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In this section of Trans4mind India we feature Sunetra Basu's writings, courses and sessions...

Sunetra Basu is an Angel Healing Teacher, a Reiki Master Teacher, the Founder of Abundance Healing, a Spiritual Counselor, and an intuitive Numerologist. Sunetra is the author of White Light Meditation - Manifest Your Dreams & Aspirations, a book that continues to enable easy meditation for readers all over the world. Sunetra heals, attunes and teaches her courses globally all over the USA, Europe, UK and India.

Beyond the conceivable, beyond light, sound, thoughts - in stillness at the core dwells the universal Source. From here comes infinite healing!

White Light Transmissions

~ Free Global Divine White Light Healing ~

White Light initiates healing and positive transformation instantly. Divine Light is freely sent to you. The receiver has only to be open and receptive to it (the Light doesn't force Itself upon anyone).

If you are interested to receive White Light from Sunetra, please email your full name, your health or other problem, and your recent photograph. Note: This is not a session delivered at a set time - it's a gift, and it works like magic!

White Light Healing Meditations Course

White Light Transmission

Sunetra Basu brings to you the secret to manifesting extraordinary healing! She reveals to you the one secret mantra that sets you free from negative patterns, bonds, traps and conditioning of the mind, caused by fear, insecurity, lack of self-love and inability of self-expression. Misconceptions about one's own truth that give rise to self imposed restrictions, limitations and imaginary handicaps are readily dropped off so the practitioner is aware of his or her inner light, potential and hidden capabilities, and learns how to channel them effectively towards manifesting the life they desire - by initiating necessary self-transformations. She teaches the powerful White Light Meditation for manifestation of positive transformations through her book and as a separate White Light Healing Meditation and Healing Course ~ Learn more here...

Abundance Healing Course

Abundance Healing

Abundance Healing with the Primal Wave is an extremely fast, powerful and yet gentle natural healing system with the cosmic wave of creation. Sunetra attunes you to these sacred vibrations and teaches you how to access and channel the Primal Wave to heal yourself and others. It brings relief from chronic conditions and acute ailments, triggers transformations and elevates one's experience of life within weeks of daily self-healing for just 5 to 15 minutes a day.

Learn more and order your Abundance Healing Course from Sunetra...

Angelic Healing Course

Angel Healing

Angels are non-denominational divine beings of higher consciosuness. They are sacred healing light eager to help us the moment we call upon them. Sunetra is a gifted Angel Healing Channel and is naturally attuned to the Angelic Realm. She provides Angel Attunements and teaches healing with Angelic Light.

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Healing Sessions

Healing Sessions

Healing Sessions provide real time effective relief from pain, discomfort, disease and stagnation. They initiate deep cleansing of negative energy blockages in the body mind and emotions. The powerful healing vibrations channeled and transmitted by Sunetra - Reiki, White Light and Angelic Lights - instantly repair and rejuvenate the depleted, deficient and diseased body, revive the depressed, stressed or agitated mind, and balance energies across the chakras for mental/emotional harmony and inner peace.

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Jesus and Archangel Card Reading Service

The Angels provide invaluable advice to every question or situation we present to them. We simply need to take the one pivotal step ...to ASK and ALLOW. Our free will to invite their blessings gives them the permission to intervene and resurrect us. Sunetra Basu channels such solutions and advice from Angelic wisdom through detailed readings. Learn more and order your Jesus and Archangel Card Readings from Sunetra...

Reiki Courses

Reiki Courses

Reiki Training Courses with Sunetra attune and teach you how to heal yourself and others with Reiki. These are available as either dedicated one-on-one online training classes over Skype, or, taught as distance learning programs via email along with additional teacher support via phone and email.

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Spiritual Counselling Session

When the journey gets weary and the mind is overworked, clearing the weeds of negativity within becomes an urgent necessity so one can stride ahead along a clear, distinct trail leading up to the finishing line.

Sunetra Basu provides personalized spiritual guidance for situations and conditions that hinder success, retard progress and hold you back from that one huge leap into your dream life. Blessed with natural connections with the Archangels, the Ascended Masters and the Divine Light, Sunetra helps you work your way out of the weeds in life, at work, at home, and in your relationships.

Sunetra prescribes specific solutions that heal relationships, repair and rejuvenate the mind and body, and walk you out of the limitations and traps you might have imposed upon yourself knowingly or unknowingly.

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Numerology Session

Numerology, or the science of numbers, is an ancient tool for unlocking possibilities and opportunities that otherwise mostly stay clouded by adverse circumstances, external oppositions and internal conflicts. Such conditions keep us from opening up to blessings we might have already earned but are probably not aware of.

Numerology works wonders! And as an experienced numerologist I know that even a simple alteration and implementation of the accurate numbers can engineer a critical rewiring of energies in your life that will bring about favorable tides, a complete turnaround of events, and a series of desirable experiences.

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White Light Meditation Book

White Light Meditation
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In her book, White Light Meditation (from Amazon.com / Amazon.in) Sunetra teaches a form of meditation that empowers your thoughts, stimulates analytical thinking, magnifies and expresses dormant capabilities, and attracts all necessary resources.

White Light Meditation is unique in that it helps manifest our dreams and aspirations by empowering the thoughts, stimulating analytical thinking, magnifying and expressing dormant capabilities, and attracting the necessary resources from known and unknown directions. Just ten to fifteen minutes of White Light Meditation every day is enough to keep the process of transformation and manifestation consistent.

You can read the Introduction to White Light Meditation now.

