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The following '''Varsity Scout Activity Pins''' and requirements correspond to the [[Varsity Scout]] [[team]] high-adventure/sports program features.
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[[Image:Activity_whitewatercanoe.jpg|left]]Cover the material in the whitewater program feature. An ultimate adventure could be planning a trip down a whitewater river. Advancement activities could include earning the [[Whitewater]] merit badge and learning and demonstrating BSA [[Safety Afloat]].
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|This article is about the Activity Pins for Varsity Scouts. For the 26 Boy Scout Venture Patrol ultimate activity pins see Venture Patrol Activity Pins.
The following twenty-seven Varsity Scout Activity Pins and requirements correspond to the Varsity Scout team high-adventure/sports program features.
Award requirements
Youth Varsity Scout team members who participate in a "ultimate adventure" may earn a Varsity Scout Letter. Such an activity may occur every three to six months; the event is chosen by the team, planned and carried out by the high-adventure/sports program manager, and requires practice or training sessions. If the activity falls into one of the 27 Varsity Scout program features, then an activity pin may be optionally awarded. The team captain (youth team leader) determines the requirements and awards the pins at a court of honor.
Teams may schedule an ultimate adventure that is a "big event" where the other program managers plan activities in the same program feature. Related merit badges may be earned before or during the event.Below are types of examples program managers could plan for ultimate adventures; these activities are demanding and for many you must consult the Varsity Scout Features pamphlets for information, safety and consultant needs. Since there are no set requirements for the activity pins, the team captain determines what the participation requirements are within the high-adventure/sports event:
Backpacking50 Miler Award, the Leave No Trace award, or the Backpacking or Hiking merit badge.
BasketballSports merit badge.
BowlingEngineering or Sports merit badge for advancement.
Canoe campingSafety Afloat; earn the 50 Miler Award, the Leave No Trace award, and the Canoeing or the Sports merit badge.
CavingGeology merit badge for advancement.
Cross-country skiingSnow Sports merit badge.
CyclingCycling or Sports merit badge.
Discovering America
FishingFishing, Fly Fishing or Sports merit badge.
Freestyle biking
FrontiersmanWilderness Survival merit badge.
MechanicsTraffic Safety and the Auto Mechanics merit badges.
Operation On-targetRadio or Photography merit badges.
There are two pins available, a V-shaped pin for the first participation and another for each attendance thereafter.
OrienteeringOrienteering merit badge.
Rock climbing and rappellingClimb On Safely procedures. Advancement activities may include earning the Climbing merit badge.
Roller hockeySkating or Sports merit badge.
Shooting sportsShotgun Shooting, Rifle Shooting, Archery and Sports merit badges.
Snow campingKlondike Derby or hike. Advancement activities could include earning the Emergency Preparedness merit badge.
SoccerSports merit badge.
SoftballSports merit badge.
SurvivalWilderness Survival merit badge. This adventure should be to work together with members of the team to solve problems and live in harmony with one another. Support activities may include having the team take an American Red Cross wilderness first aid course.
SwimmingSwimming or Lifesaving merit badges, or include earning BSA Lifeguard but this activity focuses on the skills of competitive swimming and endurance such the Mile Swim BSA or a swimming meet for the Sports merit badge.
TennisSports merit badge.
TriathlonPersonal Fitness, Athletics, Sports, Cycling, Skating or Snow Sports merit badge.
VolleyballSports merit badge.
WaterskiingSafety Afloat and conducting a safety session for a Boy Scout troop. Advancement activities could earn the Water Sports or Sports merit badges.
Whitewater canoeingWhitewater merit badge and learning and demonstrating BSA Safety Afloat.
| The official source for the information shown in this article or section is:
Varsity Scout Handbook, 2000 Edition (BSA Supply SKU #N/A)
Help with these requirements
- Varsity Team Program Features Pamphlets No. 1, 2, 3 (34837, 34838, 34839)
External links
Boy Scouting ranks: Scout • Tenderfoot • Second Class • First Class • Star Scout • Life Scout • Eagle Scout Award
Varsity Scouting awards: Varsity Scout Letter • Denali Award


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Cotton Council International and Cotton Incorporated are adding a new twist to their promotional activities for cotton — getting behind a growing global trend toward sustainable systems.
CCI President Michael Adams, speaking at a media breakfast at the 2008 Beltwide Cotton Conferences in Nashville, noted, "While increasing demand should remain our No. 1 priority, we also need to pay attention to the consumers' concern for the environment and their demand for sustainable fiber production. I believe that is our opportunity to get the message out about cotton as a natural, renewable, sustainable fiber
"The United States has a very good story to tell. U.S. cotton has been able to supply the world's increasing cotton fiber demand, currently growing 3 percent to 4 percent a year on the same or reduced land area, due to new technologies and conservation tillage."
Adams says in the United States, "farming with modern techniques means there is less soil erosion, less pesticide application and less water use. Sustainable production annually has saved 306 million gallons of tractor fuel and about 1 million tons of U.S. soil and has reduced emissions equivalent to removing over 27,000 cars from our environment.
"In addition, cotton fields in the United States and around the world play a role in reducing greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. The amount of cotton use in a pair of jeans takes 3.3 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and generates 2.2 pounds of oxygen."
Adams noted that cotton is by far the largest natural fiber in the global fiber, textile and apparel economies, representing the lion's share of all natural fibers consumed. The United Nations has declared 2009 as the International Year of Natural Fibers.
Adams went on the attack against non-renewable fibers, saying, "It is clear that the alternative to efficient and sustainable global production of cotton fiber is synthetic chemical fiber production. These synthetics, such as polyester, use petroleum as a base. Petroleum is not renewable and not sustainable in the long run.
"The United States and other countries put a great emphasis on replacing non-renewable fuels with renewable alternatives. We already have a product, ethanol, that can replace non-renewable alternatives. We also have a product that can replace non-renewable synthetic fibers with a natural renewable alternative that consumers love — cotton.
"If we truly want the cotton industry around the world to prosper, we need to increase demand for cotton. To do that, it is time for us to focus more on countering economic and trade policies that encourage excess synthetic fiber production and consumption to the detriment of cotton and other natural fibers.
"Such policies disrupt markets, bias production and consumption of fiber toward synthetics and ultimately cause the United States to suffer depressed prices and reduced demand."
Adams noted that CCI and Cotton Incorporated will stick to their primary goal of finding ways to keep cotton attractive and interesting to all its customers, "particularly in major developing countries like India and China, where overall fiber demand will grow strongly at the mill and consumer levels.
"We have achieved good success so far. Much of the future growth in demand for cotton globally depends on what happens in these rapidly expanding consumer markets. We need to keep up the effort. But we need other countries to begin to pull their own weight for building demand for cotton among customers."
And that is a message worth repeating, too — at least until somebody out there gets it, Adams said. Without the U.S. efforts to promote cotton, the rest of the world wouldn't be worrying about the effect of U.S. cotton subsidies on price. They'd likely be wondering what happened to their markets.
Adams, the director of export sales at the Greenwood, Miss.-based cotton cooperative Staplcotn, says U.S. cotton promotional efforts "positively influence the future and profitability of the U.S. cotton industry by stimulating mill and retail demand for cotton.
"Demand-building activities in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States "give us confidence that the consumer can be influenced. In fact, global demand for cotton has shot up over 36 million bales, or 39 percent, since 2000. That's a very impressive growth rate for any crop.
"Export demand for U.S. cotton fiber responded by increasing exports to 16.2 million bales in 2007, for a 140 percent increase since 2000. No one has done more in the U.S. cotton industry at stimulating demand and paying attention to cotton in the global economy.
"We may get criticized sometimes about our policies, but the U.S. cotton industry, through its promotional organizations of CCI and Cotton Incorporated, can take a lot of the credit for stimulating global demand for cotton that has helped everyone's bottom line."
Last, but certainly not least, is proving to foreign customers that U.S. cotton is their most reliable supplier and trade partner. "CCI and Cotton Incorporated have a first class system of services throughout the supply chain — from our fields to the spinner, the fabric former, garment maker, retailer and the final consumer," Adams said.
