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Views and offerings from the laughinghand collection of drawings
Shadows and reflections dance at the Railway.
Dreamy mezzanine and beer parlour clowns at the Empress.
A comic and dramatic neon masterpiece.
Under the glow of the golden pagoda.
Old Orange Door Restaurant Graffiti : Ode to the Alley of the Abyss
Tiny Tina at the gate to the parking lot and trick turning turf : Astoria Hotel
Carnival stript in front of the Balmoral Hotel.
Nick's night off. Relaxing at the Caffe Roma
5 x 7 in. original painted ink drawing. Signed and dated on the back.
Offered at: $500.
My masterpiece of caricature.
From the series 'Characters of Commerical Drive.'
5 x 7 in. original ink wash line drawing. Signed and dated on the front.
Offered at $500.
Dre the dragonman. Where are you?
From the 'Characters of Commerical Drive Series
5 x 7' original ink wash line drawing. Signed and dated on the back.
Offered at $500.
The magic of the window mannequins of Helen's Children's Wear.
Origin 1946. Close up from a Giclee artist-proof print.
Offered at $200. (see print page)
Helen the neon girl loves to swing. Bob the next door bear loves to watch.
Close-up of the Helen's artist proof.
Print available.
Diane is the goddess of the hunt and chasity.
She reigns supreme as the queen of neon on
Vancouver's 'Great White Way.' Granville.
B C Royal Cafe mythology merges with the reflections
in the Hall of One Hundred Rivers
at Dr. Sun-yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden 2012.
The long slick white counter and the waiters
of the 1942 origin Cafe Ovaltine.
A thrill to see. Scurry of silhouette customer
figures rotating on a cup and sauce carousel.
Seemingly becoming the church of Smilin' Buddha
this night a clutch of punks gather in religion
for a 'Pointed Sticks' mash.
Chessmaster at Caffe Roma
Original live ink line drawing wash on
5 x 7" rag paper. Signed and dated on the back.
Offered at $500.
Caffe Roma regular. From the 'Characters of Commerical Drive'.
series. Original live ink line painted drawing. 5 x 7" rag.
Signed and numbered on the back
Offered at $500.
Beacon Hill Lawn Bowlers
original on location painted line- drawing
on 11x 15 inch 300 lb. rag paper
offered at $2,000.00
Close-up Beacon Hill Lawn Bowlers
Kits Concession Last Days
close-up original 11 x 15 inch
on location live ink-line painted
drawing on rag offered at $3,000.00
Orbital Lovers at P.N.E.
live ink-line painting on location
11" x 15" rag paper offered at $3,000.00
Burkowki's Women 'on the drive'
Vintage Commerical Drive
close-up portion 11" x 15" rag paper
offered at $2,000.00
Venice Beach Stickmen
Close-up of live composition
from the Laughing Hand 30 day
vagabond walk of urbane
Los Angeles March 2004
Close-up portion from Hong Kong Cafe
caricature painted drawing
East Pender Street Chinatown 22" x 30" original
Handpainted Artist Proof # 1/3
signed and sealed Print on 300 rag paper
available for $4,000.00
Giclee 18" x 24" Artist Proof
signed, numbered and sealed
offered at $200.00
Close-up portion from White Rose Cafe
Counter on Pender Street
22" x 30" original Handpainted Artist Proof # 1/3
signed and sealed Print on 300 rag paper
available for $4,000.00
18" x 24" Giclee A/P print offered at $200.00
Detail from the painted drawing
Blue Eagle Cafe on East Hastings
composed on location in 1985
signed, numbered, and sealed 18" x 24"
Giclee Artist Proof currently available at $200.00
Close-up portion from the Smilin' Buddha Cabaret
live ink-line and quash painted drawing composed
on location in 1986. Giclee Artist-Proof prints currently
available at $200.00
Plaza Theatre Fellini's clowns gather
A Show photo of framed giclee 18 x 24 Artist Proof # 4/30
offered for $200.00 framed $350.00
Under the Pink Pigs of Hastings Street
from 18 x 24 Giclee
offered at $200.00
22 x 30 offered at $300.00
Night Coal Dock Circus
Tswasseen Ferry
from the Laughing Hand Road
Series of photograghs
Shaman of Jordan River
From the photographic
Series of Found and Arranged
Sculptures of Laughing Hand
Puerto Vallarta Mexico Studio
Feb. 2013
From the Studio Views Series
Laughing Hand
1927 Orpheum Theatre with
1956 Radio Tower
Artist Proof # 4/30 Show piece
Sold at InterUrban Gallery Show April 2014
Close-up from the Save-On Meats
drawing. Giclee offered at $200.00
18 x 24 inches. 22 x 30 in. at $300.00
An empty day counter
and the 32 round stools
of the crumbling
Ovaltine Cafe awaits the supper
ghosts from the past. 1942 origin.
Stanley Theatre gathers
it's old faithful on the last night
as a Movie House. 1931 origin.
Juggling in the doorway of Dreamers
Laughing Hand String Street Show
hanging between and post and a tree
affront Magnet Hardware on ' the Drive'
November 2004
Close-up of five of Nine Maidens
holding up columns on
the side of Sun Tower
Building since 1912
Marine-View Cafe Interior Show piece at Bean Around
the World Cafe in Chinatown , Victoria
A/P # 3/30 18 x 24 in. Giclee print
offered at $350 framed.
Aliens on the Roof
on Show Night
from the fifth floor Patricia Hotel
Laughing Hand Road
Series Collection
Raw Talent
from the Seth Series
of photographs
Laughing Hand Collection
Red Gate Smith Foundry
Vintage Old Town Victoria
original live ink painted drawing
composed standing up
in June 1995
Laughing Hand composing live ink line work
on tour deep into the back streets of
Tianan, in southern Tiawan.
Morning Wagonman
live street drawing
Bangkok 1997
Homeless Vet Sleeps
Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles
live line drawing
Meet Me At the Monkey Bars
Britannia East Vancouver
October 2004
Kingsway Girls
at 2400 Motel
live composition
Miss Firth's Hat and Glove Girls Live 5 a.m.
composition Spring1984 Published Monday magazine
in 1985 11" x 15" ink on rag offered at $1200.00 Vintage
Punks emerge from the midnight Blue Eagle.
Close-up portion from the Artist-Proof Giclee
Old Cobalt Hotel street and fire escape on the edge of
crumbling into a heap of bricks and tears
999 Seymour Street corner Vintage
Close-up from Yale Hotel Giclee
Howard Chymy: Hornman
upstairs in the Douglas Hotel
on his way to the Yukon april 1995
Family at Watertaps
Venice Beach
L.A. vagabond walkabout Series March 2004
Live brush line-painting Victoria Machine Depot crumbling
into the Gorge Jan. 1992
Black Ball Ferry Dock live ink drawing
Close-up Mulchyard on the Gorge
After the Street Show
Math in the Road Van
Falling Angels at the Pier
Venice Beach, California
5" x 7" live ink-line and wash drawing
on rag offered at $500.00
Don Mee Seafood Chinatown Victoria
live ink-line drawing and watercolour wash
on 11" x 15" rag paper dated july 1997
offered at $2,000.00
Indigo Child conjures
at China Beach from
the Seth Series
Waiting for Dawn
Laughing Hand Sculpture
Sunday at Mystic Beach
November 2014
Direct ink and paint 11" x 15"
300 # rag paper composition
Old Time Market surrounding a Temple
October 1997 Tainan, Formosa
Arbutus Cafe Lady
live pencil and brush line painting
on 11" x 15" rag paper. January 1995
offered at $1,000.00
Magic Boy on Hill
from My Son Seth Series
Gravley and Commercial
Norman's Market
live ink line-painting on rag paper
executed on location
11" x 15" offered at $3,000.00
Close-up portion of Norman's Market
Parsonage Cafe - Sandy and Rob
Fernwood Vintage
black and white fine-line ink
caricature drawing
11" x 15" 300# rag paper
offered at $2,000.00
Sam the Magic Man
at Banner's for Breakfast
5" x 7" rag signed and dated on the back
offered at $400.00
My Balcony Studio View
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, March 2012
Summer Studio 2012
off Chief Lake Road
Prince George
Close up from the Old Elbow Room
composition on Jervis Street
Fall 1991 on my way to Japan
Dr. Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Garden
Show August 2014
Hall of One Hundred Rivers
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The Museum receives more than 2.2 Million of visitors and offers more than 110,000 Cultural Properties, including 89 National Treasures of Japan, 319 Horyuji Treasures, and 644 Important Cultural Properties.
