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VESPA was founded in 2006 with the financial support of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
Presentation of VESPA
VESPA is… an international and multimedia exploration of mobility, of discourses on fear and insecurity, of emotional responses to the city, and of political processes.
VESPA is… where the work for the Canada Research Chair in Urbanity, Insecurity, and Political Action.
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For an Epistemology of Urbanity
Contemporary processes of urbanization are characterized both by powerful global interdependencies and by overwhelming sensory stimuli, often channelled through multimedia technologies. VESPA seeks to reproduce these two defining elements of urbanity in its methodology by : (1) creating international networks for comparative research ; and (2) utilising multimedia for ethnographic purposes. The VESPA research team thereby contributes to the development of an "epistemology of urbanity".
The current state of intensified and accelerated global urbanisation compels VESPA to ask questions about the impact of this conjuncture on political processes and the production of knowledge. Namely, how do such profound lifestyle changes affect the way societies manage conflicts, distribute decision-making power, and organise daily life ? In an attempt to answer these questions, VESPA has singled out three types of repercussions that urbanization has on socio-political relations : (1) the structural remodelling of political institutions ; (2) the emergence of a new logic of political action ; and (3) the diffusion of new worldviews, which are brought about by changes in human relations to time, space, security, and sensory stimulation.
Accordingly, VESPA centres its research projects on two primary characteristics of urbanization – the intensiveness of urban mobility and the emotional overload of life in the city – and thereby requires that its researchers be equally mobile and sensitive to the urban experience. It is for this reason that VESPA puts forth innovative instruments and methods for data collection, which interdependently capture the essence of real-time movement and feelings. The use of these tools for data collection and processing offers researchers new perspectives and opportunities to ask questions differently and to appreciate major social challenges under a new light – thus facilitating the search for new solutions. Ultimately, at the heart of VESPA's approach is an international comparative strategy, focused more specifically on North-South relations, and based on a dialogue and networking of researchers across the world.
Resources and Approaches
The VESPA research laboratory is a multimedia space equipped with the software and equipment necessary for collecting, processing, archiving, networking and diffusing multifarious data (photographic, video, audio, etc.). With these assets, VESPA aspires to be a creative crossroad for qualitative and comparative research methods. VESPA invites you to explore its multiple research projects through the Photo Bank found within this Website.
Beyond its research facilities, VESPA offers activities such as seminars, workshops and conferences on multimedia research methods and diverse research topics. VESPA also organizes major events such as the international colloquium on fear, political mobilisation, and cities that took place in April 2007 (Atelier international sur la peur, la ville et la mobilisation politique).
Moreover, VESPA proposes research projects that are distinguished by their social relevance and methodological originality and rigour based on multimedia and networking tools. Indeed, VESPA recognizes the growing importance of audio-visual, spatial and sensory technologies in qualitative research (data collection, analysis and processing) – yet still retains a strong sense of responsibility with regard to the ethical issues raised by such research methods.


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La Habra, California native Deirdre Hughes stands a chance. The majority of young country artists trying to make careers in the music business are, more often that not, style-over-substance clones of Faith Hill, Shania Twain, and nearly every other current successful, country-based vocalist. They vie for record contracts by reciting boring songs with idyllic, karaoke-machine worthy voices, and hope that their shiny hair and exposed navels will carry them through. Hughes, however, stands proudly out from the pack. She has a lovely, strong voice that can deliver a song with the kind of maturity and genuine emotion of someone well beyond her years of experience. Her voice demands at least a little bit of attention from listeners. At times, her tone is similar to that of a young Dolly Parton - particularly in her higher register - but overall, Deirdre Hughes sounds like
Deirdre Hughes. The songs on her three-song demo may be short of extraordinary, but she carries them out as convincingly as possible, making them all her own. Change, the only track on the demo co-written by Hughes, is a delicate ballad accented with gorgeous, melodic violin lines and a sweet acoustic guitar. Hughes's voice is absolutely beautiful here, its warmth and lilting twang not masking her impressive definition. The structure of the song is nothing out of the ordinary, but the delivery is laced with a real emotion, and the performance is executed with impressive poise. All Sides Against The Middle is a typical "new country" song, about a woman with a history of unsuccessful relationships feeling the pressure of having to pick the right guy. The song itself is nothing special, nothing more than a catchy song with a tight chorus and a simple concept. Hughes, however, pulls it off as well as anyone can, delivering it with natural ease and reflecting her ability to be lighthearted as well as sophisticated. The chorus hints at Hughes's ability to pull off a rougher vocal style, a tone that would be suited to sultry blues-based rock & roll. All You've Got Is Now is undoubtedly the strongest track on the demo. The song, written by Lisa Manor and Joey Arreguin, has elements of the classic country story song, and a universal end-of-a-relationship theme, and proves that music doesn't need to be overcomplicated and challenging in it's interpretation to be relevant. Hughes sings as if she believes in her song, as if the words are completely familiar and the song is her way of reflecting on an entirely personal moment. Her vocal delivery is not that of a young woman just beginning her career, but of a wise professional. It floats above the music capturing the immediacy and powerful melody of the song perfectly. Through three simple songs, Deirdre Hughes proves that she, although young, has a classic voice with much potential. She sounds at ease, comfortable and secure with her own sound and aware of the power she possesses. She is able to perform with sophistication and maturity, as well as youthful energy, and although her current sound is labeled as country, she is certainly not limited in her abilities. With solid production and instrumentation to back her up, as well as a larger, more diverse catalogue of songs, Deirdre Hughes indeed stands a chance, and undoubtedly has the potential to be a definite success. contact:www.deirdrehughes.com

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An inquiry came in from a reader named Mia who is in need of some camp tones for her husbands den. She sure wants his den to feel like a great camp escape!
I want to paint my husband's den in light-medium camp tones. Should I paint each wall in a different tone to give it a "camp feel"? What are some nice camp neutral colors that I can use?
Dear Mia,
We thank you for contacting BEHR for color guidance!
Well since it is a den there is no right or no wrong way to paint, you could paint two walls in one color and other two in a different. Or also do an accent wall too. Here are a few colors that will give it a camp feel: Open Canyon N300-4, Weathered Fossil N310-5, Camping Tent N320-4, Gray Squirrel N320-5, Tanglewood N320-3 and Casual Khaki N300-3.
And here are a few accent colors –
Open Canyon accent: Conifer Green PPU10-19
Tanglewood accent: Mountain Pine PPPU12-19
Camping Tent accent: Heritage Park PPU12-18
As a final note please keep in mind, Due to differences in monitors and technical factors, the colors here cannot be represented with their true qualities. These color samples should only be considered a guide. Please refer to actual swatches for true color. We strongly recommend beginning with an 8 oz. sample container of the color you choose and apply it to a small area on your wall to ensure your satisfaction with the color choice. It is always a good idea to see how the light and ambient conditions affect the color at different points in the day.
Thank you for taking the time to email us and we wish you well in all your future paint projects.
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Snow Blowers
Published on February 12th, 2015 | by Turner Anderson0
How to Replace a Snow Blower Shear Pin
When something other than snow gets in its blades, a snow blower has a fail-safe mechanism that protects the drive shaft and the motor from unnecessary torque.
That mechanism is the shear pin or shear bolt. This article will explain how to replace your shear pin.
Things You Will Need
- Hammer
- Punch
- Adjustable Wrench
- Pliers
- Shear Pin
- Refer to your snow blower user's manual to get the correct-size shear pin. You can order a supply of shear pins now.
- Ensure the snow blower is off. Pull the wire off the spark plug so you'll know the snow blower can't start while you have your hands inside the blade mechanism.
- Use the clean out tool that came with your snow blower to remove anything jammed in the auger. If you do not have a clean out tool, a broom handle will work for that task. Never remove debris by hand because there is the possibility that removing the jam will cause the auger to spring forward, damaging anything it comes in contact with next. Potentially your hands if they are in there.
