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Some Hidden Gems of 2018
It worked out by chance that this is the first official "year end" list to be published, but in a way, it feels fitting. Most years, I do my overrated, underrated and underseen films, as well as lists of what films surprised me both positively and negatively. I've hesitated to write up hidden gems, just because hidden gems feel like they need time to become gems. It's in the definition of the word. A gem doesn't just randomly occur in nature.
However, because I watch so many films each year and because there are so many out there that are awesome that people just don't know about, I felt that I should write up a list to give as many of those their due as I can. This may bleed over a bit with my Underseen list, but in a way, that's more about the films people know about but just need to actually go see. This is more supposed to be — "You don't even know what this is, do you?" I want it to be about the films that are really good that most people just either have not heard of or would take a second to go, "What is that, again?"
The average moviegoer maybe recognizes a third of this list. People more into movies probably has seen a third and has heard of half or so. People who are deeper into movies than most, maybe half seen and heard of 75%? I still think there's gonna be something here that is so under the radar that even the film people don't know what it is. And you know how I know that? Talking to people.
The idea behind this list is — most people don't know about these films, they're really great, and you should seek them out, because they're great. There are obviously gonna be a few that maybe have wider recognition than a true 'hidden' gem, but in those situations, I think we'd agree that people still need to see them. If I can have it be under 5 that you think are more widely known than I'm suggesting, I think I've done my job. I still think most people haven't seen at least half this list at minimum. (And if you have, maybe start telling people about them.)
Anyway, here are a few (and trust me, there are more) hidden gems from this year that deserve to have a wider audience:
1. American Animals
This one's kind of known. Because there are a lot of people who have been championing this as one of the great films of the year that no one's seen. But that doesn't mean it's not worth bringing up. Because as much as it's out there with people suggesting it be seen — not a lot of people have actually gone and watched it.
It's a heist film. But it's one that takes a really interesting track for telling its story. It does it docudrama style. Think I, Tonya meets true crime documentary. The real people are sitting there, telling their story to the camera, and then we cut to the film version of the story, with actors playing the characters and telling the story. So we get to see the engaging fictional aspect while also seeing the real people telling their stories, however contradictory and potentially untrue they may be. And the film even does something cooler at brief moments, which is have the real people show up in the film at key moments, almost as a sort of harbinger of things to come. It's really cool.
On top of all that, though — it's just a really well made movie. You don't necessarily know the main actors; you only know them through other movies. Barry Keoghan you know from Killing of a Sacred Deer or Dunkirk. Evan Peters you know as Quicksilver from the X-Men movies. And Blake Jenner is from Everybody Wants Some and Edge of Seventeen. It's also the director's debut. Which is very impressive. It's the kind of movie where you wonder if they did the interviews first and then wrote the script around them, or if they knew all along they were gonna do it this way. The whole thing is just incredibly well constructed. This is one of those movies that deserves to be seen if only as a style exercise. It's not like most other movies you see. If you love cinema as an art form or want to, in any way, work in the industry, you owe it to yourself to watch this. Because it shows you a different angle to take on what could have been a very straightforward, much more generic story/film.
2. Anna and the Apocalypse
Zombie. Musical. Do you need anything more than that? This just came out last weekend, and I already know it's destined to be a hidden gem for 2018. Because maybe you'll hear about it, but I already know no one is gonna see this on the level they should. This is Shaun of the Dead with show tunes. It's so awesome. And it's a crowd pleaser. The songs aren't bad either. Really funny, lots of fun, and the exact kind of movie this list was made for. See it before it gets buried. You won't regret it.
3. Blindspotting
This is gonna be the most well known film on the list. I knew that going in. But also — any opportunity I have to champion this, I'm gonna take. Because you know what? This movie only made $4 million at the box office, and it's not really in awards contention. It got one Indie Spirit nomination, and if that's all it got, this is gonna be almost forgotten within six months. And it doesn't deserve that.
I didn't know what to make of this movie going in. I knew it went over well at Sundance and I knew it was generally about a black man who witnesses a police officer kill a man and struggles with it. That's all I knew. I'm curious to hear what other people thought or think this is about. Because it's not only a lot of things in one, it's also still not what you think it's gonna be.
After watching a trailer, I saw that it was mostly about the relationship between the two characters. But even then, it seemed like it was more of a drama. Let me tell you — this is a comedy. It's a buddy comedy. I saw a Sundance logline that said "A buddy comedy in a world that doesn't want it to be one." And that feels like the most accurate way to describe this movie. Because it's about two guys, one white, one black. The black one is very mild-mannered and considerate and the white guy is all tatted up and has violent tendencies. And the black one is fresh out of prison for something we find out over the course of the film. He's trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but everyone tells him that hanging out with the white guy is gonna get him in trouble again. Meanwhile, he sees a cop murder a black guy on the street, basically in cold blood. So he's got that on his conscience too. Meanwhile it's also about race in society and an ex-felon trying to make a life for himself, and even a bit of a relationship drama. But the whole thing is filtered through the relationship between these two guys, which is basically more funny than anything.
I can't say enough nice things about this movie. It was tremendous. Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal are terrific here, and they wrote it for themselves. Both deliver really terrific performances, and this is one of those movies where, no matter if you've heard of it or not, you need to make sure you've seen it and make sure other people see it. Not only is it really entertaining and really terrific, but it feels like the perfect microcosm of 2018 society without trying to be preachy in any way. This movie is not gonna have awards or anything to keep it on people's recommendation lists. It needs as many voices as it can get to keep it out there.
4. Damsel
This is by the Zellner brothers, who made Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, which is another hidden gem. (It's the one with Rinko Kikuchi and is based on the real woman who thought the Fargo treasure was real and died trying to find it.) I'm still not even sure people know about that movie, so I know nobody knows about this. Even if you've heard of this, I bet you don't even know that it came out, or when it came out. That's how quietly this came and went.
This is an anti-western. It's playing on the standard western tropes and pretty much giving you everything you wouldn't get in those films. It starts with Robert Pattinson arriving in the west, an effete city boy, on a small show pony, there to "rescue" his childhood sweetheart, who has been kidnapped by another man. And the film is half him traveling to her, encountering all these weirdos along the way. And then, of course, when we get there, we find out that she doesn't need or want saving at all. And the film is a play on the notion of the "damsel in distress." The damsel ends up being the most capable and strong character in the film, and everyone around her either wants to save her, fuck her or both.
It's one of those movies that brings you in with the actors and the genre, and then gives you all this weird comedy stuff, completely turns everything on its head, and then ends up making a statement about gender and genre and all these things. I really like it.
5. The Endless
This is by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead, who made this absolutely beautiful movie called Spring a few years ago, which I refer to as "Before Sunrise with Sea Monsters." It's incredible. This is their first movie since that, and, I found out after I saw it, is a followup to a film they'd made previously. Which I didn't know. But don't worry, you can watch it on its own and be just fine.
The two star in the film as brothers who, ten years prior, had escaped from a death cult. One of them has completely moved on and is trying to make ends meet financially, while the other still kinda wishes he was back there. He liked it and thought life was simpler there. The two end up going back to visit, and… I'll leave it there. It's nothing crazy, but it is fucking weird. This is definitely a mind fuck of a movie. I'd give you other things to use as comps, but it would lessen the viewing experience. It's one of those movies that draws you in and keeps you interested, even though after a certain point you have no idea what actually is going on. It's one of those that almost necessitates multiple viewings. Which I know appeals to certain people greatly.
If anything, I'm suggesting you watch their previous film, but this one, for this year, is definitely a hidden gem. This is one of those where — sure you can watch whatever mainstream movie that's out there. Or, you could go watch this and watch something unique and interesting that will probably last in your head much longer than most other stuff.
