Uncategorized and Off Topic Discussions - Soul Star Travelers of Elven World2024-03-28T18:54:10Zhttps://elvenworld.ning.com/forum/categories/uncategorized-and-off-topic-discussions/listForCategory?feed=yes&xn_auth=noUFO Sightingstag:elvenworld.ning.com,2023-01-05:2735650:Topic:1104542023-01-05T10:13:44.767ZMorell Sunweaverhttps://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/Morell
<p>Digging through internet lately I've found an app CE5 Protocols, (pretty buggy) which belongs to active group of people who are literaly trying to attract UFO to them for them to see it. It's funny and cute game to me. Would be more of app wasn't paid, but all info from it is also <a href="https://ce5texas.com/index.php" rel="noopener" target="_blank">online for free</a>, so not that bad. But it gives ideas.…</p>
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<p>Digging through internet lately I've found an app CE5 Protocols, (pretty buggy) which belongs to active group of people who are literaly trying to attract UFO to them for them to see it. It's funny and cute game to me. Would be more of app wasn't paid, but all info from it is also <a href="https://ce5texas.com/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online for free</a>, so not that bad. But it gives ideas.</p>
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<p>I think that if they are actual aliens, they just play alone with this game.</p>
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<p>But to the toppic, who here has seen them or their ships? Any experiences here? I bet that there is a lot of them here among us.</p> Has anyone here contacted the Silver Elves?tag:elvenworld.ning.com,2022-07-13:2735650:Topic:1082102022-07-13T03:11:34.383ZLunestiahttps://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/Lunnesia
<p>Hey guys, so before I joined this place I shot an Email to the Silver Elves... <a class="anchor-1MIwyf anchorUnderlineOnHover-2qPutX" href="https://silverelves.angelfire.com/HAelfkin.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" title="https://silverelves.angelfire.com/HAelfkin.html">https://silverelves.angelfire.com/HAelfkin.html</a> this is what explains it and what they ask... I got an email back from them and I'm a bit dumbfounded by it.<br></br><br></br></p>
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<p>Hey guys, so before I joined this place I shot an Email to the Silver Elves... <a class="anchor-1MIwyf anchorUnderlineOnHover-2qPutX" title="https://silverelves.angelfire.com/HAelfkin.html" href="https://silverelves.angelfire.com/HAelfkin.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://silverelves.angelfire.com/HAelfkin.html</a> this is what explains it and what they ask... I got an email back from them and I'm a bit dumbfounded by it.<br/><br/></p>
<p>Have any of you contacted them before? Is the information solid? I'm very interested in their response, and would like to know what other people think of them.</p> Is this place dead?tag:elvenworld.ning.com,2022-07-10:2735650:Topic:1081142022-07-10T23:42:38.856ZLunestiahttps://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/Lunnesia
<p>This place seems to not have much any activity... which saddens me. It seems a lot of communities are just dead now. We had way more activity 5 to 10 years ago, what happened. I don't understand why the community and most of it's resources have died.</p>
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<p>Does anyone know any active Fae forums?</p>
<p>This place seems to not have much any activity... which saddens me. It seems a lot of communities are just dead now. We had way more activity 5 to 10 years ago, what happened. I don't understand why the community and most of it's resources have died.</p>
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<p>Does anyone know any active Fae forums?</p> Podcast interview with Zardoa of the Silver Elvestag:elvenworld.ning.com,2020-05-16:2735650:Topic:678442020-05-16T05:57:55.202ZArethinn aTinderelhttps://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/ArethinnnaelethaTinderel
<a href="https://narrativesofidentity.org/podcast/">Narratives of Spiritual Identity, Episode 1.5</a><br />
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<a href="https://narrativesofidentity.org/podcast/">Narratives of Spiritual Identity, Episode 1.5</a><br />
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*insert annoyed comment about how this stuff always gets framed as a weird offshoot human religion*, but generally good. About 1 hour long. ARTICLE: The Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is Not What We Expectedtag:elvenworld.ning.com,2019-10-05:2735650:Topic:649822019-10-05T07:03:28.578ZMorell Sunweaverhttps://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/Morell
<div class="content-area" id="primary"><div class="entry-body"><div class="entry-content"><p><em><a href="https://jefflibraryfoundation.org/2018/11/07/article-digital-gap-between-rich-and-poor-kids/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://jefflibraryfoundation.org/2018/11/07/article-digital-gap-between-rich-and-poor-kids/</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/digital-divide-screens-schools.html">story from the Oct. 26 issue of The New York…</a></em></p>
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<p><em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/digital-divide-screens-schools.html">story from the Oct. 26 issue of The New York Times</a></em></p>
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<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">“We start the meetings by saying, ‘This is hard, we’re in a new frontier, but who is going to help us?’” said Krista Boan, who is leading a Kansas City-based program called START, which stands for Stand Together And Rethink Technology. “We can’t call our moms about this one.”</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">For the last six months, at night in school libraries across Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City, Mo., about 150 parents have been meeting to talk about one thing: how to get their children off screens.</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">It wasn’t <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/technology/fcc-internet-access-school.html?module=inline">long ago</a> that the worry was that rich students would have access to the internet earlier, gaining tech skills and creating a digital divide. Schools ask students to do homework online, while only <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/internet-broadband/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">about two-thirds</a> of people in the U.S. have broadband internet service. But now, as Silicon Valley’s parents increasingly panic over the impact screens have on their children and move toward screen-free lifestyles, worries over a new digital divide are rising. It could happen that the children of poorer and middle-class parents will be raised by screens, while the children of Silicon Valley’s elite will be going back to wooden toys and the luxury of human interaction.</p>
