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G. K. Chesterton Early life[edit] G.K. Chesterton at the age of 17. Born in Campden Hill in Kensington, London, Chesterton was baptized at the age of one month into the Church of England,[8] though his family themselves were irregularly practising Unitarians.[9] According to his autobiography, as a young man Chesterton became fascinated with the occult and, along with his brother Cecil, experimented with Ouija boards. Family life[edit] Chesterton married Frances Blogg in 1901; the marriage lasted the rest of his life. Career[edit] Chesterton loved to debate, often engaging in friendly public disputes with such men as George Bernard Shaw,[13] H. Visual wit[edit] Chesterton usually wore a cape and a crumpled hat, with a swordstick in hand, and a cigar hanging out of his mouth. Radio[edit] In 1931, the BBC invited Chesterton to give a series of radio talks. The talks were very popular. Death and veneration[edit] Writing[edit] Chesterton's writings consistently displayed wit and a sense of humour.

Cute, kitsch, vintage and quirky handmade jewellery everyday beautiful life: a guide to the life you want | {Bits of Beauty} Today I’m doing EBL a bit differently. I’m going to be sharing some links to some fantastic posts at various blogs. I’m also going to be tweeting my EBL post suggestions on Twitter {@bitsofbeauty}. If you have a post or a tip you’d like to share, just tag it #EBL. I’d love to see what you come up with! Also, I’m going to be updating this post throughout the next 24 hours, so be sure to check back! You want to make a crap load of money, but before you do that… Have you ever heard of the Theory of Relative Depravity ? So, what’s an EBLer to do with the Joneses? Two great posts to get started: + Waving Goodbye to the Joneses from Get Rich Slowly + When you take it all away, what are you? You want to take risks, but you’re afraid… Oh dear, you read this blog and you haven’t read the Alchemist? “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. It’s absolutely true. “But how do YOU know? I know. I’m asking you to have faith in yourself. … sometimes, including yourself.

Insatiable Long-lasting systems can't survive if they remain insatiable. An insatiable thirst for food, power, energy, reassurance, clicks, funding or other raw material will eventually lead to failure. That's because there's never enough to satisfy someone or something that's insatiable. The organization amps up because its need is unmet. More fame! An insatiable appetite is a symptom: There's a hole in the bucket. If your organization demands ever more attention or effort or cash to produce the same output, it makes more sense to focus on the leak than it does to work ever harder to feed the beast.

Stephen Shore Stephen Shore (born October 8, 1947) is an American photographer known for his images of banal scenes and objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. In 2010, Shore received an Honorary Fellowship from The Royal Photographic Society. Life and work[edit] Stephen Shore was interested in photography from an early age. Shore has been the director of the photography department at Bard College since 1982. Art market[edit] Shore is represented by 303 Gallery in New York; Sprüth Magers Berlin London; and Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels. Monographs and catalogues[edit] Uncommon Places. Other books[edit] The Nature of Photographs, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Exhibitions[edit] 1976, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY1978, Rencontres d'Arles, France2010, Rencontres d'Arles, France2012, Stephen Shore, Uncommon Places,[3] Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow Awards[edit] Shore receiving Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie's Cultural Award, with Prof.

some people are just born with it « style/SWOON this house was love at first foot in the door… Jamie Laubhan-Oliver and her husband Larry Oliver are two of the most talented people I’ve ever known. Jamie is an art director for DHome/DWeddings and Larry is a senior designer for Neiman Marcus. They are both art directors and spend much of their days orchestrating amazing photoshoots. Their impeccable taste and blessed sample sale opportunities have turned their somewhat modest city townhome into a luxurious style haven. Each detail of their home is so interesting: from the alligator skull, to the collection of keys from Jamie’s father mixed with the heap of wine corks, and an armless baby doll. Each one has a story. Don’t get me wrong…these two have got their fair share of Jonathan Adler and other notable fancies by their ability to mix it all up so well is a gift. I have to tell you that one of the other endearing qualities about this couple is their peculiar side. Thank you Jamie and Larry!! photography by Elizabeth Lavin

