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Impact of 2 Blood Glucose Levels on Hospital Mortality in Patients Admitted in ICU (INSUREA)
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
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During hospitalization in the intensive care unit (ICU), the occurrence of a blood glucose imbalance is frequent and associated with increased mortality. These observations have resulted in the hypothesis that intensive insulin therapy designed to control blood glucose would improve the prognosis of patients admitted into the ICU. In a prospective, randomized, single center study in a surgical ICU during which the majority of patients had undergone cardiac surgery, intensive insulin therapy with the objective to maintain glycemia below 110 mg/dl (6.1 mmol/L) provided a significant reduction in ICU mortality and hospital mortality compared to a group with a glycemic objective of 200 mg/dl.
In a recent published article, the beneficial effect of intensive insulin therapy seems less obvious in a randomized single center study in a medical ICU. One of the potential factors limiting the impact of a therapeutic strategy like this one is the absence of achieving strict glycemic control for all patients on intensive insulin therapy. Additionally, the implementation of such a therapeutic strategy results in an increased risk of hypoglycemia, the consequences of which on morbidity remain unclear.
The aim of our study is to determine, in a mixed population of medical and surgical patients admitted to the ICU, requiring artificial ventilation with a expected duration above 48 hours, the impact of effective strict glycemic control (<6,1 mmol/l) compared to a conventional glycemic control (<11mmol/l) on hospital mortality.
|Hyperglycemia Critically Ill Patients
|Other: Strict glycemic control Other: Conventional glycemic control
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Multicentre Randomized Trial Assessing the Impact of Maintaining 2 Blood Glucose Levels on Hospital Mortality in Patients Admitted to the ICU (INSUREA STUDY)
- Hospital mortality [ Time Frame: Length of hospital stay ]
- incidence of severe hypoglycemia (below 2.2 mmol/l) [ Time Frame: lenght of insulin administration in ICU ]
- ICU mortality [ Time Frame: Length of ICU stay ]
- Quality of obtained glycemic control in the 2 arms of the study [ Time Frame: Length of Continuous Insulin treatment ]
- Incidence of neuromyopathy in the ICU [ Time Frame: Length of ICU stay ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|January 2008
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|September 2010
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|September 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: B
Continuous intravenous insulin treatment (NOVORAPID) according to an algorithm to maintain glucose level at 11 mmol/L
Other: Conventional glycemic control
Continuous intravenous insulin treatment (NOVORAPID) according to an algorithm to maintain glucose level at 11 mmol/L
Experimental: A
Continuous intravenous insulin treatment (NOVORAPID) according to an algorithm to maintain glucose level below 6.1 mmol/L
Other: Strict glycemic control
Continuous intravenous insulin treatment (NOVORAPID) according to an algorithm to maintain glucose level below 6.1 mmol/L
Detailed Description:
In both randomization arms, continuous insulin infusion will be used via the venous route of administration. Rapid action insulin Novorapid HM (Novo Nordisk, Copenhagen, Denmark) will be used.
ICU patient management requires many intravenously administered treatments in a limited number of venous lines (catecholamines, sedation, feeding, vascular filling, antiotics…). This situation does not enable to dedicate an infusion line for the intravenous administration of insulin. Despite continuous administration of insulin infusion, the concomitant administration of other treatments in the same infusion line obviously leads to significant variations in the flow of insulin actually delivered, which can lead to variations in blood glucose and adjustments secondary to the inappropriate dose of insulin. To limit this phenomenon, an OCTOPUS (Vygon, Ecouen, France) type infusion connector will be added. The infusion connector is made of 2 infusion lines one of which will be exclusively dedicated to insulin therapy subsequently limiting the risk of variations in insulin administration flow.
The determination of the number of subjects to include was carried out by using a 45% hospital mortality hypothesis in the conventional glycemic control group. and a 32 % hospital mortality hypothesis in the strict glycemic control group.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- over 18 years of age
- requiring mechanical ventilation with an expected duration above 48 hours
Exclusion Criteria:
- admission for cardiac arrest
- admission for an attempt of drug autolysis or acute drunkenness
- admission for hyperosmolar and/or ketoacidosis coma
- admission for massive cerebral hemorrhage
- admission from an another ICU
- admission after surgery without any other organ failure than respiratory support (with FiO2 below 50% and PeeP below 5cm H2O)
- inclusion in an another interventional study
- patient or next of kind refusal of study participation
- pregnant women
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00591071
|Contact: Jean-Claude Lacherade, MD
|33 1 39 27 52 02
|Medico-surgical ICU Louise Michel Hospital
|Not yet recruiting
|Evry, France, 91014 Cedex
|Contact: Andry Van de Louw, MD email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Andry Van de Louw, MD
|Medico-surgical ICU Poissy Saint Germain Hospital
|Poissy, France, 78300
|Contact: Jean-Claude Lacherade, MD 33 1 39 27 54 55 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Jean-Claude Lacherade, MD
|Principal Investigator:
|Jean-Claude Lacherade, MD
|Medico-surgical ICU Poissy Saint Germain Hospital
|Responsible Party:
|Jean-Claude Lacherade MD, Poissy Saint Germain Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00591071 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|December 20, 2007
|Last Updated:
|February 13, 2008
Keywords provided by Poissy-Saint Germain Hospital:
insulin treatment
intensive care
mechanical ventilation
critically ill patients
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Critical Illness
Disease Attributes
Pathologic Processes
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Insulin, Globin Zinc
Insulin Aspart
Hypoglycemic Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Anesthetics, Local
Central Nervous System Depressants
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
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Madson back in familiar, yet unfamiliar, territory
CINCINNATI -- By the time the Angels' Opening Series concludes here on Thursday, Ryan Madson will have spent about as much time at Great American Ball Park as he did while under contract with the Reds all of last season.
Madson never threw a pitch for Cincinnati, which signed him to what agent Scott Boras likes to call a "pillow contract." His right elbow ligament tore off the bone near the end of a Spring Training in which he didn't appear in any Cactus League games, and three weeks later, Madson underwent the Tommy John procedure he's still struggling to come all the way back from.
"I wasn't really with them, but they're a really good organization," Madson said. "They were good to me, especially with what happened. But my time was cut short."
Madson had his surgery in Los Angeles by Angels team orthopedist Dr. Lewis Yocum. He checked in with the Reds shortly thereafter, then spent the entire summer rehabbing near his Temecula, Calif., home, seeing his teammates only when they made a trip to San Diego in early July.
The ensuing winter, the Reds declined Madson's $11 million option -- instead signing Jonathan Broxton to a three-year, $21 million contract and freeing Madson up to sign an incentive-laden deal with the Angels -- and that was it.
"I was just worried about getting my arm back and letting [free agency] take care of itself," Madson said. "I ended up where I ended up, and I'm very happy with where I'm at now."
In eight days, Madson will be exactly 12 months removed from Tommy John surgery. But his return to game action is still murky, hinging on how his elbow feels on any given day. On Wednesday, Madson threw 15 pitches off the mound, which represented a step back from where he was seven days ago -- throwing 40 pitches, mixing in changeups and going full intensity on his last few throws.
Madson was recovering from some tightness he felt in that session. But pitching coach Mike Butcher said he's "way further along" than where he was on March 11, his first day back on the mound after a Feb. 1 setback, calling the 15-pitch session "more precautionary than anything."
The final stage of his lengthy rehab has proven to be the most difficult for Madson, as is usually the case.
"Sometimes it's a trust factor, sometimes it's just that little hurdle of discomfort that you want to get over," Butcher said. "It's like a scab. You keep picking at it and it just doesn't heal, and then it kind of just goes away."
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Gonzo and "The Show", and follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Calling all Openhanders, wherever you are,
what ever you're doing, this is for you!
We've been talking about the Great Shift on this website for 'donkeys'. Well now the 'cow's are coming home', and the 'ship needs to set sail' (do please pardon my mixed metaphors!). The Shift is greatly gearing up. There was a marked gear change around the presidential election where humanity's shadow side came to the fore - a good thing for sure. But also to counterbalance that, there have been huge inflows of torsional higher dimensional flows coming in to stir up the bed of the stream, unwind the density, so as to connect the dots of light into the higher flow.
- What does all that "spiritual gobbledegook" mean in a practical sense,
to you in your daily life?
Well the foundation ties of the old reality have been torn up. The breakdown of the old consciousness will now accelerate. If you're sensitive and connected, you'll likely feel the shifts as a sense of instability. You might feel a good degree of anxiety. That's entirely okay. Work with the effects of that (which we'll look at in this month long journal).
What I'm already hearing from several people out there, is that you have an outer world which is still resistant to change - families, jobs and colleagues, general life circumstances - but that you feel change going on internally and there's a mismatch. This is causing tightness, insecurity, anxiety and even anger. It's like the outer and the inner don't compute. Don't worry! We can work through this - we will work through this.
Tremendous opportunities now exist for those who fully dive in and embrace the shifting energies - because it is this flow that is gathering in strength. And so as you harness that higher consciousness, you'll positively create many more opportunities. Because even as the old reality breaks down, masses of people will want to connect and gain support in the Great Shift - so more physical resources will flow that way. Your authentic beingness will start to be honoured in a way it has never previously been done. That will be enthralling and exciting!
