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NHS still rubbish at caring for data
The Information Commissioner's Office has again warned the NHS that it is not doing enough to safeguard patients' data. This week's featured failures come from Stoke-on-Trent and Basingstoke and North Hampshire. NHS Stoke lost 2,000 paper physiotherapy files, and is not sure if they were destroyed or simply filed in the wrong …
And what teeth has the Information Commissioner got? Even if he could impose huge fines, there wouldn't be much point, as it's all public money. The only thing that will concentrate minds is some senior heads on sticks, IMO.
I also suspect that the problem is far worse than stated. My partner's childhood medical records have mysteriously gone AWOL, but we haven't told the ICO about it, because it will just make more work, and nothing will happen...
Heads on sticks...
The only thing that will ever work.
The only thing you're never going to see happen. Count on it.
And that goes for a whole range of problems within the NHS, not just IT.
It happens every day
I was in York hospital last week. On a trolley, in a public area was an unsupervised NHS laptop. I have no idea what was on it, but it wouldn't have been difficult to steal.
What a shambles.
You may have been able to walk out with the laptop
But hopefully, it would be password protected (ideally in the BIOS, although removing the BIOS battery would usually get around that). It would be unlikely to hold any patient information, more likley some junior doctor's notes for hospital audit, which would be anonymised, and you probably wouldn;t be able to access them.
In this case it's likely that the loss of the laptop would not entail the loss of patient information but it is still foolish of them to leave it lying around.
On the other hand, it could be that the hospital in question has been suffering losses from thieves wandering into public areas and pinching stuff, in which case, they may have left an old laptop there as bait to catch said tea-leaf, on the grounds that the hospital security wouldn't have much difficulty spotting a member of the public wandering off with something of that size.
Correlation and causation.
Yep, this happens, and it needs constant oversight to try and stop it happening more, which is actually a big thing in the NHS these days..
For the stat that a quarter of all breaches are from the NHS, I wonder if there's a metric around that actually captures how many valid (and possibly 'naughty') requests there are per capita in all the public sector (and private companies) so that a real comparison can be made about how bad sectors really are at data leaks (otherwise you're saying that a microchip fab plant is a far better banana producer than a plantation as they have far lower statistics for banana wastage).
Now that I'd be interested in reading; the NHS is, alas, in a prime place for the spotlight, as much of the data it deals in is highly sensitive.
And don't forget:
The NHS is still the world's third largest employer (after the Indian railways and Chinese army). It might have the most breaches, but does it have the most per capita? Having been exposed to NHS security procedures from the perspective of both suppliers and users of IT systems, I'd say: probably not.
i heard ...
... WalMart was also bigger.
Promised to try harder.
Never happen. Not until one or more of the directors / CEO of a health trust is jailed for these data breaches.
The CEO's will ask "why on Earth should we spend a penny on something that won't give us a benefit?" And they'll keep saying that until they change their attitude to "we'll spend as much as it takes to keep _me_ out of prison."
I work in a highly regulated industry where not only the top man, but us minions can be sent to prison for non-compliance. Certainly brings focus to what one is doing!
Criminal Prosecutions
Not until a user has a vested interest in protecting data will they think twice before losing data.
Lock a few offenders up with their superiors and you'll find them talking a lot more care with how they look after other people's data
Huh, what?
"Basingstoke managed to lose an Excel spreadsheet containing 917 pathology results - emailed from an insecure address. The sheet was not password-protected and the receiving department had no need for such a large quantity of medical records."
How exactly does one go about losing something that has no physical form, or do they mean maybe that a path lab emailed a spreadsheet with a load of results to a hospital department (e.g. a ward in the same hospital) that only needed one of those results?
naughty boys!
....no cloud computing for you then. .......no, srsly, no budget!
Off with their heads!
If I had Carrollian "Queen of Hearts" drag in the right size, I'd have put it on before keying that.
Something I notice time and time again about these stories concerning official malfeasance relating to data: no one is held responsible. No one is jailed, no one is suspended without pay, no one is charged, no one forgoes any pensionable time, no one takes a hit of any kind. At the very least, the head of any public organization that missteps with data should be denied any bonus for the year.
