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San Francisco-based painter Michelle Fleck is the subject of this week's CMYLK. Fleck's work focuses on the relationship between man and the landscape, specifically man's desire to replace what is old and dated. Fleck draws inspiration from everyday life in the city, and her paintings serve as snapshots of an ongoing cycle of wear and replacement. We chose three of her works around these themes with which to pair Colourlovers palettes.
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Flaming Autumn in the Garden
Misty days and shorter daylight dominate now, yet there are often wonderful things to be found.
There is a collection of trees where I work that are stunning during this time of year.
There were a lot of visitors braving the cold mists and damp today to come and see them, I think this species of Acer, the Japanese Maples, should be one of the wonders of the natural world.
As we have not yet had any sort of decent frost, many plants are still flowering away quite happily, such as this Fuchsia.
Lots of different colours around, hope they don't get frosted too soon.!
wonderful Autumn colour is not the only thing popping up at the moment, I saw this large fungi emerging out of the side of an Ash tree.
Whilst all this was going on outside, I spent quite a bit of my weekend pricking out my Sarracenia Seedlings. I've never grown them from seed before, and I can honestly say it has been a stunning success.
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I'm gonna need a bigger greenhouse.
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As much as I love Christmas, most of the holiday films I've seen have come from the 1980s or later. It's only in the last year or so that I've discovered a number of great holiday films from many decades earlier. Some seem a bit forgotten and some certainly aren't…
The Shop Around the Corner
1940, MGM Pictures
Six years before It's a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart co-starred in this holiday romantic-comedy. If you've ever seen You've Got Mail, well, that was a remake of this movie — two people who don't get along in person end up corresponding with each other anonymously via letters and end up falling in love. The only difference is that this movie takes place during Christmastime in Budapest. It was also remade in 1946 as In the Good Old Summertime, which starred Judy Garland & Van Johnson.
Despite being inducted into the Library of Congress and being ranked by the American Film Institute as one of the top 100 romance movies of all-time, The Shop Around the Corner seems to take a backseat to many of Stewart's better known films like It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Harvey, Vertigo, Rear Window and The Philadelphia Story.
I thought the final scene between Stewart and Sullavan was particularly great and touching. Definitely worth seeking out for anyone that's a fan of holiday or romance movies.
Going My Way
1944, Paramount Pictures
Though the movie doesn't take place solely around the holidays, it is often lumped into the holiday movie category because one of the film's final scenes takes place on Christmas Eve and also due to performances of "Silent Night, Holy Night" and "Ave Maria". The movie was released in May of 1944 though so the studio obviously wasn't thinking about this being a holiday movie when they released.
In one of Bing's best roles, he plays the young and unconventional Father O'Malley, who has just been appointed to a new parish. Old ideas and new ideas collide between O'Malley and the parish's other more conservative pastor, Father Fitzgibbon.
This film really racked up at the Academy Awards. It was nominated for 10 awards and won 7, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay.
Holiday Affair
1949, RKO Pictures
Why Holiday Affair hasn't caught on as an all-time holiday classic, I don't know. From what I've read, the movie wasn't received very well at the time of its release but having just recently watched it, I thought it was great. This is a lost classic that any fan of old Christmas movies needs to see.
In this one, a young war widow is torn between marrying the boring but dependable business-like boyfriend that she doesn't love or taking a chance on a charming, exciting down-on-his-luck drifter.
According to Wikipedia, Robert Mitchum, who usually starred in film noir tales, was forced by his contracted studio, RKO Pictures, to star in this film in order to soften his image after being busted for marijuana.
Holiday Inn
1942, Paramount Pictures
I thought I talked about this one before but I guess not. I first watched this last year and just recently watched it again. Holiday Inn is an Irving Berlin musical that features a love triangle and an inn that is only open on holidays. Christmas isn't the only holiday featured but the movie does start and end at Christmas and features the all-time classic "White Christmas" along with other holiday favorites "Happy Holiday" and "Let's Start the New Year Right". "Easter Parade" is also featured and "Be Careful, It's My Heart" & "I'll Capture Your Heart" are two more great tunes that have become some of my favorites from this era of traditional pop songs. It's a fantastic soundtrack.
Seeing that snow covered farmhouse-turned-inn all decked for Christmas as the snow continues to fall makes up for what is possibly one of my favorite set pieces in the history of film. I would love to be able to experience an old-fashioned country Christmas again someday.
This is another one that wasn't presented as a holiday movie at all. It was released in August and the movie poster brings to mind the Fourth of July more than anything else.
Christmas in Connecticut
1945, Warner Bros. Pictures
I remember when the 1992 remake was receiving a big push on TBS/TNT. There were airing tons of commercials for it, acting like it was destined to become a modern classic. It was directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger (!) and starred Kris Kristofferson and Dyan Cannon. I never watched it but going by reviews and ratings I've found online, it seems like it fell short of becoming the classic that Turner Entertainment wished it would be.
The original, on the other hand, is a fun 1940s farce. It's the type of light, enjoyable fare that I think is synonymous with that entire decade in film history.
I can understand why it would be remade because the premise sounds fun and ripe for many hijinks. Barbara Stanwyck plays a woman who writes articles for a housekeeping magazine, supposedly based on her wonderful, cozy life on a farm with her family. When her publisher and a war hero who is a fan of her articles decide to visit her for the holidays, there's one hitch: she lives in an apartment in New York City, she's single and has been making everything up.
White Christmas
1954, Paramount Pictures
A loose remake of Holiday Inn, Bing signed back on but Fred Astaire didn't like the script and declined. Danny Kaye took over his role. It seems like this film may be a bit more popular than Holiday Inn, but I'm assuming that probably because many people might think the song "White Christmas" debuted here and because this movie was obviously presented as a holiday film.
