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Sex Addiction has become a modern buzz word that has given powerful men a "Get out of Jail Free" card when they are caught cheating on their wives. We have all seen the famous men that get caught cheating then go to an expensive rehab center to cure them from this "demonic force" that has taken over their lives. It's happened so many times in the past three decades that it's become a punch line on shows like South Park. But is Sex Addiction real or a myth and can it be treated? On this podcast we interview an expert on Sexual Addiction, Dr. David Ley. He has become world famous for his critical stance regarding sex addiction but he has the credentials to back it up.
Dr. David Ley is a Board-certified sex therapist, supervisor of sex therapy and Director of New Mexico Solutions, a large outpatient mental health and substance abuse program in Albuquerque, New Mexico.He has published three critically-acclaimed books, Insatiable Wives, The Myth of Sexual Addiction and Ethical Porn for Dicks: A Man's Guide to Responsible Viewing Pleasure. He is a frequent commentator in media around the world, on shows such as Dr. Phil, Katie Couric, CNN, Playboy and in the Washington Post.Read More


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A Reason to Give Thanks: The Return of the Wild TurkeyPublication: National Geographic News Date: November 21, 2001 View Article
As millions of Americans gather around the table with family and friends on Thursday, wild turkeys may be the ones with the most thanks to give. A century ago, with a population of only 30,000, the large birds were on the road to extinction. Today, they number 5.4 million.
"The recovery of the wild turkey is definitely a success story," said Bart Semcer, chair of the Sierra Club's National Wildlife and Endangered Species Committee in Washington, D.C. "They are part of America's heritage, and the American people came together to recover the species."

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The Long Distance Road Haulage Industry
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This Report investigates the structure, market conduct and performance of the domestic long distance freight industry with particular emphasis on the long distance road transport sector and the intermodal competition it faces.
All sectors of the industry appear to be highly competitive. Not only is there competition within the industry, but rail has the potential to capture a significant amount of the long distance freight market from road. The terms of reference as given by the Minister are contained in Appendix 1 of this Report.
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Nearest tube station: East Putney (District Line, zone 2/3), which is approximately 5-10 minutes walk from the theatre. Come out of the station, turn left and you will find Putney Arts Theatre on the left a short way after crossing at the main junction.
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Static sites with Docker
As any web technologist would know, static site generators are very popular, and hosting options are easy to find. GitHub pages serves Jekyll sites with zero setup, or if one of the other generators is a better fit, there is always S3. I of course have picked Docker to be my hammer, so I want to use it to pound in this nail also. In this writeup I will describe my setup, and where I hope to take it next.


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MTI Film Extends Cortex::Capture Giveaway/
In response to the enormous interest generated by the launch of its new, on-location review and color management tool, Cortex::Capture, MTIFilm is extending a product giveaway that it began at NAB 2012. Each week from now until the product launch, the company will hold a drawing with the winner receiving a FREE Cortex::Capture license. Names entered in the drawing will roll over to the newdrawing from week to week. Everyone who enters will be included in the Grand Prizedrawing on July 5th for a FREE seat of Cortex::Convey.
An entry form and listing of weekly winners are available at www.mtifilm.com/cortex_contest on MTI Film's newly re-designed website.
At NAB Show 2012, MTI Film held drawings for two FREE seats of Cortex::Capture.Winners included DIT Bruce Stanford and Mathieu Boulanger of Vision Globale who willreceive their FREE licenses when theproduct launches this summer.
Cortex::Capture is a simple and powerful application that includes all the functionality needed by DITs and data wranglers with a price tag of only $95. Itprovides on set playback of over a dozen common camera formats, including Sony F65RAW and SR Master, RED, ARRIRAW, DNxHD, ProRes and the popular DSLR cameraformats. Cortex::Capture includes tools for color decisions by either applying imported LUTs or creating looks with the color tool. These can be exported as stills, ASC CDLs and LUTs.
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For many world leaders, a moral tipping point may have finally been reached this week in the violent crackdown on Syria's democratic uprising.
On Sunday, the regime occupied Syria's third-largest city, Hama, using tanks and snipers to kill innocent people in what is coming close to being genocide.
The Syrian Army, controlled by the minority Alewite sect of President Bashar al-Assad, now appears to be going from one rebellious city to another in this mainly Sunni country, crushing any opposition with brutal violence. It is being helped by Iran, a Shiite-run theocracy that gunned down its own pro-democracy protests in 2009.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Mr. Assad had "lost all sense of humanity." In Turkey, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said the Hama attack "is an atrocity." President Obama said the assault on civilians was "horrifying."
On Monday, Europe beefed up sanctions against the regime while the normally timid UN Security Council may – and should – condemn this escalation of violence in a resolution.
"Syria has turned into a great funeral whose coffins extend from the north to the south, and from the coast to the last position on its southern border," wrote chief editor Abdel Bari Atwan in the Palestinian-owned Al-Quds al-Arabi daily.
The global community feels largely helpless to act, especially with the UN-approved NATO action in Libya dragging on with no resolution. And protesters in Syria are desperate for outside help. The theme of last Friday's demonstrations was "Your silence is killing us."
Moral condemnation and more sanctions are certainly needed, but the UN and the West must find other ways to tighten the pressure on the Assad regime before it kills more people. Since the uprising began in March, more than 1,700 have been murdered by the regime, with thousands more detained or in prison.
The risk of genocide is high. In 1982 the current leader's father, Hafez al-Assad, killed an estimated 10,000-20,000 people in Hama in trying to crush an opposition Islamist group there.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said military action against Syria is "not a remote possibility." But before such a step is contemplated, other nations can do more to investigate and expose the violence, and those behind it. The International Criminal Court needs to be involved.
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with the US-based Syrian democracy activists on Tuesday, a diplomatic gesture that essentially signals that Assad is no longer legitimate in Washington's eyes.
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Monkeys are known for their animated entertainment, often participating in mischief and trickery. This monkey is no different. While he may appear harmless, he is actually planing his next prank. This contemplative monkey was hand carved from wood. He would make a great garden ornament.
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On the 28th of September we helped celebrate the William St Festival's 5th birthday by setting up a bar out the front of Pierre Winter Fine Jewels.
The festival was a great success, hats off to Woollahra Council for organising a fun party on the street, a great day was had by all.
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Aarhus Cuisine
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Your usual moderately sized city with small town charm, Aarhus maintains the high national standard set by Danish cuisine, although you can also eat greasy buffet slop or cheap cafe sandwiches if your preferences demand it. Not only is there an excellent range of cuisines in over a few hundred establishments, but the majority of places you'll want to seek out will be downtown and therefore quickly accessible from anywhere you're going to be in the city.
