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Light … hey.
We like it a lot. And get kinda sad when it isn't around. But it can't be pretty all the time. We are going to show you how to get the best out of the most common (and pretty) lighting situations.
In our light section we are going to cover:
- Full Sun
- Shady
- Overcast
- Back Light Pretty Light
- Rembrant-ish Pretty Light
- Sparkly Pretty Light
This should get you out of most lighting situations you will come across.
Let's get started...
Full sun is when the sun is high in the sky, around 10am-4pm-ish in Summer and 11am-2pm-ish in the Winter (if you're lucky enough to see the sun at all!)
The coolest thing about full sun is that it's fun! It gives your photos a really happy, summery feel.
Because the sun is up so high, it creates harsh shadows, which can be ace for adding graphic shapes to your photos, but not so great for shooting portraits in.
We tend to use full sun for big scenes, it has a cinematic quality about it, and everything looks super bold and punchy. It was awesome to shoot in when we went on a desert road trip in Kate's old Holden, with all that red earth and blue sky.
When you try to use it to photograph small details it can overwhelm what you are shooting, by casting dark shadows. Making it look confusing, hard to see and distracting from the subject.
We pretty much always meter for mid tones when we are shooting in the full sun. Choose a point in the photo that's as close to middle grey in tone as you can get as a starting point. We scoured the internet for hours and finally found a great example of middle grey for you.
If you were to meter for the shadows, everything else would be blown out into whiteness, because the contrast between light and dark is so huge. Like this poor over exposed cat below.
We have made some little interactive images to help illustrate some of the points we have covered. You can click on the arrows throughout the class to see notes and metering points.
Full sun is not great for shooting portraits in.
Full sun makes people all squinty and not their prettiest selves. Not only that, but when you try to shoot a portrait in the full sun the boney bits above their eyes cast dark circle shadows, which make their eyes look like dark holes, no one wants dark holes for eyes! You can still have people in your photos though! Try and shoot them doing something, make sure to get them looking away from the camera (just not towards the sun!)
Let's recap …
Full Sun Homework
This task is super simple (unless you live in similar weather to us right now, then actually finding full sun may prove difficult!)
Get outdoors and shoot something in full sun. Whatever catches your eye! Think about how you meter, use the light and make sure you aren't blinding any of your subjects by making them look in to that burning ball of flames!
Nice and easy!
If you are in the middle of winter (like us) at the moment and the chance to shoot in the full sun doesn't show up often, you might need to skip ahead to the next lesson and come back to this one when you have the chance
All isn't lost when you want to take a portrait on a sunny day though, you just have to...
Walls and eaves create perfect little pockets of shade that you can pop your subject in. All that bright light outside your shady spot acts as a great giant reflector, bouncing a super even, pretty light back towards your subject.
You can see this in effect in the photo below. Little Pepper is standing in the shade cast by the pink wall, and Kate is standing in the sun shooting in towards her. Behind Kate is a row of bright buildings acting as the reflector, you can actually kind of see them reflecting in the pink tile above Pepper's head in the photo.
In this photo, the shady pocket is created by the Eaves outside the tyre shop, Peta is standing in the sun, shooting in towards the girls.
Not only is shooting next to walls great for finding a good little spot of light to shoot in, but we love to photograph kids next to walls because it removes all the distractions that are usually around, and lets you focus on the cute little people themselves. Looking out for walls that are textural and colourful and fun to shoot in front of is a pastime in itself for us ;)
Get Shady Homework
Grab a cutie or two and find some shade! Look for fun spots to shoot your subjects, like this one Peta took of Maya and Pepper on our road trip to Uluru. How clever is she!
You might find a wall that has the perfect colour to match on outfit, or a pretty stand of trees. Keep your eyes peeled, there are awesome backdrops around us everywhere!
Overcast … is moooody.
Overcast days may get a bit annoying to live in throughout the winter months, but they are good for something... that nice, even overcast light.
On overcast days the clouds act as a giant diffuser, which makes the light really even and cuts out all the harsh shadows. This means you can shoot out in the open all through the day - yay!
Overcast light gives that moody, wintery vibe to your photos. Especially fitting if you're moody or it's wintery.
The light on overcast days is super easy to meter for. Because of the lack of contrast, you can't really go wrong when metering. Just go for a mid grey and you will be on your way.
Colour looks so good in overcast light. The grey sky really makes the colour pop out and become a feature of the photo.
In misty situations like the photo below, metering gets a little trickier. If you want to get the details of the shapes in the mist, it may take more time to hit the sweet spot with metering where the exposure is right and the details in the mist is still visible. Kate exposed for the grey in the trees in the mist, rather than the greys in the trees/rocks in the foreground that she would otherwise meter for.
Overcast light is perfect for shooting portraits in. Its soft, even light is super flattering, even for those of us that aren't as insanely cute as this little person below. You can shoot portraits just about anywhere on an overcast day, just make sure you have enough light. Shooting down an alleyway or under a thick canopy in the forest may not give you enough light, and things may start getting a little blurry.
Let's recap...
Overcast Homework
This one shouldn't be too difficult for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere at the moment!
When shooting your overcast assignment, try and use the things that make overcast awesome. As sometimes subjects can look dull when you're not using the overcast assets to their greatest advantage. Look for mood, colour or shoot a pretty person in some soft light. Easy!


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Violent Reaction- City Streets LP review
Harder than NAILS and more straight edge than Project X, Violent Reaction's debut LP is a hard-hitting hardcore punk record that also happens to be catchy at points, much like the early 80s. Burly, beefy, and deep-throated vocals are coupled with powerful guitars, bouncing bass lines, and dead-on drumming to make this one-man project a reality of a band- it's hard to believe that one guy could be so fucking on point with all the instruments, not to mentions the vocals, the lyrics, and the genuineness of character, he (Tom Pimlott) is. There's no other way to describe this than pissed-off hardcore punk- put it in any subgenre you like (and I tried to, too), it's the shit. Where you're punching a hole in the wall at a show or at home, or better yet, shouting the words to these catchy tunes at a show, at home, or in your car (my personal favorite) you will be moving. Packaging and design work is superb- Painkiller is on top with good records right now, and this is one of their best. The best of the best of the best, sir, uh… with honors.
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Do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changing the mind of pretenders While chasing the clouds away
You'll never believe my luck on the upcoming 21st! The missing third mouseketeer will be back in town for F1 weekend and some MAJOR shenanigans. I can hardly wait! My September is seriously swinging along nicely, and yours will be too! If you just click click for more, there's FABULOUS things in store.
