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My latest lighting demoreel updated with shots from Transformers : Age Of Extinction. Other shots in the reel include Rango, Marvel's The Avengers, Transformers Dark Of The Moon and Star Trek : Into Darkness.
Lighting Reel 2014
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September 22nd, 2014 at 10:05 pm
Absolutely amazing work. I've been following Halcyon Realms since your Sunrise days and it's unbelievable to see how far you've come and the projects you get to work on. Keep it up! 🙂
September 23rd, 2014 at 3:21 am
September 23rd, 2014 at 7:52 pm
Tam – First of all thank you for visiting my blog all these years ! For the most part I'm just standing on the shoulders of the artistic giants at ILM, it's great to have a chance to work with these guys. :]
DISTRAKT – Haha. Thanks ! :]
September 24th, 2014 at 6:13 pm
Great work. What sort of software do you work with? What renderer do you most often use? And what advice would you give to another artist? Thanks.
September 24th, 2014 at 11:04 pm
Fresh2death – Thank you. We use mostly Katana for lighting work and for rendering PRman.
Perhaps for anyone who is interested in lighting, it is useful to watch lots of movies, take lots of pictures, and take keen observation of how light and colors shape the surroundings. :]

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Expected Publication April 29th 2013 by Pocket Star
ebook, 224 pages
Natalie's one of Frankenstein's creations and works in a New York City morgue. So of course she needs therapy. She and her friends—er, fellow monsters—have formed the world's most exclusive, most dysfunctional support group. What could go wrong?
Undetected in the modern world and under pressure to stay that way, Natalie Grey, Dracula, Bob the Blob, and others (including the fetching wolfman Alec) meet regularly to talk about the pressures of being infamous in the Big Apple. Topics include how long it's been since their last sighting, how their "story" creates stereotypes they can't fulfill, and—gasp—sometimes even their feelings. But when their pervy Invisible Man, Ellis, is killed in a manner reminiscent of the H.G. Wells novel, it's clear someone's discovered their existence and is down for some monster busting.
Led by Natalie—and definitely not helped by Hyde's bloodthirsty tendencies—the members of Monstofelldosis Anonymous band together for security and a little sleuthing. And maybe—maybe—if they don't end up dead, they'll end up friends somewhere along the way.
Petersen has created a monster. All those old school monster, black and white cliques come together in a group in a basement to discuss there hidden progress. When one of there own are offed they must work together or become the hunted.
This has to be Petersen's breakthrough novel. a sequel on the horizon and great dialogue with all the monsters. Frankenstein's monster, swamp dweller, Dracula, werewolf, the blob and a few more a must read cult pop culture for the 21st century.
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Today I had my second flat, my first was in Punta Gorda across from a bike shop. No manmade objects have caused them, so far thorns are the culprits. The Cannondale is holding up well, thanks to the guys at The Bike Route Naples who built my wheels and overhauled the rest in preparation for my journey. Thanks guys!
Mississippi River Sunday
Sunday I crossed over the mighty Mississippi Riverleaving behind the deep southern states, 15,000 feet of hill climbing and over a thousand miles. as I travel I meet wonderful and unique people however they all have similar questions for me. Where….from… to… WHAT??…WHY??….HOWWW LONG?? You should see the reactions. As far as distance goes, I tell them that I don't have to get to Alaska today, I just have to get to that next curve, (I point…they look). Little daily milestones keep me going and just when I think I'm not getting anywhere, I look back and think it all went by too quickly. This week I'll be crossing the Ozark Mountains and I can test out my Alabama climbing basic training that I put myself through. Route 84 through Alabama, The El Camino Trail, is a logging road that other bikers avoid because of the unending hills and logging truck traffic, good to know now.
Maggie's Used Books
Maggie's used books in Dothan Alabama was a great stop, initially went past but was drawn to turn around. I walked in and Maggie welcomed me with a cold bottle water and said a lot of people come in after turning around, something draws us in. Maggie picked the perfect book and gave it to me for a rainy tent day. Her mom's book shop is in Franklin NC. Thank you Maggie!
Dietitian Dianne
Resetmyself.com's Director of Operations is retired NCH Head Dietitian Dianne. Dianne has been involved in the planning and execution of this bike tour from day 1. She is in daily contact, as signal permits, consulting on dietary and nutritional needs as well as drop shipping supplies as necessary. 110 g. Protien is the optimum necessary to keep my body from consuming muscle. We are constantly adjusting as food availability and carrying weight are major factors. As the days go on and patterns become recognizeable we will report what seems to work best to keep my energy levels at peak. Dietitian Dianne will also periodically provide us some insight and stories aquired during her professional career.
My Disclaimer
my disclaimer first of all this blog is going to be created using my Plantronics headset in my voice activated samsung phone so please excuse errors and omissions and editing screw ups difficult to edit from the bicycle most the time I think if you just read through it you can kind of figure out what I was trying to convey in case the words are not right
mix my topics I'm discussing here on my blogs a large portion the focus on the last 2 years of my lifeand my endeavors to get healthy learn about health and hopefully tell my stories in such a way others may find them relevant in some way or form
just too short years agoI was headed for speed towards the grave eating and drinking everything insight human vacuum cleaner and headno concept of the true harm I was doing to my body also looking back on photographsit is truly horrifyingso and some of my blogs I will try to convey my journey and impart some of my newly learned wisdom I'm not a doctorand I have just scratched the surface I'm learningbut the truth is everyone that I speak with is touched somewhere in in their family or close associations by this open by this open mouth cramming food intodisease diabetes and they're desperate to find some solace or solutions of which I can only tell my story as it relates before I woke up to this problem nobody could tell me so I understand what people are up against and yes it usually does take some kind of a catastrophe or tragedy so wake people up or open their eyesso I will be my part to recount some of the faces I went through and until some other people storiesthat I've met during my journey and if I can just help one personmake a reset that I have done then it'll all be worth it
North Florida
Where you goin?
I'm coming to realize one of thethe things I'm loving most about this experience so far is that everyone that I meet and talk about what I'm doing with my positive outlook regarding this endeavor is having a positive and contagious effect on them. no matter what type of day people are having when they spot me read my poster or ask me what's going on believe me my answers change their day! the looks the reactions and the comments are priceless as you could well imagine.
Cross City Fl
Farmland and forests very green part of Florida, grinding out the miles on a sunny day.
Crystal River Angel
Fred took me in and fed me dinner and breakfast and gave me a bed to sleep in but more importantly than that gave me a sensei to grasshopper education regarding bicycle touring as he had done several tours and just happened to be the owner of the Crystal River Bike Shop named Surreys Sycles. he sent me away with spokes and tool after extensive lesson on spoke replacement and rim and spoke maintenance, a professional patch kit, perfectly fitting padded bike shorts, and even his own personal cornstarch dispenser for those times when baby powder just won't do. I can't thank you enough Fred, however thank you in advance for the many disasters you've already helped me avert that I totally was not aware of
Sunday St Pete
Sunday morning started off with our waitress at breakfast telling us she had seen this on television after breakfast while riding up through Madeira Beach I had an escort from and Ohio Harley club beeping and waving flags,lot of people all day waving cheering very excited for me, got a police escort through traffic jam and over the bridge. met a great guy named Frank who save me from going to highway 19 and let me to the Pinellas trail system which was a fantastic ride much better than the highway. Jason rode with me most of the way to Palm Harborand we talked about the trials and tribulations he's going through with his family going to diet going to vegetarian going back to meat, at the end he gave me all his power snacks and bought me some waters very nice guy thank you very much Jason.


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Now I want to preface this post by saying that my opinion is colored by the rose tint of nostalgia.
I grew up in India, in a boarding school with shitty food, my vacations however were always in Delhi and when our parents took us out it was two places, Bukhara or Moti Mahal. (Moti mahal was always special in our family because that is where my mom's father took her). Bukhara had the most amazing Dal makhani and Moti mahal was a close second. However for the Butter Chicken and Tandori Chicken there is nothing that compared in a sit down restaurant (a couple of street places had better food) . Now i have lived in the states 12 years and new york 7. I have eaten a lot of Indian food and i have liked various things, Khathi roles, kebabs , chicken makhini, rogan josh etc etc. But i had never been able to get the Dal Makhani and Butter Chicken of my childhood. Until now that is.
