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I found this blog when looking for images of Duchamp and decided to copy and post it here. It links to my 'Vandalising Rothko' piece and at the time I had no idea what Yellowism was! I found it very interesting so I reposted it in full. It is clear that Vladimir Umanets was very influenced by Duchamp. I want to make it clear that I do not necessarily agree with what's written here, I'm not sure I can even understand it! However, I believe that Umanets was motivated by a strong force and the question "What Is Art For?" is still a valid pursuit. He showed courage and commitment to do what he did but I'm not convinced by his philosophy at this stage.
Here's an interesting post from Interdome about the treatment of Umanets i.e. giving him a two year prison sentence for defacing the Rothko:
As a case study, let's look at Ai's Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn.
On the surface level, the photo set appears to mock artistic fetishism: Ai looks like he could not possibly give a fuck as he lets the valuable artifact shatter on the ground. There's a sublime disregard in the pictures; it's art against art like Kruger's sentences are ads against ads. But as an artist, Ai can't destroy art, he can only make more. From one urn, he gets three pictures. If I went into the Hirshhorn, grabbed one of the photos off the wall, and let it fall to ground like I didn't give a fuck, I would be arrested and taken to jail. It's only freedom of expression if you break something you own, otherwise it's vandalism.
One true vandal learned this lesson (or taught it) very publicly when Vladimir Umanets was sentenced to two years in prison for writing "a potential work of yellowism" on a Mark Rothko painting in London's Tate Modern. Yellowism is the idea that if anything can become art regardless of its use value, then we could imagine a third category of stuff past art, in light of which the art/non-art distinction dissolves. Both are equally potential works of yellowism, just like a soup can and a urinal are equally art objects. Umanets writing "a potential work of yellowism" on a Rothko is the same as Duchamp Sharpie-ing "a potential work of art" on a toilet while he takes a piss. Except Umanets isn't an artist. We know he's not an artist because he's in jail in England, and England, Ai would remind us, has freedom of expression.
Umanets wasn't looking for freedom of expression, but freedom from expression, out from under the artistic injunction to replace what you destroy. He wanted to break without buying, but that's not in liberalism's deal. And no one cries for a vandal.
Because Umanets is a vandal and not an artist, there won't be any complaints from the U.S. State Department. Because this is England and not Russia, there won't be a Human Rights Watch report, as there was for the band Pussy Riot when they were arrested for trespassing. Even anti-capitalist arts writers called for his head on a platter.
The Collection of Writings on Yellowism 2010 – 2013 www.thisisyellowism.com/texts
The Official Vladimir Umanets Website.www.vladimirumanets.com
NO ONE LIVES FOREVER
The Legendary Third Exhibition of Yellowism.
Natalia Vodianova Yellowistic Chamber, London 2012.
www.noonelivesforever.info
YELLO-ARCHIVE
TEXTS ABOUT YELLOWISM
Jon Rothenberg
for Tumblr.
Anonymous asked: FUCK OFF PLEASE
29 Mar 2013 / 0 notes
►► The Authors of the Death
by Marcin Lodyga
When looking from art perspective, one can say that yellowism is a dead territory where the richness of meanings and interpretations is reduced to one – to yellow. But one needs to remember that yellowists don't announce the death of art. Art is and will be alive forever. They rather say that yellowism is dead, inert, homogeneous mass without creativity. Authors of the manifesto and definition of yellowism are the authors of the death – yellowists are the authors of a single interpretation. This death is positioned outside of art, like mirror.
Roland Barthes in "The Death of the Author" says: "To give a text an Author" and assign a single, corresponding interpretation to it "is to impose a limit on that text." Barthes argues against the method of reading that relies on aspects of the author's identity — their political views, historical context, religion, ethnicity, psychology, or other biographical or personal attributes — to distill meaning from the author's work. Yellowists want to impose a limit on the text, on art, and on ordinary reality too, but not by giving a "text" an author. Paraphrasing Barthes I say: To give a "text" a YELLOW and assign a single, corresponding interpretation to it is to impose a limit on the text. Barthes demands the death of the author (author disappears) because the author's identity limits the text, the reading. In yellowism case author also disappears and yellow – the necessary "limitation" appears instead of the author.
Inside yellowism the artistic kingdom of meanings and interpretations is erased together with the author. It doesn't matter WHO made a piece of yellowism because all pieces were, are and will be about yellow only. Yellowism is permanent, boring, inert, homogeneous flat, 'dead' mass. Always was and always will be. Like in the forest where all the trees (meanings) 'look' the same – wherever you go you are in the same place anyway. A thousand kilometers left, two meters right or backwards – you are always in the same place. In yellowism the nature of the authors has "the identity of the indistinguishable forest".
Barthes conclusion: "the birth of the reader must be ransomed by the death of the Author." Yellowism conclusion: the death of meanings and the death of the author must be ransomed by the birth of single meaning – yellow.
22 Mar 2013 / 1 note / yellowism texts about yellowism barthes
Marcin Lodyga
"Sounds from the chamber"
piece of yellowism
for public audition in yellowistic chambers only
CD / audio recording of a walk through Miroslaw Balka exhibition Gravity made in the gallery space
executed in 2013
18 Mar 2013 / 1 note / piece of yellowism yellowism miroslaw balka marcin lodyga gravity
Anonymous asked: please can you explain the relevance of all the tits and bums on this site to yellowism. Is yellowism tits and bums? is that the context everything is reduced to?
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4 Mar 2013 / 1 note / the yellowist's choice
Anonymous asked: At least Marinetti was funny..
27 Feb 2013 / 4 notes / yellowism potential piece of yellowism documentary marcin lodyga vladimir umanets
►► Luncheon on the grass
(on the grass: Arthur Danto, Roy Turner, Joseph Kosuth, Marcin Lodyga)
What makes the difference between a Brillo box and a work of art consisting of a Brillo box is a certain theory of art. It is the theory that takes it up into the world of art, and keeps it from collapsing into the real object which it is. – Arthur Danto. But to expose the irrelevance of this idea when attributed to the tradition, we have only to ask what "real object", "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe" by Manet collapses into when the implicit theory which supported it is refuted. – ask another thinker Roy Turner (Philosophy Now magazine)
Marcin Lodyga starts: If "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe" by Manet was placed in the context of yellowism, inside a yellowistic chamber, then it would stop to be a work of art and it would become a piece of yellowism – a pure expression of yellow color in the form of Manet painting. Inside yellowism the painting by Manet is not a work of art. We have only to ask what piece of yellowism "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe" by Manet collapses into when the implicit context of yellowism which supported it is refuted. The answer: it collapses into a work of art, it becomes a work of art again, it gains its previous status.
Painting is a kind of art. If you make paintings you are already accepting (not questioning ) the nature of art. One is then accepting the nature of art to be the European tradition of a painting-sculpture dichotomy. – nervously said Joseph Kosuth ("Art After Philosophy"). Dear Joseph – Marcin replies – in the context of yellowism – which is NOT a kind of total, huge conceptual art work, as you would consider it probably, painting is not a work of art. You said: "Art is the definition of art", I say: yellowism is the definition of yellowism.
text by Marcin Lodyga
27 Feb 2013 / 3 notes / yellowism marcin lodyga texts about yellowism kosuth manet
The Flaneur art blog- Should Umanets really be jailed for 2 years for defacing a Rothko? #yellowism –
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New Post has been published onhttp://flaneur.me.uk/12/should-umanets-really-be-jailed-for-2-years-for-defacing-a-rothko-yellowism/
Should Umanets really be jailed for 2 years for defacing a Rothko? #yellowism
26 Feb 2013 / Reblogged from flaneurphotos with 5 notes / yellowism
Interdome: As a case study, let's look at Ai's Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn. On the…
interdome:
On the surface level, the photo set appears to mock artistic fetishism: Ai looks like he could not possibly give a fuck as he lets the valuable artifact shatter on the ground. There's a sublime disregard in the pictures;…
26 Feb 2013 / Reblogged from interdome with 4 notes / yellowism
fixedgearbikesyeah asked: NO ONE CARES
9 Feb 2013 / 1 note
justiceismine asked: Yellowism is neither art, nor anti-art but a cause. Some might ask if Yellowism is needed or say it's pathetic/stupid but I say it deserves it's place as did Jackson Pollock for example, which he did not get at his time.
6 Feb 2013 / 3 notes
spacecowboysparklefingers asked: No one is going to drink your yellow kool-aid. Your totalitarian snake oil ideology has been ineffectual and irrelevant since De Stijl/Neoplasticism tried it. There is no dialogue here, you won't even respond to this with anything more than an "X". Please don't write on anymore Rothko's (or any other pieces of art for that matter), they are not yours to write on, and some people really enjoy them. No one wants you here yellowism, go home.
"You can start painting again, in yellowism"
yellowistic draft
signed and dated on the front
poster printed for the occasion of Duchamp season in Barbican, London
29 Jan 2013 / 9 notes / yellowism barbican duchamp
►► Rome outside of art
Yellowism is not dadaism or neo-dadaism. If you think that yellowism is dadaism then actually you are a dadaist, because you try to devalue yellowism and make it meaningless. Dadaists were nihilists and they "promoted" nonsense. The fact that in yellowism everything means yellow leads to the wrong conclusion that everything means nothing and therefore yellowism is perceived as nihilism /dadaism. This is the big misunderstanding. The real consequence of yellowism existence is the philosophy of ONE and the vision of many different isms (existing outside of art) which can be reduced to (one) yellow-ism anyway. Although yellowism clones exist under different names – they are yellowism. In the future: many one-perspective "worlds". Not only one "world" full of perspectives (meanings), many various subjective interpretations – like in postmodernism, especially postmodern art, but also many separate "worlds" (greenism, blueism, chairism) with one perspective each, concentrated on one meaning only. Yellowism, divided into many isms, will be positioned away from the forever developing, "organic" realm of art.
The total flattening announced by yellowists is more humanitarian than dadaism because it doesn't leave people with nothing – inside the desert of meanings where you can watch only the wrecks and corpses of culture. Yellowists save one meaning (yellow) for everything and also they let you live in the "yellowistic totalitarian illusion of many"- you can exist in autonomous groups called greenism, blueism, chairism or skyism etc. but you will be a yellowist anyway. All roads lead to Rome. The universal Rome – the absolute truth will be always outside of art.
Dadaists are nihilists, they do not offer anything, they don't show a new perspective, new possibilities, they replace everything with nothing. » Dada (…) wants nothing, absolutely nothing, and what it does is to make the public say " We understand nothing, nothing, nothing ". "The Dadaists are nothing, nothing, nothing and they will surely succeed in nothing, nothing, nothing." « 391, No. 12, Paris, March 1920 Francis Picabia who knows nothing, nothing, nothing.
Nihilists say that without absolute, universal, and transcendent values, there can be no real values at all. Friedrich Nietzsche, however, argues that the lack of such absolute values does not imply the absence of any values at all. Nietzsche "permits" the values of many different and even mutually exclusive perspectives. This is called "perspectivism" – all ideations take place from particular perspectives. This means that there are many possible conceptual schemes, or perspectives in which judgment of truth or value can be made. This leads (me) to postmodernism. Postmodernism is the consequence of Nietzsche's perspectivism but is nihilistic. The proliferation of alternative perspectives, beliefs and values makes that postmodern society is foundationless.
This what we see in the galleries is the result of postmodernism or post-post modernism, or postpostpostmodernism, whatever. Many perspectives, many points of view, not one grand and universal but many interpretations closed inside the circle called "art". In the future artists will resign from art, will abandon this circle. Art full of many perspectives will still exist but will be surrounded by – isms. Some artists will never leave the territory of art but there will be yellowists, greenists, chairists looking at them from outside – located in one perspective circles.
All the other isms are actually yellow-ism because, they have the same architecture, logic. Finally they can be reduced to yellowism, flattened to yellow-ism. However, people will need this totalitarian illusion of many isms, they will construct their own contexts, for example greenism,redism, chairism or godism, and they will be happy inside the isms but all the new one-meaning worlds can be always considered as yellowism.
Yellowism doesn't replace (like dadaism) all the values with nothing, yellowism gives one sense instead of nonsense. Yellowism presents the vision of many autonomous territories around multiperspective art. Yellowism saves the ONE – whatever it is: blue, green, chair and offers the new grand philosophy of ONE.
20 Jan 2013 / 7 notes / yellowism marcin lodyga texts about yellowism
mysar:
yellow posterby rasym aka. mysar
19 Jan 2013 / Reblogged from mysar with 3 notes
Marcin Lodyga, Khadija Davies
Portrait of Members of Art & Language with Caps, in the Style of Jackson Pollock
signed and dated 18/01/13 on the front
magazine cover, pink ink
18 Jan 2013 / 3 notes / yellowism yellowistic draft marcin lodyga khadija davies
The authors of manifesto and definition of yellowism Marcin Łodyga and Vladimir Umanets at The British Museum in London (January 2012).
© Sylwester Kolton.
21 Dec 2012 / 6 notes / yellowism vladimir umanets marcin lodyga
►► Discipline and punish.The birth of the black hole
Yellowists see the whole domain of reality and the whole domain of art as gigantic readymades which can be transported into the context of yellowism. Yellowism is a specific prison, a ghetto in which you are free from freedom, in which the freedom of interpretation doesn't exist. Every content placed in this territory defines yellow color. It requires a noetic discipline. You have to respect the internal yellowism law. Yellowism is a bit like a black hole – most of the information about the matter that went into forming the black hole is lost. In the end yellowism only remembers the total mass, charge, and angular momentum. The physical form of objects and beings transported from art and reality is preserved, but all the forms carry only one, always and forever the same, identical message. You can observe that something is moving inside, you can watch pieces of yellowism free from the past and future; there is a movement but there is actually no time.
Yellowists don't punish art, they don't take a revenge on art or reality. Manifesto of yellowism is not a death sentence for art. Yellowists don't destroy and don't create. Yellowism is not vandalism and it's not a form of creation. There is no postmodern, Derrida's deconstruction, any destruction or creative construction inside yellowism. There is something else: flatstruction. Everything is flattened to yellow, all interpretations are ironed to one flat surface, to one meaning. The total flattening (flatstruction) is a state of permanent homogeneity. Yellowists don't create and they don't destroy, they make everything flat therefore, inside yellowism, deconstruction, creativity, vandalism, surrealism or fascism or anything else is flattened to one, to the expression of yellow.
Artists push the boundaries of art and are imprisoned in their seeming freedom. Yellowists are free outside of art. They resigned from art, they overstepped the boundary and the fact that everything can be about yellow gives them the almost cosmic freedom.
21 Dec 2012 / 0 notes / texts about yellowism
►► A dead animal
Today you can overstep the border, you can be a bit like Alice through the looking glass, you don't have to, together with other artists, push the boundaries of art further anymore, now it's time to cross it and discover the another, still unknown for many, space called yellowism. Of course, you can stay where you are and run your artistic life in harmony with the motion of postmodernism. Yellowists don't announce the end of art; they say in manifesto: art is a forever developing whole. They don't promote a slogan: "art is dead", they rather say that yellowism is dead and always was dead and always will be dead. Therefore they don't want to replace art with yellowism. They just introduce a new autonomous territory, specific environment which is parallel to the context of art. They give you a vision of time in culture when the resignation from art will be a trend. Yellowists show you the possibility of alternative existence in which the fact that you abandon art is considered as the most creative decision. It doesn't matter what the condition of art will be after twenty or hundred years – yellowism will be still the same. Any changes and any progress around yellowism are and will be, metaphorically speaking, like a tank of formaldehyde for a dead animal.
17 Dec 2012 / 4 notes / texts about yellowism yellowism marcin lodyga
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Filed under Art, Art Vandalism, Florence, Rothko, Uncategorized, Yellowism
The news item that interested me most in the past week is about the vandalising of a Mark Rothko canvas in the Tate gallery. The kind of outcry that this caused was quite interesting. An article by Jonathon Jones in The Guardian described it as virtually a sacrilegious act even though it's not a religious painting. He displays a sense of awe and wonder that puts all Great Artists on a pinnacle and compares their work to some kind of deep spiritual experience. Other articles in the same paper either give a history of the grand tradition of vandalising art or described works of art that might be improved by vandalism!
The vandalised Rothko. He writes "a potential piece of Yellowism". But how will it become an actual piece of Yellowism? Will this improve the value of the painting as Umanets has suggested?
Included in his article Jonathon Jones expresses outrage concerning the vandalism of Michelangelo's Pieta with a hammer. I dare say many people share this outrage and agree with the many comments on Twitter that would condemn these perpetrators to torture, death or worse. However, there as been a long history of vandalising Great works of art. I am writing this in Florence, Italy and found out before this recent act that Michelangelo's iconic sculpture David was vandalised with a hammer shortly after it was erected. It seems that hammers, knives and machetes are the most favoured weapons of destruction for vandalising art but shotguns and sulphuric acid have also been used. The statue symbolised Florence's republican resistance to the autocracy of the Medicis (David versus Goliath) and was seen as a legitimate target by the supporters of the aristocracy! But perhaps the biggest collective act of vandalism occured during the English Civil War when a massive amount of art work and buildings were destroyed by the Puritans. Henry VIII was quite a major perpetrator as well when he dissolved the monasteries in search of loot!
Showing the damage done to Michelangelo's Pieta with a hammer.
Vladimir Umanets was an unknown Pole until last week. Now he has achieved celebrity by tagging Rothko's "Black on Maroon" at the Tate Modern. He compares himself to Marcel Duchamp who signed a urinal and presented it for exhibition in 1917 thus creating perhaps the first piece of conceptual art. He also likens himself to Damian Hurst who has signed his name to work he has not done. Umanets has said he is part of a new art movement (consisting of him and one other) called Yellowism. He expresses an appreciation of Rothko's work who he sees as a seminal Yellowist. Now, is this guy crazy or is he making a valid point?
Duchamp famously produced a post card featuring the Mona Lisa on which he drew a moustache and goatee beard. No doubt, he would have preferred to have defaced the real picture but was either unable to or too scared of the consequences. Either way it was a controversial act that blew a giant raspberry at the art establishment and became iconic in it's own right and later, in a parody of the conventions of classical art, was copied by Salvador Dali albeit with a different moustache. Dali had his own style in vandalism. When presented with a picture by Andy Warhol, apparently he threw it on the floor and pissed on it. Warhol remained calm and detached throughout. Perhaps he couldn't decide whether it was a compliment or an insult!
Duchamp's great masterpiece!!
I think Umanets was quite brave in what he did. Witnesses say he sat quietly for a long time and then wrote on the painting with a black pen. He knew he would be caught and was ready with his explanation. Unfortunately, he either hasn't said (or it hasn't been reported) what Yellowism actually is. This would make it more meaningful like the anti-war protest perpetrated on Picasso's Guernica. Defacing Great works of art will always get you attention and will guarantee you a place in history (although maybe for all the wrong reasons)!
"Lies all Lies" written on Picasso's Guernica. This is a strange protest considering the painting is already anti -war. Why didn't he pick a painting that glorified war of which there are many?
Another remarkable case of vandalism was when suffragette Mary Richardson attacked Rokeby's Venus with a meat cleaver. This actually became a picture in itself. She was drawing attention to the hunger strike of Mrs. Pankhurst that was happening at the time. Considering the subject matter of the painting it could also been seen as an act of proto-feminism.
Mary Richardson being apprehended at the National Gallery, London after attacking Rokesby's Venus with a meat cleaver.
Personally, my favourite piece of art vandalism is when two Chinese students stripped to the waist and had a pillow fight on Tracy Emin's Bed. Although, in this case, a more effective piece of vandalism would be if someone sneaked in and tidied it up and washed the sheets. Now that would be hilarious!
Bouncing on Tracy Emin's bed!


