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Changes of brain connectivity in social interaction tasks

Muhammad Naeem, David Watson, TM McGinnity, G Prasad, KongFatt Wong-Lin, JAS Kelso

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Social interactions rely upon mutual information exchange where our own behaviour changes in response to another while at the same time our own actions also modify theirs. Previous research has demonstrated specific and differential modulations of alpha ERD/S pre-dominantly at centro-parietal locations in various modes of dual task finger movement coordination [1, 2]. Employment of visual resources is considered essential for phase-locking of movement profiles and hence subsequent coordination [3]. Similarly, decision making can become important in relation with motor act for sustained and successful performance of goal directed activity [4]. Based on these considerations and previous research [1, 2], connectivity of motor/ sensory motor cortex with occipital and frontal cortex is expected and explored in this preliminary investigation.Subjects in pair performed a finger movement task under three conditions: intrinsic- ignore; in-phase - follow; and anti-phase - oppose their partner’s movement patterns. Correlation changes (active against a baseline data) of centro-parietal (Cp3, Cpz and Cp4) versus all the electrodes (60) were estimated for each task. Bi-directional filters (in the range 8-10/10-12 Hz) were applied to explore effects on amplitude and phase in lower/upper mu bands. Topographic maps depicted task modulated correlation changes in the 8-10 Hz range. The results depicted strong associations between visual and frontal cortex (+ve and -ve correlation changes respectively) with the centro-parietal region in the case of Anti-phase. In the Intrinsic context strong correlation with frontal region was noted. No associations were found in the In-phase task. These results were statistically confirmed (ANOVA repeated measures).The +ve association with posterior regions in the Anti-phase condition implicates visuo-spatial discrimination [2] as essential in this context. However, -ve relation with frontal region is intriguing and requires further investigation. Strong +ve correlation with frontal region in the Intrinsic task may reflect aspects of inhibitory control [1] to avoid synchronisation with the partner. Lack of regional association in the In-phase task confirms previous finding that it reflects a natural state of coordination requiring little decision making or visual attentional resources.References[1] M. Naeem, G. Parasad, D. Watson and J.A.S. Kelso Electrophysiological Signatures of Intentional Social Coordination in the 10-12 Hz Range (NeuroImage 59 (2012) 1795–1803 doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.010) [2] M. Naeem, G. Parasad, D. Watson and J.A.S. Kelso Functional dissociation of brain rhythms in social coordination(Accepted -Clinical Neurophysiology(2012)- doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2012.02.065[3] Tognoli E, Lagarde J, de Guzman GC, Kelso JAS. The phi complex as a neuromarker of human social coordination. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. 2007a; 104:8190-8195.[4] Georgopoulos AP. Neural aspects of cognitive motor control. Curr.Opin.Neurobiol. 2000;10: 238-241.
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“Wing Beat Fantastic” by Mike Keneally + a new approach to music creation…

I am beginning today as I often do recently – by listening to Mike Keneally’s musical masterpiece, “Wing Beat Fantastic” while I go about my business – since I recently finally got to see and hear Mike play guitar and keyboards (on the recent “Bizarre World of Frank Zappa “ tour when it stopped here in Glasgow) – since seeing Mike play – I’ve been going back to the items I have from his recorded catalogue – and I had almost forgotten just how much I love this incredible music – in my opinion, “Wing Beat Fantastic” is one of the most important records we have, and  for me it cemented the inescapable fact of Keneally’s genius as musician, writer, arranger, guitarist, vocalist (oh my God, those vocals!), keyboardist, engineer, producer and yes, I agree – guiding light – this album “kills me” – in the best possible way – because it is in itself, a perfect piece of rock music with some of the best arrangements of some of the best songs ever written in the pop idiom.

I think something happened to Mike when he made this record, the retired spirit of the Beatles visited him in the night, and sat on his left shoulder during the sessions – the sounds, the playing – the sheer joy of “Wing Beat Fantastic” rings so incredibly true – so much so that I can’t stop playing it at the moment – it is an experience like nothing else on earth.

I think that on top of that, that when the opportunity arose for Mike to work with these orphaned Andy Partridge tunes – that he took that with a seriousness bordering on the edges of “oh my God, I have to do these tunes justice – I have to make them into what should have been” – and “I also need to create my own tunes that are equal or better to make the whole thing sit together in as perfect a way as possible…”

It must have felt like an overwhelming responsibility – while at the same time, having the potential, the excitement – the idea of finishing up some half-completed masterworks by the Lennon & McCartney of XTC – songwriter / guitarist Andy Partridge of XTC –  I would imagine that just the idea of doing “Wing Beat Fantastic” had to be one of the most exciting things that can happen to a musician – to receive those tapes, to have someone say to you, “here – here is something so rare and so precious and so utterly unique – now – it’s down to YOU, Mike Keneally, to make something of it”.

And make something of it – he did.  Something fantastic…the ineffable oomph of everything that is “Wing Beat Fantastic”.

While the Zappa virtual show was the first time I had the pleasure of hearing and seeing Mike playing guitar and keyboards, and singing – it was not actually quite the first time I had “seen” him, though…

Many, many years ago, I had attended a special screening of an amazing batch of live music videos by various progressive rock bands.  This was a few years before the Internet, and certainly far in advance of YouTube – and Mike Keneally was the host – he gathered us in a small theatre, and then proceeded to blow our minds by showing us live performances by early Genesis with Peter Gabriel in full regalia – and to a bunch of Californian music fans – sure, we loved Genesis and Peter  Gabriel but WHO KNEW there was actual FILM of them actually playing – not maybe the best quality film – but for us, it totally brought these progressive bands to life for the first time ever.

We wouldn’t have had opportunity to see them in their heyday or in Europe and the UK – where they often mainly played in the earliest days of prog – Genesis didn’t start coming to California until the early 70s – so to see something like “Supper’s Ready” played live by the classic five piece line up of Genesis – what a treat.

I can’t really recall much else of what was on the programme – but it did also include a “more recent at the time” clip of Frank Zappa’s band playing live, and featured our video curator / host Mike Keneally himself, playing the picked-note pattern that is “Watermelon In Easter Hay” – so he included himself in the program, and why not? – but it was mostly his extreme enthusiasm for prog that took me by surprise – he knew his prog – and his appreciation for bands like Genesis, Gentle Giant, Yes and so on was inspiring – it made you feel less alone – hey, here’s a young guy, a great player in his own right, from Frank Zappa’s band – that ACTUALLY LIKES all the same prog bands that I like….hmmmm.

Taking the long. long view back to that odd night of grainy, questionable quality video curated by a young Mike Keneally – and then being catapulted by time to 2019 and seeing the man himself playing lead guitar, synth and singing so amazingly well, live – supporting his virtual band leader the late Frank Zappa, from beyond the grave – and there it was again – footage of musicians – but this time with a live band backing the pre-recorded vocals and lead guitars of the late, great Frank Zappa.

So video was a big part of both events – but – the mature Keneally, leading and inspiring this amazing band of musicians in their shared support of their old bandleader, the amazing Zappa – hearing and seeing Mike play in 2019 – well, I am so glad I finally got the chance to see him play – because in the last 30 or 40 years – he has become one of the most remarkably fluid, creative and interesting musicians on the planet.

