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Astaberry Orange Face Wash Scrub (60 ml) -
Skin Care
Quick Overview
Astaberry Orange Face Wash Scrub is a daily foaming face wash with Neem and active granules that exfoliates and reveals a clear skin. The Vitamin C from Orange Peel extract protects the skin and makes it glowing. This refreshing scrub also helps eliminate skin dulling impurities while smoothing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
- A daily exfoliating and refreshing cleanser that exfoliates and reveal clear skin.
- Helps eliminate skin dulling properties and smoothes appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
- Has Orange Peel extracts with Vitamin C that protects the skin and gives a glow to the skin.
- Suitable for all Skin Types.
Additional Information
Astaberry is one of the leading manufacturer and exporter of Ayurvedic skin care, Herbal cosmetics and Body care solutions and is a pioneer in the field of certified natural products. They offer a wide range of products both for the professional and the personal grooming segments and can be classified under Skin care, Body care, Hair care and Nutrispa range. All Astaberry products are enriched with the goodness of Ayurveda and blended with modern formulation & individual fragrances and are made with high quality organic ingredients from world class manufacturers.
Gently massage onto damp skin with fingertips. Rinse. Use daily or as needed.
How to use product
Neem Extract, Orange Peel Extract, Sodium Lauryl Ether Sulphate, Coco Amido Propyl Betaine, Proplyne Glycol, Glycerine, Carbopol U10, TEA, Polythene Scrub, Preservatives, DM Water, Sat Reetha Extract, Lemon Juice, Color, Perfume.
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Sewing Workshop Village Bag
This was so much fun to make. I haven't made many bags in my sewing years so some of the process was new to me. I bought this bizarre fabric on the Pattern Review LA weekend. The shop owner told me it was real leather (have you ever seen leather with a selvage?), gave me a bargain instead of $60 it would be only $30. I had this type of bag in mind though I didn't have a specific pattern for it. I guessed at needing 1 1/2 yards and paid for that... $45 plus tax. When I laid it out to cut I found he had shorted me and I only had 1 1/8 yard. Maybe he didn't intend to (???) and that happened because of the stretchy quality of the fabric. It is all puckered up in a design by stitching with elastic thread on the back side of the "leather". Anyway I had just barely enough to cut out the big main piece of the bag.
I wanted a fun lining for the bag so I chose a bright red brocade with an Asian design including panda bears. In studying the pattern ahead of time I did not realize that the lining would show. I thought there was a facing at the top but that pattern piece was the lining. When I got to the point of sewing it all together I discovered that the red would show. At first dismayed, I thought I would need to cover this somehow. But I quickly came to like the hint of red at the top. It makes the bag more playful.
Sewing Workshop suggests upholstery weight ultra-suede for the straps. I found some at a reasonable rate on-line and ordered it in dark brown. The color looks alright in person but photographs looking lighter. If I did it over I would use black as the brown faux leather reads as more black than brown. Or I would cover straps with the flat selvage area of the fabric. I would redo the straps but that was the hardest part of the project. My poor machine really did not want to sew through 4 layers of faux leather, 4 layers of lining, 2 layers of interfacing, and 4 layers of ultra-suede. I made it do it but I had to hand turn the wheel. This would have been a good time to have an old, sturdy mechanical machine on hand.
The heavy duty magnet closure I ordered with the pattern from Sewing Workshop. It was so strong I needed my DH's help getting the 2 pieces apart. When sewing it was an amusing struggle as the magnet attached itself to the feed plate and wouldn't allow sewing to continue. Also trimming the threads with scissors was an interesting problem as the magnet grabbed the scissors. But, now that it is sewn in as instructed, the magnet is not strong enough to hold the bag together.
The bag is very big as you can see but hangs in a nice, comfortable slouch. It has handy interior pockets, 2 zippered and a third with pleated space for the cell phone.
I think this will be really fun to carry especially on outings where I need to carry a wrap, extra shoes and a water bottle, a guide book, and my knitting.
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Labels: bag, Pattern Review, Sewing Workshop
Friday, April 11, 2008
McCall's 3404 Kimono top and SW Plaza pant
I found this wonderful 4 ply silk with Kodiak designs at the recent PR LA weekend. I was very pleased to discover that the 4 ply black silk that I've had for years in my stash coordinated with the new silk. So what to make? I definitely wanted an Asian influence in the top and I had planned to make Sewing Workshops Plaza pants ever since I heard Linda Lee rave about how much she loved wearing her 4 ply black silk Plaza pants. Here are my reviews:
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|Easy & Great for Beginners
|Pattern Description: This is designed as a loose fitting wrap top with dropped shoulders, tie ends and sleeve variations. You can choose standard or traditional kimono type sleeves.
Pattern Sizing: Two combinations: Y which includes Xsmall through Medium or Z which includes Large and XLarge.
Did it look like the photo/drawing on the pattern envelope once you were done sewing with it? Yes although I would not use the description "loose fitting" as they did. It looks fitted in the drawings and is fitted on me.
Were the instructions easy to follow? The instructions are basic and fine
What did you particularly like or dislike about the pattern? I wanted an Asian looking top that did not pullover my head. This was one of the few in my stash that fit that description. I chose the traditional kimono sleeve to emphasize the Asian look. I think the ties are a bit too short and would lengthen them if I made it again.
Fabric Used: A 4 ply silk with Zodiak designs. 4 ply is a wonderful fabric to use as it usually handles well and drapes beautifully. I had some trouble as I started with silk thread because I was out of my regular black thread. My machine really did not like it and puckered all the seams and darts. I changed needles with no improvement. Eventually I got a hold of some regular cotton wrapped poly thread and redid all the stitching. No problem with that. I don't know if my machine needs an adjustment or what the cause of this problem. Silk thread should have been fine.
Pattern Alterations or any design changes you made: I shortened the length by 1 1/2 inches. Also I changed the tie to go around the back underneath the garment. To do this you leave the seam opening on the left instead off the right. I like the garment to fall loosely down the back.
Would you sew it again? Would you recommend it to others? I made this once before but it was quite altered as I lined it to be a jacket. I like it better this way as a blouse. I definitely recommend this to you.
Conclusion: A simple but effective top with that Asian influence I like.
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|Pattern Description: This is Sewing Workshop's wonderful Plaza Jacket & Pant pattern. I have made the jacket several times and the pants once before. It is a very loose-fitting unlined jacket with dropped shoulders, one piece sleeves. The pants are semi-fitted with straight legs and a flat front waistband with back elastic. The pants have a tucked front seam detail. No side seams on the pants.
Pattern Sizing: Sizes XS through XXL in one envelope. I made the medium with no alterations except for length.
Did it look like the photo/drawing on the pattern envelope once you were done sewing with it? Yes indeed. Here's the back.
Were the instructions easy to follow? Excellent instructions. Sewing Workshop does a great job with their instructions including interior finishing.
What did you particularly like or dislike about the pattern? These are basically a one seam pant that has the added tuck down the front. This is created with a seam but you could eliminate that and have a regular one seam pant. I love the slimming effect of the tuck.
Fabric Used: 4 ply silk. Years ago I heard Linda Lee of Sewing Workshop rave about her 4 ply silk pants from this pattern. She wore them several times a week. So I have intended to make a pair myself. I finally got to it when I realized the black 4 ply silk that I had in my stash coordinated with my new Zodiak silk from the recent LA PR weekend adventure.
Pattern Alterations or any design changes you made: None
Would you sew it again? Would you recommend it to others? I will sew this again for sure. Highly recommend.
