Giethorn, A Small Venice In Netherland

 

Although I don't like travelling, still there is some place that I wanna visit. Giethorn is one of them, a peacefully village in the province of Overijssel, Netherland. With 2,500 inhabitants, a rule that car are prohibited and a canal as major transportation, this village given nickname as 'the Venice of the North' or ‘Venice of the Netherlands’.

Do you understand why I wanna go to Giethorn the most? This is because the peacefully atmosphere and the canal transportation!. There are 4 miles of canals, more than 150 bridges and farmhouses with thatched roofs dating back to the 18th century. Sound pretty exotic, isn't? You can explore this village by walking on foot, cycling or sailing.

I wonder how this village didn't have a large road and only have a river instead.  The story begun when the huge and big flood disaster destroy this town. After this flood, first inhabitants found masses of horns of wild goats, which had probably died in 1170 during the flood. They called their settlement Geytenhorn (geit = goat), ulimately becoming Giethoorn (dialect goat = geit = giet). Giethoorn's name originates from the first inhabitants' discovery of hundreds of goat horns (gietehorens) in the marshland, remnants of a 10th-century flood. Today no goat horns will be found here, but the vegetation is quite distinct still. Here you will find yourself on the edge of vast series of lakes and canals, ideal for boaties, angling and paddle-cycling.

Boating has been a popular tourist attraction here for years, with 90km of canoe trails and scores of motorboats to rent, but now, instead of conventional outboard motors, the hire shops stock so-called 'whisper boats' - dinghies driven by electric motor.

Although there are organized boat tours, it's more fun to hire a small electric boat that requires no great technical skill to operate, and seats two or three comfortably. Most of the canal-side restaurants rent them and it's a grand way to spend an afternoon, gently puttering down the narrow waterways, under gracefully arching bridges, past cosy thatched cottages. Btw, people said it is the best choice to rent boat in the morning, because the canals can get very crowded as the day progresses.

There are three canal-side museums to visit and the Schreur shipyard, where the Giethoorn punt is built. Footpaths beside the canals are ideal for walking or cycling, and there's a wide selection of cafes and restaurants.

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The Nine Unknown Men and The Nine Book of Forbidden Knowledge

Recently I got an interesting myth that called The Unknown Men, it's an organization that guard a forbidden knowledge.

According to occult lore, the Nine Unknown Men are a two millennia-old secret society founded by the Indian Emperor Asoka 273 BC. The legend of The Nine Unknown Men goes back to the time of the Emperor Asoka, who was the grandson of Chandragupta. Ambitious like his ancestor whose achievements he was anxious to complete, he conquered the region of Kalinga which lay between what is now Calcutta and Madras. The Kalingans resisted and lost 100,000 men in the battle. At the sight of this massacre Asoka was overcome and resolved to follow the path of non-violence.

He converted to Buddhism after the massacre, the Emperor founded the society of the Nine to preserve and develop knowledge that would be dangerous to humanity if it fell into the wrong hands. It is said that the Emperor Asoka once aware of the horrors of war, wished to forbid men ever to put their intelligence to evil uses. During his reign natural science, past and present, was vowed to secrecy. Henceforward, and for the next 2,000 years, all researches, ranging from the structure of matter to the techniques employed in collective psychology, were to be hidden behind the mystical mask of a people commonly believed to be exclusively concerned with ecstasy and supernatural phenomena. Asoka founded the most powerful secret society on earth: that of the Nine Unknown Men.

One can imagine the extraordinary importance of secret knowledge in the hands of nine men benefiting directly from experiments, studies and documents accumulated over a period of more than 2,000 years. What can have been the aim of these men? Not to allow methods of destruction to fall into the hands of unqualified persons and to pursue knowledge which would benefit mankind. Their numbers would be renewed by co-option, so as to preserve the secrecy of techniques handed down from ancient times.

The Nine Books
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Propaganda and Psychological warfare is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people. Instead of impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. It is the most dangerous of all sciences, as it is capable of moulding mass opinion. It would enable anyone to govern the whole world.

Physiology is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. The book of The Nine included instructions on how to perform the "touch of death (death being caused by a reversal of the nerve-impulse)". I believe it's related with Varma Kalai in Indian martial art and then become Dian Xue Shu/Dim Mak in kungfu.