In addition to another run through of "White Christmas", the movie introduces the minor holiday classic "Snow".
Not as entertaining as Holiday Inn (I find that most movies from the 1950s seem a bit slow in pace), but still worth watching. In fact, I may watch it again this holiday season.


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For the first time in Adelaide National Geographic Live came to town last night.
Bob Poole, photographer and videographer and film maker for National Geographic who has been working for them since he was 17 and whose passion is Africa where he spent his life since the age of four, spoke and showed us snippets of his new six part series on Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique entitled Nature Roars Back.
Despite upheaval and challenges cause by a long running civil war and ongoing sporadic fighting, and the rebels using the mountain for which the park was named as their headquarters and living off the park's game while fighting, after twenty years of relative peace and with the help of benefactor Greg Carr and a dedicated team the park is making a come back.
Getting to know the animals in the park, the elephants who are understandably very wary of humans as the rebels shot the elephants for their ivory in order to get weapons and ammunition, the lions who are starting to return are just two examples Bob took us through as he shared his journey. Some of the close encounters with the elephants were hair raising and the land rover did not come off so well. Bob's sister Joyce is a world expert on elephant and has spent a great deal of time with Bob in Gorongosa helping to habituate the elephants to the presence of humans, but even she was taken by surprise by the aggressiveness of some of the elephants.
After the rains Bob went to an area he had seen from a helicopter where there were several species of nesting storks. The platform in the tree was small and uncomfortable but the footage of the birds, the hatching of the chicks and the flight of the birds was spectacular. Based on his record the experts believe there were 5000 nests making this the largest nesting site in Southern Africa. Equally, the huge number of crocodiles who largely went into the water and stayed there whenever danger appeared and this survived the war is probably one of the largest known also.
It was a fascinating evening. It certainly reminds us why Africa as a continent is so special and habitat must be protected. It is because their habitat was not destroyed that the animals are returning to Gorongosa.
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New way of finding a partner: Smelling them at a pheromone party
Would you pick a potential mate based on how he smells?
In the trendy east London, it's fast becoming a legitimate way to meet someone.
Pheromone parties are now part of an alternative dating trend based on the simple idea that smell plays a key role in the choice of a sexual partner.
And don't worry, you don't have to go up to random men or women and smell them.
Although, it is done in an absurdly clinical way.
First, you have to wear the same cotton T-shirt for three nights in a row. And you can't cheat. So that means no deodorant or perfume.
Bring the T-shirt to the party and it will be placed in transparent plastic bags with numbers on coloured labels - pink for women, blue for men.
And the party attendees will go to a big table where the bags are laid out and start smelling them.
If they like what they smell, they can snap a picture of themselves with the bag. These photos are then projected onto the wall, and the lucky owners of the chosen T-shirts have the chance to meet their "admirers".
Judy Nadel, the party's organiser, admits that it's a weird concept. "But it's a huge ice-breaker because you are smelling a stranger's T-shirt - you can't be cool or pretentious," she says.
Nadel, who launched her pheromone parties in London this year, and follows a concept that was first promoted in the United States in 2010 by artist Judith Prays.
According to Nadel, six couples got together at the first party in London in March although she is unsure as to whether these couples are still dating.
While most are enthusiastically sniffing away, Marta Montserrat is slowly feeling dejected.
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Zooplus, a major online retailer of pet supplies, has entered a new market. The German company launched Zoobee, an online supermarket that sells all kinds of foods and drinks for human beings. As it's still a Zooplus brand, the online supermarket also sells pet supplies. It's not the first time Zooplus has tried and sold fast moving consumer goods online. Last year, the company experimented in Germany with subsidiary Bitiba by selling products like diapers, coffee and orange juice alongside the regular assortment.
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Wyatt is a boy who needs to move a lot. I suppose all four-year-olds are like that, but sometimes I think my son is like a shark — if he stops moving, he'll die. He is constantly climbing on the furniture, running in circles through the bedrooms, spinning in circles in the kitchen and jumping, jumping, jumping! With a new baby in the house and the change from daylight savings to standard time, we've been having a hard time getting outside on a regular basis to let him run off all that energy. Weeknights can be especially hard because it's too dark to play outside after preschool and I need to keep Wyatt happy and occupied while I make dinner. What's a Mom to do?
A few weeks ago the folks at I Can Do That! Games very kindly sent me a copy of their Cat in the Hat – I Can Do That! game for Wyatt and me to review. We've found that this game satisfies his need to move, while simultaneously containing and channeling it into a mom-approved activity.
Wyatt was so excited when I opened the box to show him what was inside. He immediately started to rummage through the box and showed me all the pieces of the game. "Look Mom — a ball! And a fish! And a dress! You should hold that because that's for girls to wear and you're a girl! And a boat! Can I take that in the tub tonight? I'm going to read this book. Ha ha ha!" While he was inspecting each piece, I started chopping a pepper for the paella I was making for our dinner.
After he was done looking at it all, I grabbed the instruction card to take a look at what we needed to do to play. The first step was to assemble the "trick-a-ma-stick" (the yellow thing in the picture here. I put it together and while Wyatt crawled around under it and around it, I peeled the shrimp for the paella.
When the novelty of the trick-a-ma-stick wore off a bit, I read the instructions for the game. The premise is simple — you choose a red card (action), a blue card (object) and a yellow card (silliness) and read off the sentence they form. For example, you might get "Take four big steps with the toy man on top of your head" or "Crawl under the trick-a-ma-stick with the book inside your clothes." If you think you can do it, you say so and go ahead and do it. If you don't think you can do it, you can put any of your three cards back and draw another until you find something that will work for you.