- On the 1st we'll be partying on a boat cos we're baller like that (jokes jokes, more like a sampan but I'm seriously excited about it) - followed by a night of dancing in the sand right in front of the waves under the full moon at TBC's FULL STEAM AHEAD
- Then there's a major dramamama reunion/nic's bday on the 9th. It promises to be a good time, and I'm damned excited to see everyone :)
- The 11th will see Ms. Tory Burch finally land on our sunny shores with the opening of her standalone boutique at Wisma Atria. I'm all about her poppy colours and bright prints! And I'm dying to see how she does the space up in Singers (the HK boutique is gorgeous)
- The following midweek will be dominated by none other than the Diane von Furstenberg Fall Preview (on the 18th) - it seems to be a big month for fashion from the USofA!
- AND THEN THERE IS BABAR'S BIRTHDAY! OooOoOoOoOohhh yeah.
- Though we'll probably wait for the arrival of our missing mouseketeer on the 21st before we boogie on down and dance the night awayyyyyyyyyyy throughout Race Weekend.
- If you're wondering where we'll be partying on F1 Race Weekend, we're planning to hit up the Johnnie Walker CIRCUIT LOUNGE (formerly known as the Johnnie Walker Jet Black Party) at the all new Flower Dome at Gardens by the Bay (talk about killer location and a major upgrade from the Fullerton Bay Hotel). There's contests and stuff going on to win tickets to the event, but lucky me scored some for free from lovely L. The good news for all of you? I've got two more to give out! (see below - there are benefits to reading my blog afterall huh?)
- Race Day itself will see us lounging in the grand stands craning our necks about for a better view. To be entirely honest, I mostly go for the free booze and fantastic concert line up - that's the really good stuff :) Still debating who to support this year. Maybe Mercedes McLaren. But remember my friends! Though you will be drinking, and the racers will be driving, you really shouldn't mix the two. That's my public service announcement for the month where we celebrate fast cars and fancy parties!
- My September will come to a smooth close with a concert by Singapore's very own singing sensation, Sarah Cheng-De Winne (Esplanade, 28th Sept). She's been singing since she was a wee kid, and having witnessed her voice develop over the years through school, I'm so very impressed she's decided to do what she does best and has such incredible passion for. Tickets available through Sistic.
- There is also a super secret something brewing that I'm just dying to share with the lot of you, but you're gonna have to keep those pants on and wait till I'm given the go ahead to spill the beans :) You'll love it though. I'd make a bet on it.
As you can imagine, sleeping isn't on the agenda for this Swinging September! Who says there's nothing to do in sunny old Singapore?
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Salted Brown Butter Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies
Sharing our favorite brown butter chocolate chip cookies today! My Salted Brown Butter Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies are perfect for your cookie parties and celebrations!
Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Oh for the love of brown butter chocolate chip cookies. I've been teasing with these cookies on Instagram for a good week or so. I am happy to be sharing my recipe with you today. All of my favorite things in this cookies. A little sweet, a little salty and lots of chocolate. Hop on over to the kitchen and try these for yourself!
Try my Brown Butter Churro Cookie Bars too! Follow Picky Palate on Instagram for daily recipe inspiration.
Your line up for the day. Make sure you have cake flour and some fleur de sel sea salt on hand for these.
How To Make Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and line a large baking sheet with a silpat liner or parchment paper.
- Place butter into a small saucepan over medium heat. Swirl and heat until deep golden brown. Remove heat and let cool for 5 minutes.
- Place browned butter and little bits from the pan into a stand mixer along with the brown and granulated sugar. Beat to combine then add egg and vanilla beating to combine. Add ap flour, cake flour, pudding mix, baking soda, corn starch, salt and chocolate chips. Mix on low until just combined.
- With a medium cookie scoop, place dough onto prepared baking sheet about 1 inch apart. Sprinkle each cookie with a pinch of fleur de sel sea salt and bake for 10 minutes, until baked through. Remove and let cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to cooling rack. Serve and enjoy.
Time to brown the butter. Melt it over medium heat swirling often until it turns a gorgeous deep golden brown. You'll see brown bits at the bottom of the pan. That's a good thing.
How To Brown Buter
Place butter in small saucepan over medium-low heat. Swirl and melt completely. Butter will boil. Continue to swirl and cook until butter turns golden brown and brown bits start forming on bottom of pan. Once butter has a nutty scent and is deep golden brown, remove from heat and transfer to a heat proof bowl. Make sure you spoon out all little black bits from the saucepan. Let brown butter cool at least 15 minutes before using in a cookie recipe.
Let the butter cool for 5 minutes then beat it with your sugars, egg and vanilla.
Dry ingredients please.
Dark chocolate chips!
I will not admit how much dough I consumed.
Scoop onto your baking sheet.
This fleur de sel sea salt is amazing if you can find it. If not, kosher salt will do the trick too 🙂
Just a tiny pinch of sea salt on top.
If you like your cookies a bit more flat, press the dough down with your hand before baking. I was in the mood for a thick round cookie today.
These Salted Salted Brown Butter Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies make the perfect sweet cookie to enjoy with family and friends! Rich, sweet and buttery fantastic.
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup cake flour
- 2 tablespoons instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon corn starch
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 1/4 cups dark chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon fleur de sel sea salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a large baking sheet with a silpat liner or parchment paper.
Place butter into a small saucepan over medium heat. Swirl and heat until deep golden brown. Remove heat and let cool for 5 minutes.
Place browned butter and little bits from the pan into a stand mixer along with the brown and granulated sugar. Beat to combine then add egg and vanilla beating to combine. Add ap flour, cake flour, pudding mix, baking soda, corn starch, salt and chocolate chips. Mix on low until just combined.
With a medium cookie scoop, place dough onto prepared baking sheet about 1 inch apart. Sprinkle each cookie with a pinch of fleur de sel sea salt and bake for 10 minutes, until baked through. Remove and let cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to cooling rack. Serve and enjoy.
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I've always been frightened of brown butter recipes simply because it seems it is always a matter of holding my breath and crossing my fingers that I don't overdo and go from brown butter to um, burned butter. I think your recipe here has convinced me to give it a go 😀 Thanks for the nudge!
Oh I can only imagine the depth of wonderful flavor of these, Jenny! The butter, the chocolate, and then softness and chewiness look perfect. Pudding mix and cornstarch both – I've never seen that, usually just one or the other. I bet the texture is just wonderful with these!
Jenny these cookies look great! Can't wait to see you in TX 🙂 XO
These look so perfectly amazing! I've tried to find fleur de sel in my local grocery stores but no success yet. I'm not giving up yet though!
I'm pretty much DYING over these. Love!
I am also so jealous of you cookies! They look perfect every time! Mine always turn out flat and ugly!
