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All posts tagged spirituality
The Man of Understanding
A dear friend of mine pointed me to this powerful text from Franklin Jones, aka Adi Da, in his book "The Knee of Listening". This text speaks deeply to my […]
How I Became Useless
Does this title looks like a failure assessment? Not for me. Some years ago, I made the conscious decision I would become useless.
Completely useless.
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Quantum Vinaigrette
Physics and mysticism work like oil and vinegar, you have to shake them hard together to make a decent vinaigrette. Do we need vinaigrette to season our life? Does quantum physics explain consciousness?


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Julia Mendoza-Friedman
Hair and Flesh
Our tiny stomachs wriggled back and forth on the snowiest day of the year. My mother held our hands and dragged us through the living room to the kitchen to the dining room and back to the old beaten couch where we started. Like the slaves! She shouted. The slaves who wore weights on their ankles that made them slide.
Snow concealed our front yard beneath weak white mountains. The dogs barked at sinewy plows armoring themselves against the gale, searching for black pavement, the skin of a polar bear. A plowman bit into a frozen egg sandwich with chafing hands. No one was going to school.
My mother amped up the heat in the house to eighty-six degrees and our long hair melded to our backs. She called us brujitas when our father wasn't listening. Little witches.
When we were younger, my sister and I looked so much alike that strangers could barely tell us apart by the length of our legs. Pinki took up the job of speaking for me when there was something to be said: Tata wants water. Tata wants a nap. She hardly requested anything for herself; instead, she would redirect what she wanted to me.
A friend of my mother's advised her to stop dressing us the same since my sister was not developing a proper sense of herself. Conversely, my uncle's wife dragged us aside and told us we were meant to be born twins but I took too long to gestate and so my sister, the braver, ventured on without me.
You were born two hands of the same body; you need one to grasp the other.
We thought she was crazy but when you're young, you can't ask your mother what's real bruja shit and what's not.
When my sister was fifteen she won a scholarship to Belford, an elite academy upstate. I had never heard of it until our house started swimming in pamphlets; pictures of girls wearing plaid knee length skirts, carrying big books and smiling, laughing, leaning into each other like a malformed plant.
We grow girl-plants, here at Belford. Girl-plants that eat and drink and bleed together. We grow girl-plants so tall that they don't know how tall they are until they tower over you, then we clip 'em, light 'em, smoke 'em, and blow rings of girl-plant air.
I teased her about it ruthlessly. Are you a lesbian? Is that why you're going to Belford, to wear a long ass skirt so you don't have to shave your legs and hide away from boys?
It angered her more because it was a word she had taught me, lesbian, right after we had met Titi Gladys' best friend Ouilda at her birthday party. My sister no longer spoke for me and in the meantime, I had a developed a mouth that ran wild and amuck.
Her door was shut all the time. I had to pass by it to get to my own, so I had to stare at its ugly face and wonder what she was hacking away at inside. Back in the day, we used to trickle into each other's rooms like rain drops. I would steal paper from the top of her desk or she fell asleep on my bed. We spoke of forming one enormous apartment where we could fit a treadmill and a kitchenette and a human hamster wheel, living together autonomously. Now, it was as if her room had floated away and left a fat gaping lesbian hole in our house.
A week before she left, we threw her a goodbye party. Or a congratulations party because my mother kept tearing up at the word goodbye. She patted down the hair on my sister's head, pressed her close, and hollered: see you later, see you later. My sister acquiesced because she knew what it meant, no matter how much it fucked up her hair.
A party with a big bulky banner that said Congratulations, Pinki! Pinki because her skin was flush and royal. Tata because my head was shaped like a potato.
There was ropa vieja, sorullitos, mofongo, arroz con leche, and two meager salads sloshed with wet tomatoes and iceberg lettuce torn apart from its unfortunate core. My father pitched a tent to cover us from impending rain; the forecast was rocky but there was no rain, only wetness hanging in the air. Two speakers linked up to an iPod. and a long table with white chairs and a blue balloon knotted around each one.
My mom smoothed out her teal dress with ravenous animal paws. My father flipped burgers on the grill. My sister and I fished watermelon rinds out of the garbage and wore them like hats.
Pinki came back to visit three times a year: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and two months in the summer. The first November, she started looking different; her skin was clearer and her hair was neatly braided. In December, she cut her hair so short there wasn't even enough to braid. During the summer, her shirt covered her entire belly and she wouldn't even tie it up enough to let her stomach breathe.
Sometimes, she would give me a hint of her older self, scaring me in the shower or feeding the dog under the table. She called me by my ancient nicknames: stupid or fea or fatty. She called me those things as easily as she listed the names of her new favorite authors: Calvino or Emerson or Nabokov.
She was really pushing it with Nabokov.
Not everything is magic. Not everything is witchcraft. Not everything is dreaming and thinking that it will happen. There is no no matter what. You can't just luck into everything, Tata. Sometimes, it takes work. Scratch that. It always takes work.
My sister has hit me with inanities for over a decade. What do you want? What excites you? Where's your ambition? She lays her own out for me like a deck of cards:
I am due for a promotion in February. If I don't get it, then I will write my boss a letter stating that I will have to move on from the company if I don't receive a promotion in the following five months. Prithik is probably going back to graduate school to become a business person. He will open up a business person business someday, probably something that occurs only on the business internet. We will have at least two children but no more than three. We will vacation in Europe. I will grow old and wear big flouncy hats and be able to afford more than my fair share of Prosecco, suck a dick suck a dick suck a dick what's yours?
For well over a decade, my stomach has jerked at this question. It makes me sick. It gives me a migraine. It turns me into a real crab.
She folds her hands: You have to face the truth sometime. You can't play games forever.
The truth about what, Pinki? Days come and go and I like to watch the colors of their passing.
There was one evening during a few summers ago, when I snuck into my sister's room and woke her up. She rolled onto her side as if she had only been in shallow sleep anyway and murmured: what's up? The night felt young and purple, the kind of night we could trace each other clearly beneath the lolling moon.
We ambled in pajama pants and camisoles to the center of town, our hair pulled into messy buns and our faces red and shiny. I look like shit, she joked. It didn't matter; the joke was made for the sake of filling space, same as she made her plans and her presumptions. In our hometown, a car hardly drove past, everyone retired to their minimansions at nine and left the place to ghosts. The paper in the trash cans, the rainwater running into the sewer, the wind behind the flagpole.
I led her into the central parking lot where not a car was to be found, only the faded lights of napping storefronts and a lonely fence that divided the lot into two segments. I told her to hang back while I hopped the gate stirrup by stirrup, climbed on top of the dew-covered dumpster, and returned moments later with three leftover boxes of pizza the shop lay on top if they had extra by the end of the night.
A smile bloomed across her face; she bit into a cold, unctuous slice and rolled up her pajamas to free her sweating ankles: who teaches you these fucking tricks, patata?
Julia Mendoza Friedman is a writer/filmmaker from Lexington, MA. Her work has previously been published in Pacifica Literary Magazine and Juxtaprose Magazine. Her short film "Portrait of an American Woman/Dreams of Productivity" screened at LA Femme Festival and Broad Humor Film Festival. Julia currently lives in Brooklyn with her fat cat and works on the HBO Show, High Maintenance.


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Andalusia: A diverse destination in Europe
Andalucia is probably one of the most diverse holiday destinations in Europe: The Mediterranean Costa del Sol attracts visitors with endless beaches and lively resorts, the Atlantic Ocean west of Tarifa, the so-called Costa de la Luz, is a paradise for surfers. Yet Spain's sunny south has much more to offer than beach resorts: Andalusia, with its historic towns, is a melting pot of orient and occident with a very rich culture. You also can discover lofty heights on the highest peaks of the peninsula in the ski resort of Sierra Nevada.
