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How do I lose weight on Depo? I have tried everything and cannot lose the weight. I need an answer because I do not know what else to try.
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My suggestions:
Losing weight is so tough. I know this personally and for me, Weight Watchers was a big help. Others have been helped by a program that is free called Overeaters Anonymous (like AA).
It all comes down to the amount of food we take in and the amount of exercise we do daily. This is true for women on Depo and women and men of all ages trying to lose weight.
Good morning!
My suggestions:
Losing weight is so tough. I know this personally and for me, Weight Watchers was a big help. Others have been helped by a program that is free called Overeaters Anonymous (like AA).
It all comes down to the amount of food we take in and the amount of exercise we do daily. This is true for women on Depo and women and men of all ages trying to lose weight.
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Thanks to my wife, several people from my church, a nearby neighbor in Tiger, the 2011 Celebrate Clayton festival and one particular person, Robin Welch, who has lost 91 pounds since I originally knew her, I was introduced last April to the local Weight Watchers group.
Losing weight is so hard. I had tried for years. Twenty years ago I did lose and keep off 10 pounds. In the days just before going to my first Weight Watchers meeting I lost another 5 and then in the year I have been going to and loving the local Weight Watchers group I have lost 20 to 25 more. So I'm feeling good knowing there are now about 35 less pounds of me today.
If you are interested in trying Weight Watchers you can call our leader, Karen Trombley, or you can just come to your first meeting at the Bethel Baptist Church in Tiger. Meetings are each Tuesday morning at 9 AM and Tuesday afternoon at 5:30 PM. Every week like clockwork 75 to 100 people come to one of these two meetings. And the first thing each person does is to step up onto a very accurate scale and learn the good or the bad news – the report card on the past 7 days. -
Last week I met for the first time a man from the afternoon group who has lost 117 pounds (from 357 to 250 pounds). He is completely off his meds for hypertension and no longer needs insulin for diabetes. He is still going down. He has learned so many approaches to losing weight. I asked him which single thing he has learned was the most important. I will tell you his answer later in the article. What do you think his answer was?
Several weeks ago a friend told me about an article in the New York Times in 2008. It included a description of the 11 best foods that people like to hate (don't like to eat). She pulled out the list that had been in her pocketbook for four years. Thinking of our Weight Watchers group at the Bethel Baptist Church I dutifully wrote them down. I will present the list to my Weight Watchers buddies and see what they have to say. Here they were:
1. Beets
2. Cabbage
3. Swiss chard
4. Cinnamon
5. Pomegranate juice
6. Dried plums (prunes)
7. Pumpkin seeds
8. Sardines
9. Turmeric
10. Frozen blueberries
11. Canned pumpkin
Oh yes, the gentleman who has lost 117 pounds says the most important thing he has learned has been portion control. "I used to eat two 16 ounce steaks and a huge potato covered with butter for dinner. Now it is an occasional 8 ounce steak! Portion control is a part of every single Weight Watchers meeting and does seem to be the single most important take-home message in the program. Group support would a close second. Did you guess that portion control would be his answer to my question? By the way, this gentleman's wife has lost weight in Weight Watchers too, a total of 73 pounds!
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A frontrunner to replace the exiting entertainment chairman, Walden actually sees his job as a lateral move
Fox television studios co-head Dana Walden is a definite frontrunner to replace exiting Fox chairman Kevin Reilly, but would she take the job?
Individuals with knowledge of Dana Walden's thinking told TheWrap that Walden considers replacing Reilly a lateral move for her, at least in the form that the job was under Reilly.
Walden, who has run the studio for about 15 years, isn't in a hurry to leave her top job at 20th Century Fox Television.
Also read: Fox's Reality Slate: The Thorn in Kevin Reilly's Side
So, what would Walden want? If she were to take Reilly's job, Walden wants to run both the Fox Broadcasting Co. and keep at least some of her oversight at the studios.
