It's knit with Twisted Fiber Art's Playful, a sport weight superwash wool that has just a little texture and a lot of bounce. It's funny how even with the same fibers, every yarn knits up differently... in this case, each ply is very distinct so you get a nice play of shadows when you choose a semisolid rather than one of the self-striping colourways.
It's official: I'm attending a writing workshop this fall. Yay! It's years since I was able to invest any time in writing (apart from this blog, which takes up a not-insignificant part of each day) so just getting myself to clear enough calendar to apply was a huge victory, and finding out I was accepted is some serious icing.
As it happens I was thinking recently about what on earth I am doing writing this blog at all, something I have to assume occurs to most blog-writers at some point or other. A lot of days, I give up sleep to make space for it. Turns out that apart from meeting nice people and knowing my chemo cap patterns in particular make a difference, it's about the writing - what I lose in time, I gain in contentment.
So, thank you for reading Hugs as often as you do!
The other sock has another band of the cuff colour at the other end of this newest pink and blue bit - I must have picked this one up by accident when I went to take pictures. But trust me: it looks cute. SO CUTE. I can't wait to be done.
Where does the (knitting) time go?
Yesterday I had first-hand experience of the merits of tempered glass when I knocked a tumbler off the counter and into the dishwasher I was unloading.
Broken tempered glass chunks up into cube-y bits as advertised... but it turns out you also get tiny specks and shards of glass too. Yay. I spent over 90 minutes cleaning this up, which is why I may or may not have anything new to show you tomorrow, ahem.
Did I mention I joined the Twisted Fiber Art club again for this fall? I had decided not to, and then for the first time ever there were some spaces left after the first ten minutes, so I guessed it must be a Sign.
I went for roving this round, and chose the earth-toney stream of colours (you get to choose between two for the club, and shop from either stream in the afterwards-market.) It is absolutely stunning but I can't show it to you lest I spoil the surprise for somebody else in the club, which hurts me probably a lot more than it does you.
Take care and I will see you then!
I think the pile of "no progress projects" would be a great thing to see :) Maybe I wouldn't feel so bad about my pile of no progress projects...you know, the ones being neglected for my current blanket knitting obsession. Poor Mama may not have socks for Christmas.
I actually finished my first Christmas gift project yesterday!!! I have 3 others on the needles, 2 of which will take awhile but keep a quick project on so I won't get bored.
Leslie, I was so ready to take all those little knitting bags out for a little photoshoot when I found out I had to dash out the door... and another story clumped me on the head for Friday ;^) but thank you for the positive remark because while putting all of them in one place I found some rescue knitting!
Marianne, you are amazing! And it's not even chilly out yet (here, anyway.) I remember your online class, didn't realize you'd finished those socks - isn't it amazing how great handknit socks feel on? So glad that worked out for you.


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New Church Worthies
Rev. Dr. Jonathan Bayley
MR. GLEN,
And the Introduction of the New Church into America
THIS year is the hundredth since the first tidings of the Second Coming of the Lord were declared in Philadelphia. The opening of the higher truths of His Word, and by their means all things being made new by the Lord, were announced by James Glen in 1784.
The circumstances were interesting and remarkable, and the Hand of Divine Providence may be recognised very plainly, now we look back at the chain of events, and see how the different links were then connected one with the other in a marvellous manner.
Mr. Glen was a Scotch gentleman who had been to purchase an estate in Demarara, British Guiana, South America, in 1783; himself then about 33 years of age, a man of a pious and admirable character, of brilliant intellectual powers, and great learning, especially in the original languages of the Sacred Scriptures.
Having purchased a plantation, Mr. Glen was returning home to make his final arrangements, and was gratified to find in the captain of the ship a highly intelligent companion. They had many interesting conversations, and at length, noticing Mr. Glen was of a free and open disposition, not narrowed by religious prejudices, the captain told him he had a very remarkable book on board, written in Latin, by a very extraordinary man. It was entitled De Coelo et Inferno—the work on Heaven and Hell—which he commended to Mr. Glen's favourable attention.
As he read the work, Mr. Glen became all astonishment, first at the nature of the information the book conveys, and secondly at the goodness of Divine providence which had unexpectedly brought him into so peculiar a situation that, when he had the time to ponder much over Divine things, such a book was offered for his perusal. While sailing on the surface of the great deep of waters beneath him, his eyes were opened to behold an abyss of truths above and around him. Mr. Glen declared he had now arrived at the happiest period of his life, which thus brought to his view the glories of the heavenly state, and the stupendous realities of the eternal world.
Mr. Glen was in London, when he saw the advertisement by Mr. Hindmarsh, announcing a meeting to be commenced in a Chamber of the Inner Temple, near Fleet Street, on Thursday, December 19th, 1783. He went, and was delighted to find the few zealous friends gathered together, who were equally charmed to hear of his gladness at the views of the Divine Truth, of which he had to speak. At the same meeting, the Rev. Joshua Gilpin, a young clergyman of great piety and uncommon ability, was introduced by Mr. Hindmarsh, as a warm receiver, who afterwards became a curate of Fletcher the saintly Vicar of Madeley, and probably introduced to the vicar and Mrs. Fletcher the writings of Swedenborg, which it is certain they in due time learned highly to esteem.
When Mr. Glen returned to America, in 1784, instead of going direct to Demarara, he was led by his zeal for the New Truths to land in Philadelphia, the city named from Brotherly Love, to deliver some lectures on the new views he so highly prized. The place was certainly very appropriately named, since Philadelphia meant the same as John. And John, by his representation among the Apostles, and by his character, was the fit emblem of Brotherly Love. "I, John," said the Apostle, "saw the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven." The Johns are the only ones who can truly and fully see the New Jerusalem descend.
It is to be hoped there were many Johns in Philadelphia, where, it is interesting to notice, the New Church Convention HAS BEEN ASSEMBLED THIS YEAR, after a century of growth; and with a great result, visible and invisible, since the time Mr. Glen first addressed a very small audience there, in Bell's Auction Room, in Third Street, on the Science of Correspondence, in June 1784.
He travelled through various parts of Pensylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky, as a herald doing what he could to make the Truth known; but it was the day of very small things. All seeds are small. Mr. Glen, before leaving England, had packed a box of books, partly at his own expense, and partly contributed by the good-will of others. This box was to come after him, but did not reach Philadelphia until he had left the city. It was, however, taken in by Mr. Bell, in whose room Mr. Glen had lectured, who shortly after died. Mr. Bell's effects were sold, and these books among them. At that time there were already translated into English part of the first volume of the Arcana, done at the expense of Swedenborg himself, in 1750; the Doctrine of Life, translated by Cookworthy, in 1763; the Heaven and Hell, prepared and published by Cookworthy and Hartley, in 1778; and the True Christian Religion, translated by Mr. Clowes, and published in 1781. The Brief Exposition had also been published at this time.
How many of these works were in the box sent to Mr. Glen I am not aware, but at the sale Mr. Bailey, printer to the State of Pensylvania, and one of the deacons of the Presbyterian Church in Pine Street, Philadelphia, bought some, and with his wife was led to read and heartily to embrace the important and sublime truths they contained. Some of the descendants of the Baileys are now active and esteemed members of the church in Philadelphia.
A Miss Barclay, who resided in Mr. Bell's family, a pious and intelligent lady, embraced the doctrines, and united with the rest to form at first a small company for reading the works containing the heavenly doctrines. These were soon joined by others, and Mr. Bailey wrote to Mr. Hindmarsh for more books, which were immediately sent, and some he reprinted and circulated at his own expense.
Judge Young, of Greensburgh, reprinted the True Christian Religion, in 1788, ant the celebrated Dr. Benj. Franklin was one of the subscribers for the book.
Several remarkable visitors or emigrants settled in Philadelphia, about the same time, thus increasing the focus of New Church light and love in the United States.
The Rev. Jacob Duché, head pastor of the Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, had been compelled to leave the city during the War of Independence, and he decided to reside in London until peace was concluded. He was in London Chaplain and Secretary of the Orphan Asylum, and one of the most popular preachers of the day. He received the Heavenly Doctrines, and became a valued friend of Mr. Hartley and Mr. Clowes. He and his family returned to Philadelphia soon after the visit of Mr. Glen, and so added an important element to the little company. Soon after, a greatly valued and excellent clergyman, the Rev. Wm. Hill, who translated the six volumes of the Apocalypse Explained, emigrated to America, and in a short time married the eldest daughter of the Rev. Mr. Duché, who after many years of happy married life returned to this country, and was greatly beloved for her most amiable and Christian character, and as the widow of the Rev. W. Hill. She died in Edinburgh, in December, 1836.