So through the whole month of January, we'll be hosting this "Consciously Creating Change in 2017" journal for you to engage with.
- What's coming up for you right now?
What do you want to know?
What would you like help with?
How would you like to change your life positively for the better?
What inspires you at the depths of your soul?
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Ripe for change3 January, 2017 - 12:41 — StarHawk
Hi Open & all reading this. Happy New Year to you!
Thanks Open for starting this "Consciously Creating Change in 2017" journal. It feels very synchronistic for me, as after a year of emotional digging & introspection in 2016 (mostly to do with facing up to my brother's suicide in 2009 through formal bereavement counselling), I now feel ripe for change & for a more outward focussed 2017, of self-expression & service to others, & to our planet.
Reading your article above, the rays that jumped out at me were 1, 4, & especially 6. As I've shared before, the aspect of my life that has felt most lacking for many years, probably for the whole of my adulthood in fact, has been a meaningful & fulfilling paid career, & that is what I feel most inspired to change in 2017.
After unsuccessfully studying for a degree in Chemistry at Oxford University from 1984 to 1987 (which I know you also did at a similar time - perhaps our paths first crossed then), I had a first career in junior level accountancy from 1988 to 1998, which I could just about cope with, but my career progression went downwards rather than upwards, & I ended up giving up on it & having a mental health breakdown/breakthrough.
Since 1998 I've done tons & tons of therapy of many different kinds, including personal growth work (eg Primal Integration), & spiritual development/training, the latter being sometimes with others (eg at the College of Psychic Studies in London), & sometimes by myself. I notice my energy rising as I type that, which would suggest that's where my passion in this life really lies.
When I lived in Glastonbury form 2011 to 2013, I tried to set up as an Abundance Coach, giving talks & workshops, running a weekly drop-in group, teaching others the principles of Living in Abundance, & how to bring more of what they wanted into their lives using spiritual techniques. I enjoyed that work & found it interesting & satisfying. My beliefs around abundance have now changed, mainly through my involvement with Openhand, so I no longer subscribe to or practice deliberate, conscious manifestation, as I know that's coming from the Ego rather than the Soul, & I'm instead following (or trying to follow as best I can) the Openhand teachings of aligning with the flow of what's already happening, softening into my experiences, & accepting challenges & difficulties as growth opportunities, to allow self-realisation to happen.
I'm still unclear about the way forward regarding paid work, but I know that I have a great yearning for self expression, which is why I identify most with Ray 6.
I feel that I should meditate some more before writing further. It has been enough to share this much for now.
Thanks for reading.
Word for 2017.....3 January, 2017 - 16:19 — Chad
So instead of a New Year resolution, I decided on a word for 2017. I wrote this word on my wall in this little space I created for myself in the basement of my home. The word that came up for me was COMMITTED and below it I wrote:
*to the journey
*to authentic Soul expression
*to letting go of everything that no longer serves my new way of being.
I've definitely been feeling all these different energies flowing in and around me and around others as well.
"What I'm already hearing from several people out there, is that you have an outer world which is still resistant to change - families, jobs and colleagues, general life circumstances - but that you feel change going on internally and there's a mismatch. This is causing tightness, insecurity, anxiety and even anger."
This really resonated with me, especially the mismatch of the outer and inner. This has been a common theme for me for some time now and I've been persistently working with unravelling this dissonance with in my being. I realize that I can't do this all on my own and that's why I'm here sharing with the wider Openhand community. I feel more committed now than I have ever been in my life leading up to this moment. I truly feel that there are many more out there who probably feel the same way. We're ready to express who we truly are no matter what the circumstances may be. Our minds tiring from the endless "intellectually rationalizing"(thanks Erica), how we're supposed to live and be in this world.
I can feel this tipping point at the deepest depths of my being....
I'm going to share a couple of quotes that I also have on my wall.
"As we sit and wait to awaken to who we truly are, our veins are filled with Fear and Anxiety. Emerging as a Divine Being in a world of mere mortals is a task for the COURAGEOUS!!"
"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth with save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." Gospel of Thomas
"My uncomfortableness fuels your uncomfortableness, so lets Evolve, Grow, Learn and Heal together as One."
I'm COMMITTED to this continual unfolding of my Soul in this world. Thank you all for the guidance by just being You.
With Love and Gratitude,
Thank you so much for this4 January, 2017 - 09:27 — shar
Thank you so much for this rolling journal Open. For me it could not have come at a better time. The internal and external mismatch is big for me right now resulting in high levels of anxiety and fear. Its like I know what needs to happen but am terrified of the consequences, so I rationalize and logic my way out of it only to feel frustrated and empty. It feels like turmoil. I have observed some important people leaving my life which adds to the sense of emptiness and lonesomeness. I have also been observing the feeling that my heart is breaking, which comes in waves. I'm not completely sure where this feeling is coming from. I went to the movies tonight and watched Passenger - it was about two people completely alone on a ship to a new planet while everyone else was in hibernation. It was a reminder of how alone I feel, although logically I realize that we are never alone because we are the one.
The film is a very good watch should anyone care to go and see it. Its a very good representation of the current state of affairs.
With love. Shar.
Answering my own questions4 January, 2017 - 14:37 — Moonbeam
Good morning,
I also would like to add my 'thank you' for this daily exploration. I had committed to a new morning practice, and hadn't come up with exactly what that was beyond my usual routines. So, this brought the impetus to put some energy behind it. As Shar said, we are never alone - this gathering reflects that beautifully, no matter where we fit inside it.
The process unfolding here is I sit with my laptop, ask 'myself' a question, then close my eyes and type out the answer that comes through. Holy moly! I am astounded at what I am 'showing' myself. It felt weird at first, but having re-read what came through, I am encouraged to keep going to see if it is just a mind going around in circles - or whether something of value is actually showing itself to me.
I love the way you have broken down the 'show me' 3 stage cycle. It assisted me to narrow down where I am in it before I ask the question.
Off to the Matrix to 'free wheel' through errands today. May the Force be with me...
Love to all.
New Antlers4 January, 2017 - 16:10 — .Jen
Hello Everyone and so happy to join you all here
Yesterday Open you posted about the 7 rays, what comes through, what do we feel. I spent part of the day yesterday jogging, walking, connecting to nature and had asked "show me". As I traversed a section of cypress trees, the path took me on a low boardwalk with view of a bridge up ahead. Suddenly heard a group of deer running through the woods. Two older females quickly crossed under the bridge while a group of younger females stopped on the other side and just totally stopped moving and looked at me...there were signals from the older to the younger encouraging them to cross, but the younger stayed put, started cleaning themselves and just waiting it out. Then came a robust rustling in the woods and a young male deer came bounding through the woods, with a quick pause, a signal from the older female who had already crossed and he zoomed under the bridge followed by the rest of the deer. The rest of the morning was filled with these qualities of direct action balanced with sensitivity. It highlights as well the inertia that happens here and how that creates more fear and anxiety. Sychronistically I found a pair of branches that felt just like my new antlers =).
I am aware of anxiety still in stepping though so assuredly like the deer did. There is a strange feeling here like I am infused through to my skin and it feels very vulnerable - not sure if that makes sense to anyone but it feels like there is nowhere to hide and of course I am being with that feeling and why I feel I need to hide.
Recently I seem to have become my family's technology expert - which is hillarious to me as I have always been averse to dealing with it. In addition, I am "running the show" on a massive overhaul/reconstruction on my house. So often in relationships and families, things become routine with regard to who does what, how we behave, how we relate and for a long time I stopped taking on household projects - looking to my husband to take care of things in that arena...without consciously realizing it, I had handed over to him the yard, technology, repairs, finances, car issues...the list goes on and I have reclaimed most of these now and what I have found is that yes, it's wonderful to work together as a community family - we don't have to each be an island doing everything ourself, BUT there is also an invitiation to feel what's invited and where we are going unconscious in our behaviors and attitudes. So what I have rediscovered is the sheer joy of tackling challenges, of making decisions that have a large impact, of feeling effective and capable.
Much love,
The questioner?4 January, 2017 - 16:26 — Vimal V
What if the questions are from the ego/questioner. Will that be answered? I occasionally ask for the right guidance and most times the answers don't arrive and sometimes they do. As soon as i ask the question my mind replies with a logical answer it thinks is right or thinks " I wont get the answers y try and get frustrated." I also have noticed that im guided mostly when i least expect it or need it.
Pastures new4 January, 2017 - 16:38 — MarkyMark
I am in a transition point in my life. A year ago I left my 'career' and took some time out to detox from 30 plus years of corporate conditioning. Currently I am packing up and moving from my home for the last 20 years. I found a new town to move to, which after a lot of exploration felt right. As a result of my marriage ending, this is the final asset split and it has been challenging emotionally and practically. Leaving the familiar, going somewhere new, where I do not know anyone. I do believe this is for a reason. It has been very 'matrixy' and it has been hard to stay grounded and not be driven by the mind lead emotions. Sometimes I succeed and sometimes I fail.
