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The Ultimate Guide to Keeping a Gratitude Journal
by Kevin Evans — 8 min read
Imagine how it would feel starting every day in a positive mood, energized, ready to take on the world. Instead of mentally replaying all your life's problems and pulling the covers over your head, you chose to take control of your mind and focus on the good.
Day by day you appreciate life more and find yourself feeling happier. Stop rolling your eyes. It is not that crazy of a concept. Today, we will show you how using a gratitude journal.
If you ever considered keeping a gratitude journal or currently keep one, we've compiled the Ultimate Gratitude Journal Guide based upon our years of research, from thousands of customers, from our very own gratitude journal, The Five Minute Journal.
- Why should I keep a Gratitude Journal in the first place?
- What exactly is a Gratitude Journal?
- When should I write a Gratitude Journal?
- How to keep a Gratitude Journal?
- What should I write in a Gratitude Journal?
- Putting it all together
Why should I keep a Gratitude Journal in the first place?
On Amazon, if there are 9-five star reviews and a single one star review for a product, which do you view first?
If you are like us, we are guessing you most likely view the one star review first. We do not want to be the sucker who falls for a lousy product, right?
As science has shown, you are more likely to remember bad events than good ones. It is called the negativity bias.
If someone compliments your new haircut or outfit, you will likely not remember it beyond the moment in question. If someone disses your style, however, you will likely remember it forever. Ask any couple trying to pick a name for their new baby. Parent #1: "How about Steven for our new son?" Parent #2: "Steven? Steven? Are you insane? Steven is the name of the boy who dumped me in Grade 5." Old wounds run very deep.
In other words, heartbreak stings more than the passion of a new relationship. The disappointment of losing fifty bucks last longer than excitement of sticking your hand into your pocket one morning and finding that same fifty. It is often easier to list the negative qualities of a coworker than think of their assets.
What do you focus on?
To automatically appreciate and not criticize we have learned you have to consciously work to shine the light on the good. You have to start practicing gratitude.
This is where a Gratitude Journal comes in to save the day.
What exactly is a Gratitude Journal?
On a very basic level, gratitude journaling involves writing about things for which you are grateful.
On a deeper level, gratitude journaling helps unwire any negative patterns you may have. By keeping a journal, you develop a practice that keeps you accountable to getting the results you want while developing appreciation and enjoying happier days.
Many people struggle with writing things down and figure they can just think good thoughts and that will do the trick. Not.
Translating thoughts into concrete language—whether oral or written—has advantages over just thinking the thoughts: It makes you more aware, deepening the emotional impact.
A 2003 study by Emmons and McCullough found that keeping a daily Gratitude Journal leads to an increased sense of wellbeing and, something we all crave, better sleep. A willingness to accept change will become the norm. Giving thanks in this manner can also help lower symptoms of physical pain. That is powerful.
Writing a Gratitude Journal will make being grateful as natural as breathing. It just happens without you realizing. It is like using a toothbrush, daily, for your mind.
When should I write a gratitude journal?
Before mentioning the how of keeping a gratitude journal, it's important first to get down the timing of whenyou do it.
In short, we are big fans of writing what you are grateful for first thing in the morning and reflecting on the good things that happened throughout your day right before going to sleep.
Here's why.
Wisdom from ancient and modern times teaches that the beginning and the end of the dayaretimes to think, evaluate, and correct course.
Contrary to popular opinion, such established positive rituals are not restricted to the domain of ultra successful CEOs or Buddhist monks.
Have you ever had a day when you woke up and it felt like everything was going your way? Everything was effortless, and all you wanted to do is smile?
By starting each day off with gratitude, you get a "hit" of those good feelings first thing in the morning. You are fresh, still waking up and have the precious opportunity to set the tone for the rest of the day with a strong morning routine. Think of it as a hit of caffeine for the soul.
Similarly, what do you typically do before you go to sleep?
Do you have a nightly routine?
The average American watches over 4 hours of TV per day and, depending on the source, we spend between 90 minutes to 4 hours a day on our cell phone. We are glued to our screens. Many people barely look anyone square in the eye anymore….
Much of this happens just before sleep.
What if you chose to use this time to invest in yourself? In your well-being? Never underestimate the benefits of self-care.
You will find that gratitude journaling instantly helps you shift your focus on the positive and short-circuit negative thought loops. No matter how intense your day was, you will sleep a bit better having shown some gratitude. It is that simple.
How to Keep a Gratitude Journal
Many people have great intentions when wanting to journal, but unfortunately they do not go about it the right way.
We hear people say they are grateful the weather is nice, for their partner, or their new iPhone,and then quickly carry on with their day. The gratitude stays very general and does not sink in.
Here are two key ways to effectively practice gratitude in a powerful way - so all those good feelings stick at a core level and you actually become happier!
1) It matters less what you write; It matters more what you experience and feel:
We had a friend who was writing the same things he was grateful for every day and got tired of the repetition. He asked us if he was doing it right. We told him, "It has nothing to do with what you write down. It matters how you feel."
We asked him what he is writing about.
He said, he writes that he is grateful for his girlfriend, dog etc.
When asked where he feels that gratitude he said that it is right in the chest. That place we feel the intensity of a new love and excitement.
When we ask ourselves what we are grateful for, we close our eyes, put our hand on our heart, and wait for the feeling to kick in before putting pen to paper. By waiting a bit longer for that sensation, we know it is coming from a deeper place where we are able to affect our body and mind.
