The Hidden History of Demons in the Ancient World

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I always thought the war on drugs was stupid, always will. You can stop something people want that bad.

Enjoying the what’s left of the night after work updating this website. Check out this interesting article you know I love to help you all out!

 

 

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They say the eyes tell all. Now thanks to eye-tracking technology we can tell they’re saying. Tracking eye movements can give us fascinating insights into advertising and design and reveal a few things about human tendencies.

We’ve picked out some of our favorites below:

Everyone focuses on Scarlett Johansson’s face in this Dolce & Gabbana ad.

Here you can see how the eyes follow a few different animations.

In this package of meat, people look at the meat right away. Then, they read the label and check out the sticker.

In this viewing of The Last Supper, people are looking at Jesus and the apostles. The eyes also seem to naturally fall on that space between two of the back windows.

Grocery shoppers are mostly looking for prices.

This is a gaze plot. It shows how people are checking out a shelf full of shampoo.

No one seems to care about this Porsche. They’d rather read.

This one shows the differences between men and women. Men spend more time looking at the woman, while women read the rest of the ad.

Notice how the men are not looking at the shoes at all.

Men focus on baseball players’ torso more than women, who look only at the face.

Viewers of both genders are more likely to look at the woman’s face. On the guy’s profile, they’re reading the text.

Despite the really long beard, people still focus on the face in this one.

Place a product slightly left of center in a store display to get it the most attention.

There’s a lot going on on this version of the New York Times’ homepage. Images and special text boxes won out.

This Smartwater ad does a pretty good job of getting people to notice the bottle of water. But they’re also checking out the model’s shoulder.

These Sunsilk ads show that just putting a pretty face on a copy isn’t enough. It matters where she’s looking.

This Pepsi can is just as eye-catching as the woman’s face.

Notice how much people focus on the jewelry.

This image shows “banner blindness,” revealing a potential problem with banner ads.

On Google, the top five listings on the page get the majority of eyeballs. Everything else can be considered below the fold.

On Facebook, photos catch the most eyes.

Here’s what people look at during a soccer match. They’re focused on the player throwing in the ball and the area he’s facing

Even though there’s a large picture of a man’s face on this billboard, more people were looking at the words on the left.

Women tend to focus on the face and the torso…

While men focus more on the groin …

What do people look at when they see the Vegas strip? The eye looks straight ahead and then veers back to the left.

In the six seconds they spend on a resume, recruiters focus on name, current and past position titles and dates, and education.

A few of these images were contributions from Sticky. Sticky lets companies to conduct their own biometric online eye-tracking.

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Editor’s note: This post was originally published on Quora, in answer to the question, “What should you do if someone puts a gun to your head?” We republished the answer with permission from the author,  former police officer Justin Freeman.

 

The flippant (but obligatory) short answer is, “Whatever they tell you to.” Of course, within this there is nuance and some other considerations to be made:

 

Most important: Stay. Calm. There is no way you’re going to remember all of the stuff I’m about to say, but if you remember anything, remember to remain calm. If clarity of thought was ever important, it will be in the proceeding moments.

 

• First, every point following this one will be dependent upon your remaining calm. You will be incapable of higher thought if your brain is seized up with an ‘oh my god oh my god oh my god’ cycle.
• Second, calmness begets calmness. If you panic, you’re in turn going to panic a person with a gun to your head, who obviously felt backed into a corner prior to your beginning to scream and convulse two feet away from them.
• Remember, your assailant has leveraged control of your physical movement by virtue of having a firearm, but you will, almost without exception, be at a psychological advantage in this situation — if you stay calm. You will have the benefit of rationality, logic, rhetoric and persuasion, all of which you’re about to need in spades.

 

Next, establish eye contact with the assailant. It sounds simplistic, but looking into their eyes forces them to acknowledge, if only to themselves, your humanity in this situation.

 

• Think about it: Most of us would have little compunction about a mouse dying outside of our presence, but could you yourself kill it if it was looking in your eyes? It would at least introduce a degree of hesitation.
• You don’t want this person uncontrollable, but you do want them uncomfortable. You want them to start reconsidering the necessity of what they’re doing and begin looking for an out.

