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The parents of a British man found with critical injuries at the side of a Sydney street have told how they are living through 'the worst of nightmares' as their son fights for life.
Daniel Moore, 21, from Marske, near Redcar, in Teeside, remained in a life-threatening condition with a fractured skull, brain injuries and internal bleeding as his tearful parents made an emotional appeal for a taxi driver to come forward.
His mother, Mrs Valerie Rutters, who has remarried, said she would happily change places with her son.
Daniel's father Robin Moore and his mother sat at their son's bedside for a short time after arriving in Australia from their homes in the north of England, then faced the tv cameras to appeal for the taxi driver who might be able to assist with police inquiries to come forward.
'As Daniel's parents, we need answers as to how and why this happened – and we also need to know who is responsible,' said Mr Moore. Police have said a taxi driver, believed to be the last person to see Daniel, needs to come forward to answer police questions.
Directing his words to whoever might be able to explain his son's injuries, Mr Moore said: 'We ask that you look into your conscience and come forward and give the police any information that you may have, no matter how small and trivial it may seem.' Sitting at his side, Mrs Rutters was in tears as she spoke of her son's critical condition as he lies in Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital's intensive care unit.
'He's still very, very sick. It's a parents worst nightmare…I would happily change places with him.'
The distraught couple left it to Detective Inspector Luke Arthurs to provide details of what they knew of Daniel's movements last weekend, leading up to the mystery incident that had left him seriously injured at the roadside.
The inspector said Daniel had taken a taxi with a friend from Sydney's central station to the seaside suburb of Manly, which is popular with British backpackers, in the early hours of last Sunday morning. The friend had got out of the taxi in Manly, but Inspector Arthurs said they were unsure if Daniel got out at the same time. He was later found with his injuries in another part of the suburb.
'We just need to speak to the taxi driver and see what, if anything, he knows about this.'
Inspector Arthurs said it was not known whether Daniel's injuries were the result of an assault or an accident. Police have also not ruled out the possibility the Briton was injured in a hit-and-run accident.
Daniel had been living and working in the Manly area for the past two years. A family friend in Redcar, Julie Jones, has told how he and her own son grew up together. 'Our son went out to Australia and Daniel followed him, but Daniel decided to stay on longer,' she told the BBC. 'It is really upsetting to think this is going on. I just hope they found out what has happened.'
FOOTNOTE: A taxi driver has since come forward and given a statement to police. His vehicle is being forensically tested. Developments in the case are now awaited…
I am now convinced that British-Australian Interpol fugitive Lisa Marie Smith is shadowing me, trying to contact me – or someone who knows her is trying to get in touch. Either that or it is an astonishing coincidence that when I follow a particular route in my suburb, almost daily, I come across messages and posters containing her name.
The paths I tread are obscure – a back lane here, a walkway through a park there – but no matter where I go, the weird messages referring to her pop out of nowhere. The picture above has appeared in the past few days in the Sydney suburb of Newtown, near the railway station. It is sketched on an A-frame notice board, which is filled with crazed drawings and words that suggest the writer is hallucinating. Or is the apparent madness a cover for leaving a message for me…or for someone Lisa Marie knows…or someone Lisa Marie is trying to get in touch with?
It's all very bizarre – but how do you explain that these cryptic signs are posted in the very same places that I frequently walk in Sydney's inner western suburbs and are not found anywhere else? Her name is written on pieces of paper stuffed into wire fencing or tacked to a tree – all of them freshly written on routes that I habitually take.
One message, contained on the same A-frame board that carries the strange drawing I've posted above, is aimed at – well, who? It asks: 'Do you want to meet me?' Now, is that Lisa asking someone – me? – if I want to meet her? Or is it someone Lisa knows asking if she wants to meet that person? The other messages I've seen posted around the Newtown and Stanmore suburbs are cryptic but all mention her name and most point out that she's a fugitive from Thailand after disappearing in 1996 while on bail after being charged with serious drug offences.
When she fled from Thailand in August 1996, the-then 20-year-old daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong-based insurance company executive is believed to have used a British replacement passport – she claimed to have lost the first in the weeks before her arrest – to flee to Greece.
There, she obtained yet another British passport and vanished – ending up among the top 10 on Interpol's 'Most Wanted' list. An international police search, involving crack investigators in Britain and Australia, failed to find any clues as to Lisa Marie's whereabouts and her father, who had posted bail for her in Thailand, insisted he had no idea where she was.
So, is she now in Australia, treading the paths that I tread? Are the messages aimed at me – because I've written about her extensively in the past? Or have they been put up by someone trying to get in touch with her? The mystery endures. But if Lisa Marie reads this, I'd be happy to hear from her. No tricks, no traps. I'm easily found.
Fifteen years after Briton Lisa Marie Smith vanished from Bangkok while on bail accused of serious drug trafficking charges, mysterious clues have begun to emerge suggesting she is living in Sydney. And if curious cryptic messages posted on trees and walls are to be believed, Miss Smith, a former star pupil at Eastleigh College, near Southampton, is now living in my neighbourhood – and perhaps in my street. When she fled from Thailand in February 1996, the-then 20-year-old daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong-based insurance company executive, is believed to have used a second passsport – she held both British and Australian documents – to flee to Greece. There, she obtained a new British passport and vanished – ending up among the top 10 on Interpol's 'Most Wanted' list. An international police search, involving crack investigators in Britain and Australia, failed to find any clues as to Miss Smith's whereabouts and her father, who had posted bail for her in Thailand, insisted he had no idea where she was. But small, fascinating signs written on pieces of plaster and wood, have been popping up around the inner-west suburbs of Sydney suggesting that Miss Smith is living in the area – and may have even scrawled one of them herself.
I had written extensively about Miss Smith when she fled Thailand in August 1996 after being the first foreigner to be given bail on serious drug charges after her millionaire father, Terry Smith, had paid around £30,000 to secure her temporary freedom to await future court appearances. It had been claimed by police that she was carrying opium when she was first arrested as she tried to fly out of Bangkok – a charge that can result in the death penalty – but that was reduced to hashish and amphetamines after her parents arrived in the country with a top lawyer.
Miss Smith spent six months in Lard Yao Prison – nicknamed the Bangkok Hilton – before being granted bail and fleeing the country. She obtained a new British passport in Greece and vanished, defying all police efforts to find her. But at the end of my street, less than 30 yards from the entrance to the local railway station, an intriguing sign has been attached to a tree.
Written on a small block of white-painted wood, the message reads: 'Lisa Marie Smith. I did it for you, Damien. Look at me. Omen.'
Just two days earlier, totally by chance, I had noticed another small sign, written on a piece of plaster that had been painted red, and stuck on the side of a house. It read: 'Lisa Marie Smith. Bangkok Hilton Fugitive 1996'.
