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Artist Emma Hack painted paint Lee with

While growing up in a suburb of Manhattan, I remember that in the foyer of our four bedroom Center Foyer Colonial, we had what I thought was hideous pineapple wallpaper, it embarrassed me so much that I recall bringing my hormonal little friends straight into our family room from the backdoor.

I swore that I would never do to my children what our parents were doing to us.

Of course, as Mother told me, this was, "assuming that with an attitude so surly, anyone would want to have children with you!"

Her words were wasted on me because I intended to bring my children up democratically rather than hypocritically! My children would have had something to say about the shade of 'Autumn Gold' paint that trimmed the molding in the foyer papered with of all things, pineapples!

That, one can safely assume, was long before I knew the meaning of the phrase "be careful what you wish for"!

Alas, initially, as in any house with nurtured children, from the day that our oldest child began pre-school and her siblings could in any way copy her artistic brilliance, until they finally reached the embarrassment of puberty; we had kid art in all media papering not just the refrigerator, but every room, including a not very small playroom and our bedroom.

By then, democratic wallpaper was the least of my problems; my problem was continually removing what was then non-washable crayon from the walls of our home, it became the focus of my daily existence. Until we finally found a product that covered crayon wax successfully enough so that it could be painted over, and got some blackboard paint and large round sidewalk chalk for the children, there just never appeared to be much hope about keeping the art in one room.

Admittedly, I have always been a bit idealistic.

I spent many an hour scrubbing walls, which without todays cleaning technology was then considered a decent aerobic workout! So, I rationalized that at least I could still tuck my blouses into my jeans without looking like I had given birth 5 times.

Then, during one of my sad post Christmas let down experiences. I came across a box of pictures that Charlie and I had been taking of our Christmas trees every year, in the same box I also discovered pictures of the kids opening presents, of Emmy's first Christmas on her feet, lots of Christmas pictures.

I was primarily smitten with my gorgeous trees that had a different theme every year, determining that to lift my spirits that year (and saying a quick prayer that there would be enough money in our money tree jar, as we were going through our poor but happy phase then), I would have them framed and hang them on the large, bare wall that sidled up our great big staircase.

So off I went, a kid under each arm, on the first of many determined, occasionally misled, design projects for our home.

I had each of the nine tree pictures that I found framed in a similar fashion and clustered them on the wall. Standing back, I realized that my efforts had only caused that huge wall to look emptier than it had before. So, I rummaged through every box that I could find, pulling out birth, baptismal, and first step pictures, even the kid-art that we had since tucked away until it hit me that I had finally found the perfect solution for that much maligned artwork, I would frame THAT and hang it on the wall for all of our friends and family to be charmed by!

So began what has been at times been called "that wall", "the wall of shame", and the, "I cannot believe that they would embarrass us like this", wall.

Still, every year that wall grew until we had to start hanging pictures along the upstairs hallway, calling it the bedroom gallery in order to find a more suitable name than the unprintable one that my by then middle and high school aged kids had given it.

In the years since the children began kindergarten, Charlie and I have re-decorated the house many times, sanding, painting over or replacing what, depending upon the stage of their growth, was colored on, broken, had profanity carved into it, or had been saturated with beer.

Because we also had some lean years during this time, 'the wall' was sometimes my only true decorating effort.

Over the years, we have managed to capture the many more Christmases shared by all seven Clarksons, along with various and sundry friends, significant others, and now one brand new husband; but we have also captured many simple family times that are among our greatest treasures. After all, how could we forget about the tree swing in the front yard, the play yard that replaced it and Charlie's broken arm that came with it? Or the summer that we installed the in-ground swimming pool and had the entire backyard landscaped, realizing one night that we would have to come up with a rock solid plan if we were going to keep the neighborhood population of 15 year old boys from belly flopping into it at 2 am; hence the number of young gardeners and pool boys trained on Winterberry Lane that summer!

That wall chronicles our family, as you might expect we have the usual rite of passage pictures of us all, like the picture that I took of Charlie holding 2 year old Emma on the day that he graduated from Law School, his face reflecting the relief that we both felt as we celebrated reaching the pinnacle of a mountain that we had often doubted our ability to conquer.

There is the wedding section, with ornately framed studio photos of my parents and their parents in full wedding regalia, and our own wedding portrait from the wedding that our parents had given us, and that we loved every minute of! We even have the formals from the most recent bride, our own daughter, at her wedding just a few months earlier.

My favorite part of the kid section is full of snapshots of particularly funny Halloweens, and of many birthday/Halloween parties given for our youngest, Bessie, whose birthday is the day before Halloween.

That section also contains pictures of random Saturday nights when the kids were "hacking around" and playing air guitar, singing karaoke into hairbrushes before there was ever a karaoke bar; even a series of three of our darling hormone queens all grounded during the same long weekend, regressing by playing dress-up at 14, 15 and 16, and running around the house in pigtails with gigantic ribbons. Wearing my enormous old sunglasses with bright red cheeks, arm in arm and laughing until they cried; of course, making a point that was clearly well taken as I was the one holding the camera that evening! There is also a picture of our son and some of his friends attempting to make microwave popcorn; of five 13 year old boys clustered around the microwave oven in the kitchen, baseball caps on backwards, one of them in a giant Stetson and one holding a baseball bat, all laughing, embarrassed and trying to read the directions, are particular favorites of mine. Because I remember the emotions that I felt on those occasions, I recall overwhelming joy with the girls, and profound melancholy while forcing myself to hold back and not assist those young men, who would someday probably be expected by their wives to do laundry, perhaps even polish silver, aware that I may have been lax in my duties as a good mother to a son of the next century!

As for the Christmas tree pictures that we continue to return to with their different themes each year; as we look at them now we realize that they reflect exactly where we have been in our lives every single year.

Almost everyone who visits our house now asks us questions about the wall. During our two annual parties we find sometimes it difficult to climb the stairs because there are so many people looking at it. While at times it feels like people are peeking through our closed doors, far more often than not, that wall is a source of pride for Charlie and me.

Although we have made many physical changes to our home over the years, to me the wall of pictures on our staircase is perhaps the most significant. The irony of seeing our children bring their friends into the house through the front door, especially while they were hormone hostages, has never been lost on me. To my knowledge, there was never a word of complaint from them when their friends begin to climb the stairs and ask questions. No, they have always appeared to enjoy answering them and telling stories about them; and that makes my heart simply overflow.

MB Hartzell is a freelance writer of fiction and medically related non fiction articles. She is a nurse practitioner who has retired to help her nuerologically challenged four year old grandson overcome his disabilities. Ms. Hartzell is the mother of five children, and is currently living happily in Maine with her husband Bob and grandson, Caleb who is the families newest adventurer, she is learning a great deal about what it is like to be four and to live in this great, big fun world; while continuing to hang many new pictures on the wall of her staircase!