Videos: Healing Chants & Messages

Om Mani Padme Hum

A complete healing mantra that awakens the sleeping Buddha in you. Mantra to invite the benign blessings of Chenrezig, Avalokiteshvara... the Buddha of Compassion. Listen, chant or simply look at the mantra written in Tibetan script to absorb its powerful healing vibes.

Angel Healing Message Channeled by Sunetra Basu: Forgiveness

Forgiveness opens many known and unknown doors to new blessings and opportunities.

Angel Healing Message Channeled by Sunetra Basu: Connect Within

In silence we connect with the Divine within! In silence Inner Wisdom speaks!

Angel Healing Message Channeled by Sunetra Basu: Gratitude

Being grateful enables a huge positive shift in life.

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Four-time Emmy nominee Sharon Lawrence will play opposite five-time Emmy winner John Larroquette in CBS’ ambitious Me, Myself & I comedy pilot.

Penned by Dan Kopelman (Galavant), the single-camera comedy examines the life of one man, Alex Riley, over a 50-year span, focusing on three distinct periods — as a 14-year-old in the year 1991, as a 40-year-old in present day (played by SNL‘s Bobby Moynihan), and as a 65-year-old in 2042 (played by Larroquette).

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Stories My Mother Told Me by Rebecca Forster

My parents made a pact to stand on every continent in the world. When my dad passed away, my mother went to the Antarctic for both of them. That’s when I figured there was a lot I didn’t know about mom.

When she returned with a bright orange jacket that she got ‘for free’ (don’t count the cost of the cruise), she had lots of stories to tell. Yet, when the excitement of the trip wore off, we both had the sense that we were still standing on a pitching deck with no way to sail to calm seas. A big piece of the puzzle – my dad – was missing.

“Write your memoir,” I said.

“My life wasn’t interesting,” she answered.

But the idea must have taken hold. Not long after this conversation, she called. She was done with her memoir.

“Impressive,” I mused.

It takes me months to write one novel and she finished hers in a week. When I saw her manuscript, I understood why.  It was five pages long and she was eighty-five years old. There had to be more.

So began a year of weekend sleep-overs as we poured over photographs for inspiration. She had twenty beautifully documented photo albums, a box filled with pictures taken when cameras were still new fangled things.

There was mom in waist-length braids and Mary Jane shoes standing in the German village she called home.

She was a teenager in the U.S. while war raged in Europe, threatening the grandmother she had lived with, cousins and friends.

Here was mom, posing in a swimsuit she bought with the dollar she found on the street.

Mom in her twenty-five dollar bridal gown perched in the back of a hay wagon beside my father, a skinny, wide-eyed farm boy who would become a doctor.

Mom with one child. Two. Three. Five. Six of us all together. Dark haired and big eyed, we were her clones dressed in beautiful, homemade clothes. I remember going to sleep to the sound of her sewing machine.

And there were words!  I bribed my mother with promises of Taco Bell feasts if she gave me details. Funny, what came to her mind.

 To keep body and soul together when my father was in med school, he was a professional mourner and bussed tables for a wealthy fraternity. My mom worked in a medical lab where the unchecked radiation caused her to lose her first baby. They ate lab rabbits that had given their all for pregnancy tests.  They were in love and happy and didn’t know they were poor. But St. Louis was cold, she remembered, and they couldn’t afford winter coats. Still, she insisted, they weren’t poor.

 She typed, I edited; I typed, she talked. My youngest brother almost died when he was 10. She didn’t cry for a long while; not until she knew he would live.  The captain of the ship that took her back to Germany was kind.  She dreamed of becoming a missionary doctor. In 1954, she had two toddlers (me and my brother) and another baby on the way when she and dad drove to Fairbanks, Alaska where he would serve his residency at the pleasure of the U.S. Air Force. Her favorite outfit was a suit with a white collar. She loved her long hair rolled at her neck in the forties.  In the fifties she made a black dress with rhinestone straps and her hair was bobbed. In the sixties she made palazzo pants and sported a short bouffant.  She looked like a movie star in her homemade clothes. I wanted to grow up to be as glamorous as she was. She still thought she wasn’t interesting.

Mom wrote the forward to her memoir herself. It began:

A great sense of loneliness fills the house as twilight approaches. In the silence, I can almost hear the voices of my grown children as they recall their childhood years, the laughter of grandchildren and the quiet conversations of friends who have gathered here in years past, echoing through the empty rooms.

You see, she really had no need of my help as a writer.

We had seven copies printed. On the cover was a beautiful picture of a sunset. She called her book In The Twilight of My Life and would not be swayed to change it. Mom thought it perfect and not the least depressing. It was, she laughed, the truth. It was her laugh that made it right. She gave my brothers and sisters a copy for Christmas. My older brother had tears in his eyes. Everyone exclaimed: “I never knew that”.

Now I have a book more treasured than any I have written. I learned a lot about my mom and I realized why I create fictional women of courage and conviction, strength and curiosity, intelligence and, most of all, spirit. It’s because, all this time, I’ve been writing about my mother.


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Christmas Events 2014

Christmas Concert

St. Augustin’s, Sat. 13th Dec., 3.00 p.m.

The rehearsal on Monday 8th December will be at St Augustine’s Church. PLEASE BRING THE MUSIC FOR THE LLOYD ARRANGEMENT OF “I SAW THREE SHIPS” THAT WE SANG LAST YEAR.

On Saturday 13th December we will rehearse at St Augustine’s from 12.30 with a break at 2pm. Please remember to bring seasonal refreshments for the buffet table.

Christmas Events

Saturday 6th Dec:         Gosforth (Peter Barratt’s) Garden Centre, from 11.00 a.m.

We are booked to sing in two slots, 11.00-11.30 and 12.00-12.30.

