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Q: My husband and I are about to renovate our bathroom. We are going to take it from horrific mid-1900's powder blue to early 1900's classic, complete with white wainscot, antique clawfoot tub and pedistal sink. We are debating using wallpaper in the bathroom. I would love to do either a toile or maybe damask pattern but my husband is afraid that the steam from the shower will cause the wallpaper to peel. Is wallpaper in the bathroom a bad idea? I'd appreciate any tips or advice you may have.
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You can get wallpaper especially for use in bathrooms.
I wallpapered my bathroom this summer. I'm in an 1872 house and put up vintage (1970's?) un-prepasted paper over the wood wainscotting (that took about six months to strip of dozens of coats of paint). I only have a tub and no exhaust fan (it's old school). I obsessed about finding some sort of coating for the paper to prevent peeling from the steam.
One place that I called set my mind at ease. The salesclerk there said, "Victorians papered their bathrooms and the paper held. They didn't have any fancy coating back then, so you don't need anything now. Just put it up."
I took her advice. It's only been a few months, but so far, so good. However, I do have some paper in reserve in case it does start to peel. The one place I think it might happen is directly over the tap, where the steam rises most. But hey, if I have to re-paste a few strips every few years, that's no big deal.
It's so sad when another colorful mid-century bathroom hits the dust.
Please visit Save the Pink Bathroom before you demolish the bathroom I wish I had.
hi, i used wallpaper in my bathroom above tile with no troubles as of yet. there are photos on my blog, it was also entered in the international room for colour to give you an idea of my take on a traditional 1910 bath. BUT, i didn't wallpaper around the shower area - mostly because i couldn't afford another roll, but also because practically, i had the same fears as you. this wasn't special bathroom wallpaper.
Hi Sarah,
I work in a wallpaper shop in Bulgaria. Most of the wallpapers that we sell are washable. For a bathroom there is a special type of water resistant wallpapers. There is a much more designs available from the first type and when my customers choose them for a bathroom or kitchen I advise them to put a layer or two of clear acrylic varnish on the walls over the wallpapers. This is a good way to preserve them from moisture and doesn't change their look at all. Hope being helpful,
regards, Maria
Get a special bathroom wallpaper. A regular one will be fine for the first few years, but you'll have peeling edges by year 5.
my parents have had wallpaper in all three of their bathrooms for as long as i can remember.
they have tile 2/3 - 3/4 of the way up the wall (especially in the shower/tub area) and then wallpaper up at the top. around the sinks it is more like halfway tile, halfway wallpaper. you just need to be careful and make sure water isn't directly spraying on the wallpaper. i'm currently a renter, and the shower in my apartment is really crappy, so it sprays water everywhere and it's making the wallpaper right outside the shower's plastic lining peel and blister. the wallpaper is also INCREDIBLY old.
anyway, good luck!
Just curious... is your house an early 1900s house?
I cringe at the idea of wallpaper, I personally don't like it. But whenever I see wallpaper on this site or a few others I am proved wrong, it can be very nice. I think anyone who does or can do wallpaper successfully is showcasing their talent and abilities as a superior artisan. It is not easy to do it right, and anyone who can has talent. With that in mind, the bathroom is an even trickier spot. Not only because of the moisture, humidity and heat but the bathroom is a room where one must sit and stare at the walls for a few minutes sometimes. If it is your own house those little bumps and seam edges will drive you crazy. Conversely I just did a quick all white paint job in my bathroom as a temporary thing until we do something more fruitful. There is one spot above the light switch which I did not remove the roller from the wall correctly and there is a hallway light that is showcasing my imperfection. Arggh, and good luck!
In 1989, my family moved to a house whose decor hadn't been updated since the late 60s. The awesome bamboo forest wallpaper held fast until the mid-90s, when my folks finally did a bathroom makeover. I think yours will hold up just fine.
My mother put wallpaper in al the bathrooms in our home in the late 1960's and it held beautifully with no problems. It was a type of wallpaper that could be wiped down too so it made for easy cleaning. (Also, these were bathrooms with no windows, so no problems from the steam).
tbgboodler - you can have my mid-century blue bathroom. enjoy!
i'll take a renovated bathroom ANY day
Claw foot tub,wainscotting...wallpaper could be a wonderful addition.If you love it...go for it! Check out this site. Totally drool-worthy paper.
Use a vinyl paper and you will be fine.
We bought a house with mid 1970s vinyl paper in the bathroom--there was no getting that stuff off the walls!
I actually rather liked the pattern, and might have left it, except the paper hanger had overlapped the seams by 1/2". The paper wasn't adhering well to itself, and the paper overlap had darkened, so everything had to go. (Plus my husband hated it.) But my, it was stuck to the walls!
So, no worries, as long as you hang it the way you're supposed to--seams adjoining, not overlapped.
We had wallpaper in my bathroom when I was a kid, and it held fine. Until the toilet upstairs sprung a leak.
Actually, even then it was fine. We got a HUGE water bubble behind the wallpaper, and it held.
Make sure you find something you absolutely love. Wallpaper is a bitch to take down.
I've never had a problem with wallpaper in the bathroom. I've often used a vinyl one, which I think helps keep the steam from penetrating, unlike paper ones.
One time I papered an old-fashioned bathroom with green and black tile. I found a wallpaper with a black background and the same green in it (it looked almost like a Jacobean floral). It was stunning. The black background was a knockout.
Thanks for all of the really great advice! And thanks AT for posting my question!
