Brene Brown

The three stages of loss of confidence and self-value

The Solution

Embracing our Inner-Woman

Surfing the Waves of Emotion workshop for women

Reconnecting with Emotional Wisdom

A woman’s journey of self-value

Mary’s story

The moral of the story

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“Don’t Tell Me To Get Over It”

A women’s guide to navigating through emotional overwhelm

How do my Emotions Contribute to Weight Gain?

It is well known that people who are depressed, grieving or are simply unhappy can either put on or lose weight. The role of how we feel about ourselves and the world can be an important ingredient to losing excessive weight. How can emotions contribute to physical body weight and why does someone’s emotional landscape become reflected in their body? For those people who are physically affected by emotional ebb and flow, these questions about how emotion affects our physical body is very pertinent.

Emotion is often attached to thought, however it is often felt in our bodies. Long term emotional stress or depression can very well have a physical effect of weight gain. It is as if the heaviness of the emotion is held in the muscles and organs in the body. In Eastern medical traditions, such as in kinesiology and acupuncture, emotional anatomy is well regarded. Emotions are said to sit in body parts and do affect physical manifestations in the body. I find in my work as a psychotherapist, that many people’s physical symptoms fit perfectly with their emotional concerns. Likewise, I also see people’s physical symptomology affecting their emotional experience. It can become a self-perpetuating pattern where the physical and the emotional feed off each other to create full blown psychological and physical conditions.

Emma & Self-Loathing

Emma came to see me about her depression. She said she was feeling down, slobby and had put on so much weight in the last six months. She said she could not sleep well and that she felt lonely and angry most of the time. As we talked, it became clear that the end of her intimate relationship with Tod contributed to her mood and self-image. The relationship ended a year and a half ago, but it was only six months ago when he began a relationship with someone else. When we discussed the quality of that relationship and what it meant to her, it became apparent that Emma had built a great deal of resentment towards Tod over a long time. As she spoke, she began to realise that she had expected him to make up for his mistakes. When he finally found someone else, she realised he was not going turn around and apologise and change his ways.

What was really important however, was the meaning this had about herself. Emma realised that she had come to hate herself because on some level she believed it was her fault that he treated her poorly and never made up for his behaviour. Her self-loathing for his lack of considerate actions and choices had resulted in depression and weight gain. Of course, the physical and emotional cycle spiralled out of control as the increased body weight lead her to hate herself even more. And it stopped her from moving forward and finding a more rewarding intimate relationship.

Emma’s Way Out of Her Bind

In recognising her pattern of self-loathing, increased body weight and depression, and her interpretation of the events that underlay her pattern, Emma began to consciously turn it around. When she explored the pattern and gained clarity of herself, her beliefs and attitudes shifted. She realised that Tod’s actions were an effect of his own patterns and were not actually about her. She learnt that she could hold a sense of self that was not dependent on how others treated her. She also learnt that she could create an environment of self-love in her life and challenge the beliefs that lead her to think she was worthless or not good enough for love.

Emma’s journey in therapy was not a quick one but it was rewarding!  As she learnt healthy ways of thinking, feeling and actions that honoured herself and her body, her depression lifted over time. Likewise, her body weight decreased as she became increasingly happy about herself and her life and increased exercise and maintained a healthy diet.  The key here was that she did not try to enforce a diet and exercise regime on top of her self-loathing and depression. Rather she lovingly shifted bad eating and exercise habits with her increased self-esteem and self-efficacy from changing the ways she perceived herself in the relationship with Tod. Therefore the changes she made were more permanent life style changes that reflected and her happy sense of self.

The Emotional Dimension of Weight Gain

The emotional dimension of weight gain and lose is often underestimated. Sometimes where there are stubborn self-defeating patterns when people are trying to lose weight, the emotional landscape is an essential aspect to understand and overcome. There may also be other physical conditions attached to the intra-personal dynamic such as adrenal or thyroid problems, but the emotional aspects are still important.

Have you ever realised the emotional aspect of weight gain?

I would love to hear your experiences and questions

[Disclaimer. All stories used in this blog are fictional characters based on the wisdom I gain from working with clients. No character in this blog is an actual person or a client]

Recovery of Depression through Mindfulness Practice

Mindfulness has been found to be an effective approach to help people overcome symptoms of depression. The symptoms of depression include feeling teary or flat in mood, loss of interest in enjoyable activities, loss of energy and motivation, agitation, worthlessness and a desire to escape from the depressing symptoms or circumstances. So to overcome depression using mindfulness, the trick is to learn how to witness these thoughts and feelings rather than become immersed in them.

The key ingredients in mindfulness practice that help us to break out of depression are dis-identifying from the depressing thoughts and feelings and witnessing them. As we witness these thoughts and feelings, we experience a kind of separation from the symptoms while they are still there. This is a weird sensation, because you can feel the depression, and depressed thoughts  as they come in and out of conscious awareness. However, you do not believe the thought or emotion. You know deep down that the thoughts and emotions are actually the depression talking, and are not really true!

An example of this process was when Sarah was experiencing depression. She did not know what underlay the depression. She was just aware that she had little energy, was thinking negatively towards everyone in her life. She was also constantly teary and feeling deeply worthless. Through conversation, we worked out that her depression was telling her that a childhood pattern was causing her to believe that nobody truly cared about her or valued her. As she isolated herself from more and more people, these beliefs grew stronger. She had no idea that it was her depressed “core beliefs”, which were triggered by a recent relationship breakup, that were the source of her pain and depression.

As Sarah learnt the process of mindfulness, she began to see and identify these depressed beliefs, and the attached emotional pain to these beliefs. Before mindfulness, she simply believed that no-one saw any value in her. But as she practiced mindfulness she saw it was the beliefs themselves that caused her pain. When there was enough psychological space in her mind to question the validity of these beliefs, she began to experiment and even ask people how they perceived her. Sarah discovered to her amazement that many people did actually value her in their lives, and that it was her beliefs that were actually spiralling her into depression.

Step by step, Sarah took a stand to her depressed thinking through self-awareness and mindfulness practice. Eventually she trained her mind to believe herself to be valuable and cared for, and she established healthy boundaries with those people who did not respect her.

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Note. While characters in these blogs are inspired by my work with clients, any client information is not referenced to a particular person who has accessed this service.

My Passion for Transcendental Psychology

My original interest in psychology at 12 years old was in parapsychology, or ‘ghost busting’. So it is of no surprise that my passion for transcendental psychology emerged when I first discovered this area soon after completing my degree in psychology and the philosophy of consciousness in the 1990s. What attracted me to transcendental psychology was the systematic psychological exploration of spiritual practice throughout cultures across our planet.

What is Transcendental Psychology?

Transcendental psychology looks at the psychology behind spiritual practice without being influenced by religious dogma. This study enquires into what is happening for the person mentally, emotionally, physiologically and spiritually, in religious and spiritual practices. This includes the psychology of altered states of consciousness, the unconscious and states of meditation.

There was a surge of interest in transcendental psychology and investigations of altered states of consciousness in the 1960s, which included some of my favourite thinkers and writers in this area, such as Stan and Christina Grof (psychiatrists), Ken Wilber (psychologist) and John Welwood (clinical psychologist and psychotherapist). Each of these people contributed a wealth of knowledge through scientific investigation and their own psycho-spiritual practice, to Western science about Eastern and other non-Western spiritual practices and altered states of consciousness.

