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A Slow Media Experiment
A few times a year, I get overwhelmed with modern technology to the point of wanting to check out completely. I get the feeling that my being constantly "logged in" and mindlessly checking email and Facebook just can't be a good thing. I get the urge to go back to basics by throwing out my cell phone, signing out of Facebook and shutting down my e-mail.
Yes, I am sure it is possible, but I also realize that living in a modern society does not exactly make these things easy.
And, although I get overwhelmed sometimes, I like Facebook, e-mail and using my smart phone. I am a person who enjoys Tweeting about my life and sharing links I StumbleUpon.
As such, I decided to explore the idea of simply slowing down my media consumption.
Slowing Down
The Slow Media Movement (SMM) is a reaction to excessive technological use and information overload. The SMM aims to go back, literally, to a slower time.
In the article "Move Over Slow Food: Introducing Slow Media", author Elissa Altman argues that new media is not about usability for the users benefit. Altman states that it is about "selling us, the consumer, the next big thing, which will be obsolete by the time it hits stores so that we want the next big thing after that." The author described going "slow" as the only answer to this fast-paced phenomenon. Altman advocates listening to albums, writing letters, cooking from scratch and reading books made of paper. Altman also makes a valid point that slow media is about going back to a simpler time where keeping up with technology was not the main focus.
Slowing down and consuming media purposefully greatly appeals to me, so I decided to implement my own concept of a Slow Media (SM) diet. I could not visit any websites, multitask, check emails, or use social networking. I turned off my cell phone for two days and put it in a drawer. Essentially, the point was to revert back to 1990.
Facebook Deactivation
To prepare, I wrote an automatic e-mail response that stated that I was not checking messages for two days. I phoned essential friends and family members and told them that I would be unavailable for a couple of days.
The most difficult preparation was the act of deactivating my Facebook account. I put up a Facebook status message telling friends not to be alarmed or worried about my disappearance. I was concerned that some friends might think I blocked them and did not want to offend or cause unnecessary worry. Although I am an avid user of Facebook, the difficulty I experienced was not exactly in the concept of deactivating my account, but in the actual act of doing so. Facebook tries to prevent the act as much as possible. Finding out even how to deactivate was difficult. Also, Facebook attempts to dissuade users from deactivating on a personal level by posting pictures of the user with friends and family and stating that those members would "miss" the user. This is presumptuous and says a lot about the concept behind social networking. This implies that without Facebook, users would have no contact with their "friends" again. This may be the case in some circumstances, but this also begs the question, is the user truly friends with these other users? If not, then is it such a big inconvenience for the two users to lose contact anyway?
I made some exceptions. There are some devices (such as television and landline telephones) that qualify as slow media but have been replaced by other devices in today's information environment. I do not have a landline in my apartment, so I permitted the use of my cell phone to call my significant other when I was at home, reasoning that I would be able to do so if I had a landline, which qualifies as slow media. I also permitted the use of Hulu.com and Netflix to "watch television" on my computer since I do not have an actual television in my home, which I would have had in Slow Media times.
A New Focus
My Slow Media experiment went smoother than I expected. The world did not come to an end and my life did not fall apart. I was able to focus and slow down. I spent more time socializing with my roommates instead of surfing the Internet while at home.
During my slow media diet, I realized that utilizing "fast media" has a purpose in my life. Using the Internet, cell phones and DVR allows me the convenience to use media on my own time. Even something as simple as going to Weather.com to check the weather saves me valuable time instead of watching a local news channel and waiting for the weather report. Using my cell phone to call someone if there is an emergency is extremely useful. Getting directions to a new location is much easier with Google Maps or my Global Positioning System device than by calling and asking someone for directions or using a paper map.
However, four days after my Slow Media diet technically ended, I still had not reactivated my Facebook account and did not miss it in the least—and I am someone who signed on to Facebook multiple times a day. Eventually I reactivated but decided to opt out of receiving distracting e-mail alerts.
I am now a more conscious media consumer.
More on Slow Media
- Slow Media
A compendium of artifacts and discourses regarding digital disenchantment and the possibilities for a less-mediated life.
- A slow media movement | Marketplace From American Public Media
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Things Get Painted - Winter Wolf
So, after prepping for cons, going to cons, prepping and going to the states, then catching up on things when I got back home, I finally got to finish something last night:
This is a Winter Wolf from Bones 3. You can probably see that it was a quick job, roughly drybrushed and based, and I didn't even clean the mold lines off it. But it was fun, and also made me want to paint my yetis.
I painted the exposed to of the base RMS Surf Aqua, then after adding some grass tufts, coated the base and some of the rock in a mix of Secret Weapon Realistic Water and old GW Snow powder. The aim was to get a melting snow look. Not perfect, but serviceable on the table top.
I want to experiment more with snow effects, but at the moment I feel the GW snow powder is not the way to go. I am look into other alternatives.
Next up, finishing this guy! I started both the wolf and ape while I was away for Gammacon before I went away, so I'm looking forward to finishing this one up as well, even if it is a quick job.


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1. Spider-man- the outcast , genius, nerdy, the guy with same problems most of us have and all the responsible how does he not go insane from the tragedy of uncle been to the death of gwen stacy is what makes him number one hero because anybody can be him black, white,hispanic, indian, etc. because he is the underdog in the marvel universe. just like rocky balboa
2. wolverine- tough, badass loner, nearly immortal misery loves company for wolverine he will always be miserable because he loses everyone all the time Rose, jean grey, itsu, silverfox, and he's alway the target by his enemies sabertooth, mystique, daken, omega red.
3. Hulk- monster, multiple personalities unlimited strength, love many women, betty ross, caeira, marlo chandler
4. Deadpool - cancer, crazy breaks the 4th wall, mercenary, insane healing factor, funny nuff said.
5. Black panther(t'challa)- warrior, king, skilled fighter, genius, scientist and is just awesome in watching in Avengers earth's mighest heroes. hope to lear mire about t'challa.
6. Luke Cage- Exgang member, tough, badass, super strength, nearly invulnerable leader, Avenger and family man don't mess with cage otherwise, you might not live to regret it. hope to learn more about this character in the media soon.
7. Eddie brock -venom & anti -venom - villian pyschopath, smart, cunning, obession anti-hero one of spiderman greatest enemies great story arc for me spider-man reign read it its great story about the relationship between spider-man and venom.
Ultimate Comics Avengers 3 #4 8. blade- half human/vampire hybrid, vampire hunter,loner tries to keep his humanity and at the same time save humanity from vampires. he needs his own solo nook the blade movies 1 & 2 are awesome. the blade anime is good too the character has a lot of depth that needs to be explored.


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Died on 13 December 1961:
Anna Mary Robertson Grandma Moses, US Folk painter born on 07 September 1860.
Truly a senior artist, Moses only began a serious painting career at the age of 78 and kept at it until the grand old age of 100! This exhibition documents not only her signature folk imagery but engages the onlooker in Moses's extraordinary career, her love of life, and her savvy marketing skills. Visitors will follow a checkerboard design, starting with the outside banner. (One of Moses's favorite images was a Vermont checkerboard house.) Throughout the exhibition, "Grandma Says" chat signs (about life on the farm, candle making, the seasons, old age) will introduce the rich chapters of her life's story: Birth of an Artist:
Moses's first seventy-five years constitute her "early years." A "corner of Grandma's studio," complete with a replication of the view out her window, her kitchen table palette, brushes, and paint are all displayed, plus rarely seen examples of the artist's handiwork, early yarn paintings and dolls.
Classic scenes of ice skating, harvesting, hunting, and socializing with the neighbors follow in the tradition of Flemish and Dutch genre painting. Even without formal training, Moses captured the essence of what it meant to be part of the land and a participant in rural activities. One such activity now seeing a revival is quiltmaking, and, within the exhibition, our visitors will see a quilting bee in progress. Children and adults can design their own quilt by placing modular quilting shapes on a large felt board, and a farm play bench will also be part of an interactive corner.
