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The bath towel v the bathrobe
It was a terrible year for famous men and bathrobes, but a great year for women and towels. Bathwear – or bath-leisure as one magazine called it – became a gendered battleground. With Rihanna in an Emilio Pucci head-towel on Paris Vogue's cover and Rita Ora in Palomo Spain bathwear at the MTV Europe Music awards, women and towels tipped it away from the alleged bathrobed misdeeds of Harvey Weinstein, Dustin Hoffman and others.
A Doncaster fencing company
When the Heras T-shirt, designed and sold by London bootleg streetwear company Sports Banger, appeared online, it took a fair amount of Googling to reveal that it was the logo of a Doncaster-based company that makes the temporary fences seen at festivals. Sports Banger's Jon Wright designed it because he was feeling nostalgic for his youth.
Ugly, expensive trainers
It is testament to the creativity of fashion that, in 2017, few could resist the expensive, ugly trainer. The best – and ugliest – were the Balenciaga Triple S trainers. Their appeal proved that fashion likes irony; by wearing them, you got the joke. Plus, in a sickly economy, there's a certain visual diplomacy that comes with wearing a pair of £595 trainers that look cheap and crap.
Theresa May's necklace
Our PM took her look in a new direction, with the almost permanent appearance of her "strong and stable necklace". Essentially a massive silver chain designed to offset a boring outfit, it appeared whenever she was due to discuss the EU, quickly becoming as stale as the catchphrase.
Ivanka Trump's mismatched earrings
Ivanka's attempt to reclaim feminism hit a low point when she wore mismatched Marni earrings to a state dinner. This could have been stellar optics, were the fashion industry her target rather than the world. The result was simply to prove that she had read Vogue closely enough to heed its advice on how to wear earrings, but not closely enough to read its unanimously negative coverage of her father's politics.
Corbyn T-shirts
If Jeremy Corbyn's silver shell suit caused hysteria in 2016, there was little hope that the fashions of 2017 could resist him. And so it proved as he ended up as the face of the British bootleg industry, appearing on all sorts of DIY T-shirts. The best was probably the Corbyn Nike one (now in the V&A), a mashup that replaced the "Just do it" slogan with the Labour leader's name. And also worked as a pun on "Corbynite/Nike". Sort of. Not.
A £145 paperclip
Prada usually takes a backseat when it comes to self-referential irony. This year, its £145 paperclip changed all that. It was a money-clip that looked like a paperclip. Pointless, weird and geared towards the 1%, it was also symptomatic of fashion finding joy, and profit, in the mundane. As we career towards a cashless economy, a money clip will become positively nostalgic.
Spiked Manolos
Melania Trump's wardrobe for the inauguration provided rich pickings for critics. But few pieces raised eyebrows like the Manolo Blahniks she wore to board the plane for Texas following Hurricane Harvey. The look came to symbolise the disconnect between the first lady and the rest of the world. By the time the plane landed, she was in trainers, but by then it was too late.
Steve Bannon's triple-shirting
Breitbart may have its own fashion critic, but it was Bannon's millefeuille of shirts (usually three, according to his spokesperson) that taught us most about far-right style. Theories abounded over the former White House strategist's look: were they the layers of his nationalist ideology, his winter beach house look, or a cry for help? In the end, it turned out, no one cared.
Brand Bernie
The year's biggest curveball came in the form of Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign logo, which appeared on Balenciaga's scarves and padded coats. The Vermont senator wasn't keen, describing the collection as looking "very 'wealthiest one-10th of the 1% to me'," but no matter. Sanders keeping you warm in the impending nuclear winter is an enticing prospect.
The Love Island water bottle
In the fight against plastic pollution, it is satisfying to think that newly minted ecowarrior Michael Gove will cite Love Island as his ecospiration. Thanks to the show, luxe water bottles (chiefly, S'well bottles – affordable and slick) have gone from stealth symbols of wellness to environmental must-haves.


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Within the startup community there is a saying "release early". However, is that actually a good idea and does it apply to all websites?
All through history we have loved sayings. Whether it is the wisdom of Confucius or the Proverbs of Solomon, we love it when life lessons can be nicely compressed into an easy to digest soundbite.
But what happens when two of these nuggets of wisdom contradict? Take for example the mantra within the start-up community "release early". How does this mesh with the old saying of "you only get one chance to make a first impression"? My problem is I can see both sides of this argument.
The benefits of releasing early
On one hand I love the idea of releasing early, because too many web professionals become obsessed with making their product perfect before launch. Setting aside that nothing we build will ever be perfect, releasing early allows us to test our site or application with real users and get real customer feedback. This is always better than any amount of careful crafting and tweaking of your product.
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On the other hand I've also seen the damage caused by releasing too early. As the saying goes "you only get one chance to make a first impression" and I have witnessed web applications being shot down before they could even be properly launched. If users visit your site only to discover that it is missing key features or content, they may well never return for a second look. Worse still, if they encounter a buggy site they may conclude that those behind the product are incapable of producing anything better.
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Here is my pitiful attempt at beating Leda and Phipson in the Dem BOnes Halloween COntest.
I wanted to do something with the collectable minifigs and chose Dracula.
Dracula has kidnapped the Kings Daughter. In haste, the king sent his best men, all of whom are dead. His forces stripped thin, the King sent the last of the men he could spare: A simple archer, and a lone footsoldier. Dracula has hidden the princess away in his tower, which is somewhere on a desolate mountain. The resuers must beware, for dracula has two undead guards and a monster so evil, that its name must never be known....
the Whole tower. It was so tall i had trouble fitting the whole thing in a picture.
a view from below. I wanted to have something like this as my main pic, but it never worked out...
Another view from Below.
A view form above, showing dracula and his two undead gaurds.
Closer images of Dracula and the Guards.
The archer. Somehow he threw a grappling hook and is attempting to climb up the tower. I really like how this one turned out.
SHowing both dracula and the archer.