This is the way to do gratitude journaling.
Take a moment to experience this yourself.
What are you grateful for? Really. Right now.
Hand on your chest, right over your heart. C'mon. Feel that sensation deep inside.
THAT is gratitude.
The thinking usually comes rapidly, but the feeling takes a little bit longer. Waiting for the emotion—the wonder and awe—makes all the difference when the pen hits the paper.
But what if you still cannot connect with the feeling of gratitude?
2) Connect with something specific
The more detailed you can get while writing what you are grateful for the easier it is to connect with the emotion.
Think about your favourite book. Authors do not just generally describe something bluntly but get into detail to help the reader visualize the scene. Novelists do not just say, "he drove a car," they say, "he drove a black Mustang that sounded like it held a grudge."
For example, today you may write, "I am grateful for John."
Do you actually feel good writing that down? If not, get specific. What is it about John that makes you grateful?
If you do not rush through writing your gratitudes and take a few extra moments to dig deeper, you will see much greater and lasting results. The more you practice this, the easier and quicker this process will become.
PRO TIP: We also highly recommend you keep your journal by your bedside. It's amazing how easy excuses appear when your journal is not within arm's reach.
What should I write in a Gratitude Journal?
When you first begin it may be easy thinking of gratitudes to write at random, but despite having the best intentions to write soul fulfilling lists, you will inevitably face "gratitude block."
From here you have a choice: either quickly write a general intellectualizedgratitude (world peace!), take a moment to 'feel before you write' (but I have to get out the door for work!) or option 3.
What is option 3 you may ask?
It's how Tim Ferriss (best-selling author of the 4 Hour Work Week, 4 Hour Chef and 4 Hour Body) writes gratitudes. He's a type-A personality who finds the Five Minute Journal, our Gratitude Journal, the best way to get the job done.
So how does Tim practice gratitude?
Instead of thinking of random gratitudes each day, he uses categories:
- Relationships: An old relationship that really helped you
- An opportunity that you have today
- Something great that happened or you saw yesterday
- Something simple near you (clouds outside, pen you are holding, etc)
Instead of trying to color with every gratitude crayon in the box, he uses just a few. What if today you just focused on relationships you are grateful for? Or things you are grateful for about your health? Or all the shows on Netflix you cannot live without?
We usually find that having a day where you select a "category" helps generate gratitude ideas more quickly.
Bonus: Recapping the amazing things that happened during your day
Aside from writing gratitudes first thing in the morning, we highly recommend reflecting on all the good things that happened during your day. It's a powerful way to end your day and helps combat negative thought loops before sleeping.
Here's the thing, if the day was incredible, the gratitudes will write themselves.
But if the day sucked, you might feel conflicted when you reflect on your day. Let's resolve that conflict.
Say Alice finishes a sub-par day with many distractions at work, traffic delays, and a cancelled dinner she was looking forward to.
What is she going to write as she reflects upon her day?
As entrepreneur and motivational speaker Jim Rohn said, "Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."
The important thing to understand here is that 'amazing' does not necessarily mean buying your dream house or finding your life partner.
It can also mean that the stoplight turned green at just the right time or the barista flashed you a wonderful smile. If you truly look for it, you will find amazing moments in your day. Sometimes an amazing moment can be avoiding a problem or conflict. That too is a success. The "things could have been a whole lot worse" scenario.
At first glance, when Alice reflects on amazing things that happened, she thinks, "Nothing amazing happened today". That is just the first layer of the mental response. She knows that there are more layers and all she needs is a little more time to dig a little deeper and peel away the disappointments.
Alice starts to review her day from the moment she wakes up, looking for gems of amazing moments. It takes her some time but she remembers three wonderful parts of her day and jots them down:
The critical factor here is connecting with what you write down. The more specific you get, the easier it will be to connect with the emotion. Keep going with finding the amazing moments and you will find some great ones.
Great! You just learned how to effectively keep a Gratitude Journal. Now, let's look at what it looks like in action:
*Use a blank notebook, use your phone or computer, or better yet, use our very own Five Minute Journal.
- As soon as you wake up, you grab your Gratitude Journal from your bedside table.
- You begin thinking of what you are grateful for. You get specific, which helps you connect and identify with the emotion behind it all. Once you feel that warm feeling, you write what you are grateful for.
- Before going to bed, you once again grab your gratitude journal from your bedside table.
- You think back on your day and reflect upon the good things that happened, no matter how small. Once again, you get specific and wait to connect with those special feelings…..and then…..you go to sleep in a good mood. :)
Congratulations! You've established an amazingly productive routine which helps you start and end your day on a positive note. You cannot ask for more than that!
Having consistently good days = having a consistently good life and having consistently good days begins with changing your beliefs of where your focus lies. Keeping a Gratitude Journal is an excellent, simple tool to create a profound positive impact in your life.
So what do you have to lose? Begin a Gratitude Journal today! Happiness awaits you.
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Zack Greinke shut down the Cincinnati Reds — and picked up the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Greinke threw seven scoreless innings and Paul Goldschmidt hit his 20th homer in the Diamondbacks' 6-3 victory Friday night.
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The other great thing about the book is that it stops garden visiting being purely a country pursuit. Among the cottages, old rectories and converted mills that admittedly dominate, more than 100 gardens call themselves town, urban or suburban. What perhaps prevents there being more is the stipulation that each must hold at least 45 minutes of interest: however beautiful the planting, you would struggle to make a visit to a balcony last that long.
