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Cowboy Joe was as dry as the desert we were clip-clopping through, but not quite as prickly.
When my horse decided to trot briskly, I asked Joe: 'Er, am I supposed to sort of bounce up and down?'.
'Hell, no, that's English riding! Just stand up in your stirrups and git goin',' he called from under his large moustache and 10 gallon hat.
It was time to erase images of Badminton, Gatcombe, dressage and stiff upper lip and instead jam the sunglasses on a bit harder, feel the wind in the hair and hang on.
But it was not yet time to feel like Annie Oakley. As an equine novice who had barely sat on a horse for more than a minute in my life, I was having a crash course before being allowed out with the other women - most of whom seemed to have been brought up on horses - taking part in the Giddy Up Gals weekend.
With riding twice a day on rock-hard Western saddles, rounding up cattle and learning to lasso, the women-only weekend is a sort of cowgirl bootcamp.
Though instead of having to sleep on the cold, hard ground under scratchy ponchos à la Clint Eastwood, we were billeted in a Santa Fe-style casita bungalow with feathery beds on the Rancho de los Caballeros in Arizona. To find the ranch you travel from Phoenix towards the Grand Canyon, turn left on Carefree Highway and keep going until you reach Vulture Mine Road. The nearest small town, Wickenburg, was built on the gold rush and the location is deep in the Sonoran Desert with its crimson sunsets and giant cartoon cacti.
The talk in the bar on the first night was of shopping rather than shoot-outs, but the next morning it was up at sunrise and straight into the saddle. We rode out under a cloudless blue sky, the distant red rock hills glowing in the sun, to witness the Running of the Horses.
In a cloud of dust and with a whoop to urge the nags along, the wrangler in chaps and neckerchief made quite a sight on her steed, driving several dozen horses from their overnight pasture to the stables.
Although the ranch is called los Caballeros, meaning 'gentlemen', the two main wranglers for the Giddy Up Gals weekends are Caroline and Maria. Both are veterans of tough working ranches miles from anywhere in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Illinois where cattle are herded - sometimes 1,000 at a time - out to summer grazing or for market, not for the tourists.
Los Caballeros is what is known in America as a 'dude ranch' - ie a holiday resort with ranch activities alongside the golf course, swimming pool and luxury buffet lunches. But all the wranglers at Los Caballeros know their stuff from working on the ranches, and some of the guys have done rodeo and can wrestle a calf down to brand it. When they coach you, you listen.
Caroline, 47, is also, incredibly, a trained opera singer and could not come riding with us that weekend because she was singing with the Phoenix Bach Choir.
So it was over to 25-year-old Maria, with her easy chat and ever-ready smile and her hair flying behind her when her horse gets going.
Giddy Up Gals weekends usually have a dozen women from all over at the height of the season, but the ranch had just opened for the winter and there were only four of us: Pat, a retired buyer for a food company, lawyer Michele and her teenage daughter Katie, all from Arizona, and me.
Pat was rusty, Katie was a champion rider, Michele an expert and me a beginner.
But the hilly desert around the ranch is a great leveller because there is only scope for trotting and cantering - or what they charmingly call 'loping' out west - along dried, sandy stream beds.
So it is not full-belt galloping across the plains, although I learnt so much in one weekend that after returning to Phoenix I went riding on a local Native American reservation and easily went straight into long, vigorous canters.
Back at los Caballeros, my crash course had gone well enough for me to ride out with the gals on the second day.
Maria talked about the desert wildlife as our horses trekked up and down on twisting trails across hills with their towering cacti and prickly pears (which the ranch puts in its cocktails and cooking) and views to the mountains. And whenever there was a dry stream bed, or wash, we would canter along it one behind the other in a wonderful rhythm.
The horses had long, wild manes, the saddles western-style horns and it was clear that riding hats and jodhpurs were for English riders, not cowgirls.
I was in the groove. The other women were constantly encouraging, but my inexperience really let me down in the cattle herding contest.
Everyone at the ranch - men, women and children - that weekend took part and we were divided into eight teams.
The ranch has a large corral with a dozen or so hapless cattle for the tourists' sport - some with large horns. Each team had to separate out one, two or three cattle under orders and drive them the length of the corral into a pen against the clock.
It was essential to work as a team. But on the Gals' first go, Katie and I were driving one cow up the side of the pen when the silly thing decided it was not playing and turned on me, trying to get past.
The cow was scared, I was scared and, when I pulled my dear horse Santana's reins too tight in my panic, he could tell I was clueless and then he got scared.
So Santana was freaked, the cow was free and we were flunked. The only consolation was not falling off.
Next go, we drove them as tightly as a bunch of synchronised swimmers. When the animals were quickly in the pen and Maria high-fived us all, I felt positively Olympian.
With go three, we had the chance to win the competition. But, what do you know? When you've had the good and the bad, the only thing left is the ugly. I let that heifer go again and we bombed out. Poor Santana almost disowned me.
But what a learning experience. One of the cowboys even showed me the rudiments of lassoing and got me twirling a long rope and hurling it vainly at a model bull. After five minutes my arm was killing me and I failed to hoop-la a wooden bull from 10 feet while standing on the ground. I could only marvel at the expertise and stamina needed to gallop around on a horse every day, roping animals on the run.
Then all too quickly, we were having our last meal, saying goodbye to Maria and heading back to the city. No more prickly pear margaritas. No more giddy-up.
It's enough to make you want to up sticks and open a 'dude' ranch for gals.
Accomodation in Phoenix area: Caleo Resort, Scottsdale: www.caleoresort.com 001 480 945 7666, room rates from £140 pppn; and Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort hotel, spa and equestrian centre: www.wildhorsepassresort.com 001 602 225 0100, room rates from £138 pppn.
Rancho de los Caballeros (www.sunc.com; 00 1 928 684 5484). Giddy Up Gals weekends in 2006: 27-29 January; 10-12 March; 12-14 May. Price is £345 for single occupancy or £555 based on double occupancy, for two nights, full board and activities. Prices are subject to 7 per cent sales tax and 15 per cent gratuity charge.
The ranch is 90 minutes north-west of Phoenix. Guests can either hire a car (www.dollar.co.uk; 0800 252 897, weekly rates from £135, including insurance), or Los Caballeros can arrange a transfer for £69 each way.
BA (www.ba.com; 0870 850 9850) flies directly to Phoenix from London from £332 return including taxes.


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Dominik Ziller is Deputy Director General for Global Cooperation in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Prior to this he held various positions in the BMZ, among them as Deputy Director General for the Development Cooperation with Asia. On professional leave from BMZ form 2011 until 2014, Mr. Ziller worked as Director General Migration for Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and served as a member of the Executive Management Committee.
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A 2018 10-part campaign from WorkSafe encouraging people to use their mouths in the workplace to keep everybody safe.
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Client: WorkSafe
A 2016 Auckland Transport ad encouraging people to drive drink free.
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Are you grateful for the life you have? Before you answer, take some time to really think about that question for a moment. Man has spent most of the last several thousand years pondering the reason and purpose of life. Faiths and religion have promised the answers. Science tries to quantify and explain it on a biological level. Yet here we are in the year 2011 and the answer to the question, "what is the meaning of life," is still as elusive as ever. While I truly believe that each individual must discover the purpose of their own life. I think generally speaking the answer to that question is much simpler than we make it. I think simply put; the meaning of life is to live it.