We've had very little success playing games with Wyatt so far because he gets bored when other people take their turns and irritated when we won't let him take every turn. He also despises the random set-backs that seem to be a part of all games targeted at preschoolers. Drawing the gingerbread man in Candyland, dumping your bucket in Hi Ho Cherry-o! or — God forbid — landing on a chute in Chutes and Ladders can all set off a massive tantrum born of frustration. Yeah — that's a super fun way to spend an afternoon. We've kept trying, but games always end with screaming involved somehow. What I like about the Cat in the Hat game is that it sets him up for success. It's all about things that kids can do. And to take it a step further, it's also fun that there are a lot of things that kids can do that grown-ups can't. For example, I've got a bum knee and my booty is too big to go through the trick-a-ma-stick so crawling is right out for me, but Wyatt can do it with no problem. Fun!
We played a very casual game while I finished making dinner, giggling all the while. When Daddy came home from work, he joined in for a few rounds too. Wyatt happily took turns through the whole game. I think it's pretty fun to see your mom skipping around the kitchen with a ball tucked under her chin so you don't mind letting her play the game too. Super bonus points that our game didn't end in tears or a tantrum!
One teeny little complaint though — the trick-a-ma-stick falls down a lot. Frustrating when you're trying to saute rice. All things considered though, that's a pretty small issue. I give The Cat in the Hat – I Can Do That! a big thumbs up.
I Can Do That Games also sent us a copy of Horton Hears a Who! – You to the Rescue! We will be donating that to Toys for Tots. (Much to Wyatt's dismay….)


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I remembered that a while back I installed Revo Uninstaller on my PC having read a good review of it. I'd never got around to using it but this seemed like a good time. I fired it up, highlighted the first of the 'rogue' applications and selected the uninstall option. First off it scanned the PC for all files and registry entries connected to the application and then it launched the standard Creative software uninstaller. Predictably the uninstaller failed, at which point I had the option to ask Revo Uninstaller to manually finish the job. Revo then removed the application by deleting all relevant files and registry entries. I guess that approach means it will always be able to remove programs even if the uninstaller fails. Brilliant job! Great bit of software!


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Last year at around this time, Selina McLemore gave me a copy of Girl's Guide to Witchcraft by Mindy Klasky. I started reading the book while waiting to board my flight home and finished it just before we flew over the Grand Canyon. I've been dying for the sequel, Sorcery and the Single Girl ever since! But as of yesterday, Switchcraft and Sorcery are bookshelf neighbors and to celebrate, Mindy tells us all about her series!
Chica Lit: Wow, book eight ... does writing get easier or harder with each new story?
Mindy: It gets easier *and* harder... It's easier, because I know that I can play this game - I've figured out the time management aspects, and I know that no matter how much I hate, hate, hate the middle chapters, I'll get through them, and it will all work out in the end. It gets harder, too, though. With each book, I meet more great people and I want to spend more time at conventions, and online chatting with people, and building my presence as a writer. (And when I win the lottery, I just might follow through on those desires! :-) )
Chica Lit: This is the second book in the series. Did you know what was going to happen to Jane over the course of three books when you sold the idea to Red Dress Ink, or did she refuse to go away after book one?
Mindy: I sold the first book, Girl's Guide to Witchcraft, on a three-paragraph blurb (not even a synopsis - it didn't include the ending!) We negotiated a contract that called for a total of three books. As I wrote Girl's Guide, I discovered the strands that could be pulled into Sorcery. By the time I had completed my outline for Sorcery, I knew the full, complete story arc, which will conclude in 2008 with Magic and the Modern Girl.
Chica Lit: What aspects of your heroine frustrate you the most and what makes you like her?
Mindy: I love the fact that Jane Madison refuses to stay down, even when the world around her is falling apart. She may have her bad days -- days that can only be redeemed by fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies and/or mojitos -- but she never believes that the bad times are going to last forever. That said, Jane can be a bit too wrapped up in some details of life -- most notably, fashion. (I'm nowhere near the makeup fiend that Jane becomes under the expert tutelage of her familiar!)
Chica Lit: What's next?
Mindy: I've finished drafting Magic and the Modern Girl - it will go into production over the next year and appear in bookstores in October 2008. My next writing venture starts a new series - The Sisterhood of the Flame. In the first volume, a stage manager discovers a magic lantern when she's cleaning out the prop closet. Nothing in her theatrical background prepares her for the show that her genie is about to stage!
Chica Lit: How did you get involved with First Book and would you tell us more about it?
Mindy: I discovered First Book when I started looking for a good cause -- a charitable organization to which I could donate 10% of my profits from the Witchcraft books. First Book - http://www.firstbook.org/ - is a non-profit that gives underprivileged children their own books to own forever. I remember the joy I took in reading, from a very young age, and I'm thrilled to find an organization that is so well-run and so dedicated to helping children throughout the country.
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October 2014
March 21-April 20
The month starts dynamically enough with ruler Mars-Uranus pushing any project that can lead to a personal breakout (4th-6th): you're excitable, bolder than ever, up for a new challenge – if it's a holiday we're talking about, then it's the whitewater rafting type, not laidback hotel spa. A creative personal project is also well starred 7th-11th for growth. The Lunar Eclipse in your own sign on the 8th, with Moon conjunct Uranus 7th-8th, is explosive and triggers internal energies that require careful handling for the full benefit. Such can be intensity of feeling that you intemperately disrupt a relationship or do something impulsive that damages you and/or progress. The underlying urge is for a change in life circumstances, yet you'd do better to use heightened intuition to think through how to get what you want in a more measured way. It's just you won't be feeling very measured. The Scorpio solar eclipse on the 23rd, conjunct Venus at its Scorpio ingress, also has an 'other people' theme – and may be pertinent to the immediately above. On this day or in the fortnight to one month or so ahead, there may be a need to discuss with 'partner' (business or intimate or adviser or close friend) important matters hitherto swept under the carpet. Things have to be aired.
