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Twin peaks

Monday, February 20, 2017
New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- Stirring up memories Subodh Gupta, 53, Artist + cook It isn't easy to say what came first: Subodh the art practitioner or Subodh the epicurean. "What if you hadn't been born an artist, what else could you have been?" I ask. "An actor," he says, "But an actor comes under the artist category, so not that," he adds, before delivering the final verdict: "If I was not an artist, I would have been a fabulous cook." That he chooses the more humbling "cook" instead of the aggrandizing "chef" is revealing of the impulse that drives his culinary adventures: not the pursuit of certifiable excellence, but a continual engagement with the everyday gestures that mark the production and consumption of food. For Gupta, the entire domain of the kitchen is embedded deeply in the realm of memory. Gupta's earliest memory of food is focused around the coal-fired chulha. His mother's stove was located in the veranda of their home in Khagaul, Bihar. His recollection, though, is redolent not of the predictable nostalgia of the smoked flavour of the food, but rather of how the lit coal served as an alarm clock of sorts. "You have this sense of a certain time, of how long the coal will last. You have to cook within that time for the entire family," he says as he recounts his mother's daily cooking rituals, the essence of which he has condensed into a singular LED artwork that has "Ma ki dal" spelt out in the Devanagiri script. Should his mother decide to cook meat or fish, a separate chulha would be used. Gupta remembers the way his mother used to make fish, how "she always picked up the tomato and she would just squeeze it into the frying pan, and when she put water in it, the tomato used to float". Gupta processed this particular act as proof of the powers of intuition and instinct that are elemental to the act of creation, that in fact bridge his twin identities as artist and cook. "You have to be in the right frame of mind," he says, when speaking about deciding what to cook-for when he visits his studio, instructing his cook to pack his lunch in a many-tiered dabba, or when he invites friends over to his home in Gurugram for dinner. His specialities include a fish curry with okra and brinjal, and his Sunday lunch preference is jhinga (prawns) with rice, dal and sattu. "That creativeness comes with your instinct. And experience over the years. (While cooking) you have to be confident enough to make mistakes, and that's the same with art." It was when he was studying art and, later, while honing his practice, that Gupta began to tap into the ritual-driven nature of his Bihari culinary past, an impulse that fired the conceptual coals that would result in performance-oriented pieces such as Spirit Eaters (2012), when he transacted with the nomadic community of Kanthababas, who are summoned by grieving families to have food on behalf of deceased souls; or that propelled him to cook a five-course dinner for eight continuous days for an audience of 50-60 people as part of his performance at Performa 13 in New York in 2013. "The memory of food comes from your whole experience," he says. "When I went to (the) hostel, I missed my home food, so I started cooking in my college-I bought a stove, I bought ingredients, and I made mistakes in the beginning. I asked my mother and started experimenting with food, and that's how I started cooking." Gupta's proficiency with food has cemented his reputation among his fellow artists as an excellent cook, someone whose identity is centrally linked to his gastronomical obsession and is manifested through his quirk of bringing back ingredients from his travels abroad, to cooking at his own exhibition opening at the London-based gallery, Hauser & Wirth. Of late, the proclivity towards orchestrating feasts has begun to take precedence in Gupta's practice, assuming a proportion that goes beyond his artistic investigation of it, and veering towards celebration. A long-held wish is to invite friends to his studio for a series of elaborate meals and to stage the act of eating as a performance of sorts. He is also in the initial phase of assembling a recipe book that will bring together his culinary experiences and their intersection with his memories of food. It could become his most prominent contribution to Bihari cuisine, given the immense reach his name affords. -Rosalyn D'Mell A double take Lekha Washington, 34, Designer + lyricist I feel like I confuse people," says Lekha Washington, a Mumbai-based artist, designer, and newly-minted lyricist. "When they ask me what I do, I'm at a bit of a loss on how to introduce myself." She has penned the lyrics of two English songs in Vishal Bhardwaj's forthcoming period drama, Rangoon. Sitting in her cosy Bandra studio in the Ranwar pakhadi, one of the few East Indian Catholic villages that remain in Mumbai, home as much to urban artists and musicians as it is to long-time residents, Washington opens up about the collaboration with the National Award-winning film-maker and music composer Bhardwaj, whose long-standing collaboration with lyricist Gulzar is well known. In Rangoon, Washington shares the mantle of lyricist with the 80-year-old Urdu poet and film-maker. Both songs, Shimmy