Microbiology, and, according to more recent speculation, Biotechnology. In some versions of the myth, the waters of the Ganges are purified with special microbes designed by the Nine and released into the river at a secret base in the Himalayas. Multitudes of pilgrims, suffering from the most appalling diseases, bathe in them without harming the healthy ones. The sacred waters purify everything. Their strange properties have been attributed to the fact that they contain bacteriophages. But why should these not be formed in the Bramaputra, the Amazon or the Seine?

Alchemy, including the transmutation of metals. In India, there is a persistent rumor that during times of drought or other natural disasters temples and religious organizations receive large quantities of gold from an unknown source. The mystery is further deepened with the fact that the sheer quantity of gold throughout the country in temples and with kings cannot be properly accounted for, seeing that India has few gold mines.

Communication, including communication with extraterrestrials.

Gravitation. Book 6 The Vaiminaka sastra is said to contain the instructions necessary to build a Vimana, sometimes referred to as the "ancient UFOs of India."

Cosmology, the capacity to travel at enormous speeds through spacetime fabric, and time-travel; including intra- and inter-universal trips. Since I have a problem with travelling thing, I reaaaaally wanna got this knowledge. Btw, I ever watch in youtube, a Chinese CCTV record an unbelievable rescue with a light speed by an unknown man. It's related with this book? Who knows.

Light, the capacity to increase and decrease the speed of light, to use it as a weapon by concentrating it in a certain direction etc.

Sociology, including rules concerning the evolution of societies and how to predict their downfall.

Suspected Members

Numerous figures who straddled the line between occultism and science fiction writing, most prominently (and apparently first) Louis Jacolliot, Talbot Mundy, and later Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier in their Morning of the Magicians, propagated the story of the Nine claiming that the society occasionally revealed itself to wise outsiders such as Pope Sylvester II who was said to have received, among other things, training in supernatural powers and a robotic talking head from the group. In more recent times, according to this circle, the Nine assisted humanity by revealing the secret of the Cholera vaccine.

Among conspiracy theorists the Nine Unknown is often cited as one of the oldest and most powerful secret societies in the world. Unusually for the conspiracy subculture, the image of the group is largely though not entirely benign. Theosophists also believe the Nine to be a real organization that is working for the good of the world.

Some modern Indian scientists such as Jagdish Chandra Bose, a pioneer in Radio and Microwave Optics and Vikram Sarabhai, the man behind the Indian space and missile defense programs, were said to believe in or even to be members of the Nine although documentation on this issue is predictably scant. Believers in the Nine also point to the mysterious Delhi iron pillar, which is said to have been constructed at a time before the technology.

Indian scientists are occasionally rumored to be members of the Nine Unknown Men, and from time to time, if a Westerner should visit India and then do something astounding, he is considered to have had their help (as was the case with Pope Sylvester II, and also Alexandre Emile John Yersin, who knew Louis Pasteur and Pierre Paul Emile Roux, who respectively created vaccines for Rabbies and Dyphtheria).




Pope Sylvester II

There is an extraordinary case of one of the most mysterious figures in Western history: the Pope Sylvester II, known also by the name of Gerbert d'Aurillac. Born in the Auvergne in 920 (d. 1003) Gerbert was a Benedictine monk, professor at the University of Rheims, Archbishop of Ravenna and Pope by the grace of Ortho III. He is supposed to have spent some time in Spain, after which a mysterious voyage brought him to India where he is reputed to have aquired various kinds of skills which stupified his entourage. For example, he possessed in his palace a bronze head which answered YES or NO to questions put to it on politics or the general position of Christianity. According to Sylvester II this was a perfectly simple operation corresponding to a two-figure calculation, and was performed by an automaton similar to our modern binary machines. This "magic" head was destroyed when Sylvester died, and all the information it imparted carefully concealed. No doubt an authorized research worker would come across some interesting things in the Vatican Library. In the cybernetics journal, "Computers and Automation" of October 1954, the following comment appeared: "We must suppose that he (Sylvester) was possessed of extraordinary knowledge and the most remarkable mechanical skill and inventiveness. This speaking head must have been fashioned 'under a certain conjunction of stars occring at the exact moment when all the planets were starting on their courses.' Neither the past, nor the present nor the future entered into it, since this invention apparently far exceeded in its scope its rival, the perverse "mirror on the wall" of the Queen, the precursor of our modern electronic brain. Naturally it was widely asserted that Gerbert was only able to produce such a machine head because he was in league with the Devil and had sworn eternal allegiance to him." Had other Europeans any contact with the society of the Nine Unknown Men?