I never make new years resolutions and normally will get on with it if there is something I think I need to do, but Open, your journal has inspired me to explore what I feel will help me with my journey.
Sensitivity - one of the things that I found on the Openhand courses was there was usually a delayed reaction in terms of my realisations and observing. Not a problem of course, but I see a priority as making daily time to work on my sensitivity to see the synchronicity around me
(I loved the story in the Breakthrough book about the man drifting in the boat)
Creative - I am going to try some new things for the 'heck of it'. For example painting and drawing. I have 'doodled' over the years, but feel to let go and express with art.
Connection - in my new town, seek out and be with other people on their spiritual path
Conscious eating - generally I eat well and healthily, but there are areas where I still follow old patterns with what I still eat
Interaction - observing my behaviour with others. Seeking my authentic interaction, not being the pleaser (even if it ruffles feathers). I enjoy other peoples company, and my own. I am going to examine my fear of commitment and try to understand what type of relationship I want with others. This may of course be a constantly moving target, but see where this takes me.
What I need? Attend a Breakthrough workshop. See what other peoples posting on this site stir up in me.
Donkeys,cows and sailing ships :)4 January, 2017 - 17:07 — erica r
Greetings friends!
What I am transitioning from is a life my younger "self" put into motion years ago within the physical world then how my beingness is expressed through that, how the external has reflected during key transitional moments. I think it's an obstacle many of us smack into at times. Yearning for our inner beingness to reflect a creation into the physical that feels aligned with the souls flow. Why does the soul flow so freely in contrast to the body? Streams of consciousness have such fluidity. I'm also exploring how awareness and shifting into 5D is a natural process. I'm drawn to share a poem I wrote as a young girl
Here I am again inside it all
Forever ready to pick myself up from this past fall
On I must travel to reach this end
Wanting and waiting to find just one eternal friend
Please bend your ear my way
There is something I must tell you today
No looks of surprise
No words that lie
Just the painful truth of what I feel inside
Please come with, let's go for a ride
Please come with me, please help me outside
I know the perfect place where it is safe to confide
Over the bridge, into the trees
Just one place to set my soul free
No more confinement, nothing more to do
Just sit and listen and remember all I once knew
These eyes I see through are so sad that on the flip side I go insanely mad
I'll push you away, I've done it before
Consciously I know there is always an out door
So you want to be a friend and
travel with me until the end
Just forget it all, I've made a mistake
I've got to go before this becomes fake
I'm so glad I left, it was time for home
It almost happened again when I let my soul roam
I'll just sit here and travel towards the light
Yes, I'd rather stay inside for just one more night.
The first few lines take my breath away as it feels like recognition of a star soul choosing to come to 3D then opening of the eyes with a yearning to remember and connect with the One. I see the innocent interplay between 3D reality and 5D higher consciousness.
So I'm sitting within this, embracing the innocence. Realizing what role the authentic soul will play as it feels that this is the crux of a new beginning!
"Tremendous opportunities now exist for those who fully dive in and embrace the shifting energies - because it is this flow that is gathering in strength. And so as you harness that higher consciousness, you'll positively create many more opportunities. Because even as the old reality breaks down, masses of people will want to connect and gain support in the Great Shift -"
This jumped off the page! Yes!!! As the theme of much of my "doings" is to help through this earthly passage at this point in time.
Open, you have brought so much into consciousness on this page. Each time I read it, a new aspect resonates and lights up a neural synapse which creates a new impulse of energy to express! I always felt like I was on a treasure hunt when I would ask the Universe to show me. It's funny to admit now but I used to bargain with the Universe. How could I expect something without giving? I love how free wheeling heightens the senses and the Universe speaks.
I just realized as I sit here reading and editing this post, I feel courageous and through all these words I simply want to share the expressions. Yes, it's uncomfortable but I'm allowing the impulse to share to just let it flow. Then anyone who reads it is free to interpret, I see that what kept me from expressing for so long was "my need" to be understood exactly from the vantage point I was expressing from then I would automatically "know" what others would think then I retracted and never expressed thus limiting ample opportunities for growth. Now, it's fun to se what others will reflect back!
Thanks for sharing this Chad!
"My uncomfortableness fuels your uncomfortableness, so lets Evolve, Grow, Learn and Heal together as One."
Much love
Clarity4 January, 2017 - 17:25 — .Jen
Dear Erica - I just read your post and felt to respond right away and tell you how I sense a totally new expression coming through here! It is crystal clear and goes straight into the heart without any interpretation or any need to read between the lines...(something I witness from you is this poetic ability to send out a message in "code" so to speak - it carries a different energy and I honor that way of expressing just as well!)
I just love the clarity here and I feel you are totally straight up and that really speaks to me!
Much love to you,
Thank you Jen4 January, 2017 - 19:26 — erica r
Thank you Jen
I love your experience with the deer. I felt like I was in the woods with you
I love how the more mature cross then look back with encouragement as they had been there many times before. Then I feel the apprehension of the innocence to just move through and cross over inhibited by a perceived threat that paralyzes them on their path. When the buck comes through with confidence connected and trusting with those who had already crossed, others followed easily! Thank you for sharing it's a beautiful moving expression!
Like a river4 January, 2017 - 20:28 — .Jen
Hey Chad! Wow! I could feel such powerful energy through your words... Like a strong and flowing river. So inspiring! Thank you for sharing these awesome words, feelings and your awesome energy with us! I felt a strong resonance with your expression and what is emerging for you... Commitment and courage! With you on that! Jen
Show me!5 January, 2017 - 12:30 — Kristian J
Exciting journal You started, pleased to take part in it. Would You please show me what I can do to become conscious of and express the ray 5? Please elaborate a little on the seventh as well. Love to read the redemption of past errs by the definition of ego-based conditioning, because it's the same conclusion I had at my awakening <3
Wanting You all well,
Choice is an illusion6 January, 2017 - 04:37 — Ann B
Open, thank you for creating "Consciously Creating Change in 2017". What you wrote about today, resonates with me very deeply and I spent a lot of time working with it.
I have looked back on choices I have made sometimes with regret and other times just wondering if I had made a different choice, how different would my life be. To realize that there never was a choice, that my soul wanted to experience all the twists and turns is so liberating. As I sat with this, I could feel tightness unwinding and flowing from my body almost effortlessly. Like I had finally found the right key to unlock a secret door that had been slammed shut for a very long time. At one point I got an image of my soul as a small child with chocolate all over it's face and hands right before dinner trying to convince me it didn't eat any candy. My meditation was joyful and fun.
"But what you did come here to do, is figure out why you made the choices you did." I recognize the potential trap for myself here. My analytical, logical, "corporate trained" mind really wants to figure things out. So for me it turns into a dance between bringing awareness as the one who observes while staying detached from the mind that wants to solve.
Much love,
Taking the space I need6 January, 2017 - 20:43 — .Jen
Thank you for this Open. I find my greatest challenge in this arena is to give myself the space I need...there is an aspect of me that loves to connect and to be in community but I can only really be in it for so long before I feel "full"...some of that builds up around the perceived need to fit in and the efforting and strain that goes along with that. Working that out requires relating to others and continuously letting how I truly feel to be to breakthrough the conditioned patterns of matching those around me. However, time alone off in nature or in a quiet space is really necessary for me. Giving myself the space I need also invites a letting go of the feeling that I will miss out on relational connecting - that I will not bond with the group and this brings up more feelings of not belonging. I am realizing lately the difference between fitting in and belonging...fitting in requires me to alter my way of being to match others for the purpose of gaining acceptance, belonging comes from being who you truly are and how you feel to be regardless of acceptance - that requires a deep level of self-acceptance and allows in those who truly resonate with my authentic self.
Ok so point being...it can feel like a massive step to step away within a group setting - even a spiritually centered group like at an Openhand course =), but I am starting to see the importance of this in daily life...and the increase in the quality of the time I spend with others and how I am in it all if I have taken the time out to clear my energy and feel deeply nurtured inside.
Thank you friends,
Anytime, Anywhere, Anyplace6 January, 2017 - 23:59 — .Jen
Thank you for the message Open. I realize that the Openhand energy is availlable to us "anytime, anywhere, anyplace", though I began to cry when I realized that I feel resistance to tuning into the energy for support... these words "It doesn't seek position, title, reward nor favour. It's joy is simply in helping." - I laughed and cried at the idea that I have tried to be easy and not annoy by asking too often and becoming a burden....these are old patterns and it feels so healing and incredibly joyful to realize that the support is always there and it's loving us just the way we are...giving without need for anything in return.
All the energies in the Ether8 January, 2017 - 07:09 — Jennaya
All the energies in the Ether
Love this Journal!!8 January, 2017 - 15:14 — kim
Happy new year to all and thank you Open for this rolling journal. I have been following along and so much has helped me already. In the last week or so I am feeling a different quality to my connection with the higher energies and it is inspiring a deeper commitment for change, a willfulness to let go of that which no longer serves me.