Most restaurants of any repute can be found downtown, mostly in the dozen or so blocks between Vester Alle and Kystvejen. Skolegade has a particular concentration of good restaurants, including the international selection and delicious tapas of Sidebar, a great smorrebrod (traditional Danish sandwich) at Teaterbodega, and steaks at A Hereford Beefstouw for all of you carnivores. Another street worth a stroll is Aboulevarden, which is probably the most picturesque neighborhood downtown due to its place on the river. There are also a lot of cafes and restaurants here, including favorites like Restaurant Et (the best in French food; somewhat expensive) and Restaurant Italia (great pizza and pasta), located a few doors down from each other. Be aware that the street is broken in two, with the majority of it along the river.
There are a number of cheaper options in Aarhus, whether you hit a cafe or a buffet. Some great cafes include Fairbar, a nonprofit known for a great beer and coffee selection; Mackie's for its inexpensive pizza; and Sota, which has better sushi than anywhere else in Aarhus. For you big eaters, check out either Det Gronne Hjorne on Frederiksdage or Valhalla on Aboulevarden for some tasty buffet.
Like we've mentioned, there are hundreds of eateries in Aarhus. Take a look at our listings if you're interested in finding out more.


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Keep up to date with all the latest Plant Science News
UK PlantSci 2013 opens today
16th Apr 2013
UK PlantSci 2013, the annual conference of the UK Plant Sciences Federation (UKPSF), kicks off today, 16th April, in Dundee. The two day conference will showcase the wealth of plant sciences undertaken in the UK, covering topics from conservation to crop improvement.
The UKPSF, a special interest group of the Society of Biology, organises UK PlantSci 2013 to provide all those working in the plant sciences with the opportunity to share their knowledge and expertise.
The conference's broad-ranging programme includes sessions on 'Ecology, the Environment and Biosphere', 'Adapting to Environments', 'Plant Protection and Defence', 'Biology to Benefit Society' and 'Plants as Producers'.
UKPSF Chair, Professor Jim Beynon, says: "This wide range of themes demonstrates the importance and diversity of plant science in the UK. The meeting will be attended by cell biologists, physiologists, ecologists, plant breeders, agriculturists and many more. Britain boasts strengths across the range of plant sciences, and UK PlantSci is designed to facilitate and enhance collaborations. We achieve most when we work together."
Plant science is integral to meeting global sustainability challenges, and this year's overarching theme is 'Plant Science in a Changing World'. The conference will open with a keynote speech on 'Feeding 10 Billion People on a Finite Planet' by Professor Charles Godfray, Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at the University of Oxford.
Professor Godfray's interests include how the global food system will need to change and adapt to the challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, and in particular in the concept of sustainable intensification and the relationship between food production, ecosystems services and biodiversity.
Dr Sarah Perfect, Vice Chair of UKPSF, says: "This is something that many aspects of plant science play a part in, and should set the scene for an interesting and productive meeting."
Inspiring future generations will be another key topic of discussion, with presentations and a stand dedicated to education, outreach and careers resources. The meeting programme will also feature the launch of a new plant science careers leaflet, produced by the Society for Experimental Biology and the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School Project.
The UK Plant Sciences Federation is a special interest group of the Society of Biology which acts as an umbrella body for organisations and research groups covering all aspects of UK plant biology.
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Women's Bible Study Groups
THREE Options and all are welcome
Tuesday Mornings from 9:15 to 11 at various homes
Young Women's Bible Study. Babies and toddlers are welcome. For more info, contact Vanessa Pellegrini 833-5314 or Sandy Dodge 664-5571.
Wednesday Mornings from 9:30 to 11 at FCCB
This group meets on Wednesday mornings in the First Congregational Church. Anyone interested in participating with this group should RSVP Linda Neinhouse at 664-7226
Saturday mornings from 8am to 10 am at the home of Sandy Dodge, 1056 Franklin Pierce Highway.
Studies begin on October 6th
After a few minutes of coffee and greeting as a group, we individually spend an hour in a comfortable place around the house reading scripture from each of the books. During this time we try to determine what God is saying to each of us individually. The reading is followed with a discussion of what we each discovered and how we can use this knowledge in the coming week. It has been a blessing to share our insights with each other as we often can rely on each other's support to implement what we've learned.
As a group we've been blessed by how often our bible study discussions have lined up with our Pastor's Sermon the following Sunday : )
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Dianne and Joe Hargrove
Michiganders Left Behind By Levine (Continued from Part 3)
IMAGE SOURCE: Joe and Dianne Hargrove, Courtesy: the family
"Republicans have to be a little nervous about this."
David Parker, an attorney from Detroit is talking about three new bills introduced in the Michigan House, and one in the Senate.
The bills repeal Michigan's drugmaker immunity shield that limits the filing of liability lawsuits against the pharmaceutical industry.
Michiganders can thank former Gov. John Engler for the law. In 1996, the Republican-controlled legislature and Engler amended the state's products liability law in a late night session.
Engler then left Michigan at the end of 2002 to take a job as CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, a group which lobbies on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry, among other companies.
In February 2008, a report released by the Center for Justice & Democracy in New York, found that the state's drug immunity law has not delivered the promised economic benefit, such as attracting new industry to the state. In fact, drugmaker, Pfizer, relocated 2,700 jobs out of Michigan to states without a drug immunity law.
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Diana Levine March 4, it established that drugmakers, (such as Wyeth in that case) do not have immunity from lawsuits under federal preemtion, the assumption that FDA approval provides a shield. Preemption was the basis of the Michigan law, making it the only one in the country and a glaring example of now a debunked theory.
Because of the law, hundreds, if not thousands, of Michiganders have been told they have no case of drug injury, and are barred from the day in court. And because of the law, they've never been able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, that their injuries were due to prescription drugs.
While many patients have simply gone away quietly to live off disability, others are actively speaking out to repeal the law.
Public comment is being heard in Lansing Michigan, the state capital, on three bills introduced to overturn the drugmaker immunity law.
The Hargroves
Joe and Dianne Hargrove are there. Joe, 61, and his wife Dianne live in a Detroit suburb.
Years ago, Joe had a promising job with an auto industry parts supplier. He traveled the world, but had repeated bouts of vertigo and dizziness to the point where the simple tasks of everyday became difficult.
In early 2004, Joe was given Celexa, an antidepressant that works off-label to treat vertigo.
"It worked," he says today. But it also worked on his liver. Six months later he suffered liver damage and began treatment with prednisone and the immune suppressant, Azasan.
Hargrove was given what he calls a "fairly high dose of prednisone" in early 2005, as well as a steroid. By July, he was jaunticed and hospitalized with diabetes and a blood sugar reading of almost 1,800.
