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Book Review-History

Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians

by Ian Stewart

Audiobooklife rating: 🤠🤠🤠🤠

This audio book was almost twelve hours in duration. Took me less than two days. The progression of math has been well studied and documented throughout history. It’s unbelievable we are able to follow it in such detail. Put me in a good mood. Quarantine has given me time to reflect and bulldoze digital audio books. What are you reading or listening to while being quarantined? Reading is therapeutic and helps make the state of affairs less painful and the sky more blue. 😀

Anyways the author is an acclaimed mathematician, a science fiction writer and Emeritus professor at Warwick in England. Math can be an intimidating and exigent subject. He makes the subject matter understandable and oh so enjoyable! It spans two-thousand years and touches on twenty five mathematicians through short biography. It’s a wonderful compendium of great minds that have discovered and created systems of math used today. None of which are alive. Shout out📢 to all living amateur and professional mathematicians! From the great geometer to the creation of algebra to the advent of super computers this book has it. There was even a chapter on Benoit Mandelbrot and fractal geometry. I love fractals! Nature is full of fractals. They are never ending patterns and you are free to get lost in them. ∛

I have a profound reverence for math myself. Everything in the universe obeys geometric rules and ratios. Through logic and deduction you can reduce all phenomenon in nature to mathematical axioms and laws. Also being a science major I had to reach at least the level of calculus. Why? Calculus was required for genetics. Genetics was required for cell biology. Cell biology was required for biochemistry. You get the idea. I spent many semesters in math class and we are well acquainted. ∞

My favorite mathematician would have to be Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. He is the father of algebra and the word algorithm derives from his manuscripts (see The Sieve of Eratosthenes). His work helped society get wages and inheritances properly and was one of the most famous scholars in The House of Wisdom. So much science and math were discovered in the ancient middle east. Pretty incredible! I guess that is one defining characteristic of people. The quest for knowledge, insight, understanding and awareness. Of course, Issac Newton (co-inventor of calculus) will always hold a special place in my heart. ∫

A little side joke. How would you define a significant figure? Google defines it as: each of the digits of a number that are used to express it to the required degree of accuracy, starting from the first nonzero digit. In a nutshell “Sig figs” are used in science and medicine to estimate how many decimal places are needed. 😆

Number is the ruler of all forms!

Michael 👊

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History Book Review-Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice by Lt. Col. John A Nagl

Rating: 9.1 of 10

This wonderful audio book is just shy of eight hours. It took me a day then I listened to it again, believe it or not. It is available through RB Digital. I really enjoyed this book because it covers one of my favorite topics: counterinsurgency. It was a great autobiography of the author and an intimate view inside two of the more recent American wars, both taking place in Iraq: Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. All in all he is one of my favorite authors.

John Nagl is a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the US Army, is a graduate of West Point, earned a PhD from Oxford in Counterinsurgency (his thesis was turned into a book), the former president of CNAS (Center for New American Security) and is currently headmaster of the Haverford School in Pennsylvania. He is an excellent writer and has the ability to convey the harsh lessons of insurgency warfare (such as the Vietnam war). He makes the material enjoyable, intriguing and kind of makes you wonder what our top military brass was thinking at times when it came to their approach to military conflict.

LTC John Nagl and Gen David Petraeus

Being an Army tank commander in Desert Storm and an operations officer with the 1st Infantry Division in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) he offers an intimate view of two technologically different combat zones. I liked the story from Desert Storm when he was awoke by a rocket barrage and said he thought rockets were going off on his chest.

His experience while stationed near Khalidiyah in OIF demonstrated to him that the days of conventional warfare are virtually over or at least not the case in this conflict. Insurgency warfare is the future of combat, we need to address it and take a new approach to how we conduct our war maneuvers in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. So he was tasked co-authoring the book on counterinsurgency warfare while in the midst of these conflicts. This became FM 3-24: the US Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manuel, 2006.

I can attest to how poorly OIF was planned and executed. My Quarter Master Company was deployed to Iraq and after a couple months shuffling around country were stationed in Mosul. It felt like there was no plan after the three week long war was over. We were so amped up that we had just won a war in less than a month but nobody knew what the next step was so we just kinda hung out.

The situation was made worse due to the fact that the Iraqi Army, police and most civil servants were fired (termed de-Baathification) by Paul Bremer May 23rd, 2003 bringing chaos to the country over night. This event was the birth of the bloody insurgency that followed when disgruntled Iraqis began attacking coalition forces.

Some of what I learned:

  1. Desert storm was the first war of the big five: the Patriot missile system, the M270 MLRS (multiple launch rocket system), the M1 Abrams tank, the AH-64A Apache attack helicopter and the M2 Bradley fighting vehicle.
  2. Wars rarely turn out as envisioned by the ones who start them.
  3. The guerrilla wins by not losing.
  4. The word guerrilla is derived from the Spanish word Guerra for “war”.
  5. In 2003 the population of Baghdad alone was over six million. No wonder the military had issues establishing law and order.

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History Book Review-The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and War Against al-Qaeda by Ali H. Soufan

Rating: 8.86 of 10

This audio book is about twenty hours in duration. It took me two and a half days to finish. By far one of my favorite books on the subject of terrorism investigations and the attacks on the World Trade Center. This book is replete with info on the build-up to the attacks of that fateful Tuesday morning and the origin of al-Qaeda. It’s edge of your seat entertaining, well written and overtly insightful.

Ali H. Soufan is a Lebanese born former FBI special agent that is fluent in Arabic. He was the lead investigator into the 2000 USS Cole attack. He is mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report (refereed to as Al S). He successfully interviewed some very high value targets (HVT’s) such as Abu Zubaydah and Abu Jindal. He discusses their interrogation and confessions in great detail. These interrogations lead to the identification and arrest of Khalid Sheikh Muhammed (KSM), the mastermind of 9/11. He retired from the FBI in 2005 and is CEO of The Soufan Group.

skm.jpgKSM on the night of his arrest. Doesn’t look very happy!

He makes it clear he was opposed to the EIT’s (enhanced interrogation techniques a.k.a. sleep deprivation and waterboarding) of detainees that the CIA insisted would break even hard-core fanatics. He is more than critical of the CIA and their mishandling of valuable information regarding the growing and serious threat of Bin Laden. He insists if there was more cooperation between governmental agencies at a minimum two of the nineteen hijackers would not have been allowed into the US and the attacks could have been prevented all together. (I have heard this from a few different sources). We cannot blame anyone for the attacks on the WTC other than bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

I loved his cogent and pragmatic interrogation style especially being a fellow Muslim; he gets right into their head with offerings of tea and politics. He seemingly makes them feel a bit of guilt for their crimes against innocents and fellow Muslims.

