Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Capricorn Horoscope for week of May 10, 2007
Capricorn Horoscope for week of May 10, 2007
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
"Most painting in the European tradition involved painting the person's mask," wrote abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell. "Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter has been the person behind the mask." Your next assignment is similar to that of modern art's, Capricorn: to recognize everyone's persona, but delve deeper to explore the maddeningly complex, crazily inscrutable, gorgeously wounded soul that's hidden beneath everyone's persona. Strip away the surface, in other words, and investigate the essence lurking below.
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
"Most painting in the European tradition involved painting the person's mask," wrote abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell. "Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter has been the person behind the mask." Your next assignment is similar to that of modern art's, Capricorn: to recognize everyone's persona, but delve deeper to explore the maddeningly complex, crazily inscrutable, gorgeously wounded soul that's hidden beneath everyone's persona. Strip away the surface, in other words, and investigate the essence lurking below.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Capricorn Horoscope for week of April 26, 2007
Capricorn Horoscope for week of April 26, 2007
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
In The Book of Thoth, Aleister Crowley says that for Capricorns, the impulse to create can be so strong that it transcends logic, ignores tradition, and eschews foresight. It might even be "divinely unscrupulous, sublimely careless of result." Why is this urge so wild? The formula for Capricorn, he writes, is "the complete appreciation of all existing things . . . rejoicing in the rugged and barren no less than in the smooth and fertile." While his assessment might be a bit extreme, it does contain far more than a few grains of truth--especially as it applies to you in the coming weeks. Given the current astrological omens, I believe your will to create will be relentless, majestic, and primordial.
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
In The Book of Thoth, Aleister Crowley says that for Capricorns, the impulse to create can be so strong that it transcends logic, ignores tradition, and eschews foresight. It might even be "divinely unscrupulous, sublimely careless of result." Why is this urge so wild? The formula for Capricorn, he writes, is "the complete appreciation of all existing things . . . rejoicing in the rugged and barren no less than in the smooth and fertile." While his assessment might be a bit extreme, it does contain far more than a few grains of truth--especially as it applies to you in the coming weeks. Given the current astrological omens, I believe your will to create will be relentless, majestic, and primordial.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Horoscope week of April 5th
When you argue with reality, you lose 100 percent of the time," says teacher Byron Katie. So how do you cure yourself of the bad habit of arguing with reality? Love what is, she advises. Gladly and gracefully accept who you are and the life you've been given. But more than that: Ask yourself whether the beliefs you have about who you are and the life you've been given are actually true. Let's say, for example, you've been infected with the belief that you'll never get the love you want. Is that an objective, rock-solid fact about reality, or is it a fearful fantasy? If it's the latter, then you don't even have to argue with it. Just drop it.
Horoscope week of March 29th
Wealthy women in ancient Rome often filled their baths with perfumed swan fat and donkey milk. It would make perfect astrological sense if you did the same thing. The omens suggest that you should borrow old customs to enhance your health and appearance. APRIL FOOL! While it's true that this is a good time to upgrade your health and appearance, there are better ways to do so than with swan fat and donkey milk. However, those two exotic substances are symbolically apt. You should cultivate influences that will enhance your grace and beauty as well as your stubborn strength and dogged persistence.
Everything is connected
Everything is connected. This is a phrase that i have heard for years but really never understood until this morning. I have always been told what is above is below, what is inside is outside. I never understood these concepts either. This Morning i listened to the Diane Rehms interview and hearing "everything is connected" explained by Mary Chapin as it relates to The Calling resonated with me
Let me try to explain this, for the last three weeks i have spent 7 hours a day in the classroom and more like 8 or 9 at work, preparing and training 27 people to be prepared to be Protective Caseworkers. Their jobs will be to keep children safe and investigate reports of abuse or neglect in NYC. I was prepared and trained to teach a model that placed me in the role of educator and coach/mentor. In return, i was provided a mentor/coach to give me feedback...So i prepared power points and rehersed the parts that I offered to deliver, i was in contact with my coach.....
Upon first meeting, she asked me "if i was willing to take a risk"....i answered her that I take chances....and i was pushed to take more and more chances. All while, i was thinking.....Why walk when you can fly.... My coach is kin to me in many ways, culturally, physically and is an avid NPR listener. She and her husband built a home and lived in woodstock and she raised two daughters. We became fast friends and this woman originally from Philly and involved in sustainable organic gardening is married to a man who owns a coffee house and is a pastry chef. Outside of Albany the NPR station plays Dar Wiliams so she is familiar with the music i listen to and has a love for the music of the 30s and 40s....She is warm and supportive and wonderfully skilled. its get to take feedback from her and to be free to make mistakes.
