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Recently myself and Derek Young (owner of Emerging Rivers Guide Services) gathered in the comforts of Derek’s garage and via Skype were interviewed by Kathy Nelson of Ovaleye Web Solutions/Cloud Services.  Ovaleye hosts two of my websites, Itchy Dog Productions and Olive the Woolly Bugger (which includes this blog), as well as my other blog, The Unaccomplished Angler.  Derek’s website is also hosted by Ovaleye.

Kathy Nelson and her daughter and business partner, Jenn Donough, offer small business solutions to the entrepreneur-minded folks, such as but certainly not limited to the likes of Derek and myelf.  Huddled around a propane heater to stave off the chill of a late January day, we successfully avoided setting fire to our pants and pulled off an interview in which we talk about what we do, our goals, and how we use social media to help market our businesses.

If you’re looking for a guided trip on the Yakima River in Washington state, or perhaps a walk and wade on one of the Forks of the Snoqualmie, give Derek a shout.  If you’re looking for web hosting, web design and other internet-based small business solutions, check out Ovaleye. For graphic design services or engaging children’s books, come see me.

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Whole Wheat Spaghetti with Lemon Cream Sauce

I love citrus season in Arizona – almost everywhere you look, there are lush green trees bursting with lemons, oranges, grapefruits and limes. It’s a deliciously welcome sight in the aftermath of the winter holidays and, well, to be honest I see it as free ingredients!

I walk my dog Marlow along a nearby canal and along the way, there is a huge lemon tree that hangs over the block wall fence. I first discovered it two winters ago and after passing by a few times that first week, I  realized that no one was picking the lemons on that side of the fence. What a sad waste of perfect fruit!  I quickly plucked a dozen lemons and realized that I hadn’t even made a dent in what must have been 40-50 lemons on just one side of that tree.

That year I used those lemons to make lemon rosemary cookies and lemon squares. Delicious, but this year I am on a healthier diet. I wanted to make an entree that also uses a little more lemon than a cookie dough calls for. It’s still technically winter, so a lemon cream sauce does fit the bill for a hearty dinner. After a lot of brainstorming and reading up on lower fat cream sauces, I came up with this lemon cream sauce recipe. I made it with whole wheat spaghetti to keep it healthier and rather than the typical broccoli or asparagus, I chose the sweetness of peas to compliment the slightly tart lemon cream sauce. The lemon and parsley give this dish a fresh and crisp taste, while the cream sauce, chicken and pasta maintain the heartiness of a winter dinner.

Now that I have my own brand new lemon tree in the backyard, I’ll be making this again and looking for some new ways to use fresh lemon!

  • 8 oz. dry whole wheat spaghetti
  • ½ cup light cream cheese
  • 2 tbsp. olive oil
  • 2 tbsp. lemon juice
  • 1 tbsp. lemon zest
  • 2 tbsp. chopped parsley
  • 2 large boneless skinless chicken breasts, cooked and cut into bite-sized pieces
  • 1 cup peas

Cook spaghetti according to package directions (when draining, be sure to reserve ½ cup of cooking water).

Melt cream cheese in a saucepan over low heat (make sure bottom doesn’t burn). Add olive oil, lemon juice and lemon zest.

Drain pasta, reserving ½ cup of cooking water. Stir reserved water into cream cheese mixture. In a large bowl, toss together pasta, chicken, peas, parsley and cream cheese mixture.

Lemon Rosemary Cookies

Happy August! It’s the beginning of the end…of the summer, that is. The sky-high temperatures may make the days seem longer than ever, but the countdown to the end of my beloved favorite season is on. For those of us who plan to enjoy as many ice cold glasses of lemonades and frosty glasses of iced tea as we can before they’re replaced by oversized mugs of steamy chocolate and cider drinks, this recipe is for you. These cookies’ petite size make them perfect for an afternoon snack or a light breakfast and they pair with a tall glass of lemonade or iced tea the way that peanut butter goes with…well, you know where I’m headed with this one. Don’t be fooled by these quarter-sized confections – a full-sized cookie’s worth of buttery lemon and rosemary flavors await you. Trust me – these cookies will make the rest of your summer a little bit more satisfying.

4 oz. (1 stick) butter, softened

1/4 cup sugar

1 tsp. finely chopped rosemary

1/2 tsp. finely grated lemon zest

2 egg yolks

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 cup flour

1/3 cup corn flour

1 1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt

1/2 cup turbinado or sanding sugar for decorating

1. Beat butter, sugar, rosemary, and lemon zest with electric mixer 3 minutes, or until creamy. Beat in egg yolks and vanilla.

2. Whisk together flours, baking powder, and salt in bowl. Add to butter mixture, and beat until just combined. Shape into 2 1-inch-wide logs. Wrap in wax paper, and chill 2 hours.

3. Preheat oven to 325°F. Spray 2 baking sheets with cooking spray. Slice cookies into 1/3-inch-thick rounds. Place turbinado sugar in bowl and press one cut side of cookies into sugar. Place sugar-side up on baking sheets. Bake 15 minutes, or until golden brown on bottoms. Transfer to wire racks to cool.


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Superfood Smoothie Bowl

We have another smoothie bowl for you today , packed with the superfoods Tofu, Kale & Avocado. We’ve also sweetened it with peaches and Manuka honey. It doesn’t get more guilt-free than this.

Makes 2 substantial bowls

200g Tofu chopped

2 cups chopped Kale

2 medium pitted , skinned & sliced peaches

1/2 avocado

1 tsp Manuka honey

1 tbsp Greek yoghurt

Splash of juice / almond milk or beverage of your choice ( just to help with blending)

Figs , Bluberries & Pistachiosfor decorating ( or any fruit& nut you like)

Put all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.

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Elle’s 2013 Oscars Red Carpet Roundup

Let’s jump right in, shall we?

How flawless are all of the ladies above?

Anne Hathaway may be the only startlet who can pull off nipples as an accessory and still look completely pulled together and amazing. I wish her hair was a little more slicked and less Dorothy Hamill though.

Giorgio Armani and Naomi Watts pulled off a feat of almost impossible dressmaking engineering here. The cut of this dress makes the possibility of armpit fat, cleavage, and any errant squishy bits gone awry very real, but there are none in sight! The fit is impeccable. Naomi’s choice for super simple hair and jewelry suits the dress beautifully as well.

Amanda Seyfried has been gorgeous in white this season, and this gown is no exception. Just the right amount of sparkle, and somehow (even with the train) this dress does not come across as “bridal” at all. Hair, makeup, and jewelry are all perfection. I think this is my favorite look of the night.

Sandra Bullock’s Elie Saab has enough detail and sparkle to make black seem fresh and new. The straight hair really lets the dress shine. Love. (Don’t love the clutch though. Doesn’t seem to match or contrast with the dress at all.)

The amazingly detailed spiderweb beading on Jessica Chastain’s gown elevates the flesh toned Armani to angelic proportions. Ms Chastain has made questionable choices this award season, but this time she got it right, down to the pop of color on her lips.

JHud is a sparking vision in Cavalli. Everything about her look is just right.

There weren’t any looks that I outright hated, but there were a few I strongly disliked. Here they are.

While I’m sure that Helen Hunt’s dress is supposed to look like that, I really hate it. She looks like a wrinkled mess. I want to rip it off of her, steam it and then give it back. I also don’t think the fit is great.

As far as I’m concerned, Nicole Kidman and Salma Hayek look a little too much like mafia wives at the don’s daughter’s wedding. The hair, the gowns, all of it. Ick. I’m not loving either of their looks.

What were your favorite looks? Same as mine? Or do you think I missed the mark? Lemme know!

Elle’s Grammy 2013 Best Dressed!

This best dressed post is going to be a bit different from my usual red carpet roundups because of CBS’ batshoot crazy dress code this year. No side boob? No underboob? No fleshy bits? No nip slips? What the what, CBS? This isn’t the Oscars or Golden Globes when we all tune in to see our favorite stars dressed to the nines in high glamour! This is the Grammys! Home of rock and roll and shocking outfits! Such a disappointing move, CBS.

In light of the new dress code, the four ladies pictured above earn my vote for best dressed.

JLo’s leg. Nice working around the rules, Jennifer.

Katy Perry’s cleave. Don’t you let anyone tell you to hide your fleshy bits, Katy! They’re spectacular!

Kelly Rowland’s mass of sheerness which could have shifted at any moment. Live on the edge, Kelly! Destiny’s Child forever!

Alicia Keys’ performance dress which showcased the elusive Grammy underboob. (Also, how amazing was that performance? Drums? Adam Levine? Love!)

