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We all love Jack Sparrow. In fact, it's impossible to hate Jack Sparrow. The latest tribute to the world's favorite pirate sees a massive 2.7 meter tall model of him made by Kreatworks, from Bangkok, who is clearly a very committed fan. What makes it more impressive is that the model is made completely out of recycled scrap metal and old auto parts that would otherwise have gone to waste.
Given the materials being used, you would be thinking, how good could it possibly look, right? Well, the pictures in the gallery below will tell you that the model looks absolutely phenomenal! It is coated with lacquer to prevent rusting, giving it a brilliant metallic sheen. The attention to detail is quite astounding. The whole model weighs in at around 450kg, and the official dimensions in centimeters are 270x100x120.
So, how much money would you have to part with to put metallic Jack into your backyard? A cool USD 7,700. We suppose its worth it, because the model has clearly taken a lot of effort to make.
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Here is a teaser from the Longevity Cookbook project.
The first chapter is on pharmacologic enhancement of lifespan. This chapter includes different ways of trying to develop pharmaceuticals to combat aging.
Here is a teaser from the Longevity Cookbook project.
The first chapter is on pharmacologic enhancement of lifespan. This chapter includes different ways of trying to develop pharmaceuticals to combat aging.
What would you say if I told you that aging happens not because of accumulation of stresses, but rather because of the intrinsic properties of the gene network of the organism? I'm guessing you'd be like: o_0.
So, here's the deal. My biohacker friends led by Peter Fedichev and Sergey Filonov in collaboration with my old friend and the longevity record holder Robert Shmookler Reis published a very cool paper.
There is something important going on in the fight against baldness.
As in the majority of tissues, the hair follicle has stem cells. There are two types of stem cells that are responsible for the continuous renewal of the follicles. The first type is called active stem cells and they start dividing quite easily. Stem cells of the second type are called quiescent and in case of the new hair growth they don't start dividing as easily. At the same time, the new hair is based primarily on quiescent cells, which attracted close attenti...
I have mentioned mTOR as one of the main aging genes on multiple occasions. It's about time I tell you what it is, what it does and why it is so important in aging.
mTOR has a little m in front of TOR, which means I am speaking about mammals. It technically means «mechanistic» TOR, but think of it as the molecule that mice and all of us have, whereas in worms is it just TOR.
When I hear that the conversation is about an ethical problem I anticipate that right now the people are going to put everything upside down and end with common sense. Appealing to ethics has always been the weapon of conservatism, the last resort of imbecility.
The most significant event in a person's life is death. It changes everything. More precisely, it takes everything that a person had. If he was in love, he no longer is. If he was aspiring to pleasures, there will be none any longer. The world will be gone for the person.
Every single neuron will disappear that was responsible for the wishes, desires, and feelings. We don't realize this, but everything single thing we accomplish, we do so looking in the face of inevitable death. Death takes away the sense of a person's life....
First of all, let's draw a line between a strategy and wishful thinking. There are plenty of wonderful transhumanist projects. A viral video, a global portal, attracting celebrities, proof that aging is a disease, convincing billionaires, educational programs, letters to politicians, civil actions, participating in elections, creating a strong community, clinical trials of combinations of existing age delaying drugs on animals, TV shows, Hollywood blockbusters, creating a political committee, conferences on transhumanist topics, scient...
We've put together the survey on transhumanism strategy to reveal the inner discussion inside the transhumanist movement. Our goal is to inspire the people to act. We believe the greatest sin in our field is wishful thinking. It's when a person is saying that it would be good to do something, like for instance, to shoot a viral video, but at the same time this person is not doing anything. His or hers advice has to be implemented in real life somehow on its own.
Accumulating evidence suggests that microbiota plays an important role in modulating lifespan. This makes possible to use symbiotic bacteria as "living drugs", which live in the host organism and promote its longevity. We propose to create bacteria, which dramatically extend lifespan of its host. Such bacteria have to produce not one, but a set of longevity-promoting substances with optimal concentrations and dynamics of secretion. To obtain such bacteria we propose to use directed evolution, a process that mimics Darwinian selec...
While discussing the longevity gene therapy project we encountered various questions and observations that prompted us to broaden the project and slightly change it. Generally, all the comments can be reduced into 5 main points…

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Marine Harvest Casts Net for Growth with Infor
Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced that Marine Harvest, the world's largest producer of farmed salmon, has selected Infor M3, Infor Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and Infor Supply Chain Planning for its global operations. The applications will be deployed in a phased roll out, with the final site expected to go live in April 2014, with the goal of helping Marine Harvest drive growth by improving demand visibility. They will also help Marine Harvest secure optimized pricing for its produce, while accelerating current traceability capabilities.
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- Marine Harvest is the world's largest producer of farmed salmon with more than 10,000 employees across 23 countries.
- With production and farming facilities in Norway, Scotland, Ireland, Canada and Chile, Marine Harvest ships approximately 70 percent of its product to retailers with the remaining 30 percent sent for further processing. These destinations span Asia, Europe and the U.S.
- With facilities across three continents, Marine Harvest has begun a complete business process reengineering project designed to move away from a decentralized, regional structure to a global business template. Through integrating Infor M3 with Infor Supply Chain Planning, Marine Harvest hopes to improve visibility into future demand from 3-6 weeks to up to three years.
- Combined with Infor Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) this improvement in visibility will not only help Marine Harvest to better meet demand but also help to protect its revenue by reducing over production and resulting subsequent price reductions to sell excess stock.
- Infor M3 and Infor Supply Chain Planning will also help reduce the time taken to answer traceability queries.
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"As a microvertical, aquaculture is growing at a phenomenal rate," explained Mike Edgett, Director of Industry Marketing, Process Manufacturing, Infor. "It is among the fastest growing animal food production sectors and accounts for more than half of the fishing industry. This is good news because if current consumption patterns continue, we will need another 23 million tons of fish to satisfy demand by 2030."
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Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie, the author of Midnight's Children, a book which won the 1981 Man Booker Prize, is probably the most famous South Asian writer. However, when he wrote The Satanic Verses he got into more trouble than he bargained for. He was heavily condemned by the Islamic Community worldwide for the book as it showed the Prophet Muhammed in a bad light. A fatwa was issued against him by Iran's religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini. Rushdie went into hiding for nine years and lived under the alias 'Joseph Anton' after an assassination attempt was made on him. The wrath of the Islamic extremists was such that Hitoshi Igarashi, who translated the book into Japanese, was murdered. The book is still banned in India.
Taslima Nasrin
Another popular South Asian writer, Taslima Nasrin is no stranger to controversy. She was physically attacked by an enraged mob because of what she wrote in her book, Lajja, and ultimately even had to flee her home country of Bangladesh due to the death threats she received because of an article she published in a paper. As of today, Nasrin has been living in exile for 24 years and has had to stay in multiple countries. When in India, she courted controversy by making anti-war statements and the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen threatened to behead her. She has written about her life in Bangladesh in her autobiography, My Girlhood and about her life in exile in her memoir, Exile.