 

Know your assailant: Not every gun-toting criminal is created equal.

 

• There are usually very specific contexts in which you’d find yourself with a gun to your head: in the course of a robbery, in a hostage situation, or at the inception of a kidnapping.
• Of the three, a simple robbery is probably most likely, but probability doesn’t do you much good after the fact.
• Each will require a different response, but they have a common denominator: the point of the encounter, in the vast majority of cases, is not to kill you.
• If the person was determined to murder you, you would already be dead — and every second that passes is usually one passing in your favor when it comes to surviving the encounter. This is why I didn’t list things like school shootings and terrorism — the whole point in those instances is to maim and kill, so you’re unlikely to spend any time with a gun to your head.

 

Here are some considerations for each of the above scenarios. A robber is simply using the gun to increase their chances of success and as an insurance policy — the point is still your wallet or purse. Give it to them.

 

• A lot of armchair wisdom on the Internet advocates chucking your money vessel in one direction and running pell-mell in the other; I honestly wouldn’t recommend this. I think there’s an inherent assumption here that they’re going to mindlessly key on the flying money a la the dog from Up. The goal is to keep the gun wielder calm, and the sudden motion of you winding back for your wallet/purse toss isn’t going to help your cause.
• Telegraph your actions before you do them (“I’m going to reach into my back pocket to get my wallet out now”), reach for your wallet or remove your purse at quarter speed, and calmly hand them what they’re demanding.
• During the whole process, study the person. Instead of trying to memorize exact height and weight or every article of clothing, try to find something unique about them personally. Unless the person is exceptionally tall, short, heavy or skinny, it’s not going to do the police much good later — everybody is “about six feet” and “around 1__ pounds.” And as far as clothing goes, what he’s wearing is coming off as soon as he’s out of sight and in a protected environment.
• Think: If you were to see five people with this person’s general features, what about them personally would distinguish them? It might be a hairstyle, scar or birthmark, tattoo, piercing pattern, or something else. This information is stored in law enforcement databases for repeat offenders, and could prove invaluable in an investigation.
• Remember, this is the only scenario in which your assailant will be unknown, so study carefully — in the course of your compliance.

 

A hostage taker is using you as a means to an end — simple leverage. This, contrary to media portrayals, most often won’t take the form of being a pawn in a grand bank robbery scheme. It will more often be you being gathered up as a personal hostage for get-away collateral.

 

• If this is the case, police are likely already present. They probably won’t be giving you any directions, as they’ll be reasoning with your assailant, but listen carefully to what is going on.
• Try to stay as quiet as possible. For sure don’t start screaming — you’re going to spike the stress level of both your assailant and the responding officers, which won’t be good for anybody. Try not to talk either — you’ll want your assailant to be able to hear the directions and commands of the police officers on scene.
• There are some other issues I’d love to discuss here, but for reasons of officer safety and tactical advantage I just can’t. I will say this, though: stay as far away from your assailant’s head as you can. If you can imagine a triangle running from the outside corners of his or her eyes down to the bottom of their nasal septum (the cartilaginous wall between their nostrils), that will be the shot target should police be forced to engage with firearms. The reason is that bullets to this area have a better chance of producing an immediate kill, without even a flinch reflex, which might cause the person to pull the trigger of the gun they have to your head post-mortem. Or so I was told in Academy; I’ll grant that my instructors weren’t medical doctors.
• If, instead of the above scenario, you’re alone with the hostage taker, you’re going to have to live off of the shirt sleeve of your common sense. The only thing I can really advise here is to talk to him or her as much as possible. Try to get them talking about something, especially what they believe in if they have some cause compelling them in the situation. Speak in measured, even tones, and defer to their intelligence and passion. Identifying with them creates a social connection they will have to overcome if they are deciding whether or not to kill you later.

