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There are really only two choices in life. You can run towards something, or you can run away from something. I guess you could just stand still and let the world revolve around you (or leave you in its dust), but I like to think we're always moving.
In the running world, athletes are always focused on their training efforts. Are they getting all the workouts they need to optimize their performance and be successful? As a coach and physiotherapist, I get asked these questions routinely. They're not so difficult to answer based on what the sport sciences have provided us over the past 30 or 40 years.
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I will be the first to admit that I am probably the last person to quote a singing cowboy by the name of Gene Autry. However, the eloquence of the song title is a fitting sentiment today. Here I am, long-lost readers, returning from what seems like an abyss of time, academia, and … life.
I promised myself that silence on these pages simply wasn't going to be an option again. However, when I uttered those words, I didn't have a road map for what was ahead of me. As I have written many times before, life brings us challenges and changes and opportunities. It also provides us with epiphanies and reflections which can be incredibly valuable if we pay heed to the lessons that can be learned. Two years on from my last post, I am back in the saddle again.
Hello again, oh patient and faithful reader. I'll be the first to admit that these pages have been silent for quite some time now. It's the longest break I've had here, and it certainly wasn't a planned absence. There's been a lot of writing going on, for sure, just not much that has made it's way here. Please accept my apologies for the silence.
There's been a pause - for many a cause. Let me tell you a little about the past year.
The physical therapy profession is at a crossroads in the United States.
Over the past couple of decades, I've watched our profession go into a disconcerting holding pattern. The struggles of 2016 are strangely reminiscent of those in 1996.
We are now faced with what appear to be some difficult questions at this juncture in the history of our profession, and one is very simple. Are we going to accept evolution, or is it time for revolution?
Life is all about balance. It revolves around the principle of homeostasis: the regulation of variables so that internal conditions remain stable.
Writing is but a subset of my world, but homeostasis certainly applies.
Some background is probably hugely valuable right now - otherwise you might think I have well and truly lost my mind in my extended absence from the pages of this blog.
Silence. It's one of the most beautiful things we experience in life. It's also one of the most painful.
It might be difficult to imagine how one word can run the gamut across what appears to be the continuum of our lives. It spans the great divide between pleasure and pain, between beauty and agony, between love and loss.
Silence can be succulent and sensational. It can also be painful and power-hungry.
It's time for all of us to break the silence on silence itself.
All it takes is a quick look in the rear view mirror of life to get as much hindsight and perspective as you can handle. I've found that what I see there is oftentimes crystal clear - in retrospect.
When I gaze back at the year 2014, I find myself looking at 365 days in which I was face-to-face with love and loss, frustration and friendship, challenge and consternation. It was the Year of the Dichotomy. I swear it's on the Chinese calendar.
With great adversity and challenge comes great awareness. That's my story, and I am sticking with it. In no particular order, here are a few things I learned along the way.
When Punxsutawney Phil - the legendary groundhog - leaves his burrow on February 2 every year, he looks for his shadow. If he sees his shadow,it predicts another 6 weeks of winter ahead. That's a pretty lousy thought when you live in a northern state.
If you are a patient, or a physical therapist perchance, in the state of Texas, there is a similar phenomenon that takes place every two years. It's the physical therapy version of Groundhog Day.
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Q: I have a question pertaining to talaaq. If someone issued two talaaqs and revoked it, but never issued the third one, what is the status of that person's nikaah.
A: If he issued two talaaq e raji and thereafter revoked it during the iddat period, the two talaaq will be revoked (though they will be counted) and the wife will remain in his nikaah.
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Lodge Coupar o' Fife No.19 hosted the latest day Lodge meeting on Friday 20th April 2018. A Fellow Craft Degree was worked by a team of Brethren from various Lodges around the province with Bro. David Thomson P.M. of Lodge St. John No.540 standing in as the substitute candidate. The meeting was well attended by Brethren from within and outwith the province.
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Dieting is important for our daily lives. Dieting requires us to think about what we eat and drink and how they will maximize our bodies to perform at their best each day under multiple conditions. The following advice will give you dieting tips to help your body perform at its maximum.
Aspire to eat between 600-900 milligrams of garlic daily. Garlic is a natural remedy that can help in the battle against heart disease and cancer. Garlic can also aid your organs with its natural anti-fungal and antibacterial properties. You can add garlic to certain meals you have each day.
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The most important meal of the day, breakfast gives you the energy and motivation needed to lose weight. Breakfast foods naturally contain the carbohydrates, vitamins, and healthy sugars that everyone needs to function effectively and lose weight. Without breakfast, many people will find themselves overeating later in the day. So, never skip breakfast; it will haunt you later that day.
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Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.
The march of Providence is so slow and our desires to impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our mean of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing ways, and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.
The friend of humanity cannot recognize a distinction between what is political and what is not. There is nothing that is not political.
Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.
The religion of humanity is love.
The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.
The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live [to] with a purpose.
Peace is the natural effect of trade. Two nations who traffic with each other become reciprocally dependent; for if one has an interest in buying, the other has an interest in selling; and thus their union is founded on their mutual necessities. But if the spirit of commerce unites nations, it does not in the same manner unite individuals. We see that in countries where the people move only by the spirit of commerce, they make a traffic of all the humane, all the moral virtues; the most trifling things, those which humanity would demand, are there done, or there given, only for money.
Just as education without humanity is the most dangerous thing in the world, so education in love, human understanding and cooperation is the greatest hope of the world.
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity; but they are not its roots.
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
Genetic mutation is not, it would seem, due to chance, but directed in some way, perhaps toward a spiritual regeneration of humanity - a bridge, as it were, between a lower, and a higher level of consciousness.
I am a human being; no part of humanity do I consider foreign to me.
Amid the ruins which surround me I shall dare to say that revolutions are not what I most fear for coming generations?... It is believed by some that modern society will be always changing its aspect; for myself, I fear that it will ultimately be too invariably fixed in the same institutions, the same prejudices, the same manners, so that mankind will be stopped and circumscribed; that the mind will swing backwards and forwards forever without begetting fresh ideas; that man will waste his strength in bootless and solitary trifling, and, though in continual motion, that humanity will cease to advance.
The power of the majority... is not unlimited. Above it in the moral world are humanity, justice, and reason; and in the political world, vested rights.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
The majority of those who flatter themselves on their knowledge of the human heart do not separate their boasted insight from their unfavorable feeling about humanity... Nothing indeed imparts a psychological air so much as an habitual attitude of depreciation.
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
There is no such thing as an average man. Each one of us is a unique individual. Each one of us expresses his humanity and his divinity in some distinctly different way. The beauty and the bloom of each human soul is a thing apart - a separate holy miracle under God, never once repeated throughout all the millenniums of time.


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The remote control area is packed with buttons for quickly accessing different media sources, enabling subtitles or cycling through audio streams and the directional controls and select buttons are just about big enough for use without having to constantly glance at the screen to make sure you're not hitting the wrong thing.
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Compatible with iPad iOS 3.2 or later.
Video library supported.
File browsing.
Forward and backward playtime by just dragging the slider.
Repeat option is provided.(If enabled plays the first video after completion of last video).
