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You can use the code GET3FREE on your account page if you are already a member.
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I have also been through much change, careerwise, in my life. Right out of high-school I started working as a professional programmer at a development shop in my home town. I was writing code for old green-screen mainframes which was boring as hell.
This frustration with work led me to dual-path my life. I maintained jobs while also working on businesses generally focused around web-technology and marketing.
My career jumps found me going from professional programmer to restaraunt manager to Geek Squad store manager to the executive team at a rapidly growing startup and finally leading a large development team and acquisition integration at a large marketing firm in the Bay Area. This path was filled with frustrations with my workplace and even a couple layoffs. It wasn't neccessarily fulfilling but it was educational. I took many lessons away from every place I worked.
Through this whole journey I built businesses and toyed with integration of technology into process. Some of these ventures were profitable, some of them didn't even see the light of day. Over and over again I tried, and my attempts tended to develop a theme. More and more I was testing social integration into different industries. Build, test, evaluate, refine, wash, rinse, repeat.
Around 2008 Veena and I struck on this idea for a pole dance based community and education resource. In fact this was more of a catharsis than an actual attempt at profit. It allowed us to work together during our seperation due to my taking a job 2000 miles away after a layoff. Eighteen months later the responsibilities of our partnership weighed so heavily on us we needed to make a decision:
"Do I continue working my way up the corporate ladder with its increasing responsibilities and time committments and let StudioVeena.Com go away or do we take a pay cut and give StudioVeena.Com the attention and time it deserves?"
The rest is history 🙂
I worked hundred hour weeks and more for over a decade with hopes that my extracurriculars would turn into something more fulfilling for me and my family. After alot of work, alot of lessons and alot of time my efforts paid off.
If you're luck you get eighty years on this planet, once those are gone they are gone. While you might have to do things you don't enjoy to meet your basic needs use the rest of the time to pursue things that mean more to you and with any luck you will find yourself doing the more fulfilling things more and more.
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Until very recently the only way to upload something from an iPad or iPhone was using an app, which is an expensive and complex undertaking for a site with as much functionality as StudioVeena.Com.
Recent updates have allowed the iPad to upload via the web but it still doesn't support large uploads such as videos very well. However, I am looking into a few potential solutions.
So the short answer is: "right now the technology limits us while in the future that could change quickly"
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Search will work but other things are weighted higher than profiles so forum topics that the user comments in etc… tend to come up first. The best way to find a user is to simply go to the friends link at the top of the page.
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Mama we can order a X Stage for you I'll email you about it.
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Is it just me or does the pole sleeve look like it adds a significant amount to the diameter of the pole?
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The xstage and xstage lite are functionally the same pole with the only exception being the stage height.
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LittleEngine – The last few threads on these topics have been very civil. Your post was the first one to be over-dramatic and seemed to insinuate that things were escalating.
You'll notice that Chemgoddess's post was simply asking for clarification, not forming any kind of challenge.
Chemgoddess is one of the old-school Veeners. She has been instrumental in keeping the debates here civil. She posts facts and maintains a level head. She stays away from anecdotal evedence favoring the empyrical and factual. If you see her as an instigator it is because you don't like your opinions challenged.
Additionally I was not coming to Chem's rescue I was asking you to drop the confrontational attitude.
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Little Engine – I do believe this has been quite a civil conversation.
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Should be fixed now
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@DixiePixie – But the gallery is free.
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Might I suggest our gallery? https://www.studioveena.com/galleries
It not only displays a still of each move but links through to a video lesson if you need or want it.
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It's displayed that error for well over a year at this point.
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iMovie on the iPhone is ten dollars and will allow you to append videos you take with it, add effects and do a bunch of other stuff to your videos.
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Another interesting snopes article.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/coldwater.asp
Remember our bodies are amazing machines. They manage enzymes, alkalinity, and other chemical balances with relative ease. There is very little in the way of standard fare that we can introduce that our body can't control for.
I am reminded of an article I was reading about the new Alkaline water craze. It turns out that you can't adjust your body's alkalinity by drinking alkaline water since your body controls its overall alkalinity with its own mechanisms. What you can do by drinking Alkaline water is increase your chances of kidney stones as alkaline water will decrease the absorption of calcium leading to much of the excess calcium being deposited in places from which its painful for it to exit.