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Writing In The Balance, Part 1: When You Feel Like Your Day Job Holds You Back From Your Dream Writing Career
I've been there. No, actually, I'm there now. I'm there with you when you start to feel like you should be at home writing when things start to get slow at your day job. I'm there with you when you get home and collapse on the couch when you meant to write out a few poems, the first 2,000 words of the novel that swims in your head during the day, or the pitch to the first magazine on your bucket list that you finally have the nerve to write.
I'm a writer with a full-time day job, and yeah, things get pretty frustrating at times. That doesn't mean that balancing a writing career with a full-time job can't be done. That also doesn't mean that your full time job is the enemy.
One thing I'll never do is tell writers who deal with this that they should "suck it up", "just do the work", "just hustle", or any of the other dismissive catch phrases that us balancers hear a lot of these days. Doing the work and pushing through is a big part of success, but a big step toward success is also realizing the magnitude of what you are trying to do so that you can create realistic goals and measure your progress with realistic standards. No, you're not lazy, crazy, and it's not that you don't want it enough. Balancing is hard, and there's nothing wrong with saying that. The key is to not get so overwhelmed by the hardness that you stop.
In order to be successful at this balancing act, you have to learn how to be a master at managing your time and energy to get the most out of every minute that you have away from your day job. You have to employ systems and routines that help you to achieve this. And you have to start taking the advice you get from people who have never had this experience or who are far removed from it with a proverbial grain of salt. The formula that works for you might not be the formula that worked for your favorite writer or influencer.
I did a survey last month in preparation for this series to find out what types of content would be most helpful for writers with day jobs, and interviews with successful balancing writers were the top request. I listened to that, and I talked to 3 amazing writers who you'll hear from each Wednesday this month. Here's the line up:
Wednesday, June 14th-Finding Clarity and Direction in your Writing Career
with Kelly Rae Williams, Poet and Spoken Word Artist
Wednesday, June 21st- Systems and Routines for Writing Life Productivity
with Nailah Harvey, Author of How to Write Your First Book
Wednesday, June 28th- Tips on Balancing Your Day Job, Your Writing Career, and Your Personal Life
with Ashley Coleman, creator of WriteLaughDream.com and author of Love On Purpose.
There will be worksheets with each post to help you implement the advice from each of the writers and craft a strategy to live your dream writing life, excel at your day job, and still enjoy your authentic, best life.
It's going to be a busy month, but one that I hope will be a gamechanger for you!


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I used a combination of colors for my background. The bold gal image is from this stamp set: Dyan Reaveley's Dylusions 8.5″X7″-Surrender. Blue links are affiliates and used at no cost to you. I love the XL size – she's as big as my hand and a great size for art journaling. After stamping her on manila cardstock, I colored and cut her out before adherding the image to the page with matte medium.
Dylusions Ink Sprays are a really vibrant colorant! I made my background with Bubblegum Pink Dylusions Ink Spray and a variety of Ranger's Distress Inks and Archival Inks, plus lots of stamps and stencils.
The black letters are from the Sizzix 6 by 13.75-Inch Bigz Die, X-Large, Simply Said Alphabet, which I embossed in a Texture Fade before adhering to the page.
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Apple is pushing suppliers/developers to move to subscription models instead of pay up front. Only 15% of purchases are paid leaving the remainder to be in-app purchases or subscriptions.
According to the report, however, Apple has quietly been pushing developers to convert one-time app purchases into recurring draws on customers' accounts. Apart from filling its own bank accounts, Apple wants developers to "create sustainable business models, instead of selling high-quality software for a few dollars or monetizing through advertising."
Why this matters ?
The Enterprise IT market follows the consumer market. Technology companies in the consumer space can change rapidly and move to new features and pricing models. Investors see the success and expect Enterprise IT vendors to move to the same model. Subscription models are an excellent revenue stream for vendors. Why ? Because subscriptions lead to increased price and more profits.
The report cites an example of a successful developer, Lightricks , which created a selfie photo-fixing app called FaceTune. Although FaceTune hit No. 1 on the App Store's paid charts at a $4 price, its sequel FaceTune 2 costs $6 to unlock with a $32 annual subscription, or a lifetime price of $70
I've spoken with multiple people evaluating Cisco's subscription pricing on multiple products and its roughly 20% higher over a 3 year ownership cycle than previous solutions. A tidy price increase for little effort and, I suspect, much improved profit margins.
What Are Customers Doing ?
What I find baffling is that customers aren't pushing back against this ? I wonder if anyone else has thoughts ?
Apple reportedly asked devs to adopt subscriptions and hike app prices | VentureBeat : https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/13/apple-reportedly-asked-devs-to-adopt-subscriptions-and-hike-app-prices/


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Prepare for sudden, radical transformation at every level of society…• http://www.dcclothesline.com
Natural News) When the Berlin wall fell, it was an "all of a sudden" phenomenon. The week before, there were no abundantly evident signs that such a monumental historical event was about to take place. This is how history often occurs: Slowly at first, then all at once.
Due to a multitude of factors — including the rise of independent journalism and the exposing of the failures of big government — the world is now poised for a cascading series of true revolutions involving everything from medicine to economics. The underlying conditions leading to these revolutions have been building for decades, often without any surface evidence of the tipping point that's about to be tripped. Once these monumental changes take place, it will all seem obvious in retrospect, but looking forward from the present, it's extremely difficult for most people to get past "normalcy bias" (which means they expect the future to be exactly like today).
Today I share a series of three podcasts that help explain the monumental changes that are coming. First, I cover "The Revolution of Everything" which discusses the wide-ranging transformation that's taking place in medicine, technology and the political establishment:


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The downsizing continues at Successories Inc., which is suffering through a transition to a more narrowly focused motivational products company.
In a process that began before the November hiring of President Gary Rovansek, Successories shut its European distribution business, put its golf catalog up for sale, converted corporate-owned retail outlets to franchises and reduced its workforce.
Now, management intends to concentrate on developing new products for the company's main gift catalog.
The 56-year-old Mr. Rovansek said after the recent annual meeting that the company hopes to end the current fiscal year with operating profit of 4% to 5% on sales of $52 million, though it could still report a net loss.
In the fiscal year ended Jan. 30, Successories lost $7.3 million, or $1.08 per share, compared with a loss of $654,000, or 10 cents a share, the previous year. Revenues were down 7% to $52.9 million.
This year's first quarter held little cheer: In the three months ended May 1, the company lost $557,000, or 8 cents a share, compared with a loss of $1.4 million, or 20 cents a share, a year earlier. Sales edged down 2% to $12.1 million.
Successories three years ago acquired the Texas-based British Links catalog, folding it into a marketing partnership with Golf Digest magazine. But returns have fallen short of expectations. A year ago, the catalog was put up for sale.
In recent months, sales at the golf catalog have plummeted, which is puzzling, considering the sport's popularity.
"Golf is a growing segment for us right now. It's very hot," said Gregory Canose, president of Award Marketing Services LLC in Whitehouse, N.J., who also is president of the Incentive Marketing Assn. in Naperville.
About 80 stores carry the Successories name, of which 50 are franchised. The company is trying to convert the last 30 to franchises, but has had difficulty finding candidates.
"We were getting spread too thin in too many channels," Mr. Rovansek said. "All of that required support and infrastructure. Our focus is narrower now."