I mean, I have the albums, I remember being absolutely blown away by “hat” at the time it came out – which is a remarkable record – but seeing him now, as a more mature musician – he is absolutely at the height of his powers right now – what a powerhouse performance he put on that night – and I was fortunate enough to be there to hear his lead guitar added to and blended with  Zappa’s and taking centre stage on compositions where there was no video of FZ – and his renderings of tracks like “Farther O’Blivion” was absolutely astonishing – this is a man who understands something about Zappa the player, Zappa the guitarist – the sheer genius of Zappa the serious composer and writer– and the reverence and joy in the performances was more than apparent – this band was almost like an extension of Frank – and I think Frank would have been flabbergasted and also amused to hear and see Keneally and friends playing live “backing” to videos of Frank that had been turned into holograms…Frank would have LOVED it!!

Why not?

So it’s been Keneally week around here, and that’s a good kind of week, I reckon.

As you might have noticed, I’ve not been writing a lot lately, but I believe that this year, that is going to change – and I am here to tell you why.  When I first started working on the blog (a few years ago now) – I had all these “ideas” about what it should be, what it shouldn’t bewhat I should write about – and so on.  And that’s fine for what it is – but I think it needs to change now, and become much more stream-of-consciousness – and hopefully, much more interactive – I want to challenge, I want to talk about some of the more introspective and personal aspects of music – and I want to hear your thoughts on my thoughts…if you know what I mean.

So – planning blogs and choosing topics – that was then – this is now.  I want the blog to become to my writing, like an “improv” for writing – without the formal ideas and planning –  I want it to be the “writing” equivalent to what a good, unplanned and unique “improv” is to my guitar playing or piano playing – it’s a whole new decade about to start and the end of a most interesting one – and I hope that maybe, just maybe – I’ve learned something this time around.  I can do this without the safety nets – no net for the blog, no net for the guitar and keyboard playing.

Out of the ashes of the old, comes the new.  Fewer rules means more freedom, but by adding back in unique intangibles, hopefully I can avoid too much repetition of what has gone before – and move forward with new writings and new music for a new decade.

And today’s blog is a new thing – a thing I’ve not really experienced before – it’s done without any plan whatsoever – and that is in line with my new approach to music – I am going to stop “planning” – and start allowing music to appear based on – whatever the heck I feel like playing (or, for the blog – whatever the heck I feel like writing about), and without trying to compose, but to allow a kind of “improv” that can lead to compositions – I am going to try to (serious cliché alert – but it is the ONLY way I can describe this – wince) to let go as much as possible

To that end – I’ve done a bit of work over the past three or four months (yet another reason you haven’t heard from me much recently) – I’ve been very busy revamping my recording rig, rebuilding the studio, and preparing for a new scenario where I set up my equipment – plug in an instrument – and play.

Just –play – and see what comes out of it.  At the same time – there is a lot on my mind that I want to explore in the writing, here in the blog, with you – and I hope we can discuss a number of musical aspects that we haven’t looked at previously.

I think that for the mature musician, artist, player, or writer – that you have to go through a lot of stages during your development as a musician – first you have to learn your instrument, then, you need to acquire enough technique to navigate through that instrument – and over time, you build up infrastructure – obviously, physical infrastructure – so guitars and amps and effects and devices with which to record and perform – and the physical is undeniably a big part of your experience as a musician.  It’s what makes you sound like you sound…

But I think it’s the mental infrastructure that undergoes the longest and most lasting and most important transitions – and maybe, this just takes time – you have to have played your instrument, performed, recorded, composed with it – for x number of years – when quite suddenly, the mental infrastructure or if you like, your own set of “rules” – changes, or you suddenly perceive things in a new way that you never imagined or saw before.

That is sort of my lame and not terrifically articulate way of trying to explain the mental transformation I am going through right now (over the past several months – as I’ve rebuilt the physical infrastructure of my music – at the same time, I have been rebuilding the mental infrastructure too) – I think I had reached a point where I realised that most of the work in the physical – is just routine, it’s necessary, it’s good, it’s positive – but it’s more in your mindset, it’s in the mental infrastructure, it’s the road map – the way to get from silence to music and back again unscathed…that is what is important.

Another way to express this might be to say “it doesn’t matter what guitar you play or what amp you use or what modifiers you use to change the sounds your instrument makes – what really matters is – the notes you play”.  And those notes and chords – come from the set of possible notes and chords that form PART of this “mental infrastructure” – and choosing those well, is what makes the difference between a performance – and an inspired, beautiful performance or recording.

Which notes, which chords – yes, that is incredibly important – and choosing well might result in a rare, one of a kind performance where you actually exceed what you are normally capable or – or, if you are recording, it might result in the creation of a truly unique and remarkable composition – that you might never have come up with if you had just chosen ordinary or predictable notes and chords – so yes, that choice is important…very important…however:

On top of the very desirable goal of picking enchanted and beautiful and unique notes and chords – there are also what I will call “The Intangibles” – and that is perhaps, a more flexible set of mental infrastructure rules that overlay the “play this chord now, now play those three notes” kinds of instructions – so part of your brain is getting you to play notes and chords…but at the same time, there is another force at work – The Intangibles – and they can be the source of real magic – they can take an extraordinary set of notes and chords, and turn them into a once-in-a-lifetime tour-de-force performance or recording – or even just an enhanced, more meaningful experience of playing your instrument.

It’s those Intangibles I want to now take a good look at – because there are so many of them, some obvious, some subtle, some so subtle as to be done almost unconsciously – what are they?, and how can I harness their power?

I think now, that my goal has shifted to combining the “Magic Of The Intangibles” with “The Well Chosen Notes And Chords” – so that when I strap on that guitar, and I turn on the Physical Infrastructure that takes my thought and turns it into a chord or note – what Intangibles can I apply, to take that particular performance to the highest level possible – to make it the very best that it can be?

That is what I want to explore going forward from here.

I want to work out how to do that – so that I am no longer just “improvising” – but instead, I am applying creative ideas in real time – overlaying the notes and chords (which I hope, are being produced almost on “autopilot” by this time) with a new excitement and in particular, with something (The Intangibles – whatever they become) that elevates the music I am playing beyond the ordinary, beyond the “same old thing” beyond being predictable and repetitious  – even if it only happens once in a blue moon – it’s an amazing goal to work towards attaining – and that is what I am aiming to do right now – here as we approach the end of 2019, the end of a decade – I want to step up, and use The Intangibles to drive forward a heightened, impassioned, kind of new music that will take even me by surprise.  Universe – surprise me!

To bring us full circle, I want to say that I can definitely sense an absolutely amazing and unique set of “Intangibles” in the recording of “Wing Beat Fantastic” by the remarkable Mike Keneally – a musician who is defined by his brilliant set of internal, mental intangible rules for making records and for performing – it’s one of those records that has that special something about it – that most other albums just do not – and I might never be able to articulate what “that special something” is – and maybe that is the whole point – it’s built off of some kind of “intangible” or set of rules that Mike was holding in his mind as he created it – something inspired him in a way I doubt he’d been inspired before – to take the seeds planted by Andy Partridge – and in nurturing them and growing them into this incredible record – which to my way of thinking, is simply one of the best pop records ever made – and if you’ve heard Mike Keneally’s other albums – this record sounds unlike any of his other releases – so give it a try – it’s atypical, and well worth the journey – it truly is “fantastic”.

Moving forward, I want to try and articulate some of the new intangibles that I’ve been conceiving in my head and that I hope will inform upcoming recording and performance projects in an incredibly positive way – and hopefully, I will learn a few things along the way.

More as it happens – fellow music lovers and fellow travellers.

Thank you for listening.

August 17, 2019

N.B.  Honourable mention:  “Wing Beat Elastic” by Mike Keneally – a record of amazing remixes and a remarkable breakdown of the musical DNA from “Wing Beat Fantastic” if you like “Wing Beat Fantastic” – you will almost certainly enjoy this record, too.

