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Fatboy Slim to Perform in Thrift-Shop Music FestSeptember 22, 2009 at 5:08 pm | Posted in Celebrities, News | 1 Comment
Some cool celebrities will be doing gigs throughout October in Oxfam shops — Oxfam is England's biggest thrift-shop chain — for charity. Participants in the annual "Oxjam" festival, now in its third year, include Fatboy Slim, VV Brown, Basement Jaxx, Editors, Just Jack and Nitin Sawhney.
According to the Charities Aid Foundation:
"Editors lead singer Tom Smith commented: 'Putting on shows in Oxfam's high street stores is a great idea. These places are part of everyone's daily lives these days, so come September they"ll also be the hottest ticket in town.'"
Oxjam has raised over £1 million for the charity since it was launched in 2006, enough money to secure safe water sources for some 1.3 million people.
According to Virgin's Music News:
"VV Brown said: 'The charity shop shows are the highlight of the festival season for me.'
"Each show, held in a specially converted Oxfam shop in London, will be limited to just 150 audience members…. The Oxfam shop, the location of which remains secret until later, will become an Oxjam shop for the week, selling the best second-hand music in London during the day. During the evening, it will be converted into a gig venue, playing host to the intimate performances. This year the festival will be helping deprived people cope with the devastating effects of climate change. Gig goers will be painting their faces blue as part of a visual statement to the Government to take immediate action."
Global Beach Cleanup Yields Hundreds of Tons of JunkSeptember 21, 2009 at 7:54 am | Posted in News | 1 Comment
We all love beachcombing, but on coastlines scattered with out-and-out garbage — stuff that wasn't lost but simply tossed — it becomes downright depressing and misanthropy-provoking. Saturday was International Coastal Cleanup Day, with cleanups organized all over the world under various auspices. The 362-mile-long Oregon Coast, which is generally a scavenger's paradise, held its 25th annual Great Oregon Fall Beach Cleanup. As revealed at Beach Connection, 3,700 volunteers removed an estimated 54,460 pounds of trash from Oregon's beaches:
"Among the many interesting items found Saturday were a car bumper, a pacifier, a box of baby wipes, an unopened package of hotdogs that expired last year, a small refrigerator, a life vest, and over 125 shoes and flip flops. Volunteers reported finding an unusual number of homeless camps on the beach. At Beverly Beach State Park near Newport, four goats joined volunteers to help keep the coastline clean.
"Some of the most common items found on the beach included Styrofoam, plastic caps, lids, bottles and cigarette butts. While these are often small items, if they accumulate they can do big damage to marine wildlife and the environment, particularly the plastic debris that never fully degrade or disappear.
"Scientists have discovered that more than five million square miles of the Pacific Ocean is covered with trash, and it is believed that most of is comprised of the remnants of plastic trash from the world's shorelines."
As for the other side of the world, Express Buzz gives us this bulletin from Shanghumugham Beach in Kerala, India:
"This year … a majority of the litter collected as part of the coastal clean-up day was ice-cream cups and sticks. And if you thought there is no smoking happening in public places because of the anti-smoking law, you are wrong. The second largest litter items were cigarette stubs and burnt match sticks….
"Out of the waste collected and analysed, the major contribution was from ice cream-related waste including wooden ice cream sticks followed by plastic wastes including spoons, ice cream cups, bottles, food wrappers and disposable plastic cups. The plastic cups amounted to as much as 50 percent of the litter on the beach.
"The next major contributors were cigarette stubs and burnt match sticks. Surprisingly only 2 mineral water bottles and 4 liquor bottles were recovered. A disturbing recovery was that of two diapers. The way of disposal of these diapers show the careless attitude of the citizens to the environment…. The remaining contribution was from newspaper bits, abandoned toys, paper, thermocol and other miscellaneous items.
"A remnant of a Ganesha idol made of Plaster of Paris weighing around 5 kg was also found on the beach."
New Doc Celebrates Dumpster DivingSeptember 17, 2009 at 8:18 pm | Posted in News | 4 Comments
Now making the indie-film-festival rounds, I Love Trash is a new documentary from Green Planet Films. Allegedly it can be viewed for free here. The 76-minute film documents when happened when pals David Brown and Greg Mann (depicted at left) decided to buy nothing for a three-months period, scavenging everything from the trash instead. At the start of the project, they rent an unfurnished apartment and move in with just a flashlight and the clothes on their backs.
They end up well-fed, well-dressed, and the apartment is furnished lavishly.
But you knew it would end that way, didn't you?
Here's a blurb from Green Planet's website:
"David Brown and Greg Mann try an experiment in waste. After recognizing the huge amount of waste in the United States, David and Greg decide to see just how much people throw away. They move to a new city and get an unfurnished apartment. They bring only the clothes they are wearing and a flashlight and decide to buy nothing for 3 months. All their food, clothes, furniture, electronics, art supplies and entertainment all comes from the trash. It turns out that they are not only able to 'survive' but are able to find everything they could need and more. During their project they find many other dumpster divers and discuss all the different reasons for dumpster diving. There are people who dumpster dive for environmental reasons, to stop so much waste from going into landfills. There are people who dumpster dive for the easy lifestyle it provides. There are people who dumpster dive for the fun of finding. There are people who dumpster dive for food. There are people who dumpster dive to make art. There are people who dumpster dive to make money. There are as many different people who dumpster dive as there are reasons."
Shipwreck Coins: Lost, Found, Lost … and Found?September 15, 2009 at 2:35 pm | Posted in News | 1 Comment
New Zealand police are investigating whether historic coins — salvaged from two shipwrecks, housed in a museum, then stolen from that museum nine years ago — are now being sold on the Internet. According to the New Zealand Herald:
"Police have confirmed a Bay of Islands man contacted them and reported seeing coins, which he thought were part of the haul taken from Kelly Tarlton's Tui Shipwreck Museum at Waitangi nearly a decade ago, for sale on Trade Me," a New Zealand-based online auction site.
"Up to $500,000 of gold jewellery, coins and other relics recovered from the ocean floor by the late Mr Tarlton were stolen from a glass-covered vault [at the museum] on April 8, 2000.
"Kitchenhand Keith McEwen spent more than seven years in jail for the robbery, but has never revealed what happened to the booty.
"A $10,000 reward was offered by an insurance company for the return of the historic treasures, but not even that was enough to prompt a result.
"The stolen haul included gold sovereigns that Mr Tarlton, a diver, had salvaged from the ship Elingamite, wrecked at Three Kings Islands north of Cape Reinga in 1902, and part of the Rothschild collection he recovered from the ship Tasmania, which sank near Gisborne in 1897.
"The jewellery was not found and an insurance company rejected a $300,000 claim.
"Widow Rosemary Tarlton was not getting her hopes up after the latest revelation.
"Mrs Tarlton visited McEwen several times in Mt Eden Prison to try to find out where the stolen treasure had gone, but to no avail.
"Speaking from her Auckland home yesterday, she said she hoped that the information would lead to the recovery of the stolen treasures.
"'I've always felt it may come back to me. Because it was under the water for all those years and Kelly was able to retrieve them with lots of hard work and then they were stolen. They may come back again,' Mrs Tarlton said.
"Sergeant Peter Masters, of Paihia police, said a local man contacted police yesterday after he spotted what he thought were coins stolen from the Tui being sold on Trade Me.
"McEwen is back in jail after pleading guilty to a high-profile attack on two Dutch tourists. He admitted a series of charges, including aggravated robbery, kidnapping, sexual violation and rape in November 2006 and received a sentence of preventive detention . The charges related to the abduction of a couple on honeymoon in the Bay of Islands. Justice Tony Randerson described the crime as 'cruel and sadistic in the extreme.' Co-offender Christopher Manuel received a nine-year jail sentence."
We might never know the answer to this mystery.
Are Thrift Shop's "Dalí" Artworks Real?September 14, 2009 at 1:11 pm | Posted in News | 2 Comments
Wow — the New York Times is reporting on some possible Salvador Dalí artworks currently for sale in a Houston, Texas thrift shop:
"In a scene that would most likely appeal to the Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí, several works attributed to him are currently on display next to a disheveled tie rack at a Salvation Army Family Thrift Store in a seedy industrial neighborhood here. The pen-and-ink drawing, crucifix sculpture and set of six lithographs" — which are collectively titled "Le Jungle Humaine," and including a turquoise giraffe with its mane on fire and a woman with shriveled breasts eating a bird — "are laid out in a glass case among the kind of crystal and brass tchotchkes more typically found in thrift stores. The shelves are lined with black fabric stitched with the words "I ♥ Jesus" in gold," writes Kate Murphy in the Times.
Bids are being taken on the art, with $8,000 for each of the three lots having been reached two Fridays ago.
"The amounts have risen despite the ubiquity of Dalí fakes and the uncertain provenance of these pieces in particular.
"The works were given to the Salvation Army by an anonymous donor, and the man behind a two-year-old appraisal document — which suggests that they are worth more than $76,000 — says that he cannot be sure that they are the same pieces he evaluated and sold. Appropriately, perhaps, the answer to the question of whether the thrift-store Dalís are real Dalís turns out to be as elusive as the memory of a dream….
"'There's nothing certain in the Dalí market,' said Bernard Ewell, an appraiser in Santa Fe, N.M., who specializes in works by Dalí….
"Joseph Nuzzolo, president of the Salvador Dalí Society, an appraisal service and gallery in Redondo Beach, Calif., added that though 'a lot of people want to have an original Dalí, a lot of them get burned when they buy a fake.' So any unknown piece presented as the artist's work calls for scrutiny, especially in a setting as unorthodox as this.