April 21-May 21
The key features of this month are two eclipses which for you focus much attention on the past or private domains and on relationships. Ruler Venus has just embarked on its Libra journey in the house of management: to the 23rd, your role in life seems to be that of negotiator, endeavouring to bring peace among co-workers or colleagues (or family, in some cases). Socially, life revolves around "work". But a few of you may actually just put the feet up – frankly, you're in the mood to be laidback. Even the most dynamic areas of your chart are internal, in the main, not apparent to nosey-parker social anthropologists. The Mars-Uranus trine, 4th-6th, draws attention to spiritual, sexual or financial themes and your inclination to part company with the past or try something new. Aries Uranus, in Pisces' natural house for a long time yet, is slowly working its revolutionary fervour on psyche – a complex amalgam of memory, experience, habit and Something Spiritual. The significant Scorpio Solar Eclipse on the 23rd, conjunct Venus as it ingresses its own traditional house in Scorpio, should offer a highly beneficial advance in a month of accelerated improvement in all types of relationship, personal or business. "Improvement" can also mean the ending of bonds that are dysfunctional.
May 22-June 21
The Aries Lunar Eclipse on the 8th introduces a disruptive element via Moon's conjunction with a super-energised Aries Uranus in its traditional home. A friend or group could unexpectedly call on you for help which places you at odds with self, given the fun you're having away from the world. The risk here is of giving too much of yourself to others, notwithstanding the spiritual brownie points to be earned. It's worth mentioning that for a few of you, news of the pitter-patter of tiny feet could be heard soon…. In a month of pronounced contrasts of temptations, 11th-18th actually favours appreciation of your personal and creative merits from other people – public included. Mars, in Venus' traditional home, still impels you to actively seek out useful people. And social boldness can conceive an opportunity for you to progress a personal project. The Venus theme also shapes the important Scorpio Solar Eclipse of the 23rd when this planet of cooperation conjuncts Sun/Moon in Virgo's natural home. This is an excellent time to tackle any diet or exercise challenge. And events around this time will urge you to make peace in the workplace, or improve professional relationships – always a good idea to help maintain optimum health. The 21st-29th period is one of pronounced social opportunity arising from work or daily routine or a time to sort out tricky topics in certain relationships, provided you see both sides of an issue.
June 22-July 22
Work-life balance could be one of the major themes of October. Both Libra Sun and Venus transit your own traditional house of domestic concerns and personal security to the 23rd. This doesn't mean you're turning into the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. But certainly the home is a source of great pleasure and/or your mind is on redecoration and ways of raising home value. And when Mercury reverses back into this chart sector on the 10th (to 25th) you're given a second chance to re-consider any family or property discarded option; or to revisit an emotional concern. You can afford to take your time. What may not help is an underlying restlessness – with Sun opposite Uranus 7th-8th and then Moon conjunct Uranus during the important Aries Lunar Eclipse on the 8th: career and home matters intensify on these days or later in the month. Some of you may feel pulled away from family by a sudden development at work – leading to conflict, possibly – and others may actually feel more empowered at home. Or, you're tempted to make a very rash decision affecting home or career or both. The Scorpio Solar Eclipse on the 23rd, conjunct Venus, is the start of what can be a rather lovely month ahead, with pleasant repercussions around April 2015, in some instances. Ostensibly, the focus is on personal passion mediated through creativity, romance, sport/hobbies, or one's children. No matter what's happening at home or work, there is also the domain of self and the need to express a love of something – for many this is a career (such as writing novels); for others, the thing they do to stay sane.
July 23-August 23
Start of month finds you busy-busy. There's a lot on. Emails and texts to answer (or delete, unread – inadvisable) and possibly official paperwork to crawl through. Micro-dramas could be
piling up: The Case of the Neighbour's Nuisance Cat; The Sister Who's Threatening to Boycott her Gay Son's Wedding; The Mystery of the Missing-in-the-Post Passport Photo. Or variants on these themes. It would be a good idea to sort out anything that has the potential to develop into a monstrous time-waster, if not addressed appositely, before the 8th. That's because on that day the significant Aries Lunar Eclipse offers some sort of rescue. Or, if not on that day precisely, sometime in the rest of the month. It may feel like a rescue, initially. You'll be feeling very restless, tempted to do something very out of character, such as booking the next flight out to wherever a destructive tropical cyclone may be brewing, just for the hell of it. Certainly, you'd be wise to do something different around the 8th, just to break-up a stale mood. The very important Scorpio Solar Eclipse on the 23rd in your house of home and family, close to Venus' arrival here, does signal not just domestic changes but a major development in a partnership, if you're in one. Because of the Venus conjunction, you could be deciding to begin a partnership – or ending one. Or a joint decision is made which grows in importance around April 2015 – perhaps to do with a shared property.
August 24-September 22
The significant Aries Lunar Eclipse on the 8th (colouring the rest of October) occurs in your other money house, the one to do with sharing, loans and legacies. Because Uranus is close by, a very sudden event could boost resources, or affect worth in some way. Stay calm! The Mercury retrograde advises fact-checking. In this phase (11th-18th especially) a financial gain very much helps your push to progress home or family plans. The Scorpio Solar Eclipse conjunct Venus on the 23rd probably also has a materialist theme, though more linked to deals, negotiation and research. This is a remarkably positive time, not in the least impeded by Mercury's move direct on the 25th in your income house: after this date you'll find the way smoother to communicate business or cash ideas; and as you enter November, it's a safer time to sign contracts. Some Virgos may find a new business partner, new agent or other adviser. An important development from this time could surface around April-May 2015. Helping you 21st-29th is Sun conjunct Scorpio Venus in Gemini's natural home: make the most of magnified social graces and opportunities to charm people round to your way of thinking; build bridges; and use friendships and other alliances to discreetly pursue financial (or other) aims. Really, October should turn out to be a month to remember for turning a financial corner.