Perumal Murugan
When Perumal Murugan's Tamil novel Mathorubhagan (One Part Woman) was published in 2010, it met with some success. The book deals with a childless couple who partake in the chariot festival in the temple of Ardhanareeswara, in the hopes of becoming pregnant. During the festival, for one night, it is socially acceptable for the woman to have sex with anyone and, if she gets pregnant, the child is considered 'God-given'. However, in 2014, local caste-based groups protested against the book alleging that the book defamed women and hurt the religious sentiments of their community. Due to the violence that ensued, Murugan promised to never write again, posted his literary obituary on his Facebook page, and was forced to leave his home. Criminal charges were brought against him. Fortunately, the court ruled in favour of the author. The English translation of the book, One Part Woman, won the Sahitya Akademi Prize For Translation in 2016.
Tehmina Durrani
Tehmina Durrani courted controversy when she wrote her autobiography, My Feudal Lord. In the book, she revealed her abusive married life with her now ex-husband Ghulam Mustafa Khar, the then Chief Minister of Punjab. Her family shunned her for 13 years after the book was published. In 2002, she spoke out asking for justice for an acid-attack victim, Fakhra Younus, only to meet with death threats and acid attack threats herself. Her third book, Blasphemy too met with controversy as it covers the secret lives of religious pirs and exposes the torture their wives meet with.
D. N. Jha
After his book, The Myth Of The Holy Cow, was published, history professor D. N. Jha received many threatening phone calls, found his house in Delhi vandalised and was physically attacked. For over two years Jha required police protection, and was prevented from meeting and talking to students freely. In the book, Jha talks about cows and other cattle being sacrificed and consumed by Hindus in the Vedic Indian era and also in other periods in history. Even before the book was published, VHP members threated to confiscate the books and burn them, and a BJP MP asked for a ban on the book and the arrest and prosecution of the author. Members of Jain Seva Sangh too were outraged by a section in the book which stated that Mahavira ate meat. The Sangh got the approval from Hyderabad Civil Court for the injunction of the book in 2001 but thankfully Jha won that case in 2002.
Saadat Hasan Manto
A legend amongst South Asian writers, Saadat Hasan Manto was a prolific author who wrote about subjects which other writers often shied away from. For example, in his short story collection, Bombay Stories, each story features a prostitute. He moved from Bombay to Lahore after partition but had trouble with the courts of both countries due to the nature of his work. In Lahore also, he had trouble with the police as they surrounded his house, searched it and even managed to get an arrest warrant for him. He was no stranger to court thanks to the frequent charges of obscenity slapped on him. The stories which got him in trouble were Kali Shalvar; Dhuvan; Bu; Thanda Ghost; and Upar, Neeche Aur Darmiyan. However, despite facing constant criticism and ridicule, Manto never stopped writing. His legacy is everlasting and BBC even included his Toba Tek Sing in their list of 100 stories that shaped the world.
Ismat Chughtai
Ismat Chughtai was one of most progressive writers of the 20th Century, believed in the same freedom of expression for men and women, wasn't bothered that her contemporaries called her 'pig-headed', and often courted controversy. Her work was feminist in nature and, often, fearlessly explored feminine sexuality and middle-class morality. In 1942, she was slapped with an obscenity charge due to one of her stories, Lihaaf, which dealt with female homosexuality, and was required to appear in court, coincidentally along with Manto. After she won the case, she continued to highlight the discrimination and culture of patriarchal society through her stories.
As a young boy, Nirbhay had the annoying habit of waking up at 5 a.m. Since television was a big no-no, he had no choice but to read to entertain himself and that is how his love affair with books began. A true-blue Piscean, books paved the path to his fantasy worlds- worlds he'd often rather stay in. Nirbhay is the co-founder and publisher of The Curious Reader.
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A week in the life of work experience
Here at Weston Museum, we provide a unique take on work experience.
It's a very busy week for the students. Everyday explores a different area of the business. One day could be customer service and then the next could be building an exhibition.
Our most recent placement, Rachael has written a blog for us to explain more.
My Work Experience at Weston Museum
By Rachael
On Monday I arrived at 10 am and was given a health and safety tour of the building and was informed of the key information that I needed to be aware of. I was introduced to Sophie, a member of staff who familiarised me with the front desk. She taught me how to use the till and card machine and how to record visitor admissions. I watched her greet visitors and therefor had an insight into the key aspect of customer service.
After a lunch break I accompanied Matthew to Grove House where the town council is based. I met several council members and they explained to me the roles of their jobs within the council. I found it interesting to have an insight into how a council works and the roles and responsibilities within that.
Back at the museum office, I met Becky Walsh, who educated me on different forms of marketing techniques. She then tasked me with gathering information from the social media platform, Instagram, on how other museums across the country presented their page. This was an interesting task as I am familiar with Instagram but had not before viewed it from a marketing perspective.
On Tuesday I worked on the front desk. I worked alongside a friendly volunteer who made sure I was happy with working the till.
For the remainder of the afternoon, I was set the task in the museum office of visiting websites of museums across the UK and observing events that they hosted. I recorded down several that seemed interesting.
On Wednesday I was introduced to Jane, a staff member who talked to me about what her job involves. She talked to me about the museum's buy tramadol c o d reminiscence boxes and what they are all about.
During the morning, I sat with a volunteer at a table in the courtyard where one of the reminiscence boxes was laid out. We looked through the artefacts.
After this, Jane allowed me to look through several other reminiscence boxes. I found it very interesting to be able to handle the artefacts, especially some old holiday postcards from a daughter to her parents.
In the afternoon, I worked in the café with a volunteer who showed me what the job consists of and how to carry this out.
On Thursday I observed a staff meeting, gaining an insight into the business and running of the museum.
Following this, I met a member of staff who talked to me about her job and what it involves. She works with schools and groups with historical handling boxes including dress up and different crafts for the children. Her job is to educate children on different historical eras through creative and interactive learning sessions. I assisted her in sorting through a craft cupboard and thinking of different craft workshops that she could host. For the afternoon, we went to the office where we completed some admin work.
On Friday, I worked at the front desk with a member of staff and helped with some admin.
In the afternoon I wrote my blog.
I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Weston Museum. Every member of staff and volunteer has been friendly and supportive. Having learnt a lot about different jobs within the museum and council, I have gained an insight into how a museum is run and what the roles within this involve. I have enjoyed taking on new and interesting tasks and applying myself to areas that I have had no previous experience in. I feel that I have massively gained in confidence as I have met many new people and done many new things throughout the week. My week of work experience has been productive, educational and an all-round great experience that I know will assist me in later life through the experience that I have gained.


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Khar has a new Asian eatery LMNOPQ, and contrary to what we may have you believe, it's not about learning the alphabet, but about Asian cuisine.