I am and have been feeling a change coming for some time now to move. Mark your post and Open's responses highlighted for me some energetic ties I still have to work with regarding my ex husband and the relationship he has with our kids atound this.
Erica what you said about the "yearning for our inner beingness to reflect a creation into the physical that feels aligned with the souls flow". A big yes to that!! A longing for that has been there for as long as I can remember. I feel a movement towards manifestation, at least the courage building to put energy physically into this no matter what the cost. The desire is greater than the fear. I also found courage in reading your words to share your expressions more freely. So many times when I read articles and posts on here I have downloads feelings and words that I wish to share but the process for me of getting them into written word, then the editing, analyizing and critical thought that arise often keep me from expressing. I am feeling now to move through that and allow a space to share more here. Thank you to all who have shared a part of themselves here I always love to read them!
I am committing to more consciously creating the changes for 2017. The rememberance of the illusion of choice has also helped me soften and release some of the thoughts that tent to loop through as regret as to why I made past choices. I will continue to connect within, trying to maintain my center through the upcoming challenges. I attended a receptivity workshop this weekend and as I was leaving my attention was drawn to a bar called "Show Me's". I was literally laughing out loud as it was very poignant for me to work with some attachments.
With love and cheers to new beginnings,
Am I 100% in?9 January, 2017 - 14:51 — Abigail
This journal has been speaking to me strongly.... I've been experiencing pain and suffering at work and at home... I've dived into how that feels, plunged into the depths of the heavy darkness and tightness, the pain. I've cried, shouted, screamed. Observing now, I see me within work, within my home and relationship, do they stir my soul? Do they serve me? Would these experiences be what I choose on my last day on earth? - Hell no!
Where this flows, I don't know, what the next step is, I'm not yet feeling a pull to, but I feel all this energy in my body, aching, stagnant, and a new, lighter, freer energy wanting to arise.
I want to break free!
(you know the tune)
Abigail9 January, 2017 - 15:31 — treebrother
Your soul knows the next step you just have to take one step at a time. Living in the flow is not knowing the whole path it is letting it unfold in front of you as you go. Safe Travels, Eddie
Thank you for your9 January, 2017 - 22:53 — Jennaya
Thank you for your explanation on Openhand energy.
I have been curious and also confused about the various energies.
People work with or channel what appears benevolent energy, though it feels as if there are different qualities or even personalities.
Perhaps not the energy itself but from the person whom it flows through?
I had what I perceived as a benevolent presence with me when things were really intense. I was put into states of peace when thing were too much and shown how [and helped] to respond to attacks. I was shown the nature of things when they became relevant to each situation. When I asked a question, I was shown the truth around it.
The truths and guidance the same as conveyed in Openhand.
The energy just felt pure; truth and love. With no distinct feel.
I seem to have lost connection when I started doing the Shamanic work.
I miss it..
At the moment I can feel what I think is the Magdalene energy around. It makes me cry and then I think I shut down and push it away.
I'm not entirely sure why, though took some time to trust and receive the benevolent energy I spoke of above, so maybe the same situation...
I wonder of the various energies; Jesus, Magdalene, Shiva, Ganesha, Ascended Masters, Animal Energy etc and why they each seem to have a distinct feeling. As opposed to perhaps what I perceive Angelic Energy.
Why the are in-between energies?
Enjoying the January Journal. Thank you.
Much love,
Jennaya xoxo
Words are so clumsy compared11 January, 2017 - 13:13 — treebrother
Words are so clumsy compared to the deep knowing and feeling the energy behind the story. I have felt the flow in my life where time slows to a crawl and everything is perfect. How powerfully the energy shines through in your relating the experience. Thanks for your Vulnerability!!! Eddie
Chiming in....11 January, 2017 - 19:32 — Js
Open I just wanted to add a small note, I have been following this Journal attentively and reading many sharings, I can feel Your New Found or Focused Energy SOARING to the highest Points, You are felt Immensley Now More than Ever.
Let's do our grief11 January, 2017 - 21:19 — auntyangel
Let's do our grief and feel our resentments and panic and fear and flight and freeze and let them express into the wind until they are spent. Humanity is no longer appropriate on this planet. We sure as hell don't want to have to live this AGAIN. Let's process it now and let it be done.
Thank you. I am there with you12 January, 2017 - 08:55 — auntyangel
Thank you for your last post.
Some of why I've been sabbatical from the facilitator group recently is my mother has been ill yet unable to leave.
This has led me to a process of exploration about why this is - about love and about identity and stuckness - I have not been surprised that as the missing piece of the energetic puzzle processed through/with me she finally has managed a terminal diagnoses - it seems she needed so much pain to outbalance her attachment to us.
Now we move to end of life.
For me this has been some of the story plus revelation of new feeling glimpses of the Backcloth - isness beyond Janeness or daughter, mother, carer, whatever.
A contemplation of death.
All the time, well, all the time when I'm not lost in the story and busystuffness, I am conscious of the picture - the dying of Mother - Gaia - and the tension of being truthful in the feelings arising from what I see and feel happening and not getting lost in the illusion that this is about a finality of ending. In this, my work with and gratitude to Openhand is unfailing : I understand this transition takes everyone of us, seen or unseen to be part of building the bridge.
With tears, at last and gratitude.
Thank You13 January, 2017 - 10:29 — Abigail
The Openhand energy is speaking to me and supporting me soo much, what a powerful journal this is.
No longer will I stop my souls calling. I've ended my relationship, given in my notice to move out of my home and given my notice in at work. Finally there, I'm 100% in.
I have 12 weeks to feel out where I will live, what I will do for work, yeah it's a bit scary but it feels soo right, the steps have been taken, I am committed now and ready to see where this blank canvas now flows.
Ah Ha Moment13 January, 2017 - 17:27 — Js
felt a "Ah Ha" Moment Literally In reading this Article....Much Gratitide.
In my understanding and applying this Open on day to day experiences:
If i use a romantic Relationship with another where there is that strong connection and as you state here:
"there's a strong tendency to attach to the reflective manifestation rather than continuing the loop, through the manifestaion, right back to your Twin Flame at the Source, inside of yourself."
Applying this practically to me i sense that when feeling that strong connection to the other person through a shared experience together...
I could take time out at some point during the day and meditate and bring that energy(love) connection back to me internally and back to my Twin flame Realizing this is the Ultimate reason of the Experience??????
Awesome Abi13 January, 2017 - 17:50 — Fiona Reilly
Hi Abigail,
How courageous - what profound change and commitment. Thanks for sharing here, the energy of your post is really inspiring.
Just this lunchtime, I was contemplating the issues associated with living one's truth. Thanks for being a shining example of following your soul.
"We each see through our own filters and distortions and there can be spurious energies influencing us. In order to live our truth and let our soul shine through, we need to be truly open and profoundly self honest."
I wish you all the best for your unfolding path, I'm sure the blank canvas will fill with beautiful things.
With love and a big hug,
Letting go to let in...that15 January, 2017 - 10:23 — Aspasia
Letting go to let in...that garden bursting into life. I/we are there with you. Beautiful song. With love, Aspasia
Thanks Aspasia15 January, 2017 - 15:32 — Fiona Reilly
Hi Aspasia,
Your words really touched me - "Letting go, to let in". I've been letting go of something very dear to me and your words remind me that we need to let go to let in something new. Or perhaps in letting go we may change the current situation so that a new energy or dynamic emerges. Letting go opens up the possibility to release any distortions or misalignments within oneself. It's so important to follow what is right, even if that causes pain and sadness, even if it doesn't make sense with the logical mind or what we would think we want! Moving one step at a time, who knows where we will be taken?
Letting go,
there's nothing in the way now,
letting go,
there's room enough to fly...
With love and gratitude to you, Fiona
Hello Fiona,15 January, 2017 - 20:42 — Aspasia
Hello Fiona,
I love the way you put it into words and song - moving. In reading your sharing about this dance – as it were – of "Letting go (by letting be) to let in" I am feeling all the possibilities, potential and freedom in 'coming undone'. Letting be: a fully allowing and welcoming of the "distortions and misalignments in oneself", so as to open the dance with ourselves and with others, in other words to let in new energy and dynamics as you put it.
The dearest are the hardest to let go of indeed… in my experience it is here that gets really sticky and we forget our true untamed nature - forgetting that we can fly. Letting go is remembering what we truly want and who we truly are! When in pain and sadness (often!), I remind myself that this is a dance not a path to a 'successful, happy place'. It's a dance that requires squeezing as much love as you possibly can out from your heart! For letting in to arise. And yes, it feels right!
Looking forward to seeing you in June for one-to-one sharings.
With much much love and courage in dancing your dance!
Hi Aspasia15 January, 2017 - 21:45 — Fiona Reilly
Hi Aspasia,
I love this sentence - I am feeling all the possibilities, potential and freedom in 'coming undone'
Let's each of us dance our own unique dance with gusto,
With love Fiona
Thank You Open for Everything18 January, 2017 - 02:40 — treebrother
Thank You Open for Everything You Are!!!! Namaste Eddie
Hi Open,19 January, 2017 - 09:12 — Richard W
Hi Open,
Awesome perspective and breakdown of how destiny works. One of my major aha moments recently was realising that in order to fulfill this 'destiny' I have to begin and express it right now. I always imagined that I would have to be at a certain level before I could start something. But now I realise that starting it now at the level you're at provides the space for better exploration and gets the energetic ball rolling as the universe reacts.
