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Two Ways To Keep Calm In The Face Of Tragedy
In this crazy world of ours, there is rarely a break from news stories of tragedy. How can we watch the horrid news reports, complete with videos of the terror and, as a human, not be affected? And more importantly, given that we feel deeply and intensely, how can we keep calm in the face of these tragedies?
There are tragedies happening all over the world all the time. Most of them we don't hear about or do hear about and don't think of too much. Bombings like the ones in Boston are commonplace in many parts of the world. When we know about it, our hearts go out to the people involved. When it is closer to us, either geographically or we have some connection to the people involved or the place involved, we may feel the sadness deeper.
This reaction can prompt many things in our psyches. Most commonly sadness, and some form of worry or anxiety. Especially if we are far away and cannot directly help the situation. (If we were to help, this action can be an outlet for our fears and assist us in calming down.) The kinds of worries that may arise vary, for example, fear of it happening to us (vulnerable), fear of losing someone you love, fear of the world "going to hell," fear of triggering trauma memories, fear for the people involved, fear of death, etc.
Two Ways To Keep Calm In The Face Of Tragedy
1. Do Something
Take some kind of action. Action makes us feel useful and purposeful. It is a way to use the energy and adrenaline the anxiety floods into our body. When anxiety is fed by feelings of helplessness, feeling helpful can turn the tides.
If you are far, you can pray, donate money, donate blood, keep informed, check in with other friends who may be struggling with the news, listen to someone, distract yourself or others, create some peace in your own community by modeling forgiveness, decline being invited into competition, or show someone love, etc.
If you are near, you can do the above and perhaps assist directly.
2. Think about it symbolically
If you are reading about a tragedy on the news and thinking about it as if you were right there having it happen to you, it does not help anyone. Least of all you. You are not assisting the victims. You can have compassion and love without coming so far deep into the pain yourself. In fact, this used to happen to me. I became so involved in my own anxiety, that I had to shut myself off. In a way, this was selfish, because then I didn't contribute at all. Through the guidance of a teacher, I began to take some of the action I mentioned above and this not only helped me squelch my anxiety, but I actually helped others, too.
Thinking about things symbolically helps. We live and die and have a purpose in this world for some reason. These reasons are symbolic of our life journey. These are experiences which we have to either learn or grow or contribute in some way. If events leave a legacy, what would that legacy be? What lesson do we take from it? What do we learn about ourselves and our community through it? How does it have us wanting to live? What does it have us want to commit to?
Thinking from the big picture view can help us keep calm. It helps us make sense of things, which helps us stay calm. We can do this with personal events, too. In fact, it is very important to do this with all events; personal, community, and/or worldly events. To do this, I literally imagine myself from above or from a hillside overlooking the whole situation. I see all facets from everyone involved. I try to forget all my assumptions and see it with a beginner's mind. New unbiased meanings help clarify the situation.
From this viewpoint, it is easy to see all sides and pieces to the story that I could not see from so close. I can see different ideas, perspectives, and meanings that help me put the situation in context. I feel less afraid because I understand it better somehow. My questions have been answered, I have made some sense of it. My mind settles.
What do you think?
How do you handle hearing, witnessing, or experiencing tragedy?
APA Reference
LCSW-R, J. (2013, April 17). Two Ways To Keep Calm In The Face Of Tragedy, HealthyPlace. Retrieved on 2019, September 23 from https://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/anxiety-schmanxiety/2013/04/two-ways-to-keep-calm-in-the-face-of-tragedy


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A 'First Sunday' reminder...
I thought you might be interested in the images below. A year or so ago I was taking students out landscape painting on a Thursday, and I mentioned that it was my practice to use the (usually) 9 x 5 paintings as the basis for a larger studio painting. Well, here's the latest. It's bound for Artspace in Mackay for a group exhibition in which I'm taking part during July. I'll let you know more about that closer to the date.
I think it's quite interesting to see the development of a quick colour sketch into a more considered painting (the final piece is 910 x 505mm, oil on board). The obvious differences are the greater sense of distance in the larger piece, and a need to present the illusion of a more detailed foreground. The other thing to note is the use of a yellow ochre/viridian combination to achieve the shadows in the Gum Tree canopy. Not something I've used before, but very effective.
Finally, a reminder about my next 'First Sunday' workshop (Sunday 4th March). We'll meet at the studio this time, and will be working on the industrial landscape close by. It might not sound too thrilling, but it can produce some very interesting compositions. Have a look at the Plein air section of my Gallery to see some of my previous work using the same subject.
So, until the next time,
Nick L

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"Playwriting and Specific Audiences: Strategies for Understanding and Reaching Those Audiences", by Suzanne Lebeau (Canada)
On May 29, 2014, two days of the ASSITEJ Congress and Festival in Warsaw were dedicated to playwriting, coordinated and curated by Zbigniew Rudzinski of the Children's Art Center in Poznan.
The playwriting platform began with a talk by Suzanne Lebeau from Montreal addressing the topic of Playwriting and specific audiences: strategies for understanding and reaching these audiences. Can authors who write for children escape the double authority of the author over the audience and the adult over the child?
Summary of the talk:
Traditionally, and with few historical exceptions – Marti in Cuba, Andersen in Denmark, Montessori in Italy, Freinet in France, Korczack in Poland, and several others – the child has always been considered a human being in the making, who must learn from adults in order to grow up. Our current ideas about children and childhood were born in the twentieth century, with the development of cognitive science. Among the best-known advances in this area were Piaget's decisive research on the formation of intelligence from psychomotility to complex thought, and the uncovering of the child's powerful, avid, and hyperactive unconscious by Klein, Anna Freud, Miller, Dolto, and others. Then, there's been research on the development of the symbolic function among children starting at age two (Piaget, Wallon) and on their stunning aptitude for symbolic interpretation of the world, which led Jung to propose that they come into the world with a genetic heritage of the sum of all human knowledge. In Jung's view, a newborn child already has the ability and a yearning for relationships with others. Finally, I should mention Cyrulnik's demonstration of children's fascinating capacity for resiliency. Children are complex human beings, and a balanced society should not treat them as unformed beings or dumb consumers. Children exist, demanding and complete, in every aspect of social, intellectual, cultural and economic life as both subjects and objects.
I encountered young audiences as an actor forty years ago in the euphoria of cognitive theories and new teaching methods. I stayed with young audiences for the questions that arose at each word, each contact. The first question was, Where is the boundary between fiction and reality in a child's mind, and does it move as he grows? When a child talks in sign language to a mute character after a performance, is she respecting the codes of theatre in real life or does she believe that what she saw on stage was real life? Does the spectator's age influence his comprehension, impact, pleasure? Although I didn't know about Jacques Rancière, I became the "ignorant schoolmaster" who learned the trade of author from spectators of various ages, backgrounds, and cultures. The questions kept coming ... the paradoxes, both constraining and stimulating, became obvious. Theatre for young audiences, which now has repertoires, performance networks, and institutional infrastructure, raises ethical, aesthetic, and philosophical issues that must be central to the debates among artists, teachers, and presenters.
In the twenty-first century, neuroscience is uncovering incredible paradigm reversals in our knowledge of perception and comprehension of the other and the world. In light of these discoveries, I've revisited my plays, from Ti-Jean voudrait ben s'marier, mais… to Gretel et Hansel, to analyze forty years of writing for specific and captive audiences, and to put words and concepts to the tools for reaching audiences formulated instinctively for each of these plays (animation, experimental performances, consultations, readings, and so on) and the stylistic tools for a true relationship with audiences (decanting, founding metaphor, use of stories, structures for producing context, and so on) developed to circumvent censorship and self-censorship. The concept of empathy developed by Alain Berthoz strangely resembles how I situate myself with regard to childhood and in my relationships with children to reduce, counter, soften, or radically confront, depending on the play or the project, the insidious and perverse self-censorship (that comes from intransigent censorship by adult guardians) that adult artists experience in the double position of authority over an audience that is, I repeat, not only specific but captive. This concept of empathy allows me to imagine that it is possible to see and describe the world through an other's point of view (in this case, the child that I want to touch) without forgetting that I am an adult, a woman, and an artist with convictions, existential questions, and concerns that arise at a particular moment in my life and work.
A second concept, which I've called "founding metaphor," enables me to evade the obligations of fantasy or humour (in contemporary vocabulary, the word "humour" is used to talk about theatre for young audiences, as the term "fantasy" is too closely linked with the sterile Walt Disney vision of the world), but both words require the same playful or light-hearted approach to the reality of the concrete or philosophical world. With its power to organize contradictions, the founding metaphor gives access to all approaches, even the most painful ones, to a multiple, contradictory, and destabilizing reality, and thus to emotion. It is this metaphor that organized, often without my knowing, the thousands of details I recorded, that let me forget the children, the data gathered, the obligations of the appropriate, the lines not to be crossed. I carried the children within me and could undertake a vertical exploration of the discourse and the how of this discourse with a firm grasp of the emotions aroused by texts that many have called difficult.
In conclusion, can authors who write for children escape the double authority of the author over the audience and the adult over the child?
I'm fully aware of why I chose childhood, and I've worked relentlessly to reverse the traditional relationship of children's didactic subordination to adults. I have learned from children. There is no vanity in the profession of faith but a real passion for the world of children who have not yet learned to conform. Children are on the margin, both rebellious and helplessly poetic. "The child's flaws make his genius," wrote Henri Michaux in "Essais d'enfant, dessins d'enfant." This new, unprejudiced gaze at the world has also forced me to be inventive in my residencies with children, and I have made my exploratory work with them into a vast playground in which empathy, without knowing either the word or the concept, has become methodology. With this presence inhabiting me, once I had finished the case-by-case review of the workshops I could forget the children. Forget them once and for all when I began to write, when the metaphor resolved the doubts, paradoxes, and contradictions and brought them alive in a creative synergy.
The founding metaphor for each play marked the end of one step (research) and the beginning of another (writing). If empathy enabled me to draw closer to the world of childhood and understand its vocabularies and syntax, metaphor returned to me the author's margin of manoeuvre and the right to follow an inner urgency, to speak out loud a point of view both contestable and unique. I claim thus the right not to create the mushy consensuses that adults adore when they talk about childhood. I claim a "social" responsibility to speak of the world as it is. I claim the right to my language, sometimes radical, strong and hard, non-complacent, uncompromising, to speak of an imperfect world, the one in which we all – children and adults – live. And I never forget that although art has a representative function, as Stuart Mills said, it also has a constitutive function, and we become what we absorb.