Running both business units isn't an impossible goal. After all, Sandy Grushow headed both Fox network and Fox studios in the late-'90's. Also, Anne Sweeney held a similar role over at Disney-ABC.
Also read: Kevin Reilly on the Big Exit Question – His Choice or Ousted: 'Yeah, Let's Stir Up Some Sh-t Right Now'
A representative for Walden and Fox Broadcasting Co. declined to comment for this story.
As the race to replace Reilly is still on, another insider told TheWrap that Fox is looking for candidates outside the company. If true, that would make former Fox executive Gail Berman, who recently separated from her business partner Lloyd Braun, as the leading candidate for the top job.
But, others say that the search for a candidate does include internal and external candidates and that Walden is a clear frontrunner, along with Fox COO Joe Earley and FX president John Landgraf.
The announcement of Reilly's departure on Thursday came as a surprise to many at Fox. Another network insider at Fox told TheWrap that it's "pretty clear that his exit had been discussed for a while." Reilly had told people who were close with him that he was tired of the network grind and did not intend to remain through the end of his contract.
Also read: Read Kevin Reilly's Resignation Letter: On Leaving 'The Worst Best Job in the World'
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How the FLAC do I tell MP3s from lossless audio?
As you quoted the son of an audio engineer as an authority in the article, I'll wade in. My father was also one in what's alluded to here as a golden age of audio fidelity - analogue audio in the 70s recording the likes of Thin Lizzy. He's still doing it professionally 40 years on. His hearing's gone downhill (just hit 60) but he's still got a better ear for a good mix than any of the youngsters coming into the business so he's not short of work.
These days he works in TV, but as a kid I used to help out recording everything from studio bands to the classical concerts he'd record in churches in his spare time. His guidance was that engineering and production is a job - and the focus isn't on audiophiles, it's on making sure what you're putting out is going to match what your audience is going to be listening on. Hence the old studio test of going outside and playing the mix on your car stereo at full blast. If it still sounds good, you've got it right.
So any audiophile argument about pop music is basically doomed to failure. You're trying to hear it as the artist intended... but the artist (and the engineers) put a ton of work in to make sure you could enjoy it the way you heard it. Calm down, and just enjoy the music.
GitHub.io killed the distro star: Why are people so bored with the top Linux makers?
Re: Does a lack of search=lack of interest?
Actually that one apparently doesn't have enough search volume to be displayed. This one does though. Close enough?
Newsnight goes sour on Tech City miracle
Overall good stuff; but one quibble:
"Burbidge counted almost anything as East London or Tech City's own. She cited a high-tech manufacturing company "in Somerset" that made drones."
Andrew had moved onto a general point about the government fetishising startups versus genuinely high-tech investment, and she brought up that example as a counterpoint. The conversation had become quite wide-ranging at that point. So using that as some kind of 'evidence' in the article seems like a pretty low blow and frankly a little bit beneath what I'd expect from Orlowski.
I only bitch because I care.
JavaScript is everywhere. So are we all OK with that?
Re: Coudn't agree more
Hahaha. You're going to pay to access these sites right? You know, actual hard currency that the developers who would then have to actually spend time writing and maintaining these summaries of every individual JS file they're using (and presumably working around you deciding you like X but not Y) to accommodate your particular 1 in 10,000 visitors preference can use for things like food and housing?
There's a browser sandbox for a reason. If there's a security hole that lets a site do something horrendous - then that's an issue for the browser and thanks to automatic updates it's one that's finally addressed pretty much universally these days without you having to care.
The REAL winner of Microsoft's Nokia buy: GOOGLE
Just for reference El Reg. I'm a die-hard believer in not blocking ads. I genuinely think journalism is worth paying for and since I'm not actually handing over fivers, disabling the ads is just stealing.