Images of happier, simpler times before the Great War, the Depression, and World War II are here: apple butter making, tapping maple trees, milking cows, shoeing horses--yet Moses also knew how to cope with city slickers. A "marketing corner" displays her many awards, products, fabric designs, and a taped interview with Edward R. Murrow.
Facing failing vision and arthritis in her hands, Moses switched to painting with her left hand but never let up on the number of pictures produced per year, although her work became broader and more painterly in technique. The legend of Grandma Moses is one of senior citizen wizardry, a marvel of crusty ingenuity and independent living. (At the health center where she spent her final days, she once stole her physician's stethoscope, warning him: "You take me back to Eagle Bridge and you'll get back your stethoscope.") Presidents, Hollywood figures, art collectors, reporters, all mourned the death of Grandma Moses. Her pictures allow us to recreate her life, her joy of painting, and her wonderful vision of the world.
Grandma Moses was the spry, indomitable "genuine American primitive" who became one of the US's most famous painters in her late seventies. The simple realism, nostalgic atmosphere and luminous color with which Grandma Moses portrayed homely farm life and rural countryside won her a wide following. She was able to capture the excitement of winter's first snow, Thanksgiving preparations and the new, young green of oncoming spring. Gay color, action and humor enlivened her portrayals of such simple farm activities as maple sugaring, soap-making, candle-making, haying, berrying and the making of apple butter.
In person, Grandma Moses charmed wherever she went. A tiny, lively woman with mischievous gray eyes and a quick wit, she could be sharp-tongued with a sycophant and stern with an errant grandchild. Cheerful, even in her last years, she continued to be keenly observant of all that went on around her. Until her 101st and last birthday, 07 September 1961, she rarely failed to do a little painting every day.
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Moses, whose paintings hang in nine museums in the United States and in
Vienna and Paris, turned out her first picture when she was 76 years old.
She took up painting because arthritis had crippled her hands so that she
no longer could embroider. She could not hold a needle, but she could hold
a brush, and she had been too busy all her life to bear the thought of being
Two years later a New York engineer and art collector, Louis J. Caldor, who was driving through Hoosick Falls saw some of her paintings displayed in a drug store. They were priced from $3 to $5, depending on size. He bought them all, drove to the artist's home at Eagle Bridge and bought ten others she had there.
The next year, 1939, Grandma Moses was represented in an exhibition of "contemporary unknown painters" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She did not remain unknown for long. A one-person show of her paintings was held in New York in 1940, and other one-person shows abroad followed. Her paintings were soon reproduced on Christmas cards, tiles and fabrics in the US and abroad. She was the guest of President and Mrs. Harry S. Truman in 1949 at a tea at which the President played the piano for her. NY Governor Rockefeller proclaimed the painter's 100th and 101st birthdays "Grandma Moses Days" throughout the state, declaring in 1961 that "there is no more renowned artist in our entire country today."
But to say that she was a US painter is less than the full portrait of Grandma Moses; European critics called her work "lovable," "fresh," "charming," "adorable" and "full of naive and childlike joy." A German fan offered his explanation for her wide popularity:
"There emanates from her paintings a light-hearted optimism; the world she shows us is beautiful and it is good. You feel at home in all these pictures, and you know their meaning. The unrest and the neurotic insecurity of the present day make us inclined to enjoy the simple and affirmative outlook of Grandma Moses."
As a self-taught "primitive," who in childhood began painting what she called "lambscapes" by squeezing out grape juice or lemon juice to get colors, Grandma Moses has been compared to the great self-taught French painter, le douanier Henri Rousseau, as well as to Breughel. Until the comparisons were made, she had never heard of either artist.
Grandma Moses did all of her painting from remembrance of things past. She liked to sit quietly and think, she once said, and remember and imagine. "Then I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live." She would sit on an old, battered swivel chair, perching on two large pillows. The Masonite on which she painted would lie flat on an old kitchen table before her. There was no easel. Crowding her in her "studio" were an electric washer and dryer that had overflowed from the kitchen.
For subject matter, Grandma Moses drew on memories of a long life as farm child, hired girl and farmer's wife. Her first paintings had been sent to the county fair along with samples of her raspberry jam and strawberry preserves. Her jam had won a ribbon, but nobody noticed those first paintings. She would paint for five or six hours, and preferred the first part of the session because, as she said, her hand was fresher and "stiddier." At night, after dinner, she liked to watch television Westerns, not for the drama but because she liked to see horses.
Grandma Moses spent a lot of her time on what she called her "old-timey" New England landscapes. She painted from the top down: "First the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the trees, then the houses, then the cattle and then the people." Her tiny figures, disproportionately small, cast no shadows. They seem sharply arrested in action.
She learned as a child to observe nature when her father took the children out for walks. He was a Methodist, but never went to church, and he allowed his children to believe what they wanted. Instead of going to church, they went for long walks in the woods.
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Moses had had a hard life most of her many years, but neither her fame nor
her advanced years cut into her formidable production. During her lifetime
she painted more than 1000 pictures, twenty-five of them after she had passed
her 100th birthday. Her oils have increased in value from those early $3
and $5 works to $8000 or $10'000 for a large picture. Otto Kallier, owner
and director of the Galerie St. Etienne in New York and president of Grandma
Moses' Properties, Inc., will not discuss her earnings, but they are reliably
estimated to have reached nearly $500'000.
Grandma Moses Story Book, an anthology for children illustrated by forty-seven color reproductions of her paintings, was published in 1961, and 20'000 copies were sold before publication.
Grandma Moses, the former Anna Mary Robertson was born at Greenwich NY,one of five daughters and five sons of Russell King Robertson and the former Margaret Shannahan. What little formal education she had was obtained in a one-room country school. At the age of 12 she left home to work as a hired girl. She worked in the same capacity until she was 27 years old, when she was married to Thomas Salmon Moses. He was the hired man on the farm where she was doing the housework. The couple took a wedding trip to North Carolina. On the way back, they decided to invest their $600 savings in the rental of a farm near Staunton VA.
They remained in Virginia for twenty years. Ten children, five of whom died in infancy, were born to them. In addition to caring for the children and running the house, Mrs. Moses made butter and potato chips, which she sold to neighbors. The couple returned to New York State and began farming at Eagle Bridge. Mr. Moses died there in 1927. For several years his widow continued to operate the farm with the help of her son, Forrest. But she had to give up farm chores, and then embroidery, when arthritis attacked her hands.
She had been embroidering in wool pictures that were reminiscent of Currier and Ives prints of country scenes. Grandma Moses' first paintings were copies from the prints and post cards. Gradually, however, she began to compose original scenes, drawn from her memories of farm life in past generations.
My Life's History, her autobiography, was published in 1951. In it Grandma Moses expressed her basic philosophy:
"I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
On the day of her death, President Kennedy said: "The death of Grandma Moses removed a beloved figure from American life. The directness and vividness of her paintings restored a primitive freshness to our perception of the American scene. Both her work and her life helped our nation renew its pioneer heritage and recall its roots in the countryside and on the frontier. All Americans mourn her loss."
Fall (1958) The Shepherd Comes Home, yarn picture. All Out for Sport (1949) A Beautiful World (1948) My Hills of Home [Flash]
Early Sugaring Off (1944, 89x114cm) _ Grandma Moses' colorful and lively Early Sugaring Off, with its sprinkling of glitter to add a sparkle to the snow, is a prime example of American Primitive art. Born Anna Mary Robertson in Washington County, New York. Having never had an art lesson, at age 76 she began painting simple, but realistic scenes of rural life. She had her first one-woman show at age 80 and painted 25 pictures in the year after her 100th birthday. Critics have praised her work for its freshness, innocence, and humanity.
The Old Hoosick Bridge (1947) _ Grandma Moses captured with paint her memories of a long rural life. She first took up a paintbrush in 1937 at the age of 77. Several years later, the US discovered her paintings and immediately fell in love with this elderly artist from Upstate New York. Why? Certainly Grandma Moses personal charm had much to do with it. A spunky, earthy woman, she charmed America with her country ways, her homespun aphorisms, and her pride in her canned jams and preserves. Her paintings were true to their creator. They depicted scenes Grandma Moses remembered some from her childhood, others from her years as a farmwife. Covered bridges, for example, were land marks in days gone by. The Old Hoosick Bridge captured one particular structure that, in her words, is no more. Perhaps in that sentiment lies the appeal of Grandma Moses paintings, for she seems to capture a style of life that people in the US like to believe once was, but sadly is no more.