British police, who admit the runaway has 'dropped off our radar', have said she may have changed her name to McGuigan. Could the reference to 'Damien' on the block of wood in my street refer to an Irishman she knows…an Irishman called McGuigan? Further checks on the internet reveal that there are other references to Lisa Marie Smith, some suggesting that she should go to jail and that Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby, serving 20 years in Bali, should go free.
One sign echos the British police belief that she now has an Irish surname. Stuck to a wall in the Sydney suburb of Newtown – one rail stop from my home – it blares out the name of Lisa Marie Smith, points out that she is a fugitive from the 'Bangkok Hilton', and adds: 'New Identity – McGuigan? Travels Eire 2 Australia as Though Invisible.'
The story Miss Smith told investigators immediately after her arrest resulted in her being accused of lying. She said she had befriended a Pakistani man who on hearing she was short of money, agreed to pay her to take a rucksack to Tokyo 'for a friend'. When she reached Bangkok airport with the rucksack – and she insisted she did not know it contained drugs – police who had been tipped off were waiting for her.
It is believed she was set up as a distraction, to divert the attention of police away from a bigger smuggling operation that was being worked at the same time. Perhaps if Miss Smith and I should meet in my street, she'll tell me more. And the coffee invitation stands.
It has been compared to the baffling case of missing British girl Madeleine McCann, who, as you'll all recall, disappeared from her bedroom while her parents were on holiday with friends in Portugal three years ago.
Wherever I go, I always try to carry a small camera with me for that unexpected scene that will make a picture.
Just recently, while doing my dog-walking duty in a Sydney park at sunset I realised I'd left my camera behind. And then, inevitably, I came across a whimsical scene that had me reaching for the camera that wasn't there! Curiously, it was a camera club, whose members had gathered on a hill to photograph the city as it began to switch on its evening lights. They were silhouetted against the setting sun, like figures in an Arthur Rackham fairy story illustration.
Thankfully I had my iPhone but thought 'this is really going to put it to the test'. Extreme light striking the lens and, unlike the camera club, no tripod to assist stability. However, taking a 'risky' photo was better than taking no picture at all.
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Simply asking neighbors and colleagues might be the way to go. As a general rule, ask someone you trust to refer you. You can also use various online sources to read reviews and comments about different companies.
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One of the most important components of finding someone to fix your bug problem is clear, concise communication. Give them specific details about the problem, where it is, and any other solutions you have already tried. This will help your specialist determine what the right treatment and the tools they will need.
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Depending on where you live, the qualifications for being a pest control specialist may be different. When choosing the right fit for the job, do a little digging and make sure that their license and insurance is valid.
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Before treating your property, ask to see the service agreement. Read it carefully. There can sometimes be hidden fees that you didn't know about. Be sure to get a copy of the agreement to keep on file. It is advisable to walk through the property with the professional so that he or she can explain the process in detail.
7. Make Your Search Easy by Taking Precautions
No one ever intentionally brings bugs and critters onto their Dixie Washington property, and searching for an exterminator can be frustrating. Taking preventative measures can help you avoid the search. In eating and storage areas, always put food items away in sealed containers. It's also important to ensure that your home is properly sealed. This includes adding screens on your windows and doors and checking around the property for any damage in the foundation.
When it comes to preventing a bug problem, there isn't a perfect science. Pest maintenance is an integral part of being a property owner. Finding a specialist that you can work with and trust to alleviate the problem can be hard. Once you find someone you can trust, build and maintain that relationship!
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We Are Looking At A Foreclosed House In The Phoenix Area And We Don'T Have A Lot Of Time With The House. It Looks Like The Pervious Owners Took Good Care Of It, And Besides A Few Spots In The Carpet, Everything Looks To Be I Good Shape. But, The Inspection Did Not Include Any Checks For Termites. I Was Wondering If There Were Any Tell Tail Signs Of Termites Or Termite Damage That Wouldn'T Require Me To Hire Someone To Look At It Or If Termites Are In This Area.
Get the timber pest inspection done professionally. Don't buy a house without a building and pest inspection. You can agree to buy subject to favorable inspection reports.
If it has a termite history it may be close to worthless but all that damage may be hidden, sometimes by the seller and sometimes by the wily termites. Don't risk it.
How Much Will An Exterminator Cost?
I Have Been Finding A Couple Carpenter Ants In My House Everyday For About A Week, Well Today, Between Me And My Husband, We Found And Killed About 20, We Just Got Tons Of Rain, Like More Then We Have Ever Had, And That Caused My House To Leak So Im Sure The Ants Desided That That Was A Good Time To Start A Ne Colony, I Dont Know If Its In Or Under My House, But I Want To Solve The Problem Before It Gets Worse, So If Anyone Knows About What It Will Cost Me To Hire An Exterminator, Please Let Me Know, And I Live In Montana If That Helps
every company can have different prices depending on the type of company (large national or small local), what part of the country you may be in (large city with plenty of work or small area where competition is harder) and what type of ants you are dealing with...some companies will charge more for carpenter ant , For a one time service with a small company will range from $90-$150 and may even be more inclined to just treat the affected area of the house even lower.. a national company may start at $150 and may try to get you to commit for a years service. I have seen some companies charge for carpenter ant work over $400. Be aware many companies will scare you because they are carpenter ants..don't fall for it. If they start talking about how extensive the work has to be to get rid of them (drilling holes in your walls) find another company.
How To Get Rid Of Fleas Even After Extermination X 2?
My Daughter Wonders... After The Exterminator Did His Thing Twice- They Still Have Fleas Jumping Around. They Washed House From Top To Bottom, Mopped, Vacuumed And The Little Buggers Are Still There. Poor Thing Is Pregnant With Twins And On Bedrest And Has To Deal With Flea Bites. They Put The Cats Outside- Any Suggestions?
Use some borax laundry detergent on the carpets, leave it down for about 45 minutes before vacuuming, it smothers them. Your daughter, should not inhale the dust from the laundry detergent. You may have to get rid of all the carpets, and bomb the house. She will need to leave the house, for like a week.
Im Thinking About Calling An Exterminator For This Serious Flea Problem In The New House Im In?
Has Anyone Used A Professional For A Flea/Tick Problem? Did It Work? And Whats The Estimate For A Professional To Do It.
These Critters Are All In My Shoes, Clothes, And Im Not Unpacked Yet, This Was My Sisters House And Alot Of Her Stuff Plus My Stuff Is Here, The House Is Crowded With Bags Everywhere. I Did Mention I Just Moved In Right Lol.
She Left The House In Poor Condition Her And Her Kids Who She Let Eat All Over The House And Leave Food Out For Days
I Dont Even Want To Take Everything Out Of The Bags But I Think There In The Bags To.
What Did You Guys Do When These Things Infected Your House And Clothes Etc, Is It Safe To Put Flea Powder On The Bed And Shoes Etc
Any Suggestions Are Welcome
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the flea problem will develop on the floor so the exterminator will need to treat the floor...if he can't do that you won't have good success with the treatment... they wont be inside closed bags so leave them as they are.. your best / cheapest bet may be to just use a flea fogger. This will only kill exposed fleas and in a couple of days they will make a comeback, but unless you can have the place tidy enough to do a proper job, the fleas will be around even after paying $150 to a pro
Please Help Me. Roaches Unaffected By Exterminator?