An dead Knight of the King hung to ward off any potential rescuers.
the mountain. Now I realize the difference between Dark Bley and dark Grey
A pic of the room where the princess is being held
the first floor. Nothing special
The foot soldier. He has somehow gotten into the tower unoticed, and is climbing up to the top
The princess. What is she so afraid of?
NOOO!!! the worst beast of all - worse that lawyers! A MIME!!!! The princess is attempting to defend herself with a knife
the last two pics, provings its an 8x8 base.
well folks thats all. Well, my predictions? Leda or Phipson. Best i've seen. ]
well - a happy second moc to me.
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R.E.D. Code
February 5, 2011
It's okay I couldn't see some pictures but all in all great entry! 4/5
I like it
Alex Mac
January 16, 2011
Ooh, very nice, nothing says Dem Bones like a tall, looming, dark tower hanging with corpses!
I like it
Parrington Levens
October 19, 2010
4,4,5, - love this!
I like it
jason corlett
October 16, 2010
13 points. A fine entry! You did very well for your second moc! Keep it up!
Dave Kaleta
October 16, 2010
Originality: 4 , Presentation: 3 , Build: 4 = 11
I like it
Master Shifu Leo J
October 15, 2010
Originality: 4 , Presentation: 3 , Build: 5 = 12
I like it
Doctor N
October 12, 2010
Ok, that thing with the mime (shudder) was just spooky. Just...yeah. Excellent build!
I made it
A Monkey
October 12, 2010
Thanks for the comments. I think it looks a lot better in person, but regardless, I wasnt too happy with most of the pictures. Thanks Heath for rating it, and all of you guys for the comments.
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A Monkey
October 12, 2010
Quoting Heath 'kik36' Flor
Well Mister Monkey, this is indeed a fine entry. You should always be confident of your builds. How are you certain that Leda won't get a 10? LMAO OK, while the build is great, it's also a little bit bland. Next time you should try to challenge yourself. Don't just go up...spiral up like Leda did. Give the action a little more POP if you will. Originality 4 (nice Mime!), presentation 4 (watch out for those darker pics), and Build is a 4 for a total of 12. Good luck with the other judges.
what could i do better? aside from the pictures, thats given...
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Heath 'kik36' Flor
October 12, 2010
Well Mister Monkey, this is indeed a fine entry. You should always be confident of your builds. How are you certain that Leda won't get a 10? LMAO OK, while the build is great, it's also a little bit bland. Next time you should try to challenge yourself. Don't just go up...spiral up like Leda did. Give the action a little more POP if you will. Originality 4 (nice Mime!), presentation 4 (watch out for those darker pics), and Build is a 4 for a total of 12. Good luck with the other judges.
I like it
Mister Bones
October 12, 2010
I am SO glad you commented and stated the category, I would have hated to DQ this. I think you did a great job, best of luck with the judges.
I like it
Eric Mickle
October 11, 2010
This is very wel built, but you shouldn't give up right off the bat. Good Luck! >Eric
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A Monkey
October 10, 2010
I wasnt necessarily condemning myself, I simply think that you and phipson have it in the bag. I do like how mine came out, but I think that you guys have this contest wrapped up...
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Leda Kat
October 10, 2010
Haha, true Waffles, better than my tenth too! I wasn't building this good till just last week (I hide my weak builds behind arty photos)... honestly, some of my early works I'm so ashamed of I want to delete them! You've got incredible potential here on MOCpages to pull something like this out with only a second build.
I like it
Waffles .
October 10, 2010
Like Leda said, don't be so hard on yourself. I mean, this is only your second moc, and this is so much better than my 10th! Trust me, the photography will improve. Now for the moc. I really liked the story line, and the mime addition was great. You have quite a collection there, Mr. Monkey. Great job for a second moc! ~Waff
I like it
Leda Kat
October 10, 2010
Don't condemn yourself and your moc from the very first line of text! If you're going to do that then why even go to the bother of posting it?! This is a very well built vig, I like it very much. The rock work on the base is clever and helps stabilize a tall vig and really gives the eyes something extra to look at. The tower top is very clever in its simplicity. It has lots of nice details and the style is very true to the style of Dracula. Some of the photos are a little dark, but as you say its only your second moc so you will get better at that the more you take and experiment. I think you will be surprised at the good scores you get for this build.
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A Monkey
October 10, 2010
2 things: Note that Im not a photographer, and this is only my second moc, so Im not that great at taking pictures. Also, I dont believe I stated what catagory its in. Its the classic monster vig. Thanks
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Lowdown: Kirk & Co revisited by an old enemy.
In our sins we have been re-watching the original Star Trek series lately. Although full of bull, even in Spock's so called logical ways, I have to say we find it pretty entertaining and much less of the soap opera than the Next Generation. Having watched the Khan TV episode (Space Seed, dated season 1 episode 22 from 1967) we thought the next rational thing to do is to follow it up by watching Star Trek 2 - The Wrath of Khan, which was first released in 1982.
Wrath of Khan is the second of the Star Trek feature films, the first one being too artistic and grandiose for its own good and thus quite boring. Wrath of Khan, on the other hand, is a film with tons of historical importance: I watched it for the first time in New York's Queens as a child getting out of Israel for the first time. That visit to New York has had a significant impact on me; I still recall the pleasurable and massive awe I had experienced upon wandering the Big Apple. One afternoon my father took us to visit an old friend of his now [then] living in Queens, in this huge apartment building. The kids were playing baseball in the building's courtyard, but I was as interested in that game as I am now; instead I listened to the host's battle stories about New York crime (crime was not something you would experience first hand in Tel Aviv), ate the generous dinner steak on offer, and for dessert – watched Wrath of Khan on cable. Cable! What a wonderful intention! At the time I even thought the ads were great (Israel's sole TV channel back then was just transitioning out of black and white transmissions, and ads took more than a decade to enter more to enter the scene). I didn't enjoy the film much; I couldn't understand the English well enough to understand what was taking place and overall found the film too boring. But oh, what a pleasure it was to be able to watch a film just out of the cinemas at a home environment, and in New York none the less!