However. The O2 ad you've been running on this story actually maxed the CPU on my laptop to the point where I couldn't actually scroll the page to read the article. Just actually couldn't read it. I had to go and chase down a flash blocker to stop it because I'm that f**ked off I needed to vent. You're killing yourselves here. In the name of the wee man - vet your ads to make sure they haven't been written by halfwits.
Apple users: Only Apple can track us! Not Google
Re: er ... why not sue Safari ?
They circumvented it by writing code that went out of its way to fake what looked like a legitimate response to user action (posting data to a third party domain). They explicitly did this to get around the fact that Safari (unlike any other browser including Chrome and Firefox) defaults to reject third-party cookies.
Similar to the long-running furore over :visited links it's really not just as simple as 'just stop it'. If you stop this kind of thing (by doing deep analysis on exactly what every script is doing for example), you break thousands of websites who are doing this kind of thing perfectly legitimately to do things users actually WANT. At that point everyone says "this browser's rubbish" and simply switches to another less privacy-conscious one.
Google circumvented this deliberately, and justified it internally by saying that if a user hadn't consciously opted out (it was the default) then how were they to know if it was actually the users' preference or not... until they got caught of course, when they promptly admitted it and stopped. For the latest round of this particular argument, look at the response to IE10 defaulting to Do Not Track.
European Commission: Cloud will save us from economic doom
Re: Regulations always make business less, in numerous ways; no exceptions!
Indeed. And it would be great if:
a) There were NO regulations whatsoever on thing like privacy, data protection, data security. Because we all know businesses would TOTALLY prioritise them anyway out of the kindness of the Financial Director's heart.
b) There wasn't a centralised European directive, so instead anyone working across Europe had to know and comply with 25 different sets of legislation drafted by slightly different career bureaucrats.
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Android tablet review
Re: Split screen...what next...
Here here. I can't wait until they've got the technology perfected, and then generously and selflessly hand it over to all of their competitors to profit from their hard work; no doubt refusing to accept even thanks in return. Truly, they are heroes to us all.
Apple accuses Samsung of abusing its 3G power
Re: Funny
"Funny how Nokia were able to happily make a million phones a day and not have a the slightest problem with Samsung's "power over the entire phone market" while Apple fined it impossible."
That would be why the rules on SEPs state that they must be 'Non Discriminatory'. Each licensee can still do separate deals, but they're supposed to give everyone a fair shake - regardless of how successful they are, how much of a competitor they are, or indeed how pally-pally you are with them.
The accusation is that they're using their patents either to shake Apple down, or to hurt their ability to compete. Problem is they signed away their right to do that with these patents when they were granted SEP status.
Global warming: It's GOOD for the environment
GOOD for someone else's environment perhaps.
Deforestation is the key. It's been made by a few people here, but only a minority.
From reading between the smugness in the article: the original paper appears to be saying we 'might' be okay as long as we don't chop down any trees. However we ARE chopping down trees. Thousands of the bastards. Forest fires are natural events (normally) and in areas where they're prone to happen, the trees have indeed generally become resistant and grow back fairly quickly. Deforestation for development/agriculture/burning out the local rebels is a very different matter. Those CAN'T grow back because people are dumping asphalt, farms and airports over the top of them.
So the basic argument that "everything's okay" is only valid if you believe we live in a totally different world than the one we actually do. If you do, then carry on. Just accept you're delusional.
Apple's iPad not so shiny once you get it home
posers with too much money ...and by your own argument "users who can't (won't) cope with proper computers."
"Here's a PC. It will do amazing things for you. But whoa! Wait. First you need to learn all about AV, Malware, Drivers, MDI vs Multiple Windows, Preferences v Options v Settings, storage options , compression, formats, codecs, file systems, protocols Zzzzzz"
Step back a moment, and just think about how much crap you know about computers. Then about how much time it took you to acquire that knowledge. Then about all the other things you (and I) could have been doing in that time if we hadn't had to.
Google 'clamps down' on world of Android partners
So hang on, Open Source is all bollocks?