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Won't you feel upset when you sit inside a room for a while without any interaction with the outside? Do you feel more relaxed and calm when you are in a plants-rich area even if you have sorrows? Did you realise why you felt relaxed in nature? is it because of the power of plants?
Credit: Seattle Municipal Archives, Flickr
We, humans believe and studies prove that our ancestors were monkeys. Now I have a question. Does anyone know about any other animal in the planet which misuses nature to the extent Man has? Many amongst us feel that we have evolved into more developed beings and have as a race discovered many things. What a joke, it is, to think evolution should also mean destruction! We are surviving here only because of Nature and the support of plants and we think about more evolution by misusing the whole ecosystem. Nature is vast, and full of bountiful energy. This abundant energy can impact each and every organism in nature.
Credit: Flickr-Frontierofficial
A nature walk or a tree hug, or a conversation with a plant or at least a silent observation of a plant can help you to get distracted from all sorrows and unnecessary thoughts that plague your mind. When you are in a plant-rich environment, you can breathe pure and rich oxygenated air that will give lots of energy to your body and your brain starts to work in better way. We often hear form our participants that they feel better after a day-long workshop with us as we give them many activities to do outdoors in gardens free from chemicals. Presence of plants around you will help to transfer positive energy in the environment to your body and so you can feel relaxed and your mind becomes ready to find solutions for problems and also gets ready for facing the problem.
Gardening and plants-related activities will help to enhance self-esteem and self-confidence in you and so you become mentally strong and obviously while doing different gardening activities it will help to increase physical fitness. Horticultural therapy helps people to connect people back to nature with various nature and plants-related activities. It will be better to choose specific activities with the help of a Horticultural Therapist if the participants are special needy people. Because the therapist can help to choose correct activities which would benefit the concerned people.
If you can plant a Plant and care as much as you can sincerely, you are a good social being.


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"Do good, for God is God": this is how the great Spanish playwright, Calderón de la Barca, sums up the drama of human existence in his important play of 1648, "The Great Theater of the World."
Whether one goes to heaven or hell has everything to do with how one treats the beggar in the play. And in this, Calderón distills much of the lesson from yesterday's Mass readings.
As we meditate further on these readings, I would particularly like us to think about what they entail in terms of the principles that must guide our common deliberation, as American Christians, about immigrants and refugees. I have staked out a particular position on these matters in other places. Here I want to focus on the principles, in the hope of fostering consensus.
In the first Mass reading from Leviticus, we have Moses presenting the Law under the overarching command and purpose: "Be holy, for I, the LORD, your God, am holy" (Lv 19:2).
Amongst the nations, the chosen nation of Israel is to live differently, so as to draw all people to the worship of the one true God. For example: "The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning. You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the LORD" (19:13).
Later in the chapter we are told: "When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God" (19:33-34).
These are still our laws as Christians. And the premise is nothing less than the metaphysical fact that God is God. From that fact alone, we must do good.
The coming of the Son of God in the flesh only intensifies the imperative to do good (and this doing good is, above all, a question of social morality; sexual ethics, say, must itself be understood in terms of social morality, and should never be the special object of a neurotic fixation). In the great Last Judgment scene of Matthew 25, it is not only that we must do good because God is God and God is good. We must do good because we love Jesus and owe Him everything. In Jesus, the goodness of God has gone all the way into total identification with each human being, especially the poorest and most powerless.
It is a fearsome thing to fail to see Jesus in our neighbor, that is, anyone whom God brings near by placing him or her in our path in some way (including a stranger from a far country who has come here). Our obligations to our neighbor must not be explained away by a perverse use of natural law, as if nature could ever trump grace. Jesus is very clear, and it should make all of us tremble: "'Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, ill and in prison, and you did not care for me.' Then they will answer and say, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, and not minister to your needs?' He will answer them, 'Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me'" (25:41-45).
There is such a thing as an "order of charity," but how we understand that must be measured by the words of Jesus. We must not measure the words of Jesus by our rationalizations. HE is the Judge; we are the judged. Not the other way around.
We do owe special obligations to those entrusted to our care, but "the neighbor," the one who has been brought close (and that can include enemies), is also entrusted to our care. Jesus is very clear.
I am renewing my Marian consecration right now, and one of the difficult points about such consecration is surrendering the ability to direct one's spiritual offerings any way one wants, say, for the sake of one's loved ones—even for the sake of one's own children! One is supposed to surrender all merits into Mary's hands, so that she may see that they are applied where they are most needed. The assumption here is that there is an objective order of need, which of course we are not able to survey. There really is a providential plan in which our sufferings and offerings are important, which we are not able to survey.
Fetishizing the "order of charity" in a way that makes our obligations in the drama of salvation surveyable by us is a mistake. It is crypto-secularism.
Yes, we must provide for our children first. And, yes, the poor and the powerless in our country have a special claim on our charity. And, yes, how many immigrants and refugees we can take care of is a reasonable question. But for the wealthiest nation on earth, the answer is going to be a whole lot more than zero. And the immigrants who have already built lives here… Well, the Leviticus passage above is very clear.
We can't wait until we've stockpiled enough to care for our children for the rest of their lives, or until we've eradicated poverty in this country, before we care for others, "strangers," God has, in His providence, made our neighbors. We must take care of all the needy who are ours to take care of: family, fellow-citizen, and stranger. God the Father is sovereign over history; our convenient understandings of natural law are not.
At the beginning of the second part of his first encyclical, Deus Caritas est, Pope Benedict makes clear that charity in action necessarily flows from charity in the soul: "The Spirit is also the energy which transforms the heart of the ecclesial community, so that it becomes a witness before the world to the love of the Father, Who wishes to make humanity a single family in His Son. The entire activity of the Church is an expression of a love that seeks the integral good of man: it seeks his evangelization through Word and Sacrament, an undertaking that is often heroic in the way it is acted out in history; and it seeks to promote man in the various arenas of life and human activity. Love is therefore the service that the Church carries out in order to attend constantly to man's sufferings and his needs, including material needs."
That is the authentic Christian social vision: Trinitarian, integral (spiritual and material), and universalizing.
This mission is the whole point of being Christian, which is why Jesus presents the Last Judgment as a test of our earnestness in honoring the consubstantial solidarity of our shared humanity, especially as found in the powerless—as radicalized by the Incarnation: what we do to the least of our neighbors, we do to Him. We must always do good, for God is holy, that is, good without limit, good even to uniting Himself in love to every single needy one of us.


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Why I'm eating a paleo-vegan-celiac-diabetic diet and yet I'm none of those things.
About four months ago I went to see the 'ol doc. I have had trouble nearly all my life with what we'll call "digestive issues" but lately they've gotten out of hand. And so began my first round of tests. Determined that it was the gallbladder we did the sonogram, the blood work, the HIDA scan, the spit test, the poo test, and every other test there possibly is out there...nothing. Next we tried more blood work, nothing. Then a colonoscopy and endoscopy (let's not even go there). And of course the answer was the same...nothing. The good news is that I wont' need surgery, I don't have Chrohn's or UC, and there is no sign of cancer or anything else suspicious. Yay! But now what?
It was during my many nights of stomach pain, "digestive issues", and more that I started praying and researching. Two things that can be very dangerous. It was during this time that I ran across Dr. Mark Hyman. If you've never heard of this man or his wonderful books I highly recommend you go over to his site right now and start reading.
Since returning from Peru in 2010 I started hearing more about how food has a lot to do with our health. Everything I read made since, not only a scientific point of view, but also a biblical perspective. So when Dr. Mark Hyman brought up this topic again, but in relation to treating all the symptoms I've been experiencing, I began to wonder. "Could this be the cure to what's happening inside my body?"
After talking to a friend she recommended her doctor in town, who not only is a Christian, but is also the only doctor who was able to find out what was wrong with her. He looks at the whole picture by treating with diet, vitamins and little meds.
Now almost 6 months later I finally have part of a prognosis and am eating my way back to health. After taking an IgG allergy test we discovered that my body reacts poorly to certain things. (I had suspected this for awhile, but now I had the proof) And after fitting the profile for Candida and exploring what that means, we concluded that it was indeed the reason causing all the pain. With symptoms mirroring those of IBS, fatigue, weight gain, and more, it just made sense. (Not to mention the fact that my antibiotic use while I lived overseas was way above normal)
So now I am on the Candida Diet. While there are a few websites out there that will help you with recipes and tips it's still hard to find things that also include some of the allergies I have to avoid for the next 6 months, hence the Paleo (no dairy, no grains, no alcohol, no processed foods) Vegan (no eggs) Celiac (no gluten) and Diabetic (no sugar except Stevia and no fruit except some berries and a small green apple). With that said, the first question I always get is, so what CAN you eat?
Ah, glad you asked. Follow along with me for the next 6 months as I document my journey and show you what you can eat! And hopefully, for those of you who might be having similar struggles with your health as me can see that you can do this! Yes, it takes planning and a little more time to prepare meals, but let's be honest, it's worth it.