Momlady - I am loving Bradbury wallpapers
bullyproofvest - your bathroom is a great inspiration for me. I LOVE IT!
tbgboodler - Sorry the tile is totally gross and the shower is leaking into my kitchen (which is also about to be reno'ed) so we don't really have a choice.
mschatelaine - the house was built in 1920. I've always wanted a clawfoot tub and think it will fit with the style of the house.
I am in LOVE with wallpapered bathrooms.... It makes a bathroom feel warm....
Check out some photos that I collected on my blog..... they may inspire you!
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DrLBennett, I feel your pain. I am facing mid 80's wallpaper in our bathroom and let me tell you, that glue *sticks*.
I have been married for 43 years and alway used wall paper on my bathroom walls. You have to use extra glue on the seams. I used any kind that was in my price range. I didn't buy special wall paper. Since I was a little girl and my mom raised us buy her self we had very little money and had to rent dumpy houses and we painted and wall papered and cleaned them up. I guess they call it fliping a house today. I alway loved doing it! Good luck with yours. Linda May


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The motion received a five to two vote in favor of entering into an agreement with the Georgia Department of Transportation to build public restrooms along the Columbus RiverWalk, beneath the Frank Martin Memorial Pedestrian Bridge. However, the motion needed six votes to pass.
The price tag for the project is $244,000 with the State paying 80 percent, or $195,000, and the city of Columbus picking up the remaining $49,000.
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So You Want to Be a Science-Fiction Writer?
Élisabeth Vonarburg
This was written in last decade of the last century, and although I stand by it, some of the details referring to the "present situation" of the text have changed, especially in the French SF and Quebecois SF publishing industry and readership. The homegrown, er, writership is somewhat coming into its own, both in France and in Quebec – relatively. Even though, following the general trend, what is "in" nowadays (2008) in France and in Quebec is the New Space Opera on one hand, and the various flavours of Fantasy on the other.
It is a rather strange experience for a European to write Science-Fiction. It's even stranger to write SF and not do it in English: for modern SF, in spite of the rich traditions which exist at least in two European countries (England and France), is now for better and for worse an American phenomenon. Therefore I invite you, English-speaking readers and writers of SF, to a thought experiment in strangeness, perhaps even in alienness.
I cannot and will try not to speak for my friends and colleagues in France or in Québec, but only for myself, since each writer is unique. Also, I believe that being a writer, and a writer of SF, is a situation heavily dependent on initial conditions: how old you are when you first discover SF, for instance, which bears on what kind of texts are available to you.
I was born in 1947, in France, and lived there until I was 23, more or less in the country even if I went to the university in Dijon, which is the capital of Burgundy and not a small city (what I mean is, I never lived in Paris, which is where Things are supposed to Happen in France, as everybody knows.) Now, my memory tells me that I never saw or heard the word «science fiction» before I was sixteen. But my memory must be wrong because I read a reasonable quantity of comic books and children magazines, and there was a lot of SF in them. But the fact is, it never registered as SF: I had no frame of reference for it, and somehow it was not different in my mind from the fantastic stories I had been reading since I was very small – myths, folk-tales, legends from all over the world.
I was an avid reader, and not a choosy one — a familiar pattern, I won't dwell on it. I fit right in with the classical studies I was enrolled in at eleven: I already knew a lot of those writers, and those I didn't know I gobbled up like candy. It was great. These writers and thinkers meant something to me, not as school subjects but as persons who could teach me, who were talking to me from beyond space and time. But as High School progressed and we came to the modern times, I began to feel uneasy. Things were happening out there (it was the beginning of the Sixties), but most modern writers didn't seem to have noticed, or to have anything relevant to say regarding these developments. Their main formative experiences were in the past — granted, the Second World War constituted quite a lesson in «modernity», a lesson which took time to assimilate. But somehow I needed something more than their past. In fact, what I increasingly needed was a way out of a cage which had slowly been built around me by what I had been taught more or less subliminally during my whole life — especially since I was a girl: «Things are what they are, they're always been that way, they will always be that way».
Somehow, I didn't relish the prospect.
I was reading more philosophy than fiction, by that time, without finding much there to rely on either. But then I came upon a book titled
The Dawn of the Magicians
Le Matin des Magiciens,
in French), by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier. And the cage opened up. I haven't reread the book for at least thirty years, but as I remember it, mostly it was talking about every field of modern human knowledge — and to understand what an eye and mind opener that could be, you must realize that we were not taught much about relativity, quantum physics, or alternate ways of looking at History: the time lag between current and… respectable science was quite large. But what I really remember is a general message saying (to me, at least): «The universe is a much bigger, stranger and more marvellous place than you've been told, challenge everything you know in order to change the way you see it.» And they were actually showing how some people did just that: Borges, Bradbury, Buchan, Campbell, Clarke, De Broglie, De Vries, Einstein, Flammarion, Fort, Gurdjieff, Haldane, Hoyle, Lewis, Lovecraft, Machen, Merrit, Miller, Shiel, Sprague de Camp, Temple Bell… Yes, it was quite a jumble, but I didn't know any of these people (well, Einstein, of course): there was a whole world out there, which I had been told nothing about, and which was about Mutants, Change, a New Conception of Reality and Mind… WOW.
