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Palaszczuk Government praises work of Mackay Community Legal Centre
Published Thursday, 13 April, 2017 at 01:00 PM
Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Minister for Training and Skills
The Honourable Yvette D'Ath
Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Yvette D’Ath has today acknowledged the hard work of Mackay Regional Community Legal Centre, which was recently allocated about $1 million to provide essential legal assistance to the community and will be a vital service for the months ahead as the region recovers and rebuilds.
Since Cyclone Debbie hit the region, Mackay Regional Community Legal Centre has been helping tenants in Mackay, Bowen, Cannonvale and Proserpine that have been faced with a range of legal issues, including assisting those who were renting property that suffered damage or was destroyed.
“Community Legal Centres play a vital role in providing legal assistance to those who need it most in our local communities,” Mrs D’Ath said.
“Recently the Palaszczuk Government announced $51.3 million of combined State and Federal Government funding for 36 Community Legal Centres across Queensland for the next three financial years.
“This included $999,944 for Mackay Regional Community Legal Centre.”
Mackay Regional Community Legal Centre Principal Solicitor and Manager Jessica Brake said since Cyclone Debbie hit, their service had already started assisting tenants who were experiencing issues with their damaged rental properties.
“This is just one example of many legal issues that residents can face following a natural disaster,” Miss Brake said.
“At this stage the demand for legal services is not at its peak, but past experience shows that the legal issues will surface in the coming weeks and months, as people get back on their feet.
“Our three solicitors have been working with local residents, including offering appointments on the ground in Bowen, Proserpine and Cannonvale.
“We have already assisted several residents who have been affected by Cyclone Debbie, and expect to help many more over the coming weeks.
“Our 30 volunteers are willing to provide additional voluntary legal assistance during this time so that we can prioritise assistance to those most effected by the cyclone. This will mean residents will not have to be placed on our current five-week waiting list if they need advice. Our tenancy service is funded under a different program and appointments can be given within 2 – 3 days.”
Mrs D’Ath said that while Queensland had increased its contribution in funding for Community Legal Centres over the next three years, there was still a funding shortfall because of the Turnbull Government’s decision to slash $2 million from Queensland’s services.
“Mackay Regional Community Legal Centre has maintained its funding and has not experienced any cuts. But there are many other centres across Queensland that have experienced cuts this round because of the Turnbull Governent’s slash to funding.
“As we’ve seen here in Mackay, these Community Legal Centres do amazing work and can’t afford to have their funding cut any further. I urge Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to not turn his back on vulnerable Queenslanders.”
Mrs D’Ath praised the hard working staff at Mackay Regional Community Legal Centre, which was working alongside Legal Aid Queensland in providing support to people affected by Cyclone Debbie.
“Legal Aid Queensland has organised a coordinated response to areas affected by Cyclone Debbie, offering support to people who may have legal issues arising out of property or car damage, insurance claims, tenancy issues, debt, employment, disputes over damaged dividing fences, and access to services such as electricity.
“The Palaszczuk Government knows how vital legal assistance services are, and that is why we provided $70.5 million to Legal Aid Queensland this financial year, and will increase this to $76.6 million next financial year.
“This is on top of the funding we provide to Community Legal Centres.”
Queensland Law Society President Christine Smyth said the legal profession had a long history of providing pro bono services of their own volition generally, but more so in times of natural disaster.
“Solicitors are an essential part of the fabric within the communities they work in,” she said.
“Our local practitioners know firsthand the impact that a disaster such as this has on a community as it affects them also, and I have been inspired by the resilience of our members during this difficult time.”
Media contact: Pam Frost 0437 696 809


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I’ve mentioned many times that, in my experience growing up in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley in the 1960s and 1970s, white flight from the public schools was pretty much Jewish flight to avoid integration due to the 1978 mandatory school busing imposed by an ACLU lawsuit on the giant Los Angeles Unified School District.
Why? Back then, Catholics tended to go to Catholic schools, and Protestants lived in independent school districts like Pasadena, San Marino, and Orange County.
Moreover, San Fernando Valley Jews were highly enthusiastic about public schooling. One of my older memories is hearing from my Jewish teammates on my baseball team at the local park that Catholic schools were kind of un-American. Jews went to public schools to demonstrate their commitment to civic Americanism.
But then, very quickly, they stopped.
Yet that massive historical example that happened 38 years ago at the heart of the world capital of the entertainment industry has largely been lost in the mists of time. Thus, when 27-year-old Atlantic interns denounce all those horrible white people who white flighted away from integrated schools, they tend to picture evil white Southerners who were probably secret Klansmen, meatheaded Catholic ethnics, and snobby WASPs who wouldn’t let Nana’s father into their anti-Semitic country club, but not people like them.
So, I figured I’d better post a rare 21st Century article documenting that I’m not just hallucinating all this history. From the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles seven years ago:
A Brief History of Jews in Public Schools by Rachel Heller Posted on Nov. 30, 2009 at 2:01 pm
With the many LAUSD schools having spotty reputations, and given the array of private schools to choose from, Jewish support for Los Angeles public schools in recent years has been at best tepid. But that wasn’t always the case.
Jews in L.A. have had a long and textured relationship with the public education system. From the 1890s, when the city first established elementary and high school districts, through to the 1960s, public education was a mainstay of the Jewish community.
But when school demographics began to shift as working class Latino and African American populations burgeoned, many Jewish families pulled out of public schools and migrated to the private realm.
The Jewish exodus from LAUSD reached its peak during the desegregation movement of the 1970s. After the ACLU filed a lawsuit in 1963 to end segregation in L.A. schools, the LAUSD board created voluntary integration programs, introducing magnet schools and giving district schools the option of busing students from lower-performing facilities to higher performing schools. In 1976, the California Supreme Court charged state school districts with enforcing integration. In response, two years later the L.A. school board began a sweeping mandatory busing program that would reassign more than 60,000 students, transferring minority children from downtown and South L.A. to predominantly white schools in the San Fernando Valley and the Westside, and vice versa.
This was a particularly nuts example of the high tide of liberal social engineering since it involved busing kids from the San Fernando Valley over a mountain range — the Santa Monica Mts. / Hollywood Hills — and down to South-Central L.A.
Students often were bused up to an hour away from where they lived, and the move caused a public outcry among both whites and minorities over what many parents saw as “the end of neighborhood schools,” according to former LAUSD school board member David Tokofsky. Racist and classist prejudices also turned some white families away.
In the first year of forced busing, the district lost 25,000 white students, recalled Shel Erlich, the former longtime head of the LAUSD communications office. In the second year, an additional 17,000 left. In 1981, after only three years, California residents voted down all mandatory busing programs and the plan in Los Angeles was suspended.
But the damage had been done – in the late 1970s, Erlich said, the district was about 30 percent white; now, that number hovers below nine percent.
“[Busing] drove a huge number of Jews from the public schools,” said local author and Jewish Journal columnist Bill Boyarsky. “Parents were not comfortable sending their children to a school where their kid might be the only white person in the class.”
Jewish leaders had taken both sides of the busing debate. Educator Jackie Goldberg, who would later win seats on the Los Angeles City Council and the California State Assembly, headed the controversial Integration Project in the late 1970s that pushed for mandatory busing. Activist and later U.S. Congresswoman Bobbi Fiedler, on the other hand, led the vocal Bustop movement in the Valley that fiercely opposed busing and challenged the program in court.
… Private schools flourished; Jewish day schools proliferated in the 1970s and 80s.
So, I wanted to get this on the record because it’s otherwise disappeared down the Memory Hole.