"According to the Salvation Army, the works were donated last year by a woman who is a longtime supporter of that charity's Adult Rehabilitation Center for substance abusers in Houston. The woman does not want her name to be known, and would not speak to a reporter even on the condition of anonymity, said Juan Alanis, a Salvation Army spokesman in Houston.
"Although the pieces came with documentation from the Salvador Dalí Gallery, in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., Bruce Hochman, the gallery's director, said he would have to see them in person to say unequivocally that they are the works he signed off on back in 2007.
"'I sold them to a dealer in Texas,' he said, declining to identify the person. That dealer, he added, subsequently sold the works to the woman who donated them to the Salvation Army, whom Mr. Hochman described as the wealthy widow of an oil magnate.
"Mr. Nuzzolo, a vocal critic and business rival of Mr. Hochman's, said that this year the Salvation Army sent him the pen-and-ink drawing — a whimsical rendering of what looks like a spinning man, titled 'Don Quichotte' — to see if he could sell it, and that he determined that it was a fake."
Scavenged Carrots + Chocolate + Scrap Metal = RacecarSeptember 12, 2009 at 7:34 am | Posted in News | 1 Comment
Researchers at Great Britain's University of Warwick have unveiled what they're calling the world's greenest Formula 3 race car. Manufactured at a cost of £500,000 (aka nearly $1 million), able to reach speeds of 135 mph, and dubbed "WorldFirst," the fully functional vehicle's scavenged components include soda bottles, vegetable fiber, "waste chocolate," flaxseeds, soybeans, and scrap metal, according to the business blog domain-b:
"Using recycled materials, and with support from over 50 companies, the design team headed by Dr Kerry Kirwan has created a car for just £500,000. And not just any old car, but a racing car capable of taking on the world's finest.
"Unveiling his creation at the annual conference of the British Science Association, Dr Kirwan is confident that his innovative creation will not embarrass him. So confident, in fact, that he is entering his car in a Formula 3 championship race at the iconic Brands Hatch circuit in Kent….
"The car's chassis has been reclaimed from a scrapped vehicle. So also its 2 litre BMW diesel engine, which was severely re-engineered so as to run on bio fuel. Recycled carbon fibres from old aircraft panels and recycled soft drink bottles that would otherwise have ended up in a landfill make up most of the vehicle's body.
"Its steering wheel was manufactured by a company which uses carrot fibres, or cellulose nano-fibres, to give it its technical name, extracted from a carrot soup factory, with technology used to make fishing rods and other products. Curiously, the steering wheel is purple, instead of orange, which leads Dr Kirwan to speculate that beet fibres may have been added to the mix.
"For safety reasons, the wheels, tyres, and the cockpit had to remain conventional, and conform to rigid Formula 3 specifications. So, sadly, wheels made from recycled potato starch and brake pads from cashew nut shells had to be discarded in the design lab. The racing seat though, was made from flax fibre and soybean oil foam….
"Fuel efficient, as befits a 'green' vehicle, the car gives 35 miles to a gallon at race speeds. It has been engineered to run on any biodiesel, but so far, the team has been running it on fuel made from waste fat from a chocolate factory, and alcohol distilled from wine dregs. It is difficult to make a racing car that is ultimately sustainable, but Dr Kirwan thinks that this is a step in the right direction.
"Formula 1 racing has long been hated by environmentalists for its polluting ways. This car may be the first step to show people that environmental awareness has its place in motor racing. And this is not all. Some of the technology used in the design of WorldFirst could be successfully transferred to make ordinary cars more sustainable. In fact, Dr Kirwan is in talks to build yachts using recycled carbon fibre. To him, the car was a nice way of packaging up research in a credible way. His team and he hope to show the industry how much is possible using sustainable technologies."
Warwick University's website has more pictures of the car.
Minnesota Scavengers: Don't Miss ThisSeptember 11, 2009 at 9:36 am | Posted in News | 1 Comment
According to the Grand Forks Herald, "Minnesota's longest rummage sale is set for Saturday on the state's longest scenic byway.
"The King of Trails Marketplace covers 415 miles on U.S. Highway 75 from the Canada border to the Iowa border, promoter Ethel Thorlacius, Stephen, Minn., said. Highway 75 was designated the Historic King of Trails by the Minnesota Legislature in 2002 and as a Minnesota Scenic Byway in 2004. Vendors will sell antiques, arts, crafts, collectibles, flowers, food and more from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
"'It's getting to be more and more people and not businesses who have produce, baked goods and rummage sale items to sell,' Thorlacius said.
"The trail of bargains will be outlined by yellow balloons. Thorlacius said Kennedy will conduct sales inside its old schoolhouse and Argyle will use sales proceeds to add on to its Historical Society Building.
"'Every year since we've started, Ron Donarski, who owns a truck garage along Highway 75 in Stephen, cleans it up and makes it available for the Marketplace,' Thorlacius said.
"Crookston will begin its Marketplace at 9 a.m. inside the Crookston Arena, 220 E. Robert St.
"The National Weather Service's forecast for Saturday calls for a 20 percent chance of showers with a high temperature of 70 degrees."
Urban Farming Forges OnwardSeptember 9, 2009 at 11:23 am | Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Urban farms are popping up all over. City Farmer News is one blog that's tracking this trend, with revelations about inner-city farms producing edibles on rooftops and traffic islands and in backyards, former empty lots and other such spaces that would otherwise have gone to waste. For example:
"The New Roots Community Farm, developed by refugee aid group the International Rescue Committee, celebrates its official opening day on Thursday, September 10, 2009. What once was a vacant lot in a barren neighborhood in the City Heights section of San Diego has been transformed into a thriving community farm that promotes sustainable agriculture.
"The eighty families who till the land are from all over the world: Cambodia, Somalia, Burma, Laos, Uganda, Congo, Vietnam, Mexico and Guatemala. Here, the farmers cultivate not just corn, tomatoes and eggplant, but also a deeper understanding of their neighbors' cultures. Down amongst the rows of vegetables, you can hear exchanges about the merits of Machicha and Kunde and how they compare with lettuce, beans and cabbage…."
Rare Scavenging Scene in Shirley Temple FilmSeptember 8, 2009 at 8:08 am | Posted in Celebrities | 2 Comments
I haven't watched a Shirley Temple movie in ages, and I suspect that several generations have now reached adulthood without ever even having heard of Shirley Temple. Suffice to say, she was the ultimate child star — singing, dancing and acting in many blockbuster films in the decade or so before World War II. Yes, they were incredibly sappy films with incredibly old-fashioned messages — be brave, be kind, don't give up hope, remain cheerful in the face of adversity. But the thing is, Shirley had amazing talent. She didn't write the sappy screenplays, but she could act the heck out of them. And for someone so young to sing and dance so well, with such precision, is pretty astounding in this age of digitally altered voices and images.
Okay, so the reason I bring this up is that I was "scavenging" entertainment at YouTube over the weekend, searching (as it happens) for videos involving the word "temple." I do that sometimes, just pick a word or phrase at random or a word or phrase that holds some intrigue for me at the moment, and just see what comes up. As in all forms of scavenging, I can't really predict what I'll end up seeing. And, as in all forms of scavenging, I always learn something. So, because someone I know recently showed me the Zen temple where she goes to meditate, I had a hankering for some temple footage — all kinds of temples, I thought, all around the world. So I typed "temple" into the search thing, and one of the videos that popped up was this clip from Shirley Temple's 1934 film Bright Eyes. In the film, Shirley plays a poor child whose mother works as a maid for a rich family. The rich family's daughter Joy (played very well by fellow child actress Jane Withers) is incredibly obnoxious. In this clip, Shirley is taking out the trash and, little scavenger that she is, finds a doll in the bin that has clearly been thrown away by spoiled Joy.
"Why, you poor little thing," exclaims Shirley, picking up and cradling the doll. "You must have cracked up. You should be in the hospital." This is a reference to her father, a pilot who has "cracked up" — that is, crashed.
Joy, bicycling nearby, spots Shirley with her new find.
"Hey," Joy snarls, "that's my doll."
"Well," Shirley points out in true scavenger fashion, "I just found her here."
"You can't have her," Joy cries, seizing the doll from Shirley's arms and spanking it viciously.
"If you give her to me," Shirley reasons, "I'll take care of her. I'll wash her face and make her some clothes and ever'thing."
"You can't have her," Joy repeats. "You wanna know why? Because I'm gonna kill her." And now, in a scene that I had no idea would affect me so strongly, Joy tears the doll to pieces, finally flinging the shreds to the ground and skipping away in her perky pink dress, chanting "Happy happy happy day" as Shirley stands by the trash, her expression containing the angst and insight of the ages. That's it up there in the picture.
You HAVE to see this.
Beach-Scrap Sculptures Thrill Some, Irk OthersSeptember 5, 2009 at 10:20 am | Posted in News | 1 Comment
Some New York State scavengers are doing exactly what I've always dreamed of doing. It's part of my lifelong beachcomber fantasy. But not everyone appreciates their creativity, as Erin Schultz reports in the Riverhead News-Review:
"For years now, two displays of 'driftwood art' on local Long Island Sound beaches — complete with beach huts and collections of memorabilia like discarded sandals, bikini tops and Barbie dolls have wowed passersby — or at least made them turn their heads.
"Both displays, one located on an isolated stretch of Reeves Beach in Riverhead and the other on a higher-traffic section of Bailie Beach in Mattituck, have guest books containing signatures from people all around the world. And for both of the men who continue to cultivate their driftwood creations, the commentary in these books has been nothing but positive.
"Up until recently, that is.
"To Ed Flanagan of Mattituck, the display on Bailie Beach is a 'monstrosity.