Costa del Sol: The Sun Paradise
The Costa del Sol, with 160 kilometres of coastline and over 320 sunny days a year, is a real paradise for holidaymakers. Andalusia in the winter may not be suitable for bathing, yet the towns near Marbella and Malaga are very popular for wintering. Torrox, Torremolinos and Fuengirola are just some of the popular resorts appreciated by tourists from around the world. In the hinterland, we find the attractive, typical white villages of southern Spain, that rise like small oases in the arid and mountainous landscape. Anyone with a rental car can discover on the coast beautiful, secluded beach areas.
Sierra Nevada: From the sea to the mountains
A ski vacation in southern Spain seems something paradoxical, but in Sierra Nevada in winter you can combine skiing and beach bathing. From Granada, the road leads up to Sol y Nieve, the resort at 2,500 m altitude in the Sierra Nevada. In summer, the Pico de Veleta, the summit at 3,400 m height, is very popular with cyclists and walkers as Europe's highest navigable point.
Andalusia cultural cities: Granada, Seville and Cordoba
Until the 15th century, Andalusia was occupied by the Moors: The culture of the Arabs was fortunately not eradicated completely after the re-conquest by the Christians. Wonderful buildings like the Alhambra in Granada and the Caliph palaces in the beautiful cities of Seville and Cordoba have been preserved to this day, along with ancient buildings in Malaga.
As a must-see recommendation, the Alhambra should be visited when coming to Andalusia.


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Event Information:
Fri02Oct20157:30 pmRothesay Trinity Church, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland
Andrews Massey Duo Scotland Tour - Bute
I will be touring Argyll and Bute between 25th September and 4th October 2015 with my guitarist duo partner David Massey, as the Andrews Massey Duo.
For individual concert programme details and ticket information please refer to the Andrews Massey Duo website events page.
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Another organization is getting involved in the Manufacturing Institute's to attract more young people into manufacturing.
The Manufacturing Institute and Spring Manufacturers Institute (SMI) are partnering to bring more young people into the manufacturing industry. SMI is one of just two industry associations that have joined the Institute's Dream It. Do It. program, which raises awareness of careers in manufacturing.
Through this partnership, SMI and its members will have access to market-tested materials targeting young people, parents and teachers about a career in modern manufacturing. The Dream It. Do It. program will be a key element in SMI's ongoing strategy to reach youth. The strategy includes organizing plant tours and school visits on Manufacturing Day in October 2017, as well as growing a network of industry "champions" to lead youth activities in regions across the country.
"We believe the Dream It. Do It. program is a game changer in the way we connect with the next generation pipeline of young people needed to support our businesses in the future," says SMI president Mike Betts, who is also the chairman and CEO of Fresno, Calif.-based Betts Company. "Attracting talented students to careers in manufacturing is critically important to the ongoing success of SMI member companies."
Jim Parsons, senior vice president, Myers Spring, is serving as SMI's Dream It. Do It. champion. "Spring manufacturing offers a large range of opportunities for students to get involved and make things that matter. With advanced technology, this industry provides higher-paying jobs with good career advancement paths and clean work environments," Parsons says.
More than 20 SMI ambassador companies are already participating in Manufacturing Day tours and Dream it. Do It. activities.
Established in 2005, Dream It. Do It. works to change the perception of the industry and inspire next-generation workers to pursue manufacturing careers. The initiative offers local manufacturers, schools, community-based organizations and other stakeholders the opportunity to partner with a respected national platform to promote manufacturing as a top-tier career choice in the United States.


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Are Teachers Adequate?
Creative-C Learning: The Innovative Kindergarten
Published in 2014 with Createspace / Amazon by Peter Fritz Walter.
©2015 Peter Fritz Walter. Some rights reserved.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
— Introduction : The Systemliterate Child
— Chapter 2 : Love, Needs & Trust
— Chapter 3 : Body, Mind, Emotions, and Music
— Chapter 4 : Individual Child vs. Group
— Chapter 5 : Get the Focus Right
— Chapter 6 : The Value of Silence
— Chapter 7 : Love, Self-Love, and the Heart
— Chapter 8 : Spontaneity and Freedom
— Chapter 9 : An Integral Approach to Education
— Chapter 10 : 5 Arguments for a New Education
— Chapter 11 : A Brainsmart Learning Approach
— Chapter 12 : Are Teachers Adequate?
— Glossary & Bibliography : Contextual Terminology and References
The Book
'Creative-C Learning' presents a pre-school curriculum for a sane, holistic, brainsmart and systemliterate education of small children. The author's educational approach is tailored to how our brain works and develops from ages 2 to 6. It's a functional approach, not an idealistic one, based on the actual constitution of the human being, with all the complexity inherent in it.
The author contends that children are born sane and are rendered more or less insane by an educational system that till now considers the human being as the impossible human, that is, a creature that is basically faulty and has to be improved and upgraded by education, and morality. The present view opposes this age-old educational paradigm and shows that traditional education brings about fragmentation, ignorance and widespread violence.
The present curriculum emphasizes the natural integrity and wholeness of the small child, who is by nature a systems thinker. The curriculum builds upon this fact and presents a way to raise pre-schoolers in a learning environment that fosters systemic thinking capabilities, so that children become systemliterate at a young age.
The author also emphasizes the need for teaching emotional awareness to teachers and presents techniques to be applied in the vocational training for early child care workers and pre-school teachers that teach how to cope with stress, and that show the details of the trustbuilding process both between teachers and students and between parents and teachers.
The audience for this guide are all those involved in educating children, as well as educational policy makers, also parents, educational associations, politicians, pediatricians and child psychologists, and also the lay public, especially those who are looking for a new way to educate children now and in the future.
Chapter 12 : Are the Teachers Adequate?
In consciousness-based and brainsmart education, the agenda of vocational training for teachers is different, on one hand, and more varied and expanded, on the other, than in conventional vocational training for teachers and day care workers.
There are some rules of conduct and of attitude that are really different in such an educational setting, compared to traditional education. The stress is namely on consciousness, the way a teacher handles perception and expresses it, and to develop self-awareness. In this context, emotional awareness assumes a very important role in order to avoid the common projections that are rampant in traditional education.
Projections are not the result of reflection but in the contrary, the result of repression. Repression brings about regression and projection. All content of consciousness that is not embraced but repressed falls out of the cultural frame, and thus regresses into archaic behavior models, and in addition, the repressed desire or emotion is subsequently projected upon others.
That means teachers who have not at one point consciously embraced their repressed desires will project these unassumed desires and fantasies upon the children with the result that verbal and nonverbal communication becomes distorted and children receiving ambiguous messages.
However, in a progressive consciousness-based educational approach, communication is a major pillar for helping children to widen their conscious perception of life and of themselves. This communication must be truthful and whole if it is to serve its goal.
As a result, teachers must learn to handle their inner trials, their contradictory emotions, feelings or desires, and their shadow self. For this task, they need to receive appropriate vocational training which goes beyond the usual vocational training provided to teachers in that it is nourished by the insights of neuroscience, child psychology and psychoanalysis.
The present approach does not go as far as the one practiced in so-called 'psychoanalytic' Kindergartens as they have existed, back in the 20th century, in Russia, Germany and France.
For example, the famous 'Maison Verte' in Paris that was founded by Dr. Françoise Dolto (1908–1988), France's leading child psychotherapist at the time, was requiring applicants for the work with children and babies to be psychoanalyzed.
— See Françoise Dolto, Une psychanalyste dans la cité. L'aventure de la Maison verte, Paris: Gallimard, 2009.
I visited the Maison Verte back in 1986 and subsequently was invited to interview Madame Dolto in her apartment, Rue St. Jacques, in Paris.
We had an extended talk about various subjects and my first question was why teachers or facilitators in her communication center had to be qualified psychotherapists? And Madame Dolto told me more or less what I was just writing here. She spoke about childhood hangups, repression and projection.
However, I believe that it is not needed to have gone through several years of a Freudian psychoanalysis just for developing emotional self-awareness.
And I have met dozens of people in my life who had gone through years of Freudian therapy and who had absolutely not the slightest emotional self-awareness and would have been horrible teachers!
