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Is there a reason we see applesauce everywhere and not pear sauce? A texture issue perhaps? If anyone has made it, would love to know. I have a glut of pears and I was thinking of using the same technique as my applesauce: peel and slice them into chunks, add a ton of cinnamon and a few cups of water, and simmer them in a Dutch oven until they break down into sauce.
Sounds like a plan. Though, pear has such a sweet and delicate flavor, why would you want to swamp it with a ton of cinnamon. Maybe a touch of cinnamon or some ginger?
Noted! I really like the idea of ginger. Maybe even some cardamom?
Just a touch of cinnamon; fresh ginger (more delicate when cooked than dried); cardamom maybe, but from many years of experimenting with spices in jams preserves and butters, I've learned that cardamom, like cloves and star anise, can be very "loud", so I might infuse a bit of country cider with it to add, but not put it in directly. Or perhaps put a few crushed pods in but remove them the minute I took the pan out of the oven. Also, cardamom can be a "divider" ingredient, so I would not put it in a batch for canning. ;o)
I've used a pear sauce with green pepper corns for a duck dish.
Made it the same way I do an applesauce: Small dice on the fruit, into sauce pan with a touch of the fat from the protein, a splash of water and use brown sugar and salt to season to taste.
If you're going to use it as a sweet sauce, I'd cook it plain without any spicing. When reheating the sauce for use, or when portioning it out, I'd spice and sweeten to taste rather than risk the pears getting overpowered.
Once you've got the pear sauce, you can take it a step further and make pear butter. Exact same method as apple butter. I prefer it with light spicing and some acidity from lemon juice or cider vinegar, but that's a matter of taste.
sfmiller, to your point: I agree! I always add some tart, recently pressed local apple cider to my pear butter. ;o)
I just made pear butter a few days ago and it is basically just pear sauce boiled down. I cored them and threw them in the blender with the peels on and blended them until they were smooth. I would have called it pear sauce at that point. Because they are so juicy and soft you shouldn't need to add any water.
Roast them with ginger, cinnamon and a touch of unfiltered apple cider, with perhaps a small soft apple or two. If the peels are soft, as they are on Bartletts, don't bother paring, though you might want to buzz in a food processor after roasting to break down any large pieces of peel. Add dairy butter to roasting pan for extra goodness. ;o)


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With any degree of training hard, comes the need to recover and repair; after all, what's the point of training hard if you don't look after your body well enough to benefit from it?
When SKINS got in touch with me in the autumn to see if I wanted to try out some of their compression wear, I jumped at the chance, given the winter training I had planned. The jury's still out in terms of the science of it, but if there's something relatively affordable that might help my muscles recover well, I'm down with that. Plus triathlon types love obscenely tight Lycra, right?
Since then, I've been wearing a pair of SKINS RY400 compression recovery tights after most of my sessions, and the matching long sleeved top as a layer when I'm desperately trying to get warm after chilly winter sessions. They're panelled tights designed to support and compress key muscles like the quads, which has been proving pretty handy during some big cycling miles and hard turbo sessions- they feel like a cosy hug for my legs when they're tired and sore.
They're lightweight, thin tights that are really comfortable, and easy to layer up under sweatpants when it's really chilly, or equally to wear as PJ bottoms if the training has really been heavy that day. The thinking is that the gradient compression helps your muscles to recover by delivering more oxygen to them and helping reduce waste products like lactic acid that sit in your muscles, making them sore. Whether or not this is grounded in hard fact, I struggle to comment on, but what I do know is that alongside other recovery focused ideas like eating properly and doing mobility work, my legs are standing up well to a pretty big training volume at the moment.
As you might expect, given I've been wearing them a LOT since I got them, I've been washing them a lot too, and my only slight flaw I've found is that the fabric they're made of develops small bobbles over time, particularly on areas like the knees and inner thighs. They're also not the most opaque of tights- but then no compression tights on the market are, and it is what it is- for me the benefits of them far outweigh that minor downside.
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Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor now friends again?: Well, it's a season of patch-ups in Bollywood and taking the cue are former lovers Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor.
There has been an uneasy chill between Shasha and Bebo ever since the two broke up during the days their film Jab We Met released. This chill was quite apparent whenever the duo was in close proximity of each other, be it at a party or an award function. They would avoid each other without fail.
But the scene at the 56th Filmfare Awards on Saturday night was different.
From what we hear, Kareena was walking by when she spotted Shahid and Shahrukh Khan having an animated conversation. Since she couldn't walk past SRK without exchanging pleasantries, Kareena did approach the duo. What followed was a friendly chat between Shahid and Kareena after what seems like ages.
Of course, it would be an overstatement to say that the two are friends again. But at least now they won't have to look through each other when face-to-face.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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So, I'm back in the good ol' 'Cuse. And happy to be here, in the bosom of my loving family: a harried but heroic husband, a couple of hyperactive, selectively deaf children, and a menagerie. New York was awesome, but I confess it gave me a whole new appreciation for Central New York. I'd wax rhapsodic about the treasures of our beloved home, but my return was marred by the sight of my daughter's pet rat and its second head.
My husband tried to prepare me. He'd been talking for two weeks about the eye infection that looked like an alien, and how it turned our cute little albino rodent, Cloud, into nothing less than a zombie. Would that I'd listened, and not pooh-poohed and dismissed him as a wuss of the first order. ("I can take it," I said to myself. "I'm a mother. I gave birth. I clean the toilets.") Then I saw the rat, and OH. MY. GOD. It was like Night of the Living Dead. In my HOUSE.
I blame Google.
Now, I'm not a total buffoon. (Though these posts might indicate otherwise.) I know what's a good website and what's not. I mean, I did the H.E.R.S. assignment in 605. I know about information literacy, y'all. And when I Googled "rat" and "eye" and "discharge" I came up with a few sites that said, essentially, "Don't worry too much about it. Might be infected, but probably minor. Could also be nothing but a cold." And they weren't fly-by-night sites that you don't bring home to mother. So we waited to see what would happen. And I mean, come on....we're talking about a RAT. Are we really supposed to take it to a vet and pay for antibiotics and shove said meds down its throat?
You betcha.
My heroic husband and brave little girl did just that when the second head appeared. TWICE. Because the first time it actually worked. This is what my husband told me when he called me in NYC: "Cloud's face fell off! I was nauseous for three hours!" But underneath her skin was pink and healthy and she was on the mend. Unfortunately, it was only the intermission, because by the time I got home I swear her head looked ready to explode and cover the whole house in blood and gore.
