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The Circle: How the Power of a Single Wish Can Change Your Life
The Circle: How the Power of a Single Wish Can Change Your Life
BY Laura Day
You HAVE THE ABILITY, right now, to create anything you dream for yourself and others. Open this book and enter The Circle.
What if a single wish could change your life? It can -- if you know how to use it to harness the energy that you never knew existed within and all around you. This is the promise of Laura Day's The Circle.
Each of the book's three sections -- Initiative, Apprenticeship, and Mastery -- features exercises that lead you to discover the hidden potential in yourself, in others, and in the surrounding universe. By the end of The Circle, you will know how to use your own wishful thinking as a force for powerful change. This edition also includes a never-before-published workbook that will help you transform your life faster than you ever thought possible.
The First Element
The "practical" people of the world are quick to dismiss "wishful thinking," and yet the process of creating anything begins with a wish. Wishing focuses your internal resources -- intellect, intuition, unconscious drives, and physical and emotional energy -- on any creation you choose.
Wishing is the active, engaged sister of fantasy. Your imagination ignites desire and then hunger to initiate the process of change. Without the motivation of desire, without hunger, you would achieve nothing since you would want for nothing. Your hunger drives you in search of nourishment, just as a plant turns toward the sun for more light and deepens its roots for more water.
You experience hunger in many ways. Desire is hunger. Envy is hunger. Loneliness is hunger. Everyone is hungry. Artists are hungry. Students are hungry. Scientists are hungry. Entrepreneurs are hungry. Visionaries are hungry. Humanitarians are hungry. All of us are hungry. Hunger drives you to expand what and who you are.
Yet you often distrust your desires. If you fear you cannot satisfy them, it seems safer to repress your hunger. You have made hunger the enemy, but hunger is life. When you repress, judge, or deny hunger, you deny life.
Do not fear your hungers. They are neither good nor bad. Use hunger as fuel. Use hunger as energy. Guide your hunger. Focus your hunger. Use your hunger for growth. If you do not consciously direct your hunger, your hunger will use you and those around you.
Go ahead -- dream of what you want. Allow yourself to wish. Allow yourself to feel your hunger. In The Circle, nobody endures hunger.
When you make a wish, you direct the energy of The Circle. You give yourself -- and the Universe -- a positive focus, a path for energy to travel.
The use of will is the magic wand of human being. Yet very few of us use our wills effectively. Your will organizes and mobilizes all the other energies inside of you and around you into an irresistible force. Your ability to make a choice and stick to it -- your will -- is your most powerful inner resource.
Since this is your first conscious journey in The Circle, you must focus all of your being on one, single wish.
Take your time now in selecting your wish. Ask yourself many questions. Let your mind run free. Draw up a long list, then narrow it down.
What single change in your life would give you the most joy? What single change would bring you the most relief ? What is your biggest concern? What issue do you spend most of your emotional energy on? What lack is the source of your greatest sorrow? What is the one thing that you most envy in others? If you knew you couldn't fail -- as if a genie would grant it -- what would you wish for?
Keep in mind that a wish need not be "reasonable" or "rational" or "deserved." Nor is a wish a "should" or a "must" or a "would have." Your wish now should be the thing you ache for, your soul's deepest need.
You may have many desires, so it may not be easy to decide on just one. For now, though, you must choose just one wish to create as you master the nine elements of The Circle. The Circle is always there to travel again with another wish, but during your initiation, when you are just learning the ways of The Circle, you should focus on a single wish. Otherwise, you may dilute the energy being built up around your primary goal.
As you reach one goal, you will form new ones, and The Circle will help you with all of the mini goals that arise during the day. Doing one thing well and effectively will positively impact all areas of your life. Also, there is no possibility that you will select the "wrong" goal. Your needs and desires will become clarified within The Circle. If you choose a wish at odds with what you truly want, that wish will evolve to serve the wholeness of your being and your life.
So what do you wish for right now? Make your wish. One, single wish. Together we will begin to bring your wish to life. You can also write it in your Workbook.
In the past, you may have wished for many things that you did not receive. There is an alchemy of wishing. It's time you learned to wish within The Circle. To do so, you must express your wish in a way The Circle will respond to. The language of The Circle is the present tense.
