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Friday, June 30, 2006
Tiara Chronicles
My good friend Photogirl - who is a professional photographer/artist and who took most of the birthday party pics (not this one - it is my crooked photo) gave me a tiara for my birthday. It is a shiny, star-studded, Miss America tiara. Photogirl presented it to me as a joke and we all enjoyed it immensely.
For the balance of the party - everyone tried it on and/or wore it. Photogirl took pictures of each person. Tiara's engender all kinds of vamping, posing and fun. Some guests looked like a princess, some like all they wanted was world peace, some looked sheepish and everyone just goofed off.
So, here is my best friend J - holding the birthday tiara on a pillow - my next posts will feature my beautiful friends in their tiara moment. Stay tuned.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Birthday Party News - First Installment
The party was a huge success - table was gorgeous, food and wine absolutely perfect and company was divine. It rained off and on all day Saturday. My dream was to dine outside. Undaunted, J and I went and purchased a 12 x 12 foot canopy for the backyard - it rained while we dressed the table - it rained after it was set - we had our appetizers inside and still it rained. Fifteen minutes before dinner, it stopped raining and we ate outside - perfect. I have many more pictures to post and more to share. Thanks for your good wishes and kind thoughts on my birthday.
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Happy Saturday
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Saturday Night
- Arrival appetizer: Spinach and Goat Cheese Phyllo Cups
- Grilled Polenta with Spicy Tomato Relish
- Caesar Salad in Parmesan Cups
- Chilled Avocado Soup in Ancho Cream
- Ahi Tuna Cube with Sesame Seeds and Tobiko
- Watermelon Dice with Aged Balsamic Vinegar
- Baby Lamb Chop with Mustard Crust
- Lobster Corn Dogs with Hot Mustard and Plum Sauce
- Seared Scallop BLT
- Trio of Sorbets with Champagne
- Coffee, Truffles and Liqueurs
Each course is served on a perfect little plate wonderfully presented. This is the nicest birthday gift I could ever give myself - good friends, great food, wonderful wine - all done in my backyard. I don't sound too excited do I?
J arrives this afternoon. Tomorrow will be the last errands and a spa afternoon for us starting at 3:30! Friday morning the table and chairs for the backyard will be delivered and Friday night I am cooking dinner for a small gathering to celebrate J's 59th birthday, which was June 12.
It never occurred to me that Tom would not be here for my 60th Birthday - it has been a difficult few days. I don't often go to the cemetary but for some reason I want to do so and J has never been to the grave. So somewhere in all the preparations, I want to toodle over there with some flowers.
I am filled with gratitude - the party begins soon.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Woo Hoo
Wow - today is the one year anniversary of my first post on this blog. So happy anniversary blog - it seems like a heartbeat and it seems like a million years. This has been a transformative year. A year of grief and growth. A year of meeting new people - of learning about myself, of gallons of tears and learning to laugh again. Thanks for being a companion on this journey to a new life.
Monday, June 19, 2006
The Convergence
Many friends are beginning their trek to St. Paul to help me celebrate my birthday. There is a big dinner in my backyard on Saturday night - Chef Theo has been hired to cook an amazing meal for us - he is bringing someone to serve, and fabulous wine will complement the delicious food. Saturday night there is a slumber party after the dinner for a handful of women friends - more laughter, more stories, more wine and toasting marshmallows over the outdoor fireplace. Much more ahead - I will post the menu as soon as we work out the final details. The party will be fun, the food incredible - and yet, the most important aspect of this party --- to have ten of my best women friends here all together in one place, at one time. Beautiful, dynamic, powerful women. We are going to rock St. Paul.
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Finally, we need it so much. I usually do not have to consistently water the garden and lawn as I have this year. Today is rain and probably a good old midwestern thunder storm somewhere in the mix.
After a personally stormy week, I am feeling better. These death anniversaries can be really difficult. During this second year, some have been much easier, a blessing. Some still slam me in the back of the head - like yesterday's - at nineteen months.
So while it is partly cloudy and rain is predicted here in St. Paul - I am feeling more like those peeks of sun shining through the clouds. Today, J and I are facilitating a meeting at Head Start - part of a really neat change effort we are doing with them. I am looking forward to the day. I am grateful to be on this planet. I am blessed. Namaste.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Fifty Days
Monday, June 12, 2006
Dragonfly Legend
In the bottom of an old pond lived some grubs who could not understand why none of their groups ever came back after crawling up the stems of the lilies to the top of the water. They promised each other that the next one who was called to make the upward climb would return and tell what happened to him. Soon one of them felt an urgent impulse to seek the surface; he rested himself on the top of a lily pad and went through a glorious transformation, which made him a dragonfly with beautiful wings. In vain, he tried to keep his promise. Flying back and forth over the pond, he peered down at his friends below. Then he realized that even if they could see him they would not recognize such a radiant creature as one of their number.
The fact that we cannot see our friends or communicate with them after the transformation, which we call death, is no proof that they cease to exist.
- Walter Dudley Cavert
Friday, June 09, 2006
With a Wide Open Heart
The second year of grief is complicated. It is intense in a way that the first year can't match. The horror has receded, the protective coat of numbness and disbelief is gone.
There are many ways I have moved on. Tom would not recognize this house. I am able to think again. I have regained my confidence in my professional and problem solving abilities. I am filled with gratitude that I was fortunate to know unconditional love.
