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Meet the New Makeup Revolution Salvation Palette – Hard Day. The Salvations are some of Makeup Revolution's biggest success – eighteen shades in one palette, and there isn't a bad one among them. Hard Day is packed with wearable shades in mixed textures – the bottom row is entirely matte. So, I'll get straight to the swatches:
The top row of New Makeup Revolution Salvation Palette Hard Day comprises: Say Yes, It's What We Do, Had Such A Hard Day, Not One For Playing Games, Words Just Sound The Same and Take Me Where.
The middle row of New Makeup Revolution Salvation Palette Hard Day: Eyes Can't Find Us, Without You, I May as Well Just, Don't Bring Me Down, Give Me A Break and What Will It Take.
The bottom row of New Makeup Revolution Salvation Palette Hard Day is: To Make You Love Me, Sweet Little Boy, With Such A Big Mouth, Gets You Into Hot Water, I am Always Here For You and Never Bring You Down.
Whew! The integral mirror in the Salvation Palettes is such a handy size – it's a proper, decently sized, usable mirror that runs the length of the palettes. The value on these is unbeatable at £6 – I use my Makeup Revolution palettes a lot because they prove time and time again that you do not need to pay over the odds for really great products.
I love Hard Day – I'm still playing around with it so not sure if it's my absolute favourite, but there isn't a single colour in it that I wouldn't use. I'm pretty welded to the Iconics to be honest.
New Makeup Revolution Salvation Palette Hard Day has just launched HERE.
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Great review Jane, did you notice that all the names of the shadows are lines from the song "Hard Day" by George Michael?
So gorgeous! Thanks for the swatches.
I thought at first that Makeup Revolution would do what many other budget brands do and just provide dupes for well known high end products (like they did with all of Urban Decay's Naked pallets in this case). But it seems like they're also coming out with more and more original shades and products which just cannot be faulted. I am well and truly impressed with this brand!
Oh no…I thought surely I have enough eye colours with the Revolution palettes I already have and then THIS one launches…this is def my perfect range of colours- neutrals, but just on the cool side and with a smidge of bling! I just ordered some Lip Hugs…guess I'm going to have to "go shopping" again!!
Great colors!!!
Not going to lie, every shade are the sort of shades I'd want to see in a palette. They are very me, wearable and this is mine on my next shopping trip, well, where they stock at least x


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Luckily, the new version of The Prisoner quickly disabused me of the notion there was a point ... other than the occasional eye candy of Jamie Campbell Bower.ReplyDelete
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Bower's beautiful but dull, McKellen's well-acted but badly scripted and the guy who plays 6 is...just a bit annoying.
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AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) recognizes that artificial intelligence is the fundamental backbone of IoT (Internet of Things). Therefore, AI and IoT are inseparable. Merging the two acronyms to form AIoT is only logical.
Forget about IoT (Internet of Things). The use of some form of AI (artificial intelligence) in almost everything we use in our everyday lives is inevitable. – digitalfemme (Nov. 2015)
AIoT: NEW AND IMPROVED I0T
IoT's recent growth in various industries has reached a point where it's time to use a new acronym. We can no longer deny the importance of the use of various forms of artificial intelligence. In other words, IoT is part of an infrastructure of an ecosystem that has not yet been conceived of. Simply, IoT is a logistical blue print layer for a much more advanced and emotional system. This system not only understands data but uses it to interact with humans and their surroundings. As a result, AIoT is the new and improved IoT.
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I'm on vacation! Happy Holidays everyone!
Month: December 2009
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I want to go to there.
A-"quack" of the Clones!
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It was still a better movie than Episode I: The Panda Menace.
"Moo"-ving target!
A sad story, from the Daily Star:
I replaced the picture from the article with this cute, non-dead cow. I think it's better.
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A more elegant variation on "cat-tastic."
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It's the last day of January and finally the paperwork for my job is mostly done. But today I had my first assignment. (I work the Wednesday-Sunday shift, so technically I started Monday but my first two days I had off.)
So back to this first day. One assignment, a ride-along and a feature hunt to please non-photo editors that didn't like any of the other 3 features turned in. Then on top of this, the feature hunt was called off by the time I got out to the empty park so I sat on a bench for five minutes to feel the warmth of the sunset on my face. Apparently an editor had been convinced to use one of the 3 features as the local centerpiece. Ah the work place. But all in all that was my day thus far and I'll post the photo once it runs. I got to use my new AlienBees and some gridspots, I'll say that. :)
I spent my "day off" on Monday at the Magic Kingdom with friends as a final farewell to the simple life and one last time to be a kid before having a steady 2-11pm job five days a week. It was fun and I got to play MORE with my new point and shoot digital camera that I got for my birthday. The camera is a Canon Powershot SD800IS. It is awesome. As far as point and shoots go this is definitely the way to go.
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First day of the internship!
It's the last day of January and finally the paperwork for my job is mostly done. But today I had my first assignment. (I work the Wednesday-Sunday shift, so technically I started Monday but my first two days I had off.)
Monday, January 22, 2007
Micanopy and Paynes Prairie Memories
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Although my internship hasn't officially started yet I've been doing a few assignments and feature hunts while most of the staff was in Arizona.
Basketball and returning Champions
After only about 3.5 hours of sleep on Tuesday, I played hostess to friends that made the trek to Gainesville for the game night excitement. Then later I got to shoot the Gator Men's Basketball game where the returning football team made a special appearance during half-time.
Monday was full of anticipation as the hours leading to kick-off of the National Championship game ticked by. Four Sun staffers were in Arizona, leaving one staffer, an intern, and about 6 stringers left behind to cover the madness in Gainesville in case they won. I was one of them. I volunteered to do a soundslides piece if we won. At 8 am the next morning when I was leaving the office I kinda of regretted that decision. My body was literally numb and I couldn't stand listening to "It's great to be a FLORIDA GATOR..." one more time. But the Soundslides got done in the end. I recorded most of the audio on it, only one interview and the music playing behind that interview were done by the Gainesville Sun intern Alex Cohn, who also did video. The plan was for him to get back and edit his video and I would edit his sound, my sound, piece together the track, then do the Soundslides.
University Avenue here in Gainesville was mayhem once again. The GPD however greased the light poles this time so people couldn't climb them, or atleast not easily. So people would try and just slip right down, it was pretty humorous. What was not really funny however was the bonfire someone started and the people who climbed so high in the trees that we were afraid to stand under them because the branches looked like they were going to break any second.


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What temperature is the surface of the Moon and why should You care?
This piece belongs to my blog series at https://edingeoslife.com where I discuss the seminars I attended hosted by the University of Edinburgh. The first blog entry can be found at: Why All students, from All years, from All subjects should attend Seminars.
Title of the Talk: What temperature is the surface of the Moon and why should I care?
