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What should one expect of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby as it hits theatres today? The film has seen a series of trailers that have undoubtedly divided audiences, from what I've been able to gather anyway. I've heard responses that state outright that it looks like it could be the best movie or the worst movie of the year. My view is that every trailer released for it so far has been damn good, but this by no means indicates the film itself will actually live up to the standard set by the spirit of those previews.
Trailers are rarely an accurate barometer of how a movie will turn out. What tends to be a far better indicator of the final outcome is what we know of the director and collaborators that put the film together. In the case of Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann is the figure people should look to as a predictor of whether they should see the movie or not. And he's a bit of a polarizing figure. With his Red Curtain Trilogy, consisting of Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, and Moulin Rouge, dividing audiences and critics alike, one thing is certain: this Aussie auteur delivers movies that are unlike those of any other filmmaker today, or perhaps ever. The Great Gatsby appears as though it will continue in this line of creative style.
Here are 6 unique qualities of the work of Baz Luhrmann that make him indispensable when it comes to cinematic expression.
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1) Visuals you've never seen before
A lot of people went gaga for Holy Motors this past year, including me. But one thing I thought while watching it was hmm, why does this remind me of Moulin Rouge? It may be simply that the use of stunning visuals, not necessarily just great looking images but the combination of light and color and movement that just grabs your eyes and won't let go, that I don't recall any movie quite nailing between my viewings of those two strikingly different films. Holy Motors was fairly sparse in what it did visually, while Moulin Rouge was the polar opposite, deliberately overloading all of our sense, not least of which our eyes.
The Great Gatsby appears to be a visual follow-up to Moulin Rouge. Strictly Ballroom showed hints of this unique visual style, Romeo + Juliet had a few more elements of it, and Australia went for a more classical Western look, all the power to it. But Moulin Rouge was absolutely dazzling, purposefully excessive, decadent, showcasing a world that was simultaneously bright and beautiful and also haunting and surreal. It's like David Lynch staging an opera it's so surreal. And the light and movement seems like it will never stop, overwhelming us, and just when we feel like we can't take us anymore, Luhrmann pushes us just a little further, and then strips everything down to a nearly silent shot of Nicole Kidman's blue face. How is that not absolutely enthralling?
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2) A tone you've never experienced before
It's the newness that Luhrmann seems to bring to his movies, most notably Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet, that grabs the attention most immediately. In calibrating our expectations for Gatsby, it's interesting to look at the last classic work he adapted, the 1996 Leo DiCaprio/Claire Danes feature based on the Shakespearean play. A lot of adaptations of Shakespeare's work try to do what Luhrmann does, reimagining the story in a contemporary setting, and they're met with varying degrees of success. Even stranger is Luhrmann's word-for-word retention of the Shakespearean dialogue, resulting in a bizarre juxtaposition of old language and new technology and surroundings.
This is also kind of the perfect story for Luhrmann's attitude. There's an aspect to his work that is so obviously his own, unmistakably so. This applies to all levels of narrative but the one that stands tall above the others is the tone of this unique mixture of irony and sentimentality. A good comparison may be Quentin Tarantino, who recognizes the campiness of the B-movie genre but lovingly applies it to his modern work, tweaking it ever so slightly to serve his updated ends. Luhrmann does the same, except with romance. So he tends to celebrate romance while at the same time mocking it. The story of Romeo and Juliet may be the most appropriate one for recognizing the ridiculousness of these kids who think they know what love is but also the sweetness of their bond and the authenticity of their felt emotions. There's still no one else who handles romance this way that I'm familiar with.
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3) Themes you don't find elsewhere
The tone I was trying to describe earlier fits in with the notion of themes in Luhrmann's movies. His entire filmography deals in love stories, from innocent true love stuff, to ironic detachment yet appreciation for romance, to laughably naïve yet heartbreakingly sincere, to whatever Australia was. The pervading thread to it all is something about love to varying degrees. The progression of his Red Curtain Trilogy may almost point to a sort of disillusionment or dissatisfaction with the way love is treated in love stories, as a foolhardy endeavor that in the real world would lead only to disappointment and heartbreak.
