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From Winter to Summer – Finland to Australia

I had only a couple of days to decide whether I should go to Australia or not. Some reasons were making it challenging for me to decide. For example, there were bushfires and smoke in many parts of Australia, including Canberra, where my internship would take place. Still, Finally, I booked my tickets and took a flight to Canberra.

Both above Pictures show Canberra city, both are during the bushfires, but the first one is when the fires got close to the town.

My internship was at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. I was working there as a Financial Assistant. The placement was what I was seeking to get more practical experience.

In my spare time, I visited a lot of places like Hyams Beach, Hyams Beach is surrounded by national and Marine Parks, Hyams Beach has an abundance of native plants and animals, and the crystal clear water is frequently visited by whales and dolphins.

Other than Hyams Beach, I visited some other places as well as Bondi Beach in Sydney, and one of the burned forests called Nerriga. I drove almost one hour within the woods at a speed of 90km/hr, and all I was seeing was burned trees.

In my spare time, I was also reading books and going for a walk at least one time per day to a hill close to my resident place.

And about the Afghans, working culture modernization has resulted in the infiltration of western influences into the Afghani culture, which is most profound in the country’s major cities. The same like that it is possible to find different styles in different Afghan organizations around the world.

It is said that Australians have a unique working culture. There are some similarities between Finnish and Australian working cultures. In both cultures being late to work is not cool at all and there should be a legit reason for that and beside that one should let the office know about the situation. Australia is also similar to Finland and Nordic countries in terms of mentality: both cultures prefer quality over quantity. Both cultures’ highest priorities are wellbeing and healthy lifestyle.

One big match of both cultures is talking on the point, unlike most other cultures. A Finn and an Australian prefer to come to the point without beating around the bush.

The embassy was where most of the employees are Afghan Nationals, But I found some excellent sources on the working culture differences and want to share them here:

Useful links related to working culture in Finland, Australia, and Afghanistan

24 things expats find surprising about Australian working culture

Why Finland leads the world in flexible work

Afghanistan – Guide to Language, Culture, Customs, and Etiquette

Sunny and hot Australia

Beautiful Australia was my exchange destination. More specifically I stayed in a city call Sydney, which is the capital of the region New South-Wales, located in the east of Australia. The city has old city center and a lot of history behind it. Museums, churches, stores, monuments, market every saturday & sunday as well as many great personal restaurants. Lovely city overall and easy to get around with a bus or a train to everywhere. Although car is essential as they drive everywhere in Australia and even in Sydney, in fact there are only a few bikes in the Sydney overall.

In addition to beautiful view of Australia, Sydney is a great place if you want to see many places during exchange. With extensive railway network and short distances within the city, almost every single tourist attraction is not a far distance away. For example, the Blue Mountains, Bondi Beach and Sydney Eye Tower are close by. Weekend trips are also possible to other sights as well. For example, Brisbane and Manly are possible to visit as weekend trips. These are what I did mostly during my freetime on weekends. When I stayed in Sydney, I visited many restaurants, walked around different beautiful parks with my friends and took part in student activities and parties as well.

I chose Sydney because I wanted to know different paramedicine systems and protocols outside Finland as a part of my studies. My teacher suggested that this kind of exchange is only possible in Sydney so that is the reason why I chose Sydney. I chose four different courses in Sydney, which were held at Western Sydney University Campbelltown. I enjoyed my courses, the new persepective on paramedicine as well as all the driven teachers in the school, both the lectures and other students as well. It’s a real community they have been able to build and the atmosphere at Campbelltown during the studies is very encouraging.

Studying at a Australian University has been really easy. The study methohs are very close to the ones in TAMK, where most of the studies are simulations and team based and the approach is very hands on. I like this since I have never been the kind of person who learns only by reading. I enjoy learning new things and then getting to apply that to practice straight away during simulations. Also the simulations, both in Finland and Australia are done with teachers who are still in the workfield as real-life paramedics. This is a great way to build your relationships with workfield for future and to hear about the latest protocols used in the workfield as well.

G’day mate!

Greetings from sunny Straya!

I am now about halfway through my internship at Schenker Australia working in Product Management Air Freight based in Sydney. My team is responsible for the financial as well as operational results of Air Freight in Australia and New Zealand, including business and product development, budget planning, profit and cost savings and carrier management among other tasks. I have learned a great deal about operational as well as commercial side of air freight and freight forwarding. This experience has definitely confirmed that I’m on the right track and want to continue working in this field in the future.

Our office in Alexandria

Just another day at the office

Working in a multicultural environment has been a great experience, in our office we have people from all over the world and we are in touch with our colleagues in Europe, Asia and America on a daily basis. Australian business culture is somewhat casual, people are called by their first name and general atmosphere is relaxed, yet work is taken seriously and appropriate business attire is expected in the office.

Sydney is a beautiful city full of beaches, parks, attractions, activities and events, and of course friendly and super polite people. No worries –attitude is something I’ve absorbed very quickly, left-hand traffic took a little more time and proper Australian accent and abbreviations still manage to confuse me sometimes.

Sunday chill and chess in Hyde Park

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Bondi Beach

Blue Mountains National Park

The only bad thing I can think of Sydney are the high living costs. Accommodation is considerably more expensive than in Finland and everyone lives in shared flats or houses, it is common to share even your room with other people. Also life without a car is not made too easy unless you stay in CBD area. The city is huge with over 300 suburbs and almost 5 million inhabitants yet public transportation is not great nor cheap hence everyone has their own car and the traffic is pretty bad on mornings and afternoons.

Cute animals in Australia vs. not so cute…

The winter is on its way this part of the world but so far the temperatures have stayed above 20 Celsius and as a Finn I’m not too worried about the Australian “winter”. Time is flying and there is still heaps to see in this amazing country. I hope to get an opportunity to do some exploring after the internship is over and enjoy the Australian summer as well!

G’Day from Down Under!

Heey it’s Laura from Australia!

I did my practical training in Darwin Australia in an event managing and organizing company called Agentur. I thought I’d share my experience with you since it was quite awesome.

I had never even heard of a place called Darwin before I finally got an internship there. Since it’s so close to the equator there’s only two seasons: dry and wet. I was lucky enough to be there during the dry season when it’s “not so hot and humid”. Coming from Finland it was still pretty hot for me. Temperatures varied between 30°C and 35°C during the day and at night it was between 23°C and 27°C. It took a while to get used to such warm weather but I wasn’t complaining, sun shined everyday! Well the first day I arrived there the wet season had just ended and it was pouring, I got soaked and hoped that that wasn’t the way it was going to be. And luckily it wasn’t, sun shined every day!

On my way to work!

As I said I was working in a company called Agentur. They organize and put together events, galas, awards and conferences. My job was to answer the phone at our office, help out at the events, put together PowerPoint presentations for the events and make drafts of quest lists and run sheets, taking notes and running errands. I also participated in some of the meetings and took part in checking out the sites for the events. We had a little office puppy, little Yorkshire terrier Ares, the God of War, who I took for walks around the beautiful Cullen Bay area.

I  took part in planning four different events: the CEO Sleepout, Territory Day, Northern Territory Literary Awards and the National Indigenous Music Awards. It was great to get to go backstage and behind the scenes of these events and I really enjoyed all of them. Some of them were smaller and some bigger. It was funny to notice that even if the event was quite small it took plenty of effort to put together. There’s so much you need to take in consideration when planning an event! It really got me by surprise and there were things I would’ve never thought.

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I was staying with a host in her 2 bedroom apartment. She was traveling for six weeks so for that time I had the whole place for my self. The apartment was quite close to the city center and being so, very close to the nightlife! Since I didn’t have a car (even if I did, I don’t think I would’ve been driving that much.. These crazy Aussies are driving on the wrong side of the road!) I didn’t get around as much as I would’ve liked. The 3 months stuck in the city with pretty much nothing else than bars around got a little boring for me. Have to admit though, got my fair share of partying on Mitchell Street.. Luckily I made friends who took me to amazing places. We did a day trip to the Litchfield National Park to see the waterfalls, rock holes, termite mounds and other amazing views. That was definitely one of the highlights of my stay.

Waterfalls & a huge termite mound

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I also loved the Mindil Markets just down the hill from my place. I really fell in love with the Darwin sunsets and at Mindil they were absolutely amazing. The markets also had food stands from all over the world. It was my Sunday tradition to go to the beach, watch the sunset and get myself some delicious food.

Darwin is located right at the top end of Australia in the Northern Territory. It is called the crocodile state of Australia so you would see all these signs warning about crocodiles where ever there’s water. It wasn’t recommended to swim in the ocean because of the salt water crocodiles. So I didn’t go for a swim. It was a shame because the ocean and the beaches looked so inviting!