Long story short: It didn't get better despite copious doses of antibiotics, so I made the call and we had poor Cloud put to sleep and buried her in the backyard next to the two groundhogs, three squirrels and one parakeet. (I'll tell you about our killer dog another time.) Later that day our daughter, still dressed in her funeral black, sat by the grave and wept.
But you know what I found thanks to Google, that would've taken a lot of extra time and effort otherwise? The Mourner's Kaddish, in Hebrew, PLUS the phonetic transliteration, PLUS the English translation. (I think saying it for a rat may go against all sorts of laws, though, so don't tell anyone.) So Google's not quite dead to me yet. But when it is, I think I'll bury it in the backyard.


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meat balls in ginger snaps sauceFrom frodo 10 years ago
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How to make it
- combine meat with egg, bread crumb,1/4 cup water,onion,salt,pepper. shape into about 25 1 inch meat balls.
- bring 1 1/2 cups water to boil.
- stir in bouillon,sugar,raisins,lemon juice and crumbs.
- add meatballs, spooning sauce over, cook 10 minutes or longer stirring occasionally. makes 5-6 servings
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Here is another DIY gift idea for Christmas. This is for the eReader in your family. Last year, on Black Friday, my mom & dad got themselves a Kindle. They ran across a great deal & picked up a couple. I got a Kindle Fire for my birthday also. I really love it!! My hubby has not crossed over to the dark side. He loves the feel of a book in his hand. The smell of it as you open it up. The sound the pages make as you turn them.
I'm not against books. However, when we go on trips, I don't have room to tote around all of my kids stuff PLUS 3 or 4 books that I want to read. That's the beauty of a Kindle (or Nook or iPad). You can take thousands of books with you and read them at any time.
The downside of a Kindle or other eReader, is that you pay a lot of money for them, and in return, you want to take care of them. The protective covers are a dime a dozen. You can find them anywhere. The problem is, the don't really cost a dime. You feel like you've gotten a great deal if you can find it under $20.
Thank goodness for Pinterest. The tutorials for making your own cover for your eReader are also a dime a dozen on it. This is where I got gift ideas for my mom, dad, mother-in-law and father-in-law. All proud owners of some variety of Kindle.
I got the idea for my mom & mother-in-law's Kindle cover here. (Thanks to my little brother for helping me put my links up in a neater fashion!!).
Each cover was made in the same style, I just picked out fabric that fit each mother's style.
My mom loves purple & green together. I thought the plaid in the ruffle complimented the floral print that was the main part of the cover.
My mother-in-law's was made with what I consider a more Victorian style print for the main cover. Her favorite color is yellow and I loved the color combination with the green and reds.
I did something with this project that I've never done before & I love…I covered my own buttons. Super easy…super cheap…and super cute!!!
For the Dads…floral and ruffles just wasn't going to work, so I found this pin…
For this cover, you simply take an old book and cut away the pages from the spine (my hubby hated this part!). For the books, I went to a thrift store and then visited my hubby's library :). Both dads are ministers, so I found two books that were commentaries…very appropriate!!
Here's my dad, reading a "book". Here's what you can't see…
Here's my father-in-law doing a wonderful Vanna White impression 🙂
All in all, the Kindle covers were a hit!! I'm happy to say, I feel confident that these gifts will be enjoyed year round.
These are nice gifts that you can knock out in a few hours with very little invested in materials (sorry guys…I was cheap this year!!). The important thing is that your loved ones know you were thinking of them while making these gifts…it's a labor of love!!
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A few weeks ago, I attended a blogger preview for the Ninja Cooking System. We wined and dined at the Wooden Spoon. New York Times bestselling author and slow cooking
expert goddess Stephanie O'Dea was our hostess with the mostest. All food served was made using the Ninja and it was delicious!
|Me and Stephanie
Are you familiar with the Ninja Cooking System? Not only is it a slow cooker, it can also be used as an oven and stovetop. It even steam roasts and bakes!
As a super awesome bonus to the evening, we each received a Ninja of our very own. Yay!!!
When I went to the preview, I knew it would make my life easier. I have a hard time in the kitchen with V underfoot. I usually start preparing my meals hours ahead of time because I know I will have to stop several time to attend to her needs for diaper changes, random food, book reading, tickles, and such. Once I finally crank out a meal, I have a crap load of dishes to wash and smutz to clean up which I hate doing. It breaks into my multitasking evening routine of drinking wine, reading blogs, and watching tv.
The first meal I made was Spaghetti & Meatballs from the included cookbook.
I made mine a little bit different by using chicken sausage and meatballs that I browned first.
I added spaghetti, sauce and water*.
Turned the oven setting to 300 and let it cook for 25 minutes.
It was delicious and it passed the Violet palate of approval!
I have not used our range for cooking since I opened the box. I've made the upside down mac & cheese and pork tenderloin with veggies so far. This week I used the cookbook as a meal planning guide. My plan is try out every recipe and not have to ask myself "what am I making" for the next few months! Winning!
Do you own a slow cooker? Ninja Cooking System? Have any easy recipes for me to try?
*The recipe called for 4 cups of water and knowing nothing about nothing with cooking I decided to add less. It got really dry so a word of advice, don't skimp on the water.


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SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has written to his fellow opposition party leaders to ask for a New Year summit on fighting hard Brexit.
Nicola Sturgeon wants Jeremy Corbyn and other party leaders to back efforts to retain UK membership of the single market and customs union.
The SNP, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, and Green Party are all committed to the policy, but Blackford is calling on all parties, including Labour and pro-soft Brexit Tories, to co-ordinate a plan to stop hard Brexit.
He has invited them to meet in the House of Commons on January 8.
In particular, Blackford hopes Corbyn will shift his position to "protect jobs, incomes, and workers' rights" as he asked the Labour leader to offer "strong leadership and straight talking, honest politics" on the potential risks of Brexit.
He said: "As we move into the crucial second phase of the Brexit negotiations it is now absolutely vital that we have an effective cross-party effort to safeguard our membership of the single market and customs union.
"Extreme Tory Brexit plans to drag Scotland and the UK out of the single market would cause catastrophic damage to the economy – costing hundreds of thousands of jobs, and hitting people's incomes, livelihoods and living standards for decades to come.
"It is time for MPs of all parties to put politics aside and work together, in the national interest, to protect our place in the single market and customs union. Short of retaining our EU membership, that is by far the least damaging option, the best compromise, and the only way to protect jobs, incomes, and workers' rights."
Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, has previously said Labour wanted Britain to remain "in a customs union and a single market".
