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Well, the Celebrations are nearly over for another year but I thought you might like to see some of the cards I made for my loved ones as well as my customers and Team members. Also included are Commission Cards and birthday cards! I have been sooooo busy this month, never thought I was going to get it all completed in time for Christmas! I was making the family cards on Christmas Eve!!!! lol
Here's the family ones first:
The first one I used 'Shooting Stars' stamp set and matching die and was for my hubby. The next one used Jolly Friends and again a die from the sliding star framelits, for my Son. My daughter and hubby got the Stocking one which is supposed to resemble a bannister with the stockings hanging from it (don't think they realised that lol). The last one and I must admit the most special was for our first grandchild for her 1st Christmas! A card in a box using Snow Place stamp set and matching dies (I've blurred out the baby pictures that are on the two side panels). These were such fun to make, and when you have read the blog entry, you will realise why I was making these on Christmas Eve! lol
The next set of cards were ones I made for my Team and Customers as a thank you for their support over the last year. I also made them all a small gift to show my appreciation:
The first card was for my Team members and I used the gorgeous Father Christmas Stamp set, absolutely adorable with so much detail. I loved using this stamp without colouring it in. The second picture is the box I created holding all the gifts I made for my team members. This time, having made the box using the Gift Box punch board, I stamped all the 'mice' images onto whisper white cs and coloured them in using the BRAND NEW Watercolour Pencils that are in the brand new Seasonal Catalogue! These will be available from my from 6 January, so if you want a copy of the catalogue please get in touch! Once I had coloured the images in, I used an aquapainter to make it look watercoloured. Gorgeous and so much fun!
The third picture is of the card I made for my customers, a shaker card, using Mica Flakes and the shake and celebrate stamp set and matching dies. You can even make the cut out resemble Christmas Tree, which I did but oops forgot to take a photo! Take my word for it, lol it's impressive! lol. The beautiful lumiere jar was the gift I made for my customers and they loved them! I used peaceful pines stamp set and matching dies on vellum, stuck it round the outside of the jar, washi tape around the lid along with dazzling diamond glimmer paper to cover top of lid with a beautiful red glimmer bow. Inside is a battery operated tea light that changes colours and believe me when all your lights are turned down or off, it glows and shines beautifully! In fact, I was asked how I had made it as one of my ladies wants to make some for herself!
Now for some Commission Cards, cards for friends and family too that I have made this month. Told you it's been a really busy month! lol
The first three cards were all Commissions. The lovely gentleman asked for 9 Christmas cards and I'm not keen on making multiples of the same card, as you may have gathered lol, so these were just some and all different, oops again forgot to take photos of others lol, but they were all different. He was thrilled with them. I used merry tags dies and merriest wishes stamp set for the first three cards. Then there's a Gift Card holder, which, in fact I also made in my last Coffee n Card and made more for my own family. The Santa coat card, I Cased from I think it may have been Gill Arnold, but sorry I can not be sure.
Next I made this amazing framed xmas scene for a friend of mine, as a decoration! You see, she doesn't put decorations up in her house, lol so I made this and now she has at least one 'decoration' to put up every year! lol. As you can see I used lots of different stamp sets and dies, see if you can name them all! lol The motorbike birthday card was for my cousin, unfortunately I was sooo caught up with xmas cards etc, I forgot to make it in time, so I made it a 'belated' one instead hehe. Don't think he minded! lol I used Born to Ride stamp set and the card is a 'z' fold card, so much fun I have made lots using this technique and will be teaching it in my first class in January.
I used another z fold card to make this piggy card for a friends hubby (the same friend who doesn't do xmas decorations hehe). Her hubby is mad about pigs so I had to make a piggy one! lol I used Playful pals to make the big pig and farmyard babies for little piggies. As you can see the z fold technique is great for this type of card. Notice yet another z fold card? Yep this time the crab at sea for brother in law! lol The card in a box was the other commission card the gentleman asked me to make for his granddaughter. So elegant isn't it, and very girly. The final card is a chest of drawers with jumpers hanging out for a friends son who is mad about jumpers! lol.
Well I think that is about it for now. Christmas is over and now I am back at it, getting ready for the biggest event of the Stampin'Up! Calendar, Saleabration!
So please check back very soon to see what's on offer, what my new Classes are going to be making and if you fancy a party, do I have a deal for you!!

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Home of the 2014 Spartan World Championship, this course is brutal. Located in what is known as "Joe's backyard," this land is where the company was founded, and that means anything goes: steep slopes, muddy waters, huge hills. This epic setting makes for one of the most bad-ass, challenging, demon-riddled Beasts of the year. Spartans will descend on Killington to tear up the terrains where Spartan Race has its roots — the course known to destroy the body, legs, mind and soul. This is a Spartan Race like the founders envisioned. They've gotten on their hands and knees to build the course. Participants have to do the same to complete it.