6. A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Our first Netflix movie. There are gonna be 3 or 4 of these on the list. Netflix has become a place that gives a lot of movies a home that otherwise might not have gotten made or gotten released in any major way. However, the downside to that is, now that they're fully in that business, they release so much stuff that if it doesn't make a big splash the first weekend it comes out (Set It Up, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, etc) — and even if it does — after a few weeks it all just sort of gets absorbed into the giant ether that is Netflix. It's the kind of thing where you know it's always gonna be there, and after that initial wave of people talking about it, there's no real impetus to go back and watch any of it. So I feel like a lot of stuff, especially ones that don't get the big press upon coming out, all too easily disappear. So I'm gonna want to shout out the ones I think are the most interesting or unique that I just don't think anyone bothered to watch.
This one, I feel like people kind of heard of it. It came out in January, which is a dead zone for movies, plus there are a lot of people in it. And David Wain directed it! So I'm sure people have probably heard about it. But I bet a lot of you forgot this even came out, and I'm sure a lot of people never even bothered to see it.
7. Happy Anniversary
Our second Netflix movie. This is one that not even I had expectations for. It was just something that came out and I was gonna see it whatever it was. I truly didn't know anything about it going in. And I was very pleasantly surprised. It was a nice movie about a couple. Premise is: Ben Schwartz and Noel Wells are on their third wedding anniversary, and they are pretty much deciding whether or not they should stay married. And we get glimpses of the good and the bad of their relationship, all while they both struggle to get through the day. It's really good. It's an adult romantic comedy, if that makes sense. It's got comedy, it's got romance, but it's very serious and dramatic. Which is not meant to be like — Holocaust drama serious and dramatic, but like… it's not filled with frat humor and gags where people are shitting on the street. Schwartz is really good here, and Noel Wells is a revelation. I only knew who she was because I saw her film Mr. Roosevelt last year. But between this and Social Animals, she's really impressed me. She has an innate likability on screen and is someone I now want to see more of in things. This is the definition of a hidden gem, because it's just sitting there for anyone to see, and no one knows. And it's quite good.
8. Hearts Beat Loud
Brett Haley has made a career out of these under the radar, indie character pieces. And he's building this stable of actors for them too. There was I'll See You in My Dreams with Blythe Danner, The Hero with Sam Elliott, and now this. This is the most mainstream of the bunch. Nick Offerman runs a failing record shop and has basically avoided being an adult all his life. His daughter is about to go off to college and med school. He finds her book of poetry and decides to turn it into songs. They record them and gain minor Spotify recognition. But mostly it's about him trying to keep connected to her through the music. It's a fun little movie. Songs are great. Offerman and Kiersey Clemons are good here, and it's a nice, under the radar little gem. Some people felt that way about Haley's last two films. He's building a career on these things.
9. I Kill Giants
So this, for a moment in the first quarter of the year, was my favorite film of the year. It's about a shy girl with no friends who lives in a fantasy world where she claims she is protecting everyone around her from monsters. But it makes her ostracized, and abrasive. So we watch her, her only friend, and a nice counselor who tries to help the girl. It becomes obvious over the course of the movie what's going on, but the clear destination doesn't diminish the ride. It's visually quite stunning, and was directed by the guy who made Helium, that Oscar-winning short. It's so terrific. And has a really emotionally fulfilling finale too. This is the kind of movie I'd have found on TV when I was like, ten, and fallen in love with, not knowing how little it was known by anyone else. Don't give this one a chance to be forgotten. See it now.
10. Ideal Home
This is definitely one of the more "hidden" gems. This had to come out for me to have heard of it. I'll sell this one to you real quick: Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd are a longtime couple. Coogan's a celebrity chef and Rudd is his producer. One day, Coogan finds out he has a grandson he knew nothing about, and the two are thrust upon fatherhood out of nowhere. At its core, it's the kind of setup you've seen before, but the way they go about it is a lot of fun. Plus, seeing Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan as a bickering gay couple is just incredible. It's fun, and I think this is one of those — based on how little you knew about it and how much enjoyment you'll get out of it, it's worth the watch.
11. Lean on Pete
This movie was a delight. It's slow, and it's Andrew Haigh, who did 45 Years, a movie that I thought was too slow and boring. So it's possible people will feel that way about this one. Which is fair. But I'm here to talk about hidden gems I liked. And this was one of them. It's about a young boy with an absentee father who starts working for a horse trainer and becomes attached to an old horse, one destined for the glue factory. I really liked this one.
12. Madeline's Madeline
Like another film on this list, I'm not as in love with the full film so much as I am with certain aspects of it. It takes a minute to get acclimated to this movie. It's a surrealist film, which ends up taking flight by the third act. It's about a young girl who becomes part of a big acting group, and she starts taking her acting too seriously. It's not one of those Black Swan kind of deals. It's way different, but no less compelling. Helena Howard gives what might be the best performance of the year. She really elevates this movie. And then, because I'm a sucker for "fuck it, let's go balls out," how this movie ends is also quite terrific. But yeah, I can't really describe this one except to say, the lead performance is incredible, and if you're willing to go along for a weird, surreal (possibly pretentious, but surrealism always runs that risk) ride, give this one a shot.
13. Never Goin' Back
This is a female Dazed and Confused, Clerks, whatever you wanna call it. It's so good. Two girls, high school dropouts, and it's a week in their life. They're always an inch from getting fired, trying to save up enough money to get to the beach, and always getting into some shit because of drugs or stupid friends. It's amazing. It's the kind of movie that should (and will) be discovered by the right people and immediately become one of their favorite films. This is a top five gem from this list. If I can suggest you watch only one of these movies, this might be the one I picked. This movie is great.
14. The Polka King
Our final Netflix movie. This is also based on a real story, and has Jack Black once again delivering a terrific performance in an unheralded, underseen movie. It's like six years now since Bernie, and people are still talking about how good he was in that. Surprise, he's done it like five more times since then too. Here he stars as a Polish polka star, locally famous, who ends up running a Ponzi scheme. It's hilarious, and Black is so committed to the role. This is one of the better Netflix movies you'll see this year, and the fact that it happened makes it even better.
15. Revenge
This movie was so good I wish I had seen it in a theater. I knew about it last year when it played a festival, and I regret that I couldn't go the day they showed it. And then when it finally came out and I saw it, I really wanted to be in a theater full of people. Because it's that kind of movie. This is like badass The Revenant. Mixed with I Spit on Your Grave. Woman goes out to desert with her married rich boyfriend for a getaway. He's got two friends who show up for some unnamed thing they're gonna do. They all party, and the next day, while the boyfriend is out, she gets raped by one of the men. When she tries to run away, she ends up being left for dead by all three men. But she survives… and she's back for (insert title here). And it's fucking badass. This is the kind of movie I look for. I want everyone to see this, because it's so good. You will stand up and cheer at this. Also… it's brutal. The violence is real, and they do not sugar coat it. The final encounter is so bloody that as they run through the house they're literally slipping and falling in all the blood. It's nuts. And I love it.
If there's one movie from this year that you probably don't know about that you need to see, this is it.
16. The Sisters Brothers
I've been excited for this since they announced it… which is even when I knew about it. John C. Reilly's been trying to get this made for years, but it was only in the last two when he got Jacques Audiard to direct it and got the cast finalized. And it's a western! It's being pushed for awards, it was at… I think I went to see it opening night and just happened to stumble into an LA Film Fest screening or whatever it was. It was out there, and yet no one went to see it and I feel like no one really knows what it is.