Shake and Be Still, have been critically appreciated. "Vishal Bhardwaj and I have been exchanging poetry for a while now-I write in English, he writes in Hindi. (Last October) he said, send me what you have and I will set it to tune. I sent him five or six (poems), of which he picked one." This was Be Still, a poem that Washington had written a few years ago. For the second song, Bhardwaj sent her a tune and she wrote the lyrics to the melody. The first set she wrote was, by her own admission, "overcomplicated". "I wrote it as a poet who didn't want to be oversimplified." Bhardwaj asked her to send him another set. "He said, send me words that are two syllables or less. So I took 3 hours to write one, and because I felt it wasn't going to be enough, in the last 5 minutes I wrote the first paragraph of a second set of lyrics. And he picked the second set." This was Shimmy Shake, whose chorus goes, "A little shimmy shake/ A little double take/ Time's runnin' out, so kiss me"-all words with one or two syllables. In fact, the longest word in this song is "remember". Metre, says Washington, who has been writing poems since she was 9, is the main difference between writing lyrics and poems. In January, Washington was particularly prolific-"a dear friend is keen on publishing a book of my poems, so hopefully that will happen this year," says Washington, who is better known as an installation artist, an actor (she has worked in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi films) and a product designer. In her 2015 solo exhibition The Nature Of Things, held at the Sakshi Salon, an outpost of the Sakshi gallery in Mumbai, Washington had exhibited her patented chair, The Dot, alongside installations like Up, a 5.4ft vine of metal leaves coated with rust powder, rising towards the roof. The Dot-from her design firm Ajji, which specializes in furniture and lighting-is Washington's most famous piece of furniture: It looks like a large two-dimensional circle that can be hung on the wall. In October, when Bhardwaj approached her to send him lyrics, Washington was also putting together a touch-sensitive, light-based installation called Lightstrom with sponsorship from Philips Lighting. The piece was part of the Tornado Of Dervishes series, a set of installations made with fabric. The series was shown at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi. She is at present working on another light-based kinetic installation that is meant to be exhibited next month. -Dhamini Ratnam Magic before movies Chaitanya Tamhane, 29, Film-maker + magician Chaitanya Tamhane has made only one feature film-Court (2015), aMarathi drama that he wrote and directed-but there is already a weariness in the way he talks about movies. Last November, he was in Mexico for the Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative that gave him a chance to observe Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron at work. The best conversations they had weren't about movies, though, but a subject that fills Tamhane with enthusiasm: magic. "He was more fascinated with me talking about magic than about cinema. I would tell him about the similarities between the two," says Tamhane. On his last day on the sets, which coincided with Cuaron's birthday, Tamhane performed a customized magic effect in front of the 100-member crew which ended with a special message for the film-maker. "There is no point describing it. You have to experience it." He means it. Through our conversation, Tamhane fools us repeatedly with a pack of cards, objects in our pockets, a book and chits of paper, using them as devices. The latter requires the participant to name four people closest to him; its impact feels similar to the emotional pay-off at the end of a great movie. This is mentalism, quite different from magic, he points out. "Magic is an intellectual puzzle where people think there is a trick. In mentalism, you don't know if it's actually happening or not. The fun is in the ambiguity." Tamhane practises both. He began at 20 when, sifting through the collection of the local "DVD-uncle", he found The Best Of David Copperfield. He gravitated towards the more accessible branch of close-up magic, performed in an intimate setting. Tamhane now specializes in card magic, an art form that, he says, is unfortunately perceived as a birthday party gimmick. "It's the fault of magicians who have trivialized it by doing things like taking out eggs from women's bras. It's a performance art form that has all the elements of psychology, theatre and the exploration of mystery as a feeling. It takes a lifetime to master," he says. "I have missed out on a lot of socializing in my youth to practise cards in a locked room. In magic, 10 years is like one month." Tamhane performs privately for people he knows. Some of the mentalism performances have dark themes: The lights are turned off, and things might appear to move on their own. For effect, he has a collection of creepy objects like registries from mental asylums, pendulums and photographs of murder victims. Tamhane's turning point as a hobbyist came when he saw magic being performed live for the first time at the Federation Internationale des Societes Magiques (FISM), the "Olympics of magic", at Rimini in Italy in 2015. The difference between a live and recorded performance, he says, is