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"Le Freeport Singapore" is a luxury container storage space, overflowing with art. The deals being done there highlight the new customs and strategies of international art collectors
"If you have to come back here, just say you want to go to the lockup," advised the taxi driver laughing, before speeding off into the morning heat. So here we are in an industrial area in the northeast of Singapore, surrounded by companies that supply airline food, repair aircraft or offer flight safety training. Occasionally a plane comes in to land at Changi airport, behind the fence and the mangrove forest. One of the buildings, however, has a totally different focus: art. It's a grayish-brown cube with a camouflaged frontage made of embossed metal and a few palm trees growing in front of it. This is "Le Freeport" – a free-trade zone in the shape of an architectural structure. A luxury container storage facility with direct access to the airport. Art worth millions comes and goes through its iron gates without incurring taxes or customs duties. This is because when the idea of opening a subsidiary of the Geneva freeport was floated in 2005, Singapore's government quickly changed the law.
Since opening in 2010, this storage facility has been an indicator of many trends: It reveals the changes in the art market and in the type of people who collect art. It also demonstrates the changed relationship of the rich to their assets, and illustrates how an entire country adopted a new image. All this is contained within the tranquil building, which is cooled to 20°C and reminiscent of a museum, only with fewer people in it.
It is also where Swiss expat Christian Pauli works. Those who pass through two turnstiles and clear two security checks, as well as a Singaporean customs office at the entrance, are greeted by the general manager of Fine Art Logistics in the atrium with a cordial handshake and a friendly Swiss "Grüezi." A weathering steel sculpture by artist Ron Arad seems to fill the entire atrium. Its many mirrors reflect multiple images of Pauli. The large installation was once on display at MoMA in New York, and it is said to have taken months to reassemble here. Pauli is in his late forties with gelled-back hair, and has been living in Asia for decades. He has been based at Le Freeport since it opened and will tell you all about it: that it has roughly six thousand square meters of storage space and that more than half of the clients are from Europe and North America. Fine Art Logistics is one of the tenants at the freeport and at the same time a 100-percent subsidiary of Natural Le Coultre, the company that also runs the freeport locations in Geneva and Luxembourg. A further branch is currently under construction in Shanghai, and an annex is due to be completed in Singapore in 2018. According to the company, 80 percent of the goods at Le Freeport Singapore are works of art. The rest consists of gold bars – for example from Deutsche Bank – vintage cars, wine and jewelry.
You could easily spend a whole day in the building, hidden away from daylight, with Pauli showing you the exhibition spaces. Some of these feature generous sofas, some even have rugs on the floor. Why wouldn't you want to create a cozy atmosphere at a container storage facility? Pauli plays the tour guide with a twinkle in his eye. He knocks on the safe doors, which are as thick as the length of a person's forearm and block the way to the bunkers filled with gold bars. Or he may take you to a wine cellar filled with wooden crates, on which the wine growing regions and vintages starting with "19" are marked in ornate writing.
On the second floor, Pauli's direct competition can show off similar storage spaces and showrooms. Sharon Tan, who is as bubbly as she is determined, works for the Christie's subsidiary Fine Art Storage Services (CFASS). Rents for a 25-square meter space start at 2,000 euros a month. In the hallways, which are painted a neutral gray, there are a few wooden crates. A new shipment has arrived: still lifes of flowers and oil paintings, reminiscent of Marc Chagall. Some employees are in the middle of unpacking the paintings and are gently standing them up against the wall. "We'll have a collector coming in to look at his works of art," explains Tan. She keys in a code, and unlocks the door. Behind it is a bar area with expensive teas and the finest vodka. The tenants could host quite a party for guests and friends here, if only it wasn't so chilly. The movers and shakers of the Tokyo Gallery UG also know about these rooms. They are in town for an art fair and use the freeport as a storage and showroom facility. In order to present additional works of art, they have rented a hotel suite, which is where gallery founder Eiichiro Sasaki tells me: "We primarily need the freeport for security reasons." Since the 2011 earthquake and the subsequent nuclear disaster in Japan, protecting works of art is the highest priority, he adds. "We mustn't forget that we have a great responsibility. We are only short-term companions of this art. It will outlast us all," says Sasaki thoughtfully.
Singapore, on the other hand, lionizes all that is new, especially itself. The city-state recently celebrated 50 years of independence. The 5.5-million-strong metropolis defines itself as a permanent construction site. "Higher, taller, denser" seems to be its motto. Malls and traffic dominate the cityscape, but there are also many parks that are being developed. Singapore is synonymous with new money, which is quite deliberately on display at the Art Stage art fair. The latter was founded by Lorenzo Rudolf, who previously turned Art Basel upside down and also created Art Miami. The magnificent location of the fair is the Marina Bay Sands, a luxury hotel with its own forest and Gucci boutiques as big as other cities' department stores. Once a year, people also buy art there.
"During Art Stage, we will once again host a dinner at the Freeport building," says Rudolf. While we stroll through the exhibition hall, gallery owners are carefully putting up price lists and polishing the sculptures at their stalls. "The freeport is, however, only really used for the top segment of art, nobody would store a 2,000-dollar item there." Because of the boom in the art market following the financial crisis, many items have increased in value and now need to be stored securely, he adds. While some lock away their art, others insist that the value of works of art increases in line with their public profile, and that the originals therefore have to be put on display. For Rudolph, the essential question is this: "Is it the collectors' duty to make art publicly available? Or are they allowed to do as they please?" He himself tends to support the latter point of view.
Is it the collectors' duty to make art publicly available?
