing the Chinchilla plenty of ability to run around and exercise despite being caged in for much of the time. Luckily there are many devices, toys and accessories that you can buy for your Chinchilla cage. Exercise is vital to the health and happiness of your pet and so every two to three days you should allow your Chinchilla out of...

Food envy [food en-vee]: a feeling of discontent with regard to the advantages of another's nourishing substance. This is for everyone who has suffered in silence, caught in the wraps of food envy. Plate pickers and sausage stealers need not apply. Stealing from other's plates is wrong and strangers don't like it. I don't do it and I don't like it if it's done to me. I make an exception for my girlfriend. This is an expected part of a relationship. What ever I have, even if she declares she doesn't want any, she lies. I combat this by having an extra large portion. Everyone's happy. Food envy can start at an early age. Your mum lets you choose some penny sweets from Woolworth's Pick N' Mix. You take...

It's been quite long since the X Files was first launched. Chris Carter was the master mind behind this famous TV series and his idea was to launch a conspiracy based series on a weekly basis. It was in 1993 that the series first hit the TV screens and since then the two main stars of the series Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny became household names. Like with any other TV series, in the first season the X Files episode were all about setting the scene for the series and developing the theme of the series which later would become a part of the show. Even in the first season there were many popular characters that made a comeback in the later series every now and then like Deep Throat played by...

Area 51 is the nickname given to a U.S. military base, which supports the development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems. Popularly, believed to be a hideout for Alien activity. Located at 83 miles north of Las Vegas. It is a 6x10 mile block of land situated on the southern shore of Groom Lake. Since its inception citizens have claimed to view UFO sightings and heard strange, rumbling noises. Yet, the government denies the existence of Area 51. Rather, it emphasizes the area used to serve as a site for military bombings. During World War II the Groom Lake was used for bombing and artillery practice, but was abandoned until April 1955, when Lockheed's Skunk Works team selected...

Alright, folks, in that last entry I was simply waxing a tad facetious, or perhaps even ludicrous, with all that mindless drivel. The truth is, I have done some serious research on the subject, although not quite as exhaustive as I would like. So let's get to the bottom of the matter. Do Men in Black really exist, or are they the product of our wildly vivid imaginations? Is there any real evidence out there? Of all the recorded accounts concerning UFOs and Men in Black, I'm sure many of them are either hoaxes or just wild tales, but I do believe some of them may be genuine. I have been reading a book called, The Truth Behind Men in Black, by Jenny Randles, who has been investigating these strange...

ing Meadows Park has a long and unusual history. It is located ten miles east of Manhattan on Long Island in the Borough of Queens, New York City, between the towns of Flushing and Corona. The park started out as swampy land situated along Flushing Creek. The area skirted ancient Native American trails that were later developed into Rodman Street (today it’s called College Point Boulevard), Roosevelt Avenue and other paved roadways. Because of its location and inability to be used for much else, the swampy land became a dumping area for ashes. By the 1920’s, it was known as the Corona Ash Dumps. F. Scott Fitzgerald called the place “a valley of ashes” in The Great Gatsby, his...

After traveling for several million years you have finally arrived at your destination. Where should you land? The aliens down there have seen your craft as you search for the landing site that was advertised in the brochures. Someone should review the stuff those copywriters are pumping out. Is it in Mexico? I don't think the boss would choose there. Didn't he have a little problem with them during WW II as they call it on Earth? Well maybe they said NEW Mexico, we better take a look. When you left after dropping all those frozen peoples bodies into the volcanoes and then dropped hydrogen bombs on them to release their souls into Earths atmosphere you planed to come back and save some of them...

A general consensus has emerged among serious, science oriented UFO researchers that a certain small percentage of UFOs are real and are not figments of anyone's imagination. Furthermore, it is well known that many individuals claim to receive messages from alleged extra-terrestials aboard UFOs. The messages received from UFOs are generally occultic and steer people away from belief in Christian doctrine. Extra-terrestials tend to undermine or attack the Christian faith. Christian scholars and researchers have responded to this attack. In this article I will show that leading UFO researchers, many of whom are agnostic, have come around to generally support the Christian position on UFO phenomena...

being chased by military jets has become a common theme in the USA other the past year. In all of these cases the jets almost immediately dropped flairs to cover up what was, obviously, a far more interesting mission. If any comments were forthcoming from the military, they merely stated that any military aircraft seen in the area were on training missions. When most people think of UFOs being chased by jets, they think of the Stephenville and Erath County, Texas, events that took place in January of 2008. In that case, recently released FAA radar reports show that unidentified objects were tracked along with military jets and that at least one may have violated presidential airspace over the Bush...