Here's what you need to know: It's a western. John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix are brothers. They're assassins. They are hired to go and kill people. They're hired to kill a chemist and travel out to get him. Riz Ahmed plays the chemist. Jake Gyllenhaal is a tracker who is following Ahmed and is there to make sure Reilly and Phoenix get to him. That's pretty much all you need to get into it. There's more going on here. It's also very funny. It's serious, and it doesn't treat the West the way the 50s movies did. Things are brutal. One bullet can make you lose a limb, and there's a hilarious (and dark) moment with a spider and what a spider bite can do to a person. This movie gets jokes out of a toothbrush. It's fantastic.
I don't know why this hasn't gotten out there. I guess because it's a western, and because it doesn't follow a lot of the standard narrative tropes as you'd expect. I feel like some people when watching this will wonder what the point of it all was and that it just kind of ends out of nowhere. But to me, that's the charm of the movie and what it's all really about. But still, people need to watch this. We need more westerns, and this one is quite good.
17. Small Town Crime
This was the first official hidden gem of the year. It came out quietly at the end of January, and absolutely no one knows it exists. It's another entry into the "John Hawkes picks cool, weird indies" genre, like with Too Late a few years ago. It's a detective story, with all sorts of weird and fun turns. It's the exact kind of movie that appeals to me, and the exact kind of movie you might now stumble upon on Netflix and watch and go, "That was really fun." It used to be "stumble upon on cable," but that's not even a thing anymore for people under 30. I'm not even gonna oversell this. If alcoholic private detectives solving random cases on the fringe of society is your thing, check this one out.
18. Unsane
Why is it that Steven Soderbergh movies are always underrated? Logan Lucky was one of the best movies of last year and there are still people who haven't seen it. This movie… this came out and no one knew it was out. No one saw this! And it's fantastic. It got press because he shot the entire movie on an iPhone, and I'm sure some people thought, "Oh god, why do I wanna see that?" And the answer is, "Because it's Steven Soderbergh, and when are his movies not, at the very least, worthwhile, if not always good?"
This is a Hitchcock kind of movie. Claire Foy is a woman who does not seem totally well. She is paranoid because of a stalker she used to have (who may or may not be real). She goes to a mental institution and before she knows it, ends up as a patient against her will. And the rest of the film makes you wonder — is she crazy, is she not? Is there something underhanded going on at the hospital? Is there really a stalker? And the movie just takes all of these turns, all of which are very above board, and yet, the way it plays, it feels like it's making all these masterstrokes. That's Soderbergh, I guess. He just elevates material. But trust me, you need to see this movie. It's one of the best that came out this year and almost no one knows about it.
19. We the Animals
This is one of the indie darlings of the year. I'll admit, not my favorite movie on this list, but the visual style it uses to tell its story is definitely one of the better ones I've seen this year. It does a really terrific job of putting you in the mindset of a child, and the way it plays with picture and sound (especially sound), is terrific. This is one of those gems that will be forgotten within six months, and it's a damn shame, because it's a really effective film and worth seeing.
20. What They Had
I don't even think people know this is a movie. First time writer-director, stars Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster and Blythe Danner. It's a family drama. What people do when their mother has Alzheimer's and their father is getting too old to properly care for her by himself. It's really well done. Forster is incredible here. Shannon is always good, and Swank is solid. Danner is good, but mostly has to do the senile old lady thing. But this is a very solid indie drama that people don't even know exists. And it's unfair, because it's really solid. And I feel like it's clearly borne of the director's real life experiences, which doubly means people need to see it, because for some people it'll really strike a chord with them. You can't put a price on movies like that.
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Apheresis is a procedure whereby "bad" low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is removed from the blood in a process similar to kidney dialysis. Apheresis therapy may be burdensome to patients, given that it can take more than three hours. Treatment can also cost up to $100,000 for each patient per year in the U.S.
The ODYSSEY ESCAPE trial involved 62 patients at 14 treatment centers in the U.S. and Germany. The patients were receiving regular baseline apheresis therapy at fixed intervals of every week or every two weeks before randomization. The patients were randomly assigned to receive subcutaneous alirocumab 150 mg (n = 41) or placebo (n = 21) every two weeks in addition to their existing treatment regimens. The double-blind treatment period consisted of two intervals: For the first six weeks, the patients remained on their established apheresis schedule at baseline, and for the following 12 weeks, the frequency of apheresis was adjusted based on the patient's LDL cholesterol response to treatment.
The most common adverse events in this study included fatigue (15% for alirocumab vs. 10% for placebo), nasopharyngitis (10% vs. 10%), diarrhea (10% vs. 0%), myalgia (10% vs. 5%), upper respiratory infection (7% vs. 19%), headache (7% vs. 5%), arthralgia (7% vs. 10%), and back pain (5% vs. 10%).
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List of Governors 2019/2020|
Mr D. M. Joyce (Chair). Child Protection, Pupil Premium RE, Link
Member of the Governing Body for over 18 years and Chair for 5 years.
Mr. A.J. Alveston
I worked in the ceramic tile industry for many years and primarily in Sales and business management, being a Fellow of the Institute of Sales & Marketing. Eventually it was time to change my career path and move into business management as Sales Director for Tiles UK a national tile import and distribution business. This was followed by employment as a Business Development Consultant for a Spanish tile manufacturer. The objective was to develop new markets and specification business in the UK.
In my social time, I have been active in many sporting field's, and worked as Golf Club Secretary, Commercial Manager for a local football club and Advertising / Fund Raiser for a Lancashire League Cricket Club.
Mrs L Wolstenholme (Headteacher)
I have been a teacher at Saint Mary's for 11 years in a number of different roles including deputy head and in September 2018 I became the Headteacher. I have a passion for working with children and a focus on working with parents and the local parish community. I am also a catachist at our Church and help Father O'Brien deliver the Sacramental Programme. I enjoy reading, walking and eating out in my spare time.
Mrs T Duckworth (Deputy Head Teacher)
I have worked at St. Mary's for 20 years now, as a Key Stage 2 teacher. I become the deputy headteacher this September, and am also the English lead for our school. As part of this role my aim is to increase reading for pleasure for the children, as reading is a hobby that I thoroughly enjoy. I also enjoy baking, walking, shopping, going to the gym and looking after our four chickens.
Mrs D Reddin
I am the Office Manager in school and have been for 20 years. I have a Diploma in Administrative Management with NCSL. I have two daughters, one living in Edinburgh and one in Worthing and a son studying Business at York University. I have recently started watercolour classes and enjoy gardening, reading and interior design. I feel very proud to be part of a strong team who all work very well together for the good of the children.
Mrs E Leyland
I became a Parent Governor in 2014 and have recently become a Foundation Governor. Previously employed by Greater Manchester Fire Service I now work in a Primary School in Burnley. I have been married for 15 years and have two daughters, one who attends St Mary's RC School and one who has just left for Secondary School. I am a member of St Mary's parish and regularly help out at St Mary's Brownies.
Mr A Bentley
I became a Parent Governor at St.Mary's having previously served the school as a class teacher for 5 years. Prior to qualifying as a teacher I worked in the legal profession. I currently teach at The Manchester Grammar school where I enjoy the opportunity to pursue my sporting interests which include Football, Cricket, Running and Skiing. I enjoy organizing school trips, both at home and abroad, and have also worked as a Ski Rep during school holidays. I have been married for 5 years and am a father of 2 children, one of whom attends St.Mary's. I recently enjoyed the opportunity to deliver the Sacramental program, preparing the children of the Parish for Reconciliation and Holy Communion.
Mr D Georgy
I am a Foundation Governor, having been appointed in January 2018. I work as a Senior Commercial & Procurement Manager in a large multinational company and believe my education and experience will be an asset to the management and administration of the school through the Governing Body. My religion plays an important part of my life and I aim to ensure the school is conducted in accordance with the rites, practices and traditions of the Roman Catholic Faith. I have been married for 8 years and am a father of three children, one of which attends St Mary's. In my spare time I enjoy travelling, hobby gardening, fishing, golf and socialising with family and friends.
