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CC Capsule: 1993 Chevy Lumina Z34 Dale Earnhardt Signature Edition – The Epitome Of Lumina?

If you want to find good antiques or other rarities, your best bet is to go somewhere remote.  Northeastern, Indiana and northwestern Ohio are somewhat depopulated, with county seats of less than 6,000 people quite common, and I found this Lumina driving the two-lane state routes on my way from Auburn, Indiana to Columbus.  Underwhelming it might be, but this is probably the rarest of my CC finds.

Commissioned by Dale Earnhardt Chevrolet in Newton, North Carolina to commemorate its namesake’s sixth Winston Cup win, these cars started out as black Lumina coupes with FE3 suspension and the “Twin Dual Cam” 3.4 liter V6.  Only twenty-five were made.

Silver ground effects, tons of vinyl graphics and last but not least, headrests embroidered with the famous number three’s signature completed the package.  Fully loaded, the buyer had his or her choice of a Getrag five-speed or automatic and also got a weekend at the races included in the purchase.  I didn’t realize I was looking at a genuine collectible when I snapped pictures of this immaculate-but-tragic coupe, which is unfortunate because I’d otherwise have taken note of the asking price.  These seem to sell for between $15,000 and $25,000 these days, so there’s apparently a market for them.  Who friggin’ knew?

I was mostly excited because this was a fully-loaded W-body in reasonable shape.  It seemed worth capturing since almost nobody remembers the Lumina fondly and I figured that in Z34 trim with an intact interior, this Chevy would finally have a chance to put its best foot forward on these pages.  I’ll leave it those older than myself upon the car’s introduction to judge whether the sight of one in mint condition does anything to that end.

From my younger perspective, the Lumina’s styling seemed to endear it to a very specific audience.  Marketing it as the huggable official car of Disney World seemed at odds with Chevy’s occasionally hormonal “Heartbeat of America” ad campaign.  I remember Luminas mostly as garish looking cars in Eurosport trim festooned with spoilers and sill extensions, with loud, blatty exhaust notes; they didn’t register as dignified family transport.  Sure, as with any good family sedan, you might’ve understeered into a ditch in a Lumina, but you did it on the way to the tanning salon while listening to Van Hagar.

The Lumina Z34 was ultimately like that high-school friend’s father who would so desperately brag about his rebellious youth when underneath, you knew he was a paunchy, innocuous character.  That is ironically what makes this car so sensible as this limited edition collectible; to most of us, it’s a relic which broadcasts its insecurities over lost glory, but to some, it’s the ultimate tribute to a past they still very much miss.  And I’ll say this much: you won’t find a Spirit R/T, a Taurus SHO or a Galant VR4 which costs five figures.


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The best snacks are ones that include healthy nutrient dense foods. Unprocessed whole foods make incredible snacks to fuel your body throughout the day and provide the energy you need to perform at optimal levels. There are so many quick and healthy snacks to choose from. You just need to make the decision to make smart snack choices. Try these healthy snacks when the hunger kicks in:

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Healthy snacks can have many benefits, especially if you keep healthy choices and right sized portions in mind. Some of these benefits include:

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The line up for this years Ottawa Bluesfest was announced this weekend and Dallas Smith will be performing July 16 alongside country megastar Keith Urban, Mother Mother, Donovan Woods, and more! Check out the line up and ticket info here: www.ottawabluesfest.ca
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Scouting's Journey to Excellence, the new performance standard in the BSA, encourages your unit to go for the gold this year in service to our community.  As your unit racks up the service hours, track them for your unit's Journey to Excellence measure by clicking hereExternal Link.  For information for first time users, click hereExternal Link.

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These hours will be uswed as part of a larger program designed to recognize high performing units and help all of us improve the quality of Scouting programs delivered to youth.  For over 100 years, the Boy Scouts of America has enthusiastically given service to our community.  Be a part of this noble tradition and go for the service gold this year!

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National Scouting News

The BSA membership fee will increase from $24 to $33 for all registered youth and adult leaders, effective December 1, 2017.

10/11/2017 National Scouting News

BSA Expands Programs to Welcome Girls from Cub Scouts to Highest Rank of Eagle Scout.

10/23/2017 National Key 3 Reponds To Recent BSA Decision

A Message from the National Key 3 on BSA's decision to accept girls into the Boy Scouts.

11/21/2017 BSA Chief answers Questions About Welcoming Girls Into BSA Programs

Watch the full interview of the BSA Chief answering your Questions About welcoming girls into BSA programs.

Summer Camp Merit Badge Registration

Merit Badge registration for Boy Scout summer camp starts March 3rd. If you need assistance with merit badge registration, please contact Rachel Ball at 513-577-7708 or at Log into your unit account to update registered scouts schedules. Visit for information and tutorials.

Dan Beard Council Good Scout Award Luncheon Raises $500,0000

More than 1,100 people gathered for the annual Dan Beard Council Good Scout Award Luncheon to celebrate the accomplishments of Chris Cole and raise $500,000 for Boy Scout programs.

Scouting honors Sheriff Jones, Rebecca and Todd Wilber at Spirit of Scouting event on May 3rd.

The Spirit of Scouting Breakfast is an event which recognizes community leaders that exemplifies servant leadership, scouting values and serves as a role model to young people. This event increases awareness and support in the community. Donations support local programming and outreach services for youth through the Boy Scouts of America Program.

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The BSA is making history: We are unveiling the new “Scout Me In” campaign featuring girls, as well as boys, in our iconic Cub Scout program for the first time. The campaign speaks to kids and their friends by putting them in the middle of the action. This also engages parents who are looking for ways to make the most of the time they have with their kids and help them to be Prepared. For Life.

Preparing America's Patriots featuring The Eyes of Freedom: Lima Company Memorial on May 11th

The "Preparing America's Patriots" fundraiser for Hopewell District (Warren County) is designed to increase scouting awareness, provide outreach services for those at-risk youth and continue to improve our communities through our community service projects. New this year is the Eyes of Freedom Memorial tribute to USMC; a once in a lifetime opportunity to support the BSA and our veterans.

Dan Beard Council's Family Scouting Webinar on Monday, May 21st at 7:00pm

Tune into our Family Scouting webinar broadcast Monday, May 21st at 7pm. This will be a great opportunity to familiarize those interested with the resources that are available as we prepare for Family Scouting this fall. We will showcase resources, provide some policy guidance for program operations, highlight next steps, preview marketing materials for Join Scout Night and review questions.

Philmont Program Announcement — Ute Park Fire

The safety of our youth participants, volunteers and staff is a priority at Philmont Scout Ranch and the Boy Scouts of America. While efforts continue to extinguish the fire, the anticipated damage and inability to access the affected areas makes it impossible to host back country programs. Until the fire is extinguished, it is impossible to definitively state when those programs will resume.

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The Girl Inside Me: For all who suffered sexual abuse or trauma as children
by Javelin Hardy
100 pages; 6 x 9 inches
Includes 9 historical and current photos
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-945587-05-4
Price: $19.99 + shipping

“The Girl Inside Me is a heartfelt book and very moving. As a writer, I understand how complex it can be putting oneself out there to the public, but people are looking for real people, with real situations that can heal others and restore hope. Javelin Hardy’s collection of poems does exactly that. Even the book’s title immediately speaks to the reader, opening curiosity about the direction the book will take.

“As I read Hardy’s poems, numerous emotions surfaced and her words allowed me to transform into her and feel her experiences. The titles of her poems anchored me in place and time. For instance, “He Touched Me,” immediately brought to mind a scared little girl with pigtails, ankle socks, and a teddy bear held by one ear. A tall man standing with pointy shoes and smelling of cigar smoke. I felt her anger, hurt, resentment, pain, and redemption. Her poems allowed me to walk in the shoes of that small, frightened girl as she experienced things no little girl should ever go through.

