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Healthy Nutrition on a Budget with Dr. Sarica Cernohous
Wellness Series – Healthy Nutrition on a Budget with Dr. Sarica Cernohous – May 7, 2021 Whether we are ready to admit it or not, […]
Food for the Soul: California Reopenings. Back to Museums Part 2
Serge Attukwei Clottey. The Wishing Well. 2021 installation at James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center in Palm Springs. Photo: Nina Heyn. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout California is one of the last states in the U.S. to have post-Covid-19 openings of entertainment and art venues, with many cultural events (such as the…
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Food for the Soul: Calder-Picasso. Back to Museums Part 1
In the center: Alexander Calder. Untitled (mobile-1956) and Untitled (painting-1967). Calder Foundation New York. Photo: Installation view of “Calder-Picasso” at the de Young Museum, photography by Gary Sexton. © 2021 Calder Foundation New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Image provided courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. By Nina Heyn – Your…
Food for the Soul – Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Women Artists Series 7
Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Self-Portrait, 1791. Oil on canvas. National Trust, Ickworth House, UK. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout When we think of the French upper classes just before the French Revolution, what comes to mind are those impossible panniered gowns, powdered wigs, rouged cheeks, and ostrich feathers. Which is…
Food for the Soul: Olga Boznańska – Women Artists Series 6
Olga Boznańska. Self-Portrait, 1908. Pastel, gouache on cardboard. National Museum, Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Even casual museumgoers are familiar with such female artists as Georgia O’Keeffe or Mary Cassatt—celebrated painters whose art is prominently displayed in major Western galleries. Fewer art lovers are familiar with someone like Olga…
Food for the Soul: Awards Season – Documentaries
Photo credit: jovaughn-stephens/Unsplash photo By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout It’s a sign of the times that documentaries now seem to be more interesting than features. While some feature movies this year focus on exceptional situations (such as the last man on Earth’s travels to a polar station, or a moment in history from…
Food for the Soul: New Movies…Not in Cinemas…
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The 2021 Academy Awards have been moved two months later than usual to April 25, extending the entire awards season to eight long months. Movies are eligible for the 2021 Oscars—as well as numerous other awards (some critics’ organizations, BAFTAs, Golden Globes, etc.)—if released between January 1, 2020…
Food for the Soul: Coin Art
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Even though practically every major ruler in world history has issued some coinage, just a handful of currencies have gone on to become international standards—used for a long time and widely traded. These include the drachmas of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire’s denari, and a coin called the…
Food for the Soul: Hilma af Klint, the first abstractionist. Women Artists Series 5
Hilma af Klint. Self-Portrait, date of painting unknown. Oil on canvas. Hilma af Klint Foundation. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The fact that painter Hilma af Klint has been unknown in the history of modern art is not that surprising. That even now she remains unknown is a bit more…
Financial Ecosystem-Noosa
Mapping the Financial Ecosystem Living Systems (including Energetic Systems) Legal and Financial Systems Supply and Demand
Food for the Soul: The Magi at the National Gallery
The Adoration of the Kings. Jan Gossaert (1510-15). Photo © The National Gallery, London. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout One of the most artistically alluring Christmas themes is the one known as the Adoration of the Kings. The exotic story of the three rulers of faraway kingdoms, led by a star to Bethlehem…
Food for the Soul- Women at Work, Part V – Princesses and Servants
Book of the City of Ladies. Christine de Pizan (c. 1405). Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout We do not know who illustrated the Book of the City of Ladies, but we know the author: Christine de Pizan (or de Pisan). This miniature portrays her as…
Looking Good: The Connection Between Skin and Health with Professor Adiel Tel-Oren (“Dr. T”)
Wellness Series – Looking Good: The Connection Between Skin and Health with Professor Adiel Tel-Oren (“Dr. T”) – December 10, 2020 Our skin is a […]
Food for the Soul: Women at Work- IV – The Toil
Jewish Woman with Oranges. Alexander Gierymski (1881). National Museum Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There is nothing attractive about toil—this mind-numbing effort of farming or doing some menial, repetitive tasks—to the person who is doing it. It can however, be appealing to artists as a subject, especially if such…
Food for the Soul: Women at Work Part III – Out in the World
Land Girls Hoeing. Manly Edward MacDonald (1918-19). Canada War Museum. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Women have not always been stuck at home just sewing and running households. They have also been out in the fields as farmers or trading in the markets as merchants. Industrialization brought women into cities,…
Food for the Soul: Women at Work Part II – At Home
Part A Young Woman Sewing. Nicolaes Maes (1655). Harold Samuel Collection, © City of London Corporation, London. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout This is the second part in our series on women at work—this time captured in their most accessible milieu—working at home. The tasks depicted may be some of…
2020 Holiday Greetings
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” St. Paul in Galatians 5:1 Dear Friends, Clients, and Subscribers: Some years ago, I went to Vienna on business at Christmas time. Over the weekend, a local subscriber joined me for Sunday brunch….