XBMC software installed on a system.
Wireless Router for Wi-Fi.
Ipad connected to Wi-Fi.
Initial settings:
Install Blaze XBMC software into a PC.
Change the IP address and port Number to the xbmc application.
Procedure to change IP address for XBMC software
• Click on XBMC Application->Network ->Internet access-> add Ip address and Port Number.
Note: change the Port number to 12000.
•Place the videos into specific folder to add in to XBMC software(D:Inetpub/wwwroot/Videos).Create the path as mentioned if does not exists.
• Add videos to XBMC application from the saved folder as follows.
Go to Videos->Add Videos->Browse location->D: Inetpub/wwwroot/Videos.
• Click Ok.
• Set audio output devices by using XBMC software from your XBMC software installed PC.
• Go to System>Network>Internet Access and enable property of using HTTP proxy server to access internet. Internet connection bandwidth limitation should be 101888kbps.
• Go to System>Network>services and add device name as "XBMC",port as 1200,user name as "xbmc".Also enable all properties in it which are disabled.
• XBMC and Ipad should be on the same network. (Do not use the IP addresses that were already used in the home network). No two devices should have same IP Address in the
For example, if the Wi-Fi Gateway IP Address is 192.168.1.1 and if we want to assign IP address 192.168.1.103 to Wi-Fi connectivity on IPad, then
Select the arrow mark given at right side of selected Wi-Fi connection. Here, we have to assign IP Address for the IPad. Select "Static" from the given tabs.
Assign IP Address as 192.168.1.103
Enter 255.255.255.0 at the given Textbox across Subnet mask.
Enter 192.168.1.1 at the textboxes across Default gateway and DNS.
Procedure to add audio device settings
• XBMC software-> System->Audio output->select the type of output device
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• Wi-Fi connectivity on Ipad must be ON
Note: The Videos added path should not be changed.
Procedure to connect ipad to wi-fi
• Settings-> wifi -> switch it to ON -> select the network in use.
Note: XBMC player and IPad should be on the same network.
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Do you still have zucchini left over from this past summer? Or maybe frozen from a year ago that you haven't used up yet? For some reason I'm not a lover of zucchini bread but I always shred and freeze extra zucchini that are given to me by friends and neighbors with good intentions of making something with it. I sometimes put it in soups or casseroles but most often I throw it away when I clean out the freezer. I haven't tried using it to make something sweet. Until now.
This is a chocolate zucchini cake that is velvety-chocolate, without being too rich, and moist, thanks to the zucchini. And it's nutritious because it has zucchini in it. What? It's not? Well, I can dream while I eat another piece.
The topping is refreshing and light and a welcome substitute for a chocolate butter frosting. The chocolate chips and nuts balance perfectly to give it flavor and texture and the brown sugar melts and hardens just enough to give it a bit more melt-in-your-mouth magic.
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/3 cup oil
- 1-3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs {or 3 medium}
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup mild {or buttermilk}
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups shredded zucchini
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- 1 cup chocolate chips {or less ~ I used 1/2 cup}
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar {light or dark}
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Lightly grease a 9x13-inch pan and set aside.
- In a large bowl with an electric mixer {handheld or stand mixer} cream together the butter, oil, and sugar. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix well.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
- Add 1/3 of the dry ingredients to the batter and mix.
- Add 1/2 of the milk and mix.
- Add another 1/3 of the flour mixture, mix, add the remaining milk and mix, and then add the last of the dry ingredients and mix.
- Stir in the shredded zucchini.
- Spread the batter in the prepared pan.
- Sprinkle with the almonds and chocolate chips. Sprinkle the brown sugar on top of everything.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean. {Don't over bake}
- Let cool completely before serving. This cake tastes best at room temperature.
If you're using frozen zucchini make sure to drain and squeeze the water out of it before adding it to the batter.
Recipe source: Mel's Kitchen Cafe
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When creating and editing automations it is good to keep a few things in mind.
Be mindful of the quantity of automated messages a patient receives. If there are too many automations for a practice or enterprise, a patient could end up receiving many text messages because their appointment info meets the logic of multiple automations. We suggest the less automations, the better. If you only need to send a handful of automated messages infrequently, we suggest utilizing broadcasting or campaigns instead.
Consider what the patient sees. It is best to keep your messages short, sweet, and to the point. If a message is too long, it can show up in multiple messages to a patient.
Ensure the delivery of the message. Sometimes text messages will fail due to the content of the text message appearing as spam to the phone carrier. The delivery of automations are most successful when they meet the following:
- Less than 160 characters.
- Includes at least 2 smart phrases, preferably 3. One of which should be unique to the patient, like {clientFirstName} or {eventDateAtTimeShort}
- Duplicates of the same message are not sent in one day.
- Include long links at the beginning or middle of the message; even though they will automatically be shortened if the link is at the end of the message it could be split to a second text message. Put the link in the beginning or middle of the message where possible.
- Note: If the message is broken into multiple messages, there is a risk that the portion of the text message with the hyperlink will be blocked by the phone carrier and then delivered via the fallback number. This will seem odd to a patient.
- Sending the appropriate messages securely.
Don't accidentally send messages too early. Be careful about marking 24 hour thank you messages (or another post-appointment text messages) to only send on business days.
- If you do this, automations sent for Friday appointments will be sent before the weekend occurs (which will end up being at or around the patient's appointment time on that Friday).
Verify resource names display appropriately. If you will be including a location name, practice name, or provider name in your automations (in other words, if you will use any Smart Phrases that pull these in dynamically), you need to ensure that:
- The Resource has a logical name in WELL. Do not rely on the default external location name that comes from your EMR.
- Ensure the friendly name is as short and abbreviated as possible. This is to ensure the message itself is as short as possible and helps avoid strange splits in the text message.
Below are examples of automations that meet our best practices guidelines.
|Message Body
|We scheduled your appointment.
{clientFirstName}, we've scheduled you an appointment at {lineName} on {eventDateAtTimeShort} at {eventLocationAddress}.
|DANNY, we've scheduled you an appointment at GetWELL - Santa Barbara on 04/13/2019 12:05pm at 12 E CARRILLO, SANTA BARBARA, CA.
|7D Before
Appointment Time
|Are you coming to your appointment?
Hello {clientFirstName}, your visit is at {eventDateAtTimeShort}. Does this time still work? {eventConfirmText} or text with Qs.
Hello DANNY, your visit is at 04/13/2019 12:05pm. Does this time still work? Reply Y to confirm, N to cancel or text with Qs.
|2D Before
Appointment Time
Appt Unconfirmed
Hey are your coming your appointment? We really want to know.
|{clientFirstName}, will you please confirm your appt on {eventDateAtTimeShort} with {eventProviderName}? {eventConfirmText}.
|DANNY, will you please confirm your appt on 04/13/2019 12:05pm with DR. JOSEPH TISCHLER? Reply Y to confirm, N to cancel.
|2D Before
Appointment Time
Appt Confirmed
|You've told us you're coming. Arrive Early. Map Link
{clientFirstName}, {eventProviderName} is looking forward to seeing you on {eventDateAtTimeShort} at {eventLocationAddress}. Please arrive 15 min early.
|DANNY, DR. JOSEPH TISCHLER is looking forward to seeing you on 04/13/2019 12:05pm at 12 E CARRILLO, SANTA BARBARA, CA. Please arrive 15 min early.
|1HR Before
Appointment Time Appt Confirmed
|We'll see you soon! Here's a map link (helpful to ensure people show up on time)
{lineName}: {clientFirstName}, see you soon! We're located at {eventLocationAddress}. Text or call with any questions.
|GetWELL - Santa Barbara: DANNY, see you soon! We're located at 12 E CARRILLO, SANTA BARBARA, CA. Text or call with any questions.
