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|New marine records in the ESENIAS region (July 2016)
The article 'New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July 2016)' by Dailianis et al. has been just published. This contribution forms part of a series of collective articles published regularly in Mediterranean Marine Science that report on new biodiversity records from the Mediterranean basin. The current article presents 51 geographically distinct records for 21 taxa belonging to six Phyla, extending from the western Mediterranean to the Levantine.
The new records, per country for the ESENIAS region, are as follows:
Italy: the ark clam Anadara transversa is reported from mussel cultures in the Gulf of Naples, while the amphipod Caprella scaura and the isopods Paracerceis sculpta and Paranthura japonica are reported as associated to the bryozoan Amathia verticillata (also allochthonous) in the Adriatic Sea; in the latter region, the cosmopolitan Atlantic tripletail Lobotes surinamensis is also reported, a rare finding for the Mediterranean.
Slovenia: a new record of the non-indigenous nudibranch Polycera hedgpethi in the Adriatic.
Greece: several new reports of the introduced scleractinian Oculina patagonica, the fangtooth moray Enchelycore anatina, the blunthead puffer Sphoeroides pachygaster (all Atlantic), and the lionfish Pterois miles (Indo-Pacific) suggest their ongoing establishment in the Aegean Sea; the deepest bathymetric record of the invasive alga Caulerpa cylindracea in the Mediterranean Sea is also registered in the Kyklades, at depths exceeding 70 m.
Turkey: new distribution records for two non-indigenous crustaceans, the blue crab Callinectes sapidus (Atlantic origin) and the moon crab Matuta victor (Indo-Pacific origin) from the Bay of Izmir and Antalya, respectively; in the latter region, the Red Sea goatfish Parupeneus forsskali, is also reported.
For more information:
Dailianis T., O. Akyol, N. Babali, M. Bariche, F. Crocetta, V. Gerovasileiou, R. Ghanem, M. Gökoğglu, T. Hasiotis, A. Izquierdo-Muñoz, D. Julian, S. Katsanevakis, L. Lipej, E. Mancini, Ch. Mytilineou, K. OunifiBenAmor, A. Özgül, M. Ragkousis, E. Rubio-Portillo, G. Servello, M. Sini, C. Stamouli, A. Sterioti, S. Teker, F. Tiralongo, D. Trkov 2016. New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July 2016). Mediterranean Marine Science, 17 (2): 608-626. >>>
A large male specimen of Callinectes sapidus, captured from Izmir Bay
(Photograph: O. Akyol, in Dailianis et al. 2016)


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Parkside Branch Library Reopens November 6
First Branch Library in San Francisco Built to LEED Silver Environmental Standards
San Francisco Public Library celebrates the reopening of the renovated Parkside Branch Library on Saturday, Nov. 6 – the first branch library designed and built to silver certification standards under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system.
The grand reopening celebration kicks off with Chinese lion dancers at the renovated branch at 1200 Taraval Street at 22nd Avenue. Festivities begin at 1 p.m. Library services start at 2 p.m. A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held with City Librarian Luis Herrera, State Senators Leland Yee and Mark Leno, Supervisor Carmen Chu, Department of Public Works Director Ed Reiskin and other city and state officials.
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The remarkable renovation project - the 15th completed library in the Branch Library Improvement Program - transforms a mid-century modern branch library into a model of sustainable construction. As with all library projects in the program, the Parkside Branch Library renovation priorities includes making the branch seismically safe, fully accessible, and technologically updated. The renovation was designed by THA Architecture, Inc. of Portland, Oregon and Karin Payson A+D of San Francisco and the total project cost approximately $4.7 million.
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Goodguys Rod and Custom 9th Del Mar Nationals - Good Times
We Visit Goodguys' Del Mar Event For A Look At Some Cool Cars In Action On The Autocross Course, And On Display.
Goodguys Rod and Custom Association has been around for over 20 years. Their founder, Gary Meaders, started Goodguys in the small, Northern California town of Alamo. Their first car show was held at the Pleasanton Fairgrounds in March 1983, when there were 400 cars in attendance, a pretty incredible turnout for their debut. This show is still being held in the same place, now yielding more than 3,000 cars. Since that first event in Pleasanton, Goodguys has put on almost 500 events, from vintage drag racing, to laid-back all-year get-togethers, to the National events where some of the most prestigious awards are bestowed.
Goodguys isn't just an organizer of events, but host to a culture. The Goodguys roster is over 70,000 members long, making it the largest hot rodding or street rodding organization in the United States. Anyone can visit and show their cars at their events, but members get some added bonuses. Aside from discounts for car show registration, members receive a subscription to the monthly Goodguys Gazette. The first issue was out in 1989, and has evolved into the full color, extra-large publication it is today. (We're subscribers too!) Goodguy's headquarters has had to move twice since its establishment because of the growth it's experienced. The company now has over 40 full-time employees to keep up with the growing hot rodding community. If it's rodding, and if it's hot, we're there. We made sure to pack some water bottles and some folding chairs in the trunks of our '76 and '68 Camaro project cars, and headed on down.
Del Mar is a beautiful city off the Pacific coast, just north of San Diego. It's home to fairgrounds famous for their horse racing. There were no races this weekend, however, and the horses' gallop was replaced with the sound of motor-brewed horsepower. This was Goodguys Rod and Custom's 9th annual Del Mar Nationals. Just weeks after the Goodguys Orange County get-together, everyone in Southern California already had their cars dusted off and ready to hit the show.
Unlike the Orange County get-together, the entries are limited to American cars '72 models and older--although as VIP guests, we did manage to sneak the '76 in for display purposes only. This makes for many more rods and customs, but also more classic American muscle cars. Even with the cut-off year of '72, there were still 2,700 cars entered; this gave the 70,000 attendees a lot to look at.
Over 200 vendors set up their rigs and erected their E-Z Ups and displayed the parts these rodders want to see. We always like to get our hands on what's new, as well as what's tried and true from these guys. What's really neat are the hands-on displays that let you put these parts into action. There aren't just new parts up for sale either; there are old treasures for sale in the swap meet too. If you don't have a project to scavenge parts for, take a trip to the Cars 4 Sale Corral, where anyone can park a project that needs a new home.
This was the first Street Challenge autocross event for Del Mar. Car show participants can actually drive their show cars on the autocross with timed results. I even gave it a shot with my '68 Camaro, which was a blast. The Autocross always draws a crowd, not just from the Pro Touring guys, but from everyone who enjoys the sound of wide-open-throttle V-8s and spinning tires.