So if the purpose and meaning of life is to live, than are we really accomplishing that? There is a stark contrast between being alive and living. Anyone who dreams of escaping the cubicle knows exactly what I'm talking about. However, it seems that in general civilization has adopted a policy of existing rather than living. Look at our lives today. It would appear that the bare minimum has become the by-word for not just work ethic, but life-ethic. It is rare to find people today with a joy and thirst for experiences and new things. We lack people who reach beyond mediocrity and inspire others.
At first glance it would seem that striking out into the world on a search for unconventional lifestyles and more satisfaction would stem from a certain attitude of ingratitude. After all in this economic quagmire of today, shouldn't people be grateful for what they have and be thankful for any job they can get? To those who feel that way I think you have mistaken settling for gratitude. I think you have allowed others to tell you what you deserve and can have, instead of deciding for yourself what you are worth. I think you've bought into that lie and illusion that is so prevalent in America today; that there are limited resources and opportunities out there and if you want yours then you have to take it from someone else. This is the same attitude that believes the solution to the economic woes of the US is to take money from the wealthy (most of whom have worked hard to earn it) and redistribute it to many who have done nothing to deserve it.
Here's a simple truth; there are billions of dollars to be made in the world right now. All you need to claim your share is to get off your ass and apply yourself to something. The world is full of potential right now and despite the general state of the economy, there are people making fortunes by exploiting the current situation to launch their dreams. They see opportunity and hope where others surrender to despair. What they have that many don't is faith; in who they are, in their abilities, and product. Likewise these people have the tenacity to make it happen despite the setbacks. They know the world gives to those who do and try, not to the whiners and naysayers. This is gratitude at its purest and most sincere. It's saying thank you for the life given to me and the opportunities filling the world. It's saying that I have been given the power to make a difference in my life and I will use it; instead of sitting on the couch whining, complaining, and waiting for a better day.
You don't need to thirst for wealth, power, or fame, to be driven. Above all else I desire satisfaction from my life. I want a career I enjoy. Wealth would be nice but as a whole I want an income level that gives me freedom to travel and explore the world. Contrary to what many of us are told this does not require millions of dollars or even hundreds of thousands. All it needs to work is the desire to get it done and the discipline to make it happen. I've learned that I have filled my life with too much crap that does little for me. In a way it clouds and distorts my view of the world and it's time to clear the fog. Thankfully I live in a nation where I can say I'm ready for change. I can go after my dreams and by and large the Nation will leave me alone and let me do it.
This brings me to my final point. Are you grateful to live where you do? I know that posting this on the internet opens the discussion up to an international audience. So for the sake of levity I ask my American readers; are you grateful to live in The United States? I am the first to rant about many of the problems I see in this country and to remark about it woes and weaknesses. At least I have the freedom to express that. I have been around the world and can tell you from experience that despite what you may believe there are not many places today where you can talk about your government and its leaders as you can here. Much of the world is living under the umbrella of true poverty, where every day is a test of survival.
Many people I admire have left the US and taken up residency in other nations. They claim to be seeking a simpler and more down to earth existence. I respect that and I admit that I'd love to move to Costa Rica or South America and get away from some of the headaches of this materialistic society. However I wonder if that is the answer we need in this nation. There are problems here and we need leaders and people of character to address them. This nation for good or bad has enabled me to develop into the creative person I am. It has allowed me to see the places in the world that are suffering and lacking. However it is now my country that is rotting from the inside out. Should I abandon it and wash my hands of the whole affair. Should I walk away and hope that someone else has the compassion and fortitude to do what needs to be done and address the issue plaguing my home.
The United States is my home. I am proud to be a citizen of this country. For all its problems, and shortcomings I still see something great here. I still see a place where you can come from anywhere in the world and make a life for yourself here. Yes our government is lost in a fantasy land of denial and irresponsibility, at least in that though it is starting to finally reflect the people who which it represents. There are issues and they are big, but turning my back on this nation solves nothing. With great power and freedom comes great responsibility. This nation has given me much and I will show my gratitude by giving it a chance. Will you? This thanksgiving holiday choose to show your gratitude my making the place you live better.


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The Room Mid-Level Exception still required a team to be beneath the Salary Cap, so it blocks the use of the other exceptions as a result. However, it is the smallest of the exceptions, so it is ideal for a team who is right beneath the cap and wants to still sign a player. The Room Mid-Level Exception allows a team to sign a player
As a general note, the Taxpayer Mid-Level and BAE count against the cap as holds until they are renounced. Thus, they count against the Salary Cap even if they aren't used, until the day a team tells the league that they won't be using the exceptions.
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A status red warning is in place for the entire country as forecasters predict that the whole nation is to be hit with blizzards.
What has fallen in the last day is considered to be just a small percentage of the snowfall expected. Gale force winds are also forecast with severe risk of coastal flooding.
Everyone across the country has been ordered to stay indoors from 4pm today such is the risk to health.
Here are all the updates from this morning on what is expected to be the biggest snowstorm to hit Ireland since 1982.
We'll be back to you this afternoon with further updates.
That's all for now, folks.
We'll be back later this afternoon with more live updates.
An Garda Síochána issued the following statement shortly after 12pm today:
Forecasters predict the nation is to be hit with blizzard-like conditions with zero visibility later tonight, which will extend countrywide.
Heavier snow is expected in from the southeast with thunderstorms and hail over Munster and south Leinster. Gale force winds with a risk of coastal flooding is expected
Everyone across the country has been advised to stay indoors from 4pm today due to Storm Emma and the Beast from the East.
Remember to check in on elderly and vulnerable neighbours.
Galway University Hospital, Mayo University Hospital and Portiuncula University Hospital have cancelled all routine electives and outpatient appointments today and tomorrow.
More information about cancellations can be found here.
The tide is rising across the coast of Dublin.
Dublin Airport
13 flights departed and 13 flights arrived at Dublin Airport this morning.
Speaking to RTÉ News, Siobhan O'Donnell from Dublin Airport said that runway visibility has been dipping in and out throughout the morning.
Many flights have already been cancelled this morning and further cancellations are expected later today.
"We're working with our airline customers to find out their plans for the rest of today and tomorrow," O'Donnell said.
We're handing out water, we've reinforced our wifi, we have limited bedding and we're trying to resource extra food and beverages.
I would encourage passengers to check in with their airlines to check in what's happening with their particular flight.
Shannon Airport
Shannon Airport is fully operational but is urging people to check with their airline before leaving for the airport.
Cork Airport
Compacted snow on the runway at Cork Airport has led to the airport being closed this morning.
All remaining Aer Lingus flights today have been cancelled into Cork Airport. The airline won't operate any flights into Cork Airport tomorrow either.
Ryanair has cancelled the remaining flights into Cork Airport today. Passengers are being asked to check with the airline for updates.
Kerry Airport
Ryanair has also cancelled all flights into Kerry Airport for the rest of the day.
The airport will close at 2pm today.
Dart services between Pearse Station and Bray are still suspended due to flooding caused by a tidal surge.
Irish Rail said it is very unlikely that the line between Pearse Station and Bray will reopen today.