Miss Bailey, in a letter to C. Raquet, Esq., in 1837, ,mentions that about this early time, from the year 1789 to 1794, they were visited by several interesting foreigners, among whom were Col. Julius Van Rohr, a Swede, who had seen Swedenborg and knew his family. He possessed all his writings, theological and philosophical. There was also Mr. Chalmer, or Charing, a Danish gentleman, in some diplomatic capacity, who had also seen Swedenborg, and highly valued his works.
Thus all was arranged by Divine Providence to comfort and strengthen the small flock in the New World, so that the two great branches of the English-speaking people might equally rejoice in the New Light, and extend its radiation by these good works which enable men to glorify their Father in the heavens. From these small beginnings a visible New Church Society was commenced in Philadelphia, and in a short time another in Bedford, in the same state (Pensylvania), to which the excellent Miss Barclay had removed to reside with her brother. Her intelligent and spiritual conversations led to the establishment of a Society, which ever held her memory in tenderest regard. Baltimore preceded Philadelphia in having a distinct place of worship and separate society, for in 1792 the Rev. James Wilmer, of the Church of England, cordially embraced the doctrines and led the way in a regular church.
In the year 1798 two ministers belonging to the Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, having received the principles of the New Jerusalem Church, separated themselves from their former connection, and published their reasons for this step in a vigorous farewell address to the Episcopal Methodists of Baltimore. Their names were Adam Fonerden and John Hargrove.
They addressed their farewell to the Rev. John Harper, resident minister, and the members of the Episcopal Church in Baltimore. The American Methodists have bishops. We extract a portion of their address:
"As a very important change has taken place in our sentiments respecting an article of the Christian creed, which in our view is one of the most essential, and which, if erroneous, of consequence must have its influence upon all other doctrines which flow from it, or are connected with it; and as we already feel that this change will subject us in future to considerable embarrassment, or what is far worse, unfaithfulness in our public ministration and services; we have therefore, after the most solemn and serious consideration of the subject and its consequences, both with respect to the welfare of the church to which until now we have been connected, as well as that of our own souls, come to this conclusion: That it is best for us peaceably and quietly to withdraw ourselves and resign our membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church; that we may more consistently enjoy our present religious sentiments in a state of perfect freedom, and act accordingly. Upon a retrospect of our general conduct amongst you for thirty years past, we trust none of you can find just cause to suspect our sincerity when we declare to you, that no base considerations of any hind have influenced us, but that we do in our hearts believe that it is now required of us to take this unexpected and unpopular step—a step not unattended, on our parts, with much regret."
They proceed further to say: "We conceive it may be consistent with our present duty, calmly and meekly to mention that the leading article in which we differ from you is the doctrine of the Trinity, concerning which we beg leave to say that we think this doctrine as generally apprehended to be neither consistent with, nor reconcileable to Scripture or reason, to wit, that the Trinity in the Godhead consists of three distinct Divine Persons, each of whom separately, and by himself, is very and eternal God. On the contrary, we believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom dwells all the fulness of the Godhead—who is the Everlasting Father as well as the Son, who hath declared that He and the Father are One, and that he that seeth Him seeth the Father—is the true and only God of heaven and earth, and that in Him is a Divine Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: that the Divinity within Him is the Father, the Humanity is the Son, and the Divine Proceeding thence is the Holy Ghost, constituting one adorable and gracious object of Christian worship."
Our space compels us to be brief, but the address was signed Baltimore, June 5th, 1798.—Adam Fonerden, John Hargrove.
Mr. Hargrove now openly preached the new doctrines in a chapel hired for the purpose, in conjunction with Mr. Ralph Mather, a gentleman who had also been a Methodist, and often in England had preached the doctrines in the open air when he became a New Churchman, and now had emigrated and settled in Baltimore. A temple was in a short time erected, and Mr. Hargrove for many years lived to preach the truths he loved with great success.
He appears to have been much esteemed, for on the 26th of December, 1802, he preached at the Capitol in the city of Washington, before the President and Congress, on the leading doctrines of the New Jerusalem. The sermon was printed. In 1804 he preached again before both Houses of Congress, on the Second Coming of Christ and the Last Judgment, which was also published.
In 1816, the first temple was erected in Philadelphia, and a Sunday School commenced, under the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Carll, whom at a later period I saw in this country. The same year a Society was formed in New York, and societies and ministers of various religious bodies who received the welcome light showed themselves in various parts of the States, with wonderful activity and vigour, and soon surrounded themselves with earnest disciples. Church of England ministers, Methodist ministers, Presbyterian ministers, Unitarian ministers dotted all up and down hailed the New Light, and declared their conviction that God is Love, and Jesus Christ is God. Our space will not suffer us to expand upon this attractive theme, but the commencement of the Boston Society, which took place in 1818, and which is related by the Rev. Mr. Carll in the American New Church Repository, for October, 1818, is so intrinsically interesting, and pioneered such important results, that we are sure our readers would not wish us to pass it over:
"Steam Boat, Fulton, August 21st, 1818. My dear Friend and Brother,—At the conclusion of my last I promised you an account of the state of our Society, as well as our proceedings, in the town of Boston. We arrived there on the afternoon of Wednesday, and, as you may well suppose, were most joyfully received by our friends, who, had for some time been expecting us. We went immediately to Dr. M——'s, the only one whose dwelling was known to us, where he received us with his accustomed urbanity and politeness, and soon introduced us to our other friends. The afternoon of Saturday was appointed for the organisation of the Society, the place of meeting Dr. M——'s. The ceremony of organisation was preceded by the baptism of those adults, nine in number, who had never before received that sacred ordinance, as it was considered more orderly to receive this rite previous to signing the articles of faith. The articles of faith of the Lord's New Church, as contained in the Philadelphia Liturgy, were then distinctly read and signed by all present; the whole concluded with a prayer that the Lord would bless what had been thus auspiciously begun, and that the brother who had been appointed by the united voice of the Society as their Leader would be strengthened and supported in the fulfilment of the pleasing duties assigned him. The Society has much reason to rejoice that the Lord has raised up for them a young man of such pious inclinations and promising abilities, to conduct the solemnities of their worship; and the church at large have to hope from his future labours in the Lord's New Vineyard. On Lord's Day a public meeting, which had been previously announced, was held in Boylston Hall, a spacious room, elegantly and conveniently furnished, and calculated to contain about a thousand people. At an early hour the house was filled, and the worship conducted according to the form used in the temple at Philadelphia. The service of the morning was concluded by the celebration of the Holy Supper, of which twenty-six of our own members partook, and several others who were unknown to us. My dear friend, this was a most affecting and interesting spectacle, to behold so many to whom the opportunity had never, with the exception of one or two, been afforded of sitting round a table spread by the Lord Himself, and dedicated to Him alone. The devotions were rendered more solemn by the tones of an excellent organ, which was touched with great taste by a gentleman amateur, who volunteered his services in the morning, and by Dr. Jackson in the afternoon. The two discourses, which were the first of the New Dispensation, avowedly such, ever delivered in Boston, were listened to with much respect and attention by numerous audiences, and there was a manifest desire evinced of hearing more. Indeed, there appears to be a void in the hearts of many here, which nothing but a Redeemer such as the New Church has to declare, an Almighty Saviour, can fill and fully satisfy. In the evening we had a meeting of the members at Dr. M——'s, where, after a farewell sermon and hymn, we parted with those feelings of pain which flow from the separation of hearts united by Christian love and affection, which were mingled, however, with the pleasing assurance that it was only a temporary separation."
The young man who was chosen as Leader was Thomas Worcester, afterwards Dr. Worcester, who was so highly efficient in the Lord's hands in leading the Society onwards to numbers, efficiency, and influence of the most remarkable kind. Boston increased so as at present it has not only the greatest number of members of any New Church Society in the world, but became the mother of twenty other Societies in the State of Massachusetts, of which it is the capital.
Since, that time numbers of earnest and devoted men have laboured with admirable love and energy, Hurdus, Field, Sewall, Reed, Seward, Hibbard, Barrett, Goddard, Giles, and many others, with some little differences in their course of action, but all promoting that knowledge and love of our blessed Lord Jesus, which is to cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Mr. Glen, with whose name we started, came several times to England, and took part in the early movements of the Church here. His name appears at the meetings for commencing a separate organisation, and also at that for establishing the ministry; but he finally settled in Demarara, and was loved and esteemed there until his death, on the 9th of September, 1814, at the age of 64.
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In my wanderings around Second Life I happened upon a performance by one Tom2point0. I really enjoyed his performance, in fact so much so that I even went to his link to listen to more of his music. I found a song about drama which was rather apt since I had just written a piece on what SL would be without drama, and it rather appealed. Take a listen, it is actually really amusing and boy will you hear things that ring true for your second life and probably your real life too.
