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This year has been a bummer to say the least and a lot of people are ready to tell 2020 to leave already. But, of course, with the coronavirus pandemic there arent any big live parties going on to celebrate the end of 2020.

But there are online ways to celebrate the end of the year and welcome a hopefully better new year ahead.

Here are five online New Years events being put on by local organizations.

Details: This one is for the little ones as the aquarium streams a program on Zoom that will include craft lessons to teach kids how to create things such as fish-shaped party hats. Theyll also meet some of the animals who live at the aquarium and take part in a Noon Years Eve countdown with the help of a group of puppets. Parents will need to prepare by having craft supplies like paper, crayons, markers, tape, yarn and string ready. The Zoom party costs $5 per family.

When: 11:15 a.m.-noon Dec. 31

How to watch: On Zoom. Buy tickets at tinyurl.com/ybyobfec

Details: Usually thousands of people party at the downtown L.A. park on New Years Eve. While thats not happening this year, people can party and dance at home because Grand Park is teaming up with one of the hottest DJs around for its eighth annual celebration. Grammy-nominated DJ Steve Aoki will headline a 90-minute music and dance party featuring performances by artists on his new Dim Mak En Fuego label, including Mexican quintet Aquihayaquihay and Venezuelan singer Andrekza. Plus, DJ 2 DEEP will mix beats between sets. The events midnight countdown will still take place with 3D animation graphics at City Hall.

When: 11 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Dec. 31

How to watch: @GrandParkLosAngeles on YouTube and Facebook, Fuse TV, grandparkla.org.

Details: Because everyone could use some inner peace after this crazy year, the Shambhala Meditation Center will host a meditation celebration on Zoom. One Zoom room will be the dubbed the Silence Room, which is for quiet meditation. But because we could all use some socializing too, there will be another Zoom session in the Celebration Room, where you can chat with others as you take a break from finding inner peace. The online retreat will be led by meditation instructors, so no prior experience is needed. The Center is asking for $20 donations but is accepting whatever people can pay.

When: 4 p.m.-1 a.m. Dec. 31

How to watch: Register at la.shambhala.org

Details: Theres a sour grapes joke here somewhere, but we couldnt come up with one, so instead heres this: Temeculas drop dont stop just because of the pandemic. Yes, the citys annual event is dropping online starting with a virtual concert at 7 p.m. featuring cover bands Shoot 4 Tuesday followed at 9:15 p.m. by Undercover. Like it does in normal years, the Grape Drop will happen virtually at 9 p.m. and again at midnight.

When: 7 p.m.-midnight Dec. 31

How to watch: Facebook @TemeculaParksandRec

Details: End the year with a few laughs as Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank hosts a night of comedy. There are a couple of New Years Eve show options starting at 10:30 p.m. with the Yoo Hoo West Coast show, featuring several young comics and a countdown to midnight. This show costs $39. Then theres The Virtual West Coast New Years Eve Live Stream show starting at 11 p.m. with performances by Noah Copfer, a regular performer at Flappers and the Ice House in Pasadena, as well as comedian and real-life doctor Laura Hayden. Tickets are $25 for this one.

When: 11 p.m. Dec. 31

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By PA/TPN, in Green 18-12-2020 01:00:00 0 Comments Psychologist Dr Katie Cooper has written a guide on taking the calming power of plants to the next level.

Find having greenery in your home calming? Surrounding yourself with houseplants could even boost your meditation, according to psychologist and plant enthusiast Dr Katie Cooper, who has more than 200 houseplants in her home.

We are physiologically hardwired to be living a life in the wild, and respond really positively to attributes of nature and plants the form, the shape and the colour and they help us relax our nervous system and restore our mental attention, says Cooper, author of new book Plant Therapy, a guide on how an indoor green oasis can support mental and emotional wellbeing.

Having plants around you while you are meditating can be particularly grounding. Its about being in the present, and plants can really activate your senses, Cooper adds.