Tuesday 16th Dec:        Whitley Bay Library, 10.30 a.m.

With both these events we hope to expand our usual repertoire from the usual carols to include some of the items from the Christmas Concert, so a good attendance will be much appreciated.

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Stars Align for Eaton Science Fiction Conference

Luminaries from the worlds of SF literature, television, film and scholarship will gather for UC Riverside conference and symposium April 11-14

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The Eaton Science Fiction Conference opens April 11.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Scholars and science fiction fans will explore the explosion of the genre across the media landscape when UC Riverside’s Eaton Science Fiction Conference convenes April 11-14 at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Riverside.

With seven concurrent tracks for attendees to choose from, the 2013 conference will be largest in the 34-year history of the conference, said Melissa Conway, head of Special Collections and Archives of the UCR Libraries and conference co-organizer. It also is the first time the UCR Libraries and College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences have partnered with the Science Fiction Research Association, the largest and most prestigious scholarly organization in the field, to present the event.

Award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin, special effects creator Raymond F. Harryhausen and Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee will be recognized, in absentia, with the J. Lloyd Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award in Science Fiction.

Registration for students is $95; general registration is $170; and single-day registration is $95. Register may be made online by March 30. Registration may be made at the door for all events except the awards banquet on Saturday evening.

The conference will include the fourth Science Fiction Studies Symposium on Thursday, April 11, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Spanish Art Gallery at the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa. The symposium, “SF Media(tions),”  is open to registered conference attendees only. Featured speakers are: Mark Bould, reader in film and literature at the University of the West of England and co-editor of the journal Science Fiction Film and Television; Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., professor of English at DePauw University, a senior editor of Science Fiction Studies and one of the founding editors of Humanimalia, an online journal of human/animal interface studies; and Vivian Sobchack, professor emeritus of film, television and digital media at UCLA and the 2012 recipient of the Society for Cinema Studies’ Distinguished Career Award.

“The past several decades have witnessed an explosion in science fiction texts across the media landscape, from film and TV to comics and digital games,” Conway said in explaining the conference theme, “Science Fiction Media.”

The conference will explore science fiction as a multimedia phenomenon from popular mass media in the form of Hollywood blockbusters, to niche and subcultural forms of expression such as MUDs (multiplayer Internet games based on genres such as fantasy and science fiction) and vidding (the process of producing fan-made music videos, which typically pair scenes from TV shows and movies with a particular piece of music), added Rob Latham, conference co-organizer and a professor of English at UCR.

Conference events begin at 8:30 a.m. daily and continue into the evenings with author readings, a Friday night screening of “Spectres of the Spectrum,” and an awards banquet Saturday evening during which winners of the Student Science Fiction Short Story Competition will be announced and the recipients of the Eaton Lifetime Achievement awards will be recognized.

Eaton Lifetime Achievement award recipients are: Ursula K. Le Guin, who will receive the award for 2012, author of 20 science fiction and fantasy novels and winner of Hugo and Nebula awards; Raymond F. Harryhausen (2013 award), creator of a type of stop-motion model animation known as Dynamation and part of the ARKO team that won an Oscar for special effects in 1949 for “Mighty Joe Young”;  and Stan Lee (2013), former president of Marvel Comics and co-creator of Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor and other superheroes.

Previous recipients of the Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award are Ray Bradbury (2008), Frederik Pohl (2009), Samuel R. Delany (2010) and Harlan Ellison (2011).

Among the science fiction writers who will be presenting on different panels are: Larry Niven, author of “Ringworld” and a five-time winner of the Hugo Award and a Nebula; Gregory Benford, astrophysicist and winner of a Nebula Award and a United Nations Medal in Literature; David Brin, astrophysicist and two-time winner of the Hugo Award; Audre Bormanis, writer/producer for “Star Trek: Enterprise,” “Threshold,” “Eleventh Hour,” “Legend of the Seeker” and “Tron: Uprising”; Kevin Grazier, science adviser for “Battlestar Galactica,” “Defiance,” “Eureka” and “Falling Skies”; and James Gunn, winner of a Hugo Award and the 2007 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master, presented for lifetime achievement as a writer of science fiction and/or fantasy by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Members of the Art Director’s Guild will make special presentations in three separate panel discussions on Saturday, April 13.

The first of these panels, “Production Designers — Building Worlds,” begins at 10:30 a.m. and will include: Mimi Gramatky, a production designer who was nominated for an Emmy for “An Inconvenient Woman”; Kirk Petrucelli, a production designer whose credits include “The Incredible Hulk,” “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” and “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life”; Christa Munro, an art director whose credits include “Jack Reacher,” “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” and “The Ring Two”; and Oliver Scholl, a production designer who has worked on such films as Mission to Mars,” “Batman Forever” and “Stargate.”

At 2 p.m., panelists who will discuss “The Art Department — Bringing Imaginary Worlds to Life” include: Robert Stromberg, a two-time Academy Award winner for art direction for James Cameron’s “Avatar” and Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”; Dylan Cole, a digital matte painter and concept artist best known for his work on feature films like “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “Avatar” and “The Chronicles of Riddick”; Stefan Dechant, a supervising art director whose credits include “Lincoln,” “Minority Report” and “The Lost World: Jurassic Park”; and Todd Cherniawsky, a production designer with Asylum Design Works whose credits include, “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” and “War of the Worlds.