Some of what I learned:

  1. Talib (of Taliban) is Arabic for “student” or “one who seeks knowledge”.
  2. The US government uses the Barney song (purple dinosaur) on a loop to deprive detainees of sleep.
  3.  Ali H. Soufan worked with special agent John P. O’Neill. Look him up.
  4. Before 9/11 the FBI had all of eight agents that were fluent in Arabic.
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Big history

My current book is forty-five plus hours so it will take me at least three or four days total. Technically this would be my longest book ever. The Outline of History by HG Wells was forty-four hours followed by The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer at forty-one hours.

So we can talk about a book I finished recently. Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present by Cynthia Stokes Brown. This was eleven hours and took less than two days. I was surprised at how detailed this book was, especially regarding the big bang. It’s a great read.

What I learned:

  1. Matter and energy are interchangeable but only at temperatures approaching a trillion degrees. (E=mc²). So matter is energy at rest when not at those ungodly temperatures.
  2. The inverse square law gives rise to the elliptical movement of the planets. This was calculated by Sir Issac Newton and published in his paper Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in 1687.
  3. The Club of Rome commissioned an article entitled The Limits of Growth in 1972. This was a computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth.


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Compass posts 5.7% increase in year-on-year profit

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Foodservice firm Compass has posted a 5.7% increase in year-on-year profit before tax, and 4.2% increase in revenue.

The results for the six months ended 31 March 2014 show revenue at £8.7b, operating profit at £634m, and profit before tax at £595m.

Sectors including education, sports and leisure and healthcare had also provided significant wins that had boosted business.

Group chief executive Richard Cousins said that the company was positive about the outlook across the second half of the year, and expected to return over £1b of cash back to shareholders via a special dividend.

He said: "Looking forward… I'm positive about the opportunities for further revenue and margin progression."

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Weak sterling boosts turnover at Rocco Forte Hotels

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Currency fluctuations helped achieve a 12.2% increase in turnover to £193.7m at luxury group Rocco Forte Hotels, during the year to 30 April 2017.

The strength of the Euro, and to a lesser extent the Russian Rouble, against the weak pound had a positive impact on the group's results, according to the company's financial report lodged at Companies House.

Meanwhile, pre-tax profit at the group, which operates 12 hotels including two in the UK (Brown's hotel in London and the Balmoral hotel in Edinburgh), was down by 5.4% to £7.6m.

Revenue per available room (revpar) grew by 1.2% on a like-for-like basis, using constant exchange rates.

The parent company paid dividends of £2.5m, up from £2m the previous year.

A focus on maintaining the portfolio of Rocco Forte hotel as leaders within its competitive set was highlighted by the £9.9m invested in capital projects during the year. A large number of bedrooms at the five-red-AA-star, 188-bedroom Balmoral hotel and public areas benefited from a major refurbishment, with the five-red-AA-star, 117-bedroom Brown's hotel also continuing a bedroom refurbishment programme.

The 304-bedroom Assila hotel in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, became Rocco Forte's 12th property when it opened during the 12-month period, and the first management contract for the group. The other 11 hotels are all owned or leased.

Trading during the first quarter of the new financial year has been strong, with group turnover up 9% on a like-for-like basis.

New hotels in the pipeline for Rocco Forte Hotels include the RF Hotel China, which will open next year in Shanghai, and the Hotel De La Ville in Rome, set to launch in 2019.

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Failed promises of the right wing: Andrzej Wajda

Failed promises of the right wing: Andrzej Wajda

by Sharad Raj May 12 2021, 12:00 am Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins, 10 secs

Sharad Raj transports you back to the film Ashes and Diamonds - an all-time masterpiece of Polish cinema, directed by one of the most important filmmakers, Andrzej Wajda.

Cinema and art are often vehicles of a country’s history. Ashes and Diamonds is a great piece of filmmaking in the realist tradition that tells the stories of its people caught in a political and social web between the end of World War II and Soviet occupation of Poland. People make histories and histories make people of any country. East Europe found itself in a crisis of identity when both the Nazis and the Soviet Union were gunning to appropriate it in the 1940s. It was that moment in time when people lost any control they had over their history, and the film documents that chaos, which was socio-political as well as personal.

Personal narratives are best served when in tandem with the political, thereby fulfilling a symbiotic commitment. But when the rulers and ideologies control destinies of nations they unleash their brute power. Battle lines are drawn. Personal becomes political and vice versa. People take sides and relationships fracture. People find themselves in an abyss not of their making. This is what the filmmaker documents, also a personal favorite of makers like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. The film is an adaptation of a 1948 novel of Jerzy Andrzejewski, drawing its title from a nineteenth century poem of Polish poet Cyprian Norwid - it refers to the manner in which diamonds are formed from heat and pressure acting upon coal. This sort of symbolism is the hallmark of most East European cinema.

In an unnamed small Polish town on May 8, 1945, the day Germany officially surrendered, Maciek and Andrzej are former Home Army soldiers, who have been assigned to assassinate the communist Commissar Szczuka. They fail in their first attempt, killing two civilian cement plant workers instead. They are given a second chance in the town's leading hotel and banquet hall, Monopole.

While Maciek and Andrzej bide time to strike Szczuka, Maciek becomes infatuated with the hotel's barmaid, Krystyna. Szczuka is attempting to locate his son Marek, who has ironically joined the Home Army under the influence of his right wing aunt.

Maciek makes love to Krystyna as the time to assassinate Szczuka approaches. He tells Andrzej that he has fallen in love with Krystyna, and he cannot continue killing and hiding. Maciek wants to lead a normal life. Andrzej suggests that Maciek would be a deserter if he failed to carry out the order to kill Szczuka. Maciek shoots Szczuka. As Szczuka falls, fireworks celebrating the end of the war fill the sky. The following morning, Maciek flees and runs into a patrol of Polish soldiers. He is shot and ends up dying in a trash heap.

In Wajda’s world, Poland is a country stifled between the Nazis and the Soviet occupation - a country devoid of freedom to make choices. If you are not with the communists you are with the right wing and vice versa. It is a country in which history made it mandatory for people to wear labels and abide by them. Crossing over was never an option. This is what Maciek the sharpshooter protagonist realizes after he falls in love. Krystyna and Maciek want to lead their own life but that is a choice they do not have. Similarly the communist army detains Szczuka’s son, Marek, despite his father being a commissar. The father and son are on the opposite side of the ideological divide.