These ladies all straddled the line of what CBS considered appropriate and looked great doing it.

What were your favorite looks?

Super Bowl Style!

As far as I’m concerned, Beyonce was the real winner of the Super Bowl. Football isn’t really my thing. I was surrounded by Ravens’ fans on Sunday though, so I rocked their team colors in support (and because I love a theme)!

Tank: American Apparel | Cardi: DKNY Cozy | Necklaces: Bauble Bar

I’ve got purple, I’ve got loads of gold I piled on, I’ve got black, I’ve got white. I might as well be a Baltimore Raven. Seriously, I went all out.

Hope you guys all had a great Super Bowl weekend!

PS, Did you guys notice something off about the photo above? Pssst… I forgot to remove something!!! Whoopsie!

Dress or Pants? Um…BOTH!

I know that dresses over pants are kind of a thing but I can’t get 100% behind it just yet (maybe because I get flashbacks of hippies I went to art school with who took this look to a whole other level). I modified the look here by layering my dress over leggings, and tying everything together with my favorite striped cardi.

Cardi: J. Crew; Dress: Cynthia Rowley; Loafers: Rampage; Bracelet: Bauble Bar; Ring: H&M; Necklace: Grandma’s.

I feel like this didn’t photograph very well. The skirt looks stiffer than it actually was and the the stripes aren’t quite lining up right in the photo. But trust me, it was super cute. Silver loafers provided a pop of bright metallic, so I kept the rest of my jewelry very simple and gold.

Are you guys into the dresses over pants trend?

I want a houseboat…

… so I can have a reason to dress nautically all year round. That, and so I can pretend to be even half as cool as Dylan McKay.

I’m wearing those Target sandals to death this summer. I can’t help it; they are ridiculously comfortable and match with almost everything I own.

My mission over the next two few weeks is to perfect this hairstyle:

See that messy parted section on the right? That section is my current nemesis. This would be so much easier if I could twist my arms on backward and have an elaborate mirror setup. I will find a way.

Style Me Chic Monday: Pinspiration

Happy Monday! Last week I was inspired by the pin you see above. The leopard, the bright pop of the blue blazer, the solid tights offsetting everything else; I loved it all. And I had similar components in my closet to make it all work (for me, what I had, and my casual Friday at work). Are you guys utilizing Pinterest to inspire your outfits too?

Hawaiian … Pastels???

Hello my lovelies!

I found out one day last week that we were having a Hawaiian themed day at work for casual Friday. There are not many trends or looks that I rule out, but I draw the line at Hawaiian shirts or coconut bras. No and no. Instead of the company suggested Don Ho-like button downs (who comes up with these things?), I opted for a more subtle sheer pastel floral top that had been hanging out in my closet with tags on it for months. I accessories with some simple flat sandals and green and blue J. Crew necklaces. And sunglasses on my head, since it was Hawaiian day, obvi.

My awesome coworker happened upon that gorgeous little vintage broach and gave it to me that day. (An “L” for Elle, get it?) It went perfectly on my necklaces! I think I have a new favorite piece that I’m going to wear a million different ways.

What would your Hawaiian interpretation have been?

Summer Peacock (and How I Stage My Outfits)

A few notes about this outfit:

1. I LOVE this AA dress, but it is so short that it is downright indecent, hence the leggings.

2. I’ve decided to overdo the topknot this summer since it’s a cute look and so cool and comfy. Expect to see it a lot.

3. I’m not what you would call cheap (in fact, some may say I have a spending problem), but $150 for this necklace is RIDONK. I do not feel bad about picking up cheap copies from eBay.

Now, let’s chat about outfit prep for a mo, shall we? Before bedtime, I lay out an outfit like you see above. It makes mornings INFINITELY easier. I get to sleep for an extra 15 minutes, and don’t rip my closet apart frenetically trying to piece an outfit together before my coffee has had a chance to kick in. Everyone wins!

Do you guys prep the night before? Or do you fly by the seat of your outfit pants each morning?


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When Perfectionism Becomes Poisonous

Some days something inside me seems to whisper “you’re not good enough, try harder, achieve more, be perfect.”

It’s annoying.

Sometimes it’s crushing.

Often I listen to the voice and let it drive me.

I’ve always been a bit of a perfectionist. Age five, my self portrait on the yearly ‘class tea towel’ had eyebrows, eyelashes, teeth, and bows in my hair! And I always worked hard in school, simply for the satisfaction of achieving high grades.
But what I’ve often thought of as a healthy desire to do things well can have a destructive side too, for several reasons:

My standard is often arbitrary, and usually set higher than I can reach

And if i’m honest with myself I know that even on the rare occasion that I reach my arbitrary standard of achievement, the glow of success dissipates quickly, and I soon begin to strive again!

Being a ‘high achiever’ for its own sake cannot satisfy

Whatever I do and achieve, its not enough. Someone somewhere has achieved more, often much more. (Where did all these ridiculous child prodigies come from anyway?) And I can never feel satisfied for long, all I have to do is log into Facebook or Pinterest to see people achieving more, and looking better whilst doing it! It’s a never ending cycle.

Perfectionist can lead to forgetting or denying the gospel

Why is my standard for success and achievement set so highly? It’s like I’ve decided that the free gift of grace that Jesus offers is not the answer, and a life of endless striving is what I really want!

Somewhere along the line I have forgotten that in a fallen sinful world the things I do and achieve will never be perfect, and that even could they be, I was made for a different and greater purpose.

I am an ambassador for THE PERFECT ONE, the supreme achiever Jesus Christ!

To live my life focused on my own small achievements is idolatry, and profoundly short sighted and stupid. There will always be someone better looking, more popular, smarter, funnier, and godlier!

My purpose is to point people to Jesus, his beauty, his achievements on my behalf, and the awe-inspiring salvation he offers. In fact when I spend just a little while looking at the glory of Christ, I quickly feel sheepish for my own silly efforts to reach perfection! Like an ant thinking he can equal the majesty of a lion!

Perfectionism relies on individualism, everything becomes a competition against yourself and against those around you, and for the Christian, this too works against our real goal.

Our purpose is a collective one, which does not rely on my individual achievements, but on shared service as one of the members of the body of Christ. If I’m busy measuring my achievements against others – especially if they are my brothers and sisters in Christ, I’ve hugely missed the point!

What’s more, Jesus tells us that the nature of the kingdom of God, and service in this kingdom is the opposite of the way the world thinks. It’s a kingdom that looks small and insignificant to begin with. A kingdom sown in weakness and death, not fanfare and accolades. A kingdom of servants who follow the commands of a master who was despised, rejected and killed. A kingdom I can begin to reject with my perfectionistic and worldly way of measuring success.
Will I rewrite God’s kingdom plan in my drive to achieve perfection here and now?

My prayer is that when I hear these whispers I will assess them wisely.

Do I want to achieve highly for achievement’s sake? Is my focus on exalting myself, and achieving more highly than those around me? Am I willing to live a life that points to Christ and his perfection, even as he shows up my imperfections by his word? Will I learn to rejoice not only in the things I achieve for him, but also when (far more frequently) his strength is demonstrated in my weakness?

May God help us as we let him renew our minds!


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Buy All The Things!

It’s amazing the way that God uses everyday situations to make you aware of what is going on in your heart. For me at the moment it revolves around my plans to move house.

At first, as I was looking for a new place to live, it was all the sensations of fear and worry (and eventually faith!) that came to the surface. But now that I’ve seen God provide and the arrangements are in place, it’s a whole new set of things that I’m thinking and feeling.

This summer my church is doing a sermon series in the book of 1 John. On Sunday, this was part of our passage:

15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. 1 John 2

Ugh! I thought, this passage makes me feel so guilty! It’s so black and white – I can love the world and all that it has to offer, OR I can love God, and trust his assessment that the things of the world won’t last, and can’t satisfy.

(N.B. There is a lot of teaching in these verses that I’m not going to mention and many ways that we ‘love the world’ and don’t love God. This is just an area that is resonant for me right now!)

As I read through the list in v.16 it seemed like a pretty good summary of my recent tendencies:“the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions”

Perhaps it’s the artist in me, but I LOVE the chance to decorate a house, and even though I’ve hardly begun to pack, I can’t help perusing the IKEA catalogue, and spending hours on Pinterest dreaming up the perfect home!

So here is what I wrote in my notebook during the sermon:

How can I know the difference between enjoying good things/ making a beautiful home to the glory of God, and a wrong love of the world? (I know, profound right?)