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Welcome to "On Water," which will be a new part of the Diggin' It garden blog. Here's the back story.
Water is the heart of any civilization, any society, and, of course, any garden. I believe ancient Rome's ability to acculturate those they conquered was less about soldiers and more about water engineering skills — think massive aqueducts, luxurious hot baths, and yes, flush toilets.
Because water is so basic to our gardens, I want to write about how we use it — from watering techniques to DIY construction, from water feature profiles to plant lists for specific purposes — plants that can thrive in water or enhance the garden around water features, and also plants that need little supplemental watering.
In general, water fascinates me. Perhaps it's because a river runs through my family's history.
I grew up in Lock Haven, Pa., where my grandmother declared that we were all "river rats" because five generations of us had lived in the same house on the banks of the Susquehanna River. The wild part of our garden — the part kids always prefer — ran right down to the water's edge.
The Susquehanna gave me my first awareness of the rhythms and beauty of water in nature. From earliest childhood I knew the golden mists that hung over the quiet surface on early mornings, and the occasional floods that sent the river cascading down our cellar steps.
On the riverbank I learned my first lessons on ecology and pollution. The water was too clear, with very little vegetation or fish, because acidic upstream seepage from coal mines killed everything. Also, there was that sewage problem — the Susquehanna of the 1950s functioned as the repository for every small town's effluent along its banks.
A favorite activity in my childhood — shared with three brothers — was to filch food dye, toss it into a third floor toilet, clatter down the stairs and race out the back door to the water's edge, where we'd watch for the color spewing out the open sewer pipe. Oh, boy.
As a young woman I left that Hundred Years of Solitude watery abundance and traveled to the opposite extreme — more like Dune. In Northern California, I shared a country property with another family. Our water was stored in an 18-foot-tall redwood tank. Winter-flowing springs filled it to the top, but in the following dry summer, all we had was the contents of that tank.
We hauled our laundry to town; we showered (briefly) with buckets at our feet to catch the overflow; and we never, ever brushed our teeth to the merry sound of splashing water.
Even now, a faucet running uselessly makes me anxious.
Surrounded by the sere scents of California's straw-colored fields, I first learned to garden. The vegetables survived on gray water. We hauled the shower buckets to our plot and, with a foot-thick straw mulch between the rows, we discovered just how little water we could use and still keep plants alive.
There was not much to spare for ornamental gardening, but I came to admire the drought-tolerant native plants, like California lilac (Ceanothus ssp.), which spangles the hillsides with blue flowers in spring and then hunkers down in summer, neatly curling its dark green leaves sideways to avoid the sun.
Out of this background of opposites, I've come to possess a strong water sensibility. I now live outside Eugene, Ore. The weather here combines the overflowing saturation of Pennsylvania — our average rainfall is 45 inches, arriving mostly in the winter months — and California-dry summers.
I believe that because water is a relatively cheap commodity, we, as a society, tend to not recognize its true worth. In my blog posts I will explore ways we can use water, conserve it, value it and enjoy it for all the wide-ranging gifts it brings.
Mary-Kate Mackey, co-author of Sunset's Secret Gardens—153 Design Tips from the Pros and contributor to the Sunset Western Garden Book, writes a monthly column for the Hartley Greenhouse webpage (hartley-greenhouses.com) and numerous articles for Fine Gardening, Sunset and other magazines. She teaches at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism & Communication.
Editor's note: For more on gardening, see the Monitor's main gardening page, which offers articles on many gardening topics. Also, our blog archive and our RSS feed. You may want to visit Gardening With the Monitor on Flickr. Take part in the discussions and get answers to your gardening questions. If you join the group (it's free), you can upload your garden photos and enter our next contest. We'll be looking for photographs of fruits. So find your best shots of summer's blueberries, peaches, plums, etc., and get out your camera to take some stunning shots of early fall apples. Post them before Sept. 30, 2009, and you could be the next winner.


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- 1 cup warm water
- 1 Tbsp. honey/sugar
- 3-4 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons oil
- Sauce mix:
- 1 6 oz. can tomato paste
- 2 Tbsp. water
- 1 Tbsp. dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried Basil
- 1-2 tsp. garlic powder
- 2 tsp. fennel seed
- Directions: Soften yeast in warm water. Stir half the flour and the rest of the dough ingredients into the yeast mixture. Mix well, adding enough of the remaining flour to form a soft ball. Knead lightly on a floured surface. Let raise 5 minutes and press on to 2 greased pizza pans or a cookie sheet. Top with sauce, cheese and your choice of pizza toppings.
- Bake in 400 degree oven for 15 to 20 minutes.
Terri's Notes
- Sprinkle greased pizza pans with a light layer of corn meal.
- Topping choices include: caramelized onions, fresh onions, sliced tomatoes, pepperoni, sausage (cooked and drained), green pepper, spinach, mushrooms, freshly grated mozzarella cheese, parmesan cheese, black olives....
- Use frozen bread dough for the crust. Just thaw and press onto greased pans.
- Use bottled or canned pizza sauce.
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Muhu [4] [5] is the third largest island in Estonia although the size of the island is fairly small - 198 square kilometres.
It's located between Saaremaa Island and the mainland.
Over the centuries Muhu has developed at its own pace and its traditions are well known throughout Estonia. The famous Muhu patterns are a refined expression of folk-art.
The inhabitants of Muhu call themselves Muhu people; a self chosen title which radiates a certain pride and feeling of being different from mainlanders or communities on other islands.
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Muhu is well connected by a network of buses from most other cities in the region and from Tallinn. Bus schedules can be found at Bussireisid [6].
By ferry[edit]
Muhu Island is connected by a frequent ferry service from Virtsu on the mainland to Kuivastu on Muhu. The ferries take cars and make the crossing in 25 minutes. Reservations are highly recommended specially during weekends. The ferries are operated by Saaremaa Laevakompanii [7].
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During winter time, an ice road connects the mainland to Muhu.
An ice road differs by letting people drive at quite a high speed with safety belts open. The speed is reduced only while approaching the cracks that one has to cross over the boards fixed on the cracks. It takes approximately 20 minutes to cover the distance in case of favourable conditions. You can even pass the ferries that "drive" on the next line.
The island doesn't have any cities - the nearest one is Kuressaare (located in Saaremaa). Muhu can be reached there with a 70 km drive.
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The nature of Muhu has largely been left undisturbed in the past fifty years. It's the natural habitat to 23 species of very rare orchids. Muhu is also home to many migrating birds, which take temporarily shelter in the various bays.
Villages on Muhu are even today still headed by traditional village eldermen, who take up the role of voluntary counsel. Many of the villages are charming in their simplicity and worth having a look (especially because in terms of tourism, Muhu has remained rather untainted so far).
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Australia ACCESS4EU aims to enhance European Union and Australian cooperation in science and innovation by investigating and reflecting upon the current state of European researchers' access to Australian funded research, technological development and innovation programmes and facilities.
Please note:The Australian component of the ACCESS4EU initiative is now concluded. This website will no longer be updated. The calendar of research opportunities for European researchers provides links to established and ongoing funding programmes in Australia. Our cousin project, the FEAST Extension Enhancement and Demonstration project (FEED), will continue until mid-2012. Their website – www.feast.org – has a wealth of information on Australian research strengths, capabilities and opportunities and on mobility issues. A successor to AUS-ACCESS4EU and FEED will likely begin in the second half of 2012.
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• highlight Australia's distinctive research strengths and resources, where they may complement those of the various regions of Europe;
• map the current opportunities open to European researchers and provide those to European researchers through the common project database and through information workshops in Europe;
• monitor the current levels of participation of European researchers in Australian programs. This data will be showcased on the project website and through targeted information days in Europe;
• identify barriers to greater European participation at policy and practical levels;
• discuss project data and reflections on it with key Australian programme owners and other stakeholders, providing the opportunity to facilitate further development of cooperative research policies.
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Following suit, linked to Megan at SortaCrunchy, I will sum up my August.