I immediately began ransacking every library and bookstore in sight to find more from these people, especially science fiction writers — soon becoming a loved regular at my local used-books bookstores! Since it was the mid-Sixties by then, my «initial conditions» were quite good: there was a very healthy and active SF milieu in France at that time, which I didn't know and didn't care anything about but who published at least two monthly magazines,
(mostly stories from
(stories from
) and one or two anthologies a year; there was also the «Présence du Futur» series published by Denoël, which covered as much «fantastic» literature as SF, from American and English writers and a few French writers in between; it had published a respectable enough number of books by the time I became aware of their existence. And there was also another, more popular series, «Anticipation /Fleuve Noir», whose real originality was (and still is) that it published a majority of French writers — a few of them under American-sounding pseudonyms, but what the heck. And of course, as soon as the libraries and bookstores resources began to dry out, I went hunting for English originals.
So, to summarize, my initial conditions: (a) I had read and went on reading a lot of things other than SF, including fantastic and esoteric literature, philosophy and scientific essays; (b) my first contact with SF covered an adequately broad spectrum of texts and authors from the Forties, Fifties and beginning of the Sixties (and a few Thirties stragglers), (c) including some very good French ones; (d) I was not limited to translations and thus was aware that writers of SF were writers (well, some of them anyway), and not merely people with wonderfully wacky ideas. Last but not least, (e) even if I was not part of it, there was a lively and intelligent French SF milieu, mainly expressing itself in the pages of Fiction at the time, and whose members had original and thought-provoking ideas about SF, life, the universe and everything. All of which means that when I first began writing SF, at eighteen, I felt energized, not crushed, by the American tradition(s), I felt buoyed, not embarrassed, by the French one(s), and I never thought once that literature and SF were two distinct categories.
Of course, a lot of my energy came from sheer ignorance, the blessing of youth — and also from the fact that I was not trying to write SF with any «career» in mind, not even that of a writer. After trying my hand at poetry for a long time, and after a short-lived and frustrating attempt at «realistic» fiction, I had just found the ideal medium to express both my wonder at the universe (which I had been unsatisfactorily trying to do with poetry), and also to ask all the questions I had to ask as to my place in relation to the universe, to my fellow beings, and to myself — not only asking questions, but also getting to imagine my very own possible answers, as fictions! (Later, I would realize that it was also the ideal medium for me as a woman, but at eighteen, in the French countryside of the mid-Sixties, which was not exactly at the cutting edge of social revolution, my feminist consciousness was still lying low.) Although I said I would only speak for myself, I must try to make you understand how the situation may be different today for young francophone writers (never mind young female francophone writers!) It's rather difficult not to feel crushed to insignificance, for instance, when 99% of all SF published in French are translations from the American. It's difficult not to be embarrassed when most of what is left of French SF today is either derivative or so different from what can be abundantly found on the shelves under the label «SF» as to being hardly recognizable by readers as such (considering the prevalence of a certain type of American model, the Asimov/Clarke/Van Vogt/Heinlein connection). There are of course a very few glowing exceptions. But this very small percentage of the 1% left to French SF goes all but unnoticed by the mass readership…
Last but not least, as far as I am concerned, it may be very difficult for young would-be French writers to think of SF as a valid literary endeavor today, since they usually don't read American SF in the original language, and all they have to rely on are translations. Now, I don't want to disparage the work of my fellow translators — I have translated a dozen of SF books myself, and I know my translations are far from perfect. But I am also very much aware of the conditions in which those translations are done: for people who (sometimes) like SF, but whose main concern is the bottom line, by people who often are not (or were not, the last time I checked) professional translators, nor even literary translators, and who work for peanuts — so that if they want to make a living out of it, they have to translate a lot of books; they don't have time to polish a translation, and besides, some editors demand that they «keep it short», having an eye on production costs. This is not exactly conductive to high literary standards, and I must say that until I read Sturgeon, Ballard Disch, Delany or Le Guin in English, I was not really aware that they were
This has another subtle deleterious effect on young French writers, since the steady deterioration of writing skills has been taking place in France as well as in all the rest of the Western world. The old axiom «as you read, so you write» is still true. As to SF, they read not altogether good translations of a foreign language — and they tend to write what I call «translation French», a somewhat broken and lexically limited version of French that makes me shudder each time I come upon it in beginners' texts. (And if this happens to young French would-be SF writers, just imagine what may happen to young Québécois, whose relationship with the French language is still quite problematic sometimes!)
But I was lucky. Not only did I have a solid cultural and literary background, I also had parents who did not frown upon my straying enthusiasms. Perhaps because they were not the typical French bourgeois, having lived for a long time in the colonies (North-Africa and Indochina), and being both somewhat déclassés afterwards. My father became an engineer in the French Army from 1918 to 1950, building road, bridges, railway tracks all over the Empire, and a little bit of the infamous Maginot Line; my mother became a pharmacist during WWII, (and I am not talking drug-store owner here, but old-fashioned pharmacist, one-third biologist, one-third chemist and one-third physician). I don't know if that makes them, or me, part of the specific techno-class described by Gérard Klein as the one expressing its dreams of power through SF after WWII. I'm not sure how it applies to girls. As a girl, I was supposed to go into the Humanities, and I did, but nevertheless, my parents never discouraged my interests in things not literary, bless their souls.