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If you'd rather watch the action than take part, Spartans love spectators! Spectator locations will be set up at the K-1 deck, the Roaring Brook Umbrella Bars, the Snowshed area and the Snowshed Pond. Cost is $20 online (www.spartan.com/en/race/detail/841/overview) until Friday prior to the event; or $25 on site — cash only. If you registers online, print your receipt and bring it with you to the Spectator Tent on race day to pick up your passes as none will be emailed.
Spartan Race spectators get $5 in Spartan bucks (redeemable at the merchandise tent), a festival map, access to view some obstacles on the course, the finish line, vendor tents, and hot food for sale on the grounds! Enjoy the music and watch your friends and loved ones slip and slide through the Spartan course, from the safety, comfort, and relative mud-lessness of the Spartan Race festival ground areas. Raffles, entertainment, spectator challenges, free muddy hugs from Spartan athletes, and all the other festival perks make this the best money you'll ever spend. The next ticket you will want to buy will be a race entry!
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The third principle is, no instrument has been devised that can measure toxicity. Toxicity is the degree to which a compound or mixture is capable of causing damage or death. Chemical concentrations can be measured with an instrument but only living material can be used to measure toxicity.
All individuals within a population of organisms do not respond to a compound at the same concentration or in the same period of time. Some individuals respond at lower concentrations while others respond at higher concentrations or not at all. The normal cumulative distribution of this response is often sigmoid in shape as depicted in Figure 5.
This plot can be interpreted to indicate that a small proportion of individuals exhibit toxic effects at lower and higher concentrations with the majority of individuals responding at the middle concentrations. For this reason, single compound toxicity tests are often performed at multiple concentrations. An accepted measure of population toxicity can be calculated from these results.
Response of Ceriodaphnia dubia to cadmium 48 h acute toxicity assay
Figure 5 Dose-response frequency distribution and modeled EC50 concentration for Ceriodaphnia dubia 48 h cadmium acute toxicity assay.
Acute toxicity can be defined as toxicity that comes speedily to a crisis, that is, the toxicity is manifested over a short time period. In mammalian toxicity tests, where the contaminant is administered directly to the organism, the results of acute tests are expressed as an LD50 or the lethal dose to 50% of the test population that occurred over a given period of time (the length of the test). In aquatic toxicity tests the results are expressed as an LC50 or an EC50. The LC50 is the concentration that caused 50% mortality to the test population in a given period of time. The time is generally 48 h for invertebrate test organisms and 96 h for fish. The EC50 is the concentration that effectively killed 50% of the test organisms in 48 or 96 h. The difference in the LC50 and EC50 is that organisms in the EC50 concentration might still be alive at the end ofthe exposure period but are effectively dead, that is, if transferred to noncontaminated control water the organisms would not recover.
The result for an acute copper test with the cladoceran Ceriodaphnia dubia would be expressed as the 48 h LC50 or EC50. For copper and other divalent cationic metals the additional information presented would include the hardness of the water in which the test was carried out. This is important for metals because toxicity decreases as hardness increases. Hardness in natural waters is a measure of the amount of calcium and magnesium in the water expressed in terms of CaCO3. As data for copper toxicity were developed for different species, sufficient data were gathered that allowed for the development of a criterion for copper. The expression of 'safe' concentrations for acute exposures for copper and zinc presented earlier both contain allowances for changes in hardness in the water.
Chronic toxicity is toxicity that develops over longer periods of time. The endpoint for chronic toxicity tests can be death but generally other endpoints such as reproductive effects (number of offspring produced or eggs laid); changes in growth rates; or changes in organism behavior or physiology are measured. These responses can be graphically represented in a similar fashion as the acute data presented above. Results from chronic toxicity tests can also be expressed as the lowest observable effects concentration (LOEC), or the no observable effects concentration (NOEC). These are calculated statistically as the lowest concentration significantly different from the control and the highest concentration not statistically significantly different from the control group, respectively. For the majority of chemicals the concentrations causing chronic effects are less than the concentrations causing acute effects. However, there are cases where too little as well as too much can cause problems for organisms.