Appt Status Change
Appt Confirmed
|Thanks for confirming, encourage texting if changes.
Thanks, {clientFirstName}, we're all set! Tap for details: {eventConfirmLinkOn} and please text us with any Qs!
|Thanks, DANNY, we're all set! Tap for details: https://healthc.co/WELL-5 and please text us with any Qs!
|Thank you
We're glad you came and have scheduled your next visit
|See you next year, {clientFirstName}! We look forward to seeing you for your next annual visit on {eventDate}.
|See you next year, DANNY! We look forward to seeing you for your next annual visit on {eventDate}.


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Golf Course Road just got another brewery because one can never have enough watering hole options. This one is rather stately with hardwood interiors, a bright, shiny bar and booths to seat plenty of beer lovers.
Fantom, Gurgaon's New Brewery, Doubles Up As A Bar Exchange!
- Price for two: ₹ 1800
- Nearest Metro Station: Sector 53-54
But Not Just Beer
Perch yourself on one of the bar stools and get ready to binge. Feel free to start with beer; since it's a bar exchange, the prices fluctuate while you drink. Apart from mugs, pints and pitches of their house-brewed beer, they also have the staples like Hoegaarden and Stella.
This principle of bar exchange applies to spirits as well, so you could score a couple of shots of Chivas or a bottle of Merlot for a steal. Expect the usual suspects when it comes to cocktails but if you are going to mix beer and vodka, we recommend the wheat beer to start and finish with!
Pub Grub Anyone?
The food menu here is exhaustive, whether you're a beer and wings person or a beer and biryani one. For starters, you can choose from Indian, European and Mediterranean, of which we remember the Chicken Shashlik for being as tender as tender gets.
The Mutton Galouti and BBQ Pork Ribs came in a close second, though. The Fried Cheese Wontons, from the Munchies section of their menu, paired nicely with beer—but remember to save space for mains.
For your main course, we suggest getting a a pizza or a slider platter if you're full from all those appetisers. If not, try the Mutton Rogan Josh platter, Sliced Pork Belly or the Veg Dum Biryani which tastes as good as it smells.
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Eat, drink and make merry at Fantom – they also have a live DJ who does a pretty good job of spinning retro tunes over the weekend!
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- Nearest Metro Station: Sector 53-54


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We don't need to dress up the Word of God with all these different version of the bible, with all of our worldly saying that we deem is so deep, with our quotes of flesh, with ungodly pictures that we shouldn't be displaying or with inappropriate videos to try and prove our point, etc.
The Word of God (He) is the same yesterday, today and forever more.
Now this is just enough fluff to makes him/her beautiful.
So, don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with meeting people where they are, they may be babes that need milk. Some babe may need you to dress them until they can dress themselves. The preacher preaches and adds life points to get the message across, etc. Just enough fluff to make things beautiful.
But sometimes it's TOO MUCH FLUFF. We feel like we have to use the worldly videos, images, cursing, worldly saying to reach people, when we don't. Too much fluff changes the Word of God to man's word. We make the decision as far as how much we need to add to make a point.
The Word of God did not, does not and will not need us to over fluff.
The Word of God did, does and always will stand on its own without fluffing it up to sooth the flesh.
The Word of God, HE is
QUICK (to enjoy life, breathe, to live, to be in full vigour, active, blessed, endless in the kingdom of God)
POWERFUL (active, effectual)
PIERCING (penetrate, to go through)
DIVIDING ASUNDER (partition, a division, a separation)
DISCERNER (relating to judging, fit for judging, skilled in judging)
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Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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[ syll. jas-pyr, ja-sp-yr ] The baby boy name Jaspyr is pronounced as JHAESPiyR †. Jaspyr's origin is Sanskrit and Old Persian.
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The Bush Tax Cut and National Saving
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Date Written: June 2002
Following through on pledges made during his election campaign, President Bush proposed and Congress passed a substantial tax cut in 2001, the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (EGTRRA). Much has been written about the size of the tax cut, its impact on the federal budget, its distributional consequences, and its short-run macroeconomic impact. There has been less focus on EGTRRA's incentive effects; one of the most important potential behavioral effects is on saving. To analyze the behavioral effects of the Bush tax cut on saving and other macroeconomic variables, I use the Auerbach-Kotlikoff (1987) model in conjunction with the NBER's TAXSIM model. An interesting by-product of this analysis is the 'dynamic scorin g' of the tax cut - the estimated feedback effects of behavior on revenue. By comparing the revenue losses generated by the model with those that would occur without any behavioral response, one can estimate how much of the static revenue loss would be recouped by expanded economic activity. The simulations suggest that dynamic scoring has a significant impact on estimated revenue losses, but that the tax cut's impact on national saving is still negative in the long run.
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It wasn't exactly love between Gabriel and me, at first -- nor was there love at last, or at all, in the end of our relationship.
It was mutual attraction. Sex was merrily addictive. We should just have become stable sex buddies. But instead, personal circumstances and the historical moment brought us closer together than we ever planned to be.
"I cannot wait until you come back to Vice City!" Gabriel had been completely sincere and showed his disappointment when I said it might take me two months, or more, to return for another workshop at the Museum.
"And how long can you wait?" Normally, I wouldn't have cared. Not even tried to commit myself to him. But reconnecting with Carlo, learning about Joanna's death, finding out that I had an uncle -- all that had cracked my heart open and made me softer, and for the first time in a long row of one night stands I felt the willingness to be in a relationship. It felt like a weakness and a setback, especially in Vice City where the worst part of my love affair with Angelo had unfolded -- but it was also the dawn of my healing process. It could have been with anyone minimally willing to commit -- and it was with Gabriel, who had witnessed my reunion with father. I was grateful that he had wanted to take the extra job to open the restaurant just for us -- though he must have been thinking just on the money. Or perhaps because he knew who I was, and wanted to meet me.
From the start, Gabriel had opened our relationship -- which was based not just on mutual attraction, but on mutual interests as well.
I hadn't been painting since a few months before the exhibition at Vi/CAM -Vice's Contemporary Art Museum. I was aware the cycle of portraits of ex-lovers was over -- though I wasn't aware that the abundant cycle of ex-lovers was over as well --, and I'd have to find a new theme for a new series.
But what could be as dashing, yet not repetitive? Watching Gabriel growing his hair and a beard, constantly modulating his voice and trying to impersonate different characters he auditioned for -- I was his only spectator in private -- led me to think he might make a good theme. At least, the only one I could think of, at the moment.