like "watching a cooking show and actually eating the food". He vows to attend the next FISM, in South Korea, in 2018 even if he happens to be shooting a film (currently, he is finishing the script of his next feature). There is a connection between magic and movies, Tamhane insists, pointing out that early film-makers such as Georges Melies and the Lumiere brothers were magicians. "Both deal with perception and the senses, and then the effect happens in your head," he says. "Your subconscious is constantly absorbing what's happening. My job is to play with that and not the conscious perception." His obsession with magic sometimes sees him worrying about his film-making career; he spends a lot more time and money on studying magic than cinema. Once you are bitten by the bug, he says, it gets you for life. "It's this world of weirdos, geeks and kids who never grew up. Everybody has a story: some were bullied as kids, some were introverts. This was the only way of expressing themselves." Anyone would be fooled into believing that it's this world that he belongs to, not the one where he was invited, in 2016, to be part of the jury at the Venice Film Festival. - Sankhayan Ghosh Sound investment Gresham Fernandes, 36, Chef + DJ Five years ago, Delhi had one of its hottest restaurant openings-a place offering an innovative approach to European food. It was clear that Smoke House Room at Mehrauli was going to change perspectives. The launch party was one of the biggest nights of chef Gresham Fernandes' life. Not a small matter for the culinary director at Impresario Entertainment and Hospitality, who currently oversees about 40 restaurants, under seven Impresario brands across the country. In 2013, Fernandes did a three-month culinary residency programme at Copenhagen's two-Michelin-starred restaurant Noma. Since then, he also serves up genre-defying meals at The St Jude's Project, an underground dining space at an erstwhile bakery in Bandra, Mumbai. Fernandes' life changed irreversibly at the after-party of the opening of Smoke House Room, which started at 2am and went on until 11am. "It was like a first kiss," he says. "It's still my favourite gig of all time." He had shown up at the home studio of Delhi-based musician Tapan Raj, who is one half of the Indian fusion group MIDIval Punditz. Raj was deejaying for friends, using just a laptop. "It was music which could even be played at home, for friends who were over," he says. "It's cosy, you have the right type of people sitting on a couch." That night, he felt he might yet realize a dream he had abandoned. For before Fernandes became a hotel management student, he would take charge of house parties at his friends' places. "At the time, it was about mixing A into B, picking the right track," he says. At clubs, he would watch the DJ handle turntables and the specialized digital music player CDJ, fascinated with the way people responded to music. He chose, however, a more practical career-one that offered both creativity and stability. It was a time when nightclubs in Mumbai were being rapped for having an active drug scene. "My mom didn't like the idea of me getting into that scene. I didn't have the funds, and hotel management was a more secure career option," says Fernandes. "I gave up on being a DJ." Now that Fernandes has risen above the drudgery of cooking on the line, and has achieved a degree of mastery in his first profession, over the past two years, he has started putting both time and funds into music, equipment, educating himself, and a career in deejaying. DJ PlanB-as he is known-plays gigs at friends' parties and restaurant properties twice a month; his most recent gig was at Out Of The Blue in Bandra, Mumbai. In measured steps-before he buys a track, he asks himself if he will like it 10 years later, and before buying equipment, if he will use it 30 years later-he's building a repertoire of sounds, tracks and melodies that define him, much like the minimalist techniques in multi-course menus that are now identifiable with chef Gresham. "The type of sound I play is a 4/4 Techno beat. It takes time to kick in. It's a longer, evolving, atmospheric sound, not rigid." In the meantime, he's also learning how to play the piano, and looking for a turntable that will be a sound investment. "I'm not musically trained," he says. "However, as a chef, I wouldn't want to open a mustard sauce packet, I would want to make my own. So it is with music." Fernandes initially started by mixing songs, but now he wants to read music, recognize chords, understand instruments. In his performances, he has learnt to calibrate the energy of his dancing crowd. "It is like playing chess; you have to think ahead. With feeding people, you have to judge their reactions in the first two courses, and then break down future courses based on their response." Fernandes is also a new father; his daughter was born in January. Does he play music to her? "Funny you ask," he says. "We were dancing earlier today to The Kennedy Center Honors on YouTube." -Roshni Bajaj Sanghvi Alive in the forest Sabyasachi Chakraborty, 61, Actor + wildlife photographer Actor Sabyasachi Chakraborty is almost as reclusive as the subjects of his photographs-the denizens of the wild. It takes about a dozen phone calls and some text messages before he responds. When we do meet at