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Monthly Archives: June 2004
My Belisha beacon
My work monitor has been flickering between full colour and yellow—a loss of the blue colour channel?—for a couple of weeks now. It would blink a few times before stabilizing in either mode for a good few minutes, then blink … Continue reading
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K. has already pointed out the hilarity of sections of the BBC talking point on the Iraq sovereignty handover, so I won't steal her thunder except (if I may) by quoting one of the more wall-eyed e-mails: A historic day. … Continue reading
I'm a convert, I'm afraid. After the demonstration of shoddy goods and shoddier service from Argos, and the mediocrity of waiting for three weeks for MFI to deign to deliver the goods we'd pay for, I adore Ikea. I've never … Continue reading
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Reinventing the <!WHEEL>
There's another chapter to add to the great history of XML, mark you: The XSCS Project Team step in with a compact, human-readable version of schemata, a step forward in the fight against invalid documents. Hang on. Wait a cotton-picking … Continue reading
One for the teleologists to sort out
A potted (and largely inaccurate and/or apocryphal) history of XML. Special people with sharply-pointed heads use SGML to mark up documents for years and years. HTML, the basis of the world-wide web, is spawned from SGML syntax. SGML documents are … Continue reading
Horation on the Dignity of Man
Speaking of poster children, Lord Kitchener, who told us all during WWI that our country needed us, died with the sinking of the HMS Hampshire, lost on June 5, 1916. Yet his iconic picture continued to recruit more soldiers to … Continue reading


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Women come in all shapes and sizes. Some even have a penis. The transgender community is often frowned upon and for many years has been seen as a mental health issue. The big debate of nature versus nurture has been going for many years in relation to all that fit into the LGBT scene. Regardless of what our birth certificate says or what sex organs we have, some people strongly feel their gender is different. We are all human beings who deserve to live life how we feel comfortable and happy.
I wanted to deliver a series of images that may shock some, may provide a debate, but mainly may just change how people perceive a certain stereotyped group of people. This was the transgender community.
This didn't come out of the blue though, a few years prior to this I sold some unwanted clothes online and the lady came to collect them, a lady who had been born male. She told me her life story that day and it made me so angry at society for how she had been treated, just because she wanted to be who she was. This lady had been disowned, beaten, stabbed, had her home set on fire and many more things for over 30 years, all because she had been born in the wrong body.
I knew I needed to understand more and to do that I needed to put myself out there and get to know more about transgender women.
I had a huge response to adds I had posted and was invited into people's homes, out for meals and also invited to LFF. This is the first friday of every month when 100s of transgender, gay, lesbian and bisexual people come together for a night out in Leeds.


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Hey guys, I'm Denise! Chances are, if you're here, you stumbled upon my work and are just curious enough to want to know who I am. At least, that's what I hope. So, if you want to get to know this food-loving, crafty, board game geeky, (crazy-ish) cat lady, by all means, peek into my life!
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Iconic Australian artist Daimon Downey will be showing Shapes imagined from decisions made in solitude – a solo exhibition of 70 paintings, sculptures and ceramics for three days 9—11 November 2017, with the opening evening on the 9 November at 6pm.
Each iconic piece of art has been painted over the past year at Daimon's Bondi Beach studio, with a theme of ones search for balance in form and colour. Unlike his past incarnations as pop artist for Sneaky Sound System and bar owner of Sydney's elite night spot – Pelicano – Daimon's studio is a reclusive space where all decisions are ultimately made alone – however with a mood exclusively reserved for happiness, excitement and positivity.
Each painting and piece of art has been internalised, with the shapes and colours forged into compositions that have balance whilst incorporating a playfulness that is both engaging, and mysterious. Daimon says that each works title is an elusive game that bears no exact connection to the work yet should have the viewer finding their unique relevance to each. Says Damon: "I want you to feel free of fear and shock with my art. The world is becoming a strange, confusing and almost shocking place. I hope to give you comfort and enable one to lose themselves in a safe place. We all like to escape from life. For me this is found in the process of painting without boundary or pure subject matter. Each of my works are tended to be lived with, worlds that will supply their owners a window for safety, pleasure and escape".
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The Male Student Success Initiative is a program at the Community College of Baltimore County designed to support male students of color throughout their academic journey, leading ultimately to graduation or transfers to four-year institutions. This brief describes the program and introduces MDRC's evaluation of it.
Lessons from the Los Angeles College Promise Program
The Los Angeles College Promise aims to increase college access and success by offering support services and a scholarship that covers tuition and fees for two years. This brief highlights how it has established a cycle of continual program improvement that uses insights from behavioral science and involves the students themselves.
In the spring of 2019, MDRC invited practitioners from innovative career and technical education (CTE) programs to discuss questions of equity. This policy brief summarizes the most common equity challenges that were raised in the discussion, along with ideas that emerged for how to address them.
Reflections on Running the College Match Program
In this commentary originally published by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, MDRC's Crystal Byndloss offers lessons from our College Match demonstration in Chicago and New York, which helped college-ready, low-income high school students choose selective colleges that matched their academic profiles, financial considerations, and personal needs.
Studying Enhancements to Colleges' iPASS Practices
Frequent advising seems to help struggling students, but advisers' time is limited; could technology make a difference? This study examines the effects of three institutions' efforts to expand the use of advising technologies and to use administrative and communication strategies to increase student contact with advisers.
MDRC's initiative Scaling Up Community College Efforts for Student Success (SUCCESS) seeks to improve graduation rates for community college students by helping states and colleges develop large-scale, financially sustainable support programs based on strong evidence. This issue focus provides an overview of the project.
Findings from a Study of the Career Readiness Internship Program
Work-based learning opportunities vary widely across colleges and are rarely evaluated. Through the Career Readiness Internship (CRI) program, 33 colleges provided large numbers of low-income students with valuable career-focused internship experiences, and employers generally viewed the program positively. Nevertheless, CRI was difficult to maintain after its grant period ended.
Lessons on Advancing Latino Success from California's LATIDO Project
Latinos are California's fastest growing population, but less than one in four earn a college degree. A new study from the Latino Academic Transfer and Institutional Degree Opportunities (LATIDO) project examines how five California Hispanic Serving Institutions are working to improve the college achievement rate of this community.
The Early Implementation of College Promise Programs
College Promise programs offer scholarships for up to 100 percent of tuition and fees. Many Promise programs are adding to their models by providing students with support services. MDRC's College Promise Success Initiative (CPSI) works with Promise programs interested in including such services; this brief provides some early implementation lessons.
This visual tool is intended to help colleges undertaking student success programs create process maps. A process map is a visual representation that breaks down a process into every decision point, communication, and activity involved from the perspective of a user — in this case, a student.


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The 2016 Sampari Art Exhibition and Sale for West Papua in Melbourne is calling for submissions from Papua New Guinean, ni-Vanuatu, Solomon Islander, Fijian and New Caledonian Kanak artists to raise awareness about West Papua as an act of solidarity with the indigenous West Papuan people. Artists can apply to be included in this exhibition until October 17.
Following the success of its inaugural art exhibition in 2015, the Federal Republic of West Papua (Women's Office) is curating the 2016 SAMPARI ART EXHIBITION AND SALE FOR WEST PAPUA, to be held at the ACU Art Gallery in Melbourne from the 2-11 December 2016. This show will display artworks from artists from a diverse array of backgrounds inspired by West Papuans: their culture(s), politics, history, or their extraordinary maritime and territorial environments. In addition, seven public events celebrating West Papua will be held in the exhibition space, to further raise awareness and move the public through the Gallery.
One wall of the exhibition space is being reserved exclusively for (scanned) artworks from Solomon Islanders, ni-Vanuatu, Papua New Guineans, Fijians, and especially the Kanaky of New Caledonia who are preparing for an independence referendum in 2018. This 'Melanesian Wall of Art' will serve to celebrate the unique political support, and sacrifice, of West Papuan's Melanesian kin, who in 2015 fought for (and won) a bitterly contested battle over West Papua's inclusion in the Melanesian Spearhead Group and Pacific Island Forum. Recognition by these two inter-governmental fora is the first formal acknowledgement of West Papua's independence movement since the beginning of the Indonesian occupation in 1963.
Details on how to make a submission are below.
West Papua, occupied by Indonesia since 1 May 1963, is a bounty of inspiration and paradox. It's a territory of extraordinary physical beauty (being plundered). An ancient landmass of complex geologies (being exploited). A living museum of rare flora and fauna (sold in black markets across Java). The home of an indigenous people whose footprints embed ancient time and space. And the land of our neighbours whose ambition is to be free and independent.
Melanesian artists have a unique perspective on West Papua. They see a war zone where brown-skinned people with frizzy hair like themselves are being murdered for raising a flag. A kin state bursting with songsters and poets and imaginative resistance to Indonesia's genocidal policies. Tiny isolated villages struggling to survive within a militarized colonial space. Unique flora and fauna stifling in the shadow of the biggest gold-and-copper mine in the world. They understand their artwork as strong-arming their politicians for their next monumental battle, to relist West Papua on the UN Decolonisation List in September 2016.
Melanesian artists are encouraged to submit works that explore or take inspiration from West Papua – its stunning geography, culture, politics, history, and resilient indigenous people.
After the Submission Closing Date (17 October 2016) artists will email SCANS of artwork (A4 Size at Resolution 720dpi) to Melbourne. In Melbourne, each scan will be printed on exquisite paper, exhibited, and (hopefully) sold for $60. Money from sales will be split 50/50 between Artist and Federal Republic of West Papua (Women's Office) – dedicated team of volunteers who are curating the exhibition. For any questions about payment or submitting work, send an EMAIL to the address below.
If you would like to make a submission, simply send an EMAIL to: firstname.lastname@example.com
The curators will work with you to answer any questions and assist you to make your submission.
The West Papuan indigenous people are our Melanesian brothers and sisters; due to corrupt forces of history and the colonial and corporate self interest of Western and Asian powers, West Papuans were denied the independence and self determination of countries like Papua New Guinea – who will celebrate their Independence Day soon on Friday 16 September.
As a result, the West Papuan people continue to be brutalised on their own land: dispossessed, controlled, robbed, tortured, abused, humilated and murdered by indonesian armed forces on their ancestral lands. It is an horrific injustice they have endured for over 50 years.
Today, The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) comprises the four Melanesian states of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front of New Caledonia. However, the West Papuans have so far been denied full membership; Indonesia, however, won observer status in 2011 with the support of the leadership of Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
And in June 201, Indonesia was recognized as an associate member – making them the official representative of West Papua, while the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has been relegated to observer status. Indonesia's membership of the MSG has therefore giving them a greater influence in Melanesian politics than the ULMWP.
As a creative reponse and statement, SAMPARI will curate a Melanesian wall of support for West Papuans comprising art from artists from all the Melanesian nations in the Melanesian Spearhead Group (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front of New Caledonia).
This is your opportunity to use your artistic expression to both celebrate West Papua, and show your support for the West Papuan peoples ongoing struggle for freedom!