Curator Iola Lenzi is also looking around the art fair. A native of Canada with a fondness for striking jewelry, she has specialized in Southeast Asian art. "Art today has a different function from 100 years ago," explains the art scholar. "It is an investment, rather then the expression of an intellectual worldview." The fact that she is not a great fan of this change is unmistakable. "Nowadays it is more en vogue to talk about your storage facilities than about the art you own," she mocks. Joanne Roberts is the Professor in Arts and Cultural Management at the University of Southampton and researches luxury in all its forms. She advances another theory: "Many of the super-rich are self-made millionaires, not heirs." They consider money that is just sitting in the bank boring. "Collecting art, on the other hand, means acquiring cultural capital."
One manifestation of today's affluence is what sociologists call "stealth luxury" – luxury that does not want to be recognized as such. No showing off, but rather understated discretion. Storing your possessions away from view fits in with this trend, as does the attitude towards Singapore. The city always appears a little too artificial, like it is trying a bit too hard. It is a city that did not even have a National Gallery until the fall of 2015, and therefore no home for the formative works of its own art history. It is a city where you can see men at certain intersections going for that creative look, complete with horn-rimmed glasses, jeans with turn-ups and plateau sneakers. It is also a city in which the galleries exhibiting both young local and established international artists are a good 20 minutes by taxi from its downtown area. They are housed in the Gillman barracks, a former military facility.
"We seem shifty to you because we store high-value items?" Tony Reynard, the French-Swiss chairman of Le Freeport Singapore ask with apparent irritation. He is a wiry fellow, but is presently recovering from a severe bout of jetlag in his office. His exhaustion is clearly visible in his face. "I don't know exactly what is being stored here, I'm just the landlord," he says. "But we do check for stolen goods, drugs and weapons." He and Pauli both stress that Le Freeport is neither a fortress nor Fort Knox. They welcome journalists and even TV crews, although this may be part of a PR charm offensive. 2015 was a difficult year for Le Freeport. Money-laundering allegations surfaced against Yves Bouvier, the owner of its parent company Natural Le Coultre. A Russian client had taken him to court alleging attempted fraud. Bouvier was arrested and released on bail that was set at 27 million U.S. dollars, but his assets were frozen by a court order. Not ideal for business – on that, Tan, Pauli and Reynard are agreed. Many clients were irritated by this story. When it comes to security, especially in a free-trade zone, even the tiniest of shockwaves can have the impact of a magnitude 8.0 earthquake. However, the trio insists: "None of our collectors pulled out."
We are only short term companions of this art. It will outlast us all
We are only short term companions of this art. It will outlast us all
Reynard has to get going now, as there is an art prize being awarded at the U.S. embassy that evening. The fact that his clients do not keep their money in secret Swiss bank accounts, but as luxury goods abroad comes as no surprise to him: "Their faith in the financial system has changed, but not their relationship to wealth." On the way out he has a quick conversation with Christian Pauli, standing in front of Ron Arad's huge, intertwined sculpture. The piece seems fitting on the strength of its name alone: "Cages without Borders." It is an oversized, horizontal figure eight. "Our Chinese clients love it," says Pauli, as the mirrors above him glisten. "To them it represents infinite wealth."
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Jobs in the healthcare and healthcare related fields are expected to increase by a combined 2.9 million by 2022 in the U.S., the biggest jump among industries monitored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That's part of an overall 15.6 million projected nationwide increase in employment through 2022, with the workforce growing 10.8 percent from 145 million to 161 million.
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Lecture on Dragons
Lecture on Dragons (sometimes known as Essay on Dragons) is an unpublished lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien. Extracts have been published in Leaves from the Tree (1991) and in J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator (1995).
The lecture was originally given on 1 January 1938 to children at the University of Oxford Museum. Tolkien describred two kind of dragons, "'creeping' and 'winged' but, in general, large, deadly, coiling serpent-creatures."[1]
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In about 11 minutes — choreographed to music and in front of hundreds, sometimes thousands of people — Gregory Adamson creates magic.
With only his hands and fingers as tools, the accomplished performance artist swirls paint around life-sized canvases creating popular and well-known images that at first glance are unrecognizable. That is, until he turns them upside down revealing such icons as John Lennon, Marilyn Monroe and Jimi Hendrix.
"It's so great to hear the gasps when the crowd firsts see the paintings," said the 57-year-old Claremont resident.
Adamson sat in his Upland studio wearing jeans, a T-shirt and shoulder-length hair and spoke candidly about his transformation from a buttoned-up, 34-year veteran of the banking industry to professional artist.
"To my family, art was not a career it was a hobby," said Adamson. "I started to think of it as a career in high school, but at the time that just wasn't possible. I went to school for business, but I longed for an art degree."
Adamson rose from teller to large account exec, then at the age of 45, Adamson began to sever ties with the banking industry and start down the path he believes he was always meant to travel.
"After 9/11 I started to reevaluate my life," he said. "I was never happy when art wasn't a part of it. I wanted to leave banking and I knew it would take at least 10 years to build a second career, sacrificing and saving money."
Adamson, a divorced father of three, started spending all his vacation time studying with artists he admired looking for his own artistic career path. When he saw Dennis "Denny" Dent, an American speed painter, perform he found it.
"It was life-changing," Adamson said. "He had so much fun and energy in his painting. I wanted to do something like that, and bring my own voice to it."
Four years before Adamson quit his job for good in October 2011 he tried a hand at working full time as both a banker and an artist.
Adamson does commissioned work, such for the Grammy's MusiCares Person. He worked for the Grammy's six years in a row creating painting of 2014's honoree Carole King as well as past honorees like Neil Young, Barbra Streisand and Bruce Springsteen.