So in my view what we need is an extended vocational training for teachers, and not the transformation of the school system into a whitewash of Freudian psychoanalysis!
This being said, how should we go about to foster emotional awareness in our lives as teachers? Can we do something for it or should we wait until the vocational training for teachers has gone through a total overhaul? I believe that we can do something for it, individually, and with an effort that about everyone can deliver without adopting the sometimes ridiculous mannerisms of a 'psychoanalyst.'
This doesn't mean that my insights have grown in a vacuum. I am well aware of the origins of my ideas and do not hide their sources. They namely come from Eric Berne's teaching of Transactional Analysis (TA) and from Frits Perls' approach to Gestalt Therapy.
Both of these therapies are holistic approaches to self-healing and have developed way after the proliferation of Freudian psychoanalysis. They offer much more effective therapeutic approaches and do not 'intellectualize' psychoanalytic knowledge.
And there is another source of knowledge that we cannot disregard; it is Bioenergetics, the teaching of the bioenergetic logic of the body, and of human emotions, that was developed by Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) and later popularized by Alexander Lowen (1910–2008).
Many concepts and ideas around that mysterious word 'education' are obfuscating the simple truths of life. One of them is the insight that no real education is ever done by preaching eloquently, but by living the truth. A teacher is not a politician in the sense that truthful education is most of the time done nonverbally, not by holding speeches and still less by blame or admonition.
It may sound extreme but when a student says or does anything indecent, this is a signal not to be overlooked by the attentive teacher, a signal that says 'Where is my part in this behavior'?
A responsible attitude requires the teacher to be sensible to perceiving the complexity of the psychological intricacies in the relationship s/he maintains with every single child in his or her class. When student behavior derails from the social code, the appropriate response is observation, and as a consequence, self-observation.
In this sense, education is always also self-education, and this is an ongoing process. We are not perfect and we know that. But as educators we often overlook that 'playing the game' as the majority defines it means ultimately to be hypocrite; it is easy to do as if and pretending one had achieved a certain level of perfection, thereby suggesting to the child that he or she is imperfect. 'Oh, poor thing!'
This paradigm of the old school of teaching was not even questioned as the teacher was put on the same pedestal as the father whose omnia potestas was one of the pillars of patriarchy. Authority figures were idealized yet silently feared. Carl Jung's saying comes to mind that 'the cabinets of psychiatrists are filled with people who had ideal parents.'
Yet to think we have put behind us all of this, as a matter of our 'advanced psychological understanding' is equally a fallacy. Real understanding of children comes as a result of teachers really understanding themselves, and their behaviors and reactions! This cannot be taught nor can it be learnt other than by a process of continuous self-observation.
Behold, I have not used the term self-criticism, and for good reason!
In fact, self-criticism often leads to guild and toxic shame for we all have in us an inner critic who is an opponent to our healthy ego. Progress can only be made when we learn to observe ourselves passively, without the blade of obnoxious criticism that all-too-quickly tends to undermine self-esteem.
As a matter of projecting repressed behavior, the person who is very self-critical is also very critical toward others, which leads to a double toxicity. The person with her self-esteem ruined by constant and outrageous self-denial will tend to deny the reality in all others around her; such a person will unconsciously undermine the self-esteem of others.
An educator who is sharp toward their own self-esteem will be sharp toward the children in their care; such educators tend to be harshly critical to a point to ruin the learning motivation in the student. This is so because learning motivation is fueled by the positive emotional and affectional relationship between teacher and student.
As a teacher, responsible to keep the relationships with your students intact means to be harmonious and gentle in your overall demeanor and to be positive and encouraging, not negative and overly critical.
Lack of self-criticism is often misunderstood as lack of format, lenience and emotional indulgence. But to repeat it, we have to see the difference between self-criticism and self-observation! The first behavior is negative, the other is positive. I do not need to criticize myself, to make myself down, in order to improve my behavior and attitude; once I become fully conscious of it, there will be a change. This is so because consciousness always is self-cleaning and self-correcting.
Passive self-observation is the key for any kind of personal transformation; in addition, teachers who master this technique are much more at ease in informal situations, especially in the day care and pre-school setting. They are not only more relaxed and experience much less emotional stress, but they also tend to bring over to the children this valuable technique of introspection that fosters inner peace. While self-criticism leads to inner war!
As education is an ongoing process, so is the eduction you give to yourself — also called self-education! It requires an acute awareness of one's emotional processes, one's inner life. All our desires and fantasies have an impact upon people around us, especially upon small children. This impact is positive when we assume our inner life, and negative when we repress it and project it. That is why emotional self-awareness is so important for teachers.
Of course, this is not really an agenda point in the vocational training for teachers and daycare workers and it is for this reason that I stress it here so much. I believe that teachers have to be trained to develop this passive self-awareness, which is why they should learn to meditate.
Meditation is but that, a peaceful, stress-free and lucid form of self-observation, the awareness of all our thoughts and desires. But is there a need for meditation not only for teachers, but also for small children?
I do not pronounce a definite opinion here about it. There are arguments in favor and against it. I am speaking about children between the ages 2 and 6, not primary school children. I believe that the self-regulatory processes in children that small are so strong and vital that an add-on is not needed to boost their self-awareness. This is so because small children are acutely self-aware when they are healthy and emotionally vibrant!
But meditation is well needed for teachers to learn the process of introspection with the result that fragmented and contradictory desires are rendered conscious and integrated.
As already mentioned with a pointe of humor regarding Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his persecutory desires projected upon a young boy, while the whole plot was a matter of fantasy, it is a psychological fact that when sudden or transitory adult-child erotic attraction is not rendered conscious, it cannot be sublimated. Then the educator may find himself trapped in a desire he cannot possibly assume as it is against the social code. Passive awareness of the emotional streaming between educator and student suffices to handle such moments, without acting, so that the emotional and physical safety of the child is not jeopardized.
Last not least, self-education also means that teachers are constant learners; it is barely conceivable how teachers can come over as vibrant and charismatic if they think of themselves as wisdom dispensers for undeveloped youth. Education is not a one-way street if it is to be effective.
When children perceive their teachers are stagnant on the intellectual level, they are not really motivated to participate in the wisdom quest.
I have seen it over and over again, in schools that those teachers are given the greatest love and respect who are humble enough to learn together with their students! These teachers also score highest in learning output per class, and per student, if this can at all be measured! It is in this sense that I feel education and self-education really hang together, for one is the reflection of the other, and both are but head and tale of a coin.
In this sense, a great learning institution is one where all and everybody learns, not just the students. This is an idea that today is even discussed in management training, not just for the management of schools but for all kinds of businesses. It was coined a 'learning culture' by management philosopher Peter Senge.
I would go as far as saying that if this is true even on the general management level, it is certainly an inseparable element in the curriculum of a progressive pre-school.
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I don't mind Asians, they would be fine. However you would fall under the category of the lazy, dept ridden, rowdey, smelly Students who like to steal traffic cones for their bedrooms. Unfortunately, we cannot allow that either ,
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Careful. G Man might see that and call you racist!Originally Posted by O Dogg
He could even leave the Forum!
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i now know Hams probably meant only those with big breasts ..Originally Posted by Hams
Yeah He's not confident enough to appear on TV but He's got too much confidence for all the ladies in the world
Raúl González Over 400 career goals, 3 UCL, 6 La Liga, Top scorer in history of UCL and Spain's national team for a decade, captain of one of the best generations of players in Real Madrid history.


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Sonia Gechtoff
Sonia Gechtoff began her career immersed in the heady culture of the San Francisco Bay Area Beat Generation, producing abstract paintings and drawings with tantalizing hints of figuration. Inspired by poetry, Gechtoff approaches her work with a belief in the expressive power of color, individual brushstrokes, and thickly applied oil paint. Many of her works, like The Angel (1953-55), are abstracted self-portraits—through vibrant colors and thick, energetic brushstrokes, Gechtoff creates the suggestion of a central figure, whose abundant arms-cum-wings stretch across the picture plane. Later in her career, after moving to New York, Gechtoff began drawing inspiration from the Brooklyn Bridge, classical architecture, and the sea, whose forms are recognizable in her later series of flat, understated, collage-like paintings.