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The facilities consist of the Honkan, holding the Japanese Gallery; the Heiseikan and Hyokeikan, holding special exhibitions; the Toyokan, holding the Asian Gallery; the Gallery of Horyuji Treasures, holding important relics originally preserved at Nara's Horyu Temple; the Kuroda Memorial Hall, holding a collection of works by Kuroda Seiki; and the Research and Information Center. There are restaurants and shops within the museum's premises, as well as outdoor exhibitions (including the Kuromon) and a garden where visitors can enjoy seasonal views.
The Museum stores Japanese cultural properties of modern art, archaeology and ethnology, and cultural properties donated by the imperial family to the state, but many of them owned by the state are stored more in the three National Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Japanese History and the Museum of the Imperial Collections.
Katsushika Hokusai, known better as Hokusai, was born in Edo, present-day Tokyo, in 1760. He was a Japanese painter and engraver of the Ukiyo-e school, from the Edo period, and is considered one of the great painters and engravers of his country. He is one of the leading artists of this school known as «paintings of the floating world» or «Ukiyo-e». His made different series of the landscape genre, and thanks to this we can know nowadays how the Edo era was, and how the city looked like during this period.


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Lang Thompson wrote:
> While I wouldn't exactly call SPR a "pro-war" film (though any film that
> opens and closes with an American flag certainly subsumes any horrors
> within a Greater Good) the attitude of many reviewers that the explicit
> violence is by definition anti-war seems simplistic at best.
I think the framing of SPR is perhaps the most problematic part of the film.
However, I disagree that the waving flag necessarily shifts the film's focus
away from the anti-war theme. The desaturated colors and near transparency
point to a a hollow ideal whose time and former power as a unifying or
motivational sign are quickly passing. Further, any concept of Greater Good
is ironically undercut by the events of the narrative. Someone else mentioned
the focus on the individual presented in the bookend appearances of Ryan.
This part of the framing is harder to reconcile, in my opinion.
> Part of the
> pull ("appeal" seems not quite right) of warfare (or more precisely combat
> which is not at all the same thing) is that it is outside normal experience
> and to have participated sets that person into a select group. ...To claim
> that
> viewers will see the violence in SPR and think war is horrible and must be
> avoided not only assumes a large leap but runs counter to much historical
> evidence (after all, did Brady's explicit photographs stop the
> Spanish-American War?).
I think the key words in this section of your post are "outside normal
experience" and "see the violence." You had previously stated that simply
seeing the graphic violence as anti-war was simplistic, and I agree. But I
think SPR goes far beyond merely presenting images of war. Everything about
the film, specifically the beach scene and the final defense of the bridge,
positions it not only outside of our "normal experience," but outside of our
normal cinematic experience as well. Horror films and fans of Hong Kong
cinema (I guiltily admit to being a fan of both), even while presented with
scenes of excessive violence and gore, are presented such images within the
context of a collection of cinematic conventions which minimize the impact.
Spielberg's visual choices, to borrow the phrase, are aimed not at shocking
the viewer with excessive carnage, but rather jarring the viewer out of
cinematic complacency. Whether or not this technique works in all cases is
surely up for debate.
I, too , found the armless soldier somewhat comical, but I would be curious to
know in what sense you thought so.
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Every once in a while I crave something sweet: strawberries, plain yogurt and almond pulp in a blender… bzzzzzzz… freeze… then scoop into a dish. Fresh bananas on the side.
June 7, 2011 | Filed under gluten free, MIY (make it yourself), snack and tagged with banana, desert, snack, sorbet, treat.
Tags: banana, desert, snack, sorbet, treat
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Do you guys miss the sweetness of the ice cream? Last week I hold a party in my house, and I made a lot of desserts and cherry coconut ice cream was one of them. The ice cream was made presently, but of course the ingredients were prepared ahead of time. My friends were stuffed with my desserts and they tried to grad a bite, and it was incredible nice. At the party I prepared a lot of desserts, like a pastry called baklava from Greece, chocolate macarons, tiramisu and pizza. Actually I spent so much thought on that party, because it was the first time I invited my friends and colleagues to my house, a little nervous about how they would think of my cook.
About the ice cream, I thought, why not make it at present? So I prepared the ingredients last night, and put it into the freezer, and at that party day I would take them out and put it into the ice cream machine, so that everybody could taste the fresh ice cream. And it was not so bad!
Below was my recipe for how to make cherry coconut ice cream, now share with all you guys.
Cherry Coconut Ice Cream Recipe
Ingredients: 200ml whipping cream, 200ml milk, 35gr powdered sugar, 10gr cocoa powder, 25gr dried cherry
1.Take out a pot, add whipping cream and cocoa powder, mix well
2.Add powdered sugar, whip the cream to a state of illiquid
3.Dry the ice cream tub, wrap it up with a plastic bag and put it into the freezer for more than 12 hours, then pour the milk in
4.Pour the cream cocoa into the tub, cover it and start the machine
5.Cut the dried cherry into pieces
6.After 10 minutes add the cherries from the charging hole
7.Wait patiently for about 15 minutes, and enjoy the refreshing ice cream
1.Whipping cream and milk should be refrigerated before making, add sugar according to your favorite, and notice that ice cream after freezing would be lower in sugar content
2.Before eating the freezing ice cream, make sure to unfreeze for 5 minutes ahead of time
Gone are the busy party days! Now I sit on my chair in the balcony, thought that making desserts are really my favorite thing to do! Besides the whole cook practice that I love, I desperately want to receive praises from my dear ones and I want they show me their love for me! The more the better! And I am happy that I have found a good way to experience life, and I have found that how much I love my life! I don't know what you are suffering, how do you feel about your life, but trying to fall in love with a kind of thing(book, design clothes,cook…) is really a fabulous manner to keep a good mood. Why not start your happy mood by making a cherry coconut ice cream yourself? That would be soooooooo cool.:)


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10 Baked Goods We Hadn't Heard of Before Netflix's Great British Bake Off
With so many reality cooking competitions and celebrity chefs on television, it might seem like too much of a commitment to add another show to your queue. But what if we told you The Great British Baking Show is the best cooking show you're not watching? For the uninitiated, The Great British Baking Show is a British baking competition made up of amateur bakers who are so humble and lovely to each other, you might forget it's a competition — if only until someone plates a cake that is raw in the middle. After binge-watching a few episodes, you'll probably want to try your hand at a few of these recipes.
1. Traditional Battenberg: Characterized by its two-check pattern, this cake is made of a light sponge cake and covered in marzipan. It's a great addition to any afternoon tea party with the girls. (via What the Fruitcake?!)
2. Baumkuchen (Tree Cake): Baumkuchen, also called schichttorte, is very fun to say in a German accent. You can see why it literally means "tree cake." Look at those rings! This was one of the most difficult challenges on TGBBS, and possibly real life too. (via The Kiwi Cook)
3. Chocolate Layer Cake With Swiss Buttercream Frosting: This layer cake is actually a form of genoise, an Italian sponge cake named after the city Genoa. The cake is the foundation for many French and Italian desserts, like tiramisu and Jaffa cake. If you're planning on becoming Star Baker, you might want to master this one! (via A Brown Table)
4. Cornish Pasties: No, there isn't an "r" missing, but you'd be hard pressed to find these at a Burlesque show (sorry, we had to). These little guys are delicious! Fill with beef and potatoes for a classic flavor, or do like Nancy and try a variation with duck and Asian spices. (via Kitchen Sanctuary)
5. Rosca De Reyes: Rosca de reyes is usually a sweet cake decorated with candied fruits, but you can make it savory like Luis did in the episode about bread. It's the Spanish version of king cake, and like king cake, you should place a small, Jesus-like trinket inside. (via Ginger & Bread)
6. Kouign Amann: This is a Breton pastry made with laminated dough, similar to puff pastry. When baking, exercise patience so the layers cook evenly and the outside doesn't burn. The male judge does NOT like his Kouign Amann burnt. (via A Dutchie Baking)
7. Manchester Tart: Made with a shortcrust — a crust that has no leavening agent so it does not rise — this tart is simple yet decadent. It's layered with jam, custard, coconut flakes and the original cherry on top: a Maraschino. (via The Brunette Baker)
8. Dobos Torte: These Brits really love their layers, as seen in this Hungarian sponge cake. We love them too because there's more creamy chocolate buttercream in every bite! (via Smitten Kitchen)
9. Egg Liqueur Gugelhupf: While it has a strange (to us!) name, Gugelhupf is just a marbled bundt cake. (via Foodal)
10. Prinsesstårta, Swedish Princess Cake: Princess cake is a really labor-intensive cake. Even more daunting is the few hours the contestants had to assemble this. The cake consists of layers of sponge cake and pastry cream, a dome of whipped cream and a not-too-green marzipan blanket. Cheers to you if you can pull it off! (via Donal Skehan)
Have you made any of these baked goods before? Tell us in the comments!