Zbigniew Cybulski, the first international star from Poland plays Maciek. He was known as the James Dean of Poland for his handsome personality. Wajda was most influenced by Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane. Ashes and Diamonds, like Citizen Kane, uses deep focus and low angle shots to cover the expanse of the banquet and the authority of totalitarian leaders. The brilliant last sequence intercuts between the celebrations of the surrender by the Nazis in the banquet and the killing of both Szczuka and Maciek. Wajda thus takes no sides, as representatives of both the sides the right wing and the left pay with their lives for the sides they took.

The biggest tragedy in Ashes and Diamonds is the unfulfilled love of Krystyna and Maciek. Krystyna seems to have a hunch of the inevitable.  She says she prefers fewer attachments for that keep the pain of loss to the minimum. But Maciek is optimistic. Perhaps he misinterpreted the “promised freedom” by the right wing, till he got the rude shock that he would be killed if he refused to kill Szczuka. He loses his life in the end thus meeting a tragic end for having dared to dream of a free life. Finally Ashes and Diamonds is a human document about people who are trapped in their country that has just freed itself from the Nazis. The paradox could not have been more loud and clear.

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The first week home started with lots of rain, but then a few days later the sun came out to stay.

I was aware of making sure Dakota had lots of places in the shade outside and that it was easy to get inside too.  Lots of water bowls dotted around.

I also froze some slices of carrot which she loved.  Added to that some ice cubes were great fun, after the initial ‘not sure’ moment.  She has loved being in the garden and having a big umbrella up has meant lots of chances for naps in the shade (her, not me sadly!)

I purchased a doggy paddling pool for her too which she has been in and also thinks is a super big water bowl.

The terrifying world of ice cubes!

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On Being Hungry

September 23, 2015

hunger guatemala“and the people of Israel said to them, ‘Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the mat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger”. Exodus 16:3

“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not'”. Exodus 16:4

We are all hungry for something. What are you feeding your hunger? An excess of food? Lust? Greed? God doesn’t want us to trade the fulfilling and satisfying goodness of who HE is for things that temporarily satisfy. But, you already knew that didn’t you? But you’re still doing it right? More on this later….

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To Monticello We Go!

February 19, 2018

Four years ago we met a young man through the college ministry that my husband has been leading. His name was Ryan Poland. He was the sweetest young man I had ever met. His smile would draw you into a world you had never been before full of dreams, aspirations, hopes, and love. His fierce passion for God’s Word and learning God’s Word and teaching God’s Word were unmatched by any young man his age. This love for Scriptures didn’t come naturally to him. It came through what was the most besetting suffering that one had to endure: addiction. Specifically addiction to heroin. I remember sitting with him on my front porch one warm summer afternoon listening to him talk about all the things the Lord had been doing in his life. How he had been almost 100 days clean without using. How he loved reading and understanding what God had to say about Himself. And how God’s Word met him in the face of his hardest addictions. I asked him as we were sitting in church one day if I could see his Bible. Well worn pages and ink scattered each page as ravenous notes were etched in the margins. Every page thanking God for who He was, how He was meeting Ryan in the midst of such pain and suffering, and praising God for His mysterious character and love.

One night, Brian and I were watching a movie when he received a phone call. It was about 11pm. He left the room to take the call, so I knew something was wrong. The man on the other end proceeded to tell Brian that Ryan had died earlier that day from a heroin overdose. This set in motion what would be the submission to the call of ministry that Brian boldly walked. “This will never happen again on my watch, I’m quitting my job to do full time ministry.” These are the exact words that echo through my mind and have for the past 5 years. God is gracious…

This experience in my life has taught me so many things about being the Bride of Christ for one another. Specifically in the area of discipleship…

“Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. Then the LORD said to Cain, ‘Where is Abel your brother?’ He said, ‘I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?'” -Genesis 4:8-9

In the fallen world in which we now live, we do not care or love or nurture the life of our brothers and sisters. But because of Christ and the Gospel, that question, “am I my brother’s keeper?” is answered with a resounding YES! We care, nurture, help sustain the life of our brothers and sisters because we ourselves have been reconciled to God and we live out our identities as being His children in how we care for our brothers and sisters. I don’t just mean caring for their basic needs. I don’t mean just having coffee and doing a Bible study together. I mean being my brothers and sister keeper… As a woman I do this through the womanhood God graciously gifted me with. I nurture life in the face of death that comes knocking on our door every day through sin, oppression, temptation, suffering and all the other yucky things in this world.

So, because Ryan was taken home to be with the Lord, my husband realized the huge responsibility to be our brother’s and sister’s keepers. I realized the eternal impact that we are to have in helping one another endure and sustain the spiritual lives of our brothers and sisters until Christ returns.

Our new role in which we will be doing that is at Elizabeth Baptist Church in Monticello, Florida where Brian has recently accepted the call to minister to the people in that small town through being the Family Pastor on staff. My keeping of my brother’s and sister’s lives will be different. A different location. A new family to be grafted into. A new set of dangers the enemy wants to scare us with. But, where our duty lies, where He calls us, is the safest place for us to be. I am unworthy to be the wife of a pastor, shepherd, servant. I will be taking on a new role as well as the School Supervisor at Lighthouse Christian Academy. This is a school for troubled teen girls ages 13-18. So… Ready or not… here we go! To Monticello!

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Man who came in contact with 40 policemen tests positive for COVID-19

The old man had tested negative for COVID-19 twice after returning from Delhi on March 23

The old man, a native of Coimbatore, had gone to Delhi and returned on March 23 by flight. Representational image: iStock

A 61-year-old man who had been voluntarily providing food to police personnel in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday (April 13).

The news came unwelcome for some since the man had come in contact with more than 40 police personnel.

The man, a native of Coimbatore, had gone to Delhi and returned on March 23 by flight. After testing negative for COVID-19 twice, he began providing food to the police personnel on duty on Mettupalayam road in Coimbatore. He had also visited the Thudiyalur police station in the district, apart from making visits to the district collectorate.

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He later developed a cough and fever and gave his swab samples again for testing. According to health officials, he was confirmed to be infected by the virus on Friday and was admitted to ESIC hospital.

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Now, the health officials have sought testing for at least 40 police personnel who were on duty at Mettupalayam road. These officials are also in the process of tracing the man’s family members and other contacts.

Speaking to The Federal, officials in the health department said even if the police personnel tested negative twice for COVID-19, they will be asked to be quarantined in case they developed the symptoms later, the way it happened with the man.

This is reportedly the first case in Tamil Nadu where a volunteer distributing food has been infected with COVID-19.

To make matters worse, two more people who tested positive a couple of days ago, visited the district collectorate on April 7 to seek permission to travel to a neighbouring state.