FASAB Standard 56 and the Authority of the Director of National Intelligence to Waive SEC Financial Reporting
FASAB Standard 56 and the Authority of the Director of National Intelligence to Waive SEC Financial Reporting PDF copy available here. Mark Skidmore 1 November 2020 The purpose of this report is to offer a clear explanation of how two financial reporting exemptions has de facto created a hidden system of finance that runs parallel…
Remedy for Slaughterhouse Logjam?
By Pete Kennedy Access to slaughterhouses has been poor for small livestock producers in most of the country for many years now but has become […]
Food for the Soul – Women at Work Part I – Masterpieces
Birth of the Virgin. Domenico Ghirlandaio (1479-85). Santa Maria Novella, Florence. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The majority of figures in paintings, especially those created before the 20th century, are male. The paintings show men heroically fighting or representing religious or mythological figures, men hunting, or men suffering…
Food for the Soul: Good and Bad Government
Effects of Good Government in the City. Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1339). Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The United States is preparing for the November 3rd presidential election amid the most polarized debate in living memory about what is right and wrong and what kind of…
Fool for the Soul: Tenet
What we did with Inception for the heist genre is what Tenet attempts to bring to the spy movie genre – director Christopher Nolan By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Tenet was supposed to be a Warner Bros. blockbuster for one of the hot mid-July weekends you might spend in a shopping mall cooling…
Strengthen Your Immune System by Addressing Intracellular Oxidative Stress – An Interview with Dr. Thomas Levy
Wellness Series: Strengthen Your Immune System by Addressing Intracellular Oxidative Stress – An Interview with Dr. Thomas Levy – September 24, 2020 A strong immune […]
Food For the Soul: Artists Gardens
Strange Garden (Dziwny Ogród). Józef Mehoffer (1903). National Museum, Warsaw. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There are very few advantages of a global lockdown other than decreased pollution, but perhaps one of them is our renewed appreciation of gardens. A lot of us have favorite gardens. It might…
Visions of Freedom
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Food for the Soul: Lost Masterpieces. Part 3: Recovered
Boxer of the Quirinale. C. 330-50 BC. Palazzo Massimo alla Terme. Rome. Photo credit: Nina Heyn. In the history of art, any recovery of a lost masterpiece is a happy event, but such events are more rare than an art loss. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Sometimes, there is hope for a lost…
Food for the Soul: Lost Masterpieces. Part 2: Missing
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee. Rembrandt van Rijn (1633). Stolen in 1990 from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Since antiquity, artworks have been the first thing to be looted. By the turn of the 19th century, the collection of war trophies…
Food for the Soul: Lost Masterpieces. Part 1: Destroyed
The Stonebreakers. Gustave Courbet (1849). Dresden Gemäldegallerie. Destroyed in 1945 during an air raid. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Art gets lost, stolen, or destroyed all the time. Thousands of works have been destroyed by fires and wars or simply by someone changing their mind, like Rockefeller being…
Food for the Soul: Loving Beethoven
Gustav Klimt. Beethoven Frieze (detail). Vienna. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth date is unknown but his baptism, that most likely took place no later than a day later, has been recorded as December 17, 1770. This year, therefore, it is a round 250 year…
The Injection Fraud
“Every part of our lives will be subject to control. This virus is about training us for submission, training us to do what we’re told. […]
Food for the Soul – Police… in other countries, other shows
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout A lot of us are still stuck at home, often unable to travel or work. To alleviate boredom, many media outlets recommend shows to watch, but these recommendations usually focus on American TV shows. So, here is a different list. Instead of watching traditonal U.S. cop shows, full…
News, Trends & Stories
“A new world order, a brand new day A change of mind for the human race” ~ Curtis Mayfield, “New World Order”
Truthstream Media Videos