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To Juror B37 in the Zimmerman Trial (on the anniversary)

To say you don’t see color
is not a compliment
it’s an insult

To say you don’t see race
doesn’t make you non-racist
it makes you the most dangerous kind –
an ignorant, well-meaning one
who lies

To say that you don’t see my color
implies you see it
something polite people ignore, like
I don’t see the huge scar on your face, or
I didn’t notice your deformed hand, or
I didn’t realize you were walking on prosthetics
I see you as fully human and capable
despite your obvious defects

You offer comfort
as if to relieve me of embarrassment
making me equal to superior you, but
you’re the one who’s uncomfortable
I don’t lack wholeness
you’re the one who’s empty

My color is not a scar
nor handicap
I don’t say so to convince myself
to overcome any odds but
because I really mean it
because you are the one who make it
a deforming handicap
by the way you treat me

Would you tell another woman
you didn’t notice her cute haircut or
fabulous pair of new shoes?
So why do you say you don’t see
my color?
Something I pride and celebrate?

The worst part is
you patronize me
trying to make me feel better for something
you imagine
which shows
you haven’t been listening

You haven’t been listening for 45 years

I haven’t been asking you not to see my color
I’ve been asking you to see ME
in all my black and brown glory
I’ve been asking you to see all my humanity
which is my color
and more

Stop trying to make me feel less
by telling me a lie
that you don’t see color ‘cuz

if that were true
you wouldn’t have to say
you don’t see color.

© S. Rinderle, 7/22/13

Expedition on Venus

Today is a good day for poetry
It’s 11:55 a.m.
my wilted pajamas still hang
on my inert frame
my narrow fingers wander and rip
tugging at the roots
of my insecurities
and stagnant fears
as if to pull out the plugs
in the dike-walls
bracing against the ocean
of my roiling emotion

My weeping spirit turns its feathered head
towards the chirping
outside my window
inclined to flit there
among the suet and shit
of natural life cycles
among kin
repulsed by the quiver and chirp
of black plastic technology
stoic aliens of metal and glass
dictating in the other room

There is a graying panther sprawling there
who should be my soothing mantle
my muse-mirror
my medium
to wild soul
instead she vise-locks around my forearm
all twenty claws extracted
and bites me fierce

In an hour they’ll pry open my birth canal
with massive steel tongs
stab my puckered pink cervix with needles
coaxing her to yield and fall open
like a green flower blooming out of season
a foreign invasion of my fruit
a metallic alien expedition on Venus
reconnaissance mission
to scout and root out hostiles
in my dying womb
the intel is inconclusive
the whisper of Weapons of Mass Destruction
may be but rumor
yet the risk lingers

Do I go to war under false pretenses
invoking Mars
coerce diplomacy

or try listening differently
as Venus speaks?

The to-do list drip insignificants
suspended in a false sense of urgency

Today is a good day for poetry.

© S. Rinderle, 2014


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Josie’s the type of person that you like the second you meet her! You know, the person that just radiates niceness (is that a word?), well she does! We had fun walking around downtown Ann Arbor looking for fun color and good light. Meet Josie Josie would like to become an elementary teacher! Yay.She’s a […]

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If I’m honest, not every senior guy shows up super pumped to their session. But if I’m also being honest, as a Mom of boys, I think it’s the best thing ever that they are usually doing it for Mom! It’s my job to win them over and show them that it can actually be […]

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Feb 20, 2019

I have to share with you how awesome Sydney is! I just love hearing about what my seniors are passionate about! Meet Sydney: Sydney is into Robotics and involved in a group called girls who code!She had the super cool experience of traveling to China to teach other kids about robotics! How awesome is that!?Sydney […]

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What a lovely afternoon photographing Aryan in downtown Northville. He couldn’t be nicer and I about died at how sweet his family was who all came out for his session! Meet Aryan: Aryan is considering going to UofM.He’s in a robotics club and is thinking of a career in the computer sciences.Last summer he traveled […]

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I had the pleasure of photographing Meghan’s sister, Alexis, and this time it was Meghan’s turn! I love seeing families again! Meet Meghan: Meghan loves to stay active by running, biking and yoga.She’s also a book worm that likes pop music.Meghan describes herself as an introvert how’s kind and quiet.At the time of her session […]

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Gone to the Pigs

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This year Martha is all about “handmade, homemade” gifts and decorations. Very smart, for this economic climate. In her Handmade for the Holidays special issue (page 59), Martha has instructions and a template for making a stuffed pig out of an old sweater (yes, really). You can probably tell already there’s no way this could go well for me.

The day of the pig began with a shopping trip. I had to buy batting ($3.50)  to stuff said pig and then I had to make a trip to Goodwill to find a sweater. Here is probably where my first problem was. Martha says to use a “felted wool sweater”. I have no idea what that means. I am sure Martha’s closets are filled with lined and sacheted shelves containing a heavenly multitude of sweaters in every color and design. The selection at Goodwill is a bit more, shall we say, limited. I have to say I was pretty impressed with Goodwill though. Everything on the racks was in quite good condition and they had some decent looking things.

I ended up buying a purple acrylic sweater with white snowflakes on it ($4.49). I believe the acrylic may have been the problem. I also think now that Martha intended a sweater that was more tightly knit than the one I chose.

Mr. MarthaAndMe kindly blew up Martha’s template by scanning it, working some magic and printing it. I cut out the template and pinned it to the sweater. I cut out the shapes.

Martha says to sew the underside of the pig to the sides. I did ok with this, but the feet on the underside ended up smaller than the feet on the sides, so I had to be a little creative in getting it to go all together.

Once I started sewing, I started to realize why a more closely knit sweater would have been better. The sweater was unraveling at the cut edges, making it very difficult to sew it together.

I sewed the sides together. Then I attempted to make the tail. My first attempt was a disaster. I had to start over and cut a piece bigger than the template instructed. Somehow my sweater was very thick and once I sewed the original piece together, I could not get it to turn inside out – it was too thick.

Martha says to cut out a round piece of wool for the nose. Mine kept unraveling – it was just too small a piece. I improvised and instead sewed a button on for the pig’s nose.

I had some trouble with the ears  – again, I had to go and cut them out bigger than the template in order to get them to turn inside out.

Some repairs were necessary

Some repairs were necessary

I stuffed the pig with batting and finished sewing him up. At this point I realized I had some serious issues. The pig was pulling apart at the seams in many places – because the edges were so unraveled. So, I had to do some repair work on the spots. I found this great thread I have in my sewing box that is like fishing line – invisible. I used that and you can’t tell I had to patch things.

The end result? Well, let’s just say I would not actually give this to someone pig-final2as a gift. pig-final1This is not where my talent lies! The ears are too tall and they look like rabbit ears. The nose is not centered. The whole thing is just weird. Maybe some people are good at this, but well, I’m just not. It was sort of fun to do – although it would have been a lot more fun if the material hadn’t kept unraveling on me.

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  • Some people have very high levels of empathy.
  • But if they take on everyone else's baggage all the time, it can lead to an "empathy burnout."
  • This is essentially like running out of fuel to care.
  • To stop this, they need to learn to be discerning and build strong boundaries.
  • As psychologists say, you can't honour someone else properly unless you honour yourself.

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I'm using convextSweepTest to simulate my character capsule (imaginary, no real rigid body involved) sliding along a wall.

As in the picture below, in one frame, I sweep from A to B, I get no hit all all. So I assume B is safe and my character could move to B.

But in next frame, if I sweep from B, I always get a hit with the wall with a fraction of 0, no matter which direction I sweep to, and my character got stuck.