September 23-October 23
Excitement is in the air – what could it be? Life momentum may have speeded up last month. Or, you just feel ready to start again: the elixir of re-birth. Your ruler Venus is back home, in Libra, in the 1st house of the self. Sun's there too. And Mercury retrograde returns on the 10th. So, this is a time about you, what you see in the mirror, how you see yourself. And having a great time. This is your time of the year. The Libran qualities are in their prime: the instinct to build bridges and create harmony and beauty. Your capacity to stand back from situations for a cool, dispassionate assessment can be applied to self as well: no one should be surprised if this month you take a step to improve the body beautiful by way of spa pampering or cosmetic surgery. Socially, too, you're in expansive mode. Efforts to get your particular message across about a cause or personal dream (say, to colleagues or neighbours) could bear fruit 7th-11th. On the 23rd is the year's second important Solar Eclipse, this time in Scorpio, conjunct Venus, in your house of
income and moveable assets. Finances are the big theme – and probably connected to a partner (business or marital) or to a business. Very likely the news is good, but with eclipses, nothing can be taken for granted. Careful decision-making is required when your instinct may be to prevaricate.
October 23-November 22
Whatever's going in your life, it's likely that there is a heightened hidden, cryptic, secretive or confidential theme – it's as if you're pushing for something behind closed doors. Finances are connected in some way to this – perhaps you're seeking a pay rise or a better remunerative package. The 11th-18th could see a positive result. The potentially fortuitous Scorpio Solar Eclipse on the 23rd, highlighting the Sun's and Venus' entry into your sign, will be impactful, not just on self but on close relationships and partnership. Recent soul-searching may have led you to a sharpened awareness of the need to express your ideas and perspectives a lot more effectively, and to find life arenas capable of matching ambition. If you're unhappy with your lot, the eclipse can feel alarming – like a wake-up call after a heavy sleep. Venus' involvement with the eclipse could draw key relationships into your assessments of what in your life is working or not. If this sounds a painful time, it probably won't feel like it. The Sun-Venus conjunction, starting in Libra and ending in Scorpio, is a long one (21st-29th): it softens persona, spotlights your seductive or winning side, so that few people will guess at the inner revolution taking place. For many, a romantic entanglement or mood dominates the last few days of October.
November 23-December 21
Aries Lunar Eclipse on the 8th introduces a rather excitable life element. And it's valid for much of the rest of October. Amid all the social activity, the risk increases of over-reacting to perceived insult or oversight within a group situation. Volatility is likely because Uranus is close to Moon. Try not turning into a drama queen. Hobbies, creative pursuits, children and even love life may also crowd in on time available – a case of personal pleasures versus shared aims. You may need to balance out your daily schedule to avoid upsets. The 13th-14th offers a lovely interlude to urge on a personal expansion or travel plan of any kind via friends. The year's second and important (Scorpio) Solar Eclipse, on the 23rd, is one whose value you'll probably appreciate or understand, as someone with likely advanced spiritual or psychological interests. This eclipse, conjunct Venus, occurs in the house traditionally associated with Pisces, and your own ruler, Jupiter. It signals a new phase, taking you well into November, when you're contemplating life to date, your own values and goals. It can also trigger a secretive tendency, either because you're absorbed in plotting and planning or because you're in the grip of some doubt. How it manifests will vary with each person, but should be regarded as an opportunity to prepare mentally for a much more active time from third week of November.
December 22-January 20
Careerists among you will be in your element, with Sun still in the house we traditionally associate with Capricorn, the 10th. It's the place where our role and standing in society is defined. Venus, too, is here (like the Sun, to the 23rd), so for many Cappies, work is generating many
social opportunities; or there's a pronounced responsibility on you to present the most positive face to colleagues, bosses or public. The home itself beckons with the significant Aries Lunar Eclipse on the 8th, valid for much of the rest of the month. An unusual domestic or family problem or challenge may require your attention; or you're thinking of making a move. This will be a chance to make up for too much time dedicated to career. On the 23rd, is the important Scorpio Solar Eclipse conjunct Venus – effective well into November, with likely repercussions six months from around this time. Events or a mood will incline you to socialise more widely, not just for the fun of it, but to further professional or idealistic goals. It is probable you'll make new allies, particularly with Venus close by. But you may also decide to end certain associations which no longer serve your purpose. In the last few days of October, social life could become a lot more elevated by the company you keep, with pronounced spiritual overtones. Or, a message for the mass media can be communicated effectively.
January 21-February 19
Even Aquarian prisoners will be feeling adventurous. But let's focus on Aquarians out of jail – that's most of you, hopefully. With Sun and Venus in Sagittarius' traditional house (in Libra), foreign culture or travel, international communities, or any area of life that represents new terrain, will be preferred. A partner or close friend may be the conduit to a challenging and stimulating new way of looking at life. You may feel as if you're a student again, re-exercising the brain cells over a new hot topic. The significant Aries Lunar Eclipse on the 8th – valid for much of the rest of this month – is especially pertinent to you because Moon is right next to your ruler Uranus. In a sense, and emotionally, you are even more like yourself, which is to say, restless, erratic, highly intuitive yet super-rational: yes, slightly peculiar. If life is nothing as it should be, you'll be kicking up big-time. Hence the ongoing need to think big and dream and plan. Yet this eclipse does advise you to scale back somewhat and relax – perhaps deal with sundry paperwork as "therapy". The Scorpio Solar Eclipse on the 23rd, conjunct Venus, occurs in your career house, where Saturn has dutifully plodded since October 2012, ensuring you apply yourself more resiliently to aspirational goals. This eclipse does signal a new burst of career or status energy. On this day, or in the month ahead, you could be changing job or launching a career-based project.
