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Atlas/Forms of Water 2019
As the finale of this show and thus this post, I offer a beautifully produced recording of my interview with audience Q&A by Brett Barry of Silver Hollow Audio. This discussion ranges from my decades of contemporary landscape painting to the environmental themes of this show to the gallery-artist relationship. You can listen here:
Water is ease, water is in our dreams, water kills. Water is 60% of our bodies and covers 71% of the planet. We float, swim, sink, ride on, drink, cook and grow with, own, fight over, drown in, boil, crave, gaze at, and are mesmerized by water. It bears repeating: Water is life.
Water use has also been political since the beginning of our time on earth. As thirst, water rights and fights; severe storms; droughts, fires, floods; and sea level rise become increasingly critical on much of the planet, I have been catapulted into creating an expanded rubric for water imagery in my work. This focuses in on our environment and the challenges it faces, while continuing to celebrate the beauty our planet provides.
Atlas /Forms of Water maps the environmental theme while mapping my body of work, revealing a web of meaning around and between the individual pieces that I create. The matrix that connects all of my landscape imagery is saturated with memory, both personal and collective. To make these connections, I have created a site map for the body of work on view.
Maps functions as an aid to find our way. In this context, I am mapping our bodies and states of water; the paintings in the exhibit; memory and self; and threats to our environment, among other, more elusive things.
The Site Map has small monotypes running up both sides that are interpretations of the major paintings in the show. The four other prints are a conversation about threats from global warming: bigger hurricanes in upper left; sea-level rise in upper right: and stream/river flooding in the two at bottom, before and after.
At the top, I have included topographical contours, a loose and flattened version of the Escarpment that curves around Woodstock and then runs north parallel to the Hudson River.
Mountains are the first source of our surface water, and the painting below includes that form of water visible as the Catskill Mountains rising above the back shore, as well as mists, a cloud, and the Hudson River.
Another new collaged map for the show is of the NYC watershed, water tunnels included. New York City has negotiated—and renegotiated, multiple times—a pass on national regulations that mandate the filtering of drinking water. This exemption is a huge deal, and requires constant monitoring and regulation of the watershed townships within the areas shown, and many mandates for property owners to keep the water flowing into NYC reservoirs clean. While this makes our relationship to our larger neighbor to the south a complex and co-dependent one, it also has transformed our stewardship of our land and streams.
The below same-size collage from the year before is of the Hudson Canyon, which is essentially an underwater extension of the Hudson River, extending southeast until it drops off the continental shelf.
Also in mixed media/collage, "Forms of Water: A Taxonomy". This small tintype drawer contains the following seven categories, from the top row moving down: states and phases of visible water; geographical bodies of water; wetlands; types of clouds; storms; waves; and human made forms of water.
Creating pieces in vintage boxes, drawers, muffin pans, and child's blackboards has been one of my ongoing series for some years now. It requires a listening attitude to select and then bend the imagery to work with the support that I have chosen, starting the process in a different way from a blank canvas. In the below piece, the box and the piece of wood that I painted on had elements that determined both what imagery I chose and how I painted it.
For decades now, I have been devoted to painting fog, suspended water that softens our landscapes, sometimes obscuring, sometimes defining:
Many of my paintings depict wetlands, so gorgeous and vital for controlling flooding caused by excessive rain events, storms, tidal flooding, and sea-level rise; as well as filtering sediment in water and providing habitat for wildlife. Visually, salt marshes in particular create color and shape that I return to paint over and over again.
Manmade forms of water are included in the show, as seen in the flood image near the top and in the vertical painting below, which depicts a wetland developed by humans to cultivate cranberries.
The pieces in the show include landscape imagery in oil on linen; monotypes; small works in oil on board; water imagery using vintage boxes, blackboards, and other containers/support; and map collages.
I was motivated in fall of 2016 to move towards creating shows that place my open, color-field landscapes within a complex experiential web. Three major factors came into play at just that time.
The first was anticipation of a residency in Nantucket scheduled for that winter, and this dovetailed with the second, some thoughts about turning 60 later on in 2018. Given that my background is in contemporary art and that I have always viewed my progressions in landscape painting through that lens; my question to self was—what do I want to do, now, that I haven't yet?
Among my answers to this question was learning monoprint and linocut techniques, which I now employ both for stand-alone prints and also for the Site Map. Below, some recent monotypes.
The third factor was key. Feeling profound grief over the outcome of the 2016 election, my mind returned repeatedly to the single biggest issue on the table, climate change. The conviction that time is running out here and that four years could be critical was decisive in determining the direction that my work has since taken. The acceleration of bad news in this arena since then is eye-popping—sea level rise predictions alone are much, much higher and sooner than was predicted while I was researching the topic in my February, 2017 Nantucket residency.
Snow and ice appear in my work and in the context of Atlas/Forms of Water, depict one of the main three phases of water, solid.
Water vapor, the gaseous state of water, is invisible. The closest thing that is visible is steam, such as the image of a geyser below.
Globally, precipitation has shifted so that many of the wet places are wetter and the dry locales are dryer. For this reason, I decided to create and include several pieces that depict water's opposite, fire.
My imagery is heavily weighted toward the Northeast of the United States, as that is where I have spent much of my life. But I could be anywhere on the planet, exploring the same themes, and I bring with me memories of living in the arid Andes and central Castile; painting in rain-soaked Western Ireland; traveling Northern California to capture the coastal golden hillsides of late summer; and returning to the Nebraska flatlands of my early childhood. It all informs the matrix. It is all water.