And yet he goes back to it again and again (it'll be interesting to see what he does with romance in The Great Gatsby, with the term taking on different yet really interesting meaning in the book). Since I still maintain that Moulin Rouge is actually a rather savvy take on the tropes and silly love songs relating to romance, I see Luhrmann as akin to something I heard Louis CK talk about recently. There are so many obstacles to people "falling in love," whatever that may actually entail, that it's sometimes hard to believe that it actually happens at all. But it does, seemingly against all odds. And there has to be something to this, something to explain the strange metaphysical or perhaps merely chemical justification for people acting completely irrationally and forming these loving bonds. It's a bit of an absurd thing in real life, and so reflecting that absurdity in movies while celebrating it is elusive. But I think that's what Luhrmann does,
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4) Big risks, big rewards, maybe
His movies are ambitious. Gatsby is no exception, perhaps even more of a challenge than adapting Romeo + Juliet because people are less precious about a silly Shakespearean romance than they seem to be about one of the most celebrated American novels in history. Everyone seems so preoccupied with what F. Scott Fitzgerald would think about what Baz Luhrmann is doing to his masterwork, and Baz is just like eff F. Scott, I'm making the movie my way.
That's a decision that's undoubtedly going to be met, and sort of is already, with a wave of scrutiny, most likely a lot of it fundamentally and unavoidably negative. Purists never like their things to be messed with. And sometimes the objections to people trying to adapt things are perfectly valid. It also takes some serious whatever-the-Australian-word-is-for-cajones to make an unbridled celebration of silly love songs so brazen that you actually include Paul McCartney's song called "Silly Love Songs" in your love song medley. The biggest risk of all is making movies that are this different and ambitious and weird. There's always a huge margin for failure, even just perceived failure. The rewards, however, are equally huge, and so there's a good chance Gatsby could be this year's Cloud Atlas: incredibly divisive, thoroughly ambitious, equal parts preposterous and sublime.
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5) Controlled chaos
There is an increasing level of madness to Luhrmann's films. He has a certain taste for depicting chaos on screen, but somehow finding beauty in it. He was able to draw some type of beauty out of the violence scenes in Romeo + Juliet, and the burlesque scenes of Moulin Rouge, despite the fact that there is so much happening that we often don't know where to look. It would seem there's a method to all this, however, as I stated earlier, and it comes to light in the moments when he slows things down to focus attention on one thing at a time. The variation over the course of a film shows that he seems to know what he's doing.
His style is big and loud in a way uncommon to your standard Hollywood blockbuster. It's the blockbuster chaos aesthetic applied to the colorful musical in the case of Moulin Rouge, or from the looks of it, to the decadent period style in Gatsby. I'd say it's like Michael Bay doing Broadway but that may be a little crass. The most striking feature of his style is that mixed in with the insanity are little elegant touches sprinkles every so often. I think of the John Leguizamo character in Moulin Rouge as an example of this. It may seem I'm drawing too much from Moulin Rouge, but especially when it comes to the style seemingly employed in Gatsby, it seems to be the most definitive example of what Luhrmann has sought out to achieve in his earlier, smaller pictures. So there.
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6) There's still heart amidst the cynicism
It's tough to be sincere in a culture where cynicism often drowns out well-intentioned self-expression, and Luhrmann's work could be seen as something of an antidote to this. Think of it as a sort of punk rock rejection of the notion that we must be in existential crisis at all times, realistic about our dismal prospects in life, honest about the fact that love is a manufactured concept meant to sell greeting cards, and in despair about the death of God.
To this, Baz Luhrmann holds up Ewan McGregor, the naïve writer who falls in love with the courtesan that is Nicole Kidman, grasping at the slim hope that they could one day be together. It's completely foolish of him to think so, but he does it. Maybe he knows that it's relatively hopeless. Maybe he's a kind of existential hero, asserting himself in the face of a world without meaning, establishing his own meaning for himself, as one who believes in the power of love, like the Beatles used to sing about. I think it's perfectly reasonable to recognize how ridiculous remaking The Great Gatsby as inspired by the music of Jay-Z is, but at the same time it should be a subject of admiration, that someone is able to take a grain of an idea like that and flesh it out into something visually compelling and potentially entertaining and even enlightening and inspirational, to essentially hear all the objections from the cynics and turn to face them and just shrug and say eh, what the hell.Previous


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Supported by a host of big-name swimmers including fellow London 2012 medallists Ellie Simmonds, Michael Jamieson and Rebecca Adlington alongside comedian David Walliams.