I hope you don't mind me sharing an article I wrote recently on destiny. I mirrors much of what you have said.
On Fire!19 January, 2017 - 17:39 — Js
Open...2017 has You...Your Soul on Fire! The January 2017 Journal has been an Epic Force of Creational Guidance! As I follow this, at times a few days late but following intently! i feel like i am being warmly covered and Guided by Benevolence <3
About Openhand family & the future21 January, 2017 - 09:49 — Armi V
So nice to see those La Palma pictures! I feel joy thinking that the "Openhand community" is really a big worldwide family. A new family for us now in 2017 and to the future! While you were in La Palma, I was in Costa Blanca, in the Easter Cost of Spain with my sister (retired as she is, she likes to spend winter months there - you know it's quite freezing in Finland now). We have a lot of learning lessons with our original family (with the parents, sisters, brothers, own children etc.), naturally new ones rose up there living a while with dear sister – new misunderstandings and stupid old habits to deal and break through. It was quite surprising that in our age we still can argue and be hurt by the words of the other!
I've always thought that colleagues, people in working places and customers are the second family – that we work to socialize ourselves in community, when we are near and in contact with total strangers we "grind" our edges and mold ourselves. We don't work for money - but to learn more about ourselves and others (what is it to be a human). I made the big decision to end my career as a civil engineer two years ago at age of 55. I was dealing with transport planning in various jobs (as a consultant, as a researcher, as a Ministry official etc.). I changed jobs in a row but nothing helped, I was just so bored and tired of it all, the motivation was gone. Only joy was the people – dear colleagues and the society around "intelligent transportation" (ITS): we even had an own club and travelled around the world in ITS-conferences and had all kind of parties and seminars. That social side I still miss a bit but the work was concentrating into the "wrong stuff".
Anyway the cut this story of families short: nowadays the people who do the work for mental & spiritual development, people who want to ascend and transcend this crazy world are my next family. It is really wonderful that I can include myself to Openhand-family and see you here virtually and in also real places like la Palma and the courses. And we can learn things together! Have the best all of you!
Good reminder25 January, 2017 - 19:02 — Js
Thanks Open, i am up to 45min 2 times a day and i must admit at times it flows and the 45min is easy and at times i get antsy near the end. The reminder when the dis-connection seems to happen to go deeper is a nice reminder.
Be still and know26 January, 2017 - 03:46 — Margaret
You had me at "stillness".
I've been sitting with stillness a lot in the recent months. It began as required part of my craniosacral training and turned into favourite way of ending and beginning the day. I uncovered deep layers of escapism, restlessness (what am I running from?), self loathing, but also a deeper knowing and this beautiful physiology. This discovery process bears resemblance to taking a boat towards the middle of the lake. The destination is not a precise point in space, yet you know when you've arrived.
In stillness I feel my heart beat, the arterial flow rushing up the neck, the hum of the sensory nerve input, the poetry of cells constantly transforming, so alive. In stillness, I get a glimpse of something sacred, it's right there just at the corner of my eye.
I've learned not to pursue the stillness. It finds me. And when we are reunited, I know.
In all the mountains,
In the treetops
Not a breath of wind.
The birds are silent in the woods.
Just wait: soon enough
You will be quiet too.
~ Robert Hass, "After Goethe" from Time and Materials
going deeper26 January, 2017 - 16:14 — Heire
Embrace the moment as it is, and go as deeply into it as you can.
As I read that sentence, it felt like an invitation to me, so I accepted it and went, breathed and went as deeply as I could. And I realised in that moment why I'm having so much trouble recently, trouble to sit still, to breathe and just be. There is a feeling, a flow, deep inside of me. And it's... not exactly painful. But I can feel it all over my body. And it's so difficult to not contract down again, to defend against this unfamiliar, maybe-but-not-exactly painful feeling, to not follow the siren song of my overactive mind back to numbness. Yet it seems as though it's getting stronger, this feeling. It's harder for me to ignore. But at the same time, the siren song of distraction seems so loud and getting louder. Or perhaps I'm just more aware of both and it's always been like that?
Uh, not really coherent here, just wanted to get those thoughts out.
So many great articles27 January, 2017 - 04:29 — Margaret
Hi Open. I've been here all along, although quiet in the last weeks. I'm busy with many writings and embodiment exercises for the course I'm taking. Yes, I have been experiencing lots of stillness lately. It brought me so much new understanding that my journal is about to overflow
There've been so many great articles and reflections posted here recently. I am reading them, but the meaning arrives with a slight delay, because of the richness of experiential sharing and my tendency to dive very deep into things at the moment. Sometimes I just want to sit with one sentence for days. I feel there is something in it to be unlocked and I just let it in and feel what it does to me, what emotional strings it wants to play. I just listen to this music and perhaps have a symbolic dream about it that night. And in the dream I know what it's about, but in the waking time, the meaning might still be not fully accessible to the conscious mind. So I sit with that dream for a while to allow the truth in it. If it wants to transpire, I make a note of it in my journal and observe synchronicities around it. Sometimes, the memories of past events become rewritten as an effect of this. This is a true alchemical process and the end-effect is never a given, neither is the timing of it.
Sometimes in that stillness the future and the past get mixed up. Like now, I'm about to post this comment and I've just noticed you posted something about the "alchemical process" and the past becomes future suddenly. When that happens, even just for a second, the timeline is not a line anymore, but a point and my body gets in a liquid and high pitch state. It causes nausea, but I don't mind because it gives me a new perspective on things and it also feels great and familiar. And I journal again. I sometimes wonder if I have a brain malfunction (I'm sure there is a label and a medication for that, ha!), but it doesn't even matter.
So, I'm enjoying the snail existence for now and I'm fascinated with all that is going on, all these wonderful things that come to view when I slow down.
With love to all Openhanders.
Nailed it!27 January, 2017 - 15:37 — msurvis
Thanks Brother Open! Your articles recently have been spot on, for me! I'm very much at that crossroads in my life, seeking direction from inside, looking for the synchronicity from the universe, trying to see the support. I SO want to give my gifts to the world.
I have been here almost every27 January, 2017 - 18:12 — treebrother
I have been here almost every day for the last year feeling the energy of this collective of souls. Wow What a Ride it has been!! Namaste Brother Open and all Openhanders!! Big Etheric Hugs to All!!! Eddie
Surrender, Trust, Vulnerability27 January, 2017 - 22:37 — Aspasia
As I am sitting to write this, I am torn in myself whether to write or not, since I am currently feeling low and prefer to withdraw rather than share. So, normally I withdraw and 'do my thing' but this time I thought, well what the heck, let's do it differently!
I have a great need to surrender fully and completely, and although there was a lot of softening that happened at the New Year's retreat, full surrender – which was my intention - did not come through (and fully aware why it didn't). Well, I jokingly say: this (me) is a tough cookie indeed!
I am currently going through multiple changes, radical ones, and it is very exciting and very much wanted. It is also unsettling and there is fear of loss. But I remind myself of all the risks I have taken in the past and what these choices brought me: more freedom, more creativity and more challenge that ultimately strengthened loving wisdom.
So, a couple of days ago I felt misunderstood and sad in a communication with a friend. When the good intentions of my friend became clear, I soon reminded myself that everything and everyone is a mirror. Alongside this, there was mental reactivity and deeper conditioning that was coming up. Part of me was very aware and saying to myself "great! Bring it on!" and another part was very reactive dragging me down. I had a conscious dance class to attend to that night which was a blessing. Dance has always been a favourite form of emotional expression and a form of embodiment I gladly surrender to.
I started dancing with a very reactive mind. I consistently, persistently and with determination kept on bringing my mind back to my body feeling the music, moving multidimensionally, dancing the density, the tightness and the pain – dancing with control and surrender! Dancing alone, dancing with others, contact improvising, dancing with the divine. Things soon shifted and moved from the experience of 'being reactive' to 'laughing at the absurdity of it all' and finally to a sense of inloveness, self-love and connection, where right action then followed from. Also, during the night, whilst being half awake and half asleep, body scanning and feeling through, I had amazing signs of rightness in a very vivid dream. Fascinating!
Trust though is paramount! Trust in the divine, the unknown but also trust in the Sweet Darkness of vulnerability. How we inhabit vulnerability? Paraphrasing David Whyte: How intimate can we be with disappearance so that love, compassion and expansion flow through rather than fear, reluctance and control?
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
It's time to go into the night
where the dark has eyes
to recognize its own.
It's time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The dark will make a home for you tonight.
The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
David Whyte
Having completed writing, I now feel lighter and softer than when I started.
Blessings everyone.
Thanks for your kind words.28 January, 2017 - 18:07 — Aspasia
Thanks for your kind words.