Born on 13 December 1821: Joseph
Noël Paton, Scottish painter who died on 25 or 26
December 1901.
Died on 13 December 1693: Willem
van Velde Sr., Dutch artist born in 1611.
When Willem van de Velde was sixty-two, King Charles II refused to allow him to continue risking his life at sea. Yet even on shore this artist never stopped drawing and painting ships. A contemporary noted: "He had a Model of the Masts and Tackle of a Ship always before him." Van de Velde's father was a seaman, but little is known of his early life. He moved to Amsterdam in 1636 and traveled with Dutch trade ships to the Baltic during the early 1640s. Later, he drew and painted the Dutch fleet during the Anglo-Dutch war, sometimes as the official recording artist, sometimes as an independent observer, witnessing battles from the deck of his small boat. Van de Velde regularly collaborated with his son Willem, also a painter. His other son, Adriaen van de Velde, became a landscape painter. When the French invaded Holland in 1672 the family moved to England, quickly gaining recognition from King Charles II. In his drawings, mostly executed in pen and gray wash, van de Velde paid particular attention to the details that differentiated ships, such as figureheads, stern carvings, and gunports. Naval historians now use his ship portraits to study the rig and build of vessels in his day.
The Battle of Livorno (1655) The Battle of Terheide (1657) The Council of War on board De Zeven Provinciën (1667) Figures on Board Small Merchant Vessels (1654, 21x32cm)
Died on 13 December 1619: Lodovico
Carracci, Italian artist born on 21 April 1555.
Bargellini Madonna (1588, 282x188cm) _ Lodovico Carracci derived his Baroque type of composition from certain pictures by Titian, adding to these a celestial plane, by which the upper part of the picture is filled with great beauty. The Renaissance 'Sacra conversazione', in which all the people were motionless, has become a living conversation, in which men and saints are admitted in familiar terms into the presence of the sacred figures.
The Dream of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (1593) _ We recognize this sleeping figure as Saint Catherine by the fragment of spiked wheel in the lower left corner, which was the instrument of an attempted martyrdom. Here Lodovico Carracci represented her legendary dream in which Mary and the infant Christ, accompanied by angels, appeared to her. Plighting his troth, Christ placed a ring on Catherine's finger, and through this mystic marriage she became his bride. To cast the event as a dream, rather than having Saint Catherine receive the ring while awake, is Lodovico's innovation. Two angels at the left look on with protective tenderness, while others barely emerge amid the vaporous bronze radiance at the right -- spirit becoming matter. The figures, solid and robust, bask in an indeterminate setting. A languorous warmth pervades the scene and slows the composition. At the same time, the quirky folds and pleats cascading down Catherine's garments impart a vertiginous sensation -- the dizziness of sleep. Lodovico was the eldest of the three Carracci, the family of Bolognese artists who inaugurated the age of the baroque. His depictions of saints in states of visionary ecstasy were highly prized in an age when the purpose of religious art was to arouse intensely pious emotions in the spectator. _ detail
The Virgin Appearing to St Hyacinth (1594, 375x223cm) _ The painting is from the church of San Domenico, Bologna.
Died on 13 December 1736: Gaspar
(or Kaspar) Wittel (or Vittel, Vanvitelli), Dutch artist
born in 1653
Dutch painter, known in Italy as Gaspare Vanvitelli. He received his first training at Amersfoort, Holland, although he was in Rome by the time of the Jubilee of 1675. He worked as a draughtsman on a scheme for regulating the Tiber and this probably gave him the idea of making large and very accurate topographical drawings which could be worked up into 'vedute'; he therefore be the link between Dutch topographical painters like van der Heyden and later Italian 'vedutisti'. He is now recognized as an extremely important forerunner of painters like Carlevaris, Canaletto and Pannini, since there are dated Roman vedute by him of 1681.
He went to Venice in the 1690s and there is a dated veduta of 1697 (Prado, Madrid), which antedates Carlevaris. He was in Naples in 1700, when his son Luigi, later the great Neapolitan architect, was born. He spent his last years in Naples and Rome, where he died. He was nicknamed 'Gaspare degli Occhiali' from at least 1712, and his short sight may have prevented his working after c. 1730. Old sale-catalogues often refer to e.g. 'Two landskip by Ochiali'.
St Peter's in Rome (1711, 57x11cm) _ Van Vittel (Gaspare Vanvitelli in Italy) specialized in topographically accurate views of cities. Portraits of cities and specific buildings were not new in his days, Dutch and Flemish contemporaries in Italy also made urban views. However, van Wittel was the first Italianate to concentrate on the category. Van Wittel's topographical views are called 'vedute'. Although the term was used in Italy to characterize pictures of Rome and its environs long before van Wittel appeared on the scene, he is rightly credited with establishing vedute as an independent category of painting. In his time the term began to be used to characterize portrayals of other cities and their sites. Van Wittel's own oeuvre includes some of Venice, Florence, Bologna, Naples, and other places on the Italian peninsula. Strictly speaking one can speak of vedute of Amsterdam, Paris, London, Dresden, St. Petersburg, and so forth, but customary usage confines the term to topographical views of Italy. Van Wittel starts in Italy by following the tradition established in the sixteenth century of depicting the sights of the city in prints which culminates in the following century in Piranesi's peerless etchings of Rome. What sets van Wittel apart from earlier printmakers of Roman urban buildings and spaces was the practice he soon began of translating his views into paint. The market for his views of the Eternal City was good. During a period of more than thirty years he produced several versions of the most important sights. His innovative sun-drenched vedute done in light tonalities had little influence in his native land but they had an enduring effect in Italy where they set examples for leading eighteenth-century Italian veduta painters including Pannini in Rome and Guardi and Canaletto in Venice.
View of the Piazza del Popolo, Rome (1678 etching) _ Van Wittel starts in Italy by following the tradition established in the sixteenth century of depicting the sights of the city in prints which culminates in the following century in Piranesi's peerless etchings of Rome. One of van Wittel's etchings is a panoramic view of Piazza del Popolo, doubtlessly based on a lost drawing, made from the top of Porta del Popolo, the main entrance to the city for travellers arriving from the north.
Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
Vasiliy Vasilyevich Kandinsky in 1911
Died on 13 December 1944: Vasiliy
Vasilyevich Kandinsky, Russian Expressionist painter, dies
in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He was born on 16 December (04 December Julian) 1866.
article about Kandinsky: Towards Abstraction
Russian-born Kandinstky was one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. After successful avant-garde exhibitions, he founded the influential Munich group Der Blaue Reiter (1911-14) and began completely abstract painting. His forms evolved from fluid and organic to geometric and, finally, to pictographic ( e.g., Tempered Élan, 1944 thumbnail >).
Kandinsky, himself an accomplished musician, once said Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.' The concept that color and musical harmony are linked has a long history, intriguing scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton. Kandinsky used color in a highly theoretical way associating tone with timbre (the sound's character), hue with pitch.
Born in Moscow , Kandinsky spent his early childhood in Odessa. His parents played the piano and the zither and Kandinsky himself learned the piano and cello at an early age. The influence of music in his paintings cannot be overstated, down to the names of his paintings "Improvisations", "Impressions", and "Compositions." In 1886, he enrolled at the University of Moscow, chose to study law and economics, and after passing his examinations, lectured at the Moscow Faculty of Law. He enjoyed success not only as a teacher but also wrote extensively on spirituality, a subject that remained of great interest and ultimately exerted substantial influence in his work.
In 1895 Kandinsky attended a French Impressionist exhibition where he saw Monet's Haystacks at Giverny. He stated, ...it was from the catalog I learned this was a haystack. I was upset I had not recognized it. I also thought the painter had no right to paint in such an imprecise fashion. Dimly I was aware too that the object did not appear in the picture... Soon thereafter, at the age of thirty, Kandinsky left Moscow and went to Munich to study life-drawing, sketching and anatomy, regarded then as basic for an artistic education.
