It's been more than a week since I last posted a blog, but I've been really, really busy. But I've found time to cook all week.
Last weekend I worked with my friends Mike and Mary to help prepare for and serve heavy hors d'oeuvres for about 80 people celebrating the 75th birthday of a vibrant and fun lady who decided to throw her own party. It was great fun to just be with Mike and Mary, I learned a lot of great cooking and serving ideas from Mike who is a professional chef and from Mary who knows how to organize and properly serve that many people for a cocktail party. I'd post pictures of some of the great food Mike prepared and served, but I don't want to give away Mike's great ideas and recipes because they may be special recipes he uses for his catering business. All I want to say is that I tasted everything, and it was amazing.
Last night, my friend Bill and I along with our lovely wives, Kathy and Dusty, prepared, cooked and served the second of two dinners the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Auctioned off last year. The format was a progressive dinner that began at our 110 year old home and then finished at Bill and Dusty's even older home across the street. We served a total of 16 people a menu that included 6 courses with appropriate wine parings on a theme that was designed to celebrate a Summertime Festival of Seven Fishes.
I've attached the menu to this blog so you can get a little taste of what our guests had waiting for them when they arrived. While Bill and I did a much of the cooking, putting on an event like this is wayyyy more than just about the shopping, prepping and the cooking. The house needs to be prepared, the flowers need to picked from the gardens and arranged, the plating and utensils need to be brought out and properly placed for each course and, of course, the wines need to be opened and served at exactly the right time. And to get it all done, we were blessed with the help of many of our friends and the really great people we hired for the evening to make things go smoothly, help with serving and clean up and to generally help out doing odd things along the way. The hectic day began at 6 am and was not over until nearly midnight, but we had great fun and got much enjoyment from the many compliments people generously offered the entire evening. I slept in this morning and pretty much did nothing other than the final clean up all day. It was hard work but I had a blast.
Take a look at the Menu. Over the next few days, I'm going to select some of the easier recipes and post them to the blog. Be sure to notice how easy some of the recipes are to prepare, yet our guests raved about them. That's because amazing complexity and layering of tastes can be achieved in very simple ways. Sometimes it's using the freshest ingredients. Sometimes it's planning the right accompaniments to serve with a particular recipe, and in others serving the right wine makes the difference. I'll note those elements when I post the recipes.
Here's the Menu and stay tuned for future posts for some of the recipes.
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ECOVILLAGE in Israel
My name is Shazarahel, and I'm an Italo-Israeli artist, writer and speaker. Together with a group of other people, including doctors and scientists, I am working on a revolutionary project with no historical precedent: building an ecovillage in the woodlands around Jerusalem, a completely alternative model of society based on Kabbalistic principles, that will play the role of a mediator in the peace-making process in Israel and the Middle East.
We have already chosen the land, and we anticipate being able to obtain the construction permits we need, and the Manifesto and legal draft for the Ecovillage have already been written.
Now we need to source EUR 30,000 to complete the architectonic design and implement the marketing plan. Once this first milestone has been reached, the entire plan will be able to be directly viewed on the web, and we will be able to present it to potential investors so we can move on with purchasing the land and constructing the buildings.
Anyone who contributes at least 1000 dollars shall have a stone in the Kabbaland center dedicated in their name…and a great many stones are needed to erect a building. Why don't you, too, become a living stone in Kabbaland?
All those who contribute less than 1000 dollars will receive an e-book with our grateful acknowledgment. Thank you for your kind assistance!
A New Society on a kabbalistic model
Kabbaland is a way of rethinking and reinventing the world.
Kabbaland occupies both a physical and virtual space, inhabited by a community of diverse people united in a single aim: to create the future by giving shape to what we hope it will be. It is the manifestation of a collective dream we must work together to realize: a new society based on the sephirotic tree. Inside the village, any concept of private property shall be prohibited: the antiquated monetary system shall be replaced by a system of free access to communal assets and resources.
Kabbaland undertakes to apply Kabbalistic theories within a human society. Kabbaland is striving to be a laboratory for testing a new model for society, offering alternative and effective responses to the serious generational crises we have been witnessing. In so doing, Kabbalah study will cease being a mere intellectual exercise focused on abstract concepts, and become the solution itself to dynamics internal to society and to any human reality.
COMPARATIVE RESEARCH CENTER for scientific and Kabbalistic studies
Kabbaland is also a large scientific and spiritual research and training center, where a team of doctors, scientists, rabbis and Torah scholars are working together to advance comparative studies of science, medicine and Torah, laying the foundations for a medicine of the future which will integrate the many different dimensions of the "humaniverse", including those that comprise various mystical and spiritual doctrines of religious groups, and which aspires to fulfil the promises of our Prophets: elimination of all diseases and a final victory over death.
Medicine of the future
Kabbaland is a clinic where people can go to recover their physical and spiritual health through practice of various natural and alternative therapies. A kind of "hospital for maladies of the soul", aiming to awaken the consciousness and integrally develop the human being.
Center for Kabbalistic Studies
One of Kabbaland's objectives is to disseminate the Jewish Kabbalah, considered to be a divine science for decoding reality. This objective will be attained through progressive and systematic courses of study, open to everyone, without distinction.
Kabbalart Experiential Center
Inside this center's Kabbalistic architectonic structures, a great virtual walking tour (created by a group of select artists) will allow visitors to interactively and three-dimensionally experience the worlds of the Sephirot and the core concepts of the Jewish Kabbalah. The Kabbaland center will also offer sites for artwork displays, media installations, concerts, etc.
Center for Messianic Peace
Kabbaland is a place where adherents of different religions, followers of various movements and ideologies, can meet with one another. Here, we will sponsor seminars and initiatives intended to foster dialogue between various cultures and religions.
Desert and meditation time
Various tabernacles distributed throughout the Ecovillage's green space – with no electrical power supply or communication system – will be made available to those who wish to spend some time in the desert, in the silence, to rediscover who they are.
Hospitality and relations with the outside world
Kabbaland offers food service and a number of rooms for sleeping that are set aside for students, guests and tourists. To pay for services, Kabbaland uses an internal virtual monetary system.
It is critical that Kabbaland be built in Israel, where war and hatred are still shedding rivers of blood. Kabbaland will contribute to creating and spreading a new culture of peace and harmony among people of diverse races, religions and ideologies.
Help us create the future of universal peace that humanity seeks, the peace that generations of Jews, Christians and Moslems so long for!
If you cannot help us with a financial contribution, then please help us by spreading awareness of this project among your friends!