Much love
Paradoxical revelations28 January, 2017 - 20:11 — erica r
Even as a response comes forth it feels suddenly fixed in time. Being within the density moving as each moment presents feels priceless. Who am I and why does that even matter as the collective unconsciousness of karma is playing itself out across all the land. The mirrors are blinding as people seem to look everywhere but inside themselves. The primitive tentacles lacing down with ever more control! The timeless Universal truths are spreading gaining momentum as the stone blocks weighing souls is ever so slowly chipped away, the pieces fall away to allow small slivers of light to transcend this time space capsule we seem to be caught within.
My creation isn't beautiful. It's not suppose to be within my knowing. I'm ok diving deep into the painful irrational dark painful 3d within all the lost souls and the cataclysmic chaos of so many beings who've lost sight of higher vibrational energy transfused from higher realms. It's those that I feel drawn to. This existence in a physical shell is the challenge. I'm ok with my heart breaking apart at the tragic realizations I may never be that beloved light worker. I will be ridiculed tormented as a learning experience for other souls caught desperately of their own unconscious ways that inflict harm to sentient beings. I hold their earthly hands that have killed harmed brutalized peaceful beings. What does that reflect about me that I chose that known creation? I feel the calling to higher dimensional landscapes that would be more aligned with the ascension of the soul to a more peaceful compassionate loving reality yet I find myself with murderers, liars, manipulative, controlling, spiteful, rapists, brutal beings. No matter how much I feel to transcend I am pulled into the darkest depths of the trenches within humanity. This is a baron landscape void of the sweet nectar of potential. It feels like an authentic creation should "feel" right or aligned with the souls purpose yet when I look through earthly eyes it's opposite and somehow I'm ok with that. This physical shell was manipulated at a cellular level to allow infusion of a higher dimensional energy to integrate realign transcend. It seemingly attracts the polar opposite.
Thank you Open for bringing words to all this to allow so many to see feel their own light. This is not the expression I thought would find it's way through but it's what I felt to share within this moment.
Much love
Thanks for Your post Erica, I29 January, 2017 - 07:55 — Kristian J
Thanks for Your post Erica, I can relate to the anguish and am glad that it feels to have catalysed something positive in me. Despite the dramatic circumstances You describe I can sense a strenght and purposefulness in the way put it. May You be blessed
posting30 January, 2017 - 10:15 — sandrajaneenah
Beloved ones....I am including a posting I put on my fb page last week...I have loved reading this journal although I have little time to spend on-line these days as my homeschooling is occupying much of my time. My passion is to now transfer all the Openhand work into direct experiences for children, beginning pre-birth onwards. Our global family is in peril right now. Many already know this first-hand, but most are asleep and insisting others sleepwalk as well. Children, however, left to their own expressions, naturally demonstrate what we as adults have long-lost. For example, at a birthday party for my grandson Campbell...who turned 4 yesterday...all his friends plopped down on the floor and everybody opened his gifts with him, sharing the wonder of it all, the joy of receiving even if the gifts would all be going home with him and not them. Somehow that didn't even matter..even to Campbell! It was the pure joy of friends discovering and opening gifts, unorganized by adults...noisy, chaotic oneness. ''YES'', I thought. ''THIS IS IT". And ''except ye be as little children....''. The presence of ''God'' is not some static pew-sitting mindless ritual. It is messy, with ribbon and tissue paper flying about. The very little babies actually enjoyed those things more than the contents the gifts contained. putting issue paper on their heads..ribbons dragging on the floor...All too soon the ''party'', this miniature ''kingdom of God'', was over and the children were reluctantly ushered out the door by matrix driven parents constrained by the time-limits and schedules of a matrix driven world. But there was a glimpse for a few moments...for those who had eyes to see and ears to hear...
My posting last week... This past week, as I have been off-line and have spent more quiet reflective time, again and again I have asked myself ''WHY'' and ''HOW'' did we come to be in this awful state-of-affairs? And again and again, the answer came…''Look at Donald Trump, now president of the most powerful nation in the world, because he is your mirror. He was able to ascend into this position, not because he bought his way into it, but because he is a reflection of humanity, of your own self, if you will only look within rather than without for your answers as to WHY and HOW, for only if you enter that process will you be able to truly make a difference and be the change you want to see in the world.''
In our haste to DO something after the global march last Saturday….'10 things we must do'….the most important thing is to look into that ''mirror'' set before us and be very honest…''Yes indeed, I helped create this mess'' by my addictions to my comforts, my car, my performance, my failure to let go of the fragile crutches society has given as the stability we have craved only to see them crumble before our eyes every day. I feel the pinch in my soul every time I fill up the car with gas, every time I pass by a homeless person on the streets, every time I hear about yet another shooting in KC and think maybe I should conceal and carry, every time I enter the grocery store with shelves and refrigerated stocked full and think 'there is coming a time when this will not be here', when I face the uncompassionate everywhere, glued in separation to their cell phones rather than speaking with each other…and another war heating up which will cost millions of lives and make money for the few… …
Yes indeed! We now have one of us, our shadow side, sitting in the White House, with the only priority being his own power and creating a family dictatorial dynasty. And how does that reflect back to me, to each one of us? That is The Spirit's question, and Her Invitation……
Open, this journal has been30 January, 2017 - 22:14 — Ann B
Open, this journal has been incredibly useful to me. It has made my January richer and I know I will be re-reading it many times throughout the year. As it is coming to a close my soul wants to express the following:
Some people make the world a better place just by being in it. I am grateful to have you.


text:
Robert J. Reveley '65 Delivers Annual Convocation Address to Muskingum Community
Robert Jennings Reveley delivered the Annual Convocation address to the Muskingum College community.
Mr. Reveley has created a distinguished and wide-ranging legacy, through his lifelong commitment to the pursuit of excellence and his devoted service to humankind.
A New Jersey native, Mr. Reveley graduated from Muskingum with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. He joined the Peace Corps, becoming a member of their first class to serve in impoverished urban environments. Assigned to Kingston, Jamaica, he taught physical education, coaching techniques, and literacy at a YMCA-sponsored Boys Town.
Mr. Reveley earned his Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia University in 1969. He began his business career with RCA, later joining Touche Ross & Co. as a management consultant. In 1977, he founded an independent realty firm and began developing New York City brownstone condominiums.
In 1986, he developed the $250-million John Jay College of Criminal Justice for the City University of New York (CUNY). Through this project, he pioneered innovative methods of capital structuring within the commercial real estate industry – enabling a multitude of organizations to advance their missions with new facilities that would not otherwise have been possible, and adding significant value to local, regional and national economies.
As a patron of the arts, Mr. Reveley's keen insight led him to select then-unknown Rafael Vinoly as the architect for John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The project launched Vinoly's United States career, leading to international recognition and commissions for performing arts centers, museums, major university academic buildings, and convention centers, including the Tokyo International Forum, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the world's largest green building, Pittsburgh's David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
Mr. Reveley and his wife, Julie, produced an off-Broadway play, Lily Dale, by Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winning playwright Horton Foote. It opened to critical acclaim and was named one of 1986's top ten shows by New York Times Theatre Critic Clive Barnes.
Robert Jennings Reveley is truly a citizen of the world, serving others through his time, talents and generous philanthropy, and furthering the work of dozens of civic, cultural, and education organization.
Mr. Reveley and his family currently reside in Palm Beach, Florida, where he manages Norsca Realty and serves as Chairman of the Board for The American Cancer Society of Palm Beach.
Maps & Directions
Academic Affairs
Undergraduate Admission
Financial Aid
Graduate & Continuing Studies
Business Office
Academic Catalogs


text:
We are in Charlottesville VA
Dangle this pair of red devils from your ears, and you'll be sure to capture attention!
And how vibrant are these! The tiny devils are cast in exquisite miniature detail, made of handpainted Peruvian ceramic. Look at the expression! To protect your ears, the ear wires are, of course, sterling silver!
Each set of earrings is individually handcrafted by jewelry artist Jackie Monticup of White Rabbit Jewelry here in Virginia, and is a one-of-a-kind creation. And she only made a few! When we sell out, they're GONE!


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One of the most difficult things to model with respect to climate change is the effect of aerosols, some of which reflect sunlight back up into space, thereby cooling the globe. Both human and natural activity create them. One piece of the puzzle is how to model the effect of the aerosols created by pine forests — but as the BBC reports, there has been a breakthrough:
One of the most significant but least understood sources of aerosols are the sweet-smelling vapors found in pine forests in North America, northern Europe and Russia. These aerosols have confounded climate models as scientists haven't been able to accurately predict how many of the particles form. Now an international team of researchers say they have solved the chemical mystery by which the rich odors become reflective, cooling particles.
Should world society fail to control carbon emissions, this could potentially be very helpful for future emergency geoengineering efforts, the most feasible of which involve dumping tons of aerosols into the atmosphere. Those aerosols probably wouldn't be pine vapors, though: in such a situation it will be important to understand the effects of that class of chemicals as thoroughly as possible. Ryan Cooper
At least six people were injured Sunday morning in a shooting at Burnett Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee, local officials say. An NBC News report says one person was killed.
