Thoughts are things. They are powerful. They are preemptive. The very thoughts running through your mind can help to manifest the life of your dreams, or draw you closer to your greatest fears. But most people don't realize the inherent power of their thoughts. We go about our lives steeped in one mindset or another, without the clear realization that whatever it is we think about or focus on consistently, we move towards.
Whether or not you believe that statement is rather subjective. The truth of the matter is that we are the product of our thoughts. Think, and you shall become. It's part of the manifestation of our destiny. But not everyone holds to this credo. Not everyone believes in the fervent power of their thoughts. They brush it off while dwelling on the past or fearing the future, not quite understanding that the very things that they are thinking about, they are inching closer towards.
At the very fundamental level, thoughts are purely energy. They move across the synapses in our brains, jumping from one neuron to another, moving from one cluster to the next in lightning-fast speed. It's a near-instantaneous process. If you think about moving your hand, as you think it, it happens. There's no lag there. You're not waiting for some CPU to crunch directives. The mind is the most powerful computer in the world at the moment.
That energy moving across the synapses of your neurons, has potent potential to revolutionize your life. A single thought can spark a flurry of activity. In a moment we can decide and commit to something, anything, that will move us in one path or the next towards our hopes and dreams. Those same thoughts can also fester and marinate in our minds, infecting every emotion and behavior until it manifests itself into reality.
Yes, there's no denying the power of your thoughts. There's no hiding from something that's so real and exact that it can either be harnessed for good, or leveraged for extreme bad. But what are thoughts exactly? How do they work? Is everything in our lives right now the product of our thoughts? Have we truly manifested whatever reality we might be experiencing at this moment in time?
The human mind is still something that perplexes us. While we have an abundance of information on how it works, we haven't quite grasped all of its nuisances and complexities. Just how is it that we're experiencing reality? How does consciousness work? How are we in this body right now and experiencing these things? If you stop for a moment to think about it, the thoughts will daunt you. It's an overwhelming fact, something that we can't quite wrap our heads around.
To add to that equation, as humans, our bodies are made up of 99.9999% empty space. The atoms in our bodies, at their most finite scales, are simply empty space, held together by electrical charges. On a quantum level, things get even stranger. Those atoms can actually appear in two places at the same time, which is called quantum superposition. Matter exists in a variety of forms and states due to complex quantum wave functions. So, what we're experiencing and feeling isn't quite 100% real, so to speak.
I know it all sounds very strange. And we don't need to understand how it all works or get into an in-depth discussion about quantum physics to be able to understand that reality is merely a projection of our thoughts on a finite scale. But we do need to be able to leverage it. Since everything is held together by electrical energies, and our thoughts are pure energy, it's easy to see how thoughts, on their most fundamental scale, can permeate everything. On the macro scale, it's harder to appreciate. But think smaller. Think nano-level and beyond.
However, another problem that arises is that the human mind is a computer that's been pre-conditioned. It has some software that's installed at birth in the form of our DNA, but after that, every new experience is another memory logged that might create a variety of functions. As we grow older, those functions turn into habits. But at the very basal level, everything is created by our thoughts and how we perceive things.
Yes, we are all unique in our own special little ways, and even identical twins can grow up to become wildly different people. That's because their thoughts evolve differently, permeating their lives in ways that are unique only to them. It's the nature of mankind, and the divine chisel that carves us into who we are. I doubt we will ever understand it all. But for those that can appreciate it and harness the true power of their thoughts, anything is possible.
Did you know that the human mind processes anywhere between 50,000 to upwards of 70,000 thoughts in any given day? Obviously, not all of those thoughts are conscious. And, not all of those thoughts are unique. Many of the thoughts are repeated and replayed in our subconscious minds. They stem from our deepest and most darkest fears. These are the what-if scenarios that we can't seem to escape no matter what we do.
Fear-based thought is one of the most prevalent thoughts that pervade our minds. On the other end of that spectrum are thoughts that are founded on the purity of love, honesty and forgiveness. Yet, not enough of our thoughts are love-based thoughts. Much of them are fear based. The problem with living in a fear-based mindset, is that those fears have a tendency for transmuting themselves into reality.
When you live in fear, not only does it tax you mentally, but also emotionally, spiritually, and of course, physically. Mentally speaking, you spend much of your time dwelling on the what-ifs, and thinking about all those doomsday scenarios. Much of our fear-based thoughts revolve around our finances and relationships, but also extend into our careers, health and other areas of our lives.
Clearly, spending much of your time living in fear also does a number on your emotions. Thoughts produce emotions. Any thought based on fear is going to produce a set of resultant emotions that will develop a foundation for stress and anxiety. When your emotions are taxed, it weighs heavily on your spirit, but also produces stress hormones that negatively affect your physiology. It suppresses your digestive and reproductive systems along with reducing your immune system into shambles.
The power of our fear-based thoughts are abundantly clear. They can ruin us. They can make us head for the ropes and run for the trenches. It's a terrible state-of-mind to have to live in a constant mindset of fear, but countless people from around the globe can't help but live in that very state. However, if you're serious about achieving your goals or accomplishing anything notable in life, you have to extricate yourself from a mindset of fear.
As difficult as it might feel, we have to gravitate towards love. Fear (and also hate) take a great deal of energy, whereas love is effortless and empowering. The sooner you move from a fear-based mentality to a love-based mentality, the sooner you'll feel that cathartic cleansing that comes along with pure and unconditional love. It's not a gullible state to live in. That's simply the inherent power of thought at play on a constant basis in our minds.
We are all creatures of habit. We have very set ways of doing things because we've conditioned ourselves to think, feel and behave that way through years (and sometimes decades) of practice. It's this type of habitual thought patterns that can set the stage for an empowering and fulfilling life, or help to play a hand in our resultant downfall over time. Thoughts quite literally are things since they lay the foundation for any type of life we might decide to lead.
If you're serious about achieving your goals and accomplishing anything worth noting in life, then you have to leverage the power of your thoughts by shifting your thinking. Albert Einstein once said, "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." You can't expect to think, feel and behave the same way but garner different results. You have to take drastic measures by sowing the seeds of change to reap powerful results.
Yet, it doesn't happen overnight. For those that are serious, there is a pathway to achievement. As long as you can shift your thinking into the right direction, you can quite literally manifest your dreams. So how does this work? This multi-step process is born through the application of a few fundamental principles to help manifest and attract whatever it is that you want in your life. As long as you appreciate the power behind focused thoughts, and you can apply these steps, you can achieve anything.
The power to achieve anything lies in your focus. The more you can focus your thoughts on something, the more likely you'll be able to achieve it. If you focus your mind on the wrong things, then you'll have a harder time achieving anything in life. Learn how to direct and refine your focus to help guide you in the right direction. If you don't, you'll feel at the mercy of the events in your life rather than at the helm of them.
Sometimes, we take things for granted in life. We live in the status quo, with the expectation of a certain standard of living, or that people around us will be there for us in our times of need and so on. But, oftentimes, it's the things that we take for granted, which were once not a part of our lives, that we need to appreciate and be grateful for if we want to succeed. There are hundreds of millions of people living in complete squalor with no hope for the future, so be sure to have gratitude for whatever it is that you do have, no matter how meek it might seem.
If you want to leverage the power of your thoughts to achieve great things, you have to set meaningful goals. What do your goals mean to you? They can't be superficial. When we set superficial goals, it's easier to lose sight of them. They have to mean something so profound that it allows us to focus solely on them no matter what tends to get in our way. That only happens when we set goals that truly mean something to us beyond things like money, fame and prestige.
We can harness our thoughts to achieve wild success when we're constantly seeking ways to add value. Life shouldn't always be about a direct return on investment from your time spent on things. You have to look at the long-term implications of doing things the right way today, even if it takes a considerable amount of time for that to materialize into real results. When you search for shortcuts, you cut yourself off from the abundance that awaits the person who goes out of their way for others.
We can help to guide our thoughts in the right direction when we follow detailed and intricate plans. Whatever it is that you want in life, as long as you do the proper amount of planning for it, you can achieve it over time. It just won't happen overnight. But it's the right plan that will take you from Point A to Point B. Without it, you'll be left scratching your head and wondering why you're not making the amount of progress you're after.
Effective time management is a skill that some of the most successful people on earth institute. We all have the same amount of time in this world, no matter who we are. However, it's how we use that time wisely that dictates just what we're capable of achieving. Guide your thoughts in the right direction by first auditing and analyzing your time, then instituting a system to use the little time you do have wisely towards the achievement of your goals.
The right thoughts directed in the right direction can be powerful. But the wrong thoughts directed in the wrong direction can be fatal. Poor thoughts help to instill bad habits. And those bad habits can run rampant on our lives. There's almost no way to accomplish and achieve great things in life when our bad habits consume us. Handle your bad habits before they handle you if you're serious about reaching your goals.
Negative thinking will lead us nowhere fast. Do what it takes to avoid negativity. Remember that all of reality is merely an illusion. On the macro level, it doesn't seem that way. But on the quantum level, it's hard to believe that what exists actually exists. There's true power in the positive energy of good and pure thoughts. But there's also true catastrophe in negative thinking. Avoid negative thinking like the plague because like attracts like.
Contribution is at the heart of success. Our fellow man, woman and child are struggling, even right in our own backyards. Find ways to contribute to them. Contribution will open you up to an enormous source of good energy from the universe. Don't look for ways you can take from others, but rather what you can give to them. No matter what the situation, nor how little you think you might have, others have less. But don't need to give them money. Just contribute your time. That's all it takes.
Life can be hard at the best of times. And it can be downright unbearable at the worst of times. But the true pathway to achieving anything is to stay persistent no matter what. No matter how many times you fail or feel like giving up, don't throw in that proverbial towel. Stay strong. Stay persistent. And keep pushing. You can do and achieve anything you put your mind to as long as you stay persistent. It's all in your mind. It always has been and it always will be.