Therapeutic Implications of Transcendental Psychology

One aspect of transcendental psychology that is important beyond enquiry and research is the therapeutic implications of the non-Western approach of spiritual emergence, and Western concepts of mental illness. We can learn a lot about alternative ways to understand and approach mental illness from other cultures and non-Western spiritual practices. The Spiritual Emergence Network (SEN) was founded in 1980, which aimed to increase awareness about spiritual emergence and promote alternative treatment approaches to mental illness, apart from Western psychological and psychiatric practices (Stanislav & Christina Grof, Spiritual Emergence, 1989).

An interesting finding from transcendental psychological research is that spiritual emergence and a psychotic episode have very similar symptoms, however Western and a lot of non-Western outlooks are completely different in their approach. People in some non-Western cultures who are seen to be transitioning through a spiritual emergency are thought to be on a shamanic journey or “a dark night of the soul”. They are not perceived as sick, mentally ill or deficient in their community and they are supported until they emerge from ‘facing inner or outer demons’. The whole process is simply allowed to run its course without community condemnation. Ironically, it is found that there is a higher rate of people who emerge from “psychosis/spiritual emergence” in non-Western cultures than from Western mental health wards and from using psychiatric medication (Stanislav & Christina Grof, Spiritual Emergence, 1989).

So while transcendental psychology is often seen as a fringe area of psychology, its clinical implications could be profound!

Apart from psychosis, transcendental psychology could also have implications for treating depression and anxiety. Alternative therapies that are based on Eastern practices and world-views, such as acupuncture, kinesiology and chiropractic practice, all embrace an understanding of energy flow, chakras, meridian systems, pressure points and multidimensional sources of memory that affect current psychological patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour. These sources of memory include unconscious archetypal memories and past life memories. So based on Eastern medicine and world views, depression and anxiety can stem from deeply held unconscious memories that are outside the sight of the conscious mind.  Again, these types of approaches could have a far reaching and revolutionary impact on contemporary psychological theories and therapies.

The Approach Taken at Conscious Solutions

At Conscious Solutions, when working with the human mind, I recognise unconscious sources of information that could affect people’s patterns of thought, emotion and action that repeat themselves throughout people’s lives. When I work with people to decrease depression and anxiety, I help them to increase awareness of sources of memory that underlie their patterns of behaviour, so they can break free from them. Simply by holding an open mind and liberal philosophy as to sources of these patterns from contemporary psychology, allows my work with many people to flourish.

This is also why I often highly recommend that clients access alternative therapies as well as psychotherapy, to help shift stubborn and pervasive patterns. I have also seen the opposite take place, where no psychotherapeutic work was accessed, only energy work. Likewise, from what I have witnessed, the outcomes were not as successful. In my experience, the best outcomes often come from combining psychotherapy and alternative therapies when it comes to depression and anxiety.

“Western psychology has neglected the spiritual domain, to its detriment, while the contemplative paths have lacked an adequate understanding of psychological dynamics, which inevitably play a major part in the process of spiritual development. As long as these dynamics are not recognised, they affect the spiritual practitioner and the spiritual path in covert ways that can exert a distorting influence on the whole understanding. So, in certain ways, [spiritual] awakening needs psychology as much as psychology needs awakening.”

(John Welwood, Toward a Psychology of Awakening, 2002, Page xvi)

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Anger as the Basis of Motivation and Personal Power

Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion!

Anger is a very misunderstood emotion in our culture. It is often seen as ‘strong’ or dangerous. Unfortunately the people who believe anger is strong and are prone to misusing anger through physical or verbal abuse, are often struggling with huge inner fears and are left feeling out of control and disempowered.  So in truth their anger weakens them. Those who believe anger is dangerous often believe that their feelings of anger should be avoided at all cost. Both of these positions are generally not helpful.

Anger is an emotion! This may seem obvious, but it is not. A lot of people think anger is an action, and usually a violent action. This can be heard in how people speak about anger.  It might be said, “He’s an angry person!” Well, actually he is probably a violent person with distorted beliefs about control. He would feel anger but that does not mean he has to act on it. It may also be said “my anger just got the better of me”. Again, this is also not true. An emotion does not justify an action. It could be said “she just doesn’t deal with her anger well”. Again, an emotion is being used to excuse behaviour.

Anger has never done anything! Anger is an emotion that in its adaptive form can be incredibly empowering and liberating. Anger demands that we face the truth about ourselves and our circumstances. Anger is there to protect us. Anger can be a fantastic motivating force. The key is knowing how to work with this powerful energy, and bring in reason when it comes to taking action.

The two common conditioned patterns that involve anger are either suppression or ‘the anger cycle’. I will demonstrate each of these patterns in two personal stories about anger.

Veronica and Sandy’s Stories: The Nice Pattern and the Anger Cycle

Veronica’s family always seemed nice until she learnt about the family pattern that kept her anger suppressed. She had always been a ‘nice’ other people and had learnt how important it was to put others first. This helped her to have some great friendships but when she began to date Harry, her ‘nice pattern’ became her biggest problem. Veronica did not feel anger, and when Harry started putting her down, disregarding what was important to her, not considering her needs and generally treating her like she was his slave or simply irrelevant, she began to regularly cry. At no point did she say “stop” or feel the anger necessary for self-preservation. Rather she began to believe it was all her problem and that there was something terribly wrong her. After a year, she felt deeply depressed and accessed professional help.

Sandy experienced the opposite to Veronica. She too thought there was something wrong with her because she was always angry, however she would not let anyone else know that. Sandy felt deeply frustrated because nothing ever seemed to go her way. Other people let her down constantly and when she confronted them, they would lie to her or just walk away. She was great at telling other people exactly what they were doing wrong, and how they could improve their behaviour. But she was deeply lonely and felt very alone.

Veronica and Sandy’s anger patterns are at opposite ends of the spectrum. They have different healing journeys to liberate each of them from their respective patterns.

After Veronica accessed a counselor who she felt safe with, she began to work through her ‘nice pattern’. She realised that while it is a virtue to generally be kind to other people, being too nice is when you cannot feel anger when it is appropriate to feel it, and you do not protect yourself from real harm (either emotionally or physically). Veronica had to learn how to value herself and what is important to her, to begin to feel legitimate and start to feel anger. As she began to breathe, relax and allow the feelings of anger in her body without automatically pushing them away or swallowing them, she began to learn how to safely feel and express her anger.

Sandy also sort help for her loneliness and how to cope with other people’s issues. Bit by bit Sandy learnt to challenge some of her own beliefs about right and wrong, and began to see the world was not so black and white. Slowly she began to see that her judgments of other people were pushing them away and sabotaging closeness in her relationships. Beliefs of entitlement and criticism had constantly fed her anger which kept it inflamed. After a while she also discovered that underneath the anger cycle was deep sadness, an emotion which she had not let herself feel for a very long time.