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Writer Creates "Color Thesaurus" To Help You Correctly Name Any Color Imaginable
Ingrid Sundberg, a writer and children's book illustrator, created a very useful infographic chart for anyone struggling with color names. The writer says that she loves to collect words that can help give her stories variety and depth. Show Full Text "I've learned that we all have different associations with color words," Sundberg told Bored Panda.
How To Write A Visual Style Guide for eLearning
Sharebar The most efficient way to achieve consistency in visual design for an eLearning course or presentation is to write a visual style guide. It's nearly a necessity when working on a team and it's also valuable when working solo (though a shorter guide may suffice). In either situation, here are some benefits of writing an eLearning visual style guide.
Basic Color Theory
Color theory encompasses a multitude of definitions, concepts and design applications - enough to fill several encyclopedias. However, there are three basic categories of color theory that are logical and useful : The color wheel, color harmony, and the context of how colors are used. Color theories create a logical structure for color. For example, if we have an assortment of fruits and vegetables, we can organize them by color and place them on a circle that shows the colors in relation to each other.
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Welcome to the web site design tutorial section. Web design is a pleasure and we're sure you'll enjoy designing and developing sites with these simple tutorials and tips. These tutorials are easy to follow and fun to do! From website design tips and ideas to CSS Styles, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash and Fireworks and you'll find all you need to know about web design right here! Responsive Website Design Tutorial!
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Color Moods in Logo Design The logo designer can already transmit a basic mood by the choice of color codes but their connotations can differ widely from culture to culture. For example, pink: In Europe it stands for softness and being childish, but in Korea it stands for trust. Typical uses of colors in North America and Western Europe include: Activity (Red, Orange, Yellow); Honesty (White, Blue, Green); Functionality (White, Grey, Black); Ideal (White, Blue, Gold); Cleverness (White, Blue, Silver); Performance (Blue, Gold, Red); Innovation (Violet, Orange, Silver); Objectivity (White, Grey, Blue); Speed (Silver, Red, Yellow).
Complementary colors
Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined, cancel each other out. This means that when combined, they produce a grey-scale color like white or black.[1] When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those particular two colors. Due to this striking color clash, the term opposite colors is often considered more appropriate than "complementary colors".
The Educational Benefit of Ugly Fonts
A few months ago, I wrote a speculative blog post about e-readers. Although I love my Kindle, I worried that these new gadgets made the act of reading a little bit too easy, and that this visual ease might lead, one day, to a shallower engagement with our texts. It was a rather tortured argument, an awkward mash-up of McLuhan and fMRI research.
Basic color schemes: Color Theory Introduction
With colors you can set a mood, attract attention, or make a statement. You can use color to energize, or to cool down. By selecting the right color scheme, you can create an ambiance of elegance, warmth or tranquility, or you can convey an image of playful youthfulness.
TOTEMS Wooden Building Blocks by Dino Sanchez
TOTEMS is a new set of stackable wooden blocks designed by Dino Sanchez. For people of all ages to use in the playroom or at the office, each block is handmade in the US from solid oak and walnut with non-toxic finishes. Four blocks to a set feature four unique faces and each measure 1.75″ cubed. The TOTEMS are now available through various retailers and through the Dino Sanchez Shop.
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The Christian organization with the headquarter in Israel and arms across the nations of the world facilitating the Christian tie with Israel.
The International Christian Embassy was founded in 1980 by evangelical Christians to express their support for the State of Israel and the Jewish people, specifically the Israeli government's enactment of the Jerusalem Law and in protest of the closure of foreign embassies in Jerusalem. The ICEJ is best known for hosting an annual Christian celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles, which attracts several thousand participants from almost 100 countries. The location and name were chosen deliberately to show that unlike other international groups, its members regard Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel.


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This book reminded me so much of my teenage years when writing love letters to your crushes was still a thing. Each chapter is a letter addressed to the persons the author had relationships with, some very brief and some others even from a distance.
While some of these letters weren't exactly love letters, they were written from a place of love, highlighting how those encounters no matter how brief impacted the author positively.
From Dear 'Birthday Guy' to 'Daddy', 'Blondie' to 'Athlete', each letter is meaningful and poignant, sometimes humorous, sometimes poetic and always comes across as genuine.
The reflections are so relate-able, they made me think of my past relationships and how I would address them if I wrote letters to them.
This is quite an easy read and I didn't want to put it down once i started reading. Definitely worth reading for anyone who enjoys memoirs and LGBT literature.
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Author: Alan Semrow
Title: Ripe: Letters
Genre: Memoir/LGBT
Funny, sexy, evocative, and brutally honest, Ripe is Alan Semrow's ode to relationships with men. In this epistolary book, Semrow writes to the men who have impacted his outlook, reminded him of basic life lessons, surprised him in more ways than one, and left him reeling for days. Writing to one-night-flings, men he has never met, and men he'll never stop running into, Semrow touches on some of the most constant human themes—love, lust, desire, and the yearning for connection. All the while, the book details a man's journey navigating and blooming by way of the modern gay scene. Readers will find familiarity and hard truths in Semrow's statements about the intricacy and explosiveness of the intimate moments we share.
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About the Author
Alan Semrow's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has been featured in over 30 publications. Apart from writing fiction and nonfiction, he is a professional copywriter, a monthly contributor at Chosen Magazine, and a singer-songwriter. Previously, he was the Fiction Editor for Black Heart Magazine and a Guest Fiction Editor for the Summer Issue of Five Quarterly. Semrow's debut short story collection, Briefs, was published in 2016. Ripe is his second book. Semrow lives in Madison, Wisconsin.


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Going there:
Firstly, going to Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve is not as simple simply because its located right out of civilization. You first have to take a the MRT to Kranji, then hop onto bus 925. 925 turns in and stop right outside Sungei Buloh on Sundays and public holidays, but it does not on weekdays and Saturdays. However, if you take 925 on a Sunday or public holiday, you will not be able to pass by gardens like the above by foot. Here is the "how to go" from the official website. Oh, the wait time/interval of the bus 925 is quite long, so don't give up!
It was a Saturday when a friend and I went, so we the bus stopped a distance away from Sungei Buloh, and we walked in. It was a quiet morning walk at around 8am, so it was still considerably cooling. Trust me, its an enjoyable walk, and everyone should try it, unless it is between 10am – 4pm, then it might be too
warm hot to be walking without shades.
Inside Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve
Once we entered the gates, there seemed to not be anybody else except for us, and another malay family, in the park. But there were already quite a number of cars parked in the carpark, so it was a little weird. Further in, at the first observatory, was where we first met an elderly couple, who greeted my friend and I heartily, to which we replied "good morning!" in earnest. The camera lens they had were hugeeeeee, compared to our starter kit lens. There was also another middle aged guy in the observatory with a similarly huge, if not larger, lens, staring into the distance with his hands always ready on his camera. All of a sudden, a huge bird cried, and flapped her wings and flew out of the canopy, coming into full sight of everyone in the observatory. Almost everybody who was in the observatory was all ready, who began to snap pictures of the bird. By the time I whipped up my camera, the bird was far out already. So…. all I took was the surrounding beautiful greens.
We came across a few other smaller observatories, and there were a crowd at each of them, all with lenses as big as bazookas. I asked a friendly, approachable looking guy what they were all doing there, with their cameras all aimed and pointed at a distance. He explained that they were waiting for a particular bird to appear, which I presume they have seen it fly into the thicket. He saw our measly gear, and encouraged us, saying although photography is an expensive hobby, its a really fulfilling one. I realised most of the visitors at the reserves seem either really glad to help, or are really friendly and will almost always smile to you when you pass by each other.