London, United Kingdom, February 10th, 2011 – The hair loss treatment options at the Harley Street Hair Clinic have been receiving a bit of a broad press recently. The well respected clinic has been featured on a prime time television show, featuring one journalist's quest to transform himself into the perfect man; and also on the national news, where an item about the Harley Street Hair Clinic's work on famous figures aired during the bulletin.
The Harley Street Hair Clinic offers various types of treatment for hair loss and balding. The most common forms of treatment delivered by the Clinic is the FT (Follicular Transfer) method of replacement surgery; and courses of proven medications, which are capable of stopping or even reversing adrogenetic alopecia (a baldness caused by an overproduction of the antigen DHT).
The hair loss treatment surgeries performed at the Harley Street Hair Clinic are extremely successful, and are so gentle that they are no longer thought of as medically invasive (unlike the older forms of hair replacement therapy, which involved major skin grafting). As a result, the famous figures featured in the Channel 5 bulletin (you can see the whole thing at http://www.hshairclinic.co.uk) have been able to successfully redress thinning hair lines with quick, effective surgical treatment.
The Harley Street Hair Clinic's hair loss treatment is also capable of covering minor scarring sustained in accidents or as a result of surgical procedures.
The Harley Street Hair Clinic is one of the United Kingdom's leading proponents of Follicular Transfer. The Clinic was one of the places that pioneered the early FT treatments, and is now considered to be a UK authority on the procedure. Hence the twin visits from major media players in such a short space of time!
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Holman: It was difficult leaving Europe
By Omnisport Editorial Jun 24 2013 1:24PM
By Omnisport Editorial
Jun 24 2013 1:24PM
FORMER Aston Villa midfielder Brett Holman said it was a tough decision to leave Europe and sign for UAE Pro League side Al Nasr.
The 29-year-old joined Villa from AZ Alkmaar last year, but fell out of favour with manager Paul Lambert in the second half of the 2012-13 season.
After 29 games with Villa, Holman said he has moved on in the hope of securing regular first-team football.
Holman needs to be playing regularly if he is to continue being picked by Australia, who qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil earlier this month.
"It was difficult (leaving Europe) but (this is) a decision that I know I have made with 100 percent of my heart," said Holman after being unveiled at his new club.
"It's a step I wanted to make - it is a fantastic project and it's definitely a big challenge and something I am looking forward to.
"I played under some fantastic coaches, I learnt a lot about football and maybe I can bring that experience to this club and show what I have learnt under Dick Advocaat, Louis Van Gaal and Ronald Koeman.
"It's very important (to play regularly), every player wants to play every game if possible. Obviously there is another goal for me, playing in a World Cup and it is my ambition to play every game for Al Nasr and (getting in the World Cup team) is definitely a goal for me."
Holman said a talk with Socceroos team-mate, and former Al Nasr player, Mark Bresciano convinced him to sign for the UAE side.
"He just said that his time here, although it was short, he had a great time," he said.
"His family was happy, the football was good, he scored goals and the words he passed on were only positive and made it more comfortable to make my decision."
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Gulval
Lake's Parochial History—1868 (part 1)
The following description is lifted directly from [Polsue 1868]. It must be read in the context of that date. Other extracts are available online.
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Situation, taxation, value.
Tithe apportionment, clergy, dedication and description of church.
Belfry and monumental inscriptions.
Patron saint, ancient name of parish, tithes and valors, manor of Lanestly.
Kenegie, Trevaylor, Veale family.
Rosemorran, cross, Chyandour, Ponsandane, Pendrea, Boskedna circle, Roman coins, ancient stonework.
Ancient inscription, Cairn, Gulfwell, oratory, cross, schools, chapel, villages, landowners, climate, fertility, geology.
More about Gulval
THE parish of Gulval, otherwise Lanesly, is situated in the deanery and hundred of Penwith; it is bounded on the north by Zennor, the detached portion of Madron, which it nearly surrounds, and Towednack; on the east by Ludgvan; on the south by the Mount's Bay; and on the west by Madron. The benefice is a vicarage, in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor.
The estimated tithable lands of the parish amount to 4230 acres; of which 1160A. are arable; 2320A. pasture ; 750A. are commons, downs, and crofts.
The tithes were commuted in 1843, at £635, which is apportioned as follows, namely,
To the Vicar £361 0 0
" James Blencowe, Anne Cranmer, his wife, and Dame Ellen Riggs Miller, in equal moities. £254 0 0
" C. V. Le Grice, in lieu of his moiety of the great tithes of the estate called Girsplew £20 0 0
The parish comprises by actual measurement 4357A. 0R. 5P.; out of this there is a good glebe which measures 21 A. 3R. 7P. on which there is an impropriate rent-charge of £6; the church and churchyard 2R. 33P. ; and the public roads 40A. 3R. 0P.
The following list of vicars is preserved:—William Allsa, 1536; Richard Veale, said to be the first Protestant vicar of this parish, died in 1625; Peter Cooper, 1636; James Whitaker, 1640; Thomas Paule, 1660; John Hinson, 1677; Philip Hicks, 1700; John Penhellick, 1730; Samuel Harness, 1733; John Penneck, senior, 1773; John Penneck, junior, 1789; John Cole, afterwards D.D. and rector of Exeter college, 1818; Robert Dillon, he had been vicar of Bodmin, which he resigned Nov. 17, 1817, 1839; and the present vicar, the Rev. William Wriothesley Wingfield, instituted May 30, 1839.
[Alternatives were obtained from Index of Clergy , a card index by Mrs. J. S. Rolfe, extracted from LDS film 1472028/4 by Michelle Kahler and posted to CORNISH-L August 1999. The discrepancy is so great, that they are listed here without further comment.]
Collect Cornub.  1396.7
Henderson E5.
1297     TREMENHEERE, William.
1386     JORDAN, Thomas.
1395     VORN, John.
1395/6   PROFYNT, John.
1413     STRYKE, Nicholas.
1513     HARRYS, John.
1536     ALLBA, William.
1570     TRIPCONY, John.
1575     GUSTON, Henry.
1585     VEALE, Richard.
c1601    VEALE, Richard.
1631     COOPER, Peter.
1636     WHITAKER, James. Died 1640.
James WHITTAKER S.TB, instituted 16 Aug 1636 to GULVALL als DANESLY V. On death of Peter COOPER.Patron — The King.
c1640    TUCKER, Richard. Also mentioned on a separate card as TOOKER.
1645     KITT, Henry. Also mentioned on a separate card as KEET.
c1660    PAULE, Thomas.
1660     HINSON, John.
1667     HICKS, Philip.
1699     PENHALLICK, John.
1724     HARNESS, Samuel.
1733     PENNECK, John. (1)
1754     PEARCE, Richard. Curate.
1790     COLE, John.
1796     STEVENS, John Nicholls. Curate.
1802     WILLIAMS, Anthony. Curate.
1803     COLE, Samuel. Curate.
c1810    VEALE, William.
1813     DILLON, Robert.
1813     MORRIS, George. Curate.
1839     WINGFIELD, W.W.D.
William Wriothesley Digby WINGFIELD B.A., Vicar of GULVAL, 30 May 1839.Presentation of the Lord Chancellor — Inipropriator, W.M.BLANCE. Born in LONDON, 1814.Married 20 April 1840, Elizabeth Ann FORTESQUE of ESSEX.
The church [Picture] is dedicated to S. Gudwal, a British saint who flourished in this diocese in the sixth century; his feast was kept on June 6; in an ancient calendar he is styled bishop of S. Malo. It is divided into a chancel, nave, south aisle, and north transept. The chancel has a very handsome window of painted glass; the subjects are the Good Samaritan, and Touching the hem of His garment. On a brass below is the following inscription,—To the Glory of God and in memory of William Bolitho, Esq., of Ponsandane. Born 11 August mdcclxxiii, died xx February mdccclvi. And Phillippa his wife, Born 1 August mdcclxix, died iv March mdcccxlv. this window is erected by their only son Richard Foster Bolitho.
In the south wall of the chancel are a piscina and sedile, and in the north wall a credence table.
In the nave is a good oak pulpit. The arcade comprises six slightly pointed arches of granite, supported on octagonal monolith pillars of the same material. In a niche opposite the south door is a brass plate, placed there by the vicar, thus inscribed.—This Parish Church was re-seated and partially restored in the year of our lord, 1857. T.H.Wyatt, arch.t
The south aisle has some good windows of painted glass. The east window represents the Last Supper, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension; on a brass underneath is the following inscription:—This window is erected to the glory of God, and in memory of Thomas Bolitho, (of Coombe,) who died 11th January, 1858; aged 92 years. And of his wife Maria, who died 8th November, 1853; aged 72 years. And of their daughter Mary, who died 25th November, 1844; aged 41 years.
Also to the memory of Thomas Bolitho, father of the abovenamed Thomas. He died 11th March, 1807; aged 67 years. And of his wife Catharine, who died 18th May, 1821 ; aged 84 years.
A handsome south window representing Christ and the doctors, and His baptism, has this inscription,—To the glory of God, and in affectionate memory of William Wingfield Baker, of Orsett Hall, in the county of Essex, Esq.re, Q.C. This window is erected by his children. He died at Sherborne Castle on the 21st of March, 1858; in the 86th year of his age, and was buried at Orsett. Esse quam videri.
A single light south window, representing the Flight into Egypt, is inscribed,—To the glory at God, and in affectionate memory of William Wingfield Baker, Esq.re, Q.C. This window is erected by his widow.
The west window of the aisle represents in rich colours the infancy of the Saviour; it is inscribed,—This window is erected to the glory of God, and in memory of Darell Jago, Captain Royal Artillery, died 22nd December, 1850; aged 55 years. Susan his wife, died 8th December, 1855; aged 54 years. And their children, John Darell, B.A., Balliol College, Oxford; died 1st August, 1854; aged 23 years. And Francis Howe; died 13th January, 1855 ; aged 19 years. Looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
The transept is separated from the nave by two arches, similar to those of the arcade.
The font is of granite, it consists of a round bowl, supported on a moulded shaft. On the bowl are sculptured four shields of arms, one of which displays Kymyel impaling St. Aubyn. About the year 1842, the font stood in front of the communion table. The church has a south porch and a priest's door.
The tower has a plain soffit arch springing from coved abaci, and supported by a chamfered sub-arch with octagonal imposts.
The tower is of three stages, and is finished with battlements and pinnacles; at the angles immediately under the pinnacles are sculptured figures, probably intended to represent the evangelists. There are three bells; one is dated, 1640, another has this inscription:—IIle o ring o allways o my o makers o prayes. Between every word is the head of Charles II., with the legend, Carolus ii. Dei gratia, like a coin of the period, and about the size of a shilling. The frame of the bells is dated 1600. The newel doorway is blocked up on the inside, and an entrance cut from without.
The tower window is of handsome ornamented glass, semée of is of handsome ornamented glass, semée of IHS. In the belfry is the following monitory inscription:—
Good Sirs! our meaning is not small
That, God to Praise, assemblies call;
And warn the sluggard, when at home,
That he may with devotion come
Unto the Church and joyn in prayer;
Of Absolution take his share.
Who hears the bells, appears betime,
Aud in his seat against we chime.
Therefore I'd have you not to vapour,
Nor blame ye lads that use ye clapper
By which are scared the fiends of Hell
And all by virtue of a Bell.
©2000–03 (last updated 29 Mar 2003) Rick Parsons, Bristol, England