Single species chronic tests are almost always performed in a closed system under laboratory conditions with temperature and photoperiod control. The organisms are fed a consistent ration and are maintained in well-defined water. To perform a short-term chronic test with C. dubia a control group is compared with treatment groups as described above. Ten neonates are placed one each in ten beakers. Over the course of the 7 day test period (which includes three reproductive events), the number of young (neonates) produced by the individual control replicates will be similar but not exactly the same. This variability is the inherent variability for the species under these experimental conditions. The experimental beakers are held under the same conditions as the control except each set of 10 experimental beakers contains a concentration of toxicant.
Numerous species have been used as test species in aquatic acute and chronic toxicity tests, including fish, invertebrates, macrophytes, algae, and bacteria. One group of invertebrates that have been extensively used is commonly referred to as water fleas. These organisms belong to the order Cladocera (Latreille 1829) and family Daphniidae (Straus 1820). The family includes, among others, Ceriodaphnia dubia (Dana 1853), and Daphnia magna (Muller 1785). C. dubia will be used as the example organism in the discussion that follows. Figure 6 shows a picture of an adult C. dubia. The adult is approximately 1 mm in length. The specimen in Figure 6 is carrying developing young or neonates in its brood pouch. This species reproduces by cyclic parthenogenesis, that is, females give rise to female offspring. Sexual reproduction
Developing neonates
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Figure 6 Mature parthenogenetic Ceriodaphnia dubia with developing embryos in the brood pouch.
only occurs when conditions become 'unfavorable' to the females in the population and males are produced. The trigger for sexual reproduction is not fully understood but food availability is probably an important factor. When sexual reproduction occurs females produce a robust resting structure called an ephippium (Figure 7) that contains a fertilized egg that begins development when the environment the ephippium is in becomes 'favorable'. When the ephippial embryo develops, a parthenogenetic female is produced that then produces female offspring. C. dubia is a popular test organism because in the laboratory at 25 °C and the proper diet, it will develop from a less than 12-hour-old neonate to an adult and have three reproductive events in a 7 day period of time. Tests with this organism that are allowed to complete the 7 day time period are referred to as short-term chronic tests. Comparable chronic tests with the cladoceran D. magna may take as long as 21 days and some chronic fish tests may take months to complete. Acute tests with C. dubia and D. magna take 48 h while acute tests with fish take 96 h. The advantage of chronic testing with C. dubia is obvious.
An assumption made when criteria/standards are developed is that ecological systems are protected when the criteria/standards are being met. This is not necessarily a realistic assumption. Almost, if not all standards for toxicants are based on single chemicals, that is, there is a standard for copper, a standard for zinc, a standard for atrazine, etc. However, this begs the question, how often is an ecological system or a component of that system exposed to a single toxicant? It is likely that this may not be a realistic assumption of exposure. Our knowledge of the effects of combined toxicants and our ability to regulate them is very limited.
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that the effluent is not having a toxic impact on organisms in the receiving system. If the organisms exposed to effluent dilutions that would be expected to occur in the receiving system at the critical dilution show lower survival and/or neonate production, then it is assumed that the organisms in the receiving system may also be impacted. In an example in which the organisms at the critical dilution do show a significant difference from the control organisms what do we know about the effluent? We know that the organisms at the critical dilution are performing significantly different (more death and/or fewer neonates produced) but we have no idea what is causing the difference. Without knowing what is causing the difference fixing the problem becomes very difficult. Fortunately, methods have been developed to help us figure out what chemical or chemicals are causing the toxicity. These procedures are called toxicity identification evaluations (TIEs).
Figure 7 Ephippium produced by Ceriodaphnia dubia. The ephippium contains a resting egg.
The Clean Water Act and its subsequent amendments established the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) to be administered by the states under direction of the US Environmental Protection Agency to protect aquatic systems receiving discharges from municipal or industrial entities. The NPDES uses a water-quality-based rather than a chemical-specific approach for assessment of effluents. All discharges to waters of the United States are required to have a permit. These permits generally have limits on specific chemicals or parameters known to be associated with that type of industry. In addition, most dischargers must perform toxicity tests on the discharge. The principles are the same for both marine and freshwater systems but the organisms used in the tests differ.