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For test purpose, I tried sweeping from B away from the wall along wall's normal direction, or sweeping reversely from B to A, always got hit at 0 fraction. It seems B has already penetrated. This isn't consistent with the first sweep, as it's already told me B was safe.

How is that subsequent sweeps are not consistent. What could I have missed?

Some more info:
- Distance from A to B is small, as it's a delta move between frames.
- I could always keep A and B away a litte bit from wall when user moves against the wall, but I couldn't prevent user from coming very close to the wall from side ways.

Thanks a lot
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'Atti' to lock horns with 'Adra Machan Visilu'

As of now, two films have confirmed their release for the Eid holidays which falls on July 7! Mirchi Shiva's comedy film 'Adra Machan Visilu' and Ma Ka Pa Anand's 'Atti' which is also a comedy flick have cnfirmed their release date as July 7. Other than these two, Santhanam's horror comedy 'Dhilluku Dhuddu' and Trisha's bilingual horror venture 'Nayaki' might also release on the same day but the makers have not confirmed it officially. Let's wait and see!
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Q TRAVEL – Setting its sights on more Italian tourists is only the beginning of Costa Rica’s Tourism Board, the Instituto Costarricense de Turismo (ICT), objective of increasing tourism from Europe.

In a statement, Mauricio Ventura, Minister of Tourism, stressed that the ICT has been working intensely to attract airlines that connect with the main markets – the United States and Europe.

Currently, scheduled direct flights between Europe and Costa Rica include British Airways (London), Air France (Paris), Condor (Frankfurt) and Iberia (Madrid). In October, KLM will resume its Amsterdam – San Jose direct flights.

This means that many Europeans, can reach their Costa Rica destination through connections in the aforementioned countries. Other options include transiting through the U.S., Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.

“Our positioning in this market is of great relevance, in 2016 more than 430,000 people from Europe came to the country through all ports.

The Iberia option announced on Tuesday will allow visitors from Rome and Milan a direct route to San Jose by way of Madrid.

The ICT says that in order to improve conditions of the connections between Madrid and the Italian cities of Rome and Milan, Iberia will be taking the following measures:

“… Improving the connections of flights from Rome and Milan with Madrid-San José, so that the transit of these passengers through Terminal 4 of Adolfo Suarez Barajas Airport is more agile. Iberia will study the movement of flights from Rome and Milan that connect SJO to the 4S building, when operations allow, so that transit is more comfortable for passengers.

“… Optimize flight schedules from Rome and Milan that connect with Madrid-San Jose, so that the time scale is also shorter (between 80-90 minutes in each direction) and more comfortable for tourists coming from these destinations.”

In 2016 alone Costa Rica received 24,173 Italians, 7.7% more than in 2015.

What is the difference between a direct flight and non-stop flight?

A direct flight in the aviation industry is any flight between two points by an airline with no change in flight numbers, which may include a stop at an intermediate point. The stop over may either be to get new passengers (or allow some to disembark) or a technical stop over (i.e., for refuelling).

Direct flights are often confused with non-stop flights, which are flights involving no intermediate stops.

Simply put, a nonstop flight does as its name suggests: flies from one airport to another without stopping.  A direct flight, on the other hand, makes stops along the way.


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Is it possible to reduce the environmental impact of production processes while keeping efficiency levels high?

Through study and the ongoing application of solutions that can be seamlessly integrated into our production processes to improve environmental impact.

We focus on ensuring that our plants, including those of Cermenate and Quimper, ranked among the leaders in Europe for production capacity, are also considered best practices in relation to the reduction of environmental impacts.

Our production plants are ISO 14001 certified and our commitment, outlined in our Environmental Policy, is targeted at improving impacts. In particular, it focuses on greenhouse gas emissions, energy and water consumption, production and the recycling of waste and the materials used for product packaging.

Emission management

Since the very beginning, we have paid particular attention to the issue of controlling greenhouse gas emissions, both at our production plants and in our offices.

We are also committed to reducing gas emissions produced during the transportation and distribution of finished products:

  • Increased efficiency thanks to full-load transport and programmed deliveries
  • Supply chain collaboration with co-trucking systems which consist of transporting our goods with those of other companies and the use of vehicles having a 15% higher load capacity than conventional trucks.
  • Vehicle modernization. We ask our suppliers to prioritize the use of green vehicles, such as Euro 5 and 6 vehicles.
  • Use of LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) vehicles enables us to reduce C02 emissions for a value of more than 7 tons per annum,  and also allows for a 95% reduction of PM10 emissions compared to next generation Euro 6 vehicles.

Emissions produced during the transportation of products2014201520162017
kg CO2eq/ton23.523.223.021.1

I risultati ad oggi:

-7 tons of C02 per annum
Thanks to the use of two LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) vehicles

Energy consumption

Energy consumption at our plants is directly correlated to daily production volumes, the production techniques adopted and climatic conditions: for this reason, the energy efficiency process is ongoing.

Since 2011, our Cermenate and Quimper plants have sourced 100% of their electric energy from renewable sources. The same also applies to our Soanish plants and offices.

Energy consumption (GJ)*

Energy consumption

*Data related to energy consumption at the Cermenate plant, certified as originating from renewable sources.

Water consumption

Our water consumption is connected to the defrosting and sterilization of our fillets and to the functioning and cleaning of the production plants.

Water consumption per ton of product*

* Data related to the Cermenate and Quimper plants.

Waste water is treated by means of special plants located inside the factory. Once purified, at Cermenate for example, it is re-introduced into the area’s water basin, while at Quimper, it is re-introduced into the urban water network. In the latter case, prior to disposal, the water is pre-treated at the Quimper hydroelectric power plant.

Waste management

Bolton Food is distinguished by its meticulous waste management process, given that approximately 99% of its waste undergoes recycling and recovery operations at authorized plants. In particular, waste related to the packaging used for production purposes, including paper, cardboard, plastic, wood and metals, is earmarked for recycling or re-use.

hazardous and non-hazardous waste (%)

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Packaging sustainability

For the packaging of our finished products, we mainly use cardboard, tinplate and aluminium. In keeping with the increase of production volumes, over the past few years, the consumption of these raw materials has increased, as has the percentage of raw materials originating from recycled materials.

Type of packagingPercentage of recycled raw materials (2017)
Main materialsPaper and cardboard81%
Materials used marginallyWood0%

In collaboration with our suppliers, we have worked towards increasing the recyclability of these materials.

In 2019, we won the ‘Special Prize’ for reducing the aluminium in Rio Mare’s Insalatissime packaging, decreasing  it from a thickness of 0.24mm to 0.2 mm. This initiative enabled us to achieve an overall saving of 30 tons of aluminium in one year; the amount necessary to produce approximately 2.9 million cans!

The packaging of a product is the most immediate means of communicating information on which consumers’ purchase-making decisions are often based.

For this reason, we are committed to using our packaging to convey clear, correct information about the ingredients contained in our products and their nutritional properties.  In 2018, we began introducing information about the fishing ocean, the FAO area and the fishing method on all the packaging of our tuna-based products. This information can now be accessed on our websites through our new, real-time traceability system.


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Get Hooked: seaside bric a brac

My little home town has certainly stepped up its game these last few years. Shops are popping up left and right in the port, we even have a 10 seat sushi restaurant and it feels like more live music per square mile than Boston. If there is an alley, they’ll find a way to turn it into a beer garden, and carve out a little spot for a singer guitarist to perform. We’ve always had the three ports, the only Cape town that can that lofty designation, so sailors know it, even if they choose to call Chatham home.

It’s less stuffy than Chatham, and more economical, which I imagine is attractive to a younger generation, looking for their first second home, or their first home in a place they spend the second biggest amount of time. With real estate prices in the city what they are, it’s not at all surprising to me.