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Yep--it came as you see it there, hand painted details and all.
color comps to acrylic capped abs...very nice match.
Scott that is a lovely aquisition, congrats. Ref the battle spec i thought everyone new that AA adjusted his molds for that lid to tidy it up a bit and make it more symetrical?
The SDS Battlespec helmet was definitely manipulated to make it more symmetrical and is therefore an intentionally inaccurate piece.
Are you the only non fx wearer in your G?
thanks guys...I do love that helmet.
Yeah Mark, it looks that way, doesn't it!
No offense to my FX-wearing colleagues but I just can't get used to those things. One of the shots above shows the MR helmet behind me...another big contrast to the T*E.
Hey im loving Terrells anh holster what did you think?
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Oh... forgot to ask... the abs helmet... is that something T*E is offering regularly now or did you just get lucky?
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Pop star Rihanna on Thursday denounced Snapchat after an advertisement made light of her beating by fellow pop star Chris Brown, sending the company's share prices tumbling.
The social media platform which counts 187 million users, especially young people drawn to its quickly vanishing posts had featured an advertisement for "Would You Rather?," a game app that asks sometimes provocative questions.
The commercial showed the two singers and asked Snapchat users whether they would rather "slap Rihanna" or "punch Chris Brown." The company pulled the advertisement and apologized, but Rihanna took to rival platform Instagram to denounce Snapchat. "You spent money to animate something that would intentionally bring shame to DV (domestic violence) victims and made a joke of it!!!!" she wrote.
According to CNN, Snapchat Lost $800 Million After Rihanna Criticized Its Offensive Ad. The ad, which was created by a third party but had to undergo an approval process by Snapchat, was taken down, but not before quite a lot of damage was done. Snapchat stocks plunged by 4 percent on Thursday, according to The Wall Street Journal, losing the app nearly a billion dollars this week—evidently due to Rihanna fans who decided to delete the platform from their smartphones.


