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Author's Perspective: First of all, I don't have to tell you that having diabetes is very stressful. And, on top of that, having a lot of stress makes your diabetes worse!
Stress and high blood sugar are connected, so your ability to manage stress plays a major role in managing your diabetes. So, in effect, you are in a vicious cycle of stress and poor diabetes management.
The key is to break the cycle by reducing your stress and/or by improving your diabetes and blood glucose control.
Author's Sidebar #1: During a management training class when I was moving up the corporate ladder, we were asked to fill out a flip chart page about stress at work and present it to the class.
After everyone in the class had presented, the instructor approached me to present, but he noticed that my flip chart was blank. He asked me if I needed more time, but I said that I was ready to present.
I explained that how we perceive what is stress is relative and based on our upbringing and life experiences.
I went on to explain how my father worked 4 jobs and my mother worked 2 jobs to make ends meet and take care of 7 siblings. I, on the other hand, here in Corporate America, only had to work 1 job and take care of 1 child, plus I made more money in two months than my father made in a year. So, where's the stress?
The instructor smiled and said: "That's an interesting and healthy perspective -- looks like you're not going to be one of those stressed-out managers. :-)
Author's Sidebar #2: Being a community volunteer for the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and for two of the local churches kept me so busy that I was visiting a new church almost every other week! All of this helped to reduce the stress in my life because I was so preoccupied with helping other people, I forgot about my own problems.
What is Stress?
Stress is a response produced by your body when you are subjected to various types of demands, whether physically, mentally, or emotionally.
Contrary to what most people believe, stress is not always a bad thing. In fact, stress can provide a positive effect.
When something that takes place or is about to take place in the environment is producing stress in a person's body and you feel some of the symptoms of stress, it results into the release of certain chemicals into your bloodstream.
On the positive side, these chemicals can be utilized to produce more energy or added strength. This is helpful when the cause of your stress is something physical.
But when you are dealing with emotional stress or chronic stress, it can cause a negative effect on your body since there is no outlet for releasing that extra boost of energy and strength. Therefore, stress results to various types of emotional or physical responses because each individual's body respond differently to the stimulus.
Types of Stress
Whether you admit it or not, stress is a part of everyday life. Whether you are at school, at the office, or just about anywhere you are forced to deal with people and the environment. Hence, the types of stress is closely associated with its cause. And because your physical body is closely connected to your emotional and mental state, you will notice some connection to their effects when you begin to experience stress. This is also the reason why it is important to combat the cause of stress since it affects several vital aspects of your body in order to function.
Here are some of the most common types of stress that you must be deal with on a daily basis.
Internal Stress: If you're diabetic, you may experience a lot of internal stress. The primary reason for this is because of the negative feelings you get from your doctor and the people around you. Now, it's not their fault that they feel this way. It's because they realize that they can't really help you. And, if you feel that negativity, then, this can create internal stress, which, only makes your blood sugar worse.
Another reason why you may feel this internal stress is because of your own lack of knowledge about diabetes, which creates feelings of anxiety, uncertainty and dread. However, you can reduce this internal stress simply be educating yourself about diabetes, nutrition and how to fight this disease.
There are other times when you may constantly worry about your blood sugar, what food to eat, and other events without having enough control to determine its outcome, creating a lot of unnecessary anxiety.
Internal stress is also one of those kinds of stress that needs to be addressed quickly -- don't let it fester. Most of the source of this kind of stress is rooted in your mind, which can make it difficult to manage and get rid of.
In some cases, people suffering from internal stress subconsciously may put themselves in stressful situations or feel stressed out about things that aren't stressful to begin with. So, be consciously aware of what you're thinking and what you believe internally.
And, keep in mind that a significant stressful event such as a car accident, major surgery, the loss of your job, or a death in your family may cause your blood sugar to rise and remain there unless you are able to properly handle the stress.
When you lose a loved one, you will go through the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance), but, everyone goes through these stages differently. However, in most cases, you will experience spikes in your blood sugar that may remain high until you get through the grief.
Relationship Stress: This is the type of stress that you feel around loved ones, family members and friends who are negative and complain all the time, but, more importantly, they don't help or support you with the dietary and lifestyle changes that you need to make.
Sometimes they mean well, but, they tend to know very little about diabetes; but, they talk and give advice like they know what they're talking about! Most of the time, they only know what they know because they overheard someone else or they heard something on the radio or TV.
These people tend to feed the negative talk-track in your mind and provide very little positive support. This is one of the reasons why the Death to Diabetes Cleanse and Detox Program requires that you detox your mind as part of a "full body" detox.
Survival Stress: This type of stress deals with the danger, mostly physical, that you are subjected to as a diabetic. It can be prompted by a low or high blood sugar attack that can make you feel thirsty or have blurry vision. In more serious situations, it can make you pass out or go into a coma.
Therefore, your body releases this burst of energy that you need to utilize to respond quickly about the situation at hand whether to confront it or escape from it.
But, please be aware that, in some cases, if your blood sugar is too low or too high, you may not be able to respond!
Environmental Stress: This type of stress is your body's way of responding to changes or activities in your environment that could produce stress, such as extreme levels of noise or pressure from work.
These extreme levels can trigger the release of adrenaline or stored glycogen and spike your blood sugar.
As compared to the other types of stress already mentioned above, this one is a lot easier to deal with. The best way to get started combating this stress type is to determine the source. Once you have identified the source of environmental stress, find a way to avoid the source.
Stress Due To Work and Fatigue: Another common type of stress and probably the most prevalent is due to your job. This type of stress usually doesn't happen right away, but rather builds up over time.
And, your stress builds up, so does your blood sugar and your body's resistance to insulin.
When you are spending too much time at work or if you are forced to get a lot of work done in a short period of time, this can be very stressful and can take its toll on your body.
When you're spending too much time at work, you tend to miss meals or you go for the vending machine because it's quick and convenient.
To deal with work stress, it is important that you find time to eat a healthy lunch or have a healthy snack. Also, find time to relax, take a walk during lunch or talk with a friend or colleague. It is also very important that you get enough quality sleep so that your body can recover from the tremendous amount of work.
Sources of Stress
So, where exactly does stress come from? Our stress comes from two main places:
1. External sources: such as demanding jobs, your environment, problematic relationships, negative people, and financial problems.
2. Internal sources: how we perceive and respond to these and other events within our minds.
Biological Impacts of Stress on Your Health
Stress impacts your entire being and every part of your body, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Key areas that are affected by stress include your cardiovascular system, gastrointestinal system, endocrine system, nervous system and immune system. Some of the effects include high blood pressure, indigestion, high blood sugar, twitching, frequent colds, and anger outbursts.
Here is a diagram that depicts some of the many ways that stress affects your health.
The Connection Between Stress and Blood Sugar
When you are under stress, your body works overtime to help you cope. One of the ways it does this is to release hormones, such as epinephrine and adrenaline, both which give you added energy and concentration.
But, in addition to the hormones, your body also releases glucose (sugar) from your liver, muscles and stored fat reserves. This bodily response to stress is called the "fight or flight" response.
For example, if you needed to fight off or run away from a angry bear, these hormones and extra glucose would give you an enhanced ability to do so. In the process of running or fighting the bear you would use up the hormones and glucose and your body would quickly regain an internal balance.