C. dubia is often used for testing effluents in NPDES permitting tests for freshwater discharges. C. dubia is considered a highly sensitive organism and these tests use its most sensitive life stage, early instars, to provide a conservative estimate of toxicity deemed to be protective of organisms in receiving waters. The design of the test is such that the performance (survival and number of neo-nates produced) of ten control organisms not exposed to effluent is compared to the performance of ten replicates of organisms exposed to various effluent dilutions. If the survival and neonate production of the organisms exposed to the effluent are not significantly different from the control survival and neonate production, then it is assumed
The process of a TIE involves treating a toxic sample using a variety of techniques in an effort to reduce or remove toxicity as indicated by follow-up assays. If any manipula-tion(s) remove or reduce the toxicity, information regarding the contaminant causing toxicity can be deduced from the expected chemical activity of the manipulation. Figure 8 shows the kinds of manipulations that might be applied to a toxic effluent in an attempt to identify the toxicant(s). First, it is important to note that TIEs are not performed unless there is a toxic effluent. Second, the tests are performed on waters that have had their pH adjusted above and below the initial pH. pH adjustment can affect the speciation, solubility, polarity, stability, and volatility of a compound and hence its bioavailability and toxicity. The tests that are used to segregate toxicants into groups of similar chemicals include the EDTA chelation test that is designed to bind cationic metals and make them less biologically available. The 'oxidant reduction test' is designed to reduce toxicity due to chlorine. However, ozone and chlorine dioxide are also removed, as are some chemicals formed during chlorination such as mono- and dichlora-mines, bromine, iodine, manganous ions, and some electrophile organic chemicals. Aeration tests are designed to determine how much toxicity is associated with volatile, sublatable, or oxidizable compounds. The C18 'solid phase extraction test' removes nonpolar organics and metal che-lates that are relatively nonpolar. Filtration tests are designed to remove toxicants associated with filterable material. Toxicants associated with suspended materials may be less biologically available, although ingestion of these particles provides another route of exposure. The graduated pH test is designed to test for ammonia toxicity. The unionized form ofammonia is the more toxic form and the proportion of the total ammonia in water is a function of
temperature and pH. There is more unionized ammonia at higher pH's.
After each of these procedures is performed the manipulated sample is retested to determine if it is toxic. If the toxicity is removed, then there is an indication that the chemical(s) causing toxicity belong to the class of chemicals the manipulation was designed to remove. For example, if the EDTA test removed toxicity in the sample, there is strong indication that a metal or metals were involved in the toxicity. The question then becomes which metal or metals. Unraveling which metal(s) is causing the toxicity is beyond the scope of this article but having narrowed the search for the toxic chemical(s) down to metals has eliminated many potential classes of toxicants increasing the likelihood of finding the causative toxicant. In some effluents, multiple contaminants may be causing or contributing to the toxicity.
TIE methods were originally designed for use with effluents but the methodological concept has more recently been applied to porewater (water occupying the spaces between particles in sediment), ambient water (water taken directly from a lotic (flowing) or lentic (still)) system, and marine waters.
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Every business has a life of its own, and every businessperson has a story to share. The Burlington Chamber of Commerce creates opportunities for leaders to make meaningful connections. As a tireless advocate, we focus on the bigger picture so that you can focus on growing your business day-to-day.
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Many people in today's world will experience at least one depressive episode in their lifetime. But how do you know when it's time to seek medical help?
Meg Meyer (40) was surprised when she was diagnosed with clinical depression. "I kept thinking 'but I don't have anything to be depressed about'," she says. Meg is a busy mom of two who runs her own estate agency. "I didn't know what was wrong initially, but I felt continually down and tearful for no reason. I began to eat more, especially comfort foods, and had no energy to get up in the morning. I wanted to sleep all the time, but never woke up feeling refreshed," she recalls.
"I lost interest in things that used to bring me pleasure and felt terribly guilty when I battled to interact with my children. I found I was worrying about things totally out of my control, like starving children in Ethiopia and polar bears losing their habitat to global warming. I found myself in this negative spiral and I couldn't get out," says Meg.
Meg isn't alone. Depression can affect all of us and it's on the increase. "It's predicted that it will be the second leading cause of disability in developing countries by 2020," says psychiatrist in private practice, Dr Rykie Liebenberg.
"Modern living is stressful and people face situations of new stress every day, more than ever before. Nothing is certain or sure anymore, whether it's keeping the same job, staying in an important relationship or keeping up with information and technology. People are also estranged from close and strong interpersonal relationships, and all of this could contribute to the increase in the need for treatment of this condition," says Dr Liebenberg.
A dramatic downturn in world economies has also had a role to play, notes clinical psychologist, Dr Colinda Linde. "When there is a lot of uncontrollable, chronic stress people feel more helpless and hopeless. These feelings are a recipe for depression, especially if compounded by financial woes, or for some people retrenchment or losing their home." Other factors like genetics can make some people more vulnerable to depression.
Luckily, depression is one of those conditions that responds very well to treatment and people needn't suffer from it unnecessarily. The two main treatment options include psychotherapy and medication.
The role of therapy
"One-on-one therapy can be the lifeline people need to remind them that there is hope of change," says Dr Linde says. "It also supports them through the dark parts, before medication kicks in, and it helps them to learn new coping skills and find ways of making changes. With depression, it's very difficult to make decisions, so a safe space to think aloud and get good guidance on a realistic way forward, and plan the practical steps, makes all the difference."