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Labels: McCall, pant, Pattern Review, Sewing Workshop, top
Friday, April 4, 2008
Sewing Workshop Salsa Blouse
I originally reviewed this 4 years ago and highly recommended it. Somehow I wrecked that blouse in the wash and I've been wanting to make another one ever since. My new version was made to go under the Anne Klein ultra-suede jacket. I wanted a soft, draped front to fill in the lack of closures. This fabric, from my stash, is a rayon crinkle with a border print. That is why one side of the front looks empty of the print. I arranged the print to be featured on the wrap over part and the back. The fabric was a nightmare to work with. Very wiggly and unstable. It also was flawed in the printing and had white streak areas I struggled to avoid..
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Labels: blouse, Pattern Review, Sewing Workshop
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Pattern Review Weekend in LA $1 fabric
I was excited to get to my new fabrics from the PR weekend. Not that I'm short on fabrics but the newest stuff always gets my attention. First I attacked the $1/yard fabric from the FIDM Scholarship store. These were my first purchases. I wish we had been able to go back there because the fabrics were interesting and quality for no money.
The red/khaki/cream circle fabric is a 4 way stretch probably poly with lycra. I had only 2 yards but it was 62 inches wide so I was able to squeeze out the Sandra Betzina skirt Vogue 2933 with one side panel and a crossover top from Simplicity 4095. I had to cut the sleeves sideways to fit them on my small yardage and I couldn't do any print placement. As a result the circles are not attractively placed on my bosum. Too bad cause otherwise I really like this top. I like the skirt too but not together so much.
The red fabric became New Look 6929, a longer faux wrap with crisscross bands and a wrap around sash. I think if I make this again I will go shorter as this longer tunic length isn't the best for me.
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Labels: New Look, Pattern Review, Sandra Betzina, Simplicity, Vogue
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Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Anyone for Afternoon Tea??
Stampin'Up's retirement list is out TOMORROW. Please check back here tomorrow 1st August to see what's on offer and what will be discontinued. At this point, we don't actually know what will go and what will stay... so it's all very exciting!
To help celebrate this momentous event I am also holding a retirement afternoon tea this coming Saturday the 4th August... .Come along at either 1pm or 3pm to have a cuppa with me and view the retiring goodies. If you wish you will also have the opportunity to make a small project. I will have my own retiring Stampin'Up stamp collection on display and you are welcome to go through and put your name against the sets and products that you would like to have as your own in September. It will be first in, best dressed. If you are coming I just need to have a rough idea of numbers for catering purposes.
To RSVP just email me by clicking HERE and I will look forward to sharing a cuppa and a chat with you on Saturday. I am based on the Central Coast and can supply the address details when you book in.
I hope you can make it :-)
Linda H
PS... Today's card is a close up of one I made last Saturday at my team's stamping day. It was made with the "Creative Elements" stamp set... in my favourite colour Pool Party (my favourite colour at the moment anyway!). Hope you like it.
Sunday, 29 July 2012
Last chance to order from the Autumn/Winter Mini Catalogue
This is the last couple of days that we get to order from this beautiful little mini catalogue. If you would like to see it again, just click on the image above, and if you wish to place any orders from it just email what you would like to me by clicking HERE. I am taking orders until Tuesday evening 31st July, at around 9pm. Orders can be shipped anywhere in Australia for a low postage charge. I accept cash if you are local, or credit card.
I hope you have enjoyed all the goodies in this mini as much as I have. Now bring on our new Catalogue, due out September 1st! And dont forget to check back here on Wednesday August 1st for this year's big retiring list of products. :-) So much excitement for us crafty people!
Have fun!
Linda xx
Sunday, 22 July 2012
Christmas Stamp-A-Stack this week
Today's card is the first of two card designs we are working with at this week's upcoming Stamp-a-Stack. At every SAS we get to make a total of 6 cards (3 each of 2 different designs) for a cost of $15... the idea is that by making 6 cards every month from now til Christmas you should have quite a decent stash of Christmas cards by the time December rolls around. These are probably my most popular classes - I may need to run extra classes as we get closer to Christmas - but right now classes are already starting to get close to full. I have two of these running this week - Tuesday 24th July @ 7.30pm and Thursday 26th July @ 11am. At time of writing the Thursday class only has a couple of spots left.
If you would like to join us please email me by clicking HERE. I hold my papercraft and cardmaking classes on the Central Coast (NSW) and I can supply the address for you when you book in.
So come along for a fun night... you dont need special skills or materials... beginners are welcome. All materials and refreshments are provided.
I hope to see you there ...
Friday, 20 July 2012
Finding Inspiration
So often I find other beautiful cards and project online and it inspires me to make something using the same elements. It might be the colours, or the technique or the design. Or sometimes a combination of those. Today's card was inspired by a beautiful card on found on Julie Day's blog. I decided to go for a bolder pink and used Rose Red together with Basic Grey and a little white. I love how it came together.
I heat embossed the flowers from the Upsy Daisy set with White embossing powder on the grey background. I used the Big Shot to dry emboss the dotty background. The ribbon is the delectable Rose Red seam binding ribbon... the seam binding ribbons have been my favourite this year. Behind the ribbon you can see the Ribbon Lace border punch. Dont forget you can order any of these products at any time... just email me and I can have your order delivered to you anywhere in Australia for a low postage charge.
I am now off to design a couple of Christmas cards for next week's Christmas SAS... please email me if you would like to join us. There are two dates... Tuesday 24th at 7.30pm, and Thursday 26th at 11am. The cost is $15 and you will make 6 Christmas cards (3 each of 2 different designs). All materials and refreshments are provided.
In the meantime.. enjoy today's card! xx
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Acetate Class Take 2
Last night I held a great class with 7 wonderful girls and we got the chance to play with Acetate at my Window Sheet Wow class. Acetate is such a versatile product to craft with and we made three very different projects using it.
Today I thought you might like to see another of our projects.. this one is a cute little box with an Acetate window in the lid... great for putting in items or gifts that people can get a "sneak peek" of before they open the box. I think choccies would be perfect!
I am running this same class again tomorrow (Thursday 19th July) at 11am (lunch is also provided) and I do still have seats left if you are interested in attending. The cost is $20 to attend and includes all materials and refreshments. My papercraft and cardmaking classes run on the Central Coast and most weeks I have some kind of class of some description. Next week we are making Christmas cards.... for the upcoming class schedule click over onto the right hand side of this blog. Prices and dates are listed. You dont need any kind of skill level or special materials or tools to attend.. just come along and enjoy
To book into any classes just email me by clicking HERE I can give you the address details when you book in.
I hope to see you at a class really soon.
And in case you missed it here is another project from tomorrow's class:
Sunday, 15 July 2012
Working with Acetate - this week's class
This month's technique class is called the "Window Sheet Wow" class, and that means that this time we are making several projects with Stampin'Up's Window Sheets - or you might know it better as Acetate. Acetate is a really versatile material to work with, and I am looking forward to showing you just a few ideas of what you can do with it. Every time I use it I am always surprised by the result... it gives you something really different, and expands your repertoire of papercraft techniques.
So I thought you might like to see one of the items we are making... this is such a cute card! It certainly has that extra "wow" factor. I used White Stazon to stamp on my Window sheet, and the motif is made with the Apothecary Art stamp set, and cut with the Framelits dies. For a bit of extra bling I used our silver Glimmer paper. Simple to do.. but a great card for someone special. (I took a photo of it on my lounge because I needed the darker background to make the card easier to see.)