For both Veronica and Sandy, learning safe ways to express their anger was a vital part of their healing. Anger wants physical and verbal expression. So safe anger release is when we find space to be on our own and allow ourselves to express the anger. This expression also needs to be safe to ourselves. Angry writing, art, dance, exercise, drumming or music or hitting cushions or a punching bag are all fine.

Safe Anger Release & Healthy Adaptive Action

When I feel anger, I drive to a secluded look out, stop the car and put on music. I then pretend the person is sitting next to me and I let them have it. I say whatever I need to for as long as I need to.  I know most of what I say is simply anger expressing itself and is not actually true… but I need to hear it because the anger will ultimately tell me the truth. In fact anger will not let go until we hear the truth!!! I might start to yell at my partner, then my parents and then myself.. .. .. And then the anger shifts!

When I hit on the truth of why I am really angry, anger transmutes into sadness or laughter. Anger is a secondary emotion to hurt, so when I hear why I am really hurt, the anger is released. Once anger is released then I need to step back and look at what I need to do with my truth in a more rational way. I might need to strengthen my boundaries with some people, or perhaps I need to openly communicate something to someone. Maybe I need to re-evaluate a friendship. Whatever I need to do in terms of the action, I have let myself safely feel the anger and listened to its underlying message. This is the process of ‘honoring anger’ in a way that channels the emotion into motivation and personal power. Learning to safely work with our anger enhances personal power with respect to ourselves and others.

Have you become stuck in your anger?

Were you able to channel your anger in ways that protected you or empowered you?

The Lost Art of Working with Emotion

Have you ever been confused about how you feel? I have! At first I thought it was just me, but over the years of being blessed with hearing client’s life stories, I realized how wide spread this problem is. Depression and anxiety conditions are at epidemic proportions in Western society and a large causal factor is our disconnection with and our lack of understanding of emotion. As a culture we have lost the fine art of honoring our emotion and working with our inner guidance.

The Downward Cycle of Misunderstood Emotions

Emotions are one of the most misunderstood and poorly represented phenomena in Western society. We are often given destructive messages about our emotions such as “get over it” or “stop over reacting” or “you’re too emotional” and expected to cope. Unfortunately these messages only leave us feeling ashamed and empty inside. We often begin to believe there is something wrong with us and do our best to hide our true selves. This then leaves us feeling even more “emotional” and misunderstood. If we see a doctor about how we feel, our emotions are then often medicated which further leads to suppression and disconnection.

This process of inner disconnection is a downward vicious cycle that leads to aggression, low self-esteem, withdrawal and isolation. The hard thing is, if you start on this cycle it is difficult to turn it around. Many people develop addictive coping mechanisms such as self-medicating on drugs and alcohol. If the emotions are particularly intense such as when someone has experienced trauma or abuse, then the drug and alcohol cycle can be incredibly challenging to heal from. Underneath addiction is misunderstood emotion and real emotional meeds that were never met. Of course, the addiction simply further shames a person and therefore further disconnects them from the core issues and a balanced relationship with their emotional self.

Empowering Ourselves Through Honoring Emotion

Western culture has generally lost the art of being present with our emotions. The consequence of this is disconnection from ourselves, in our relationships and culture, and with our environment. The art of becoming aware of emotions and learning how to honor and listen to them and ultimately work with them, is an empowering journey back to personal re-connection, self-love and self-acceptance. This does eventually lead to personal freedom, but to embark on this journey we have to allow ourselves to feel.   Becoming aware of our emotional selves is incredibly powerful. When we learn to become present with our emotions with compassion and wisdom, we step away from compulsion and addiction. This practice is what I call “self-responsibility”. Simply put, it is the “ability to respond”, rather than react out of unconscious childhood conditioning and emotional wounds. Self-responsibility is freedom. When we practice it we begin to make real choices that honour ourselves and others. We begin to act out of self-awareness rather than unconscious drives.

As a rule of thumb, the more aware of ourselves and others, the more conscious our choices become. Also, the more we authentically feel our emotions, the more naturally we want to act in the best interest of ourselves and others.

Over the course of the following blogs, I am going to explain how to distinguish between old emotional wounds that are the result of supressed emotional pain, and “adaptive emotion” which is our natural emotional response to current world events. I am going to discuss the process of honouring our emotions and responding rather than reacting. I am going to outline some processes of working with specific emotion. And finally, I am also going to talk about emotional safety and real emotional needs that require us to meet as an act of self-love.

Surfing the Waves of Emotion Workshops for Men and Women

If you are interested in learning how to apply these processes in your life, I am facilitating workshops in 2012 called “Surfing the Waves of Emotion”. Due to gender differences in how we approach our emotions, both socially and biologically, I am presenting this group to men and women separately.  On the 17th March, Surfing the Waves of Emotion” will be held for women, while on the 21st April, this group will be for men.

Learning to honor and work with your emotions leads to self-responsibility, self-empowerment and person freedom. You can be your best friend, and break out of addictive cycles and emotional wounding for good.

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Psychology in Business Series 2011:Clearly Defined Staff Roles

Clearly Defined Staff Roles Increase Business Mental Health

When we become stressed we often become more confused, anxious, tense and irritable. Stress also decrease memory concentration and decision making abilities. Quite literally, we lose our ability to relax and see things clearly.
It is the same for a business! An organisation that is stressed can become distorted in its perception and can neglect important decision making. In the confusion and desperation, the urge to get things done and save the business can overshadow clarity.

This is particularly the case when it comes to clearly defining staff positions and roles, and especially when there has been staff cut backs. Professional boundaries can become blurred and expectations on certain staff members can become unrealistic. Another common occurrence when a business is stressed is that it can neglect to act appropriately when it does become obvious that staff are struggling. Business owners and management are often very stressed and overwhelmed themselves and can mistakenly see stressed staff members as an inconsiderate burden on the company. Important staff issues and dysfunctional interpersonal systems then get brushed under the carpet.

Unfortunately when staff needs are ignored the business only becomes more stressed in the long term. A lack of clearly defined and realistic staff roles and duties is a major contributing factor to staff burnout. A struggling business is only going to find it more difficult to deal with staff sick leave, breakdowns, retraining new staff and accommodating dysfunctional staff dynamics. In fact, it is not unusual for staff to become “scapegoated” as unconsciously it is easier to see the problems as a “difficult staff member” than the decline of a whole business.

This is why it is vital to step back, breathe and LOOK when a business is feeling the pressure! When a business is stress is the perfect time to explore and define staff boundaries and clarify staff positions and roles. As a general rule, the clearer staff positions are defined, and the happier and healthier the staff are, the higher functioning business can be. Business owners and managers who look after their staff and who take responsibility for clearly defined staff roles, tend to cope better in a challenging and unpredictable economic market.

This is just one more action a stressed business can make to enhance its mental health. Next time we are going to look at how to introduce new systems and initiatives into an existing business that is stressed. The more effective changes can be made in a business, the more likely it will adapt to our constantly changing economic market.

The Psychology of Business Series 2011: The Individual in the Workplace

How Can I Remain Balanced in a Stressed Business?