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This site started as a place to share the inspiration that I find from being in the mountains. It's a non commercial venture, community and environmental in orientation, and focused on human-powered adventure.
Clearly, there are lots of other people who are are equally addicted. Thanks for all the messages of late. Visitation keeps building, in fact remarkably so. Partly I assume this is because there is so much going on that impacts on the mountains – the sections dealing with alpine grazing, prospecting in national parks, private developments in parks, and logging, are all getting major attention.
In spite of these and other threats and issues, there are lots of good reasons to be out in the mountains. As the saying goes: "Stuff politics, let's dance" (or ride/ walk/ run/ climb / paddle/ or maybe just sit and enjoy).
Mountain Journal is also on facebook, where the focus is on celebration of everything mountain.
It would be great if people felt inspired to contribute photos. The photo of the day posting features a pic of a favourite place: please feel free to send yours to email@example.com or post them directly on the FB page.


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Pungent Indie Rock
Silversun Pickups -- Well Thought Out Twinkles (3.2mb mp3 from the band's label)
This band must get sick of being compared to other bands in the modern rock canon, but I do mean it as a serious compliment when I say that they remind me of earlier Smashing Pumpkins with occasional nods to the Pixies. Not in a copycat way, but with good solid influences and their own twist on them.
Things get started here with a chunky, almost bluesy groove that downshifts into the verse, then returns with a sort of classic-rock vengeance later on. I didn't really warm up to the song until I had heard the excellent break at the half-way point a few times -- such a thick, tight sound with a chugging bass line, a spacey keyboard floating along behind, and then growing intensity and distortion as things get rolling again to finish things up. This is fantastic rock, and I can only imagine how amazing they'd be in concert.


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Since poker is such a widely played game, there are endless theories and analyses that can help you better understand it. If you are serious about being a good poker player, then it helps to research and internalize these thoughts so that you can recognize them on the table and use them to your advantage. We want to make sure that you can go from being a newbie to a pro without having to play thousands of hands, which is why we are dedicated to offering you the most valuable insight you can get on the game. In this case, velocitization is what we are going to discuss (Pronounced Ve-Loss-Ci-Ti-Zay-Shun).
This phenomenon is not exclusive to poker, but it certainly is applicable. If you're the type of person who likes to play tournaments or go from high stakes tables to entry level ones, then you most likely have experienced it. In fact, many longtime players have probably felt this at some point without ever realizing that it had a name.
Thankfully, like anything you experience on the tables, the more you know and understand what's happening, the better you can be about recognizing it and putting a stop to it. While Velocitization is not necessarily a bad thing, it can lead to some pretty boneheaded mistakes. Thus, to help you avoid such situations, we will go over this phenomenon in depth.
What is Velocitization?
Technically speaking, velocitization is a concept born out of physics and motion. The best way to describe it is to use a car analogy. Since we all spend so much time driving, it's much easier to understand this way.
Let's say that you're cruising down the freeway, speeding along at eighty or ninety miles per hour. After a while, you get accustomed to traveling at that speed, so if you ever have to slow down, like when two trucks are passing each other and blocking both lanes, you feel like you're crawling. Even if the relative speed difference is not a huge amount, because you're so used to going fast and rushing by everything, the change is now magnified. In this example, you may be slowing from eighty miles per hour to just sixty, and yet it feels like you might as well be driving at twenty.
How it works is that once your body and mind have adjusted to going at a certain speed, as soon as you have to slow down by any considerable amount it feels much worse than it really is. In our car situation above, it can get frustrating very easily, and you may find yourself getting irritated at the slightest provocation.
In short, this experience applies to many different situations, in that once you get so wrapped up in a certain way of doing things, having to slow down or shift course can be jarring and frustrating.
Velocitization in Poker
So how does this phenomenon apply to poker? After all, the game mechanics are virtually the same, so how can velocitization be a problem on the tables? Well, this experience manifests itself if you have ever gone from a high-stakes table to one that is entry-level. For example, if you're finishing up at a game with a blind of $1000 and then you move to a full table that opens with $10 bets, the action can feel incredibly slow and annoying.
Most notably velocitization happens in tournaments. You have to play at a table until people get knocked off, so bets increase incrementally until you make it to the next round. However, once you get to the next table, everyone starts at a lower amount, which is a huge change from the bets you were just doing.
So what are the effects of velocitization? Again, most people who experience this get frustrated easily and start to act out. In poker, this is dangerous, as it could lead you to make moves that you otherwise wouldn't try, and you may wind up hemorrhaging chips as a result. Essentially, you got so used to playing in a big game that now playing for smaller stakes seems like you're moving backward. In fact, velocitization can get bad enough that it's comparable to going full tilt. If you've ever had that happen before, you know how ugly it can get.
Velocitization Remedy
So what can you do when you feel velocitized? Well, first of all, you need to understand what is happening. For the most part, you should be able to recognize the signs immediately, especially if you're going from high stakes tables to entry level ones.
Once you've realized and assessed the situation, then it comes time to react accordingly. There is no one right answer for everyone, but essentially you want to take a deep breath and start to slow down. If possible, try to clear your head of strategies for last tables, and instead try to focus on fundamentals and basic poker.
In some cases, the best answer is to take a break. Get your mind off the game for a little while until you can come back refreshed and ready for another slow burn game. As any pro will tell you, poker is a marathon, not a race, so if things seem to be getting too slow for your tastes, you need to get on board with the pace or risk losing big.
Warning Signs of Velocitization
To help you better understand what to watch out for, we've developed a short list of signs that you may be velocitized. If you are noticing any of these signs, it could be time to take a break and slow down.
- Increased bet size in early games with a full table
- Feeling like no pot is worth it because they are too small
- Impatience at how other people are playing
- Calling or raising just to increase the pot
While this is not a comprehensive list, it can be an excellent way to start noticing if velocitization is affecting you. The best news, however, is that you should be able to correct your behavior once you catch it. If nothing else, once your stack starts to go down substantially you may begin to realize what you're doing and then shift gears to minimize the damage.
Velocitization Conclusion
So what have we learned then about this experience? Basically, the most important step to avoiding falling down the velocitization pit is to recognize when it happens and develop a strategy to get your head back in the game. In fact, we bet that many of you reading this are thinking that there is finally a word for how this feels, and maybe you've already created a system for dealing with it.
Overall, the most important thing is not to let it take control of your playing abilities, and certainly not let it show to your opponents. The worst thing is another player taking advantage of your impatience to grow his or her bankroll while you're still thinking about high-stakes strategy. Remember to take a step back, relax, and, if necessary, remove yourself from the table to recharge. Now that you know what to look for, you can avoid it as much as possible.
Further Reading
To help you become a better player overall, we suggest that you take a look at some of our other poker strategy guides. The best thing to do to avoid velocitization is to be flexible and have the ability to refocus your skills according to the game that's being played. Here are some other articles that can help you overall, as well as assist you with recognizing velocitization when it occurs.
Position and Raising Equity
This article will help you understand that your place on the table can have a tremendous impact on your betting strategy. What that also means is that you can use your position to your advantage.
Becoming a Poker Pro
If you want to take the game seriously, then you have to put in the time and effort to learn the fundamentals. Once you've mastered those, then you can start to develop advanced strategy and tactics to make your time on the tables much more profitable in the long run.
Poker Odds and Pot Size
Part of the effect of velocitization is that when you're going from minimum pots of several thousand dollars to ones that are only worth less than a hundred, it can feel like you're wasting your time. To help get your mind back to basics, you should instead focus on the odds and pot size relative to your blinds so that you can get back into the swing of things.
At the end of the day, the more you can learn about how the game is played, the better off you will be in the long run. Velocitization does not have to be a damaging problem as long as you can back off and take the big picture approach. Letting your emotions get the better of you can lead to some significant losses, so try to take your feelings off the table as much as possible. Comment below if you ever experienced velocitization – did you find a coping strategy?