At 4 p.m., “Life Imitates Art — (Or why did the first Motorola flip phone look like a Star Trek Communicator?)” will feature: Cate Bangs, an art director and set designer whose television and film credits include “Desperate Housewives,”  “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” and “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”; Alex Hajdu, an art director who has worked on the film “Battle Beyond the Stars” and TV programs such as “Private Practice and “Night Stalker”;  Andrew Leung, a concept artist, matte painter and VFX designer whose most recent work is “Real Steel”; and Geoff Mandel, a production artist and designer who was the scenic artist for “Star Trek: Insurrection,” the sixth and seventh seasons of “Star Trek: Voyager” and the first season of “Star Trek: Enterprise.”

UCR is the home of the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the largest publicly accessible collection of its kind in the world. The collection embraces every branch of science fiction, fantasy, horror and utopian/dystopian fiction.

The collection, which attracts scholars from around the world, holds more than 300,000 items including English-language science fiction, fantasy and horror published in the 20th century and a wide range of works in Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, German, and a dozen other languages; fanzines; comic books; anime; manga; science fiction films and television series; shooting scripts; archives of science fiction writers; and science fiction collectibles and memorabilia.

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Oh the feel of that fluffy brush gliding over your face. It almost feels like a nice little face massage (from a kitty)! But are you aware of the possibility that the bristles of your brush may be from the sacrifice of an unwilling, undeserving animal? Makeup brushes are commonly made from squirrel, mink, sable, horse (sometimes called “pony” or “camel”), or goat hair.

Every year, millions of animals are beaten, drowned, trapped, gassed, electrocuted and even skinned alive to obtain fur or hair (WARNING: very graphic video link). Using makeup brushes that contain these furs contributes to the support of the fur trade. And the fur trade is NOT a good thing. The vast majority of animals killed for fur are raised on farms and kept in deplorable conditions. Animals that should be living in the wild are trapped in tiny cages where disease is easily spread, conditions are filthy and the animals meet an agonizing end.

If those reasons above weren’t enough to make you rethink your brushes, here are a few more things about why you should make the switch! Mammal hair or fur bristles are similar to human hair. They are porous and can absorb the bacteria from your skin. No matter how many times brushes made from fur are cleaned, that bacteria and makeup can still remain in the hair shafts of the bristles. This can cause skin sensitivities, breakouts and other more serious skin conditions.

Luckily, there are alternatives like our amazing 100% PURE® brushes that are made with taklon fibers instead of fur. Not only are they cruelty-free, but the material to make them is sourced from recycled plastic water bottles. These bristles are smooth and do not contain ridges or cuticle layers the way mammal hair and fur bristles do. This makes them non-absorbent, so they do not hold on to bacteria and old makeup. That’s right, antibacterial brushes!

This does not mean, however, that the taklon bristles don’t perform or pick up as much product, which is a common misconception. They perform just as well, if not better, than animal hair bristles. The other wonderful thing about taklon is that it is hypoallergenic. Have you ever used real hair or fur brushes and noticed how your face feels a little itchy after? It could be that you are sensitive or allergic to the hair that was used.

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Cleaning your brushes:

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Lucky 13!

Laresa called me today, from the tundra, to tell me that she had just picked 12 morels!  How could she go out without me?  Then she called me after she got off work to tell me that right after she hung up from talking to me, she found another.  So the lucky 13 in all.  On a lunch break!

While our dinner was cooking (curried chicken), I ran out to one of my spots and found 3.  I had just been there yesterday.  Boy, morels have a massive growth rate!  Then after dinner, I tromped all over hell and gone and found nothing.  Caleb was with me, but working on a different project, and as we were driving home…..CALEB SPOTTED ONE WHILE HE WAS DRIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Woo Hoo.  Me thinks the curse may be lifted!  As I jumped out of the car to run to the morel, I realized it was a treasure trove.  10 morels just sitting there waiting for us.  It was fun.  So, lucky 13 for us, too.

Many morels.
Many morels.

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    1. Just use like any other mushroom, but they are best served by themselves, or on top of a juicy steak. It is best not to doctor them up too much, as you can overwhelm the delicious flavor of the morel.

  1. I think I used up all my good morel juju last year with my huge haul of 23 in one day…I have yet to stumble upon one this year. Good thing I was a morel miser and still have some dried and preserved.

  2. I just want to say that I thoroughly enjoy all your words of wisdom surrounding Unalaska, food, and plants – Thank you Thank you – I just read the story you published in the Dutch Harbor Fishermen about Morels and I am so thankful because you mentioned that you need to “thump” the mushroom before picking them to ensure the spores are left. I had no idea! Even though I have yet to go morel hunting around here, it is good to know in case I stumble upon them. Thank you for that.

  3. I really enjoyed the article as well! I am making it my mission to go out and find some morels myself since my husband really likes mushrooms, I think he will like these. And, seeing as how Alena! refuses to take me morel hunting, as not to give away her sweet spots, it’ll have to be a solo mission, I guess!! 🙂

  4. I think, I broke the record last Sunday!
    I found 20 beautiful morels in a very unexpected spot, and as I was not ready for that kind of bounty, I had to take my jacket off to carry them for a couple of miles!
    I use them over potatoes.

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Words are just passing air

Falling through the looking glass,
your new life flashes backward.

Make it last.

Uncertain where tomorrow goes,
look to yesterday—
where petals open angels,
soldiers become toys,
and gown clad women
dangle like ornaments
anchored high
in the trees
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Your mother smiles on a star.
Endings come from beginnings.

Make it last.

Black swans dance upon
the beaches of tomorrow
and every girl’s lips look puckered.

Brenda Warren 2012

Process Notes. I watched the video, “Thirty Three” by Smashing Pumpkins several times, then recorded a list of images(side-by-side…video/word document), as I watched the video. From those images, this piece arose. Make it last is italicized as it comes from the song. The title of my piece is a paraphrasing of the first line of the song—
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Hello World and Welcome to my blog I really hope that you will enjoy reading it as much as I am going to enjoy  the journey of writing them.