- Once the auger is moving freely, turn the auger by hand until you see the spot where the shear pin goes. It's going to be where the two parts of the drive shaft come together. If you still don't see the shear pin, check your user's manual for its location.
- Remove any remaining fragments of the shear pin. It should come out easily. Sometimes they fall out completely when they break. In rare cases, you may need to take a punch and a hammer and gently tap the shear pin out of the hole.
- Align the drive shaft holes until you can slide the replacement shear pin into the hole. On most machines there is only one way the pin goes into the hole. Tighten the nut onto the threaded end of the shear pin.
- Rotate the auger manually to make sure the blades are operating properly. If not, inspect the secondary shear pins to make sure one of them isn't the problem. They made need replacing also.
- Reconnect the spark plug. Turn the snow blower on and make sure it's working properly.
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|Exegesis Volume 4 Issue #78
Exegesis Digest Fri, 22 Oct 1999
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 06:36:24 +1300
From: Janice & Dennis
To: Exegesis
Subject: catching up
In 4/73 Bill Tallman wrote the following... "How can we understand "elements", "modes", "humours", "rulerships", etc., etc.? To the modern mind, they make no discernable sense at all, unless they are taken allegorically; in that case, it devolves into a polite battle between different schools of mythical interpretation, yielding nothing of worth, I suggest."
"In any case, if there is any validity at all to the work of Alan Leo, then this is what we have and where we must start to look, I think. I can imagine a process of gathering all these concepts and ordering them in the manner in which they appear to have been generally applied, and then looking in other cultures for similar and/or analogous concepts. The sought result would be a more complete compendium of how they were defined and used, with an eye to noting both commonalities and significant differences. This would certainly lead us well beyond the bounds of astrology proper, and would serve to elucidate how astrology was embedded in the fundamental cosmology common to all cultures and usages."
Firstly, the elements correlate so tidily to the states of matter that it is obvious that they can be equated. Solid = Earth, Liquid = Water, Gas = Air, Energy = Fire. This correspondence between ancient/modern metaphysical labels and modern scientific terms is a foundation of the matricial logic Patrice is advocating.
Secondly, modes require a sophisticated metaphysical perception to cognite, but I suspect even a scientist could eventually come to agree that natural processes are either beginning, enduring, or mutating, at any point of time. It requires them merely to examine natural processes from both a temporal and a generic point of view.
Humours seem irrelevant these days, but a person afflicted by an excessive influence of a particular planetary archetype may demonstrate correlating physical symptoms.
Rulerships are easy to understand from Ptolemy, given the cultural context of his time. Stellar religions were widespread, and any perception of a planetary archetype in those days was deemed evidence of the influence of the divinity associated with that planet. The concept of rulership seems originally to have meant both dominion and domain, by analogy with the territorial power of human rulers. The gods were allocated zodiac domains in arbitrary fashion, apparently due to spurious correlations made for religious reasons in different cultures at different periods. That's why Ptolemy contradicted the earlier Greek rulerships given by Plato: he lived in the east, and further (north-)east lived most of the star-worshippers. Documentation of this stuff is sparse and sketchy. Fagan and Gleadow managed better with exaltations, and I believe that system was later confused/blended to produce the tradition Ptolemy recycled. The actual rationale Ptolemy provided was laughable: Sun rules Leo, Moon rules Cancer, Mercury is next fastest so must rule the two signs adjacent to both, Venus is next fastest so must rule the next two either side, likewise Mars, then Jupiter, then Saturn.
I tend to agree with Bill that any usage of allegorical reasoning to explain such constituent components of astrological theory to "the modern mind" is likely to prove unproductive. Arch-sceptic Geoffrey Dean: "There are lies, damned lies, and symbols." [AA journal, late '70s] Bit melodramatic, and I always thought he had missed the point. I interpret Bill's point as being that symbols tend to proliferate meanings, thus induce confusion. Dean's point seems to be that they are so delusive as to produce disinformation. My point is that symbols do indeed not mean the same thing to everyone, so are an unreliable method of communication, but some symbols do approach universality of meaning, particularly when they represent an archetype of nature.
As regards Alan Leo, I have had many opportunities but could never bring myself to buy one of his books. However, since he was the portal for our century, Bill's suggestion for an analytical project (dare I say deconstruction?) may suitably begin there. Do you want to take this initiative , Bill? Perhaps some more specific outline of how to proceed would be good. I compiled a few historical (astrological) research papers in bygone years with a similar intent, and would be happy to contribute them. Further to that, I have a few reprints from which I could quote on particular topics. Leo's immediate predecessor in the 19th century, for instance ("The Textbook of Astrology", AJ Pearce, 1879, 1911, 1970). Relevant quote (p30): "The Alphabet of Astrology has 32 symbols..."
I have photocopies of a fair bit of Placidus ("Primum Mobile", tr.1814) and Firmicus Maternus, along with modern reprints of Manilius and Aratus. I have Lilly, but only as bastardised by Zadkiel, not the more recent edition. I have Valens, courtesy of ARHAT's Greek tract subscription, but lack Bonatti and the Arabs. I am unable to feel sanguine about the prospects of progress from fossicking amongst these old bones, however. The most it will get us is informed about our skeletal tradition.
To explain complexity, Bill later wrote: "somewhere in the arena of complexity is a realm of negative entropy, the conditions and placement of which is always changing as the forces of order and chaos mandate. Life struggles to stay within that realm. Absolute indeterminacy is chaos and absolute opacity is order: both are default states and are fatal. Cohesiveness is the quality of temporal and spacial boundedness, which confers identity and continuity." Yes, this is a better way of looking at nature. Chaos theory turns out to have been a bit of a misnomer. The emergence of natural forms occurs at the interface between chaos and order. Boundary issues are rife, and endemic. At the margins, nature is inherently creative. The computer images of fractal patterns model those of nature, and the repetition of those `self-similar' at different scales illustrates how archetypes transcend scale.
Bill commented on Seymour's interpretation(s) of Bell's theorem... "This is why I look somewhat askance at this sort of assumptive interpretation activity. It presumes a knowledge of the mechanisms involved, and that has turned around and bitten the presumer more times than those people are comfortable recalling, yet they have to say something, I suppose." Yes, I have that ambivalence too, for those reasons.
Bill Sheeran followed with some commentary on one of my prior contributions... "One of the more interesting developments in the field has been the recognition that it is possible to exploit the understanding of non-linear dynamics to "control" chaotic behaviour. My feeling is that this might throw up some valuable insights in relation to making choices when the astrological pressure gets a bit challenging in coincidence with contexts which are already "far from equilibrium". Stabilisation as opposed to bifurcation (this latter not necessarily being a "bad thing")."
This seems pretty far out. Just a hunch or can you expand on it, Bill? I can see how a bifurcation seems to be sensed internally as being torn in two incompatible directions at times. Like, stability comes from going to work to pay the bills and build your savings, but when it becomes a rut maybe you get the urge to jump on a plane for a week in Bali, or the Riviera, with your favoured partner. Perhaps if a suitable Uranus transit motivates the feeling, you actually do bifurcate and make the lunge for freedom.
Bill then made a substantial point about Seymour's theory... "I'm not a great fan of the mechanical modelling of astrology, even though I accept that it is not effort wasted exploring that aspect, and it has its place in the overall scheme. In other words I don't see it as having an all encompassing explanatory power. However, if there are non-linear considerations involved in that model, then theoretically there is room for small causes (i.e. planetary gravitational effects) having disproportionately large effects. A sensitive dependence on initial conditions when the system is far enough from equilibrium."
Normally I see such lateral possibilities, but I missed this one. May the non-linearity explain, or enhance, such real world effects as stochastic resonance? If we can produce a good reason to believe that our biological clocks have hands that correlate with planetary cycles we'd make a major advance.