Here are some of the thoughts I had, written as questions I’ve decided to ask myself:

  • Am I regularly buying things I don’t need?
  • Am I being a poor steward of the money and resources that God has entrusted to me?
  • Am I spending an unhelpful amount of time shopping or looking at things to buy?
  • Am I looking to my possessions or things of beauty for my ultimate happiness and rest?
  • Do I view my new home and possessions as mine, for my own use alone? (Would I be upset if my things got ruined in the course of daily ministry and hospitality?)
  • Do I think and act as though this world is my permanent home? Abraham is praised in Hebrews 11 for a right attitude here which he showed in his context by never building a permanent earthly home: He lived in tents as did Isaac and Jacob…10 For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.  13 All these people were still living by faith when they died…admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. 14 People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. (Excerpts from Hebrews 11:9-14Am I longing for a better home with my God, or totally wrapped up in this one?

As I’ve thought about all of this, I am reluctantly reminded just how radically different the Christian attitude should be to things of the world. We don’t despise them, there are many other passages that tell us to enjoy God’s good gifts and his beautiful creation. But we hold on to the world loosely, knowing that we are waiting for something better and more satisfying! And this belief should filter down into our day to day attitudes and decisions.

I will continue to enjoy good design and pretty decorations, but I can also peacefully settle for second best, cheap and sturdy, messed up by ministry, simple living, because this is not my true home, and my desire for beauty and rest and satisfaction will be fully satisfied in Jesus Christ, now and into eternity.

It feels wonderful to know that even if I move and things aren’t quite right, if my favourite mug gets broken, and my furniture is a bit dented, or I can’t afford the things I would like, my contentment doesn’t have to reside in these things.

But my thinking mustn’t end here!

It’s easy to forget the gospel in moments like these, to simply feel guilty when we read passages that challenge us, and respond by making up rules to ring fence our behaviour. But the good news about Jesus helps me to trust in his perfect character, and the working of his spirit in my heart and life instead of my own surface attempts to squash my love of the world with a veneer of spirituality.

I can rest, knowing that God’s love for me is not based on how much I love him (though I long to love him more!), or on how well I do at looking to him for fulfilment. Instead, it’s based on Jesus, as if his perfect actions are my own. It’s the gospel that gives me the confidence to grapple with my failings in these matters. I am so thankful for God’s grace towards sinners, despite our disordered love!

If anything I’ve written has resonated with you, I hope you’ll think it through within this life-giving context too.


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Title: Careers in Prosecution with Lance Lindeen, JD 2011
Start Time: Friday November 16, 2012 12:00 PM
End Time: Friday November 16, 2012 01:00 PM
Location: Law School Room 122
Contact: Kim Bunge

Lance Lindeen, earned his JD in 2011 and is now serving as  Deputy Prosecutor in the Philadelphia Office of The District Attorney. He is the official recruiting liaison at the Philly DA for Indiana Law and will be at the law school to discuss careers in prosecution and the work he does in Philadelphia. Learn the inside scoop of the prosecutorial world and how to market yourself well for this type of career. This informal discussion is a great way to ask questions of a generous alumnus who is looking for new talent interested in Philadelphia.
Pizza will be provided for those who RSVP on Symplicity.

Contact Email: kbunge@indiana.edu
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Psalm 107

The Lord delivers those who cry to him.

1–3 Call to praise the Lord
4–9 Wanderers delivered
10–16 Prisoners delivered
17–22 Sick delivered
23–32 Sea-farers delivered
33–42 God’s sovereign justice and mercy

  • In the four situations in vv. 4–32, what did the various people do when they were in trouble (vv. 6, 13, 19, 28)? What application and encouragement can you take from that?
  • What is the response you should have when the Lord shows love and mercy?
  • How will you respond to verse 43?
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University of Otago Women in Law Panel: Monday 26 September 2016

On Monday 26 September 2016 an OWLS panel consisting of Anita Chan QC, Professor Nicola Peart, Rachel Brooking, Stephanie Pettigrew, Kim Jarvis, and Ruth Ballantyne spoke to 50 enthusiastic female law students for the Society of Otago University Law Students’ (SOULS) Wellness Week. The panel spoke about their experiences as female lawyers and academics and discussed things they wish they had known before they started out. This event also doubled as an OWLETS forum, with many in attendance, and other students joining up subsequently. Thank you to Julia Tillett (the SOULS Welfare Representative) for organising this event and to Russell McVeagh for providing the afternoon tea. We hope to have more events like this one in the future as part of the OWLETS programme.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Ottobre goes Halloween

We do not have fancy, scary Halloween here in Finland. For us All Saint's Day is quiet and peaceful. We light up a candle and remember with love our relatives and friends who have died. We also meet family and friends, make good food and eat together. So no costume parties, no scary stories nor trick-or-treating. However we wanted to sew something bit scary, yet fashionable - a skeleton hoodie.

We used the Bubo-bubo raglan sleeve zip hoodie pattern from magazine 4/2011. You find the pattern in sizes 98-134 cm and the magazine is still available on our single issue shop. Instead of owl, we appliqued a scary neon green skeleton. The appliqué is made on both hood panels, both sleeves and on both front panels.  To draw your own skeleton you will find a lot of good illustrations on the internet or on anatomy books.

Trace pattern pieces for bones and scull on paper backing of double-sided fusible web (Vliesofix). Iron pieces of fusible web onto wrong side of pieces of neon green jersey and cut shapes out along their outlines. Remove paper backing from fusible web and iron shapes onto hood panels, sleeves and front pieces. Pin piece of tear-away backing (Stickvlies) to wrong side under appliqué motif. Stitch shapes in place with narrow, short zigzag or with straight stitch. Almost done!

Nice Halloween to everyone!

Ps. I almost forgot to thank our lovely and talented trainees Antje and Maria from Max-Eyth-Schule in Alsfeld, Germany. They made this hoodie. It is always so fun to have young and happy people here in office.

Pss. Ihan pakko lisätä vielä tää musalinkki, että pääsette oikeaan tunnelmaan!
Must add this link to our all time favourite singer-songwriters J. Karjalainen's "Luuranko rämisee" live music video. Luuranko rämisee means something like A skeleton rattles...


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US Department Of Justice Law Enforcement Training Manual Teaches Police That Political Bumper Stickers Are Indications Of Terrorist Activity – “Special Interest/Single Issue Terrorism”

WASHINGTON, DC – A leaked training manual used in the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) program for law enforcement and funded by the Department of Justice lists political bumper stickers expressing opposition to the United Nations and support for the bill of rights as indications of terrorist activity.

The presentation documents, leaked to the Public Intelligence website, are entitled Terrorism Training For Law Enforcement and are marked “law enforcement sensitive.” The program is funded by grants from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance.

Slides for the presentation depict the kind of behavior that law enforcement officials should be wary of in spotting potential terrorists during highway patrols.

One of the slides – entitled “Fourth Amendment Issues” – notes that “a suspicious map located on the passenger seat” could warrant further investigation as a potential indicator of terrorism.

Another slide entitled “General Right Wing Extremist” – depicts suspicious bumper stickers that should warrant further investigation by cops conducting traffic stops.

The bumper stickers read, “Know Your Rights Or Lose Them,” and “If You Love Your Country, the U.N. Is Not Your Friend!,” and “Get US Out Of the United Nations”.

Under the category of “Special-Interest/Single Issue Terrorism,” the slide characterizes people who hold political opinions that “represent a fairly popular point of view” as terrorists. Anti-abortion activists are also listed as terrorists under this category.

Another slide lists people who are “antigenetic engineering” as terrorists. Presumably, that includes people who are concerned about a new study which found that rats fed with genetically-engineered Monsanto corn suffered premature deaths.

Apparently, the Department of Justice considers Americans who have a good grasp of the bill of rights, are concerned about the food they eat, those who politically oppose the United Nations, and even those who hold “fairly popular” opinions, to be likely terrorists. Perhaps the DOJ is drawing inspiration from the Department of Defense, who in 2009 characterized the First Amendment right to protest as “low level terrorism”.

These documents are by no means the only instance in which displaying political bumper stickers has been characterized as a suspicious and potentially terrorist activity by the federal government.

The infamous 2009 MIAC report, published by the Missouri Information Analysis Center and first revealed by Infowars, framed Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, people who display bumper stickers, people who own gold, or even people who fly a U.S. flag, as potential terrorists.

Under the FBI’s Communities Against Terrorism program, the bulk purchase of food is also labeled as a potential indication of terrorist activity, as is using cash to pay for a cup of coffee, and showing an interest in web privacy when using the Internet in a public place.