And so here I am today, a woman writing science fiction. In French. In the francophone Province of Québec, Canada. And I am now acutely aware of how problematic that is. Because I have been reading American and British SF even more extensively. Because I have been talking with a lot of American and British writers and readers. And because I have been closely associated with the birth and life of the Québécois SF milieu, which gives me yet another view from outside. From outside American SF, I mean, beside the French-from-France point of view. Because, you see, when you are not an American SF writer, and not a native English-speaker writing SF, all you can do is write either with or against the American & British SF traditions — what you know of them. You have no real place of your own, no real tradition of your own from which to write SF (well, some of us older geezers do know our French and European SF tradition, thanks to Pierre Versins and his Encyclopedia; but I doubt whether the younger writers do). You have to build — darn, you have to be your own SF tradition! Which may give rise to some serious identity problems.
I remember the first time I realized how different the American approach to SF could be, compared to that of the rest of the world (and especially mine). It was at a SF convention in Vancouver, I believe, during a panel on the hallowed subject «What is a professional SF writer?». Fred Pohl was on that panel. I was in the audience. And I listened to an all-American panel expound upon advances, number of copies, agents, quantity of output… all the while fidgeting in my chair, scandalized — but silent. I thought of myself as a «professional writer», you see, but my definition was quite different: a professional writer is someone who has organized her or his life in order to write, period. And of course, I realize now that the material aspect of the «profession» is very important, if only because it allows one to have enough time to write, indeed! But at the time, what suddenly struck me was the idea that for an American, or at least a native English-speaker, the prospect of making money with SF, of «having a career» writing SF, was not totally absurd. Whereas for me, a French woman living and writing in Québec, it was. I had already published two books in France at that time, and I just knew that I would never make a living writing SF, had never even expected to. All I could hope for was being able to indulge in my hobby while supporting myself through the odd teaching job or the odd translation. Now, of course I know that it's the same for many American SF writers. But I am talking perception of possibilities here, expectations, the fact that American SF writers have actual role models, and real opportunities. The idea of «making it» in the American market had never crossed my mind: to begin with, there was the language barrier, the translation hurdle, the most obvious one, and I just didn't know how I could possibly overcome that.
Then something unexpected happened to me on my way to getting on with my hobby. One day someone called me on the phone, and it was a Canadian translator. She had been asked to choose what she would translate for a forthcoming Canadian anthology of short fiction (not necessarily SF), and liking what I did, she wanted to translate it. Might she?
Be my guest, I replied, very happy but not unduly hopeful. Even though this lady was, I could soon tell, a very good translator, it would come to nothing. It was a fluke, a one shot.
And then, somehow, things snowballed in the most unexpected way. There was the first Tesseracts anthology dedicated to Canadian SF, edited by Judith Merril, and she accepted one of my stories for it. «Do you have anything longer, a novel for instance?», asked the publisher of the Tesseracts anthology. I had, the novel published in France. They liked it, and published it. And it also got published in England. Meanwhile, several other stories had been translated and published in Canada. And suddenly, out of the blue, another phone call two years ago, and I found myself with an American agent and a three books contract with an American publisher.
But I still thought, it's a fluke. I still thought, still think, «nothing much will come of it». Because you see, even when you are a published author, a reasonably well-known author in your own language and culture, even when you've had some works translated and appreciated in English, the hard part has just begun: dealing with the lifelong, unacknowledged inferiority complex you have as a non-American SF writer. Because all this time, somehow, you have been trespassing (and think, being a woman, too!) Because all this time, you've been playing with somebody else's toys. Because, in a word, you don't own SF.
Now, I'm not saying that Americans really, actually, own SF. That would be absurd (a lot of questions immediately come to mind: «Which SF?» and «Which Americans?», for instance!) I only mean to say that, to a lot of American readers, writers, editors, publishers, critics, readers, SF is American SF — or at least SF published in English in the States.
Now that can be deceptive. «SF in English» doesn't mean only «SF written in English», but also «SF based on the Anglo-Saxon cultural traditions», which by definition no non-American, and especially no non-native English-speaker can tackle. We — I — come from a different culture expressed in a different language, with different givens and different expectations. This is a problem similar to that described by Mr. Wu in the previous issue of Monad — perhaps aggravated by the fact that I don't live in the States and don't write directly in English (and my translator is a Canadian!). It has a lot of consequences, from one end of the bargain (what I write) to the other (selling what I write), which I am not sure I have fully understood yet.
I am not worried about what I write — my position is still «I write what I need to write, then I'll worry about the market». What… interests me is the way it may be received. In my various dealings with American editors in the last ten years, (and talking with some of my francophone friends about their dealings with American editors), I have become aware of a pattern — and I am not talking about the «insularity» of American SF editors, their real or imagined reluctance to consider non-American SF writers simply on «protectionist» grounds (or because, having so many good stories already in English, why should they bother?) No, what I am talking about is, again, different sets of givens & expectations, which translate into different literary criteria. When an American editor and a French editor both profer the well-known «I don't care what (gender, race, nationality, take your pick) a writer is, I will publish anything that is good», «good» doesn't have the same meaning for both (all individual idiosyncrasies set aside). I, and other French colleagues, have been told, for instance: «I can't stand the first person/present tense», (a stylistic approach which is so common in France — not «artsy» at all — that nobody ever remarks on it). And, more seriously: «Not enough action (or plot)», or «This story is such a downer!» Combined with what some French editors are heard saying, and with what the French readership is saying with its purse (buying American SF in bulk and more or less ignoring French SF), it can be conducive to very serious and painful soul-searching on the part of francophone SF writers crazy enough to think of being published in the States…
And also, deeper than all that I have mentioned above, there is the diffuse but nagging question of one's whole culture's relationship to science and technology — which may well be why Americans think that «SF is American as apple-pie». At the beginning of the century, science and technology were still a European thing. They're not anymore — certainly not on the fantasmatic level, at least, which is the one I am concerned with here. The European empires based on European sciences and technology don't exist anymore either. And that may be pretty hard to take. It does something to your sense of importance relatively to the universe. It does something to the way you envision the past, the present — and the future. (Now, when you're a female SF writer, the effect is not quite the same; but this would detract from the main thrust of this essay). In short, you're not the one with the big stick anymore, and although it may broaden your mind as to the plight of the underdogs (and has indeed done a lot for the renewal of SF in the Sixties, which I see as coming from England, a has-been Empire if there is one!), it is somewhat constraining when you want to imagine a brave new future, since you have difficulties imagining yourself (your culture, your society) as a prime mover in that future. For example, what if you are a young Québécois SF writer, descendant of French conquerors who have been conquered, living an uncertain francophone life in a predominantly English-speaking continent, and reading almost nothing but American SF? Well, you write stories about Captain John McSmith, born in New-York, commanding the Starship Counterprize and conquering the universe. Not one European aboard the ship, never mind a Québécois! And you don't do this by choice, with a neat historical or something explanation for this absence, but by sheer (hysterical) blindness, simply because you cannot see Québécois in the stars: you're not even sure what it is to be a Québécois now, then what could it be in the future!