I did some traveling down the East Coast (Cairns, Airlie, Whitsundays, Sydney) after my training period and I totally fell in love with Australia. Hopefully I get to come back here one day for a proper backpacking experience!

IMG_20160701_215913No worries mate, cheers!

I am home! – Australia

Moments of NOW

Step One – Getting Grey Hair

The application process or rather called nerve-racking months were… well how should I put it… challenging. 🙂 I first heard about this wonderful opportunity to go on an international exchange to Australia August last year. I could not believe what I heard, since when I applied to my first international exchange the year before, Australia was not on the list to be applied for! Well, after getting over the first shock I was starting to be quite thrilled and already creating images of Australian in my head: sun, ambulances, kangaroos, university and the easy going lifestyle. “Wow Wow Wow, hold your horses…. now you are going a bit too fast!” I tried to control myself. 🙂

Well the first couple of months nothing really exciting happened and it was just about filling in few papers and going through an interview. More information would follow later… time was crawling… Luckily I had something else to think about while waiting for more information to come – practical training in Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom for three months. 🙂 The time was flying past and soon I was back in Finland getting more grey hair.

There was quite a significant amount of paper work to be done, filled in, signed and stamped for the application process and after my participation was granted, but knowing that I could help the future students with their application process made my work load all worth it! A huge thanks belongs to my school nurse and Fimlab for efficient and proficient help with my certificates! When I finally got all papers and formalities sorted out, it was only four days to due date but in any case it was time to – FINALLY – book the flight tickets!

Step two – On the Way Home

The few days before departure went super quickly, like always just before leaving. Everybody wants to see you, like I´m going away for the rest of my life -goodbyes… So extremely busy time table to visit everyone and to sort our last minute things concerning my departure like bus to airport, souvenirs from Finland to UWS, snacks for the journey… packing is not a part of my To Do List… packing has its own sector called: panic packing just few hours before “take-off”. But to keep myself sane, it is always better to keep my time table busy otherwise I would just be sitting at home panicking and losing my mind. Well practiced protocols over the years.

Panic packing in the morning went smoothly and I had more time than usually… though I was still able to miss my first local bus to the bus station into Tampere centre. While sitting in the bus to Helsinki-Vantaa airport a feeling of calmness and tranquillity filled me. I was on my way home! Flight and transition time was altogether 29 hours through London Heathrow with 3 hours of spare time spent walking around, a little shopping, people watching and relaxing. In Hong Kong I had only 20 minutes to change the terminal and to find the right gate. I can tell you that I have not been running that fast in a long time especially through the security! Only when I got to the last plane it started to come to me and realize that I was only less than 10 hours away from Australia. Just a little sleep away and few movies.

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Beautiful view over London!

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Flying somewhere over Europe or Asia.

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Sunset in Hongkong.

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I was so grateful to fly with three seats just for me! 🙂

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Already in Sydney and on my way to Campbelltown!

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Stopped for a little lunch in Campbelltown!

After the long journey half across the world and across Sydney suburbs I finally made it to my new home. Home sweet home, a cold shower, food, long chat about my journey and background with my landlord.! The next morning after a great night of sleep I woke up 6 am bright and shine in the sounds of birds chirping and singing. I look out of the window and see a palm tree and a beautiful sun rise. What a wonderful way to wake up in the other side of the world and the 29 hours travel was just a dream. I knew I was where I belonged

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View from my room window 6 am, the sun is starting to rise.

Step three – Life in Australia

The first weekend was for relaxing and getting comfortable in the new place – which for me was just more time in the Paradise. Meeting up in the University with the teachers, fixing last paper work, courses, practical and uniforms and doing some grocery shopping. Exploring the nearby area: Campbelltown and Macarthur and a little further: Bondi beach, Darling Harbour, The Rocks and I also fitted in my friend´s Baby Shower in The Entrance, couple of hours north from Sydney. The Entrance was another piece of Heaven! Such a beautiful and tranquil place!

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Getting burned and becoming a lobster at Bondi Beach

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Sydney was preparing for GayParade Festival and had beautiful lights, music and decorations all around Darling Harbour.

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People enjoying the evening at Darling Harbour.

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Full of Hearts!

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Visited Sydneys oldest brewery – The Lord Nelson Brevery Hotel at The Rocks.

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View from The Rocks to Sydney Opera House.

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The Long Jetty at The Entrance, couple of hours north from Sydney.

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Beautiful sunset in The Entrance.

On Monday the University of Western Sydney (UWS) courses started with lectures and practical: Introduction to Paramedicine, Paramedicine Practise, Obstetrics and Paediatrics, Out of Hospital Medical Care and Culture, Diversity and Health. The standard of the education is extremely high, 2.5 years old university buildings and facilities with library, shops, lunch restaurants and cafes very remarkable but still keeping the atmosphere chilled and open for new encounters, learning and different activities. Absolutely nothing to complain! And even though Australian students have to pay for their education, you can see that it is all worth it!

The courses are mostly during Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, leaving plenty of time for our interviews, collecting information and material for our thesis. And of course independent studying with online material and courses that UWS provides, not to forget studying, exploring and enjoying the target culture, nature, people, surrounding areas, towns and cities of New South Wales and hopefully also other states as well during my short period of time here in lovely Australia. Queensland is checked out from my bucket list since I went up to Sunshine Coast for Easter and I fell in love with the beaches, peacefulness, beautiful nature and sunshine.

I never had the time to visit Manly Beach when I was previously in Sydney couple of times few years ago, so of course I went to explore it and found it very nice, even though a bit touristic but still very calm, relaxing area and a big beach with a lot of activities around including stand up paddle boarding, surfing, beach volley and trekking in the Sydney Harbour National Park, not to forget all the shops, restaurants, cafes, bars and nightlife.

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Views from Circular Quay.

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On a ferry on our way to Manly Beach from Circula Quay.

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Beautiful nature, flowers and views.

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Shark Alert at Manly Beach!

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Art at Manly.

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Great views and nice weather for some trekking in the Sydney Harbour National Park.

I love bush walking, trekking and getting lost in the wilderness, because then you always find something you did not know you were even looking for! I also visited Wentworth Park greyhound races few times with my old bosses from Victoria.

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Koala Alert. & Getting lost in the bushes. Still smiling, but after couple of hours wandering in the same forest…. not so much. 🙂

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Sun goes down very quickly and I better head home while I can still see ahead. 🙂

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Wentworth Park Greyhound races.

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I have found my place!

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Market City, Haymarket.

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Chinese Garden of Friendship in Darling Harbour.

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Pancake breakfast and a good cup of black coffee in the Paradise of Sunshine Coast.

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Easter Sunday in Sunshine Coast and everybody are so relaxed.

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Wonderful beaches at Sunshine Coast.

Now that I bought a bicycle I can explore the surrounding areas even easier and get some sun and exercise at the same time! Yesterday I took the train to Sydney Central Station and cycle to Bondi beach area with the idea of spending the day under the sun relaxing since the weather forecast promised 30 degrees warm and sunny for the whole day! Though in the end I got lost (like always!) and accidentally cycled over 30 kilometres mostly up hill (well if you go up you always come down so few down hills as well!) and discovered some really stunning and intriguing beaches, gardens, parks, harbours and gorgeous living areas. So I have been keeping myself fairly busy with studying and learning but also enjoying the Australian lifestyle, weather and culture!

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On my way to city centre with cycle.

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Double Bay.

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Blackburn Cove garden and beach.

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Long way with a boat. 🙂

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Gorgeous view over the harbour to city.

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Shark Beach and Nielsen Park.

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In less than a week I will start my 5 weeks of practical in the local ambulances. 4 days in  with 12 hours shifts and 5 days off, which gives me a plenty of time to recover and learn, search more information and explore a bit more, maybe visit my friends in Melbourne and Tasmania! For the last week in Australia just before departing back to Finland I am planning to spend in Perth, Western Australia visiting my old firends and work mates.

I am quite excited and waiting forward learning more about out of hospital medical care in Australia, improve my own clinical skills and expand my knowledge about Australian medicines and administration in the ambulance environment.

Sunny regards from DownUnder,


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News & Current Affairs

September 8, 2008

Upper Egypt prison shaken by riot

Upper Egypt prison shaken by riot

A prisoner has died and more than 20 people, mostly inmates, have been injured during unrest at a jail in the Upper Egyptian city of Assiut.

Officials said the clashes followed rumors about an inmate’s death. Some prisoners rioted and took officers hostage and seized guns.