February 20-March 20
If you're reasonably clued-up on personal needs, you'll be taking steps to understand self a lot better. What does that mean exactly? What are you supposed to do? It could involve reading a book about the mind, behaviour or the mystical. It might require the aid of a therapist to hold your hand. At another level, you could be burrowing into your own financial situation, working out what's do-able or not, and why. With Sun and Venus skipping through Scorpio's traditional house (to the 23rd), there's fun with a partner to be had; but also, you're calibrating your own range and power for future orientation. The Scorpio Solar Eclipse, conjunct Venus, on the 23rd, marks a distinct change of mood for the month ahead – refreshing in its potential breadth and depth, because it occurs in the house of new horizons. Foreign travel may be required to further aims; or, in this phase, you decide at long last to take up a challenge, if only to escape restricting routines and expectations. Venus' involvement may draw you to like-minds who share your religious, spiritual or philosophical perspectives. And much pleasure is to be had from breaking
out of a life too ordinary. The long Sun-Venus conjunction 21st-29th accentuates the social side of life. Some of you will be taking a partnership to a new level through travel. Sharing a new faith with others maybe an alternative feature.
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Latest polling numbers indicate that the Green Party is a failed experiment in Canadian politics. Support for the Green Party has been rapidly collapsing in recent months.
A Simon Fraser University sourced five poll average over the last two years showed a steady increase in support for Greens in 2009 and first half of 2010 with a summer peaks above 12% average support across the Country. (http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/polls.html)
Since then–in just 8 months–the Greens have lost half of their support, down from 12% to 6%, a loss of two years worth of gains according to the SFU data. Take a look at the graph in the link above, the trends are unmistakable, with August 2010 as the turning point… What happened in August?…
Nik Nanos of polling firm Nanos Research, a past consultant for the Greens, has support for Greens at just 3.2% and dropping fast. Now that the Green Party won't be in the televised debates, it is hard to imagine anything but a crushing final defeat for Elizabeth May and the Greens. It is doubtful that the Greens could gain back the confidence of voters after another failure. The Party is over.
What Happened to the Greens in August 2010?
Anyone who knows metrics, looks at this study and wonders: How does a decade long steady upward trend in Green support, with no major corrections, suddenly collapse? Without warning?… or was there warning?… Here's a blog written at the peak of support for the Green Party last year, titled, "The End of the Green Party?"
In July 2010, Elizabeth May thought she had everything in her favor, but insiders like myself, who actually understand what it takes to build a political party and win elections, could see that the Green Party was in serious trouble: membership levels were dropping, candidates were quiting, Federal Councilors were resigning, organizers were being laid off, and the Party had a new Executive Director disagreeing with the Leadership every few months. While the polls showed support increasing, the polls didn't measure the level of morale of volunteers or the willingness of Greens to give more of their hard earned money for a losing cause. Elizabeth's insult to democracy around the 2010 BGM leadership scandal was the last straw for many.
At the peak of the Green Party's support last year, Elizabeth May sent a personal message to Greens asking them to effectively make Elizabeth May the "Leader for Life" as some called it, instead of renew the party through a leadership race. Undemocratically, the sponsor of the motion, rival Leadership contender, Sylvie Lemieux was denied a chance to address the membership with her own message or response–E May shut Sylvie out of the debate. In fact May has a history of silencing those that disagree with her.
Elizabeth's message contained several self serving lies. After the first round of voting failed to settle the leadership contest issue, May told Greens, and the media, that the issue was decided, to trick rival supporters into not showing up to vote Elizabeth May out. Members were so disgusted, only 12% of the Party voted in favor of Elizabeth May's Leadership, even though she implied 85% of the entire Party supported her in her press release. Many members had silently–and not so silently–quit over the issue.
The number of environmentalist that see the Green Party as doing more good than harm, is a limited number to begin with–just ask David Suzuki. Most of the Greens new supporters were people looking for a different style of politics. What they got was a different type of rhetoric that quickly sounded just like the old parties, with back-room dealings, power-plays, crushing of dissent, out of control egos, nepotism, incompetence, and lies to the public.
Greens are known for voting for their choice even when the outcome is negative–helping to elect Conservatives in many ridings–because, as Greens say, "Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil." Now many see Elizabeth May and the Green Party as just another evil. In light of E May's conduct, greens find it harder to justify supporting the Green Party.
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After all the blood, sweat and tears I shed for the Greens, I am sad to see the end to what looked like such a promising opportunity for us all. So many of us put so much into this cause, only to see it stolen by the very conduct we joined the party to oppose.
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Baby on a Bike Swing
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Last year, Aussies Michael and Shoshanna Hindmarsh took their 2-year-old daughter Amaya on a bike trip from Barcelona to the Baltic Sea in Germany to raise support for Clinica Verde. We were awed by both their kindness and adventurous spirit, and wanted to commemorate their experience at the clinic in a special way. Well, we finally put our idea into action – and it's a wonderful addition to the clinic. Presenting, our Baby on a Bike swing, located in our clinic courtyard. Now, one of the first things visitors approaching Clinica Verde see is children swinging near the entrance. Thanks, Amaya!
A Sense of an Ending
"Here we are!" we said to Amaya as we pulled into the courtyard of our apartment block. "Come on lets get out and have a look!" "NO!" came the reply, and we spent the next 5 minutes trying to coax her out. We had been telling her that we were finishing, and I think she also knew that this was the completion of something great. Her nomadic, outdoor life had ended and she was staying put in her 'magic buggy' hoping that there would be more.
Alas our journey had come to an end. We took the iconic photos in front of the Brandenburg Gate just as we had taken them in front of the Sagrada Familia five months earlier. We feel privileged to have had this time as a family, to see a Europe that few people see and to expose our daughter to so many wonderful things.