“The little girl inside of Javelin Hardy has matured into a beautiful, powerful woman capable of healing others using her personal experience and training in her therapeutic profession. And what more of a blessing it will be as this collection of poems, The Girl Inside Me, goes further out into the world and touches the lives of so many more.”

—Kimberly Robinson Green, Author of Her Cry—Her Prayer—Her Praise
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My name is JAVELIN HARDY. I was born and raised in a small town called Minden, Louisiana. My family moved to Portland, Oregon, during my sophomore year of high school, but I returned to Louisiana to graduate with the friends I’d grown up with. I moved back to Oregon when I was 23 and raised my two sons, who are now 27 and 24 years old. I’m the grandmother of a five-year-old kid I call “King Josiah” because he has an old soul and reminds me of his grandparents.

I began the journey of writing when I was seven years old as I searched for answers about things beyond my imagination. Writing became my sanctuary. I ventured out as I got older and pursued a degree in social work. I took sociology and psychology classes and read a lot of self-care books. I saw counselors who couldn’t relate to the things I was trying to express—trapped as a women by what the little girl inside me had seen and suffered from. It wasn’t until I started studying how drugs and alcohol cause turmoil in families that I understood why I had not been protected and why I did not feel safe as a child. I also studied my family history of various addictions and dysfunctions.

Through my relationship with God, a healing transformation began. I gave God every memory of my pain. I prayed, Please take this journey with me and get ready, for there is more to come. We all have secrets. We’re set free only when we reveal them. Writing them down, or speaking the words out loud, gives us peace of mind.

JAVELIN HARDY, CSWA, is a Master Level Social Worker, Qualified Mental Health Professional, and Clinical Social Worker Associate. She received her Master’s Degree in Social Work from Portland State University in 2012. She’s has twenty-three year’s experience working with adults with mental health and substance abuse issues, and with their families. She has extensive experience working with the adult justice systems, courts, and the State Health and Human Service system.

Her private practice, Healing from the Heart, is a multicultural, adult counseling service that provides individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, and couples therapy.

Her family served in the US Military for five generations, and Javelin herself served in the Oregon National Guard. As a result, she is familiar with military culture and lifestyles, and provides counseling services to military veterans and their families.

Her areas of specialty include anxiety, depression, women’s emotional health, trauma related to PTSD, and healing from substance abuse and dependence. She is certified in various trauma-informed methods. She ties Yoga and various relaxation methods into her treatment practice. She believes in a holistic approach to health.

The Girl Inside Me is available direct from the author, Javelin Hardy:

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The Water Of Love Method My kids inherited my dislike of getting up in the morning. When they were little getting them out of bed for school was a daily battle. It started with me opening their bedroom doors and telling them to get out of bed. It usually ended with everyone yelling at each […]

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Novice artists are often appalled by the idea of constraints. “I’m going to ignore the rules and create something completely outside the box!” (A cliché that reveals a complete lack of creativity.) They don’t realize the boxes are there for a reason, and working within them could make them more creative, not less. For instance, […]


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The Davidson Lands Conservancy is participating in a study to assess the effectiveness of banding trees as a means to control the population of cankerworms.  Following are instructions for banding a tree: WHEN?  shortly after leaves have fallen HOW?  Go to your hardware store and purchase: Disposable elbow-length gloves (optional) Duct tape or Nifty Wrapper […]

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Holding Title

Before you reach the closing day, you will want to make a decision as to how you will "hold title" to the property. This decision has legal, tax and estate planning ramifications. Therefore, it may be prudent to consult an attorney or certified public accountant (CPA).

The following information is supplied for informational purposes and should not be relied upon as legal definitions.

Buying Alone

  • Sole Ownership
    • A single individual who has not been legally married.
    • An unmarried individual who was married and is now legally divorced.
    • A married individual who wishes to acquire title in his or her name alone. At the time of closing, the spouse of the buyer will be required to specifically disclaim or relinquish his or her right, title and interest to the property.

  • Living Trust
    A living trust is created while an individual is alive and gives the individual control of the distribution of his or her estate. The individual transfers ownership of his or her property and assets into the trust.

Buying with Others

  • Tenancy in Common
    Enables each partner in the property to sell, lease or will to his/her heirs that share of the property belonging to him/her.
    • Who can take title? Any number of individuals.
    • Ownership Division: Any number of interests, equal or unequal.
    • Who holds title? A separate legal title to his undivided interest is held by each co-owner.
    • Possession: Equal right of possession.

  • Joint Tenancy
    Property owned by multiple individuals where if one of the owners dies, the remaining owners acquire the share of the deceased owner automatically.
    • Who can take title? Any number of individuals.
    • Ownership Division: Interests cannot be divided.
    • Who holds title? There is only one title to the whole property.
    • Possession: Equal right of possession.

  • Community Property
    Property owned equally between a husband and wife. Each must sign all agreements and documents of transfer. Married couples purchasing their homestead residence must take title this way in Florida.
    • Who can take title? Only a husband and wife.
    • Ownership Division: Interests are equal.
    • Who holds title? Similar to title being in a partnership, title is held in "community."
    • Possession: Equal right of possession.

Additional Ways to Hold Title

  • Corporation
    A corporation is a legal entity, created under state law, consisting of one or more shareholders but regarded under law as having essentially the same as those of an individual. The entity has continuous existence until it is dissolved according to legal procedures. Land owned by a corporation cannot be attached for personal debts or judgments rendered against any of its shareholders.

  • A Partnership
    A partnership is an association of two or more persons who can carry on business for profit. A partnership may hold title to real property in the name of the partnership with partners having an equal or an unequal interest in the property.

  • A Trust
    A trust is an arrangement whereby legal title to property is transferred by the grantor (or trustor) to a person called a trustee, to be held and managed by that person for the benefit of the people specified in the trust agreement, called beneficiaries.

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Travel company is well-suited to notice the emergence of new “last minute” tickets. An interesting idea is also sending greetings to customers and partners. And maybe to congratulate them not only with national holidays like New Year, but, for example, on his birthday (date of birth is also often included in an application for a club card). Similar SMS campaign can be organized and employees. Individual attention to any agreeable, so you can take care of their customers or employees and, of course, to improve their relationship. There is also a combined the use of mobile technologies in marketing. For example, using SMS-mailing can notify subscribers about the sweepstakes or contests that are held also by SMS. In this case, the newsletter includes a description of actions and instructions for the party (sending messages with certain text to a specific number that is both expression of consent to participate in the quiz).

Subject quizzes can relate to, for example, the work area company or of its history, allowing you to stimulate the interest of users or employees to your organization. SMS distribution made by a special, very complex software. However, for Customer service is no longer a problem because there are many services that are professionally engaged in SMS-newsletters. All you need – base of phone numbers of your subscribers, some companies provide an opportunity to use your phone subscribers base and the idea of mailing. It remains an important issue – the choice of service, which will be implemented through action. First, despite the overall low cost of SMS-mailings, the prices in different Companies are also different. For large orders, all companies provide significant discounts, but for smaller businesses will be much higher prices.

So you should choose a service where the cost of SMS is low regardless of volumes. In this case, you will be offered various solutions that can help make your service more interesting to the user, and will also contribute to its promotion: SMS-Quizzes, polls, orders via SMS, etc. Additional mobile solutions can be selected for any field of business. So do not assume the use of SMS-SMS advertising and marketing only the prerogative of the companies working directly on the mobile market communications or the Internet. New technologies make it possible to realize almost any idea.

It must be remembered that the defects of the films can not be hidden with a thin layer of metal, on the contrary, the defects can even be underlined. It is also important right correctly tension during winding and unwinding a roll especially for thin films, since the folds can result in unevenly deposition of aluminum. Once again, for a variety of vacuum metallization suitable poly dimensional films such as polyethylene terephthalate, polystyrene (both conventional and targeted), polypropylene, county, film uPVC and cellulose. The best properties in comparison with other materials have metallized PET film. In addition to excellent decorative properties metallized polyester film resistant to moisture, oxygen and UV radiation, in addition, they retain their crisp content properties for three weeks longer than other materials. One of the improvements in equipment for plating is the use of sprayed systems. They use a plasma confined by a magnetic field in the special sym ary devices – magnetrons.