If Lost
There will be a lot of information boards with a map all around the reserve, so there's no worry about getting lost in there. If you're lost, just keep walking straight, sooner or later, a wild information board will appear and let you know where you currently are. If looking at the map on the board doesn't help, just ask a passer by for help, and they are sure to help~
Nature Shots
A Sneak Peak into our Neighbouring Country
Of Animals..
And finally of Monitor Lizards, for they are awesome enough to get this much mention.
If anybody wishes to make a trip down to Sungei Buloh and has any questions, feel free to leave them below or send me an email 🙂
Side Story
When we were leaving, Friend and I decided to be adventurous and tried to do a hitchhike in Singapore. Much to our surprise, we succeeded on our 2nd try putting our thumbs up gesture. The driver turns out to be a Chinese from China. Initially, all we wanted was to have a ride to the nearest bus stop. But when we mentioned we were going to Kranji Station, he said he would bring us there since he was on the way to Woodlands. On the journey, he chatted with us a lot, about things like his nature of work, his hometown and his language, about how Hokkien (a Chinese dialect) had different variations just in Fujian itself. We were still chatting happily when we arrived at Kranji station, but like all random meetings, it has to end. So we said our goodbyes and hopped off his little blue grey truck.


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Another busy month in the studio at Myefski Architects. A few weeks ago I started working on the beginning stages of a 15-story multi-use development in Chicago's South Loop neighborhood. This unique development introduces residential micro units and extended-stay hotel rooms into the historic Printer's Row.
The site is located across from the Dearborn Station; an icon of the Romanesque Revival style which opened its doors in 1885. On the corner of South Dearborn, West Polk, and South Federal, the development adjoins the Franklin Building, a 1912 structure lauded as an example of the 'Chicago School' style of architecture.
Designing a new building in an area defined by historic architecture presents many challenges. The final design solution will fit in with the surrounding historic context while maintaining a contemporary identity.
As I begin to wrap up my Fellowship, I have started the fateful process of compiling my research findings. To date, this is taking shape as a monograph booklet that will document the background research, various tangents, illustrations, and relevant project drawings. This document, a standalone record of the Fellowship project, will be available for others interested in articulating the language of historic adaptive architecture.
It has been interesting and rewarding to revisit earlier ideas and see the progression as I work to assemble the monograph.
Genevieve Doman
February 2016
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June 2016
The past month has been a whirlwind of activity in the Myefski Architects office. Fall is always a busy time and we have many projects vying for time as winter approaches.
I have chosen to concentrate my fellowship time in the winter months. This will allow for me to better focus my attention between project work and fellowship work.
One of the designs I am currently working on, The Icehouse, is an interesting adaptive reuse project in Evanston, Illinois. We are working to retrofit a historic ice manufacturing and storage facility, ca. 1930, into a residential development. The project presents many challenges, but the final result is sure to be a remarkable transformation.
While assembling a monograph of my fellowship research, I have continued to develop a few remaining ideas. Back in February, I became interested in the possibilities of animation in architectural representation after working on a section of Old St. Patrick's Church.
I explored this technique by animating the section to show my drawing process as you can see above. Using layers in Adobe Illustrator, I was able to produce a series of images that could then be translated to a .gif file. The resulting animation describes how the drawing was constructed and helps to illustrate some of the changes Old St. Patrick's has undergone.
Upon review, I realized animation could serve a more central role. My Old St. Patrick's section tries to layer different time periods to illustrate more information about the Church's history, but it faces some limitations as a static image. Once the possibility of movement is added to a drawing, more detail can be represented.
Animation and video are becoming increasingly popular methods of architectural representation, but they are not typically used for projects that involve existing conditions. However, these methods are especially useful for describing existing conditions since there are various time periods to consider. In order to explore this technique, I am going to further develop this animation of Old St. Patrick's Church to include more historical context.
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The Kompas Fellowship allows me the opportunity to explore my interest in historic preservation from a professional practice perspective. My plan is to investigate possible representational strategies to better document existing structures. It is my hope that through improved representation, design that involves the incorporation of existing buildings can be elevated.
The first month of my fellowship began with initial research into the Historic American Building Survey (HABS). This 1933 initiative set out to document historic structures of all scales and programs using regimented standards. These surveys are archived in the Library of Congress for future research.
As HABS continues today, new technologies such as AutoCAD and 3D scanning have been incorporated, but the graphic standards remain unchanged. These strict standards have provided uniformity across nearly a century of surveys. However, after examining various examples, I was struck by the inefficacy of measured drawings to truly capture the appearance of existing structures.
Highly precise drawings tend to make buildings appear far more ageless than in photographs. The clarity of a drawing can mask the age of its subject as newer additions and even decay seem to appear cohesive in drawn elevation. In the coming weeks and months, I plan to examine this discrepancy further. Specifically, I am interested in the potential of combining photography and measured drawing to capture the intricacies of existing conditions.
This month I have been delving into more hands-on research by visiting several archives in Chicago. Initially I searched archives to find drawings of Old St. Patrick's Church. In the end, I didn't have much luck finding historic documents for the church. However, I was able to find other drawing examples of alterations to existing buildings.
There are, of course, countless historic buildings in Chicago that have been renovated. It's rather hard to find related drawings since often only the original iteration is archived. I kept digging to see if there would be differences in drawing techniques for architectural adaptation in historic drawings.
Most of the drawings I was able to uncover rendered existing structures in red ink and new additions or alterations in graphite or black ink. In previous research, I noticed this same convention in drawings from 16th century Italy (in Tiberio Alfarano's work), 17th-18th century Spain, and Carlo Scarpa's 20th century work. While these instances are widespread, I was at first unsure if this had been the architectural convention globally. After reviewing archived drawings by American architects such as Daniel Burnham, among others, which used the same technique, it was clear that this was the convention for hundreds of years.
Next, I reached out to an architectural historian to help understand why such a pervasive method would disappear. She informed me that as far as she knows there was no definitive reason for the change, but that as drawing shifted to computer aided design (CAD) software this convention was lost in the translation.
Although drawing in all black has its advantages, the red and black convention had a clarity and layering ability that is difficult to achieve with line weight and type alone. This minor discovery has me thinking about the potential of color within architectural representation.
While further investigating the representation of historic structures I have been confronted by two main interests. First, I began to look into the history of architectural drawing because, as James Ackerman states in his book Origins, Imitation, Conventions, "The best way to understand the nature of a convention is to discover for what reason and under what circumstance it originated, and how it was modified in the course of time." It is without question that the techniques and tools used in a particular era have some influence on design. Secondly, I am interested in how adaptations to existing structures were represented in the past. Existing structures have been adapted to the changing needs of their occupants' since the creation of shelter. Architectural adaptation has been such a ubiquitous condition throughout time that it is important to consider how these historic interventions may have been represented during the time of their creation.
Very few examples of architectural drawing older than the 17th century remain, and even fewer representations of adaptation exist. This is likely due to the prevalence of craftsman and builders rather than architects throughout much of history. It is thus typical that drawings were only created for highly significant buildings. One such example of historic representation of adaption is Tiberio Alfarano's drawing of St. Peter's Basilica from 1571. This drawing, as detailed in Federica Goffi's dissertation Time Matter(s): Invention and Re-Imagination in Built Conservation: The Unfinished Drawing and Building of St. Peter's, The Vatican, superimposes the new Michelangelo plan over the already demolished Old St. Peter's. The drawing layers time, with ancient roman temple sites acting as its graphic foundation. This type of "hybrid drawing" allows the viewer to contemplate various layers of information simultaneously. According to Goffi, Alfarano's drawing was used as an underlayment in the design process of future alterations. It is in this mode that I am developing representation that allows information to serve as the backdrop to design.
Currently, I am using Alfarano's techniques to draw the history of Old St. Patrick's Church in Chicago, IL. This drawing illustrates the various layers of intervention on the site and the surrounding area through its more than 150-year history. The image here shows a glimpse of the layering that is still in progress. I'm excited to share more on the development of this drawing in next month's blog post.