But his passion and main concentration is on work that gives back. He regularly performs at philanthropic events, with his paintings auctioned off once completed on-sitegoing for as much as $100,000.
"My goal is that the charity makes more than I do," Adamson said. "I want to have an impact, and love painting for a great cause."
Painting and creating aren't the only entertainment Adamson offers event attendees. He converses, answers questions and turns his portion of the event into an experience.
"He was amazing," said Deb Lemon, CEO of Experiential Marketing who hired Adamson for an event centering around the London Summer Olympics. "I heard from a number of guests that he was the best entertainment they ever had."
Lemon expressed amazement with the quality, speed and showmanship Adamson displayed.
"The music matched the painting perfectly," she said. "It was a very active experience culminating in the surprise and delight of the clients. I would definitely hire him again."


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August 1, 2012 – During a press conference at Embassy Suites, San Juan Hotel & Casino, Universal Promotions announced the upcoming pro boxing event "Night of Champions", to be held on Friday, August 31st, 2012, at the Guillermo Angulo Coliseum in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
"We feel very proud about holding this great event in Carolina, and that we will have the opportunity to see these new and developing prospects in action. On August 31st, we will see 12 very exciting fights", said Javier Bustillo, President of Universal Promotions.
Hometown favorite Thomas Dulorme (15-0, 12 KOs), will be headlining the event against Colombian Iván Hernández (29-3, 23 KOs), in a bout set for 10 rounds at 147 lbs.
"I've always wanted to fight in my hometown of Carolina and it's an honor to be able to accomplish that dream. On that day, expect a great show, I will be doing what i do best, what I love, what runs through my veins, and I know the other boxers will do the same", said the 22 year old Dulorme.
He is currently ranked #3 by the World Boxing Council (WBC) and the World Boxing Association (WBA), and #13 by the World Boxing Organization (WBO). His already accomplished boxing career includes victories over former world champion DeMarcus Corley, former world championship contender Charlie Navarro, and recently (June) over the experienced Alberto Herrera in New York.
Co-featuring the event will be Cidra native José 'Sniper' Pedraza (9-0, 6 KO), who will be facing José Valderrama (4-1, 2 KO) from Arecibo, in a 130 lbs. fight set for 8 rounds.
Valderrama's only defeat was against Kelvin Galarza in an exciting and close match.
"I already want the 31st of August to arrive. I'm still a bit used to amateur boxing, where one would fight more frequently. I'm exited that we're fighting in Carolina. Our preparation has gone very well, and we're glad to be advancing in the sport of boxing", said Pedraza.
Pedraza's amateur career is considered one of the greatest in Puerto Rico's history. He had 160 wins and 16 defeats. He won gold medals in the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, in the Copa Romana Tournament in Dominican Republic, and in the qualification tournaments held in Guatemala for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He also won a silver medal in Italy's "World Championship" in 2010.
Dulorme and Pedraza are part of "Team Puerto Rico", a collaboration between Gary Shaw Productions, DiBella Entertainment and Universal Promotions with the purpose of gathering the best talent in Puerto Rico.
Also very anticipated is the fight between Fernando Torres (17-3, 10 KOs) and Samuel 'Sammito' Santana (5-6-2), which is set 6 rounds at 140 lbs.
"This fight is set for 6 rounds, but for Fernando it will seem like 12. It's gonna be a long night. I already defeated one of Universal's prospects, and I'm looking for the second one. And this one, I don't like very much" said Santana, who is just coming off a win over Joshua 'El Macho' Santiago (7-1, 6 KOs) by split decision. Torres, on the other hand, is coming off a defeat against Abner Cotto in a very exciting fight in October 2011.
"I'm not here to be liked by anyone. I know Santana is a touch fighter, but I know I have the potentiol to win this fight. I'm giving it 100%, and we're definitely going to light up that ring", said Torres.
Other boxers participating will be Miguel "El Gallo" Marrero (5-0, 2 KOs), a young 130 lbs. prospect that has been part of Puerto Rico's nation team; Carlos 'Kid' Nárvaez (4-0, 4 KOs – 115lbs), who was 118-18 during his amateur career at the 106, 112 and 119 lbs. divisions; Héctor Omar Cervantes (10-0, 7 KO – 168lbs); Emanuel 'Manny' Rodríguez (2-0, 2 KOs); Luis 'Yeyé' Rodríguez (1-0, 1 KO – 140lbs); debuting will be Emmanuel 'Pirata' De Jesús (154lbs) Víctor 'Picu' Pérez (140 lbs); also, Dibella Entertainment's Steven Martinez (12-1, 10 KOs), among others.
First fight is set to start at 7:00pm. Tickets priced $20, $38, $53 are available through Ticket Center (www.tcpr.com), or by calling 787.792.5000.
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Tim Nudd at Adweek writes: "This 60-second Budweiser /quotes/zigman/558553/delayed /quotes/nls/bud BUD spot from Anomaly, titled 'Puppy Love' and released Wednesday morning, is destined for great things."
This year's commercial takes a cue from a popular Budweiser spot from last year's Super Bowl titled "Brotherhood," about the loving bond between a Clydesdale colt and his trainer.
But this one's got a puppy. A puppy, people. In less than a minute, the world's cutest Labrador puppy and one of the Clydesdales fall in love down on the farm and become best friends, and no matter how many times the rancher returns the puppy to his (pretty) neighbor who runs the puppy adoption place, the puppy keeps crawling under the fence and makes her way back to her equine friend, and then the puppy is adopted out to some city slicker wearing sunglasses and driving a black sports sedan, but, just as he's driving away with the puppy, who is piteously barking, whining and waving her little paw at her horse friend … well, there you have it.