These must be SO good! Brown butter and dark chocolate! Two of my favorite things!
Oh these cookies look incredible!
Oh, Jenny! I've been dreaming of these after seeing them in Instagram. They look DIVINE!!!
These look SOOOOO good! I adore everything you do with browned butter! 🙂
Oh my Jenny! These look amazing…I think I'd gain a few pounds if these were around very long.
These look awesome! You have the BEST cookie recipes!! I know if it is your cookie it is going to be GREAT! =)
So, these are obviously going on my to-bake list because I absolutely adore anything brown butter.
YUM! Those look great. I bet the sprinkle of salt on top is perfection!
Made these today and they were a BIG hit with the family!! It was my 1st browned butter recipe. I might be addicted.
Those look SO good! Where do you buy fleur de sel sea salt ?
Oohh I see Williams Sonoma has it
Mmm one of my favorite cookies I've posted on my blog is a Salted Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie! So amazing. And I have the fleur de sel, reserved for cookies only. Haha. It's the best! These look incredible. I'm curious about the cake flour!
These stayed so round and full!! I'll have to save this recipe since I always end up with super flat chocolate chip cookies…
I'm in the mood for a round thick cookies also … these will definitely work for me 😉
Lovely chubby little cookies! I love how pudding makes cookies chewy delicious( and browned butter makes everything better). 🙂
Those look Aaamazing and I'm just a wee bit obsessed with brown butter! Where did you find the fleur de sel sea salt?
Thanx so much for sharing this cannot wait to try them…Those pics are enough to make me drool 😉
I absolutely have to make these!
These look so AMAZING Jenny! That little bit of special salt just pushes the chocolate yummy factor right on over the edge of delicious!!!
I love salted cookies – it's sweet, it's salty, it's perfect!
Have to try these out!
These cookies are to die for!! I am moving this to the top of my "must make" list! 🙂
Oh man, there are so many incredible things about these! Brown butter, dark chocolate, cookies!
I made these last night (with kosher salt) and they're fabulous. This was my first brown butter experience…AND I THINK I LIKE IT. I would like to eat them all right now, but the thought of busting through my clothes, Hulk-style, is stopping me.
YAY! I have been waiting for these since you posted on instagram! Does 1 stick of butter = 1/2 cup? thanks!Excited to make these!
You put together a lot of words that make my mouth water. I'm so excited to try these cookies. I bet they have an amazing depths of flavor.
OK YUMM!! Chocolate + salt = delish!!
Fi xx
Can I substitute cook and serve pudding for the instant pudding?
Just made these – absolutely AMAZING!!!! Just FYI – it barely made a dozen cookies, not 2 dozen – but they were out of this world.
Oh my… this recipe is amazing!!!! The dough alone is the best thing ever 🙂 Thanks for posting this.
New viewer and hooked for life 🙂
you had me until pudding mix…
I'll try just browning the butter of my tried and true chocolate chip cookie recipe and adding some sea salt
The grocery stores around here all have several types of sea salt – the local chains as well as Trader Joe's' and Whole Foods for those looking. Otherwise try Penzeys, William Sonoma or Amazon.
Wooooow, seem very specials!
Oh. My.
Just took these out of the oven. you were right: texture and flavor are spot on! I believe anything can be made better with brown butter and that is certainly the case with these cookies. Heavenly!!
Thank you!
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I don't understand the vanilla pudding. Why not use vanilla extract?
So. Its snowing and 3 degrees in NE Wyoming. I want to try this Brown Butter Dark Chocolate Chip recipe. It sounds decadent! I live 25 miles from ANYTHING…so when I gathered my ingredients, I had to get a little creative. No running to town because I only had one cup of regular chips…so I chopped up some dark 'bark' chocolate. No vanilla pudding either. BOO! Added two tablespoons of dried cultured buttermilk, an extra egg yolk, doubled the vanilla, 1/2 a packet of unflavored gelatin powder, and crossed my fingers. Lastly, no koscher or sea salt. I don't even know if I can GET sea salt in town. I just used regular salt…even to add a pinch on top of each cookie. How'd they turn out? Ummmm….I don't think I've EVER tasted a chocolate chip cookie as decadent, flavorful and sinful! Thanks for the great instructions! Very detailed and easy to follow. ♥
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OH MY GOSH!!!! I've been following you on social media and of course reading your blog. Ive made several of your recipes and they have always been a hit!! These are amazing! Please keep these cookie recipes coming!!


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Event Rules
Code of Conduct
General Smash Tournament Rules
Set Length
Set Procedure
Neutral Start
Port Priority
Sudden Death
Stock and Controller Sharing
Missing Teammate Clause
Colorblind Clause
Double Blind Character Select
Final Rulings
Gentleman's Clause
Wireless Controllers
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Players select their characters or Double Blind Character Select
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Pausing is only legal while either player remains upon their "own" respawn platform, and only for the purpose of summoning a tournament official or in the case of a controller malfunction. All other pauses will results in a 1 stock loss to the player who pauses the game. TO's may remove more than 1 stock based on severity of the pause.
Intentionally making the game unplayable is banned and at the discretion of the TOs. Stalling includes but is not limited to becoming invisible, continuing infinites past 300% and reaching a position that your opponent can never reach you. Stalling will result in a forfeit of the match for player who initiated the action.
If a game goes to sudden death, the winner is determined by stocks and percentage at the time the match ends. When the timer hits 0:00, the player with the higher stock count is the winner. If both players are tied in stocks the player with the lower percentage is the winner. In the event when both players lose their last stock immediately or have a percentage tie, a 1 stock tiebreaker will be played with the time limit equal to the regular time limit divided by the regular number of stocks, rounded up. 2:00 min for Melee and 3:00 min for Wii U. The results of sudden death do not count.
Taking a partner's stock is allowed in doubles. Trading controllers is not allowed.
If a player's teammate is not present for a match, that player may not replace their teammate with a CPU player. They may play without a teammate.
Alting results in immediate disqualification from tournament without refund. This includes using alternate tag/tags and/or hiding your identity to manipulate bracket/seeding. The only exception to this rule is if the player notifies the TO prior to the registration end date.
Players may request that their opponent change colors to accommodate color blindness or if their color is indistinguishable from either the other team color or the stage background. The request must be made before the match starts.
Warm up periods, button checks, and hand warming techniques may not exceed 30 seconds on the game clock .Violation of this rule may result in an automatic forfeit at the discretion of the TOs.
Any coaching that happens during a set (anytime between the beginning of game one and end of the set) is banned. Players who violate this rule will be subject to DQ from event or removed from the venue.
Either player may request a double blind character select for the first game. In this situation, a third party is told, in secret, each player's character choice.