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Mountains in the beach - Constructal flows creating design in nature - Read More

The purpose of the Institute

The purpose of the Institute of Constructal Infonomics is to create an interdisciplinary bridge between thermodynamic physics and the world of information, based on the new Constructal Theory of Information articulated by Mr. Heyer. In particular, the CTI provides a physics basis for analyzing the rapid evolution of new species of information using life forms (AI) and evaluating their likely course of evolution. The complete CTI will be presented in May 2017 a the Constructal Law Conference 2017 in Bucharest, Romania.

The Constructal Law

The study of how humans use and value information was proposed in the 1990s by Mark Heyer to analyze interactive media and information systems. The definition of Infonomics has now grown to represent the informational intersection between human and technical life forms in all areas of their mutual development.

Constructal Infonomics

The study of the use and value of information in human society is called Infonomics. Human use of information, plays, conversation, music, art and writing, has evolved into a highly interactive global communication and knowledge network linking people to people, people to information sources and people to info-machines. The rapid evolution of AI is putting the human relationship with information machines under a bright spotlight.

The tenets of the Constructal Law (CL) are that all systems of flows will evolve to facilitate the flows through them, to increase access to currents, or to maximize the efficiency of flows through them. When applied to infonomics, the evolution of information systems can be studied on the same basis as the physical systems with which they interact. For example, the evolution and efficiency of the information flows of marketing and advertising can be directly linked to the physical flows of buying and selling merchandise, the physical measure of which is greater movement on earth.  This is the study of constructal infonomics.

This web site is dedicated to furthering the understanding of the connection between the physics of the natural world and the world of human information systems, including the evolution and the process of adaptation to new man-machine life forms.

Mark Heyer
Sept. 2016


Food Arts DECEMBER 2006

Korean culinary expert Lim Ji-ho has a magazine article titled, “2006: Korea Captures The Stage: A Cuisine That’s A Surprise to the West” which was held in June at United Nations headquarters in New York as part of the Third U.N.-Korean Food Festival designed for head chefs from around the world.

cone kranz - A-ryung Lim

By using limited and classic materials, existing Kranzes are usually a bit heavy and old fashioned. Yet, nowadays many florists are trying many different kinds of Kranzes with different materials with various designs. Wooden papers are materials which are usually used for food decorations. It is made by slicing pine trees, so the texture is tough and it is easily torn pattern wise. This Kranz design which the artist has made is mainly made of this wooden paper so that it gives a cheerful light impression to the audience.

waterfall kranz

The ring shape of a Kranz stands for eternal love. Different from other Floral designs, as Kranzes usually have their own characteristic by their shapes, nobody has dare tried to make a Kranzb in a different shape.

However, the artist has tried to get rid of this idea and created a Kranz which is running down by drawing an extensional line.

Drawing with flowers - Eunho Kim
When drawing flowers and plants on Oriental drawing papers with light and shade, it is usually called ‘HwaHweHwa (花卉畵). Through this piece of work, the artist has tried to express the beauty of flowers and trees and the blank place which usually appears on a traditional Korean painting, but onto a 3 dimensional space so that the audience could be a part of the artwork and feel the artwork itself.

Redefining traditions by floral designing  - Jiseon Park.
The floral design which florist Jiseon Park’s suggesting starts from an inquiry into tradition. Traditions from the past are analyzed subjectivity and it is understood differently under different circumstances. When talking about tradition, continuance is not necessary. Through this artwork, the florist is trying to redefine the meaning of traditional material culture, pattern of thinking and acting in the past, and the expression of certain events or a people etc.

Match it  - Sunhye Yang
The Famous Korea ‘Hanbok’ designer Lee Young hee said, she would rather let herself be exposed in the rain if she cannot find an umbrella matching her outfit. As we choose a gift to make it match the taste of the receiver, corsages have to match a personal taste. Florlady has invited a charismatic imaginary guest. And the corsages which were given out to all the guests were designed for this virtual guest.

exhibition- 23/06/07- 28/06/07at BMH

Florlady is a project group which, 4 florists made together to express their inspirations. Their recent exhibition was the first tryout of approaching floral design by giving extensional meanings in different ways.

vase from nature - Floral, steel, grass - Jeeyoung Yoon

coexistence - Flowers, table, red king crab, mushroom -  Kim, Saerom

re_make - Floral. Glass. Wood - Hyunjin Park

doughnuts - bark , bog moss , moss - Hyomi Kim

folwer boutique first exhibition BMH

Flower & Object , Visual merchandising Style Wind

gardening wedding display party decoration

BMH Exhibition ROSA SPP. 9.23-28 / Floral Design

Expectation, 08.2006 Magnolia kobus
Busan Biennale 2006 Sea Art Fstival Living Funiture

A magnolia indures a freezing winter and prepares to bloom on one fine spring day.
Magnolias bloom with a sweet gentle scent before the the leaves come out.
Narrowly escaping yet crossing two lines, tenses up the atmosphere. By displaying limited flowers between the crossing branches,this figure harmonizes the flowers and the empty space

Rebirth 08.2006 Boughs, Opium poppy

Opium poppy is considered as noble and beautiful as the Queen ‘Yang Kwi Bi’ from the Chinese Dang Dynasty in many Eastern countries. The Oriental style vase and the Opium poppy present a perfect match. Also, the wavy boughs and Opium poppies create a beautiful Oriental harmony with each other. The matching texture and color of the vase and boughs show unification and they make the vase look fuller. This piece of work doesn’t only show the beauty of the vase and the flower separately, but it shows the beauty of the harmonized vase and flowers.


Chronos Control is a technique that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. It is a technique that allows the user to time travel by using a Time Stone.

The only known users of the technique are Silver the Hedgehog, a time and Zone-traveler from the future, and his master, Mammoth Mogul. He utilized a Time Stone to initiate it. Using this techique allows the user to de - sync from the flow of time. When Silver travels through time and then returns to the future, he shows that the user is unaffected by the change in time while everyone else lives through it and does not notice any changes.

  • This technique is a alternative version of Chaos Control.
  • In Greek mythology, Chronos was the personification of time.
  • Chronos Control has a similar resemblence to Chaos Control, as each of these abilities start with the names of a god, such as "Chronos" and "Chaos" and have the name "Control" in them and they use special, mystical objects "Chronos Stone" and "Chaos Emerald" However, this ability is seperate from Chaos Control, as it only affects time, not time and space.


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Tiboro is a Inhuman Sorcerer who was banished from our world, but inadvertently freed by Doctor Strange.

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Tiboro was an Inhuman born thousands of years ago and worshiped as a great leader of a Peruvian tribe, Tiboro became so powerful that some said he ruled the entire world at one point. He harnessed the power of lightning, creating an electroplasmic ray to rule his world. He was banished from Earth to another realm known as the Sixth Dimension, and his great civilization collapsed. His followers that had been left behind, joined a growing cult of humans who worshiped god's who brought order through chaos which would later be known as HYDRA.

To orchestrate his return to Earth, Tiboro managed to maintain his link to Earth when he buried an object called the Screaming Idol. When the Idol was discovered it was brought to a lab at Culver University. When it was dusted, two scientists were sucked into the idol. Doctor Strange then investigated the event and discovered that it was Tiboro's work and then using his magic, Strange traveled to the sixth dimension to take back the archaeologists. Tiboro then took advantage of Doctor Strange's good will, so when he opened the portal for him to return, Tiboro followed and after realizing what he had done, Strange called upon his sorcerers as well as his wife Clea to defeat him before he could rule again.