I should have learned from Cindy Sherman, whom I had met once in a reception at New York's MoMA, to stick only to my own figure as a motif, and not depend from anyone else to paint. Gabriel, of course, had loved the proposal to be my model and the sole theme of a new series of paintings -- he was always searching for whatever personal promotion he could get to boost his career, and he seemed to strongly believe in my talent both as painter and promoter.
But that 'Gabrielian' series never came to be, though it ignited a common euphoria that perpassed all our conversations, outings and even our love making.
During the first weeks together, I took hundreds of pictures of him -- had I been a photographer, my work was done already. But those pictures were only the basis for my new series, that I kept telling myself I'd start painting as soon as I got back to Samsara Heights and my atelier... Still, it was hard to leave his side -- especially in bed -- and our conceited routine of restaurants, bars, clubs and gym. We were maniacs dedicated to being obsessively charming, and there was hardly a more narcissistic couple at the time in Vice City. Mirroring each other's vanity, we both gleamed, tanning under the sun of hedonism.
But we were at the brink of the free fall of the Empire.
Totally oblivious to the rest of the world from within the self-absorbing bubble of our newborn love, we did not foresee the disaster, the financial tsunami that was heading our -- and almost everyone else's in the country -- direction, though the signs were constantly arriving at our shores.
Often, Gabriel would come to my hotel room saying the clientele at the Nirvana Lounge was acting strange. People were hysterically getting drunk, ordering the finest, most expensive plates, and giving away greater tips, as if burning money -- but often as a form of farewell, since many of the usual customers were not returning to the restaurant. He saw them, day after day, leaving the building in a row, their stuff packed in a box, as they lost their jobs.
One evening, when Gabriel was free but still trying to get over a hangover from the previous night, and we were considering once not going out -- otherwise, we were going to restaurants and clubs every single night, often on invitations I received for my escalating popularity with 'The Dark Room' exhibition, or through Gabriel's many acquaintances --, he received a phone call.
I knew it was something grave from the look of terror in which his face froze, as he listened while babbling a series of yeahs in different intonations -- "Yeah.", "Yeah...", "Yeah?", "Yeah!" Until that evening, observing Gabriel, I had never guessed 'yeah' could be such an expressive word. In his third 'yeah', he had started shivering and breathing heavily -- and that once, he was not impersonating, nor pretending, nor just trying to impress me.
When he put the mobile down by his side, he remained sitting on the balcony, immobile. He would often freeze in a posture he thought was particularly good, and ask to be photographed, or simply let himself be admired. But that was not the case. Gabriel was absent, his golden eyes vague, his whole golden figure shining less than it normally would, even if the apartment was in the dark. Gabriel's figure naturally captured whatever source of light there was, no matter how far, like the moon, or how dim, like a lighter, and his beauty would shine brighter than everything around. Not that evening, though -- it was as if someone had turned him off. I called him but he wasn't listening to me, and I had to leave the bed, where I had been waiting, ready and expectant, that he would ride me.
"It was Tim, from the Lounge." He startled, when I touched his thigh, seeming genuinely surprised that I was before him, as if I had materialized out of thin air. "A guy has shot himself in the toilet." He silenced, and I had to hug him tight, until he stopped trembling. Gabriel went on, summarizing the news. "When the other costumers heard the shot, they were afraid a mad shooter might be entering the restaurant. Hell broke loose, with people trying to escape towards the elevators. It was a bloody mess. Bloody, really. A woman fell from her high heels and was trampled over smashed cocktail glasses." He tried a sad smile, that came out as a scowl. "The restaurant will be closed for a while."
After he calmed down, having rejected the tea I offered him and taken a couple of beers, we went on the internet to read more news. Gabriel knew the guy who had shot himself -- apparently, one of his best customers, an impeccably well dressed, handsome Asian guy who was chief risk management officer to one of the banks occupying the building. The guy was always laughing at Gabriel's jokes and giving generous tips, smilingly -- he also displayed a very confident smile at the pictures that had remained of him on the internet. He was the first demi-god to fall -- the Angel of the Annunciation of the End of Times. It was September, 2008.
"I might have saved him... if I was there?" Gabriel was sincerely touched with that guy's death, and I seemed unable to comfort him. He never refused sex, never was too tired for it -- but that evening, he did. And he did not want to go out, nor watch a movie nor do anything that would normally have cheered him. He just wanted to lie in bed, cuddling, and I was happy to oblige.
The Nirvana Lounge was to never open its doors again. It had been the haven of financial market professionals -- and as the global crisis exploded, the lounge became doomed, being washed away from the glamour circuit by a tsunami of Pure Love, Angel's Wings and other fancy cocktails, drowning in its own sea of the most expensive champagne.
The day Gabriel learned he had lost his job, just to be sure before I offered to back him up for a while, I decided to check my bank account. Coming from every direction and different sources, the news were alarming, and even though I tried to play it cool, I was frightened too. But even by trying to keep my eyes closed I was no longer avoiding seeing the scenery of desolation and devastation around us.
And I discovered I had lost 30% of the money I had in my bank account, since the last time I had checked it.
The following few days I was to lose more, and it was announced that my bank faced bankruptcy. Yet, my situation wasn't as bad as Gabriel's -- he had never saved any money, spending all his wage and tips to pay the rent of his tiny flat and in clothes and going out. Without a job, he did not have how to pay that month's rent already -- and since I was made afraid by the ever decreasing numbers from my bank account, I decided to leave the hotel, that was no longer being paid by the Museum -- I had come to stay in Vice City for ten days, but because of Gabriel I had stayed almost a month now --, and move in with Gabriel.
His apartment was tinier than the hotel room. At least green was predominant, and being my best loved color, I had many green clothes with me, making me feel a bit at home, like just a chameleon would. It was so small that the bathroom was doorless, which was very embarrassing -- but also nearly a tradition in my family, from what Carlo had told me about the Île du Blanchomme. It consisted of a single room, with the kitchen in one corner, near the entrance door, a small table for two with stools instead of chairs, and a twin bed, that could also be arranged as a lounge area. A mirror covered the wall behind the bed, turning sex into a private show in which we indulged observing ourselves, fueling our narcissistic nature.
The owner had decorated the apartment as if it were a garden -- the wallpaper reproduced hedge, birds and butterflies hanged from the ceiling, swaying among colorful paper lanterns in the form of stars that, when lit, were supposed to bring in the sky. The decor ranged from a life-size plastic pink flamingo in the shower to plaster gnomes grudgingly staring from the corners. Gabriel had at least hidden the plastic flower curtains and put white blinds instead, turned off the neon rainbow, and bought a white duvet to cover the otherwise flowery pattern that matched the carpet. It was funny, if one were humorous, and definitely ugly and kitsch, no matter what mood I was in.
The worst problem was Gabriel's mattress, which was too soft for me. Every morning, I would wake up with my back aching. Not only the pain was horrible, but it also made me feel terribly old. So much that in the middle of the nights I would slip out of bed to sleep on the floor. And because Gabriel enjoyed cuddling during sleep, without even asking me why I had decided to sleep so uncomfortably, he simply started joining me on the floor.
