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Here we go again, time for another Artsy Challenge. When you think artsy I bet your mind envisions single photo, lots of white space with brushwork and lots of blending. Well, I wanted to show that a page can be very artsy even when filled with more photos. After all, record keeping sometimes requires the use of a bunch of pictures on one page, right? Anyway, I got a couple of my sweet co-workers to help out, here is what they came up with:
This one is by Merr, I just love her photography! Could this be any cuter? A progression of close-ups and such an artful use of brushwork! I really like how she extended it over the journaling tag. Just beautiful! Here are the supplies she used:
No Day Like Today Vol. 2 (coming soon) – by A. Edwards plus:
Washi tapes: Lovely Clusters #1, Curated Studio Mix Scrapbooking Kit #2, Watery Scribbles Brushes and Stamps #1, Just Linens Paper Pack 55, Arrowhead Peak Kit, Stitched Down Dates, Heart Scattering Brushes and Stamps, Artsy Layered Blends #2, Page Blends #1
Next is a page by Jenelle (js_74)
How different the photo cluster looks here, I love how she used the journaling spot for that sweet photo and the yellow brushwork behind the cluster is just gorgeous, extending the colors from her photos! The doodled garland really adds an artsy touch, as does the Fine Line Twist she used. Here is the complete list of her supplies:
K. Pertiet: PhotoClusters #36 (from freebie), Artsy Layered Paints #2, Watery PHoto Masks #8, Watery Banners Brushes and Stamps #1, Brilliant Love Expanded Scrapbooking Collection, Doodledo Garland Brushes and Stamps #1, Fine Line Twists Brushes and Stamps #2
A. Edwards: No Day Like Today Brushes and Stamps #2
Here is the page I created
I tried to give it an artsy feel by adding part of a blended photo and scatterings and twists. I did not want to add too many different colors, since it's supposed to go with a page I created previously and I kind of liked the monochromatic feel here… here is what I used on it:
L. Grieveson: All White Now #3, Arrowhead Peak PP, Arrowhead Peak kit
K. Pertiet: Bold and Scripted #10, Stitching Holes Hearts #1, watery arrows #2,
Photo Journal Clusters #2,Watery photo mask #9, ledger grids #4, watery spots #11,
Artsy Paint #1, Bead Scatterings #3, fine line twists #1, coastal kit
I hope you like the inspiration. Here is a little freebie to help you get started 🙂 Don't forget about our new rewards program for participation. You can read all the details right here
Don't forget to post your pages in the Artsy Challenge Gallery, I can't wait to see what you will come up with!


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The Magic of Consciousness! & 108 Sun Salutations?
Flowers with best wishes, from our home to you.
The Magic Of Consciousness
Realizing that change is in the nature of all beings, living or inert, the Awakened one remains unmoved and undisturbed, and easily finds peace within himself. Ashtavakra Gita 11-1
Consciousness is the source of whatever there is. Different levels of Consciousness exhibit different levels of existence, from illusion to reality, and from temporary to permanent.
Whatever you can see or touch, it arises and remains only on the surface of the Consciousness. It is temporary and ever-changing. That's why it's also called an illusion because it appears, disappears, and re-appears
What you saw a moment ago, it is no longer there now. It has changed but it appears to be the same. The ignorance freezes your vision, so you continuing seeing the same. In fact, you want the sameness to last, so it lasts. It is the sameness that gives you a feeling of permanence, and of your own. It is the sameness that causes attachments and binds you. You have a desire to live longer so that you could keep seeing the same; your same body, and same dear ones etc. The sameness, however, can also cause you to destroy. You become tired of the same. The sameness can also put people into depression. For them there is nothing new. Your frozen vision brings you both, happiness and sadness, pleasure and pain, good and bad, and creativity and destruction etc.
But the vision of an Awakened one is not frozen. He continuously and constantly sees the changing and temporary nature of all that which appears and disappears, and remains unaffected by the opposites. He sees both appearance and disappearance as non-existent. He remains in awe at the ever-changing wonder and magic of the Consciousness.
I speak
As though I know
But because I speak
Means I don't know
I neither know
Nor don't know
Nor have the desire
To know or not know
The one who knows
Is one of a kind
He is deaf, dumb
And blind
108 Sun Salutations
People often ask the following questions about practicing Sun Salutations:
- How many Sun Salutations (SS) one must do?
- What is the significance of doing 108 SS daily?
- I practice 108 SS daily, but why do i still feel tightness in the hips?
- Can the SS be done after the sunset?
Practicing 108 SS daily is a modern yoga craze, a result of the yoga becoming increasingly physical and competitive. It has no particular spiritual significance. However, practicing 108 SS daily can be a good cardio workout. but be careful. If you already have some imbalances in the body, which most people do, the imbalances can become worst over time, as it is easy to lose awareness of the correctness of the postures when your focus is on the quantity or the speed.
Any prolonged repetitive and speedy movement causes the muscles to become tighter. If you don't do sufficient stretching afterwards, the tight muscles can cause several pain and movement related issues. So make sure that after practicing 108 SS you have the time and energy left to stretch the body properly afterwards.
There is no fixed number as to how many Sun Salutations you must do, but there are 12 mantras that are given for the practice of SS, and this number could be used as a guide. However, if doing 108 SS is your thing, by all means do it.
The Sun Salutations can certainly be practiced after Sunset as the Sun never really sets.
We practice SS to honour the life, and the Nature that supports the life. So, it can be practiced any time whenever you can. However, in the morning the higher sattva energy is conducive for the spiritual practices.
Do your SS practice with more attention and honour regardless of when you do it or for how long you do it. When you practice SS with honour, you make Patanjali and Sun very happy.

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God snuck up on me today…
As part of the last day of The Warehouse's Winter School for church and ministry leaders, I was leading several people through a time of personal retreat. I had challenged each of us to spend some time considering one thing God had brought to our attention over the past few days of the training – use this opportunity to go deep. I had also encouraged us to not move too quickly to "what am I going to do?" Instead, allow God to speak to who we ARE… and after that we can consider what actions this may lead to. And so we began into some time of solitude.
But then there was a tea break (not so well suited for the middle of retreats, but other participants were doing other electives. And, well. 10:30 is tea time, no matter what, right?). I was chatting briefly with a woman who is part of a local church I have good relationships with and had done a retreat for some of their team (including this woman) last year. This woman has recently taken on a new role, basically leading the team I had worked with last year. Interestingly, another person on that team had called me a while back and suggested that I apply for this job. I considered it, but decided it wasn't the best fit for me. So this woman today says, "xxx told me she had called you and thought you might apply for the job. Why didn't you?"
And while this could have been potentially quite awkward, I answered her straight away: "Because to do my best work, I can't just work for one church. I need to be able to work across churches." I love helping other people figure out how they can be who God wants them to be and I am much more of a catalyst and designer than one to run a system over time. I can create an amazing box, just don't ask me to get in it! It felt really good to say that. There was no apologizing or word smithing. She didn't look down on me for not being something I am not. In fact, our conversation continued about all sorts of ministry I love and some of my questions about how to make it happen best.
So then we moved back into our time of solitude and it hit me – we just had a conversation about identity. I am a catalyst. I am an explorer. I am a designer. I am a dreamer. Yes, I am a priest – but more like Melchizedek than Aaron (that'll need to be another blog post). What and where and how I express who I am can change – certainly has changed over time. And while the core of who I am – who God has designed me to BE has always been in there – I am continuing to discover and embrace this identity. What a journey! It's not always easy – there is so much that works against us being our true selves. But the more I connect with this God who passionately loves me and has done everything to set me free, the more I am able to truly live.