A recent Department of Homeland Security-funded study produced by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland characterizes Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing” terrorists.

Given that the DHS is now recruiting citizen spies to report “suspicious activity” via apps on their smartphones, don’t be surprised to see SWAT teams being called out to Starbucks on a regular basis to apprehend terrorists who choose to pay for their cup of joe with a few dollar bills.

One can only imagine what kind of response would be generated by someone paying cash for a cup of coffee whoalso has a political bumper sticker displayed on their car – the President would obviously have to be immediately notified in order to prepare for the enactment of emergency crisis procedures in order to safeguard national security.

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Atheism and veganism

I’ve never been to church. And although I like Hozier’s song, please don’t take me.

My salad days consisted of museum wandering, art festivals and urban expeditions–not pews and bible studies. This is because my parents decided to give me freedom in finding my religious identity.

For years, I experimented with Buddhist proverbs and showed up at Young Life meetings, always a bit dumbfounded that a set of written rules and morals governed the lives of almost everyone.

Soon enough, my difference crept up on me. I didn’t know why I had to acknowledge our nation as “under God” every morning, why other girls felt compelled to be “decent and modest” and why my most religious peers were the most rebellious.

The Catholic ideology suggests that, to be a devout follower, one has to follow a moral compass otherwise known as God’s Ten Commandments. If one fails to do so, they will have a miserable afterlife. In other words, Catholicism, like many religions, is rooted in guilt and fear.

Scientifically, it is quite impossible that our bodies do anything after death except rot. This is discomforting for many, but our comfort–religion–is manmade, which I find equally discomforting. We are quite literally a species of people subsiding with other beings on a rock floating through a tiny corner of a ceaselessly expanding universe. To think that we are anything but a cosmic oddity is almost comical.

In this sense, I like to think that any combination of atoms that happens to be alive is precious in the face of the universe. But beyond that, we owe our aliveness to the planet we live on.

I told my parents I didn’t believe in any God after I went vegan. I knew the two were interchangeable after watching a Carl Sagan video titled, “You Are Here,” in which he says “Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.” This has two implications–that we are temporary cosmic oddity and that because our existence is so improbably, we should put forth every effort to preserve our planet and our wellbeing.

The first implication accounts for my atheism. By knowing the sheer enormity of just the observable universe, it is infinity clear that Earth and all to ever exist or occur on earth is nothing more than a winning lottery ticket. It is naive to think we were carefully crafter by some almighty force. It is artless to think we must live our lives to please someone or something greater.

The second implication accounts for my veganism. Because our planet is the only one known to “harbor life,” as Sagan put it, we, the alive, have a responsibility to not exploit. We have a responsibility to maintain. By living a vegan lifestyle, I am consuming only what the Earth is offering me instead of assuming that I am superior and anything I see is mine for the taking.

Although it’s a peculiar opinion, both veganism and atheism share a fundamental sameness: they breed an unselfish outlook on our simultaneously mundane and magnificent existence and encourage the alive to protect the source of their aliveness.

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Don’t Hold a Grudge

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If you know anything about judging or scribing reining, western riding, or trail, you know that each individual maneuver is given a score ranging from -1 ½ to +1 ½ in half point increments. A -1 ½ represents an Extremely Poor maneuver…you know…the kind of thing that makes you wish you had located the nearest exit in case the horse appears to be headed for your lap.   On the other hand, a +1 ½ is an Excellent maneuver, which may be accompanied by the heavens opening, a chorus of angels, and a plate of chocolate chip cookies (still warm). Oddly enough, a 0 just means you were Correct. You did it right. It was fine, but no one is scared and there are no angels, and sadly, no cookies.

Each maneuver is scored separately, and just to shake things up a bit, each maneuver could also earn penalty points…even in the case of a positive maneuver score (WHAAAT?). For example, the horse takes a few steps into a spin, freezes up (earning a 2 point penalty), but then settles in and knocks out 4 of the best spins ever (there are those angels/cookies again). That horse should incur both the 2 point AND a plus on the maneuver. All of these penalties and maneuvers scores are added to 70 in the end, and that is your final score.

I learned how to score Reining from my friend Trevor Walton. He is an NRHA carded judge, has scribed some of the biggest Reining shows out there, and always puts horses first. Which makes him an Excellent, +1 ½, human…but I digress. One thing I always hear him saying when talking about scoring horses is this: ”don’t hold a grudge.”

What he means is…just because you score a horse a -1 on their spins does not mean that you can’t score them a +1 on their circles to the right if they earn it. Every maneuver is a new “ballgame” so to speak. A new opportunity to make a good impression, and to succeed. And even if you screw up one of them, it doesn’t mean that you can’t wake up those angels 30 seconds later. This is also why sometimes, when all you focus on is one maneuver, you may wonder why a horse that botched that particular issue goes on to win the class, when YOUR horse didn’t botch that maneuver. (Harumph). This scoring system is the reason why…you can always go on to do better next time, and the time after that. It’s about the pattern as a whole…not one piece of it.

Naturally, as with all things horse related, there are some pretty important life lessons to be found in this scoring system. If you screw up one phase of your life, there is always, always, another opportunity to do better. To plus your next maneuver. To score a 70 or better, thus making yourself above average.   And, there is always another horse show if you manage to DQ yourself completely. There is always the opportunity to apologize to a friend, to do something for someone else, to encourage someone…even a total stranger.

As a relevant and very current example, in many cases, this election cycle has brought out the worst in people. But if you think abut it, it’s one maneuver in a much larger pattern. Despite what we might want to think, the world probably won’t end if our preferred candidate doesn’t get elected. And our friends should still be our friends when this is over, no matter how many penalty points they have incurred with their “crazy, misguided, uniformed viewpoints” in the last year and a half. If they were our friends before, they really should still be our friends. We always have the opportunity to do better.

As usual, Trevor is right. Don’t hold a grudge.  And make it a +1 1/2 day!


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Two Plead Guilty in Gosnell Case

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Adrienne Moton, and Sherry West, are scheduled to plead guilty for contributing to deaths that occurred in the filthy, unlicensed West Philadelphia abortion clinic run by Dr. Kermit Gosnell. Moton was an unlicensed worker who routinely and illegally administered anesthesia to patients. West played a part in the death of Karnamaya Mongar, who died in 2009 after overdosing on anesthetics prescribed by Gosnell.

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Saturday, 29 April 2017

Summer Breeze Exhibition Painting

36" x 24" Deep Gallery Wrap Canvas

I've been working on this painting for a couple of months. It's one of those paintings that took its own sweet time declaring itself done. I think I had to wait for a nice sunny spring day to feel in the mood to get the colors perfect.

This is one I would like to keep for myself, but it is needed for a submission and if I choose not to submit it will either go to Skyway Kelowna Airport or Ritchcraft Gallery in Kelowna Mission district. However, it is currently for sale at Daily Paintworks, so if you love it, snap it up before it leaves the studio.


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Do you work for a startup? Do you have health insurance? Let's talk about health-care

By David Holmes , written on May 6, 2013

From The News Desk

Over the weekend, Paul Carr wrote that funded startups have a responsibility to offer affordable health-care to their employees. It's no surprise that the post sparked an intense conversation in the comments section and on Twitter. Like gun control, abortion, and other political issues where the stakes are life and death, the health-care debate can often become so overwhelmed by emotions that's there's simply no room left for logic. And because the issue is so closely tied to our debate about taxes, it's pretty much the Thunderdome of American politics: No room for compromise.

But we want to take a step back from the binary political dichotomies at play here and ask our readers, many of whom run startups or work for startups, questions about your personal experience with health-care. To sweeten the deal, if we feature your response in an upcoming wrap-up post, you'll win free tickets to a PandoMonthly event of your choice. To submit your answers, either fill out the form here or leave a comment below (if you leave a comment, be sure to include the best way for us to reach you in case you win).

If our last two PandoDaily polls were any indication, then we should see lots of smart, nuanced responses from our readers. We'd expect nothing less.

Entrepreneurs: Do you offer your employees health insurance? Why or why not?

Employees: Does your company offer affordable health insurance? Have you ever worked for a company that didn't offer health insurance? And if so, did that cause any hardship for you?

Everyone: When should a startup offer health insurance? Always? Only when they reach a certain size or funding milestone?

Everyone: And finally, do you think health-care reforms like the ones proposed in the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) will have a positive effect on entrepreneurship?