Under his party, Britain would agree to continued payments to the EU in order to secure "full participation" of the single market and the "full benefits" of the customs union. Free movement would end, Starmer said, but "easy movement" would replace it.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, meanwhile, has underlined that his party is not in favour of a second Brexit referendum.
Blackford added: "As we saw with the successful amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill, when opposition parties work together effectively it is possible to secure a parliamentary majority and deliver change in the national interest.
"Those who say they care about people's jobs and incomes must now look at the evidence, look at their conscience, and get behind cross-party efforts. Anyone who stays on the fence, and allows dogmatic Brexiteers to drag us out of the single market, will bear equal responsibility when people's jobs are lost and their incomes are slashed.
"More than ever the UK desperately needs strong leadership and straight talking, honest politics – that is what the SNP will continue to provide as we focus our efforts on retaining our place in the single market to protect our economy and safeguard jobs."
Ian Blackford's letter to Jeremy Corbyn in full:
Dear Jeremy,
In recent weeks there has been a clear signal from the business community and Members across the House that the best way forward in Phase two negotiations for the UK exiting the EU would be to protect our current membership of the single market and customs union.
I hope you will join me at 17:00 on Monday 8th January 2018, the first day after the Christmas recess, to discuss how we can work together in Parliament to secure the UK's continued membership of the single market.
As Fraser of Allander analysis has revealed, leaving the single market would risk up to 80,000 jobs and £2,000 per person in Scotland every year. We know from Bank of England analysis that 75,000 jobs in the City are at risk with a hard Brexit. Across the UK, hundreds of thousands of jobs would be at stake alongside people's incomes, livelihoods and living standards.
The General Secretary of the TUC has also spoken out on the need for the UK to stay in the single market for guarantees that workers' rights will be protected.
And it's not just the economy we need to protect. Communities along the land border between Ireland and Northern Ireland need certainty for their own livelihoods that a UK staying in the single market would provide.
The SNP have been clear - work with us to keep the UK in the single market and stop a catastrophic Tory Brexit which threatens jobs, the economy and the Good FridayAgreement.
I look forward to hearing from you and meeting for this single market summit in Parliament on Monday 8th January 2018.
Ian Blackford
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That feeling when you manage to smuggle that stuffed armadillo wearing a cowboy hat in your baggage past customs to take home and show off to your cousin Danny.
Are you skilled enough to outwit your opponent?
Are you bold enough to expose your opponents baggage?
Or are you lucky enough to find something super strange?
Nothing To Declare is a fun, simple, card game about smuggling weird items through customs!
In Nothing To Declare players take on the role of holiday makers returning home, trying to smuggle the weirdest items through customs to impress their family and friends.
The game is played across 5 different rounds. Each round represents a different connecting flight. For each flight the player poses as a stereotypical passenger in order to try to disguise themselves and get the weirdest items through.
Nothing To Declare is a light family game that balances luck and strategy.
- Act tactically - choose whether to reveal opponents baggage or conceal your own!
- Remember - where are the high value items hiding!
- Strategize - play the right passenger card at the right time to maximum effect!
- Whatever you do don't reveal an inspection card!
The game is made of two decks, passenger cards and baggage cards
At the start of the game players are dealt a hand of 5 passenger cards. There are 12 different passengers each with unique abilities to help protect your baggage or expose the baggage of your opponent.
You have to choose wisely which passenger to play in which round to maximise their effectiveness!
Players begin with 3 baggage cards, the object of game is to get the highest scoring baggage through to the end of the game. All baggage items are based on real things people have tried to smuggle through customs!
As you pick-up more baggage, be sure to keep an eye out for what other players have in their bags!
Inspection cards are part of the baggage deck. These cards have powerful actions that can affect the player that revealed the card either positively or negatively.
Check out the latest version of the rules here.
On your turn you'll complete this 3 actions in order.
I've always considered myself a gamer, I was grew up during the vicious console wars of the 90's. Luckily I survived, and since being introduced to the world of the modern board game I've become somewhat obsessed.
Having built up a considerable collection I couldn't help but be inspired to give back to the community that has given me so much joy.
I want people to play more games to achieve this I want to create games that appeal to a wide audience. That is why I created apauling games. We want to make games that are conceptually and thematically contemporary.
Nothing To Declare is our first game proper. We've been working on it for some time and we have the rest of the project planned out to ensure that we deliver the game in a timely fashion.
I've been working on Nothing To Declare for about a year, in that time the game has gone through many iterations and improvements.
This has been a passion project of ours and it's now at a stage where we want to share it with you. This is the point where we cannot go any further without your help.
To make Nothing To Declare the best it can be we need to raise the funds to have it professionally manufactured.
We really need you to make this game all it can be. We've got some cool things planned throughout the campaign to get everyone involved and make sure everyone has their say on the final product.
The art is 90% done and everything is lined up with our manufacturing and fulfillment partners we just need the funds to get over that final hurdle.
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Friday, November 6, 2009
Eventful Visit to Delhi
We returned day before yesterday from a hectic, but enjoyable trip to Delhi. Feeling completely exhausted! I had gone to attend my PhD convocation at Jamia Millia Islamia, with the whole family in tow! While there I got some medical check up done because I am experiencing the typical symptoms of women of my age. I had thought that one fine day menopause will just set in and then I can throw a party to celebrate this happy event, but seemingly it is not as easy as that, there will be several convolutions and hiccups accompanied by numerous side effects! Ah well, such is life...the sooner I get used to the bodily changes brought on by my age the better. I can thank my stars, meanwhile, that the silent killers "thyroid'and 'blood suger' have not struck yet! The cure is simple and known to everybody- proper diet and exercise!! Such a lot of ringmarole to find an answer that I have known all along!