Maybe the time has come for an internet-fueled mass expression of disgust at this nonsense, be it a careless hospital sending email or a police force ignoring FOI requests. Enough angry letters to newspapers and MPs and ministers and maybe, just maybe, something might change.
Or maybe, better yet, it's time to institute a citizens' database of public employees who have fallen down on the job: name them and shame them, starting with the people at the very top. Something like the CRB or the kiddy-fiddlers' database. Can even be based on hearsay and gossip: that's what the UK gov has done, no?
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Do you ever just stop in your tracks for no reason at all and take in your life? I did that the other day, over breakfast. I use the term "over breakfast" loosely. Though it was technically breakfast time, it's not like the family was gathered Norman Rockwell style around the kitchen table. Rather, at the moment when I stopped and looked–just really just looked–at my life, two children were spooning breakfast onto their plates…while standing on skateboards. (One was wearing a helmet, I will have you know. Kitchen safety is of utmost importance in this here house of ours.)
One child was laying on the table. Don't worry about rereading that sentence. I typed it correctly. She was laying ON the kitchen table, with bed headed hair and a chihuahua on her chest. What of the other kid? He was flopping around the floor in boxer shorts with nary another shred of clothing on his bare body.
So there I was, standing still as can be, looking at this life of mine. Looking over rumpled hair, and modge-podge breakfast plates, and a wild chihuahua on the table. Taking in the way crooked smiles framed little mouthfulls of lost teeth. Studying the spiraled belly button of a tweenaged kid who once I carried in my own belly. Listening to the lilt of chittering, giggling, teasing. And, the thought I had in that instant–in that very instant–was, "What a delicious life."
And really, it is. Boxer shorts at the breakfast table, and all.
Last month, while spending a couple of days with the Thermador company in Arizona, I ate creme brulee for dessert two days in a row. Have you ever heard anything so ridiculously amazing? Two days of creme brulee. The first time was at a fancy restaurant. The second after an incredible lunch prepared by the Thermador Test Kitchen's Chef Kyle, who willingly shared the recipe for his sweet, simple, lick-the-spoon-worthy creme brulee. Three days later I was back in my own kitchen, facing a barren pantry. There wasn't much in there, but we did have several thick slices of stale french bread. I wondered what would happen if I adapted Chef Kyle's creme brulee batter, making it part of a baked french toast dish for breakfast. The results were pure perfection (in a taste sense, not a diet-conscious one). The creme brulee batter, with it's thick egg yolks, soft brown sugar, and pure white whipping cream baked into a sweet caramel-flavored custard around the bread. We served it with fresh berries, but a warmed puree of frozen raspberries will work just as nicely. My seven year old would also add that this breakfast is especially nice when eated on a skateboard. At the kitchen table. In a helmet. Shirts optional. Chihuahua required.
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place the egg yolks, sugar, and cream into a blender. Blend until well mixed. Prepare a deep baking dish with a thin layer of non-stick cooking spray. Place french toast pieces into the bottom of the baking dish. Pour egg mixture over the top of each slice of toast, making sure to cover them all very well with the the egg mixture. Place baking dish in oven, and bake uncovered for 40-45 minutes, or until the caramel is bubbling and the edges of the bread are slightly browned. Remove from oven and spoon hot french toast onto plates. Serve with fresh raspberries, or heat and puree 1 cup of frozen raspberries for a fresh-tasting syrup that compliments the caramel flavor beautifully.
