"If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity
to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth
that we find individually fulfilling,
then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham,
in which our selves are determined by the will of others,
in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us"

Nena O'Neil

Wish I could check this out - if you do, let me know what his work is like

Starbucks Features Alastair C MacKay

February 16th, 2009 - Thunder Bay, ON

Starbucks Chapters location in Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada features six new works by photographer Alastair C MacKay until February 28, 2009.

This is Alastair's second show at Starbucks. (January 2008).

Three black and white works and three colour.

Subjects unclude Alastair's 2 Cows (B&W), light industrial (B&W), a solitary closed for the winter chip-shack in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, as well as colour images of back lane garages and magenta concrete walls and an alternative image of a picture showing in another show, Heavy Metal, at the Thunder Bay Museum.

I'm gonna find a job after eating ::that:: ? LOL

Today's Outlook
(January 29, 2009)

You'll see your moves or projects crowned with success. However, control your impulsiveness more than ever and think of consequences before taking risks. You'll need calcium and phosphorus: eat liver, processed cheese, goat cheese, and raw butter. Good chance to find a job. You'll have nothing to lose in this undertaking; go ahead without hesitation.

OC Transpo strike song - Rick Currie

"Everybody Knows" - Dixie Chicks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgbIkt0KXwY

Tell me now if you came sneaking up behind
Would you know me and see behind the smile
I can change like colors on a wall
Hoping no one else will find what lies beneath it all
I think I hide it all so well

Stepping out, everyone can see my face
All the things I can't erase from my life
Everybody knows
Standing out so you won't forget my name
That's the way we play this game of life
Everybody knows

Looking through the crowd
I search for something else
But every time I turn around
I run into myself
Here I stand
Consumed with my surroundings
Just another day
Of everybody looking
I swore they'd never see me cry
You'll never see me cry

Stepping out, everyone can see my face
All the things I can't erase from my life
Everybody knows
Standing out so you won't forget my name
That's the way we play this game of life
Everybody knows

You say I'll pay the price
That's the chance that I'll take
Though you may think I'm telling lies
But I just call it getting by

Stepping out, everyone can see my face
All the things I can't erase from my life
Everybody knows

Standing out so you won't forget my name
That's the way we play this game of life
Everybody knows I am just barely getting by

Sign of the times here in Ottawa

People are understandably getting a little fed up with the bus strike :

Yay For Sioux Lookout !! And ABOUT TIME !

By Mike Aiken

Miner and News

Industry Minister Tony Clement brought with him a cheque for $250,000 as he visited Lake of the Woods over the weekend.

...

Clement also brought along cheques for more than $848,000 to help downtown revitalization in Sioux Lookout, as well as an industrial and commercial business park near the community's airport. Half a million dollars of the funding will assist with architectural costs for the renovation of the community’s train station and the redevelopment of Centennial Park.