Cuddling to sleep on that cheap carpet is among the loveliest memories I have, from the couple of years we spent together. To Gabriel, it felt somewhat dramatic and he enjoyed pretending that we lived like two homeless men, as around us the world continuously collapsed and shrank in an economic crisis unprecedented in our lives. That reminded me of the many difficulties my father had faced all on his own, in the old abandoned factory in Paris, on the cargo ship to Punaouilo, the night he had slept out at that unknown port in the Indian Ocean, feeling lonely, cold and afraid of the rats, and how he had slept in his car on his escape to England... Sleeping on the floor somehow connected me to Carlo, though I wasn't actually sleeping rough, and I had my gorgeous boyfriend nestled in my embrace.
Since Gabriel was completely broke, I started paying everything for the two of us. It was gloomy when I had to cut eating out and our nightly clubbing. Though I still had money in my bank account, I had discovered it was not actual money, but just a number. A number that had been ever and steadily increasing over the years, was suddenly and quite dramatically plunging. I did some calculations -- and I was bad at Mathematics -- and realized that it was as if I had never sold any paintings during my entire career -- that money I had thus earned, had simply evaporated. And now, it seemed, Celeste's money was being taken away from me, too, and that left me angry, perplexed and fearful. Hadn't my grandmother's money been legally handed over to me? Hadn't I paid all the heavy taxes? How could I no longer own that money, how could someone else take it away from me? But then... who was this 'someone else', actually?
And it got worse, when Gabriel's brother lost his job in a construction site and went to live in a tent in Florida. Gabriel asked me to lend money to his brother, and of course I couldn't refuse it, though I might never see that sum again. And it got worse -- not only were my boyfriend and his brother broke -- apparently, my bank was broke too, and that's the first time I heard terms in English like bailout, foreclosure, derivatives.
And the worse it got -- the building where The Nirvana Lounge used to be had many of its floors empty now --, the closer Gabriel and I became, our budding love the only antidote possible to the ruins that surrounded us. Our bonds seemed to tighten and strengthen as everything else around us declined and decreased.
And it got even worse, when my marchand said he was closing shop, too. It was then that I realized I had myself been part of that so called 'housing bubble' -- people needed to decorate their recently acquired houses, and among these people, some wanted to decorate their houses with art instaed of junk, and for the coolest among those, I was an emerging artist considered to be an excelent investment, rated triple A by the art market and endoserd by some major museums and cultural centers. But just like everything else, it seemed I had been under speculation as well, and when these incipient art investors weren't able to to pay their mortgages -- or my marchand --, my paintings were plainly abandoned to dust on the walls of their judicially foreclosed houses. Heinrich, Patrick, Craig, Jhun -- my ex-lovers had become specters in emptied houses all over the country, and I wondered if I would ever see them again -- or the money I had not received for some of them --, if they would go to auction or be incorporated into the collection of some bank that would take back the fully furnished houses. It was not a good moment for art, and consequently, not for my career, and ultimately not for me. My rapid ascension had been brief, it seemed.
And the worse it got, the more Gabriel and I tried to cling onto each other and to our fragile love, as we try to build it in opposition to the mass destruction of the American dream -- and the fall of our own personal projects, of becoming a renowned painter in a world that collapsed into stagnation and scarcity, or a famous actor in theaters that were silently and melancholically being closed.
But I realized that, no matter how things went from bad to worse economically for people all around me -- my friend Darren had also lost his job and position as a prestigious chef in one of the best restaurants in Samsara Heights and was currently occupying my house --, all around the world, they weren't so bad for me personally. I still had in my bank account (actually, it still 'luckily' enough belonged to a bank, that had been bailed out) a figure that could carry me on through many years. And thanking both Celeste and Catherine, I let go of my worries about the immediate future -- and to be honest, I couldn't quite keep out of my mind I was the latest De Montbelle heir, too, and I fantasized about owning the famed Château one day.
On the other hand, as I have already shared, because Vice's Museum had lost many of its sponsors and the exhibition's schedule was suddenly put on hold, Dan asked me to extend my exhibition indefinitely, and my series of workshops, that were fun and brought people to the museum, especially the young crowd, were to be prolonged too.
And I had a new, stunningly handsome and utterly sexy boyfriend.
Gabriel was luminous. Even his dark side had a tinge of irresponsible rapture that made him shine like a star. I confess I was insecure by his side, and I paid his rent and gave him money just because I feared he might become a rent boy once he run short of money -- just like Angelo had. Gabriel loved wearing new fancy clothes that adorned his gorgeous body, carefully sculpted at the best gym in town. His beautiful hair demanded a lot of care too, and his golden skin was not tanned at the polluted city beaches nor any public swimming pools, but with dosed weekly tanning sessions at a luxury spa -- that would soon close its doors, too. Since my needs where comparatively meager, I tried to spoil Gabriel by maintaining some of his privileges. He seemed grateful and I indulged in being generous -- evading the shadowy overall mood of those days was all that mattered to us.
But when I was about to return to Samsara Heights, I realized there was nothing I could actually do about him becoming a call boy, if he really and stealthily wanted to, no way to possibly control him -- and I finally let go of that when I saw how awfully judgmental and unfair I was being, with Gabriel and rent boys in general. The reason being in the past -- namely, my ex-boyfriend Angelo.
One of the greatest insights I had about myself, and on love and relationships, was at the very beginning with Gabriel.
We couldn't have been any more different. We both enjoyed going to the movies -- but while he thought the European and Asian movies I loved were boring and too complex, I had no interest in whatever Hollywood movies and stars he seemed to adore, and especially the blockbusters. And while Gabriel did not enjoy books, I was an avid reader -- though he did take interest and started reading Catherine's books. But I wasn't really fond of my mother's literature.
"You don't love me, do you, Laurent?" Gabriel wasn't sad when he said that. "You don't appreciate my company, do you? No, you don't have to answer. You think I'm foolish and superficial..." Gabriel shrugged and dismissed those feelings with the extravagant flourish he had rehearsed for the musketeer role. "Maybe I am vain and futile. Well, I guess that's exactly how I am! And I don't care! Shall we dance?" And when he spun on his heels, his blond hair spinning with him, grown so long that he could braid it, I realized what I thought might have been sincere was just another impersonation.
I tried to deny, even to myself, that I didn't and couldn't truly fall for the dream hunk -- but unfortunately, it was true. I enjoyed Gabriel's company a lot, but I did not love him.
I loved his cheerfulness, and since he was allergic to dreary dispositions, to prolonged silence and inactivity -- specially mine, it seemed, and I never sat to meditate in his company, for it seemed to make him either more agitated or depressed --, he was always looking for the positive and bright side of things.
The global economy was crumbling. My own personal world was disintegrating, the more I reflected about all the things my father had shared with me. But with Gabriel, life was still a party -- entertainingly funny, contagiously exciting. Not much more than that, though. Sharing life with him was like experiencing a constant detonation of fireworks -- but once the noisy spectacle was over, there was only the maze of intoxicating smoke and darkness left.
I finally arrived at the understanding that I did not love him simply because I did not love myself.