Nicole Myers was born and raised in Wallaceburg, a small town between Windsor and London, Ontario. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a degree in Acting from the University of Windsor and moved to Toronto in 2006 where she worked as an actor and stage manager.She joins the Roseneath team after multi-tasking with Meredith Potter at Volcano Theatre and Peggy Baker Dance Projects as the Manager of Communications and Enrichment. From 2012 – 2014 she worked at Opera Atelier, a Baroque opera company that performs out of the Elgin Theatre, as the Development Coordinator and then Manager of Corporate Development and Special Events.
Overlapping both these jobs, Nicole was the Producer for Shakespeare in the Ruff's 2014 production of Cymbeline's Reign and then the company's General Manager throughout the 2015 season.
Nicole is absolutely in the love with the arts scene in Toronto, and is thrilled to be working with such a warm and supportive company like Roseneath Theatre.
Past TYA touring credits as an actor include: Stellaluna (Kids Entertainment), The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Touring Players), The Power of One (Sorren Bennick).
Past Apprentice Stage Management credits include: The Glass Managerie, Ghosts, Parfumerie (Soulpepper), Armide (Opera Atelier). Stage Manager: Dirty Butterfly(Fringe 2012), Ally & Kev (SummerWorks 2012).


After very-public fissures appeared in the Boston Celtics after yet another regression to sub-standard play, and an even more public leadership epiphany from star point guard Kyrie Irving, the Celtics continue to win.
Is it a change in mindset that's making the difference? Communication? Style of play? Join Cam Tabatabaie and Justin Quinn as they gingerly tip-toe around whether the change is for real, what they think is behind it, and the schedule ahead, as well as All-Star voting returns, the pros and cons of Marcus Smart's intensity, and more. We even get a chance to talk with UK correspondent Josh Coyne about this year's London Game, how the NBA continues to grow overseas, and of course, the (sad) state of the rivalry that maybe never was with the Washington Wizards through the eyes of Markieff Morris, Marcus' twin brother.
We're also sandboxing a new feature, just to see if you all are interested - a "voicemail-bag" of sorts so you can submit your own questions each week, and be part of the pod. We can of course just answer your questions if you don't want to be heard, but you'll have to let us know if that's the case. Use the service linked in this sentence to record your question or comment, post a link to the recording it generates in the comments below, and we'll include the best in our next show. As with the site, so goes the show - criticism is welcome and cursing is fine, but epithets and similar commentary are not.


The recently opened Verandah Moonshine in Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi caught our eye with its unbelievable reviews online. We had to go and see what the brouhaha was all about and believe you me, Verandah turned out to be a lot more than what we had imagined. It is a courtyard-themed restaurant with a beautiful rooftop seating and sinful food to pamper yourself with. Their hospitality, ambience and of course the food surpassed all our expectations!
Our afternoon began with a Summer Treat (Orange and Pineapple Mocktail) which went perfectly with the food and really was a treat to our palate. We went with Chef Pawan Bisht's recommendations and kicked off our meal with Cream Cheese Stuffed Tandoori Aloo, Sago Popcorn, Verandah's Signature Chicken Boti Kebabs (served cutting chai style!), Chicken Boti Appam and Verandah's Signature Chakhna Platter (the platter was served with 6 jars filled with chakhna from different regions of India).
Moving on to the main course, we indulged in Kaake Da Saag Chicken with Stuffed Garlic Naan. For dessert, we 'overindulged' in the Mava Cheesecake and Mango Curd. The star of our sinful meal you ask? Honestly, each dish was unique which burst with flavours! But if we had to pick our favourites, it would be the Tandoori Aloo and Mava Cheese Cake.
The portions were extremely generous which is rarely seen in restaurants these days. Chef Pawan has magic in his hands and a second visit is due for sure, one visit was definitely not enough!


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Q: $_SESSION changing when going to profile I've made a login script that sets a username and token session when the user logs in, the problem is that if I go to the profile page right after I log in the sessions do not carry over, the only way to prevent this is by refreshing the index page after i've logged in which then sets the session. However as soon as I've logged in Krumo displays the session variables fine.
For some reason it doesn't register the session as being valid and displays the not logged in message. However if I refresh the index page (where I log in) before navigating to the profile page the session is valid and picked up.
PICTURES

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*Right after I log in from the index page -

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*The profile page if I navigate as
soon as I log in

Furthermore, if I logout from the Profile page it should destroy the session and go back to the homepage. However when I arrive back to the homepage I find I have the previous sessions token.
There is quite a bit of code as I'm going it through a class.
To Summarize

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*I log in from index page

*I navigate to profile page after login and no session is set.

*If i refresh the index page once after i log in the profile page does have a session set.

*While i have a valid session, if I try to logout from the profile page I get a token mismatch and the index page shows the the previous sessions token (this confuses me the most).

*If I log in from the index page, I can log out right away and it all works provided I don't go to the profile page and log out from there.
CHANGES MADE TO POST

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*I've added links to the pictures pictures.

*Moved fonts.html down away from session_start, problem persists.

