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This is Stuart.
I didn't know his name when he was crossing the road near Trafalgar Square on Friday evening.
My initial reaction was 'A loony – a homeless low-life drunkard'.
I walked up the road behind him.
He finally went to a corner where there was a bench, sat down, and opened a bottle of alcohol, validating my opinion of him as a typically drunk and homeless beggar.
I felt silly walking behind him taking pictures, and snapping from afar, so I approached him and offered him a Kit Kat bar. He looked up and said 'why, thank you!', in an eloquent and well-spoken manner.
He was alert and attentive, and he asked me for my name, where I was from and where my family originated from. We got into a conversation and on to the topic of why he was in this situation – dressed in a blanket and living on the streets.
He said he could get a council flat if he wanted but he chose to live in this manner – he preferred the freedom he had on the streets. He admitted to having a drinking problem at the moment, and explained how he's going through a rough patch, in the same way we all do. He also said he was working on this problem. He was very knowledgable and I felt I was having a conversation with an intelligent and wise individual. We spoke of homeless people in other countries including India, the current situation in Uganda, and the UK.
I asked if I could take a picture and he was fine with it, although he had appeared apprehensive to begin with.
He asked me to publicise him and let the world see how he lives and what he's about. I'm not sure I fully understand his cause and I was in a bit of a rush to meet some friends, but I hope I bump into him again. I'd like to ask him a few more questions, such as where he gets money from to buy all the grocery shopping that he had, and what he did before he lived on the streets. He seems to have had a good education which makes the fact he's homeless all the more bizarre.
It's funny how we have these preconceptions of homeless people, although they're not without reason. I wouldn't dream of approaching many of the homeless people here London, because most of them are dangerous junkies who I'd assume would smash my camera.
Stuart is a complete exception, despite the fact his appearance is more extreme than any of the other homeless people I've seen on the streets of this city.
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wow this is one interesting piece of photojournalism! i never had the guts to walk up to homeless people and talk to them like you did – i must admit i'm a bit scared and i'm aware of the fact that this should not be. but hell!
i think the reason some people become homeless is because they are simply OVERqualified for what they want to do. i never believed this until a guy i know became unemployed and couldn't find a new job, because he was really highly qualified.
kind of terrifying.
haha good bye :) and good luck talking to him for a second time.. i guess he stays around the same place always, as most homeless people do.
take care
enjoyed this entry.
and yes, that is very true that not rarely homeless people have actually chosen it as their way of life and feel totally comfortable about that. though, sad sorries are the ones when it's the opposite.
This is a very interesting story with some great photos. It's a shame you didn't have time to ask him more questions about his life, he sounds like such a fascinating man.
very impressing. I like this entry very much. I also hope that you'll met him again.
good work.
Tanya, excellent story….. This is what photography is about to me. It's more than "just a picture" Its the experiences and people BEHIND the photo. I really dig your respectful approach.
Great story, sure hope you can see him again to continue the talk. :) Loving the second to last photo!
Pretty interesting story! It just reminds us that sometimes there is more to people than what a first look may reveal. And that prejudgement should generally be avoided (as you mention there are cases though that this is to be taken with a bit of salt…).
I remember there was this man in my home town, that everybody used to make fun or simply avoid. He would wonder the streets with a flash light and look for garbages or little things to pick up. I never bother about him untill one day I took a photo of him. I learnt after that his story. He used to be a pretty normal man but one day he bought a lottary ticket. That ticket happened to win a great deal of money. He only then realized that he had lost it. He went crazy from that moment and that is why he wonders the streets looking with that light for little things that have fallen down…. Sad story…
sometimes the story behind their situations makes us learn more — makes us open our eyes and see that all is not written in stone — trust you meet him again and carry on the conversation — later days
too bad the two shots from the front are not focused. he actually looks so much more like an indian beggar than some you'd expect to see in the west ;).
anyway, being homeless definitely has more to do with psychological problems than being educated or not. you'll always find a job, but you won't always manage your life.
GREAT STUFF,Extremly interesting and intelligently written… Keep up the good work..
Fascinating post. Here in Washington DC, we certainly have a thriving homeless population, and I'm sure there are millions of stories there. There used to be a permanent tent-city of homeless persons in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House. Some were there as an act of political defiance, but others were simply there for the company: often the shelters are more dangerous than the streets, and thus not an option. The few I met ran the gamut from junkies to extremely educated, brilliant people who simply fell on hard times.
…the saluting portrait of Stuart is excellent, also…
Nice shots.
amazing, just totally amazing.
I've spoken to a number of well educated homeless people, but no-one who chooses to live on the street as a lifestyle choice.
madness comes in all shapes and forms I guess. And isn't always truly obvious.
I would call him mad, just because he is purposefully putting himself at risk and abuse. Which to me shows some form of madness, whether or not its totally recogniseable.
beautiful words to go with it.
I don't think any of us will understand his cause, but we can maybe understand why people would choose to do this. The fact that wealth is hard to come by, the fact that people still live in extreme poverty.
Made me think.
thankyou for sharing such a wonderful, if slightly bizaare experience.
You're so right.
I remember talking to some Big Issue vendors some time ago. Your blog entry has just made me remember my experience.
I have seen duvet dave, stuarts nikname, in tesco in tunbridge wells where i live. some say he got pushed into a river and drowned and some say he got sent to prison. i dont believe these but i dont know. he is cool.
I always seen the duvet man around, I live in Tonbridge & all the locals know of him, I say fair play to him, he seems to be making the best out of a bad situation!
hi we also have a homeless person in our town who infact looks just like that homeless person we call him duvet dave,im in tonbridge in kent it looks so much like the same person ,but hey good pics and well done for taking intrest of the fella probally loved having a chat with yer well done stefan
Remind me to give you that book Stuart – A Life Backwards. It was brilliant, and challenged my preconceptions. Think you'll enjoy it too! :)
I believe this is Stuart Olerenshaw, who until recently lived in Sevenoaks and was well known to the District Council when he had his flat there.
Ah, you've found our friend 'Duvet Dave' who was served with a two year ASBO last Christmas.
If you see him again can you please ask him to return to Kent or Sussex and make himself known to the Local Authority. We have a amendment to his ASBO that states he must wear trousers or underpants :-)
I knew Stuart well. His mum and dad bought a flat for him to live in – in my block back in 1997. They fully furnished it for him, too. He spent the next twelve-months selling everything in the flat to get money for drink, and when it was completely empty, he arranged for some guys to come round and dismantle the kitchen for money. In the end, it was completely bare, except for paintings all over the walls that one of his artist friends did!!!
Interesting comments guys…..
I work with homeless people in central london and have encountered this guy on numerous occasions.. he is indeed articulate and educated…. as are many of londons homeless. the majority of homeless in london are infact homeless as a lifestyle choice, contrary so other comments above. The majority are not crazed junkies either. The publics opinion's and perceptions help to exacerbate the marginalisation and exclusion from society that these guys encounter daily which is so wrong!!!
He isn't mad either by the way.
If I were Duvet Dave, I would call you all a sad bunch of Petit Bourgeois voyeurs, sitting there in your centrally heated condos and townhouses, sipping Beaujolais and letting the homeless live your lives for you because you are too gutless to go out there and live it for yourselves. If you had trekked from the North to the South of India, sleeping rough and drinking untreated water, then I would sit up and listen to you too. As it is, I would rather listen to Duvet Dave.
Procco – Would you listen to him while he was pissing through your letterbox?
you said you worked with Stuart, i know that post was a while ago but have you seen him of late?
Stuart spent a lot of time in tonbridge/tunbridge wells area and there have been reports that he is actually dead, story goes he died of pnuemonia after some kids in tonbridge pushed him in the medway it was never reported in the papers but then again he wouldn't be the first homeless man to be murdered around there without it being reported in the paper.
anyway my mother was very fond of him and she is really upset about the rumours, it would mean a lot if you could let me know if you know anything, thanks x
ASBO man,
he did wear shorts under his duvet- usually dark green and very grubby ones and he wasnt so disgusting as to piss through anyones letterbox.