Speaker: Neil Bowles
Our weird Neighbour
If you would be an alien browsing across our Solar System you would find certain oddities. No it wouldn't be our gas giants. Or the giant rings of Saturn. Your focus would shift on the planet third in line. A blue dot in the sky that is not like the other planets in our system. This bright ball in the sky is mostly blue with green and brown blotches running across her surface. After taking a closer look, you the alien would realise that warm water runs across this planet. You would see, it is teaming with Life, great and small. You would quickly realise that an oxygen rich atmosphere reaches across this planet, like a great space suit, keeping everything alive. Your instruments would detect a giant magnetic field, like a shield, defending the planet from the fiery dragon breath of the sun. This sphere would certainly be a great interest to you. But you would notice, this odd fella is not a lone traveller. It has a partner, a moon. However this companion couldn't be a greater contrast to the blue ball of life. It is barren. Craters spawn its surface. No life whatsoever. No flowing water. The temperatures are hellish. On the sunny side you fry. In the dark, you freeze stone solid. No air to breathe. No magnetic field to shield you from the ionising radiation ripping up your DNA. The place is Death. Sitting opposite to the space ship of Life. An odd couple indeed. However, if you are an alien of a scientific mind, you would notice that the two are deeply interconnected. This moon is relatively close to the big blue ball. Their orbital paths are so synchronised that it only shows one face towards the planet of life. This moon is very large compared to other similar systems. If you would take rock samples from both planets you would learn that this moon formed hot and has a lot of chemical similarities to the planet of life. Taking your knowledge of the formation of other systems you would guess that this system formed when a past large impactor collided with the blue planet forming the moon. A violent beginning to such a peaceful dancing formation today. You as alien would certainly be hungry to find out more.
Neil's research focuses on trying to understand this strange big rock, our heavenly neighbour. More precisely the origins of the Moon, the reasons for the wide temperature contrasts on the surface and how the craters play a key role in preserving potential water ice on the surface. He argues that we should send more probes to the Moon especially to the polar regions to understand the weird temperature fluctuations there. He is curious to see how good the shady craters are to preserve water ice. He thinks if we find plenty of water ice in the polar regions, future generations could set up Moon bases there and use it as a jumping platform for our journey into the cosmos.
Historical Context
The Moon was a focal point of the Space Race of the 1960s. It represented the prize for both the Americans and the Soviets. Both sides visited it extensively with manned missions and robotic probes bringing back plenty of rock samples. Plenty of studies were done on the Moon using the samples in the 60s and 70s. However the aims of most Moon missions were not scientific but political. The United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a deadly Cold War. They saw getting to the Moon as a political victory over the other. Therefore the geologically interesting areas of the Moon were not visited, only the flat relatively mountain free areas to make the landings as risk free as possible. Scientific data is limited about the Moon despite us visiting for such a long time. Newer probes such as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter or the SELENE probe while did make some broad observations and yielded good surface temperature data, did not provide the complete picture. The current aim of Prof. Neil is to convince ESA and NASA to send a lander, similar to the Martian InSight probe to directly study the surface of the lunar poles. Therefore despite popular belief our work on the Moon is far from over.
Surface Temperatures and Hidden Ice
The temperature of the Moon greatly fluctuates much more than a normal interplanetary body. It has no atmosphere so there is no gas absorbing or releasing heat. The top surface has poor heat conduction, as it underwent heavy asteroid bombardment. On the sunny side the average temperature can be as high as 60 C degrees while on the shaded side it reaches -180 C degrees. These heavy temperature fluctuations suggest poor hydration of the rocks therefore a water depleted lunar mantle. The surface temperatures are measured by satellite looking at the amount of heat radiated back into space. The rate of cooling and heating was calculated based on thermal inertia.
One of the most interesting locations on the Moon are the Polar regions. They are covered in wide and deep craters and due to the sun's low angle they are in darkness all the time. This maintains the low, bellow freezing temperatures through the lunar year, allowing the preservation of water ice. The stability of ice on the moon is influenced by several factors. Erosion of the lunar surface driven by impact of micro-meteorites and irradiation of heat by crater walls.
The areas with the highest potential for water have been mapped by the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) based on hydrogen emissions of the area. While evidence for water was poor, the South Pole yielded the best evidence for a good stability field for subsurface water. With a new satellite solely focusing on the area, we could learn more about the location of the water ice.
Why should we go back?
We still have a limited understanding of our own neighbour. Going back would enable us to expand our scientific knowledge. If we find water ice in the poles, it would provide us raw materials for oxygen generation, rocket fuel and drinking water. The rocky body of the Moon is rich in minerals and Helium3 (a source of fuel for safe nuclear fission reactors) which would enable us to build a civilisation and increase the reach of mankind. The Moon is safer to navigate than asteroids therefore it would make a better platform for Mars missions and planetary exploration. The gravity of the Moon is low, while predictable (unlike an asteroid's) allowing the launches of rockets at a much cheaper cost than from Earth. The Moon would be a great stepping stone for mankind to further reach into the heavens. Understanding the surface temperature fluctuations and explaining them would go a long way in preparing us for a journey to Mars and beyond.
The best way to summarise why should mankind return to the Moon and beyond is summed up perfectly by astronaut and commander of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott:
"As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I sort of realize there's a fundamental truth to our nature, Man must explore . . . and this is exploration at its greatest.
For when I look at the Moon I do not see a hostile, empty world. I see the radiant body where man has taken his first steps into a frontier that will never end."
Further Reading
Diviner Lunar Radiometer Observations of Cold Traps in the Moon's South Polar Region


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Hiding messages in chess games »
Tue 9 October 2018
I designed a steganography system that encodes data as a chess game. A convenient way to communicate chess games is PGN, but any means of communicating the moves of the game would work, as the information is encoded conceptually in the moves themselves, rather than taking advantage of any redundancy in the PGN format. Read more »
How I cracked the Bitcoin keys in Andy Bauch's Lego artwork »
Sat 24 March 2018
Yesterday I read an article about a series of art pieces created by Andy Bauch with $10,000 of cryptocurrency hidden in them. Each of the pieces is assembled out of lego bricks. Read more »
How to defeat naive image steganography »
Wed 27 April 2016
As a teenager, I wrote a C program to do image steganography. It hid the secret image in the least significant bits of the cover image. I also made a PHP web interface to it, which now sees about 3,000 users per month. So I've made a better version, it gives previews of the input images, doesn't upload the images to my server (privacy, yo), and is faster. Read more »


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About Nissan
Nissan cars are well known for providing an average amount of sportiness and luxury for a lower cost than most. Save for the ferocious Nissan GT-R, which starts at $89,950 with the 3.8-liter 530hp engine, as this car is a revelation in terms of pure sportiness and Japanese sports-car design. If you are looking for an affordable and reliable import car that is both stylish and inspiring to drive, then you should consider a Nissan.
The 2012 Nissan Maxima remains to be a worthy alternative when in the market for a midsized sports sedan. The Nissan Maxima starts at just $31,700 and comes with standard luxury features such as the gorgeous exterior styling, 18-inch aluminum alloy wheels, dual-zone climate control system, and a handsome power sliding sunroof. Power comes in the form of a torque-rich, 3.5-liter V6 engine that generates 290hp that are transferred to the front wheels via a CVT transmission.
The Nissan Rouge is a sporty crossover that also exhibits some luxurious qualities for the everyday drive. For the base price of $21,530, the Nissan Rouge comes with full power accessories, stability control, and anti-lock brakes. The luxury comes from the smooth and controlled ride. The Nissan Rouge provides enough room for five passengers and is destined to become a favorite for long and extended drives.