I entered the training room with like a burst of energy, she laughed when i exhausted myself and havent learned to temper my energy but she let me figure that out for myself....I would look over and she would nod and she when coached to proceed in a way at the last minute, and then i couldnt do the change, she shook her head because, there is no real mistake... I just couldnt execute and there was the day, that i couldnt get the words out and try to make my own changes midstream and i screwed up the exercise totally and "crashed and burned" in the delivery, she let me off the hook, gave me feedback and didnt let me beat myself up...just moved me on...
That is exactly what i have done with the group of participants, i was assigned to... I got the 5 most limited in talent and had to coach them on skills and get them through a video tape 12 minutes in length. Working wtih them in small groups, i modeled and demonstrated and gave feedback and supported and helped them succeed. it was amazing to see how they grew and developed and even more amazing how i grew and developed over the last three weeks.....
IN the middle of this training, i went off to Peekskill and then to Redbank ( good thing i didnt have any sections the day after redbank because i was shot) and i am done with the three week cycle....the next one doesnt begin until May... way after the MCC tour is over and before the summer one begins...
I wanted to give my coach a copy of The Calling and I think i will send her one as a thank you present for getting me through my first training with such support and helping me learn as much as i did.. I know where to find her and i will work with her again, and see her in the office and for dinner when she is in the City.....
As for the participants, they will be going on thier on the job training, then to another three week course leading them to a written test... If they fail the test, they lose their jobs.....i wa s pleased when the two that stuggled told me that they will practice the skills and hear my voice in their heads when they are working.... they are integrating when i have taught them, like i am integrating what my coach has taught me....
Let me try to explain this, for the last three weeks i have spent 7 hours a day in the classroom and more like 8 or 9 at work, preparing and training 27 people to be prepared to be Protective Caseworkers. Their jobs will be to keep children safe and investigate reports of abuse or neglect in NYC. I was prepared and trained to teach a model that placed me in the role of educator and coach/mentor. In return, i was provided a mentor/coach to give me feedback...So i prepared power points and rehersed the parts that I offered to deliver, i was in contact with my coach.....
Upon first meeting, she asked me "if i was willing to take a risk"....i answered her that I take chances....and i was pushed to take more and more chances. All while, i was thinking.....Why walk when you can fly.... My coach is kin to me in many ways, culturally, physically and is an avid NPR listener. She and her husband built a home and lived in woodstock and she raised two daughters. We became fast friends and this woman originally from Philly and involved in sustainable organic gardening is married to a man who owns a coffee house and is a pastry chef. Outside of Albany the NPR station plays Dar Wiliams so she is familiar with the music i listen to and has a love for the music of the 30s and 40s....She is warm and supportive and wonderfully skilled. its get to take feedback from her and to be free to make mistakes.
I entered the training room with like a burst of energy, she laughed when i exhausted myself and havent learned to temper my energy but she let me figure that out for myself....I would look over and she would nod and she when coached to proceed in a way at the last minute, and then i couldnt do the change, she shook her head because, there is no real mistake... I just couldnt execute and there was the day, that i couldnt get the words out and try to make my own changes midstream and i screwed up the exercise totally and "crashed and burned" in the delivery, she let me off the hook, gave me feedback and didnt let me beat myself up...just moved me on...
That is exactly what i have done with the group of participants, i was assigned to... I got the 5 most limited in talent and had to coach them on skills and get them through a video tape 12 minutes in length. Working wtih them in small groups, i modeled and demonstrated and gave feedback and supported and helped them succeed. it was amazing to see how they grew and developed and even more amazing how i grew and developed over the last three weeks.....
IN the middle of this training, i went off to Peekskill and then to Redbank ( good thing i didnt have any sections the day after redbank because i was shot) and i am done with the three week cycle....the next one doesnt begin until May... way after the MCC tour is over and before the summer one begins...
I wanted to give my coach a copy of The Calling and I think i will send her one as a thank you present for getting me through my first training with such support and helping me learn as much as i did.. I know where to find her and i will work with her again, and see her in the office and for dinner when she is in the City.....
As for the participants, they will be going on thier on the job training, then to another three week course leading them to a written test... If they fail the test, they lose their jobs.....i wa s pleased when the two that stuggled told me that they will practice the skills and hear my voice in their heads when they are working.... they are integrating when i have taught them, like i am integrating what my coach has taught me....
