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Nayana is the main teacher on the Animal PsychAromatica courses. She lives in Portugal with a herd of horses and various other animals, who give her plenty of opportunity to witness the healing powers of essential oils and develop her magic potions…..read more
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Marilyn is our Animal Behaviour expert. She has an MSc in Animal Behaviour from Edinburgh university, and was the first graduate of The School of Essential Balance (in fact, the first on-line course would never have come to pass if she hadn't bugged me about it so persistently!). She lives in Greece, where she is the top animal behaviourist, appearing regularly on TV and writing in magazines.


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Smartsnap Connects Smart Cover To First Gen iPad/
We've seen a few DIY mods before like this one, which didn't look all too sleek and low-profile as Smartfix's Smartsnap. The $20 Smartsnap is a connection kit for the first gen iPad allowing you to use Apple's Smart Cover. The thing is though, the first gen iPad does not have the iPad 2's sleep/wake magnetic functionality because it does not have any built-in sensor magnets. The good news is that the Smartsnap is a low-profile magnetic strip that sticks to the side of your first gen iPad and perfectly aligns the Smart Cover. There is very limited information as whether the Smartsnap also adds a magnetic strip to keep the Smart Cover closed onto the first gen iPad. If you're interested, head on over to Smartfix's website for more.


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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
20 Pictures Of Bora Bora Beautiful Island
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Pictures of Bora Bora showing awesome scenery of resorts and beaches of the world! Bora – Unquestionably the most mythical of the Pacific islands remains the island of all dreams.
The legends, mysteries, and romance associated with the words "Bora Bora" bring an almost mystical presence to the island. The island, located about 230 kilometres northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef. Bora Bora is predestined for snorkeling and scuba diving in and around its lagoon.
Made famous by books, movies, and its stunning beauty, the island is now besieged by tourism and overcrowding. Regardless, if you must visit a South Pacific island (and you should), Bora Bora would be an excellent choice.
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You Wander at Night
Karen Vande Bossche
wind shivers
I sense
your breath stir
stroke my left
bare arm
pause, resting
on top of winter
weight blankets
my fingers rise
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over your hand
a thousand miles
in morning
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of you
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Karen Vande Bossche is a poet and short story writer who teaches middle school in Bellingham, Washington. She was born in Illinois, raised in California and is currently settled in the Pacific Northwest. Her publications are included in such journals as River Poets Anthology, Crack the Spine, Sweet Tree Review and many others.)


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Everyone has a certain diet that they are on, whether it be the SAD (standard american diet), a raw food diet, or whatever it may be, we all have a certain lifestyle choice that we choose.
It seems that most people have gotten away from what eating a healthy diet if for. We are supposed to be eating for our bodies, so that they come to life, feel great, and function properly. somewhere, in the midst of wanting what is only the best, we have gotten this obsession with weight. People seem to always be eating healthy just to loose weight and stay at a certain "ideal" number that they have in their head.
Health does not equal weight. everyone's body has a different shape and size. It is important to first love your own body, and learn to do so through feeding it the proper things. How many of us wake up in the morning and weigh ourselves? Upon arising your fist thought should be "How do i feel today?" not "What number am I?" We should never identify ourselves as a number. And remember when asking yourself "how do I feel?" that FAT is not a feeling. Do you feel healthy? Are your joints working perfectly? Is your body aching? Are you clear minded? Eat towards feeling whole and healthy, not towards a number.
When we begin to shift our diets and concentrate only on weight, we can lose sight on why we are actually eating the way we are. It can actually become unhealthy as it adds stress into your life, and can actually cancel out the healthy foods you have been eating.
Don't fall in the trap and try and fit in a cookie cutter image of a tiny person who wears extra small everything. Don't go on a "diet" or eat healthy because you want to fit this image. Eat right because you love yourself, and you want to treat your body with respect. Look in the mirror and tell yourself "I love you". Show off the curves you have. You are beautiful, and your beauty will never be ranked on what size pants you wear, or what number the scale tells you. Are you beautiful on the inside? If your organs were on the outside of your body would be be just as beautiful?
Beauty starts on the inside and works its way out. Don't be obsessed with anything, including exercise. Only put in your body what is the best for it. Love every inch of you, and smile at yourself every day. The healthier relationship you have with yourself the healthy your body will become mentally and physically.


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The National Children's Science Congress (NCSC), which is a flagship program of NCSTC, DST, GOI is organized every year since 1993 to provide an opportunity to children of 10-17 years to prepare short projects using scientific temperament and learning the scientific methodology for observation, collection of data, experimentation, analysis, arriving at conclusions, documentation and presenting the findings. It is organized at district, state and national levels throughout the country. PSCST is the nodal agency for organizing CSC in Punjab.
Under CSC, PSCST organizes orientation training workshops for District Science Supervisors and Teachers of Punjab on the focal theme of CSC given by DST, Govt. of India. The District Level CSCs are organized in all 22 districts by the District Science Supervisors to select the best six projects in each district for participation in the state level CSC which is organized by PSCST during a 3-day mega event. At state level CSC, nearly five hundred and fifty students and two hundred teachers participate. Around 125 projects are presented which are evaluated by eminent evaluators and 16 projects are selected from the state to participate at the National Level Children's Science Congress which is organized every year from 27-31 December.
Around 10,000 science students and teachers per year were involved from Punjab in the Children's Science Congress, which is one of the biggest science communication programs of the Country.
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Don't Be Shocked If You Come Over For Dinner (And Other Insights For Exasperated Parents)/
Here's the truth about dinnertime at our house:
I don't make my kids sit at the table for more than 10 minutes. And if they want to go play and come back and graze, then that's fine by me. They know that dinner has to be eaten before they can have snacks or dessert but if they don't want to eat, they don't have to. Our seven year old sits at the table and usually stays for a second helping or even thirds but that didn't happen when he was only three.
Dinner at our house is pleasant, but I know some would cringe at our routine. It's just one way that I try to take into consideration my boys' maturity or lack there of, and pick my battles.
The experts say that 15 minutes is the maximum I should expect for my four year old to focus on an activity. It's decidedly less for my two year old. I would never try to potty-train a one year old or expect my seven year old to drive to school.
Seems obvious right?
And yet, as parents we often forget to examine our children's capabilities developmentally at whatever age and stage they are in and that sets us up for unreasonable expectations.
Michelle Duggar from 19 Kids and Counting will tell you that "expectations are the death of relationships" and I agree.
As a parent are you frustrated? Impatient? Yell more often than you like? Then two things may be at play:
1. You may have a lack of understanding of your child's capabilities and therefore have unreasonable expectations:
I firmly believe that for the early years, all the teaching and training we do is much more about training us as parents than seeing fruit in our labor at this time. Did you catch that? It's more about training us as parents than seeing fruit in our labor at this time!
Keep praying with your one year old at night before bed, patiently teach them to stay away from a hot stove, and remind them lovingly that they need to be content with what they have. Don't expect them to get it right now. Just persevere, and the harvest of your consistency and loving-kindness will bear a more meaningful harvest than you can imagine while you sow these seeds of life.
2. You may need to investigate your own heart to determine if you are parenting out of your own need for authority or because of what other parents might think of you instead of allowing the Holy Spirit to refine you spiritually:
Teaching our children takes time, patience, understanding, heaps of grace, and devoted prayer. Does that describe you? Don't rush through it. Never allow your parenting to be a "reaction" but instead a loving response. I'm convinced that more than God's desire for me to parent well is His desire to first refine me well. He uses my kids to reach my own heart and to reveal the areas of my life where I am struggling or downright sinful.
Kids are gifts. We need handle our gifts with care and appreciation for the Giver. Instead of your focus being on a result, allow the desire for relationship to drive your parenting.
Embrace freedom to parent without comparing yourself to others, or feeling guilty because your kids are not responding to your parenting overnight. Rewire your brain to approach your day with the goal to honor God with your own responses to parenting-regardless of whether or not you are "successful" in getting the behavior you are seeking or whether or not you look like a "good mom" in the eyes of others.
How would your parenting look different today if you did not place your worth and feelings as a parent on a result?
What if you focused on doing only your part-setting the standard after carefully examining your child's maturity and uniqueness, treating them with reasonable expectations, disciplining out of love and compassion, and speaking only what would edify those who listened? What if you did not feel like giving up in exasperation based on your child's response?
How would it feel to know that God is the one who will change your child's heart, and that your role is simply to lead them to Christ and to model the Fruit of the Spirit?
Take the focus OFF of changed behavior and just keep modeling the Fruit of the Spirit towards your kids.
Don't look for the results as a sign of worth or good parenting. Just do the good parenting!
Allow God to work in HIS time to change the results and hearts and reactions of your kids. This isn't a soft let-them-do-whatever-they-want kind of parenting. Have high standards for your family, encourage your kids to do the things they don't think they are capable of doing, pursue a high calling for your family, and strive to be excellent in all you do for the glory of God, but do everything with gentleness, compassion, empathy, reason, understanding, and especially love.
My kids may not be the ideal dinner guests if I'm looking for quiet conversation and clean plates, but I don't feel embarrassed about the standards I have set for them. That should be true for any area of our parenting. Consider this time as training for you as the parent and entrust the results of your child's behavior to God.
YOUR TURN! Do you tend towards focusing on the "response" of your kids when parenting instead of the relationship? And what does dinner-time look like at YOUR house? :)
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Authentic Italian food deserves to be paired with a fine Italian wine. Our staff sampled hundreds of bottles from the vineyards of Italy in order to assemble a unique collection of Italian wines to complement your meal. Each wine is not only delicious, but represents an outstanding value as well. The strength of our wine list lies in Tuscany and Piemonte, with multiple selections of famous Brunellos of Montalcino as well as Barolos and Barbarescos of the Olympics Piemonte region. Stop by and sample one of our latest treasures.
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One of the many quotes from my mother in law and one that we live by in this family.
I wasn't aware of my sleeping habits until I had children and then it hit me like a thunderbolt. The effect of sleep deprivation is horrendous.
Our sleeping patterns have changed over the past 30years or so and many think it's for the worse.
The western hemisphere has the worse sleeping patterns on the planet, we sleep less and our quality of sleep has decreased.
Yes, we are all going to blame the need to be switched on to one form of Social media or another but we do have the power to hit the off button especially at night time.
Why you need good sleep
- In both children & adults, poor sleep is associated with increased risk of weight & obesity
- Good sleep can enhance memory & maximize your problem-solving skills.
- Scarily the less good sleep you get the increased risk of heart disease & stroke goes up.
- Those with sleeping disorders are more likely to show signs of depression
- When we sleep we heal – getting the sleep you need can improve your immune function.
- Sleep deprivation affects the way we interact with people usually in a negative way. We're tired and cranky.
Ignore your sleep at your peril as you simply cannot be healthy & happy when you don't have enough sleep.
If you love coffee but it's keeping you awake at night then switch to our Decaf.
We have actually found a Decaf that has the taste of regular coffee but hardly any of the caffeine kick.
No Caffeine or Decaffeinated – is there a difference?
"Decaffeinated" does not mean 100% caffeine free. Most ground coffee still has between 5-10% caffeine so be careful about your choice of coffee.
Test the amount of caffeine you drink – if you have an adverse reaction then reduce it or cut it out.
But then that goes for everything we humans do be it relationships, jobs, exercise.
I say "If it hurts don't do it" 🤗
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Controversial bill defaulter Lura Oyier seems to have either ditched her water business or things aren't working right. Laura who is desperately trying to become famous is trying her hand on everything that can get her to the news.
A few days ago she was kicked out from an exclusive party when she tried to gate crash without an invitation card. She probably thought because of her "celebrity" status she will be allowed in but it was no the case.
In her quest to become famous, Laura was recently spotted at a night club trying to spin the music chapos. Here are the photos.