Since that childhood experience I never got the opportunity to revisit Wrath of Khan properly again. I was curious but low in expectations ahead of today's DVD viewing.
Wrath of Khan takes place around two decades following the Space Seed, an episode in which the Enterprise's crew rescues a spaceship floating in space for several centuries with its inhabitants frozen. They discover, albeit too late, that these refugees are escaped convicted criminals from late twentieth century earth led by Khan (Ricardo Montalban, an older version of whom also plays Khan in the film). Khan's gang turns out to be the result of eugenic experiments to create super humans, and as such they think they are superior to the Enterprise's crew and try to take the ship over. Kirk outdoes Kahn, though, and sentences him to exile on a remote planet nearby.
Move on to the film, and Kirk's an admiral with Spock the captain of an Enterprise manned mostly by aspiring cadets. We learn Khan's exile was rather rough, and we see Khan secure himself a spaceship with which he plans to make his revenge on Kirk. This time it's personal; will Kirk, reassuming his commanding position on the Enterprise's bridge, be able to stop Khan again? Not only is Kirk's personal fate at stake here, but also the fate of the Enterprise's young crew and that of the new experimental Genesis machine that is able to generate a living world out of nothing; at the hands of Khan it could prove to be a mighty weapon. Rest assured, though: with Khan's superior intelligence stuck in twenty century thinking, the fate of humanity is in good hands.
Overall, Star Trek 2 - The Wrath of Khan is a pretty entertaining affair. It's entertaining because of its silliness, as in the case of these small crappy looking insects that penetrate innocent ears and render their subject controllable. It's entertaining in its Star Trek world of clichés, as per standard issue logical Spock vs. spontaneous (?) Bones. And it's clumsily entertaining in the way it copies The Empire Strikes Back and gives Kirk a renegade son, thus creating a poor replica of the legendary "Luke, I am your father" scene.
In short, if you like Star Trek, you would like to reminisce with this one. Indeed, reminiscing seems to be what the film does best, with very long expositions telling us rather too tediously that our heroes have been aging through the years; you will only suffer through this if you care for the characters in the first place.
Other than that, there are some inconsistencies between the film and the TV series that set it up. For example, if memory serves me right, the Chekov character that takes a pivotal part in the film did not exist in the Space Seed episode. The changes that matter more are the changes to the spirit of the Enterprise: the uniforms and the rituals are much more navy like than that free enterprising spirit the series boasted. I guess all is fair in love and the war to differentiate the film from the TV screen.
On the more positive side, production values have significantly improved. The visual effects, although not digital (thank goodness), are quite impressive and are used to create thrilling spaceship duels. These are more intense and clever than anything the TV series could muster.
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It seems like whenever a TV series moves to the big screen it feels the need to escalate matters so that the transition will seem justified. In Wrath of Khan that escalation comes in the form of the death of one of the Enterprise's key crew members (which I won't name here as I don't want to ruin the film for you; I will, however, point out that Wrath of Khan's sequel, Star Trek 3, is called The Search for Spock).
Of course, the problem with using such escalation tactics is - what do you do on your next sequel? Go even a step further and destroy the Enterprise itself? And what do you do on subsequent sequels – destroy the Enterprise yet again? Not that I'm suggesting in any way that this would be the course of action taken by the producers of Star Trek; no way, they're bound to be smarter than that. After all, that ship lasted through countless TV episodes; it would take more than a couple of sequels to destroy it several times.
Technical assessment: The DVD we had on our hands here sported a nice collection of supplementary material that proved quite interesting, including some recounting of the film's history by key characters collected during the late nineties (a long enough time to allow the benefit of historical perspective). Other than that, the DVD sports poorly constructed menus that limit soundtrack and subtitles accessibility, a rather aged picture and an even older aged sound, especially in the dialog department. The musical soundtrack is very eighties, with pompous symphonic music escorting every pan of the Enterprise across the screen.
Overall: Star Trek fans should love to reminisce with this one. 3.5 out of 5 stars.


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The Hawaii State Teachers Association claims that Gov. Linda Lingle and her chief negotiator, Marie Laderta, lacked standing when they asked the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to order the union to set up random and reasonable-suspicion drug and alcohol tests of teachers as was required under a contract ratified in May 2007.
In a seven-page response to the complaint, the union said Wednesday the state agreed that the testing "would be handled exclusively" by the union and the Board of Education. It also charged that "suspicionless" random drug testing "is unconstitutional under the federal and state constitutions."
HSTA President Roger Takabayashi said yesterday the union has completed guidelines for reasonable-suspicion drug tests but that it has been working with the school board to develop legal random drug-testing procedures.
The American Civil Liberties Union has threatened to sue the state if the random drug tests are carried out.
"We want to get it done. We just want to get it done right," Takabayashi said. "It's as simple as that."
The union has been considering limiting random drug tests to certain teachers, such as those who have been convicted of drunken driving or have a history of being late to, or absent from, class.
Laderta, who had not yet seen the union's response, said state attorneys have determined that randomly testing teachers for drugs would not violate their privacy rights. Laderta also said she believes Lingle and her administration have standing to complain to the labor board because they are an employer as well.
"We are one jurisdiction -- us, the Board of Education and the DOE (Department of Education)," she said. "We are the employers, all three of us."
The labor board will hold a hearing to decide whether the union is at fault, a board official has said. No date has been set.
The state added the drug program as a non-negotiable item to agree to a two-year, $120 million teacher contract approved last year by 61.3 percent of more than 8,000 union members. The contract awarded about 13,000 isle teachers two annual raises of 4 percent.
On top of questions over the legality of the planned testing, education officials and Lingle have also clashed over who should pay for the drug program.