The irony is, when I talk about how I am discovering who I really am, most people's response is: of course! We already knew that. Why don't you? This identity seems to be more hidden from me than anyone else. My not so secret identity.


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In the US: Tuesdays, 10/9c, ABC
I'm getting an eerie sense of déjà vu here. ABC's newest 'romantic dramedy' (yes, that is a genre, apparently), Cupid, is about a man who claims to be the Roman god of love, Cupid, sent to Earth by the other gods to give 100 couples true love before he can return. Sounds kind of original, doesn't it?
I'll tell you why I'm getting déjà vu. For one thing, not more than half a year ago, The CW was running Valentine in which Eros/Cupid along with Aphrodite and a bunch of the other Greek gods were out and about trying to bring people together in true love to avoid their own extinction. Okay, that died a death on the grounds of scheduling, not being very good, Jaime Murray, etc, but Cupid really isn't that different.
But the other big déjà vu score comes from the fact this is a remake. There's already been a Cupid – a mere 10 years ago – on the same network, with the same writer and the same scripts, just a different cast.
You've got to love it, haven't you?
Trevor Pierce is a larger than life character who insists that he is Cupid, the Roman god of love. He claims that he has been sent to New York City by Zeus to bring 100 romantically challenged couples together before being allowed to return to Mt. Olympus. His persistence eventually lands him in a mental institution.
Three months later, Trevor is found to be harmless to himself and others and is released — but under certain conditions. Placed under the care of psychiatrist and self-help author Dr. Claire McCrae, he must attend her singles group therapy sessions on a regular basis so that she can monitor his progress.
Trevor returns to his rented room upstairs from the struggling Tres Equis Cantina, owned by Felix Araiza and his sister, Lita. In exchange for rent, Trevor becomes a bartender and creates an atmosphere for singles looking for lasting love. His ideas, such as half-price margarita nights and mariachi karaoke duets, could help him bring couples together and ultimately take him closer to the day that he gets to return to Mt. Olympus.
No one believes Trevor's story, but everyone finds him to be quite charming. Although he possesses a great knowledge of Greek mythology, Claire finds that Trevor constantly interferes and contradicts her when it comes to her pragmatic style of helping lonely hearts find their soul mates. In true love, Claire believes it's all about friendship and mutual respect; for Trevor, heat and passion conquer all. Only time will tell who will win this battle for love.
Cupid stars Bobby Cannavale (Will & Grace) as Trevor, Sarah Paulson (The Spirit, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) as Claire, Rick Gomez (What About Brian) as Felix and Camille Guaty (Las Vegas) as Lita.
The romantic dramedy was created by Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars), who serves as executive producer/writer, along with executive producers Jennifer Gwartz (Good Behavior, Veronica Mars), Danielle Stokdyk, (Good Behavior, Veronica Mars), Dan Etheridge (Good Behavior, Veronica Mars) and Diane Ruggiero (Dirty Sexy Money, Veronica Mars). Cupid is produced by ABC Studios.
Is it any good?
Well, it's definitely better than Valentine. But despite the magic that is Rob Thomas (creator of Veronica Mars) being behind it and despite his having – presumably – a decade to work on all the problems with the original series, this episode falls quite flat.
It's very hard to describe flat. It's just flat. You know, no bumps, nothing to distinguish one point from another. And that's Cupid.
If you've seen one comedy in which someone tries to match-make a couple before, you'll know roughly how the plots work here. There's very little chemistry between Sarah Paulson and Cannavale, and Paulson's character doesn't really make much of an impact – she's the uninteresting, practical naysayer to whatever the slightly more charismatic, sexually harassing Cannavale has to say about the passion of true love. And just as with Valentine, apparently the gods don't understand modern love quite the way mortals do and they need assistants to show them how to match-make in the 21st century.
In contrast to Valentine though, the mortal couples who need to be matched aren't complete arses. They are quite likeable (the male half of the couple is Sean Maguire in this pilot episode, allowed to use an Irish accent for once). While there is the usual mix-up with what's Greek and what's Roman mythology – with the show veering towards Roman more than Greek – Cupid does at least feel like a vaguely Mediterranean character (via New Jersey), right down to a monologue on the history of baklava, this isn't one of the all-American gods of Valentine.
Except, of course, we're not sure if he is what he says he is. Is he Cupid or is he mental? He hasn't heard of Psyche, his wife, for one thing, but he's a mean hand at darts and there's the bead tally of couples he's matched which manages to change by itself. Whether Thomas will change it to be more definite, something he never did with the original show and had no plans to do, I can't say, but a little bit of guts on that front might be nice.
It's agreeable enough, but there's nothing really beyond its concept (now done to death) that makes it stand out from other shows. Still, with Rob Thomas behind it, maybe it'll pick up.
Here's a YouTube trailer and a couple of clips with that Sean Maguire.


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Our June show went really well with lots of wonderful cats and lots of spectators who enjoyed the judging, the free cake and Starbucks coffee and probably most of all the "baby parade". The litter mate contest where individual litters of kittens are judged against one another. We will start working on our November 27 and 28 "Christmas" show. An unfortunate tragedy for one of our exhibitors. Jeff and Shirley Byington had a fire last week that killed all but 1 of their 9 pet cats. A passing police officer saved Milo who is undergoing treatment for smoke inhallation and burns to his paws. We are collecting via Paypal to help them get back on their feet.
Garden City will also be taking $10 donations to the Club to enable us to keep sponsoring the Rescue Cat associations and our Food Bank donations. Donations can be make for either Jeff or the Club to email@example.com. Off to the airport.
Friday, July 9, 2010
The Show is Over
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Featured photo above by Kris Atomic on Unsplash
Classic Burberry style was reimagined as practical luxurious plastic trenches. The brands uniform style was deconstructed as mini skirts with tops and coats with equestrian elements. You could not predict what would come down the runway on this show. There were neon flashes, faux fur and sorbet lace to Burberry check bomber jackets.
Simone Rocha
Girls came out dressed in white gowns and bunched up skirts, which then progressed into gothic silk outfits the swept the floor, paired with platform lace ups. Her florals were hand painted and embossed in pansies of orange and red, on blouses, gauze slips and coats.
Christopher Kane
With it being the designers 10-year anniversary, his collection was a mixture of past designs, from leopard print, bodycon and metal rings. There were also influences from the second world war, combined with elements of the supernatural and shrines. Expressed in mismatched clothes or pieced together garments. Fabrics used were silvery greay leopard print on slashed elbowed coat and pencil skirts, dresses made from white silk printed with old polaroids and tear sheets, and glittery synthetic pieces.
Also there was the appearance of the Croc footwear, they were wonderfully garish coloured, these rubbery clogs came embellished with chunky gems.
Remarkably detailed, many of the outfits were floral themed with some having feathers attached. Colours embraced in the collection were pale pinks and yellows and bold greens he generally used strong bold colours for the show.
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JW Anderson
This season's show consisted of cropped peasant tops paired with cotton trousers that flowed and patch-worked fabrics and muted tones with raw hems. Also there were JW Anderson's signature corset style tops in leather and knitwear.
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If you are wondering if a thread lift surgery could be the best way for you to keep looking young more naturally, here are a few things you can learn regarding what the procedure is and what benefits it has.
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What is Thread Lifting?
Thread lifting is a procedure performed to address folds and sags. It is becoming increasingly popular as there is a growing demand for skincare where less is more.