Too scary for words or good luck?

This year I discovered a little gem of a place tucked behind an art gallery that has drawn me in, and had me coming back with my wallet in hand, again and again. J.M. Byron House is a treasure trove of Cape Cod kitsch. Aside from the brilliant curation, at the hands of a Boston Merger’s and Acquisitions Lawyer, it is beautifully staged. My appreciation for thoughtfully placed objects, from the ombre effect of the fine art hung on the walls like a brush stroke that starts out bold and beautiful, and then fades into a whisper of a hue, is the backdrop to the carefully placed objects. Fine Art – originals and prints – period pieces of nostalgic value – Turkish Oushak Rugs, pieces that jive and vibe with the ’60’s seaside aesthetic.

Look at those stinkin cute Cape Cod Salt and Pepper Shakers, the replica of the Nantucket Boat, the Whale Faucet – I want it all.

I just might buy a tiny bit of a property here just for the sheer pleasure of outfitting it with the J.M.’s offerings. You simply must visit it again and again, not only because new offerings are arriving all the time, but because the richness of the environment demands you study and absorb it. I’m always discovering new things, and considering pieces like those Foo Dogs ( a Chinese symbol of good luck) that speak to me – even though they look a little mean – a little serious, still they are the accent color that I am using in No. 5, so, we’ll see.

If that staging isn’t perfection, I don’t know what is. I almost bought that dog, and I don’t even have a dog!

If you can’t visit in person – get connected via Instagram (@thejmbyronhouse) , if you are super friendly and complimentary, Matt just might agree to mail you an item or two.

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Mail-order brides providers and courting sites are very popular at present because folks now usually are not limited to their country and might considerably broaden their relationship pool by assembly singles from different countries and cultures. While Brazillian women are clearly gifted on the subject of beauty and physique that’s human, they are not reluctant to cope with on their very own. They very very very very carefully look after their dermis and their lengthy silky hair. Nature amply rewarded them in a fashion that they don’t want aesthetic cosmetic makeup products. Often, you may realize that Brazillian females just choose vibrant makeup merchandise for occasions, festivals, and carnivals.

In Brazil, brides are literally searching for foreign different halves. They want to be addressed withrespect, ardour and also understanding. Unfortunately, that’ s definitely not what muchof them can easily anticipate from Brazilian guys. The Brazilian lady is educated, confident and delightful. She will work hard, but she also longs for a man who is aware of the way to respect her. At the moment, she is looking for a lot that has been denied her within the harsh past of her homeland.

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Favorite Tool: Eraser

Pen and ink is a great medium. I love the precision of fine lines, of cross-hatching for shading. In a journal, pen and ink looks both artistic and scholarly. Pen and ink with watercolor pencil washes make me happy.

When I draw with pen and ink, I start with pencil.  Because I need to erase a lot.

My favorite eraser--clean, neat, won't shred your paper.

My favorite eraser–clean, neat, won’t shred your paper.

Most pen and ink classes I’ve taken talk about blending in your mistakes, or keeping the drawing “loose.” With a pencil, you can move from rough sketch to inking by using a pencil and eraser first, learning as you go along.  Try something, erase it, fix it, change it, re-do it. My must-have, go-to tool is an eraser.

When I teach, I see people frown and say, “I made a mistake,” which baffles me. Of course you make mistakes, you are experimenting,  trying ideas until you get to what you want. That’s not a mistake, it’s working toward an goal. It’s creation. And that works if you are writing, dancing, or singing. I might add that there is so far no eraser for dancing or singing.

Old school eraser looks like modern delete key. Same function.

Old school eraser looks like modern delete key. Same function.

An eraser is handy when drawing packages with twine, vines, or anything with perspectives or that overlaps. Erasers are a tool that help you get to the final image. Stop thinking in terms of “mistake.”  Erasers help us complete the work we start, to capture the image we want.

Knowing about erasers means choosing the one that works for your art.

I’m a fan of white plastic erasers that don’t chew up the page and erase cleanly.

I love kneaded erasers because they keep my hands busy and pick up large areas of graphite really well. I also hate them because you can’t put them near anything plastic, or the eraser will melt the plastic. No idea why.

I love electric erasers that work on detail and are charming for fast work in

A house brush helps clean up without smearing.

A house brush helps clean up without smearing.

reductive drawings.

Eraser get round and you need an edge? Slice the round part off with a craft knife and you have a new edge. They are inexpensive.

Tired of eraser dust? Buy a big paintbrush–housepainting size, and sweep the dust away. Don’t blow on your artwork, particularly not if you have been eating chocolate or drinking coffee. A stray spray of spit can mark the page.

Best of all, you can also carve up an eraser and make your own rubber stamps. So indulge in that extra eraser. You won’t regret it.

—Quinn McDonald loves erasers and the freedom of creative work they encourage.

One Drop of Water

You don’t need to look at the drop of water on your car roof, you’ve seen it a million times. But if you had to draw it, at least without looking at it, you’d have a hard time. We know what things look like in a general way, but the specifics will do us in.  That’s what makes being an artist fun. We look at things in different ways. As artists we have certain expectations of water drops–we assume the light comes from above, so the highlights in a drop are around the curved part on top. So far, so good.

Except the image I chose to draw from was a second generation photocopy of a drop of water on metal. No color, just values and they had been distorted by the photocopy machine. The highlight was on one side, and the drop was probably not originally water, as it had a sharper profile than water. I struggled with making the drop look round. It looked flat and lifeless.

Drawing was made more difficult not just because I didn’t have what I needed, but because to recognize a drop of water, I have to include certain things that make it recognizable–shape, reflection, color.

” The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes,” Marcel Proust wrote. And new eyes consist mostly of observation. How does this thing look in this light. What, exactly is it that makes the eye think it is round and wet.

And after a while, it emerged, looking as it should. Not because I was born talented. I was not. But because I used my eyes in new ways to see a new perspective.

–Image: “Drip,”  © Quinn McDonald, colored pencil on110-lb.  Bristol Board. All rights reserved.

-Quinn McDonald is writing a book on the inner critic and the inner heroes we develop to confront it.

Book Review: Imaginary Animals (and a giveaway)

Book Winner: Carla Sonheim generously donated a book to the winner of today’s drawing so I could keep the book–I was so pleased! But there were so many comments, I decided to give away my copy, too, so there are TWO winners!   Joy Moore and  Leah Boulet–Congratulations!

This is Carla Sonheim’s second book. The first, Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists covered drawing many different subjects in both realistic and stylized ways. This one concentrates on Carla’s fun, stylized way of working–from her imagination and with humor. The giveaway is at the bottom of this blog.

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Title: Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals: A Mixed-Media Workshop with Carla Sondheim.

Author: Carla Sonheim

Details: Quarry Books, softcover, 144 pages, $24.99

  • Just Messing Around (Blobs and Sidewalk Cracks, Photos and Life, Memory and Imagination.
  • Mixed-Media Projects (Oaxacan Dotted Elephant, Imaginary Animals, Junk Mail Creatures Book, Watercolor Transfer Animals, Doggone It!, Animals in Tape, Creatures on Wood, Go Fish!, Wrapped and Tied.
  • Artist’s Gallery of Inspiration with Featured Artists.

What I Like: I’ve taken classes from Carla and I like her casual, easy style. The book follows that non-anxiety-producing style. When you read the book, you can hear Carla talking to you. With 250 illustrations, you can follow what Carla does, step by step. You can also strike out on your own, if you prefer.

There are a number of international contributors and the examples make the book more interesting. There are also 3-D animals and instructions how to make them. There’s a lot going on in the book, all of it fun.