Related news | Police personnel told to ensure safety of women during lockdown

Health officials are still in the process of tracing other people who might have come in contact with the two, including the residents of the apartment in R S Puram where they live.

As on April 13, as many as 1,173 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu, out of which 31 were children below the age of 10.

Following the spike in the number of cases, people venturing out to buy essential items were asked to wear face masks mandatorily in Chennai, Coimbatore, and Tirupur districts.

Local bodies and the district administrations in the state have warned people that their travel passes will be cancelled and their vehicles will be impounded for three months if found violating orders.

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Retrofitness Partners With Coca-cola As Its Preferred Beverage Supplier

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

National Gym Chain Partners with Legendary Company to Offer Members One-of-a-Kind Taste

RetroFitness, a leading national fitness chain known for providing great value at a low retro-price, today announced it has signed a three-year preferred beverage agreement with Coca-Cola.

Under the terms of the agreement, Coca-Cola will be the dominant beverage supplier for all RetroFitness locations throughout the United States. The product line-up includes Vitaminwater, Vitaminwater Zero, Dasani, PowerAde, PowerAde Zero, Core Sparkling Coke, Coke Zero and Diet Coke, as well as energy drinks.

"RetroFitness is proud to partner with Coca-Cola and its legendary brands to offer our loyal members great tasting products to hydrate their bodies before and after workouts," said Eric Casaburi, founder and CEO of RetroFitness, Inc. "This is another way we're helping our members to achieve their healthy lifestyle goals when visiting our gyms." The partnership will help Coca-Cola reach its goal of providing refreshing beverages for every lifestyle and occasion, while helping consumers make informed beverage choices.

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Through creative research and design thinking, we helped Tidworth Mums, a voluntary group providing arts and play activities to local families, to mobilise their assets and build the case for soft play in their area.

Project date: 2013-14

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In the Unearth Hidden Assets project, The Glass-House explored how creative and collaborative approaches could uncover hidden assets in communities and unlock their potential. This sub-project was a collaboration between Wiltshire-based, not-for-profit group Tidworth Mums, Wiltshire Council, Army Welfare Service, the Open University and The Glass-House.

Tidworth Mums are an active provider and supporter of creative and playful activities for local families in the garrison town of Tidworth. The group had a vision to create a soft play facility locally and wanted to explore how this might be achieved. Working with our project partners, we co-designed a series of activities with the Mums. An asset mapping exercise (developed through a previous research project, Creative Citizens) helped to map out assets available or within reach of the group, and showed that their strongest and most active assets were their relationships with local people and networks.

With support from play ambassadors, Nicola Butler (Hackney Play Association) and Robin Sutcliffe (Sutcliffe Play), The Glass-House organised a study tour of play facilities in London for the group, where they learned about different types of play activities and what is involved in managing play centres.

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Finally, we worked together to explore different business models for the provision of soft play in Tidworth. The group concluded that whatever way soft play is provided locally, they were committed to ensuring this happens in an informed way.

This collaboration helped Tidworth Mums to develop new, creative ways to engage local families and other stakeholders, and build evidence and support for their goal.

The Mega Soft Play Day created a model that can be used regularly and sustainably and the Mums continue to run activities and remain a valuable asset locally. Our explorations helped the group to realise the value of their own skills and influence and how they could harness that to inform the future of their environment.

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“Being involved in the research has given me new insights into what is meant by ‘assets’. We used to see these as physical things, such as buildings, but we now recognise that people are assets, and that our group, the Tidworth Mums, is a valuable asset for the community.”
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A Scientifically Accurate List Of The Ten Best Films Of 2011

In a wildly original move, which I'm fairly sure nobody else has thought of, I've decided to present a list of ten films made in 2011 that were better than all the rest. If you see anyone else displaying similar lists please report them for copyright theft because I THOUGHT OF IT FIRST.

UPDATE: When I wrote this, Animal Kingdom was far and away my favourite film of the year. However, a second viewing of the virtually flawless The Artist in early January 2012 has forced a minor reshuffle of my top two: apologies if for some bizarre reason you actually care.

"You'd be surprised how quickly they adapt."
Love it or hate it (love it), you've got to admire The Incredible Suit's Cumbersomely Titled Tenth Favourite Film Of 2011 Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, if only because it's a film about talking monkeys that isn't a Dreamworks animation. Its flaws are cavernous but to be so crowd-pleasingly entertaining despite them is remarkable enough; to be the best of the summer's FX-heavy blockbusters is nothing short of miraculous. Although to be fair I never saw The Smurfs. Review

"You don't know what it's like out there, you haven't a clue."
Tyrannosaur might have *'80s POP CULTURE REFERENCE ALERT* Barbara Woodhouse barking in her grave, but it's memorable for so much more than the canine cruelty on offer: a terrific directorial debut from Paddy Considine; a touching, terrifying script perfectly balancing furious rage and fingertip tenderness, and three astonishing central performances by some of Britain's most talented actors, including one from Olivia Colman that appears to come from nowhere and punch you firmly in the knackers. As devastating as that sounds, and much harder to recover from. Review

"There is no point. That's the point."
Ranking only slightly higher on the 2011 Devastatometer than Tyrannosaur, We Need To Talk About Kevin is also possibly the most effective method of contraception on the market. If you still want kids after seeing this then you should probably consider some kind of therapy. Tilda Swinton predictably knocks it out of the park, but the three youngsters who play Kevin (even improbably-named toddler Rock Duer) give the film its spine-chilling spine. Warning: unsuitable for ereuthrophobics. Review

"Actions have consequences, you know?"
Everybody expected the debut film of that funny bloke off of the radio to be good, but nobody thought it would be quite this good. Joe Cornish the comedian transformed - apparently overnight - into Joe Cornish the director with his brave, original take on the alien invasion genre, and gave the world a few young faces to remember at the same time. Satisfyingly old-school yet absolutely of its time, Attack The Block justifiably takes its place among the great British debuts of all time. Review

"How's your thirst for adventure, Captain?"
The Bergatron's thirst for adventure finally reappears after a lengthy spell of, uh, unthirstiness, and the result is The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn, the world's first watchable performance-capture film. An unbridled joy for everyone except The Guardian and Robert Zemeckis, Tintin might just be the film Super 8 tried and failed to be: an homage to Spielberg's glory days that kids will still be talking about thirty years from now. Review

"I don't quite know what I am yet."
Submarine, Richard Ayoade's wildly original tale of two duffel coats, is the finest coming-of-age tale for years: his fat-free script, based on Joe Dunthorne's novel, is full of ridiculous but perfect zingers and gives every member of his flawless cast a fully-realised character to sink their teeth into. And sink they do, taking us under with them to a horrendous place we all remember being nowhere near this enjoyable. Review