Fora.ie is reporting that the snowy weather is likely to cost retailers "hundreds of millions of euro" between revenue, employee costs and repairs.
Lorraine Higgins, deputy CEO of business group Retail Excellence Ireland, said: "It's two and a half days of lost trade at best. That's a considerable amount of money to lose and costs will certainly run into the hundreds of millions of euro."
As well as having to deal with lost sales today and tomorrow, Higgins said shop owners may also have a hard time enticing people in-store during the usually busy weekend period if the bad weather persists.
If you're planning on travelling by Luas in Dublin today make sure to head out soon.
All Luas services are finishing in 20 minutes, at midday today.
Here's Met Éireann's latest composite radio for the last hour.
It shows the latest snowfall moving in across the country.
Check out this beautiful photo, taken from Crosshaven, Co. Cork looking across at Roche's Point yesterday.
Credit: Pat Murphy
Make sure to keep all phones, tablets and laptops that have 3G and 4G access charged this morning.
If you happen to lose power in your home later today, this could mean you will still be able to get updates from ESB Networks on most faults on www.powercheck.ie.
If you're worried about your dog or cat – or gerbil – during the big freeze today, here are some tips from Pet Mania:
- If you don't have a shed to move your pet's kennel into, then consider housing them indoors to ensure they are kept safe from the cold temperatures today and over the coming days. This is particularly true for cats. You can also use extra bedding for insulation, such as straw and hay in their sleeping areas.
- Wrap up canine friends with dog coats for extra warmth.
- Make sure they have plenty of fresh water and food – pets might also need a little extra food as they will be burning energy to stay warm. Keep a check to ensure that water supplies do not freeze over.
- If your pet is feeding outside, use plastic bowls instead of metal to prevent their tongues getting stuck if it is too cold.
- Similarly to humans, dogs and cats can get frostbite. Pay extra attention to any signs of discolouration, pain or unusual blisters on their ears and paws.
- Finally, don't forget about your garden birds who would appreciate some high-fat foods like peanuts to boost their energy reserves.
So, in short, if possible at all take some inspiration from Harvey below and take your pet inside and wrap them up warm.
Cork City Council is advising locals that there will be "very high astronomical spring tides" from today until Monday.
A tidal surge and periodic strong southerly and south-easterly winds are also expected to hit the region over the next few days.
The council has warned that these combined factors will result in tide levels higher than the natural tide levels.
The natural cycle of high tides for the following days in Cork is predicted for the following times:
Here are the conditions on Dublin's M50 at the moment:
All lanes are currently open and crews are working to keep it that way.
People are being strongly advised to avoid unnecessary journeys as the weather worsens.
Tesco Ireland has confirmed that all stores will close at 2pm today due to the Status Red weather alert.
All Tesco stores will open again tomorrow, subject to weather conditions.
Tesco Ireland said this morning that grocery home shopping deliveries will resume subject to weather conditions on Saturday.
"We are closing all stores today at 2pm in line with the guidance from the government to ensure that all our colleagues have time to get home," Christine Heffernan, corporate affairs director of Tesco Ireland said.
All remaining Aer Lingus flights to and from Cork Airport have been cancelled today.
Today's meeting of the National Emergency Coordination Group is currently underway.
The group is due to brief the press on latest updates at 12.20pm.
There are currently disruptions to Dart services in south Dublin as a result of flooding at Salthill.
All Dart services have been stopped south of Pearse Station for the time being.
Irish Rail has said it will provide further information as soon as it's available.
Dun Laoghaire Habour has also closed public access to both the east and west piers as a result of the rising sea levels.
"Gale force winds and high sea levels have led to waves coming over the top of the pier. Stay safe and stay away. Be aware of the Status Red weather warning," Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council said.
Dublin Aiport is still open and some flights are still departing and arriving.
"Our crews are working to keep runway, taxiways and apron areas clear. Airlines are de-icing their aircraft," a tweet from the airport said.
Aer Lingus has said it plans to operate the vast majority of short-haul services this morning.
It also plans to operate all scheduled flights to and from North America today.
All other Aer Lingus flights are to cease operation by 3pm today.
People are being urged to check with their airlines before travelling to the airport today.
Not all heroes wear capes
Donegal is being hit
Latest road incidents
These are the major incidents on roads across the country in the last hour, according to the AA.
If you needed any more convincing about how cold it is – well here you go.
Used any rail lines today? You have these people to thank
Catherine Lennon, who is in Kinsale, Cork, has informed us that there is no power or water at Old Head lighthouse since last night 8pm. She said: "Heavy snow blizzards are hitting us now."
Latest from Cork
Shannon Airport fully open
Shannon Airport remains fully operational this morning with airport staff working through last night in challenging conditions to keep the runway operational.
Services are operating normally, with the airport's first flights to Stansted and Heathrow departing on time. The inbound Aer Lingus Boston flight landed on time, while the Norwegian, Newburgh flight is expected to arrive at 10.20am.
Shannon confirmed that it handled 20 flight diversions from Dublin and Cork Airports starting from 04.20 yesterday morning until midnight last night.
Update on homeless figures
Sixteen people in the city centre and 14 in the Dublin region, were engaged and supported but declined to come into emergency shelter. They will be re-engaged today.
In Kildare, one additional person was accommodated by the Peter McVerry Trust after they called the out of hours emergency freephone number. This brings to 14 the total number of emergency placements provided by Peter McVerry Trust in the county in the past 48 hours.
Here's the latest from Met Eireann
It might be March but Christmas FM is back for one day only
Nope, you read that right.
A statement on their Facebook page reads: "We are back for one day only with live shows and DJs tomorrow, online via our apps, website and wi-fi radios for 1st March from 8am-8pm. We will have snow and weather updates and all the best snow and winter songs you can throw a snowball at!"
More service closures here
All RehabCare, National Learning Network (NLN) and Rehab Enterprises services in every county will remain closed for the rest of the week.
A statement from the group read: "We are closely monitoring the weather warnings which are being issued by Met Éireann, as well as communications from the National Emergency Coordination Committee. We will update latest information on our social media accounts and website."
Ulster says no
All Ulster Bank branches will be closed today and Friday to ensure the safety of staff and customers.
Meanwhile in Gotham City
Health service staff won't be penalised for having to take the day off
Coldest temperature since 2016 recorded in Cork
Got enough supplies if the power goes?
Things could always be worse
NUI Galway is to close on today and Friday due to the weather conditions.
All classes, lectures and labs are cancelled, and university services will remain closed for the day.
A statement read: "Staff and students based on hospital campuses or on work placement should contact the relevant hospital contacts, placement coordinator or line manager for local arrangements."
Gardai have issued a warning
Gardai are advising motorist and all road users to use caution on our roads.
A spokesman said: "Leave sufficient room between you and the car in front and drive within a speed where you can stop in time."
The first power outages have been reported
Emergency services will be fully operational
Only drive if it's a serious emergency – that's the message from gardai and the fire brigade.
Why there was a nationwide status red warning
Met Eireann's Evelyn Cusack, speaking on Morning Ireland, explained why a nationwide red warning was put in place.