Stuart does have an asbo but only because the congregation of that church were appalling to him, they looked down on him in his time of need because he wasnt socially aceptable, strangely enough the churches in Tonbridge and tunbridge wells do that a lot, theres a lot of people thought of acting exactly as he did indeed there are a few who have done worse…
in 1985/1986 a church hall in tonbridge was burned down because the congregation had mistreated a homeless man who had been sleeping in the car park because they moved him on because "he was dirty and didnt make the church look good."
in the late 90s a lady repeatedly threatened the congregation of corpus christi in tonbridge because when her mother died they judged her for not being clean and respectable (she was suffering from manic depression)
In 2004 in a church in Southborough there was a young girl whose little brother had just died and she started drinking and smoking a little bit of canabis and started dressing in what could only be described as a gothic style she went to the priest to ask for help and was told that "we don't welcome your sort here" 6 months before hand she'd been running fund raising events for that same church
in 2006 a punk was asked to leave a church in tunbridge wells because they werent dressed suitably (they were wearing a knee length skirt, ripped fishnets, a red sleveless shirt and ripped fishnet arm warmers and a denim waist coat full of safety pins and badges) the women in the short revealing summer dress was ok though.
in 2008 a man went to ask for advice from a minister in a church in Tonbridge and was turned away because he was young and he had long hair and a leather biker jacket.
churches round that area are incredibly judgemental and treat people very badly (before anyone twists this its not an attack on christianity, im catholic, my problem is with the individuals within those churches mentioned who made people feel second class.) I cant blame stuart for losing his temper
I can't share his full story because its not my place but he is an amazing man who deserves our respect, he might not be as clean or respectable as you feel fits in round kent but he is a good man and he has been through a lot and still has time to be there for others, he helped me a lot simply by listening and giving me honest advice.
Hello, I work with Stuart and just wanted youto know he is alive and well. He even wears clothes now and is as polite and intereting as ever.
I know this comment is unlikely to work – but I turned up this blog whilst trying to find the blog that is kept by a homeless person I met on a Christmas project last year.
He told me he kept a blog – but not the address or name! I was so impressed I gave him my blog addie and hoped for a comment, to find his blog. The comment has not arrived – so began my hunt, but google gives more static than help…
I do not comment in much hope of any help – but wanted to offer it as further evidence of how one oughtnot to misjudge a person simply on the evidence of their being homeless!
His name isn't Stuart it's Duvet Dave, he lives in Hastings, East Sussex as a rule. No one has seen him here for just over a year.
If you had researched him further, you would realise that his name is Stuart Olerenshaw, and 'Duvet Dave' is just his nickname. I have personally seen him roaming about in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells. He doesn't just live in Hastings. So don't make such rash comments. ;)
He usualy lives in hastings ive spoke 2 him hes a good person . and apparently hes got a honme now :)
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Is it time for an LGBTQ character starring in a Disney movie? A Hudson Valley Congressman thinks so.
TMZ ran into openly gay Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney on Capitol Hill earlier this week, and asked him about his feelings of the LGBTQ community being represented in a Disney movie.
"I think it's great if there's positive LGBT characters on Disney movies and shows and everywhere else," he said. "We are part of this American family and there's no reason they shouldn't be represented."
The question arose after an online debate cropped up stating that Elsa, the main character in the cult-hit Frozen should have a girlfriend in the sequel that comes out in the fall.
When asked if Disney should take the lead in bringing an LGBT character to a children's film, Maloney took a moment before offering a definitive answer to TMZ.
"I don't know. I mean, the answer is yes. They absolutely should. Whether it's this one (Frozen) or another one, I think you want to put some context around it and have a story that was equal to some of the issues LGBT people face in this country," he said. "There's a real story there, absolutely."
Maloney went on to say that it's past time that the LGBT community was represented in a children's movie, noting, "you know who understands this, kids. They understand there's LGBT characters out there, and they're some of the least shocked among us out there."
"It's past time," he said. "When you look at the great Disney movies, they're often about people that feel like outsiders and overcome those challenges and find happiness in this world. That's been a theme in so many of their movies and that's a theme LGBT people understand and its a journey the country has been working on to welcome more kinds of people."
Quoting the movie's popular song, Maloney added, "So yeah, Disney: let it go. I don't know about Elsa, but let it go, let it go, let it go."
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Earthquakes involve sudden shear sliding motion between large rock masses across internal contact surfaces called faults. The slip on the fault releases strain energy previously stored in the surrounding rock that accumulated due to frictional resistance to sliding. Most earthquakes are directly caused by plate tectonics, and locate in the cool, brittle rock near Earth's surface. Events with seismic magnitude measured 8.0 or greater are called great earthquakes and involve slip of from several to tens of meters across faults with lengths from 100 to more than 1,000 kilometers. These huge ruptures tend to occur on or near plate boundaries; the largest are on shallow-dipping plate boundary faults (megathrusts) found in compressional regions called subduction zones, where one tectonic plate is thrusting under another. Some great earthquakes occur within bending or detaching plates as they deform seaward of or below a subduction zone. Yet others occur on plate boundary strike-slip faults where two plates are shearing horizontally past one another, or within deforming plate interiors. Elastic wave energy released during the fault sliding is recorded and studied by seismologists to determine the fault location, orientation and sense of sliding motion, amount of radiated elastic wave energy, and distribution of slip on the fault during the event (co-seismic slip). Geodetic methods measure elastic strain accumulation prior to an earthquake, co-seismic slip, and afterslip on the fault that occurs without earthquakes, along with viscous deformation of the mantle as it responds to the fault offset. Great earthquakes commonly locate under the ocean, and the sudden motion of the seafloor generates tsunami—gravitational water waves that can be recorded with ocean floor pressure sensors (these waves are also used to determine co-seismic slip). As seismic, geodetic. and tsunami modeling methods have progressed over the past 50 years, our understanding of great earthquake rupture processes and earthquake interactions has advanced steadily in the context of plate tectonics and improved understanding of rock friction. All faults have heterogeneous frictional properties inferred from non-uniform sliding during each event, with areas of large slip instabilities called asperities having slip-velocity weakening friction and other areas having slip-velocity strengthening friction that results in stable sliding. The seismic wave shaking and tsunami waves can cause great devastation for humanity, so efforts are made to anticipate future earthquake hazards. As plate tectonics steadily move Earth's plates, elastic strain around plate boundary faults accumulates and releases in a repeated stick-slip sliding process that causes a limited degree of regularity of faulting. Given the history of prior earthquakes on a given fault, we can identify seismic gaps where future slip events are likely to occur. With geodesy we can also now measure locations of accumulating slip deficit relative to plate motions, as well as variation in seismic coupling, which characterizes the fraction of plate motion accounted for by earthquake failure.
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Learning for Living Curriculum and Sixth Form Brochure
Wyre Forest School Sixth Form is an extension of our provision that serves to allow our young people to become as independent and 'community ready' as they can be.
As children become young adults and make the significant step from a Pre-16 to a Post-16 model of education, our curriculum is designed to reflect this change. Therefore there is a shift in emphasis away from a more linear pupil progression model based upon the teaching and generalisation of concepts, towards a model of education which recognises the pupil's existing skills and provides carefully structured ways of further enabling them to be applied in functional, everyday contexts.
We consider this to be a move from a concept based model of education towards a context based one in which knowledge, at all levels of ability, will be more widely applied to everyday situations. In doing this we are aiming to utilise the final element of the student's statutory educational entitlement, to prepare them as best we can to become active participants in, and contributors to, society and achieve the highest degree of personal independence.
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While other papers are downsizing in this economy, the New York Daily News has invested in new and improved color printing presses, the New York Times reports.
Owner Mort Zuckerman, a self-professed business contrarian, tells The Times he's commited to "long term"-- he see a future in print -- but understands why skeptics would question his decision to upgrade the News' presses, based in Jersey City.