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The Internet is full of information about almost any topic imaginable, but sometimes it can feel like the answer to your question isn't always at your fingertips. It can be difficult to find sources you can trust with so many ongoing conversations taking place across society, media and the Internet. These notions laid the foundation of GMO Answers when we launched GMOAnswers.com in 2013 to answer your questions and encourage a two-way dialogue about anything related to GMOs and biotechnology.
Since then, we've welcomed over 1,300 questions from people across all backgrounds — including curious students, parents, teachers and skeptics, among others — and provided each one with a unique response from one of our volunteer experts. This level of engagement is far beyond what we ever expected. That's why today we're excited to announce the relaunch of GMOAnswers.com.
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In today's society and culture, knowledge is being pigeonholed. Every area of study is being shoved into its own space, causing people to focus on one aspect and seldom others. This very reason is why I chose to pursue a degree of Mental Health Studies with the interdisciplinary studies program at PSU. I felt that to get the best out of my four years, I should study what I want and how I want to; which wasn't going to be accomplished by picking one of the pre-approved majors offered. I liked the idea of being able to decide exactly what I'm doing with my education and be part of the process of developing it.
In the article "Ten Cheers for Interdisciplinarity", author Moti Nissani writes, "those who stop at the disciplinary edge run the risk of tunnel vision." Interdisciplinarity facilitates avoidance of this risk. By broadening our educational scope and expanding on small areas of knowledge, we can get away from tunnel vision and work to unify our knowledge. Interdisciplinarity will prove its immense worth to me when I purse a career concerning mental health. Studying mental health through an interdisciplinary approach can provide for a deeper understanding of all that mental health encompasses.
The time I've spent, so far, exploring the meaning and benefits of interdisciplinary learning has given me so much more than I anticipated. I never really took the time to understand the best way to learn. I just did what the people in charge told me to and relied on what I knew other people had done. Interdisciplinary studies, has opened a world of information that I had no idea about. It has shown me how compartmentalized our knowledge really is and how important it is to include other areas of study, aside from our specialties.
It's also shown me how much a field of work might rely on another. It makes me think of my mom's career. She is a resource specialist at an elementary school. She doesn't know if she should test a child until another teacher prompts her. Then after testing she needs to report her findings to the parents and help them to find the best course of action to help their child. If they decide that's going to see a doctor then we see the reliance of the teacher on the doctor to understand any physical implications the child's disorder may have on the child. At that point, the doctor might refer the child to a psychologist, who then may refer the child to a behavioral specialist and so on. This need for interdisciplinary work is shown because the teacher cannot officially diagnose the student, and the doctor can't help much with behavioral strategies. These lines of reliance can be analyzed in many careers, but are only realized if you take some time to think about how important it is to work with other people who aren't in your designated field.
The article "Colleges Should Reconstruct the Unity of Knowledge" by Vartan Gregorian, gives another example of this type of reliance pattern. A technical problem of transportation, such as the building of a freeway, becomes a land-use problem, linked with economic, environmental, conservation, ethical, and political issues. Can we really draw a boundary? When we ask to improve a situation, particularly if it is a public one, we find ourselves facing not a problem, but a cluster of problems … and none of these problems can be tackled using linear or sequential methods." Without consulting people who have extensive knowledge in these areas, our decisions and actions may have disastrous repercussions, that could've been avoided had we opened our eyes to the importance of unity of knowledge.