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THERE'S A BERRY THAT -- once you eat it -- makes bitter and acidic foods taste sweet. When the tongue is under the influence of this surprising fruit, lemons become lemonade. Unripe tomatoes burst with flavor. And vinegar might be mistaken for apple juice.
It's called the "miracle berry," and some claim it can do more than temporarily confound the palate. In his new book, the "Miracle Berry Diet Cookbook," chef Homaro Cantu argues that if used properly, the berry can reduce the need for refined sugar and processed and artificial sweeteners.
Ultimately, Cantu says, by turning sour flavors into sweet ones, the berry could play a role in the nation's obesity epidemic by helping consumers break the bonds of sugar addiction.
"The problem with diets is they taste horrible. You're always sacrificing," said Cantu, who incorporates miracle berries into various courses at his innovative Chicago restaurants, a dining experience known as "flavor tripping."
"But if we can make a diet that is good enough to serve in a high-end restaurant -- we season food in a back-door, roundabout way -- we win by eliminating sugar. Then it's no longer a diet but a way of life."
Cantu's book, the fruit of eight years of experimentation, features 150 recipes, ranging from savory Homemade Donuts -- made using a normally sour tasting, lightly fermented dough -- to mincemeat pie with pickle juice and even the Skinny Margarita (the juice of limes, lemons and oranges, ice and tequila). While the foods are designed to be eaten after the berry has been consumed, the recipes can stand on their own, he said.
The cookbook will especially help those living with medical conditions, including diabetes, and cancer patients undergoing treatment, Cantu said. It's also designed to answer what he calls one of the biggest food problems: a lack of competitive options to sugar.
"Everyone talks about taxing sugar, but at end of the day, we're addicted to sweetness," he said. "We're never going to give up, so let's give them sweetness without calories and chemicals."
Miracle berries contain a protein called miraculin. When miraculin is consumed it "causes foods that are acidic and would normally taste sour to stimulate sweet taste receptors on the tongue, making the foods taste sweet," said Susie Swithers, a professor of behavioral neuroscience at Purdue University, whose research has looked at high-intensity sweeteners and body weight regulation.
After eating the berry -- which is available online freeze-dried, frozen or in tablet form -- the effect lasts 30 minutes to an hour. Tablets ($15 for 10 tablets) have the longest shelf life, but they are still highly perishable and, once opened, should be kept tightly wrapped in an airtight container. With frozen berries, make sure not to thaw one unless you plan on eating it immediately. And avoid the bitter-tasting pit.
The miracle berry could "change the future of food by significantly reducing the need for refined sugar and all processed and artificial sweeteners. It could help patients enjoy food again or feed the world on wild vegetation in any growing zone around the world," Cantu wrote.
There's no doubt the miracle berry is safe and adds a sweet taste to anything with acid, said Linda Bartoshuk, a professor at the University of Florida who published some of the first research on human taste and the miracle fruit in the 1970s. It also "makes all the flavors pop," she said.
Bartoshuk agrees that incorporating the berries into the diet could help reduce sugar intake and might be helpful for patients. But she doubts it will become a panacea for weight loss.
"Changing out sucrose for miracle fruit is clever," she said. "But in general, Mother Nature doesn't like being fooled. When you take calories out of something that's absolutely delicious, the brain sees that as a mistake. It's programmed to want calories and will take revenge when it doesn't get them."
That's because "when we taste something sweet, our bodies produce physiological responses, like the release of hormones, that not only anticipate the arrival of those calories and allow us to efficiently process the calories but that may contribute to our feelings of satiety," Swithers said.
When we consume artificial sweeteners, or in this case, miraculin, "we get a sweet taste in our mouth that isn't followed by the expected outcome," Swithers said. "No energy or sugar shows up, and we then learn that sweet taste is not always a good predictor of calories, and we stop producing the same anticipatory responses, and this could lead us to overeat."
In short, messing with our body's cues for fullness would cause us to have to more diligently track how much energy we've consumed to not overeat. Always reading food labels, counting calories, for example. And that, by definition, is a diet. Berry or no berry.
A recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggested that artificially sweetened diet drinks do not fuel the appetite. But this is a different issue, said Swithers, who has never argued that consuming artificial sweeteners drives people to seek out additional sweet-tasting foods. "Even if you don't increase the amount of sweet things you eat, your ability to recognize that those things have calories may be affected (by the sweetener)," she said.
Long-term studies haven't looked at miraculin as a weight-loss agent, Swithers said. One published study suggested that over the short term, volunteers ate fewer calories with sour Popsicles, "but it's not clear how this would affect intake over the long term," she said.
Having a lot of acidic food in the mouth might also have negative effects, she added. Moreover, "while people might not eat as much sugar, they could still overindulge in sour-tasting things instead since those would now taste sweet."
Having excess acid in the mouth -- which normally isn't a problem because we're not inclined to consume vast quantities of sour-tasting food -- can lead to ulceration and perhaps mouth sores, Swithers said. "This could erode the soft tissues, as well as the teeth at some point," she said. "It would be less likely to cause problems in the stomach because the stomach is already highly acidic."
Still, taste buds always return to normal after eating miracle fruit and there are no known adverse effects, Bartoshuk said. "As far as we know, it is like eating fruit in general," she said.
Cantu sees reducing calories as a first step; he acknowledges dietary fat is another problem to contend with. Nevertheless, he remains optimistic. He eats four or five miracle berries a day, feeds them to his two young daughters and says he's found a way to incorporate the berry directly into the food. Though foods containing miracle berries aren't yet commercially available, "it will be a game changer for restaurants and food manufacturers," said Cantu, who also works as a flavor technology consultant. "The one extra step (of having to eat the berry beforehand) has prevented it from being the holy grail in sweetness consumption," he said.
He also sees his "Miracle Berry Diet Cookbook" as a catalyst for competition. "If someone wants to open a no-sugar doughnut shop, they can take my recipe and do it," he offered. "Imagine if someone opened a coffee shop across from Starbucks, charged less money and all the coffee was sugar-free because it was sweetened with lemon (and the miracle berry)? We want options. And right now, the choices with sweeteners are very limited."