The rancher is Don Jeanes, who played the Clydesdale trainer in last year's ad, and the background music is the weep-inducing "Let Her Go" by Passenger.
Nudd says the spot is almost absurdly well-produced and directed by RSA's Jake Scott, and he predicts that no matter what else airs on the game, this ad will be one of the five most popular.
To be honest, I don't think I'd care if the spot were selling beer or bicycles. I'm sold.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - One of the Senate's leading fiscal conservatives says that defense spending could be slashed by $68 billion over 10 years if the military stopped spending millions on running grocery stores, operating its own schools and developing a roll-up version of beef jerky.
In a new report on defense spending, Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma dubs the Pentagon the "Department of Everything."
Coburn says the Pentagon could save money if it eliminated duplicative and excessive programs that have nothing to do with the nation's security.
By turns sober and cheeky, the report points out that the Pentagon has spent more than $1 million on the 100-year Starship Project. About $100,000 went for a workshop that included a discussion titled "Did Jesus Die for Klingons Too?"
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Of course, some drivers may pass by the overhead poles without a thought, vaguely registering that something has changed. But for the more perceptive connoisseurs of antismog and climate change technology, a closer look is warranted. The overhead poles with "cobra lights" have been replaced with softer-illuminating LEDs that resemble, as much as anything, upside-down pancake griddles.
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John Cook knows a thing or two about climate change misconceptions and he's on a mission to help teachers and students leverage those misconceptions into fruitful, engaging, evidence-based learning opportunities.
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September is fast approaching—which means it's time for our third annual back-to-school microgrant cycle. Every year NCSE's Science Booster Club program uses the funds we raise to buy durable equipment for science teachers. Common requests include balances, thermometers, microscopes, and shop tools.
You may already know (e.g., from Ann Reid's recent post) that I have a new role with NCSE, working with Emily Schoerning on the Science Booster Club Program. But as I finish up my work with the Scientist in the Classroom program, I have one more update for you! Let me tell you about what's been happening this semester.
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22 September 2011
Back to School Night
This year, I felt like I went in with the right attitude, but I was still snarly by just after dinner. Really snarly. Like, I'm-the-mom-who-yells-in-public kind of snarly. Maddie got separated from me and Riley on our way to the book fair, which made her sob (who can blame her?), but she found an adult who helped her find me and what do I do? Neglect to thank the adult and lay into Maddie about how she needs to stay with me.
Really. I did that.
Then, as we crossed the playground to the kids' classroom, Riley turned sharply and without warning directly in front of me, causing the both of us to flail our arms, teeter unsteadily, and regain footing (me) or do a face-plant (Riley). Here's what I said, in this order:
"Riley! Don't walk in front of me like that! It's crazymaking!"
"Are your new books OK?"
"Wait, are you OK?"
Once at their classroom, I was irritated by the relatively small number of conference appointments available at hours that work for working families, then realized that we're out of town the week of conferences anyway. Got that worked out with the teacher, who was very accommodating. But don't even get me started on how generally working-parent unfriendly public school is. Wow. I mean, I know there are lots of issues to fix in the U.S. educational system and this is not a top priority, but it is a problem.
After my rant regarding conferences, I managed to calm down. The chaos in the classroom was at a manageable level, and I enjoyed being shown around the room by Maddie and Riley and meeting the other parents. We had fun reading the new book club books before bed, and it all turned around. But there were some moments there when I was about to lose my mind.
I'm rarely bothered by being a single parent anymore. Oh, sure, for a bunch of reasons, I'd like to have a partner. But it used to be extremely hard for me to attend events where two-parent households were the clear majority. That's much easier for me now. But somehow, tonight, with two kids talking nonstop and parents talking to me, too, and only one me to take it all in, I felt overwhelmed. It doesn't help that work has been utter insanity. Sigh.
But my best friend will be here soon and we shall have mojitos and debrief, and a big event that has been consuming much of my time and energy at work will take place tomorrow night and then it's OVER and work can go back to normal levels of crazy, and we have fun stuff planned for the weekend.
It feels so wrong to feel so bad about back to school night. I've got lots of years for it to get better, I guess. I hope.
27 comments:
- Gina said...
My kids are in preschool but I rather loathe back to school night - our school insists on us all wearing name tags and playing lame ice-breaker games. Not my idea of a good time.
Enjoy your mojitos!
- 21:25
- Crash Course Widow said...
I hated all those school/family-oriented events for so many years--and that was only preschool!! As a single-mama widow, yes, it was hard, annoying, upsetting, etc., seeing the supposed "complete" families. But I, too, found public elementary school easier for the family stuff: the chaos of the event and the more-common scattered family arrangements made me feel less conspicuous.
But don't even get me started on how much I loathe evening school events. Maybe Anna's school is really awful about them--or maybe it's just a chaos endemic to any elementary school--but they drive me absolutely ape-$*@# bonkers!! The chaos, the noise, the kids running amok, the utter lack of respect and silence as teachers/principal/presenter talks...ugh. Have hated everything about them so far...all 2 or 3 of them. ;o)
Fortunately (?) for us, Back to School Night is actually right before school starts, as the opportunity to meet the teacher, find the classroom, pay for school supplies, sign up for various things (like conferences...though I forgot to do that in August...oops), etc. They didn't even try to do anything with everyone this year, thank god, so it was just the classroom and teacher. MUCH preferable to the onslaught from last year.