And this is not the most extreme example of what it means to be French or generally European, or even more generally non-American, and to write SF (the British, Australians and such, have an even more ambiguous relationship with the whole shebang, deluded by the fact they speak English; and I won't go into what it means to be an English- Canadian SF writer!). Mr. Wu said very pertinent things about what it is to write SF and not be a white Occidental…
Once again I have strayed from my promise of speaking only for myself. But there is a very good reason for that, as you may have realized by now. I am not sure how representative I am. For reasons pertaining to my initial conditions, I assume, my relationship with… non French-speaking SF has always been quite harmonious: I'm so in love with the Other that anything goes. I love Stanislas Lem, am curious of other SF from the ex-Soviet Empire, am endlessly fascinated by Japanese or Brasilian SF… But while very aware of the relativity of things American in SF, American SF is still what gives me my most enduring pleasures. Thus I have to ask myself something that I believe no American SF writer will ever have to (though female American writers may…): am I a traitor, somehow? Have I been acculturated? What must I make of the fact that I have been translated and published in Canada, England, the States, and that nobody at Bantam, for instance, has yet told me that my use of the present tense is annoying, or that I should do more or this or less of that? How do I go about explaining this to myself, since the «You are GOOD» theory is just too compromising for me to tackle, and the «Traitor Theory» does seem a bit farfetched? The «Fluke Theory» again? Or the «Right – Time – for – Exoticism – in – American – SF – Publishing Theory»? Or the «Opening – of – the – American – SF – Mind Theory», the wonderful possibility that perhaps, after all this time, American SF publishers, editors, critics, readers may be ready to welcome the Alien?
I like this one best, I must confess. I'll go with it until proven wrong.
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Élisabeth Vonarburg
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Sep 28, 2012
British priest bans 'spiritual' yoga from church hall
USA Today: A British priest has banned yoga from the parish hall because it is "a Hindu spiritual exercise" and therefore "not compatible" with Catholicism, according to news reports from the kingdom.
Cori Withell told The Mirror that with just 10 days remaining in the two-month instruction, St. Edmund's Church in Southampton canceled her yoga and Pilates classes. She said a parish secretary explained that the hall must be used only for Catholic activities.
The decision to ban yoga or other non-Catholic activities rests with individual priests and is not official Catholic Church policy, the diocese said.
St. Edmund's priest, Father John Chandler, and …
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Sep 24, 2012
Civil servant fired for claiming meditation course on expenses
A leading civil servant who was sacked after she claimed hundreds of pounds on expenses to pay for a meditation course is suing the Government for £1m.
Dr Angelika Hibbett said she endured 'workplace stress and bullying' from bosses while working at the Home Office in London after she suffered from mental health problems.
She was fired for gross misconduct after it emerged she had put in a claim for £390 to pay for a 'relaxation and meditation' training course to combat her depression.
The Government has refuted the allegations and claims that Dr Hibbett who earned a salary of £63,000 was 'defensive …
Wildmind Meditation News
May 21, 2012
Buddhist centre plans for derelict Southampton pub
A Buddhist group is trying to turn a boarded up derelict Southampton pub into a meditation centre.
The Plume of Feathers Pub in the St Mary's area of the city has been boarded up for several months.
The Triratna Buddhist Order's Southampton group has submitted a planning application to develop the pub in St Mary Street.
Leader Dharma Modna declined to comment on the proposal until the planning application had been heard.
Local councillor Sarah Bogle said: "I think it's a really novel idea.
"I was surprised, to be honest, when I saw the planning application but also I thought why not?
"It's …
Wildmind Meditation News
Oct 22, 2011
Silence is golden: how keeping quiet in the classroom can boost results
Encouraging pupils to keep noise to a minimum has substantial benefits and should become a valuable component of all children's education, it is claimed.
Dr Helen Lees, from Stirling University's school of education, said that "enforced silence" was seen as a punishment and often acted to suppress children's natural ability.
But she said that teaching children about the benefits of "strong silence" – deliberate stillness that gives them the opportunity to focus and reflect in a stress-free environment – can have a significant effect on pupils' concentration and behaviour.