In January the Board of Education voted to reject setting aside $400,000 to pay for annual tests of as many as 3,250 teachers, or one in four employees, saying they did not want to divert money from the classroom.
Lingle has argued that the Education Department has enough funds in its $2 billion-plus budget for the tests.


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In Britain man died because of electronic cigarette
In Great Britain a man died, charging his electronic cigarette. Gadget's victim became 62 years old David Thompson. Device has blown up and oxygen concentrator that man used has took fire as well.
Accident took place in Merseyside County. Burned body of 62 years old David Thomson was found in the sitting room of the house. To the moment of fire brigade arrival fire in the bedroom has been already extinguished.
Exact cause of the man's death should still be determined, but police considers that the fire was caused by low-quality charging device. "It seems that the charger that was used wasn't the device that was attached to electronic cigarette" - representative of local fire service Myles Platt told.
Since January 2014 only in Merseyside were recorded nine fires because of electronic cigarettes.


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Watching the first two episode of Girls with the passive attention it deserved, I decided my favourite in the show was Zosia Mamet. I knew I had seen her before, but it never occurred to me she plays Peggy's lesbian friend in Mad Men, a show I watch religiously.
Here is some more Zosia Mamet from Funny or Die. Posted here with permission.
By the way, "Zosia as a girl's name is a variant of Sophia (Greek), and the meaning of Zosia is "wisdom". Speaking of wisdom, her dad David Mamet wrote Glengarry Glen Ross (the play and the movie) and Wag the Dog!


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Anyone who is anyone has made it their first priority to eat and be seen at STK Miami. Housed in the ultra-chic Gansevoort South Beach since opening in January, the restaurant's doing pretty darn well for itself. But even with celebrity fans like Fergie and Josh Duhamel dining away, there's one reason why everyone keeps going back for more: the menu. You feel like a rock star even eating there, but the food puts the eatery above the rest. Who can we thank for things like their Big Eye Tuna with Roasted Pineapple or their Organic Free Range Chicken? One man name by the name of Todd Mark Miller.
STK's executive chef didn't take a typical path to culinary fame. Born and raised in Utah, Miller made it to the top of his game with no formal training. From Las Vegas to New York, he has worked alongside some of the best chefs in the world's most prestigious restaurants. After making a serious mark on The Big Apple as executive chef at STK New York, STK did us a favor and brought him to cook up his amazing food in Miami Beach.
Todd Mark sat down with us to talk to us about everything from what he thinks you should have in your kitchen to how he made his mark on the food world.
I'm sure all the dishes on each of your menus are like your children, but if you had to choose only one dish from the menu, which ones are you most proud of?
That's a good question! If there was a gun to my head and I could only answer with one dish it would be the Foie Gras French Toast.
Most popular item on the menu?
I would have to say the Little Big Macs.
How would you describe Miami's dining scene?
Very educated about food, loves to have fun and open minded to new things.
You never had any formal training; how did you become such a great chef?
The only real training that I had was from the School of Hard Knocks and I think that I still have a long way to go till I consider myself as a great chef.
STK is doing very well here in Miami. What makes STK so special?
It's the whole package. You get a sexy dining room, amazing scene and music, great drinks and fun tasty innovative cuisine.
You have worked in a lot of great cities. Favorite place you have lived so far?
That's a loaded question!!! Of course Miami, then close second, Singapore.
At what point did you realize you were destined to be a chef?
When I was in college and decided psychology was not in the cards for me.
The 5 ingredients every kitchen should have?
Tons of fresh herbs, a well stocked pantry, Grains of Paradise, anything that's in season, vegetable-wise, and day-caught seafood.
The 5 utensils every kitchen should have?
Immersion circulator, Japanese mandolin, Microplane, sharp knife and your favorite spoon.
First dish you learned to make?
Peanut butter and jelly, naturally.
Favorite dish to make at home?
Anything fresh and simple like oven-roasted salmon over crushed avocado, vine ripened tomato and orange with virgin olive oil and torn herbs.
Favorite food-related memory?
When I would come home from school to my Grandmother's and she would have fresh baked bread still warm for us with soft butter and freshly made preserves from her hand to my sister and my mouths.


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Helping Girls Find Their Political Voice
On November 8, 2016, thousands of young women currently attending or recently graduated from girls' schools across the country will be a part of history in more ways than one. They will be of eligible voting age for the first time, giving them the opportunity to help elect the next president of the United States. These young women will see a woman's name listed on the ballot as a major party candidate for the first time in U.S. history.
In 2020, we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted American women the right to vote. When we celebrate this milestone, it is possible we will have a woman in the White House as president.
As historic as this election is, we still have a long way to go. Women make up 51% of the population, but hold only 22% of the 500,000 elected offices in the United States. In order to have equal representation at every level of government, we need 140,000 more women in office.
Girls' schools help girls develop their voices. In particular, their political voices. In fact, girls' school graduates are 12% more likely than their peers from coed schools to have a political discussion with friends. They also find it essential to keep current with the political scene. Girls' schools are in a prime position to help plug the leaky political pipeline just as they are doing for women in STEAM.
Like girls' schools around the world, IGNITE is an organization dedicated to helping young women develop and use their political voice. I recently had the opportunity to speak with IGNITE's founder and president Anne Moses, who is an alumna of The Nightingale-Bamford School and an adjunct faculty member at the women's college Mills.
Q: Tell me a little bit more about IGNITE. What is the organization's mission?
A: IGNITE is building a national movement of young women who are ready and eager to become the next generation of political leaders. We have programs for high school girls and college women that provide civic education, exposure to women in civic and political leadership, hands-on training opportunities, and a peer network of women who support and nurture each other's aspirations. We are also working to shift the culture to one that's more actively encouraging young women to declare their political ambitions. We just launched a very successful social campaign called #DeclareYourAmbition and our kick-off PSA, 'We All Belong Here' has received so much positive attention online in an otherwise nasty political season for women and girls.
Q: What inspired you to start IGNITE?