Justine Bartlett, a clinical psychologist practising in Durban, highlights that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in particular can have life-changing results. "CBT can change patterns of thinking indefinitely. Once we're aware of the processes behind our thinking, that we are in control of our thoughts and can choose which patterns we want to instil in our own minds, we can begin to change them," says Bartlett.
Dr Linde says that CBT can also prevent a relapse into depression as it challenges the thoughts and beliefs that maintain depression, for instance: "It will always be bad like this", or "I will never improve". A more realistic way to think would be: "Life goes through stages, nothing stays the same forever, and even if I do nothing my mood shifts through the day, so I can't say that things stay the same and can't change."
When meds are best
Although therapy has an enormous role to play in treating depression, someone has to be 'reachable' for therapy to work, says Dr Linde. If you're severely depressed, your brain may have shut down too much to be able to absorb the benefits of therapy, and medication would be needed first. A psychiatrist would need to assess you and give you a prescription.
Depressive illness can be caused by a decrease of certain chemicals or neurotransmitters in the brain that are responsible for mood. Antidepressants stimulate chemical changes that increase the levels of these neurotransmitters. The three main neurotransmitters associated with mood are serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine. Different antidepressant medications affect one or more of these neurotransmitters.
When taking antidepressants, it's vital to keep taking the medication for at least six months after you get well. Although the medication reduces symptoms fairly quickly, it doesn't mean that the depression is completely healed and if you stop the medication the moment you feel better the depressive symptoms will soon return.
Most therapists agree that the ideal treatment scenario uses a combined approach, with medication as the booster to get you into a functional state, and then therapy to provide the tools to improve that functioning and to ensure you stay well. And the sooner you seek help the better.
It has been five years since Meg's diagnosis, and she is living a full and joyful life once again. "I still use the tools I learned in therapy almost daily. Now every negative thought that comes into my mind is checked and challenged – and most are discarded as unfounded," she says. "It's like a light has been switched on, and I only wish I had been open to treatment sooner. It has given me my power back and put an end to the darkness."
Depression treatment tips
- Learn as much as you can about your depression. It's important to determine whether your depression symptoms are due to an underlying medical condition. If so, that condition will need to be treated first.
- It takes time to find the right treatment. For example, it might take a few tries to find a therapist that you click with if you decide to go the therapy route. Likewise, you might need to try a couple of different medications before you find the right one for you.
- Don't rely on medication alone. Although medication can relieve the symptoms of depression, studies show that other treatments, including exercise and therapy, can be just as effective. And remember that medication works best when you pursue therapy as well.
- Get social support. The more you cultivate your social connections, the more protected you are from depression. If you are feeling stuck, don't hesitate to talk to a family member or friend. Asking for help is not a weakness but a sign of strength.
- Treatment takes time and commitment. Getting over depression might at times feel frustratingly slow. That is normal. Recovery has its ups and downs.


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BIS Oxford Economics managing director Robert Mellor said that there was a significant correction imminent in Australia's residential building sector, which was anticipated to be most prominent in Brisbane.
"It was the Brisbane market that went totally over the top," he said.
"We would see that [with] oversupply probably continuing for at least three or four years, it will take a long time to absorb.
"We see excess supply keeping prices suppressed until 2020, or perhaps even longer."
The REIQ said there was clearly falling demand and increasing supply, with an 18.4 per cent increase in the number of listings from last May.
Chief executive officer Antonia Mercorella said that notwithstanding the record high average of $655,000 for a Brisbane house, the city was a haven of affordability compared to Melbourne and Sydney.
"Throughout the southeast corner, our growth is based on an improving value proposition, which means it is reliable, sustainable capital growth," she said to The Australian.
Mellor said price falls of about 14 per cent in real terms were expected for Brisbane apartments until 2020, and people who paid "a premium" for off-the-plan apartments could be hit with more drastic declines of up to 15 or 20 per cent.
An estimated 11,000 apartments are under construction in inner Brisbane, with completion from now until 2022.
APRA's crackdown on investor finance, lowered investor appetite and international buyers' reduced ability to access loans have increased settlement uncertainty and industry observers expect settlement risk will rise.
Mellor said that the lack of growth in the number of house-construction starts would exacerbate a growth in house prices and a widening gap between the two sectors.