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Knock knock, anyone home? I can't believe we are halfway into 2014. The blog has collected a bit of dust; it's always on my mind to jot a few things down here and there, but it gets bumped down the list of things to do when various urgent things pop up.
2014 has been a pretty exciting time for me and the business. Getting Shinkansen established, the opening of The Secret Mermaid, distribution of spirits with Liberty Spirits Asia, tinkering with Standing Sushi Bar, and working on a refresh of Tanuki Raw has been good. With a few years of F&B under my belt and many lessons learned it's about time that I apply them. The next three months will bring 2 new branches of Shinkansen (well, actually in the next two weeks) and 1 branch of Standing Sushi Bar. Some spaces opened up that seemed ripe with opportunity, so I decided to go for it.
Part of me thinks we're being a little aggressive with expanding, but I feel Singapore is one of those places where you almost have to expand or die. If you only have a few branches your business is at the mercy of your lease. The restaurants might be doing well but if you're unable to renew your leases then poof... your business is gone.
Of course the big issue that F&B operators grapple with (and probably true across the service and retail industry) is staffing. As we expand we need more staff, but it's desperately hard to find local staff. Would you commit to new spots without having any idea how you're going to staff it? (I do, but whether that's a good thing is debatable).
I think it's worth spending more time looking outside of Singapore. There are a few interesting opportunities in Malaysia and Indonesia. It's been exciting getting on planes to go see what's happening over there. Even if nothing pans out, it's fun to brainstorm and think about what one can do in different cities.
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NAACP: Tea party gives 'racists' platform
The NAACP is accusing the tea party movement of providing a platform for "anti-Semites, racists and bigots."
"The Tea Party movement has unleashed a still inchoate political movement who are in their numerical majority, angry middle-class white people who believe their country, their nation, has been taken from them," reads the report, posted Wednesday on a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-sponsored website, Tea Party Nationalism.
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The movement is "permeated with concerns about race," the report finds, and has "given platform to anti-Semites, racists and bigots."
NAACP commissioned Leonard Zeskind and Devin Burghart of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights to write the study. The website seemed to be struggling to handle traffic was crashing frequently early Wednesday afternoon.
The report includes numerous pictures of signs at tea party rallies using racial rhetoric. It also uses maps and other data to show the growth of the movement – though one map cites Wikipedia as its source of information.
The civil rights group and tea party organizers have been in frequent conflict since NAACP condemned the conservative movement as "racist" in a resolution passed in July.
In his introduction to the report, NAACP President Ben Jealous asserts that tea party supporters are "sincere, principled people of good will." The report also notes that several tea party leaders have been expelled after making controversial racial statements.
"I hope the leadership and members of the tea party movement will read this report and take additional steps to distance themselves from those tea party leaders who espouse racist ideas, advocate violence, or are formally affiliated with white supremacist organizations," Jealous wrote. "In our effort to strengthen our democracy and ensure rights for all, it is important that we have a reasoned political debate without the use of epithets, the threat of violence, or the resurrection of long discredited racial hierarchies."
Tea Party Express founder Sal Russo called the report "ridiculous."


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Dan Bressler, head of Intapp marketing and the Risk Roundtable initiative, discusses the changing dynamics of client-law firm relationships with Casey Flaherty. Flaherty, who made headlines as in-house counsel at Kia motors with his provocative assertions about law firm and lawyer efficiency, shares his perspective on how clients and firms can work better together to achieve greater mutual success.
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An important part of this dynamic is the fundamental question about trust — on both sides. Do clients trust their law firms? And do firms trust their clients? It's such a critical element of these organizational relationships.
Absolutely. Do you trust your outside lawyers? Yes. What do you trust them on? Again, it comes back to their expertise, their industry knowledge. You also trust them on that. You do trust that they have your best interest at heart. But do you trust them as project managers? Do you trust them as technologists? Do you trust the staff they are delegating work to? That's where the trust starts to fray.
Legal work has become much more labor intensive — and there's the labor that can be done by human beings or machines — and the more emphasis there is on the labor side of the equation, the less trust you have. I do think that there has been a fraying of the trust between client and counsel.
Again, it has nothing to do with them being bad lawyers, or not being smart, hardworking, or honest. It's almost too much to expect a lawyer to be a great lawyer, and a great project manager, and a great technologist, and a great everything. That's where clients need to be more proactive in their monitoring. And I think it's an area where clients could be doing a much better job.