SwimBritain is a series of fun team relays that are taking place this September which hopes to inspire 500,000 people across Britain to swim more regularly – and get fit!
There are two ways to take on the challenge; SwimBritain1000 is a four-person relay where each team member swims 250m four times around a specially-designed course in a dedicated 50m pool. SwimBritain 500 is a shorter distance where team members use the same course, swimming half the distance (125m four times).
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The Get Safe campaign is aimed at children (and their parents) and tries to make children aware of the dangers posed by water.
The objectives of the campaign are to:
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In preparation for the 2014 membership year, the insurance provided to the ASA/SASA/WASA/IOS, its affiliated clubs and members, has been reviewed and a new policy and insurer will be in place from April 2014.
Leigh St Mary's Under 18's Girl's Water Polo team retain English School's Water Polo Trophy for the 3rd year running at Oundle School , Oundle, Peterborough - Manchester High School for Girl's were runner's up
Crompton House , Oldham Under 16's Girl's Water Polo team won their event
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Leigh St Mary's Under 14's Girls Water Polo team finished with silver medals in the national competition
Manchester High school for girl's finished 3rd.
The National Deaf Children's Society and the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) have teamed up to create the Deaf-Friendly Swimming i-Learn course to help coaches become more deaf aware. This accredited course is easy to complete and free of charge.
The Deaf-Friendly Swimming i-Learn course is an excellent tool for teachers and coaches to learn how to teach and coach the deaf swimmer and ensure that deaf and hard of hearing young people are fully supported in accessing swimming sessions.
The ASA and the IoS encourage every active teacher and coach to take advantage of this brilliant free course to continue to ensure that swimming is a fully inclusive sport.
Sport England is today announcing a special £5 million flood relief fund to help restore pitches and repair sports facilities damaged by the recent floods and storms.
£5 million of National Lottery funding will be made available to sports clubs, local authorities and other community organisations for emergency repairs to damaged facilities such as football, rugby and cricket pitches, water sports centres, pavilions, changing rooms and floodlights.
The ASA North West Region announces Sunday 29th June as the date for the 2014 Open Water Championships. These championships will be held in partnership with Cheshire County WPSA and Lancashire County WPSA.
Leigh St Mary's and Manchester High School for Girls qualify for English Schools girl's Under 16's Water Polo Finals at Oundle on 12th March.
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My tumblr will end for good. I thank you everyone for the follows and rebloggers. Maybe i will come back? But i won't deleted my account. I will start a new blog again :)
My tumblr will end for good. I thank you everyone for the follows and rebloggers. Maybe i will come back? But i won't deleted my account. I will start a new blog again :)
Ive been so lazy to write blogs? Haha how come?? Well anyway i just wanna say that my mood is not pretty good. Also i have negative and positive in my mind, and that sound not good. Wish i could think so much positive, but im going to try with that. My wishes i hope it will come true about it, my wishes are that i want my boyfriend to stay in this town with me, and that we can live together. I love him so much and also i wish that our love relationship is going to be longerrrrr years for years. Right now im at work and there is nothing to do. People please follow me on instagram topxander
I love my boyfriend, can't wait till you come back. Many kisses from your boy <3 oh when u come back i will kiss u like a freaky crazy boy haha ^^
Yeahh my style has changed very much. I decide to change and look attractive and hunky. I bought new jeans and two hood shirts and like 3 tshirts and some jewlery ;) now many many guys like my fashion also that yesterday i guy told me. Wow i like your style, and very nice bag. And i was like very chocked but i did take this as positive. Well me going for meeting so i will say good bye don't forget to follow me at instagram topxander over instagram
I did come out as i am but my dad and sister didn't like it and also my dad have been sad about this he didn't eat well etc.. And my big sister trying to change my way of thinking but sorry i can't i am me so i decide to lie that i like "girls" but i don't like girls hahah , well i had to lie and said well im sorry etc.. Than my dad telling me that i have no stereotype but i don't need to be stereotype??? I am gay straight it means i am myself and normal guy but like guys. Haha but anyway i don't care about my dad and sister feelings but i did this to make them happy again while i live unhappy. I am happy that i got a boyfriend and he understand me. But my dad and big sister nevermind for them but i tried to get out of the closet. I am still me and still will love my boyfriend <3 well it's time to sleep night. But i don't care about it I WILL STILL LIVE HAPPY FOR WHO I AM!!!