Above is the tarot card - The Seven of Pentacles - one interpretation is -----
On the Seven of Pentacles we see a man who has labored long and hard in his garden. The foliage is full, the blossoms are out - it seems that his work has paid off. Now he's taking a break to admire his handiwork. How satisfying it is to see such fine results! How rewarding is sweet success!
The Seven of Pentacles is a time-out card. It represents those moments after a rush of activity when we stop to catch our breath and look around. The man in the picture has paused to contemplate the fruits of his own labors, but he could also pick that fruit. In readings, the Seven of Pentacles can indicate a reward that will come your way, particularly as a result of your own efforts. Take it and enjoy.
This card is also a call for assessment. When we're busy, we don't always have time to reflect on what we're doing and why. Are we still on course? Are we getting the results we want? Serious problems can develop if you don't take stock at key moments. In readings, this card suggests that you take the time to be sure you're meeting your goals.
The Seven of Pentacles can also indicate a crossroads. In life, there's a tendency to continue with familiar routines. To go in a new direction isn't easy. The Seven of Pentacles may be telling you to figure out if you need a course correction, or even a complete about-face. You're not yet committed to a certain path, but you could be soon. Change is still possible.
The Seven of Pentacles is not a card of endings or final decisions. The game is not over, but only on hold for a moment. Once you've gotten your breath back and checked your strategy, be ready to jump back in and work even harder than before.
Here is one of my favorite poems - it resonates deep in my soul. The journey continues.
The Seven of Pentacles
Under a sky the color of pea soup
she is looking at her work growing away there
actively, thickly like grapevines or pole beans
as things grow in the real world, slowly enough.
If you tend them properly, if you mulch, if you water,
if you provide birds that eat insects a home and winter food,
if the sun shines and you pick off caterpillars,
if the praying mantis comes and the ladybugs and the bees,
then the plants flourish, but at their own internal clock.
Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
You cannot tell always by looking what is happening.
More than half a tree is spread out in the soil under your feet.
Penetrate quietly as the earthworm that blows no trumpet.
Fight persistently as the creeper that brings down the tree.
Spread like the squash plant that overruns the garden.
Gnaw in the dark and use the sun to make sugar.
Weave real connections, create real nodes, build real houses.
Live a life you can endure; make love that is loving.
Keep tangling and interweaving and taking more in,
a thicket and bramble wilderness to the outside but to us
interconnected with rabbit runs and burrows and lairs.
Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen:
reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in.
This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always,
for every gardener knows that after the digging, after the planting.
After the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.
Marge Piercy
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Summer Beckons
What a wonderful time of year. It is especially precious when you live as far north as us Minnesotans. These are the days that make the long, dark, cold days of winter worth it.
Summer is just beginning - there are many more flowers to come. This is just the first taste. Pure enjoyment.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Fine Tuesday Morning
So, it's off to work for me today. Flower and garden pictures to come.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
I have been working in the backyard and visiting over the fence with my neighbor V. We both love to garden. In addition to the backyards, she and I have a really nice front container garden that we collaborate on every year. I'll take some pictures and post them in a few days --- we have been working on this joint project for the last four years and it is fun.
This has been a weekend of unremitting longing for you know who - it is amazing how the grief can still sneak right up on you and grab you by the throat with little warning. The real tip-off is crying in the car - every widow I know drives and weeps. I don't do it much anymore - but it is still there lurking in the background. Driving and crying popped up a few times Friday and Saturday.
Here is a quote that says it quite succinctly:
"See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me." Gretchen Kemp, Mizpah
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Self Portrait with a Digital Camera
Don't ask me why - here I am on some kind of countdown to my birthday, which is June 25th.
I took these photos yesterday in my dining room - they are a bit overexposed, but oh well.
It is really exciting to have such a significant birthday on the horizon. Sixty is definitely a transformational time - it feels to me like I am embarking on a new journey. I never thought that I would have this birthday without Tom here to celebrate with me. I remember my 50th so clearly and how excited he was to throw a big party and laugh and hug and.............
This birthday, I am having a very small, very special, very intimate dinner party on my patio. In attendance, 9 of the women who are and have been closest to me over the years. My friend Missy, who I have not physically seen since 1987 is coming from New Orleans - Joan is flying in from Florida. I have retained a personal chef to come to the house to cook a wonderful meal for us - good food, fabulous wine, magnificent company of beautiful women. This will be a birthday to savor and remember.
Friday, June 02, 2006
Six to Sixty
This is the picture on my birthday party invitation. It is my sixth birthday.
I have a little caligraphy that I have hung in every home since 1980 -
We really never grow old it seems
We keep in our hearts our fancies and dreams
And in a corner all tucked away
Is the child we all were yesterday
Thursday, June 01, 2006
UPDATE - St. Paul Quit Project
38 days, 10 hours, 6 minutes and 23 seconds smoke free.
576 cigarettes not smoked.
$131.62 and 4 days, 9 hours of your life saved.
Feeling great - thanks for your encouragement and support.


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I appealed to the Jama'at to pray that we are safeguarded from the animosities and hostilities of these cruel people, I also appealed that we should pray that Allah Almighty cleanses the country of such people who cause disorder and oppression so that this country (Pakistan) can be saved. (Friday Sermon 14th Oct 2011)
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For 50 years the Georgia Straight has served as the voice of reason during a number of turbulent times. With fearless tenacity, the Straight has always taken the good fight to the powers that be, whether they come in the form of big business, city hall, the provincial legislature, parliament or just plain human folly.