I Just Moved Into An Apartment. It'S Infested With Roaches. My Landlord Brought An Exterminator In. He Did Something, I Don'T Know What, But He Said I Had To Be Gone For 4 Hours. I Came Back Tonight And The Roaches Are Just As Many And Seem Unaffected By The Treatment. Is This Normal For The First Night?
a quality exterminator would of used a roach bait where you wouldn't even need to leave the home, with the bait however it does take a number of days for results..he either used one of his employees as the exterminator, very common, or he chose a company that was very cheap to use that would not use quality products in their service, thus using a "spray" where you are needed to leave.... if any sort of spray or fogger was used you would probably find some dead roaches after the return
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"This is extreme cold weather," said Eduardo Ferrante, coordinator of the Bayonne Office of Emergency Management. Schools were closed on Thursday and Friday after the city saw more than six inches of snow and wind chills of minus 10, conditions that cause more than school closings and parking issues.
Multiple water main breaks since the cold weather started two weeks ago left many residents without running water for periods of time.
"The water main breaks have been a combination of Suez mains and private mains," said Ferrante. "When you have this length of time in sub-zero temperatures, it's a major problem for our infrastructure. And it's definitely not just Bayonne. It's all over the area."
Serious water main breaks at JFK Airport caused flooding that cancelled flights. Various NJ municipalities reported multiple water main breaks over the same period of time.
"People need to be very aware that they are at risk of their pipes freezing," said Ferrante. "A little cold water running in a faucet will help prevent a very expensive problem for them."
"When you have this length of time in sub-zero temperatures, it's a major problem for our infrastructure." – Eduardo Ferrante
While the legislature cannot prevent freezing weather, it may be on course to make significant improvements under the Murphy administration. The Joint Legislative Task Force on Drinking Water Infrastructure recommended on Jan. 8 that the state borrow $400 billion to upgrade aging water infrastructure.
That investment is a small fraction of that $40 billion the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates will be required to upgrade infrastructure in the state over the next 20 years. But improvements can go a long way. According to a Jan. 2017 National Resources Defense Council report, NJ loses an estimated 130 million gallons of treated, potable water every day due to cracked water mains and leaks.
Storm and wastewater management are key issues in Bayonne, which addressed the need in its 2000 Master Plan under the subhead, "Major Issues." The city's plan has been essentially to work around, as best it can, an outdated combined sewage overflow system that is far too costly to replace.
Winter months are usually easier on the sewage systems because there tends to be less precipitation, which can cause overflows into natural water sources and foul odors in the streets.
Aging water infrastructure in Hudson County is well documented. Hoboken, in particular, is known for its wooden sewers and water main breaks that swallow entire SUVs. Washington Streets, its main thoroughfare, has been torn up for more than a year as the city attacks the problem. Bayonne, which constructed much of its water infrastructure in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is not much better. A shallow and vast network of underground piping is an unfortunate legacy from its industrial days.
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Daisy from VH1's "Rock of Love 2"
Daisy De La Hoya is currently a contestant on VH1's reality show "Rock of Love 2", where she is competing with several other women for Bret Michael's affection. Since the show features the girls running around in next to nothing most of the time, it is fairly obvious that Daisy has some plastic parts (breast implants).
Now, don't get me wrong, she's not the only contestant that has had a boob job, but, I think that Daisy De La Hoya has had additional, slightly less obvious, plastic surgery done as well. In addition to the Pamela Anderson sized breast implants, Daisy also appears to have an augmented nose and professionally plumped lips. What do you think?
Personally, I think when people start getting package deals on multiple plastic surgeries, that's just too much. Does anyone else think it would be weird having children that look nothing like you because you've surgically altered your appearance so much? Maybe it's just me…
Daisy De La Hoya of "Rock of Love 2" fame:
Luckly for Daisy, she looks way hotter in lingerie then her uncle, Oscar De La Hoya, even before the plastic surgery…
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Before Daisy's 15 minutes of fame expire, perhaps she can collaborate with Oscar and release a unisex lingerie line. Now THAT would be hot!
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this girl's look is so 90's and overdone. She should of saved herself a few thousand dollars and got an education
I am an AVID Rock of Love watcher (lame, I know) and Daisy is one of my faves. I hate that you can tell she would be beautiful without all of that additional surgery (and make up!). I just wish more girls would embrace the goods they've got! Because I doubt very seriously that there was anything majorly wrong with her appearance before.
I also enjoy me some trashy reality tv! I had no idea that Daisy from Rock of Love was related to Oscar Delahoya. That's super random. lol
PLEASE find some yearbook or childhood pics of Daisy & post 'em!
She looks so unreal (albeit lovely), that I'm dying to know how much remodeling's been done on her!
daisy not in her element for morning show host:
her real name is vanessa mausman or something, I saw on the ROL2 extras on the VH1 site
They have the pictures in the wrong spots for Megan and Jessica.
you got jessica and megan mixed up idiot
It is obvious she's had her nose done, and has lip implants. Lip implants you can tell because the implants make people have duck lips. The nose you can tell because it's obvious with the bone structure. My Grandma who is Jewish can point out others who had there snozz done. I didn't get my Grandma's nose because she married a hapa male, and my mom married a hapa man… but if I had the Jewish nose who knows… I most likely would keep it afraid to see what the surgeon would give me… but a part would be willing to try it. I would never do lip implants, because they're too obvious. Boobs I've had done. I have no problem with Daisy getting those surgeries, it's her business!
Daisy is a little Chicano girl who decided to conform to the Pamela Anderson stereotype and had everything done under the sun. I think she is very personable and handled that Denver morining interview very well. She makes good tv – her histrionics and Douchebag Bret and his collections of head rags and wigs made the show fun.
daisy is a grosse women
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find love if she has her own show bout it. and shes so fake
she must have been pretty ugly to get tht surgery cause she is ugly as anything. she should hav gotten a conceler to talk to if she wanted to find her inner beauty in herself. to daisy its not whats on the outside it all about your insides. b/c if a man cant love you for who u r then hes not worth loving. find someone who can. and dont make as show about finding love. if you havnt found love then let it come to u. dont search for it.


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Back in the fall, I reviewed the September Indie Craft Sampler box here on the blog and today I'm lucky enough to have received the Winter sampler for a review as well.
First, What is Indie Craft Sampler? Indie Craft Sampler is a monthly subscription box that focuses on indie crafters (like us)! Each month a new box can be mailed to you full of handcrafted goods & services.
The boxes are $27 + free shipping with a retail of $50-$80 (for USA, slightly more for international) and you can choose if you want your samples cute/girlie, traditional, kitschy/geeky, or a mix! I really like that you can choose! Each box is unique & will contain a random cool mix of at least 12 items of the style you request.