My papercraft and cardmaking classes are held on the Central Coast. If you would like to come along to class this week please EMAIL ME and let me know which class you would like to attend. I have two:
Tuesday 17th July @ 7.30pm
Thursday 19th July @ 11am
The cost is $20 and you will make 3 projects. All materials and refreshments are provided. I can give you the address details when you book in to the class. At time of writing I still have spots in both classes,
I hope you enjoy the card, and I will be back with more great ideas and projects soon :-)
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Simple Tag card
I love the simplicity of a tag. This one is from the "Two Tags" Big Shot die. I stamped my tag with the En Francais Background stamp, and then randomly stamped images from the Artistic Etchings set. I probably should have used the Eiffel Tower stamp... next time I will as that would look cool. I tied the Cherry Cobbler seam binding ribbon at the top of the tag. The background is also very simple.. I used the Finial Press embossing folder, and then inked over it with Early Espresso ink. I've also used Champagne Shimmer paint over the embossed background, but that is a bit difficult to see in the photo.
And that's it! This is literally a 10 minute card. Gotta love those ones when you want to create something simple and quick. I like how it turned out though...
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Collage Frame Class - check this out!
I love this month's project class. Every month I do a new project and this month's is just gorgeous... yes I know, I say that every month... but don't you just love this??
I'm calling it my Collage Frame Project class. For this one I focused on the Twitterpated Designer Series Paper as it will be discontinued at the end of this month (July) and I will really miss it! How good do these colours look together?? If you would like to make one of these frames for yourself, then come along and learn how. Of course, it helps that I have all the tools, and you are very welcome to use them!
I am running this class twice next week. The dates are:
Tuesday 10th July @ 7.30pm
Wednesday 11th July @ 11am.
All materials (including the frame itself) are provided and refreshments too. If you are coming to the day class I usually supply a light lunch at the conclusion of the class, which you are welcome to stay for. The cost is $30 to attend. If you would like to come just email me by clicking HERE and let me know. Bear in mind that numbers are limited and so dont wait too long and I am expecting this class to be very popular. At the time of writing this I have 3 spots left in the day class and 5 in the evening class.
If you haven't attended a class with me before I can give you the address details when you book in. My papercraft and cardmaking classes are held on the Central Coast... so if you are anywhere close come along and enjoy the creative process with me!
Sunday, 1 July 2012
We still {heart} our hostesses :-)
Last month's awesome hostess offer is still continuing! That means that if you host a workshop (or stamp club) that reaches $650 in sales (and you experienced customers know that this is not difficult to do!) then you will receive an additional $90 of hostess dollars to spend! That's on top of the already generous hostess benefits..... which in the case of a $650 workshop is a total of $190 to spend! And it just goes up from there.
The other great thing about hosting a workshop of this size is that you also receive at least one half-price item. So many of my clients have chosen to buy their Big Shots this way. They get the big shot half price (which means it is only $75) and then they also have all those hostess dollars to spend on dies and other accessories of their choice. It's a fantastic deal, and something you certainly cant beat at the shops!
Of course if the Big Shot isnt your thing (really????) then you can choose anything you like at all with your hostess dollars. But whatever you choose... this makes July an awesome month to host a workshop!
It's easy to do... just email me by clicking HERE to book your date... I'll work with you to come up with a date that suits us both. Then invite your friends and buy a packet of Tim Tams (or whatever snacks you are fond of) and put the kettle on. Workshops are not only an awesome way to get some free stuff.. you'll also learn the latest techniques and ideas, and get to spend some chatting time with your friends. I've been running these for nearly 6 years now, and I still think they are one of the best ways to spend a couple of hours with your friends and have some fun.
And lots of my customers tell me its true. :-) Hope to see you in July!
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Donald Judd Found Perfect Canvas In Texas Town
SCOTT SIMON, host:
This is Weekend Edition from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Highway 90 cuts through west Texas and stops just once for the blinking light in the tiny town of Marfa. Its desolate beauty is the kind of blank slate filmmakers love. The movie "Giant" was shot there, as were scenes from "No Country for Old Men." Marfa was also the perfect canvas for artist Donald Judd's ambitious dream to create an indoor-outdoor art museum beneath the wide, blue Texas skies. Anne Goodwin Sides paid the town a visit.
ANNE GOODWIN SIDES: If you come into Marfa at night, you'll hit the brakes at a bright candy box of a store, emitting an extraterrestrial glow. It's an art installation called Prada Marfa, a faux boutique displaying beautifully lit Prada bags and shoes. It's hard to tell whether this store-as-sculpture is meant to be whimsical or wry. Is it art disguised as commerce? Or a big, wet advertisement for Prada pretending to be art?
Mr. BOYD ELDER (Videographer): The thing about Prada people don't realize, all that stuff is handmade. It's like from the old guild system which is almost gone. It's not like manufactured in China.
SIDES: Boyd Elder's attitude and appearance are pure Dennis Hopper. Elder is a videographer and artist whose painted cow skulls graced album covers for the Eagles. He works out of a studio in an old water tank within sight of Pradab Marfa.
Mr. ELDER: The really ironic thing about it, too, is, you think about all the immigrants that have walked across the desert in tennis shoes and cactus stalks woven into sandals and carrying a bag. And then you walk by the Prada store, and you see these shoes and these Prada bags on the immigrant, drug-dealing path into the North. I hate it, but then in another way it's so outrageous you got to love it.
SIDES: Elder isn't quite sure what Donald Judd would think of Marfa's latest installation. Elder knew him for more than 20 years before Judd died of cancer in 1994. A titan in the contemporary art world, Judd was a cantankerous, larger-than-life figure who'd scored a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art before he turned 40. His meticulously proportioned aluminum and colored Plexiglas boxes were as much a signature of the 1960s as the work of Andy Warhol, Richard Serra and Frank Stella.
MR. ELDER: Donald didn't believe in creativity out of chaos. I mean, everything with him was like set, established, perfect size, perfect color. He knew exactly the way he wanted it.
SIDES: Judd wanted his art displayed in clean settings, unmediated by titles or artist statements or curator's notes. He grew more and more frustrated with New York's small gallery spaces. So in 1971, he moved to Marfa, Texas. Judd proceeded to build one of the most ambitious art fiefdoms anywhere. He bought 16 decaying buildings, an entire decommissioned army base and three ranches spread across 40,000 acres. On the old army base, he transformed a pair of immense artillery sheds into modern art cathedrals. Glass walls let the sunlight play against the surfaces of Judd's 100 aluminum boxes, making some shimmer, some glow from within like furnaces.
For his residence, Judd turned two former airplane hangars into a starkly modern compound called the Block. This home, library and private gallery open out onto an expansive plaza of pea gravel.
Mr. CRAIG REMBER (Collections Manager, Judd Foundation): This is the fusion of art and architecture for Judd, and it's very important because here at the Block, you see his furniture, his art, his living spaces, how he modified his living spaces for art and working.
SIDES: Craig Rember, the Judd Foundation's collections manager, walks along the razor-straight path separating a raised lap pool and a vine-covered pergola. Rember swings open the square, metal-and-glass front door that gracefully pivots in the center, and we step into a bedroom the size of a basketball court.
Mr. REMBER: And what you see here are the three variations of the so-called stacks that Donald Judd is pretty much - it's pretty much his signature piece. They are 10 individual units, each one measuring nine by 40 by 31. And...
SIDES: Rectangular boxes made out of stainless steel and yellow and blue Plexiglas are stacked like giant staircases that climb the walls in mathematically calibrated progressions. Larger boxes are placed in the center of the room like sleek futuristic sarcophagi. Judd didn't set out to build a personal shrine. He dedicated equally lavish spaces to the artists he admired most. A cavernous warehouse along the railroad tracks houses John Chamberlain's baroque sculptures of crumpled car parts. Six U-shaped barracks are the stage for Dan Flavin's hypnotic light installations.