Our collection of Truthstream Media Videos for this quarter is below. Other video collections for the 2nd Quarter 2020 include Pandemic Videos, Top News Videos, […]
How to Detoxify Safely and Efficiently with Dr. Christopher Shade
Wellness Series: How to Detoxify Safely and Efficiently with Dr. Christopher Shade – June 25, 2020 Would you like to enjoy more energy and vitality […]
Titus Videos
Our collection of videos from John Titus’s channel BestEvidence is here. Other video collections for the 2nd Quarter 2020 are: Pandemic Videos, Top News Videos, […]
Covid-19: Videos
Our Curated Collection of Covid-19 videos is here. Other video collections for this 2nd quarter include the Top News Videos, Titus and Truthstream Media colletions. […]
Food for the Soul – Dog Stories
Martiros Saryan. By the Well. Hot day, 1909. Martiros Saryan Museum, Yerevan, Armenia. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain “Man’s best friend” has been a friend of artists throughout centuries and esthetic styles. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout As soon as I wrote a story about cats in fine art, dog aficionados felt a…
Food for the Soul – Cat Stories
Couturier Cat. Tsuguharu Foujita. 1927. Photo: Public Domain Wikiart.org Before there were videos of funny cats on the Internet, for about 4000 years there were simply fun cat paintings. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Long before the entire world got stuck in front of flickering screens all day long, cat videos were the…
Missing Money Chronology
DATEEVENTCATEGORY19340131Gold Reserve Act creates the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF). “The fund began operations as of April 27, 1934, financed by $2 billion of the $2.8 billion paper profit th…
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Missing Money 2020 Update
Missing Money Update1 Mark Skidmore* and Catherine Austin Fitts** May 2020 PDF Copy Available Here. Related Documents: In February of 2019, Mark Skidmore and Catherine Austin Fitts published the report “Should We Care about Secrecy in Financial Reporting?” (Skidmore and Fitts, 2019), which provided a review and assessment of the state of federal government financial…
The Solari Wellness Series: Diving into Structured Water – An Interview with Clayton Nolte
Diving into Structured Water – An Interview with Clayton Nolte – May 14, 2020 We live in a magical world where air and water are […]
Neutrino Music
Sonification of Neutrino Oscillations Neutrinos are still the most interesting candidate to lift the secret of dark matter and dark energy. Their behaviour of changing from one flavor into another – called oscillations – highlights the transformative nature that a deeper understanding of neutrinos may reveal. Recent work with “negative mass” shows that the missing…
Food for the Soul: Docs you can share with youngsters
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout Stuck at home together with the rest of the world we should, theoretically, have lots of free time. It turns out however that a lot of this time is taken up by fixing. We fix our kids calculus assignments, even if our last bout with calculus was decades ago,…
About Pete
Peter Kennedy, Esq. has served as the host of the Solari Report Food Series since Spring 2020. Pete is an attorney in Sarasota, Florida, who […]
What’s New
Food for the Soul: The Art of Gold and the Gold in ArtSeptember 12, 2024Food for the Soul – Streaming on Vacation 2024August 28, 2024Food for the Soul: “Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter…
Food for the Soul: Artemisia Gentileschi – Women Artists Series 4
Artemisia Gentileschi. Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura), (about 1638-1639). Oil on canvas. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019. Photo: Courtesy of The National Gallery, London “…with me Your Illustrious Lordship will not lose and you will find the spirit of Caesar in the soul of a woman.”~…
Movies Featuring Underground Bases
Movies Hangar 1: The UFO Files – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3592626/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 D Strangelove – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Independence Day – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Deep Impact – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Stargate (1994) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/?ref_=tt_sims_tti Hangar […]
Food for the Soul: 500 years of Raphael in Rome
Raphael. Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. (1513) The Louvre. Courtesy of Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome April 6, 2020 markes a 500 year anniversary of passing of one the most beloved artists. A huge Raphael exhibition at the Scuderia del Quirinale in Rome could only open in March for few days before the whole of Italy went…