"'This collection of driftwood and garbage may be considered art by its builder,' he wrote. 'But in fact, it is an eyesore, a magnet for local children and an accident waiting to happen. The structure is unsound, an arsonist's dream and a serious fire hazard.'
"The creator of the Bailie Beach display is Garret Cutler. He's spent the last five years placing dozens of pieces of driftwood in the sand, curving them this way and that outside his home overlooking the Sound.
"Some logs look like people. One is clothed in a bikini top. Another serves as the body for a toy horse head. A bamboo hut sits next to all this, and Mr. Cutler and his friends often relax under its shade. And a circle of upright driftwood logs called the "Sanctuary" houses a bench, a bucket of Barbie dolls and the guest book Mr. Flanagan decided to sign early last month.
"'I don't want trouble,' Mr. Cutler said after reading Mr. Flanagan's comments. 'It would be heartbreak for me to have to give this up.'
"Riverhead resident John Gadzinski [depicted above in photo by John Neely] and his girlfriend, Tee Hadley, have spent the last four years cultivating a driftwood beach hut between two boulders on Reeves Beach in Riverhead — land along the Sound that was recently acquired by the Peconic Land Trust.
"'Welcome to John and Tee's Beach Hut,' reads the sign at the entrance. 'Please enjoy, but do not destroy.'
"Mr. Gadzinski, a 62-year-old employee of the Southampton Golf Club, said he's spent only a night or two in the hut, which incorporates a tiny living room and bedroom — but nobody, including himself, has ever tried to live there.
"License plates from different states that Mr. Gadzinski has collected over the years line the walls of the tiny enclosure.
"'Some are mine off my vehicles, and some people brought others from out of state,' he said. 'The kids love it.'
"He said that visitors often leave sandals, bottles of bug spray, beach glass and seashells to enhance the display. They also occasionally help decorate a nearby 'driftwood tree' with buoys from old boats.
"'People have been really receptive to it,' Mr. Gadzinski said.
"John and Tee's Beach Hut does not have electricity or water, nor does Mr. Cutler's creation. But that doesn't seem to matter to Mr. Flanagan, a 63-year-old retiree of the Air Force and Grumman Aerospace Company who often runs on Bailie Beach for its natural beauty.
"'It is a curiosity, but I don't think it should be here,' he said of Mr. Cutler's Sanctuary. 'It's not safe. It could fall down … My concern is that there are more and more of these things going up, and it just gets me annoyed. Besides, don't you need a permit for a bungalow?'
"Southold Town Councilman and former Trustee Al Krupski said he was not aware of Mr. Cutler's creation, but he said that if it qualified as a 'structure,' as defined under town code, it would need a permit.
"'But if it's something innocuous like driftwood art … It's hard to say without looking at it,' Mr. Krupski said.
"In Riverhead, Town Supervisor Phil Cardinale said that as long as the beach displays are above the high water mark, it's not disturbing public land.
"He added that since no one lives in Mr. Gadzinski's creation, it's considered temporary, so a permit is not required by the town.
"In defiance of claims made by Mr. Flanagan in Mattituck, Mr. Cutler said that his shack and sculptures are well above the mean high tide mark.
"Though he said he's not a sculptor or visual artist by trade, Mr. Cutler, a Massachusetts native and a financial advisor in Manhattan, said he is a beach bum and environmentalist by nature. It was while walking on the beach that he started to wonder what to do with all the unattended wood washed ashore, he said.
"'I began to see forms, scenes and beings in the wood,' he said.
"Soon, Mr. Cutler found himself traveling the beach with his dog, collecting the wood to display as art. He said that everything else displayed with the wood — the dolls, chairs and clothing — was also found on the beach.
"'There are some macabre scenes with the dolls,' he said. 'But it's a joke. It's a display of exuberance.'
"Born and raised in Riverhead, Mr. Gadzinski said he has always visited that particular spot on Reeves Beach to fish, swim or just get away from it all.
"After a 'good winter storm' about five years ago, he said he filled a bucket with nails, drove his pickup truck up and down the beach and "just went to it."
"'It's an ongoing beach cleanup,' he said of his hut. 'All of the wood that we found had been washed up on the beach. [The beach hut] is not hurting anything.'
"Though he's not yet seen it, Mr. Cardinale said that Mr. Gadzinski's work sounds like art — and a good way to recycle driftwood.
"But, he added, not everybody is going to like what they see when they pass by.
"'Some might argue that this isn't the most attractive thing they've ever seen, but some also argue that the Mona Lisa isn't attractive,' Mr. Cardinale said. 'It sounds like a creative recycling project for the driftwood, and it probably enhances the beach for everyone.'"
I want to see the "macabre scenes with dolls"!!!
Texas Trash HousesSeptember 3, 2009 at 11:44 am | Posted in News | 1 Comment
Today's New York TImes has a story about 64-year-old gray-ponytailed Texas scavenger-architect Dan Phillips, who with his wife Marsha helms the Phoenix Commotion, a confab committed to building low-cost, low-income housing with salvaged materials such as license plates, bones, bottles, wine corks, scrapwood and DVDs … or, as the Times calls it, "trash":
"To him, almost anything discarded and durable is potential building material. Standing in one of his houses and pointing to a colorful, zigzag-patterned ceiling he made out of thousands of picture frame corners, Mr. Phillips said, 'A frame shop was getting rid of old samples, and I was there waiting.'
"So far, he has built 14 homes in Huntsville, which is his hometown, on lots either purchased or received as a donation. A self-taught carpenter, electrician and plumber, Mr. Phillips said 80 percent of the materials are salvaged from other construction projects, hauled out of trash heaps or just picked up from the side of the road….
"While the homes are intended for low-income individuals, some of the original buyers could not hold on to them. To Mr. Phillips's disappointment, half of the homes he has built have been lost to foreclosure — the payments ranged from $99 to $300 a month. Some of those people simply disappeared, leaving the properties distressingly dirty and in disrepair. 'You can put someone in a new home but you can't give them a new mindset,' Mr. Phillips said….
"Phoenix Commotion homes lost to foreclosure have resold to middle-class buyers who appreciate not only their individuality but also their energy efficiency, which is also part of Mr. Phillips's construction philosophy."
The Phoenix Commotion's mission statement affirms a commitment to landfill reduction: "While an exact percentage is difficult to achieve, a reasonable estimate would be that 10% of the average landfill waste-stream consists of usable building material. Reclamation is practically impossible once these materials reach the landfill, because of the immense liability involved. Municipal lawsuits tend to be large, and last for years. Most municipalities have simply forbidden salvage activity, to avoid possible lawsuits. There are, however, strategies for reclamation of materials before reaching such finality."
Sci-Fi Scavengers in Tim Burton's "9"September 2, 2009 at 5:34 pm | Posted in Celebrities, Pop culture | 3 Comments
It's always nice to see some of our own kind in films. Today at Backstage.com, we learn that the new Tim Burton-produced futuristic animated sci-fi production 9, set to open nationwide next week, includes scavengers:
"Its heroes are what [animator Shane] Acker calls 'stitchpunk' creations — 8-inch puppets sewn together by a divine creator, in this case, the human inventor of the evil Great Machine — that carry possessions within zippered bodies and have been endowed with a 'soul' by their now-dead creator.
"These creatures, with only numbers for names, must battle mechanical monsters in the ruins of a vaguely European city, a vast junkyard from which they scavenge useful debris."
The film's voice talent includes Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, Crispin Glover, and Martin Landau. Crispin Glover's actual middle name is Hellion, and I'm not sure I will ever forget his freaky original song, "Clowny Clown Clown," released in 1989. "Scavenge" a free look/listen at YouTube!
Heather Mills Launches Recycled-Clothing LineSeptember 1, 2009 at 6:19 am | Posted in Celebrities, News | 2 Comments
Paul McCartney's ex-wife Heather Mills has launched a new line of clothing made with recycled fabrics. According to fashion-model Mills' web site, "her fabulous new Be@one recycled clothing line" premiered last week:
"Society throws away over a million tones of clothing and textiles into the rubbish bins annually. Many of these items could be resold or remade into something new and exciting. This is why eco aware and fashion loving Heather had the idea to develop this new inspirational clothing line. The collection consists of women's and menswear, designed for the assertive, fashionable and eco-conscious person. All the fabrics used in the pieces have been carefully sourced and remodeled into something unique and highly wearable. From a haute couture recycle lace white evening gown to a pair of high waisted trousers for the office, B@one is about to show there is nothing trashy about recycling unwanted clothing!
"Be@one will produce two collections per year which will be a tran-seasonal collection for men and women of all ages and backgrounds."
Uh, that should be "trans-seasonal." Isn't it always sad when famous people (especially famous vegans) misspell words and you're sitting there correcting them in your mind, thinking: I can spell better than so-and-so? Heather should hire me as a website editor or spelling coach.
"Not only is the clothing sure to create an impact but also the premier of a breathtaking video produced by Heather & edited by Bill Civitella which projects images of the beautiful world we live in and how it is changing through society's carelessness."
Mills' clothes were first unveiled at the Celebrity Catwalk charity fashion show last Thursday in Hollywood.