I liked your discussion of divination & augury Bill; it seems your perspective is similar to my own. "The reason astrology is so flakey is that the air element is out of fashion." Hmm. Well, I certainly have yet to see any substantial creative conceptualising by astrologers during the current Aquarius transits. About half a century of Libra produced a fair bit of progress, but that's history now. "There's also a strong unconscious mechanistic sub-text to the way astrology is perceived today which reflects 20th century education. In my opinion, it is the divinatory aspect of astrology which will prove to be of most interest to cognitive science in the future. Physical explanations (or rather efforts at them) will be seen in retrospect as quite quaint." I've long felt this way myself, which is why I took off down the road of innovative metaphysics. Perhaps I just interpret divining in too restrictive a manner to want to promote the divinatory aspect of astrology, but I'll reflect on it. I agreed with your subsequent social commentary, Bill, and like you I played the role of astrologer as subversive. Your final comment about postmodernism is interesting, but I can't see much emerging from the trend as yet.
Then Dale Huckeby wrote this: "I have a far better sense of Uranus/Neptune than Neptune/Pluto. At the moment I see the latter cycle more clearly in terms of the more or less distinct eras it marks off - early antiquity (c. 576-83 BC), late antiquity (83 BC-411 AD, the dark ages (411-904), and the feudal period (904-1398) - than in terms of the details of the transition periods, which I think are probably thirty to sixty years long. Only the most recent cycle, 1398 to 1892, fails to correspond to a recognized historical period.. "
Well, regardless of how fuzzy the boundary period is, the 1890s sure saw a fount of inventions from Tesla, the wizard. Possibly also from Edison, the capitalist, who may have begun earlier. Check those bios. I still recall from school exams that refrigeration was 1882, one of the key societal transformations.
History books put the fall of the Roman Empire at 410, when Alaric the Goth sacked Rome. The other dates don't ring any memory bells for me. This line of enquiry is based on a low signal to noise ratio, so it will not be easy. I can see two approaches. One is to begin from historically-recognised divisions, as Dale has done. The other is to begin from the outer-planetary archetypes, which is more difficult. First one must describe those two to be used, in as pithy and succinct a manner possible, preferably via the right keywords. Then one must describe how their union manifests in societal impact and cultural terms, in theory. Then one must find examples from history which match. Academic respectability for the thesis would loom if documentation of such consistent matches of theory and history were to be established by use of previously published quotes by historians. The quote matches must have both temporal and qualitative dimensions.
Such is an ideal technique, but in the real world things don't fall into place so tidily. Now we know what it means for humans and societies to be non-linear systems, we must try to shed our conditioned expectation of tidy correlations. But even if we do, others will not, so we can't expect to impress them, even if we find what we are looking for. Landmark correlations are the ideal reality check: what year did the printing press debut, and does it slot into the framework as expected?
Dale's periods, as given above, provide a reasonable outline as a guide, upon which to proceed. But I feel the need to measure this against the framework of history as taught. What is the Medieval period, and when? When are the Middle Ages, and why are they called that? When was the Renaissance, and why did it get that name? Likewise for the Enlightenment. You all will hopefully see that I am querying the two dimensions I referred to above; the temporal coordinates and the meaning.
Dale quotes Kuhn: "technology flourished without significant substantive input from the sciences until about one hundred years ago. The emergence of science as a prime mover in socioeconomic development was not a gradual but a sudden phenomenon, first significantly foreshadowed in the organic-chemical dye industry of the 1870s, continued in the electric power industry from the 1890s, and rapidly accelerated since the 1920s. To treat these developments as the emergent consequences of the Scientific Revolution is to miss one of the radical historical transformations constitutive of the contemporary scene."
Whilst I agree he has a point here, it really depends whether it is too much of an over-simplification. I recall Galileo was beaten to the telescope by the Dutch optical specialist, Huygens. Spectacles certainly married technology with science to create industry, since the 15th century, or was it the 14th?
Also, any history of technology would be the ideal book resource from which to itemise a list of key inventions that changed the world. Such publications abound, but is that all we are looking for? Invention is Uranus, transformation Pluto, but perhaps profound evolutionary development in human society also arises from other mass motivations. Cue Neptune. Is it just a coincidence that the 1890s was the decade of the Theosophical Society? And Alan Leo. Rudhyar was born then too.
Dale, you no doubt are aware of the eurocentric bias inherent in all this. But our choice of civilisations and societies to analyse masks another profound dimension of the subject. Why do some human collectives evolve, but others remain static? Is there some profound difference in how the outer planets operate in a society geared closely to nature, the seasonal cycle, and with no concept of progress? I believe so, and it that it is as simple as a collective collusion in adhering to a norm in which the psychological drives produced by the outer-planet archetypes remain dormant.
India is geared to the wheel of karma, in which time is the ever-turning circle. Capitalists and scientists are geared to progress, linear time. Me, I evolve on the spiral of life. Combining the traditions of west and east seems the best way to get ahead these days. Familiarity with the pattern of archetypes helps one stay in tune with the cyclic changes, and the ever-fresh context provides options for the ratchet of progress. But I happen to have been born with the outer planets closely wired to my axes and inner planets, so I guess that's why I grew up with them motivating me, and why it all made sense when I became an astrologer and immediately started using them consciously. I can't generalise on this basis. Teenagers rebel, everyone knows, so we have a basis for generalising the societal/developmental influence of Uranus. Young adults dream, seek inspiration, and live for their ideals. But not all of them, many seem to conform mechanically to the prevailing status quo. I'd rate Neptune a partial factor in normal social development, and Pluto not at all.
Finally, in 4/76 Patrice Guinard has followed up with some elaborating comments in response to my brief feedback to his debut piece. Patrice, my schoolboy French from the early '60s is sure to be much less adequate than your English! Can you get a colleague proficient in both languages to help you get the finer points across? If not, too bad. I definitely get the impression that your astrophilosophy is similar to mine, at least in this basic respect: "the star is IN-SIGN, "IMPRESSIONAL", i.e. an interior sign, not cause, not even symbol ; psychic-astral, not mental nor physical" seems to have the same meaning as `an archetype underlying star and sign'.
I suppose I broadly agree with your objection to astrological models being too based on physics, even if you may be in danger of over-stating the point. At the interface, any credible model will need to seem consistent with physics, which is why I have spent a fair bit of time in this list and chapters in my book providing relevant contemporary material to demonstrate the conceptual foundations of such an endeavour. Your point about branches of astrology deriving from historical misunderstandings is one I agree with - I've long had suspicions of this nature. Your point about studying the historical development of astrology is one I agreed with totally since I first started learning the subject - I absorbed all sources that were available.
Patrice may be going too far in dismissing horary with the placebo effect - I've seen some impressive case studies. However, like prediction, they always seem successful in retrospect. Dennis Elwell, reliable source of quality writing on astrology, remarked some months ago that he looked for the limousines of the horary experts when attending astrological conferences, but they never seemed to be there.
I'm intrigued by the abstract Patrice has outlined, while not being able to grasp the details. Terminology looms as a problem, but those of us fluent in English also wrestle with it, so it may not be insurmountable. The imprint hypothesis is a long-standing favourite amongst astrologers capable of comprehending such models of how the cosmos appears to endow people with a character and destiny indicated by their birth moment. I used to subscribe to it, but these days I'm inclined to see it as too simplistic.
Dennis Frank
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:31:45 +0900
From: Candy Hillenbrand
To: Exegesis
Subject: Re: Exegesis Digest V4 #66
At 09:44 PM 14-08-99 EDT, Dennis wrote in reply to Bill S:
> >"There has to be a better word than mechanism to describe morphogenetic
> >fields and the holomovement." Perhaps there is, but it has not occurred to
> >me. OK, a challenge to all current (and imminent) contributors here: find
> >and report this better word, please!