PHP used in index.php file
Index.php file:
<?php
session_start();
include_once("".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/Krumo/class.krumo.php");
include_once("".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/auth/class_loader.php");
    $sessCheck = new userFunc;
    if($sessCheck->validSess('bool')){
        $sess = true;
    }
    else{ $sess = false;}
    krumo($_SESSION);
include("style/fonts/fonts.html");
?>

<?php
$bar = new accountBar;
$bar->getBar($sess);
?>

My login.php file that gets the login form data posted to it:
<?php
session_start();
include_once("".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/auth/class_loader.php");
    $login = new login();
    if(!isset($_POST['username']) || !isset($_POST['password'])){
        $_SESSION['msg'] = "Please fill out all the information";
        header("location:/");
    }
    $login = $login->startLogin($_POST['username'],$_POST['password']);
    header("location:/");

?>

My Login form calls the login class which is:
<?php
session_start();
class login{

    /**
        * startLogin()
        *   PARAMETERS: username, password
        *   RETURN: start login process
        *   DESCRIPTION: Start login process and handle login functions
        */
    function startLogin($u, $p){
        $u = preg_replace('#[^a-z0-9_]#i', '', $u);
        $u = strtolower($u);
        $u = (trim($u));
        $p = (trim($p));
        if($u == "" || $p == ""){
            unset($_SESSION['msg']);
            $_SESSION['msg'] = "Please fill out all the information TEST";
            //header("location:/");
            return false;
        }
        $salt = $this->grabSalt($u);

        //echo "salt is: ".$salt."
";
        $p = md5($p.$salt);
        //echo "password is: ".$p."
";
        $ip = preg_replace('#[^0-9.]#', '', getenv('REMOTE_ADDR'));
        if($this->checkPswd($u, $p)){
        //  echo "Passwords Match!
";
            $this->setSessions($u);
        }
        else{
            unset($_SESSION['msg']);
            $_SESSION['msg'] = "Username or password is not correct";
            header("location:/");
        }
    }

    /**
        * grabSalt()
        *   PARAMETERS: username
        *   RETURN: salt for that user
        *   DESCRIPTION: Grab the users salt for use in password matching
        */
    function grabSalt($u){
        $conx = mysqli_connect("mysql.pipeten.co.uk", "********", "********", "******_GameAndShame");
        $stmt = $conx->prepare("SELECT `UID` FROM users WHERE `username` = ? LIMIT 1");
        $stmt->bind_param('s',$u);
        if($stmt->execute()){
            $stmt->bind_result($uid);
            $stmt->fetch();
            $stmt->close();
            $stmt = $conx->prepare("SELECT `salt` FROM users_salts WHERE `UID` = ? LIMIT 1");
            $stmt->bind_param('i',$uid);
            if($stmt->execute()){
                $stmt->bind_result($salt);
                $stmt->fetch();
                $stmt->close();
            }else{$stmt->error; $stmt->close();}
        }else{$stmt->error; $stmt->close();} //USER NOT FOUND IN DB
        return $salt;
    }

    /**
        * checkPswd()
        *   PARAMETERS: $p (password), $u (username)
        *   RETURN: true of false
        *   DESCRIPTION: takes the username and hashed password and checks it against the user in the database, if it matches up we return true
        */
        function checkPswd($u, $p){
            $conx = mysqli_connect("mysql.pipeten.co.uk", "********", "********", "******_GameAndShame");
            $stmt = $conx->prepare("SELECT `password` from users WHERE `username` = ? LIMIT 1");
            $stmt->bind_param('s',$u);
            if($stmt->execute()){
                $stmt->bind_result($dbp);
                $stmt->fetch();
                //echo "dbpassword is: ".$dbp."
";
                if($dbp == $p){$stmt->close(); return true;}else{$stmt->close(); return false;}
            }else{$stmt->error; $stmt->close();}

        }

    /**
        * setSessions()
        *   PARAMETERS: $u (username)
        *   RETURN:
        *   DESCRIPTION: sets the user session for the person.
        */
        function setSessions($u){
            $ip = preg_replace('#[^0-9.]#', '', getenv('REMOTE_ADDR'));
            $t = md5($u.time());
            $conx = mysqli_connect("mysql.pipeten.co.uk", "********", "********", "******_GameAndShame");
            $stmt = $conx->prepare("UPDATE users SET `ip` = ?, `lastlogin` = NOW() WHERE `username` = ?");
            $stmt->bind_param("ss",$ip,$u);
            if($stmt->execute()){ $stmt->close();}else{$stmt->error; $stmt->close();}
            $stmt = $conx->prepare("SELECT `token` from users_tokens WHERE `username` = ?");
            $stmt->bind_param("s",$u);
            if($stmt->execute()){
                $stmt->bind_result($count);
                $stmt->fetch();
                $stmt->close();
                if($count != NULL){
                    $stmt = $conx->prepare("UPDATE users_tokens SET `token` = ?, `IP` = ? WHERE `username` = ?");
                    $stmt->bind_param("sss",$t, $ip, $u);
                    if($stmt->execute()){$stmt->close();}else{$stmt->error; $stmt->close();}
                }
                else{
                    $stmt = $conx->prepare("INSERT INTO users_tokens (`username`, `token`, `IP`) VALUES (?, ?, ?)");
                    $stmt->bind_param("sss",$u, $t, $ip);
                    if($stmt->execute()){
                    }else{ $stmt->error; $stmt->close();}
                }
            }else{ $stmt->error; $stmt->close();}
        //  setcookie("u", $u, strtotime( '+30 days' ), "", "", "", TRUE);
        //  setcookie("t", $t, strtotime( '+30 days' ), "", "", "", TRUE);
            echo "SUCCESS";
            $_SESSION['t'] = $t;
            $_SESSION['u'] = $u;
            return;
        }

}
?>

My userFunc class file:
function validSess($a = 'bool'){
    $conx = mysqli_connect("mysql.pipeten.co.uk", "********", "********", "******_GameAndShame");
    if(isset($_SESSION['u']) && isset($_SESSION['t'])){
        $u = $_SESSION['u'];
        $t = $_SESSION['t'];
        $u = preg_replace('#[^a-z0-9_]#i', '', $u);
        $t = preg_replace('#[^a-z0-9_]#i', '', $t);
        $user_ok = $this->evalLoggedUser($conx,$u,$t);
        if($user_ok){
            if($a == 'bool'){
            return true;
            }
        }else{return false;}
    }
}

function evalLoggedUser($conx,$u,$t){
    $stmt = $conx->prepare("SELECT `ip` FROM users WHERE `username` = ? LIMIT 1");
    $stmt->bind_param("s",$u);
    if($stmt->execute()){
        $stmt->bind_result($ip);
        $stmt->fetch();
        $stmt->close();
    }else{$stmt->error; $stmt->close();}
    $stmt = $conx->prepare("SELECT * FROM users_tokens WHERE `username` = ? AND `IP` = ?");
    $stmt->bind_param("ss",$u,$ip);
    if($stmt->execute()){
        $stmt->bind_result($uid, $user, $token, $ip2);
        $stmt->fetch();
        if($ip == $ip2){
            if($ip2 == preg_replace('#[^0-9.]#', '', getenv('REMOTE_ADDR'))){
                if($t == $token){
                    return true;
                }else{ echo "Invalid Token, somebody else could have logged in as you?"; }
            }else{header("location:/auth/logout.php");}
        }else{ header("location:/auth/logout.php"); }
    }else{ $stmt->error; $stmt->close();}
}

And at the top of my profile.php page I have the code which checks for a valid session:
<?php
session_start();

include("style/fonts/fonts.html");
include_once("".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/Krumo/class.krumo.php");
include_once("".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/auth/class_loader.php");
krumo($_SESSION);

    $sessCheck = new userFunc;
    if($sessCheck->validSess('bool')){
        $sess = true;
        echo "SESSION IS VALID";
    }
    else{ $sess = false; $_SESSION['msg'] = "You are not logged in, please log in to access your profile.";}
?>

A: I have fixed the problem!
The logout.php file headed back to the www. version of the site, whilst the session was running on the non-www. version of the site, Because some links used the "/" to get to the root path and some used the full address, I technically caused two sessions to occur, one that was the previous session that ran on www. and the new session which ran on the non-www.
All of this was cause by some url re-writing in my .HTACCESS
SUCCESS! (for now)