"Celebrity Catwalk has been set up in order to help make a difference and support the National Animal Rescue that works tirelessly to improve the lives of homeless animals. The Humane Society estimates that animal shelters care for between 6-8 million dogs and cats every year in the United States. There are simply not enough responsible homes for all these innocent animals. Every year in Hollywood, the rich and famous lend their time and talent by hitting the catwalk for charity raising funds and awareness for national animal rescue charities. Jamie Fox, Nicole Richie and Melissa Rivers are a few of the luminaries who have hosted this fashion show in the past fusing the world of fashion and entertainment into one unforgettable evening for a wonderful cause. This years host" — Uh, that should be "year's" … so she should hire me as a punctuation coach as well — "of Celebrity Catwalk is the lovely Bridget Marquardt, co-star of Girls Next Door. It promises to be a very busy and glitzy night for animal loving Heather. Heather's hands on" — uh, that should be "animal-loving" and "hands-on" … hire me!!! — "approach in helping our furry friends is to be honored with an award to congratulate her commitment to animal activism. … Grammy award-winning" — uh, that should be Award, with a capital A; Heather, please contact me through this blog! — "singer Mya, high fashion Photographer" — please, that should be "photographer, with a lower-case p" — "and judge of Americas next top model" — good gosh! that should be America's Next Top Model! See, Heather, it's not so difficult — "Nigel Baker will also be receiving awards for their work helping to protect animals. Such an exciting fashion fundraiser for a very worthy cause."
And it ends with a sentence fragment.
The blogosphere is laughing its head off at the clothing line. "Heather Mills creates laughably horrid eco-friendly clothing line," jibes Celebitchy, which provides photos. "We couldn't agree more that recycled clothes can be cool," notes The Frisky, "just not the ones Heather made."
Did a Viking Horde Hide a Viking Hoard?August 30, 2009 at 9:37 am | Posted in Finds | 4 Comments
It's one of those couldn't-happen-in-America stories. A treasure worth millions of dollars has been unearthed in England … again.
As we read in the Daily Mail:
"An impressive Viking hoard of jewellery has made a father and son metal-detector team £1m richer, after being bought by two British museums. The find, which is the 'largest and most important' since 1840, was found in a field in Harrogate, North Yorkshire in January 2007. It had been buried there for more than 1,000 years. Valued at £1,082,000, the hoard was purchased by the British Museum and the York Museum Trust after two years of fundraising.
"The highlight of the collection is an intricately carved silver cup, estimated to be worth more than £200,000. It contains 617 coins and various silver fragments, ingots and rings. Some of the pieces were from as far away as Afghanistan.
The treasure is believed to have belonged to a rich Viking who buried it during the unrest following the conquest of the Viking kingdom of Northumbria in 927 by the Anglo-Saxon king Athelstan. It is believed he was unable to go back to the hoard, possibly as a result of turbulence during the period.
"Conservation work on the find began about a month ago and experts hope the process will reveal crucial details about the Viking era.Initial examinations suggest the treasure dates back to AD927 or 928. Experts have spent over a month cleaning the hoard, often with a porcupine spine, to protect the delicate collection. The process, performed under microscope, has already revealed intricate designs which were invisible when the hoard was first discovered….
"Finders David Whelan, 53, and Andrew, 37, from Leeds, said: 'Being keen metal detectorists, we always dreamed of finding a hoard but to find one from such a fantastic period of history is just unbelievable.
'The contents of the hoard we found went far beyond our wildest dreams and hopefully people will love seeing the objects on display in York and London for many years to come.' The pair will share the £1,082,000 with the owners of the field, who wished to remain anonymous."
Wait — so, doing the math, can we assume that David became Andrew's father at age sixteen? And they're still pals, doing things together? That's rare, and commendable. And now they've scavenged over a million dollars' worth of historic goodies.
Christmas "Fruitcake" Threatens Thrift ShopsAugust 28, 2009 at 10:34 am | Posted in News | 4 Comments
Charity shops (aka thrift shops) in the British city of Leeds are being victimized as part of a strange sinister rampage.
According to the Daily Mail, a vigilante group has been "threatening attacks on shops for selling Christmas cards too early. Four businesses have received letters warning them not to sell festive cards before November and one charity shop had its locks glued."
The shadowy figure behind the campaign "phoned the Mind shop in Headingley, Leeds, claiming to represent the 'Movement for the Containment of Christmas' and a hooded figure was caught on CCTV posting one of the letters to a nearby Oxfam store."
Mind is a charity-shop chain operated by a mental-health nonprofit and Oxfam is the UK's biggest charity-shop chain.
"West Yorkshire Police have been called in and Mind has stopped selling the cards for the time being for fear of further expensive acts of criminal damage. The shop manageress, who does not want to be named, said: 'A man phoned and said our lock had been glued because we were selling Christmas cards far too early. He said if we pass the shop and we see you are still selling Christmas cards we will glue the lock up until the cards are removed. When I asked him what the problem was with us selling cards, he said that he was from a team against charity shops selling Christmas cards so early. This has made the staff, who are mainly volunteers, feel very uneasy and we have alerted the police. We have removed our current Christmas cards sales display for the moment. This is a great pity as we have been selling off last year's stock and making £70 a week for charity.'
"The handwritten letter was headed 'Movement for the Containment of Xmas.' It said: 'This is a very polite but very serious reminder not to display Xmas cards until 1st November. We will put superglue into your locks if you do. Peace and goodwill (the Mind shop got done on Sunday).'
"The letters were delivered 48 hours after the locks were glued last week. Clive Barker, 38, manager of Oxfam said: 'We don't have a clue who is involved in this terror campaign. It is a bizarre way of getting things done, everyone is entitled to their own opinion but this is the wrong way of doing it. As a charity shop we need to get donations any way we can and selling the cards brings in valuable money so any disruption is bad. The fact that Mind had to pay out money to fix their locks is ridiculous.'"
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Soundcamp is a series of outdoor listening events on International Dawn Chorus Day, linked by Reveil: a 24 hour broadcast that tracks the sounds of daybreak, travelling West from microphone to microphone on sounds transmitted live by audio streamers around the globe.
Now in it's forth year, our Soundcamp, over a two night camp on site, gives participants the opportunity to immerse themselves in the sounds of the Dartington Hall Estate.
You will be supported over the weekend by artists Chris Booth, Sarah Gray, Lucinda Guy and Tony Whitehead. You will have access to specialist sound equipment, an editing suite and expertise in birdsong, sound recording, voicework, bodywork and listening from a somatics perspective.
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for his full article see: https://www.robhopkins.net/2017/05/10/204/
This is an immersive weekend, with no fixed agenda. We will demonstrate our recording and broadcast equipment, and be on hand to facilitate creatively, technically and spiritually. You will have access to specialist sound equipment, an editing suite and expertise in birdsong, sound recording, voicework, bodywork and listening from a somatics perspective. Moments to gather together include a technical induction on the Friday evening, a Wildlife Discotheque on Saturday evening, our live link to Reveil at daybreak on Sunday, and shared mealtimes around the fire.
Wake up to an early morning dawn chorus listening experience with Tony; take a walk among woodlands or swim in the River Dart; explore local birdlife and their songs; play with sound recording equipment and an editing suite; participate in somatic workshops and yoga sessions with Sarah; enjoy home-cooked vegan meals and open fires. On Saturday evening, join us for the Wildlife Disco with three DJs; come together around the fire for silence, song and bat detecting!
Plenty of time to share, but also silent time to pause and reconnect with your self and surroundings. Leave feeling reconnected, refreshed and relaxed.
Join us for a weekend of camping, listening, walks, yoga, sound art, recording, nature & nourishing food. Give your ears a holiday - in the comfort of Soundart Radio on the beautiful Dartington Hall estate.
This year our ticket price is £50 (£53 including booking fee) includes camping for Friday and Saturday nights, and nourishing, simple vegan food throughout the weekend.
There are very limited numbers so please book early, at our Eventbrite page.
You will stay on the beautiful Dartington Hall estate in Totnes, South Devon, camping for Friday and Saturday night. Camping is in the grounds of the iconic Aller Park building at Dartington Hallnear two grand lime trees overlooking the open fields, close to woods and meadows, and not far from the river, but with facilities close by, including showers and toilets. We will work in studios just a stones throw away for yoga and somatic workshops and there's plenty of open countryside to relax, walk and socialise in. The estate has many cafes, bars and shops at a walkable distance from where we are camping. Make Dartington your home for the weekend, to mark Beltane, soak up the birdsong in a laid-back, creative atmosphere.
We will offer nourishing, simple vegan food throughout the weekend - suppers on Friday and Saturday evenings, breakfasts and lunches on Saturday and Sunday, and nutritious snacks throughout the weekend. All food offered in prepared by Lucinda, Shelley and Alice at the campsite. The food will be vegan-friendly and where possible local and organic. You are encouraged to bring additional snacks, drinks (as you like) and you may share the kitchen facilities to prepare, and open fire to cook food.
This is an example of the schedule in 2017.
5:00-8:00 Dawn Chorus walk with Tony
8:00-11:00 Free time & Breakfast
11:00-12:30 Field recording workshop with Tony
12:30-14:00 Free time & Lunch
14:00-17:00 Sound & Somatic workshop with Sarah
17:00-19:00 Free time & Dinner
19:00-20:30 Dusk field recording walk with Tony
20:30-23:00 Wildlife Disco at Soundart Radio
*Note: there will be only one practice session on the arrival and departure day.
New to Soundcamp, our daily yoga asana practice led by Sarah Gray will combine classical hatha yoga with contemporary insight. Influenced by the experiential anatomy of Body-Mind Centering and Somatics, Sarah will lead these sessions so they are accessible for all, including beginners. The yoga is about sensing breath, ground and the spine - bringing greater awareness into the whole body.
Tony Whitehead has had a lifelong interest in birds and wildlife. He has worked for RSPB for over twenty years in a variety of roles from managing nature reserves, running environmental educations projects to managing the charity's communications in the south west. His passion is for the sounds of birds and how people can be encouraged to connect to nature through listening to and learning the "language" of wildlife. For Soundcamp Tony will be sharing the various pieces equipment he uses for recording wildlife, from hydrophones, shotgun mics and contact microphones to parabolic microphones. You can listen to some of Tony's birdsong recordings here.