But short, acute situations like the bear scenario are not our main source of stress. The stress that plagues most of us is chronic stress; the kind that goes on for days and weeks.
The same "fight or flight" stress response occurs with chronic stress as in acute stress. The difference is that we keep it turned on perpetually for long periods of time because we feel an ongoing anxiety about our finances, jobs, health and people we love.
More specifically, acute stress — stress that is momentary or short-term such as meeting deadlines, being stuck in traffic or suddenly slamming on the brakes to avoid an accident — causes an increase in heart rate and stronger contractions of the heart muscle, with the stress hormones — adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol — acting as messengers for these effects.
In addition, the blood vessels that direct blood to the large muscles and the heart dilate, thereby increasing the amount of blood pumped to these parts of the body and elevating blood pressure. As previously mentioned, this is also known as the fight or flight response.
Once the acute stress episode has passed, the body returns to its normal state.
However, chronic stress, or a constant stress experienced over a prolonged period of time, can contribute to long-term problems for heart and blood vessels.
The consistent and ongoing increase in heart rate, and the elevated levels of stress hormones and of blood pressure, can take a toll on the body. This long-term ongoing stress can increase the risk for hypertension, heart attack or stroke.
Repeated acute stress and persistent chronic stress may also contribute to inflammation in the circulatory system, particularly in the coronary arteries, and this is one pathway that is thought to tie stress to heart attack. It also appears that how a person responds to stress can affect cholesterol levels.
The risk for heart disease associated with stress appears to differ for women, depending on whether the woman is pre- or post-menopausal. Levels of estrogen in pre-menopausal women appears to help blood vessels respond better during stress, thereby helping their bodies to better handle stress and protecting them against heart disease.
Postmenopausal women lose this level of protection due to loss of estrogen, therefore putting them at greater risk for the effects of stress on heart disease.
Stress also affects our eating habits. Usually, when we're under stress, this triggers food cravings so we'll gravitate to bad foods such as a high sugar food (like some candy or chocolate) or a high fat or comfort food (like macaroni and cheese).
Instead, grab a handful of walnuts or almonds along with a piece of whole fruit -- the fruit and the nuts will still give you the energy burst but you'll feel a lot better in the long run.
As you can see, chronic stress is not healthy for anyone but it is especially troublesome for people with diabetes because you do not need the additional glucose being continually released into your bloodstream, wreaking havoc and damage to the arteries and other parts of the body.
In addition to the cardiovascular system, stress affects the gastrointestinal system, immune system, nervous system, and other parts of the body. For more details, refer to the Death to Diabetes Blog and the Stress ebook.
Stress Management | 7 Strategies| Learn to Control What You Can
It's not realistic to think you can avoid stress completely. There are some things over which you don't have complete control: roofs occasionally leak, jobs can be a hassle, relationships can end and investments sometimes go down in value.
Worrying about things you have no or limited control over is not your best strategy for your overall health or for managing your diabetes. Instead, focus on managing your response to these kinds of events.
You have the ability to control your attitude, help calm your bodily reactions to stress and make sound choices. The goal is to mobilize the available resources to help you cope with stress in a healthy manner.
In addition, ensure that you eat balanced meals such as the super meals. These types of meals will provide your body and its cells with the proper nutrients so that you can handle stress and prevent stress from causing damage to your body.
Stress Reduction: The 7 Strategies
Here are 7 key strategies to help you handle and reduce the stress in your life.
1. Manage What You Can Control
The all-important first step is to distinguish between those parts of your stress that you have some measure of control over and those you don't. You want to focus your energy on the areas over which you have some control.
For example, you cannot change the fact that your boss is a dimwit but you can choose how you respond to him. Spend your limited time and energy on trying to make the situation better instead of being anxious about the current state.
2. Examine Your Coping Style and Avoid Triggers
Why does one person faced with diabetes rise to the challenge while another person struggles with continual feelings of failure? It often has a lot to do with coping style. Many people have what's called "learned helplessness." They respond to adversity in a passive manner believing that fate will inevitably have its way.
But this coping style usually fails to see the many choices that are actually available. If you are prone to learned helplessness, start asking yourself what choices you have that could change your situation? Write them down. Be proactive. Diabetes doesn't have to control your life.
One of the keys to successfully fighting this disease includes recognizing and avoiding physical and emotional triggers.
Examples of emotional triggers include fear, anger, loneliness, anxiety, jealousy, and hopelessness.
Examples of physical triggers include being tired, traveling, driving by your favorite fast food restaurant, walking through a shopping mall and smelling pizza, some social events, crowds, etc.
Keep a daily journal to help you with recognizing stressful events and triggers so that you can be proactive and avoid them in the future; or, learn how to better handle those situations in the future.
In addition, make sure that you continue to educate yourself about diabetes and nutrition -- the power of knowledge will help you to cope a lot better.
3. Acquire Knowledge about Diabetes and Nutrition
Taking a class or doing research to acquire knowledge about diabetes and nutrition is an excellent way to remove the fear, anxiety and uncertainty that comes with understanding and managing your diabetes on a daily basis.
When you don't understand what's happening to you, this creates internal fear and stress. Internal fear and stress creates uncertainty, hopelessness, depression, and poor food choices, which only makes your diabetes worse!
However, understanding how diabetes works and how to fight it with proper nutrition empowers you and relieves the internal fear and stress.
Knowledge is truly powerful especially when you're able to use it and reap the benefits of better blood glucose control and better overall health.
4. Eat Anti-Stress Foods
In addition to eating healthy foods to control your blood sugar, you should eat specific "anti-stress" foods that help to reduce the negative effects that stress can have on your cardiovascular system and other systems in your body. Examples include avocados, nuts, seeds, and green, leafy vegetables.
In today's world, it is impossible to avoid stress completely. That's why it's so important to eat the right kinds of food because these foods contain the proper nutrients that help to limit the damage that stress can cause physically.
Refer to the Top 10 Stress-Fighting Foods web page for more details.
5. Tap into Your Inner Spirit and Spirituality
We are all spiritual beings, so we should learn how to tap into our spirituality or inner spirit in order to motivate us to change our eating habits and make better lifestyle choices, e.g. exercise, stop drinking, stop smoking.
We should also ensure that we get enough rest and quality sleep because this will help to reduce our internal stress and reduce the release of stress hormone such as cortisol.
We should use Eastern methods such as meditation and yoga to help us relieve the stress, tension, anxiety, anger and other negative emotions that we deal with on a daily basis.
Yoga Reference: www.discover-yoga-online.com/basic-yoga.html
In addition, we should look for the joy in our lives, find some humor in day-to-day events and have the humility to laugh at ourselves or just laugh for the sake of laughing. Why? Because laughter releases serotonin (a feel-good hormone) and helps to relax us and even lower our blood pressure!
Take the time to figure out what is your Purpose in Life. If you believe in the Creator, then, you realize that you were put on this planet for a reason -- a specific purpose. Use your God-given skills and life experiences to become a servant to help others in your community.
Once you understand your real Purpose in Life, you will find that you have more passion and more energy to help others, which will dramatically reduce the stress in your life while allowing you to receive more joy and happiness.
6. Choose to Enrich Your Life
In our fast-paced society, many people never give themselves a chance to fully recharge their physical, mental and emotional reserves. As a result, our minds and bodies stay tightly wound and increasingly stressed with each passing day.