Jacolliot
It was not until the nineteenth century that this mystery was referred to again in the works of the French writer Jacolliot. Jacolliot was French Consul at Calcutta under the Second Empire. He wrote some quite important prophetic works, comparable, if not superior to those of Jules Verne. He also left several books dealing with the great secrets of the human race. A great many occult writers, prophets and miracle-workers have borrowed from his writings which, completely neglected in France, are well known in Russia. Jacolliot states catagorically that the Soceity of Nine did actually exist. And, to make it all the more intriguing, he refers in the this connection to certain techniques, unimaginable in 1860, such as, for example, the liberation of energy, sterilization by radiation and psychological warfare.


Yersin
Yersin, one of Pasteur and de Roux's closest collaborators, was entrusted, it seems, with certain biological secrets when he visited Madras in 1890, and following the instructions he received was able to prepare a serum against cholera and the plague. The Nine came to the rescue of the civilization from these deadly diseases which they knew if not kiboshed would bring the human race to extinction.


CONCLUSION

Interesting isn't? Avoiding all forms of religious, social or political agitations, deliberately and perfectly concealed from the public eye, the Nine were the incarnation of the ideal man of science, serenely aloof, but conscious of his moral obligations. Having the power to mold the destiny of the human race, but refraining from its exercise, they even didn't tempted to use their knowledge for money or fame. This secret society is the finest tribute imaginable to freedom of the most exalted kind. Looking down from the watch-tower of their hidden glory, these Nine Unknown Men watched civilizations being born, destroyed and re-born again, tolerant rather than indifferent, and ready to come to the rescue -- but always observing that rule of silence that is the mark of human greatness. Myth or reality? A magnificent myth, in any case. Seriously, I wanna got a knowledge from them. lol

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LAZY-PRENEURSHIP, LAZY BASED ENTREPRENEUR

Maybe the term “Lazypreneur” will make you think that it is crazy, because how come a laziness will make you become an entrepreneur?

Well, I’ll make it clear here. A Lazypreneur is a concept or mindset to get an idea, not an how to act. When you want to start to become entrepreneur or start a business you will certainly wanting an idea what kind of business and what innovation that I can do, don’t you? Then you can use a lazypreneur mindset to get it. Remember, human always have a lazy nature and you can making the best use of it.

Do you know about Pizza Delivery? How do you think they can come up with delivery idea? It is because some customers are too lazy to go to the restaurant. Do you know why fast food are really popular? One of the reason is because it is fast, everyone know costumers are too lazy to waiting for food and always wanting a fast service. Why television have a remote control? Why Alexander Graham Bell invented telephone? Why there is so many instant food?, etc. All of that innovation are human laziness based. Human always want to make their life more easier because human have a lazy nature.

Do you get it about Lazypreneur concept, already? :D

Now you can make your business idea or innovation, and I think it is more easy to get the idea if you already got this concept.

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Rev. From DVL, Rising Idol From Fukuoka

I hear there is a new famous idol group from Fukuoka prefecture, Japan. So this time I will write about them.

Rev. from DVL is a Japanese idol group formed in June 2011. It currently consists of 12 members. The idol unit is based in Fukuoka.

Maybe you will ask, why they use name Rev. from DVL? What the meaning of it? Here it come the answer : The name comes from 2 words. “Rev” is an abbreviation for “revolution” and it means “dream” in Haitian creole. “DVL” is an acronym for “Dance Vocal Lesson”.
But, I think that name is still not easy to pronounce of course. XD

Rev. from DVL perform mainly in festivals and local events around Fukuoka. The members are also models.

Despite their young age, many of the group’s members have a lot of experience performing in the entertainment industry. Nagisa Shinomiya, for example, has been in the business for about 10 years already. She joined a production company in her first year at elementary school.

Before the girls graduated to the live-house circuit, they used to perform on the streets. One such location was at Lion Square in front of the Mitsukoshi department store, which is a popular spot to meet up with friends.

“There was no space (on the streets) so we used to hold up black curtains for each other so we could change costumes,” says Kanna Hashimoto, who is the group’s most talked about member according to fans who fell for her “angelic” looks.