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If it's laptops, phones or PCs, I'm a dab hand at guessing the price of an item. (It helps that I've been reviewing them for 19 years.) Admittedly, it's not a party trick that will woo the ladies, but you can't have everything.
With this 2018 edition of the HP Envy 13, though, I was some way off. I guessed £999; in fact, it costs £850. In this HP Envy 13 review, I'll explain how I got it wrong – and why you should buy one.
HP Envy 13 review: the design
Gorgeous laptops for less than a grand are nothing new. We've already seen it in the Asus ZenBook range, for instance. But the HP Envy 13 takes it one step further: you could give this to the fussiest executive and he, or she, would be delighted.
For instance, I like the way the lid levers the keyboard up when you open it. I like the aluminium finish, which is stylish without being showy. I like the edge-to-edge Gorilla Glass that protects the screen, giving it a premium touch of class.
Then there's the fact this laptop slips so easily into a bag. At 1.21kg, you'll have to double-check it's there before you set off. Even its dimensions are super-slim: 1.49cm thick, as wide as a school ruler at 30.7cm, and with a depth of 21.2cm it will sit happily on your lap on a plane.
HP Envy 13 review: the spec
The 2018 edition of the HP Envy 13 currently comes in two different specifications, and HP sent me the entry-level model. Denoted by the catchy ah0001na suffix, it includes a Core i5-8250U, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB PCIe NVMe solid-state drive.
I'm aware that's just a bunch of numbers and letters for those not steeped in such things, so let me unpick it. The processor – the Core i5-8250U – is damn nippy. With four cores and the ability to jump up to 3.4GHz when you need it (albeit for short bursts), it's a brilliant choice for a machine such as this. I'd have liked more than 8GB of RAM, especially as there's no way to upgrade it, but it's enough to run Windows 10 smoothly.
Then there's the solid-state drive. The fact it's NVMe is important because it means it won't hold you up: it's about as fast as they come in laptops, and a sign that HP hasn't cut corners with the specification.
Switch to the £1,099 ah0003na and you can enjoy 16GB of RAM, a faster processor and a 512GB SSD.
HP Envy 13 review: gaming ability
Then there's the cherry atop the cake: an Nvidia GeForce MX150 graphics chip.
It's true this is no GTX chip, but it is capable of playing games if you're willing to sacrifice detail. For instance, it scored an average frame rate of 35fps in Rise of the Tomb Raider at a 1,280 x 800 resolution and Medium settings. Older games should play smoothly at the screen's native resolution of 1,920 x 1,080.
I hooked up my Dell Visor VR headset and it was quite happy to run the Windows Mixed Reality environment. Again, lower-powered games will run okay, but as soon as I switched to the far more demanding SteamVR, frame rates fell through the virtual floor.
Truth be told, you'll find yourself watching TV and films on the HP Envy 13 far more than playing VR games – and it's well suited to such tasks. You don't need a bright screen to enjoy a film, and with a contrast ratio of above 1,100:1 I had no troubles picking out details tucked in shadows. The Bang & Olufsen-tuned speakers come into their own here, too, packing a rich sound that belies this laptop's size.
HP Envy 13 review: slots and ports
It's good to see that HP hasn't jettisoned USB ports in its quest for slimness. One older-style USB 3.1 port sits on either side, with a modern USB-C slot on the left. This isn't Thunderbolt 3 – which is a shame, because that's a more versatile port – but USB-C 3.1. That means it can be used for data transfer, hooking up suitable screens and to supply power.
HP supplies a USB to HDMI adapter in the box, too, which makes up for the fact there's no dedicated video output. There is a 3.5mm audio jack, though, while a fingerprint reader sits next to the right-hand USB port. This position takes a bit of getting used to, but I grew to like it there.
Back on the left, you'll also find a microSD card slot.
HP Envy 13 review: keyboard and touchpad
Then we come to one of the HP Envy 13's best features: its keyboard. I love this for its sheer boringness. The keys are large and well-spaced, there's no function doubling to catch you out, and while there's nothing special about the key action it's fine to sit at and tap away on.
Minor criticisms? Well, they are minor. The Enter key is single-height, so you may need to adjust your typing action a smidgen. Some people might not like the Home, End, Page Up and Page Down buttons sitting on the far right, because it means the Backspace button isn't at the top-right of the keyboard. But really, that's it.
I could also criticise the touchpad for not being a Microsoft Precision device, which means it doesn't respond to all of the Windows 10 gestures, but it supports most of them. I can't get worked up about this, because it's still a responsive touchpad.
HP Envy 13 review: the sacrifices
So where has HP cut corners? The most obvious sign is the screen. This is still a perfectly good display, but I measured its average Delta E at 3.29 and its sRGB gamut coverage at 76.5%. What does that mean? That you can't trust the colours you see; for instance, in the review unit I was sent, the reds were overblown.
I'm not saying that this is a killer problem. In fact, it's likely to be a jump up in quality compared to the display of the laptop it replaces. The only genuinely frustrating thing I found about it was its brightness. It could only reach 278cd/m², which is okay (and again, likely to be better than what it replaces) but falls behind the best modern laptops.
HP Envy 13 review: battery life
Nor was I stunned by its battery life. Looping through a video until it died, the Envy lasted for around seven hours; HP quotes up to 14 hours, but I suspect that's with the brightness dimmed almost to zero.
You may decide you want to throw the 210g power pack in the bag, especially as it can take the Envy from 0% to 50% in 45 minutes.
HP Envy 13 review: buying decision
Should you buy the HP Envy 13? If you've read this far, the answer is probably yes. This laptop's only black mark is the display, and even that's a dark grey mark rather than true black (not that such a subtlety would show on the screen).
In fact, the bigger question is which one you should buy. Right now, there are only two specifications available: the ah0001na for £849 and the ah0003na for £1,099. However, for a limited time you can claim 10% off with the code "SAVE10P". That brings the higher-spec model to below £1,000, and for that price it's an undoubted bargain.
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What is hypoglycemia unawareness?
Hypoglycemia unawareness is a condition in which a person with diabetes does not experience the usual early warning symptoms of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
Ordinarily, when a person's blood sugar level drops, the body tries to raise it by releasing the hormones glucagon and epinephrine. Glucagon spurs the liver to release stored glucose. Epinephrine (or adrenaline) signals the liver to produce more glucose. It also causes the typical early warning signs of hypoglycemia, which include sweating, trembling, butterflies in the stomach, tingling, numbness, and rapid pulse.
People with hypoglycemia unawareness don't experience these symptoms. Instead, without warning, they lapse into severe hypoglycemia, becoming confused or disoriented or falling unconscious. These individuals have lost the epinephrine response to low blood sugar, along with the symptoms epinephrine normally brings on.
What causes hypoglycemia unawareness?
There are several possible causes of hypoglycemia unawareness. It can be caused by nerve damage that affects the body's ability to secrete epinephrine. People with Type 1 diabetes sometimes develop impaired epinephrine secretion. It can also be the result of very tight blood sugar control, which can dull the body's ability to feel a drop in blood sugar level. Sometimes, maintaining slightly higher blood sugar levels for a period of time can improve the ability to detect low blood sugar.