Linus personally approves every release of Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu et al?
Wow. You've opened my eyes.
Firefox joins Microsoft in uncool kids class
Apple's poor showing
Gotta love an article about the rise of Webkit that manages to rubbish Apple. Aye, I'm sure they're kicking themselves for betting the farm on the right horse.
Home Office passport fraud sweep flops
Waste of time
I went through one of these a couple of years ago. The letter explains that they will ask you questions base on your application, as well as the contents of "public and private databases."
As a result, I was intrigued to see what I'd be asked. I expected questions on fairly basic stuff - any criminal convictions, school/university attended, driving license status, employment history - that kind of thing. Not saying it's a good thing that that's all on file somewhere, but it sounded like what they'd be getting at.
Instead, they asked virtually nothing that hadn't been on the application, or at the very least couldn't have been gleaned by a quick rummage through a dustbin. The point appears to be that the interview is to prove that you're the same person who made the application. If you made it with stolen or fraudulent data - then that's fine.
Sky snaps up Virgin TV channels
Ah, competition
Good thing the private sector provides such wonderful alternatives to paying the license fee.
Apple cancels Christmas... if you want a 27 inch iMac
Weird issue
Whatever these issues are, it's certainly not endemic to the hardware design. We ordered seven for the office and have had them for two months now. Not a single problem with any of 'em.
Presumably just one of the suppliers falling down on QA. That or our dumb luck.
UK gets final warning over Phorm trials
@ Soruk
"The EU shouldn't fine the government, since that means the taxpayer has to foot the bill. Instead the ministers responsible for this should be forced to take responsibility for their own actions and pay the fines themselves."
..and presumably the taxpayers - who voted the ministers in, or stayed at home/spoiled their ballots allowing other to vote them in - don't bear any responsibility?
Democracy Fail
Microsoft's web Office: No love for Chrome, Opera
@ Rasczak
This is a suite of web applications designed to integrate with desktop software. You can't gracefully degrade this kind of stuff - you just end up with something that doesn't work.
Unless of course Excel implemented with a million input fields and a submit button sounds appealing?
Microsoft gets SaaSy with SP2 for Apple-friendly Office
It's the only choice.
iPhone finally gets Skype
Incremental Billing
"surely an appropriate use of the recently announced incremental-billing platform available through iTunes."
Er, that'd be the incremental billing platform that's part of iPhone 3.0 - which isn't available until 'this summer'.
Metallica's Lars Ulrich illegally downloads own album
Er, hang on a minute...
"So, Metallica's drummer's views about peer-to-peer downloading have clearly mellowed in recent years."
From the statements in this article that's a ridiculous conclusion. The implication in his statements is that this was the first time he'd ever downloaded anything from a file-sharing site (given his apparent surprise at the ease), and he did so in order to see whether or not his work was really being so easily pirated.
The subsequent leap that this in any way represents a mellowing of his views, let alone 'clearly', is nothing more than conjecture. For all anyone knows this has simply hardened those views, unless the author is holding back some other piece of the puzzle.
I'm not expressing any opinion here regarding Metallica, Lars Ulrich, or the legality of the process. But if you're going to infer things then print the quotes that led you to that inference - otherwise you're just making stuff up.
UK minister looks for delete key on user generated content
Pointless Euro-bashing
Andy Burnham is an idiot and the meat of this article is sound. But there seems to be an increasingly right-wing Daily Mail-esque smell coming from more and more Register articles these days. One that's made worrying when you consider that:
a) they are generally dressed up as 'setting the facts straight' unbiased pieces supposedly from a more scientific/technical viewpoint.
And b) That with point A being such a useful, informative and interesting service all by itself - there is really no need to inject cynical, sensationalist vitriol into such pieces.
The link to the Swedish bloggers story is a prime example. In the article above it's cited as an 'abortive attempt [by] the European Parliament to clamp down on blogs' - and indeed is supposedly 'just one example of this trend'. Very sinister indeed. Since no other such examples are offered, this one clearly demonstrates the point fully, right? Er, no.