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Capricorn Horoscope for week of March 22, 2007
Capricorn Horoscope for week of March 22, 2007
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
The bumper sticker I saw today said, "Having abandoned my search for the truth, I'm now looking for a good fantasy." Though it's meant to be sarcastic, it's actually a perfectly useful piece of advice for you right now. Consider this: The truth is overrated. It's so complicated and ever-shifting that it's impossible to pin down. To earnestly pursue it is often a waste of your valuable time and energy. Besides, why bother trying to *understand* the nature of reality when it's more important and productive to aggressively shape the nature of reality? As another bumper sticker says, "Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself." In light of these meditations, Capricorn, I suggest that you drum up some fresh, fun, fabulous fantasies.
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
The bumper sticker I saw today said, "Having abandoned my search for the truth, I'm now looking for a good fantasy." Though it's meant to be sarcastic, it's actually a perfectly useful piece of advice for you right now. Consider this: The truth is overrated. It's so complicated and ever-shifting that it's impossible to pin down. To earnestly pursue it is often a waste of your valuable time and energy. Besides, why bother trying to *understand* the nature of reality when it's more important and productive to aggressively shape the nature of reality? As another bumper sticker says, "Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself." In light of these meditations, Capricorn, I suggest that you drum up some fresh, fun, fabulous fantasies.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Capricorn Horoscope for week of March 15, 2007
Capricorn Horoscope for week of March 15, 2007
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
"It's more fun to be the painter than the paint," mused actor George Clooney in Esquire magazine. Usually I agree. I much prefer to be a creator who shapes raw material into a beautiful artifact than the raw material itself. But for the next couple of weeks, Capricorn, I'm recommending the opposite tack for you. I think you'll have more fun being the paint than the painter.
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
"It's more fun to be the painter than the paint," mused actor George Clooney in Esquire magazine. Usually I agree. I much prefer to be a creator who shapes raw material into a beautiful artifact than the raw material itself. But for the next couple of weeks, Capricorn, I'm recommending the opposite tack for you. I think you'll have more fun being the paint than the painter.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Capricorn Horoscope for week of March 8, 2007
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
[Editor's note: This week's horoscope was written by one of my readers, Artstar. It's entitled "How to Be a Capricorn."] Be a workaholic as you build a beautiful life for yourself and those you care about most. Love as hard as you work; be a loveaholic. In fact, be doggedly devoted to becoming the best you can be in every way--not just in your career but also in your marriage and in your roles as friend, parent, community member, and all-around ethical person. Be stubborn in your insistence that we humans are capable of more and better, and prod others into being their best and most beautiful selves. If they refuse, end your relationship with them, but keep wishing them well.
[Editor's note: This week's horoscope was written by one of my readers, Artstar. It's entitled "How to Be a Capricorn."] Be a workaholic as you build a beautiful life for yourself and those you care about most. Love as hard as you work; be a loveaholic. In fact, be doggedly devoted to becoming the best you can be in every way--not just in your career but also in your marriage and in your roles as friend, parent, community member, and all-around ethical person. Be stubborn in your insistence that we humans are capable of more and better, and prod others into being their best and most beautiful selves. If they refuse, end your relationship with them, but keep wishing them well.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Voice of Keebler Elf, Dies
Walker Edmiston, 81, Voice of Keebler Elf, Dies
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 28, 2007
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27 (AP) — Walker Edmiston, an actor who was the voice of many cartoon and puppet characters, including Ernie the Keebler elf in television commercials, died on Feb. 15 at his home in Woodland Hills. He was 81.
The cause was complications of cancer, said his daughter, Erin Edmiston.
Mr. Edmiston was born on Feb. 6, 1926, in St. Louis and moved to Los Angeles in 1947.
In the 1950s and early 1960s, Mr. Edmiston had a children’s show on local television, “The Walker Edmiston Show,” featuring his own puppets.
In the 1960s and 1970s, he was the voice of many characters on shows created by Sid and Marty Krofft, including Dr. Blinkey and Orson the Vulture on “H. R. Pufnstuf” and Sparky the Firefly on “Bugaloos.”
Mr. Edmiston also had acting roles in episodes of television series like “Gunsmoke,” “Mission: Impossible” and “The Dukes of Hazzard,” and performed for nearly 20 years on “Adventures in Odyssey,” a radio series produced by the nonprofit group Focus on the Family.
He is survived by his daughter.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 28, 2007
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27 (AP) — Walker Edmiston, an actor who was the voice of many cartoon and puppet characters, including Ernie the Keebler elf in television commercials, died on Feb. 15 at his home in Woodland Hills. He was 81.
The cause was complications of cancer, said his daughter, Erin Edmiston.