On My Nightstand:
While I didn't actually read Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, or even read it in the past five years, I lived it every day in Ontario. The first night we stayed on the farm, blanketed in humidity, ears ringing with the overwhelming buzz of insects, blocked from my grandparents' old house by thick and wild overgrowth, I thought of Annie and her knack for describing the awe-inspiring beauty and horror of her rural landscape. Case in point, the sheer number of cicadas my 2-yr-old son and I found on a single tree one day (about 5 and then more later), emerging from their skins:
- Elizabeth Hay's Alone in the Classroom – not as engaging as her Late Nights on Air, I still appreciated the Canadian literary qualities of the book. I also enjoyed reading a book that showed me how a writer could link together stories from an ancestor's life in the early 20th century.
- Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman's Nurture Shock: New Thinking about Children – a fascinating book featuring eight topics like praise and self esteem, why kids lie, sleep deprivation, etc. I love this kind of book – lots of interesting research that is already changing my perspective and practices with our kids.
- The Bible – it's always on my nightstand but it's been open more than usual this month.
- Little Princes – orphans living in terrible conditions in Nepal after being sold by their parents, who were deceived by traffickers…it was a truly moving story. A young man goes down to volunteer and ends up starting a charity to help reconnect the families.
- Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants – just started it – so far pretty light reading.
- Great Grandmother's letters & journals
- Syrie James' The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen – light summer reading for my vacation – I got right into this story but at the end of the day, knowing it is fictional (but based on some facts) makes it intrinsically disappointing.
Want to Read: The Help, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Book Thief
T.V. Shows
We don't have cable, so the most TV I watched was on the flight back to BC from our family vacation in Ontario, when I watched 3 consecutive episodes of What not to Wear. It is worth noting that my plane TV screen only worked on one of four flights. And earlier this summer I watched (and surprisingly really enjoyed) the first season of Gilmore Girls.
Movies I've Seen: We actually took our two preschoolers to a real movie in the theatre: Winnie the Pooh. I borrow quite a few DVDs from the library such as Monsoon Wedding, the Red Balloon, Exit Through Gift Shop, Roman Holiday, etc. I watched Kandahar last week and it's really stayed with me.
In My Ears: I listen to music a lot to help me concentrate at work, and have finished about five months of going through my ipod songs in alphabetical order! Now I often go for shuffle songs, though I don't like being surprised by all the Raffi and children's music that ends up interspersed! Enjoying Broken Social Scene, Downhere (old college friends of mine, who have just released a new album), Bjork, Feist, Stereolab – the usual.
Newest Blog Reads and/or Internet Interest
- Dahlhaus – dear (yet far-flung) friend of ours who's career as an artist has been advancing in leaps and bounds!
- My photographer husband, who is starting to embrace the marketing necessity of blogging (many great new posts to come).
- MelbourneMumma – another mom with lots of inspiring ideas and images.
- Other people who do similar types of art, such as artandtreasure, serendipity, knit the hell out (love that "vision" sweater thing! I hope I find time to knit this year), phrogmom, and more!
What I'm Looking Forward to Next Month:
The beginning of autumn, my favourite season – the crisp air, the morning mist that crouches over the riverbank where I work, apples from the orchard, curry, stuffed pumpkins, preschool (for my daughter), flannel sheets, fall leaves, purple asters. For me, autumn is like New Year's Eve for some – I am often struck by a sense of renewal and artistic inspiration.
- My beautiful daughter's fourth birthday next week. Watching her grow and learn to print, read, be kind. It is so much fun being a mom.
- A welcome return of Saturday brunches with friends…look forward to reconnecting with lots of you!
- A short trip to Victoria later in the month.
- Lots of fall events at work, which I am planning and designing ads, posters and promotional material for.


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I've had several letters today pointing me to a CNN story about bedbugs in Times Square movie theater, and asking if the site will start listing theaters and other retail establishments with infestations.
I cringe at having to give this answer, but I think that bedbugs are very soon going to be the norm in movie theaters. I would hate to give anyone the impression that a theater is safe just because it doesn't show up on the registry. Theaters are an ideal habitat for the insects (dark, full of bodies) and all it takes is one hitchhiking insect to establish an infestation.
With the large number of people who come through such a space in a given day, bedbug infestation in public places like cinemas (and libraries, and commuter trains, and airports, and hospitals, and so on) is going to be a chronic fact of life for everyone in the not too distant future.


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Generates random album covers from Flickr, Wikipedia, and famous quotes.
Kreskin takes the title of random Wikipedia page, the last three words from a random quote, and a random (CC-BY) flickr image to create the cover of an album by a fictional band. It's just for fun. I claim no ownership of the images, text, or names generated or used herein. Don't be mad. Phil Nelson made this.
If you like Kreskin, you may also enjoy Liblr, a Mad Libs-like word substitution toy for Twitter.
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Feel free to join in on this discussion which was about climate change on my Facebook page.
@Micah dude; A true atheist is either clinically insane or is insincere. In other words, you do know God exists or you'd be in a mental hospital.
It's okay, though God doesn't believe in atheists, either. You will
eventually believe. @Gerald dude; Thanx
for posting your insight! Really when it comes down to it in all of
this, there's scientific data that would seem to support both sides of
this endless (and pointless) debate. We really only need to know if we
should take an umbrella, wear a sweater or run for cover tomorrow.
That's all. ;)
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How about throwing around a study like the one linked below:
"Relationship exists between high levels of schizophrenia and high levels of religiousity."
So who's clinically insane, now?
I remember hearing about that(not the article) somewhere. I think it was a former pentocostal turned therapist who talked about how it was easy to be schizophrenic or bipolar in that type of church because everything was just so...over the top.
But yeah, I agree. But the question is does it occur because of organic reasons or because the person is forced so long to place their "flesh"(their true selves I'm guessing) in a little box that they don't know how to really respond to something when it is outside of their magical thinking...
Mojo, you are not quoting the last sentence of the study properly. It simply states that the relationship between schizophrenia and religiosity have been examined in many studies.
I do not see a direct causal or correlational statement in this article or the many located in the pub med links supporting your statement.
As a counselor, I have observed that religious people with schizophrenia have religiously based delusions (in addition to others). This is probably more a function of the disease process affecting their thinking than a function of religious memes.
That said, religion has certainly played a major role in pathological behavior through the centuries and has created a delusional furor among its more ardent adherents. Then again, the same argument could be made for Soviet style communism's propagation of atheism.
Je suis fou mais je suis sincère. Par conséquent, la déclaration n'est pas tout à fait correcte.
Thats great ! I teach English on LiveMocha and you can find French language partners there as well. Its free to join.
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A thrilling, horror film based on a true story about a single lawyer (Laura Linney), who takes on the church and the state, when she fights for the life of a priest (Tom Wilkinson), who has performeda deadly exorcism on a young woman. Linney must battle the cocky state lawyer (Campbell Scott) as well as her own demons, as she realizes that her career so far has not led her to fulfillment.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
My World through the fog
To see other parts of the world, visit That's My World.
9 comments:
I am reminded of "The fog comes in on little cat feet..." Karla
- November 11, 2008 at 6:44 AM
- AphotoAday said...
Very artistic shot...
No I thought no place could be much foggier than where I grew up; Pacific Grove, California, but your photo shows I may be wrong...
- November 11, 2008 at 7:38 AM
Great photo. It looks like a portent of some great and significant event - the kind you see at the start of sword & sorcerer movies.
- November 11, 2008 at 7:48 AM
- Vickie said...
There is something so quiet and mysterious about the world seen through fog. I've also seen some beautiful scenes as the sun burns through.
- November 11, 2008 at 7:50 AM
- Arija said...
Isn't it odd, I think I would love to be wandering about the woods in fog when everything looks strange and unfamiliar. Sometime the fog will lift andyou can find your way out again.
- November 11, 2008 at 8:31 AM
- Lily Hydrangea said...
this is beautiful! I love the fog & how it changes the landscape.
- November 11, 2008 at 8:31 AM
- Louise said...
It's mystical. I wouldn't want to be lost in it, either, but it makes a lovely photo.
- November 11, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- babooshka said...
It looks like ans enchanted wood
- November 11, 2008 at 1:38 PM
- Gaelyn said...
The fog almost conceals the fairy I saw.
Great capture from your world.