When a friend said Moti Mahal, a collaboration with the Indian restaurant, was opening in the Upper east side, i ventured from the west side to see if the Dal Makhani and Butter Chicken lived up to my memory. Today for the first time, in a long time, food bought forward a flood of emotions and bought back memories from my childhood. The Dal makhani is second to none i have had since I left India I could have sufficed on the richness of the dal alone. The Butter Chicken was sublime, It had the right balance of creaminess and spice. Make sure when you order the Butter Chicken you order the chicken as a Tandori chicken. We got the Tandori Chicken separately and it was succulent. Spiced to the perfect degree and kept in the Tandoor for exactly right amount amount of time. The Lamb Masala Tikka was so good, (all i could think was it would be perfect as a Khathi roll with a double egg but that is another story). The deserts also where like a trip down memory lane. Though the ras malai and the Phirni were above par they can be found elsewhere. The difference was the ice cream. It had Vanilla and Strawberry ice cream, the difference is hard to describe, i am no wordsmith. but anyone who has gone to India and eaten the Vanilla Ice Cream sold on the corner mother dairy know the difference.
We also tried the different things that they offer, the Golgappa shots and the Pan shots, they where good. A unique twist to traditional dishes but like i have mentioned, for me this was a trip down memory lane that i have not experienced in many years. The food is as authentic as you are going to get in New York CIty or anywhere else in America. If you do make it out there order the butter chicken and Dal Makhani with a butter nan. For starters try the Golgapa shots and for desert Tutti Fruity.


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Thats what cloudy winter weekends are made for: cookies and readings. I'm currently busy rolling through the entire and brand new fantastic man book. For it's tenth anniversary the magazine published this nearly 600 pages thick tome. Packed with interviews and portraits about the most fantastic men in fashion, art and design: Rem Koolhaas, Wolfgang Tillmanns, Juergen Teller, Raf Simons, … Definitely worth a look-through!
From left to right: Dust magazine issue #8 volume 1 and 2, Fantastic Man book by Phaidon, The Forecast (a 2016 trend forecast magazine from the editors and bureaux of Monocle), The Vitra Campus book by Vitra Design Museum, ZEITmagazin issue #3 of 2016
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|The horrifying history of people who used the internet for murder
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|This week a man from Minnesota was convicted of aiding in the suicides of two people he met online while posing as a female nurse. He is one of a new breed of "partial" killers who could not have existed before the internet age.
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Happy New Year's Eve!
A huge, heartfelt thank you to everyone who stopped by here over the last year! Thank you for your comments and good wishes, thanks to those who booked a class with us, or signed up for a culinary tour (on Commercial Drive or in Paris!), those who came out to our winter fundraiser and who invited us to speak at an event. And a special big thank you to everyone who cooked a recipe from this site over the last year for someone that they love. When I think about what was special about the last year and what I am most looking forward to in the year ahead it all comes back to gathering people around the table to eat, drink, talk and laugh. Here's to a very happy, very healthy 2013!
For the second year in a row we are rounding out our twelve days on the very final day of the year which is kind of a nice way to wrap up this crazy canapé extravaganza.
On this 12th day I am offering up a sophisticated, vegetarian, easy, beautiful and delicious canapé. These truffle scented wild mushrooms on toasted brioche topped with some crème fraîche and a sprig of thyme are the hors d'oeuvre equivalent of the little black dress. These are best served with a tall flute of very cold Champagne.
Wild Mushrooms on Brioche Crostini
Recipe is from Nick Mackintosh via The Telegraph
5 large slices of brioche, 1/2 inch (1 cm) thick, crusts removed
4 tablespoons olive oil
Fine grain sea salt and freshly ground pepper
17 ounces (500 g) mixed wil mushrooms
2 teaspoons butter
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 shallot, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
1/4 teaspoon white truffle oil
3 1/2 ounces (100g) crème fraîche
24 small sprigs fresh thyme
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees (180 C). Place the brioche on a baking tray and brush with 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Season with some salt and pepper and bake for six minutes or so until golden grown. Cut each into four squares and set aside. The crostini can be made a couple of days in advance and stored in an airtight container.
Clean the mushrooms, discard the stalks and slice. Heat a frying pan with the butter and the rest of the oil over medium heat. Sauté the garlic, shallot and mushrooms until golden. Season with salt and pepper and stir in the thyme and truffle oil. Do this a day or two in advance (if possible) to allow the flavours to develop. Refrigerate but warm up the mushrooms a bit when ready to serve.
Divide the mushroom mixture between the crostini and garnish with a dollop of crème fraîche and a sprig of thyme.
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Review: Trieste by Dasa Drndic
MacLehose Press, £20
Stomach-churning work of docu-fiction is not flawless but, finds Jennifer Ryan, it is highly original and gripping
Trieste is a detailed work of documentary fiction covering more than 80 years of European history. No one could accuse Dasa Drndic of not doing her homework. In fact, if anything, she may have overdone it. An overload of tangents, histories of towns and people, take from the power of Haya's own tale. Trieste will be a nightmare for those seeking a clean-cut, linear narrative. An abundance of photographs, footnotes, song lyrics, train transport lists, testimonials and -- most notably -- a list of 9,000 Jews deported from, or killed in, Italy between 1943-45, make for a busy read.
We first meet 83-year-old Italian Haya Tedeschi sitting quietly in a room on Via Apria in the Italian town of Gorizia, in 2006. She is anxious about a pending reunion with her son, Antonio, from whom she was separated just five months after his birth. Haya's story begins alongside that of the Great War and continues to weave its way through European history before, during and after the Second World War.
Her parents moved their young family across the borders of Italy and Albania throughout the Thirties and slowly began discarding their Jewish heritage in favour of a safer Catholic existence under the increasingly omnipresent Mussolini. As the political landscape changes, the Tedeschi family observe the terrifying impact of the 1938 race laws on all around them.
Years later, the octogenarian Haya is performing an audit of her memory bank. Images of bodies piled in town squares appear, followed closely by "columns of Italian Wehrmacht prisoners of war". Belzec and Treblinka are among the place names elderly Haya now knows to associate with mass extermination, but in her youth and under her parents' guidance, Haya found herself "living in the illusion of ignorance" in an Italian town anxious to avoid the horrific realities of what we now know was genocide.
In the town of Gorizia, against a backdrop of ominous and continuous railway traffic, fear and feigned ignorance, Haya falls for an SS officer named Kurt Franz. She must surely have sensed that her future was not only uncertain but most probably littered with inescapable tragedy. After fathering her child, Franz ends his relationship with Haya, calmly informing his "little Jewess" that theirs is not a relationship for public eyes. Besides, he must return home to marry his German fiancee.
Five months later, baby Antonio is snatched from his pram as Haya's back is turned. This is the crux of the tale: Lebensborn, Himmler's clandestine project which strove for a "racially pure" Germany boasting an Ubermensch species.
What, for years had been happening all around her, has
now happened to Haya. The German authorities believed Antonio's life would be better lived as the child of "pure Aryans". Now, years later and with the help of the Red Cross, Haya will meet her grown-up son, renamed Hans Traube, whose tale is told in the final quarter of Trieste.
At times the lyrical nature of the language is a testament to the translator, Ellen Elias-Bursac. There is a skill to translating; remaining loyal to the original story while also adequately reflecting the beauty of the writing is always a tricky balance to strike. Managing to do so with a novel as dense, multi-faceted and wide-reaching as this one is a noteworthy achievement.
Trieste is a massive undertaking, both for the author and the reader. It swings from stomach-churning but compelling testimonials from former concentration camp workers to fluid fictional prose. Its English-language publisher is declaring the novel to be a "shattering contribution to the literature of our 20th-Century history". Many may dispute the claim and more still may dislike Drndic's style, but few will be able to ignore this highly original title.