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My Big Break: Jason Hirschhorn on how a 4am email took him from sweatpants to MTV

By Paul Bradley Carr , written on July 28, 2014

From The News Desk

When we first conceived the My Big Break series, I immediately thought of Jason Hirschhorn. Given that Jason is one of the best storytellers I know, I just knew he'd have a great story about who (or what) got him started on the road to success.

I was right.

In fact, when I call Jason to ask about his "big break" story it turns out he has several. The best one, though -- his true big break -- is the story of how he went from a web designer, working out of his apartment, churning out site for musicians like Madonna, to a senior executive at companies including MTV, MySpace and  Slingbox. (This seems like a good time to mention Jason publishes MediaREDEF, which is about the only email newsletter I read every day without fail. You should subscribe immediately.)

[Note: The My Big Break series is being sponsored by Braintree's Ignition program, so you'll only see their ads around "My Big Break" pieces. But the series was conceived, commissioned and edited entirely by Pando. Braintree had no input whatsoever in the editorial. For more on our policy towards single sponsor series like this one, see here.]

Jason's story starts back in 1995, in the early days of the first dot com boom. Having discovered Lynx and Usenet at his college's computer lab, Hirschhorn knew he didn't want to follow his classmates to a career at Anderson Consulting or Goldman Sachs. The Internet "nurtured me... made me want to go down my own path." That path meant founding his own web design company, Mischief New Media, which specialized in designing websites for record labels and artists like Madonna and Seal.

Business was good at first, but soon the labels started bringing their web development in house. "I started building my own series of music sites," Hirschhorn tells me, "with audio streaming, communities, that kind of thing." By day he'd work for the music labels, by night he'd build his own projects. It was that nocturnal work schedule that lead to his big break.

"One of my design clients was Sony. At 4am one night I sent them an email about something. The guy responded 'what are you doing up at 4am?' I told him about my music sites, and he said: 'We're looking to do something like that. Can we see it?'"

"They were expecting to find an office and there was just me in my apartment at 96th and 3rd avenue, in sweatpants, unshaven, surrounded by stacks of magazines and computers. They figured it'd be easy -- they said 'don't call anyone. We want to buy your company.'"

Sony clearly thought they were dealing with a rube.

"The next day all this stuff arrived -- Playstations, music, minidiscs... a contract the size of a Torah." But Hirschhorn wasn't a rube.

He called his best friend from school, who happened to be a lawyer. More importantly his father happened to be Michael Schulhof -- the former CEO and President of Sony America. "Let me take a look at the contract," Schulhof said.

What he read wasn't good. "'Here's what you'll have after taxes,' he said, ‘And you’ll be an 100k per year employee.’" Hirschhorn's next call was to the man who gave him his big break: Arthur Indursky, an entertainment lawyer who he knew from another school friend. “He wasn’t really a technology savvy guy at the time. 'Give me keywords' he said, 'Let's shop this around.'"

Indursky called the heads of BMG and MTV and pretty much everyone else. "He mixed up every word -- like 'we're doing streaming community' -- but started a bidding war that got me an offer seven times larger than Sony's, eventually from Viacom."

But that wasn't his big break moment. "The deal was for stock in the internet play at MTV — Viacom was spinning off the music assets into something called MTVi — but at the last minute they refused to guarantee the stock. I still wanted to do the deal but Indursky stopped me. I remember saying, 'why do we need a guarantee? The market is on fire, Look at Amazon.' He said 'If I were 8ft tall I’d play basketball, we’re getting that guarantee.’ If not for the guarantee that he pushed for, I would have lost everything because after the bubble burst in 2000, they cancelled the IPO. I walked away with the payout, because I took his advice."

By 2003, Hirschhorn was the youngest senior executive at Viacom's MTV Networks division.

Recalling all this now, Hirschhorn says something that really resonates with me, as someone who has made a living out of telling stories about his life. It's a quote from Joe Walsh in the History of the Eagles documentary, and it perfectly sums up how very often it's only possible to identify your big break moment after the fact.

“As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, nonrelated events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on. And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.”

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Panoptic Press || Artistic Visualisation

A window into a small selection of art historical as well as artist’s talks and interviews sourced from YouTubes growing archive of the discipline.

Jeff Wall Photographs 1996-2013

Vered Maimon: ‘Most importantly, Crary demonstrated, following Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, how any notion of an observer, and in particular the modern observer, cannot be simply located and identified within the realm of art and models of representation, but has to be seen as directly linked to broad formations of knowledge and specific practices of power. He thus stated that ‘the observer is actually just one effect of the construction of a new kind of subject or individual in the nineteenth century’. The idea that there is one model of beholding and an observer that exists strictly within the realm of art is simply not tenable from a historical point of view, and the same goes for a transhistorical idea of the ‘pictorial’, which ignores the fact that history presents many different forms of visual intelligibility. That is, it is only from a very limited [‘art photography’] and inherently ahistorical perspective [beholding as an unqualified act] that one can argue that painting, photography and film necessarily share the same set of aesthetic concerns’. [1]

Michael Fried Tableau

Mick Finch: It was in Michael Fried’s recent book Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before that the term tableau came into focus in a significant way. In chapter 6 Fried extensively uses Jean François Chevrier’s formulation of tableau, in relation to photography, as a defining term for his own understanding of what is at work in the large scale photography he discusses. Some interesting distinctions arise out of Fried’s analysis of Chevrier’s formulation. The English translation of Chevrier’s text used picture form in place of tableau. Fried states he prefers tableau to picture, I think mainly because the photographers he is discussing factor in, the support, framing and display as material to the work as a whole; for example – light boxes in the case of Jeff Wall’s work. Chevrier’s position is perhaps more clear in his description of this genre of large-scale photography as being an object-image. translation of Chevrier’s text used picture form in place of tableau. Fried states he prefers tableau to picture, I think mainly because the photographers he is discussing factor in, the  support, framing and display as material to the work as a whole; for example – light boxes in the case of Jeff Wall’s work.  Chevrier’s position is perhaps more clear in his description of this genre of large-scale photography as being an object-image. [2]

David Hockney Secret Knowledge

A segue to Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney, [who] ‘starts from a conviction that Ingres used a camera lucida – basically a small prism on a stalk – to draw rapid portrait likenesses on paper. However the big questions lie in painters’ use of the camera obscura to cast images of the real world on to a darkened wall. [The book and film] presents a series of simple but immensely suggestive technical notes on a series of paintings, especially on the qualities of perspective or proportion or finish that give clues to how they were made. Any medium or technique for making art creates a set of possibilities and limits that bear on the artist’s activity at every point and are inseparable from what is achieved. Some of Hockney’s best thoughts on the optics implicit in the art are almost thrown away here. The richness and precision that a projected image helped make possible in painting, he remarks, also involved the painter in another kind of tyranny or falsification, that of the monocular view of the single lens, unlike the binocular vision of the human eyes’. [3]

Lucien Freud Standing by the Rags

Adrian Searle: ‘At the heart of Lucian Freud’s work is the confrontation between himself and others, himself and painting. His painting’s realism is all artifice. They are perverse in their complications, their studied theatricality. His art was in its way as mannered as Francis Bacon’s [with whom he had a terrible and irrevocable falling-out], and his public persona was just as much a construction. Freud liked to appear dangerous and unknowable, to men at least. He could seduce and threaten. His art has authority, even though he seemed forever stuck in a postwar London of peeling stucco and disappointed lives’. [4]

Nan Goldin

MoMA: ‘Comprising almost 700 snapshot-like portraits sequenced against an evocative music soundtrack, Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a deeply personal narrative, formed out of the artist’s own experiences around Boston, New York, Berlin, and elsewhere in the late 1970s, 1980s, and beyond. The Ballad is itself a kind of downtown opera; its protagonists—including the artist herself—are captured in intimate moments of love and loss. They experience ecstasy and pain through sex and drug use. “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is the diary I let people read,” Goldin wrote. “The diary is my form of control over my life. It allows me to obsessively record every detail. It enables me to remember.” The Ballad developed through multiple improvised live performances, for which Goldin ran through the slides by hand and friends helped prepare the soundtrack—from Maria Callas to The Velvet Underground—for an audience not unlike the subjects of the pictures’. [5]

‘Appropriation is the intentional borrowing, copying, and alteration of preexisting images and objects. It is a strategy that has been used by artists for millennia, but took on new significance in mid-20th-century America and Britain with the rise of consumerism and the proliferation of popular images through mass media outlets from magazines to television’. [6] ‘Whatever you want to call it, artists have been copying since time immemorial. We look into the history of the practice, and share our theories of why it is done, and what it can offer us’: Joanna Fiduccia. ‘The Art Assignment is an educational video series that explores art and art history through the lens of the present. This art education is brightly-lit, energizing, and most of all relevant‘. [7]