"The doctor said go to the hospital immediately," he says. "I never had that before," he now says. "I was in the hospital for three days. They told me I'd be on insulin for the rest of my life. I said, 'could this be caused by the medication? Probably not, said the doctor'."
But he came right back and cut the medication in half. Hargrove was on insulin for one month, then his sugar stabilized. His doctor agreed the diabetes seemed to be resolved.
"There was no warning, the same with Celexa that damaged my liver, there were no warnings," he said. The next trip was to Detroit attorney Jeffrey Feiger. He told them they had no options.
"We were just astounded. We knew there had been some tort reform legislation but we had no idea it went this deep or this far. When two attorneys told me there is nothing we can do, I couldn't believe it."
"My point is you want to be given the opportunity to even have a case and that's what drug immunity has done, absolutely barred us from the justice system. Tort reformers would argue today, "all these frivolous lawsuits".
"You know what, the court can deal with frivolous lawsuits, they can bar them. But it's not frivolous when you are told you are a candidate for a liver transplant, they sent me to a liver specialist. I dodged the bullet."
"That's my question to everybody. What would you do if it happened to you or somebody you loved. A lot of people who supported that law had loved ones hurt or killed, then they changed their tune. They regret supporting that law. I'm guardedly optimistic. We've been fighting this for 14 years. "
Today Joe Hargrove takes no drugs. He is being treated holistically by a doctor and is still recovering.
In 2004, Celexa received a black box warning about the potential for suicidal thoughts in children and adolescents. The SSRI has been linked to liver problems, and heart risks. Prednisone is known to increase blood sugars. #
Late word that the repeal bills were reported out of the House Judiciary Committee today after testimony in Lansing. All of the Democrats voted in support and were joined by one Republican. The three bills would repeal the 1996 drug immunity law and make it retroactive since 1996, opening the door for those injured by prescription drugs to hold a maker accountable. Drug companies would be included in the Consumer Protection Act from which they are currently exempt. The House promises the bills will be sent to the Senate without delay. House Democrats have been fighting to repeal the drug immunity law for four years now and have met repeated opposition in the Republican controlled Senate, in which the majority has narrowed.
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About the Band
The full LIZANO lineup, comprised of guitarist/vocalist Jay Hatchett, guitarist Sal Greco, bassist Evan Stokes and drummer Mike Lopez was formed in the Reno/Tahoe, NV area during fall of 2015.
This original sound transformed from its original roots of covering bands like Pepper, Sublime and The Expendables while touring Central America, until they blended with funk, jazz and rock influences here stateside.
Today the band focuses its time on writing and performing original music they like to call
Galactic Reggae & Funk Fusion
Studio Album | 'US vs THEM'
As a debut album, "US vs THEM" fuses styles of reggae, funk, punk and psychedelic rock
to create a high energy sound with conscious lyrics about the division in our world today.
Enjoy this 3 Song Sample from the Album
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Be sure to stop by the Catherine Edelman booth if you're at Expo this weekend! There will be a piece from my Stray Light project on display. Also, featured is the work of Daniel Beltrá, Floriane de Lassée, Jess T. Dugan, Ysabel LeMay, Sandro Miller, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, and Gregory Scott.
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"Our dream is to raise these frail, broken and abandoned lives and allow them to mature into empowered and self-sustaining adults, able to transform communities and generations to come."
Kampala Children's Centre is located in the stable region of Wakiso, just outside Kampala, the capital of Uganda. Founded in 2005 by NDE Network, we provide a safe and loving family home for some of the country's most desperate and vulnerable children. The foundational values of the centre are to 'give the best to the least' and restoring the lives of abandoned and forgotten children.The rebel war in northern Uganda left over 1.5 million displaced people. Meanwhile, HIV/AIDS claim the lives of thousands, leaving many children orphaned and struggling for survival.


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An approach to assessing the environmental outcomes and changes in peoples livelihoods resulting from landscape-scale conservation interventions was developed for three locations in Africa. Simple sets of performance indicators were developed through participatory processes that included a variety of stakeholders. The selection of indicators was designed to reflect wider landscape processes, conservation
objectives and as local peoples preferred scenarios. This framework, combined with
the use of social learning techniques, helped stakeholders develop greater understandings of landscape system dynamics and the linkages between livelihood and
conservation objectives. Large scale conservation and development interventions
should use these approaches to explore linkages and improve shared understanding of
tradeoffs and synergies between livelihood and conservation initiatives. Such approaches
provide the basis for negotiating and measuring the outcomes of conservation
initiatives and for adapting these to changing perspectives and circumstances.
Topic: environmental management,landscape,nature conservation,livelihoods,assessment,monitoring,indicators,participation,adaptation
Geographic: Africa,Central Africa,Morocco,Tanzania
Publication Year: 2007
Source: Biodiversity and Conservation 16(9): 2677-2694


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Recently, this video of IBNIZ in action made its way around the electronic music blogosphere. IBNIZ is an extremely enigmatic art platform. It's not necessarily easy, or pretty, or even broadly useful. IBNIZ is uniquely targeted at a small coterie of artists with specific aesthetic goals. I had the opportunity to ask Viznut, the creator of IBNIZ, about the language, and his views were so intriguing that I am publishing them unedited here.
Evan Merz: In your blog post, you say that IBNIZ is an old-school platform. How was it inspired by older technology? How do you feel that IBNIZ relates to old-school +software or old-school art practices?
Viznut: I don't actually call it an oldschool platform — those words tend to have strict historical connotations to a lot of people — but a platform that has the kind of simplicity, concreteness and freedom that can also be found in old computers and makes them fun to hack with. You use a small instruction set to manipulate numerical values that consist of tangible bits. Nothing is arbitrary, undefined or illegal: every bit has a purpose, every combination of instructions has a specific, potentially useful outcome. These platform-level properties are what shaped a lot of the oldschool home computer culture, including the core artistic practices of the demoscene.
While IBNIZ shares these properties with actual "oldschool platforms", however, it uses totally different design choices for achieving them. As IBNIZ also tries to break new ground by having code compactness as a leading design goal, I would rather call it "experimental" than "oldschool".
The main artistic practice IBNIZ has been designed to serve is the "sub-256-byte" demo art that aims at producing increasingly impressive visual or even audiovisual programs under very tight program size limitations. The kind of attitude that gave birth to this practice has been a very prominent part of computer hacker subcultures since the very beginning — consider the display hacks of the 1950s and 1960s, for example — so I guess it could very well be called "oldschool". However, I would avoid binding it to any specific time period, as it is always possible to approach any computing system in this way. The issue here is just that modern mainstream platforms that hide their bits and bytes under numerous abstraction layers do not encourage the kind of "bit-bending challenges" that IBNIZ or classic computers do.