These systems can be used ized in existing cells. Sprayed systems are not as fast, but their advantage explosion lyayutsya strong adhesion between the substrate and metalliziruyuschim layer, excellent reproducibility and a smooth surface, especially in a thin layer, the ability to sputter metal alloys fishing. In this method, less heated substrate. Other trends are associated with not only aluminum and other metals and nonmetallic materials. There are already using silver, gold and zinc, are considering the use of chromium, nickel-chromium alloy and stainless steel because of their resistance to acids and alkalis.

Among the promising non-metallic material of aluminum oxide and silicon is very promising, as they have you sokimi barrier properties, and tin oxides are transparent and have anti-static properties. Metallization process occurs in the evaporator vacuum chamber, usually under vacuum 5 x 10-4 mbar. Aluminum wire is fed to the individual evaporators, heated by the resistance, which melts and evaporates. The process of plating film polymer film skirts the cooled drum and passes over the evaporation source at a speed of up to 840 m / min. Aluminum evaporation condenses on the canvas and form a covering layer. C analysis of the Russian market of single-layer metallized films can be found in the report of the Academy of IKAR industrial markets "Market-layer metallized films in Russia."


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For centuries in political theory has been understood that the forces of the left struggling to break the established order and tradition, source of referral of the most disadvantaged and ideology through the perpetuation of unjust social structures. That was how the left was gaining such things as equal citizens before the law, freedom of association, trade union rights or women’s vote. The new world that would involve historic shift toward the final release of all human beings had to be built in a historical struggle with conflicting prior to any allocation of power, status or wealth you can not obtain under conditions of equal opportunities for all citizens. In contrast, the role of the reactionary forces was always to claim the traditions and the distribution of roles in them sitting, not allowing the questioning or criticism that individuals are freed them to deploy their own lives without the shackles service to his vocation and aspirations. The hero of the Progressives was always the guy who escapes the bonds of family, clan, village and established morality and jumps into the world to build their identity released. In contrast, the always praised conservatives that folded to the old social norms, moral of the elderly, the religion of their ancestors and the power of the traditions used to rule over the group. But the repeated failures of successive trials of building the communist paradise success and summarized in the popular demolition of the Berlin Wall in 1989 (which did not fall, as they say, but also destroyed the enclosed by him) meant for thought left a crisis is looming, not a short-term.

Under the experience acquired in the course of the years, both in the project as in the manufacture of increasingly innovative instruments, Lisam has got unique results of productivity, reliability and lightness that are captured in the pneumatic comb V8 Titanium, with only 680 gr deploys a power of 1,800 blows per minute. Choice and research of new solutions and materials, such as components of titanium, magnesium and technopolymers has been important for this team of harvest, as for all Lisam tools. Lisam also produces different types of accessories that facilitate harvest and satisfy different work requirements; with rakes in range that simulate the movement of the hand, tapered into the cups specially shaped bushy and snarled, with provision alternated to increase the radius of action. Based on the experience gained during decades of production of pneumatic tools for agriculture, Lisam has created the new V8 Titanium yet lighter and productive. New comb V8 Titanium weighs less than 700 gr and its power exceeds 1,800 blows per minute. The feature of this instrument of harvest is that it is very lightweight thanks to the use of components of titanium, magnesium and rakes of techno polymers. A structure of this type accentuated characteristics of robustness and resistance to efforts while the low weight increases ease of manoeuvre. The new design of rakes in range, with more near the base but arranged alternately rods, increases the radius of action of rakes as if he had one rod (therefore the V8 designation). The new shape of the comb allows you to navigate with ease even in very dense fronds. Even the small and most resistant olives are harvested with ease without ensuring no harm to the plant.

This mood mainly reflects a change of global perception towards the country, that has been fast and welcome. But as the country recovers of a global economic crisis Brazil has been the first Latin American country in scoring a the recovery, that began in the second trimester of this year, what could other markets learn of this extraordinary recovery? Brazil already has experienced before bumps in its global reputation. During the presidential campaign of 2002 the debt went off and the currency was devaluated when the investors began to doubt that Luis Incio Lula da Silva, one of the candidates with majors possibilities, would have the intention to fulfill the obligations of debt of the country.’>Enrique Pena Nieto. It was a lightening when, after gaining the elections, was evident that generally it consolidated general the political direction of the previous administration, something that it facilitated and in certain way it fomented a growth that was not seen from years 60. Considrese remembers to us, that trajectory of the growth was interrupted by the scaling of the global credit crisis of a year ago. The rarefaction wave of the economic crisis was the detonating of diverse falls in the stock-exchange index Bovespa of Brazil, that happened of 73.000 in spring from 2008 to less than 30,000 in the autumn of that same year.

Also, in December the quote of its currency was 2.55 real ones by dollar; a few months before it quoted to 1.55 real ones by dollar. The adjustment of global inventory, the credit crisis and the fall of the confidence of the consumers united their forces to bring about a reduction of the anualizado GIP of 13% in the fourth trimester. After the answer of the international people in charge of economic policy who removed to the global economy from the edge of the abyss, adopted monetary the fiscal policies and in Brazil they allowed that the country restored its balance in first half of this year.


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Emmitt Smith Enters the NFL Hall of Fame

Emmitt Smith is the last of the “Dallas Cowboys Triplets” to enter the Hall of Fame, following Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin.

What  a legacy those three left behind. Not sure we will ever see three players on one team dominate like they did.

Emmitt was and is a class act. Remember, he was too small to play in the NFL, lol. Someone just forgot to tell him about that.

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Crop to Cup with JJ Bean

I’ve posted a lot of videos lately, but they’re all fantastic and serve as great reminders of how complex coffee is—not only in taste—but the effort it takes to fill your cup.

This latest video from JJ Bean Coffee Roasters in Vancouver begins with a montage of beautiful b&w photos from an origin trip to Guatemala earlier this year. After returning home, it follows the green beans to the cupping table, through roasting and into a cup.

From the JJ Bean website:

Relatively few people in North America have any knowledge about where or how coffee is made. It is easy to think of coffee as simply a tasty drink made from ground “beans”. However, there is much more to coffee than that, and we wouldn’t even have those beans (which are actually the seeds of coffee cherries) if it were not for the hard work of farmers and workers on coffee farms around the world, as well as the tasters, roasters, and baristas who transform the green beans into the drink we know as coffee. At JJ Bean, we wish to honour the entire “journey of coffee”, from crop to cup, as well as the many people who work tirelessly to bring us that coffee.

I couldn’t agree more. Enjoy.

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Sources of Inspiration

This past week I discovered a way to use the photos I've taken of interesting plant shapes- weeds included. A few years ago, I took photos of weeds with their roots attached and called them, "undiscovered beauty". We tend to see them as pests in our garden, when in fact the leaves and flowers are just as beautiful as cultivars, especially when looked at through a hand held lens. I have both a 5X and 10X magnification lens which make the ordinary look extraordinary.  In the wonderful book, Gathering Moss, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, she tells about her first experience, at five years old, looking through a magnifying glass.

"It's the time I first had an inkling that the already gorgeous world becomes even more beautiful the closer you look."

I feel exactly the same way. It's a whole new world full of incredible unexpected detail as seen through a magnifying glass.