Mr M Partington
I am a Foundation Governor having been appointed in November 2018. I am a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors having retired from my post in 2017 as an Associate Partner with a national property company where my work involved commercial property valuation throughout the north west of England. I am a lifelong member of St Mary's RC Parish and actively involved in parish life and various parish projects. I am the Group Scout Leader of 109th Loyola Scout Group Oswaldtwistle, working with children of mainly primary school age for over 40 years. I am married and have lived in Oswaldtwistle all my life.
Mrs P Kornecki
Mrs A Spiteri-Braysford
I was fortunate to be nominated as a Parent Governor in February 2019. I currently work in the office at a primary school in Oswaldtwistle which is varied and eventful but I wouldn't have it any other way! Prior to this I worked at Network Rail for 14 years, covering Lancashire, Cumbria and Manchester areas. I am married with two children who both attend St Mary's RC Primary School. As a family we have a small holding with cows and sheep so we are kept very busy! We love our holidays in particular skiing trips which both children thoroughly enjoy.
Mrs E Marsden
Mr N Pitman
The governors at St. Mary's:
Promotes the Catholic ethos of the school and drives its aims and values.
Supports the school as worshipping community.
Ensures that the school constantly bears witness to the Good News in every aspect of its life.
Has the determination to help Saint Mary's to become and outstanding school.
Promotes high standards of achievement in all areas.
Serves to help every individual to reach their full potential in the image and likeness of God.
Is at the heart of strategic planning both for the present and for the school's long term future
Actively engages in Policy Formation and review
Deploys resources effectively in support of the school's development cycle
Is active in target setting and promotion of raising standards
Involved in Performance Management
Has a planned and robust approach to monitoring and evaluation
Challenges and supports the Headteacher and teaching staff
Forms an effective partnership with Headteacher and teaching staff
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A visit to a private hacienda showcases regional traditions. Arrive to the rhythms of live music and dance, then enjoy lunch and see the horsemanship of a Peruvian Paso horse show.
Discover the World Heritage-listed Historic Centre of Lima. Here, see one of the best preserved monasteries in the city, the Convent of Santo Domingo.Daily :
During a traditional weaving demonstration, learn how the famously colourful materials of South America are created.
Board a flight to Cusco, the historic capital of the ancient Inca Empire. On arrival, travel by coach to Chinchero, a small Andean village in heart of the Sacred Valley. Later, settle in to your hotel overlooking a river in the Sacred Valley.
Stay: Two Nights, Sacred Valley, Tambo del Inka, Luxury Collection by StarwoodDaily :
Witness the dazzling sight of the Maras salt mines, where thousands of salt pools spill over the side of a steep terraced slope.
Travel to the Moray archaeological site, a fascinating collection of ancient terraced fields and one of the most beautiful creations of the Incas. Later, enjoy lunch with views of the surrounding Andes mountains and valleys.Daily :
Board the Inca Rail train and admire the mountainous landscape as you travel to Machu Picchu, with lunch on board the train.
Set off on a guided tour of the ancient Inca citadel.
Stay: Machu Picchu, Sumaq HotelDaily :
After your breakfast, return by train to the Sacred Valley, before continuing to Cusco. Check in to your hotel and absorb its Spanish colonial charm.
Stay: Two Nights, Cusco, JW Marriott HotelDaily :
Head to Barrio Ceviche for local Peruvian dishes; or try the menu at the renowned MAP Café.
A guided walking tour through Cusco takes you to the stunning square in the city's heart, the Plaza de Armas, as well as the sacred sites of Koricancha and Cusco Cathedral.Daily :
Board your included flight to Buenos Aires, in preparation for your Antarctic cruise.
Stay: Buenos Aires, Park HyattDaily :
Fly to Ushuaia, South America's most southern city, and transfer to your luxury expedition ship, Le Boréal to be greeted by your Expedition Leader and a team of expert naturalist guides. Take some time to settle in before enjoying the Captain's Welcome Dinner. Afterwards, head to the deck to take in the stunning scenery of the Beagle Channel.
Stay: 10 Nights, Le BoréalDaily :
On arrival in Antarctica, your itinerary becomes flexible in order to maximise your discovery of this enchanting world of ice and water.Daily :
Your Captain will charter a course based on the most exciting sightseeing opportunities available and the most favourable ice and weather conditions.Daily :
Each day on your cruise, you'll enjoy morning and afternoon Zodiac rides. Experience some of the most unique wildlife viewing in the world as you're taken to visit penguin rookeries and seal colonies.Daily :
Keep an eye out for the orcas, as well as humpback and minke whales, that frequent these waters.Daily :
Take advantage of a flexible itinerary as you continue to explore this enchanting world of water and ice.Daily :
Learn about the history, geology and wildlife of the remarkable White Continent courtesy of your Expedition Team and enjoy Zodiac rides, keeping an eye out for the astonishing wildlife of the region.Daily :
On board your ship, share stories with fellow passengers and new-found friends.Daily :
Return across the Drake Passage towards the Argentinian city of Ushuaia. Along the way, keep an eye out for the many whales, dolphins and albatross that frequent these waters.Daily :
Take a tour through Tierra del Fuego National Park, South America's most southern national park.
Disembark your ship in Ushuaia. Later, travel to the airport for your included flight to Buenos Aires.
Stay: Three Nights, Buenos Aires, Park HyattDaily :
Enjoy dinner and a lively tango show.
Enjoy a tour of Buenos Aires, see the colourful houses of La Boca and drive along Avenida 9 de Julio.Daily :
Cruise the Paraná Delta, explore the city's vibrant art culture or take a behind the scenes soccer tour.
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Fly to Iguazú Falls. Ride the Rainforest Ecological Train and step out onto some of the many viewing points along the way, including one that takes you directly over Devil's Throat.
Stay: Two Nights, Iguazú Falls, Hotel das CataratasDaily :
Get up close to the thundering cascades of water at Iguazú Falls on a Jet Boat Ride Safari.
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See colourful native South American birds at Parque das Aves Bird Park, then fly to Rio de Janeiro, a city lapped by deep blue ocean and surrounded by mountains and lush forest.
Stay: Three Nights, Rio de Janeiro, Copacabana PalaceDaily :
Witness the beauty of Guanabara Bay from on board a schooner boat. Alternatively, take a colonial walking tour, where the legends woven through the narrow streets are brought to life on an enthralling discovery.
Today, enjoy your Freedom of Choice Sightseeing inclusions.Daily :
Make your way to Corcovado, famous for its iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer. Visit the statue and travel to the platform at its peak for stunning views. At sunset, ride a cable car to the top of Sugarloaf Mountain. Tonight, dine on a sumptuous Brazilian BBQ.Daily :
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Ok.. So you woke up. Not this morning but to the issues affecting black people. You're realizing that you're no longer satisfied with the whitewashing of our history. You're frustrated with seeing black people demonized in the media. You want to do something, but don't know where you can make a difference.
Let me tell you…there is no wrong way to help the community. If you're truly in it to help black people….your people…your work will make a difference. PERIOD.
For me, it's black business. I created this blog to help black people find black owned businesses. There are great directories already available. But it takes some google searches to find them all. I want to help you find black business. I want to incorporate black owned business products and services into our daily lives. Ensuring I am at least trying to find a black owned business FIRST before I spend anywhere else.
For others, it could be using their knowledge of finances to help other black people and families build wealth. Some have the ability to protest and extend our voice out into the world. Others have visions of non-profits that can help a segment of our community. While others can tell our story to everyone. If you're a black police officer, it's community engagement and standing against police culture of bias.
There is no wrong way to help black people..our people. We excel at multi tasking. There is no need to only focus on one representation of injustice. We should focus on all. So, now that you're woke, what are you going to do?