When someone experiences an event as happening in the future, it does not yet exist for that person. And if something does not yet exist, it is not possible for that person to experience it and change it.
In The Circle, the acts of wishing and receiving are simultaneous; there is no distinction between past, present, and future. The future occurs now. So in The Circle, there is not "I want," but rather "I have." Phrase your wish as if it has already happened.
If you focus on "I want," you direct your inner resources to reinforce wanting rather than having. If you focus on "I have," "I am," "I feel," or "I embrace," your inner resources will find opportunities for this to be true.
So instead of saying, "I wish I would fall in love," within The Circle you say, "I am in love." Instead of saying, "I wish I weren't struggling financially," you say, "I am earning all the money I want, doing something I love."
Once you wish within The Circle, we call your wish your New Reality because it is already happening, right now.
It is also important to phrase your wish positively, in terms of what you want, rather than negatively, in terms of what you might be trying to avoid. When you wish in the negative, you focus your attention and energy on the very thing you don't want, which directs your unconscious to reinforce it.
Instead of focusing on what is not happening at work, say, focus on creating recognition and success. In doing so, you direct your inner resources to notice opportunities to achieve your goals that you would otherwise have overlooked.
Instead of, "I wish I weren't sick," you say, "I am healthy and full of energy." Instead of saying, "I wish I weren't alone," you say, "I am involved in a loving, committed relationship." Remember always to phrase your wish as if it were already fulfilled.
If your wish is to be heard within The Circle, then, it should be specific, positive, passionate, and present. Wish for one thing at a time, know precisely what you want -- and embrace that wish with all your heart and soul as if it has already come to pass. By doing so, you will unleash amazing energies.
State your wish out loud. Now embrace it. You are creating yourself and the world anew.
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Effective cybersecurity and privacy require good public policy in addition to good technology. Policy is a core research area for the Institute for Information Security & Privacy at Georgia Tech, led by Associate Director Peter Swire -- a professor, Atlanta-based attorney and nationally regarded expert who has twice served in the White House on these issues. Other prominent Georgia Tech professors leading national research in this area include Annie Antón, Hans Klein, and Milton Mueller.
Topics of research include:
1.) The Georgia Tech Research Project on Cross-Border Requests for Data, with multiple research publications by collaborators from Georgia Tech, the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School, Oxford Internet Institute, and Alston & Bird
2.) Recommendations of the Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, which included Commissioner Annie Antón, chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech
3.) Rules for transfer of personal information between the European Union and the United States, in connection with continuing litigation and policy disputes about whether US legal protections are "adequate" under EU law
4.) Encryption and government access to the content of communications in transit and at rest, as discussed in this Senate testimony
5.) Private-sector use of information, including in connection with Internet Service Providers, as the privacy rules come under continuing debate at the Federal Communications Commission
6.) Smart cities and smart campus initiatives, to ensure privacy and security for the Internet of Things, especially the devices we use to communicate our well-being
7.) Internet Governance Project, hosted by the School of Public Policy, to conduct research and policy analysis on the relationship between cybersecurity and global Internet governance
8.) Governance of BGP Routing Security and its susceptibility to both errors and attacks
The views expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Institute for Information Security and Privacy or Georgia Tech.
Research Updates & News
April 25, 2018
Peter Swire was named a 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellow to study "Protecting Human Rights and National Security in the New Era of Data Nationalism." The new project, with $200,000 in research funding, builds upon the Cross-Border Requests for Data Project, and will explore a broader range of issues on the new era of "data nationalism," the escalating actions by nations to control the flow of data, especially personal data, from one country to another.
Mar. 23, 2018
DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo, attorney and faculty member in the Scheller College of Business, presented at the Delta Air Lines quarterly information security awareness lecture series, speaking about "International Implications of Privacy Rights." [Slides]
Mar. 21, 2018
Jennifer Daskal & Peter Swire opine in Lawfare that the United States may lose its current bargaining position in a future without the CLOUD Act, when more of the world's data will lie outside of our country and subject to legal standards that we cannot influence.
Mar. 14, 2018
Jennifer Daskal & Peter Swire explain in Lawfare that -- contrary to criticism of the bill -- the CLOUD Act requires an "impressively long list" of privacy safeguards and unprecedented power to monitor how foreign governments handle requested data after receiving it.