Brisbane's average unit price fell 2.3 per cent in the last quarter to $429,000 from the $440,000 median in the first three months of the year. In the 4006 postcode area of Bowen Hills and Newstead, sales this month include a Cunningham Street unit for $650,000 that cost $715,000 in August 2013, and a two-bedroom apartment sold for $440,000, down from its transaction price of $482,000 almost five years ago.
In an effort to sell off enough apartments to allow construction to go ahead, Brisbane developer Sarcon has slashed prices by 12 per cent, and halved the upfront costs on two-bedroom units in a development at Cannon Hill, Domain reported.
The third tower of Lime Living is nearing its scheduled construction date, without enough apartments sold to commence.
Project marketers Colliers International have taken the opportunity to target first-home buyers, offering a 5 per cent upfront deposit for those looking to take their first step into the property market.


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Jonathan trains horses, educates our staff, gives lessons, and facilitates clinics. He began his career training horses and teaching lessons to riders, children, and people with disabilities for a local horse program. As people began observing Jonathan's success with this program, many sought his help with their personal horses. His popularity grew as he helped many people meet their horsemanship goals. Some have sought out Jonathan because of their desire to feel safe around a horse and to learn more about riding for pleasure. Others wanted Jonathan to assist them in meeting competitive goals. Many of Jonathan's clients have gone on to compete both locally and nationally with confidence and success. Jonathan has experience training performance horses and with a competitive streak himself, he has seen much success as a competitor both locally and nationally. A few highlights include a MNSCHA Futurity Championship, NMRHA National Championship, USTPA Championship, NCRCHA winnings, NRCHA winnings, AQHA winnings, and many more!
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Why do we stay in a marriage that no longer serves us? Why do we judge ourselves for wanting more? The answers may surprise you.
If you're a woman in her 40s or 50s, chances are you are experiencing a phenomena I call "The End of Self-Sacrifice". It's a state brought on from hormone shifts that make our brains begin to think differently and our bodies to desperately crave having time and space to ourselves. After all, most of us have subjugated our entire adult lives, giving into all the desires and agendas of our spouse and children, typically without even noticing. We wake up one day and suddenly realize that life is moving by quickly and we feel trapped in a 'Groundhog's Day' cycle of the same ole' same. We want more – more joy, more fun, more purpose – and we become keenly aware that the relationship we thought would give us everything we desired in life simply isn't. We begin to feel how the marriage no longer feeds our soul and the pain of this awareness is real. And it seems that our light, our very life force, is fading slowly, with each passing day.
I am a holistic healer and empowerment (life) coach who has spent the last 15 years, working with women, helping them reignite their internal flame. What I know from the thousands of clients served, this nagging to get out of an unhealthy marriage can be the hardest decision you'll ever make. And the most important one.
It's common to stay too long because we identify with what we know; the unknown is scary and daunting. Our ego minds actually prefer what's familiar even if it's painful. It's literally our wiring. Add to this that our culture paints our desire for more for ourselves as straight-up selfish. And there's the pressure we feel to be in a partnership; it's as if it's essential to our identity. If we can't make in a marriage, we must be flawed. So divorce is shameful and something to be avoided at all costs. No wonder many women will wake up in their 70s and 80s with a man they now resent and blame for all number of things, most importantly the loss of their joy, passion and purpose.
I personally don't believe we should tolerate anything. We've come too far with Women's Suffrage, MeToo and "Time's Up" to not take note of this other, soul-sucking killer not to take our intimate relationships to task as well. Shouldn't this be where we're fed and feel MOST supported?
What I'd like to do in this article is provide a few tools to help you decide if leaving your relationship is the right choice for you and give you some encouragement for 'being' with the right energy to take conscious, next steps. Whatever your answer, you won't be honest with yourself if you aren't clear about one thing first: Divorce CAN be a very positive decision that has very different outcomes from the nasty, destructive stories you've seen in the movies or even personally experienced with friends. There's a new way of approaching the dismantling process of an intimate relationship that deserves your careful examination.
A movement is quickly making its way into my professional circles called 'Conscious Uncoupling'. Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin of Coldplay popularized the term and the approach when they split in 2014. This mindset puts a stake in the ground around HOW you divorce and brings with it great hope to ensure that all individuals will be honored, respected, and appreciated for what they brought into the marriage. The vision is that, after divorce, the couple continues to honor the love that was shared and focuses on the positive in one another. The outcome is that the children experience the best in their parent's relationship, as do friends
and family members. The couple can even remain in good relations, sharing holidays and important family events, without the usual in-fighting and tension common to divorces spouses. By design, this method requires that the best interest of all parties is factored into each decision. Using this approach requires vision, courage, and a commitment to bringing your highest self to the table, which can get tricky if you've already dissolved into constant bickering and distrust. But, whatever your circumstances, it is possible to take this approach in divorce and have a very happy, healthy outcome. Your success will be determined by your level of self-awareness and willingness to hire trusted advisors who will hold you to your commitment to remaining compassionate, fair and conscious through the process.