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Over the last decade, plenty business process modeling notations emerged for the documentation of business processes in enterprises. During the learning of a modeling notation, an individual is confronted with a cognitive load that has an impact on the comprehension of a notation with its underlying formalisms and concepts. To address the cognitive load, this paper presents the results from an exploratory study, in which a sample of 94 participants, divided into novices, intermediates, and experts, needed to assess process models expressed in terms of eight different process modeling notations, i.e., BPMN 2.0, Declarative Process Modeling, eGantt Charts, EPCs, Flow Charts, IDEF3, Petri Nets, and UML Activity Diagrams. The study focus was set on the subjective comprehensibility and accessibility of process models reflecting participant's cognitive load (i.e., mental load and mental effort). Based on the cognitive load, a factor reflecting the mental difficulty for comprehending process models in different modeling notations was derived. The results indicate that established modeling notations from industry (e.g., BPMN) should be the first choice for enterprises when striving for process management. Moreover, study insights may be used to determine which modeling notations should be taught for an introduction in process modeling or which notation is useful to teach and train process modelers or analysts.
The Repercussions of Business Process Modeling Notations on Mental Load and Mental EffortUniversität Ulm Universität Ulm
Presentation at the International Workshop Series on Business Process Management and Social Software;
Michael Zimoch, Sydney, Australien, 10 September 2018, 10:00 AM


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Finding a host for your project can seem like a daunting task, especially if it's the first time you're setting up something more complex, but don't worry – in the end, it all boils down to proper research and knowing what features you need in your package. After that, with just a few quick searches, you should be able to find the right company for your needs and get a deal that matches your business situation.
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September 09, 2008
Deejay Ce'cile has found herself comfortably positioned between the pages of Playboy magazine, and she is loving it.
"It's just great," she says, giving a coy smile and playfully striking a Playboy kind of pose.
The August issue of the German edition of Playboy features a review of Ce'cile's newest album, Bad Gyal, making her among the few dancehall artistes to appear in this publication. She joins the likes of Shaggy and German reggae act sMono and Nikitaman to be featured in the review section
"Of course, this feature in Playboy magazine is really a plus. It is very rare for Jamaican dancehall musicians to make this publication and hopefully this means that more of us will make it in the review pages. Millions of people read this magazine, so immediately there will be a lot of exposure for me and the product," she says.
Ce'cile notes that this is a great way of promoting the CD and building on the fan base that already exists in Germany. The artiste who recently returned from an European tour promoting the CD, says the tour went well and they covered a lot of ground in the couple of weeks on the road appearing at the major festivals.
She explained that Bad Gyal is strictly for the European market and an intense marketing and promotional campaign is in progress. There are 18 tracks on the CD, including a remix, featuring Shaggy, of the runaway hit single, Waiting.
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Episode 45
Homeland Wants Its Spy Mommy
October 6th, 2014
1 hr 19 mins 45 secs
About this Episode
Our esteemed colleague Jeff Drake came not to praise Homeland's season premiere, but to bury it -- but he and the gang found a lot to like. We went around the dial with animated shows, British-history-based streaming sleep aids, and a great ending to a great Bob's Burgers, before Liv accidentally NSFWed the Face Off report and Sarah reviewed Lena Dunham's new book. The Giudices got jail time, Tara got (pea)cocky for Game Time, and we tried not to drone on in a radical Extra Hot Great.


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Troops of the Nigerian Army have arrested 18 herdsmen in the Kwata Sule, Mbayer, Yandev and Kaambee areas of Benue State, who were caught grazing their cows on farmlands, an act which is against the state's anti-open grazing law.
Our correspondent learnt that the troops
attached to the 707 Special Forces Brigade, Makurdi, while on patrol on
Saturday in the area, nabbed six herdsmen in Kwata Sule, while 12
others were arrested in Mbayer, Yandev and Kaambee areas for
"destructive activities."
The herdsmen were reportedly handed over to the police for prosecution.
According to the army, the troops, also in Chembe, Tse-Gundu,
Tse-Iordye and Sbaor areas of the state, recovered two motorcycles, and
7.62mm special ammunition from two fleeing herdsmen.
in Bauchi State, troops of the 33 Artillery Brigade, in the ongoing
Operation Lafiya Dole on Saturday also encountered some members of a
militia group at the Burra Junction in the Ningi Local Government Area
of the state.
The militiamen reportedly opened fire on the
troops and at the end of the gun battle, four militiamen were killed,
while the troops recovered five dane guns, 38 motorcycles and nine
Also, nine militiamen were arrested, while a soldier,
who sustained gunshot injuries, had been evacuated to a hospital and
receiving treatment.
The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.
Gen. Texas Chukwu, who confirmed the arrest of the herdsmen, said the
troops were in pursuit of the fleeing herdsmen and militiamen.
Chukwu said, "Troops have arrested six herdsmen in Kwata Sule, caught in
the act of farmland destruction. Also, the troops apprehended 12
herdsmen in Mbayer and Yandev areas during the Presidential Assessment
Team's visit to the area. Two motorcycles were recovered from the
"After the initial interrogation, the suspects were handed over to the police for further action.
"Similarly, troops on patrol in the general areas of Chembe, Tse-Gundu,
Tse-Iordye and Sbaor settlements sighted two herdsmen. They abandoned
their motorcycle and fled. During the search of the general area, one
round of 7.62mm special was discovered. We will continue to dominate the
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"Las Vegas, Nevada – KOA: 109 Degrees in the Shade" by Naaman Rosen
Max Eternity – Circumscribing the Liminal is an exhibition currently on display at Krowswork Gallery in Oakland, California. Located just off Broadway Street in the heart of the Downtown arts district, the space is owned and operated by Jasmine Moorhead.
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This audio visual show features the artwork of three artists practicing in photography, video and sound installations–Teresa Cunniff, Malak Helmy and Naaman Rosen–. And Moorehead says "Each of these three artists has focused attention on a particular liminal, or in-between, though paradoxically bounded space…revealing the true liminal nature of this structural and linguistic breakdown–with its attendant potential for total reconfiguration, re-equalization, and transcendence."
In the following podcast, Moorehead elaborates on the finer points of each artists talents and how the respective works speaks wholly to this idea of liminal space. The exhibition opened on May 20th and closes June 18th, 2011.
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For the nth time, the giant bully has struck once again with another provocative statement. This time, 'a state-owned Chinese news agency has called the Philippines a "trouble maker in the region"'. Not content on that label and being true to their being a bully even 'warned the country against losing its "credibility" if "Manila insists on playing more tricks."'
First point: who is the true trouble maker in the region? Second point: what's the moral ascendancy of China to talk about credibility?
During the SARS pandemic issue, did they inform the relevant world body, such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) of the full extent of the problem?
Did they disclose to the entire world all the pertinent information and necessary data of the melamine milk crisis that killed a lot of people, especially young children?
The latest pronouncement came amid the renewed heightened tensions in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) dispute.
As reported by Fat Reyes of inquirer.net, December 14, "China calls PH a 'trouble maker":
In an editorial entitled "Manila's miscalculation" published on Wednesday, the China Daily hit Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario for saying that the Philippines would support Japan dropping its pacifist constitution to become a fully-fledged military force and act as a balance against a rising China, saying that the statements bared "Manila's attempt to enlist support for its disputes with China."
Further, the editorial stated in no uncertain terms that:
"As a smaller country, it has resorted to opportunism to balance the big powers. However, if it goes too far, it will have to shoulder the consequences…"
First point: who is the genuine opportunist here? The one who is fishing in the waters of another or the one who is defending one's territory from an invader and an aggressor?
I admit that we are a small country, but that is not the ultimate picture or structure of our character and persona.
