 on a wonderful lazy day in your past. Maybe you were falling in love or you just finished a huge project. For some reason, you’ve given yourself permission to just goof off. For the next ten minutes, give yourself that permission again.
~ Blog Article, I Rest My Pace…Insight From Martha Beck
If your work is not “play” then you may need to consider reading Martha’s book, Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny, I just finished it two days ago and came away with a lot of fresh insights. It comes with a free PDF for you to follow the text and learn how to follow your heart as you work through the exercises she takes you through.
As far as “rest” is concerned, mindfulness practices and guided meditations can put you at ease and make your rest more enjoyable.
For me, this is really important. I play tennis four times a week at a beautiful club in Mill Valley, California. After each session, I come home, take a shower and rest for at least 20 minutes and sometimes for an hour or two. I play guided meditations or binaural beats music almost everyday.
If you are having trouble resting, try my Sound Sleep Guided Meditation:The Capitals are still working out new deals for Mike Green and John Carlson, but they’re making sure they’ve got plenty of depth.
The Caps announced the signing of former Islanders and Predators defenseman Jack Hillen to a one-year deal. Mike Vogel of the Caps’ website says the deal is worth $650,00.
Hillen played in 55 games last season for the Predators scoring two goals and adding four assists. He’ll slot in as a nice sixth or seventh defenseman for Washington and doing battle with the likes of Jeff Schultz, Dmitry Orlov, and John Erskine for playing time. Hillen can move the puck and has an OK shot from the point. At the very least, he provides the Caps with a solid option to go with if other guys struggle.
CASE STUDY 2: Watch Magazine | 1994 Images
Expertise: Editing, start-ups, youth media, content development, art direction, design and layout, investigative journalism.
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1994 and 1996
Editor-in-Chief: David South
A sample of covers, content and layout from the magazine:
A selection of covers from Watch Magazine in 1994.
A brief description of the covers below:
"Crackdown!":'stra.
Generation Y cover.
Generation Y Cover
Features Editor Miranda Bujas boldly took on the 'loser' label in "Take your loser label and shove it". The 'loser' label was aimed scattershot at all youth by the media at the time. She wrote, "Hype. Hype. Hype. Fact and fiction have intertwined in the media's myth-making machine to spew out a manufactured generation: Generation X. But is X a useful label or a term open to many interpretations, leaving advertisers, academics, and the youth it labels dazed and confused?" She got people's attention with that feature, and was invited to discuss her views and the mood of 1990s youth on Toronto's City TV (while wearing one of the magazine's popular logo t-shirts: a big publicity boost for the start-up magazine on the make).
Oasis cover..
Sloan Cover
Canada’s answer to the ‘Madchester’ scene of the early 1990s, Sloan, played the pop game with gusto. In the photo shoot for the feature, it was pants down and prayer hands to an unseen religious icon.
Style Showdown cover.
Style Showdown Cover
As the magazine increased its profits and expanded, it could also afford to build its own dedicated photo studio and style elaborate photo shoots for its growing fashion section. The magazine was now full colour and had to up its game in the quality of the fashion shoots.
Investigative Journalism and Features
A snapshot of the many investigative features in Watch Magazine.
Music Interviews and Profiles
Watch Magazine quickly became the credible go-to source for original interviews with bands and artists. As an example, British pop success Oasis gave their first interview in Canada to Watch. Other bands would drop by and hang out at Watch's groovy Toronto 'Crib', catching its youth vibe.
Fashion Section
As Watch Magazine became commercially successful, it could afford to up its game with full-colour fashion shoots, usually featuring Toronto's young designers.
Supplements and Special Features
As Watch Magazine grew, it included many firsts, from Toronto's first snowboard supplement, to honest information on drugs, to the first reports on the burgeoning Internet cafe scene. As writers Amanda Cox and Maureen Rice wrote, "The powers-that-be think we should cocoon in our houses and rent videos, play with the Internet and order in food - most people disagree." All these years later, the story still resonates.