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In a rather misconceived article in the Observer, Nick Cohen highlights another alarming instance of how English libel law has a dangerously chilling effect on important matters of public debate. Mathematicians, including Herriott-Watt's Dr Tim Johnson, have been doing valuable work picking out the flaws in mathematical models created by financial wizards such as the Nobel-prizewinning David Li - models which helped major banks lose billions over the past couple of years. "They were pretending mathematics was magic" Johnson complains. But now, afraid of being sued by these same institutions, they're reluctant to point the finger of blame where it's due. Cohen writes:
Ministers, led by Lord Drayson, have been wooing Johnson and his colleagues of late and I can't say I am surprised. Tens of millions of people in the rich world and hundreds of millions in the poor are losing their livelihoods because bad maths allowed bankers to pretend to themselves that they were not being insanely reckless....The public pays the academics' salaries and academics can return the compliment by protecting the public.
"You have a f*cking duty to speak out," as one blunt politician explained the deal to them.
But they are not going to speak out for a reason readers of this column will guess: Johnson and his colleagues fear being hauled before the libel courts. Academics have noted the willingness of the judiciary to allow believers in "alternative" chiropractic therapy to sue science writer Simon Singh, and can imagine all too graphically what would happen to them. Chiropractors are small-time operators working from suburban offices, one said. Bankers have the most expensive lawyers in the City on call. If his colleagues were to hint that a bank was risking its investors' money, they would be hammered.
This is all too plausible, sadly. Invoking the law to stifle discussion of sensitive issues is profoundly dangerous. The use of libel in such areas has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. Things have got seriously out of balance. The original point of libel law was to protect people from unwarranted slurs on their reputation, which can be just as damaging as physical injury. This was always open to abuse by the rich and powerful: in many cases, the mere threat of a libel writ has been enough to extract abject apologies from newspapers and broadcasters even for cases of quite justified criticism. Dodgy tycoons like Robert Maxwell have long deployed legal threats to avoid having to answer difficult questions, and it is hard to see how such actions have ever been in the public interest.
But the use of libel to protect companies from criticism from the media and from individuals (such as the McLibel Two) has greatly expanded the danger. And, as the Singh case (among others) has demonstrated, the law is now being deployed to protect some people's opinions from the normal processes of scientific scrutiny. Suing, or threatening to sue, has become too easy, because trials are ruinously expensive for all but the deepest pockets, and because the law is biased against defendants.
On the other hand, Cohen doesn't provide any evidence that these mathematicians have actually been threatened with libel actions. Perhaps they don't need to be: perhaps now fear of libel is exerting its chilling effect even where actual libel actions would be unlikely to succeed. The threat, even the imagined threat, of a libel action has become one more risk to be avoided in our risk-averse and litigation-drenched society. But whether the law itself is frightening them, or the publicity occasioned by the Singh case and other high-profile actions, is unclear: just because some researchers are terrified of libel lawyers doesn't mean they are right to be. Cohen really spoils his case, though, when he uses the story as opportunity to clamber aboard one of his other hobby-horses: the deficiency, muddle-headedness and general cowardliness of the British left. He writes:
In theory, liberals ought to believe in freedom of speech. In practice, Labour ministers have yet to meet campaigners for law reform and wider liberal society has yet to overcome a way of thinking that stops it reconnecting with the best parts of the liberal tradition.
The unwillingness of Labour ministers to act is indeed lamentable. The ways of thinking of "wider liberal society" - he's referring, I guess, to the multiculturalism industry with its automatic indulgence of victimhood - has nothing to do with it. It is wholly irrelevant. "Simon Singh and the mathematicians are now living with the consequences of the human rights movement", writes Cohen. Actually, they are living with the consequences of the much older libel law, which has thus far been largely dormant in matters scientific for no other reason that it never occurred to anyone that it could be used.
What has changed? Conditional fee agreements, and touting for business by lawyers, and a series of decisions by libel judges to accept jurisdiction even between foreign parties. Cohen, however, puts it down to "Margaret Thatcher's repeated election victories" which "convinced British liberals to try to win in the courts what they could not win at the ballot box." Bizarre. We're not talking about claimed human rights violations. The Human Rights Act has not affected the law of libel - though it has, of course, introduced new privacy rights, which many journalists regret. Indeed, the best hope for restraining the libel courts - assuming Parliament doesn't act, and so far there's sadly little evidence that it will - may lie in the right to free expression enshrined in the HRA.
Cohen then goes after the judges. He doesn't mention Eady by name, but it's clear who he has in mind when he says that
British judges, like judges across the EU, do not believe in freedom of speech. They are illiberal liberals who will defend all rights except the most fundamental right of a citizen of a free country to make his or her case without fear of the consequences.
He then launches into a series of blanket statements that read all too like the soundings-off of a pub bore:
The average British judge does not believe that free debate in the marketplace of the mind will expose "wrong opinions and practices". He believes they must be suppressed because he retains the fear of the old European aristocracy that the masses cannot see through dangerous ideas and bad arguments.