his Golf Gardens home in south Kolkata, though, Chakraborty takes only a few minutes to open up, his wildlife photography stories the fuel for long conversations, helped along by cups of fine Darjeeling tea. Chakraborty, who has essayed the role of Feluda-Satyajit Ray's celebrated Bengali sleuth-in six films directed by Ray's son, Sandip, and acted in Hindi films like Dil Se.., Khakee, Parineeta and Mira Nair's The Namesake, shares a story to underline the trust implicit in wildlife photography, an obsession since 1995, when he headed to the Palamau Tiger Reserve in Daltonganj in Jharkhand with friends in a 16-year-old Ambassador car. In between an acting career spanning 130-odd films, Chakraborty's passion has been propped up by multiple solo and joint photography exhibitions, a stint as member of West Bengal's Wildlife Advisory Board, a celebrity endorser of Nikon Professional Services, as the author of a book on his Africa travels, and as the maker of a documentary on the Gorumara National Park in north Bengal. It was while staying at a resort in Kanha in Madhya Pradesh that Chakraborty chanced upon a langur with a baby nearby. The moment he moved closer and aimed his camera, however, the animal slid away. Moments later, a photographer turned up in a car with National Geographic stickers on it. He approached the same langur mother, slowly sat down, took out his camera and began shooting as the langur posed. Chakraborty realized that one must not approach a wild animal as a predator. "In Gorumara, I chanced upon a herd of bison. I approached them but aimed my camera elsewhere, shooting the sky and the grass," he says-it was one of the rare occasions when his acting skills came to the fore in a forest. "It was only when I had the bison herd's confidence that they could ignore me while I kept shooting them." Such lessons from the untamed wild guide him in life as well-a langur mother in Bandhavgarh, Madhya Pradesh, slapping her suckling, mischievous baby; the same baby subsequently getting mollycoddled by other female langurs; and the tusker in Bandipur, Karnataka, who merely warned Chakraborty against clicking pictures with a loud grunt, but didn't attack. Once, he chanced upon a tigress when he was atop an elephant and, taken by surprise, she may well have leapt at the photographer but for the timely intervention by the elephant, which raised its trunk. Wild animals, Chakraborty has come to believe, are ethical beings. Chakraborty, who is particularly fond of animal portraits, usually travels to the forests three-four times a year. On the second day of our meeting, he plays a selection of his photographs as a slide show-a thrilling run through the world of zebras, cheetahs, hyenas, lions, Royal Bengal Tigers, blue monkeys and silver-backed jackals, as well as smaller beings like beetles, red bugs, butterflies and dragonflies. It's a small encapsulation of Chakraborty's private world of wild wonder and he remains remarkably modest about his own skills as a wildlife photographer. "I shoot wildlife, yes, but professional wildlife photographer I am not. That requires much more time, devotion and money," he says. "I just feel happy and alive in the forests. That's all." -Shamik Bag Words that cannot be seen Tabu, 45, Actress + writer The poet-lyricist Gulzar gifts her notebooks from time to time, prodding her to finish her "copy". Film-makers Mani Ratnam and Sooraj Barjatya, among the very few actor Tabu has been comfortable showing her writing to, have urged her to write more often. Yet, writing continues to remain a deeply personal aspect of Tabu's life. She remembers a starting point to her writing: During a school excursion, she was struck by the paintings in the Ajanta and Ellora caves. She started keeping a diary; it would be with her at all times. "It was initially a stream of consciousness project when I began," she says. One of the greatest gifts her career in cinema has given her is a person she considers her best listener-Gulzar, with whom she has worked in films such as Maachis (1996), Chachi 420 (1997) and Hu Tu Tu (1999). Tabu claims she had more "chutzpah" in those early years and, during the making of Maachis, shared her words with him. He patiently heard her out, and continues to do so each time she reaches out to him. Tabu doesn't take his "critique" too seriously. "It's like a parent patting his child's back," she says. But there's a self-awareness within her as a writer now. "I have matured. The filter within me has made my words more comprehensible," she says. An actor who has worked in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films, Tabu finds herself constantly introspective about the different rhythms of each language. "I know love and pyaar may mean the same things, but they have completely different connotations in their sound, texture, feel." There are times, she feels, when her actor-writer persona feed off each other. "I (find myself) observing how the feel of a word or prose on paper assumes a completely different meaning when spoken or performed in different languages." Tabu says it has been a while since she has shown her "latest copy" to Gulzar. But she will. And if she doesn't heed the many pleas of her friends, maybe he will be able to persuade her to say "yes" to the publishers who have been waiting for her book. - Soumik Sen