I finally did come out of the closet yesterday and my mom helped me about this because i cried. Well thanks from my mom but my dad and sister begin chocked and that's not my fault i am just ME. There is nothing wrong with it. My dad didn't like it but either my sister did but they are same way of thinking. I born with my own life, my dad dosen't talk with me and either my big sister. My dad eated food yesterday but he didn't eat all and even he left the food and the drink. I just don't care about dad and big sister they are acting too be unhappy and i can't be what they think in their mind. If i like boys, i like boys what's wrong with it? I am happy for who i am and happy that i got a boyfriend. I don't care if they are unhappy with me and also i am the only male guy from this small family :p but who cares. They will get fine it will just take months or weeks ^^ but i am happy for coming out also of course my moms do care about me she said think before u doing it she mean sex and also she said do not hold hands or kissing out there. I just said yeaah okay i know and we know it… But i can't do what mom says of course there are plenty of idiots talking shit but there are many places to kiss and hold hands in secret places ^.^ And about sex if i do sex there is condom haha xD. And if u have questions how to come out just press the button ASK ME ANYTHING.
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I wanna be good and healthy but i am sick. I was suppose to meet my boyfriend but i couldn't because i don't want him to get sick from me and he is about too take the exam even hes birthday is coming ^.^ anyway but i miss my boyfriend and i wanna cuddle with him <3 but i love him so much
Ive been workout yesterday with a friend as sister but we had cycling too and i noticed a weird person starring me so much as i stopped to be nice so i did plan too say it loud, but after cycling we did go too the gym lift some weight after that we did training our stomach to have muscler and the person was there besides us and the person still starring like had no mirror it really annoying me so what i did i yelled loud and joking with my friend saying doesn't have the person a mirror it annoying me when the person is starring at me so much. And than i said it loud Oh my boyfriend message me yeayyy ^.^ <3 than the person did get pissed off and changed and did go home with angry face HAHAHHA. But i dislike those people that are starring at me or at my friend like have no mirror or tv at home hahha
Yes i love my boyfriend so much <3 , he is cute and we are together in two months but soon three months. I am happy that i got him and he is happy that he got me but i care about him so does he for me. He is my hero and im hes hero and he is my cute teddybear to cuddle with him. No he is not fat hahah he is normal weight xD but i love him so freaking much. We play LoL game together and also i play the LoL game together with hes friends. It's fun of course to play the LoL game with hes friends and with my baby boy <3 , i can't wait till tomorrow because we will meet again and we will cuddle together and so on.. I miss hes kisses and all of him. But I LOVE YOUUU SO MUCH ^.^ Because you always make me happy so do i for him ^^ / from your cute tiger boyfriend kisses
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Key Performance Indicators are increasing in popularity again. In the 1990's they were one of the key drivers in organisational change, today due to the pressure many organisations are under they are once again becoming an important organisational (OD) strategy.
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A key performance indicator is a financial or non-financial measure used to help an organisation measure progress towards a stated organisational goal or objective.
KPI's are used not only to run the organisation, but as a communication channel to people throughout the organisation.
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When people are new to KPI's they do their research and then introduce KPI's throughout the organisation. Miller in his 1956 research on Capacity for Processing Information suggested from his research that the human mind can deal with approximately seven chunks of information (plus or minus two) – Miller's magic 7.
While there has been a lot of controversy about this, it does appear to remain true that a number of measurable chunks around this number are optimum for performance, hence an organisation should use this as a principle or 'rule of thumb' for Key Performance Indicator development, not a 'law' for their use. This does not mean that an organisation is limited to seven key indicators. the process can be cascaded – for example at a strategic level the KPI's may well be:
Marketing impact, finance, customer satisfaction, stakeholder satisfaction, employee engagement – then each of these in turn can be broken into finer granularity to another seven factors. etc.
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Propping up old media – foundation pays journos' salaries
On the Kickstarter website dozens of prospective start-ups are relying on the generosity of the crowd to help them launch new media ventures.
And, as I'll outline in an upcoming piece, some are doing quite nicely.
But the old media is getting a helping hand too as deep-pocketed foundations alarmed at the erosion of capability in newsrooms dip into their endowments to pay the salaries of journalists.