The violence continued for several hours. Police used tear gas and live bullets to regain control of the jail.

Earlier unconfirmed reports had said unknown gunmen had attacked the prison.

Four warders and at least 20 prisoners were said to have been injured in the clashes.

An Interior Ministry statement quoted by the Reuters news agency said the riot occurred when fighting broke out between four prisoners who attacked each other with cutlery.

Police intervened and punished the inmates with 48 hours in solitary confinement, the statement said.

Inmate Ali Abdel Salam died during his solitary confinement, after which “a rumor spread among the prisoners he had died because an officer assaulted him”, the statement said.

Conflicting reports

However, there is some confusion about the identity of the dead inmate. Another report named him as Hani Ghandour, who was serving a seven-year sentence for assault.

Another report said Ghandour was killed during armed clashes after a group of 15 gunmen had stormed the building in an attempt to free prisoners.

There is no explanation for the discrepancies in the dead man’s name or the reason which lay behind the violence.

Assiut – about 250 miles (400km) south of Cairo – is the largest city in Upper Egypt, with a population of about 400,000 people. Its jail is reported to hold about 3,000 prisoners.

Correspondents say conditions in Egyptian prisons are often dire and overcrowded, and security personnel have been accused of abusing inmates.

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Gare Maritime

Gare Maritime will be much more than a building – it will be a bustling neighbourhood for everyone in Brussels to enjoy.

About this development

Tour & Taxis will soon be home to a new lively city quarter. Renovations are underway on the Gare Maritime, and the expansive former freight station will become a covered neighbourhood with facilities for shopping, work, leisure activities, eating and drinking, and public events.

The Gare Maritime is already a stunning building, and our renovations will highlight its beauty while increasing its functionality. The wood panels used to construct the original roof in 1902 have been restored to pristine condition. They complement the smaller wooden structures currently under construction in the station’s side facades, which will house office and retail space. The three central spans of the development will remain free, creating generous space for people to stroll and relax together, or to attend events, exhibitions and festivals.

Green, lush vegetation will thrive under a massive wide-span station roof, with a pleasant climate that will adapt to seasonal weather changes. From the depths of winter through the heat of summer, the Gare Maritime will be much more than a building – it will be a bustling neighbourhood for everyone in Brussels to experience.

Gare Maritime, more than a reference of circular construction

The Gare Maritime is more than a beautiful place for people in Brussels to experience year-round. This covered neighbourhood is a model of circular construction.

The Gare Maritime is energy neutral, using the latest renewable energy technologies. Photovoltaic panels power the entire station. Geothermal wells provide heating and cooling, maintaining a temperate climate in both winter and summer.

Wood and paving stones from the original construction were reused in the redevelopment of the Gare Maritime, as were the historic steel columns. This avoids materials waste and ensures the site’s history is integrated into its next evolution. Rainwater is collected and recycled for plumbing and adiabatic cooling (evaporation of water to cool the air).

The twelve office and retail constructions are made from responsibly sourced wood. As wood is lighter than the cement typically used for such buildings, CO2 emissions were avoided in the construction process. Finally, indoor gardens provide a “green lung” for the station.

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Governor Update December 2020

Dear Parents & Carers,

As we head towards the last week of term for 2020, we wanted to provide an update from
the governing body.

As we all know the past eight months have been unprecedented and posed significant
challenges. We have all been pushed to new boundaries and experienced a raft of
emotions along the way. The way that the school and the wider community have pulled
together has been simply amazing.

As the governing body, we have been immensely proud of how Mrs Gilbertson and every
member of staff at school have worked so hard to to ensure school has remained open
when possible. This hasn’t been easy and some tough decisions have had to be made
along the way. However, we strongly believe that everything that has been implemented
over the past 10 months has been done with the very best intentions and with our children
at the heart of those decisions.

As we move in to 2021, the priority remains to keep school open! The teachers and
teaching assistants have however all worked extremely hard to ensure that there is
provision for remote learning should the situation arise.

Thank you for your ongoing support and understanding.

We are delighted that the build of the new room is now complete. This new space is
being fully utilised for a wide range of group activities. This would not have been possible
without the significant contribution from the P.T.F.A. We would like to take this
opportunity to give a massive thank you to the P.T.F.A and everyone who has supported

You may have seen that we recently advertised a vacancy for a parent governor role
however we have not received any nominations. We now have two parent governor
vacancies and therefore we will be seeking nominations from parents and carers of pupils
to fill these roles.

The nomination process will open again on Thursday 7th January 2021 and run until
Friday 22nd January 2021. At that point, if we have received more than 2 nominations,
we will hold an election.

Obviously due to the current situation, it is difficult to discuss these opportunities with you
all face to face in the playground. We will therefore be holding two virtual sessions via
Zoom on January 13th at 11:00am and 8:00pm to give anybody that is interested the
opportunity to find out more about the parent governor role and ask any questions.
Details will be provided nearer the time. If you are not able to attend one of these
sessions but would like to discuss the parent governor role in more detail please do
contact Caroline O’Connell, Claire Walsh or Michael Tinker.

Finally, we would like to wish you and your families a very merry Christmas and best
wishes for the New Year. Stay safe and enjoy the Christmas break.

Caroline O’Connell
On behalf of Eyam CE Primary School Governing Body.

Committee Structure

Each committee

  • has a minimum of 4 members
  • has a quorum of 3
  • may have associate governors as members but the majority will be full members of the governing body
  • has a chair
  • will write their terms of reference- based on those available on the extranet
  • will arrange fixed dates for their years meetings, these will be notified to the FGB. These meetings will be timed to coincide with the necessary devolved functions of each committee according to the terms of reference.
  • will list the school policies for which it is responsible and ensure time is allocated in the meetings schedule for review of these.
  • will review the training needs of its members

Teaching, Learning and Community (TLCC)

Responsibilities include:

  • Curriculum
  • Target Setting
  • Assessment
  • SEN
  • Gifted & Talented
  • Media
  • Community
  • Links with the Church

Staffing Committee (SC)

Responsibilities include

  • staff appointments and review of staffing structure
  • performance management reviews
  • pay policies

Resource Management Committee (RMC) – Finance

Responsibilities include:

  • Finance

Resource Management Committee (RMC) – Premises

Responsibilities include:

  • Health and Safety
  • Premises

Governors Register updated 28 Apr 2021

Register-of-Interests updated 28 Apr 2021

Governing Body Attendance 2019-20

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That’s right, just like the title says – there are some houses purchased as foreclosures and flipped. Some of those houses may have seen severe mold problems. I’ve seen a few of these. I’ve been asked to list some. My response has been, “we have to disclose problems that may severely effect property value.” Seller’s response has been, “I’ll look for another agent.” It doesn’t take much for investors to find Real Estate Agents who don’t ask questions.

How do you protect yourself against those types of issues? Most of the time its not that difficult. Many REO properties with mold problems can only be viewed after signing a release. Any Real Estate Agent worth a plate of beans will be smart enough to look at the property history on the MLS to get an idea of how much the seller paid for the property. A quick look at the old listing will tell if it had a release for mold attached to the listing. After all, if the Real Estate Agent your working with represents you, don’t you think they should be looking out for your best interest? This is one reason why it’s important for a Buyer to have an Agent represent them.

Don’t expect your Agent to do miracles on price. It all depends on the quality of the work done on the property and what buyers are willing to pay in the area. Most foreclosed properties have few if any pictures which makes it difficult to gauge the amount of work done on the property. If the property did have a mold release form attached to the listing, the seller should have proof of proper mold removal by a licensed or certified professional. After all, the seller has to pay income taxes on profits from the sale and a deduction would come in handy. Common sense tells you the repairs should be accounted for.

An experienced Real Estate Agent will be able to walk into a remodeled home and assess the quality of the repairs. After viewing hundreds of foreclosed and remodeled homes in the area, Agents are familiar with the quality of repairs and sometimes the investor doing the work. Real Estate Agents are not licensed to perform a complete inspection or tell you if repairs are up to local codes or not, but can point out questions to bring up to the licensed inspector of your choice. Buyers are often surprised at details that come up when they have a new set of trained eyes looking over the property. This is why its so important to work with a good Real Estate Agent and hire a good inspector.

What Lures People Into an Online Scam

So you want to get rich in Real Estate. You don’t have much money, but you heard all the stories of how people broke the system and made it rich in Real Estate. The Internet is full of Real Estate Scams with one intent…. to quickly part a fool and the little money they have. Not only are these scam artists using the Internet, they have enough guts to hold seminars in major cities to collect more money. I can tell you —- beyond any doubt —- the only thing these people know about Real Estate is their scripted plan to suck money out of victims with high hopes and dreams of making it out of this depressed economy we seem stuck in. Let me show you how it works.