Mr. DAVID NOVROS (Painter): There are a lot of artists who have had similar visions about having art in place but they only think about it for themselves. Donald was way beyond that.
SIDES: New York painter David Novros was commissioned by Judd to create works specifically for his exhibition spaces.
Mr. NOVROS: He was thinking about places where art could be seen by everybody for free made by a lot of different people, you know, who all share this one idea about making a thing in place, you know, and that's really unique.
SIDES: Judd's two children grew up in this vast, raw desert where sculptures outnumber people. Rainer, his 38-year-old daughter, says it took some adjustment.
Ms RAINER JUDD (Donald Judd's Daughter): As a kid, I was really into trees. And I would say, oh, where are the trees? There aren't very many trees here. And I don't know exactly why I was born liking trees to a man who liked the desert.
SIDES: An actress and screenwriter who looks and moves like a young Meryl Streep, Rainer oversees her father's estate as president of the board of the Judd Foundation.
Ms. JUDD: The reason I mention trees is because he would say, well, if you look out here, you can actually see the shape of the land, where if it's covered with trees you can't see it. And I think about the way he would talk about his work when people would call it minimalist and he didn't like that description. And just in the way that the desert is extremely rich and beautiful and it doesn't have a lot of trees, I think he was interested in creating extremely rich work that didn't have a lot of trees, if you know what I mean.
SIDES: The environment Donald Judd created in Marfa has drawn countless other artists who've put their own stamp on the town. Marfa's become a trendy art mecca that's attracting celebrities. Weatherbeaten ranchers still eat homemade donuts at Formica tables in Carmen's Cafe. But they may be sitting next to Lance Armstrong or Julia Roberts. To capture her father's relationship with the town, Rainer Judd began filming a documentary two years ago, called "Marfa Voices." One of them belongs to Jack Brunson, who helped Donald Judd build his art. It took Brunson a while to fully appreciate Judd's 15 concrete cubes, arrayed across a field of tall prairie grass.
Mr. JACK BRUNSON: You have to look at those and wonder what in the heck they are. But you sit up there on the hill and look back down there and watch that in the afternoon, and you watch the shadows move about, you can see you're looking at something that you never saw before. You don't realize it driving up the highway. You see these blocks out there and there's nothing. But if you get to the proper place and look, and watch - take your time and watch - you see art.
SIDES: And that's exactly what Donald Judd wanted. For NPR News. I'm Anne Goodwin Sides.
SIMON: You can see images of Donald Judd's art on our website, npr.org.
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We've started singing the alphabet song to Code Name Alice. Whenever she's upset or tired and having trouble finding her Zen point, we just sing it and she immediately smiles and calms down.
She loves the different sounds and for our own sake, we make up new tunes with the letters.
Since she was born, I've been experimenting with different sounds. I pop my lips, snap my tongue, go through the phonetic list. But our favorite is the rolling letter 'L'. She always gets a kick out of it when I stick out my tongue in "La la la llllllrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlr" and rat-a-tat like a rolling machine gun or a gentle kitty cat. It's such a wonderfully versatile sound. It can be soft and quiet or hard and loud. It can represent fun, love, curiosity, puzzlement... the list goes on.
Anyway, she sits with rapped attention when I do this and recently, she's been trying to mimic the sound. But she doesn't have the tongue control (it's a pretty advanced move), so she decided the best way to make a similar noise is to put her lips together and blow a burble. It's awesome. That was a face and sound I had not made with her; she found it on her own. And it's actually a decent substitute for the rolling L, at least on a basic level. They both have a repetitive motor sound and just as much versatility. So, now, when I give her the rolling L, she gives me the spittle flinging raspberry burble.
I'm trying to show her the difference and she seems to be catching on. But she still can't make a good "L" sound :)
She did, however, manage to psychically tell me that she isn't worried about having pictures posted since she can keep her anonymity by growing at will:
Monday, September 1, 2008
3 comments:
- steenky bee said...
Ah, yes. She is a master of disguise at an early age. I love it when your child starts to communicate with you, no matter how small. It's amazing.
(And, by 'your child', I meant that in the general sense. It's not like I'm communicating with YOUR child. That would be weird.)
- September 1, 2008 at 9:03 AM
- Captain Dumbass said...
That, is some impressive hair Code Named Alice.
- September 1, 2008 at 9:17 AM
- Jenni said...
How pregnant am I, reading through a weeks worth of missed posts and only commenting on the baby photo? Cliched, I know.
Anyways, what a perfect chunky little monkey you have yourself. I'm dying from the sweetness. Seriously, she's delicious.
- September 8, 2008 at 1:24 PM
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Following up on last week's Chic Scott post, here's a review of the first volume of the new Summits and Icefields I ski guide. Book – Summits & Icefields 1 Alpine Ski Tours in the Canadian Rockies by Chic Scott with Mark Klassen 344 pages, www.rmbooks.com, $29.95 If you've spent any time ski touring in Western Canada, or even day… Read More
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Ski Mountaineering Pioneer Chic Scott
July 26, 2012 in General
Off-Piste Mag Issue 52 (January 2012) featured an article about Chic Scott, pioneering Canadian alpinist, skier and now historian of all things mountain in Canada. Scott and a crew of ski partners were the first skiers to complete several of Canada's great ski traverses in the 1960's and 70's. He's also the author of many books including Powder Pioneers, Deep… Read More


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York University might be closed on Friday, March 25 for the Good Friday vacation and will re-open on Monday, March 28, 2016. Yes, you read that proper, the very place tasked with collecting and recording the private info of thousands and thousands of aspiring American business homeowners can not adequately safe its IT. When it involves management PR problems, there's probably no worse curse. Accelerated – Transferring your current credit and choosing the program that's best for you eliminates unnecessary courses and helps ensure you'll be able to earn your diploma as rapidly as doable.
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At the end of each week, we post a "What We're Watching" blog as we look ahead to the weekend and recap events from the week. We encourage you to share it with your friends and family, and have a safe weekend.
Ongoing Colorado Flooding
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An Active Atlantic
We're in the traditional peak of hurricane season, and the Atlantic Ocean is doing its part to remind us. As the National Hurricane Center's map shows, there are lots of areas of activity that we're keeping an eye on. Now is the time to polish up your family's plan for a hurricane – especially since there aren't any significant threats to U.S. states or territories at this time. I ask that you take one step this weekend: talk with your family about how you'd stay in touch during/after an emergency. Ready.gov has a great list of things to talk through and think about as you review your plan!
Mark Your Calendar: Sept. 18 Higher Ed Twitter Chat
Next week, our @FEMAlive account will be moderating a Twitter chat to discuss "Unique approaches to emergency preparedness in higher education". I'm particularly excited since there are already a few schools lined up to participate, like DePaul University, Florida State University, and the University of Boston College! But one good thing about Twitter is that live chats are open to anyone. So if you're an emergency management professional in higher education, or are interested in the topic, you're welcome to join in next Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 1 p.m. Eastern by following #EDUPrepChat.
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Videos to share
As National Preparedness Month continues, we wanted to share a few video reminding folks to prepare for an emergency. Here are a few videos we encourage you to share with your family and friends.
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Doug was on the floor, writhing, curled up in a fetal position. He made groaning sounds like one might hear on the battle front from a wounded man safe in a fox hole. The toll of breaking his silence was FEAR, intense fear. His whole body rocked and shook in front of me. I felt his fear in the air. I did not get up and touch or hug him. I was also in shock. [A couple years later that lack of affection was pointed out to me as I attended a counseling session with Doug from his sexual abuse counselor. It was years after the abuse, but he still had a visceral reaction if he talked about the abuse. I sat in a chair a few feet from him as he cried. The counselor asked me why I did not go to him and hug him..comfort him. I had no answer but in my heart I knew his visceral response also affected me as a member of the cult and as his mom who failed to protect him from the IFB abuse.]