The whole point of the article linked is that as per standard Euromyth template, the row centered around one Eurocrat who'd come up with a wheeze and got a committee to have a look at it. Said wheeze probably involved a couple of big lunches, and may have been a waste of taxpayers money - but it was always a stupid, ill-conceived and completely unworkable idea without any substantial support - and inevitably ended up discarded. The article actually makes a point of how crazily paranoid, self-serving and sensationalist it was to start extrapolating that this was part of some kind of 'trend'. Yet a couple of months on... that's exactly what we see in another Reg article.
Noel Edmonds defies BBC's jackbooted enforcers
But wait? This makes no sense. A man who appears to have become the face of Murdoch's Sky is attacking the BBC?
Oh wait, no that makes perfect sense. It was probably in his contract when he signed up with a company who's Chief Exec stood up a couple of years ago and made a speech to the industry insisting that the role of the Beeb should be to take risks on new programming with public money - then hand anything successful straight to the commercial sector so that they could cream the profits.
Ballmer upset by Apple cart
@Doug Glass
"I wonder how the M$ war machine feels about that one-time gift of money to Apple to keep them alive? My memory is not to clear but I seem to remember $5M maybe fifteen years ago or something like that."
It was $150m in 1997. The stock at that time was at about 19. A quick look today says it's now at 162. So Microsoft's 'gift' to Apple has netted them over a billion so far without lifting a finger. Now also bear in mind that the number one software package for the Mac is MS Office, the iPhone just got Exchange support (also due in the OS next year)... and you'll realise that yeah, MS must be kicking themselves. All the way to the bank.
You can't beat the Borg. Even when you think it's losing, it's still winning.
DAB: A very British failure
Blame the audience
The fault lies squarely with the hopeless quality of the commercial broadcasters' output.
If you want listeners - give them compelling content to listen to. All these stations to choose from and the only things people are saying they'll miss are a couple of programmed music stations?
This is all digital broadcasters have managed to come up with? It's pathetic.
"Huh? We invested nothing in original programming, made no effort to produce compelling radio, and instead just trotted out cheap programming largely cobbles together to fit either a stupidly narrow 'niche demographic' (which we now claim is unsustainable because it's a niche), or to shoehorn a pre-existing brand onto the air and hope that the country is full of the kind of person who thinks "Hey, this magazine's alright - wish it had an identical radio station"...
"... And it didn't work? We don't understand. The audience must be stupid. Why won't they just buy/listen to whatever crap we throw out there?!"
Apple to charge $20 for iPod Touch update
@Greg Ayres
Good for you Greg. You've saved your £600 or so. I assume that you don't have a mobile phone with a contract then, or that you get yours free. In which case - you truly are a smart consumer.
Of course if on the other hand like most of us you're also forking out an additional £30-£60 a month for a mobile contract in order to make telephone calls to people: then one could argue that you're talking out of your arse when claiming such a massive saving over those dumb (yet generally inexplicably happy) iPhone owners. But I'm sure that's not the case, otherwise you wouldn't be making such a stupid comparison. Right?
Motorola: Apple will not open the iPhone
I fully agree. After years of windows-based developers treating the Mac with contempt and refusing to port their apps - Apple should certainly bend over backwards and shoot wildly at their own feet to help these people make a buck.
Hello, Apple PR. Dr. Freud will see you now
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Entertaining as ever Ashlee. I'd sympathise with you for the utter failure of commenters to comprehend an article that manages, with some elegance, to: point out Apple's PR failings; defend El Reg's editorial independence (and refusal to play suck up, especially if there's a chance for a cheap shot); and explain your fairly muted coverage of WWDC (compared to both other outlets, and Reg coverage of other Vendor events). All whilst covering your back against wingnut zealot attacks with plenty of self-deprecation.