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Heartbreakingly tender and unforgivably brutal, Derek Cianfrance's story of a doomed relationship is one of the most simultaneously beautiful and painful love stories ever committed to the screen. Anchored by two phenomenal performances each by Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine tells it like it is, and while the subject matter isn't always pretty, every frame is a work of art. Review

"You put this kid behind the wheel, there's nothing he can't do."
The Year Of The Gosling peaked with genre-defying retro-neo-noir Drive, in which The World's Greatest Human Being Alive Right Now does very little apart from pootle about in a car and beat a few people up, but does it in such inimitable style and backed by such an achingly hip soundtrack that it's impossible to take your eyes off him. A genuinely iconic actor creating a genuinely iconic character isn't something that happens every day; be thankful you were alive to see it happen this time. Review

"You've gotta decide. You've gotta work out where you fit."
The year's second finest film comes from a land down under, both literally and metaphorically, and is another unbelievably great debut that gives boundless hope to the future of cinema. Animal Kingdom's writer / director David Michôd treats his audience with absolute respect in his intelligent and shattering drama about loyalty, conscience and finding your place in the world. Yet another astonishing cast pull us deep into a life we knew nothing about, and once inside proves impossible to forget. Review

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Joyously exuberant from start to finish, The Artist is probably the film that stopped Kim Jong-il's cold black heart with its boundless charm and relentlessly magical chemistry, and should be prescribed as a cure for all forms of grumpiness, depression and suicidal tendencies. Director Michel Hazanavicius demonstrates an unerring mastery of the craft of pure cinema, taking his cue from some of its earliest and finest exponents, and proves that while they don't make 'em like they used to, they damn well should.

Now please feel free to make a fool of yourself in the comments box by disagreeing with me.

  1. The Incredible Suit had only a partial view of the 285 films being considered for BAFTA awards and perhaps a similar number for Oscars. His opinion is just that, an opinion possibly distorted by factors such as his blood alcohol level or if he was alert or snoring during the screenings. When many other folk's opinions are considered together a consensus emerges which then leads to the awards. I think 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' is the best film of 2011 but the Incredible Tailored Suit does not give it a mention.
    ...and the award for being the biggest fool goes to...

  2. I completely agree that Animal Kingdom is the best film of the year, but I still haven't had chance to see The Artist- bloody Londoners.

  3. Mark, The Artist is brilliant. The opening titles were done 'like they did them before'. The letters weave about relative to the background because of the film registration error between the different negatives. I agree with The Incredible Joyous Silent Suit that The Artist is the runner up in the best film of 2011 awards race.
    Do see it.

  4. 'Animal Kingdom' wasn't even the best Australian film of the year, never mind the best film overall. 'Drive' is clichéd nonsense, completely ripped off Michael Mann and don't get me started on '...Kevin'.

  5. ...and the biggest fool is the author of the next comment...

  6. I like the low-res Tintin picture. Very meta.

  7. Ereuthrophobia should not be a problem in a dark cinema when watching 'We need to talk about Kevin'. What I find drains the blood out of my cheeks is realising that there could be other Kevins out there who wish to be famous for something, anything, whatever it takes. The film is so horrible that I have not given it the credit it deserves. Triumphant films may collect more awards than downbeat ones. Given the straight choice between this film and Midnight in Paris I would go for the Woody Allen film because it is fun. The Kevin film brings you down.


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Embrace the kink

Two years ago, I started this post with just the just title.

As a toddler, I was endowed with platinum blonde curly locks. By the time I started infant school they had morphed into straight plain brown.

When the barnet began to feather flick from my ears and extended well beyond collar length, my three years younger brother, and I were marched to a tonsorial parlour at the junction of Northfield Road and Fellows Lane, Harborne.

There in a bay windowed, cream gloss painted room, containing two adjustable chairs, upholstered in deep brown cracked leather, facing mirrors, we were shorn.

The stout balding, cleanly shaved barber, wearing a white jacket, seemed so very old. I enjoyed sitting high up on a plank across the arms of the chair while my mother reminded him, I had a double crown. I have since learned the unruliness of the left side of my head is due to a cowlick.

Each time we went, my brother and I had the same cut. I discovered today, it is called a mop top, although ours was short at the back. The style did not change until I was old enough to go to the barbers alone.

In my late teens, I admired my brother’s long wavy hair, emphasising his bikie, hard rock, and heavy metal persona. Being the eldest, my lot was one of self imposed responsibility. As previously posted, societal conformity was the order of the day. To hide in plain sight, I chose to wear mine off my face in a quasi Simon Templar fashion.

For forty years, I yearned for curly hair, although never enough to try a perm. Instead, I relied on clipped cuts, gels, mousses, waxes, and creams to achieve straight uniformity.

In 2014, hairdresser, James Burrows was the first to talk to me about my fine flyaway strands. He used sea salt spray, comb, dryer, and powder to create the tidal wave like cut in the picture above.

Brisbane or ageing, combined with inclusion of non usual humans have proved to be the catalyst for realising my dream of wavy hair. The current barber introduced me to scrunch drying, reinforced the use of hair powder, and suggested using balm left over from taming my beard to achieve separation of tresses. A day or two after washing, I am now able to embrace the kink.

Boutique twilight development

Over the last few years we have been casually searching for the perfect place, within budget, to spend our twilight years.

Yesterday, we visited our first boutique ‘50 plus lifestyle resort’. Located 52 km north of home, it is serenely quiet compared to townhouse living with background noise of rail, aircraft, road traffic, and people going about their lives.

The estate is bounded by council owned forest on three sides and is walking distance to a shopping centre.

The complex’s clubhouse, 25 metres lap pool, jacuzzi, bowling green, barbecue area, and outdoor seating are nearing completion.

Lyn showed us around the available options. All reasonably spacious with higher than usual ceilings, fans, air conditioning, larger kitchens than we are used to, and most importantly, detached and single storey.

All had a front garden and a covered porch. Also, alfresco areas at the rear with around 1-3 m to boundary fenced sides and back. We liked the layouts and finishes of the homes.

Lyn let us know the average age of villagers was 60 to 80 years. Unfortunately, finance may be tricky as leasehold property is unpopular with lending establishments.

Even though I pine for seeing the sky from inside our abode, rather than the three storey house next door, perhaps we are 5-10 years too young to reside in a twilight development.

Recurring dream

Spanning decades, fear’s icy ectoplasm shocks my heart. Destination scene’s known as lucid dream materialises, only the route varies.