I found myself in a state of shock when Doug first told me about his abuse. I didn't move from my chair. When I was able to talk after his sudden disclosure I asked him, "Why didn't you tell me this back then?" Doug sobbed, sitting on the floor now and holding his legs against his heart as though to give himself a hug. , "I didn't know that what had happened was sex abuse! I thought it was the big punishment that happened when you are really bad!"
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. "Do you mean that before your brother Scott was abused sexually by his teacher you were sexually abused?" He moaned, "Yeah!" I asked again, "Why didn't you tell us then?" Doug was calming down some and repeated as though to defend himself. "At the time I did not know that he had done sex abuse to me. I never wanted to tell you later on because you got so sick when that happened to Scott! I wanted to protect you, so I never told anyone until I told Leon today. I thought that if I told Leon maybe I'd get better and not drink so much. Leon was glad that I told him, but he made me promise to tell you." I took a deep breath, "Doug, I want you to call your dad. He was there that day. He knew that you could not even sit down in the car." Doug hung his head. "Dad won't believe me." I insisted, "Doug, he was there and will remember the spanking." Doug sobbed, "What if he doesn't believe me?" Feeling unable to deal with what I was hearing, I said, "He believed Scott. He'll believe you. You have to tell him. I can't help you alone!" Doug finally dialed up his dad. He sobbed through the details on the phone to his father. I knew what his dad was feeling since I had just been through it. Once again I listened, numb with shock as he wept the words of what had happened to him. There was no sounds for a while..until I heard Doug answer for his father the same questions I had asked. We felt guilty as parents. How could I have failed to investigate further when the spanking first occurred? How could one small family with just two sons be the target of such egregious abuse and total devastation at the hands of sexual predators in IFB educator's clothing? Doug cried for a while longer after the call to his father and then he left. I knew he would be reaching out to alcohol to anesthetize the overwhelming feelings of fear.
Later that night I called Doug's father and asked what we should do. His voice was distant. "This is really big, Nancy. " Doug's father Paul said, "The church is way too powerful in the community and in the government for us to even consider doing anything." I was dumfounded. "Paul! That's what we did with Scott and look what happened." I knew he felt angry but helpless. "He is too big Nancy. We need to listen to him and support him. That's all we can do." It was almost as if we were re-living Scott's abuse story. We were going to do the same thing again. The past is the best predictor of the future. History was going to repeat itself on this run away train.
The next day Doug begged me not to talk about the sexual abuse to anyone. He was convinced that horrible things would happen to us and that we would be hurt. "What do you mean, Doug?" I inquired. "Like Mr _________ would shoot us or bomb our house or something?" There was no dissuading Doug. "Yeah, he has lots of power like that." As a clinically trained therapist myself, I recognized that Doug was captive as a victim of sexual abuse to that fearful, cruel space in his mind where he had hidden the details of the awful day when he was allegedly raped and beaten. I asked myself why I had not interrogated Doug further when he came home from school with a bloody butt? Why I did not take him to the doctor after seeing the blood droplets and welts? Why had I not told Scott to tell his doctor when he was treated for Mono after his sexual abuse? Why? Why had I failed my boys? The guilt was heavy, but I was determined to get though this second son's sexual abuse and remain well.
Each time I tried to ask Doug more about the incident, Doug picked up on my anxiety. "See, I never should have told you because you will get sick again. I should have just taken it to my grave." Each time I said, "Doug, I can get you into counseling" he would always respond with, "Why? So they can report it, take it to court and then hear him say I am lying? Then I will drink myself to death because I would be so scared." One time I asked, "What if there were other boys that he did this to?" Doug replied, "I know of one, I think. His father came into the school and yelled at Mr._________ so loud the kids heard it out in the halls." "Doug, let's find that boy in the school yearbook." "It's no use, Mom. The boy left after that. He is not in the book." I checked anyway. Doug was right. The boy was not in the yearbook. Doug pleaded with me, "Don't talk about this anymore. I will get sick and vomit." I did see him vomit after that talk. The pain of not telling was killing him. The pain of telling was killing him. We were once again in the IFB trap. But I knew what the IFB trap looked like now. I would help my sons find a way to peace. I went on to get my masters in counseling at the U. of W. and I would help my sons. I had been called on by my son to keep his secret. As a therapist, I knew sexual abuse survivors had to talk about the abuse or it would act as an infection sealed behind a scab. Who would believe a drunk crying "rape"or his parents who had cried "rape" in regard to another son? What were the odds of this happening to them both in the same IFB school system? I was haunted by the fact that we had kept our boys completely in the dark about sex. No sex education in the IFB schools and my son thought he had received the "Big Spanking" until he learned what sex abuse was.
I finally worked up enough courage to asked my IFB friend Dena—a friend of mine from Calvary whose boys were about the same age as mine—if her boys had been spanked at the Christian school. "I am sure they were," she said. "They would get spanked again at home for being spanked at school." I probed further. "Do you know if they had to pull their pants down at school?" She paused a moment. "I think so. In the office there was a wooden paddle with holes drilled in it that was used for spanking. Why do you ask?" "Well, Doug is very angry because of a spanking he got at school and I want him to talk to a counselor." "Nancy, we parents signed papers giving them permission to spank our kids. You signed a paper too." "Dena, I never knew they would pull their pants down." "Well, Nancy, all I know is that we let them. I don't think they spank anymore…if that helps you."
When I heard Dena's defensiveness I knew this was not going to be something about which I could talk openly. There I was, keeping secrets in the IFB church again. Déjà vu! Each church service that I attended, the anger welled up inside me as I looked at the old man who had allegedly raped my child. He was smiling, singing, laughing while my son was dying. The "dunt … Dunt … Dunt… DUNT… DUNT …DUNT" reverberated in my mind. This was just too much!
I began searching online for information about IFB abuses. The first time that I typed the search words "sexual abuse in the IFB church" I was afraid the computer would grow arms, reach out and hurt me. It seems that Doug had passed on his intense childhood fears to me. When nothing happened, I started reading the articles. I was amazed and appalled. The prevalence of sexual abuse in an IFB setting was equivalent to, or greater than the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandals. Entire sites were dedicated to revealing IFB abusers. Numerous blogs disclosed horrendous stories of IFB abuse. Some of the stories were even written about IFB Cock Roosters that I knew from my old IFB Island like Lester Roloff and Jack Hyles. I also knew that the statute of limitation was past for Doug and Scott. I felt forced to keep secret the identity of my little boy's alleged rapist—Mr. He-Whom-We-Cannot-Speak-Of—is very upsetting to me. He has not been charged. He has not been convicted. I knew he never will be.
Eventually I was able to convince Doug we should tell Pastor Luv (not his real name) what had happened to him. The IFB assistant pastor listened as Doug tearfully told him about what happened. The pastor said he would help us and I gave him Scott's story also. He was devastated..or he seemed to be. In a few weeks it was evident that nothing was being done at the church level. In a last ditch effort to be heard my husband and I scheduled an appointment with the head pastor at the church. He was polite and listen as I told him about what happened to Doug and had given him a copy of Scott's story a few days earlier Pastor Loggans acted concerned. I named other cases in his church of sexual abuse I was aware of. He listened and was aware of almost all the cases except Doug..Doug's case was new to him. I thought the pastor would go alone to talk to the police since I knew Scott had reported to the police but since the statute of limitations was up the Watertown police never even took a report. I thought the police might listen to the Pastor of the IFB church who was concerned about a former employee's criminal behaviors to a child. Doug was expecting he would need to giver a report to the police….HOWEVER weeks went by and nothing happened. Finally I confronted Pastor Luv and he told me that Pastor Loggans did not believe anything had happened to Doug so we should look for another church.