Hypoglycemia unawareness can be dangerous to both the person experiencing it and those around him. Because he doesn't realize that his blood sugar is low, someone with this condition may not know that he is not thinking clearly or that he shouldn't drive. If his hypoglycemia goes untreated, he can lose consciousness, and his blood glucose level will continue to fall.
If you have experienced hypoglycemia without warning, be sure to discuss it with your health-care team. They can help you reverse the situation.


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Volunteers are continuing the work to find victims and support those who lost their homes.
Just off the shore from Mati, a group of divers is getting ready for an unusual dive.
A few days ago, the sea they are planning to explore was packed with fully dressed residents, some carrying their most precious belongings.
Not all of those who entered the sea to flee devastating wildfires returned to land.
Finding them is the mission of these volunteers. For years now, they have been at the forefront of some of worst tragedies in Greece.
But even then, Mania Bikov, the leader of the group, says the emotional toll is heavy.
"We have to go in the water every day and do the best we can," he said. "And after when we go back home, then it's the time that we have to think about our feelings. Now it's a duty, this is the priority."
These divers have been scanning the waters for nearly a week, but to no avail. The Greek coastguards, who perform the same mission, have so far found eight bodies. With the current, some had drifted several kilometres away from Mati.
Back on land, in Rafina, homeowners have started applying for a compensation scheme put in place by the government. For each house affected, 5000 euros will be granted. Most people say they are happy with the level of support.
"I honestly don't have any complaints because I think I've received all the help that we can get here. And I am thankful honestly: food, people coming around, my neighbours, the volunteers, " one resident, Farouk, told Euronews.
However, other homeowners said they were sceptical that the promised financial package would ever be delivered.
It will take time to rebuild the houses, the roads, the electricity, the sewage system…
But no matter how long it takes, for the people of Mati, their village will never be the same again.


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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Make The Season Bright
6" x 6" oil on panel
$100.00 + $10. s/h
Due to still being on a different computer, please go to Daily Painter Originals where the Paypal button works, or contact me if interested in purcasing.
And another ornament painting!
Sunday, November 28, 2010
6" x 6" oil on panel
$100.00 + $10. s/h
Again, I am not able to add a Paypal button from this computer. If interested in purchasing, please go to Daily Painter Originals or contact me. Sorry for the temporary inconvenience.
Painting the reflections found in bottles and ornaments has been such a great exercise!
Friday, November 26, 2010
Merry and Bright
Merry and Bright
6" x 6" oil on panel
I am posting this from a different computer. It will not let me add a Paypal button (I tried for more than 1 hour!) So, if interested in purchasing, please go to Daily Painter Originals, on my sidebar, ....there is a Paypal button there, or contact me.
I continue to work on elipses, circles, spheres, and holiday pieces.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Just Outside of Leadville
16" x 20" oil on stretched canvas
$495.00 + $20. s/h
As the title says, this ranch is just outside of Leadville, Colorado. This is from a trip we took there in early September. It's now abandoned, and like many relics from the old west, falling apart. But, I wondered about the families who lived there in the past. And, at this Thanksgiving season thought it an appropriate piece to post when I'm thinking about all that I have for which I am thankful. A ranch like this couldn't have operated if everyone didn't pull their weight and help each other. I'm sure that the families who sat around this dinner table were thankful for each other everyday.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. And may we all be thankful for our families, friends, and health.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Art Walk for Annie
Many of you who follow art blogs and artists on Facebook know Annie Salness and know that she had a stroke several weeks ago. Like many who have become my vicarious friends, I met Annie through blogging. She is an incredible artist, wife, and mother of four kids all still at home. Some of her friends in Portland have put together an "Art Walk for Annie" to raise money to help offset some of her medical bills. For me, a gift of flowers was something that I could do to help, so, I sent this painting to be a part of the auction. Click here to find out how you can help.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Good Tidings
6" x 6" Oil on panel
$100.00 + $10. s/h
Since the holidays are coming up, it made sense to me that my practice of circles be spheres for the tree.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Bringing Good Cheer
Monday, November 15, 2010
Join Us
6" x 6" oil on panel
$100.00 + $10.00 s/h
I'm always giving myself assignments (it's hard to have taught for so long and not continue to think along those lines.) I've decided that I need to paint elipses and circles. So, that's what you'll be seeing for awhile.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
100 Garden & Floral Oil Paintings, Original Artwork by Pam Holnback, 53/100
6" x 8" Oil on panel
$100.00 + $10. s/h
This is another piece from my morning in the Garden of the Gods last week. Several people commented that they hadn't heard of the Garden of the Gods, which made me realize that we only know what is around us and what we see on trips. The Garden of the Gods is the 3rd most visited location in Colorado Springs, along with Pikes Peak and the Air Force Academy, both also pretty spectacular places geologically.
The Garden of the Gods Park has incredible geologic features: ancient sedimentary rock beds of red, blue, purple, and white sandstones, conglomerates and limestone that were deposited horizontally, but have now been tilted vertically. These shifts and faults were caused by the immense mountain building forces caused by the uplift of the Pike Peak massif.
This is the view from the Garden of the Gods Visitor Center parking lot, with Pikes Peak hidden in the clouds.
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Morning at the Garden of the Gods
100 Garden and Floral Oil Paintings by Pam Holnback, 51/100
6" x 8" oil on panel
$100.00 + $10. s/h
Last week the weather was absolutely spectacular, in the 60's everyday. For me, that means it's time to be outdoors. So, I spent Wednesday morning at the Garden of the Gods. Since this is one of the most famous and beautiful gardens in the world, I wonder if this should go towards my "100 garden painting" series.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
American Artist Workshop Magazine Fall Issue
I recently heard from blogger friend Cathyann Burgess that she saw me in American Artist Workshop Fall Magazine. Then I heard from my sister, Natalie Italiano, that she'd seen me, too. So, I decided to buy the magazine. And, here I am last summer in Michael Klein's Flower Painting workshop in NYC.
I feel like I look so serious, but I guess I'm just concentrating! The second shot I'm sketching in the still life. Not sure when the next time will be that there will be a photo of me painting in a magazine!
Here I am sitting right next to Michael working on my still life. I guess this is my 15 minutes of fame for this month!
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Eleven Mile Late Afternoon
16" x 20" oil on stretched canvas
$495.00 + $20.00 s/h
This is another piece from an afternoon that my husband and I spent at Eleven Mile Reservoir. In this one I used two of Edgar Payne's composition directives: S and Diagonal. If you start at the bottom right hand corner, I want your eye to follow the green grasses into the piece and follow the greens up and over to the reservoir bank then up the water's edge to the small cove in an S. From there you follow the banks, in another S, but I also lightened the grasses, so your eyes follow the lighter value across the far shore to the small hill and up through the rain to the clouds, which are in the focal point area.
If you enter the painting from the top left, the clouds and mountain top will send you diagonally across the piece to the small hill and up through the rain to the clouds in the upper right hand focal point. Then, more diagonals in the clouds will allow your eyes to dance back into the piece and continuously move around. At least, that was my plan!
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
100 Garden & Floral Oil Paintings, Original Artwork by Pam Holnback, 51/100
"Just Falling to the Ground"
6" x 6" oil on panel
$100.00 + $10. s/h
In the past two days almost all of the leaves have fallen to the ground. I'm sure that by day after tomorrow the aspen trees in our yard will be bare. And, this weekend we'll be raking!
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
100 Garden & Floral Oil Paintings, Original Artwork by Pam Holnback, 50/100
6" x 6" oil on panel
$100.00 + $10. s/h
All of the leaves are gone from the aspen trees in the mountains. But, in our backyard, the leaves are still on the trees and quaking in the breeze. Normally, they've all fallen by November. Not sure what happened this year, but, it allows us to procrastinate the leaf raking.
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Monday, November 1, 2010
The Lafayette Gallery and the deYoung Museum
Several of my days in San Francisco were spent with friend Nancy Hartley. I met Nancy in September 2008 in Santa Fe in a Carol Marine workshop. I saw her again in September 2009 when I was in California. In January of 2010 we had a workshop reunion in Austin where most of us were able to get together and take a workshop from Laurel Daniel. And, here we are again! I went to the Lafayette Gallery to see Nancy's show: "Southwest Inspirations", drivebys of Highway 25 between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Nancy's pieces are bold, geometric and colorful. Check out her blog if you're not familiar with her work: Nancy Hartleys Art Adventures.