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Looking for a new hobby? Why not try 'debunking', which seems to be growing in popularity and requires little except a narrow viewpoint and a handful of faulty arguments. Let's be clear from the outset though – we mustn't confuse debunking with 'skepticism'. The latter requires broad knowledge, critical thinking, and the ability to doubt your own viewpoint as much as any other. Obviously a much tougher proposition, as the lack of true proponents shows, so I would advise against trying this unless you are a serious masochist, or at the very least a true seeker of knowledge.
The first step in becoming a debunker is to immediately relinquish that title and establish your credentials by calling yourself either a skeptic or a scientist. Never mind that you are actually trying to impose your personal viewpoint on others, rather than following the scientific process and applying critical thinking to all sides of the argument. Actually, the best debunkers are those that don't even know their true identity, having such poor critical thinking skills that they truly believe that that they are exhibiting all the open-mindedness and mental sharpness of the true skeptic or scientist. As such, some might reprimand me for writing this short article, seeing it as a hazard to the serious debunker's faith in themselves – little chance of this however, as the real top-notch debunkers have a force-field of ignorance that is nigh impenetrable.
Okay, next you'll need a few handy tools. The best method, being a pseudo-skeptic, will be to take some of the skeptic's best tools and misuse them. First up, that venerable favourite, Occam's Razor, which implies that the simplest explanation is often the best. The trick for the debunker is to take Occam's Razor and use it not as a handy rule of thumb to aid critical thinking, but instead to impose it as a literal and immutable law of the universe which immediately destroys your opponent's arguments. Don't worry that complicated things happen all the time, thus disproving the 'Law of Occam'. That would make thingscomplicated.
Just in case you're caught without your bag of tricks, and cornered by a rabid pack of irrational pseudo-scientists, I recommend busting out a move I like to call 'The Extraordinary Sagan'. Espouse with great enthusiasm that 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence'. Ignore the fact that a true scientist would say that all claims require the same proportion of evidence. Someone might even point out this statement isn't meant to be taken literally, but should be seen in terms of the acquired evidence of human experience (e.g. if you know from past experience throughout your life that a ball falls down when you drop it, and then someone says their ball fell 'up' yesterday, you would require evidence of a proportion to prove this singular event over the accumulated evidence of your life experience). The best thing is, you can apply this to all sorts of things inappropriately, like the discovery of a secret chamber, lost city, or lost knowledge, where the application of acquired knowledge is virtually without merit.
Okay, so I'm being facetious. Satire can sometimes provide the harshest realisations, and with my use of it here I expose my particular prejudice and desire – namely to remove the debunker's smug air of respectability and intellectual superiority, and expose them for what they really are: a pseudo-skeptic. I'm playing on the title of 'pseudo-scientist', of course, a term which every pseudo-skeptic is quick to label their adversary with when their arguments are starting to fail. The problem in this case, is that the pseudo-skeptic has as much understanding of 'science' as they do of 'skepticism' – very little at all.
The derivation of the word science comes from the Latin scientia, meaning 'knowledge'. Science has always been, at its core, the search for knowledge. Early Indian science is seen as including such things as yoga, which was a systematic approach to gaining knowledge about the mind, and the relationship between consciousness and the cosmos. Early Greek science was influenced by Pythagorean thought; that there is a correspondence between the workings of the human mind and nature, through numbers and music. Indeed, most sciences began as a mode of inquiry into man's place within the cosmos. Human consciousness was obviously of high importance – from yoga and Pythagorean thought, through to the Kabbalah and magic, throughout the ages man has developed systems of mapping and exploring consciousness and has held the knowledge gained through these practices in the highest regard. If science truly is a search for knowledge, one might ask who has more right to be called a scientist – a Kabbalist or a taxonomist?
The modern conception of science, which the debunker holds so dear, is based upon a particular branch of science which has become dominant over the past four centuries. To grossly simplify historical developments, the physics of Newton and the philosophy of Descartes combined with other factors during the 'Enlightenment', to give central importance of one strand of science – modern science, as we know it. This science is basically physicalism – "the belief that reality is reducible to certain kinds of physical entities"2 (and if you want illustration of this, ask a group of physicists and chemists whether psychology is a science). With this newly dominant science came 'the scientific method'. Many people are surprised to learn that the scientific method is not a gift from god which determines whether something is 'scientific' – it is actually one method of gaining results, amongst a number of possible others (put forward throughout history, from the Gnostics through to Karl Popper). The fact cannot be overstated – the modern scientific method which the pseudo-skeptic virtually deifies, is simply one particular method of revealing information about one particular type of knowledge.
A first criticism of this deified science, which pseudo-skeptics fail to grasp, is that although modern science is a mode of knowledge which is particularly conducive to maintaining bodily survival, it is not as helpful with the actual 'living' part. Physicalism trivialises the human experience, reducing it to the interactions of chemicals and 'pure physics', leaving no room for a spirit or soul. An example is in the 'scientific' explanations for NDE's (Near Death Experiences) – as much as someone who has experienced an NDE may be told various possible physical reasons for the onset of an NDE, very rarely do they hold much weight. The awareness that occurs during such events is not something that can be described by a physical process, hence the ineffability of the event. To quote the aviator Charles Lindbergh, in relation to an OBE (Out of Body Experience) he had during his 1927 transatlantic flight: "My visions are easily explained away through reason, but the longer I live, the more limited I believe rationality to be"3.
One wonders whether it crossed Mr Krauss' mind that in 300 years time, someone much like himself might be writing about him in the same terms?
Two of the most famous examples of paradigm changes are Copernicus' heliocentric model and Einstein's Theory of Relativity. However, there are other smaller examples: for instance, the distinguished medical journal Lancet once described hypnotic subjects as trained criminals who were paid for their stage acting5. Other anomalies that were once 'fiction' include ball lightning and meteorites. Of course, it has to be noted that for every 'vindicated anomaly', there are thousands of misconceptions, wishful thoughts, and outright frauds. This never invalidates investigation of anomalous data though, as most pseudo-skeptics would have us believe. Niels Bohr summed it up perfectly, when he said "the task of science is both to extend the range of our experience and to reduce it to order"6. Science requires both speculation and methodical examination to evolve, and to deny either is madness.
At this point, perhaps a quick caution to the pseudo-scientist is necessary: you are on a downward spiral into nazism and other nastiness. Or apparently so, according to the debunking fraternity. The BBC's Horizon feature titled "Atlantis Uncovered" warned against this 'fact'7, portraying fringe thinking as a descent into irrational thought, and ultimately (of course!) National Socialism. Similarly Michael Shermer, in "Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of our Time", states "today's paranormal beliefs probably seem relatively harmless. They are not. The reason is that if someone is willing to accept such claims on nonexistent evidence, what else are they willing to believe?"8. This sort of thinking is nonsensical, as similar outcomes can be assigned to nearly any type of human endeavour. As physicist Henry Stapp argues, physicalist science on its own is dangerous, because it leaves "no rational basis for anything but self-interestthe collapse of moral philosophy is inevitable"9.
But maybe the pseudo-skeptics are just referring to all those everyday crazy people out there, with nothing better to do but believe in pseudo-science and polish their jack-boots. Surely they think more of actual scientists who investigate anomalies with an open mind? Not so, apparently, if we look at the evidence in James ('The Amazing') Randi's attack on Dr Gary Schwartz of the University of Arizona, who upset the gods of debunking by being foolish enough to initiate a scientific study of 'psychic' John Edwards (which is odd, seeing as one of the core values of those gods' magazine of choice, Skeptical Inquirer, is "freedom of thought and inquiry"10). In this 'debate', Randi twists words to name Schwartz as a believer in the tooth fairy, and resorts to about every trick written in the pseudo-skeptic's handbook. The reader may want to view a complete transcript of the dialogue at the "Debunking the Debunkers" website11, which shows clearly where any irrationality lies. Interestingly, Randi only published his 'devastating critique' on his website12, and not the responses, explaining that Dr Schwartz had "issued frenzied responses to my comments, which I am tempted to publish here, but that would make a very long document indeed". So what drives the pseudo-skeptic to such extraordinary lengths? Why do they attack their 'enemy' with such ferocity, and accusations of nazism and other name-calling?
One pertinent point to note from this statement is how pseudo-skeptics always talk in terms of how the general public needs to be told what is best for them (by the pseudo-skeptic of course). And yet they wonder why the public is disdainful. The other point is that the jealousy of the debunker has at its root their deep-seated desire to have their particular worldview validated.
So what is the underlying reason for the debunkers position? Why do they feel the need to "portray science not as an open-minded process of discovery, but as a holy war against unruly hordes of quackery" 14? The obvious conclusion is that behind this behaviour lies a large amount of insecurity. In particular, anxiety that a carefully constructed world-view, which helps them to make sense of the world and also often bestows upon them a position of power, may be dismantled at any moment. Any attempts by 'pseudo-scientists' to investigate outside this world-view are regarded as a threat, an attempt to pull the comfortable rug out from beneath the debunker's feet. As much as the true skeptic harbours doubts about their stance, the debunker attempts to convince themselves and others, through any means possible, that they are right. How can the debunker, therefore, ever be considered anything more than a pseudo-skeptic.
That's not to say, however, that criticism of alternative theories is incorrect or somehow morally wrong in any way. Ideas and theories should always be questioned, but in a respectful manner, and with the humility to realise that any position may prove to be completely incorrect. We should always question what we believe, and also why we do so. In the end though, it is each person's inalienable right to construct a view of the world which fits the evidence of their experience best, and helps them to understand the world. The debunker does not believe in this philosophy however, and feels the need to impose their personal viewpoint upon others. It is high time that all parties showed more respect for philosophies different to theirs, and made an attempt to understand them. If the pseudo-skeptic does not take my word for it, perhaps they'll listen to James Alcock, who wrote in Skeptical Inquirer (with the emphasis added being mine) "we may differ in our assumptions about the underlying nature of reality, but we are much the same as each other" 15.
This 'manuscript' is the compilation of a number of 'debunking standards' which I have experienced over the years on mailing lists and website discussions. I have obviously had similar experiences to the people at the 'Debunking the Debunkers' website (http://www.survivalscience.org/debunk/default.shtml), as they have been inspired to write similar commentaries. I thoroughly recommend their website as it is far more comprehensive than my small list, and also their observations are spot-on and well argued. I have used this resource to the benefit of this article, as a perusal of the footnotes will show.
I was also pleasantly surprised to read an excellent article in Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 26 No. 1, Jan/Feb 2002, "3 Skeptics' Debate Tools Examined", by Alvaro Caso, which addressed a few of my points. I recommend this article as well, as a handy resource for the critical thinker.
Tart, Charles "States of Consciousness and State Specific Sciences", in Advances in Altered States of Consciousness and Human Potentialities Volume I, ed. Theodore X. Barber, 1976.
Lindbergh, Charles cited in Psychic Voyages.
Krauss, Lawrence M. "Odds Are Stacked When Science Tries to Debate PseudoScience", New York Times April 30, 2002.
Parker, Adrian States of Mind, 1975.
Shermer, Michael Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of our Time, 1997.
Frazier, Kendrick "From the Editor's Seat: 25 Years of Science and Skepticism" in Skeptical Inquirer Volume 25 No. 3, May/June 2001.
Alcock, James "Science vs Pseudoscience, Nonscience and Nonsense – 25 Years of CSICOP", in Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 25 No. 3 May/June 2001.


