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This writeup is about the feelings and emotions that I’ve been dealing with for the last 6 months. I feel I need to get this off my chest – vote it up or down, it’s up to you.

In early 1999, I met someone who changed my life forever. Him and I quickly fell in love. He was the most amazing thing that had ever happened to me. We had one big problem – he lived in Las Vegas, and I lived in Los Angeles. After commuting back and forth to Las Vegas every weekend for 3 months, I decided to take a chance on us. I left my job, my family and my friends and went to Las Vegas to be with him. Las Vegas was great – the city actually had a lot to offer, and I made some incredible friends. One problem: Las Vegas doesn’t offer much for a computer programmer to do.

Late August, 1999. I got an email from a recruiter at Microsoft. I didn’t hesitate, within minutes I had responded with a better copy of my résumé, and within two weeks I flew to Redmond, WA. I got the job, and off my partner and I went to Redmond. I was a little apprehensive at first, I had never been that far away from my family for any length of time. What you hear about Seattle is true. If you’re used to being in the sun all year long, the lack of sunlight can get to you. I gained a lot of weight, and got really depressed. I didn’t go home for Thanksgiving or Christmas that year, which didn’t help my emotional state at all. My partner and I started fighting with each other all the time over really stupid things (in the long run, aren’t most of the fights you have stupid?)

March, 2000. Something snapped in me, and I decided I had to get the hell out of there. A friend of mine in LA worked for a startup, and talked me into interviewing with them. The same day my cousin died. I made a trip to LA to interview and to go to my cousin’s funeral. I think having my cousin die was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. I couldn’t just get in my car and be there within a few hours. I was a little over one thousand miles away. Well, I got the job at that startup and went back to Redmond and announced to my partner that I was leaving him and moving back to LA. Well, after a very difficult week, I caved in and asked him to move with me. He moved with me. I thought that being close to everything I was used to, my family, my friends, and just my old life would solve the problems we had. I could not have been any more wrong about that.

May, 2000. I ended my relationship with my partner. We fought entirely too often, and we harbored too much resentment about our relocations and such, and it was time to stop the pain. Well, that actually made it all worse. I started drinking – excessively. I decided that sex and alcohol would make me feel better. I kept looking for my ex in other people. Well, that was another stupid move on my part.

After he left, I threw myself into my job. That seemed to make everything better – note I say “seemed”. That didn’t really help, it just masked the deeper problems I was having. A month later, the company announced that they were changing platforms to Java and away from Microsoft’s technologies. To make it worse, they decided to farm out a great deal of the development work to an outside consulting agency. Well, I wasn’t too pleased with this. Think about it – this company recruited me away from Microsoft, saying they wanted someone with my experience to help guide them into the future, and then, out of the blue, they completely change their mind. All of the work I had done was thrown out, and handed to someone else.

September 2000. I left that startup. I got a great job offer with a company that one of my best friends works for. It’s actually a dream job – I work from home, I get to travel, and the best part for me: I’m back to working with all the technologies I’ve spent my career working with. Life continued as usual, except for one thing. My drinking got worse. I started drinking several times a week. I have high blood pressure and hypertension. That all increased. With that came a wave of stomach problems. I’ve been through the stomach problems before in my life, so I know how to deal with them.

October 24, 2000. I can’t stand this anymore. I don’t even recognize myself anymore. I’m not the same person I used to be. I’ve decided to quit dwelling in my past and get off my ass and get with the future. My ex and I are over, and we’re not getting back together. I think I left a great career at Microsoft, but I think I can do better for myself in the long run anyhow. The worst part about this for me is that I’ve seen my friends and loved ones go through similar situations, yet I’ve been completely blind to the fact that I was starting to go down this road.

I guess you live, and you learn.

It’s now time for me to get back to myself and my life. In the long run, if I can’t be happy with myself, I can never be happy with anyone or anything else. I have one hell of a journey ahead of myself. I'm just thankful for the friends that I have - you all know who you are, and I can't do this without your help. I love you all.

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The SR-71 Blackbird is a high-speed aircraft originally designed by Kelly Johnson's "Skunk Works" at Lockheed. Its design and production was spurred by the 1962 Francis Gary Powers shoot-down over the Soviet Union in a U-2 high-altitude spy plane. The downing of Powers proved that the USSR had developed SAM systems which could reach the high altitudes used by American reconnaissance aircraft.

In response, the U.S. turned to the U-2's creator and asked him to produce a follow-on aircraft that would be safe from the new Soviet systems. Johnson and his team of merry maniacs at the Skunk Works decided that this meant the aircraft needed both altitude and extreme speed, since the faster the aircraft the shorter the intercept window for ground-based missiles. The SR-71 was the result; a futuristic, elongated, downright evil-looking (but beautiful) airplane. It was powered by two enormous turbojets, mounted in nacelles on each tiny delta wing.

The aircraft's designed performance envelope meant that the platform had to be viable in many different 'realms' of flight, from slow flight for takeoff and landing through transonic, supersonic and up to hypersonic (Mach 2 and over). The problems of aerodynamics involving the engines themselves took up a great deal of the project effort - in order to allow for supersonic airflow to enter the engines without extinguishing them, the airframe was designed so that the actual bowshock from the nose of the airplane (which normally interferes with engine flow as an aircraft approaches Mach 1) would impinge directly onto the inner surface of the engine nacelles. This allowed maximal 'feeding' of the huge engines. In order to prevent the shockwave from disrupting the airflow, the engine nacelles sported a pair of enormous conical 'inlet cones' that were to be moved independently of the main engine controls. While this allowed the airplane to fly, it introduced yet another flight variable; one of the most common in-flight mishaps (usually, fortunately, not fatal) is an 'inlet stall' which occurs when the inlet cones drift out of their precise positions (which are linked closely to current airspeed). This is similar to a compressor stall.

Perhaps one of the most impressive image of the SR-71 is that of the airplane during a night takeoff, its afterburners carving long tongues of purple flame through the sky. Even more impressive, perhaps, was the traditional burst of flame from the body with which it left the earth. This was due to the presence of fuel leaks, spilling raw fuel into the jetwash.

Actually, it leaked because the fuselage was designed to fit together snugly when heated by the air friction that the aircraft withstood when travelling at its cruising speeds. Although the plane is said to be the fastest one in existence, we can't be sure. It did set the U.S. coast-to-coast speed record of around 1hr. 52mins, measured from a timing gate on a Pacific beach to Washington D.C.

Useless trivia: This plane was originally designated the RS-71. RS stood for Reconnaissance/Strike. Technically, it could carry a single nuclear gravity bomb. However, when it was first publicly announced, President Lyndon Johnson referred to it mistakenly as the SR-71. Since they didn't want to contradict the President of the U.S.A., the Air Force quickly renamed it the SR-71.

There are still a couple of these airplanes in service with NASA. They are used as testbeds for high-speed research; for example, models of SCRAMJETs (which can only begin to work at speeds of Mach 2 and up) have been carried and ignited aboard the plane.