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just gazing down admiring the incredible snow covered mt rainier as we were getting ready to land early morning. so breathtaking.
the entrance to the public market. it was brisk and rainy, just how i like it. we stayed at the top of the hill at a boutique hotel called inn at the market - very classic but charming nonetheless.
just a man and his banjo with his trusty companion strummin' away.
a korean/american fusion joint that hit their flavors on the nose. no fuss or frills - just tasty clean ingredients.
i think this may be one of the best place i've ever eaten, really. what a perfect fusion of seafood (with an emphasis on oysters), crafty cocktails, classic hipster service, "france meets local fishing pub" decor, old school hip-hop music playing, lighting (as in the sun setting light), lewis carroll signage, stunning view, & super hip but understated neighborhood. i didn't want to leave. need i say more?
the walrus and the carpenter - check it.
moscow mule made by a true artisan - presented in a copper mug ta boot.
how sweet is the menu - just love the illustration.
i was feeling so nostalgic the entire trip and realized it was because it reminded me of my native home, san francisco.
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There are many holiday traditions which are beautiful, meaningful, and worth repeating year after year. However, the tradition of holiday overspending has become all too common among American consumers. Trust me, I understand the temptation to overspend during the holidays and I have heard every excuse in the book given to try to justify this bad habit. "I want to do something really special for my loved one this year because he/she has been going through a difficult time. I'm not worried about charging gifts on my credit cards because I will pay the balances off in a few months with my tax refund. Money is so tight during the rest of year so my family and I deserve to have a little fun during the holidays."
It is much easier for consumers to talk themselves into overspending during the holidays than at any other time of the year. Social pressure, pressure to please loved ones (whether the pressure is real or perceived), and incessant retail marketing can make it difficult for many consumers to stick with a spending budget they can actually afford. However, the truth is that consumers do not have to fall into the debt trap in order to have a happy and meaningful holiday season with their loved ones.
The Plan
The single most effective way for a consumer to swear off holiday overspending once and for all - and to actually achieve this goal - is to start with a plan. As a reader of the HOPE4USA Credit Blog you know that having a written budget to follow for your monthly expenses is essential to financial and credit success. (Need help creating a monthly budget? CLICK HERE for a free HOPE4USA Budgeting Guide.) However, with all of the extra expenses present during the holiday season it is also important to have a separate, written budget for holiday spending as well.
How It Works
When starting a holiday budget it is important to begin by listing the amount of money which is actually available for spending, not the expenses. Starting with the amount of money you can actually afford to spend (without going into debt or dipping into non-holiday savings) will help you to build the most effective budget possible.
Let's say that you determine your total available spending limit for the holidays should be $1,000 or less. The next step should be to divide those funds into spending categories such as charitable giving, Christmas presents, holiday treats and meals, decorations, and unplanned expenses. The funds can be allocated within the spending categories however you see fit. Here is a possible example:
· Charitable Giving - $100 (10% of available funds)
· Christmas Presents - $550 (55% of available funds)
· Holiday Treats and Meals - $200 (20% of available funds)
· Decorations - $50 (5% of available funds)
· Unplanned Expenses - $100 (10% of available funds)
Once you have separated your available funds into separate spending categories you can move on to determining how much you will spend for each person on your Christmas gift list. One of my favorite strategies for budgeting Christmas gifts is to list each person for whom you wish to buy a gift in their order of importance. Next you can determine which percentage of funds you wish to spend on each person and calculate those percentages against your pre-set budget to find out your gift "allowance" for everyone on the list. Here is an example.
· Spouse - 20% ($110 in the example budget above)
· Child #1 - 15% ($82.50 in the example budget above)
· Child #2 - 15% ($82.50 in the example budget above)
· Grandchild #1 - 10% ($55 in the example budget above)
· Grandchild #2 - 10% ($55 in the example budget above)
· 4 Friends - 5% each ($27.50 each in the example budget above)
· Misc. Friends, Teachers, Neighbors, etc. - 1% each ($5.50 each in the example budget above)
Make the commitment to set a budget and stick to it and you will make the holiday immensely more enjoyable for yourself and your family this year. As a bonus you can give yourself and your family the gift of starting 2015 off on the right foot financially, without a Christmas overspending hangover.
Merry Christmas from HOPE4USA! Click the image to the left to download the HOPE4USA Basic Christmas Budget worksheet and set yourself up for a holiday season without regrets.
Merry Christmas from HOPE4USA! Click the image to the left to download the HOPE4USA Basic Christmas Budget worksheet and set yourself up for a holiday season without regrets.
Michelle Black is an author and a credit expert with over a decade of experience, the credit blogger at HOPE4USA.com, a recognized credit expert on talk shows and podcasts nationwide, a contributor to the Wealth Section of Fort Mill Magazine, and a regularly featured speaker at seminars up and down the East Coast. She is an expert on improving credit scores, credit reporting, correcting credit errors, budgeting, and recovering from identity theft. You can connect with Michelle on the HOPE4USA Facebook page by clicking here.