That's just hysterical garbage, isn't it? First he categorises judges as "illiberal liberals" wedded to fashionable human rights nostrums; then he portrays them as archaic defenders of vested class interest. He ends by accusing them, en masse, of "an elite suspicion of democracy". This may or may not be true; but it's irrelevant. What judges are doing in libel cases (and many libel cases, it should be remembered, are decided by juries) is applying the law as it has developed over decades of precedent. The reversed burden of proof, perhaps the most objectionable feature of English libel law, in not invented anew by Mr Justice Eady every time he puts his wig on.
Cohen's argument here is not just silly but probably counter-productive. What is needed, and needed urgently, is reform to the law so that it does not, as it does too often, serve mainly to stifle free speech and enrich lawyers. It should be restricted, too, in jurisdictional terms, to end the present embarrassing position the London now has as the libel capital of the world. There should be a strong presumption in favour of free speech built into the law, and actions should be made more difficult to bring. If possible, courts should refuse to hear cases based on matters of scientific evidence in which they have no expertise. In most cases, claimants should be forced to prove malice. All these things are possible, if the government (or its successor) is prepared to make the necessary parliamentary time.
But to ensure change will require pointing out clearly how and why the present law is being abused, and how it got into its current mess, rather than (as Cohen does) clinging to the comfort blanket of a grand conspiracy theory. There are bad individual decisions, of course, unnecessarily narrow (or broad) judgements that have served to make matters even worse. Blaming judges, though, is too easy and often unfair. The worst that can be said of Mr Justice Eady is that he has sometimes taken a narrow, legalistic view and had insufficient regard to the wider social and political consequences of his rulings. But even there, in all honesty, he was merely doing his job. The problem is the law.


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Dear Friends,
Today we learned that employment fell by 539,000 jobs in April. Each of those jobs lost directly affects a family, bringing daily struggles and difficult decisions.
The latest jobs report marks the sixteenth consecutive month of decline. However, this is the fewest number of jobs lost in one month since October 2008. I believe the actions taken by Washington are slowly helping to turn our economy around. I wish it could happen faster, but as President Obama has said, it will take time.
Clearly, we have more work to do. But this weekend, as we celebrate America's mothers, I wanted to share with you some of the things Congress has done this year to help mothers and families across the country.
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: Restores the right of women and other workers to challenge unfair pay in court. Specifically, it rectifies the May 2007 Ledbetter v Goodyear Supreme Court decision that overturned precedent and made it much more difficult for workers to pursue pay discrimination claims. This was the first major bill to be signed into law by President Obama.
The Recovery Act: Includes a series of provisions that benefit America's mothers, including the following:
- Working Families Tax Cut - Ninety-five percent of working families received a tax cut on April 1, 2009. This includes millions of female-headed households.
- Child Care - Families in need can receive additional childcare assistance from the state while they are working, seeking employment or taking job training/educational classes.
- Healthcare - Prevents devastating cutbacks in Medicaid coverage that millions of women and children rely upon. Also provides funding and grants that will help to ensure more underserved Americans receive the vaccines they need.
- Nutrition - Provides additional benefits for families taking part in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.
- Jobs - Opens up new employment and training opportunities for women in non-traditional fields like infrastructure, energy efficiency, rural broadband development, and science.
The Recovery Act: Includes a series of provisions that will benefit seniors, including the following:
- Economic Recovery Payments for Seniors - Provides a $250 payment to millions of America's seniors receiving Social Security. Payments began going out this week, and will continue for the rest of May. (Please see sidebar article to the right for answers to frequently asked questions about these Recovery payments for seniors.)
- Senior Nutrition Programs - Provides $100 million for senior nutrition programs, including congregate meals and home-delivered meals. These programs are expected to provide nearly 14 million additional meals to seniors in need.
- Protecting Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries - Extends the Qualified Individual (QI) program, which assists certain low-income Medicare beneficiaries with their Medicare Part B premiums.
- Preventing Certain Scheduled Cuts in Medicare - Blocks a scheduled Medicare payment reduction to teaching hospitals, and a scheduled Medicare payment reduction to hospices.
Health Care for 11 Million Children: Renews and improves the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) - preserving coverage for 7 million children currently covered by CHIP and extending coverage to 4 million uninsured but eligible children. This was the second major bill to be signed into law by President Obama.
The Recovery Act: Includes a series of provisions that will benefit children, including the following:
- Education - For young children, key investments are made in Head Start and Early Head Start programs. School age children benefit from additional funding for K-12 education programs and facilities. College age students are now eligible for higher Pell Grant rewards.
- Child Support Enforcement - State programs that establish, enforce, collect and distribute child support received additional funding that will help single parents make ends meet.
Again, I know that there is much more work to do, but as you celebrate your mothers this weekend, I just wanted you to know that my work in Congress celebrates them too.
Charlie Wilson
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Ohio's Sixth District
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Learning To Focus: A Journey In Meditation
One of the biggest problems I had throughout the day was that I had trouble finishing one task before I found myself beginning to do something else.
And these tasks tended to stack up. By the end of the week, I would have about a dozen things to do that have all been started but all unfinished.
Clearly, this is not how to get things done.
One of the first things I did was go back to two articles on the powers of meditation that I read on the NY Times some time ago. According to these articles, people who made it a habit to meditate tended have sharper focus than people who did not.
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Killing Distractions: My Quest to Get Things Done
I bet you have had days when you simply couldn't get anything done.
Maybe you spent too much time watching your Facebook feed, or maybe you couldnt find a way to peel yourself away from reading your favorite blog.