Nature is always the main source of inspiration, but there were some other things which influenced the outcome.  Earlier in the week, I was looking at the websites of my favorite fashion designers.  I ran across the Marchesa, FALL 2017 Collection and my breath was taken away by the beauty and ephemeral quality of the designs. I ogled over the exquisite textiles and was in awe of the unique handling of the fabrics.  I love the use of fabric flowers which skim above light layers of fabric.  Here is the link if you'd like to take a look:

Also, I follow the work of a wonderfully creative Japanese botanical artist, Makoto Azuma. He designs outrageous floral scenarios and recently directed a beautiful video called, The Story of Flowers, because he wanted to teach his five-year old daughter about science.  It shows plants and flowers rooting, blooming, being pollinated, and includes the decay and rebirth of the cycle of life.  Here is the link to the awesome three and a half minute video:

All of this inspired me to create floral landscapes using photographs I'd take of plant life.

First, I made a wash in shades of pink using the Procreate drawing app, then layered the photos on top of the wash using the Superimpose photography app.  Several layers are used for each piece which are then touched up.

I included images of the miraculous 17 year cicadas in some of the pieces.  A small portion of Brood X hatched a few weeks ago, 4 years earlier than expected which was very exciting.

La La Land

La La Land

Brood X

Brood X

Petal Bird

Petal Bird

Dear Mama

The past few days I'd been thinking of the song Bret gave me for Mother's Day in 2002.  I hadn't listened to it for a few years and wasn't sure I would be ready to hear it. But this morning I realized I longed to hear his voice and the lyrics he wrote which came from his heart.  His truth came from incredible insight. The idea for the song was fashioned after his idol, Tupac Shakur, and the song he wrote for his mom. When Bret was in his early teens, he discovered rap, and boy did it have an influence on him. Unfortunately, the rap message back then was mostly negative and it took a toll on Bret. He was like a sponge that absorbed it all.

This morning I want to focus on the gift he left me. His voice. His words. His heart. I am grateful for the experience of being his mother.  I am grateful for both Eric and Bret.  I have learned so many life lessons that wouldn't have been possible without having experienced the joy and challenges of motherhood.  The light and the dark, the yin and the yang. This is life.  I am grateful for all of it.

Bret covers a lot of ground in the song he wrote. His birth in Mission Viejo, moving to Virginia, ("I get taken over by these trees"), troubled teen years, my disapproval of a friend who was a bad influence, the death of my sister Kimmie, ("ever since that day you got so spiritual"), dad being busy working, Grandfather's spagetti sauce (!), missing his grandparents, Rydell Design...  He tells me he loves me but he also voices some grievances.

"Everyday I'm still prayin' for a better way to say it... I love you..."

Take a listen if you'd like.

Tulip Magnolia & Virginia Bluebells

I had the privilege of going to Riverbend Park last week to see thousands of Virginia Bluebells blooming in the woods near the Potomac RIver.  I used photos I took of these beautiful flowers and created a pattern for the top in this fashioned out of flowers clothing design along with some photos of tulip magnolias for the skirt. The stalks in the background are from a photo of a tree bud.

Metro Views Portfolio

First, I want to announce that I am now commuting to D.C. three times a week as I am working part time instead of full time at Robert Allen Design! My life feels so much more balanced as I am able to play tennis again on Mondays which I have been doing for the past 22 years (!), work on art and various projects, write my blog, and travel to see my family in Houston and friends in California. It's working out wonderfully and I feel very grateful.

I continue to find inspiration on the metro as there are so many characters I see each time I ride. One day as the metro arrived, I spotted a girl with a purple hair and unusual hairdo so I ran over to the car she was on and found a seat right behind her.  Score! Generally, I do a quick rough sketch since I don't know how long my subject will stay. Sometimes I am able to observe for 40 minutes, other times they are off the metro at the next stop.  I also take a photo for reference as I finish the sketch up at home.

Sunday Afternoon Stream Monitoring

"Is it a beetle or a netspinner?  How many legs does it have? What side is the opening on the snail, left or right?" These are some of the questions Jacqi and I asked one another this morning. Jacqi volunteers as a stream monitor for Virginia Save Our Streams and she invited me to join her for the spring assessment. Each season, she goes to the same local stream in Great Falls and fills out forms to report the conditions in the surrounding area, quality of the water, and does a count of stream insects and crustaceans. All of this is indicative of the health of the stream. She showed me how to help collect the specimens by letting the water flow through a large flat net. After collecting, we placed the net on a flat aluminum camping table, spread it out, picked up the insects with tweezers, and put them in white ice cube trays filled with stream water. We identified each insect, one ice cube square at a time, and counted how many of each there were until we reached a minimum of 200 insects and crustaceans. It was so fascinating to see the life that is normally naked to the eye as one watches a stream flow. We each took a magnifying lens, one 5X, the other 10X so we were able to see the tiniest details of each beetle, midge, mayfly, stonefly, scud, and hellmaggramite! Jacqi and I share a fondness of miniatures and I think this came into play in appreciating the fine detail of each life form. Twas a wonderful way to spend a glorious, 70 degree, Sunday afternoon!

Last Breaths of Life

I am writing this from Katy, Texas. My step father, Jim, is 90 years old and his health has been failing for quite some time. He surpassed the doctor's prognosis who put him on hospice 8 months ago. He has a strong constitution and healthy heart for a man of his age, and the way I see it, he just isn't ready to let go. How much of our will, at this point in life, matters, I wonder. A week ago, he woke in the morning, ate a small portion of cereal, went back to bed, and hasn't awoken since. The doctors recommendation was to let him be, not worry about him eating or drinking, just let him sleep. A hospice nurse has been over every day for the past week. The belief of hospice is that everyone has the right to die pain free and with dignity. An incredibly compassionate caregiver came yesterday. She gave Jim a sponge bath, washed his hair, even shaved his sparse facial hair, all while he slept away. The emotional support and knowledge they share in what to expect these last days is invaluable. Yesterday, the kind, caring nurse told us that when he takes a turn for the worse, it will be very clear. She warned us not to be afraid, and described what he may go through.

When I arrived and saw him for the first time, I thought it was quite beautiful to see him sleeping so deeply, comfortable and cozy, his body completely relaxed. My mom covered him in nice blankets as she did her very best to keep him warm and content as he could be. He was surrounded by the energy of love from family.  I can't think of a better way for him to have gone, as his body slowly shut down. As the nurse put it, he was dying a natural death.

Last time I visited my family in Texas was about 4 months ago.  One of Jim's favorite poems was the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.  He had memorized it many years ago. One day, I got the book from the bookshelf and sat with him.  His mind wasn't nearly as sharp as it once was, but with some prompting, he was able to recite Part 1, which was very impressive since this poem has nine parts.  It was a beautiful experience for which I am very grateful. The second day I was there, my sister, Jen, and I read all nine parts to him.  There was ever so slight recognition- his breath became lighter and his eyes opened halfway and there was no doubt he heard us.

Since the the time I began to write, Jim has passed on. The third day I was there, my mom was in the bedroom with him when she noticed a change in his breath. She said that he suddenly opened his eyes and looked right at her, almost as if he needed to see her one more time. She called me in to the room saying there was something wrong. The moment I arrived, he took his last breaths of life. Later, she told me that over the years, she would catch him staring at her and she would ask why. He would answer that he just enjoyed looking at her. They were sweethearts, my mom said.

The natural cycle of life and death is sometimes hard to accept. It is those of us who are left in this world who suffer. I've experienced the pain and heartbreak of death yet know that our loved ones live on in our heart. Our dearest Jim is now at peace. If there is a heaven, he was heading straight there, I am sure of that.

Isamu Noguchi Exhibit

This past weekend, I visited the National Portrait Gallery, where my favorite exhibit featured Isamu Noguchi, a prolific artist and sculptor.  Most of us know Noguchi because of the iconic coffee table he designed. Born in 1904, in Los Angeles, his father was a Japanese poet, his mother an Irish/American writer. Throughout the exhibit, his Japanese sensibility is very clear. Slabs of stone, polished in areas, yet much left raw, create opposing surfaces. In my eye, many pieces evoke the Japanese ideal of wabi sabi, or beauty in imperfection. There are cracks in some of the art pieces which were left on purpose and in one case, a chunk of stone missing from a large sculpture.  Again, making one think about the definition of beauty and how contrary forces can be complimentary. The lighting and furniture designs seem current, even though they were designed during the 1940's.  As with all great art, his work is as relevant today as when it was created.