Cusack said that the exceptionally low temperatures combined with the wind led to the nationwide alert. She said that windchill in the west could get as a low as -10 degrees in parts of the west. There may not be snow in parts of the west but the freezing conditions will kick in the coming hours.
Who'd be a journalist?
While the public is being warned to stay indoors – journalists across the country are sticking on their woolies and hitting the roads.
Some have even managed to get hit by a canoe – while on land.
Latest traffic conditions from AA Roadwatch
AA Roadwatch has warned that some parts of the country are impassable due to snow and ice.
In the capital, snow is lying on routes around the city and county, especially on routes around the north and north-west of the city and county.
Conditions are "treacherous along parts of the M1, M50 and on the N3″, according to the motoring body. They warned motorists to take extreme care, especially at interchanges.
Routes around Wicklow are dangerous due to the snow and ice – especially the Sally Gap and large areas of western Wicklow. It's a similar situation in Kildare and extra care is advised on the M9 at J3 Athy.
School's out
In case there was any confusion, all schools around the country are closed.
Dublin Airport is up and running
While the airport is operating well so far this morning, passengers are being urged to check with their airline if their flight is on-time, delayed or cancelled.
Over 100 vulnerable homeless people were housed in Dublin last night
Last night Peter McVerry Trust allocated 102 beds in the Extreme Cold Weather Emergency beds in the sports centre in Dublin's south inner city.
According to the charity, the team successfully encouraged additional rough sleepers to come in yesterday. However, 16 people in the city and a further 14 across the Dublin Region accepted support but declined an emergency bed.
All court sittings have been cancelled
With the Red Alert Weather warning now extending nationwide – All courts in the country will not sit on Thursday and Friday.
Court users should read notices on Courts.ie for local arrangements or contact local offices after the weather event to ascertain new dates for cases
The latest on the Luas
The Luas Red Line service is operating as follows: The Point to Tallaght and Saggart (Full Line)
The Luas Green Line service is operating as follows: Broombridge to Brides Glen (Full Line)
There will be a tram every 30 minutes and services on the Luas Lines will stop today at midday.
That's not ideal
Most of the country has today off work – most.
But many are already up and working – not least our pals over at Met Eireann.
What we know so far
Here's a recap of what we know:
- It is predicted there will be 25cm of snow today and 40cm by lunchtime on Friday.
- The public has been told to stay indoors from 4pm this afternoon until the alert ends.
- There will be no bus services operating across Leinster and Munster.
- There will be an extremely limited Luas service.
- Irish Rail will continue operations this morning – except to/from Docklands, and no Phoenix Park Tunnel services – but will begin shutting down at 12pm.


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The "tragedy" of Bin Laden's death myth:
Perhaps one the first lies about Corbyn to hit the front pages. This myth suggests that shortly after Osama Bin Laden was shot and buried at sea by American forces, Corbyn gave an interview to an Iranian TV network (make sure you remember the Iranian bit, that's scary oOoOoOoh!) in which he called the death of the infamous mass murderer a "tragedy". You'll notice that one word in quotation marks all alone, I'm sure.
Headlines went from the questionable (The Independent's "Was it taken out of context?") to the downright atrocious (The Telegraph's "Corbyn calls death of Osama bin Laden a 'tragedy'"), but the press was pretty much on the same page that Corbyn's comments were inappropriate and problematic.
Now I've come across many situations where people who claim their words were "taken out of context" still ended up saying pretty horrible things even after you look at the context, so I can understand why some might dismiss that as a defense. But Corbyn's statements to Press TV wasn't taken out of context, weren't manipulated, they were downright fabricated. Corbyn actually said the following:
"There was no attempt whatsoever that I can see to arrest him, to put him on trial, to go through that process. This was an assassination attempt, and is yet another tragedy, upon a tragedy, upon a tragedy. The World Trade Center was a tragedy, the attack on Afghanistan was a tragedy, the war in Iraq was a tragedy. Tens of thousands of people have died. Torture has come back on to the world stage, been canonised virtually into law by Guantanamo and Bagram. Can't we learn some lessons from this?"
Corbyn is referring to the lack of due process and the right to a fair trial, both of which are internationally recognized rights no matter what the crime. For a man who has been consistently opposed to the use of aggression and murder since he first became an MP (and even before that), it simply does not make sense that he would then perform an absolute U-turn and lament the death of perhaps one of the most famous mass murderers of all time.
It was a tragedy that Bin Laden was not dragged kicking and screaming to the doors of the International Criminal Court to stand trial before the world's eyes. His brutality and violence should not have ended in a silent burial at sea, it should have ended with the condemnation of an international human rights judge. That is what Corbyn was saying, unless one prefers to read between the lines so deeply that their eyes hurt.
Any attempt to paint Corbyn as an Al-Qaeda supporter is not only deeply insulting to his principles, but further proof that the media categorically cannot be trusted to treat a story with fairness and integrity.
The women-only carriages myth:
As it became clear that Corbyn was going to become Labour leader in late August, Guardian columnist Anne Perkins wrote a highly snide and self-congratulatory attempt at satire, decrying supposed proposals by Corbyn's team to segregate women on train carriages to tackle the growing problem of street harassment. Perkins went so far as to imply that Corbyn's plans are akin to victim blaming, and called them "an affront to decades of serious work to raise the status of women, and to women's sense of their self worth". Various snivelling media outlets then loyally raised the same issue, because a lie shared is a lie enjoyed.
Perkins, sadly, had not done her homework. For one thing, the idea is not new – it was proposed by Claire Perry, the Conservative Parliamentary Under Secretary for Transport, almost twelve months before Corbyn supposedly conjured it up.
More pressing is that it is not Corbyn's idea either. Not even his team's idea, nor his party's idea. In fact, it was merely a suggestion repeated to him many times (by women) as a possible way to reduce sex attacks on public transport. In Corbyn's speech on the matter, which Perkins conveniently fails to directly quote, he states "Some women have raised with me that a solution to the rise in assault and harassment on public transport could be to introduce women-only carriages", stressing that this is merely a proposal from the public that he is willing to consider, given that he's one of those pesky politicians who actually listens to people.
Not policy, not the campaign's policy, not the party's policy, and not his personal policy. A suggestion by ordinary people, which is no wonder a Guardian columnist has such a problem with it. Thankfully Perkins' anti-journalism was decried on both social media and on the comments section of the article itself, but her fabrications have still been cited by right-wing pundits who have suddenly and miraculously discovered feminism. The lie, and it is a lie, has unfortunately stuck, all thanks to one snide miserable oaf who can't bear to see a real Labour opposition to government.
The Hezbollah-Hamas "friends" myth:
Most repugnant of the pre-election anti-Corbyn lies came from, among others, The Spectator, which repeatedly issued denouncements and scaremongering pieces on the frontrunner before he was elected, so much so they almost outdid The Telegraph in their biased rants. One in particular, which served as a basis for perhaps the most popular lie against Corbyn, is that he once referred to members of Hamas and Hezbollah as "friends" during a delegation. Soon after the far-right picked up on the story, yet another Guardian columnist chimed in to the anti-Corbyn chorus to accuse him of being an anti-Semite. That old chestnut.