- November 12, 2008 at 10:14 PM


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Breaking NewsTom Brady suffered a gigantic blow to his prettiness Sunday when he busted his nose on the field ... but teammate Wes Welker thinks he'll be fine 'cause Tom is "the toughest metrosexual I've ever come across."
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The Johnson's were second generation missionaries to
Mrs. Johnsons' parents were missionaries in the southern
Mrs. Johnson had heard many strange stories while growing up with national children while on summer breaks. It seemed wherever there were jungle in
With their residence set up in a small village near the Ping river this mystique of the unknown must have been great indeed for they were almost 100 kilometers away from any other missionary and any western influence. But they preferred it that way since they could then immerse themselves in the surrounding culture while meeting the needs of the people. Mrs. Johnson was a nurse and Mr. Johnson busied himself with teaching and helping build permanent structures for those in need of shelter.
Sometimes odd things happen when you are hundreds of miles away from civilization. The Western mind almost automatically tries to categorize it in our rational way. But sometimes some things happen that just defies all known logic and previous experiences.
Mrs. Johnson was always eager to share these odd bits of the unexplained in her missionary talks while on furlough back in the states, and one of the more fascinating stories she told was of the Naang Maai Paa, or the little fairy of the wild forest.
The Naang Maai Paa lived deep in the forest and hated human beings. They looked like humans but were not, the villagers considered then to be spirits who took shape to guard the forest. They were as small as a child, but unlike our Western idea of fairies these spirit beings of the wilderness were little hairy people who lived in the earth underneath large trees.
Mrs. Johnson had always thought the creature a superstitious legend until a series of mysterious happenings in the early 60s.
In some of the new houses erected by her husband and other members of the local church, food began to disappear in the middle of the night. These houses were built in newly cleared land at the edge of the forest on a mountainside. The thieves never struck the same house twice in a row, but seemed to make a route going back and forth along the base of the mountain. It was not long after exchanging stories that they deduced the thieves pattern and set up a trap for the perpetrator. Mrs. Johnson's husband joined them as they lay wait for the thief to make his move.
So they kept armed vigil around the house and waited. It was not until, morning was almost upon them that the criminal showed up. But curiously they did not see him enter the house, but only as he exited. It was a little Naang Maai Paa with it's arms full of fruit and dried meat. It quickly waddled towards the woods when one of the national pastors, thinking it was a child jumped in front of it and raised his flashlight to its face.
From Mrs. Johnson's account there were two screams heard by all the watchmen, that of the national pastor and the other of the fairy thief. When the others came to his aid the thief was gone, less some pieces of plunder to be sure, but he was long gone into the forest. However they found the pastor shaking on the ground, for he was sure he had seen a demon.
The three foot tall creature was covered in thick reddish fur and had black skin with yellow eyes. Its teeth were fangs and when it screamed there came a stench from its mouth that smelled like rotting flesh. The pastor was sure he had seen a Naang Maii Paa, and he was sure it was a demon from hell.
There were searches the next few days but they turned up nothing but some possible footprints that had been partially washed away by rain. The food runs ceased from that point on however.
Mr. Johnson was sure that the pastor had seen a monkey of some kind, but the nationals were sure that it was a fairy of the wild forest. The stories of their trickery had been passed down from generation to generation, and every once in a while there would be a sighting when someone ventured deep into the wood.
What was the creature that raided those lonely houses almost half a century ago? Was it a monkey, demonic being, or something else? Whatever it was it had a definite taste for Western foods since almost all the perishables stolen were not normal Thai food.
The local Buddhists told the Christians it was the Naang Maii Paa demanding an offering for encroaching on its land.
Today the rainforests of
And what of the Naang Maii Paa?
Although retired from the mission field for many years she still keeps in contact with local friends she made long ago.
The forests are silent as they are burned into oblivion.
Until Next Time,
Pastor Swope


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It's time for the big reveal of the May Release at The Craft's Meow!!
You should have arrived here from Sharri's blog, but if you want to join in the fun just now, or if you ever get lost, please start at the beginning at TCM blog, where you'll find the master list of participants.
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The white embossed sentiment and the small one stamped in brown ink, the hanging "disco lights" and the small yellow stars strip, are all from Retro Foundations. The checked background and the splatters come from Typically Teen. I stamped them all in a variety of Memento inks (apart from the checks, which were stamped with Old Paper Distress Ink)
I based my card on this sketch from Retro Sketches:
I cut the decorative border with Classic Scallop and Classic Decorative Inserts Three Edgeabilities®.
The patterned paper comes from Echo Park This & That, and I added some washi tape as well.
This time I used the Ribbon Carousel sketch below, as well as the colours from CR84FN54:
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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- My City_My Life producer Laura McGeary writes a diary about her experiences on the road. In this first part the L.A. shoot is caught up in one of the biggest news stories of the year.
Last night I flew in from New York, our photojournalist Darren from London and Wolfgang from Sydney -- hopefully no one will suffer from jet lag.
Michael Jackson arrives at UCLA Medical Center in los Angeles. The My City_My Life team were filming as the drama unfolded.
Today our driver Terry was at the hotel bright and early. We learn early on that not only is he a driver, he also is a bodyguard, which begs the question: "Does a TV crew need a bodyguard in LA?" I guess we'll find out.
The first day of the shoot is scheduled to be an 'orientation day' allowing us to get our bearings where Hollywood is in relation to Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, etc. Having only been to LA once before, I quickly discover it is without doubt a driving city. First stop we head up into the hills, the Hollywood Hills to be exact, to get a few minutes on tape of the iconic "Hollywood" sign.
Then it's down Sunset Boulevard. and onward to Rodeo Drive. This takes all morning to get from location to location, jumping in and out of the van to get a minute of footage here, 30 seconds there -- all of this will make up about 40 seconds of the actual show. It's amazing how much recording time is necessary to put a natural sound show like this together.
Watch Wolfgang Puck take CNN on a tour of L.A. »
During lunch, at the aptly named 'Newsroom' café, we notice on CNN screens throughout the restaurant that not only did Farrah Faucet sadly loose her battle with cancer early in the day, but that Michael Jackson is reported to be in a coma. The buzz around the restaurant is that Jackson has died.
We hop back in the van and on our way to Santa Monica Pier call into the LA bureau to see if they need our assistance with covering the MJ story. They do, so we take a detour straight to the hospital where a crowd is forming outside. Darren jumps out of the car and we head to the CNN satellite truck already setting up on the street, then over into the crowd to get initial reaction from fans on a lawn.
See pictures of Wolfgang Puck's Los Angeles
I was most touched by a college student from India who talked about how even half a world a way, she was a big fan. Some fans are wearing old concert t-shirts from the 80s, one mother and adult son stand, arms draped around each other -- mom crying, son comforting. Then the crowd shifts, and you must be quick. We are now outside the hospital waiting for a potential press conference with the family. With the hospital staff now in place, a queue of media is forming to check badges.
Darren is allowed into the hospital to set up for the press conference -- then a slight debate, only one member from each station is allowed. Eventually they let a few more CNN staff into the room, including me. Because the room is in the basement, a satellite signal is not an option. I stand behind Darren ready to run to the satellite truck as soon as the press conference is over so that we can feed the footage to Atlanta to be broadcast across networks.
Jermaine Jackson comes out. His voice quivers when he tells us how his brother died. Being in the room, hearing Jermaine's voice -- it hits me that Michael Jackson is really gone. The whole speech lasts about a minute, Darren hands me the disk and I run -- in my slippery sandals out the door of the conference room, up the stairs, back outside through the crowd and to the satellite truck -- its reminiscent of a scene from the iconic 80s movie 'Broadcast News' when Joan Cusack runs into the water fountain trying to get a tape on air...and I think to myself, " It doesn't matter how many years you've been in the business, breaking news is the adrenaline rush that keeps us all wanting more."
After we drop off the tape and the press conference is over, we check back in with the field team. The rest of the LA bureau staff is into place so we are free to go back to do what we flew to LA for in the first place. I check back in with Wolfgang's folks to let them know -- the interview is still on for tomorrow.
We pile back into the van and to the Santa Monica Pier for an amazing sunset shot. An eventful and productive day, sometimes just being at the right place right time is what its all about.