Dennis, perhaps you have put your perceptive finger on the crux of the issue here! This is a fine challenge and I will need to give it much thought. It is clear too that the word or words we use to describe the "astrological effect" or "mechanism" are crucial. There are also some who question the whole notion of "mechanism". Words have all sorts of etymological roots, historical and sociocultural associations, accretions of meaning, and so forth. Hitting on the 'right' or a better word is one thing, even reaching a group consensus on what we think we all mean is another. But we also need to have a common consensus and understanding of what that word *means* to each of us. I somehow doubt whether we could find one with which we all agree, but I may be wrong of course.
> >Candy wrote (Ex4/63): "I don't know if you have ever studied the
> >'enneagram'. It is a system of nine-fold personality typology derived from
> >the Sufi tradition, popularised by Gurdjieff/Ouspensky and more recently
> >embraced by various Jesuit groups. It recognises 3 fundamental ways of
> >'knowing' -- head, heart and gut."
> >
> >Do you have any particular intuition about this, Candy? Any correlation
> >with astrological categories, I mean. I have sometimes, in the past decade
> >or so since they started showing up, checked these books out briefly in
> >bookstores, but never found one that seemed to feature anything substantial.
> >I therefore assumed the concept was just more new-age artifice. Being a
> >Sufi tradition is news to me, so maybe the substance is there to be
> >discovered.
I do believe there is much substance to be discovered within the Enneagram, although I suspect the more esoteric aspects may still be obscured. I first learned of it, in very sketchy form, in "The Harmonious Circle" by James Webb, a fine book which explores the lives and work of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky et al. What I read really piqued my interest and I had to know more. My subsequent explorations proved slightly disappointing. I'm still unsure what my own "number" is. But that's by the by, for I did encounter others in Enneagram workshops etc who had the "conversion" experience that can occur with the revelation of one's enneagram typology, much like the sometimes revelatory and initiatory experience of one's first chart reading.
The current literature which graces our new age bookstore shelves does not really impart what seems to be a very mystical aspect of the enneagram, rooted as it is in the Sufi tradition. Many of these books are more psychological in nature. If you are interested in the substance of the enneagram, I would start with Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, studying the Sufi tradition, and the Jesuit connection. The best contemporary book I have discovered, [although my Enneagram phase peaked about 6 years ago, and there may be others now] ... is "Discovering the Enneagram - An Ancient Tool for a New Spiritual Journey" by Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert. The authors are steeped in the Christian tradition and this permeates the book, but it is also scholarly and they successfully impart the spiritual roots of the enneagram [ie. its underlying purpose as "a way to God"] which other books fail to do.
As for correlations with astrological categories... that's a tricky area. The thoughts I have had are purely speculative. From my study, I could find no clearcut correlations between the 9 enneagram types and the twelve signs. I suspect that rather than including the realm of the galactic [Uranus, Neptune, Pluto], the enneagram types relate more to the worldly and earthly 'dharma' of humanity. I speculate that the 9 types may correspond with the 'personal' planets/lights out to Saturn, but not including Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Chiron. From this perspective, I can then look at the enneagram types and tentatively equate each with a particular planetary meaning. But there are still fuzzy areas...
You go on to say...
> >There are two points of interest here: the first, why 9?
Good question, to which I have no good answer. The number nine, of course, features throughout history, cosmology, religion and mythology as an important 'spiritual' number. No doubt a deeper excursion into the realm of number, symbology and story may reveal more insights.
If nothing else, it is made up of the fundamental trinity multiplied by itself. The enneagram is structured as three trinities, each with a particular relationship to each other. All the numbers are connected in a particular and intriguing pattern. Each number is connected to two other numbers in the pattern, one pointing to the pathway of integration, and the other to the pathway of regression and disintegration.
> >The second; I
> >know with my feelings, my intuition, and my memory. Experientially, I am
> >aware that these are different sources of knowledge. Do they correlate
> >directly with head/heart/gut? Memory indeed seems to correlate with head,
> >feeling with gut, but I'm not so sure about intuition and heart.
I couldn't really say.
> >"Astrology's earliest roots lie in the practise of divination", wrote Candy,
> >but I wonder if any surviving evidence seems to bear this out. They
> >certainly lie in the observation of synchronicity: `as above, so below'.
> >Those earliest cuneiform tablets, predicting consequences of planetary
> >positions for local kings in Mesopotamia, imply prior deduction from prior
> >observations. Noting a major political event, and learning from the
> >concurrent planetary correlations, seems to have happened first.
I define divination as "seeking meaning in moments". The "prediction of consequences of planetary positions" is surely another way of describing this process of "seeking meaning in moments"?
> >How about the self as a team of dancers? Integration of component drives of
> >the psyche, a la Rudhyar, optimises co-ordination and performance.
> >Dancers initially following a different drummer eventually get in
> >tune/harmony/rhythm with the others.
I think "the self as a team of dancers" is a very good analogy. Something similar is used by astrologers who work with Psychosynthesis principles [a form of transpersonal astrology developed by psychiatrist Dr Roberto Assagioli], with the metaphor of an *orchestra* for the self, with the planets representing different instruments struggling and learning to play in harmony, and the *conductor* symbolising the integrating and co-ordinating Higher self, Core Self, or Soul.
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Collection Overview
Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 is an ethnographic field collection that contains photographs and sound recordings documenting quilts from two sources -- the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection and the Lands' End All-American Quilt Contest. Recorded interviews with quilters highlight quilting within the context of daily life. The quilts reflect the range of backgrounds, motivations, and artistic tastes of the quiltmakers. The online collection shows both highly traditional and innovative quilts, and demonstrates the artisans' excellent design and technical skill
Special Features
These online presentations provide context and additional information about this collection.
- Speaking of Quilts: Voices from the Late 20th Century
- Blue Ridge Quilters
- The Lands' End All-American Quilt Contest
Historical Eras
These historical era(s) are best represented in the collection although they may not be all-encompassing.
- Emergence of Modern America, 1890-1930
- Postwar United States: 1945-early 1970s
Related Collections and Exhibits
These collections and exhibits contain thematically-related primary and secondary sources. Also browse the Collection Finder for more related material on the American Memory Web site.
- American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
- Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943
- Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
- California Gold: Folk Music from the Thirties
- Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs
- Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande
- Voices from the Dust Bowl, 1940-1941
Other Resources
Recommended additional sources of information.
Search Tips
Specific guidance for searching this collection.
To find items in this collection, search by Keyword or broswe by Quiltmaker Index, Subject Index, Gallery of Photographs, and the List of Sound Recordings
For help with general search strategies, see Finding Items in American Memory.
U.S. History
Quilts and Quiltmaking in America 1978-1996 is comprised of two smaller collections. The first contains sound recordings of interviews done in 1978, of six Appalachian women identified by researchers as traditional quiltmakers with photographs of their work. Discussing their past and the lives of their ancestors, these quilters provide information about quilting and American social history from as early as the late nineteenth century to the time of the interviews. The second portion of this collection documents American quilting in the late twentieth century through photographs of and notes about approximately 180 winning quilts from the Lands' End All-American Quilt Contest, held in 1992, 1994, and 1996.
1) Rural Life and an Agrarian, Pre-War, Local Economy
Interviews with six quilters from Appalachian North Carolina and Virginia together with photographs portray the rural life of this region and its agrarian, pre-World War II, local economy.
Making her own quilts was just one of many ways a woman dealt with living in a time and place where resources and money were hard to come by. Students can get a sense of this lack and the self-sufficient lifestyle it necessitated by listening to quilters describe how they, their mothers, and grandmothers made quilts from old clothes, feed bags, sacks, and tiny scraps, to keep their families warm. Locate these recordings by searching on money, warm, scraps, and sacks.
"Experience teaches you better than anything"
Searches on storm window, heat, fireplace, washing mahine, and treadle locate interviews that will help students understand the lack of modern-day amenities in the region's recent past and changes since that time. Searching on Christmas, hard, and farm, students will get a sense of how hard a rural lifestyle could be. Items found by searching on neighborhood, neighbor, and group reflect the role of community in this region, and can be supplemented by searching on quilting bee in American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940. After they sample a few of these items, have them answer the following questions:
- What kinds of chores are mentioned by these women?