The next day I met Nancy at the deYoung Museum to see the Post Impressionist show: "Van Gogh Gauguin, Cezanne and Beyond". It was a huge show with works from the Musee d'orsay, which is being remodeled. How great that instead of storing the paintings they sent them to San Francisco. There were a lot of Gauguins, Cezannes Seurats, Nabis (which I didn't know much about), Lautrecs. One of my favorite pieces was Van Gogh's "Bedroom at Arles". I had a puzzle of that as well as a poster on the wall in my classroom when I taught.
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Swiftly, a Ghanaian/Nigerian based online freight forwarding rate comparison platform for global deliveries has received support from Silicon Valley vanguards including Microsoft, Facebook and venture capital firm Draperdarkflow.
After being selected as one of the Top 30 startups to launch at Demo Africa Launchpad in 2016, Swiftly was approached by Microsoft to participate in its Microsoft Bizspark program which provides free software, services, technical support, and access to the Azure cloud. In 2017, The Microsoft relationship also led to a partnership with the Microsoft Interns4Africa Program which provides human resource support to Swiftly for 6 months.
Swiftly was selected by Facebook to participate in FbStart, a global program designed to help startups build and grow their business that include year-round technical support from Facebook, an exclusive community of global startups, free credits to tools and services from dozens of premier partners, and training on Facebook Developer Tools.
"We are thrilled to have Swiftly garner the attention of some of the most incredible tech giants in the world who support our vision of disrupting the archaic shipping industry in Africa. Funds are critical to the growth and success of a startup but the access to industry intelligence, experience and network that we have received from Microsoft, Facebook and others is invaluable," says Edem Dotse, the CEO of Swiftly who was inspired to launch the e-shipping solution while working at a Ghanaian import,export and trading company.
While participating in SpeedUPAfrica (now the African Startup Institute), Swiftly attracted the attention of DraperDarkFlow, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist firm primarily backed by the legendary Tim Draper to secure a round of seed funding.
Swiftly allows users to receive competitive quotes from freight forwarders via mobile phone or computer for shipments in and out of Africa and eventually worldwide. Users sign up on the Swiftly platform and enter their shipment details and logistics requirements to begin receiving quotes from a global network of freight forwarders. Once a quote is chosen, the selected freight forwarder will arrange door to door pickup and delivery. Comparative analysis of freight rates ensures that users cut down on costs.
"Shipping in Africa especially West Africa can be extremely challenging. Simply connecting with a freight forwarder by phone can be difficult and many do not have websites or even email. Just getting a single shipping quote could potentially take 3-4 days with back and forth phone calls let alone comparing quotes from multiple providers. Our team has identified many of the inefficiencies in the African cargo and shipping industry and believe Swiftly is a solution," adds Dotse who has represented Swiftly at international tech events including SpeedUpAfrica, Logisym2017, Demo Africa, and Cop22.
Swiftly is currently a web based platform with a mobile app to soon be launched.


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The 7 Phases of Adrenal Fatigue
The adrenal glands help the body adapt to stress and reproduce through the unique compounds they produce and secrete. Over 50 essential hormones are produced within the adrenal glands. These hormones are critical to health and vitality. When we are overstressed, the adrenals pump out stress hormones until they fatigue and crash, which can be devastating to the body.
This can lead to a number of different symptoms with the most common being fatigue and inconsistent energy. Adrenal fatigue can be the primary trigger behind a health condition or it can be secondary to chronic infections, upper cervical stress, blood sugar dysregulation, etc. Here is the list of major symptoms involved with adrenal fatigue.
The Major Function of the Adrenals:
Some other major issues people will often experience include feeling really tired around 2-4pm, but getting another kick of energy in the evening and then having no sleep or poor quality sleep at night. These are often early signs that you are moving towards adrenal fatigue and the body is rewiring its physiological processes.
Although the adrenals are no bigger than the size of a walnut, they have an incredibly important role in the human life cycle. Some of the many different hormones created by the adrenals include steroid hormones such as adrenalin, norepinephrine, cortisol, aldosterone, estrogen and testosterone (1).
4 Categories of Hormones and Adrenal Fatigue:
There are 2 major regions within the adrenal glands that produce hormones. This is the adrenal cortex and the adrenal medulla. The adrenal cortex is in the outer circumference of the adrenal glands, it produces three classes of hormones:
1. Mineralocorticoids:
This is primarily aldosterone which acts to maintain the proper salt and water levels to ensure the right blood pressure. Without aldosterone, the kidney will excrete most of the sodium and water, leading to severe dehydration, low blood pressure and possible death.
Individuals who struggle with high blood pressure often take medications that reduce the amount of circulating aldosterone in order to reduce sodium and water content in the blood. This results in a lowering of the blood pressure (2).
Individuals who struggle with too low of blood pressure, often have either an inability to produce and utilize aldosterone. This could be a genetic issue or a functional problem related to adrenal gland exhaustion.
2. Glucocorticoids:
This is mainly referring to cortisol which is involved in the stress response and its main function is to increase blood sugar and reduce inflammation. Cortisol stimulates glucose production within the liver and muscle cells, increasing blood sugar levels in order to prepare for a fight or flight response. In addition, it has significant anti-inflammatory effects.
High cortisol will cause increase blood sugar levels and can lead to weight gain (3). When the body is under chronic stress, we are unable to produce enough cortisol to keep up with the demands and therefore, we are unable to manage blood sugar and inflammation. The key is to have good cortisol balance in order to maintain proper blood sugar and inflammation levels.
3. Sex Hormones:
This includes the master precursor hormones DHEA and pregnenolone as well as estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. All have weak effects, but play a role in early development of the male sex organs in childhood, and in women during puberty. These are involved in creating and maintaining the differences between men and women.
The adrenal medulla is in the deep, inner region of the adrenal glands and it produces catecholamines. The medulla has a direct connection to the brain which is unique for an endocrine organ. When the body is under stress it fires directly to the medulla to raise up catecholamines. This allows the body to react very quickly to stress.
4. Catecholamines:
This includes adrenaline, noradrenaline and small amounts of dopamine. These hormones are the major players in the physiological characteristics of the stress response, the so called 'fight or flight' response. They act to drive up blood pressure, increase heart rate and respiration and increase mental awareness.
The fight or flight response is super critical for survival and for things like exercise and athletic performance. We also use this response in a positive manner when we do things like a business presentation. However, when this stress response is chronic, it wears down the bodies vital reserves and hampers the body's ability to heal itself (4).
The Major Adrenal Hormones:
Here is a review of what these key hormones do for the body:
Epinephrine: Also called adrenalin, made in the adrenal medulla, this helps to dilate blood vessels, increase heart rate, blood sugar and blood pressure so we can move and react quickly. This is necessary for emergencies and times when we are exercising or performing (such as giving a speech or performing in an athletic event.
Norepinephrine: This is a chemical made in the adrenal medulla that activates our sympathetic nervous system to help our body adapt to stress through fight or flight. It has very similar activity as epinephrine but is classified as a neurotransmitter in that it interacts with the brain and nervous system more than epinephrine which is classified as a stress hormone.
Cortisol: This is made in the adrenal cortex and is called a "glucocorticoid," because of the cortex origin and how it functions to increase circulating glucose levels. Cortisol helps maintain blood sugar levels during times of stress. It also acts to reduce inflammation in the body.
Aldosterone: This is called a "mineralocorticoid" hormone because of its production in the adrenal cortex and its role in maintaining electrolyte balance to raise blood pressure. When secreted it acts on the kidney to reabsorb sodium, excrete potassium and increase fluid volume. Drugs are often used to lower aldosterone levels in individuals with hypertension.
Estrogen: This is the primary female sex hormone although males produce it as well. The three major naturally occurring forms of estrogen in women are estrone (E1), estradiol (E2), and estriol (E3). Another type of estrogen called estetrol (E4) is produced only during pregnancy.