Sushi, Truffle Fries, And A Lot Of Overt Symbolism At A New Asian Eatery In Khar
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LMNOPQ is a cutesy eatery on Khar, with an overtly obvious "Oriental" decor. Massive murals of Asian ladies, with parasols are hung around the restaurant. It's colourful, almost to the point of being as colourful as a kindergarten school.
The menu is the typical sushi, bao and khow suey. The baos, the chili basil chicken and the spicy cottage cheese bird chili come out with flying colours. They offer sushi, tempura, prawns and other fusion Asian dishes. For desserts, we say order in the Nutella and peanut pie, and the Nutella salt sea cookies for some lovely sweet offerings.
Sip On
They offer the regular shakes, iced teas and sodas. But in addition to this, they also have a wine selection, with white and red sangrias.
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Another one to add to Khar and Bandra's diverse subarban eateries, LMNOPQ is our another option for some good old khow suey and sushi.


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The mammalian urothelium is one of the most effective permeability barriers evident in nature, maintaining an incredibly steep concentration gradient between the urine and plasma. Plaques comprising the transmembrane protein uroplakin on the apical surface of urothelial umbrella cells constitute the permeability barrier, and these can also act as docking sites for bacteria that cause urinary tract infections. Xiang-Peng Kong and coworkers have examined the structural basis for barrier function by performing cryoelectron microscopy of uroplakin particles, which naturally form hexagonally packed, 2D crystals (see p. 4087). This approach has allowed them to generate an ∼7-Å-resolution projection map and a 20-Å-resolution 3D image of the 16-nm uroplakin particle, which reveal numerous novel structural aspects. For example, they show that each particle has a central, 6 nm, lipid-filled hole surrounded by six inverted U-shaped subunits. Uroplakin could therefore severely restrict the movement of membrane lipids, which might contribute to its barrier function. The structures also reveal that there is little contact between neighbouring subunits and thus the potential for significant conformational change, which could be important for urothelial signal transduction following bladder stretching and bacterial binding.
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Originally published under the title Why the Bottom Line Isn′t, this revised and updated edition shows business leaders how to build long–term value through assets not accounted for on the company′s financial statements. Through leadership, service, corporate culture, and the ability to attract top talent, businesses can create real, measurable value that goes beyond simple bottom–line numbers.
Based on research drawn from human resources, finance, IT, and leadership, How Leaders Build Value offers ideas and actions that leaders at any level, in any function, can use to increase their organization′s overall value. Every chapter presents an intangible asset as a concept, then provides examples and tools that help leaders develop the asset and communicate its value to shareholders, employees, and other parties.
No matter what kind of organization you operate, remarkable things happen when you build value through intangibles. Employees will be more committed, customers and investors more engaged, confident, and numerous. For those who want to impact the long–term value of their organizations, How Leaders Build Value is a straightforward and practical guide.
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Reflecting on Impulse
A review of David Lewis' book Impulse: Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do It.
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One Ugly Mother: Riskin's New Book
A review of the new book Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, by Dan Riskin, Ph. D.
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Dressing Up Conformity
Recent news articles about dress codes are examined to discuss social conformity.
April 19, 2014
Waxing Poetic About Record Store Day
An article in favor of music being celebrated every day -- not just Record Store Day.
March 1, 2014
Lego© Rebuilding the Hero's Tale
A discussion on how the Lego© Movie may awaken the interest in the hero's journey for young people.
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Warmest congratulations to Kristian Van Haesendonck for the publication of Postcolonial Archipelagos: Essays on Hispanic Caribbean and Lusophone African Fiction (Peter Lang, 2018).
Description: Writers from different postcolonial regions are usually classified according to their different nationalities or linguistic areas, and have rarely been brought together in one volume. Moving in a new direction, Postcolonial Archipelagos crosses not only geographical but also linguistic boundaries, by focusing on two contexts, which seemingly have little or nothing in common with one another: the Hispanic Caribbean, and Lusophone Africa.
Kristian Van Haesendonck thus opens new ground, in two ways: first, by making connections between contemporary Caribbean and African writers, moving beyond the topos of slavery and negritude in order to analyse the (im)possibility of conviviality in postcolonial cultures; and secondly, by exploring new ways of approaching these literatures as postcolonial archipelagic configurations with historical links to their respective metropoles, yet also as elements of what Glissant and Hannerz have respectively called "Tout-Monde" and a "world in creolization." Although the focus is on writers from Lusophone Africa (Mia Couto, José Luis Mendonça and Guilherme Mendes da Silva) and the Hispanic Caribbean (Junot Díaz, Eduardo Lalo, Marta Aponte, James Stevens-Arce and Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá), connections are made with and within the broader global context of intensified globalization.
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In its first ever Chelsea appearance as an exhibitor, New Covent Garden Flower Market has scooped an RHS Chelsea Gold medal and the New Design Award for the dramatic floral installation - 'Behind Every Great Florist' - that is taking the RHS Chelsea Flower Show by storm, and making the news pages worldwide. Designed and created by Veevers Carter, one of London's leading florists, event companies and a devoted customer of the Flower Market, the exhibit illustrates the close ties that bind Flower Market traders and their customers in flowering London and is a spectacular tribute to HM the Queen.
"We are absolutely thrilled and proud to have won a coveted Chelsea Gold medal and the RHS Chelsea New Design Award on our first ever exhibit at the show," said Helen Evans, Director of Communications at Covent Garden Market Authority. "We wanted our exhibit to highlight the vital relationship between London's iconic wholesale Flower Market and the talented independent florists who flower London. As a devoted customer of the Flower Market for over three decades, Veevers Carter instantly understood the concept and their design for 'Behind Every Great Florist' encapsulates this in a spectacularly creative way."
"We are absolutely overwhelmed that our installation for the Flower Market has been awarded not only an RHS Chelsea Gold medal but also the New Design Award," said Ming Veevers-Carter, Creative Director of Veevers Carter. "'Behind Every Great Florist' has been such an exciting and inspirational project, and our combined creative team of florists, designers and production staff have worked incredibly hard over the past six months to make it a reality. The response to our Chelsea debut has been just staggering, and I am so proud of what we've achieved."
On the Royal tour of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, New Covent Garden Flower Market was honoured by a visit by HM the Queen, who was photographed in front of her three metre high floral portrait, containing 10 000 cut flowers and and foliages.
'Behind Every Great Florist' is the story of two sides intrinsically bound together in flowering London: London's famous wholesale Flower Market on one side and its customers, independent florists, on the other. On the Market side, the Flower Market is represented in a vast wall of 112 market buckets, iconic symbols of the Flower Market, each densely packed with fragrant green and white flowers and foliage echoing the massed displays at New Covent Garden Market. The uniformity of the rows breaks down towards the middle, as the buckets and flowers are pulled into a central core. Emerging on the opposite side, the Florist side, the flowers erupt in a breathtaking riot of colour; tiers of fragrant floral tapestry forming the iconic portrait of HM the Queen, representing the exquisite craft and creativity of London's great florists.