Blue Economy: Economic Paradigm for a Sustainable Future Today we are leading a life which our planet can only sustain for a limited amount of time. Today we are leading a life which our planet can only sustain for a limited amount of time. Yet more than half of the people living on our planet cannot even fulfil their basic needs and must have a right to growth. Our society's future and economy's sustainability are only conceivable if we learn to create more livelihood for an increasing number of people using less natural resources. For twenty years now, realisation is growing that the greatest physical threat to ecological subsistence is the huge and unnecessary waste of natural resources. When the heads of governments and nations meet in Brazil in June this year to discuss about a globally sustainable development, the question about defining a sustainable economy will also come up. We call this new paradigm Blue Economy. Growth and the Value of Nature We could achieve this fairly quickly without decreasing our livelihoods and welfare.

Ray Bradbury 16 Anti Theft Gadgets and Designs to Deter Thieves 16 Anti-Theft Gadgets and Designs to Deter Thieves We all own many different cool gadgets and items that are important to us either for the utility they provide or perhaps because of an intimate or personal reason. Whatever the reason is, we really hate it when someone comes and touches our personal belongings and worst yet…steals them. In order to avoid such mishaps and unfortunate events, we have gathered here a great collection of different Anti Theft Gadgets and Bizarre Designs that are meant to help individuals make their devices and belongings less attractive, appealing or desired to a normal bystander. Moreover, there are a few security gadgets and projects that may also interest the more techy of you, who may be looking for some new gizmos to own or security diy to built. The following aren’t guaranteed to deter thieves or work colleagues from getting at your gadgets but are meant as additional things to make them think a second time before getting at your personal stuff. 1. Source

The single bottom line of sustainability | Brazilian Coffee Em português abaixo “Business’ business is business” – Milton Friedman Mr. Friedman’s Quote [1] gives a cold in the spine of today’s corporate social responsibility (also called by some “sustainability”) movement. The mainstream corporate sustainability ideas spoken in lectures and taught in MBAs are based on a non-systemic understanding of the world and the economy, and hold some incomplete concepts on its core. The triple-bottom-line concept considers that an organization should balance Economic performance with Social fairness and the Environmental soundness. No one really draws the line of “what is socially fair” or “what is environmentally sound”. This triple bottom line concept must evolve to a more realistic model of the world based on the systems’ understanding and, why not, a more humble mindset, where human society (“I”) is not placed in the center, but as part of a whole. The system understanding for business, a Back to the single bottom line. ps. Em Português: A frase do Sr.

Mike Sharples Profile For further information see My research concerns human-centred design of new technologies for learning. Qualifications PhD, 1984, University of Edinburgh, Thesis Title: ‘Cognition, Computers and Creative Writing’. B.Sc. Teaching Interests Teaching innovation: Pedagogy for eBooks project to promote research-led innovation within the OU, by understanding the opportunities to enhance teaching and learning processes of postgraduate students through next generation e-book technology, and examining new pedagogic practices that this emerging technology could support. Production of a series of Innovating Pedagogies reports, to inform policy makers and practitioners of innovations in higher education. Contribution to research and development of the iSpot system ( Research Interests Human-centred design and evaluation of educational technologies Mobile and contextual learning Design-based research Current Research Projects

the fabric of my life Measuring what matters: the Happy Planet Index 2012 June 14, 2012 // By: Nic Marks We live in challenging times. Our financial markets are under huge stress, global poverties and inequalities stubbornly persist and the threat of climate change looms over all of our futures. A growing number of governments, politicians and ordinary people around the world are recognising the interconnectedness of these issues and the need for thinking about what “progress” really is in the 21st century. They are realising that indicators of economic activity simply don’t tell us enough about societies’ goals of enabling good lives for their citizens. It is also why we nef (the new economics foundation) created the Happy Planet Index. The results – which you can easily explore in detail on www.happyplanetindex.org – show that we are still not living on a happy planet. The HPI results provide evidence for something we instinctively know to be true – that progress is not just about wealth, and that it is possible to live both happily and sustainably. Issues