Progesterone: This is one of the key female sex hormones that plays a role in maintaining pregnancy and fertility. Progesterone is produced primarily in the ovaries and the adrenal glands. It's main responsibility is to prepare the body for conception and pregnancy, sexual desire and the regulation of the menstrual cycle.
Testosterone: This is a key sex hormone that is created in the testicles of males, the ovaries of females and the adrenal glands. It plays a key role in growth, mental drive, muscle development and fat metabolism as well as sexual desire.
Pregnenolone: This is the major precursor to all the major adrenal hormones as well as neuroactive steroids that help to improve brain function. Pregnenolone is produced from cholesterol and depending upon the environmental needs it will form into various amounts of progesterone, cortisol, aldosterone and DHEA.
DHEA: This is shortened for didehydroepiandrosterone, which is the most abundant circulating steroid hormone in humans. It is produced in the adrenal cortex, the gonads and the brain. DHEA functions predominantly as the metabolic intermediate in the formation of estrogen and testosterone.
Stress Hormones Before Sex Hormones:
The adrenal glands help to regulate the body's ability to adapt to stress and they also produce hormones that regulate reproduction. The caveat is that adapting to stress overrides reproduction. Adapting to stress is critical for immediate survival and that is first priority. Once our physiology understands that we are not under an environmental threat, than it will focus its energy on reproductive hormones.
The major stress hormones are cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine. These hormones help increase energy, increase blood sugar levels and speed up circulation and respiration to help the body survive through fight or flight.
The major sex hormones produced by the adrenals are estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. These are all critical for growth, metabolism, strength, endurance, mental drive, menstrual function and reproductive ability.
The master compound that is used by the body to produce cortisol and progesterone is called pregnenolone. Pregnenalone can either create cortisol, progesterone or DHEA. DHEA is used by the body to produce testosterone and estrogen. When the body is under chronic stress there is a high demand to produce cortisol which reduces the amount of progesterone and DHEA that is produced (5).
What Stresses the Adrenal Glands?
The adrenal glands are meant to adapt the body to stressors. Our body was designed to grow stronger through daily stressors. We should have a natural stress, rest and adaptation cycle that allows the body to effectively acclimate to the environmental stimuli. However, when these stressors override our ability to adapt effectively the body becomes weaker and chronic stress becomes hardwired into our system. This can lead to adrenal fatigue.
The adrenal glands are overstressed by a number of different chronic lifestyle factors including the following:
The HPA Axis and the Stress Response:
The body perceives and adapts to stressors through what is called the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. This area of the brain called hypothalamus senses the environmental conditions and then it sends signals in the form of chemicals to the pituitary gland.
The pituitary gland receives the signals from the hypothalamus (corticotropin releasing hormone – CRH) and sends its own chemical signals to the adrenal cortex through a hormone called adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) in order to form the appropriate responses to the environmental stimuli.
When we are under chronic stress it creates an alteration in the HPA axis which reduces the body's ability to adapt to new stressors. This condition is called adrenal fatigue, which can also progress further to adrenal exhaustion. This process of stress and poor adaptation can lead to a vicious cycle of chronic inflammation, tissue breakdown and accelerated aging (6).
The Phases of Adrenal Fatigue:
The first stage of adrenal activity is called the alarm reaction where the system becomes hyperactive to increase cortisol levels to adapt to the demands of stress. This is a healthy survival based response that everyone encounters throughout a typical day.
The second phase is the resistance stage where the body adapts to prolonged stress. During this phase the body steals pregnenolone from cholesterol to make more cortisol. This phenomenon is called pregnenolone steal.
Under normal circumstances the pregnenolone helps make sex hormones such as progesterone and testosterone. When pregnenolone steal takes place it leads to hormonal imbalances. Overtime this can cause very serious hormonal problems such as PMS, infertility, male menopause and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
The third and final phase of adrenal fatigue is the exhaustion phase. This is when the adrenals are so exhausted they are unable to adapt to stress. All the necessary cofactors to produce cortisol are depleted and so cortisol levels drop. The progenenolone steal effect stops at this point but the body is unable to produce adequate energy and fatigue, accelerated aging and breakdown of the bodies protective barriers (skin, blood brain barrier and gut barrier) are the hallmarks of this particular physiological state.
The DUTCH Complete and Adrenal Fatigue:
The DUTCH Complete Hormone panel is a test that measures the spectrum of adrenal health. This requires dried urine samples taken throughout the day. This measures the level of cortisol and DHEA throughout the day. In addition, I like to see estrogen, progesterone and testosterone levels which helps us shape out what is happening with the overall adrenal function.
A healthy circadian rhythm will have an elevated cortisol level in the morning and low cortisol at night. When people have insomnia they often have elevated cortisol at night and then low cortisol in the morning leaving them groggy in the AM. Others have cortisol dysregulation that demonstrates itself with ups and downs throughout the day rather than a steady decline from morning to nightfall.
The measurements of this test allow us to understand the stage of adrenal dysfunction. This test places people into a normal, stage I-III or failure levels. Stage I is the alarm reaction, stage II is the resistance as the body tries to keep up with the demands and phase III is the adrenal exhaustion stage. Finally, the adrenal output fails.
Functional medicine experts such as Dr Datis Kharrazian and Dr Michael Lam have created an even more detailed way of understanding the level of adrenal fatigue with a 7 phase model that focuses on all the unique reflection points that can be analyzed on the DUTCH. Here is how this works:
Phase 1: Initial Alarm Reaction:
This has elevated cortisol and DHEA. This is the normal acute response to stress and is often seen in hardworking individuals and athletes who are overtraining.
Phase 2: Deep Alarm Reaction:
At this point the cortisol remains high but the DHEA drops down to normal. This indicates a progressive state of the alarm reaction and the body is no longer under acute stress. The reason that DHEA drops is that it is being used to make cortisol. This is where we begin to notice symptoms.
Phase 3A: Resistance Stage:
This stage is marked by high cortisol and low DHEA as pregnenolone steal is in place. With low DHEA, it sets the stage for major hormonal imbalances in the body. This stage is typically marked by insulin resistance.
Phase 3B: Deep Resistance Stage:
In this stage cortisol is low and DHEA is low. This indicates the progression of resistance into exhaustion stage. Now the adrenals are so overworked they are losing the ability to have any control over stress.
Phase 3C: Non-Adapted Adrenal Exhaustion:
At this stage cortisol is low and DHEA is normal. This is where pregnenolone steal has failed to shift all the resources into cortisol production. There is still some level of DHEA but cortisol levels are failing. This phenomenon could be due to insulin resistance which should be evaluated.
Phase 3D: Inappropriate DHEA:
This is where Cortisol is low but DHEA is high. The individual may be supplementing with DHEA or they may have Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Insulin resistance may also be in play here.
Phase 4: Adrenal Fatigue in Full Exhaustion:
Cortisol and DHEA are both very low. In this state the adrenals have completely lost the ability to control cortisol and adapt to stress. Frequent blood sugar imbalances and crashes are common in this state.
Summary on Adrenal Fatigue:
The adrenals play a vital role in our health and understanding their function and how to analyze their stability is an important factor for a clinician to best help their clients. If you are suffering with any phase of adrenal fatigue or are looking to prevent this from occurring, begin following the 25 strategies that you can find in this article.
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Firefox 3.6 is galloping along towards a release. The Mozilla Project released Firefox 3.6 beta 1 the day before Halloween with a number of updates and fixes.
Since it's been a few months since I checked in on 3.6 development, I grabbed the beta and started using it right away for all my browsing.
In the past, that's been a major headache because there's always a tension between staying current with development versions of Firefox and Extensions. Most of the time, Extensions don't work with cutting edge versions of Firefox because they're not tagged as compatible with the development versions.
Sometimes you'll run into actual problems with the development Firefox and your favorite extension. Most of the time, though, the actual problem is just that the extension isn't tagged as compatible.
In 3.6b1 you can override compatibility for extensions, so that you can enjoy your favorite extension — assuming that it does work, of course. When you hit override, you get a warning for each "incompatible" add-on, plus a chance to skip the override if you change your mind.
User Changes
Firefox 3.6 won't have a ton of user changes, but it does have a few things that users will notice and enjoy.