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Everyday life and routine may piss you off this Thursday according to the Magic Horoscope forecast.
Cupid is a bit clumsy today, and that may lead you and your partner to have some conflicts.
This is especially relevant for those couples that have been together for many years, sharing a home and even a family together.
Respect, patience and choosing the right words will help heal the situation so that things don't get worse.
If your partner has a mood that you can't figure out just let it go. Don't make it worse by saying the wrong thing, Aries, or you could open wounds that could take a while to heal.
You need to value your work and learn to put a price to it, no matter if your environment makes you feel like you are inferior.
Only you are aware of the effort you put into doing your work correctly, and that you are constantly trying to do your tasks better and carefully.
Don't be tempted by consumerism, especially technology items that you don't really need even though you might feel like you want them so bad.
There will certainly be more astral favorable circumstances. It is better to let it go by now, for the month has just started.
The firmament doesn't have any new alarming data concerning the Aries' health.
Today the stars suggest that you could try some alternative treatments such as Tibetan bowls massages or aromatherapy.
To sleep better at night, you could try to take a long walk at sunset or to go running on the beach, while you feel the cold water on your feet.
Quit snacking between meals and take care of your diet. You don't care enough about it, and you will end up regretting it.


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The Power of Trusting Your Gut: How One Ecommerce Entrepreneur Rebuilt a Failing Business, One Product and Customer at a Time
Posted by Michael Ugino on November 10, 2017 at 2:06 pm
Carter Seibels was getting bored. In the early days of her career as a jewelry maker, she fed off of the creativity and energy that went into every item she made and sold to her customers. She had a knack for creating unique and memorable handmade jewelry that literally stopped passersby in their tracks, and she was passionate about quality and attention to detail.
But as she sat in the middle of a 10,000 square foot warehouse, repeatedly taking uninspiring product photos that lacked creativity or thought, and shipping box after box of wholesale product to bead and craft stores all around the country, she began to feel in her gut that something wasn't right.
She didn't feel fulfilled in the same way she did when she first started her career, and what's worse, she saw signs that the business was starting to fail. She knew that she was at an important crossroads that many entrepreneurs have faced before her — she needed to make a decision about the future of her business: close up shop and walk away, or dig in her heels and refuse to give up.
I recently sat down with Seibels to hear her story. In this exclusive feature, you'll learn why she ultimately decided not to give up, and how she was able to successfully pivot and transform her failing wholesale bead business into a successful retail brand, one product and customer at a time.
Uncovering an Opportunity
Long before creating the WomanShopsWorld brand that she is known for today, Carter Seibels was attending a private high school in Columbia, South Carolina and working on a project called the Senior Exhibition. It was a college preparatory, year-long research project that required students to study a topic in depth and either write a research paper or build a product, then present their learnings to the entire school.
Through her research, Seibels ultimately chose to study glass blowing, took a class from a local artist, and began producing unique glass beads that could be sold to people who were interested in crafts and homemade goods.
Fast forward a few years, and Seibels found herself attending college, where she continued to hone in on her skills and interest in making jewelry and designing glass beads. What started as a class project and a fun hobby soon became a budding business for Seibels, as more and more people began noticing and asking about the handmade items she wore around campus.
"I started wearing my jewelry out in college, and people started buying it off of my neck, literally," said Seibels. "The next thing I knew, I was in my second year of college and had a pretty legitimate little jewelry making business going."
When Seibels graduated from college, her business was waiting for her.
Finding Success with Wholesale
After a few years of selling wholesale and attending craft shows as a business owner, Seibels met and partnered with her now-husband, a bead manufacturer based in California who was looking for someone to help him design a line of glass beads to manufacture in China. "He saw my designs and recognized that I really thought outside of the box," said Seibels. "So I joined his company, moved out to California, and essentially moved into a 10,000 square foot warehouse full of beads."
At the time, the company was wholesale supplying most of the bead stores in the country. For Seibels, it was an entirely different type of business than the one she had been owning and operating on her own for the last few years.
"It opened this whole new world to me where suddenly I was in the big business side of things and behind-the-scenes in the jewelry-making industry, and it was just like a whole new world opened up," says Seibels. "I really enjoyed learning more about the business side of what was going on."
Eventually, as business picked up and she was tasked with new challenges, Seibels found herself spending much less time making jewelry and much more time on the wholesale operations side of things—photographing, managing inventory, accounting.
When Everything Started to Crumble
Around 2010, changes in the industry landscape caught up to Seibels and her husband. China had started coming directly to the U.S. to wholesale distribute beads to the same local mom and pop shops that Seibels' business was supplying. In addition, those same mom and pop shops were struggling to compete against big box stores that were increasingly entering the space.
"We used to supply probably 75% of the stores in the country with boxes of beads. We would send out a pick box of beads, they would keep what they wanted and ship the rest back. It slowly started happening, and you don't realize it immediately, that this store hasn't returned their box, or this other store…. they'd actually gone out of business," said Seibels.
"It was my accountant one day who came to us and said 'do you realize you are completely in the hole?' We were shipping out boxes and nobody was shipping them back. And all of a sudden, sales reps are no longer as busy. And it snowballs… if feels like you have a fire underneath you."
The business had turned upside down almost overnight. Yet, they were sitting on top of a huge warehouse, tons of inventory, and an expensive home in the Berkeley Hills.
Realizing they needed to make a drastic change, Seibels and her husband packed up their home, along with 10 53-foot containers worth of merchandise and gear, and moved to North Carolina.
"We went from having a peak of 15 employees in our California warehouse to having 1 employee in North Carolina helping us rebuild our operation."
But even beyond the business struggles, Seibels had been dreading the monotony that came with selling wholesale beads.
"With the wholesale company, I started feeling like I was a bead-eating, number-crunching machine," said Seibels. "It was like, I could have been selling paper, or cardboard…it didn't matter what we were selling anymore. We had to lay out the beads in the lightbox in the same angle in the same way, and make sure the dimensions were shown, and it was like I was a number-cruncher for beads."
Feeling uninspired and unfulfilled, Seibels recognized that their wholesale beads business was not moving in a sustainable direction.
"When I was re-training my employees in North Carolina…. It was at that time that I realized this system wasn't working very well, and I'm not sure I want to rebuild that system here. That's when I started the Etsy shop… I thought, we need to try something different."
She called the Etsy store WomanShopsWorld, and positioned it as a shop where creative people could come to find and buy unique, crafty global goods.
Within a year and a half, she had completely transitioned their business from selling huge heaps and boxes (20 boxes a day 50-75 lbs each) of beads, rocks, and gemstones to shops around the country each day, to selling one item to one customer at a time online.
Having the Courage to Pivot