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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
This is one of those movies that you'll want to watch over and over again and you'll never get tired of it. Rosanna Arquette plays Roberta, a rich, bored New Jersey housewife who loves to read the personal ads, especially the ones addressed to "Susan," a woman who seemingly uses them to communicate with her paramour. One day one such ad mentions a meeting place, so Roberta (remember I said she was BORED with her life) hauls ass to Manhattan to catch a glimpse of the real-life Susan. Susan, of course, is played by Madonna (1985 Madonna, aka the best Madonna!) so of course Roberta is immediately OBSESSED with her. Obsession turns to "light stalking" as she follows Susan to a thrift store, where Roberta purchases the most EPIC jacket ever known to man with a SICK pyramid-eye thing (never has a jacket played such an important role in a movie ever) that Susan has just traded for something not as cool. This all leads to mistaken-identity high jinks spurred by—what else?—Roberta's getting amnesia while wearing Susan's old jacket (I'm telling you that jacket is literally the most important thing ever). From then on it's all trading places, mobsters, guns, makeouts at movie theaters, eating Cheetos in backyards, and basically all the things that you wish your life was (or maybe all the things your life already is?), just made infinitely more glamorous because Madonna is awesome. This movie almost doesn't make sense, except it finally barely does, and it's just a rad time. Recommended for all who like fun, '80s outfits, Madonna, '80s New York, punk-rock cameos (Arto Lindsay and Richard Hell), and also cool jackets with pyramids on the back. —Laia
Smithereens (1982)
Before Susan Seidelman directed Desperately Seeking Susan, she made this indie classic, which follows Wren, a young Jersey girl who tries desperately to be part of the 1980s punk-rock scene. Unfortunately, the scene has moved to the West Coast, leaving Wren stranded in the city, trying to get a ticket to Los Angeles. She befriends a rocker named Eric (played by Richard Hell) and Paul, a young man from Montana who falls in love with Wren. Smithereens is about being so in love with a music scene that you'll do anything to be a part of it. At one point Wren steals paper from her day job to make posters of her face with "WHO IS THIS?" written underneath, in an attempt to gain some sort of notoriety. Her clothes are also totally awesome. She'll wear a pink faux-fur coat with a green leopard miniskirt; her beat-up old Converse are a staple of every outfit. Watching Smithereens is like taking a time machine back to one of the coolest eras in music. If I were Wren, I'd want in too! —Hazel
Saved by the Bell
Every enlightened human being who enjoys a little something called PURE FROTHY FREAKING ENTERTAINMENT (PFFE) should put their life on hold right now to watch all four seasons of Saved by the Bell. The first time I saw it I was five years old, sitting on the floor of my babysitter's living room. I barely knew English, but I remember being mesmerized by the hair—the gloriously crimped, teased, pouffy-banged, side-ponytailed, big, big hair of the 1980s—and the clothes: bedazzled Canadian tuxedos, crop tops, poet sleeves and harem pants, velvet vests, dudes rocking all kinds of neon shirts with geometric squiggles, satin two-piece track suits, mock turtlenecks in every primary color tucked into hella high-waisted, hella acid-washed jeans. Later, when I was old enough to wear some of those clothes, but totally in the wrong decade, I still went ahead and dressed myself like Kelly Kapowski. I wanted my first boyfriend to be a charming, cunning bastard with a secret inner chamber of lionhearted kindness like Zach Morris. I searched high and low for someone who was exactly like AC Slater, a muscle-bound jock who excelled at several sports, had a military dad, was a wiz at cars, regularly told his feminist girlfriend that she should cook more, and was also somehow fucking awesome at dancing ballet and every other kind of dance (and would regularly rip off his clothes to reveal a full-body leotard and launch into some of the sickest dance moves I've ever seen). There's just too much to love—the complete disregard of the time-space continuum, how Screech wore his suspenders so high that his torso literally looked five inches long, Mr. Belding's cheesy dad jokes and the episode wherein we learn his brother is basically Michael Bolton's doppleganger, and the "serious" episodes that SBTB attempted, like the one where Jessie becomes addicted to caffeine pills and famously tells Zach, "I'm so excited…I'm so scared…" and if your heart is not too blackened by the dark forces of ironic distance and Tumblr-meme saturation, then maybe you won't laugh at me when I tell you that my heart genuinely swelled when Zach comforted her by reminding her of the time when they were kids and biked home in the dark and were so scared, but in the end, they were together and everything was OK. Or, whatever. Make fun of me and enjoy the LOLZ. —Jenny
Jem and the Holograms
1985-1988, in syndication
Jem and the Holograms may not be the most influential cartoon rock group of all time (that title obviously belongs to Mystik Spiral), but when I was a teeny tiny, late-'80s version of myself, the band was my world. Jem, the pink-haired lead singer of the Holograms, is actually an ordinary girl named Jerrica Benton. Her scientist father invented a computer called Synergy that projects a hologram onto her body, turning her into the "truly, truly, truly, outrageous" rock goddess Jem. Yeah, I don't totally get the science behind it either (the show premiered in 1985, a time when people barely understood what computers were), but the holograms that Jem via Synergy is able to produce help the band navigate their way through all of the perilous situations that they find themselves in, episode after episode (and I can only assume that the whole Tupac hologram thing was conceived of by Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre while the two were watching this show). Jem, the character, is someone that we can all look up to. Surely she could have used Synergy to rule the world, but instead she chose to make really awesome synth pop and take care of orphans in her spare time. The show has adventure and romance and is worth checking out, if only for wardrobe inspiration. —Amber
Nine to Five (1980)
This movie is nearly perfect. Not only is it a seriously pro-feminist movie, with three female office workers trying to break through the glass ceiling at work (hint: the glass ceiling is made of men), but it stars Dolly Parton and I love Dolly Parton and it's 1980s Dolly Parton, my very favorite Dolly Parton. (Even though Dolly can do no wrong in my book in any era.) Good god, this movie is awesome. It's like Office Space meets Kill Bill. The main characters get stoned (from weed one of their teenage sons gives them) and daydream hilariously, cartoonishly violent ways to kill their evil, misogynistic, bigoted boss, giggling their asses off the entire time. They're not talking about having him fired, not dreaming of getting him to agree to leave leaving alone. No. They want to kill him, and they tell him off the entire movie, then make sure he gets a taste of his own medicine. For real, you guys: I love this movie. It's so pro-women! And so fun! It also happens to have been shot during the exact time period (late '70s) that gave birth to all the dresses at the vintage store that I'm obsessed with. Polyester? Bring it on. Strange filmy blouses with large loopy bows at the neck? I'm dying, I'm dying. —Krista
Working Girl (1988)
Melanie Griffith plays Tess, a secretary working on 1980s Wall Street who's tired of dealing with the skeevy businessmen who keep trying to take advantage of her just 'cause she's blonde and pretty. She thinks her luck has finally changed when she's assigned to work for Katharine (Sigourney Weaver), a woman who's charming and rich and comes to her with a message of "sisterhood is powerful." Of course the whole thing turns out to be a sham when Tess shares an idea with Katharine and Katharine tells her it wasn't well received but OF COURSE it WAS well received and Katharine is taking all the credit for it. Now HERE'S where stuff starts getting real good! Tess is all "FUCK IT" and decides to go ahead and get what's rightfully hers. She sets up meetings with the important clients, crashes weddings and in the interim falls in love with her business partner Jack Trainer (Harrison Ford, so DUH). Oh and also Joan Cusack plays her best friend (always awesome) and there's a lot of young shirtless Alec Baldwin (always hot) for good measure. This movie will leave you cheering and make you wanna believe in your dreams and also maybe try out a bit of '80s makeup (over the top and fabulous). It was nominated for like a million Oscars too, but OF COURSE it did, because it is so, so good. —Laia
It (1927)
We are insanely lucky, in that we've grown up with the past 100 years or so locked on film, a luxury we take for granted but which allows us to see how people lived their lives long before we came into the world. This movie is wonderful for several reasons, the main one being its star, the original "It girl" herself, Clara Bow, who is hilarious, has the charisma of a million movie stars combined, and will totally make you want to bob your hair and follow Jane Marie's makeup tutorial. But it's also a marvelous time capsule, in that you get to watch Bow at her department store job, gossiping with the girls ("Hot socks!" is an expression that really needs to come back into the mainstream vernacular), standing on the city streets, going out to swanky '20s restaurants, creating her own "fancy" dress, and going on a date that involves the types of carnival rides you're both terrified of and wish still existed. It is a snapshot of the life of a working class girl in 1927 and how she overcomes all sorts of obstacles to get what she wants, and it's so much fun to watch, mostly because Clara has the "It" that the writer Elinor Glyn (in a ridiculous cameo) describes in the film: "self-confidence and indifference as to whether you are pleasing or not." Clara Bow herself, and she's fantastic. —Pixie