How Online Real Estate Scams Work

Charges begin at the very beginning. After a free introduction online or at a local meeting which consists of NO USEFUL information —- ONLY a load of hype, people fall for these plans like an unsuspecting fish goes for a shinny lure. Things look so good, fees seem like a small investment. Let me tell you what you are investing in. There is a scripted system you are investing in. This scripted system is not designed to make any money for you! It is a system to put money in the pockets of this carefully formed network of thieves. The first charge is a set of lessons, either online or a condensed live seminar. They will tell you about some secret list of foreclosed properties. Here is the hook. They tell you only certain Real Estate Agents get this list! Any suggestion of a separate list is against local MLS rules and agreements all Real Estate Agents share. Every licensed Real Estate Agent must sign an agreement to share all their listings with all other Agents on the local MLS. There is no secret foreclosure list. These people are trying to impress you will false information. Some of them are trying to get you to work with agents they hand pick, but this is very rare. It doesn’t take much effort to gather a list of new, inexperienced agents eager to make their first sale. All these people need to do is check public records to find newly licensed Agents, who may not know what they are falling into.

The next step is to provide you with a pre-approval letter or proof of funds letter. Boy — Do these people look like an answer to prayer. After paying a fee, you get a letter and these people promise to give you money to invest in their system without checking your credit. This is too good to be true! That’s because it is not true! There is a world of difference between a letter and cold hard cash. Of course there is a fee for the letter, and a fee for a credit check, another fee for an appraisal, another fee because they feel like sucking more from you. That’s the system you are buying into. All the money flows one way!

If you happen to have funds, you can elevate to their next level of scams. You get the gold script!!! This is what they will tell you. They will tell you how to bid. Of course you have to get an offer accepted. They will tell you about their plan that never fails —- and it sounds good. But of course will never work in the end. Here is their plan. Over bid on the property. The way they explain it makes sense. After all they are trusting you with their money…. all they are asking for is your trust in return. WHAT A SCAM! You have not seen a dime from them and they are pulling the TRUST ME CARD. By this point you paid them thousands and received nothing but promises. And now you are paying for some of the worst advice I have ever heard. Of course the best properties receive multiple bids and you have to find a way of getting your offer accepted. They tell you once you over bid and get the contact, which they tell you is a legal binding contract…. which is about the only truthful matter they will tell you, the Seller and you are bound by the contract. What they fail to tell you is, asset managers seldom negotiate price after you sign a contract. There is nothing in the contract saying the Seller has to deal on the price. When you fall for this scam, you missed one very important point! The Seller has a group of cash buyers waiting in the wings who can close in a hurry. The Seller can tell you to take a walk. In the mean time, you lost more money on the scam. They tell you they have a network of inspectors to look over the property, give you a report and instruct you on how to use their report to negotiate. Two problems here. Number one, you pay them for the inspection. More money for them. Number 2 – they DO NOT use state licensed inspectors. The contracts I use in Wisconsin states: A State Licensed Inspector must be used. You just wasted your money. Any Listing Agent with a year of experience will take one look at that report and know it is a fake. When I see this, I call the so called inspector and ask for his state license number. Guess, what… the house of cards immediately folds. Next on the scripted plan to part you from your money is the fake contractors. More money out of your pocket, more in theirs. Now here is the real heart break for innocent buyers like yourself. According to the contract you have 10 days or so for an inspection. If you don’t have a good agent, that time disappears. You lost that contingency to back out of the contract and get your earnest money deposit back. The worst part of this scam is the time it takes. Before you know it, time runs out, you fail to close and find yourself in a position to loose your earnest money deposit. Notice how you are the one putting up all the money…. and they are the ones making the money? When time runs out, you are in what is known as breach of contract. You failed to fulfill your part of the agreement. Some Sellers are insisting they keep the earnest money. At this time it appears to be the only way to combat this scam. Most of the time Buyers will get their earnest money returned but when Sellers see this scam, they may not be so lenient. Collecting earnest money is a long process most Sellers will not want to go through, but one Seller instructed me to go through the long drawn out process. In the end the Buyer lost the earnest money. The whole process is nothing but a waste of time for everyone involved and a waste of money for the Buyer.

Beware the Bite

There are other details the scam artists share to appear they are looking out for you. They show you how to alter standard contracts. They want to create the appearance they have your interests at heart, but make no mistake, these scam artists are looking out for themselves. Here is a short list for you to copy and paste. If you ever attend any of these scam artist’s meetings, you can go down this list with a smile on your face and your money in your pocket.

Unexpected Fees

  • They charge fees. Every experienced Real Estate Agent has worked with successful investors and is willing to share information for free.
  • Look out for useless hype.
  • Look out for facts and figures from outside the market area you want to invest in.
  • Look out for a system insisting one size fits all.
  • Look out for secret lists and inside information only a few people have.
  • Look out for networks they may claim to have.
  • If you did pay fees for training…. get out the first time you see a fee they forgot to mention.
  • Shy away from advice on how to alter state approved contracts.
  • Avoid systems which suggest negotiations after signing a legal binding contract.
  • Avoid systems telling you to over bid without providing you with current market conditions.
  • Avoid systems based on national statistics.
  • Avoid systems which teach you how to use an inspection to renegotiate purchase price.
  • Run from all inspectors, contractors, and LENDERS who cannot produce proof of a state license.

The only system that works involves a few simple steps.

  1. Invest in an area you know and are comfortable with.
  2. Get a list of market reports for the area and know the current trend.
  3. Know market prices for both REO purchases and resale prices for turn key properties.
  4. Work with a reliable, licensed general contractor if you are not capable of doing all the repairs yourself.
  5. Get a little background on local ordinances for vacant properties and building codes
  6. Have your own team in place including a licensed Real Estate Agent, Lender, Inspector, and contractors. Form your organization.
  7. Keep expectations realistic…. the current market will do more to determine your success than any other detail.


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Tag Archives: 30’s

Art Deco Teal Glass Boudoir Lamps

4 Dec

boudoir lamps

Found these at a recent estate sale and couldn’t resist.  These boudoir lamps are ca. 1930’s from the art deco period and are sometimes called ‘bullet lamps’.  I have also seen them described as skyscraper lamps and torpedo lamps.   They will be for sale at my booth at the Almonte Antique Market as soon as I can part with them.

Jeannette Glass Co. Iris & Herringbone Vase

3 Dec

Manufactured by Jeannette Glass Co. during the depression, this is a lovely example of the Iris & Herringbone pattern on a 9″ high  milk glass vase, flashed in a jade colour on the outside.  This was rescued from a dump in an area where there are a lot of cottagers.  Fortunately a good friend of mine who lived in the area spotted it and knew that I would appreciate having it.  They are typically found in iridescent, clear or white milk glass and sometimes found in amberina as well.  Pink ones are rare but do exist.

Shirley Temple Cobalt Blue Jug and Eyewash Cup

27 Nov

Another estate find.  Shirley Temple cobalt blue creamer dates to the late 30’s .  The cobalt glass eyewash cup is probaby from the same era.  Most baby boomers and their parents would remember Shirley Temple’s movies from that era.


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Tag Archives: Japan

Holt Howard Japan, 1950’s Ceramics

29 May

The above are all examples of Holt Howard’s kitschy designs ca. 1950’s.  Holt-Howard was created in 1948 by John and Robert Howard and A. Grant Holt.  They made cutesy items for the kitchen and giftware.  They are probably best known for their pixie ware which commands high prices in the collectibles market.

The 1954 ashtray in the shape of a man in a striped shirt allows the smoke to escape through the mouth.  The cat ashtray sports a push down handle which empties the ashes  into the head.  The Rooster jam and jelly jar is one of many dishes that were embellished with roosters by Holt Howard Co.   They ceased all production in 1990.

These items will be for sale at my booth at the Almonte Antique Market in Almonte Ontario.

Please note the cat ashtray is SOLD!!

Vintage Water Pitcher, Asian Theme

7 Mar

It was a week  for finding beautiful items in shades of blue this week.  This pitcher is absolutely lovely.  I don’t know anything much about it  as there are no markings on the bottom but I believe it would be made in China or Japan for the export market.  Textured finish gives it some definition to the glaze.   It is quite large, about 10″ tall.  This will be for sale at my booth at the Almonte Antique Market for $45.00.

Please note this item is now SOLD!!