Masthead and Team Photos
Watch Magazine's talented team of contributors defied youth stereotypes: their verve, enthusiasm and hard work made the magazine a success.
In 2013, the Watch Magazine feature "Peace, Order and Good Pot" by Bill White was included in the book Recollections of a Neighbourhood: Huron-Sussex, from UTS to Stop Spadina published by Words Indeed.
In 2017, the Watch Magazine feature "Peace, Order and Good Pot" by Bill White was included in the book Busted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada by Susan Boyd published by Fernwood Publishing.
Watch Magazine Editor-in-Chief David South photographed at Toronto's Beaches neighbourhood in 1994. Watch Magazine was Toronto's first youth culture media start-up and led the way on Toronto's revival after the economic crisis of the early 1990s. Photo: Margaret South..
© David South Consulting 2017A bumper sticker, emblazoned with the old Georgia flag, declares “Let Georgia Vote” on a wall at a bar that regularly welcomes white supremacists.
Scenes from an election that will decide control of the Senate, and maybe the future of American democracy.
They say there are two sides to every story, and that the truth lies somewhere in the middle. But that’s not the case here in Georgia, where the fight over the 2020 Presidential election has transitioned into two high-stakes Senate races on January 5.
As a field reporter, I’ve seen people screaming that President-elect Joe Biden—aided by a vast conspiracy that includes a zombie Hugo Chávez, the Chinese government, and George Soros—stole the election.
In a state that hasn’t voted for a Democratic president since Bill Clinton ran in 1992, Georgia had mostly been written off as a permanent red state. Then, in 2018, Stacey Abrams ran a competitive campaign for Governor against Brian Kemp, who was then Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brian Kemp. It took years of ground work from voting rights groups, knocking doors, registering people of color and many lawsuits to get to the point that we could even see a thin-margin win for Joe Biden.
As a field reporter, I’ve seen people screaming that President-elect Joe Biden—aided by a vast conspiracy that includes a zombie Hugo Chávez, the Chinese government, and George Soros—stole the election. Among the far-right, in a somewhat surprising twist, Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, has also become a key part of the pro-Biden conspiracy.
A Trump supporter at a rally in Valdosta, Georgia proclaims that the November 2020 election was illegitimate.
It would seem that the conspiracy theories of voter fraud and the rage that the Republican Party has sold to the masses over the years has finally come back to haunt them. Their own voters are now claiming that even the Republican establishment is in on it. And this rage is being led by the President of the United States, via his twitter account.
Dwayne Smith of Locust Grove, Georgia called out a Republican congressman for not doing enough to overturn the election results in favor of President Trump.
Some voters in Georgia are even calling for the January 5 run-off election to be delayed until they can confirm that it will be a “fair election.” Dwayne Smith, from Locust Grove, Georgia spoke to me at a Freedom Works Rally at a city near Atlanta, where he interrupted an Arizona Congressman’s speech demanding to know how, “Congress was going to stop the steal.” The Congressman stammered, not expecting to be flanked on the right at an event organized by the Tea Party.
Christian fascist Nick Fuentes, joined by Stop the Steal’s Ali Alexander and Alex Jones, speaks during a rally across the street from the Governor’s mansion in Atlanta, Georgia.
A militia holds a rally in front of the Georgia state capitol building in Atlanta, alongside the Stop the Steal organization, saying that they may take up arms if the election results are not overturned.
Stop the Steal, formed by Ali Alexander, a Roger Stone associate, has been calling on members of Congress to stop the electors from being certified on January 6 and is planning rallies in Washington, D.C., on that day. They’re also doing door-knocking to get out the vote here in Georgia (ironically, while at the same time claiming that there is massive voter fraud in the state).
Members of the Georgia Security Force III% rally in front of the Georgia State Capitol.
Latosha Brown, co-founder of the Black Voters Matter