What's more, as much as I hate to admit this, in my conversation with 'John' (from my article why girls are attracted to bad boys) he said that girls are inclined to throw themselves at musicians; I find I have to agree with him. Although I have not thrown myself at Tom's feet, I did fall a little bit in love with him. His on stage personae is most appealing. He has a great voice, wonderful sense of humour and is rather flirty. I am not surprised he had to write a song about not needing drama.
But I have a way of finding out more about what makes him tick don't I….?
Of course I do. I interview him, nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
What brought you to Second Life Tom?
Tom has been involved with music his whole life, starting as little kid with organ lessons, then trumpet in 4th grade all up through college. He is a music and band teacher in real life so had to learn to play all the instruments. The stringed instruments, aside from guitar, are the ones he is least au fait with. His focus was on concert band instruments, so flutes, clarinets, saxes, trombones... that sort of thing. Aside from that, he has been in garage bands, played the bars and clubs here and there, though now his main focus is as a solo artist and he is hoping to start RL gigs someday.
Who are your role models in the music world, both RL and SL (if any)?
"Elvis, The Beatles, Paul McCartney specifically are all faves of mine. Boyce Avenue and David Choi are both MAJOR influences on my current style of show. The way they perform covers, their arrangements have influenced more than a few of my fan faves. Toby Keith and a group called the Clinton's are also huge influences in that they show you can write an awesome song that's funny and taken seriously and not be labeled a parody or tagged as a Weird Al clone. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just not what I'm going after usually.
How do you handle critics of your music?
What do you think the magic formula is for success in the music business?
"Fun, energetic, exciting, infectious, engaging. Although I suppose those words describe the entirety of the show more than the sound per se, but either way, those are things that I've heard when I've talked with the audience after the show so they work!
What are your plans for the future with regard to your music?
If you are looking for some pure unadulterated fun, then you should take some time out to attend a Tom2point0 performance.


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10 Best Movies of Robert Pattinson
Robert Pattinson's popularity skyrocketed again thanks to The Batman. The film proved to be a critical and commercial success, marking the return of the actor known to many as the handsome vampire in the film Twilight (2008).
What many people don't know is that, since starring in the Twilight series, Robert has struggled to break out of the teen movie star image. He has tried to prove that he really has a talent for acting by participating in a number of small projects, both leading and supporting roles. His hard work seems to have paid off.
Let's review Salenhanh to review the top best movies of Robert Pattinson.
1 Movie Good Time (2017)
2 The Lighthouse (2019)
3 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
4 The Lost City of Z (2016)
5 High Life (2018)
6 The Rover
7 Maps to the Stars
8 The Childhood of a Leader
9 Tenet
10 Batman Movie (Batman)
Movie Good Time (2017)
After appearing in the Twilight series, Pattinson preferred to venture into the world of independent films. In 2017, Pattinson appeared in the A24 studio independent film Good Time. In the film, directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, Pattinson plays Constantine "Connie" Nikas, a saboteur trying to free his mentally ill sister from prison.
Good Time received positive reviews from critics, and even Pattinson's performance became one of the things that made this film a success. No wonder Good Time was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. The interesting fact is that it was Pattinson's appearance at Good Time that made director Matt Reeves certain that Pattinson was the right actor to play the role. Batman in his films.
The Lighthouse (2019)
Pattinson teamed up with Green Goblin actor Willem Dafoe on a movie called Lighthouse. In this film from director Robert Eggers, Pattinson and Dafoe play two lighthouse keepers who go crazy when a storm hits the deserted island where they work. As you can see in the image above, the Lighthouse appears in black and white.
Those of you who like unique movies should of course see The Lighthouse. So special that, this film genre has been debated because it emphasizes elements of horror, psychological thriller, survival to character studies. The gripping story, excellent direction by Eggers, and the excellent collaboration of Pattinson and Dafoe make The Lighthouse definitely not to be missed.
Pattinson actually started his career as an actor through the film Vanity Fair (2004). Unfortunately, the only scene showing Pattinson's appearance was deleted. So Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the first Pattinson movie to actually feature the actor.
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Pattinson plays Cedric Diggory, a Hogwarts student from the house of Hufflepuff who becomes one of Harry Potter's opponents in the Triwizard Tournament. Even before playing Edward Cullen, Pattinson had a handsome and charming character thanks to Cedric. Even though he died in the end, Cedric's appearance in this movie still attracts attention.
In addition to acting with actor Green Goblin, Pattinson has also acted with the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) version of Spider-Man, namely Tom Holland. Pattinson and Holland collaborated on James Gray's The Lost City of Z. This is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name written by David Grann.
The Lost City of Z is about an English explorer named Percy Fawcett, who is sent to Brazil in search of a lost ancient city. Pattinson plays Henry Costin, who is said to be Percy's teammate in the search for the lost city. The Lost City of Z truly has a classic exploration story, stunning visuals, and intricate characters. Unfortunately, the film was not very successful in terms of revenue.
High Life (2018)
Pattinson has also starred in the science fiction film High Life. The film directed by Claire Denis tells the story of a group of criminals sent on a mission to travel through space to a black hole. Pattinson plays Monte, one of the prisoners on a mission.
Director Denis did not initially think of casting Pattinson as the main character in his film. Because he was so interested in this film project, Pattinson never gave up on convincing Denis to cast him in the lead role. High Life has interesting visuals, as well as a challenging and somewhat complicated story.
This fantasy western is set in the Australian outback when the global economy is collapsing. The main character, Eric (Guy Pearce), is a mysterious loner whose car is stolen. This triggers him to hunt down his attacker. Robert plays Reynolds, a young man who becomes part of the bandits. He was later arrested by Eric.
The film follows the strange relationship that forms between Eric and Reynolds. Robert's performance was praised for his contradictory and gray character. This film was one of his first in which he began to diversify his acting certifications.
This movie is a strange satire. He plays plays and parodies the gambles that famous Hollywood stars take, telling about different characters who do bad things to become famous. Robert appears as a struggling actor and limo driver, part of a group of people who put aside their integrity for the sake of fame.
The film was not well received by the audience. However, the majority of critics like it for the way it elevates celebrity culture. Robert plays a significant supporting role as his and others' actions push the protagonist's soul to the brink.
The Childhood of a Leader
Robert Pattinson took the bold step of playing a member of the fascist state. He plays a guy named Charles Marker. The film tells the story of a boy whose innocence continues to erode as he grows up to learn the mentality of the Nazi boss.
Robert also appears as an older version of the boy. As it turned out, Charles Marker was the boy's father. The movie is a dark version of the coming-of-age genre, with the characters spoiling the boy and his journey showing how it happened.
There aren't many films like Tenet that really make the viewer think. Robert Pattinson plays Neil, who handles the unnamed CIA protagonist played by John David Washington. These two characters work together to stop a threat that could wipe out the world.
This film is considered Robert's return to the mainstream. He has previously starred in several smaller projects. This film is typical of Christopher Nolan, where there are more questions than answers. Robert's character in this film is as mysterious as the other films.
Batman Movie (Batman)
Robert Pattinson rejoins the major franchise as Bruce Wayne in The Batman. Batman is the third biggest franchise after Harry Potter and Twilight. The film received good reviews with many critics accepting Robert as the Caped Crusader. This movie tells the story of Batman trying to track down the Riddler.
Batman couldn't compete with Christopher Nolan's Batman movie charts. However, they did bring the Dark Knight back to theaters after 10 years the hero did not appear in a solo film. The dark setting and harsh characters are said to be what makes Batman as terrible as it should be.
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"I'm so tired! Why did I go to bed so late again? Why don't I ever learn that I need to get to bed earlier?!"
"Did I get any comments on my Instagram while I was asleep? Only two likes...I guess people didn't like my post? Or maybe they just didn't care."
"Oh God, I just remembered I have to work late tonight! Ugh! I'm going to be so exhausted! I'll never make it through without coffee! I guess I won't be putting the kids to bed again tonight!"
"I can't believe I ate all those cookies! I have no self control! No wonder my pants are so tight!"
"I have no idea what to say in this meeting and people keep looking at me! They're probably wondering why I'm even in this position. I'm wondering that myself. Sometimes I'm so incompetent! "
"I'm so awkward! Why do all the other moms seem to get along great together and I never know what to say? They must think I'm so weird!"
And on and on it goes all day. We live our lives and the inner-voice (our inner-critic) criticizes, judges, and puts us down every chance it gets. If you're a highly sensitive woman, you can probably relate to the concept of the inner-critic because highly sensitive women tend to be very hard on themselves, perfectionistic, and also very sensitive to perceived judgment from others.