White Shadow Hoya China Cow Dishes

15 Feb

Cutest  little plates, measure about 6″ across.  Each one with a different hand painted picture of a cow.  Made in Japan.  I couldn’t find anything online to date these plates, but my best guess would be the 60’s.

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Sarreguemines France Ceramic Fondue Plates

22 Feb

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Gorgeous jewel tone colours on these fondue plates made in France by Sarreguemines.  I would date these to the  early 70’s when fondues were all the rage.  These will be for sale at my booth at the Almonte Antique Market  in Almonte Ontario for $25.00 for the six plates.

Note: These plates are now SOLD!!!

Pretty Cabbage Pottery

19 Oct

From my collection, these are some of  the cabbage pieces  that I have picked up over the years.  I especially love my cabbage tea pot which I won at an auction and paid a mere $8 for, which was a steal.  Some pieces were made by Bordallo Pinheiro Pottery Company in Portugal and some by Faiancas Belo in Portugal.  There is a long serving dish by Sarreguemines in France which dates to the early part of the 1900’s.   Most of the pieces would be early 1900’s up to mid century.  The shakers are more recent, probably Japan in the 60’s.


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• Adjunct Professor, Internal Medicine
  • Distinguished Professor, Philosophy

Research Keywords

  • suicide
  • religion, ethical issues in religious practice
  • physician-assisted suicide
  • euthanasia
  • contraception, male
  • aid in dying
  • Spinal Cord Injury
  • Population Studies - Developing Countries
  • Population Control
  • Infectious Disease
  • Human Reproduction or Fertility
  • Drugs or Drug Abuse; drugs "across the board"
  • Disability
  • Contraception
  • Aesthetics, puzzles about

Creative Research

  • Brooke Hopkins and Margaret P. Battin, Love Under Trial. Memoir. Other, submitted 10/2013.

  • Working group presentation, Berman Institute of Ethics, Johns Hopkins University. Presentation, Presented, 12/04/2020.
  • Working Group, Hastings Center, "Dementia and the Ethics of Choosing When to Die". Presentation, Presented, 11/12/2020.
  • Grand Rounds lecture, co-presented with Brent Kious MD, psychiatry, "Aid in Dying: Is Somatic Suffering Special?". Presentation, Presented, 02/27/2020.
  • Panelist on ethical issues, National Clinicians Conference on Medical Aid in Dying, Berkeley, CA. Presentation, Presented, 02/14/2020.
  • Plenary Lecture: "Death and Sex: Thought Experiments with Normative Force.” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, annual meeting, Pittsburgh. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/26/2019.
  • "Thinking All Wrong About How We Die, " Weill Cornell Medical, New York City. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 12/07/2017.
  • Panel talk on psychedelic medicine at the end of life, University of Washington School of Law. Presentation, Presented, 10/27/2017.
  • UTEMED video presentation, "Sex & Consequences". Presentation, Presented, 10/13/2017.
  • Presentation on end-of-life issues, 2ND International Conference on End of Life Law, Ethics, Policy and Practice, Dalhousie Health Law Institute, Canada. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 09/13/2017.
  • International Association for Suicide Prevention, On the relationship between suicide and physician-assisted dying, Kuching, Malaysia. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 07/19/2017.
  • American Association of Suicidology, panel presentation on death with dignity. Presentation, Presented, 04/28/2017.
  • American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, special program: Philosophical Issues in Death with Dignity. Other, Presented, 04/15/2017.
  • Fink Professor, Washburn University; one week; main lecture on historical issues in suicide. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/28/2017.
  • "Euthanasia's Enemies?" World Congress of Eight-to-Die Societies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/13/2016.
  • "Suicide Prevention in an Age of Death With Dignity," American Association of Suicidology, Chicago, Ill. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/31/2016.
  • "The Least Worst Death," Johns Hopkins University, Berman Institute of Bioethics. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/23/2015.
  • Scott Crom Visiting Professor, lectures on end of life and male contraception, Beloit College, March 4-6, 2015. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/04/2015.
  • "What Makes a Good Doctor? A Conversation between Margaret Battin and Robin Marantz Henig," The Hastings Center series, New York. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/18/2013.
  • "The Least Worst Death: Moral Experience at Life's Edge," Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Ethics Noon Conference. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/18/2013.
  • "Oh Yeah! Male Contraception. At Last!" European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, meeting in Basel, Switzerland. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/14/2013.
  • Commentary on L.W. Sumner, Assisted Death: A Study in Law and Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2011), American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division. Conference Paper, Presented, 03/27/2013.

  • Ancient Greek (to 1453), basic.
    very rusty.
  • French, basic.
  • German, fluent.
  • Latin, basic.
    very rusty.
  • Spanish, functional.

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • Netherlands
    Extensive research over many years on physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands.

  • Margaret Pabst Battin & Brent M. Kious (2021). Ending One's Life in Advance. Hastings Center Report. Vol. 51:3, 37-47. Published, 06/2021.
  • Margaret Pabst Battin (2020). Selbsttötung und Rechte, Sterbehilfe und Ärtztlich Beihilfe zum Suizid, Grundlage Texte . Verlag Karl Alber. Published, 12/30/2020.
  • Margaret Pabst Battin, Leslie P. Francis, Jay A. Jacobson & Charles B. Smith (2020). The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease. Oxford University Press. Accepted, 06/01/2020.
  • Brent M. Kious & Margaret P. Battin (2019). Physician Aid-in-Dying and Suicide Prevention in Psychiatry: A Moral Crisis?. American Journal of Bioethics. Vol. 19, 29-39. Published, 09/2019.
  • Margaret P. Battin (2018). The Development of the AAS Statement on "Suicide" and "Physician Aid in Dying". Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Published, 03/26/2018.
  • Margaret P. Battin, Dominick A. DellaSala, ed. & Michael I. Goldstein, ed. (2018). Entry: Population: Growth, Decline, and Control. (pp. 319-330). Vol. 4. Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, Elsevier. Published, 01/2018.
  • Margaret P. Battin (2018). Could Suicide Really be a Fundamental Human Right? A Triple Threat, in Assisted Death and Human Dignity, Sebastian Muders, ed.. (pp. 199-217). Oxford University Press. Published, 01/01/2018.
  • Marije Brouwer, Christopher Kaczor, Margaret P. Battin, Els Maeckelberghe, John D. Lantos, Eduard Verhagen. Ethics Rounds: If adult euthanasia is legal, should pediatric euthanasia be legal as well? Pediatrics, forthcoming 2017. Accepted, 04/2017.
  • Battin MP, Edwards JH & Freedman RA (2016). Heart Transplantation on a Desert Island? Self-Sacrifice and Slippery Slopes. The Annals of thoracic surgery. Vol. 102, 1783-1784. Published, 11/01/2016.
  • Review, with Brent M. Kious, of J. David Velleman, Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death (Open Book Publishers 2015), in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, published online February/March 2016. Published, 02/2016.
  • Timothy Quill and Margaret P. Battin, entry “Responding to Requests for Physician Aid in Dying,” UpToDate 2015. [online reference service for physicians]. Published, 09/18/2015.
  • The Ethics of Suicide: Historical Sources. Comprehensive collection of historical sources concerning issues in suicide. Oxford University Press in partnership with J. Willard Marriot Library at the University of Utah for associated online Digital Archive. Received Honorable Mention, PROSE Award (American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence), Category Philosophy, 2016. Published, 09/2015.
  • Perspective: “Thinking All Wrong about How You Die,” Hastings Center Report, July-August, 2015. (invited short piece). Published, 08/2015.
  • “Population Growth and Decline: Issues of Justice,” Routledge Companion to Bioethics, ed. John Arras, Rebecca Kukla, Elizabeth Fenton. New York and London: Routledge 2015, pp. 403-416. Published, 01/2015.
  • "The Ethics of Suicide: Philosophical and Religious Perspectives," in David Lester and James R. Rogers, eds., Suicide: A Global Issue. Volume 1, pp. 55-64. Santa Barbara, CA; Praeger, 2013. Published, 11/2013.
  • Margaret P. Battin, "Terminal sedation: Recasting a metaphor as the ars moriendi changes," in Sigrdi Sterckx, Kasper Raus, and Freddy Mortier, eds., Continuous Sedation at the End of Life. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 240-249. Published, 09/2013.
  • Entry, “Bioethics,” International Encyclopedia of Ethics, 4th edition, Wiley-Blackwell, in press. Accepted, 03/28/2012.


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Chicago, Fall 2021

I went to Chicago for work, and took a lot of abstract building shots. You can definitely see the Angie McMonigal inspiration in some of these.