Amongst the varieties of flowers and foliages on the Market side are philadelphus, freesias, arums, hydrangeas, lilies, guelder rose, lilac, freesias, tulips, phlox, lisianthus, phalaenopsis, hyacinths, carnations, roses, spray roses, gerbera, alstroemeria, euonymus, chrysanthemums, chincherinchee, skimmea, camellia, senecio. Whilst on the Florist side, the massed tapestry of flowers includes hydrangea, delphinium, gladioli, clematis, sweet peas, anemones, lilac, carnations, lisianthus, gentians, phlox, cymbidium, gerberas, sweet williams, bouvardia, roses, arum lilies, chrysanthemums, snapdragons, ranunculus, alstroemeria, hyacinths, freesias, mokara and flag iris.
The Flower Market's expert wholesalers have been quietly supplying the cut flowers, foliage, plants and floral sundries for award-winning Chelsea show gardens and exhibits for decades, but had never exhibited before this year. Every single stem on the 'Behind Every Great Florist' installation has come from the flower and foliage wholesalers at New Covent Garden Flower Market, who source from the finest growers around the world.
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What To Do If Your Tenant Wants to Leave Early
Although tenants in your property are legally obligated to remain in their tenancy until the term...
Although tenants in your property are legally obligated to remain in their tenancy until the termination date of their tenancy and will be responsible for paying the rent in full up until that point, there are times when you may find that your tenant wants or needs to leave earlier than the agreed end date on their tenancy agreement.
Although this may be incredibly frustrating for you as the landlord of the property, there's no need to be harsh and unreasonable if your tenant approaches you with the view of leaving early, despite having a period of time left of their agreement.
As experts in dealing with landlords who have flats and houses to rent in Sutton Coldfield, we've put together some tips on how you can deal with the situation and what you can do.
Not the End of the World
It may seem like it's the end of all things when your tenant decides that they need to move out of your property, but it doesn't have to be.
Unless the tenants have told you the reason for needing to leave early, it is unfair to treat them as though they are making you lose money by preventing them from leaving.
It's best to just accept that they have had a change of circumstances beyond their control rather than get angry. Focus yourself and start looking for more tenants to fill their spaces- after all, you'd be doing this at some point anyway!
Take Advantage of their Notice
Be thankful that they've given you some notice before they move out so that you can use it to your advantage.
Because they are leaving before their time is up on their tenancy agreement, it isn't unreasonable of you to ask them to be flexible when it comes to allowing viewings of potential new tenants for the property.
This is a great way to compromise with your tenants and will help you fill their places before they have actually moved out. Many tenants will give at least a month's notice which gives you plenty of time to get your house back on the lettings market and find yourself some brand new tenants.
Make Other Comprimises
While it's all well and good agreeing to let your tenants leave early from their tenancy agreement, it's important to cover your back too and ask them to compromise with you.
Just like asking them to be flexible when it comes to viewings, there are various other reasonable conditions that you can ask your leaving tenants to comply with. These could include:
- Paying rent until new tenants are found – which doesn't usually take too long.
- Helping you find replacement tenants
- Keeping the house in a presentable manner even if they are packing and being mindful of the building that they are leaving behind when moving furniture.
These aren't unreasonable compromises, and you will probably find that your tenants will be happy to comply if it means that they can leave earlier.
Although it is a very stressful time, finding replacement tenants to replace those who want to leave isn't as hard as many landlords fear. Our experts here at Belvoir Sutton Coldfield are able to help you find the perfect tenants for your property in the shortest period of time.
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Hello to one and all. This week's harvest includes things you have seen before. Folks at Tuesday's farm pick up liked seeing all three varieties of kale offered. The blistery, dark green variety is the Lacinato, an Italian favorite. Delicious and fresh, but no surprises, this week.
We were hoping to have cucumbers and beans but alas, they are taking their sweet time. Next week you will definitely receive cukes and fennel (we will see about beans. . .). Fennel is a pungent but mild vegetable that has the delicious flavor of licorice. I love a fresh tomato and fennel sauce over pasta but since the tomatoes are still ripening, the fennel will have to find another way to our plates. The Belfast Coop has been serving a "shaved fennel and citrus salad " in their deli case which is yummy. Here is a link to a recipe that seems close. I also linked to a really great piece from the NYT on our "Resources" page called 101 salads, basically recipe-less combinations of vegetables for this season. Some very good inspiration!
I never did make that Mediterranean Stuffed Escarole--we have enjoyed escarole (in case you have one lurking in your fridge) sauteed for 10 minutes with some garlic added at the end. Gail Chase enjoys putting it in soups and Diana Avella was so excited, she took two! I will ask her how she made it. I am afraid some CSA members may have mistaken it for lettuce. Uh oh. It is soooo bitter if you tasted it raw, but cooked well, the bitterness subsides and the flavor is delicious. You may see that large green head again in a few weeks.
Pad Thai for lunch today: chock full of scallions, snow peas and cilantro. Laura made chinese cabbage and sesame seed slaw along with a potato salad for lunch yesterday. Looking forward to our first tomato sandwich of the season.
The tomatoes in the hoophouse are ripening and the first red one was plucked from the 8 foot tall vines today! Once again, we may have to take Benny out of the state for a few days for anyone else to ever get a ripe Sungold cherry tomato. That boy finds every one. Last year he called them "num nums" and this year they are "little 'matos." There looks to be a bountiful crop of tomatoes of all shades coming on.
A first for us last week: Impromtu picnic on a horse wagon. Neighbors and friends, Neil and Gwyneth and their two boys and two mares showed up in our barnyard and one thing led to another and we found ourselves enjoying an evening picnic on the wagon.
The other new trick: Abel smiles. They are making everyone giggly. Both boys ask "Got any smiles in there?" many, many times each day.
And the last new trick: Prentice taking pig videos. There are more where that came from if you like the "pig cam." By the way, pork is all sold out for the year but we do have pasture raised chickens for sale from the freezer and fresh again in a few weeks.
One last thing: Special Vegetable Action Team a.k.a. Work Party on Saturday, August 8th from 8-11 with a lunch provided. Join us for a fun morning of work in the gardens. It really is a good time and we get a LOT done!
Also, the first Farm Potluck and garden walk: Tuesday, August 11th 5 p.m. with an all-important Tomato Tasting!!!! We will lay out a veritable rainbow of tomato slices and provide slips of paper for comments. You bring the poetry.
That is all for now.
Hope you all are enjoying the vegetables and as always, be in touch with questions any time.
Polly, for all of us at Village Farm
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Bénédicte Guillaume — A Corpus-Based Study of Since Clauses in Contemporary English. Toulouse : PU du Mirail, 2014, 195 pages.