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Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps apologizes for smoking marijuana
Michael Phelps, most admired Olympic swimmer with 8 gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Games apologized for being caught smoking marijuana. The popular 23 year old with multi-million product endorsements on his sleeve had a picture by a British newspaper showing him inhaling pot. The incident allegedly occurred in a party at the University of South Carolina in November last year, prompting South Carolina's sheriff's office to investigate for criminal wrong-doing.
"I'm 23 years old, and despite the successes I have had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner that people have come to expect from me," he said. "For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public — it will not happen again."—CNN.com/crime (02/03/09)
Many said his quick apology was appropriate for damage control. In 2004, pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated (DUI,) Phelps was sentenced to 18 months probation for which he also apologized.
Role models like him run the danger of alienating fans and product sponsors if similar incidents occur in the future. The marijuana incident reveals the error-proneness of the young sports celebrity who supports the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, a group which aims to rid competitive sports of prohibited drugs. More infractions by personalities like Phelps make the public wonder if social decorum has been so compromised in the present generation. (Photo Credit Alexandre Battibugli) =0=
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For us women, leadership often comes naturally as we manage our households, our careers, our kids, even our interpersonal relationships. We coordinate bake sales and plan our best friend's bridal shower. But one thing that we often seem to forget? Taking time for ourselves. Whether it's 5 minutes or an hour a day, that time dedicated to self-love and reflection is so critical in resetting your mindset. Once you are refreshed, you'll have the ability to handle the challenges leaders face so you can lead your business, your team, your family – whatever it is – with positivity and grace.
My guest today, Kelly Lynn Adams, is a certified coach who has helped thousands of woman launch their businesses by teaching them to develop their self-confidence and become the leaders they need to succeed. Tune in to learn how to develop your leadership skills while juggling a work-life balance, and still find that "reset" time for yourself.
[03:58] – Kelly introduces herself and talks about her history in the coaching industry.
[04:45] – What is the biggest obstacle for women who want to start their own business while working a 9-5 job?
[07:50] – Kelly talks about the gap that she bridges between what women say they want and what they actually do.
[12:14] – Orion talks about Dr. Demartini's value determination, which you can take on his website.
[14:05] – What does Kelly see as success? In her answer, she talks about a specific goal she set, and how she felt when she achieved it.
[19:04] – Orion responds to Kelly's answer about what success means for her, and explains the value of taking time to relax.
[23:12] – Kelly talks about a point in her career when she was working too hard and ended up in the hospital.
[27:18] – What does Kelly see that women are lacking in when it comes to understanding how powerful, smart, wise, and wonderful they are?
[33:39] – We hear more about Kelly's and Orion's experiences with horses.
[37:07] – Orion shares more extraordinary experiences that she has had with animals.
[39:11] – How does Kelly help her clients achieve life-work balance?
[43:12] – Kelly tackles the question of how making money is a spiritual thing, pointing out that it's a way of honoring your worth.
[46:23] – What are Kelly's three top tips for living a stellar life? #1. Manage your mindset and what you're consuming on all levels. #2. When you think you have surrendered, surrender some more. #3. Slow down to speed up.
[49:58] – Kelly lists some places where people can find her online to learn more about what she does or work with her.
The other day, I watched a show where they did this scientific experiment with kids—groups of kids, boys and girls and they wanted to see who can remember more words or something like that but what was really interesting to me is that the guide pointed at one of the kids and told that kid, "Okay. Now you're the captain," and most kids were so excited but there was one kid that was really, really scared of being the captain. He was tiny, I don't know, they were maybe five or four, something like that. They asked him, "Why are you scared?" And he said seriously, "You know… because if I cannot remember all the items, I'm going to let everybody down." He was really stressed out because he was the captain but they kept him the captain. What was really beautiful is that his group won. He was so smart, he was extraordinary. What shifted in his little mind was the idea that he can lead. Woah. he can be a leader. He said, "Okay, next time, I want to be a captain. I like being a captain." Leadership is something scary. Taking leadership… it's not that you are natural-born leaders, it's mostly not that natural. It's usually something happened or they grow up in an environment that supports them or they make a decision and they saw that they are able to lead others. In order to lead others, you don't have to be the smartest. You don't have to know everything that they need to do. You just need to be a good leader. This is a learned skill. Woohoo! Today, we talk a bit about leadership in your own life and in general. We talk about how to find your true power, how to show up powerfully in life. My guest is Kelly Lynn Adams, she is a certified leadership and life coach, writer, speaker, and founder of The After Five Club–which is a movement that helps 9-5ers grow their side hustles while juggling it all. Kelly Lynn has helped thousands of women build smart and sustainable businesses. She has helped women to redefine success through shifting their mindset, increasing their confidence, and stepping into their divine power. Now, without further ado, onto the show. Hi, Kelly. Welcome to Stellar Life podcast.
Hello. Thank you so much for having me.
Yes, thank you so much for being here. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Yes. I started a coaching business, it may have been seven or eight years. I actually help women who are in 9 to 5s, really kind of have a side hustle done, and they want to elevate it and grow their businesses. I started a movement called The After Five Club. We really just focus on topics such as; managing their mindset, creating time in their life, and monetizing in their business. That's kind of who I help from a coaching perspective. I also speak as well and facilitate workshops, and on social media a lot. That's kind of in a nutshell of who I am and what I'm about.
That's awesome. What do you think women that want to start doing business after their 9 to 5, what is their biggest obstacle?
I think there's a couple of things. I think it's one, it's finding the time. Finding the time to, yet again, do another thing, or another thing they want to create. Who has the time to do it all? Because their schedule is so full right now with a full time job or even if they're a mom—they're taking care of the family. Honestly, it's just woman in general. You don't even have to have a 9 to 5. A lot of my clients are not in 9 to 5s. Some of them actually have full time jobs but I think for women, especially today, we've taken on so much, we're doing more than our mothers and grandmothers I think have done in the past—not saying that they have not done a lot—but I think society is just moving on a faster pace, especially with social media. It's so easy to connect and so quick now that it's just natural that we're doing more than ever. We're wearing all these hats. We have a lot more opportunities than our mothers and grandmothers did. That's one thing I see that women struggle with is creating the time. A lot of them are just like, "Go, go, go, go, going," myself included. I was definitely a Type A like, "Gotta get it done right from New York." Just always going. Then I think also, women, they struggle with confidence, like really believing in themselves. Like, "Can I actually do this? Who am I to do this? Deep down, can I really create this? Are people going to really want to be around me, or buy from me, or going to be interested in what I'm creating or selling?" I think the third is like, "How the heck do I make money? How do I charge my worth? Are people really going to buy it?" Honestly, it's kind of linked to with worth. It's like, "How do I step aside and really commit to my dreams and desires? How do I not self-sabotage?" Because self-sabotage can look like you can say you want change and you can really be like, "I'm committed, I'm committed." But when the rubber hits the road, and when either you have to lay down an investment to hire a coach, or invest in a program, or if say, you want to lose weight, and you know you have to move your body everyday, it's hard. It's simple but hard. But I think a lot of times, we self-sabotage ourselves saying that we want one thing but not truly committing or being scared of change. Change is really hard for some people to change. You have to have the willingness. You have to be ready for it or maybe not ready for it but know that you're willing to take on the challenge. Those are the main areas that I help my clients with. I've just basically seen women within my community, in my sphere… that's what they're currently dealing with.
When people are on this see-saw like, "Oh my god, I really want to succeed and this is what I want." But in reality they do the opposite. What's the gap there that you help bridge? What's the reason that people desire something but they really hold themselves back?
It's not funny but a lot of it is we put a lot of pressure on ourselves. Sometimes what we want we think we may want but sometimes it's like societal pressures, or a parent's pressure, or what we think, where we think where we should be at a certain age, or making a certain amount of money, or having a certain amount of followers. It's kind of asking yourself, "What do you want? Where are you currently right now? What is your current situation?" And then the next questions is, "What do you really, really want?" Like your ideal life. Don't listen to your parents, don't listen to society, "What would truly make you happy?" Then the third question is like, "What are the obstacles?" One of my clients wanted to leave her corporate job in six months and wanted to be in a romantic relationship in six months. She was just fed up with both of those areas of her life. But that's a lot of pressure–to leave your full time job in six months and to meet the man of your dreams in six months. Listen, that's her ideal vision that she wants to leave her job and she wants to be in a romantic relationship, close to marriage but that's a lot of pressure to out on yourself. What we learned is some of those wants, she wanted what she wanted, of course it's going to feel good to quit your job, and of course it's going to feel good to meet your husband. But some of the pressures of why she was putting pressure on herself was because society had said, "Okay, she's 35. She has to have a husband by now. She wants to be an entrepreneur. She's getting older. She should have a successful business by now." It's a lot of pressures from society but also a lot of pressures too with family and friends. Like asking her, "When are you getting married?" Or, "How is the dating going?" That's what I mean about kind of what you really want, taking aside society, family, and friends–external circumstances and pressures that you feel. What would truly make you happy and then kind of seeing what are the obstacles in the way?Sometimes it's saying that, for example, if she want a relationship then what would be the obstacle? Well, she wasn't getting out there. She wasn't meeting people. She wasn't online. She wasn't doing this certain things that could help her to attract a partner to her. She was just working all the time in her job and not even having fun with even her friends. It's kind of like we create our own lives. It's our thoughts, it's our words, and our actions. If you wanna create a life that you want, you have to speak it, you have to be committed to taking aligned action towards getting it, but then also realizing, "Okay, what am I doing that maybe me creating my own obstacles towards it?" It's just being, I think, self-sabotaging yourself, putting a lot of pressure on yourself, and then also being like what truly makes you happy? If I were to ask everyone listening, "What is your definition of success?" Everyone will have a different definition of success. What would make you feel happy because as an entrepreneur, even if you said, "Oh, what I think success is, is having $1 million business." Okay, well after you get that $1 million business, you're going to want something else. Because we're always evolving, we're always growing, we're always learning. Whenever we set goals for our self, yes, that could be one part of feeling successful, but then you're always going to want another goal. It's kind of like you're running a rat race, of chasing these goals, and then attaining them, and then chasing more goals but then not feeling like you're ever truly successful, or ever feeling that you're truly fulfilled. I think that question, what is success mean to you—that's from an author, his name is Robert Holton, he's written a couple of books on success—of just saying what does success look like to you? Like I said, every single person has a different version of what that looks like for them.
Sometimes what we want we think we may want but sometimes it's like societal pressures, or a parent's pressure, or what we think, where we think where we should be at a certain age, or making a certain amount of money, or having a certain amount of followers.
Right. Have you heard of the Value Determination from Dr. Demartini?
Dr. Demartini, he was featured on the movie The Secret back in the day. I studied with him, and interviewed him, and wrote an article about him. There's a lot of things with him. He has this Value Determination and people can go onto the Dr. Demartini website and do it for themselves. It's a series of questions that determine your highest values. Let's say, your highest value is family, travel, resting, and whatever it is, and you really want to make money, you're really like, "I wanna be a billionaire." But it's not a part of your four highest values, it will never happen, and then the way to surpass it is to connect the desire to have a lot of money for example to your top three or four values. For example, if you want to be a billionaire then you want to relate it to your family, to your legacy, to what you're going to give your family or your kids, and then the values will align. There won't be that gap between, "These are my four values that are determined by the books I read, the actions I take, the people I surround myself with, the things I focus on," but then there is like you said, the social expectation or some kind of a fantasy of, "I wanna be rich." When you align your highest values with where you wanna go then it's easier to gap it as well. I love what you said about what is success for you. I want to ask you this question, what do you see as success?
Yeah. I call the producers, their morning show anchors, who do I send a pitch to.
 Yeah I've done that too.
Yeah. But then when I did it, I was like, "Man," I already have it mind that I did and I achieved it but did I feel more successful? Yeah, maybe for the first five minutes or maybe for the next two weeks when I rewatch the replay of the show. But after that, I was like, "Now what?" I had felt successful in the moment but I don't truly feel like, "Oh my god, I'm this big hit." That's what I mean, your definition of success, what is true success mean? Now, today, I would say my definition of success is—over the past couple of months I've been working on this concept of slowing down to speed up—so really giving myself space to have fun, to slow down, to really enjoy the moments, and not future trip on like, "Oh my god, if I got this I would feel this." I actually just travelled, I came back from Key West, Florida, which is like the big beach–it's all beach, it's an island. This woman had a shirt on and it says, "The only moment we have is now." It was on her t-shirt. I was like, "Oh my gosh," I went up to her and I'm like, "I love your t-shirt." That's what we have is the present moment. For me, success… like there's a couple of definitions I think of when I think of success, it's like just being in the present moment at every point in time. It's really hard to do but really start living my life now. I was waiting to live my life until I hit a million-dollar mark in my business or I would wait until I found a husband. I waiting to actually live my life and I wasn't living my life. I was working, I was working, I was working just to obtain all these goals and then I was going to start living. Right now in this moment, I could say success means really living in the moment for me, and I wanna feel when I have achieved that external circumstance. How do I feel wanna feel now? I wanna feel more free. I wanna feel more grounded. I wanna feel like I'm living each and every moment to its fullest because life is short and who knows what can happen tomorrow. Success means making an impact in other's lives whether that be on a bigger scale on one person at a time. It's just knowing that I'm here to make a difference and then just living my life how I would want it to be lived, if this was my last week on earth. I think it's that, it's more inner. I've become more from external to inner, and really experiencing what I want right now because that's all we have. Of course, I have goals and huge visions but it's not getting myself so caught up in that that I lose perspective in the here and now. I would say that is like a shorter version of my what is success look like for me right now.
I love everything you said. I really like the concept of slowing down to speeding up because before we started this interview, I told you that I'm now in Israel, and I came here to spend some time with my family. Things did not go my way when I came here–there were so many obstacles. Things that happened personally and in my family that were unexpected and quite hard—trying to find a place in the car and all that—nothing went smoothly. I've been stressing out and really looking, and running errands everyday, and doing a lot of work. Then I had a planned weekend with my girlfriends, we went to Budapest—which is super easy from here, it's just three-hour flight, so going to Europe is easy. I just took the weekend to not worry, to just relax and have fun, and we did. We had so much fun, we were laughing together, and it brought me back to my highschool days–we just had a blast. I came back and the next day, I achieved in a day what I did not achieve in the previous 2 ½ weeks–in a day.
I'm like, "How did this happen? What just happened?" Also, it's almost something like there was this like a bottle with a cork that stuck really hard, and the Monday when I came back, it was like, the cork was off. Like, "Oh, things are now smoother." The energy is more flowing. All of a sudden that slowing down, like you said, that taking the time to just release the stress, the anxiety, the expectations, and replace it with just living in the moment and having fun, was so good.
Yeah. You pointed something out, you got more accomplished in that one day than the last two weeks, that's so important because you're aligned. That's why we always use to think like, "Oh, I can't stop. I'm going to miss something." But it's when we actually truly just stop and allow, it just all flows–you're free flowing. I'm not here to say, "Oh, don't take aligned action." Yes, there's action required but sometimes you just have to cork off the bottle and it just has to be released because there's an equal amount of giving and receiving. As much as we give, especially as entrepreneurs and women in general, we have to equally receive. For women—I'm not speaking for every woman that's listening—but for a lot of women out there it's hard. It's hard to receive because we're so used to serving other people, or taking care of other people, taking care of others at our own expense. It's that whole receiving piece is huge. I think women really have to receive more too.
Sometimes, you just have to cork off the bottle and it just has to be released because there's an equal amount of giving and receiving.
Yeah. In those weeks, I was not receiving, I was taking care of everybody around me. The moment I landed, taking care of everybody and everything. I felt like there were such heavy load on my shoulder. It was quite depressing but it's over. What you said, even speaking to my mom, it was like, "Stop it. Stop taking care of everybody." My hair started falling. Girl, I got so stressed out. I coach women on how to destress and love themselves, it's kind of funny to see this polar opposite happen to me when life gets too hard but I'm also very grateful to know everything I know. As coaches, we usually teach what we have to learn ourselves, so it was just another way to learn the same thing that I share with everybody.