Personas have been available for some time with Firefox as an add-on. With Firefox 3.6, Personas are part of the standard build. If you like to spruce up the look of your browser, you can choose from hundreds of themes for Firefox — everything from relaxing backgrounds to themes for your favorite OS.
Want more fonts? Firefox 3.6b1 supports the Web Open Font Format (WOFF), a format for fonts specifically for the Web that allows compressed fonts to be downloaded and displayed in the browser. Another feature of WOFF is that the download includes meta information about the font licensing, etc. Users probably won't care very much about this, but the font foundries do. Support for WOFF means you'll probably see a lot of fonts in your browser that you might not have gotten to see otherwise.
Do you check to see if your plugins are up to date on a regular basis? Neither do I. In fact, unless a page is telling me that I can't watch a video or other content because my version of Flash isn't the latest and greatest, I never think about it. The Moz folks must see that a lot, because Firefox 3.6b1 adds checks for outdated plugins and warn you about which are out of date.
If you spend much time watching video in Firefox, you'll be happy to know about the full screen feature. Videos embedded with the HTML 5 video and audio elements can be played full screen. In previous versions of Firefox, this required an additional add-on to be able to full-screen.
That's in theory, anyway. In testing the feature using TinyVid on a machine with an Intel Core Duo T2600 (2.16GHz) and 2GB RAM, the video stuttered like crazy when expanded to full screen — though the playback wasn't choppy at all when it wasn't maximized. Not sure if this is something that will be better optimized in later versions, or if it just requires really beefy hardware to get optimal playback in full screen.
JavaScript Performance
When I looked at the Firefox 3.6 alpha in August, it performed better than Firefox 3.5 on JavaScript performance. However, it was far slower than Google Chrome. How's Firefox 3.6 stacking up now?
The SunSpider performance is better than the alpha in August. In August, 3.6a1 scored 1730.2ms, and the 3.6b1 score is around 1639.6ms. I did run the tests several times, to make sure that the results were as accurate as possible.
Still, Firefox has catching up to do in order to be comparable to Chrome. The Chrome 18.104.22.168 developer build released around the same time as 3.6b1 scored around 767.4ms. (Again, I did multiple runs.) According to the SunSpider benchmark, that's 2.14 times as fast as Firefox.
The SunSpider benchmark is a nice objective measurement, but how does this release feel in day to day use? It definitely seems snappier than previous Firefox releases. I also noticed that a few pages that made heavy use of JavaScript would act fairly sluggish with 3.5, but presented no problems at all with 3.6b1. Your mileage may vary, but it seems like the Moz folks are on the right track with their optimizations here.
Looking Good
The first beta is a bit behind schedule (first beta was scheduled for early September), but it's looking pretty solid.
The new features don't add up to a must-have upgrade, but it's a decent incremental release. In particular, the JavaScript speed improvements make this release worth looking at. If you're interested in pre-release versions of Firefox, this release seems stable enough to use day-to-day. I spent a few days testing it and haven't seen any major instablity or bugs.
Was the problem with Adobe Acrobat fixed? Effectively, Acrobat downloads fonts and has a problem where they cannot be saved with Firefox 3.5. It leaves the Acrobat process running on the system after the page and even Firefox is closed. And if you open another, it starts a new process, and the system becomes slow. A third will be so slow it requires a hardware forced reboot to recover.
You can kill the Acrobat process after each pdf access. That works, but why should YOU have to?
Granted, Chrome is faster on the JS, but there are tons of compatibility problems while on Firefox 3.5 everything has worked fine for me (unless I coded it wrong of course hehe)
What about the compatibility issues with FF 3.5? Are they going to be fixed in 3.6? IMO the problems with 3.5 have already tarnished the FF brand.
To hell with all the additional stupid stuff. Have they made the damn thing work? Does it still crash simply because it can?
I can (and have) lived with Firefoxe\'s comparatively slow speed. What I cannot live with is the never-ending crashes for no definable reason and it excessive memory use.
God forbid, I\'ve gone back to Opera on my Linux machine.
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Our purpose at Celebrate Recovery (CR) is to create a safe, caring place where we can study the 8 Biblical recovery principles so as to experience God's healing power. As we accept God's grace through Jesus Christ we begin to break free from the addictive, compulsive, dysfunctional behaviors that put us in bondage. Growing spiritually in our relationship with the Lord results in love, joy and peace within. Meetings are held on Tuesdays, 7:00 p.m., at the Family Life Center upstairs in The Loft with a fellowship time beforehand.
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This talk presents a coherent explanation of this time of crisis and confusion through the worldview and Work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Their aim was the appearance of a new consciousness which would bring about the next, higher step in the terrestrial evolution. The Mother announced the manifestation of the new consciousness in 1956. What happens in 2012 (if anything) will then be another phenomenon in the great turnablout humanity has been continually subject to in the last decennia.


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"Out of the depths I have cried to You, O LORD; Lord, hear my voice!" (Psalm 130)
"I cried out to You, O LORD: I said, You are my refuge, My portion in the land of the living." (Psalm 142)
Many of us are doing just that on behalf of those trapped, and those helping them escape.
There is also coming a time when people will try and get in to caves. Specifically, "the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man" will ask "who is able to stand" and will hide themselves "in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains."
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Today we did some light yard work at the Embassy of Sudan.
Overnight, an Embassy staffer had tried to add a couple of timbers to the sharply-sloping front lawn to deal with erosion, but they didn't go in well, and the sidewalk was littered with one timber and a lot of dirt. With the Embassy staffer and the Italian gardener leading the project, the demonstrators helped smash concrete, cut back vines, dig, level the ground, move timbers, pound rebar through them, and sweep up afterwards.
Demonstrator Scott Schaeffer-Duffy and Embassy staffer Mr. Bashara move a timber.
Scott smashes concrete with an axe as the Italian gardener looks on.
Demonstrator Brian Kavanagh helps Mr. Bashara and Scott move a timber.
Brian hammers rebar into the timbers.
Tom Lewis demonstrates in front of the repaired lawn.
Several folks vigiled with the core group–two from Prevent Genocide International and two from NYC who happened to be in the neighborhood. I've heard that people in Philadelphia and Texas are fasting in their own cities, parallel with the public fasts in South Bend and DC.
Robert Hollander, consulting attorney on the "Darfur trial," stopped by in his car.
Prevent Genocide brought a huge, heavy banner and tied it to a couple of street signs. An hour later the Secret Service gathered, seemed to discuss the matter, and left without asking them to take it down.
We kept track of the dignitaries visiting the Embassy today. They represented New Zealand, Vietnam, Italy, Eritrea, Malta, India, Syria, Sri Lanka, Finland, Laos, Malaysia, Mozambique, France, Morocco, Slovenia, Yemen, Belgium, Sierra Leone, Norway, Algeria, and South Africa. There were also an Episcopal clergyman and a man from the Arab League. For the second time we chatted with a man who said he was Muhammed Ahmed el-Rayah el-Faki, a former Sudanese general who lost his job in the last coup and was imprisoned and tortured for five years. "I come here all the time to curse them," he said. "They are killers!"


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Remember when I said here and here that as of a few months ago, none of our 4 children ranging in ages from 9 to 4 could ride a 2 wheeled bike? And how my husband and I would sit up late at night and say to each other, "Wow, we have totally failed as parents! We are incapable of teaching our kids to ride bikes without training wheels!"
Finally in October we managed to teach the 7 year old daughter to ride hers and then a few weeks (and many, many frustrating moments where we all wanted to quit) later the 9 year old son learned to ride his bike.
Well, guess who's riding a 2 wheeled bike all by himself now?
The 5 year old son!
Rock on, Little Buddy!
Three-fourths of our children riding 2 wheeled bikes?
We should probably go ahead and retire from this parenting gig right now on a high note!
And NOBODY, and I mean nobody, talk to me about teaching these 4 children to drive CARS in a few years! I will put my fingers in my ears and say, "La, la, la, not listening to you!"


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Saturday is go day. It's time to kick off this, the 55th year of the Wedgwood Swim Club!
As of this writing, the motor is running, the pump is pumping, and the boiler is back on… life is good! We had a great crew come together and persevere! I want to again say thank you to this crew of assorted plumbers, electricians, motor rebuilder, handyman and board member for getting our pool back up and running. The support received from the community was extremely helpful during this stressful stretch.