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1This book proposes an analysis of the properties of since clauses in contemporary English, based on a sample of 526 occur-rences, most of them from the British National Corpus. It is usually considered that since (Old English siÞÞan) used to have strictly temporal meanings and that, like a number of adverbial subordinators (cf. Traugott 1989), it acquired a causal value later on, in this case in Middle English; the aim of the study is to establish whether since should still be regarded as a single marker today (as for Lapaire & Rotgé 1991, for instance, for whom both values relate to the notion of origin), or whether the properties of temporal vs. causal since clauses are so different that there are now two homonymous subordinators (e.g. Deléchelle 1989). The author's framework is mainly the French TOE theory (Théorie des Opérations Enonciatives), but rather than propose a full account of underlying operations and theoretical implications, she chooses to use some TOE tools to highlight certain phenomena. She also follows Lecercle (1990)'s notion of 'remainder': whatever theoretical model linguists devise, they will never account for all occurrences. There is always a remainder, that is, unclear or unstable instances, which are in fact a revealing and constitutive part of language. After detailing her data collection procedure, the author analyses causal since clauses (chapter 1), temporal ones (chapter 2), then the 'remainder', that is, ambiguous and hybrid cases (chapter 3).
2For her corpus, the author used the tagging function of the BNC to select the uses of since as a subordinator (vs. preposition or adverb). Out of the resulting 25,988 hits, she randomly selected 500, which 'seemed to [her] the right size for [her] corpus to be varied enough yet manageable' (p. 12). When an extract contained several occurrences of since, she included them all, hence the final total of 526. A manual review enabled her to correct a number of tagging errors and a certain lack of consistency in the tags, possibly due to different conceptions of 'subordinators' or 'adverbs'. To her, since is a subordinator if and only if it introduces a clause that contains a finite verb phrase. For each occurrence, she entered the type of clause (temporal, causal or hybrid); its location relative to the main clause; tenses, aspects and modality in the since clause and in the main clause; the presence of negation; coordination; and any other element that might seem noteworthy.
3A major finding is that the two types of since clauses (causal and temporal) show diverging trends as regards their syntactic properties, but that they do not differ systematically. For instance, when a since clause is placed after the main clause, it is typically isolated by a comma if it has a causal value, and has no punctuation if it is temporal; but there are instances of postponed temporal since clauses preceded by commas. Simple tenses are particularly common in the main clause when the since clause has a causal value, whereas they are very rare when it has a temporal value (about 90% of the time, the main clause then has a perfect aspect); but again, there are instances with a simple tense in the main clause and a temporal since clause. Finally, causal since clauses are more often placed after the main clause than before (contrary to what might have been expected), and this is also the case for temporal since clauses, although postponing is even more frequent in the latter case.
4The author concludes from this that the syntactic properties noted in the corpus are not determined by the value of the since clause (temporal or causal), but by other factors. For causal since clauses, the place of the clause relative to the main clause depends on speaker attitudes. Postponing has a backgrounding effect, so that when a since clause is postponed, what is highlighted is the contents of the main clause. A fronted since clause, on the other hand, highlights the cause-effect relationship between the subordinate clause and the main clause (rather than the contents of the since clause). The author notes that the difference, however, is often 'subtle'. Temporal since clauses are typically postponed because their function is then to provide an aspectual locator, but they have to be fronted when the main clause describes a situation that has evolved since the temporal landmark expressed in the since clause.
5Another finding of is that in a small number of cases, it is impossible to determine whether since has a purely temporal, or a purely causal, value. The context often allows for disambiguation, but sometimes it does not, as in, The Catholic religion has marginalised women, in part, one might say, since it was decided that God was male (p. 181). To the author, such 'hybrid' instances are evidence that since should still be regarded as a single marker in contemporary English.
6This book will be of interest to all those, whether students, the general public or scholars, who are interested in the notion of core value in grammar and in the evolution of grammatical words. It is very accessible and provides many examples and micro-analyses. A more explicit, broader state of the art would have helped situtate the author's research within the existing literature on the topic, base some intuitions on facts, and show how the tools of the TOE framework allowed for improved analyses compared to other approaches. The reader might also have liked to read more about the stages in the shift from temporal to causal value in subordinators – this might have helped to define more clearly the notion of 'single morpheme' that the author retains for since. But the general conclusions make very convincing reading and will be of value to researchers.
7Laure Gardelle,
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
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Liina Siib
A Woman Takes Little Space
Estonian Pavilion
54th International Art Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia
June 4–November 27, 2011
Professional Preview Days: 1–3 June 2011
Pavilion opening: Thursday, 2 June 2011 at 4 pm
Palazzo Malipiero,
San Marco 3079,
The exhibition A Woman Takes Little Space consists of six conceptually connected room installations in an apartment-like, (un)homely environment. In her photo, video and site-specific room installations, the artist explores various topics, ranging from femininity and social space to different representations of women in contemporary society, as well as 'feminine' jobs and prostitution.
The title work of the exhibition, the photography series A Woman Takes Little Space (2007–2011), captures women of different ages and social status at their places of work. The series is inspired by a claim made in an opinion column on gender equality that appeared in the Estonian media a few years ago stating that women need less space for their everyday work (and less pay) than men. One of the questions that runs through the exhibition touches on the mechanisms that allow such ideas (though in the interests of political correctness they are quashed in public debate) to continue relatively unhindered as a result of an unsaid agreement between all parties.
In the installation A Room of One's Own (2011) a video presents the housework and home life of housewives living in a new suburb close to Tallinn. These images are shown alongside Russian women dancing among themselves at an open-air concert in a wintery landscape. In the work Apartness (2008) there are photographs of middle-aged women who, having dressed themselves according to their idea of what men fantasize about, create a certain heightened trophy image of women. The video installation Averse Body (2007), filmed through a car window against views of Tallinn at night, involves interviews with prostitutes, in which the artist asks what they think of their bodes, what their clients think, what they would like to change about themselves, how much time they spend on their appearance and so forth.
Along with work that focuses on the private sphere and the body, there is also the video Unsocial Hours (2011), which explores the model of the cycle of women's work and social life through food; to be more specific, cheap pastries produced in a bakery that works through the night and which are sold in the kiosks at Tallinn Railway Station, and eaten in cafes in Lasnamäe or during breaks by doctors and nurses working at Pelgulinn Hospital. Along with a focus on space, there is also a strong emphasis on time—the circling of time, and a certain element of ritual repetition and 'not getting anywhere'.
Men are only seen briefly in this exhibition, but their voice also has a place—as singing, or rather sounds, coming from the bathroom (His Song, 2011), as the announcer in the video Unsocial Hours, and in a slightly removed way in the work Averse Body, which is based on Jerzy Grotowski's claim that prostitutes have a particular loathing for and lack of trust in their bodies.