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When Charles French of Berkely, Massachussetts accepted a position in North Carolina, he thought he would save enough money to fund his law studies. He would spend two years tutoring Dr. James Manney's children and then return north for a clerkship. He had not expected to fall in love with the daughter of his employer. Over the course of his two years in the Manney house Charles realizes that the future he wants to build has to include her.
Nancy Manney is the bright, bookish daughter of one of Beaufort's most prominent families who longs to experience the world outside their small seaside town. She finds a kindred spirit in the adventurous young family tutor. They keep their love a secret from her family and plan marry when Charles becomes a lawyer. The only thing standing in their way is her father's pride and determination that she marry into one of the state's leading families. As Charles leaves for his clerkship their love comes up against the wall of Dr. Manney's plans for Nancy setting off a battle of wills that spans decades.


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Feel the Pain: Drugs, Nihilism, and Anhedonia in 2017 Rap Music
In a year when many just wanted to go back to sleep and hope it was all a dream, rap took on an escapist quality. The death and music of Lil Peep, and the nihilistic boasts of Young Thug, Future, and Lil Uzi Vert sountracked a year of pain and identity crises.
By Micah Peters Dec 14, 2017, 10:46am EST
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Young Thug's space yelps have transmitted more clearly this year than in the past, but did you think, when you heard "200" for the first time, that he said "I'm on a dieeeet," or "I'm gonna die-eeeeee"?
This was on Super Slimey, his joint project with Future, released in late October (I'll forgive you if you've already forgotten about it). On "200," the duo bemoan empty pleasures. Future is bummed about popping a wheelie in his Lamborghini. But there's that ad-lib—sitting there for you to contend with before the song even starts. Do you think Young Thug only drinks Actavis (lean, codeine, codeine-promethazine, "Prometh")? Speaking of, do you think this photo was a cry for help, or just a good joke at everyone else's expense?
Can you even tell the difference anymore?
Looks like Young Thug has a lean IV @youngthug pic.twitter.com/WjVM5IvGU1
— WORLDSTARHIPHOP (@WORLDSTAR) December 1, 2017
This is a screencap from an Instagram story Young Thug posted in early December; it certainly looks like he's receiving a lean IV. This made us upset, because it forced us to sidle up to some uncomfortable questions we might've previously ignored. Ones like: Are your favorite rappers OK?
It is fun to listen to Young Thug; it is not fun to think about what Young Thug is doing to his kidneys. That's the central tension surrounding rap's rock stars. They exhibit self-destructive tendencies and some semblance of control. That's the tension. As a listener, you want that tension to manifest itself within the music, while hoping that it never appears in a TMZ story. Drugs and music have never been strangers, and problems with the former are not limited to rap. A study published in April by Addictions.com found that country bests both rap and rock for its volume of drug references. The study also states that since 2013, across all genres, drugs have been mentioned less often. However, Logan Freedman, a data scientist at Addictions.com, told Rolling Stone that some individual hip-hop artists were responsible for "an 'extreme amount'" of references on their own.
I would guess that, along with Thug, Future is one of those individual artists. Have you forgotten already that he scored back-to-back no. 1 debuts this year? On Hndrxx, he proved himself to be a legitimate pop star in waiting—see the five-track run from "Damage" to "Fresh Air," each a viable Song of Summer candidate, except for "Use Me," which is devastating. Hndrxx sounded like the album that was promised by a long, rambling, emotional note dropped on his Instagram weeks before. Future, the first of these two no. 1s, was not that. In many ways, the self-titled project was the continuation of a bender that started with 2014's Monster— after a very public split with Ciara. The most refreshing thing about the album was "Mask Off" which, riding on the back of a hashtag, shot to the top of the rhythmic radio, becoming Future's highest charting single ever. And for a time, everyone was chanting his addictions right along with him:
Percocets / Molly, Percocets / Percocets / Molly, Percocets
Despite the pan flutes, this isn't music for happy people, which might also have had something to do with the song's ubiquity. The hook of one of the other biggest songs of 2017 was "all my friends are dead." To illustrate the absurdity of this moment in time, here is a group of children in Philly singing it like a nursery rhyme.
If you're a rap fan, you've listened to it millions of times this year, whether or not you previously liked Lil Uzi Vert. In a manner of speaking, "XO Tour Llif3" is a high he's going to spend the rest of his career chasing. It strikes the perfect balance of anguish and aplomb, between Uzi's own manic highs and lows. The dark, at times uncomfortable (and irresponsible) music video, released after the song had already gone three times platinum, is full of zombies and fake blood captured by jittery camera work. But there was a low-rent animated video before that one, before everyone was singing along.
It was just Uzi, alone, high as a Georgia pine, driving.
I have no cute adjectives or witty figures of speech to throw at this one: 2017 managed to be both shittier and dumber than 2016. So shitty and dumb was it, that we longed for the comparatively halcyon days of President Bush. Analyzing public apologies became a legitimate form of literary criticism; and the "real victims" sang "It's OK to Be White." This year has felt like one dispiriting Street Fighter "Game Over" screen, asking if we'd like to continue on to be KO'd for the millionth time. What's worse, it's difficult to remember what it was like to not feel this way.
Rap music reflected that anhedonia, especially the genre's newest, most avant-garde artists, who cared even less about convention and form than the last generation. I'm talking about the AIM screen names that kept finding their way onto the charts this year, most of which belong to teenagers who were born in Florida and raised on the internet. The ideological through line from Smokepurpp, Lil Pump, XXXTentacion, Lil Xan, Wifisfuneral, and others with more ironic names, is that nothing matters. It's an attitude, coupled with drug-addled downtime, that scans more defeatist than nihilist. And that manifests in violent ways—toward each other, between fans, and against women. It's tough to know whether their emergence is a response to the fraught sociopolitical climate, or a linear progression that can mostly be attributed to time and the internet.
Upon hearing their intentionally less polished sound, you might ask: Where did they come from? What do they want? Why are they like this?
The answer to the first question is that these rappers at the forefront of rap's punk moment descended directly from the Raider Klan, a 2010s Miami rap outfit that borrowed a lot from Three 6 Mafia. The answer to the second somehow seems to be both nothing and everything. And the answer to the third, finally, and at the risk of oversimplifying, may lie with late-period Lil Wayne, although he famously had zero interest in being a role model.
At the height of his popularity post–Tha Carter III, Wayne insisted on pushing the boundaries of the hip-hop genre. (Remember his verse on "Dey Know"? Remember literally all of Rebirth?) Also, there likely wasn't a single drug test he wouldn't have failed at the time. Still, though, Lil Pump had a cake in the shape of a Xanny bar to celebrate reaching 1 million followers on Instagram, and that feels, for lack of a better word, like an homage.
ISSA XAN CAKE pic.twitter.com/DZ5AaKHwfM
— Lil pump (@lilpump) June 16, 2017
Even knowing rap's tradition of decrying its newest generation, it's hard not to think of grungy SoundCloud rappers as the symptom of a troubling cause. Pick one—the opioid epidemic, image obsession, maybe some other neurosis rooted in internet immersion that we can't even grasp the scope of yet.
Music is an escape, but this music feels uniquely escapist, and averse to exploring any inward darkness beyond the most surface level. This reticence could come from a cultural interest in sadness-as-aesthetic, but it might also be a product of the gulf that exists between who someone is privately and the persona they project online. Neither of these problems is specific to the colorfully dreaded and prematurely face-tattooed. Rap contains multitudes of nihilism. There was N.W.A's anarchical brand of nihilism; there's Vince Staples's more intellectual variety; and then there's the brain-deadening kind. The kind where you find some Xanax in your bed, take them, and go back to sleep.
Twenty-one-year-old Long Island rapper Lil Peep died on November 16 after taking a toxic combination of prescription drugs. In the hours before his death, he wrote on Instagram: "I need help but not when I have my pills but that's temporary one day maybe I won't die young and I'll be happy?" At least part of the reason this went unnoticed can be attributed to internet fatigue—how often do you refresh your timelines? How much of what you see do you even remember, let alone engage with? How can you single out a genuine cry for help when emptiness and anxiety are so culturally relevant? After Peep's death, Lil Uzi Vert tweeted condolences that read almost as accusatory. He also said that he'd be giving up drugs today, although he'd probably smoke weed tonight.
We Would love 2 stop .....
But Do You Really Care Cause We Been On Xanax All Fucking Year .. .
Rip Buddy I 100% Understand and I Don't Fault U ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;® pic.twitter.com/AYBvQCDcJy
— Uzi London ☄ ® (@LILUZIVERT) November 16, 2017
Speaking to Billboard last month, Vic Mensa, who has had his own experiences with addiction, was asked why he thought drugs were such a prevalent coping mechanism in young artists. "Well, what other coping mechanisms are presented to us?"
"Hip-hop's always been thinking about the mental effects of situations that inform hip-hop," Mensa said. "All the way back to Grandmaster Flash—kind of like, 'Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge / I'm trying not to lose my head.'"
This year it just became "push me to the edge."
Even amid 2017's aggressive wretchedness, Gucci Mane is free and sober and fit and whole and self-actualized, beating both addiction and recidivism. Droptopwop came out in May, and it was his first post-prison project that felt buoyed by that sense of completion—so much so that I thought he'd managed to age in reverse. He and producer Metro Boomin got the best out of each other, and "Finesse the Plug" is deliriously fun proof of that return to form ("I love rifles / and I love white folks, I walk on a tightrope").