The winter sampler is for both the month of December & January. I received mine after Christmas so I was relieved that there weren't any holiday themed items in it. It came with about 12 samples handmade by indie artist! My favorite item would probably be the soy candle by Karmalit. It smells divine!
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- Bottle Cap Magnets by Smart Sassy Crafts
- Catnip Monster Mice by My Monster Hat
- Cloud Ornament by The Milk Collective
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- Lotion Bar by Sweet Sheep Body Shoppe
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- Dreamcatcher Bracelet by Darling Warrior
- Earrings by I Dream of Jewelry
- Gold Foil Print by Thomas Gardens Designs
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Exira is a city in Audubon County, Iowa, United States, along the East Nishnabotna River and U.S. Route 71. The population was 840 at the 2010 census.
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The oldest town in Audubon County, Exira was founded in 1857. The town was named for Exira Eckman, daughter of Judge John Eckman from Ohio, who agreed to purchase a lot of property in the town if the town was named for his daughter.
The main industries in and around Exira are agriculture and agribusiness. Exira has an elementary school, built in 1913, and a high school, completed in 1959. There are four churches in the town.
On July 2, 1958, Exira was ravaged by the flooding of the East Nishnabotna River. Nineteen persons in the area lost their lives, 75 homes were destroyed and almost 20 businesses in the western part of Exira were damaged.
Exira is well known for its Fourth of July celebrations, which have been celebrated since 1861. The morning parade and the evening fireworks draw thousands of visitors to the town. Other attractions in the area include the Plow in the Oak Park, south of Exira on Highway 71, and Littlefield Recreation Area, 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Exira, which features a 70-acre (280,000 m2) lake, prairie restoration area and a live bison pair.
Exira is located at 41°35′30″N 94°52′42″W (41.591617, -94.878247).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.02 square miles (2.64 km2), all of it land


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Each year Merlin eagerly looks forward to the annual early spring Daffodil Labyrinth Party in Mendocino. As a four month old puppy, the weekend was Merlin's first big overnight road trip. We packed his mobile dog house with familiar blankets, squeaky toys, water dishes, and puppy food for three days and headed north.
Puppies have tiny bladders. We stopped every half hour for a stretch, sniff, and drink. When I was a kid, our family spaniel only rode in the car on her way to the veterinarian, so the one time we tried to take her on vacation to a friend's cabin up north she howled and puked all the way there. And back. Since here in California we drive everywhere, including to our walks, I knew any California canine companion would need to be road-ready and car friendly. We collected puppy Merlin from the Valley of the Moon when he was six weeks old and he's been riding around joyfully ever since. Merlin adores his MerlinMobile and is happy to sit in it even when it's parked in the driveway all day. One of his top favorite phrases is: In the car. Other favorites include What's this?, Say please, and Oops! (especially when exclaimed from the kitchen). And of course, Road Trip! He rides about, senses thrust out the window, brain expanding and tracking. How astonishing to watch the earth shift and change around you with no knowledge of maps or countries. Merlin is like an early explorer, setting out for new worlds, guided by the sun and stars (and his chauffeur's GPS). He inspires me to discover new places, take the back roads, stop often for a stretch and a sniff.
The three hour drive threads through the ranch land north of San Francisco and west along US 128 through Boonville. Boutique vineyards are nudging out sheep ranches so we have to be sharp to spot spring lambs. Merlin's got a thing for sheep. He's not sure what it is, but he's supposed to do something about them. We slow down so he can give them the Intense Herding Stare silently from the safety of his MerlinMobile. He also plays close attention to the Anderson Valley Brewing Company. He likes microbreweries. They serve french fries.
The annual daffodil party has been hosted since 1987 by Alex and Joan Champion on their property down a remote dirt road. The festive weekend gathering in early spring celebrates labyrinth walking, feasting, art, music, and travelers' tales from the road trip of life. It's our family reunion. One year there was a total lunar eclipse.
Alex is a labyrinth builder. He creates outdoor earthworks by digging and mounding dirt, engineering for drainage, wildflowers and beauty. His installations include public parks, private homes, schools, and conferences from hillside rock gardens to painted playgrounds in Chinatown. Merlin has helped with several, including the 80 foot installation at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. There are five earthworks on his property in Mendocino and in early spring a verdant carpet of native grasses flows around river stones and quartz rocks anchoring the pathways. Dozens of daffodils pop from the premier seven circuit Cretan Classical labyrinth.
This was Merlin's first labyrinth. As a puppy, he could barely see over the foot high mounds from the path. He followed us boldly, at our heels, right where he wanted us. Round and round we trotted, following the path and other walkers right and left, to arrive in the center. Merlin immediately claimed the grassy knoll center as the best place from which to herd the entire troupe of walkers. He tracked everyone but when I ran along the outermost ring he shot towards me, hopping straight across the labyrinth, leaping from bank to bank. He bounded the mounds, tagged me with his nose, and bounded back to the center. Everyone cheered and a new game was born. Merlin spent much of the next two days running around the pathways and leaping from mound to mound. Thus his first and lasting love of labyrinths.
Last year's Daffodil Party was cancelled because Joan Champion had just passed away. She had battled, and beat, cancer for a year but the treatments wore her down and she transitioned into pure spirit on the weekend of the annual daffodil party she loved so much. This year we gather again at her home in Mendocino to celebrate her life, and each other's precious company. One last daffodil party.
Of all the labyrinths Merlin has visited from Grace Cathedral to Detroit, the Champions' meadow earthwork daffodil labyrinth is his favorite. Come walk with Merlin!
Feb 28, 2009
The Last Daffodil Party
2 comments:
- Lea said...
As always... your pictures capture such magic Cindy! I love seeing Merlin as that little pup! Where does time go??? Stopped it is, as the joy from these pictures, with treasured friends in fields and mounds of sunshine daffodils wind through the years...
Nikki says woof back!
- Mar 3, 2009, 9:48:00 AM
- barbara said...
inspiring photos and labyrinth. i love the daffodils and earthworks being mounded. thank you, barbara
- Mar 4, 2010, 10:37:00 AM
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Teodora Zaharia pleads guilty in LIRR ticket machine skimming case
Another person has pleaded guilty in the case of stealing customer credit and debit information from Long Island Rail Road ticket machines.
Teodora Zaharia pleaded guilty to larceny charges Friday. She is now the third person to plead guilty in the case, after Dorin Husa and Niculae Petre pleaded guilty last week.
Prosecutors say Zaharia, along with three others, used cameras and credit card skimmers at several LIRR and Metro-North stations, stealing more than $70,000 from customers.
Prosecutors will ask for nine months in jail when Zaharia is sentenced next month.


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The professors and the police: How a Minneapolis project may change the way cops everywhere relate to the public
Call it Minneapolis in the petri dish.