Yeah, I love it. I always look at my greatest struggles as my greatest gifts. It's just that sometimes, we receive the gift and it's a beautiful gift but the bow's on the bottom, you don't know how to open it. Years down the road, or weeks, or days, or hours, you look back and you're like, "Oh, that's why it happened." Unfortunately, sometimes you can only see the gift in retrospect but it's always a gift because you never know why. We have this idea of how life should be like this. For me as an example, we're going to find the house of our dreams, the car of our dreams, it's going to be super easy. Everybody's going to get along, everybody's going to be healthy, everything's just going to be amazing. Then I come here and like, "Woah, what just happened?" Things that were so unforeseen. Right now, I'm still in it in a way, I still don't understand why it happened the way it is, but I can see that there is always a purpose in the greatest gift to everything that happens in our lives. Let's talk about confidence and the mindset of worthiness in women. What do you see that women are lacking in when it comes to understanding how powerful, smart, wise, and wonderful they are?
This is so good. This is such a juicy topic too because I think a lot of women, myself included, have this kind of like, "Am I worthy? Who am I to do this? Can I really make a difference?" I think it all comes from confidence. I'll share a story. Recently I was out in California. I was telling you before we talked and we started the interview. I actually went on an experience with my mastermind group—because I'm in this coaching mastermind group—and we had to work with horses. If anyone knows, working with horses, they basically mirror your energy. They can pick up on your energy. It was about nine of us and we went to this horse range and they had said like, "This is the game of life. How you step into this ranch is how you play life and how you show up." We had to meet the animals, we had to meet all the horses, and then we got to choose which horse we wanted to work with. Basically, what we had to do is we had to move the horse. That was kind of a mindset where we want to move the horse but it also is your confidence, your presence, your energy, they can read it. They don't lie, they can read your energy. If you are energetically feeling something, or if you're not confident, they will attune to it in two seconds. Each one of us had to go out onto the ranch, by ourselves, pick the horse we wanted to work with, and move it. Not move it with our hands but move it with our mind and our arms direct it to where we want it to go. I basically picked the biggest horse, it was the stallion. It was the aggressive, stubborn, male horse that was huge. He was very scary and he was huge.
You're very much an alpha type. You have to have this huge one.
Yeah. I wanted the hardest horse, like the biggest and hardest horse to see if I can move it—the biggest challenge. I went up to the horse and I stood there and it's funny he didn't move. I'm like, "What's going on?" I was pretending that I was confident but I was like, "Oh my gosh, he's not moving. There's something in the way. I'm not standing in my power." Even when we think we're standing in our power, we may not be. It's being like, aggressive. Even though I am Type A and I just wasn't fully–and they can see, they can read a lie, they can sense your energy. Then the coach was helping us, "What were you really thinking? Where do you want the horse to go?" So we had to point out a place and I just wanted to basically walk across this other gate. Finally—I basically adjusted myself—I was like, "No." I really sunk in. I was like, "This is who I am. I want him to move here." But I did it in a lovingly way and I connected with him. But it was all confidence in my ability to direct him to where I wanted him to go. After a few times being coached and really just standing in my presence, he moved. I was like, "Oh my god." He moved to where I wanted him to go. I was like, "Okay," and I felt the shift in me because I was more confident, I stood in my presence, and even the mindset, and I connected with him. I think as women, we second guess ourselves, "What should I be doing?" We don't have that confidence where it's like, "You know what, who cares." If you fail, you fail, we're all going to fail. But I see this a lot women are like, "I don't know where I should charge." It's just like, "You just have to go with your gut." I think it's listening to our gut but I think also, confidence comes with just doing it. It goes down with daily right actions–the more daily right actions you do and you commit to, the easier it gets. Think about something like riding a bike or exercising. The hardest part is starting but if you continue to practice on the bike or you continue to workout even if it's every other day or what have you, you become more confident. You're like, "Oh, okay. I fall, I get up again." Even doing videos on social media. The first time I did videos on social media, I was like, "Oh, my gosh. I look so bad. My voice sounds terrible. I don't like the back wall behind me looks." But then, more and more as you get to do it, you're like,. "I don't care what I look like." I mean you do to a certain extent but, "I don't care what I sound like." You get this confidence. I think confidence is it's two-fold. It's doing things over and over and over again and then also be willing to take that risk of getting out there, not being afraid of failure, and just owning it. Owning what you think is right–it may be right for this moment, it may not be but at least you'll get feedback of what direction to go in. But I think women just need to, not need to but, we're so powerful and we don't even realize it. I think that's the thing is women are so powerful. They even said, from a horse perspective, the male and the female horse, who's really in-charge is the female. While the male can seem more dominating and aggressive in the playing field, you can get him to turn around in two seconds, if you command the respect that they are present because the female horse is really the one in-charge, is the one in the herd of the horses, she will be the quiet one. She's quiet but she's the most powerful. I think women just have to honor that. They have to recognize their power. It's all your energy. It's how you present yourself, how you stand, how you believe yourself to be.
Have you seen My Greek Wedding?
"I am turning him wherever he wants to go." Where did you have your horse experience?
It was out in California somewhere. I don't know, it was at some ranch. I think it was 45 minutes from LA area.
That's cool because I had a very similar experience in a retreat in Jamaica. I think the horses were chose accidentally, like whatever horse. I first came to the horse they assigned me, and it was a young horse–completely ignored me. I was like really young and stand-offish. The way that we did it, we had flags and just with our body language and energy, and just with the flag directing the horse. The ladies were doing it and it took, I think approximately 15 minutes for women to move the horse, or something like that. They got in the ring and the moment they got there, I kind of sensed the horse's energy, and started laughing because he was testing me. I can totally feel it and I was like, "Oh, okay. This is how you play." I got him to walk really quickly like, super fast. I left the experience feeling depressed. I was like, "What? Where is the freaking aha? It was too easy. I really wanted it to be hard." Really, I felt disappointed. Disappointed that I didn't have this, "Woah." I understand that but I didn't understand that my lesson was really big. My lesson that I took from it was, it's easy to control if it's an animal, and I'm good with animals. I can claim my power with animals but then with people, maybe I was afraid to claim my power and then the connection was like, "Well, people are animals." Just the way I was with the horse, it's okay for me to be with people, because sometimes I tend to dim myself a little bit to empathize because I feel like, "Oh my god, if people know how much power I have, I'm going to scare people away." I kind of sometimes try to control that fire. It was just a wonderful experience and I love what you got out of that–where for you it was the more of the love, the compassion, and just the beingness, and owning it because we can't move sh*t when we swim upstream. We can't move anything where we just push like, "Argh." We're not strong enough but when we move with the current, when we move with the love, compassion, and motion, tuning in, being in the moment, this is where things are shifting for us.
Yeah, that's amazing, right? Because that means you had it. Things can come easy but you might think, "Oh no. Things have to be hard in order for that…" There's so much meaning that is behind these horses. It's just an amazing experience that I think everyone should try. You could just take away so many lessons from it.
I had two extraordinary experiences with animals. One was with this horse. Well, I guess I had many experiences with animals. This horse and also I went to India a little more over six months ago. My husband and I spent three hours with a female elephant, her name is Tara which means "star." Now that I remember, I went and I did 40 Years of Zen which is a biohacking program where you're connected to neurofeedback and do all kinds of processes to release trauma and all, and it was in a ranch. The whole point of it was to be in alpha waves. In that ranch, they had horses. We took a break to see the horses. The moment I saw the horses, I was like, "Okay." I kind of like rented the horses and I called them. Then all of a sudden, three horses were running to me—towards me. I was like, "Woah. That was such an amazing experience." When I went and I sat in my chair and did the neurofeedback process, I was thinking about the horses, and then on the monitor—when I was thinking about the horses—it brought my alpha waves up like I was in alpha when I was thinking about the horses because their heart field–their magnetic field is huge. I feel that animals can be so healing and amazing. I love it. Sorry we got distracted but this is a great way to find whatever—if you're stressed, if you cannot find your vibe or if you're workaholic and you need a break, go to nature because nature is nurturing. When you work with your clients, how do you help them to achieve life-work balance?
I think some of them have it down. There's other obstacles that they work on. We work with basically the same kind of methodology like, "Where are you right now? Where, ultimately, do you want to be and what's getting in the way?" For a lot of, especially the clients that I'm working with, the obstacles are that are getting in the way, they're just working too much. They're not having fun because they're working a day job or they're working a freelance job but then they're also building a business. Then they have other commitments like family, friends, and romantic partners. It's a lot of giving, kind of similar to what we were talking about the giving and receiving earlier. They're just giving so much of themselves that they don't take time for themselves. A lot of my work is kind of that slowing down the speed up. It's like, "Okay, maybe you need to do what I call a self-love power hour." Some days, listen, I get it, you can't find an hour for yourself but you can definitely find 5 minutes or 10 minutes for yourself. I call it the self-love power hour. If you can find an hour for yourself, that's awesome. Wherever that could be, you can break it up 15 minutes throughout the day—15 minutes in the morning, half hour at lunch, 15 minutes at an evening. Whatever it looks like for you, even if it is one time. Even if the morning works for you or maybe the evening works for you. Whatever it is, finding that time for yourself to do whatever you need to do. Some people like to meditate, some people like to take a walk or exercise, some people like to journal. Just filling your cup up for full. My own personal story, I'll share, I was working all the time–that's why I have such experience and knowledge of this because I've been through all phases is for me I wasn't playing enough. On the weekends I would work, after my full-time job, I would work. I had no play. I had no fun in my life. At one point, my coach is like, "You know what? I think you really need to have a day of fun–like a play day." I would literally have to mark it in my calendar to have a play day for the whole day of doing whatever I wanted to do. That could be literally reading a book the whole day–it doesn't matter. But I had a lot of anxiety, a lot of fighting for my limitations, meaning, "No, I can't take a day." A whole day means I'm trying to grow this business on the side and work a full-time job. If I take a day, it's going to throw me off. I'm not going to get to my goals. We talked about earlier, actually when you have fun and you play, and you create that space in your life, things start to align. Things start to come faster even though it sounds counterintuitive. For me personally, it was like, "Okay." I was doing the self-love power hour each day. I find that very powerful and I use it on my clients. But then for the people that really are workaholics and on the cusp of burnout or stressed out, it's like having a play day, maybe it's a Saturday, maybe it's a Sunday. Literally taking a day off for mental health, from your business, and from your day job–if you have one. For me, it caused a lot of anxiety in the beginning but when I start to ease into it, I'm like, "Nope, that's a non-negotiable." Even if you have family, friends, and kids, including them if you want to in your play day. I think those are two tangible tips that I know for a lot of people doing a lot to create space, ease, and balance–it just kind of recalibrates you. It breaks up the achieve in mind, the doing-ness of your life.
You help entrepreneurs make money and make more money. You're very spiritually connected to, I guess the vibration, and spirituality and all that. How does making money a spiritual thing?
That's a good question. Making money is very spiritual because making money means that you honor your worth. You know how to make money. It's also very spiritual because I know for me, the way I think about it, the more money I make the more I can help the world. Whatever capacity I choose to do with that money, whether I donate to a certain cause, whether I impact a foundation, for me it's very spiritual because money is just energy. Money to me equals freedom, ease, and it just allows you the freedom to do and create more of what you're good at. Everyone has a zone of genius–whether you know that or not. What a zone of genius is is you're really good at something. For example, I'm really good at growing a business, coaching, and speaking–those are kind of my zone of geniuses. My zone of genius is not cleaning my house so I hire a cleaning lady and people think I'm nuts but that's not my zone of genius. I don't like it, I don't want to be doing it. I'd rather pay someone, I'd rather outsource that to someone that loves it. Some people are in a meditative state when they clean and that's great. I want to hire those people that absolutely get their joy from cleaning houses.
"What is going on?" Yeah, you're like, "You're crazy." But that's the thing, that's her zone of genius. Whether she makes money or not, everyone has their zone of genius that make money or don't—it doesn't matter. Based on your zone of genius, you could do it without time stops basically. You could do it all day. Money to me, when you make money in your zone of genius, that is pure bliss. Because then you can outsource things that is not on your own genius. Why would you want to clean houses if that's not your zone of genius? You could be doing other things. I think money is very spiritual. I think it shows how much you value yourself, how much you charge. But it also like the more money you make, the more—if you're spiritual, pretty much you're going to do good with the money. It's what your intentions are behind the money. For me, it's really improving the world and improving others' lives in the world. It's very spiritual. I think people, sometimes they have the belief, "Oh, money's bad. Money's greedy. You can't make too much money." Abundance is everywhere. It's not because you're rich you're taking money from other people–absolutely not. There's more than enough to go around in the world. I think it's a mindset too. It's very mindset-based as well. If you want money, you can create it. Everyone has a relationship with money and everyone grew up differently with money so everyone has all these different stories around money. It's just either unlearning or relearning new stories about money, your relationship to money, and how you want that to be.
Yeah. What are your three top tips to live in a stellar life?
One, I would say, manage your mindset. Watch what you consume. When I say consume I mean all levels. Watch what you pay attention to. Watch what you're feeding your mind, what you're looking at, what you're viewing, what you're listening to. Also, what you're eating. Consuming in all levels; what you're thinking, what you're watching, what you're experiencing, what circumstances and environment you're putting yourself in, what you're eating, how you're being—that's tip number one. I think that's really important. A lot of us, we have the choice to choose where we put our mind, our attention, our focus, and our body. Tip number two, I get this from my mentor, Gabrielle Bernstein, I just love it, "When you think you have surrendered, surrender some more." If you feel like you're controlling a situation or you have anxiety around something, just surrender. I was out in California like I said last week. What came to me, I was dealing with a situation. I just surrendered. I sat in the bed and I was just laying down moment of surrender. What came to me was three words; surrender, allow, let go. I just repeated it. I was like, "Surrender, allow, let go." If things aren't working your way or you're expecting a certain outcome, it's like, "Nope. You just have to surrender and know that everything is working out for you. The universe has your back. Everything's working out for your highest good and all concerned." I would just say, "If you think you surrendered some more—like my mentor said—just surrender, just keep surrendering. Surrender more." Third tip is the whole slowing down the speed up. Just create even if it's this week, if you can create literally 10 minutes for yourself, do that. I had a client that, really quick story, she was working a full-time job, she was building two businesses on the side, she had a family, she had two kids, she was taking care of her elderly mother. She was working her day job up until [10:30] at night and then she would switch gears and woke up [12:30] AM–2 hours for her business. She was going insane and she was getting the feeling at the point of burnout, worn out, and stressed out. I worked with her and she basically came up with a plan of her totally shutting down, computer, everything. Every Monday night at [8:30] PM so she can work up until [8:30] PM. She did this every week, once a week, and on Tuesday mornings, she would literally bounce out of bed at [4:00] AM. She did not need an alarm clock because she shut down earlier that night, she bounced out of bed at [4:00] AM. She had her sacred time, prayer time, in the morning. She worked on her business in the morning and she even made her family breakfast in the morning, and she was productive. Her most productive days are Tuesdays because she made that one little shift of shutting down at [8:30] PM the night before on a Monday. I'm not telling you that you need the self-love power everyday or need even a play day every week. If you can carve out a little time for yourself, whether that's a full day, whether that's some time in the morning or at night, you should do that for yourself. I think it all definitely shift your world in a good way.
That's wonderful. If somebody want to contact you and find more about you, where can they go?
I would say the best place to go is my website. It's kellylynadams.com. It's the same kellylynadams on all my social media feeds. I'm mostly on Instagram and Facebook but you can find me on Twitter and YouTube as well, and Pinterest. I'm under all those handles–on kellylynadams.
Awesome. Kelly, that was wonderful. Thank you so much for being here.
Oh my god, thank you so much for having me.
✓ Define your own true meaning of success. Ask yourself what you really want in life and start working to achieve it.
✓ Have confidence in whatever you're doing or working on. With the right mindset, focus and support, anything can be achieved.
✓ Spare some time for play and fun. Do things that make you feel young and alive to keep you inspired and motivated.
✓ Stop sabotaging your potential with negative thoughts. Be kind to yourself and don't listen to negativity. Just keep going until you're where you want to be.
✓ Start creating the life that you want by speaking about it, envisioning it and committing to it 100%.
✓ Take a couple of days to gain a different perspective. Go on a retreat, attend a mastermind group or take a vacation.
✓ Spend time in nature with animals. They have unexplainable healing powers that go above and beyond other methods.
✓ Make money in your zone of genius. Find and pursue what you love and what gives you fulfillment.
✓ Manage your mindset and pay attention to what you consume at all levels – what you're thinking, watching, experiencing, and eating.
✓ Surrender. Allow. Let go. If things aren't going your way, surrender and know that the Universe has your back.
As a certified business, leadership and life coach, writer, motivational speaker and founder of KellyLynnAdams.com, Kelly Lynn has helped thousands of women build smart and sustainable businesses. She has helped women to redefine success through shifting their mindsets, increasing their confidence, and stepping into their divine power.