Take some time today to write down some of the thoughts you have that are mean, judgmental, critical, or hurtful toward yourself. You will probably be surprised by the sheer number of negative thoughts you have about yourself as well as what those thoughts are actually saying: things you would never say to your worst enemy, let alone someone you love.
You might argue that though the thoughts aren't nice, they're true or that you won't make any positive changes in your life if you don't think "realistically" about your shortcomings and flaws.
I beg to differ. I've yet to see a woman shame herself into making a positive change in her life. And that's what the inner-critic is: the voice of shame whose core fear is that there is something wrong and unfixable within us, and if it's found out, we will be will be rejected, unloved, or will (metaphorically) cease to exist at all.
Though the inner-critic tries to convince us that it's just reporting the truth to us and that it's helping us to get to the life we want to live, the reality is just the opposite: the inner-critic robs us of living lives that are in integrity with our most authentic, highest selves.
The inner-critic tries to convince us that it's just telling us the truth, that we should feel bad about whatever it's jabbering on about at any given moment, but that's simply not true.
We all have painful feelings in life: fear, anger, sadness, guilt, jealousy, and confusion, just to name a few. Those feelings are normal and an important part of the experience of being human. The inner-critic has the power to extend those feelings outside of the moment they occur to any time and any place in our lives. Thinking about an incident of missing a winning goal in 9th grade soccer can be just as painful in the moment as it is 20 years later as it replays in your mind.
To make matters worse, the inner-critic can cause us to feel pain even on the happiest days of our lives.
For example, the day I graduated from my master's program at NYU, I put on my cap and gown as I got ready to leave for the ceremony only to realize I had ordered the gown too long. It was dragging on the ground and I couldn't walk in it without tripping and so with time running out before I was expected to gather with the rest of the graduates at Lincoln Center, I had to hastily pin it up with safety pins. I immediately felt frumpy and conspicuous in my poorly pinned graduation gown and couldn't stop berating myself for making such a stupid mistake in ordering the wrong length.
The moment I walked on stage to collect my diploma and shake the hands of the highest faculty in my graduate program, I wasn't thinking about the enormity of my achievement, I was thinking about whether the audience could see the safety pins. As I watched other graduates collect their diplomas, I noted that many had gowns that stopped several inches above their ankles and continued to silently obsess and criticize myself for my gown mishap. It got to the point where I realized that I felt jealous of my graduating colleagues who, with correctly sized gowns, could fully enjoy the day.
Though this incident is ridiculous and even comical in retrospect, it is also sad and painful. My graduation ceremony for my master's degree was a moment that should have been filled with pride, joy, and a feeling of great accomplishment. It was the culmination of thirteen years of grade school, four years of college, and two very intense emotionally and academically challenging years of my master's program. And yet here I was obsessing about the length of my graduation gown. My inner-critic had robbed me of a precious moment in my life -- but only because I let it.
I wish I could say that this example is an extreme case but unfortunately, for most women it's the norm. No matter how good our quality of life, no matter how joyful our situation is on paper, all we need to do is listen to our inner-critic for a few second and instantly we're in pain.
Making contact with the moment means being psychologically present: consciously engaging with whatever is happening. Our brains tend to find it very difficult to stay present. What happens most of the time instead is that we get caught up in our thoughts and lose touch with the world around us. Our inner-critic causes us to live in the past with our regrets and painful experiences or in the future with our worries and fears.
We are usually not even aware that this is happening because we are going through our days on mental autopilot, going through the motions of interacting with whatever comes into our world without actually being present with it.
Making contact with the moment means actively engaging with both the world around us and our inner-world with openness, awareness, and non-judgmental presence. When we engage with whatever the present moment is bringing to us without judgment and without trying to change it, we can find peace in any situation and we can operate from a place of trusting that whatever happens, there is nothing we can't handle.
Making peace with your inner-critic means learning to separate yourself from your thoughts, mental images, and memories. This means that instead of getting caught up in your thoughts or even trying to determine if they're true, we step back and watch them go by like people walking down the street in front of our house or leaves floating down a stream.
When we do this, we are able to see our negative thoughts for what they really are: just words and pictures in our minds. This puts the power back in our hands.
Allowing means opening up and making room for all thoughts, feelings, sensations, and urges. The inner-critic's power comes from our judgment of parts of ourselves or our experience as bad, wrong, or unbearable. When we stop struggling against the painful or uncomfortable parts of life, running from them, resisting them, or trying to numb them, we can just let them be with openness and even curiosity.
This doesn't mean we enjoy them or desire them. It just means we accept them so that we can also accept peace into our lives.
In our everyday experience, we tend to forget that our minds are actually made up of two distinct aspects: the thinking self and the observing self. The inner-critic is part of the thinking self: the part of us that is constantly generating thoughts, beliefs, memories, judgments, fantasies, plans, and so on. Think of it like a fire hose of words and images always flooding your brain with information (which may or may not be factual).
Th observing self, on the other hand, is the part of us that is purely aware of whatever we're thinking, feeling, sensing, or doing in any given moment. The observing self is the only part of us that stays constant throughout our lifetime.
Think about it: as you go through life, your body changes, your thoughts,behaviors, and feelings change, but the "you" that's able to observe these things has been there your whole life.
Making peace with your inner-critic requires switching your awareness from your thinking self to your observing self. In doing so, you recognize that your inner-critic is nothing more than words and images, not your true self -- who you really are at a deep, soul level.
Your values are what you deem to be most important in life: the standards of behavior that you believe would be a reflection of living your life as a reflection of your highest, truest self.
Your values are what you want your life to be about, what you want to stand for, and how you want to ideally spend your time here on Earth.
When we sit down and get very clear on our values, we are able to change our behaviors so that they match up with the call of our soul. The words of the inner-critic become less important and less impactful because we are living our lives according to what gives us meaning and fulfillment, not what the voice of fear is demanding or dictating we "should" do.
It's only when we live a life that's in integrity with our values that we begin to find inner-peace and self-love on a full, rich level. When we take action based on our values, we are likely to experience a wide range of thoughts and feelings both pleasant and unpleasant, both pleasurable and painful. It may require us to do things that are uncomfortable or that our inner-critic tells us we can't or shouldn't do because we won't be successful or because we're not good enough or because we don't deserve it.
Taking values-based action means the inner-critic is allowed to say what it wants about our choices (and it will!), but we stand firm in taking action anyway because we love ourselves enough to gift ourselves with a life that is full of meaning and congruence with our life's purpose(s).
Our inner-critics can be demanding, shaming, hostile, and aggressive. They're there because our brains are designed to protect us and keep us safe from anything that might be painful. After all, for our ancestors, doing things that were difficult or outside their comfort zone had the potential to result in catastrophe. Our inner-critic doesn't want to see us hurt. It wants us to keep our walls up so that we can survive. It does so because it loves us in the only way it knows how -- by keeping us playing small in the game of life.
But connecting with your observing mind and your values allows you to live life in a different, more aligned place. Fear can have a voice, but your heart and your values will always be making the decisions.
And now I'd love to hear from you: what tools work for you in making peace with your inner-critic? What have you learned about life with your inner-critic that might help someone else? Feel free to comment below.
The world can feel like a bad place when we're alone with our thoughts.
Our uniqueness can feel like a barrier instead of our most valuable asset, keeping us from feeling connected to the world, the ones we love most, even ourselves.
When we find ourselves unable to get away from a place of feeling hurt or slighted or misunderstood by people, or by life, we start to experience the world in extremes where every sideways glance from a stranger is a direct attack on us, and every political headline is a confirmation that the world we live in is dangerous, unjust, and evil.
In other words, we either see the world through the eyes of an ant, picking apart the tiniest details of our lives to serve as evidence of our negative perceptions, or we see the world through the eyes of an eagle, personalizing the entirety of the world's pain and making it our own.
When we feel stuck, alone, or disconnected, one of the best things we can do for ourselves is to switch our view, and in doing so, switch our mindset.
When we are stuck in ant view, we are in a place where the most minor of disturbances can feel like a monumental devastation. Think of an ant in a rush to get food back to its nest and then coming to a tiny stream. To the ant, the stream will appear to be a massive obstacle to overcome, requiring massive strength and ingenuity to make it to the other side, if making it to the other side is even possible at all.
We feel this way when life is overwhelming. A cold response from a friend that might otherwise be barely a blip on our radar becomes an excruciatingly painful wound to be picked at and analyzed over and over in a futile search for relief. We dissect the minutia of our day looking for evidence to support the fact that our lives are unfair, painful, and just plain hard.