Nothing was being done at the church level, but I kept going to church, praying something would break loose as Doug was continuing to drink and suffer from PTSD. Then it happened….the last straw when Doug's abuser was the greeter at church on Mother's Day and handed me a rose…well I decided to talk to him myself. He denied the abuse and answered through tearful eyes that he loved those boys he spanked and that they loved him. I walked away that Mother's Day very upset. I was in the same Sunday school class as Dr. Phelps ( Tina Anderson's story had not come to light yet) and I stopped him in the hall after class and blurted out about my son's sexual abuse. He said to take him to the police and that he had no power in the church. I then told him that my other son had been abused at Maranatha Baptist Academy by a teacher when he was 16. He walked away from me saying he did know about that. He went into the church service with his Bible and never looked back at me crying in the hallway of the church. I felt hopeless and had to find another way to help my sons.
I started using the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (cult) Survivors sight for support and encouraged Scott and Doug to tell their stories like others were doing and get some support. Immediately we were supported for the first time since the abuse had occurred by other IFB survivors. We had to stop going to the church once the stories came out and we were immediately shunned. We received an anonymous letter accusing Doug of lying and secondary abuse through personal messages on Facebook. It was a dark time and Doug's drinking escalated and he even overdosed on his medication as the abuse continued. His worst fears of being blamed and saying he was a liar were coming true.
He had another confession to make . He had continued bleeding from the time of the abuse. He admitted hiding his underwear and making sure I was unaware of the physical damage. As is the nature of anal tearing the wounds do not heal well due to the bacteria and the continual pressure. I insisted he tell his medical doctor what had happened to him as a child and he eventually had surgery to repair damage. I talked with the surgeon and she confirmed the tearing and the medical need for a colostomy if the bleeding continued. That surgery coinciding with the blaming and secondary abuse was one of the darkest times in our lives. It was time to feel, deal and heal.
Doug Finds in His Words
Eventually there was a formal interview set up for Scott and Doug to tell their stories. A chance to be heard and not judged. Scott talked about the details of his sexual abuse and the spankings at school. Scott's voice was loud and clear…and then it was Doug's turn to speak to the interviewer.
He described how he felt he was not accepted at the IFB school as a child. He saw himself as bad because the teachers had told him through their actions and words that he deserved the Christ-like crushing blows of the Spanking Board. Doug had been labeled as bad and he wore that identity. I was in the next room during the interview that took place in our home. It was during Doug's interview when I had the vision of the picture I painted on the lead page to this story. Doug thought that Jesus wanted him beat like this. I cried at that point… I listened and learned that Doug was blamed for many things by Mr._________ who found fault with him at every turn. Once during a spanking session by M_________ Doug had been caught with a magazine in his pants put under his underwear to hide the padding of the paper. Some student wore extra underwear and did what ever they needed to do to cut the pain of the board against their bottom. The spanking session seemed somewhat formal as I hear Doug tell the interviewer he had to stand and hang onto a chair in the office and bend over it to keep from falling after the pressure of the swat would force the whole body forward. Doug demonstrated how Mr _______ held the 24 inch x 1 inch thick board in his hand and swing using a whole body twist of force. Once Doug had been caught with the paper in his underwear he had to "Drop his Drawers". Drop the Drawers was a term used for bare butt spanking. Doug began to cry as he told the interviewer he had determined he was not going to cry because he knew Mr _______ wanted him to cry. Doug went into that visceral response and looked down at the floor as he described the blows. He shared that he counted them, wackkkkkkk…Whack… He was in what I saw as a kind of flashback as he continued to tell the interviewer about the pain and the fear. The Fear that had never left, it was the fear he had that "He just kept hitting me and I thought he was going to kill me. The interviewer sat with Doug and we are all in tears as we relived those moments with Doug in that room with the spanker. Doug paused …" I had never heard Doug tell the details of what had happened…but today he had found his voice for those moments with the interviewer. Why? I thought again, had he not told me…and now he was telling the interviewer, but I was glad he was telling what had happened…..the whole truth. Doug found his voice with a man who was listening to him with compassion….feeling Doug's pain and keeping unnecessary noise from interrupting Doug as we were all shocked and in the room we fought to hold back our own tears. No one could reach into the camera to comfort Doug because we knew he needed to tell his story. The interviewer listened with the eyes and ears of a man who had seen this story before. He had interviewed man/ boy love stories overseas and seemed to know how to allow Doug to express his pain in a safe place and with a safe person. Doug then said he was hit 53 times and repeated " I thought he was going to kill me"…and then I felt a different kind of pressure..and he had his way with me. The interviewer asked him what that meant and Doug repeated Mr __________ had his way with him. He said the words out loud describing the act of sexual abuse. Doug is shaking now.
He could never tell the whole story before and now he was telling it … . He described the pain…when the interviewer asked him what happened then" Doug replied when he stopped he sent me to the bath room…Why the interviewer said… No one in the rooms moved. We seemed to be honoring this moment in time…the moment when a young man sets himself free of the secrets. A moment to be respected as perhaps life changing.
I had to to get myself together. And not make a sigh or groan that the camera 's audio could pick up. The interviewer asked Doug "What did he do then." Doug answer in a matter of fact way. He told me to go into his office bathroom and clean up." I realized at that point in the interview that Mr. __________ must have had blood on him so he knew that Doug needed the clean up…what a sick, evil man I thought…..What did he say to you when you came out , the interviewer said. When I came out Mr _________ said…Now let that be a lesson to you. He acted like nothing had just happened and Doug walked back into the class room. Doug said he felt ashamed. Why? Because he had cried and the girls he liked as his friends in his class could see his tears. He was a Broken man the interviewer said. . We were all stunned
I had never heard the whole story before, We were all just in a kind of shock from what we had just heard. I realized the years of using alcohol had somehow preserved Doug's story in his mind. He was fixated back to the time of the abuse and although a 40 year old man was talking to the interviewer …really a boy was telling what happened to him the day it happened. We had all been transported back in time,through the alcohol time machine and witnessed a boy, then too afraid to speak out,speak out with a mans voice. It was chilling.
Doug went up to his room. I was fearful that telling the story of his abuse may have been emotionally overwhelming, so I asked his friend Shannon to check on him. There was a blood curdling scream and Shannon flew down the steps….The interviewer and I look at each other. My eyes were frozen in time on the interviewer and in my mind I saw Doug hung, shot or bleeding in his room…the silence was broken when Shannon said the cat got a mouse. Wow…what a scare…I was so glad Doug's story in all its emotional vividness was on tape He sees himself as a broken man today and we all work together to help him heal. It took for Doug to tell all of the story. And it will take many more years to fix the brokenness in us all.
The thing that strikes me today is the fact the MR _______ only had a degree of some kind in Bible…how did he become a IFB leader. When the Bible is the only teacher and the IFB twist and turn the Word to make the shepherds staff into a beating board, then our children suffer. The men writing these books and expounding their wisdom on child development do not have degrees in child development or even teaching…only bible training. So when schools are left to uneducated and unregulated systems, as that school was, stories like Doug's eventually will be told. The secrets are too hard to hold in yet we hold silent the abusers name at every corner when we want to scream the name from the mountain tops. We can't go to court. There should be no statute of limitations on sexual abuse so these abusers names can go on record and we don't have to carry around a gunnysack with the name of an abuser tucked inside. We are muzzled, as is Doug with the name of a man who helped create the muzzle that silences us.