The 2012 Nissan Murano Cross Cabriolet may surprise you at first but there is no denying the fact that this is perhaps one of the most practical cabriolets in the business. If the $44,500 price tag of the Murano Cross Cabriolet is too much for your budget, then you might want to consider the normal Nissan Murano SUV instead. Starting at just $29,200, the Nissan Murano comes standard with luxury features such as full leather interior, dual-zone auto climate control, and a six-speaker premium audio system. The Nissan Murano also offers modest levels of space for five passengers and their cargo along with the pulling power of a 265hp, 3.5-liter V6 engine.
The Nissan Leaf starts at $35,200 and the 2012 model includes more standard equipment such as heated front and rear seats, heated exterior mirrors, and a heated steering wheel. If you want a spacious and well-mannered electric car, then the 2012 Nissan Note is the best choice.
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Apple has admitted that inked-stained hipsters — and others sporting tattoos on their wrist — could have trouble with the Apple watch heart rate monitor.
"Permanent or temporary changes to your skin, such as some tattoos, can also impact heart rate sensor performance," the company wrote on its website. "The ink, pattern, and saturation of some tattoos can block light from the sensor, making it difficult to get reliable readings."
The Internet was flooded with reports this week from early adapters who had trouble using the Apple watch heart monitors because, they claimed, of their tattoos.
While the reports were many and believed to be true — Apple had stayed mum, until now.
Of course, the technology used to read someone's heart rate is not exclusive to Apple — and therefore other smart watches with built-in heart rate monitors will also be affected.
Fitbit's Charge HR wrist band suffers from the same issues, according to Engadget, the tech-focused website.


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i have realized that the light here in arizona is incredible.
A couple of weeks ago, I had the most amazing time with one of the sweetest couples ever! We met about six months ago at the Arizona Bridal Fair, and through many emails, we realized that we would work together perfectly. We had many things in common – antiquing, the need for creative outlets . . .wine! So, our first meeting, of course, took place in a cute little wine bar, and from that moment on, I knew I had met two very special people. We talked and laughed and shared ideas, but when they told me how they met, that was when I knew I just had to be a part of their wedding story! Meet James and Emmy.
"James & I met online so our fist date was the first time we saw eachother face to face. Our first date was at San Tan Brewery. I walked in and scanned the room for my date and locked eyes with the most beautiful man ive ever seen. He smiled and stood up to greet me. I had kept him waiting for an hour and he hadn't called or texted me to confirm our date (I'm notorious for being late) I was surprised for one that he was still there, and second how understanding he was. He told me I was worth the wait. 🙂 We stayed and talked for hours, we both were suprised how comfortable we felt with one another…by the end of our first date we knew we were in trouble." ~ Emmy
November 15th, 2012 at 9:46 am
This is one of the prettiest set of engagement photos I have seen!!
Love this sweet story of how they met, and these are just gorgeous photos!! So many blessings!!
November 15th, 2012 at 11:28 am
These pictures are awesome!
November 15th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Wishing you both the very best dear Niece, I wish you more, more day's to love, More Nights to dream, more tears of Joy, more long joyful laughter, more Hugs,kisses, touches of the hand than you ever dreamed of.today is a new day, and I Wish you More. best of luck and happiness dear
November 29th, 2012 at 9:51 am
Some of the best engagement pictures I have ever seen!!!
January 6th, 2013 at 6:17 pm
Christine. Loved seeing your work again. You are the best
March 6th, 2013 at 1:03 pm
What a cute couple and great set of images!
May 21st, 2013 at 12:48 pm
You are RIGHT! The light is AMAZING! You did such a nice job of using it to highlight your couple! Stunning! Thank you for sharing!


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Romeoville, Illinois, April 22, 2019—Offering research-based expertise, Christian Brothers Services (CBS) will be presenting at the premier convocation for HR professionals in the church hosted by the National Association of Church Personnel Administrators (NACPA) to be held April 28 through April 30 at the Sheraton Gunter, San Antonio, Texas.
NACPA promotes leadership in human resources, finance and administration that models Gospel values, promoting justice in the workplace.
Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer, Terry Arya, will present: "Creating an Effective Work Culture in Today's World."
This presentation, based on a current research initiative, explores how workplace culture is perceived by leaders and employees. The session reveals how culture can be changed to reflect increased employee involvement and looks at what impact an employees' perception of psychological safety has on their workplace.
Best practices to create a culture that thrives will be shared. Implications related to recent social movements (i.e., #timesup and #metoo), generational difference and the need for cultural reform will be discussed.
CBS also is a platinum sponsor of the keynote presentation by John Carr, founder and director of Georgetown University's Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life.
Visit us in the exhibitor's area at the convocation to learn more information about CBS.
NACPA members, representing around 120-140 different arch/dioceses, religious communities and parishes around the nation, return to convocation each year not only for the ongoing education and peer relationship building but to come away with the solutions to the daily challenges and hurdles specific to the lives of an HR director in a church or diocesan office.
About Christian Brothers Services
Founded in 1960 and headquartered in Romeoville, Illinois, Christian Brothers Services is a nonprofit, Catholic organization that administers cooperative programs in the areas of health, retirement, property/casualty, and technology as well as financial, administrative and Catholic school consulting to church congregations, organizations and dioceses internationally.
About Catholic School Management
Founded in 1973, NCEA Financial Consulting Services focused exclusively on finance and development consulting services for Catholic school and diocesan administrators. In 1979 demand for a broader scope of services resulted in the creation of Catholic School Management (CSM). In 2014, Christian Brothers Services acquired CSM's growing operations, making CBS the national leader in consultative guidance for Catholic schools. CSM's team of experts represents more than 500 years of experience in the education field with a focus on strategy, planning and leadership.
About BMT
Founded in 1972 and headquartered in Tarrytown, New York, Brenner, McDonagh & Tortolani, Inc., BMT Management and Financial Consultants was acquired by Christian Brothers Services in 2017. Providing premier consulting services to 280 religious institutes and many sponsored ministries in need of assistance, BMT offers the management of daily operations, including accounting and financial management, benefits eligibility management, human resources, investment consulting and real estate planning and sustainability studies.


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If, as a leader, you find yourself wondering how to deliver outcomes with unapologetic reliability, balance the complexities of regulatory, customer, employee, director, and public demands then this breakfast is for you.
We are excited to welcome Dr. Kathryn Ritchie, founder & CEO of Ignition Institute who will share insights gained from over 20 years implementing strategy execution & cultural transformation in Australian & US Organizations
Enjoy a full breakfast during a facilitated discussion on strategy execution, the role of culture and Q&A with an expert panel led by Dr. Ritchie.
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Michael Stack (b. 1947) Artworks >>
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Michael Stack was born in New York and raised in California, exhibiting a love and a flair for art at an early age. He is primarily a self-taught artist, although Western artist Duane Bryers showed Stack a variety of techniques and assisted in Stack's artistic development. An invitation to take care of a friends ranch in Patagonia, Arizona, brought Stack to the Southwest. His enchantment with the landscape was immediate, and he decided to remain in the area, purchasing land in nearby Sonita. The artist now resides in Tucson, Arizona, a town surrounded by mountain ranges and desert.