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Innonation Productions is founded by Justin Siu 蕭偉中 (cellist & bassist). It is owned and operated by Innonation Limited.

Justin holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Cambridge Unversity, England. Upon almost 4 years working in I.T. in Silicon Valley, California, Justin decided music was where his heart lies. Returning from the US at the end of 2003, Justin has since been bringing his music and musicians to a variety of occasions. The word of mouth slowly builds up. Innonation Limited was then founded in 2004, followed by fruitfuil years of delivering classy live music, under its subsidery, Innonation Productions.

The philosophy by which Innonation Productions practices is simple and modest - our live music is a connection for everybody who loves music. We do not equate art as that which is a niche or hard to understand. We want to communicate with our audience; in turn they get to know us. And we do see that happening all the time. At weddings, we express the joy of the newly wedded couple through joyous music; at themed functions, we augment to the settings and decorations with appropriate arrangements; at exhibitions where everybody is busy, we fill the air with lightness which they breathe.

Innonation Productions pledges to continue to introduce our distinctive value to every corner where music is needed.

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SEL Action Plan

 THE GOAL is to integrate social and emotional learning into
  • all activities, working relationships and interactions
  • the school's acknowledged curriculum
  • all teaching and learning experiences
  • all aspects of the life and work of the school, and
  • its engagement with its families and community

  • Success and well-being for all, now and in the future
  • The school as a rich, strong purposeful and supportive community in its own right
But where to start and what do next? The following suggestions, roughly in order for consideration, may be helpful.

A.   School Governance Group (including the Principal)
  1. Engage with, and participate in, the task by providing explicit oversight and leadership
    develop shared school-wide expectations
     - make data readily available to decision makers
     - promote and endorse good practices
     - develop systems to enable the schools goals to be achieved easily and well
    Sound and sustained governance is critical

  2. Identify one or two 'coordinators' and a small working group of interested staff (and perhaps students and parents) to take the initiative in this area.
    Note.  Such a group may already exist!! For example the school may have one or more leadership teams in areas such as behaviour management, PBS, student welfare...

  3. Provide resources and support for the working group including
     - endorsement for their work
     - encouragement
     - tools
     - and opportunities to collaborate
  4. Monitor needs and progress and advise with the working group

  5. Keep staff, students and the school community informed of purposes, progress and achievements
B.  The SEL Working Group - based on a Solution Focus approach*
  1. Reach a shared understanding about social and emotional learning in our school
    (a) What brought us here?
    (b) What SEL could mean in our school, that is, explore the material provided (see links in the sidebar) on:

      - Social and emotional learning - an introduction
      - Thinking and expectations
      - Emotional Literacy
      - Social Skills
      - Habits of Mind
      - Pedagogies for SEL

      - Restorative Practices

  2. Consider the ideal SEL school
    Imagine what the school would be like and how it would being operating if the SEL provision was ideal
     - How would you rate the school's current SEL provision on a scale of 1 to 10
  3. If this ideal was achieved (10/10)
     - What differences would we notice in what we do and how we do it?

  4. Review the current situation
     - What things are working well?  Arrange to continue to maintain and do more of these.
     - What things are working but could be improved? - Consider what can be done about these items.