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<div class="css-18sbwfn StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-4w7y5l"><p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">This is already playing out. Throwback <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/well/family/taking-playtime-seriously.html?module=inline">play-based</a> preschools are trending in affluent neighborhoods — but Utah has been rolling out a <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/preschool-is-good-for-poor-kids-but-its-expensive-so-utah-is-offering-it-online/2015/10/09/27665e52-5e1d-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html?utm_term=.846ddd000d48" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">state-funded online-only preschool</a>, now serving around<a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.waterford.org/waterfords-upstart-program-grows-approximately-10000-children-utah/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> 10,000 children</a>. Organizers <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.waterford.org/waterford-wins-eir-grant-to-bring-waterford-upstart-to-five-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">announced</a> that the screen-based preschool effort would expand in 2019 with a federal grant to Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho and Montana.</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">Lower-income teenagers spend an average of eight hours and seven minutes a day using screens for entertainment, while higher income peers spend five hours and 42 minutes, <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/the-common-sense-census-media-use-by-tweens-and-teens" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according to research by Common Sense Media</a>, a nonprofit media watchdog. (This study counted each screen separately, so a child texting on a phone and watching TV for one hour counted as two hours of screens being used.) <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/opinion/america-digital-divide.html?module=inline">Two studies that look at race</a> have found that white children are exposed to screens significantly less than African-American and Hispanic children.</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">And parents say there is a growing technological divide between public and private schools even in the same community. While the private Waldorf School of the Peninsula, <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-silicon-valley-technology-can-wait.html?module=inline">popular with Silicon Valley executives</a>, eschews most screens, the nearby public Hillview Middle School <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://district.mpcsd.org/Page/491" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">advertises its 1:1 iPad program</a>.</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">The psychologist Richard Freed, who wrote a book about the dangers of screen-time for children and how to connect them back to real world experiences, divides his time between speaking before packed rooms in Silicon Valley and his clinical practice with low-income families in the far East Bay, where he is often the first one to tell parents that limiting screen-time might help with attention and behavior issues.</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">“I go from speaking to a group in Palo Alto who have read my book to Antioch, where I am the first person to mention any of these risks,” Dr. Freed said.</p>
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<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">“The digital divide was about access to technology, and now that everyone has access, the new digital divide is limiting access to technology,” said Chris Anderson, the former editor of Wired magazine.</p>
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<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">Some parents, pediatricians and teachers around the country are pushing back.</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">“These companies lied to the schools, and they’re lying to the parents,” said Natasha Burgert, a pediatrician in Kansas City. “We’re all getting duped.”</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">“Our kids, my kids included, we are subjecting them to one of the biggest social experiments we have seen in a long time,” she said. “What happens to my daughter if she can’t communicate over dinner — how is she going to find a spouse? How is she going to interview for a job?”</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">“I have families now that go teetotal,” Dr. Burgert said. “They’re like, ‘That’s it, we’re done.’”</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">One of those families are the Brownsbergers, who had long banned smartphones but recently also banned the internet-connected television.</p>
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<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">“And I told him, ‘Kiddo, you’re not gonna get one of those things,’” Ms. Brownsberger said. “Yeah, I’m the mean mom.”</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">But one thing has made it easier: Others in what she described as a rural neighborhood outside Kansas City are doing the same thing.</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">“It takes a community to support this,” she said. “Like I was just talking to my neighbor last night — ‘Am I the worst mom ever?’”</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">Ms. Boan has three pilots running with about 40 parents in each, looking at best practices for getting kids off phones and screens. Overland Park’s Chamber of Commerce is supporting the work, and the city is working to incorporate elements of digital wellness into its new strategic vision.</p>