- Are these chores that you or your family do today? How are they the same and different?
- Would you have liked living in this region in the first half of the 1900s? Why or why not?
- Was the experience of rural Americans changed by the Great Depression? Search on depression for evidence and analyze and interpret this evidence to answer the question.
- Was life different for African-Americans living in this region? Search on slave, and black people, and read the biographies in the special presentation, Blue Ridge Quilters, to see if you can answer this question.
- What other collections in American Memory could you use to answer these questions?
2) Toward a Modern Culture and Economy
The collection provides first-hand evidence of the modernization of the American economy and culture throughout the twentieth century. Searching on craft, sell, cutaways, Sears Roebuck, and Mountain Mist locates interviews in which Blue Ridge quilters note the effects of an expanded economy and increased commercialization upon quilting. Students will also get a sense of the changes of modernization by comparing the work of the Lands' End quilters with that of the Blue Ridge quilters. Students can access photographs of the Blue Ridge quilters and their work in the Gallery of Photographs and find the interviews in the Sound Recordings. Information about the Lands' End contest and photographs of the winning quilts with accompanying notes can be found in the special presentation, The Lands' End All-American Quilt Contest.
"I like to use cotton fabrics"
"As long as you can coordinate your colors..."
- How did catalogs and magazines such as Sears Roebuck and Mountain Mist change quilting?
- What evidence can you find of an expanding economy and modern culture in the differences between the Blue Ridge quilters and the Lands' End quilters?
- What materials, designs, and techniques did each group of women use?
- What were their motivations for quilting? What were their influences?
- How were their quilts used? Were they sold? For how much money?
- How much variety of materials, designs, motivations, and styles was there among each group of quilters?
3) The Quilting Revival
The Lands' End contests and their prize-winning quilts reflect a quilting revival that occurred in the late twentieth century. Learn about this revival by reading the special presentations, Blue Ridge Quiltmaking in the Late Twentieth Century, Speaking of Quilts: Voices from the Late Twentieth Century and The Lands' End All-American Quilt Contest, and by analyzing the photographs of the winning quilts and their accompanying notes, which are indexed by year at the bottom of this last presentation.
Browsing these photographs and notes and comparing them with the materials on the Blue Ridge quilters, students will see that the revival represented a widespread, national interest in quilting. The photographs and notes reveal a variety of techniques, styles, subject matter, motivations, and backgrounds. Searching on guild, class and lecture will locate numerous references to a national community of professional quilters. How else would you characterize the quilting revival as reflected by this material? How is the quilting of this revival different from that of the Blue Ridge quilters?
4) Women
Nearly all of the quilters represented in this collection are women. In their explanations of why they quilt, they reveal much about women's lifestyles and how they have changed with time. Ask students to investigate this topic of why women quilted. They can use the questions below to analyze the similarities and differences among their motivations and draw their own conclusions about women's lifestyles.
"I never had time for fooling."
"I didn't think about them being that pretty."
I started this quilt when my son was sent to Iraq -- during deployment for the Gulf War. As events developed and grew more dangerous, I worked longer hours, added more hand quilting, made the stitches tinier and tinier . . . I gave it to him for a wedding present and told him how and when it came to be made (I think I would have gone mad had I not had my quilting to keep me straight). It has always been relaxing. This time it was my salvation. My son never knew at the time just how worried I was and it was a chance (my giving him the quilt) for us both to let go of those feelings. -- 1992 Montana State Winner
I quilt and teach quilting as my job. Contests make students aware of your work. I enter them often as advertisement of classes. -- 1994 Illinois State Winner
- What are some of the reasons that these women quilted?
- What do these reasons suggest about what women value?
- What do they suggest about women's activities and roles in families and society?
- What do they suggest about women's personal lives, professional lives, creative lives, families, communities, modes of expression?
- How are the motivations of the Blue Ridge quilters and the Lands' End quilters different? How are they the same?
- What does this suggest about how women's lives and perceptions of women have changed with time?
- What do the quilts themselves suggest about these aspects of women's lives and how they have changed with time?
5) Quilting and the Emergence of an Art Form
One may appreciate the cultural significance of quilting and its evolution by comparing the work and statements of the Blue Ridge quilters with those of the Lands' End quilters. A good place to start is the special presentations. From there, students can sample the motivations listed in the Subject Index, to help them see the variety of functions quilting has played, such as creative expression, socialization, commemoration, income, charity, personal satisfaction, and warmth. Then, have them browse the images and statements by both groups of quilters and answer the questions below.
- What motivations do the two groups of quilters share? What common functions do their quilts serve?
- What motivations and functions are unique to each group?
- What does this suggest about the change in how quilting has been done, why it has been done, and how it has been regarded?
- How have the quilts themselves changed with time? What do these changes suggest about changes in quilting and its reputation?
- What does the existence of national quilting contests suggest about quilting in the late twentieth century? Were there contests in the first half of the century? What were they like?
- What do the titles on the quilts suggest about changes in quilting?
- Do you see evidence of change within the time period of the Lands' End contests, from 1992 to 1996?
In answering these questions, students will find evidence of an increasing sense of quilting as an art form in the Lands' End quilters' statements and work. Examples may be found by browsing the Lands' End photographs and by searching on class, lecture, workshop, and art.
Has being a winner in the Land's End contest made a difference in your life? Has it changed the way you look at your work as a quilt maker? "The development of my resume of quilt shows and contests has led to acceptance for 2 solo quilt shows and development of myself as a serious quilt artist." -- 1996 Alaska State Winner; Arctic Lava
- Did the Blue Ridge quilters consider their quilting to be an art form? What about their mothers and grandmothers?
- Does someone need to consider their work to be an art form for it to actually be one?
- What is the difference between art and craft?
- What makes something an art form? The motives of the creator? The audience of the work? The price of the work? The professional reputation of the creator? The community in which the creator works? National or wide-spread recognition of an art form? The subject, style, or technique of the art work?
Critical Thinking
Quilts and Quiltmaking in America 1978-1996 provides the opportunity for students to learn historical thinking skills through unique activities adaptable to multiple age groups. The many changes documented in this collection foster chronological thinking, while the depth of its materials on quilting support a fun activity in which students can gain and demonstrate an understanding of this topic by planning a museum or exhibit. Other activities foster research, analysis, and interpretation skills.
Chronological Thinking
Because of its two components, this collection is an excellent resource for understanding change through time. Younger students can be guided through the collection to understand how quilting changed from the time of the Blue Ridge quilters to that of the Lands' End quilters. They can test their understanding by matching images of quilts with the two groups of quilters and their respective time periods.
Older students can discuss some of the larger changes, such as changes in the economy, in culture, in the arts, and in perceptions of women that might have affected changes in quilting. They can also use the following questions to form a more sophisticated understanding of change through analysis.
- What are the best indications of whether a quilt was made by the Blue Ridge quilters or the Lands' End quilters?
- What does this tell you about the kinds of changes that took place in quilting and their causes?
- Many of the quilts are hard to match with a time period. Why is this? What does this contribute to your understanding of change and of quilting?
- Do you think that there will be many changes in quilting in the future? Why or why not? If so, what might those changes be?
- What has not changed in quilting? Why do you think that is?
Historical Comprehension
As outlined in the U.S. History section, students can use this collection to gain a thorough understanding of quilting. Students can establish and demonstrate their understanding of this multi-faceted topic through an activity in which they are asked to plan a museum or exhibit on quilting. What aspects of quilting do they want to feature? The technical aspects of how quilts are made? The backgrounds of quilters and their motivations? The symbolism of quilts? The history of traditional quilting? Its revival in the late twentieth century? What information does the museum audience need in order to understand these topics? How will this information be presented? In demonstrations? Photographs? Film? Text? Interviews? Web pages? How could students find and create these materials?