The CIA and the Air Force had Kelly Johnson, the creator of the Skunk Works and the SR-71 and U2, design and build a reconnaissance drone (the D-21?) that was to be launched from the SR-71's dorsal area. It was intended to overfly mainland China and the eastern Soviet Union, taking pictures as it went about its business at Mach 3+. It would then fly back out over the Pacific and rendezvous with friendly naval or air forces. They never got it to work; first of all, releasing it at Mach 3 turned out to be extremely hazardous for the pilot of the SR-71, and although a mission was launched, the drone was never heard from again. So they canned it.

Actually, years later, after the fall of the Soviet Union, one of the men associated with the ill-fated drone project was approached by an acquaintance. The other was a KGB agent, on duty in Washington; he handed the American a piece of black metal and said "Recognize this?" It was a piece of titanium fuselage from the vanished drone - a Mongol farmer had found its crash site, and the KGB had nabbed it. Apparently, pieces of it were popular desktop ornaments inside the Soviet security bureau.

More useless trivia: the airplane is constructed entirely of titanium, in order to withstand the intense heat of friction that it experiences, and to provide the structural strength necessary to handle the immense stresses of hitting turbulence while travelling literally faster than a speeding bullet. The titanium skin expanding causes the aircraft to 'grow' 11 inches while in flight. The continued process of heating and cooling the titanium is akin to annealing, and means that the SR-71 lands with its outer skin in better condition than when it took off.

The jet fuel it uses, JP7, is used ONLY in this aircraft. It is so modified that you can use it to extinguish a match; it will only burn in the SR-71's mammoth engines. There are two hydraulic systems on the aircraft; at Standard temperature and pressure (STP), the hydraulic fluid in the cruise system is in fact a powder. Note: lj points out that reg'lar ol' jet fuel will, in fact, extinguish a match, since having a high flashpoint is a safety feature for jet fuel. I will redraw the trivia; JP7 won't burn in standard jet engines. It will only properly combust in the Blackbird's heart, and requires an additive to start the engines. It can be induced to burn in open air, but it takes a great deal of effort - the above 'flame burst' occurs when vaporizing JP7 is flung into the afterburner exhaust of the SR-71.

There are those who are convinced that there is, in fact, a secret successor to the SR-71 that is presently being flown by U.S. forces. Code-named Aurora by the Area 51 watchers of the Southwest, it is rumored to be a working SCRAMJET airplane which can travel exoatmospheric at speeds of 'over Mach 5.' A recent report by Aviation Week describes an unconfirmed system named Blackstar which may or may not account for these rumors and various sightings.

How true is this? Although it doesn't seem likely that the Air Force would willingly give up their most capable recon platform, which would imply that a more capable alternative was available to them, the sheer engineering challenge of such an aircraft gives me pause.

Of course, they were flying the Stealth fighter for years before acknowledging it.

As far as speed goes, the first Blackbird (A-12) was designed for Mach 3.2, but has been unofficially reported to be capable of Mach 3.6. A variant (D-21) has a published maximum speed of Mach 3.35. All other variants top out at 3.2 on paper, but pilots have reported reaching at least Mach 3.5 on sorties. Any faster than this, and the shock wave generated by the nose can narrow enough to enter an engine causing it to unstart. That is, if an integral component doesn't melt first.

Random facts:

When the SR-71 arrived at Kadena AFB in Okinawa, the locals took to calling it "Habu", after a poisonous snake found in the area. The nickname became associated with the aircraft and eventually the crew. SR-71 pilots that have flown operational sorties were awarded the Habu patch.

The fuel it uses was designed with a high flash point so as to not explode as the aircraft heated up in flight. In addition, a special system was developed that delivered the hottest fuel to the engines, and used the coldest fuel to cool the landing gear.

Speaking of landing gear, the tires also had to be designed to withstand the high temperatures the aircraft reaches. The rubber is laced with aluminum, and they are inflated with nitrogen.

The titanium used in building at least the first few Blackbirds was purchased from the Soviet Union.

Yet another little Factoid: The Blackbird was black because black surfaces, aside from their well-known property of more easily absorbing heat, also radiate heat more quickly than other colors. Since the heat generated from air friction at Mach 3 is much greater than that absorbed from sunlight, the black coating actually cools the plane.

The drone was called the D-21, and it was not a variant to the SR-71, or A-12 as the original design and proposed fighter/interceptor was called, but a small drone that rode piggy-back on a SR-71 that was launched from an aircraft carrier.

The drone was flown on three sortie over the China and Siberia mainland. The first sortie flew about 300 miles inland and then disappeared from the scope. The next drone flew the entire route, but crashed into the water before it could release its film canister. The final drone flew perfectly and released its film canister correctly, but the c-130 that was supposed to receive it missed the catch and so the project was scrapped.

Also, the SR-71 was painted with radar absorbing paints. The combination of these paints and small design changes, like the stealth, made the SR-71 the first stealth airplane.

The spy plane was originally retired in the early nineties, but in 1994 it re-entered service as a spy plane for a short time. Now the only spy plane governmentally acknowledged still in service is the updated version of the U-2. The reason given for the retirement of the plane was that it is too expensive to maintain and the uses for it were not very important. Some sources near Area 51 say that there is a new plane that has not been revealed to the public, named the Aurora. Now most aerial spying is done by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs.

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Death to a deterrent..NO MORE GRADES!

In my previous blog, “Speaking of grades…” I addressed the practice of grading student work and why it is pointless. In the current K-12 schooling world, this equates to treason. So why should we abandon a long-held, highly revered practice? Simply put, it is a waste of precious time, a deterrent to and an imprecise measure of learning.

Over the years, teachers have used various grading programs, reporting systems, and feedback terminology only to find themselves held captive to school board policy that typically mandates what and how grades are to be assigned. In many cases, school policy trumps good practice. Apparently good practice and policies don’t necessarily align.

Most school systems demand that student work is graded and report card grades are given at the end of each semester or trimester as a means of communication with students and their parents. Teachers may have some flexibility on how they arrive at the grades they give, or as some teachers say, “the grades that students earn,” but the notion that grading is beneficial, meaningful, or accurate is highly questionable.

There has been plenty of research to support the negative effects of grading. However, teachers, students, and parents have come to believe that it is one of the ten commandments in schools to which strict adherence is required. Any attempt to tamper with grades is a recipe doomed to failure. Doing so might be akin to dismantling our monetary system or changing our customary units of measurement.

Change is difficult, unnerving, and risky, especially when it involves the entrenched, age-old practice of assigning grades for school work. I suppose one could argue that grades serve as incentives much like a paycheck does as our young students eventually become productive workers in society. On the flip side of that argument is strong and compelling evidence that suggests otherwise. Please see a quote below from Alfie Kohn referenced from his January 2010 blog titled, “Getting Rid of Grades” as an example.

“As for the research studies: Collectively, they make it clear that students who are graded tend to differ from those who aren’t in three basic ways. They’re more likely to lose interest in the learning itself. They’re more likely to prefer the easiest possible task. And they’re more likely to think in a superficial fashion as well as to forget what they were taught. (For summaries of the relevant research and arguments, see the books Punished by Rewards and The Schools Our Children Deserve, the article “From Degrading to De-Grading,” and the lecture DVD “No Grades + No Homework = Better Learning.”)

“The question, then, is how we can summon the courage to get rid of letter and number grades, replace them with reports of students’ progress that are more informative and less destructive, and help parents and students to recognize the value of doing so.”

