Thursday, December 31, 2015
Hairstylist Reveals The Truth Behind Other People’s Selfies
Hairstylist Reveals The Truth Behind Other People’s Selfies
“So I didn’t edit either one of these photos, but they were taken just a few days apart. I think it’s important to note that lighting, angles, facial expression, and make-up make a huge difference in photography and presentation (especially in my case!). Social media can make it easy to feel like everyone else is awesome and perfect all the time, but that’s really never true. We should keep in mind that behind every pretty face or perfect lifestyle is a regular person, and that there’s really no point in comparing amongst ourselves because this is all cultivated. I think of all the young people out there, especially girls, who are influenced by media in this way, and I think about how badly I know I’d feel if I were a teen today, trying to cope with ever more perfect females all over the place, and how that would likely suck even worse than what prior generations had to go through. Part of the solution, I think, is more people opting to take a moment here and there to be real and show what’s behind the smoke and mirrors, because it’s relevant for y’all to know that this isn’t reality. In reality, nothing is perfect, life is messy, and people are flawed. So the best way to be happy with yourself is to cultivate YOURSELF, vs. cultivating an IMAGE, or comparing yourself to everyone else. Do the things you want to do, find things you love, figure out what and who you want to be, and then set out to do that stuff. Think about what matters to you, and then try to engage with those activities, people, and/or values daily. Do you. For real.”
- Stylist Ursula Goff
40 ENLIGHTENING LATIN PHRASES BY THE WORLD'S GREATEST MINDS
1) Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore - Cicero
“I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.”
2) Vestis virum reddit - Quintilianus
“The clothes make the man.”
3) Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem - Horace
“Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.”
4) Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur - Unknown
“That man is wise who talks little.”
5) Ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora - Unknown
“Eggs today are better than chickens tomorrow” or “A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.”
6) Vires acquirit eundo - Virgil
“It gains strength by going (or as it goes).”
7) Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur - Unknown “Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time.”
8) Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia - Cicero
“Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.”
9.) Alea iacta est - Caesar
“The dice has been cast.”
10) Vitanda est improba siren desidia - Horace
“One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.”
11) Disiecti membra poetae - Horace
"Limbs of a dismembered poet."
12) Semper inops quicumque cupit - Claudian
"Whoever desires is always poor."
13) A fronte praceipitium a tergo lupi - Unknown
"A precipice in front, wolves behind" or "Between a rock and a hard place."
14) Semper idem - Cicero
"Always the same thing."
15) Dulce bellum inexpertis - Pindaros
"War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it."
16) Serva me, servabo te - Petronius Arbiter "Save me and I will save you."
17) Dum excusare credis, accusas - St. Jerome
"When you believe you are excusing yourself, you are accusing yourself."
18) Si vis pacem, para bellum - Vegetius
"If you want peace, prepare for the war."
19) Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem - Seneca
"As long as we are among humans, let us be humane."
20) Si vis amari, ama - Seneca
"If you wish to be loved, love."
21) Dum viviumus, vivamus - Epicurean Philosophy
"When we live, let us live."
22) Etiam capillus unus habet umbram - Publilius Syrus
"Even one hair has a shadow."
23) Timendi causa est nescire - Seneca
"Ignorance is the cause of fear."
24) Extinctus ambitur idem - Horace
"The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget."
25) Transit umbra, lux permanet - Unknown
"Shadow passes, light remains."
26) Extra ecclesiam nulla salus - disputed phrase of the Roman Catholic Theology
"Outside the Church, (there is) no salvation."
27) Ubi concordia, ibi victoria - Publius Syrus
"Where there is unity, there is the victory."
28) Fabas indulcet fames - Unknown
"Hunger sweetens the beans" or "Hunger makes everything taste good."
29) Una hirundo non facit ver - Horace
"One Sallow does not make Summer."
30) Faber est suae quisque fortunae - Appius Claudius Caecus
"Every man is the artisan of his own fortune."
31) Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas - Ovid
"Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable."
32) Fluctuat nec mergitur - Unknown
"It is tossed by the waves but it does not sink."
33) Tantum religio potuit saudere malorum - Lucretius
"So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds."
34) Materiam superabat opus - Ovid
“The workmanship was better than the subject matter.”
35) Malum consilium quod mutari non potest - Publilius Syrus
“It’s a bad plan that can’t be changed.”
36) Forsan miseros meliora sequentur - Virgil
"For those in misery, perhaps better things will follow."
37) Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono - Pliny The Elder
“There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.”
38) Forest fortuna adiuvat - Terence
"Fortune favors the brave."