Heathers (1988)
The other day my dad asked when and how I got such a dark sense of humor. I really think it was when I first saw Heathers. It's a sweet little gem in which Winona Ryder and Christian Slater have kind of a Bonnie and Clyde situation and kill the popular people at school, framing their deaths as suicides. It was the first movie, I'm pretty sure, to delve into the mind of a girl who becomes the mean girl, kind of like in Mean Girls (which would not exist without Heathers and which, FUN FACT, was directed by the brother of Daniel Waters, who wrote Heathers). It took me like seven viewings before I realized that Veronica is kind of the worst of her whole mean-girl clique, because the rest of them are rude, but Veronica KILLS people! It is THAT twisted and fascinating and great at picking apart the power dynamics of the social world of high school. It's also the MOST QUOTABLE. Waters wrote it when he was in high school, and you can tell because it is DRIPPING with angst. Anaheed says that when it first came out in theaters she and her friends couldn't believe that other people, mainstream movie-making people, suddenly shared their sick and twisted sense of humor. I have had Heathers-Quotes Texting Wars. I also have two Heathers T-shirts and a cameo necklace of Veronica and JD, Christian Slater's character. I LOVE THIS MOVIE. WATCH IT AND LOVE IT WITH ME. Thank you. —Tavi
Game of Thrones
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If I were to describe Game of Thrones to someone who was completely unfamiliar with the series, I'd probably start by comparing it to The Lord of the Rings, because it also has a fantastical element and a Medieval feel (there are kings, queens, castles). But that comparison fails to capture how cool this show, based on George R.R. Martin's bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire book series, is. It's grittier than anything J.R.R. Tolkien ever wrote, with morally ambiguous characters who plot and scheme and have tons of sex—which I can't (and don't want to) picture Frodo doing. The show is about a power struggle—rival kingdoms, opportunists, and deposed rulers all fighting to gain control of the "Iron Throne." Even if this doesn't sound like the kind of thing that you'd usually find appealing, the intertwining plots are filled with so much mystery, scandal, and human drama that it's hard not to lose yourself in it all. Out of a pool of fascinating and inspiring characters, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), exiled daughter of Westeros' former king, is maybe the most impressive. Dany begins the show's first season timid and eventually becomes this strong-willed figure. Her transformation is actually so moving that just thinking about it gives me chills. —Amber
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
"You never watched a John Carpenter film?!" was my friend's reaction when I picked up a DVD with a hilariously gory cover from his living room floor the other week. And seriously, after watching this movie I wanted to karate-kick myself for waiting this long to do it. Big Trouble has it all: ninjas, two love stories, monsters, and a young Kurt Russell. It's a neon and cheap-special-effects extravaganza that ensures you will never look at a Chinese-restaurant menu the same way again. —Cynthia
The Class (Entre les Murs) (2008)
This is a luminous and heartbreaking film by Laurent Cantent, adapted from the autobiographical novel by a former schoolteacher, Francois Begaudeau, about his year teaching at an inner-city junior high in Paris. Cantent developed the script by spending nine months with a group of actual third-year collège students (the equivalent of ninth-graders in America) who had never acted before, and basically just hung out with them, observed them, and recorded their interactions, habits, and behaviors on camera. Begaudeau plays a fictionalized version of himself, and we watch him juggle the weird, intimidating position of being a person of authority while also being—like the rest of us—a completely flawed human. Subtle parallels are drawn between teacher and students throughout the entire movie, like how both can stoop to amazing levels of pettiness and vengefulness—for instance, when the moody, charismatic troublemaker Souleyman asks Monsieur Begaudeau if he likes men, or the moment when Begaudeau's character insults two of his female students with a possibly sexist slur because he feels ganged up on. In the movie, all of the teachers are white, and most of the students are of North African or Arab origin. But don't worry—this film never dips into the morally lazy trope of a white high school teacher who arrives to save the black and brown children from their horrible lives. No one is saved. No one is a hero for long, and neither is anyone a villain. No one comes out the other end radically transformed. Instead we get characters who really do try to be good people, but don't always succeed. This movie is a beautiful antidote to the whitewashed fantasy of Paris as a place of baguettes and Amélie-style stone-skipping on the Canal Saint-Martin. In the span of two hours these teenagers will break your heart with their self-centeredness, and then break it all over again with their sensitivity, intelligence, powerlessness, and strength. —Jenny
The Last Picture Show (1971)
It was a beautiful day when I discovered this film on Netflix. Young Jeff Bridges (of The Big Lebowski) and Cybill Shepherd (from Taxi Driver) in a film about teenagers in the 1950s? Somehow I knew it would be perfect, and I wasn't let down. Set in a small Texas town and shot in moody black and white, the film follows Sonny, Duane, and Jacy as they grapple with feelings of boredom, loneliness, romantic and sexual desire, and everything else that you can experience as a teenager even now! It is one of the most honest films I have ever seen about adolescence. Everything about it feels so real—nothing is sugarcoated, and all of the characters are complicated. Because, guess what? Like real people, they are HUMAN. —Tara
La Femme Nikita (1990)
I first saw this movie upon its release, probably by myself, at the Uptown Theatre in Minneapolis in ninth grade. I was obsessed by the poster: spike heels and spiked hair. How better to communicate TUFF BITCH? Nikita, a junkie punk-rock (but only in the French pop-movie sense—she has a Meatloaf poster, so how punk can she be?) bad girl, becomes a lethal weapon for the French government, but only after shooting a cop point blank and stabbing another one through the palm with a Bic pen after he slaps her and treats her like a little girl. Could there be anything tougher, or badass-er than that? How about Nikita, later, in a body-con dress having a handgun bonanza while some beefy bodygaurds shoot rocket-propelled grenades at her?
I think perhaps my idea of feminist-lib action heroine was a bit underdeveloped and I missed the entire storyline of her being LOCKED INSIDE A COP-RUN TRAINING COMPOUND FOR THREE YEARS UNTIL SHE LEARNS HOW TO DRESS LIKE A SEXY GAL AND BE AN EXPERT WORD PROCESSOR AND ALSO LIVE IN A CELL…and love it! La Femme Nikita is really eightiesterrible™: the plinking-droplet-of-water effect on the super-MIDI'd-out soundtrack, the montage where Nikita's a-ha moment of computer genius occurs via what appears to be a MacPaint program, a super-hot model babe wordlessly seducing a cashier dude on a filthy painter's tarp, a montage of a romantic trip to Venice that includes our quirky heroine mugging it up in a man's hat. It's almost funny, but then it's not. I feel retroactively embarrassed for my ninth-grade self, spending $12 in babysitting savings to see this twice, but you, you should totally dial it up on Netflix Instant right this instant. —Jessica
The Graduate (1967)
Benjamin Braddock has just graduated from college, and he finds himself in a bit of a pickle. He is having an affair with the wife of his father's business partner! It all started with his famous, startled line "Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?" Mrs. Robinson is in control, to a point of manipulation, but then things get crazy when Benjamin meets her daughter, Elaine, and falls head-over-heels in love with. Benjamin is vulnerable, emotional, and confused. How weird that men can feel that way too! —Tara
River's Edge (1986)
My teendom was River's Edge in the VCR, a remote control, and me pressing "play" and "rewind." Shot in 1986, this movie eerily foreshadows everything (depressing) that became GRUNGE. A group of (f'n cool) misfits/slackers discover that their friend has strangled his girlfriend (also their friend) down by the river. They spend the rest of the film trying to figure out how to deal with this tragedy—or NOT deal with it. Their reactions are almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself. It stars Keanu Reeves (in his best role), Ione Skye, many unknowns, and then Dennis Hopper as a creepy weed dealer named Feck. Yes, it's all very disturbing, but it's the kind of disturbing that I can handle, because there is still a lot of beauty in it: the visuals especially, and heartbreaking moments, and some hilarious moments—the kind where you're laughing to keep from crying. River's Edge is culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. It has inspired a ton of my art. —Sonja
P.S. the heavy scene of Jamie's body has haunted me for life in a Laura Palmer kind of way.