Pivoting away from the wholesale bead business and into the 1-to-1 retail business wasn't easy for Seibels or her husband, despite the early traction they experienced. Transitioning required them to shut down their business and part ways with employees, sell their home, and move their entire warehouse of inventory across the country.
After a year and a half of working hard to build the WomanShopsWorld brand, reputation, and customer base, they were able to completely shut down their wholesale bead company and invest 100% of their time and energy into scaling the new retail shop. It survived solely on Etsy for 2 full years, until they finally launched a website in February of 2017 that would allow them to continue to scale their retail business and sell unique inventory that they weren't allowed to sell on Etsy.
For Seibels, it was exactly what she needed to reignite her passion for selling unique, high-quality crafts to creative people.
"I think I like the retail side better just because it allows me the time to enjoy the products, interact with the customers, and curate the shop, instead of the need to just move huge amounts of volume and products."
As a business owner, making the pivot into selling retail to individual customers was one of the best and most rewarding decisions she's ever made. She's never looked back.
Finding Success, Sustainability, and Happiness with Retail
In the years since pivoting her business, Seibels has been able to continue strengthening and scaling her operations, and has worked hard to nurture relationships with a loyal community of customers who love buying her products.
She now targets hobby crafters, DIYers, professional jewelers, artists, and interior designers who look for unique products that they can't find anywhere else. She travels the world with her husband looking for the right partners, small scale manufacturers, and the right products to feature in her shop. Bright, colorful, bold, and fun items that stand out from anything else that her competitors are offering.
So how did she do it? For Seibels, it's all about presenting the products she sells in ways that people aren't used to them being presented.
"If you go to a wholesale bead show, it's basically just piles and piles of beads on top of tables," said Seibels. "Nothing is really given the close look that is deserves. So I started highlighting the unique aspects of the items that I was listing in my shop, and they started selling like hotcakes."
It's a much more personal business to operate and manage. Without the tedious tasks that came with managing the wholesale bead business weighing her down and eating up all her energy, Seibels was able build a business that focuses a lot more on quality, reputation, artistry, differentiation, and nurturing relationships.
"Now," said Seibels, "I can stop and admire the beads, and take the time to lay them out the way I want to lay them out in the lightbox, and present it as creatively as possible, because that is ultimately who my customer is, a creative person. It's not about number-crunching or bead-slinging, it's about being creative."
To attract customers and get them to buy again and again, Seibels focuses 100% on product quality and consistency.
As you can imagine, social media is a big part of what helps her differentiate from other shops. For Seibels, the ability to give people a reason to pause from their busy day because you've wowed them or made them think about something is a big part of being able to help people understand what makes their products truly unique and special.
These days, Seibels spends a lot of her time creating and curating content for her social media followers, particularly those that follow the brand on Instagram.
Her efforts continue to pay off day after day. Her followers and customers have learned that they can depend on her product photography—they can feel confident that they will receive products with the level of quality that Seibels is presenting in her photos.
It's this commitment to quality and reputation that allows her to attract new customers, and continue scaling her business, one product and one person at a time.
Lessons Learned Along the Way
Naturally, Seibels has learned a lot of lessons along the way as she's worked to transform her business and sell products that she and her customers both love.
For Seibels, one of the most essential factors in building a successful ecommerce business today comes down to quality.
"When we were operating the wholesale beads business, I got really good at spotting a fake from a mile away," says Seibels. "It feels really good to be able to now choose what we sell—a quality product that people can depend on."
When it comes to her biggest challenge, Seibels mentions time.
"Across the board, through it all, one of my biggest challenges, and still is a challenge that I face every single day is time constraints," said Seibels. "There are never enough hours in the day to get done everything that I want to get done."
Seibels also mentioned the importance of having patience as an entrepreneur, and waiting to see how things turn out before making any rash decisions about the future of your business.
"Giving things time to work is so important," says Seibels. "It's so important to try to see the long-term and make decisions accordingly."
For Seibels, that ultimately means forcing yourself to slow down and listen to what your gut is trying to tell you.
"Go with your gut instinct," she said. "With WomanShopsWorld, I am always listening to that inner voice and inner feeling. If you get quiet enough and calm enough, and take a step back for long enough, we're all able to tap into that and tune into that feeling, and that is the most important guide that I have ever known in business."
When it comes to operating a business or completing tasks that you aren't familiar with, Seibels says it's all about being proactive about learning.
"As time passes, technology just changes faster and faster and faster. I think it's really important to stay on top of all of that, but it's also a huge challenge to constantly be learning things that are new," said Seibels. "You can learn so much from Googling stuff and watching other people who are successful. That's the beautiful thing about doing business in this day and age—there are so many tools and resources at your fingertips. If you're driven, you can pretty much do anything you want to do. It's really just about dedication and taking the time to learn."
When it comes to working alongside your spouse on a business venture like she has for many years, Seibels offers this advice to couples:
"A clear delineation of responsibilities is very important, as is being patient," she said. "You have also to understand that not everyone does everything the same way."
When it comes to helping other aspiring entrepreneurs decide whether they should stick with their day job or attempt to follow their dreams and become an entrepreneur, Seibels pulls from her own experience. She describes why she does what she does, even though it's not always the easiest path forward:
"I can do whatever I want to do every day of the week," she said. "I can choose if I'm going to work today, or if I'm going to focus on taking pictures today, or if I'm going to focus on paying my sales taxes, or whatever it is. I can choose exactly what I want to do today, and how I want to do it, and that is an amazingly beautiful thing. It's priceless, really."
I want to thank Carter Seibels for taking the time to sit down with us for this piece. If you have any questions for us or Carter about the world of ecommerce or WomanShopsWorld, leave them in a comment below.
Michael Ugino is the co-founder & CMO of Sellbrite. A former IR 300 merchant and Fortune 500 product marketer, Michael now helps small to medium sized brands and retailers build a successful online marketplace strategy. He'd be delighted for you to connect with him on LinkedIn.
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Q: Updating progress bar in Tkinter simultaneously while recording audio Python3 My goal for this simple program is to be able to show a progress bar of time the mic has been recording(range from 0 - 30 seconds). I am using the Tkinter library, Python 3.6, and PyAudio to record.
I finished writing the code for the individual parts(recording + updating progress bar) but I don't know how to change the code so that they happen at the same time(not one after the other). Also, I've realized that while I am recording, the GUI freezes(I can't click or resize buttons), I am also wondering about how to fix this issue. After doing some more research, I have a feeling that the answer lies with multi-threading or root.update() but I am not sure.
I am looking for a code example of recording audio while I simultaneously update the progress bar.
Here is an example:
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
import tkinter as tk
import pyaudio
import numpy as np
np.random.seed(123)  # for reproducibility
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg')  # No pictures displayed