This show builds upon my Atlas/Hudson River Valley show in March of 2017, which you can read about here:
We are collaborating with Riverkeeper and Catskill Mountainkeeper on a fundraising benefit October 12th, 5-8. That evening, 15% of sales will go to these vital local environmental organizations, as well as the proceeds of a raffle for this 12″x12″ painting:
(Note: Raffle was drawn on 11-16. Tickets were $20. We raised almost $1,300 from the raffle alone!)
Sweetest Sales, Part Two
In 2011 I wrote a post describing some quirky and heartwarming stories that led to a sale or sales of my work:
Since then, I have accumulated a few more that I want to share.
My seven-year-old collector:
Several years ago I was approached by acquaintances who live in our little hamlet. Could their younger daughter interview me for a school project on her favorite artist?
Juliet had accompanied her father Brett to an open studio I had hosted several months prior, and so thought of me (the other kids did mostly Picasso or Van Gogh, I think!).
So we did that, and then Juliet returned to my studio for a private art class. Her mom, Rebecca–who I barely knew, at that point—read in the yard while we did our session, and at the end she came into the studio and we chatted. Juliet was still quite shy at that time, but summoned her courage to ask me how much I charged for my paintings. Her mother feared that the question was rude, but I said, no, that asking for price in an artist's studio was perfectly acceptable.
So I pointed to a 36″x36″ and said, "This painting will go out to one of my galleries shortly and is priced at $6,000", and then I pointed to a few other pieces in a stack and continued, "but those pieces in this stack" and I pulled out one that had been in the possession of my sister for years, "are much, much older and I will sell to a friend for a few hundred dollars".
Her mom and I continued chatting, and then Juliet tugged on her mothers clothing. "MOM, I want to buy a painting." Rebecca was floored and a little embarrassed, so I picked up what I thought was just a conversational ball. "Juliet, if you were going to buy a painting, which one would it be?
"That one"—she pointed to the stack, where I had stashed the earlier piece behind a few others. I pulled it out again. "I want to buy THAT one." Her mom tried to backtrack, or at least table the conversation for later, but Juliet was having none of it. "How much would you charge me for it?"
I thought quickly. I could certainly have happily gifted her the piece, it was clear that she wanted to purchase it. So I told her that I would sell that painting to her for $150. "MOM, she said, I have savings and I WANT to buy the painting." It went back and forth like that for a bit, Juliet also insisting that they take the painting NOW.
And so they did.
Her parents made the great call to have her go with them to the bank and make her first ever withdrawal and then bring me the money herself.
The angelic-looking and very strong-willed young artist:
I have since enjoyed getting to know the whole family better, as Brett and Rebecca have acquired a few pieces of their own and we have shared a glass of wine or two.
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She googled "Moody Greenscapes":
And the study for the piece:
So that was just about that for that, as she explained:
Painting from 1987:
A few months ago I received an email from a fellow asking about the inspiration for this painting:
I have to say, I was very excited to see this piece, to me a standout from my abstract figurative period in the 1980's when I was living in NYC. I remembered the sale of it to a woman who was accustomed to collecting high-end work, and I had always wondered if/how long she had held onto it. Frankly, given what else she had on her walls in her Sutton Place apartment, I was afraid that it had ended up in a dumpster.
It turned out that she does indeed really love her art–all of it, no dumpsters—even those pieces that have been switched around to different residences and in and out of storage. A few years ago, she offered to gift this piece to her sometimes personal assistant/friend and her husband. And so, it ended up in their California home…and sparked the inquiry.
I was communicating with Rich, the husband, batting info back and forth. Eventually, it was his idea to purchase two small pieces to go on either side, accommodating their budget. After studying the photo of their living room with the painting (which we started calling simply the "Sisters" painting, as is is a stylized image of me with my sister Karin behind me), I realized that monotypes would be the best bet, both for color/affect and for price. I recommended going with the pop of warm color that is in the painting, rather than trying to match the greens.
Then the couple decided that they wanted two more prints, for other spots in the room. I sent the four of them off and the next day got the email below:
"Love them! Thank you. I can't wait to get them framed!
These are the other two that they acquired:
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Does a gift qualify as a sale?
Some 12 or so years ago we had a holiday party and Gary Alexander, art and science writer from Woodstock, came with his girlfriend. He had been introduced to me years before by my then-gallery, the James Cox Gallery, and had gone on to, over time, write extensively about my work. (This included an 8 page article that got into Freud and brain science and required some serious focus, even for me.)
I had my studio heated and lit that night for those who wanted to take a look, and Gary, of course, did. After a bit of circulating on his part, we went out together and he pretty quickly got snagged by a 36″x36″ painting that was almost totally in black and white, big stormy sky gleam over our Catskill mountains backlit to black.
I can't find a jpeg of the piece, but it had a look very similar to this one, but with a black mountain range in front:
A bit later, when I went back out with another friend, Gary's partner was kneeing on the floor, rapt, in front of the same painting.
A few months later, this piece began to—ugh!—develop fine cracks in the surface. It was a new brand of stretched linen I had tried, quite pricey, and I think now was actually stretched too tight, a rare thing. Sadly, this painting was not going out to one of my galleries, even though these cracks were not visible from a few yards back.