Ironically, Kandinsky's work moved in a direction that was of much greater abstraction than that which was pioneered by the Impressionists. It was not long before his talent surpassed the constraints of art school and he began exploring his own ideas of painting ...I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife and I made them sing with all the intensity I could...
Now considered to be the founder of abstract art, Kandinsky had his work exhibited throughout Europe from 1903 onwards, and often caused controversy among the public, the art critics, and his contemporaries. An active participant in several of the most influential and controversial art movements of the 20th century, among them the Blue Rider which he founded along with Franz Marc and the Bauhaus which also attracted Klee, Lyonel Feininger [1871-1956], Geiniger, and Schonberg, Kandinsky continued to further express and define his form of art, both on canvas and in his theoretical writings.
His reputation became firmly established in the United States through numerous exhbitions and his work was introduced to Solomon Guggenheim, who became one of his most enthusiastic supporters. In 1933, Kandinsky left Germany and settled in the classy Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. The paintings from these later years were again the subject of controversy. Though Kandinsky was out of favor with many of the patriarchs of Paris's artistic community, younger artists admired him. His studio was visited regularly by Miro, Arp, Magnelli and Sophie Tauber. Kandinsky continued painting until June 1944. His unrelenting quest for new forms which carried him to the very extremes of geometric abstraction have provided us with an unparalleled collection of abstract art.
Autumn in Bavaria (1908, 33x45cm) Painting with Green Center Cemetery & Vicarage in Kochel (1909) Gabriele Münter (1905) Picture with a Black Arch (1912, 186x193cm) Colorful Ensemble (1938) Murnau with Church I (1910, 65x50cm) Improvisation 7 (1910, 131x97cm) Composition IV (1911, 159x250) Composition V (1911, (190x275cm) Composition VI (1913, 195x300cm) Composition VII _ Composition VII (1913, 200x300cm) Fragment 2 for Composition VII (1913, 88x100cm) Composition VIII (1923, 140x201cm) Composition IX (1936, 114x195cm) Composition X (1939, 130x195cm) In the Blue Black Spot I (1912, 100x130cm) Ravine Improvisation (1914, 110x110cm) On White II (1923, 105x98cm) Small Pleasures Black and Violet (1923) Contrasting Sounds (1924, 70x50cm) Yellow, Red, Blue (1925, 127x200cm)
Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle) _ Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle) (1913; 145x120cm) Neither Marc nor Macke were abstract painters. It was Kandinsky who found that the interior necessity, which alone could inspire true art, was forcing him to leave behind the representational image. He was a Russian who had first trained as a lawyer. He was a brilliant and persuasive man. Then, when already in his thirties, he decided to go to Munich in 1897 to study art. By the time Der Blaue Reiter was established, he was already abstracting from the image, using it as a creative springboard for his pioneering art. Seeing a painting of his own, lying on its side on the easel one evening, he had been struck by its beauty, a beauty beyond what he saw when he set it upright. It was the liberated color, the formal independence, that so entranced him.
Kandinsky, a determined and sensitive man, was a good prophet to receive this vision. He preached it by word and by example, and even those who were suspicious of this new freedom were frequently convinced by his paintings. Improvisation 31 has a less generalized title, Sea Battle, and by taking this hint we can indeed see how he has used the image of two tall ships shooting cannonballs at each other, and abstracted these specifics down into the glorious commotion of the picture. Though it does not show a sea battle, it makes us experience one, with its confusion, courage, excitement, and furious motion.
Kandinsky says all this mainly with the color, which bounces and balloons over the center of the picture, roughly curtailed at the upper corners, and ominously smudged at the bottom right. There are also smears, whether of paint or of blood. The action is held tightly within two strong ascending diagonals, creating a central triangle that rises ever higher. This rising accent gives a heroic feel to the violence.
These free, wild raptures are not the only form abstraction can take, and in his later, sadder years, Kandinsky became much more severely constrained, all trace of his original inspiration lost in magnificent patternings. Accent in Pink (1926, 101x81cm) exists solely as an object in its own right: the pink and the accent are purely visual. The only meaning to be found lies in what the experience of the pictures provides, and that demands prolonged contemplation. What some find hard about abstract art is the very demanding, time-consuming labor that is implicitly required. Yet if we do not look long and with an open heart, we shall see nothing but superior wallpaper. [but if we look long enough we will see that it is not superior to wallpaper].
Vassily Kandisky
Le surréalisme est orphelin. Depuis longtemps considéré, à côté de Mondrian, comme l' inventeur de la peinture abstraite dans le courant des années 1910 et comme lun de ses principaux théoriciens, Kandinsky a vu, après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, sa position remise en cause par lapparition de nouvelles formes dart abstrait, et le renouveau même de la peinture figurative. Mais, depuis le début des années 1970, lensemble de son uvre a commencé à faire lobjet dun nouvel examen : elle ne cesse aujourdhui de redéployer toute sa richesse et sa complexité pour retrouver la place centrale quelle mérite doccuper dans lhistoire de lart européen de la première moitié du siècle.
Kandinsky, né à Moscou, fit des études de droit, puis renonça à une carrière universitaire pour entrer à l'Académie des beaux-arts de Munich, où il étudia de 1896 à 1900. Il exécuta ses premiers tableaux dans un style naturaliste puis, à la suite d'un voyage à Paris au cours duquel il fut marqué par les uvres des fauves et des impressionnistes (la série des Meules de Claude Monet fut notamment pour lui une révélation), sa peinture devint très fortement colorée et moins organisée (Tableau à l'archer, 1909).
À partir de 1909, il réalisa des peintures qui allaient plus tard être considérées comme les premières uvres entièrement abstraites de l'art moderne!; elles ne faisaient en effet référence à aucune réalité tangible et tiraient leur inspiration et leurs titres de la musique (Improvisation II, Marche funèbre, 1909). Il décrivit d'ailleurs le processus qui le mena à l'abstraction dans un ouvrage autobiographique, " Regards " en arrière, qui fut publié en 1913.
En 1911, Kandinsky forma, avec des expressionnistes allemands le groupe Der Blaue Reiter dont le titre associe le bleu, couleur préférée de Kandinsky, aux chevaux que Marc Franz privilégiait tout particulièrement dans ses propres uvres. Pendant cette période, Kandinsky produisit aussi bien des uvres abstraites que des uvres figuratives, toutes étant caractérisées par des couleurs brillantes et des motifs complexes. En 1912, il publia à Munich Du spirituel dans l'art, ouvrage qu'il avait commencé à rédiger dès 1910. Ce premier traité théorique sur l'abstraction lui permit de répandre ses idées en Europe et lui conféra une importance historique de tout premier ordre. L'influence exercée par Kandinsky sur l'évolution artistique du XXe siècle s'accrut par son activité d'enseignant (à Moscou puis au Bauhaus de Weimar, ensuite à Dessau. Point, ligne, plan, publié en 1926, expose les principaux fondements de son enseignement. Après la Première Guerre mondiale, les abstractions de Kandinsky tendirent à une géométrisation progressive, à mesure qu'il abandonnait son précédent style fluide en faveur de signes clairement marqués. Ainsi sa Composition VIII n° 260 (1923) est-elle uniquement faite de droites, de cercles, d'arcs et d'autres formes géométriques simples. Dans des uvres beaucoup plus tardives, comme Cercle et Carré (1943), il affine ce style de façon élégante et complexe, parvenant à des représentations esthétiquement très équilibrées.
Kandinsky fut l'un des artistes les plus influents de sa génération; lexplorateur de labstraction pure. Il peut être considéré comme l'artiste ayant tracé la voie de l'expressionnisme abstrait. Kandinsky est mort à Neuilly-sur-Seine, où il s'était installé dès 1933.


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A U.S. Senate bill introduced Thursday, May 17, by Sen. Harry Reid, D-NV, aims to do just that. It includes emissions and fuel economy as part of a larger package relating to energy and the environment.