Jackson Pollock

‘To borrow critic Harold Rosenberg’s words, Pollock had re-imagined the canvas not as “a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze, or ‘express’ an object.. [but as] an arena in which to act.” And it was a short step from this realization to interpreting Pollock’s balletic moves around the canvas as a species of performance art. Since then, Pollock’s reputation has only increased. The subject of many biographies, a movie biopic, and major retrospectives, he has become not only one of the most famous symbols of the alienated modern artist, but also an embodiment for critics and historians of American modernism in its finest hour’. [8] The Art Assignment. You’ve heard of Jackson Pollock and know of his infamous ‘drip paintings’, but what is it that you’re supposed to do when you look at his work today? Why did it cause shockwaves in 1947, and what does it mean now? We explore the life, evolution, and legacy of Jackson Pollock. [9]

Kazimir Malevich

‘The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presented Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde, with selections from the Khardzhiev and Costakis collections, the largest survey in twenty years devoted to the work of the Russian avant-garde pioneer Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935). The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam holds the largest collection of Malevich’s work outside of Russia, which was the subject of a large-scale exhibition at the museum in 1989. Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde is a tribute to the artist and his contemporaries, as well as the culmination of 2013 as the year celebrating Dutch–Russian relations in the Netherlands.Not only an artist, Malevich was an influential teacher and a passionate advocate of the “new” art. The show is a tribute to the Russian avant-garde of the early 20th century, with Malevich as its focal point. Although best known for his purely abstract work, he was inspired by diverse art movements of his day, including Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, and Cubism; his own visual language was also influenced by Russian icon painting and folk art. Through oil paintings, gouaches, drawings, and sculptures, the exhibition traces the rich variety of his oeuvre. All the phases in Malevich’s career are on view, from his Impressionist period to his iconic Suprematist phase—his Black Square was its most radical consequence—to the lesser-known figurative works that followed’. [10]

Yayoi Kusama

‘Yayoi Kusama’s artwork ranges from works on paper featuring intense semi-abstract imagery, to soft sculpture known as Accumulations, to her Infinity Net paintings, made up of carefully repeated arcs of paint built up into large patterns. Since 1977 Kusama has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric institution, and much of her work has been marked with obsessiveness and a desire to escape from psychological trauma. In an attempt to share her experiences, she creates installations that immerse the viewer in her obsessive vision of endless dots and nets or infinitely mirrored space. At the centre of the art world in the 1960s, she came into contact with artists including Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, Joseph Cornell and Claes Oldenburg, influencing many along the way. She has traded on her identity as an ‘outsider’ in many contexts – as a female artist in a male-dominated society, as a Japanese person in the Western art world, and as a victim of her own neurotic and obsessional symptoms. After achieving fame and notoriety with groundbreaking art happenings and events, she returned to her country of birth and is now Japan’s most prominent contemporary artist’. [11]

Gerhard Richter

Robert Storr: ‘In 1959, Gerhard Richter visited Documenta II in Kassel. The exhibition was one of a series of surveys of international modern and contemporary art intended to fill in the blanks in German cultural history created by the 12-year blackout of the Third Reich and to present vanguard painting and sculpture condemned by authorities in the Communist Bloc. There, for the first time, Richter saw many artists about whom he had heard and many altogether unknown to him. Among those who impressed him most were Lucio Fontana and Jackson Pollock. Two years later, shortly before the Berlin Wall was erected, Richter abandoned his secure and “promising” future in Dresden and slipped over the border to West Berlin. On the advice of a friend who had made the move ahead of him, Richter enrolled in the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf. That same year, Joseph Beuys was named professor of monumental sculpture at the academy, and though Richter always kept his distance from him, Beuys was henceforth an increasingly important presence in the burgeoning art worlds of Düsseldorf and Cologne’. [12]

Cy Twombly at Tate Modern

‘Tate’s Director Nicholas Serota gives us a behind the scenes tour of the Cy Twombly exhibition at Tate Modern, as he makes the final adjustments to the hang just before opening. A long-standing fan, Serota talks about Twombly’s technique, his relationship to Turner, and how the artist, now in his eighties, is still producing some of the most vital work of his career. One of the most highly regarded painters working today and a foremost figure among the generation of American artists that includes Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. Twombly rose to prominence through a distinctive style characterised by scribbles and vibrantly daubed paint. This is his first solo retrospective in fifteen years, and provides an overview of his work from the 1950s to now. Twombly emerged as a painter at the height of Abstract Expressionism, then in 1957 he left America for Italy, where he drew inspiration from European literature and classical culture. At the heart of the exhibition is Twombly’s work exploring the cycles associated with seasons, nature and the passing of time’. [13]

Jasper Johns

‘In over a 60 year period involved in the production of art Jasper Johns asks the viewer to re-consider the familiar world around us which we take for granted such as flags, numbers, maps and targets. He selects, animates and re-interprets ordinary images and objects in his art, things he says ‘the mind already knows’. Johns shares many interests with Robert Rauschenberg and is very influenced by the artist Marcel Duchamp, the musician John Cage and the choreographer Merce Cunningham. With a contribution from the exhibition curator Dr Roberta Bernstein, Grace and Joshua focus on some key works which illustrate his style, method and ideas’. [14]

Robert Rauschenberg at Tate Modern

‘Robert Rauschenberg at Tate Modern shows how the artist worked across printing, photography, painting, assemblage, technology and performance. He remains one of the most influential American artists of the 20th Century whose achievement is still visible in contemporary art. He claimed to be working in the gap between art and life and links historic Dada artists like Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters with artists working today. The exhibition runs at Tate Modern before transferring to the Museum Of Modern Art in New York City’. [15]

Chuck Close

‘This retrospective exhibition of the work of Chuck Close, featuring the monumental, psychologically charged portraits of anonymous sitters and distinguished fellow artists for which he is best known, includes some 80 paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs from all phases of the artist’s career. Close (American, b. 1940) first came to prominence in the 1970s with his great portraits, based on passport-style photographs, painted in thousands of tiny increments with an airbrush. Although Close has focused exclusively on similarly formatted portraits ever since, he has developed them through a broad variety of techniques and mediums’. [16]

Neri Oxman

‘Head of the Mediated Matter research group at the MIT Media Lab, an architect and designer, Neri Oxman leads the search for ways in which digital fabrication technologies interact with natural environments and the biological world. Oxman’s approach, termed “Material Ecology,” spans biology, computation, materials and digital fabrication. Her works are included in permanent collections in museums worldwide including the MoMA, Centre Pompidou, the Boston MFA and the Smithsonian Institution.’ [17]

Gustav Metzger

‘Born in 1926, Gustav Metzger developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art where destruction was part of the process of creating the work. In this TateShots the artist reflects on his long and influential career. Themes of political activism and engagement are heavily rooted in his work. He arrived in Britain as a refugee after losing several members of his family in the Holocaust and was associated with protests against American rocket bases in the UK as well as campaigns for nuclear disarmament. He also went to prison for encouraging mass non-violent civil disobedience. This new arrangement of his work currently on display at Tate Britain reveals how auto-destructive art emerged out of painting and sculpture as much as it communicated Metzger’s activism’. [18]

Further Reading, Viewing and References

[1] Maimon, Vered. Michael Fried’s Modernist Theory of Photography. History of Photography, Vol 34:4, 387-395, 2010. Background image: detail, Jeff Wall, After “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue, Transparency in light box, 174.0×250.5cm, 1999-2000.

[2] Finch, Mick. The tableau Project, Introduction to Symposium 1. taken from http://tableauproject, accessed 27-12-2017.

[3] Robb, Peter. Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, David Hockney, Art and Design Reviews, The Guardian, 20 October 2001, accessed 27 December 2017.

[4] Searle, Adrian. Lucian Freud’s Perverse Depictions of Magnificent Muck. Art and Design Reviews, The Guardian, 22 July 2011, accessed 27 December 2017. Background image: detail, Lucien Freud, Standing by the Rags, Oil on canvas, 168.9×138.4 cm, 1988-89.

[5] MoMA, Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, The Museum of Modern Art, 11 June 2016 through 16 April 2017, accessed 27 December 2017.

[6] MoMA Learning, taken from, accessed 1/1/2018.

[7] The Art Assignment, taken from, accessed 28 December 2017.

[8] Pollock, Jackson. The Art Story, taken from, accessed 1/1/2018.