I knew immediately what to do. I called Gary and left a message on his machine. Can you come by the studio, I have a surprise for you?
He was there within the hour. A gentle, laconic fellow, he did not stay around to chat after I gave him the painting, but his face said it all.
I am quite sure that it was the last time I saw him. He passed away in 2017.
I hope his girlfriend is still enjoying the painting.
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To Madrid on the private jet:
One more, a quick one, because that is how the sale happened.
In June of 2017 a fellow was drawn into my gallery on Martha's Vineyard, the Louisa Gould Gallery, by a very large marsh painting in the window. That piece was too big, but sitting still wrapped in the gallery was my season's delivery, dropped by my husband earlier that day. The fellow, from Madrid, helped unwrap a new 44″x68″, and fell in love with the piece instantly. His wife concurred. Problem was, would it fit in their private jet?
Just then, his pilot walked by the front of the gallery and was promptly hailed. Would this piece fit? Hurried consultation in Spanish. Yes, it would!
The piece was wrapped back up and invoiced and paid for, and out the door it went.
The whole encounter took about 20 minutes.
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I have been steadily selling my work for decades, resulting in many hundreds of pieces going out to homes, offices, and public collections around the country and the world. These stories remind me to be grateful for each and every one of those sales, but you can see that most of the ones that stick with me are not necessarily big in dollar amount, but big in heart.
Eagle Above, Fish Below: Summer 2018
The surface of a body of water is a reflective, moving, open expanse. Beneath it, the water roils with life—rooted or crawling or burrowing or swimming, lifeforms going about their business of feeding off of each other and reproducing and eventually dying. Above it, life also carries on.
One day last July, while staying on Otsego Lake near Cooperstown, NY, I headed to the dock to sit and gaze at the water for a few moments. Looking down at the dock to find my seat, I heard a throaty, loud honk/squack. We had been enjoying visits all week from a mama duck and her nine ducklings, so my first thought as I turned my head was, "that was not a duck!".
Nothing behind me, but as I straightened to face the side I was now seated at, I saw an adult eagle taking off from the water about 25 feet in front of me. It had been addressing my intrusion, I think!
Shortly after, I decided to make a call to my friend Jenny, with whom I had been playing phone tag. I got her voicemail, and the message went something like this: "Hi Jenny, we're playing phone tag but I am around today so give a OH MY GOD THAT IT THE BIGGEST *#!%ING FISH I HAVE EVER SEEN IN A LAKE GOTTA GO BYE".
The fish was directly below my dangling feet, at least two feet across, lit up by slanting sunlight. I know there are fish in these waters, despite an altered ecology due to Zebra mussels—my husband has caught some other years from our small boat and I have seen them feeding off of bugs at sunset. And yet, it was as if this big fish had crawled up on land and joined us on the deck for cocktails, such was my sense of worlds colliding.
I am puzzling out, ever since, what was so startling about this fish sighting. After all, I have been among whales in our 16 foot boat off Race Point in Provincetown—including a pod of killer whales; froliked with a mola and some dolphins in the harbor; snorkled off St. Thomas among all sorts and sizes of sea life.
I think that my jolt of surprise was about expectations, so often the case. I had for days been focused on the surface reflections, and I lost track of the awareness of how much is going on underneath and that during my daily swims, I was intruding upon their busy world. Seeing this large fish directly under my feet brought that crashing back.
As artists we are concerned with both surface appearance and deeper function and meaning. The surface is mesmerizing and ever-changing, feeding our visually-linked emotional hunger, and soothing our quotidian bumps and bruises. The complicated churn beneath, however, mirrors life in its day-to-day, demanding a nuanced and dedicated attention.
This summer has served to remind me of how much I appreciate my galleries. It can be rewarding, sometimes, to hop off that train and do something self-generated like an open studio or studio tour; or an event at a non-gallery venue. But ultimately, a gallery is where people go to view and buy art. It is a business whose purpose is to exhibit and sell art, and therefore all effort is going to that end.
Invitations generally go out in a timely fashion, instead of getting buried in the more pressing things that a non-gallery venue might have to attend to. The galleriest installs the show, with beautiful results based on years of experience. Folks walk in off the streets who are interested in art; search for the local galleries when visiting; respond to invites. A showing of a grouping of selected works in a collector's home gets on the schedule without delay, follow-ups are done to inquiries as a matter of course…and so on.
That said, the mom-and-pop galleries struggle to stay afloat, with many more friends and lookers than buyers. So collectors, please support your favorite galleries!
And if you are an artist with gallery representation, this is how you can help:
I had a lovely time teaching this past June in Woodstock and August on Nantucket, with a full house for my color-mixing workshop in both places.
These are the demo pieces that came out of the two landscape workshops:
My week on Nantucket was filled with not only with my wonderful students, but also with salt air and good food and warm friendship.
I organized an informal gathering at Thomas Henry Gallery so that my students could see my work there, all of the sea or the island:
The Woodstock School of Art invitational Monothon in July was a printmaker's dream. Imagine having a printing staff at your beck and call, both master printmakers and monitors, facilitating your every move. Master printmaker Anthony Kirk guided and facilitated my hoped-for plan, my first monotype triptych (and then a few more).