Jan. 26, 2018
Peter Swire participates in a panel about digital citizen surveillance at the Computer, Privacy & Data Protection conference (CPDP 2018)
Jan. 16, 2018
Milton Mueller compares prior-year telephone monopolies to today's antitrust charges against tech giants such as Amazon, Facebook and Google in this Wall Street Journal report.
Jan. 16, 2018
As retailers gather more customer data to support targeted sales, Peter Swire explains to the Washington Post that some data -- such as body measurements -- could be interpreted as medical data and perhaps should require the same safeguards as medical records.
Dec. 28, 2017
Consumers whose data is stolen during company breaches struggle to recover their losses. Peter Swire weighs in at the Washington Times.
Dec. 7, 2017
Atlantans protest the repeal of net neutrality while Peter Swire explains what's really in business' best interests.
Nov. 9, 2017
Peter Swire explains the latest debate over security and privacy to Here and Now, National Public Radio, following FBI attempts to unlock the mobile phone used by a suspect in the Sutherland Springs, Texas shooting.
Oct. 5, 2017
Peter Swire participates in two panels at the inaugural National Technology Security Coalition's annual National CISO Policy Conference, part of Atlanta Cyber Week.
Sept. 27, 2017
The 15th Annual Georgia Tech Cyber Security dedicated a full day to the topic of attribution, featuring presentations by Manos Antonakakis, Peter Swire, Panos Kintis, David Formby, and discussions with guests from Microsoft Corp., the Council on Foreign Relations, FBI, and more.
Aug. 2, 2017
Peter Swire writes in Lawfare, Should the Leading Online Tech Companies Be Regulated as Public Utilities?
Aug. 1, 2017
Internet Governance Project research papers -- "Mapping the cybersecurity institutional landscape" and "Is cybersecurity eating Internet governance" -- are available for download from Emerald Insight.
June 23, 2017
Peter Swire tells the Los Angeles Times what a change to Google's practice of email scanning will mean for healthcare privacy and cybersecurity.
June 7, 2017
Peter Swire delivers an op-ed about the danger that exists when a government attempts to create mandatory backdoors into technology and the need to improve what is called the "vulnerabilities equities process" (VEP).
June 6, 2017
Milton Mueller, Professor in the School of Public Policy, participated in a discussion at the D.C. think tank New America about his new book, "Will the Internet Fragment?: Sovereignty, Globalization and Cyberspace." The discussion focused on the current global structures and policies that govern the internet and future needs to ensure continued innovation.
June 5, 2017
Jesse Woo, attorney and privacy research associate at Georgia Tech, talks to The Policy Scout about how to protect yourself from intrusive technology and why privacy is a bigger deal than we'd all like to admit.
May 22-June 16, 2017
Following the Georgia Tech conference -- Surveillance, Privacy, and Data Across Borders: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives, held April 18, 2017 -- participants developed a six-part series of articles with LawfareBlog.com about the discussion and outcomes related to cross-border requests for data.
May 16, 2017
IEEE Spectrum asks Hans Klein how international public policy could evolve in the aftermath of the "WannaCry" cyberattack.
May 1, 2017
Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) and Georgia Tech hosted a discussion for Atlanta's info-sec community about draft legislation that would allow individuals or private corporations to "hack back" against cyberattacks. Faculty -- including Hans Klein, Wenke Lee, Milton Mueller and Peter Swire -- shared international implications and domestic considerations for such legislation.
Apr. 18, 2017
Peter Swire explains why CISOs should care about privacy law developments in the European Union.
Mar. 30, 2017
Peter Swire comments on an FCC rule change to abandon restrictions against Internet Service Providers and now enables them instead to develop competitive ad networks.
- Congress Let Internet Providers 'Spy on' Your Underwear Purchases, Advocacy Group Says (Politifact)
- Kerpen: What the FCC Privacy Rule is Really All About (TheCabin.net)
Mar. 29, 2017
Milton Mueller, a professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Public Policy, presented at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels on March 29, 2017. View his presentation slides.
Mar. 13, 2017
Milton Mueller and co-author present various solutions to the data governance problems (Journal of Cyber Policy) associated with routing, in light of actors' incentives and collective action problems.