Meanwhile, after a lot of priliminary procedures the day of the convocation dawned. All my earlier notions about convocations was dashed at Jamia. Unfortunately, I had not been able to attend a single convocation ceremony in my life. BA, MA, BEd, MPhil all convocation less, therefore I was looking forward to this day with great expectations. The convocation was a very big affair with students of every faculty being awarded degrees on the same day and at the same venue. The event moreover was badly mismanaged. The students were told in writing to appear at the venue gate at 1pm but when we reached there we were informed that due to Friday prayers the entry time is postponed to 2pm. Now, Jamia gets over early on Fridays for prayers and therefore the univ starts work early at 9am sharp. This should have been common knowledge among the organisers and the time should have been assigned accordingly, but not so. We were left standing outside the gate of our own convocation venue for nearly 2 hours all dressed in our robes and sweating at the collars!! Another important thing that was overlooked was the guests that the students were allowed to bring. There was no mention of guests or passes for them in the convocation notice sent to us. When I asked at the robe counter in the morning they asked me to find out at the exam branch. At the exam branch the laid back guy at the information counter said that the family of the degree getter can enter the venue but might not be able to sit. Later we found out that passes were being issued by the organisers. No one knew what was happening! Our chief guest was Omar Abullah, CM of Jand K, therefore security was immense and we students were not allowed to go to the podium and the VC and Dean awarded the degrees in a single announcement for each department and we were told to stand up in our places when I Dean announced the names of our faculties. Thus the whole aspiration of hearing my name called out and receiving the degree at the podium amidst claps and cheers was left unrealised. The Mr couldnot attend the ceremony, as we could only manage to get one pass in the last moment and my Father in law and the brat attended. The Brat girl got bored but took some great snaps both at home and at the venue. The final put down was that we could not receive our actual degrees in our robes...the office assistant informed us that we would be given the degrees after we returned the robes. There was a huge line at the robe counter and I was apprehensive that I might have to stand there for the rest of the night, that's when a troubled soul came to my rescue. This person was from the Engineering department, he had returned his robe only to find out to his horror that his department was holding a separate function and he had to appear in his robe to get his degree! He came running back to the robe counter only to be told that his robe will not be given back, once returned. Well, I gave him my robe and got the security money and return chit which would help me get my degree. After all this drama, I returned home with the degree at 8pm.
I also celebrated my 39th birthday in Delhi and this time the evening cake cutting was attended by my parents who were staying at my brother's place in Gurgaon. My mother and the mite sang 'happy birthday to you' together for me...my heart was gladdened. This was the first time in my married life that my parents and parents in law were all together with me.I also managed to meet my friend Anjana, before the mite decided to fall ill again and all outings were stopped! Amidst all this activity I also managed to make the mandatory trip to Sarojini nagar market and bought some pajamas and pants for the kids and myself!
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I have a lot of memories of Jamia. I roamed around the campus uncountable times as i have a friend-cum-brother there. Generally they manage the things well, but sometimes......
Anyway, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! And I think Delhi is the most happening place in India, isn't it?
- 06 November, 2009 17:46
- diya said...
Yes, Delhi has its charms, specially if you know the place and spent student days there, but there are many many happening places in India! I would have loved to be in Ajmer at the Pushkar fair held recently, there is celebration at Hampi too where would love to find myself right now, and it is always Habba time in Bengaluru...We will go to the book festival there today (if all goes well) and will get back to you with the exciting stuff I am bound to find there!
- 07 November, 2009 23:19
- 2 B's mommy said...
OMG, forgive me Diya for missing this post !
Congratulations my friend for your PhD degree - that's so neat !!
And a belated Happy Birthday from this blogfriend of yours ! Apologies for not wishing you on this day :(
The birthday celebration sounds perfect.
- 15 December, 2009 19:08
- Usha said...
oh whaow! Congratulations Dr.Diya! What a feat while managing a family and two kids - Bravo girl!
- 05 January, 2010 07:15
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
- 07 January, 2010 03:40


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Rose Marcus's recent overlapping exhibitions of color photographs speak to the city's telling and accumulated uncertainties as well as its pleasures. The first series of medium-sized photographs at KnowMoreGames, with their reflective perspectives, its glints and glimmers and facets, has as its subject the porous city and the shifting relationships between interior and exterior spaces, between public and private. Marcus points to the ambiguous hallucinatory city, the city of glass, reflective of a variety of texts.
By contrast, Marcus's exhibition of large scale photographs at Eli Ping/Frances Perkins of people hanging out at an art opening refers to soma, the social body and the disassociated urban self.
For Marcus there is no grand narrative of Metropolis possible. The city resists easy definition and the artist work veers away from providing totalizing coherencies. Instead, Marcus photographs the city and aspects of living within it as a means towards inquiry. Her art raises questions about mixed and conflicting frames of mind or states of mind engendered by the urban experience. At KnowMoreGames in Brooklyn, the artist, trained as a sculptor, favors interjecting multiple, simultaneous and contrary views of the city's built environment, its infrastructure and architecture. Marcus's other exhibition at Eli Ping/Frances Perkins gallery in the Lower East Side consists of four monumental photographs. Each image isolates and tightly frames partial views of people congregating in an empty white space. The works' imagery of both exhibitions were generated in or outside the KnowMoreGames locale.
The artist sees the city as a poetic object. In describing it through her camera lens's observant eye Marcus is part-fabulist, part-allegoricist, part-ethnographer. Like anyone (everyone?) who loves and hates the city at the same time, Marcus's photographs effectively register her often equivocal if not conflicted states of mind on the city and urban experience. Oscillating between being enchanted by the city's glittering allure and sense of promise and being disillusioned by the city's intractability and the difficulties it presents in terms of survival Marcus's current exhibitions find their flaneur beginnings in 2008, the year of the financial collapse. At that point Marcus began a project that lasted several years. She made it a routine of photographing emptied storefronts, originally intended as a practical way for her of keeping mental track of rental opportunities for a possible artist studio or a potential start-up gallery space.
The exhibition mounted earlier in the year at KnowMoreGames in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens area consisted of nine color images of Manhattan and its environs. The unique inkjet prints on paper, all similarly silver framed and glazed 36 x 24" photographs exhibited at KMG were: Empire (sculpture), Empire (poster), Empire (truck), Empire (horses) One World Trade (trucks), One World Trade (ladder), One World Trade (soft walk), One World Trade (man), One World Trade (sculpture). Rose Marcus's photographic impulse gives breath and breadth to two key philosophical ruminations: the shifting and elusive relationship between perceived appearances and essences and on the relationship between the transitory and the monumental. For Marcus the post-modern city is pathetic and glorious, constantly changing itself, masquerading in a shift of multiple contiguous and discontinuous identities. Her photographs traffics in pitting the abject with the monumentally heroic. Empire (poster), for example somehow fuses the abandoned derelict mattress formerly found and photographed in front of KnowMoreGames and inserts it in the glorious sexy night scene of a glittering city skyscape. In One World Trade (ladder) one of the façades of the Freedom Tower with several of its missing windows is conflated with the interior of the modest KMG gallery room with a ladder dominating the scene, the gallery room's window opens up to a grungy vista of the Cross – Bronx Expressway overpass and its environs.