When talking about the kind of computer art that is prominent on old platforms and small program/data sizes, I prefer to use the term "Computationally Minimal Art" as it eliminates the need for a timeline. IBNIZ concentrates on the program-size aspect of CMA while being considerably less minimal on the machine spec department, allowing a decent number of pixels, millions of simultaneous colors and a lot of processing
EM: Do you think that growing up with personal computers in the 80s and the 90s has made you a different artist than you would be if you were born in 2000? Specifically, do the old methods give you a different perspective on computer art? Do you think that younger artists would benefit by exploring older methods and environments?
V: I believe that being influenced by eight-bit computers at a formative age has made be assign some kind of archetypal roles to bits, pixel patterns and
synthesized waveforms. These are the primitives that define computer art for me at the most fundamental level. If I had been born twenty years later, I would perhaps have ended up embracing polygons instead of pixels and formal lines of code instead of concrete bits and bytes.
Of course, it might also have been possible that if the computers of my childhood had been too complex and unpredictable, I might not have become interested in them at all, at least on a very deep level. The computer would have remained as a mere tool for me instead of material, a platform for fixed applications instead of a platform for code-level experimentation. This is what concerns me a lot at times. Many of the kind of minds that became computer virtuosos in the eighties would find themselves completely lost if they were introduced to computers today. This is why I find it important to create and advocate the kind of virtual toys and cultural forms that make the "oldschool path" more accessible and interesting.
How much a computer artist can benefit from experimenting with the kind of "bit-twiddling" typical to oldschool platforms depends a lot on his on her psychological characteristics, I guess. I would say that at least those people who show any symptoms of "hacker mentality", including a kind of desire to completely understand and control a limited set of building blocks and to explore their potentials, should definitely try it out.
I have noticed that many of the younger demoscene artists have an interest in platforms that had already fallen out of fashion by the time they were born. I think this is very understandable: if you are able to grasp the fundamentals of a code-based artform that embraces technical excellence and experimentation, you also have the potential to appreciate any computing platform as artistic material by its unique inherent restrictions and characteristics, regardless of its age, cultural context or whether it is considered "oldschool" or "newschool".
EM: You have a very interesting code aesthetic. Is IBNIZ designed, in part, to show how code can be beautiful? Do you think that beautiful code can be appreciated along with a beautiful work of art? Does showing the code change the perception of the art?
V: IBNIZ has been mainly designed to produce maximal results from a minimal number of characters. So, the only principle for what the code is supposed to look like is "small is beautiful". When desigining the language with this principle in mind, however, I thought it might help a lot if I aimed at some level of implicit elegance. In order to attain this elegance, I've taken a lot of influence from FORTH which I regard as a particularly beautiful programming language as it combines a Lisp-like purity and simplicity with an Assembly-like concreteness and straightforwardness.
I'm not sure how showing the code could change the perception of an artwork, but as a demoscener I know that by knowing the size of the program and something about the platform it is written for, it is possible to appreciate the code even without actually seeing it. If a 64-byte-long program produces a 3D-rotating, phong-shaded torus, any demoscener will be ready to praise the quality, beauty and impressivity of the code just by knowing that such an achievement must necessarily involve very well-thought-out code and math. So, in extreme size-coding, it all boils down to code length: the most beautiful code for any given task is the shortest possible code for the task, period. However, I do believe that even when sticking to pure size-optimization, the process produces a kind of emergent beauty a lot like how simplified mathematical formulas tend to give more pleasing impressions than their non-simplified forms.
When trying to show off the inherent beauty of IBNIZ code, I don't think the current "line-noise format" with one ASCII character per instruction serves this purpose very well. The beauty could perhaps be much better grasped by, for instance, a visualization of the abstract stack flow.
EM: What artists inspired you to build IBNIZ? Did any particular artist, whether part of the demoscene or not, spur this project? Are there any coders who inspired you?
V: The path that eventually lead to IBNIZ originally started from a technical idea inspired by the continuing progress of 4-kilobyte demoscene productions: once the maximum code density of X86 machine code has been reached in a 4-kilobyte demo, would it still possible to increase the code density even further by putting in a custom bytecode interpreter? This lead into a lot of experimentation with different virtual machine concepts that would allow for a maximum code density with a minimum overhead for simple effects. I don't really know about any specific artists who had worked on anything similar but I would say that the general attitude and mindset that the demoscene culture in general had cultivated in me has influenced many of the design choices.
The IBNIZ project had been dormant for a couple of years before I finally finished the design and implementation. A major motivator for the revival was a 23-byte Commodore 64 demo, "Wallflower" by 4mat of Ate Bit, that was groundbreaking by producing several minutes of interesting structured glitches from a couple of simple bitshift operations. This inspired me to revive the project and to do some musical experiments with very short C programs. As this unexpectedly grew into a collective movement called "bytebeat" which also gave birth to several different interactive experimentation tools, I really had to finish IBNIZ. How IBNIZ eventually came out was somewhat affected by the bytebeat movement, especially the Flash-based on-line experimentation tool by Paul Hayes — I wouldn't have emphasized the interactive editor so much without this contribution.
EM: For people who want to use IBNIZ, what tricks can you share? What little snippets of code are particularly effective or useful?
V: This would require a very long answer, as the relevant tricks depend quite a lot on whether the user is working on video or audio, the level of determinism involved and what kind of results are aimed at. I am working on a "full-scale" IBNIZ reference guide that describes every opcode with their intended purposes and also gives examples and useful "nonintended uses" for each of them.
Many people who experiment with IBNIZ just try out different combinations of opcodes without actually knowing what they are doing. For those who prefer this method, I would recommend combining basic arithmetic and stack manipulation with the stack-pick opcode ')' that often produces interesting feedback effects. However, I think even random experienters can benefit from obtaining some level of understanding on how the VM actually works.
For those who want to experiment with audio, I would recommend looking into the material available on the "bytebeat" formulas, including a couple of blog posts and a technical paper by me. When translating these formulas into the RPN syntax used by IBNIZ, remember that 'w' yields the value of the 't' variable in the audio context. IBNIZ also has a different sample rate and number format so the formulas will often need adjustments to their constants.
EM: Could you share your favorite program that you've written so far with IBNIZ?
V: We are still at a rather early stage in IBNIZ culture, and I'm sure that a lot of new "favorite programs" will pop up once the regular IBNIZ demo competitions start taking place. Right now, the most advanced programs available for IBNIZ are fractal renderers. Here's a Mandelbrot zoomer by myself — very slow in the current public version of IBNIZ but a lot faster in the upcoming JIT-enabled version:
There's also the random-program approach. Sometimes just a couple of characters are enough for an interesting result. I have tested all the possible programs from zero to three characters in length in order to find some nice ones, and my favorite among them is probably d)r that produces a long and varying sequence of audiovisual gltiches.