Mr. Edmiston was born on Feb. 6, 1926, in St. Louis and moved to Los Angeles in 1947.
In the 1950s and early 1960s, Mr. Edmiston had a children’s show on local television, “The Walker Edmiston Show,” featuring his own puppets.
In the 1960s and 1970s, he was the voice of many characters on shows created by Sid and Marty Krofft, including Dr. Blinkey and Orson the Vulture on “H. R. Pufnstuf” and Sparky the Firefly on “Bugaloos.”
Mr. Edmiston also had acting roles in episodes of television series like “Gunsmoke,” “Mission: Impossible” and “The Dukes of Hazzard,” and performed for nearly 20 years on “Adventures in Odyssey,” a radio series produced by the nonprofit group Focus on the Family.
He is survived by his daughter.
Capricorn Horoscope for week of March 1, 2007
Capricorn Horoscope for week of March 1, 2007
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
Accountants at an Australian car insurance company have found that Capricorns are the safest drivers. Correlating birth data with crash rates, they found that your sign is the least accident prone. This probably has to do with your renowned patience and carefulness. While I applaud you for that accomplishment and urge you to continue expressing your attention to detail while operating heavy machinery, I also recommend that in the coming week you make room for happier kinds of accidents. You need certain educational blessings that only serendipity can provide.
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
Accountants at an Australian car insurance company have found that Capricorns are the safest drivers. Correlating birth data with crash rates, they found that your sign is the least accident prone. This probably has to do with your renowned patience and carefulness. While I applaud you for that accomplishment and urge you to continue expressing your attention to detail while operating heavy machinery, I also recommend that in the coming week you make room for happier kinds of accidents. You need certain educational blessings that only serendipity can provide.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Guess having a drivers license ruled me out
| You Are 84% NYC |
 Congratulations, you are truly a New Yorker. You've seen it all, and you're more than a little cynical. |
Capricorn Horoscope for week of February 22, 2007
Capricorn Horoscope for week of February 22, 2007
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
There are two basic approaches to manipulating people. In one, you manipulate people solely for your own good. In the other, you do it equally for your good and their good. In the second type, moreover, you deeply empathize with and even become more like the people you want to influence. You allow them to work their magic on you at least as much as you work your magic on them. Guess which kind I'm urging you to express right now, Capricorn.
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
There are two basic approaches to manipulating people. In one, you manipulate people solely for your own good. In the other, you do it equally for your good and their good. In the second type, moreover, you deeply empathize with and even become more like the people you want to influence. You allow them to work their magic on you at least as much as you work your magic on them. Guess which kind I'm urging you to express right now, Capricorn.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
apricorn Horoscope for week of February 15, 2007
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
I was watching Oprah's TV show at 2 a.m. "Take off your shirt and look down," she told me. I don't automatically do everything the World's Wealthiest Woman tells me, but I trust her a lot. So I did what she suggested. What she said next, however, revealed that she wasn't actually talking to me. "Eight out of ten women are wearing the wrong bra!" she exclaimed. "Are you?" She then gave tips on how to select an undergarment that's just right for a woman's shape, size, and posture. I watched in perplexed awe. How could so many people be ignorant about such a fundamental thing? Later, while meditating on your astrological omens, I realized there's a comparable phenomenon going on in your world. You're missing something important about one of the basic facts of your life. Please find out what it is.
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
I was watching Oprah's TV show at 2 a.m. "Take off your shirt and look down," she told me. I don't automatically do everything the World's Wealthiest Woman tells me, but I trust her a lot. So I did what she suggested. What she said next, however, revealed that she wasn't actually talking to me. "Eight out of ten women are wearing the wrong bra!" she exclaimed. "Are you?" She then gave tips on how to select an undergarment that's just right for a woman's shape, size, and posture. I watched in perplexed awe. How could so many people be ignorant about such a fundamental thing? Later, while meditating on your astrological omens, I realized there's a comparable phenomenon going on in your world. You're missing something important about one of the basic facts of your life. Please find out what it is.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Capricorn Horoscope for week of February 8, 2007
Capricorn Horoscope for week of February 8, 2007
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
Happy Valentine Daze, Capricorn. I dare you to say the following to a special someone with whom you want to be closer: "Your face is true and your hair is perfect and I love you. You make boats in my dreams and you speak without words and I love you. Your fears unnerve me and your questions amuse me and I love you. I love you not only for who you are, but for the interesting person I become when I'm with you. I say I love you and love you and love you until the words become the constant song of your voice in my head and the original ache of memory in my soul. I love you more than life and death, more than everything that's in between the light and the dark. Do you believe me? Try harder. Do you believe me now? I'm always with you, which is why I know you will never abandon yourself."