Thus, when the young lady from The Atlantic reads Matthew Weiner, creator of Mad Men, going on and on in interviews about how he could tell there were anti-Semites lurking everywhere in 1981 at ultra-exclusive Harvard-Westlake in the Hollywood Hills (which was then 40% Jewish), she feels a righteous thrill. Meanwhile, it never occurs to her to wonder why Weiner’s parents were paying for him to attend an exclusive school founded by Episcopalians, when just a few years before they would have thought it right and fitting to utilize Los Angeles’s fine public school system. The young lady from The Atlantic could empathize more with the creator of Mad Men more than she can empathize with the Klansmen, Catholic ignoramuses, and the WASP anti-Semite golfers for whom she blames the failure of school integration, but she’s almost never called upon to wonder why Weiner’s Hancock Park parents put him in private school.
It just doesn’t come up. Why would anybody who is professionally interested in the history of white flight from the public schools ever think about something as obscure as America’s second largest school district, which happens to be in the second most televised place in America?
By the way, one of the funnier interviews with Weiner was conducted by David Samuels, who is now being widely denounced by the members of the Obama Administration media echo chamber for inducing Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes to spill his guts a little too frankly for the Administration’s good.
But Samuels does this to everybody, especially fellow Jews: he’s supersmart about getting inside his subject’s head and getting him to talk about his motivations that he normally keeps under wraps.

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What would you suggest to remove a heavily weeded flower bed without pulling them all out by hand?
i would say till it
Are there flowers in it now? Fill out your profile so we have a better idea where you are located. Are you in warm weather? Is the vegetation out of dormancy? If it is just weeds and no flowers planted, spray the beds with roundup, and till a few days later. Then you can plant. If you just till, all you are doing is just stirring the weeds and their rhizomes around and they'll be sure to grow back, and probably even multiply.
i ahd a job just like this last year. spray it, til it, then any big weeds pull them out by hand so they don't try and grow back. personly i would put down a 20year weed paper if i was gunna put in a nice landscape.
The most effective way for me is to wait until the ground is damp and soft,and just pullum up.
Lots of different ways to "skin that cat". Sure, you can do the round up method, but that can take many applications and several weeks to finish. Also, remember round up is a foliant application so you need to do it when its warm and the plants are growing. If you have a virtual "turf" situation you may think about landscape material. Simply cut it to fit and then give it about 3" of mulch on top. You can later plant in the bed after the weeds have all been killed. If you do this right away though, the weeds will grow out of the cuts in the material used for planting. Maybe a combination of the 2 methods? The tilling method will just dig up and replant the existing weeds.
id use a flat head shovel and just skim off a thin layer that has the weeds on it. it does remove some dirt, but in mulched beds it doesnt make that much of a difference because the new mulch will fill the space
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It has azaleas as hedges and the bottom of them is infested with weeds...i can't spray roundup or till without removing the plants...any help now???
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New York may have been experiencing a heatwave this Summer, but chances are that Alexa Chung will regret the outfit she wore yesterday.
The 28-year-old television presenter ended up showing off her underwear as she went for a bike ride in East Village, Manhattan.
Wearing a very short and colouful playsuit, the slender star ended up flashing her briefs as she unlocked her bicycle from some nearby railings.
Wrong choice: Alexa Chung wore a very short playsuit to go for a bike ride in Manhattan yesterday
Oops! The TV presenter revealed some rather unflattering knickers as she bent over to unlock her bicycle
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The former Popworld presenter teamed the patterned garment with a pair of black flat shoes and her usual messy hairdo as she strolled along the street.
On her shoulder she carried a large black handbag, which she also managed to balance as she set off on her old-fashioned bike.
Leggy lady: Alexa highlighted her slender pins in the colourful garment
Not so stylish: The 28-year-old is known for her quirky style but may have regretted wearing this outfit
Earlier on in the day, Alexa was seen walking in the sunshine carrying a much smaller handbag and staring at her mobile phone quite intently.
At the beginning of the month, the brunette was spotted on the set of Gossip Girl which she is making an appearance in for the upcoming series.
The quirky star moved to New York back in 2009 to pursue a Stateside career.
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Take a look around most corporate boardrooms. Glance through the ranks of executive leadership of the top U.S. corporations or in the halls of most legislative bodies. Peek into the research labs of America’s largest scientific organizations. No surprises here — they’re still mostly occupied by men.
There’s no shortage of research to document the lack of gender diversity in our workplaces. Among the Fortune 500, according to the Pew Research Center, only 5.4% of CEOs are female, and 20.2% of board seats are filled by women. Only 21% of U.S. Senators are women, while women make up 19.1% of members of the U.S. House of Representatives. At the state level, women make up 24.8% of legislatures and 8% of governorships. In the current presidential administration, there are two women in a cabinet of 15 people.
Among S&P 500 companies, research firm Catalyst demonstrated the dwindling representation of women in as employees progress into positions of power:
- CEOs: 5.8%
- Top Earners: 9.5%
- Board Seats: 19.9%
- Executive/Senior-Level Officials/Managers: 25.1%
- First/Mid-Level Officials and Managers: 36.4%
- Total Employees: 44.3%
Progress has been made, though slowly — in 1995 there were zero female CEOs in the Fortune 500, and only 9.6% of board seats were held by women. In state and national government, 2% of governors were women, as were 9% of U.S. senators and 10.8% of U.S. representatives.
The statistics are clear, but the problem is complex. A persistent wage gap exists — widely cited as an earnings ratio of 80% but fluctuating by age, occupation and educational attainment. According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW), it’s as stark as 74% among workers with advanced degrees and those over the age of 65, while standing at 90% among workers aged 20 to 34. The gap is also more marked for mothers and women of color.Major employers have also failed to make the kind of systemic changes required to attract and retain female employees, and there is a dearth of resources available to help women — especially mothers — succeed in the hierarchical environments that persist in corporate America. Influences from early childhood — parents, media, teachers, career counselors — can still play a role in perpetuating traditional views of “women’s work.” Meanwhile, fewer women than men find meaningful mentors and sponsors who can pull them up into positions of leadership. “Women tend to be on the margins of the networks when the center of the networks are the more powerful positions,” says Diane Bergeron, an associate professor of organizational behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. “The principle of homophily operates in many organizations, where we tend to affiliate with people who are like us. So if the whole senior leadership team is white males, we tend to pull up other white males.”
Though examples of explicit bias exist, many of the biases that create barriers to women in leadership are implicit. And, lest anyone assume they are unencumbered by implicit bias, a group of researchers have developed Project Implicit, which allows anyone to take a test to measure their own implicit biases. “This could be unconscious bias, but women have to work harder,” Bergeron says. “Women have to work harder at establishing the social networks and relationships, they just have to be better than a man to get the same exact performance evaluation.”
WHERE SHOULD THE RESPONSIBILITY LIE?
In 2013, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg published her book “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will To Lead,” in which she posited that women should lean in, not away, from their careers as they reach the point of tension between family life and professional achievement. She encouraged women to take and keep their seat at the table, spend less energy seeking out mentors — which she calls “the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming” — and to not “leave before you leave” — in other words, limiting their own career advancement long before reaching that point of tension, anticipating the trade-offs they believe they will have to make. She’s since followed up the book by creating a nonprofit organization called Lean In that encourages women to apply such principles.
But Sandberg’s premise was met with some consternation among women. The most direct response can be found in a lauded article in The Atlantic the same year titled “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” written by Anne-Marie Slaughter, today president and CEO of the think tank New America and a former U.S. State Department official. She writes, in part:
“Although couched in terms of encouragement, Sandberg’s exhortation contains more than a note of reproach. We who have made it to the top, or are striving to get there, are essentially saying to the women in the generation behind us: ‘What’s the matter with you?”’
Is it really the responsibility of individual women to remove the barriers that exist to their advancement? Or are they at the mercy of external barriers that are too insurmountable for any one person to penetrate? And if so, who bears the responsibility for dissolving such barriers? Government? Individual businesses? Higher education? Some other civic effort?