Press release compiled by Anu Allas
Liina Siib was born in 1963 in Tallinn, Estonia, where she currently lives and works. She studied graphic art and photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts, where she also earned an MA in photography. Her recent works examine different aspects of femininity, dealing with social space and subjectivity. She has had thirty solo exhibitions in Estonia, Germany, Belgium, France, Finland and Latvia. Her works have been presented at a number of exhibitions in Estonia, Europe, Asia and the USA. Her works are in the collections of the Art Museum of Estonia, the Tartu Art Museum, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Neues Museum für Kunst und Design in Nuernberg etc.
Commissioner: Johannes Saar, head of the Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia
Deputy Commissioners: Elin Kard, Andris Brinkmanis
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The 10th Annual Architectural Research Symposium – also called as ATUT – is almost here. The detailed programme is being finalised, but before announcing the full list of speakers, let's first meet our distinguished keynote speakers.
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Saturday 27 October 2018
12:00 Marija Drémaitè, Professor, Vilnius University: Symbolic Geographies – Baltic Identities – Nordic Inspirations.


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I promise, Love and Rockets will have original posts, but in the meantime, we have great material ready to be shared, so please enjoy some of the inspiration for our Young Makers Club!
I truly and sincerely love Maker Faire and all the great people we met there... and I want to share as much of their good works as I possibly can.
And I do this for free, for the love of education, science, art, family, expression, and sharing. I do not get paid. I do not advertise. This is Chickenblog, and I am just enthusiastic about stuff. And my house is a mess because of it, so please leave a comment, so my family will find this incredibly worthwhile and forgive me for neglecting them and our Bird House.
Hey, look it's Dave. He's got one of those funny "Herbie Mouse Bots from Solarbotics. The sensor in Herbie's nose leads him, like a mouse to cheese, toward light. Flashlight fun. Maker Faire fun.
Now really, I don't think I will ever recover from the amusement of seeing frosted cupcakes driving around, but what about the cake?
That's right, I went under the frosting to see what makes a cupcake move. And I will support any member of my family willing to design and build a cupcake mobile. They are too sweet.
I also approve of fire breathing dragons.
Somewhere at Maker Faire we saw the phrase: "Fun first. Safety third."
Okay. Just kidding.
But also, funny.
But seriously: Safety first.
When Saphira raised her head and did her fire thing, Sam de Rose and Alex Jacobson definitely had safety first in mind, and they kept everyone clear of Saphira's hot breath. As for us observers, it was totally fun!
At the controls, and monitoring the programming. I have so much faith in young people, students. They got it going on.
Geoff has some great slow-motion footage of Saphira breathing fire. We are going to post video soon.
Video will be great, because my words alone do little to describe the awesomeness of MondoSpider tap dancing her 1,200 pounds of steel across the fairgrounds. The mass. The coordination. The sound of her eight steel feet hitting the ground... marvelous! She really is a large, improbable, mechanical structure, built to explore our human relationship with energy.
"True to its mandate of "Energy Awareness Through Art", the eatART crew has implemented an electric drive-train in the Spider, making it the WORLD'S FIRST WALKING ELECTRIC VEHICLE!"
Plus, they were at Burning Man.
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Doing it your way, learning a new way?
If you need a plan, if you can share a plan, you may want to visit instructables They are an online community of do-it-yourself enthusiasts sharing ideas for making everything from a burger, to a moveable carport garden.
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Simply put, the mission is to create transformative experiences in music performance outside the conventional concert hall.
I believe that music is a journey--that's why I go through great effort and often physical peril to present music wherever I go.
Ruth Boden, Cellist, Educator, Hiker
Dedicated cellist, bassist, educator, as well as an avid hiker. Currently she is an Associate Professor of Music at Washington State University where she teaches cello, bass, music theory, and chamber music. She received her formal education at The Cleveland Institute of Music, receiving her Bachelor's and Master's degree in cello performance under the tutelage of Stephen Geber. She earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts in cello performance from the University of Alabama, studying with Carlton McCreery. Ruth also holds a Masters of Science in Criminal Justice with an emphasis in law enforcement from Grand Canyon University. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras across the Northwest, regularly gives guest recitals and clinics, and is a highly sought after adjudicator. An arduous supporter of new music, Ruth spends much of her time supporting new composers and works through close collaborations and performances.
In her free time, she has spent many summers hiking in the Rockies (a favorite of hers is Longs Peak--successfully hiked 4 times), the Wallawa Mountains, and about 400 miles of the Appalachian Trail including Mt. Katahdin and Mt. Washington. Ruth has been known to bring her cello to each of these locations and climb these mountains only to enjoy the performance and music making at the top...
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We did quite a few challenges, but never did the blog posts to go with them! LOL
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I always LOVED the Me and My Big Ideas kid stickers so when I saw these stamps I knew I had to have them! That was several
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New Tourism
The present tourist industry is a major scandal. Most of the hotels and restaurants are owned by foreigners buying out the best lands in the island, throwing local hotel owners out of business and paying virtually no taxes at all to the Government. Nearly all the building materials used for construction of their hotels, cottages and private apartments are imported from other countries.
Even more scandalously, while our farmers and fishermen scrape and scrunt for a living, these foreign hotel owners import meats, fish, vegetables, spices or even fruits for use at their tables. And to make things even worse, these foreigners rake up all their fat profits and take it out of the country every year.
It is because of these and like facts that every time a tourist spends a dollar in Grenada, at least ninety cents of it goes right back outside the State. So the politicians let these people come in and buy out our best lands, make fat profits out of us, treat our people who work for them as dirt, bring in their nasty habits like drugs-and all for ten cents in every dollar!
What we propose in place of this bubul industry is a GRENADIAN Tourist Industry, owned by the people of the State. This means that a first priority must be the complete nationalisation of all foreign-owned hotels as well as foreign-owned housing settlements, such as Westerhall. In this new industry, all the meats, vegetables, provisions, fish, drinks, fruits, spices, handicrafts (chairs, tables, ornaments, etc) will be locally produced. This will create a large market for our farmers, fishermen and handicraft men and women. Our agro-industry factories would also be able to supply the hotels and restaurants with canned, bottled and packaged foodstuffs of all kinds.
In this way, the tourist industry will for the first time serve the needs of Grenadians. it would provide jobs at higher wages not just for those working in the hotels and restaurants or for a few taxi drivers, but also for the many workers on the farms, fishing ports and factories, producing all these things that before were imported from abroad.
This is what we mean when we say the tourist industry must be a Grenadian Industry; not only in the sense of it being owned and controlled by the people of Grenada but also because it will provide a large and new market for the goods made by thousands of Grenadians throughout the country.
We want to attract to Grenada as tourists not just a few rich, white people who can afford the ridiculous prices these hotels charge while the guest houses, apartments and smaller hotel rooms remain empty. Rather, we want the massive numbers of potential tourists from Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and other parts of Latin American, the millions of black Americans students and teachers in North and South America, and right here in the West Indies the thousands of Trinidadians, Jamaicans, Arubians, Martiniquans, Puerto Ricans, together with tourists corning from Africa and other parts of the world who would love to come here but cannot afford the present nonsensical prices.