Verticle Oracle card Capricorn (December 22-January 19)
Happy Valentine Daze, Capricorn. I dare you to say the following to a special someone with whom you want to be closer: "Your face is true and your hair is perfect and I love you. You make boats in my dreams and you speak without words and I love you. Your fears unnerve me and your questions amuse me and I love you. I love you not only for who you are, but for the interesting person I become when I'm with you. I say I love you and love you and love you until the words become the constant song of your voice in my head and the original ache of memory in my soul. I love you more than life and death, more than everything that's in between the light and the dark. Do you believe me? Try harder. Do you believe me now? I'm always with you, which is why I know you will never abandon yourself."
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Astro-nut stalked me, vic sez
NASA suspect charged with attempted murder in attack
BY ROSE DAVIS in Orlando
and CORKY SIEMASZKO in New York
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Lisa Marie Nowak trades a spacesuit for a jumpsuit as she stands stooped during courtroom appearance yesterday at Orange County Jail in Florida facing kidnap and attempted slay raps against fellow astronaut Colleen Shipman.
Lisa Marie Nowak
Colleen Shipman
The NASA astronaut accused of trying to kidnap and kill her rival in a star-crossed love triangle allegedly had been stalking the woman for months.
Lisa Marie Nowak, 43, was able to track Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman, 30, because she secretly downloaded her travel plans from the computer of Navy Cmdr. William Oefelein - the strapping spaceman both women wanted.
And when Nowak allegedly attacked Shipman early Monday, she was packing a knife, pepper spray, a mallet - and a loaded BB gun with the safety off.
Nowak's alleged plan backfired when Shipman got away and yesterday the fly girl was slapped with an attempted murder charge - and grounded by NASA.
"She is officially on 30-day leave and has been removed from flight status and all missionrelated activities," said Michael Coates, director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The woman once held up as a national role model slunk out of court with a tracking device strapped to her leg and a coat over her head.
It was a stunning fall for one of NASA's brightest stars, who had been the mission specialist on last July's Discovery flight to the International Space Station.
"Considering both her personal and professional life, these alleged events are completely out of character and have come as a tremendous shock to our family," Nowak's family said in a statement. They said Nowak, a mother of three, had recently separated from her husband of 19 years.
Shackled and dressed in a black jumpsuit, Nowak gave her name and date of birth but said nothing else both times she appeared in Orlando court yesterday.
Fellow astronaut Chris Ferguson admitted he was "perplexed" by Nowak's alleged actions.
"Our primary concern is her health and well-being and that she get through this," added chief astronaut Steve Lindsey, who flew on the shuttle with Nowak.
Nowak, of Houston, was ordered released on $25,000 bond and ordered to wear a GPS ankle bracelet that's programmed to alert authorities - and Shipman - when Nowak's in Florida.
"The bond was from her family, not NASA like everybody thinks," said John Von Achen of Baron Bail Bonds in Orlando.
Shipman's mother, Debra, said her daughter was "more shocked, surprised that this could have happened, than anything else."
Nowak was nabbed after she allegedly donned a disguise and jumped Shipman at an Orlando International Airport parking lot. Shipman was zapped in the face with pepper spray but managed to escape.
Nowak was so determined to confront her rival she wore diapers so she wouldn't have to stop during the 12-hour drive to Orlando - something astronauts do during launch and reentry.
Nowak had been stalking Shipman for at least two months, according to the restraining order Shipman took out, but it gave no details on the stalking.
Nowak's bizarre alleged plan to rub out her nemesis appears to have been hatched some time around Jan. 23, when she broke into Oefelein's computer and downloaded detailed maps to Orlando, court documents revealed. The information sent Nowak racing to intercept Shipman, an engineer who works at Patrick Air Force Base and lives in Cape Canaveral.
Nowak insisted she just wanted to talk to Shipman about "their relationship with Mr. Oefelein." But police didn't buy Nowak's claim that she was trying "to entice Ms. Shipman to talk with her." They also charged her with attempted kidnapping, attempted vehicle burglary and battery.
Oefelein, who is 41 and divorced, piloted the space shuttle Discovery in December. He and Nowak trained together in Alaska but never flew a mission together.
Nowak told police that her relationship with Oefelein was "more than a working relationship but less than a romantic relationship."