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Tiboro is a powerful magician who can create portals between his realm and Earth, create flying discs for personal transportation, and attack others with powerful energy blasts. Within his own realm he had complete control of all inanimate matter.

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History of Electricity

Lewis Howard Latimer (1843-1928), a pioneer in the development of the electric light bulb, was the only Black member of Thomas A. Edison's research team of noted scientists. While Edison invented the incandescent bulb, it was Latimer, a member of the Edison Pioneers, and former assistant to telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who developed and patented the process for manufacturing the carbon filaments.

Electricity-Historical Timeline

1769 James Watt's first patent, in 1769, covered improvements on Newcomen's steam engine. The electrical unit, the watt, was named in his honor. Watt was the first person who coined the term horsepower.
1800 Alessandro Volta invents an electric battery, the first source of DC current.
1879 Thomas Alva Edison invented the ightbulb, and houses, shops, factories, schools, streets, ballparks -- every place you could think of, indoors and out -- could at last be easily illuminated after dark.
1881 Louis Latimer and fellow inventor Joseph V. Nichols received a patent for their invention of the first incandescent light bulb with carbon filament. Prior to this breakthrough, filaments had been made from paper.
1885 During his development of the braking and signaling systems, in the mid 1880s, George Westinghouse became quite interested in electricity. He began pursuing the technology of alternating current and he associated with those who were developing AC devices.
1888 Heinrich Hertz discovers and measures the waves, radio waves, predicted by Faraday and Maxwell.
1888 Nikola Tesla invents the first practicable AC motor and polyphase power transmission system,. Westinghouse acquired exclusive rights to Nikola Tesla's patent for the polyphase system and lured Tesla to join the electric company and continue his work on the AC motor he had developed.
1888 Oliver B. Shallenberger (1860 -1898), a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, Shallenberger left the Navy in 1884 to join the Westinghouse company. In 1888 he invented an induction meter for measuring alternating current, a critical element in the Westinghouse AC system.


Fancy Yourself Dressing Up More? Find Fashion Advice Here

There is much more to fashion than simply how you appear to others. It's also your mindset. It's how you tell people about yourself without speaking to them. It's about feeling amazing. To make a statement, read on.

fancy saree bandar malaysia A great purse is crucial to your outfit. It should always complement any of the other bags that you carry as well. This means your purse should match your briefcase if you need to use both of them on the same occasion. You should also never carry around more than two types of bags.

Don't buy something simply because of a great price. If it does not flatter your figure or fit your style, it's not worth it no matter how great a deal it is. You won't wear it, and your money will go to waste.

Try to stick to darker colors if you want to look skinny during the day. The slimming effects of the dark colors will avoid accenting any major body problems. The skirts you wear should have elastic waistbands to make you feel comfortable.

Try to build your own unique look. Try to be as unique as possible, so that you do not blend in with the crowd. It is up to individuals sometimes to create a style that people can appreciate and that others will follow.

Know how to dress your body's best and worst attributes. For a petite size, you should choose simple, fitted garments with small details and lengthening styles such as princess lines. Buxom women should wear noteworthy pants or skirts that draw others' eyes away from the bust. If your bottom half is larger than your top half, seek out darker pants and lighter tops.

Once you have your read this tips you will be ready to venture to the mall! So, if you want to look great and keep up with the latest trends, remember to apply the tips from the article above. You can start being someone who always looks good, and even better, feels good!


1) Be and Active Learner, not a passive learner.
Many universities teach their students to be active learners, not passive learners. An active learner:

Takes responsibility for his own learning. He doesn’t put int on his teacher. His teacher is only a guide.
Prepares before coming to class.
Schedules times for his study outside of class.
He writes questions down and investigates the answers from his notes.
He pays attention both in class and when he studies.
He takes his own notes in class.
He makes notes while he studies to help him understand the material.
He volunteers to teach other students that are weak in the class.

All students of the Bible ought to be active learners of the Bible. Take responsibility of knowing the Word of God for themselves and not put it on their pastor. They need to prepare, schedule times for their Bible studies, take notes, and teach others what they are learning from God’s word.

The secret to an excellent Bible study is learning to ask the right questions–Being a good detective.

2) Write down your findings and observations. Recording is Key. Writing is one of the things that distinguishes Bible studying from Bible reading. Writing is important for several reasons. First, it keeps a record of the things that God is revealing to you so that you can turn to later. We forget easily. Someone has said a short pencil is better than a long memory. So write it down. Many times, we have turned to our journal and seen how God has been speaking to us about a particular issue. Another reason for writing down is that writing is a modality for learning like listening, seeing and practicing. When you write something down, it helps you learn it more. A third reason is that our thoughts are reviewed when we write. Someone has said that “Thoughts disentangle themselves when they pass through the lips or the tip of a pen”. That is an astute observation.

3) Study the Bible systematically. Organize what you learn from the Bible into categorical systems. Don’t jump here and there. Doing Topical Bible Studies will help you to study the Bible in a systematic fashion.

4) Study the Bible Regularly : Study Daily.
You will grow more when you feed on God’s word daily than when you once in a while dedicate a few hours to study the Bible. A human being who frequently went days without eating physical food and then would binge eat would not be a healthy person. But one who eats daily and in small enough quantities will be a healthy person. So too it is with feeding your soul.

5) Schedule your studies. Don’t just do it when you feel like it. Making a schedule that we follow will ensure that we do it.

6) Choose the right time and right place. The right time is the time when you are most awake and fresh. For most people, this time is early in the morning. Choose a secluded place where you can lock yourself up from the rest of the world and focus on studying God’s word.

7) Prepare and Plan your studies. Have a plan of how your study time will be like. Prepare yourself by getting enough rest the night before

8) Don’t be shallow in your studies. God’s word cannot be exhausted, so dig deep and drink of the word of God.

9) Look for Jesus in the scriptures. From Genesis to Revelation, Jesus is the subject of the Bible. So look for him. You will be able to see Jesus in some of the dry passages of scripture like Leviticus and Numbers.

10) Memorize Scriptures. Hid God’s word in your mind so that you can use it to overcome the devil and defeat sin.

11) Surrendered will is essential to understand God’s word. You must be submitted to God and be willing to obey what he reveals to you.

12) Application is the goal of Bible study. Interpretation is only a means to an end, not the end itself.

13) Study with prayer. God does nothing except by prayer. So pray for understanding during your Bible Study.

14) Study with reliance on the Holy Spirit for illumination.

15) Repetition aids in learning. So remember to read each passage repeatedly.

16) Study Consistently. You will get more out of the Bible when you are consistent with your Bible study and do it frequently than you would if you only did it occasionally even if you spent a lot of time doing it on those occasions. In the same way, it is better to eat small portions daily than to go for weeks without physical food and then binge eat. If you repeat that over a short period of time, your physical health will fail you. The same is true for your spiritual health.


Stealing Bundles

A game for anyone who's good at matching cards.  Stealing bundles has the added fun of allowing a player to foil their opponent by capturing their cards unexpectedly.

What you'll need

Two players.
A table or other flat surface with seating for both players.
A standard deck of playing cards.