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Illegal excavation of limestone in Valikaamam HSZ raises concern
Threatening the entire groundwater salinity of Jaffna peninsula, a private Sinhalese company is engaged in the illegal excavation of limestone in the High Security Zone (HSZ) in Valikaamam North while Rajapaksa government refuses to reveal details of this enterprise in the area from Maaviddapuram to Keerimalai where the uprooted residents have not been allowed to resettle for the past twenty years. The indiscriminate excavation of limestone in a 4 sq km area at depths of nearly 40 feet has already caused seepage of sea water and it is feared the area becoming submerged. The underground channels that bring in freshwater to the innumerable aquifers of the peninsula, have an underneath entry into sea adjacent to the locality of the quarries. It is obvious how indiscriminate quarrying and the possibility of seawater coming inside can affect the potable water of the masses.
The Jaffna Peninsula depends largely on the limestone bed for the preservation of rainwater into groundwater.
It is already an alarming news that 30 percent of the groundwater in the peninsula has become saline in recent times due to various reasons.
The hasty reopening of the factory when people are not resettled and not even allowed entry into this High Security Zone raises suspicion on many quarters, on the intention of the government and involved companies, whether the aim is to exploit the resources making use of the situation.
Highly influential persons in the Sri Lankan government are engaged in the current illegal business of excavating limestone, which gives them profits amounting to millions of rupees.
Meanwhile, academic circles in Jaffna blamed big powers such as India for assisting the Sri Lankan state under the pretext of 'development' of Jaffna peninsula without any preconditions involving the considerations of the people of the peninsula. They viewed the so-called 'development assistance' as a move abetting the Sinhala state's continued structural genocide on Eezham Tamils.
Big mounts of excavated limestones are heaped on both sides of the road from Maaviddapuram temple to Keerimalai temple.
A private company, 'V. V. Karunaratne' from the South, has installed heavy machinery including crushers in the above militarised HSZ where limestone is dug out, crushed and sent to a cement factory in Galle in South.
Hundreds of Southern Sinhalese labourers are engaged in excavating lime stone in Valikaamam North where its residents had been evicted by SLA, Jaffna MP, Appathurai Vinayagamoorthy who visited the place said in a press meet held in Jaffna 27 May 2010.
The excavated limestone is taken to the cement factories in Galle in ships and via A9 road.
The Kaangkeasanthu'rai (KKS) Cement Factory, which was started in the 1950s, was closed down in the 1980s due to the war.
The reason for starting the factory at that location was the availability of good quality limestone.
In those days when it was functioning it was a common sight that even palmyra palms of the surrounding villages were found with cement dust. Maaviddapuram, Kollangkaladdi and Pannaalai, which catered to the betel leaf requirement of the entire peninsula, had to compromise with the cement-covered crops.
The limestone bed is at its thickest in this stretch of land, reaching up to 50 feet at the nearby coast of Keerimalai. This also happens to be the highest altitude reached by the landscape of the peninsula.
The limestone was quarried for the factory, leaving a narrow margin along the coast. If at any time there is a breach in this margin or a tidal wave occurs, one is sure to find a lagoon in the quarried stretch.
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Bigger And His Fear, Flight And Fate Essay, Research Paper
An ancient Greek myth has been told for centuries about a boy who lives in fear. Icarus had been forced to live his life imprisoned until one day he had the opportunity to escape. He had been provided with a pair of wax wings with which he could flee his captor. He took advantage of these wings and set sail. While in flight away from the prison, he discovered the joy and exhilaration that came with freedom. The boy challenged the wings and voyaged higher and closer to the hot sun. Soon enough, his wings melted and he perished in the vast sea. This story has served as a recurring theme in modern literature.
In the early 1940 s, acclaimed author, Richard Wright wrote his masterpiece Native Son. This novel deals with many of the same metaphorical ideas that first arose in the Greek myth. Wright s protagonist, Bigger, was a young African-American man who had been oppressed all his life by the white racist society which surrounded him. Much like Icarus, Bigger discovered a fatal way to release himself from his imprisoned life. And, like Icarus, Bigger also challenged his freedom and failed. Wright splits Bigger s story into three chapters, Fear, Flight and Fate. Each is significant to Bigger s journey through life.
Throughout the first section of the novel Bigger lives his life in fear. He fears the white man, the police, religion, love and most importantly, being known as a coward. Bigger s friend Gus states during an argument with Bigger You calling me scared so nobody ll see how scared you is! (29) Bigger reacts by leaping at him with intentions to inflict pain. Bigger responds this way to all of his fears. To shield himself from the acknowledgement of weakness, he deals with his fears through violence. His eyes red with anger and fear, his fists clenched and held stiffly to his side. (28) The reader observes one of Bigger s violent acts during the first scene of the novel, when he brutally smashes a rat with a skillet. His violence escalates as the chapter goes on. He and his friends plan to rob a delicatessen; however, Bigger is anxious due to the fact that the owner is a white proprietor. He decides to sabotage the robbery. Bigger picks a fight with Gus by threatening him with a knife. His strategy works and the robbery is aborted. Finally, at the end of the chapter, Bigger commits murder while caught in a frantic situation with the drunken daughter of his white employer. While in her room, her blind mother walks in. He fears that if he is discovered he would be fired and arrested. In order to silence the drunken girl, he suffocates her with a pillow. The mother assumes her daughter had just passed out.
Bigger is in flight, both physically and metaphorically, throughout the second chapter. After committing murder, he feels as though he can do anything. He felt a certain sense of power, a power born of a latent power to live the knowledge that he had killed a white girl they had loved and regarded as their symbol of beauty made him feel the equal of them. (155) Like the flying boy, Icarus, Bigger challenges his new freedom. He attempts to acquire money from his victim s family. He writes a ransom note suggesting communists had kidnapped the girl and were holding her for ransom. Bigger no longer feels the need to talk or interact with people who he originally felt had authority over him. He did not look at them; they were simply blind people (165) He alienates himself from his family. When detectives and his victim s family question him, he provides them with minimal answers. Inevitably, evidence of his victim s dead body is discovered and Bigger flees the scene. Now, he changes, adopts a new form of flight, one that is more literal. He must run, hide and be in physical flight from the police. Rather than enjoy his fleeting, spiritual freedom, he must realize that the sense of power he feels as a result of taking human life has not earned him release from his oppressors. By the end of this chapter, Bigger crashes into a sea of chaos. He had flown too high. Like Icarus, his arrogance had defeated him, leaving him surrounded by police.
Fate, rather than free will, takes over Bigger s life in the last chapter, leaving him without a sense of control over his life. Once in jail he knew his life was doomed. Never again did he want to feel anything like hope. (315) However, Bigger was provided with a communist lawyer who helped him to accept his life for what it was. This lawyer was the first white man who Bigger had interacted with that treated him as an equal. This lawyer talked to him, showed Bigger other ways to release stress, tension, and fear beside violence and crime. The strange thrill he felt when he talked about his problems is unknown to him. He describes it as this new sense of the value of himself gained from Max s talk, a sense fleeting and obscure for the first time in his life he felt the ground beneath his feet. (334) His spirit felt freer than it ever had before. In the end, Bigger was sentenced to death, despite his lawyer s fantastic argument; however, Bigger was no longer afraid to die. He tells Max in the last scene of the novel I didn t really know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill just go and tell Ma I was all right tell her I was all right and wasn t crying none (392)
Fear, Flight and Fate are timeless themes in art, both classical and modern. Perhaps these themes resonate in art because they appear too often in life. Painter, Jean-Michel Basquiat expressed his life as a black artist through his paintings. He depicted the prejudices he experienced as a Haitian-American through abstract expressionism. Many of his paintings feature images of blacks reacting violently and dangerously to their fears. Like Icarus and Bigger, Basquiat was self-destructive. Throughout his youth, he was forced to live on the streets. A well-known art critic discovered his work and began showing it in New York galleries. Basquiat was a huge success in the art world and he was able to escape his life in the streets. However, his monetary and critical success did not alter his sense of self or place in society. The force of pain and survival of the street continue exert control over his life and talents. He began using his money on drugs. Inevitably, he destroyed himself through a heroin overdose at age 25. While analyzing Native Son, the reader is able to make connections between Bigger s life and the stories of Icarus and Basquiat. The themes that they present, fear, flight, and fate are common tools used to illustrate lives of oppressed people and their reactions to freedom and success.