Sarah Gray, BMCA, BA Hon. Theatre & Choreography, is a fully insured and certified Scaravelli-inspired Hatha Yoga Teacher, training in Body-Mind Centering® since 2015. Sarah is exploring sound as a medium of touch, listening as an act of both giving and receiving, and sounding as means of expression and somatisation. Soundsitesomatics.com
Christopher Booth is Soundart Radio's Technical Director, and has been involved with Soundcamp for the last four years.
Lucinda Guy is Artistic Director of Soundart Radio, and explores song, transmission and ritual in her performance work.

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Set of 4 prints!
The artwork for these prints measures 3.25" x 5". Each print comes in an acid free mat and measures an exterior dimension of 5x7". Matted prints come in bags with a backer board as well.
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Mock-It and Paschy are reunited in the new roster that the organization announced today!
According to Mockit-It, signing Paschy and allowing him to form his on team will only make him and the team stronger:
Mock-it has never doubted Paschy's elite skills on the pitch but felt he needed to do some growing apart from the organization. Forming his own team for season 3 gave Paschy the opportunity to learn what is needed to elevate his game to the next level. Mock-it has seen this growth are excited to reunite with the superstar, Mock-It CEO "Lucky" told Unikrn. – Mock-It
Paschy will be forming the new Mock-It team with Fairypeak and Freakii. Players that are well known in the community.


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According to Numbers 1:46, the Israelite army stood at "six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty."
On the basis of the census taken, one must assume there was an excess of 2,000,000 Israelites in the wilderness, of which 603,550 were soldiers. The sheer numbers raises many questions: How could the wilderness provide for such a large number of people over a forty year period? By the same token, how could the livestock and other flock animals subsist on a relatively sparse and uncultivated terrain? When one considers the amount of time the Israelites stayed in Kadesh-Barnea, there would have been ample archeological evidence indicating the presence of a large population having once lived there, yet no such evidence has yet been unearthed.
Moreover, if the Israelite nation numbers were indeed in excess of 2,500,000, as one scholar noted "The reader can figure that two and a half million people marching in an old-fashioned column of fours would extend some 350 miles!" Along these lines, if the Israelites were 2,500,000 in size, they would never have been able to logistically cross the Sea of Reeds in one night. In fact, it probably would have taken several weeks to cross that body of water.
No ancient people in antiquity ever amassed an army of that size, with the possible exception of China. One of the most successful conquerors Sargon of Akkad (ca. 2350 B.C.E.), was proud of the fact he had a standing army garrisoned in his palace nearby for his immediate use. In the famous battle of Qadesh between Egypt and the Hittites, the Hittites had an army of some 40,000, the largest army ever assembled in the ancient world, with an army of 20,000 men, the Egyptian army was barely able to win a stalemate. Shamshi-Adad (1800 B.C.E, Assyria) claimed to have amassed an army of 60,000 for the siege of Nurrugum. If Israel really had a fighting force of 603,550, they would have never have feared a handful of Egyptian, Amalekites, whose military outcome remained uncertain as long as Moses kept his arms raised. Nor would the Israelites have had much to fear the Canaanites whose entire population did not exceed at the very most 1,000,000 people during the Late Bronze Age.
Another one of the great battles of antiquity, which took place at Qarqar (Phoenicia) between a coalition of twelve kings from Palestine-Syria (including King Ahab) against the Assyrians, had 72,000 men in that coalition, according to the Annals of Shalmaneser III (ANET, 278). Ahab contributed 2,000 chariots and 10,000 soldiers. Here too, ancient warfare did not involve larger numbers than that, hence the 603,550 does not seem like a realistic or likely number for an army.
Internal evidence from the Torah must make one think twice about the accuracy of our assumption that eleph means "thousand. The Torah clearly indicates that Israel was quite small, especially compared to its neighbors (see for examples Exod. 23:29–30; Deut. 7:7, 22). Furthermore, the Torah then declares that Moses and Aaron judged the entire nation, until implementing Jethro's pragmatic advice – all of which suggests that the nation could not have been that enormous in size.
In terms of practical daily logistics, the size of the camp of the Israelites have posed considerable waste management problems (both for themselves and for their animals), presenting a real bio-hazzard for those encamped in close quarters. Remember: the Israelites did not enjoy the benefit of modern plumbing! In one settlement, Kadesh Barnea, the Israelites lived for 38 years (Deut. 1:46), there would most certainly be some strong archaeological evidence of such a large population (where an entire older generation died) having once lived there. The physical evidence is still lacking.


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Last Friday, after posting the wire wrapped felted heart, I went on a long stroll through Paris. An inspiring walk, I must say! Except from buying some fabric and a Frappuccino, I didn't spend a dime. But I did get a refreshing load of new ideas - for free.
A couple of years ago, I started making jewelry. It all begun with a two-hour beading class at the local fine arts center. Earrings, necklaces, bracelets... I made tons of them. I found my inspiration in JJill catalogues, the local farmers' market, and other places I can't remember ... Some pieces I still have, some I gave away as presents, some of it I sold at our moving sale. And then, all of a sudden, it stopped. I found some new hobbies like needle felting, collage, messing around with paint, baking, photography... I did a bit of sewing again. But I didn't make any jewelry for the past two years.
And then, this weekend, some new ideas kicked in and I made this necklace and really had fun at it! Doesn't it look beautiful?!
Except for the bronze chain, pendant, split rings and pins, I had everything here at at home. The braid and fabric pompom, I had made a while ago. They were just sitting in my "crafts" box, waiting until I found some new inspiration to do something with them. The braid was made out of silk ribbon and fabric strips. Some of you might even recognize the fabric. It's the same one I used in quite a few projects by now (here and here) and which I originally got to make some pyjama pants with - which I never finished, by the way. I don't even remember where they ended up...But I guess I'm deviating.
The pompom just "happened" (same fabric!). If you'd like to make one of these: they're really easy. All you need is fabric strips (about 0.5 cm) and a pompom template (I made my template with some heavy weight card stock) and you just proceed as you would for a regular yarn pompom. When done, you just trim here and there with scissors to get it into shape and ... done!
Besides the gem stones and bronze flower pendant, I added a (tiny) leather strip. That leather, I got a while back at BHV, a big department store here in Paris. I had no idea what I would use it for - I just loved the color and needed to have it!(I've got some nice green too!) And see, it fits in perfectly with the rest and (the back of it) made the perfect surface to put the necklace on in the light box...
Now, will I wear it? I don't know. It might end up in my jewelry box just like the other stuff I made or I might put it on display against a wall. The thing is, I hardly wear any jewelry, but I love to make it...
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Today I have an amazing opportunity for you. I am taking part in the Aim for Alaska Blog Hop and I would like you to join me.
What is Aim for Alaska, you may ask? Aim for Alaska is an amazing training and support group for Stampin' Up! demonstrators, run by Kylie Bertucci. One of the amazing opportunities that Stampin' Up! provide their demonstrators is the ability to earn a trip each year. The current trip we are striving for is a trip to Alaska!
When I think about Alaska I think of the crystal blue waters, the amazing green trees and the pure white sparkly snow. With this in mind, this is what I made.
You may wonder how I made my background. The answer is emboss resist. I used the splatter stamp from Touches of Texture and clear embossed. I then used sponge daubers to add colour.
These are the colours I used in the background.
I then stamped the ship from the Traveler stamp set in smoky slate on some vellum and cut it out using the largest circle from the Stitched Shapes Framelits. The image reminds me of a cruise ship.
I then added a few metallic enamel shapes to finish it off.
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The essence of sixty
British writer/critic AA Gill points out that contrary to popular sloganeering, sixty is not the new anything:
A contemporary of mine, after a number of marriages, found a girlfriend less than half his age of a transcendent pneumatic beauty who hung on his every word and dumped her after a couple of months. Why, I asked she was perfect! "Too many things we didn't have in common," he said sadly. Like what? "Well, the Eighties."
There's rue for you. And here's some for me:
Last year, for the first time, a young girl, French, offered me her seat on a crowded bus. I was surprised at how deeply I resented her. Health looms over the elderly like a threatening monsoon. No ache is innocuous. No lump or discoloured, sagging patch of body is ignorable except our toenails, which become the most sordidly repellent things in all nature. We covertly examine ourselves and our effluvia for the premonition of the dark humour that will carry us away. There is no such thing as a routine checkup. They are all life-or-death appointments.
Doctors start all their sentences with "It's only … " But we're not fooled. This generation is also the one that lingers longest over its departure. Death came to our grandparents with a clutched chest and a searing pain. For us it's a slow, humiliating series of it's onlys. What we worry about is dementia, a condition that did not exist in the popular lexicon when I was a child. Mind you, we also thought cancer was as shaming as divorce. Now Alzheimer's is our abiding fear, the thing we can't forget.
I have often wondered if I am "prolific," as they say, as the inevitable consequence of a desire to maximize my output before the time comes when I cannot put out anything.
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Sitting and Breathing into Being, Saturday, October 24th 1-3 PM. . . This workshop offers a brief practical overview of the Pranayamas ( techniques associated with the breath) and their powerful, manifold benefits. Participants will explore various practical breathing skills, through the Awareness, Observation, Control and Manipulation of the flow of breath and Vital Life Energy-Prana. It was said once: "When the mind slows, the spirit flowers." Part 2 of this workshop will also focus on some of the basic meditational techniques that will prepare us for that space in between our thoughts, wherein we can practice contemplation and mindfulness. Finally we will discover the sacred and visually beautiful language of Mudras (the energetic hand gestures) and their healing modalities, which will then latter on be used in physical yogasana practice. The benefit of finishing this workshop is that the participants will then be able to dive deeper into their yogic practice within the next workshop titled: " Anatomy and Physiology of Emotions- The Practice of Namaskars". Cost of this 2-hour workshop is $50.