Marcus touches on Manhattan as the city on the hill, yet one in which its vision of itself in its press photos and the role that it is often cast in the Hollywood mold as that global locale of sleek sexuality, glamour and power is, in its close-up, battered, decayed, tired, tarnishing and frail. The artist presents the city through a dizzying exchange of glances and glimpses modulated through its urban glass reflections. The city's architecture and streets are sharded and layered in her KnowMoreGames exhibition. What is notable is the gauzily romantic sheen that seems to romanticize the city through a visual perfume of distanciation. Sustained viewing however gives way to the suggestion of the city awash in air-polluted dinginess and faded glory. The eye sees multiple and simultaneous faces of the city, with the artist kaleidoscopically pointing to signifiers of class struggle and divisions from within. Marcus's photographs taken as a whole serve as visual barometers attesting to shifting pressure conditions in the city built up by forces of those that wield power in relation to those who have little or no ostensible economic or legal power at all. Marcus has a nuanced documentarian's approach. She reveals, through small, incremental details, the story of imperfection, of the gritty, broken, congested, desperate, tired city --- the face of the city that its inhabitants know intimately. And she also points to the public-relations face of the city--- the buffed-to-a-high-sheen city, sleek with power, ready for the Krieg lights of fashion shoots and cinema crews, colonizing the city's streets and avenues, and penthouses armed with their validated and timed permits from the Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting. Marcus's crisply illuminated, sublimely etherealized cityscape-from-on-high of Empire (sculpture) --- taken from the Empire State Building's Observation Deck --- is pivotal to the play of inversions and fleeting moments of recognition that permeates Marcus's intentionalities in her show at KnowMore Games.
Marcus's other pivotal image is One World Trade (sculpture), sans reflections, of the Freedom Tower's base. The perfection of the architecture (or its promise or claims of perfection) is here violated. The shining, seamless continuity of the Tower's reflective surface-skin is interrupted, comically enough, by four boarded-up plywood windows.
Marcus photographs One World Trade (sculpture) crisply and cleanly with no atmospheric effects. Imagine, she seems to be saying, in a matter-of-fact way: one of the most expensive, brand new, real-estate developments in the world bears fenestration scars. In this image Marcus starts deploying her rhetorical high-low tactics. She knows that plywood-replacing glass is the widely acknowledged signifier of social pathologies such as disenfranchisement, underwater mortgages leading to foreclosure and urban decay. Marcus's veiled, washed-out look as a whole comes alive by having that look choreographed with Empire (sculpture) and One World Trade (sculpture) serving as crisp visual foils. While conjuring up the city as the site of fluidity and intoxication Rose Marcus also suggests the city's effect of intensifying life.
Marcus, as Walter Benjamin in Passagenswerk (The Arcades Project) sees the drift of flotsam and jetsam of human activity, the debris of everyday life in the city as an exemplification of will, dreaming, achievement, and survival. For Benjamin the artist comes from that space in which actions, movements, reactions, impulses, styles, commodities and fashions in the city are considered dream-work suited for psychical interpretation. The city is like a mystic writing pad of cultural memory, an exemplar of immediate collective consciousness. The city's capitalist culture represents a kind of collective dream work upon the human and non-human material. Marcus's vision of the city bears the Benjamin imprint as it bears testimony to her fascination with dichotomies, metonymy and memory. For Marcus fragments imply totalities, emptiness suggests fullness, evacuated space recalls former congestion, and small stories invoke large ones. Benjamin expresses this allegorical impulse forthrightly in his doctoral thesis The Origin of German Tragic Drama: "An appreciation of the transience of things, and the concern to rescue them for eternity, is one of the strongest impulses in allegory."
Marcus emphasizes congestion, proximity, and density as a way of making her images seem consonant with our actual and interior experiences of city life. Through her photography, she allegorizes the city's architecture, its spaces, street life, inhabitants and daily routines. Marcus captures views of the city that the human eye cannot perceive, and while this is somewhat normative for all photographs, for Marcus, the crafting of worlds within worlds is part of the dominating aesthetic strategy that she executes with ingenious simplicity (as only someone, perhaps, with a sculpture background as Marcus has, can do…). The Know More Games gallery locale was the incubation site used to generate the photographic imagery that eventually was selected to be presented as a solo show at Know More Games. The photographs that are presently exhibited at Eli Ping/Frances Perkins were also shot on location at KnowMoreGames as well. That locale, the artist remarks, was used: " …as a stage for my own process, of my recognition of the passage of time…time is compressed but I use an analog way of dragging it out…"
The artist uses no overlays, and doesn't Photoshop her work. Marcus takes three black and white photographs (that of the Empire State Building Observation deck view, that of the Freedom Tower taken at its base from street level, and that of the interior of the KnowMoreGames gallery space taken from outside of the gallery looking inward through the main window) and has them framed and covered with glass. While physically moving, slanting, positioning and re-positioning these three photographs with their reflective surfaces strategically so as to mirror and duplicate themselves and their environments inside and outside the gallery's walls Marcus is photographing what she sees. With the photographs' ricocheting imagery being recorded Marcus creates a multiplier effect, generating ever-expanding, ever thickening palimpsest imagery that resonates with spectral forms-within-forms effects. Reality and un-reality coincide, while repeating, compressing and enlarging views of the city, suggestive of a hallucinatory, dream-like state, unleashes a torrent of correspondences, projections and memories, voluntary or otherwise, in the mind of the viewer. This fanciful visual glossolalia depicts an ephemeral, mythical city of smoke and fog, a city without clear beginnings and endpoints. Italo Calvino inferred such a dream city of marvels when he wrote of the archetypal global City of the future in Invisible Cities: "…The catalog of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. In the last pages of the atlas there is an outpouring of networks without beginning or end…without shape."