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Dot Levy: Golden for Senate
Daily Tidings | January 19
Jeff Golden is running for state Senate! Alan DeBoer has been a nice caretaker for Dr. Alan Bates' 3rd District seat, but now we have the opportunity to have a real state senator.
Check Jeff out at his website: www.GoldenforSenate.com — the more you read, the more there is to like about him. His qualifications, his values and his personal style mesh very well with Southern Oregon. He's Harvard educated, but spent the 1970s growing his own food, managing forest land, building homes and guiding white water rafting trips. He's served in a variety of local government positions, including as Jackson County commissioner. Jeff has built his own TV show, "Immense Possibilities," into a nationally syndicated program.
Jeff Golden has the knowledge, the skills, the values and the vision to be our next great state senator.
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Today we toured Transylvania and its castles. We jumped aboard our bus for the day with no English speaking drive, who by all accounts from others on the tour, was a true Romanian driver – slightly crazy.
We headed for Sinaia to Peles Castle, a former royal palace dating back to 1883, that is not lacking in opulence or fantastic architecture, the place is amazing.
From Peles castle we headed to Bran Castle, Bran dating back to 1378 and is fairytale like. It also has many rumored links to Dracula himself though it is apparently unlikely that Vlad Tepes was ever there. The castle was cool but not that great, there was a fair bit not open and most of the rooms roped off for distant viewing only. They must have been tiny though because in places we had to duck!
From bran we headed to Râsnov and Cetatea Râsnov (Râsnov Fortress) ruins from the 13th-Century . Now this place was cool, set high up on the hill it has a pretty cool view but the whole place is pretty much to wandering around and its not really ruins well it is but a lot is still standing so its really cool.
We wandered all around the Cetatea, and whilst we were wandering two of the guys on the tour -, brothers from LA had posing in this completely ridiculous pose for their website …. The story is as crazy as the pose , have a read/look if you get time. Out the back some men were building these tee-pee like things of twigs (no idea what they are for) and we found donkeys and the craziest dog ever. He would bury himself literally in the hay piles roll around and usually go rolling down the hill at some point – it was hilarious.
It was then back to the hostel, and down to 'little Italy' – this little side street filled with Italian restaurants – for a very funny pizza. We thought we were ordering a supreme type pizza but when it came out one slice had mushrooms, one had ham, one peppers etc was really quite strange but very nice. Goes to show what is normal for us is not so normal elsewhere even with a simple pizza.
We headed back to the hostel for a few drinks with our freebie vouchers (how sweet is that), caught up with two pommie girls who had been at our hostel in Bucharest that had just arrived – Can you believe they had never heard "pommie" before! – and chatting with others in the hostel.