Corbyn calmly and clearly defended his use of the word in a Channel 4 interview before the story even broke, despite having to answer the exact same question six times in a row. In it, Corbyn explained that he was referring to Hamas as friends in a collective sense, the same way that one can refer to somebody as a comrade or a sister without actually being a Marxist or a sibling. The story is the equivalent of making a mountain out of a mole hill, in other words. That aside, nobody in The Spectator or The Guardian seemed to question the piles of military aid sent to Israel from the UK with a big red bow attached, which so often has been used to massacre children in Gaza. That, surely, is far more weighty than calling somebody a friend, and makes for a far more better headline, since that's all the media seems to care about.
Corbyn has been quite clear in the past that peace processes involve negotiating and talking to people whom you thoroughly dislike. If international negotiators referred to Hamas as Islamofascist baby killing anti-Semites every time they introduced them to the negotiating table, one could expect very few results. You simply cannot kill and slander your way to peace.
Still, one use of the word "friends" in relation to Hamas and suddenly Corbyn is a foaming at the mouth anti-Semite who wants to see the destruction of Israel. That's a rational conclusion to draw. According to The Spectator's Sebastian Payne, Corbyn's calm reply to a question asked six times in a row "shows again why he is simply not up to the job of leading a serious political party". Perhaps Payne's piece shows again why he is simply not up to the job of working for a serious media organization. Oh well.
The men-only Shadow Cabinet myth:
Just hours after Corbyn won his landslide leadership election, another attempt soon sprung up to paint him as a belligerent misogynist. The Guardian's Anne Perkins was silent this time (probably busy doing a course on how to be a journalist), but Telegraph writer Michael Wilkinson faithfully took up the anti-journalism torch in her place. Before Corbyn had even announced the make-up of his Shadow Cabinet, Wilkinson gleefully posted a collection of comments from Labour MPs expressing their "disappointment" at his sausage-fest of a Cabinet: Labour MP Jess Phillips said the announced positions were "tone deaf" to diversity, while Labour MP Diana Johnson described it as "old fashioned male-dominated Labour politics".
Like Perkins, Wilkinson apparently forgot how to use Google. After the announcements were finalized, it was revealed that over half of Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet positions went to women, the first time in British history that has ever happened. The same cannot be said of his predecessors, however. Compare:
- Tony Blair's 1997-2001 Cabinet: 23 positions, 18 filled by men, 5 filled by women (21% women).
- Tony Blair's 2001-2005 Cabinet: 23 positions, 16 filled by men, 7 filled by women (30% women).
- Gordon Brown's Inaugural Cabinet: 27 positions, 18 filled by men, 9 filled by women (33% women).
- David Cameron's 2015-Present Cabinet: 29 positions, 19 filled by men, 10 filled by women (34% women).
- Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet: 30 positions, 14 filled by men, 16 filled by women (53% women).
Once Wilkinson and his ilk bothered to wait for the announcements to finish, headlines of "Corbyn's man-packed Cabinet" suddenly disappeared, hastily being replaced by "Corbyn's man-packed TOP JOBS Cabinet". The goalposts were swiftly moved, and now Corbyn was a misogynist for not granting any of the four "top" jobs to women. The idea of "top" jobs dates back to the 19th century, and apparently only applies when a socialist is at the helm. Try as I might, I could find no condemnation of Blair's male-only "top" jobs. Funny that.
That aside, as Lenin's Tomb points out in an invaluable blogpost, a feminist is not somebody who arbitrarily appoints women to satisfy diversity quotas, a feminist is somebody who opposes vicious economic attacks that disproportionately affect single mothers, something Harriet Harman and Tony Blair repeatedly failed to do during their reigns.
I think this particular myth can now be put to bed, but here's one final comparison for your own amusement:
- Telegraph Media Group Board Members: 14 positions, 14 filled by men, 0 filled by women (0% women).
These are by no means the only false attacks launched against the Labour leader so far, nor the most ridiculous. The Times recently accused Corbyn of riding a "Chairman Mao-style bicycle" to work, while the media lavished accusations that Corbyn ignored singing the national anthem across their front pages. This last story, coincidentally, fell on the same time that MPs voted to cut tax credits for struggling families. Go figure.


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It's been over three months since my last update on our plans to build our first home on the Sunshine Coast and wow, has it been an adventure. If there is one thing I have learned over the last few months it's this – expect the unexpected. Everything that could go wrong, probably will go wrong. And even when you think you're about to run past the finishing line, someone or something will pull you back and delay the race even further.
Whoever said building your first home was a breeze, isn't telling you the whole truth. We've had delays with our engineering, neighbours stealing plants from our land, and our bank putting more road blocks up than you can imagine because I am self-employed.
With this in mind, I thought I would share a few tips about how we have handled the last few months. It's been a huge learning experience and if I can give you some tools to better prepare yourselves for when you build your own home, then this will make me incredibly happy.
It's almost guaranteed that when you build your first home, nothing will go as planned, or be delivered on time. Don't even think about setting a deadline for the completion of the build, because it probably won't be met. We learned this fairly early on! We've found the best approach when building our first home is to roll with the punches and be very relaxed about the outcomes. When you're dealing with council, architects, builders and banks, the processes and systems in place are for the most part, out of your control. So there's no point getting too worked up about it. Simply, roll with the punches.
With my blog and my other business, I have found success is best placed when I surround myself with likeminded people. The same applies to building your first home. Listen to the people around you, take in their thoughts, tips and advice and put these to good use so you build the best home possible. Jason's parents told us to have electricity outlets on our two decks, my great aunt gave us some great advice about cabinetry from personal experience, my friend Dominic shared his top tips for laying turf properly, and my parents told us to make sure all toilets are separate from the bathrooms. By taking on board such great advice from those who have experience building, your house will be beautifully designed and built.
Working with an architect to design the house, waiting weeks for the engineer to pull together his paperwork, and dealing with banks who take a lot of time responding to calls and emails has meant we have more time to think about the interior design. We've created a furniture budget, we've been ripping out pages of magazines for inspiration and we're keeping an eye on any sales that pop up to help us save money. We've been using this time wisely and not wasting a second, mostly because we don't want to move into our house and think, "where are we going to buy a couch, what colour should it be, where should we put it…"
There will come a time in the building process where you will need to stand up for yourself. Architects will draw your plans last minute, engineers will take eight weeks (not four weeks) to do their work, and banks will make you work so hard to get a loan it's not funny. In most instances, Jason and I are very relaxed. In other instances, we've really had to stand up for ourselves and put our foot down. My best advice is to choose your battles wisely and always put yourselves first. This is your design, your house, your money, your life – don't let anyone tell you otherwise.


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On Saturday I made a black skirt. My daughter's costume needs were minimal this year, which left me with some free time to sew Halloween morning - we are 11th hour people, after all. We were planning to venture downtown to Press Bay Alley and witness its transformation into Diagon Alley, and I needed a witchy kind of black skirt. I had fabric and measurements and a plan; the skirt took a little over an hour to make. As a knitter, I am always astonished by the immediacy of sewing. Conceive, plan, execute, done. The knitting process is in the execution stage for a very long time.
I write about this success because it is diametrically opposed to the near failure of the other day at Drop In. I had recently dyed two yards of a lovely organic knit fabric, planning to make an Alabama Chanin kind of skirt - one with the reverse applique that is painstakingly sewn by hand. Every. Single. Stitch. See? I'm a knitter at heart.