 

A kidnapping changes the metrics significantly. While vanishingly rare (I can’t even find reliable statistics for adult kidnapping/abduction in the United States), some thoughts based on some of my understandings:

 

• The only time I would advise you to be fully compliant during a kidnapping at gunpoint is if someone in your family is famously wealthy, and you’re fairly assured that the situation is motivated by an extortion attempt. In this case, it is in your assailant’s best interest to preserve your well-being.
• You’re probably not very likely to be raped during an extortion attempt, because the power play is the money, not dominating you sexually. Plus, many rapes are forensics gold mines, and they’re probably not going to trade their payday in for an unwilling score, or risk so long a prison sentence for it — forcible rape committed by means of the display of a weapon is a mandatory minimum fifteen year prison sentence in Missouri with no possibility of sentence suspension.
• In all other cases, the outlook is probably grim, especially if a vehicle gets involved. This is purely my opinion, but it’s given as a former police officer who still has connections and an ear to the ground: if you’re a woman being forced to drive at gunpoint by a man, there’s a high probability you’re driving yourself to the scene of your own rape and/or grave.
• If there’s any way of forestalling getting into a vehicle, I’d do it. It may be looking past his shoulder and nodding, giving him the impression there’s somebody behind him, causing him to turn long enough for you to run like hell. It may be diving through the opposite door or window when you’re forced into the car. It may be you deciding to dig in and make your stand, hoping unplanned resistance will cause him to drop the gun or to retreat.
• If you’re ambushed in your own car or can’t help being compelled into it, I would ignore direction commands and drive briskly to a police station or the most crowded place I could find, then slow to about five miles per hour and start honking the horn. The whole point of his demands about where to go is getting to a place of solitude where his anonymity is preserved and he is in control of the situation. I can almost guarantee he has no interest in killing you at fifty miles an hour, enduring the resultant car crash, then fleeing, armed, from a car with a gunshot victim in the driver’s seat. Nor is he interested in killing you while everybody looks on in the parking lot you found. You’re giving him an out — if he stashes the gun and flees, it will look to most people like a joke or a domestic squabble.
• Obviously none of these courses of action is ideal, but you’ve been put in a situation where you’re probably going to have to choose between bad and worse at some point. There is no ‘right’ answer, just the ‘best, considering the circumstances’ answer, and I can’t pretend to be able to make it for you in advance.

 

No two gunpoint situations are alike, and they will all be very dynamic situations. My advice is to remain calm, be as compliant as you can, be aware of your surroundings, and do what you need to in order to survive. But the obvious best case scenario is keeping yourself out of the situation that put you on the business end of a firearm:

 

• Try not to travel on foot alone, especially if you’re a woman, and especially if you’re impaired (by alcohol or otherwise). Most criminals who get a cheap gun to commit crime are cowards, and thus need the gun to gap-fill their cowardice. If you’re with one or two others, you’re introducing too many variables into the equation for their comfort. If you’re alone, though, they know that one versus one plus a gun will usually work out in their favor.
• If you’re on a campus of any kind (corporate or collegiate), don’t feel completely safe in getting from one place to another, and don’t have friends close, get a security escort. If the campus has no provision for this, raise holy hell until they do. If you can’t find anybody in this regard and have a genuine concern about your surroundings, don’t hesitate to call your local law enforcement agency and request an officer. You are not being a bother. You are not wasting the officer’s time. You did not pull the officer from another assignment — you’ll only be sent an available patrol officer. We’re in the public safety business, and this obviously fits nicely. Now, it may take a while to get to you, especially if we’re busy; this will admittedly be low priority, and will be shelved until active incidents have responding officers — but don’t take that to mean that you’re unimportant. I was more than happy to do this, it took about twenty seconds, and it gave me a community contact.
• If you’re going out for a night on the town, consider wearing an outfit that’s actually comfortable, as opposed to five inch stilettos and a dress that has all the give of Saran wrap (I’m picking on the ladies — guys usually don’t need to be told to pick a comfortable wardrobe). If you’re out and about enough, there will eventually be an instance in which you will need to run. In the case of an armed criminal, it may be for your life. I could only sigh in disdain at some women I saw downtown —in the midst of an active incident or disturbance, I would see them tippy-toeing down the sidewalk in their heels, trying to shuffle their feet in four-inch steps because they were wearing what amounted to a dress-length corset. Or peeling the heels off and subjecting their assuredly tender feet to the gravel and broken glass.
• Don’t be ostentatious. Expensive jewelry and exhibited cash are road flares for robbers and thieves – if they feel they can get a quick score, they’ll stalk you from a distance for as long as it takes until they see a window of opportunity. If you look run of the mill, they’re less likely to take the chance; doing a prison sentence for armed robbery is a steep risk if all they’re likely to get is a ten dollar watch and a credit or debit card that they know will likely be cancelled before they can even try to use it.

