Ralph Lauren was in the wrong, and they know they were wrong, because they got caught and went to far.
The best part about this whole situation is Ralph Lauren’s impossibly skinny model on the cover of their new ads, is the greatest fashion advertising debauchery in a long time. The advertisement shows a digitally altered image of model Filippa Hamilton, with her waist made to appear so small it is actually narrower than her own head.
Posted by Dreamer On September - 25 - 2009Comments
Reason and Passion XV by Khalil Gibran
And the priestess spoke again and said: “Speak to us of Reason and Passion.”And he answered saying:
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.
Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.
But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements?
Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
If either your sails or our rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion; that it may sing;
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.
I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even as you would two loved guests in your house.
Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both.
Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows – then let your heart say in silence, “God rests in reason.”
And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, – then let your heart say in awe, “God moves in passion.”
And since you are a breath In God’s sphere, and a leaf in God’s forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.
Posted by Dreamer On September - 21 - 2009Comments
Brighter than any star,
Its presence is always near,
Yet stretches far,
Warmer than a hot summer’s air,
Its heat gives warmth and shows it cares,
Tougher than a raging horse,
Its mighty strength pushes away hatred with no remorse,
Everlasting and universal,
Scattered yet united,
Untouchable yet flowing,
With wings it soars to touch our hearts,
To heal and patch up the broken parts,
Sweet and gentle like a dove,
Yes indeed it is the power of Love
These are the times, when hopes are dashed and chaos abounds, that golden opportunities, prized ideas, and new friends emerge into the view of all, but are only seen by the few who look.
When you visualize a great dream of yours coming true, what do you imagine?
Do you see yourself jumping up and down, doing the happy dance, looking to the sky, and shrieking, “THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!”? Can you feel the skin on your face stretch as you smile from ear to ear, or the palm of your hands sting as you slap more high-fives? Can you feel the phone in your hand as you dial your best friends?
Yeah, I think you should.
Anorexia nervosa: A psychiatric disorder in which a dramatic reduction in caloric intake consequent to excessive dieting leads to significant bodily, physiological, biochemical, emotional, psychological, and behavioral disturbances. Anorexia nervosa is typically an illness of adolescent females: 90% of all cases begin in girls who are between 12 and 20 years of age. Nevertheless, this disorder can also occur in males, in prepubertal girls, and in women well into their third decade. Moreover, if the illness becomes chronic, it can persist into mid-life and beyond. Anorexia nervosa literally means “nervous loss of appetite” but appears to have little to do with such. Rather, there is usually a conscious decision made by a teen-age girl, most commonly around the ages of 14 or 18 years, to embark upon a diet. The amount of weight lost can vary considerably. The usual criterion for making a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa is a weight change of at least 25% from premorbid weight (to at least 15% below ideal weight in persons who were overweight at the onset). But this figure should be viewed as only a rule of thumb. In addition to these core disturbances, there is an array of associated symptoms and practices that characterize most persons with anorexia nervosa. Amenorrhea (absence of menstruation); increased physical activity; insomnia; use of emetics, cathartics, and diuretics; difficulty in recognizing satiation; and obsessional thinking and depression. The course and prognosis of anorexia nervosa is highly variable. While a high recovery rate, perhaps above 67%, is found in those persons whose illness begins acutely in their early teens and who quickly receive treatment, the outlook is considerably bleaker in those persons who develop the disorder later, who do not receive early treatment, and who develop bulimia.
“Ana” Teen Anorexia The Perfectionists Disorder: TollieSchmidt.com
Perhaps as many as 40–50% of anorectic patients whose illness persists for more than 1–2 years will develop the additional eating disturbance known as bulimia. Literally meaning “oxhunger,” bulimia refers to binge eating or compulsive overeating wherein thousands of calories are consumed in a relatively brief period of time (for example, 2 h). The binge characteristically involves carbohydrates and will usually culminate in self-induced vomiting. The precise nature of the relationship of bulimia to anorexia nervosa remains unclear. Not all anorectics become bulimic and not all bulimics were anorectic. But dieting is common as a precursor to bulimia, and high premorbid weight and chronicity of weight loss seem to predispose the anorectic to developing bulimia.
Although there is a broad range of symptoms, personality styles, precipitants, and outcomes that characterize anorexia nervosa, there is no simple explanation of its origins. In one widely accepted conception, the illness is viewed as a desperate struggle by the vulnerable female adolescent to establish a sense of identity separate from that of her domineering, overbearing, controlling, and intrusive mother. There is considerable emphasis on viewing the family system as the matrix in which the illness develops and for which the illness must have significance. Anorexia is viewed as both a response to the lack of “living space” that the adolescent experiences and as a defense against the threats to the stability of the family system that the girl’s normal development implies. Development of anorexia is thus a function of both individual and family. It should be noted, however, that these formulations suffer from a common problem. They are based on assessments of anorectic patients—and their families—after the illness has become established. Thus, these theories cannot very well differentiate among predisposing, precipitating, and sustaining factors.