Emerged as a solution for women as well as men that want to avoid the commitment and recovery time needed for a facelift, it involves fine threads placed in the skin that can reach places on faces other procedures cannot get to.
However, while the touch of a thread lift may be relatively light, it should not be taken lightly.
Before you book an appointment with your plastic surgeon for a thread lift, learn as much as you can about the procedure. That will make you much more confident and you can better judge whether what you are provided is what you want.
Thread lifting has become an all-inclusive term that covers various procedures and sometimes even combinations.
However, one kind of thread doesn't certainly suit all; therefore, being able to determine which is the right one for you is important.
Your Expectations
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Do you want skin lifting to eliminate the conspicuous folds and lines or skin rejuvenation to make you look fresh?
What's Involved in Thread Lifting?
Three different procedures are involved in thread lifting:
- Surgical
- Non-surgical
- Beauty threads
Although all these treatments are used primarily for the face, sometimes they can be used on the neck, cleavage and sometimes even other body parts.
All these three procedures are designed to induce the production of collagen (the protein because of which our skin gets its youthful look) to restore firmness.
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Every thread lifting procedure can be administered individually and sometimes in a combination. They can even be applied with other procedures such as fillers.
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If I'm really lucky, sometimes it stops raining long enough for me to go for a bike ride. And yes, I realise I keep bringing up the rain lately but that's because it's that time of year where it's pretty much non stop. It's a very good day if it stays clear long enough for blog photos and a few minutes after we finished taking these…it started raining. With the rain comes the holiday season, and that inevitably means the arrival of the Black Friday sales. Something I have a love/hate relationship with. So bad but so good. I tried so hard to be really good this year, and yet there I was on the very last day of the sales a few hours before all the good deals expired hoping desperately that my account wasn't going to go into overdraft with one final order. And it didn't, hooray! I am now the very happy owner of a PS4 and Call of Duty WWII, and some of the Besame Snow White range which I was able to ship to Australia via a third party courier.
My wardrobe is always fairly unbalanced when it comes to casual outfits, and these shorts are my latest attempt at solving this problem. Much as I do love my Freddies jeans, right now is not the time of year to be wearing them! Although, that didn't stop me doing so recently, and with hilarious results. I was shopping with a friend who also wears vintage and that day we decided to dress down so that we could shop in peace, without being barraged with the age old question; what are you so dressed up for? We both wore Freddies of Pinewood and plain tees, and guess what – people still asked what we were dressed up for. One woman actually asked for pictures…errr. I mean I totally understand people asking for a picture if you're wearing something especially extra. Not that this is something I actually tolerate I might add – I feel like it's not appropriate and just a really weird thing to do. But of all outfits? So I guess there's probably some people out there who might consider this outfit dressed up, but I don't! For me this is an ideal casual look for outdoor activities.
This lovely cockatoo mural is just down the road from where I live, and conveniently next to my favourite coffee shop. Every time I've gone to get a coffee for the last few years I've thought to myself about how I should definitely take blog photos there…and then it never happens. So this set of photos ticks that off the bucket list! The mural is actually on an electricity sub station and it disguises the otherwise unsightly structure very well, so I think it's pretty clever. I also have a big soft spot for it because it features a Sulphur crested cockatoo which is a bird we see a lot of in these parts. These cockatoos are very fun to interact with because they're incredibly charismatic and pick up human words easily…which can be hilarious depending on the crowd they keep.
Loco Lindo shirt (similar) courtesy of Loco Lindo
Heyday Kitty shorts
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Chapter 1
Suddenly over the roar of the raging hellish flames an eerie creek could be heard above her. Before she had time to move out of the way, a piece of timber came crashing down upon her legs. The floor became speckled at once, littered also with wood splinters, for the beam had fallen at an angle and busted through the floor. Her scream sliced through the thick air and it was here that she was sure she was meant to die, for she had been rendered immobile.
Just then, the door slammed open, revealing a heavenly light beyond. At first she thought it was one of her attackers returning to finish her off, but the way the figure moved was different. It was strange the manner in which it looked as if it had simply glided over to her very side. By now Sonya could feel no pain. The fire that had burned once in her eyes was leaving as she began to surrender her struggle for life. Her breath began light and her vision dark as her heart beat slowed dramatically. The roar of the flames and the creeks of the cabin fell silent, bringing only silence to her ears.
From her unexpected slumber, wherever she was now was too peaceful to panic. The bed she lay upon was covered with white silk sheets that flowed onto the chestnut floors. The room was bright for the balcony doors to her left were open. The parted curtains were also white silk and swayed halfway across the room in the breeze. She could see the beautiful blue of the sky beyond and was beginning to wonder if she had been brought to heaven. Directly in front of her was a white marble fireplace. It was framed with gold and set a calm theme in the room. Finally to her right were two single white doors and a set of white double doors.
She noticed the double doors must have been a closet and that the closest single door, lead to a bathroom. It was open and she could see the gleam of the marble sink beyond. There were no door handles. Instead there were buttons next to each door. Everything looked so futuristic. Her head whirled. Where was she? Also where were her clothes? Her black long sleeved shirt and jeans had been replaced with a blue sun dress. She quickly got out of bed only to gasp and scream in delight and horror. Her legs! Her mind was in a state of panic as she collapsed back on to the white silk sheets. She observed them carefully, poked them with her fingers and felt their warmth. She pulled her dress up past her thigh and inspected them for stitches or scars, but there wasn't a scratch to be found, in fact, her birthmark was still in tack on the back of her thigh. She then put a hand upon her cheek searching for the place in which she had been struck with an empty pistol out of desperation. There was nothing to be found.
She hopped out of the bed once again and slowly headed to the bathroom, still unsure of her legs across the wooden floors. Once her bare feet were upon the white tiles, she gazed in the oval mirror above the sink for a long period of time. The mirror's light shined brightly upon her face a result of motion sensors. Nothing appeared different about her. Her skin was still light and her cheeks still remained their usual soft pink. Her lips were a slight darker shade of pink in comparison. They were no longer busted to her amazement. Her calm dark green eyes were free of their usual circles from her restless nights of worry. Even her curly brown hair was neat and kempt. This had to be heaven. She had no aches or pains from the situation she had been in, but knew very well that it hadn't been dreamt of nor imagined. She walked from the bathroom and to head towards the second door.
She pressed the button beside it and the door slid open to the side. Into a long corridor she waltzed, amazed at its length and how many other rooms were along it. With such height the walls made it feel less trapped. The paint was cream colored and the doors were wooden. Above her head upon the wall, futuristic scotches lit the way. In the center of the corridor Sonya noticed there were small black round objects upon the ceiling which she assumed were cameras. She had no idea where she was to go, for not a single person was in sight. She ended up pacing the soft red carpeted corridor twice. It had yellow lines which crossed, forming diamond shapes, and it was fragranced with carpet freshener.
She wondered if it was polite to knock on the wooden doors or not. When all hopes seemed lost her eyes fell upon a little girl who had appeared feet away from her. Perhaps she had come from a room? The beautiful little girl looked to be at least ten years old, and took off in freight in the other direction. "Excuse me!" Sonya said politely darting after her. Her legs felt stronger than before, but the young girl was still very quick and hard to keep up with. The way the girl moved was almost ghost like. Was this a part of Sonya's imagination too? It sent shivers down her spine, but she still chased after the girl in hopes she held some answers for her. "Please! I don't know where I am!"