Who between us is going too far? Are you threatening us?
As I wrote then to the Malaysian Insider, April 18, "The dispute over the Scarborough Shoal" and to reiterate our stand:
Question: Is this a warning to us? Are you threatening us?
Reply: To that writer of war scenario and to the whole of the Chinese empire, may I remind you that we may be small as compared to your hugeness, we may be a dwarf as compared to your gigantic size, we may be poor, as compared to your economy but our people, the Filipino people, are not weak, our people have character and strength.
That was precisely shown and exemplified in action in conjunction with our latest showdown when we stood our ground, stayed put and dared you!
Don't forget that we are the first country in Asia to overthrow a foreign power and declare a republic!
During World War II, we stood and fought the Japanese Imperial Army from day one up to the end!
We fought a dictator for more than two decades and had two revolutions. In fact, when your people tried to copy our own 1986 revolution in 1988 at Tiannamen Square, your government viciously cracked down on the people and the students who led the same!
Hence, do not take us lightly, in the same vein that we are not taking you for granted, too.
We may be small, yet we are capable of inflicting damage to you too!
As a Filipino writer puts it so succinctly, Jose Ma Montelibano, Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 13: "China may risk killing some of us but it will find it too costly to kill millions of us".
Lastly, I am not threatening you, but warning you that we have our history of courage and greatness, too.
Hence, I implore China to learn from history: do not ever forget the lessons of the Battle of Thermopylae.
It is always the case that the tiniest of dust often causes the greatest irritation and discomfort to the biggest bloody eyes! Again, we are also warning you!
Nearly just a week ago, the Chinese ambassador to the Philippines has assured the Filipinos that: "we are not your enemy." Well, that is good! We are also not your enemy, but don't mess around in our backyard!
Now, that stupid and warmonger Chinese news agency has issued this editorial that in my view instead of calming the situation has further exacerbated the already heated condition of the two countries.
I doubt if the big dogs of Beijing does not know anything about this war freak editorial!
I do not know whether that news agency is aware of the Chinese ambassador's pronouncement in Manila.
However, I heavily doubt the sincerity of the giant. Once again, they have shown their perfection of the tactics of "double speak." Look at this: the ambassador is calling for peace, while the state news agency is warning for war. What a shame! China is indeed the new version of Janus; albeit of the worst kind!
It further goes to claim that:
"History shows us small countries tend to get the worse of it if they seek to hijack regional peace and stability as a bargaining chip. If Manila insists on playing more tricks in this regard, sooner or later it will have to pay a dear price and lose its own credibility in the region…"
First point: if you want a piece of us, then just get it and stop engaging in this nonsense talk! But that is if you can get that piece of us!
I agreed with Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spokesperson Assistant Secretary Raul Hernandez, "when pressed for comments, questioned why the Philippines was being called the trouble-maker".
Further, Hernandez added that:" the recent actions of China in relation to its nine-dash sea claims have raised concerns for the international community."
Indeed, the DFA's spokesperson is correct when he "said that such actions were inconsistent with international laws, especially the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and impedes the fundamental freedom of navigation and lawful commerce."
Nonetheless, I strongly disagree with Foreign Affairs Secretary, Alberto Del Rosario that the Philippines "would strongly support a rearmed Japan" as a balance and an added counterweight to Chinese aggression and provocation.
We must not also forget Japan's bloody and imperialist past! It would be the heights of stupidity and absurdity to trade one monster from another. One imperialist is not better from another imperialist. Both of them must be closely guarded and seriously countered!
Undeniably the "recent weeks have seen a rise in tensions in the sea disputes, with the Philippines asking China to clarify media reports saying Chinese authorities had authorised its forces to interdict ships entering what Beijing considers its territorial waters."
Are these the noble acts of a non-trouble maker in the region?
As I wrote then for the China Daily Mail, December 4, China's imperialist designs; showing it's ugly head and bloody arms (South China Sea):
However, "new rules that take effect on January 1 will allow police in the southern Chinese province of Hainan to board and seize control of foreign ships" which "illegally enter" Chinese waters, that according to the official China Daily on Thursday.
Indeed, as the Secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Surin Pitsuwan stated: "the Chinese plan was a very serious turn of events".
Further, Mr. Surin has warned that:
"It certainly has increased a level of concern and a level of great anxiety among all parties, particularly parties that would need the access, the passage and the freedom to go through…"
I overwhelmingly concur with Mr. Surin's unusually strong language in depicting the said plan of China that "could trigger a major incident that would affect confidence in East Asia, a key engine of global economic growth."
The provocative editorial also said that Manila was "deceiving" itself if it believed it could count on support from countries like the United States and Japan, adding that it was also "apparently underestimating China's resolve to defend its sovereignty and core interests."
I certainly agree with China on this score! The Filipinos are not stupid enough to rely either to the US or Japan! Their business is their business, our business is our business and China has no business whatsoever hanging around at the West Philippine Sea. Hence, mind your own business and back off from our territory!
I overwhelmingly concur with Manila's consistent position and ardent call "for a multilateral approach to dealing with the sea disputes, as well as peaceful resolutions in accordance with international law…"
The problem is: as always "China has insisted disputes should be dealt with using bilateral negotiations."
Again, to restate the central substantive question of this perennial regional dispute:
Who is the true bloodied trouble maker of the region?
To China: don't dare us; because we will surely fight back… to the death!
We are warning you too!Jose Mario Dolor De Vega Polytechnic University of the Philippines Selangor, Malaysia
Related Articles
- China's imperialist designs; showing it's ugly head and bloody arms (South China Sea) (chinadailymail.com)
- South China Sea enters gunboat diplomacy (chinadailymail.com)
- China paper calls PH a 'trouble maker' (globalnation.inquirer.net)
- China is the Trouble Maker in the South China Sea: Part I (ireport.cnn.com)
- China is the Trouble Maker in the South China Sea: Part II (ireport.cnn.com)


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They may be tiny, but microgreens are powerhouses of nutrition, something microgardener Deanna Kotsopoulos is passionate about.
Microgreens are miniature versions of plants that are between four and 40 times more nutrient dense than the plant itself," Deanna Kotsopoulos says. She runs Micro Market Garden from her home outside Allora, supplying restaurants and home cooks with tiny seedlings of kale, mustard, amaranth, rocket, broccoli and a host of other vegetables and herbs.
"Microgardening is so beautiful," Deanna says. "So aesthetically pleasing and economically pleasing. It's very old-fashioned gardening, along the lines of the Mediterranean market gardening."
Deanna comes from a long line of market gardeners hailing from the sun-washed shores of Greece, Spain and Italy. She shares her 8.5 acre property with her eight-year old son, Alexander, and her parents, avid gardeners Ivan and Maggie Kotsopoulos. "I've always been growing something," she says. "Always."
The property is a hive of gardening activity with tidy greenhouses filled with trays of microgreens and microherbs and extensive gardens overflowing with heirloom vegetables.
"I love the unusual," Deanna says. "The variety of cucumbers, eggplants and pumpkins that people haven't seen in years and that taste amazing."
She stumbled upon microgardening a couple of years ago while researching unique heirloom vegetables she could grow and sell. Deanna was astounded at the nutritional properties of the miniature plants, and intrigued by the quick turnaround from seed to sellable product. "It is constantly rotating," she said. "It's very intensive and you're rotating all the time."
She loves the varying flavours of the microgreens, from familiar peppery and herby to the unusual flavour of popcorn seedlings which are so sweet they are almost like candy for her son, Alexander. "They're all so tasty and knock the socks off of wheat grass," Deanna said. "You can put them in smoothies and burgers, omelettes and scrambled eggs, salads and spring rolls, meat patties and stir fries. We pretty much put them in everything." She sprinkles them on soup, piles them on sandwiches and always tucks a handful of microgreens into Alexander's lunchbox before he heads to school, buoyed by the knowledge that even a few sprigs will enhance his diet with vitamins, minerals, complete proteins and amino acids.