Not all the animals she draws are real. They may have real elements, but because they are imaginary they are easier to create, more mistake-proof, and more vivid.

The book shows you how to use a scanner/printer to make duplicates of beginning sketches on art paper, then turn them into a variety of different animals. You’ll learn  clever and interesting techniques that are achievable—big plus! You’ll be guided through a variety of shading, cleaning up and adding color to get artistic results.

What I Don’t Like: Not much. Again, the first lines of the chapter are in gray, not black, ink. The instructions are in sans-serif type, and when the tips are printed on a shaded block, I find it hard to read. If you don’t use glasses or just reading glasses, you’ll adjust. If, like me, you hold books a bit farther away to get them into focus, the type is a bit small. It’s a minor thing.

Disclosures: I received the book from a publicist for free. I enjoy Carla’s style and her classes.

Giveaway: I’m giving away the book. Leave a comment and I’ll have a random drawing on Thursday afternoon, September 27, 2012, at 5 p.m. Phoenix time. The book will ship October 6.

Quinn McDonald is a writer and a creativity coach. She reads a lot. She is working on her second book.

Art Lesson from Life

Note: I was looking for an older post and ran across this one. It ran in March of 2008, but seems just as applicable now as then. I’m posting it today because I don’t expect people to read my blog every day and memorize it. Really. So enjoy, or enjoy again!

It was my first night in colored pencil class. This sounds a bit like coloring class for grown-ups. The lesson was drawing an apple. As I looked at the apple in front of me, I noticed it was irregular and had an interesting stem–and that made for a great outline drawing.

The lesson was to apply color from light to dark, so the first step was to cover the inside of the drawing with a nicely applied layer of cream. You dont’ want a lot of white spots on the paper. A layer of a light color modifies the image nicely.

red appleAs I applied layer after layer, it occurred to me how complicated the outside of an apple is. And how easy it is to make the apple look three -dimensional with the addition of a darker color. And how the highlight, where the ceiling light shines off the peel, is not really white, but reflective.

While I sat an applied color, I learned that a wash of yellow over the curve in the front brightens the entire image. That using the opposite of the red color of the apple–green–makes the shadows look deeper. That another layer of color can change the color entirely.

And I smiled because this sounded more like a life lesson than an art lesson. That steadily applying a cheerful face to life makes you more cheerful. That knowing the opposites in life–happiness and sorrow, failure and success, patience and impetuousness–adds richness to the texture of life. And that adding another perspective can change your outlook. Not only that, but that a lot of work and a willingness to keep layering color makes for a better depth of experience.

When I was done, I had used 15 colors on the apple. It had taken two hours. And I know that if I show it to someone, they’ll shrug and say, “Well, what will you DO with that? Can you sell it?” And I’ll smile and say, “It’s art,” and think, “Just like life.”

–Quinn McDonald is a writer and certified creativity coach. See her work at raw-art-journals.com  Apple drawing by Quinn McDonald. (c) 2008-9 All rights reservd.

Theme Thursday #12 Falls on Saturday This Week

Last Thursday I was distracted by personal scheduling issues, so the Creative Play of Theme Thursday appears on Saturday this week.

The lead article today is about Linked-In–the professional equivalent of FaceBook. Neal Schaffer is a smart

Raven Coil journal by Amanobooks, listed below

Raven Coil journal by Amanobooks, listed below

marketer, good writer, and sharer of solid information. So you can ignore his uber-busy website with zillions of distracting typefaces, sizes, colors and feed links and focus on the article on how to avoid big mistakes on Linked-In, you’ll find Linked-In a useful tool.

Gabi Campanario used to live in Spain. Now he lives in Seattle and does amazing illustrations. He just started using Issuu, a website that lets you turn PDFs into books. He has an example of some sketches he turned into a video book for his son. Clever idea, well executed!

Gabriel is the one who started Urban Sketchers, which you’ve seen in Theme Thursday more than once. Urban Sketchers is an invitation-only blog of people who sketch scenes of where they live or travel. On this page is the report of a great event called “Shut Up and Write,” originally organized by Mary Ann deStefano, who runs Mad About Words. Writing with a friend is easier than writing all by yourself.

Amanobooks is amano my own heart. He makes interesting, functional journals for a variety of uses. His website opens your head to what can be created creatively and used practically.

You can join in on Theme Thursday: post three links to sites you love or blogs you follow. You can do it on your site or in comments here.

Five Most Recent  Theme Thursdays:  Creative Play 8/6/09 * * * Creative Play 7/30/09 ***Creative Play 7/23/09 * * *Creative Play 7/16/09 * * * Creative Play 7/2/09 * * *

—Quinn McDonald is a life- and certified creativity coach. She teaches people how to write and give presentations. She also  manages four journals that travel the world.

Theme Thursday #5: 6/11/09

This weeks theme is pen and notebook reviews, with a bit of thrift store fashion and studio-mixed ink tossed in to make it interesting.

Last week, I introduced Pen Addict. Little did I know he has another blog,

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Notebook Addict. In today’s blog he quotes Murderface and his Reciprocral Crap Exchange on Quo Vadis notebooks, which I mentioned last week. Both of these writers have a clear, easy-to-understand manner and keep you from buying lots of stuff you don’t need and just the fine stuff you must have.

You might think a cat of an impossible color is a fashion site, but the blog’s author is writing a book and the blog contains excellent links for writers. The author does make the most of her thriftshop expertise, which makes for some great pictures. She’s a Zimbabwean living in New Zealand, so don’t skip this blog.

Unposted reviews pens he’s used, but he also mixes his own inks. The link is to the contents of his backback—pens, notebooks and notes. I’m relieved that I’m not alone in taking three or four pens with me as well as a journal or two when I leave the house.

Theme Thursday is a post I create every week for creative play. You can join, too. Simply post three (or more) links on a topic you are an expert on or one that delights you. You can post them on your blog and leave a link in the comments.

Below are previous Theme Thursdays.

Creative Play 6/4/09

CreativePlay 5/21/09

Creative Play 5/14/09,

Creative Play 5/7/09

—Quinn McDonald is a life- and certified creativity coach. She teaches people how to write and give presentations. She also  manages four journals that travel the world.

Product Review: Derwent Inktense Pencils

After reviewing the Derwent Graphitint Pencils, I had to review Derwent’s Inktense pencils. OK, I didn’t have to, but it gave me a great excuse to buy and try a new set of pencils.

The two sets are both watercolor pencils, but very different. Inktense colors are a lot brighter, which is to be expected. Graphitint’s (graphite pencils) description is that they have a “hint of color,” which they do, when put on dry. They develop considerably more when you wet them. But Graphitint are all muted graphite tones—wines, rather than reds. Barks, rather than earth browns.

Derwent Inktense color swatch

Derwent Inktense color swatch

Inktense is a different story. The pencils are a bit harder, but not scratchy. These are bright colors, but very transparent. When washed over with a wet brush, they look exactly as if they had been made with an ink wash. The transparency really surprised me. Ink washes have always been a bit tricky, they required putting ink into cups, adding water, then trying them out first. Here, they don’t. I apply the dry pencil to paper, then add the amount of water that makes the right tone for the wash.

Best of all, they can be used by brushing a wet brush directly against the pencil, then applying the brush to paper. That makes ink washes portable.

The combination of Graphitint and Inktense makes a wonderful combination set to travel with. I’ll probably add a few colors to the Inktense to give it the wider range I need for the desert, but the blending ability–and yes, they blend with each other, gives a wide range.

Note: if you blend the Graphitint with Inktense, you won’t get the beautiful transparency of Inktense alone.