A: In 1991 I was 23 years old, applying to grad school, working as a waitress by night. I was at home a lot during the day watching the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings during which Anita Hill got publicly humiliated on TV by the Senate Judiciary Committee—all men—who denied her experience of having been sexually harassed in her workplace. I remember screaming at the television when I saw the vote go down. We all know what happened next—the year of the woman in 1992, when four women were elected to the U.S. Senate. Fifteen years later, I had held leadership positions in some of the top women's political organizations in the country and the number of women in federal office had only inched up. I realized, if we wanted to elect many more women in office, at the federal, state, and local levels, we needed to start building political ambition in young women, when they were in high school and college. Somebody had to do that work, so I started IGNITE.
Q: Girls' schools help young women build self-confidence, develop leadership skills, and set higher aspirations. How did your girls' school experience influence the work you do today?
A: I was fortunate to have a girls' school education, so I know what it's like to have a network of peers and a group of adult role models who have your back and are actively promoting your success. I think attending a girls' school is one of the best ways to prepare a young woman to run for public office because girls' schools are all about setting high aspirations. IGNITE wants young women to actively declare their ambitions and to embrace their innate leadership capabilities—all the things for which a girls' school education stands.
Q: Why is it important for women, especially young women, to get involved in the political process?
A: Politics is really about governance; about who gets to make the policy decisions impacting your life. There are so many policy issues that our local, state, and federal elected leaders determine. Issues like who can access what kinds of healthcare and how our colleges or military should handle cases of sexual assault. Young women need to weigh in on these issues so they can ensure their interests are reflected and represented at the local, state, and federal levels. Half our population is made up of women. It's common sense that half our policymakers ought to be women as well. This is more than an issue of equity. It's a matter of good governance.
Q: What role can young women play in the upcoming presidential election?
A: Obviously, young women who can vote should exercise that hard won right. Those who are too young to vote can still voice their opinions and encourage their friends and family members to vote—and in many cases, they can facilitate that process by finding out where the requisite polling stations are and educating their peers and family about the importance of political participation. Civic education is only taught in 29 states across the U.S. (and not taught very well in many of those 29). This is one of the reasons we have such low voter turnout. If you are a young woman who feels passionately about the issues being put forth in this election and the candidates espousing those issues, use your voice to influence others. Also, we encourage young women to go to the IGNITE website to take the #DeclareYourAmbition pledge.
Q: What would you say to a young woman who thinks her one vote won't make a difference?
A: It's easy to assume a single vote won't count given the millions of people who do vote. But more and more frequently, elections are decided by tiny margins. An example from the state of Washington: Senator Maria Cantwell and Governor Christine Gregoire both won statewide races by less than 250 votes. Likewise, local races for school board or city council seats are regularly decided by even smaller margins.
It's also important to note young women (18-25) actually vote at higher rates than young men in every single election (typically by about 7%). But even in the most recent 2012 U.S. presidential election, only 44% of young women and 37% of young men actually voted! Imagine if every single eligible 18-25 year-old young woman voted? That group of young women would have the power to decide every election.
Q: What are the biggest barriers stopping women from running for office?
A: Young people are turned off by politics, and young women are turned off even more than young men. Given the political climate this year, it's not at all surprising young women feel intimidated and completely disgusted by what they see as highly sexist treatment.
But more globally, I think young women who are interested in running feel like it's too audacious to admit to political ambition. One of the things we often hear from college women is, 'Well, I might be interested, but I don't have enough experience to be qualified.' You don't need 20 years of experience to have a career goal! And certainly, the majority of male college students would never think they have to earn their ambition in the same way.
The research shows this all stems from the way we socialize young men and women—educators, parents, and other influencers don't talk to women as much about politics and don't actively encourage them to run for office or assume any kind of civic and political leadership. So political ambition is hindered from the get-go, and then young women who are interested feel isolated in their goals.
Q: What advice would you give a young woman who is interested in getting involved in politics?
- Declare your ambition. Don't be afraid to tell people this is what you want to do.
- Figure out which issue you care most about. Get involved in community efforts to address that issue and establish yourself as a go-to leader, someone who gets stuff done.
- Find a candidate you like, volunteer on her campaign, do a great job, tell her you want to run for office some day, and ask her to mentor you. There's nothing like working on a campaign to demystify the mechanics of running. And most women in office want to do right by the next generation.
- Be proactive about building and maintaining a network of people who can and will support you in all your endeavors. Do for others, do for your community, and be the kind of person you admire.
Q: What work do you do with young women to make sure they have a political voice?
A: Throughout all our programming, IGNITE gives young women a deeper understanding of an array of personally relevant policy issues. We don't tell them what to think, we teach them how to think and critically analyze the issues in their communities and how they might solve them. We also teach them about voting—the history of the suffrage movement, and how to ensure they and their peers exercise that right. Last, we introduce our participants to elected women leaders from their home communities, who demystify the process of how to get elected, and give voice to the difference they make once in office. The combination of these factors helps young women see there are multiple ways to exercise their own political voice—as an advocate around policy issues, as a voter, and ultimately, as a legislator.
Q: How can schools and students get involved with IGNITE programs?
A: IGNITE has a high school curriculum that can be licensed by schools and teachers. College students can start an IGNITE Chapter on their campus or join an IGNITE Chapter, if one already exists. College professors can teach our class on Women & Politics.
Q: Any programs for parents of girls?
A: Yes! Elections provide a great opportunity for parents to engage their daughters in discussion around civic engagement and political leadership. IGNITE has a parent/daughter toolkit and discussion guides, complete with infographics and segmented by developmental stage.
Q: Any final thoughts or words of advice you would like to share with the NCGS community?
A: As educators, you have the power to encourage your students to step into political leadership. Tell a young woman to run for office in her school. Encourage a girl to consider political leadership for her career. Young women tend towards public service, but more typically in the non-profit or educational arenas. Elected leadership is the highest form of public service and has the capacity to change lives. We need more women in office, so ask a girl to run and see how it changes her outlook on what is possible.