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Primped, hairless and buff, the Hindi film hero has little in common with his predecessor. It's a product, argues Paromita Vohra, of a new politics of aspiration
Rustom-e-Baghdad (1963) || Credits: Osian's Archive and Library Collection
Watching Prakash Jha's Rajneeti (2010), I thrilled to what felt like a genuinely transgressive moment, a feeling rarely evoked by contemporary Hindi film. Ranbir Kapoor was in the shower. We saw his back, and then, he turned around. I gasped. My companion asked me what happened. "He has hair on his chest!" I exclaimed.
A male chest with hair on it has now become so absent from the landscape of Bollywood bodies that this altogether natural sight seemed almost forbidden; erotic in some unregulated way. It is not a sight that has since repeated itself on the mainstream Hindi screen, as far as I know.
The man with hair on his chest, his testosterone abundantly on display, has always been one of the traditional symbols of masculinity. I remember giggling through a conversation with my aunt and a friend of hers in the late 1980s, as they discussed the many positive qualities of Dharmendra. "That's how a man should be," said my aunt, with a big grin. "He-man, with hair on his chest." Already, by then, the idea of a "he-man" was passé, cartoonish, a throwback to a notion of masculinity that did not fit with changing notions of gender.
We had begun to locate a man's attractiveness not so much in conventional physical good looks, as in some intangible quality of sexiness or appeal. The rising stars at the time were the three Khans, still going strong today, of course, and they were all then boyish and carefree, and conspicuously not in the he-man mould. In this, they represented a continuity in what had been prevailing with heroic personae in Hindi films.
There had always been traditionally masculine and also beautiful men in Hindi films. They were popular stars too—Dharmendra, famous for his manly thighs; Vinod Khanna, lusted after for his easy masculine build and liquefied good looks; Raaj Kumar's haughty hotness; even a young Prem Nath's heavy-lidded, full-lipped sensuality. But these stars never quite reigned over the national consciousness. It may be a fanciful thought, but it was almost as if their beauty was a limitation.
The position of reigning stars went to actors whose appeal lay in a certain persona, which did not require a traditional masculine physique. Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand all being examples of big stars whose appeal lay in their emotive force as idealistic, noble or conflicted figures dealing with social and national value systems.
On-screen masculinity could even accommodate decidedly not good-looking men like Pradeep Kumar and Rajendra Kumar, whose appeal is mysterious, or perhaps lies in their being absolutely unthreatening as far as sex appeal goes, bodies that are present, but have no real bodily presence.
The muscular man did appear briefly in films—Prithviraj Kapoor, who reportedly went to akharas to build his body, had been an important star. But, on the whole, muscular men symbolised the rustic and the foot soldier, for instance, Dara Singh, famed wrestler who became a movie star, but never graduated above B-grade stunt films. The depiction of the muscled man also ranged from the humorous to the contemptuous in song sketches or comedic interludes playing on a brain-versus-brawn dichotomy. The brain was needed to both survive in a new and changing India as well as to build a new India in the role of (of course, male) engineers, doctors and managers. To imagine a new nation called India into being called for the mind and spirit, not the body, of the hero of mainstream Hindi cinema. The Nehruvian hero lay not in the villages or in traditional vocabularies of masculinity, but in urban, developing India.
In some ways, in this world, beauty was not the work of men—nor was the appreciation of, and intoxication with, male beauty the work of idealised women. Men did not have to appeal to anyone—woman or man— on the basis of their appearance. Rather, they operated at a "higher" level as embodying a set of qualities related to honour, community, family and a series of behaviours and attitudes, not physical attributes. The women they deserved were beautiful but willing to recast their spiritedness into supportiveness, noble companions who stood by their men.
It was not until Shammi Kapoor in the 1960s that a hero whose presence was strongly physical took centrestage. His cavorting and physical shenanigans signalled youthful abandon, a liberation of sorts from the traditional male aura of contained responsibility that had preceded him. Shammi Kapoor's rock-and-roll recklessness and campy posturing before the camera to show it his best side opened out a visual narrative of male beauty for female appreciation and also, unstated yet evident, for queer appreciation.
Here was a hero who was willing to make a new kind of woman—mischievous, lighthearted, consuming the bodily pleasures of fashion and bicycles and cars, while also acquiring an English-medium education and so able to say "Oh, you shut up"—the focus of his attention. This set the stage for the mannerisms and simpering flirtations of Rajesh Khanna who became a blowout romantic sensation in the 1970s, leading Shobhaa De (then Rajadhyaksha) to coin the term "superstar" to describe his cultural status.
Deewaar (1975) || Credits: SMM Ausaja
This was followed by the very differently textured reign of Amitabh Bachchan, where body was not unimportant, but masculinity still lay in brooding, smouldering, lonely quests and emotional self-denial. The body might exhibit strength—defeating villains in fistfights—and it may partake of physical pleasures—as in the famous post-coital cigarette scene with Parveen Babi in Deewaar. But it remained emotionally under-nourished, making do with Zohra Bais while longing for Paro and Ma in an extended performance of the Devdas figure.
Something changed dramatically for Bollywood men in the 1990s. If there is a moment that is representative of this change, it is in the 1998 film, Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya where Salman Khan sang and danced shirtless on a stage, in the song "O O Jaane Jana". Not only did he unveil here a new muscled body, it was also a shiny, hairless body, every single hair waxed neatly off. In this film, Salman Khan reprised a role he had played more than once, including in his hit debut film Maine Pyar Kiya. He is a rich, urban young man from the city who always falls for a more traditional, girl, more "rooted" in the small town or semi-rural. In order to win her, he must prove himself to her male relatives—her father, her brother.
While Shah Rukh Khan's persona was doing the same thing in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge through the redefining of love, Salman Khan had to win the girl in his films by proving that he was capable of hard, physical labour. It was like the reverse-migration of the Indian metropolitan film hero, from the world of the mind and spirit, and urban material prosperity, to the hinterland and to the body. Salman Khan had to show he was a real man, capable of supporting a woman, by using his body to survive and succeed in the world.
Salman Khan also played out a parallel narrative in real life, where he built up his body into its current muscular form, a process much written-about in popular media. It is as if the narrative persona that he inhabited onscreen, and the being he sculpted through an elaborate, dedicated physical regimen, came together to become one in Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya, creating a powerful symbol of the physical man hitherto not taken seriously, re-embodied as a new male ideal in globalised India. The built body presented the idea that there was, apparently, no natural order of things. The natural—the body— could be converted into the appropriate ideal for a new version of India taking shape in the post-globalisation years.
Bodybuilding culture was not new in India. It had been variously articulated in the 1930s and 1940s. The Hindu right wing's vyayamshala culture focused on physical strength for the soldier of Hindutva. The akharas were a traditional space of masculine brotherhood and identity, a whole way of life. Exercise clubs were created for the health and fitness of the children of workers (Mazdoor Welfare Associations). Physical Education or PT was incorporated into school curricula. In Mumbai this culture took strong root in working-class areas—chawls and slums—across communities and, over time, a significant mobilising space for political organisations too. Bodybuilding contests became an important way for young men, struggling to gain a foothold in an inimical economic and cultural context, to establish a sense of public life and prominence.
This working class, and somewhat disenfranchised universe of bodybuilding, gained mainstream visibility through the figures of Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan. Its vocabulary has gone on to become the lingua franca for the male body in the new globalised economy of India, much as beauty contests did for women. A gym-generated body of this sort has ceased to be optional in mainstream Hindi cinema. To show that you are able to sculpt your body is a rite of passage often carried out publicly in order to prove your eligibility for success. Hrithik Roshan, Sonu Sood and Varun Dhawan have all articulated PR-friendly versions of this narrative for the media. Occasionally women too have done so—Kareena Kapoor's much publicised acquisition of a size zero figure and, later, Parineeti Chopra's new body become narratives of how changing your body could change your destiny.