Instead of trying to distract yourself from these stressors by plopping in front of the television or going out to eat, do something that you find truly enriching.
Consider these ideas for starters:
- Join a diabetic support group
- Help a friend
- Go for a ride or visit the mall
- Tour a museum
- Take a walk in nature
- Write in your journal
- Talk with a close friend
- Take a bubble bath
- Get a massage
- Read a good book like Death to Diabetes :-)
7. Use Exercise Techniques to Manage Your Stress
Regular practice of the following exercise disciplines will immediately help you reduce your stress level, and, over time, bring your glucose levels down as well:
Diaphragmatic breathing. In a sitting or lying position, breathe in through your nose, pulling the air deeply into your lungs until you feel your lower abdomen begin to extend. Take in as much air as you can. Hold it for a count of five and then slowly exhale through your mouth. Do this several times.
Progressive relaxation. In a lying position, tense one muscle group (calves, for example) for a slow count of 10 while keeping the rest of your body relaxed. Stop tensing that muscle and relax for a few seconds. Then move to the next muscle group (thighs) and repeat. Progressively work your way through the entire body. This exercise is great to help bleed out the tension in muscles before sleeping.
Exercise. Find an aerobic activity (running, walking, swimming, cycling, water exercise, tai chi, dancing, etc.) that you enjoy and participate in it regularly. Exercise is one of the best ways to release tension and keep your blood sugar in check.
Laughter. OK, so, technically speaking, laughter is not a form of exercise. But, if you laugh heartily and for several minutes, it'll feel like exercise. :-) Laughter releases endorphins and makes you feel better; and, it reduces your own internal stress.
The Importance of Laughter and Other Emotions
Research has shown that the health benefits of laughter are far-ranging. While more studies need to be done, studies so far have shown that laughter can help relieve pain, bring greater happiness, and even increase immunity.
Unfortunately, however, many people don't get enough laughter in their lives. In fact, one study suggests that healthy children may laugh as much as 400 times per day, but adults tend to laugh only 15 times per day.
Stress Management | Benefits of Laughter
Hormones: Laughter reduces the level of stress hormones like cortisol, epinephrine (adrenaline), dopamine and growth hormone.
When these stress hormones are reduced, this, indirectly, helps to lower your blood glucose. It also increases the level of health-enhancing hormones like endorphins, and neurotransmitters.
Laughter increases the number of antibody-producing cells and enhances the effectiveness of T cells. All this means a stronger immune system, as well as fewer physical effects of stress.
Physical Release: Have you ever felt like you "have to laugh or I'll cry"? Have you experienced the cleansed feeling after a good laugh? Laughter provides a physical and emotional release.
Internal Workout: A good belly laugh exercises the diaphragm, contracts the abs and even works out the shoulders, leaving muscles more relaxed afterward. It even provides a good workout for the heart.
Distraction: Laughter brings the focus away from anger, guilt, stress and negative emotions in a more beneficial way than other mere distractions.
Perspective: Studies show that our response to stressful events can be altered by whether we view something as a 'threat' or a 'challenge'. Humor can give us a more lighthearted perspective and help us view events as 'challenges', thereby making them less threatening and more positive.
Social Benefits of Laughter: Laughter connects us with others. Just as with smiling and kindness, most people find that laughter is contagious, so if you bring more laughter into your life, you can most likely help others around you to laugh more, and realize these benefits as well. By elevating the mood of those around you, you can reduce their stress levels, and perhaps improve the quality of social interaction you experience with them, reducing your stress level even more!
Tip: Watch a comedy, or laugh with your friends, your kids or partner every day. Even if you don't find something funny, just laugh! You'll feel better!
And, don't forget that other emotions such as crying are also important, because they also help to release hormones and reduce our stress level.
More Strategies to Reduce Stress
Here are some additional ways to handle the stress in your life:
Adversity: Embrace change and the adversity that you will face during your journey. Adversity will build your character or reveal it.
Connect: Send an email or use a social media platform like Facebook or Twitter to connect with a friend or colleague.
Forgiveness: Forgive your friends and relatives -- stop holding a grudge. These types of negative feelings can trigger health problems like cancer.
Gratitude: Show your gratitude to a relative or a friend; or, anyone who has helped you in some way. Show them that you don't take them for granted. If possible, show your gratitude towards that person publicly in front of their loved ones.
Laugh!: Laughter is a wonderful stress-reducer. Laughter relieves muscular tension providing a discharge of nervous excitement. It improves breathing, regulates the heartbeat and pumps endorphins (the body's natural painkillers) into the bloodstream.
Let Go: Learn how to let go of the anger, jealousy, and envy in your life. These negative emotions trigger the release of stress hormones and weaken the immune system, making you more susceptible to disease.
Motivation: Identify a strong motive for getting healthy, e.g. financial, your children, family, quality of life, religious, disdain towards drugs, fear of a painful death. Ensure that your motive is strong enough to overcome the setbacks you're going to have during your journey.
Negative People: Avoid the emotional vampires and toxic relationships that drain your hope and your soul.
Phone Call: Just pick up the phone and call a friend or colleague just to say Hi. They'll feel great that you called; and, so will you.
Sleep/Relax: Ensure you obtain at least 6-7 hours of quality deep sleep each night. Find quiet time for yourself each day to relax, even if it's only 15 minutes.
Support: Join an ADA-sponsored or church-sponsored diabetic support group as part of your support system.
Talent/Passion: Look for ways to use your talent and your passion to help your family and/or your community.
Volunteer: Become a community volunteer to help others. You'll be amazed how good you feel after helping someone else.
Power Messages: Listen to positive and powerful messages that will help to motivate you. The following audio clip is an example of a very positive message from Les Brown (the renowned motivational speaker). His speech reminds me of my father, scolding and reminding us that "failure was for weak people and not an option for his kids." He felt that you had to be höngry* if you wanted to succeed at something and step into your greatness:
Audio Clip (on DeWayne McCulley Google Site).
*Note: Höngry is an urban term that means "very very hungry". :-)
Food for Thought: There is a fine line between denial and faith: Denial is believing you can't win the battle against the disease because of all the facts. Faith is believing that you can win the battle despite all of the facts.
Author FYI: During the 1990s I volunteered as a math tutor for one of the local high schools. Because I had been blessed with a father who drilled mathematics into us, and great teachers who taught me the "patterns of mathematics", I was able to help many students and give them their hope back. During many of these tutoring sessions, I shared some inspirational quotes that I had come across over the years -- from people such as Muhammad Ali, Oprah Winfrey, and Billy Graham. Maybe one of these quotes will help you.
Benefits of Volunteer Work
Author's Perspective: In my younger years, I was a math tutor volunteer for the Urban League for more than 15 years. Years later, I became a volunteer for the American Diabetes Association (ADA) to help people with their diabetes.
Some of the benefits that I received from doing volunteer work include the following.
Great Feeling: Volunteering makes you feel better when you help someone else -- especially when your advice helps to improve a person's health or some other aspect of their life. It was great being able to help high school kids with their math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. It was also a great feeling when diabetics would thank me for helping them improve their health.
Stress Reliever: Volunteering reduces the stress in your life because you'll forget about your own worries when you're occupied with trying to help someone else.