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MICHAEL JACKSON Background information
Birth name:Michael Joseph Jackson
Date of birth:August 29, 1958
Gary, Indiana, U.S.
Died June 25, 2009 (aged 50)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genre(s) Pop, dance, R&B, rock, soul
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, choreographer
Voice type(s) Soprano, tenor,[1] falsetto[2]
Years active 1964-2009
Label(s) Motown, Epic

HISTORY
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 - June 25, 2009), often dubbed the "King of Pop," was an American recording artist, widely regarded as one of the greatest entertainers of modern times. With his trademark black fedora and single, sequined glove, his unique contributions to music and dance, along with a highly publicized personal life, made him a central part of popular culture around the world for four decades.

One of the few artists have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, his achievements included multiple Guinness World Records-including the "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time"-13 Grammy Awards, 13 number one singles, sale of over 750 million records. He was also a notable philanthropist, donating millions of dollars to the 39 charities he supported, and raising more through his own Heal the World Foundation.

The seventh child of the Jackson family, he made his debut in 1968 as a member of The Jackson 5, beginning a solo career in 1971. His 1982 album Thriller remains the best-selling album of all time, with four others-Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), and History (1995)-among the best selling. He popularized several physically complicated dance moves, such as the robot and the moonwalk, now iconic. He is widely credited with having transformed the music video from a promotional tool into an art form, with videos such as Thriller, "Beat It" and "Billie Jean" making him the first African American to amass a strong crossover following on MTV, and others, such as "Black or White" and "Scream", ensuring his popularity well into the 1990s.

Jackson's personal life generated significant controversy. His changing appearance was noticed from the early 1980s, his skin appearing paler and his facial features becoming almost androgynous. He was accused in 1993 of child sexual abuse, and though no charges were brought, his health suffered when he started using painkillers to cope with the stress. He married twice, first in 1994 and again in 1996, and brought up three children, one of them with a surrogate mother, actions that triggered more speculation about his life. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted of different child molestation allegations, which provoked a further decline in his health. Jackson died at the age of 50 on June 25, 2009, in Los Angeles, after suffering a cardiac arrest. His memorial service was broadcast live around the world, watched by up to one billion people.

Early life and The Jackson 5: 1958-75

Jackson was born the seventh of nine children on August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana, an industrial suburb of Chicago, to an African American family. His mother, Katherine Esther Scruse, was a devout Jehovah's Witness, and his father, Joseph Walter "Joe" Jackson, a steel mill worker who performed with an R&B band called The Falcons. Jackson had three sisters, Rebbie, La Toya, and Janet, and five brothers, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Randy
Jackson had a difficult relationship with his father. He said that he was physically and emotionally abused during incessant rehearsals, whippings, and name-calling, though he credited his father's discipline for his success In one altercation recalled by Marlon, Joseph held Michael upside down by one leg and "pummeled him over and over again with his hand, hitting him on his back and buttocks". Joseph would also trip or push the boys into walls. One night while Michael Jackson was asleep, Joseph climbed into his room through the bedroom window, wearing a fright mask and screaming. He said he wanted to teach the children not to leave the window open when they went to sleep. For years afterward, Jackson said he suffered nightmares about being kidnapped from his room Joseph acknowledged in 2003 that he had whipped Jackson as a child.

Jackson first spoke openly about his childhood abuse in an interview with Oprah Winfrey broadcast on February 10, 1993. He said that he had often cried from loneliness and would sometimes throw up when he saw his father. In an interview with Martin Bashir, aired on February 3, 2003, as Living with Michael Jackson, he covered his face with his hands and began crying when talking about his childhood abuse. He recalled that Joseph sat in a chair with a belt in his hand as he and his siblings rehearsed, and that "if you didn't do it the right way, he would tear you up, really get you
He showed talent early in his life, performing in front of classmates during a Christmas recital at the age of five. In 1964, he and Marlon joined the Jackson Brothers-a band formed by brothers Jackie, Tito, and Jermaine-as backup musicians playing congas and the tambourine. Jackson later began performing backup vocals and dancing; at the age of eight, he and Jermaine assumed lead vocals, and the group's name was changed to The Jackson The band toured the Midwest extensively from 1966 to 1968, frequently performing at a string of black clubs known as the "chitlin' circuit", where they often opened stripteases and other adult acts. In 1966, they won a major local talent show with renditions of Motown hits and James Brown's "I Got You (I Feel Good)", led by Michael.

The Jackson 5 recorded several songs, including "Big Boy", for the local record label Steeltown in 1967, and signed with Motown Records in 1968.[3] Rolling Stone magazine later described the young Michael as "a prodigy" with "overwhelming musical gifts", writing that he "quickly emerged as the main draw and lead singer The group set a chart record when its first four singles ("I Want You Back", "ABC", "The Love You Save," and "I'll Be There") peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. During The Jackson 5's early years, Motown's public relations team claimed that Jackson was nine years old, two years younger than he actually was, to make him appear "cuter" and more accessible to the general public

Starting in 1972, Jackson released a total of four solo studio albums with Motown, among them Got to Be There and Ben, released as part of the Jackson 5 franchise, and producing successful singles such as "Got to Be There", "Ben", and a remake of Bobby Day's "Rockin' Robin". The group's sales began declining in 1973, and the band members chafed under Motown's strict refusal to allow them creative control or input. Although they scored several top 40 hits, including the top 5 disco single "Dancing Machine" and the top 20 hit "I Am Love", the Jackson 5 left Motown in 1975

1975-81: Move to Epic and Off the Wall

The Jackson 5 signed a new contract with CBS Records in June 1975, joining the Philadelphia International Records division, later Epic Records, and renaming themselves The Jacksons. They continued to tour internationally, releasing six more albums between 1976 and 1984, during which Jackson was the lead songwriter, writing hits such as "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)", "This Place Hotel," and "Can You Feel It".

In 1978, he starred as the scarecrow in the musical, The Wiz, and it was here that he teamed up with Quincy Jones, who was arranging the film's musical score. Jones agreed to produce Jackson's next solo album, Off the Wall. In 1979, Jackson broke his nose during a complex dance routine. His subsequent rhinoplasty was not a complete success; he complained of breathing difficulties that would affect his career. He was referred to Dr. Steven Hoefflin, who performed Jackson's second rhinoplasty and subsequent operationsJones and Jackson produced Off the Wall together. Songwriters included Jackson, Heatwave's Rod Temperton, Stevie Wonder, and Paul McCartney. Released in 1979, it was the first album to generate four U.S. top 10 hits, including the chart-topping singles "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" and "Rock with You It reached number three on the Billboard 200 and eventually sold over 20 million copies worldwide In 1980, Jackson won three awards at the American Music Awards for his solo efforts: Favorite Soul/R&B Album, Favorite Male Soul/R&B Artist, and Favorite Soul/R&B Single for "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough". That year, he also won Billboard Music Awards for Top Black Artist and Top Black Album and a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, also for "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough". Despite its commercial success, Jackson felt Off the Wall should have made a much bigger impact, and was determined to exceed expectations with his next release. In 1980, he secured the highest royalty rate in the music industry: 37 percent of wholesale album profit

1982-83: Thriller and the moonwalk

In 1982, Jackson contributed the song "Someone In the Dark" to the storybook for the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; the record won a Grammy for Best Album for Children. That year Jackson issued his second Epic album, Thriller. The album remained in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for 80 consecutive weeks and 37 of those weeks at peak position. It was the first album to have seven Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles, including "Billie Jean", "Beat It," and "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'." Thriller was certified for 28 million shipments by the RIAA, giving it Double Diamond status in the United States. It is cited as the best-selling album of all time, worldwide sales between 47 million and 109 million copies.