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Nanotechnology has great potential for revolutionizing the treatment of disease, optimizing manufacturing processes and consumer products, and remediating polluted environments. Increased use and disposal of products containing nanoparticles will inevitably result in their accumulation in aquatic ecosystems via direct input and runoff from contaminated soils. Aquatic organisms are particularly susceptible to pollutants due to their large, fragile respiratory epithelium. This potential toxicity can be exacerbated by common stressors, such as changes in water temperature, salinity, pH, and oxygen levels, and must be considered in environmental risk assessments. The unique properties of manufactured nanoparticles present serious problems for risk assessment strategies, and there is a concern in the regulatory community that standard toxicological methods may be inadequate to address these compounds. Our capacity to detect and quantify nanoparticles is extremely limited, especially in complex biological, soil, or water samples. The distinctive chemistry and physical structure of each nanomaterial will determine its bioavailability, and these parameters can be altered over time or with changes in water chemistry. The use of advanced analytical techniques, such as functional genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, can provide a global assessment of the biological response to a novel chemical and will be important in determining the potential toxicity of nanoparticles. Industry should adopt a proactive approach to identifying potential risks to aquatic ecosystems so that the benefits of nanotechnology can be fully realized.
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By Rachel Fadlon, Director of Marketing and Communications
July 25, 2014
Recently, there have been a multitude of articles in the media discussing what it takes to get a job at Google and other cutting-edge, future-minded companies. One of the qualities that comes up again and again is the ability to collaborate – to work in a team. In addition, with the ease of availability of information today, companies are less interested in what people know, and more interested in what we are able to do with that knowledge. This new focus has led to the creation of new initiatives in schools to help students prepare themselves for this new reality.
Jewish institutions of learning are no exception. With a generous grant from the Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust and allocation funds from CJP, Gateways: Access to Jewish Education teamed up with the Social Thinking Boston office to introduce a new curriculum this past year called Social Thinking©. Together, they trained educators from 16 area Jewish preschools (with one more joining this year) and 3 day schools (with 2 more joining this year) to help develop the social-emotional health and wellbeing of their students.
"We were excited about the opportunity to partner with Social Thinking Boston to bring their curriculum to Jewish preschools and day schools," says Sharon Goldstein, Director of the Day School Program at Gateways. "In our role as the Jewish central agency for special education in Boston, we have a unique vantage point from which we are able to see themes and trends across the Jewish day schools in our area. Challenging social dynamics (including bullying) is a national concern - and is also prevalent within the Jewish day schools. We are seeing more and more students lacking appropriate social skills who do not have the self-awareness or possess the strategies to navigate social situations. Many day school teachers have shared that they are not equipped with language and strategies necessary to support their students with these challenges and, therefore, are unable to intervene effectively in the moment."
As defined on their website, social thinking is "what we do when we interact with people: we think about them... Most of us have developed our communications sense from birth onwards, steadily observing and acquiring social information and learning how to respond to people. Because social thinking is an intuitive process, we usually take it for granted. But for many individuals, this process is anything but natural. And this often has nothing to do with conventional measures of intelligence. In fact, many people score high on IQ and standardized tests, yet do not intuitively learn the nuances of social communication and interaction. Social Thinking…offers a range of strategies that address individual strengths and weaknesses in processing social information."
In addition to helping to prepare students for future jobs, Jewish educational institutions also have a moral imperative for introducing this curriculum. Goldstein says that "Jewish preschools and day schools want to instill a sense of Jewish morals and values in their students. Being a mensch (a kind, caring person to others) is a concept that is introduced from an early age. In addition to preparing students for successful careers, Social Thinking also helps reinforce these Jewish values."
"Jewish schools also define derech eretz as a value," adds Sherry Grossman, Director of Community Services at Gateways. "The idea behind Social Thinking is to explicitly teach what that means – just like we teach math and science. With an increasing expectation of adults to collaborate, there is less tolerance for rigidity in thinking. This means that educators must teach complex social skills if they want their students to succeed in life – and be good Jews, and human beings!"
"Jewish values are very much in line with what is now being called social-emotional learning," explains Nancy Tarshis, MA, MS, CCC-SLP, a trainer at Social Thinking. "Social thinking teaches the thought process behind social skills which is the outgrowth of social emotional learning core principles. The Social Thinking vocabulary breaks down and concretizes the concepts and attendant thought processes underlying these skills for all students but most especially for our students with social cognitive learning challenges."