This is the million dollar question that begs an answer – now. There are, however, a few obstacles in our way.

Many colleges and universities request student transcripts listing grades and overall grade point averages (GPA). Some don’t, but those are few and far between. This is an example of the proverbial tail wagging the dog. Secondary educational institutions use grades for sorting students. College entrance exams and placement tests are also used to sort even further. This practice begs the question, “do grades really provide the kind of information needed for college admission?”

The K-16 system is built on what is good for the system not the student. It is much easier to sort by grades and scores on entrance exams than to review student portfolios and school narrative reports. Human perspective, insight, observation and intuition are all but lost on the robotic sorting and stamping of students into pre-fabricated molds of higher education. It is no wonder that the numbers of students dropping out of college or repeating courses is staggering. Young people are sucked into this cyclone of sorting early on and often end up frustrated, in debt, and without real direction.

Our nation, local communities and specifically parents seem to want a K-16 grading system. They believe it provides them with important student performance information. They also believe that it is a visible sign of accountability attached to the question, “how are our schools performing with our public tax dollars? In a sense, that is a fair question. The problem with that mindset is twofold.

  1. First and foremost, grades are not accurate or equitable measures of learning given that they are comprised of multiple and varying criteria often subject to change.
  2. Secondly, school performance measured by way of grades or test scores is unsubstantiated and faulty accountability  given that factors beyond the school’s control are not figured into the equation.

Even with seemingly insurmountable obstacles, there is HOPE.

Hope#1 – teaching/learning coaches (teachers) that would come alongside children to support, encourage and guide, not constantly evaluate. Evaluation needs to be self-directed, self-imposed, and self-reflective in order to be effective and meaningful.

Hope#2 – school boards that would run on a platform and follow through with an agenda that emphasizes deep, authentic and lasting learning not grades and test scores. School policies need to honor and reflect child-centered practices without sorting, grading and labeling in order to create the best conditions for learning.

Hope#3 – training and support for coaches/teachers on how to provide effective verbal and written feedback based on student incremental improvement not standards met by the arbitrary end of the school year. Grades and grading programs need to transition to more narrative and performance/portfolio based evidence that students co-create and re-evaluate regularly.

Hope#4 – parents become active partners with their students as they transition to a gradeless environment. Parent conferences and student reports are frequent and transparent providing each partner (students, teachers, parents) with a clear understanding of accomplishments, challenges and future goals.

Brave and fearless teachers and parents please check out the YouTube videos and Facebook Community below.

A teacher’s grading story

A parent’s perspective

Teacher FB community for throwing out grades

Speaking of grades…

MindShift Article on Grading Here

In eighth grade, I was asked, along with three other students, to design a Fresco for the school library.  We were asked to capture the Seven Wonders of the World and were given time during religion class to create this masterpiece.  We stayed in the classroom in the back row while we worked on this project so we could still hear the religion lesson.  In about a month, the fresco was done and mounted on the back wall of the library.  That same day we were given a test on the content that had been covered in religion class while we were being important artists.  Much to my surprise I received a D on the test.

I had never received a D in any subject, and it really scared me. I was not a young person who often went head to head with the nuns or any teacher for that matter, but in this case I believed that the D was unfair and wanted a chance to redo it.  I explained that I was not able to fully attend to the lesson because my mind was in India drawing and chalking the Taj Mahal and in Egypt stacking the bricks to the Pyramids. Sister Mary E looked me in the eye and after a few stern questions agreed to allow a redo the next day.  I studied the notes that a friend had given me who wasn’t drawing and then took the test which resulted in a solid A.

Pleased that I received an A, and restored myself in good standing, I was certain that I would probably get an A on my report card since I had done fairly well over the grading period.  My final grade was a B and the reason that was given was to teach me a lesson about paying better attention in class.  Sister Mary E did not give me full credit even though I was given the opportunity to retake the test and had earned it.

I determined that school was just a “catch you” kind of place with rules that changed depending upon the teacher’s mood.  While I appreciated her offer to redo a test, it seemed pointless if it made no real difference.  Grades became a game of chance and the teachers held all the cards.  I learned how to navigate this reality and stayed on top of the game at the expense of losing more than a few opportunities for real learning.

To be perfectly blunt and out of the conventional school box, grades do not accurately reflect learning. They are devised based on a myriad of factors, none of which promote  learner growth , a better understanding of concepts, or the desire to tackle more difficult challenges.

A quote from this article above sums it up quite well.

“School is about teaching kids how to follow rules, and having grades as the emphasis is how they do that…”

I don’t believe that grades are motivators to learn. They are however, motivators to get better grades. Schools are basically “grading factories” with winners and losers.  I read something a smart young man said recently on his twitter feed and it seems appropriate to repeat here. “School is the place where knowing how to learn goes to die.”

Heard of a great book on this subject that looks interesting, Hacking Assessment: Ten Way to go Gradeless. Check it out here at Amazon


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As part of the Westfield Chermside AUD$355 million redevelopment, Fabritecture was contracted for the fabrication and construction of a large scale custom aluminium retail structure, and subsequently, a porte cochère entry structure.

The aluminium structure is called the ‘Urchin’ as the distinctive shape resembles the round, jagged edges of a sea urchin. The Urchin is our first large architectural structure that does not include any fabric. 15235

Client: Scentre Group Design
Architects & Designers: Armada Architects; Urbis Design
Fabrication & Construction: Fabritecture
Structural Design & 3D Modelling: Fabritecture & Wade Design Engineers
Photo Credit: Rix Ryan Photography

2018 LSAA Award of Excellence (Category 7): Westfield Chermside Urchin

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Completion Date: 2017
Size: 226sqm
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Possiamo Tentarvi con delle Dolci Follie? (Can we tempt you with some sweet follies?)

At London Boudoir Photography we love to treat you for the unique woman you are. We believe in first class service and we strive to find businesses with our very same approach for you to continue to feel and look beautiful as a state of mind and not only as a one off event in your life.

Dolci Follie

We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have now teamed up with Dolci Follie, an exquisite luxury lingerie boutique in Notting Hill. Simona, Diouldė and Constance are incredibly passionate about lingerie and experts in their field you can really trust. They will take care of you and be your style advisors. Their customer service is just incredible and they also share our vision about style and class. Dolci Follie stores the most luxurious brands you can find internationally and they have a trained eye to suggest you what best suits your figure.
If you decided to pop in their boutique tell them you have been referred by Fabiana and Carlo at London Boudoir, a lovely surprise awaits you!

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Have you ever dreamt of wearing something unique?

Are you planning an Experience with us? Have you ever felt the sensation of silk and lace caressing your skin? Have you ever dreamt of wearing some incredibly beautiful pieces of designers’ lingerie? This is the moment to turn your dreams into reality!
Dolci Follie and London Boudoir Photography have selected the most unique pieces available on the market for you to be photographed in. For a small fee you can rent some unique garments for your photo shoot without the need of committing to their actual full price.

And what if you love them so much that you want to actually have them for yourself? Dolci Follie gives you a unique opportunity! If you decide to buy any of the pieces (or even better all of them!) you had on you during your photo session, for a limited time you will be given the possibility to buy them and the rental fee will be rebated from the total price of the garments.
Sometimes dreams come true!