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35 Years 35 Stories
Citra, a participant of Financial Literacy Programme
Citra couldn't pay rent when first met by our staff. Today, she earns a steady income sufficient to support her family.
Citra packed up her breakfast stall and was pleased with the profit she made for the day. She was encouraged by the increasing customers returning for her curry puffs with extra crispy edges or vegetarian fried noodle. After many years living in poverty, she is now able to generate a steady income. She recorded the amount of her earning in a small note book, just as she was taught in the financial literacy class. She also set aside a specific amount to buy ingredients for tomorrow's business and kept part of the profit as her wages.
The RM40-60 Citra earns daily translates into the ability to keep a small business running, feed her family 3 square meals and send her children to school. Her life is moving forward one step at a time – away from poverty and nearer towards economic independence. Citra could not imagine anything like these 3 years ago. With an unemployed husband who was an alcoholic and abusive, Citra had not known economic stability. It was normal for her and her two children to get by with one meal a day. Her new leaf of life began after she started attending the Financial Literacy Programme held monthly at Pusat Sama-Sama, the community resource centre set up by Community at Heart. This Financial Literacy Programme is specially designed for urban poor families.
Practicing more conscious financial decision daily has improved Citra's household economic stability. With regular encouragement from the community development worker and monthly group meeting with fellow community members, Citra has made remarkable progress overall. Citra noticed her own growth and shared with others excitedly – she does her daily business transactions using mental arithmetic (not a calculator!), from a pure Tamil speaker she is now able to speak Bahasa Malaysia fluently. She has become more knowledgeable and most importantly, she is no longer afraid of her abusive husband. Even though her husband had beaten her and damaged her business equipment twice to show his disapproval, she said she is not be affected and she will not give up. She has overcome the inertia of fear and has stepped out with enormous courage. She is determined to carry on.
Since launched in 2010, over 800 members of urban poor communities in the Klang Valley have undergone the Financial Literacy Programme designed and conducted by Malaysian Care in collaboration with members of Network for Economic Transformation. Citra is one of the 180 + participants who have started income generation projects and are now experiencing economic stability.


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How often have you been living life, happy and content, and then suddenly life slaps you in the face with something unexpected? We all have problems, and the truth of the matter is that problems will never go away. They will just change form.
One time you may be struggling with health, the next with money, and still the next with relationships. That is both the curse and blessing of life.
However, you don't have to suffer because everything isn't perfect in your life.
Behind the Scenes of Problems
Nothing becomes a problem until you label it so. You've probably noticed that different people have different opinions of what problems are, and how much attention should be given to any one thing. This means that problems exist in our heads, and that we create them, define them, and fear them.
I, for example, am great at worrying about problems that do not even exist, and I'm sure you're no different. But that doesn't change the fact that problems are made-up.
The Most Overlooked Secret
The secret to dealing with life's problems is to realize that they are illusions of our imagination. Sure, they feel very real. I'm not denying that.
Let's say you're driving your car merrily down the highway, until someone cuts you off. You might fly off the handle, or you might not. It will depend on how you perceive the situation. It's an excellent example of how some people create something to complain about where others are completely fine.
Life will always have "problems" and the way to deal with them is to let them be. You don't have to try to analyze, fantasize, or figure out your problems. Let them figure themselves out. The more you try, the more you fuel the problem, and the more miserable you become.
This doesn't mean you stop solving problems. It means you stop the compulsive worrying and fear-mongering inside your head.
How to Stop the Compulsive Worrying
You can stop the madness by simply staying present, and letting whatever happens be. This can be extremely hard if you bump into a problem that is important to you, but it is through those big problems that the biggest changes occur.
For example, I tend to freak out whenever something threatens my health. I can even go into a cold sweat, which I did a few weeks ago about a possible dental issue. But I remained present. I observed the freak out within my own body and mind without fueling it by thinking and trying to figure it out.
I was the observer of my thoughts, and you know what happened? The thoughts lost momentum and disappeared. The freak out ended within 30 minutes. Some people are so good at freaking out that it goes on for years, or even worse, their whole life.
Why is Life so Hard?
Life can seem tough from time to time, but it is through those tough times that you grow as a human being. It's uncomfortable, yup, but that's life.
It's a rollercoaster with both highs and lows, which we all have to live through, so you might as well learn how to deal with the lows. The more comfortable you become with life's problems, the more you'll enjoy life's gifts.
Life is what it is, and most of life's problems are created by us. The problems are events in our life, no one is denying that, but the extrapolation that we do freaks us out, and then we wonder why we feel so bad.
It's a life-long habit most of us have cultivated, which means we can change it. But change starts with awareness.
So, today all I want you to do is be aware of how you worry and freak yourself out, then simply watch your thoughts. You will be pulled back into the drama of your mind, but gently pull your attention back to just watching what goes on.
Be kind to yourself, and enjoy both the highs and the lows.
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text: Politics 19 June 2008 Fatwa against terrorism "In Islam, creating social discord or disorder, breach of peace, rioting, bloodshed, pillage or plun Sign-up The beginning of the end of the war of terror has started. Mullahs in India have issued a fatwa unequivocally denouncing terrorism. So far, the international media have failed to notice, which is not surprising: the levers for changing Muslim minds have been a mystery to governments and media alike. The mullahs I speak of are not just any old mullahs: they are Deobandi mullahs. The name Deoband, a small town in Uttar Pradesh, India, conjures awe and reverence in many Muslim minds. Established in 1866, Darul Uloom ("house of knowledge") Deoband is a religious seminary, second in importance only to al-Azhar in Cairo. The scholars who established it led the 1857 revolt against the British. Over the past century, the institution has played a leading role in fighting all the "isms", from imperialism and communism to neocolonialism. The Deo band brand is associated with standing up to those who seek to oppress Islam. This made Deoband attractive to all who sought to fight the west for its real and imaginary persecution of Muslims. The "foreign jihadis" fighting in Iraq claim to be inspired by Deobandi teachings. Pakistani militant groups such as Jaish-e-Muhammad and Harkat-e-Islam, accused of kidnapping and suicide bombings, follow the Deobandi school of thought. The Taliban, from both Afghanistan and Pakistan, were educated in Deobandi seminaries. When aspiring terrorists go to Pakistan to study "Islam", they go to Deobandi establishments. Here in Britain, the Deo bandis are the second-largest group of south Asian Muslims. They control numerous mosques, some of which, allegedly, harbour young militants. What the Deobandi scholars say about terrorism resonates. And this is what they say: "In Islam, creating social discord or disorder, breach of peace, rioting, bloodshed, pillage or plunder and killing of innocent persons anywhere in the world are all considered most inhuman crimes." Those who use the Quran or the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad to justify terrorism are perpetuating a lie. The very purpose of Islam, the fatwa says, is "to wipe out all kinds of terrorism and to spread the message of global peace". Muslims should not co-operate with people who spread the lie of terrorism; and those who do are "committing sin or oppression". A fatwa is the legal opinion of an individual scholar - and, as such, it can be dismissed by other religious scholars. This fatwa, however, is signed not just by Maulana Habibur Rahman, the grand mufti of Deoband, but also by his three deputies. It comes from an institution and not an individual. "In the theological universe, it is the equivalent of a verdict of a full constitutional bench of a Supreme Court," says Javed Anand, the Mumbai-based Muslim activist. But the Deoband scholars went further. To announce the fatwa, they organised a conference on "Anti-Terrorism and Global Peace". Held on 31 May at the Ramlila Ground in Delhi, the conference brought together all the main Muslim organisations, such as Jamaat-e-Islami Hind and the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. Vir tually all the Muslim sects in India, including Wahhabis, Sufis and Barelvis, were represented. Estimates of those attending vary from 10,000 to 70,000. One thing is certain: it was the greatest assembly of beards ever seen in India. The gathering declared that jihad and terrorism have no connection. The very idea of a terrorist glorying in violence and describing himself as a jihadi was denounced as an abo mination. The conference saw terrorism as the greatest threat facing Muslim societies today. Finally, all the mullahs present signed an oath of allegiance: "We are bound by the fatwa of Darul Uloom Deoband and undertake that we shall condemn terrorism and spread Islam's message of global peace." This fatwa, I suspect, will be much quoted in the coming years. Its importance lies not just in what it says, but in who is saying it. A fatwa, made binding through the oath of allegiance, is in my opinion canny and unparalleled in history. Every mosque in Britain, Deobandi or otherwise, should proudly display the ruling. We should start a campaign to sign up to the oath of allegiance - and proclaim from the rooftops that Islam has within itself the will and resources to end the abomination of violence. I will be happy to be the first to scribble my signature. Ziauddin Sardar, writer and broadcaster, describes himself as a 'critical polymath'. He is the author of over 40 books, including the highly acclaimed 'Desperately Seeking Paradise'. He is Visiting Professor, School of Arts, the City University, London and editor of 'Futures', the monthly journal of planning, policy and futures studies. Subscribe £1 per month This article first appeared in the 23 June 2008 issue of the New Statesman, Truly, madly, politically SUBSCRIBE More


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The Stages of Tinnitus
I remember when my tinnitus first started: It was there and it was anoying….but I don´t remember it influencing most of my actions and thoughts. Forgetting that there was a ear ringing during the day was the best part about it. Mostly I noticed it after going out and at night, noticed it….that still means that it did not bother me too much.