  5. Next steps
      - What might be worth considering in order to raise the SEL provision by one or two rating points (see2 above)?
      - How might we do these things easily and well?
      - What resources do we have at hand

  6. Do it
    - Learn from the difficulties encountered, celebrate and continuously improve on what is achieved

     (a) Plan your next steps: who will do what, why, when, how, how you will know the outcomes...
     (b) Do it

     (c) With the help of the stakeholders, study your actions and the outcomes achieved, the constraints encountered...
      (d) Act to improve on what you have achieved - go to 1.
[* Various other school improvement strategies may be more appropriate depending in the history and experience of your school and its people.]


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Saturday, 13 September 2008

Yesterday afternoon I was sitting at my desk in the office, minding my own business, when one of my colleagues came up to me. "Paula, can you send me your Tinkerbell screensaver thing?" she asked. "I saw it earlier and I really want it for my pc."

"No worries," said I. "I'm not really sure how to send it though?"

"If you can just give me the link, that would be fine," she replied. "I can work it out for myself from there."

As she walked away, one of the guys on my team started laughing. He was there the day I put Tinkerbell on as my wallpaper. "She wants Tinkerbell too then?" he commented, with a distinct tone of mocking in evidence.

"Hey!" I protested. "You can't fight the fairy!" (I'm not sure why, it just came out).

He laughed harder.

Then I remembered that there is a gay guy in my department and I didn't want him to think that I was talking about him (it's funny the things that cross your mind sometimes). I was eager to remedy this.

"I mean, because they have magic wands!" I said.

"Indeed!" he replied, his laughter getting louder.

Yes, in my own special way, I made things worse . . .

And speaking of worse . . .

I don't even remember doing this, but last night in the pub I was sitting next to a guy I didn't know. Okay, I remember THAT much. I even remember asking, for a joke, if he was really friends with the guy who had brought him out or if the guy in question had just hired him to pretend to be his friend.

I thought that was actually quite funny. I would, I said it after all. What I don't remember is saying to him

"Well if you like him you must like to shag dead people."

Seriously, why would anyone say such a thing? Yet, I have it on good authority that I did. I can't even think back in my head as to a logical explanation why I would say such a thing though. Remember in my previous post how I said I quite often say things that are a little inappropriate. Well, I went WAAAAYYYY past the line on this occasion and I'm mortified. (not mort as in the french version of dead, I should clarify). I can be such an idiot sometimes!!!

  1. ohhhhh dear hahahaha

    I'd like to think I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that all fairy references at work were about me

  2. special wand hey?? Is that what you call them over there?!

  3. so what did the guy say/do when you delivered that priceless line of you must like to shag dead people?? I do wonder what you were thinking when that came to mind, so funny.

  4. The people at your work are something else.

You wanna leave me a comment? Come on, you know you want to really . . . ;)


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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Do as we Superior say says British Secretary to China and India

The crux of the matter comes out, this is why westerners need to pretend that knowledge only comes from them, why Google had to say they created a unit of knowledge. The British Climate Secretary Ed Miliband says China and India must do as they say not as they did, as they say because they are the experts. These people are dangerous to global freedom, it is just their nature. Sorry Miliband and your Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge cronies, the world knows what it is doing, you are not the experts for the world, pretend to yourselves, stop taking the world as your fools, knowledge does not come from you, it is there for anybody to take, go away with your racism.

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Visualisation Technique

Visualisation Technique

What if one simple little pleasant daily habit could make your dreams be realised?

A new year brings thoughts of change. Renewed hope! Another chance to do better than ever before. It feels good too, however if the last year sucked, we don’t want to repeat the pattern so change is the only way to break that cycle. We don’t want another ground hog year.

Lets face it, change is not often easy. If it was you would have been doing that thing already and not still needing to change.

Here’s some of the New Year Resolutions we’ve heard, what’s yours?

1. Find a better relationship

2. Find a better career

3. Get healthy

4. Lose weight

5. Give up a non-serving habit that sabotages us in some way

What makes us change anything at all? Well usually its something that is not already familiar or it’s likely uncomfortable and has short term pain attached and who wants pain right?!  It’s going to mean remembering to do something different to what we are used to and with so much to remember already, one more thing can feel like it could topple us if we are leading a hectic life. What if there was one little thing that would support all change, regardless of what it is, and help remove the pain part to keep you on track? Staying positive, motivated and on track is the hardest part of any achieving anything.