Hashimoto adds that the members used to also drag small suitcases with them filled with souvenir goods to sell at the street performances.

With Fukuoka’s idol scene seemingly conquered, the group’s ambition is to seek success at the national level.

Now that their popularity is on the rise, the group is ambitious about seeking success at the national level.

“We’d like to try out many different things as a group,” says leader Hitomi Imai. “We want to perform on music programs (on television), or even host our own program.”

But even if Rev. from DVL moves on to the national level, the group agrees its base will remain in Fukuoka.

Miho Akiyama, the group’s deputy leader, describes Fukuoka as a “compact and convenient city” that is both a metropolitan place and one with lots of nature.

The group has also performed in Vietnam and Taiwan. “We can go to places like Tokyo, too, but here (in Fukuoka) we’re close to (other parts of) Asia,” Hashimoto says. “It’s a nice place to live and people are warm-hearted. I’d like to live in Fukuoka forever.”

In July 2013, Rev. from DVL participated in Manga Festival in Vietnam.

In November 2013, Hashimoto Kanna gained the attention and became popular on the internet due to her cuteness. As a result, various photos of her have been published on Japanese websites such as 2ch. Some idol fans believe that she will be the next superstar. The nickname “the too angelic idol (天使すぎるアイドル)” has been given to her.

Rev. from DVL went back in Vietnam in December 2013 to hold new live performances.

Narunaru and Kanae graduated from the idol group in February 2014.

Their radio show Rev. from DVL no Vitamin Revolution started broadcasting in March 2014 on KBC Radio.

Akiyama Miho and Washio Miki host a segment titled Rev. ni Ai ni Kinshai! (Rev.に逢いにきんしゃい！) on the show Girls☆Punch broadcast on RKB Radio every Friday evening. Hashimoto Kanna makes irregular appearances.

Rev. from DVL released their major debut single Love -Arigatou- under the label Yoshimoto R and C in April 2014. This is their PV (Promotional Video) of Love -Arigatou-. :D

This is short version PV, you can search longer version in youtube or internet. :D
It is also the CM song for the first promotional campaign featuring Hashimoto Kanna and Rev. from DVL.

In May 2014, Hashimoto Kanna appeared in a TV CM for the social video game Girlfriend Beta (ガールフレンド（仮）). Her own anime character is also featuring in the game.

The idol group participated in the MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2014 (VMAJ) on MTV Asia in June 2014.

Profile

Rev. from DVL
Years active : 2011 – present
Label : -
Agency : Active Hakata

Members

Hashimoto Kanna (橋本環奈) – Kanna (かんな)
Akiyama Miho (秋山美穂) – Miporin (みぽりん)
Shinomiya Nagisa (四宮なぎさ) – Nagichon (なぎちょん)
Washio Miki (鷲尾美紀) – Miki (みき)
Imai Hitomi (今井瞳) – Hitomin (ひとみん)
Kouya Honami (神谷帆南) – Honami (ほなみ)
Nishioka Yuna (西岡優菜) – Yuuna (ゆうな)
Hashimoto Yukina (橋本幸奈) – Yukky (ゆっきー)
Chikaraishi Nanami (力石 奈波) – Chikanana (ちかなな)
Fujimoto Reina (藤本麗依菜) – Reina (れいな)
Takahashi Nanami (高橋菜々美) – Nacchi (なっち)
Furusawa Saki (古澤早希) – Saki (さき)

Former Members

Rairai (らいらい)
Matsuda Narumi (松田成未) – Narunaru (なるなる)
Shintani Kanae (新谷香苗) – Kanae (かなえ)

Discography

Singles
Love Arigatou
Ai ni Kinshai (逢いにきんしゃい)

Albums

Links

Official Website
Blog
Twitter

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Tadashi Yanai And UNIQLO Success Story

Do you know about UNIQLO brand?

This time I will write about their inspiring and success story. :D This is about Tadashi Yanai, a founder and owner of Uniqlo, He is considered of “one of the most rich in Japan”.

Tadashi Yanai was born in 1949 in Ube Town, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. He is smart and because of that he can manage to entering Waseda University in politic and economic major degree.

But, after graduated from Waseda University he forced to do what his father want, to take over his family business, Ogori Shoji. Since then he begin to manage his small store that specialized of it is coat making for man.