"At all grade levels, Social Thinking teaches self-awareness," says Grossman. "When you combine the core concepts, they provide you with skills that you can use throughout your life." The curriculum gives teachers and students a common language for encouraging self-regulation and the idea that what you
say, how you say it and what you do affect how people perceive and respond to you.
Core concepts focus on self-regulation, impulse control, problem solving, realistic views, perspective-taking and positive self-esteem. These concepts are explored and taught in developmentally appropriate ways at each grade level. In the preschool classes, lessons
focus on being part of a group and following a "group plan". In early elementary school, students learn about thinking flexibly, not letting intrusive thoughts get in the way of social interactions and getting along with peers and adults. From the 4th grade on, lessons are about perspective taking as it relates to peers and adults and classroom materials (like understanding characters in stories).
Response to the curriculum has been positive from both staff and students. Barbara Davis, director of Temple Beth Sholom's preschool in Framingham, reported that her students have begun to use language from Social Thinking in their interactions with their
peers. "During one student's play this year, we consistently heard about the "group plan" or the "me plan". One day, he was very frustrated with another child and said very loudly, "It is time to take your body out of the group!""
Dina Feldman, Director of Student Achievement at Torah Academy in Brookline responded enthusiastically about the program: "Both our teachers and students alike have benefited outstandingly from the Social Thinking curriculum. We found that the students naturally respond to the curriculum's clear and exciting language just as easily as the teachers learn to apply it. We are so thankful to Gateways and Social Thinking Boston for including Torah Academy in the pilot program this past year."consistently heard about the "group plan" or the "me plan". One day, he was very frustrated with another child and said very loudly, "It is time to take your body out of the group!""
Gateways and Social Thinking Boston plan to work together to infuse the curriculum with Jewish values and expand the program to include more Jewish educational institutions throughout Greater Boston and beyond.
By by Arlene Remz, Executive Director
February 26, 2014
This month is Jewish Disability Awareness Month. Coincidentally, our organization Gateways is marking a major milestone – our 54th b'nei mitzvah celebration. What is the connection between the two? Our B'nei Mitzvah Program is for students with disabilities, students who even a decade ago, may not have been able to have meaningful ceremonies to mark this major Jewish milestone. I have witnessed incredibly moving ceremonies from students with Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy, autism.
Our B'nei Mitzvah program should not be viewed as an anomaly – according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1 in 6 children in the U.S. has a developmental disability, ranging from mild disabilities such as speech and language impairments to serious developmental disabilities, such as intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, and autism. About 1 in 88 children has been identified with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) alone. I am certain that everyone reading this knows at least one person with an identified disability of some sort, and probably more.
The subject of Jewish Peoplehood has been on everyone's minds since the publication of the Pew Report. With the numbers of Jews identifying with denominations declining, we need to widen our circle and find new, innovative ways to reach an ever-growing, unaffiliated population. One way to reach more Jews is for organizations to be more inclusive in general. Specifically, organizations need to be aware of and cater to the large number of children and adults with disabilities. If 1 in 6 children has some sort of disability, how can we not address this issue and do our best to reach these children in our synagogues, Hebrew schools and day schools? If we lose these children, we will also lose their families, and how can we afford to lose Jewish families who want their children to be engaged members of our community?
The tagline for this year's Jewish Disability Awareness Month is "from awareness to inclusion". I am certain that we are all aware of Jews in our community who have disabilities. But awareness goes beyond this – have you asked questions to understand the disability? Have you included the person's family in the conversation? Have you tried to understand how this disability affects the person's participation in Jewish life?
Educating yourself about members of your community with disabilities is an important first step and will most certainly make those people feel valued. But it is what you do with the information that you have learned that is vital. How can you include these people and their families successfully in your community? Are there things that you can do within your community to be more open and welcoming? What local organizations can help make this happen? Are their grants available to make your facilities more accessible and train your staff to accommodate your members with special needs? Do you feel that another organization may better be able to accommodate someone in your community? We are fortunate to be part of a larger community in Greater Boston with a multitude of services available for children and adults with disabilities in multiple settings.