Control (2007)
This movie is the visual equivalent of a Joy Division record: it is haunting, exciting, and beautiful, and it ultimately breaks your heart. Sam Riley is perfectly cast as the late Ian Curtis, Joy Division's singer and songwriter, whose short but legendary life is profiled in black and white by Anton Corbijn in a way that never feels cheap or easy. There are plenty of biopics about famous, doomed musicians, and many of them turn their subjects into caricatures; but Control finds a way to present Ian Curtis as both a rock star and a genuine human being, someone you desperately root for and want to reach through the screen to save, even though you already know how the story ends. —Pixie
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
The first time I came across Stephen Frears's Academy Award-winning adaptation of the play Les Liaisons Dangereuses (which was itself an adaptation of an 18th century French novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos), it was on HBO and I decided that I was going to watch it only for a little while. You know, just long enough to find out how dangerous the liaisons really were. But the story was so riveting, the costumes were so gorgeous, the '80s-era John Malkovich so strangely alluring, and yes, the liaisons so dangerous, that changing the channel became a physical impossibility. Malkovich is the Vicomte de Valmont and Glenn Close is the Marquise de Merteuil. They are former lovers, rivals, and schemers who callously use sex to control innocents. The pawns in their game: a naïve virgin (played by a teenage Uma Thurman), the music tutor she's fallen for (Keanu Reeves), and an honorable married woman (Michelle Pfeiffer). Beneath all of the libertinism and duplicity is a pretty intriguing meditation on gender roles in 18th century France—Merteuil is a villain, but it's through her conniving that she's able to wield some power. Dangerous Liaisons is engrossing, bordering on hypnotic, and by the end of it all, you'll probably know how to spell "liaisons," which is kind of a tricky word. —Amber
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
It's totally understandable to be burned out by the Goth Triangle that is Depp-Burton-Bonham Carter. Their work together isn't really hit or miss as much as it's hit or mehhh, and at times it feels like they're just fucking with us by putting on elaborate costumes and building elaborate sets and then just kind of goofing around like that one mom in your neighborhood who always dressed up and did accents while handing out candy on Halloween, much to her children's chagrin. However! When the pancake makeup falls the right way, this trio can make incredibly weird and wonderful things, which is the case with Sweeney Todd (it doesn't hurt that they have Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the original musical, in their corner, either). It's a dark film, visually and thematically, but Burton's sensibility meets Sondheim's score perfectly to create something that is both terrifying and delightful, which is not an easy feat. It's not a film for the squeamish—if you hate blood, or if you'd like to continue eating meat pies, you should probably stay away. But the music is so great, the performances are on point (especially Bonham Carter), and it's one of Burton's better films of the past decade. It's the kind of movie that makes you forgive the Goth Triangle for all past indiscretions, and that lights that little flicker of hope anytime Johnny Depp appears in a preview with ghostly pale skin and dark circles under his wild eyes. —Pixie
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
As far as '80s high-school movies go, this one is the king of the castle. a freelance writer for Rolling Stone, Cameron Crowe went undercover at a California high school and wrote about his experiences. He turned that book into this delight of a movie, directed by Amy Heckerling (of Clueless fame). It has Jennifer Jason Leigh, the stoner surfer Jeff Spicoli, Tom Petty music, feather hair accessories aka "roach clips," Pat Benatar clones, ticket scalping, side one of Led Zep IV, first-time sexual intercourse, a rare and killer Stevie Nicks track, fast food, checkered Vans aplenty, French braids (all the lady hairdos in this movie will INSPIRE YOU), Mr. Hand, pizzas delivered to classrooms, topless surfer dudes playing video games at the ARCADE, the mall, and—best of all—Nancy Wilson of Heart as "Beautiful Girl in Car" wearing an angora sweater and driving a hot rod. I won't give away any more. Even the background graffiti is "awesome, totally awesome"—and, yes, Fast Times spawned that phrase for eternity. —Sonja


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NEWARK, N.J. — Pope Francis on Tuesday (Sept. 24) named a partner to Archbishop John J. Myers to govern the Archdiocese of Newark as Myers faces continuing criticism over his handling of abusive priests.
Bishop Bernard A. Hebda of Gaylord, Mich., will assist Myers in running New Jersey's largest diocese, which has more than 1.3 million Roman Catholics across four counties. Myers has been archbishop since 2001.
Myers said he requested a coadjutor from the Vatican "some time ago," but he declined to say when. "I don't think I need to talk about my conversations with Rome," Myers said.
As a coadjutor archbishop, Hebda, 54, is expected to succeed Myers upon Myers' death or retirement. Myers is 72, about three years short of the mandatory retirement age for bishops.
Reporters peppered Myers and Hebda on Tuesday about priests who have been accused of sexual abuse. Myers said that the media have distorted his handling of abusive priests and that the archdiocese has acted aggressively to remove them from ministry and supervise them.
Advocates for victims of clergy sex abuse suggested the move was almost certainly tied to scandals that have clouded Myers' stewardship of the archdiocese this year. During that period, one priest was arrested after violating a ban on ministry to children, and another took up residence in a parish despite a credible history of sexual abuse.
Myers also was faulted last month for missing or ignoring signs of abuse among priests during his former assignment as bishop of Peoria, Ill.
Hebda said that he was surprised but happy about his new placement and that he looked forward to the challenge. "I'm happy to hear I'm going to be busy," he said.
Experts on the Vatican were more circumspect, noting that although the new pope may have been influenced by the troubles in Newark, the appointment could be the result of other factors, including Myers' health or a request by the archbishop for help.
Myers rejected a claim that the appointment of Hebda was a rebuke of his administration, saying: "Absolutely not. It was my own request."
Hebda, who comes from a small diocese in Michigan, said he had little experience with the issue. He said he would reach out to victims of abuse "with a shepherd's heart."
The Rev. Thomas Reese, a senior analyst for the National Catholic Reporter and the former editor of America, a Catholic magazine, said the appointment of coadjutor bishops has become quite rare in recent years, with just a handful now serving in the United States.
They were far more common before the mandatory retirement rule went into effect, Reese said, because aged, ailing bishops would be unable to carry out the job on their own. Myers served as coadjutor bishop for three years in Peoria before taking over the diocese there.
Reese said he had no inside knowledge of the pope's selection of Hebda, but he praised it as a "great appointment."
"I don't think the pope could have found someone better," Reese said. "He's smart, he's got a sense of humor, he's very pastoral, and he's someone who understands the sex abuse issue. He's on the side of the angels."
Nicholas Cafardi, a former chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People, knows Hebda from his days in Pittsburgh and briefly employed him at a law firm.
Hebda "is all the things Pope Francis says he is looking for in a bishop: a shepherd who smells of his sheep," said Cafardi, a dean emeritus and a professor of law at Duquesne University.
Myers' critics were cautiously optimistic about Hebda's appointment, saying Myers had lost moral authority in Newark.
"Hopefully, he is going to make a difference," said Mark Crawford, the New Jersey director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, a national advocacy group. "Archbishop Myers is so compromised that they absolutely need to bring someone else in to run this archdiocese.
"He has not just lost the trust of the faithful, he has lost the trust of his priests," Crawford said.
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Once in a while, a movie slips under your radar. For about, oh, 20 years. In 'Big-screen blind spot,' we sit down with those 'classic' movies everybody but us has seen and give them the nostalgia critic treatment.
Confession: Until this week, I had never seen Arnold Schwarzenegger's most important work, "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," aka the movie that probably got him elected governator of California. I've actually never seen the first movie either, but according to Ernest Wilkins, it can be summed up thusly: "Arnold Schwarzenegger is a robot."