Reid's bill – S1419 – includes a provision to amend the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards – known as the CAFE standards – for cars, light trucks, medium-duty trucks and heavy trucks.
The bill gives the Secretary of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency authorization to set the fuel economy standards.
"The average fuel economy required to be attained by the fleet of medium-duty and heavy-duty trucks manufactured in the United States shall be at least 4 percent greater than the average fuel economy required to be attained for the fleet in the previous model year (rounded to the nearest one-tenth mile per gallon)," Section 502 of the bill states.
That language was originally introduced in another bill – S357 – authored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, before being rolled into S1419.
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CAFE in its 34-year history has dealt specifically with fuel mileage standards for car manufacturers, and the standards haven't been amended for 16 years.
Reid's bill calls for increases in the average mileage for passenger vehicles from 27.5 miles per gallon to 35 mpg by 2020. That average allows manufacturers to continue to build so-called gas guzzlers, as long as they are also making fuel efficient vehicles to reach the average economy.
Emissions and economic concerns are part of a recent plan President Bush has unveiled for reducing gasoline consumption by 20 percent in the next decade. He has dubbed it the "20 in 10" plan.
For truck makers, the Senate bill calls for a 10-percent reduction in 10 years by way of the 4-percent annual increases in fuel economy.
President Bush and top administration officials are working on a number of ways to reduce emissions and U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Bush signed an executive order May 14 directing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to coordinate possible regulatory actions for cars and trucks that contribute to global climate change.
Amending the CAFE standards would be a step, department officials said during a teleconference about Bush's announcement.
For the fuel mileage increases to become regulations, a notice of a proposed rulemaking would occur "30 months before the model year for which the standard is to apply," according to the Reid bill. The rulemaking would have to be in place 18 months prior to the standards taking place.
The Reid bill steers clear of rail, buses and recreational vehicles. It does, however, contain exemptions for vehicle manufacturers should the changeover to more efficient systems becomes too cost-prohibitive.
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Monthly support: $4,600 or 4.100€
Make checks payable to Healing 2 The Nations Int'l (or H2TNI)
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H2TNI is also a registered organization in Austria.
& Claudia are associated with the apostolic networks of Che Ahn, Randy
Clark and Bill Johnson.
are believing and contending for the money needed to purchase a
new pickup truck, for our deficit to be erased and to be able to
complete the third building we've built.
declare the time of lack is OVER!
Friday, November 20 - the first day of our conference
- two Malian islamists stormed into the number
one hotel in Bamako (that I have stayed in before) and started shooting
people. 170 people were in the hotel, and they released those that
were able to recite verses from the Quran. After many hours a special
commando stormed the hotel and killed the two attackers. 21
people were killed in total.
other people have been arrested since. This past
year radical islamists have moved further south,
infiltrating the population and doing attacks all over the country.
A new group has formed in the center of Mali who
- together with other groups from the north - all claim responsibility
for the attack that occurred exactly one week after the Paris attacks.
Ever since the liberation of the north of Mali
from sharia law by the French, the different jihadist groups have
vowed vengeance against the French. A
French cartoonist colored the Eiffel tower with the Malian colors
as a sign of solidarity with their former colony.
American speaker for the conference was concerned about the events,
but we continued our program as planned.
a result of what happened, Westerners are asked to stay
away from public gatherings. Air France
- whose crew stayed at that hotel - is not letting their people
stay in Bamako any more. The American embassy in
Bamako just announced that they are reducing their personnel to
only those absolutely needed.
continue to pray for us - your prayers are making
a difference! At no time have we ever felt unsafe or in danger.
We are in the palm of His hands.
- Our last email newsletter was all about the attacks we have endured
during the last few months. Unfortunately I have to report that
they have not ceased but continued, maybe even intensified.
Randy spent weeks not walking with his sprained or broken
toe, and now we have both been pretty sick
these past few days, trying to recover. And not just us, but several
of our team and children are also sick.
- The thefts on our base have also continued and become more serious,
including money and electronic equipment. We've
gone to the police, and had a very serious talk with everyone, but
while we are pretty sure it's someone from our center, we have no
lead as to who it could be. For now we've secured everything as
much as possible so that another theft is not possible. I recently
preached on integrity, and God's Spirit really
fell on me and then on our boys. One boy fell to the ground,
while another one was so moved he just stayed in his seat after
the service while everyone went on their way. He later told me he
had never been touched by God like this before.
Unfortunately the thefts did continue after that service.
- We have spent $10,000 on schooling so far these
past few months, and the second installment of tuition is due in
January. We have not had enough money come in to help us with that
extra expense which has left us in a bad place financially. In addition,
two of our biggest supporters are discontinuing their support
by the end of this year. We're praying for more monthly
supporters as well as one-time donations,
especially in light of the upcoming Christmas festivities.
year we had our 10-year anniversary conference, and both our speakers
canceled on short notice because of Ebola. This
year pastor Alan Koch from Kansas City, MO, made
it to Mali - though the terrorist attack sure made things interesting.
started our weekend with our prayer meeting and
had a great time worshiping and praising God. You can watch a short
clip on YouTube
Friday and Saturday Alan preached 5 sessions. Our
theme for the whole weekend was Holy Spirit. And
the first night He surprised us when Alan started prophesying
over Paul, and then I continued and called six of our boys forward
and started prophesying over each one of them. It was a powerful
we didn't have as many people show up as we had hoped, there were
a few new people who listened intently and ended up giving
their lives to the Lord. Hallelujah! We also prayed for
the sick, and God healed them. We had a wonderful time.
Sunday we concluded our weekend with a big celebration.
Paul and the boys led us in Bambara praise, Alan
prayed a prayer of blessing over our church, we
dedicated Paul's son Christian to the Lord, and
we baptized four children - Aaron
(10), Sarata (10), Ibrahim (16) and non-resident kid Miché
(12). Then we prayed and prophesied over each one of them.
children wrote two skits that they performed where
people were getting healed and saved, and people loved them. Our
young leader-in-Training Joseph sang one of the
songs he had written, and finally Alan got up to preach a powerful
message on the blood of Jesus. He and Randy spent
a long time praying for people, while many started
eating our banquet feast. It was a wonderful celebration of 11
years of God's faithfulness to Centre Apostolique Malien!
(our church name)
here to see our November pictures that include
day 1 and 2 of the conference.
here to see the pictures of our actual 11th anniversary
celebration on Sunday.
you say, "The Lord is my refuge," and you make the Most
High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will
come near your tent. (Psalm
Nov 2015
Standing from left: Paul, Joseph, Adama, Suma, Florentin, Karim,
Jérémie, André
Middle: Claudia, Randy, Daouda, Ibrahim, Amadou, Youssouf, Fanta
Sitting from left: Adou, Hama, Boubacar, Bakary, Aaron, Sarata,
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by John and Ruth Greene
Whether you believe that the first couple is real or simply an allegory, there is much to be learned from scripture. Rest assured, all of us have something to learn. Learning about your ancestors often helps you to understand yourself and your life. Adam and Eve were the highlight of YHWH's creation, the very reason that Father Elohim made the earth. They didn't always live the way He intended. Through their mistakes, you can learn important lessons on how to live in righteousness. Adam and Eve teach about the nature of sin and its consequences. Just as Adam and Eve made their misery, so each of us continue to make our own misery or joy! ("YHWH's Track of Righteousness")
"Don't touch that tree! (Genesis 3:2-3) When I was a little girl I lived with my grandmother. She had a peach tree in the front yard amidst many other fruit trees. I was told that being around the tree was dangerous because of the wasps that swarmed around it. We used to sit out on the front porch. As the peaches ripened, the fragrance was magnificent. The peaches were huge and looked very tasty, even from a distance. When the peaches dropped to the ground, my grandmother would pick them up. She did this every day during the season. One day I picked one of the peaches right off of the tree and began to eat it. The taste was every bit as good as how the peach looked and smelled. My grandmother caught me and told about the dangers of the wasps. A wasp would sting me and leave its stinger behind. Then, I would have to go to see the doctor. Then, there was the possibility of allergies to the sting. The pain of a sting could be terrible. I had touched the tree despite any danger and ate the forbidden fruit. (Genesis 2:17) I had failed to listen to instruction and had sinned against my best friend, just as the first couple sinned against their best friend! When my grandmother told me that something was harmful, she was serious." – Ruth Greene
Happily, Ruth wasn't judged eternally for that single decision as a child. However, just as it was with Adam and Eve, the decisions you make in your life either set you up for life or eternal destruction. (Deuteronomy 30:19; John 10:10; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 John 3:1; Romans 6:23) Ezekiel 18:26 still applies: "When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and dies in it, it is because of the iniquity which he has done that he dies."