 

Final piece of advice: Don’t do anything advocated here:
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-respond-if-somebody-holds-a-gun-to-your-head-2013-12#ixzz38D8FUegJ

 

 

Contact
Charles Richard Barnes
6100 Arlington Expy. M201
Jacksonville FL, 32211
Cell. (859) 684-2517
(606) 571-6052
(859) 213-6152
Website: http://www.rickys.clanteam.com
Email: andro140@gmail.com
Skype: Wrecky-Bobby

 

Summary
I have a full range of skills in multiple fields including warehouse office and outdoors environments. I have skills ranging in Factory work, Contractor, Web Design, Graphic Design, Graphic Art, Logo Design, Photography, and Desktop Publishing. 
 I will complete my Associates degree in Graphic Design from FSCJ in 2016.

 

Experience
891 Frisch’s Big Boy Restaurant                                                      01/2006 – 06/2007
North Main Street, Nicholasville, KY 40356
Daniel Stokes (859) 881-8015
$8.00

 

·        I was a cashier, dishwasher, cook and salad bar attendant.

 

Colomer USA                                                                           07/2007 – 09/2008
5344 Overmyer Drive Jacksonville FL 32254
Robert Short (904) 693-1200
$15.75

 

·       I was a plastic assembly line worker. I also stacked pallets for shipping.

 

Amazon.com                                                                           10/2008 – 01/2009
1850 Mercer Road Lexington, KY 40511
Mike Hall (859) 381-0818
$10.00

 

·       I did general warehouse duties during peek season. I piled pallets, sorted, picked until I was trained as a forklift driver. I remained a forklift operator until I left for training.

 

Army National Guard                                                               03/2008 – 07/2010
50 Stonecrest Court, Shelbyville, KY 40065
Connell Rodriguez (502) 633-7804
$625 BiWeekly

 

·       I was a computer operator maintainer and soldier for the Kentucky guard. I completed all duties as a soldier of the Kentucky National Guard.

 

Denny’s                                                                                   07/2010 – 05/25/2013
1880 Newtown Pike Lexington, KY 40511
Debbie Peterson (859) 233-1874
$10.00

 

·       I started as a service assistant than I trained in trained in all other areas of the restaurant. I mainly cooked but my duties included stocking cleaning rotating food prepping and counting inventory.

 

Wal-Mart Supercenter                                                              07/2012 – 02/2013
500 W New Circle Road Lexington, KY 40511
Stephen Bel (859) 381-9370
$9.00

 

·       Trained in customer service, stocking and receiving and HAZMAT clean up.

 

Androcity                                                                                01/2002 – 01/2010

 

·       I created a Friday comic strip and web mastered androcity.com. I created all the graphics, HTML and installed the forums and a content management script using MYSQL and PHP coding. It was a Photoshop heavy site using nothing but HTML and CSS built in Notepad.

 

·       http://www.androcity.com (archive)

 

 

 

Shadowseen Studios                                                                  02/2010 – 02/2013

 

·       Here I made everything from illustrations to website banner ads. This was my personal website I had for the sole purpose of sharpening my skills. I used to test PHP CSS and MYSQL scripts and codes on this site weekly. It was also for art, music and animation.