This event is only once a year, so if you always wanted to visit SoCal, you'd be doing yourself a favor to make your way toward San Diego for this once-a-year event packed with beautiful cars, deals, autocross, and an all-around good time.
'66 MustangThis '66 Mustang was built by a company called Fesler Built out of Phoenix. They specialize in customizing American muscle cars and updating them with modern performance parts. This car got special treatment, especially when it came to the body. Though most Mustangs of its kind have a fiberglass front valance, this one was fabricated from several pieces of steel to form this flawless nose that blends perfectly into the body. We borrowed a picture from their website, www.feslerbuilt.com, to show how it came together. It has a Windsor built by Roush Racing with a custom Imagine Injection fuel injection system atop. If you like their style, check out the 2010 special edition Camaro they are producing.
'69 Road RunnerBrje Forslund, born in Sweden, now a resident of Yorba Linda, California, fell in love with classic Mopars. He bought this '69 Road Runner, which still had its original 426-inch Hemi and 727 Torqueflite automatic transmission attached. He pulled the combo and had them rebuilt to produce and then handle 636 hp. The rest of the car was carefully restored to show off the extremely rare Q5-code Seafoam Turquoise Metallic paintjob that has been untouched since it was first sprayed in the factory. The suspension was restored, but unchanged from its heavy-duty torsion bar setup. He did, however, give the car a little upgrade with 18- and 20-inch polished aluminum wheels, matching the ones on his model car on the dash.
Street Challenge AutocrossNormally, you drive to the car show, find a parking spot, unload your chairs and cooler, and sit down for the rest of the day. Yawn! Car shows have changed, and driving your car is part of the new experience. Goodguys introduced the Street Challenge Autocross in 2006, and have events scheduled all year across the country. We were lucky enough to have two Southern California events this spring featuring the autocross. At Goodguy's Orange County get-together, editors from the car magazines rolled up their sleeves and gave it all they had to compete in the Editor's Challenge. One hour of the running time was given to them to produce their best lap times. There was no Editor's Challenge this time around so anyone could drive any time the course was open. This was the first time the autocross was held at this venue, and it was a major success with 478 cars competing. Though there are classes, timed runs, and winners, the atmosphere of the challenge was more fun and less competition. The classes were Street Machine, Vendor, and Street Rod, giving each participant a reasonably fair shot at winning.
|Best lap:
|Mary Pozzi
|'72 Camaro
|Steven Rupp
|'68 Camaro
|Chris McCrea
|'65 Cobra
|James Shipka
|'67 Camaro
|Liz Miles
|'68 Camaro
|Ryan Mathews
|'70 Camaro (DSE)
|Nick Licatta
|'70 Camaro (DSE)
|Kyle Tucker
|'70 Camaro (DSE)
|Bret Voelkel
|'66 Chevelle (Air Ride)
|Stacy Tucker
|'69 Camaro (DSE)
|Bob McGregor
|'46 Ford
|Aaron Vukasovich
|'41 International
|Dennis Russell
|'37 Cabriolet
|John Bolstad
|'54 Nomad
|Josue Albizuras
|'57 Chevy Truck
The Swap MeetSwap meets are places where hidden treasures are found. This is where people can bring their collection of parts that are obsolete or useless to find a new home. We discovered some really cool stuff, and advise not to carry any cash if you don't wish to purchase anything--this might help keep you under control. If, however, you are looking to bring home some toys, pack a rolling basket cart so you don't have to carry anything.


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Critical theory, with its often thorny, uncompromising language, seems to be opposed to smooth magazine writing. n+1 editor Nikil Saval will discuss how to convey and perform the insights of theoretical work in writing aimed at a popular audience.
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Biggest fan ever I would love to go see you for the day of my birthday the 24th of September every movie that you come out and you come out so hot and gorgeous
This is an excellent movie. Done really well.
I love the film West Side Story! It's my all time favorite film, hands down, and it's a classic that never grows old!
Five stars. I give this five stars. Five stars is what I give this, folks. I am giving five stars to the movie Frozen, although if I were rating the review here, well, I would give that five stars as well.
This movie is perfect. During my 200th viewing, I still laughed out loud untill tears rolled down my face. I know all the lines and I love them all. PERFECT
One of the 25 best films of all time, IMHO. Pure Humphrey Bogart with an excellent supporting cast. Put it on your Bucket List.
I was SO amazed by this film, and I'm hardcore about quality cinema! You MUST see this on the big screen while you can!
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Justin, a young war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, finds that coming back home is filled with many unforeseen challenges. As a financial crisis and inadequate post-war veteran services conspire against Justin healing his physical and emotional scars, he maintains complicated relationships with his employer and teacher, at once accepting and rejecting their help.
One of the truly great Westerns
Outstanding. Joe G-H does an amazing job. The music and audio in general are well done and in support of the story and energy of the movie. Funny, but thoughtful. Painful, but uplifting. True, and resonating.
I saw this film in LA. I loved it. It was made by a kid in his early twenties and the interviews are incredible. Iggy Pop and John Waters are hilarious. The New York Times said the film was Hallarious and Blood-Chilling.
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I can't remember when I've been more outraged by a film review than I am of this one by Jacquie Allen. I wonder if she has any understanding of the history of the original musical by Ntozake Shange or the power of its poetry in the lives of women (especially African American women), from 1974 when it was first presented until today (a revival will be on Broadway next spring). If Allen is aware of the significance of this artistic creation, she gives no evidence of it in her review.
For Allen to say that this film is a "despicable, depressing, frightening waste of time" and that the violence and abuse these women suffer "is thrown into this movie for the shock value, without any real substance" is utterly contemptible. This was written by Ntozake Shange to express in poetry the unspoken agony of women's particular kinds of suffering -- not at the hands of all men, but at the hands of some men. Its fundamental purpose is not to shock (although what they suffer is shocking) but to give women voice -- to give African American women voice. Did Allen even hear the line at the beginning: "who will sing a black girl's song?"
I could write more, but Allen and the readers of her review need to see what Allison Samuels said of it in Newsweek (as part of a story about how much acting in this film meant to Janet Jackson and her own self-healing). Samuels calls it a "beautiful and haunting play" that is, admitedly, an "un-film-friendly work." The transference to film is not without problems, but "[Tyler] Perry has deftly updated [the characters'] situations to feel more true to 21-st century Harlem." Maybe this is what Jacquie Allen doesn't get: real women still live like this and still need artistic vehicles that give them voice and power. I hate to think what she might have thought and written about "Precious" last year!