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SOBE Food Fest 2013: Celeb Chef Ana Quincoces
by Nina Terrero, 02/21/2013
You may recognize Ana Quincoces as one of the cast members from the Bravo series "The Real Housewives of Miami," but the mother of two has a fiery passion – for food, that is – that will definitely raise temperatures at this year's South Beach Food & Wine Festival in Miami Beach, Florida. Quincoces, voted Miami's hottest chef 2011 by Eater.com, absolutely loves the Cubanfood she grew up on – think dishes like ropa vieja, frituras de maiz, empanadas de chorizoand fricase de pollo. These traditional Cuban staples dishes — no fusion here, mind you – are the focus of Quincoces' second cookbook, "Sabor! A Passion for Cuban Cuisine." While the Miami native and licensed attorney will be making appearances at several SOBE events – including Michelle Bernstein's famed Swine & Wine pig roast event at the Biltmore Hotel – here's Quincoces on the foods she loves (and those she doesn't!), in her own words. And if reading about her favorite dishes isn't enough, you can try her recipe for huevos a la malagueña below.
First dish you ever made? The first dish I ever made was chicken a l'orange and it was awful. I remember my father's face as he tried to put down an entire plate of this culinary disaster.
How did you know you were born to cook? Growing up I loved the feeling that the heart of our home was the kitchen. All important conversations and decisions occurred there. My house was always the venue for gatherings and celebrations and it always involved delicious home cooked meals. I knew I wanted that feeling when I had my own home. My passion for cooking grew from there.
Favorite food memory? I have two. The first has to be a dinner at a restaurant in Big Sur above the clouds enjoying an extraordinary view while indulging in perfectly paired food and wine. A close second is a fish and chips stand on a sidewalk in Notting Hill where my girls and I enjoyed crispy freshly fried cod and chips drenched in malt vinegar while enjoying the Portabello market on a perfect sunny Saturday afternoon.
Worst food memory? I was 8 years old on my uncle's boat and indulged in one too many guava and cheese pastelitos which I washed down with grape soda. I'd rather not go into details, but suffice it to say it was not a good combination and the smell of either of those things still makes me a little queasy.
Sweet or Savory? I have an insatiable sweet tooth, but with a little heat the combination of both in one dish is the most appealing to me.
Chocolate or Vanilla? If it ain't brown, it ain't dessert!
Burger or taco? Burger preferably with blue cheese and bacon.
Who inspires you and why? My daughters are my greatest inspiration. I am in awe of them every single day of my life. Not only do I adore them but I have the utmost respect for them. They are extraordinary young women.
Favorite comfort food? Grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches.
Three things currently in your fridge at home? I try to keep my refrigerator stocked but even when it's not, I always have Greek yogurt, diet ginger ale & blackberries.
What food do you hate? Tofu
Finish this thought. A perfect meal is… …one created in my kitchen with the help of my family and friends. What we cook or eat doesn't matter.
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The Pub is located adjacent to the Tabby Room in the Clubhouse. The Pub allows for a variety of dining experiences at the Club, as well as a gathering place for Members after a round of golf. Complementing the Southern Vernacular style of the Tabby Room, the Pub offers 1,000 square feet of additional dining and gathering space of rustic charm with aged antique plaster walls and rich wood paneling, solid timber trusses, a richly constructed wood paneled bar and a screened outdoor terrace.
The Pub is open daily except for Mondays, Tuesday (lunch only), Holiday Closures, and scheduled Club/Golf Course Maintenance dates. Weeknight specials often feature hand-cut USDA prime beef steaks and fresh local seafood.
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Spheres of Disturbance
By Amy Schutzer
Red Hen Press
Reviewed by Jackie Thomas-Kennedy
Amy Schutzer's second novel, Spheres of Disturbance, brims with ambitious characters and the things they love to create: hand-carved bowls and macramé plant holders, gallery installations, and books of poetry. It is 1985 in an upstate New York town full of artists and would-be artists, a place where a garage sale includes a live musical performance, a place of such frenetic invention that casual conversation soon turns to lengthy expounding on the definition of art. Amidst the clutter of these amusingly self-important discussions are items of much deeper consequence: Sammy, a young woman, is watching her mother, Helen, die.
Sammy, one of Schutzer's stronger characters, is also one of the least consumed by her own creative pursuits. She is devoted to her mother, who has reconciled herself to numerous misfortunes: to the family that abandoned her, over thirty years ago, during her out-of-wedlock pregnancy; and to the fact that her death is approaching, and she wants to choose how her life ends. Helen seeks comfort in both Sammy and Sammy's girlfriend, Avery, an earnest poet who fears that her "thoughts are mired in clichés." Sammy and Avery provide Helen with whatever they can: lunches of "fresh haddock, brown rice, buckwheat, tofu," board games, and poetry readings. Avery faces the nearness of Helen's death in a way that Sammy cannot, and this is a frequent source of tension between them. Schutzer writes that Sammy "will not admit to the trajectory" of cancer, but Sammy is engrossed in her mother's palliative care—an admission, certainly, even if an unspoken one.
Sammy is her mother's only child. That she prefers not to speak of Helen's imminent death seems reasonable. She is described as "denying her mom's predicament. If she doesn't bring the cancer, or the prognosis, into focus, than the uncertainty remains just a predicament, and not a finality." This reads less as denial and more as a way to cope. When, immediately after sex, Avery demands, "when are you going to talk to me about Helen?" it's not clear why this is such an urgent matter in the first place. "I intend to be childish and not budge till you talk to me about Helen," Avery claims. What, we wonder, is she waiting for Sammy to say?
Avery is Helen's primary confidante, though Helen is also close to Sammy's employer, Joe, who she enlists to help her with a plan for the end of her life. She wants "to go in the river and float on down, eventually over Niagara Falls." Her timing coincides with the appearance of her estranged sisters, Rosie and Maureen; with Avery's massive garage sale; and with the birth of a litter of piglets at Avery's house. Schutzer delivers each of these scenes, and the general sense of growing chaos, with piercing descriptive skill. As the music stops at the garage sale, where everyone has converged, "[t]he rafters seem full of chords and harmonies, the notes settle onto the high wood." This lovely image prepares us for cacophonous resolution.
Beautiful imagery aside, Schutzer can be too generous with her characters. She crowds a community into these pages, and gives plentiful time to some of its weaker members. There are several chapters from the point of view of Charlotta, a pregnant pot-bellied pig, which are nicely written but do little to move the story along. Joe's wife, daughter, and sister—Marjorie, Darla, and Frances—each have struggles with their identities that might best be captured in another book. Avery's ex-girlfriend, Durga, is allegedly a formidable presence ("Durga was most definitely quicksand, and Avery had fallen in.") but she is laughably affected every time we see her, posturing like an insecure adolescent. Helen's sisters play a far more integral role to the story than the crowd in the garage.
Though one of the sisters, Maureen, fades into the background clamor, Rosie is fully realized. Her relationship with Will Silverman, a condescending lawyer, invites more character development than any other pair, including Sammy and Avery, the novel's central romance. Sammy and Avery are inextricably bound to Helen, whose illness infects their relationship by making Sammy withdraw. "Over the last year Sammy has tried to revert to a stranger [. . . .] The doubts Avery has come down to one: will Sammy allow love?" Avery's ultimate declaration is one of passivity: "the only way I can go forward is to be who I am, and let you be who you are."
By contrast, Helen's impending death evokes Rosie's strength, and allows her to stand up to the quietly tyrannical Will. (Convinced that "there's money to be made in finding missing persons," Will decides to sharpen his skills by leading the search for Helen.) Meek Rosie is stunned by Will's attention—and by his sexual appetite—but it occurs to her that she is "just the latest convenience." Will is dismissive of her concerns, controlling about her behavior, and demanding of her body. Eyeing his "glorious mouth," she concludes, "His biggest accomplishment was in how entirely she had fooled herself."
The moment when Rosie decides she is "done with [Will]" is brilliantly understated and utterly perceptive. Watching him tip the "flirty" cashiers in a donut shop, she understands how well she knows him, and how pathetic he is: "The teenage girls at the donut counter put him in a jaunty mood [. . . .] [H]e is a rooster, and a rooster has to crow. Any hen will do [. . . .] What he failed to realize is how it amused her, his ridiculous need to be paid attention to."
Donut World, full of plastic chairs and fluorescent lights, is also the accidental reunion site for the three sisters. Helen and Joe, in the process of enacting Helen's "plan," happen to stop at the same place where Rosie and Maureen are taking a break. The encounter among the groups is suitably uncomfortable. Maureen is startlingly rude; Will asserts authority ("I'm the family's attorney"); Helen tells Maureen, "I don't have enough breath left to list the ways I despise you"; and Rosie walks out of the shop with Helen and Joe.
The novel maintains focus during its brief time at Donut World. At Avery's, the multitude of characters come rushing back in, diluting the plot with their far less pressing concerns: the price of garage sale clothing, the fumbling of teenage flirtations, the arrival of pot-bellied piglets, the sneaking of cigarettes. None of these things seem to matter much, especially not when Helen is struggling to breathe.
The core of this novel is Sammy and Helen's family, along with a few of the people they allow into their lives. Schutzer's writing is best when it tends to the less self-conscious characters. Durga may be "[a] feminist witch" and a "back-to-the-land pioneer," and Frances may claim "the edge" is her "comfort zone," but the most compelling moments are quiet ones, unattached to conceits. Rosie leaves Will in a donut shop; Helen wishes for "[o]ne more time through the snow" as she walks outside; and Sammy tells her dying mother "it's okay, Mom, it's okay," when she isn't at all sure if it's true.


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'Dancing With the Stars' Season 23 premiere: The Sparklebarf Live Chat/
Update: Full premiere recap is liiiiiiive!
You may not have missed them all -- but you KNOW you missed these costumes!
Welcome back, Sparklebarfers, to a new season of fringe benefits on Planet Mirrorballus a.k.a. the house of flying swaggers and disco ball dreams! Tonight's a homecoming of sorts, as Allison, Cheryl, Maks, Derek, Gleb, Emma, and Busty the Judge have all returned following hiatuses of varying (skirt) lengths. Meanwhile, Jenna has been upgraded from decoy to full pro.
Cast-wise? Meh. We've got a disgraced Olympian, an adorable Olympian, a ringer for Derek, a bunch of peeps you've never heard of, and Vanilla Ice.
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Mayor & Council
Redcliff's Town Council fulfils the legislative function of the Town's municipal government. The council is responsible for establishing corporate policy and setting strategic priorities for Town staff through effective, innovative, responsible leadership and consultation.
Government plays an important role in the lives of every person. It's government that decides how resources will be allocated in an effort to meet the needs of society.
The Town of Redcliff employs the council-manager form of municipal government. Redcliff is administered by a seven-member town council which oversees all issues pertaining to the Town of Redcliff. Town of Redcliff residents elects seven members of the town council to include one mayor and six councillors.
The town's daily operations are run by the Municipal Manager. One of his tasks is to work with his senior administration team to develop and deliver a wide range of programs and services to residents. The senior administration team identifies opportunities to enhance the quality of life for the community.
Other Committees and Boards:
Assessment Review Board
Emergency Advisory Committee
Entre-Corp (Alternate)
Municipal Development Plan Steering Committee (MDP)
Redcliff Museum & Historical Society
Shortgrass Library System
Southeast Alberta Watershed Alliance (Alternate)
Thank you for visiting the Town of Redcliff's website. Here you will find everything you need, whether it is links to fast and convenient access to town services and departments, or information about Redcliff's history and some of its attractions.
For Residents, we have worked to make town services available to you online. You can pay your bills at your convenience and find important information about programs, events and Town Council activities quickly and easily. Our goal is to place all town departments and services at your fingertips.
For those of you visiting Redcliff or considering a trip here, I hope you will take time to discover what makes our community a great place to live and work. I know you will like the small-town atmosphere with its views of coulees and panoramic river valley. Our shale paths and bicycle trails allow us to enjoy the outdoors. In addition, our recreational facilities support active living. The many greenhouses provide us with fresh vegetables year round enabled by living in one of the sunniest regions in Canada.
Thank you again for your interest in our town.
Shawna Gale
Other Committees and Boards:
Community Advisory Committee (RCMP) (Alternate)
Cypress View Foundation
Intermunicipal Collaboration Framework (ICF) Steering Committee
Municipal Planning Commission
Redcliff and District Recreation Services Board
School/Town Joint Use Committee (Alternate)
Cathy Crozier
Other Committees and Boards:
Assessment Review Board
Community Advisory Committee (RCMP)
Emergency Advisory Committee
Family & Community Support Services (FCSS)
Medicine Hat & District Chamber of Commerce
Redcliff Action Society for Youth
Redcliff/Cypress Regional Waste Management Authority
Subdivision & Development Appeal Board
Chris Czember
Other Committees and Boards:
Assessment Review Board
Canadian Badlands
Entre-Corp (Alternate)
Family & Community Support Services (FCSS) (Alternate)
Redcliff Action Society for Youth (Alternate)
Redcliff Days Committee
Riverview Golf Club
Senior Citizens Board (Alternate)
Larry Leipert
Other Committees and Boards:
Emergency Advisory Committee (EAC)
Medicine Hat & District Chamber of Commerce
Municipal Development Plan Steering Committee (MDP) (Alternate)
Municipal Planning Commission
Redcliff/Cypress Regional Waste Management Authority
Riverview Golf Club (Alternate)
Senior Citizens Board
Southeast Alberta Watershed Alliance
Verge Economic Development (Alternate)
Eric Solberg
Other Committees and Boards:
Canadian Badlands (Alternate)
Cypress View Foundation
Palliser Economic Partnership
Redcliff & District Recreation Services Board (Alternate)
Redcliff Museum & Historical Society (Alternate)
Subdivision & Development Appeal Board (Alternate)
Jim Steinke
Other Committees and Boards:
Canada Day Committee
Intermunicipal Collaboration Framework (ICF) Steering Committee
Municipal Planning Commission
Redcliff Cypress Regional Waste Management Authority (Alternate)
Redcliff Days Committee (Alternate)
Redcliff Public Library
School/Town Joint Use Committee
Shortgrass Library System (Alternate)
Verge Economic Development (Alternate)