For any new idea to seize the imagination of a public it has to resonate in deeper ways. The built body, its language of cuts and trims, its cultivated hairlessness, provide an interesting sense of democracy. These replicable, standardised bodies are to our times what a college degree once was to another. A qualification for entry into the economy, in this case, of media visibility which represents the facsimile of success.
In this sense we could call it the "automatic body"—a technology we imagine will automatically guarantee entry into the dream of India shining, moving, growing.
Its technological approach holds out the idea of automatic success—get the body to get the mobility. In some ways it is like the dream of English, sold by Chetan Bhagat. Get English, get high-paying jobs and economic mobility.
But, as with spoken language, can a body have an accent? Perhaps body language is the accent of the body, marking us as being from a place, marking a way of being. We carry whole histories of "desi-ness" in the way we sit, stand and move. The new gym-created body automatically irons out every inflection of bodily identity by creating identical bodies through an identical process, all speaking the same body-language.
Like the call-centre voice, free of MTI (mother tongue influence), so the constructed male body is symbolically free of its origin, of regional inflection once expressed by say, Bachchan, in songs like "Khaike paan Banaraswala". Maybe that is also why these bodies must be waxed, even though the people in these bodies are not body builders who need to display muscle definition. The hair symbolises that unruly naturalness of individual difference in growth and texture that we have to pretend does not exist in order to pretend we are all equal, even if we are not.
As an aside, this cleaned-up replicable body is something that Bollywood itself has symbolically acquired through a voluble public story of how it has cleansed itself of black money and unruliness. It is apparently a new, uninflected Bollywood symbolised by the mental gymnasium-generated bound script. "Civilished" and streamlined through corporatisation into replicable success formulae.
The body becomes, quite literally, a glistening, well-oiled machine for globalised India, one whose brute strength and muscularity are smoothed out into hairless metrosexuality. The urban male subsumes the idea of the working class and small town male in this bodily figure, presenting a logic of sameness which nevertheless erases the true underlying diversity and inequities of Indian class and caste.
Om Shanti Om (2007) || Credit: SMM Ausaja
Today this bodily demonstration is carried out as a norm for ordinary people and superstars alike. Even actors whose stardom did not rely on a body type have had to do it. Aamir Khan in Ghajini (2008) had to recreate his body with his typical moral earnestness while Shah Rukh Khan did it with his trademark irony in the famous six-pack of Om
Shanti Om. Hairlessness is important. But the six-pack is the new chest hair, replacing it as a visible signpost of masculinity.
No story is ever so unitary, of course, and there are other intertwined narratives ongoing, disrupting these normative rhythms in the creation of automatic bodies.
For instance, in the parallel trajectories of figures like John Abraham, emerging through modelling contests, the body is presented as something for visual pleasure and beauty also—the metrosexual body and also the queer body, opening up a discussion of homosexual attractiveness otherwise absent in public. Hairlessness is also an essential ingredient of this body, both to evoke youth and softness along with the masculinity of muscles. This body is far more fluid in appearance and meaning but easily absorbed into the mainstream without uncomfortable questions or implications considered.
Does this mean the male figure is more sexualised and also accommodates female pleasure? In some ways, yes, the male body now certainly carries more sexual meaning. But it often feels like it's all for show, an aspirational acquisition, more for looking than touching. We rarely see bodies touching and emotions connecting in films. Most dances are frontally choreographed for ease of looking, but the message, as in the song "Sheila ki Jawani", is straightforward: "I'm too sexy for you, main tere haath na aani". The body is more for display than play.
Here, all sweat is good sweat, dutifully acquired in the collective environs of the gym. Private sweat is bad sweat and must be deodorised. This desexualised narrative is also present in gossip-column tales of how couples gym together, more playmates than lovers. Bipasha Basu and John Abraham were the poster-couple for this body culture, objectified, but desexualised.
As Hindi films have increasingly ceased to be about anything but the aspirational middle classes or NRIs, other kinds of bodies have automatically vanished from the screen even in minor roles. Last seen in Ram Gopal Varma's underworld films, these other bodies are now reserved for cut-and-paste "realism" in Bollywood indies and advertising. This realism is always described as "gritty"—as if the visual evidence of diverse castes and classes were in fact grit in our eyes, or dirt.
On the other hand, dance shows on television have become a repository for diverse bodies, a place for the fat, the thin, the tall, the short, the dark, or the wheatish, a place in the homogenised media economy for people of diverse backgrounds.
The film ABCD: Anybody Can Dance (2013), set in the culture of street dance, and drawing on the talent of these shows, brought back this dazzling diversity of bodies to the big screen and was a standout hit. In the sequel, ABCD2, these diverse bodies were replaced by the more automatic bodies of Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor (also pedigreed bodies, both offspring of parents with movie careers).
Sairat (2016)
A most telling disruption of this bodily narrative appeared as a by-product of the Marathi film Sairat (2016), a love story about caste conflict and violence with a primarily rural backdrop. The film was a staggering hit, foregrounding caste in mainstream discussion again. A song from the film, "Zingat", aggressively local, drawing from frenzied dhol music rhythms, demanding an abandoned, not regimented style, became a super-hit, resulting, as super-hit songs do, in several remixes and video mashups. One of the most successful of these was a Hindi film mashup. But to put it together effectively, it drew on film bodies from the 1980s—Mithun Chakraborty, Govinda and even Bachchan. Accented bodies, with accented moves, free-form moves matching the unconstrained music. For a few minutes they broke through the automatic body façade of the present, with a memory of bodies that had been—and still exist—though now unrepresented on the global Hindi screen.
This article is part of Oct-Dec issue of The Indian Quarterly. The theme for the issue is "The Body".
In this issue, vascular surgeon Ambarish Satwik writes on his days as a student of anatomy, Paromita Vohra traces the journey of gym-sculpted hairless bodies in Bollywood, Manjula Padmanabhan draws and describes her childhood pains, dancer Leela Samson writes on challenges faced by an Indian classical dancer, Shougat Dasgupta laments soullessness in sports, Sandip Roy delves into the story of India's first Mr Universe who died at 104 and Jannatul Mawa reveals a lot in her award winning series where she clicks employers and their maids seated together. Elsewhere, Prashant Panjiar's quixotic photo essay captures the "we-are-like-this-only" aspect of Indians. Kishore Singh explores the connection, if any, between where an artist lives and his work. We also have the last poem by the celebrated French poet, Yves Bonnefoy, written shortly before he died this year in our Fiction and Poetry section.
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When the boys were littler we had several different LeapFrog toys. What I didn't realize is that the older the boys got the cooler the LeapFrog products became!
We hosted a LeapFrog party a few weekends ago and the kids loved all of the products. Unfortunately, I was unaware that my camera battery was dead and I have no photos of the fun that took place. What luck.
The LeapPad was definitely a favorite. The kids would gather around to watch each other play and draw. The applications are fun yet educational which is what I like best. The downside is that they are kind of pricey. Each application is typically around $20 which is more than I would ever spend on any iPad or Droid app. I don't envision having a lot of variety of applications because of this, but the few we do have are a blast for the boys! They don't seem to tire of them so that's good I guess.
The other bummer part is the battery life seems so short. Granted, I understand the kids are probably leaving it on and not turning it off when they are done to conserve the battery life, but we have gone through so many batteries over the last month it is ridiculous!
Don't get me wrong though, we have considered buying a second LeapPad so each of the boys have their own. The positives of this product definitely outweigh the negatives and I highly recommend purchasing one yourself. They run around $99 and are sturdy and seem to withstand the abuse of 3 and 4 year old boys.
All of the kids also enjoyed the Tag Reading System Pen and books. This is a great tool in teaching them how to recognize letters, words and sounds and assist them in learning to read. Over the last month, Ryan has been able to look at words and sound them out. Both him and Owen sit and read (aka look at pictures) of books after books after books throughout an evening and now with the help of the Tag Reading Pen, they can actually listen to the entire story themselves. We have the pen on the right pictured above.