“There is a role for the individual. They must equip themselves to become qualified and ready for leadership, they must sit at the table as Sandberg describes, they must raise their hands, they must find support at home in their partners,” says Diana Bilimoria, department chair of organizational behavior at the Weatherhead School and a noted researcher in the area of gender diversity in leadership. “But if if we only focus on individualsolutions, we miss the opportunity.”
Bilimoria asserts that responsibility to encourage women’s advancement into leadership lies at multiple levels — senior executives must take responsibility for internal change, professional development organizations must play a role within each occupation, and community organizations and local governments have a role to play in workforce development.
Countries such as Norway, Iceland, Finland and Sweden have set quotas for female representation on corporate boards, leading to rates about double (34%) those of other countries (18%). Even in those places, says Bilimoria, “those are single solutions. They can have women on boards, but still the culture doesn’t change.”
One part of the individual woman’s role in creating change lies in self-awareness, thinking critically about where she wants her career to go. As a long-time coach for women in upper and middle management roles, Ellen Van Oosten says that many women simply haven’t gone through the self-reflection process required to become more effective leaders. “Women often have had very little opportunity to consider those questions about their future or hold the mirror up to see how things are going now,” says Van Oosten, who is also faculty director of executive education at the Weatherhead School. “Men in general tend to zero in on future vision … they are focused in on the path to getting somewhere. … Women, we tend to take care of others.”
“ONE HAND TIED BEHIND OUR BACKS”The good news is that an increasing number of organizations are recognizing the need for greater gender diversity in leadership — not as a gesture of goodwill but as a contributing factor to the bottom line. Speaking at The United State of Women Summit in 2016, Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett said that more women in leadership is essential in the American economy, and that absent gender diversity, our country would be “playing with one hand tied behind its back.”
In 2016, global tax and advisory firm Grant Thornton attempted to quantify the opportunity cost lost by firms with male-only boards. It measured the return on assets (ROA) of the companies with at least one woman on their boards in the US S&P 500 (7%), the India CNX 200 (22.5%) and the UK FTSE 350 (13.4%) and found that those companies with diverse boards outperformed those in each of these markets. According to their research, the lost opportunity costs totaled $567 billion in the U.S., $14 billion in India and $74 billion in the U.K., a total of $655 billion in these three markets alone.
Meanwhile, global consulting firm McKinsey found in its 2015 study “The Power of Parity” that $12 trillion can be added to global GDP by 2025 byadvancing women’s equality. That’s a 26% increase from a “business as usual” scenario. Of the 95 countries studied, India had the most to gain — with a 16% GDP increase — followed by Latin America (14%) and China (12%). In the United States in particular, McKinsey posits that the country’s 50 largest cities stand to increase their GDP by 6% to 13% by advancing the economic potential of women.
“There’s an alignment between what’s needed for leaders today and tomorrow and what women naturally bring to a workplace,” says Bilimoria. “They are collaborative, relational, connective. They bring people together to seek input from a wide range of constituencies. They look beyond the bottom line for the impact on the community and the environment. They look to the long term rather than to a quick fix.”
Catalyst research compared corporate performance with female representation on boards between 2004 and 2008 using the measures of return on sales (ROS), return on invested capital (ROIC) and return on equity (ROE). It found that companies with the most women board directors outperformed those with the fewest in ROS by 16% and in ROIC by 26%. Those companies with sustained high representation of women on boards — three or more over at least four or five years — outperformed those with sustained low representation by 84% in ROS, 60% in ROIC and in 46% ROE. The organization launched a program in Canada in 2007 and in the U.S. in 2015 called “Women on Board” to encourage the appointment of women on corporate boards. To date, the organization claims that nearly 60% of the women who participated in the program have been appointed to the boards of nearly 140 companies.
Companies derive intangible benefits from the role of women in their workforce as well, which are often overlooked and underestimated. Take a look at most offices — who’s the one who decorates the office for the holidays? Takes time to mentor or share expertise with a new or struggling employee? Mediates office conflict? Brings meals to a grieving co-worker? Most likely, that employee is a woman.
Bergeron calls these “organizational wives,” women who proactively take on these invisible extra tasks in the workplace that are similar to traditional “wifely” contributions at home. They are rarely part of a woman’s job description, but they help contribute to the culture and success of an organization.
“We call those behaviors ‘organizational citizenship behaviors,’ and there’s a lot of research showing those behaviors are linked to any number of positive outcomes for the group or the organization — higher profitability, higher effectiveness, higher customer satisfaction, higher productivity,” she says. Her research shows that “if you are a good citizen you get higher performance evaluations but lower compensation and don’t advance as quickly because you were spending more time on citizenship behaviors. … Because those behaviors are expected of women, when women do them, they don’t really get noticed as much.”
Such results are most apparent in organizations in which job performance is measured by billable hours or other outcomes — accounting and legal firms, consultancies, sales organizations or research universities. In the latter, performance is measured in part by a professor’s ability to publish their research. In Bergeron’s study of 600 faculty at 70 research universities, she found that female faculty members had less research productivity and slower career advancement. “My data shows that people who spend too much time on these extra behaviors have fewer publications. … It’s a resource allocation. Where are you spending your time and energy?”
STEM: A CASE STUDY IN CHALLENGES TO WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP
Nowhere is the focus on women in leadership more high-profile than in STEM fields. “There’s been 40 years of research on why there aren’t more women in STEM. There’s been 50 years of research on why there aren’t more women in leadership,” says Kathleen Buse, a longtime engineer who began her career at Eastman Kodak and today serves as a career coach and management consultant focused on helping women thrive in STEM careers. “We understand a lot of the underlying factors, but we don’t understand how to overcome it.”She says that one of the biggest factors is implicit biases that persist in childhood about STEM fields being more suited for boys, and these biases start with a child’s earliest influences — a parent or other caregiver — and continue throughout her life through teachers, the media, career counselors and employers. High-profile programs have attempted to expose and encourage more girls into STEM careers, but Buse says that more longitudinal studies are needed to prove the efficacy of such programs. The barriers persist along the path to a career, she says, as the implicit biases of teachers and career counselors can fail to encourage girls interested in science to explore STEM-related career paths.
Media has an impact too, she says — for example, the organization SeeJane.org, headed by actress Geena Davis, is working to encourage strong role models for girls under 12 in movies, television shows and other media. Meanwhile, General Electric recently launched a television ad featuring Millie Dresselhaus, the physicist and MIT professor who was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science. Amid images of young girls receiving dolls with Dresselhaus’ likeness and teenagers posing for selfies with her on the street, the ad asks “what if we treated great female scientists like they were stars?” The company used the ad to announce its goal of having 20,000 women in STEM roles by 2020 and achieving a one-to-one ratio of women to men in technical entry-level programs.
There has been progress — according to statistics by the National Science Foundation, the number of women with STEM degrees or in STEM occupations has doubled over the last two decades. Yet the disparities are still marked — women today make up half of the college-educated workforce in all fields, but in STEM women make up only 29% of the workforce.In the 2010 report “Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics,” researchers from AAUW attempted to explain these disparities. In addition to the childhood impact of implicit biases among influential adults, the AAUW also laid some responsibility at the feet of higher education, which AAUW says should do more to actively recruit female students, emphasize the broad applications of STEM coursework and review admissions policies for unintentional bias.
“The space that needs attention is retention,” says Van Oosten. “What are organizations doing to keep women in the STEM fields? Part of it is a lack of awareness on the part of the organization and also is that they are uncomfortable identifying a population like women and giving them special treatment.”