EM: What are you plans for IBNIZ? Are you working on a new version? What
changes +are in the pipeline? Do you plan on compromising on some aspects of
it, or will +it stay hardcore and old-school?
V: IBNIZ is still in a somewhat moving state and that's why a new version comes up from time to time. Right now I am concentrating on a JIT compiler in order to give the VM implementation a much needed performance boost. The abstract VM will not undergo any major changes, however. A couple of new opcodes will probably be added, but otherwise it is already pretty much fixed. Once we reach version 2.0, there will be no further changes to the VM definition.
A near-future plan is to start regular IBNIZ demo competitions in order to advocate the platform and to inspire the discovery of new tricks and techniques. I think IBNIZ has also potential as a livecoding platform, and this series of competitions will support the development of livecoding skills as well.
EM: Is there anything else people should know about IBNIZ or demo art in general? Where can we go to see more demo art by you or other people?
V: The demoscene is a multi-faceted subculture, so there is a lot of different demo art, from very technical to very non-technical and from very constrained to very non-constrained. The size classes of 256 bytes or less are among the most technical, constrained and hardcore genres of demo art, another example being the demos running on very old and limited platforms. I have created most of my most acclaimed work for the unexpanded VIC-20 but have recently started to expand my sphere of technical creativity into highly constrained "non-8-bit" works as well.
Currently, the leading community website and production database for the demoscene is Pouet.net, that allows for searching pieces of demo art by size class and platform. Although demos are executable programs by definition, many of them can also be watched as video captures that are available on Youtube and other video websites. My own work is released under the group label "PWP" and you can find it by doing a Pouet.net search for "pwp" or a Youtube search for "viznut" or "pwp".


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Ravinder Reddy's sculpture is heraldic. Many of his sculptures are larger than life heads. Invariably they look frontally through wide-open eyes ...
In his search for forms that could satisfy his sculptor's instincts Reddy goes back to earlier periods of civilization - the Egyptian and the early
2007-08 'Polyphonies' Gallery Hosp Tirol – Österreich Austria
2007 '20th Century Sculpture from Archipenko to Reddy'
One of Ravinder Reddy's earliest female heads Urdhvanana illustrates the initial development of the artist's present handling of volume form ...physical contact to grasp the image in sculptural form. Later I define this image more precisely in paint" (Ravinder Reddy The Andy Warhol Museum exhibition
Dodiya, Nataraj Sharma, A. Balasubramaniam, G. Ravinder Reddy, Sudhir Patwardhan, Jayashree Chakravarty, Anandajit Ray and Jagannath Panda to name a few. Key works up for bid include 'Saat Samundar Paar' by Subodh Gupta, 'Chickoo Drawing' by Atul Dodiya, a fiberglass sculpture by G. Ravinder Reddy
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The elaborate exhibition was divided in three sections....Ravinder Reddy, NN Rimzon, Navjot, Alex Mathew, Ravi Shah, Shanthi Swaroopini, Jehangir Jani, Subba Ghosh, Karl Antao, Smitha Cariappa, Ebenezer Sunder Raj,
and a bronze sculpture estimated at a comfortable $55,560-66,670 (Rs.2.5-3 mn), went for Rs.3.3 million.
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Keeping up with the Joneses... Lee & Cathy Jones, that is, and their dog and five cuddly cats.
Monday, June 02, 2008
$52 for a tank of gas
Our 2003 Civic has a 13-gallon tank. It cast me $52.04 to fill up at Costco. That's insane.
At least Cathy drives a hybrid and gets 44 to 47 miles per gallon. I get about 35. Sheesh.
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Diawatan Family | Family Session | NYC
Here are some photos from a quick impromptu photo session I did with my sister and her family. These were taken on Christmas Eve during a day in NYC right after we took our kids to FAO Schwartz (a family tradition). It's kind of funny cause we found this fountain in front of the Plaza Hotel near Central Park, and we were like hey let's do a quick session. Gotta love it when your family is game for a quick shoot.
Capturing motion
So yesterday morning I walked around DC taking pictures for my photography class. The goal was to capture motion and to use shutter speed and aperture to compose my photographs. I'm telling you this photography thing is not as easy at it seems. Here's a couple of photos for your viewing pleasure. Let me know what you think...I need feedback.
This one is from the ice rink near the Smithsonian -- it's a little overexposed.
Tell you the truth I wasn't too happy with what I took on Saturday, so I pulled one I took in NYC over the summer. It's post processed but the "blur" effect came from adjusting my shutter speed.
Maybe it's because NYC is better city to photograph...that's for a different blog entry.


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Exploring Planetary Climate
A History of Scientific Discovery on Earth, Mars, Venus and Titan
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A musician's tools
A lot of people identify improvisation in music with speaking a language. I wholeheartedly agree with this metaphor, but it may be a bit over-used at this point. Instead, I like to think of improvising (and playing music in general) to that other favorite pastime of mine: carpentry. Consider the following:
A carpenter is often encountered with problems that must be solved by building things. Sometimes this involves building something new, from scratch. Sometimes this involves fixing something broken, with both old and new materials.
A carpenter uses tools to create the visions he sees in his head.
A carpenter uses technique to control the tools to do the job that he wills them to do. Good technique allows him to vary the force, angle, speed and precision of each tool he is controlling to get the appropriate result.
A good carpenter never allows the tools to control what he does or how he works.
A carpenter is often working with materials that must be shaped into various forms and permutations so that they may work with other pieces of the puzzle to be completed. If one piece doesn't fit, then it must be adjusted to work with the rest of the pieces.
The final product is the only thing that matters. If a carpenter's tools and technique are in good working order, then (and only then) will the completed work look appealing. Good tools do not guarantee good work, and good technique suffers if the tools are insufficient.
This philosophy of solving problems cleared up many doubts and questions in my mind when I finally figured it out. Many young musicians are initially frustrated by the amount of tools and technique needed to perform well. This is understandable and quite common, but everyone must acquire the necessary tools and skills in order to create a competent musical idea. Likewise, many players become obsessed with the idea of the tools and techniques as the final product. This is unfortunate. If I were constantly infatuated with my hammer's design, I would never accomplish anything as a carpenter. If I were constantly fascinated by the way that I was able to cut crown molding at a particular angle, all I would have to show for it would be many separate pieces of wood cut at various angles. It wouldn't add up to anything meaningful or significant. You must have both in order to complete the final task, which is the only thing that has any real value.