Curious about meditating with your plants? Here, Cooper tells us more

What are the best houseplants for meditation?

Any plants which have fractal patterns (forms that repeat themselves as they are magnified, such as leaves or fronds), that are a lush green colour or have an over-arching shape to them are good, but typically I would just go with a large-leaved green plant, like an alocasia or a Calathea orbifolia.

Where should you position plants while meditating? You could have it in your eyeline, looking at and appreciating its form, colour and fractal patterns, but it depends on what type of meditation you are doing, says Cooper. If its purely yoga with plants in the room, then they can be placed anywhere, just to give a general ambience and relaxing environment.

Should you use scented plants? That would be great if you were meditating around plants, because you could use the smell to ground you in your body and connect you to the wider world. Lavender or herbs, or anything with a fragrance can be noteworthy. Cooper suggests you bring your nose and the plant closer together, becoming aware of its fragrance, or even the smell of the soil. With each inhalation, explore the scents around you.

How do you meditate with plants?

What other techniques can people try? Lots of people find it difficult to roll out the yoga mat and sit there and meditate. Its much easier to get wrapped up in a moment just looking after your plants. Its much more of an applied form of meditation, like running or sowing, says Cooper. If you are tending to your plants or dusting them, watering them, you are very much in that moment in time, which is quite mindful. Its being able to use the plant in its sensory form, the way you touch it, the way it smells, or if its a herb you can taste it as well to activate all your senses, to connect you with the moment you are in. This takes you out from your anxieties and the thought processes which take you to your worries of the past and the future.

Should you touch the plant? You can bring it up into the light to look at it, seeing interesting fractal patterns, which have been known to produce relaxed yet wakeful states. Its about taking the time to appreciate something natural in our environment, that we wouldnt often do. Explore the plants exterior texture, running your hand gently over its leaves. Squeeze the leaves slightly and notice how this gives you a sense of its interior texture, she suggests. Notice how the leaves feel in your hand and the sensations you experience as you connect with the plant.

How should you end the meditation? Admire the plant one last time, Cooper suggests, acknowledging all the sensations it has given you and notice how the feelings connect you with your surroundings, nature and the life around us. Its about appreciating something for its natural beauty and taking the time to notice something you wouldnt have if you were just walking past it, says Cooper. Make room for these other living things in your life that arent just people or yourself. Its about taking a moment in its entirety.

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A welcome addition to the Canterbury Scene corpus.

Justin Mitchells album, The Garden Of Earthly Delights, is lovely: funny, quirky, jazzy, funky, surreal and avant-garde all at the same time. Its like the soundtrack to a drive-in science-fiction zombie movie set in a haunted fairground on the outskirts of town. Its a meditation on mortality and what it means to be alive in this cockamamie world. The first track, Rapture for Rupert, is a multi-layered fanfare rising to an echoing crescendo. It sets the mood for the rest of the album.

The Rupert in question is Rupert Hayes, the maverick artist from my hometown of Whitstable who died on July 9, 2018. He and Mitchell were good friends. Hayes old studio went up in flames recently, so its fitting that Mitchells tribute should be heard not long after that event. Although obviously informed by Hayes passing, theres a joyous, life-affirming quality to the album, as if Mitchell is finding ways to stay optimistic despite the ever-present shadow of death.

Pigeons, the third track, is a celebration of the mysterious ordinariness of the world. Musically its like a sound painting of what pigeons do when theyre gathered, cooing on a rooftop. Theres a nodding quality to the rhythm, like a sonic representation of a pigeons movements. After a while the words of a poem are heard, read by Emily Firmin, Mitchells long-term partner in art at Total Pap, the papier-mch studio they run together. The words and the music combined create an evocation of the sight and sound of a band of pigeons scattering about, pecking for food.

Lines like nodding raptors lost in rapture and bobbing lovebirds lost in games, clapping wings with self-applause are precisely fitting for the theme. At one point Firmin laughs aloud, obviously delighted at the words shes being asked to read.