What’s the one thing that could support any change you decide to make that would have the biggest impact and assist your new years resolution and yet be enjoyable? What if you’ve heard of it before but you didn’t really fathom it’s potential in YOUR life or how to do it properly. You probably didn’t have it spelt out to you in real terms that lay out the very real and personal impact to YOU in YOUR life and longterm happiness and health but also short term.

Well, its not quite meditation although it could be called that. Its not just visualisation, its more than that. You see, it achieves not only calm in the middle of stress but it causes hope in the middle of doubt. Doubt is the deepest root of failure whereas stress, worry and procrastination are just symptoms. Whats the opposite of doubt? Its knowing you WILL achieve it right?! So here’s how to get the unconscious mind to ‘buy in’ to your goal too and set about supporting you to achieve it, even while you sleep.

(Feel free to print these instructions)

Ok so here’s the one thing (delivered in steps just like following a recipe) that will make the biggest impact on your chances of success and it takes just a few minutes a day.

  1. Choose an uninterrupted time of the day.
  2. Turn off all noise, devices etc.
  3. Go to the loo and get comfortable temperature wise.
  4. Sit upright with your feet on the ground and your hands in your lap with palms up.
  5. Close your eyes
  6. Take 3 deep long breaths by counting to 4 on in-breath, hold for 4, out for 4 and do that 3 times. (to clear your mind just focus on your breath)
  7. Create in your minds eye an ‘image’ of yourself in the EXACT moment you will achieve your desired outcome.
  8. Ensure you can see it in full color, notice everything, hear the sounds you will hear and notice how wonderful you feel.
  9. Breath normally now and you take it all in.
  10. Watch the movie play out and make sure you can see YOURSELF in the movie.
  11. When you’ve got that clear float down inside the ‘you’ that you see in the image and see it all as if you are fully experiencing it for real.
  12. FEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLL the feeling. Where in your body do you feel this feeling? Is it in your chest or your tummy or where?How big is it? Turn it up a notch of intensity. Mmmmm feel it full on.
  13. Notice what you SEE and HEAR. Make sure its in full ‘stereo’ sound and high definition colours that are most pleasing to the eye. Soak it up for a minute or 2.
  14. Now float out of your body and go back to the first picture again where you could SEE YOURSELF IN THE PICTURE (most important step of all)
  15. See it one last time.
  16. Open your eyes and ask yourself what ONE THING you could do right now to move you closer to that outcome and DO IT. You’ll really feel like it. Its more powerful than anything you can do daily as you’ve included your unconscious mind in on the goal.

There you have it.  A simple little CREATIVE VISUALISATION for real change. This alone can cause you to encounter freak events so you meet who you must, to do what you must, to be blessed with the pathway for it all to happen. Enjoy the results ladies. Of course our courses includes many many many processes for change.

Print that list and do it regularly and let us know how you like it. Its quick, becomes a habit and is fun and easy.

Please leave us a comment so we know what you think.

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Expected Start/Finish:Nov 2016 - May 2017
Australian Government Contribution:$73,793
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Scheduled reseal works for bitumen roads.

Reseal 7.2 metres wide with 10mm aggregate. Total of 23,040 m2 of road resealed.

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ICERI will be celebrating its 10th edition this year. You are invited to join us for this special occasion and contribute with your education experiences.

ICERI is one of the largest international education conferences for lecturers, researchers, technologists. After 10 years, it has become a reference event that brings together more than 700 experts from 80 countries.

At ICERI, you will be able to:

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– Interact with international educators and technologists for future cooperation.
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We invite you to submit your abstracts and participate in the 7th International Conference of Education,Research and InnovationICERI2014, that will be held in Seville (SPAIN), on the 17th, 18th and 19th of November, 2014.

ICERI2014 provides the ideal opportunity to present your projects and experiences in the fields of learning and teaching methodologies, educational innovations, e-learning and new technologies applied to Education and Research.

Every year, ICERI brings together over 700 delegates from 80 different countries. After 7 years, ICERI has become an annual meeting point for lecturers, researchers, professors, educational scientists and technologists.