Now think of that same tiny stream from the viewpoint of an eagle flying high above the trees. The stream may not be registered at all to the eagle, or if it is, it's in the context of whether it holds anything of value, such as a fish.
Similarly, when we can step outside ourselves and look at a painful situation from a distance, we get to a place where we can start to find comfort and connection, and ultimately, peace.
So the cold response from the friend becomes much less about what you may or may not have done wrong and much more about remembering that you chose the people in your life for a reason, that people's moods and behaviors usually have nothing to do with you and everything to do with what's going on in their own heads, and that if your friend has a personal issue with you, you can trust them to communicate that to you. Otherwise you have no choice but to conclude that all is well.
Conversely, sometimes it is better to take the ant view. When the world feels chaotic, dangerous, full of one man-made or natural atrocity after another, it helps to take a step away from our social media feeds or TVs and instead take a closer look at the world we have build for ourselves.
There are good loving people everywhere because we are all born good and loving at our core. It's very likely that you encounter people who express their goodness and capacity for love to you on a daily basis, and who give you that love freely and unconditionally in return.
Letting ourselves off the hook, even for a short while, from taking on the world's pain and suffering isn't selfish. If we want the world we live in to be a loving peaceful one, we have to live in the world with full acknowledgement and appreciation for the love and peace that already exist.
You can always return back to ant or eagle view at any time, but the change in perspective will likely be valuable to you upon your return. The world's problems and our own struggles are valid and important. But somewhere in between, we can find peace, if only for a moment.
And this moment is really all there is.
If you'd like to work with me on changing perspective, please email me at amy@amybethacker.com, call 973-769-2401, or click here.
For many, life can seem like a constant see-saw between feeling extreme gratitude and appreciation for what we have and fearing the unknown.
It's hard to let ourselves experience fully the good in life when we're constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop.
When will it all be taken away from me, we wonder.
Can I allow myself to let my guard down knowing that nothing lasts forever?
Hard things will happen. Anyone who has been alive for any amount of time knows that much.
But think about something that is precious to you right now in your life. Something with indescribable value in your heart (a degree, a loved one, a sense of peace, for example). Chances are you went though at least some fear, pain, or inner-turmoil to have it. You wouldn't have it if you hadn't. Maybe you went toward this thing with the knowledge that it would be hard-earned but worth it.
Or maybe it came seemingly from nowhere, an unwanted, unwelcome trespasser in your life that stretched you and grew you in ways you never would have chosen on your own.
Sometimes the fear leads us to more asking in our lives, and the asking leads to growing, and the growing leads to love. Or peace. Or joy. Or mastery. Or all of the above.
"But!" We say, "What about the people who had something unexpected happen and it didn't lead to growth, it led to the loss of a loved one, the loss of health, the loss of livelihood? That could be me too. We don't know that it will always work out for the best."
But the truth is we also don't know that it always won't. And we can't judge the journey of another person before it's over, especially from our vantage point. We can make assumptions and draw conclusions, but we really have no way of knowing what is true for someone else.
Most people are looking for the same things in life: expansion and growth. Peace, joy, and a sense of inner and outer love. They want to live with authenticity, integrity, and sovereignty. We can't judge the paths that get them there.
We can only reflect on our own path and see that things are ultimately always working out for us.
Look back on your own life and see the truth of that statement. Maybe the difference between devastation and abundance in life is nothing more than perception.
If you would like to talk more about the connection between fear and growth in your own life, call me at (973) 769-2401 or email amy@amybethacker.com or simply click here.
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9 Signs of a Highly Sensitive Woman: Do You See Yourself In This List?
"You're too sensitive. Lighten up."
"You always take things the wrong way!"
"Why can't you go with the flow?"
My main goal in working with highly sensitive women is to help them realize they aren't terrible people or tragically flawed. They are simply part of the 15-20% of the population who are genetically predisposed to be more aware of and affected by subtleties in their environment, inclined toward deep reflection and rich inner-experience, and more easily overwhelmed by what's going on around them.
Being highly sensitive is not a personality flaw or a choice. It's in fact a genetically inherited way that the nervous system functions and it affects everything from the most important relationships to how much coffee it takes to become completely wired.
In a world where being outgoing, attractive, easy going, and open to new experiences is considered to be the most desirable of traits for women, highly sensitive women often feel shamed and isolated by their sensitivity.
Are You a Highly Sensitive Woman?
Extremely in-tune and aware of the details and subltleties in her environment, especially those that affect the senses such as the smell of someone's perfume, the sound of a coworker crunching on carrots, or a minor shift in light or temperature in the room.
Easily overwhelmed by a lot going on around you.
Easily affected by other people's moods or energy.
Feel re-energized by withdrawing or isolating yourself when you feel overly stimulated.
Worry about making mistakes, being less than perfect, or forgetting things.
Seen as sensitive or shy as a child.
You love to research, think about options, and reflect.
Physically sensitive to things like medication, changes in diet, caffeine, or alcohol.
Being highly sensitive can make you feel like you're completely different than everyone around you, or that you'll never be understood -- by yourself or others. The truth, however, is that being overstimulated doesn't feel good for anyone.
Unrelenting loud noises, impossibly hot rooms or unruly crowds can make anyone feel uncomfortable.
Highly sensitive people just have a different threshold for where that point of discomfort begins.
All people take measures all day every day to maintain a comfortable level of input from the world around us.
We pick up our phones to decrease boredom. We end a conversation when it becomes too upsetting. We take a scratchy sweater off to decrease physical discomfort. We eat ice cream to feel the pleasure of coolness and sweetness in our mouths.
Though being a highly sensitive woman can be seen as a negative thing -- especially in today's culture which values hyper-masculinity, rationality, and logic -- being highly sensitive can actually be a huge strength and asset.
Highly sensitive women will fight for what they believe in. They are generally aware of and concerned with issues such as social justice, the environment, and human rights. They want to make the world a better place and put out ideas to make it happen.
They generally make choices and take action based on creativity, imagination, and conviction.
They tend to have a talent for sensitive language and making others feel safe and loved.
Because they like to look at all angles of an issue, they are insightful, able to see the connections between seemingly unconnected things, and able to get to the heart of the matter.
Highly sensitive women are like orchids: they can bloom with incredible complexity and beauty given the right conditions.
If you're a highly sensitive woman, it's crucial to create an environment that works for you and allows you to feel and be your best self.
Learn what makes you feel overstimulated and then take steps to avoid it when possible.
Practice saying no without guilt to events or situations that you know are going to be too much for you. If your friend invites you to a bar and you know it's going to be loud and crowded, suggest another way to spend time together, like going out for coffee or meeting at your house, and let go of the obligation to be all things to all people.
Learn to recover from overstimulation when it's over.
Sometimes overstimulation is unavoidable. If your baby is crying, you're going to stop what you're doing and figure out what's wrong. This may result in minutes or hours of screaming directly in your ear.
When that's over, have a plan already in place to decompress. That may mean sitting alone in a quiet room for a few minutes or calling a friend to vent or watching an episode of your favorite TV show.
Whatever works for you is fine, just know what it is and be ready to go and do it as soon as possible.
Get information about your sensitivity.
Most highly sensitive women love information, and love to understand themselves more fully and deeply.
Books like The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive In a World That Overwhelms You by Elaine Aaron and Quiet: The Power of Introverts In a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain are great places to start.
Talk to friends or family who are sensitive like you, and if you don't know any, look for Facebook groups or even hashtags that will connect you with like-minded women.
Look at your past with an understanding of your sensitivity.
That time you exploded at your partner at the mall: was it because you were being unreasonable or was it because you had been surround by noisy strangers for hours?
That time your teacher called you shy in front of the class: was it because you really didn't like talking to people or was it just that you preferred to spend your energy talking to people you felt a true connection with?
Counseling can help you look at your past actions with fresh eyes and a deeper, more compassionate understanding of who you are.
Increase your sensitivity to your own needs and dial down your sensitivity to others.
Remember that our society tends to praise sensitivity in women mainly when it leads to "unselfishly" caring for others. But caring for others all the time while putting your needs second or even last will ultimately end in resentment or burn-out, and then you're of no help to anyone.
Be selective in who you give your time, energy, and attention to. Don't waste it on office gossip or your overbearing mother in law and then have nothing left for the people you really value, or even worse yourself!
While it generally brings highly sensitive women great relief to understand and define their way of experiencing the world, understanding is no substitute for therapy in identifying and healing the wounds that can come with it. Highly sensitive women can be at higher risk for depression, anxiety, and trauma due to the intensity that they experience both positive and negative events and emotions in their lives.