What is remarkable is that not a day, but an entire month is devoted to raising awareness around disabilities and making change in the community. As it is stated in Leviticus 19:14: "Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but thou shalt fear thy G-d: I am the LORD". We have an obligation to make it possible to include all Jews in our community. Let this month be a time of reflection and serve as a call to action.
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Tagged under: disabilities, JDAM, inclusion, Jewish Advocate
By Rachel Fadlon, Director, Marketing and Communications, Gateways
November 6, 2013
On Thursday, October 24, Jewish organizations across North America were holding their breath to see who would be named in this year's Slingshot Guide, the foremost resource of today's most groundbreaking organizations, projects and programs of the North American Jewish community. From over 200 applications, evaluators chose 50 organizations - and highlighted another 17 as Standard Bearers - who they believed would drive the future of Jewish life and engagement. 18 organizations were featured in each of two new supplements - Disabilities & Inclusion and Women & Girls - in order to recognize novel ways that Jewish organizations support specific populations.
A small group from the 83 evaluators reviewed each nominee against four criteria: innovation, impact, strong leadership and organizational effectiveness. As it turns out, 8 organizations in Greater Boston had what it takes to be listed in some part of the guide. Out of the 17 organizations selected to be Standard Bearers, 4 hail from Greater Boston: Gateways: Access to Jewish Education, InterfaithFamily, Keshet, and Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center.
Four more innovative Jewish organizations in the Boston area were selected for the first time. The David Project and JOIN for Justice were both listed in the guide. The Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston's JCC Camp Kingswood Zohar Program was recognized in the Disability & Inclusion supplement; the Jewish Women's Archive was recognized in the Women & Girls supplement.
"The Slingshot Guide is an essential resource for putting a national spotlight on inspiring work happening in local communities across North America," explains Julie Finkelstein, Program Director at Slingshot. "Highlighting organizations throughout the Boston area is a testament to the community's commitment to building and sustaining engaging, relevant and impactful Jewish opportunities. With Slingshot, our national network of doers and donors learn about Boston's inspiring stories, and Bostonians of all ages are introduced to some of the most innovative Jewish opportunities happening in their own backyards. Slingshot is proud to partner with CJP and many area organizations and foundations to support Boston's successful drive towards Jewish innovation."
The David Project helps college students use their own voices, points of view and experiences to positively shape campus opinion on Israel. Slingshot evaluators were excited about the David Project's "willingness to take risks in service to its cause, and praise the organization's use of thoughtful measurement tools to assess the future efficacy of those risks."
Gateways: Access to Jewish Education is the central agency for special needs programs and services for students across Jewish educational organizations and denominations in Greater Boston. Slingshot noted that "through training for educators and consultations with organizations wishing to better include learners with disabilities, its multifaceted approach fills a critical void in Jewish education." In addition to being a Standard Bearer, Gateways is also featured in the Disabilities and Inclusion supplement.
InterfaithFamily offers online educational content; connections to welcoming organizations, professionals and programs; resources and trainings for organizations, clergy and other program providers; and an InterfaithFamily/Your Community initiative, providing coordinated comprehensive offerings in local communities, including Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area. Slingshot notes that "as the number of intermarried families in American continues to grow, InterfaithFamily leads the conversation and demands a place for interfaith families in Jewish communal life."
JCC Camp Kingswood Zohar Special Needs Program is proud to provide camping programs that empower children of all abilities to develop self-confidence, self-esteem, independence, skills and lifelong friendships all while strengthening their Jewish identities. One evaluator shares, "The ability to find an appropriate and caring summer camp experience for children with disabilities throughout their teens and beyond will have a great impact on helping these young people feel connected to the Jewish community."
The Jewish Women's Archive is an online presence with virtual exhibits, oral history projects, an encyclopedia of over 2,000 articles, and engaging blog content, all aimed at preserving the legacy of both well- and lesser-known American Jewish women. "Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) stands alone in pushing forward an agenda of inclusion of women in Jewish history," wrote one Slingshot evaluator.