Over the next three years, the city will be one of six in the country that will test whether social science research that's more at home in academia than city hall can help improve troubled relationships between police and residents.
"There has never been a more formative time where our country has looked at this issue of police and community trust," Mark Kappelhoff, a deputy assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, told the Minneapolis City Council earlier this summer.
What Kappelhoff was describing is the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice, a three-year, $4.75 million project with a massive mission: to use data collection, social psychology and best practices to repair and strengthen the frayed relationship between cops and communities.
The national initiative, which grew out of President Barack Obama's My Brother's Keeper campaign, took on greater urgency in the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer last August.
"We thought, 'Why don't we do something proactively rather than waiting for something bad to happen in Ferguson or Baltimore or some other place,' " says Kappelhoff, a Minneapolis native who spent 15 years in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division before taking a teaching post at the University of Minnesota law school in 2012.
A year ago, he took a leave from the U to return to the DOJ to take part in the federal investigations into the Ferguson and the Baltimore police departments, and to work to implement many of the programs pushed by the Obama administration. "We have evidence-based practices that work around the country," he said. "Why don't we collect those practices and disseminate them broadly throughout the country?"
Addressing three aspects of community-police relations — implicit bias, procedural justice and racial reconciliation — the new initiative is being led not by cops or politicians but by academics from UCLA, Yale Law School and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (as well as several institutes, ranging from UCLA's Center for Policing Equity to the National Network for Safe Communities).
In essence, the program is where academic theory about police and community relations will turn into practice. And Minneapolis is about to become its laboratory.
A lack of data
"In other public sectors — education and health care — we collect a lot of data," said Phillip Atiba Goff, an assistant professor at UCLA. "But we do not have the same evidence base when it comes to policing in America. We just don't collect the numbers."
The new initiative will seek to address part of that problem by surveying police officers and community members, conducting training and holding public meetings. Goff said every cop will answer questions about how they feel about the community and their jobs. Some will take a longer survey and have their responses matched up against performance data, information such as how many stops and arrests they make, or how often they use force.
That data could help identify attitudes that predict certain behaviors and help the city head them off, Goff said.
There will also be a community survey to measure attitudes of residents about the city, city government and the police. The training will include: "How to engage in procedurally just policing, policing that is less vulnerable to implicit bias and to engage in racial reconciliation."
Defining the issue
But first the team members have to explain what the three terms even mean.
Procedural justice, Goff said, describes the process by which police and courts enforce the laws. "Compliance with the law begins with trust in the law, not fear of the law," he told the council. "A neighborhood where people are afraid to call the police is a great neighborhood for criminals to reside in."
The initiative briefing material describe it this way: "people welcome being treated as equals with a stake in keeping their communities safe, as opposed to being treated as subjects of a capricious justice system enforced by police who punish them for ambiguous, if not arbitrary, reasons."
Procedural justice, therefore, works to make the system more transparent and more fair. "We'll take a look at how we do business to make sure it is equitable," said Mayor Betsy Hodges, who, along with Police Chief Janeé Harteau wrote letters to the federal government asking that Minneapolis be part of the national initiative.
Said Kappelhoff: "What studies have shown is that when someone gets pulled over by police and gets a speeding ticket, it oftentimes isn't whether they received a ticket, it's how the police officer engaged with the person and whether they feel they've been treated fairly, respectfully and whether they had their say in the process." When that doesn't happen, "that's when the relationship breaks down between the community and the police department."
The initiative will conduct training of all members of the police department on how to apply principles of procedural justice to their contacts with residents. And it doesn't want to lose sight of actual crime and actual victims. Its work plan includes outreach to subgroups, including crime victims and domestic violence victims, high-risk youth and the LGBT community.
The initiative's project director, Tracie Keesee, a 25-year veteran of the Denver Police Department who holds advanced degrees in criminal justice and intercultural communications, told the council that it is also important to respond to concentrated areas of crime such as North Minneapolis. "How do you focus on the 10 percent who are creating the unrest? How do you hold them accountable under the law but also how does the community hold them accountable?"
'Racism without racists'
Implicit bias seems to be the hardest concept to explain. Goff and others have done research into "the automatic association people make between groups of people and stereotypes about those groups." One example: the assumption that black people are talented at sports.
"If I know there is an association between black people and being good at basketball, that doesn't make me a racist; it means I am paying attention to the stereotypes of the culture," said Goff, who described himself as being "black my whole life" but whose basketball skills are suspect thanks to his size and shape: short and round. If someone was picking people for their pickup basketball team, he joked, they would be better off overriding their implicit biases and picking the taller Kappelhoff over him.
People, including police officers, might not be overtly racist, but they can use implicit bias about people and groups as shortcuts to decide how to react to situations. "That's a human psychological universal, it's not about your character," Goff said. In fact, a key point made by the team is that implicit bias is not a synonym for racism — Goff often speaks of "racism without racists" — and training can be designed to help officers recognize those biases and not let them control how they react.
'A solid basis for trust'
The third part of the initiative, racial reconciliation, requires historically more powerful elements in a community to acknowledge the legitimate grievances of less powerful groups — and apologize for them.
"If that doesn't happen, it's very hard for an aggrieved party to feel there's a solid basis for trust," Goff said. "It's happened in Germany. It's happened in South Africa. It's happened in Australia. But we're bringing it to a new context here; we're doing it with policing in America."
Nekima Levy-Pounds is a St. Thomas law professor and president of the Minneapolis NAACP. She said the goal of racial reconciliation is desirable, but that it's "definitely ambitious given the atmosphere we're in, especially with so many people who don't want to even acknowledge that race is an issue.
"I'm interested to see if that is possible in a process like this," she said. "Is three years even enough time given the long history of racial relations?"
Council Member Blong Yang chairs the Public Safety, Civil Rights and Emergency Management Committee. His ward is one of two that include north Minneapolis, the center of strained community-police relations.
"In my ideal world, racial reconciliation is us going to every single door to build a relationship with every person out there," he said. "We talk to leaders. We should talk to leaders as well as those at the bottom. We need to do a better job of being out there."
But Yang said he thinks real reconciliation should mean that everyone — including police rank and file and white residents of high-crime areas — feels free to say what they think, even if it is unpopular.
"How are we going to be engaged in conversations about race when folks are afraid to say anything?" he asked. "They shouldn't be shouted down. We don't allow people to make statements from their perspective even if it sounds racist to some people. We need conciliators who can create a safe space so people can say what they think."
Using data to create better policing
The six cities where the initiative is being conducted (the others are Birmingham; Stockton, Calif.; Gary, Indiana; Pittsburgh; and Fort Worth) will be used both to test new police practices and to collect data that might point to ideas that haven't been tried yet.
Like what? Along with Keesee, Goff is the co-founder of the Center for Policing Equity. He gave an example of how collecting and analyzing data can lead to better practices. He looked at use-of-force incidents in Las Vegas and noticed that many of the complaints of excessive force came after foot pursuits. Goff did a ride-along and even took part in a foot pursuit.