If you suspect this might be the case for you, email me at amy@amybethacker.com or call 973-769-2401 to set up a free phone consultation.
1. Realize that you are never going to feel peace when you are in the mindset of needing to justify yourself to someone else.
2. Remember that someone else's opinion of you is never personal. They're just treating you as they would anyone who represents whatever it is you happen to represent to them.
3. Be okay with the fact that not everyone will see you for who you authentically are, and you don't need to spend time worrying about it. Don't waste valuable time and energy explaining yourself to someone who is never going to get it.
4. Use your feelings to guide you to a place of balance. Luckily, unlike the opinions of someone else, our feelings are one thing we can actually control.
If you're looking to feel joy and inner peace, focusing on the part of your life that you're not happy with is never going to help you to reach that goal - no matter how justified you are.
5. Use your thoughts to guide your feelings. Many people think that when they feel better, their thinking about the situation will improve, but the opposite is actually true: your thoughts create your emotions. This is good news because it means you have the power to improve your situation all the time - it's all a matter of focus.
6. Look at the situation and see if there is any room for gratitude and appreciation. You might not like most of it, but is there any part that is positive? Focusing on the positive aspects doesn't mean you're ignoring the negative. It just means you're choosing peace in the moment!
My latest article, What it Means to be a Wild and Free Woman appears in Emerging Women.
In this article, I discuss how a state of living out of alignment with our true nature can lead to feelings of being stuck, closed off, and out of control.
You will learn what it means to live within your true nature as a woman and how to live with more creativity, meaning, and authenticity.
If you would like to learn more about working with me to live with more creativity, meaning, and authenticity, call or text 973.769.2401 or email amy@amybethacker.com to set up a free phone consultation.
As 2016 comes to a close, I am taking some time to take stock of the year and to set my intentions for the new one.
For me, resolutions feel a bit arbitrary and simplistic. I can decide that I want to meditate every day or that I want to publish a certain number of articles, but the question of whether these things will actually make me happy still lurks in the background.
Instead, I like to use the end of the year as a time of reflection and intention setting.
I see intentions as being more about how I want to feel and who I want to be, as opposed to what I want to do or achieve.
What worked for me this year?
What attitudes, beliefs and mindsets helped me to live my life with greater intention and in greater alignment with my core values? This is the time for me to celebrate and appreciate all that has gone right.
For me, this includes having a consistent morning practice, getting very clear about what I want my life to look like vs what I believe it should look like, journaling to my intuition whenever I'm not sure about a decision, and spending a lot of time in nature.
What didn't work this year?
Where did I stray from intention and love by following fear or chasing perfection? What mindsets didn't serve me? This is my time to reflect on lessons learned and carry those lessons with me into the next year.
For me, this includes falling prey to others' ideas of what my life should look or feel like, staying in a place of overwhelment instead of moving to gratitude -- especially during some big life transitions that took place this year -- and falling away from my morning routine when I'm stressed.
What lessons did I learn from what did and didn't work this year?
I learned to be careful in discerning whether I'm following someone else's dream or my own. It's easy to believe that because a certain path worked for someone else, it will work for us. Unfortunately, it's rarely ever that easy.
This year, it really hit home that for me, following someone else's path will always lead to frustration and overwhelm.
I learned that it is crucial to continually work on loving all parts of myself -- event the parts that I believe "need work."
I need to remember that the truth is we are all born whole, perfect and complete and unless I love all parts of myself AS IS, I am denying the truth about myself.
I learned that self care is a spiritual practice for me. It helps me connect to my innermost self: my soul. And in doing so, I connect to all of humanity and all of the universe.
I learned that movement is essential in all areas of my life. This includes physical movement, of course, but also creative movement.
I realized that I really don't feel like myself unless I'm creating something at all times.
This can be something tangible like a new article or blog post or a watercolor painting done in conjunction with my five-year-old, or it can be something a bit more amorphous like a subtle shift in mindset.
I am a creative person, and I don't feel whole unless I have creativity in my life in some form on a daily basis.
Finally, I learned that challenges are opportunities to grow -- not obligations and not burdens. Change is inevitable and pain is often inevitable in life as well. Suffering, however, is always optional.
Luckily, the choice is always mine.
The most important part of my new year's journaling is to reflect on what an intentional life will look like for me in the next year. Naturally, this is something that is constantly evolving, but getting it down on paper before the year starts gives me a fresh jumping-off point to consider what it is I really want in this moment in my life.
An intentional life would mean loving myself, being connected with God [my word for the concepts of love, peace, and intuition], and living life by the direction of my most deeply held values.
It would mean feeling good physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
To practice love with myself, my family, and everyone I come in contact with throughout my days.
To never let myself get to a place where I don't feel free -- something that only happens when I'm not operating from my intuitive nature.
To get rid of all the "shoulds" that come from fear.
To continue to find ways to serve others with joy.
To be present with my family and to slow down by only doing the things that are truly meaningful to me.
To be in a constant state of freedom, joy, love and unrelenting peace and to continue to loosen my grip on perfection and fear.
What will your best year look like? More importantly how will it feel? How can you carry with you and honor all the lessons learned in 2016 and continue to build upon your personal growth and expansion? I invite you to reflect on these questions in the coming weeks and create with intention your best year yet!
PS- If you are interested in working with me to dive deep into your intentional life in the new year, I'd love talk! Call me at 973-769-2401, email amy@amybethacker.com or simply fill out the form here for a free consultation.
Have you seen my latest articles in Hey Sigmund and Tiny Buddha?
and simple ways to practice self-compassion in everyday life.
In How We Can Stop Judging Others and Ourselves, I talk about the lesson in self-compassion I learned in line at the grocery store with my kids. I also discuss how to look at a situation with love when you are feeling anything but loving toward yourself or the other person, and the simple way to re-frame your mindset no matter what the situation.
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Our intuitions are our birthright.
Intuition is a gift we carry with us all our lives. Though we sometimes lose touch with it, we can never be completely cut off from it.
Our lives are proof of its existence. Our existence is a mirror reflection of its.
When we are connected to our intuition, we are inspired, creative, we know what we must do next (not should do next).
When we are separated, we feel stuck, alone, directionless.
Intuition is a part of ourselves that we can develop a relationship with over time, at any time.
As we hone that relationship, we learn to trust ourselves. We develop a deep, inner knowing about when to hold on and when to walk away, when to speak out and when to keep our boundaries.
In other words, we own what we are and what we are is whole.
When we are out of touch with our intuition, we are cut off from our natural instincts: the ones handed down to us by generations upon generations of women.
This happens when we become consumed by a culture that values the end result, not the journey; the rational mind over the emotional, the liner over the cyclical.
And yet we can never be fully cut off.
Your intuition is the voice that says "this way" or "turn in the other direction and run!"
It is the voice that urges you forward when you think you have nothing left to give.
Our intuition comes from both the past and the future to find us now, here in this moment and to quietly urge us to a new frontier of love, joy, peace, and freedom.
Perfectionists believe that there is no such thing as "good enough." There is either "fail" or "don't fail." Perfectionists never feel successful because there is always more to be done, more to be improved, more to "fix". In my latest article, out today in PsychCentral, I discuss the warning signs of perfectionism and how to fix them.
🔺How to let go of judging yourself and others with compassion and grace.
🔺Why perfectionists often feel disconnected from their feelings and how to get connected on a day to day, moment to moment basis.
🔺Why perfectionists tend to have an all or nothing mentality and how to start living in life's gray areas.
Amy, I want a free consultation!
Thrilled to have my first article on The Daily Positive: Why Mothers Don't Have to be Perfect!
This article is all about what happens when we try to be perfect as mothers: we lose ourselves and our children lose us. In it, I discuss the dangers of being too perfect and what to do instead.


Businesses which transport goods, materials and wastes need to take a range of steps to ensure that materials aren't damaged in transit and that any health, safety and environmental risks are minimised.
There are specific legal duties you must comply with if you transport hazardous goods and certain other items, including food, animals and wastes.
This guide sets out some key steps for reducing the risks involved in transporting goods and materials. It also explains your legal responsibilities when you're transporting dangerous or hazardous materials.