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Even if no one sees it, You know you are wearing it

We know that an amazing piece of lingerie is not always something to show to someone, it can also be a special way of reminding ourselves of what we are: Beautiful Women.Waking up in the morning, having to prepare the kids for nursery or for school and then rushing out is the norm, but from time to time wearing something special gives us that particular “feeling”. Yes, I know that the suspender belt is not very user-friendly and maybe is not something to wear every day, but stop one second and ask yourself when is the last time you felt that gentle pressure on your leg and the feeling of your skirt brushing on the hourglass clips …the only thought of it makes you smile a little cheekily, doesn’t it?
It is more than just having your hair done for a night out, dressing up and feeling feminine, it is about you feeling so very sexy and not only a mum. I know we all love being mums (and we do!) but let’s be honest, sometimes we have to remember that we are all of this (mums, partners, business women, cooks, etc.) AND so much more! And these little luxuries in life serve that enjoyable purpose.

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When is the last time you had your bra properly fitted?

When I had my bra fitted last time I realised that for the last two years I had been wearing one that was too small and I had constantly red marks on my skin. I never had it measured before because in the fast forward London every day seems to be rushing away. Slowing down and appreciating what life has to offer is priceless. At Dolci Follie we have found an amazing group of professionals who understand what women want and offer them the attention and care they deserve because there is underwear and there is Lingerie.

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Class and Style at Dolci Follie

Our style is sensual and provocative. Our intimate portraits can show quite a lot of skin but we always focus on what it is classy and tasteful. Carlo and I want to capture you for the beautiful woman you are, and we know that what you wear during a photo session is important. We bring our experience in styling for fashion and editorial photography, but the expertise that people like Simona, Diouldé and Constance can provide to you is unparalleled.
I have to admit that I am very picky when it comes to styling and at Dolci Follie I have found an exquisite taste that I rarely have met before: their garments are fantastic and the way they treat women is the way we love to be treated.

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…will you dare as I did?

The biggest challenge I had to face after the birth of my son Ethan was looking at myself in the mirror and seeing myself… different. In the first weeks it seemed like I was still pregnant, then month after month I slowly regained my shape and today I am pretty much the woman I was before (with some differences). Carlo was telling me that I was beautiful over and over again, nonetheless I could not help but focussing on what I did not like. Things have changed and now I dare a little more by wearing those sexy pieces of lingerie that Carlo presented me for my birthday. I love to be me again and this makes me proud!
Will you dare to buy a nice garment and show to yourself (or to your “special one”) that you are still a Beautiful Woman? You have that chance today. Act on it and be Happy!

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We want to say a special Thank You to Caroline at Oxygen Models for modelling for us in the images in this post. And as you can all see she has been absolutely fantastic!

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The First Gallery:  Members  of  the  group  have  submitted  their  “Photos of the Year” – view them here

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Our PSHE curriculum focuses on six themes each year. These link into daily assemblies and guidance on behaviour. To emphasise the principles being promoted, these six themes are taught under the umbrellas of Christian values. Our focus values each year are Endurance, Thankfulness, Compassion, Trust, Hope and Friendship. Optional reading with biblical quotes is emailed to parents each half term when a new value is introduced.

British values are fully upheld and taught through our ‘UK’ topic in Geography as well as assemblies, circle times and special events. Young children naturally have a well developed sense of fairness and this is capitalised on and nurtured into democracy and rule of law for all. For example, on a half termly basis children are given a chance to vote for their choice of class treat. Individual liberty and tolerance are built into the prime areas of the YR curriculum and link clearly to our mission statement and school rules.


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(Hailey, Idaho) September 15, 2015.  Are you age 21-35 and committed to making a difference in the world?  Do you have a wild idea for a social venture that can ignite positive social change? Do you have the capacity and passion to translate your vision to reality? If so, Wild Gift wants you!

Wild Gift, a Wood River Valley based non-profit, is currently accepting applications for its 2016 Climate Change Collective Fellowship (CCC). The CCC will support social entrepreneurs creating early-stage break-through approaches that will help adaptation to and/or mitigation of the impact of climate change on natural and human systems.

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Many years ago, in 1990, something changed in India. It wasn’t something that everyone noticed. It wasn’t something that a lot of people even cared about. But it was something big, something to do with how the law actually extends its protection to citizens in practice. In October 1990, the Supreme Court of India ruled in favor of one Banubi Sheikh, a woman who admitted in court that she was party to an extramarital relationship, a woman who also stuck to her guns in stating that that little fact should be treated as irrelevant to her main allegation that she was assaulted and raped by a policeman at her home.
Like many things in law, it wasn’t the case that was important; it was the precedent. For the first time, the supreme court explicitly stated that a woman’s sex life was her own business, and no matter how many people she chose to have sex with, no matter what her moral standing was, no one had the right to rape her as and when they pleased. It was just a little reminder that women’s sex lives were really their own. It was a reminder that a lot of people found very hard to swallow back in 1990, and one that many people find hard to swallow now, in 2012.
Talking about rape in India produces predictable responses. Women should take care. Women should learn to defend themselves. Women should carry pepper spray. Women should avoid certain areas. Women should maintain high situational awareness. Yes, rape is a crime, but a rapist is little more than an animal. Why blame an animal? If you provoke an animal, it’ll get you. Ergo, some restrictions are necessary.
It sounds sensible, right? Well, not really. Not if you think about it.
In this guest post, I will attempt to explain why the advice above is not as useful as it sounds. I will point out how culture ties into sexual assault, and put forward my opinions on why the current strategies for handling sexual assault are largely ineffective, and will remain so unless we take remedial steps.
I will finish by discussing a few possible solutions and the outlook for the future.
So let’s begin.
One of the traditional prescriptions to avoid being a victim to sex crime is to dress conservatively. It’s supposed to be obvious that attractively dressed women are more likely to get raped. It’s supposed to be so obvious that it goes unexamined.
Let’s examine it now. Here are three facts about rape:

Most convicted rapists do not remember what their victims wore.
Rape victims aren’t all single, attractive young women. They can be infants or grandmothers too. In fact, rape victims are not necessarily women, but that’s something I’m not going to get into right now.