Or maybe you have found yourself working on a task when suddenly a new idea takes shape in your mind. Not wanting to lose the inspiration, you immediately set out on this new task, leaving the previous one unfinished.
Nothing gets accomplished.
A combination of a lack of focus and bad habits can really put a dent in your productivity.
Well, some days ago, as I prepared to leave work, I decided that enough was enough. I seriously needed to get rid of all the distractions that was keeping me from hitting my targets.Read More
Rental Property 2 – Laying Out the Plan
The Problem With Living in the One Bedroom Condo
The only problem I can see with our property is that it's not anymore quite as enticing to live
there as it used to be. Yes, it's only about twenty minutes to the central business district, however, there are newer properties that have been built over the past five years that are closer and easier to get to.
Oh, and another thing I've noticed is that the condo facilities are also not as breathtaking as the properties that were built recently. There is a large pool, an indoor basketball court, a fitness center, a small children's playground and a convenience store. Overall, I'd say it's decent but it can't compete with those condos that boast of Bali-like themes and amenities that look as if you're living in a resort.Read More
The Power of Persistence
A great attitude to have when you are on the hunt for a new
income stream is to be patient and persistent!
I really can't find any reason for a person to fail at anything if they have persistence and a little know-how.
Actually, in caveman terms, I believe that if you hack at something long enough, something has got to give. Note: this only fails if you are going about this in an incredibly stupid way. Like chopping at a tree to make it fall in your direction.Read More
Project: The Rental Property 1 – Meet The One Bedroom Condo
If you have read any of Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad books (and
there are several flavors out there), you will know that his biggest source of income when he started out was in real estate. He made a lot of great deals with minimal cash. One of his cash cows were properties that he bought at fire sale prices and converted into regularly paying rentals. Part of the money he made from rent paid for the small mortgage and maintenance cost on those properties. The rest of the money he used to reinvest and grow his small real estate empire. Sounds like this is worth a try, eh?
Three Ways to Get Started with Passive Income
Okay, now we've had some time to play around with all the possibilities that a lot of passive income can bring into our lives, it's time to get to work.
I'm not a major industry player and I'm not a rich man so what I can share is what I've learned when I first started on this journey. And as with all our journeys in life, the most important but also hardest thing to do is to take that first step. Excuse me if these suggestions are more on the side of philosophical or general…we'll have time to get into the technical details of everything later.
And now…how to get started with passive income…Read More
So You Want to Make Money: Why Being a Little Lazy is Good
Alright, so maybe being lazy isn't good.
I was just trying to catch your attention. Actually, what I meant to say was:
Why Passive Income is Good. Admit it, this title doesn't sound as intriguing the headline above, right? Anyway, let's get to the meat of it.
I'd love to quit my day job but since that's really not possible at the moment(because my wife would kill me), the next best thing for me is to make some money on the side without interfering with the corporate career I've spent the better part of a decade nurturing.Read More
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Hi there!
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Loudspeakers in mosques are generally used for Adhan or "call to prayer",[1] or sometimes for Khutbah or sermons. External loudspeakers are generally mounted on tall minarets. Mosque loudspeakers are used for a call to prayer, five times a day. Loudspeakers, other than external ones, are sometimes also used inside the mosque to deliver sermons or for Prayer.
External loudspeakers are often kept at a very high volume, so that the sound is heard as far as 5km.[2] In areas where more than one mosque is present, the loudspeaker sounds overlap one another,[3] especially in the early morning when sounds are more clearly heard. This noise sometimes results in people of other religions migrating away from a mosque's area in order to avoid the noise, along with other factors.[4]
There has been opposition to outdoor loudspeakers in western countries. In Cologne Mosque project in Germany the installation of loudspeakers are opposed and stopped.[5] In Oxford, UK it was opposed saying that broadcasting using loudspeakers would turn the city into a Muslim ghetto.[6] In Al-Islah Mosque Michigan, US, the installation of outdoor loudspeakers was opposed.[7]
It is even opposed, though unsuccessfully, in India where Muslims are minority.[8] Supporters of loudspeakers argue that it is freedom of religion to use them.[9]
Loudspeakers are often misused for political purposes which was opposed by govt. authorities.[10] Loudspeakers sometimes used to guide or incite the riots. Incidents reported in Acre, Israel,[11] in Indonesia,[12] near Lahore, Pakistan[13] and Nandurbar, Maharashtra state, India.[14] Pakistan even banned use of loudspeakers other than for "Call to Prayer" following a riot.[15]
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- ↑ "Adhan And Iqamat (Iqamah)". Hizmetbooks.org. http://www.hizmetbooks.org/Endless_Bliss_Fourth_Fascicle/Endless_Bliss_Fourth_Fascicle_Chapter_11.htm. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ↑ Riyadh (Afp) (2009-04-25). "Variety News | Saudi cracks down on blaring mosque speakers". Alarabiya.net. http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/04/25/71421.html. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ↑ "[IslamCity] Cairo's Dilemma Over Prayer Calls". Mail-archive.com. 2005-05-09. http://firstname.lastname@example.com/msg02720.html. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ↑ "Hard-liners won battle for Bridgeview mosque :: IPT in the News :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism". Investigativeproject.org. http://www.investigativeproject.org/132/hard-liners-won-battle-for-bridgeview-mosque. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