Testing the water with this new model is the Ford Foundation, initially built from some of the proceeds of Model T sales and now endowed with $US10 billion, which allowed them in 2011 to dispense $US413 million last year to worthy causes.
Last year the Ford Foundation gave a $US1 million, two year grant to the Los Angeles Times to pay the salaries of five journalists, including a Brazil-based contributor.
The money came with "no strings attached", wrote Davan Marajah, editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times Media Group. But Ford stipulates that the money has to be funnelled into coverage of: "Immigration and ethnic communities in Southern California, the California prison system, the Southwest border region and one of the most important international stories in our region, Brazil."
The money comes from a portfolio separate to the Ford Foundation's over investments, to avoid conflicts of interest. As I wrote in a previous post, at least one hyper local media start-up has set up in the greater LA region to fill the void in ethnically diverse communities where the Times has largely withdrawn reporters from.
The investment seems to be paying off, though the notion of paying private media companies to invest in coverage is met with skepticism from senior journalists I've spoken to on my travels in the US. Maybe that's because most of them are working for foundation-funded journalism centres which are effectively competing with the likes of the LA Times for the foundations' attention. They see it as competition.
But a former LA Times editor and self-confessed "newsosaur" has questioned whether the arrangement qualifies for the foundation's tax exempt status in this post, which is worth reading for the general background to the move and the LA Times' owners' financial woes. The work of these Ford-sponsored reporters has to be made freely available on the LA Times website, not included behind its paywall.
The Ford grant broke new ground, but was quickly followed by a similar grant to the Washington Post. This one year grant funded four reporters to work on special projects related to "money, politics and government". Ford said it had agreed in principle to extend the grant for an additional two years at the same level.
That seems to be it for the moment – other large foundations fund journalism not for profits and research in the field but haven't gone as far as underwriting the salaries of reporters in the newsroom. The grant, similarly, attracted criticism from some in the media. For Reuters, Steven Brill wrote:
"When Henry Ford set up his Foundation, did he really intend to help bail out over-leveraged financial investors in a media conglomerate? And is the New YorkTimes not getting these Ford grants because it is doing so well by charging readers for online access that, at least on a relative basis, it doesn't need the money? Or is the Times about to get some of the Ford money, too? Has the Times sought a grant? What about other newspapers?"
The Post used some of the Ford money to hire Pulitzer Prize winning journalist mike Sallah.
It's a bit early to tell what impact these grants ultimately are having. But there remains the issue of longterm sustainability – what happens when the foundation money dries up – are these areas of coverage any more likely than they are now to attract support from the papers themselves? It seems, frankly, unlikely.
A more sustainable, but expensive measure would be for the foundations to invest in media companies, taking a sizeable stake and running them along the lines of the UK's Guardian newspaper, which is operated by a not for profit trust. Still, the Guardian loses money – the economics would have to look much better to make it work. This from the Huffington Post:
Ford and many other large foundations have the resources to do just that [take stakes in media companies]. But they have to decide whether they are serious about this as a major priority or whether they are content with just dribbling out a few dollars that will not accomplish much of anything.
What's the situation here?
Would the underwriting of newsroom positions help boost neglected areas of coverage in New Zealand newsrooms? Frankly I can't think of a foundation or philanthropic organisation that would produce the money to do so.
But with a bit of lobbying, from the media itself and those interested in arresting the slide in coverage in important areas of public interest, this could prove to be a more attractive option than funding the setting up independent not for profit media operations – which have proliferated here in the US.
The cost-structure would be much lower and journalists have a ready audience waiting for them. I could see this happening on a subject and regional basis.
Maybe a community-minded organisation would see value in having a fulltime reporter on the New Zealand Herald focused entirely on local body politics and following the money in council, supplementing the coverage of Bernard Orsman, Brian Rudman and others.
The Waikato Times could really benefit from a reporter, underwritten by a not for profit, focusing entirely on environmental issues facing the primary sector in the Waikato – water quality, land management, that sort of thing.
Probably the quickest way to get decent coverage of both issues would be to boost the existing media, rather than seeding new online outlets focused on the job.
Either way, the direct funding of media outlets by foundations is in the very early stages in the US. It's too early to tell whether its a viable longterm option for the cash-strapped media.
Science Media Centre manager Peter Griffin is currently in the US on a Fulbright-Harkness Fellowship to study innovation in media. He is blogging his trip at Future News.