Via the NYT:
There, he has sunk more than $150 million into expanding the newspaper's printing plant, installing advanced high-speed presses — a statement of faith that print will still be big business for another decade or two, if not longer. As of this month, The Daily News can print full color on every page; executives say it is the only large paper in the country with that capability.
The question is whether the investment makes business sense; the answer may never be made public because the privately held paper does not disclose its financial performance. Mr. Zuckerman signed the deal for the equipment almost two years ago, before the drop in advertising turned into a free fall, and before the weekday circulation of The Daily News fell to less than 550,000, from more than 700,000. He conceded that the paper, which had been marginally profitable for years, is at "worse than break-even."
First reaction: Craziness! On second thought: Maybe this is crazy enough to extend the News' life span. Advertisers love the quality of color pictures; it makes their product look better, and for many, that's worth the extra charge versus black-and-white standard ads.
While he believes newspapers will be around years from now, Zuckerman is keeping expectations low in an ailing industry.
"Anybody who goes into this at this stage of the game with an excessive degree of optimism," he said, "is incredibly naïve."


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Monthly Archives: August 2009
i want cake
سلامت مرديك
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all falls down
come on
come on
and when it all falls down
who you gonna call now
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Uh what
Saya masih ingat ketika akhbar Cina melaporkan berita Perhimpunan Agung Umno ke-57 (13-17 November 2006). Memang tidak dinafikan, isu-isu perkauman terus dimainkan oleh Umno. Akhbar-akhbar yang dikuasai oleh orang Cina terus memanipulasikan isu-isu perkauman yang dibincangkan sehingga menimbulkan ketakutan kepada masyarakat Cina. Presiden Umno ketika itu terpaksa campur tangan dengan memberi amaran kepada beberapa akhbar Cina supaya tidak memainkan sentimen perkauman selepas beberapa perwakilan Umno membangkitkan isu-isu sensitif yang meresahkan sesetengah kaum bukan Melayu…
oleh Dr. Mohd. Ridhuan Tee, Mingguan Malaysia
Bodohnya budak ni.
Tak tahu pikir sebelum cakap.
Oxbridge Debate
Today I was pleasantly surprised at the honesty and courage of young Malaysians.
So it is commonly known (in the right circles) that the Oxford-Cambridge debates in Malaysia are generally substandard. This year's was no exception, and I went not expecting anything. 🙂
What was different this year, however, was the audience participation.
A few of them stood up and expressed their disappointment with the debate. One of them said something to the effect of the debate "being of lower secondary school standard," and that they expected so much more from Oxbridge students; glamour, prestige, and all. Other comments included the overemphasis on trivialities and specifics rather than general, more pertinent points and arguments.
In all honesty the kids were absolutely right: there was a (not-so) shocking lack of analysis and argumentation from both teams. There was no clash: both teams failed to grasp their rival's points and either brushed the arguments off or constructed strawman arguments. Bad debating.
The kids were really confident and assertive in speaking out and critiquing the mediocre performance of both teams. It was actually quite cute! And mind you, these are secondary school/pre-University kids!
So in general the audience feedback was quite scathing lah.
One part of me was so proud of them for being so courageous! Criticising Oxbridge students man in front of the entire floor. Got balls. I like.
The other part of me was cringing for the poor debaters on stage. 🙂 Quite painful lah, to receive public criticism. I think some of the kids were hell bent on humiliating the debaters because they expected "an intense & fiery intellectual discourse." Ouch.
In the long term, I think this bodes well for Malaysia and for Malaysian debate. I think we can expect Oxbridge to give us a better debate next year, or rightly face the wrath of these kids who tolerate no incompetency and give no quarter. 😉
Yasmin Ahmad's Talentime
So a little background: the US gang is going through a Yasmin Ahmad/Talentime phase, as evidenced by posts from John and Zhi Wei and our plurks. (wtf i copied zhi wei's link and only then did i find out that we used the same title. jinx!)
So John very nicely organized an outing to watch the movie in 1Utama. 11 of us showed up: beyond my expectations man.
Tumpang glamour: Ka Hoe (the Chinese boy) was my Moral student!
This isn't gonna be another post about how great the movie was, etc. I thought it was a good movie, albeit too slapstick at times, but such was Yasmin's humour — these blunt, almost crude jokes only add to the quaintness and cuteness and playfulness and fun(!) and lightheartedness of Yasmin's works. Very her.
But what really struck me was Pete Teo's "I Go."
I teared when the the er-hu came in (e.g. at 2:32). I have something for stringed instruments; I've read somewhere that string vibratos eeirely and accurately represent the wails of a human voice. My favourite part of any movie is when the music comes on and the violin vibrates and the voice falters and my soul resonates with every crescendo and dances to every progression and my heart breaks into a wretched half-smile and I gasp for breath and grasp at beauty and tear.
It's going to be my new favourite song, and I will be listening to it for at least 10 times every day for weeks on end.
Not only is the song very pretty, I also think that it is ultimately prescient.
So long, fare thee well
The dancer and the dancing days have taken leave and fell
But I can't hear it here no more
And I go
I go
Hush now, don't shake or break
Words have fallen silent like soldiers to the grave
No matter what they do or say
Lay me on the sleepy meadow by the tracks upon your face
It was at "I go-oh-oh-oh-oh-woh-oh-oh-oh" (2:18) when I got it. 领悟。Menerima wahyu.
It was almost like Yasmin Ahmad was speaking to us from the grave from the film.
"I go."
She goes.
And no matter what the media can play up about her past, or how hard Najib tries to hijack her message (the cuteness: "Yerr the fella copy me!!!" from 0:19 to 0:40), she goes.
To a better place.
Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim.
What foresight.
(Did she/Pete know that Talentime was to be her swansong?)
She goes.
But we stay. And her messages stay. And her movies stay. And her values, her ideals, her love stay with us.
And this is the point and beauty and genius of Yasmin. The idea of Yasmin Ahmad is greater than the person that was Yasmin Ahmad, and this Yasmin stays with us forever and ever and ever.
She goes.
But she stays.
In our hearts.
And it is beautiful.
And I love it.
So I thought that I wouldn't join the tribute-to-Yasmin bandwagon, but I was compelled to write this lah.
Because the song spoke to my heart.
My favourite character was the Indian woman (Jac's mother). I fell in love with her when she was joking around with her brother who was threatening to to burn some RM 100 notes if she didn't take them. (She called his bluff.) Juxtapose that with her excellent portrayal of a tortured soul dealing with love and death and loss and letting go. Love it, love it.
you go
but you stay
with us
about time
Kementerian Pelajaran bercadang memberi biasiswa penuh kepada pelajar yang muncul johan Pertandingan Bahas Piala Perdana Menteri (PPM) apabila mereka melanjutkan pelajaran ke universiti tempatan…
- Cadangan ini tidak berkesan sangat, kerana para pemenang berkemungkinan besar akan diberi biasiswa ke universiti luar negara. If you're smart and you go to a PPM school, you will be head-hunted.
- Kenapa hanya PPM? PPM < Wira. And Wira < HELP < IIUM, in terms of competitiveness, caliber, and all-round debate goodness. Kedua-dua perbahasan PPM dan Wira merupakan pertandingan yang dianjurkan oleh kementerian. Jika biasiswa hanya diberikan kepada pemenang PPM, cadangan ini merupakan sesuatu idea yang elitis dan tidak adil, sememangnya kerana perbahasan Wira lebih kompetitif (bilangan sekolah yang jauh lebih banyak) dan representatif (kawasan geografi yang lebih luas).


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If there was one thing I'd want you to know about Addie and Dan's engagement session….
… it's NOT that they are an amazingly stunning couple (though they are)…
… it's NOT that they chose an amazing place for their session (though they did)…
… it IS that they themselves appear to be the actual definition of fun!
Can you tell?
Back to the other stuff too though.
Yes, as you can see they are in fact an amazingly stunning couple! But that's just the beginning of it! They are the kind of couple that made Scottie and I jump up and down giddily as soon as we'd safely turned the corner away from them after our initial meeting. Yes, we were THAT excited to book them because we knew they'd be incredible people to work with and also because we secretly believed that they'd be our new best friends (whoops, not such a secret anymore!).