Anyone who is not present for their match by 10 minutes past the scheduled start time, without prior communication with TOs, is subject to a total DQ from the event.
Players suspected of colluding may be immediately disqualified from the tournament. This includes intentionally throwing a match, splitting a payout, or committing any other form of bracket manipulation.The TO reserves the right to deny payout from event winnings to any player suspected of intentionally throwing a match, splitting a payout, or committing any other form of bracket manipulation.
Games or sets are not to be replayed due to a misinterpretation of the rules or a misconfiguration of game settings.; it is the player's responsibilities to ask the TO for any clarification of the rule set in the event of a disagreement, and the outcome of a game or set will not be changed after the fact.
If any unforeseen situations occur, judgment of TOs is final. The TO reserves the right to settle any unforeseen situations that may occur, and his judgement is final. In extreme situations, rules may be altered between phases of a tournament in the best interests of the event.
There is no gentleman's clause. Players may not play on any stage that is not on the legal stage list, and players may not agree to change the number of matches to be played in a set.
All wireless controllers of all kinds are banned.
Stocks: 4
Timer: 8 Minutes
Handicap: Off
Damage Ratio: 1.0
Items: Off
Pause: Off
Team Attack: On
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Final Destination
Dream Land
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Counterpick Stage: Pokemon Stadium (Singles Only)
Players play a best of 1 Rock-Paper-Scissors, and winner may choose to strike a stage first or select a port first. Stages are struck in a 1-2-2-1 order.
After each game of the set, before counterpicking, the player who won the previous game may ban one stage from either the starter or counter pick list. This rule is not in effect for best-of5-sets.
A player/team may not pick any stage they previously won on during the set.
Wired GameCube Controller is the only legal controller.
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Arduino Mods are Allowed
The following Ports are to be used when a player/team invokes the neutral start rule. Players may elect to move to opposite sides of the stage and then count down prior to starting the match.


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The Christian Science Monitor has an article out this week by Patrik Jonsson discussing how "Conversions to Judaism among African-Americans are growing in a way that could affect the presidential election."
Jonsson writes of a "black conversion movement," portrayed as a recent trend of African-Americans becoming Jews by choice that reflects a particular moment in Black-Jewish relations. Of course, the author refers to his subjects as "converts," but we'll leave that aside for now.
Way to go, buddy: Jonsson figured out that not all Jews are white. The only thing is, I'm not sure he did, actually, figure that out.
When interviewee Elisheva Chaim reports strange looks about being Jewish, Jonsson naturalizes those reactions. Of course it's weird that a black person would be Jewish! Everybody knows Jews are white. And, as a corollary, an African-American walking into a synagogue is an anomaly, a convert, and probably the only person of color there.
Well, that's the thing – everybody may know Jews are white, but many Jews aren't white. I don't have to tell the JVoices readership that – this blog has covered the particular issues faced by Jews of color more than most of the Jewish press and blogosphere.
First off, and this has been well documented in print and online, even those American Jews who live with white privilege on a regular basis and don't feel like they are passing for white are only able to do so as a function of the time (and often class) in which they (ok, honestly, we) live. These days, light-skinned, accent-free, usually-Ashkenazi Jews are grouped in with "white" on a regular basis, but that's more a function of the changing boundaries of whiteness in the United States, which in the 21st century seems to have room for a number of groups previously excluded – Irish folks, Eastern Europeans, Southern European – if they are sufficiently assimilated linguistically and culturally.
Secondly, the CSM article makes it sound like African-American Jews have joined a community where they are the only brown faces. In doing so, it perpetuates a widely-held, but incorrect assumption, that the American Jewish Community, if there is such a thing, is white.
In doing so, they erase the histories and present-day lives of Jews who don't identify as white and, probably more importantly, of Jews who others don't identify as white. These include Jews from long-standing communities around the world – Ethiopian Jews, Ugandan Jews (subject of a recent piece in the LA Times), Indian Jews, and Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews from Spain, North Africa and the Middle East, to name a few.
Jonsson hints at a history of Jews with one non-Jewish parent of color, though he ignores the growing numbers of Jews born into non-Jewish communities of color – some in the U.S., more in Latin America and Southeast Asia, and some adopted into U.S. Jewish families. (Full disclosure: my synagogue was the subject of a NY Times article on this "phenomenon.")
Reading this, I realize it sounds like a hatchet job. In all fairness to Jonsson, he's obviously trying to find an angle (the Obama candidacy) through which to point out to his readers the existence of Jews of color, something he may have just found out about for himself – who knows?
But his argument contradicts itself. He attempts to use as evidence – for this recent phenomenon of African American Jews – a statement by Lewis Gordon, of the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia that "there are as many as 1 million Blacks with Jewish blood in the US." This is hardly evidence for a brand new trend.
I for one wish he had used it as a jumping-off point for a more complex analysis of, say, the way Jewish communities that think of themselves as white treat Jews of color, or the ways in which the whitening of American Jews in both the public perception, and many communities' identities, has affected the ability and desire of Jews to fight racism in the US.
August 7th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Thank you for posting this; but this article misses the mark in a lot of ways. First of all, you can tell that this author does not have a clear understanding of Judaism and what makes a Jew a Jew. The Jews have never been "mono-racial" — even Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses) married a woman of a different race. Are Chinese or Japanese or Indian Jews just as peculiar? I mean I traveled to Israel with an American group and as a Black woman…people seemed to make a big deal about it (Americans of various races). However I would see entire groups of Indian Jews (who physically looked and dressed like anyone else in India) and no one batted an eye at that.
So my "eh" feelings come from being half-glad that we are getting more exposure…but mostly disdain because I don't see any stories written about Black Catholics or Black Buddhists. It just feeds into the myth that was are not as "authentic" as "White" Jews (although I know of plenty of Jews who look White, but do not classify themselves as "White" people…rather Semitic). The Jews are a spiritual race of people…not a physical one.
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At one stage I felt as though my Instagram was becoming monotonous; clinical white everything, from fashion to interior design. One word – BORING!
I understand that this crisp, clean look can be an aesthetically pleasing theme to the eye but as inspiration to viewers, I believe there needs to be a sense of reality and all white everything just doesn't feel practicable or feasible. However, I do have an absolutely random thought – How do men that wear a Kandura manage to keep it so bloody white? This is something myself and my friends always wanted to know!
I personally dress in accordance to my mood, so if you see me wearing the rainbow, it's a clear indication that I am feeling pretty damn good! Colour injects an instantaneous shot of happiness into my mood. Supposedly, in accordance to the colour wheel, warm colours such as oranges, reds and yellows all invoke a sense of happiness, optimism and overall good energy. Additionally, with my skin and hair colouring, I believe it compliments the contrasting elements. Although, in saying that I don't believe these colours are restricted to only my characteristics but are also flattering to other skin tones too.