Megan Murphy, Executive Director, National Coalition of Girls' Schools
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May 5th, 2011: Steve Coleman & Five Elements
@cité de la musique
No drummer this time, the piano (David Virelles) and guitar (Miles Okazaki) were in charge of the rhythm section. I like percussive piano, so that was fine by me. I really like what Steve Coleman does, and I'm most fond of Jen Shyu and Jonathan Finlayson in this lineup, so I was well within my comfort zone despite the changes — I'm not sure that's a good thing though.
Overall that was definitely not one of my favorite performances of theirs, but there were unexpected rhythmic twists in the second part that made it well worth it. I suspect I could come to reevaluate this positively in the future, it had the feel of something new being tried.
What felt weird was that I didn't like Jen Shyu as much as usual. I suspect that my finally seeing her solo made me chafe at her secondary role. That would not be a good development, as she's probably not likely to play solo often around here. But Coleman was good and I took that opportunity to focus more on Finlayson, and that was very rewarding. And they played for a long time, adding an encore without Coleman that was more playful than the main event. I was surprised at how long they had played, always a sure sign that I enjoyed the show more than I thought.
I'm not sure what I think of it, and that's a good thing.
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Barbara Zanon
BARBARA ZANON is a professional photojournalist, portrait and wedding photographer, based in Venice (Italy) since 2004.
Barbara Zanon is a GETTY IMAGES CONTRIBUTOR in the News and she published pictures on internationally known italian and foreign NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES (as Life, Repubblica, Vogue, Gruppo Espresso, Stern Corriere, El Mundo, EL Pais, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Express, Le MONDE, Forbers, Time etc)
She is a member of ITALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION, and she also is a awarded member of international wedding associations, as JUNEBUG, WPJA, AGWPJA, ISPWP and WPS. In 2013, AGWPJA insert her in the top 15 wedding photographers in the world and , In 2015, WPS in top worldwide 20 wedding photographers.
Her photos were exhibited in London, New York, Paris, Bangkok, Perugia, Venice.
7 Awards for Documentary Wedding Photography
13 Awards from the Artistic Guild of Wedding Photojournalists
6 TOP Wedding Photographer Titles
The WPJA proudly recognizes Barbara Zanon as a TOP International Wedding Photographer. Members holding the most contest points at the end of each year are ranked as TOP Wedding Photographers or, in some cases POY - Photographer of the Year.


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Christmas Markets, Cool Vodka Luge, Covent Garden Discount Shopping Day and the latest openings and foodie news…
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Christmas Markets Special…
Whisper it gently – Christmas is just round the corner… which means it's time to get down to the many Christmas markets popping up all around London…
Christmas in Covent Garden from 24 November
Traditional Christmas Market @ Southbank Centre
Sixty traditional twinkling wooden chalets have been set up along the Queen's Walk providing all manner of unique hand-crafted gifts and unusual Christmas presents. Expect everything from wooden toys and jewellery to gingerbread hearts and quirky gifts. If that sounds like hungry work, there are plenty of food stalls serving temptations such as bratwurst, roasted pork and potatoes, roasted chestnuts and warming mulled Wine. There is also a festive food market on 2-4 December and 16-23 December. www.southbankcentre.co.uk
One of the biggest Christmas themed spectacles in London, highlights include an outdoor ice rink and Zippo's Christmas Circus. They've also got loads of rides, a German Christmas market and plenty of festive treats to enjoy. Grown-ups may want to check out the Spiegal Saloon too. Set in an antique travelling ballroom, guests can enjoy free cabaret and live performances whilst enjoying a fantastic range of winter-warming meals and bar snacks. www.hydeparkwinterwonderland.com
Running from 6pm until midnight, the Long Table offers an impressive selection of East London's finest street food, a bar and live music. Literally a long table, on offer is a range of small plates and food from some of the area's top street food vendors including steak from the Hawksmoor, hot dogs, Vietnamese dishes and tapas. Located in Abbott Street car park. www.bootstrapcompany.co.uk/20_the_long_table
A winter wonderland will descend onto the Courtyard at Bluebird with a fabulously festive Christmas grotto. Big and little children will be treated to hot dogs, toffee apples and warm salty popcorn, before meeting Father Christmas and delving into Santa's sack for a present. Grown-ups will also be treated to mulled wine and a hog roast, and will also no-doubt be tempted by the foodie stalls selling fresh goodies from the Bluebird Bakery. www.bluebird-restaurant.co.uk
20% Discount Shopping Night in Covent Garden
20% off Late-night Shopping & Dining in Covent Garden, 1 December
Save yourself a load of stress and a fair bit of dosh by getting your Christmas shopping done early in Covent Garden. 120 stores in Covent Garden's Seven Dials and St Martin's Courtyard will be offering 20% off especially for this festive shopping evening. Restaurants and bars are also involved to offer festive discounts for hungry shoppers. The fun continues with live DJ's, gifts with certain purchases, complimentary nibbles and a Pop-up Bar in St Martin's Courtyard serving free drinks to those bearing the 20% voucher. Voucher and details at www.sevendials.co.uk
New Openings…
Kitchen Joël Antunès, W1
Long-standing party favourite, The Embassy, has called on the considerable skills of chef Joël Antunès to reinvigorate its restaurant offering. The building has undergone a total interior refurbishment to create the stylish new 95-seat ground-floor restaurant and extended 40-seat terrace. The restaurant showcases a largely Provençal-based menu, with dishes including traditional Coq au vin, Sweetbreads with porcini, Tarte tatin and a somewhat quirky Kit-Kat peanut bar. The interior provides a mood of understated chic, echoing mid-20th century Riviera glamour, with French patterned limestone tiles, a marble topped bar and some impressive modern art. www.embassymayfair.com