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Yemen, Stupid Speech and the Great Hipster Migration
My head just keeps on blogging.
My head just keeps on blogging.
Is there really a popular constituency – in either party – for a campaign focused on foreign policy restraint?
Credibility matters less when objective interests and capabilities are clear – and more when they are hard to discern. Which may explain why the more expansive hawks care about it so much.
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Yves Lavigne is the author of the national bestsellers Hells Angels, Into the Abyss , and Hells Angels at War . He is also the author of Death Dealers , an expose of how gang drug wars are changing the face of crime. He is an international expert on motorcycle and other illegal gangs, infiltrating their ranks on many fronts and receiving commendations from law enforcement agencies for his work. A veteran journalist who worked for the Globe and Mail for ten years, Yves Lavigne lives in Toronto.
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Midweek Fashion Gossip
- Designer Gareth Pugh is to venture into cosmetics with MAC in November. I'm Tres Excited! (I don't wear make up) BUT a make up bag would be sweet! cont.
- 30 Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto is the new face for Hugo Boss's fragrance 'Just Different' cont.
- Florence + the Machine's lead vocals Florence Welch is the new face of fashion house Gucci. cont.
- With the campaign shot covered in past MFG, here is Leighton Meester's 'Lovestruck' by Vera Wang ad. above
- Diane von Furstenburg is being rumoured to be the latest collaborator with apparel brand Gap. cont.


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A look at the life of Eugene Allen, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
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Cat Lady Chic // NINE LIVES ISSUE 138 | FLAUNT
So What if I Squandered Eight of My Nine Lives? I Looked Good Doing It.
The character of the Cat Lady conjures a variety of images, few of them flattering: shut-ins with frumpy fur-speckled sweaters and clunky shoes; the bespectacled grade school teacher who always packed tuna sandwiches for lunch and smelled like soup; a homely housebound spinster whose porch is adorned with bowls of coagulated Fancy Feast and a clowder of mangy strays. But no longer shall Cat Ladies (and Gentlemen) wallow under the banner of dowdy and dateless: the cat-obsessive has been reincarnated as perennial It Girl in the pages of Diane Lovejoy's latest book, Cat Lady Chic.
Lovejoy takes an endearing stab toward the Cat Lady persona with this sleekly curated collection of portraits, featuring fabulous starlets paired with their feline companions. Hollywood bombshells Audrey Hepburn, Lena Horne, and Elizabeth Taylor embrace cats while posed in comfort at home or on set; Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, Maya Deren, Anna Pavlova, and Tracey Emin interspersed with paintings of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, Impressionist ballerinas, and wealthy Roman patricians representing fine art's feline fan club.
What was your inspiration for putting this book out into the world?
Well, whenever I met fellow Cat Ladies at signings for my first book, Cat Lady Chronicles (2012), I was pleasantly surprised to receive thanks for my modest efforts to challenge the derogatory image of the Cat Lady, and I kept being struck by the fact that at every event that I did in Houston I was meeting very attractive, well-spoken people who would say to me, "I'm so glad that you are putting Cat Lady Chronicles out there because I'm tired of being ridiculed or maligned for being a Cat Lady." I work full-time as editor of art books and a publications director [at a museum], so I decided that I would try my hand and write a kind of love letter to the Cat Ladies by way of an introductory essay.
Then I wanted to go out and gather what I call my supporting evidence… The first image I found that really gave me the inspiration to think this could become an interesting book would be one of Elizabeth Taylor with a Siamese cat—which I love, it's so mid-century—and with the art in the background it kind of brings together my two worlds. I researched about 400 images to get to my top 100. Frankly, the difficult part was that there wasn't a right or wrong answer, but I'm very pleased with the ones that the publisher and I settled on.
How does womanhood affect this identity as a Cat Lady and the idea of Cat Lady Chic?
I was very conscious as I was doing my research thatI wanted to have a democratic representation of a wide range of professions, and I think a lot of that comes from my own friends and feeling that I'm so fortunate to know people who succeed on their own terms and different walks of life. Naturally, there's lots of images of models and actresses and silver screen legends and so forth, so of course I wanted to include those as they are such iconic images and I work in the art world so I wanted to have a representation of visual artists…I just had this kind of fantasy of all these women coming together in the pages of this book and having this essay, this conversation with one another about the meaning of being a Cat Lady.
Cat Ladies are clearly having their moment in the spotlight—do you ever get a bit defensive about the title?
I probably have the corner on that one right now because by default I'm sort of the go-to person at the museum. I'm happy to spread the wealth of the Cat Lady, and I'm not pretending to be an authority on the subject, but I do feel passionately about it.
Potentially, there could be something for every cat lover in the book, and I believe women will see themselves in these pictures, that they'll relate to these pictures and really delight in being in the company of such distinguished fellow Cat Ladies. So I do think there's that element, too, that will inspire people to feel that everyone can be proud of their status as a Cat Lady.


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Nesh Pillay is the founder of Press Pillay, a digital communications agency on a social mission. She is also currently the Newcomers Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Toronto Public Library, where she works with new immigrants to bring their startup ideas to life.
She is a former journalist who covered international advertising and marketing as a founding reporter of The Drum's New York team. She later joined Toronto-based EQ Works as their VP of Marketing, where she honed the art of "marketing for the marketer."
Nesh has previously appeared in Canadian Association for Marketing Professionals and Direct Marketing Magazine. Her secret weapon is having learned the in's and out's of marketing, PR and branding from "the other side."
She calls herself the "Robin Hood" of PR and believes that empathy can fix the world.
Thought Leadership
Here are five topics to which Nesh can speak as an expert:
PR in a digital age
female empowerment
Toronto's PR evolution
mental health for entrepreneurs
how to incorporate philanthropy in your business model
As a former journalist, Nesh is a skilled wordsmith and storyteller. She has written on a number of topics from her own personal mental health issues to the advertising industry at large.
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The EEOC has taken a judgment of $118,483 against a New jersey debt collection firm in a pregnancy discrimination case. Why? Because the firm rescinded a job offer to a female employee after it learned that she was pregnant.
That alone, however, will not earn one an employer a nomination for "Worst Employer of 2017." I'll let the EEOC explain further:
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Receivable Management … rescinded its offer to promote a female employee after she announced that she was pregnant. The employee was told that she was not going to be promoted because the owners of the company did not think that a pregnant woman could handle the stress or the long hours of a management position. …
If you make employment decisions based on stereotypes that pregnancy lessens a woman's ability to perform her job, you might be the worst employer of 2017.
Jon Hyman is a partner at Meyers, Roman, Friedberg & Lewis in Cleveland. Comment below or email email@example.com. Follow Hyman's blog at Workforce.com/PracticalEmployer.


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"You can't understand Jefferson without understanding slavery; you can't understand the paradox of his life and the words that he wrote in the Declaration of Independence without understanding this historical connection with Sally Hemings and with the enslaved people in general at Monticello." — Niya Bates, Public Historian of Slavery and African American Life at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation A variety of subjects are covered on the Thomas Jefferson Hour this week, including a discussion about Benjamin Franklin Bache's newspaper the Philadelphia Aurora, the effect negative press had on politicians during Jefferson's time and an interview with Niya Bates about restoration work ongoing at Monticello. You can find a full transcript of our conversation with Niya Bates here. Find this episode, along with further recommended reading, on the blog. Learn more about Odyssey Tours and the summer 2017 Lewis & Clark adventure on odytours.net.