[9] Pollock, Jackson. The Art Assignment, taken from, accessed 1/1/2018. Background image: detail, Jackson Pollock, One/ Number 31, Oil and enamel paint on canvas, 269.5×530.8 cm.

[10] Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, running from 19 October 2013 through 2 February 2014. Commissioned by Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and produced by Submarine.

[11] Kusama, Tate Modern, 9 February through 5 June 2012.

[12] Storr, Robert. Gerhard Ricther: The Day is Long, Art in America, 1 March, 2009, taken from, accessed 1/1/2018. Of Interest GerhardRichterVideos, YouTube. Background image: detail, Gerhard Richter, St John, 200cmx260cm, Oil on canvas, 1988.

[13] Serota, Nicholas. Cy Twombly Cycles and Seasons, Tate Modern, 19 June-14 September 2008, taken from, accessed 2/1/2018. Visit the Tate Modern here.

[14] Adam, Grace and White, Joshua. Jasper Johns at the Royal Academy, The Art Channel, Published 6 Oct, 2017, taken from, accessed 2/1/2018.

[15] Adam, Grace and White, Joshua. Robert Rauschenberg at Tate Modern, The Art Channel, Published 16 January, 2017, taken from, accessed 2/1/2018. Background image: detail, Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled, oil, newspaper, and printed reproduction on canvas 290x330cm, 1954, Private collection.

[16] Storr, Robert. Chuck Close 26 February – 26 May, 1998, Museum of Modern Art, taken from, accessed 2/1/2018. MoMA’s interactive also by curator Robert Storr can be accessed here.

[17] Oxman, Neri. Design at the Intersection of Technology and Biology, Ted Talk, published 29 October, 2015. Taken from, accessed 9/1/2018.

[18] Metzger, Gustav. Auto-Destructive Art, TateShots, published 28 May ,2015, taken from, accessed 14/1/2018. Background image: Gustav Metzger, Painting on Cardboard, Oil paint and alkyd paint on found box, cardboard and wood, 83.2 x 59.2 x 3.9 cm, 2015.


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If you’re of the hardcover collector blood, then I implore you to pick up the new Thunderstorm Books edition of WE CAME BACK. As of this writing, there are only a few copies left, so get on it while they still exist. Once they’re gone, they’re gone. There won’t be another post next year entitled “WE CAME BACK (AGAIN…AGAIN).” Mainly because the wording is atrocious but also because once these sell out, they won’t ever be restocked.

Quick update for y’all. WE CAME BACK is officially available for your consumption. If you’ve been following my ramblings about this book, then you know I’m quite proud of it but also that I’m donating all of my royalties to The American Cancer Society in honor of my old man, who passed away when I was a wee lad (wee lad =  high school senior). This is my most personal book to date and parts were difficult to write (as in nearly-driving-me-insane difficult). I hope you’ll check it out and help spread the word. I’d very much like for it to succeed for obvious reasons.

Dream Woods Cover Interview

Hey y’all.

Here’s a little interview thingy I did over on Sinister Grin in which I discussed the DREAM WOODS cover. It’s my favorite cover of mine thus far and it’s received a good amount of attention since its reveal earlier this year. Click here and get all the dirty little secrets behind that pesky bear.

Received some awesome news this week. The official cover for my novella A DEBT TO BE PAID is finalized and ready for public consumption. It’s being released in ebook format through Samhain this September wherever virtual books are sold. I love the way this bad boy came out and I hope you feel the same way. Stay tuned for more details! Without further ado, feast your eyes on some shadowy goodness.

Is it a real word? I’m not sure but if it isn’t, it ought to be. Out now is the second in the FOSSIL LAKE anthology series, which features stories from Ken Goldman, John M. McIlveen, Doug Rinaldi, and many more awesome folks. Did I mention it’s edited by the wonderful Christine Morgan and contains a foreword from some guy named Brian Keene? Also, it features my short story “Critter Marrow,” which is about one of the most terrifying subjects of all: junk mail. The ebook and paperback are both available now from Amazon. Go grab them while they’re hot, though they’ll probably cool down by the time your receive your copies.

Leading up to the anthology’s release, Christine posted contributor interviews each day. You can find mine here if you’re so inclined but please read through all of them while you’re at it. These are some talented folks and each deserves your time.

Here’s the cover reveal for the upcoming anthology FOSSIL LAKE II: THE REFOSSILING (may or may not be a real word), edited by the wonderful Christine Morgan and featuring my story “Critter Marrow” about the world’s most terrifying subject: junk mail. Don’t act like you didn’t just shudder when you read that. More details to follow so stay tuned!

Just in time for Halloween, BUGS is out now from Great Old Ones Publishing, featuring my story OPERATION PARASITE and excellent pieces from Sydney Leigh, Tracy L. Carbone, Eric S. Brown and roughly thirty more. It’s edited by the great Gregory L. Norris. Grab the paperback and receive a free Kindle copy and complimentary bag of centipedes.

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Boulder Colorado population growth

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As quoted in How Anti-Growth Sentiment, Reflected in Zoning Laws, Thwarts Equality.   (The New York Times, 7/3/2016)

Steve moved to Boulder during the city's biggest decade of growth.  Its population increased by 29,152, or 77%, during the 1960s.  The pace was set during the 1950s, when population increased by nearly 90%.

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My thoughts on: I’m judging you.

Hello beautiful people, welcome to my first blogpost on sharing my thoughts on books (see here)

When I first saw this book by Luvvie Ajayi, I was intrigued. The cover and the title got me interested (yes, I judge books by their cover)

In Ms. Luvvie’s words, “I’m Judging You changes the game and snatches wigs one page at a time. It is a guide to getting some act-right online and in real life.”

I agree that a manual for manners and proper behaviour is necessary in this digital age. Why? You may wonder. Let’s be sincere, a lot of people lack basic manners and common courtesy, no shade.

Ms. Luvvie threw major shade in this book!!! I imagine her as the typical judgemental Nigerian aunty with a head wrap and glasses, looking down her nose and passing judgement on all and sundry. The book is absolutely hilarious!!

There are some parts that are just so relatable. Let me share:

On general manners

Like do y’all plan to fly? You’ve been sitting for hours, will a couple of minutes kill you?

On friendships:

Seriously, some friends are just exhausting. Why are we competing? Is there a prize at the end?

On body enhancement:

LOL, I had this experience when I was in uni. A girl I’ve known for about 3 years as a beautiful, chocolatey queen suddenly showed up WHITE!!! As in, she was almost transparent, all in the space of 4 months. I couldn’t recognize her at first, I was bewildered to say the least. I don’t have anything against people doing what makes them feel good, but let’s be reasonable please.

On sexual harassment:

Seriously, it’s not funny. If you walk in any major market in Lagos, you must have experienced this (Think of Oshodi, Lagos Island, YABA!!). It’s demeaning and humiliating. Some people try to make excuses for such nonsense and even berate you for reacting. Let me just say it, THERE IS NOTHING CUTE ABOUT HARASSMENT.

On rape:

I can’t even express this better.

On social media:

I absolutely agree. Do we really need to share horrible and gory images on social media? People share terrible videos of lynching, killings and gory images of mangled bodies, dismembered bodies etc. Please, what is the idea behind this? We need to stop this please.

Still on social media:

Lol, all I can say is, don’t make assumptions based on what on you see on social media.

Positives: ‘I’m judging you’ is a really good read. It addressed many issues common in our society in a humorous way.

Negatives: This book doesn’t seem cohesive to me. It felt like a collection of blog posts.

There were some parts that degenerated into full blown rants, especially towards the end of the book. It sort of made it tedious to read.

In a bid to be humorous, some things were over-explained and the humour was lost.

Overall rating: I rate it a solid 3.5 stars out of 5.

Have you read this book? What did you think of it? Please share your thoughts, comments and suggestions. Thank you

Until next time💋

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  1. People who say they don’t judge books by their cover are lying! Great review, the book looks funny and insightful 👌 adding to the TBR

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The ‘life-changing’ glasses helping blind people to ‘see’

glassesA pair of glasses that is able to ‘read’ text and convert it into speech allowing blind and visually impaired people has been tested by scientists.

The device looks like a small camera attached to the side of a pair of glasses.

Using OCR – optical character reading – technology, the camera and tiny computer it contains can read printed materials.

Researchers at the University of California said the new system dramatically improves the ability of people with limited sight to read books, menus, newspapers and emails.

The camera is not limited to text: its makers said it can also recognise faces and products.