Food for the Soul: at home
Food for the Soul will now be adding a dedicated mini-site to bring you all the culture stories in one place By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The world has just hunkered down to wait out the virus. Everything has ground to a sudden halt: going to work or school, dining out or seeing…
About
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column, podcast chats about art and the book Women in Art: Artists, Models and Those Who Made It Happen. Drawing on her previous careers as a long-time Hollywood studio publicist, a film writer and a corporate executive, Nina’s goal is to tell…
Movies & TV
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Women & Art
In ages past, women have always had a hard path towards even becoming an artist, much less being recognized as one. By late 1500, some of them, like an Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola, have achieved enough recognition to live as a professional, commissioned artist. However, even some as famous as Sofonisba (Anthony van Dyck sought…
Food for the Soul: Frida Kahlo – Women Artists Series 3
An exhibition was planned in San Francisco to showcase Frida Kahlo’s personal life through personal mementos locked up for 50 years in Casa Azul. By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout Worldwide, we are all hunkering down at home to wait out the pandemic. The same as cinema-going and dining with friends at restaurants, museum-going…
Audios
Playlist Women in Art at the Barnes with Nina Heyn and Ulrike Granögger – May 10th, 2024 (59:29) Lessons from Vermeer with Nina Heyn and Ricardo Oskam, Part 2 – June 1st, 2023 (1:04:51) Lessons from Vermeer with Nina Heyn and Ricardo Oskam – May 4th, 2023 (57:55) Episode 15: Traveling…. While Streaming – December…
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The Solari Wellness Series: Changing our Lives with Epigenetics with Charan Surdhar
Changing our Lives with Epigenetics with Charan Surdhar – March 5, 2020 Hardly a day goes by without getting a message in my inbox warning […]
Food for the Soul: Michelangelo – Mind of the Master
Sweat and toil of the master who never wanted you to see it By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Michelangelo Buonarotti. Head of a Child with a Cloak around the Head. Mid-1520’s. Collection and photo credit: Teylers Museum, Haarlem.The Netherlands. Courtesy of the Getty Museum Most of the time, on order to experience Michelangelo’s…
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Food for the Soul: Adventures of the Ghent Altar
The Ghent Altar or An Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. Inside panels. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. The most stolen artwork ever has been restored to its original glory By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout When brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck started painting panels of a commissioned altar some time in 1420’s…
Food for the Soul – Money on Canvas
The Payment of Dues. Georges de la Tour, 1630-35. Lviv Art Gallery, Ukraine (until 1940 – Lwów Art Gallery, Poland), ex Lubomirski collection. Photo: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Ever since precious metal coins were invented as a convenient alternative to barter, from Phoenicia to ancient China, they…
Food for the Soul: Streaming Late at Night
Streaming gems you possibly missed Winter usually does not offer many exciting movies other than the awards heavyweights (where your choices are between equally soul-dampening entries of 1917 or maybe Marriage Story). So… long dark evenings are perfect for some streaming time. Here are some shows that are entertaining, smart, produced around the globe, and…
Food for the Soul: Parasite and Farewell
“In today’s capitalistic society there are ranks and castes that are invisible to the eye. We keep them disguised and out of sight and superficially look down on class hierarchies as a relic of the past, but the reality is that there are class lines that cannot be crossed.” Boon Jong Ho, director of Parasite…
Food for the Soul – da Vinci’s Horse
Leonardo da Vinci. Ca.1491. Study for the Sforza monument. Image source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout It was a classic moment of serendipity. Catherine, Robert and I have been filming stories about da Vinci in Milan when we met at a book fair an Italian author, Marco Malvaldi, who…