class Test_GUI(tk.Tk):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        tk.Tk.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

        root = self

        label_title = Label(root, text="Progress Bar Recording Sample")
        label_title.pack(fil="x")

        topFrame = Frame(root)
        topFrame.pack(side=TOP)

        self.recordButton = Button(topFrame, text="Record", command=self.start)
        self.recordButton.pack(side=LEFT)

        self.progress = ttk.Progressbar(topFrame, orient="horizontal",
                                        length=200, mode="determinate")
        self.min = 0
        self.maxMin = 0
        self.progress.pack(side=RIGHT)

        # recording attributes.
        self.CHUNK = 1024
        self.FORMAT = pyaudio.paInt16
        self.CHANNELS = 2
        self.RATE = 44100
        self.RECORD_SECONDS = 15
        self.WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME = "/Users/Sree/Desktop/PythonPrograms/audio_output_test.wav"

    def start(self):
        print("here")

        self.progress["value"] = 0
        self.maxMin = 30
        self.progress["maximum"] = 30

        '''
        I need the following 2 lines to happen at the same time
        the progress bar needs to update from 1-30 seconds(which is the time I am recording)
        '''
        self.record()
        self.update_progress() #The progress bar is from 0 sec to 30 sec indicating what percentage of the time the mic has been recording for.