There’s also a couple of people in there.

It had been a while since I’d been this deep in the Loop.

The offsite was in a building on Wacker with a very cool lobby.

Lobbies are usually not this photogenic.

Then we went on the architecture tour on the river. This was probably my third or fourth time taking this boat ride, but my first time with the zoom lens. Fun photo challenges ensued. I decided not to post photos of my teammates, though. Gotta protect the innocent.

People tend to spot the big camera, even from far away.

Being on the river affords some really odd angles.

Yes, this is a façade.

Sunset at Wrigley.

The light hits the building just right as you walk out of the office in Chicago this time of the year.

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Women of Mercy, March 24, 2018 Saturday Tidbit

Anna and I are both women of Mercy…
Women who are
rooted in the values of Jesus;
well-educated and self-disciplined;
enriched by diversity and tolerant of differences;
compassionate and generous;
able to lead and willing to serve;
who graciously shares these Mercy values with others.
I attempt to live every word of the Mercy Creed. I am not always successful and I will work on it all of my life. Mercy helped to cultivate those values. Learning, believing, and having faith continues to aid me in my journey to fulfilling that creed.

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Marriage Therapy and Time

60 minutes trauma

Now - Not Later

I just read a good article on marriage therapy from the Gottman Institute.  For my blog this week I will summarize a few of the key points from the author.

6 Years for help

The first point I have heard before but he helped me see it in a new light: couples usually wait an average of six years of being unhappy before getting help. That does sound like a recipe for disaster.  Couples have six years to build up resentment before they begin the important work of learning to resolve differences in effective ways.

7 Helps for Differences

The second point that caught my attention came from Michele Weiner Davis, author of The Divorce Remedy. She believes that avoiding conflict backfires in intimate relationships. Bottling up negative thoughts and feelings doesn’t give your partner a chance to change their behavior. On the other hand, the author cautions that one of the secrets of a good marriage is learning to choose battles wisely and to distinguish between petty issues and important ones.

The author of the article goes through 7 helps to deal with differences:

  • Create a relaxed atmosphere and spend time with your partner on a regular basis so you can communicate about your desires and objectives.
  • Don’t give up personal goals and the things you love to do such as hobbies or interests. This will only breed resentment.
  • Support one another’s passions. Accept that you won’t always share the same interests. Respect your partner’s need for space if they want to go on a vacation without you, etc.
  • Learn to resolve conflicts skillfully. Don’t put aside resentments that can destroy a relationship. Couples who try to avoid conflict are at risk of developing stagnant relationships, which can put them at high risk for divorce.
  • Establish an open-ended dialogue. Listen to your partner’s requests and ask for clarification on points that are unclear. Avoid threats and saying things you’ll regret later.
  • Avoid the “blame game.” Take responsibility for your part in the problems and accept that all human beings are flawed in some way. The next time you feel upset with your partner, check out what’s going on inside yourself and pause and reflect before you place the blame on them.
  • Be realistic about a time-line for change. It takes more than a few sessions to shed light on the dynamics and to begin the process of change.

How Marriage Therapy Can Help

The third point that I really enjoyed was answering the age old question – “How can marriage therapy help?” The author listed many reasons, my favorite three were:

  • If toxic relationship patterns can be identified early and agreed upon, the process of real change can begin.
  • A motivated couple can begin to explore their problems from a new perspective and learn new ways to recognize and resolve conflicts as a result of the tools provided by the marriage therapist.
  • A couples counselor can provide “neutral territory” to help couples agree upon and work through tough issues with support.

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Ruth’s Recommendations

Here are my favourite blog posts from this past week.

Irish Genealogy News had two interesting posts this past week. The first is “Images of Belfast burial records now available.” There are about 360,000 records for Belfast City Cemetery; Dundonald Cemetery; and Roselawn Cemetery.

The second is “Ill-conceived” merger attracts more criticism” which looks at the proposal to merge the National Archives of Ireland and the National Library of Ireland.

The 16th of June is Bloomsday in Dublin. There are celebrations and events relating to James Joyce’s book “Ulysses.” The National Library of Ireland blog has a post called “Joyce Manuscripts Online – Beta but Beautiful.” I haven’t had a chance to go in and look at them yet. It took me three months but I read “Ulysses” and am very glad I did. It was a challenging but wonderful experience.

Anglo-Celtic Connections has a post called “Blame, or credit, the ancestors” which looks at “Epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of altered stress responses.” You need to read the post to find out more. It is an interesting theory and I can see instances of it in my own family history.

Since the 1000 days of remembrance of the War of 1812 began this week there is an interesting post from called “Podcast: “Whose War Was It, Anyway?” A Roundtable Discussion on the War of 1812.” If you are stuck inside with the heat, humidity and smog this might be a way of spending some of your time.

I enjoy the National Archives of England blog and this week it didn’t disappoint. They had a post called “A challenge and a solution” where they look at the photographic projects they are working on in the Collection Care studio. This is what an archives blog needs to be. They don’t only tell you stories regarding their collections; they also walk you through the process of conservancy and sorting their collections. This blog truly helps you understand what an archive does and the importance of supporting all that they do to preserve our history.

Marian’s Roots & Rambles has a post this week that says “Seriously, Not Everything is Online.” Everyone needs to remember that you cannot find everything online. I heard a statistic that said less than 1% of the information genealogists access is actually found online. The internet is a wonderful tool but not the only stop in your research process.

Find My Scottish Ancestors is starting a “(semi) regular” series on unusual words that they have come across during their research. The first post is “Old Scots Words – Afaldly or Afauldly.” I am looking forward to more of these posts.

What were your favourite blog posts this past week?

Let me know in the comments below.

Other bloggers that write their own lists are:

Genea-Musings – Best of the Genea-Blogs

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  • Thanks so much for your kind words about the UK National Archives blog! It’s always helpful to get some feedback and hear that readers are enjoying what we write. We’re also happy to chat further about blog topics through the comments.

    • Ruth Blair

      The UK National Archives blog is great as it covers so many aspects of the archives not just one. I particularly like the stories of the conservancy as people don’t always know what goes on behind the scenes at an archive.

  • Thanks very much for the mention Ruth. I do enjoy reading your round-up of the genealogy blogs.

    My ‘semi regular’ old (and odd) Scots words posts will hopefully be weekly until I get to the end of the alphabet…I might have a problem finding one starting with ‘x’ but at least I have a wee while to think about it!

    Cheers, Kirsteen
    (Find My Scottish Ancestors)

    • Ruth Blair

      Thanks Kirsteen. I look forward to reading more of your series. You will find the word for X when the time comes. It may turn out to be one of the more interesting words/definitions because of its rarity.

  • Thanks for mentioning the blog Ruth. I’m sure there’s a lot more to epigenetics than I understand. It certainly deserves watching. Also it was interesting chatting with you in Kingston.

    • Ruth Blair

      It was nice to catch up with you in Kingston as well. I think we will be hearing more about epigenetics.

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This week-end, I was in Brussels for the Capitalist Ball organized by the CNE. I met a lot of libertarian people from all over Europe and other continents, including many friends with whom I usually communicate but through the internet. There were beautiful women in splendid dresses. The music was just my kind of music, swinging and lively, mostly 1950s (but they could have picked more recorded songs, so as not to re-run the same ones several times during the dinner). Anthony de Jasay received one of the three awards during the dessert. Great dessert: I never thought crème brûlée could be that good. The amplifiers were set a bit too loud at times, but the band had us dance and swing the way I like. Having fun with a lot of like-minded people makes you feel just great. I met people with whom I greatly enjoy disagreeing. And I learnt a small trick of magic. Such a lovely evening it was, and I haven't started telling about my dancing partner yet. To boot, Hubert and Rita picked me as a speaker for the next Libertarian International conference in Leiden in April. Thank you a lot, Cécile for inviting me.

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Farmington School Board candidate: Jeff Grynaviski

Farmington Voice is profiling the four candidates running on November 6 for two open Farmington Public Schools Board of Education seats: Pam Green, Jeff Grynaviski, Mark Przeslawski, and Zach Rich.

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When Jeff Grynaviski and his wife, Nicole, moved their growing family to Michigan in 2011, they chose Farmington Hills largely because of Farmington Public Schools’ sterling reputation.

Seven years later, he’s running for one of two seats on the district’s Board of Trustees because he’s worried about that reputation. The first glimmer of concern appeared when the district cut media specialists, a decision that affected his daughter, who has dyslexia.

“There was no reading support after they cut the librarians,” Grynaviski said.