Have you been to a Home Depot lately? Have you seen how many tools are in that place? How many do you have in your arsenal? How are you using them?


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Malaga's wall blocks Barcelona and the game ends with a goalless draw
The FC Barcelona tried too much, but couldn't break the wall created by Malaga. The team made a tie by 0-0 at the Camp Nou, this Saturday (19), at the Spanish Championship. The Catalan team's next duel will be outside home, nest Wednesday (23), by the Champions League, against Celtic.
First half –
The FC Barcelona started the match putting total pressure against Malaga. The first goal came out at two minutes, thanks to Paco Alcacer, but the flag was up, eliminating the goal. At eight minutes, Alcacer took a chance in a high ball and launched it to Neymar Jr. The player tried to kick it, but sent it out. The Catalan team got back to their calm Exchange of passes.
With 20 minutes, Barça kicked many times to the goal, but it was not the moment to score yet. At 22, NJr made a wrong pass and gave Mala its first chance. Fortunately, Ter Stegen defended Sandro's kick. The match reached its 30 minutes and, despite great plays, Barcelona didn't score.
With the first half coming to an end, both teams started to Exchange passes in search of space. Barcelona tried, pressured and even got very close to the goal, but after the only extra minute, the first half ended.
Second half –
By the start of the second half, Barça's intentions was to tear down the wall built by Malaga. At 52, Rafinha launched the ball above the defense and Neymar Jr. tried with his head almost opening the score. Malaga answered right after with a counter attack. Juankar received from Juanpin invaded the area, dribbled Ter Stegen, but missed the shot, calming down the whole Camp Nou.
Barcelona played practicaly inside the adversary area, but the goal did not come out, furstrating the team and the crowd. At 68 minutes, in a good conter strike, Neymar Jr. got heavily knocked down by Llorente. The midfielder received a red card, giving a big advantage to the azulgrena team. The team kept trying to break Malaga's barrier.
At 79, Mascherano launched a good long ball that got right in Piqué's head, but he missed. Barça started to try launching the ball much more after that. The team got too many chances to score and even lost a penalty chance that the referee did not give, not seeing Piqué fall.
The four extra minutes were not enough for Barça. In the team's last chance to score, Neymar Jr. received a launched ball and tried a righteous headbutt to the net. Kameni, stops the player, the Camp Nou goes quiet and the game ends.
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Our Theology of Mission
ECM has understood from its foundation that its mission is to work with and for those that are left at the margins of society.
In the early 1800s pious Episcopalians sought to reach out to those who were called "street people," teaching Sunday School to poor children in a corner of Atlantic Avenue, working with troubled youth, single mothers, sailors, and other populations that did not feel very much at home in the affluent environment and culture of the Episcopal churches.
More recently, the call to work with and for the lost, the least and the last has taken the form of a commitment to address the root causes of poverty and oppression by working for structural transformation of society. In the last thirty years ECM has pursued this mission through program related investments (such as through the Housing Seed Loan Fund, the Morville House and the Pelham Fund), through the empowerment of urban congregations (Churches in the Neighborhoods and City Programs); through community organizing (the Urban Fund/Burgess Urban Fund); and through public policy advocacy. So, how do we understand this mission?
First: ECM is, as its name indicates, an EPISCOPAL mission. This means that ECM's work is framed primarily by Anglican theology of mission (missiology). This missiology begins with the missio Dei (God's mission) and seeks to understand and to incarnate what God sends us to do in the world (missio is the Latin form for the verb to send). To be in mission, in the Anglican sense (as well as in the ecumenical sense in general) is, first of all, to be sent by God to do God's work in the world. The word co-mission, means to be in mission with… The church is commissioned by Christ: "as the Father sent me, so I send you." (Jn.20.21). In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus defines his mission by quoting the prophet Isaiah: "the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. He has sent me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free and to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." (Lk.4.18). So, the mission is not ours, we do not have a mission; we are invited into God's mission.
Second: ECM's mission, as a Christian mission, and in particular as an Episcopal mission, is incarnational, i.e., it seeks to flesh out concrete measures of the goodness and grace that God intends for all humanity. This means that we need to discern what is within our reach to do in our time in order to make human life more human in our context. Facts matter: data matter; sociological, economic, and political analyses do matter.
Third: Since its reorganization in the 1960s under the leadership of the Rt. Rev. John Burgess, former ECM Superintended and Diocesan Bishop, the Episcopal City Mission has moved away from its previous orientation toward charity work and has re-focused its mission on social structural change. In the 1960s this focus was an expression of the theology of the social gospel. With the emergence of Latin American, Black, and Feminist theologies of liberation in the 1970s and 1980s, ECM adopted strategies consistent with those movements, especially in the area of grass roots organizing and solidarity with the poor and oppressed. Another result of the liberation movements was greater awareness and intentional affirmation of diversity in the life of ECM. (The framing our mission in terms of the needs of the "urban poor and oppressed" is an intentional embrace of the language of the "preferential option for the poor" articulated by Liberation Theology.)
First: A major mark of the transition from the social gospel to liberation theology was a shift from the assumption that the church(es) can tell the world what is good and right (the basic premise of the social gospel movement) to a more modest approach that includes the acknowledgement (the confession) that the church — in general — has been equally guilty of perpetuating social injustice. Liberation theologians called the churches to exercise both, criticism ad extra (i.e., a critical reflection on the ills of the world) and criticism ad intra (i.e., a critical reflection on the role(s) that churches play in the ills of society — or self-criticism). One concrete manifestation of this dual critical reflection was the conviction that it is those who have been the victims of church and society that need to redefine the agendas of social transformation. In Latin America this took place through the base ecclesial communities… In the US the civil rights movement was supported (and led) by some church leaders but most progressive organizing happened outside the churches — especially outside the white churches. ECM was not an exception. In the 1980s, Joe Pelham and the ECM board found more space to work with secular grass roots organizations than within most churches. ECM's institutional and legal structure, however, remained untouched and ECM continued to belong to the parishes of this diocese. So, even though, in the 1990s, the word "Christian" was dropped from ECM's mission statement, the statement still affirmed that ECM works through "parishes, community organizations and individuals." That connection to parishes needs to be reactivated if ECM is to have integrity in the fulfillment of this mission statement.
Second: Another criticism ad intra: In a Fall boardretreat designed to review ECM's theology of mission and values the retreat facilitator led the board in a day-long process of discernment based on meditation and reflection on Scripture. From that process Micah 6.8 emerged as one of the best expressions of ECM's call:
"What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with your God?"