Food for the Soul: Podcasting about da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci – the Louvre Exhibit with Nina Heyn and Ulrike Granögger. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout To conclude our series on da Vinci – Solari’s “Hero of the Year” – we bring you a podcast. In late 2019 the Louvre opened a historic exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci. Catherine, Ulrike Granögger…
Food for the Soul: 12 Movie Gifts in a Pear Tree
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout For holidays, we bring our 12 Christmas Movie Gifts – as diverse as a partridge in a pear tree and maids a milking would be. The only criteria for a recommendation were that movies had to be entertaining (a value much neglected in a majority of films) and a…
Food for the Soul: Bombshell
“Lawyer: Ready to go to war?” Gretchen Carlson: Oh, yeah” – lines from the movie Bombshell By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout Charlize Theron is not only a film star (Oscar for her portrayal of a serial killer in The Monster, accolades for her role as Imperator Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road) – she…
Wellness Series: Breathwork – An Easy Way to Improve Well-Being and Health with Skye Birdsall and Dr. Robert Rowen
Wellness Series: Breathwork – An Easy Way to Improve Well-Being and Health with Skye Birdsall and Dr. Robert Rowen – November 30, 2019 Skye Birdsall […]
Deep State Tactics 101 – Movies and Documentaries
MOVIE RECOMMENDATIONS SPECTRE (2015) On a trail of a criminal syndicate called SPECTRE, James Bond discovers the source of his recent misfortunes. This edition of […]
2019 Holiday Greetings
Stained glass in Sainte Eustache Church in Paris, France, depicting a nativity scene at Christmas (Sainte Eustache Church on Wikipedia) “Mary, did you knowThat your Baby Boy would one day walk on water?Mary, did you knowThat your Baby Boy would save our sons and daughters?Did you knowThat your Baby Boy has come to make you…
Mihaly Istvan Karpati Resume
RESUME Mihaly Istvan Karpati Stollenrain 24 ǀ Arlesheim ǀ CH 4144 +41 79 850 8729 ǀ mihaly.australia@gmail.com My name is Mihály Kárpáti. I am 18 now, and I am determined to get to Australia. I was drawn to it when I was 14. I cannot define what exactly triggered this determination at the age when…
Food for the Soul: Knives Out!
“Ransom Drysdale: What is this? CSI: KFC?” A line from Knives Out! By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout Our streaming devices are groaning under the weight of choices – movies, seasons of shows, mini-series, documentaries and so on. So many movies, so little time. This is one of the reasons many good dramas or even…
Table of Contents
I. Home Table of Contents Introduction Donations II. Deep State Tactics 101 Deep State Tactics 101 – Movies and Documentaries III. News Trends & Stories […]
Food for the Soul: Women at Prado – Women Artists Series 2
Sofonisba Anguissola. Self-Portrait at the Easel, 1556-57. Oil on canvas. Muzeum-Zamek. Łańcut, Poland. Photo credit: Courtesy of the © Prado National Museum, Madrid, Spain. “Her paintings were celebrated for their calm and gentle style, and for the particularity that she was a woman, and had risen above the usual course of those of her sex,…
Food for the Soul: Museum Gardens
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need”. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout A typical museum of fine art is a depository of paintings, drawings and sculptures, sometimes objects of historical value, writings or artifacts (think the MET or the Tate). They fulfill the…
Part I: Top News Videos
Christine Lagarde: "Central Bank digital currency is coming alive" Yahoo Finance | 04 April 2019 Dr. Mark Skidmore: Deep state cover-up of missing $21 trillion […]
Part I: Top Ten Stories
"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it." […]
Part II: Trends We Track
CULTURE I. A Commitment to a Human Culture A. Food for the Soul B. A Commitment to Transparency II. Mind Control and Sovereignty III. Morphogenic […]
Part I: Trends We Track
Every day, we post links to stories in our News Trends & Stories section. Analyzing this flow provides intelligence about the deeper news. Here are […]
Food for the Soul: da Vinci, Paris – Part 3
A good painter has two things to represent: the man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard.” — Leonardo da Vinci By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout It is amazing that 500 years on, we still see news stories about da Vinci in daily press. There was one recently…
Part II: Unanswered Questions and Inspiration
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." ~ […]