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The Team
Angelosophy supports holistic wellbeing. We are blessed to be connected with conscious light workers and have an open invitation to practitioners who wish to collaborate with our mission to support women and children's life path.
Thank you for sharing your light with the world!
Victoria Hughes
With a career as an intensive care RN, Victoria understands and helps guide the cellular and energetic process. Thirty-four years experience with conscious energy practice. Twenty-four years of experience as a healing arts, intuitive and medical intuitive practitioner. Twelve years experience teaching Reiki and many other methods of meditation, spiritual sciences and yoga. Founder of Element Reiki & Yoga offering retreats, workshops and private healing practice.
Roxanne Massey
Roxanne Massey is the owner of Inner Wellness. She has been an integrative nurse consultant for over 20 years addressing body, mind, spirit and emotions with her clients. As a holistic nurse she integrated in her coaching and practice different healing arts such as: Quantum biofeedback, Healing touch Therapies (Reiki Master and Practitioner—Usui and Karuna), radical nutrition and super food Coaching and prep, Healthy & Conscious living Education, AromaTouch Technique and Essential Oil education (doTERRA), Stress Management, Breathwork, Meditation, emotional and spiritual coaching and Yoga therapeutics.
Eva Garza
Eva Garza, Graphic and Web Designer, Reiki Master, Crystal Healer and DNA Activation Facilitator is the Founder and CEO of The Indigo Revolution Inc; a Platform created to empower the Lightworkers and Parents of Indigo Children by offering support, resources and Conscious Spiritual Entrepreneurship services. Eva is the Creative Director of OmArt, in-house Art Program of Angelosophy and The Indigo Revolution.
Heidi Michelle Love
Heidi Michelle Love is a yoga teacher, the owner of DragonFLYoga and the director of Selva Armonia Yoga Retreat. As a personal development and awareness facilitator from 1995 to 2002, Heidi's passion for empowering people emerged. She has been guiding, teaching, and leading, in one form or another, ever since. Offering retreats, workshops and trainings in the United States, India, Mexico and Costa Rica, her Vinyasa classes feature a dharma-rich, gently demanding slow-flow practice with an emphasis on yoga as a practice ground for life.
Nicole Gayatri Smith
Nicole teaches the heart-opening and centering practices of yoga, meditation, and dance; believing in living every moment in love and compassion, with a sense of wonder and shiny playfulness. She has been spreading this message over the past two decades as a performer, teacher and choreographer. During that time, Nicole created The Perfect Space and True Potential Self Coaching Sessions. Combining all of her skills she inspires and guides clients to align with their highest calling.
Shelley Garcia
Shelley Garcia is a children's / family yoga teacher at Lost Pines Yoga. Her yoga experiences led her to pursue certification as a children's yoga instructor with Radiant Child and Rainbow Kids. Shelley is also a certified educator specializing in Early Childhood. She worked in the public schools in Austin, Texas. She became very knowledgeable with best practices in education and how to make learning meaningful and relevant to the young learner. Shelley is also an empowerment coach and is currently working on bringing the women in her community together to create sisterhood, form valuable connections and support local female business owners.
Rebecca Hill
Rebecca believes that transformation through yoga happens when we recognize what is already present within us, fully intact and perfect. She was introduced to yoga by a study partner while attending the University of Texas in Austin in 2003, and completed her 200 hr Hatha certification in 2006 and the her 200 hr Kundalini Certification in 2008. After she finished her Kundalini teacher training she felt a strong calling to go back to school to obtain her Masters of Acupuncture and graduates the program in December of 2015, and will start her practice in Austin, Texas. She has also recently joined efforts with an emerging group called GoIndigo to help other indigo children find their way down the path of purpose.
Inna Revina
Inna Revina is a Certified Dharma Yoga Teacher, Certified Thai Massage Therapist, Certified Holistic Health Coach, Prenatal Yoga Instructor, and Certified Karma Kids Yoga Teacher. She is the Founder of BeVitalYou a wellness coaching Blog and INNAturalicious, a company offering raw, vegan and organic desserts and skin care.