One 8″x10″ was chosen from each participating artist, to be sold at the show there opening September 8th, 3-5pm This is my donation print that will be featured, followed by some of my other wave monotypes.
We will be featuring monotypes and my vintage series, along with oil paintings, in my grouping for the upcoming four-artist show at Albert Shahinian Fine Art in Rhinebeck, NY, their yearly Luminous Landscape exhibition. The show opens on September 29, 5-8pm.
Several of my summer sales:
One of my favorite pieces from the past decade, Perceived Acuity pleases me for its simplicity, movement, elegant shapes, and unusual color:
Link to in-studio available works in oil and on paper:
Coming right up, my teaching week in Provincetown, Sept. 17th for Color Mixing and 18-20th for the Landscape Painting Intensive. If you are feeling inspired and spontaneous, come and join us!
Also upcoming: another residency on Nantucket in November. My focus there and in my studio will be on Atlas/Forms of Water, from the sky to the land to the ocean, and everywhere in between.
Available Work/Studio/Works on Paper
These are works on paper, many of them unframed, currently in my studio. Often works on paper are an option that is more affordable than oil paintings. Several of my galleries and consultants also have a selection of framed or unframed pastels, most notably Albert Shahinian Fine Art in Rhinebeck, NY; JSO ART Associates in Westport CT, and Megan Peter Fine Art in Redbank, NJ.
Oil on paper:
Mixed Media/Collage (Of paper and other things, on board):
Shape and Mood: 2 Paintings so Alike and so Different
In representational art, the formal aspects of a painting can contribute to a narrative or mood just as readily as the descriptive. This is a theme that I discuss often in workshops, talks, and here on my blog. I recently finished two paintings of the same locale and time of year—same day, in fact—using a very similar palette that illustrate this point well.
In fact, the difference between them really boils down to the mood that the shapes create.
In "Lingering", below, the overall feel of the piece is warm and welcoming, despite the weather depicted being overcast. Putting ourselves in the scene, the misty/drizzly day creates a sheen and depth to colors in the marshes and a sense of intimacy—privacy, almost— within the landscape. On these sorts of days there are fewer people about; the air is thick and embracing; vistas tend to be limited. There is a boundary of trees at the horizon, enclosing the space.
On the formal side, the eye is led into the piece by the wide open shape of the tidal pool at the bottom left, and then is invited to move around by the directionality of soft edges and dispersed accumulations of detail. Variations of color within the areas of orange marsh grasses encourage the eye to linger. Sky and water are a mauve, relating to the coolest of the reds in the marsh.
I would describe "Lingering" as warm; friendly; intimate. And descriptive, for sure.
In the second piece, the color is the same but the feel is much bolder. Now we have a highly structured piece with assertive directionality. The eye is swept into the image by the strong zig-zag created by the edges of the marsh and moves back to a open area with minimal detail along the horizon. The detail that does exist is necessary to balance the composition, keeping the eye moving within the painting rather than being swept off to the right by the strong edges of the tidal creek.
The description of "Edge of Discovery" could include abstract; expansive; dynamic. Movement within structure.
As I was working on these pieces–about a month apart—I decided independently with each that the image needed some interest in the marsh as it went back in space. To create this, I added the back tidal pools in both cases, and then the evolving paintings clicked into place.
Even here, with a similar solution to a common problem, the feel of these pools is quite different. In "Lingering" there is quite a bit of detail to the two glimpses of white, while in "Edge of Discovery" the bit of water is minimal, austere (and right in the middle!), jibing with the overall reductive composition.
So, when we talk about mood in a landscape painting, we are discussing two things. One is the mood of the moment captured—how would it feel like to be there? The other is the feeling that the lines, shapes, and surface of the painting create for the viewer.
Color relates to both. It reflects the seasons; light; locale; and time of day of the views that we see around us. It also is inherently linked to mood and personal preference.
Kandinsky in his 1910 "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" posits that abstract elements have emotive power in their own right. In comparing these two paintings, it becomes clear how the shapes with their edges and directionality and the overall composition that they create impact the mood projected.
Unlike with color, many people are not consciously aware that these particular formal aspects are actively contributing to their experience of a representational painting. It is up to the artist to be adept at exploring the endless possibilities of these pictoral tools as the painting is being shaped, narrowing the gap between a good painting and an excellent one and finding variation in feel from piece to piece.


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Royal Wedding Merch, From Prayer Candles to Over-the-Top T-Shirts
See some of the cutest and weirdest royal wedding merch, from swimsuits to shortbread biscuits.
The Royal Wedding is mere days away, and the excitement is palpable on both sides of the Atlantic. Guests are flying in, feasts are being prepped, and the Queen has given her official consent to the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. So, what better time to stock up on royal wedding supplies?
From festive gold banners to Harry and Meghan-covered T-shirts (and, er, one-piece swimsuits), there's certainly no shortage of goodies out there to mark the occasion. We went ahead and rounded up nine of the cutest, wackiest, and most delicious Royal Wedding-themed bits and bobs from both the bride and groom's home countries to help you celebrate the big day – even if you didn't manage to snag an invite (don't stress, though, neither did Rihanna)…

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Is Your Corporate Knowledge Walking Out The Door?
According to AARP the Baby Boomers are retiring at a rate of one every six seconds. Most companies are not prepared for this wealth of knowledge to walk out the door. Think for a moment of the characteristics of this generation:
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Fatigue: What are the biomechanical consequences, and what do they mean?