"They need to be stretched real tight so they come out smooth."
Historical Analysis and Interpretation
This collection can be used to study three different types of analysis and interpretation. First, many of the Lands' End quilts such as these, have notes that explain the quilters' intentions and can help one learn to recognize volition and meaning in visual work. Refer students to some of these quilts and ask them to explain how the quilter tried to express certain ideas or fulfill certain goals through her quilt. Then, ask students to look at some quilts without notes and attempt an interpretation of what the quilter was trying to communicate or accomplish.
In addition to the creator's intentions, a quilt can also express information about the time period in which it was made. Students can learn to access this information with the following questions:
- What themes or topics recur in the Lands' End quilts and notes?
- What does this suggest about what people were concerned with at the time these quilts were made?
- What do the materials, techniques, and subject matter suggest about America at this time, its economy, politics, culture, and arts community?
- What do the materials, techniques, and subject matter of the Blue Ridge quilts suggest about their creators and the time period in which they lived?
Finally, the special presentation, Speaking of Quilts: Voices from the Late 20th Century offers an interpretation of the entire collection. How does this interpretation suggest we look at and understand the collection's materials? Do you agree with this interpretation? How else might one interpret this collection? In what ways is the collection itself an interpretation of its materials? How else might you have presented these materials?
Historical Issue-Analysis and Decision-Making
The quilting revival occurred at the same time as what cultural critics have identified as a national heritage movement, or mood of nostalgia, in the late twentieth century. This movement expressed a renewed interest in American history and traditions in the mass commercialization of them. This commercialization took a variety of forms, from the sale of collectibles to history-related tourism and entertainment.
Cultural critics have suggested possible causes of this movement. One idea is that people of the late twentieth century were attempting, through this commercialization, to create the meaningful connections with the past that they lacked in an age of rapid change. A second idea is that people were reacting against industrialization and idealizing the pre-industrial era as a simpler time. Consequences of the movement include, on the one hand, an increased interest in and accessibility to history and, on the other hand, an oversimplification and vulgarization of it.
Examining the Lands' End materials with the following questions, students can determine whether they think the quilting revival might have been part of this movement and form their own opinions about representations of history.
- Are many of the Lands' End quilts about history, heritage, or tradition? What can you find out by searching on these words?
- Do you think quilts have become a form of the commercialization of history and tradition? What do the quilters' motivations tell you about this?
- Do you find evidence in the quilters' notes that either of the two possible causes mentioned above motivated or influenced them?
- Do you feel that the Lands' End quilts reflect an oversimplification or vulgarization of history? Why or why not?
- What do you think are the pros and cons of commercializing history?
- Why might quilting be such a popular medium for expressing ideas about history and tradition? What other topics are widely represented in the quilts?
Historical Research Capabilities
As explained in the U.S. History section, this collection provides a view of rural life in the Appalachian region during the early twentieth century. By examining the materials related to the Blue Ridge quilters, students can find clues and create questions with which to do further research into this topic. The collection's photographs and biographies of the Blue Ridge quilters are a good place to start. Students will naturally want to know more about the stories of which these materials are just a part.
Their research may take them to other American Memory collections, such as FSA/OWI Photographs, 1935-1945, which depicts life in this and similar regions with photographs of mountain farms and families, found by searching on Appalachian, Shenandoah National Park, and Blue Ridge Mountains. American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 contains several interviews from North Carolina that may also be used to enhance students' understanding of this topic.
Arts & Humanities
In addition to providing the basis for a number of creative writing projects, Quilts and Quiltmaking in America 1978-1996 also supports some more unique projects. For example, the collection's kids quilts provide examples with which teachers can create their own classroom quilt projects. Also, by taking on the role of a quilt contest judge, students can better understand visual art and its value. Finally, the collection can be used to teach symbolism.
Classroom Quilt
The winning quilts from the 1996 Lands' End contest include nine kids' quilts, created by students, their teachers, and sometimes other adults from their schools and communities. Search on kids quilts for photographs of these nine quilts and their accompanying notes.
In the notes, teachers celebrate the way these projects created a sense of community, cooperation, and pride, while fostering a variety of skills from drawing and sewing to math. The quilts also added to and often provided the locus point for explorations of a variety of themes such as non-violence, westward expansion, state pride, and black history. Teachers can follow and synthesize any of these examples to create a quilt project in their own schools and classrooms.
Quiltmaking helps each class form strong community bonds. Parents, teachers, and children all work together -- learning more about one another, working together, teaching and learning and laughing. -- Jo Noonan, Arbor Montessori School, 1996 Kids Quilt; Wild in the Garden
Contest Judge
While the Lands' End winners' notes provide a lot of information about what they hoped to accomplish through their quilts, there is no information about why the judges selected these quilts as winners. By taking on the role of a Lands' End contest judge, students can learn about art and how to evaluate it. Present students with the winning quilts from one of the three contests represented in the collection, and tell them that they must choose one winner from among them. Remind them that the contest is called the "All-American Quilt Contest", and that it is sponsored by Coming Home, a division of Lands' End, and by Good Housekeeping. The theme of the contest is "If Quilts Could Talk." Students can use the following questions to help them choose a winner. When they've finished, have them share and explain their choices with each other in a class discussion.
- As a judge, what aspects of the quilts are you going to consider in your evaluation? Some aspects might include: the technical skill demonstrated; the use of color; the difficulty of the pattern; the originality of the pattern or subject matter; the meaning or message of the quilt; the authenticity of the quilt.
- Which of these factors will you value most highly? Why?
- What impact will the contest name and theme have upon your decision?
- Does the winning quilt need to express "Americaness"? What does it mean to be American?
- Will the nature of the sponsors of this contest impact your decision at all?
The quilts in this collection afford an opportunity for students to learn about symbolism. Most of the Lands' End quilts are symbolic in some way, from their subject matter to their patterns, fabrics, and colors. Titles are often indicative of symbolic meaning, and the notes of some quilts such as these, will include the quilters' explanations of their symbolism. Searching on symbol locates only one quilt, so browsing the quilts and their notes is the best way to identify helpful quilts for this activity. After studying some examples, a class can have a discussion based on the following questions:
- What ideas and feelings were the quilters trying to express in their symbolism?
- What are the meanings of symbols based upon? Why, for example, would yellow symbolize age?
- Where else do you find symbols in your daily life? In books, commercials, movies, music? Which one of these do you think is most like quilts?
- In the special presentation, Speaking of Quilts: Voices from the Late Twentieth Century, the author writes of quilting itself as a symbol of ". . . what we value about ourselves and our national history." What does she mean by this?
- What other things can quilting symbolize?
- Are some of these meanings reflected in any of the Lands' End quilts?
Students can demonstrate what they've learned by creating a quilt or drawing of their own in which they use color, patterns, or objects to express certain ideas or feelings symbolically. Younger students can make self-portraits, while older students can tell a story or convey an event through a more sophisticated use of symbolism. Finally, students might enjoy reading about how quilt patterns may have been used to make secret, symbolic communications on the underground railroad in Hidden in Plain View by Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard
Creative Writing
The materials of this collection can provide inspiration for several kinds of creative writing. Visually oriented students can draw inspiration for short stories from the photographs of quilts and quilters. A pictorial quilt might provide the setting or plot for a story, while more abstract quilts might inspire a poem. Other students may particularly enjoy listening to the interviews of the Blue Ridge quilters for inspiration. From these sound recordings, one might write a short story or character sketch, drawing on the dialects, personalities, and biographies of the quilters.