Deanna launched her Micro Market Garden business at the Sourced Markets in Warwick in July, and is thrilled with the enthusiasm she's encountered. Launching her business was not all smooth sailing as she dealt with a mice plague that decimated her crop, high winds that flattened her original greenhouse, and unseasonable heat waves that melted the tender seedlings.
"I've had a baptism by fire," Deanna said with a laugh.
But to her, the lessons she's learned have been worth all the drama. She's excited to expand the number of cafes, restaurants, and markets she supplies, and will soon launch a weekly delivery for local clients.
"Microgreens are such a great secret," Deanna said, "Such small amounts can do so much good for you."
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Sustainable Healthcare: Empowering the NHS with Big Data
Tuesday 5 April 2016
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When reading recent news articles where health is concerned, you could be forgiven for feeling increasingly pessimistic that sustainable Healthcare can exist within the NHS in the near future. Whether it is relentless reminders of the financial problems that threaten the organisation, backed unequivocally by official reports, or the morale-crushing contracts imposed on junior doctors that look to cause further strikes, time is running out for an organisation that is so important to the public it serves.
With such a wealth of recent history suggesting that the notion of the NHS achieving sustainable healthcare is quickly becoming an aspirational fantasy, what can be the long-term solutions moving forward?
Using Big Data as a Catalyst for Sustainable Healthcare
It is apparent that efficiency must be a priority for every aspect of the organisation; cost savings and patient care must no longer be treated as mutually-exclusive paradigms that exist in separate spaces, with the necessity for causal relationships to be established and acted upon rapidly if the organisation can constitute a real, tangible defiance to the steep slope that awaits if current spending remains unaltered.
The vast scope of required improvements must be prioritised, but perhaps beginning with readily available resources can be the start of a more efficient, sustainable healthcare model for NHS in the future. With this in mind, one of the obvious improvements is improving the utilisation of the masses of data already obtained across the entire service.
There is no doubt that 'Big Data' has firmly established itself in the UK economy, with a predicted boom in profits into the hundreds of billions pointing to the mass collection of data, such as health statistics collected by the increasing number of wearable devices, that allows for further insight than ever before into individual behaviour. The question remains: how can a sustainable NHS tap into this development?
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This is only the beginning, with real-time, visually striking healthcare dashboards just one of the many features showcasing the unmatched potential of the solution. The data transparency that is present in these easily built displays is just another example of the flexibility healthcare professionals can expect when requiring fast access to data while making informed decisions.
With a feature list that gives users the freedom to build fully customisable reports built into the user-friendly environment all aimed to rectify data anomalies, big data has the potential to act as a catalyst for sustainable healthcare and thus empowering the NHS inspire and empower a sustainable NHS through data utilisation across the entire country if harnessed correctly.
It is time to take a step back from the big picture and focus on the immediately rectifiable issues present in a data system in need of modernisation. While the news will no doubt be littered with an increasing amount of stories based on the future of a sustainable healthcare model for the NHS and the future challenges that will divide opinion, the growing presence of big data will hopefully push the NHS in a new, more efficient direction for future generations.


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The other day, I stumbled into a volatile conversation on Twitter. I know: BIG SHOCK, right? I should have seen it coming. Well, maybe. But I didn't. What happened was this: A friend of mine questioned whether thin privilege exists. Without knowing the context or the incident that had provoked the question (my bad, I own this), I assured her it did. Then someone I don't know–I presume my friend does–came into the conversation to tell me my examples were bullshit. It got a bit harsh. I got upset at having my experience disregarded and disengaged.
Later, I had a private conversation with my friend in which she told me what bothers her about the concept. She had some good and valid points. I understand where she's coming from, as much as I can. But I can't agree with her that thin privilege doesn't exist, or that it's inordinately divisive to talk about it when women should be supporting each other. Unfortunately, those are things people with privilege always tend to say to avoid confronting their privilege.
For those new to the concept, "privilege" in feminist and social justice circles is the accumulated unearned advantages that a person might enjoy due to race, class, caste, or membership in any other arbitrarily elevated social group, e.g. particular body size or education level. It's not a new concept, but it came more into the public consciousness with Peggy McIntosh's 1990 essay, "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack." Privilege might be as simple and seemingly inane a thing as a white person being able to buy "flesh" colored Band-Aids that match their skin tone, or it might be as significant and difficult to address as the lack of woman and PoC leads in Hollywood movies. It's insidious and hard to confront, because rather than obviously elevating a class or population ABOVE another, it adjusts the default value to match that of the privileged. To those in a privileged class, the arbitrary elevation becomes normal, so there's no need to question it. However, it sends a message to those outside the privileged class that they are NOT normal, and therefore have less worth.
Of course, as with any concept or theory, there are instances which contradict it. My husband and I, both white, have both been randomly stopped by police and required to show ID when walking in suburbs where we didn't live–a thing that doesn't commonly happen to white people. There are wealthy, educated People of Color, and poor, uneducated white folks. Some people try to use these instances to prove that privilege doesn't exist. Really, they happen because of another thing called "Intersectionality." Privilege runs along a huge number–maybe an infinite number–of different axes, and a person may have privilege on one or more while not having privilege on various others. For example, a person may be white, male, and Christian (privilege) and also gay, poor, and disabled (not privilege). Discussions of privilege need to take into account the intersections and their ramifications if they're to do any good.
In working towards equality, the main idea is to include marginalized populations in the default, i.e., to redefine "normal." This requires a certain amount of tearing down social structures which support unearned privilege, mainly through education and activism. People in privileged populations can find this difficult for a number of reasons. Confronting privilege can have the effect of taking you out of the center of your own world, which is something most people are reluctant to do. It's difficult to swallow the truth that a reality you have always taken for granted actively hurts others. We all want to be good people, and confronting privilege makes you question that. It's tiring and frustrating always to question yourself when you just want to wear a certain hairstyle because you like it, without thinking about cultural appropriation. As well, there is often backlash against the privileged class. For example, one popular meme, "Real women have curves," came out of frustration at a particular body type being presented as valuable while others were devalued. But it elevates women with curves at the expense of those without. Any of these things can contribute to a person denying the existence of privilege. When various axes intersect, which is almost always, denial can easily become entrenched. An annoying thing about privilege is that the lack of it is generally more keenly felt than its presence.
Thin privilege addresses the tendency of (especially Western) society to set the default value for a "normal" body rather smaller than that a significant segment of the population inhabits. You can find some examples of how this plays out here. For examples of backlash against the concept (content warning: Fat Shaming) look here.
Since my body has been on the large side of average most of my life, the existence of thin privilege seems like a no-brainer to me. Some of my earliest memories are of being bullied for being fat. In the last few years, a medication-related weight gain has made me bigger than ever before, and it's rubbed my face in the small definition of "normal" more than ever before. When I was of smaller proportions than I am now, I fit in our lawn chairs. Now the arms of those same chairs press against my butt. I used to climb our household ladder to get to things higher than I can reach. But that ladder is rated at 200 lbs, and now I'm not sure it's safe. I used to enjoy taking a bath from time to time. Now I'm almost as wide as the tub.
The tub came with our house, but we bought those other things. It never occurred to me to sit in the chairs or question the ladder's safety rating before buying them, because why would I? Even as a large woman, I fit the "normal" parameters. I never anticipated a 60-lb weight gain, never thought something beyond my control would thrust me outside those parameters. But it did. I've a hard time because of my weight all my life. How much harder is it, every day, for people whose bodies never fit into the "normal" range at all? Fat people hear all the time that we have no right to complain, because we "just" have to control ourselves to conform. Leaving aside the whole question of why the hell should we be required to conform in the first place, the truth is, it's not so simple. Any number of factors can contribute to being fat, and losing weight is not, as many would have it, merely a matter of "stepping away from the cupcakes for a change."