For many, divorce has given way to even more supportive and collaborative relationships, with some people finding that, while not good at being lovers, they make wonderful business partners or friends. A dear friend of mine shared how she divorced ten years ago and still remains good friends with her x. In fact, she introduced him to his now wife. They attended each others' weddings when each found a new partner. And they continue to seek the best in one another so that their children witness and experience only a collaborative relationship between them. Knowing that this kind of change is possible can be liberating and may be what it takes to get you to courageously face an important decision.
Here's a test I like to give to clients to make the right decision. Find a place where you can sit quietly, alone, and free of interruptions. Close your eyes and allow yourself to settle into the silence around you. Breathe deeply and exhale out any stress, fear and tension you have around making your decision. Try to empty your mind of thoughts. Now, from this place of quiet and stillness, take a moment to connect to the pain you feel being in your marriage.
Identify with what parts of yourself you've lost over the years.
What have you sacrificed that was truly meaningful to you?
What core values do you find no longer being your way of being?
Allow yourself to experience this deep, soul level pain for at least a three to five minutes. For many people, avoidance of pain has become a pattern so it's critical that you recognize if you're trying NOT to allow yourself to feel during this exercise.
Now, imagine yourself in the same situation five years out, with nothing having changed. Again, allow yourself to feel deeply into what this does in your body.
Now, imagine yourself in the same situation ten yours out, again with nothing having changed. The emotions should intensify. Remember to stay with it, allowing yourself to connect to the pain and awareness of what staying is causing within you.
For most, this exercise is the fuel for transformation of their situation. It allows us to identify with the truth, the toll that the marriage is having on our souls. If you find yourself, having played along and now keenly aware that something has to change, know that there are many resources to assist you from here. This is step one.
The road ahead doesn't have to be daunting. What is key is to begin to document how you feel. Take time grab a journal and jot down your experience. And important to note, not all journaling has to be lengthy prose or paragraphs. Your entry might even be a drawing of how you feel, created with crayon. Include any key words that came to mind while checking in.
"Nauseous', for example, or "numb", "caged' or 'suffocating' – to list a few that clients share most often. Using art, whether writing or drawing or painting, it an excellent way to get in touch with and process our inner, trapped emotions. Once we've released these to the page, we're more determined to make the changes that we know are required.
In a few days, I encourage you to do another exercise, this one entailing the complementary traits for your partner. This time, allow yourself to take inventory of the positive qualities of your spouse, making notes on the reasons you're likely to have married them in the first place. Write a much as you can in one sitting. Over the course of the next few days, add to the list. These positive statements will prove to help you shift the energy of how you will treat your partner moving forward. You will appreciate all you've been given, all that you have gained from your marriage, without feeling the need to stay any longer. There is a magic that occurs when we can tap into this higher energy with our interactions. Not to say that there won't be bumpy roads ahead, but you're starting with the most important pieces of awareness and that's an invaluable place to start.


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Garbh Bheinn has a fine conical form and encloses the southern side of Loch Leven. The ascent is short but unremittingly steep, with outstanding views throughout.
Very boggy ground lower down; drier but very steep ascent higher up. Rocky ridge to the summit.
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shading for the edges of the branches, to give them dimension. Remove the stencil
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the second layer of leaves we're going to use a mixture of colors. Some fern
green, rusty Brown, some olive green, and sage. We want to introduce all these
colors at once into one layer of leaves by creating what we call a camouflage
roller or camo roller. Don't forget to offload the extra paint onto a paper
towel. Place a different cluster from your citrus leaves stencil on top of the
darker leaves and roll over the stencil with your camo roller. You can see that
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previous layer adding a sense of depth to our canopy. These leaves don't need
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we're going to create the brightest leaves at the ends of the branches. These
are the sunlit leaves that are sitting on the surface. I'll use a brush a mix of
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for solid opaque coverage. You want to block out the colors underneath. Now
we're going to stencil a lemon from our fruit assortment stencil. Use a couple of
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The digital sketchbook of artist and animator, Adam Tilford. This ebook collects over 250 sketches between the years of 2014-2019. It contains sketches from projects like Shattered Heaven, Dragon Star and more.
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"A Glint of Gold" provides layers of visual effect from every angle or distance it is being viewed. A rectangular cut of striated sandstone stands out against a solid black background and is mounted in a wooden frame. The frame has a delicate stain and metallic gold paint irregularly applied on its surface.