Writing Instructions
Students can practice their listening and writing skills as well as reading comprehension by writing instructions for quiltmaking based on the collection's materials. This exercise will be most effective with students who are not already familiar with quilting. The most helpful materials include the sound recordings (with their transcriptions) of the Blue Ridge quilters. Other materials are indexed by subject under headings such as Counterpanes, Lining, Marking, and Learning to make quilts. Still others can be found by searching on some of the words from the glossary, such as backing, binding, frame, and crazy. Finally, some of the photographs will also make the quiltmaking process more concrete. Ask students, after studying some of these materials, to write basic instructions for making a quilt.


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What is your greatest achievement?
Professionally, doing what I love doing!
How would you describe your work/style to someone who hadn't seen it?
Humorous, naïve and quirky
What piece of advice would you give your 15 year old self?
Believe in yourself and go for it, girl!
When are you happiest?
When my creativity is allowed to flow.
What is the worst job you have had?
This job when my brain is blocked
Who would play you in the movie of your life?
I like Penelope Cruz,-she´s very beautiful and talented. Only problem: She´s Spanish,-I´m Danish and pale and don't look like her at all. So Helen Hunt… maybe?
What is your karaoke song?
Ups,-difficult…Too difficult…No idea
What 5 things can't you live without?
Family, Friends, Food, Fun and Freedom.
What is the greatest invention of all time?
The World Wide Web
If you didn't do what you do, what would you do?
Be either, frustrated and bitter or probably find something else fun to do.


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BSc (Hons) Mathematics with a Modern Language (Spanish)
Graduated from the University of Hull with 2.ii.
Included one year studying Mathematics at the University of Salamanca, Spain.
Sir John Deane's Sixth Form College
- French (B)
- Spanish (C)
- English Literature (C)
- General Studies (C)
- Mathematics and Statistics (D).
Sir John Deane's Sixth Form College
- Spanish (A*)
Hartford High School
- Mathematics (A)
- English (A)
- English Literature (A)
- Double Science (A)
- Double Science (A)
- History (A)
- Art - Painting & Drawing (B)
- Religious Education (B)
Hartford High School
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Aloha guys! Cely here with my second August post for the Robin's Nest!
As promised from my video two weeks ago, I made a card using the Iridescent Blue Glitter Swirl paper! Enjoy!
I used these Robin's Nest products in my projects:
See you for my next Robin's Nest DT video in 2 weeks! :)


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One of my favorite new coffee table books is Monograms for the Home by Kimberly Schlegel Whitman. A lifestyle expert with many lifestyle books in her collection already, Kimberly gives an in depth view of all types of monograms and how they can be used in every aspect of your life. What a beautiful book! If you love monograms, this is a must for your collection.
The author has been doing book signings all over and I am waiting for one near me. Maybe Palm Beach??
The pages are filled with beautiful photography and content from lots of monogram experts..lots of blogging/Instagram friends featured along with some beautiful photography.
You can order this amazing book here.
Monogram obsessed,
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2013: The big squeeze into expansion
In mid-2012 I wrote "What on Earth is going on?" about how we're moving into a new era and what that exactly means. Shortly after that it was the Venus Transit bringing us an opportunity to heal the feminine consciousness which I shared in "Can you feel the Change?" Now a third of the way into 2013 after having entered the Age of Aquarius, some may be wondering, "Where is this so-called New Earth?" The old dies hard and below may be what some of you have been experiencing this year.
We're in the throes of great change and upheaval. The energy of an old paradigm is dissipating and we're left feeling unsteady as we adjust to a new vibrational frequency.
The dust of an old world is still hanging over us, leaving us in the dark, not able to clearly see what lies ahead. The light is brighter but it's shining in the corners of our unconscious minds, illuminating our shadow and bringing to light what needs to be brought into balance.
At times it may feel like we're lost out at sea, treading water as we venture towards the unknown beyond the horizon. The sea is choppy and the more you resist and fight the currents, the harder the journey becomes. Your fears, doubts and antiquated beliefs will weigh you down and weaken your efforts of getting to shore. You'll feel like you're drowning if you don't cut them loose. Embrace the unknown like a child, letting wonder and curiosity keep you light and buoyant.
There is no going back, what's left behind is crumbling away and what lies ahead is whatever you choose to plant in your imagination. Allow the currents to wash through you and clear out the old debris, leaving you open to new possibilities. This isn't a peaceful lake that you're drifting down… it's stormy, tumultuous and there's nothing solid to hold onto. You have to BE that something solid – you're out at sea on your own, with no one to blame anymore. You'll be experiencing what you've been projecting on the outside, on the inside now. It's time to clean ship. Your emotions are intensified as you're forced to face and embrace ALL aspects of yourself.
Although this may feel overwhelming at times and met with resistance and avoidance, you'll soon discover the best way to get to shore is to surrender to the process and flow with the tide. Face what needs facing – forgive, let go and let the grieving process of what you've left behind crack open your heart to reveal your true power within.
Use your inner guidance and intuition to lead you to shore. Just because you can't see what lies ahead yet, doesn't mean it's not there. Keep trusting that the more you're willing to let go of the fears that are keeping you anchored to what you left behind, the smoother your journey becomes. There will be sea serpents and dragons to slay along the way, but with each encounter and swipe of your sword of courage, you'll build more confidence and power until you move past them with greater ease.
You may experience vulnerability and instability as currents quicken and intensify but trust that this all part of awakening to your authentic self. There will be reefs in between where you get to rest and integrate your higher consciousness while enjoying the fruits of your hard work before you're back treading more water. Sometimes it'll feel like you've covered some distance only to feel pulled back again by the current and wonder if you're making any ground.
It's like peeling back the layers of an onion as we go in a spiral deeper and deeper to our core. Issues we may have thought we'd resolved re-appear with an extra layer of intensity and opportunity to clear more completely. Welcome this opportunity and trust that if you are feeling squeezed, it means you are growing – expansion is always preceded by contraction.
As our planet keeps shifting into a higher frequency we'll feel like everything is speeding up… what used to take weeks to process can take days or hours. We're moving through our stuff quicker which can feel all-consuming, yet we're also manifesting quicker so be conscious of your thoughts, as they are the seeds of your future.
Our New Earth is like a computer operating system that has been upgraded but if you're still running on old software, you'll have incompatibility issues and eventually hang (get stuck). Your old programming is obsolete in this new paradigm.
While we're in the process of 'upgrading' there's a time of integration and of being in the void – and we'll do anything not to sit in the unknown, we'll dance around it in avoidance (a void dance). We don't want to be in the dark, we don't want to feel what's not happy, joyful, blissful, certain, exciting. And we'll analyse why we may be feeling out of sorts, give ourselves reasons and justifications… anything to not actually FEEL. And so it simply perpetuates. There's power in the 'I don't know', use it as a time to get to know who you are and what you want on a deeper level.
Feel it. Own it. Love ALL of you. We're moving from the separation of duality into unity and Oneness… accept all polarities without judging them to be good or bad. Before anything was labelled, it simply was. Labels create division within and between our selves and the world. Accept and embrace all that you are with compassion and only then can you be free to be completely you.
The resistance is your ego fighting to hold on to what it knows and the more that gets illuminated, the more desperate it becomes at clinging on. When you notice you're in resistance, ask yourself "what belief am I holding on to that is keeping me stuck?" What 'BS' story are you telling yourself? Your story will reveal the belief you are holding. (BS = Belief System!)
You are being called to live up to your highest potential… dissolve the walls, release the fear and let your heart and soul guide the way. No more hiding from yourself or the world, you are here for a reason and it's time for your soul's full expression.
Your head will continue to get in the way if you still believe that it is in the driver's seat. It isn't. Your heart is your power… it is the flame that will ignite any of your ideas and bring them to life. Dare to be braver than your fears. Dare to be freer than your limitations. Be the warrior that you are, with courage as your sword, cutting through the inner barriers and obstacles so to reach your home of infinite power and Love.