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Dear Rebecca,
It's November 2011 and in a few short days you will find yourself thrown in the deep end, Lee will have to return offshore and you'll be left alone with a tiny new born, still recovering from the birth, with the weight of the world on your shoulders. At the moment you are feeling oh so worried & anxious, only 22 & already feeling so unsure of who you are & how the future is going to pan out, you've never been one of the super maternal ones, but here you are a mummy!
I want to tell you that you've got this…those first few weeks doing it solo are the absolute making of you, you were MADE to be a mum & you are smashing it! I only wish I could tell you that YOU are ENOUGH, you are all your baby needs & to stop doubting yourself because in a few short years you find a new confidence, not the kind where you can walk into a room without a care in the world (in all honesty you still find that one tricky, though you disguise it well) but you are so sure of yourself as a parent, as a mother!
I want to tell you to TRUST your gut, there really is nothing stronger than a mother's instinct, when people say, "Mum's just know", they are telling the truth & hey, guess what, you're a Mum now & you just know!
I want to tell you to stay in your pyjamas, stop cleaning the house, get back on the sofa & put the baby routine books down, loose track of time & let your sweet baby sleep on your chest all day whilst you watch trash TV & soak up her smell. The health visitor doesn't care if the house is a mess & she certainly isn't going to take your baby away for leaving a few dishes on the side! People won't judge you for taking days slowly, having unwashed hair & un-hovered carpets and if they do, who cares, I'll tell you one thing, you soon see what everyone means when they say "they grow too fast", next time (YES you go on to have MORE girls!!!) with each newborn phase you go on to savour it for as long as possible.
Stop buying all the things, you don't have much money & I know you think you need allllll the things to be able to create a perfect home & perfect start for your new baby, I'll say it again, YOU are all your baby needs!
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Last Monday, the California Supreme Court pleased gay-rights advocates and infuriated their counterparts in the shadows. It became the first court in the nation to rule – in three cases – that homosexual couples who plan and raise a family together have the same responsibilities and rights as straight parents following a breakup.
It is a plain, common-sense ruling but must have single-handedly increased the national stammering rate among conservatives by a factor of five.
Writing for the majority, Justice Carlos Moreno concluded, "We perceive no reason why both parents of a child cannot be women."
All three cases are similar. The lead case, Elisa B. vs. Superior Court, S125912, illustrates the issues. Not surprisingly to most of us, they are not so different than you would expect in any other child-support dispute. As the San Francisco Chronicle's article recapped it:
(P)artners Elisa B. and Emily B. had children in 1997 and 1998, respectively, using the same sperm donor, and raised them together before separating in 1999. Elisa agreed to provide financial support whenever she could for her stay-at-home partner's twins -- one of them seriously ill -- but stopped making payments 18 months after the couple separated.Note: You can review the particulars of all three cases at the California Supreme Court site. The other two cases are Kristine H. vs. Lisa R. (S126945); and K.M. vs. E.G. (S125643).
Reversing a lower-court ruling, the Supreme Court said Elisa was a legal parent of the children she had helped to plan and raise, and must pay $1,815 a month in child support. El Dorado County sued Elisa for support after Emily applied for welfare.
"We were doing everything we possibly could to form a family,'' Emily B. said at a news conference after the ruling. Noting that children of an opposite-sex couple would clearly have been entitled to support in the same situation, she said the court recognized the needs of "children who were invisible.''
What has blown away the anti-homosexual people is how clearly the court defined the issues and decisions on what is right for the children involved and how the nature of parental obligations do not depend on one-man/one-woman think.
The Los Angeles Times coverage had a few predictable quotes:
By contrast, Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families, which opposes gay marriage, said the court's position "goes against nature."Likewise, the ever indignant Matt Staver of the (ironically located in the Sunshine State) Liberty Counsel let a press release escape from his law firm. It concludes:
"Despite junk science and frustrating rulings like this, children still need a mother and a father," Thomasson said. "A child does not have two mommies or two daddies; a child comes into this world because she has a mother who gave her egg and a father who gave his sperm."
The court's stand "ignores the self-evident truth that God designed a man and a woman to fit together and participate in the miracle of procreation," he said.
Today's ruling defies logic and common sense. By saying that children can have two moms, the court has undermined the family. This ruling establishes a policy that essentially says moms and dads are mere surplus. Thousands of studies conclude that children need moms and dads, not two moms and two dads, but one of each. Gender does matter to children. Today's ruling underscores the importance of amending California's constitution to preserve marriage as one man and one woman. The people of California will not put up with such nonsense.So much for children and families. The anti types would gladly sacrifice the welfare of the kids for their increasingly narrow point of theocracy.
Previous to these cases, California's highest court waffled related issues. For example, it had ruled in 1993 that for legal purposes, a child can have only one natural mother. Meanwhile, surrogate parenting, artificial insemination, domestic partnerships and various gay couplings brought new ingredients to the suit pot.
Referring to the 1993 decision, the court noted that it was meant to resolve claims between a surrogate parent and the woman who signed the contract to have her deliver a child. This did not anticipate nor preclude lesbian parents.
The court was unanimous on two similar cases requiring post-breakup child support. You plan the child, you claim to be the parent, you start raising `em, and you are responsible for your share of the bills. Period.
In the third case, it split 4 to 2. As the Chronicle summarized this one:
...Kim M., donated eggs to her partner that were fertilized by an anonymous donor and resulted in the birth of twin girls in December 1995. The couple raised the children together for more than five years before separating. The birth mother, E.G., then took the twins to Massachusetts, and Kim M. sued for parental rights.The decisions dovetail nicely with California's domestic partnerships. Of course, in all of the nations and the state where same-sex marriage is legal, this kind of ruling is unnecessary. Parents pay to play.
