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  Are you ready to unlock your creativity and achieve transformative solutions, no matter the obstacles? My new book,  Innovation Within Constraints Handbook :  Actionable ideas, techniques, and exercises for transformative solutions despite limitations,  is out now on Amazon in paperback and ebook.    To celebrate the launch, the ebook is FREE for a limited time from  January 28 to February 1, 2025 !   Why  y ou’ll  appreciate the   “ Innovation Within Constraints Handbook .” ✅   Practical techniques to turn challenges into opportunities. ✅   Step-by-step exercises to spark creativity and resilience. ✅   Real-world case studies from industries, nonprofits, and startups. ✅   Proven frameworks to help you thrive, even with limited resources.   Why  this  Handbook  is   different:   While many books focus on innovation,   this  Handbook   acknowledg es  the real-wor...

  “The Painter of the Eye” is Antonio Veronese’s latest exhibition, held at the Town Hall of the 6 th  arrondissement in Paris from 30 April to 28 May 2024.   The Italian-Brazilian artist Antonio Veronese, born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1953, has lived in Paris since 2004. Before leaving Brazil, he worked for 16 years teaching art to juvenile offenders in the Rio de Janiero prison system.    With 77 solo exhibitions around the world, French critics consider Veronese to be “one of the ten living painters who have already left their tracks on the history of Art.” His paintings in the 1980s and 1990s denouncing violence against child prisoners in Brazil led to a Supreme Court of Justice award and invitations to represent the United Nations. His works have been said to “connect with the soul, conveying pure, powerful emotion beyond words.” MARTINA NICOLLS MartinaNicollsWebsite    I    Rainy Day Healing    I    Martinasblogs ...

  In Quicksands – A Memoir  by Sybille Bedford (2005), the German-born English author, wrote at 92 years of age. It was published a year before her death at the age of 94. It is the account of the author’s fascinating life from her birthplace in Germany to post-war Italy, France, Portugal, and the United Kingdom from the 1950s.   Born Sybille Aleid Elsa von Schoenebeck (1911-2006), she married British army officer Walter Bedford in 1935 to avoid deportation to Germany, and to obtain a British passport, when the Nazis found out about her Jewish ancestry. The marriage was short-lived and she left France during the invasion and headed to America with British writer Aldous Huxley and his wife Maria. From the 1940s, Sybille lived in Europe, settling in London with American novelist Eda Lord (1907-1976). This memoir recounts those years from her starting point – 1953 – or as she says: “I shall begin as I hope to continue: from the middle.”   Her memoir is in three sections...

  The town hall of the 6 th  arrondissement in Paris is hosting an exhibition highlighting the artistic talents of people with disabilities during Disability Month.    From 1-30 June 2023, students from the ULIS classes of the Montaigne Collège will have their artworks on display. The RESOLUX association, in partnership with the ASEI association, is also presenting drawings by participants visiting their day activity centre and the ESAT des Beaux-Arts.   MARTINA NICOLLS MartinaNicollsWebsite    I     Rainy Day Healing    I    Martinasblogs    I     Publications     I     Facebook    I    Paris Website    I    Paris blogs    I   Animal Website    I   Flower Website   I   Global Gentlemanliness SUBSCRIBE TO MARTINA NICOLLS FOR NEWS AND UPDATES    Martina Nicolls is an Australian author and in...

  The Death of Dr Duncan (2022) is set in Adelaide, South Australia, from 1972. At the age of 41, London-born Dr George Ian Ogilvie Duncan, a newly-appointed law lecturer at the University of Adelaide, who had lived in the city for only seven weeks, was found dead in the River Torrens on 11 May 1972. To this day, the case has never been solved, but it led to South Australia being the first state in Australia to advance gay law reforms in 1975.     On the 50 th  anniversary of Ian Duncan’s death in 2022, author, historian, and law lecturer at the University of Adelaide, Tim Reeves, has released this comprehensively-researched book on the case.    Adelaide is my home town. At the time, while I was studying I worked night-shift for Rupert Murdoch’s daily newspaper, the  Advertiser . The newspaper provided extensive coverage of the Duncan case and, with the university, played a leading role in gay law reform.    The case gained both media p...

  Shelter: Notes from a Detained Migrant Children's Facility  (2020) is set in America at a border detention shelter after children are arrested for entering the United States without papers.   The author is a high-trauma therapist, documenting the daily lives of 14 unaccompanied children, from the time the U.S. Border Patrol arrests them to the time they are released from a detention facility. ‘We had twenty-four hours to vaccinate, provide clothing, get full background, call home … and four hours to report and address trauma.’   They are all minors, aged from pre-school to teenagers. They each have a case worker. One is a deaf, mute Mayan girl; one is a teenager from India who walked thousands of miles to reach America; and another is a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy.    Shelter is not prison, but for the unaccompanied minors, it is not home. It is a place to get a medical assessment and assistance.    Their situational tales are brief, and so is th...