Tyler Perry was aware of the challenges in making a film of this play, since he knew "that some women really consider it the black woman's bible." He understood the historical importance of this project, and he even posted a letter on his web site, assuring viewers that he would treat the play with respect. I was extremely disappointed that Jacquie Allen did not review the film with a similar respect.
I remember seeing "For Colored Girls..." when it first went on tour in the 1970s, and I was stunned by its raw truth-telling about the violence and duplicity that women experience, along with the message of redemption and love to be found in the "laying on of hands" by women who have lived through their own pain and suffering. Shange gave women one of the most inspiring, memorable lines that has come out of the 20th century women's movement: "I found god in myself, and I loved her -- I loved her fiercely."
It is despicable that the history and meaning of this film were completely missed in Jacquie Allen's review.
James Cameron took us into the future and to stars for a breathtaking look at a world through the eyes of virtual reality, while director Christopher Nolan takes us into the human mind and a view of reality through our dreams. Philosophers from Plato to Descartes have tackled the question of reality and the dream world for a couple of thousand years. Christopher Nolan brings these questions and concepts of dreams and reality and drops it on our doorstep and then steps back and laughs. Like the Greek Myth of Theseus and Ariadne, sometimes the myths just don't make any sense, oh well. What Christopher Nolan does in Inception, is walk the fine line between madness and sanity, between greatness and confusion. The ultimate concept that permeates Inception is that one must trust. As the characters must trust each other when entering the dream world, the audience must trust that the world that Nolan creates on screen will not crumble before our eyes leaving us in limbo. Nolan is not above a prank or two. Read more: http://dld.bz/ndsn
Bob Grimm fails yet again to possess any salient review capabilities. He even references M. night's "Signs" as one of his sucessfull films, when it was actually the leiutenant to his decline into movie failure. This film is a drastic redemption of his capacity to at least adapt a film, and one of epic proportion at that.
Surprisingly, M. Night did a very nice job capturing the essential moments of the series that propel the story without getting bogged down in the massive character development that drives the animated series and would have halted this movie in its tracks. I enjoy that character development over the course of 16 or so animated episodes that invariably take us off the course of the main plot line.
Especially for kid's sake I think the series frivolity is a bonus. However, the movie wants to focus on action and the dramatic elements that drive a story and usually captivate an audience. I for one, and seemingly the only one, appreciate M. Night's distillation of the series and thoroughly enjoyed that he captured the essence of just the few episodes that really propel the story line forward. Specifically, Ang's rescue and the seige of the Northern Water Tribe. The latter is intensely gripping and potent.
Unfortuneately, so many of the viewers that have posted reviews have been jaded by the transition of their relationship to the cartoon to the movie. I really want to see the remaining books on film, but fear this lashing will omit any sequels.
Michael Paul Stephanson and George Hardy turned a miserable defeat into a success with this documentary about Troll 2. I laughed through most of the move and thought how well Stephanson's direction, editing and pacing were well done. The director was smart to focus on Hardy and not on himself, as actor/dentist George Hardy is the best loved character in the cast and the film. Also of notable mention was Stephanson's Skype interview that The Loft displayed on the big screen. When the Loft Cinema's Program Director Jeff Yanc turned the laptop's camera towards the audience, and Michael's face lit up with happiness. I found the Best Worst Movie extremely funny, and I found myself smitten with the documentary.
I'm not a writer; but I do know a worthwhile film when I view it.
Instead of boring you folks (Grimm and Jimmy D.) with my thoughts (they don't keep the viewer in mind anyway), I'd rather you'd read the review at this URL:
Even "Christianity Today" gave "Parnassus" a thumb's up. In fact, the NY "Times" supported Gilliam's latest effort...though the readers were more enthusiastic.
My advise to you all: see this flim again...and do a little bit of reading: the "eternal story" being told by the good doctor is an ancient myth...that had been told in many ancient cultures...
People not understanding this film...also failed to understand "El Topo" when it first debuted.
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When Bob Grimm became the main movie reviewer for the Weekly, I almost completely stopped reading the movie reviews. His assessments are so obviously lacking in depth and generally fail to recognize any real intelligence in the films he reviews. While he tries to feign having an intellectual review of a film, he would be better off writing,"Dude, it was a pretty cool movie. The chick sucked though".
I always look with hope to see the name Digiovanna at the bottom of a review.
The title of my review is, "Repairing 500 years of slavery with the movie, The Blind Side, while simultaneously fostering inter-racial Cougar/Oedipus complexes."
The movie The Blind Side officially repairs five hundred years of slavery, yeah! Finally there is a much needed football movie that just so happens to be a balm to white ruling class, and all southern white, guilt. Praises to the cast and crew for such a big accomplishment. The only criticism I have has to do with the title of the movie: A more fitting title might be, "Fostering the Inter-Racial Cougar Oedipal Complex," For those of you who don't know what a 'Cougar' is, here is a synopsis; A Cougar is an older woman who is on the "hunt" for a much younger, energetic, willing-to-do-anything male. Here's a refresher on what an Oedipus Complex is: It is a complex of the male desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father. I don't know if the big football star / adoptee wanted to score with his white trophy mom. It is hard for me to give this movie a detailed and accurate review because I only saw the trailer; and I hope I am never forced to watch it on a bus or an airliner. The only person that I know who saw the movie was my elderly white neighbor (who happens to be a widow and a southerner). Her reviews were stunning. She held her heart and spoke of renewed inspiration. Normally when I see this neighbor she bemoans her loneliness and depressingly speaks of how much she misses her dead husband. But this movie, Wow, it had her smiling while simultaneously tearing happy tears from her eyes. She told me that I "must take my wife to it" and that, my "wife will love it!" I asked my newly inspired neighbor, partly out of curiosity but mostly to change the subject, if she had seen this other new movie called, "The Men Who Stare At Goats?" My elderly neighbor let go of her heart, made a gasp of exasperation, looked utterly shocked and said, "Why no, I would never see a movie like that!" When I walked into my apartment I told my wife about our neighbor's reaction. My wife said, "The movie is called 'the men who STARE at goats... NOT, the men who FUCK goats!"
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A vector in one dimension has only one component. Can we consider it as a scalar at the same time?