A state appeals court ruled last year that E.G. was the girls' sole parent, noting that Kim M. had signed a prenatal agreement waiving parental rights. But the Supreme Court majority said the agreement -- which Kim M. claimed she signed under pressure -- was not binding because Kim M. was a biological parent and because the partners had always intended to raise the children together.
In dissent, Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar said the ruling disregards the partners' intentions, violates E.G.'s right to choose to be a single parent and calls into question the validity of many pre-birth agreements. One member of a couple who donates eggs to her partner may now be regarded as a parent in the future regardless of her intentions, Werdegar said.
E.G.'s lawyer, Diana Richmond, said the ruling jeopardizes sperm donors as well as egg donors. "It foists responsibility on people who weren't really willing to commit to be parents,'' she said.


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The bag of Google Maps alternatives just got heavier with Nokia's new mapping service announced today. The Finnish smartphone maker has revamped and rebranded its mapping service, which aims to take on the likes of Google and Microsoft. The mapping solution has been ambiguously labelled as Here.
Accessible at Here.net, Nokia believes this is the "most accurate map" on the Internet. Based on HTML5, Nokia's Here maps works seemingly faster on desktops, smartphones, and all the mid- and high-end tablets.
Users on desktops and laptops can access Nokia Here by visiting Here.net (or Here.com). The web version welcomes us with an interface we all are familiar with — search engine sits on the left of header with a list of option next to it: Directions, Collections, and Map Creator.
Directions is used to find the distance between two places. Collections can be used to remember places you have visited and access these places on your phone or computer. The last one, Maps Creator, which is still in beta, allows users to edit maps and refine directions that are wrongly positioned.
Users are required to register an account to use Collections and Maps Creator.
As you visit Here.net on your browser, a green button at the bottom blinks with a message "explore near your location." Clicking on this button tracks your location and shows places around you that are worth a look. Discovering new places, as Nokia believes, was never this easy.
Nokia says it offers 3D maps on Here, but desktop users cannot access these maps from the homepage. Users have to visit http://here.net/webgl to explore the gorgeous 3D view of our planet.
It's fast, we said to ourselves when we accessed Nokia Here using an iPhone running on iOS 6. Maps loaded quickly, which was a surprise given our slow Internet connection.
Everything we have seen on desktop version is available on the mobile phone — from live traffic to finding directions or discovering new places.
Despite developing a tight relationship with Microsoft, Nokia Here maps will be first available in the form of an app to Apple users. According to Nokia, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users will be able to download Nokia Here app in the upcoming weeks.
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Apple's very own Apple Maps was introduced a couple of months ago with the new iOS 6 firmware, replacing Google Maps. Though Apple Maps works quite well in some parts of US, it is still considered as a step backwards in Apple's history. Users worldwide have found Apple Maps completely useless.
Not everything is super-fast and awesome with Here Maps. The map was fast, yes, but choppy when we were zooming in and out on our iPhone 4S. Fonts, compared to Google Maps, look dull.
However, the 3D version of the Here maps was surprisingly faster.
Nokia acquiring Berkeley, California-based Earthmine, a company focusing on capturing 3D data using various technologies, is the reason why we have an evolved version of Nokia maps. Nokia Here is positioned itself rightly to beat the daylight out of Google Maps and Apple Maps by adding Maps Creator. As more and more users register and edit roads, name places, accuracy of Here Maps will only be refined.
"For the location platform to be at the highest quality, one needs scale, and you need as many different people contributing as possible," Stephen Elop, chief executive of Nokia, said in an interview with The New York Times.
Apple has kept both the ends of the rope to itself and doesn't allow users to edit or add places.
Nokia has also promised to release an HTML5 Here app for Mozilla Firefox OS next year. Indoor navigation is still in the works, but it's unavailable at the moment.
Have you used Nokia Here? Will you replace this with your default map application?
Press Release of Nokia Here Maps [PDF]


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Do you remember "A Nice Cuppa"? If not, you can see it here. They retired the stamp set and dies and those darling embellishments which went with it together with the 6"x 6" DSP stack and it made me sad because I think here in the UK we are a nation of mostly tea drinkers. In our household, it's 50/50 - hubby can't start his day without a cup of coffee and usually consumes 3 or 4 a day with the occasional tea, whereas I usually have tea and occasionally a coffee. Generally speaking caffeine in coffee keeps me awake, so I tend to ask for de-caffeinated especially if we're dining out and rounding our meal off with coffee in the evening.
This week, I learnt that to make the perfect brew - you need to use purified water, or filtered water, and freshly boiled water poured over the tea bag and leave it to steep in the cup for 5 minutes before it's ready to drink. Apparently it's even better if it's in a red cup (not essential but there is some psychological jiggery pokery to the brain that says it is)! So of course we acquired a water filter jug to test this claim and much to our surprise, it really did taste better and you don't get that awful scum on the top of your cup. Since making that discovery, hubby is drinking tea and coffee in equal measure!
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Welcome back to another Imagine If… Blog Hop – today the sleigh-makers from last week are making Christmas cards, and the layout-makers of last week have become sleigh-makers. If you want to start at the beginning you can go to the Imagine If…Blog, and if you've come from Ngaere's Gothic Sleigh then you're in the right spot.
It was such fun making some different Christmas Cards (I usually make them all the same each year for ease and so I don't double up!).