Educational: When I was running a diabetic support group for the American Diabetes Association, I had to do research almost every week because members of the support group would ask questions that no one in the group could answer.
Social: Volunteering allows you to connect to your community and helps you to make new friends, expand your network, and boost your social skills. I wasn't much of a public speaker, but, by helping other diabetics and running a diabetic support group, I gradually became more comfortable with public speaking.
Volunteering gives you the opportunity to practice and develop your social skills, since you are meeting regularly with a group of people with common interests. Once you have momentum, it's easier to branch out and make more friends and contacts.
My biggest regret with the diabetic support group was not creating a diabetic contact list with names, phone numbers and email addresses.
Personal Growth: Because of my volunteer work with the ADA, I gained a lot of credibility with members of the diabetic support group. Later, when I wrote my book, many of the members either bought my book or told others about my book.
Volunteering also strengthens your ties to the community and broadens your support network, exposing you to people with common interests, neighborhood resources, and fun and fulfilling activities.
Health: Volunteering is good for your mind and body; and, provides many benefits to both mental and physical health. Studies have found that those who volunteer are less likely to develop depression or dementia; and, have a lower mortality rate than those who do not. Volunteering has also been shown to lessen symptoms of chronic pain or heart disease.
Volunteering increases your self-confidence, self-esteem, and life satisfaction. You are doing good for others and the community, which provides a natural sense of accomplishment. Your role as a volunteer can also give you a sense of pride and identity. And the better you feel about yourself, the more likely you are to have a positive view of your life and future goals.
Sense of Purpose: Volunteering provides direction and a sense of purpose. In my case, helping diabetics fueled me to learn even more about diabetes and how to help more people with diabetes. And, the more people I helped, the more I wanted to learn about diabetes, drugs, nutrition, complications, pathology, and other aspects of diabetes.
For more details about stress, read Chapter 13 of the Death to Diabetes book or get the How to Reduce Stress ebook.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Aren't You Far More Valuable Than Birds?
The backbone of our financial system in America and even around the world has been a little rocky lately. Ha. Okay, if we listen to the media and the politicians who are pushing to hurry up and "fix it" --- it is on the verge of collapse.
I've already given my views of the "rescue plan" in previous posts. I'm proud of the House Republicans for holding off the vote yesterday. More work needs to be done on the bill to give us real answers. Obviously something needs to be done but it isn't the plan that was originally proposed and it isn't the one that was put on the floor for a vote yesterday.
Hubby and I are taking a nice peaceful vacation in Northeast Florida this week. We are trying very hard not to be consumed with all the news so we can enjoy some much needed rest and recuperation. With hourly changes in the stock market, announcements of failed banks and Washington's misbehavior it has taken a concerted effort on our part to go about our planned vacation without worry. It's been a challenge even to have a sense of almost feeling guilty for having fun in such grave times.
As I observed the birds on a very quiet and almost deserted beach yesterday, I heard the Holy Spirit urging me to a place of comfort with scriptures softly speaking to my heart. Familiar scriptures. Nothing earth shattering about them. Nevertheless, God has whispered them to me in so many situations and seasons of my life, I know them well. Through them, I know Him well. They speak so profoundly of what Jesus knew to be true of His heavenly Father. They are powerful words that I have held onto in so many times of restlessness and toil over the years. Each time I read them and soak in the power of them, they minister peace to my anxious heart.
I share them today to remind myself and to remind every reader where our help comes from. God is my supply. He is more than enough. He knows what we have need of and is willing to ... and through His sacrifice has already provided.
I have a feeling everything we believe about God and scripture is getting ready to be tested in ways we might never have imagined to be possible in this great country we live in.
I pray I'm ready.
" Look at the birds.
They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren't you far more valuable to him than they are?
Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?
And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don't work or make their clothing,
yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are.
And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and gone tomorrow, won't he more surely care for you? You have so little faith.
So don't worry about having enough food or drink or clothing.
Why be like the pagans who are so deeply concerned about these things? Your heavenly Father already knows all your needs,
and he will give you all you need from day to day if you live for him and make the Kingdome of God your primary concern.
So Don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today's trouble is enough for today. "
Jesus, Matthew 6: 26-34 NLT
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- marmee said...
one thing everyone including me can relate to is peace. everyone wants it. God is love but God is peace as well. thank you God for being our peace in all times. we all need to take a deep breath and breathe alot of Him into our thoughts, concerns, our lives. it is our only answer in these most extraordinary times.
thank you for sharing words of comfort.
"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
John 14:27
Our peace cannot come from the world, or the things of the world - its artificial security, economy or false sense of 'I'm okay, you're okay'! We are to be as wise as wolves in sheep's clothing, relying only on the promises of God to make our way through this foreign land - earth. Most of the time, at least in the USA, it is not terribly hard or frightening. We go about our lives as good citizens, minding our own business and obeying the law, staying out of trouble and just taking for granted our privilege of being far away from war, want or intense wickedness and terror.
Now we find our country on the precipice of financial meltdown in the highest halls of government and on Wall Street. The prognosticators are grim, the news is foreboding. Can we weather a collapse of our stock market? Will we have a severe depression? Will it have worldwide repercussions? Are we, the people, going to lose everything we have worked so hard to save, acquire or count on to retire? Can anything be fixed? Questions, questions, more questions - and not many answers from the experts!
This is a time of real testing of our deepest heart faith - not in the system of our country, but in the kingdom of our Father. He has promised to never leave us or forsake us! He has promised to supply our needs! He has said to look unto Him, as the author & finisher of our faith! He has told us not to worry or be anxious for anything, but to bring our concerns to Him, and "if you do this you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will keep your thoughts and your hearts quiet and at rest as you trust in Christ Jesus". Phil. 4:7 LNT
God also promises those who keep His Word that He will come and abide with them, settle down with them, and pitch a tent, or tabernacle, over them to protect them in this world. Like the old song says "Turn you eyes upon Jesus - look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace". What else can we do to change or prevent or fix anything that is out of our power or know how? Just trusting in Him gives me the peace I need to keep looking up, keep smiling and keep going! Shalom!

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BUSY week.
I have finished the Urban Remedy cleanse!! Let me say. I DID NOT CHEAT ONCE!
I didn't even have the "okay foods" (celery, cucumber, lettuce)
Nudda. I am v proud.
I can honestly say I didn't get hungry ONCE. I just missed the smell/taste/process of eating. I realised how much I thought about food though. I plan a lot of my day around food. Interesting.
I have to say on Day 2 and Day 3, I REALLY struggled with Juice 3. It's really quite horrid. I only had 2/3 of the bottle on Day 2 and D forced me finish it on Day 3. It's just hard to drink.
Juice 6 really tastes like something that should be slapped on my face at a day spa.
I forgot to take photos of the juices. Dang. Every lunch time I'd remember but then get home and forget!
But here is a photo of the little cooler bag they give you to carry your juices around in !
I weighed myself on the morning of Day 1 and the morning after Day 3.
I know you all want to know the numbers.
I lost 3.4kg
I don't know if thats a good thing or bad thing.
Did it mean I was carry a lot of fluids in myself that got flushed out with all the drinking?
Cuz it surely isn't any fat loss.
I did work out during the cleanse though. So perhaps I lost 1kg of real fat? Only time will tell.