The end of last year was fantastic for me as I got to spend my first christmas with my brother that I had just met on October the 13th 2011 last year in Sydney.

I have to say I am definitily excited to see what this year has in store for me.

I am going to be studying Certificate 3 in Web Technologies and I am extremely motivated bring it on:-)

I love animals,getting creative,computers,Technology,Music,Movies,The Great Outdoors photography and my family and friends.

Oh and I forgot to mention my name is Judy and please feel free to comment with any advise as I would be glad to take it on board and I look forward to reading posts here as well.

Stay cool have some family fun, work, play and relax.

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Connected Cities Although the first day of summer is not officially until June 21 in the US, many American's consider the season to have begun  yesterday with Memorial Day.  For the writers here at Encountering Urbanization this summer also is a time of transition, travels and international moves as many of us just graduated (hence our recent  hiatus from blogging)  and are now preparing for the next steps in our careers.   Even with all of these upcoming changes … Read More

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Sep 17 2014

The Right of Peoples to Peace…

As Project Row Houses celebrates its 20th Anniversary, the International Day of Peace observes its 30th year of recognizing and fostering peace around the world. To honor this much needed day and continue its mission, PRH’s September market will run in conjunction with Our House’s A-Fest. The IDP is a day for us all to educate ourselves and each other on respect and understanding.

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2016 Film Essays

Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Blonde Venus’ (Josef von Sternberg, 1932)

Films like Josef von Sternberg’s Blonde Venus demonstrate the absurdity of the moral policing of the production code. With the world siphoned from shades of grey to convenient black and white, life was simplified to the point of alienation. In Blonde Venus, Marlene Dietrich plays Helen, a former nightclub dancer with a dying husband, who goes back to work in order to pay for his surgery. Caught in the underbelly and left to her own devices, she falls for another man and goes on the run with her son to escape her heartbroken husband who wants to take full custody of the young boy.

Torn between two men, Helen’s dilemma doesn’t present itself in absolutes. Made during the precode era, Sternberg’s film demonstrates that love and desire rarely present themselves as options of right or wrong. Years later, Helen’s choice would be made easier, as she would either be a black widow spider luring two men to their deaths, or one of them would be an obvious heel. During the production code, no man who spends his day at a nightclub could be seen as a capable mate until he’s reformed, and a woman dancing in a nightclub would have to be saved before she could be treated as a good person. Any woman who would dare stray from her husband would be swiftly called a monster, even if her husband was abusive. In Blonde Venus, Dietrich is torn between two good men — two men who love her, who treat her well and who provide for her. Her love story doesn’t fit into the square peg that Hollywood would demand just a couple of years later.

The film’s second half demonstrates an astute social message about the struggle of being a woman in the modern world. Not only does Helen get punished severely for ever straying from her husband, she becomes forced into a desperate life. On the run, mother and son hitch rides on hay carriages and hide out in decrypted hotel rooms as they try to forge a new life. Increasingly beaten down, Dietrich powerfully channels a mother’s devotion to her child and the incredible fear of having her child taken away. Helen’s husband, heartbroken after finding his wife with another man, seems ruthless without becoming a villain. His actions are rooted in deep pain that doesn’t necessarily excuse his obsession but makes sense of them. Both characters are caught up with impulsive decisions that lead to heartache, but that doesn’t make either of them evil.

Dignity plays an important role in much of Sternberg’s work. Characters who fall into disrepute retain their humanity as long as they are able to hold onto some semblance of their moral character. In the Blonde Venus, not only does Helen end up making the choice to give up her son to ensure his happiness, she raises herself from pathetic drunk to headlining act in Paris. Even at her lowest moment — throwing away money and slurring her way through a cheap woman’s club — she retains the threads of humanity which help her rise again. In Sternberg’s world, nobody can even fall so low than someone who had so much to lose in the first place.

Justine Smith (@redroomrantings) lives and writes in Montreal, Quebec. She has a bachelor’s degree in Film Studies and a passionate hunger for all kinds of cinema. Along with writing for Vague Visages, she has written for Vice Canada, Cleo: A Feminist Journal and Little White Lies Magazine.

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Review: Discover Dance

Last night (Friday 9th February 5pm) we had an after school theatrical treat, discovering dance with National Dance Company Wales at Sherman Theatre. I was accompanied (as ever) by my 11 year old stepdaughter and 9 and 5 year old sons. None of them go to dance classes but they all enjoyed the event. Even surly Nine who didn’t want to join in the first half “no way”.

NDCWales’s Discover Dance production is a game of two halves. We kick off with an introduction from the effervescent Lee Johnston, the company’s Rehearsal Director which she explains is like being the coach. We’re taken through the dancers’ warm up routines with a chance for everyone who’s up for it  to join the dancers on stage.

It’s a credit to the team and the welcoming, open tone they set that so many of the children in the audience were keen to have a go. Eleven and Five threw themselves into the opportunity. As Five said:

“It was really fun to go on stage. I’ve never been on a big stage like that. Sometimes I get nervous but the dancer made me feel happy because they showed me the moves. I think all the other children enjoyed it too.”

We swiftly move on to some exercises and sections of Folk, the production we’re treated to in the second half. Again, we’ve got the chance to join in and one of the exercises in particular fired up my boys:

Nine: “It was really satisfying when they did the crackling out of the ice. That’s the kind of movement game I’d like to play at home or school.”

Five: “Also Mum I liked the bit when they were doing hurricane bits. I liked the bits where he finished one of them, he keeped quiet for a little bit then he said loudly “Crazy crazy! There’s a tornado! Then you can just feel the snow melting and the ice in the water.””