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It's been about two weeks since Seminar in Winnipeg and I have quickly gotten back into the routine of work. It now feels like I was never away. However, I did have a wonderful time. Every year I can't wait to get there and by Saturday, I can't wait to get home. It is very intense and staying up late most nights and chatting with all my friends isn't conducive to getting rest. However, it is so totally different from my job that I come back refreshed, even if I am tired when I go back to work.
This year, I took "Off the Beaten Path" with Carolyn Mitchell. Two days of canvaswork was very enjoyable and rewarding. I love working all the different stitches in this piece and can't wait to see it completed. I also took "Try a Little TLC" with Janice Routley and learning how to take care of embroideries and how to store them safely was really great. Some of the class brought old embroideries and we discussed if they should be cleaned or fixed, how to clean them, and how to store them. My last two days were spent working the "Goldwork Lion" with Tanja Berlin. This was the piece that prevented me from taking Gail Washington's "Waterfall", a four day class. I really wanted the Lion and I'm glad I took this class. Even half finished, the Lion is absolutely gorgeous.
I always enjoy the banquet on Saturday night. It's a time to start winding down and seeing who won the Leonida Leatherdale Award and the Seminar Theme Award. Because this was EAC's 40th anniversary Seminar, Carolyn Mitchell did a wonderful presentation of the Members' Exhibits from past Seminars.
I was sitting at the back of the banquet hall and was watching the presentation between two pillars. One of the pieces caught my eye and I was wondering where I'd seen that embroidery before. I looked at it more closely and it suddenly dawned on me that it was my Bamboo Challenge Dragon from the Members' Exhibit at Seminar 2008 in Kelowna. I was so excited and couldn't believe my eyes. So, I bought the presentation DVD. Thank you, Carolyn, for donating the proceeds from the sale of the DVDs to benefit our Youth members.
The Seminar Committee provided a wonderful, memorable Seminar and I thank them for all their hard work and creativity. I think this Seminar will go down in EAC history as one of the best!
Linda Brenner
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Now that I am freshly home from Seminar... time to send this along. (only a few days late.. ops) For those who have attended Seminar, you are familiar with the life of its own that the event takes on… including providing those attending a perfect opportunity to 'step off the world' and live in a parallel time. (for me.. no news programs… oh what.. oh what was happening in the world?.. I guess it would be fair to say, I did not miss much… because the stories are being regurgitated over and over…. )
I find the stepping off the world and stepping into the world of Seminar to be relaxing, although tiring .. but in a good way. There is also the renewed excitement for stitching, not only to complete the pieces started at Seminar but my many works in progress.
I was surprised to see that many of the classrooms did not have screens on the windows. Amazingly there were no flying creatures that came in. However… on the first day of class one of the ladies placed some of the instructional pages on the window ledge and the wind blew them out onto the rooftop patio below… where a Mother Goose was sitting on her nest. (I wonder if anyone saw the pages.. or did Mother Goose add them to the 'fabric' of her nest?)… but… those pages are not all that went flying out windows on the winds of Winnipeg… on the same day, in a different room, (still overlooking the same patio) one stitcher in Gale Washington's class lost her entire kit of threads! There was a good ending to this, one of the university staff accompanied her down to the access to the patio and went out to retrieve the bag with all the threads. The attached photo show the Mother Goose and the bag of threads just waiting for retrieval.
A new feature this year were the two 'Stitching with the Stars' evenings. I attended the first one and enjoyed hearing how both Alison Cole and Gale Washington got to where they are in their stitching lives.
Most, if not all, left Seminar with more work to be done on their pieces. (there were a few in Janice Routley's 'Trees of the North' class who were able to complete one piece during the two days of the class.. imagine leaving Seminar with a piece Finished!!) Most of us come home with a fair bit of work remaining.. and the challenge is to stay focused and keep stitching to completion.
How many of you have no unfinished pieces from previous Seminars? Why not share with the rest of us how you keep yourself focused.
All for now… Happy Stitching
Marie Cron
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What a wonderful, wonderful experience I had at the EAC Seminar in Winnipeg. Everything was so well organized, the teachers were terrific and everyone was so very friendly. It was truly a memorable and absolutely delightful 5 days.
Windy October taught by Sylvia Murariu was the 1st of my 2 days classes. It was a Brazilian Embroidery technique class and I had a lot to learn. We began by padding the tree trunk and covering it with stem stitches. We also learned how to pad, stitch and cover with bullions a small hedgehog. The Ed Mar rayon embroidery threads were wonderful to work with and have such a nice sheen to them.
The Windy October design by Sylvia Murariu.
Me diligently stitching away.
A group photo of our class.
Sylvia Murariu also teaches Roumanian Point Lace and gave us a bit of a demonstration on how it is done. It's absolutely beautiful work. I purchased one of her beginner Roumanian Point Lace books as well as a kit :)
On the Friday of Seminar I had booked to take a 5 hour city tour. Our first stop was seeing Louis Riel's grave site and the St. Boniface Cathedral.
We also had a very informative tour of the Manitoba Legislative Building and here is a picture of the famous Golden Boy aka Hermes atop the dome as well as a photo of the beautifully designed and painted dome ceiling from the inside.
At the banquet on Saturday evening everyone received a wonderful gift of an engraved pair of sewing scissors, a scissor case and a pencil from the Ottawa Guild for Seminar 2014. The meal was delicious, awards for amazing designs and stitching were given and Carolyn Mitchell gave an interesting and well-done presentation and slide show on past Seminars. It was such a lovely evening!
My other 2-day class was Tanja Berlin's Goldwork Lion which was also a first for me. Tanja had sent us the pre-work to do before Seminar which was transferring the design to the 25 count black Lugana. This was my first experience with using all the different gold and copper Kreinik threads used in the face as well as working with gold pearl purl.
I still have much to do with both of my wonderful pieces and I'll definitely post pictures of them in later EAC posts!
A huge thank you to the Winnipeg Embroiderer's Guild for all the hard work they did in hosting this wonderful and most enjoyable Seminar.
Jeannette Luther
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Imagine an embroidery project that begins with an envelope filled with treasures:
small brown speckled feathers, l-o-n-g blue bugle beads, green ribbon, a cheesecloth strip, six inches of wool roving, a large brown button and a shisha mirror, white cotton stuffing, variegated brown and pink thread, ½" wide strip of white interfacing fabric….
And, only two rules for the embroidery- follow the theme and the finished width must be 10 inches, length was up to the designer. There would be no frame.
The special interest design group of the Embroiderers' Guild of Victoria – the Rapt Threads - gave themselves a challenge last fall. We were to stitch a design of our own with the theme of "a river runs through", meaning the river must run from side to side in the design. And our embroidery must include some of each of the "ingredients" found in the envelope. We each had an envelope with our name on it and each person participating contributed one item to each of the envelopes.
We had a mini work session- out on the lawn one summer afternoon – making silk fusion or silk paper. Some of us used the silk paper as a background for our design or as a part of the design. We painted background fabric, dyed cheese cloth, appliquéd bits and pieces, cut up other tidbits and tucked them under tulle or netting for texture, and of course, added stitches by hand and by machine to our creations.
The pieces were finished and the arrangement of them all was organized so that the river truly did run through the whole collection. And you will see them hanging at Seminar!
After the exhibition at Seminar, we will post them on the blog so you can see how each person used the envelope of treasures.
But just to remind you that spring is really coming, soon we hope, to your area, here is a picture of a garden in Victoria – with the Saskatoon bushes just starting to bloom!
Or maybe this field of tulips in bloom will inspire you to stitch your own field of flowers!!
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I'm one of those people who's not a fan of going stagnant when it comes to the decor of my house. So every Spring, my home goes through a transformation of sorts. I tend to drive my family crazy with the whirlwind of cleaning and rearranging to achieve the kind of look I want. This year, I opted for the style of the moment: Bohemian Chic. At first, I was a little hesitant to make the change because everything was about minimalism in my house last year. And to achieve the boho chic decor, you must shed your inhibition towards contrasting colours and textures; filling your rooms with house plants, and woven knick-knacks on every available surface of your house.
Both my couches are now littered with pillows featuring a variety of colours and vintage-looking prints of varying patterns. Anything that offers a contrast to the overall appearance of a room got me one step closer to joining the Bohemian movement. Persian rugs are also a must. Unfortunately, they cost a lot of money. But if you try your luck at IKEA, they have some great ones that are inexpensive. Of course, having vintage rugs are optimal. But I can barely afford a runner so I'm saving up for when I can get a big rectangular one that can over a wide area in my living room.
On my thrifting weekends, my eyes are always peeled to textiles and blankets. They may look like eyesores now but when they're properly mixed with the overall aesthetic of your house, it works.
So yes, my house is an ever-changing landscape. I'm never satisfied with how it looks. Who knows what I would be into in the summer? What about you? Do you get bitten by the decorating bug quite often? What's your style like? Come back next time for more about this Bohemian chic style. But for a few ideas about it, here are a few Instagram accounts that I follow:


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Till Freiwald is a contemporary artist that favours monumental pastel drawings and watercolour paintings. Famous for his portraits that he sees as an internal effort, which requires a sustained, direct emotional confrontation with the model, he now started working on large scale buildings and neighbourhoods.
According to Freiwald, direct observation is the only way to capture the intensity of real encounters. He thus creates his work on a series of dialogue with the model. Starting from a small drawing or watercolour, he will later build upon the unavoidable absence of the model and start building its own illusory representation. Using monumental enlarged watercolours, that arise solely from his memory later, he so filters the first impression of his own inner eye.