Deep within a dwelling, an unobtrusive timber shuttered room. A postern door opens to an unremarkable tree crammed yard. Overgrown spiky, entangled stems, ramble. Daylight barely penetrates the gloom. A sodden carpet of mildewed leaves, twigs and decay smother the ground.

Heady damp earth scent permeates my being as unseen hands claw, scrape, shovel, revealing a petrified hatch.

Dark downward sloping subterranean passage snakes forks, twists. Roughly hewn stone echoes footsteps, breath, rustle of clothing. Stepfather’s flaccid luminescent presence lumbers alongside.

Ever further trudging through the sordid depths. Always aware of being followed, no sight nor sound. At last, cavernous space reveals an ovoid mound. Knowing it’s secret, I turn to leave the cadaver, never will she make thirteen.

If I am not guilty of wrongdoing, why the anxiety of being found out?

Reflecting while writing; perhaps this is the resting place of my innocence and suppressed femininity.

Glamping, sort of

My husband informs me people can’t get enough of tiny houses listed on AirBnB. In this vein we are enjoying a long weekend, 125 km west of Brisbane. Our compact stay comprises a galley kitchen, living/bedroom, toilet, two chair verandah, and spa bathroom.

Perched on the crest of the Great Dividing Range, 700m above sea level, Toowoomba is a country city. The temperature is around 10oC lower overnight and a couple of degrees short of Brisbane’s dailies. Where we chill our room overnight to 22oC at home, we heat it to the equivalent here.

The electric frypan is a hit, serving up mushroom risotto for dinner and scrambled eggs this morning. There is even an espresso machine to get the cockles going.

This is the closest I intend to get to glamping!

A 9000 step site seeing tour around the centre yesterday, enabled us to shake off our humdrum workaday lives and enjoy tree-lined streets and parks.

Last night, as we soaked our weary limbs in the spa, large enough for two silly old buggers, we toasted life. Mountainous foam infused with lavender and rose geranium essential oils and the room lit with pink vanilla scented tee lights perfected our quality moment.

Spiky darkness

Bored dismissive scrolling.
Seditious libel pollutes.
Venomous assumptions flash.
Searing discontent morphs into
Dank depression to distort reality.

Ego aimlessly destructing self
In malicious derision.
Rank regret rots,
Withering to hopelessness.
Despair pervades, to numbness.

Listless countenance portrays
Unreadable amassed barriers.
A carcass weighed down with
Stubborn contrition, shame, guilt,
Misguided pride; inner derision.
Short lived thoughts of rebellion
Come to naught.

Another epiphany in the shower!

I recently realised, when I like someone, I subconsciously raise them up in my esteem. Filling in the gaps in my knowledge of them with vague beliefs and assumptions.

For example, in talking to a personable acquaintance the other day, they told me they were building their self confidence so that they could teach. I was introduced to them at a dinner about two years ago. At the time and since, I have enjoyed their bright personality and cheerful disposition; reading in self assurance.

Reflecting on my presumption of their strengths, I realised how little I knew of them. Their pedestal and place on it was almost entirely a figment of my imagination.

It should come as no surprise, I am sometimes disappointed by others. I am expecting them to fill the roles of fictitious characters on the journey of my life.

Similarly I read reciprocal admiration into relationships. My importance in the life of another is not as significant as the ideal; tearing my heart, ever so slightly.

Those people

My earliest memory of dining out was in a cafe in West Bromwich, UK. The treat ended with my younger brother by three years having a tantrum; screaming and kicking on the floor surrounded by chips.

My addiction to going out to eat formed while undertaking hospitality studies in Worcester and Blackpool, 1980 to 1984. Overseas travel broadened my appreciation of fabulously foreign cuisines.

As a food service employee, I would groan internally about the guests who refused to leave, so that I could clear up and head home to bed.

My husband and I have become those people who literally spend hours chatting and supping over meals in eateries. The latest trend is starting with late lunch and continuing on to dinner. All the better when Stan is able to accompany us. He enjoys the attention from the staff, greeting them like old friends.

Our current favourites for double dining are Marinara Ristorante Cafe, Hawthorne and Patina at Customs House, Brisbane. Starting earlier ensures our departure well before the end of the evening.

Glass House Mountains

Horizonal Glass House Mountains seen across north Moreton Bay from Jamieson Park, Scarborough, Queensland.

Excepts from Wikipedia, below.

‘The Glass House Mountains are a cluster of thirteen hills that rise abruptly from the coastal plain on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. They are located near Beerburrum State Forest and Steve Irwin Way. The trip is about one hour from Brisbane.’

‘The Volcanic peaks of the Glass House Mountains were formed by intrusive plugs, remnants of volcanic activity that occurred 26-27 million years ago. Molten rock filled small vents or intruded as bodies beneath the surface and solidified into land rocks. Millions of years of erosion have removed the surrounding exteriors of volcanic cores and softer sandstone rock.’

‘The term ‘Glasshouse Mountains’ was given by explorer Lieutenant James Cook on 17 May 1770. The peaks reminded him of the glass furnaces in his home county of Yorkshire, UK.’


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A new Rasmussen Reports national phone and online survey showed that 44 percent of likely U.S. voters agree with President Joe Biden that the Jan. 6 Capitol protest was “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.”

However, 41 percent disagree and 14 percent said they are not sure.

By contrast, last summer’s Black Lives Matter riots that broke out across the country were reported as “mostly peaceful protests” by many in the media. However, just 35 percent of voters agree with that description while 52 percent said they were riots. The other 13 percent were not sure.

Biden called the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol the “worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War” during his April 28 speech before a joint session of Congress.

While 66 percent of Democrats agree, just 26 percent of Republicans and 38 percent of unaffiliated voters feel the same. Fifty-nine percent of Republicans and 48 percent of unaffiliated voters disagree, as do 20 percent of Democrats.

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Rob Kardashian Tweets: I Know I’m Fat! Reality Star Refuses Rehab & Therapy

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Rob Kardashian hears (some of) you loud and clear. The brother of the famous Kardsashian and Jenner sisters has put on extra weight and has been catching criticism. This week, the Keeping Up With the Kardashian star was spotted flying out of LAX and his airport photo began making its rounds on the ‘net, with a few folk commenting about his weight.

Early Tuesday (May 20th) morning, Rob addressed his weight and critics on Twitter, writing:

so i found out i was trending for being fat… thank you all it really made my day :) on another note, check on Churchill Schwartz , they’re gunna make a move soon and the stocks been shifting …and to the blogs saying i went to fat camp or rehab LOL then why am i still fat u


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Gift Guide Guide to LA

The LA Girl Gift Guide 2017: Valentine’s Day Gifts for Every LA Girl

Valentine’s Day is almost here! Though most people are not really in the holiday spirit and more in a political slump, make sure you show the one you love (or like) a little bit of sweetness and affection with one of these Valentine’s Day gifts!