We get to wave at the techies at the back of the seats as Lee tells us about the lights and sound that play their parts in a show. It’s a great way to highlight the whole range of skills and roles that are needed to pull a production together.

Nine: Charlie was the boss of the music and Adam was in charge of the lights.

Five: They did a really good job.

Half time comes and we break for an ice cream from the mid-refurb Sherman foyer, wees and a chance for the dancers to get changed and ready for their performance.

The second half is a half hour dance piece called Folk which absolutely flew by. Choreographed by Caroline Finn, it’s a perfect choice for a family audience with characters that feel both otherworldly and recognisable and a beautifully striking set designed by Joe Fletcher.

Nine: “Folk was quite cool because the tree was hung from the roof. This woman was randomly speaking Italian and it was quite funny. It was quite witch-like when they were doing the witch circle.”

Five: “It was spectacular! I liked the show when it was nearly at the end because I like imagination. And I liked the other bit when there was a teensy bit left to the end because it was just like a made up language and it was really funny.

It was great because I like puppet shows, they were making them look like puppets because they were copying. (*Nine demonstrates the moves we learnt in our seats during the first part of the show*).

The whole thing used up lots of funny imaginations. Whoever’s imaginations they were, I like their imaginations.

The music, it was good because I liked the one where it was sort of harmony like sort of calm. The beginning sounded like they were definitely in France and then there was some music that made me feel in the jungle and then Tokyo, is that the capital of Japan?”

Eleven: “It was really fun. I thought the show was really good and I loved the music.”

After Folk, the dancers return to the stage to answer questions from a buzzing audience. “Where are you from?” “When did you start dancing?” “What’s your favourite type of dance?”

Nine: “It was great because you could ask questions at the end so we could find out where they came from and how they started dancing. They were from lots of different countries, even America.”

Watching dance is a fabulous way to inspire keen dancers but it’s also brilliant for kids in general. There’s room for imagination, the chance to weave your own story, to laugh at something because it tickles your funny bone without words or slapstick.

Wales should be very proud of their dance company. They’re presenting beautiful work and stirring a love of dance. Discover Dance is an ideally relaxed way to introduced new audiences to contemporary dance and gives young people a chance to interact with the professionals.

Five: “I’d like to watch more dance because it’s funny sometimes and you get to do lots of different moves and when you dance it’s kind of like doing exercise and it’s good for you because it helps you stay healthy.”

Nine: “I’d like to watch more dance because it can be strange in certain ways and funny. It was very weird because usually you’d have a tree on the ground and you wouldn’t use a brush to sweep leaves, you’d use a rake.”

We were also intrigued to get a sneaky peak at the developments in Sherman Theatre’s foyer, which got a thumbs up from hard to please Eleven: “I LOVED the redecorating, it feels cosy but big too.” We’re big fans of the venue, their range of family friendly productions and the utterly awesome Sherman 5 scheme that has genuinely opened up the doors to so many people.

Discover Dance is touring the UK this spring, heading to Huddersfield, Brecon, Shrewsbury, Aberystwyth, Newtown, Mold, Newport, Swansea and Derby. Full tour dates on

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March of the Mummies

Today, at noon on Halloween in six cities around the UK the March of the Mummies made a stand against pregnancy and maternity discrimination. If you follow Pregnant Then Screwed you’ll know all about it. If you don’t, go find @PregnantScrewed on twitter. Sadly, I couldn’t make it in person because of work but it got me thinking of my own experiences.

I’m not preggers or on mat leave nor do I intend to be so ever again but I do remember the stress and frustration first time around when I met with inflexibility to my requests for reduced hours. I broke through the barrier eventually with a presentation (the idiot’s guide to job sharing) and some much appreciated support from my maternity cover (who is still doing ace things for women in the workplace).

Second time around I got wound up enough to write a blog post so in the spirit of raising mummies from the dead, I’ve resurrected a couple of blog posts from my first foray into the blogosphere as Moody Mum in 2013:

Trapped Part Time Workers

Nine Months In (my womb) Nine Months Out (to work) – in which I bemoan returning to work before my youngest turns one

If you want more information on what the March of the Mummies was for and why it’s important, head over to

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Christmas Show Overload

A trip to the theatre is a real festive treat. I know I go to a heck of a lot of live shows all year long because of work but there really is something magical in dragging the entire family to watch a classic children’s story or fairy tale come to life. It feels decadent and wholesome, charming and silly. It doesn’t have to mean panto and it doesn’t have to mean spending shedloads of money.

Family Friendly Shows in Cardiff and the Vale this Christmas

Sherman Theatre

Wind in the Willows / 1 – 30 December

£16 – £26 Range of prices. Previews (1 – 3 December) are cheaper so worth checking out. Under 25s are half price.

We’ve loved the annual Sherman Christmas show for many years and this sounds like it’ll hit the spot again. The classic Wind in the Willows story by Kenneth Graham will be brought to life with live music. There’s a lovely option to have a letter from Father Christmas for your child on their seat when you arrive. There are also accessible performances including Relaxed Performances.

The Magic Porridge Pot / 3 November – 30 December

£9. Recommended for ages 3-6.

Perfect for under 7s this show is overflowing with songs, music and fun. It’s a classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, retold by the very funny Alun Saunders.

The Giant Who Had No Heart in his Body / 22 – 23 December

£5. £17 family ticket. Aimed at ages 7+ but a comedy show for all ages. (Wins the CHEAPEST TICKETS award from me.)

A warm, funny show with original music, puppetry and a sprinkling of magic. Likely Story Theatre bring their unique story telling style to this classic Norwegian fairy tale. A story of friendship, courage, adventure, an umbrella cow, a giant’s heart and a silly duck.