The last major problem to be solve in a new tourist industry is the organisation of reliable and cheap air and sea transport. LIAT and CUA are totally unreliable. We need a Caribbean Airline owned by the governments of the region, including Grenada, so that we can fix the schedule of flights and control the cost of air fares to suit our needs. In this way, we can bring in tens of thousands of tourists at more reasonable fares each year.
Finally, we will be very strict in ensuring that all beaches are open and available for use by all members of the public. We will not leave it to tile people of individual areas to hold People's Trials of foreigners such as Lord Brownlow who attempted to create private beaches for their own use.
The cost of shipping both our imports and exports are very high and use up a lot of our foreign exchange. Instead, we intend joining with other Caribbean and Third World countries in developing our own shipping line to carry goods more cheaply and to keep the profits local.
At present, we export only cocoa, nutmegs and bananas. In the future, under our plans for Agriculture and Agro-Industries we intend exporting a large range of agricultural and agro-industrial commodities, not only to the Big North American and European Markets but also to Latin America, Africa and Asia and other countries in the Caribbean.
On top of all of this, they take fat profits out of the country daily. We will put an end to this bubul.
Our plan is to nationalise the banks at the earliest correct opportunity and to use the money to finance directly the new agricultural and agro-industrial schemes, as well as our new plan in tourism and fisheries earlier outlined. We need to produce more goods in every sector and in every part of the island. it is for these reasons that we condemn foreign ownership of our banks. In fact, Grenadians already possess the necessary skills but use their for foreign capitalists.
The new banks would be controlled and directed by a Central Bank. One of the main functions of this Central Bank will be to make sure that the loans available in these banks are provided for housing, small farmers, fishermen, co-operatives, the setting up of agro-industries and the expansion of the new tourist industry.
These new banks will continue to employ as their staff the persons presently engaged in the industry.
Roads and Transportation
The problems are:-(1) poor roads, (2) no proper organised service to meet the needs of the people, (3) uneconomical vehicles and operations, (4) government's failure to determine and control the fares when it comes to the poor local passengers, and (5) the high cost of gasolene and vehicle parts.
We advocate:- (1) the control of the fares by government or some other statutory authority, (2) a road extension programme to accomodate bigger, more economical vehicles, (3) the reoragnising of more reliable and economical runs, (4) the organisation of bus drivers into a co-operative association so that together they can work out proper schedules, and so bring an end to the fighting against each other, and the uneconomical runs for which passengers pay dearly.
We would consider setting up a Co-operative Bus Service, failing agreement among bus owners. Taxis can be organised along similar lines.
We will commence an immediate survey of existing roads and possibilities for opening new ones particularly in the first instance, new agricultural feeder roads.
Harbours and Airports
We will give urgent consideration to rebuilding the jetty at Hillsborough, Carriacou and repairing and improving the jetties at Harvey Vale, Carriacou, and Grenville.
We will consider the desirability of putting down jetties at Gouyave and Sauteurs.
We will give active consideration to the building of deep water harbours at Hillsborough (Carriacou) and Grenville.
The whole question of communications requires careful and serious study, and final decisions on what should be done about new roads and harbours will only be taken after a thorough survey of our resources, needs and potential have been undertaken.
Local Private Investors
The business firms which do all the importing at the moment charge in many cases excessive prices, and make excessive profits while not actually producing anything in the country. We feel that a National Importing Board should be set up to import all goods into tine island, from whom retailers can continue to buy those goods as at present. As this Board will not be a profit-making body, it means that the price of all goods imported into the island will be substantially reduced by the extent of the profits presently made. We also consider it essential to set up a National Exporting Board to coordinate the exporting of all items produced in the island.
We believe that the money, energies, experience and abilities of our local investors should be harnessed and channelled into the development, along the with Government, of Agro-Industries. This is an area with great potential for development which requires a greater amount of cooperation, hard work and ability.
Financing of Agriculture, Fisheries, Agro-industries, New Tourism, Housing, Roads, Schools, and Other Projects
Our plans for Housing and Clothing will need more capital expenditure. So will our plans for Agro-Industries and an expended fishing industry. Agriculture will require reorganisation of manpower, redistribution of the land, the growing of a larger variety of crops and the use of larger quantities of fertilizer and small machinery.
The sources of financing of all these projects will be from:
Labour and Unemployment
The New Jewel Movement feels that ALL men and women of working age should be able to find jobs in their country. Our plans for expanding and diversifying the agricultural sector, the fishing sector and the creation of factories to produce Agro-Industrial commodities, plus our proposals for a People's Tourist Industry would create enough jobs for the ten to twelve thousand people unable to find jobs. Our plans, in fact, would create a new problem-a shortage of labour.
As we have pointed out earlier, we intend setting up a Fishing School for people to master all the techniques involved in boatbuilding, new navigation, the catching of fish, storage and refrigeration, processing, packaging, distribution, fish-farming and marine motor-mechanics. We will also set up a School of New Tourism to cover all aspects of training, and a School of Agriculture and Agro-Industries to increase the level of skills of the labour force and to produce regular skilled recruits to these industries.
Wage Rates and Price Controls
We propose the setting up of a Wages and Prices Board to make sure that people's wages will rise whenever costs rise and to impose price controls on imported items. Legislation will be passed to guarantee minimum wages for different categories of workers.
Another way in which we hope to reduce the skyrocketing cost of living is through our plan of expanding our Agricultural Sector to produce cheaply all the food we eat at the moment, a half to three-quarters of which we presently import.
National Insurance and Pension Scheme
The money for these plans will come from contributions by all workers and employers from out of their earnings and profits.


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Friday, November 19, 2010
Oil paint
Last weekend, I raided my little storage area at my parents' house. I collected some items that I'd left there from my college years: my old paint-smudged easel, a roll of canvas, my sad-looking glass palette, and a toolbox full of paint and mediums (to my surprise - still good!). Then I went shopping. I bought supplies to stretch and gesso my own canvas etc...the whole nine yards.The outcome was a bag full of goodies that I had to drag from my car into my house. It's been about a decade since I've painted in oils, but some of the ideas I've been toying with lately just won't translate with my usual gouache paints. (I'm thinking about giving paintings as Christmas gifts! What? Not enough time? Hey, a girl can dream, can't she?) I've yet to start this process, but I have a 4 day weekend off of work coming up next week. No class on Wednesday night (for once) and not many other plans other than Thanksgiving. I'm looking forward to getting back into my old groove. I'll post the results - good or bad - and we'll see if I should just continue to stick with gouache or not. (;
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Wow i wanna try oil paint too.ReplyDelete
It's fun, but a lot of chemicals are involved. Turpintine, linseed oil, and damar varnish to name a few. Not to mention the heavy metals that are in the paints. Rubber gloves and a well-ventilated area are a necessity. If you've got those things covered, you're ready to go! (:ReplyDelete
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Before the lecture on racism, if you were to ask me what are the definitions of race, ethnicity and discrimination I would have grouped all three terms together and given them the same, basic definition. I thought I had a good understanding of the terms, but after the input it was clear to see that I was completely oblivious to what each individual term meant. Trying to write down each definition or explain them sounded like a simple task, however, I couldn't begin to find the right words. I wrote:
- Race – Judgement of heritage and/or skin colour
- Ethnicity – Judgement of different culture/ society
- Discrimination – Single someone out due to gender, age, ability etc.