Genevieve Doman
August 2015
Following up on the drawing I introduced last month, my study of Tiberio Alfarano's techniques has developed significantly. As you can see in the accompanying images, the work focuses on illustrating the history of Old St. Patrick's Church in Chicago, IL. The initial intent was to follow Alfarano's methods exactly, but as I worked through the drawing it became evident that the prevailing notion of Old St. Patrick's is its steadfastness within a changing city. In contrast, Alfarano emphasizes in his drawing of Old St. Peter's the layering of change for only the immediate site of the basilica. I, therefore, chose to focus on the permanence of Old St. Patrick's by drawing the history of the surrounding area.
The infallibility of the church walls is emphasized by the layering of recent interior renovations. Historic neighborhood transitions are made visible by the simultaneous interpretation of various structural demolitions. It can be seen that the area was once comprised of small residential homes, with the church as the largest structure. Over time, the area began to transition into a light industrial area with larger structures. The construction of a major highway caused another, even larger, scalar intrusion. Through it all the walls of Old St. Peter's have stood largely unchanged. Its interior has evolved with the times, but its presence has always remained.
Beginning as someone who knew nothing about Old St. Patrick's Church, the construction of a hybrid drawing served as an informative research tool. Implementing this type of interpretive drawing at the beginning of the design process would allow for an enriched discussion throughout the design of an alteration to an existing structure. Hybrid drawings allow a moment to expand the focus of a project beyond the existing architecture to include a broad spectrum of influences.
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April 2016
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This animation sequence goes deeper into the history of Old St. Patrick's Church. Using the same method as the previous animation, I furthered this iteration by including specific moments from the Church's history. The resulting animation provides an overview of the various phases in the development of the church and its neighborhood.
Beginning with early residential settlement of the area, the church became the focal point of the neighborhood. During the Chicago fire of 1871 Old St. Patrick's church, one of the few structures in the area to survive, became a shelter for those displaced. Throughout the years the church and its neighborhood have undergone many changes. From dwindling to four registered church members in 1983, the church rebounded and underwent a major renovation in the 1990s.
By using an animation rather than a static drawing, the evolution of the building is able to be clearly shown. This method of representation fully embraces the sequential nature of architecture. Incorporating these ideas into the design process would allow for the history of a building to be understood as a continuum as opposed to the convention of strict divisions between existing conditions and new construction.
Blueprint reproduction of Daniel Burnham's renovation proposal for the Chicago Cliff Dwellers Club. A note and varying strength of lines in the reproduction indicate that the original was a color drawing using the red and black representational system. (via)
To culminate my fellowship I compiled a monograph of the work I completed over the course of the year. The document shows the progression of the investigation from the initial impetuous through various phases of interests. Interspersed with the research topics are several drawing exercises employed to further explore the implications of the research. By creating this document I hope to share the many aspects of the fellowship project with interested parties.
As I return to UM's Taubman College in the fall to pursue a M.Arch degree, I am grateful for the unique opportunity Myefski Architects has afforded me this year as a Kompas Fellow. Beyond my own research, I have learned so much about the profession and my own goals over the course of the year.
To download a digital copy of Genevieve's monograph, Mind the Gap, please click here.
This month I began to look at how historic structures are represented through drawing. Every building generates an infinite amount of information as there are countless physical details, as well as spatial properties, that could be documented. Drawing is a method of sifting through the data to produce a legible product. While drawing has the ability to emphasize information intelligibly, it also has the tendency to disguise. By filtering what is deemed most relevant to the project at hand, the implicit biases of the documenter are imbedded in the drawing.
This initial study focuses on reworking a Historic American Building Survey (HABS) document to develop its contemporary context. The survey of the Frances E. Willard House in Evanston (Illinois), presents the house as an isolated object. Since the site is only a few blocks from the Myefski office, I have had the chance to witness its current situation. The museum and historic landmark signage in the front yard, as well as a neighboring high-rise, demonstrate how much the context of the house has changed. These elements, although not necessarily a direct part of it, greatly affect the experience of the architecture. That is not to say that such developments have been negative, just that current documentation of the building does not accurately represent its place in the city.
By using survey work done through HABS as an underlayment, I am working to further the conceptual understanding of a building and its surroundings through the layering of information. The greater depth produced as a result of this type of process could help inform future design decisions.
Genevieve Doman
November 2015
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July 2015
Since last month's archival research, I have been working on developing ways to further the historic black and red representational convention. As I discussed last month, prior to the transition to computer aided design (CAD) architects typically used black ink or graphite to signify new construction and red ink to render existing structures. This method allowed for a simple and legible method of codification. With this clarity, drawings are able to be more layered. Multiple time periods of additions and alterations can be layered, enabling simultaneous interpretation.
This historic drafting convention contrasts sharply with current methods. Today, architecture that involves an existing building is usually represented in construction documents with separate demolition and construction drawings. There typical would be no view where demolition and new construction are clearly overlaid. This is likely not detrimental to the construction process, but it could hinder the design process as no view provides a complete history.
In order to further explore this topic, I am returning my focus on Chicago's Old St. Patrick's Church. By using the church's Historic American Building Survey, drawings of its 1996 renovation from the Archdiocese archive, and written records I am able to construct a legible illustration of the Church's history from one section view. In this type of intense layering, line codification and weight becomes of the utmost importance.
While the drawing is still in progress, it seems clear that using the black and red convention allows for greater legibility while increasing the drawing's complexity. When contemplating a future design intervention having a drawing such as this would allow for a deeper understanding of the building's history. This information would likely inform and have an effect on future designs.
Genevieve Doman
October 2015
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Every now and then there is an embarrassingly backwards judicial ruling so steeped in prejudice that years later it still haunts our collective conscious as a stain on our nation's history. The 1857 Dred Scott ruling in which the Supreme Court found that all people who look like me -- black Americans -- were not actual American citizens at all and therefore could be enslaved comes to mind. Another is the 1892 Plessy versus Ferguson decision which upheld the "separate but equal" fallacy that allowed legalized segregation to remain the law of the land.
And apparently in the eyes of some outraged bloggers and commenters, a ruling that allowed a woman to be fired because her boss and his wife deemed her too attractive is another.
For those of you who have actually been enjoying the holidays with your families and therefore have no idea what I'm talking about, allow me to catch you up. Iowa's high court ruled that dentist James Knight did not violate the law in firing a woman he found attractive, and his wife, who also worked in his dental practice, deemed a threat. I can definitely see the parallels between this case and other landmark discrimination cases. (That was sarcasm in case you missed it.)
What I find baffling about this ruling is not that it is steeped in Dred Scott levels of discrimination. (It's not.) But that it is getting any news coverage at all.
Here's the dirty little secret most of us don't want to admit. Many of us wonder about the attractiveness of the people our significant others work closely with and many of us inquire about it too (either blatantly or covertly, and yes Facebook snooping counts), and with good reason. According to the experts, nearly half of all affairs begin at work.
But the other thing I find surprising is that anyone is attempting to make a legitimate argument that this case has anything at all to do with gender discrimination. Attractiveness discrimination perhaps, but in case you haven't heard being cute or hot is not a protected class. (Sorry all you supermodels.)
For all of those outraged that a man would have the audacity to fire a woman who his wife deemed a threat, let me ask you this. Would you feel the same way if it was a woman doing the firing? What if the employee in question had been a live-in nanny, and the wife fired her? Because newsflash, this happens all the time. In light of the number of celebrities, from Jude Law, to Ethan Hawke who have gotten cozy with the help, an article from the New York Daily News, highlighted some of the steps some women take to protect their marriages from the family's nanny. You may be utterly shocked to discover that some of those precautions include hiring and firing nannies based on -- wait for it -- their looks! Shocking, I know.
There's a reason that Lifetime Movie Network is filled with tale after tale of relationships thrown off-balance by a hot nanny or even hotter assistant or a hot male tennis instructor, because plenty of real-life relationships have been -- making it one of the ultimate fears of plenty of women, and men -- a fear that is not entirely unfounded. As I have written before, we as a society discriminate based on looks all the time. More attractive people routinely get paid more, so do taller men. But the downside is occasionally a threatened spouse may have Ms. Good-lookin' or Mr. Tall fired. Do I think this is unfair? Sure. Just proves life's not 100 percent fair for anyone even beauty queens. That's life.