Abstract Background Thalassemia is common in the Iranian population, and it must be considered in the differential diagnosis of the microcytic hypochromic anemia. The molecular analysis of β-thalassemia is necessary for prenatal molecular diagnosis. Α-thalassemia caused by loss of function of either one of the two duplicated α-globin genes or in less frequent non deletion mutations mostly located in the α2-globin gene. Materials and Methods DNA were extracted from 100 whole blood using salting out method. The PCR was performed in two segments for entire β-globin gene and the α1 and α2-globin genes separately. Direct sequencing was carried out. The Gap-PCR was performed using published primers. Results Clinical application of DNA analysis on thalassemic patients showed 42 persons have various β-thalassemia mutations, 48 persons with αα/-α3.7 deletion and 8 persons with non deletion mutations of α1 and α2-globin genes. These mutations determined by direct sequencing of entire β-globin, α1 and α2-globin genes and Gap-PCR for detection of deletions. Thirteen different β-thalassemia alleles were identified, the most common being IVS I-5(G>C) and CAP+1 (A>C). The most α –globin mutation being αα/-α3.7 deletion. Conclusions The frequency of mutations in North-east of Iran shows that these mutations are not the same as frequent mutation in other province of Iran. Feature study could determine molecular analysis of frequent mutations, which is useful for differentiating mild from severe alleles. In addition, mutation definition in carriers should be necessary for prenatal testing and genetic counseling.


You create a MobiLink user in the remote database and register it in the consolidated database.
For SQL Anywhere remote databases, use Sybase Central or the CREATE SYNCHRONIZATION USER statement.
For UltraLite remote databases, you set the User Name and Password synchronization parameters.
See User Name synchronization parameter and Password synchronization parameter.
Implement a script for the authenticate_user or authenticate_user_hashed events. When either of these scripts are invoked, the MobiLink server automatically adds users that successfully authenticate.
See authenticate_user connection event or authenticate_user_hashed connection event.
Specify the -zu+ command line option with mlsrv12. In this case, any existing MobiLink users that have not been added to the consolidated database are added when they first synchronize. This option is useful during development but is not recommended for deployed applications.


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25 Years of Success – Outokumpu Stainless DC Plasma Smelting Facility
Design is not just what it looks and feels like. Design is how it works.
Between 1982 and 1987, British Steel (Outokumpu today) made extensive investigations into the treatment of steel dust. Their research was far and wide and covered off many various methods of recycling, including alternative to plasma technologies. But, in 1985, they engaged Tetronics International to carry out a series of consultancy programmes on a plasma solution for the recovery of chromium, nickel and molybdenum from fine airborne dusts generated in the production of stainless steels. Until this time, these dusts were disposed of in landfill sites, leading to potential problems of leaching of heavy metals to ground water, including lead, cadmium and hexavalent chrome.
Our consultancy programme, helped British Steel's decision to go for a plasma arc smelting system. The key findings included:
a) The plasma furnace was able to treat a wide range of waste materials from the melting unit, including from the EAF, AOD unit and various cutting and rolling residues.
b) The energy input to the furnace is independent of the atmosphere and processing conditions.
c) The totally sealed furnace allowed the processing conditions to be controlled very closely for optimum recovery of valuable metals.
d) The high energy density resulted in high processing rates and a small furnace size.
e) The capital and operating costs were lower than competing technologies. Advice and engineering helped British Steel make a series of decisions to install a Tetronics DC plasma arc smelting unit feeding it into their AC EAF unit at the smelting shop in Sheffield, usually referred to as SMACC.
In 1987, Tetronics International were briefed by British Steel to develop a new plasma approach that could ensure British Steel complied with increasingly tough environmental regulations and offered opportunity to recover as much economic value from these difficult wastes a possible.
Celebrating 25 years of success
In 1991, we began working in the SMACC melting shop which produced around 355,000 tons per annum (tpa) of liquid steel using an AC electric arc furnace (EAF) and an argon-oxygen decarburisation (AOD) unit, for continuous casting into slabs, billets or blooms. On July 1st 1991, we pressed the go button on the Tetronics Plasma Arc programme with the objective of collecting around 8,000 tpa of steelmaking fume and dust using the extraction/recovery system from the baghouse filters.
The DC plasma arc smelting unit was positioned in a self-contained facility, housed in its own building and comprising raw materials storage and feeding equipment, a plasma furnace, associated services and utilities (gas, water, plasma power, low voltage power, etc.), metal and slag handling equipment, off-gas abatement systems and plant control room. The plasma furnace consists of a cylindrical steel shell, with water cooling to the roof and upper side walls, air cooled base, a conductive hearth and lined with a bricked refractory lining. The 7,000 Amp, 2 MW plasma arc is provided by a single graphite electrode, acting as the cathode, with the conductive hearth acting as the anode.
A mixture of dust, carbon (usually in the form of coke or anthracite) and burnt lime (CaO) are fed into the furnace, where the carbon acts as a reductant to recover the valuable steel-making metals (iron, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, etc.) as a ferroalloy. Volatile heavy metals including zinc, cadmium, lead etc. are driven into the off-gas system and collected as a dust for resale to zinc smelters, whilst other heavy metals are incorporated into a low-leaching slag product. This safe and inert slag is then used for making road stone.
This dust has been treated in the Tetronics DC plasma arc smelting unit continuously since the plant's installation in 1991 and continues to provide a valuable service to what is now the Outokumpu Stainless Steel plant.
Over its period of operation, approximately $100 million of value has been recovered and realised by the DC plasma smelting unit from stainless steel dusts, scales and other materials.
One comment on "25 Years of Success – Outokumpu Stainless DC Plasma Smelting Facility"
wow fantastic just what Australia needs to value add to our extraction industries.
phillip Carlon on September 1st, 2016 at 10:23 pm


The former Dnipro Chemical Plant, with Kamianske in the distance. Photo courtesy of the author. All rights reserved.
Borys Petelin, a former worker at the now-closed Dnipro Chemical Plant in Kamianske, believes that the roughly 40 million tonnes of radioactive waste stored here pose a significant danger not only for the city, but also for the Dnipro river that runs through it.
Located to the south of the 240,000-strong city, this plant was one of the biggest uranium ore processing sites in the Soviet Union's nuclear industry. Coming up to the plant, Petelin guides me to an area surrounded by barbed wire. There's small signs dotted about here, warning those who approach of radiation: the former chemical plant is home to nine tailings dumps that store radioactive waste. My guide suggests that some of the oldest dumps may not be separated from the soil at all, potentially polluting the local water as a result. Recent research confirms that radionuclides have leaked into the soil and water, and that they are a source of radioactive dust. Official state documents also confirm this.
Over the past ten years, work by Ukrainian researchers has shown that these landfills are in bad shape. But while the European Commission has launched a technical assistance project to isolate the most dangerous sites and assist with monitoring, the Ukrainian authorities seem reluctant to change the situation.
After the Second World War, the Soviet Union was looking for uranium necessary to produce its first nuclear bombs. The city of Kamianske (Dniprodzerzhynsk at the time) was selected as a site for a new secret plant, which was designed to enrich uranium and prepare yellowcake, the uranium concentrate powder that is an intermediate product of processing uranium ore.
From 1947 to 1972, Factory No. 906 was the biggest producer of yellowcake in the Soviet Union. In its heyday, the factory reprocessed 65% of all uranium ore recycled inside the USSR.
At the outskirts of the Dnipro Chemical Plant; people's homes are located some 200-300 m from radioactive territory. Signs warn about radioactive threat. Photo courtesy of the author. All rights reserved.
In 1999, the territory of the plant was divided into several parts. A new state enterprise, GP Barrier, was created under the supervision of Ukraine's Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry to carry out oversight and control of the contaminated sites and buildings. Other territories were handed over to state and private chemical companies. As a legal entity, Dnipro Chemical Plant was liquidated in 2007. The plant was declared bankrupt and its property exhibited for auction.
Waste, called pulp, is now stored in nine open-air dumping sites, or tailings: West, Central Gully, South-Eastern, Dniprovske ("D"), Sukhachivka (sections 1 and 2), Base "C", Lanthanum fraction, and #6.
Some radioactive waste, together with poisonous chemicals, was poured directly into these sites, former clay mines. Overall, they contain almost 40 million tonnes of powder-like radioactive waste. To compare, Chernobyl Reactor No. 4 contains considerably less waste, 2.5 million tonnes. At Chernobyl, the total activity of radionuclides, which produce ionising radiation, is less than two thirds of radioactive activity found at all the tailing sites at the Dnipro Chemical Plant combined. This forms a permanent source of radioactive contamination on the plant's territory, the city of Kamianske, and also to ground and open water sources. In 2015, researchers at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Environmental Problems found that those tailings emit both dust and radon, a radioactive, odourless and tasteless gas.
Approximately 250,000 square metres of territory around the plant are contaminated with radionuclides. The railway network stretching from the Zhovti Vody uranium mine to Kamianske's local system is also contaminated with radioactive elements: uranium ore was usually transported by rail in open carriages.