Wales Millennium Centre

The Bear / 12 – 31 December

£10. Babes in arms tickets £2. Recommended for age 3+.

Based on the Raymond Briggs storybook this is a really lovely theatre show for children and their families. It’s only 55 minutes long so perfect for younger kids. It’s in the Wales Millennium Centre’s smaller studio space, the Weston Studio rather than the huge auditorium. The Centre are holding free Christmas crafting activities too so you can spend longer in the building. I walked through the building this week and it’s looking amazing with all the decorations.

Second Star to the Right  / 30 November – 2 December

£9. Under 6s are £6 and under 2 year olds are FREE. Recommended for everyone, all babies welcome.

A cast of disabled and non-disabled performers from Odyssey and pupils from Woodlands High School restore hope to Neverland in this new production.

The Gate

Hansel and Gretel / 2 December – 16 December (Fridays and Saturdays only)

£8.50/£8 for adults and £6 children.

The classic Grimm fairy tale is brought to life with puppetry and music from Black RAT. We’ve seen a fair few of this company’s Christmas shows over the past 7 years and the songs and humour have been a hit with the children.

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Cinderella / 3 – 5 December

£10. Under 16s are £8.

For something a bit different, try out this introduction to the orchestra for an age old fairy tale. Cinderella as you’ve maybe never experienced before with music, film and illustrations.

St David’s Hall

Tiddly Prom: Bert and Cherry’s Christmas Plum Pudding / 16 December – 19 December (10.30 and 12.30 each day)

Ideal for under 5s, you can expect lots of silly songs to sing along to, a lively festive story and a large helping of musical plum pudding.

Ballet (3 different shows: The Nutcracker, Cinderella and Swan Lake) / Cinderella 19 – 20 December / The Nutcracker 21 – 24 December / Swan Lake 27 – 31 December

Ticket prices vary. Lowest is £8.25 for under 16s and £16.50 for adults at the 2pm matinees with a family ticket (2 adult and 2 children) for £46.50.

The Nutcracker, Cinderella and Swan Lake are also all at St David’s Hall in December. The Russian State Ballet and Orchestra of Siberia bring these 3 classic and enchanting ballets to Cardiff. There are lots of offers on including a multi-ballet saver. If your child is into ballet and has never seen a live performance, this could be a really special experience watching a popular ballet with recognisable music. The Nutcracker is set at nightfall on Christmas Eve and is perfect for this time of year.

If you’re really gagging for a full on Panto experience, here you go, these are for you. Oh no they aren’t. Oh yes they are.

New Theatre

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs / 9 December – 14 January

Cheapest standard ticket is £13. Family Offer 4 tickets for £79 (only some shows). There are about a billion different ticket price options so check with the box office what’s best for you.

It’s panto as you know it, big costumes, big sets and big names. This year’s includes Gareth Thomas, Mike Doyle, Samantha Womack and Chico!

Memo Arts Centre, Barry

Snow Queen “A Frozen Tale” / 14 – 17 December

£13. Children £11. Family group £45.

Barry’s amateur dramatic drama company BillBoard Ensemble are back at the Memo with panto. This year’s is based on the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale of the Snow Queen featuring songs from Disney’s Frozen.

Paget Rooms, Penarth

Beauty and The Beast / 7 – 10 December

£10. Children £8.

Penarth Operatic and Dramatic Society return with their annual family pantomime.

Jack and the Beanstalk / 4 – 10 January

£14. Children £8. Family £42.

Owen Money heads up this panto from Rainbow Valley Productions. It will be in Penarth following a tour of South Wales.

Let me know what you think of these if you get to any of them and if I’ve left any out!

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Sci-Fi Treasure Hunting in Blackwood – Project: Oggbots

Today, I went hunting for a professor and a crazy artist while dodging shady agents on the streets of Blackwood on a mission to save some aliens.

True story. I took my nine and five year olds to help with the mission. They flipping loved it. They’ve seen more theatre than most kids could shake a stick at but this interactive intergalactic family adventure made a huge impression on them.

We started in the library, getting the back story and some essential training in observation and evasion tactics. Over an hour later we were working on circuit boards in a secret location. The boys were thrilled with the extra-terrestrials and electronics..

“I hope we get to go to another one like that soon!” – the nine year old said at bedtime.

Project: Oggbots is a show for 7-11 year olds by Root Experience. It’s only on for one more day but with plenty of times to choose from. Book your tickets with Blackwood Miners’ Institute:  Blackwood Miners’ Institute website or go old school and phone the box office 01495 227 206.

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Nine Months In (my womb) Nine Months Out (to work)

Another vintage blog post, this one from March 2013, in which I bemoan returning to work before my youngest turns one.

Having never been one for the ‘live to work not work to live’ mantra it will come as no surprise to learn that I was hardly cockahoop about returning to work following maternity leave.

While I’m sure some women delight in the chance to spend ten hours of their day commuting and in paid employ with no chance of being asked to wipe any bottoms (let’s assume I’m talking about office work before I hear the cries of “well, I’ll have you know that I wipe bottoms for a living and I’m BLOODY GOOD AT IT”) there are also some women who balk at the suggestion that they should have to work at all. “But who will bring up my children?”

Don’t get me wrong, I am not sitting on the proverbial fence here. I would far rather be caring for my children. Physically, emotionally and practically AT THIS STAGE in their lives it would be the most sensible situation. My youngest is 10 months old. I have been and still am breastfeeding him. On the plus side, when I am not in his company, my breasts magically grow to impressive proportions. On the down side this means that I must pump my milk out in a random tiny room. I am not and never have been a militant member of the breastapo. It’s free. I’m not one for making bottle feeders feel rubbish or defensive about themselves. Let’s not dwell.