Had I seen it in 1991 at the age of 6: I would have been terrified. This is a really excessively violent movie, and I'm also pretty sure I wouldn't have been able to spell, let alone understand, the concept of dystopia as a 6-year-old.
Now: Well, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) is about 90 billion times stronger and craftier than anyone else in that psychiatric hospital, so I can see why they'd want her locked up in the name of patriarchy. (I also learned from Wikipedia that Arnold earned 12-15 times as much as Hamilton for this movie, which makes total sense, right?)
It's pretty funny to watch tiny Edward Furlong (as John Connor) teach Arnie how to act like a natural human. And it is entertaining to hear Ahnold say lines like, "Come with me if you want to live" in context. But really? The bad guy can turn himself into the floor, a knife, a crowbar, other people AND walk through bars, but he can't become a gun?
Overall, this movie pretty much seems to be "Back to the Future: Doomsday Edition," and no disrespect to James Cameron, but I really, really love "Back to the Future"—and not "T2." It's probably not something I'd watch again, but I can see why many generations of dudes adore it.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go work on my arms.
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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Lee Daniels' The Butler," a civil rights drama starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey, surpassed expectations and easily won the weekend box office battle, debuting with $25 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales through Sunday.
Jennifer Aniston comedy "We're the Millers" finished in the No. 2 slot, earning $17.8 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimates. Last weekend's box office leader, Matt Damon sci-fi thriller "Elysium," fell to third place with $13.6 million.
"Kick-Ass 2," a comedy sequel about a pair of teenage crime-fighting superheroes, languished in fourth place with $13.6 million in its first three days.
Ahead of the weekend, box office forecasters had predicted a close race between "The Butler" and "Kick-Ass," with projections for each running as high as $20 million-plus.
But audiences gravitated to "The Butler," a critically praised drama directed by Lee Daniels and featuring talk show host Winfrey in her first acting role in 15 years.
The film is inspired by the life of Eugene Allen, an African-American who served as a White House butler to eight U.S. presidents. Whitaker plays the butler opposite Winfrey as his chain-smoking, hard-drinking wife, Gloria.
Entertainment mogul Winfrey promoted the film to her large fan base through media interviews and on her cable network, OWN. Seventy-two percent of "Butler" ticket buyers said Winfrey's role increased their interest in the film, according to a poll on the Fandango movie website.
Both Winfrey and Whitaker won applause from critics, with 73 percent recommending "The Butler" in reviews collected on the Rotten Tomatoes website.
"We expected it to do well. We did not expect it to do this well," said Erik Lomis, distribution president for the Weinstein Co, the privately held company that distributed the movie.
Weinstein decided to release the film in August to capitalize on a lack of adult dramas in theaters, Lomis said. "That audience is underserved at this time of year," he noted.
The film had a modest budget of around $25 million, financed by 28 investors, and Lomis said he expected the audience, which was 60 percent female and more than three-quarters over age 35, "will broaden out. Word of mouth is really strong."
"Kick-Ass 2" stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as costumed teenage hero Kick-Ass and Chloe Moretz as his sidekick known as Hit Girl. Jim Carrey, who criticized the movie's violence after filming was completed, plays Colonel Stars and Stripes, an ex-soldier leading a band of amateur masked vigilantes.
The film was produced by Comcast Corp's Universal Pictures and independently financed with a budget of $28 million. The sequel's opening weekend sales lagged behind the first "Kick-Ass," which debuted with $19.8 million at North American (U.S. and Canadian) theaters in April 2010.
Nikki Rocco, president of Universal's distribution unit, said the sequel was a low-risk bet.
"I hope that whenever there are misses, they are like this one," Rocco said. "In this case, it's a very minimum risk." "Kick-Ass 2" added another $6.3 million in international ticket sales.
Rounding out the top of the charts, Walt Disney Co animated movie "Planes" earned the No. 5 slot with $13.1 million in its second weekend.
"Jobs," a new drama starring Ashton Kutcher as legendary Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs, pulled in $6.7 million for seventh place. The film, which chronicles 30 years of the late tech and computer entrepreneur's life, was produced for $8.5 million, according to the Box Office Mojo website.
Open Road Films, a joint venture between theater owners Regal Entertainment Group and AMC Entertainment Inc, distributed "Jobs."
Corporate espionage thriller "Paranoia," starring Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford and Liam Hemsworth, debuted in the No. 13 spot with $3.5 million. Relativity Media acquired U.S. marketing rights for "Paranoia" and eOne distributed the movie in Canada.
Reporting by Lisa Richwine in Los Angeles and Chris Michaud in New York; Editing by Eric Beech


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So i went back to John after months of not pampering my hair with a new nice color and proper hair treatment. My hair ends are still dry from past bleaching and perming! Theres nothing i can do but try to do some treatment from time to time and wait for the hair to grow longer so i can chop them off!
John introduced me to the new Loreal coloring technique... medium base, basically its like a gradient from roots to ends. Its not dip dye tho which focuses more on the ends only. Remember i did balayage back in December? i loved it so much but now i decide to try something different... its a darker shade compared to my old color :)
I was very excited when my hair was done in the afternoon and wanted to take some decent pictures of the hair later in the day... when the RAIN came out of nowhere while i was on my way back home.
I tried my best to save my hair but no, despite standing in the bus stop i was so wet and almost drenched with the attack of the pouring rain, obviously the strong wind didn't help. My hair was ruined. Worst part was i stood there for almost an hour because i couldn't even cross the road and my house was just right there in my eyes. No shelter at all. Boys and girls, bring your umbrellas.
So i managed to get help from another lady with an umbrella and i gave up saving my hair afterall. Hair was wet no longer in style. These pictures are what it looked like after i blew my hair dry that evening. Even tho its flattened and straightened out after the rain i still wanna show you guys my new color badly!
Thanks to my stylist John and Salon Vim for this great hair color before i leave Singapore :) Luckily i took some pictures at the salon earlier so you guys can have a look at the more proper stylized look i had before :p
Well after the color i also did a 3 step treatment to repair and nourish my hair especially my very dry ends! John gave me a bottle of Loreal force factor leave-in treatment for my brittle ends...as i will be away for awhile and leave-in treatment is better to use in places of dry climate. Of course i also got a really cute bottle of Loreal super dust to style the crown of my hair so it doesn't look too flat. :)
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Loved this fun challenge! And while I don't like that Tom tends to wake up most nights, I do find that pages come to me in those small hours of the morning, so I find myself jotting sketches before getting back into bed, mad I know!
Oh, and I love those cute linen buttons, especially the LOVE one, reminds me of our trip to Philadelphia in the summer where they had a couple of those sculptures.
Journalling reads:
One dippy girl One funny guy
Two children Lots of laughs
Big hugs Mutual respect
Introduce dippy girl to funny guy. Allow to mature slowly.
Add children, one at a time, giving plenty time to settle.
Stir in plenty of laughs, and big hugs as necessary.
For best results, keep chilled. Warning, mixture is prone to
explode occasionally, but can usually be rescued by
addition of chocolate.'
Supplies used:
K Pertiet
Alandia Noces Collection;
All You Need Overlays;
Around Words Brushes and Stamps No. 04;
Bead Scatterings No. 03;
Bead Scatterings No. 04;
Chalk it Up: Basics No. 02 Paper Pack;
Collageables No. 02;
Collageables No. 04;
Fine Line Twists No. 01;
Hey There Kit;
Hinge Pack (screws)
Linen Buttons: Lovely No. 01;
Lots of Love Paper Pack;
Messy Stitched Circles: White No. 01
Paper Cuts No. 03;
Red, Black and Creme Kit;
Tin Frames;
Vintage Charm Kit;
Winter Peony Kit;
Yarn Swirls: Love;
L Grieveson
Polly Kit;
Sweet Marie Kit;
P Knox
Pearl Swirls;
Pin Its!: Enamel Hearts;
C Zielske
Helvi Round Love No. 01 Brushes and Stamps.
Oh my, that's a lot of supplies when I see them all written down! Better not let hubby see this!