A United States Federal Commission on Crime of Violence Study found that only 4.4% of all reported rapes involved ‘provocative behavior’ (self-defined as a noticeable gesture towards the perpetrator, encouraging him or her to carry out the crime) on the part of the victim. In murder cases 22% involved such behavior (as simple as a glance).Clearly, there’s a lot going on in a rapist’s mind apart from, “hmm, this woman is attractive, I can’t control myself”. It is a mistake to call a rape a crime of passion. Let me repeat that. Rape is NOT a crime of passion.
Rape can be far more accurately described as a crime of opportunity. It is not a beauty contest. While it’s not easy to conduct research on rape due to factors like under-reporting and skewed statistics, what we do know is that a rapist does not look for the most attractive women to assault. Instead, he chooses the most available woman, the woman he has the greatest access to, the woman he perceives to be the least likely to report the assault. That means girlfriends, coworkers, neighbors and even spouses. That means women in vulnerable, dependent positions. That means women close to the criminal.
And if all this talk of ‘choosing’ surprises you, it really shouldn’t. Research shows that most rapists premeditate their crimes. They know who they are going to assault and how. They decide this beforehand. They decide itbefore they have a chance to see how their victims are dressed on that particular day. And they do it because they are part of a culture which tolerates and encourages this behavior.
Which brings me to my next point. Culture.
A lot of people are surprised when I point out that sexual assault isn’t just a random act of violence. It’s not. As I’ve had occasion to say before, sexually assaulting a woman is a very specific violent act that is linked to a plethora of cultural tie-ins. For most rapists, the act isn’t about satisfying a biological need, it’s about satisfying a psychological need. It’s about power and control. And power and control are two things that, more than anything else, are culturally defined.
In a patriarchal society, where sexes are segregated and sexuality is repressed, women aren’t really people and sex isn’t really an activity. Both are objects. You don’t just have sex, youtake sex, you get sex. Taking sex is a way of taking power, snatching power, asserting power. From there, it’s only a short hop to rape being considered normal.
India took that hop a long time ago. This is a country where raping your wife every night for years and years isn’t even a crime. This is a country where it’s considered mental cruelty for a woman to not have sex with her husband on her wedding night. This is a country where a woman gets gang-raped and the first thing people say is – you were probably behaving like a sl*t. This is victim-blaming, but it’s also much more than that. It’s resignation and normalization. It’s the acceptance of the idea that rape is a normal, inevitable outcome of certain situations. It’sworse than victim-blaming. And as long as we keep doing it, fat chance of getting rape numbers down.
The whole problem with the legal attitudes to rape in India is that they are built within a patriarchal framework. Indian laws provide for harsh punishment for rape, but it has minimal deterrent effect, because in India, most rapists do not fear being caught. Many are actually surprised if they do end up getting reported. Because they live in a society where rape is considered normal in certain situations, they do not even understand the full magnitude of their actions. And the one true solution, perhaps the only solution is – openness.
Open attitudes towards the sexes mingling with each other.
Open attitudes towards sex itself.
Open discussion of what’s really going on when someone decides to sexually assault a woman.
Open education about sex and sexuality.
Openness between men and women while talking about sex.
That’s the key to a future where women don’t have to walk on eggshells all the time. As citizens, we owe this to ourselves. Let’s teach our kids to be open about things. Let’s teach our kids to communicate. Let’s teach our kids to robustly challenge assumptions about rape and women in general that just aren’t true.
Putting women in conservative clothing isn’t a cure. It’s an ineffective, rather useless measure against a complex problem. By all means, dress sensibly. By all means, learn karate. By all means, carry pepper spray. But know that those aren’t solutions.
Let’s not go overboard with that stuff. Let’s focus on the real issue here. Wearing a salwar kameez instead of jeans is not a solution. It’s a home remedy that doesn’t work.
Women have lived in fear long enough. It’s time that changed. It’s going to take time, but let’s start to trudge that road, one step at a time.

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In-home Releases: August 14, 2018

New films and TV shows have been released on DVD, Blu-ray, 4K Ultra, and Digital HD today (August 14 2018), including new Criterion Collection films. Some of these releases are on single discs while others come in large collections, filled with extras, behind-the-scenes footage, and cloud capabilities. Below you find a listing of those films and TV programs.

Our Picks of the Best DVDs, Blu-rays, 4K Ultras, and Digital HDs Out Today

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Thoughts on This Week’s In-home Releases

For this weeks in-home releases, the biggest by a mile is Avengers: Infinity War. The culmination of 10 years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the film shows The Avengers having to face the ultimate threat in Thanos, an intergalactic despot trying to destroy half the universes population. The movie was a massive hit at the box office, grossing $2 billion worldwide!

In his review FilmBook Editor-in-Chief Rollo Tomasi said about the film:

For all of its emotional pluses, Avengers: Infinity War is not a perfect film. It’s not even close. Like all Marvel films, following the Marvel formula, Avengers: Infinity War contains moments of levity so that the on-screen carnage does not override its sense of fun. Like ill-fated Star War: The Last Jedi, however, Avengers: Infinity War jokes seem forced in certain instances. Half the jokes in Avengers: Infinity War don’t land while others painfully go on long past their humor self-life. Avengers: Infinity War would be a tighter film without so many jokes, especially those that are luke-warm humorous.

Also releasing this week for the first time on Blu-ray (and the best film in my opinion) is Brian De Palma’s underrated Casualties of War. Starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn, the film is a brutal and despairing look at the Vietnam War through the eyes of a soldier with a conscience. The movie is about a new recruit (Fox) joining up with Penn’s infantry unit, who kidnap a young Vietnamese girl and subsequently rape and kill her. The standout from the cast is undoubtedly Sean Penn, who is a monster hiding behind the facade of ‘all is fair in war’. The film has gorgeous cinematography, and contains many of De Palma’s signature shots (the split screen, the split-diopter shot, first-person). It tackles themes prevalent throughout De Palma’s filmography, including voyeurism, violence against women.

The film was unfortunately released too late for audiences, who in 1989, had already seen many quality Vietnam war films (Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter). While it may not be as well known as those films, Casualties of War excels thanks to the craft and two lead performances of Fox and Penn. The film bombed at the box office, and Brian De Palma has lamented in interviews that its failure was a crushing blow. But it has found new life on video, DVD and now Blu-ray, and is frequently cited as one of the directors better films.

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  • Cast: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr

Another masterful piece of cinema by Kieslowski, much less lyrical and visually poetic than his most recent works. This time the theme of the trilogy is 'equality', as a Polish hairdresser sets out to get revenge on his French ex-wife.

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Working Remotely, But Not in Your PJs: Communal Workspaces

The image of someone working from home, or the more official sounding “ working remotely ,” conjures images of an employee schlepping from bed to the couch, still wearing PJs and laptop in tow. While that situation might be reality for some telecommuters and sounds pretty good to others, the real truth is that those who work remotely need and often crave structure to their day. For some, this can be accomplished by setting up a home office. For others, however, a home office may not be the best solution. That’s where communal, or shared, workspaces come in.

Shared workspaces are popping up in urban centers all over the world and beginning to make a showing in mid-size cities as well. These communal work centers range from bare-bones cubes away from home to full-on social experiments with plenty of perks thrown in. Some offer levels of membership depending on what you need.

A basic membership might only include entry to the space and access to a communal workspace, with memberships also available for those who need a dedicated workspace, conference space, and even an office where they can shut the door when needed. Some are offering dozens of perks to lure independent workers their way. For example, aside from an optimal location in trendy Soho with stellar views of New York City, Fueled Collective offers free ice cream, ping pong tables, a popcorn machine, a free snack bar, a coffee bar and several other swag-tastic perks.

Who would want to get out of those cozy PJs and into a shared workspace? Plenty of people, as it turns out, including these folks:

The collaborator

Some communal workspaces strive to offer a holistic approach to working independently. According to its website, Chicago’s Panzanzee is a “social impact incubator, co-working space and continuous community.” For telecommuters and independent workers who wish to be part of a community, communal workspaces offer the opportunity to network and collaborate.