Contrasting colours and patterns will be a continuous theme that you will see throughout this blog. I think it demonstrates a positive outlook on this cosmopolitan world that we live in. There is incredible diversity in this world that I honestly love it – Culture, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, and just simple differentiating interests that makes each human being a unique addition to our ever-evolving planet.
I know we live in an era of superstition, which can be considerably terrifying but as someone who has lived abroad and experienced the above aspects of different cultures and nationalities, there is nothing more exciting.
Colour television was first commercially available in the 1950s to the 1960s, although nearly 70 years later we still aren't inclusive of colour in the media and personally I want to encourage diversity by showing that life isn't just simply black and white.


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Election Center
John Boerger
A candidate for State Representative Pos. 2, Legislative District 44 in the 2010 Washington Primary Election
Party: Democrat
On this race:
Elected Experience: I have been elected to the Lake Stevens School District Board of Directors twice. I currently serve as the board's Legislative Representative.
Other Professional Experience: I am a Systems Manager for Verizon, after spending more than 10 years in the public relations field.
Education: I have a bachelor's degree in Communications and Political Science from the University of Washington.
Community Service: No information submitted
Statement: John Boerger is running for State Representative to change the way business is done in Olympia. As a businessman, father, and Lake Stevens School Board Director, John brings a unique perspective on critical issues facing our district and state. Government needs to be more efficient, effective, and accountable to the people it serves. For too long our schools have been shortchanged by politicians who put pet projects ahead of priorities. As a School Board member, John has a proven track record of managing a budget, making tough choices, and doing what's right for our kids.
Election results
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Dear Heloise: I am retired and a senior citizen. To keep my mind active, I created a BLOG featuring my family. It was so much fun getting together all of the funny stories, etc. Then I created a second one, and now I am on my third.
This is a good hint for someone to start an online blog. It's a great hobby and a wonderful way to keep the family connected. — JoAnn W., via email
If you are interested in creating a blog for your family, just go to your search engine and type in "How to start a blog." There you'll find free step-by-step instructions as well as information on reasons for creating blogs and how to use them.
— Heloise
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Fax: 1-210-HELOISE
Email: Heloise(at)Heloise.com
Too-bright lights
Dear Heloise: A while back, a reader suggested leaving the airplane lights on for extra warmth on a long night flight. Just know that this can be distracting for those in the seats in front or in the back, as well as those in the same row who may be trying to sleep.
When they cut the lights for that long night flight, it signals quiet, rest and sleep (if possible). These lights are so bright that they can keep other people awake. I have asked attendants to turn off the light of someone behind me who fell asleep with the light on.
If you're not warm enough, why not ask for a second blanket? Thanks for publishing this opposing opinion.
— A Faithful Reader, Jean H., via email
Another use for grocery bags
Dear Heloise: On a recent trip down South, my husband and I found ourselves needing some kind of "trash-collecting receptacle." While my husband was trying to rig something up, I simply took a plastic grocery bag, opened my glove box and placed the handles of the bag inside the box before closing it back up.
The handles on the bag were large enough that we had plenty of room to place trash in it without the need to open the glove box every time we threw away trash.
We used one as we headed out and another one as we headed back home. This is just another hint for reusing those plastic grocery bags.
— Jerry N., via email
Alternative gift-giving hint
Dear Heloise: As the Christmas holiday approaches, our family has what we think is a creative way of "gifting" family members.
Besides giving gifts, we write out a "coupon" of something we're willing to do for a member within the next year. We include activities like going to the movies, a dinner or two at their favorite restaurants, visiting a local winery or brewery, etc.
The coupons are placed in a basket, and are randomly drawn. Whoever offers the activity on the coupon sets up dates and times with the person who drew it.
It has been a joy, and far more memorable and easy to do than buying specific gifts for specific people.
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Thesis Accepted
I've been sitting on this news for a few weeks now, while I got all the final preparations taken care of. I sent it off to the binders yesterday so I guess I can come clean: my PhD thesis has been accepted, and I'll soon be officially known as "Dr Kelly". Has a nice ring to it, don't you think? :-)
A special thanks to Adrian for being a great supervisor over the past four years, it's been a very challenging and rewarding experience and I enjoyed the process immensely. I've updated the page on my research with a PDF version of Asynchronous Multi-Agent Reasoning in the Situation Calculus. Hopefully I've found and updated all the other sections that said "my thesis is currently under examination" – please let me know if you spot any more.


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A lot of people abuse using the words I'm sorry. Just because such words exist does not mean that we can hurt other people as often as we want.
Most of the I'm sorry given nowadays are so insincere, don't you just hate hearing it? Some people think that just because they said the-magic-words already, then whatever they did should be forgiven and forgotten right away. I don't think it's as simple as that. Saying I'm sorry without really meaning it only makes the situation worse. It only add more wounds to an already hurting heart.
It is so unbelievable also that some people apologize and does the same thing again and again and again. An apology has to be real to heal.
What about you, when do you say I'm sorry? When is an apology acceptable for you?


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Character: Part I/
22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.
Galatians 5:22-26, NRSV
Spirituality is life in God's spirit. Whenever Paul writes about life in the spirit he is casting vision for Christian spirituality. Additionally, whenever Paul writes about life in the spirit, he discusses character. Almost without fail. He writes very little about prayer (although I haven't done a formal analysis of this- I'm sure someone has). Interesting stuff.
So, we can't talk about spirituality without talking about character. In the days on humility before God and the communal mindset, we wrote that spirituality asks us to consider who we are to others or, in other words, our character. Spirituality and character are not separate entities. I probably haven't been clear enough on this before, so I'm going to be bolder than I'm normally comfortable being: One does not shape the other, one does not inform the other. They are inherently intertwined and cannot be separated out and studied separately. If we aren't paying attention to our character then we must question whether or not we are pursuing any meaningful spirituality in our lives.


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I've been hurt, and I've hurt.
I've made mistakes, and I've learned from them.
I've given my all to a lot of things, only to have them taken from me.
All I want is to find out that there is such a thing as loyalty, commitment, passion..


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Published in today's edition of the Federal Register, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury issued a final rule to allow for the sale and renewal of short-term, limited-duration plans that cover longer periods than the previous maximum period of less than three months. Such coverage now can cover an initial period of less than 12 months, and, taking into account any extensions, a maximum duration of no longer than 36 months in total. The action is aimed at helping increase choices for Americans faced with escalating premiums and dwindling options in the individual insurance market.