"When you arrive, your adrenaline is up and you want to do something to this guy because they made you run," said Goff, who described himself as more peaceful than Gandhi. "So it's a major thing for me to think, 'Let's get this guy' but that's the situation. That's not me being a violent person."
Goff and his team recommended a new policy to the Las Vegas police: Whenever possible, the first officer to reach a suspect should not be the first person to "go hands on" with him or her, leaving it to those who arrive later. The results have been a 30 percent reduction in use of force, Goff said. And since foot pursuits predominantly involve black and Latino neighborhoods, the racial disparity in use-of-force incidents will also go down, he said.
Why Minneapolis?
Minneapolis was one of 100 cities that asked to be included in the initiative, and was chosen to provide balance in terms of both geography and population. But selections were also based on a city's history of social tensions, level of violence, economic conditions and willingness to collect the data that will help demonstrate the effectiveness of the program.
But it is a demonstration of how much work the initiative has to do that the very act of having city and police leaders invite the Department of Justice in has raised suspicions. As Council Member Cam Gordon explained to Goff at a meeting: "The fact that the city invited you in — that you've been communicating and working so closely with them — does pose some risk to the credibility of it."
Levy-Pounds agreed that the initiative sponsor's relationship with the police department causes concern. "How much contribution does the department have in determining what aspects of the department is being investigated?" she asked. "It is still very much a department-led initiative."
Levy-Pounds said an earlier assessment by the Justice Department's Diagnostic Center — an examination into police officer oversight and discipline — was not well received by Minneapolis' African-American community, largely because of the lack of involvement of community members in the process, but also because the results were presented as Powerpoint rather than issued in a final report.
"It was unacceptable," Levy-Pounds said. "We hope they can recover from that."
While she's glad that Minneapolis was selected for the national initiative, Levy-Pounds does worry about the ability of those conducting it to effectively reach those who are most affected, she said, a job made more difficult because of continued behavior by police that has created hostility and mistrust.
"People feel under siege in their own neighborhoods," she said. "I get calls all the time about people getting beaten, being arrested for minor offenses. It's hard to build community trust and confidence when the department isn't sensitive to what is still going on."
Yang, the council's first Hmong-American, said the question of trust in police would get different answers in different parts of the city and different groups. "If you measure it across racial lines, the trust level of whites [toward police] is much higher than blacks," Yang said. "Other minority groups are closer to blacks and that's pretty low."
Hodges said she has high hopes for the initiative, despite the challenges. "We are safer if police and the community have a relationship of trust with one another," she said. And she has hopes that the project will make things better because everyone — police and community — have in interest in that result.
"Minneapolis is not unique in having tension between law enforcement and the community," Hodges said. "We ask a lot of our officers. But not having trust works against officers. It makes their job more difficult and lack of trust has negative impact on both sides."
What defines success?
The Department of Justice's Kappelhoff acknowledges that building trust is crucial to the success of the project. "If you don't have buy-in it's not going to be successful," he said. "You can't just impose it."
He thinks the engagement of the community members and leaders is encouraging, illustrated by a public meeting in July that attracted 250 people. And Kappelhoff said he thinks that having the city and police department leaders on board is an asset, not a handicap. "When we have police chiefs that invite us in and work collaboratively with us, the results at the end of the day are always better," he said.
Researchers usually aren't supposed to have a stake in the outcome of research. But this is different, Goff said. "We want this to work."
Throughout the three years there will be training, interventions with police and with targeted groups in the city. A reduction in crime, however, is not a prerequisite for success.
"The hope is that you'll see improved community/police relations," Goff said. "That's the goal of this thing. I wish I could say that at the end of this process that racism will be over but obviously that's not what we're going to be able to do."
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Release the eggheads!
I have to admit that I'm not only curious, but cautiously optimistic about this initiative. I think some of the things that are already happening (e.g., body cams) may have a positive impact. But I also think that we need to do a better job of thoroughly screening cops before they become cops (hey--if you want a gun and the license to use it on another human being, you'd better be mentally sound and morally straight), as well as encouraging better relationships to the community.
But I have to also admit that I have absolutely no hope that, even if this works, we will have come much closer to ending racism. Racism knows no race. As long as people recognize race, for whatever reason, there will be racial bias. That's not to say that, if we all became color blind tomorrow, all things and systems would suddenly be color blind. Unfortunately, some things were built to be racist and will continue to be so, whether through class or other means, unless we change them. But, as long as we have exclusive pride in our inherent characteristics rather than our qualities as individual human beings, we will see fault in others for their inherent characteristics rather than their qualities as individual human beings.
Words are hard to find when I
Words are hard to find when I see nearly 5M spent over 3 yrs on a study that has building trust as it's goal. How would you ever tell if it is working? Are we going to ask the guy who got arrested does he like the way he was arrested? I'm pretty sure there will never be trust between criminals and police. Law abiding folks have very little contact with the police. It sounds like such a nice idea why not throw 5M at it?
..there are no words for this
So here will be surveys and training. All this rests on a bunch of mumbo jumbo that does not have any proven validity. Unconscious bias is largely a new field of study in neuroscience and other fields. There is not a body of proven knowledge to "teach".
As structured and being led by the current MPD and city administration there is no infrastructure for bringing information to daily practices or behavior changes. There are no real world plans with this initiative.
What does Minneapolis want changed? What thoughts? What behaviors? How will that happen? How will they know if an employee's subconscious has changed? How will they know if EVERY employee's behavior is changed? What will they count? How will they count "it"?
Change should start at the top. When this MPD administration lives up to its motto of integrity and transparency maybe then they can bring the masses along for the ride.
Law abiding citizens have contact with police every day.
And for many of us, it's a very disturbing experience.
My last encounter occurred here in St. Paul, on a Saturday afternoon when I was ill. I was sleeping. My wife was out of town.
There came a banging at my front door, waking me from my fitful sleep. I opened the door to find two officers in my enclosed, three-season porch. Each was heavily armed (service weapon, mace,., taser, baton) and wearing a vest beneath his clothing. As I stepped out onto the porch, they took up flanking positions.
They did not introduce themselves or state the reason for their presence. They demanded to know if was who I am, asked whether I was the owner of a certain vehicle, whether I had been in another community in recent weeks, and other questions clearly intended to determine whether I was the person who had committed a misdemeanor offense (driving off without paying for less than $30 worth of gasoline).
I clearly was not free to simply turn around and re-enter my home. Had I been fully awake, not ill and in full possession of my faculties, I might have had the presence of mind to ask them to step out of my home and onto the walk. Because I did not, they pressed the advantage. I was subjected to a custodial interrogation by two large, heavily armed men who failed to advise me of my rights.
I had done nothing. My wife, I later learned, had mistakenly driven off from a pump which had rejected her credit card but allowed her to fill the tank of our car.