Officials in the state of Missouri said this week that over $3 million medical marijuana license fees had been paid since the state started to accept pre-filed applications one month ago.
64 forms for infused-product manufacturing facilities.
It was last November during the midterm elections that voters in the state had approved medicinal marijuana.
Amendment 2 calls for a system of 192 dispensaries to be readied by early 2020 to sell cannabis products. Only qualified patients with serious health problems will be able to use the drug.


+ Adrian Ponte is a Spanish male model that likes to spend his time playing PlayStation, teaching kids football and swimming in the Bay of Biscay.
+ He is a newer face to the modeling world, but his handsome features are sure to take him to the top.
+ Adrian Ponte is signed with Dominique Models Brussels, Uno Models Barcelona, I Love Models Management Milan and Bananas Models Paris. His mother agency is Uno Models Barcelona.
+ In 2013 Adrian Ponte walked the fall shows for Walter Van Birendonck and Dries Van Noten. He walked the spring shows for Andrea Pompilio and Roccobarocco. He was photographed for the spring I Love Models Management, and he was photographed in the fall for the Bananas New Faces show package. He was photographed for the Dolce & Gabbana's spring/summer collection, as well as for Armand Basi Spring/Summer. He featured in Uno Models modelzine #00 and he was in an editorial for the October issue of Neo 2 that was called I am waiting Here by Markus Rico.
+ In 2014 he walked the spring show for SOLOiO, Garcia Madrid, Heridadegato, Victor Von Schwarz, Andrea de la Roche44 Store, HOWL and Xavi Reyes and he was in the fall ad campaign for United Colors of Benetton Eyewear.