In His loving-kindness, YHWH made a partner, a wife for Adam. Adam did fine until he had a wife. Scripture doesn't say why Eve was alone by herself in the garden. Jewish tradition and mysticism have tales about this, but what scripture says is all that we can depend on for truth. What we do know is that Adam stood by his woman, costing their children and future generations a great deal. We can be reasonably certain that the fruit probably wasn't tasteless and odorless. This is not the kind of fruit that you find in most grocery stores. We mean the kind of fruit that is sun-ripened and ready to eat. When the fruit was ripe, it was not only a pleasure to look at, but the fragrance surely added to the temptation. From this example, you can appreciate that temptations are rarely singular in nature. When something becomes desirable, other seductive qualities of the temptation add to the pressure of giving in to it. (Genesis 2:9; "Temptations & Tough Choices"; "Breaking the Hold of Addictions through Temptation"; "Understanding Sin")
Then, there was Satan, more cunning than any living creature. (Genesis 3:1) Most Bible translators translate the Hebrew nachash as 'serpent,' although in the Genesis account, nachash is more appropriately revealed as 'shining' or 'the shining one.' This shining creature was clearly not an animal of a lower order that Adam had named, but a messenger or 'angel of light.' Many will tell you about the fall of Satan, the shining one mentioned by many Bible translations in Isaiah 14:12. (Isaiah 14:12-27) Many a translator has referred to or politely upheld Satan as the shining one in Isaiah 14:12, which is a mistranslation set out by the Codex Vaticanus. Instead, in translation the verse would read something like this:
"How you have fallen from out of the heavens! Howl, son of the dawn! You are cut off to the land, prostrated by nations." – Isaiah 14:12, direct translation
The king of Babylon was cut off in that day as Babylon the Great will be cut off in this day. However, Isaiah does not support Satan as an angel of light or a shining one, to what should be the chagrin of many a polite Bible translator that acted as 'angels of light' by refusing to take a stand. We must rely on Genesis and later, the Apostle Paul to lay out the truth on this shining liar that has fallen from great heights.
In the garden, a messenger of light slyly reasoned with Eve, selling her the pleasant qualities of the fruit and what it would do for her. He made sin look inviting. However, just as imperfect men have a hard time grasping perfection in any real way, so the first couple didn't have a real understanding on sin or corruption. They were accustomed to an unmolested world and a Spiritual Father that provided for their every need. YHWH established the measure of sin, a concept that Adam and Eve were unfamiliar with. Though being pure of heart and complete before the Father, they were young and inexperienced with deception. When reading in Genesis, one statement the 'shining one' made rings a measure of truth:
"Because Elohim knows the day you eat from it your eyes will open and you will become gods discerning good and evil." – Genesis 3:5, direct translation
Most seductive was the sales point that Eve would become wise like YHWH, knowing evil from righteousness. People would discern good from evil, most likely on their own terms apart from their Heavenly Father. They were separated from Him. That is what YHWH came to heal. He reinstituted relations with mankind through Abram, followed by anchoring this foundaton in place through the Messiah. Many have walked away, even YHWH's own professed nation of people, refusing to discern the destructive nature of sin. Discerning is what all disciples of the Messiah must learn to do today, not by the morality or ethics of the world, but by YHWH's track of righteousness. This is a firm standard that He has determined for those that love Him. ("Discernment: Having an Ear to Deeper Understanding"; "Discernment the World Doesn't Have"; "Christian Disciple: Wavering Between Two Opinions")
Scripture says that Satan was complete in wisdom and beauty. (Ezekiel 28:15) He came as a 'shining one' to the first couple, but he had become corrupted through envying YHWH's power, and as a result was full of iniquity. Through Eve's willingness to talk with Satan, the human race was undone. Simply talking with Satan was enough to begin the corruption as both Eve and Satan began to stretch the truth of what YHWH said. This resulted in outright rebellion by all, condemning them and their children to a terrible punishment. Satan and his kind were cursed above all living creatures. He was condemned to the vicinity of the earth to live 'on his belly' and 'to eat dust.' Scripture isn't revealing that all snakes would be condemned to eat dust, as if a snake could live on that. Satan was removed from his role in the heavens forever, from the presence of YHWH, debased to consume the dust of mankind all the days of his life. This can be concluded by examining Genesis 2:7, which details the creation of man from the dust (aphar) of the earth. The punishment and abasement of fallen spirit creatures (demons) and all living creatures on earth has been great, ultimately making the earth a wilderness and the garden east of Eden a desert. Because of sin, all of mankind was cast into a spiritual wilderness apart from the Kingdom of YHWH. ("Wisdom & the Battle of Two Kingdoms"; "Bible: Wisdom 101"; "The Beast: The Shining One")
Your body, the dust that makes every man, woman and child, is made of ordinary materials. However, despite the chasm brought about by sin, YHWH nurtures us and His creation. What is special is the life force, the spirit of life that YHWH breathes into an otherwise lifeless shell. YHWH is the miracle, not the raw materials. (This spirit of life is not to be confused with the Holy Spirit, the Counselor of genuine Christians who allow Him to work in their lives.) When the Father's life-giving breath returns to Him, the body returns to the dust as an empty shell. (Genesis 2:7) In the same way, when a person purposefully sins and is unrepentant, that one is condemned to a spiritual death, what can become separation from Father Elohim resulting in death. ("The Importance of Practical Repentance"; "Disciples of Messiah & Spiritual Fruit")
Many Adams and many Eves fill the world of man. They deny that life and value comes from YHWH's Spirit. Instead, they boast of their achievements and abilities as if they were the originator of their own strengths. Sin can also work the opposite way through condemnation and lack of belief. Others feel worthless because they don't feel that they stand out or are spiritually damaged in some way. YHWH chooses to give each one of us the miracles that power our lives. He also gives us the power to use those miracles. Your worth has nothing to do with your achievements in the minds of men, but as your life and abilities come from YHWH that are given back to Him. You are also worthy of rest. We live in an action oriented world! There always seems to be plenty to do and no time to rest. That is man's way. Rest is appropriate and right, another provision of YHWH. YHWH rests and His people rest, a holy provision directly from Him. (Mark 6:31-32) Rest refreshes all disciples of Messiah for real service to Him. YHWH blessed the seventh day and set it aside for His people as a day of rest and spiritual refreshment. (Exodus 20:1-17; "Strongholds & the Armor of YHWH"; "The Idolatry Factor"; "Understanding Real Prosperity"; "What is the Sabbath?")
Self-exaltation is rebellion against YHWH. As soon as anyone leaves the Most High out of personal plans that person is placing self above Him. Through the historical decision of Adam and Eve, the act of eating from the forbidden fruit tree made them their own gods. They exercised their own will above the Will of YHWH. (Genesis 3:5-6) They became spiritually attached to Satan and his demons, all who had become their own gods as well. Living in this world, you cannot always prevent temptation, but there is always a way of escape. (1 Corinthians 10:13; 2 Timothy 2:22) Prepare yourself for those attractive temptations that can come your way. You know what you are tempted by in most cases, which really can help matters. Remember always that Yahshua [Jesus] the Messiah is the answer. His provision made relationship with YHWH possible and brought disciples of the Messiah the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The provision of Messiah has made it possible for His disciples to be free from the law of sin and death. This isn't cheap grace that corrupted religion pretends, but the Father's love bears spiritual fruit for those that follow after the Spirit. Grace is the time that Father has given to each man and woman to follow after His Son. Through loving respect in obedience and prayer, anyone can begin to change his or her personal life one day at a time, growing toward spiritual maturity as YHWH's track of righteousness is instilled within mind and heart. (Matthew 5:17; 1 Corinthians 15:22; Romans 6:14, 23, 8:2; Galatians 5:18; 1 Peter 2:20-24; "The Mission of the Messiah's Disciple"; "The Call of YHWH's Watchman"; "Spiritual Fruit & Renewing Your Mind")


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Dentists will tell you that genetics and "proper" dental care and fluoride treatments will result in healthy teeth and gums. However, we know that indigenous tribes who ate healthy diets enjoyed remarkably good dental health. When indigenous tribes were introduced to the Western diet, disease, including oral disease, followed.