Stack seeks to capture on canvas the vastness of the Southwestern landscape. His work focuses on the fleeting moment of shadow, light and color that awakens an emotional response in the viewer. Indeed, perhaps it would be more appropriate to call Stack a painter of skyscapes, rather than landscapes. In the majority of his works, the landscape is often experienced against the endlessly varied skies and wide-open spaces of the Southwest. The essential character of the southwestern terrain is conveyed with great skill and sensitivity, as well as an obvious love of the land. Magnificent cumulus clouds tower over high desert plains, brilliant sunsets of orange and violet are reflected in meandering streams, and rain pours onto yellow bluffs from angry storm clouds shot through with the rays of the sun. In the painstakingly constructed layers of translucent paint, the artist captures a moment in the ever-changing panorama of the southwest.
Stack's paintings are never mere reproductions of nature. Instead, the artist says, "I try to create a sense of peace, of being there. I try to convey the emotion of the landscape, to put something of me in it. And I like painting the sky because it gives me a sense of freedom."
Stack's paintings are included in collections in the United States, Europe and Japan. His work has appeared on the covers of both Southwest Art and Art of the West as the featured artist. In August of 1992, Southwest Art stated "Michael Stack has catapulted his reputation into the skies. His success as a painter stems from skillful renderings of deliriously sunny back-drops silhouetting the Santa Cruz Mountains or haunting blue-gray moonlight diffused over the Rio Grande." Stack has also been featured in various other national and local publications.
In the fall of 1997, Stack was inducted as a Master Artist for the Artist of America show sponsored by the Denver Rotary. In 1996 he was named the Tucson Artist of the Year, the twenty-fourth to be so honored. He exhibits regularly at the annual Prix de West, held at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the Masters of the American West Show at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, California.
Reference: AskArt.com


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20 Jul 7 Amazing Homes Decorated With White That Never Go Out Of Trend
Let's face it. White can never be boring. It can never go out of trend. You see whites in homes, wedding so many times and no one ever got tired of it. However, all whites design can be so boring to almost serious that you need something to break the monotony.
One may think that all-white room will be cold with sombre atmosphere, but if you are able to pair with good furnishings and decoration, playng around with textures and colors to match white, you can find yourself surrounded by with beautiful whites that give a very cozy feeling.
Here, I pick 7 projects to give you some ideas of how you can make do with certain things to decorate with whites.
Adding Textures to the Whites
1. Ultra Modern White At Seastrand Tower – Weiken.com Interior Design Pte Ltd
This room is pretty awesome! I am a fan of marbling designs and I am so in love with how the designer came up with the marbling design for the wall of the television as well as the carpet on the glossy white floor tiles.
It added such classiness and elegance! Together with earthly toned furnishings, it made such a stunning home to stay in. Click on the picture to hop over to the source for more pictures!
2. Contemporary Design With Ample Storage At Waterfront Gold – Vegas Interior Design Pte Ltd
Beside adding textures like marbling, one can also play around with the lighting fixtures and mirrors to create a spacious and airy feeling, yet cozy.
3. Black And White Modern At Anchorvale Crescent – Inzz Studio Pte Ltd
Why not add a dash of personality to your home? Adding textured walls like brick wall can also help to create beautiful surroundings at home to bring out the chic look which can be visually appealing to the eye.
I like how the designer chose the swing chair, art decoration (painting) and pillowcase with word design because it just add interesting feature to the whole look, making it looks fun and lively.
Adding splash of colors to the Whites
4. The Pink Round Bed You Never Knew Existed! – Vegas Interior Design Pte Ltd
Skip the boring greys and black and go for bold or bright colours instead!
This is such a bold move to add the bright shade of pink into the whites of the room. It creates a stunning and visually appealing room!
5. HDB 4-Room BTO At Blk 430A Yishun Orchid Spring – Absolook Interior Design Pte Ltd
How about adding different shades of blue? It make everything looks so feminine and sweet! The light blue curtains matching with the sheer curtains add some daintiness, and adding lightness to the space and air of softness.
6. Sleek Simplicity At Blk 476 Upper Serangoon View – HomeVista Pte Ltd
Don't forget your kitchen too! You can also add splashes of color as well to liven up the atmosphere which give you the mood to cook delicious meals while whistling away.
White and wood make an excellent combination
Combinations of whites and wooden finishings are always trending in home interior designs, making homes look more warm and inviting. The combination helps to harmonise the interior for the homes.
7. HDB Resale 4-Room Modern Farmhouse At Bedok – Designscale Pte Ltd
Doesn't this house looks so warm and inviting? I just love how the designer put together a farmhouse concept right in Singapore! The cozy corner looks so comforting with lush of green at your feet, I will no doubt love to spend my morning sitting there reading book with a cup of coffee.
You can never go wrong with white design if you know how to style your homes. For more home interior ideas, do hop over to Interior Design Singapore, which has amazing gallery of many reputable interior designers styling Singapore homes.
Disclaimer: All pictures are taken from Interior Design Singapore unless stated otherwise. However, content and opinions are of my own.


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To feel too much – wimp!
To dismantle the observed – smart-arse!
Tossed in a surf of sensation and thought – narcissist!
Compelled to spill – ranter!
Propelled by impulse – fool!
Christ, who wouldn't take a drink?
The blog of Christopher Hegan
To feel too much – wimp!
To dismantle the observed – smart-arse!
Tossed in a surf of sensation and thought – narcissist!
Compelled to spill – ranter!
Propelled by impulse – fool!
Christ, who wouldn't take a drink?
Grief belongs to the families of girls carted off in trucks by hooting, khat-crazed lunatics.
Grief belongs to the parents of the child at the end of the rope.
Grief belongs to the desolate relict of the 60 year marriage.
Grief is that which bends every good soul softly to the afflicted,
In tears.
I can not claim grief. Not that.
We shared a meal, just last night. We are – friends.
But where is my word? What is its name?
To know that in all my nights to come
I will never feel your breath on the back of my neck,
Never reach out in my sleep to touch you,
Never wake to your puppy snore
And turn to stroke the slow curve of your hip,
Under the faint fabric of a beloved cotton nightshirt
Washed to silk.
Never drink your beauty in the cellphone's glow,
And never again, as long as I will live, draw you to me in love?
This is not grief.
It just
Feels like it.
Komm mit mir und mit mir schlafen,
Im ein alt hotel im Ludwigshafen,
We'll drink stolen wine out of stolen glasses
And laugh out loud at the burghers' arses.
I will bring you traffic signs,
We'll rip up tickets, won't pay fines.
We'll sit in church in our dirty jeans
Reading pornographic magazines.
And then we'll walk for miles and miles
Past military tulips, synthetic smiles.
Capitalism. An incredibly simple, powerful and good force in the world.
If only we had it.
Adam Smith made it so simple (though it took him three volumes of his Wealth of Nations to say it). He understood that that inexorable tendency of capital was for the powerful to eliminate the weak until, ultimately, only one super-supplier of everything dominates every transaction, sucking every skerrick of surplus back to its owners and effectively enslaving everyone else.
The only force capable of and charged with stopping this: a government elected by the people to defend the people, breaking up emerging monopolies, constantly resetting, levelling, the market. Imposing regulation to ensure fair play. A beautiful concept, a workable system. America became great because it understood this better than anyone else. The breakup of Bell Telephone. Ditto Hollywood's control of cinemas.