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A blog site for me to share my passion for calligraphy, crochet, digital photography and other crafts (card making, embossing & scrapbooking). Email please sub symbols for word in parens & no blanks: sunshine_honeybee2004 (at sign) yahoo (dot) com
Monday, May 22, 2017
Hedgehog Santa Clothes Line Xmas Card
Supplies List
Crayola: pencil colors
ink: Memento LadyBug
paper: cardstock - white, Kraft w/ green stripes
stamp: Penny Black - Hedgehog Santa Clothes Line
Whimsical Designs Snow Much Fun - sentiment
Stampin' Up: tool - stamp-a-ma-jig - used to line up wood rubber stamp for repeated
tool: MISTI
Entering this into the following challenges:
5/26 CHNC Christmas Ch333 Anything Christmas opt theme Candy Canes UE 5/20
5/28 Simon Stamp Mon Little Critters 5E(#1) 5/22
5/30 Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Ch Extra May 2017 UE 5/1
5/30 Crafty Hazelnuts Ch Patterned Paper May 2017 UE 5/1
6/3 Pile It On Ch#130 Animal UE 5/7
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That's one of my favourite stamps. Thanks for entering both of my CHNC challenges with your lovely crafting - hope to see you again soon. xReplyDelete
I already said that I love so much to see Christmas card in this season!! Gorgeous card, love your coloring and design! Thanks for joining us this week on Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog! barbaraReplyDelete
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This image is so adorable! Hedgie sure looks like he is super excited for Santa to come! Thanks for joining us at CHNC Extra with this cute and simple card! :)
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Portsmouth commemorated the D-Day landings with several events, including an air display by the Red Arrows over the Solent.
On land, the Princess Royal led tributes to the heroes who took part and the many who died in the D-Day landings at the main ceremony in the UK to mark the 70th anniversary of the Normandy invasion.
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And, get this! Amnesty International had allegedly at one point stepped in to protect him from extradition to Russia.
So, indeed we have more evidence (if we needed it) that terrorists are hiding in the refugee stream to Europe and in this case to Austria!
Keep in mind that the US takes 'refugees' from Austria—in fact, according to State Department data, 1,339 supposed refugees traveled from Austria to your towns from October 1, 2015 to May 31, 2016. Where are they now?
Here is the news from Eurasia Review:
Following Tuesday's horrific attack at Istanbul's Ataturk airport, which resulted in 44 death at the hands of three suicide bombers, Turkey was quick to blame the Islamic State for the terrorist act. And while that may be accurate, something surprising has emerged about the alleged ringleader of the group of three men who have been since identified as Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationals. As Russia's Kommersant and Turkish media report, a Chechen national suspected of being the mastermind behind the deadly Istanbul airport terrorist attack, had previously received refugee status in Austria, which helped him to repeatedly avoid extradition to Russia on terror charges.
It has been also revealed that Chataev was long wanted by the Russian authorities for terrorism-related offenses but he fled to Europe, where he was granted asylum, and successfully managed to escape extradition to Russia.
In 2008, he was detained with some other Chechen nationals in the Swedish town of Trelleborg as police found Kalashnikov assault rifles, explosives and ammunition in his car. As a result, he spent more than a year in Swedish prison.
In 2010, Chataev was arrested in Ukraine with his mobile phone files containing a demolition technique instruction and photos of people killed in a blast. Russia requested his extradition on terrorism-related charges but the European Court for Human Rights ordered Ukraine not to hand him over to Russia with Amnesty International also urging Ukrainian authorities to halt extradition as Chataev "could face an unfair trial and would be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment."
Just as in the Boston Bomber case, the Russians had the goods on an Islamic terrorist and the bleeding hearts in the west wouldn't listen!
I heard this news on CNN this morning, but it has not been widely reported.
See our Austria archive here.


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Blog post by Style Guru Tantek Celik on how to use meaningful classnames for html attributes. Another site, quirksmode, talks about quirky browsers and CSS. BTW, I'll be setting up a new blog or two tonight and actually look forward to using more modern layout techniques.
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My talk for the Day of Resistance rally in Honolulu today:
In 1977, native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko wrote a book called CEREMONY. This is a quote from the book, in which a World War II veteran is reflecting on why he cannot explain the war to an elder of his tribe:
'In the old ways of warfare, you couldn't kill another human being in battle without knowing it, without seeing the result. But the old man would not have believed white warfare – killing across great distances without knowing who or how many had died. It was all too alien to comprehend, the mortars and big guns; and even if he could have taken the old man to see the target areas, even if he could have led him through the craters of torn earth to show him the dead, the old man would not have believed anything so monstrous.'
Killing across great distances without knowing who or how many had died. Silko was speaking about a war sixty years ago. Now we have become so used to this kind of warfare that killing across great distances without knowing who or how many have died is perfectly ordinary. Neither US presidential candidate has indicated anything other than a complete endorsement of continuing with such killing. One of them may want an end to the war in Iraq, but he has said repeatedly that he believes in shifting the war to Pakistan 'to get Al Qaida', as if Al Qaida rests on the shoulders of 160 million Pakistanis. It does not. And if 160 million Pakistanis fail to find and hand over the bogey man Al Qaida, he has threatened repeatedly to take 'direct action,' including direct military action. When this action is taken – it is not a question of if this action is taken but when – whether by McCain or Obama, it will be yet more killing across great distances without you knowing who or how many have died.
I would like you to know the cost of this war to Pakistan so far.
Since 2001, the Bush administration has regularly been launching missile strikes across the Afghan border and into Pakistan. This particular year, this election year, the US strikes in Pakistan have increased alarmingly. There was one just yesterday. Eleven people died. As with all the other strikes, this one was ostensibly to take out a Taliban leader, but the leader got away, while innocent people died. The American missile strike in Pakistan last month killed 23 innocent men, women, and children. Between August 23 and October 10, at least eleven missile strikes killed more than a hundred people. This is according to Fox News, by the way. So if Fox can acknowledge it, the numbers must be even higher. This is in addition to the thirteen people killed on January 29. The twelve people killed on February 28. The eighteen people killed on March 17. The twelve killed on May 14. The eleven killed on June 10. And the numerous faceless, uncounted others killed this year, because as I'm sure you know, this is only a very partial list.
Aside from the bombing of villages and the killing of innocent civilians, there are other ways in which this war is ruining the lives of ordinary people you are not meant to see. It is estimated that around 5,000 Pakistanis suspected of being 'terrorists' have been illegally detained in military torture cells both inside and outside the country. Any one in Pakistan will tell you that most of those who've disappeared have nothing to do with Al Qaeda. They are being held either for no reason other than as evidence of 'peformance' for the US Empire, or because they threaten the internal interests of Pakistan's rulers. Most of those who've been illegally detained come from poor, rural areas that are rich in natural resources, particularly in minerals and natural gas. Among those who've gone missing are journalists, poets, political activists and their families, and students and their families. Only 200 have been taken to court. None are proven terrorists. A few are released: all tell horrific stories of torture.
What happens when you routinely see US drones flying over your home and watch entire villages being bombed and your families killed and your siblings kidnapped and tortured?
Well, when I left Pakistan a few months ago, I knew peace-loving folks who didn't even know any Taliban but who were beginning to gradually and grudgingly suppport them. That is in the cities. In the rural areas, more and more young angry men and women are taking up arms. Many of them had never even held a gun till the US 'war on terror' began. As one Pakistani recently put it. "This is the biggest gift of George Bush to al-Qa'ida." A country that as a child I knew as ethnically and intellectually dynamic, spirited and for the most part, peace-loving, now has a suicide-bombing just about every day, resulting in more deaths in Pakistan this year than in Afghanistan or Iraq. There were no suicide bombings in Pakistan till this war began.
If we want change, shifting the war to Pakistan is not going to accomplish it. Peaceful, democratic, secular, tolerant societies never grew from intimidation, missile strikes, kidnappings, torture. Change will only come when the United States acknowledges who and how many Iraqis, Afghans and Pakistanis it has killed since this war began and commits itself to engaging with our countries as partners not targets.
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In my newsletter today I set a competition to answer two questions:
1 What were the two promises made by the narrator?
Because even though I wrote the story I actually do not know the answer – which I thinkl makes it an even better story. To get a chance to enter the competion just go to the 'Get Closer' pager and subscribe.
Regardless, please read the story.
Keeping a pronise
I'm not sure when it all started. Started? No changed, that makes more sense. I'm not sure when it all changed.
Was it my first line? No. My first cigarette? Maybe just before then. Yes definitely a few weeks before then. The night that Mrs Morgan stormed through our front door.
"Your Gavin's been nicking stuff from my shop." She screamed, whilst standing in the middle of our hallway -and my Mum's up on her high horse straight away.
"Our Gavin? Don't talk so daft, you old bat."
"Old bat am I. Well I've just been watching our security tape – just ten minutes ago. He's nicked forty fags off the shelf while my back's been turned. He's on film." Shit I think. I'm eight years old and that's my reaction. Shit!
Five minutes later and Mum's crying and is a tenner worse off in her purse. Then Dad comes home and gives me a good strapping and that night I'm lying in bed unable to move, after a while I start looking over my body, my arms, my legs; and their all blue and yellow from the other beatings. And it hits me hard, and I remember the moment clearly. Thinking – I deserved this one beating, I nicked something and got caught, but all the other times, what was all that about? In truth that was the first time I'd done anything really bad, and yet there's not a part of my body which wasn't black, blue or yellow.