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If you missed out on buying a personalized brick when the Kentucky Veterans Memorial was built at General Butler State Resort Park, you'll soon have a second chance.
The original bricks pave portions of the walkway to the monument and the ground in front of the large, free-standing stones that honor each branch of the military. They were sold to raise money for the project, and are engraved with the names of veterans.
Jim Mosgrove and Shelby Bickers, two members of the memorial board, have made 165 more bricks available, and already have sold 10.
Pregnancy can be a wonderfully exciting time in a woman's life, but it also can be stressful – especially if it wasn't planned.
A free clinic is now open to help area women who find themselves in such a predicament.
Haven of Hope Pregnancy Services opened Monday, Nov. 3, at 537 Highland Ave., Carrollton, in the Fothergill Insurance building on the corner of Sixth Street.
About 150 Carroll County students learned and practiced leadership skills at the all-day Leadership Academy on Friday, Oct. 31, at Camp Kysoc.
It was the first time students from both the middle and high schools attended together, according to instructional coaches Gerda Wise (CCMS) and Nancy Simpson (CCHS), who brought the students together with adult leaders from the schools and the community to teach teamwork, collaboration and how to depend on each other.
There's a new BBQ joint in town, and everyone is officially invited to give it a try.
Staten's Old Time Barbecue opened a few weeks ago on State Hwy. 36/U.S. Hwy. 42 in Prestonville, at the location old-timers and long-time residents would know as the old Dairy Queen.
But owner Adam Guenther – the man behind the smoke – says not to let that fool you. "This place is new from the ground to the roof."
By AMANDA HENSLEY
The News-Democrat
Owners Harold and Jami Olminsky believe a winery should be an educational opportunity for wine lovers and those who want to learn about wine.
Their advice? Try all the wines you can. Don't write off one type of wine based on one brand. Always ask questions.
Newcomers to Carroll County, the Olminsky's moved here two years ago from Northeast Ohio. They opened their winery, Shandio Valley, at 108 Court St., Carrollton, in April.
By SHARON GRAVES
The News-Democrat
A local barbershop quartet sang live on a Louisville radio station and nearly blew Terry Meiners out of his seat.
Meiners is the afternoon drive-time radio personality on WHAS 840 AM, known throughout the Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana region and beyond.
Some people go to the state fair to see animals, contests and concerts, or to eat all that fair food that's supposed to be bad for you.
But Matthew Hill, 7, of Carrollton went to the Kentucky State Fair with one goal: To meet Jay Cardosi, WLKY-TV 32's chief meteorologist.
Some may view this weekend's Milton Elementary School fish fry as the end of a legacy, but perhaps it is simply evolving, as it has over the past 50 years.
Saturday, Oct. 18, will be the last fish fry event held at the old Milton Elementary School, which will be replaced later this year with a brand-new school building in January.
"No one really knows how [the fish fry] started," said J.W. Sachleben,who served as MES principal from 1971-83. "I think it might have evolved out of a fall festival. However it started, it has been wonderful."
Sometimes referred to as "The Crazy Art Lady," local artist Connie Kelley invites the public to an art show unlike any other Carroll County has seen.
The Carroll County Public Library, which is hosting the show, also is hosting a reception for Kelley from 6:30-8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6.
The show features 40 pieces of Kelley's self-proclaimed "recycle art," and will be on display in the library's community room through the end of the month.
Last week, Signature Healthcare of Trimble County celebrated the achievements of six individuals with ties to the facility, inducting the "Hometown Heroes" into the Hall of Fame Café.
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what good habit do you wish you'd started earlier? I wish I would have never started slouching as a child. As an adult I try to make sure that I stand tall.
what concerns do you have with the future?I sometimes wonder what the world will be like when my child is an adult. However, I always try to stop myself and think that when he will be an adult, he will know how to make acceptable choices. As parents, my husband and I teach our son about the choices we make and the consequences that could come with those choices.
what do you most enjoy about traveling?I enjoy different scenery. People are extremely interesting, and it is always fun to people watch and learn about other cultures.
what do you like most about your age?I would say that I have enjoyed my thirties. I have really started to accept myself and love the person that I have become. Its important to love the skin you are in, and to know that it is ok to be yourself. Being yourself is the best way to live life with no regrets.
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LuminAID: An Inflatable Solar Light -- IndieGoGo5 comments Posted by Wendy at 10:59 AM
Image via CrunchBaseCrowdsourcing is a effective way to get the visibility and funding needed to launch a great idea. Like Kickstarter, Indiegogo a crowdfunding social site, requires the entrepreneur to provide details on the project - I think this works best with a video as well as text based details and images. In the case of LuminAid, they have all three.
They had some additional help through other social channels. They had a friend who leveraged the blogger community and was successful in getting the product featured on the gadget blog, Gizmodo and several others.
The ran a promotional campaign on FaceBook, and have chosen to maintain a business page for the product. In the effort of sustainability of a social business effort, these two are students or recently graduated but are responding actively to commentors on the page. Their website is current with a regular blog for updates.
The also made use of email as an outreach campaign, but the information doesn't indicate if this was done to a purchased mailing list or contacts shared via Columbia University who holds the patent and licensees it back.
According to Open Forum interview
"From there, the word spread and we raised $10,000 in six days," says Stork.In the end, they have a wonderful and useful product that can truly make a difference in a disaster relief situation and beyond. Their product brief on Indiegogo was direct and to the point - it clearly outlined the problem and their solution. The choice of video and images were excellent and helped extend the impact.
Even though the campaign for funding is over, I want to buy some to help others. What do you think?
LuminAID: An Inflatable Solar Light -- IndieGoGo: LuminAID: Give Light, Get Light
About the Project
LuminAID Lab is proud to introduce the LuminAID light: a solar-rechargeable, inflatable lamp that packs flat and inflates to create a lightweight, waterproof lantern. Safe, sustainable, and portable, the LuminAID light provides up to six hours of LED light, ideal for disaster relief situations, recreational use outdoors, or in the home as an extra light source. Our mission: make light more affordable, sustainable, and available for everyone.
Related articles
- Solar Powered LuminAID Shines Really Bright (geeky-gadgets.com)
- Little Inflatable Bag Brings Affordable Light to Disaster Relief (mashable.com)
- 5 crazy crowdfunding campaigns on IndieGoGo (thenextweb.com)
- LuminAID provides cheap, solar-powered light when you need it (redferret.net)
Labels: Columbia University, IndieGoGo, LuminAid
Crowdsourced Tattoo Design!3 comments Posted by Anonymous at 11:36 AM
Labels: crowdsourcing, tattoo
New Bill Threatens Innovation2 comments Posted by mbaran at 5:01 PM
article that I found helpful and fairly unbiased.
Labels: Legislation, Piracy, SOPA
The future, it turns out, starts in 20201 comments Posted by A French Badger at 5:41 PM
The New York Times recently published an article about a crowd sourced timeline from Science Times of what people predict to be reality in the coming years. Think cancer will ever be cured? The timeline predicts that will happen in 2023. How about making cash illegal? Readers predicted this will also happen within our lifetime, 2056. Finally, everyone's favorite, artificial intelligence. According to the timeline this will happen by 2063. Here are some other predictions the timeline made:
This is a great example of how firms are using open source publishing and incorporates how innovation will change our lives going forward. It is a pretty interesting timeline and something fun to think about.
Labels: Future, New York Times
Open Source Software Example: "HP to Open-Source Its WebOS Mobile Platform"2 comments Posted by kkautza at 9:25 AM
article about HP's failed attempts at developing a lasting WebOS mobile platform. Instead of scrapping the WebOS mobile platform, HP has decided to open-source its development. I think this could be a successful move for the company. Unable to develop an attractive, lucrative WebOS mobile platform on their own, open-sourcing the project may be just what the company needs.
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Social Business is the biggest thing to happen to enterprise software in many years. Jive brings the innovations of the social consumer web to the enterprise. You get the great social features and user experience you love in your favorite consumer apps – while at the same time meeting stringent IT requirements. Jive allows you to:
- Use powerful tools and applications for sharing, collaboration and relationship building: blogs, activity streams, status updates, messaging, polling, profiles, and more.
- Meet less, hold fewer conference calls, and even put an end to reply-all.
- Rapidly find answers, people, expertise, conversations, and documents needed to make decisions and take action.
- Harness the collective intelligence of your organization, partners, and customers for innovation and competitive advantage.
- Leverage external customer communities to slash support costs, enhance marketing efforts, and crowdsource innovation.
Labels: crowdsourcing, Jive, social networking
Twitter Joins Facebook, Google, Launches 'Brand Pages' for Marketers | Digital - Advertising Age1 comments Posted by Wendy at 11:24 AM
Twitter Joins Facebook, Google, Launches 'Brand Pages' for Marketers | Digital - Advertising Age: Twitter is looking to strengthen its relationship with advertisers by launching brand pages that will be unveiled today as part of a more comprehensive redesign.
Twitter's existing brand pages have been under the radar, especially compared with the buildup around Google brand pages, which were launched last month. But Chief Revenue Officer Adam Bain said that he's spent the better part of the past year meeting with chief marketing officers, and brand pages were a recurring and frequent request.
Wendy's Note: Nope I wasn't on the list of partners to get access to the Brand Pages but I did get on the #newnewtwitter version right away. This really isn't innovation, its also ran to copy Google+ and Facebook. I am waiting for Twitter to really take the next big leap to incorporate the next new idea. Something that someone hasn't done yet.
Here are the companies who were in the initial launch:
Twitter is launching brand pages with 21 marketers: American Express, Best Buy, Bing, Chevrolet, Coca-Cola, Dell , Disney, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, JetBlue, Kia, McDonald's, Nike , PepsiCo, Staples, Verizon Communications Wireless, NYSE Euronext, Heineken, Subway and Paramount Pictures, specifically for the release of "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol." It has also partnered with some charities and individuals that it hasn't disclosed.Do you suppose the only way for innovation is to create a new brand and separate from the existing Twitter?
Related articles
- Twitter Adds Brand Pages. The Brand Pages War Gets Bigger. (customerthink.com)
- Twitter Wants Launches Redesign, Tells Users '#letsfly' (thehumanracehorses.com)
- Twitter's special gift: brand pages for advertisers (nextlevelofnews.com)
Labels: Advertising Age, Facebook, Innovation, Twitter
Innovation is Everyone's Job1 comments Posted by tlaughland at 10:22 AM
This Harvard Business Review blog entry by Ron Ashkenas attempts to inform managers of the importance of having every employee in a working to innovate. Ashkenas believes, "organizations require innovation on all fronts." This means moving outside simply innovating the main product. To do this, he believes firms need to have all their employees, including sales, supply chain, packaging, etc., seek new ways to innovate on their processes.
This is crowd-sourcing the employees for innovations in the company. Shouldn't employees already be doing this? The problem appears to be that firms only encourage engineers and scientists to innovate, leaving other employees to follow their normal methods.
To solve this problem, Ashkenas recommends three steps for building a culture of innovation:
1) Identify and implement an innovation in your area
2) Once employees have confidence that they can innovate incrementally, work together to identify a more ambitions innovation.
3) Make an atmosphere that encourages people to develop and experiment with new ideas
By successfully completing these three steps, a manager can crowd-source their employees for innovations just as many user innovation companies would source from their customers.
Labels: crowdsourcing, Innovation
Kindle Fire Hacked Already0 comments Posted by mbaran at 6:17 PM
story in Wired, the new Android software which is set to run on the Kindle Fire has been hacked already, even prior to its official release. This story really shows how eager the hacker community is to solve their own problems and contribute to open-source initiatives.
Fonera Global Wifi2 comments Posted by Justin Meister at 3:28 PM
Fonera Fon is a hotspot router that allows people to share their internet connection in exchange for free WiFi at locations across the world -- but there's more. By sharing your connection you can make money; the more people that join your network, the more money you make. Here's a video if you want to learn more. It is a pretty interesting concept. I am a huge supporter of free global wifi, as I'm sure many of you are. It seems through various blogs people are indeed making money using the Fon Router.
Labels: Fonera Fon, WIFI
Dropbox2 comments Posted by Michelle Zeasman at 8:46 AM
While writing our final research paper for another class this week, my group members and I decided to use an application called "Dropbox" to share files and edit our paper. Dropbox allows users to "drop" any file or document into a designated folder that is then synced with Dropbox's internet service and to any other of the user's computers/devises. These files can also be shared with other users who have Dropbox, and are invited to join a "folder."
Labels: Dropbox, file sharing
3D Printing Software on the Rise as 3D Printer Costs Decline1 comments Posted by Liz Prinz at 9:34 PM
In class we have talked a lot about 3D printers and have experienced one first-hand. More and more, 3D Printers in the last few years have materialized in the marketplace, and consequently prices have dropped. Along with this desktop manufacturing revolution, the software that goes along with such a machine is beginning to prosper as well. An example of 3D printing software is from a company called Autodesk. Here is an article from The New York Times concerning Autodesk and some of its software, as well as its announcement to offer its consumer software free of charge to bolster awareness and hopefully improve the software itself.
Labels: 3D Printing, Autodesk
Dance vs. PowerPoint2 comments Posted by Anonymous at 11:48 PM
While we are still in the midst of our class presentations, I thought our class would enjoy this TED Talk on using Dance to convey a message instead of using PowerPoint. This is certainly an innovative presentation itself, but the idea is even more remarkable. The speaker (John Bohannon) claims that by using PowerPoint, we are distracted by pictures and reading words on a slide and never fully understand the message. Do you think dance can convey any idea, or does it have limits? When watching the video, do you find the dancers just as distracting as a PowerPoint? Read some of the comments to get an idea of what other experts (dancers, scientists, etc.) think!
Gifts From The Future1 comments Posted by pspaulding at 1:44 PM
How Lego Embraced User Innovation1 comments Posted by tlaughland at 1:19 PM
This article does a good job of outlining how Lego struggled with the notion of opening up its innovation model and listening to its adult customers. Similar to Microsoft and hackers of the Kinect, Lego had to decide, "Do we sue them or embrace it," when faced with hackers of their Mindstorms products. Ultimately Lego embraced user innovation and saved their company. This article also discusses how adults have left high paying jobs to become "Lego Ambassadors" or Lego artists and make their own designs.
Labels: Lego, Open Innovation
How to Help Brands Innovate With Social Media1 comments Posted by Wendy at 3:05 PM
video interview by host Erik Michielsen of CaptureYourFlag.com. It's interesting to hear Mike talk about his battles with larger B2C companies about engagement with social media for innovation and how they have changed their perspective. Two years ago, they were thinking that social media was a flyby tactic. Now they have changed their minds and are using more avenues to integrate into the entire product cycle.
Today, in working within the B2B space and with many manufacturers who have technical products, the same story resurfaces.
What they say is, "It's a waste of time and resources. It's an incredible time sink. That is our intellectual property we might be sharing. " Ironically, in the same breath those same companies tell me that they rely on word-of-mouth, referrals, and relationships to get the work they do. Strange that the statistics show that 90% of B2B executives refer to online networks for recommendations of companies and products to work with.
What is your experience?
Related articles
- B2B Social Media Metrics Need to Match Goals (socialmediab2b.com)
- Wow! 500 Posts about B2B Social Media (socialmediab2b.com)
Tumblr Going Through Users To Fight SOPA2 comments Posted by Wing at 1:03 PM
This article discusses how Tumblr, a blogger website, allowed their users to sign up and receive phone calls from company employees who informed the users on various talking points of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Afterwards, the users were connected to their U.S. representatives to voice their opinion on the act. SOPA, if passed, has the potential to severely limit the amount and type of information Tumblr, and other websites such as Youtube and Reddit, would be allowed to post on their site. This move by Tumblr to employ users to fight this act rather than typical corporate lobbying is an innovative approach utilizing customer collaboration.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything1 comments Posted by Jenny Friedman at 1:26 PM
Can you think of examples of innovation we have discussed in class that could have been improved or weakened based on the environmental elements of the context?
In one of my classes, The Management of Teams (MHR 401), we are discussing creativity in teams. One of the most important factors for accomplishing effective creativity is the environment in which teams operate. Although it is not a new concept for firms to be interested in innovation, growth, and high performance, many companies are beginning to go about such success in a different manner: collaboration. Regardless of the individuals, resources, and tasks, it is difficult to effectively and efficiently collaborate without a supportive environment.
Labels: Collaboration
Wisconsin Innovations2 comments Posted by Anonymous at 1:10 PM
Labels: Innovation, Wisconsin
Madison Region Community and Economic Development Blog - Advance Now - Thrive0 comments Posted by Wendy at 12:11 PM
Image via WikipediaIf you haven't had a chance to review this report done by Thrive you should to see how Madison faired.> WS
Madison Region Community and Economic Development Blog - Advance Now - Thrive: State of the Madison Region
Most Innovative Companies3 comments Posted by A French Badger at 3:26 PM
link to an article published by The Economist on the nation's most innovative companies and what industries the operate in.
Labels: Economist, Innovation
How Microsoft Learned to Stop Worrying and (Almost) Love Open Source1 comments Posted by Paul Lenser at 5:23 PM
article from Wired.com discussing how Microsoft transitioned from comparing open source software with a "malignant cancer" to embracing and starting its open source division.As we discussed in class, this shows that open source programmers aren't living out of their mom's basements anymore. I found it interesting when it says that Linux isn't their main competitor anymore, but rather Google.
Apple Software Becomes Open Source3 comments Posted by Matt Preston at 9:55 AM
Labels: Apple, Open-source
Computing for Cheap- The Wave of the Future?1 comments Posted by Paul Lenser at 7:44 PM
With technology's advancement, the internet is become available to more people each day. As of March 31, 2011, Over 2 billion people were connected to the internet.
Soon, there may be even more people connected to the world wide web. This invention, called the Raspberry Pi, is a functional $25 computer that runs on Linux and is the size of a USB drive. Granted, one would still need a monitor, keyboard, and mouse of their own, but this is extremely cheap and could be extremely practical.
I was skeptical of how well this "ultra-low-cost" computer would work, but then I found some videos such as this, showing it can run computer games and apparently output 1080p video.
Labels: Computers, Linux, Raspberry Pi
Infographic: The Most Valuable Digital Consumers | Nielsen Wire2 comments Posted by Wendy at 6:44 PM
Infographic: The Most Valuable Digital Consumers | Nielsen Wire
If you like statistics that might support your push to move your company into the social/mobile/local space, print this infographic and take it to your executive team or business owner.
Labels: Business, Information graphics, social media
Innovation Gone Wrong?1 comments Posted by Tara S. at 2:57 PM
In early October, leading Japanese toilet manufacturer TOTO unveiled its latest innovation: a motorcycle that runs on human waste. How? Well, the seat of the bike is literally a toilet, fully equipped with a roll of toilet paper too. The company says that the waste is turned into biofuel which powers the machine.
Any buyers? Doubtful. Regardless of the intentions of this initiative, it is a reminder that ideas need to be tested and evaluated before heading to market.
Labels: Motorcycle, Toilet, Toto
White House Uses Designing Model to Solve Problems?1 comments Posted by tlaughland at 2:20 PM
Dear White House: Please Tell us the Truth About E.T.
Petitioners Seek Everything From Boosting Raw Milk Sales to Legalizing Pot
By LAURA MECKLER
Check out the article above to see how our government is using the ideas of crowdsourcing to help determine what people really want.
People can submit petitions for anything they feel is a large issue of today. Petitions are asking for a large range of things from legalizing marijuana to finding out the truth about E.T. The government has posted about 200 of these petitions online for the public to view. It's interesting to see niche interests get attention this way. The White House intends to form a committee to evaluate each petition. Could this be a form of designing applied to government?
Labels: crowdsourcing, US Goverment, White House
NBC's Education Nation - Innovation Challenge1 comments Posted by jbarreau at 10:03 AM
From September 25-27, I had the opportunity to travel to New York City for NBC's Education Nation Summit as a representative of my student organization, Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda. About 250 of the nation's educators, professionals, politicians, and leaders (as well as a few studens) convened from around the country to discuss our current educational system and what we can do to improve it. More information about the event can be found here.
A very interesting part of the entire two-day summit was the competition hosted by NBC which featured three different student teams that had proposed new, innovative ideas for the classroom - the Innovation Challenge. The winning team, Class Dojo, won $75,000 from Citi based on their interactive program allowing teachers to better control behavior in the classroom. It was very interesting.
Another speaker at the event, Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, really mirrored exactly what we talked about in class regarding user innovation. His story is unique. His cousins had problems with math so he started out by tutoring them. However, as busy students, they didn't always have time to meet, so Khan would record his lectures and upload them to YouTube for them to view later. His videos started to get very popular (millions of views).
Khan now has over 2,800 videos ranging from remedial addition to advanced calculus. He is operating as a non-profit by choice. His videos take the 'shame' that students could have by asking the same questions over and over again. They can now watch his videos dozens of times until they understand it.
I thought these were simply genius, and I wasn't expecting to see much innovation at this conference. It really was a great experience, and I loved my first trip to NYC!
Woot: How it came to be1 comments Posted by Sasha at 10:29 AM
This article is about how Matt Rutledge came up with the website, Woot, which sells products in small bursts and prides itself on being absolutely, painfully honest with its customers.
Matt Rutledge launched Woot.com based on a simple concept: The site would sell only one product a day until the inventory ran out or the clock struck midnight, whichever came first. Rutledge saw it as a way to unload overstocked merchandise from his Dallas-based wholesale consumer electronics business. From the start, the site prided itself on honesty: If a vacuum cleaner was a putrid shade of green, Woot said so. Soon people came to the site just to read the snarky product descriptions. Today, Woot has four sites, 1.5 million registered members, and sales of $117.4 million.
Labels: Community, Matt Rutledge. Amazon., sharing, Woot.com
3D Scanner Evolution2 comments Posted by Sam at 3:47 PM
Microsoft has finally come to accept tinkering with the Xbox Kinect technology. Microsoft's customers have been doing for awhile and it is now embracing it with a new research project KinectFusion. Hackers and Hobbyists have been tinkering with the Kinect since it came out. Microsoft is now realizing that it can gain from its customers contributions and it can revolutionize the way we produce 3-D images.
Labels: 3D Printing, 3D Scanning, Kinect, tinkering, Xbox
Better Ideas Through Failure1 comments Posted by Cristy Barrera at 10:04 AM
This recent article from the WSJ suggests that amid worries that we are becoming less innovative, some companies, such as P&G, are rewarding employees for their mistakes or questionable risks.
Labels: Failure, Procter and Gamble
Interesting List of Open Source Leaders1 comments Posted by Wendy at 11:33 AM
@roebot) and then on to a post on his Corporate Blog for MindTouch called "The Most Powerful Voices in Open Source" (2010).
I enjoy lists and this type of analysis to shorten my curve to finding the thought leaders in new areas of interest. The list is diverse in terms of global leaders. But is open source always just applied to tech and programming?
In past posts, we shared links and interview with Local Motors who is working in an environment of open source, crowdsourcing and cocreating in the automotive space. They are sharing designs, drawings and modifications. I am looking for more companies not in the tech space solely who are part of the Open Source or Open Innovation space.
Can we build a wiki to share? Does a list like this exist?
Build COOL Cars With Local Motors1 comments Posted by Wendy at 11:19 AM
I had a chance to interview a number of people at Local Motors including the Community Manager, Ariel Ferreira and John Rogers the CEO. The acronym they use for the business is COOL and is explained in this interview.
Of note is the fact that John Rogers indicated that they built the business based on a Co Creation process. It seems to be working quite well for cars.
Labels: Local Motors, Open Innovation, wendy soucie
Where Open Source Innovation Can Change the World1 comments Posted by Wendy at 10:54 AM
This is an IBM video that shares how open source innovation and sharing of data helped the chocolate industry, the City of Dubai, and improved the survival rate of premature babies. Don't get me wrong, its certainly a promo piece for IBM, but the stories are worth it. I found myself watching the entire 15 minute video.
Labels: IBM, Open Innovation, wendy soucie
Co-created Military Vehicle1 comments Posted by WisconsInnovation at 2:42 PM
The US Department of Defense is know for, among other things, being a poor steward of taxpayer dollars. Remember the $1,000 toilet seat? Wary of these types of cost over-runs, the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) decided to try something a bit different by asking individuals, rather than corporations, to design its newest combat vehicle. Teaming up with Local Motors, DAPRA sponsored a design competition open to anyone in the world. With a prize offering of $7,500 (about 8 toilet seats), this competition received over 150 design submissions. The winning design, the FLYPMode by Victor Garcia went from concept to prototype in less than six months! This is yet another example, of how innovation by individuals can meet or exceed the innovation by firms.
Labels: Local Motors, US Goverment
Kickstarter.com - fund raising for creative projects2 comments Posted by Wendy at 3:48 PM
I recently met Rob Barros, a Minneapolis based film maker doing a documentary on John Howe, The Architect. Howe is little known, even having done over 50% of the drawings for Frank Lloyd Wright's projects. Barros used Kickstarter to post his project with a movie trailer, description of the project, description of what the money would be used for. Then sent out emails, shared with a Facebook page and it went viral enough to raise the needed $9K for the project in 2 months.
I interviewed Rob while in Phoenix, where he was on site doing some filming, about what this meant to the success of the project in this blog post on funding of creative projects with social media.
I believe incubators and more concepts like this are what will help entrepreneurs in the early stage of forming companies, or selling a product idea to someone else. Madison would do well to step up the incubator concept like Milwaukee, Boston, and Palo Alto CA, to keep our inventors and creatives in our local area.
What are some social communities you know about that help entrepreneurs get started?
Related articles
- Kickstarter creates opportunity for documentary film (customerthink.com)
- Kickstarter: Coffee Joulies and other ideas (witnessthis.wordpress.com)
- Unbound Aims to Be the Kickstarter for Book Publishing (readwriteweb.com)
- How to Fund Your Ideas Through Kickstarter (shoutmeloud.com)
Labels: Frank Lloyd Wright, interview, John Howe, Kickstarter, Minneapolis, Project, video, wendy soucie
Reality...Augmented?1 comments Posted by Bob at 10:26 PM
Labels: augmented reality, video games
What makes an expert?1 comments Posted by Sam at 7:32 AM
Noreena Hertz discusses the idea of ignorance in following experts and the value of non-expert ideas and opinions. If you can become an expert overtime, experts can become average thinkers as well. I agree with Noreena that we need to be cautious and aware of what we believe to be true, and what we believe to be expert sources. Is it safe to follow the advice of an "expert?" Does classification of an expert evolve as fast as expertise and knowledge in the industry?
Xbox 360 Kinect Hack Could Save Lives1 comments Posted by Justin Meister at 8:54 AM
Here's a good example of tinkering a program's code to help do your job more effectively. Unfortunately, Microsoft's Kinect is not open sourced and therefore must be hacked in order to edit the code.
"Hacking Microsoft's Kinect seems to be a worldwide fad right now, but this latest repurposing might be the most practical ever. A group of graduate engineering students at the University of Washington have hacked a Kinect so it can help doctors perform surgery.
University of Washington's newspaper, The Daily, details the students' work, which involved writing new code for Microsoft's Kinect that allowed it to interface with their robotic equipment and basically send feedback about a patient's body position back through the system. Because of this tracking, the students were able to workout where important internal organs were and prevent the machines from cutting too deep.
"We could define basically a force field around, say, a liver," said Howard Chizeck, University of Washington's professor of electrical engineering. "If the surgeon got too close, he would run into that force field and it would protect the object he didn't want to cut."