I wonder if I would of lost the same if I didn't work out? Probs not.
I also did dry brushing and had 1x 1hr body massage and 1 x 1hr reflexology and shoulder massage.
My skin looks brighter according to D but I dunno.
I think my stomach is a bit flatter.
It's odd that I didn't experience any symptoms as well. I dunno whether that meant I was healthy or my body wasn't flushing toxins. I have no idea.
Oh well. I feel proud for finishing it !!
Here is a couple of photos of some recent buys!
Here is the new cut tee from the "Tomorrow the Great" collection from Sass&Bide.
I like this cut. I told myself I wouldn't buy anymore S&B tees but it didn't seem to last long.
I'm not so sure about this colour of tee. I think it looks a bit "I washed my white tee with my black tee" but D liked it, so I thought I'd give colour a chance!
I like the hemming at the bottom.
Here is a a necklace I got..
And a close up of them all...
I couldn't get a good shot of the talon ring because it doesn't stand up on it's on.
My camera didn't want to play focus today either.
I thought I'd share my skin care stuff too.
A few months ago I started using Perricone MD Cold Plasma range and I really love it!
To be honest the smell is OFF but I'm hoping no one comes that close to notice.
*mask with perfume* haha.
This is the ONLY product I've ever used that I've noticed results within 3 days.
My skin just feels smoother and the tone of my skin seems more even. I think I looked fresher. Whatever that is. My skin looks less manky and dry.
You use the cold plasma under your normal daily moisturiser. I use Clinique DDML and it works really well together.
Look at these weird roses I got for home.
Weird huh? I wonder if they grew like this or if they put some sort of dye through a white rose? I have no idea about this sort of thing.
Do pink and white roses growing next to each other kind of "breed" ? HAHA
I dunno. Rose Sex. Hahahaaaaaaaaaaaa.
And a last but not least, my IPAD!!!
YAY. I'm pretty sure I forgot to blog about this.
I was in Perth on the day they came out and I wasn't planning on getting one. The lines were CRAY CRAY in Melbs and Sydney.
At about 3.30pm I was on Hay St and thought I'd go take a look in DJs at the display ones.
Well. I am a sucker because 5 mins later I was swiping my CC and saying "gimme gimme"
No Lines...Nothing!! Thank you PERTH!
Anyway, I am obsessed with playing Words With Friends on my iPad.
My user name is Ninibeee.
Add me and we can play faux scrabble!!!
Tell me who you are from here though so I know your not some random dude who sending me weird pervy msgs. *block*
Okay I must be off!
I really CBF proof reading this post so if it is full of bad grammar and spelling mistakes, please forgive me!!
Have a lovely weekend everyone!


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What you Googled most in 2015
The top-trending search terms of 2015 were revealed today by Google UK - and in the year of Charlie Hebdo, the attacks on Paris, and the Rugby World Cup, Cilla Black was the surprise peak. The death of the former Blind Date host sent the public to their search engines more than any other event of the past year. Even more striking is the second highest trending term:
Lady Colin Campbell, who rose to notoriety during an ill-fated stint in the I'm a Celebrity jungle. The Rugby World Cup, another stellar display of English sporting incompetence, rounded out the top three.
The top trending male celebrity was also fourth on the overall list: former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson who was fired after assaulting a fellow employee.
Husband of Khloe Kardashian Lamar Odom was second after being discovered unconscious in a Nevada brothel. Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton ranked third, ahead of Charlie Sheen and Spencer Matthews respectively.
The top two female celebrities have been covered, while Adele and Caitlyn Jenner ranked for fourth and fifth for fairly obvious reasons. However third place was taken by Anne Kirkbride, formerly Deirdre Barlow on Coronation Street. The actress died of breast cancer in January.
The Paris attacks were the second highest trending news story, followed by the Grand National. Lamar Odom makes a crossover appearance in fifth place. See the full list below.
Top Trending Terms
- Cilla Black
- Lady Colin Campbell
- Rubgy World Cup
- Jeremy Clarkson
- Paris
- iPhone 6s
- Grand National 2015
- Jurassic World
- Election results
- Charlie Hebdo
Male Celebrities
- Jeremy Clarkson
- Lamar Odom
- Perez Hilton
- Charlie Sheen
- Spencer Matthews
- Lil Chris
- Ronnie Pickering
- Daniel Bedingfield
- Daniel Craig
- Duncan Bannatyne
Female Celebrities
- Cilla Black
- Lady Colin Campbell
- Anne Kirkbride
- Adele
- Caitlyn Jenner
- Ruby Rose
- Katie Hopkins
- Madonna
- Bobbi Kristina Brown
- Rita Ora
Moments / News
- Rugby World Cup
- Paris
- Grand National 2015
- Charlie Hebdo
- Lamar Odom
- Solar eclipse
- Wimbledon 2015
- Royal baby
- Tube strike
- Caitlyn Jenner


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Company history
Style & Craft Paving was formed in 1988 by Ian & Keith Turner. In 1991 the company became members of the Gauteng Master Builders Association (GMBA) and are still in good standing with the association. In August 2002, Style & Craft Paving moved to their own premises at 123, 10th Avenue, Edenvale, which has aRead More


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Sephora introduces two gorgeous eyeshadow palettes ($32) inspired by photo filtering effects. Now you don't need to do any retouching or filtering for your eye makeup!
(image from Sephora's website.)
What do you think? Leave a comment below!
Sephora introduces two gorgeous eyeshadow palettes ($32) inspired by photo filtering effects. Now you don't need to do any retouching or filtering for your eye makeup!
(image from Sephora's website.)
What do you think? Leave a comment below!
Whether from day to night, work to play, you're bound to have a complete eyeshadow look with this new WORK, WEEKEND, WOW™ READY® Eyeshadow Palette from bareminerals.
(image from Sephora's website)
What's your current go-to for on-the-go makeup?
These are all currently available online at sephora.com (and in select stores).
What are you excited to try out from the list below? Do share!
Finally! I feel like a little kid during Christmastime, in front of the mounds of presents. But first things first, doesn't the packaging kind of remind you of Dior's Hydra Life line? The powdery baby blue, transparency and opaqueness.. yes? Or is it just me?
But oh well, let's get into it!
Daily Hydration Moisturizer (75mL / 2.53 fl.oz) – $8.00
As if I don't have enough moisturizers already! But this was too hard to pass up. I'm always looking for something that moisturizes my skin without making it feel like it's overly greasy and slick. I do have extremely oily skin, so I find it hard to pick out one moisturizer out of the many in the market that can keep my skin feeling hydrated, but also keep my oil at bay. Unfortunately, this doesn't cater to oil control. But I must say, it's a nice moisturizer! The scent is light and refreshing, and it has a nice, gel-like consistency. It sinks into the skin and does not leave any greasy film on top. For $8.00, you are getting quite a bit of product, and it also has a pump, which makes it a no-brainer when it comes to cleanliness and travel situations. It's very lightweight, so you can even mix some into your foundation or BB/CC Creams to create your ideal consistency and coverage.
Illuminating Eye Cream (14g / 0.49oz.) – $12.00
There's no scent with this one! I may have some sight trouble, but my sense of smell is not to be messed with. There really is no scent (if at all, it must be really, reallllly light) to this product. At first glance, you would think that with that size, it's a moisturizer or a night cream. It's almost equivalent to one of those Olay moisturizer jars. So that's a nice amount of eye cream!