Our hopes and dreams of being friends were confirmed when they did indeed book us to shoot their wedding and we had an incredible engagement session with them!
And yes, as I mentioned, part of the reason it was soooo amazing was that they chose to do it at an amazing place. The Old LA Zoo at Griffith Park is just COOL!!! I mean where else can you stand in what used to be a lion's cage and do THIS?!
Or this?
And where else can you find tagging that looks like THIS?!
(Well yes, in lots of places actually. But STILL, the Zoo is pretty amazing, right?!!).
But good luck finding HAIRSPRAY tagging anywhere other than here (where Addie and Dan did it)!
But seriously, look at how amazing, adorable, and hilarious these two are… did it really matter where they did their session? (major hint: the answer is no, because they would've looked fantastic and in love no matter where they did their session!)
However, I'm still really happy they chose the zoo because we couldn't get enough of it…
… or of their hilarity…
… or of their adorability…
… or of their creativity…
… or of THEM!!!!
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We love you guys already and we can't wait to see what adorability and hilarity you pull out on your wedding day. Even if you don't try, you'll still be the cutest couple there and we can't wait to see it and to capture it for you and others to see forever! See you on your wedding day!
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An Interview with Novelist Sean Ferrell
Over at the Atlantic, I've reviewed Sean Ferrell's latest novel, Man in the Empty Suit. The story—and I'm borrowing a bit from my piece—follows a a time traveler who celebrates every birthday at an abandoned hotel in New York City in the distant future. Accordingly, he is gathered annually with sixty or so of himself, each from a different year of his life, some older, some younger. When the narrator (age 39) arrives at the party and stumbles upon an inexplicably murdered self from six months in the future, he becomes the prime suspect and chief inspector of his own murder, and has to figure out what happened before he becomes the corpse.
I'm a big fan of Sean's work—Numb, his first novel, is a masterwork of transgressive fiction—and I was fortunate enough to chat with him about his latest novel. Here is that discussion.
First: Are you a time traveler?
So far I've only traveled in one direction and I'm moving at a pace of one second per second. The short answer is yes. The long answer is also yes.
What was the origin of Man in the Empty Suit?
I think that most of the time the things I write start off as the voice of the main character. I get a sense of who they are before I get a sense of what they're doing and I had this—I wouldn't call it a vision, but I just knew there was this guy and he was fed up with everything and he was standing over his own body. And he was more put out by the fact that he had to figure out what the hell was going on than he was by the fact that it meant he was going to die. So I kind of knew immediately that it was a man who was spending a lot of time with himself in a literal way as opposed to the usual meanings of that phrase. And it started to grow from there.
There are so many "versions" of the narrator at the party and throughout the story, each a different age and thus connected by memory. What happens to one might affect forty other characters—how did you keep track of everything? I imagine there was a pretty epic outline.
This was actually the first novel that I've written where from start to finish it's in the same order now as when I wrote it. I just followed the narrative, and so the loops in time and the interaction with the various ages, that all just came out as it's there. And I didn't outline; I trusted that if there were any problems I would be able to find them later and iron them out. For me the important part was the emotional journey that he was going on, as opposed to the ins and outs and technicalities of time travel.
So what I ended up with was—I'm just going to guess—ninety percent of what was in my first draft is still in the book. Not in a sentence-by-sentence measure, but in the sense of I had managed to get most of the plotting right, even before I tried to figure out if it made sense. When I sat down and worked with my editor I did draw out the timeline. And it was forked; at one point he breaks his nose and at another he doesn't. At one point he has so many bullets in the gun, and at one point he has fewer. I had to lay out multiple timelines to see when he would cross paths with given people who would have a broken nose and who would have a gun. And I think the biggest tripping point was where the gun was and where the bullets were. That was where things got the muddiest. But for the most part I was pretty happy with hitting the conclusion of writing the first draft and then going through the editing process and finding that there weren't any major knots in the narrative that threw everything out of the window.
That is an impressive feat. The whole time I was reading it I imagined how you might have it laid out. To have it come from your head is pretty remarkable.
I know people who draw very careful outlines and put three-by-five index cards on the wall and work out the timelines and plot lines and that sort of thing. I've tried doing that, but I go off-script too much and then feel beholden to an outline that I'm no longer emotionally committed to. And it strangles me. Happily when I was writing this book I paid attention to the voice saying, Just go with it, just follow his plight.
How was the writing process for this book different from the process for your last book, Numb?
Numb was written much more piecemeal and out of order. A few years before I started the project, I'd read Jesus' Son, and that was my model for what a novel could be—short episodic moments holding hands, as opposed to a clear novelistic through-line. And that's how Numb got put together. Originally it was a short story, but it became clear to me that it was bigger, and so it ended up becoming two chapters and I realized I was writing a novel sort of by mistake.
The characters who come into the narrative, each one of them got their moment, and each moment was a chapter. So I explored the central character through episodes and the book was in his interaction with characters who came in and left his life. When I was finished writing it, it was 200 pages of mush. I had to lay it all out—I literally laid the manuscript on the floor of my apartment. I had to take big batches of writing and move them around so that I could figure out the timeline. I had—okay a character dies, but in a later story he's still alive, and how could I make that timeline work? Ironically that book required more heavy lifting of the timeline than my time travel book.
So the first book was written very much out of order without it being viewed even as an understandable whole, and it was through the editing process that the plot-line emerged. I think that book is largely character driven as opposed to plot driven, whereas Man in the Empty Suit had a lot more plotting to it. But they both feel like my work to me.
What was your experience working with Soho?
It was terrific. They are an incredibly talented group of people. They're all so energized about their books. It's really great to be there, and I think that you want to be around people who don't necessarily care about you as an individual, but care about the sort of material that you're involved in. They, as a group of people, are really charging forward with the battle-cry of Make really great books. Get the best work out there possible. I look at the books they've got coming out from other authors and I'm astounded that they think I'm worth including with that group of people. The other authors are just tremendous and I'm very honored to be a part of that.
Describe the time traveler in Man in the Empty Suit.
As I see him, in the place that he's in when the novel happens, he's an unhappy soul who doesn't know why. And he's lost any sort of connection to—he's done all these tremendous things, and yet he's not sure what the point of it all is. So for me, I think the book is about the discovery of place and the discovery of owning not only your successes but also your failures, and coming to terms with your own humanity. Sometimes our best moments are recognizing our worst, and our responsibility in them. I think he has that moment where he realizes that he's largely responsible for the burdens that he has to carry around with him. And not that it's okay, but that it's what life is sometimes, and moving past it.
What are you working on now?
I've got a book that's probably—I don't know if it's done; it's hard for me to know. It's a modern retelling of a Greek myth. I'm also working on a couple of other things that are more—basically they're for my son. I've been working on something for a while that's a book for a younger reader. When I first showed my son Numb, he was four years old at that point, and he tried to grab the book and rip the cover off. He didn't like the book because there are no pictures in it. He said, Write something for me, and so that's what I've been doing.
[N.B.: This is the first entry in a little experiment I've been thinking a lot about. I'm going to try writing companion pieces here at Medium for some of my work elsewhere. Hopefully this will find a nice audience, and you guys will enjoy.]


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January in Canada is not supposed to be like this. Tulips in my garden are coming up because they think it's spring. There isn't an ounce of snow on the ground, and you'd be perfectly fine going outside wearing only a light sweater.
It just feels wrong.
Perhaps it is the lack of winter or the overcast skies, but I've been feeling a bit down lately. This time though, it isn't the wintertime blues. I'm one of the few people who actually love winter. Snowflakes falling from the sky, ice skating, cross-country skiing, and warming up by the fire would all be welcomed activities at this point. I would love to have an actual winter - but I fear this is just a sign of things to come.
Climate change, what used to be called global warming a few short years ago, has been a concern of mine since I was a young teenager. I try to have as little of an environmental impact as I can. I take public transit. I work from home to reduce my carbon footprint. I do my laundry during off-peak hours and take short showers. I buy local as much as I can and keep a vegetable garden in the backyard. I turn off lights when I'm not using them...but it never feels like I'm doing enough.