Only 12 more years to go...right? ;o)
- 23:50
Okay, deep breath. Your reaction seems a little out of proportion, and a little self fulfilling. If you go into something expecting to loathe it and be driven crazy, it's no real surprise when that's what happens.
Sorry it was bad for you!
- 00:20
I have to agree about working parent unfriendly schools. Sigh... My DS is also in Kindy and the parent/teacher conferences are during my work hours. While I do have a husband, most school stuff, wait all school stuff falls to me. I am annoyed that in 2011, it's still assumed the Mom stays home. Perfect example, Doughnuts with Dad was at 7 AM. Muffins with Mom, 10 AM. I work well over an hour from home and this just ticks me off.
- 06:21
- Nik said...
Back to School night bites. I didn't like it as a kid and I don't like it now. It's infantalizing to just about everyone and is geared toward precious in a way I can't stand. I'm happy my daughter changed to a school that was a little less gleeful. But I don't like soccer either.
- 08:48
- Snickollet said...
The Doughnuts with Dad/Muffins with Mom thing is a perfect example of thus underlying assumption that a parent (most likely the mom) is home with the kids.
I don't want to come down hard on M&R's school. The staff and PTA work very hard for the benefit of students and their families. While the doughnuts/muffins situation is a perfect example of the problem, this issue runs much, much deeper.
- 08:49
- Nik said...
Oh. And since I'm an alum of where you work, I went to look up what big event was this week. Good luck with that! 100 years will be over soon.
- 08:52
I also find the mayhem crazy-making. And you know what?? This year I just skipped back to school night! It was awesome.
Last year I felt a lot of pressure to do every school event. Maybe it's the single-mom thing where I feel I need to prove to everyone around my kid that I can do.it.all. But this year (and our event is parents only anyway, so I wasn't letting N down by not going) I just told the other parents I'd happily watch their kids for a few hours while they attended the event. We had a quadruple playdate, it was a blast for all involved, and the other parents got to hear the boring spiel from the PTA. win-win-win-win-win-win-win (okay, I can't do the right number of wins here.. but you get the idea!) Miss you!
- 08:55
- sallymander said...
Maybe, instead of being upset with the school or the teacher about not having after-hours conference appointments, we should be a bit more upset with our employers for not allowing appropriate comp time to attend conferences during business hours. After all, we manage to go to doctors appointments, dentist appointments, vote, etc., all during business hours without being outraged that they don't work until 8pm. Why should we expect teachers to sacrifice additional hours to accommodate parents' schedules?
My mother is a teacher who puts in an additional 10-20 hours per week beyond her contract hours. Her contract hours only allow her a 30 minute planning period every day. Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic district that treats their teachers well, but seriously. I think she spends enough of her "off" time in school already.
- 11:45
- Snickollet said...
This is what I meant when I cryptically said in my earlier comment that this issue runs much, much deeper. There's an entire societal shift that needs to take place in order to accommodate people's work and family lives--the burden shouldn't rest just on schools or just on employers, and no one family situation should be privileged over another. It's really complicated.
Many of us schedule the types of appointments you describe outside "normal" working hours because we feel compelled to. Or, as I'm sure teachers do, too, we take vacation time if we're lucky enough to have it to take.
It's not easy for anyone, and it seems like there should be a way to make it easier. But whatever that way is, it's not going to be simple. My intent was not in any way to blame teachers, but to point out that our school system (and many of our working structures) were designed for a different time and assumed family situation that are just no longer the norm.
- 13:21
Back to School night is chaos at my daughters' elementary school as well. I understand what you are saying and would have had all the same reactions you did (conferences, Riley falling, etc). thankfully BTS nights don't set the tone for the entire school year. :-)
- 13:43
We skipped it this year. I figure I saw her room already the day before school started and her teacher keeps us informed via email so why go back with all the other anxious parents? Besides, my BTS (I am a teacher) is this Saturday and my school doe 15 minute periods for the parents -live the shortened life of your child sort of thing so I wasn't willing to do two BTS days.
- 16:35
My husband never did these things with me. He just didn't have the patience and I did have the patience for him not having the patience! LOl! Now as we sit here in our quiet little home with the kids off to college, I kinda...nah, I'm not going to lie! I don't miss it!! It is all over too quickly though....
- 18:06
Just chiming in about the school is designed for families with one parent who stays home — in our school, the parent-teacher conferences aren't the problem, it's the booster club and parent meetings, and constant exhortations to volunteer in the classroom. I'd probably volunteer more if it didn't feel like a clique of SAHMs.
I am really trying hard not to say something snippy about it.
- 18:52
You all are making me very thankful for our district. PTA meetings are at 7pm and PT Conferences were from 4-7pm on two different days. The teachers have a comp day off following for part of fall break. There are lots of opportunities to volunteer that do not include being there during school hours. Our Kindy teacher just sent home a packet of items that needed cut out and sorted into zip lock bags for an art project.
Maybe there are some suggestions to take back to your school?
- 19:25
- Sandi said...
At my kids' school they specifically tell us NOT to bring our children. It's for the adults only.
- 19:26
- Kristy said...
