Oct 15 2024 - Dog News Today

 

Yes, there is are google headlines for "dog news today".  It isn't all good news - but we won't dwell on that.  And it is today's news.   I don't know if dog news is a recent regular item. Pet ownership is up almost 20% over pre-pandemic levels.  The increase in the US is from 38% to 45% of households.  Cats are more popular as well.  In Canada 77% of Canadians have a pet - that includes cats and dogs.  In Canada 33% own dogs.  In Britain it is 36%. So I guess that's a sizeable audience for dog news.  I get the sense that Britain does more fun things with their dogs.  The BBC has a few articles on the dog event in Sandford Parks Lido (that's British for a public, open-air swimming pool or beach). This is swimming pool is open for the last two weekends of the season to dogs. Then the pool is drained for the winter.  Lots of pictures of Australian Shepards, Labs, and Retrievers.  More than 1,000 dogs took part.  I guess that accounts for the multiple articles - very cute pictures.  Millie hasn't shown interest in swimming pools - she goes to the edge.  Spaniels are supposed to love the water and swimming.    I haven't found out if she might like Lake Ontario - as we haven't gone for a walk at Charles Daley Park in the summer. That's prime time for the Watering can where she gets the hundred hugs from all the customers. And I doubt Millie would be interested in the Lake in winter.  I could find out if she's a swimming dog -   our own Horseshoe area has dog swimming pools.  K9 Fun Zone looks like an excellent choice as it has pictures of dogs in the pool. Lots of dogs and lots of pictures.  They are always cute. This is my idea of a pool - perfect for abstract aqua photographs.

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May 15 2023 - Solo Marriage

 

A travel agency in Japan offers bridal ceremonies for single women.    Cerca Travel's two-day "solo wedding" package includes choosing your own special gown, bouquet and hairstyle, a limousine service, a stay at a hotel and a commemorative photo album. "This package boosted my sense of self-esteem… the effect was equal to a more extraordinary experience, such as visiting a World Heritage castle," says Tomoe Sawano, one of the first to try out a "solo wedding". About 30 women from across Japan have become "solo brides" since the service was launched in May. Almost half of them were married women who either did not have a wedding ceremony or were not satisfied with that experience, according to Cerca Travel. What if you think this is an adult dress-up game?  Sologamy or autogamy is marriage by a person to themselves.  Supporters of the practice argue that it affirms one's own value and leads to a happier life.   In June 2022, Kshama Bindu, an Indian woman from Gujarat, married herself, following all rituals and customs of a traditional Hindu wedding. This was noted as India's first sologamy. She identified herself as bisexual and her reason for marrying herself is that she always wanted to be a bride but not a wife. The prismatic wave reflections in a swimming pool on the garden tour in Niagara-on-the-Lake last summer. The floating white balls are reflected against the blue of the pool. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Sep 12 2022 - Background Bloopers

 

The National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa was recently used as the location for a video photoshoot featuring fashions and bathing suits.  This got blooper attention.   It isn't that there is a lack of advice on location mistakes. There is lots of advice on scouting filmmaking locations.  Video production mistakes abound in numbers - you can make at least 7, 10, 11, or 12 just on the first page of retrievals.  It is so widespread across the internet that you can't imagine that people could make bloopers like this.  The opposite is also true.  That is, filming locations used over and over. Here's an article on locations that have been used multiple times for movies -  HERE.  Poor Torrence High School in Los Angeles has been in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Beverly Hills 90210, She's All That, and more teen movies.  The University of Toronto campus is persistently under camera lights.   And then there are locations that are promoted as tourist sites:  "31 iconic filming locations in the world you can visit." "If you were to walk down the streets of coastal city Dubrovnik, Croatia, you'd immediately recognize the cobblestone roads and gothic architecture as King's Landing, aka the capital of the Seven Kingdoms in Game of Thrones. If you want to snap some selfies in particularly iconic spots, head to the Old Town neighborhood or the Walls of Dubrovnik, where members of the Lannister family spent much of the series brooding." The National Holocaust Monument had its own problems when it opened.  The memorial plaque failed to acknowledge that it was a Jewish atrocity.  That blooper got a lot of attention.

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