Ping/Frances Perkins gallery Rose Marcus presents us with the city of wraiths, the city of vestiges, apparitional flaneurs, congregating. As she did at KnowMoreGames Marcus sees the postmodern metropolis as a site of wonderment and mystery. It is also the phantasmagoric site of mythic domination as well as the locus of capitalist exploitation, injustice and the diminution of human experience. She depicts the city as the site responsive to and organized as the response to human social activity. Most importantly she assumes, as Walter Benjamin did, a fascination with the peripheral and the unsensational as the locus of deep reflection if not significance. Such an analysis of the urban setting compels Marcus to enunciate photography as porous text leaving traces and tracks behind as evidentiary material pertains to the mental and physical being of the postmodern city dweller. Marcus's affinities with Benjamin's micro-sociological and anthro-philosophical ruminative dissecting of corpus urbanus, as expressed in his unfinished Arcades Project (Passagenwerk) of 1927-40 becomes again evident. Marcus's imagery at Eli Ping/Frances Perkins has as its touchstone Benjamin's writings of the city-dweller as flaneur (by way of Charles Baudelaire, George Simmel and Edgar Alan Poe) attesting to that individual as an anonymous stroller taking the city within himself through a succession of transient impressions. The artist personifies Metropolis by looking at its inhabitants within a certain context and milieu and presenting them through the feel of public advertisements. The feeling here at the gallery is that the works pertain to the emblematic, the vestigial and the transitory in equal measure. Her four large-scale unique inkjet prints on adhesive vinyl based on her photographing crowds at her own opening at the KMG gallery in Brooklyn, occurring two weeks prior to her show in Manhattan's Lower East Side. The artworks on view at Eli Ping/Frances Perkins are: Lost the Boat (80 x 52 ½"), Observation deck (80x52 ½"), Burghers (79 ½ x 52 ¾") and We are on it working ground up (79 ½ x 52 ½"). By tightly framing her interior shots of white floors and walls where stock-still people congregate and hold space in a muffled environment Marcus gives her suite of stills a cinematic feel that is enigmatically powerful. These photographs, all unique prints, are large and their colors while muted have a lush quality that belies the starkness emphasized by the silhouetting that takes place. Their sculptural presence of the subjects portrayed is emphasized by Marcus's decision to have these inkjet prints on adhesive vinyl pressed tightly and directly against the clean high walls, as one would an advertisement. Each unique print colonizes is its own entire, individual wall. There are no side-by-sides. In Marcus's photographs everything above the waist is excluded, the lower parts of the bodies remain, for the most part no skin showing. In these vast pictures identification is suggested by stance and body position only, by the stark white space surrounding and framing the darkly cut-outs of the winter clothing, pants legs and shod feet. Immanence is embodied in such forms, compositions and coloration, as is the liminal. In Observation Deck (2014), an 80" x 521/2" there is a rare moment of transient vulnerability, even tenderness: here we see an open coat and a billowy open tousled white shirt emerges from pants top, a ocean of fresh whiteness emerging out of a line-up of swaddling a man's torso, hints of suspender. At top right a rosy, dangling, delicate man's hand is singled out against the flat dark background of bodies pressed against each other. In this photograph a spectral, furtive, haunting, quality pervades. There is also an Old World sensation that lingers around Marcus's images, Gangs of New York feel. Perhaps this might be because of the sienna-type coloration, starkness, an elemental quality pervades, as does a certain wan delicateness wedded to a sensation akin to evacuated stillness. Fragility and contingency is suggested in We are on it working ground up (2014), an 80"x 52 1/2 " vertical work. The overall pinkish/violet hue of the image has a visual resonance that makes the work jumps off the wall. The ink-jet edges forming the contours of the girl's legs emerging from a skirt and coat are tremulous and diffuse. It is as if the walls of the body container are giving way, unable to contain the affective, somatic and psychic energies produced by the system. A rough-hewn, Lower East Side, Jacob Riis – like tenor accrues, lingers within these images. Emma Lazarus and the early reformist movements are the ghosts in this pictorial machine.
Lost the boat (2014) an 80" x 52 1/2" has an apocalyptic radiance to it that could not help but remind me of fireballs and 9/11. Lost the boat is an incinerating version of Burghers (2014), the image of congregating visitors snapped by Marcus on street level shooting from outdoors into KnowMoreGames gallery window. Behind her, somewhere on Huntington Avenue, there is a fire. Marcus catches that conflagration in the window's reflections and the whole interior scene is ablaze. By turning her camera just a few degrees too the left or right that same fire is only hinted at in two small slurry-like golden spaces in Burghers, located between the legs, below the hem of the man's winter coat and to the right of the right leg just above the knee. These passages erupt from the pictorial surface like gashes in space; they look like printing errors or technological glitches.
The exhibition at Eli Ping/Frances Perkins is as deeply engaging in its own terms on formal and conceptual levels as the works presented KnowMoreGames. The visual sumptuousness, sensual strength and pictorial acuteness of Rose Marcus's aesthetic are undeniable. She makes art that produces unforgettable experiences for her audience I think because she connects with her subject matter so strongly and empathically. For her, it is clear, art making is a means toward speculative inquiry that induces melancholic rumination. Marcus is a major talent. She doesn't shy away from tackling big themes in conceptually nimble and evocative ways. It will be fascinating to see how her complex vision unfolds in the future. - Dominique Nahas
Mr. Nahas teaches critical studies at Pratt Institute and is a critique faculty member of the New York Studio Residency Program. A member, and former board member, of AICA-USA (Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art), Nahas has curated many museum and gallery shows and has written extensively on the visual arts in print and online culture and art magazines.


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Arsenal are looking into the possibility of bringing Real Madrid midfielder Lucas Silva to the Premier League, according to reports. The Brazilian joined Madrid in a £10 million deal last season, but has fallen down the pecking order under new boss Rafa Benitez. The Spanish giants are willing let Silva go and would prefer he moved abroad instead of joining a Spanish rival. In other news, Juventus are worried that their interest in Julian Draxler could be blown out the water by Arsenal, according to reports in Italy. The Italian giants have been chasing the German international all summer, as they look to rebuild their squad, however they are wary that Arsenal would be able to outbid them should negotiations get serious. And finally, there is a possibility Chelsea's goalkeeping coach Christophe Lollichon could follow Petr Cech to Arsenal after it was revealed he has a poor relationship with Jose Mourinho.
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The Edo State Government has said it will not finance the Good Governance Tour programme of the Federal Ministry of Information.
Governor Adams Oshiomhole said this at an interactive session with the public on taxation.
The governor said the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, who asked him to provide accommodation and feeding for over 120 delegates on the tour.
He added that the government was also asked to rent a hall and organise a stakeholders meeting for the tour.
Oshiomhole insisted that he would not spend the state's money on the tour.
The governor said he kicked against the suggestion that states should sponsor the tour when the matter was raised at the Governors' Forum meeting.
He said members of the tour would be well received in the state but that he would not spend the state resources to show projects executed by the government, which according to him, the people have seen.
Oshiomhole said it was inappropriate for the state to finance any Federal Government programme because any official trip he made to Abuja was not financed by the Federal Government.


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Tom Sellers and the team at Restaurant Story have brought an immersive dining experience to the heart of SE1. Taking inspiration from Tom's upbringing in Nottingham, Merry Men looks into the past to create a four-course menu of historically-inspired dishes alongside music, entertainment and and 'Enchanted Forest' bar.
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First official Harry Potter book club formed
Scholastic launches Harry Potter Book Club: J.K. Rowling to appear in live webcast
On Oct. 11, 2012, J.K. Rowling will make a virtual tour of US classrooms via live webcast, the first opportunity for the author to answer readers' questions live since the last "Harry Potter" book hit shelves in 2007.