Mar. 7, 2017
Peter Swire comments in USA Today about a Wikileaks release of CIA hacking methods.
Mar. 2, 2017
Peter Swire co-authors an article in Lawfare about a practical path forward for data-sharing policies between India and the United States.
Feb. 12, 2017
Professor Milton Mueller examines preliminary drafts of a much-anticipated cybersecurity Executive Order by U.S. President Donald J. Trump.
Jan. 26, 2017
Associate Director Peter Swire participated in the "Privacy and Government Cross-border Requests for Data" session of the annual Computer Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP '17) conference.
Jan. 24, 2017
Professor Milton Mueller discusses cybersecurity as an Internet governance problem at the annual "State of the Net" conference sponsored by the Congressional Internet Caucus.
Dec. 19, 2016
Professor and Chair Annie Antón, who recently served as one of 12 commissioners for the President Obama's Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, tells WABE-FM NPR Atlanta (NPR audio) how the education community should respond to the dire need for cybersecurity professionals.
Dec. 2, 2016
Professor and Chair Annie Antón co-authors policy recommendations to the U.S. President as one of 12 commissioners for the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. Read her analysis and the report.
Oct. 16, 2016
Associate Director Peter Swire discusses how to protect civil liberties of U.S. citizens (C-SPAN video) without sacrificing national security during a panel at Google's Washington, D.C. offices, hosted by The Constitution Project.
Sept. 30, 2016
The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Peter Swire
July 12, 2016
U.S. Senate Testimony: Peter Swire to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
July 6, 2016
Reply Comments to Federal Communications Commission: Supplementing the Record About Limits On ISP Comprehensive and Unique Visibility
May 27, 2016
California Technology Council: A Conversation with Peter Swire regarding proposed rulemaking by the Federal Communications Commission
May 2016
Working Paper Revision: Online Privacy and ISPs: ISP Access To Consumer Data Is Limited and Often Less Than Access by Others
Mar. 6, 2016
Working Paper Addendum: Post-publication addendum
Feb. 29, 2016
Working Paper: Online Privacy and ISPs: ISP Access To Consumer Data Is Limited and Often Less Than Access by Others
Feb. 27, 2016
Peter Swire moderates a panel at the Computers, Privacy & Data Protection conference (CPDP 2016) about cross-border data requests.
Feb. 17, 2016
NPR's Here & Now asks Peter Swire how Apple should balance privacy and security.
Feb. 2, 2016
Statement from Peter Swire regarding EU-US Privacy Shield agreement
Jan. 26, 2016
Georgia Tech's Peter Swire defended U.S. safe harbor laws, privacy and data protection methods before a Brussels audience in a debate against European privacy activist Max Schrems. Listen to the Recording
Jan. 25, 2016
PowerPoint: Surprising Facts on ISP Visibility into Internet Activity
Dec. 18, 2015
White Paper: U.S. Surveillance Law, Safe Harbor, and Reforms Since 2013
Submitted to the Belgian Privacy Authority for its forum, "The Consequences of the Judgment in the Schrems Case."


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The work "Baghdad" by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller shows the aftermath of a bombing at Iraq's Al-Mutanabbi book market, which killed 38 people, by preserving and displaying one of the cars destroyed in the attack.
This single vehicle from the car bombing is on display at the Imperial War Museum in London, England and sits next to other military hardware. The piece is particularly striking because images of these massive bombings are so large it's difficult to sort out all the trauma and easy to forget each death is its own large tragedy for the people involved. Focusing on just one individual piece of the destruction is a meditation on the brutality of modern urban warfare.
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You might have already realized that banners are something very common in my figures. It's one of the parts I appreciate the most. You can see that I try to include them in my works very often!
In this article I am going to describe the process I follow when I make my banner designs in the computer before I actually paint them on the final flag. The program I will be using is not Photoshop, as you may all think. I will be using GIMP, a freeware graphic editor very similar to Photoshop which you may download for free. Of course, this is not a GIMP tutorial. I will suppose you have at least minimum concepts about graphic editing (don't worry, just being a bit familiar with some of the tools provided by this type of programs will be enough).
First of all, and maybe the hardest part, is the idea. If you are able to draw your concept in a piece of paper, then you are past this point. In fact, you may stop reading this article because you won't need it. Here we will be designing banners made up from parts of other existing designs, which will be a lot easier and will compensate lacks of creativity. You don't have to invent the wheel every time!