Why time is not a vector, although it can be negative and positive (when solving for time the kinematics equation for example)?
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A vector in one dimension has only one component. Can we consider it as a scalar at the same time?
Why time is not a vector, although it can be negative and positive (when solving for time the kinematics equation for example)?
A scalar is defined to be invariant under transformations of the coordinate system. Thus, a vector in one dimension is not a scalar.
Time is a "parameter", or a component of a 4-vector in special relativity. In classical mechanics, it is essentially a one-dimensional vector.
A scalar with a unit is a 1-dimensional (axial) vector; changing the basis corresponds to changing the unit.
A number (without a unit) is not a 1-dimensional vector in the terminology used by physicists. However, it is a 1-dimensional vector in the terminology used in linear algebra.
A vector in a $1D$ space is not a scalar. But if we choose a basis (which in this case consists only in one vector, say $E$), any other vector is of the form $vE$, with $v$ a scalar. So we can identify the $1D$ vector space with $\mathbb R$, but the identification depends on the choice of $E$.
In the case of the time, things are similar. For the Minkowski spacetime, consider an orthonormal basis, consisting in three spacelike vectors and one timelike vector. This basis allows us to express any event in terms of three space coordinates, and one time coordinate. The time coordinate is a scalar, and can indeed be positive or negative. For curved spacetime, the things get more difficult. The spacetime is no longer a vector space. We use coordinates, which are no longer obtained from vector frames. Sometimes they can't even be global, so we have to take them local (limited to a subset of the spacetime).
The perspectives of the other answers I do not think are the correct ones. Here is one from the perspective of representation theory.
Whether a quantity is a "scalar" or a "vector" (or something more exotic) is a question of what representation of the group of isometries it resides in. For n-dimensional Euclidean space, this is the group O(n). For n=1, O(n) has just the elements 1 and -1. A vector acts nontrivially under -1, while a scalar is unchanged.
Speaking more broadly, we can consider antisymmetric tensor fields (sections of the exterior powers of the tangent bundle). The top exterior power, the so-called tangent frames (or if you prefer their duals, the volume forms), are in bijection with the group of scalars if our space is orientable. That is, fixing an orientation (which is a global section of this bundle) O, every other top rank tensor is of the form f(x)O for some scalar function f. If we're in Euclidean space, only the parity transformation -1 can act nontrivially on one of these. It acts trivially iff the dimension is even, so scalars are top tensor fields in even dimensions and psuedoscalars are top tensor fields in odd dimensions.


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One of the foci of the interfaith and atheist or secular humanist welcoming Network of Spiritual Progressives (you DO NOT have to be religious or believe in God to be a spiritual progressive) is to build consciousness changing groups in every profession. The goal: to help professionals envision what their profession could look like if the "bottom line" in their profession was not making more money and accumulating more power, but was instead at least equally seeking to maximize through the practice of their profession the fostering of human beings who gave priority to building a world based on love and caring, kindness and generosity, ethical behavior and ecological sensitivity, and awe and wonder and radical amazement at the grandeur and mystery of the universe.
What might that look like? I developed some initial ideas on this in my book in 2000 called Spirit Matters. Below, I reprint my chapter on a Transformative Medicine to give you an idea of what kind of visioning we have in mind. –Rabbi Michael Lerner
The Soul of Medicine
by Michael Lerner
There are two dimensions of medicine and health care that will be transformed when the New Bottom Line of the NSP–Network of Spiritual Progressives becomes the guiding principle for our society: how medical services are distributed, and what the content of a spiritually informed medicine will be (that is, how we sustain and repair health).
The Distribution of Health Care
Only a society with deep moral distortions would allocate health care on the basis of how much money the ill person has. Yet this is exactly the case in the United States, and to a lesser but nonetheless real extent in many other societies. There is no moral reason why people born into poverty should have less of an opportunity to have their basic health needs met than someone born into wealth.
One of the early goals of the kind of Emancipatory Spirituality supported by the NSP will be to create a worldwide system of universal health care. The underlying principle: everyone equally deserves first-class health care because everyone is equally valuable and deserving of respect. The central value to be taught: human beings participate in God's holiness and those who work in delivering health care, creating medicines and medical technologies, are engaged in sacred work. I'll consider the implications of these principles on distribution in this section, and on what we are distributing in the next section.
It's not hard to visualize how a sense of human sanctity might shape our system of distributing health care. Simply divert a substantial portion of the world's military budget to providing food, clothing and shelter to the hundreds of millions who do not have enough, and then pay for the training and salaries for doctors, nurses, public health experts, and the construction and provision of hospitals and community health care centers. Provide health education, including a focus on diet, exercise, meditation, prevention and health maintenance. Make sure all people can get health care when they need it and that they are not faced with financial burdens when they need special care for more complicated health problems.
Hasn't universal health care been tried and failed in other countries?
What does fail is when one tries to implement universal health care without giving it the full backing of the society's resources. In that case, the failure is political. The typical scenario becomes something like this: Inadequate resources translates into inadequate health care being available to everyone equally. People end up having to wait a long time for needed services or are denied some specialized services. Everyone grumbles. Then the wealthy manage to pay doctors to offer private medical services, or they cross national boundaries to seek the services elsewhere. The remaining population grumbles even more. Then, doctors start to grumble that they aren't getting paid as much as they would in a free market system, pharmaceutical companies stop developing new products because they can't make as much money as they might in a free market system, and the political conservatives who wanted to prove that collective action through government would always fail start to advance the idea of privatization, which is enthusiastically backed by those who control the media and by sectors of the upper and the upper middle classes who feel that they'd probably get a better deal (more health care at a price they can afford) if the system were privatized. nd since they have the power to have their voices heard, they often manage to dominate the public debate.
Yet none of this shows that universal health care doesn't work, only that an underfunded system creates political opportunities for discontent.
There is nothing inevitable about this. If your own family had a medical problem and only enough resources for everyone to afford to see a doctor once every two years, I doubt very much that you'd decide that the highest paid member of the family got to see a doctor every year while others were allowed a doctor visit only once every ten years. You wouldn't go to that solution because you care too much about the members of your family. So, you'd either try to struggle to get adequate resources or you'd share the resources according to medical need. It's only because we have not yet gotten to the point where we can truly feel our connection to all other human beings that we tolerate the current health care system.
Of course, if you assume that the bottom line of Western societies and its logic of "looking out for Number One" without regard to others is unchangeable, then any changes will seem utopian.