For such complex terms, I wrote very little. I knew how horrible each term was and that many people in the world face a lot of problems and struggle daily because of them, however I couldn't identify each concept accurately.
Throughout the lecture we were given multiple examples of racism from history, with each story being just as shocking as the last. Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African-American boy from Chicago who went to visit his family in Mississippi in 1955. During his visit Emmett went to a grocery shop and was accused of 'flirting' with the shop keeper's wife, Carolyn Bryant, who was white. Emmett was brutally murdered a couple days later by Roy Bryant, Carolyn's husband, and his half brother J.W. Milam. The pair kidnapped Emmett, brutally beat him up, shot him in the head and then disposed of his body in the Tallahatchie River, where his body was later discovered. Emmett's killers were taken to court by Emmett's Uncle. However, their case was dismissed by the jury because they were white men. Although I had studied the Civil Rights movement previously in secondary school and had heard of the horrendous story of Emmett Till, I still found myself shivering in disgust at the gruesome pictures of his dead body. It felt like I was hearing the story for the first time again, I felt more sadness and anger towards the story especially when it was revealed to the class that Carolyn Bryant confessed in 2017 that she had indeed fabricated the story. This ultimately led to an innocent boy being murdered, therefore highlighting the shocking levels of racism that existed in America at that time and how many other's like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King all had endure such horrible abuse towards them due to the colour of their skin.
However, it is still clear to see that these horrific problems still exist in society today. With recent events in Charlottesville, it is evident that racism still exists and affects many people in their day to day lives. With people like Donald Trump, who are in power, that don't condemn this horrific behaviour and having the grand master of the KKK congratulate him on the way he handled the situation, highlights serious concerns that racism is still an ever-growing problem and will be seen as an 'acceptable' way to behave.
I watched a Ted talk by Clint Smith called 'How to Raise a Black Son in America' where the speaker talked about how he was brought up differently and followed other rules due to the colour of his skin because he couldn't act like his white friends. I found this upsetting as I had no idea that people had to follow different rules to stay out of trouble because of the colour of their skin. That people with black skin couldn't live their lives freely because of the judgement they would receive. It was heart breaking to hear that the speaker faced these problems at such a young age and to recognise at a young age that society will treat you differently due to the colour of your skin. Therefore, clearly highlighting that racism and prejudice still exist within society today.
Before the input, I had basic knowledge on the terms. I knew that racism was a terrible issue that society still faced today and was aware of the stories of Emmett Till and the Civil Rights movement in America. However, I was completely ignorant to the huge extent of racism that existed and still exists in the world today. I was completely oblivious to the fact that people had to change the way they live their lives and follow different rules because of their skin colour. I had no idea that they couldn't live their lives freely without constant judgement from the rest of society. As a white person from a privileged background, I have never had to face such horrendous behaviour and now feel like my eyes have been opened much more. I now begin to recognise that racism and prejudice exists all around the world and not just in places like America. In addition to my basic knowledge, with the fantastic resources provided and the eye-opening lecture I now think about how different people go through different experiences in life due to racism and discrimination. Therefore, it is vital for anyone going into teaching to fully understand racism and discrimination to be able to educate the future generation about how terrible racism is and the horrific consequences racism has on people. To allow their pupils to understand that everyone should be treated equally, not just in the classroom but in the world, despite their race, religion and ethnicity.


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ART is a specialised social work team which works with young people between 11 and 18 years of age, their families and carers. This team gets involved with a young person where a number of issues have escalated to the point of crisis and the family's stability has been jeopardised to the point of breakdown.
At times, this team may get involved with a family where the living arrangements have already broken down to the point that seems irreparable to the family, therefore the focus of the intervention will be on safely reuniting the family and looking at a sustainable support plan that considers the needs of the whole family.
This team supports young people who may have a combination of these difficulties:
The team is made up of social workers and adolescent support workers. There are named workers for each geographical area across the boroughs of Richmond and Kingston.
They undertake assessments of need under Section 17 of the Children's Act 1989 and from this they implement a care plan to support the young person alongside other professionals. The social worker would be considered as a 'lead professional' and would coordinate all other professionals to ensure that that most appropriate intervention is implemented.
These workers work closely with the young people and the families to offer practical support and tools to help the families create change and overcome the crisis periods, alongside the social worker. This may include delivering parenting strategies, one-to-one direct work, activity-based sessions, attending appointments with the family and signposting to community resources.
The team uses a Team Around the Child/Family model. This model ensures that a child- centred approach is taken by all professionals and agencies involved with regular information sharing and meetings to review the care plan. The team works with the young person, family and wider network to ensure that agreed goals, aims and actions are implemented and reviewed throughout the intervention.
Referrals can be made via the Single Point of Access Teams.
1st Floor, Civic Centre
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Telephone: 020 8547 5008
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Telephone: 020 8547 5004
Please note if there is an existing team involved but you feel that the ART is needed for a family, please talk to the existing named lead professional.
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Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS United Kingdom
Tracey Thorn: A Teenager in Suburbia
Greenwich Book Festival is delighted to welcome back author and singer-songwriter Tracey Thorn. In a 1970s commuter town, and long before she found stardom in Everything But The Girl, Tracey Thorn's teenage life was forged from what failed to happen. Her diaries were packed with entries about not buying things, not going to the disco, the school coach not arriving.
She was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties, Meaningful Conversations, and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living.
In her memoir "Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia," Tracey Thorn takes us back to Brookmans Park, scene of her childhood, beyond the bus shelters and pub car parks, the utopian cul-de-sacs, the train to Potters Bar and the weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children, the children who wanted none of it. Written with her trademark wit and honesty, she reconsiders the greenbelt post-war dream so many artists have mocked, and from which so many artists have come.
Tracey will be in conversation with author and journalist Hannah Beckerman.
Age: 16+
We have got your Saturday evening planned for you with two fantastic events: Tracey Thorn at 6.30pm followed by Billy Bragg at 8pm. A special discounted ticket to attend both events is available, buy one get one half price. Check the EventBrite listings for "Saturday Night Offer".
This event will be held in our festival marquee near the box office on the lawns of the Old Royal Naval College. The session will finish with an opportunity to have books signed. The University of Greenwich Student Union bar (The Lower Deck, Dreadnought Building) is in the building opposite the marquee and will be open throughout the evening for Greenwich Book Festival guests.
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS United Kingdom