Erika was there with her serger and a plan to copy two of her favorite store bought tops. We chattered merrily as we laid out our fabrics on the long tables and set to work. I was using an actual pattern, rule follower that I am, and Erika was carefully tracing the "pieces" of each shirt onto stiff pattern paper. So thrilled was I with my plan and process that I scurried home to pick up some blocks and screen-printing ink to go to the next step - printing the design that would become the points of applique on the garment.
We experimented on one of the scraps to tweak the design and I was thrilled to see the copper ink on the indigo background. Erika sketched with Sharpie where she thought the applique stitching should go and then returned to her sewing. And then as I started to print on the first of four pattern pieces, I realized my mistake.
I had laid out the pattern incorrectly, and instead of having four quarters for each skirt layer, I had two. I had to sit down in frustration.
This is why I hate sewing.
When I screw up knitting, and I sometimes do when I'm too impatient to get started to think through the process, the worst thing that happens is that I have to pull out my knitting and start over. No fabric is cut, nothing is final. There is a reason that woodworkers admonish their apprentices to "measure twice, cut once."
If I had been alone, I probably would have packed up my stuff and worked on something else less infuriating for a while. But Erika pointed out that I had cut the skirt pieces long and there was enough extra fabric to piece together the layers I had spent so much time playing with in the dye pots. It wasn't going to be my first vision, but she talked me through a plan that would be a great second choice. She understands how much I cling to a pattern and a set of rules when I knit (I love that someone has already figured it out), and that I like to have something to show for my time when I finish a project, instead of a failed experiment with greater wisdom. It seems as though this skirt has the potential to offer both a successful garment and a reminder to slow down and think through a project before wielding the scissors.
Surrounding yourself with people who pick you up when you've made a big error is what we mean when we talk about community. They sometimes have cheese and tea on hand too.
And for Eliza, who asked, a list of upcoming classes:
Nov. 8 - Zippers (Sewing 201)
Nov. 14 - Stash-Buster Scarf: Rigid Heddle Weaving (we still have one loom to loan for this)
Nov. 15 - Soapmaking 101
Nov. 17 - Felted Ornaments
Nov. 24 - Learn to Crochet - Wingfeathers Shawl


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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Conjuring Words
Act 2 of Romeo and Juliet is shadowed by this history, this anxiety about words and their meanings. After Romeo jumps over Juliet's garden wall, Benvolio tells Mercutio to call him back, but Mercutio says he'll "conjure" him, too--he'll summon him as if he were a spirit, or a magical being:
Romeo! Humours! Madman! Passion! Lover!
Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh,
Speak but one rhyme and I am satisfied.
Cry but "Ay me!" Pronounce but "love" and "dove."
In other words, entertain me with your sighs and laments and doggerel verse. Mercutio makes fun of conventional lovers' laments, insinuating that these sighs and poetic effusions are both artificial and (implicitly) emasculating. Assuming that Romeo is still fixated on Rosaline, he continues his "conjuring" in her name:
I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,
By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,
By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh,
And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,
That in thy likeness thou appear to us.
He calls upon Romeo by Rosaline's various attributes, including the "demesnes"--the estates, or lands--that lie "adjacent" to her thighs.
Benvolio: An if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.
Mercutio: This cannot anger him. 'Twould anger him
To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle
Of some strange nature, letting it there stand
Till she had laid it and conjured it down.
That were some spite. My invocation
Is fair and honest. In his mistress' name,
I conjure only but to raise him up.
This whole speech is rather obscene. Let's see if I can translate it euphemistically. My "conjuring" can't anger him--it would anger him if I were to conjure up a lover for his mistress who would stand erect before her until she allowed it to have its way with her. "Spirit" also meant "semen," as a kind of "inspiriting" force. Back in those days medical science--like society as a whole--pretty much saw women as passive receptacles for the explicitly male life-force. Mercutio claims he only talked so dirty about Rosaline to get Romeo sexually aroused.
The point Mercutio is making is that all this poetic love-talk is really just foreplay. It's purely sexual, with no emotional content. Romantic talk is empty unless it leads to sexual congress and--presumably--procreation. A similar argument is made today against gay marriage. The oaths that one takes in marriage (one of the few places that oaths are still operational in our culture) have to bring forth something material--like a child--or they're just empty words. In some ways the polemics against gay marriage mask an anxiety about language itself, about the meaning of vows and promises. Of course many people would argue that those promises are really about making a connection to the community--marriage is a rite of inclusion, not a promise to fulfill those words in specific deeds that have predictable material outcomes.
Just a thought.
So, what's going on here? We've got an extended obscene joke immediately preceding what will be, in some ways, the defining scene of the play. The balcony scene is anything but obscene. Romeo and Juliet argue for the sanctity of love, the power of words to elevate one emotionally and (even) metaphysically. Love can conjure light in darkness, remake the world, touch the infinite. By setting these two versions of love in opposition--one debased, comic and the other (literally) elevated (and thus) potentially tragic--Will is doing some powerful conjuring of his own.
Next: Yes, the balcony. Meet you there.
Post-script: At the urging of my more worldly cousin, I have finally written something on my profile page.
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Uh...more worldly, maybe. Certainly not more Wordy. :-) Bring on the balcony. Perhaps one or both should have jumped. Ah love.ReplyDelete
Yeah, I'm kind of getting an overdose of romance on this one. Next time I may have to go for more murder and mayhem. Thanks again for getting me going on this, O worldly one. I am waiting for your blog...which I'm sure you'll be starting any day now...ReplyDelete
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In an effort to raise funds and inspire education about international adoption, we are sharing our own journey as we take it step by step. Our desire is to adopt two siblings, Ruslan and Anastasiya, from an orphanage in Ukraine.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Hygiene Hijinks and Other Adventures
One of the "transition" issues we have dealt with here is the new expectations when it comes to hygiene. It seems to me that though this orphanage was extremely structured and supportive of the children in many ways, there doesn't seem to have been much in the way of hygiene education. In other words, no one paid attention to whether or not certain places and parts got washed at vitally important times and no one spent much time teaching hygiene techniques.
Now, don't get me wrong...I'm not being judgmental or disappointed or even disgusted. The fact is, if I had 150 children to take care of, there would be holes in my training. Hey, I have eight and there are holes in my training...
So, after several days it became apparent that a certain 10 year old wasn't actually washing her hair. It was wet when she came out of the bathroom, but it didn't look like it was anything but wet. Being concerned about her feelings and not wanting to embarass her, I didn't address it at first.
A side note...the reality with the language barrier is that misunderstandings can happen fairly easily and feelings can be hurt when that was not the intention. There is only so much that can be said and explained when there are only a few words in the working vocabulary. Forget heart-to-hearts and long, detailed explanations about why things are the way they are.
Yes, I have a major advantage here because Marsh speaks Russian. But, the day-to-day responsibility of communication is up to me...and I couldn't be more grateful for the weeks I spent with them in Ukraine. I honestly don't know how I would have fared these last four weeks if I hadn't had that time to focus on them, learn more about them and get a feel for what it would be like once we were at home, without the requirements of the younger children taking my attention. As much as I didn't want to be the one over there for those 22 days and as much as I didn't want to leave my little ones yet again, it was a necessary experience and I had no idea how valuable it would be to the peace of our family and my own ability to function properly as the mom to each of these important children. The Lord knows what He is doing, my friends, even when we think we have it figured out.