Police were called around 11:15 a.m. with reports of multiple shots fired. The church's Sunday morning service began at 10 a.m.
The shooting victims have been transported to a nearby hospital, and Fox News reports one person has been taken into police custody. The identity and motives of the shooter are so far unknown.
This is a breaking story that will be updated as more details become available. Bonnie Kristian
Oakland A's catcher Bruce Maxwell became the first MLB player to join NFL players like Colin Kaepernick by kneeling in protest during the national anthem. Maxwell took a knee before his team's Saturday evening game against the Texas Rangers.
"My decision has been coming for a long time," he explained after the game. "I finally got to the point where I thought the inequality of man is being discussed, and it's being practiced from our president."
"The point of my kneeling is not to disrespect our military; it's not to disrespect our Constitution; it's not to disrespect this country," Maxwell continued. "My hand over my heart symbolizes the fact that I am and I'll forever be an American citizen, and I'm more than grateful to be here. But my kneeling is what is getting the attention because I'm kneeling for the people that don't have a voice."
Maxwell acted in response to President Trump's weekend attacks on Kaepernick and and other athletes who kneel during the anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice. "Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a bitch off the field right now?'" Trump asked a rally crowd Friday. Since Trump's initial comments, pro athletes, coaches, and owners have united in opposition to his remarks. Bonnie Kristian
Jacksonville Jaguars and Baltimore Ravens players in London for a game Sunday locked arms and took a knee during the U.S. national anthem in solidarity with athletes like Colin Kaepernick who have come under attack by President Trump this weekend. The teams' coaches and Jaguars owner Shahid Khan joined the gesture of defiance of Trump's critique of Kaepernick's stand against police brutality and racial injustice in America.
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— Jacksonville Jaguars (@Jaguars) September 24, 2017
Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti also issued a statement endorsing the athletes' right to protest on the field. "We respect [our players'] demonstration and support them 100 percent," he said. "All voices need to be heard. That's democracy in its highest form."
Meanwhile, Mike Tomlin, coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, announced Sunday that his team would not "participate in the anthem" in the afternoon game against the Chicago Bears. The Steelers have decided to stay in the locker room during the anthem, Tomlin said, so players aren't "forced to choose sides."
Rex Ryan, former coach of the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets, expressed dismay at Trump's comments while speaking on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown. "I supported Donald Trump," Ryan said. "But I'm reading these comments and it's appalling to me, and I'm sure it's appalling to almost any citizen in our country. It should be."
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who donated to Trump's inaugural festivities, said he was "deeply disappointed" in the president's statements. Bonnie Kristian
During an appearance on ABC's This Week Sunday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin addressed President Trump's weekend attacks on pro athletes like Colin Kaepernick who kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice.
Mnuchin argued free speech is not at issue because the NFL is a private organization which can set its own rules, eluding the question of how criticism from Trump, a government official, affects that equation. "This isn't about Democrats. It's not about Republicans. It's not about race; it's not about free speech. They can do free speech on their own time," Mnuchin said. "This is about respect for the military and first responders and the country."
Sec. Mnuchin to @MarthaRaddatz: "It's not about free speech." NFL players "can do free speech on their own time." https://t.co/vkSBFbgFz4 pic.twitter.com/0k0yRYTuus
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) September 24, 2017
The treasury secretary maintained Trump simply wants the NFL to require all athletes to stand during the national anthem, a specification Trump did not make when he tweeted that kneeling protests "should not be allowed."
Sec. Mnuchin on Pres. Trump's rhetoric on NFL players: "I think the president can use whatever language he wants to use." #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/v6nhtUDX7i
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) September 24, 2017
"The NFL has all different types of rules. You can't have stickers on your helmet; you have to have your jersey tucked in," Mnuchin said. "I think what the president is saying is that the owners should have a rule that players should have to stand in respect for the national anthem." Bonnie Kristian
Germans head to the polls Sunday in a vote anticipated to give Chancellor Angela Merkel her fourth term in office. Her center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is predicted to take about 34 percent of Bundestag seats with which it will form a coalition government with Merkel again at the head.
"There are a lot of problems in other countries, think Donald Trump or Brexit," one Berlin voter told NBC News. "With Merkel there is a sense that there is no great problem that she couldn't overcome, and that she's a politician you can trust."
Germany, election.de prognosis:
AfD-ENF: 80
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 54#btw17 #Germany pic.twitter.com/UhitWXu0Ab
— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) September 24, 2017
The growth of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party — which campaigned on a populist, anti-immigration message and could well become the Bundestag's third-largest party out of six represented — has raised alarm among many Germans concerned about extremism. Turnout is expected to be high. Bonnie Kristian
The National Weather Service of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Friday reported an "extremely dangerous situation" due to a potential dam failure threatening a region with 70,000 residents already grappling with the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Maria. But the damaged dam continued to hold as of Sunday morning, and evacuees began to return to their homes.
While the dam on Lake Guajataca remains compromised and a flash flood warning is in effect through Sunday afternoon, this is welcome respite for Puerto Ricans facing "apocalyptic" post-hurricane conditions. Aid is beginning to arrive to the island territory, where most Puerto Ricans remain without power and 95 percent of cell phone service sites are down.
Currently a Category 2 storm, Maria is expected to dissipate over the Atlantic Ocean later this week. Bonnie Kristian
President Trump again referred to Kim Jong Un as "Little Rocket Man" in a tweet Saturday night, the third iteration of the president's favorite new insult in his war of words with the North Korean leader:
Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much longer!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2017
On Thursday and Friday, Kim and Trump labeled each other a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" and "madman," respectively. Trump previously used "Rocket Man" during his United Nations speech Tuesday and at an Alabama campaign rally Friday.
The Saturday tweet came several hours after a group of U.S. bombers and fighter escorts flew well north of the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, staying over international waters but making a clear show of force toward Pyongyang. The Pentagon characterized the flight as a demonstration "that the president has many military options to defeat any threat."
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said Saturday Trump's insults make a North Korean strike on the U.S. mainland "more inevitable," calling Trump "President Evil." Bonnie Kristian


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Dei Cavalieri B&B
B&B Dei Cavalieri was born from the desire to offer the most demanding traveler a comfortable and stylish accommodation in a panoramic penthouse in the heart of Pisa.
The apartment is the 6th floor with lift, and has a large living room with fireplace where, in addition to breakfast, you can relax, read, watch TV, or socialize with other guests.
There's a terrace with views over the city, equipped with deckchairs and parasols.
Three rooms have private bathroom, one in the top superattico, another two with shared bath complete the apartment.
The bathrooms and rooms are equipped with linen TV, Hair dryer, soaps and courtesy set.
We offer a shuttle service to and from the airport, hospital or other destinations.
On your arrival, a member of the staff will be waiting for the delivery room and advise on key routes, restaurants, events, and more
In front of the B&B a there's a car park, free night and holidays.
We are in the city center in the square from which both the municipal bus line (Lam) or suburban bus line, to Tirrenia, Marina di Pisa or Pisa sorroundings.
Check-in time: from 12.00 am to 8.00 pm (For different arrival time please contact the direction)
Check-out time: until 10.30 am
The B&B is located in the center of Pisa. Cathedral and the Tower of Pisa a 5 minutes walk, as well as the Lungarni, the University, the City, the Teatro Verdi
The main shopping street Corso Italia is very closer to us
For the hospital or S Chiara Cisanello the Lam comfortable bus stop are in front of the B & B, as well as to the Palazzo dei Congressi.
The port of Livorno, where you can go to Sardinia or Isola d'elba, is only 18 km away.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
B&B Facilities & Policies
- Air Conditioning
- Airport Transfers
- Board Games
- Free Breakfast
- Cable TV
- Cots available
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Elevator
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
- Free WiFi
- Hair Dryers
- Hot Showers
- House Keeping
- Internet Access
- Laundry Facilities
- Luggage Storage
- No Curfew
- Non Smoking
- Towels Included
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 3 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
DirectionsShow MapHide Map
- FROM G. Galileo: bus LAM Rossa (3 km 8min) first stop in Via Crispi
- BY TRAIN - Pisa Centrale: 300 m walk: from Piazza della Stazione to proceed straight to Piazza Gramsci Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, turn left in Piazza Sant'Antonio, the BB is next to the Cassa di Risparmio di Volterra
- BY CAR FROM exit at Pisa - Center and take the 'Aurelia Pisa Viareggio (left), continue to the first traffic light (800 m), do not cross the Arno River and turn right into Via Conte Fazio at the lights , continue straight on Via Stampace, turn right into Via Romiti, turn left in Via Bixio to Piazza Sant'Antonio, the BB is next to the Cassa di Risparmio di Volterra
- BY CAR FROM THE FI - PI - LI exit 'SS1 Aurelia, exit at Airport go to the city center station, go to Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, turn left at the roundabout, then right: you are in Piazza Sant'Antonio, the BB is next Cassa di Risparmio di Volterra
Located Near
The B & B Dei Cavalieri is located in the center of the city of Pisa in Piazza Sant'Antonio, number 4 on the top floor with lift.