His social media presence has been a source of daily affirmation that you are worth the effort of making the changes you need to make, the care that you often deny yourself. It's a far cry from 2013, when he was suggesting on Twitter that Nicki Minaj slept her way into mainstream success. He affected that weird British-adjacent accent before, by the way. It was on 2009's The Cold War: Part 2 (Great Brrritain), which dropped while he was in Fulton County Jail for violating his probation a second time. This year, he could legally visit the places he talked about, and did so with all the clumsy charm you might expect of someone experiencing something for the first time. By "Made It (Outro)" on Mr. Davis, he'd reached full enlightenment.
I act like I forgot but I was once a mental patient
Sittin' still in a cell while my career deteriorated
Now every day I wake up I feel invigorated
Got Rihanna on IG talking about Gucci's transformation
I realize I am experiencing this, Gucci's transformation, through entirely secondary channels. I scroll through his tweets, I laugh at his Instagram Stories, I listen to his music and feel invincible. I also think about how Gucci's success story paints Lil Wayne as a cautionary tale for today's rappers as they trudge the murky territory between entertaining bad habits and succumbing to them, between steering into the skid and spinning out of control.
It was September, I think, when it dawned on me that this should be the Kennedy Center Honors phase of his career. Gucci had just released the third single for Mr. Davis, and Wayne was hospitalized with multiple seizures and had to cancel a show in Las Vegas. These episodes of Wayne's have made the news at least three other times; in 2012, in 2013, and in 2016. Each time the revelation raises the question of whether these seizures are due solely to his epilepsy, or at least in part to codeine abuse, and whether anything could be done about either. It pulls the central tension of consuming Wayne's music back to the forefront, and that makes us uneasy. We don't mind rappers not caring about anything, but we want them to care about themselves. At least enough to keep making the music that helps us feel better.
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Hope is in the air! Now that spring is officially here. I sat myself down with a cup of tea and my daily journal.
For the past several days I have felt unable to put anything down in writing or drawing.
Has that ever happened to you? There is a world in us, and it is vital to open the windows. To take time to rest and wait.
…and surprisingly, It wasn't until I stopped teaching art to paint full time, that I realized that my small daily efforts had produced tangible results.
My strategy was this: I would always keep a journal and a small zipped bag of my favorite portable drawing tools in my pocketbook. I carried this with me at all times. I wrote and drew what I saw and felt, whenever I had a moment.
I ended up counting over 130 journals documenting my life and my growing family. I recorded places, people and events.
helps me to reflect on life. My only expectation? To make a mark that articulates my vision and reactions to the world!
What a treasure this has turned out to be!
Now I need to adapt my journaling method to my life as it stands now. Read my next few posts as I explore alternative ways of approaching journaling now that the previous system isn't working as effectively.
Do you find that you forget to adapt your habits as your life changes?
Do you sometimes feel weighted down by events on the personal or world stage?
Sometimes I forget that each morning when I awake, I can choose to look at the the world and my place in it, from a fresh perspective.
This morning, shaking off the detritus from the day before, I make myself a cup of water with sliced lemon, giving thanks for clean water and lemons. Then I make a cup of green tea, thankful to have that luxury.
Looking up, I suddenly observe winter trees tracing their lines on the cloudy soft patches floating in a cerulean blue sky.
Aha, so this is what I want to share with you today!
On this day celebrating love for each other, let's take the time to observe and honor the clarity and beauty in our world and the people in it. I know you can do it!
I am thankful for you, your support and for your interest in beauty and creativity.
Sending you much love.! Happy Valentine's Day!
Announcing: Uplifting Cloudscapes Right Here In Oyster Bay!
From now through December 15th, when you get your coffee/tea at Southdown, you can also gaze into the clouds!
It is there that Oyster Bay Gallery (at Southdown Coffee), just installed a delightful collection of seven Solarplate etchings that I created last year and printed with at the studio with Master Printer, Dan Welden and his assistant, Andrea Baatz.
Once there you have a unique opportunity to rediscover your imagination as the coffee rejuvenates you. If you prefer tea, try their delicious selection.
The clouds are etching prints made using water, sunshine and water-based ink, to be more environmentally sustainable.
Clouds never fail to fascinate! Seriously, they genuinely are magnificent ever-changing sculptures that appear as gifts for our imaginations and our water.
Speaking of gifts, being able to look at a cloud every day is an excellent gift to yourself or a loved one! A glance at it is as calming as a vacation, every day!
What can you see in the clouds? Tell me on Facebook and Instagram or in a comment below!
I am up early writing again because I had thoughts spilling out of my head.
New ideas are building on the scaffolding of this current exhibit. They are beginning to appear in my consciousness. Focus !
Yes, I know how it feels to have my focus fractured by outside stimuli! What helps me is to relax.
In fact as I tap out these words, I am sipping a tall glass of water with fresh lime and lemon slices. Relaxing.
I also find that it is important to look at something that I love. So I surround myself with quiet, images and views that I love. Many times these are relaxing , and they also can invite critical thinking. This fuels my work.
For these reasons and more, I invite you to see my current exhibit.
The exhibit that "we" opened on Sunday at the Shelter Rock Gallery of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation is incredible! Standing in the middle of my marks made on paper and canvas I engage in conversation and thoughts generated by the images and the lookers, is both humbling and energizing!
There is a myth that artists mainly work alone.
But I have not been working alone. All of your helping hands and interested and generous artists, collectors and friends, have made this quality and amount f work displayed in this lovely venue, possible!
I am thrilled to offer this opportunity to you view this exhibit in person in Manhasset through October 23rd! Just contact me or call (516) 472-2933 to make an appointment with Elaine to see the Gallery. If you are not able to get there and would like to view the complete "seeking refuge series" just tap this link to see it all together!
I love to hear your responses and answer your many questions about my concepts, materials and how to own your favorites to inspire you each day. Just contact me here !
I am excitedly filling my journal with my new barely formed visual ideas! Keep up with my process on Instagram and Facebook in between newsletters!
I am up early writing again, because I had thoughts spilling out of my head. I am recovering from installing the culmination of creating the art pieces for this freshly installed exhibit.
The exhibit that "we" opened on Sunday at the Shelter Rock Gallery of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation is awesome!
Standing in the middle of my marks made on paper and canvas I am engaged in conversation and thoughts with the viewers. It is both humbling and energizing!
I say we because it is so true! There is a myth out there about the solitary artist, but I could not have done this without the help of my team of supportive artists, collectors, and friends, Matt & Ashley, for their tech & marketing guidance,Ann Balderston-Glynn, videographer. I also thank my three wonderful sons who edit, advise and keep me laughing, and of course, my very dear husband, Allen who has makes it his mission to help me get the work out there!
You will want to see the whole exhibit, so call 516-627-6560 or 516-472-2933 to find out when the room is available n the day you want to go. It is occasionally used for events. If you want to see what is there, here is the link!
Think. What Happened When Your Ancestors Sought Refuge?
For me, I am back to "seeking refuge"! Yes, I keep returning to this theme because we all need to find our refuge in this world. Sometimes it is walking and meditating. Also, for me it is in making art!
The oldest of seven children, I grew up with our parents loving the fact that we were part Jamaican, English, French, and Sicilian. I knew I was related to Michael Manley, former president of Jamaica, through a common great grandmother. My Dad and his parents emigrated from Kingston, Jamaica to the United States. Eventually we discovered and met our French cousins, who are descendants of the Vendryes relatives who decided to remain in France seven generations ago.
Both of my Mom's parents bravely emigrated, separately, from Sicily when they were 17 and 25 yeas old. They first met in Sicily and then got married in Little Italy, NYC.
We all keep in touch!
...so that I always perceived being part of a much bigger world than the United States. According to a DNA testing I am 5% West African, a fact that is also supported by family lore and cousins. I thrive in the possibilities of communicating and connecting with people from all different parts of the world..
When I read and see people trying to immigrate to the United States, I am happy for them, because without that, I know I would not be here. In the USA there is an opportunity to be free and to have a voice and a vote in who represents us. It is far from perfect, but it gives us the possibility of living in a government that protects the individual's rights to freedom.
Immigrants must be vetted, of course. They also must be treated with compassion. For we are all related to one another in some way. We are all human beings. We are all, body and spirit, living in this world, together.
I was inspired to explore some of that innate knowledge by creating a visual story. That has been a journey in itself., for me. Yes, That is my Grandpa Henry and my Dad and his brother on either side, shortly after they emigrated from Jamaica.
I would love to hear your story! Tell me in your comment or instagram!
Check out the events link to make sure you get to my solo exhibit and reception on Sunday, September 23rd. Currently, Fresh fruit & vegetable watercolors ar exhibiting at Autentico Restaurant. Come on in and have a look and have an espresso or coffee!