Classic Valentine’s Day Gifts

This is for the girl who loves Valentine’s Day or just likes to get something special. Send some flowers or chocolate to your mom or best friend, splurge on a bouquet for your wife, or write your girlfriend a note on a sweet card. Even though it’s not really her thing, we’re sure she’d love to gesture.

If you wanna splurge on some flowers, why not a beautiful arrangement from Empty Vase? This LA-based florist is located in West Hollywood, and its owner and creative director Saeed Babaeean creates dazzling floral arrangements inspired by his degree in architecture and design.

Valentine's Day Gifts: Flowers - Empty Vase

Whether you want to go sappy and romantic or funny and clever, head to Urbanic Paper Boutique on Abbott Kinney in Venice. They offer a variety of sweet and not-so-sweet Valentine’s Day cards and gifts. They have cool, LA-themed cards as pictured that I would definitely recommend!

What about something both sassy and sweet for the girl who loves chocolate? BitchFix is our newest favorite LA-based chocolate company that ships every 30 days in concert with a woman’s cycle. If you’re not convinced, they also give 10% percent of all sales go to fixing 4-legged bitches, supporting spay and neuter programs for dogs.  So you can also brag that your gift is charitable and helps dogs. Now that’s a great gift!

Valentine's Day Gifts: BitchFix Chocolate

Give a girl some sweets and she can conquer the world. Not sure if this is true but some girls love their candy, so they will love Sugarfina. If you haven’t heard of them, they’re pretty famous especially with their awesome blue boxes filled with gorgeous looking candy – it’s tough to eat because they’re so pretty, until you get started. Then there’s no stopping there.

Valentine's Day Gifts: Sugarfina

Source: Daily Signal

For Your Stylish Lover

This Lover Bomber Jacket by LA based women’s apparel and accessories brand, Valfre. It was founded by Mexican-born artist, Ilse Valfré in 2013 and has quickly become a global source for the creative and wild-at-heart. Valfré’s mission is to bring her art to life by creating unique products that are a direct reflection of the psychedelic world that she has created. Her work explores the poignant tension between vulnerability and confidence as she transports her audience into the hearts and minds of the characters that she creates.

Valentine's Day Gifts: Valfre Lover Jacket

A Gift for Good

Leading eco-friendly, cruelty-free, and vegan subscription box and e-commerce shop, Love Goodlyis set to release their Feb/Mar box just in time for Valentine’s Day! Whether you have a special someone in your life, or you’re flying solo and celebrating Single’s Awareness Day (S.A.D), this eco luxe lifestyle box is the perfect present to pamper & help you discover the highest quality 100% toxin-free, cruelty-free products and niche sustainable brands.

The box features a glowing organic luminizer to keep you lit-from-within, an exciting 2017 product debut from Orglamix customized for LOVE GOODLY, a cozy artisan handmade style accessory from Thailand, and other surprises, all accented with your very own Valentine card.  The box costs $29.95, with a retail value of over $86, and benefits Beagle Freedom Project, an organization committed to bringing awareness to the cruelties of animal testing.

Valentine's Day Gifts 2017: Love Goodly

Not-So-Classic Valentine’s Day Gifts

So she’s not really feeling Valentine’ Day gifts this year, because all she’s doing is scanning Facebook for the latest political updates. So what can you do as an awesome partner? Be supportive, of course! Here’s a few Valentine’s Day gifts and ideas that will give your empowered feminist such a good, warm-hearted feeling about you.

A Handmade Pussyhat

Give your proud, Nasty Woman what she really wants. Yes you’ve seen them everywhere and if she doesn’t have one of those yet, she definitely wants one. Because it’s really not about the hat.

There are so many upcoming Los Angeles marches, that she’ll have the chance to wear hers soon, though many are wearing them as regular hats on a daily basis. Order them here!

Valentine's Day Gifts for FeministsPussyhat

Source: Mashable

A Donation to ACLU

She’s not the materialistic type? Then put your money where her mouth is and give a donation to the ACLU on behalf of your one and only. The minimum donation for a gift is $20 and she’ll probably think the world of you. So what are you waiting for? Donate here!

Valentine's Day Gifts: Donate to ACLU

Source: NY Mag

If you’re still looking for gift ideas, check out our other gift guides on the blog as well as our neighborhood guides if you’re looking to build more of an experience.

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Art, Selfies, Doggie Fun, Family Portraits, Music Lessons, New Ink and a Hot Shave

FORT WORTH, TX, September 22, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ — As summer turns to fall, some Texans are looking for a little quality socially distanced fun. Fort Worth Design District has a variety of fun activities, both outdoors and indoors. Here are a dozen must-do activities for visitors to the design district on the first day of fall:

• Visit the Largest Outdoor Art Gallery in Texas – Stroll the more than 40-acre district to see the winning murals from previous years of the Fort Worth Design District’s annual graffiti art festival.

• Spread Your Wings – Enjoy a series of interactive murals known as the Snap and Share Art Walk. They are designed for taking snapshots to share and include a mural that will give you wings.

• Bring the Big Dog – Golden Triangle Dog Park has a dedicated play are just for big dogs.

• Unleash the Small Dog – We like King Charles Spaniels, Bichon Frise, Pugs and other small dogs, too. Golden Triangle Dog Park has a dedicated play area just for smaller dogs.

• Get Fort Worth on Your Mind – Come visit a mural painted just for fans of the King of Country that commemorates one of George Strait’s most memorable songs.

• Freeze Frame – Book an outdoor photo session for portraits with Fort Worth family photography guru Jenny Braly. Her studio is right in Fort Worth Design District.

• Shred Like a Rockstar – If you’ve been meaning to learn to play guitar, visit Kris Wallace Music right in the heart of Fort Worth Design District. Take private guitar lessons with a renowned local musician and teacher in his studio at Paddock Place Office Suites.

• Get Crafty – Shop the craft boutique for one-of-a-kind items or roll up your sleeves and book a workshop for crafters at Cuddly Cactus Designs.

• Amaze Friends – Learn a new trick at North Fort Worth’s local magic shop, The Magic Box, right in Box Office Warehouse Suites, in the heart of Fort Worth Design District.

• Tat Up – Fort Worth Design District is home to two excellent tattoo artists, Derrick Teal of Resonant Ink/Volition Arts and Joe Chavez of Zombie Joe Art Company.