UFO sightings shouldn't be new to a lot of us because there have been so many UFO picturesand photos made available by so many individuals who have direct or indirect experienceswith them, some of which are real and yet some others, made-up. As a matter of fact, it'd be quite a tall order to distinguish between the genuine UFOfootages and pictures from the hoaxes, and determining which claim is for real has been thetasks of many a UFO expert who looks at tons of UFO pictures and sighting footages all daylong. Not only is it necessary to carefully analyse the first hand experiences as describedby the subject, but also it is of great benefits to employ high tech devices such as radarand spectrometer...

In the early morning hours, a mysterious giant spiral of light was seen dominating the dark sky over Norway. The giant spiral formation could be seen growing, and then getting smaller, then growing again in size. This spiral lasted for almost three minutes, with thousands of Norwegians recording it on video and in photographs. People flooded Norways Meteorological Institute with phone calls asking for more information on the spiral light in the sky. This spiral was not just seen over a single city, but rather was seen from over five hundred miles away. Scientists were baffled at what the incredible spiral light could be with theories ranging from a misfired Russian missile, meteor, northern lights...

Every major source of knowledge from Einstein to NASA, Worldwide religions,  Mayan cultures, Nostradamus, they all agree that in 2012 something HUGE will happen. I see it everywhere, 2012 Armageddon.  I can’t get through the line in the grocery store without a tabloid headline popping out at me.  A stroll through Barnes and Noble and you’ll undoubtedly see a few books on the subject along the center tables. The Discovery Channel and the History Channel have both been running pretty heavy programming on the subject lately. Frankly it scares me, and I wonder, will we survive 2012?  From the anticipated Pole Shift, to the unstoppable Solar Flares expected to amass and kill our planet when...

No it is not an unidentified flying object-ha-just shaped like those old cartoonish images of one from the 50's and 60's. What it is though makes it the most valuable and versatile alarm there is. You read and hear about assaults and home burglaries all the time. Are you one of those folks who think that crime always happens to the other guy? Well the other guy is thinking the same thing-to him YOU are the other guy! The UFO alarm can protect you 5 ways from assaults on the street to home burglary and more. 1. Burglar Alarm-the patented and new design makes the alarm capable to be armed from the outside using the alligator clip and rubber shim. The 120 db alarm is enough to scare anyone away. 2...

When the world talks about science, culture, economy or politics, it speaks English. English speakers don't really need a second language at all. So, what's the use of a second language when the first one is enough? English speakers can look for the luxury items: cultural and linguistic enrichment. In this article, I will evaluate the world's major languages for their usefulness to English speakers, according to three different criteria: 1. Demographics: Opportunity to use the language actively: the number of native and second language speakers, and the chances of communicating with them in this language: use as a lingua franca. It's not simply a matter of numbers. Mandarin is by far the most...

Marlene Dumas presents a corruption of innocence. Her portrayal of a young child with its clothes lifted over its head immediately gives way to dark thoughts of sexuality and exploitation. The controversy isn't in the images Marlene Dumas paints, but in the way they're subverted by an implied knowingness, a blatant confrontation with a natural reality and its discomforts.Marlene Dumas makes paintings with no concept of the taboo. Racism, sexuality, religion, motherhood and childhood are all presented with chilling honesty. Undermining universally held belief systems, Dumas corrupts the very way images are negotiated. Stripped of the niceties of moral consolation, Marlene Dumas's work provokes...

The Bible account ignites our imagination to consider and overcome if we can the "why" of our existence. The Bible story assures this truth in its account will not be ignored of its fact existence. We disguise the physical evidence God stated created the earth. God in this structured frame of mind dwell in a spiritual reality. This spiritual reality is not in the "image" or "likeness" accredited to the formation of our created Biblical existence. Our viewed account of the Bible origin existence is without a physical proof of fact. Our reality of the Bible account is outside of the fact of the created origin existence. We demand from facts outside of the Bible story a valid proof. We design through...

While there are many dozens of alien abduction reports from around the world, this article mentions the two best ones which I heard at a ufo conference recently. The abduction experience of Betty and Barney Hill only came to light after the couple involved decided to have therapy for sleep problems after their encounter. The storm of media interest lead to a book and a film by the title of "The Interrupted Journey" and an appearance at a ufo conference. As they retold their experience during the regression hypnosis sessions, the therapist tried to seek mundane explanations for their encounter but both of the Hills recounted the same experience and could not be moved from their alien abduction story...