Setting up the Game

Each of the players picks a card from the deck, and the one who draws the highest card shuffles and deals out four cards, one at a time and face down, to both of the opponent and themselves.

Four cards from the deck are then laid out, face up and in a row, in the center of the table. The remaining cards are put aside.

Playing the Game

The dealers opponent goes first.  They look at the cards they were dealt in search of a card that matches in rank any of the four cards in the center.  If they have a card of the same rank, they place it on top of the matching card in the center and gather up the two card bundle stacking it face up to one side.

Throughout the game they add all other captured bundles face up onto this pile.

If two or more center cards are the same rank and match a card in a players hand they may use the one card they hold to collect all the center card matches.

If they have no matching cards, a card from their hand must be added to the ones in the center of the table.

Once the opponent has taken their turn, it is the dealers turn to try and capture a card, however, they have options.  They may either match and take one from the middle or "steal" the opponents bundle, if they have one, by matching the card on top of the bundle pile.

Play continues back and forth with players matching cards from their hands with a card from the center or using a card to "steal" the bundle of the other player.

When both players have played all four cards from their hand, four more cards are dealt to each player from the stack that was set aside at the beginning. Only players are dealt more cards. No more cards are dealt into the center.  When all the cards have been dealt and played, the game is over.  If one player runs out of cards first, the other player may continue to try to play cards from their hand.

Winning the Game

The player who has the most cards in their bundle pile at the end wins the game

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What does "Supplicate" mean?

(v. i.) To make petition with earnestness and submission; to implore (v. t.) To address in prayer; to entreat as a supplicant; as, to supplicate the Deity (v. t.) To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly; as, to supplicate blessings on Christian efforts to spread the gospel

Example: "He supplicated the King for clemency" Example: "Supplicate God's blessing" Example: "Supplicate for permission"

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House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said new allegations about fraud and corruption at the Export-Import Bank influenced his decision to take a harder look at whether Congress should reauthorize it.

"Given where the Export-Import Bank is today, and given accounts of what's gone on down there in terms of kickbacks and other things," Boehner said at a Wednesday news conference, "it's clearly time for all of the members to take a serious look at this."

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that four Ex-Im Bank employees were removed from their positions over allegations that they steered loans to favored companies and accepted gifts and kickbacks.

Boehner would not disclose whether he supports reauthorizing the bank, which provides loans and loan guarantees that help foreign companies buy U.S. goods. He described his role as a facilitator who will help his 233-member conference decide whether take up reauthorization legislation.

If the House doesn't act, the bank could cease to exist when its authorization expires Sept. 30.

A three-year reauthorization bill easily passed with Republican support in 2012, but an increasing number of conservative GOP members oppose the bank because they believe it has evolved into a form of corporate welfare. Many of the companies aided by the bank are large and profitable, and in some cases, the bank is helping foreign companies compete with U.S. firms.

Boehner made the remarks as the House Financial Services Committee conducted a hearing on whether to reauthorize the bank.

The panel's chairman, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, is a staunch opponent of renewing the bank.

"So who benefits?" Hensarling said at the hearing. "Overwhelmingly, and indisputably, it's some of the largest, richest, most politically-connected corporations in the world."

But Democrats on the panel argued in favor of renewal, saying the bank helps ensure a level playing field for American companies in the global market.

"This is about jobs," Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said. "If you brought this bill up on the House floor, we would get it passed."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Tuesday he plans to take up the legislation before the Sept. 30 deadline.

The bank's chances of survival are far better in the Senate, where Democrats are in the majority and only five Republicans would be needed to reach a 60-vote threshold on a reauthorization measure.


1. Code
  2. Python

Introducing NumPy

Numeric is a package that was originally developed by Jim Hugunin. It is considered the ancestor of NumPy, a Python library and an open-source project created by Travis Oliphant which stands for Numerical Python. Travis created NumPy by incorporating features of the Numarray package into Numeric.

The fundamental idea of NumPy is support for multidimensional arrays. So NumPy can be considered as the base for numerical computing in Python, and has been created to enable Python to be used in solving mathematical and scientific problems. The NumPy module provides us with hundreds of useful mathematical functions in addition to constants such as the base of natural logarithms (e) and pi (π).

This tutorial shows how we can use NumPy to work with multidimensional arrays, and describes the ndarray object, a fundamental object of the library.

Installing NumPy

Since Python doesn't come bundled with NumPy, the first step to use this library is to go ahead and install it. This can be simply done by running the following command in your command prompt:

To make sure that NumPy was installed successfully, run the following commands in Python's IDLE:

If the import statement at least runs successfully, then you are all set!

The ndarry Object

The ndarray is a fundamental object of NumPy. This object is an N-dimensional array, meaning that it contains a collection of elements of the same type indexed using N (dimensions of the array) integers.

The main attributes of ndarray are data type (dtype), shape, size, itemsize, data, and ndim. Let's learn what each attribute means through an example.

In this example we are going to use NumPy to create an array. I will not give the dimensions of the array and other information, as we will see that using the above attributes.

Notice that we used the array function to create an array. The output of the above script is as follows:

Let's now return to our attributes.

The dtype attribute can be run as shown in the following statement:

The above statement will return int32 as the data type. This means that the elements of the array are of type int32. I'm getting 32 as I'm using a 32-bit Python. If you are using a 64-bit Python, you will get int64, but we are dealing with integers at the end.

Since NumPy is used in scientific computing, it has many data types, as shown in the documentation. Notice that the majority of the NumPy data types end with a number, which indicates the number of bits associated with that type (this was mentioned briefly in the above paragraph).

The following examples show how we can convert from one type to another:

The above statements return the following:

Although we can convert from one type to another, it is important to note that we cannot convert a complex number into an integer or a float.

The shape attribute returns a tuple of the array dimensions. So the following statement:

will return (4,4), meaning that our array is composed of 4 rows and 4 columns.

The size attribute returns the number of elements in the array. Thus, if we type:

we will get 16 as the result, meaning that we have 16 elements in our array.

The itemsize attribute returns the size of one array element in bytes. The following statement:

will return 4. This means that each array element is of size 4-bytes.

The data attribute is a Python buffer object that points to the start of the array's data. If we type the following:

we will get the following: <memory at 0x0000021E7E8D7EA0>.

The attribute ndim will return the number of the array dimensions. So typing the following statement:

will return 2, that is the array consists of two dimensions.

After understanding what the different ndarray attributes mean, let's take a look at some more examples of using ndarray.

Example 1

Say we want to create a new array with one row and five columns. We would do that as follows:

The output of the above statement is: [1 2 3 4 5].

Example 2

In this example, I'm going to rewrite the first example in this tutorial, but using [ ] instead of ( ), as follows:

Example 3

This example shows how we use a structured data type, where we declare the field name and the corresponding data type:

If we print(data_type), we will get the following:

We can apply the height_type to an ndarray object, as follows:

Selecting Items

In this section I'm going to show you how to select specific items in the array. For our array shown above under the "ndarry Object" section, let's say we want to select the item located on the third row and the fourth column. We will do that as follows:

Remember that indexing here starts at 0, and that's why we wrote [2,3] instead of [3,4].