With Angela Mosconi in Cape Canaveral
Her loony bag of accessories
The wrong stuff astronaut was armed and ready for action. The police report says when she was arrested, Lisa Marie Nowak had:
# a steel mallet
# a fully loaded BB gun with the safety off
# pepper spray
# latex gloves
# trash bags
# a wig
# adult diapers, so she could make the drive from Houston to Orlando without stopping
NASA suspect charged with attempted murder in attack
BY ROSE DAVIS in Orlando
and CORKY SIEMASZKO in New York
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Lisa Marie Nowak trades a spacesuit for a jumpsuit as she stands stooped during courtroom appearance yesterday at Orange County Jail in Florida facing kidnap and attempted slay raps against fellow astronaut Colleen Shipman.
Lisa Marie Nowak
Colleen Shipman
The NASA astronaut accused of trying to kidnap and kill her rival in a star-crossed love triangle allegedly had been stalking the woman for months.
Lisa Marie Nowak, 43, was able to track Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman, 30, because she secretly downloaded her travel plans from the computer of Navy Cmdr. William Oefelein - the strapping spaceman both women wanted.
And when Nowak allegedly attacked Shipman early Monday, she was packing a knife, pepper spray, a mallet - and a loaded BB gun with the safety off.
Nowak's alleged plan backfired when Shipman got away and yesterday the fly girl was slapped with an attempted murder charge - and grounded by NASA.
"She is officially on 30-day leave and has been removed from flight status and all missionrelated activities," said Michael Coates, director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The woman once held up as a national role model slunk out of court with a tracking device strapped to her leg and a coat over her head.
It was a stunning fall for one of NASA's brightest stars, who had been the mission specialist on last July's Discovery flight to the International Space Station.
"Considering both her personal and professional life, these alleged events are completely out of character and have come as a tremendous shock to our family," Nowak's family said in a statement. They said Nowak, a mother of three, had recently separated from her husband of 19 years.
Shackled and dressed in a black jumpsuit, Nowak gave her name and date of birth but said nothing else both times she appeared in Orlando court yesterday.
Fellow astronaut Chris Ferguson admitted he was "perplexed" by Nowak's alleged actions.
"Our primary concern is her health and well-being and that she get through this," added chief astronaut Steve Lindsey, who flew on the shuttle with Nowak.
Nowak, of Houston, was ordered released on $25,000 bond and ordered to wear a GPS ankle bracelet that's programmed to alert authorities - and Shipman - when Nowak's in Florida.
"The bond was from her family, not NASA like everybody thinks," said John Von Achen of Baron Bail Bonds in Orlando.
Shipman's mother, Debra, said her daughter was "more shocked, surprised that this could have happened, than anything else."
Nowak was nabbed after she allegedly donned a disguise and jumped Shipman at an Orlando International Airport parking lot. Shipman was zapped in the face with pepper spray but managed to escape.
Nowak was so determined to confront her rival she wore diapers so she wouldn't have to stop during the 12-hour drive to Orlando - something astronauts do during launch and reentry.
Nowak had been stalking Shipman for at least two months, according to the restraining order Shipman took out, but it gave no details on the stalking.
Nowak's bizarre alleged plan to rub out her nemesis appears to have been hatched some time around Jan. 23, when she broke into Oefelein's computer and downloaded detailed maps to Orlando, court documents revealed. The information sent Nowak racing to intercept Shipman, an engineer who works at Patrick Air Force Base and lives in Cape Canaveral.
Nowak insisted she just wanted to talk to Shipman about "their relationship with Mr. Oefelein." But police didn't buy Nowak's claim that she was trying "to entice Ms. Shipman to talk with her." They also charged her with attempted kidnapping, attempted vehicle burglary and battery.
Oefelein, who is 41 and divorced, piloted the space shuttle Discovery in December. He and Nowak trained together in Alaska but never flew a mission together.
Nowak told police that her relationship with Oefelein was "more than a working relationship but less than a romantic relationship."
With Angela Mosconi in Cape Canaveral
Her loony bag of accessories
The wrong stuff astronaut was armed and ready for action. The police report says when she was arrested, Lisa Marie Nowak had:
# a steel mallet
# a fully loaded BB gun with the safety off
# pepper spray
# latex gloves
# trash bags
# a wig
# adult diapers, so she could make the drive from Houston to Orlando without stopping
Sunday, February 04, 2007
barbarb boxer officeThursday, February 01, 2007
MONSTROUS MOMMY A BIG FAT LIAR
MONSTROUS MOMMY A BIG FAT LIAR
BNIXZMARY BROWN Tragic 7-yr.-old.
NIXZMARY BROWN
Tragic 7-yr.-old.
February 1, 2007 -- PRISON food clearly agrees with Nixzaliz Santiago.