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Compilation of Inspirational Quotations for Text Messaging
This collection of helpful, powerful and useful quotes, quotations, sayings or proverbs was extracted from the book by David Allen's... Ready for Anything (a one of a kind book that contains principles that is built to enhance the productivity of individual's life and work). The book is tailored to tackle and topple the rigors of work while obtaining exemplary results at the expense of employing less effort. David Allen is considered to be one of the most influential think tank when it comes to productivity without exerting too much energy and plays an important role as a keynote speaker and facilitator for organizations such as Merck, the Ford Foundation, the World Bank and the New York Life. I hope that you'll find pleasure reading the quotations below for it will surely increase the breadth and depth of your knowledge and wisdom. Moreover, the quotations which is from the selected and influential people are indeed full of substance and contains deep meanings.Here are the list or group of people that said these wonderful quotes or quotations: John F. Kennedy, Michael Eyquem de Montaigne, Albert Einstein, Peter Mere Latham, Lin Yutang, Albert Camus, Lee Segall, Charles Boyle, Mencius, Terence, Aristotle, Kin Hubbard, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Edison, Plutarch, Robert Louis Stevenson, Antonio Porchia, Henry Ford, Chinese Proverb, Susan Ertz, Thomas Edison, E.M. Forster, Andy Rooney, Gustave Flaubert, Samuel Johnson, William James, Japanese Proverb, Carl Sandburg, Robert Fritz, Henry David Thoreau, Will Rogers, Anatole France, Helen Keller, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Bernard Shaw, Henry David Thoreau, Henri Bergson, Bill Reader, Charles Mingus, Margot Fonteyn, P.D. Ouspensky, Robert Heinlein, Ambrose Bierce, Alvin Toffler, Laurence Olivier, Kerry Gleeson, W. E. Channing, De Michael McGriffy, Kio Suzaki, Def Hock, Max DepreeI, William Blake, Antonio Porchia, Norman Vincent Peale, Benjamin Disraeli, Estonian Proverb, Henry Ward Beecher, George Napper, Robert Copeland, Def Hock, Steven Snyder, Linus Pauling, Mark Twain, Mario Andreter, Steve Shull, Alan Alda, Michelangelo, Lieh-Tzu, William Arthur Ward, Ambrose Redmoon, John Madame Du Deffand, John Ruskin, Charles Darwin, Agatha Christie, Noel Coward, Alan Harrington
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The great French marshal Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for one hundred years. The marshal replied, "in that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!" - John F. Kennedy
Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. - Michael Eyquem de Montaigne
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. - Peter Mere Latham
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of none essentials. - Lin Yutang
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. - Albert Camus
It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are. - Unknown
It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. - Lee Segall
If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges. - Charles Boyle
If you know the point of balance, you can settle the details. If you can settle the details, you can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, you can think in front of a tiger, you will surely succeed. - Mencius
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. - Terence
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. - Aristotle
Lots of folks confuse management with destiny. - Kin Hubbard
Finish each and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept, I forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch
To be what we are and to become what we are of capable of becoming, is the only end in life. - Robert Louis Stevenson
I know you have nothing. That is why I ask you of everything. So that you will have everything. - Antonio Porchia
Before anything else, getting ready is the key to success. - Henry Ford
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come - Chinese Proverb
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - Susan Ertz
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking. - Thomas Edison
How do I know what I think, until I hear what I say? - E.M. Forster
Anyone who waits to be struck with a a good idea has a long wait coming. If I have a deadline for a column or a television script, I sit down at the typewriter and damn well decide to have an idea. - Andy Rooney
Be steady and well ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert
The business of life is to go forward. - Samuel Johnson
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James
One can stand still in a flowing stream, but not in the world of men - Japanese Proverb
To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not a fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something. - Unknown
Nothing happens unless there is first a dream - Carl Sandburg
If you limit your choices to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself frown what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. - Robert Fritz
If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, pick it up. If you can't pick it up paint it. - US Military
It is not enough to be busy... The question is. What are you busy about? - Henry David Thoreau
If you don't know what you're doing, you don't know when to stop. - Unknown
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. - Will Rogers
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age. - Albert Einstein
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever. - Anatole France
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or the life of another. - Helen Keller
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is a series of inspired follies. The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance. It doesn't come every day. - George Bernard Shaw
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. - Henry David Thoreau
The ancestor of every action is a thought. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think like a man of action, act like man of thought. - Henri Bergson
Ever stop to think and forget to start again. - Unknown
Thought is useful when it motivate for an action, and a hindrance when it substitutes for action. - Bill Reader
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple- that's creativity. - Charles Mingus
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. - Margot Fonteyn
There are only two ways to live life your life. One is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein
It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning. - P.D. Ouspensky
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. - Robert Heinlein
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. - Ambrose Bierce
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction. - Alvin Toffler
I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman. - Laurence Olivier
This constant unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy. - Kerry Gleeson
The palest ink is clearer than the fondest memory. - Chinese saying
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. - W. E. Channing
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. - De Michael McGriffy
If our work environment is easily understood even by strangers,... is also makes it easier to collect the wisdom of everyone. - Kio Suzaki
The problem is never how to get new innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. - Def Hock
The real challenge is to make a good communication a handy and well-used tool. Then you are likely to pick it up and use it without thinking. - Max DepreeI
Must create a System, or be enslav'd by another Man's. - William Blake
The chains that bind us most closely are the ones that we have broken. - Antonio Porchia
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. - Norman Vincent Peale
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. - Benjamin Disraeli
The work will teach you how to do it. - Estonian Proverb
The ability to convert ideas to thins is the secret of outward success. - Henry Ward Beecher
When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that your purpose is draining the swamp. - George Napper
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. - Robert Copeland
People should know what you stand for. They should also know you won't stand for. - Unknown
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. - Def Hock
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein
No great invention started with a business plan. - Unknown
The primary tools that one needs in modern day culture are to know how to make things up, and how to figure things out. This is creativity in two of its forms. These are called imagination and problem-solving. - Steven Snyder
The best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas. - Linus Pauling
Whenever I am rested and feeling good, I can't help feeling frivolous. - Mark Twain
If everything's under control, you're going too slow. - Mario Andreter
Howcum little kids practice, and big kids don't? - Steve Shull
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of intuition. what you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. - Alan Alda
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. - Michelangelo
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. - Lieh-Tzu
The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change ; the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon
Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans. - John Lennon
Muddy water let stand sill clean. - Chinese Proverb
Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried. - Henry David Thoreau
For fast acting relief, try slowing down. - Lily Tolin
Be patient. Patience is also preparation. It is the action before the act. - Noah Ben Shea
The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult. - Madame Du Deffand
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. - John Ruskin
A man who dares to waste one hour of tie has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. - Agatha Christie
Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having in your eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power? - Noel Coward
We are all, it seems saving ourselves for the Senior Prom. But any of us forget that somewhere along the way we must learn how to dance. - Alan Harrington
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to achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be as much as we can be we must dream of being more.... K.Ravn
You have a great collection of good quotes.
Cogratulations for the privilege to read ur beautiful words. It is like Atm Machine; "but the mouth dat may mocks this msg, must turn around to congratulate u;
What about James Russell Lowell's: 'Fate loves the fearless' which may have been inspired by Admiral Nelson's: 'I am of the opinion that the boldest measures are the safest'. However, for sheer humanity, can Winston Churchill be beaten - when he stated: 'In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnamity; in peace, goodwill'? Can this be bettered as a philosophy for business or life?
Quotes to live by! Very nice teach without teaching! Thanks for sharing.
I love collecting quotes and this is a pretty nice selection. I'm going to have to bookmark it so I can come back later and grab some more.
i love your reply it made my day nyahahaha I love jokes yah know... BTW I've visited one of your hub for I miss you already... :D
Wow, great quotes, thanks for posting. I'm definitely looking forward to reading more of your hubs!
Nothing happens unless there is first a dream - Carl Sandburg, I like that one GH< Maita
"The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change ; the realist adjusts the sails." and Anath just lets her hair down and discovers a new hair style!
Merry Christmas :)
Sheesh! These guys took the best lines! Maybe one day I'll come up with a few of my own :D
Merry Christmas, GH. It's probably December 26th in the Philippines isn't it?
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing these.


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4 Actionable and Natural Ways to Stop Stress
Stress can manifest itself in so many strange ways that seem completely unrelated. Headaches, dizziness, nausea, insomnia, and even chest pain can all be signs of stress. Of course, these should all be evaluated by a physician, but when no other cause is found, stress may be to blame.
Its no surprise either, given our hectic lives. In 2014, the Washington Post reported that only 40% of full time employees worked the standard 40 hour week. A full 50% of full time employees in the United States work between 41 and 60+ hours per week. Add to that family responsibilities, home maintenance, and financial woes, and you have a recipe for a health disaster.
We have to be better about giving our bodies a break, giving them time to heal in between the huge stressors we endure. Here are 4 ways you can invite healing and relaxation into your life now.
Meditation may be a way to minimize the damage that the day's stress does to your body. Even just a few minutes spent in meditation can help reduce negative emotions and increase self-awareness. Guided or mantra meditations can be especially helpful in stressful situations or for beginners. Two of my favorite YouTube channels for guided meditations are Bex Life and Heather Waxman
Gratitude Journal
While keeping a gratitude journal won't keep away stressful situations, but it will give you something to all on in the midst of all that stress. When you are more easily able to remember how many good things you have in your life, it makes dealing with stress much easier, and if you make a habit of journaling every night, your thankfulness if more top-of-mind.
Essential Oils
One of my very favorite ways to help induce relaxation and reduce occasional nervous tension is to roll on some essential oils to my wrist. This way I get the benefit of topical as well as aromatic use, since I can just bring my wrist up to my nose and take some nice deep breaths. My favorites for this are Young Living's Stress Away, Lavender, and Peace and Calming.
Put Down the Phone and Tablet
I know, these are some of my favorite toys too, but being connected all the time makes sure we never get a breather from our work lives. A study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family linked increased cell phone use at home with added stress that spills over into our home life. It also indicated that for women, cell phone use causes home life worries spill over into work life as well. If you just can't part with your phone at night, set one or two times to check it during the evening, and turn off push notifications so your attention isn't always waiting for that next buzz from your phone.
For more info about the body's response to stress and how you can help avoid it, listen to Episode 16 of the Revolution Oils Podcast!
What other actionable ways to reduce stress in our daily lives can you think of to share?