Her streak of white blonde hair streamed behind her, and she made an unexpected turn into a room somewhere towards the end. Sonya was too far away to see which door exactly it was that she entered and slowed her pace. She hesitated before she opened the second to last door then quietly pressed the button to open it.
Her eyes slowly moved from the chestnut floors to a very stormy scene ahead. A man who wore a black vest over a burgundy blouse with loose, black dress pants, stood before a woman. Sonya couldn't see his face, only the back of his short, blonde-haired head. As for the woman, she had long, straight, black hair, darkened brown eyes, and messy rouged lips. A pile of clothes were clearly beneath the man's feet that stood before her. His spiked cufflinks stuck out at his sides with his hands on the woman's sun kissed, yet purple splotched legs that were wrapped around his waist. Sonya was sure the woman was going to look up and see her at any moment from her sitting position on the desk, but she appeared intoxicated for her eyes were glassy. Quickly without any further observations, Sonya took to her leave, hoping she hadn't been noticed and wishing she could forget the whole thing.
It was definitely the other door. She pressed the button and began to run into another room, but in it was a winding staircase that she nearly tumbled down. She grabbed onto the black iron railing to catch herself then continued down the stairs with a bit more caution. Small lights lined the edges of the stairs like those of a movie theatre. They almost seemed as if they went on forever. At the end of the stairwell she found herself in a new setting that appeared to be a basement. She stopped her chase as the young girl disappeared into the darkness of the room. Once her eyes adjusted, it was clear what was before her.
She could see the perfect outline of a man's figure that only stood twenty feet from her, a towering six feet six inches. Sonya saw with horror as the man turned his attention to the girl, for his eyes flashed in the dark like that of a wolves. She wanted to scream. She wanted to run, but suddenly she felt his eyes on her.
The man knelt beside the girl, tilting his head with a questionable gesture as he put his hand under her chin. His deep mysterious voice was barely audible and obviously what was said wasn't meant for her to hear. With his hand still under the girl's chin, he moved her gaze towards her. "This is my niece, Fay." He dropped his hand from Fay's chin, and she rested her head against his chest, wrapping her arms around his torso. It was quiet for a long moment. It seemed as if they were having an undetectable conversation. Before Sonya knew it, the little girl had gone and now the man stood once again. His eyes locked on her. Or was it her?
"Son, please show our guest around." He nodded once. Obviously there was someone behind her. The man turned his back to her and vanished from sight deeper into the darkness. Why were the lights off? How could he see where he was going? The knot in her throat began to leave.
"It's a pleasure to meet you." His voice chimed low, but lively. Sonya turned to face him. He stood beside the lit spiral staircase with his back against the frame, giving off a memorable silhouette. His arms were crossed and his right foot was propped up on the frame as well. "Shall we?" He gestured toward the stairwell.
As they climbed their ascent Sonya continuously eyed the boy suspiciously. He was only a few inches shorter than her, about thirteen or fourteen years old. The boy had a peaceful look to him. His features were soft and welcoming, but his stifling blue eyes so bright, were like ice. His short black hair intensified them, but complemented his pale complexion as well as his black button up and grey dress pants. He smelt of faint cologne, a soft and pleasant fragrance.
He quickly got a side glance at her with his dark circled eyes. They were so dark she thought he was wearing makeup. "What are you looking at?" he questioned not in a completely rude manner. Sonya looked down. She wanted to ask him so many questions, but she didn't know where to start. "Sorry. You probably don't know what's going on right now," his eyes fell upon her. They seem to have liquefied. She could tell he wasn't used to visitors. "My name is Conan. That was my father Malachi, and my cousin Fay."
"It's nice to meet you…" was all she could really reply at the moment. It still didn't feel real that she was there.
He smiled his perfect smile revealing his radiant white teeth as he raised his left eye brow. "Let me show you around the place. You'll be staying with us for a few weeks while you recover." Sonya looked down at herself, but she was healed. Wasn't she? Before she could even ask, he spoke. "Other than physically, you need to recover mentally. My father is an amazing doctor who knows best."
"So why were you in that old dirty abandoned cabin anyway?" Conan asked her randomly as they went about their way, finishing the stairwell. They went back down the lengthy red corridor to another stairwell on the opposite end.
"I didn't think anyone cared," she told him.
He swiped a side glance at her. "In a restricted area that was clearly private property?"
They turned to their rights and walked in silence for a few moments until Sonya spoke up again. "I've always gone to that abandoned cabin since I was a little girl. I believed it was my club house and after all these years I never thought anyone cared. So even as an adult, I kept going just to get away."
They then walked into a nicely furnished living room. The floors were wooden and above a dual sided fireplace was a flat screen television. Sonya noticed this had to be the only room with a television in it, she didn't find that the main attraction though. A large picture-more like a mural behind her of the entire Mansion was painted on a huge canvas. She got one last look at the mural and a glimpse of other furniture, such as a brown velvet couch and recliner, and followed him out of an adjacent door. "This is the main living room." Conan pointed out. The wooden floors went well with the black and silver theme. There was a black leather couch and a black marble fireplace, which served as the other side to the dual fireplace. It had a silver framing, but black wasn't the reason she liked the room. It was the magnificent piano. Its glossy black paint gleamed in the light from the enormous chandelier above.
Conan sat down at the piano and she followed, sitting down beside him. He started with some simple keys.
"Do you play?" he asked with a smile, seeing her enthusiastic face.
"I haven't in years, but I loved to play when I was younger." She smiled back, remembering her mother had taught her. She missed her and as a little girl she had taken much after her. She loved to garden, cook, and help Kimberly out around the house. She could always remember and imagine the fragrances of the candles her mother used to burn, and would never forget all the children she helped her mother watch, for she ran a day care center many years ago. Unfortunately she had passed away from diabetic shock. As for her father, she had never known him. Her older brother Keith was left in charge of caring for her. Up until this point, they rented an apartment together.
Sonya sighed with a sudden question racking her brain. "What's your mother's name?"
Conan had gone from simple single notes to complicated combinations of keys. It turned into a pretty melody as an annexed expression came over his face.
"I don't have a mother." He finally answered and stopped playing. Sonya looked confused. Why had he worded it like that? Maybe he never knew his mother.
"I'm sorry," she replied. He picked up his melody again, playing it slow at first then fast. She had never heard anything so beautiful since her mother's playing. She sat quietly and listened to the calming tunes Conan played for her. For a moment her mind had gone blank soaking up every note he played until her eyes fell upon a bouquet of black roses. Their stems and leaves were blood red, but their thorns were black like the petals. They sat in a vase on a small table in the corner of the room. They looked so real, but that couldn't be possible. She stood, curiosity getting the best of her once more, and walked to the vase.
Conan's music had come to an abrupt stop. "Please don't…" Before he could finish his sentence her fingers gingerly grazed the black rose petals. They were real.
"I'm sorry," she whispered. Conan sighed.
"It's ok. They're just unstable and touching them shortens their life span." Sonya turned to Conan. "Once you get it right all the bushes need is sugar water. You cut them a certain way and handle them with gloves."
"You made these?" she asked.
"My uncle did, but my father doesn't appreciate his work. He doesn't really like the whole idea of genetic engineering." Sonya looked back to the living roses she hadn't touched. The more she thought about it the more she detested the idea of manipulated roses too. Though they were pretty, she knew their true natural looks had been defaced and distorted. The words, genetic engineering, kept ringing in her mind. "We should probably move on." Conan finally broke the silence after reading the look on her distraught face.