John Arenas, the CEO of co-working space Serendipity Labs, explained, “Co-working is really great for those looking to collaborate. For example, our ideation studios are a great place for teams to meet, brainstorm and work through new ideas. Our work lounges and lab cafe is great for events and casual meet ups. They are ideal because they offer great networking opportunities and serendipitous encounters with other members.”

Camilo A. Ferro, President and founder of Better Bag, agrees. His company works out of Panzanzee. “When I launched the business it was very important to be surrounded by like minded individuals who understood that social collaboration is crucial to success today,” he said. “Through the space we have built both personal and working relationships. It has been very fruitful to be surrounded by entrepreneurs and their teams working to change the world.”

The traveler

Freelance travel writer Lauren Juliff, who calls herself a digital nomad, travels full-time while working and seeks out communal working spaces wherever her travels take her. “As a permanent traveler, my ‘office’ changes every few weeks. Sometimes I’ll be staying in a tiny guesthouse without a desk, leading to me working in bed, or sometimes it will be a private room in a hostel where I have to try and concentrate in a noisy common room,” said Lauren. “For me, then, co-working spaces allow me to work at a desk to reduce health problems created by lying down all day with my laptop on my stomach, help me to concentrate by providing me with a quiet room, guarantee I’ll have good Wi-Fi and usually have free water and coffee, which is always good.”

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Chicago Blog Week organizer Dante Hamilton, who works out of OfficePort Chicago, appreciates the fact that there are none of the distracting elements that are present in the home work environment (pets, kids, housework, etc.) that can impact productivity. He also believes a co-working environment forces him to focus and get work done, much like a traditional work environment. An added bonus is the camaraderie that’s absent from a home environment. “At home, you are often isolated except for the delivery of mail and packages or neighbors unless you venture out for coffee. Most co-working spaces offer coffee and more so you can engage and connect with others while grabbing tea, heating up your microwave lunch or catching news on the cable TV in the common area. This is much better than being at home.”

Sounds like work-topia, but as with any great concept, there are a few important points to keep in mind.

Juliff has really only found one drawback to co-working environments so far. The price — particularly in certain parts of the world in relation to cost of living. “In Chiang Mai, Thailand, a co-working space charged a $100 monthly rate, while a month’s rent was only $300. Here in Mexico, where I am now, they charge a $188 monthly rate, whereas my rent here is $600 a month ($300 when split with my boyfriend).” As Hamilton pointed out, it’s also important to be able to bring in enough income to be able to afford the workspace rent.

Hamilton also emphasized that the individualistic nature of co-working still means that, even with the collaboration component, you’re ultimately responsible for some things you make take for granted working in a traditional environment. “Depending on the setup of the space, there is no one coming around to ask if you need help with marketing, fundraising or making your business a success or project happen. Most co-working spaces are not business incubators. So you need to be prepared to succeed on your own.” While this may be true, the upshot is that, in a communal workspace, you may meet others using the space that can help you with these things, or can put you in touch with those who can.

Wondering if a communal workspace could work for you? Tour several to see where you’ll work the best and be the most comfortable. For some people, communal workspaces are merely a place to get some work done. For others, they are a place to gather and be part of a dynamic, energizing community. The best spaces offer a bit of both.

Kristin Marino works remotely as a writer and editor from Nevada. She contributes to several websites, including Schools.com .

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CIA Claim of Al-Qaeda-Iran Ties Aims to Appease Saudis

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Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed western media reports of a link between Iran and Al-Qaeda terror group as an attempt to cover up the Saudi role in the Sept. 11 New York attacks.

"A record low for the reach of petrodollars: CIA & FDD fake news w/ selective al-Qaeda docs re: Iran can't whitewash role of US allies in 9/11," Zarif said in a Twitter message on Thursday.

The allegations of "secret dealings" are based on a newly released trove of documents allegedly recovered from Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound during the 2011 raid that killed the Al-Qaeda leader.

Wednesday's release came at a time when US President Donald Trump has decertified a nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor Barack Obama and signed with other major powers to curb Tehran's nuclear program in return for the easing of international sanctions.

The 19-page report, dated 2007, was first published by the Long War Journal, a publication backed by the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank fiercely critical of Iran and its nuclear agreement with major powers.

In what it claims to be a history of Al-Qaeda's relationship with Iran, the report alleges Tehran offered Al-Qaeda fighters "money and arms and everything they need, and offered them training in Hezbollah camps in Lebanon, in return for striking American interests in Saudi Arabia."

Trump has described the 2015 nuclear accord as the "worst deal ever made" and is keen to undermine the Islamic Republic by making several unfounded allegations.

The fabricated documents could be seized upon by the hawkish Republican, whose administration is struggling to contain Tehran's role in the Middle East, in collaboration with Iran's regional arch-rival Saudi Arabia.

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However, ironically, the petrodollars of Saudi Arabia and its allies, like Egypt and the UAE, funded attacks in the past by major terrorist groups, including Al-Qaeda, against the United States and other western countries over the past couple of decades.

Out of 19 hijackers, who slammed two planes into twin towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, 15 were identified as Saudi nationals.

A redacted long-classified report released by the US Congress in July 2016 found that some of the 9/11 hijackers were in contact with and received support from individuals likely connected to the Saudi government.

Known as the "28 pages", the secret document was part of a 2002 Congressional Joint Inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks.

Despite his initial hard stance on Riyadh during his election campaign for presidency last year, Trump has turned a blind eye on the oil-rich kingdom's role in the 9/11 disaster and has gone so far as to sign arms deals worth hundreds of billions of dollars with the Arab country.

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My Goal Is God Himself

Frances Brook

My goal is God Himself; not joy, nor peace,
Nor even blessing, but Himself, my God;
’Tis His to lead me there, not mine, but His—
“At any cost, dear Lord, by any road!”

So faith bounds forward to its goal in God,
And love can trust her Lord to lead her there;
Upheld by Him, my soul is following hard,
Till God hath full fulfilled my deepest prayer.

No matter if the way be sometimes dark,
No matter though the cost be ofttimes great,
He knoweth how I best shall reach the mark;
The way that leads to Him must needs be strait.

One thing I know—I cannot say Him nay;
On thing I do—I press toward my Lord,
My God, my glory here from day to day,
And in the glory there my Great Reward.

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  • CATY BARNES October 19, 2018, 2:49 pm

    WOW!!!! This is a powerful poem. I’m not there, yet, but I’m asking God to help me pray this sincerely, no matter what! Thank you for publishing this!!!!!!!

    • Jim Kerwin October 19, 2018, 5:16 pm

      You’re welcome, Caty. Yes, I’ve always loved this hymn of total head-over-heels-in-love consecration. I’m glad it was a blessing to you.

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Braulio L. Baez is the executive director of the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC), serving in his role since 2011. He oversees his staff as they execute the policy decisions of the Commission in regulating the operations and activities of Florida’s investor-owned electric, gas, and water/wastewater utilities. Director Baez’s tenure with the PSC stretches back to 1994 serving as a Commissioner’s aide, then as a Commissioner. When not with the Commission he practiced law in the private sector advising clients on strategic business, legislative, and regulatory policy risks involving local and state government, with a focus on the transportation, energy/electric, telecommunications, and water and wastewater industries. The PSC exercises regulatory authority over Florida’s investor-owned utility services and facilitates safe, reliable service for consumers at a fair price. Following Florida’s intense 2004–2005 hurricane seasons, the PSC developed ‘storm hardening’ initiatives to improve the utility sector’s ability to respond to storm events and rapidly restore services.