The conclusions are made in a new book – Silence in Schools – to …
Wildmind Meditation News
May 02, 2011
Life could be like a box of chocolates
Genevieve Fox: Mindfulness is hip. It's as trendy as yoga or zone-eating. No surprises, then, that when I enter the Oxford Mindfulness Centre (OMC), I see dawn-red soft furnishings, green plants, rubber mats and kneeling stools. Wellbeing gurus would feel right at home.
So would chocolate lovers. Mark Williams, clinical psychologist and the Centre's director, suggests the best way to understand mindfulness is to try it and invites me to join him in a "chocolate meditation".
Mindfulness, he says, is about being present in the moment, being aware of our thoughts and feelings – so that instead of being overwhelmed by them we are better able to manage them. Using meditation and other techniques such as breathing and yoga-based exercises, it helps …


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My name is Magnus, iam from sweden and resides in stockholm, i started my sketchbook here mainly so i can show off my art and get some pressure from other people to draw more, and ofc get som critque, Dont hesitate to critque me!
Sorry if my english isnt the best or so!
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warrior from hell, or so
Random art.
Maybe i should start posting smaller :p
This is one of my frist digital artworks, hope u like it, ref was used.
And a wolf, that i wasnt really satisfied with, caus i ruined it with some fur brushed
Anyways hope u like them
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Hi Magnus ! welcome on Concept art ! I Like your warrior from hell, look cool and neat ! Well I suggest you to do more anatomy drawing and draw every time youv'e got a chance and you' ll become a pro fast enough ! For digital I suggest you to explore your brushes and customize your own, it really make your life easier sometimes ! well keep it up !
BTW how does it look in Stockolm ? want to visit the place one day !
thanks for those comments..your on your way here..just keep working everyday!
Green-eyed demon: Hello green-eyed demon, really REALLY appreciated that u are the first one to stop by my sketchbook! thank u very much!
And about stockholm, this time of year its pretty cold tbh, but in summer its kinda nice here, vinter or summer is my advice when u should visit stockholm =)
DeKal No need to thank, more i who should thank u for the really nice artwork u have done in your sketchbook, wich is very nice inspiration =)
Thank you!
Face, i used no ref for this one, the lips are pretty of, overall i like it.
Used matrix ref, satisfied with it, was fun!
Nice, you have a kind potential...
I can suggest you to work much on the structure and volumes of your subject...
Don't be in a hurry to ad hatching, shading ecc...before you find the right volumes.
Keep it up!
Sorry for my bad english...
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FOUR ARMED MAN/BEAST, i wished i had four arms too.
Inspiration came from Mortal Kombat, love that movie, second is shit, but have som cool stuff in it too.
nice stuff going on here. i would say more studies to understand anatomy (even more). I feel there are muscles and placeholders that are sort of missing
and then it is just draw, draw, draw !
BOoM headshot.
From a picture from a girl
Thanks for the comments, if i havent already said that
here are some studies from burne hogarths book, and a girl :p
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If it walks like a duck… if it talks like a comedian…
If I were to ask Mitt if his Massachusetts health care plan has been a success, I think he'd have a wisecrack for that too.
Mitt. You are a mediocre conservative – and comedian. You remind me too much of McCain.
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THEN YU KAN APHFFORD TWO HAV A GHOODy *Y*DAEYA
I for one cannot wait for Romney to be our next President of the United States! He should have been the Republican nominee last time around but hopefully the country has now woken up and realized that our future depends on having a President that knows what he is doing and has actal experience in the real world. I would be proud to have Mitt Romney representing the US around the world. Go Mitt!
Few have accomplished as much as Mitt. He had the foresight to back Scott Brown (sen MA).
Great hair. I should read his book.
What has Brown done since? I haven't heard anything from the savior of the Republican party since he drove off in his pickup.
Mitt's just a glob of hair-gel in a suit. He couldn't find South Sudan if you hit him with it.
Obama never promised unemployment would not rise above 8% but hey who cares about truth as long as Romney has a good talking point. Obama inherited worst crisis since Great Depression, took over with job losses increasing every month. 3 million jobs created since Obama sworn in. And is Romney claiming he wouldn't need a Treasury Secretary or economic advisors to consult with? And Mr. mandatory healthcare knocking Obama for tweaking his message? No apology! I wonder if when Romney arrived at the beach house and realized the dog fell off the roof and the kids were crying if he refused to apologize instead reminding those little Romney's they wouldn't have jack squat if it wasn't for him.
You are so lost in the weeds that I am not sure anyone can help you…. But here are a few Facts that you can disregard if you like:
. FACT…. Geitner and Obama both said that they could keep Unemployment below 8% if Congress passed the $900 B stimulus.
. FACT…. Bush left office with total Debt at about $1T (and that included Afghanistan and Iraq)…. We are now about to exceed $14 T in debt (more debt than all 44 Presidents before Obama were able to accumulate)…. And he is still wanting to spend money that we don't have.
. FACT…. Over 88 million jobs have been lost since Obama has taken office (and most of them in the all important Private Sector).
. FACT…. Romney's statement as it refers to Geitner and Summers deals with the fact that Romney knows how to make Business work, he knows how the economy works, and he knows what needs to be done to fix things…. Obama does not…. He is in a training program while acting as our President and he is in way over his head (on virtually every segment of management that you can think of: The Economy, Energy, Healthcare, Foreign Affairs, etc.).