Jackson's attorney John Branca noted that Jackson had the highest royalty rate in the music industry at that point: approximately $2 for every album sold. He was also making record-breaking profits from sales of CDs and The Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller, a documentary produced by Jackson and John Landis. Funded by MTV, the documentary sold over 350,000 copies in a few months. The era saw the arrival of novelties like dolls modeled after Michael Jackson, which appeared in stores in May 1984 at a price of $12.Biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli writes that, "Thriller stopped selling like a leisure item-like a magazine, a toy, tickets to a hit movie-and started selling like a household staple."

Jackson debuts the moonwalk during his performance on Motown 25

Jackson's influence at that point as "Star of records, radio, rock video. A one-man rescue team for the music business. A songwriter who sets the beat for a decade. A dancer with the fanciest feet on the street. A singer who cuts across all boundaries of taste and style and color too". "in the world of pop music, there is Michael Jackson and there is everybody else". On March 25, 1983, he performed live on the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever television special, both with The Jackson 5 and on his own singing "Billie Jean". Debuting his signature dance move, the moonwalk, his performances during the event were seen by 47 million viewers, and drew comparisons to Elvis Presley's and the The Beatles' appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. "The moonwalk that he made famous is an apt metaphor for his dance style. How does he do it? As a technician, he is a great illusionist, a genuine mime. His ability to keep one leg straight as he glides while the other bends and seems to walk requires perfect timing

1984-85: Scalp burns and the Beatles catalog

Jackson suffered a setback on January 27, 1984, which was to have repercussions for the rest of his life. While filming a Pepsi Cola commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, he suffered second degree burns to his scalp after pyrotechnics accidentally set his hair on fire. Happening in front of a full house of fans during a simulated concert, the incident elicited an outpouring of sympathy. Jackson had his third rhinoplasty shortly afterwards, and began treatment to hide the scars on his scalp. It was during this period, friends say, that he began using the painkillers to which he later became addicted. Pepsi settled out of court, and Jackson donated his $1.5 million settlement to the Brotman Medical Center in Culver City, CA, which now has a "Michael Jackson Burn Center".

Jackson at the White House South Portico with President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan, 1984

On May 14, 1984, he was invited to the White House to receive an award from President Ronald Reagan for his support of charities that helped people overcome alcohol and drug abuse. Jackson won eight awards during the Grammys that year. Unlike later albums, Thriller did not have an official tour to promote it, but the 1984 Victory Tour, headlined by The Jacksons, showcased much of Jackson's new solo material to more than two million Americans. He donated his $5 million share from the Victory Tour to charity. He also co-wrote the charity single "We Are the World" in 1985 with Lionel Richie, which was released worldwide to aid the poor in the U.S. and Africa. It became one of the best-selling singles of all time, with nearly 20 million copies sold and millions of dollars donated to famine relief.

While working with Paul McCartney on the two hit singles "The Girl Is Mine" (1982) and "Say Say Say" (1983), the pair became friendly. McCartney told Jackson about the large amount of money he earned from owning music catalogs; he was earning approximately $40 million a year from other people's songs. Jackson subsequently began buying, selling, and distributing publishing rights to music from numerous artists. In 1985, ATV Music, a music publishing company owning thousands of music copyrights, including the Northern Songs catalog that contained the majority of the Lennon-McCartney compositions recorded by the Beatles, was put up for sale. Jackson took an immediate interest in the catalog, but was warned he would face strong competition. Excited, he skipped around saying, "I don't care. I want those songs. Get me those songs Branca [his attorney]". Branca contacted McCartney's attorney, who clarified that his client was not interested in bidding: "It's too pricey". After Jackson had started negotiations, McCartney changed his mind and tried to persuade Yoko Ono to join him in a joint bid, but she declined, so he pulled out. Jackson eventually beat the rest of the competition in negotiations that lasted 10 months, purchasing the catalog for $47.5 million.

1986-87: Appearance, tabloids, Bad, autobiography, and films
Michael Jackson's health and appearance

Jackson's skin had been a medium-brown color for the entire duration of his youth, but starting in the early 1980s, it gradually grew paler. The change gained widespread media coverage, including rumors that he was bleaching his skin. In 1986, he was diagnosed with vitiligo and lupus; the vitiligo partially lightened his skin, and the lupus was in remission; both illnesses made him sensitive to sunlight. The treatments he used for his condition further lightened his skin tone, and, with the application of pancake makeup to even out blotches, he could appear very pale. The structure of his face changed too: several surgeons speculated that he had undergone multiple nasal surgeries, a forehead lift, thinned lips, and cheekbone surgery.

He lost weight in the early 1980s because of a change in diet and a desire for "a dancer's body." Witnesses reported that he was often dizzy and speculated that he was suffering from anorexia nervosa; periods of weight loss would become a recurring problem later in life. Some medical professionals have said he was suffering from body dysmorphic disorder, a psychological condition whereby the sufferer dislikes his appearance and has no concept of how he is viewed by others. He had a fourth rhinoplasty in 1986, and had a cleft put in his chin.

Jackson two years after he was diagnosed with vitiligo, here in the early stages of the disease

He became the subject of increasingly sensational reports. In 1986, The National Enquirer published a series of photographs of him lying in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, claiming that he slept in the chamber to slow the aging process. When Jackson bought a chimpanzee called Bubbles from a laboratory, it was reported as an example of increasing detachment from reality. In 2003, the singer claimed that Bubbles had been trained to use the toilet and to clean his own bedroom. Later, it was reported that he had offered $1 million for the bones of Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man." The reports became embedded in the public consciousness, inspiring the nickname "Wacko Jacko." Despite Jackson's insistence that the reports were completely invented, a biographer said in 2004 that Jackson's publicists had leaked the rumors to the press for promotional reasons. Jackson remarked to a reporter:
Why not just tell people I'm an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They'll believe anything you say, because you're a reporter. But if I, Michael Jackson, were to say, "I'm an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight," people would say, "Oh, man, that Michael Jackson is nuts. He's cracked up. You can't believe a damn word that comes out of his mouth."

Jackson wore a gold-plated military style jacket with belt in the Bad era.

Jackson starred in the Francis Ford Coppola-directed 3-D film Captain EO. It was the most expensive film produced on a per-minute basis at the time, and was later hosted in Disney theme parks. Disneyland featured the film in its Tomorrowland area for nearly 11 years, while Walt Disney World screened the film in its Epcot theme park from 1986 to 1994. With the industry expecting another major hit, Jackson's first album in five years, Bad (1987), was highly anticipated. It had lower sales than Thriller, but was still a substantial commercial success, spawning seven hit singles in the U.S., five of which ("I Just Can't Stop Loving You", "Bad", "The Way You Make Me Feel", "Man in the Mirror" and "Dirty Diana") reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, more than any other album. As of 2008, the album had sold 30 million copies worldwide.