• Act Up – Get a ticket to see a production by Fort Worth’s Luckenbooth Theatre, a professional theatre company that produces original work by local playwrights and reintroduces established work in new, thought-provoking ways. Check out Luckenbooth’s adaptation of William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies this fall.

• Chill with a Hot Shave – Come visit Salon and Spa Galleria Alliance, a salon suite rental salon right in Fort Worth Design District to Barber Michelle Cohen for a hot shave. She’s in suite 301.

About Fort Worth Design District
Fort Worth Design District is a business enclave made for creative entrepreneurs in fashion, design, architecture, technology, and other fields that prize both design and aesthetics. 40+ acres, Fort Worth Design District features retail shop space for rent, studios and workshops, showrooms, light industrial spaces for makers, distributors and manufacturers and coworking office suites. The center of the district is Box Office Warehouse Suites (BOWS), an eco-friendly business park made from more than 100 recycled shipping containers. Surrounding BOWS is Golden Triangle Business Park with additional commercial property for lease. Nestled in the complex is Paddock Place Office Suites, the horse barn turned into coworking office suites.

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Depending on a nation's firearm laws, rifles were typically common and available for private purchase, and though most were made for (and often intentionally limited to) recreational purposes, various military/law enforcement designs can also be found scattered throughout the wasteland. For survivors needing to slay the hordes at a long distance, obtaining one of these long guns can be a great boon to one's post-apocalyptic arsenal.

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2020 Presidential Race Front Page Opinions

Democrats Preparing For Civil War 2020

Remember 2016? It wasn’t so long ago as the media cycle makes it seem. Remember all the candidates in the Republican party? 17 candidates.

2020 is coming soon and, according to CNN, there are already 17 Democrat candidates,not counting Joe Biden or Howard Schultz (currently running as an Independent candidate, having left the Democrat party).

The top five candidates are former Vice President Joe Biden, Independent Senator and 2016 candidate Bernie Sanders, former US Representative in Texas Beto O’Rourke, US Senator from California Kamala Harris, and US Senator from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren. Although there are lots of candidates, there are mainly three types of Democrat voters. Those groups of voters are the moderate “Blue-dog” democrats, the progressives, and the intersectionals. One of these groups does not seem like the others: the moderates.

Sanders, Beto, Harris, and Warren all fit within the progressive sector of the Democrat party, although maybe Harris doesn’t really count because she doesn’t identify as one – but still hasn’t pissed them off.

In the intersectionality group, they have Kamala Harris, who perfectly fits in, and then the other top five candidates (except Joe Biden) try to fit in by talking about racial injustice, changing their name to sound more hispanic , or identifying as part Native American .

In the Progressive Bracket, Bernie is obviously at the the top because he’s the most famous “democratic” socialist running in 2020. Then, there’s Beto in a distant second for identifying as a capitalist, even though his policies are similar to Bernie’s. In third place, comes the former champion of progressivism, Elizabeth Warren (she lost first place during 2016 after endorsing Hillary Clinton). In last place, is Kamala Harris because the media talks about her mainly as the Attorney General of California to give her the false image of being “hard on crime” – which satisfies Republicans who take the media’s word for granted.

In the Intersectional ranking, Harris is first because she is a member of two “oppressed” groups. She’s a woman and an African-American. Beto comes in second for changing his name to sound more Hispanic. Then comes Warren, who lost a lot of support by accidentally proving that she’s barely part Native American. In last place is Bernie Sanders because he didn’t call President Donald Trump a racist until he decided to run in 2020.

In the end, those two rankings don’t really matter because, in a democracy, the voters that count the most are the moderates. Whoever wins those, wins the swing states. And whoever wins the swing states, wins the election.

But who is representing the moderates? Or who will be able to grab their vote if Biden decides not to run? Or if Biden decides to appeal to the more progressive and intersectional voter, who will get the moderate vote? And can any candidate that appeals to the moderates satisfy the progressives and intersectionals?

These are the biggest questions because the fact is that, in order to win against President Donald Trump, they need to swing their party back to recapture some of the states they lost in 2016, such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Florida. And they can only do that by reaching out to the moderates.

The Democrats’ best hope was the CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz – but he’s planning to run as an independent. He will act as a spoiler vote for the Democrats, as reported in CNN. In 2020, the Democrats’ biggest obstacle will be meeting all of their voters demands and satisfying all groups, especially the moderates.

If the Democrats are not able to satisfy all of their groups, like the situation in 2016 ( 1/10 Bernie supporters voted for Trump, 1/10 voted for another candidate that isn’t Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, and 1/20 didn’t vote), then it is very likely that the Democrats will fail in 2020.

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The Kitchen Sink Gluten-Free Protein Muffins

Guilt-Free Snackin’

My boyfriend is camping this weekend and while him and his pals have pledged to only eat what they catch, I’m making him some gluten-free muffins packed with protein to give him a head start each morning (just in case, of course).  I like calling these “the kitchen sink” because I throw in whatever I have in my cupboard that makes sense at the time, and because he’s on a high protein diet the kitchen sink consists of lots of seeds.

Don’t be scared by the whole “gluten-free” aspect of these tasty treats.  They’re moist, delicious, and don’t taste like anything super healthy if you know what I mean.  But, they are!  My favorite way to enjoy them is piping hot, with a swipe of almond butter on top.

Some baking tips for this recipe: make sure to squeeze as much moisture out of your grated apples as you can (twist ’em up in a kitchen towel and squeeze, squeeze, squeeze).  I generally don’t advocate for throwing in “handfuls” of ingredients in baked goods but I’ve found that the amount of seeds you can add really is negligible and based on personal preference.

Fill your muffin tin just to the top of each space or else your muffins may grow too large!

4 cups fine almond flower

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon sea salt

3 teaspoons cinnamon

1/4 cup chia seeds

Handful of golden flax seeds

Handful of pepitas

2 apples, grated and drained (squeeze the juice out)

1 tablespoon lemon juice

3/4 cup whole greek yogurt

6 eggs

2 tablespoons maple syrup

1 cup blueberries (fresh or frozen)

  1. Preheat your oven to 325 F.
  2. Combine dry ingredients.
  3. Combine wet ingredients.  Stir wet into dry ingredients.  The consistency shouldn’t be too sticky/pasty, or too thin.
  4. Spray a muffin pan with a non-stick spray and scoop spoonfuls of batter into each hole (don’t overflow them or underfill).
  5. Bake for 25 minutes until brown and cooked through (insert a fork to test).
  6. Enjoy these for breakfast, on a camping trip, on a hike, or freeze to eat later!
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