The climate talks in Paris where a step forward, but the Agreement is not legally binding. If a world leader doesn't uphold their promise, they can be shamed into doing something - but there will be no legal repercussions for their lack of action.
News channels don't seem to think climate change is a priority anymore. I no longer hear anything about climate change, or governments funding alternatives to fossil fuels. Everything is back to "business as usual", and that is frustrating as all Hell.
I'm not the only one feeling frustrated about the general public's apathy. Some psychologists are using the term, "climate depression" or "climate anxiety" to describe the sinking feeling of despair some people feel about the future of our world. Climate scientists especially are depressed and beyond frustrated, since much of their findings are still falling on deaf ears. Brenton Mock of Grist thinks that scientists need to start using F-bombs to get their message across. He wrote, "Forgive my language here, but if scientists are looking for a clearer language to express the urgency of climate change, there's no clearer word that expresses that urgency than FUCK."
Perhaps he has a point.
The apathy big corporations have about their environmental impact is truly staggering. Take the SoCalGas gas leak in California, spewing out at a rate of 100,000 pounds per hour for weeks. It is still happening, by the way, causing California to declare a state of emergency and evacuate nearly 2,290 households. Very little is being done to remedy the issue.
News like this is so damn depressing. I keep thinking, "What's the point? Why even try making positive changes when no one seems to care?"
I know there are others that feel the same way I do - that make small differences in their lives, even when it is difficult or inconvenient. I know there are small business owners like me who consciously try to deduce their environmental impact daily. Last year, for instance, Katrina Rabeler on the Climate Solutions blog wrote a beautiful article full of hope. She suggests that we stop feeling guilty for living, since it's a useless emotion and not conducive to positive change. She's right. There is no point in feeling like you are bad person when you have to drive your car, or use electricity in your home. Fossil fuels have made our modern lives possible...but it's time to move on.
Electric cars, solar panels, and riding your bike to work are wonderful tools for change. A dialogue is happening, and we can't escape how our climate and ecosystems are changing because of human impact. I truly believe small businesses and individuals are going to make the real change here. It is not up to the "world leaders", or politicians. They'd still be arguing about the wording of a tax bill...
It is going to take tons of small, mindful changes by millions of individuals to see real change. We can't reverse the damage that has already been done, but we can purposefully help make our future a little more livable.
At least, we can hope.
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Prep football notes: Defensive stars shine brightest in playoffs
Skill-position players might garner most of the headlines during the prep football regular season, but the Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs might come down to the efforts of defensive linemen and linebackers.
Inderkum coach Terry Stark is known for prolific wing-T teams. But he is quick to acknowledge the efforts of the Falo brothers –Nu'umotu, a senior linebacker, and Josh, a sophomore linebacker. They have followed in the footsteps of their brother Nate, who starts at defensive tackle for San Jose State. Inderkum (10-1) is the top seed in the Division III playoffs.
"Nu'umotu shuts down his side of the field, and people just go the other way," Stark said. "He's special. So is his brother Josh, and Nate. The whole family is special."
Defending also has been a family affair for Sai Ta'amu, a senior defensive tackle for D-II second seed Elk Grove (9-2). Ta'amu said he sizes up opponents and bull rushes or uses quickness to slip past blockers.
"He's dominant, the best around," Elk Grove defensive coordinator Jeff Carlson said.
Ta'amu's brother Lau, a junior offensive and defensive lineman, may be the only player on the Thundering Herd who invites contact from his older sibling. They grew up roughhousing with goal-line stands.
Elk Grove linebacker Manny Scott-Anderson had the team's biggest defensive stop of the season when he stuffed Monterey Trail running back Trey Nahhas at the goal line on fourth down as time expired to seal a 34-27 Delta League win Oct. 24. On Friday, Scott-Anderson returned two interceptions for touchdowns in a 69-7 rout of Vintage.
Jesuit (9-2), seeded second in D-I, has hard-hitting linebacker Isaac Lessard. Cameron Smith of Granite Bay (8-3), seeded third in D-I, has returned two interceptions for scores this season.
And no team has as many play-stuffing defensive ends-linebackers as Grant (11-0), the No. 1 seed in D-II. On Friday, the Pacers recorded 11 sacks in their 42-23 win over Patterson. Linebacker David Moala and end Jacques Cheatham had 4.5 sacks each. Grant also has had big games lately from linebackers Elijah Orr, Chris Atteberry and Carl Granderson.
Chase Hatada has dominated at defensive tackle for Rocklin (9-2), seeded sixth in D-II. He'll be called upon to pressure St. Mary's quarterback Noah Righetti, who threw five touchdown passes in a 55-12 victory over River Valley on Friday. Rocklin visits St. Mary's (10-1) in Stockton on Friday. The Rams also feature the state's top tackler, linebacker Khalil Hodge, averaging 18.8 tackles a game.
Defending D-II champion Del Oro (6-5), seeded fourth, sealed its 14-6 win over Roseville on Friday with a late interception by Ben Hart, his second of the night. The Golden Eagles have 21 interceptions this season.
Bear River (9-2), the top seed in D-V, beat Orestimba 49-25 in the Bruins' first home playoff game in nine years Friday with the help of a 10-yard interception return for a touchdown by linebacker John Voter, who also ran for two scores.
Bradshaw Christian (8-3), seeded third in D-VI, is led on defense by end Phillip White, who has 19 sacks.
Respect for Browning – Shortly after top-ranked Folsom blasted Stagg of Stockton 70-14 in a D-I opener Saturday, Delta Kings players Lester Williams and Michael Thompson sought out Jake Browning to shake hands with the Bulldogs quarterback.
"'I just wanted to say hello and that it was a thrill to play you,'" Williams told Browning, who thanked the players for saying hello. Said Williams a moment later, "That dude Browning? Wow. Better than I thought, and we knew he was great."
Browning threw eight touchdown passes, five in the first quarter and three in the second quarter, to give him 204 in three varsity seasons, the second most in national history. He is 15 shy of the national prep record held by Maty Mauk of small-school Kenton-Ohio over four seasons (2008-11).
Browning credited his teammates and coaches for the milestone, saying, "It'll be fun to look back someday, but right now, we're focused on the next game."
Said Folsom co-coach Kris Richardson: "It's a remarkable feat. Jake's career is off the charts, but it takes a whole team to do what he's done. You need a good defense. You need an offensive line, and you need good receivers. Jake's the one pulling the trigger, though. I'm very proud to be a part of his career."
Browning has passed for 3,946 yards and 64 touchdowns this season for Folsom (11-0). He set the state season record with 75 last year.
The Bulldogs stretched their section playoff winning streak to nine as Josiah Deguara had four touchdown receptions and Sam Whittingham returned an interception for a score.
One last game – Wilbur Heath's final wish was to attend one more Del Oro football game.
Battling cancer, the longtime Golden Eagles equipment manager left his hospice care facility by ambulance and watched Friday's game against Roseville at the Loomis stadium from a gurney, covered in blankets, surrounded by family. Heath, 75, died Sunday night.
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Black Horse Mix Grill18
Assortment of chicken tikka, tandoori chicken wings, kebabs and lamb chops.
Black Horse Veggie Platter14
Stuffed mushrooms, onion bhaji, polle polle mogo, crispy potatoes and jalapeno poppers.
Mix and match up to 4 of your favourite dishes (half portions).
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Chicken Tikka
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Barry's Chicken Wings8.5
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Chicken Tikka8.5
Chicken pieces, marinated in yougurt, mild spices grilled in the tandoor oven.
Chicken Shashlick9
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Tandoori Wings8.5
Chicken Wings marinated in yogurt and mild spices grilled in the tandoor oven.
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Chicken Pakora8.5
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Paneer Shashlik9
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Jalapeno Poppers5.5
Palak Paneer Samosas6.5
Crispy Potatoes7
Polle Polle Mogo (Cassava)6
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Vegetable Pakoras4.5
Spinach, potato, onions and peppers mixed in mild spices, gram flour and flash fried.