In 1987, Jackson disassociated himself from the Jehovah's Witnesses, in response to their disapproval of the Thriller video. The Bad World Tour began on September 12 that year, finishing on January 14, 1989. In Japan alone, the tour had 14 sellouts and drew 570,000 people, nearly tripling the previous record of 200,000 in a single tour. He broke a Guinness World Record when 504,000 people attended seven sold-out shows at Wembley Stadium. He performed a total of 123 concerts to an audience of 4.4 million people, and gained a further Guinness World Record when the tour grossed him $125 million. During the trip he invited underprivileged children to watch for free, and gave donations to hospitals, orphanages, and other charities.

1988-90: Autobiography, changing appearance, and Neverland

In 1988, Jackson released his first autobiography, Moon Walk, which took four years to complete and sold 200,000 copies. Jackson wrote about his childhood, The Jackson 5, and the abuse he had suffered. He also spoke of his plastic surgery, saying he had had two rhinoplastic surgeries and the surgical creation of a cleft in his chin. He attributed much of the change in the structure of his face to puberty, weight loss, a strict vegetarian diet, a change in hair style, and stage lighting. Moon Walk reached the top position on The New York Times best sellers' list. The musician then released a film called Moonwalker, which featured live footage and music videos that starred Jackson and Joe Pesci. Moonwalker debuted atop the Billboard Top Music Video Cassette chart, staying there for 22 weeks. It was eventually knocked off the top spot by Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues.

In March 1988, Jackson purchased land near Santa Ynez, California to build Neverland Ranch at a cost of $17 million. He installed Ferris wheels, a menagerie, and a movie theater on the 2,700-acre (11 km2) property. A security staff of 40 patrolled the grounds. In 2003, it was valued at approximately $100 million. In 1989, his annual earnings from album sales, endorsements, and concerts was estimated at $125 million for that year alone. Shortly afterwards, he became the first Westerner to appear in a television ad in the Soviet Union.

His success resulted in his being dubbed the "King of Pop", a nickname conceived by Elizabeth Taylor when she presented him with an "Artist of the Decade" award in 1989, proclaiming him "the true king of pop, rock and soul." President George H. W. Bush presented him with The White House's special "Artist of the Decade." From 1985 to 1990, he donated $500,000 to the United Negro College Fund, and all of the profits from his single "Man in the Mirror" went to charity. Jackson's live rendition of "You Were There" at Sammy Davis Jr.'s 60th birthday celebration received an Emmy nomination.

Dangerous and Super Bowl XXVII: 1991-93

In March 1991, Jackson renewed his contract with Sony for $65 million, a record-breaking deal at the time, displacing Neil Diamond's renewal contract with Columbia Records. Jackson released his eighth album Dangerous in 1991. As of 2008, Dangerous had shipped seven million copies in the U.S. and had sold 32 million copies worldwide; it is the most successful new jack swing album of all time. In the United States, the album's first single "Black or White" was its biggest hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and remaining there for seven weeks, with similar chart performances worldwide. The album's second single "Remember the Time" spent eight weeks in the top five in the United States, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. In 1993, Jackson performed the song at the Soul Train Awards in a chair, saying he had suffered an injury in rehearsals. In the UK and other parts of Europe, "Heal the World" was the biggest hit from the album; it sold 450,000 copies in the UK and spent five weeks at number two in 1992.

Jackson founded the "Heal the World Foundation" in 1992. The charity organization brought underprivileged children to Jackson's ranch to enjoy theme park rides that Jackson had built on the property. The foundation also sent millions of dollars around the globe to help children threatened by war and disease. The Dangerous World Tour began on June 27, 1992, and finished on November 11, 1993. Jackson performed to 3.5 million people in 67 concerts. All profits from the concerts went to the "Heal the World Foundation", raising millions of dollars in relief. He sold the broadcast rights to his Dangerous world tour to HBO for $20 million, a record-breaking deal that still stands. Following the illness and death of Ryan White, Jackson helped draw public attention to HIV/AIDS, something that was still controversial at the time. He publicly pleaded with the Clinton Administration at Bill Clinton's Inaugural Gala to give more money to HIV/AIDS charities and research.

In a high-profile visit to Africa, Jackson visited several countries, among them Gabon and Egypt. His first stop to Gabon was greeted with a sizable reception of more than 100,000 people in "spiritual bedlam", some of them carrying signs that read, "Welcome Home Michael". In his trip to the Ivory Coast, Jackson was crowned "King Sani" by a tribal chief. He then thanked the dignitaries in French and English, signed official documents formalizing his kingship and sat on a golden throne while presiding over ceremonial dances.

One of Jackson's most acclaimed performances came during the halftime show at Super Bowl XXVII. As the performances began, Jackson was catapulted up from beneath the stage as fireworks went off behind him. After landing on the canvas, he maintained a statuesque stance dressed in a gold and black military outfit and sunglasses; he remained in the stance for over a minute while the crowd cheered. He then slowly removed his sunglasses, threw them away and began to sing and dance. His routine included four songs: "Jam", "Billie Jean", "Black or White" and "Heal the World". It was the first Super Bowl where the audience figures increased during the half-time show, and was viewed by 135 million Americans alone; Jackson's Dangerous album rose 90 places up the album chart.
Jackson was given the "Living Legend Award" at the 35th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. "Black or White" was Grammy nominated for best vocal performance. "Jam" gained two nominations: Best R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song

First child sexual abuse allegation: 1993

Jackson gave a 90-minute interview to Oprah Winfrey in February 1993, his second television interview since 1979. He grimaced when speaking of his childhood abuse at the hands of his father; he believed he had missed out on much of his childhood years, admitting that he often cried from loneliness. He denied tabloid rumors that he had bought the bones of the Elephant Man, slept in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, or bleached his skin, stating for the first time that he had vitiligo. The interview was watched by an American audience of 90 million, becoming the fourth most-viewed non-sport program in U.S. history. It also increased awareness of vitiligo, a relatively unknown condition. Dangerous re-entered the album chart in the top 10, more than a year after its original release 1993 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson

In the summer of 1993, Jackson was accused of child sexual abuse by a 13-year-old boy named Jordan Chandler and his father, Evan Chandler, a dentist A year after Jackson met the boy, under the influence of sodium amytal, a controversial sedative, Jordan told his father that Jackson had touched his penis The father was tape-recorded discussing his intention to pursue charges, where he said, "If I go through with this, I win big-time. There's no way I lose. I will get everything I want and they will be destroyed forever ... Michael's career will be over" He and Jackson engaged in unsuccessful negotiations to reach a financial settlement; the negotiations were initiated by Chandler but Jackson did make several counter offers. Jordan told a psychiatrist and later police that he and Jackson had engaged in acts of kissing, masturbation and oral sex, as well as giving a detailed description of what he alleged were the singer's genitals.

