Palm Springs Photo Festival
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I attended the Palm Springs Photo Festival this past March and it was a fabulous experience. It was held at the Korakia Pensione Hotel and I met some wonderful fellow photographers while I was there. I took a seminar with Veronique Vial which was very inspiring (she has never taught before so I thought of it as an extra special opportunity). I think what I like most about it was the casualness of it. The esteemed photographer Jeff Dunas was trying to take a picture of me sitting on a chaise lounge reading the festival's program and inadvertently fell in the pool (I was mortified to say the least).
I was honored that they chose a slideshow of my work to be shown at one of the evening's functions (some of the photos are highlighted above). I of course had to honor my sisters by putting my favorite photo of the three of them as the last photo of the slideshow.
I am very much looking forward to attending the second annual festival and will remember the first annual one fondly.
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posted by April Rocha at 9:35 AM
3 Comments:
Jeff Dunas hopes to see you at this years Palm Springs Photo Festival. It's going to be amazing.
Your last year slide show was fantastic. Were you here this year? I didnt see you. All the best.
Norman
Thieves in the Temple!
by Joel Phillips
publisher: www.religiousfreedomwatch.org
owner: American Coast Title (www.actfortitle.com)
In this day and age nothing is what it seems to be. So that’s what motivated me to put up www.religiousfreedomwatch.org so that you, the man in the street, could find out if anyone local to you is a zealot, bigot, Jihad Cell Member, Islamic bomber, child molestor, pedophile, pornography collector or internet copyright violator.
And, you will find many of each on the site!
But it goes beyond that. I have put the profits from my company, American Coast Title, into this effort. Going along with it are the other 2 owners, namely Linda Blood and Frank Berriz and of course we had to have the consent of our underwriters who happen to be Stewart Title of Texas.
But back to the point.
Two men in particular have made themselves quite rich by swindling the Church of Scientology.
The first is Dennis Erlich. What a piece of work. He is fixated on a married woman half his age. That’s just sick. He decided to call himself the “Reverend” Dennis and set up the “Informer Ministry” some time back. It got into a legal tug with the Church of Scientology and Scientology had to pay. Erlich went from living in a walkup dump to a mansion near a Palm Springs golf course. Hardly what you’d expect from a poor and struggling Reverend!
He rides around in a custom Mercedes and picks up young girls off the shopping streets there. This is what he wanted all along, money to feed his prurient desires.
The next is Lawrence Wollersheim. The man set up an elaborate scam involving disgraced homosexual lawyer Graham Berry to rob the Church of Scientology. It goes way back to when Wollersheim decided to be a coward and not get drafted to Viet Nam. He acted crazy and blamed it on Scientology. This was the plan he and Berry had put up.
Well for a long time the Church thought it would do OK and the slogan ringing through the orgs was “Not a Dime For Wollersheim” and it seemed his plot would go nowhere and people could just laugh at him.
Well assistance fell out of nowhere from other criminal elements such as Gerald Armstrong and Margery Wakefield. They got him the money he needed to hire high powered lawyers who extorted the volunteer legal department of Scientology into paying.
Now Wollersheim had to pay back Armstrong and Wakefield but he got enough to buy a Winnebago with its own internet hookup. Now he literally drives himself around America using this to harass Scientology. He uses Erlich’s mansion as a base of operations and the two of them hatch plots there and then off goes Wollersheim to make life miserable for Scientology parishioners. Wollersheim has been particularly effective at scaring off new students from the Flag Academy which is just a downright shame given what’s possible for people to learn there.
So not only have these men fattened their checking accounts but they don’t stop with the bigotry and harassment that has resulted in so much misery. L. Ron Hubbard developed the means to stop it but there’s only so much you can do when men like Erlich and Wollersheim and willing to corrupt and pervert the American justice system.
I for one would not be surprised if Wollersheim is the transmitter of these threats I have been receiving from Russia. When the Russian radio people showed up at the offices of American Coast Title there was in fact a motor home seen prowling the streets of Glendale!
Is that a coincidence? You tell me!
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