Like I mentioned, we are definitely big readers around our house and have been since they were born. We read every chance we get, but sometimes dinner needs to be made and laundry needs to be done so having the Tag Reading System Pen has been amazing and makes me feel less guilty when I can't read to them or with them! Another product that we were able to review was the world map which also uses the Tag Reading System Pen. We actually brought this into school for a day as well because Ryan's class was learning about North America. The kids gathered around the map and they were able to see where North America was located in relation to all of the other countries. They were also able to take turns using the Tag Reading System Pen to learn about a variety of facts in North America.
All in all, we have absolutely loved our LeapFrog products. I think all of the kiddos at the party and in Ryan's class did as well. We have already put in a request to Santa for some additional apps and books for use with our new products. And who knows, maybe Santa will even pick up a LeapPad for Owen too.
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Recently we have discussed about Importance Of Encryption In Internet Security, now let's talk about, how to get internet security with vpn service. Since our lives revolve more and more around the Internet, few of us realize that our private data is just "flowing" around if we do not take some steps to protect it.
Most people have an antivirus program, a firewall or an anti-spyware tool, but this will only protect the data from the local computer.
What about the traffic that flows from your browser to Facebook or to Gmail. Is that really safe? Keep reading to find out more about the dangers of surfing the web unprotected.
How Internet Security With VPN Service Helps?
Hacker Attacks
The term "hacker" has been spouted for decades, as computers became an integral part of everyday life. Because information is valuable, and the protection of it imperative, an entire industry has sprung up that is centered on the protection of all digitized data.
Virtual private networks, also referred to as VPNs, are essential to individuals that would like to keep their Internet access private and ensure that there are no leaks in the exchange of messages or documents with others on the network.
Let's assume that your family employs the use of a VPN. Each member will receive log-in information and be able to use the Internet as normal. What they do not see in the process, however, is that everything is encrypted when viewed by outsiders, ensuring that privacy is maintained.
ISP Logs
You seldom consider what your Internet service provider is up to, right? Well, in most cases, they are logging all search queues, data transfers, and surfing habits of their clients.
This is generally for documentation purposes only, but this can quickly become a severe invasion of your privacy. Virtual private networks even hide your Internet usage details from your ISP, securing the channel completely.
Data Sniffers and Fire Sheep
There's a new trend in Internet cafes that has many Internet users concerned: data sniffers. Basically, what is occurring is individuals are placing a "bug" of sorts onto a public Internet access point, like, say, the local coffee shop, which essentially allows them to see everything you see while surfing the Internet .
This is a huge security risk, which is why many are turning to VPNs to gain access to a secure Internet connection regardless of their location.
Man in the Middle Attacks
The "man in the middle" hacker attacks are another cause for concern when considering safe Internet access. An individual can take "secure" information that is meant to be shared only between a computer and a secure site, give the illusion of security, and access information at will.
SSL certificates are used by sites to increase security, but you can protect yourself by using virtual private networks, as well. The encryption provided by the VPN service eliminates the risk and guarantees that your online session remains private. In the end, isn't that the ultimate goal?
Proxy services
The oldest trick in the book, proxies have been successfully used by many people around the world trying to bypass Internet censorship or just be anonymous online. Even though a great tool for bypassing Internet filters, traffic made via a proxy service can be easily read by data sniffers, leaving you susceptible to hacker attacks.
This is extremely dangerous especially in public networks like the ones you will find in Internet cafes or airports.
Personal VPN services
Personal VPN services have been around for almost 10 years now, and have recently become immensely popular with expats. The VPN works by creating a secure connection between your computer and a VPN server, that will work as a mediator with the outside world.
This secure connection is encrypted, making it impossible for people to snoop on your browsing history or steal your sensitive information. This is the main difference between a VPN and a proxy.
Another important difference is that a VPN can route all your Internet traffic, unlike a proxy that only routes browser traffic. So you can use Skype, instant messaging and email clients with a VPN, but you can`t do that with a proxy.
Get your own VPN
A VPN can prove to be a formidable ally in the fight for your privacy and security. I always use a internet security with VPN service when I travel and in public WiFI networks. VPNs are pretty common and have become very affordable, you can now buy a VPN service for around $10 per month.
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What the hell am I looking at?
You're looking at a webcomic.
I get that. I mean, what is a "Glam Rock Gorilla?"
Glam Rock Gorilla is a comic idea that I have been brewing about for the better part of a year. After the initial creator of the character and rest of pipe-dream thinktank went off to do their own things, I took the idea and ran with it. It has since become my high-concept baby to keep me creatively occupied while other projects are warming the benches.
Did you just say you have other projects in the works?
Did I?
Okay, smartass, answer this: How are you going to do a comic about music when comics can't PLAY music?
Like Scott Pilgrim and a slew of other musically-inclined comics, music will be identified by the art and written-out lyrics. Fortunately for you and me, the great band Riff Cannon have been gracious enough to donate the songs from their album Mercury Mountain to the Glam Rock cause, so you won't have to think too hard about figuring out how the songs go.
Man, these Riff Cannon guys are pretty awesome. But, they're not that glam. At all. What gives with the comic's title?
The title stems from a gag in Issue Two of Book One.
Issue Two? Book One?
We have a lot of story to get through, if you'll have us.


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IMAXShift: How You Can Spin with Beyoncé
IMAXShift is the latest spin studio promising your next great sweat session with bass bumping music, talented instructors, and an immersive experience in front of an IMAX screen.
The studio is located in DUMBO, Brooklyn. DUMBO claims to be the Fitness District, but many of the trendy fitness studios have not yet opened. IMAXShift is early to the game and fills the cycling void in the sought-after neighborhood.
While originally the IMAX screen is what first piqued my interest when the team at IMAXShift reached out, it's actually the most underwhelming part of the entire experience. The giant studio, the post class foam rolling session, and the Music Video Ride are the best things about IMAX.
IMAX is cool at the theaters, but it's not the immersive experience I was hoping for during a spin class. I think I almost expected virtual reality and it's not that! The screen at IMAXShift is not nearly as big nor are the visuals as compelling as I hoped. The graphics are cheesy, but I found myself having funned unable to stop smiling during class. One minute I was riding down a hill in the desert and the next I was riding in space. I used the visuals as a pacekeeper. If the ride uphill looked slow, I increased my intensity. If the ride downhill was fast, I pedaled my legs faster. It made the experience more real.
As I mentioned, the best class I took at IMAXShift was the Music Video Ride taught by Emma on Monday nights. Don't bother taking another class! Spin while giant Beyoncé dances in Formation. What could possibly motivate a girl more than Beyoncé? If Queen Bey isn't your vibe, sing along to The Weeknd's latest hit or secretly crush on Megan Trainor. The class is like one big video playlist – it's you and your colleagues killing time watching your favorite music videos on YouTube.
And that's what IMAXShift is best for – making time speed up. I've found that more than half the battle of a workout is convincing my brain that my body is not tired and that I can keep going for a few more minutes. IMAX keeps your mind occupied so that your body can pursue the burn. I felt like the class went way too quickly.
I enjoyed my experience at IMAXShift and will return periodically, but the studio has some work to do before the masses show. The instructors are still finding their stride, the visuals could be better, and the music curation in the other classes needs some work. But IMAXShift has all the essential parts and the potential to be great. Give the studio a shot, and time, and it will be the "it" studio next season.
Cost: $34 for a single class
Favorite Class: Music Video Ride (I was unable to check out the East Coast vs West Coast Hip Hop Class…had I checked it out at the time of review, it MIGHT be my new favorite)
Studio Quality: It's super clean, has beautiful rose gold lockers, and is spacious. My pet peeve is studios that are so small people are crammed getting to their locker between classes.
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The waves crashing ashore, flip flops, a ripe juicy watermelon, fireworks, beach volleyball, the lake, camping, all good things that make for the perfect summer. This year it's time to add something else to our list to make the summer even more perfect. Creating a summer bucket list is something we have been seeing a lot lately and figured we would give it a try. Each person in our family sat down to write their very own bucket list (minus the one year old who will just partake in everyone's bucket list). Just be careful when you ask your kids to write their own. If they are anything like my sister's kids you might get responses like the below.