Buse also sees a major hurdle in the mid-career progression of women into roles of leadership. What factors keep them there? “It’s having work that’s meaningful and challenging where they can be continuously learning. These are bright, high-achieving women, and a lot of times they are relegated to what I call the ‘velvet ghetto,’” says Buse, who is also a research consultant for AAUW and a member of the adjunct faculty at the Weatherhead School. “They’re relegated to work that’s not challenging, and where they’re not in a position to be promoted. So they leave because they don’t believe that they can be successful.”
Buse leads a program at the Weatherhead School called Leadership Lab for Women in STEM, designed to help identify and overcome the barriers to success for women in STEM fields. Working with a coach, participants already working in STEM fields reflect on the factors that that may inhibit their career growth and develop tools and strategies to help overcome them. “A lot of times women are doing things because they think they should,” says Buse. “For the first time in the Leadership Lab, women sit down and say, ‘what do I want to do?’ … A lot of them are in roles where they’re the only woman in their work team or in their department, so [this is a way] to come and talk through the issues that they face.”
A PATH FORWARD
“I believe this is a social engineering problem that is very complex,” says Buse. “We have to use data to create a strong case … and partner across organizations, universities, corporations, researchers, parents, to really make a change.”
Increasing gender diversity in the workplace will be about “small wins,” says Bergeron — a gradual increase of women in positions of power, more men stepping up into equal partnership roles, work environments that are more family-friendly. Organizations also need to become more aware of the implicit biases that exist in their workplaces, and take proactive steps to overcome then. These experts agree that there is a role for individual women as well, to gain more self-awareness about their personal vision for their careers and chart a path to get there.
Higher education must also play a critical role in creating change, says Bilimoria, “especially business schools, which could be leaders in this area but are not currently. They are not seeing their role as critical change agents … to drive the changes that are needed in workplaces so they can become even more responsive, even more flexible, more geared toward what’s needed for the future.”
“Simply put,” says Bilimoria, “women in leadership matter.”


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Bringing it all back home
Best of British authors dominate longlist for world's richest short story Award.
A host of sparkling home-grown talent, including prize-winning authors Ali Smith, Toby Litt, Mark Haddon, Orange prize-winning Helen Dunmore, Adam Foulds, Sarah Hall and Booker Prize-winning Graham Swift, are in the running for the £30,000 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award - the richest prize in the world for an individual short story.
In a bumper year for British talent, 12 out of the 16 stories on the longlist come from UK- based authors. In its previous three years, the Award has never been won by a Briton, with the top prize going to New Zealand, the USA and Ireland respectively.
The judges have narrowed their search for an outstanding story of up to 6,000 words from over 500 entries to a longlist of 16, including six women and ten men.
With violence flaring and tensions currently running high in Northern Ireland, Mark McNay's 'Ten Years Too Late' takes us into the heart of the Loyalist community. Elsewhere Toby Litt - who appears on the longlist for the second consecutive year - offers up a bleak vision of a health-obsessed near future. And Sarah Hall also makes the longlist for the second time with 'Evie', which explores a disturbing sexual awakening.
Amongst the international authors on the list are the American Claire Vaye Watkins, Philomena Kearney Byrne and Belinda McKeon from Ireland, and Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz.
The 16 longlisted writers and the titles of their short stories:
- Caroline Adderson - 'Erection Man'
- Junot Diaz - 'Miss Lora'
- Helen Dunmore - 'Spotted Dick'
- Adam Foulds - 'Tunnelling'
- Mark Haddon - 'The Gun'
- Sarah Hall - 'Evie'
- Cynan Jones - 'The Dig'
- Philomena Kearney Byrne - 'Honda Fifty'
- Toby Litt - 'Call it "The Bug" Because I Have No Time to Think of a Better Title'
- Belinda McKeon - 'Eyes on Me, Eyes on You'
- Mark McNay - 'Ten Years Too Late'
- C D Rose - 'Arkady Who Couldn't See and Artem Who Couldn't Hear'
- Ali Smith - 'The Beholder'
- Graham Swift - 'I Live Alone'
- Claire Vaye Watkins - 'Rondine al Nido'
- Samuel Wright - 'Best Friend'
The winner will receive £30,000, and the five other shortlisted writers will each receive £1,000. The shortlist will be announced in The Sunday Times on 24 February. The winner will be announced at a gala dinner at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on 22 March. Readers can savour all six shortlisted stories at two special events at Foyles, Charing Cross on March 20 and 21 - produced in conjunction with WordTheater - each featuring readings by a stellar line-up of acting talent, to be announced soon. They will also be able to read the stories in a specially produced ebook and vote online at The Sunday Times website for their favourite piece.
Judge and novelist Andrew O'Hagan:
The short story used to be the orphan of prose fiction - a bit unloved, a bit uncelebrated. But this year's entries for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award demonstrate just how the form has grown up to be something spectacular and super-confident. The best and brightest of the new generation, as well as hundreds of world-class established authors, are not only writing short stories but submitting their favourite ones for this competition, and the judge's work this year was not easy. The good news, however, is that we have been able to choose a brilliant longlist, representing a stunning range of styles, time periods, themes, and sensibilities.
Their fellow judges are two other award-winning novelists: Joanna Trollope and Lionel Shriver. Completing the line-up are Andrew Holgate, Literary Editor of The Sunday Times, and Lord Matthew Evans, Chairman of EFG Private Bank (non-voting Chair of Judges), who are providing the prize money.
The Award accepts entries published in English from fiction authors from anywhere in the world who have been published in the UK or Ireland. The Award reflects The Sunday Times' support for outstanding writing and the rich literary heritage of the newspaper.
Previous winners of the Award have included C K Stead, from New Zealand (2010), Anthony Doerr, from the USA (2011) and, in 2012, Kevin Barry from Ireland. Shortlisted authors have included Hilary Mantel, Emma Donoghue, Yiyun Li, David Vann and Gerard Woodward.
- 24 February Shortlist announced.
- 20 and 21 March Foyles Charing Cross reading events.
- 22 March 4pm: Public panel discussion at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival on the topic of writing a successful short story. The event will be chaired by Alison MacLeod, Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the University of Chichester, and will feature a selection of the judges. The winner of the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award will be announced at a special ceremony later that evening.


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Lynne Polvino was smack dab in the middle of school night stress: it was her turn to pick her children up from school, and her husband, Jesse, was still on his way to their home in Queens, New York, from work.
Like so many parents, she found herself simultaneously cooking dinner, helping her 6-year-old daughter, Hazel, with her homework, and responding as patiently as possible to an "endless stream of questions and demands" from her 4-year-old son, Jasper, when she read her daughter's homework worksheet and stopped dead in her tracks.
"I was already feeling pretty frazzled, and when I read the assignment, I almost lost it," Polvino told TODAY Parents.
The worksheet, which featured a story called "Back to Work," asked Polvino's first grade daughter to choose words from word banks to complete the narrative, which began, "Lisa was not happy. Her mother was back at work."
The story went on explain that Lisa, the protagonist, was upset because her mother was going back to work after being home with her. "The morning was terrible," the story read. "Lisa had to get to school on time. Her father had to get to work on time. And now, her mother was in a rush, too."
The story in Hazel's homework also mentioned that the main character's father had to make her breakfast, and it was "not too good." But the tale ended on a happier note — only because it turned out that Lisa's mother's new job allowed her to get home in time to be there when she returned home from school.
"It just pushed so many buttons for me, and with each sentence it managed to get worse!" said Polvino, who works as a children's books editor at a publishing house in Manhattan. "My shock and dismay quickly turned to outrage. I mean, what decade are we in, anyway? In this day and age, we're going to tell kids that mothers working outside the home makes their children and families unhappy? That fathers don't normally do things like cook and wash the dishes?"