So, the first task is to look for a design which may fit us as background frame. In this case, I'm going to prepare a design for the Crimson Fists Space Marine chapter. I have already thought about colours and symbols: crimson red and dark blue for the colours, imperial Warhammer 40,000 imagery and a huge armoured fist symbol as iconography. Surfing through the web I find a lot of images, but ironically, the one I like the most is a Cadian Banner design, this one:
I liked the background design, with the dark blue cross over red, and a big circle in the middle which will be great to hold the big armoured fist. Now I look out for some pictures of armoured fists from Fist Space Marine chapters. I find this one from the Imperial Fists:
In fact, I remember this fist from before! It's the same as the one I used for my Imperial Fists Standard Bearer. In that case, the design was done by a friend, he must have used it as I will be doing right now!
Alright then, I think we have enough material to start with. The Cadian Flag has the background and some interesting symbols: the imperial wings, the Cadian door, a little halo over it and some papyrus frames for inscriptions.
The next thing to do is separate all those elements into different archives, so we can then play with them as if we were doing some kind of collage. The method is quite simple. We will be using the selection tools to separate each part, then cut them and save them as new files. Here is a little explanation on how to use two of the tools (the two I find most useful). You have to decide which the best in each case is. For example, this is how we can use each one of them for the halo:
Magic Wand:
Magic wand selects areas based on a colour. You pick a point in the image and the program selects all the adjacent pixels which have the same colour, or at least a similar one, depending on the level of threshold you set. I see that the halo is made of a yellowish colour which separates it from the rest of the design. Therefore, I can use the "magic wand" tool to select it. I just have to adjust the threshold to a level which enables selection of just that colour, and not the colours which surround the halo. I adjust the zoom and try:
You can see in red the magic wand and the threshold value. With the magic wand I was able to select the halo's inner yellow, but I couldn't select the outer brown contour without selecting more colours out of the halo. I guess the magic wand is not going to be useful this time!
Free Selection Tool
This tool is useful to select areas by literally drawing them. Each click you make is a vertex of a polygon which will form the final selection when you join the last two vertices. You will want to use big zoom so you can work as close as a pixel range you can. The closer the range, the smoother the selection will be. In fact, you can use some of the tools provided by GIMP to make the selection smoother, but I won't be talking about that now. Let's stick to the basics.
The red square points to the button of free selection tool. You see in the image that I managed to select the entire halo this time!
Now we have the area selected, simply cut and paste it as a new image.
That's what we have to do for each of the parts we want to use as pieces of our banner collage.
There are some pieces in the design which have parts overlapping other pieces, and because of this they can't be separated completely. Therefore, we have to finish them off. This is the case of the imperial eagle wings. Here's what we have:
See? There's some part of the Cadian Door over the right part of the wing. We have to complete this part by drawing a little bit, doing the selection inventing the part we cannot see, and then getting rid of the Cadian Door. I will be using the airbrush tool to do this. Do not deselect the wing yet, you can use drawing tools affecting only the parts of the image selected so you don't ruin the rest of the picture!
So, click on the airbrush tool. Ctrl+click on any brown you like from the rest of the wing, you will be picking the colour you'll be using now. Then, airbrush over the Cadian Door (see the image above) to get rid of it. Finally, cut and paste it into a new image, and save it.
You'll notice that with the airbrush you won't be achieving the same texture as the one in the original design. That's not a problem. You don't need to be detailing so much right now, we just want to have a clear schema of the design. The final results will be what you can perform with a paintbrush, doesn't really matter what you try to blend colours in a Photoshop design.
So, with this I've separated all the pieces I will be using in my design.
Now you have all the pieces in different files, is just a matter of imagination and creativity. Open the background with GIMP, drag and drop the pieces you want into the image, move them, resize them... whatever you want! A quick design I made in a couple of minutes:
See? The potential is enormous, and you don't have to know how to draw! Make your own library of pieces, and you'll have a banner design maker machine. Enjoy!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
How to create digital banner designs
Etiquetas: tutorials
2 comments:
- BJC Mini Studio said...
Awesome tutorial. Can't wait to try it out!
- September 8, 2010 at 5:47 PM
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