The energies are here to activate the wisdom of our heart-mind, reveal our light and learn to live in the world with our feet connected to Earth, our hearts connected to each other and the Divine Light flowing through us. We have access to every possible reality within us and we get to decide what that reality is. We can choose to run the old software with all the glitches and keep dancing around the void until we eventually crash. Or let go of that old programming and upgrade to the new heart-based OS.
All the while remember, you are the swimmer and you are the shore. There is no 'getting there', it's more a matter of logging out of the old conditioning that caused you to forget who you truly are and why you are here. Be in your body, in your heart, in your truth. Don't let the outside picture distort your inner knowing. Things may look and feel scattered and unsettled, but trust that soon after the dust storm, the dust comes to settle and new life begins to grow and flourish!
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I'll start off with the fact that I got inspiration for this post from Dizzy Brunette's blog post. I read her one on a down day and it really cheered me up. So I thought I would share the love on my own little blogging platform :) Hope you enjoy it.
♥ It's okay if that packet of biscuits was full 5 minutes ago.
♥ Don't be ashamed to admit that your bed is your best friend.
♥ A big red spot suddenly appeared, just think of it as another piece of some awesome you.
♥ Everyone looks like they've been run over by a bus when they wake up.
♥ Even if you haven't got the moves like Jagger, you can still boogie on the dance floor.
♥ Eyeliner is very hard to master, don't worry practice makes perfect.
♥ My socks rarely match, join the club sista.
♥ Crying for no particular reason can sometimes be a big relief.
♥ You really needed that extra pair of shoes, just in case.
♥ Singing along to a hopeless love song is my night time routine, let it go beauty.
♥ Simple, cozy and baggy clothes are a style.
♥ Love yourself, who ever you are I can see that you're an eye-catching beauty.
Even if this only helps one person feel better about him/herself, I'll be a very happy bunny. Have a nice week darlings!


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(June 1, 1995) Marketing: Should Consultants Be Your Focus?
It is true that consultants are the gatekeepers of many funds. That doesn't mean that a money manager's marking efforts should be predominately focused on consultants. Such a strategy could be ill-advised for a number of reasons:
1. Consultants aren't used by nearly 50% of corporate funds, 25% of the public funds and 37% of endowments and foundations. Money managers would be ignoring billions of dollars of potential assets by over-emphasizing marketing to consultants.
2. Consultants may not fairly evaluate every manager and may be prone to favor certain managers. You may be better off stating your case directly to a fund that through an intermediary.
3. Consultants are barraged by managers seeking to be included in searches and, as a result, a manager may have to go to extraordinary lengths to get a consultant's attention.
Also, the degree of influence the consultant has in the search process varies greatly from plan sponsor to plan sponsor. Accordingly, we highly recommend that investment managers always seek to establish relationships with plan sponsors directly, as well as with consultants.
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I made a fun little card!
First, I stamped and colored the lovely image from Tiddly Inks.
Then I decorated the card base using the Dutch Doobadoo stencil,
and purple Distress Ink.
I cut two tags out of purple cardstock.
I stamped the sentiment on one of them,
layered them up, and added twine and a flower.
These were the products used from the Cards and More Shop :
Tiddly Inks Stamp - Be My Sunshine
Jane's Doodles Stamp - Birthday Wishes
Dutch Doobadoo Stencil - Stripes and Dots
Distress Ink - Dusty Concord
Noor! Design Die - Tag No. 2
The Twinery Cord - Light Pastel Purple


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10 Reasons You'll Hear More About Xiaomi, the 'Apple of China'
10 Reasons You'll Hear More About Xiaomi, the 'Apple of China'
by Don Reisinger
Xiaomi's Sales Are Outstanding
Try to find a Xiaomi device on store shelves in China, and you'll quickly discover that it's exceedingly difficult. Xiaomi releases its devices in small batches at a time, and they are often sold out even before the product hits store shelves. In the future, Xiaomi will have to ramp up production, but for now, the relatively short supply to maximize demand is working quite well.
Product Design Is Impeccable
One of the hallmarks of Xiaomi's products is their design. Xiaomi has found a way to build products with extremely high-end specs, while maintaining a nice design and affordable price. Many of the company's products can go head-to-head with the iPhone on design and, in some cases, come with even better features. Not bad.
Even Xiaomi's Events Are Apple-like
Whenever Xiaomi announces new products, the company holds major events. Lei Jun heads out on stage, talks about how great his company's products are, and the media across the country drools over his every word. The events also help build hype for Xiaomi's products, which only boost sales.
International Expansion Is Under Way
Although Xiaomi started as a China-based company, the company now sells in many more countries, including Singapore, Thailand, Russia, Brazil and Mexico. So far, Xiaomi hasn't cracked the U.S. or Canada, but mobile market observers suggest it's only a matter of time before that happens. Xiaomi, like Apple, could sweep the globe in no time.
Its Founder Is Jobs-like
Lei Jun looks like one of the most Jobsian tech CEOs in the world today. Not only does he have starlike status in China and the media fawns over his every word, but he also dresses in a similar way. It's an unlikely day you'd find Lei wearing anything other than a black shirt and jeans. Lei has taken some pages out of Steve Jobs' book, and it certainly appears to be working.
The Hype Machine at Its Best?
It's entirely possible that Xiaomi has created a better hype machine than any other company in the technology industry. As noted, the company holds big events to announce products, and by limiting supply, the demand for its products is simply staggering. It's hard to put it into words, but think of the hype for Xiaomi's products in China as on the scale of Apple's in the U.S. times five.
It Could One Day Own China's Mobile Market
Xiaomi has secured a major part of the Chinese market. The company sold around 20 million smartphones in 2013 and is expected to sell more than twice as many in 2014. Earlier this year, research firm IDC reported that while Xiaomi is not currently one of the top five in China for smartphone shipments, it should hit that mark this year and eventually leapfrog many of its competitors, possibly even beating out Apple. If Xiaomi can ramp up its production, it'll be hard to beat the company in China.
The Employee Base Is Strong
Xiaomi's management team includes some serious players in the tech space. Aside from Lei, who was a major player in many Chinese startups, the company is also co-founded by Lin Bin, who worked at both Microsoft and Google, and Zhou Guangping, who formerly worked at Motorola. All of Xiaomi's executives have real and invaluable experience in the mobile space.
A Real Samsung Competitor?
One of the most interesting things about Xiaomi is that if it continues to grow at this rate, it could one day challenge Samsung in the Android space. Samsung has established itself as the dominant Android mobile device vendor in many countries around the world, but Xiaomi has done the same in the critical Chinese market. Look for Xiaomi and Samsung to go head-to-head for Android supremacy in the coming years.
It's Actually a Huge Company
Although Xiaomi is still small when compared with companies such as Apple and Samsung, it's actually quite big when compared with other mobile players. At the end of last year, for instance, Xiaomi was valued at over $10 billion, dwarfing the valuations of both Motorola and BlackBerry. It also puts the company on par with Lenovo in terms of market valuation. That's no small feat.


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The tram was a great way to go up and down The Great Orme, which is the name of the main headland in Llandudno. Once up there, the views are great and the history in the visitors centre at the top and the station in the middle are really quite interesting. If I were in Llandudno again, I would definitely take the tram to the top again and explore The Great Orme a bit more, particularly St. Tudno's Church.
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Meanwhile, Trinity International University has completely fired Winston Frost from any post at Trinity Law School. Frost had been dean of the school, but is accused of plagiarizing the Encyclopedia Britannica for an article in the school's law review. He was fired from his post as dean a week ago, and now it looks like he's losing his teaching position as well, pending a vote by the faculty Senate and the university's Board of Regents. Frost still denies any plagiarism (The school is "using their own self-styled definition of plagiarism, … not a legal definition," says his lawyer, who says Frost only made "footnoting errors"), but his Trinity Law Review article wasn't an isolated case. An article for the Conference on Faith and History's Fides et Historia (one of Weblog's favorite scholarly journals) apparently also contains entire sections lifted from the encyclopedia.
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