A Cautionary Tale, the fourth track, is an allegory of the absurdity of our current world: A dazzling fairground, lights all on, with spinning rides and tempting prizes with a mouse atop a unicorn getting his comeuppance. Mitchell creates characters that come alive. Both the mouse in A Cautionary Tale and the pigeons in the previous track have that quality. They come alive in the listening, as does the anonymous narrator in Requiem, with his dark observations about life told to a stranger he accosts in a bar, full of chilling ill-humor and grim pessimism: Love is dead, they say A banquet laced with lies, that is eaten on the hoof.

The tune sounds like something that Bernard Herrmann mightve composed for a Hitchcock movie, and has all the looming threat of that misanthropic directors classic period: Strangers on a Train meets Shadow of a Doubt round the back of the Bates Motel.

Hangmans Holiday is like a dance tune with death as its theme. The videofeatures a dancing skeleton or two. Nevertheless, the music is jaunty and the tone is upbeat.

I wont go through all the tracks. Many are instrumentals with a cool jazz or funky feel. The title track is a reference to the 15th-century surrealist masterpiece by Meister Hieronymus Bosch, currently held in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Its a good title and tells you, in an oblique way, what the albums about. The triptych painting shows you the Garden of Eden on one side and Hell on the other, with Life on Earth squeezed in between.

I asked Mitchell what his musical process was: how he came to write this album. He said: I start by playing around with ideas on the keyboard without consciously thinking about it too much and recording at the same time on a little eight-track digital recorder. Ill develop an idea and start extending it. I might then start adding other ingredients. Ill try not to overwork it or worry about the framework but concentrate on putting down a solid foundation. It could go in any direction, but it has to have plenty of things that I didnt mean to do in it: that way I can listen to it in a more divorced way. Then I might leave that and start another idea, do the same, come back to previous ideasalways slowly building on it.

I had no idea where each number would go on this album, but was aware that they were all part of each other and that the common theme would make itself known in time. Its my first solo musical project and, although it was very liberating, working by myself I have become aware of the limitations of doing things like this on your ownapart from the fact that there is quite simply a hell of a lot of things to consider in terms of artwork, technicalities of production and the practical side of things.

The creative side Ive tried to let happen by itself as much as possible, without worrying about what box to push it into. I wanted it to sound broad and representative of the richness of life with its joy and its pain but, again, working on your own in a tiny room has it limitations, as I said. Instrumentation-wise, I wouldve really liked to have real drums and real bass, but in the end things are what they areand were just very lucky if we have something we look forward to getting stuck into when we wake up.

The fact that Mitchell managed to get such an accomplished sound out of working on his own in a tiny seven-foot room stuffed with instruments makes you wonder what he mightve achieved in a full-size studio with a real band at his disposal. Musically, I hear echoes of Hugh Masekela and Robert Wyatt. I suspect this is probably because they are both, like Mitchell, trumpet players. Wyatt probably has similar working methods, confined to a studio in his home, and putting the music together mainly on his own.

The parallels with Wyatt remind us that, as a member of Soft Machine, he was one of co-founders of that historically important musical form known as the Canterbury Scene. Mitchell was also involved as the trumpet and keyboard player with the Happy Accidents, an imaginative jazz-leaning bunch led by Canterbury musical guru Graham Flight, a veteran of the Wilde Flowers, a band that numbered Kevin Ayers, Richard Sinclair, Hugh Hopper and Robert Wyatt in its ranks as the 1960s turned psychedelic.

You can buy the album (and listen to the tracks) here: https://justinmitchell1.bandcamp.com/follow_me.

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This powerful leadership tool is vital for big-picture planning

The winter months are the perfect time to shift from urgent and short-term thinking to important and long-range goals. This transition is not easy.

In agriculture, there is a work ethic and sense of urgency that can be both a blessing and a curse, says Mark Faust, business author and president of Echelon Management. Because of the pressures of weather and markets and the importance of timing, we can get caught up in the tyranny of the urgent.