An official investigation began, with Jordan's mother adamant that there was no wrongdoing on Jackson's part. Neverland Ranch was searched; and multiple children and family members denied that Jackson was a pedophile though his image took a further hit when his older sister, La Toya, accused him of being a pedophile, a statement she later retracted Jackson agreed to a 25-minute strip search, conducted by police and doctors at his ranch, required to see if a description provided by Jordan of Jackson's genitals was accurate. Doctors concluded there were strong similarities, but it was not a definitive match. His friends said he never recovered from the humiliation. He described the search in an emotional public statement, and proclaimed his innocence.

He began taking painkillers and sedatives, including Valium, Ativan, and Xanax, in part to ease chronic pain resulting from an accident with stage rigging during the Dangerous Tour, and for joint inflammation associated with the lupus, but also to ease the panic attacks stemming from the allegations against him. By the fall of 1993, he was addicted. His health deteriorated to such an extent that he canceled the remainder of the Dangerous World Tour and went into rehab in London for a few months, dramatically disappearing from public view with the help of Elizabeth Taylor and Elton John. The stress of the allegations also caused him to stop eating, and he lost a significant amount of weight. With his health in decline, his friends and legal advisers took over his defense and finances. They called on him to settle the child-abuse allegations out of court, believing he could not endure a lengthy trial.

The tabloids painted him in an extremely unfavorable light. Complaints about them included bias against Jackson, paying for stories about alleged criminal activity, and buying leaked confidential material from the police investigation. On January 1, 1994, Jackson settled with the Chandlers out of court for $22 million, after which Jordan stopped co-operating regarding criminal proceedings. Jackson was never charged, and the state closed its criminal investigation, citing lack of evidence.

First marriage :1994
May 26th 1994: Jackson married singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley. They had first met in 1975 during one of Jackson's family engagements at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, and were reconnected through a mutual friend in early 1993. They stayed in contact every day over the telephone. As child molestation accusations became public, Jackson became dependent on Lisa Marie for emotional support; she was concerned about his faltering health and addiction to drugs. Lisa Marie explained, "I believed he didn't do anything wrong and that he was wrongly accused and yes I started falling for him. I wanted to save him. I felt that I could do it." In a phone call he made to her, she described him as high, incoherent and delusional. Shortly afterwards, she tried to persuade Jackson to settle the allegations out of court and go into rehabilitation to recover-he subsequently did both. Jackson proposed to Lisa Marie over the telephone towards the fall of 1993, saying, "If I asked you to marry me, would you do it?". Presley and Jackson married in the Dominican Republic in secrecy; the parties denied they had been married for nearly two months. The marriage was, in her words, "a married couple's life ... that was sexually active". At the time, the tabloid media speculated that the wedding was a ploy to prop up Jackson's public image in light of prior sexual abuse allegations. Jackson and Presley divorced less than two years later.

body+art

Ever see people having their body full of art? This art is called the body art. People paint their bodies to portray their feelings and thoughts; some even try to represent creativity. There are different categories under body art. These categories include painting, piercing, scarring, tattooing and shaping. All these represent different artistic creativity on the body. In some cultures body art is a ritual and in some cultures people try to portray themselves as unique with the help of body art. Some types of body arts can be really bizarre and getting them on the body may inflict pain. These include scarring, piercing and tattooing. But many people are willing to go through the pain to get the art on their body.

Painting is a simple technique in which special paint is used to color the body. Drawings of many things like butterflies, lizards and other things can be found on people's bodies. The interesting thing is that these paintings portray the creativity and thoughts of people. People put paint on their body when they are cheering for their teams. Also in some cultures painting the face is a ritual like the kadakali makeup is a type of art. Piercing is also considered a type of body art. Piercing is done by puncturing the part of human body and wearing jewelry. Although this process is painful but many people opt for this kind of body art. Also piercing is done in many cultures as part of ritual especially in India.

Another form of art on body is scarring which is also a painful process. It is rarely found and is considered as a ritual. The basic process involves scratching, etching or cutting designs, words and pictures as a permanent body modification. The more common type of art on body is tattooing. Many people have tattoo on their bodies. There are two kinds of tattoos which include the permanent and temporary tattooing. The process of tattooing involves the insertion of ink into the dermis of the skin. There are special equipments used for this purpose and it is also painful. All these kinds of art represent some thought. As it is said "Art is never meaningless".

Body Painting Competition in Melbourne

It's a story of shame. It's quite difficult to have written some really Godly inspired teachings on this EzineArticles web site and then be led by the Holy Spirit to write about how hopelessly addicted I was to prostitutes for so many years of my life.

My older brother said once, that it would always be best to start my ministry with all my dark secrets exposed right up front, rather then to rise up into ministry and have some person get hold of my past and show the whole world what a bad guy I was. There was wisdom in those words a few years ago, and I laughed, but a few years ago I was still hopelessly addicted.

There were a number of things essentially wrong in my theology for many years that prevented me from leaving my addictions. I was missing some truth that I needed to have before I could leave. It will be later in this article that I will address these issues. But first let me paint a picture for you of the condition I was in, so that when one of the sexually addicted read this they will be able to resonate with my truth of my condition in their hearts and in doing so really take on board the scriptures I found to get to liberty.

My purpose for writing this is for the people trapped in addictions like me, for the partners of the people who are trapped in this addiction cycle, and perhaps your whole church if you have the courage to print it out and have the minister's approval to give it to every person in your church congregation. This will be largely addressed to a Christian man but in the near future I will have written one that will be easy for a non Christian to understand, one that you could perhaps make into a tract. To completely save money on printing you could simply read it to your congregation and give people the link to this article for them to go over it later.

Something was wrong with me from a very early age. When I was an early teen my sister and I were very close and did a lot of things together. One day she told mum we were going to have a shower together in our costumes and my mother agreed that was fine. We went into the shower and half way through she told me to turn around and wash under my costume and that she would not look. When I was finished she told me to turn around and not to look whilst she took off her costume and washed herself. Well I was quite an innocent guy up till that shower, but when she turned her back to me my curiosity led me to disobey her and God and I turned to look upon the nakedness of my sister.

My sister did not catch me looking but within a week she had told my mother that something had changed in her relationship with me and that I look at her differently now. Looking back I think lust had entered my heart.

I used to surf and often went to the beach without my brothers and when I went alone I always went to beach that had slightly smaller waves then the other beaches, but it always had less surfers to compete with for waves. I also went there because this cute younger girl from school used to surf there and I liked catching up with her and surfing with her. She wore a really bright yellow two-piece costume and she had rich dark olive skin to make a stark contrast with her costume and she was so pretty and such a good platonic friend of mine.

The trouble came one day when she was not at the beach and I paddled away from the biggest break on the beach with all the competition to a smaller and less frequent break at the other end of the beach that I could have all to myself. You see I didn't need the biggest waves for my ego, and I would rather catch one wave out of every three big ones that roll in every ten minutes, then wait half an hour for my turn with all the competition.