The first card is using the chipboard Gingerbreadmen from the Gingerbread and Candy Cane set, I covered these with brown cardstock, then added Liquid Pearls for the faces and trim on arms and legs, and glitter glue for the buttons. I had a piece of red gingham paper in my scraps which suited these little treats perfectly. I added some brown rick-rack, and foam mounted one of the sentiments from the Imagine If… Christmas Quotes Sheet.
For this second card, I used one of my Penny Black stamps – this cute little kitty, and the chipboard Santa hat was the perfect size – such a fun way to incorporate a non-Christmas stamp into a Christmas card. I stamped and embossed the kitty, then coloured him with Distress Markers and a water brush. The hat was coloured with Distress Stain, and then I glued a bit of cottonwool onto the headband and pompom. The sentiment I painted with Picket Fence Distress Paint. A hand drawn black border pulled it all together.
The third card I took inspiration from the sentiment off the Quote Sheet "From our House to Yours", and I thought the jandles gave it a Kiwi Christmas feel. The Christmas tree (in my house) is from the Set 2 Mini Xmas Trees, I covered it in pale green cardstock – trying to keep the summery feel, and then used Liquid Pearls and Distress Stickles to add the lights, and edged it in a darker green using a Distress Marker (these are so great for inking the edges of things – quick and no mess!). The sentiment was coloured with Distress Stains, and then Distress Stickles added, and the jandles coloured with Distress Stains. I used Distress Markers and a waterbrush to colour the Quote Sheet too.
I hope you've been inspired to get started on your own Christmas cards. The next Christmas Cards to see are Katrina's, so leave me a comment and then hop over there and see what she's been up to.


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We don't usually think of String Cheese Incident fans as homicidal. But last August, Lucas Piper was accused of being an exception to this rule, for allegedly trying to burn down a house full of people he met at an SCI show at Red Rocks.
Now, Piper has been sentenced to more than two decades in stir for the crime -- and Rachel Lewin, his companion at the scene, is due in court tomorrow regarding charges of attempted murder and arson.
According to Steve Davis of the Lakewood Police Department, who spoke to us for an August 2013 post, Piper, now 23, and Lewin, who was 21 at the time of the incident and is described by the First Judicial District DA's office as his girlfriend, attended the String Cheese Incident concert at Red Rocks on July 26 -- a gig that inspired a Westword slide show.
Afterward, they were invited to the home of James Bartlett, who lives in a duplex on the 12300 block of West Viewpoint Drive -- not that they were pals. "Before that night, the home owner and Lewin and Piper were not acquainted with one another," Davis said. "They apparently met that night. Piper and Lewin were invited to the house and the concert by someone all of them knew who never showed up." Piper and Lewin are said to have arrived at the address around 1 a.m. on Saturday, July 27, with others filtering in afterward. Davis noted that Piper was introduced to Bartlett and others there not by his given name, but as "Sky."
Another witness -- Conner Wood, described in the report as a friend of Bartlett's -- told investigators that Piper subsequently got into a conversation that turned sour. "They were talking about different kinds of drugs," Davis allows, "and Wood said Sky didn't take kindly to it; he called Sky a rude person."
After that, Wood and a friend left for a while -- and upon his return, Davis quoted him as saying, "Sky was upset about something."
He was also threatening, the report maintains. Referencing Bartlett, Davis says "Sky was angry and made a statement about burning down his house."
At that point, Piper and Lewin left -- "and about fifteen minutes later," Davis continued, "the fire started."
Continue for more about the sentencing of Lucas Piper, including additional photos. When West Metro Fire responded to the scene, shortly before 5 a.m., the duplex was engulfed in flames, with the blaze having apparently started on the front porch. Firefighters eventually managed to knock it down -- they described the damage as "moderate," while police on the scene called it "extensive" -- and determined that it was deliberately set.
As the flames climbed, Davis said, "there were four or five people in the home." However, the residents of the duplex were also around. For that reason, an arrest warrant written in Piper's name listed nine counts of attempted homicide on top of first-degree arson. (One person suffered minor injuries.)
Although Lewin was caught almost immediately, Piper managed to scamper away. But after police shared around the photo at the top of this post and noted that he was wanted for first-degree arson and nine counts of attempted murder (the number corresponding to the combined total of people in the duplex), he didn't remain free for long.
Cut to April 4, when Piper pleaded guilty to one count of attempted first-degree murder -- extreme indifference, a charge that named all nine people who'd been in the duplex, plus first-degree arson and conspiracy to commit arson. And yesterday, he was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Lewin's fate has not yet been sealed. The First Judicial District DA's office notes that she faces accusations of attempted first-degree murder -- extreme indifference and arson. She'll return to court tomorrow, May 15.
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When "Stony Island" hit the silver screen
Here's a lost gem: The movie Stony Island, directed by Chicago-born Andrew Davis, who'd later helm big budget films like the also filmed-in-Chicago flick, The Fugitive.
Released in 1978, but shot earlier, the movie (originally called My Main Man from Stony Island) is about a group of musicians who form a multi-racial band. It was filmed in Chicago back when movies were rarely shot here. And it was shot on the South Side, which was an even rarer occurrence back then.
Dennis Franz and Rae Dawn Chong--you can see her in the clip above--are also in the movie, as is Susanna Hoffs, later of The Bangles and Ming Tea (Hoffs' mother, Tamar Simon Hoffs, co-wrote the script with Davis and Davis' brother Richard--a musician in real life--plays band member Richie.) The old Burning Spear nightclub at 55th and State is seen. And in a bit of filmmaking reminiscent of Haskell Wexler's dropping his characters in the middle of the actual street disturbances of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Medium Cool, Davis' has his characters showing up at Mayor Richard J. Daley's 1976 funeral.