The research paper ‘Evaluation of a Portable Artificial Vision Device among Patients with Low Vision’ has been published in the US journal JAMA Ophthalmology.  Source

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JUST metres from the clearing of a privately owned wetland which was approved by the WA planning commission, Bayswater council’s restoration work at the Eric Singleton Bird Sanctuary has been nominated for a premier’s award.

The bird sanctuary is separated from the proposed housing development spot by a small path, but underground pipes connect the water tables and locals fear housing in such close quarters will be bad for the sanctuary’s health.

Increased noise

In a letter to the WAPC, Bayswater council planner Helen Smith said having housing so close would impact birds nesting and migration, scaring them off with artificial light and increased noise, and it could also increase weed infestation from garden escapees and unleash dog and cat attacks on the fauna in the neighbouring paths. On behalf of council she requested that if housing did go ahead that they leave a large buffer zone. The WAPC rejected that saying the pathway was sufficient distance.

The council spent $3million including government grants to restore the reserve. In a press release about the award nomination deputy mayor Stephanie Coates says before the work “Eric Singleton Reserve was a degraded man-made wetland laden with nutrient rich acid sulphate soil that was causing thick filamentous algae blooms”, a threadlike pond scum-type algae that covers everything.

“Run off into the Swan River was contributing to a decline in water quality and algae blooms were literally choking marine life to death. Wildlife diversity within the reserve was at an all-time low.”

Working with the WA parks and wildlife department the city lined the base of the wetland with limestone to neutralise acidity and help remove nitrogen, along with a whole host of planting and landscaping.

“The wetlands now prevents an estimated 1.3 tonnes of nitrogen, 200kg of phosphorous and 40 tonnes of sediment and rubbish from flowing into the river each year,” Cr Coates says.

The city and DPAW has been nominated as a finalist in the “managing the environment” category of the premier’s awards and the winners are announced November 2.

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Mixes (Three Different Ones)

8176-0de0-473b-9f2d-387eca99da22.jpegThree new mixes were recently posted to the Mix Archive. Strangely, the 2016 edition of the annual Happy New Ears mix seemed to go missing in action all year. Here it is at last, paired with this year’s additional Happy New Ears 2017. Clocking in around two hours each, both sessions feature recent favorites and classic sounds blended and pulled into, at times, wild and unexpected musical territories. In addition, we also have Saddle Beyond the Stars, a follow-up of sorts to 2014’s Astral Cowboy [stream – download]. I hope they please your thirsty ears.

Happy New Ears 2016 – streamdownload

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  1. How crazy! Last January I was wondering about this and thought maybe you just decided not to do a Happy New Ears 2016.

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Prevent iOS from changing text size after orientation changes

If you’re developing a responsive site you might have encountered this problem.

Or perhaps you haven’t since I’m sure all of this famous templates such as Bootstrap, HTML5 Boilerplate or Normalize.css already have it fixed.

When viewing your site in an iOS device portrait mode the text looks good but when you change the orientation to landscape it looks bigger.

Basically browsers on smartphones don’t display pages using the same algorithms as the browsers rendering pages on desktop.

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Court rules against Microsoft in China font case

November 17, 2009
A man passes under the logo of software company Microsoft at a trade fair in Germany. A Chinese court has found the US software giant guilty of infringing a Chinese company's intellectual property rights by including certain fonts in its operating systems, according to a court judgement.

A Chinese court has ruled Microsoft Corp. infringed a Chinese company's intellectual property rights by including certain fonts in its operating systems, the companies confirmed Tuesday.

Beijing's No.1 Intermediate People's Court found had exceeded the scope of a previous agreement to use and sell fonts owned by Zhongyi Electronic Ltd, Lan Fei, a spokeswoman of Beijing-based company told AFP.

The decision came during US President Barack Obama's visit to China and at a sensitive time in the trade relationship between the two countries. The US has been pressing China for tougher law enforcement.

However, Microsoft said in a statement that it disagreed with the Monday-dated court ruling.

"We plan to appeal the decision for the Zhongyi fonts case," Microsoft said.

"Microsoft respects ... We believe our license agreements with the plaintiff cover our use of the fonts."

Zhongyi said the court agreed Microsoft installed and used the fonts in eight of its operating systems without its express permission and had ordered the US company to stop selling those operating systems in China.

The spokeswoman said the company was studying the ruling and could seek compensation from Microsoft for damages.

"The case dragged on for a long time and the scale and impact of the case was very large. It involves a large figure. We are still checking and studying the form and amount (of the compensation)," Lan said.

The case, which was filed in April 2007, does not appear to affect Microsoft's latest operating systems, including Windows 7, which went on sale last month.

The court rejected Zhongyi's claim that Microsoft's use of Zhengma software, which enables computer users to type Chinese characters using Western keyboards, also violated its intellectual property rights.

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My Pockets of Time

There are things that I do when I have those short, supposed-to-be-doing-nothing moments. And most of the time, they're when:

1. I'm on my way to the office, seated at the front passenger seat of Fred's car, and instead of talking non-sense or talk about non-sense things, or just run out of no non-sense things to talk about, we either concentrate on what we choose to do: he, on his driving and what work awaits him at the office; and I, on putting on my lipstick or eyeliner.

2. I'm on my way home, at the back seat of the company car driven by an Arabic-speaking driver who sincerely wants to chat with me about his wife and work but since I can't understand most of the words he says, he just drive in silence and I sit back comfortably, shut my tired eyes off, and rest.

But there are some things that I do on the car after putting my lipstick on mornings, or I've rested my eyes on evenings.

I check my pantry on the Out of Milk app. It's very helpful for me because I not only see the quantity of a commodity I still have, I can also check its price which I previously listed.

I play my daughter's game, Pou. It's for kids, I know. It's like Tamagotchi of old days. There's something about it that makes me want to check if Pou is hungry, sleepy, or sick. But I won't get addicted to Pou's games, I promise. I won't be like my creative partner on my freelance projects in the Philippines. She would stop at what she's doing just to take care of her plants in Farmville! She would sneak out of a client's meeting or speed it up just to water her plants, or wake up at the wee hours of the morning to check on something at the farm, or stop at the nearest gasoline station when she was on a highway just to harvest her plants! I'm glad she's finally done and over with the addiction.

Or I play Mastermind. I didn't get to play its physical version when I was younger.

I read the free versions of some magazines and newspapers. Call me frugal but that's me. I can't purchase the electronic versions of these reading materials just because I don't want to spend money on something I can get for free, even if they're just excerpts or read-only versions. But if I can get the full, downloadable version for free, why not?

I read these several e-books (again, they're free!) which I downloaded from Kobo and some friends have given me theirs. I get to read some pages when I'm on the car but if the novels are really good, I continue reading after the kids were put to sleep.

Those are what I usually do when I'm caught in a traffic, on the way to the office, or just waiting on a line or my number to be called.

How do you spend yours?

Beng Gee said…
Wow, walang sayang na oras kay Beth! In between work and home, busy pa din! I don't regularly get to spend time in the car with Tom, but if ever, that's the time I want to have some personal chit chat with him. It's the time kasi na kaming dalawa lang and I treasure such moments hearing from him about his activities.

My extra time is usually spent on tending my plants, no matter how few those are. I gives me happiness. Don't know why.

Have a wonderful weekend with the cutie kids and Fred! Ingat palagi Beth!
Farida said…
I was smiling while reading #1 because I often find myself doing the last minute touches when going out. My smartphone also keeps me company these days. I get amused as I discover the many wonders of the apps now and forgo watching TV in several occasions.
Beth said…
Ate Beng, I also treasure the moments when I'm with my husband in the car just talking about things. Things we don't get to talk at the house since we're busy doing the chores and attending to the kids' needs. But sometimes, we run out of stories to tell! :)

I love gardening. I really haven't tried doing it. Gardening is a tiring but a very fulfilling activity. My mother has a garden and anything she plants, it grows and blooms! And I can see how happy she is while tending her plants, just like you.

Have a happy weekend, Ate Beng!
Beth said…
I always do that because most of my mornings are spent on preparing our breakfast and getting ready for work.

The apps keep me entertained and exercises my "nangangalawang" mind, hehe.

Have a nice weekend, Ida!
Farida said…
Lol, my mind is nangangalawang too and I read somewhere that playing video games make your mind sharp.

BTW, your posts are written-well naman :)
Reena said…
I like "Pride and Prejudice" too but the movie version na. Haha. I tried reading English books but I find it so hard to comprehend.
Beth said…
I like that movie soooo much! I fell in love with the characters. And I really like the beauty of Keira Knightley.

As for the books, hehehe. I also find it hard to finish reading books. I sometimes get bored kasi. :)

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