They went to the next set of doors in the room. Within the dining room was a large table. It was a typical dining room. The black table was already set with amazingly fine china. The crystal clear cups glistened along with the elegant silverware. Conan laughed, pulling out a red cushioned chair at the table.
"Would you like some tea and crumpets?" He asked overly formal. Sonya laughed at him and sat down at the opposite end of the long table. She had picked up on his sarcasm.
"Yes, my kind sir."
"Honestly we never eat in here. It's just for looks except for when we have important guests over, or on holidays." He added. "I don't even know what a crumpet is," he snickered, getting up. He gestured toward another door further down from the one they had entered. Sonya stood, but he only shook his head. "This is the door to the kitchen. You'll never need to lift a finger in here. You can check it out though, if you want." He opened the door to allow her to gaze in.
Her eyes sparkled. It was the biggest kitchen she had ever seen, but the only down side about it was that it was extremely modern, too modern for her liking with all the silver and chrome appearing appliances. A few cooks were at work preparing dinner. "You will rarely ever need to go in here. Just sit down at the table when you're hungry and they'll come," he said pointing to the camera in the corner. He briskly walked into the entrance of the dining room. Sonya followed him back into the main living room and looked at the entrance. "CAIN" was etched into the glass of the silver framed double doors, though it read backwards at the moment being inside. "Would you like to go outside for a bit? It's nice out." Sonya nodded, overjoyed. She could finally get to see the mural on the wall come to life.
Outside, as the sun, which peaked behind trees, hit her shoulders she realized just how cold being in the mansion had really been. She took a deep breath of fresh air. The scent from a nearby lilac bush filled her nose along with the smell of grass. Birds chirped gleefully among themselves, probably discussing the weather.
Sonya opened her closed eyes tracing every scent and sound to its source. Lilac bushes were left and right. She then turned to look at the grey mansion, but all that her eyes could see was the transparent glass door. She fell on her knees in awe and cupped her mouth with her hand with her heart thudding in her chest.
"Are you going to be alright?" he asked looking at the wildlife and nature as it completely surrounded them.
"How…" she asked reaching her hand out beside the door. She felt that there was in fact a structure there, but she couldn't see it. She could feel its shingled exterior as well as the doorframe.
"Is a cloaking mechanism," he explained to her, "to hide us from tracking satellites."
She continued to stare at the single door that stood out against the surrounding nature. She then turned her attention towards him. His eyes had gone completely black. At once, she let a blood curdling scream.


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These are the feedburner stats for two of our RSS feeds for the visionon.tv project. A lot of people have been complaining about feedburner problems are the any good explanations?
The RSS subscribers are back after I fixed "mybrand" config for the move to goggle servers at feedburner.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Feedburner stats?
Monday, February 23, 2009
Watching Them Watching Us
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Steal this film - trial edition
Breaking News
The Yes Men Fix the World - Excerpts
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
"I'm a Photographer … not a Terrorist"
Monday, February 16, 2009
From Andrew Baron Tweets - A Presidential Press Conference in the Near Future
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Defend civil liberties and have a laugh at the same time, with Policewatch
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Defend civil liberties and have a laugh at the same time, with
Filming them Filming us Filming them etc
It's yer once-in-a-lifetime chance to win War on Terror, the only game with suicide bombers, political kidnaps, intercontinental war, filthy propaganda, rampant paranoia and secret treaties.......
All you have to do is send us your videos or photos of the British constabulary's finest moments.
On 16th February 2009 the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 comes into operation, which threatens to make it illegal to take a photo of a police officer, or to "elicit information" about them. So bang goes alerting people to cops spying on peaceful protestors, and bang, clunk go journalists investigating police corruption or malpractice.
Fitwatch is launching a competition which will give a copy of the award-winning http://waronterrortheboardgame.com/">"War on Terror" to the winner of each of three different categories:
- Scary – for the most shocking bit of police abuse recorded. Dixon of Dock Green it ain't!
- Funny – for the most piss-yourself classic copper moment.
- Effective – Did you make the police help you with your inquiries? - for the pictures which proved a case against the police or had most success in defending civil liberties (please tell us what it did).
You can enter still images or video footage. Just post them on flickr (preferred for stills), blip.tv (preferred for video), youtube or anywhere else (please put the tags "visionontv" and "fitwatch") – then send us a link.
We welcome images from anywhere in the world, but only the best of the British constabulary can win a prize.
For more detailed stuff on how to make your images available, go to the bottom of this page.
On 16th February, the first day of the new legislation, http://visionon.tv">visionOntv's Policewatch series commences. Films and photos submitted to the Fitwatch competition will feature in this series on visionOntv's grassroots channel.
Closing date for entries: April 9th 2009
Winners declared: April 16th 2009 – the two-month anniversary of the new legislation
Fitwatch is a group of people who have come together to resist and oppose the tactics of the Forward Intelligence Teams (cops who harass protesters).
We aim to act in solidarity with each other, supporting campaigns by being at meetings and protests, making it harder for the police to film and gather intelligence.
We get in the way of their cameras, taking photos and publishing as much information as we can about them on our blog.
http://visionon.tv">visionOntv is a new online TV station from http://www.undercurrents.org/">undercurrents. It has all the ease-of-use of mainstream TV, but with content that is very very different.
To watch the whole of the Policewatch series, plus the best of activist video from around the world and a whole lot more, go to http://visionon.tv">visionOntv. On this link you can watch the streaming version, but to get the full TV experience download the player app and enjoy!
Please email email@example.com for further info on the Policewatch series.
If any police officer would like more information on the Policewatch competition, please contact Fitwatch, as it is not an organisation, and has no spokespeople.
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We strongly recommend giving your pictures a http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/">creative commons licensea>, so they can be distibuted as widely as possible. Please let us know which license you prefer.
The creative commons license we advise choosing is "Non-Commercial Share Alike" – which allows people to use your footage for anything non-commercial, and as long as they release it under the same license. That's what visionOntv puts its own films under.
Come along now, you've had your fun!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Escaping from walled gardens
Monday, February 09, 2009
Undercurrents in the Press
'Independent media consultants at non-profit group Undercurrents worked with a firm of British solicitors and have used software and techniques that previously did not exist to enhance existing and some newly discovered video footage'.BBC News
Red Pepper (review of Mark Thomas Comedy DVD)
'This DVD is a must see for those with a taste for progressive politics and cutting edge comedy'
Permaculture magazine
' Excellent compilation of radical films by women' (review of Broad Horizons)
Ethical Consumer
"undercurrents...covering issues the mainstream fails to report...this is the stuff that history is made of!"
No Logo, Naomi Klein.
'Inspiration from watching footage from faraway [street] parties which is circulated through activist video networks, such as Oxford based Undercurrents'
Big Issue on Mark Thomas DVD
'genuinely spiky, challenging and entertaining viewing'
New Internationalist
' sizzling with cheeky radicalism......It's radical, it's not for profit, and it's damned good'
Time out
"The news you don't see on the news"
"shockingly direct filming"
Big Issue London
" Undercurrents is running courses on how activists can use video effectivley. The courses encourage people to think why they are filming in the first place"-
Big Issue Cymru
"Their use of domestic camcorders enables them to film where the networks can't or won't"
BBC Wildlife Magazine
"compulsory for those who write off the grassroots green movement as a bunch of unthinking anarcho dropouts"
IOV - Official publication of the Institute of Videographers -
"Undercurrents is sure to be a winner with those who are looking for more than just the mainstream news service offered by the broadcaster"
Camcorder User
"Undercurrents proves that if the mass media won't cover environmental and social issues properly, someone with a camcorder will"
"video networking does more than just reach the converted....spreading the word via the image.....Undercurrents is simply the most media-sussed manifestation of this activity"
Morning Star
'cramped but tidy office is packed with their weapons of revolt - a number of cameras hang from pegs, shelves are stocked with campaigning DVDs'
Camcorder User
" video footage, shot in front of the police lines has been seen on national tv news, helping to promote the activists side of the story"
New Scientist
"frontline reports from around the world....puts you in touch...in their own pictures as well as words...great for armchair revolutionaries."