When Hollywood studios ruled the exhibitor business by a complex web of sweetheart deals, threats, exclusions and other practices, they were crunched.
News to you? Read this elegant summary of the issues by the 1948 Supreme Court:
'The gist of the Court's unanimous Paramount decision can be summarized in four points: first, the mere existence of monopoly power, whether lawfully or unlawfully gained, is basis enough for an antitrust judgment; second, it is not necessary to find specific intent to restrain trade, simply that such restraint results from the defendants' business conduct; third, the Sherman Act can be violated by prevention of competition as much as by destruction of competition; and finally, any theater under any ownership is subject to an antitrust judgment if the theater was acquired or maintained as a result of unreasonable restraint of trade.'
What sweet music that would have been to Adam Smith's ears.
Now ask yourself: could such a ruling conceivably come down today? I think not. Never happen. Courts, politicians, civil administrators, the media – they are all in bed together and the consumer is pinned face down, taking it where it hurts most.
I don't know this. I can't prove it. I am convinced solely because it happens, just as the 1948 Supreme Court concluded that the mere existence of the circumstances satisfied the criteria for the break-up under the Sherman Act.
Doubt it? Just listen to BBC's scandalous consumer non-protection farces "You & Yours" and "Money & You" as the affable, supine presenters (Peter White and Paul Ellis, respectively) obediently read out press releases from companies from whom 'no-one was available to appear on the programme'.
But hang on. Don't these companies pay PR flacks fortunes to get them onto programmes they want to be on?
And hang on again. Under media rules requiring balance, the broadcaster's only obligation is to give the company the opportunity to put its point of view. Should it decline to front up the programme is free to air only the views of its critics. If they started doing that, the companies would start showing up for interviews quick smart, as they do in my own country. And taking the hammering they so often deserve from genuine journalists.
How is it the job of a presenter of a consumer rights programme to read out companies' press releases? Answer: it isn't. It's b**lsh*t. Phony crony capitalism, funded by your licence fees.
What happens when the companies or their industry reps do appear on the programmes? They get a velvet cushion shoved under their arses.
Money & You, today, June 22, 2014. Some poor bugger got caught in China when martial law was declared. He didn't know. Reasonable, since he was on holiday and didn't speak Chinese. He runs into trouble. His travel insurance fails him.
He describes how, right through the crisis, he kept getting marketing emails from the company, but no warnings or advice, in spite of the fact that the Foreign Office had advised travellers to get out.
Paul Ellis: (I paraphrase) "How was that? Could you not have warned him?"
Answer: "Well, every company has websites that send out marketing messages to their customers. But we are not able to send out specific Foreign Office advisories to our travelling customers."
Ellis' charming, affable response: move on to the next question.
Correct response: "Excuse me? You get the advisories, surely. Why not use a simple web-script to sort them by country and automatically bounce them on to travelling customers on your database? You can't be telling me this is too hard?"
"Well … I'm not a computer expert …"
"It sounds to me as if you're too busy marketing to your customers to attend to their safety. Surely the travelling public has the right to expect better than this from an industry known to use some of the most powerful and sophisticated computer systems on the planet?"
Aahh, we dream.
Until this issue is addressed, the disenchanted will espouse broken, failed and fatally flawed systems or non-systems such as communism and anarchy. But capitalism is far more efficient at delivering safe, affordable and useable goods and services to the people, in accordance with the will of the people, including their desire for simplicity, environmental care, fair play and quality first.
If only we had it …
The bollix argument in favour of our government serving their interests is … well, read this.
For some reason I heard the third quote in a week on BBC 3 from someone referred to as a 'metaphysical poet.'
Announcement: I have finally arrived at what I could call the Grand Unifying Theory of Sex, with apologies to Stephen Hawkings and co.
Humans, like, I suspect, many mammalian species, have sex lives which are for the most part unfulfilling. And the strange fact is that this is so because it is a good thing, in that it improves our chances of successful propagation of our genes.
Yes. What men want, what gets men off, doesn't do it for women, and vice versa. Our bits are in the wrong place and our instinctive techniques are at odds. Men feel driven to violent thrusting, women like strong, gentle rhythm, and the physical areas which produce the orgasm through friction and heat, the penis and the clitoris, don't even normally come into contact due to where they're placed. Weird. What's worse, men let it all rip in one great bang and that's it. A few drags on the post-coital fag and off to sleep with a beaming smile on our faces. But the women can come again, and again, and again, and love it.
How could nature get it so wrong?
My theory is that old trickster Momma Nature did it deliberately. That's right. In this all-important part of keeping the species going she made sure that we guys get what we want and our female partners don't.
Think about it. It all stems from the unchangeable fact that for the hugest part of our time as this species we didn't have language anything like useful enough to have a discussion about who did what with whom and when. And it wouldn't have done any good if we had, because we probably didn't understand the connection between copulation and fertility anyway. Result: the females were alone in knowing for sure that the babe in their arms was theirs. Studies of comparable species show that the odds of a monogamous male wasting his time in feeding, protecting and training offspring who are not biologically his own are very high. Even today among knowledgeable, suspicious humans, anonymous surveys suggest that as many as 25% of kids are brought up by men who unknowingly are not their fathers.
Such an eventuality is evolution's ultimate catastrophe for the individual bent on propagating his genes, which is the only thing we, as instinctual organisms, care about. The male of many species, lions for example, avoid this disaster by killing any existing offspring of a female they hook up with. Humans, being highly communal and co-operative, don't. So what the male does is take every chance he gets to swing his leg over someone else's woman. If he spends his efforts raising someone else's kid, but gets the mates of two other women to raise two of his, he's a winner.
So, since our cultural evolution has far outstripped the rate of the physical, and biologically we're essentially cave-men and -women in suits and skirts, we guys are still wired up to pop our rocks and leave. Get to sleep as soon as possible, because that's important for the success of the next day's hunting. Of course, we come back the next day for more of the same with the same partner. Because 'guarding behaviour', the polite sociological name for murderous jealousy, makes it most likely that the female we coupled with last night and for the preceding period of time really will be carrying our child. So the main strategy is always going to be to hang around and provide the groceries.
But if the male gets a chance to leap the odd back fence while some other guy is off doing …whatever, both he and the neighbour's missus have a certain investment in laying off their bets with another partner.
That's right – both of them. Because the female is stuck with an uncertainty neatly corresponding to the male's: if she has no children and has only ever mated with Loverboy No. 1, she can't know if he is actually fertile. When life is brutish, nasty and short, every year of fertility counts more than we can imagine today. Not only does she have to be free of disease or debility, she has to be carrying enough body fat to ovulate, menstruate and produce milk. And have enough healthy years left in her to see the kids through to university at age, say, twelve. Not an everyday guarantee in 150,000 BC. A couple of years wasted with a husky hunter shooting blanks is another catastrophe.
So, if we observe how The Act, in its default setting, works, we can see exactly why it is the way it is today. The male piles in, gets his rocks off and rolls over for his beauty sleep as soon as she'll let him go. She is attracted, turned on, stimulated, but during the act the chance that there will be enough of the right sort of clitoral contact to produce that satisfying orgasm is very low. So she clings, holds him in her, wanting more and unknowingly providing those little spermies the optimum environment to complete their long paddle to light up an egg.