When applied around the eye area, I do feel a slight cooling & tingling sensation. It makes the area under my eyes feel a little more plump and less heavy, if that makes sense. It works well enough on its own or under/over a moisturizer, being as it is not sticky or greasy. On my oily eyes and skin, I find that there is just enough moisture. But for drier eyes, I cannot speak for them.
So are these product revolutionary and you NEED them? Absolutely not. But if you are someone that likes trying new things, they are definitely very affordable and do as they promise.


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We're close.... can you feel it? This long spell of radio silence from the official camp is about to end! Distribution plans for the hotly anticipated Phantasm Ravager (and the preceding films) are surely about to be announced now that 2016 is at hand! But until we're inundated with new photos, posters, trailers, interviews and release dates - why not review some information on Phantasm V that may have been overlooked?
You're probably aware by now of the returning cast members - Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Kathy Lester, Gloria Lynne-Henry and Angus Scrimm. We're now going to take a moment and rattle through five of the film's supporting cast, one of whom hasn't even been officially announced yet (and no, we're not talking about Peter Dinklage.)
The following cast members are all represented in the image above in order from left to right!
Daniel Schweiger as "Thief" - A veteran of Don Coscarelli's last two films, Schweiger actually created a temporary score used in editing Phantasm Oblivion before Christopher Stone had created that film's permanent music track. His role in Ravager is one that will cause great trouble for Reggie. What exactly will his character be stealing? Aside from his scenes, let's just say it's something that has been stolen from Reggie before.
Daniel Roebuck as "Demeter" - Another Coscarelli vet, Roebuck shot his part back in late 2008 when the project was being envisioned as web series called "Reggie's Tales." His scenes were kept throughout the following years and eventually inserted into Phantasm Ravager when the project switched gears to feature film. Demeter comes across Reggie in the flick and, shortly thereafter, a nasty shiny killer orb. As you can see in the film's first teaser trailer, that second encounter is not going end well for him. Trivia: Roebuck traveled to Crestline, California for his scenes, which is where the real-life Reggie calls home.
Jay Olivia as "Hooded Dwarf" - This casting is kind of interesting, especially considering that Olivia is credited on IMDb as playing a "Hooded Dwarf," yet the man stands 5 foot 6 inches tall! That may constitute the tallest dwarf in series history! Olivia has dabbled in acting, but is primarily a director and storyboard artist. As the latter, he's worked on a slew of big budget blockbusters including Thor: Ragnarok, Wonder Woman, Dawn of Justice: Batman v Superman, Ant Man and Man of Steel. As director, he's tackled numerous animated films for DC Comics including Batman vs Robin, Batman: Assault on Arkham and Justice League: War. He's a longtime associate of Ravager director David Hartman.
Solly Duran as "Raina" - Here is one cast member we haven't seen depicted yet in anything from the movie, so information on her character Raini is scant. Duran was most recently seen in Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, so this won't be her first romp into the horror genre. Considering she is often cast as a partying, tough-as-nails type - she could be a romantic interest for Reggie or a lethal scavenger he comes across on the road - or possibly something else.
Dawn Cody as "Dawn" - Here is the one supporting cast member on this list that hasn't been formally announced yet or credited on the film's IMDb page. Like Olivia, Cody is an old associate of Hartman. They've both made appearances on The Sarah Silverman Show. Trivia: Cody also appeared in 1998's Pleasantville, which also featured Phantasm III's Kevin Connors (Tim) in a supporting role!
Like Roebuck, Cody was a part of this project back when it was being referred to as "Reggie's Tales," and could be glimpsed in the sequel's Texas Frightmare preview (If you've seen her in the leaked trailer, shame on you for watching it!) Her character takes her own name (not unlike Mike and Reggie!), though prepare to be confused when Reggie talks about "Don" and "Dawn" since they sound an awful lot alike! As for her ultimate fate in Phantasm Ravager.... well, let's just say.... we've heard there will be blood!


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Kelly Rowland Steps Out With Baby Titan – Those Cheeks! (PHOTO)
Kelly Rowland's baby Titan looks super adorable in photos that appeared today on social media. Those cheeks! Oh my goodness.
Titan is growing up so fast and is walking now. He's looking really smart in his bubble jacket while mom is in relaxed gym clothes.
Titan Jewell is Kelly's first child with husband (and manager) Tim Witherspoon. He turned one last November.


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Like Barovania before it, Kiel Chenier has provided me with an extremely kick ass version of Akenia's map, as seen below. He's also accepting commissions for other maps, and I can't recommend him enough.
Wonderful things like this help make me excited about my own setting. Please, feel free to ask questions now that the map actually looks like something!


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"The narrative of my own existence I know very well—the facts are a bit muddy," deadpans Joel Lamere, when having to think twice about the year (it was 2006) that he graduated from Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD). Lamere is in his fourth year as a lecturer in architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, teaching architectural geometry, design and representation. He was recruited by his mentor, professor Nader Tehrani, the head of MIT's architectural department, to "shake up" MIT's Infinite Corridor, the cavernous hall of classrooms beneath the school's grand dome. Clearly, Lamere enjoys pushing the envelope.
As a kid growing up in the Bluegrass State, he manipulated planes of plywood into skateboard ramps. When he wasn't gaining new heights on his rolling plane, he was folding planes to produce furniture. Leaving the South for the North, he graduated from Boston University in 1998 with a degree in philosophy. Heading west to San Francisco after finishing school, he worked a stint in a cubical of another sort. He then pursued architecture by "accident."
"I didn't know I was going to do architecture until I had finished undergrad and had been doing marketing for several years, believe it or not." That was when he headed back East and found himself at the GSD.
Taking his team to first place in a furniture-design contest, Lamere found his calling: folding planes. A cardboard-chair competition was "super-related" to his studies. "My thesis work at the GSD was developable surfaces. That's to say all the things you can make out of paper—all paper shapes. It's the same set of geometric rules that apply to all sheet materials. And this is why it's architecture. It's not just paper; it's plywood, it's steel sheet, it's plastic sheet. Anything that can bend or fold basically has to succumb to questions of developability. That's the geometric rubric for that kind of shape. And, so, I explored as many rules as possible for the way those folds can happen and try to extend the fold outside of a thing that was generally about straight lines into the world of curve folding in a geometric way."
As a master folding-planes craftsperson, Lamere visualizes the shapes he desires before he sets to grooving materials. In other words, he has solved so many of his previously unanswered questions about how materials react to scores that he is able to reverse his thinking. He now envisions a desired architectural feature and then sets to scoring materials to create it. "It's much easier to fantasize about the shape of a line than it is to produce the thing that follows that shape."
Ripping a cardboard insulator off his cup of joe, he scores the scrap with his pen to demonstrate the thrust of his life's work. "If you take any sheet of paper and you impose a curved scoring line on it, and just by the nature of the way…oh, look [at] it, I kind of just scored it, didn't I? That worked pretty well, surprisingly," he says, as if it were his first time. "It's just by the nature of the shape of the scoring line that you use, you produce certain effects in the way the curvature of the actual surface happens. My research is very much into how that works, essentially, and all the ways we can model that and use it as a design tool. Right? It seems like such a simple thing, really. It's a material kind of research, obviously, but it's also related to a much longer history of architecture and drawing. It's about how the inscription of a line becomes a three-dimensional form. To me, it's a contemporary version of a much longer history of discourse."