After a hiatus, during which I painted awesome fresh veggies and fruits from Youngs's Farm and also Whole Foods, I am back working in charcoal, pastels, and oils on the "seeking refuge" series.
I spent the day today sitting in front of the drawings, planning color combinations and application with the oil painting. Because I don't use solvents, but love the feel and look of oils, I need to plan my method out to be "alla prima" otherwise known as "direct painting". It is a challenge, but I love working spontaneously with a medium. Putting my heart out there!
It was a little nerve-racking, but I finally began it in the late afternoon.
Soon, I am having an exhibit of about 45 pieces of my work! The opening is on Sunday, September 23 from 1pm - 3pm. Oh yes, that is next month!
I just had to reach out to you a quick note and some juicy fresh watercolors!
to touch base with you about the slight pause in my "seeking refuge" progress., what happened and how I am renegotiating my time and space to continue to work with this unexpected blessing.
The juxtaposition of the two different mediums and subject matter surprisingly invites additional flexibility and creativity in my process and interpretation of each!
each project, using the large studio for oils in one part of the day and my smaller workspace for the smaller watercolor pieces. many times a sudden detour can open up new ways of thinking!
Thoughts, ideas, are always welcome!
Did you ever find that when you focus on something, the universe seems to align in a type of synchronicity to help you expand your experience? It seems, that when I knock, another door opens!
Let me present the scenario.
I was standing in my studio, reflecting upon my first charcoal drawing. I cannot bring myself to put even one mark on the other two blank papers! Typical creative block! I know I must move forward with faith in my original theme, seeking refuge.
So I toned the paper with charcoal while mulling over the quandary of visually expressing compassion.
Then a good friend invited me and my husband to a film at the Arts cinema near us. It was a moment of synchronicity! The title, you ask?
Based on his book. Harold Fernandez, MD, now one of the top cardiac surgeons in the NYC metropolitan area, tells his true story. It is compelling, frightening and heartfelt. He tells of his journey from Colombia to being undocumented in the United States.
For a deep understanding of the refugee experience that is not based on dualism, it is a powerful reminder that each unique human being deserves to be treated with dignity. See it. If not available in your area, contact Patricia Shih .
Each time you reach out your hand in compassion, you are sharing the power of love.
Four blank canvases evoke the heart to respond.
The sun gently awakens me this morning as I begin my work in earnest on compiling my solo exhibit! There will be an opening reception on September 23, 2018. The show will be a collection of work done in recent years. In my newest work I have chosen to deepen my exploration of the refuge theme and am using multiple mediums in the development of this series.
I began by looking at four blank canvases I have in my studio. My head, heart, and hands were in agreement.
I realized I needed to work larger than before and change the medium. I decided to use oil paint for its gestural possibilities, rich depth of color and sensuous qualities.
Seeking Refuge is what I am calling the exhibit, and it operates on a couple of levels.
The current work underway references the 65 million people worldwide fleeing their homes in the world today, trying to find a place where they can live safely.
All of my art references the personal refuge that the process of creating brings to me.
I just want to begin to share my process with you, as I struggle through the daily work of pulling the ideas and images together. It is soul searching and sometimes difficult to see the next step.
I find your support invaluable. Walk with me if you dare, and follow my progress as the series takes form.
You would be amazed at how hard it was for me to pull myself together last week to balance creating with sharing my work, and all of my daily practices. I had been sick and exhausted and so had to allow myself a rest.
I was struggling to accomplish even the smallest thing, Everything was distracting me! I put one foot in front of the other, staying in the now moment. Eventually, I found this article about what to do each day to keep creating and sharing your work.. I put it into action.
In my case, the "doughnut" is first creating the work, documenting and sharing. Reviewing this list each day makes sure I stay on track and consistent.
Follow up on invoiced and customers.
Choose to view shows, openings, exhibits. Schedule.
The next step is to continue organizing my space.
Knowing where to find my supplies and art labeling and updating contacts helps me to work more quickly and with greater focus.
As life changes daily, these little guidelines serve as guideposts to refer to when I lose my way. What do you do to keep yourself on track? I am thrilled to hear suggestions that really work for you!
let the clouds in #953 mixed media ( watercolor, Solarprint, acrylic, Japanese tissue collage 22' x 30"
is not only their appearance but also in the way they recycle and process water on the earth! They also cleanse the air when the raindrops fall.
They really do capture my imagination. So creating Solarplate images by using the sun to develop your image on a light-sensitive coating, and water to wash away the soft film water-soluble ink to print, made sense.
Looking and working on those clouds, made me think about how I could be more ecologically minded in my art. As I began to work on top of my first artist proof (a print that looks different from the original edition), I was using watercolor acrylic along with collaging Japanese rice paper, enlarging the image by breaking through the rectangle!
Suddenly I realize the philosophical importance of the art I am making.
Breaking through resistance does not require violence. When you pay attention to the visual, it can bring forth, metaphorically, another way of perceiving.
❤ Have you ever asked yourself why you are so drawn to something, like the beach or the sun, asking yourself what about it attracts you? I love to hear what breakthrough you have had so comment on Instagram facebook Linked In or in the comment section here!
so quickly that there is barely have time to stop and breathe and have a moment of time with your thoughts and feelings? Do you want to look at life by placing events and media notifications in perspective as you review your unique inner voice?
as I began my search for time-tested, effective ways of encouraging personal quietness as a daily practice. And yes, yoga and meditation are traditions that create space for inner quiet. I have long noticed the natural pauses that occur at specific intervals of the day, and it made me think of an ancient practice in the church, based on hours of the day. The liturgy of the hours is still practiced daily, by many priests as well as people who meditate. From my contemporary perspective, I am making art that identifies activities and appropriate moments in the day that could remind me (and you!) to pause and leave room for inner reflection.
I am working with elements of color shape, form and perspective to communicate the reflective moments. This process has naturally developed into a combination of watercolor, collage with both remnants from recycled paper and clothing. The series has become a layered work, which coincidentally represents the layers of information that bombard us throughout the day.! I am very excited to share these pieces with you!
You may See this new work at Autentico Restaurant, in two weeks! If you haven't done so already, subscribe, so I can send you an invitation to the artsy and delicious opening at Autentico!
When you see my latest work, you may wonder what inspired me to make prints. It happens that when practicing drawing, I looked to Albrecht Dürer as my inspiration.in the 1500's He created incredibly intricate woodcut and engraving prints and was thrilled to make multiples of original art available to more people. I liked that idea, and so began my fascination with printmaking, like etching, and Lithography and also paper-making and bookbinding. I also followed Albrecht Dürer's advice to work in black and white until he could focus on the basics of line, form, shape, and composition.
During graduate school, I realized the dangers of the chemicals I was using in the printmaking process and switched to drawing and painting. I was encouraged to find a more environmentally thoughtful way to make prints by using sunlight, water, and light-sensitive coated steel plates to develop the image instead of acid for etching and chemicals for cleanup!
I am passionate about our beautiful planet and ardent that we must protect water, air, and earth. Clouds are not only beautiful moveable 3-Dimensional ethereal sculptures in the sky. Made of water drops or ice particles, they simultaneously refresh our atmosphere by endlessly recycling our earth's water at the same time.
Printing by hand is such an awesome experience! Every time I pull a print, I feel like I am opening a present! Although now, I have the plates printed, due to an eczema condition, I work with Andrea or Dan Welden to expertly hand wipe each plate and print on Hahnemuhle cotton paper through the rolling pressure of the press.
I love the anticipation, the power of black and white and the significant sustainability of this Solarplate process.
What is the sky like without clouds?
To you, I dedicate this series!
Observe the clouds. Image how it would feel if you didn't ever see them in the sky!
May the beauty of the clouds and the intrinsic healing qualities of water refresh our existence on our beautiful earth!
Share with me a way you find to make a difference and help the earth regain its health?
Earth Day is coming up Saturday, Aprii 22, 2018!
When you see what happens when you "image" or reflect, you will find rich depth in your life.
When you conceive of something in your mind, you are creating some new possibilities !
What channel of "seeing" are you using? I always thought of it as a visual image, but I was speaking with my friend, Peggy the other day, and since she has never had the sense of sight, I asked her how she visualizes or images things. She described remembering experiences of holding animals and remembering experiences by touch.
I also remember the intense fragrance of a small Italian store in little Italy, and the scents of Parmesan cheese and smoked sausages. I never fail to retrieve memories of being carried in the arms of a loving Auntie Jo when I was two,. Tthe visual images of those delicious treats suspended from the ceiling are amazingly preserved in my mind!
When the fragrance wafting by is from a gardenia plant, I visualize my Sicilian grandmother, Marianna who loved and nurtured them...and me! I found refuge in her arms, and have painted my memories of her.