To help you focus consider a powerful business tool: leadership meditations. Before you write it off as a fluffy and time-wasting exercise, consider the benefits.

The point is to organize your thoughts, value systems and imagination, Faust says. The practice readies the most valuable asset on the farm or in any business for your highest of responsibilities. Those are problem-solving, decision-making, innovation and planning.

The Power of Silence

Business leaders need regular time away from our everyday hectic lives and schedule specific time to just sit and think, explains Matt Mayberry, former NFL linebacker for the Chicago Bears and business coach.

Some of the greatest achievers to ever step a foot on this earth all spent time in solitude every day, he says. It can be easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of life. We think if were sitting in silence not doing anything, that were not being productive. But thats the farthest thing from the truth.

If you think about the best breakthroughs on your farm, they probably hit you in the shower, on a walk or while leaning back midafternoon with a drink in your hand. Let your mind wander, Faust says. Odds are you will stumble on some gold in a matter of days, not weeks, and results in months, not years.

A leadership meditation is simple, says Mark Faust, president of Echelon Management. Grab your drink of choice. Sit down, relax, read the questions and just think for three to five minutes about ideas relating to each question. After youve invested that three to five minutes, consider writing down your best ideas and thoughts, he says.

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Thecanvas brings out his innermost thoughts in myriad colours. But before the physical act of creating, the artwork takes shape in his mind during his early morning meditations. Thats not entirely unexpected though as the artist is a spiritualist who ventured into knowing the unknown while still in his teens. At 56, both his art and spiritualism have matured.

Meet Neeraj Goswami, artist and resident of IP Extension in East Delhi. His solo show, Meditative Moorings, by Sanchit Art is currently on at DLF South Court Mall, Saket (till December 31). For me, painting and meditation are the same thing. I depict the bliss I achieve while meditating on canvas so that viewers can experience these positive vibrations as well. Goswami lost his father when he was in class 10, after which the family faced a lot of hardship and strife.

Since he was good at art, he started contributing to the family income by taking up commercial art works, like designing book covers, charts, etc. The loss of my dad was a jolt to my inner core. I used to be very disturbed, had anxiety issues, was always stressed and tensed. Then, on the advice of a relative, I joined Shri Poornanand Ajapa Yog Sansthan, and began attending their meditation classes.

It completely changed my life. After finshing school from Summer Fields School (Kailash Colony), Goswami joined the College of Art (Delhi University) and studied till PG level, before joining as guest faculty. He taught for 10 years and then quit to pursue art full-time. Goswamis palette consists of rich blues and gold. He works with oil, tempera, pastels, charcoal but it is oil that he loves dabbling with the most. Since oil dries very slowly, it gives you the option of making changes.

Oil paints have a particular kind of luminosity which lends a beautiful look to the work. He also makes sculptures and murals, but I love painting the most as it transports me to another level. The artist held his first solo in early 1980 while still in school, and has since held a number of shows across India and in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Dubai, Singapore, UK, among others.

He also holds workshops and camps on meditation. I want to share this knowledge so that others can experience the same bliss as I did, he says, adding that meditation is a scientific way of living, not some bunkum. During the lockdown, we did a number of online mediation works in which people from various countries participated. Meditation helps you connect to the inner atman, and all creativity and knowledge comes from there. I feel meditation is very important, especially in times of strife, he adds.

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This week, "Art and Soul" is about the art of well being. Lisa Barry talks withDr. Frank Anderson, a Michigan Medicine physician and professor bringing mindfulness techniques to the Ann Arbor area and medical community.

Listen to the full interview.

There are so many things that happen out in the world that may not make sense to people. Mindfulness and meditation provides another way to make sense of many of the things going on.

Dr. Anderson is an OBGYN physician and also teaches at theU-M Medical SchoolandSchool of Public Health. He is one of the founders of"Open Mindfulness Meditation"that provides weekly (online right now due to the pandemic) group meditations.