I was still looking for approval and recognition in my partner -- and that's why I needed Gabriel to be equally cultured and intellectually well prepared, so that he could be a proper judge of my own skills and qualities. But because he was not into literature, and the cinema he enjoyed was crap and his culture was that of gossip magazines -- 'Of course I know Picasso and Monet!' was as far as he would go in art, and I shivered at his horrible pronunciation of those names as in 'Pikes + Ass + Soul' and 'Moon + net' -- did not enable Gabriel to fully appreciate and approve of me, I thought.
Prince Charming was then, for me, the mirror. It would take someone who could read me in all the several languages I was written in, to recognize my sophistication and highly elaborated culture and refined tastes -- and that's how I realized that, considering Gabriel not good enough for me, happened just because I was too insecure about myself, and I couldn't truly appreciate his qualities either.
I couldn't really love another person until I developed love for myself. Until then, I would need my partner to serve as my best judge, as an expert and a virtuoso in Laurent's intricacies.
When I finally realized how unjust that was with Gabriel -- or anyone else --, it was a bit too late to save our relationship. I made him suffer by silently humiliating him and despising his many qualities, other than the culture or intelect I valued.
If he never managed to mirror me, I was actually unable to even see him beyond the firm bubble butt.
Gabriel never cheated on me, I think -- for he screwed around with other guys openly. I don't know when he started dating the theater producer, and for how long he carried on both affairs in parallel. But I know that, once he tried to mingle us in a ménage à trois, and I asked him to choose between me and the producer, when he dumped me, I was about ready to end our two years relationship, thinking it had extended long enough. Longer than we ever thought it would have lasted.
It still hurt, but much less than the end of my love affair with Angelo.
But that was later.
At the beginning, it was the opposite -- Gabriel feared I was going to leave him.
"Are you going to Russia to be with your mother?" I hadn't told him what my issues with Catherine were, nor anything about the conversation with my father -- though I was immensely grateful to Gabriel for having silently supported and participated in that reunion with his graceful presence. Still, he sensed something crucial was going on between me and my mother.
"Why don't you call her again?" Gabriel was truly fascinated by Catherine's fame, I guess, and he was often impersonating any one among her male characters -- and even, sometimes, her female characters, that were much stronger and more fascinating than the men. And he wanted me to shed light on them, as if by being the author's son I had privileged information.
Gabriel was letting his beautiful hair grow not because of any movie part -- but because he wanted to sell it. He did look more feminine at the time, but his body and manners were too masculine for him to succeed in being feminine. But every book of Catherine's he finished, he seemed to be intoxicated with her heroines for days. "Ask her if she thinks Valentina from such and such book or Amanda from... " And even though I did call my mother after all, I never asked his questions about her characters.


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The hall was decked with white lights and lush evergreens, but true to form, it was the music that truly set the enchanting tone for the University of Southern Maine School of Music's annual Scholarship Gala.
"Music has been important to Portland for a long time," said guest Donald Tuski, president of Maine College of Art, who with his wife, Louise, attended the Dec. 5 event at the Abromson Community Education Center on the Portland campus. "All artists – musicians, actors, poets, writers and designers – make communities better."
The Tuskis were joined by one of Portland's greatest supporters of music and education, Dan Crewe of Cumberland.
With carolers strolling throughout the lobbies between sets by the Holiday Jazz Combo and the USM Wind Ensemble, guests at "More Than a Little Night Music" were treated to a lovely evening of talent and tasty cuisine with gourmet food and wine pairings, not to mention an oft-visited espresso and cappuccino bar.
"We are raising money for scholarships for students," explained Alan Kaschub, interim director of the USM School of Music, who attended with his wife, Michele, who is USM's coordinator of music teacher education. "It's tremendously important. These students are in class most of the day and studying all night. These scholarships allow us to bring talented students here and allow them to focus on their studies."
With over 200 guests in attendance, the show of support for the culturally enriching program was abundant.
"We are very pleased with the turnout," said Eileen Oberholtzer, music development officer at the USM School of Music. "The kids are very involved in this. We've had about 90 students both performing throughout the evening and preparing for this event."
Fen and Marshall Green of Portland chatted with Robert Russell, professor of choral music, and Manuel Avalos, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Peter Plumb of Portland mingled with Larry and Robin Rubinstein of Scarborough, while Pamela Plumb enjoyed a moment with Carolyn Murray of Falmouth.
"The USM School of Music has a longstanding relationship with the community," said Daniel Sonenberg, associate professor of music and resident composer. "We are here supporting the students."
Robert Lehmann, professor of music and director of string studies and orchestral activities, agreed.
"What we do is fueled by so much passion," he said, clearly proud of his students' determination and drive. "We have one of the highest credit counts of any degree. We're looked at as liberal arts, but really, there is much we have to do to ensure students are well prepared for the professional demands of the music world."
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Nice column by Michelangelo Signorile in the New York Press. Signorile picks up on an element of the John Walker story that briefly saw the light of day in a back-and-forth between columnists in the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner but (as far as I've seen at least) hasn't gotten much other play.
Walker's parents' divorce was closely tied (chronologically at least) with his conversion to Islam. And apparently the divorce itself was triggered by his father's coming out as a homosexual or bisexual man.
The conventional take on Walker has been the 'only in Marin' line.
Yes there are a couple permutations. There's the really shabby, slumming version of the story: lax values, permissive parenting, mom's a Buddhist … of course, he joined the Taliban.
Sophisticates have a more nuanced rendition … same cake, really, just with a Straussian frosting. The center will not hold, relativism breeds ennui breeds fanaticism. You know the story.
In any case, this seems like a window into Walker's soul that cuts a good deal more deeply than the cookie-cutter versions getting the play on Op-Ed pages. And as to why it's garnered so little notice? I suspect that's because for both parties to the controversy this is just an angle that's a little too dicey, too uncomfortable to handle.


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Welcome to the personal website and blog of Chris Gehrz, professor of history at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota and author of The Pietist Option: Hope for the Renewal of Christianity (now available from InterVarsity Press).
I blog here about three times a week, plus a Saturday links post. I write about Christianity, history, and education, as well as their intersections (e.g., Christian colleges, methods in teaching history). I tend to approach things historically, but occasionally comment on current events — with crises in higher ed and evangelical views on sexuality being particularly popular the last couple years.
I also write beyond this blog, record podcasts, and speak at churches and colleges. To learn more, you can follow me on Facebook or Twitter, or e-mail me.
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kvdo replied to sergio's topic in HDK : Houdini Development KitBrilliant, thank you! Does this somehow support packed primitives?
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kvdo posted a topic in EffectsHi guys. Is there anyone here who is rendering crowds from H in Arnold? Arnold doesn't support packed primitives, so: I'm trying to figure out how to leverage instancing at Rendertime in Arnold so that rendering really big datasets(hair, cloth included) is possible. Are there any smart ways/workflows to go about this?
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kvdo replied to kvdo's topic in Lighting & RenderingThanks anim, thought about this as well, but got nervous thinking of converting a 1000x1000 unit ocean grid to sdf. looks like you can make it pretty lowres and it still works. don't even have to volume extrude the grid as I initially thought. I suppose there's no way to reference the file in shops without caching it? I see the op: syntax doesn't work. probably for reasons around the way ifd's work?