Though J.K. Rowling may be moving on to adult fiction with this fall's highly anticipated "The Casual Vacancy," she has not quite left Hogwarts behind. Scholastic has announced Rowling will once again be returning to the young wizard who made her world famous in the form of the Harry Potter Book Club. Even better, Rowling will appear on Oct, 11 in a live global webcast from the her home in Edinburgh, Scotland, Rowling will answer pre-submitted questions and discuss all things Potter, including the recently launched website, Pottermore.
The webcast is organized in conjunction with the first official Harry Potter Reading Club, an online portal geared toward educators, librarians, and parents, to encourage budding Potterphiles to read and to explore the world of Harry Potter. The site, which was launched with much less fanfare than Pottermore, appears to be geared toward younger readers.
Scholastic called it a destination for fans of Potter and a tool for parents and teachers to set up book clubs of their own.
"Scholastic has been in conversation with educators, librarians and other book lovers about ideas for bringing the Harry Potter books to new readers in exciting and different ways," Ellie Berger, president of Scholastic Trade, said in a statement announcing the club.
"The Harry Potter Reading Club is a direct response to that feedback and provides an entry point through which the thrill of these books can be shared with new generations of Harry Potter fans both within and beyond the classroom."
The Harry Potter Reading Club allows parents, educators and readers to organize Potter clubs of their own. The site features reading and discussion guides, pronunciation aides and a plethora of interactive activities that relate to each of the seven books in the series. These include: a guide to starting your own Harry Potter book club, reading and discussion guides, pronunciation aides, a glossary of Hogwarts-related terms, and a cauldron's worth of interactive activities relating to each of the Harry Potter books. Activities available for this month include a creative writing exercise in which writers must imagine they received a letter from Hogwarts, a "create your own wand" download, and a search for missing Potter objects. Scholastic has said it will add new activities each month. Bookmarks, stickers, and nametags are also available for download on the site.
The first 10,000 individuals to register for the club will also receive a book club welcome kit that will include bookmarks, stickers and nametags, although these items can be also be downloaded.
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This paper presents the Static Computational Optical Undersampled Tracker (SCOUT), an architecture for compressive motion tracking systems. The architecture uses compressive sensing techniques to track moving targets at significantly higher resolution than the detector array, allowing for low cost, low weight design and a significant reduction in data storage and bandwidth requirements. Using two amplitude masks and a standard focal plane array, the system captures many projections simultaneously, avoiding the need for time-sequential measurements of a single scene. Scenes with few moving targets on static backgrounds have frame differences that can be reconstructed using sparse signal reconstruction techniques in order to track moving targets. Simulations demonstrate theoretical performance and help to inform the choice of design parameters. We use the coherence parameter of the system matrix as an efficient predictor of reconstruction error to avoid performing computationally intensive reconstructions over the entire design space. An experimental SCOUT system demonstrates excellent reconstruction performance with 16X compression tracking movers on scenes with zero and nonzero backgrounds.
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May I present to you, dear readers, a reading from the Book of Revelations...
Many years ago, the king of Gath called on his scholars, and asked them: "Tell me, what maketh man wise?"
The scholars conjured up many a fine parable, but none of them satisfied the king, who said unto them, "Scholars, what you have told me would help me know a wise man when I saw him, but this I knew already. I ask you again, what maketh man wise?"
The kings' scholars were much perplexed, until one of them ejaculated, "I know! We must study the owl, and discover what makes it wise!"
So the scholars captured an owl, and slowly, with the help of an abacus, they devised stories to explain its wisdom.
These stories did not please everyone, however. One day, a particularly clever man asked, "Is a man an owl?"
To which the other scholars replied, "No."
"Then," said the clever man, "you are wasting your time."
Seeing this, the scholars were most vexed, and they rent the leather patches from the elbows of their robes.
"Now now," said the clever man, "Fret not. Know we not that what maketh man wise is his being a man?!"
"But this will not please the king!" wailed the scholars.
"Oh," said the clever man, "then we must befuddle him with mysticism and bullshit."
The scholars saw that the clever man was right, and they proceeded to befuddle the king. This worked so well that the clever man was elected to the head of the academy, and given a tablet of his own.
However, one day a stranger came into the town. "Tell me," the king beseeched him, "What maketh man wise?"
The stranger decided to consult the tablets, and found the abacus, and the story of the owl. He saw that if he used the abacus wisely, he could make new stories, and they would explain what maketh man wise. And if other men used the abacus, they could see this too.
The stranger was excited, and he sent his findings to the tablets. When the scholars heard of this, it caused them great anguish - for what if the king were to discover that they had been befuddling him with mysticism and bullshit?
So they beseeched the clever man for help. "Here is what you must do," he told them, "When the keepers of the tablets consult you about the stranger's stories, you must pretend that you have never heard of the abacus!"
And so when the keepers of the tablets consulted the scholars about the stranger's stories, the scholars pretended as they had been told.
When the stranger heard of this, he showed the keepers of the tablets the abacus, and they were much perplexed. "Truly there is an abacus," they said, "and there is the story of the owl. But the scholars cannot see it. What does this mean?"
The keepers of the tablets decided that they should confer at length, and they advised the stranger that in the meantime, he should live in a box.
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Antisocial Personality Disorder and Diabetes
I was diagnosed in 2007 as having Anitsocial Personality Disorder. This is due to the feelings I have when it comes to being around people that I don't know. Other effects of this disorder are severe mood swings, feelings of anxiety, depression, hostility, and high's and low's almost like those experienced by someone with Bipolar Disorder.
Where this affects me when it comes to my T2 diabetes is that I was prescribed Gabapentin for nerve pain in my legs and feet, due to the diabetes. However, a bad side effect of Gabapentin is that is can make the mood swings and hostility of my other condition even worse than normal. This is what scares me about taking the medication at all. But if I don't, then I have to suffer through the pain and pins and needles effect of the peripheral neuropathy. It is a lose/lose situation it seems.
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Hi Jerry,
You need to talk to my husband, he's got a lot of similar symptoms! Maybe it IS something we can treat (I just keep telling him to be nice for once).
It's a long-term approach, and everyone is probably tired of hearing me talk about it, but I still can't say enough about the results I got for my neuropathy by taking a vitamin regime described in "Reversing Diabetes" by Dr. Julian Whitaker. The book is $14 here and on amazon, and well worth it for many reasons.