The final rule can be obtained at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2018-08-03/pdf/2018-16568.pdf.


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Again, from Japan Today, 12/22/09...
I know some of these articles seem redundant, but I post them here with the whole text as a sort of repository, a place where we can go back and see important data. Japan Times and other news reporting agencies sometime delete the story after a certain amount of time. Thus I have come to copy the whole text - saves me a lot of photocopying and think of all the trees we save... Long chunks of italicized text mean direct quoting from the original story. Come back to VAOJ when you need to search for visual anthropology related topics. Anyway, back to the story...
East Japan Railway Co (JR East) said Monday it will start operating a security camera system aimed at preventing groping on trains on the Saikyo Line on the evening of Dec 28.
A set of high-definition security cameras will be installed in the No. 1 cars of some trains on the line linking Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture, the first time for such equipment to be installed on commuter trains by a Japanese railway operator.
JR East announced earlier this month that it was planning to start conducting video surveillance on the Saikyo Line on a trial basis by the end of the year in the hope that security cameras would provide evidence of and serve as deterrent to molestation.
The decision to install the cameras came after police asked metropolitan railway operators to do so amid no sign of a decline in molestation cases on trains, although critics have questioned the effectiveness of the cameras and raised privacy concerns.
Metropolitan Police Department data show that the number of groping cases on trains handled by the police total around 1,500 a year. In the first half of 2009, the number of such cases came to 708, of which 75, or about 10%, occurred on the Saikyo Line. Most molestation cases on the line occurred in the No. 1 cars.
JR East will start the trial by installing cameras in the ceiling near the driver's cabin. It will increase the number of trains equipped with cameras in late January and plans eventually to record footage from four points in each car.
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Intel Extreme Masters XIII Chicago is the 73rd IEM event. Alongside the quarter million USD prize pool the event is also a part of the Intel Grand Slam which gets the winning team that much closer to the million dollar grand prize.
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Okay, okay. I know, I know.
I've set dates before and they haven't come to fruition. But who can blame me? I've had so many different ideas circulating the past few months that I haven't even taken a breath long enough to get them down on paper.
But this one will stick.
August 15th. It may seem like such a random date to you, but to me, it's meant way much more than I've ever verbalized. If it wasn't for this date, my two ever-interesting characters, Brandon Greene and Natalie Chandler may not have ever met. So while choosing a release date feels as important to me as picking a day to get married, I won't dally any longer.
On August 15, 2013, Skin Like Dawn will be released to the masses. It's a long overdue (six years, actually) addition to my very first published novel, When You Come to Me. She's been lonely for the past six years, with a cliffhanger waiting to be concluded.
And speaking of conclusions...
I've decided to turn this whole saga into a trilogy...but more on that later :)
Rest your little souls, people. August 15th will be here before you know it. I can't wait to share it with the world.
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Netflix remake New Legends of Monkey to premiere next week
Netflix's latest original series 'New Legends of Monkey' will premiere next week, with all ten 30-minute episodes available to stream on the device of your choice.
The series is inspired by a 16th century Chinese fable 'Journey to the West' and sees a trio of fallen gods who naturally have magical superpowers and martial arts skills aid a young monk called Tripitaka.
Monkey is described as a good god who accidentally freed demons who wreaked havoc on the world before he was punished and frozen in stone for half a millennium before he was awoken by Tripitaka. Monkey, Tripitaka and two other gods – Pigsy and Sandy – embark on a quest to restore balance and peace to the world.
The series is a joint-venture between Australian channel ABC, New Zealand network TVNZ and Netflix, with production carried out by Oscar-winning See-Saw Films and Jump Film & TV.
Netflix started life as a DVD rental company before expanding to streamed content. It arrived in the UK in 2012 and has since developed a reputation for its high quality, addictive original content.
The first Netflix original was House of Cards, and sci-fi and fantasy has proved to be a fruitful source of material. Altered Carbon, Star Trek: Discovery and The Expanse have all proved hits with viewers, while in 2019 it will show Nightflyers, which is based on a novella written by Game of Thrones author George RR Martin.
To watch New Legends of Monkey, as well as loads of other films and box sets, you can subscribe to Netflix for as little as £5.99, although this restricts you to standard-definition programmes and a single device. For £7.99 you can get high definition streams and can watch on up to two devices at the same time, and with the £9.99 'premium' package you get access to the 4K Ultra HD content and can watch on four devices simultaneously.
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Kids are question-machines.
- "Why can't I go to Sam's house after school this afternoon?"
- "Why won't you let me go to that movie with my friends?"
- "What's wrong with what I want?"
- "Why do we all have to eat at this restaurant?"
And all good parents instinctively know the right answer: "Because I said so."
At one level, this response is correct. The Bible reminds children that they should obey their parents, as the right thing to do before the Lord (Ephesians 6:1f).
However, if we only give regulations without rationale, then our children may obey as long as we're around. We'll condition robotic responses in children who may lack the internal resources to meet the ever-changing demands of adulthood.
Thankfully, the Bible says more to children than "You just need to obey." The first nine chapters of the book of Proverbs overflow with reasons why children should obey the Lord and walk in His wisdom. Chapters 10-31 contain what we typically think of as "proverbs"—short and memorable sayings, pearls of wisdom.
Yet instead of Proverbs immediately beginning to teach wisdom itself, the opening nine chapters primarily feature incentives for right and wise living. In these chapters you'll find (a) logical reasons for pursuing wisdom, (b) promised blessings for gaining wisdom, and (c) terrifyingly-true-to-life warnings about consequences for refusing wisdom. (E.g., for reasons: see 1:08; 2:1; 3:1; etc.; for blessings: see 1:9; 2:10-11; 3:13-14; etc.; for warnings: see 1:19; 2:22; 3:32-35; etc.)
Wise teaching shouldn't just present statements of truth, but pull back the curtain on why it's important. Wise parenting doesn't just require, it reasons. It doesn't just expect, but also explains.
In this way, we as parents are less like instructors, and more like guides, personally leading the next generation through the twists and turns of life that we ourselves attempt to navigate. We get to invite our children into the inner workings of righteous and wise living. So that one day, when the situation and specifics are different, wisdom may still be sought and found and followed.
If you'd like to learn more, use a good Study Bible to read through Proverbs 1-9. As you read, notice how often Solomon reasons with you, the reader. How does our parenting compare with this counter-balance to "because I said so"?


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This spring we photographed a great story for BEHR paint and Apartment Therapy! The story consisted of 3 different homes throughout New York City that were each painted in a different color. The idea behind the color choices was to break ground on the 'new neutral'. Even though the homes had completely different styles, the paint colors made each space pop and gave it a clean, modern feel.