And, just as nature designed it, when Big Hunter has rolled off and is stacking up Z's in the corner – she still wants! So maybe she's aware of some youthful eyes glittering in a far corner of the cave, has observed an unattached stud with his mitts in his loincloth while they've been at it. Mmmm. Insurance time.
Sadly, of course, it's no more likely that lover number two is going to hit the G-spot either, or even be interested in doing so. But maybe. You never know.
Don't believe me? Female chimpanzees will routinely copulate with every male in the family group.
Of course, although for the interests of readability I describe all this as though the protagonists are doing all this in full knowledge of the whys and wherefores, or as if some notional designer worked it all out that way, that's not how evolution produces behaviour or physiology. Just as no-one up there, be it God, or Evolution as Architect, has any interest in making us behave in a manner which makes us happy. All that happens is that men and women who by inclination are sufficiently promiscuous to cover their bets but not so promiscuous that they incite jealous rage and an early death will out-reproduce those at either end of the promiscuity spectrum, viz., the nuns and the slappers. That ideal point is to be faithful, do whatever you can to keep your husband on song and providing, or your wife faithful, but when opportunity arrives, cover off the risk with someone else. Especially because in early times we lived and moved in smallish groups, with correspondingly small and interconnected gene pools, so the chance of the odd infidelity being exposed by a child of incongruously variant appearance was small.
Thinking about this for about three seconds, you will realise that this is why women are still powerfully driven to control their husbands. Women with children can't hunt. And because the children tie them to the home, they are very vulnerable to the aforementioned guarding behaviour – physically weak and unable to shift any further or faster than their children can travel. But they still feel that urge to cover their bets. Result: they're much better than we are at cheating, because throughout all of pre-history the best they could hope for, if caught, was abandonment.The penalty still meted out to adulterous women in barbarous cultures remains to this day very strong evidence for this. So I'm willing to bet that three times as many cheating husbands get caught as cheating wives. In one of my long relationships, in my earlier years, I strayed and my partner knew immediately and hit the roof. This happened twice in three years. If she had not told me at the end of our relationship I would never have known that during those three years she maintained a sexual relationship with one of our friends. I never suspected.
To return to The Act, yes, it's true. Without thought and intervention women who rely on coitus to achieve sexual repletion will remain perpetually unsatisfied. Because that lack of satisfaction produces higher rates of successful reproduction, it's a good strategy.
Enter, the articulate, uninhibited and informed Modern Man and Woman. How do we deal with it?
The answer is, for a long time, very badly. When we eventually got around to even mentioning it we tried to brand the female orgasm a myth. In Victorian times male doctors called it 'hysteria' (from the Greek word for the uterus), i.e. a kind of madness, and alternately invented a machine to discharge the dangerous 'hysterical paroxysm' or carved off women's clitori to settle them down. I had a second cousin who had her uterus removed in the early 1950s as an attempt to treat her schizophrenia; even that late in history the belief persisted in some dark corners of the asylum that there was some connection between a woman's reproductive instincts and insanity.
In the 70s, the feminists came up with an answer which really sucked, and was drivel into the bargain. Women are unsatisfied because men are pigs who don't care. A miserable time was had by all, because could there be anything more stupid, more filled with self-hatred, than the belief that Nature got it all wrong, that the universe doesn't work?
All along, women have combated Nature's heartless design using two principal methods that I know of. Masturbation, obviously, and in a couple of lovers in my life, aggressive and (to me) painful grinding, probably the origin of the notion of the vagina dentata. Ouch!
We're almost there, but let me chuck in another consideration. Conservative Christians, Muslims and probably Jews like to say that the only purpose of the sexual act is reproduction. As a Catholic, I find that a damn shame. I am proud that the Catholic Church was the first major religious group to recognise the truth of evolution. Many eminent scientists are Catholic and the Vatican even has a Jesuit-run observatory which works at the forefront of astronomy and astro-physics. But when it comes to biology, sociology and palaeobiology as it informs our knowledge of sexual behaviour, they remain firmly cemented in the Stone Age. The idea that human sexuality is exclusively about reproduction is utterly anti-scientific and in defiance of the evidence.
Homo sapiens is one of many species that use sex for far more than reproduction. Just look at all those homosexual giraffes. Stops the victorious bull male from constant challenge by the unsuccessful losers, I suppose.
But even by that standard we're out on a limb as one of the few in which the female will willingly engage in, even seek sex when she is not ovulating, and the male will oblige at any time in the menstrual cycle. We have evolved to use sex as a means of communication. Not only that, but I am convinced that for us this is an important and highly effective compensation for the confusing complexity of our verbal and non-verbal communication. In sex we communicate body-to-body, heart-to-heart at a depth and with a simplicity which transcends the verbal.
Especially when both the man and women have orgasms, and very especially when they occur either together or in close sequence, in blatant defiance of Nature's plan.
So let's hear it for the lucky couples in which the woman gives herself orgasms during sex. Any male who has been lucky enough to experience this has enjoyed the incomparable pleasure of being brought to stupendous orgasm by the sudden rise in intra-uterine temperature and a flood of natural lubricant.
What can I say? Tell your friends. Put it on Facebook. Tell everyone.
Believe me, it's the best.
Two months ago I returned from a trip to India in the worst emotional condition I had experienced since my teens. I had made the mistake of going back to Darjeeling, where in my 20s I had spent several of the happiest months of my life. I was hoping to meet my Tibetan landlady (and lover) and her son, seven years old at the time I left. Darjeeling, 7,500 feet up in the Himalayas, was truly a jewel of the Raj, an exquisite town of Victorian houses and shops surrounded by tea plantations, facing the biggest massif in the Himalayan range. Not only was Dawa dead, so was her son in tragic circumstances. Forty-five years of rampant, random, cheapest-possible-option development has destroyed the jewel. Only traces remain. Other influences bearing down on me – isolation, the failure of my book to find a publisher, and more – were crushing the life, and faith, out of me. I found myself wishing for death, utterly heart-sick.
With desperation comes inspiration. I remembered that some people from my parish in Auckland had done a pilgrimage in Spain a couple of years ago. Yes! Within days I was in Burgos on the Camino Francés, chosen as a starting point to land me on Maundy Thursday in Santiago de Compostela where the relics of St James are believed to be held.
So God was looking after me after all. What a wondrous, magical thing is the Camino. Especially to do it in the way I and many others did it – alone on the walk, talking in the evening with kindred spirits. Or the opposite – both have their gifts when you're in a watching and learning state of mind. 500 km, walking every day. With a 10 kilo pack on my back and my guitar slung over my shoulder I resembled a badly assembled dromedary. I crossed two mountain ranges, right up to the high spring snow line. Twice I walked almost 20 kilometres scarcely seeing another person. The old Roman road to Transalpine Gaul, the Via Aquitana, leading into the little village of Calzadilla des Hermanillos, leaves the vehicle roads completely and runs as a harsh, pebbly track straight across the high plains for a four-hour walk through nothing. No houses, no anything but scrub, broken forest and occasional wheat fields. And then, once or twice, the white bullet train appeared and rocketed by. I waved my stick around and leapt in the air like a madman, shouting "Praise God!" at the top of my lungs. Pure impulse; it felt wonderful! Surely, liberation is simply the freedom to respond to impulse.