which enabled him to continue to compose long after he became severely deaf.
Musicians, athletes and dancer's image body movements to remember their craft!
If you can begin to image it, you can create it.
That image, sound, touch, smell, dimensional quality gives you the impetus to move forward, providing motivation and expanding the richness of your everyday life experience.
Writers, scientists, mathematicians, architects, dancers, musicians, politicians, parents, teachers doctors, as well as artists begin with an image of what inspires them. You can image with a visual trigger, but also with tactile, hearing, movement, smell, talking to yourself, any sense!
How do you improve your ability to "image"?
You can improve your ability to image by practicing accessing it daily. Practice reading out loud, looking for creative metaphors that allow you to create visuals as you read. Understand with which senses you naturally tend image.
Play at imaging to strengthen your ability to deepen your memories and recognize connections.
Choose to be artist of your life. Be present in the now.
All that you understand on this earth, is discovered through the senses. Today I will just ask you to take note of your ability to observe. Don't judge, just notice what is going on around you.
I can feel the gentle rhythm of my fingers on my laptop and smell the fragrance of the white jasmine flowering plant on my table. I hear the hum of the refrigerator. I taste the green the and that almond cookie. I am seeing the snow melting from our nor'easter and holding an image in my mind off how beautiful it looked in the middle of the night when snow was painting each branch.
Thoughtful perception is important because it will give me source material to draw with focus and integrity.
Why is it important? Picasso, Matisse, Delacroix and van Gogh were passionate about getting the essence of the gesture down on paper. They would practice gazing intently. It is essential that the act of drawing be a process of discovering communicates the veracity of what you observe with all senses. So it is not just an exercise of prowess, but a way to understand what you see more deeply. Scientists, inventors, mathematicians, writers, videographers, all continue to deepen their sense of observation.
I never read that quote before, but I recognize the sentiment because my drawing is a form of communication. In the process of creating, I use the senses of what I see, hear, feel, smell, taste and intuit.
to immerse themselves in the language and place about which they are writing. Scientists have discovered what they do by search by looking and observing patiently to gather subtle information.
Watching, listening, touching, smelling and sensing are all ways of observing what is going on in your life. Your life is your work of art. Embrace that!
How do you improve your ability to observe?
I choose to focus on the ordinary everyday things in my work and delve deeper to find the beauty and truth in them. Every day I see something that I never noticed before!
Choose to be the artist of your life. Be present in the now moment.
Sparks of Genius: 13 thinking tools of creative people. by Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein. Is is linked in the reading section..
Being creative is defined as having the power to bring something into existence.
Creative thinking is a skill that you learn as you grow and try to make sense of the world. It benefits both of us to understand different ways of exploring and visualizing. Specializing in one way of thinking can impede us from understanding the relationships that do exist within a diverse world. Math, science, language, and history. For instance are all ways of understanding the same thing through different prisms or perspectives..
I remember first experiencing this when I was 14.
I loved taking art, enjoyed French, although with some difficulty and disliked the facts and figures of world history. Then one day, I learned about the same historical period in each of these three different classes. Suddenly it dawned on me that I was learning about the politics, the culture and the art of the same period! Then I began to understand the importance of each and how valuable it was to see from all three perspectives with a holistic view.
That one experience opened my mind to see many commonalities in life.
I now regularly see how seemingly divergent ideas can flow together. This causes me to view of the world.in a holistic way.According to research done by Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein in [Sparks of Genius: there are many mathematicians, like Blaise Pascal and scientists like, Einstein, who used intuition and imaging to find solutions to theoretical problems.
I consider making a meal as a work of art in how it is prepared, served and shared. That part was undoubtedly from my mom! Sewing or buying clothes, I look for beautiful, long-lasting organic alternatives. Cleaning supplies usually involve no preservatives or scents and baking soda and vinegar, so that they are sustainably able to tread lightly on our environment.
I carry a journal and packet of watercolor crayons, pencils ink pens and water brushes in my pocketbook. At any time I can access my "portable studio" to work wherever I am. Waiting becomes an opportunity to see more. I now look at my life as a work of art-in-process.
Now, as in creating a piece of art, there are mistakes and hard times. But I learn from working on my art that errors can change my perception to discover opportunities and incentive to make something new. And when I experience tragedies and difficulties in both art and life, they can be transformative, so I end up doing things I never imagined.
I have a few tools that I utilize to keep me on track.
Keep watching for the next few posts as I begin to share them with you!
Categories: art, inspiration, journals, my story Tags: creativity, life.
Every artist has different ways of creating, some are impulsive, and some plan in detail, but there is no one right way.
With that understanding, I share how my ideas come to me, and how I begin to develop them. When I see or read something beautiful, I want to remember it, so I remember and sketch it in one of my journals. Because I use journals, I was attracted to the small books , hand written, painted and bound by monks in medieval times. The were called books of the"hours", so that Franciscan monks and the faithful could carry their prayers throughout the day.
Inspired by the "liturgy of the hours", an ancient monastic tradition, I found myself stopping to appreciate the cadence of pausing for brief times during the day. During this time, I breathe, slowly, listen to something beautiful, leave room for inner reflection, name my blessings or ask for help.
I like the fact that an old tradition can be adapted to recognize our contemporary spirituality. I find it more important than ever to build the scaffolding of my day on the habit of internal reflection that acknowledges the spirit of me. When I do this regularly, I find beauty in the most ordinary moments.
Beauty, to me, is not only about land, sky, and seascapes, nor is it about the perfection of figure or face. It can include humans in dialogue with each other animals or nature, emotions, music, sound, interiors of rooms, recognizing the soul of someone or the invisible energy inherent in a place or an object. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
For me, beauty is also in the rhythmic movement of events during 24 hours and maintaining a sense of balance while navigating through the day.
My interest in the ancient practice of the liturgical hours of the day, practiced by monks has become a structure on which I build a holistic integration of reflection into the daily rhythm of my life.
That is the foundation for my upcoming series of work based on I equivalent moments that resonate in my life in 2018.
Invite creativity into your life!
I used to make artwork… and then store it under my bed!
I didn't know how to get it out of my house and had no room then to store it. I was also shy about showing it to people.
Then when my dear sweet husband challenged me to get all that art out from "under the bed" and share it..
...I started to give it away as a gift and then sell it. I learned a lot from comments and reflections from the recipients.
I began to realize that my work is not only a personal reflection but operates a singular communication of my worldview to the one who gazes upon it. The viewer completes the idea from his unique perspective.
I consciously create work as an investigation of what I am seeing and feeling.
Then the process of creating takes on a life of its own, revealing more than I consciously knew. I share the art with others who complete it, each employing one's unique vision.
What matters to me in making art is the integrity of my marks.
What I make, matters. What I communicate needs to be honestly consistent with my overarching beliefs and actions.
I notice that when I do that, the work surprises me with its open-heartedness lying so close to the surface of the image.
hours/ daily lauds This is a process view of the first of my hours 2018 pieces. I I paint about the opportunities to meditate on the beauty that we see as we journey through each day. This is early in the morning , before rising with the sun.
"Am I revealing too much?", I ask myself?
Do you suspect that you have a unique perspective of the world?
Where have you seen beauty or truth today?
Do you feel an impulse to connect with your creative spirit and share it as I did when I pulled my work out from under my bed?
which is why, In my last few posts, I shared a few of my struggles and decisions to define myself as an artist.
As you know, I happen to paint or draw on paper or canvas.
And I have used what I learn in creating art in other areas of my life. Gradually, I observe that treating my life with the skills and attitudes of an artist has not only transformed my work, but my life as well!
The medium or materials that you use to create can consist of your life and any parts of it that you choose. The "work" of art is the action that you are taking. The material can be anything you can shape, like movement, fabric, words, time, food, cards, care for another person, etc. Your life can be a "work of art"!
I have done a lot of research and continued to develop my idea that you can transform your life by treating it as a work of art. I will share that in later posts.
Bur today, I share one essential skill necessary to approach your life as a work of art.
When you remain open to ideas and people and change, you can see more options and perspectives. And you become more impassioned by your life.
Try being open-hearted. Let me know how it works for you, in the comments below and in facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram below. Keep your eye out for my next posts on creating your life with the attitude of an artist!