More on NumPy Arrays

In this section, we are going to delve deeper into NumPy arrays.

Empty (Uninitialized) Arrays

We can create an empty array using numpy.empty with the following syntax:

The meanings of the parameters in the above constructor are as follows

  • Shape: the shape (dimensions) of the empty array.
  • dtype: the desired output type, which is optional.
  • Order: if you want a C-style (row-major) array, you would type C; if you want a FORTRAN-style (column-major) array, you would type F.

So let's create an empty [2,2] array of type int. We can do that as follows:

The above script will return the following random values as the array wasn't initialized:

Array Filled With Zeros

In order to create an array where the elements are all zeros, we use numpy.zeros. The constructor here has the same syntax and parameters as in numpy.empty. So, if we want to create a [2,2] zeros array of type int, we can do that as follows:

The above script will return the following:

An array with all elements having the value 1 can be simply created in the same way as above, but with numpy.ones.

Arrays With Evenly Spaced Values Within a Given Range

We can use numpy.arange to create an array with evenly spaced values within a specified range. The constructor has the following format:

Below is the meaning of each parameter:

  • Start: this is where the interval begins. The default value is 0.
  • Stop: the end of the interval, provided that this number is not included.
  • Step: the spacing between values. The default value is 1.
  • dtype: the data type of the output. If not specified, the data type will be the same as that of the input.

Let's take an example of numpy.arange.

The result of the above script is:

Reshaping an Array

In order to reshape an array, we use the numpy.reshape function. This function gives a new shape to an array without changing its data. As shown in the documentation, the function has the following attributes: numpy.reshape(a, newshape, order='C'), where a is the array we would like to reshape, newshape is the new desired shape provided that the new shape should be compatible with the origin shape, and order is an optional argument which refers to the index order we would like to use to both read the array a and how we would like to place the elements in the reshaped array.

C means reading/writing the elements using C-like index order; F means reading/writing the elements using Fortran-like index order, and A means reading/writing the elements in Fortran-like index order if a is Fortran contiguous in memory, C-like order otherwise.

I know I've covered a lot in the above paragraph, but the concept is very simple. Let's take our original array my_array and try to reshape it. Remember that the new array (reshaped array) has to be compatible with the original array. For instance, my_array has the shape (4,4), that is we have 16 elements in the array, and the new array has to have that number of elements.

We can reshape my_array by setting it to have eight rows and two columns, as follows:

In which case we would have the following output, where we also have 16 elements.

What if we write the reshape statement as follows?

In this case, you would get the following error:

Concatenating Arrays

If we want to join two or more arrays of the same shape along a specific axis, we can use the numpy.concatenate function. The syntax of this function is: numnumpy.concatenate((a1, a2, ...), axis=0)y.concatenate. a1 and a2 are arrays having the same shape, and axis is the axis along which the arrays will be joined, provided that the default is 0.

Again, let's take an example to simplify the concept. In this example, we will be joining (concatenating) three arrays.

The output of the above code is as follows:

Splitting Arrays

Contrary to joining arrays as shown in the above section, let's see how we can split (divide) an array into multiple sub-arrays. This can be done using the following function:

ary is the array to be divided into sub-arrays. Regarding indices_or_sections, if it is an integer N, the array will be divided into N equal arrays along the axis. If it is a 1-D array of sorted integers, the entries indicate where along the axis the array is split. axis is the axis along which to split.

The following example will reverse what we have done in the previous example, that is to return the concatenated array into its three array constituents:

The output of the above script is:

As we saw in this tutorial, NumPy makes it very flexible to work with arrays. The tutorial was just a scratch on the surface of this interesting Python library. NumPy still has many more features to look at to get the most out of this library. A comprehensive book on the topic by the NumPy creator himself is Guide to NumPy.

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Using a Named Range to Fill a Data Validation List

I have to admit, this one took a little researching on my part. My boss stormed into my office with a quizzical look on her face (a usual occurrence) and said she was having difficulty doing something in Excel. She’s normally pretty good with Excel, so I know when that is her problem, it’s not going to be an easy fix. She proceeded to go to my white board in order to sketch out her problem (another indication that this was going to be a doosie) and then stumbled over her own words and drawings (the final nail in the coffin…this was going to be a fun one).

In a nutshell, her problem was this: she’s creating an interactive spreadsheet where the user selects an item from Dropdown A and then picks a different item from Dropdown B. Dropdown B is populated with items based on what was selected in Dropdown A. A simple example would be when you go to one of those websites that sells car parts or quotes car values, they first ask you for the make of the car, and then ask you for the model. The “model” dropdown only includes cars of the given make.

Shouldn’t be a problem, thought I. I’ll just write a macro that fires when the first dropdown is changed and populates the second dropdown accordingly. “And I can’t use a macro,” she said, “because it’s going to executives.” Ah, executives. The struggle to explain how to run a macro when Excel defaults to disabling them is an eternally frustrating one. And macros always tend to fail at the most embarrassing times.

So, what to do now. I knew that I could name a range, and I knew that I could use a named range for the data validation. What I did not know was this little gem of a function:

This function looks at the value of a cell and considers the text of it, not the reference to it. I sincerely doubt that I’m explaining that correctly. Essentially, we are going to use the value of the first drop down to define the named range that is to be used in the second drop down. Simple.

These are the lists we will be using for this example. The first column is car manufacturers (makes) and the second list is models. Note that the data does not define which models are made by which manufacturers – that is going to be defined by named ranges.

Named Ranges

First, split up the models column into the named ranges (makes) the models represent. For instance, cells I2:I5 are Fords, and cells I6:I8 are Toyotas, so the named ranges should be “Ford” and “Toyota”.

Named Ranges Defined

Next, use the first list of makes as a List Data Validation for your first dropdown. Do this in cell A3.

Data Validation

Finally, and here comes the magic, use an INDIRECT formula for the List Data Validation of the second dropdown. This will use the first dropdown’s value as the name of the Named Range used to populate the second dropdown.

Equals Indirect

That’s it! When a user selects an item from the first dropdown, let’s say “Ford”, the second dropdown is populated with items from the named range called “Ford”. Note that List Data Validation needs to be a one dimensional array. If you require a second dimension to your data, consider a VLOOKUP to be used in conjunction with the above method.

As always, I hope I was explicit enough with my post, but if you have any questions or problems with this method, please do not hesitate to post comments below.


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Note: No cheats used. Just Save States. The game is endless. I killed myself after levels start repeating.

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Password Friction

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We’ve all dealt with this: Horrifying password creation experiences. I was trying to set up an account with a service that’s mandatory for me to use… I followed their instructions for setting up a password, but this error message came up each of the 7 times I tried submitting the form:

Your password must be 8 to 20 characters and may include upper or lowercase letters (A-Z and a-z), numbers (0-9), spaces, and special characters. You must use at least one letter and one number. You cannot use the same character in four or more consecutive positions (for example, AAAa is valid, but AAAA is not valid) and you cannot use four or more sequential characters, in ascending or descending order, in a row (for example, ABCD and 4321 are not allowed).

The seventh try was when, by the process of elimination, I figured out that it actually does not allow for the number 0.