I'm a teacher (and a lurker on blogs...) and I hate back to school nights. I hate them as a teacher and as a parent, for all the reasons you state. But a word about parent conferences--I am a working parent (see above re: teacher), so I get it. But for teachers, conferences are a LONG and INTENSE day, repeated for an entire week. I allot one evening for conferences and on that day alone, I am at work for 14 hours. I, too, have kids at home to care for and I have to find childcare for them in order to be able to do that one night a week, and I am often stood up. I get frustrated by school hours, too. But then I remember all those people at the school are working, too, and they have families, too, and hence the hours. That said, it's hard, I know. (I like to have a glass of wine before attending my kids' back to school nights, makes me less agitated. Now that I say that, would it be wrong of me to do that as a teacher at back to school night? kidding kidding)
- 19:46
I think we need to keep in mind that our teachers have lives that they put on hold a lot of time for our own children. And instead of going into the situation loathing it, thus having your bad attitude rub off onto your children, perhaps you should just relax. Keep in mind your children are only children once. No use in making it miserable for them. As adults, do you really want them to look back on their childhood and remember their mom acting like that at their school events? I sure wouldn't. It is embarrassing for you, as well as for them. Do them a favor...learn to relax and let them embrace their childhood and enjoy it. After all, they are NOT mini-adults.
- 14:42
- Polly and Fiona said...
I cringe every year when I receive the volunteer form from my daughter's preschool because it's all stuff I can't do as a working mom. On the flip side, I work as a high school counselor and cringe every time a working parent is irritated with me that I can't meet with them at 7 AM or 6 PM. I can't because I'm a working mom who has to get home to her kid. As you said, it is complicated.
- 18:46
- Grace said...
From today's Motherlode: http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/my-last-back-to-school-night/
- 20:18
- Michele said...
I understand where you're coming from. Just the overload of info at our school made me almost break into tears many times, and I had my husband covering the 2nd classroom.
I don't have a problem meeting with teachers for conferences, etc. during working hours, but the volunteering from 9-2pm or the parent coffee hours at 8:45 am in the library just won't work.
This weekend the PTA supposedly organized a "kindergarten playdate" Saturday morning at a park form 9-11 am. Our of 5 classes, only one other family showed up from 9:45 - 10 am. They left after seeing it was just my girls there at the park.
- 09:21
- Mama Mama Quite Contrary said...
We are heading to the school open house tonight. I will consider your blog post fair warning. I tend toward the ornery side of life anyway.
- 12:36
- Jay Cosnett said...
GAWD, Snick, I'm so there with you. I hate that shit. I hate being invisible. (To the other, intact-family parents. Like having a dead spouse is contagious. The teachers are great. No problems there.) I hate how stressed my kids get (Sam more than Ella, but still) and how stressed that makes ME!
But I LOVE how you're "the kind of parent" who gets fed up. And acts in ways your later maybe a little ashamed of. Because that means I'm not the only one.
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Eek. I confess I actually love back to school night. We call it "curriculum night." As a single mom who hardly ever sets foot in the school during school hours since I'm always working, it's one of the only chances to see the teachers eyeball to eyeball, you know? And to try and say hello to some other parents in my kid's class, who I wouldn't get to meet otherwise. But ours is just for the parents - the kids don't come, or if they do the principal shows a movie in the gym for them. It's pretty fun, honestly.
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I am a public school teacher and I want to chime in that I hate conference nights too, because it means 12 hour work days. At my school, we do not get comp time for the hours we stay late for conferences. We are simply expected to do it. I feel like a bad person for saying this, but I'm never disappointed when I'm stood up. It gives me a minute to catch up on the mountains of paperwork I usually take home on weekends. Ugh... I feel for the parents who have to come at inconvenient times, but frankly I am exhausted.
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"The English League Defence is the last line in the sand before the tide comes in. Get ready with your bucket and spades patriots!"
The English Defence League is an organisation based in England that believes that their country is under attack by
Islamers Muslims all immigrants regardless of race, age or gender and needs a weekly Saturday night brawl to prove it. It is sometimes mistaken as the English anti-Scottish Independence Campaign however it's origins were actually first appeared when the Leeds United, Newcastle game was cancelled and lots of drunk fans roamed the streets of Yorkshire finding anyone they could to blame.
No one is entirely sure what the EDL are defending against (least of all the members themselves) but as far as anyone can work out it has something to do with beating up immigrants, hating on Muslims and doing football hooliganism. Anyone without a patriotic tattoo is also on the list.
The EDL was formed in 2009 by a small tribe of hooligans in Luton who decided to take it upon themselves to defend the nation against the threat of Islamification and the introduction of sharia law into the British legal system.[1] They like to spend their weekends travelling the country visiting towns with large proportions of Muslims in order to intimidate and generally cause trouble, although this only takes place during the summer when there's no football on. During the football season they split off into little tribes and fight amongst themselves. This practice may have something to do with territory or be connected to their mating rituals. Another theory is that the EDL was set up to give football hooligans something to do during the summer. Their arch rival and nemesis is the UAF or "the great unwashed" as they are sometimes known.
Group Overview
The group has recently forged links with the American 'Tea Party', which not only comments on their progress intellectually but also on their realisation that America is part of England and should be defended too.
The EDL are notorious for having bad spelling, punctuation and grammar, which is kind of ironic really because you'd think people who are so damn proud of being English would have a better grasp of their own native tongue. Their favorite slogan is "Sport Are Troop's".
They are divided up into 'divisions', the largest of these being the 'EDL Keyboard Division' who are in charge of making racist comments on Facebook and various internet forums. Nearly everyone in the Keyboard Division is a 6' 4" ex-paratrooper who has served in Iraq and/or Afghanistan, or at least that is what they all claim. This could be bollocks, however, as the paras are one of the British Army's most elite murder squads and don't tend to accept recruits who are overweight alcoholics with erectile dysfunction who cannot formulate simple sentences.