. FACT…. Because Romney knows what he is doing, he has been financially successful and is able to afford a Vacation Home…. You, however, sound like you are a leach on the Tax Payers and blame your miserable lack of accomplishment on those who are willing to put forth the effort to achieve.
Romney is clearly the most qualified candidate out there (especially if you are comparing him to Obama)…. You, on the other hand, sound like an under achieving clown that wants others to pay your way…
Sorry to inform you "RID" you're going to have to go on a training program yourself, cuz under President Romney, you are going to have to pay your own way.
If you really want to know about Romney's Healthcare plan, here's the story…
1) MA was in a financial mess when Romney became Governor in 2002 ($2B in debt)…
2) One of the largest causes of the Debt Growth was using Tax Payer money to fund Medical Services for people who were not insured (most were uninsured by choice but many were uninsured because they couldn't afford it).
3) Romney attacked the problem as a "Reformist" and worked with the 85% Democratic State Legislature to formulate the MA Health Care Reform Plan known as Romney Care… In an effort to get all medical users insured and so they would not be a drain on Taxpayer Revenue.
4) He hired the Heritage Foundation (an ultra Conservative Consulting Group) to help formulate the plan and draft the Legislation…
5) The Legislation was drafted, the Democrats piled on it with Amendments, Romney vetoed a large percentage of these Amendments and several of these Amendments made it into the Bill because the Legislature were able to over-ride the Vetoes.
6) At the end however, Romney was able to hang on to 3 important parts of the bill: A.) A mandate that all who could afford to buy insurance coverage would be required to do so as opposed to opting out and then later requiring the Taxpayers to pick up their tab for Medical Services that they could not afford to pay for; B.) There would be no State Sponsored Option or "Third Party Option" as we have come to know it… Each individual or family chose and bought their own; and C.) The Government did not get involved in the Management of an Individual or Family plan that was entirely left to the People themselves and their Doctors.
Romney has always argued that this was a States Rights Issue and that "Framing the Problem" and "Legislating Solutions" were the responsibility of the individual states under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution…. He has continually called for a Repeal of Obama Care or the declaration by the Courts that it is Unconstitutional…. And it now appears that a Federal Judge in Florida Agrees and has in fact ruled Obama Care unconstitutional….
Romney has always stated that fixing Health Care issues requires individual State solutions that are not of a "One Size Fits All Variety"….
I personally believe that Romney did the right thing in MA… There is presently a law that was enacted during the Reagan years that requires all Medical Facilities to give care to patients who walk through the doors whether they are covered by insurance or not… Romney Care is a very Conservative approach in that it requires irresponsible Individuals to pay for their own Medical Expenses (Gosh What a Concept) as opposed to making it the burden of the Taxpayers….
I don't know why this has been so tough for True Conservatives to embrace…. We have always been for States Rights and Individual Responsibility as opposed to Taxpayer Paid Entitlements that all too often fall into the hands of the Abusers.
I hope he cuts taxes for the wealthiest Americans more. They work harder than you and I. That's why they earn such a disproportionately large amount of money. It's just economics. If you're part of the middle class, get a second or third job, or you're headed down the food chain!
I believe that Obama got in because the Republican party did not give us a strong candidate to vote for. Lesser of two….. I was for Romney then, and I am exhuberant for Romney now. He has shown himself to be a leader. I believe he is what this country needs. Imagine a person leading that has conviction and morals. The man has proven himself in economics, health care. If you want to know more about the finest of Americans, I suggest reading his book, "No Apology" there is where you will learn all you need to know. You don't even have to buy the book, get it at your local library as I did. Be an informed voter. Voting is a privlidge other nations only dream about.. Please get off the Mormon thing. Together he and his wife Ann of 41 years have raised 5 fine, educated, productive upstanding human beings. America is about freedom and opportunity. Let's keep it that way.
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According to a new study at the Huffington Post (with YouGov) there is a major disparity between people that believe in equality "between the sexes" and identify as feminist. The study found that only 20% of Americans identify as feminist whereas 82% believe that "men and women should be social, political, and economic equals." Equality between men and women is the most commonly accepted, mainstream definition of feminism. It's not the only one — and certainly not the one that we adhere to at Feministing (as it relies too wholeheartedly on the gender binary and ignores all the other forms of difference we think are as important as gender oppression) — but it is what most people understand feminism to be about.
When I give lectures, I have one joke I tell (that I think is very funny, ahem) about how the best thing anti-feminists could have done to talk young women out of believing in feminism is convincing them that "boys will think you are icky if you are a feminist" — they will think you are a hairy lesbian and they won't want to have sex with you. I mean, convince an entire generation that they won't get laid if they believe in something and an anti-feminist backlash is born!
The thing anti-feminists don't want to accept is that being a "hairy lesbian" is actually awesome — and feminists of all genders, like, totally have tons of sex. But that's not really what's considered a respectable model of femininity or sexuality. And this can be perplexing for a young person navigating the terrain of self-exploration, sex or just being an undergrad.
We also know that feminists, while sometimes include, are definitely not limited to the "hairy lesbian" set, and we are as diverse in identity as we are in analysis. But, I have noted over the years how many inquisitive young people I meet say they love Feministing but don't identify as feminist — because being a feminist is scary, it's castrating, it's complicated, and it's angry.
The obvious ilk to blame for feminism's shitty PR is anti-feminists. We can certainly trace the specific lineage of believing women are inferior to men to a conservative line of thinking on gender and power — which ultimately led to the feminist backlash, spreading untrue rumors about bra-burning, rebel rousers that wanted to castrate men (or however it goes).