Our general surgical department deals with all aspects of surgical management of a patient, from pre-operative evaluation and diagnosis through surgical and non-surgical intervention to post operative care and support.
All operations whether minor or major are performed in appropriately equipped theatres.
Our surgeons have trained extensively in both traditional and laparoscopic (key-hole) surgical techniques, ensuring our patients have the best options available to them.
The department is able to perform a wide array of surgical procedures and implements a number of supportive diagnostic techniques e.g. ultrasound, CT scan, MRI, colonoscopy, gastroscopy and sigmoidoscopy to ensure accurate diagnosis and optimal outcome for the patient.


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Q: Change color of md-card in vue.js I want to create a button which will change the color of md-card after click.
I'm not certain how I should do this. I have idea that here should be variable which is changing after click from false to true and then some function execution but don't know what should be inside.
<template>

    <md-card class="md-primary" md-with-hover >
      <md-ripple>
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color

        </md-card-header>

        <md-card-actions md-alignment="space-between">
          <md-button v-on:click="available = !available">Action</md-button>
        </md-card-actions>
      </md-ripple>
    </md-card>

</template>

A: You can bind a class to a boolean with the following syntax:
v-bind:class="{ availableClassName: available }"
In your example this becomes:

  <md-card v-bind:class="{ availableClassName: available }" class="md-primary" md-with-hover >
    <md-ripple>
      <md-card-header>

color

      </md-card-header>
      <md-card-actions md-alignment="space-between">
        <md-button v-on:click="available = !available">Action</md-button>
      </md-card-actions>
    </md-ripple>
  </md-card>

See the documentation for more details: https://v2.vuejs.org/v2/guide/class-and-style.html

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'Chipotle is my life': Online ordering reduces crowds at Chipotle opening, but fans still celebrate
Makenzie Huber
Elizabeth Schreiner took a half day off work so she could eat at Sioux Falls' newest national chain at Chipotle's grand opening Monday.
While she expected to wait for hours, it only took her five minutes to walk through the in-person line.
"I love Chipotle," she said. "Chipotle is my life. I'm obsessed."
A handful of people waited outside the newly-built Chipotle near the Empire Mall Monday morning, waiting for the fast food chain's to open its doors.
The rest of the people who were waiting for their burritos and free guacamole weren't in the parking lot — several people ordered online earlier in the morning, scheduling to pick up their meals over the lunch hour or later in the day.
But just because the lines weren't clogging city streets within minutes of opening the store at 10:45 a.m. doesn't mean die-hard fans weren't celebrating the chain's arrival in Sioux Falls.
Schreiner lived in Omaha and Minneapolis, two of the closest cities with a Chipotle location to Sioux Falls, and she would eat there regularly.
"I just loved it because it's a good price and the food is better than other restaurants," Schreiner said.
Rich Stevenson was the first vehicle waiting in the restaurant's drive-thru pick up lane or "Chipotlane," where customers pick up their online orders. Stevenson said he ordered and arrived at the location around 9:45 a.m., expecting several people to be there.
"I'm excited," he said. "I could eat here seven days a week."
Masks are required inside and the dining room is closed, though you can order in-person. Pick up and delivery are both available.
Nearly all newly hired Chipotle employees worked on opening day, said Chipotle Field Leader Brian Hexsel, to keep up with demand at the grand opening. The location hired 53 employees and had four managers move up to Sioux Falls from Omaha locations.
The Sioux Falls location is still hiring, said Erin Wolford, senior director for external communications at Chipotle.
"We're overwhelmed by the positive response that we've received by the Sioux Falls community," she said in an emailed statement.


Elephant riding is no longer a popular tourist activity. Facilities offering this service are facing closure all over the world. With an increasing global awareness for the welfare issues and training methods associated with elephant back riding, a drive to end the practice worldwide is gaining momentum.
With the development of global guidelines for animal welfare in tourism by the UK's Travel Industry Association over a hundred international travel companies have pledged to stop promoting elephant rides.
Kleinmond is a small coastal town in the Overberg region of the Western Cape province, in South Africa. It is situated inside a UNESCO declared biosphere about 90 km east of Cape Town between Betty's Bay and Hermanus.
Craig Saunders, shareholder of ELEPHANT VENTURES CC and owner of Lamloch Farm a 450 hectare area of environmentally sensitive land, plans to house elephants in a 20 hectare electrified enclosure in his tourist venture.
Saunders has three other elephant riding facilities at Hartbeespoort Dam, at Hazyview and The Crags near Plettenberg Bay.
South African Tourism has taken a firm position stating: "South African Tourism does not promote or endorse any interactions with wild animals such as petting of cats, interacting with elephants and walking with cheetahs".
We strongly object to the establishment of a facility where wild animals are enclosed unnaturally and exploited for financial gain.
The OVERSTRAND area is naturally beautiful and it attracts a lot of local and foreign visitors. We do not believe that a facility housing wild animals will benefit anyone other than the developer and owner. Facilities such as this face closure all over the world. Humans recognize the fact that wild animals should live in their natural environments without unnecessary human interaction.
Please join us be enlightening the decision makers with the real facts.
GLOBAL MARCH FOR ELEPHANTS AND RHINOS needs your help with "OVERSTRAND MUNICIPALITY AND CAPE NATURE, ELEPHANT RIDES AND ZOOS ARE OUTDATED AND CRUEL PRACTICES OUTDATED PRACTISES?". Join GLOBAL MARCH FOR ELEPHANTS AND RHINOS and 25,295 supporters today.


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Effects of topography, neighboring plants and individual size on sapling growth and survivorship in Machillus thunbergii
Envisaged journal: Yuewei Tong,Wenhua Xiang,Zhengwen Wang等. Effects of topography, neighboring plants and size-dependence of Machillus thunbergii on sapling growth and survivorship[J]. Biodiversity Science, 2013, 21(3): 269-277.
Growth and survivorship of Machillus thunbergii saplings in mountain forest are likely to be affected by topographical factors, biotic interactions with neighbouring plants, and individual size. However, such effects are always species- and site-specific, and may influence how plant species diversity contributes to ecosystem productivity. This study aimed to examine how individual growth and survivorship of Machilus thunbergii saplings are affected by: (1) topographical factors, such as aspect and inclination of slope, (2) species richness and type of neighboring plants, and (3) individual plant size. The experiment was conducted in the framework of BEF-China, a manipulated subtropical forest site in China. A total of 265 plots of 25.82 m× 25.82 m were planted with 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 or 24 different tree species. Each plot contained 400 trees arranged in a rectangular pattern with 1.29 m distance between individuals. In 2010 we added 16 individuals of M. thunbergii to each plot. These 16 individuals were planted in two rows along the western edge of the plots, with each individual in the center of 4 adjacent trees. Height and basal diameter of 1,452 surviving Machilus saplings were measured in June 2011 and 2012. ANOVA and Duncan's multiple comparison tests were used to analyze the effects of both topography and of neighbouring plants, and linear regression was used to test size-dependence of growth. We found that Machilus saplings on shady slopes grew faster and had higher survival rates than those on sunny slopes, while the height increment of Machilus on plots with a mild incline was greater than that on steep slopes. Richness of neighboring plant species had an insignificant effect on Machilus sapling growth and survival rate; while the type of neighbouring species had different effects on Machilus sapling growth, but no effect on survival rate. Deciduous broadleaved species had the greatest effect on growth, followed by a mixture of deciduous and evergreen broadleaved species, followed by evergreen broadleaved species and lastly by evergreen needle leaved species; Machilus sapling growth was positively size-dependent, i.e., larger saplings grew faster. We conclude that, modelling tree growth should simultaneously incorporate topographical factors, species-specific neighborhood interaction and size of individuals, thereby providing a more accurate prediction of forest productivity and development, as well as information that will aid the conservation of endangered species.
Yuewei Tong Walter Durka Markus Fischer Zhengweng Wang
Yuewei Tong
Zhengweng Wang
SP04c Relationship between insect genetic diversity and plant species diversity


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I can very much relate to your experiences. When I first expressed interest in studying gender and sexuality as an undergrad, a (male) professor told me that it was a "woman's field" and that I should study something else. Since then I have heard over and over–as you mentioned in your post–that in today's market you shouldn't be first and foremost a gender/sexuality scholar; you should always be a (insert mainstream field here) scholar who happens to study sexuality within that field. I feel lucky now that my current institution is supporting my choices to study sexuality and that we have some great openly queer faculty. Maybe we'll even see a bit more mainstream acceptance of queer studies in sociology soon. At the very least, the 2015 ASA meeting theme is encouraging!
I'm happy to hear you're in a support place now. I hope you can offer that support to your own students in the future (if you plan to teach).
This was very well-put, and speaks to the combination of frustration and disappointment that is seemingly so common among queer academics. I'm a trans woman who recently had to drop out of a social science PhD program largely due to a few of the personal/professional pressures you describe; as sad as I feel about not having been strong enough to take the kinds of steps you describe at the end of your essay, I'm happy that more people like us have been (and increasingly will be) able to do so.
Ugh, that is heartbreaking to hear. The obstacles are tough, so I hesitate to think your decision to leave (probably in the best interest of your well-being) is a sign of weakness. I can only imagine how many others have leaked out of academia for similar reasons.


Soak up the rays as well as the latest trends in ag communications, social media, and industry news.
No need to worry…there may not be a MidSouth Chapter meeting in April but you can still get your agri-marketing fix with the NAMA Annual Conference April 9-11 in Jacksonville, FL.
There are a fair number of people attending from our chapter so let us know if you would be interested in getting together. Maybe a MidSouth NAMA breakfast or happy hour before dinner? Contact us if you are interested.
Good luck to all MidSouth Best of NAMA entries and don't forget to support our student chapters as they participate in the marketing competition!
The next Chapter Meeting is scheduled for May 8th. More info to follow as the date nears.