I suggest that we consider just how our police officers present themselves to the public. Must they operate in teams? Must they all be fully armed and wearing protective vests? Must they take the offensive in every situation, including those involving only petty misdemeanor offenses? I think not. I'd like to know what social scientists have to say, particularly those knowledgeable about interpersonal and small group interactions. What I experienced did not need to go down the way it did.
Yes ....
Beginning with presumption of innocence would be great. Learning how to be friendly and maybe even humorous or willing to laugh would also be helpful. How about beginning with inquiry ? The harda** stuff only provokes ! If not an immediate response then passive aggressive attitude toward policing.
So your wife has a drive off
So your wife has a drive off and the cops come to investigate (we pay them to do that) and they come in armed. Cops have to be armed because they get attacked by the very folks they are trying to protect all too often. If you are offended by heavily armed police, try persuading the community to quit attacking them. I bet if your wife didn't drive off you would have been able to fitfully sleep away. As I stated law abiding folks have very little contact with cops on a daily, weekly or yearly basis.
it was $30 - not $3 million
it was $30 and weeks after the event. Why does that need an armed response? and why does it need the cops acting as bullies, as the writer described?
The cost of the two cops coming to the door was much greater than the $30 it cost. They were able to track down the vehicle, so why not just send a citation by mail? There is no reason for an inperson response to a drive off, unless there is a pattern - which it doesn't sound like there is at all.
Your first (first person) opportunity...
Even endeavoring to be the ideal citizen to escape "contact" with law enforcement, your day will come. I predict that you may not find it as innocuous as you envision. I'm virtually surrounded by Minneapolis police (work neighbor to a police station, and a regular at the coffee shop which they frequent). I'm a trained, experienced HR professional, a law-abiding citizen, and a keen observer of human behavior. Let me be the first to warn you, there are more than a few people wearing the shield that you do not want to come into contact with, even under the best of circumstances. I do understand that there's the world one WANTS to live in, but there is no free-pass from the reality of the average experience of a police encounter. Even if you strive to be above reproach, you need a reality check to protect yourself from the law of probabilities. Pollyanna, as a character reference, won't provide much grace on an officer's particularly bad day.
Community Policing
I have heard this (community policing) as the cure for improving police/community relations for the past 50 yrs. Yet it never seems to be implemented. It appears to be a good common sense tool, so the question is why isn't it used? Maybe if we get an answer to that question we will find out who is standing in the way of better relations between police and us.
Recently I heard a police chief say that, "they cut out the funding for community policing and sent me tanks".
Protect and Serve who?
It's not hard to see why regular people don't trust the cops any more. They've gone from public servants to revenuers in a couple decades (50's & 60's). Remember the call a friend, call a cop back in the late 60's? Today you get a hoard of Darth Vader's Storm Troopers, and even though you were the one that called, you fear for your own safety.
Law enforcement seems all to willing to enforce illegal and unconstitutional usury laws.
And what about all these false flag events that seem to be weekly now? The latest being that news crew in VA. Both them women look at that guy and seen him raise his pistol, and then lowered it and backed off and waited til the camera man finished his pan shot and was on the two women before he started his point blank shooting. 4 shots to the chest should of laid her out flat, not stand there and scream, and then run off.
Same is true with Sandy Hook, Boston, Aurora, and about everything else. What I'm told over the idiot tube, and what I find out investigating on my own are polar opposites. Drills going active, and the cops are in on it! Then there's the law enforcement infiltrating protest groups to start trouble.
Years ago when you tagged your dog it was so they knew where to bring the dog back to. Today it's so they know where to send all the fines. In my 60+ years, I've seen them go from Officer Friendly, to the Stasi. We've quit being a free republic decades ago.
Did you happen to see the
Did you happen to see the sheriff who was shot pumping gas in Houston? A guy came up from behind and killed him without a word said. No wonder law enforcement folks are on edge. There is a total lack of respect for authority throughout our society. Starts at home, where parents refuse to discipline their own kids, then those same entitled kids, without any discipline, go to school where teachers can't discipline them either, those same kids run into trouble (of course it is not their fault) and have a problem with the cops, it culminates with those same entitled brats being called to the carpet by their boss for a job poorly done and they can't take that either, so they become unemployable. This problem transcends race, wealth, gender, straight, gay or any other excuse folks will give you for bad behavior. It is called being an entitled spoiled brat, who cannot be wrong, corrected or held responsible for their own actions- now that is hard to overcome!!!
It is scary when
It is scary when I can agree with the trolls, but there's a bit of truth here; there is more truth to the problem of communities lacking trust in law enforcement though. You can't lay it all on parenting; we've had many generations suffering from abuse of authority in law enforcement, so this work is important.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Airbrushed Ann Coulter?
As some of you may know Ann Coulter,44 is a Political Commentator. She posed for a December issue of Playboy People may say she posed "Au natural, " however it looks to me that this picture has been airbrushed. Her face looks like it has been pasted onto this body. But, many people just say that she has stayed fit and that her bust size has enhanced quite a bit. As Makemeheal reported, "Ann doesn't reveal her implants often, but seems to have made an exception when she posed nude for the cover of Playboy magazine a few years ago. While Ann's increase in bust size could be due to a padded bra, it could also be airbrushing, making any definitive answer on Ann's implants ambiguous." It looks to me as though Ann must have had breast augmentation in the past, as makemeheal commented, "She clearly has body built for the camera and not radio, possibly thanks to plastic surgery.
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- AnonymousApril 9, 2009 at 12:13 PM
That does NOT look like ann coulter at all! Her head looks too big and very pale in comparison to the rest of her body.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 9, 2009 at 1:01 PM
yeah this cannot be real??picture looks a lil too fake for my taste.ReplyDelete
Actually, most playboy photos are airbrushed and that is pretty standard in the industry. She looks fit for her age, though!ReplyDelete
She is looking really Gorgeous, Ya i am also agree with that she had plastic surgery but whatever she did ......she got a nice effect on her lips and chins.ReplyDelete
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Chapter 1
It was a cold, dark and rainy night when it happened, the same as tonight she thought to herself. The city was blacked out preparing for night raids, but she just walked down the street without a thought about that oh-so-distant situation. She probably should have been concerned, she probably should have searched for cover but as she continued down the street, basically tuning out the sirens, she focused her attention on her own personal situation instead. How on earth had she got herself into such a predicament, was beyond her imagination. It had been a couple of weeks now and still, every time her eyes opened from her slumber she wondered if this was the dream. Certain that her dreams were the real life and this, this was the nightmare, she'd then stretch, rise to her feet and begin her ascent into this amazingly realistic unknown.