Every year since 2010, Stack Overflow conducts a developer survey where they ask the developer community about everything from their favorite technologies to their job preferences. The results of the eighth annual survey, held in January 2018, are out and not surprisingly, this year marks the largest number of respondents ever. Over 100,000 developers took the 30-minute survey revealing how they learn new technologies, which tools they use to get their work done, and what they look for while hunting some job.
The survey itself included various fields, starting from geographical location of the developers, their education, experience, to the technology and platform the use. Today, we'll be telling you about the language and platforms that were most commonly used by the developers, their primary operating system and the number of monitors they use.
48.3% respondents on the survey use Linux platform for their development work. It was followed by Windows Desktop or Server with 35.4%. Android, AWS, macOS, Raspberry Pi, WordPress, and iOS also seem to be quite popular platform among the developers.
Though Windows isn't the first choice development platform, it still tops the chart of preferred operating system of the developers. Almost 50% of the developers work on Windows operating system. The rest 50% work either on Mac OS or Linux base operating systems.
The survey revealed that more than 65% developers use two or more monitors on their main workstation. Moreover, almost 3% of the respondents have four or more monitors on their work set-up. On an average, every developer have two monitors on their workstation.
Through the survey, Stack Overflow also revealed that C# is the highest-paying language with an average salary of $74,000. Developers working on Ocaml, Clojure and Groovy also earn a salary of more than $70,000. Meanwhile CSS is the lowest paying one, with a salary of $53,000. You can find the complete results of the survey here.