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Matthew Distefano (Heretic Happy Hour podcast, subscribe HERE) joins us to talk about his new book: "Heretic!: An Lgbtq-Affirming, Divine Violence-Denying, Christian Universalist's Responses to Some of Evangelical Christianity's Most Pressing Concerns" from Quoir Publishing. Get it HERE.
We talk about "dabbling" in atheism, Christian universalism, what being LGBT affirming means to him, marijuana, what following Christ looks like for him practically & more. Plus, we get caught up on listener feedback.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
18th Costume Designers Guild Awards Winners
Yesterday the guild had their awards ceremony and to my surprise I find winners well-deserved even when are not necessary the ones I was hoping for.
There is only one more guild to go and all the guilds would have announced their winners, but this late in the awards season race to Oscars -which is next Sunday- no surprises shall come and top-contenders trends will continue to be not interesting for me. Sigh. Gosh, maybe next year Oscars will be as used to be, interesting to follow and interesting to watch.
No doubt that what was really interesting is Cate Blanchett being honored with the Spotlight Award. In this photo we see Cate and Sandy Powell; Powell is responsible for Carol's costumes. Yes the very disappointing trend continues, Carol was snubbed once again, sigh.
If you wish to check winners in TV and other categories go official site here. Winners are in *BLUE.
Nominees for the 18th Costume Designers Guild Awards (CDGA), which celebrates excellence in film, television, and short form costume design, were announced today.
The CDGA ceremony, one of the most prestigious and well-respected entertainment industry awards season events, celebrates the spirit of creative and engaging storytelling through costume design on both the big and small screen. The winners of the seven competitive awards will be revealed at the black-tie gala on Tuesday, February 23rd at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Really like the Lacoste brand, so will reproduce the complete press release with lots of Lacoste promotion (lol); goes like this ...
Continuing its long-time support of the Guild, LACOSTE is returning as Presenting Sponsor of the CDGA. In the past year, LACOSTE has been featured in films such as Spotlight, Pitch Perfect 2, and Ricki and the Flash, as well as in numerous television shows including Scream Queens, Bloodline, Jane the Virgin, and Saturday Night Live.
This year's LACOSTE Spotlight Award will be presented to two-time Academy Award® winning actress, Cate Blanchett. Acclaimed film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor Quentin Tarantino will receive the Distinguished Collaborator Award in recognition of his support of Costume Design and creative partnerships with Costume Designers. An Honorary Career Achievement Award will be presented to Costume Designer Ellen Mirojnick for her outstanding work in film and television. Revered Master Dyer Edwina Pellikka will be honored with the Distinguished Service Award.
"I would like to congratulate all of the nominees of the 18th Costume Designers Guild Awards. We look forward to celebrating the work of our members as well as this year's honorees at our awards gala on February 23rd," said Salvador Perez, President of the Costume Designers Guild Local #892.
Excellence in Contemporary Film
*Jenny Eagan for Beasts of No Nation
Michael Wilkinson for Joy
Arianne Phillips for Kingsman: The Secret Service
Janty Yates for The Martian
Carlo Poggioli for Youth
Excellence in Period Film
Odile Dicks-Mireaux for Brooklyn
Sandy Powell for Carol
Kate Hawley for Crimson Peak
*Paco Delgado for The Danish Girl
Daniel Orlandi for Trumbo
Excellence in Fantasy Film
Sandy Powell for Cinderella
Sammy Sheldon Differ for Ex Machina
Kurt and Bart for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2
*Jenny Beavan for Mad Max: Fury Road
Michael Kaplan for Star Wars: The Force Awarkens
To check nominees in TV and other categories go news via event company here and later to official site here, as haven't updated yet.
Not easy for me to select my winner/best in the Contemporary category as costumes tend to be of the too much "normal" side and do not see clearly how costumes designs contribute to storytelling. But obviously Period and Fantasy categories are a lot easier, so in Period I'm torn between The Danish Girl, Trumbo, Carol and Brooklyn (lol) and in Fantasy my vote definitively goes to Cinderella as I love the visuals in Ex Machina but the costumes? I do not know. My crystal ball tells me that for Oscars the nominees will come more from Period films than from other categories.


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If the POS weren't born in Kenya, why does his Kenyan grandma have a calendar poster of him on her wall which says "The Kenyan Wonder-Boy in the U.S."?
Sarah Oyango Obama is the POS's paternal step-grandmother who, in 1987, met her then-26-year-old American grandson for the first time when he visited Obama Sr.'s village in Kenya.
In 2009, U.S. Christian minister Ron McRae, who described himself in his affidavit as an overseer of the Anabaptist Churches in North America and a "Presiding Elder on the African Presbytery," conducted a taped transatlantic telephone conversation with Sarah Obama, in which grandma clearly said Barack Obama Jr. was born in Mombasa, Kenya, and that she was present at the birth.
In early 2008, Journeyman Pictures made a documentary "Obama's Kenyan Roots" about the POS and visited Grandma Sarah. At the time, the POS was a U.S. senator (representing Illinois) and a presidential aspirant.
Since the POS's visit in 1987, Grandma Sarah proudly had followed his career trajectory, and decorated the walls of her living room with pictures of the POS. Here's a screen shot of the wall from the documentary "Obama's Kenyan Roots":
And here's the "The Kenyan Wonder-Boy" calendar poster:
Here's a segment from the documentary "Obama's Kenyan Roots":
H/t Obama Release Your Records
See also:
- British National Archives show a son was born to Obama Sr. in 1961 in Kenya
- In 2007, Obama's literary agent still says he was born in Kenya
- Kenyan official Says Obama born In Kenya
- NPR Says Obama Born In Kenya
- Michelle Called Kenya Obama's Home Country