Am I Skinny Enough? TollieSchmidt.com
There are numerous physical, physiological, and biochemical changes that reflect primarily, although not solely, the ravages of starvation. In addition to the general bodily emaciation they manifest, anorectic individuals show brittle nails, thinning hair, cold extremities, a slow pulse, a small heart, and a hypometabolic state. In anorectic women who also binge and vomit, tooth decay and enlargement of the salivary glands are common. A mild-to-moderate anemia and a diminished white blood cell count develop with progressive malnutrition. Diabetes insipidus can also occur in advanced cases. In addition, abnormalities in glucose tolerance and blood electrolytes have been observed. Particularly in women who vomit, the blood potassium level can be significantly low. See also Malnutrition.
Because of the prominence of amenorrhea in its symptomatology, there has been a long-standing interest in the endocrinology of anorexia nervosa. A number of reliable hormonal abnormalities have been documented. Most prominent among these are diminished hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis function and elevated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function. Reversal of these endocrine aberrations usually occurs with clinical improvement, although considerable time may be required for full normalization.
As with virtually all psychiatric conditions for which the etiology is unknown and where no single empirically effective treatment exists, the therapeutic approaches to anorexia nervosa are diverse and reflect the different disciplines, training biases, and experiences of their proponents. Individual, insight-oriented psychotherapy directed toward increasing confidence in identifying and accepting bodily feelings, and understanding the sources of one’s low self-esteem and poor sense of self, has generally been the essence of treatment for nonhospitalized individuals, particularly before chronicity has set in. Individual psychotherapy still remains a critical part of any approach to treatment, but the recovery rate can be increased, perhaps beyond 80%, by the inclusion of regular family therapy as part of the treatment approach. In the hospital, the first priority of treatment is directed toward correcting the biological abnormalities created by the extreme dieting (and, when present, the vomiting). If the individual appears unable or unwilling to resume adequate caloric intake, despite firm but supportive nursing and concomitant individual and family psychotherapy, more extreme measures may have to be instituted, including behavior modification or intravenous hyperalimentation. There is some evidence that, particularly in anorectics who are also characterized by depression and bulimia, antidepressant or possibly anticonvulsant medication may be helpful in damping down the binging and thereby gradually normalizing eating behavior in general.
When the external begins to define the internal, Ana, instead of the internal defining the external, one begins living as a mortal rather than as a giant.
Trust me Giant is much better! Tollie “The Dreamer”
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Albert Einstein said that imagination is the greatest creative force in the universe. Why would such a great man say something that sounds so silly and trivial? Look at those words again: ‘greatest creative force’. Imagination? Not education? Nor money? Nor luck?
Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, said that imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known. Before you pass him away as a crackpot, know that Mr. Hill was an advisor to two U.S. presidents, was commissioned by the great and wealthy Andrew Carnegie to teach people about making their dreams come true, and has been thanked by many of the greatest people around the world for the success he helped them achieve. People like F. W. Woolworth (founder of Woolworth’s), Woodrow Wilson (former U.S. President), George Eastman (founder of Kodak), W. M. Wrigley, JR. (Wrigley’s), and many others have used his teachings to manifest their dreams.
Albert Einstein: TollieSchmidt.com
Imagination is the force that takes you to places you have never been.
Henry Ford relied on imagination and belief. Walt Disney said that had he not seen Disneyland in his mind, the rest of the world would not have seen it on earth. Bill Gates first imagines his products before they become actual software that we rely on. And it would serve you well to remember that many of the world’s greatest people started with nothing and built empires. They had a dream. And the universe conspired, as it always does, to let them experience their imagination.
The universe always lets you experience your imagination, whatever it may be.
The Bible says ‘As a man thinketh, so shall he become’. It also says ‘Without vision we perish’.
Your mind’s images are literally the blueprint from which your world is built.
Your mind is infinite. What are your limits? What are limits, except those that you say are so? Why else would two different people have different ‘limits’?
Life is images of the mind, expressed. What this means is that Life, The Source, uses your thoughts, your mental images, as the instructions by which to create your reality in the material world. Life expresses your mental images into physical reality.
To express is to make known, to state, articulate, communicate, convey. The force of Life makes known your thoughts to yourself and everyone else by forming them into experiences and objects that can be experienced, here in the physical world.
You experience your own thoughts first hand, your images of your mind, so that you may know which ones are suitable and which ones are not. That is how you know yourself, that is how you experience your self, and that is how you grow.
This is the supreme purpose of this physical world that we are now in. It is designed to enable you to experience your Self. It is designed to enable you to experience an idea and its effects and consequences.
Life does not select which ones of your images to express and which ones not to. How would it choose for you? It therefore expresses all of them to the extent that you have them and believe them. You have true free will. This free will is truly free because of the fact that all of it is acted upon without filtering or favoring. Free will is truly free because of the fact that it actually gets results all the time, not just some of the time, and it gets them exactly.