SHOP based intersection gradient
kvdo posted a topic in Lighting & RenderingHi guys. I'm working on a wetmap for where procedural ocean meets sand on an island. basically, I don't want to have to subdivide the island geometry and do a point based color transfer to create a gradient. I would like to achieve this effect in SHOPS, independent of how lowres the render geometry may be. I thought of using an occlusion node. but I would only get the proper 0-1 gradient I want at angles <= 90deg pc open is dependent on point count as well, so I've ruled that out. Surely there's a smart way to analyse the intersection points of the objects primitives?
Ah, yes. That would be the issue. Pleasure Nicolae!
Thanks Skybar. I realise now I was going wrong in calling the gradient volume 'N'. That seems to not work for whatever reason. Also later realised that I needed to transform the gradient into the correct space. Here's the hipnc for anyone else's future reference. reflective volume_v02.hipnc
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kvdo posted a topic in ShadersI came across this video a little while back, and the poster doesn't seem to have much transparency about his method. does anyone have any ideas on how one can get specular/reflections onto a volume in the shader?
Awesome insight eetu, thank you!
Ah! It seems so obvious now. Here is the scene at two different scales, cameras not scaled. The third image is the 10*scale scene with the light intensity bumped up to 100. You can see the sss density is affected as expected, but no change to physical light attenuation. Am I still missing something?
Light attenuation and scene scale
kvdo posted a topic in Lighting & RenderingHi guys, I've run into a phenomenon in houdini which I don't know whether to be concerned about, or glad because it makes things more homogeneous. Basically I've been testing light attenuation in mantra as well as sss settings to determine whether they change based on the global scale of the scene. I would have expected that if I scale my scene up by 10, my area light attenuation would fall off a lot quicker, based on quadratic falloff laws. I expected to see some difference in the appearance of sss as well. Strangely though, adjusting scene scale has no effect on either of these things. I've attached 2 images. one is the scene with a scale of 1, and in the other, everything is scaled up to 10. There is zero visual difference in the two images. Am I right in thinking this is physically implausible?


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Are you thinking of having a new stained glass window in your home? Atelier Mestdagh can help! The workshop gladly executes stained glass following designs by the in-house designer, by an external designer or by an architect.
Creating and executing new stained glass is equally important to the conservation and restoration part of the workshop. Atelier Mestdagh is a stained glass centre where Ingrid Meyvaert is working as the in-house designer, and where Katrien Mestdagh and Laura ten Zeldam are creating new projects for their brainchild Lumi & co. Architects and guest designers are also welcome to have their glass designs executed at the studio.
For years Ingrid Meyvaert has been creating new, contemporary stained glass designs that demonstrate how alive the craft of stained glass can really be. Atelier Mestdagh is keen to break out of the cliché that stained glass is old fashioned, and that it does not belong anywhere else but in a church. The craft itself has not changed to a great extent over the course of history. Mouth-blown glass is still the essence of a stained glass window, however in the design the artist tries to be innovative and contemporary.
In designing or executing a new stained glass window, Atelier Mestdagh strives to have the perfect mix between craftsmanship and artistic talent.
If you are looking for a reliable partner to make, design or install a new stained glass window, Atelier Mestdagh is the perfect choice. The glass studio is an established, reputable source for stained glass expertise in Belgium and abroad.
The craft of stained glass has a future, as long as contemporary artists use stained glass as an art medium.
Ingrid Meyvaert studied plastic arts at St Luke's Institute in Ghent. In 1978 she married Luc Mestdagh from the famous glass studio Mestdagh. Their marriage was the start of a perfect fusion between artistic talent and traditional craftsmanship.
Ingrid taught plastic arts at St Luke's secondary school until 1994. Afterwards her artistic career blossomed, something that continues to this day. She familiarised herself with designing religious-figurative, as well as decorative and lyric-abstract stained glass.
Ingrid Meyvaert is a known glass artist. Ingrid's work can be found in churches, public buildings, corporate headquarters and private houses. Although she creates windows as autonomous works of art, she believes that stained glass windows work best as an integral part of an architectural setting. In her glass creations she tries to combine modernity with respect for the rich traditional craft.
Her creations demonstrate an exceptional feeling for colours and lines, which melt together in a unique harmony of stained glass and lead. In her figurative work she combines lyricism and spirituality with monumentality. In her abstract windows the natural beauty of mouth-blown glass is emphasised.
Although Ingrid is commissioned by her clients to create new work, she has also created some beautiful autonomous works. 'The Cross' is the best example; a beautiful piece of art that was designed for her successful exhibition in the St. Nicholas Church (2006). The stations of the Cross have been showcased in several locations, however we are still looking for a permanent location for the artwork.
Atelier Mestdagh is open to external designers/artists or architects from both home and abroad. In the design stage, the studio supports the designers technically and artistically. The Mestdagh team thinks, researches and experiments together with architects and artists to work out ideas and designs to achieve the desired result. The glass windows are finally executed by the Mestdagh team, but in close collaboration with the designer.
As long as contemporary artists continue to choose stained glass as an art medium, the craft has a future.
Below we give a short introduction to the architects and artists that we have had the pleasure of working with.
Atelier Mestdagh has been working together with the conceptual artist Wim Delvoye, one of Europe's most acclaimed contemporary artists. The first project in coordination with Delvoye was the production of three soccer goals made from stained glass. Since 2000 the studio executed chapel windows for Delvoye, which were not made of traditional painted glass, but which largely consisted of collaged pieces of glass with an X-ray film sandwiched between them. In MUDAM, Luxembourg, we made twelve new windows with X-ray films.
In the meantime we have slightly altered our technique, and are now working with a screen printing process using our own glass paint. In 2012 we developed a large window containing Christ figures for Delvoye's solo exhibition in the Louvre, Paris.
Katrien Mestdagh and Laura ten Zeldam share a passion for the craft of stained glass and both have the urge to adapt these traditional techniques to the needs of contemporary designs. They are currently working on two projects:
The Lumi is a wondrous, artistic lamp made for babies, children, adolescents and adults…everyone who wants to be amazed by beauty and their imagination! The Lumi is a lightbox which is made from a coloured plate of glass and a silk-screened drawing. The movement of the LED-lights makes sure that the drawing tells a story. Every different algorithm creates different stories or frames, so that everyone can lose themselves in their imagination. It's art for children! The idea of the Lumi was created for a contest Be Creative in November 2014. The creative duo became one of the ten laureates and consequently presented their project film on the World Expo in Milan (2015). Since then the first prototypes have been produced and the duo are looking for funds to produce their first series of lamps.
Stained Stories is an art project, where new stained glass will be designed and executed to redecorate an old call box or pay booth of 1958, the year of the World Expo. Laura and Katrien were assigned to this project by Belgacom/Proximus in order to make the idea a reality. However this is still the beginning.
Geert De Groote is an architect who designed a chapel made completely of stained glass, which was then executed by Katrien Mestdagh. The structure is made from steel discs, in which the stained glass is placed. The entire structure is therefore easy to disassemble and replace. The chapel is designed to be placed in a public space and to be accessible to everyone. People are encouraged to organise a wedding ceremony or baptism inside the chapel or to simply reflect within it.