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The trial of Pussy Riot, which opened in Moscow, on July 30th, and is expected to conclude with a verdict on Wednesday, has been an outrageous, astonishing, biased, exhausting, ridiculous, and at times comic spectacle. But at the end of the day it boils down to an unapologetic demonstration of force by the state. The three women, members of a punk-rock band who fell victim of the state's repressive machine, showed, in contrast, spiritual and moral strength.
The young women of Pussy Riot are being tried for "hooliganism" and inciting "religious hatred," on the basis of a "punk prayer" they performed in Moscow's Christ the Savior cathedral. For this performance, called "Our Lady, Chase Putin Out!" the prosecutor on Tuesday demanded three years in a labor camp for each defendant.
The women insist that their act was artistic and political in nature—and, indeed, politics is why they are being prosecuted, as part of a broader crackdown by Vladimir Putin's government. Throughout the trial, though, the judge, Marina Syrova, consistently removed or ignored any mention of politics. In a characteristic exchange, one of Pussy Riot's lawyers asked one of the "injured parties," "Was Putin's name pronounced in the cathedral?"; the judge responded, "Question dismissed." Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the three women, said in written statement that the main point of the performance was "a protest against illegitimate elections and Patriarch Kirill's endorsement of President Putin." "I thought the church loves all its children, but it appears that the church only loves those who vote for Putin," wrote another band member, Maria Alekhina, in hers. Both statements, along with one from the third woman, Yekaterina Samutsevich, were read by a defense lawyer, and ignored by the judge.
Instead of politics or art, the prosecution, with full compliance of the judge, was fully focussed on the pretense that the issues were ones of faith, God, the church, believers' offended feelings—even the devil.
Every injured party and witness—church security guards, a candle keeper, a cleaner, a treasurer—began by pledging that he or she was a pious believer, observing religious holidays and fasting periods. Apparently, their testimony was needed to confirm the indictment's message that the performance was an insult to all Orthodox believers. In fact, there are many Orthodox Christians among those who have ardently protested the trial, but the judge made sure the faith of defense witnesses was not identified. "Are you a believer?" a defense lawyer asked Alekhina's teacher, who spoke fondly of her student. "Question dismissed," snapped Judge Syrova. She declined to hear nearly all defense witnesses: out of seventeen people the defense called only three were allowed to testify.
The injured parties, one after another, spoke about being profoundly offended by the Pussy Riot's performance (which one called their "devil's pranks"); by the colors of their dresses (too loud, inappropriate in a church); by their appearance in the cathedral bare-armed; by the way they crossed themselves (it looked, a witness said, like a parody of crossing). They raised their legs too high—"so everything below waist is showing." "By their act, they basically spat in my face, in my soul, in my Lord's soul," the candle-keeper said and added that she cries each time she remembers seeing Pussy Riot in the cathedral.
And yet it is not even clear what the witnesses actually saw: the performance was in an almost empty cathedral (the Pussy Riot women chose the time when there was no service) and lasted barely thirty or forty seconds before the women were driven out. "I hadn't understood the words, thank God," one of the injured parties said. How could the witnesses recognize the women, who had performed in balaclavas? One of them says she knew Alekhina "by her calf muscles."
One of the prosecution witnesses hasn't even been in the cathedral. He is, as it were, a "witness of the clip"—that is, he saw footage used in a YouTube video produced later, which was cited indiscriminately in the hearings. The crucial question of who produced the clip, when or where, remained unexamined. The witness talked about "hell being as real as Moscow metro," and said the women came to the church to declare "war on God." He said that watching the clip was painful, but that he watched it over and over again. Nobody asked what this apparently masochistic desire had to do with the criminal charges.
Throughout, there was a rotating cast of guard dogs in the courtroom, lest the three women try to run away from the glass "aquarium" in which they are locked during the trial. Last Thursday, it was a German shepherd, lying on its back, paws up, its handler scratching its belly. On Friday, it was a Rottweiler, aggressive and barking. "Remove the dog—we can't hear anything," one of the defense lawyers asked. "He's barking because you speak too loudly," the handler retorted.
The courtroom is too small, and the audience is limited to the women's families and the press—and there are more of both than there is room for. Those who try to get in are held back by gun-carrying men in black—court marshals and special police. On Friday, a group of journalists wrote a letter saying that they were "humiliated, kept on the stairs for hours, barred even from the floor where the sessions are held; [the journalists] are pushed, yelled at, physically driven out from the courtroom." The letter added that the court marshals had threatened to set the dogs on reporters.
"I have no rights in this court," a defense lawyer said, exasperated. The judge responded: "Indeed, all you have is obligations." It is not clear whether this is a bad joke. Verbal fights, bad-neighbors' style, erupt all the time, between the lawyers' teams, as well as between the defense lawyers and the judge. By day six of the trial, the defense has petitioned seven times that the judge be recused. According to the court's rules, it's the judge's own prerogative to decide whether she should be removed or not. Each time, Syrova consulted herself and, after some deliberation, declined the motion.
Most of the trial's sessions lasted for ten or eleven hours. On Friday, a policeman on guard outside the courthouse passed out. The Pussy Riot band members, all three of them in their twenties, would be brought back to jail at close to midnight, then woken up in the small hours to be delivered to the courthouse in time for the early-morning session. According to people with knowledge of jailhouse procedure, before they are put in the vehicle that delivers them to the hearings, prisoners are kept doubled-up in "glasses," waiting spaces about a square metre large. All through the trip, and until they are locked in the courtroom's "aquarium," each young woman was handcuffed to the wrist of a female warden.
The accused and the lawyers complained of exhaustion and of feeling unwell. Ambulances were called. "Doctors tell me you are so fit you can do the catwalk," the judge told a female lawyer, a stout woman in her forties. "This is beastly!" one of the lawyers said. And "beastly" is an appropriate word to describe the relentless marathon of the hearings. Every now and then the mutual annoyance of the defense lawyers and the judge gets so high that they yell at each other at the top of their voices.
The judge appears to be under pressure to wrap it up as fast as possible. When the defense speaks, she gets visibly impatient, interrupting, declining to examine most of the evidence that the defense wants to present. Speaking to the press midday on Monday, Mark Feygin, one of the three defense lawyers, said that the defense had been "curtailed, aborted during trial…. Without witnesses, experts, specialists the value of our evidence is significantly diminished…. The court refrains from objective and comprehensive examination of the case." He says that he anticipates a conviction. His colleague in the trial, Nikolay Polozov, said, "What I feel is not powerlessness, it is righteous professional anger." He mentioned that he was informally warned that for their participation in the Pussy Riot trial, the defense lawyers may expect being hard pressed, maybe even disbarred.
When the accused are finally given the opportunity to respond to the prosecution and the defense, they talked about art, politics, rights; they sound thoughtful, logical, articulate, and, amazingly, strong-spirited.
Katya Samutsevich: "The Patriarch spoke many times about the supernatural role of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in the Russian history and called for the believers to vote for him and his party. He said that Orthodox Christians don't join protest rallies. This way he insulted many believers who have their own political opinions. We were perplexed by the Patriarch's statements and his instructions how people should vote and how they should behave in political life."
Nadia Tolokonnikova: "Our group took shape when the congress of United Russia [the pro-Kremlin force dominating the Russian parliament], which even stylistically looked like a congress of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R., decided that Putin would once again become the next President. I was outraged by the words of the Patriarch that Putin 'rectified the crooked path of history.' "
Masha Alekhina: "I am accused of quasi-violent actions. But violence is used against me. I have been in jail since March 3rd; during this period law-enforcement officials, including operatives who handle cases of extremism, have come four times to talk with me. They threatened me mentioning my child, which, I think, is fully inadmissible. One person persuaded me to reject the services of my lawyer. He spoke with me accusingly: said, you are heirs of [Soviet] dissidents."
The latest accusation is amazing in a country that had two decades ago this month gotten rid of the very Communist system that the dissidents had been fighting against. But the prosecution of Pussy Riot does, indeed, have a lot in common with the Soviet dissidents' trials. Then as now, the judges didn't care to conceal their bias; then as now, there was a clear sense that conviction was preordained. Then as now, those in the dock were voices of reason, honesty and morality, while their persecutors were cruel, absurd, and ultimately immoral. Then as now, the formal charge was a thin disguise. In 1964, the poet Joseph Brodsky was charged and convicted for "parasitism"; in 1968, the participants of the demonstration against Soviet invasion in Czechoslovakia were charged with violation of public order. The Pussy Riot women are tried for hooliganism and for inciting religious hatred.
There's irony in how the role of the church has changed. Back in 1964, Brodsky said at the trial that he thought being a poet didn't require any special education: "I think this is … from God." Back then, a mere mention of God and faith was a mark of defiance, a challenge to Communism's ideological supremacy. In the atheist Soviet state of those years, the church was allowed to exist, but it was fully marginalized, submissive to the state and readily coöperated with the Communist leadership. In Putin's Russia, reverence for the Russian Orthodox church is an almost indispensable element of allegiance to the state; the status and clout of the church have been dramatically raised, but it has remained as servile as in the Soviet times.
Putin's Russia is not Brezhnev's U.S.S.R.—it's a much freer and open country. Lots of people actively protest the prosecution of the Pussy Riot women; the international sympathy of art and music celebrities is thoroughly reported and broadly discussed. Back in the Soviet days, those who dared sign and circulate underground letters supporting dissidents commonly lost their jobs, or worse. Back then the only source of information about dissidents, their supporters, and their trials was foreign radio broadcasts. Taking records of political trials was a feat committed at the risk of one's freedom, with hasty shorthand typewritten and smuggled out for publication abroad. Today, reporters and legal professionals are covering the trial online, their notes made instantly available to anyone with Internet access. Of the authorities who accused her of taking over from Soviet dissidents Masha Alekhina said, "I told them that I was proud to continue the dissidents' traditions."
Photograph by Andrey Smirnov/AFP/Getty Images.