In the current system it's not surprising that people who originally went into medical professions to care for others eventually get subverted into thinking of themselves as medical entrepreneurs who have skills to sell to the highest bidder and who invest their profits in hospitals, group practices, or insurance company schemes designed to maximize their wealth. It's no surprise, in such a system, that the most "creative" (if we can use that word for people whose talents do not extend to moral sensitivity) medical professionals, biochemists, and pharmaceutical companies will tend to flow to the countries and markets where they can best maximize their own personal advantage. That's how it is in a world with the bottom line unchanged.
But there's every reason to believe that most of this would change in a society that actually valued the holiness of every individual and the sacred mission of medicine. In that society, people would be recruited into the various medical and health care professions because of their overflowing lovingkindness and desire to help others. There would not be any particular financial incentive–doctors would be paid enough to lead a comfortable life, as would everyone else. The special benefits accruing to them would come from the inner reward of getting to do this work. Medical technologies and pharmaceuticals would continue to benefit from innovation, because the scientists and technicians would be joyful in the opportunity to do such creative work.
There is nothing far-fetched about envisioning that motivation. The truth is, most people who enter health care and medical professions today originally approach this work from that motivation–it doesn't have to be socially engineered into people. On the contrary, it takes a huge amount of training and indoctrination (sometimes even more than the entirety of medical school) to drum this idealism and desire to serve out of health care people, and even then it pops up residually at various moments in the lives of most doctors, nurses and other health care workers. Imagine how much more that would be the case in a world where these feelings were encouraged, not only in the medical profession, but in every corner of the society!
Fine, you might say, that is what it could look like, but how can we ever get there from here?
Well, one first step may be this: the creation of an international corps of medical care personnel who live according to these values and who donate their services to those in need of care, and are paid by an international health organization. We could take that step right now. In fact, there are organizations like Doctors Without Borders who are already engaged in this very activity.
But on a social scale, shouldn't we put our energies into a more "realistic" attempt to reform health care, like the kind that liberal Democrats are introducing piecemeal into Congress?
I don't think so. I don't oppose those measures, but I do think they tend to give the wrong message: that our health care system will be made "okay" if a few more benefits are granted. The whole model is wrong: it assumes that the existing system of health care for profit can be "made to work" by kindly reforms. But from my standpoint, the system is fundamentally misguided–its bottom line ensures that decisions about allocation will always be made on the basis of profit rather than in terms of loving our fellow human beings.
The existing system of medical distribution helps instill the values that keep our society misguided. I watched this up close when I was connected to the Clintons in the mid 1990s and they attempted to build a system that would preserve the wealth of the medical profiteers while allowing greater access for all. The outcome was a monstrosity. Moreover, when this monstrosity was nevertheless still opposed by the profiteers, and then failed, the whole country was encouraged to draw the wrong conclusion: that the Clintons had been "too radical, " when in fact their problem was not being radical (that is, oriented toward the root problem) enough. They fought for a compromised goal, and did not even win that–in part because people always find it harder to rally around a compromised goal.
The large health care insurers and profiteers have fought every attempt at minimal health care distribution reforms by buying television ads purporting to show ordinary citizens talking to each other about how misguided these reforms are–as though the companies are really trying to champion the interests of ordinary citizens. Ironically, they put as much energy into fighting every little reform as they would into fighting a serious ethical transformation of the system. But this should teach us an important lesson: it will take almost as much energy to get minimal reforms as it will to get a rational and moral system of distribution, so it makes more sense to fight for the greater cause than for the lesser. So, the first step is not to fight for the minimal programs of the liberal Democrats, but to fight for a new way of thinking about health care that places the sanctity of human beings at the center of the debate.
Holy and Holistic Care
Once you understand that human beings are fully integrated into a mind/body/psychological/
The dominant model in health care today is one that focuses on the bodily level and works on it as though it could be understood separately from the well being of the whole.
Even "holistic" health approaches tend to add just one or two more levels, but avoid working on all levels in an integrated manner. This is a deep mistake. I've met holistic healers who work on the body as a holistic system, but know little about the emotional reality of the person with whom they are working. I've met talented people who talk about the energy fields around their clients, but seek no information about the family life or communities in which these people live. I've known Reichian therapists who focus on the way that feelings get embedded in the bodily tissues of their clients but who are unaware of other aspects of bodily functioning and unaware of the inner spiritual lives of their clients. I've met spiritual healers who don't know much about the emotional lives or social realities facing their patients.
A holy approach to medicine and health care will be holistic in the widest possible sense. It will seek to understand, diagnose, and intervene on all levels of our being at the same time. People will be seen by practitioners who have multiple levels of knowledge, and by teams of health care workers who together bring a broad interdisciplinary approach to the process of diagnosis and treatment.
The Healthy Environment
What we take in, through our stomachs, through our lungs, and through our pores, has a powerful impact on our health. It's no news today that environmental conditions are central to our health. The air we breathe, the water we drink, the clothes we wear, the products we use to clean our bodies and our hair and our teeth, and the food we eat have become so filled with carcinogens and other poisons that we are constantly at risk.
The people who perpetrate this are not evil people–they just are living according to the bottom line of contemporary society. If they changed their minds they would be fired and someone else would be hired to take their place. Only a new bottom line will change this.
Health care must address all these issues, not split them off into realms remote from the everyday practice of medicine.
There's also the responsibility of the consumer to buy healthy products once they become available. But don't blame consumers who don't have that option, or have it only if they are willing to pay more for a healthful tomato than they could reasonably afford. Responsibility begins when the options are made available. When healthy food costs twice or three times as much as unsafe food, those who can not afford to buy the better food don't deserve to be disdained. Some upper middle class people tend to perceive themselves as saner than the rest of the population in what they eat, whereas in fact they are only richer.
Yet there are also consumption habits that need to be healed.
Many people overeat, and do so to offset the emotional, ethical and spiritual distress in their lives.
Many people frenetically engage in buying consumer goods, and then updating them whenever a new model becomes available. They find momentary consolation in the buying. But it never lasts very long.
You can never eat enough to feed a hungry soul.
So the solution is to address the spiritual hunger. Instead of taking dangerous diet pills or quick fixes, we need to provide the emotional, ethical and spiritual nurturing people need–so that they don't take their pain out on their bodies.