Flagger Force: What is the PSC’s role in storm response?

Braulio L. Baez: We’re just one small part of the larger emergency response effort for the state. Our engineers have oversight of Emergency Support Function 12, to maintain continuous and reliable energy, and the group is populated by representatives from the various utilities. The PSC’s main function is to coordinate the information flow on outage restoration efforts to help the Governor’s office make decisions, all to support quick and efficient restoration. The staff piece together the information provided by the utilities—providing and sharing outage reports 4 to 6 times per day. This is one way we measure progress to restoration.

Flagger Force: What was challenging about Florida’s 2004-2005 storm seasons?

Braulio L. Baez: Eight severe hurricanes struck Florida from 2004 to 2005. These were watershed moments for storm recovery issues and preparation. This unprecedented series of storm impacts prompted the PSC in 2006 to order electric utilities to put programs in place aimed at improving system resilience. The Commission put forth general principles and measures and sent the companies off to try and achieve improvements along those lines. Investments were made on things like storm hardening and greater efforts in outreach to put the public on notice that they too have responsibility in preparation.

Flagger Force: What outcomes emerged from the storm hardening?

Braulio L. Baez: Fast forward 12 years later with Matthew in 2016, and then Irma in 2017, the PSC was presented with the test of the Commission’s directives after the 04/05 seasons. It’s hard to measure because every storm is different. Restoration time during the 16/17 storm season was approximately two days—a remarkable improvement from the 04/05 season. Even more so since usually the first two days post storm are essentially dedicated to assessment. So, the utilities cut into their own assessment time, which to me, is impressive. We published the full report in July of 2018: “Review of Florida’s Electric Utility Hurricane Preparedness and Restoration Actions.” Our key findings showed that overall, our utilities’ programs are working.

Flagger Force: Does the PSC benefit from mutual assistance, the restoration support agreements set in place for the electric power industry?

Braulio L. Baez: Yes. Mutual aid is in place ahead of time, so that utilities in different locations, possibly even from out of the state, have reciprocal agreements and processes to help one another in times of restoration response. Utility managers are identified in these agreements and tasked to decide, under those circumstances, how much mutual aid is mobilized and when. So, the specific amount of mutual aid becomes a function of the utilities’ allocation of the resources they need to drive restoration. But the Commission itself doesn’t have a hand in it, neither the decisions, the amounts, nor the agreements. Instead, these relationships are administered and executed through industry groups.

Flagger Force: How do the players mobilize pre-storm?

Braulio L. Baez: Hurricane season is June 1 to Nov. 30. In early May the state runs a table top exercise at the State Emergency Operations Center on hurricane preparations. That’s one opportunity for the players to connect. In terms of the Commission, we have an annual round table in late spring. The utilities attend and walk through their storm response plans and share any changes or improvements. All of that serves to emphasize that storm season is upon us. Storm preparedness is a constant year-round effort, but the table top reinforces the emphasis on preparedness leading up to the official start of the season—I call them taps on the shoulder, meaning we’re getting ready and this is how we do it. Stakeholders from every point in our utility space have a vested interest in these processes and their effectiveness. Our own dedicated staff’s response is second to none, and that comes with knowledge and preparation.

Flagger Force: How does the PSC communicate with and educate consumers?

Braulio L. Baez: We rely on social media, our website, and our media relationships to communicate the actions of the Commission. Our prime communication function is through the Consumer Assistance Office. On top of that, we also have a press function. To create awareness, our outreach group tries to bring maximum attention to the public. We have folks who dedicate themselves year-round, touring the state and staging different interactions directly with the public to inform them of available services that they’re not taking advantage of and other programs, such as Lifeline, a telecommunications discount for low-income folks to access. Regulation can be a complex function to grasp at times and we seek to boil all that down into more practical terms of impact to the customer, so they can feel involved in the process. We try to mold all of those functions together with a view of educating the public—making the experience a rich one for them and for our team. It’s an uphill battle. The communication team deals with a difficult subject, and the public’s responses are often based on their unique perspectives.

Flagger Force: What do you want people to know about the PSC?

Braulio L. Baez: I really want everyone to know how hard our professionals work at getting it right, and at trying to strike that proper balance between the utilities need to function effectively, and what customers expect in fairness. We recognize that consumers expect utilities to be 99.9 percent reliable, even during a storm. Essential services impact our everyday existence and when those are missing, especially after a storm, our perceived needs are heightened. We recognize that our obligations are to a process that creates certainty and reliability, not just for the industry, but also for its consumers, in addition to a fair rate balance. If I had my Christmas wish, I wish everybody understood what goes into storm preparations and response and were able to see all the diligent planning that goes into it, instead of simply looking at it from the point of view of “I’m sitting in the dark and the food in my ice box is spoiling.” These are all fair and valid perspectives, but understanding of those on the front line of storm restoration is also important.

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Mark Horn has more than 20 years of Life Sciences experience gained in the US and Latin America. He has worked for organon (now Merck) and Wyeth Consumer Healthcare (now Pfizer) and consulted for Johnson and Johnson’s Janssen division and for the government of Brazil. At Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, Horn managed the global R&D budget in the range of US $100 to 200 million, led the Division’s portfolio management and resource management functions, and supervised the knowledge management and r&D finance groups. At Janssen, he managed the first small molecule CMC project granted accelerated development status and developed project management controls for the global supply chain organization.

As a consultant in Brasília, Horn advised the President and completed projects at a Brazilian federal research institute with 10,000 employees, 46 decentralized research units and a US $1.2 billion annual budget. Horn is a fluent Portuguese speaker and was granted permanent residence by the Brazilian national Immigration Council on the basis of bringing high level knowledge to the country.

Horn has been conference chair, presenter and/or advisory board member for more than 20 international conferences. He served
as conference chair for the “Portfolio Management in Pharma” conference in Madrid, the “Portfolio Management Innovations” conference in San francisco and the “Biologic Europe” conference in Geneva, Switzerland. In addition, he chaired Portfolio Management sessions at Drug Information Association annual meetings, led the “executing Project & Portfolio Management” track at the “Clinical Trials Congress” and twice served as course director for PerI’s “Project Management in the research-Based Pharmaceutical Industry” training program.

Horn did biochemistry research in the UK on a fulbright research scholarship and holds a master’s degree in Corporate Communications. He is coauthor of scientific publications in the journals Science and Phytochemistry.


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Tyra’s Craziest Moments from The Tyra Banks Show

Originally published on Television Without Pity.

Oh Tyra. Ms. Banks is one cuckoo lady, y’all, and I am so thankful that someone was clever enough to give her her own talk show for five seasons. Of course, we can still catch all the crazy when America’s Next Top Model returns August 2 — and I expect to see even more weirdly sexual remarks and desperate grabs for attention this cycle, considering that male models are competing as well.