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Guided tour Spasibo with Davide Monteleone - September 23rd, 18:00, following book signing "The April Theses".
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, separatist movements in Chechnya started a fierce fight that would lead to the country's independence from Russia. In 1999, in a climate of terror and continuous attacks, the Russian army launched an offensive, described by then president Vladimir Putin as "counter-terrorist", which flattened Grozny, the largest city in Chechnya. In an area in collapse, where the economy, industries and infrastructure were already devastated following years of fighting, the military invasion caused still further destruction and started a war that would last ten more years. The result of the Second Chechen War was the creation of the Republic of Chechnya, to all effects and purposes a dictatorship run first by Akhmad Kadyrov and then his son Ramzan, a leader installed by Putin and loyal to the Kremlin. Grozny, now the capital, is a «ghost city», writes Moscow-based journalist Masha Gessen, «the ghosts of those who died in the war or disappeared – every family has a brother or father who left home and never returned.»
These are the opening words of Gessen's contribution to Spasibo, a monograph by Davide Monteleone who travelled to Russia on several occasions from 2001 and to Chechya in 2013. Today the Chechens are a people whose identity is crumbling away in a process of extinction marked by a kind of violence that stops being physical and becomes psychological. The armed conflict is over, the separatist groups, accused of terrorism, are pursued by the law, and the Chechen people can enjoy a certain freedom from Russia, profess their Islamic faith and speak the language that once was banned. Yet peace is only apparent. Lives swing between a «comfortable stagnation», as Davide Monteleone says, in which «everything is controlled by the authorities», and the desire to reappropriate a present that needs to be recreated. The repressive propaganda regime forces the Chechens to choose between conformity and martyrdom. The new generations are watching the obliteration of a collective memory that cuts off the possibility of political, social and cultural alternatives.
In Spasibo, Davide Monteleone tells through his photographs of a reality divided between metaphor and ambiguity, the ghosts of the past and the compromises of the present, the new Chechen identity and the silent disappearance of recent times. The title itself underlines this ambiguity. Spasibo means "thank you" in Russian and could mean the end of the armed conflict after decades of bloodshed, or it could recall how the ceasefire depends on a compromise with the authorities, who offer the Chechen people survival by repressing them.
«Thanks, Ramzan, thanks Russia. Spasibo.»
Palazzo Martuzzi, Sala Allende
Corso Vendemini, 18