This break took me riding right into the shore of a little beach that was separated from the big beach by a few rocks. And one day when I rode to the shore I was greeted by two naked women who smiled at me and said hello. On this day I discovered a nudist beach and for a fourteen year old with hormones racing, a beach with nude girls on it that waved and said hello to you was something out of a story book. This beach became a place I began to visit a lot after my fill of surfing for the day.

My lust for women's naked bodies had began! About six weeks later a guy about thirty five years of age molested me on that beach and my head went a little crazy from that day on.

Three years later I moved to my capital city 600kms away from that country town and I was shown Sydney's red light district called Kings Cross by my cousin one day. I promptly went back the next day alone and in 1985 a women asked me if I was interested in a bit of fun. I asked her how much and she told me it would cost me $20 for sex. Well at that stage I had done plenty of sexual things with men, and spent myself masturbating to naked pictures from magazines, but I was a virgin to women.

I could not say no.

My grandmother had given me $1000 from an insurance saving account she had saved for me and I quickly calculated how many times I could come back with all that money.

But I soon learned these girls worked in strip clubs that were also brothels and that if you spent some money like $6.00 you could go in watch strippers for as long as you like and pick yourself the youngest and prettiest girl in the club that day. So the extra $6.00 spent got you your best pick and so it seemed worthwhile if you had the time to wait for the girls that might be busy already with a job to finish and present themselves.

I was becoming a sick little man.

I got a job where I was getting a few hundred dollars a week and after the $1000 was spent, I simply worked a prostitute into my budget each week. I justified this to myself simply by saying masturbation is a sin and so I am giving this girl money and its still a sin and so I am not a worse sinner as no sin is worse then another. At this point I had not seen the scriptures about joining oneself with a harlot.

Well when I got to 21 years of age my pay for my age as an adult took a leap and I was able to move into a higher class of prostitute. In 1988 I was paying not $20 for about twenty minutes in a brothel, I was paying $160 for an hour in my own home.

There exists a certain thrill for the addicted like me. I could ring this escort agency, enquire of the looks and full descriptions of all the girls working that night and even ask about their personalities and within an hour she was arriving with perfume, makeup and a really good looking dress at my flat. It gave me the biggest rush of adreniline to think that this really attractive smartly dressed sweet smelling young twenty old girl was going to have all her clothes off in ten minutes in my bed.

All addicted people have a cycle they go through. A rush and a high when they do their addiction, followed by a guilt and a feeling of worthlessness and poverty in many cases until they can partake of the addiction again. A drinker might be able to buy cheap wine and drink every day, but he gets a hangover and sick and guilt from what he does to loved ones in between each bout on the drink. Sadly the addicted are just as addicted to feeling or worthlessness as they are to the highs and so they need some serious work done on them. Let me continue.

I might have been different to many men who see prostitutes in that I seldom ever booked the same girl twice. Meeting a stranger was part of my addiction. This escort agency was very big and very busy and was situated to serve some very wealthy suburbs and so I never had to book the same girl twice. The thrill as I mentioned before was meeting a stranger and taking her to bed.

Not all my time was spent having sex. And if you didn't know this, over half the time men spend with working girls they spend talking. Some men simply like a person to listen and they will pay for someone to take an interest in their life. As a person who was sexually abused personally I have always liked the sexually abused girls I have met. Just as I have liked most gay men and lesbians that I have met also. Most of us have sexual abuse in common in our past. When you have something so painful in common, well that pain you share makes it easier to communicate. Okay back to the story again.

One day I got a phone call from the escort agency and they informed me that I was one of their best clients and as they are a large firm they always have new girls starting that have never been with a client before. Over the year I had only received glowing reports from the girls that I had seen and she told me that her agency always takes notice of what the girls say about the best clients. She said seeing that I ring them on an average of once a week, would they be able to put me on a list where they could ring me in advance of a new girl starting and if I liked what I heard about her physical description could I be kind enough to show the new girls the ropes.

Well I thought that all my dreams had come true at the time. I was not greeting prostitutes at the door any more, I was greeting innocent girls who had to pay for University some way and had decided to try out prostitution. These were the girls next door, the girls every guy at her school might have wanted to date, and I was the nice client that was showing her what an easy life prostitution was! At the time I felt like I had struck gold. Today I see this as one of the most wicked times in my life.

Sometimes I might meet a girl through work, a boss' daughter, a work colleague's daughter and she might become my girlfriend for a time. Sometimes when I was broke I might sleep with men. And whenever I had $160 to spare I had a fresh innocent girl and I led her into a life that was going to hurt her deeply and possibly turn her to drugs.

I read proverbs about six weeks ago and one verse said the immoral women would have you eating crusts of bread. I had to laugh because I had learned how to eat for about ten dollars for a week on cheap cereal and milk and all my life has been a life of poverty from this addiction of mine.

Once I met a really intelligent and highly educated lady in her late twenties in my taxi cab I was driving. She was all class and spoke like a business women. When I asked her what she did for work in 1998 she told me she was a high class escort that had flown 2000kms to meet a client for the weekend. I asked her how much she was going to earn and she told me $25,000.

It was 7pm on a Friday night, she was a highly paid executive in Melbourne where she lived and worked one night a week in Melbourne as an escort and most weekends on a working date for the weekend. Not all prostitutes are junkies, this girl had a very big portfolio of assets and was powerful in the business world but on weekends she spent quality time picking the brains of CEO's of major companies. There are escorts in my city of Sydney that charge upwards of $8,000 per hour and they only do a minimum booking of four hours a night. Now some of those girls are earning a lot of money. When high flying single or married movie stars come to town these are the sort of girls that come to their hotel room for a night.

I heard once that one in six men have used the services of a prostitute. That's a lot of guilty guys out there! Figures seem to show 90% of prostitutes come from a past that included sexual abuse. Many studies have shown that up to one in three girls are molested in the West, which includes my country Australia and the USA. That means that a lot of men are sexually abusing their children and I can tell you, if you have a church of a hundred men the statistics don't drop in the church. One study I read said that over fifty percent of street walking American prostitutes come from families where their parents attended church every Sunday as she grew up.

What is my point?

A lot of men in the church you attend have sexual hang-ups and many of them abuse young children. I am not saying I am innocent here I abused hundreds of little girls in adult bodies who had a legal age for sex, but I was transgressing the Holy Laws of God for twenty years. Few men that I have spoken to in my life have ever conquered masturbation and some teaching out there even says it's not a sin. I have an article on that called Adultery of the heart, a hidden sin, perhaps you can direct your men to that.

Okay that is my story. Here are some of the scriptures that led me toward true repentance.

The passage in scripture that put the fear of God into me two years ago was this.

Galatians 5:19-21

19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

I was committing adultery with all these girls over the years. Now a visiting pastor preached that if you practice a sin, say sorry to God and then do it again in a cycle every week or very regularly, God will give you grace and peace and forgive you each time, but if your die whilst you are still in your addictive cycle like me, it does not matter if you are a born again Christian, YOU WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD ( ie. You will go to hell when you die)

This put a real fear in me that said to my spirit, if I do not conquer this addiction before I die I am going to hell. As a person who has already been to hell in a vision, I knew that was not a place that I wanted to end up in eternity.