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- ↑ "Mosque's plan to broadcast call to prayer from loudspeaker 'will create Muslim ghetto' | Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. 2008-01-14. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-504373/Mosques-plan-broadcast-prayer-loudspeaker-create-Muslim-ghetto.html. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ↑ Leland, John (2004-05-05). "Call to Prayer in Michigan Causes Tension". NYTimes.com. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/05/national/05PRAY.html?ei=5007&en=664e9b700df4fdb9&ex=1399089600&partner=USERLAND&pagewanted=all&position=. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ↑ "Anti-noise crusader for curbs on loudspeaker use in mosques". Thaindian.com. http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/enviornment/anti-noise-crusader-for-curbs-on-loudspeaker-use-in-mosques_10071355.html. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ↑ "Michigan: Despite the outcry, mosque to proceed with loudspeaker call to prayer". Jihad Watch. http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/002037.php. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ↑ "Mosques not to be used as political platforms". Saudiembassy.net. 2002-12-07. http://www.saudiembassy.net/archive/2002/press/page3.aspx. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ↑ "Israel: Mosque loudspeakers used to rally Muslim rioters in Acre". Jihad Watch. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/10/israel-mosque-loudspeakers-used-to-rally-muslim-rioters-in-acre.html. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ↑ "Indonesia: Urged on over mosque loudspeakers, Muslims go on rampage against students of Christian theological school to "drive out the unwanted neighbor"". Jihad Watch. http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022061.php. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ↑ "Muslim Mob Burns Down 100 Christian Homes in Pakistan « News of Persecution & Suffering « International Christian Concern". Persecution.org. 2009-07-01. http://www.persecution.org/suffering/newssummpopup.php?newscode=10386. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ↑ "Mosques must get permission to install loudspeakers: Dy CM". Indianexpress.com. http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19991215/ina15052.html. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
- ↑ "Pakistan limits mosque loudspeakers to call to prayer. 1/11/01. ABC News Online". Abc.net.au. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200111/s406180.htm. Retrieved 2010-01-15.


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Some plants, quite unfairly, come laden with a full set of baggage. Pampas grass is one, due largely to its mass use in suburban front gardens during the Sixties. Standing alone on a square of lawn like a comic ornament, their exotic plumage could not be more out of character with the British landscape. Someone must have once wrote about torching pampas as a means of tidying up their vicious saw-toothed foliage in the spring. I have never seen such pyromania at close quarters, only the charred results, but I have a sneaking suspicion that whoever it was must have been frustrated with the monotony of his surroundings. Stand among them as I did on the plains of the Pampas in Argentina and you see them in another light altogether. Sweeping away as far as the eye can see like a giant's meadow, they are magnificent.
The mophead hydrangea suffered from a similar fate at the hands of the Edwardians, after it was discovered that they thrive by a back door without much attention; long-lived and undemanding, they survive pollution, change of ownership, neglect and mistreatment. It would be easy to turn your back on them because of their ubiquity but, as soon as high summer hits, few shrubs flower quite so well, with such flair and over such a long period. What's more, they do it in the shade.
I have been using the species hydrangeas for several years for the very fact that they revitalise such dark corners with their fresh, crisp and cool flowers. Hydrangea quercifolia is a real favourite with its giant oak-shaped leaves. The foliage is so handsome you hardly need the flower, and I tend to keep my plants pruned by removing a third of the growth every spring to promote good leaf. Grow them well and keep them moist and the foliage turns garnet-red in the autumn.
The flowers, however, are a delight: a bright white cone, which hangs under its own weight and ages to plum pink before drying a papery brown.
H quercifolia 'Snow Queen' holds its flowers more upright than the species and is a reliable flowerer, but I avoid the semi-doubles and doubles as they only overcomplicate something pure. The beautiful Hydrangea aspera has also been a mainstay in my gardens. This is one of the best shrubs for a semi-shaded or north-facing position. It is striking in leaf for the first part of the summer with large pointed felted leaves and the promise of buds early on. By late summer, the lacecaps open flat and wide horizontally.Hydrangea aspera var villosa (rather awkwardly known as the 'Villosa Group') is by far the best form with reliable blue florets. The flowers are not dependent upon acid conditions for this blue pigmentation, as most of the mopheads are, and that makes it all the more appealing if you garden on chalk. The blue is also not the chemical blue that comes with the application of sequestered iron, but an otherworldy unnameable violet-blue that hums at dusk.
I grow Hydrangea sargentiana, too, for its hoary foliage, which is the longest of all species hydrangeas and can often reach as much as a foot in shade. This is a plant that really needs the shade as it scorches in sunshine. It will send up vertical shoots to 10ft if it likes you. H sargentiana suckers to extend the domain of the plant, but they are never a problem and are wonderful among a colony of Japanese wind anemones.
I usually look to the species first, because they tend to have the grace that plant breeders lose in their pursuit of so-called floral perfection. However, the cultivated lacecap hydrangeas have lost none of that elegance. The Japanese H serrata has produced some lovely neat shrubs with delightful lacecap flowers, which are also incredibly beautiful when left on the plant to dry paper thin for the winter. H serrata 'Diadem' starts blooming in late June with pale pink (or blue on acid soil) flowers. H serrata 'Bluebird' is the largest of the group with blue florets on acid and cherry pink on alkaline soil. The more flamboyant Hydrangea macrophylla from China gets away with murder for its oriental connections. Think of a common-or-garden mophead as something that might appear in the garden depicted in the Willow Pattern plate and you start to see them beyond their back-door connotations.