The Bulls lost just one game in the playoffs en route to the Finals, where the Bulls held off the Seattle SuperSonics' efforts to overturn a 3-0 deficit, Rodman instrumental with 19 rebounds in the decisive Game 6.
"The chemistry was instant", said Danilo Gallinari ... a comment that was echoed by Doc Rivers in a late-season visit to Madison Square Garden at which he marveled at the way his youth-laden roster had become a solid defensive team with a bunch of players in their early 20s who were great listeners when it came to receiving tutelage from the coaching staff and Sixth Man of the Year shoo-in Lou Williams.
The NBA playoffs are here. Even with the 76ers' star-studded starting lineup, the team still played poorly whenever he was on the bench. "We'll see how it goes", Durant said, as quoted on Real GM.
The Warriors and Rockets are the two best teams in the league, in my opinion. By no means is that his fault, but the fact of the matter is Boston doesn't have time to wait for Hayward to be fully healthy.
The 2018-19 National Basketball Association regular season is closing up within a week, but the victor of Most Valuable Player (MVP) this year remains debatable.
The Golden State Warriors are set to begin their quest for a third straight title, and this time it's up to someone else to try to stop them. The point guard was easily the most important player on the Warriors in the regular season, considering how poorly the team played without him. In the previous three meetings, Orlando has averaged a tick below 113 points per game and took two of the four regular-season contests overall.
Nearly four million people stayed up halfway through the night -and many of them called in sick yesterday as a result. For starters, the wall is now in tatters, decimated by the Night King at the end of Game of Thrones season 7.
With LeBron James sitting out the playoffs for the first time in as long as anyone can remember, the NBA has a problem on its hands: Which team are they going to showcase to a national audience to prevent folks from spending their weekends watching The Masters? It's no accident they finished with the number one defense in the league and will have to instill their will and length to force turnovers and get out in transition.
Oklahoma City will take on the Milwaukee Bucks who possess an NBA-best 60-21 record meaning that a victory is far from assured. Every team in the playoffs has the talent to pull off an upset. That didn't happen a year ago because of an injury, but Irving will get his chance prove himself this time around. Additionally, Russ has always been a tough matchup for Lillard. 13 players reached 50 points in one game, the most in National Basketball Association history. But too often Embiid has had to sit out games due to injury.
The cities of Denver and San Antonio will witness a battle of two well-constructed teams. Also, guys like Sterling Brown and Tony Snell will see extended minutes until Brogdon returns and have shown the ability to step up when called upon.
Add it all up, and the Bucks could get $6,355,572 if they win the title. Butler has had a down year statistically, but he can boost his stock with a strong showing in the playoffs. The Jazz were seeded No. 4 when they won a 4-versus-5 series in 2007 and 2008 - both of those coming against Houston. The Rockets are led by MVP candidate James Harden, who led the league in points per game, and the ever-reliable Chris Paul. The Bucks are a truly elite defensive team that is top this year in team Defensive Rating, Team Rebounding, second in Blocks and were 1st in opponents field goal percentage. It was the last series of Mark Jackson's coaching career. This is the fourth Player of the Month honor for Antetokounmpo this season after he won the award for the months of February, December and October/November.
And now that he's moving better and looking a bit more explosive, Cousins needs to put together a solid performance in the playoffs to prove to teams that he's deserving of a big contract in free agency. Meanwhile, the Warriors remain the favorites out West.
The Leafs' lead didn't last long, as Bruins centre David Krejci netted his first of the playoffs at the 3:30 mark to tie it up. The fourth line produced the first goal of the game, with Trevor Moore finding the net early in the second period.
Coachella , an annual arts and music festival, started in Indio, California on Friday with Childish Gambino as the headliner. Grande also sang Timberlake's parts since he was wrapping up his "Man of the Woods" tour in CT and was unable to attend.
The Mandalorian will arrive on Disney's new streaming service Disney Plus on November 12th, 2019! Plus, it just looks really cool. They met each other at Lucasfilm's Skywalker Ranch while they were working on Iron Man and Clone Wars respectively.
The event is scheduled for May 7th which obviously is the first day of this year's I/O developer conference in Mountain View. The superheroes include Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Nebula, and Okoye that will be accessible through Playground.
Ocasio-Cortez was reacting to criticism by Crenshaw - a retired Navy SEAL who lost an eye fighting al-Qaida - of Muslim Rep. "I actually think that social media poses a public health risk to everybody", she said .
The 5½-year-old daughter of Kanye West even wore her mom's high heels! On her actual birthday, Tristan wrote: "True-ly flawless ". By now, we all know that True's father, Tristan Thompson cheated on Khloe multiple times , and is firmly out of the picture.
Inside at the tax event, Trump railed against the USA immigration system and what he called its "horrible and foolish loopholes". Pelosi said officials will continue to monitor and assess threats against Omar and called on Trump to discourage such behaviour.
In them, enormous plumes of smoke can be seen erupting from the cathedral, with flames leaping up to its bell towers and steeple. The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo , described it as a bad fire and urged people to respect the boundaries set up by fire crews.
Loughlin and Giannulli face up to 40 years in prison each, but federal sentencing guidelines are closer to a five year sentence . Loughlin became known for her role as Aunt Becky in the television sitcom " Full House ".
It added that limited parts of Outlook users' emails may, as a outcome , have been compromised too. Microsoft sent a warning to Outlook users detailing a hack that lasted from January 1 to March 28.
The Philadelphia 76ers will face the Brooklyn Nets in the first round of the NBA Playoffs . I have to treat my body and I take care of it, but I guess the rest is going to follow.
I am sure he wants to prove a point and prove point for us as well. "It's not that long ago and we're one goal better off". Similarly United's chance of winning the Champions League this season has reduced to around 1%.
Following the crash, authorities suspended services at Tenzing Hillary Airport at Lukla, the gateway to Mount Everest . Tenzing Hillary Airport is often referred to as the world's most risky because of the short runway and hard approach.
In addition to that, the report also suggests that iOS 13 may come with features like new multiwindow support for apps for iPad. However, since shaking an iPad looks a bit weird, iOS 13 is said to bring a new standard undo option for iPad users.
The researchers are now planning on culturing the printed hearts in the lab and "teaching them to behave" like hearts, Dvir said. "People have managed to 3D-print the structure of a heart in the past, but not with cells or with blood vessels", he said .
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of demonstrators continue to gather in front of the military headquarters in the capital Khartoum. Previous attempts to break up the sit-in before al-Bashir's ouster last Thursday killed dozens of people.
They talk about Jimmy Butler's incredible yet wasted effort and about the cell phone incident with Joel Embiid and Amir Johnson . If you see the Sixers being dominated every game in this series, then leave him off of your team, but I wouldn't make that bet.
The Oklahoma City Thunder look to level the series against the Portland Trailblazers at the Moda Center in Game 2 on Tuesday. Detroit played without forward Blake Griffin, who has missed five of the last eight games with a sore knee.
While it may seem like a bit much, and maybe it is, it's also not unprecedented for a major sports figure to receive the award. Woods' win, which was his first major title victory since 2008, marked a major career comeback for the 43-year-old.
European prices routinely include value-added taxes and other fees that don't correspond in the United States , though. The device will look almost identical to the current Xbox One S , but without a drive slot.
So click below to read what the average player ratings was out of the Guardian , Sky Sports , Daily Mail and the Mirror . This comes after their impressive 2-0 victory over Champions League-chasing Chelsea .
Tesla stated it only delivered 63,000 vehicles in the quarter, down 31% from the fourth quarter of 2018. The SEC claims Musk violated a settlement with the SEC if he tweeted without the approval of a lawyer.


Woodside senior Nina Pagano created an Instagram account to post her art on, and within a week she had been noticed by Adwoa Aboah, a model who recently graced the cover of British Vogue.
Nina made the art account about two months ago, and since then she has been posting the projects she's working on.
"I decided to make an art account so that I could share all of my art in one collective space to people who appreciate it," says Pagano.
Nina is well-known on campus for her art, winning "The Next Picasso" in the class of 2018's senior polls.
Nina has many different pieces she is working on, including a surfboard she painted for her brother's house, the pen drawings, which got her noticed by Aboah, some work in multimedia with sewing, and a new design called "Train Wreck Barbie" which she eventually wants to make into a sticker.
Pagano made an art account so she could build her audience and find new interest for her art. She says she saw that other artists "progressed greatly" through their online presence and she wanted to "get feedback" on what she has been working on.
The experience gave the account more followers and interest on the platform, but for Pagano, it was more than that.


On June 21st, 2016 the results of the Evaluation of Finland's Development Cooperation Country Strategies and the Country Strategy Modality for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland were presented in Helsinki. Finland introduced results-based country strategies in 2012 to manage its development cooperation in the long-term partner countries. The evaluation was implemented by Mokoro Ltd in partnership with Indufor Oy. This is the biggest and most complex evaluation ever carried out on the Finnish development cooperation. It covered all sectors and aid mechanisms, as well as aid planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting from results-based management perspective during the period 2008-2016. For Indufor, this programme evaluation represents its commitment to provide high quality evaluation services beyond the forestry and natural resource sectors. The performance of forestry sector cooperation and sustainable land use was assessed in Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Nepal and Vietnam.
UPDATE: The overall evaluation synthesis report and the six country reports are now available for download.
The evaluation reveals that Finland's bilateral development cooperation is targeted to matters that are relevant from the perspective of the partner countries and their citizens. The effectiveness of the programs and projects was mainly good and results were achieved in many interventions in the six countries included in the study (Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nepal, Tanzania, Vietnam and Zambia). The good impact was aided by the influence Finland had on decisions and actions made in the target countries and by dialogue with local governments and other development partners and donors.
However, some challenges were identified and the evaluation team recommended improvements to the country strategy modality. Challenges include the operating environment of development cooperation and the risks involved, the capacities in the country teams and low disbursement rate of funds.
Further development of the country strategy modality is recommended. The scope of the bilateral country strategies for development cooperation should be broader, and the modality should be expanded to cover other development policy instruments. This is particularly important in countries, where development cooperation will be gradually replaced by commercial and economic cooperation.
There will be a webinar on the subject on June 30th and the complete evaluation report will be made publicly available by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. More information is provided on the evaluation website.