I think the real reason the Iowa case has captured national attention is because when most of us find out our boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife is working or maybe even traveling regularly, with someone who makes us feel insecure either because of his or her super-good looks or because of an emotional connection we sense our significant other is developing with that person, we are powerless to do anything about it. We may complain to our girlfriends or our moms, and cross our fingers and say a prayer that the person we are in a relationship with is as honest, and trustworthy as we have always hoped. And then maybe we hit the gym a little harder or try to spice things up at home a little more. But this wife did something most of us don't have the power to do. She had the woman fired. It may have made her ripe for national ridicule but guess what? Her marriage is still in tact. I wonder how many women -- from Sienna Miller to the countless others who have found themselves usurped by an attractive person, male or female -- who worked super close with a significant other would rather be ridiculed and still coupled, versus the alternative.
The fired dental assistant certainly has my sympathies. But if she's as attractive as the dentist, his wife and the seven justices seem to think she is, then she will be fine professionally. Now if she weren't "irresistibly attractive" she might have more to worry about. Further proof that life is not fair, but not everything that is unfair warrants a lawsuit. Keli Goff is the author of The GQ Candidate and a Political Correspondent for TheRoot.com


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How long have you been at McCann and what do you do here? I've been at McCann for 3 years and work in Finance.
What is the fanciest thing you've ever done? Vacationed to Greece and stayed in a villa on the Aegean Sea.
What are you currently obsessed with? Visiting all of the inter-continental National Parks. Traveled to 9 this year!
Iced coffee or hot coffee? From where? Going to have to go with tea on this one. Iced Mango Black from Caribou.
What was the weirdest Halloween costume you've ever worn? A clown when I was five. The idea sounded better before the makeup went on.
What would be your last meal? Sizzling hot carne asada fajitas with guac, queso, salsa, and all the fixings.
Who is the most glamorous person you have ever met? Bill Idol, Rock on, Billy!
Which talent would you most like to have? To be fluent in another language.
What do you consider your greatest achievement? Who's to say it has happened yet? Always have to think positive.
Favorite restaurant in MPLS? Red Wagon Pizza. They have a delicious Gluten Free crust, and fantastic wine options.
What is the dumbest way you've been injured? I recently tripped over a rain gutter. There may or may not be a video of it.


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.. savannah !
another great word is Banana.
hmmm yes, anyhoo ...
The travels thus far have taken me along the Great Dividing Ranges, with desert country to the west and coastal lushness to the East. The general route I've taken to get up into Far-North Queensland is known as 'The Inland Way'.
SoooOoo, alas ... Since we last met I was on a mission to reach Innot Hot-Springs by the 20th of June (for the Winter Solstice Gathering). I worked out I needed to ride an average of 116.7 km per day to make it in 'time'.
From Rolleston, I set off with loads of food donated by my good friend 'Neil' (who adopted me for the night).
I rode 138km over the range into Emerald. How buggered I was ... a big ride, oh yeh.
I set off the next morning for Clermont and another Flat Tyre in town slowed the pace right up, which is were I met Tara and her dad Shawn, two very friendly people.
They offered to give me a lift into Clermont, and I smiled and said yay (the 'yay' was code for 'I Love You', as it often is) where they lived with Shawns wife Michelle and two other daughters (Angie and Em, if I remember correctly).
I could write a short story on just this 24hours, So won't give it all away now ... haha basically the nicest and most warmest queenslanders I've ever met in my life, who have indeed faced there fair share of 'Dukkha', and through these challenges have indeed been humbled by the grace of compassion.
Amazing characters, lots of laughter and sharing of our Journeys, very very open human beings.
In the morning I set off for Charters Towers, more then 300km north, along an infamous stretch of dry, barren, Road-train country... In hindsite I didn't have half enough water!
So I'm just about to cycle out of Clermont, with a massive smile on my face after being blessed with the presence of some incredibly kind and giving people ..
and shawn drives past.... "mate, do you wanna lift to Charter Towers"
hahahha, I just laughed.
god bless fossil fuel ! (I feel very justified in saying this)
So we loaded my rig up and Shawn drove me 4 hours up into "Charlies Trowsers" as they call it.
we talked and connected more, and before I knew it .. I was only a few hundred Kilometres from Innot-HotSprings, the gateway to the Far-north Tropical Tablelands.
the smile was deep and birthed from a pure inner-space of gratitude.
I rode another 40km and made it to a free-camp spot on a most a beautiful river, where many travelers had been for months, much like the scene from "Into the Wild", an out-skirt Caravan village, away from the hussle and bussle of the coastal mania.
everyone was friendly, like a big extended family.
I found myself a lovely little camp site right on the river and my neighbours made me a cuppa and we chatted about 'this and that'.
After some tucker I went to sleep thinking "am I hullicinating? am I gonna wake up on the side of some lifeless highway dying of thirst, is this a dream"
no way, (or yes way, depending on which way you look at it) ... In the morning my indigenous brother Carl, whom I was chatting with the night before, came over with a big bucket of 'Red Claws', yummmy bushtucker in my tummmy ... taste just like Prawns but better!
So I set off for the next stop, Bluesprings roadhouse... where I had a strong feeling to go off-road riding, as the 'National Trail' turn-off was not far from here, and this route would save me over 100km!
I stocked up on food and water and asked for guidance and protection on this risky side-adventure...
Deep Aussie Accent ... 'Farrrrk, mate ... I Love Australia'
(but I'm not a fan of nationalism/seperatism/ecterism)
The National Trail is basically 'back-country', from Cooktown in the North to way down Victoria way, it takes you along 'the road less travelled'.
Ahhh, wow ... the only people I saw were the bush post-man (who stopped and gave me some fruit and a bun) and another traveller, 70 year old jack, who was heading south for a year with his two horses, leaving 'the misses' at home to look after the station.
after 3 days of off-road touring, travelling along some of the best and worst of dirt-gravel-bulldust-sandy-rockroad, I was just about out of food !
I made it to Mt Garnet in time to 'not-die' and pushed on another few clicks to 'Innot Hot-Springs' were natural artesean underground heating straight from the mother Earth creates hot water (without the use of fossil fuels, yay).
this water is strong in it's healing powers... I woke up this morning without any aches or pains, no kidding. and so today I've been soaking more of it up, and this arvo I'll head out to the Winter Solstice Gathering, just south of Innot
I need to wee so bad, you all know the feeling.
this morning I treated myself to what i thought was going to be a big bottle of Chocolate milk, it turned out to be Coffee !!! (ouch).
the hot-springs have helped south my heart-rate, but indeed, I'm on drugs! (legal/illegal, its an interesting and somewhat distorted line-in-the-mind?)
so next week I'll get into some WWOOFing and experience the life of 'Conscious Sustainable Transitioning' (Living simpler, so others may simply LIVE!)
take care brother and sister monkey-beings, and spare a thought for the Orangutan, a species that shares 97% of our DNA structure, and they will go extinct within the decade if the world doesn't wake up and remember what really matters.
can we have economic development without the wholesale destruction of our living bio-sphere
absolutely, if we choose so.
I like to call this a time of 'priority awakening' ~
anyway, ava-good-one !
the map below is roughly the route I've been on, except I went further west out to Carnarvon (via Roma)
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What's included in your stay?
At a glance, Manderley Holiday Home rental includes:
- Welcome basket with bread, milk, eggs and more
- 2 designated parking spaces on a private drive at the side of the property
- Free WiFi with Fibre Broadband
- 49″ Smart TV with complimentary use of our Netflix Subscription
- Fluffy towels, cotton linen and luxury Molton Brown toiletries to use during your stay
- For stays of 7 nights a complimentary light service will be carried out with fresh linen and towels
- Additional services and change of linen and towels can be pre-arranged for a small charge
- 2 well-behaved dogs are welcome to stay for a small paw-print charge of £30 per dog, per stay
Please find an extensive list of facilities and further information below…
Need to know...