Stony Island isn't on DVD, which is a shame. There is some pretty funky music by the film's Stony Island Band, put together by legendary producer/sax maestro Gene Barge who appears in the movie as father-figure to the band.
(Indulge me for a moment here: Among Barge's many achievements, he co-wrote "Quarter to Three" by Gary "U.S." Bonds in 1961 and blows the tune's wicked sax solo and is referenced--"Daddy G"--in the song. He also plays sax on Chuck Willis' "C.C. Rider." Check out Barge's solo at 1:10.)
Back to Stony Island. The 35-second trailer above--with the late Adolph Caesar doing the voice over--gives a few tantalizing glimpses of 1970s Chicago. Is that the old Jackson Park CTA line on 63rd? And at the :17 mark, as the camera glides by that Chicago police squad car, you can catch the marquee of the long-demolished Woods Theater, 54 W. Randolph, in the sideview mirror of the car in which the camera is riding.


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I have yet to find a good location in my meanderings with ideal winds and ample space ideal for kiteflying. Although it might help if I had the money to explore the area better and some of my kites from storage, it doesn't preclude me from looking around whenever I get a chance. I found out that there is a Kite Festival in March at Zilker Park, although I have not been inside this park yet to scope out the recreational facilities. That will be in one of my selected areas the next time I walk along Lady Bird Trail.
If I am not able to get one or more of my kites from storage before the festival, I may need to stop at one of the local shops, such as World Wind Kites, Hobbytown, or any number of local retailers, and pick something up. I will also keep my eyes open for other good kite flying spots near Austin.


text: The Complicated Legacy Of Michael Jordan & Black Issues Brandon Caldwell July 25, 2016 Features, Sports 2 Comments What does it mean if Michael Jordan is finally speaking out against black issues? In 2014, ESPN wrote a profile of Michael Jordan in regards to African-American issues. The writer, Scoop Jackson, detailed Roland Lazenby's biography of Jordan and his influence on economics. Jordan's brand is the most sterling of brands when it comes to sneakers, apparel, and reach. Few believe Jordan achieved this platform by stepping on toes. Even more decry his name for a line that has dogged him in the eyes of many, "Republicans buy sneakers too" (Jordan has denied ever saying this.) That was 1990, right at the apex of African-American teenagers and children being shot and killed for their Jordans. Sports Illustrated ran an article in May of that year titled "Your Sneakers Or Your Life". The lede featured a story about a 17-year-old boy strangling a 15-year-old boy and stealing his Air Jordans. The Jordans were the story, though as it would turn out – the 17-year-old would turn out to be a serial killer and had actually sodomized his 15-year-old victim as well. America didn't know that. America merely made the correlation of street culture, sneaker culture and the demand for the hottest sneakers in the world and ran with it. Jordan was not vocal with his politics. He was white, indifferent, a behind the scene player more than front line hellraiser like Ali, Jabbar, Jim Brown, John Carlos & Tommie Smith. But by him remaining silent, it created the storm of Anti-Jordan support. Jabbar said he championed "commerce over conscience" in 2015. The rumor of him donating money to prisons allowed the idea of contributing to the prison industrial complex to fester. The truth of that is that it was somebody else named Michael Jordan. Jordan's fight in regards to politics was never about being vocal – it was about economic empowerment. Per ESPN: Jordan just happens to do this "black thing" in a way that has been different. Quiet. Subtle. And no one gets it. His contribution to the race has been by providing power but not by voice. Most blacks aren't used to that. We want our leaders and heroes to make noise. Instead, Jordan has had more black people employed and upwardly moving through a $2.5 billion shoe brand for years. And now he's carrying that same process over to franchise ownership. "After Jim Crow laws went into effect [in North Carolina], African-Americans there had no political rights," Roland Lazenby said recently. "They had to focus on economic rights. That's the only way they got ahead. Nobody, black or white, made any money in sharecropping. It was a disastrous economic system. But [Michael Jordan's] mother's father was a badass as a sharecropper. He kicked ass, came to own his own land, determined his own fate. His mother, although she didn't get along well with her father, was just like him, locked in on economic success." Contextualize that with Jordan being the owner of the Charlotte Hornets where he has African-Americans in positions that no other team in the NBA has people in as well as an executive staff with more people of color on it than any other team in sports and you have, again, something more than a T-shirt. The case for Jordan Michael Jordan wasn't on the front lines of protest, of activism. He handled it in the board room via his hiring practices, by donating to Barack Obama's presidential campaign in 2008 and re-election campaign in 2012. He launched a $5 million grant program in Washington D.C. for teachers in poor areas in 1999. In December of 2015, Jordan donated all of the $8.9 million in settlement money he received after suing two supermarket chains over improper use of his likeness to 23 non-profit organizations in Chicago. He being the lone black majority owner in the NBA was adamant in the removal of former Clippers owner Donald Sterling in 2014. The irony of 2016 has hit Jordan in various ways, much like the year has hit all of us in different levels. HB2 affected the city of Charlotte and cost them the 2017 NBA All-Star Game. Jordan was a vocal proponent against the bill and understood the league moving the game. Michael Jordan speaking about the recent police shootings in Dallas, Baton Rouge & Falcon Heights is a larger, larger thing. In a letter to ESPN's The Undefeated, Jordan wrote that he could "no longer stay silent" on the issue, pledging $1 million apiece to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund & Institute for Community-Police Relations, a chapter created by the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Jordan's vocal power is large enough. The donation to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, a group that separated itself from the NAACP in 1957 is a bold one. The group's first President was Thurgood