Quinn McDonald is a life- and creativity coach and a writer who teaches art journaling for people who can’t draw.

Use Symbols in Your Journal

Symbols are important to us–as people who want to say something, as artists, as creatives.  You already know a lot of symbols–letters and numbers for starters, but also everyday symbols–traffic lights, the signs for men’s and ladies’ rooms, interstate signs for food, gas, lodging. Until you begin to notice it, you don’t realize how many symbols you do know.

Creating symbols of your own, that are meaningful to you (and not necessarily to anyone else) is a part of  making raw art journals.  With just a few lines there are many symbols for communicating, for expressing, for creating your vision to be shared.

The clip below was originally sent to me by Andrea Kreuzhage, documentary filmmaker of The 1000 Journal Project. Andrea knows a thing or two about symbols. Below the clip is more information on Kirsten Murray, who created the clip. Music by Four Tet.

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Fear of Art, or, “I CAN’T Draw”

When I begin any of my journaling classes, I explain that we will be doing more than writing. Before I explain what it is we will do, someone will say, “This better not be about drawing. I can’t draw.” There is a lot of fear about drawing. Most people have their creative play driven out of them by fourth grade.

They are told what art is, and lessons are generally about precision and not making a mistake. Instead, art is about seeing and being. And making mistakes so you can fix them and learn to see better.

My big fear is that to be considered acceptable as a teacher, I better have a lot of “stuff.” Stamps and UTEE and templates; cutters and vinyl and foam; printed paper squares and ribbons and stamp pads in pigment and dye and chalk. But I don’t. I don’t have all that stuff. I have colored pencils and inks and some handmade papers and great drawing paper.

I believe you can make art without a lot of stuff. Art comes from within you, not through stencils, transparencies and puffy paints. I’m not saying they aren’t fun, or that creative play should be sparse. I am saying you don’t need to break the bank and become an art-product consumer to be an artist. It’s not what you own, it’s what you do with what you have.

Preternatural Breakup by Justine Ashbee, (c) 2006

Here are two great examples of what I mean. Both of these people can’t NOT make art. They stand in the flow of time and art and the work pours out of them because there is no other choice. They have their own ideas of what art is, and the only tool either one of them uses is a Sharpie pen.

Justine Ashbee uses nothing except Sharpie pens and good paper. Her flowing lines and subtle use of color are incredibly beautiful art. She does it freehand. It comes from within her. It’s the flow of art. You couldn’t stop her creative work because it makes meaning. It doesn’t need to be supported with a million products.

Charlie Kratzer, the other artist, does a totally different kind of work. He decorated his entire basement with a black Sharpie. OK, it was more than one. It was $10 worth. The rest was his creativity, his ideas, his desire to decorate his life.

Kratzer is a lawyer, and started with one line in the basement–a line that began a mural around his basement wall. The mural is not just furniture and columns and wainscoting, although it is all that.

The art spans literature and popular culture, Picasso and Churchill. I could list all the things on the wall, but there is a wonderful video and article that does a much better job.

Being creative is not about owning stuff, buying stuff, or having a fabulous studio to store the stuff. Right now there it’s popular to have artists’ studios in magazines, along with descriptions about how this big, airy, wonderful space is exactly what every artist needs. Yes, it’s nice to have lots of space and storage, but thinking you need 150 square feet with special furniture before you can create is the same as thinking you aren’t an artist until you have six shelves of stuff. Creativity is making meaning in your life. Anyway you can. No excuses. Get busy doing one thing that you love. It’s fine if you think you can’t. Just get into the studio and start. The rest will wash over you and sweep you away in art.

–Quinn McDonald is a certified creativity coach who helps people discover they can make meaning in many ways. See her work at QuinnCreative.com

Mascara Tree Sketch

There’s a clip on YouTube of a man drawing Bette Davis with mascara. It’s speeded up, and it may be edited, but the result is amazing. He uses the mascara wand as a brush and makes it work with line, shading and value.

After seeing it, I wondered if it was real. So I grabbed by two mascaras–Avon and L’Oreal Voluminous, both in brown/black, and went to work. Surprisingly, neither one had enough color to make it work well. The Avon wand was also quite flexible, great for applying mascara to eyelashes (after all, that was what it was designed for) making it hard to control.

A trip to the drug store, and I had my teen-reliable mascara–Maybelline in double black. The bottom of the container is pink, the top green. I don’t think it’s changed in 30 years. And it worked.

The trunk worked best because the uneven application makes great rough spots. The branches benefit from the the application of the brush held so the bristles create the long leaves of the willow tree.

Ink, brush, paper: cheap. Art in mascara: Not priceless, but washable.

–Quinn McDonald is a writer and certified creativity coach. She is a collage artist and teaches workshops, but not in mascara painting. Yet. Image: “Don’t weep, willow” Mascara on paper. (c) 2008 Quinn McDonald, All rights reserved.


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Where to Find Fire Herb – Monster Hunter Rise (MHR)

Monster Hunter Rise can be tiring at times searching for the range of items to upgrade weapons, perform requests, and more, but at least this title in the series has the Wirebug which makes tasks a little easier and fun. The Fire Herb is an item in the game that you would require to craft various items in the game such as consumables and armor sets.

As the item has such a wide application in various recipes, you must know how to farm Fire Herb in Monster Hunter Rise. Keep reading and we will show you how to get infinite amount of Fire Herb.

Monster Hunter Rise (MHR) – Fire Herb Location Guide

The Fire Herb is not a resource that’s scarce in the game. In fact, once you know a fee locations you can keep coming to those area to farm them every few minutes. That said, the only place where you can get the Fire Herb is the Lava Caverns and Sandy Plains.

Fire Herb - Sandy Plains
Fire Herb – Sandy Plains

Once you visit any of the two maps, you will see the Fire Herb is plentiful and you can farm the resource all you want. If you want to increase the drop rate further for the herb or any other item you may be looking for, equip the Calm Talisman. It’s known to have effects that increase the drop rate of items.

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Judge Praises Chris Brown At Progress Hearing - "Doing Really Well"

Feb. 18 2010, Updated 5:45 a.m. ET

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Flanked by eight deputies and accompanied by his mother and bodyguard, and wearing grey jeans, white striped shirt, black jacket and glasses, Chris Brown appeared in front of Judge Patrcia Schnegg for his progress report on Thursday.

Schnegg had glowing praise for Brown saying, "he is doing really, really well. He has completed 17 of 53 group counseling sessions....Chief Norwood from Richmond, VA submitted a letter stating he has completed 32 days of hard labor."

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COURT DOCUMENT: Chris Brown's Travel Order

Judge Schnegg signed an order authorizing Brown to travel out of the country. Schnegg went on to tell Brown that when he returned for his next progress report on May 11th "by the time you come back  you will be half way there," and went on to compliment him on how he was doing and Brown simply said, "thank you."

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The order authorizing travel for Chris Brown allows him to travel between May 18th, 2010 to June 27 2010 to perform at concerts.

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Woman Charged With Murder After Allegedly Feeding Flesh Of Dying Husband To Her Dog

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Apr. 7 2016, Updated 2:32 p.m. ET

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A Russian newlywed is being accused of feeding the flesh of her dying husband to the family dog.

The incident happened in the couple's lavish Spain home last Friday. The suspect, 46-year-old Svetlana Batukova, is in police custody after she was found near the bloody corpse of her husband, according to The Local, a European news site.

Horst Hans Henkels, 66, was reportedly ripped to shreds but was unable to call for help due to a recent surgery on his trachea.

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Cops say Batukova stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife. As he lay injured, she carved pieces of his arm off to the bone and hand-fed them to the dog.