A brand new paper is making some real sense of the effect of fatigue on altered biomechanics.
And, if we understand how movement patterns change with fatigue, we can understand more about injury a LOT more!
The paper is entitled: Effects of fatigue on lower limb, pelvis and trunk kinematics and muscle activation: Gender differences, Lessi et al, Journal of Electromyography and KinesiologyVolume 32, February 2017, Pages 9-14.
As one can determine from the title, this paper not only looks at the effects of fatigue on gait mechanics, but how these effects differ between men and women.
As such, I consider this a very important paper.
The conclusions are as follows, and the paper may be read in its entirety here: fatigue gait biomechanics gender.pdf
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Michael Flynn re-emerges as major witness in Robert Mueller's inquiry – and at least two others
WASHINGTON – Amongst the blacked-out courtroom papers outlining the intensive cooperation Michael Flynn offered to Russia particular counsel Robert Mueller is a strong acknowledgement that President Donald Trump's former nationwide safety adviser has been aiding not solely Mueller's inquiry however at the least two different investigations.
The themes of the investigations weren't recognized nor did the paperwork elaborate on Flynn's particular contributions to every.
But the brand new courtroom submitting, nevertheless spare, alerts that the retired Military lieutenant normal – who had largely light from the general public stage since his responsible plea final yr – is prone to play an more and more bigger position because the investigations shadowing the Trump administration grind to a conclusion.
The delicate nature of Flynn's cooperation, prosecutors argued, required that the main points stay underneath seal, including that the "profit is probably not totally realized at the moment as a result of the investigations wherein he has offered help are ongoing."
"The defendant offered first-hand details about the content material and context of interactions between the (Trump) transition group and Russian authorities officers," the courtroom paperwork state.
Mueller's conclusions, authorized analysts mentioned, probably served as a blunt warning to members of the administration who labored carefully with the previous nationwide safety adviser and had been consulted on his Russian contacts, particularly involving Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Flynn's cooperation was secured final yr as a part of his responsible plea to mendacity to the FBI partly about his pre-inaugural contacts with Kislyak associated to sanctions imposed by the Obama administration for Russia's interference within the 2016 marketing campaign.
"The message that this sends, given Flynn's central position within the transition (to the Trump administration), is that if transition members usually are not totally lawyered-up but, they need to accomplish that now," mentioned Ilene Jaroslaw, a former federal prosecutor who as soon as labored carefully with Mueller's high aides within the Brooklyn U.S. Lawyer's Workplace.
"This doc, although it's closely redacted, speaks louder than any public assertion or press convention might ever accomplish."
Notably hanging, Jaroslaw mentioned, was the reference to the scope of Flynn's cooperation, which was offered in the course of the course of 19 separate interviews with Mueller's group in the course of the previous yr.
Jaroslaw mentioned the variety of interviews, whereas substantial, was not essentially stunning given Flynn's central position as a overseas coverage adviser in the course of the marketing campaign and later throughout his temporary time as nationwide safety adviser.
Mueller's group probably wanted broad entry to Flynn as they sought to corroborate the testimony of different key witnesses. Certainly, in the 17 months since Mueller was appointed to steer the investigation, his prosecutors, together with Andrew Weissmann, have established a hard-charging repute in coping with cooperating witnesses.n
"You need to do not forget that Andrew (Weissmann) flipped 'Sammy The Bull,' " Jarolsaw mentioned, referring to Gambino crime household boss-turned-informant Salvatore Gravano.
Although little is publicly recognized about Flynn's position as witness within the two different investigations referenced within the courtroom paperwork, former Chicago federal prosecutor Greg Deis mentioned Mueller's reference to them "clearly telegraphs to those that do find out about these instances that there are others within the cross-hairs."
Deis mentioned the paperwork, along with informing the Flynn's sentencing choose concerning the stage of his cooperation, additionally function a public attraction for others potential witness to return ahead.
Mueller's advice that Flynn serve no jail time, Deis mentioned, sends a message that "there will be vital upside" to cooperating with the particular counsel.
Deis mentioned that message is especially well timed, given the current collapse of Mueller's cooperation settlement with former Trump marketing campaign chairman Paul Manafort, prompting Trump to counsel that Manafort might be eligible for a pardon.
Manafort, convicted of monetary fraud, repeatedly lied to federal investigators after agreeing to cooperate with Mueller's group in September, prosecutors mentioned.
"That (pardon dialogue) was probably not misplaced on the particular counsel," Deis mentioned.
David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor in Miami, mentioned the Flynn memo revealed how a witness can definitely profit if the cooperation comes is full and comes early.
"The message that it sends is that if (cooperation) is available in early, when you settle for accountability for what you've carried out and also you're truthful about what your cooperation is … you're going to be rewarded for that," Weinstein mentioned.
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Today in the department store parking lot Vivian found a wide, slippery concrete slope, seemingly impossible for her to negotiate alone. She turned to me, hand out, a trusting smile. A memory came back to me. Weeks earlier when at dinner at an outdoor restaurant, Vivian scaled down the side of a platform almost as high as she was without any help. She followed the steps my wife and I had taught her to perfection and I congratulated her and half-jokingly whispered: "I'm proud and sad you might not need your dad much longer." An elderly man sitting within earshot smiled and looked at me.