And that was when I changed when, even at that age, If I was going to get a belting for doing nothing, then I might as well do something anyway. So I gets serious about thieving, first for myself, then for others. For a dare, for money, fags, whatever.
When I'm eleven I'm whisked off by the courts to a special unit. It's meant to break me – it crushes me. By the time I've done my first stretch in the remand centre I'm a loner, I've no friends, I don't want or need anyone. My life revolves around begging, borrowing or stealing solvents. My head in a paper bag sniffing glue is the only respite I get. Mum and Dad don't want to know me and I certainly don't want to know them.
By the time I'm in my middle teens I've already spent a third of my life in care or detention, I'm a wreck and still sliding downward. That's when I have my first meeting with Mrs Jacobs, the probation officer. And just like the day my Dad belted the eight year old I remember every second of that first meeting, crystal clear, like it was yesterday.
I've gone into the interview room with an attitude, and she's a bit of a looker so I'm cocky with it as well. So I smirk, and wink, and chew gum, and don't answer any of her questions. Then she does this thing. She isn't meant to do it, and it takes my breath away.
She leans across the desk and holds my hand. She doesn't say anything, just holds my hand, and I don't know why but I starts crying, and the crying erupts inside me and my body shakes and thunders with pain and hurt. I cry until there's nothing left inside, and she says nothing. After a while there is a knock at her door and she waves the person away with the fiercest of looks.
Then we talk, we really talk and the hand on the clock goes around and around and I can feel the world changing. I'm more confused than ever yet, at the same time, everything is crystal clear. Eventually I get up and start to walk out the room, but just as I open the door I look back at her and her eyes meet mine and she smiles at me and whispers, like it's our secret.
"Do you promise me Gavin?" I'd never made a promise to anyone in my entire life, it was a serious moment, but I felt no need to hesitate.
"I promise you Mrs. Jacobs."
Mrs Jacobs died last week, and twenty three years have rushed by since that first meeting and I have never come close to breaking the promise I made on that day.
Not once.
There's enough daylight left for me to push my grandson around the park one more time, he's sound asleep now, but I'm certain that he knows the promise I made him earlier this afternoon lasts forever.


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Current Status of FY2018 Budget
- A continuing resolution (CR) was enacted on September 8 through December 8, 2017 (PL 115-56). The measure provides $15 billion in emergency assistance to respond to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, raises the debt ceiling to allow the United States to meet its financial obligations, and continues to fund the government through December 8. For more information, see the bill summary.
- FY2018 Senate Appropriations. On September 7, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved its version of the FY2018 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill. For early learning programs, the Senate bill freezes funding for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and Head Start at the FY2017 level. The Senate FY2018 Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations bill summary here is here. The Senate Committee report is here and the bill text is here.
- FY2018 House Appropriations: The House Appropriations Committee has approved its verson of the FY2018 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill. Learn more here. The House FY2018 Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations bill summary is here. The House Committee report is here and the bill text is here.
FY2018 Proposed Budget: On May 23, President Trump proposed his FY2018 budget.
- President Trump's FY2018 proposed budget for HHS
- President Trump's FY2018 proposed budget for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
- FY2018 ACF Justification for Appropriations Committees (CJ)
- President Trump's FY2018 proposed budget for the Department of Education
- FY2018 Dept. of Education Justification for Appropriations Committees (CJ)
- The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) list of tax expenditures
Source: Division H- Departments of Labor, HHS and Education and Related Agencies, FY2017, Contained in the FY2017 Omnibus Appropriations Act, P.L. 115-31; FY2018 Proposed Budget by President Trump. https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget; FY2018 House Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations bill, https://appropriations.house.gov/uploadedfiles/23920.pdf.
FY2017 Omnibus Appropriations Act (PL115-31) was enacted on May 4, 2017.
- FY2017 Omnibus Appropriations Act Summary/Press Release
- Summary of the FY2017 Labor, HHS, and Education section of the Omnibus
- A more detailed document is contained within Division H, here.
- Text of FY2017 Omnibus
FY2017 Continuing Resolution (PL114-254) Approved in December 2016
Congress adjourned in December without passing a full year continuing resolution (CR). Instead, a short-term continuing resolution funding the government through April 28, 2017 was enacted. In order to stay within budget caps enacted as part of the 2015 budget law, a .19% across the board cut was applied. Some spending is exempt from the cap. For example, the Overseas Contingency Fund (OCO) was awarded an increase of about $10 billion to fight ISIS and enhance security (i.e. $5.8 billion for the Pentagon and $4.3 billion for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development). The CR also includes a few other exemptions to the cap on spending such as $4.1 billion in disaster relief.
- Continuing Resolution through April 28, 2017 (PL114-254, text)
- CR Summary (House Appropriations)
- Rep. Nita Lowey Summary (Ranking Member, House Appropriations)
Continuing Resolution for FY2017 Approved in September 2016
On September 28, two days before the end of the fiscal year, Congress approved a Continuing Resolution (CR) to continue federal funding through December 9, 2016. A 10 week CR was necessary because the fiscal year ended September 30th and Congress was scheduled to adjourn (i.e., recess through the November elections). Funding was largely continued at FY2016 levels (a freeze) until final determinations can be made in December. Note: An across-the-board spending reduction of .5% was applied in order to keep spending below budget caps.
Many funding decisions will need to be made when Congress reconvenes after the election. It is unclear whether funds will be frozen as part of an FY2017 6 month CR, a year long CR, or potentially informed and adjusted based on committee action earlier this year. Stay tuned!
House Appropriations Committee: On July 14, the House Appropriations Committee approved its version of the FY2017 Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations bill by a vote of 31-19.
Senate Appropriations Committee: On June 9, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved its version of the FY2017 Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations bill by a vote of 29-1.
President's FY2017 Proposed Budget
President Obama proposed his FY 2017 budget to Congress in February, 2016. Overall, the U.S. Department of Education would receive a 2% increase in its early learning budget, while the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would receive a 4% increase. Submitting a budget to Congress is just the first step in the process. Over the remainder of the fiscal year, Members of Congress will consider the President's recommendations as they seek to draft a budget for each chamber's approval.
Highlights of the President's FY2017 proposed budget:
Child Care:
Discretionary: $161million increase to support states in implementing the 2014 CCDBG reauthorization requirements.
- $40 million for a new competitive pilot program to increase the supply of high-quality child care in rural areas and during non-traditional hours
Mandatory: $82 billion over 10 years, with an initial investment of $3.7 billion in FY2017.
This funding would be tied to the newly proposed Child C.A.R.E. Act, introduced by Senator Casey (D-PA) and Representatives Crowley (D-NY) and Frankel (D-FL). (Bill #'s: S.2539; HR.5424). This new program, operated through state grants that would supplement current state plans, targets children under age 4 in families at 200% of poverty or below. The goal of this program is to close the gap between the subsidy reimbursement rate for young children and the true cost of quality, which the Administration estimates to be about $10,000-$12,000 per infant or toddler. An estimated additional 1.15 million children would gain access to high-quality infant and toddler services through this program.
- The budget proposes that new CCDBG health and safety requirements be extended to child care funded directly through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Social Services Block Grant (SSBG).
FY 2016 Omnibus Budget Deal
Congress reached a deal on a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the government through September 30th, 2016, averting a government shutdown.
For Early Childhood Education, the Omnibus budget deal includes:
- An increase of $326 million for the Child Care Development Block Grant. This maintains a set aside of $127 million for infants and toddlers that is slightly more than FY2015. (Total CCDBG funding = $2.8 billion)
- An increase of $570 million for Head Start, which includes a $141 million COLA for Head Start and $25 million for Designation and Renewal, $294 million for supplemental funding to increase the hours of Head Start program operation, and a $135 million increase for Early Head Start, Early Head Start-Child Care partnerships, and conversions from Head Start to Early Head Start. (Total Head Start funding = $9.2 billion)
- A $15 million increase in IDEA Part B Preschool Grant and A $20 million increase in IDEA Part C Grants for Infants and Families. (Total IDEA funding = $11.9 billion); and
- An $18 million increase in Summer EBT benefits funding. This program is no longer limited to communities based on income projections.
- $250 million for new Preschool Development Grants under the Every Student Succeeds Act framework.
And, the new budget will permanently extend refundable tax credits for low-income families through the Income Tax Credit for low-income earners and the Child Tax Credit for low and moderate income workers. The Omnibus bill does not include reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, as many had hoped. Reauthorization is expected to be considered in 2016.President Obama's Proposed Budget for FY2015
President Obama's FY2016 Proposed Budget
On March 4, 2015, President Obama proposed his FY2016 budget At this point, his budget will be reviewed by Members of Congress in the House and the Senate, hearings will be held, and later this year, the House and Senate Appropriation Committees will review his proposals as they draft next year's federal appropriation bills. For a summary of President Obama's budget as it relates to early childhood programs, check out our ECEC Summary FY2016.
The Administration has released several topical summaries.
- Opportunity for All: Supporting Children and Youth
- Opportunity for All: Empowering All Americans with the Education and Skills that they Need
- Opportunity for All: Supporting Women and Girls
ECEC Resources
ECEC Guide to the Federal Budget Process


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A recent SIM played me a country and western song with the refrain of "out here" or "way out here"
Here is the YouTube video. If I have this right the idea is that people in remote regions will end up doing all the fighting in any way. This is actually insulating to the people of highly urban states like California, Florida, New York, Ohio and Penn which you can see are taking more than their share of wounded and dead in the Iraq war.
Funny what you learn when you don't turn the volume down on Second Life. I would just want to say, clearly, that people who don't live "way out here" who like John F. Kennedy, John Lennon, and Kamaal Ibn John Fareed are also doing their share of fighting and dying in the recent wars.