Dress code and mannerisms
EDL members are easy to identify by their Burka type clothes. They have an inability to distinguish the difference between a native of Pakistan and everyone else from the Middle East and Asia. They have a very distinctive sound which has been described as "music for the deaf" (Freddy Mercury). They are often found with an alcoholic drink in their hand, usually Stella because it goes down well with the three and a half grams of cocaine the fuckwit hoovered up his nose on the bus down to a demonstration.
Muslamic Ray Guns
The EDL have been very vocal on the subject of 'Muslamic Ray Guns'. These weapons of Mass Cultural Conversion are said to exist and are stored secretly in mosques. EDL members tell of stories of friends who are abducted as they walk past muslims and come back with new names like Ali or Mustafa, proving they have been changed. One EDL spokesman with a can of beer in one hand (to prove he wasn't a muslim) said this was 'appnin tho, its appnin in ova contrees'.
Women's role in the EDL
The EDL have regional divisions and each is assigned an EDL Angel. Each EDL Angel will quite literally bend over backwards for their division and think of England!
The EDL Angels are also easy to identify by their knickers, which will be found keeping their ankles warm while they 'tend' to EDL member's needs! The EDL Angel has several, unexplained, marks on their face, generally a black eye, cold sores and a look of bitterness toward the shit hand that life has dealt them!
The EDL has held many protests, or 'Demos', in various towns and cities despite the locals of the towns and cities asking/begging them not to! Which is usually responded to by the EDL with "If you don't want us there, you must be a commie town/city, you Muzzie scum".
This level of political discourse has seen the EDL leaders in the news. In order not to alarm their supporters or the authorities, EDL leaders come across as exceptionally dim witted and stupid. Those on the political left this is a deliberate policy of lowering their guard and that it is difficult to alarm people if the supposed enemy looks and sounds like a moron.
Leadership and aims
The EDL's leader is Stephen Yaxley Lennon AKA Tommy Robinson. Which came as a surprise to Kevin Carroll, (Tommy's deputy) as he was under the assumption that he was leader after his patriotic appearance on a TV programme called ' Young, British and stupid'
The EDL was originally formed to defend England from Extremist Islam but more recently the EDL have been focused on stopping the construction of and the dismantling of ALL Muslamic ray guns!
The EDL is also part of a wider group of defence leagues that have sprung up elsewhere. There is the Scottish Defence League, though as they list the English as their number one enemy, relations between them and the EDL are limited. Since the SDL is apt to fight amongst itself anyway, they are far less effective than the EDL. The Welsh also have their defence league whilst the Irish have two, often three after a night of drinking a lot of Guinness.
In other countries defence leagues have turned into fully functioning political parties like the Swedish Democrats or the Peoples Party in Denmark. France's Front National is of this same family. The chances of the EDL following this path depend in whether the British Conservative party explode before 2015.
Current Situation
The EDL has attracted a lot of publicity following the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Brevik's claim he got all his ideas from them. Calling himself Andrew Berwick, Brevik was able to mix with the EDL without detection or anyone noticing he spoke English with a Norwegian accent. EDL's leaders said they had 'expelled' him but no evidence was produced. Since then the EDL has gone into decline, a drop in fortune that parallels former England captain John Terry and his off the ball problems with other men's girlfriends and accusations of racial abuse. No one is sure there is a link but Terry has been a popular chant topic with EDL members at football matches, depending of course if you supported his football team Chelsea or not.
- ↑ It is well-known that the EDL came to life after some ex BNP members (Kevin Carroll, Stephen Yaxley Lennon, Richard Price and his "Nephew") were refused entry to a Greek kebab shop because they were drunk and rowdy. The following day, they met up, in a pub to reflect on the previous nights events, one of them stated that the shop owners were not English, so therefore must be 'Pakis' and further more, they must be 'Muslim Pakis' ! In that flash of thickspiration the EDL was born!
See also
You Tube link to explain the 'Muslamic Ray Guns' line:-


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Most qualifications have a difficulty level. The higher the level, the more difficult the qualification is.
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Qualifications at the same level sometimes cover different amounts of the same subject.
Example AS levels and A levels are both level 3, but you study AS levels over 1 year and A levels over 2 years. So you learn more about the subject at A level.
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Mickey Rourke's loss at the Oscars was not a surprise, but it had nothing to do with his much-criticized decision to work at a pay-per-view for a wrestling company that he himself has disparaged for not allowing its performers to unionize, among other issues. Rather, Rourke's loss was all but guaranteed because the film he starred in had nothing to do with the prevalent social agendas of the day in Hollywood. The flavors-of-the-month this year at the Oscars were curry and milk, mixed in with the corpse of a dead actor.
Rourke is in good company with his loss at the Oscars to an actor who put on a far inferior performance in an overrated film. Rourke joins the likes of Morgan Freeman, whose powerful performance in The Shawshank Redemption lost out to the flavor of the '90s, Tom Hanks, in a film that has not stood up to the test of time, Forrest Gump (Hanks also won the year before, beating out another person Rourke should consider himself to be in good company with, Liam Neeson, for Schindler's List). From an earlier era, Rourke can stand proud with the spirit of the late Peter Sellers, who inexplicably lost for his triple role in Stanley Kubrick's Doctor Strangelove; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, while Rex Harrison won for My Fair Lady.
Indeed, Rourke can stand proud next to his co-star, Marisa Tomei, who was overlooked for her performance in The Wrestler, against an actress who certainly did a good job, Penelope Cruz, but whose performance came no where near the acting triumph of Tomei.
Since the '90s, the Oscars have ignored some of the most important films and performances in cinematic history. Most famously, the Oscars all but ignored Pulp Fiction in 1994, while handing out the majority of the awards to Forrest Gump. Today, the majority of film historians agree that the Tarantino film had a far greater impact on filmmaking in the world than the Robert Zemeckis formulaic trite did. The losers at the Oscars are far more influential these days than the winners, so Rourke can take pride in that, as well.