I cried many crocodile tears for a couple of years. Last year in church I finally said to God in tears in a public prayer, " Jesus I cannot understand the levels of grace that you have for me. Every single week I sin and every single week your forgive me and then I go and do the same thing again. There exists in me no good thing. Indeed all of my goodness is filthy rags in your sight. Father please give me the grace I need and the power to overcome this addiction of mine and set me free as your Word says I can be."

For three months I was free of my sex addiction. Then something like some heavy rejection from a person made me trigger back to my old cycle again. But rather then weeping whole heartedly before the LORD again I went back to the crocodile tears sort of repentance and spent another year in addiction.

Many people will say that a born again Christian cannot go to hell, and will say I have picked up a false doctrine, but false doctrine or not Galatians 5:19-21 clearly states that if I go on and practice this sin of mine my inheritance will not be eternal life in heaven.

God will not be mocked.

Galatians 6:7-8

7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.

This scripture seems to clearly support the one above only the person sowing to the Spirit's will are going to inherit eternal life. I know that if I blatantly sin when I have a knowledge of the sin that I am doing against, God, against the women and against myself, I am in essence mocking God!

Just because I said a sinner's prayer once, and have the gift of prophecy, tongues and healing, does not mean that I can disobey God every single payday for the rest of my Christian life. Is God's grace something we can use to put God in a corner and say, "You have to let us into heaven because we are saved!"

painting on the human body (body painting)

The condition that most westerners are in, is not separate from what is known as "the human condition" which is deemed incurable, (again evidence of this struggle between darkening and illumining mankind) and so no cure is thought of, and is seemingly too complex, and so the problem is not worked out, seemingly, I would humbly conjecture, by the majority of westerners, and people in general.

The 'human condition' is that he has been taught, or accidentally learned from his forefathers, over and over again, a backwards view of reality. Perhaps because he was still evolving, but now is the time when we correct this error because it is causing all of the chaos that we observe in the world and everyone knows it in their Soul.

What is my Self? Am I merely the sum total of my physical biology? What am I when I dream then? How is it that mystics or random people are able have out-of-body experiences, as if there were some type of magnetic field connecting their Soul and their body which can be 'played with'. Perhaps there is a body altogether in your dreams which you occupy when you are in another dimension of consciousness during REM state.

These are all questions that cannot be answered by the hypothesis that man is simply a physical thing, even though science admittedly does not understand what 'physical' even really means! Isaac Newton said that (paraphrased) nature seemingly is abound in 'transmutations of gross material bodies to light and light to gross material bodies'! Newton himself was an Alchemist and trained in the Esoteric sciences which have been among those who have sought after it since the beginning of civilization.

Now, in the information age, we can begin to have access to this information, and through it we can see that all that we have been taught about reality in schools is a half-truth at best (more like a 1/16th truth). All that we have been raised with was this false view of reality by all authority figures who crammed it in our heads and are the source of (probably nearly) all psychological dysfunctions present in humanity at the time, and all of the chaos in the world.

The whole world is running to the beat of a drum which people are continually attuned to day after day and generation after generation. It is a "runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night" to quote one movie. The human system can be seen as a microcausm of this runaway freight train at times, and at various levels, of course, because he (or she) is a reflection of the whole, (genetically).

We are hard-wired with the human condition from birth, and it's time we recognized it and sought treatment! Psychological dysfunction creates dis-ease in your body, and stress is a tremendous poison for your system, add that to the psychological dysfunction and stress and insecurities of everybody else, and you really have a tremendous cluster**** (bomb) on your hands.

This truly overwhelms a lot of people, even if you find it not overwhelming personally, it still undoubtedly causes suffering in your life because you are not as aligned as you could be, and you are not feeling the peace and bliss which you can be feeling if you are fully aligned to the Real Reality.

It's much like the movie 'The Matrix'.. in that people are operating only through their programming, until they realize what is happening and 'escape from the Matrix' and attain a node of Grace and Enlightenment.

Before this occurs we are forever blinded to what is really reality, and only able to see the computer program.

What is the joy in that? All of our life is pre-programmed from start to finish and we don't have any option to have any other kind of existence?

I personally was raised with this belief instilled in me from culture and my family and it did cause a lot of suffering for me, because I am not the kind of person to want to get up at 8 in the morning, and go to some crazy indoctrination camp and learn Isaac Newton's table scraps without any real substantial understanding of any of the topics in a way that actually benefits my life as opposed to makes me an indoctrinated slave to the cultural-social-financial mega-machine.

Needless to say I feel that many of you feel the same way about these indoctrination camps which dot the surface of our planet, and some of us have lived in traditional families where it's barely an option that you go to college get married and have kids and get a house with a picket fence etc.

How many of us really lived the perfect blissful existence with often arguing, divorcing, alcoholic,
or otherwise demented parents? How many of us have been able to sustain that impossible illusion of prosperity and happiness through the corporate and societal megamachine?

We have been bred and imbued with this brainwashing, this brainwashing that caused us to paint a fictional world in our minds which we constantly try to upkeep with our thoughts and actions.

We create what Andreas Baader called 'the policeman inside our mind', which constantly tries to keep us in check with a particular view of reality which we believe to be, whether socially, culturally, or familiarly, hermetically sound and 'appropriate'.

If we examine the source of western suffering, I believe we will see that the friction between each of our individual views of reality, our ignorance, is at the core of all of the problems that we have as a culture, society, and as families. The views of reality of those who create friction between people have crystallized from ignorant thoughts (I say ignorant not with malice but just in the pure sense of the word, ignorant of the Truth of the Real Reality, while thinking that the false reality was true). This is the source of our 'human condition', and it can be remedied.

Throughout the day do you find yourself often judging yourself or others, or feeling judged? This is the fear of further friction between two realities who are alien to one another, and of the ignorance of not knowing your Self.

Ever we are defined by music, political affiliation, our street gang, etc. and we form a sense of identity based on concepts which are completely impermanent, which do not exist outside of the fleeting impulses of some one society. This does not reflect the depth and majesty of existence, but merely reflects the ignorance of our present period of time.

Our Will has been mis-used in a way to create a false image of who we are, we see it now in the false pride of our young people in America, the violence of our country, the manic depression which plagues our streets..etc. etc. Ignorance is the source of all of this suffering, and all are aware of it.

A new system needs to be forged which is not created from ignorance and randomness but which is structured consciously with the needs and desires of the people in mind. Again all are aware of this, and yet so precious few take the problem upon themselves and devote their life to working it out; at the same time so many continue to exacerbate the problem by adhering to this ridiculous and corrupt system which is destroying humanity and the planet.