Local journalist Valentyn Figol believes that the drying out of these tailings poses the most significant risk. "Some of the tailings were covered by water. It prevented the pulp from drying out. But today the tailings are starting to dry out," Figol said in an interview in Kamianske, referring to the possibility that the resulting dust could be transported by wind.
At the entrance to the administrative office of GP Barrier. Photo courtesy of the author. All rights reserved.
Ihor Khlivnyi, director of GP Barrier, believes the situation at the former plant is not critical. He explains that at Sukhachivka, one of the tailings sites, waste was not dumped directly onto the land. On the contrary, the site was prepared: the ground was covered by a few layers of sand and an artificial cover that protects soil and water. Since solar rays destroy the artificial protective cover, water should cover the tailing. After the plant was closed in the 1990s, the water-supply system that channeled water to the tailing sites fell into disrepair. Yuri Korovin, a former director of the plant, recalled that 16km of pipes have been stolen.
The Sukhachivka tailing is also covered with a layer of phosphogypsum, according to Khlivnyi. This fertiliser byproduct, which is produced by a nearby chemical plant, is regularly used to cover the tailing site as part of an agreement between the two companies. "This is how we substitute for water," Khlivnyi explains.
Radioactive materials are also present inside the buildings where yellowcake was produced. In a 2016 interview, Oleh Voytsekhovych, an expert from the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute, explained that there are 20 contaminated buildings on the territory of the plant.
In 2003, Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers adopted an 11-year programme to make the territory of the former Dnipro Chemical Plant ecologically safe, and to protect local residents from the harmful effects of ionising radiation.
This plan was followed with another programme in 2009, which is still running today, at least at the legislative level. But many have questioned this programme's efficiency. For instance, Viktor Ryazantsev, head of the safety unity at Ukraine's State Nuclear Inspection, says the actions taken were chaotic and the Ministry of Energy did not monitor GP Barrier properly. The Ukrainian government has spent millions of hryvnias on various projects — between 2010 and 2014, 84 million hryvnia (at that time $10.5 million) alone. Despite this, the reality at the plant has not changed significantly.
But radioactive waste is not the only problem here. What's more important is the historic reluctance of officials at both the national and local level, as well as the former directors of GP Barrier, to implement the state programme. No one, it seems, wants to take responsibility for the lack of progress.
By contrast, city council member Andriy Ivanchenko believes that both local and state authorities are responsible for the situation. "The Department of Environment [in Kamianske] has to inform the national authorities, write petitions, cooperate with MPs. It should be on the list of priorities for the state authorities," he explains.
In August 2018, in an interview with Kamianske newspaper Clever City, Bohdan Napolov stated that he had expected the GP Barrier would receive funding before the end of 2018, but Ukraine's Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Economic Development refused, referring to a 2016 Cabinet of Ministers decree that prohibits the introduction of new state programmes.
The 2003 state programme confirms that certain substances, such as uranium, radium, thorium, polonium and lead, have leaked into the Konoplyanka river, located between the tailings, and next to Dnipro river.
The city center of Kamianske. Photo courtesy of the author. All rights reserved.
Eventually, in October, Ukraine's Ministry of Energy created a special urgent commission to find a solution to the problem. When I visited in November 2018, Khlivnyi assured me that there is a government decision to allocate 14.9 million hryvnia (£409,000) to the plant in 2019. But still, it is not enough to repay GP Barrier's debts, which have reached 20 million hryvnia (£549,000). However, in January, Khlivnyi commented that GP Barrier may not receive these costs at all, rather they will be used to pay land and other taxes. There is a great possibility, he says, that GP Barrier will soon be liquidated as an enterprise.
During the last audit conducted in 2016-2017 (a copy of which openDemocracy holds), the Ministry of Energy found that the GP Barrier misapplied 3.7 million hryvnia (£107,000) on salaries and procurement. The auditors discovered that the company allowed the clearing of more than 200 cubic metres of trees from a tailing dump, and sold 300 metres of radioactive pipes. A local police department opened a criminal case, but they did not establish who bought this possibly highly radioactive wood. In total, auditors found 13 violations between 2015 and 2017. Auditors' conclusions were unsatisfactory. In 2016, the State Audit Service of Ukraine made similar conclusions.
Second, even though central state funds were allocated, former directors, Khlivnyi says, used them improperly. "Barrier concluded agreements with organisations that did not fulfill their obligations at all or fulfilled them improperly," he told me. "The money disappeared, the works were not carried out, and programmes were completed without the smallest success." Oleh Voytsekhovych, an expert from the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute, has raised similar concerns.
During parliamentary hearings held in October 2018, the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy stated that only 48.6% of the costs from the approved amount of budget funds were allocated to Barrier during 2015-2017. Out of 24 action points, only four were implemented, six were implemented partially, and 14 were not implemented at all.
Between 2014-2016, Ukraine received 10 million EUR of technical support from the EU's Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development. The money was spent on developing a strategy for decontaminating and rehabilitating the former Dnipro Chemical Plant site. In 2018, the programme was renewed, but due to the lack of state funding and Barrier's huge debts, the EU had to suspend it. In 2019, the programme will be renewed only if the government reaches a conclusion whether to continue financing GP Barrier.
One of the tailings dumps near the plant. Photo courtesy of the author. All rights reserved.
When the cleaning programme is finished, it is anticipated that the contaminated buildings will be isolated, and the contaminated sites will be under strict control. In theory, the territory should be safer for both workers and Kamianske residents.
Today, Barrier is chronically underfinanced. But, according to Khlivnyi, it can be profitable. "In Sukhachivka we can accept solid and liquid waste for storage. Former directors tried to initiate these kind of projects, but they were not successful," he explains.
But even the promise of fresh financing cannot solve the problem completely. Everyone, from state officials in Kyiv to local authorities in Kamianske, appears to acknowledge the issue, but only extreme conditions – such as the risk of losing funds –prompts them to find quick and effective solutions. Given that the EU programme will soon finish, what awaits Kamianske: another stalemate or real positive changes?


The Jewish Federation of Arkansas (JFAR) Jewish Food and Cultural Festival includes traditional Jewish foods and also features booths on Jewish and Israeli culture. Judaica, jewelry, and other gift items created by local Jewish artists are on display and for sale. Inflatables and other activities are available for kids, who also have the opportunity to run and play on the football field. Entertainment throughout the day includes contemporary and traditional Jewish music by local and regional musicians. Visitors are invited to bring a bag of non-perishable food items to donate to the Arkansas Foodbank. Attendance: 15,000.
This years festival will include a BBQ Cook-off, concerts on Friday night and Saturday afternoon, a pageant, and car show. New this year will be a "Farm Boy Olympics" and Mutton Bustin'.
Cabot's very own Strawberries!! Carnival rides, festival, pageant and games for the whole family. Our location has changed to Downtown Cabot, we will be utilizing two parking lots, with the entrance being at the corner of Main and 2nd Street. Come join us for a weekend of vendor booths, entertainment, and food trucks!
Main Street Russellville's award-winning tasting party featuring a delicious assortment of food and drink provided by River Valley restaurants, caterers, vineyards, and food service institutions. Live musical entertainment provided throughout the evening by local musicians.
THE YEAR WITHOUT A SPINACH FEST. After careful consideration, we have decided to not hold a Spinach Fest in 2017. You have told us that you want us to move the festival back downtown, and we have listened. However, with all of the construction that will be happening on Main Street this Spring, we will not be able to put on a high quality or safe festival. We plan to come back in 2018 to debut our new Main Street and to put on an awesome event for you. Thank you for your understanding.
Food Truck Festivals of America. Our 1st Arkansas Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival featuring 25 local (and delicious) food trucks. Also enjoy some of the best regional and national craft beers.
Ozark Folk Center State Park. Kathleen Connole - Native American peoples traveled through the Ozarks and hunted, fished, and farmed these mountains. Kathleen shares their stories from the perspective of the plants they gathered, grew, and loved in these deep valleys and rocky hillsides.
Live music, a cajun crawfish and shrimp boil. An afternoon of food fun, & good wine.


The workshop will cover updates for the 2019 reporting year, Web-EI reporting, applicability requirements, and common emissions sources. There will be a presentation from Emissions Banking and Trading on Web submissions for applications.
The next Emissions Inventory Workshop will be held January 2020.


A3-12 series Penetrator Lance tip nozzles are made of high-grade heat-treated steel construction with black oxide finish, which together extend product life. Each A3-12 has six rear 12° jets, four side jets and one front jet. The A3-12 is great for general pipe cleaning and breaking through clogs and plugged up pipe, most specifically 6" to 12" pipe. The A3-12 comes with 1" FPT connection and is available for cleaning machines up to 80 GPM and put to 3000 PSI pump pressure.