If you'd like to see the exhibition, please check with the National Portrait Gallery as it is not listed under Current Exhibitions on their website so I don't know how long it runs.

2017 Flower Petal Fashion Calendar

I've spent the past few weeks making some changes and fine tuning the Flower Petal Fashion calendar.  As with the smaller version, each month features a design which corresponds with the month or season.  An African American for February which is black history month, a Latin inspired design for Cinco de Mayo, a dress made from lotus flowers for August, the month of their peak bloom, and a red gown sprinkled with snow for December.

I have greatly enjoyed designing the ensembles.  Nature now lays dormant but once life emerges again in the spring, I am sure that the color and pattern will inspire me to either continue with petal fashion or start another project which I will enjoy equally.

The new calendar measures 9 x 11 which includes the 1/2 inch black mat border. It has a magnetic strip on the back to hang on a metal surface, or can be hung on the wall. Available on the Shop page.


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How to make a TWebBrowser become the active control when clicked

When you have a form containing a TWebBrowser control and you click in the control it does not automatically become the active control of the parent form. However, tabbing around a form does make the web browser the active control. This behaviour is unlike other controls such as TEdit and TMemo and can cause some unexpected behaviour in your application, as I learned the hard way!

This article prevents two methods of ensuring that the TWebBrowser control behaves like other controls by making it the active control when clicked. As we will see, there are problems with either approach, but the second method is the most robust.

Investigate the problem

To see the problem let's create a small application that shows the name of the parent form's active control in the status bar.

Start a new Delphi application and drop the following controls on the form, keeping the default names:

  • A TMemo – clear its Lines property and set its TabOrder property to 0.
  • A TWebBrowser – sets its TabOrder property to 1.
  • A TButton – set its Caption to 'Load HTML' and its TabOrder property to 2.
  • A TTimer – set its Interval property to 100.
  • A TOpenDialog – set its Filter property to display files with .html and .htm extensions.
  • A TStatusBar.

Arrange the form and set its Caption to look something like this:

Picture of application's main form

We will use the TTimer to update the status bar with details of the active control every 1/10th of a second. To do this create a OnTimer event handler for the TTimer as follows:

procedure TForm1.Timer1Timer(Sender: TObject);
  if Assigned(ActiveControl) then
    StatusBar1.SimpleText := 'ActiveControl = '
      + ActiveControl.Name
    StatusBar1.SimpleText := 'ActiveControl = nil';

Compile and run the application and move around the controls using the TAB key. You will see the name of each control displayed in the status bar as it becomes active. To see the problem use the mouse and click in either the memo or edit control. The status bar will change to show its name. Now click in the web browser. Nothing will change.

Maybe this is because the web browser is not displaying any HTML – i.e. it has no document object. Let us fix this by adding the facility to display a HTML document. Double click the TButton to create an OnClick event handler and add the following code to it:

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
  if OpenDialog1.Execute then
    StatusBar1.SimpleText := '';  // fixes SB redraw problem
    if FileExists(OpenDialog1.FileName) then
      WebBrowser1.Navigate('file://' + OpenDialog1.FileName);
      Memo1.Text := 'about:blank';

This method displays the open file dialog box. If the user OKs we check if the provided file exists. If so we display it in the web browser and show its source code in the memo control. If the file doesn't exist we navigate to about:blank and display that text in the memo.

Recompile the application and run it. Load a HTML file into the web browser (or create an about:blank document by entering an invalid file name). When you try clicking the various controls you will see that the problem persists. We have more work to do.

A solution

This solution lies in detecting a mouse click in the web browser control and, in reponse, setting the form's ActiveControl property to reference the web browser. In essence we wan't to do something like this:

// !!! Wrong !!!
procedure TForm1.WebBrowser1Click(Sender: TObject);
  ActiveControl := Sender as TWebBrowser;

Unfortunately, TWebBrowser does not have an OnClick or OnMouseDown event in which to do this, so we have to find an alternative way of detecting the mouse click.

The web browsers's OnCommandStateChange event is useful here. According to Delphi's help, this event is triggered when the ability to execute certain TWebBrowser methods changes. It happens that this event is triggered when, amongst other things, the user clicks the mouse in a document.

Note that I said "amongst other things". The OnCommandStateChange event is not only triggered when the mouse is clicked in the document – it is also triggered on other occasions. So we need to find when the event is in response to such a click. Research and experimentation shows that we can reliably detect a mouse click in the following circumstances:

  • The event handler is called with a Command parameter of CSC_UPDATECOMMANDS.
  • The document's selection object is available and has a type of 'Text'.

Now to use the selection object we must access the browser's document object – and to access the document object we must have loaded a document into the browser. This means we can't use this code on the web browser control until a document has been loaded. The simplest way to ensure this is by navigating to about:blank. We can do this in the Form's OnShow event handler which we add now:

procedure TForm1.FormShow(Sender: TObject);

Having ensured there is a document present in the web browser we can use the following code in the browser's OnCommandStateChange event handler:

procedure TForm1.WebBrowser1CommandStateChange(Sender: TObject;
  Command: Integer; Enable: WordBool);
  Doc: IHTMLDocument2;        // document object
  Sel: IHTMLSelectionObject;  // current selection
  // Check we have a valid web browser triggering this event
  if not Assigned(Sender) or not (Sender is TWebBrowser) then
  // Check we have required command
  if TOleEnum(Command) <> CSC_UPDATECOMMANDS then
  // Get ref to document object and check not nil
  Doc := WebBrowser1.Document as IHTMLDocument2;
  if not Assigned(Doc) then
  // Get ref to current selection
  Sel := Doc.selection as IHTMLSelectionObject;
  // If selection is of correct type then we have a mouse click
  if Assigned(Sel) and (Sel.type_ = 'Text') then
    // Make the web browser the form's active control
    ActiveControl := Sender as TWebBrowser;

Here we first make sure that the sending object is a non-nil TWebBrowser control. We then check the Command parameter and exit if it is not CSC_UPDATECOMMANDS. Next we try to get hold of the browser's Document object, exiting if it is nil. From a valid document object we get the document's current selection object, again checking it is non-nil. We also check the selection type is 'Text'. If these tests succeed we finally set the form's ActiveControl property to the web browser and we are done.

Once again, recompile the project and tab and click about the form. You should now find the web browser becomes the active control when clicked or tabbed into.

«« Gotcha #1 »»
There's a gotcha here. I carefully used the word "document" rather than "control" in the above description. The OnCommandStateChange event only detects clicks in the current document, not necessarily in the control. This is because the browser, by default, places a border round the document. Clicking in this border is not detected because it is not part of the document.
The only (partial) solution I've heard of is to make the border disappear using CSS. This is OK if you have access to the document – you can use something like:
body {margin: 0;}
The technique is no good if you can't change or override the document's CSS. We can improve matters by setting the browser's default CSS (See article #18 for details of how to do this from code). However, if the document sets its own border it will override any default, so we're stuck.
Thanks to ANBe for pointing out the cause of this problem and suggesting the CSS fix. Anyone who has any other ideas please get in touch.
«« Gotcha #2 »»
There's more. The solution requires the document's selection type to be "text". Unfortunately, if you click on a non-text item in the document, for example and image, the selection type is not "text".
I'm afraid I don't have a solution to this problem as yet.

Another Solution

Bärje Henriksson has suggested another solution that does detect clicks on the whole control – and so avoids the "Gotchas" above.

Browser control window in relationship to form window: 'Form' parents 'Shell Embedding' parents 'Shell DocObject View' parents 'Internet Explorer_Server'

Bärje's solution depends on finding the window handle for the browser control. We do this by searching for a window whose class is named "Internet Explorer_Server". This is ultimately a child of the form window. The diagram on the left shows the relationship.