With the ever so brilliant Brawn and Terroirs already under their belt, Ed Wilson and Oli Barker have looked to Battersea for the next chapter in the restaurant story. Like its sister restaurants, Soif continues their ethos of cooking well-sourced seasonal ingredients with care and precision, complemented by an extensive range of natural and bio-dynamic wines. As is the vogue, the menu is written daily based on the best available ingredients, with dishes including some of the finest charcuterie around, Jugged hare and Scallops with Lardo di Colonnata. Just as interesting is the 150-strong wine list that provides a good selection to explore by the glass, whilst the restaurant itself provides a laid back and rustic space in which to enjoy the food and drink. 27 Battersea Rise, SW11 1HG. Tel: 0207 223 1112 www.soif.co (website coming soon)
Caprice Holdings, the operators behind restaurants such as The Ivy, Scott's and Le Caprice, have ventured into the world of serious meat with the opening of 34. Aimed squarely at carnivores, the menu is designed to showcase the parrilla grill that has been imported from Argentina. The wide variety of beef includes Scottish dry-aged grass-fed, Wagyu, US prime Creekstone Farm, and free-range organic grass-fed Argentinean; there are also a range of British lamb, seasonal game and seafood dishes available. www.34-restaurant.co.uk
There aren't too many types of cuisine missing from the London dining scene, but we're pretty sure that there aren't too many places to enjoy the culinary delights of Georgia. Located just off Westbourne Grove, Colchis is a new restaurant championing the country's food and wine. With Georgia situated at the crossroads of the East and West, their food is influenced by both Mediterranean and Middle Eastern tastes, resulting in a rich interplay of culinary ideas carried along the trade routes by merchants and travellers. www.colchisrestaurant.co.uk
Try This Week…
Luge in a Box
Remember the good old days when Christmas parties were lavish events created with little concern for budgets and there was almost always a vodka luge to get the evening going. Our budgets may not have loosened lately, but we may be able to see a return of the luge thanks to good people at Luge in a Box. Available in four great designs and LED-lit to make the ice sparkle and shine, simply open the box and pour your poison through the top of the ice and it will arrive into the awaiting mouth or glass perfectly chilled! At £159, these cost just a fraction of the price of the original versions, and is surely a must have for any party this Christmas! www.lugeinabox.co.uk
Zubrowka Bison Grass Vodka
One of the oldest Polish vodka's available, Zubrowka has been distilled in the north west of Poland since the 15th Century. The vodka takes its name from 'Zubr' meaning bison and is made with Polish bison grass from Bialowieza – one of Europe's last herds of wild bison. The bison grass is picked by hand, carefully dried and then added as an extract to a pure golden rye Polish vodka before distillation. Whilst it's popularly mixed with Apple juice for a simple and refreshing cocktail, Zubrowka is genuinely delicious served neat. Not strictly a flavoured vodka due to its subtly, Zubrowka provides a floral and herbaceous nose, whilst the mouthfeel is incredibly creamy with rich notes of vanilla and spring flowers coming through. They have also just launched a great Christmas gift bottle, complete with a green fur jacket, which should be all the excuse you need to grab a bottle. Waitrose and Sainsbury's from £17.50. www.zubrowka.com
Davna Czeri Cherry Vodka
You can't go wrong with a good flavoured vodka and this stuff from Davna not only looks good, but has an incredibly moreish taste too. Produced using traditional methods dating back 180 years in Silesia, an area of Poland famed for producing the finest flavoured vodkas, Davna uses crystal clear mountain water in the distilling process along with whole Polish cherries, to create a pure, clean vodka packed with natural flavour of the fruit. Once the cherries have macerated for two weeks, it is transferred to aged Polish oak barrels and rested for a year prior to blending, when natural flavours of almond, cinnamon and cloves are also added. £17.95 from Harvey Nicholls. www.davnacherryvodka.com
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Gaelle Garcia Diaz Mathias Bossaerts' ex-girlfriend. We can call her a classic WAG, as she was with Marouane Fellaini before.
The buxom blonde only lasted for six weeks with Bossaerts. Shortly before Christmas 2015 she dumped her Belgian defender. Apparently because of the travel distance between England and Belgium. With Marouane Fellaini Garcia Diaz lasted for three months. They met at the Warwick cocktail bar in Hollywood. Giaz was there for a poker tournament. His brother introduced them. They were spotted together by photographers, after which there was a lot of speculation about their alleged relationship.
Gaëlle Garcia Diaz is a daughter of a Spanish father and a Belgian mother. She studied Communications Management & Public Relations at Erasmus Hogeschool Brussels, even though she never really used her diploma. Let's just say she mainly uses her external talents. Diaz is willing and eager to drop her clothes for semi-erotic magazines. She has worked as a VJ for JIM in the past. ,,She is young, talented, and ambitious and above all looks good too. She's a busy-bee who gets a chance to further develop her talents with JIM", said JIM net manager Luc Van Laer.
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Moreover, Gaëlle presented a poker show and wrote stories about it. But she is most well-known for her appearance in the VTM-show 'Is er Wifi in Tahiti?' (Is there Wifi on Tahiti). In it she stated that 'Fellaini could do more than just play football'. With which she meant the midfielder's bed performance.
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Saturday was a beautiful morning. At least my body decided that, instead of sleeping in, I would see how beautiful a morning it was. 6 am came quickly, woke me firmly and decided I would not be heading back to sleep. So, I made coffee, cleared the dry dishes from the sink and sat down to watch the sunrise.
She woke after me for a change and came to find me in the comfy chair in the dining room where I like to sit and type. Grabbing me by the tie of my bathrobe, she pulled me into the bedroom and directly into bed. Somehow the robe fell off my body on the way into bed. Now naked, we lay together, snuggled up close. We touched and caressed and she moved her way to lying on her stomach in our standard "pet me" position. Her left arm is free from under her body and she typically will hold my balls while I pet her.