Batukova waited hours to call the cops, authorities said. When they arrived they found her standing next to a pool of her husband's blood.

Officials believe that the suspected murder was high and drunk at the time of the attack. While she is reported to be a self-professed cocaine addict, cops are still trying to determine if Henkels was drugged during the incident.

The motive behind the attack remains a mystery. However, the couple is known for getting into explosive fights that have warranted police intervention, the New York Post reported.

Batukova appeared in court on Monday to face the murder charges.

Also no word yet on the status of her beloved accomplice—a Staffordshire bull terrier.

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12 Witnesses Support Nicole Eggert's Sex Abuse Claims Against Scott Baio, Lawyer Claims

Feb. 9 2018, Updated 5:18 p.m. ET

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More people have come forward to support Nicole Eggert’s claims her former co-star Scott Baio sexually abused her when they worked together on the late-1980s sitcom Charles in Charge.

“We just gave the police a list of 12 witnesses who have reached out to us,” Eggert’s attorney Lisa Bloom told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview. “She said it was well known that Scott was interested in her and inappropriate toward her.”

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Bloom noted she took on Eggert as a client after the actress had received “threatening” letters from Baio’s lawyers and she was “scared.”

“She alleges that he digitally penetrated her beginning at age 14, and performed oral sex on her beginning around age 15,” Bloom told Radar of Eggert’s shocking allegations. “She said these acts occurred many times. She says that they had one instance of sexual intercourse with her when she was 17.”

“She needed help,” continued the civil rights attorney, who has represented other high-profile stars, including several Bill O’Reilly accusers, Blac Chyna and Kathy Griffin. “I spoke with Nicole and found her to be credible, and her story is heartbreaking.”

Bloom noted that Eggert is coming forward now because “sexual abuse survivors know when their time is right.”

“Some wait a year, or two, or decades; some never tell,” said Bloom, explaining the #MeToo movement “inspired” Eggert.

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Bloom also told Radar that Baio, 57, has not tried to contact her or Eggert.

“We have not asked for any payment,” said the legal expert. “I think Nicole would welcome an apology.”

Though she has chosen to share her story, which Baio denies, Eggert, 46, feared coming forward with allegations against Baio as a teen while the two were still working together because she worried “she would cast a bad light on the show” or “that Scott would be arrested” or “that she would not be believed.”

“These are the typical fears victims have when deciding whether to speak out,” explained Bloom. “No one wants to do it, but the sun and the truth: eventually they emerge.”

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Graphic Footage: Animal Planet’s ‘Whale Wars’ Stars Says It Busted Japanese Ship Poaching Whales, Four Dead

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Jan. 7 2014, Updated 8:01 a.m. ET

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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a group that monitors the hunting of whales, claims that Nisshin Maru, a Japanese ship in a fleet, was responsible for the butchering of as many as four Minke whales in forbidden territory.

The incident took place in New Zealand's region of the Antarctic, which has been protected from the practice of poaching under the designation of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

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Sea Shepherd captain Sid Chakravarty refuted a claim on a sign the Nisshin Maru-posted on its' ship -- that they are a group dedicated to the research of whales.

"When 'science' requires you to grotesquely bloat up the bodies of protected whales, stroll across a deck smeared with their blood, hauling their body parts with hooks and chains, and discarding their remains over the side, then that 'science' has no place in the 21st century," Chakravarty said.

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According to Sea Shepherd, its' trio of ships (all named for renowned celebrity environmentalists) -- The Steve Irwin, The Bob Barker and The Sam Simon -- will continue to monitor and cause problems for Japanese ships on what it deems to be "illegal" hunting missions.

The organization featured in a television series entitled Whale Wars on Animal Planet, documenting Sea Shepherd's 2008/09 Antarctic campaign against Japanese whalers, following events on the Steve Irwin.

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Monte Carlo Masters Final: What time does Rafael Nadal play against Gael Monfils?

Rafael Nadal will face Gael Monfils in Sunday’s Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters final. It will be the 14th meeting between the French and our champ and first of 2016.

Our champ will challenge for his 68th tour-level crown and ninth at the Monte-Carlo Country Club, where he won eight successive titles from 2005-12.

Tennis - Monte Carlo Masters - Monaco, 16/04/2016. Rafael Nadal of Spain reacts after winning his match against Andy Murray of Britain. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
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Date: April 17, 2016

Match time: 2.30 PM local time / 8.30 AM  EDT –  New York, Montreal / 1.30 BST – United Kingdom / 2.30 PM CET – Spain, France, Germany, Italy / 9.30 PM AEDT – Melbourne. To convert to your local time, use this website.

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Rafa is bidding to draw level with leader Novak Djokovic on 28 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles by claiming his first trophy at this level since 2014 Madrid, where he beat Kei Nishikori in the final.

Rafa leads his head-to-head series against Monfils 11-2. Our champ has won their past three meetings, with Monfils’ last victory over Rafa coming four years ago in the Doha semi-finals.

Here are the matches they have played against each other:

VAMOS RAFA! All the way to a victory!

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  1. OLA & VAMOS DEAR RAFA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : ) : ) : ) 🙂 🙂 : ) : ) It is a beautiful day!!!! : ) Congratulations on your fantastic beautiful wins !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : ) : ) : : ) : ) Have a great day and a great time!!!!!!! : ) It will be a FANTASTIC match for you!!!!!! : ) : ) : ) : ) : ) : ) Have lots & lots of fun & Enjoy everything!!!! : ) : ) 🙂 : ) : ) VAMOS SWEETHEART & a big hug & lots of love & happiness to you & your GREAT LOYAL TEAM !!!!!!!!!!! : ) : ) : ) : ) : ) VAMOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : ) VMOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : ) VAMOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : )

  2. Rafa, you decided that third set was going to be yours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    You just word down Murray which I loved.

    He always has some kind of attitude but you never do!!

    I think your chances to be beat Monfils are very high!!!

    If you played like you did against Murray calm, confident, great cross court shots, volleys, net hits you will be biting the trophy tomorrow. Will be watching from Little Rock, Arkansas. Your devoted fan, Buffy

  3. Rafa, keep on doing what you are doing, playing with conviction, aggression and above all, keep calm and you will be the winner tomorrow

  4. Just one more match Rafa just keep on playing your best you have been magnificent this week just keep focused ,assertive and keep your confidence high you know you are able to win this
    You have so many fans all over the world who love you and only wish the best for you
    So go Rafa let the world know you are still the “king of Clay ” your fans will always be here for you win or lose it we would so much like me you to win for your sake and also ours
    So good luck tomorrow x

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A surfeit of sunshine

Well, maybe not a surfeit, but certainly a whole lot more than we’re used to as of late.

Newfoundland Sunset
Spring Sunset in Newfoundland

It’s day three of more or less continuous sun (except at night, of course. We’re not that far north) and I’m ploughing through the list of stuff that needs doing on nice days.

Unreliable weather can be problematic at times.

When we have a spate of sunny days, I go a little haywire trying to cram in all the things that ought to be done under such conditions and I become increasingly dismayed as I proceed, since my task is not humanly possible.

It is not possible to prep a medium-sized vegetable garden for summer, scoop a winter’s worth of dog-doo, rake a garden, run or exercise for an hour daily, take children to playgrounds every day, hike with the family, clean out the greenhouse, and go on photograph hunts in a two-day period. That’s all in and around other normal daily tasks, meetings, and work.

It simply can’t be done.

I feel a little like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, too, in that each sunshiny task that I complete reveals another three jobs that also require good weather for completion.

What I need is another week of good weather. Or a glass of wine.

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