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Ari Koontz
It takes a few minutes for the water to get hot enough to scald bare skin, but Astrid knows how to be patient. She leans against the shower wall, watching the steam billow up through the air and bracing her toes on the edge of the basin. She counts down from one hundred. Closes her eyes. Then, with a shiver of adrenaline, she pushes her body forward off the tiles and into the downpour.
The shock of first contact is more ice than fire at first, a freezing of every single nerve that almost stops her heart. Then, just as quickly, it shifts into a familiar deep burn that burrows down through her pores to her raw insides and turns everything outside a furious shade of pink. Once her nerve endings figure out what's happening, they start to protest, urging her to run, get away, drop to the slick tile floor. Astrid takes a deep, shuddering breath and opens her eyes; black dots crowd her vision, then slowly dissolve. The opposite of stars going out.
After her heart rate settles down and her skin acclimatizes, the sharpness only lasts a little longer before it starts to fade. She holds onto it for as long as she can, but it's just a shower in a two-bedroom apartment and there are regulations and temperature limits, and despite her various disjointed efforts, it turns out there's not many kinds of pain a body can't accommodate. So the adrenaline ebbs and the water becomes disappointingly warm and flat until she almost can't feel it hitting her at all, and eventually she gives up and reaches for a bar of soap.
As she scrubs herself clean, Astrid tries not to fixate on each body part she touches: her bony shoulders and her flat chest, her long crooked arms, her armpits landscaped with soft curly hairs that catch soap bubbles like thorns on a rosebush, and the smooth skin connecting her ribs to her pelvis. Her stomach, softly curved and churning, just a quick rinse and suck it in again. Her legs, covered with ugly red and white blotches between the scabs and the sinews. Her crotch. Not thinking, not looking, not touching anything there. The callused bottoms of her feet.
If she concentrates hard enough, if she tries to count every single drop of water that hits her skin, she can tell herself that it's someone else's body that she is cleaning, exfoliating, pushing roughly back into itself. She doesn't know where she is in that scenario, just that it's somewhere far away, somewhere she can't feel the water rolling down her thighs and down the open drain.
Astrid digs her fingernails into the bar of soap, making tiny half-moon puckers in the glossy white surface, then sets it back down on the lip of the tub. Above her, the showerhead sputters. The heat falters and edges toward lukewarm.
When she pulls back the curtains and steps out, the bathroom is shrouded in fog, and this helps as she quickly wraps a towel around herself and goes to stand in front of the mirror. The glass is frosted with moisture but her silhouette is still barely visible: a hazy pinkish blob that looks vaguely familiar. If she squints, Astrid can imagine that she really is standing there behind the mist, that if she stands there long enough and concentrates hard she will unlock some magic spell so that when her reflection eases back into view it will be exactly right. Soft edges, gentle slopes, a fullness that settles comfortably beneath her chest.
She almost makes the mistake of hoping for this.
Just as the first drops of water begin to condense and slide down the mirror's surface, her focus is shattered by the sound of her mother on the other side of the door. Knocking once, calling a name that does not belong to her.
"Carter, honey? Are you okay in there?"
Astrid wraps the towel tighter around her waist and reaches for the doorknob. The steam rushes out all at once.
They sit on the sofa watching television with bowls of boxed macaroni and cheese, the volume at medium and the closed captions turned on. Astrid's mother has her legs propped up on the coffee table, a glass of water in one hand and remote in the other. She sighs as the black-and-white movie they're watching switches over to a commercial.
"How was school today?" she asks, pressing the mute button.
"Good," Astrid says. She shrugs a little against the leather cushions. She knows she is supposed to find something else to say, something concrete to back up the noncommittal statement, but can't find another word.
Her mom glances over at her for a second, the light from the TV screen illuminating her face—lined and slightly crumpled, like tissue paper, but not unbeautiful. "Just good?"
"Yeah. Not bad."
"Want to give me more than the dictionary definition?" she says, eyebrows raised.
Astrid shrugs again.
Her mother sighs. "All right. Don't mind me. Just a mom who's interested in her son's life." She shakes her head slightly, a wry smile at the corner of her mouth, and unmutes the television on an advertisement for used cars, then swaps the remote for her bowl of macaroni. As a suited salesman leans against an obviously green-screened Ferrari and tells them about zero percent APR financing on their next purchase, Astrid turns her head and becomes fixated on the body on the opposite end of the couch.
As far as she can remember, her mother has always looked this way: both fragile and unyielding at the same time, a body ample even in its smallness. Her skin hangs in loose folds around a long-obscured skeletal frame—when she was younger Astrid used to burrow there, pressing herself against unexpected concave space and soaking up her mother's warmth while she held her, sometimes for seconds and sometimes hours at a time. She wonders absently when this became unacceptable behavior; certainly the desire still rises up in her at times, like now as she watches the woman's chest rise and fall with the weight of her steady breathing. Seven years in a wheelchair have atrophied her mother's bones and given her whole body a steadiness that seems like a resolution, and to Astrid she is most beautiful in the places only her child and her doctor ever think to examine. The nape of her neck. The freckled, spongy V of her chest where her breasts slope toward one another. The small incisions like tattoos on each side of her belly button.
Astrid's mother shifts slightly, reaching for the volume button because the movie is back on again, and Astrid quickly looks back at the glowing screen as a stick-thin woman dances across a meadow, tugging a young man after her toward a bed of daffodils. The orchestral swell of a musical number rises from the speakers, fills the silent apartment.
At the next commercial break, she thinks, she will say something, though what exactly that will be remains uncertain. Maybe she will say: I skipped lunch period today to go down to the river, just so no one could see me, and I almost tripped over a squirrel and broke my neck. Maybe: Mom, I have something important to tell you. Maybe: How was your day and did anything interesting happen at the dry cleaners? But as it turns out, it is the last twenty minutes of the movie and there are no more commercials to sit through and after the young people have gotten married in a different meadow beside the ornately carved walls of a church her mom switches off the television halfway through the long roll of credits and says that she is tired. Time for sleep.
When the dishes are cleared away and piled up next to the sink, Astrid helps her mother into her bed and pulls down the window blinds, obscuring the distant glittering lights of the city. She lingers there for a moment, caught by the silhouettes of the two of them on the speckled beige wall. The shapes are so incongruous that she finds herself wanting to laugh aloud, and this thought startles her. Then the shadow that is not her flattens out and she turns around again.
"Do you need anything else? Water?"
Her mother smiles and shakes her head. "I'm good, sweetie. Thank you."
Astrid nods and starts to leave, but her mom holds up a hand and gestures for her to come over, so she moves back over to the bed.
"Come here."
She bends down and allows her hand to be taken.
"You know I love you, Carter, don't you?"
Astrid nods again.
"I really do. No matter what." Her mother's touch is gentle and warm, and Astrid is for a moment overcome with the desire to lay her head down on her chest, allow herself to rest there. A second later, the urge passes, and she's letting go and pulling her hand away.
"I know, Mom. Goodnight," she says quietly.
Her mom looks at her for another moment and then smiles again, closing her eyes as Astrid moves back toward the door.
"Goodnight, honey."
The apartment is dark and silent and Astrid finds herself in front of the bathroom mirror again with the lights off. She stands still for a moment, staring into the glass, trying to remember the words to say to summon demons. Then she shrinks away, disgusted with the outline that stares back, sharp and unblinking.
Underneath the sink is a drawer whose contents she has long since learned by heart, so it doesn't take her long at all to find what she's looking for. Her fingers fumble over a large hairbrush, a set of rollers, two lipsticks (Rustic Rouge and Pink Nouveau), and an eyeshadow pallet, before landing on the small lotion jar—rounded edges, torn label on the lid. She uncaps it carefully and scoops out a small blob of white salve, which smells like roses.
The dull pain that covers her body is lessened slightly as Astrid rubs it down with calamine lotion, carefully massaging the skin in tiny circles, each movement a silent apology to herself. She needs to stop doing such stupid things.
Once she's covered her arms, neck, and stomach with the greasy ointment, she screws the lid back on and slides it back into the drawer before washing her hands for a full minute. Then she slips out into the hall, into the few slivers of light slanting through the front window curtains from streetlamps outside. She starts toward her bedroom but somehow ends up back in front of her mother's closed door and she wants to knock but her knuckles are too large and too heavy so instead she just stands there, trying to see if she can feel those streetlights on her back, illuminating her shoulder blades. No part of her feels any different than before.
When she finally falls asleep, Astrid dreams of stars.
She's floating, maybe a hundred feet above the surface of the earth, and there's some invisible gossamer thread tethered vaguely around the idea of her waist, not so much tying her down as guiding her softly upward. As it unwinds by inches and centimeters, she feels a slight breeze playing around her shoulders, which is impossible because wind does not exist this far up from the ground, but nonetheless it is here, soothing her burning skin. Below her, the world is dark and barely visible, but above her everything is light: more stars than she can count pricking the flat expanse of spilled ink sky. If she squints, Astrid can make them all blur together, as if the far-off detonation that created stars and bodies and time has never happened and all that exists is the nebulous present.
As she drifts further away, Astrid becomes aware of a tiny vibration deep inside of herself. It begins at a molecular level, a faint hum emanating from what must be the oldest cells in her body, tucked away somewhere in her bone marrow from the very beginning of her existence. When she focuses on it, the vibration seems to stop, so she turns her attention back to the boundless sky around her until she feels it return again.
Time passes, though it does not exist here, and it is hours or days or millennia before the humming in her bones begins to spread to other parts: her kidneys, the base of her spinal cord, the red blood cells that rush into her heart and back out again in the opposite direction. She feels it seeping into her lungs, which are rumbling steadily despite a clear lack of oxygen, and now her whole body is steadily pulsing in a way that seems unavoidable and she can't remember what it was like to not feel whatever this is, and she knows she is not scared and has no need to be. And now she suddenly realizes that earth is far out of sight below her and she's alone among the brightest suns.
They are suspended there together, this heat and the universe pouring into her trembling body, and then the cord snaps. The spark inside of her aches for a final moment and she's able to take one more deep breath before she combusts, her vessel rupturing at last, exploding into dust. Scarring the night sky with a single, fleeting burst of light.


text: Red Ribbon Week celebrates healthy bodies and minds. Thanks to the PTA, Central Valley welcomed Brian Richards and the bFit Assembly. There was a lot of amazing magic along with laughter and cheering as Mr. Brian explained Five A Day The Color Way. Five A Day means eating five servings of fruits and vegetables every day. The Color Way means that the color of vegetables and fruits tells you they are especially good for different parts of your body. Who knew vegetables and fruits were color coded?


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Benji Lewis reaches a whole new level of emotional depth with his first single of the year, 'Is It Love'.
Lewis actually wrote the song in early 2018 and thought it was "all ready to go"... until he ended up in a session at the Lakehouse Studios in LA with Norwegian producer, Magnus Skylstad.
Skylstad's input really allowed the romantic electro-pop sound to flourish by developing the song's sensitive side.
Central themes of letting go, moving on, and trying to recover from heartbreak are brought to the fore in Lewis's unashamedly vulnerable lyrics.
Like most people, the artist went through heaps of emotions after letting go of someone he didn't want to. Understandably, this left him with a lot of questions, the main one being -- as the track title suggests -- "is it love?".
The musician opens with a few notes from the piano, followed by his stripped-back vocals.
"When we had finished recording the song, I was totally exhausted, but it felt so good having expressed everything. I left feeling a little lighter and clearer on what I want and need when it comes to love and life in general," Lewis reflects.
After cultivating an impressively dreamy, chilled style, we are super excited to see what comes from the Melbournite in 2019.
Give Benji Lewis some love by streaming his new song 'Is It Love' now!


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On Friday morning, while swimming at my local sport centre, I was told by Frank (see previous post for full details please because I'm not doing a full recap) about an abandoned cat which I took home at the same time as a stray cat and put both in the conservatory in the hopes that they wouldn't fight.
They didn't, but they didn't become best buddies either.
Tink, the ginger boy I got from Frank, was lovely and friendly, happy to be cuddled and liked to rub his face against mine. On the other hand he didn't eat very much.
Floppy, the black and white with the floppy ear, was more nervous though by yesterday (Monday) he'd become quite friendly. He liked a sea-food diet as in see food and eat it. On the other hand he threw up on Saturday night and the two meals he got on Sunday. Monday morning I gave him some boiled chicken which he wolfed down and kept down. Teatime he got a sachet and kept that down too. This morning I gave him more chicken and three hours later he still hasn't thrown it up.
Back to yesterday morning when I went swimming and told Frank how Tink was doing. Frank then told me that a neighbour who'd also been feeding him (Tink, not Frank) burst into tears as she'd been intending to keep him (Tink, n... okay, enough of that joke). Frank wasn't too sympathetic as she'd had plenty of time to tell him that significant piece of information. He confirmed to me that she would give Tink a good home and that he was used to playing with her two cats. Fine, she can have him, I said and dropped him off at Frank's about lunchtime.
And that was how I re-homed a cat while swimming.
I had no plans for the rest of the day other than dropping off some donated dog food at Susan's. While there she got a call from the shop wanting to know why I wasn't at Ferry Farm re-homing a cat. I'll be there in fifteen minutes, I yelled and zoomed off (well, reversed slowly and carefully down the back lane, drove slowly down the narrow cul de sac and observed the speed limit all the rest of the way) in my brand new second hand car (see previous two posts).
I apologised profusely because I'd not only forgotten all about it (though I remembered being in contact with the people) I couldn't remember making the arrangement. They were very graceful about it and took home Hero who they'd visited a couple of times.
I was on my way out when a family (grandmother, mother, and lively seven year old son) arrived with the intention of taking Maggie and Morag, two recently returned young Scottish tabby-white sisters, which hadn't been arranged with me though I knew of their intent. It's only a provisional re-homing (which is why they're still on the main list) to see how they get on with the young boy and he with them. They reckoned they should know in a couple of days.
If that takes, then I'll have re-homed four cats in one day which is the best so far. Heck, that used to be the average for a month! Two more are going out tomorrow (and two coming in) and I have expressions of interest in two others. So far March is proving a good month for cat-rehoming. So far. I'm not one for counting my chickens, though I often count cats.
Here's Maggie and Morag. Let's hope it's the last you see of them.