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Peter - The state already does that for broadcast media (television via NZ on Air and Radio NZ). The government funds should be open to print media as well.
No way Fran .... newspapers are dying because they need too, they are being replaced by online mediums because of fundamental consumer and commercial shifts.
The idea of printing on all that paper and wasting all that resource in this day and age is nonsensical ... newspapers need to get their head around a transition period take the money they spend on printing and invest in good journalism and delivering online.
It will take some balls but they have to step up and say enough is enough, we are no longer in print, we are media online and if you like our content that is where you will find it. Whoever takes the bull by the horns and leads forward in this mannor stands the best chance of long term survival - lead the market positively to where it is unavoidably heading.
Turn it into positive PR and run with the change. Give discounts on iPads for long time subscribers etc etc
I don't think there will be a print based newspaper left in NZ in 5 years time and that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
The Herald is dying because it was deballed by the O'Reilly Regime which thought all its editors around the world needed to be PC, flacid, automatons.
Technology might have played some part, but the move to gutless obedience to Big Daddy & his PC editorial boards of plastic brained sycophants did the business. (Check out their global decline from the early Nineties when the real editors were kicked upstairs/out and the Stepford crew slunk in.)
Fran is one of a handful in that whole former empire....who remain a handful, by being independent and fearless of the don't upset, rock the boat / challenge the existing order....from which the advertisements come...e.g. note the recent lack of follow-up to the Air NZ dual-pricing story on flights between Auckland -London. No follow-up and not a single letter appeared....and I understand there were many.
The flood of 'features' from low-level academics in second/third tier AUSTRALIAN tertiary institutions (and I use the term loosely). And a current free favourite, an ex Brit MP retired to the Waikato....keeping the Green +Labour POV up readers' noses....already gagging on the coverage of local Auckland politics....giving Loopy Len(in) a free ride on the Redistribution Express. instead of holding his and the TCTC's (totally lost town clerk) feet to the fire.
Advertisers + PC + Stepford 'leaders' = game over, even in a monopoly situation..
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2. Build or shore up your cash reserves. Do you ever feel like you're living paycheck to paycheck or that your cash reserves are always uncomfortably low? Well, getting an influx of cash is a great way to fix this. Typically, I recommend having an emergency fund of 3-6 months' worth of your committed expenses. Set this aside in a separate account from the one you use for your day-to-day finances and bill paying.
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I recently ventured in Banyan and was delighted by what was on offer! All Fair Trade items at excellent prices. Cotton tea dresses that are exquisite, beautiful jewellery, knitwear, bags AND menswear. It is a treasure trove of clothing. On top of that the lady who served me was very helpful. She was even better when I had to exchange one of my items a week later as I had bought a dress as a gift and bought the wrong size. This shop is what shopping local is all about! I shall definatly return!
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Floyd County Board of Supervisors Workshop Meeting
June 26, 2006, 9:00 AM
The Floyd County Board of Supervisors met for workshop at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, June 26, 2006 in the Board Room of the Floyd County Courthouse with the following in attendance: Chairman Staudt, Supv. Dunkel, and Supv. Enabnit.
Enabnit/Dunkel moved to approve the agenda as presented. Motion carried 3-0.
The Board will review claims individually after the meeting.
The Board noted the wage increase for County Attorney employee Jewel Flood from $15.50 to $17.50 per hour effective June 19, 2006. Marilyn Dettmer, County Attorney, also requested the Board consider allowing her to hire a temporary person until she is able to get a full-time person hired for the vacancy in her office. This is on the agenda for Tuesday's meeting.
The Board discussed a letter from Judith O'Donohoe regarding unpaid claims for a township trustee. Action will be taken on this on Tuesday.
The Board noted the receipt of a letter from the Iowa Utilities Board regarding the Supervisor's objection regarding a 69,000 nominal voltage electric transmission line proposed by MidAmerican Energy Company in Floyd County.
The Board noted the Chairman's approval of contract #5887CO34 for Local Public Health Services which was approved by the Iowa Department of Public Health for funding beginning July 1, 2006.
Future agenda items: NIRHA board replacement (alternate), 2nd Street property.