Unfortunately, ANTM has to focus at least part of each episode on the, you know, models. This sad fact means that Tyra has just a few brief minutes each week to unleash her apparently unbalanced mental state on her viewing audience. The Tyra Banks Show, on the other hand, gave her a whole hour five days a week to perform “social experiments,” talk to dwarves, creepily flirt with younger men, fall out of chairs, and fight for the cause she most believes in: teaching society not to discriminate against supermodels and other ridiculously beautiful people.

In honor of the return of Top Model — which has been absent from our screens for a full year, instead of the typical four months — let’s recount Tyra’s best talk show moments. I like to think of these eight clips as some of America’s best moments as well.

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Storm King Art Center and Untermeyer Gardens in late August

The restored Greek Gardens of the Untermeyer estate

In late August we took a road trip to the Storm King Art Center and Untermeyer Gardens. While much of Storm King’s art collection is not to my taste, many pieces, once in the landscape, provoke greater reflection. They also change the way you see the landscape and interpret distances and space. In person, I found myself drawn to such simple things as a series of angled, long ledges protruding from a rolling hillside simply because it caught the eye and deepened the natural geometry of the space. We also had some fun with a mirrored picket fence (Alyson Shotz) and Adam Goldsworthy’s winding stone walls.

Untermeyer Gardens was a wholly different experience. Here you find a once magnificent garden, left to fall into complete ruin, slowly regaining a fraction of its former glory. Apparently Mr. Untermeyer was famous for his orchid boutonnieres, refreshed twice a day, from his 60 greenhouses and collection of several thousand orchids. Another article describes a camellia tree that, in season, held 650 blossoms, and Mr. Untermeyer’s penchant for out of season fruit. It’s an exercise in sheer decadence to imagine the site as it once was. Martha Stewart recently visited and posted an informative series of photos.

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You can just make out the NJ Palisades

Enormous mosaic pool slowly being restored. Note the stone walls – only one of several beautiful patterns found in the gardens.

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A DIFFERENT THREAD – On A Whim (own label)

On A Whim

Originally a duo comprising Staffordshire’s Robert Jackson and North Yorkshire classical cellist Isaac Collier, last year they were joined by North Carolina songwriter and fiddle player Alicia Best, she and Jackson now the mainstays, although she remains based in the States. Following on from the High Time EP, on which Best made her first fully-fledged appearance after being one of the backing musicians on the earlier Home From Home, On A Whim is their debut album, all save for two numbers being self-penned.

Musically, it straddles English folk and Americana influences, Jackson taking lead on the mid-tempo, brass brushed waltzing (and whistling) title track about a kind of indolent restlessness. Jackson still on lead, they cross shores for the friskily scampering bluegrassy banjo number ‘Hold Me Down’ with Best showing off her fiddle frills.

She steps up the microphone for her self-penned traditional sounding ‘Potter’s Field’, Collier’s mournful cello and Jackson’s acoustic guitar underpinning a number about a pauper’s burial, and remains there for equally American folk shaded but slightly the more uptempo strum of ‘Rosa Rosa’. That’s followed by the sole actual traditional number, the the much covered ‘The Prickly Bush’, here with Jackson’s voice upfront and Best harmonising, although this offers a strikingly different arrangement that leans to fingerpicked gypsy jazz and Balkan mazurka influences with Alan Best on accordion and Jackson playing harmonica.

The slow strummed march beat ‘Honey And Fire’ has the feel of early Dylan and the Band, jazzy flugel horn and brushed snare colouring the shared wearied delivery of the frayed relationship song ‘Chairs Instead’ which harks to vintage Laurel Canyon days, while ‘Carolina Song’ is a lovely melancholic rootsy slow waltz that shows Best’s slightly dusty Gillian Welch-like vocals to good advantage.

It’s back to a traditional folk flavoured fiddle blazing stomp for the playful ‘Farmer’s Mistress’, Jackson also on lead for the simple acoustic fingerpicking of ‘High Time’, a slightly faster and slightly lyrically different re-recording from the EP.

They end with Dobro and upright bass on the moodily bluesy ‘Charlotte’, the duo sharing verses on the album’s most electric number, and, backed by strings and a circular acoustic guitar pattern, Best singing the simpler folksy ‘Not Good With Words’. A hugely impressive debut; buy it on a whim, keep it as a treasure.

Mike Davies

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Journey to the Unknown

Beautifully illustrated by the renown Demi,this small biography is difficult to put down. It is for the whole family to read out loud together. It demonstrates how any of us can succeed against all odds by holding onto the inner strength that we all have.

We witness seeming misfortunes, disappointments and trials that are endured with a trust in what is True. This is not just a life story but the tale of a miraculous journey – a journey that we are all on. It informs us of a way that we can all BE!

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Here is the story of a small boy who against all odds remained true to his heart, which is an inspiration to a person of any age!


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Chicken, Goat Cheese & Chutney on Pumpernickel

September 30, 2010

Author Notes: When I was a kid, I thought of pumpernickel as a grown-ups’ bread, and as I’ve gotten older, I have to admit, I just love it. It reminds me of my dad, who will often opt for it enthusiastically. This is one of my favorite combinations. The moisture in the cheese and in the chutney is plenty, no mayo needed. Brie is also nice.SallyCan

Makes: a sandwich

  • Chicken breast, roast or rotisserie, sliced
  • Fresh goat cheese (chevre) or brie
  • Apricot or any other chutney you’re fond of
  • Greens: spinach, chard, lettuce, or whatever you like
  • Salt and Pepper
  • Pumpernickel bread
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  1. Spread the cheese on one slice of bread and the chutney on the other, with chicken breast and greens in between (if you prefer, pack them separately, wrapped in a paper towel or paper napkin, and add to sandwich later). Season with salt and pepper to taste. Wrap tightly in foil, waxed paper, or plastic wrap so that the flavors can meld.

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At this time of the year, many plants are preparing to flower and start to grow stems.

At this stage the stems are tender (like asparagus) and lend themselves to use as cooked vegetables and also in salads. In the morning, we will find and collect stems from several edible wild plants as well as leaves with crunchy stalks.

Then after a light lunch we will all head into the forager kitchen to explore various ways to prepare and eat what we harvested in the morning.

Participants will all go home with a collection of wild stalks and stems plus literature outlining how to use them so that the learning experience can continue at home.

A light lunch will be provided which will highlight some of the processes explored in the course of the day.

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Martin Millar signing The Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf

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MARTIN MILLAR will be reading from and signing THE ANXIETY OF KALIX THE WEREWOLF at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore on Friday 18th October from 6 – 7pm.

Most of the Scottish Werewolf Clan have a very low opinion of Kalix MacRinnalch, youngest daughter of the Thane. There is little sympathy for her illiteracy, her substance abuse, her self-harming, her eating disorder, her anxiety, depression and propensity for extreme violence. Safe from her clan in London, and living with two friendly students, she’s been much calmer. If only she were allowed to live quietly, she might get on top of her problems.

Unfortunately, that’s difficult for the young werewolf. She’s still the number one target for the werewolf hunters, and they’re stepping up their efforts to find her.

MARTIN MILLAR was born in Glasgow and now lives in London. He is the author of Lux the Poet, Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation, and Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me, among others. He wrote the Thraxas series under the name of Martin Scott, and won the World Fantasy Award in 2000. The Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf is the third title in this popular werewolf series, following Lonely Werewolf Girl and Curse of the Wolf Girl.