The Guardian
"Undercurrents is good news for British media ....shows the angles television news misses..essential viewing...Shocks, informs and exposes"
John Pilger
"Undercurrents work is vital because in an age of media conformity, we need to hear more and more dissenting voices"
The Independent
"Compelling viewing"
Danny Schechter, Author of The More you Watch, The Less You Know.
"We need Undercurrents in the overcurrents, we need this kind of coverage routinely in the news"
Frank Fisher, Production Editor, Internet Manager, Index on Censorship-
"For 25 years Index has been cataloguing censorship and constraints on free expression throughout the world, yet right here in our own backyard censorship is flourishing - corporate gaggings, police targeting of journalists, a dumbed-down and blinkered news media; all of these things conspire to keep the truth hidden. And all of these forces for censorship have been exposed, relentlessly, by Undercurrents. They genuinely do report the news that others don't, and they report it with immediacy, veracity and a certain mischievous glee. The journalist Jon Snow once described Index on Censorship as a beacon around which hope and freedom rally; when we look out towards Undercurrents we see another beacon flickering back."
Times educational supplement (TES)
"Since the only filming equipment is a video camera undercurrents journalists are highly mobile to cover breaking stories..the video succeeds in getting otherwise overlooked images to a public that is used to getting its news from centralised and tightly controlled sources"
Tony Benn, MP
"I think Undercurrents is doing a marvellous job - you provide what we don't see in the media, and with that little box of tricks you can beat Rupert Murdoch, CNN and NBC - and you've got to do it!"
Howard Mark, former Drug smuggler
"The news the bastards don't want you to see"
Times educational supplement (TES)
"Reporting from a committed environmental perspective undercurrents is not constrained by the same requirements of balance as BBC or ITN news' 'if social action campaigners are arming themselves with video cameras it could soon mark a whole new meaning to the phrase "You've been framed"
The Law
"in this age of media power its control by the few and influence upon the many, news service such as undercurrents play an increasingly important part in informing the public as to what is really going on out there"
"films which bring you the news you will never see on the BBC"
i-D magazine
"shot on camcorders by empowered individuals and campaign groups it draws together footage of grassroots protest right across the country"
Daily Mail-
"uses scores of activists to provide footage for carefully edited videos entitled undercurrents"
London cyclist-
"undercurrents takes the pulse of the dynamic non violent protest movements in Britain and beyond"
Mariella Frostrup, Presenter of ITV's little picture show reviewing undercurrents
" The rise of the camcorder means that people everywhere have access to news gathering equipment and can use it to record, harass and incriminate"
PACT magazine
"when the media can't see a story, protesters make their own images"
The Guardian
"undercurrents is teaching activists how to deal with the media and how to use camcorders to their best effect"
Independent on Sunday
"undercurrents pick up on events that the news industry wouldn't find cost effective to cover"
Time out
" If you don't think the news represents your views film your own footage and flog it- that's the motto of the undercurrents camcorder activists who are taking over TV"
New Statesman
" undercurrents is running workshops on using cameras..this is ingenious DIY culture at
Friday, February 06, 2009
What is Creative Commons and why is it importent
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
A look at Conf around the world
Here is a look at the values of TED by the tat they push
And here are some of the faces of Davos, the people who at the center of coursing the worlds problems.
Monday, February 02, 2009
Women's Reproductive Rights Champion, Bill Baird, Speaks in Rochester, NY
A-Z of Bushcraft (Morocco)
BBC bans Gaza charity appeal
Re-broadcast under Fair Use Policy: Ex-cabinet minister and long-term MP Tony Benn takes on the BBC over their refusal to show the Gaza Crisis appeal ad.


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Author : PSRP Category : publications, research-capacity-building, transitional-justice-institute
In a post for Just Security, Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin(Transitional Justice Institute and Minnesota Law School) blogs on the news that Guatemalan prosecutors have announced the arrest of 14 former military officials on charges connected to massacres and disappearances during the country's protracted and bloody civil war.
The post is entitled 'The Past is Never Far Away: Prosecutions for Human Rights Violations in Guatemala'.
Professor Ní Aoláin's co-ordinates the 'Gender' theme of the Political Settlements Research Programme with TJI colleague, Dr Catherine O'Rourke.
Click here to read the full post on the justsecurity.org website.


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Welcome to Giorgio's Italian Restaurant, a locally family owned and operated one-of-a-kind restaurant. Tucked away in the corner of a quaint shopping mall at the heart of Monkey Junction, Giorgio's has been serving the Wilmington area for over 15 years. Offering age-old traditions and timeless recipes, perfection is accomplished by combining the perfect cuisine and atmosphere for a dining experience that is not soon forgotten. With years of cooking experience under one roof, the smells of old-fashioned home cooking float through the air creating that comforting feeling of home-away-from-home!
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Every girlfriend that I have gets pressed for time every now and then (some more than others), and all too often when something's got to give, it's the gym. Let's face it, you don't want to skip work or a hot date, so, unfortunately, the gym'd the first thing on the hit list.
So. what should you do? The quick and the real solution – the below 20-minute workout you can do at home. No commute to the health club, no traffic, no packing the gym bag. The workout below focuses on the legs, chest and abs. It requires no equipment and, if done with purpose, is intense enough to give you a great pump. Give it a try next time you're trapped at home or at the hotel and have the training itch.
How this workout works
- Perform the following exercises as a circuit, doing one set of each with minimal rest between exercises.
- If you're unable to reach the prescribed number of reps in a given set, rest-pause until you reach the rep count. Rest-pause is where, when reaching failure during a given set, you rest anywhere from 10-30 seconds and continue repping out.
- After each circuit, rest 2 minutes. Repeat the circuit 3-4 times, or however many times you can in 20 minutes.
1. Bodyweight Squat
- Stand with your feet shoulder width apart. You can place your hands behind your head or straight out in front of you. This will be your starting position.
- Begin the movement by flexing your knees and hips, sitting back with your hips.
- Continue down to full depth if you are able, and quickly reverse the motion until you return to the starting position. As you squat, keep your head and chest up and push your knees out.
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2. Incline Pushup
- Stand facing bench, chair or any sturdy elevated platform. Place hands on edge of bench or platform, slightly wider than shoulder width.
- Position forefoot back from bench or platform with arms and body straight. Arms should be perpendicular to body. Keeping body straight, lower chest to edge of box or platform by bending arms.
- Push body up until arms are extended. Repeat.
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3. Back Elevated Glute Bridge (Hip Thrust)
- Start with your shoulder blades against a bench, and your arms spread across it for stability. If your shoulders don't reach the bench, you may need to start with your butt slightly off the floor. Bend your knees to about 90 degrees, and make sure your feet are flat on the floor.
- Take a big breath in, blow your air out fully, and brace your core.
- Squeeze your glutes, lift up your hips, and hold a second or two. It's very important that you don't hyperextend your lower back at the top.
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4. Walking Lunge
- Begin standing with your feet shoulder width apart and your hands on your hips.