But maybe there is a less obvious answer as to why people have a hard time relating to feminism. As members of the Advanced Gender Studies Set (AGSS), we have a lot to say about the limitations of feminism and how we talk about gender and power, whether it is looking at how a gender binary limits our possibility for existence or the role that other forms of difference play in how we understand gender identity. But why is this kind of analysis trapped in the AGSS, when it's merely descriptive of how gender actually works?
What is relegated to the complex is actually a much more simple way to understand gender and sexism, one that gets at the core of how we are labeled and the limits that puts on our personhood. For example, isn't it better to understand the role gender plays in rape culture rather than suggest that all men inevitably rape? Duh, yes.
A few years ago, I had the honor and privilege of seeing Patricia Hill Collins speak. In talking about the experiences of black working class women, she said something that has stayed with me since. She said, "The theory used to describe the most oppressed of experiences is the furthest locked away in the academy. And it is the root of how we understand everything, so it's time to take it out of the academy." (I'm paraphrasing).
And that has been my mantra since, as I wade into the terrain of mainstream advocacy or talk about gender in a world that can't think past "men" vs. "women." Because, as much as it is easy to rest on the "equality between the sexes" definition of feminism, if we really want to change the public perception of feminism, we actually have to change feminism itself. We have to both push for a world that demands gender equality, while pushing for a feminism that acknowledges, accepts, and truly incorporates difference.
There is no neat, simple, and linear model of feminist progression — there's only how we can build a better future knowing what we know now — which is a feminism that is so much more than equality. It's about humanity, compassion, and understanding across all our differences, and as cheesy as that sounds, I do think it's a definition more people can get behind.


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March is Red Cross Month, and the American Red Cross is asking you to join us in providing help and hope to people in need.
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On Parrett
The parrot is widely known as a vibrantly colored bird with a particular talent for imitating people and other animals. There is a particular Parrett from Hardin County who also possesses this famous knack for imitation.
During last year's campaign for state Senate, this Parrett was quite good at imitating a conservative and casting himself as a bipartisan do-gooder who desired to represent people over politics. As soon as this Parrett flew to Frankfort, it became clear that the imitation gig was up.
We are the government
A couple of years ago Americans were excited about the changes that they expected after the promises they were given. Forget about party lines, everyone should be angry with Washington politicians for ignoring the people they represent. Us.
Un-elect un-enforcers
America has a problem. Why do some officials refuse to comply with the law?
Some appointed and elected officials think they are above the law. Let me give you just a few examples of the problem. Legislators are elected by the people to represent them when legislatures are in session as well as out of session.
Defending DOMA
This week, President Barack Obama declared that his Justice Department will no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act (a law enacted by Congress). When I heard a description of this as "tyranny," I thought the word seemed a bit sensational for our civilized, safe life. Then, I considered the definition: "A government in which the ruler is ... not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition, etc." I decided "tyranny" is not far off the mark.
A salute to FFA
for hard work
and dedication
FFA makes a difference in the lives of our young people. I have long been a proponent of FFA for that very reason. Currently, I serve as a trustee for the Kentucky FFA Foundation and am proud to do so. Not only does FFA prepare young people for lifelong careers and arm them with information to make good choices on a global level, but also it helps them to develop as leaders.
Undermining the process
A medical school classmate of mine, Dr Nicholas Trotta, was an optometrist who wanted to do eye surgery. He went to medical school, did an ophthalmology residency, became board certified and now practices ophthalmology in Philadelphia. Any Kentucky optometrist could do the same.
However, Kentucky optometrists chose to do otherwise. They chose to buy our legislature to the tune of over $400,000 or about $300 per legislator. Surely they anticipated the optometrists wanted something.
Make cuts wisely
There is a debate in U.S. Congress about cutting the budget. That's fine, if they cut out wasteful or unnecessary spending. It's atrocious to suggest cutting public broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts subsidies. They both provide meaningful and social benefits enjoyed by most of our society. We as a nation cannot survive if we lose these social graces, such as enjoying music, plays and other entertainment provided by public broadcasting.
Multiculturalism judged unworkable
In pronouncing multiculturalism defunct, French President Nicolas Sarkozy joins German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, Spain's former Premier Jose Maria Aznar and British Prime Minister David Cameron in heaving the failed policy of multiculturalism onto history's trash heap. The practice wound up giving tolerance to intolerance and has been determined to be unworkable.
Opposition to opposing alcohol sales
Regarding the Feb. 15 article, "Group Opposes Expanded Alcohol Push," I believe Will Stolz and the Hardin County Christian Coalition are doing the community a disservice by campaigning to prevent this pressing economic and social issue from being voted on by the public
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If this problem occurs, set the first question: "What to do? ". First of all, do not panic and do not lose confidence. It is for the beginning of the need to consult a doctor (urologist, andrologist, and sexologist). Biological methods, which are used in case, if erectile dysfunction was due to organic reasons, recently, again became popular. It is especially after the appearance of ED pills.
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I was thinking about "True Detective" today, and then I was thinking about thinking. Thought is just an illusion, transposed over reality. And what is reality? Reality is a dream, a fake, a fraud. A circle within a circle within a circle. It's all just space. Outer space. Blastoff. Jesus was an astronaut. Floating and swimming and dancing in the void. Voided. Like a voided check. Not sufficient funds. You catch my meaning? That's a *reality* check for you, broheim.
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