But sadly, there's no accounting for the general stupidity of people.
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Headed to chicago this weekend for company christmas party. Wondering if any decent pubs/restaurants that offer a good beer selection for us homebrewers. Company is in Lombard, party in Downers Grove on friday but staying an extra night till sunday. Last year we all went to Champs but that is just a run of the mill but $$ bar. So were can I find some of the northern micro/craft brews that I cant find in texas.
Definately check out Rock Bottom Brewery. Great beer and food.
There's a Rock Bottom on Butterfield rd (rt 56) in Lombard/Yorktown/Downers Grove.
If you can go a few miles west on 56, you'll eventually find the jewel of the suburbs, Two Brothers. Here's a map to all three of my favorite places:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...22988&t=h&z=13
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Two Brothers!!!! Why didn't I think of that?!
Spend Sat night in the City. LOTs of places!!
Piece is my favorite. Great beer, great pizza.http://www.piecechicago.com/beer/index.html
Yeah, you can join me for my birthday on Saturday at the Map Room.
I think I'll have to make a trek to Piece this weekend. I've never heard of the place, but it looks to be a great place.
Piece is owned by one of the guys from Cheap Trick. Don't try to go on the weekends unless you're into the college-post-college party-hardy crowd. It's loud, packed, and impossible to get a drink.
During the week it's fine.
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The University of Nebraska and Adidas AG unveiled the uniforms Tuesday for the Sept. 14 home game against UCLA.
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After one person was seriously hurt in violent riots in Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University officials are rethinking the future of the school's Veishea festival.
That student was injured when crowds toppled light poles and flipped cars Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. That person was flown to a Des Moines hospital by medical helicopter and is now recovering.
Ames police reported the crowd gathered in the Campustown area for the annual Veishea celebration and threw beer cans at officers after overturning two cars.
ISU President Steve Leath later announced the 2014 festival would end Wednesday at 5 p.m., saying the university is actively working to find out what sparked the outbreak of riots and who is responsible.
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A Conversation with Sarah Simblet Illustrator and Author of Botany for the Artist
In the introduction to Botany for the Artist you wrote, "There is something in the physical act of drawing, the coordination of the hand and eye, and the translation of sensory experience into marks and lines that reveals an entirely new way of seeing." Can you elaborate on what you meant by this?
The act of drawing teaches us how to see something. A casual glance takes a snapshot, but a careful examination tells us so much more. With a pencil in our hand to trace this act, it stays in our memory.
What was the inspiration for Botany for the Artist? Do you have a passion for gardening?
I have loved gardening since I was little and used to follow my mother's gardener around, plaguing him with questions. Cyril was a tall, gentle and very thin man, who'd stoop down to peer at me over a long warty nose. The sort of thing you try ever so hard not to ask about when you're six. He did curious things, and didn't seem to mind me flitting along behind, so long as I kept a good look out for weeds. I have a vivid memory of him staggering up and down the vegetable garden with a rope slung round his shoulders, having tied both ends to an oak beam. He was leveling the soil before we planted it out with seed.
I now garden on a city roof, which you reach by climbing through a window. I've built a wild flower meadow that I suppose is full of Cyril's 'weeds'. Fritillaries, and Snowdrops are my favorites, nodding their heads in Spring under the hammock that is slung from wall to wall. A colony of small bees have recently moved in under a sward of moss, and the whole den is surrounded by increasingly knotted reams of white Wisteria, Passionflowers, and a yellow Banksia rose, that all help to shield the view, and corral my much loved—if unruly—treasury of plants. xamination tells us so much more. With a pencil in our hand to trace this act, it stays in our memory.
Where did you find your plant subjects? In the wild? In your own backyard?