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My name is Stephen Torres-Esquer, otherwise known as Mr. Stephen, and I am HONORED to be a guest blogger for one of the most influential families in the world of "disability".
I currently teach a Special Day Program at Lowell High School in San Francisco, California. Beyond that, I have an organization called "The Direction: Ability Advocates", focusing on creating self-advocacy opportunities and visibility for students with intellectual and neurological differences. I have a Master's Degree in Special Education, a Specialization Certificate in Deaf-blindness, a California Teaching Credential for Moderate to Severe Disabilities and a PhD in Kardashian Studies.
I'm teaming up with my favorite family in the world of "disability" to provide you with my #TOP10 tips for Inclusion! Let's Get it Poppin'!
Mr. Stephen's Top10 Tips For Inclusion
It's easy to get caught up in the hype of "SDC vs. Full Inclusion", or to blindly follow the recommendations of a professional in the field of education — ESPECIALLY if you're not an educator! The thing to remember is that every person is unique. Your student deserves to have every opportunity to become as successful as possible in school and beyond! Whether that means 1 period of Integration per day, Full Inclusion or something in between, the decision should be based on the opinions of the entire IEP TEAM!
Have you ever been to an IEP meeting where the teacher just TELLS you what is best for a student without consulting with other members of the group? There's a word for people like this: ANNOYING. No matter what your role is (Teacher, Parent, SLP, Psychologist, etc.), it's obnoxious to have a stinky attitude and, honestly, it'll get you nowhere. You HAVE TO be at least a little collaborative if you want to accomplish anything as part of a team.
Speaking up, especially if you're the ONE person with an opposing idea, can be SO hard! However, a closed mouth does not get fed. Odds are that you WILL at some point need to assert your opinion as part of an IEP team. There are so many people who will show up to a meeting, a conference, the school yard, or the principal's office just WAITING to fight! They have their list of reasons in front of them and they're ready to let everyone have it! Don't be this person! Find the way that you feel most comfortable communicating, and COMMUNICATE!
Some people like face-to- face interactions while others prefer phone calls, texts or e-mail. It doesn't matter how you do it — just don't forget that your texts and emails will be forever accessible and shareable, so be careful what you put in writing!
Literally! (in my Kardashian voice) Adults have a funny way of taking things very personally, and it's very hard for us to take ourselves out of the equation. While it is very important to have a voice in the planning process, your voice is still one of many. Think of it this way: you are acting as a representative for a very important student, no matter what your role is! This young person's success depends on your ability to plan, communicate, collaborate and share opinions and ideas. That's it. You're not there to claim the Iron Throne, so put your dragons away!
It's so important for the parent and case manager to build a relationship, but it shouldn't stop there. If war were to break out and all you have is ONE ally, you'd be the first to be defeated! I'm not suggesting that you spend a huge chunk of your life getting to know every single person who's ever interacted with this student, but make it a point to be friendly. Say hello, share some snacks or coffee every once in awhile — make sure that they know your face, and make sure that when they see your face they think good thoughts! This will help you tremendously in the long run, even if war does not break out!
You might be a parent, you might be a teacher, you might be another service provider…but no matter who you are, you need to understand your role in order to help create successful outcomes. What is your role on a daily basis? What is your role in gathering information and data? What is your role in an IEP meeting? What does it mean to be a part of an IEP team? These are a few of the questions that you should try to answer early on so that you can feel confident every day in supporting this student.
I remember when I first started working in Special Education, not really understanding what each person's role was. At first, it feels like there are a thousand people on the team and it seems like each of their jobs is so complex that you couldn't possibly understand it. This, however, is not true!
Tip #8 is especially for parents! I believe that it would help you tremendously to find out who is on your child's team (i.e. Speech Language Pathologist, School Psychologist, Occupational Therapist, etc.) and then find out what each of these people do. You can start with a google search if you're too embarrassed to ask each person directly, but you should also take the time to find out what each team member is doing with your student on a regular basis!
You don't need to go to law school to understand the gist of what your rights are, what the student's rights are and what your options are if these rights are not being honored. The parent procedural safeguards are not reviewed in detail at every IEP meeting, so if you're a parent and you need help going through the document, set up a separate appointment or reach out to a local organization that provides support for families of students with disabilities. If you're an educator, know at least an overview of the history of Special Education Law. Know what you're required to do so that you can cross your t's and dot your i's (and not be sued).
It's important to be respectful of boundaries if you want to be successful. This is important whether you're a parent dealing with a professional and vice versa, a Special Education teacher dealing with a General Education teacher and vice versa, or any adult dealing with a student. No one enjoys being pushed beyond their personal limits.
The teacher is not the only person responsible for providing information and data to support the IEP. Each member of the team should contribute, and it's important to share that information and to provide each other with an appropriate amount of support. Providing a Free and Appropriate Public Education in the Least Restrictive Environment is NOT an easy job! The second that someone (particularly General Educators) feels unsupported, the natural reaction is to become upset and push back. The last thing we want is for someone to say, "Well, I don't know what to do anymore so I won't do a damn thing!"