But in his mind, he always have ambition to change this business drastically and he want to make more than just one store.

Since young Tadashi Yanai have a travelling hobbies, when still in the college he take a student exchange program in England and his travelling habit still continuing even until he take over his family business.

The idea to change his clothing business is came when Tadashi went to Thailand in 1985. He intentionally came to Thailand because he want to study their market value. He did impressed  when see so many casual clothes from China sold with cheap price in there. Then after that Tadashi make a decision to change his business strategy.

Since that time, he change his business from formal coat to casual clothes and importing all his product directly from China. Don’t you think it is so brave? Totally change his business that has been passing through generation to generation. :o

By importing clothes material directly from Guangzhou and Shanghai, production cost can reduced until 90%,  so the price of his product can be more cheap when sold to costumer.

This is tips and trick from Tadashi Yanai for young man that want to be “SUCCESS” :

1.       Don’t easy to say “Ah, I can’t”

A young man who feel don’t have a business or entrepreneur talent in himself should still try first. Long ago Tadashi ever feel like that too, being feel not suitable with business job or even become an entrepreneur. But when he try it, on the contrary he even enjoy it. That’s why young man nowadays should not too fast to conclude that he is not suit with something.

2.       Always Get Inspiration From Anywhere

Tadashi success story are strongly related from his inspiration that he got when traveling since young. If you can get a positif benefit from this hobby, it’s not impossible for you to be successes like Tadashi.

3.       Don’t Be Shy to Learn From Your Competitor

Tadashi build his business from ZERO. He even don’t know how to produce a product with cheapest price. In his beginning, he build a joint business with Giordano to produce Uniqlo’s product. He even imitate GAP production system, GAP has been one of the best player in business retail.

4.       Leave Your Home! Go Out From Your Area!

Commonly, a young man feel swelled head and feel the most successes in their home town. But actually if he go out from his home town, he is still nothing. Leaving hometown is important, so you can experiencing a “real competition” out there.

5.       Develop Your Business Out of Comfort Zone

Tadashi break all his comfort zone in his life when he build his own business kingdom.

-          He is leaving his coat store that has been passed down through generation to generation and change his business direction to casual clothes.

-          He bravely take a risk to open many UNIQLO’s branch in many country at once. This is really different with many other Japan Company that only take a local market to compete. In UNIQLO’s first try to going global, Tadashi open 22 branch of UNIQLO in London plus 3 store in New Jersey.

6.       If You Want to be Success, You Will Failed First. But It Doesn’t Mean You Won’t Be Successes

A story about Tadashi carrier will be a perfect example that how a failure always come before success. Do you believe how many failure Tadashi has been got?

-          All UNIQLO’s branch in overseas totally failed at the beginning. In 1,5 years all UNIQLO branch are closed. It is happen because UNIQLO doesn’t figured on about western cloth size.

-          UNIQLO ever got an opinion as “the most uncool” and “oldish” clothing brand in Europe and America.

-          To settle that stigma, Tadashi until have to pay famous designer from Japan and Europe to revising his product to be more “cool”.

-          UNIQLO even take an advantage from financial crisis in 2008 to take over two high class retail company, Theory and Helmut Lang. It will be really useful for UNIQLO to penetrate America and Europe market.

7.       You Don’t Have to Follow The Trend

Tadashi build UNIQLO without ever follow a fashion trend. He want to make a cheap clothes, can be used anytime and suitable for everyone. No matter what people said that it is a crazy idea in the clothing business world, but Tadashi bravery turn out to be an impressive outcome. Now, UNIQLO’s selling around the world has been compete with fashionable product such as Zara and H&M.

8.       Learn English Language

This Tadashi message are come from his concern when he see how a Japanese young man are not ready to face a globalization. But I think it is not only for Japanese, it is valid too with a country which doesn’t have an English as their major language like my country.

He said Japanese young man have everything, such as smart brain, technology, financial capital, hardworker , etc but they are reluctant to speak English. So it make them incapable to compete in global competition.

Because of this, Yanai has declared English as his company language. So his company can be more global.

Interesting, isn’t? Don’t look Tadashi Yanai and UNIQLO at it is wealth, look at their effort instead. :D They teach us the guts to never give up even when facing a serious failure. Hope this article will motivate us and good luck with your own business. J

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