    def update_progress(self):
        self.min += 0.1
        self.progress["value"] = self.min
        if self.min < self.maxMin:
            # update after 100 ms
            self.after(100, self.update_progress)

    def record(self):
        p = pyaudio.PyAudio()
        stream = p.open(format=self.FORMAT,
                             channels=self.CHANNELS,
                             rate=self.RATE,
                             input=True,
                             frames_per_buffer=self.CHUNK)

        print("* recording")

        frames = []

        for i in range(0, int(self.RATE / self.CHUNK * self.RECORD_SECONDS)):
            data = stream.read(self.CHUNK)
            frames.append(data)

        print("* done recording")

        stream.stop_stream()
        stream.close()
        p.terminate()

        wf = wave.open(self.WAVE_OUTPUT_FILENAME, 'wb')
        wf.setnchannels(self.CHANNELS)
        wf.setsampwidth(p.get_sample_size(self.FORMAT))
        wf.setframerate(self.RATE)
        wf.writeframes(b''.join(frames))
        wf.close()

app = Test_GUI()
app.mainloop()

A: To prevent the GUI from freezing while recording, you need to launch the recording in a separate thread. To do so, you can use the  threading module for instance and replace self.record() in your start method by:
record_thread = threading.Thread(target=self.record, daemon=True)
record_thread.start()

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Local performers invited to audition for Sweeney Todd at Buxton Opera House
Local people are being invited to audition for Buxton Opera House's annual amateur production.
By Louise Cooper
Saturday, 4th December 2021, 6:26 pm
Sweeney Todd will be performed at Buxton Opera House in 2022
Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will be performed at the theatre from Friday April 29 to Sunday May 1 2022.
Auditions for the production, which will be directed by Paul Kerryson, chief executive of Buxton Opera House, will take place on Saturday Janury 8 at the theatre at 10am,
Paul has recently directed the critically acclaimed national tour of Hairspray, and previous productions at the opera house include Oliver! and West Side Story.
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He said: "Every year we look forward to working with the local community on these very special productions.
"This is a superb opportunity for local singers and performers to appear in one of the most famous musicals of all time.
"We are looking for singers and actors of all genders to perform in this gloriously murderous tale of revenge.
"Performers will be able to experience the thrill of live performance in this iconic theatre and discover the magical process of putting together a production under the guidance of our team of experts."
Anyone interested in being part of the cast for Sweeney Todd must fill in an application form, which is available on the website at https://buxtonoperahouse.org.uk. The closing date for applications is Monday December 20.
"If you are aged 16 and over, you can apply for an audition, but make sure that you fill in the form on our website," Paul added.
Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street is a musical thriller with music and lyrics by the late composer Stephen Sondheim.
This macabre tale tells the story of the infamous Todd who returns to London seeking bloodthirsty revenge following deportation and imprisonment in Australia. A chance meeting with Mrs Lovett in her East End pie shop brings a deadly accomplice to his schemes, and together they concoct a chilling plan.
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Until the middle of the last century it was not known what actually caused cavities in teeth. In Sweden it was a widespread problem, and in the 1940s as many as 99,9 % of the military conscripts had cavities. Though it was suspected that sugar played an important role, it was not yet scientifically confirmed.
As a countermeasure the government established The National Dental Service in 1945, and a set of experiments were initiated to root out any uncertainty. The location was Vipeholm Mental Hospital, housing several hundred patients that were to become part of the largest human experiment ever conducted in Sweden. The key element was to replace their regular meals with candy. Over the course of several years the patients were fed copious amounts of candy and caramel, and some were even allowed and encouraged to eat as much as they wanted at any time of the day.
Vanessa Billy contributes two recent sculptures. David Keating and Christian Tonner present commissioned work and have been instrumental in developing the backdrop for the show – following preset outlines. In no order: Perspex sheet covered with Vaseline, propped up by concrete / wall-mounted mirror foil with SAAB Force Protection multispectral Winter Camouflage Net / partially spray painted polystyrol-hardfoam and Michael Jackson's torso / carpet sculpture / trash can with elevated water / three steel vitrines with painted rope (looping lyrically), transparent, larger than preceding work / autostereogram – internal image (to overcome focus and vergence: the simultaneous movement of the pupils) / two jackets (zip-locked).
Two half a century old works by Georges Braque, were made on the initiative of the Maeght gallery, the artist's longtime supporters, at the very end of his career. Severely wounded in WWI, Braque remained a productive painter for the rest of his life, ever faithful to the ideas of Cubism. In one print two birds soar through blue skies, with the ageing artist presenting his best wishes for 1960.
Vanessa Billy (born 1978, Geneva) lives in Zurich and London. Recent exhibitions include "Three Times a Day", Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2011); "Natural Means Something Like Vegetables", Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen (2011); "What Shapes What", Limoncello, London (2010); "Surfaces for the Mind to Rest or Sink Into", The Photographer's Gallery, London (2009); "stream, river, lake, river, stream", BolteLang, Zurich (2009), as well as international group shows.
Georges Braque (born 1882, Argenteuil; died 1963, Paris) was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, in close collaboration with Pablo Picasso, developed the art movement known as Cubism. Braque remained strongly committed to the cubist method of simultaneous perspective and fragmentation, producing a considerable number of paintings, graphic prints and sculptures. Braque's work can be found in most major museums throughout the world.
David Keating (born 1977, Melbourne) is a Berlin-based artist whose solo exhibitions include "Sequence and Descending", RaebervonStenglin, Zurich (2010); "I like for you to be still", The Taut and Tame, Berlin (2010); and "In Division", Koh-9-noor, Copenhagen (2008). His group exhibitions include Brussels Biennial I (2008) and "Tales from The Travel Journal", CAC Vilnius (2006).
Christian Tonner (born 1977, Detmold) lives and works in Berlin. His exhibitions includes The Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2011); "KOH-I-NOHR", Den Frie, Copenhagen (2011); Mulhouse Biennale 010, Mulhouse France (2010); "Kabul – Mauritius Kunstverein Mauritius", Gallery Oranienstrasse 46, Berlin (2010); "The KVM Office", Artforum Berlin (2009); "Dude, where's my career?" Portikus, Frankfurt a.M. (2009); and "I Love Palms, Limoncello Gallery", London (2008).
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UK based First Direct plans to turn social media into social pay media, plans to launch FDpay
By Helen Smith January 28, 2019
In a first of its kind deal with a payments start-up PayKey to enable customers to make money transactions through social media apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. The latest financial technology will let users send and receive money while using social media apps. The user will not have to open the First Direct banking app and can directly make transactions from their FDpay feature that is going to be compatible with popular messenger apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
Now mobile phones in the UK will have an FDpay icon floating on their phone's keyboard and can authenticate payments via the app before making a payment. This Paym mobile banking service will use the recipient's mobile number enabling users to transfer up to 350 pounds every day.
"We're always listening to what customers say they want in order to give them the best service we can, and they told us it would be great if they were able to pay a contact within an already open conversation, to which FDpay is the result," said Joe Gordon, head of First Direct.
PayKey's keyboard-based solution seamlessly integrates with any mobile app, giving customers access to financial services directly from within any App. With the tap of a button, users can notify payees of their dues and get paid instantly. It gives mobile users instant access to financial information such as balance checks. Now your friends and family everybody can take out cash in your behalf with just a temporary code that can be shared using your mobile phone. The Tel Aviv headquartered company has already sold their unique mobile solutions to world's leading financial institutions such as HSBC, MasterCard, Standard Chartered, SHINHAN BANK, etc. This financial technology start-up has been disrupting the traditional mobile banking norms by making intelligent banking accessible to the world. First Direct investing faith in such start-ups, the future of digitization of banking services is strong more than ever. The Israeli firm was founded in 2014 with the aim to invent intelligent fintech solutions and solve real-life problems that customers face. It has raised $16 million till date from various financial institutions including CommerzVentures, Santander InnoVentures, SBI Group, Siam Commercial Bank and MasterCard.
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Discussion in 'US East Standard - Ladder' started by AFew, Jul 16, 2010.
I need runes ist and up.
can you give me an exact price for all?
not really sure what they are worth, I could auction them I guess?
Current value I think are around a Ist each.
I am also looking for a good fort and I can add runes to the mf sc's for one.
I would rate them at about a Um each?
hey afew how bout a trade for the infinity instead of the runes I offered?
you throw in all 8 ill do it.
thats fine. mule up unless you are going to be in game soon.