Marshall from 1940 to 1951 and its campaign against segregation led to the eventual Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954. It's legal arm has worked towards removing bias from policing in municipalities ranging from Ferguson to Stockton, CA and has remained steadfast in fighting inadequacies in the criminal justice system. In a way, the LDF operates the same way Jordan does in his "activism". They're "quiet" and work within the moments that aren't bright, when the stories fade to the back page. Donating money to the IACP's Institute for Community-Police Relations essentially is a donation to a fraternal order of police in an effort to improve community relations. Jordan may have made a step here, but it's only a half step. Donating $2 million to improve community relations is one thing, not explicitly addressing the elephant in the room is another. The case against Jordan At the crux of all of this, the improper policing, the biases lobbied upon black and brown people and more is racism. It was ignored completely and given a status of general apathy during the President's Town Hall earlier this month. It was also ignored in Jordan's letter. He's right, improved relations between the police and the citizens they're asked to protect has to occur. Saying we need to find solutions to ensure that "people of color receive fair and equal treatment" is an essential statement. Also letting it be known that policing in regards to him as arguably the most famous person on Earth and other men & women who may look like him is also a key point for Jordan. But all of it feels like something old, some of the same ethos preached by President Obama that ultimately feels like lip service to one side and an eye roll for the other. Saying all of this without detailing the root is what may bother me and many others. It may bother people who already have fostered thoughts about Jordan due to his perceived lack of empathy in regards to the pricing of his shoes and people murdering one another over them. In one way, Jordan won't win over people that way. He'll forever be the butt of jokes (non Jordan Cry Face) and scorn for the believed "overpricing" of his shoes when the market dictates such things. Carmelo Anthony, a Jordan Brand athlete who used the 2016 ESPYs as a platform to discuss state sanctioned murder against black men said Jordan's move was "brilliant and about time". The about time part may be stinging but it's right. Jordan's father was murdered in 1993 and it's burned at him ever since. Jordan's also the father of two black boys who while rich and born in affluence may get the same treatment of anyone who doesn't look like Michael Jordan. To have him verbally decry frustrations in watching videos of black men and women die at the hands of police is a step in the right direction. To have him also echo similar statements of toeing the line as the President will frustrate plenty of others. The thing is, he also isn't behooved to make these statements but that's another conversation to have. But Michael Jordan saying something has more ramifications than anything. Share this:TweetShare on Tumblr


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As a foodie, new restaurants to explore have me just as excited as a recipe of my own that comes out of the oven as perfect as I imagined. This is why planning a trip anywhere involves a whole lot of research and list writing in regards to where we are going to eat. My husband and I had very little time to spend in Miami several weeks ago, but we made good on every single moment. We ate out for Breakfast, Lunch and Supper daily which is something we rarely do when we're home. That's why it's called vacation I guess. Along the way, we came across so many fantastic restaurants although there were also those few that had us a little less impressed as will always be the case. Today, I am talking about one from the former category. At 26, Sushi+Tapas, it was such a fabulous experience from start to finish and the food was honestly better then anything I have ever eaten anywhere. It was the first place we went after getting off the plane and dropping off our bags so you can imagine the traveling had us famished. We ordered ALOT of food and were therefore really able to get a feel of what the place was all about I believe. Please excuse my poor array of iphone photos, I'm still kicking myself for once again forgetting my dslr! If you are visiting the area, it truly needs to be added to your agenda, from start to finish we were really impressed.
Here is some of what we had:
Miso Soup- This was just the thing since my husband was dealing with a serious virus during our entire trip. As of now, no miso soup I have ever had anywhere compares! A real miso soup includes actual cubed tofu, fresh shitake mushroom and herbs of course, an example set for other restaurants, indeed.
The highlight of our meal and the dish we cannot stop gushing over were these nitro faux scallops! Watching Gordon Ramsey send back scallops not cooked to his liking in Hells Kitchen had me very curious and 26 really hit these on the nail! From the perfect batter, to the fish inside and unique sauce, this is a dish I will never forget.
One of the only items I was slightly disappointed over was this sunshine salad. I was expecting a lot more from the ginger carrot vinaigrette which should have packed a big punch although I didn't notice any flavors from it at all! Maybe it was a poor choice of ingredients as well, for some they may meld well but for me they fell short.
Our sushi pick was the Pink Dragon and it lived up to it's exciting name. Perfect, bite sized, tightly rolled pieces are what was served which is just what I like best. No items falling out, no stuffing your face, and a tasty sauce to bring it all together too.
An environment is also what makes a restaurant experience pleasurable and that was certainly a part of ours. Our waiter was friendly and helpful, the service was expedient and the modern design of the place with an outdoor seating area to boot had me very impressed!
I also got to have a chat with some of the staff and hear about the history and meaning behind the restaurant and their cuisine which had me embracing the place even further! Another visit to this restaurant the next time I visit the area is definitely in order. There are so many dishes on my list to try and a kids menu is included as well, so we know we'll be covered with that if necessary.
26 Sushi & Tapas is located on 9487 Harding Avenue in Florida. Phone number- 305-570-2626. Read their online menu here, to see if it is a place you too would enjoy dining.