I started petting her, rubbing according to her direction. The sun shone on the bed as we snuggled tightly under the covers. The warmth of the sun inspired us to relax and almost go back to sleep but her directing me to work out knots in her back prevented slumber. Still, I rubbed her, spending time on her back and her bottom. I even went down to her thighs periodically to give them a bit of a rub. The comforter lay on us and cloaked us from Saturday morning but gaps in that coverage let me smell any of the smells that were under the covers. Every time I rubbed her bottom and her cheeks separated, I'd release another waft of her scent which would work its way out from under the covers. Her hand clutched my balls possessively but my cock was free and was rubbing at the junction of her arm and side, providing a delicious little amount of friction. This closeness, this intimacy, her scent, the gentle friction and my service all came together in a beautiful way. I could feel the energy churning around inside me, I felt my breathing get deeper. I asked "May I orgasm, please?"
"Yes pup, do it." I continued to rub her, catch her scent and rub my cock gently against her, within 30 seconds I was holding onto her hard as orgasm shook my body. My body tensed, I held her, I had a big beautiful orgasm that had several waves and could have gone on for much longer but I reined it in, calmed myself and let me body relax next to her.
"And what brought that on?" she said with a smile on her face.
I explained about all the things that pushed me up and over the edge, making note of the scent, which was likely the biggest factor in pushing me over the edge. "Well good morning to you then!"
I smiled back and she moved from her prone position opening up her breasts to me which I promptly attacked. Another more active round later I found myself at the point of another orgasm, this time while inside her.
I very much enjoy that I've learned to have these orgasms without ejaculation. It's distilled the essence of a full orgasm into one that gives me almost all of the pleasure without spilling the seed in ejaculating and losing that tension. She continues to deny my ejaculating but allows me this type of pleasure. I can't get there any time I want, but then I'm not sure I want to be able to do that, as it might take some of the mystery out of it. In the end, it's a good way to be able to share intimacy with the woman that denies my ejaculation but revels in my orgasm.


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With news this week of the impending TSA body scans and pat downs at airports across the country, I was reminded of a particularly joyful experience WH and I had in Key West a couple of years ago. We had gone down to celebrate a friend's birthday and were returning to D.C. the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Not a great day to travel, but from Key West it wasn't so bad . . . the airport only has one gate.
We were standing in line waiting to be screened and board the plane (which basically all happens within 50 feet of each other) and chit-chatting. WH pointed out a photo on the wall of an FBI's Most Wanted terrorist -- he looked like your garden variety terrorist: disheveled hair, long beard, soul-less eyes, slightly constipated. WH said, "You know if that guy shaved his beard, combed his hair, and put on a Budweiser baseball cap, these idiots would never know the difference." This was, unfortunately, within earshot of one of the TSA agents. I bet you can guess what happened next . . . we were selected for "additional screening."
At the time, the body scanners were only a twinkle in Big Brother's eye, but the pat down was already in the TSA toolbox. There was even a private little "room" cordoned off behind a curtain where the agents took those needing "additional screening." I got to go first, while WH was stuck talking to another screener. The woman was business-like, albeit completely unfriendly. I mean, if someone's going to second base with me, shouldn't she at least entertain polite conversation? Or buy me dinner first? (Does this remind anyone of "Seven Minutes in Heaven" that game from boy-girl parties in the sixth grade? You'd go into a little room, probably some closet, and then stay in there for seven minutes, doing who knows what.)
Behind the curtain we went. The agent patted down my legs, butt, back, arms, and middle. Then she got to my bra. I'm no Dolly Parton in that department . . . more like Keira Knightley. Using her wrists (apparently screening for bombs is similar to testing the temperature of a baby's bath water), she scanned my boobs. She seemed troubled by the underwire, as if she had never felt one before, as if she wasn't wearing one herself. What is this? What could this strange metal be? I'm going to have to go in for a better look. So she reached in (using her fingers this time, as I'm guessing the dexterity of her wrists simply didn't allow for what was to come next), grabbed my bra, touching the underwires, and pulled. Then she let go. Not since seventh grade gym class had I had my bra snapped. And now it was all in the interest of "national security." "You're free to go," she informed me, but not really, as I had to wait for WH and talk to the other delightful TSA agent before we could board the plane.
While I waited for WH, the other agent made "small talk," which I'm sure was really meant to find out the true meaning of my business in Washington, D.C. "What is your business in Washington?" "Well, I live there." Frowny face, "So, where are you staying when you get to Washington?" "Um, at my house." Eyebrow raise, "I see. And what was your business in Key West?" "Drunken birthday partying." Furrowed brow, "I see. What do you do in Washington?" "Public relations. I work for a nonprofit." Blank stare, "I see." By that point, WH was done with his jostling and we both stood there, waiting to be cleared. At last the "interrogating" agent informed us that we were "free to go."
The entire plane had been held while we were being scanned. We boarded to the derisive looks of the other passengers. I'm not sure what they were so pissed about. They hadn't had their nonnies jarred by a stranger. Obviously we weren't terrorists, we were tourists. Though I can see how someone might mix the two up -- Hawaiian shirts are easily confused with army green jihad outfits. But they let us on board and off we went.
We arrived in D.C. without further incident, thankful that we could begin our holidays in peace. So, whether you're scanned, fondled, jostled, or are simply staying home this Thanksgiving, make it one to remember.
Happy Thanksgiving and Safe Travels, my friends!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Seven Minutes in Heaven . . . With the TSA
Posted by WashingTina at 1:32 PM
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Meh. I've gotten the "enhanced pat down" by many a large burly man outside of a club. Bring it on TSA.ReplyDelete
I'm so not a touchy person (I can count on one hand how many times i hug my mom a year) and this freaks me out so much, I sure hope this calms down before the next time I hop on a plane.ReplyDelete
I'm not sure what the point of it is. Have they actually caught the terrorists this way? And if you're a terrorist with a bomb, wouldn't you just blow it up when it's discovered? It's all very confusing to me.ReplyDelete
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