This night, however, she was preoccupied with something bigger than her curiosity of this dream. This night would have to be about the hunt for food, which was fast becoming a necessity. Starvation was beginning to set in, and she knew she wouldn't have the strength to go much further if she didn't find something to eat soon. As her stomach grumbled and she heard the sounds of its upset so vividly, she still couldn't believe it was her own stomach. Everything was foreign to her. As she padded down the sidewalk, she spotted her reflection in a darkened store window and stopped to look at herself. She looked pathetic. Her eyes were tired, her face drooped down, her hair was all matted; she was ashamed of herself. But most of her shame was contributed to her new look; a scary face looked back at her in the reflection and it made her shiver. This face was harder for her to accept than anything else in her life right now. When she looked at herself, her body, she wanted to vomit. When she looked at her face she wanted to claw her eyes out. When she looked at her face, she saw that of a feline and that was definitely not what she was supposed to see. You see, she wasn't always a cat. Just a few short weeks ago she had a name, Miss Goldie, and she had a career as a scientist's lab assistant. She was a human woman who had lived a human life of science. Long flowing hair, gorgeous green eyes, as skinny as a rail, she thought to herself, that was me then, and oddly, that is me now. Her long gold fur was dirty and knotted, her green eyes looked so tired and her skinny stature just accentuated her hunger. Her once soft paws were now cracked and blistered and they hurt as she walked on the rough cement.
She had been through quite a bit the past two weeks. The sheer knowledge of what being a cat was like in this world was enough to make her want to do everything she could to save them; if she were still human. That was the hardest thing to deal with, the people. She never considered herself a bad human but after being a cat for a few days she learned that most cats would consider humans to be bad news, whether they intended to be or not. People in a hurry to work would walk right by her, not even notice her, some would run right into her, kicking her or stepping on her tail, others would just ignore her. She spent the first three days of her life as a cat trying to communicate with the humans. Trying to tell them her story, trying to get someone to help her, of course they didn't understand her cries and meows. She spent the next three days trying to get their attention through stealing their food, that didn't go over well. She spent the days after simply trying to figure out how to survive without human assistance, she was failing miserably.
After making her way back to her home, miles from the city where she worked, she finally came across her boyfriend. She assumed by his looks that he was distraught that she was missing. He looked tired, like he had been up for hours and almost sick, like the grief was making him ill. She felt so bad for him, wanting to comfort him to tell him she was all right and that she was here. She went to the door and pawed at it. Yowling at the top of her lungs to get his attention. But all she got was a yell back. "Go away, you filthy cat!" At first she was startled. He had always embraced her passion for cats; he said he liked cats but his attitude now showed differently. But she continued nevertheless, assuming he was too upset to pity a stray cat.
Goldie knew in her heart that when he saw her, that when he looked into her eyes he would see her, he would somehow know it was her no matter how ridiculous it sounded and he would do something to help her. But when he did come out and finally saw her he showed no caring or compassion, in fact what he did show her was the tip of his boot as he kicked her from the front stoop. Ten feet away now and catching her breath she stood back up and looked at him. Shock filled her face as she saw him standing there at the door, drunk and mean. "Go away, cat! The cat lover ain't here no more!" Then he threw his nearly empty whiskey bottle at her. It shattered right in front of her, and as she ran away; scared, she knew he would be no help to her. In fact she made a mental note; if she ever became human again she would throw him out of her house and her life the same way he did to her just now.
But that was a week ago and not much had happened since then. She went back to the city, snooping around the crime scene where she had last been seen, trying to find clues as to how she got this way but she had no luck. Finally with no hope, a new-found desperation and the feeling of near starvation she was just about ready to give up. She had looked at herself for the last time she thought to herself as she walked away from the darkened store window and faced the street. She was ready to end it all the only way she knew how, when her feline senses caught a gust of wind carrying a familiar smell. Suddenly a new feeling swept over her and she felt the new found excitement to live. She raced to the alley where the smell was coming from and spotted a scrumptious half eaten carcass of fish laying enticingly on the ground next to a couple of beat up trash cans. It was like God had placed it there for her. Like he had given her a reason to live, to re-nourish her body and continue on with her trek to find the truth.
So with no one around, and no dangers a brew, she pounced upon her dinner. The juices of the fish made her taste buds water, and she planned to enjoy this fish as if it was her last. Who knows it could very well be she thought to herself. She sat down in front of her makeshift dining-room, curled her tail up beside her left arm, placed a light brown paw upon one end of the fish and started to consume her dinner. Immediately she felt the nutrients engage her body, immediately she felt her energy pick up.
Yet only a moment passed when a gang of alley cats strolled up the alley following the same scrumptious scent as she smelled. Smelling the enticing dish Miss Goldie had in front of her, they did not hesitate. All four alley cats lunged at her throat, determined to snatch the fish away from her. Miss Goldie was starving. She hadn't eaten in days, and now had found the determination to not only keep her dinner, but to teach these vicious cats a lesson. Seeing the cats racing towards her she clutched the fish in her mouth as tight as she could and ran. In one mad dash she had pulled away from the pursuing cats and was racing full speed ahead out of the alley. It did not take long before the alley cats had caught up to Miss Goldie, though she out maneuvered them each time they tried to close in on her.
Noticing a large amount of rubble ahead, Miss Goldie scurried over it into an alley, hoping to find some sort of hideout, or at least an exit, but there was only a tall brick wall blocking her path. She hurriedly tried to figure out a solution to her problem, but it was too late, there was rustling behind her, and she knew instantly who was there. She held that fish tightly in her jaws. There was a sense of pure determination in her to keep this fish and she would stop at nothing to do so. To her, it felt like her last chance. If she lost this fish, she would have lost the fight for life.
Using every ounce of strength she had left to out run these felines, she knew without the nourishment this fish would provide, she would surely be too weak to go on. She wasted no time at all finding a way out of her predicament, thanks to the absorbed knowledge from old movies she used to watch as a human; she leapt on top of a dumpster behind her with all of her might, narrowly missed the teeth of one of the alley cats. Then taking another leap of faith on top of an unsteady pile of crates just tall enough to get her over the brick wall, she leapt over the blockade to freedom, the fish tightly grasped within her mouth. Her powerful hind legs were strong enough to get her over the fence, and knock over the crates, making an avalanche of wood falling at the cowering cats below. Goldie landed safely on the other side with her dinner safe in tow.
Once Goldie had cleared the brick obstacle, she didn't dare look back. If the cats were still after her, there was no reason to stop and find out. She just held onto that fish with all of her might and ran as fast as her paws could take her. After what seemed like a mile she started to slow down. She was getting tired, and she hadn't heard anyone following her so she stopped and checked. When she saw no one pursuing her she gave a sigh of relief, and relaxed. The juices of the fish dripping from her mouth, made her realize her determination had paid off. She had won her fish fair and square and looked forward to enjoying it now in peace.
Yet right at that moment she heard a loud, familiar noise, an unmistakable and scary noise, the sound of a siren bellowing closer and closer towards her. She swung her head around, only to be blinded by two bright lights growing larger every second. Frozen with absolute fear, her mouth opened and she dropped her prize fish onto the ground. The extreme terror that filled her body was all she had left of her soul when Miss Goldie saw her life flash in front of her eyes.