The chapel has moved around to various different settings and exhibitions, but we are still looking for a permanent location for the structure.
In 2006-2007 the Mestdagh studio collaborated with Philippe Depotter of the architectural firm Bressers. Together they created five stained glass windows in the northern side aisle of the St. Nicholas church in Ghent. Already at the design stage, the studio offered technical support without interfering artistically. The studio developed various potential methods of realisation, one of which was selected by an authorised commission. By July 2007, the fifth window was ready.
Architects or clients may request designs to be made or adapted to a particular style. In 2007, the Mestdagh studio worked in coordination with the architect Stéphane Boens on a project in a Victorian villa in Hamburg. The architect set out the initial drafts of his stained glass ideas, after which Ingrid Meyvaert produced the final designs and determined the colour choice. Finally, Luc Mestdagh and his team were responsible for the production and the installation of the stained glass windows.
Stained glass is an art form where pieces of cut, coloured glass are fixed together with H-shaped lead profiles. When the glass has been painted and fired in the oven, it is referred to as painted or enamelled stained glass. Atelier Mestdagh works mostly with mouth-blown, coloured cylinder or Antique glass as the base. It is a high quality, creative material. We are able to work with a range of 650 colours of mouth-blown glass.
The making of a stained glass window has hardly changed in a thousand years. Atelier Mestdagh makes the conscious decision to use the traditional stained glass techniques and to excel in them.
A design is made to scale 1/10, and illustrates what the finished window will look like. The design visualises the structure and the colours of the glass window.
Next, a full-sized drawing called the cartoon is made. From the cartoon, the cutline (the guide for the subsequent placing and binding with lead of the many pieces of glass) and pattern drawing (a carbon copy of the cutline drawing) are made. Coloured glass is then selected by the designer.
After the glass is selected, the pattern is placed on a piece of glass of the desired colour, and with a diamond or steel wheel, the glass is cut to the shape of the pattern. The window is then assembled using lead profiles (with an H-shaped cross section) to hold the composition together. The lead joints are soldered together. When the panel is complete, putty is inserted between the glass and the lead for waterproofing.
When the glass has been painted and fired in the oven, it is referred to as painted or enamelled stained glass. The glass is painted before being assembled. The painting happens in two stages. First the main outlines of the cartoon are painted on the glass pieces with trace paint. Then matt paint is used for adding shadows. Two firings are required, one for the tracing paint and a second for the matt paint.
Atelier Mestdagh still uses the traditional glass painting techniques on a daily basis, in the same way that they were used in the Neo-Gothic period. But also more modern techniques, such as silk screening, are used when required by the design.


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Scottish Apprenticeship Week - 4th - 8th March 2019
The countdown is on for Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2019 from 4 to 8 March.
Skills Development Scotland aims to make this year's #ScotAppWeek the best yet, with the help of employers, apprentices, industry bodies, learning providers, colleges, universities and campaign supporters.
Apprenticeships and work-based learning are providing the skills needed for a successful Scotland.
With that in mind this year's theme is 'Skills for the Future', recognising the importance of investing in our workforce.
We want everyone with a shared interest in the success of apprenticeships to get involved and show how they support work-based learning.
This year, there are three simple ways we're asking supporters to back #ScotAppWeek:
- Recognise the people who have supported their own work-based learning through our #HereBecauseOf social media campaign
- Join Scotland's Apprentice Network
- Support Scotland's Biggest Parents' Evening
The Campaign Toolkit on apprenticeships.scot provides full details on how to get involved, with links to downloadable graphics, social media posts and supporting materials.
There is also an online form to register your events and activity so we can promote everything that's happening throughout the country.


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Community Restore is a non-governmental organization in Corozal Town that supports the positive development of children through education and after-school programmes. The organization holds evening tutoring in which sixty students are enrolled.
On Monday afternoon the students gathered at the center to celebrate the closing of the after-school programme which coincides with the school year. For the organizers, there was also another reason to celebrate. They received gifts provided by a Florida, USA-based church organization, New Church Without Walls International, that provided school bags and a pair of new tennis for each child. Representative of Church Without Walls International, Lynn Boswell, a native of Corozal Town, was on-hand to deliver the gifts.
Loraine Zuniga, Director, Community Restore
"The even we are having today is the closing off our after school program for the kids that have been coming to us after school since September last year. School closing this week so we decided to end our program today by giving out their school bags and tennis shoes then they'll return the 15th of July where we have our two weeks' summer program, the 15th of July to the 26th of July then we close and we start again in September."
Lynn Robinson Boswell, Representative, New Church Without Walls International
"Loraine Zuniga is my classmate, my friend, my sister and we have been together since childhood and we have been childhood friends and I look for her many years coming to Corozal and never could find her and finally last year I found her and I was interested in what she was doing here and I got very excited and she brought me onboard and she allowed me to participate in the lives of the children make them better citizens for the future for Corozal."
Loraine Zuniga, Director, Community Restore
"Before Mrs. Lynn had Mr. Ramon and Mrs. Yvonne Hernandez so they left about a year ago and Lin came sometime this year and she saw what we were doing and she was so enthused, she is from Corozal and she wants to ensure that our kids that come here be better citizens of Corozal, their behavior changes, they do well in school and overall they need to be productive citizens of Corozal."
At Community Restore, the teaching and learning is also values-based. The students are taught about choosing right over wrong, and living a life with No Guns, No Drugs and No Crime.
Lynn Robinson Boswell, Representative, New Church Without Walls International
"I was most impressive by their attitude, their desire to be here and their desire to learn and its just how they are excelling in school, when they first came one of their mothers told me that their children they couldn't read and they couldn't write and since coming here they've been able not only to read and write but they passed to another grade and that's get me excited to know that the children are excelling. Their mothers says no drugs, no guns and words are like seeds they are planted on the minds of children then they grow and they grown into trees they bear fruits and this is the fruit that its been borne that Ms. Loraine and their mothers that they recite everyday and that becomes a part of that so that somebody simply going somewhere enticing them to do something that they're not suppose to do, that mother just come to their mind and it prevents them it actually stops them from committing a crime."
Loraine Zuniga, Director, Community Restore
"We have seen vast changes in them, as I have said this particular student, Christopher August, when he came here he had a lot of anger you couldn't say anything to him but he is quite different and his grades have improved and we got his report card to show his behavior and his grades have improved and his love is coming to restore and many other students, they have changed and their grades have improved so we working with their behavior we working with their reading problem and we also have Mrs. Adela coming to teach them reading after Mrs. Yvonne left we have Mrs. Adela come at times once a week and work with our literacy program because we also encourage them to read rather than being on a tablet and we started a game night for them we have a lot of games that Ms. Lyn brought for us for the kids to learn and so we will also be entertaining positive youth night for kids to come in and play games rather than consuming alcohol or drugs so we will be starting that come September."
As part of the ceremony, parents and students also gave testimonies on the positive impacts they have witnessed in their children as a result of the program.
Community Restore will carry out a summer programme in July. The organization welcomes volunteers and donations that will assist their initiatives.
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