Stuffed Mushrooms5
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Vegetable Samosas4.5
Onion Bhaji4
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Popeye's Spinach DishesSee Below
Home made spinach and mild spices cooked with the choice of:
Chicken 9
Lamb 10
Prawn 15
JalfreziSee Below
Cooked with onion, peppers and mild chillies with the choice of:
Chicken 9
Lamb 10
Prawn 15
Keema Peas9
Minced lamb cooked with onion, tomato, ginger, garlic and blended with mild spices.
Chicken Tikka Massala9.5
Chicken tikka charred in the tandoor then delicately cooked in a smooth creamy coconut sauce with tomato onion and mild spices.
Nicos Curry DishesSee Below
Cooked in a homemade curry sauce with mild spices. Flavour preference: Korma, madras, vindaloo or faal if you dare!
Chicken 9
Lamb 10
Prawn 15
Nico's Chicken On The Bone9
Curry cooked with traditional whole dry spices.
Nico's Chicken On The Bone9
Curry cooked with traditional whole dry spices.
Karahi DishesSee Below
Curry cooked with peppers and tomato in a blend of mild exotic spices with a choice of:
Chicken 9
Lamb 10
Prawn 15
Ginger Chicken9
Chicken curry sautéed with fresh ginger and mild spices.
Ginger Chicken9
Chicken curry sautéed with fresh ginger and mild spices.
Butter Chicken9.5
Chicken Tikka charred in the tandoor then delicately cooked in a smooth creamy almond sauce with tomato, onion, mild spices and butter.
Methi Paneer8.5
Cottage cheese cooked with fenegreek and mild spices.
Kidney beans cooked in a curry sauce with mild spices.
Vegetable Jalfrezi8
Sautéed seasoned vegetables cooked with capsicums, tomato, onions, ginger, garlic and mild spices.
Scrambled Paneer8.5
Home prepared cottage cheese sautéed in onions, tomatoes, green peas in mild spices.
Saag Paneer8.5
Spinach cooked with cottage cheese and spices.
Tarka Daal8
Yellow lentils sautéed in cumin seeds and mild spices.
Shahi Paneer8.5
Cottage cheese delicately cooked in a smooth creamy almond sauce with tomato onion and mild spices and butter.
Saag Aloo8
Home made spinach cooked with potato.
Home made spinach with mild spices.
Mushroom Massala8
Mushroom sautéed with sweetcorn and mild spices.
Bombay Aloo8
Potatoes sautéed with onions and tomatoes in mild spices.
Bhindi Massala8
Lady fingers sautéed with onion tomato and mild spices.
Chick Pea Curry8
Cooked with mild spices and potato.
Aloo Gobi8
Potatoes and cauliflower cooked in curry sauce with mild spices.
Makhani Daal8
Black lentils cooked in mild spices, butter and fresh cream.
Mixed Vegetable Curry8
Sautéed seasoned vegetables cooked in tomato, onions, ginger and mild spices.
BiryaniSee below
Flavours infused in the rice and known for its unique aroma and spices. Served with biryani sauce.
Vegetable 8.5
Chicken 9.5
Lamb 10.5
Prawn 14
Steamed Rice4
Pilau Rice4.5
Jeera Rice (Cumin Seeds)4.5
Mushroom Rice4.5
Keema Rice6
Classic Naan2.6
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Butter Naan2.7
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Tandoori Roti2.6
Freshly baked in the tandoor.
Buttered Tandoori Roti2.7
Freshly baked in the tandoor brushed with melted butter.
Tandoori Prantha3.5
Brushed with butter and baked in the tandoor.
Chilli Naan3.5
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Garlic Naan3.5
With fresh chopped garlic brushed with melted butter.
Garlic And Chilli Naan3.7
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Cheese Naan4
Stuffed with cheese and baked in the tandoor brushed with melted butter.
Keema Naan4
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Peshwari Naan4
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Lettuce, tomato, cucumber, onions and green chillies.
Onion And Green Chilli Salad2
Mixed Raita3
Yogurt with diced cucumber, carrots and onions.
Plain Yogurt2
Platter To Share12
Potato wedges, chicken goujons, onion rings, crispy breaded mushrooms and garlic bread.
Mozzarella And Pesto Panini9
Served with chips and coleslaw.
Roasted Vegetable And Wensleydale Bake12
In a wensleydale cheese sauce topped with paprika crumb and cheese.
Steak & Ale Pie8.5
Chunky steak with marston's pedigree ale in thick gravy.
Served with chunky chips.
Fish & Chips12
Large beer battered cod fillet served with britsh peas, fresh lemon quarter, tartare sauce and chips.
Classic Beef Burger12
Home style burger made with 100% beef with cheese, lettuce, onions and tomatoes served with chunky chips.
Chicken Burger12.5
Chargrilled butterfly chicken breast with lettuce, onions and tomatoes served with chunky chips.
Chicken Wrap12
Charred chicken tikka from the tandoor wrapped in fresh naan bread with lettuce, onion, dressed in ketchup and mayo.
Served with chips.
Kebab Roll12
Sheekh kebab wrapped in fresh naan with lettuce, onion, dressed with ketchup and mayo. Served with chips.
Paneer Roll12
Paneer tikka diced and served in fresh naan with lettuce, onions, capsicums and dressed with ketchup and mayo.
Jacket Potato9
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Crispy Breaded Butterfly Prawns8.5
Beer Battered Onion Rings7
Breaded Chicken Goujons5
Sweet Potato Fries5
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Mover and Shaker: Anna Gorga Soderini, Vice President, Investment Management Division, Goldman Sachs
By Cathie Ericson
While it might be harder to find a role model who seems similar to you if you're LGBT+, a woman, a different race or any underrepresented minority, it's still very important to find mentors who can guide you in your career, notes Goldman Sachs' Anna Gorga Soderini.
"When seeking a role model, look beyond traditional 'diversity' and focus on individual challenges people might have faced where you can find points in common that might not be obvious," she says. "If you more broadly define 'role model,' you can find someone who also had to adapt to circumstances and conquered similar challenges, even if they might not represent your exact demographics," she says.
A Meandering Path, With a Destination of Authenticity
For Soderini, the professional journey has been just as important as the destination, and she took what she describes as a bit of a meandering path. She began with classical education – Latin, ancient Greek and philosophy – yet ended up in a finance career. While in London completing her Masters in economic development at the London School of Economics, she was exposed to financial markets for the first time, and to the role efficient asset allocation plays in enabling economic development.
She initially joined a private equity firm that invested in emerging markets before spending two years in Mozambique following that country's civil war, an incredible experience that made her keenly aware that opportunities emerge following significant periods of change. After her stint in Mozambique, Soderini enrolled at New York University's Stern School of Business to pursue her MBA and enhance her knowledge and understanding of finance.
After graduating with her MBA, she took a position in M&A, covering and advising financial institutions. Soderini joined Goldman Sachs Asset Management in 2007 to pursue a role on the buy side.
After making a conscious decision to not share with her former employer that she was gay, Soderini realized this was impeding her ability to form deep relationships with her colleagues and managers, and knew she needed to be open in her next role if she wanted to be successful. She came into the interview process at Goldman Sachs identifying openly as LGBT+, and she says she was blown away by the inclusiveness of the firm and her future colleagues.
When discussing professional achievements of which she is proud, Soderini immediately mentions her involvement with Goldman Sachs' LGBT Network. She cites her role on the Pride steering committee and subsequently being invited to co-lead the Americas LGBT network at the firm, as a significant moment in her career. Soderini notes that the position is one of great responsibility due to the advocacy and education element of the role, by ensuring the firm remains at the forefront of LGBT+ issues.
Shifting Industry Norms Provide Opportunities for Goldman
Currently, Soderini is excited about co-leading an effort to integrate new data sources into the investment process, as the industry comes to terms with the disruption brought about by technology. She believes the ability to capitalize on these changes will become increasingly critical to the investing process and thus consequential for GSAM's business.