Have a kosher restaurant you love or are curious about? Let me know which it is in the comments form below as I always enjoy eating in new places!
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I've completed this Module now, apart from the preparation for Assessment, but think it appropriate to update my explorations in Landscape to show how I am continuing the theme introduced in Assignment 3.
There has been so much rain in recent months that even the days of sunshine have failed to dry out the ground. The path through the Copse has been almost a sea of slippery mud. Bluebells are beginning to raise their heads but even they look bedraggled at the moment and the strong winds have removed some of the weak branches which have gathered in drifting piles. Sometimes I've wondered whether people might have dumped them there over their garden fence.
Two trees were blown down across the path in the recent gales, one of them completely blocking it so that the dogs and I have had to scrabble through some prickly undergrowth to get round it. I had this debate with myself; joggers, dog walkers and families with children do pass through the Copse and the fallen trees are large obstacles. Should nature be allowed to take over or should I phone the Council, who are responsible for the maintenance of this local amenity. I thought about it for a day or so and then decided I would phone as the Copse seemed to be falling in on itself. There was also something in my mind about wanting to prove that people do make use of this small piece of nature, so that there wouldn't be an attempt to de-label it as green space and make it vulnerable to building development – which has been mooted. I was surprised when the trees were cleared within a week especially as I had agreed with the young man in the parks department that this wasn't an urgent job. When I say 'cleared' I don't mean completely cleared away but chopped so that there's a way through.
The other day I was talking with one of the people from a nearby house and we discussed mud, gales, fallen trees and litter on the Copse. The lady said that for quite a while she had cleared the litter but stopped doing that when the Council only started to collect fortnightly and her dustbin got too full. She told me that some young folk have re-built a den again in part of the copse and even installed an old bench. They collect there in the evenings sometimes, lighting fires and making noise. This must have been since a 'ring' of branches was laid-out in the area during the Autumn. I wondered about contributing something – maybe I might introduce the bark mask as a decoration. I've had some email contact with members of The Elephant's Journey (TEJ) and when I mentioned this John recalled Stig of the Dump . I'd forgotten Stig but it does fit. I have to acknowledge that I've felt a bit of a fraud somehow in relation to TEJ because they do their work in urban areas, highlighting adverse developments through their art, whereas I'm out of that loop, working in small green spaces in the suburbs, interacting with what I see. However, John was very encouraging around the idea of a discourse with the den builders.
I've also just started to read a lovely book Common Ground (R. Cowen,2015) which is an account of Rob Cowen's explorations in a nearby edge-land after moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire. He writes, 'Enmeshed in every urban edge is also the continuous narrative of the subsistence of nature, pragmatic and prosaic, the million things that survive and even thrive in the fringes. This little patch of common ground was precisely that: common. And all the richer for it' (2015:9) Looking at the illustrated map at the front of the book Cowen's piece of edge-land is much much larger than mine but I can still notice changes over time and see how nature and people impose their presence. A little further on Cowen writes of entering Chauvet Cave in the Ardeche Gorges and seeing the representations painted and scratched on its walls over between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago and how they show the engagement between animal, land and human. He concludes, 'What I didn't realise until later is that in seeking to unlock, discover and make sense of a place, I was invariably doing the same to myself. The portrait was also of me' (2015:11).
Cowen, R. (2016) Common ground. United Kingdom: Windmill Books.
King, C. and Ardizzone, E. (1963) Stig of the dump. United Kingdom: Puffin Books, Middlesex.


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Disconnected my mouse :)Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Yes the title is correct, I have disconnected my mouse as I no longer need it or want it. Why?
I have a new toy, it is something I wanted for quite a while but the dollars have always held me back, and the fact that I did not know how much fun they would be. So what is it, it is a Wacom Bamboo Fun 6 x 9 graphics tablet (black) and I am just loving it.
I was going to get the intuos3 and while I think that would have been fantastic I think for now my Bamboo has what I need, I actually bought two – one for my better half as well.
It came well packaged and comes with a set of bundled software like Photoshop extended but that was not needed myself as I already have the software I need, but if you don;t well your in for a treat.
I was a little worried how well it would work with my 22″ widescreen LCD but all is really sweet and it works very well. While I could have got the Intuos3 widescreen version I think (for now) it would have been a little over the top.
I got the 6 x 9's as I thought the 4 x 6 was a little too small, also the ration of 6 x 9 works better with the wider screen. The pen feels good and the ability to set pen flicks is truly awesome, makes browsing the web more fun too. It only took me an hour or so to really get use to the switch from mouse to pen and I can be sure in saying that it will be very difficult if I had to go back to mouse. The precision available with the pen over the mouse is just something you have to experience yourself, it is just remarkable.
I now use the pen for every aspect of my computer work from general ex-mouse clicks and also of course any detailed graphics work. Some might say I over use the pen and that I should use the mouse more (the one that came with the Bamboo) but so far I have not needed to 🙂
So may I suggest if you have ever thought of owning a graphics tablet then I can highly recommend the Wacom Bamboo Fun 6 x 9. If you only need it for mouse related work (general use) then I woudl say it is an over the top purchase, but if your involved with any graphic, phot, web or related work then get one – really – go and get one you wil not be sorry. Of course if you can aford the Intuos3 or even the other more expensive ones try them also, just keep also in mind your work space. The 6 x 9 is not much bigger thana regular mouse pad so fits in very nicely.
Just love my Wacom Bamboo Fun – R.I.P. mouse 🙂


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