He offers suggestionsfor using mindfulness techniques as a way to deal with all the chaos and confusion in the world, including the current pandemic. He says mindfulness techniques allow us to find a place of peace and joy within ourselves. He suggests just becomingaware of your breath--mindfulness of the breath that can help settle and soothe you, and that is your ability to be mindful and can bring relief from what might currently be happening.

Dr. Anderson has been part of"Mindfulness Mondays"at the faculty development center at the University of Michigan Medical School, teaching mindfulness techniques and leading meditations for fellow faculty members. He also was part of a one-day seminar called"Becoming a Mindful Provider/Physician"to equip physicians with more tools to stay centered and emotionally balanced.

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Sitting behind bars facing assault charges, which he denies, and convicted of cocaine possession, Deborah Huttons boyfriend, Bondi meditation guru Andrew Marsh, 50, certainly has plenty of time to reflect on his lot.

Two years ago Marsh had finally conquered his drinking and was a contented and happily married family man with a successful business and wide circle of interesting and influential friends.

Deborah Hutton and Bondi meditation guru Andrew Marsh in May.Credit:Backgrid

But the alarming events of the past few days, which resulted in police taking out an interim AVO for the protection of his estranged wife Holly, have shocked even his most loyal devotees.

Not in the least his beautiful, famous and wealthy girlfriend Hutton, 58, who maintained this week that despite media reports and multiple accounts from friends to the contrary, Marsh had not been living with her.

Apparently he just visited a lot.

Andrew Marsh and Deborah Hutton in India last year after swimming in the Ganges.

But Hutton and Marsh have been coy about their relationship from the start, which in itself is a point of some conjecture given their refusal to say when it actually began.

Schooled in the black arts of image management decades ago by her former boyfriend, the late celebrity agent Harry M. Miller, Hutton has always been wary of media scrutiny of her private life. This week she bunkered down, declining to answer specific questions about her time with Marsh, and confiding in friends she hoped this latest media storm would soon blow over.

On Wednesday she issued a statement to PS: I consider him [Marsh] a very dear friend and in what has been an incredibly challenging year for Andrew, I offered him my full support during the breakdown of his marriage as he had nowhere to go. This is totally out of character for him and Im shocked at what has unfolded over the last few days and hope that Andrew is able to receive the help he clearly needs.

Hutton and Marsh grew noticeably close during a group meditation pilgrimage to India last year, which had been organised by Marshs wife Holly, who remained in Sydney.

Other members of the group told PS this week that Marsh and Huttons connection was so strong Hutton had declared in front of them she and her mediation guru had been lovers in a past life.

Deborah Hutton during a religious ritual in India last year.

But not everyone was impressed, especially those close with Marshs wife back in Sydney. While Hutton herself denied allegations from group members of emotional outbursts in temples, tensions within the group over Hutton and Marsh soon boiled over, with Hutton wanting to quit the pilgrimage early.

I have and always will respect sacred sites and holy places of worship and deny the allegations being made against me, Hutton said in a statement after being asked about a trip to Varanasi and an argument that erupted between Hutton and former Real Housewives of Sydney star Victoria Rees, an old friend of Huttons and another long-term follower of Marshs meditation classes.

While Rees did not dispute the account of what had happened, including Hutton throwing a shoe at her and shouting Walk a mile in my shoes, Rees told PS this week: I really cant talk about it.

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Shortly after returning from India last October, Marsh moved out of the family home. Before long he became a regular feature on Huttons social media feeds at various gatherings hosted in her Bronte home.

They were also photographed holding hands, sipping wine on Huttons balcony and kissing, though following this weeks scandalous headlines, Hutton was only referring to him as a dear friend.

For a while, Hutton and Marsh appeared to be on solid ground. Hutton even organised and paid for a refurbishment of Marshs meditation rooms. Marsh told friends he was hopeful Hutton could help raise his profile given her media savvy.