- Step forward with one leg, flexing the knees to drop your hips. Descend until your rear knee nearly touches the ground. Your posture should remain upright, and your front knee should stay above the front foot.
- Drive through the heel of your lead foot and extend both knees to raise yourself back up.
Step forward with your rear foot, repeating the lunge on the opposite leg.
5. Standard Push Up
- Get into plank position, with your hands under but slightly outside of your shoulders.
- Lower your body until your chest nearly touches the floor. As you lower yourself, tuck your elbows, pulling them close to your body so that your upper arms form a 45-degree angle when your torso is in the bottom position of the move.
- Pause, then push back to the starting position as quickly as possible. Keep your core braced the entire time.
- If your hips sag at any point during the exercise, your form has been broken. When this happens, consider that your last repetition and end the set.
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6. Crunch
- Lie flat on your back with your feet flat on the ground, or resting on a bench with your knees bent at a 90 degree angle. If you are resting your feet on a bench, place them three to four inches apart and point your toes inward so they touch.
- Now place your hands lightly on either side of your head keeping your elbows in. Tip: Don't lock your fingers behind your head.
- While pushing the small of your back down in the floor to better isolate your abdominal muscles, begin to roll your shoulders off the floor.
- Continue to push down as hard as you can with your lower back as you contract your abdominals and exhale. Your shoulders should come up off the floor only about four inches, and your lower back should remain on the floor. At the top of the movement, contract your abdominals hard and keep the contraction for a second. Tip: Focus on slow, controlled movement – don't cheat yourself by using momentum.
- After the one second contraction, begin to come down slowly again to the starting position as you inhale.
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I'm a little young to recognize Judy Collins from her heyday. Yet, I feel as if she is an old friend. Her music has been a life long companion to me. She is one of those artists who has shaped American culture, and given us a sound track to our lives.
This September marks the 6th anniversary of Judy Collins playing at the iconic Café Carlyle. Collin's career has spanned over 50 years. At the age of 22 she released her first Album A Maid of Constant Sorrow, which marked the beginning of a thirty five year association with Jac Holzman and Elektra Records.
Judy Collins is noted for her rendition of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now which has been entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 1975 her version of Stephen Sondheim's Send in the Clowns won the Grammy for Song of the Year. This is a woman who in spite of her 50 year's in the music industry hasn't slowed down at all. She is still touring with her music, has her own record label Wildflower Records, has authored books, is a keynote speaker, filmmaker, and helps mentor other artists in their careers. And at the age of 73 still has the voice of an angel. I swear after 50 years her voice has barely aged.
Walking into the Café Carlyle which is located inside The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel, is like walking back 30 or more years into a New York dream. The Café Carlyle is in every aspect old New York. Romantic table top lights flicker as diners sip fine wine and savor perfectly cooked meals. The hand painted murals on the walls seem to dance and interact as sophisticated waiters serve old style cocktails and scrumptious deserts. There is laughter, excited conversations mingling with the sound of knives and forks clinking on china. The only break in conversations is the silence that comes when the perfectly cooked food is savored. I had one of the tenderest flavorful filets of my life; juicy and rich. Along with a deep red wine that flowed all evening. Followed by a perfect piece of rich New York cheese cake.
The intimate setting of the beautiful Café Carlyle only added to the anticipation felt waiting for Collins to take the stage. She entered with her guitar hung around her neck, dressed in all white, giving off the air of an art deco angel. A tuxedo styled sequined blazer, sequined blouse, long skirt, diamond earrings, crystal necklace and silver shoes. Her hair now white still long and flowing and those famous eyes still a piecing blue.
In no time she had us in the palm of her hand, strumming on her guitar, singing her magic. Even taking her time to stop and tune her guitar all the while pulling us into the experience with a story about how Ravi Shankar makes tuning his instrument into just another song. Weaving her stories into songs, Collins interlaced anecdotes from her life and other famous folk she met along the way. Mesmerizing us with hits like: Send in the Clowns, Both Sides Now, Amazing Grace, and Judy Blue Eyes. Leaving her guitar to play the piano and sing a song written for her mother In the Twilight. At times she was backed in her singing with her amazing Musical Director Russell Walden and during The Farewell to Tarwathie the great whales lent their voices to hers. Collins had us giggling along with her when she spoke of the 'Folk Police' who during her career did not approve of her more rock inspired/or any non folk choices. My companion said he felt as if he were sitting in her living room at a small dinner party where she was the perfect hostess. I must add to support his experience there were a couple of times the audience was so enraptured and at ease they burst into song along with her.
If you haven't had the privilege and I do mean privilege to hear Judy Collins live. Quit reading this, get on the phone and book your table. You will not be disappointed.
We were truly mesmerized by the world Collin's created for us. She sang to our common experiences, to our shared loves, losses and hopes. For me it was almost a transcendental experience. I found myself silently weeping as the power of music and it's favored mistress cracked open my soul and poured in some light.
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Set of guidelines devised for euthanasia in Quebec
After months of work, medical professionals have devised a set of guidelines that will allow terminally ill patients to end their lives.
By the end of this year, euthanasia will be legal in Quebec, after the government passed Bill 52 last June.
The College of Physicians has come up with a list of steps to guide medical professionals through the process and is beginning the task of training them.
The procedure will include a cocktail of drugs that will sedate a patient, induce a coma and finally stop their breathing.
"It will be prescribed by the physician within a scope of drugs, and it will be a kit that will be prepared for each patient on an individual basis," explained Dr. Yves Robert, secretary of the Quebec College of Physicians. "We're going to meet psychiatrists, family physicians, the long-term care facilities and teams, the social workers, the nurses."
Quebec is the first province in Canada to legalize the right to die, and it could establish a framework for other provinces, said healthcare lawyer Jean-Pierre Menard.
"This kind of regulation can be applied in other provinces, because when we worked to establish that frame, we tried to do it on the competence of the health area so those regulations can be applied anywhere in Canada," he said.
To prevent abuse, Bill 52 only allows doctors to administer the lethal injection if a person is mentally fit, with an incurable illness, in unbearable physical and/or psychological pain and in an advanced state of irreversible decline.
Bioethicist Dr. David Roy thinks the guidelines are still too vague.
"One of the areas where medical judgment is fragile is on the prediction of death. There's a lot of uncertainty about who is going to die when," he said.
Even though patients can decide up until the last minute whether to go through with the process, Roy believes the first few months will pose some legal questions.
"What happens if the patient lapses into a state of unconsciousness and is no longer able to withdraw?" he posited.
Doctors also have a right to refuse to administer the drugs for moral or ethical reasons.
"According to the Quebec law, he must request to the health institution responsible for that patient and the authorities for that institution will have to find another doctor," said Menard.
A detailed set of guidelines will be made available for healthcare professionals online in the coming weeks.
As of Dec. 10, doctors will be able to administer euthanasia kits.


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The Randy Quaid arrest: How we got here
As noted in Celebritology this morning, Randy Quaid and his wife Evi are in trouble with the law again. The couple currently faces burglary charges for allegedly living in a guest house on a property in Montecito, Calif. The actor and his wife say they have owned the property since the 1990s, but documents indicate that it is currently owned by someone else, who bought the house from the person who bought it from the Quaids. In other words, Cousin Eddie and his spouse sold the place a long time ago, but seem to have forgotten.
This is hardly the first example of sadly strange behavior from the brother and sister-in-law of Dennis Quaid. Need a memory refresher on what preceded this event? Here's a timeline, which includes information about a recently filed lawsuit that could explain why the Quaids believe that guest house is rightfully theirs.