This alleged excuse for a human being lumbered into the Brooklyn courtroom yesterday, slovenly, looking as if she would burst her gray sweat pants at any moment.
Food is clearly a big issue with this slob, a mom who would have cheerfully starved her own daughter to death - had she not fed her to a man who saved her time and trouble by beating the child into an early grave instead.
She came to ask a judge to toss out the heartless confession she made last January - in which she told how she stood by and did nothing while husband Cesar Rodriguez pummeled Nixzmary to death.
But the hearing backfired. Over three hours, Nixzaliz proved she cannot feel for her child.
She complained about the "damage" done to her by cops.
She was plenty pissed off about once having a meal interrupted in custody - so she could be questioned about the murder.
Yet she could not remember her own daughter's age. "She's either 7 or 8," she testified. She grew testy and petulant at simple questions. And she spit. Yes, she spit.
It came when prosecutor Ama Dwimoh asked - Had Nixzaliz ever had contact with the city's Administration for Children's Services?
Nixzaliz contorted her face into a sickening grimace. And she spit. The judge made her answer and the answer was yes.
A year after the murder of little Nixzmary Brown, at age 7 - she was 7, Nixzaliz! - the monster mom wants to have her confession tossed.
She claims she was "yelled at" and threatened with being barred from seeing her five other children, by three different men, if she did not tell authorities what they wanted to know - the truth.
She was asked what Nixzmary looked like on Jan. 11, 2006, the day she died. "She had on red clothing," was all her mom said.
"Your daughter looked fine when she lay on the floor in your apartment, dead?" demanded Dwimoh.
Nixzmary was starved, beaten, tied to a chair and left alone with a cat litter box. And all her mom cares about is herself.
When the judge rules, I only pray that confession gets tattooed on Nixzaliz's sorry behind.
andrea.peyser@nypost.com
BNIXZMARY BROWN Tragic 7-yr.-old.
NIXZMARY BROWN
Tragic 7-yr.-old.
February 1, 2007 -- PRISON food clearly agrees with Nixzaliz Santiago.
This alleged excuse for a human being lumbered into the Brooklyn courtroom yesterday, slovenly, looking as if she would burst her gray sweat pants at any moment.
Food is clearly a big issue with this slob, a mom who would have cheerfully starved her own daughter to death - had she not fed her to a man who saved her time and trouble by beating the child into an early grave instead.
She came to ask a judge to toss out the heartless confession she made last January - in which she told how she stood by and did nothing while husband Cesar Rodriguez pummeled Nixzmary to death.
But the hearing backfired. Over three hours, Nixzaliz proved she cannot feel for her child.
She complained about the "damage" done to her by cops.
She was plenty pissed off about once having a meal interrupted in custody - so she could be questioned about the murder.
Yet she could not remember her own daughter's age. "She's either 7 or 8," she testified. She grew testy and petulant at simple questions. And she spit. Yes, she spit.
It came when prosecutor Ama Dwimoh asked - Had Nixzaliz ever had contact with the city's Administration for Children's Services?
Nixzaliz contorted her face into a sickening grimace. And she spit. The judge made her answer and the answer was yes.
A year after the murder of little Nixzmary Brown, at age 7 - she was 7, Nixzaliz! - the monster mom wants to have her confession tossed.
She claims she was "yelled at" and threatened with being barred from seeing her five other children, by three different men, if she did not tell authorities what they wanted to know - the truth.
She was asked what Nixzmary looked like on Jan. 11, 2006, the day she died. "She had on red clothing," was all her mom said.
"Your daughter looked fine when she lay on the floor in your apartment, dead?" demanded Dwimoh.
Nixzmary was starved, beaten, tied to a chair and left alone with a cat litter box. And all her mom cares about is herself.
When the judge rules, I only pray that confession gets tattooed on Nixzaliz's sorry behind.
andrea.peyser@nypost.com
Molly Ivins last column
Ivins: Stand up against the surge
POSTED: 4:59 p.m. EST, January 11, 2007
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(CREATORS) -- The purpose of this old-fashioned newspaper crusade to stop the war is not to make George W. Bush look like the dumbest president ever. People have done dumber things. What were they thinking when they bought into the Bay of Pigs fiasco? How dumb was the Egypt-Suez war? How massively stupid was the entire war in Vietnam? Even at that, the challenge with this misbegotten adventure is that WE simply cannot let it continue.
It is not a matter of whether we will lose or we are losing. We have lost. Gen. John P. Abizaid, until recently the senior commander in the Middle East, insists that the answer to our problems there is not military. "You have to internationalize the problem. You have to attack it diplomatically, geo-strategically," he said.