"I consider myself a dabbler in certain ways. But, I'm a specialist in architectural geometry—in how you model it, how you fabricate it and how you deal with it." After graduating from the GSD, Lamere worked with Anmahian Winton Architects in Cambridge, Mass., for several years. "Everyone there has something creative going on. Everyone there is talented. Their work is impeccably detailed as a rule. They build to last. They are the proto-sustainable architects. They're focused on what produces longevity in a building. They build beautifully."
"This is one of the best new pieces of architecture in Boston," wrote Pulitzer Prize–winning architectural critic Robert Campbell FAIA of the Community Rowing Center. Others call it by its official name: the Harry Parker Boathouse, after Harvard's famed rowing coach. Community Rowing ran its programs from inside a couple of cargo containers plunked on the bank of the Charles River. Today, the largest community rowing organization is fortified inside its palatial boathouse. In 2009—the first year of its eligibility—Anmahian Winton Architects' design of the boathouse won the coveted Harleston Parker Medal, an honor bestowed on the most-deserving structures in Boston since 1924.
"The boathouse was under way when I got there to work full time. I had just graduated from the GSD. I had worked for Anmahian Winton while I was at [Harvard]. All of us worked on all sorts of pieces of it…. The work that is almost entirely mine is in the louver-patterning stuff. This is where I fell in love with this project. If I were to be called the project captain of one piece it was clearly that," he says, pointing to a cubic section of the structure that sits to the side of the hulking rectangular section of the boathouse that holds up to 170 rowing shells and sculls. "It's called the sidecar—a mixed bag of things—the administrative offices, the locker room and repair bay. The sidecar was without its current look. It was clad in straight louvers of a different scale, and only a little piece of it had them. It was my work to deal with a pattern, to try and produce a pattern."
Lamere's signature to the award-winning structure is a recurring wave element that defines the sidecar's façade of Prodema, a trademarked wood product. "It's one shape, a single piece that's rotated and flipped. It's rectangular to give four different orientations, repetition of a single cut that produces a pattern." Lamere's pattern produces the rhythm of a river, giving the hulking building an organic essence. "It's a pattern that I calibrated very carefully to deal with different scales. It may appear at first as a very smooth pattern and then it becomes a rippled pattern. So, when you get close, you can see the bolts coming together, but from far away, it reads as something entirely different." Adding, with an understated gratification, he says of the boathouse, "Design is always a struggle, always a fight, but I think the right ideas won in the end."
"I don't think we need more architects; I think we need to teach more people what architects do. Architecture has a populism problem—a cultural problem," laments a man who is passionate about his work, his profession. "It suffers from a misunderstanding. It's not seen by the world as a valuable profession. We've allowed ourselves to become isolated, enwrapped by our own discourse or discipline." Instead of empty grievances, however, Lamere is an agent of change.
Already an accomplished designer, Lamere is making a difference in architecture. Even his downtime is loaded with purpose. During the summer break, when he's not applying himself to his practice, he's teaching gifted high-school students who earn a coveted slot in a program called the Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science, aka the MITES Program. Lamere introduced 25 MITES students to the program's first-ever class in architecture two years ago.
"Maybe only one of them goes on to study architecture," he says, "but it is almost the most satisfying work that I get to do. These are people totally foreign to architecture. They start out seeing architecture as just the making of homes. They start out drawing pitched roofs and walls. They see it as a profession they have no access to. They don't see the middle road, the everyday architects. It's been pretty amazing, frankly. These young minds are totally new to [architecture,] but they're so smart, earnest, so into it.
"I am very much at the beginning of my career on [two] fronts: teaching and practicing. And I consider my career as having to always come from these fronts. I don't teach accidentally. I believe that many of the pains of architecture come through the failure of education—the failure to educate other people about architecture. Right now I teach graduate studies, which is very much about teaching architects, teaching students about architecture. Architectural geometry—form and folding planes—[is] critical to my practice and my thinking. I'm also teaching undergraduates, of which only about a third will go on to architecture."
According to Lamere, that leaves the other two-thirds to act as informed architectural ambassadors. Their responsibility as professionals will be to enlighten the public about what architects do and the differences architecture makes. In his young life, Lamere is already practicing what he teaches.
Lamere is furthering his practice of architectural geometry as a consultant for Boston-based Utile, which was recently awarded the design work on a public waterfront installation known as the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Lamere and Tim Love AIA, who founded Utile in 2002, taught together at Northeastern University, where Love was an assistant professor of architecture. Love tapped his former colleague to assist with exactly the work Lamere is building his reputation on. "I love building. I really like the challenges of construction," as if saying he's not just an academic. "I did a lot of the geometric-design work for the two concrete canopies and for the steel ribs that go underneath them. They're really complex."
Speaking of practices, Lamere announced, "I just, kind of, launched a practice with my design partner with an installation at the Evergreen Museum in Baltimore, Maryland." Limited to the confines of "an unused grotto inside of a very long brick wall," Lamere and Cynthia Gunadi (a member of Hashim, Sarkis Studios Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design in Harvard Square, and Lamere's partner in life) created a sculpture made solely "out of 16-inch polypropylene sheet and zip ties." At 15 feet and 110 pounds, it was tall but "super light." It stuck one foot outside the 14-foot-high stone space. It comprised a series of folds and turns that produced a line of sight running through a series of "S" turns. Right now, of all his work, Lamere is most jazzed about his and Gunadi's work in the grotto.
Their firm's name, GLD, "ostensibly stands for Gunadi Lamere Design," says Lamere, "but we pronounce it like 'Guild' and embrace the connotations of collective interest, association with high craft and standards—all characteristics of how we see a contemporary collaborative practice."
Looking to the future, the always inclusive Lamere, hopes "everybody" comes to the MIT 150 Exhibition, which opens in January 2011, a celebration that is as much about engineering as it is about MIT's 150-year history. Somewhere along MIT's Infinite Corridor, Lamere and Gunadi are going to showcase their next collaboration—installation. Meanwhile, he says, "We are seeking projects while we're in the process of licensure." When asked about life beyond his academia and installations, he says with certainty: "Where I am going is to bigger, real architectural projects."
Dan McNichol is a best-selling author, award-winning journalist and national speaker. His website is danmcnichol.com.
Photo: Harry Parker Boathouse, designed by Anmahian Winton Architects. Photograph by MikeChampion.


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The Offside Rule 2016/17 - Episode 5
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Ghar is a musical sign, used at the top of the Shabad in the SGGS. It gives a hint to Raagees as to what musical clef (beat) to sing the Shabad in. In other words, "Ghar" binds music and poetry in their metrical-form. There are up to seventeen "Ghar" mentioned in the SGGS. Musicologists have different interpretations of this term. But the consensus seems to be that it denotes the parts of a Taal (beat). Following is a list of seventeen Taals used in Indian Music with their respective "Ghar". A close observation of the following list indicates that the majority of the modern Raagees generally seem to sing only in the first three or four.