I developed painful neuropathy after 40 years of type 1. Turns out though it wasn't from the diabetes nerve damage, it was from developing celiac disease and not knowing it for three years. My nerves were beings starved of nutrients, while yours are also, but from poor circulation rather than bad blood. So I started taking the vitamins and my pains disappeared after six months. They continued to stay away for the following year, at which point my celiac was diagnosed and I took wheat, rye and barley gluten food out of my diet.
Whitaker's premise is that high sugars are flushed out in your urine along with nutrients your cells need. He gives a lengthy list of vitamins and supplements to help counter-act this and help get your cells the nutrition they need to regenerate.
I thank you for that information. However, that may be one of my problems also. I am one of those people that hates to take medications and/or pills of any kind. I won't even take aspirin for a headache if I can help it. I only take the Gabapentin because it helps to ease the pain. I have tried vitamins for it in the past, but to no avail. I will check out the book though and see if I can get results from trying what he says. It can't be any worse than how I feel now. Thanks again.
I am so sorry for that dual condition that causes so many issues. Is there a possibility that you could use another medicine for your diabetes? Does your doctor know what you are suffering because of this med? Sometimes even a heart to heart with your pharmacist can open a lot of doors.
That makes things tough, doesn't it? My heart goes out to you. Dealing with one of the conditions is bad enough, but when the treatment for one aggrevates the other, that stinks. I presume you take meds for your personality disorder. Don't know if any of your meds could be substituted, etc., but hopefully you're working with your doctor to monitor and keep it all in check. I wish you luck.
The meds that they had me on for the personality disorder have to be changed, my system became immune to them for some reason and they stopped having the desired effect. However, I am continually working with my doctors to try and get a handle on all of this somehow. Thanks for your reply and I hope you will stay in touch.
My oldest daughter has suffered with depression, Bi-polar and borderline personality disorders for years. It's really tough to watch. She's had a rough life over the past 10+ yrs. and has been suicidal at times. I will keep you in my prayers, because I've seen what it can do. God bless you.
What's your solution to this problem ? … (If you don't mind me asking)
You seem to be in a Catch-22 situation of some sort.
MAYS, the only solution that I seem to have at the moment is trying to substitute medications somewhere. I have read online that Topomax has the same effect for Peripheral Neuropathy as Gabapentin, only without all the harsh side effects. When I go back to the doctor I am going to see if they will try that and hopefully that will help. People have given Topomax some very good reviews from what I have seen and read so far. Here is hoping for the best…
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Here's a note from Yogi Bhajan, The Aquarian Teacher, that resonated with us: "The world and our journey in this life is actually very clear. Every aspect of it is organized and creative. Why has it become a puzzle to us? The confusion occurs when, sometimes, in spite of our well-equipped personality our best preparations, we do not thrive, and we do not understand why. There is a way to make sense out of this.
"Imagine an ordinary man who is a grade-B medical student. He graduates and gets a great opportunity. He rises above everything to the top of his business. Imagine another man who is a very brilliant student at college. He graduates, and regardless of great efforts, he never seems to gets the right opportunities and he establishes a very average career. What makes the real difference in these cases? Why do we often not fit into life and into our own plans when it seems as if we have everything we need to accomplish it?
"The center of this confusion in human life today comes from one widespread, very human problem. You do not understand who and what you are. Then you cannot understand how things works and how to progress. Each thing has its own nature and its own mechanism. Understanding who you are, your own nature and the relationship between things, will make it all very clear. There will be no place for doubt or confusion. This is the source of unhappiness and conflict in this world.
"The yogis have a symbol for the human being: an arc of light that we call an aura. It is brilliant and white. Human existence depends on that arc. What comes to you in your life depends on the strength and balance of that arc.
"Every human being is unique. The uniqueness is defined and protected by the arcline. It is the strength of the magnetic field of your arc line that determines how the magnetic fields of other things and people in existence can or cannot enter and affect you.
"You relate differently to emotions when your magnetic field is strong and when it is weak. When your field is weak, emotions seem so important and real that you cannot separate or direct them — you are subject to them. When you arc is strong, you can choose to express the emotions or to redirect it. You can choose to relate to someone or disconnect from their influence. When your radiance is strong and you direct it toward someone they will want to be around you in spite of any personality differences or obstacles.
"The projection of the magnetic field will arrange the radiance of his existence. All the surrounding magnetic fields that will make up the environment and opportunities will be organized to connect and fit with one another. The environment will operate in tune with his purpose.
"Kundalini yoga is the science of changing and strengthening your radiance to give you an expanded life and greater capacity. This ability to align yourself with higher consciousness and to radiate into the universal magnetic field is more important than any qualification and speciality to your success."


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Anderson Cooper reveals he walked out 45 minutes into 'The Last Jedi'
Anderson Cooper dropped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert where he revealed that he just couldn't sit through Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
When asked about the film, Cooper said, "I actually saw it last night. I walked out. I know, I know. I'm sorry."
After incurring the ire of the studio audience, Cooper tried to explain by saying, "I had a lot going on. I have a lot of work to do. It wasn't a protest. I had too much to do."
Considering Cooper paid for the ticket, Colbert was a little skeptical, asking "You paid money, walked in, and it it occurred to you in the middle of the movie, 'I don't have time for this?'"
Cooper responded, "Yeah, about 45 minutes in. I thought, 'I'm not giving it the attention it deserves.'"
Cooper plans on seeing the film at some point when he is able to give it his undivided attention.


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Previous qualifications and training:
City & Guilds Certificate in Jewellery
City & Guilds Diploma in Jewellery
How did you get involved in making jewellery?:
I had always wanted to make jewellery when I was little, so I tried a few evening and weekend classes while working at a job I didn't really enjoy, after a year or so of evening classes I got the bug and went back to college to get my C&G
Things I have done:
I have exhibited my work in galleries, museums and fairs across the country and in Europe, including The British Museum and The Goldsmiths' Fair.
I have taught jewellery workshops and weekly classes in and around London since 2010.
Things I do now:
I still regularly exhibit my own jewellery in galleries, and fairs and still enjoy teaching jewellery making.
My biggest achievement so far:
My biggest achievement so far has been exhibiting at Goldsmiths' Fair for 3 years running.
Things I hope to achieve in the future:
The dream is my own jewellery/craft gallery!
(Which Amy has now achieved in Burnham on Crouch!)
My favourite jeweller is:
Zoe Arnold
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Please Note: Our classes are suitable for those aged 16 and over & for health and safety reasons, all students need to wear closed toe shoes when coming to the workshop. If you have any access requirements, please contact us before booking a course. And due to our small class sizes we are unable to offer transfers or refunds on our courses once booked. Please make sure you can make the date before booking. Thanks LJS x