His assessment is supported by Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the senior American commander in Iraq, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who only recommend releasing forces with a clear definition of the goals for the additional troops.
Bush's call for a "surge" or "escalation" also goes against the Iraq Study Group. Talk is that the White House has planned to do anything but what the group suggested after months of investigation and proposals based on much broader strategic implications.
About the only politician out there besides Bush actively calling for a surge is Sen. John McCain. In a recent opinion piece, he wrote: "The presence of additional coalition forces would allow the Iraqi government to do what it cannot accomplish today on its own -- impose its rule throughout the country. ... By surging troops and bringing security to Baghdad and other areas, we will give the Iraqis the best possible chance to succeed." But with all due respect to the senator from Arizona, that ship has long since sailed.
A surge is not acceptable to the people in this country -- we have voted overwhelmingly against this war in polls (about 80 percent of the public is against escalation, and a recent Military Times poll shows only 38 percent of active military want more troops sent) and at the polls. We know this is wrong. The people understand, the people have the right to make this decision, and the people have the obligation to make sure our will is implemented.
Congress must work for the people in the resolution of this fiasco. Ted Kennedy's proposal to control the money and tighten oversight is a welcome first step. And if Republicans want to continue to rubber-stamp this administration's idiotic "plans" and go against the will of the people, they should be thrown out as soon as possible, to join their recent colleagues.
Anyone who wants to talk knowledgably about our Iraq misadventure should pick up Rajiv Chandrasekaran's "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone." It's like reading a horror novel. You just want to put your face down and moan: How could we have let this happen? How could we have been so stupid?
As The Washington Post's review notes, Chandrasekaran's book "methodically documents the baffling ineptitude that dominated U.S. attempts to influence Iraq's fiendish politics, rebuild the electrical grid, privatize the economy, run the oil industry, recruit expert staff or instill a modicum of normalcy to the lives of Iraqis."
We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on January 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, "Stop it, now!"
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POSTED: 4:59 p.m. EST, January 11, 2007
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(CREATORS) -- The purpose of this old-fashioned newspaper crusade to stop the war is not to make George W. Bush look like the dumbest president ever. People have done dumber things. What were they thinking when they bought into the Bay of Pigs fiasco? How dumb was the Egypt-Suez war? How massively stupid was the entire war in Vietnam? Even at that, the challenge with this misbegotten adventure is that WE simply cannot let it continue.
It is not a matter of whether we will lose or we are losing. We have lost. Gen. John P. Abizaid, until recently the senior commander in the Middle East, insists that the answer to our problems there is not military. "You have to internationalize the problem. You have to attack it diplomatically, geo-strategically," he said.
His assessment is supported by Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the senior American commander in Iraq, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who only recommend releasing forces with a clear definition of the goals for the additional troops.
Bush's call for a "surge" or "escalation" also goes against the Iraq Study Group. Talk is that the White House has planned to do anything but what the group suggested after months of investigation and proposals based on much broader strategic implications.
About the only politician out there besides Bush actively calling for a surge is Sen. John McCain. In a recent opinion piece, he wrote: "The presence of additional coalition forces would allow the Iraqi government to do what it cannot accomplish today on its own -- impose its rule throughout the country. ... By surging troops and bringing security to Baghdad and other areas, we will give the Iraqis the best possible chance to succeed." But with all due respect to the senator from Arizona, that ship has long since sailed.
A surge is not acceptable to the people in this country -- we have voted overwhelmingly against this war in polls (about 80 percent of the public is against escalation, and a recent Military Times poll shows only 38 percent of active military want more troops sent) and at the polls. We know this is wrong. The people understand, the people have the right to make this decision, and the people have the obligation to make sure our will is implemented.
Congress must work for the people in the resolution of this fiasco. Ted Kennedy's proposal to control the money and tighten oversight is a welcome first step. And if Republicans want to continue to rubber-stamp this administration's idiotic "plans" and go against the will of the people, they should be thrown out as soon as possible, to join their recent colleagues.
Anyone who wants to talk knowledgably about our Iraq misadventure should pick up Rajiv Chandrasekaran's "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone." It's like reading a horror novel. You just want to put your face down and moan: How could we have let this happen? How could we have been so stupid?
As The Washington Post's review notes, Chandrasekaran's book "methodically documents the baffling ineptitude that dominated U.S. attempts to influence Iraq's fiendish politics, rebuild the electrical grid, privatize the economy, run the oil industry, recruit expert staff or instill a modicum of normalcy to the lives of Iraqis."
We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on January 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, "Stop it, now!"
Click here for more from Creators Syndicate.
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