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Exploring the connections between (sometimes) disparate ideas.
Don't worry if you couldn't vote this year...
For the past few days my Feed has been inundated with photos of people's inked thumbs. Like all Big Events, the Lok Sabha 2014 elections caused all manner of sharing across the various media, and it's always a sight to see. But amidst all the hopeful, proud photos of people there was a saddened set of people. A fair number wanted to vote but weren't able to for some reason. Either they were traveling or they weren't registered or their names were not to be found or whatever.
To be fair, I can't even begin to imagine the sheer logistical nightmare it must be to organize an election across more than a billion people! But still it kinda sucks when these things happen. But there's hope yet, assuming that the you really wanted to "make a difference".
Just do something.
Do anything for that matter, anything at all!
Educate yourself about nationally important topics, read up on a little economic theory, make a video about an issue or a charity that's important to you, volunteer at your old school, mentor someone who you think you might have something to teach, volunteer on a local clean-up drive, help out at an NGO, check out your company's CSR division, do anything! If you're really into it you might even build the next social enterprise that ends up bringing clean drinking water to a whole bunch of people.
And yes, of course these things are hard. Of course these actions take time. Even to donate money to someone like a Range.org requires more time than it takes to walk to the polling station and vote. But then again, whoever said that all it took to be a good citizen was to press a little blue button once every five years. The truth is that while voting is quite important, it's really only the least you can do as a good citizen.
The truth is...
The truth is that you are so much more capable than you've been led to believe.
Think of all the skills that you've acquired over all these years. Think of how much difference it would make if even one of those skills was something that could bring joy to someone else. And don't worry about "Changing the World" and all that nonsense, just tend to your little corner of the universe as best as you can.
Think of what would happen if your efforts were to start accumulating. What if others started following suit, tending to their own little corners as best as they can. 55% voter turnout in Bangalore is low? Nonsense, think of what even 55% of that 55% could do if they all started looking outward a little bit.
The truth is that you are so. much. more. capable than you've been led to believe. Some quick pointers though:
Don't try to do it all at once.
Don't assume that you always know what's best for everyone, and
Don't worry that your efforts aren't big enough.
Don't try to do it all at once
I think the biggest hurdle is always the first step, which is to get out of the chair and actually do something. Then last year I watched this interview with a very young entrepreneur who had her own social enterprise helping underpriveleged children, and she said something that was a real kick in the pants for me.
I think... something that they do a lot is they want their NGO's to be really large immediately, which is not going to happen... But if they start small and are practical, then it's really not that hard.
I'm paraphrasing, but you get the idea. You should really check out the rest of the interview if you can, it's quite cool.
Don't assume that you always know what's best
This should be self explanatory. Generally just try and have a good handle on all the assumptions you're making about a particular problem and then keep your eyes and ears open to see if those assumptions pan out in the real world.
Don't be self-absorbed about your service to the the public, that's just the worst.
Don't worry that your efforts aren't big enough
Lastly, and this is a tough one, don't worry that the issues are just too large to make any kind of dent. You'd be surprised at the number of movements that have started from just a small dedicated team of like two or three people.
Hey and if it's really getting you down, just think of the lesson of the 'Dancing Guy'.
There was a version of this poem in our school diaries. Must've read this thing about a million times without really getting it, but I've gotten a new perspective on it over time:
When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.
I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.
When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.
Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.
~by Unknown Monk, 1100 A.D.
Edit (20/04/2013) :
I should clarify that the elections as such are still on-going, it's just the Karnataka phase got done very recently.
Also, I added some more links to some projects I'm aware of. There are doubtless many more that're as deserving.
Minor other changes.
Labels: ChangingTheWorld, india, politics


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Q: Unable to see newly created csv file I created 2 button. The first button allow me to write 1234 in AgmPlot csv format. But i am unable to see the newly created csv file in AgmFolder - I have to re run the program again to see the newly created Excel csv file.
def AGM():
    Plot()
    newDirRH = "C:/AgmPlots"
    newfile = newDirRH + "/TabulatedStats.csv"
    text_file = open(newfile, "w")
    stringText = "1234"
    x= stringText
    text_file.write(x)
    text_file.close()
    print "Done"

def AGMFolder():
    webbrowser.open(r'C:\AgmPlots')

def Plot():
    py.plot(10,20)
    py.show()

Problem is due to the Plot(). I dont wish to take it away but how can i fix this problem??
if __name__ == '__main__': #start of program
    master = Tk.Tk()
    button = Tk.Button(text='AGM', command=AGM, fg="red")
    button.config( height = 10, width = 40 )
    button.pack() #pack is needed to display the button
    button1 = Tk.Button(text='Open AGM Folder', command = AGMFolder, fg="red")
    button1.config( height = 10, width = 40 )
    button1.pack()
    master.mainloop()

A: I assume that py in Plot() refers to matplotlib.pyplot?
In that case, your call to py.show() will block until the plot window is closed; change it to py.show(block=False) and re-read the documentation.