A healthy environment will be one in which people have meaningful work and live in families and communities suffused with love and solidarity yet allowing for privacy and for each individual to choose his or her own path. It will be an environment in which people are rejoicing in each other's being and supporting each other's emotional well being, spiritual growth, and intellectual depth.
The healthy environment will have healthy foods, unpolluted air and water, and it will have repaired the sources of global warming. It will have mass transportation and a careful use of the planet's energy and resources.
The healthy environment will give people many opportunities each day to exercise, to meditate, to sing and dance, to engage in aesthetic creativity, to do physical labor as well as mental labor, to be with others in community and to be alone in moments of quiet, to celebrate the universe in community and to connect with God in privacy.
A health care professional will be involved in addressing all these issues, and will always understand the integral nature of health.
The Holy Hospital
Imagine a hospital as a holy place in which all we've learned about the integrated nature of body, soul, mind and emotions is brought to focus on healing people who are in need of healing. In such a context, doctors and nurses mix with spiritual and emotional healers, with community organizers and family therapists–all dedicated to bringing the most sophisticated understanding to bear in the service of restoring health. Which professional would take leadership in shaping the particular team of healers to fit the needs of the client would depend on the particular case. There would be no hierarchy of pay or professional status, since all would be recognized as making equally important contributions to the well being of the client.
Now imagine a hospital work shift. All of the healers might assemble for a quarter hour of meditation and prayer in which they recommitted themselves to their holy function. The pressures of work can easily distract the health care practitioner from remembering the tremendously important spiritual task they face, so these moments of reconnecting to one's highest spiritual insights would help shape the dynamics in the coming work period.
Patients would understand also that they were in a sacred space populated by professionals and lay people who chose to enter these professions in large part because of their combination of talents, spiritual centeredness, and ethical dedication. I do not necessarily have in mind, though, that it would feel like a traditional church or synagogue, with hushed and respectful tones (though I'm not sure a church or synagogue should feel that way either)–because part of a healing environment is music, humor, and entertainment (yes, the hospital would have dramatic presentations, live music, poetry and fiction readings, art, etc.–all supplied by the surrounding communities whose volunteer efforts would pour into schools and hospitals), as well as religious services, meditation rooms, and other aids to spiritual healing.
While many patients need peace and quiet and have no interest in connecting to these activities, others will be able to find this outpouring of love and caring to be healing and regenerative. Indeed, the hospital will become one of the highest embodiments of loving energy, and that love will occupy a central place in the healing of the individual.
"Wait," you might object, "I don't want love, I want a skilled surgeon, and I don't care about his or her mental state." I understand the feeling, and I felt that way myself until I recently underwent surgery and found that these other factors mattered a great deal, not only in the unnecessary delays of the surgery that made the whole process more dangerous, but also in the whole recovery process in the subsequent three weeks in which I was hospitalized. Just talk to anyone who has been through the hospital experience today and you begin to learn that having a skilled surgeon is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for effective healing.
ut where are you going to find medical professionals who could be healers in a holy hospital? Today, it would be quite a stretch. But we need to redesign medical training so it includes this way of thinking about health, and a whole new way of treating medical students. Today, medical students and interns are treated as though their lives and feelings are irrelevant; they are asked to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the hospital. In a spiritually shaped medical school, the well being of the healers becomes an important focus, and training, rotations, internships and residencies are designed not to exploit the novice, but to help her or him enter a holy sphere of work. From the beginning, this means developing in the medical student, intern and resident, nurse, social worker, chiropractor, doctor of homeopathy, and all other healing professionals an ability to pursue his or her own spiritual development and time to do so, and to hone his or her capacity to be loving and caring.
Many of the people who enter the healing professions today wish that they could develop their capacities for caring and loving, but find that it these are undervalued and even cynically dismissed at various internships and residencies. Far more will be attracted to health related careers, even though the pay will shrink, once we have a new spiritual orientation to the practice of medicine.
Meaning as Medicine
Practicing physician Raphi Kelman, M.D., has made some important observations about the centrality of spiritual meaning as a source of healing. The need for meaning in our lives has significant physiological consequences. Kelman says that his research as a medical practitioner confirms my argument that the need for meaning is as significant as the need for food or economic well being.
Spirit Matters–because the deprivation of a spiritual dimension to our lives and the absence of a sense of meaning has drastic physiological consequences.
So, Kelman argues, if one lives in a society in which health care is available to some but not to others, one is living in a society in which the sphere of caring has been severely restricted–and that will have immediate health consequences. When people are just out for themselves, there is an inevitable loss of meaning. Conversely, if we live in a society in which people take care of each other, which would certainly manifest in adequate health care being available, then we will have direct health benefits that flow not from the availability of the care but from the framework of meaning that promotes our well being.
Similarly, Kelman continues, caring about the environment is good for our health, even when we have not yet succeeded in stopping the polluters or restraining those who are misusing the earth's resources. My very concern, and involvement with others in this issue produces the health-inducing meaning with its positive consequences.
Many people think there is a clear separation between what we do as individuals and what the country or the larger economic and political sphere is like. They imagine there is no point in bothering to try to change the larger picture. But, Kelman maintains, "What I've learned in my medical practice is that when someone activates the concern in themselves for ecological improvement, they are simultaneously activating a transpersonal aspect of one's being that aspires to meaning which has significant physiological effects. So even when we can't win on ecological change or health care change, being so engaged can have positive health effects. "
Kelman emphasizes that the issue is not just social change activity, but the inner reality that produces this activity. As American politics has become narrower and technocratic in focus, many people begin to address health care, ecological change, or other social justice issues with a kind of mentality that is more like an intellectual game than an act of love. If your involvement in these issues reflects an ability to transcend ego and connect to a life of meaning aimed at the well being of all, you activate the heart in ways that have significant impact on our physiology. So it depends on the consciousness that one brings to social transformative activity.
The reason some people might be shocked to hear this is that we have come to think of ourselves only as machines. Our materialist philosophical framework is so entrenched that it seems almost incomprehensible to us to recognize what most people throughout most of human history recognized, namely the deep connection between spiritual and physical well being.
Ironically, most of the people who tend to dismiss spiritual insights on scientific grounds actually have little familiarity with the latest developments in science, developments which make us question the wisdom of seeing the world from the standpoint of matter. The mechanistic world view has little plausibility to those on the cutting edge of physics today, yet it continues to dominate the kind of science that is taught to doctors and that is popular in the larger society. Popular attitudes on science today fit with the science of fifty years ago.