1) Hunt Lions
2) Play with Coyotes
3) Stand in the middle of a Bison Hurd
4) Hunt Crocodiles in Africa
5) Run with wild Deer in a green Forest
6) Out run a Hippo
7) Swim at the local pool
Number seven she can definitely handle. The rest she might just have to get a little creative. We wish her the best of luck! What do you have on your bucket list this summer? We have a few ideas below but would love to hear yours!
1) Make homemade Lemonade
2) Visit a new beach within driving distance
3) Invite friends over for a big cookout
4) Visit several local ice cream spots
5) Run through a sprinkler like a little kid
6) Fly a kite in a huge open field
7) Make homemade ice cream
8) Do something adventurous, like zip-lining
9) Visit a drive-in theater
10) Have a water balloon fight with your family
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"Pretty Little Liars" star Lucy Hale Breaks Her Silence on Leaked Topless Photos: 'Whoever Did This…Kiss My ASS'
After the huge star photo hack a couple of years ago, when multiple female stars had their cozy pictures stolen and posted online, many people blamed the victims for the offense
After the huge star photo hack a couple of years ago, when multiple female stars had their cozy pictures stolen and posted online, many people blamed the victims for the offense: One common refrain was "Don't shoot nude selfies," or a variation of, "What did you expect in the event you shot naked photos?"
"Pretty Little Liars" star Lucy Hale confronted an identical reaction on Thursday night after TMZ reported that two topless photographs were stolen from the actress's phone and printed on a website; her lawyer sent a letter demanding they be removed. On Twitter, many enthusiasts sent encouraging messages — but one user tweeted, "Well, Lucy Hale must be embarrassed."
Hale, 27, decided to address the topic directly while a common instinct might be to blow off the Internet completely following a dreadful invasion of privacy. "why would I be embarrassed?" she tweeted back nearly immediately. I got violated, and my photographs were illegally stolen by someone. Obstructed? No. furious? Yes."
Supporters leapt to defend Hale, although the Twitter user wrote the original tweet had been a joke and immediately backed down. Are individuals acting as if it's your fault? The girl gets attributed and once a girl's private things were violated," another user wrote.
Just after, a longer statement was elaborated with by Hale: "Well, I wasn't going to remark on something so foolish, but since 2017 is gonna be about speaking my truth… all " her private life and body were exposed for anybody to see and Once again, a woman in the public eye was raped, stolen from. I'll not apologise for having a personal life that's all mine and living my life. It's ." that is unfortunate that being exposed in this way is enabled
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Internet-based Job Search
Bill Gates said:
The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow
With the growing numbers of people online and the popularity of the most frequented sites, it certainly makes sense to use this exceptional tool in your modern day job search.
The internet has given you huge freedom to access the information and resources you want at any time of day or night, thus fitting in with your busy life. Companies know this and many of them who are publicly recruiting (some companies hide their recruitment behind third parties; more about this in a later post) advertise their current vacancies both on their websites and on job boards.
Figures I read recently claim that the internet is being used for 85% of all hires. Therefore, it is reasonable to say, the jobs you might want are online.
So, how do you find them?
- You can look on generic jobsites. Companies such as monster.com are popular with both employers and recruiters.
- Does the job you are looking for have an online industry magazine? If so do they have a vacancies page? Many of them do and of course, all the vacancies listed are targeted to your chosen profession.
- What about online newspapers with great vacancy sections? Often you can add a profile of what you are looking for and the site will email you when something relevant is posted.
Can you do reverse searching and get the person with the vacancy to find you?
- How about putting your profile on linkedin.com (we will discuss this in more detail later).
- Are there any specific companies that you would like to work for? Do they have any interesting vacancies on their website or a generic send us your profile and we will let you know when we have something option?
For help navigating online job search or making the transition from where you are to where you want to be please contact one of our Consultant Coaches
Author of 'Get That Interview' and 'Click Your Way to Career Success', Julie is the Lead Career Coach at Churchill Brook. She works with clients to develop their personal branding, promote themselves via social media and to find their passion, both in the work they are doing and the work that they want to do. Her approach is that of part coach, part mentor and part consultant. She is available to work with limited clients on a one-to-one basis OR via our executive CV and LinkedIn product options (check out 'what we offer').
Before joining Churchill Brook in 2009, she spent twelve years as an international headhunter, where she successfully helped her clients to recruit exceptional people. She is an expert at getting candidates noticed by companies and had one of the highest success ratios for CV submission to hire that we know of within the recruitment industry
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This picture was published in The Nation newspaper on May 18, 2016.
My View Of The Picture:
Before reading further just look at the picture again. After looking I know you will already have made up some sort of story. Now it's my turn to let you know what I thought.
Fashion, attitudes and trends do change after every decade of a century. For instance, in the 70's it was hipsters, bell bottoms etc. In the 80's, which I consider a most horrible decade, the trends were Scrunchies, huge earrings, baggy pants, shoulder pads etc. In the 90's it was spiked hair, wearing backward caps etc. However the trend of selfies boomed in the decade we are experiencing now. My assessment is that this trend has dramatically exposed those who are victims of self-praise. After looking at different selfies taken by a person, one can guess how much desperation is there to promote oneself.
Looking at vacuumed faces, I mean distorting the shape of the face to resemble an inflated plastic bag with the air sucked out of it, victory signs, twisted faces etc. one can feel pity that normal and good looking faces have been turned into something else. Before the start of the selfie craze, mostly a person needed to have another person to take their picture, which some how restricted the subject to acting a little decently. Now when we have the facility and most importantly have set a trend for selfies, people don't even realize how strange they look while posing in a selfie style. I know selfie-addicted persons will not agree with me because I am writing against them. They will have their own justifications for such acts but for me it's totally strange.
A few months back while reading a newspaper I read that an Indian boy was crushed to death by a train while trying to take a selfie in front of a train coming behind him. It was so sad how that boy lost his precious life just for such a meaningless act. While searching I found amazing stats from this website, though these were until 2015 and do not include events occurred in 2016 including the incident I mentioned above.
I found "selfie vs. Other Accidental Deaths" most interesting. It proves that it's far better to die while climbing Mount Everest instead of wasting your life stupidly for a selfie. At least adventure makes some sense, builds some expertise and has some logical value to the adventurer after doing it. But what type of adventure is there in taking a picture in front of moving train or at the edge of a cliff?
The lady in the picture looks smart but fortunately or unfortunately, it is only a physical impression. While looking at the picture I was wondering what that lady might be thinking before, during and after taking her selfie and this came to my mind:
Before taking the selfie: mmmmmm I think I should have a selfie in the middle of this flooded road and upload it on facebook. It would be a wonderful picture.
During the selfie: What about some more selfies while I am still stable in the water and not yet drowned?
After taking the selfie: Wonder if the water level is still rising? I will take more selfies so I can share them with my friends and get more "likes".
That's what I thought but I wondered and worried for her safety and hoped that her name would not be there when 2016 stats on selfie accidents are uploaded on the Internet.
Trends will come and be followed but when it becomes a craze followed without any sense, it starts being bad taste. Showing off is an act that is never praised but unfortunately selfies plus facebook (used for this purpose) have increased the habit of showing off among people. It's like I scratch your back and you scratch mine. In other words like and get liked.
So are you in the selfie or no-selfie group?
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I promised that September (2013) would be the month this blog will focus on the true gluten-free diet transition. (If you are reading this at any other time, I am numbering these post so you can always go through them at your own pace.) However, there are some very important points that need to be made before we start, mainly because there are a variety of people and situations represented in the readers of this blog and those on our Facebook Hashimoto's Thyroiditis Support Group. So, I want to give what I hope is a fair representation of as many of us out there as possible as we move forward.
I am approaching this endeavor from a strict gluten-free standard. After you are strictly gluten-free for a while, it will be up to you to find out how sensitive your body is to gluten in the event of cross-contamination or accidental exposure in any way. It is impossible to know what symptoms gluten is causing until it is thoroughly out of the diet and 3 months is the recommended strict abstinence before testing in any way (however this is strongly NOT recommended!). I did not realize it was to blame for many of my symptoms until I was truly gluten-free!