Hazel didn't say much about the story and seemed focused on just finding the right vocabulary words to fill in the blanks, her mom said, but Polvino was troubled by it. She said she wondered what all the kids in the class who have working moms, most of who can’t leave their jobs by 2 p.m. every day, thought when they read this assignment.
"What message was this sending to them? What message was it sending to little girls who dream of having careers and families? And what about all the other working moms — did they feel, as I did, like they’d been punched in the gut when they read this?"
Polvino decided to rewrite the worksheet "to reflect the kind of world I want to live in, the kind of world I want my kids to live in when they’re old enough to have jobs and families," she said.
In Polvino's version of the assignment's story, Lisa is happy that her mother has gone back to work. "The morning was wonderful," Polvino wrote. "Lisa had to get to school on time. Her mother had to get to work on time. Her father was home on his paid paternity leave, caring for Lisa's younger brother and contributing equally to the running of the household. No one was in a rush because Dad had things firmly under control."
Polvino didn't send her rewrite to Hazel's first grade teacher at her public elementary school in Queens, but she did email her to voice her concerns. The teacher agreed with Polvino that the worksheet was "outdated" and thanked her for bringing it to her attention, promising to review the worksheets more carefully before sending them home in the future.
For her, balancing a "really demanding career" and a family can be "really stressful," said Polvino. "But I love what I do and I've been doing it for a lot longer than I've been a mom, so there was never really any question in my mind about whether I'd keep on doing it when we had kids. It was more a question of how," she said.
"I have a very supportive boss, but still, I’ve had so many moments where I’ve felt that I wasn’t doing either thing — work or motherhood — very well," Polvino admitted. "There’s not nearly enough support out there for working moms: inadequate maternity and paternity leave policies, the lack of affordable childcare, and all the subtle and not-so-subtle messages we hear — even in our children’s homework! — telling us that we should be at home taking care of the kids and managing the household make it hard to not feel guilty, to not question ourselves."
Polvino said Hazel's homework assignment reminded her that as hard as it is to be a mother who works outside the home now, the mothers who preceded her were true trailblazers.
"I have so much respect for all the working moms of past generations who had to deal with this type of crap on a regular basis!" she said. "I'm so grateful to them for paving the way."

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A new legislative committee advanced several bills to protect county and state taxes from bankruptcies, safeguard the rights of Wyoming workers.
As the reality of coal revenue’s irreversible retreat sets in, discussions of how to otherwise fund state government grow more prominent, somber and difficult.
Documentary reveals the ways that anonymous and untraceable out-of-state special interests try to handpick and elect beholden lawmakers — a process that happens here too.
In what some say is a break from the past, lawmakers show a willingness to buck lobbyists to confront the funding crisis, at least for now.
Trump, surrounded by miners, lifted a moratorium on federal coal leasing Tuesday


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The Setlist: Memorial honors Fort Campbell soldiers
• A new memorial honors nine Fort Campbell soldiers who died last year. (Tennessean)
• Being HIV-positive will no longer disqualify Nashville police candidates after the city agreed to a legal settlement over the issue. (The Associated Press)
• Prominent businessperson Bill Freeman is leaving the Airport Authority's board, which gives Mayor Freddie O'Connell two vacancies to fill, as chair Joycelyn Stevenson's term expires next month. (Nashville Business Journal, subscription)
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The DXY surpassed 104.85 yesterday as it advanced on highs not seen since 2002 as investors weighed on a further tightening of monetary policy after Wednesday’s inflation print surpassed market expectations by 0.2 percentage points as it hit 8.3%. While this was a lower rate than the previous month’s print of 8.5%, forecasters predict that even if inflation has hit its peak, it is unlikely that it will ease off rapidly as it rose. As such the general market consensus is that the FOMC will make two further 50bpt rate hikes during their June and July meeting, and that the base interest rate will edge around 3.25% by the end of the year.Sticking with the FOMC, the US Senate have confirmed the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for a second term by 80 votes to 19 extending his tenure for another four years. When Powell assumed his position in 2018, he planned to reduce the Fed’s balance sheet from $4.5 trillion to a range of $2.5–3 trillion over his first four-year term. By early 2019, this plan had been discarded as asset classes struggled over 2018 and by the end of the year the Pandemic saw an unprecedented level of monetary stimuli being pumped into the US economy with the balance sheet rising to close to $9tn. The Fed now plans to start the mammoth task of unwinding their balance sheet, by reducing their holdings of government treasuries and mortgage-backed securities by $47.5bn per month from June, which they intend to ramp up to $95bn per month over subsequent months. Hence, Powell’s first term has undoubtably been characterised by the Pandemic and inflation hitting four-decade highs, while his initial policy of reducing the balance sheet was utterly upended. The question remains then, what will the next four years have in store?
There are reports that Boris Johnson will ask Cabinet to cut 90,000 jobs in order to make cash available to help alleviate the cost-of-living crisis. Sources indicate that the plan could look to make £3.6bn available, however there will be numerous hurdles to jump before plans come into being – if they ever do. The number of civil servants rose sharply following the Brexit referendum, moving from 384,000 in 2016 to 475,000 by December 2021 as the pandemic required further staff. That said, the number of civil servants in 2016 was the lowest since the second world war and the general pattern before Brexit and the Pandemic was one of decline. Indeed, in October last year Rishi Sunak unveiled plans to “reduce non-frontline civil service headcount to 2019-20 levels by 2024-25” as part of his 2021-24 spending review. According to the institute for government just under 70% of civil servants work in the five largest departments, that being: the Department for Work and Pensions, the Ministry of Justice, HM Revenue and Customs, the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office.
While Johnson may want to give the impression that £3.6bn could be made available to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, it is likely that funds will need to be made available to cover the cost of increasing Britain’s weapons stockpile to “at least at the scale of the Cold War arsenals” (a statement that was made yesterday in a 1922 Committee report). The Committee also said that plans to reduce troop numbers by 10,000 to 72,500 by 2025 must be “halted immediately” given the precarious geo-political climate. Despite pressure from back-benchers, Rishi Sunak rejected calls to increase the UK’s defence spending during his latest spring statement.
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When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, with the help of kindly whale trainer Rae Lindley, develop a routine of tricks. However, greedy park owner Dial soon catches wind of the duo and makes plans to profit from them.Free Willy featuring Jason James Richter and Lori Petty is streaming with subscription on Hulu, available for rent or purchase on iTunes, available for rent or purchase on Google Play, and 3 others. It's an action & adventure and drama movie with an average IMDb audience rating of 6.0 (72,575 votes).
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Britain's nuclear submarines options to be published
Britain's nuclear armed submarines could be drastically reduced under plans outlined in a report on Tuesday.
A Lib Dem review of alternatives is set to favour cutting the Vanguard missile-carrying submarines from four to two.
The coalition has said that a decision will not be made until after the next general election.
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Horror movies – God bless ’em for their ability to have audiences shaking their heads in frustration as yet another group of teens head off to the haunted woods/abandoned building/kill zone of their choice, only to have their now ritualised behaviours interrupted and curtailed by whichever masked serial killer/escaped demon/demented whackjob happens to be lurking nearby. (And before anyone complains, yes, that description doesn’t cover every horror movie, but it is indicative of a great deal of modern “horror”; the true horror is that these tired, hoary old storylines are trotted out time and again.)
With horror movies becoming increasingly derivative and lacking in originality, the idea of watching one of them with a number at the end of the title isn’t exactly thrilling. Horror sequels rarely ever live up to the promise that may have been delivered by their predecessor, and it’s a very rare horror sequel indeed that expands effectively on, or outstrips, its parent. Not even the prospect of the same writer/director at the helm is a guarantee of quality. Here’s one example of a horror sequel that was much anticipated, but which didn’t live up to everyone’s expectations.