 

·       http://www.shadowseen.com (closed)

 

 

 

Ricky Digital Graphic Design                                            06/22/2013 – Current

 

·       My graphic design portfolio and personal blog

 

·       http://rickys.clanteam.com

 

 

 

Adecco With Stratosphere Quality                           06/25/2013 – 12/07/2013
Webasto Roof Systems
2201 Innovation Dr, Lexington, KY 40511
Adecco Staffing: (859) 223-3112
Webasto: (859) 389-6100
$9.00

 

• Responsible for inspecting quality of manufactured and shipped in products and equipment. This also included logging and repackaging, repair and rework, painting, assembly, use of power tools, contract work, attention to detail.

 

Adecco With UPS                                                            12/08/2013 – 02/01/2014
Amazon LEX2 Building
172 Trade St, Lexington, KY 40511
Adecco Staffing: (859) 223-3112
UPS: Josh Thomas: (859) 475-7014
$10.50

 

• Responsible for unloading packages from trucks onto conveyor providing continuous flow of packages.

 

Famous Amos                                                    03/25/2014 – 06/15/2014
1111 Cesery Blvd, Jacksonville, FL 32211
Managers Joe and Carolyn: (904) 744-1453
$10.00
Position: Cook/Prep/Dish

 

• Responsible for cooking quality food in a timely manner. Be clean fast on short order. Was starting to begin training as assistant manager.

 

Ranstad with L&W Supply                                                           06/12/2014
2919 Dawn Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32207
Randy: (904) 731-2290
$10.00
Position: Unloading Concrete, Warehousing

 

• Responsible for unloading concrete slabs off truck and clean and maintain warehouse.

 

 

 

Ranstad with Vista Awnings                                              06/13/2014
Vista Products
8801 Corporate Square Court
Jacksonville, FL 32216
Jeff Pearce: 904.725.2242
$10.00
Position: Unloading Boxes, Warehousing

 

• Responsible for unloading boxes off of trucks, stocking material, stacking material on pallets. General labor.

 

 

 

 

 

Education

 

GED From Earle C. Clements Job Corps.

 

FSCJ                                                                            2014 – —-

 

Currently rescheduled for Graphic Design and High School Completion classes to continue education beyond GED.

 

Full Sail University                                                                   2011 – 2012

 

I’m a former student at Full Sail University in the online graphic design bachelors program. I worked on a lot of logos magazine articles and web pages. The classes are online and the work is real world based with strict timelines and realistic projects.

 

Earle C. Clements Job Corps                                                    2008 – 2009

 

I studied computer repair and graphic design for a year and got a solid grounding in print. This is where I learned about non-web based graphics and desktop publishing.
– GED

 

Skills

 

Warehouse, Cooking, Prep, Quality Control, Attention to detail, Adaptability, Manufacturing, Standing Forklift, Sort, Pack, Unloading and Loading, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Html Editor, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Suite, Print Advertising, Print Design, Web Content Development, Html Design, Graphic Design, Graphic Art, Logo Design, Photography, Desktop Publishing, adobe, Dreamweaver, html, illustrator, web site production.

 

I also have skill in computer service repair and an excellent understanding of electronics. I can also do print work and manual labor.

 

* Professional-level skill in print and electronic design, with a demonstrated commitment to producing high-quality products.

* Familiarity with direct mail, product collateral materials and electronic communications.

* Demonstrates ability to turn concepts into high quality graphical communications.

* Demonstrates proficiency using Adobe Suite. (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign)

* Photo manipulation using Photoshop. (Resizing, cropping, cut outs, cover-ups, etc.)

* Ability to effectively organize server files including logos and images.

* Miscellaneous graphical support as needed. (Image location, creation and resize for Sales, Special Projects, Engineering, etc.)

* Resize advertising graphics as required.

* Experience with web site design and updates.

* Strong problem-solving, layout and typography skills.

* Ability to work well alone or as part of a team including printers, copywriters, photographers, other designers, account executives and marketing specialists.

* Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously, including tight deadlines

* Loves to work with people of varying backgrounds, cultures and technical skill levels.

* Excellent oral and written communication in English.

* Occasional lifting of objects up to 50 lb.

 

Some examples of my work can be found on my Deviantart portfolio page. http://andro140.devianrtart.com