39) Manus manum lavat - Petronius
“The favor for the favor” or “One hand washes the other.”
40) Gladiator in arena consilium capit - Seneca
"The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena" or essentially "Too late."
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Soaring Valor (Short Film)
The next time you visit New Orleans be sure to visit the National WWII Museum.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Refugee-Fearing Mayor Cites One of the Most Cowardly Episodes in American History
“if any fundamental assumption underlies our system, it is that guilt is personal and not inheritable. Even if all of one’s antecedents had been convicted of treason, the Constitution forbids its penalties to be visited upon him, for it provides that ‘no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.’
- Justice Robert Jackson
Saturday, December 5, 2015
People react to being called beautiful
What a wonderful photography project. The photographer is Shea Glover.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Monday, November 30, 2015
Curt Sanburn: Ugly Honolulu - Civil Beat News
The ugliness isn’t just skin deep. These mediocre buildings don’t take advantage of where they are. They don’t speak to Hawaii — that’s what ugly is.
Curt Sanburn: Ugly Honolulu - Civil Beat News
Curt Sanburn: Ugly Honolulu - Civil Beat News
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Randy Johnson's Strange Photography Logo is the Bird He Hit with a Pitch
Remember Randy Johnson the Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher? He's now a professional photographer, check out his business card.
Randy Johnson's Strange Photography Logo is the Bird He Hit with a Pitch
Randy Johnson's Strange Photography Logo is the Bird He Hit with a Pitch
Saturday, November 28, 2015
HELPLESSLY HOPING- CSN cover
This is only one guy covering Crosby, Stills & Nash's "Helplessly Hoping".
How far is a light-year? | Astronomy Essentials | EarthSky
How far is a light-year? | Astronomy Essentials | EarthSky
Here's an interesting way to mentally visualize a light year:
Here's an interesting way to mentally visualize a light year:
One astronomical unit (distance of the earth from the sun) equals about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles). Another way of looking at it: the astronomical unit is a bit more than 8 light-minutes in distance.
Quite by coincidence, the number of astronomical units in one light-year and the number of inches in one mile are virtually the same. For general reference, there are 63,000 astronomical units in one light-year, and 63,000 inches in one mile. This wonderful coincidence enables us to bring the light-year down to Earth. If we scale the astronomical unit – the Earth-sun distance – at one inch, then the light-year on this scale represents one mile.
Friday, November 27, 2015
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
The Cheshire Cat group of galaxies | Science Wire | EarthSky
“Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”
The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?”
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Cheshire Cat group of galaxies | Science Wire | EarthSky
The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?”
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Cheshire Cat group of galaxies | Science Wire | EarthSky
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Chad Mitchell Trio - Medley: In the Summer of His Years/Rally Round the ...
Released in 1964 on their "Reflections" album the Medley; In the Summer of His Years/Rally Round the Flag was a tribute to President John F. Kennedy who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.
Sweet Potato Soufflé
INGREDIENTS
- 2 pounds sweet potatoes
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- ¼ cup mild honey, such as clover
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ cup plain low-fat yogurt
- 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lime juice
- 8 egg whites, at room temperature
- ⅛ teaspoon cream of tartar
PREPARATION
- Preheat the oven to 425ºF. Scrub the sweet potatoes and pierce in several places with a sharp knife. Line a baking sheet with foil and place the potatoes on top. Bake for 45 minutes to an hour, depending on the size of the potatoes, until thoroughly soft and beginning to ooze. Remove from the heat and let cool.
- Adjust the rack to the lower third of the oven and turn the oven down to 400ºF. Rub the inside of a 2-quart soufflé dish or six 1- or 1 1/2-cup soufflé dishes with butter and dust with 2 tablespoons of the sugar, tilting the dish to coat evenly.
- Peel the potatoes and puree in a food processor fitted with the steel blade. Add the honey, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, ginger, yogurt, and lime juice and mix together well.
- Begin beating the egg whites at medium speed in a standing mixer fitted with the whisk attachment or with an electric beater. When they begin to foam, add the cream of tartar. When soft peaks begin to form, slowly add the remaining tablespoon of sugar while beating and continue to beat until the egg whites form stiff but not dry peaks. Stir one fourth into the sweet potatoes, and gently fold in the remainder. Scrape into the soufflé dish (or dishes). Place on a baking sheet and bake a large soufflé for 20 to 25 minutes, small soufflés for 15 minutes, or until puffed and just beginning to brown. Serve at once. The soufflé should be runny on the inside.
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