Most of the plants in Botany for the Artist were generously given by the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Oxford University Herbaria, which I can walk to from my studio. I visited the Garden five times a week for a year, to clip leaves and flowers, and was always cheered on by the staff who'd ask "How many more drawings to go?", or "Have you got any use for one of these?" It was fun collecting things like the Monkey Cups (Nepenthes species) from the glass house. They were all so full of foul smelling, half digested insect soup, and felt like delightfully objectionable little animals, all wet, rigid and hairy, as we tied them up in labels and dropped them into the bag. (See p. 147 bottom right.)
I also collected from the wild, trawling for miles through English and Spanish lanes scouring hedgerows and mountainsides for honey suckle or milk thistles, woody nightshade and perfectly branched sprigs of Campion. Autumn days were spent trying not to look like a lunatic progressing on my hands and knees through woods searching for fungi and moss. The designer of the book, Silke Spingies, heroically brought back seaweed from her holiday in a bucket on the train. And we both spent several happy summer mornings rising at 2am, to get to London's Covent Garden Flower Market by 3, so we could pick out the very best tropical flowers. Then make our way back through Knightsbridge at a about half past five, wait for a favorite café to open and serve hot breakfast, before driving East to Sam's studio, the car loaded with plants for the long day's shoot.
Why is understanding the structure of plants important for artists wishing to draw them?
If you understand the inner structure of things, you can draw them more convincingly. Expressive drawings are about action and purpose as well as form and shape—even if your subject is very still. If you understand what every part of a plant is, what it will do, when and why—you can really 'climb inside' and draw the essence of the species from within.
You always draw from real plants, never photographs. Why is that?
I like to engage all of my senses when drawing a plant – it's half the fun. When drawing living plants you have a real time relationship with their form, weight, scent and texture. They move, too—they open and close and turn to find the light. Superficially this can be a nuisance when making a careful study, but it teaches you something about their graceful movement, delicacy or toughness, and essential 'life force' that ought to be part of your drawing. That is how drawing from life differs from the frozen clarity of photography. Those brilliant captured moments have a different purpose and show another visible understanding that is unlike my three-dimensional relationship with plants.
What is your preferred medium for drawing plant-life?
I love to work with a traditional steel dip pen and very dilute Chinese ink, which can be built up in soft layers, faintly erased, and used to conjure the infinite textures of plants. Many people are intimidated by pen and ink, but it is actually delicious to use, and well worth a little extra bravery to start with. It is important to buy the right kit (see my advice in the book) then after some practice it will—I promise—prove beautifully expressive, malleable—and surprisingly forgiving of error. Mistakes in pen and ink can be corrected by erasing diluted ink when dry, or by setting up a pictorial diversion, that is, another detail to distract the eye from ever noticing the problem.
Do you have a favorite plant or flower species to illustrate?
No, I am fascinated by the limitless variety of plants. There are just too many to draw. Then there is the whole world to be found under a microscope or magnifying lens too.
What was your biggest challenge in creating Botany for the Artist?
The biggest challenge in creating Botany for the Artist was endeavoring to cover every possible aspect of plant morphology (the structure and form of plants), and represent every type of habitat on earth, with the broadest and most interesting choice of species, that I could also find and draw or have photographed—in ten months. Only the racing speed of the seasons, unexpected bouts of heavy rain, a couple of heat waves, outbreaks of insects, rusts, and mildew - and an editorial schedule—complicated the task. But I remain alive and well. Just.
You are also the author of DK Publishing's Anatomy for the Artist. How does drawing plantlike differ from drawing the human form? Conversely, are there any similarities in these two artistic subjects?
Botany is a vast subject compared to human anatomy. With anatomy you only have one creature - the human being, whereas there are thousands of plants! On a large scale, the human body is usually depicted in action, nude or clothed, taking part in a story, while botanical subjects are more likely to be still. Yet in close detail, there are enormous similarities to be found, whether you are looking at a human or a mollusk, a flower or fish, nature has repeated very many forms and strategies that function well. Taking a more superficial view, plants also have a kind of skin, usually covered in hair, and apparent joints in their stems, visible networks of veins, and sinuous wet 'flesh'; while inside the human body, sheets of interfolding muscles can look like leaves, and glossy organs like seeds packed inside the 'fruit' of the abdomen or chest. It is no wonder some of the earliest European anatomical illustrators drew their ideas about the human body as if they were maps of gardens, with paths leading here and there to some very strange and distinctly plant like things.