You can present your projects in two modalities:

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ICERI2014 Abstracts CD and Proceedings CD, both with ISBN, will be produced with all accepted abstracts and papers.

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Real estate investors misread signs in the market

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Justin Pierce is a real estate investor who regularly writes about his experiences buying, renovating and selling houses in the Washington area. The writing is clearly on the wall — this local housing market has definitely leveled off and there’s no saying for sure which direction it’s going from here. It’s by no means doom […]

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Are real estate investments for professional couples?

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Buratai Hails Innoson for Producing IVM G12 Military Vehicle

burataiChief of Army Staff, Gen. T. Y. Buratai
  • Buratai Hails Innoson for Producing IVM G12 Military Vehicle

Nigeria’s foremost indigenous auto plant, Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Limited, has broken new grounds in fulfilment of its vision to keep producing vehicles that satisfy the various needs of the country’s diverse market without compromising quality and affordability.

This time, the Nnewi-based auto maker has designed and built IVM G12 series, a special purpose range of off-road light trucks for the use of the military and related oragnisations, which was last week officially handed over to the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri, Bornu State, to enhance the operations against insurgency.

Presenting IVM G12 series to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen T.Y. Buratai, at the tactical headquarters of Operation Lafiya Dole, Maimalari Barracks in the Borno state capital, the Chairman of Innoson Group, Dr Innocent Chukwuma, assured that the vehicle would be at home on the challenging terrains the army is used to in its operations.

Chief Chukwuma introduced Innoson IVM G12 series as a highly mobile and tactical pick-up van with double reinforced shock absorbers that can show strength and ability to cope with military functions, especially in the north-eastern part of the country.

Receiving the truck, Gen. Buratai praised Innoson’s vision of manufacturing vehicles that serve the specific needs of the military and assured him of the organisation’s partnership with the plant in producing special purpose vehicles for its special operations.

Ahead of the presentation, Innoson had dispatched some units of the vehicle to the Army Chief to be test-driven on different rough terrains of the north-east axis where the armed forces are successfully mopping up insurgency.

At the presentation, the military drivers who manned the vehicles during the test-drive, attested to their rugged nature, confirming their suitability for their {military} operations across the difficult terrain and dangerous environment they operate in.

Innoson’s collaboration with the armed forced started months ago when it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nigerian Air Force for the maintenance of the Nigerian Air Force Air Assets and other associated Aerospace Ground Equipment (AGE) to enables the Air Force to continuously carry out its constitutional obligations to the nation.

Innoson Group is also collaborating with the armed forces in the manufacture and supply of armoured {and bullet-proof} vehicles.

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1 Comment on "Buratai Hails Innoson for Producing IVM G12 Military Vehicle"

  1. Time to look inward by the Nigerian armed forces in the procurement made in Nigeria goods and services.Both Profoce and TVM has proven her worth that the nothing special importing Vehicle and others from overseas.In fact the country would start to saving billion of money and creates thousand of good job for Nigerians. The two company needs African military patronage even though some of neighboring African countries would remain very skeptical in the purchase of these equipment and the only message for them only time would tell. Country like Ghana turning its back on Nigeria space program technology assistance a just next neighbor but instead looking far for help as an example how African country can be funny.Lastly, these company making Nigeria and Africac proud keep doing what you are doing in the best possible way the success is very certain.

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Carnival !

Traditional carnival feast.

Dance all over the fire ( "Tzamales")

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Spy eyes...

There's a spy in my eye
drinking a mai-tai and eating French fries.
It's no secret, he has no feet
stealing excretion formula bucket seats.
Isn't it neat? There he goes on his prosthetic leg
raising havoc, playing with his cane
causing all kinds of trouble from here to Spain
not knowing how to explain
all the fuss that kept him, off that magic bus
meeting a lady in percussionary arts
who banged her timbales, and causing sparks.
I'll not tell. I'll not tell.
There's a spy in my eye. Looking at me through his glass
drinking a mai-tai and causing a fuss.
What he's doing now I can't discuss
I have to go catch that magic bus.

(Joel L. Young)

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Taekwondo (Tae Kwon Do) and other martial arts

Tae means "foot", Kwon means "fist", and Do means "way".
The truth is that I know nothing about martial arts.
It was the contrast between strong orange and white color that catched my eye.

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