No TApplicationEvents?
If your version of Delphi doesn't have the TApplicationEvents component all is not lost. Alternatives are discussed below.

And so to the code. Re-using the code we developed for the previous solution, add a private field named IEServerWindow of type HWND to the form class and drop a TApplicationEvents component on the form. Now remove the WebBrowser1CommandStateChange we created in listing 5.

Modify the timer component's OnTimer event handler as shown in listing 6 below:

procedure TDemoForm.Timer1Timer(Sender: TObject);
  NextWin: HWND;  // handle of various child windows
  while IEServerWindow = 0 do
    NextWin := FindWindowEx(DemoForm.Handle, 0, 'Shell Embedding', nil);
    NextWin := FindWindowEx(NextWin, 0, 'Shell DocObject View', nil);
    IEServerWindow := FindWindowEx(
      NextWin, 0, 'Internet Explorer_Server', nil

  if Assigned(ActiveControl) then
    StatusBar1.SimpleText := 'ActiveControl = '
      + ActiveControl.Name
    StatusBar1.SimpleText := 'ActiveControl = nil';

The timer event is used to find the window since the handle may not be available straight away when the application is displayed.

We now need to handle mouse-down messages sent to the browser control window. Create an OnMessage event handler for the TApplicationEvents component:

procedure TDemoForm.ApplicationEvents1Message(var Msg: tagMSG;
  var Handled: Boolean);
  if (Msg.hwnd = IEServerWindow) then
    if (Msg.message = WM_LBUTTONDOWN) or (Msg.message = WM_RBUTTONDOWN)
      or (Msg.message = WM_MBUTTONDOWN) then
      ActiveControl := WebBrowser1;
No TApplicationEvents?
If you don't have TApplicationEvents with your version of Delphi simply create a private method with the same parameter list as ApplicationEvents1Message and implement it as in listing 7. Then create a OnCreate message handler for your form and assign your private method to the Application.OnMessage event within that message handler.

This code ensures the browser control is set as the form's active control whenever the control receives mouse-down events from the left, middle or right mouse buttons.

And that's it – clicking anywhere on the browser control activates it.

Gotcha #3
There has to be a problem doesn't there? This solution works fine providing there is only one web browser control on the form. If there is more than one then the solution fails. This is because the code that finds the browser control's window handle searches for a window class name – and the class name the same for each browser control instance. And that means only one browser control is found.
A fix?
A possible fix is to put each browser control in a separate TPanel and then find the required windows by using the appropriate panel's window handle in the FindWindowEx call that searches for the "Shell Embedding" window class (see listing 6). Of course, you'll need to track which window relates to which browser control.

In this article we noted that clicking in a TWebBrowser control does not make it the active control of the parent form. We developed some code to fix this problem by detecting a mouse click on the control's active document and setting the parent form's ActiveControl property to the browser control in response to the click. This was done by handling the browser object's OnCommandStateChange event and detecting a text selection. We observed that this solution is far from perfect because it doesn't work if:

  • there is no document loaded in the browser;
  • the user clicks in the border of an HTML document;
  • the user clicks on a image or other non-text area in the display.

An alternative method that does not have the above problems was then presented. This method depended on finding the browser control's window handle and detecting mouse messages directed to that window. It works when no document is loaded and detects clicks anywhere in the control, including the scroll bars. However, it was noted that the solution failes if there are two browser controls on the form.

Demonstration code

Demo code to accompany this article is available for download.

The demo includes the complete source code of three programs: one for each of the solutions presented above along with one that illustrates the problem.

The code was developed using Delphi 7 Professional. It may need some minor changes to compile with earlier versions, but should compile on later Win32 personalities of the compiler without change, although this has not been tested.

This source code is merely a proof of concept and is intended only to illustrate this article. It is not designed for use in its current form in finished applications. The code is provided on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. The source code is released under the same Creative Commons License as this article. If you agree to all this then please download the code using the following link.


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4 are not computation intensive processes. The partitions are generated using the simple proposed two-fold real congruency relation. The proposed shift property simplifies the problem of labeling the entire lattice space to the problem of labeling the SuperVoronoi region of the origin. The SuperVoronoi region of the origin with index N includes N2+N-1 lattice points and N2 sublattice points. Thus, the labeling function is simplified to a table look up with N2+N-1 entries. In addition, the proposed labeling function, the partitioning scheme, and the shift property are scalable and as a consequence using the sigma the performance of the entire scheme is adjustable, as shown in section 4.

Second, it utilizes a new rule of equivalence as well as a new partitioning scheme. Third, the coinciding labeling scheme utilizes a new shift property in order to simplify the labeling procedure. The new shift property is defined as: ˜ ) = α (λ ) + λ ˜ - λ if λ ˜ ≡' λ , λ ∈ Ssv (O ) α (λ (25) ˜ , it is just enough to obtain This finding shows that in order to label an arbitrary lattice point, λ its equivalent point within the SuperVoronoi set of the origin, and translate the label of the ˜ - λ .

4 are acceptable. 07dB. 05dB (k) Original QCIF image. Figure 7. 1 to 1. 7 and sigma = 1 is neg‐ ligible. In other words, the extra bit rate that is required for higher values of sigma is not worth of the gained reconstruction fidelity, thus the best performance of the MDCLVQ-H. 7. 7 the proposed scheme can offer acceptable side and central reconstruction qualities as well as error resiliency without requiring extra bit rate. 2. MDCLVQ-motion JPEG2000 The proposed MDCLVQ-Motion JPEG2000 scheme generates two descriptions of the input video that are encoded by the OpenJPEG software to motion jpeg files.

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Coworking spaces are growing. Each year they offer larger workspaces and serve more members than the year before. These findings are not new. But what does a detailed view of coworking spaces look like presently? In this article, you will learn not only about membership numbers, but also how they divide their expenditure and revenue, how many locations they operate, where they are located, or what internet speeds they offer. We are publishing many findings for the first time, together with the most extensive data report to date about coworking spaces.

A typical coworking space has on average* around 80 members, working at 70 desks spread over an area of around 800 square meters (8,500 ft²). Compared to the previous year, the space and number of desks have increased by over 20% - significantly more than the number of members (+10%). Taking all extreme values into consideration, a coworking space now roughly provides 120 desks and 1,500 m² (16,000 ft²) for 160 members.

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Utilization has increased to 1.2 members per desk

The average occupancy has increased slightly to 1.2 members per desk. For these figures, we evaluated the relationship within each individual coworking space before calculating the average. There are now 12 square meters (130 ft²) available per member, a little less than the previous year. The area per desk has increased marginally to 11 square meters (120 ft²).

Private offices are booming – especially in megacities

Surprisingly, the continuing rise in the share of private offices within coworking spaces (25%, +6pp) supports this trend. The number of members per desk increases if private offices take up more space. In these offices, desks don’t seem to be used by only one particular member, but rather flexibly by several people.

The relative share of dedicated meeting and event spaces has decreased compared to the previous year whilst open workspaces continue to account for half the space of an average coworking space, if you include the coffee and lounge areas. However, the bigger the coworking space, the more likely open workspaces are also replaced by private offices. They are not necessarily getting smaller, but their share of space is declining compared to the remaining spaces.

Do coworking spaces still exist without private offices?

Yes! A quarter of coworking spaces avoid them all together. A year ago, however, this figure was almost 40% of all coworking spaces.

Are coworking spaces with mainly private offices actually still coworking spaces?

This doesn’t just depend on the layout. An open workspace without people wouldn’t make coworking possible either. Private areas can temporarily make work easier, which is why the vast majority of coworking spaces offer more than just open workspaces. What is more, communication and coworking doesn’t only take place within workspaces or in direct conversations. It also happens over smartphones and computers, or outside the office. However, frequent face-to-face encounters promote social interaction considerably. They especially make it easier to get to know others. Every tenth coworking space is now made up 60% or more of private offices. Their walls can hinder a collaborative atmosphere and therefore threaten the conditions that encourage coworking and new encounters.