Over the last several days I've added at least a couple, perhaps three more chapters to my institutional memory. With the knowledge gained during this incident I've also figured out some additional things that can be done to help mitigate the likelihood of a similar scenario like this from occurring again.
When you come to the pool this year, you will certainly notice some immediate changes. I don't want to spoil it, but most of the changes were made for either improving the safety or the security of the club. I hope you find the changes to be an overall improvement.
A few reminders…
Please remember to sign in when you come to the pool, and if you are a Senior member please remember that we need to also check off your swim. Remember to not leave valuables in the lockers, unless you bring your own lock and you can always check wallets, phones, keys, etc., at the pool office.
The Wedgwood Swim Club is a "dry" no-alcohol, no smoking, no vaping facility. We are a no glass facility too. It's no fun when a glass container shatters on the pool deck. This also goes for porcelain mugs!
If you have little one's that are not yet potty trained, please familiarize yourself with our Double Down Diaper policy. It's posted at the pool, you can't miss it. Check the bulletin board with the poster of the 💩on it. If you need a swim diaper and/or swim diaper cover, those are available for purchase in the office.
BBQs and tables are on a first come first serve basis, another improvement is that we have more BBQs this year. Please keep doing what you've been doing, sharing is caring. Don't forget to shut off the gas at the tank when done!
Speaking of BBQ, we originally had scheduled the opening day hot dogs and sodas last Saturday, we've now moved it to this coming Monday, Memorial Day. We plan on having the grills going from 1-3pm and we'll have some cake to serve up as well to help kick off our 55th year.
For our new members, I don't have a plan in place for a formal orientation but please feel free to come and swim. Myself and Chris Matsumoto, my Assistant Manager, will be around this weekend as well as during the coming week at swim team practices. Please say hello, ask any questions and we'll try our best to make you feel at home. I can also be reached via email at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Early morning lap swim will begin next Tuesday and run until Labor Day Weekend. So those of you that are early risers out there, you can plan on starting your morning Wedgwood routine very soon. Early laps will run from 6-7:30am.
Adult afternoon lap swim will also start next Tuesday. Afternoon laps will run until school gets out for the summer. this swim runs from 2:30-3:30pm.
Member lesson registration for session 1 will be on Wednesday, May 29th, starting at 6pm.
Sunday morning Adult Laps will start in June.
Again, the pool opens on Saturday, May 25th, at noon! Looking forward to reconnecting, and getting to know those of you that are new to the double dub over the next few days and weeks.
Back to managing, not fixing… 😊 See you at the pool!
Saturday, May 25th
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Sunday, May 26th
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Monday, May 27th
Hrs: 12-7
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Early Morning Lap Swim 6-7:30am
Adult Laps 2:30-3:30
Hrs: 3:30-6
Wednesday, May 29th
Early Morning Lap Swim 6-7:30am
Adult Laps 2:30-3:30
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Early Morning Lap Swim 6-7:30am
Adult Laps 2:30-3:30
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Friday, May 31st
Early Morning Lap Swim 6-7:30am
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What School Leaders CAN DO about White Fragility (Pt. 2/4)
If you've ever attempted racial equity work in schools, you have seen how white fragility can torpedo the whole plan. Clearly, there are consequences. Luckily, there are also antidotes. How can culturally responsive leadership help?
(This is the 2nd chapter of a 4 part series focused on addressing White Fragility.
Part 1: Background knowledge about the book
Part 2: What Leaders can do about White Fragility
Part 3: A White Leader's reflection on addressing White Fragility
Part 4: What schools without White Fragility could look like
2 Examples of White Fragility in Schools
I was in school previously, where teachers sent high numbers of black students to the office. African American students had higher suspensions and lower academic outcomes. Hmmm, I wonder what might be going on. I suggested that we needed to improve relationships, de-escalate conflicts, and be more culturally relevant. The response was "Staff weren't ready." "We had other priorities." But truthfully, white leadership was being quite fragile. Alas, we missed the opportunity, black students continued to be referred out of the class and we remained safely looking at the surface (discipline data) of the iceberg (white supremacy).
This second example comes from Carla Llewelyn-Vazquez, Principal of Mission Early Education Center in San Francisco. A few years ago, I had the fortune of leading the Racial Equity Movement professional learning series for SFUSD schools and teams. As our team reflected, we added a racial affinity group meeting to the final session. The response was really interesting. The POC were into it. When reading the feedback, the White affinity group had reservations and some expressed downright hostility at being divided. A few white participants expressed discomfort by saying "they felt 'we' needed to do this work together." And others felt uncomfortable at being separated to talk about race and Whiteness. Really? There are times "we" need to do racial equity work together and white people have their own work to do. Check out Carla's school here.
10 Negative Impacts of White Fragility in Schools
- Staff don't take ownership of the academic outcomes for students of color and resist analyzing disaggregated data by race
- Schools use a punitive or zero tolerance approach to discipline
- Teachers avoid the 'changing yo practice' part of Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Teachers refuse to diversify the curriculum
- Opportunities to move staff conversations are missed due to discomfort
- Schools use traditional forms of assessment and rigor such as the eugenics movement-inspired AP and SAT tests
- A low representation and retention of staff of color (and leaders of color!)
- Staff members of color are silenced in meetings by white staff indirectly or directly
- White staff threaten contract grievances or use them to focus attention back on white staff
- Staff use or create safe, shallow, and white-comforting norms
Antidotes for White Fragility: White Racial Stamina
For starters, the work isn't for People of Color to do. It's for white folks to do. But, culturally responsive leadership gives you a few things you can do get that behemoth of a boulder moving:
- White folks and some POC have to READ.
- Start a white affinity group (pay them to meet, even though this is pretty counterintuitive to reparations)
- Find a white ally to lead this work, top-down or laterally
- Use protocols to get people sharing about their identify how it influences their work
- Order DiAngelo's book for your staff-Book Club anyone?
- Pair this up with analysis of White Supremacy Culture and watch it really blow up!
- Create brave norms that push through white fragility. Glenn Singleton also writes about this in his book, Courageous Conversations about Race
- Establish commons language and understanding using a glossary of important Equity Terms
- Send folks to a training by SFCESS or National Equity Project
These are leadership moves, however DiAngelo breaks down tons of tips white folks can do to build their resilience in the second half of her book. Also, check out this post, "Can White Leaders be Culturally Responsive?"
Personal Reflections
I always knew that social consciousness was critical to this work. But, I developed my own mindset–through being black in America, reading lots, and many complex conversations –and I forgot about the process. It informed my work, but I assumed everyone else had been through their process. I forgot about the white folk!
Damn, damn, damn, damn.
As a leader, I hoped I would find a place that was already built on a bedrock of critical pedagogy and critical race theory, but I learned that I needed to start laying more than a few bricks. I tried to get my mason on, but to my surprise, white fragility put folks on strike metaphorically and literally. This haulted the building process.
White fragility, white fear, and white tears. (Kleenex is cheaper at Costco)
So I gave up on some of it and tried to go about it in a slow, covert way. However, that isn't good enough. I realize now, that I didn't name anti-racism as a part of my vision (due to white fragility) and I needed to. I also jumped ahead too far in asking staff to apply concepts of anti-racism and social justice, before they that were clear and explicitly communicated. Reading DiAngelo's book, along with Tema Okun's article on White Supremacy Culture re-energized me. But more importantly, it gave me a clearer roadmap on how to get people onto the highway.
Final Thoughts
I know that now I need to go all in, but I need to plan for white fragility and white ignorance. (See antidote tips above). In addition, I need to put anti-racism as a part of my vision, my school's theory of action, and our metrics. A school's student culture (and outcomes) will mirror its adult culture (and beliefs). Therefore, time needs to redesigned, equity framing is needed, and then we can get to the practice like culturally responsive teaching and project-based learning.
So, now what you gonna do about it?
Let's keep the conversation going on social media (@trussleadership). Be sure to check out Part 3 of this series, dropping next week. It will be an interview with a white culturally responsive leader. This leader will be reflecting on their effort to address white fragility in schools.


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