I guess the lesson is keep your volume turned off in Second Life.
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1. Articles of Incorporation Secretary of State of State of California Feb. 9, 1987 (Shows Church intended purpose)
2. Recognition Letter Franchise Tax Board State of California Jun. 17, 1987 (Shows legal Church status)
3. Recognition Letter Internal Revenue Service U.S.A. Jan. 8, 1988 (Shows 501[c]3 Public Charity status)
4. Amendment to Articles Secretary of State of State of California Jan. 14, 1998 (Shows name change)
One thing that I really love about the Course is reframing these stories, phrases, ideas – about salvation, about Easter, about resurrection and all these things – and reframing them. "Ok, this is what it really means. Think about it this way." It's interesting that the Course is saying as Adam ate from the "fruit of the tree of knowledge," I have believed my knowledge of the Bible. When Adam ate the "fruit" he fell asleep. So we are still asleep in many respects. This is what this world is, it is a dream. I thought that was a very interesting way of reframing what it means to be alive.
I keep on thinking about this significant thing for me here, what it means to become a "Reverend." Not so much about that I now have this title, but where I am at in my spiritual journey. I feel a need to talk, to just let my voice be heard which often times in the past I haven't. I don't talk very often. A lot of people don't get to know me and don't know what I'm thinking about or what I'm up to. This is an opportunity for me to speak more and to really know what's going on, what's my perspective on the world, and the changing of my perspective. With our current U.S. president, I'm not going to speak any more (laughter) about that. It just seems all the more important for me, and also for other people, to speak their voice – to find their voice if they don't know what it is and to speak it.
With Helen's notes serving as their backbone, Robert Perry and the Circle of Atonement have tried to rebuild the Course from the bottom up in order to achieve their stated goal of restoring the Course to its original form, that is, "the original words as Helen received them," (p. 1920) editing these words with only the lightest touch possible. As a result, they have reinserted a great deal of material from the Notes and Urtext that was cut, not just from the FIP Edition, but from the Hugh Lynn Cayce draft as well. This is particularly true for the early chapters of the Text, where approximately 150 pages of new material and explanatory footnotes have been added.
In doing so, they make a key assumption, one that is essential to understand if we are to view this new edition in proper perspective. They consider the original wording from Helen's Notes to be the most accurate. This implies that the rapid-fire, stream of thought that Helen managed to capture and record in words, taking it down in her own personal shorthand, came through with such precision that it required little or no revision. Of course, anyone who has sat in a lecture hall attempting to take notes from a fast-paced lecturer can tell you how improbable this is. But there is a more significant issue here. Helen and Bill clearly stated that their editing was fully directed by the Voice: the same one that dictated the Course to her in the first place. So basically, we are being asked to believe that Helen overrode the explicit instructions of the Voice of Jesus in order to change and ultimately degrade the very Course she gave birth to. Robert Perry and the CofA give their reasons for making this assumption on pages 1911-1912 of this edition and their arguments come across as persuasive. But as neither Helen nor Bill are alive to present an alternate point of view, let me attempt to stand in for them and say what I believe they might have said in response.
We aren't going to say that you have to forgive. If we said that, what would we do? It's like when you are on a diet. People tell you don't have the chocolate cake. Then the only thing you obsess about is the chocolate cake. That is the worst! People will say, "Don't eat french fries." Then every time you turn around, there is a McDonald's right there on the corner. This is the same thing. You can't just say, "I'm going to forgive my brother, forgive my brother, forgive my brother." Because then what are you doing? You are thinking that need to forgive your brother for being a jerk. You are thinking that you will forgive them even though they did this crap to you. You are going to forgive your brother for …
My friend simply said, "I am going to stop repeating this story and I come to a place of willingness." He comes to a place of saying, "I ask that forgiveness set me and set that person free." It may not even be a specific person. It could be, "I ask that forgiveness sets me and sets the Republican party free." "I ask that forgiveness set me and my sister free."
We will reference my sister again because that is a big forgiveness lesson for me. I don't see her as perfect. I will admit that. I look at her life choices and I think that they are messed up. She's messed up. So every time I go to that thought, I have to pause and I say, "I'm not going to keep thinking that thought. I am going to stop." It only takes ten seconds. "I ask that forgiveness set me and sets my sister free."
To the people who will be here and carrying this organization forward after whenever – maybe Rev. Kelly and some of you whose years are fewer than mine – the one bit of wisdom I would want to empower you with is just keep showing up. Ninety percent of success is just showing up. No matter how dark and impossible it seems – and it will seem dark and impossible, it will – just keep showing up. Just find a way to keep the doors open and the Sunday Gatherings going. Just keep doing them because it just has a way of transforming and resurrecting itself if you just keep doing that. I have talked to a lot of people who tried to do something like what we are doing. They stop after awhile. What I see at a certain point is that it just got difficult and they got the guidance to stop. All I can say is that I never got that guidance. It really did seem difficult plenty of times, and I just kept going. I found a way. We found a way as an organization. A lot of that way now is with help from many people, certainly our Ministers and our great Board of Directors. Rev Rudy really helped with our last transition. We just rally and find a way to do it. So, you just never, ever give up.
The last thing I want to share is that one of the things that I do now, along with everything that I do. I am an Administrator on a very large Facebook group based on A Course in Miracles. Sharon Casey is here and she is an Administrator there with me. This is a great group but it is also a challenge because people in the group get really feisty. People get really triggered; people get really angry. A lot of things go on that seem like conflict. Then there are a lot of people who are conflict adverse and think we shouldn't be in conflict like that. Then there is conflict over the being in conflict. This spins around and around. People say we should have rules that would prevent this conflict. However I believe conflict in that type of group is inevitable. Actually conflict can be a positive form of communication if you don't judge the conflict as being bad. Conflict comes up because we have conflict in our minds and we are projecting it out there. You can't be so conflict adverse that you never allow conflict to come up. In the 30 years of the CMC, conflict has come up plenty of times. We just had to look at it, deal with it, try to resolve it, and not just brush it over like peanut butter on burnt toast.
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Kim Wilson is a Community Miracles Center Minister-In-Training who mirs in Lubbock, Texas. These are prayers she is sharing with all of us as she participates on this journey to become an ordained A Course In Miracles Minister of the CMC. She is currently enrolled in ACIM-2 which she takes via telephone conference call classes.
If you are interested in becoming a legally ordained A Course In Miracles minister through the Community Miracles Center please send us an email and we will send you more information. This is a two year program and there are no shortcuts. During the second year there are daily lesson partners and year long ministerial projects designed to give the students practical experiences of applying their Spirit guided talents to the manifestation of the Real World.
" The Community Miracles Center is a worldwide community for anyone who is interested in the spiritual teaching A Course in Miracles. We are on the "Great Crusade" in learning how to forgive the world that we are in. We do that by LISTENING to guidance from Holy Spirit or our Higher Power, LEARNING about true cause and effect, and actively DOING things to shift the errors in perception. Our mission is to transform the world we see into a reflection of Heaven and manifest the "Real World." We do this locally, nationally, and internationally "


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San Francisco 49ers linebacker Reuben Foster will not be a participant in offseason team activities while he tends to legal matters, the team announced, according to Eric Branch of the San Francisco Chronicle.
"Reuben Foster will not participate in team activities as he is tending to his legal matters," said CEO Jed York in a statement. "As previously stated, his future with the team will be determined by the information revealed during the legal process."
Foster was charged with felony domestic violence against his live-in girlfriend last week and faces 11 years in prison for his actions. Foster threw his girlfriend out of their house by her hair and punched her in the head multiple times, according to the police report.
The 49ers' offseason program begins with voluntary workouts on Monday.
Foster was a first-round pick of the 49ers last spring and started 10 games as a rookie in 2017.


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Picture Picture: Laddie Cat
Laddie Cat lives and works at the Latitude Artist Community in Lexington. Latitude is an amazing program serving the community and people who have a disability by creating meaningful, inclusive community interactions allowing participating artists to contribute culturally and politically to their community. Latitude shares its space with Mecca Dance Studio, another awesome group in town, and Grass Roots Yoga – my personal favorite yoga studio in the Bluegrass region. I have been taking classes from Grass Roots instructor Teresa for more than a year and love her challenging, yet reflective style.
Laddie Cat is the mascot of all three organizations. This big Tom cat has a loud meow, a demanding head bunk and a spirit that can bring light to some of my darkest days. I adore this cat. I had a photo shoot before yoga on Sunday morning so I happened to have my camera with me at class. We were a little early so I took a few minutes to snap some photos of this great cat.
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jak #June 6, 2012
cat on a mat, hehehe.
June 8, 2012
Such a sweetie!


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On 17th July 2015, Team GB faced France in a crucial quarter finals match on the path to determine the greatest tennis nation in the world.
The first of these matches was between GB's James Ward and the inform Giles Simon, who previously had just reached the Wimbledon quarter finals.
Ward ranked 93rd behind Simon 11th needed some help, so decided to incorporate some flashy tennis socks into his uniform.
As you can see from the images and in addition to his palm style shirt, these funny socks presented a colorful and vibrant image. Going further, this shows a man who is both confident and humorous. Everyone loves people in funny socks!
The Tennis Match
Moving the story on, James Ward battled hard, hit some good shots and ran around with his athletic body. However Giles Simon really is a strong player these days with a remarkable technique. Sadly in the end the tennis socks were not quite enough and Ward lost 4-6, 4-6, 1-6….but..
However…. there is a good final ending to the story, where team GB prevailed against France, 3-1 matches. They are now through to the semi finals to face Australia. Well done GB Tennis!
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Team GB Progress through to the Semi Finals with their Funny Socks