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All right, look. This place is kind of a claustrophobic nightmare, and as a tried-and-true, seasoned claustrophobe, I was fairly sure I would die of a certain je ne sais quo (it really defies logic) on night one of three, but the truth is, you're really only going to be in your submarine-like room while you're asleep. I did find it a little whack that in the 7-person room (which is in the basement; there are full-sized windows) one of the bunk beds is stacked three-high. I would have been pissed if I'd been assigned that bad boy. (Though being in the middle of the two would be way worse.)
This place is really bare bones, and sort of shitty. The security was extraordinarily, kind of ridiculously tight for reasons I could not fully understand (not like this at any other hostel), and the customer service left a lot to be desired. But it wasn't a total nightmare. I confess I did think it was going to be way worse than it was when I first laid eyes on these digs. Had I not put down the deposit, I probably would have booked and slept in front of Buckingham Palace in a pop-up tent. Russell Square is not exactly a looker but any means. It's kind of a dump, actually.
But then again, you are in a totally rad location right in the heart of London.
I definitely suggest looking elsewhere first--and booking way in advance--but if you end up having to stay at Smart Russell Square, it's going to be fine. I wouldn't seek it out, that's for sure. Sort of smells like chlorine for no reason. Kind of run by an Eastern European semi-militia-esk group. A bit of a tight squeeze, all around. Even for extreme claustrophobes (equipped with the proper meds), though, it's manageable.
FYI, purchasing ear plugs from the front desk will be the best 50 pence you've ever spent in your life.
This is the first hostel I've ever been in and right from the get-go I know this place is very bad.
1.) the customer service is horrible. i seriously waited 45 minutes just to check in.
2.) most of the people that worked there weren't really that helpful (except fo Evalinda (?))
4.) .50p for 15 minutes of shitty internet connection.
5.) the rooms were too small to fit 9 people!!
the customer service at this place was not accommodating to the guests. this lady who i roomed with was afraid of heights and since the beds were bunked 3 beds high she was freaking out. the hostel overbooked therefore they denied her another room. grrr!!
Yuck I had to stay here for two nights and I nicknamed it "jail-hostel" from my time getting to know it.
The mixed rooms are very cramp, the tri-bunk beds are embedded into the walls, and there is poor ventilation as the window barely cracks open. To access the showers, you have to go all the way down to the sketchy basement through seven different doors as it is comparable to bathroom stalls divided by curtains. This is a bad idea to have the showers so far down because it encourages lazy people not to shower and stink up the rooms.
The wi-fi was down and had a really bad connection and they did not offer us free vouchers. Thinking back, I should have argued for it because it was their fault for not taking care of it. The staff are not warm nor inviting, they made me feel like I was staying at a JAIL.
This place was seriously ghetto. I imagined it to be something similar to middle school. Let me tell you a story...
I changed hostels in the middle of my London trip so that I could be closer to the train station. It's a pretty far hike from where I was originally staying, and probably even further from the hospital. (Don't ask). The beds are stacked like cages and there were like 20 or something in the room. I slept next to my bag because I don't think there was an available locker for me to put my stuff. The staff really wasn't helpful, especially when I woke up late for my train and was trying to book it out of there. Granted, the waking up late wasn't so much their fault as it was my stupid LG Windows-based phone. But really, if I wanted to sleep in a bunk bed that was separated from the room only by a curtain I'd go to Japan's tube hotels.
You get what you pay for I guess. Okay if you are just looking for a very basic, cheap accommodation for a few days. Rooms just contain the beds which are relatively small (I am 1,90m and the bed was definitely too small for me). Showers and toilets are very basic, but cleanliness is alright for the price and water pressure and warm water works. Breakfast is better than nothing, but not much... The common room is big enough and you can always easily meet cool people there. Oh yeah there were rumors about mice in some rooms, but nothing confirmed. Just take one of the upper beds to be sure.
This is about the worst place to stay in london. at first glance it might seem attractive, but on the inside it's not at all.
the beds are tiny. a normal sized man of 1,80 m touches easily both ends with head and feet. there are about 50 cm space to turn around. the whole bed has the feeling of an overnight train, but less confortable.
when you finally found a way to sleep at night, you can look forward to the breakfast. it consists of limp bread and a undefinable jam. don't want jam toast? take limp cornflakes instead, from plastic cups and with disposable knifes and spoons.
the showers are a joke. their underground, a long way away, with lockers without locks, no place to keep your towel, so you basically run around naked between all the strangers.
the service is non existent, you have the impression that you are treated like animals on a farm, with certain needs to fulfill in order to get the money, but when the absolute minimum is fulfilled, it's enough.
the "security" is as kind as a punch to the head. if you stand in front of the hotel and talk quietly, they tell you to go away. if a friend kindly asks to use the toilet, they are told to go away.
the hostel isn't that cheap, as you have to pay for your locker in your room. only benefit is, that it's close to the center of london.
if you have any other option to stay in london, don't come here. if it is the only place free, better stay at home. i will never go to this place again.