Additionally, I want to be very clear that I am not a gluten expert! (However, Dr. Thomas O'Bryan is!) I am a fellow sufferer who has made many mistakes while attempting a truly gluten-free diet and this month I am sharing what I have learned in the process. Please check everything I say against the experts and know that although I may not cover everything, I am hoping to give you the best start possible! I will lead you to what I believe to be the best experts out there where I can, and also give you my experiences along the way. So, without further ado, let's go gluten-free!
There are a variety of reasons people want to go gluten-free. Some reasons are below (not exhaustive of course).
You want to go gluten-free because:
- You know it has been proven to be connected in some way to your thyroid antibodies and would like to see Hashimoto's reversed, or at the minimum, you want to see your symptoms improve. (This was my reason and it was successful!) For those of you who doubt this connection, Dr. Izabella Wentz has a great post on this subject here.
- You just want to lose weight!
- You are hoping to start eating a more "real food" diet (here's a link to my favorite online classes – she has gluten-free substitutions available), as well as incorporating a true gluten-free diet, so you can be overall healthier. This would be a GREAT transition diet choice.
- You have a loved one that needs to be truly gluten-free and don't know where to start.
- You have another autoimmune disease (or more) that you are trying to control by diet.
- You want to achieve a grain free, sugar-free and real food diet and know the gluten-free diet is a good starting point.
- You want to get inflammation in your body down and have heard that going gluten-free can help with this.
- You have problems with digestion and you've heard that eliminating gluten might be part of the solution.
All the above reasons are good motivation to go truly gluten-free. However, in my desire to be very honest with the audience that is before me, I must say some things that are necessary in order to gain better perspective as we embark on this journey through this series. These are some of the points I think need to be made:
- There are no guarantees you will see the success you desire but it is extremely common to feel a lot better on a true gluten-free diet. It can be tricky to be truly gluten-free. You can find a post with my experience on this subject here.
- Additional food sensitivities in those with Hashimoto's are extremely common because they almost undoubtedly suffer from a leaky gut. (The link between intestinal permeability and autoimmune conditions is described here by Izabella Wentz on her blog at ThyroidLifestyle.com.)
- Because of these likely food sensitivities, each one of us may encounter different success levels when going truly gluten-free. Some may feel immediate relief while others (as in my situation) will need to find other culprits after the initial gluten-free stage. This may take some time and is why I believe the easiest way to approach it is going on an elimination diet like the GAPS Diet, the SCD Diet, a Paleo-type Diet, or many other good whole food approaches to eliminating the most common allergens at the same time. This allows you to then add them back (except gluten) once every 3 days (or as directed by your nutritionist or doctor) and find out which foods can be limiting your progress. I found this to be the most productive symptom relief I have ever had and I have had so much healing, I do not regret this step.
- You will need to decide if you will make your whole family gluten-free at home (meaning you may ask others to please eat gluten outside of the home if they want to have it) or you may have to make yourself a special "safe area" with special utensils and pots and pans to cook with. The latter is the harder option but I understand that with adults or older children in the home, this may have to be your option. If I were to suggest the best solution, it would be to make your whole kitchen a gluten-free zone. This cannot hurt your family's health and will make it a LOT easier for you to navigate in your kitchen without so much risk of cross-contamination. In my home, gluten containing snacks may be stored in the garage pantry or in individual rooms in an air tight bin and eaten away from the kitchen. This way, each family member is responsible for their own gluten containing food, while leaving the kitchen non-contaminated. I will get into these options in more detail in my next post in this series.
- You may have to explore the possibility of having to remove foods that might be causing gluten cross-reaction before feeling better. Sarah from ThePaleoMom.com explains this well in her post here. For many, unless this possibility is addressed, they may not get well. And if you click the following link, you will hear on this 34 minute podcast with Dr. Peter Osborne (thanks to SCDLifestyle.com), that there are other known gut irritants which can produce intestinal permeability thereby making gluten less likely to be the only culprit here. But starting with gluten is sometimes enough to help many people. You might want to just take it a step at a time. I've provided the above links for people who are ready to jump ahead. For those focusing on just going gluten-free, it's probably best to avoid those links for now.
- I will not be covering recipes this month but I will give ideas for food preparation here and there (and perhaps links to my favorite recipes).
- I will refer you to what I consider to be experts in the areas I don't feel adequate in. Although I don't recommend replacing processed foods with their gluten-free counterparts, I will talk briefly about those options and give you alternative choices to consider.
- I am focusing on a truly gluten-free diet as a foundational first step and want to re-iterate that this step might likely just be the first step for you too! It is common to build upon this step in order to recover but it is incredibly important to get this step right as a significant foundation to build on!
- If you feel you need some help along the way (meaning you would like to supplement your efforts) with a natural supplement that has gone far and beyond the healing just going gluten free gave me, you can read about my success story with this weight loss and blood sugar balancing supplement here.
Finally, my best advice for those just beginning to grasp the true gluten-free diet is to take this month to become more familiar on the whys and the hows of going truly gluten-free before fully embarking on the journey. I did this for a long time before actually going truly gluten-free. And understand there will be a learning curve but it's best that your learning curve is as minimal as possible once on the truly gluten-free diet, because getting accidental gluten exposure just feels worse once you begin to feel better.
I would like to take a "bite" at a time so as not to overwhelm anyone. In fact, I am keeping these posts down to about 2 per week so the information can be absorbed throughout the week, especially since I will be providing you with "off-site" links for your review at times. Consider this a month of exploring and planning for the true gluten-free diet. You might not want to jump in just yet. A month of preparation could be a great way to keep this low stress. It took me over 6 months to switch over my kitchen to a truly gluten-free place so don't try to do it in one month. You will find that there will be some basic needs at first in the kitchen that you will have to invest in but for the less sensitive individual, you may be able to get away with some of your current cookware. It will be your decision how far to go. I will describe what I had to do but I am a very sensitive case so please take my journey as a guide, not as the exact path you will need. For those already gluten-free, you might use this month to assess whether you have covered all the bases to make sure you might not be getting some accidental gluten exposure from somewhere if you are not feeling well yet.
Unfortunately, for those new to Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, all this may be quite overwhelming, as it was for me and countless others! For you, I recommend you not worry if you can't grasp some of the additional information (beyond gluten-free) I will need to provide during this journey and consider it a "fly by" of what you will want to learn later. Focusing on just being 100% gluten-free will have enough concern of its own. However, for those who are a bit advanced, I will be including extra details that are an inevitable part of this journey.
Bear with me as I attempt to give you the right bits of information for a successful transition. And please forgive me in advance if I miss anything. This is a very detailed journey and one that I will not be able to cover perfectly. But I think you will get the feel for the process and be ready to take it on yourself by the end of this month!
As a side note: I have been asked so many times what tools, utensils and resources are best to have when embarking on this journey, that I decided to do something I have resisted for years. I have made a "resource center" through my affiliate partner Amazon, so you have a more direct path to some of the resources I might be talking about this month. You will be able to access it from the right sidebar of the blog at anytime also. I think this will avoid me putting so many links in to give you reference to the tool or product I am describing in each post and allow you to look around on your own. In the future, I will just say you can find it in the reference links in my "resource center" and hopefully that will make it easier for everyone.
And I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to get a good guide for your Hashimoto's Thyroiditis in order to heal the root cause. For this, I highly recommend Izabella Wentz' book on finding the root cause which you can find here or even better, you can get the information faster and more conveniently through her eBook here which is great news for those needing immediate help! If you haven't seen my book review with my personal video at the bottom, you can find that post here.
I hope this series will be a great help to many. I would have loved to have something like this as I was starting out. Remember not to stress over this transition and allow yourself time to adjust to all the details needed to be truly gluten-free. Before long, you will have mastered this transition and in the process, hopefully will also feel much better!
I am going to number the posts in this series so you can go back through them again at any time for review. You will also be able to go to the category section and click "Let's Go Gluten Free" which will bring up all the posts in the series in the future. Take your time. You have the time to make this transition as slowly as you need to.
Here's to our healing journey!
"Let's Go Gluten Free Series" Part 2