As an associate professor at Wayne State University, with many other teachers in his family, Grynaviski was also disturbed by protracted contract negotiations, which he said are not good for staff morale.

“As a teacher, and the son of a teacher, that didn’t sit well with me,” he said.

Grynaviski would also like to look at boosting the number of guidance counselors in the district. He cited a ratio of 250:1 as “best practice,” and said the district’s is closer to 400:1. “After Parkland (the February 2018 school shooting in Florida), this is what we should be doing to take care of our kids.”

But his biggest concern is what he calls the “achievement gap,” the academic performance of Farmington Public Schools compared with other districts. The district performs fairly well, but not to the level it did seven years ago, he said, and “performs really well for people who look like me.”

Increasing the number of seats in state-funded preschool programs would help, he said, as would creating more awareness for those programs. Grynaviski would like to see “state of the school” reports for each building to ensure equitable staffing and resources.

“I think that would go a long way toward assuring minority groups that they’re being treated fairly,” he said.

With Superintendent George Heitsch close to retirement, Grynaviski said, he would look for a new leader who has experience with declining enrollments, with managing hurt feelings when there are layoffs or schools close, and most importantly, someone who has had experience with contract negotiations.

The district’s financial picture “looks okay,” after making some tough decisions, Grynaviski said. He noted that a wave of retirements could boost the budget, but he’s also concerned that it’ll be difficult to replace those teachers. Part of the problem is a state-wide shortage. He noted that enrollments have dropped at Wayne State’s School of Education.

But there’s also a Farmington-specific issue.

“We can’t hire teachers at the bottom of the pay scale, because it’s too low, and right now, teacher morale is pretty low,” he said. “The salary has to be high enough to get teachers through the door.”

Grynaviski said that with children at kindergarten, middle school, and high school ages, his family will spend at least another dozen years in the district. He has been an active volunteer as chair of the Proud Dads Club at Hillside Elementary, a PTA member, and in the classroom.

“I think that families with a strong personal stake in the district’s success over the intermediate- and longer-term should be well-represented on the board,” he said.

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30 years of the cave clan.

In the mid 1980s three Melbourne teenagers – Doug, Woody and Sloth – formed the Cave Clan: a collective dedicated to exploring Australia’s stormwater systems. The group has since grown into the largest and most organised network of Urban Explorers in the world.

Late last December, Farrago received an invitation from Doug to report on the Cave Clan’s upcoming annual awards night (The Clannies) and 30th anniversary celebrations. Given the traditional depiction of the group in the mainstream press, it’s no surprise the Cave Clan would turn to a student magazine for this: ‘Fears For Lives of Underground Explorers’, ‘Cave Clan Secret: Drain Tragedy’, ‘Investigate the Cave Clan: Death’s Inquest’. Each time someone drowns in a drainpipe (regardless of whether they are a member of the group or not) a story of the “cult graffiti gang” surfaces, claiming the group are actively encouraging youths to risk their lives in the face of flash floods. Although these deaths are real, the media hasn’t ventured any deeper into the nuanced truth behind the subterranean culture of Urban Exploration, or how Melbourne has emerged as a global capital of the scene.

The first of Farrago’s three meetings with the Cave Clan was inside ‘the Maze’, a series of tunnels that we were shown on the condition that we would not publish their location. We were led through the red brick and concrete tunnels by ‘Iso’, ‘Prowler’ and ‘Doug’ (the Clan have a thing for aliases).

The dizzying network of drains widened and tightened as they split apart and rejoined, under passing parks, roads and railway stations until eventually opening into the Yarra River. At one point Doug drew our attention to a plastic “sewerage hatch” locked shut by barbed wire. “These things open up in emergencies so that sewage leaks into the drains rather than the street. I forced myself through one about 20 years ago… entered a junction room and didn’t go any further. It’s just a toxic stream of shitty water and tampons. There’s a lot of hype about poisonous air in drains. It’s not actually true but it does apply to sewers. We don’t go in them.”

The Cave Clan is comprised of around 350 members. Admission requires a six-month probationary period, during which you must attend a set number of explorations and adhere to the group’s code of ethics. This includes not publishing locations online and a handful of safety regulations, the most oft-repeated of which insists that members avoid draining when it rains or even when rain is forecast. Doug tells us how an aspiring-Clanner, ‘Echo’, recently failed admission. “The kid loves drains and he really wanted to be part of the Cave Clan but he just wouldn’t stop tagging tunnels that you’re meant to keep clean or publishing locations on Instagram. He’ll be given another shot in six months though.”

Doug explains that the screening process was introduced after they realised it was more efficient than expelling members who should never have been admitted. He tells the story of ‘Felon’, an “arch nemesis of the Cave Clan”. Felon “was about five foot tall” and “constantly talking about White power”. After being expelled for constantly getting into fights with other members, Felon executed his revenge by tipping off the police about the Cave Clan’s expedition down a utility tunnel that runs beneath the Royal Children’s Hospital. A utility tunnel has lots of smaller sealed tunnels inside it: fibre optics, electricity and steam tunnels. Authorities are particularly opposed to the Cave Clan entering these areas and due to Felon’s tip, “a couple of guys ended up in court”.

Despite this, the Cave Clan’s run-ins with the law are sparse. Even though entering drains carries a $20,000 fine in most states, it is barely enforced. In some instances the police have actually responded with indifference. Doug recounts one night the Cave Clan held a movie night in a drain underneath Prahran when an assault took place somewhere above them. “While the police were surveying the area they spotted one of our members enter a drain and followed him to a chamber where about 100 of us were seated ’round a projector. When we saw the cops we started freaking out and scrambling up manholes. The funny part was the police just told us to ‘calm down’ and said that they hadn’t meant to break us all up and just wanted to know if we’d seen anything.”

In some instances, the police have even requested the Cave Clan’s assistance in their operations. Around the time of the 2005 London bombings, the Sydney faction of the Clan were asked to comment on which tunnels could potentially be used in terrorist plots.

While the Cave Clan have a hot-and-cold relationship with the police, one authority with no sympathy for them is Melbourne Water; the government-owned body responsible for managing Melbourne Victoria’s major drainage systems, water supply catchments, sewage treatment, rivers and creeks. “Spreading information that may encourage drain exploration and entry into the drainage system is irresponsible and potentially dangerous… these self-proclaimed “recreational trespassers” are notoriously difficult to track across our network of some 1,500km of drains,” Melbourne Water Regional Services Manager Cameron Howie tells me.

Searching the origins of Urban Exploration online will bring you to the narratives provided by the scene’s loudest enthusiasts. Bradley Garrett’s adventures with the London Consolidation Crew (a now defunct British Urban Exploration group) have fueled magazine articles, a PhD in geography and multiple lectures, one of which he gave at the Sydney Opera House’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas. According to Garrett, Urban Exploration, or “Place Hacking” as he calls it, can be “read as a reactionary practice working to take places back from exclusionary private and government forces, to re-democratise spaces urban inhabitants have lost control over”.

Security and surveillance companies, corporate elites and bureaucrats – through selling off public land to developers – have fenced the city off from communities, alienating them from their environment. Like guerrilla gardening, cyber-activism and other countercultures that flourished in the ’90s, Urban Exploration is about individuals transgressing physical and social boundaries to liberate themselves from structures engineered by higher authorities that dictate everyday life. Garrett claims waking up from the neoliberal nightmare of sleepwalking through cities we’re detached from requires scaling skyscrapers and slipping down derelict stations on the London Underground.

Off the internet, face-to-face, Urban Explorers have a far more down-to-earth view of their motivations. As I recite what I’ve read of Garrett’s romantic vision, Iso steps in to tell me “Well sure you can argue it’s a rebellion against all those things and some of our really left-leaning members probably spin it like that too. But the Cave Clan consists of a wide-array of people with lots of reasons for going in drains. For me I guess it’s about discovering all the hidden worlds under our feet.”

Iso’s claim that few urban explorers view their activities through the same political lenses as Garrett is accurate. I converse with various members on the different paths that have led them to the Cave Clan. They are mostly outdoorsy professionals craving an adrenaline-soaked release from the office. Some would rather be shining a spotlight across natural caves or abseiling down a cliff but are too flat out to drive to national parks in their spare time and see drain exploration as an easy alternative. Some have followed their taste for engineering history into Melbourne’s underground with its rich and varied designs. Many clan members can identify the period a tunnel was constructed in based on the type of bricks it is built from. A number of members are graffiti-artists and photographers, although there are checks to ensure members’ main interest is the tunnels themselves. Despite this general political apathy, there is a deceased member who shared in Garrett’s use of anti-establishment rhetoric to describe Urban Exploration, ‘Predator’.