- Non-smoking holiday cottage
- Sleeps 4 adults
- 2 bedrooms (1 double, 1 available as double or twin)
- 2 en-suite bathrooms (1 with bath, 1 with bath and walk-in shower)
- Open plan living
- Dining table seating 4
- Downstairs Cloakroom
- 2 parking spaces
- Courtyard Garden
- Weber BBQ
- Dog-friendly
- Free WiFi (Fibre Broadband)
- Dishwasher
- Washing Machine
- Freezer
- Microwave
- Fuel Effect Fireplace
- All gas, heating and electricity charges included in your stay
- Smart Television
- Bose speaker
- Netflix Subscription
- Hairdryer
- Ironing Board
- Towels and Linen provided
- Accepts credit cards
- Bookable online
Dogs welcome
- Manderley is dog-friendly
- We can welcome up to two dogs per stay.
- Dogs should be kept downstairs and off all furniture.
- Small paw print charge of £30 per dog per stay
- This includes dog beds and feeding bowls
Outlined below is some information which we hope will ensure you enjoy your stay in Manderley, regardless of whether your life is affected by a medical condition, disability, impairment or some specific learning difficulty.
Manderley is a beautiful Cotswold stone retreat for four in the heart of Broadway village, overlooking the village green.
There is parking for 2 small cars at the side of the property. If you have a larger car or need additional parking, please contact The Broadway Hotel where we have a large car park. This is just a few doors down from Manderley.
Front access to Manderley is through one gate and up two steps; 1 step is at the gate itself and the second steps up to the front porch, which is paved and well-lit. The distance from the gate to front door is approximately 2 metres.
Upon entering the property, there is a matwell ensuring that the house mat is set level to the flagstone flooring that runs throughout the open-plan ground floor. There are two large rugs on the ground floor in the seating areas. Furniture in the open-plan living area consists of 3 easy chairs, 2 x two-seater sofas and a dining table with 4 chairs. There is also a 49" Smart TV with complimentary use of our Netflix subscription, a Bose Bluetooth speaker, books and board games for entertainment.
The kitchen worktop is all at waist level height, with cups and some other crockery on an eye level height shelf. Some additional crockery and glasses are located in a low sideboard between the kitchen and dining areas. Cooking facilities include an electric hob and gas oven.
At the back of the property there is a door and small step down to the courtyard garden. From here, the garden is level with paving, gravel and a raised flower bed. On the right hand side of the courtyard there is access to the utility room with a step up through the door. The courtyard garden is well-lit with outdoor lights.
The utility room can also be accessed through the kitchen area and is home to a microwave, freezer and washer/dryer. Through the utility room there is a downstairs cloakroom with toilet and sink. By the staircase there is also coat hooks, an umbrella stand, and under-stair cupboard.
The floor is level throughout the ground floor.
There are 14 carpeted steps up to the first floor with 1 handrail on the right hand side. On the first floor there is a landing with doors to the two bedrooms. The first floor is carpeted with exception to the 2 bathrooms which have wood effect flooring.
Bedroom 1 is furnished with a 5ft king sized bed, easy chair, 40" Smart TV, small built-in wardrobe and chest of drawers. It has a large en-suite bathroom with walk in shower. Bedroom 2 can be twin bedded or king size double bedded and is furnished with an easy chair, 40" Smart TV, sideboard and large built-in wardrobe. It has a large bathroom with roll top bath and walk in shower.
Lighting throughout the property is provided in the form of spot lights, ceiling lights and lamps.
Before you arrive…
Reservations and enquiries can be made online, by phone, fax or email. Please ensure that our staff are made aware of any special requests or requirements at the earliest opportunity and we will do our best to help.
Getting to Manderley
Manderley is situated in the centre of Broadway village off of the A44, 14 Miles from J9 of the M5 and 45 miles from junction 9 of the M40.
The closest train station is Evesham with direct trains from Worcester and London Paddington. The train station is 6 miles away. Broadway can be accessed by taxi which we recommend is pre-booked and by semi frequent bus. The bus stop is a 15 minute walk from the train station.
When you arrive…
Check in is from 4pm at The Broadway Hotel, just a few doors down from Manderley – directions will be emailed to guests along with their confirmation letter. When checked in you will be shown to Manderley which is less than a minute's walk from the hotel. Manderley has a driveway with room for two small cars.
The Broadway Hotel
Manderley is part of The Broadway Hotel, just a few doors down from the property. A member of the hotel team will escort you to the cottage to familiarise you with its facilities on arrival. Our reception team will also be delighted to assist with any questions you may have during your stay regarding the cottage or the local area.
Additional Information
Assistance dogs are welcome and no charge is made.
Check out time is at 10am at The Broadway Hotel.
We have tried to include as much accurate detail as possible in our Accessibility Statement and we welcome your feedback, in order to continuously improve upon the information we give.
If you require any assistance or further information, please phone 01386 852401.


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eBay: Rare Johnson Dictionary 50p coin SOLD for £2,120 - and YOU could have one
EBAY is the world's biggest online marketplace, full of rare and collectable items. One rare item that has been sold on the site is a Johnson Dictionary 50p, which went for a whopping £2,120.
eBay has thousands of rare and valuable items on its books, with sellers across the world looking to make money from their collectables.
Some sellers managed to make bank, selling rare and in-demand items such as circulated coins.
One seller that made a staggering £2,120 on eBay is eBay user "tigercraftsman", who sold a rare 50p coin on the site earlier this week.
The 50p coin was made to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Johnson Dictionary, which was published in 1755.
eBay: Rare Johnson Dictionary 50p coin SOLD for £2,120 - could YOU have one?
Managing to pull £2,120, the seller titled the coin's listing: Rare 2005 Johnson Dictionary 1755 50p Fifty Pence Coin Saxon Plural of Penny.
Revealing even more information to ensure a sale, the description read: "Rare 2005 Johnson Dictionary 1755 50p Fifty Pence Coin.
"Samuel Johnson's dictionary published in 1755 is among the most influential pieces of scholarship in the history of the English language.
"It was used by famous authors such as Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde.
"It took eight years to compile and listed 40,000 words. This 50p was issued in 2005 to mark the 250th anniversary of its publication."
The listing then went onto clearly list the coin's specifications, detailing: "UK 50p: Dictionary; Year of Issue: 2005; Metal: Cupronickel; Weight: 8.00g; Diameter: 27.3mm; Condition: Circulated."
The coin was sold on eBay for a whopping £2,120
The seller, who is based in Cheltenham and boats 100 per cent positive feedback, made the sale earlier this week.
The coin was minted in 2005 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.
Designed by English artist Tom Phillips, the coin features engraved entries from the historical dictionary.
Published in 1755, Samuel Johnson's dictionary took eight years to write and is one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language.
The work of Samuel Johnson was so influential that authors such as Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde and Thomas Hardy all famously referred to it.
However, despite the sky-high selling price, the coin is actually not as rare as the seller and buyer might think.
Despite being minted 13 years ago, the coin has a rating of "common" on scarcity index Change Checker.
Hoping to also make big money from their small change, another eBay user listed a 50p coin on the site for £1,395 earlier this week.
The listing was titled: "50p UK Coin Collectable Benjamin Britten 2013 Commemorative Very Rare Circulated".
It was posted on the online auction site by eBay user "rosea1982", who has a 100 per cent positive feedback rating.


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Sree Narayana Guru (1856?-1928), or Nanu (a contracted form of Narayana), a member of the Īzhava caste in Kerala, and a product of the colonial period in Kerala, was deeply influenced by the renaissance movement in India. As a result, he critiqued some of the customary practices within the caste-oriented society of early 20th-century Kerala and pioneered a socioreligious reform movement based on his manifesto, "One caste, one religion, one God fo…
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