To read more about the paint colors and see more photos check out The New Neutrals Project!


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As the winter season brings rain to the redwood forest, the soil comes alive. Banana slugs appear en-mass, newts emerge from their summer sabbaticals, and earthworms wiggle their way up to the surface. Upon reaching saturation, the earth itself appears to explode with odd domes, humps, clusters, shelves, and various other forms of fungal flesh. Mushroom season is upon us. Ubiquitous representatives of the unseen underworld, mushrooms are seemingly everywhere in the
in the winter; a person can hardly step without crushing one back into the soil. Santa Cruz Mountains
Technically speaking, mushrooms are the visible fruiting bodies of fungi; and as fungi, they are placed in their own kingdom. Prior to molecular analysis, all fungi were placed in the Plantae kingdom, but in 1969 they were rightfully recognized as being markedly different from the earth's plants. Thus began the five-kingdom system of taxonomy, with the addition of the newcomers, the fungi. Fungi are now believed to be more closely related to animals than to plants, having diverged more recently from their evolutionary branch with Animalia.
The fungus kingdom is incredibly diverse, and includes the largest living organism on earth (a colony of honey mushrooms in Eastern Oregon covering over 2,000 acres) as well as some of the smallest (single-celled chytrid fungi responsible for the amphibian disease chytridiomycosis). And it is fungi that create the many mushrooms we see dotting the forest floor. In order to reproduce sexually, a fungus must somehow spread its spores. Mushrooms provide a convenient, sheltered way to do so – they pop up, open, and poof! Spores are sent flying through the air.
If categorizing based on their 'feeding' habits, there are three major groups of mushrooms – saprotrophic, obtaining nutrients from dead organic matter; parasitic, obtaining nutrients from living organic matter, and mycorrhizal, which form a symbiotic relationship with plant roots. Here in Henry Cowell Redwoods, we have a great variety of mushroom-bearing fungi, and can see all three of these categories in a short stroll across the park.
Tree oysters on a coastal live oak
Honey mushrooms sprouting from the base of a tan-oak
A well-known parasitic mushroom is the honey mushroom (Armillaria ostoyae), which grows on the roots or near the base of living trees. This fungus attacks living trees, growing into their sapwood and eventually killing them. The telltale sign is, of course, a cluster of honey mushrooms sprouting from the tree or nearby ground. This species is the aforementioned largest living organism in the world by biomass. Honey mushrooms may be spotted throughout the park parasitizing Douglas-fir trees, a common host. They typically grow in clusters, are golden-brown (hence the name), and usually have a white ring around their stalk.
Butter bolete (Boletus appendiculatus) growing from the roots of a tan-oak.
Most mushrooms fall under the third category - mycorrhizal. These fungi form a symbiotic relationship with the roots of plants, growing around the roots and sometimes even inside of them. The fungus and the host plant can exchange nutrients and water, and both benefit from the relationship. In fact, eighty percent of terrestrial plants have a mycorrhizal fungal partner. Examples of this category include the boletes (Boletus species), a genera containing many large, handsome mushrooms. Boletes often associate with madrone, oak, and Douglas-fir, and may be spotted throughout the park growing within the root zone of their host tree. Boletes are typically bulbous, with a brownish cap, a massive, thick stalk, and pores rather than gills under the cap.
Regardless of their feeding habits or growth forms, for many folks a mushroom is just a mushroom – save for the kind you have in pasta and on pizza (Agaricus bisporus). But what our fungal friends do just under the surface of the soil is pivotal for the health of the forest, and perhaps for the health of the entire terrestrial earth. So the next time you're out for a walk in the park, enduring the bleakness of the coastal winter, stop and take a closer look at those strange things beneath your feet. You might be surprised.
[originally published in Words of the Woods, the newsletter of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park - January 2010]
[originally published in Words of the Woods, the newsletter of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park - January 2010]


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The first time I met Peter Garrett was by the side of a country road and I was being instructed to tell him: "Welcome to federal fucking politics."
It was June 2004 and Garrett, frontman for the seminal Australian rock band Midnight Oil, had just been announced as a federal candidate for the Australian Labor Party.
I was a journalist on the Sun-Herald and a photographer and I were dutifully dispatched from Sydney to Garrett's family home in the southern highlands, about 90 minutes south of the city. Our job was to find Garrett, photograph him and get at least a line or two out of him about his new gig. He'd been playing cat and mouse with the press for days – a lot was riding on our mission.
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It was pretty obvious Garrett knew we were following him and all I can remember thinking was: "This man wrote the soundtrack to my political and activist life, he's written my favourite-ever songs, I admire and respect him as a musician so much and now I am chasing him, oh my God what have we all become?"
He eventually pulled over, I had my deputy editor on the end of my mobile phone in quite an animated state – he was ex-Fleet Street and lived and breathed for moments like this – and I asked him what I should say to Garrett as he came lumbering over to our car.
"Tell him, 'Welcome to federal fucking politics and if he doesn't fucking like it he can talk to me!'" he barked down the phone, clearly enjoying himself immensely.
So I had my chat with Garrett, got a few lines out of him, and he agreed to be photographed in town picking up his dry cleaning. Suits, dark suits, no doubt to be worn when he went to meet the bigwigs of his new party.
He looked as uncomfortable doing it as I felt watching it.
I have never forgotten about that day, the conflict I felt, how odd it was that this giant of the music scene had become a politician.
Like those dark suits he was picking up from the dry cleaners, it never seemed the right fit. He served in the Australian federal parliament from 2004 to 2013.
When it was announced that Midnight Oil had reformed, I was thrilled. A flood of memories came rushing back – and not just of that crazy winter's day spent chasing him for a story.
I remember being a seven-year-old public schoolgirl in western Sydney when Beds Are Burning was released. I liked the song, had absolutely no idea what is was about, and asked a teacher what the line "It belongs to them, let's give it back" was all about.
The explanation marked the first time I heard the word "Aboriginal". On reflection it really beggars belief. Until then I had not known I was living in a country that had been populated by a completely different race for at least 40,000 years. I didn't know Europeans had come and taken their lands and killed them and taken their babies from them and denied them the the right to vote. My school's name was "Mawarra public school". Mawarra is an Aboriginal word, and I still didn't know.
We, that generation, didn't know, we weren't taught it, people didn't talk about it. That's the power of music. It taught me all of that, in just one song.
Later on in life I would sit and listen to Blue Sky Mine and come to understand the power big mining companies can wield over governments, the damage they can do the environment, the value in trade unions protecting workers' rights. I joined my local workplace union and took part in many strikes for fair pay and working conditions after that.