We all need to work hard on making error messages that tell the user what the actual problem is. Not instructions that are even more verbose and require users to create a bulleted list that they can check off to find the exact cause of the problem on their own. If this was a product that wasn’t mandatory for me, I would have left as soon as I saw that error message.


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Exploring Planetary Worlds

A book read more for it’s pictures than the text surrounding them, Exploring Planetary Worlds is a guide to our Solar System.

Setup in six chapters with an extended prologue and epilogue, author David Morrison takes us on a grand tour of the planets that make up or Solar System. From little Mercury, close to the sun to frozen Pluto, Morrison provides extensive photographs (when available), diagrams and text to explore the differences and similarities between the various planets that make up the Solar System.

The prologue provides a fairly extensive introduction to the history of Astronomy and exploration of the Solar System. Knowledge from the Greeks and other ancient civilizations are compared and contrasted to the discoveries in the Renaissance by those such as Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. Basic information on planetary motion and gravity is provided and is explained in a way that is easy to understand for both scientists and non-scientists.

The heart of Exploring Planetary Worlds consists of 6 chapters. These chapters include:

Giants – the Jovian planets
Cratered Worlds – the Moon and Mercury
Strange Twins – Venus and Earth
Destination Mars – The planet most like Earth
Fire and Ice – small bodies in the outer Solar System
Remnants of Creation – comets, asteroids, and the origin of the Solar System

The chapters are all filled with amazing photographs from space probes that have visited the various planets and their systems. These include photographs from the Mariner missions, the Galileo mission, the Voyager missions, Apollo missions, Viking missions and more. Some of the shots are simply amazing, others most people have probably seen in the news. In addition to the photographs, Morrison includes sketches and diagrams to explain various concepts that are introduced in the text, such as planetary magnetic fields, and rotational anomalies.

The text in each chapter clearly goes over the history of exploration for each planet, the craft that have visited it, the current state of knowledge (as of 1993) and any future missions planned for the planets. The text is easy to read without becoming too bogged down in simplicity or in detail. Astronomy can be an incredibly exciting topic, but can get very tedious for the average reader when too much detail is provided - Exploring Planetary Worlds strikes a good balance, providing enough information to explain basic concepts, while not going so in-depth that the average reader loses interest.

The prologue of the book takes in a topic that didn’t fit in elsewhere, that of impacts to the planetary bodies. This idea is explored here on earth and what a catastrophic impact would mean (or has meant) for life on earth. It’s thought that 65 million years ago, an asteroid impact hastened (or caused) the extinction of dinosaurs and even as recently as the early twentieth century, a major comet or asteroid exploded over Tunguska region of Siberia flattening a 30 kilometer radius of forest. This asteroid or comet didn’t even reach the surface, exploding about 10 kilometers up in the atmosphere, just imagine if it had made it all the way down or exploded further down in the atmosphere. Morrison’s explanation of this topic is fascinating and timely, considering that NASA is now considering how to notify and warn people if an asteroid were hitting the Earth.

Rounding out the rest of Exploring Planetary Worlds, is a list of further reading for anyone interested in finding out more about various planets or the Solar System in general, a list of all the sources of the illustrations and photographs and finally an index that makes it easy to find specific information in the book.

I find this book fascinating. I’ve always loved astronomy and Exploring Planetary Worlds is a great way to expand my knowledge and get some great pictures of the various planets. While it’s a bit basic, it nevertheless grabs my attention and I’ve found myself flipping through it time and time again taking a glimpse at the Solar System we are a part of.

If anyone is looking for a basic introduction to the bodies of the Solar System, they can’t go wrong with Exploring Planetary Worlds by David Morrison.

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October 23, 2012

Teaching as the Practice of Wisdom

Deirdre Bailey

October 20, 2012

Math is beautiful

It has been a bit of a battle this year to convince our students that mathematics is not disconnected. They seemed to arrive in our classroom at 9 years old with the conviction that the discipline exists sequentially, layered based on varying degrees of difficulty, some of which will remain inaccessible to the more artistically minded for most of their lives. We have been working hard to share that math is in fact a wonderfully complex web of recurring concepts, ideas, and patterns accessible through many different points from a variety of perspectives, and consisting of infinite possibilities awaiting discovery.

Our year began again with conversations about what we call multiples, what it means to be a multiple, and what a multiple of the number one is. We wouldn't let our students dismiss multiples of one as "obvious" or "easy," insisting that they consider what it means to be the number one. For example, how the number one can be manipulated without losing its integrity and how it is a part of other larger numbers. Before the fall break, we had explored multiples of one to nine, discovered patterns, noticed which ones fall into columns on hundreds chart, and noticed which multiples connected to others and how.

On Monday of this week we shared Perry the Platypus' birthday dilemma....

at this point in the year, students were quick to glue the problem in their journals and begin documenting their thinking as they worked through answering Perry's question. Some flipped back through their journals to remind themselves of previous discoveries they had made about multiples. Some organized their work in charts and some in diagrams or bullet points. Each was now familiar with the idea of writing down every thought or "a-ha!" that resulted from their considering the problem.

Almost all of the students jumped right to identifying that in one year Perry would be a multiple of 2, 4 and 8 because every multiple of 8 is also a multiple of 2 and 4. Many wrote notes to remind themselves that the smallest multiple of any number is that number itself. One cool observation that resulted from this problem was that Perry would be a multiple of every single one of these numbers by the time he was 12 BUT that when he was 11, he would not be a multiple of any of these numbers! One student wrote... 'It seemed important to notice that both 7 and 11 are only multiples of one and themselves...' PRIME! Another student noticed that when Perry was an odd-numbered age, then he was only a multiple of odd numbers and he expanded to state that odd numbers can only have odd factors!

The coolest part of the week however, was the conversations that resulted at the tables who had begun working through an extension to the problem which asked..

How long will Perry have to wait to be a multiple of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 all at the same time?

At first the question seemed overwhelming and intimidating to many students. They had been preconditioned to focus on finding a solution. We suggested that they look instead at which numbers on a hundreds chart were definitely NOT a solution. For example, which numbers on a hundreds chart were NOT multiples of 5... Right away we were met with excitement..

"WE JUST ELIMINATED 80 NUMBERS! A multiple of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 HAS to end in 5 or 0."
Students excitedly crossed 8 columns of numbers off their list when one double takes again...
"Wait... the number we're looking for also has to be a multiple of 2.. it CAN'T be odd... FIVES ARE OUT!"
"So we've got ten numbers left and we're looking to see which one of these ten is a multiple of 3, 4 and 6.."
"But if it's a multiple of 3 it HAS to be a multiple of 6.."
"Right so just 4 and 6.."

Looking at multiples of 6 students immediately eliminated everything but 30, 60 and 90. One noticed that multiples of 6 only end in zero if they are multiplied by a multiple of 5. The last step was to eliminate numbers that were not multiples of 4. As 30 and 90 were eliminated, another student noticed that multiples of 4 which end in zero HAVE to have an even number in the tens spot.

As we wrapped things up for the day on Thursday, one student commented as he reluctantly closed his journal; "Mrs. Bailey, I never knew math was so exciting. It twists and turns and loops and connects all over the place and it just seems to go on forever!"

Math is beautiful.