Retailers invest large amounts of money to get consumers into their businesses with the aim of selling them products. Owners monitor conversion rates, i.e. count the number of customers entering the store versus actual buyers to enable them to monitor success. Team members are encouraged to approach consumers to build relationships and make a sale. But, is the process really working? Many of us as potential buyers are either ignoring the messages or are confused by the messages retailers are sending us and as a result do not buy what is on offer. The role of a retailer in today's highly competitive market is to bridge the information gap between consumer and product. Two Types of Consumer In today...

It seems perfect timing. Columbia Pictures has announced plans to release "Men In Black III" in May of 2012, and in 3-D no less. The premise of the "Men in Black" movies is that aliens from outer space live among us, and the government not only knows about them but is tapping into their knowledge for the development of new and astounding technology, some of which is being gradually released to the public but most of which remains top secret. Starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, the MIB movies have been immensely entertaining. Well, the first one was, anyway. The second one was a bit scattered, plot-wise. Still, the special effects were great. It is probably pure coincidence that MIB3 will be...

Not that long ago I had do deal with the mysteries of the washing machine. Eco wash balls were left and I was given instructions on complicated things like the opening and closing of the door. I about managed this complicated task and put in the flying saucers in a nice green color and started the wash. We always use a cold cycle because of energy use and a while later I opened the door to hang out the clothes. I had put in some fairly dirty clothes and it was not until I was hanging them out that I actually though about how clean they were. It really is quite surprising just how clean you can get clothes with these little green eco balls. They do work amazingly well and although I am not overly...

When asked about the very first video game ever released most experts will tell you that it was Pong, the famous table tennis inspired video game released in 1972 by Atari Inc. But Pong wasn't the first one, as a company called Nutting Associates had already released their Computer Space game in 1971. Computer Space was created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabne, who later founded Atari. The gaming idea was based on Spacewar! (see below), but the really revolutionary concept was to create a machine specifically for a game (instead of programming a game for an existing hardware). The classic arcade game had been invented. The game was quite simple, you had to control a space ship and would fire missiles...

Whether going to the cinema, for a long trip or just as a sweet treat, pick and mix has always been there. There are so many different types too. So whether you like mints, chocolate, chewy bars, liquorice or jelly sweets, there is always something that you'll like. Plus, as the name suggests, you never simply have to choose one variety like you may do with an ordinary packet of sweets. Oh no, you have the freedom to have whatever you want in whatever quantity your pocket money could afford. Of course we all had our tactics when it came to choosing pick and mix, particularly when it was done on scales. Essentially a good rule of thumb was to go for anything that was light but substantial. It's a...

I live near a beautiful park and, every day, I see groups of people enjoying themselves with what has become a favorite recreation here in my neighborhood -- the frisbee. Their fascination has led me to do my own kind of research into this frisbee craze. It's really quite interesting. The frisbee, as we all know, is the most common name for those flying discs or flying saucers. They are usually made of plastic and are about 20 to 25 centimeters of 8 to 10 inches in diameter. These frisbees are designed to fly aerodynamically when someone throws them in the air with rotation and they can be caught by hand. Playing with a frisbee is like playing catch with a rubber ball, although frisbees are much...

The question as it was posed: I recently saw a program on PBS about a scientist that had a theory about a parallel universe and how every time we make a decision, another self experiences another version or our action in another universe. Is this true and can you explain? This is one of the hardest things to explain because of built in beliefs in the solidity of matter which infers that there is some kind of lack of space for more than one really big universe, so we are here tied to words and concepts that you have grown to love even though they bear very little resemblance to the truth. We have discussed this before and will continue to do so in the future, but in a nutshell, solidity is simply the...

"Alternative 3" was the final documentary done by the well respected "Science Report" of Anglia Television in England on April 1st 1977. Within an hour of broadcasting the television station issued a hurried statement stating that the show was a hoax. We believe that the film is 95% fake but that 5% of it is the most important footage of the 20th Century and totally accurate. That is the NASA footage of people on Mars. We believe that much of the story is also the truth. Besides filming the show on April 1st, the producers later said that the show was fake. It was quite evident at the end of the movie that something was fake because almost every single person filmed on the show was an actor, not...