The Wicker Tree (2011) / D: Robin Hardy / 96m
Cast: Britannia Nicol, Henry Garrett, James Mapes, Lesley Mackie, Clive Russell, Graham McTavish, Jacqueline Leonard, Honeysuckle Weeks, Christopher Lee
The Wicker Man (1973) is an acknowledged horror classic, a brooding, unsettling movie that lingers in the memory, and features one of Christopher Lee’s finest performances. The news that the movie’s writer/director Robin Hardy was working on a sequel first surfaced in 2002, and Lee was set to return as Lord Summerisle. But problems with financing kept the movie from being made, and Hardy turned his screenplay into a novel (unfortunately titled Cowboys for Christ). Hardy next adapted his novel into the screenplay that was used for The Wicker Tree, and it’s this process that perhaps gives the best clue as to why the movie doesn’t work as successfully as it should.
Returning to themes set around the belief in paganism in the modern world, The Wicker Tree could, and perhaps should, have been a worthy follow-up to Hardy’s classic original. But the flaws are there from the beginning, and it’s not long before the viewer has no option but to realise that this sequel isn’t going to live up to expectations. Hardy’s story is as basically simple as in The Wicker Man: a religious individual finds themselves caught up in a pagan community, and learns that they are being used as part of a fertility rite that will ensure the community’s survival. But where The Wicker Man had subtlety and a well-judged sense of impending doom for its central character, The Wicker Tree lacks both these elements, and struggles to establish itself as a worthy successor. Part of the problem is the central character of Beth (Nicol), an evangelical Christian from Texas. Thanks to Hardy’s script, and Nicol’s performance, Beth is a character we never get to really know or sympathise with. With no one to root for, or get anxious about, the movie lacks tension as a result.
There’s also a problem with another character, Sir Lachlan Morrison (McTavish). Originally meant to be played by Christopher Lee, the role is this movie’s equivalent of The Wicker Man‘s Lord Summerisle. But Hardy doesn’t do enough with the role to give McTavish a chance of making him as mesmeric as Lee, or as quietly chilling. McTavish was originally meant to play the role of Morrison’s butler, Beame (Russell), but when Lee was unable to fill the part, McTavish was “promoted”. In doing so, Hardy appears to have recast the part without rewriting the character to match the actor’s skill and ability (McTavish isn’t a patch on Lee). This leads to scenes where McTavish looks uncomfortable, and where his credibility is often in question.
The actions of the community lend themselves to some unfortunate moments of unintended levity, and the May Day celebrations that will culminate in another sacrifice. There are too many of these moments for comfort, and Hardy seems unable to recognise that these are hurting the movie rather than supporting it. Echoes of the first movie abound, but lack a similar effect: where Britt Ekland’s naked dance is rightly remembered for its eerie, yet uncompromising sexuality, here we have Honeysuckle Weeks topless in a river; with apologies to Ms Weeks, it doesn’t evoke the same response.
Tonally the movie is all over the place, with scenes not having even the barest impact and the plot being propelled forward without any sense that there’s a real through line. As it moves forward, the movie struggles to maintain a sense of the impending horror that awaits Beth come May Day, and although knowledge of the first movie isn’t necessary, the fact that it does exist, and that it is so good, makes Hardy’s mistreatment of his own material so hard to understand. He’s like a man adrift, failing to connect with a story that he’s spent so much time developing, and that translates to the screen. In taking so long to get his movie to the screen it appears that he’s lost sight of almost everything that made The Wicker Man so compelling.
Rating: 3/10 – a movie that makes you wonder just how its creator could have got it so badly wrong, The Wicker Tree is a lumpen, dreadful mess full of equally dreadful performances, and a storyline that defies logical appreciation; that it tarnishes the memory of The Wicker Man is bad enough, but being a bad movie through and through is worse still.

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Global inflation: Can it be tamed to 2%?
Global markets are pricing in inflation of about 2.5% two years from today. This reflects either wishful thinking or a naïve belief that central bankers have the issue under control and will deliver on their promise to get inflation back to 2%.
However, there are new inflationary impulses that are not being added to the prediction.
The ESG wave is driving a new inflationary impulse that is gaining steam and doesn’t look to be reversible. This is ‘greenflation’, and while it is completely new, we expect it to have a significant impact on inflation going forward.
He explains that the War on Carbon is forcing economies to decarbonise. Most frequently, this translates into electrifying.
Economy wide, this will require a gargantuan amount of capital spending on capacity over the coming decades that may for the first time in history drive lower productivity for the investment outlay.
And alternative energy and its electricity output are not getting cheaper every year, given that all the input prices for what’s needed to make solar panels and windmills have skyrocketed, owing to the drive for electrification. Leading wind turbine maker Vestas, for example, has seen a 65% drop in its share price from the start of 2021, because input prices have skyrocketed.
Shifting from the most efficient energy source to the greenest energy source adds to the cost of the products produced, because not only will the producer have to amortise the cost of capital it took to build the required new plant or process across all units produced, but also because the cost of making each unit is higher. This is happening at all levels of the supply chain.
Think about the added expense of building roads from an alternative material to tarmac, a cheap residual from the oil refining process, or about the massive investment required to reorient and recable electricity transmission systems. Electrification and elimination of carbon-based inputs are greenflationary.
He says that alternatively, and increasingly where we’re heading now, is to admit that we need to continue to burn fossil fuels, but force operators to capture the carbon from the process and store it away forever, a process called Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS).
This makes a lot more sense than trying to electrify. Examples would be natural gas or biomass power generators, refineries, and chemical plants. Here, carbon collection processes and takeaway infrastructure can be added to existing plants. But again, this is the definition of inflationary.
Orbis estimates that biomass power generator Drax, who is taking the lead in installing CCS, will need to use 15% of their current electricity generation capacity to power the decarbonisation process.
This may be a net win for society, but we can’t get around the inflationary impact it will have. Carbon capture is greenflationary.
There are several levers that all represent fairly easy to see swings of the pendulum that helped reduce inflation for the past 10-40 years, but all seem to be reversing direction at the same time.
If 2% is supposedly the inflation produced by a normal healthy economy, shouldn’t we consider laying on the inflationary impulses coming from reshoring a big chunk of the productive parts of our economy and the impact of the reversal of a 40-year pendulum swing away from labour power? And how will the necessary reversal of Trump’s big corporate tax cut and his war on regulation impact inflation?”
We really don’t need exact answers to have decent conviction that expectations for 2% inflation are likely to be disappointed, absent some massive new deflationary impulse counterweight.
Alec Cutler is portfolio manager at Allan Gray’s offshore investment partner Orbis.
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I’m a big fan of garden designer P. Allen Smith. No doubt some of you have seen his shows on public television, especially Garden Style.
I’ve adapted and slightly modified these twelve principles of design from his best-selling book Garden Home, which is one of my all-time favorite garden books.
I’d welcome the chance to help you apply these principles to your own “garden home.”
*Adapted from P. Allen Smith
1. ENCLOSURE – A Garden Room defined by borders of various materials.
- Enclosures are vital elements in defining gardens as rooms. Enclosures anchor a garden to its location, giving both the house and the garden a sense of permanence and lasting beauty.
- Enclosures unify house and garden into a cohesive whole, creating virtually continuous living areas.
- Enclosures set the stage for a variety of moods and experiences.
- Enclosures add a sense if security and comfort by providing familiar structures: walls, floors, doorways and ceilings.
- Enclosures establish order by creating manageable-sized spaces.
2. SHAPE AND FORM – The contour and three-dimensional qualities of individual plants or groups of plants in the garden, as well as the outline of the Garden Room itself.
- Basic shapes stage the look of the Garden Room.
- Shapes have symbolic meanings.
- Shapes convey “personality” that creates certain moods.
- The arrangement of shapes in relation to one another defines certain styles.