Then it got a little louder, I started to notice the peeing more and more. Well, let´s say compared to today it was still nothing, I noticed it more and more at bedtime or when I wanted to read or when I woke up. In stressful situations, when I waasn´t feeling well emotionally or when a problem presented itself I thougt that it got louder, but I could be that I only noticed it more. One of the two, but usually it lasted only for a short momentt when the situation was new, after a short while it went back to normal. Of course it anoyed me, I wished it weren´t there but I didn´t do too much about it, because it was an anoyance you could handle.
Then….it got louder again and again…..and again. My T now is at a point, at which it can´t be ignored. Never. It is so loud that I can´t understand people when they are talking quietly or when there are too many other noises surrounding me and the person I am talking too. It gets worse when I am with a group and they are all talking to each other….basically I have no chance of understaning what is going on. That is super frustrating. I hear the ringing all the time – at this one volume: loud. Watching TV like a grandma is just one of the perks, not understanding people on the phone another….but there are countless other limitations. I feel like the T has taken over my life and is controling every action, every move I make….I don´t want to do many things anymore and a lot of times I just want to stay home in bed distracting me from that unbearable peeping.
Sometimes I think that I might be at stage 4 already. But I still do have hope…..well, not all the time but mostly I do have hope or lets say I have the willigness to try to live my life as normal as possible. I guess that 4 means you just feel completly hopeless and have lost all motivation. I´m trying really hard to not get there, sometimes I am very depressed….those are phases. I haven´t had a panic attac. Yet?! And I try to live fairly normal. What does normal mean? I guess I still go to work and I meet up with friends. Not as much as I used to because leaving the house isn´t my favorite activity anymore…but I still get myself to do it. So I haven´t given up on life yet and that is the most important part AND that means that I am not at stage 4 yet!
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Elli August 16, 2017 at 9:12 am
Liebe Magda,
es ist so toll, dass du nicht aufgibst. Deine Stärke ist bewundernswert! Ich denk an dich!
Bussi Elli
Christina August 18, 2017 at 6:27 pm
Hallo, ich befinde mich gerade in der gleichen Situation wie du. Es tut gut zu sehen, dass man nicht alleine ist! Liebe Grüße, Christina
Lisa August 28, 2017 at 10:28 am
I just read up to stage 2.
Are these stages something you established for yourself or is it proofed by scientific research or else?
My T is also quite new (two months now), but I will refuse to think that it always has to be the way you described in your stages. Thinking "now I'm already in stage 2 and only waiting for it to get worse" – I think this is no good for your mental health either. I try not to read too much about Tinnitus as I have made the experience that the articles etc. – which are scarcely any positive – just make it worse, and I find myself back in the tinnitus spiral you described earlier. So when I want to read about T, I always look out for the positive examples. Of course, I understand that there more negative aspects to write about than positive. Keep your head up and let's see – maybe we can skip stage 3 & 4 and do stage 2.1 instead :-). I really hope it for all of us.
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Subject: Unavoidable Xorg package update problems
Greetings earthlings.
One of the regressions that was present in the xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.48.1 update (bug #168844), has been fixed in the latest update xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2. Unfortunately, users will still see an error on upgrade which is unavoidable.
Also, you may end up with 2 copies of libGLU installed, which may cause further problems. This problem is also unavoidable.
Since these are 2 unavoidable problems users will experience when upgrading from the broken package to the current fixed package, I am asking people to please read https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168844 and spread the URL around for instructions on how to work around these unavoidable problems.
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Root cause of problem: rpm sucks, film at 11 ;oP
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rpm -e --allmatches --nodeps --noscripts xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU yum install xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU
Important Notes: There is no need to report this problem to bugzilla. The problem has been reported in bug #168844, and fixed already. Even though it is fixed, you _WILL_ see the problem at least once no matter what, and that's unfortunately unavoidable.
Notes for i810 users: If you are experiencing problems with the i810 video driver with the latest Xorg update, such as the video no longer filling the screen to the edges, please read https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168764
Comment 13 in the report has instructions for working around the problem:
Please edit your xorg.conf, and add the following option to the "ServerFlags" section. If there is no ServerFlags section, create a new one as such:
Section "ServerFlags" Option "PciOsConfig" "1" EndSection
Then save and exit, and reboot the system, then start the X server up again. If the problem is still present, remove the above option, and replace it with the following option instead, and try again:
Option "PCIProbe1" "1"
Does this option resolve the issue? If not, please try the following:
Option "PCIProbe2" "1"
If any of these 3 options work around the problem, please update the bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168764 to let us know which ones.
Be sure to reboot the machine before each try, to ensure a full hardware reset.
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On the first and second week of July 2015, face west at around 6 to 7 pm and you will notice two bright 'stars' above the horizon. Those 'stars' are not actual stars, but rather, the planets Jupiter and Venus. You will see the two planets as a pair of lights in the sky (the brighter one is Venus and the dimmer one is Jupiter), very similar to what is shown in the photo above. You may observe the pairing of the two planets every day, but make sure to look at them on July 1, when the 'gap' between the two planets is smallest.
On July 18, the moon will join Venus and Jupiter to form one of the most interesting sights you can see in the sky: a 'celestial triangle'. A recent 'celestial triangle' was seen on August 24, 2014. Your chance to see the next one will be on July 18, 2015. Simply face west at around 6 to 7 pm and see the moon, Venus, and Jupiter form a triangle as shown in the simulated image below.
No special equipment is needed to see these events. Also, they can be viewed from anywhere in the Philippines. If you were able to witness the event or take a photograph of it, tell us about your experience by leaving a comment below. Clear skies!
To keep you posted on upcoming astronomical events, click here. Take a look at other similar, previously-observed planetary pairing and grouping here.
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