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Authenticate access with personal access tokens
Azure DevOps Services | Azure DevOps Server 2019 | TFS 2018 | TFS 2017
Personal access tokens (PATs) are alternate passwords that you can use to authenticate into Azure DevOps. In this article, learn how to create or revoke PATs.
If you're working on a larger application or project, we recommend you review our authentication guidance to help you choose the correct authentication mechanism. For smaller projects that require a less robust solution, personal access tokens are a simple alternative. Be aware that unless your users are using a credential manager, they'll have to enter their credentials each time.
Azure DevOps uses enterprise-grade authentication to help protect and secure your data. Clients like Visual Studio and Eclipse (with the Team Explorer Everywhere plug-in) also support Microsoft account and Azure AD authentication. Since PATs are an alternate form of user authentication, using a PAT gives you the same access level. If you create a PAT with a narrower scope, your access is limited to that scope.
For non-Microsoft tools that integrate into Azure DevOps but don't support Microsoft account or Azure AD authentication, you must use PATs. Examples include Git, NuGet, or Xcode. To set up PATs for non-Microsoft tools, use Git credential managers or create them manually.
Create personal access tokens to authenticate access
To enable the new user interface for the Project Permissions Settings Page, see Enable preview features.
Sign in to your organization in Azure DevOps (
From your home page, open your user settings, and then select Profile.
Under Security, select Personal access tokens, and then select + New Token.
Name your token, select the organization where you want to use the token, and then choose a lifespan for your token.
Select the scopes for this token to authorize for your specific tasks.
For example, to create a token to enable a build and release agent to authenticate to Azure DevOps Services, limit your token's scope to Agent Pools (Read & manage). To read audit log events, and manage and delete streams, select Read Audit Log, and then select Create.
When you're done, make sure to copy the token. You'll use this token as your password.
Sign in to your Team Foundation Server web portal (
From your home page, open your profile. Go to your security details.
Create a personal access token.
Name your token. Select a lifespan for your token.
If you're using Azure DevOps Services, and you have more than one organization, you can also select the organization where you want to use the token.
Select the scopes for this token to authorize for your specific tasks.
For example, to create a token to enable a build and release agent to authenticate to TFS, limit your token's scope to Agent Pools (read, manage).
When you're done, make sure to copy the token. You'll use this token as your password. Select Close.
Use your personal access token
Your token is your identity and represents you when it's used. Keep your tokens secret and treat them like your password.
See the following examples of using your PAT.
- Username: yourPAT
- Password: yourPAT
- git clone https://anything:{firstname.lastname@example.com/yourOrgName/yourProjectName/_git/yourRepoName
To keep your token more secure, use credential managers so you don't have to enter your credentials every time. We recommend the following credential managers:
- Git Credential Manager for macOS and Linux
- Git Credential Manager for Windows (requires Git for Windows)
Revoke personal access tokens to remove access
When you don't need your token anymore, just revoke it to remove access.
To enable the new user interface for the Project Permissions Settings Page, see Enable preview features.
From your home page, open your user settings, and then select Profile.
Under Security, select Personal access tokens. Select the token for which you want to revoke access, and then select Revoke.
Select Revoke in the confirmation dialog.
Related articles
- For more information about how security and identity are managed, see About security and identity.
- For more information about permissions and access levels for common user tasks, see Default permissions and access for Azure DevOps.
- For more information about how administrators can revoke organization user PATs, see Revoke other users' personal access tokens.
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
Q: What is my Azure DevOps Services URL?
A: https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}
Q: Can I regenerate a PAT?
A: No, but you can extend a PAT or modify its scope.
Q: Is there a way to renew a PAT via rest API?
A: No, we don't have a rest API to renew a PAT. It has to be done within the user interface (UI).
Q: Where can I learn more about how to use PATs?
A: For examples of how to use PATs, see Git credential managers, REST APIs, NuGet on a Mac, and Reporting clients.
Q: What notifications will I get about my PAT?
A: Users receive two notifications during the lifetime of a PAT, one at creation and the other seven days before the expiration.
The following notification is sent at PAT creation:
The following notification is sent - a PAT is near expiration:
Q: What does "Full Access" mean?
A: The user has all access.
Q: What do I do if I get an unexpected PAT notification?
A: An administrator or a tool might have created a PAT on your behalf. See the following examples:
- When you connect to an Azure DevOps Services Git repo through git.exe. it creates a token with a display name like "git: https://MyOrganization.visualstudio.com/ on MyMachine."
- When you or an admin sets up an Azure App Service web app deployment, it creates a token with a display name like "Service Hooks :: Azure App Service :: Deploy web app."
- When you or an admin sets up web load testing as part of a pipeline, it creates a token with a display name like "WebAppLoadTestCDIntToken".
- When a Microsoft Teams Integration Messaging Extension is set up, it creates a token with a display name like "Microsoft Teams Integration".
If you still believe that a PAT exists in error, we suggest that you revoke the PAT. Next, change your password. As an Azure Active Directory user, check with your administrator to see if your organization was used from an unknown source or location.
Q: How can I use a PAT in my code?