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This is Squad | Fanmade "trailer"
HermannKrieg posted a topic in VideosPut some of my scenes together and made kind of a trailer. Hope you enjoy!
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upgrading monitor 1080p to 1440p: need advices.
HermannKrieg replied to CMBelite-FR's topic in Off-Topic DiscussionHi, I got the AOC Agon 271QG and I'm really satisfied with it. I stumbled across alot of reviews and was reading through forums for the last 3 months to make sure I make the right decision. http://aoc-europe.com/en/products/ag271qg It basically got the same specs as the PG279Q and the xb271hu. Don't know much about the viewsonic though. Currently I'm playing on a Gtx970 and a Xeon E3-1230 v3 @ 3.30 GHz. I can tell: 1440p is the perfect sweetspot between performance and picture quality. Compared with an IPS panel and Gsync is a very good choice!
Gamescom (urgent)
HermannKrieg replied to HermannKrieg's topic in General DiscussionThat didnt help, all booze is gone. I hope for sunday!
Gamescom (urgent)
HermannKrieg posted a topic in General DiscussionHallo guys, im now at gamescom and the only reason for that is to Drink some Kölsch with the devs and talk about the game i always wanted (squad).Does anyone know where the devs are right now?
Watching Streams: it's chaotic!!!!!
HermannKrieg replied to CMBelite-FR's topic in General DiscussionToday I was SL in a Squad on Fools Road with new people only and it was really awesome. First 10 minutes I showed them the basics, movement, compass, map and so on. Then we made it with some formations through the woods. We got some intense firefights, built a fob and they were so amazed and did everything I said. In the end we won the round. So I can really say there is HOPE :)
Intense firefight on Fools Road aside the RedCoats!
HermannKrieg replied to HermannKrieg's topic in Videosit's fixed :) link was updated
Intense firefight on Fools Road aside the RedCoats!
HermannKrieg replied to HermannKrieg's topic in Videosaah yea i found the reason:D I set the volume down at the beginning of editing because it was just earraping while editing and I forgot to tune it back. Gonna upload it again with better sound! Thanks!
Intense firefight on Fools Road aside the RedCoats!
HermannKrieg posted a topic in VideosHey Squids! Here a pretty intense video I recorded on 7th december while in the glorious RedCoat Squad on Fools Road! Had an awesome time in that freaking mine compound with those guys :) Hope you enjoy! now better sound :) Hermann out.
Combat Medic Gameplay!
HermannKrieg posted a topic in VideosHi Squaddies! Here are some moments as a combat medic + awesome teamwork moments with the best community! hope you enjoy!
HerrmannKrieg's Videos!
HermannKrieg replied to HermannKrieg's topic in VideosThanks! Oh yes, the sounds are amazing. Hope to see you in the fields soon!
HerrmannKrieg's Videos!
HermannKrieg posted a topic in VideosHey Squaddies, here are some videos I made from recent matches maybe some of you will find yourselves! hope you enjoy! Herrmann out. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL90X1v2yDvF8NpfJd3yE8k0_hpZW0WmIb
Local voip when wounded
HermannKrieg replied to UrethralScreaming's topic in Feedback & Suggestionsso thats the reason no one found me! yea local voice in wounded state like in pr would be useful
NY servers
HermannKrieg replied to R3dundantC's topic in Software Supportno fix for that issue yet, right?
Swedish Armed Forces
HermannKrieg replied to Exinferis's topic in Feedback & SuggestionsYes, thats the Leopard 2 A5 - swedish version


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Some hacker trainers figured out how to put eggs to good use protecting Gyms they hold down. Niantic's developers better work through another weekend to close this glitch.
Here is yet another reason why Niantic needs to shut down unauthorized access to the Pokemon Go servers. Some hackers found out that you can place eggs into a Gym and block it. The idea behind this is that a trainer holding down a gym is placing an egg with a throwaway account into the gym. Because Niantic did not anticipate that someone would induce eggs into gyms, the Gym code stops working. There is no way anymore to engage in a new battle. The trainer holding down the gym, owns the Gym until Niantic figures it out to ban the account.
The video below shows how an "egged" Gym looks like. There is no way to fight the Gym leader. The Pokemon Eggs are meant to be placed in an incubator, and the Egg will hatch into a Pokemon as you walk. Placed in a Gym, they wrack havoc.
The eggs are placed through a Pokemon Go API. Niantic's recent introduction of a digital signature has only kept 3rd party developers out for about two days. Bots and real-time trackers are working again. Some real-time Pokemon Go trackers even showed up in the iTunes app store again.
Niantic has launched an offensive against Pokemon bot users and GPS spoofers handing out permanent bans. The number of banned accounts is though still low. We estimate based on information from bot makers that there are millions of trainers using bots. This is an epidemic in Pokemon Go.
The Pokemon Go egg gym hack could trigger a new security update that will render all bots and 3rd party software useless once again. It is a cat and mouse game that Niantic is willing to play to protect the game.
Pokemon Go is just 5 weeks old and has already over 100 million trainers. Equally impressive is the amount of code that has been developed by programmers around the world to exploit the game with bots and other tools that help trainers find Pokemon. The massive usage of Pokemon Go maps has caused part of the server issues Niantic had before rolling out to South America. Niantic itself had though its own problems with the Pokemon tracking feature. They removed it to conserve server resources.
If programmers can place eggs in the Pokemon Go game through the unofficial API library, they could potentially unleash tons of Pokemon clones or increase CPs of their Pokemon.
The new in-app Pokemon Go tracker is in testing and will roll out soon to all trainers. I predict that once that feature is available to all trainers, Niantic is going to full lock down the Pokemon Go servers. More Pokemon Go News.


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Wednesday 16th November | Wonderful Wednesday
Good morning lovelies, Happy Wonderful Wednesday. It's currently 23:38 and I am snuggled on the sofa with a big duvet and two very cuddly cats, having only finished work 38 minutes ago. I may or may not have fallen asleep on the sofa with the cats last night, waking up at 7 this morning rather surprised by my whereabouts. I had a little bit of cat mum guilt yesterday due to working nearly all day and night and not being home, hence curling up on the sofa with them and the same has happened today. It is rather lovely being so cozy by the fire I must say. Shall we get on with the wonderful? Let's!
:: Watching The Sunrise - Although waking up at 05:45 was most definitely not the one, watching the sunrise with my favourite person was such a special moment. I will treasure the memory forever. There is something a little magical about being awake to witness the start of a brand new day as the rest of the world sleeps.
:: Family Time - On Friday evening I wandered through the town with my family to see the November festival. At the top of town it starts with a car show, and by the time you reach the bottom of the town there's more locally produced food and drink than you can shake a stick at! It safe to say that we wandered home a little more merrier than we arrived. Particularly after sampling the local vermouth on offer.
:: Wok Noodles & Sushi - At the weekend we treated ourselves to Japanese takeaway, TWICE! Which is very unlike me, I'm forever counting the pennies. We had wok noodles as we walked to the train station in Barcelona and sushi when we got home. I must say I felt a little as if we were in the movies walking along sharing a cardboard pot of wok noodles.
:: Finding Meals In The Freezer - The start of this week has been so full on, I've barely had a minute to make a cup of tea. Last night I was thinking about what to prepare for lunch and dinner today, by last night I mean 11:30 at night. I opened the freezer and as if by magic, (not really, more like me cooking far too much a while back) I found a load of frozen meals. YAY!
:: La Sagrada Familia - On Saturday we spent the afternoon exploring La Sagrada Familia, an awe-inspiring Basilica in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona. The architecture and detailing is amazing.
:: Christmas Adverts - I can't help my little self I just love them so much! They make me feel all warm and cozy.
:: How To Get Away With Murder - (Season 2) As you have probably guessed I rarely sit down to watch TV or a film, I'm constantly working on projects, the blog, social media or at work. However my other half balances me out, he has a very calming effect on me, with him I'm able to sit still and just enjoy the art of slow living. We watched the whole second series of How To Get Away With Murder, it's one of my favourite series, it's so addictive and absolutely amazing!
I hope you're having a lovely week this week, if you'd like to read some more wonderful lists then pop over to the other lovely ladies who participate in Wonderful Wednesday - Sally, Michelle, Kate, Helen, Jo, Cat, Emma, Sam,Laura, Kerri , Sarah,Mimmi ,Sarah and Jasmin.