What is next on your plate? Any plans for another book in the "…for the Artist" series in your near future?
Next I will draw a lot of very tiny things on a very large scale, using a microscope. I'll be looking at plants, animals and insects, alive in the wild and collected in museums. I am also studying the architecture of trees, and drawing trees while traveling around the UK and South Eastern Australia. There are indeed future plans for another DK title 'for the artist'—but I've some serious exploration to do first!
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What should be done to spare Egypt a civil war
Preventing Egypt from sliding into civil war is a global security issue, as young militants who a year ago trusted the ballot box could potentially turn into the next generation of extremists.
What's urgently needed is a multi-pronged strategy involving people of moral authority and leaders from countries trusted by the Muslim Brotherhood, the military and secular and liberal groups who can help Egypt walk back from the brink of anarchy and its growing loss of life.
We believe an internationally constituted group of eminent persons should jump-start such an effort by brokering conditions for talks between all Egyptian players in an inclusive manner.
Such a group should include Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu of South Africa, former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, Tunisia's Renaissance Party leader Rachid Ghannouchi, former U.S. national security adviser Jim Jones, former Irish president Mary Robinson and veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi. With the support of the African Union, South Africa, Turkey and Qatar on the one hand, and the United States, the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council on the other, the group should immediately engage credible Egyptian leaders to facilitate breakthroughs, a task no one inside Egypt can accomplish now.
A first priority for the group is to urge all parties to end the political deadlock by reconstituting an interim but inclusive civilian government of all the political players, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood, along with skilled technocrats.
This requires the release of political detainees. These measures should de-escalate tensions despite the already-high recent death toll.
Egypt's interim civilian government should have six immediate priorities:
- Lift the state of emergency and free up the political process. Doing so would restore confidence to a damaged political process and start the healing process.
- Use Egypt's current constitution as a draft for discussion on a final document. This would provide continuity with a legitimate, existing political process while acknowledging its shortcomings.
- Restrict the army to its barracks, enforced by pressure from the United States. If the army retreats, the specter of authoritarian rule will be removed and democratic initiatives will be encouraged.
- Deploy police forces to provide effective security with external monitoring. Such a move is necessary to establish law and order in all major cities, one of the grievances of the anti-Morsi protesters.
- Facilitate free and fair elections within a reasonable timeframe, say 12 months.
- Foster institutions for democratic rule and economic recovery. This could include a major aid package from the International Monetary Fund to support economic development plus a donor package targeting the restoration of Egypt's tourism industry and other infrastructure needs.
For their part, the United States and the European Union must exercise their strategic and economic leverage to rein in the Egyptian army before it entrenches itself and reverses all the gains of the Arab Spring. U.S. President Barack Obama's condemnation of last week's bloody violence must be bolstered with decisive U.S. and EU action to restrain the army: withholding military aid until an inclusive political process is achieved.
Egypt's security and stability are vital to the geostrategic politics of Africa, Europe and the Middle East, especially as they relate to the United States. Egypt's ability to be free and democratic has the potential to forge these values in the broader Arab and Muslim world.
Moreover, with Syria's civil war already spilling over into Iraq and Lebanon, continued violence in Egypt will seriously jeopardize regional security -- something that fits al-Qaida's agenda.
The cost of doing nothing and simply managing our respective interests is to witness a major Arab country becoming a failed state, a prospect responsible leaders would not wish even on their enemies.
Ebrahim Rasool is South Africa's ambassador to the United States and the founder of the World for All Foundation. Ebrahim Moosa is a professor of Islamic studies at Duke University.
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