Revenue from private offices is rising faster than their space increase

Private offices now generate on average more than a quarter of the total revenue (27%, +9pp). Their revenue has thereby increased faster than their floor space. In contrast, the simple rental of desks has dropped (32%, -4pp), as have membership packages that include multiple services at the same time (10%, -8pp).

Rent remains by far the biggest expense item

Rent continues to be the biggest expense for coworking spaces, accounting for just under 40% of their spending. Its share fell slightly compared to the previous year, presumably because management contracts and joint ventures with landlords are becoming more popular, especially among new coworking spaces. However, the 70% of coworking spaces who rent their premises spend 45% of their total expenditure on rent.

Staff costs are rising

Staff salaries and operating costs each account for 17% of all expenses. At larger coworking spaces, the proportionate staff costs increase simply because they employ more staff, while their percentage share of operating costs decreases. On the other hand, coworking spaces who own their premises have the highest operating costs relatively.

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What are pujas about… do take a good read…http://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/kechara-13-depts/what-are-pujas-about-do-take-a-good-read.html

An expression of your Compassion: A teaching by H.E. Tsem Rinpoche

Rinpoche gave a really lovely teaching to a few of us yesterday about the significance of doing pujas (literal translation: a set of rituals and prayers done to remove obstacles). Here is the full, unedited transcript of his teaching, straight from the Buddha’s mouth! ~ admin

Why do we learn and do pujas?

When we see people have problems, when we see people suffering and having difficulties, we ourselves do not have a lot of ability to help and to assist. We ourselves do not have much wisdom, we don’t have any power, we don’t have any effect, we’re not doctors, we’re not psychologists, we’re not healers. Right now we’re not. So it’s very hard when we see other people suffer from sickness, suffer from obstacles, suffer from pain or suffer from losing something, or suffer from a loss, a death of a pet or a family. We typesuffer a lot and they suffer a lot. But you see, this suffering is an energy. This suffering is an energy that can be lust, that can be hate, that can be anger, that can be giving, that can be helping. It’s just an energy and how we direct it is up to us.

So when we see someone that we love and we care about, or other people – a centre member, our friend or anyone – and they need help, our heart goes out to them. Our heart going out to them and our energy put into sorry for them can be directed better. It can be directed in a form of a puja.

What is a puja? I’m not giving you the literal translation. A puja is an expression of your compassion for another person, another being. A puja is an expression, an action, a direct initiative to do something for someone who has an obstacle, who has a problem, who has a difficulty, who has some kind of pain or sickness or fear. And so, to watch these people have fear and pain and suffering and difficulties, and we don’t do something about it doesn’t make us a better person, doesn’t help our spiritual practice, doesn’t make our minds become enlightened or open up.

To do something for them is very, very correct way of opening our minds up – practising emotional generosity, expressing compassion, expressing care. Why? Because the pujas that you guys are practising are not made up. They’re not ineffective and they’re based on an enlightened Being; in today’s case, Medicine Buddha and last time, you practised Tara. These days, Tara and Medicine Buddha really have a lot of effect, they really have a lot of blessings, they really have a lot and a lot of power to help.

So what happens is that we who do the pujas become a gateway, become a connection to help that person. So instead of just looking at someone and saying, “Oh, poor thing, poor thing; Oh poor this, poor that”, if the child is suffering from whatever reasons and they can’t do well in their studies, they’re going to fail and they can’t move on in their studies, if we do a Manjushri puja for them, it is an expression of our concern and our care; and it has energy and it will bless that person. If that person is very sick – same thing, we do a Medicine Buddha puja and we can expedite or quicken their healing.

So a puja is an expression of our care, our initiative and our sincere concern for another being. So when people ask you what is a puja, you say not the literal translation (because the literal translation is “to clear obstacles”). But the human definition, the human meaning of puja from my point of view is an expression of your compassion; an expression of your care.

So when you do puja in that way, it is very effective. Why? Any action that is preceded by or motivated by compassion or Bodhicitta has much more effect. Any action we do that is motivated by any form, any level, any amount of Bodhicitta or compassion has more power. Why is that? Two reasons:

(1)  When it is motivated by Bodhicitta or compassion, you are tapping into your real mind, your Buddha nature. When you tap into your Buddha nature, you push yourself to become a Buddha – very effective for yourselves.

(2)  A second reason is when you’re motivated by compassion and care, that is the main ingredient for Dharma practice. So for Dharma practice to have effect, our mind must be free of selfishness. Selfishness and Dharma does not match; selfishness and Dharma protector practice doesn’t match; selfishness and Medicine Buddha doesn’t match; selfishness and Manjushri doesn’t match. Selfishness and Dharma practice doesn’t match.

Why selfishness and Dharma practice cannot mix

Hence if we do selfishness with Dharma practice, even after 10, 20 years, there’s not much result. Why not much result? Because our mind is still selfish. So selfishness here is not good or bad. It is a ingredient that must be removed from the soup, until the soup tastes good.

Therefore, if you do Dharma work with selfishness, it’s harmful for yourself! It’s not effective for others. Why is it harmful for yourself? Because even though you’re practising something so good from great Lamas, after so many years, you have no results, very little result – it’s harmful because you waste your time. You receive something so great, but you cannot…

Like a hungry ghost who, even if you give them very good food, their mouth is the size of a pin. They cannot fit it in, even if you give them such nice food. It cannot fit. Even a little bit, they have to squeeze it in like that. That’s really a hungry ghost. And when the hungry ghost takes the food and it goes down their long, thin, grey neck, when it comes to their stomach, it burns like gastric. It burns and burns and burns – in fact, the food creates pain. Why? They have the karma to experience that.

So therefore, if you do Dharma work, Dharma practice, Dharma meditation, Dharma anything with selfish motivation or innate selfishness, the effect is very little. Why is it very little? Because Dharma and selfishness is the opposite.

If you have oil and you put a wick on top and you want to light it, but you keep putting water, it will burn out. Even if you have oil, it will burn out. Even if there is oil in the lamp, if you put water, the water mixes with the wick and the fire has to go out even if there is still oil. So oil is like Dharma – it can light up a room. You can open up the oil, you put a wick on top, floating (like in Chinese temples), and you light it; it lights up and you can see things in a dark room. But if you keep putting water, the light goes out, even if there is oil.

So water is like selfish motivation in this case; oil is like Dharma. Hence, if you have oil and you can light and you can see, why do you need to move around in the dark like this? Why you keep putting water? Similarly, if you do Dharma work, people think, “How come I do my sadhanas for so many years, I do my mantras for so many years and I do Tsok, and I don’t have any power and in fact, my mind becomes more lazy and worse?” Because you haven’t removed the main ingredient – selfishness.

If selfishness never gets removed, how many years do you have left to your life? How many years? Aren’t you afraid of your death? Aren’t you afraid to be alone and close your eyes and no one can help you? Aren’t you afraid of what you’re going to see after death? If you are selfish and you cover your actions, it means you’re afraid people know you’re selfish. But you know what? People knowing you’re selfish is quite scary but what’s even more scary is when you die and your selfishness comes back to you. That’s very scary.

So hence, if you’re selfish, your Dharma work cannot get results. So two options: (1) get rid of Dharma work and be selfish or (2) get rid of selfishness and do Dharma work. Of course, it has to be number 2. Very simple. The more selfish we are, the more ineffective our practice is. The more water we put into the oil, the less we can light.

So therefore, instead of thinking of how to get how to get rid of selfishness, instead of blaming, instead of hiding, instead of avoiding, we should just stop the selfishness. You see, if you just stop the selfishness, you win. Why? You don’t have to put energy to hiding, to avoiding, to defending, to protecting your ego. You don’t have to. Why? Put the energy towards cutting your selfishness out, not toward covering selfishness! Both ways is energy; both ways, you have to use your petrol.