3. FRAMING THE VIEW – Directing attention to an object or view by screening out surrounding distractions while creating a visually balanced and organized composition.
- The goal of framing a view is to draw attention to an object or scene.
- Framing the view can be achieved by opening a sight-line to the desired subject and screening out surrounding distractions.
- Views outside and inside the Garden Room may be framed.
- Windows and doorways inside the house serve as frames for outside views.
4. ENTRY – A defined point of entrance into a garden enclosure.
- A garden enclosure is the first impression of a garden home.
- Entrances serve as preludes to what lies beyond.
- Entrances are symbolic signs of welcome.
- Garden entrances that reflect a home’s architectural style create unity.
- Entrances serve as directional guides and transitional points from one area to the next.
- Certain key elements serve as components of an entrance.
- Entries should be key parts of each Garden Room.
5. FOCAL POINT – Positioning an object to draw the eye and create a feature of attention.
- Focal points give a space focus and direction.
- Enhanced perspective adds to the power of focal points.
- Focal points visually organize an area.
- Punctuation is another form of focal points.
6. STRUCTURES – A variety of constructed features within a garden.
- Structures serve both functional and aesthetic purposes.
- Structures add to the sense of enclosure, screen views, and provide a center of visual interest.
- Structures represent an anchoring element, a firm point from which we can begin to absorb the richness and diversity of the entire space.
- Structures articulate the transition between the house and the garden.
7. COLOR – Orchestrating the color palette in the garden through the selection and arrangement of plants and objects.
- A green framework holds the garden together and serves as a background for other colors.
- Colors create moods and illusions.
- The intensity of light affects color.
- Growing conditions may influence color schemes.
- Use no more than one color theme for each Garden Room. Greens and grays act as harmonizers between contrasting colors.
- A garden‟s color scheme should match the house and the other predominant features
8. TEXTURE, PATTERN AND RHYTHM – Using surface characteristics, recognizable motifs, and the cadence created by the spacing of objects as elements of design.
- Texture, pattern and rhythm add layers of richness and interest to the garden.
- Contrasting surface characteristics of plants and materials heighten the visual impact in Garden Rooms.
- Repeating motifs creating a feeling of continuum within a Garden Room and give harmony to the design.
- The cadence created when three or more objects are equally spaced in an obvious pattern implies rhythm, order and dependability.
- Repeated objects placed closely together tend to quicken the rhythm, and the same objects spaced farther apart slow it down.
9. ABUNDANCE – An ample to overflowing quality created by the generous use of plants and materials.
- Plants growing in a large drift or colonies appear more spontaneous and natural.
- To gain its full effect, abundance has to be contained to the point where it’s not a distraction.
- A few “workhorse” plants used generously establish abundance without excess.
- Generous plantings allow selective cuttings without diminishing the overall visual impact.
- Staggered bloom times extend the impact of the display while maximizing the use of the bed space.
- Ample plantings provide enough to share.
10. WHIMSY – Elements of lighthearted fancy.
- Whimsical touches personalize the garden.
- Humor in the garden adds enjoyment to the outdoor experience.
- Themes of whimsy running through a garden can add harmony, wit and surprise.
11. MYSTERY – Piquing a sense of curiosity, excitement and occasionally apprehension through the garden’s design.
- Mystery in a garden uses the unknown, the unseen and the imagination as elements of design.
- Intriguing paths invite exploration.
- Mystery heightens the imagination of visitors, setting up the anticipation of surprise.
- Various devices in a Garden Room that play on the senses (sound, sight, smell, and touch) stimulate emotional responses.
12. TIME – Various garden styles representing certain ages of design.
- Garden styles reflect eras of design.
- Well-designed gardens have features that are consistent with the age of the house and surroundings.
- The choice of materials is as important as the appropriateness of the object.


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Hi, so it’s slowly getting warmer and the nights are getting shorter. I’m bringing summer a little closer.
This is an Hot Press Oven Process (HPOP) soap recipe which I learnt from Soap Queen. But you can use Cold Press too.
Ingredients and equipment:
- 65 g Sodium Hydroxide
- 169 g Water
- 200 g Olive Oil
- 100 g Coconut Oil
- 100 g Apricot Kernel Oil
- 50 g Castor Oil
- 3 g Mandarin and Cream Scent
- 3-6 drops red dye
- Glass bowl for lye solution
- Large saucepan (do not use for cooking after this process)
- Make up your lye solutions as you would normally do for a cold press by dissolving your sodium hydroxide to your water slowly. WARNING: Make sure that you do this in a well ventilated area and wear protective eye wear and gloves.
- When the lye mixture has dissolved completed, set it to one side.
- Set your oven to the lowest heat it will go to.
- Melt your oils and fats in your saucepan over a low heat. Make sure your saucepan is twice as big as the amount of soap you will make.I made the mistake of not using a big enough saucepan and had a mini volcano eruption. Thankfully i was aware from reading around Hot Press that this may happen. I used a baking tray on the bottom of the oven to catch any spillages.
- Remove the saucepan from the heat and place on a heat proof surface. Pour in the lye solution and mix the combination with a hand blender.
- The normal cloudy mixture that you would add your colour and fragrance to for cold press now goes in the oven for 15 minutes. DO NOT ADD YOUR COLOURS OR FRAGRANCE AT THIS POINT.
- After 15 minutes, check your soap. Mix if required or if it is happily gelling away, leave it. It should start to look like this.
8. Once the whole melted soap base looks like the clear gel, remove it from the oven. This took me 1 hour 15 minutes to complete.
9. At this stage you can add your fragrance and colour. I add the red dye to the point that it look the same colour as grapefruit.
10. At this stage you need to work fast and have the mould ready to fill. The soap will start to set as it cools.
11. The finish is not as smooth as Cold Press but it cures faster and can be used within a week. Fragrances will also be much stronger as they are not used in the saponification process.
Note: Line the mould if it is rigid like this one. It popped out eventually but I wish I had lined it with grease proof paper first as it makes it much easier to remove the soap.
The final product smells like mandarin and cream and is a beautiful pink colour. Perfect for a bath time session with a tequila sunrise cocktail in hand. Yummy 👍

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Greta and Bryan are two talented photographers from California; so I was super honored when they contacted me to do their elopement photoshoot in NYC. We hit all the spots that mattered to them and ended up shooting for 6 hours, followed by a delicious dinner they invited me to (what can I say, I’m a lucky girl!)
Sunrise Elopement on the Brooklyn Bridge
We started on the Brooklyn bridge at sunrise, an iconic NYC spot that was important to them. Thankfully we didn’t cross too many angry bikers and were blessed with a golden, warm morning light. It didn’t take a lot to create magic with these two love birds.
We crossed the bridge and took some photos in Dumbo by the skyline and the carousel (always love playing with my prism there!) then headed to Central Park. It was mid October, when all the leaves start to turn yellow and orange. What a freaking treat to do an elopement photoshoot in NYC at that time of the year.
A Vintage NYC Taxi Ride
After that, we headed to the West Village where a vintage yellow cab was waiting for us. It wasn’t my first time working with the driver Peter, who always has great stories about the film sets he worked on and the celebrities he drove over the years. If you’re looking for a fun and unique way to spice your NYC engagement or wedding photos, he’s definitely the guy!
After the sun set, I took my flash out and had fun documenting them walking around the village, eating pizza and looking for all the quirky places. We ended up at a fortune teller; but no need for one to see that these two have a bright future in front of them 🙂


“Federal prosecutors are investigating whether market manipulation or other types of criminal misconduct fueled the rapid rise last month in prices of stocks such as GameStop Corp. and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.,” WSJ writes.