The truth is, the most important action you can take to maintain oral health is to eat a healthy diet. Avoid all artificial additives (flavors, colors, preservatives), GMOs, pasteurized dairy, and refined sugars. Do not consume foods laden with herbicides and preservatives (especially the "dirty dozen") or animal protein (meat or dairy) from factory raised animals or farm raised fish. The healthiest diet consists of whole unadulterated foods, 80% of which are raw, organic vegetables and fruits (and eat more vegetables than fruit).
It is possible, through a truly healthy diet and proper oral care, to whiten and re-mineralize your teeth, to re-build your enamel, and to heal your gums.
If you have dental problems, oil pulling is a good practice to incorporate into your daily routine. In the morning, before you eat or drink anything, take a spoonful of coconut oil or sesame oil and swish it through your mouth and teeth for 15-20 minutes. Keep squeezing it through your teeth with your tongue, swishing it back and forth. This is an ancient Ayurvedic practice (from Hindu traditional medicine) that is catching on in the West with wonderful reports of how it heals and aids teeth and gums. It is also claimed that this practice pulls toxins out of the body, healing all manner of illness.
We've been raised to believe that eating candy creates cavities. While it is true that refined sugar will feed the bacteria in your mouth, the greater risk is the fact that the body leeches minerals such as calcium out of our bones and teeth and draws it into the bloodstream to stabilize the pH in our blood, a pH the sugar has altered.
If you are not healthy, you need to brush gently. Hard brushing will tear up your gums and strip the enamel from your teeth. If you are in good health, a more rigorous brushing will stimulate blood flow and re-mineralization. Regardless of your health, a good, soft toothbrush is a must. Proper technique is important as well. Use a circular motion to brush teeth and gums, and don't forget to brush the roof of your mouth and your tongue.
But what will you use on your toothbrush? Commercial toothpaste is toxic. Fluoride is not the only ingredient to avoid. Many commercial toothpastes include saccharine or aspartame, artificial dyes, sodium lauryl sufate, and/or triclosan.
You can avoid most of these ingredients by using a ridiculously expensive natural toothpaste. But many still contain sodium laureth sulfate or other questionable ingredients such as glycerin, which prevents re-mineralization.
As I read the label on my all natural, fluoride free, SLS-free toothpaste, I saw that it did not have any of the other horrific ingredients in commercial toothpastes. It says: no sodium laurel/ laureth sulfates, no preservatives, no artificial colors, no artificial sweeteners, no saccharin, no propylene glycol. Though the tube told me a lot about what it didn't have, I had to go online to find the actual ingredients. And I sure did want to know what the ingredients were because I had never noticed this warning: "Keep out of the reach of children under 6 years of age. If you accidently swallow more than used for brushing, seek professional assistance or contact Poison Control Center immediately." I am happy to say that I called and confirmed that the government requires toothpaste companies to place this warning on toothpaste tubes since it is not made for consumption, regardless of whether there are poisonous materials contained.
The only one ingredient that concerned me was carrageenan, which is known to promote inflammation. The bottom line is the price. Six to seven dollars for toothpaste is just too much.
I decided it was time to make my own toothpaste.
The age-old simple homemade tooth powder is an equal amount of baking soda to salt. While this scrapes plaque off the teeth, it isn't very tasty, and kids hate it. I wanted something better.
Most of the online recipes start with a base of coconut oil and baking soda. Baking soda whitens the teeth and is alkaline, a good thing, while coconut oil serves as an anti-bacterial agent (remember we use it for oil pulling) and it binds the ingredients together and makes the toothpaste creamy.
The basic recipe for homemade toothpaste is equal parts of coconut oil and baking soda. Make sure both are organic . From here, you can add other ingredients and adjust ratios if necessary.
Simple Natural Toothpaste Recipe:
- Equal parts of coconut oil and baking soda
- Add essential oil to taste
- Add stevia (if desired) to taste
For 6 tablespoons of oil to 6 tablespoons of baking soda, add 10-15 drops of essential oil. Try peppermint, eucalyptus, cinnamon, clove, lemon, orange, rosemary or any others or any combination that sound good to you. Each essential oil provides more than taste; each adds its own benefit. Add drops of one, or experiment with combinations. Be sure to buy your essential oils from a reputable source and be sure you are getting the right genus species. Many oils come from different species and contain different properties.
- Peppermint— a powerful anti-oxidant
- Eucalyptus—antifungal, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory
- Cinnamon—antifungal, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant
- Clove—antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal and an amazing antioxidant, the highest antioxidant essential oil. It is approved by the Dental Association for use as a dental anesthetic. It's great for killing Candida.
- Lemon—antifungal, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant
- Orange—antiseptic and antioxidant
- Rosemary—antifungal, antibacterial, antiviral
- Neem oil and tea tree oil could also be used for antibacterial qualities. Try 6-8 drops but know that neither one is a flavor enhancer. They may help tighten up gum tissue, however.
- Your basic recipe can be changed in a variety of ways. Coconut oil is solid at room temperature, sesame oil is not. You can replace as much coconut oil with sesame oil as desired to reach the consistency you prefer. But realize this will also change the taste and the color.
Your dry ingredients can also be altered. Try adding trace minerals, calcium magnesium powder, bentonite clay, and/or diatomaceous earth to the mix, removing an equal amount of baking soda and adjusting for consistency.
Trace minerals, calcium magnesium powder, and diatomaceous earth will all aid in re-mineralization, while bentonite clay will aid in drawing out impurities as it, like the aforementioned dry ingredients, adds grit.
Hydrogen peroxide is added to many home toothpastes, especially those formulated for whitening. But hydrogen peroxide is one of those ingredients you are not supposed to swallow and it can irritate the gums. It is not a good idea for kids or for anyone with sensitive, damaged, or diseased gums.
Dr. Shillington's Tooth and Gum Formula
There is a third step in dental care for anyone who is struggling with gingivitis or wants to use a preventative treatment. Dr. Shillington's Tooth and Gum Formula can be used as a mouthwash (one dropperful to a cup of water), on your toothbrush (8-12 drops on your toothbrush after brushing your teeth), or with a water pick (2-4 dropperful, but rinse out after use so the tee tree oil does not shorten the life of the rubber seals). After each of these methods, do not rinse; allow the ingredients to continue working.
Dr. Shillington writes, "The Echinacea in the formula deadens pain, kills germs, kicks the immune system into action, and starts working against bacteria that is deep down in the gum pockets. Bayberry and Oak Bark will tighten up the gum tissue right before your eyes. Peppermint is a very strong disinfectant, reduces inflammation, and also increases blood circulation to carry off toxins, bring in nutrition, and generally cleanse the mouth. Clove Oil is a great pain reducer for toothache."
You can make your own Tooth and Gum Formula with Dr. Shillington's recipe or purchase the Tooth and Gum Formula through Green Lifestyle Market.
Dr. Shillington's Tooth and Gum Formula Recipe
(Use Organic or wild-crafted ingredients whenever possible). Or you can also purchase here.
- 10 oz Echinacea Tincture
- 1/4 cup of Tea Tree Oil
- 4 oz. Bayberry Tincture
- 2 oz. Oak Gall (or 3X Oak Bark) Tincture
- 2 TBS. Cayenne Tincture
- 2 1/2 Dropperfuls of Peppermint Oil
- 2 1/2 Dropperfuls of Clove Oil
A 'part' is a measurement by volume. Blend all ingredients together and make into a tincture using a 50 – 50 Blend of Alcohol and distilled water. For more, see How to Make a Tincture.