Growing up wild and free
"Amaya lick Mamá's tongue?" Amaya asked me using her super sweet voice thats reserved for requests. "Ummm… noooo," I reply, "that's gross." We are eating in a rather nice fish restaurant and Amaya has just dropped some rice on the floor "oh, a little bird can eat that bit" she announces. Hmm, yes. Its said that two year olds are little barbarians and ours maybe a slightly more barbaric than most. Camping for so long has made us all a bit rough around the edges. We eat out of the pot we cook in for goodness sake.
As any honest camper will attest, part of the beauty of camping is you get to chill out and relax your standards. Waltz around in the same clothes, shower if you feel like it, brush your hair – whats a brush?! Its a time to get away from fast paced city living and societal pressures. One afternoon all three of us managed to get cherry stains on our t-shirts, our care factor – about zero.
From your position sitting in a comfortable office chair and breathing in air conditioned air this may seem disgusting to you, so judge us as negligent parents if you must, but it is said that a bit of dirt is good for immunity. From our position it is brilliantly refreshing to have dropped parenting standards, what does it really matter if our kid has less baths and is running around in slightly grubby clothes. She's happy and healthy. Camping it seems is the perfect environment for a two year old. They seem to be made for fresh air. Shriek and yell, play rough, throw sand, run around naked, whatever it is the outdoors can take it. The large environment readily absorbs noise and activity, even a full blown tantrum while it may be in public is certainly less out of place than in your local supermarket.
Please don't misunderstand me, Amaya is not a wild and crazy kid. She's a sweet girl who has benefitted greatly from living predominately outdoors. Before our trip she was greatly concerned about getting dirty, touching sand, and didn't really like the feeling of different textures under her bare feet. Now she will pick up a snail and with a wicked grin say "Mama eat it?!"
For a mini person what tops regular camping is being a camping nomad. Simply because you never know what kind of entertainment or delights the day is going to present.
Lunch may turn out to be at a lake – so we enjoy an unscheduled swim.
Another day its raining so we eat breakfast in the campground family room where Amaya's breakfast chair of choice is a toy tractor (exciting for a 2 year old).
Or its the day of the campground bowling competition (on manually run equipment from GDR times). Amaya won (no one is sure how – but it happened).
We play in a fountain, dance to live music in the town square, stumble upon a local fair, have breakfast on a wharf, the world is her playground with every day providing delights.
It's the People not the Place
We are on our homeward stretch. The Baltic Sea is behind us and we only have a bit over a week before we will find ourselves back in Berlin. Close to 5 months of riding and over 3800km later we have enjoyed our share of adventures and met some fantastic people.
Most of the time the people we connect with are kind strangers who offer us help. Take for instance….
A 36 degree day near Hengelo, Holland. We stopped at a random house to ask for some water. We were given ice water, home grown berries, coffee and an hour or two of enjoyable conversation.
In Bremen while watching the reenactment of "The Bremen Town Musicians" an elderly German tourist slipped me 10 euros to spend on Amaya – evidently overwhelmed by her charm. We used the 10 euros to buy a lovely picture book of the Grimm Brother's fable.
Then there was Astrid, Andreas and Felix. Resting in their driveway after an exhausting day crossing Hamburg, Astrid pulls up in her bright red porsche and asks us if we would like a coffee in her garden. We obviously agreed and were once again treated to an enjoyable afternoon with some unexpected surprises thrown in. There were rabbits, chickens and macaws much to Amaya's delight. Most random of all was the large warehouse jammed full of antique horse drawn carts, gypsy caravans and even a 100 year old hearse.
More recently our Baltic sea experience was significantly brightened by fellow campers, Bjorn, Kirsten and Simon (aged 2).
There are countless other examples of these chance encounters, however two families we stayed with during our last week in the Netherlands was not based solely on chance – our meeting was some 30 years in the making and the connections span 3 continents.
About 30 years ago a young Israeli called Naim was struggling to fund his travels through Europe by selling paintings in a plaza in a Dutch town called Hengelo. A young couple, Henk and Annie, took pity on him and invited him to stay with them for the night. He stayed for a year. A connection was established with Naim's family in Israel and Henk and Annie's family that saw many visits between the two countries.
Fast forward to a rainy night in Israel, about 20 years on. Stephen (my brother), Shoshanna and I were looking for somewhere to pitch our tent in front of the Ancient Ruins of Beit She'an. The lady in the ticket office took pity on us and offered for us to stay with her. Her name is Etti and she is Naim's sister. We stayed with her for a few wonderful days and again in 2008 for a week.
Earlier this year Stephen and Jess (my sister in law) were staying with Etti who happened to also have guests from the Netherlands. They were Rosanna and Mariette, the 2 daughters of Henk and Annie, along with their families. Upon arriving in the Netherlands Stephen and Jess stayed with Rossanna and Henk (the younger).
We also had the privilege of Henk and Rosanna's hospitality in Hengelo, along with a few wonderful days with Mariette and Robert and their children Leor, Micha and Yair.
These are the moments that make traveling so enjoyable. The stunning scenery and quaint villages are just a nice backdrop to the relationships and connections we have made on this journey.
The journey began in Barcelona – us and our bicycles and a European continent that stretched out endlessly. We have cycled 3600km over 4 months, inhaled at least 20 bugs, fallen off 7 times, repaired two flat tyres, endured too many cold and rainy days and we have finally made it to the Baltic!
The Baltic is not so impressive by Australian standards but that is what we get for choosing a destination based on an alliteration. Someone smarter than me once wrote, "it is always good to have an end to journey towards but it is the journey that matters in the end." It has been all about the journey for us. We have meandered through Europe on our bicycles, watching our little daughter grow up. There have been incredibly high highs and the lowest of lows. It has not been all dappled light and ice creams – this has been a very difficult family project.
But we are here and there are many stories to tell.