So, physically my breasts are still in the ‘we are the mammaries of a mammal with an infant so we will produce milk’ zone and when I am with my amazing baby I am in the ‘I want to feed my baby for free’ zone. But the world of work says “you have done your time woman, put down the baby and get back to your desk.”

On the emotional side of things I don’t think I sound like a crazy banshee saying “I love my children”. I carried both of them inside me. INSIDE MY BODY. (It is still weird. You were once INSIDE someone. Not a random person, granted. But I digress.) We created these little people to be involved in their ever changing lives, and when they’re less than a year old they change more quickly than they ever will again. I don’t want to miss that. Maybe I can miss a bit if it makes me feel sane and worthwhile but sometimes work makes me feel a bit bonkers and pointless.

I work in an industry where I enable other people to LIVE THEIR DREAM. I never said “when I grow up I want to be a Participation Officer”. I didn’t know what one of those was. Most people still don’t. Which is embarrassing, deflating and devaluing. Wait. I must shake the You Should Have Done Teaching imp from my shoulder. “You would’ve been on thirty grand a year by now, imagine that, it’s the same as you earn as a couple now”. Shut up and bugger off Teaching Imp.

Maybe if I LOVED my job I’d feel differently but, quite frankly, I don’t. It’s a means to an end and the end is money. And I don’t earn much. Let’s just say I’m not paying back my student loan yet. I would like to love my job. I need to win some bread, sing for my supper and provide a positive, productive role model for my children. Just not yet. At ten months old neither son asked why mummy was a lazy Jezza Vile watching housewife while daddy worked his arse of at the docks. I can readjust that patriarchal rubbish when they’re both in school.

On a practical level, working is a logistical nightmare/challenge. My four year old and 10 monther have different schedules and needs. Granted, they’re not very complex at the moment and I’m lucky to have grandparent help for two days, more than that and I feel that I’m taking the mickey. They’ve done their time.

The current government has paid lip service to the notion that women are entitled to a year off from work after giving birth. Well I’ve got news for you Dave, those last three months of unpaid maternity leave do not and cannot work for most families’ finances in the current economic mess. Better maternity packages come higher up the ladder and in better paid industries, widening the gap between the women at the top and those struggling at the bottom. Statutory Maternity Pay, while utterly amazing compared to the seventies and America, is, to be blunt, rubbish. Forward thinking companies and those who give a monkeys arse about retaining staff have varying maternity policies better than SMP. Not where I work.

Babies aren’t expensive. Your income dropping from £355 per week to more like £117 (rough figures for my salary in 2008 when I had my first son) is what hits you hard. The Camerons’ annual income is approximately one thousand times more than that of my household. ONE THOUSAND! Out of touch with the needs of most families with young children? Probably.

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Trapped Part Time Workers

(This blog post was originally written in July 2013. Thankfully I’m now in a much better place with my career but I’ll save that for another time.)

Today the Guardian published an article entitled “Part-time workers ‘trapped’ in jobs with no chance of promotion”. The article focuses on professionals and despite it seemingly assuming that all part time workers are office based it did speak to the frustrated part-time worker in me.

I work in the arts as an officer in a participation/education/creative learning/whatever-the-deuce-we’re-calling-it-this-week department. A potted history: I returned to work three days a week after my first maternity leave as part of a job share. Eventually I stopped job sharing and instead had a full time assistant. I returned after my second maternity leave to a situation where I have no job share and no assistant but am still working a three day week. Have I received a pay rise to acknowledge the fact that I’m delivering a full time position on part time hours? Hahaha! This is the arts darling, we do it for love.

I have tried finding other work. The part time opportunities that get advertised on the Arts Council Wales jobs list are short term, not well paid (which is saying something coming from me) or not in my area of expertise. I don’t want to jump from this particular frying pan into a fire that could only last 9 months and leave me in a worse situation than my current poorly paid stagnant career. This is what makes me feel trapped. There is nowhere to move in the organisation and no way to move out of it.

I know of at least three skilled and experienced female arts professionals who worked for well known arts organisations who were forced into leaving their roles through the utter inflexibility of their employers. I know another who was made redundant and is now struggling to find part time, relevant work. It’s such a waste of talent. Three of them are unemployed and the other is working in another sector. All have children under the age of 5. They are incredibly jaded, having been spat out and spat on by a sector that too many people see as people friendly and passionate.

In the final throws of my degree, with the big wide world looming, I did consider (and was approached with a recommendation that I pursue) training to be an actor. But then I thought about what was important in my life and my dream of a house, partner, children, dog and car was incongruous with the nomadic, penniless actor I could see myself becoming. So I went for a ‘proper job’ (full time, permanent) but in the arts. Now, at thirty years old I am content that I have achieved my big life goals but my career and pitiful income is a niggling little pain in my derrière. Maybe I should have followed my heart rather than my head back in 2004.

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To my children on the first day of school

Enjoy! I won’t cry, you won’t cry. That’s not our thing. No severe case of stiff upper lip, just a case of being a totally normal thing to happen at the start of September. I love that you love school, that you’re bright and a good friend.

You’ll get up to all sorts of exciting things this year. All of you. Trips and projects, odd crazes and funny stories. You’ll pick up fodder for anecdotes in your adult years. You’ll learn and you’ll grow.

I’m getting soppy. I should probably have started the school year as I mean to go on by laying out your uniforms and preparing your packed lunches but we’ll muddle through somehow.

And a special extra note for my step daughter: I hope you have a better first day than your dad did.