Predator was the Sydney founder of the Cave Clan and a well-known activist who subscribed to anarchism. Predator published an online manifesto on draining, in which he expressed that “We enjoy thumbing our noses at petty bureaucrats and puerile legislators, and their half-baked attempts to stop us going places…places they built with our tax money.”

Not everyone in the Cave Clan has heard of Garrett but those who have speak of him as anything but the ideological figurehead his blog implies he is. In line with their ban on mainstream media and their disdain for photo-sharing sites like Flickr, Doug explains that publicity leads to police crackdowns and entrances beings sealed off. Garrett’s most famous stunt involved uploading photos of himself perched atop of the Shard, the EU’s tallest building. “People that are seen to be cashing in on it end up being hated in the scene,” Doug explains. He adds, “Members of the London Consolidation Crew actually got arrested because of some of the shit he wrote.”

The Clannies are traditionally held at ANZAC Cave, an enormous drain of 33 cubic meters only a two minute train ride from the city. ANZAC has been their headquarters for most of the clan’s duration. However, it has become such a well known location that Doug regretfully informs us that 2016 will be the last year they hold their largest gathering in it.

Dozens of Clan members lug down wheelie bins, lines of assembly chairs, a disco ball, speakers, a projector, nightclub-style laser lighting and enough beer for a small music festival. They number at least 150. Many have travelled interstate or internationally for the event.

A 300-metre walk from the mouth of the ANZAC brings you to a much wider, mural-laden section called the Chamber. In the Chamber, the attendants are seated against one wall with a concrete ledge on the other being used as a stage. Above the stage, members’ movies and photos are shown. Award-winners are handed medals for titles like “worst exploring mistake” and “best short film”.

The professions of the attendants range from PR workers to factory operators to chemistry researchers. The man coordinating the party’s lasers even dubiously claims to be a member of ASIO. Many members have visited international urban exploration icons like the ancient catacombs of Paris or the Viennese drains used to film the final scene of Orson Welle’s cult-classic The Third Man. However, all of them agree that the reason the Cave Clan has grown larger than any other Urban Exploration group in the world is because “Melbourne has the best drains.”

Heading home after the awards night, we chance across a window into the ANZAC. Lights are gleaming from a parting between two steps of a stairwell. The stairwell is behind a large gate locking off a luxury apartment complex. We climb the gate and squeeze a camera into the opening. Attendants have started setting off fireworks, illuminating the chamber in brief flashes of colour. Before long, suspicious clan members spot our equipment poking through the roof. Someone throws an empty beer bottle and we retreat.

Two nights later at the anniversary, when discussing how the Cave Clan has changed over the last 30 years, the two things repeated by all are size and safety. When I put the obvious question to members (how many Clan members have drowned in drains?), the answer is either one or zero. One instance frequently referenced both in the media and by the Clan involved two graffitists drowning in a tunnel in Sydney. Contrary to what was written in numerous tabloids, the deceased were not actually members. The only real link was that the graffitists’ friend who survived the ordeal alleged that the trio had located the tunnel on the Cave Clan’s online maps. This led to the deputy State Coroner recommending that the Cave Clan’s site be taken down and “the shadowy characters” investigated.

Minutes before midnight, Doug gives a speech. He reminisces about how the tunnel we are in became their first hangout and how they eventually merged with other groups like the Drain Dwellers and the Drainiacs, whose tag from 1966 still adorns the entry passageway 50 years on. Doug then admits that the tunnel’s history “has negatives too.” He tells the story of Bryan:

“Bryan wanted to join the Cave Clan but wasn’t able to ’cause he was only 16. This didn’t stop him printing out little stickers with our number on it though. When Bryan went missing, I got this phone call from an old lady with a strong Scottish accent and she’s like ‘it’s Bryan’s mother’. I thought she was gonna go off at me but she just said ‘is there any way you could go down there and find him hiding somewhere ‘cause you know the tunnels.’ And the tunnels were filled to the roof. I didn’t know what to say to her. I can’t actually remember what I said… It was the worst moment of my exploring life… They found his body a couple hours later.”

After some lighter stories, Doug announces, “anyway, the thing is there’s a lot of history in this section and thanks for coming. We are now officially 30 years old.” As a cacophony of hoots, bleats, clashing VBs and a noisy rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’ breaks out – bouncing off the concrete walls and reverberating down the tunnel – we climb out an open manhole and into a side pass between two houses. It’s quieter up here but there’s still enough noise spilling onto the streets for a neighbouring couple to be standing by their gate, wondering where the invisible party is.

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FAULT Magazine in conversation with Kamille – FAULTs and All

Words: Miles Holder

Kamille first caught my attention with the release of the official music video to her single ‘Body’ featuring Avelino. While it might be the first time you’ve heard her name, she has been the songwriter behind some of the biggest pop hits. Kamille penned FAULT featured artists, Little Mix’s ‘Black Magic’ and ‘Shout Out To My Ex’.

‘Body’ is not at all like the songs above; it’s an electronically infused RnB single where Kamille exclaims “You only want me for my body, you don’t give a fuck about my mind”. The video isn’t your standard your “get your shit I’m gone” twirling on the haters, RnB music video either, it’s a beautiful ode to the body’s most attractive of flaws which here at FAULT magazine, we clearly loved. Directed by Crack Stevens and staring Munroe Bergdorf – it’s a masterpiece for the way it beautifully captures the human body, in all its beautiful shapes, colours and sizes.

With her EP dropping last Friday, I sat down with Kamille to find out more about her songwriting to discuss body image and to bask in all her FAULTs.

As a songwriter, you have all these hits under your name, what drove you to spend more time on yourself to get your own voice out there?

I always wanted to be artists, and that was always my goal, but at the time I started, I think my songwriting was stronger than my voice. I tried to make it as a singer at first but at the time it didn’t work, so I stuck to songwriting because I loved it. Through the songs, I’ve written for other people I felt like I was living as an artist through the singers performing them and that was enough. I always mean what I write and that kept me satisfied.

Is there a different process when you write for yourself and other people?

With songs that I sing, I’m not censored because I know exactly what it is I’m feeling; I don’t mind swearing, and you’ll hear it in my EP that I’m raw and unfiltered. I think when I write for other people I have to think about their fan base and their age, but for myself, I can be a lot more critical and take more time to get into my head.

On your EP you’re letting it all out, is it difficult to put so much of your heartache out on your debut?

Not at all! It’s so easy I finally I have a voice. I’ve been doing it through all the songs that I’ve written like ‘Rain’ which was recorded by The Script was about a break up I’ve experienced. I’ve always been talking about it but through other people but now that all the focus is on my own experience it’s so much easier.

Watch the music video to ‘Body’ above

Body is a beautiful video, how did you and Crack Stevens get together on that?

I’ve loved him for years and thought he was incredible, but I never thought he’d be available to work with me because he’s so massive and I’m a new artist. As it turns out, he loved the song and wanted to be an art of it, so we met up in Brixton and got talking; he wanted to showcase the body and all its flaws which is something I wanted to do. I think we both had a lot of insecurities about ourselves through myself and my friends, social media and it’s something we felt strongly about.

Did you feel responsible as an artist to show impressionable fans the truth behind perceived perfection?

I feel strongly about body image and body positivity; I have another song on my EP about it. I’ve had a lot of insecurities and being a woman and seeing visions of beauty on social media every morning it did and does affect me. I’m pleased to tackle that topic straight away, and I want people to feel strongly about their image because there have been times I’ve deleted my Instagram account because I’d seen so many beautiful photos of women and I wasn’t them. I love everyone for who they are, and I feel like the most beautiful flaws are what makes us perfect.

Is it easier for you to now engage with social media now that you understand that the images you’re seeing aren’t real and that nobody is perfect?

It is, but it’s all in moderation. There are times when you can be on Instagram, and you end up with a random person who you don’t know and feeling envious. That’s something I’ve had to be aware of and just cut back on how much I’m taking in.

Are you an artist who knows when a song is done or do you go back and make changes up until the last minutes before release?

I do that a lot! I could write a song now, and it won’t come out for two years, and in that time you can get in your head and think you need to perfect all these little things. My management is good at telling me “no Kamille, it’s fine!” There are some songs that I have changed since I first got in the studio and I love how real they sound.

What are you listening to at the moment?

It’s so hard because I listen to everything, but I’d have to say, Post Malone, I think he’s incredible!

What is your FAULT?

I just ghost people! If I get scared of business or getting in too deep I can just go ghost and I know it’s so bad! It’s something I need to work on!

Kamille’s EP is out now!


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