Medicine, Kelman points out, got into this error a long time ago. It developed its "medical science" through the study of the anatomy of a corpse. Much important information was gathered, but deep philosophical mistakes accompanied the new knowledge. A human being is not a corpse–we are something that needs to be understood in a different way. Mind and body are not separate entities–and we need to rethink our philosophical frame.
Similarly, it's sometimes helpful in medicine to compare a human heart to a mechanical pump. But it's fundamentally different from a pump–and indeed unlike anything we know of in the rest of the universe. We know that experiences of compassion and tolerance impacts cardiac function; but a computer or a mechanical pump won't change its function even if it looks like it's experiencing compassion while a human heart will change! Numerous studies show that compassion and tolerance improves cardiac functioning, whereas anger, intolerance and hostility worsens heart functioning.
It would be better to think of health as a flowing of energy that may occasionally get blocked.
At the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, medical researcher Margaret E. Kemeny, Ph.D. recently reported that a group of 330 people infected by HIV were followed for seven years. Six were found to have remained healthy while the rest proceeded to AIDS. Psychological questioning revealed striking differences between those people who had remained healthy and those who had progressed to AIDS. Those who had remained healthy were found to score much higher in the areas of Meaning, Creativity, and Giving and Receiving Love!
In the Study for the Advancement of Medicine in 1995 researchers showed that when patients experience caring and compassion, salivary SIGA, the body's first line of defense against viruses and other pathogens, increased significantly. A study by McLellan at Harvard University. showed that an experience of compassion raises SIGA–even in people who claimed that they had no subjective feeling of compassion. On the other hand, experiences of anger suppress immunological responses and reduce cardiac functioning. One qualification: anger for the sake of humankind or to express that you are being hurt or oppressed can be healthful anger.
When people see their interconnectedness and overcome their alienation, their stress is reduced in a good way–other forms of stress reduction that really don't have this impact. The stress reduction groups that have a positive impact are those in which the experiences of compassion, caring for each other, and interconnectedness are generated, and it is these aspects of the group that make their stress reduction work.
Kelman's work has important consequences for medical practice: "If we can't get patients to activate their interest in meaning (however they define it), we will not be as successful in healing. So this should be a high priority for medical practice (of course, not in circumstances of acute crisis, but in most other circumstances).
"Of course, I don't deny the physical dimension either. Spiritual healing doesn't have to be counterpoised to chemotherapy. We need to approach people on all levels because interventions on many different levels all have a synergistic effect. But neither is approaching someone purely on a physical level adequate. And I say this not only about the traditional forms of medicine, but also about the "alternative medicine" techniques. If you give people a regimen of vitamins or other physical interventions like nutrition that are separate from any meaning-level of intervention, it will be less effective."
Kelman's point is a caution for those who think that a spiritual approach to healing is simply to give out vitamins or to eat organic. That may be an important part, but what is also needed is a certain kind of consciousness. There are some new health care practitioners who present themselves as "alternative" because they don't use traditional medicine, but who nevertheless approach health in a mechanistic way. The alternative I am recommending may include some of these new methods as well, but must include the isses of meaning and spiritual practice.
Consider, for example, the question of what we take into our bodies and how to do that in a spiritual way.
When people see that food is an act of giving on the part of the earth and that we have a corresponding need to give back, they begin to approach a spiritual level of understanding. So,eating foods that are products of exploitation of the earth or that were produced through alienated labor that was wildly underpaid and demeaned has negative health consequences. As Kelman puts it, "The earth gives to us so that we can give in turn to others–because we are all fundamentally interconnected and interdependent. Our atoms are constantly being shuffled from the earth and the air through us and back to a tree or to other human beings or to the earth. There is a constant dance of sharing that is occurring, but when we block this whole cascade through fear or greed, we interfere with the life-giving and nurturing qualities that are available and were meant to sustain us."
We return, here, to one of the core points in this book: We have lost our sense of wonder and appreciation. Awe and wonder must be part of our process of eating, and if they are not, their absence will have adverse health consequences.
So part of a spiritually-oriented medicine is that a doctor must try to instill an understanding of the integrated nature of our health–that on the one hand the health of one part of our body is linked to the health of other parts, and on the other hand that the health of the body is linked to health of the economic, political and ecological systems outside the body. Then, the doctor must support the patient in developing a meaning-orientation towards life, and encourage the patient to activate the capacity for compassion and the deepest connectedness between people (because it is in those moments that the deep healing begins). The initial taking of a history would include these dimensions, and yearly check ups would also address the entire life situation of the patient. When they begins to think in these terms, many doctors will find that they have much to learn from their patients about the various levels of interaction between health and other aspects of life.
The underlying point here is that the reality of each part of our bodies and of the total body is that they are rooted in a much larger totality, a spiritual/emotional/
Try the following exercise in your own life, and you'll reap many benefits: As you sit down to eat, stop and give yourself three minutes to contemplate the goodness of the universe which has supplied you this food. Bless the food and all who have contributed to the causal chain which brought the food to your table. Then, take ten minutes in the middle of the meal to eat in silence. Focus on the tastes. Chew slowly, and be aware of each movement of your tongue and teeth as you chew the food. After the meal, spend three minutes of silence with a focus again on thanking he universe for the food, and on renewing your commitment to spend time and energy to ensure that all those who do not have enough to eat will be given food.
If we can get ourselves to slow down in this way, and respond to the world with awe, wonder and radical amazement, we will certainly develop a healthier attitude. This kind of attention and consciousness will eventually become more prevalent and will contribute to a more healthy world.
None of this is to suggest that we abandon drugs or other forms of high-tech medicine. It is a plea, however, to open up our understanding of what can be healing in meaning.
A First Step
Make it a legal requirement that doctors take a "meaning/spiritual" history when they do their intake and examinations. This information will soon be shown to predict health or disease, and that could lead to a deeper attention to meaning and the spiritual development of patients.