A Dropperful is considered to be about 1/2 way up the dropper from a two ounce bottle.
Be sure to shake well before each use.
Gum disease is not only avoidable, it is, contrary to conventional opinion, completely reversible. If you try one of the recipes above, or have your own recipe, we'd love to hear about it in the comments below. Be sure to see the "Further Reading" section below.
My Protocol (as of Feb 2016)
Typically, I floss and brush twice a day with just with about a half a dropper full of the Tooth and Gum formula with a tiny bit of Earthpaste. I also chew on garlic for about 30 seconds three times a day. I used to make my own toothpaste, typically just with salt and baking soda and a squirt of the Tooth and Gum, all thrown into the mouth together, but now I'm spoiled. I work at Green Lifestyle Market. I like the Earthpaste and it's just sitting there, waiting for my employee discount. It works well. Last but not least, your mouth health emulates your gut health, so if there are serious problems in the mouth, it's time to address the gut.
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Further Reading:
- Periodontal Disease, Gum Disease – What you need to know
- 80% Raw Food Diet
- Mercury Fillings, Root Canals, Cavitations – What You Need to Know
- How to Kill Candida and Balance Your Inner Ecosystem
- Still Have Candida? How Mercury Fillings Cause Candida Overgrowth
- Homemade Remineralizing & Whitening Toothpaste Recipe
- DIY all-natural whitening + remineralizing toothpaste
- Homemade Natural Whitening Toothpaste Recipe
- How to Whiten Teeth With Hydrogen Peroxide
- How to Make Natural Homemade Antibacterial Toothpaste
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However could Google's attempts to get ahead of Microsoft extend as far as blocking access to some of their services? According to a report from NPU, it seems that Google has blocked the native mail app on Windows 10 from accessing Gmail. For the longest time ever, or at least since Windows 10 was released, accessing Gmail via the native mail app was not an issue.
However it seems that recently Google has blocked access to Gmail citing the mail app as being a "less secure app". According to NPU, it seems that only after allowing less secure apps to access Gmail that the native mail app started working properly again. Granted for more advanced users this isn't an issue, but for novice users, they might assume that the native mail app is no longer working and will need to look elsewhere, which can be an inconvenience.
It is unclear as to how widespread this blockage is, or if maybe this was a one-time error and not done on purpose by Google, but in the meantime have any of our readers encountered a similar error message when accessing Gmail via the Windows 10 native mail app?
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Friday, August 15, 2008
Solomon Grundy
A body is dumped into a Gotham City swamp, then fifty years later the body arises, disfigured, super-strong, and with no memory of his former life. Basically a big hulking zombie, Solomon Grundy has varied in strength and intelligence over the years. In The Long Halloween (pictured), where he strikes up an unusual friendship with Harvey Dent, Grundy is barely able to say more than "Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday," and though he's very strong, Batman is able to defeat him in combat. In other versions, he's not exactly smart but he can carry on conversations, and he's sometimes so strong that Superman has trouble with him.
Pros: Batman hasn't fought anyone freakishly strong in the movies yet. And many people have fond memories of Grundy, either from the comics or from being part of the Legion of Doom on The Superfriends cartoons. And visually, he's pretty cool looking.
Cons: Zombies are a stretch, realism-wise. The movies have favored the psychological over the physical, and Grundy's lack of intelligence doesn't fit well with that. Finally, Solomon Grundy has faced off against many other DC superheroes, so Warner Bros. bosses might want to save Grundy for a Green Lantern movie, where his supernatural origins might fit perfectly.
How I'd do it: I guess the best way to do it is to have a very big and very strong guy beaten to a pulp and left for dead. He survives, but with massive brain damage he can't even remember his own name. One of his origin stories has him only remembering that he was born on a Monday, and someone suggests Solomon Grundy as a name, referencing a nursery rhyme that I'd never heard of before reading it in the comics. So you could go with that. You're left with a big strong guy who's angry at the world because he can't remember it, which might be enough to fill a TV episode, but I don't think you can stretch two hours of plot from that.
Casting Guesses: The usual actors I suggest for big guy roles: Michael Clarke Duncan, The Rock, etc.
Verdict: Nah. Like about half of Batman's villains, they're quality characters, but the movie franchise's choice of realism makes it hard to do supernatural bad guys.
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A farmer clearing weeds in his field is said to be working hard. A woman carrying water from a well to her house is said to be working. In a drought affected region she may be required to carry it over large distances. If she can do so, she is said to have a large stamina or energy. Energy is thus the capacity to do work. The term power is usually associated with speed. In karate, a powerful punch is one delivered at great speed. In physics we shall define these terms very precisely. We shall find that there is at best a loose correlation between the physical definitions and the physiological pictures these terms generate in our minds.
Work is said to be done when a force applied on the body displaces the body through a certain distance in the direction of force.
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Foods that are challenging to swallow—or any food at all—can be pureed in their natural form, modified if needed and printed out as solids using this technology, according to an article on 3ders.org, which is a website devoted to 3D printing news and products. Potential advantages of printing modified foods include making them easier for people with dysphagia to consume and making them more visually appealing than, for example, a scoop of pureed meat.
The printing process renders previously risky foods, like steak or pizza, into the familiar appearance of solid food. Inside these printed foods, the texture can remain the optimum consistency for someone with a swallowing disorder. Preparers can also improve the nutritional quality of printed food using vitamins or other additives. Tobin is also working on ways to use various parts of a food—like meat—to create an enhanced product made completely from the food itself.
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…..Thousands witnessed inauguration
Thousands of people yesterday thronged the former Kwame Nkrumah Circle to see its transformation into a three-tier interchange.
The imposing structure was inaugurated by the President amidst pomp and pageantry yesterday.
Clad in national colours and party paraphernalia, the people celebrated the event with singing and dancing.
Activities around the interchange came to a standstill, when President John Dramani Mahama arrived at the venue to an already charged atmosphere.
Road users including pedestrians, passers-by, motorists and students, traders and hawkers were all caught in the euphoria, filling the roads and the flyovers.
Indeed many hours before the President arrived scores of people had gathered near the 21-foot high status of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the nation's founding father drumming and dancing.
The parked crowd went into a frenzy when the President arrived at 5:45pm shouting and chanting "JM Toaso".
There was a heavy security presence to provide protection for the crowd, including the dignitaries who attended the function.
The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) and National Ambulance Service stationed their equipment and vehicles in front of the fully furnished Police and Fire Stations built beneath the flyovers to offer quick response to fire and accidents, as well as maintain law and order.
From the Nima Police Station through Busy Internet, Ghana Commercial Bank, Neoplan station and to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), there was heavy traffic resulting from the crowd that had occupied the road.
Businesses boomed for traders selling national and party paraphernalia, who exhibited their wares along the walkways of the interchange.
Estimated at a cost of 74 million Euros, the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange would make travelling easier.
It involves detailed engineering and construction of the old circle into a three-tier interchange and other ancillary works.
The construction of the interchange became necessary when the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, which handled over 84,000 vehicles from the arterial roads and their intersections daily, created heavy traffic in the area.
It is named after Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, who led the struggle for the country's independence.
It will connect major roads and other notable points such as Obetsebi-Lamptey Circle, African Unity Circle and Danquah Circle to Ring Road Central, Accra North Industrial Area Road, Nsawam Road, Kwame Nkrumah Avenue, Ring Road West and Akasanoma Road.
A public relation officer of the GNFS told The Ghanaian Times, that the occasion had been incident free, with no report of nefarious activities that could mar the charged atmosphere.
He said his outfit was stationed to provide protection for the crowd which started pouring in as early as 9 a.m.
A taxi driver lauded the government for the project, describing it as a monumental project that would enhance their work.
He called on city authorities to take good care of the project and maintain its beauty always.
A 28-year-old Collins Kpodo said: " I am here to see the President; he has done so well and deserves another term".
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