July, 1983: Quaid stars as the clueless, money-troubled Cousin Eddie in "National Lampoon's Vacation," a role he would reprise a few years later in "Christmas Vacation." Despite the obvious parallels, this was just an acting gig. Quaid's real life wouldn't start to vaguely mirror Eddie's for another two decades.
Oct. 5, 1989: Randy Quaid, then 38, marries Evi Motolanez, then 26, less than a year after meeting her on the set of "Bloodhounds of Broadway," the barely seen movie starring Madonna, Matt Dillon and Jennifer Grey. In a People magazine profile published a couple of months after they married, Evi Quaid joked: "My nightmare ... is that people are going to see National Lampoon's 'Christmas Vacation' and think, 'That's the guy Evi married.' " The couple would eventually adopt two children, Charlotte and Kaki.
Oct. 12, 2004: The IRS files the first of two tax liens against Randy Quaid for delinquent tax bills. His liens total $1.6 million, according to the Detroit News. It's unclear whether the liens have been paid.
March, 2006: Quaid files a lawsuit against Focus Features and the producers of "Brokeback Mountain," accusing them of not paying him adequately for his role in the Oscar-winning drama. He asks for $10 million in compensation and claims in the suit that the studio and director Ang Lee knew the film would be a major, well-marketed Hollywood release, not a small indie that required everyone to sacrifice their normal salaries. Quaid eventually dropped the lawsuit because, as the Associated Press reported, he said that Focus agreed to pay him a bonus. Focus reps denied that any such agreement was ever reached.
September 2009: The Quaids are arrested in Texas for allegedly skipping out on a $10,000 hotel bill in (yes) Montecito, Calif. The episode lead to reports of additional unpaid bills, as well as some missed court appearances and some bizarre ones in which the two are accompanied by Quaid's Golden Globe Award.
April 2010: Felony charges in the hotel case against Randy Quaid are dropped, but Evi Quaid pleads no contest to a misdemeanor: defrauding an innkeeper. She is sentenced to three years of probation. For a brief few months, it seems like maybe this is all behind them.
August, 2010: The Quaids sue their former lawyer and estate planner on the grounds that they created a fake living trust, stole their money and prevented other lawyers from representing them. The convoluted lawsuit -- filed in Los Angeles Superior Court according to Courthouse News Service -- may explain why the Quaids believe the house in which they were just arrested for squatting actually belongs to them. From the Courthouse News Service story:
"Quaid claims he and his wife bought a house in Montecito, Calif., in 1989 for $1.35 million. Quaid says he handed the details of the transaction off to his business manager, Warren Grant and his lawyer, Lloyd Braun, who is not listed as a defendant.
The next day, Quaid claims Braun and his wife, Lauren, attached their names to the deal's escrow account.
That got Braun access to Quaid's assets through a "pooled loan," allowing Braun to use Quaid's home equity for his own real estate deals without Quaid's knowledge, according to the complaint.
City National Bank allegedly played along with the plot because Braun designated it as the beneficiary of properties he bought with Quaid's equity.
In 1991, Quaid says he sold his Montecito home to then-Warner Bros. executive Bruce Berman, again letting Grant and Braun handle the sale. But Quaid claims he recently found out that the home is still in his name."
Still with us? Good, because that brings us to the present.
Sept. 18, 2010: The Quaids are arrested on felony burglary charges for occupying that aforementioned guest house. TMZ notes that the Quaids reportedly broke a $7,000 mirror that hung over the fireplace, then replaced it with a picture of themselves. It's unclear whether this latest arrest will be considered a violation of Evi Quaid's probation.
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As bizarre as anything Joaquin Phoenix could come up with.
Posted by: yellojkt | September 20, 2010 12:44 PM | Report abuse
Their lawyer Lloyd Braun sure gets around. He started out as a Dinkens aide and childhood friend of George Costanza.
Posted by: buffysummers | September 20, 2010 1:11 PM | Report abuse
Glad I'm not the only one who picked up on the Seinfeld parallel.
"Jerry was wearing glasses to fool Lloyd Braun!"
Posted by: GFisher1 | September 20, 2010 1:27 PM | Report abuse
Either heavy drug usage, or they are truly going schizo. Sad to see.
Posted by: mr_bill_10 | September 20, 2010 1:46 PM | Report abuse
He is weirder than I am. I feel better now.
Posted by: glenmayne | September 20, 2010 1:56 PM | Report abuse
Note to the Quaid's; dont smile for mug shots.
Posted by: nuke41 | September 20, 2010 2:22 PM | Report abuse
The Seinfeld Lloyd Braun had also had a mental/emotional breakdown and everyone tiptoed around him.
Posted by: nonsensical2001 | September 20, 2010 2:42 PM | Report abuse
serenity now!!!
Posted by: pswift00 | September 20, 2010 3:37 PM | Report abuse
Thank you, Jen, for answering my question in this morning's post: what the heck happened here?
Now that I know that, I can say this whole situation is still, as an Aussie friend of mine would say, a dog's breakfast.
Posted by: Californian11 | September 20, 2010 4:39 PM | Report abuse
Let us remember that Randy Quaid was abducted and (apparantly) diddled by aliens in "Independence Day". I prefer to regard this role as autobiographical. It explains everything.
Posted by: wgmadden | September 20, 2010 5:24 PM | Report abuse
Hey here's something else for the timeline:
2008: Randy Quaid Banned from Actors Equity.
for physically and verbally abusing fellow actors.
Posted by: eeepc | September 20, 2010 6:17 PM | Report abuse
Check out the mug shots. He looks demented and she looks bat s--t crazy.
Posted by: BurgundyNGold | September 20, 2010 8:08 PM | Report abuse
Poor fellow. I actually had a premonition that something like this might befall him someday after seeing "The Last Detail" (starring Jack Nicholson, 1973). Nicholson played a Navy SP (shore patrolman, aka cop) escorting a young, hapless prisoner named "Meadows" (Quaid) to a Navy Brig to serve a long sentence for a relatively trivial, even dumb offense; a swipe at the unfairness of military justice. Without dwelling on the ins-&-outs of the plot and theme, Quaid's performance (as a rather strange, somewhat spaced-out, even mildly-retarded social misfit inhabiting a parallel universe to the US Navy's) was altogether too convincing, like Otto Preminger's performance, as Oberst (Colonel) von Scherbach, in "Stalag 17" (my father, who knew him, remarked that Preminger wasn't acting).
One also hears odd echoes of the high-concept title of Tom Wolfe's famous last novel, "You Can't Go Home Again".
Posted by: hogsmile | September 20, 2010 9:25 PM | Report abuse
Time to star in "Brokeback Mountain 2" and earn some more cash.
Posted by: RealTexan1 | September 21, 2010 2:46 AM | Report abuse
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Two police officers honored
June 3, 2012
On May 8, the Greeley Luncheon Optimist Club honored two area police officers for their work in the communities of Milliken and Kersey.
Jim Burack, Milliken police chief, introduced Benito Garcia as the department's selection for the award. Benito is a graduate of Greeley West High School and the Aims Police Academy. As a youth he was a member of the Boys & Girls Clubs and now serves as a role model for young people.
Bob Kellerhuis, mayor of Kersey, introduced Kersey police Chief Pat Carey as Kersey's award recipient. Carey was with the Kersey Police Department for 22 years and retired at the end of May.
Optimist member Ron Wittow presented plaques to the officers as part of the Optimist Respect for Law Program, which honors law enforcement personnel each May.
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