Finally, Marsh asked me if she was washing her hair. I confided that I didn't think so but I didn't know how to go about helping her with that. I felt badly about bringing up yet ANOTHER point that she needed to change...the change to our lifestyle, our schedule, our culture, our farm, our work and just the fact that they now had parents who had expectations of their behavior, dress and attitudes seemed overwhelming to me when I looked at it from their perspective.
Finally, one day I found myself putting my foot down quite a few times as she was testing the limits and exercising some of her defiance. No tantrums, no screaming, no storming about slamming doors or anything like that, but the defiance came in the form of a silent, focused stare away from my gaze. She had decided that I was asking too much of her. Too many chores, too much work. The wonderful thing in my favor is that I already have two children exactly the same ages as our adopted kids who already have those chores, who already work and study daily and know they aren't allowed certain indulgences and receive consequences for inappropriate behaviors. Even better, there are several younger children that have daily work and study requirements, too. No one could argue that the two "new kids" were being treated any differently or given more work that is expected of anyone else in our household.
But, on that day, Nastia had had it. She was done doing what I wanted her to do, done with all the new requirements, done with work and wanting to do whatever she wanted...which is all she had to do at the orphanage after school.
After her second bout with the silent "I can't see you so you don't exist" sort of stare, I got down in her gaze and explained very clearly that everyone works here...everyone eats, everyone makes messes, everyone works. Period. She never made eye contact, but she agreed and left to do the chore she was supposed to do with her sister.
I immediately called Marsh and told him, "You are talking to the wall that Nastia is beating her head against today!" It was a new place for me...a more maternal place, really. A place I hadn't gone yet, but a place I needed to be. Suddenly, she wasn't a guest in the house anymore. And suddenly, addressing the issue of her hair and anything else that needed to have attention wasn't so hard. I didn't feel like I needed to apologize anymore. The line had been crossed.
I determined that the best thing to do was to act as if nothing difficult had happened. I vented to Marsh, listened to his counsel and had time to gather myself while she was outside grinding wheat with Emma.
Just about 10 minutes after putting my foot down, she came in beaming and triumphantly carrying a full container of wheat flour. The chore she was refusing to do was actually fun and she and her sister had a ball doing it.
Later that night, Marsh had to put his foot down with her, too. He knew what had gone on earlier and came ready to deal with it if it happened again. Sure enough, she pushed against his request too, in front of the entire family, and was carried to her room when she refused to go when asked as the consequence for defiance. At that moment, I realized that she was probably scared of the things we were asking her to do. She was most likely uncomfortable with the new responsibilities, and the number of them, and was afraid to do anymore. However, helping her beyond that and not cottling her into a sense of comfort, helped her realize that she is stronger than the fear. That day, she realized where the line was and has not tested those limits again. She has since tackled everything else head-on...attending classes, parties, activities, joining the town soccer team and all other things that have been required of her.
Oh, and her hair? She tearfully let me wash it and condition it as she leaned over the side of the tub. I kept reminding her gently that she was okay, using the happiest tone of voice I could muster. It made all the difference. Marsh and the older kids complimented her on how beautiful it looked and she has since tried to maintain the same standard, knowing I will follow up and check it when she has showered. I know it doesn't get washed each time as well as I would do it, but she's 10 and there is plenty of time to learn how to do it better. She is only one of eight instead of one of 150, now.
And she has a mom again.
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You have put into words how I feel so many times about my children. I don't like to discipline them, and most often they don't like to be corrected or taught the lessons I think are important. It would be so much easier in the short term just to let things slide. But we love them too much to not go through that struggle of teaching them. We would love to see you and your children sometime!ReplyDeleteReplies
We'd love to see you, too! We love you guys.Delete
I have to say that I really ascribe to the "Hard-Easy, Easy-Hard" mentality a friend wrote an article about. She said it's better to have it "hard" up front by working to train them while they are young than to wait to try to train them later. To train them from the beginning makes the beginning hard, but the future will be easy. To put off the training makes today easy, but the future hard. This applies to little children as well, of course! I think families not wanting to do the hard things at the beginning is one of the major problems our society has.
Alisa... you are amazing. That is all. :) Thank you so much for sharing this!ReplyDelete
You have so much courage not only to do that hard stuff but to be so honest about it! Your posts are going to be so incredibly helpful to us when we bring our girlies home.ReplyDelete
Hope it only gets easier from here on out!


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French fashion magazine Vogue is in trouble over pictures showing six-year-olds dressed in couture gowns, black stilettoes and lying in sexy poses on fur and tiger-skin rugs.fashion-and-trends Updated: Jan 09, 2011 15:16 IST
The blogosphere is abuzz about a photo-spread in the latest issue of fashion magazine
's Paris edition, that shows girls as young as six, dressed in couture gowns, black stilettoes and lying in sexy poses on fur and tiger-skin rugs. Guest edited by fashion stalwart Tom Ford, the shoot titled Cadeaux, which translates as 'gifts' in English, is being labelled as 'nothing less than paedophilia.' "As if exploiting teenaged females wasn't low enough. Now it's more lucrative to dress up children in adult clothing. Apparently paedophilia is not a crime in the fashion industry," says one among thousands of posts on websites that are strongly criticising these pictures.
Closer home too, editors and fashion critics say a line has been crossed. "All our editions strictly refuse to cast models under 18. Kids looking cute is different from portraying them as fashion models. Who are they kidding?" says Neena Haridas, managing editor
Marie Claire
India. "We don't even consider models, boys or girls, below 18," says Pankhuri Singh of Elite Modelling agency. "To use children as adult models for shock value is just not done," says fashion critic Umesh Jivnani.
"Fashion brands are now consciously focussing on kids. Big brands like Gucci, Burberry and even some Indian brands are doing designer lines for kids," says Sujata Assomull Sippy, editor
Harper's Bazaar India
. "Kid's clothing is different. This is sheer commercialisation of children, much like what has started in reality shows too, where kids are made to dress up and dance like adults," retorts Bhuwan Ribhu, national secretary of child right's NGO, Bachpan Bachao Andolan.
There are some who support the shoot. "What's the big deal?" writes international make-up artist Iggi C, who runs a popular blog Glamour Whore. "These girls simply look like we all did, when we were that age and played dress up."
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Ordinance No. 11-11, An Ordinance to Amend Sections 1159.01, 1159.02, 1159.03, 1159.04, 1159.05, 1159.07 and Repeal Existing Section 1159.06 of the Codified Ordinances of the Village of Granville, Ohio Pertaining to Village District
This ordinance updates permitted uses in the Village District by including counseling offices under business and professional offices and adding compatible nonprofit, institutional uses to address service organizations such as the Historical Museum in the Village District. Another change in the ordinance is to delete the need for a change of use approval by the Planning Commission in the Village Business District. With this modification, the Planning Commission would no longer review changes of use. The applicant would still need to apply for administrative review for their Occupancy Permit, which is consistent with every zoning district in the Village. Any physical changes (i.e. exterior modifications signage, site plan improvements) would still require Planning Commission review.