I first became aware of their potential when I took a late-summer break with friends at Sir Clough Williams-Ellis's utopian Portmeirion many years ago. It was Hydrangea macrophylla 'Blue Bonnet' which introduced this surreal place, as we swung down off a Welsh lane to be greeted by an endless avenue of luminous blue flower. Fat and flamboyant, they burst from the bracken-choked banks and hung heavy in puddles on the road. There was something so distinctly technicolour about the experience that it shifted my sense of reality, which was further amplified by the sheer abundance of plants. Then, last August, in an equally memorable experience, I stumbled upon the Hydrangea Dell at the Ventnor Botanic Gardens on the Isle of Wight. Where the land and the gardens were looking parched and tired elsewhere, entering this shaded little ravine was like stumbling upon the sugar-dusted interior of a confectioner's larder.
The wealth of hydrangea hybrids is on the point of being overwhelming, but there are several that repeatedly come to the top of my pile. Of the whites, H arborescens 'Annabelle' is reliably chichi with fine, apple-green foliage and perfectly round flower heads. The flower heads become larger the harder you prune the bush in March, which can be cut back hard like buddleia after the worst of the winter is over. Of the macrophyllas, however, 'Mme Emile Mouilliere' is arguably one of the best whites. A large, sprawling bush with glossy dark green foliage, this is one of the plants we drift through shade in the Italian garden to keep it feeling cool in the heat of the summer. As with all the hydrangeas, it does best with plenty of moisture at the root but hydrangeas should never be waterlogged. Here in Britain this plant is quite happy out in the open, and the further north you go, the more sun you can give it.
H macrophylla 'Ayesha' is one of the plants that managed to rise above the riot in the Ventnor Botanic Garden. The flower is elongated to form a cone and the many florets range through all the colours that appear in ripening grapes, from green to blue to plum. These are plants that look good with the likes of the blue-leaved Hosta sieboldiana. Out in the sun, H 'Preziosa' is a good choice for the smaller garden. Growing to not much more than 4ft round, this compact plant has dark stems and smallish flowers the colour of crushed raspberries. This is a wonderful shrub for a cottagey planting with the late-summer-flowering Persicaria amplexicaule 'Atrosanguineus'. You may need to get the watering can out this year if you grow it in the sun, but the effort is well worth it. Hydrangeas still pack the punch that wooed the Edwardians and nothing is quite as opulent in an August garden.
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Hotel Ramada Plaza Guangzhou, Ramada Plaza Guangzhou is situated in the Tianhe district, just 15-minutes drive from Pazhou Convention Centre. The hotel provides sauna rooms and free shuttles to Guangzhou East Train Station. All rooms of Guangzhou Ramada Plaza are elegantly decorated with satellite TV, broadband internet, a mini bar and coffee maker. You may sample traditional Cantonese food in the classic environment of Emerald Chinese Restaurant. Lobby Bar is a great place for you to enjoy cocktails. 忙しい日の後, you may enjoy Chinese massages in the health centre, or play snooker games with your friends. (ラマダプラザホテル Guangzhou hotels 予約).


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An antiaging skin care product can care for your skin with fast clinical results. Life is very busy and demanding for people, especially those who were born in what is known as the baby-boom era. These individuals who are now in their forties and fifties do not find themselves with very much spare time on their hands.
This leaves these said people searching for easy cosmetic remedies that will allow them to look good and feel younger without sacrificing too much time that they just do not have available.
Thankfully, there are numerous ways you can care for your face without having to spend countless hours. The best way to take care of your skin is by using products that work with some form of clinical results on your skin.
The products necessary to take the best action on your skin are: Glycolic Acid, Tretinoin (Retin-A®), Retinol (which is much weaker than Retina®), Hydroquinone or Kojic Acid, topical Vitamin C, and a broad range UVA/UVB sun block.
You can purchase Glycolic acids in various forms the bad news however is that these products are not compatible with all skin types. These are products made with fruit fermentation, which work by sloughing or exfoliating dead skin cells daily.
Tretinoin (Retin A®) is a vitamin A acid, is available in three different strengths. Most clinics offer 0.025%, 0.05% and 0.1%. There are many benefits to using Tretinoin such as sloughing dead epidermal cells, thickening the dermis, perking up skin circulation and provide offering your skin a radiant glow. Tretinoin is only available while you are under the care of a doctor and through a prescription.
Retinol is a Vitamin A alcohol that is also available in three strengths. It is usually handled better than Tretinoin is for people who have skin that is sensitive. Melanocytes are cells that make pigment and are located in low within the base layer of skin. The pigment is formed with a tyrosine dependent enzyme pathway. Hydroquinone and Kojic Acid are tyrosinase slow down and thwart pigment being created at the cellular level.
People with hyper-pigmentation issues have to use products that work together with glycolic, Tretinoin, or Retinol. This is because the outstanding pigment that raises to the surface that comes to the skin from the layer containing the basal cell has to be scraped off using exfoliants to produce as much lightening as possible.
Vitamin C is the strongest topical tool towards anti-aging and comes in a variety of forms for your convenience. The best source is thought to be L-Ascorbic Acid 15% at a pH of 2.1 found in ethylene glycol, together with Glycolic Acid (Alpha Hydroxy Acids).
Primacy C+AHA is the only product you can purchase that works this way. Not everyone however can handle the low pH. Not to mention the fact that not all L-Ascorbic Acid based C-Serums will stay stable. Topical products that contain Vitamin C are often so unsteady that 90% of its impact vanishes after as little as thirty days.