A: See the following sample that gets a list of builds using curl.
curl -u username[:{personalaccesstoken}] https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/build-release/builds
If you wish to provide the PAT through an HTTP header, you must first convert it to a Base64 string (the following example shows how to convert to Base64 using C#). The resulting string can then be provided as an HTTP header in the format:
Authorization: Basic BASE64USERNAME:PATSTRING
Here it is in C# using the HttpClient class.
public static async void GetBuilds()
var personalaccesstoken = "PATFROMWEB";
using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient())
new System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic",
string.Format("{0}:{1}", "", personalaccesstoken))));
using (HttpResponseMessage response = client.GetAsync(
string responseBody = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
catch (Exception ex)
When your code is working, it's a good time to switch from basic auth to OAuth.
Enabling IIS Basic Authentication invalidates using PATs for TFS. Learn more about using IIS Basic Authentication with TFS on-premises.
Q: Can I use basic auth with all of Azure DevOps REST APIs?
A: No. You can use basic auth with most of them, but organizations and profiles only support OAuth.
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First, some important things to know about your skin.
Here's why we don't worry if your skin is dry, oil, or combination.
It's not that we don't care. It's just that we do things different.
The necessity of detoxing and what to expect.
Perhaps you've tried everything to get clear skin. We can't make promises but we can tell you that so many have found relief from the remedies below.
The difference between 10% or 90%
Your body has only so much energy in a day to do its job (it gets tired, too). Let's say, on an average day, your body uses 90% of its energy to process food and do its daily functions. That leaves 10% of its energy to work at healing your body.
When you detox, you switch those numbers. Feeding your body healthy whole foods that take little to process allows your body to spend 90% of its energy fixin' what needs fixin'.
The same is true for skin and is how we approach skin care. By using ONLY beneficial, nourishing, and active ingredients, it affords your skin 90% of its energy to fixin' what needs fixin' with your skin. Isn't that cool?
Detoxing takes time.
With that said, good, lasting detoxification takes time. Although you may notice changes really quickly, change that occurs below the skin will be a process. Don't take our advice, take Nicole's below.
You can do it and it will be worth your time.
"I've been using RELIEF & WASH for a couple of months now. It is only recently (past few weeks) that my face has finally adjusted. My acne & irritation have calmed greatly & breakouts are really minor these days. It's been such an improvement! If you don't see results after the first 4 weeks, give it a bit more time. My skin really needed time to "detox" & calm down. Now, RELIEF is also providing just the right amount of hydration for warmer days. At night I'm using Bloom's night cream. I love the ingredients & love the results!"
Nicole F.
While our products are as safe and healthy as you will find anywhere, there can be precautions.
We love grapefruit essential oils but it can cause your skin to be sensitive to the sun.
Since we always want to error on the side of caution, be careful when applying the following products when heading out in the sun.
At this age, getting them to cleanse even once per day can be a challenge. To make it super easy, have them apply while in the shower. Once per day is fine.
You are just giving them a good foundation for the healthy cleansing of skin and it should be very easy to stick with. Use the routine below whenever they shower, morning or night.
Have your preteen follow the above routine whenever they shower, morning or night or, just one time per day is enough.
daily routine to relieve eczema
Bloom products are made with ONLY non-GMO plant oils, butter, and raw honey. That's it. Other skincare products are filled with junk which fills pores and absorbs the skin. This takes time and energy to clean out.
When detoxing your body, you feed it healthy ingredients so your body won't need to process the extra "junk" ingredients and can start healing itself. The same is true for skin. Nourish your skin with only beneficial healthy ingredients. It will heal itself.
All or nothing is how you are going to see the most dramatic skin transformation. You are worth it!
Rome wasn't built in a day.
You've been dealing with this for years, perhaps. While the solution is simple, it may take time to make lasting changes. Your skin may be worse before it gets better. That's what happens when you detox. Your skin needs to clean out all the gunk stuck in pores and get your oil levels corrected.
Stick with it. You will be so glad you did.
Detoxing starts here.
mild or occasional eczema
week 1
Use RELIEF as your moisturizer and cleanser, exclusively, remembering it has jealousy issues.
week 2-4
Add SPOT to your daily routine, apply on the affected spots. It may sting a bit when applied. This tells you it is working to combat infection which causes inflammation. If it feels too uncomfortable, rinse off and try again at a later time. Do not use if it burns. Although all healthy plant oils, they pack a powerful punch at infection and inflammation.
If you can keep it with you and apply it several times per day to affected areas, it will make changes faster.
Assess your skin. If you think you should stick with RELIEF for longer, go ahead. For some, using RELIEF for body and may be your new normal, not needing anything else. If your skin is becoming radiant again and you feel more moisture and nutrients are in order, we can help with that, too. Learn more here.
severe eczema
So, you've struggled for years, spending a small fortune on getting your skin the way you want. We know how hard that is. Well, we do things different {as you read above} and the results are different too. This will be a process but stick with it. I know you will love the results.
week 1-2
Use RELIEF as your moisturizer and cleanser, exclusively, remembering it has jealousy issues. Although we suggest using RELIEF alone for 2 weeks, this will be determined by how well your skin is doing. If you are still experiencing skin irritations, keep going for one more week then adding in SPOT on week 4. Everyone's skin is different. Trust yours.
week 3-4
Add SPOT to your daily routine by applying on the affected spots. It may sting a bit when applied. This tells you it is working to combat infection which causes inflammation. If it feels too uncomfortable, rinse off and try again at a later time. Do not use if it burns. Although all healthy plant oils, they pack a powerful punch at infection and inflammation.