"This is an inflection point for the whole industry, as data is being created at exploding speeds," she says. "The size and complexity will require new analytical tools, and we now have more processing power at our fingertips. Goldman's breadth of strategies, technological sophistication and depth of resources will allow us to harness technology to the benefit of our clients in a way that less capable competitors can't."
Also related and top of mind is the debate about active versus passive management, and how Goldman Sachs can weather the current outflows from active management.
"Technology has made fundamental investing harder since it has democratized information and analytical tools. Some of the challenges of active investing are cyclical and will fade under new market regimes, but others, such as the technological disruption, are secular: The firms willing and able to adapt to the new environment will be the ultimate winners. "Goldman Sachs is one of only a handful of asset managers that has the wherewithal to experiment and execute across strategies as we begin to understand these shifts."
Embracing the Corporate Paradigm
Soderini says she wishes someone had told her when she was starting out that doing a good job is a necessary but usually not sufficient condition to continue progressing in one's career. She understood the financial sector to be a meritocratic environment, but had not realized how critical it is for everyone around you to see you proactively contribute, understand your career goals and believe in your ultimate potential as a leader.
But while you have to express your views and telegraph your goals and passion, she notes that it can be tricky to get the right balance, particularly for women and those who come from cultures that don't promote assertiveness.
"At school you are used to being rewarded for executing well in a linear relationship with faculty, completing homework or passing a test," she notes. "But the work environment is more complex and there are multiple constituents. You don't work in isolation, and taking the initiative in engaging with your manager and colleagues, as well as championing your work is a necessity."
Sharing the Proud Culture of Goldman Sachs
In addition to her work with the LGBT Network, Soderini is active with the Pride Summit, a recruitment event where LGBT+ employees and Allies interact with sophomore and junior undergraduates who are looking to learn more about the firm. She finds that people vastly underestimate the leading role the financial industry plays in advancing LGBT+ causes, so it's incumbent upon the industry to conduct outreach and education.
She also appreciates the opportunity it provides for LGBT+ women to interact in an environment geared toward networking. "We can cast a wider net and create critical mass by bringing this group together at our office." She loves being able to attract talented individuals from many backgrounds to showcase the firm.
"I talk about it with such enthusiasm because I would have loved to have had something like this when I was in college," she says, noting that it really underscores the progress that has been made that these programs now exist.
In her spare time, Soderini loves traveling with her wife, primarily from the base they have established in Barcelona, a beautiful city and convenient location for exploring Spain and Europe.


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Working with the 7×21 Ampersand Encausticbords made just for this collaborative exhibit turned into an unexpected delight. With the width of only 7 inches, I found it natural to lay them side by side and view them as one unit. The theme of connection became stronger as I would work on a panel individually and place it back with the group, the whole. One of my favorite moments was laying geometric oil bar prints created on huge sheets of newsprint across all seven panels. I felt unity in the voice of colors, the seven becoming one,
seven sharing one vision, even in the tiniest of ways.
Tomorrow I will expand on that vision, but now, more layers!
After adding more intuitive marks with layers of medium in between, the magical moment finally arrived, the moment each bord was painted with a signature color.
And at first, I really didn't like them. I had kinda fallen in love with the under layers, but by the next day, my love was refreshed. That's something I've learned time and again, walking away from painting can be just as important as the act of painting.


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The New Mexico AMP Transfer Scholarship is available to students transferring from a 2-year to a 4-year institution to pursue a degree in a STEM discipline. Available to community college students as they begin their first semester at a four-year institution, the scholarship provides important financial assistance during the student's first semester at the university.
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Preference for the Transfer Scholarship will be given to minority students from New Mexico AMP partner institutions that transfer as second semester sophomores and above. Student must meet the following requirements.
- Cumulative GPA of 2.5 or greater at the time of transfer and maintain fulltime status
- Underrepresented students in STEM disciplines: African Americans/Black, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, Hispanic/Latinos, and Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders
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A few days ago, author and all around awesome fellow, Neil Gaiman, proposed that folks ought to celebrate Hallowe'en by gifting scary stories upon each other. Being a lover of books and creepy tales myself, I thought this was a brilliant idea. You can then understand my elation upon discovering that Neil and his trusty webgoblin and webelf put together this helpful site dedicated to informing the masses about the noble tradition. In honor of this ancient time honored tradition, I present you with my selection of lovely creepy and scary books that would make excellent All Hallow's Read gifts this season.
1.) Anything by H.P. Lovecraft - Quaint, strange, and creepy tales of yesteryear. Now would be an excellent time to introduce your loved ones to the Great Old Ones. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
2) Ancestor by Scott Sigler - Juicy, blood and entrails soaked monstery goodness. This is what happens when genetic engineering goes so very horribly wrong. This is recommended for adults that have a strong stomach, and love some good ol' monster crunching fun.
3) Soulless by Gail Carriger - OK, so this isn't a "scary" book, per se, but it does contain a plethora of werewolves, vampires, and evil mad scientists. Plus, it's brilliantly amusing and dreadfully entertaining. One of the most satisfying books I've read in a long time. I would recommend this for your lady friends and definitely someone of mature persuasions since there is some nookie at the end.
4) Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark by Alvin Schwartz - A creepy and gross collection of scary short stories for the younger audience. This is a set of a stories I enjoyed in my youth. These stories would be good for the young teenager, but probably not for the very young.
5) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - A fabulous novel about a boy who is raised by the ghosts of a graveyard. A charming and wonderful read. While there are a few scary parts that might upset the very young, this story works well for all ages. What I love about this book (aside from the excellent story) is that each chapter can stand on its own as a short story which would make it an excellent choice for bedtime reading fun.
6) B.R.P.D. Comic Series by Mike Mignola et al. - Side tales from the Hellboy universe, this series deals with creepy story about the secret agency B.R.P.D. and its occult threats. Recommended for the comic book and Lovecraft mythos lovers.
7) Personal Effects: Dark Art by J.C. Hutchins - A dark and creepy psychological thriller. This is fascinating story about an art therapist for the extreme mentally messed up. His latest patient is seriously creepy with the weirdness creeping into the therapists non-work life. This is recommended for adults who like some mind twisting mayhem.
8) The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey - A lovely, albeit morbid, alphabet book about the unfortunate and unusual misfortunes and maladies of some very dire children. Personally, I loved this book with its humorous, yet fatal, child accidents, and its delightful pen illustrations. However, I was a very odd child, so it's probably best to judge for yourself on whether this would be appropriate for young ones. Still, it's a delightfully Hallowe'enie masterpiece.
9) The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling - Really, I shouldn't have to explain this one. If one of your friends or family hasn't read these yet, now would be a most excellent time to get them hooked on the series. Expecto Patronum!
10) There's a Zombie In My Treehouse by Ken Plume et al. - A chuckle inducing children's story with a family that meets a mysterious end. What would you do if you suspected that there was a zombie in your treehouse? What would any of us do? We would warn, of course, but do you think that would help? A delightful story with wonderful illustrations by Len Peralta.
And with that, have a very happy and scary story filled All Hallow's Read, everyone!


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Auto Accident Injury Care from Your Downtown Toronto Chiropractor
About 200,000 people are injured each year in car accidents in Canada, and many of those accidents result in long-term symptoms that can be difficult to detect and evaluate in their early stages. That's because many accidents - even "minor" fender-benders - tend to cause some amount of soft tissue and nerve damage in the back or neck, injuries that can take days or even weeks to show up. Having a chiropractic evaluation right after an accident ensures you get the treatment you need to help prevent long-term pain and other symptoms. Dr. Brian Dower is a leading chiropractor in Toronto, providing advanced, comprehensive car accident treatment tailored to each patient's specific needs. If you've been in a car accident, here's how he can help.
What to Do After an Auto Accident
If you've been in a car accident, the very first thing you should do is seek medical attention for any emergency medical needs you have. If you can, try to find an area near the scene that's safe from oncoming traffic or other hazards, then call 9-1-1 for emergency help and police assistance. The police can provide an "official" record of the event, which is important for insurance claims, and they can help you get the information you need from the other driver, including their license number and insurance information.