Explore Your Dreams and Creativity: TollieSchmidt.com
Your ideas, visions and dreams, whatever they may be, are the prophecies of what you shall one day become and achieve. You can predict your outer life tomorrow by looking at your inner self today. You can change your tomorrow by changing your inner self today.
As you think, there do you find yourself. You attract the people that have something to teach you in line with your thoughts, people who have something to learn from you in line with your thoughts, and you repel those who have nothing more to learn from you and give you in line with your thoughts. The same goes for places and conditions, situations and environments.
Many things influence your imagination – past fears, desires, poor mental training, lack of awareness, sub-personalities, lack of goals – any much more. But anything that influences your imagination is under your control. You can stop it simply by becoming aware of it and releasing it. And this is where awareness, consciousness, comes in as the key to clearing your mind of the debris that brings suffering to you and sabotages your success.
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Applied carefully, High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR) can create incredibly beautiful pictures which blur our sense of the difference between reality and illusion. In graphics HDR imaging is a set of techniques that allow a far greater dynamic range of exposures than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to the deepest shadows. This is usually achieved by modifying photos with image processing software for tone-mapping. And the results can be really incredible; in fact, many artists and designers come up with some pretty fancy results.
This post covers The Best Dream Infused HDR Photo’s. Some of them might look surreal, too colorful, even magic or fake, but they are not — keep in mind that they’ve all been developed out of usual photos, and not a single image is an illustration. Photography is an art an amazing expression of feelings and life. To me, HDR is passion and dreams captured in bold, saturated, whimsical colors. It is a style I have been capturing personally, lately in my photography.
Please notice:
the selection isn’t supposed to be complete which is why we encourage you to post links to further excellent HDR images in the comments to this post;
there is no ranking, all pictures have been selected due to their outstanding quality and excellent execution;
you can explore further works of the designers and photographers we’ve featured below by browsing through their sets on Flickr;
all screenshots are clickable and lead to the pages from which they’ve been taken;
Dranesville Tavern In HDR By: GHD Photography and Design
Something To See Hear in HDR By: shoebappa
2 Beaded Bridges With A Boat Painting Light in HDR By:Louis Trocciola
Clark Quay Reflected in HDR By:Daniel KHC
The Veins of Bangkok in HDR By:Stuck In Customs
Greece is the word… in HDR By: ElementalPaul
Mistral Action In HDR By: Pierpol
Breakwater @ Pirita In HDR By: dgaponenko
Captured Emotion In HDR By Niclens
Rural Decay In HDR By: stevenarens
The Solitude of the Fisherman In HDR By: danielcheong
Inverted Vertigo In HDR By: danielcheong
Transition Over Kuala Lumpur In HDR By: ariffin
Caracara Takes Off In HDR By: wili
A Cokin Sunset In HDR By: murtasma
One Night In Bangkok In HDR By:stuckincustoms
Devil Hotel In HDR By: valpopando
They Are Coming!!! – Helix Nebula Over Paris DRI In HDR By: thepretender
A Mushroom With A View In HDR By: dimitridepaepe
Catedral de Malaga 2 In HDR By: atrium09
Mountains Of Norway In Reflection In HDR By: Maciek Duczynski.
Icy Landscape In HDR By: usbdevice
A Postcard For The Margarita Island In HDR By: atrium09
Sparkle In Her Eye In HDR By: residae
City Of Lights In HDR By: manuperez
ECO Lake In HDR By: espionic
My Own Peace Of Mind In HDR by: equinoxe7
Golden Gate In HDR By: vgm8383
I Have Sailed The Seven Seas In HDR By: asmundur
The Aliens Have Landed In HDR By: gregscargill
Heart Of Satan – What It Looks Like When Fireworks Explode Inside Of A Storm Cloud Over A River By: stuckincustoms
City At 60 Degrees North / Icebreaker Krasin In HDR By: photopavel
From Above In HDR By: black_velvet
Foggy Wood In HDR By: lynchburgvirginia
871 @ Sattahip Naval Base (Thailand) – HDR By: pi-production
Los Tres Magia In HDR By: dimitridepaepe
Home Is Where The Cello Is In HDR By: jmarcx
Walt Disney World World Showcase Epcot France Pavilion In HDR: FreeDisneyWorld.info
Walt Disney World Epcot Italy Pavilion World Showcase In HDR: FreeDisneyWorld.info
Losing 300+ pounds…his passion for no child to live as he did!
Tollie, who lived his life as “the fat kid” and dealt with his self-inflicted circumstances in a self-destructive way, ballooned to over 500 pounds by the age of 24.
The pothole-ridden first few chapters of Tollie’s life are viewed by most people as nothing short of inspiring, as seen in various national publications.
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Losing 300+ pounds…his passion for no child to live as he did!
Tollie, who lived his life as “the fat kid” and dealt with his self-inflicted circumstances in a self-destructive way, ballooned to over 500 pounds by the age of 24.
The pothole-ridden first few chapters of Tollie’s life are viewed by most people as nothing short of inspiring, as seen in various national publications.