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<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">In Silicon Valley, some feel anxious about the growing class divide they see around screen-time.</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">Kirstin Stecher and her husband, who works as an engineer at Facebook, are raising their kids almost completely screen-free.</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">“Is this coming from a place of information — like, we know a lot about these screens,” she said. “Or is it coming from a place of privilege, that we don’t need them as badly?”</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">“There’s a message out there that your child is going to be crippled and in a different dimension if they’re not on the screen,” said Pierre Laurent, a former Microsoft and Intel executive now on the board of trustees at Silicon Valley’s Waldorf School. “That message doesn’t play as well in this part of the world.”</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">“People in this region of the world understand that the real thing is everything that’s happening around big data, AI, and that is not something that you’re going to be particularly good at because you have a cellphone in fourth grade,” Mr. Laurent said.</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">As those working to build products become more wary, the business of getting screens in front of kids is booming. Apple and Google <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/technology/silicon-valley-baltimore-schools.html?module=inline">compete ferociously to get products into schools</a> and target students at an early age, when <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/when-does-brand-loyalty-start-62841/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">brand loyalty begins to form</a>.</p>
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<div class="css-18sbwfn StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-4w7y5l"><p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0"><a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B__OTXR_u3RbdzNPN3pqR2hBMG8/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google published</a> a case study of its work with the Hoover City, Ala., school district, saying technology equips students “with skills of the future.”</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">The company concluded that its own Chromebooks and Google tools changed lives: “The district leaders believe in preparing students for success by teaching them the skills, knowledge, and behaviors they need to become responsible citizens in the global community.”</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">Dr. Freed, though, argues these tools are too relied upon in schools for low-income children. And he sees the divide every day as he meets tech-addicted children of middle and low-income families.</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">“For a lot of kids in Antioch, those schools don’t have the resources for extracurricular activities, and their parents can’t afford nannies,” Dr. Freed said. He said the knowledge gap around tech’s danger is enormous.</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">Dr. Freed <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://screentimenetwork.org/apa" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">and 200 other psychologists petitioned</a> the American Psychological Association in August to formally condemn the work psychologists are doing with persuasive design for tech platforms that are designed for children.</p>
<p class="css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0">“Once it sinks its teeth into these kids, it’s really hard,” Dr. Freed said.</p>
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<div class="css-1jhku0n"><em>A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 29, 2018, on Page B3 of the New York edition with the headline: Rich Parents Ban Devices As the Poor Grow Reliant. <a href="http://www.nytreprints.com/">Order Reprints</a></em></div>
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<p>Does anyone play a Celtic instrument or have one they want to learn to play?</p>
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<p>I got my hands on a lyre but I have never seriously played any instrument before. I'd like to learn how to play the harp, too.</p>
<p>but yeh.. the lyre I have has 8 strings and I can't find any music for it. I have no idea how to string it or tune it either.</p>
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<p>I know there are books about people that wrote their music in oghams or something like that. I'm trying to get my hands on a copy…</p>
<p>Does anyone play a Celtic instrument or have one they want to learn to play?</p>
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<p>I got my hands on a lyre but I have never seriously played any instrument before. I'd like to learn how to play the harp, too.</p>
<p>but yeh.. the lyre I have has 8 strings and I can't find any music for it. I have no idea how to string it or tune it either.</p>
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<p>I know there are books about people that wrote their music in oghams or something like that. I'm trying to get my hands on a copy of a certain book, but it's very elusive.</p> Swordsmanshiptag:elvenworld.ning.com,2019-02-14:2735650:Topic:613632019-02-14T18:46:04.693ZTerezihttps://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/MiriahBoidh
<p>I am wondering about how the ancient Celts fought. What were their techniques and weapons? Did the druids also fight?</p>
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<p>I have bought two books lately about esoteric swordsmanship.. One is Academy of the Sword and the other is Spirit and the Sword.</p>
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<p>Is anyone in the SCA and/or do you train in HEMA? </p>
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<p>I am wondering about how the ancient Celts fought. What were their techniques and weapons? Did the druids also fight?</p>
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<p>I have bought two books lately about esoteric swordsmanship.. One is Academy of the Sword and the other is Spirit and the Sword.</p>
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<p>Is anyone in the SCA and/or do you train in HEMA? </p>
<p></p> Sharing Musictag:elvenworld.ning.com,2018-08-14:2735650:Topic:577482018-08-14T01:55:05.622ZTannerhttps://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/Tanner
<p>I wanted to share some thin lizzy in particular, but also thought its a good idea to have a thread for us all to share music.</p>
<p>This one is from Thin Lizzy's Life/Live '79 album called Black Rose</p>
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<p>I wanted to share some thin lizzy in particular, but also thought its a good idea to have a thread for us all to share music.</p>
<p>This one is from Thin Lizzy's Life/Live '79 album called Black Rose</p>
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