From across the room, this piece is attractive and intriguing due to the apparent simplicity and unusual composition. Upon closer inspection, the intricate lines of sediment are quickly forgotten as small slivers of shiny gold metal refract light from the surface of the cut stone.
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We demonstrated a high-pulse energy, femtosecond-pulse source based on optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification. We successfully amplified 1-µm broadband oscillator pulses to 31 mJ and recompressed them to 310-fs pulse duration, at a 10-Hz repetition rate. The gain in our system is 6 × 107, achieved by the single passing of only 40 mm of gain material pumped by a commercial Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. This relatively simple system replaces a more complex Ti:sapphire regenerative-amplifier-based chirped-pulse amplification system. Numerous features in design and performance of optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifiers make them a preferred alternative to regenerative amplifiers based on Ti:sapphire in the front end of high-peak-power lasers.
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Traveling is this amazing thing. And at the risk of sounding trite, let me just say that it really does open your eyes and heart to so many pieces of yourself and the world that you never knew existed. The one downside in my eyes is that it can mean being pulled away (if not mentally, then physically) from the ones you love. And let's be real, a virtual hug from your mom, kiss from your partner, or gossip session with your friends just is not the same as the real thing. It's not. For all of our technical advances, we still have not been able to replicate the magic that results from human connection- praise Gawd!
You see, I used to think that the college I attended, newest purse, or journeying to some far off land would make me truly happy. And yes, there is joy derived from those experiences/items. But, I've realized, especially during this trip to Peru, that the things we do, see, and accomplish, mean nothing if there's no one to share them with. Peace, happiness, joy, is baking red velvet cakes with my mom on Christmas Eve. It's watching the NBA playoffs with my dad and talking trash because we're cheering for different teams (for some gawd awful reason he is a Lebron fan). It's snuggling up with my baby cousins as they fall asleep on my lap at family functions. It's sharing memes or discussing relationships with my guy friends that are really more like brothers at this point. Joy is in dishing about the guy I met two days ago and won't like in a week with my girlfriends.
This is of course not to say that my happiness is contingent upon them. Life has taught me that only I, through God's grace, can give myself that gift. No, it's to say that humans were created to live in fellowship with each other – making contact with others essential for our survival. And, in-spite of all the places I've been and still want to go, there is just no place like home. Because, as fun, important, and necessary as it is to go, do, be, explore, venture, visit, travel, unearth, and wander, it's equally important to come home.
It's worth nothing that instead of being sad about missing people, birthdays, weddings, or graduations, I've learned to be thankful that my life is so full of people to love and celebrate in the first place – even if it is from afar sometimes.
After all, when the love is real, it's limit does not exist.
T-10 days until I'm home. T-22 days until I'm on the road again.
I might be hardly home, but I promise I'm always reppin. Thanks to the tribe of people in my life that make coming home something to look forward to. And, thanks for understanding my deep need for wandering. I love you.


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New Call of Duty skipping PC
Activision CEO reveals that next Call of Duty game won't be for PCs, but rather for next-gen consoles; likely COD spin-off.
PC gamers have long held onto certain franchises as their own, with popular series like Doom, Quake, and Civilization all originally built with the PC in mind. With the advent of more sophisticated consoles, several PC franchises have made the jump over to the Xbox and PlayStation 2, and more recently the Xbox 360.
One such game that did so with phenomenal commercial success was Activision's Call of Duty 2. The game long held the top slot for best-selling Xbox 360 game and easily outsold any other Xbox 360 launch title. The game enjoyed great success on the PC as well, though the Xbox 360 numbers outshone the PC's as more consoles were fed into the market.
Apparently, Activision was looking at those numbers. In today's postearnings conference call, Activision chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick specifically noted that the next Call of Duty game, due in the company's third quarter of this fiscal year (October 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006), is "not a PC product, it's a console product and it's all next-gen."
All is not lost for the keyboard and mouse crew, however. The game is likely one of the Call of Duty spin-offs and not developed by the franchise's original minds, Infinity Ward. 2005's Call of Duty: Big Red One and 2004's Call of Duty: Finest Hour, both of which received lukewarm reviews, were developed by Treyarch and Spark Interactive, respectively.
More hope comes from news from 2005. According to job listings posted by Infinity Ward just after last year's E3, the company is ramping up its teams for its Call of Duty games as well as a new intellectual property, but applicants should be open to both PC and next-gen console development. Also, Activision expects to release a COD game in its following fiscal year, which keeps in line with a new, full Infinity Ward-developed PC Call of Duty game being released every two years.
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