Later still, when I would cop grief from family and friends and workmates over my strong social and political views, I would sometimes put my headphones on and listen to Power and the Passion. The line "It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees" resonated with me, even if only on a small scale.
There were peaceful times with their music, too, of drinking champagne and watching the sun rise over Coogee beach with girlfriends. We were looking out to Wedding Cake Island and listening to their song of the same name. They were good times.
I am sure so many of us out there have their own "Midnight Oil Moment", a time and a place when we heard a line or two from one of their many wonderful songs and felt something.
The second, and last, time, I saw Garrett was in 2005 when Midnight Oil performed at Wave Aid, a charity concert in Sydney to raise money for victims of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. By that time he had been elected to the Australian federal parliament.
The Oils were the final act of the night and were magnificent. Powderfinger, Silverchair, Nick Cave and Neil and Tim Finn had been on before them but Midnight Oil blew everyone out of the water.
I've got three little boys now and am far too old and boring to go to any more rock concerts. But knowing the music and showmanship of Midnight Oil is back for a whole new generation makes me as happy as I was that night, dancing in the dark with 50,000 other hot and sweaty bodies and feeling happy there were people like Peter Garrett still in the world.
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Interstellar is one of my favorite films to date. It is a sci-fi adventure that's both artistically and scientifically awed. Visually, I've never seen worlds and the general design of the film as imaginative while avoided being flashy. To me, the film is more than a science fiction, it is a dramatic piece exploring the sophistication of human emotions and our purposes. Scientifically (which is the focus of this entry), the interpretation of dimensions really captured me. Whenever I see videos or books exploring the possibility of another dimension through the understanding of our own three-dimensional world, I'd usually speculate and move on without thinking too much. But the ending of Interstellar, knowing how accurate the science of the film is, I was willing to believe for a second if it were actually true, and the result brought me to a whole new level of understanding of our physical universe.
This is what I began to think about. A star in the sky is perceived as one dimensional — a dot. A closer heavenly body would be acknowledged as 2 dimensional being a circle. Approaching one even closer, it could finally be seen as 3 dimensional. Orbiting around the star or planet would make it a 4-dimensional object since we can start to see it rotates and moves through time. Evolutionary theories allow me to speculate that our senses are only as effective to a point where our survival is ensured. We don't really need to see Andromeda in the sky at night, but we need to see the moon or the north star to navigate in the dark.
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Seeing an iPhone projecting images and sounds should be something incredible for us to ever comprehend — something so bizarre and alien to our most natural evolution. I was surprised we could ever acknowledge it as something ordinary. The phone is getting thinner and thinner to a point where it's paper thin, isn't that just like a dimensional portal portrayed in a movie? I was looking at people staring into their laptops in a coffee shop one day and imagined those laptops as ordinary metals. From that perspective, it's most unnatural to see how people can sit there for hours staring into a hunk of metal and after a long day, they were able to communicate so many ideas with so many people and are able to produce phenomenal experiences to share with the world. If one day a device is so small it fits inside our head, you'd see people sitting around staring off into space, and the world would slowly alter in accordance to our wills.
I'm beginning to believe that a dimension is simply a part of this universe. Some dimensions can form together to create a reality. In our physical reality, it is perceived to be 4 dimensions. And this 4-dimensional structure can be used to understand any other dimensions. It's as if we can use English to comprehend any other language. To inspect further, can we say the microscopic world is another dimension? Are our thoughts? Are things we cannot see or hear another dimension? We are able to create microscopes and translate the microscopic organisms to our own understanding. Our thoughts are invisible to our naked eyes until we painted on a canvas, acted it out, wrote on a paper or produced a piece of music, or created a dream machine that can capture those thoughts in a computer. Those things are out of this world. Our thoughts are created and linked to a different dimension although everything happens in this physical world.
What's really interesting with the universe, the microscopic world, our own physical world is that when they are translated to our 4-dimensional understandings, they share extreme similarities. That raises another question: Is there a fundamental law that governs how everything is build and how everything behaves? Because whenever we proved that each individual thing in the universe is different from one another, it is proven otherwise when we dig deeper. A tree is different from a blade of grass, but they are all plants. They are different kinds of plants, but they all require water and soil to grow. Their requirements for existent are the same, but their structures differ. But then, they are all built of atoms, and so on...
Albert Einstein once said, "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
That is a belief both eastern and western philosophies often agree on. It is most fascinating when I reach into nature, it is true that while everything is different from one another, everything seems to share common fundamental traits with one another. Things like our solar system as to an atom. Brain neurons as to the universe web. Behaviors of a virus as to a human's. The deeper we investigate, the more similar everything seems to become.
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A woman is once again at the helm of the house Jeanne Lanvin built. On Friday morning, the Lanvin chief executive Michèle Huiban confirmed that Bouchra Jarrar had been named artistic director of women's collections. She begins Monday.
According to Ms. Huiban, who spoke from Paris: "Bouchra seemed a natural for our house, founded by a woman. I felt an immediate and very true connection when we met."
In a phone call, Ms. Jarrar said, "I am honored to be part of the extraordinary history of the house, and all the great creators who came before me."
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According to Ms. Huiban, Ms. Jarrar plans to close her own brand to "devote herself to Lanvin."
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The appointment of Ms. Jarrar heralds the understanding of Lanvin management that whatever Lanvin becomes next, its aesthetic will necessarily be different from what it was under Mr. Elbaz. Ms. Jarrar is known for her tailoring, as well as her more functional approach to couture: Though the workmanship of her clothes is never less than perfect and she has a way with the flou, she eschews complicated ball gowns for more streamlined, cooler styles; her quintessential look is a razor-sharp pair of trousers with an elaborate, feathered perfecto jacket or vest.
In an internal memo seen by The New York Times, Ms. Jarrar said: "My wish is to bring to Lanvin harmony and coherence of a world for women, a world of our time. I rejoice in being part of this beautiful chapter in the life of the house with all its teams."
Restoring internal harmony will be an important part of Ms. Jarrar's job at Lanvin, which fell into some chaos after the ouster of Mr. Elbaz, to the point that the workers' council sued the management. The case was settled in December by the Tribunal de Grande Instance, though the mood as been described as "poor" by current employees. Also on the to-do list is restoring profits, which have been on a downward trend, with a projected loss of 2.5 million euros, or about $2.8 million, in 2015 (the first since 2007).
It is a meaningful task, which is perhaps why Ms. Jarrar will not be involved in Lanvin's men's wear, now designed by Lucas Ossendrijver. Speaking on the phone, she reiterated her excitement at the opportunity of working with Lanvin's ateliers, and her admiration for Mr. Elbaz.
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