What an extraordinarily simple and beautiful thing it is to just walk every day. No wonder posties are always happy. Just drop into your rhythm, which in my case was precisely 120 steps per minute, 5 km/hr, and encounter whatever turns up, which is often nothing. Lovely, yummy, rich, meaningful nothing. Walking, thinking, praying, meditating, dictating poetry and ideas onto my phone, always walking, walking. Day after day after day.
Distance comes to mean nothing – it's all about time. In fact, the distance markers can be wildly unreliable. Shortly after the ´409km to Santiago´ sign I was photographed next to there was one saying 453 km! So you just walk. Unlike most, I didn't have a guide book, just a print-out from a website which gave me a reasonable idea when I would find the next spot and whether there would be an albergué municipal, as they call the public pilgrims' dormitories.
Of course there is so much beauty. So many remarkable sights. Like the Cruz de Ferro at the highest point of the Francés in the Léon Mountains. The +/- 9 metre pole surmounted by a simple iron cross dates back at least 1,000 years. The pile of stones at the base is maybe twenty metres long, six wide and four high, the product of a millennium, a pebble at a time. Tradition encourages pilgrims to leave a stone for some person or intention at the Cruz. I stuck a sharp little stone in a split in the pole to thank my mother for getting me there/here. (Too complicated and odd to explain.)
Going up to Cruz de Ferro was a hard climb. (But not the worst; that was to O Cebreiro in the Cordillera.) A remarkable thing: I approached the Cruz through cold mist and snow drifts, and literally as I walked away the clouds parted, the sun came out and ten minutes later I was descending through fields and the odd ruin basking in spring sunshine, the apple blossom thick on the trees and the air full of bird-song. It was exactly like the scene out of Shangri La where the travellers descended from a freezing, treacherous high pass in Tibet and found themselves in the land of perpetual spring. I came around a corner and wham! there in the distance was the full stretch of the snow-covered Cordillera. Just like that, completely unexpected. Beautiful. And then I slipped on an invisibly wet rock and smashed my guitar! The descent was wicked and falls are common.
Up till then travelling with the guitar had been special. Almost no-one passes the first 100km of their walk with unnecessary weight, in fact there is a special postage rate to Santiago from anywhere on the Camino to accommodate the shedders. So the pilgrims really appreciated an evening with music.
The Camino took my guitar but, typically, it returned it too, not only fixed but improved. I wrote to Camps, the manufacturers in Catalonia, with photos showing that only the table was broken and asking the cost of repair. Shocked by a two sentence reply saying it was uneconomic. For a €750 guitar! I didn't believe them but had no idea who would affordably fix it. At English craftsman's rates, assuming they would even be able to fix a flamenco guitar properly, it was a no go for me. But the albergué in Sarria, just over 100km out from Santiago, has walls and shelves full of woodcarvings made by the owners. Craftspeople. As I was leaving in the morning it occurred to me to ask them. Yes, there was a celebrated instrument maker just two blocks away! I checked it out as I went past. Closed. I knocked. No answer. Oh well. The urge to walk was irresistible, so off I went. Then I arrive at the albergué in Portomarin, my next stop, go to produce my credencial, the pilgrim's passport which is stamped along the way. Not there! The one thing you do not want to lose, after your real passport, is your credencial. I call Luis and Beatriz at the Sarria albergué. Yes, they have it. Onto a bus back. The walk from the bus station takes me past the instrument maker's workshop. Open! And yes, he will fix it, for $150, more or less. And he did. Incredibly well, and modified the bridge for more accurate tuning and a lower action into the bargain. I took a bus back to Sarria after Santiago, collected my beautiful new guitar and was treated to a performance on the xanfon, the traditional Galician hurdy-gurdy. Lust flared in my heart for the beautiful thing, made by Xerman's own hands. Three thousand euros. Oh well…
Honestly, I could tell half a dozen such stories, as could most serious pilgrims. The only experience to which I can compare it is my time taking teachings from Lama Kalu Rinpoche. Like others on the same path, I found that things happened around me, unlikely stuff, to illustrate a point I was working on or to give me the sense that I was being looked after. Spooky? Believe it!
Finishing is hard. For most people there's no apotheosis. You just stop at the Cathedral, and it's over. The next day you feel wrong – you should be walking. For me it was a huge moment, engulfed with gratitude for the continuing existence of this ancient, holy, mysterious method of healing. I charged into the cathedral, tears streaming down my face, threw myself to my knees at the first pew and sobbed my heart out. No-one seemed to take any notice. I guess it's common.
The crying thing. Strange. I had this thing going on which I can only describe as splacxnomai, the Greek word in the New Testament usually translated as compassion, or sympathy when referring to Christ's reaction to, for instance, the misery of the leper. But what it really means is a shaking of the bowels (the 'noble' bowels – heart, lungs, liver and kidneys.) I was very far from sad but cried at the drop of a hat. If the hat was hurt, so to speak.
They showed a clip of the Boston bombing on a TV in a bar, followed by a row of crosses memorialising the dead. Whoops! Here we go… Crying at television!! Crikey! It was a bit embarrassing, as you can imagine. But what goes with it is wonderful. Wonderful. I met another pilgrim, a devout Christian woman, in the cathedral at Santiago who was experiencing the same thing.
Sadly I feel my shell slowly growing back. Inevitable and probably necessary.
Now I'm back in Bristol, I'm well, and mainly I'm clear. Physically clear, like water from which everything has settled out. Of course, bump the jug enough and it goes muddy again, but the knowledge that the Camino is just a 24-hour bus and boat trip away means I will never get that desperate again.
What a gift it is. In Léon someone mentioned that of the 160 Holy Grails in Spain, two historians had just published a book establishing that in all likelihood the one at the Basilica of San Isidoro in Léon is the actual, real cup Jesus used at the last supper. I immediately jumped on the net and yes, it does seem very likely. So off I trotted to the Basilica, on the Camino so I had my full kit – backpack, guitar and baston, the pilgrim's staff (endlessly useful, as it turns out). Said a little prayer, after which I was approached by the the delightful, elderly Fr Timeo. A musician? Yes. And a poet? Sometimes, yes. Aah, and a pilgrim. He launched into a paean to the saintliness of the pilgrim. I didn't demur; it was making him happy. As far as I could tell, he was saying that we pilgrims benefited not only ourselves but all the faithful and we must be supported in every way. The basilica, he said, had a prayer group, a 'spiritual army' of twenty-four men and twenty-four women whose sole task was to pray for the well-being and safety of the Camino's pilgrims. Words are cheap, you may think, but he followed through by insisting on buying me breakfast! I don't usually eat breakfast, so I just ordered a coffee. No. I had to eat. A croissant, then. He took nothing, having already eaten. I was deeply touched, although relieved when he left, my brain aching from the constant flow of Spanish.
And the grail? Unfortunately a) it was in the adjacent museum, not the church and b) big disappointment: since the book was published they have hidden the real one and have a copy on display. I asked at the desk and the attendant confirmed that it was actually in the building. It felt very strange and mystical, to be standing close to Christ's cup. I returned to the basilica and prayed for my faith to be returned to me in its fullness.