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Visual Calculus
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Sacromento, California Mamikon's Theorem: The area of a tangent sweep to a space curve is equal to the area of its tangent cluster. Simple Shapes Circles and Ovals Complex Shapes Curves Sine & Cosine Volumes
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Visual Calculus
"[Mamikon] was stunned to learn that many classical problems in calculus can be easily solved by an innovative visual approach that makes no use of formulas." - http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mamikon/VisualCalc.html
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Global Homelessness Statistics
To help our supporters better understand this global problem, we have sought to compile the latest available statistics on the challenges faced by our National Partners.
The last time a global survey was attempted – by the United Nations in 2005 – an estimated 100 million people were homeless worldwide. As many as 1.6 billion people lacked adequate housing (Habitat, 2015).
Getting an accurate picture of global homelessness is extremely challenging. Definitions of homelessness vary from country to country. Census data is typically collected based on household and, while most census data takes into account those living in shelters and receiving government aid, census takers struggle to count the "hidden homeless" – those who may be residing in inadequate settlements such as slums, squatting in structures not intended for housing, couch surfing with friends and family, and those who relocate frequently.


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Dancing Arts Center is proud to be a part of the thriving cultural & business community of Holliston, MA.
We are members of the Holliston Business Association and encourage you to support our local arts organizations and businesses. Please visit these sites!
The purpose of the Holliston Business Association (HBA) is to serve and support all local Holliston businesses and to give back to the community in which we all do business. We do this through the HBA Scholarship Fund and through the Holliston Community Action Fund. The HBA's goal is to have every business in the town of Holliston as members in order to provide all businesses the ability to give back and support the people of our town as well as support one another to maintain the strong businesses that make the town so unique.
Director Roberta Weiner started the Prana Center in Holliston as a safe place to learn, grow and relax.
The Prana Yoga Center is inspired by the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, MA, where Roberta received her second yoga certification. Prana's mission is to bring the joy and benefits of Yoga to friends old and new throughout the region. Beginners are warmly welcomed, and students of all levels can find the perfect class for you! We are a one-stop yoga studio, with styles ranging from Kripalu to Vinyasa, from Slow Flow to Hatha, and much more. We also offer specialty classes, including Restorative Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation. Plus private yoga, and yoga on request – let us know what you're looking for!
The Prana Acting Center runs 4 or more shows per year, acting classes, plus a popular Summer Acting Camp – going into our 15th year! All our camps, acting classes and preparation for productions are taught in the same safe environment as our yoga classes, where students can take risks without fear of ridicule or failure. Students build their acting skills while increasing their self-esteem, comfort with public speaking and much more. Our students say Prana is their second family, and they return year after year!
Cheryl teaches mixed media mosaic art to adults and children at her studio, Cheryl Cohen Mosaic Art Center at 360 Woodland Street in Holliston. The studio offers afterschool programs to children ages eight and up, and adult programs weekly on Tuesday morning, and Thursday evenings. She also offers monthly Ladies' Nights Out and Weekend Workshops. Cheryl will help you plan special events including birthday parties, family reunions, work gatherings, etc. In addition to Cheryl's classes, other local artists offer instruction in other forms of art.
Cheryl's mosaic style combines everything that she loves including glass, tile, mirror, stone, shells, jewelry, and beads as well as shards of pottery and china. Over the years she has found great joy in continually evolving her art through experimentation and the insights gained by teaching others. She sells her work in her studio, at local craft shows and on a commission basis.
Cheryl lives in Ashland, MA. She has a bachelor's degree in occupational therapy and a master's degree in education. As an occupational therapist she specialized in working with school age children with special needs for 25 years. Cheryl has taken classes with world renowned mosaic artists including Sonia King and Lynn Chinn.
Pamela PinterParsons is the founder and master creator of A Soul Spirit Studio. For the past 14 years she worked at Music, Movement and More. It has grown from a movement program for infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers to a program that has something for everyBODY! Being a life-long dancer she believes that everyone can and should be moving! She is a certified Let Your YogaDance teacher and assists at Kripalu Center for Yoga. YogaDance is a joyful and rejuvenating experience that utilizes easy to follow dance and yoga-inspired movements to unleash Body and Spirit. She is a 200 certified yoga instructor and A Kidding Around Yoga certified teacher and a Soul Motion practitioner.


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The Jinchuu Watari (人柱渡 "Human Pillar Ferry"?) is one of Oro's special attacks, introduced in the Street Fighter III series.
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Executed by performing a quarter-circle forward motion and pressing kick, Oro jumps forward into the air. If he lands on his opponent, he will kick at their head twice and bounce off them, landing on the far side of them. The distance forward that Oro travels is determined by the kick button pressed; light kick will travel the least distance and heavy kick will travel the most.
The attack can also be initiated in mid-air, where becomes the Hitobashira Nobori; Oro will kick at the opponent's head multiple times by tapping the kick button.
The EX Special is different depending on whether the attack was initiated on the ground or in the air. If used on the ground, the jump will home in on wherever the opponent is standing at the time and kick at the head three times; if done in the air, the attack only travels a small distance but can kick up to nine times.[1]
The term Hitobashira refers to an archaic and rare, but documented practice of Japanese origin, where an offering of a human sacrifice was to be incorporated into an architectural work for the sake of good luck and success.