From the panoramic terrace offering a spectacular view over the city.
The privileged location allows you to walk to the sights as the areas of greatest interest of the city:
the Leaning Tower, the International Airport G. Galilei, the Normal School, the Congress Palace, the University, the train station (150mt), the Hospitals of Cisanello, Santa Chiara and CNR.
We are in the neighborhood of San Antonio, next to Corso Italia, the main street shopping area with many inns, restaurants,
supermarkets, pharmacies and banks.
The proximity to the CPT (the central bus station), allows you to quickly reach even the suburban areas.
We are in the heart of the historical centre.


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Florida Butter Bean (or Lima Bean) Soup with Ham and Cabbage
(Makes about 6-8 servings, recipe created by Kalyn when she had Rancho Gordo Florida Butter Beans.)
1 lb. Rancho Gordo Florida Butter Beans or baby lima beans (or use 3 or 4 15-oz. cans of butter beans if you can't find dried beans)
1 T olive oil
1 medium yellow onion, chopped small
1 cup chopped celery
1 tsp. dried thyme
2 quarts water
Goya Ham Bouillon or Penzeys ham flavor base, to taste (optional, but recommended if you want more ham flavor)
2 cups finely chopped green cabbage
2 cups finely diced ham (If you have a ham bone or some pieces of rind, by all means use them and remove when you serve the soup.)
fresh ground black pepper to taste
Cook dried beans at a low simmer until they are starting to soften, adding a little more water occasionally if needed. (This could take an hour or more, depending on how fresh the beans are.) Cook canned beans about 20 minutes at a low simmer.
When beans feel like they are about 3/4 soft (when you bite down on one) add Penzeys ham flavor base (if using), finely chopped cabbage, and finely diced ham. Cook about 30 minutes more (or maybe a little longer for canned beans), until beans are very soft, soup broth is very flavorful, and most of the cabbage has disintegrated into the soup. Season to taste with fresh ground black pepper and serve hot.
South Beach Suggestions:
Dried beans are approved for all phases of the South Beach Diet, but the serving size is limited for phase one. Since this soup has other things besides beans, you could eat a small bowl for phase one or a larger bowl for phase two or three.
Nutritional Information?
I chose the South Beach Diet to manage my weight partly so I wouldn't have to count calories, carbs, points, or fat grams, but if you want nutritional information for a recipe, I recommend entering the recipe into Calorie Count, which will calculate it for you.
More Recipes Using Butter Beans or Large White Beans:
(Recipes from other blogs may not be South Beach Diet friendly, check ingredients.)
Ottolenghi's Fried Beans with Sorrel, Feta, and Sumac ~ David Lebovitz
Spanish Chicken Baked with Butter Beans, Chorizo, and Olives ~ Cook Sister
Southern Butter Beans ~ Never Enough Thyme
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Competition Alert! Submit Your Looks to the INDIE HAIR Contest
Love to get your style on? Lucky for you, INDIE HAIR's styling contest is officially on! Submit pics of two looks on the same model using INDIE HAIR products for a chance to win an iPad mini and for YOUR work to be featured in an issue MODERN SALON magazine! Pretty sweet, right? The best part about this contest is you can enter EVEN IF you don't use the product line in your salon—just get it at your local CosmoProf store or through your Scruples Distributor.
THE DETAILS: Simply create two separate looks using INDIE HAIR products (selfies are welcome) and submit the following to [email protected] between August 1-31. Along with your submission, please provide your name, address and phone number, and which products you used. Judging begins September 1, 2013 by a selected INDIE HAIR panel. Winners will be announced November 1 and the winners will be highlighted on INDIE's online/social networks: myindiehair.com, Twitter: @myindiehair, Facebook: facebook.com/indiehair and Instagram: @indiehair. Stay tuned to modernsalon.com for updates on the contest and for when we announce the winners!
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Growers and distributors who've joined the revamped Georgia Grown program, now in its second year, are excited about the program's potential.
"It's been a really big plus for us," said Tim Mercier, owner of Blue Ridge-based Mercier Orchards, one of the state's largest apple grower-shippers.
"In the past, a lot of suppliers would stay with Washington or some of the other growing areas and not even try to source local apples," Mercier said.
"The Georgia Grown program has increased the demand for local apples tremendously," he said. "We now have access to institutional markets such as schools, where nutritionists are requesting Georgia apples, and a lot of chain stores want to feature locally grown fruit, another big plus."
Benjamin Pruett, communications director for Destiny Organics in the Atlanta state farmers market in Forest Park, said the program's success has encouraged Destiny to source as much organic produce as possible from local growers for its wholesale, foodservice and retail customers, which include Kroger supermarkets.
"We're working hard with our farmers, producers and vendors and with the department of agriculture to make sure that the products are labeled correctly so they're easily identifiable as Georgia Grown," said Pruett, who is sourcing organic pumpkins, squash, tomatoes and pecans in September.
"Consumers now have the opportunity to buy some of the best products in the country," he said, "and we're strengthening the local economy."
The program also gives Destiny and other Georgia Grown partners exposure at events such as producer showcases and the Georgia National Fair in October, Pruett said.
According to a recent study by the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, each 5% increase in locally grown products sold adds about $44 million to Georgia's economy and 345 jobs.
Mary Kathryn Yearta, chief communications officer for the department of agriculture in Atlanta, said her department also has had fantastic support from Harvey's Supermarkets in southern Georgia, which showcases local products with its Georgia Grown displays.
The department also has partnered with the Georgia Restaurant Association to promote local food in the state's 16,000 restaurants.
In addition, four executive chefs have been chosen as 2013 ambassadors to offer training and recipe development for school culinary and nutrition programs.
"Georgia Grown has been such a success, we can't keep up with how many people who are interested in it," Yearta said.
"Everybody has lots of really good ideas, and there's so much to do it's been a problem getting the manpower to keep up with everything."


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Online primary voting for the third annual Nebraskas Best Burger contest concluded on March 30, with The Cellar in Kearney receiving the most votes.
The Cellar is no stranger to the contest, having won Nebraskas Best Burger contest in 2011. So, it is not eligible to recieve the best burger award again.
More than 2,100 nominations were submitted through the online voting system on the Nebraska Beef Council website during March, Beef Council spokesman Adam Wegner said.
The following top 5 restaurants will be reviewed by judges to determine the best burger, Wegner said.
Nebraskas Best Burger Finalists:
Dinkers Bar (Haystack Burger) Omaha
Gretas Gourmet (Greta Burger) Lincoln
Peppermill & E.K. Valentine Lounge (Joseph Angus Burger) - Valentine
Tommy Colinas Kitchen (Triple B Burger) Omaha
Union Bar (Diet Burger) - Gering
A panel of anonymous judges will evaluate the top nominated burger at each restaurant based on taste, proper cooking and appearance.
The winning restaurant will be announced at the end of April and will be recognized by the beef industry as part of Nebraska Beef Month in May.
For more information on the finalists and contest results, visit www.nebeef.org.
The contest is part of the Beef Council's marketing and promotion programs, funded by the $1 beef checkoff.
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VOLUNTEER police cadets from Taunton have been presented with Pride Awards by Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens for their assistance during the flooding earlier this year.
They were among the flooding action plan team who helped people on the Somerset Levels cut off by flooding between December and March.
Ms Sue Mountstevens said: "The cadets should be hugely proud of their fantastic effort in supporting all those affected by the flooding.
"Having witnessed first-hand the destruction the flooding caused so many families it is important the cadets know what a difference their tireless work made.
"This is an incredible achievement for the cadets involved.
"The work they do more widely is a shining example of the positive impact young people can have in their communities.
"The cadets have gone above and beyond what is expected of them.
"For young people who are representing the policing service I feel incredibly proud of their tenacity, enthusiasm and maturity, supporting the wider Avon and Somerset policing teams in keeping local communities feeling safe."
Taunton cadets receiving awards were Laurie Garrett, Holly Conquer, Jowan Penberthy, Becky Preece, Danni Barnes, Sam Causley, Helen Hayes, Mitchell Brooks, Helen Thorne and Mark Bell.


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Pure White hotel is a 4* hotel situated on the border of the historical centre of Prague, 10 minutes walk to the famous Wenceslas Square. Set in a historical, yet modern building, the Pure White offers air-conditioned rooms with minibars and TVs. Free Wi-Fi is available in the entire property.
The interiors were designed by the award-winning Jestico & Whiles. The rooms are elegantly designed and feature design furniture, a flatscreen TV, a notebook sized safe and free tea and coffee making facilities. The bathrooms come with bathtubs and toiletries. The 37 designer rooms offer the choice of staying in a luxury room packed with everything you might need during your stay in the Golden city. Our aim is not to make you feel like home, but to make you want us to be your home. The hotel is 200 metres away from the I. P. Pavlova metro station and 500 metres from Prague's Botanical Garden. Guests can visit numerous bars and restaurants serving Czech and international cuisine in the vicinity. The park of Folimanka and Havlickovy Sady are within easy walking distance from the Pure White.
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