Tala (also written as (''Tal'') in Indian music and Gurbani Kirtan refers to a complete and complex system for the execution and transcription of Rhythms and Beats. There exist over 20 different ''Talas'' or 'Beat Patterns'. The most common Tala in Classical Indian Music is the Theen Tala. This beat has a cycle of 16 beats divided in 4 sectors. Sectors 1,2 and 4 are full while sector 3 is empty. These beat patterns can also be played at different speeds.
The main instrument for keeping rhythm in Indian Music is the Tabla. In connection with Tala or musical beats/rhythms and the 'Ghar' in the SGGS, the following can be concluded :
- Ghar 1 - Dadra Taal (There are 1 Taalis and the Beat has 6 Maatraas)
- Ghar 2 - Rupak Taal (There are 2 Taalis and the Beat has 7 Maatraas)
- Ghar 3 - Teen Taal (There 3 Taalis and the Beat has 16 Maatraas)
- Ghar 4 - Chaar Taal (There are 4 Taalis and the Beat has 12 Maatraas)
- Ghar 5 - Punj Taal (There are 5 Taalis and the Beat has 15 Maatraas)
- Ghar 6 - Khut Taal (There are 6 Taalis and the Beat has 18 Maatraas)
- Ghar 7 - Mut Taal (There are 7 Taalis and the Beat has 21 Maatraas)
- Ghar 8 - Asht Mangal(There are 8 Taalis and the Beat has 22 Maatraas)
- Ghar 9 - Munini Taal (There are 9 Taalis and the Beat has 23 Maatraas)
- Ghar 10 - Brahm Taal (There are 10 Taalis and the Beat has 28 Maatraas)
- Ghar 11 - Rudra Taal (There are 11 Taalis and the Beat has 32 Maatraas)
- Ghar 12 - Vishnu Taal (There are 12 Taalis and the Beat has 36 Maatraas)
- Ghar 13 - Muchkund Taal (There are 13 Taalis and the Beat has 34 Maatraas)
- Ghar 14 - Mahashani Taal (There are 14 Taalis and the Beat has 42 Maatraas)
- Ghar 15 - Mishr Baran Taal (There are 15 Taalis and the Beat has 47 Maatraas)
- Ghar 16 - Kul Taal (There are 16 Taalis and the Beat has 42 Maatraas)
- Ghar 17 - Chrchari Taal (There are 17 Taalis and the Beat has 40 Maatraas)
- Taalee is the pattern of clapping. Taals are typified by a particular pattern and number of claps.
- Maatraa is the beat, which may be subdivided if required.
- Taalee is the pattern of clapping. Taals are typified by a particular pattern and number of claps.
There are many other Taals that may or may not have the same number of Taalees and/or Maatraas. For example Punajabi Taal, Chhotee Teen Taal, and Thumri all have the same number of Taalees and Maatraas as the Teen Taal. Both the Jhap Taal and Sool Phaak Taal have 3 Taalees as in Teen Taal but only 10 Maatraas. Both Dhamar Taal and Chnachal Taal have 3 Taalees as in Teen Taal but have only 14 Maatras. Ik Taal has 4 Taalees and 12 Maatraas as in Chaar Taal. Aadaa Chautaalaa, Bhaan Matee Taal (Chaar Taal Dee Savaaree), Jagg Paal Taal, and Jai Taal all have 4 Taalees as in Chaar Taal but not the same Maatraas (14, 11, 11 and 13, respectively). Sikhar Taal has 3 Taalees as in Teen Taal but 17 Maatraas. Talwaaraa Taal has 2 Taalees as in Roopak Taal, but 8 Maatraas. Indra Taal has 6 Taalees as in Khatt Taal, but 19 Maatraas. Deep Chandee or Chaachar Taal and Jhumraa Taal have 3 Taalees as in Teen Taal, but 14 Maatraas, and so on. Evidently the Indian music has developed and expanded in such a disciplined way that it has Taals of a just a few Maatraas to many Maatraas.
Not only music, Taal also pervades every movement of the entire Creation. Days, nights, weeks, months, years, seasons, movement of the planets in orbits, constant spinning of electrons around the center of the atom (called the nucleus where the protons and neutrons are located) etc. are a few reminders.
Other Musical Instruments that are used in Indian Classical Music for Rhythm are Tabla, Dhol, Mridang, Dholki, etc
Another Thought
The idea that ghar indicates the taal can't be entriely true, due to the following line:
Partaal means that when singing the shabad, you change the taal constantly. Normally different taals are used for the usthai and each antra.
If the heading includes "ਘਰ ਪ" and we follow the defintion of taal above, then it wouldn't be possible to do a partaal, because only one taal can be used.
This heading isn't the only partaal that has a Ghar, it is one of many.
Another line to consider is:
In this shabad, there are 2 Ghars, 16 and 2. But if the shabad were to be sung in more than one taal, then it would say Partaal too.
Many people believe the meaning of Ghar to be "lost"
Another note, I'm not entirely sure of this, but doesn't Chrchari Taal only have 14 mantras.
Another Simple Thought
Ghar means simply a "sub section" within a Chapter. As and when content became long, guru sahib decided to assign Sub sections(Ghar) for easy read and keeping similar message sections into same Ghar assignments
Envision all 31 Raagas as simply 31 chapters in Guru Sahib, then we can envision Ghar as sub-sections within a chapter.
E.g. Lets take example of Raag Suhi
Guru Nanak Sahib jee Used in Raag Suhi, Ghar 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10. He didn't use Ghar 5 and 8. This is their independence and approach where they might want to skip numbering or some sub Section.
Now, one must take note that Guru Ramdas jee and Arjan Dev jee did use Ghar 5 within Raag Suhi, to complete the sub section sequence between 4 and 6.
Further, Bhagat Baani is not assigned any Ghars, as it is not very long, that it would need sub section(Ghar) assignment within raagas.
Basically Guru sahib didn't create Bani so complicated that a normal person who has no idea about Ragas and taals don't understand it at all regarding what Ghar and Raag means. For any layman it is simply Raagas = Chapters and Ghar = Sub sections within Chapters!
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It doesn't necessarily call for public ownership of the means of production but it does believe in government regulation of private corporations.
I put "just" in quotes because that's usually the stumbling point. Who defines what is "just?" The simple answer is it's determined by who the people elect. I think it's safe to say that Republicans and Democrats in today's society disagree on what is "just."
I think most political scientists would consider the current US a "mixed economy." Primarilly Capitalist but with some Socialist like concepts such as significant government regulation, Social Security, Medicare, SNAP and Medicaid among others.
A major problem of course is that the US government has no significant source of income other than taxation since it doesn't own any means of production. That means the government doesn't actually pay for anything but acts as a middle man that makes Tom and Dick pay for Harry's benefits.
Needless to say that often doesn't please Tom and Dick.
Republicans tend to want to push things more toward Capitalism under the theory that will result in a stronger economy and benefit everyone. The Democrats believe that society needs a government safety net of some sort because regardless of how strong the economy is there will always be people on the outer edge of society that require government aid. Therefore they tend to try and push more toward more Socialist like programs.
For the past 80 years or so there has been a steady but ragged movement to the left and I don't think that going to change any time soon. Sanders is trying to jump to where we might be 50 or 60 years from now and I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen.
Thursday, March 10, 2016
On Bernie Sanders
Labels: National Events, Politics
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