The emerging consensus was that ECM is here to work for justice. From time to time, however, we hear someone questioning (criticism ad intra) this notion that we actually work for justice. At the time of the previous strategic planning, some churches expressed discomfort with the name of a previous project called "From charity to justice" for two reasons: (a) they thought that churches should do both, work for charity and for justice; and (b) people felt that it is quite arrogant for any one to claim that what they pursue (versus what others pursue) is justice. The concern is that "justice" is such a high goal that it is virtually unattainable within the realm of society in which we live. So, perhaps, we need to pay attention to the third requirement of Micah 6.8: to "walk humbly with God." Then, perhaps we will be more modest in our claims and more truthful in our expectations. It was not suggested that we drop the language about seeking justice but that we do not deceive ourselves by thinking that we are actually doing it. Another Hebrew prophet, the Third Isaiah was blunt on this: "We have all become like one who is unclean and our works of justice are like filthy rags…" (Is. 64.6) (Or, as long- term board member The Reverend Canon Ed Rodman likes to remind his friends: "never believe your own propaganda.") Micah's proclamation is a call to work for justice (structural social change) at the same that we "love mercy" (do not despise or neglect charity) and walk humbly with God (be guided by a life of worship). Without the modesty that comes from a life of spiritual humbleness, we are tempted to appropriate the call to "do justice" without regard to mercy and confuse our pet projects with God's perfect designs.
Third: A word about "theology of mission" and "mission statements:" In business marketing, a mission statement is designed to focus the resources of a corporation in order to maximize its performance. This is significantly different from a theological understanding of mission because God's people are not called to be successful selling a product but to be faithful to God in all dimensions of life and life is complex. (Also: diversity is good for life in community as well as smart investing.) Marketers use surveys to make their products correspond to peoples' tastes and preferences. Christian mission, however, is guided by values that precede us and that we believe will outlive us — not the volatile whims of a given market or culture. In fact, the prophetic call to justice was (and is) counter-cultural. The two cautions here are: (a) as much as we need to focus in order to be effective, we should not be caught in an "iron cage" of a one-dimensional alignment of all our resources and activities (diversity is good for community life and for investments and it is good also for Christian mission); we need to be nimble and ready to respond to opportunities; and(b) our strategy is defined primarily by the Christian values on which ECM is founded and not by the latest demands of the market or the culture.
values that inform ECM's work
- ECM is here as a Christian witness in the city
- ECM is here for the least, the lost and the last
- ECM is here as a prophetic voice for social structural change
- ECM is here as an agent of the Episcopal churches
- ECM is here as an agent of hope
Why are values important?Jesus said:
"where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Mt.6.21)


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NASHVILLE — In spring, I search for nests. I part the branches of shrubs and low-limbed trees, peering into their depths for a clump of sticks and string and shredded plastic — the messy structure of a mockingbird's nest. I squat and look upward for a cardinal's tidy brown bowl. I stand even with the end of my house and look from the side into the ivy climbing the bricks, searching for a tiny avian hammock tucked into the leaves by house finches. I check the fern hanging under the eaves for the vortex tunnel built by a Carolina wren. I watch at my window for blue jays flying into and out of the tree canopy, and I try to pinpoint the exact Y-crook in the branches where they've hidden their young.
For 10 years, this was my nesting-season ritual because our little dog, Betty, a feist mix, was hell on fledglings. In her leaping, tree-climbing youth, I took down my feeders and emptied my birdbath, determined not to invite songbirds to believe this yard would make a good nursery. They nested here anyway, perhaps because our lot backs up to a little patch of sheltering woods, perhaps because birds will nest more or less anywhere.
I couldn't keep Betty in the house all spring and summer, but I could certainly keep her inside during the few days when new fliers are most vulnerable. But to do that I needed to know when the babies were likely to leave the nest, and to know that I needed to find the nests and keep watch over them. If I know the species of bird on the nest, and I know the day her eggs hatch, I can make a good guess about when her young will fledge.
The problem with knowing something is that I cannot unknow it. Knowing there are two eggs in the redbird nest means not only knowing an approximate fledge date for the redbird babies but also exactly how many eggs the rat snake ate between yesterday afternoon, when I checked on the mama bird, and this morning, when I found her nest empty. The loss you don't know about is no less a loss, but it costs you nothing and so it causes no pain.
Human beings are storytelling creatures, craning to see the crumpled metal in the closed-off highway lane, working from the moment the traffic slows to construct a narrative from what's left behind. But our tales, even the most tragic ones, hinge on specificity. The story of one drowned Syrian boy washed up in the surf keeps us awake at night with grief. The story of four million refugees streaming out of Syria seems more like a math problem.
The grief of the failed nest echoes in an entirely different register, but it is still a grief. In Tennessee it's common for cardinals to nest twice in a season, hatching between two and five eggs each time, but few of their young will survive. The world is not large enough to contain so many cardinals, and predators must eat, too, and feed their young. It should not trouble me to know the sharp-eyed crow will feed its babies with hatchlings it steals from the cardinals, but I have watched day after day as the careful redbird constructed a sturdy nest in the laurel, and I have calculated how many days and nights she has sat upon those eggs, how many trips she has made to the nest to feed the babies, how many times she has sheltered them through a downpour. Day after day after day.
My little terrier died last spring, and this year I did not check my yard for nests, but my eyes are tuned now to the signs of nesting — to the male blue jay feeding the female on the limb just past my deck, to the tufted titmouse plucking loose fur from my surviving dog's haunches, to the chickadee gathering moss from the deepest shade in the back of the yard. And I can't unsee the nests they build.
It's always wrongheaded to interfere in nature when something is neither unnatural nor likely to upset the natural order. I can't help myself. A crow lands too close to the redbird nest, and I rush outside with my broom. A red wasp chases a brooding bluebird from the nest box, and I rub soap into the wood of the birdhouse roof. It's humiliating, all the ways I've interfered.
In recent weeks I've watched a pair of Carolina chickadees building a nest in the bluebird box outside my office window. When a bluebird arrived and tried to evict them, I stood outside in the pouring rain and put up another nest box a few yards away. The bluebird gave it no notice, but he stopped pestering the chickadees, and all seemed well. Then a house wren showed up.
Last year a wren killed a chickadee nestling on my watch, so when I heard the unmistakable trilling of a house wren calling for a mate, I looked reflexively toward the bluebird box where the chickadee was sitting on five speckled eggs. There was the little brown wren, a tiny feathered fusion of music and violence, perched right on the roof of the birdhouse and singing a song that could only be a territorial claim. The new nest box, empty and pristine, was 10 paces away, but that one didn't interest him. I got up from my desk, went outside, and walked straight toward him until he flew away.
Two days later the chickadee was gone, her nest empty, and I watched from the window as two male bluebirds fought over the box, leaping into the air and knocking each other to the ground. In the underbrush at the edge of the yard, the wren was still singing.