The revolution that has always been sought after can not be brought about by force of arms alone. When you take over the country, then what? The same ignorant a-holes are going to be in power and the same ridiculous system is going to be ravaging the world. The revolution that must occur must begin within every single person, and it is not a political or militaristic revolution but an internal 'psychological revolution', to quote one prominent Yogi.

What is needed is that we stop seeing the self as merely our biological parts, or our brain, but that there are multiple bodies of subtler objectivity which form electric and magnetic polarities to one another, and are separated from each other by various degrees.

The Soul is not something that the physical senses can see, but it your True Ego, and is the center of force around which your body is animated; a body, which Spirit occupies, through the Sheath of the Heart, and that all of Spirit is One. There truly is no separation between Souls, in the same way that you cannot identify a separation between one photon and the next, it is as a field of itself.

Take a moment to reflect on the idea of this subtle electric dimension/plane... where separation is non-existent... and from which all phenomena we observe as physical are animated.

This body of subtle energies within ourselves propels our thoughts to give form to the inherent Life Force within all things.

How that we are thinking, spurned on by the mental images we have of ourselves, the emotional damage and scars, the trauma and psychological dysfunction, all impacts our body negatively, and causes many of us to spin into uncontrollable chaos!

Medicine has been turned into a curative process instead of a preventative one, psychology does not strike at the core of the issue, religion is watered down and administered by pedophiles and charlatans, and it seems that there is nowhere for one to turn to for help or for a real understanding of themselves! There is no manual for human existence! Or so it seems to the layperson!

All of this causes us to not develop properly, to actually devolve, and to lack the skills necessary to instrumentalize your bodies with your True Will.

amazing body art Fine Arts and Body Painting Equals Amazing Art

There seems to be proof that the diverse history of enameling started in Persia, also known as Iran today. It is believed that enameling originated in Iran and then the very sought after art form spread to the other surrounding countries.

The origins of enameling should be extremely interesting to an art lover. The essence of this art form is to connect a glass surface to other bodies (though the biggest surface was generally metallic). The transparent enamel powder which was used had to be mixed with sodium carbonate and silica. When it came to actually coloring the surface of the metal, powders with oxidizing properties had to be added to the glazing powder. These oxidizing powders usually contained tin oxide. Enameling was often refereed to as an art of the laboratory. It wasn't enough that you had the artistic ability but you also had to know how to expertly handle various chemical reactions.

The best type of metal to use in enameling is a pure metal such as fine silver. The enamel is able to melt and stick on pure metals the best. While the actual chemical process of enamel is extremely interesting, the paintings and patterns in those times are equally interesting. Traditional designs were used depending on the preferences and taste of the actual artist. When it comes to Iran enameling the most common metals used were copper and silver. The most popular forms of enameled art are jewelry, candle holders, vases, doors and chandeliers.

The most important hub for enameling in Iran is Isfahan. A few of the most prominent masters that have created amazing pieces are Shokrollah Sanizadeh - whose ancestor was also a renowned painter. His work is so celebrated throughout Iran that one of his crafts was created into a stamp in 2008. His works of art were also registered as a national heritage piece.

Even after hundreds of years there is still a great demand for these enamel pieces, especially imported from Iran. The current day artists are still revered and their pieces are affordable with relatively low prices. Finding enameled pieces that were created from Iran is easy if you're looking for these pieces from the right supplier. Iran has a vast cultural history and this history can be seen in the traditional decorations of the enamel pieces

Jennifer O'Brien MAC Makeup artist Jennifer

Scott Barnes is now re-launching his make up line after he had some problems with his investors. Once he started experiencing problems, he had to temporarily discontinue his products. Scott Barnes has done makeup for celebrities such as Mary J. Blige, Janet Jackson, Beyonce Knowles, Gweneth Paltrow, Julianne Moore, and Uma Therman to name a few. Many stars use Scott Barnes makeup and one of the most prominent is Jennifer Lopez. She is known to use his products for magazine shoots for Elle, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, and In Style magazines and red carpet events, and now that he is back up and running, you can use the same products that the stars use.

One of the most popular items from the Scott Barnes makeup line is the Body Bling. This lotion does exactly what the name suggests. It was selected by InStyle's editor as the best new product. This luxurious creme will give your skin the glow that makes you stand out like a beautiful diamond. It will give you the much sought after natural glow that many celebrities are wearing on the red carpet. Not only will the glow give your arms and legs more definition, it will also leaving your skin amazingly soft. He also makes a fabulous eye shadow that has been extremely popular. It is called Eye Ice and also gives your eyes a wonderful sparkle that only his makeup can give you. Eye Ice comes in a wide ray of daring shades for any skin tone and coloring.

With his popularity, many people are clamoring to buy Scott Barnes makeup, but do not know where to go to find it. It will in select high end stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and higher end boutiques. Some select on line stores many also carry a few of his products and you can certainly try QVC for a limited time. But shop and collect his products while you can, because of the temporary discontinued status, stores will have a limited supply and the discounts will not last very long. Because of his popularity and support from high end Hollywood Actresses, the relaunch will be extremely successful. Hopefully the success will make his products more readily available to stores like Macy's department stores.

Heidi Klum Swimsuit Body Paint”, “Body Art

It's obvious swimsuit models have a massive worldwide appeal, and there is a huge demand for swimsuit model videos and photos. Specifically those produced by professional photographers, on exotic locations, and with gorgeous young rising star and sexy celebrity models. Simply seeing, or hearing, the words "swimsuit model" conjures up sensual and exciting mind images and emotions, especially for adult males of all ages. So, it's not surprising that the term "swimsuit model" is currently searched for over 400,000 times each month in one of the major search engines.

One of the great things about looking at pictures of swimsuit models, and swimsuit model videos, is that they're not pornographic. Exciting but tasteful, stimulating but not sleazy. Virtually everyone knows of Sports Illustrated. Their beautiful, professional publication is sold all over the world, and not shamefully tucked away in the adult magazine section.

Now, with the rise of the internet and lightning fast broadband connections, there has been an explosion in the number of online videos, including swimsuit model videos. Video adds a whole new dimension of viewing pleasure with the addition of high quality audio and special effects.

For many young women who aspire to be models, swimsuit modelling adds a whole new field of possibilities, where the height requirements may not be as tough as they are for runway models. Swimsuit models are in high demand for magazine editorials, catalogs, advertisements, swimsuit calendars, and billboards. Live event swimsuit modeling is also on the increase. Runway models usually have a body type that is quite different to that of swimsuit models e.g. very thin with long legs and a special style of "working the catwalk" that is unique.

The gorgeous young women we see in swimsuit model videos and photographs deserve the appreciation they get. After all, it's been said they're "living works of art" for not only do they need great body tone and physique, a pretty face, lovely curves and healthy hair, but they also need to have the x-factor. That "special something" that "seduces" the camera, and has us all falling in love too. To maintain their looks and tone, often requires a lot of self discipline, especially leading up to a major swimsuit model video or photo shoot. In some ways swimsuit models are great "role models" to young women in that they look like real women, full of vitality and health, not like many catwalk models who look well underweight. So, swimsuit models, we say thank you, and we appreciate all that you do!