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Welcome to BIG MOMMAS KITCHEN
Big Mama's Kitchen - learned cooking at young age, love to cook with passion, we open up a restaurant 4 years ago and just enjoy it! love feeding people, operated business specializing in soul food . We offer a unique variety of delicious homemade appetizers and desserts
We think it's because at Big Mama's Kitchen it is our heart's desire to provide each of our customers with fresh, great-tasting food, exceptional service, and the special feeling of enjoying a home-cooked meal in the kitchen of their own favorite "Big Mama."
We offer a wide array of event catering options serving makes sure that every client's needs are met.


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I'm Pam Newman.
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I'm a writer of aricles, poems & songs. Here's some cool stuff I wrote.
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"Somebody That I Used to Love"
Azealia Banks is not your savior. This is not a defense of Azealia or a critique of her skills. Rather, it is an admission of frustration, fallibility, and weakness. Azealia is not your savior just as she is not my savior, not really, not anymore. In the past, I felt as though defending Azealia was defending myself. What I saw in her was something that I often felt denied: the ability to speak my mind, as openly and freely as possible.
Azealia represented (in many ways, still represents) something deep that speaks to me as a black woman. I immediately distrusted anyone that disliked her because of her innate drive to defend herself. I had been there: shut down and shut up. I never was and never will be as outspoken and brash as she is. But I've felt what it feels like to have your back against the wall, to feel like it is you against the world, and it is a feeling that inspires fight or flight. Azealia always chooses the former.
When Azealia is right, she is so right. She gets sexism or racism or colorism (or even the intersectional of all three) in way that can only come from first-hand experience. Her boldness came at the right time. As a former passionate fan, her ability to tell her story became an inspiration in my apathy toward misogynistic work environments or exclusionary feminist circles. "Liquorice" still feels like the perfect anecdote to a society that only wants its women (and especially its black women) to look and act a certain way. And because she is nearly five years younger than me, I found her messages to be even more critical and necessary in the public sphere.
But when she is wrong, she is wrong in a way that abandons even her most ardent fans. Her homophobia (despite identifying herself as bisexual), her reckless and pointless beefs … all this does is distract us from what she should be doing: releasing new and interesting music. I don't agree with her actions, but a part of me recognizes some of them.
Last year when writing about Azealia, I wrote: "There is a heaviness born out of youth. The desire to prove oneself is tremendous, overwhelming even. I've got a lot to say! Don't deny me this moment!" And Azealia has demonstrated this behavior throughout her time in the public eye. I began reading through past journals from high school and college and realized that I had so much to say, almost too much. The thoughts and ideas and frustrations ran through my mind constantly. I did not feel at ease until they were out somewhere, if only in my brown leather diary. But Azealia is a public figure and being in the public requires different things. For one, an understanding that people are actually listening.
The pressure is practically insurmountable. Most artists hope to build their careers. Azealia debuted with "212," an instant-classic. Her antics at times seem like a way to hide her fears and insecurities. Her need to constantly defend herself, even when she is not being attacked or is clearly being baited by a "lesser" human (such as Perez Hilton), alienates media and audiences, instead turning her into a sort figure for cultural commentary rather than music criticism. But the pressure is not enough of an excuse. Not now, not anymore. At some point, one must take ownership of their words. And although she owns what she says, she has rarely apologized or understood why they are wrong. At this point, I don't know if there's any going back to the love she had from so many from before. Eventually, we move on as music fans. This is a fickle community. There is always someone fresher and brighter.
Azealia released her latest single, "Yung Rapunxel," on Monday, but it was quickly overshadowed by both the new Justin Timberlake album stream and her confusing feud with Rita Ora. I would rather be writing about that song than writing about this, but is there to say? At this point, the music no longer overshadows everything else and it is the everything else that has ruined her appeal for so many.
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