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Bali always triggers huge growth in me and deep healing, my energy upgrades by the day, my mind and vision become clearer, my intuition goes into overdrive and my psychic powers and sensitivity to energy also increase by the day when I am here. It is fast acceleration and rapid upgrades here on The Island of the Gods!
The combo of daily massages, heaps of fresh juices, healthy as kai, the SUN, the light, the local people, good sleeps, minimal alcohol and the like, and the LAND ITSELF is so healing! This whenua is like a balm for my soul and all the energetic layers of the tangata, it is magic here and it brings out the magic in me, and also in my work.
Sometimes it can be hard to keep up with all the creative energy that pulsates through my body once I have been here for a good few weeks or so. My list of things to do (exciting things that I actually WANT to do) just grows and grows and it is honestly hard to keep up with it! I work intuitively in everything that I do, and that includes working on my various projects as and when I feel like it, dipping into different things as I feel guided to, whether that be writing a blog post, creating a video, designing a new e-course, drawing, doing digital art, creating a new limited edition fine art print, or WHATEVER. I love to work this way as an artist, and I love to have several different EXCITING projects on the go. If I get bored or unchallenged I can quickly fall into depression and a horrible internal restlessness - i've learned this about myself the hard way!
In Bali my daily life largely consists of waking up when I feel like it (naturally), and then parking up at one of my fav cafes, drinking numerous juices and coffees, writing, journalling, doing my affirmations and #dreamlifecreation planning, and just generally having ME time and CREATION time. For me that is a huge part of my ultimate #dreamlife and it is what is most conducive to my creative flow of energy, and getting OUT what is inside, and bringing my various projects to life.
Everyone is different and everyone has different desires and needs in terms of the best ENVIRONMENT that they need to create around themselves to LIVE and VIBRATE from, in order for their best work and creations to be born out into the world. For me, having great juices and kai on hand PREPARED FOR ME, is paramount and a no-brainer because it means that I don't have to interrupt my creative flow in order to do something as mundane as cooking (some people LOVE cooking, I don't).
The future is exciting for me at the moment, my daughter is being well looked after, loved and cared for by her other parents for a stint, which allows me, māmā, to really go hard and bring to life some of my projects that have been waiting patiently on the sideline for me to have that TIME and that SPACE to gestate and then to birth them.
My partner and I have a lot more world travel on our agenda for the coming while, and i'm looking forward to returning to INDIA in February for most of the month (my partners birthday month). I first traveled to India when I was 22, and in fact it was my first big overseas trip outside of Aotearoa and Australia. I haven't been back since then (i'm now 33) and so i'm really looking forward to visiting GOA again (my favourite part - endless coastline and beachside villages). When I am there I am planning on producing a new fashion collection made from sari fabrics - I have always adored sari fabrics and the Indian aesthetic, since I love bling bling and vibrant colour, it is the perfect fashion scene for me there!
My new collection that I will produce in India is going to include ONE OFF high end blinged out playsuits, some capes, and some gorgeous one size fits all wrap around ensembles, as well as bikini's made from the fabric off-cuts. When I first went to India ten or so years ago, I also got a whole bunch of dresses and bikinis made up which I bought home in my suitcase and sold on trademe over time, under the name BIKINI BAZAAR. It was super fun doing the photoshoot for those garments on the beautiful beaches - it's hard to take a bad photo in such a gorgeous natural environment!
I'm also thrilled that I now have deeper CLARITY on what i'm doing with my KUINIKLUB brand, community, and kaupapa and the new direction that we are heading in together as a #kuini #community and #movement. First thing on the agenda is our upcoming KUINIKLUB INNER CIRCLE TEN DAY INTENSIVE that begins on 11 November (the day after my birthday) and runs until 21 November.
I am looking forward to working with my OG mentoring clients, and to going DEEP with some new #kuiniklubbers too! You can purchase your place on our TEN DAY INTENSIVE on the www.kuiniklub.com homepage. The utu/exchange for this deep, intensive, hardcore personal growth and development program is $111NZD.
See you in THE KUINIKLUB INNER CIRCLE!


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Australia's DEXUS Property Group and DEXUS Wholesale Property Fund (DWPF) have announced the $434.8 million purchase of three buildings in Kings Square within the framework of a strategic commercial investment in the Perth CBD.
Kings Square is part of the 13.5-hectare Perth City Link project, which aims to see the Wellington Street Bus Station and the Fremantle rail line pushed underground to make way for new development in an area bounded by Mitchell Freeway, Roe Street, Wellington Street and the Horseshoe Bridge.
The regeneration project is being led by the State Government, public transport authorities and the Federal Government and aims at creating a new and improved public realm connecting the city centre with Northbridge area.
Under the plan, which will be essential to provide the necessary transport and infrastructure for an evolving city, Leighton Properties has entered into an agreement to sell three commercial buildings in Kings Square.
"Kings Square is an excellent fit with our vision of developing high quality, sustainable buildings in CBD areas and the high profile business interest demonstrates the outstanding calibre of this project," said Leighton Properties director Mark Gray.
"Our participation in Kings Square reflects the Leighton Group's broader strategy to leverage global trends towards urbanization and the large infrastructure, commercial and residential development requirements that stem from it."
The transaction, which is expected to be the largest commercial property pre-sale in Western Australia, comprises towers KS1, KS2 and KS3 featuring 52,781 square metres of office and retail space.
Construction is set to start in the next months and the completion of the three towers is expected in 2015.
The first tower, KS1, will be on the corner of King and Wellington Streets and will be 19 floors high with 23,156 square metres of tenancy office space, while KS2 will feature 20,440 square metres of space on 11 levels.
Shell Australia and John Holland's Western Australian headquarters have already signed on for tenancy in the second tower. KS3 will have 9,185 square metres of space over nine floors, including offices, shops and amenities.
Shell Australia director Ann Pickard said the company was attracted by the high quality of the project and its premium location.
"The fantastic facilities and other attributes of Kings Square will be an important part of our plans to meet the needs of our growing team as we develop our exciting portfolio of projects," she said.
The value of the Perth CBD's office market has increased and property leaders are considering it a key location for long-term investment as a result of the positive economic and population growth the region experienced in recent years and from its proximity to Asian markets.
"The Perth CBD office market has strong underlying fundamentals and limited committed supply which is expected to result in moderate mid-term vacancy, coinciding with the completion of Kings Square," said DEXUS executive general manager Kevin George.
"There is a lack of quality, affordable stock in the Perth CBD with this product likely to be highly sought after. The attractive acquisition metrics of Kings Square, together with an income guarantee through to 2020, provides certainty against any near-term market softness."