She is right: the singing and dancing in Slumdog Millionaire is just a smokescreen to cover up these questionable portrayals of India, just as the singing and dancing in Disney's Song of the South tried to cover up the racism of that film: it should be pointed out that the songs in that never-to-be-spoken-of film were just as catchy in as they were in Slumdog Millionaire.
The Wrestler just could not compete, as it was neither a politically-correct film, nor a film that perpetuated cultural stereotypes. All it was was an honest film. Both the film and Rourke were up against those things, and a lot more (including the fact that he wasn't dead, like a Jonas-brother clone who won for an overhyped role). As in most years, this year's Oscars were as rigged as a professional wrestling match, and there was no way Rourke would win the title. Again, he stands in good company, if one looks as other wrestlers who were denied the World Heavyweight Title in major matches: Rowdy Roddy Piper, Paul "Mr. Wonderful" Orndorff, the late Owen Hart, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, and many others. If Rourke can be compared with men like Piper, he can go home knowing that his name will be remembered for decades to come, transcending the need for any Oscar (or Heavyweight Title) to put him over, while Sean Penn's undeserved win (for Milk) should be rightfully compared to the wrestling championship title reign of David Arquette.


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State dam safety experts and local public works officials said Friday that despite the 100-year flood that has wrought havoc on Front Range communities and turned countless lives upside down, area dams and reservoirs have performed well and are not at risk of failing.
The one local exception to the glowing report is the Lafayette-owned Baseline Reservoir. But even though that body of water has posed some management issues in recent days, its overall integrity was termed "excellent" by that city's public works director.
"If it starts to rain like a son of a buck again, then we've got other issues — as does everybody," said Lafayette Public Works Director Doug Short.
Short said that there are two dams at Baseline Reservoir, one on the east side and one on the north, alongside Baseline Road. The north-side dam, he said, showed some "sloughing-off" caused by the deluge Thursday, leading dam managers to put down an expanse of tarp to prevent further degradation at that point.
"And then we had public works staff stay overnight, just to be on site and walk the dam continuously, to monitor the condition and see if it sloughed off anymore," Short said.
The on-site monitoring will continue through the weekend.
Additionally, Lafayette opened outlets Friday to periodically release water at about 100 cubic feet per second into an emergency spillway along Baseline Road and into a neighboring dog park just to the east — already inundated in past days — to prevent the reservoir from experiencing a damaging breach.
Bill McCormick, chief of the Dam Safety Branch with the Colorado Division of Water Resources, said his staff has had personnel at Baseline, tracking Lafayette's efforts to manage it.
"We are pretty comfortable with where they're at, with the monitoring and what they've done to prevent any further degradation of that embankment," McCormick said.
Sitting at the top of Boulder Canyon at Nederland is the far larger Barker Reservoir, which is owned by the city of Boulder, as is Boulder Reservoir and Kossler Lake, an off-stream reservoir west of Flagstaff Mountain.
All three, as well as Baseline Reservoir, are designated as "high-hazard" reservoirs — which reflects the potential consequences should they fail, rather than a rating of their safety or integrity.
A failure of Barker Dam would be catastrophic. But McCormick and Boulder officials agreed that Barker Dam and the rest of the city of Boulder's reservoirs were in good shape on Friday.
"I did talk to the utilities director. We're actually continuously monitoring all dams that are under the purview of the city of Boulder," said Mike Banuelos, spokesman for Boulder's public works department. "At this point, Barker is functioning as designed, and Barker reservoir isn't even full at this point."
McCormick, speaking of Barker and Boulder reservoirs, said, "Those are both excellent structures, and we would tend to agree with their assessment, there. We don't have any reason to dispute what they have told us."
Gross Reservoir, which is located just northwest of Walker Ranch but owned by Denver Water, is also performing well, McCormick said.
"A lot of these reservoirs were relatively low at the beginning of this cycle and now they are filling up. So they have some new loading, and that load is going to stay there, even after the rain stops and the creeks come down," McCormick said.
"So, we are going to be very much aware, and we want the public to not forget about that either. We just need to be vigilant, until we have time to get all of our post rainfall inspections and assessments done, to not let our guard down just because the sun comes out."
Dams, as part of their design, are equipped with spillways, which are used to keep their volumes within established limits. Sometimes, utilization of those spillways can trigger public concern.
"Water flowing from spillways is an unusual event at many locations, and the public may mistake spillway flows for a dam failure," said state Department of Natural Resources spokesman Todd Hartman.
"Because of the large volumes of water associated with this event, the spillway releases will likely cause or exacerbate localized flooding, creating hazardous conditions and damage."
Water was trickling over the spillway at Boulder Reservoir late Friday, Short said.
"This will go on for weeks, until we get that reservoir level down," he said.
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You'll still need to wait almost two months to hear Miranda Lambert's new album in its entirety, but if you're just dying for an early glimpse of 'Four the Record,' now you can have it.
Through an exclusive premiere at Taste of Country, Lambert has revealed the 'Four the Record' cover, and it offers all the country glamour — and fire — her fans have come to expect.
The album follows three consecutive platinum solo releases for Lambert, who has topped the charts with a new record every other year since 2005 — and did it again with her new group the Pistol Annies two weeks ago. The first single from 'Four the Record,' 'Heart Like Mine,' has already gone to Number One, and the follow-up, 'Baggage Claim,' is headed for the Top 10.
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