You know what? I don't want to reinvent the wheel. If you want to learn more about Size Acceptance as a civil rights issue and the reality of body size and health, please go read some articles here. I'll wait for you.
Right. Back at it.
It's an unfortunate truth that some thin people have similar experiences to fat people in several arenas. I know thin people whose doctors focus on their body size to the exclusion of every other issue, and thin people who have been bullied and called names, and thin people whose food choices are constantly remarked upon, and thin people who can't walk into a department store and find clothes on the rack to fit them. I know thin people who have suffered all these things and more. I've been guilty of perpetuating some nastiness toward thin people, myself; mea culpa. The first time I heard my dance teacher say, "Nobody wants a bone but a dog, and he buries it," I was delighted. I found it empowering. It wasn't until much later that I realised that attitude is just as hurtful toward thin people as "Nobody will ever love a fat cow like you" is to people like me.
All those things are real things that cause pain. It's never okay to shame someone about their body, no matter what it looks like. But the fact that it happens doesn't negate the existence of thin privilege. Nor does a statistic that I see bandied about, "69% of the population is obese or overweight." I'm sorry to break it to you, but a majority population can still be marginalized. Roughly 52% of the population is female, and male privilege still exists, too.
I think a lot of the situations in which fat and thin experience is similar, especially for women, can be attributed to the intersection of body size and sexism. Women are taught from an early age that our value lies in our sexual attraction, and being sexually attractive means fitting into an extremely narrow range or body types: not too fat, not too thin, neither too brawny nor too much lacking in muscle tone. To make matters worse, standards of attractiveness for women are changing all the time. In the 50s, we had Marilyn Monroe. In the 90s, we had Kate Moss, and now we have Kim Kardashian. The impossibility of perfection is enough to give any woman body issues, and it does. Women who are naturally very thin fall outside the narrow range of acceptable body size the same way women who are fat do. But I don't notice anyone talking about the "Slenderness Epidemic."
Another thing people use to dismiss thin privilege as a reality is the existence of eating disorders, especially anorexia nervosa. According to this school of thought, since people with eating disorders have troubled relationships with their bodies and endure similar meal- and body-policing to fat people, thin privilege doesn't exist and saying that it does is "disgusting."
This is the hill upon which my conversation the other day died, by the way. I tried to explain my point of view about this, having had an eating disorder which kept me mostly hospitalized for three years and affects my life to this day. I got called a hypocrite. That's when I made my exit, muted the stranger who had inserted herself into my mentions, and had a good cry.
I haven't written a lot on this blog about my struggles with anorexia, just a word here and there. I don't really want to relive that time now. But I think in this instance I need to prove my street cred. In one form or another, it dominated my life for ten years, from the time I was fourteen until the time I was twenty-four. It's a terrible thing to go through. Maybe it starts as a way of controlling certain aspects of life, but in the end, it controls you. I've read that anorexia and bulimia have some things in common with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or maybe come from the same place. I think that's true. It became much less about weight loss and body image for me than it was about the ritualistic behaviors necessary to preserving my feeling of control. Many of those behaviors started as weight loss facilitators–excessive exercise, restricted diet, rules about how and when and what I was allowed to eat. I had a page-long list of things I had to do every day, without fail. If I didn't do them all, I was garbage. Later, when I became bulimic rather than anorexic, I had fewer rituals to fulfill, but bingeing and purging were both compulsive. Eating a single cookie rather than an entire package at a sitting was literally impossible; trying to do so filled me with indescribable fear and horror. I had to follow the whole process to the bitter end in order to get any relief.
I saw absolute control of my eating as a way to be successful when success in other areas seemed beyond me. This thought actually crossed my mind when a school mate came back to class after a hospitalization: "I bet I could do anorexia even better than her." In a real way, I decided to be anorexic. I don't know if others experience this or not; in the late 70s and early 80s, when my eating disorder was at its peak, they had just come into the public consciousness and weren't at all common. I was the only person on my psych ward being treated for an eating disorder. I'm not sure special hospitals for eating disorders even existed.
And no, having an eating disorder is not a privileged existence. I experienced some thin privilege in the early stages. I could buy fashionable clothes, for example. I got a pair of riding boots I loved. I'd never been able to wear tall boots before, because the maximum standard calf circumference for women's boots is fifteen to sixteen inches, and my calves were too big, even when I was at a "normal" weight for my height. People stopped making barfing noises when I passed them in the halls (later, they whispered, but that's something else). Someone considered me beautiful for the first time. I had a boyfriend. For a while.
Once, when I was in college, a high school friend and I were at the dorm store. I was in my bulimic period then, and weighed around 145 lbs. My friend had one of my senior yearbook pictures in her wallet, taken when I was under 100 lbs. The clerk at the store saw it and said, "She's gorgeous! Who is she?" While I was standing right there.
Anyway. Having an eating disorder is not a privileged existence. You lose all right to privacy. Everything you do around food is examined and questioned. Your freedom of movement is restricted. Your integrity is called into daily question. Doctors looked at nothing about me except my eating patterns. They told me constantly that my lived experience was meaningless. They threatened me with tube feeding when I didn't meet their expectations. When I didn't gain weight according to schedule, they accused me of purging in secret, long before I had any notion of doing so. When I denied that I did so, they accused me of lying. They did not see me as a person, but as a collection of symptoms, and when my symptoms didn't fit the model they assumed I was untruthful, not that the symptoms didn't apply.
I was excessively thin, and I was not privileged. And yet, I still believe in thin privilege. The perspective of years not only makes this possible, it insists that I do.
There are a couple reasons for this. The first goes back to intersectionality. The thinness of eating disorders is the bodily manifestation of a mental illness. Having a mental illness diminishes privilege, and having a severe, life-threatening mental illness diminishes it exponentially. The lack of privilege that comes with an eating disorder doesn't fall along the body size axis; it falls along the ability/disability axis. When I was excessively thin, strangers unaware of my illness still admired me, my "willpower," my visible collarbones, my adherence to an exercise regimen. I fit in the bathtub and in chairs with arms. I could have climbed that ladder rated at 200 lbs, had I been strong enough to climb. No, I couldn't buy clothes that fit, not until I gained weight. But that was because I was sick.
The other major reason I believe in thin privilege despite having had an eating disorder is this: Eating disorders are the result of thin privilege in the much same way that violence toward women is the result of male privilege. Much of men's socialization revolves around gaining and maintaining their privilege. Some men believe they have every right to subject women who threaten that privilege to harassment, beatings, rape, and even death. You can see the evidence of this on any men's rights forum, if you can stomach it. In the same way, much of women's socialization centers on attaining and maintaining an idealized form. Models of a specific size–thin, and these days with a fair amount of muscle tone–are on the cover of almost every magazine and feature in almost every television advertisement. Women's magazines are full of diet plans and ways to "get your body back" after having children. Ignoring the message that thin is the appropriate way to present is all but impossible. So it's little wonder that an increasing number of women take the pursuit of thinness to the extreme. Of course, there's a great deal more to most eating disorders than trying to achieve thinness, and most people don't develop them any more than most men, in these times, are violent toward women. But obsession with body size is generally how they start, and preoccupation with being thin is the most notorious symptom.
Thin privilege is real. It hurts everyone, and, like many forms of privilege taken to extreme, it can kill. That's vastly more important to me than the idea that focusing on it is divisive. No one likes to confront privilege, but until people stop ignoring and dismissing it, nothing will change. Personally, I'd rather confront my own privilege than practice endless damage control.


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