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Posted in Uncategorized on 31-July-2009 | 8 Comments »

Testing out new life patterns : Sitting in a park with my book; Posting by email from my Nokia E71 via free wifi from a near by cafe ; nibbling on fruit and bread while I kill time before I go to yoga. Such a different existence from 6 months ago.

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Yoga Diaries – 14 Day Challenge (II)

Posted in meditations, Yoga, tagged bikram, Budapest, challenge, digestion, food, Yoga on 30-July-2009 | 3 Comments »

Some more thoughts and reflections on my 14-day yoga challenge. So far, I think Day 8 (Monday) was the hardest day I have had yet. I switched to a late afternoon class to give my body some extra rest and recovery time since it can be pretty tough to make a 9 am class after [...]

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Yoga Diaries: 14-day Yoga Challenge

Posted in meditations, Yoga, tagged bikram, Budapest, challenge, Yoga on 27-July-2009 | Leave a Comment »

As some of you may know, last Monday while in the middle of my yoga class I decided, for no particular reason, that I would embark on a 14-day yoga challenge; that is, 14 days of straight yoga … a mini-marathon of yoga, if you will. I’ve been meaning to share some thoughts and reflections, [...]

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Yoga Diaries

Posted in Yoga, tagged bikram, moving, savasana, tears, Yoga on 15-July-2009 | 2 Comments »

I have just gotten back onto the Yoga wagon after having fallen off for about two weeks, and it feels good. I was worried about how much ground I would have lost or if I had the mental discipline to pick back up and I am happy to report that, after a class on Monday [...]

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Waypoints Update

Posted in travel plans on 14-July-2009 | 8 Comments »

Having talked with a number of friends and colleagues I have made some adjustments. First, Phase I of the trip will include the Balkans and Greece (click on the map for a larger version). Phase II will be Turkey, and Phase III will be the Middle East. After that, things get really fuzzy! A brief [...]

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Economic History of the World

Posted in Uncategorized on 13-July-2009 | Leave a Comment »

Too good to pass up. An animated chart that shows national economic development since 1800. Press “play” which is located on the bottom left corner of the chart. The economic history of the world

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Banned Nationalist Organization Holds Major Rally | Demotix.com

Posted in demotix, news, photography, tagged demonstration, demotix, photojournalism, photos on 12-July-2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve published two stories over at Demotix on the two demonstrations that were held yesterday (11-Jul-09) in Budapest. My second story made the front page which is my second time being out front. I got pushed off pretty fast last time which was not surprising. Regardless, even though I am only working at this level [...]

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Discussions on the new face of journalism

Posted in commentary, demotix, news, photography, tagged demotix, journalism, news, photography, photojournalism, politics on 8-July-2009 | 2 Comments »

Before I begin this post. I will mention briefly that I am very aware of my lack of posting recently. I’m moody about writing and use the various excuses to avoid posting. I’m aware of it so ‘nuff said at this point so onto my post … Sara Palin may, or may not, be many [...]

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