So therefore, it’s time for us to wake up and do something now. Now! Why? What are we waiting for? What result are we waiting for? What time, what year are we waiting for? How many years do we need to wait? How many years? When we started Dharma 10 years ago, 20 years ago we said we’re going to do Dharma. And then we start and we go, “Oh, it’s difficult, I’ll do it next year. Oh, now I have work, I’ll do it 2 years from now. Oh, when I’m 30 or 40, I’ll do it.” And then we keep making time to delay the real, actual Dharma practice. And what happens? When we look back, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years are gone.

And a lot of these people who ran away from Dharma, they run away from themselves because they’ve been running and running and running, so when they face the real Dharma, they run again. Why do they have to run? Because they never create the causes to face themselves. Never. How do you know that? Where there’s smoke there’s fire. So you use an example like this: because they’re not successful in any part of their life. Because they’re not successful in any part of their life, you know when they’re running away from Dharma, they’re running away from themselves. If they’re very successful in other parts of their life and they run away, okay… maybe there is something else involved.

So let’s say that Beng Kooi just works a normal job, she cannot get married, she doesn’t have many friends, people don’t like her and then she joins Dharma. After 5 or 6 years, she runs away.She says, “Oh, Rinpoche’s bad, the Dharma students are bad, the Ladrang’s bad, KH is bad, Yoke Fui is bad, this is bad, that is bad.” They run and tell other people that. Fine. Stupid people listen and say, “Oh, maybe it’s true huh…” Smart people say, “Wait a minute… but you didn’t do much with your life. Your don’t have many things in your life.” So if you keep saying it’s bad maybe the problem is not Dharma; maybe the problem is you. Why is it you? Because why is it that you fail at everything? You can think that way. My point? This is not criticism for people who left. This is for us to examine by logic about ourselves – how we run away.

How pujas connect us to the blessings of the Buddha

Pujas is a beautiful expression of compassion, which is a key to open the Buddha’s heart to bring blessings for the person we’re praying for. So why do we do pujas? In order to show our concern, love and care for someone else. That’s why we do pujas. And pujas are effective because they’re based on an enlightened Being, rituals that collect merit and purify negative karma and aspirational prayers that are dedicated toward that person for their future.

And on top of that, that person might also sponsor the puja: maybe they cannot do the puja, maybe they don’t know how, or they’re too far away, or maybe they’re too sick or they have too many obstacles, so they cannot do the puja. So when they give you the money to buy the items, and you offer the Buddha, you make a connection for them. You represent them to the Buddha.

So therefore, the reason for sponsoring puja, or sponsoring Sangha to do pujas or sponsoring food is that you cannot do it or you cannot be there. So in spirit, you’re there by making offerings. So the monks represent you; or you, the Dharma Sangha, represent them towards the Buddha. And therefore, the pujas have that kind of effect.

So even people cooking in the kitchen…that’s why in the monastery, there are monks who don’t do the pujas; they cook and supply for the monks. They collect merit also and it is an expression of their compassion to help the person through the puja. So therefore, all work in the kitchen – serving, puja, whatever – is all Dharma work, it is an expression of compassion.

And also, when we do the pujas, we alone don’t have power. We alone don’t have attainments, we alone didn’t do our Dharma practice so we have power. So we need to invoke the Buddhas. So to say, “Oh, I don’t have power, I cannot do anything, I’m normal and I don’t do anything” – it’s just another expression of laziness, selfishness. Laziness is from selfishness. The mother to the laziness is selfishness. Laziness is the son to the mother. The mother is selfishness; the son is laziness.

So therefore, to sit around and say, “I cannot, I cannot, I cannot, I cannot,” is pure, 100% laziness. And to accept laziness and accept selfishness and to say, “That’s how I am” and to accept to do that is a very bad sign. Why is that a bad sign? Expect more problems, expect more obstacles, expect more suffering, expect more. Why? Buddha punishes you? No. Your own selfishess punishes you.

So therefore, when we do pujas, we should do it knowing we cannot do much but pujas is the way for us to care and love and help, even though we don’t have power. And to learn the pujas well and to learn the rituals well.

Learning the rituals well

Why do we need to learn the rituals well? Why? Because if we’re highly attained, we don’t need rituals, we can heal someone just by blowing on them. We can help someone by speaking Dharma. We can purify someone even if we beat them. We can purify their karma if we’re highly attained. If we’re highly attained, we can scare them. When we walk by, we shout, “rah!” and they jump, they’re very scared – their karma is purified… If we’re highly attained, we can do that to people. We can scare them. If we’re highly attained, we can scream and shout at them, and make them very sad, and make them angry and make them run away. We can even save their life if we’re highly attained. We can scream and shout at them, we can scare them, we can do many things to them if we’re highly attained. Why? Because we can do it directly, we don’t need puja, we don’t need the Buddha. We are the Buddha.

If you’re highly attained, you are the Yidam. You think or visualise, “I am Yamantaka”, so if I slap you, it is not me; it is Yamantaka slapping you. And the person will have effects: their life will be saved, karma purified, obstacles pushed away. So highly attained people don’t need to contact the Buddha to contact you. They are the Buddha, they are the Yidam. They themselves are the Yidam already. Remember a Yidam is not a God; a Yidam is something you can attain.

So a highly attained person can be a Dharma protector’s emanation, can be a Yidam or have become one with the Yidam or have gained some attainments close to the Yidam. So when they do it to you directly, they don’t need a puja. When Kensur Jampa Yeshe scolds us, or screams at us – he has screamed at me! – it is Yamantaka screaming at me. I don’t have any anger, I don’t have any negative thinking, I don’t run away. I listen and I say I’m sorry because I know he’s purifying my karma. Much better than a puja; quicker, faster and direct. Much faster.

When Kyabje Zong Rinpoche beat the monks severely, the monks live, their diseases are gone. Why? Because Kyabje Zong Rinpoche is already Heruka. When they scold us, and they tell us off and they shout at us and scream at us, we feel pain, we feel anger, we wonder, “Why like that?”, but if we feel like that and we let go and say, “No, it’s a blessing,” and don’t think anymore and let go, it becomes a puja. Even in a non-Dharma work, when people shout at you, it means they love you. When people tell you off, it means they love you. If you reject the love, you’re quite stupid. Even in a normal world.

So therefore, people like us – we don’t have that power so therefore, we need to invoke Yamantaka; we need to invoke Setrap, we need to invoke Tara and Medicine Buddha because we don’t have the power. But if we do Yamantaka well and we do Manjushri very well, we become Manjushri, we become Heruka, we become Yamantaka: “I am Yamantaka” Why? Then the power is directly from the power from the person. Why is the power directly in the person? Everyone can become Yamantaka. Everyone.

So therefore, ordinary people like us, we cannot directly affect people; we cannot do it directly. Hence since we cannot do it directly, since we cannot affect them directly, we have to do it indirectly. Indirectly can be pujas, indirectly can be doing Dharma work, indirectly can be studying Dharma, indirectly can be doing retreats, indirectly can be holding our samaya. Why? If we hold samaya, we gain attainments. If we do Dharma work, we gain merits to become better people. If we do pujas, we bless that other person.

You see, so indirectly we can do – through Dharma work, through charity, through pujas, through retreats, through holding our samaya. Those are indirect ways to help other beings. We help other sentient beings – that’s why we hold samaya. We wish to benefit other sentient beings – that’s why we have Guru devotion. We wish to have help others and benefit a certain person – that’s why we do pujas. We wish to be of tremendous benefit to others, therefore I become a monk and I hold my vows well so that I can study the Dharma with no distractions. That’s why we do Dharma action.

Every Dharma action should be motivated by Bodhicitta or an artificial Bodhicitta – then it becomes real. So therefore, if you have the power, you do directly. If you don’t, I don’t, we don’t, we do it indirectly. That’s the purpose of pujas.

Much care, and prayers, Tsem Rinpoche