I am particularly proud of Amaya who is surely the toughest and most adaptable two year old around. She has sat in her little buggy for every one of those 3600km and offered minimal complaints. She has camped in appalling conditions, learnt to say hi, bye and thanks in a number of different languages, met new people every day, and has had to make do with very few toys. Yet she is still super keen to get on the road every morning.
Thanks for reading our blog (please continue)! Thanks to all the kind strangers who have helped us in so many different ways! Thanks to the people who have donated to Clinica Verde and helped change the lives of mothers and children in Nicaragua! If you haven't donated but would like to you can click on the link below.
We now have the small matter of cycling 400km or so down to Berlin.
Why the Dutch have got it right
At risk of going on about it, there has to be something to be said about a culture where bikes are a natural extension of everyday life. Admittedly we are biased about just how much of a good thing this is given our passion for peddling, but the advantages of a cycling culture run deeper than the pure enjoyment of having fresh air rush through your hair while zooming, carbon-free, through the countryside.
Cycling solves social issues.
The elderly: They keep their fitness, their balance, and most importantly their independence. We met a couple in their late 60's who said they would cycle 30km without hesitation to to have dinner with their friends, and then at 9pm they would cycle home again. The average Australian would find these distances formidable regardless of age! But it gets even better. They told us that his mother (so I'm guessing she would be in her late 80's) always makes the choice to ride her bike everywhere because she finds it to difficult to walk to the bus stop! Heroine!
Teenagers: In car based cultures one of the common stresses of parents with school aged children is the time it takes to transport their children around. Many mums feel like they are a taxi service. Getting one kid from daycare in time to get the rest from school, then dropping off one child to soccer, zooming through the traffic to pick up another from a music lesson – this is enough to drive anyone crazy, especially if you are battling Sydney traffic.
Explaining this to a Dutch person just gets a frown of incomprehension. EVERYONE rides EVERYWHERE. Even immigrants take bicycle lessons.
High school students can easily ride 20km to school. Not just in summer either. In fact they have no choice as school buses do not exist!
We see bands of teenagers going off to the lake together on a hot sunday afternoon. Girlfriends riding to the shops. A guy giving his mate a ride on the back of his bike. Teenagers, like the elderly, are given freedom, independence, and their own transport. It would certainly leave the parents feeling more relaxed knowing that their child is out and about on their own bike rather than worrying about them catching a ride with a rev-head lunatic who pins his masculinity on how fast he can corner his car.
Between primary and high school students are often required to sit a bicycle test and from then on they are deemed competent to use the bicycle as their mode of transport.
Parents have more time, feel more relaxed, and teens can come and go as they please.
Its a win – win, don't you think?
Mums with small children: I'm not sure about other mothers with small children but when I was living in the suburbs with a baby I found it hard to find the time to exercise. In the Netherlands mothers put their babies on a bike seat (usually in the front of the bike) and off they go. We've seen several mothers sitting in a shady spot in the country side with their little one, obviously they have ridden a bit then stopped for some morning tea. To me its an ideal outing. You can get a lot further than walking, its not as hard as running with a pram, but still great exercise. You can even buy whats called a "Mama" bike with a bike seat on the front AND the back. These come with hefty stands so that loading up the kids is safe and secure. Or even better (but pretty expensive) you can buy a bike with a bucket out the front, they even have seat belts in the bucket. Imagine getting picked up from kindy in one of those!?! Pure fun!
It looks like incorporating bikes into our everyday life could help to reduce depression in old people, minimise teenage angst and conflict with parents, and maybe even help decreases the severity of postnatal depression! Or maybe I'm looking at it through heavily tinted rose glasses?
Of course you can't grab the best bits of everyones culture. But I do love it how the Dutch are "all in" with cycling and I wonder if Australians could look at cycling as a wonderful form of transport rather than a nuisance on the road. We are, after all, the flattest, driest inhabited continent on earth so whats stopping us?


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Joe told me that her husband has friends in Facebook and spends most of the time with them. He hardly finds time for her. If she questions him, he tries to beat her.
Joe once told me that her husband threatened to kill her with a knife. Knowing her husband, who is a friendly and Joe a nagging person, I didn't take her statement seriously back then. May be it would have happened out of frustration from her husband's side than trying to kill her.
So, I consulted Naran as this case is a complex one.
Ask her to do the following exercise. No remedies will work for her, unless she does it.
Ask her to affirm as many times as possible, "I release the part that ignores him. I align with that part that loves him deeply and totally".
In fact, this exercise can be done by all couples.
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As you said, I am chanting "TOGETHER DIVINE" and "REVERSE BOW CONCEDE", but with no use. He just tells me to go away from his life. He always tells that.
You had asked me to analyze what is that in me that makes me quarrel with him. I was deeply hurt by him emotionally on more than 5 occasions that wounds have not healed at all.
So whenever he tells me something with kind of hatred, all those bad memories come back to me.
But the problem is not exactly that. He always tries to pick on something to create a dispute. Be it his fault or mine, it points towards me and each time he says that "I don't need you, go away from my life".
Due to recurring fights, now I have become numb towards all these.
He doesn't allow me to go for work even though I have done my masters and currently doing my Ph.D. He doesn't give me any money at all and I don't need that too, I don't ask for it.
He is a kind of "passive aggressive husband". I don't know why he is like this.
I love him a lot and I don't want to leave him coz I think that he loves me too. I am really desperate to get out of this situation. I want peace and love in my family.
He is not talking and he does not have food from home – this is what he does when we have fights. But this time it's been 3 weeks now.
I will be able to handle the future, coz if I remain calm then the fight would be lesser (actually I was doing this for the past 1 year).
It is quite surprising when you say you love him.
But you are not able to forget the wounds. As long as you nurse and nurture these emotional hurts, you can never have harmony (in marriage).
If you want to be with him and really love him why do you expect love from him?
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