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About KonMari Method™
The Philosophy
The KonMari Method™ is a way of life and a state of mind that encourages cherishing the things that spark joy in people's lives.
Belongings are acknowledged for their service and thanked before being let go of, if they no longer spark joy.
People are drawn to this philosophy not only due to its effectiveness, but also because it places great importance on being mindful, introspective, and optimistic.
-from the official website, KonMari.com


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This is AlphaDog, the next generation of BigDog, the creepiest and most awesome quadruped robot of all time. The damn thing is now smarter and can stand up on its own when it's down; like a real horse.
Which is exactly what it looks and sounds like. A robotic, creepy version of a horse that can be kicked and pushed without falling down.
Like BigDog, AlphaDog is being developed by Boston Dynamics and funded by DARPA and the US Marine Corps. The first version will be completed in 2012. It will be capable of carrying 400 pounds of payload over 20-mile missions in rough terrain. This video shows a test during the early stages of development.
Stay tuned for more cool robots from Boston Dynamic. According to Marc Raibert, founder and CEO of Boston Dynamics, there's more exciting stuff to come "as soon as we get approvals for releasing it."


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If you see my head bobbing in the water, get a close as you can for the shot! I've learned how to avoid riders and waves on my bodyboard. I can get out of your way quicker than a french poodle can wag it's tail.
I'll have all the photos up on my photo site, mannyvphoto.com, later this afternoon. Cheers. And thanks JA!


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If you are new to CrossFit, please book a No Sweat Intro to discuss your goals with one of our coaches.
Once you join, new CrossFitters will begin in our Foundations Program. Your three private or semi-private Foundations classes are designed to teach you the basic movements and flow of CrossFit while providing extra attention to perfect your form. Those attending Foundations classes are welcome to attend Yoga classes until they "graduate".


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Balancing the Equation(.pdf ebook)
Balancing the Equation(.pdf ebook)
The handstand is one of the most simple, yet one of the most humbling, skills in the span of the physical arts. It seems so simple, yet it can be an incredibly frustrating skill to learn. Because of this, many people think that handstands are reserved for gymnasts and circus performers. Let me say, though, that the handstand is accessible to anyone willing to put in the time.
A hand balance practice is incredibly beneficial for the body and mind. The amount of concentration required makes it a form of meditation. Physically, it is an incredible display of strength, body control and awareness. Balancing on your hands requires constantly making small adjustments within the body. There is no other art form that requires as much precision as the handstand.
This book breaks down the process to achieving a freestanding handstand for a beginner, starting from the very basics. This process is useful to those learning their first handstands as well as those who teach it, such as gymnastics coaches, CrossFit coaches and yoga instructors. The concepts detailed in this book are focused on learning the skill as an adult by promoting understanding of the art in order to make progress. It takes the mystery out of the skill, and presents it in a way anyone can learn.
In order to complement the material in this ebook, check out the associated Video exercise library: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/190235
"I have been looking at many coaches online, trying to find the best ones, as I keep on improving my handstand, especially the posture and overall balance. Therefore, I did a lot of research and this is how I found Yuri's book ''Balancing the Equation'', which is absolute GOLD.
First of all, everything is explained and described in a way that every person can understand and follow, which I always find a challenge with such books, considering that not everyone has an understanding of anatomy, balance, etc. Yuri's book is very well structured too, starting with, very importantly, the alignment, progressing through arm support, the theory of balance and so on. I am certain that no matter your level, you will be able to follow and understand everything about the handstand by following Yuri's book. The photos are also extremely helpful in explaining the theory, they support every chapter and all the progressions.
I cannot recommend enough ''Balancing the Equation'', its structure and the wealth of information you'll find enclosed! Yuri mentioned he is working on a second book, I look forward to reading it, I am convinced it's going to be just as good as this one! "
-Bogdan Monta
"This is a "masterpiece" that should be in "every" handbalancing enthusiast's library (in a "hallowed" place of honor) ! This is a monumental work that stands alone in the genre: it has no peer in the handbalancing training field. A copy of this manual along with a rare copy of Bob Jones "HANDBALANCING" from the 1930's would be more than enough to inspire and instruct anyone desiring to traverse tne outer limits of handbalancing ... and beyond. If you think that is hyperbole, find, purchase and peruse both books and come to your own conclusion. *Prepare to be "floored" in the process!
If you can't find a copy of the Bob Jone's tome, don't fret; it is a very, very rare book. Just get a copy (or two) of this manual by Yuri and handstand mastery will be within your grasp at last
Hear me now and thank me later...BUY THIS MANUAL BY YURI."
-Herbert April Jr.
"Bought and just finished reading from cover to cover! Been looking for a resource like this for years. Loved the pragmatic approach and precision of instructions and photos. The goal-setting/milestone section at the end is gold. Thank you Yuri!"
-Jennifer Lee
"Just purchased a new book called "Balancing the Equation" that is a must have manual for all handstand enthusiasts. Fantastic analysis and practical progressions for straightening, strengthening and going beyond into different variations of the Handstand. Yuri Marmerstein has pain stakingly crafted an essential bible for handstands. Whether you are a beginner or expert check this book out!"
-Elliot Helms


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arebyte Gallery 2019 Programme
For this year's artistic programme, we will focus on and explore the theme of Home
arebyte's 2019 programme takes the idea of home as its point of departure. Reflecting upon ideas of redevelopment of urban spaces and otherworldly sites of discovery; the disconnection of marginalised bodies; new ecologies for future ways of living; and looking beyond locality as a means of integrating change, as well as resisting the homogeneous nature of corporate systems and challenging ideas surrounding labour, leisure and existence.
Continuing on from last year's theme Islands, the programme this year extends to the peripheries, and comes back towards the centre becoming more personal. Home is relational, emotive, nostalgic and warm, but equally can be impossible, scary and unstable. The artists in the programme disrupt and confront the limits of what these situations mean in our present, our future and our digital homes.
Thinking about recent western-global political and social upheavals, the artists embrace and subvert technology as their means of interrogation, and posit new ideas to imagine our collective, prospective futures. Within the exhibitions, spaces of home are unpacked as spaces of transition - of gender, religion, futures and reality - but also spaces of resistance and power.
With an increased use of sharing economies, and the rising number of people working from home, our relationship towards the objects we spend time with have changed and as a consequence so too have the communities and lifestyles we operate within. The home itself becomes a consumer entry point for a vast new economic territory of invisible infrastructure of big data, with the monopolising of private activities to benefit corporate advancement as the overbearing approach. The rules governing the space of everyday life exist now through this colonising of privacy.
Through this questioning of corporate systems, political ideologies, industry and freedom, the programme ruminates on fact and fiction, on histories and futures and on belonging and alienation. The home becomes a metaphor for thinking about the future of our societal advancement, economic drives and consumer-led lifestyles. Home is a way to speculate on fictions for prospective ways of alternative living and thus acts a framework for enabling and empowering communities both in real life and online.
The Home programme is as follows:
January - March
RE-FIGURE-GROUND group exhibition guest curated by Kelani Nichole of TRANSFER gallery, New York
Swamp Protocol group exhibition guest curated by Most Dismal Swamp
Felicity Hammond solo exhibition
AUDINT group exhibition
July - August
Tabita Rezaire solo exhibition
September - November
Ami Clarke solo exhibition
hotel generation final selected artist solo exhibition
February - December
AOS projects curated by arebyte, by artists and by guest curators


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