If you can keep it with you and apply it several times per day to affected areas, it will make changes faster.
Learn about our products for irritated skin, here.
Now that the detoxing process is done, welcome to your new routine.
It's best to start this routine hour or so before bed to allow the nutrients to absorb.
Since warm water opens pores and allows deeper absorbtion of the nurtients in our CURE E system, It is best for the first few weeks to hop back in the shower for your night routine. Think of it as a spa treatment before bedtime. It begins the relaxing process.


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"My business is an internet connection"
Minimalism got to me in a sneaky way. Some combination of The 4 Hour Blog, the movie Fight Club, and the blog Life Edited.
If you are wondering "What is minimalism?" or even if you think you know, it is worth knowing that our friends at Merriam-Webster don't have a definition for the philosophy or life principle that minimalism has become, it is still defined as a style of art.
When an idea is undefined, I highly advise you to define it before buying in. To me, minimalism is having what you need to accomplish your goals in comfort. No more, no less.
If you really, truly embark on a journey to accomplish a minimalist lifestyle, a minimalist business, or heck, even one minimalist room in your house, you will see how hard this is to get right. So, what do you think the minimalist Amazon business requires in terms of physical items?
A warehouse full of hard workers to lord over? Nope. If you use FBA or another logistics provider, you already know that you don't need to be a warehouse manager to run this business.
An office with a desk, a printer, a scanner, a (gulp) fax machine, a file cabinet full of papers? Nope. I mean, if you have a "bonus" room in your house and you want one of these, no big deal, you can have it, but don't confuse it with a need. I know many business owners who work from home, but are scared to leave their home office to travel because they believe a situation will arise that requires something that only exists in that office.
A computer/laptop? Nope. These are available in internet cafes, hotels, libraries and more all over the world (learn how to stay cyber safe)
Yes, I gave it away at the start of this blog post –
My business is an internet connection.
On one hand, this is empowering. Your business can be anywhere that you can find an internet connection. On the other hand, don't forget this point.
The inverse is, you cannot do business where there is no internet connection. Therefore, if you are like me and tend to take your business with you on a trip, don't intend to keep up on business from the road and then decide to go off grid once you land in Thailand or Australia or wherever. Make sure you are staying somewhere you can comfortably connect to the internet. Hotel reviews are best for this, because customers that can't get wifi to work get very angry. My business is an internet connection, enjoy it and don't forget it!
But back to the fun stuff. When I travel, I don't take my laptop. When I plan to travel, I unload all responsibilities to my team that I can. I make most of my job to make tough decisions, which I can do via email. The actual data entry, order placing, logistics, that is all handled by smart, loyal people who have computers in front of them. If there is something I do feel I almost need on the road, it is my iPhone, because it is what I use to book flights, train tickets, hotels with great internet connections and "business centers", etc. I know I could operate without it, but it is where the "in comfort" part of my definition comes in. If a laptop makes you comfortable on the road, you won't get a hard time from me, but when a laptop is by far the heaviest thing you travel with you will start to brainstorm a way to leave it behind.
Speaking of things I travel with…
…this is what I took to Europe for 30ish days.
I consider my Amazon business a lifestyle business. Having, owning and operating a lifestyle business is all about your goals. Minimalism helps me keep my focus on the things that will help my lifestyle business accomplish those goals comfortably, and avoid the rest.
Here are some examples of minimalism applied to my business –
The minimum amount of software for my business – I use Trello, a paid repricer, Shopify, a subscription site for photo editing, and that is all.
I use Karen Locker's service for reconciling lost inventory and fixing suppressed inventory.
I have two business-related chrome extensions, Keepa and DS Amazon Quick View (which I only use to get to ASINs on the search page). That's it.
I own a printer, a scanner, a barcode scanner and a label printer, but those stay in my closet, unplugged, and only get used a few times each year.
I like self-imposed constraints to keep me in check. For example, say I were tempted to buy from a vendor who will only ship to my business address. I love the product, and it seems like a great opportunity. Should I do it? My business isn't really setup to handle this operation in my 1500 sq ft cabin in Michigan. I don't have enough labels, polybags, etc. Freight companies won't even deliver to my house, it is on the end of a narrow dirt road. These things keep me from diving into a deal that would be more stress than it is worth.
The question I should be asking is, what do I need to do this deal for? I already have a steady income and enough products, so the answer is, you guessed it, more. More money, more inventory, more SKUs, more sales, etc. Saying "no" to more money isn't always easy. Perhaps sales are down today as you consider this deal. Perhaps you are afraid of something unknown happening to your successful products. Regardless, fear and emotion creep in. That is why I need self-imposed constraints to keep my lifestyle business from turning into some corporate enterprise. That is how minimalism helps my business.
To wrap this up, here are more things my wife and I do not own –
A lawn mower, nor do we hire someone to mow our lawn.
A second car, my wife and I have shared a car for 11 out of our 12 years of marriage. Do you want to learn to communicate with your spouse more? Share one car! Notice I said "more", not "better", that part is up to you!
A vacuum cleaner, all our floors are hardwood.
A dish washer, it takes only a few minutes after each meal to handle dishes for two.
A snow blower, this we pay someone to handle.
A chainsaw, I can handle 99% of fallen trees with an axe.
A coffee maker, ok…that's a lie, do you think we are savages or something? 🙂


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