But friends of Marsh say he recently moved out of Huttons home and had been sleeping in his car for the past few weeks leading up to Mondays events.

Waverley Local Court heard on Tuesday there was a very strong prosecution case against Marsh, who allegedly entered a home in Sydney on Monday morning scaring the two occupants and putting one victim in a choke-hold; she states to police this makes her think she is going to die.

Marshs court papers listed Huttons Bronte home as his address. However, the prosecution told Magistrate Jacqueline Trad he was homeless and sleeping in his car.

Marsh pleaded not guilty to two counts of common assault and one count of intentionally choking a person.

The matter is due back in court in January.

Things have gone from bad to worse for former high-flying barrister Charles Waterstreet, who says he intends to appeal an NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal ruling that found he must pay his former landlord Con Kalpakidis $4512 after moving out of his executive apartment on William Street. It had been Waterstreets home for a decade.

Charles Waterstreet in Darlinghurst last month.Credit:Janie Barrett

Banned from practising last year, Waterstreet, who is recovering from a double hip replacement in November and says he is dependent on Meals On Wheels and home-carers to bathe him and clean his Darlinghurst bed-sit, told PS he had no idea the tribunal hearing was happening on December 9.

They sent the notices to an email address I have never used, he said.

However in her findings Tribunal Member Deborah Ziegler said a notice of the hearing had been duly served on Waterstreets last known address for service. The tribunal also made several attempts to contact Waterstreet by telephone at the commencement of the hearing but received no response and the matter was dealt with in his absence.

Back in 2012 Texan billionaire Jim Clark, husband of Aussie glamazon Kristy Hinze, said after 28 years of owning boats, Im over it, then proceeded to put his two prized tinnies the sailing yachts Hanuman and Athena on the market for a combined $113 million.

Billionaire Jim Clark and wife Kristy have a new boat, Atlantide.

Turns out he wasnt that over it, as it has now emerged he and Kristy have purchased a new boat, a slightly downsized 90-year old vessel called Atlantide, which had been recruited to Operation Dynamo in World War II to help evacuate English and Allied troops from Dunkirk. Given Athena alone was worth $100 million, the new tub is a comparative bargain at just over $7.2 million.

James Packer went to great lengths a few years ago to assure me that his then fiancee Mariah Carey was an incredibly smart woman.

While their relationship did not last the distance, Careys business smarts certainly have, and this year she can thank the City of Sydneys ratepayers for helping out her bottom line just that little bit more.

The Christmas tree in Martin Place.Credit:Getty Images

Careys All I Want For Christmas is the finale track played on high rotation each night for this years fabulous towering disco Christmas tree at Martin Place. And each time it plays - every 15 minutes from sunset to midnight - Carey pockets a royalty fee.

Last December The Economist estimated Carey had earned more than $US60 million from that one song since its release in 1994, thanks to it being constantly played on radio, marketing campaigns, movie soundtracks, music streaming services and in TV specials.

Speaking of which, Careys Magical Christmas Special now playing on the Apple TV service is quite a spectacle. Forgiving her miming skills (those quivering glossy lips were not terribly convincing), its the collection of gowns she (almost) wears that is definitely worth watching for.

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From her little drummer girl get-up to the human snowflake number, complete with fishtail bottom, and giant hair flicks sprayed into position seemingly mid-blizzard, La Carey also does a brilliant impersonation of a singing glazed ham, given her penchant for dangerously plunging neck-lines.

For a slightly more traditional way to mark this holy holiday, top marks this year should go to the light show at St Marys Cathedral, which in PSs opinion are the best yet and enhance the dignity of the architectural splendour that towers over Hyde Park, rather than those cheesy kids cartoons of previous years, which have gone by the wayside along with the hot dog stands. Go see it before it finishes on Christmas night.

Andrew Hornery is a senior journalist and Private Sydney columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald.

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