In Case You Forgot: GameStop, AMC and other struggling consumer firms saw incredible gains, stemming from conversations on the r/WallStreetBets Reddit forum, where “where individual investors discussed bidding up certain stocks with high short positions, causing a rapid rise in price as short sellers scrambled to cover their positions.”
Now, the Justice Department wants to make sure there wasn’t a fraud perpetrated. Together with the San Francisco U.S. attorney’s office, they’re seeking information “about the activity from brokers and social-media companies that were hubs for the trading frenzy.”
- Most notably, prosecutors have subpoenaed information from Robinhood.
- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is running a similar probe to determine if any misconduct occurred.
On The Horizon: “Separately, the House Financial Services Committee plans a hearing on Feb. 18 to examine what happened with GameStop’s shares. Reddit Chief Executive Steve Huffman was invited to testify and plans to appear before lawmakers, he told the [WSJ] on Thursday.”
- “Proving market manipulation generally requires showing that traders schemed to create an artificial price and took action to accomplish it.”
But Was It Really? LEX Markets Head of Trading Michael Friedman says no, and that there doesn’t appear to be evidence to support otherwise. Instead, it was simply an opportunity seized on a grand scale.
- “If an investigation were to show that a few key individuals instigated the whole effort, that could buttress a manipulation case, according to securities lawyers. However, charging hundreds of defendants who traded in small increments and believed they were warring with hedge funds wouldn’t be viable, the lawyers said.”
I actually think there is a lot of precedent to be set here.
Legally, a Schedule 13D must be filed with the SEC when a person or “group” acquires more than 5% of any class of a company’s shares. This is there to provide transparency about why a group of shareholders are buying a stock, whether it be for a hostile takeover or another reason.
If people on internet forums can coordinate buying a huge percentage of a Company’s stock, does that constitute a “group”?


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i know this sounds awful but i feel like giving up. i am disabled and adopted a baby girl 11 years ago. the adoption people told me her mom was a little slow. met the mom and indeed a little slow. i trusted the adoption people and adopted the little girl. as time went on she screamed and cried all the time. arching her back like she was possessed. i dug into her past and medical records and found mom was an alcoholic. looked up alcohol effect on babies. found fetal alcohol syndrome and saw facial pics. she had all the facial deformities as well as scrambled toes. i got her into counseling starting at 3 years old. although she was slow to learn, the worst was the horrible violent tantrums over little things. time goes on and her tantrums are still 3-4 times a week. she still arches her back violently and throws her head back and forth screaming high pitch screams. banging her small body into doors and walls. still. she goes to counseling as well as i do too. i learn as much as i can. by the time she is 11 i am the professional on fas and have to talk to the counselers about fas. but i am 50 and her violence is too much now. she rages at least once a week. she has taken a knife and threatened to kill me and herself. she destroys things and still throws the same violent tantrums like a rag dolls possesed. here it is now she is turning 13 . is now stronger than me and i am fearful. when she is not raging she is a wonderful loving and helpful daughter. but if i catch her stealing or lying and try to punish her its all over. even at school (special ed) she is throwing these rages for getting in trouble for minor things that most people wouldnt even give a second thought too. i dont know what to do. social services only offers the counseling. there is no respite. i live in calif. i am desperate. i forgot to add she was diagnosed fas at 3 by a geneticist. and i have had in home services twice.In this case, the alphabet soup de jur is FAS. Oftentimes it is one of a litany of common victim-blaming labels placed on adopted children, such as ADHD and RAD, as if inability to bond after years of depravation in an orphanage, never being touched or held is not a 'normal' reaction to the circumstances; as if inability to trust after multiple abandonments isn't a 'normal' reaction to what life has presented.
As if the "cure" for children who cannot "bond" as a result of repeated abandonments is to abandon them yet again!
As if a label gives the adopter an EXCUSE TO BAIL! After all, they were not properly INFORMED! It wasn't what they "signed up for" - as if those who raise children we birthed always get a child with a guarantee.
The labels serve to shift the focus to a "syndrome" that requires special treatment. In this case it shifts the focus of the mother to become an expert of FAS. Labels shift the focus away from adoption loss as the root of the issue, because after all adoption is what "saved" the child. Adoption is GOOD, not the problem! Couldn't possibly be! But what is at the root of every adoption is LOSS and separation.
So what about becoming and expert on adoption LOSS and GRIEF? What about considering the POSSIBILITY that not all of this child's problems are attributable to pre-natal alcoholism or "bad blood" but that perhaps her rage and tantrums are a result of early TRAUMA caused by SEPARATION and loss? Her inability to express her grief and her need to be given "permission" to grieve.
I suggest this mother, CandiGirl, and other adopters dealing with challenging children read Primal Wound as well as books by adult adoptees like Jane Jeong Trenka to understand what it is like to be separated and live without knowing who you look like, and WHY you were given away.
This is a teen in agony and pain. This is a teen who is at high risk for substance abuse and self harm including suicide. And the causes are not all organic or hereditary. Adoption loss is a social issue - a psychological issue - that faces ALL who are adopted no matter how healthy their parents were.
Recognize the loss and get her help to deal with THAT.
Mom says she met her daughter's first mother. Does she ever talk to her daughter about her? Does she ask her if she wants to meet her mom and ask her why she wasn't able to keep her? Or does she assume, like far too many adoptive parents that her child does not care because she doesn't outright asks? Children are very sensitive to unspoken cues and can sense if the subject is difficult for their adoptive parent(s), especially if it brings tears to their eyes, or they quickly change the subject or just avoid it to begin with. Silence equates to shame. Adopted children easily interpret that the subject of adoption is TABOO, thus it means there is something BAD about it and something bad about ME. Their fear of being rejected - yet again - keeps them bound to the secret tone set by their adoptive parent(s).
One clever adoptive mother found a simple way to let her teenaged son know the door was OPEN for those discussions by doing little things like when seeing him looking in the mirror saying: "I bet you wonder who you look like. I do." These little gestures let a child know it is NOT a forbidden subject and that it won't ruin his or her relationship with you to talk about "it" or ask questions, expressive of NORMAL, health curiosity. Another approach might be at or following a family event such as a wedding, or when looking at a photo album, to say: "Gosh, all these people are my blood-related kin, I bet you must wonder about yours!" Or, perhaps at your son's piano recital or your daughter's soccer game to ask if he or she is curious where he or she got that special talent!
Curiosity is normal! Where did I get my nose, eyes, hair or strong math sills? Why do I hate the sports or political views or food my adoptive family all love? Recognize it! Don't let it become an elephant you and your child trip over to avoid talking about.
Open the door for them. Let them know it's a safe topic of discussion just as you might do to help start a conversation of sex education or drugs in school, or safety on the Internet and 'strangers'. All of these are tough but necessary conversations for parents to have. Adoptive parents have two added one: adoption and birth families.
If it feels too hard to have this conversation, start with therapy to deal with your fears. Perhaps you have unresolved issues over your infertility; the loss of the child of your "own" you couldn't have. Perhaps you harbor fear that blood is thicker than water and you will loose your child to their "real" parents and become a mere long-term babysitter. While unrealistic, these fears are not at all uncommon and need to be dealt with in order to help your child deal with THEIR fear of rejection and abandonment....which are palpable when you are in fact at the point of considering the option of bailing on them! When you are thinking and talking about not being able to "take it" anymore. The more you think that way, the more your child will push and test to see if you will in fact abandon them yet again. Start with some therapy for mom and some reading and educating about adoption loss issues, and then apply some compassion and help for your child to deal with their very issues of loss and rejection and abandonment.
Instead of seeing your child as label, as a "patient" with a "disease" or "syndrome" that needs to be treated, think of them as a scared, lost child in pain who needs understanding and acceptance.
Saturday, August 3, 2013
The Harm of Labeling Adopted Children
Candigirl 63 writes on Adoption.com forums:

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