Require that part of the continuing education of the profession is a course that encourages doctors and nurses to allow themselves to be utopian, to fantasize, to imagine, to be creative in envisioning the kinds of changes they would like to see in their own profession. Let doctors and other health professionals learn that Spirit Matters: health care and medicine could look very different if we had a new bottom line of love and caring, a new sensitivity to the world of spirit. As the new spiritual awakening deepens in the coming centuries, we will see fundamental transformations in the way we do healing and health care. Doing this kind of envisioning, seemingly utopian at first, will free doctors to do the kind of thinking they were never taught to do in medical school–and could be the beginning of a very significant transformation in medicine. To make this all real, we need a core group of physicians and other health care professionals to become the leadership in creating a Transformative Medicine campaign incorporating and educating others to this vision. If you are such a professional, or know others who are, please copy and send this link to them and urge them, if they agree with this vision, to contact firstname.lastname@example.com who is the executive director of the (interfaith and atheist-and-secular-humanist-welcoming) Network of Spiritual Progressives (check us out at www.spiritualprogressives.org). You don't have to be religious or believe in God to be a spiritual progressive–only want a New Bottom Line in which our corporations, government policies, and public institutions (education, health care, judicial system, economic system) are judged "efficient, rational, productive" not only to the extent that they maximize money or power, but also to the extent that they maximize love and caring, kindness and generosity, environmental sustainability and repair, ethical behavior, and enhance our capacity to respond to the universe with awe, wonder and radical amazement and the grandeur of the universe. To get a fuller understanding of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, please read our website at www.spiritualprogressives.org


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June 16, 1836 – The London Working Men's Association was formed, launching the Chartist movement.The Chartists took their name from the People's Charter, which demanded universal suffrage for men, regardless of social class. (From the Daily Bleed)
June 16, 1848 – The Berlin arsenal was captured by rebellious citizens. The "German Revolutions" of 1848 swept across 50 European states, mostly affiliated with the German Confederation and Austria. While the middle classes were fighting for a unified German state and increased civil liberties, the working class had more revolutionary aspirations. Participants in the revolution included communist and anarchist revolutionaries like Marx, Engels and Mikhail Bakunin, as well as the composer Wagner. (From the Daily Bleed)
June 16, 1869 – In the small mining town of Ricamarie, France, troops were called in to suppress a workers' strike, opening fire on demonstrators protesting the arrest of 40 workers, killing 14 (including a 17-month-old girl in her mother's arms) and wounding 60 others (including 10 children). (From the Daily Bleed)
June 16, 1873 – Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting. (From the Daily Bleed)
June 16, 1918 –Eugene Debs delivered his famous Canton, Ohio anti-war Speech. America was at war with Germany, at the time, and radicals were being routinely rounded up and jailed, often illegally, when Debs gave this speech. The new Espionage Act was being used to prosecute people for their opposition to the war and Deb's speech was used to make the case that he had violated the Act. (From the Daily Bleed)
June 16, 1920 – The U.S. Marines began fighting in Haiti to defend U.S. "interests" there. (From the Daily Bleed)
June 16, 1933 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Industrial Recovery Act, which recognized the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively through unions. The legislation was later found unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. However, it helped inspire a wave of union organizing and pave the way for the National Labor Relations Act, which was passed in 1935. (From Workday Minnesota)
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June 16, 1937 – The Trotskyist POUM, a significant constituent of the Spanish Republican forces (and the group with which George Orwell fought) was outlawed and its militants persecuted by the counter-revolutionary Stalinists and the Republic's police, thus making the Republic and the Stalinists more vulnerable to the fascists. (From the Daily Bleed). For a good fictionalization of the Spanish war against the fascists, and the POUM's and anarchist's betrayal by the Stalinists, see Ken Loach's Tierra y Libertad.
June 16, 1953 – Jack Hall of the ILWU and six others (the "Hawai'i Seven") were convicted under the Smith Act for being communists. (From the Daily Bleed)


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Businessperson's race, planned this weekend
The always-popular Businessperson's Race will be held at noon Saturday, Jan. 14 at the Chugiak Dog Mushers Association's Beach Lake trails off of South Birchwood Loop.
"It's a tradition," said CDMA president Val Jokela.
Jokela said the races have been going on for "easily 25" years.
The format is simple. Local businesspeople sign up and are teamed with local mushers, who donate their time and dogs to show the rookies the basics of running a dog team. The race itself is a 2-mile, 3-dog affair.
The races are held in conjunction with the CDMA's annual Eagle River Classic races, which will be held both Saturday and Sunday. The Classic races begin at 2 p.m. each day.
Jokela said the races are fan-friendly, with many of the local businesspeople dressing up in wacky costumes for the event.
"It's just a lot of fun," she said.
Making things even better this year, she said, are the condition of the trails.
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What it is: Lawn Fawn, one of the newest companies on the stamping block(pun intended...har har), has just released 9 new sets of high quality photo-polymer clear stamps this spring. This brings their collection to 45 sets in just a little over a year! I have to say that I am highly impressed! That's quite a collection to choose from. But how COULD you choose? They are all so cute!
I would be lying if I told you that I wasn't over-the-moon excited when I received these adorable stamps. The images are too sweet, and the sentiments are just so clever. I received the "Clear to See", "Plus One", and the "Say Cheese"(top 3 sets pictured above) sets to work with, and let me tell you, I had a BLAST working with them, so much so, that I made way more projects than I needed to complete my review!
What I liked:
1. The sentiments are mix-and-matchable for many of the sets. For example: in the "Plus One" set, you could come up with a ton of different sentiment phrases for pregnancy and birth announcements, congratulations cards for boy or girl, and even shower invitations.
2. The stamps create a nice clean image when stamping, and they're clear, so you can see just where you're stamping.
3. Lawn Fawn stamp images are fun and quirky. I especially love the happy little faces they add to many of the images.
What I didn't like: I am honestly trying to come up with something I didn't like about these stamps, and I am coming up blank. I really enjoyed using them and I can see myself reaching for them over and over again.
What I made:
Congrats baby mobile card
Be Unique card
Bundle of joy card
Where and How Much:
Product Name: Lawn Fawn Stamps
Manufacturer: Lawn Fawn
Available at: Two Peas In A Bucket, Custom Crops*, Simon Says Stamp
What I think: I truly LOVE these stamps! They stamp cleanly, they're adorable, and sturdy. I will be using them over and over!
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Published at Thursday, July 04th, 2019 - 00:38:13 AM. Wedding Venue. By Alfonso Krämer.
Is taking pictures allowed? If you want to stage your first look or just snap some of the party portraits before the event starts, can you do the same and when and where in your venue? Can you visit there before the wedding?
Once you're happy you've found the right choice for you, place a provisional booking with them, and if necessary pay a small deposit to secure the date. You'll want to ensure your key family members can make it to Essex for your special day, so phone around and make sure everyone is available, there is nothing worse then booking your wedding only to find someone special is away on holiday and will miss your big day.
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