At some point following your accident, you'll need to call your insurance company and report your accident. And you should also schedule a chiropractic check-up with a chiropractor in Toronto, even if you don't have any immediately apparent injuries from the accident, and even if the accident seems very minor. Why? Because often, the symptoms of a car accident injury can take awhile to show up, and if you don't have a chiropractic exam right away, you might wind up being responsible for the costs of your care.
Why Auto Injuries May Not Be Apparent Immediately
Many auto accident injuries involve inflammation, and it can take some time before inflammation reaches a stage where it causes noticeable symptoms, like headaches and back pain or radiating pain in the arms and legs. Some of the most common car accident injuries include:
- Whiplash
- Chronic headaches
- Low back pain
All of these issues have one thing in common: They arise from nerve impingements that develop when the impact from an accident can cause your vertebrae and discs to become misaligned, and without chiropractic care, your symptoms can potentially become much worse over time.
How a Chiropractor Can Help With Auto Accident Injuries
Chiropractors are skilled in assessing injuries involving the nerves and other tissues in and around the back and neck, using hands-on techniques to evaluate the spine and identify areas of inflammation and irritation, even in their earliest stages. Your chiropractor might order X-rays or other imaging studies to assess your injuries so you receive the most appropriate care based on your unique needs and symptoms. An effective car accident treatment plan focuses on treatments aimed at eliminating nerve impingements, reducing inflammation and promoting circulation and natural healing, and can include an array of techniques like chiropractic adjustments, massage therapy, and acupressure. Plus, you'll learn about therapeutic exercises you can perform at home to promote faster healing and more rapid relief of your symptoms. Your treatment plan will be designed just for you, so you can start feeling better right away.
Schedule an Appointment with Dr. Brian Dower
If you've been in a car accident, having a chiropractic evaluation with our Downtown Toronto chiropractor, Dr. Brian Dower, is critically important for your health and wellness, both now and in the future. To make sure you receive the best treatment for your needs, call Dr. Dower at (416) 920-7275 and schedule your evaluation today.


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Sidelines with John Clay
Nick Haynes' parting with Kentucky unfortunate end to his college career
For Nick Haynes, it's a shame it ended this way.
The senior offensive lineman, a team captain, was one of the more interesting and well-spoken players to ever pull on a Kentucky football uniform. A stand-up guy who took pride in his performance, Haynes may have been UK's best all-around lineman as a junior during the team's TaxSlayer Bowl run.
All of that makes what happened over the past three weeks, culminating with Saturday's announcement that Haynes and the UK football program had agreed to a "mutual separation" before the team's Music City Bowl, that much more disappointing.
Obviously frustrated over his season-long battle with diabetes, that basically caused him to miss the last half of the season, Haynes sent a tweet the night before the Louisville game ripping some members of the coaching staff.
"It's all about that check," read Haynes' surprise tweet. "That's the one big thing I discovered here at UK. They'll use you up for all your worth and then throw you to the side."
The tweet, which was quickly deleted, appeared to come out of the blue, unless you were there for Haynes' final meeting with the media the week of the Louisville game, which was both the Cats' regular season and home finale.
Though Haynes said he was happy with his career and his contribution to the program, he said he looked forward to being able to go out on his own and finding medical experts who could better help him manage his diabetes so that he could take a shot at the NFL.
Haynes didn't openly criticize UK or the medical staff, but reading between the lines you could tell he wasn't totally happy with the way his condition had been handled.
After the 44-17 loss to Louisville, UK Coach Mark Stoops said he had talked to Haynes abut the tweet, saying, "He was rubbed the wrong way after curfew by one of our younger coaches, and we'll just leave it at that."
Saturday, Stoops confirmed the Florida native was no longer practicing with the team. In many ways, the move makes sense. Haynes was unlikely to play in the bowl game. Now he can move on with his goal of finding the help he needs. Still, this isn't an ideal end for either party.
Here's what I'll remember from Haynes' time at UK: Kentucky's 28-27 loss to Florida back in September.
I'm not talking about the holding call on Haynes that basically killed UK's final drive as the Cats were moving into position for Austin MacGinnis to have a shot at kicking the winning field goal.
What I will remember is Haynes showing up for the post-game press conference and answering every question. He didn't believe the call was correct, but he didn't blast the official who made the call either. He handled the situation with honesty, maturity and class.
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▪ Kentucky football received a commitment from junior-college quarterback Terry Wilson over the weekend, reports Ben Roberts of the Herald-Leader. Wilson is expected to immediately compete for the starting position next season. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out, especially with regard to senior-to-be Drew Barker.
▪ I wrote about John Calipari saying he was disappointed his players haven't received more respect. UK improved to 8-1 with a 93-76 win over Monmouth in New York on Saturday. Still, there's a national perception that this class of freshmen isn't quite as talented as previous Calipari collections. UK's relatively easy early schedule hasn't done anything to change that perception.
▪ I watched Arizona State upset Kansas 95-85 on Sunday. Bobby Hurley's Sun Devils are a lot of fun to watch. Just don't tell that to Kansas Coach Bill Self, who watched his team lose its second straight game. Gary Bedore of the Kansas City Star reports that Self is particularly upset with the Jayhawks' defense. Self said this is the softest team he's had at KU.
▪ So much for sun and fun in Florida for the UK women's basketball team, which dropped back-to-back games in the Sunshine State. After losing to Florida Gulf Coast on Friday, Matthew Mitchell's club lost 65-54 at Miami on Sunday. Now 8-3, Kentucky was blitzed 42-24 in the second half.
▪ The Bengals have obviously thrown in the towel, as evidenced by Cincinnati's 33-7 loss to visiting Chicago on Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium. Paul Daugherty of the Enquirer writes that it was an ugly reminder of losses gone by.
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Recap: Walk-Bike Nassau Presentation on Cycling Clubs/
Walk-Bike Nassau had over 100 attendee's including local, regional and state agencies, health professionals, traffic safety educators, law enforcement, non-profits and the public. The mission was to raise awareness, provide education, and empower residents and community leaders in Nassau County to increase health and safety while walking and biking.
Why Walk-Bike Nassau? Look at the charts below - the numbers are sobering. Nassau County has the highest number of pedestrian fatalities, according to the Governors Pedestrian Safety Action Plan, in New York State after New York City and followed by Suffolk County. The Nassau County Traffic Safety Board, which is charged with reducing the number of injuries and fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes, is undertaking a campaign to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety in Nassau County. Walk-Bike Nassau was an important step in bringing people to the table to address pedestrian fatality rates while increasing health and safety.
Long Island Streets and partners Flanzig & Flanzig, and CLIMB attended Walk-Bike Nassau, representing on and off road cyclists throughout Long Island, with a focus on bike law, advocacy efforts and the power of cycling clubs and organizations. The event was attended by State and local DOT players, local politicians and key transportation planners as well as those interested in making Nassau a better place to bike and walk.
Strength in Numbers was a presentation by Allison Blanchette. Much of the presentation was to demystifying cycling clubs, provide information how to get involved and explain why clusters of cyclists take a lane / cycling behavior on Long Island streets. Putting a face to cycling club members on and off road - these are parents, children, neighbors and everyday people.....and then highlighting the tremendous events and education that clubs provide = the true boots on the ground advocates for safer streets and healthy communities through awareness, education, encouragement, sports and recreation.
Bicycle Law- Daniel Flanzig's focus was on the lack of protection for cyclists both in legislation and in the brutal reality of riding. Using video provided by our good friend Roger, Daniel was able to demonstrate the danger and difficulty of cycling on Long Island.
A few photo's from Walk-Bike Nassau...
Walk-Bike Nassau was sponsored by the Governors Traffic Safety Committee in partnership with Long Island Health Collaborative and the NY Coalition for Transportation Safety. The Steering Committee included Long Island Streets, DEDICATEDD, AAA-Northeast, and injury prevention specialists from Northwell Hospital.