And it was. Thanks be to God. And now I'm starting to cry. Oh well, that's life these days. Joy.
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In the ancient world, when children were discovered to be deaf, they
were often disowned and left to die or fend for themselves.
Cocaine Anonymous' preamble states that "our primary purpose
is to stay free from cocaine and all other mind-altering substances,
and to help others achieve the same freedom." C.A.'s 12th Step tells us that we, as a Fellowship, have a responsibility to reach
out to carry this message to addicts. The 1st and 5th Traditions remind us that "our common welfare comes first, that personal
recovery DEPENDS upon C.A. unity" and that "each group
has but one primary purpose � to carry its message to the addicts
who still suffers."
So just how does one reach out to the deaf or hard of hearing?
There are many ways! Like everything else, reaching out to the deaf
or hard of hearing addict requires willingness and open-mindedness.
In this pamphlet, we present some ways to help you get started.
A. Bring the message of C.A. recovery to the hard of hearing
Establish at least one meeting per month at which an interpreter
is present
C. Events/Conventions
D. General Ways to Reach Out
and Touch Deaf Addicts
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Which is the guiding force or principle in your life? When you are making decisions which one speaks the loudest? If it is courage, yay for you! I am totally impressed and you will have to share your tools to get there. If it is fear, I completely understand. It has taken me probably most of my 40 plus years on this earth to shift from a mindset of fear to courage. The last five have been even more powerful in finally shifting so my courageous voice is the one I hear first and the fear is a faint whisper most days.
Our yoga practices are here to help us see ourselves clearly. When we get quiet and still, we often see where we are growing and where we get stuck. In the seeing, there is a release. In release there is freedom. What happens when it's your daily life where you see that place of being stuck and fear is shouting at you? Can you tell your fear it is a liar? Can you wrestle it into submission? Can you love the fear and move past it anyway?
The last few years I have taken some bold steps to transform my life. It took courage, but I wouldn't say I was bold in my courageousness. I just went through the motions. I got a divorce, suffered a broken heart, broken spirit and moved the kids and myself to a small house on 2-acres. These were all bold steps that I didn't realize were bold at the time. Now that we are in our little farm house, I have felt many moments of peace. For the most part, I feel comfortable and content in my own skin. My teaching is happy. Greenville Yoga is happy. But then something new comes in and I have to ask myself, will I let courage or fear win?
It is easy to say of course courage will win. But when you are prone to anxiety and a new situation comes up, fear can very easily take you down the rabbit hole. So here are a few things I have been noticing and working on to shift out of fear-based reaction into courage-based curiosity and response. Fear starts in my mind- usually this is a cyclical type thinking that takes all of my energy and focus. If I haven't noticed it at this point, it then moves to my body- sweaty feet, pit in my abdomen, overall shakiness. By this time I know fear is trying to move in. One of the tools I learned from meditation and reading The Untethered Soul is that you can get behind a thought. When you see the thoughts cycling through (of unworthiness, unlovability, I can't, I will never, life will never…) you can literally get behind the thought. You can stop the unconditioned momentum of the mind. What works for me is to use a mantra. A mantra can be super complex or just some words that make sense to you. An easy one for me is to inhale courage and exhale fear. Or if I really need it, if I've moved further into fear, loving-kindness phrases or self-compassion. I will recite, "May I be safe. May I be loved. May I be free." Or even, "I am safe. I am love. I am free." Just this will stop the monkey mind and will settle my soul. Then, with a clear mind and heart I can open to truth. I can turn off the fear-filled phrases and step further into reality as it is. This reality is not the cause of fear. My own mind is the cause of the fear.
Somedays, fear requires a little more compassion. I like this trick from Elizabeth Gilbert and Thich Nhat Hahn. When you notice fear arise, you acknowledge it. You greet it. You invite it to tea. Elizabeth Gilbert says she greets fear and says it is welcome. But it must sit in the back seat. It can't have the driver seat or we will be in real trouble. Thich Nhat Hahn likes to say, "Hello fear. How are you today?" In doing so, he acknowledges the fear with care and compassion. But he continues on with courage while holding fear's hand.
So many of us are fortunate. Our fears aren't that we are bombed each day, villages raided at night. Our children aren't being taken from us. The saber tooth tiger isn't coming to eat us in our sleep. Our fears are trying something new, stepping out of our comfort zones, trying to open our hearts again, trying new yoga classes or poses. We can work with these fears. We can step into courage. And when we do, there's no telling what we are capable of.
With love and (a sometimes) courageous heart,


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If I am not in-network for your insurance plan, it may still be affordable for us to work together using your out-of-network benefits. In many cases, I can bill your insurance carrier directly as an out-of-network provider. Please feel free to contact me for more information.
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Stieg, minä ja Millennium : Stieg Larssonin puolison tarina
Eva Gabrielsson
|About the Book
Here is the real inside story--not the one about the Stieg Larsson phenomenon, but rather the love story of a man and a woman whose lives came to be guided by politics and love, coffee and activism, writing and friendship. Only one person in the world knows that story well enough to tell it with authority. Her name is Eva Gabrielsson.Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson shared everything, starting when they were both eighteen until his untimely death thirty-two years later at the age of fifty. In There Are Things I Want You to Know about Stieg Larsson and Me, Eva Gabrielsson accepts the daunting challenge of telling the story of their shared life steeped in love and sharpened in the struggle for justice and human rights. She chooses to tell it in short, spare, lyrical chapters, like snapshots, regaling Larssons readers with the inside account of how he wrote, why he wrote, who the sources were for Lisbeth and his other characters--graciously answering Stieg Larssons readers most pressing questions--and at the same time telling us the things we didnt know we wanted to know--about love and loss, death, betrayal, and the mistreatment of women.


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While we engage with you early, our commitment is for the long term. Wing's sole purpose is to help you build a multi-billion dollar independent company. We've done this more than a few times, and know that it takes patience, perspective and relentlessness to pull it off.


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While the aidorus such as Matchy, Toshi-chan and Seiko Matsuda were bouncing all over the TV with their daytime happy music, the shibui folk like Akira Terao and Yoshitaka Minami were providing the nights with their brand of whiskey-friendly City Pop. Then, there is of course Junichi Inagaki(稲垣潤一).
With the looks of a particularly sober-sided section chief in a corporation, Inagaki has been part of the backbone for the moonlit side of City Pop. He has sung his share of sunny tunes throughout his nearly 32 years in the music business, but I usually think the word "night" when it comes to him. And it seems like he had a need for precipitation in his early singles as well. Case in point, his 3rd single was "Dramatic Rain" from October 1982, just a couple of singles away from his debut earlier in that year, "Ame no Regret"(雨のリグレット). Mind you, for the genre, there's nothing like the wet stuff spattering away on those expensive bar windows overlooking those city streets to provide a certain amount of atmosphere to the proceedings.
I first heard "Dramatic Rain" on that 2-CD BEST album from 1990 of his, "Transit" and came across it again via one of my latest Inagaki purchases, "Rainy Voice" from 2007. The lyrics were provided by Yasushi Akimoto(秋元康)and the music was by Kyohei Tsutsumi(筒美京平). It proved to be his very first hit as a singer, reaching No. 8 on Oricon. The song also came as a track on his 3rd album from 1983, "Shylights".