Ordinance No. 13-11, An Ordinance Granting Approval and an Easement to the Granville Historical Society to Allow Construction of an Addition to a Building Located at 115 East Broadway that will Encroach onto Village Owned Property Located at 118 South Main Street
This ordinance grants an easement of encroachment to the Granville Historical Society to accommodate the proposed addition to the Historical Museum. The easement is a narrow strip 2.53 feet in width and approximately fifty feet in length and is located just west of the Historical Society's parcel. It should be noted that a portion of the existing museum structure just to the north of this proposed addition encroaches on the Village owned property a total of 8.1 feet.
All legislation is available for review at the Village Offices during regular business hours, which are normally 8:00am - 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. The Village Offices are located at 141 East Broadway.


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That's Some Kind of Reaction! (Grades 11 and 12)
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1. Define pollution. 2. List 5 ways that water is polluted. 3. List 4 ways in which water is filtered. 4. What part of the water purification process was represented by pouring the polluted water through the strainer? 5. What happened when the filtered water from the strainer was allowed to settle in a test tube and what is this process called?


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By the name I gave boyfriend #4 I'm assuming you know that this relationship was not a good one. While I do blame him for most of it, to be fair I had my hand in it to.
I actually met TDH through The Rocker. TDH was a chef at a popular restaurant that The Rocker frequented, and he knew him briefly from there. He introduced the two of us at a party one night.
TDH was perfect in every way. He was like Prince Charming. I'm not kidding, this man blew me away when we started dating by how compassionate and caring he was. He is also the first and only serious relationship that I've ever had that didn't start out as friends.
This was my first mistake. My second was spending a couple of years with this joker.
The first six months of our relationship was all wine and roses and romance. Here's a look at how he treated me. My parents were coming into town, and I was upset because my carpeting was just trashed. I had a friend move in for awhile that needed help, and she did just about everything she could to destroy crap while she was there.
My parents had never seen my house, as I always traveled to the warmer climates when I had time off work. TDH got a key to my house from my sister, and scrubbed every inch of my carpeting while I was at work so that I wouldn't be stressed out when my parents arrived.
I came home from work to brand new looking carpeting. These were the kinds of things he did. I've never been one to like it when someone treats me bad. When they do, I leave, except with him. I think it was because he was so good before that I kept waiting for that guy to come back.
I got along with his friends great, and even his family! Being a chef he worked most weekends, which gave me tremendous amounts of space, which I totally love.
He was also great with my sister's kids. He didn't mind spending large amounts of time with them, and understood why I did what I did instead of bitching constantly that it was my sister's responsibility. The kids adored him.
So where did all of this fuzzy happy wonderfulness go? Right down a bottle. Of Jack that is. You see, TDH had a bit of a drinking problem, and it took me awhile to figure that out, as he was a master at hiding it. Also, he carried around a big secret from me, and I found it out one day while doing laundry.
He had left a pair of jeans at my house, and I threw them in the washing machine. As I took the clothes out, I saw that his license was in the bottom of the washer. I looked at it in horror and realized that his birthday he just celebrated, the one where he was supposedly 26, was really his 21st birthday.
At the time, I was 26 and fastly approaching 27. I know they say that age shouldn't matter, but it did to me. This, and he lied to me.
There were a lot of tears from both of us as we tried to decide what to do. He swore he only lied to me because he didn't think I would go out with a 20 year old. He was right, and I wasn't to pleased about dating a 21 year old.
He was just so damn good to me. Good to my niece and nephews. Good to my whole family. I should have ended it there and then, but I didn't.
We worked through that mess and continued on. It was after this that he started to change. It wasn't noticeable at first, just a little smart ass comment here and a little vocal jab there. I think once his secret was out and I didn't leave, he felt safe to be more of himself, which was not a good thing.
The alcohol thing started to rear it's ugly head, and I'm pretty sure with the benefit of hindsite that there was a drug thing going on too. Some of his friends were latter day hippies, which was fine as long as they didn't bring that shit around me. I'm thinking he was dipping into the fun on that end, and I was just so naive that I didn't realize it, not ever really being around people who were drug addicts before.
After our year anniversary he started getting downright mean. His little jabs had become normal. I'm not sure how this happened. I was a strong, independent female. I made my own money, owned my own house, and answered to no one. How a 21 year old alcoholic could make me question my own self worth is beyond me.
I guess maybe because the verbal abuse started out so slow, and gradually picked up steam. Now I realize that he was just insecure and wanted to make sure that I stayed at "his level". I'm sad to say that it worked for awhile.
I would come home from work and he'd be passed out on my couch, and empty bottle of Absolute on the floor. He'd constantly make digs about my clothes or my hair.
The only reason I can think of why I stayed as long as I did is because I thought I could "fix" him. He was a great person once, right? He was just sick, he just needed help.
It got worse and worse and I was feeling so despondent and helpless. Oh, he put on a good act in front of people, but alone time was a critique of how I acted, what I wore, who I talked to, and why I was bad.
The climax of these two years of hell came with a Halloween party. TDH and I had been fighting bad over The Rocker. While he felt that it was really cool that him and I stayed good friends when we first started dating, he now thought it was ridiculous, and that I should stop talking to him.
I had already invited him to the party, and I wasn't going to uninvited him. It was my turn to host our annual Halloween bash, and I was scared to death that he would do something bad. Not so much because it would embarrass me, but because there would be a lot of guy there that would beat the hell out of him if they knew how he really treated me.
Much to my horror and relief, TDH got so trashed that he went to bed by 10 pm. It had been a rough couple of hours before that, as he traded snide remarks with The Rocker. It had made everyone very uncomfortable, and I think everyone there was also relieved when he passed out.
Fast forward until about 2 in the morning. The circle of soul mates and most of my friends had left, and it was just me, The Rocker, and a couple of other people there.
All of a sudden, all these cars come down my street. I open my door, and all these kids start walking towards my house. I didn't know any of them, but I was pretty sure none of them were old enough to drink. Oh, and they had been doing that already, and were loud and obnoxious to boot.
They said TDH had invited them. I was livid. I went to wake his ass up to see who the hell all these people in my front yard were. He didn't take to kindly to that and screamed, "Why don't you find out for yourself, you stupid slut!"
Isn't it amazing how having other people hear this kind of thing can shock you to reality. It was either that, or The Rocker, who had overheard this, dragging him outside the house to beat the holy piss out of him. It all happened so fast.
We pried The Rocker off of TDH, got the kids out of there, and everyone went home. TDH had crawled his way back to the couch. The next morning he tried to scold me for embarrassing him in front of his friends, and that it was all my fault for inviting my ex-boyfriend.
I listened to his tirade with unusual calmness. There would be no more fighting between us. There would be no more anything. I let him finish, and then told him to get the fuck out. The night before I had gone around my house and picked up anything that belonged to him and boxed it up. The boxes were sitting on his car.
"You're not serious?!?!?!" he said. Oh yes, yes I was. He was leaving that day, and he was never coming back. Oh he tried alright, but I never did let him back.
Quick note for you all...Tomorrow shall be the last of the Ghosts of Boyfriends Past series, ending with The Mystery Man.