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Labour Law
2nd Edition
Part of Law in Context
- Authors:
- Hugh Collins, University of Oxford
- Keith Ewing, King's College London
- Aileen McColgan, University of Leeds
- Publication planned for: December 2019
- availability: Not yet published - available from December 2019
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108462211
Labour Law offers a comprehensive and critical account of the subject by a team of prominent labour lawyers, and includes both collective labour rights and individual employment rights. By placing the law in its social, economic and political contexts, and showing how the law works in practice through case-studies, students will acquire not only a good knowledge of the law but also an appreciation of its importance and the complexity of the issues. Fully updated with recent developments in the field, the text's clear structure, logical chapter organisation, and uncluttered text design combine to make it a truly accessible way into the subject. Suitable for undergraduates and postgraduates studying UK Labour and Employment law, this book is a must-read for those wishing to excel in the field.Read more
- Offers a definitive account of the subject by the UK's foremost labour law scholars
- Comprehensive text and integrated materials fully equip the student
- Case studies illustrating labour law 'in action' ensure full engagement and understanding
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- Publication planned for: December 2019
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Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction:
1. Nature and sources of labour law
2. Globalisation and labour law
Part II. The Contract of Employment:
3. Terms of the contract of employment
4. Authority and co-operation
5. Flexibility and precarious work
6. The personal scope of labour law
Part III. Statutory Regulation of the Employment Relationship:
7. Wages
8. Working time
9. Equality
10. Work/life balance
11. Civil liberties at work
Part IV. Collective Labour Rights:
12. Freedom of association and the right to organise
13. Freedom of association and trade union autonomy
14. The right to bargain collectively
15. The right to be informed and consulted
16. Collective action and the right to strike
17. Liability for collective action
Part V. Termination of Employment:
18. Wrongful dismissal
19. Unfair dismissal
20. Economic dismissal.
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Evening All
I'm poorly at the moment so I thought I would share with you a quick snapshot of an outfit I wore on the holiday that I got back from at the beginning of this month, where I was looking a lot more healthy and full of colour than I am now! This dress was a great budget buy from TU at Sainsbury's for around £10, very easy to slip on, flattering on the figure and it even has little pockets in the sides. I paired it with some flip flops with from the same shop- Sainsbury's had some great summer offerings in this year!
Bright floral dress from TU at Sainsbury's
Flip Flops from TU at Sainsbury's
Pink clutch bag from Glam by Caprice at Very.co.uk
Large pink flower earrings from Primark
Are any of you off for some autumn/winter sun? What outfits will you pack?


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In the architecture visualization world we always seek to achieve a result close to reality to provide our customers the feeling of seeing the finished project. But generally we are limited to still images and videos of these environments. What if we could enter the rooms, open the doors, walk on it, turn on and off lights, change the decor and still maintain photorealism?
Very soon I will be able to provide a full interactive solution for your clients.


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I just released version 2.1.2 of the MusicBrainz client library. This release includes the following files:
- libmusicbrainz-2.1.2.tar.gz (Linux/UNIX tarball)
- libmusicbrainz-2.1.2.zip (Windows source code)
- musicbrainz-win32sdk-2.1.2.zip (Windows SDK with headers and DLL)
Technorati Tags: musicbrainz, release
ChangeLog for libmusicbrainz 2.1.2
- Since expat is now installed on most systems we removed our internal copy and now rely on the system installed version.
- Juergen Kreileder Supplied minimal patch for making sure that mb_client still works when CDO_CHECK_TYPE is defined
- Fixed a C++ style variable declaration inside the album.c C module
- On linux the cdrom drive is now opened in non-blocking mode
- Fixed bug #834541: Tagger setting track no. is 0 – possibly due to trm mixup?
- Added support for parsing AdvancedRelationship date. Also added new getrels.c example program.
- Re-added the python bindings and changed the binding's version number to match the version of this lib.
- Fixed bug # 1224562: libmusicbrainz fails to post large RDF. This fixes problems looking up CDs with large numbers of tracks. (This was also bug # 725701 ignores blank tracks)
- The included perl bindings had the following changes:
- Updated bindings to match up to 2.1.2
- Fixed int size cast warning
- Fixed #6431: unmatched bootstrap parameter
- Updated req for MusicBrainz::Queries to 0.07
- The included python bindings had the following changes:
- Fixed #957393: Python Bindings type bug
- Fixed #1206514: Python bindings to select release not up-to-date


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Hey baby, Little Steven here. Up in the morning and out to school. Oh my god it's that time again.
Lord have mercy.
But don't worry kids, we're going to get you through it, and your guidance counselors will be the Yardbirds, the Beach Boys, the Chocolate Watchband, the Rolling Stones, J. Geils Band, and the Sex Pistols.
Brand new music from Moonlight Towers out of Austin Texas, the Smithereens have a new record, Master Plan from the Lower East Side, Death By Unga Bunga out of Norway, Butch Walker & the Black Widows, and Genya Ravan, godmother or Rock n' Roll herself.
You have to tune in this week to find out what Dolly Parton, James Brown, and Mrs. Wojciechowski have in common.
It's our Back To School special in the world's only Rock n' Roll dance party on the radio. I'll see you this weekend in the Underground Garage.
Set 1
Rock & Roll High School (Ramones)
Musical Beds: School Days (Louis Jordan)/Rumble (Link Wray)
Time Bomb High School (Reigning Sound)
Good Morning Little School Girl (Yardbirds)
School Days (Runaways)
Amelia (Insomniacs)
Be True To Your School (Beach Boys)
Musical Bed: Camel Ride To The Tombs (Waistcoats)
Set 2
Musical Bed: Badger (Jarvis Humby)
Grooviest Girl In The World (Simple Image)
The Girl Can't Help It (Little Richard)
Let's Talk About Girls (Chocolate Watchband)
September Gurls (Big Stars)
Summer Of 89 (Butch Walker & the Black Widows)
She Said Yeah (Rolling Stones)
Musical Bed: No Matter What Shape (Ventures)
Set 3
Musical Bed: Journey Into Darkness (Davie Allan & the Arrows)
David Watts (Kinks)
Charlie Brown (Coasters)
You Know What I Mean (Genya Ravan)
Psych Out (Death By Unga Bunga)
Bad Boy (Beatles)
Homework (J. Geils Band)
Musical Bed: Can Of Electrodes (Evan Foster)
Set 4
Musical Bed: Baroque Part 1 (Ultimate Spinach)
Woodstock Daze (Eddie Phillips)
Leader Of The Pack (Shangri-Las)
High School Confidential (Jerry Lee Lewis)
High School (MC5)
Sure Act Funny (Master Plan)
Friday On My Mind (Easybeats)
Musical Bed: Stones (Rolling Stones)
Set 5
Musical Bed: Wild Man (Count Basie & Duke Ellington)
The Dress Up Girls (Model Rockets)
Sorry (Smithereens)
What Else Can I Say? (Moonlight Towers)
Don't Drop Out (Dolly Parton)
Down & Out In New York City (James Brown)
Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols)
Musical Beds: School Days (Louis Jordan)
I'm hooked, I love you show... It's cool baby...
fat city jam band
I love that picture of the teacher on her desk chair:)
what's with that dolly parton number stevie???? didn't hear it before-love it but intro the same as leader of the pack????? which came first???
dolly parton shouldn't be in your mix.. what ya doing man?
Spotify Playlist with most of the tracks:
THANKS!!! it works GREAT!!!!! :)
Cool stuff. Rock & Roll High School, The Girl Can't Help It
Charlie Brown, High School Confidential & Sorry. Thanks Stevie.
Steven....once again great stuff!! until I got to Dolly Parton..really! creepy old broad..Dont be a GAGOOTS DJ!!
gillette elvgrin
another classic!! and btw imho- dolly parton is a classic! she deserves to be here. but i KNOW you cannot please everyone.i have some disagreement with you as well but i'm still here!!!! LOVE YA LS!!!!!
What's with the Dolly hate?
(a) it's a great record that (b) you probably wouldn't have even *known* was Dolly if Steven didn't tell you. Sounds like a lost girl-group classic to me. Which is why we all listen in the first place...
Spread the word to all about this and all shows, Little Steven WILL go into the Rock & Roll H O F, solo, from all his efforts here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tony B, listen to it again, it is a GREAT GREAT song man!