JOIN for Justice strengthens the community organizing practice of Jewish leaders, ensuring that Jewish communities play a powerful role in North American social justice struggles. Evaluators were impressed with JOIN for Justice's "success in building meaningful partnerships that result in generating change throughout the Jewish community."
Keshet works towards the full equality and inclusion of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) Jews in all areas of Jewish life. "In its 17 years of operation," says Slingshot, "Keshet has built and led the field of Jewish LGBTQ inclusion. Over and over again, Keshet has proven its ability to adapt its work to the needs of the community."
Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center is a beautiful and radically inclusive mikveh (ritual bath) and education center for healing, celebrations, life transitions and conversion to Judaism. Mayyim Hayyim is the only organization in the guide that is recognized in both supplements and as a Standard Bearer.
Boston has long been thought of as a city of innovation. Recognition in the Slingshot Guide by so many of its nonprofit organizations is just another confirmation of this.
For more detailed information about the organizations in the Slingshot Guide 2013-2014, visit www.slingshotfund.org
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Tagged under: Slingshot, inclusion
By Rachel Fadlon, Director, Marketing and Communications
October 2, 2013
Rabbi Keith Stern: What does being a bat mitzvah mean to you?
Jamie: It means that I know a lot about being Jewish.
Rabbi: What have you done to get ready for your bat mitzvah?
Jamie: I practiced saying prayers, learned about my Torah portion, went to Gateways, met with the Rabbi, and did a mitzvah project.
While this may sound like a typical exchange between a rabbi and his pre-bat mitzvah congregant, it is in fact so much more. Jamie Davidge, 13, has cerebral palsy and this conversation consisted of her rabbi asking her questions out loud and Jamie selecting her answers from her augmentative communication device (a computer that speaks for her) that she uses to communicate.
Jamie's becoming a bat mitzvah marks the culmination of a journey for the Davidge family, who had to pursue a long and winding path to get to this day. Families of typical Jewish children either enroll them in their congregation's religious school or send them to day school to receive a Jewish education. They hire a tutor and meet with their clergy to prepare for b'nei mitzvah using the blueprint laid out by their congregation. This system works for most families. But for families with children with more severe needs, the idea of being able to prepare their children for a meaningful ceremony oftentimes seems unrealistic or unattainable.
Jamie is just one example of how the Greater Boston Jewish community has made an effort to embrace all its community members. In her conversation with her rabbi, Jamie mentioned Gateways: Access to Jewish Education, the local central agency for making Jewish education accessible to all Jewish students. Her journey began when her parents learned about Gateways' Sunday Program which is a self-contained religious school for children who need a more intimate learning environment and are unable to thrive in the synagogue religious school setting. There, Jamie attended classes and was assisted by a one-on-one aide. As she grew to pre-bat mitzvah age, she joined the B'nei Mitzvah Program on Wednesday evenings, where she was part of a small class and worked one-on-one with a Gateways tutor.
Gateways provided Jamie and her family with a structured program where she received individualized support and differentiated instruction. She was also lucky that Gateways received funding from the Boston Jewish Community Women's Fund, enabling her teachers to create a Special Path to Bat Mitzvah, a girl-centric curriculum focused on highlighting strong Jewish women (including women with disabilities) and the contributions they have made. "Jamie was really the impetus that prompted us to apply for the grant," says Nancy Mager, Director of Gateways' Jewish Education Programs. "Having her in our program challenged us to identify the unique needs of girls with special needs. We wanted to make accessible to our girls the best of what is out there for typical bat mitzvah aged girls."
Although Jamie did not participate in Temple Beth Avodah in Newton's religious school, she and her family remained connected with the congregation through the process. She submitted a profile to the temple newsletter (like all b'nei mitzvah in the congregation are expected to do), sharing news about her bat mitzvah.
"Rabbi Keith Stern was an incredible, supportive partner in the process," recalls Mager. "In our initial meeting [about Jamie's bat mitzvah], he made it clear that it was important to the synagogue that Jamie felt at home and was celebrated for who she is and what she knows. Her disability was always secondary."
"Jamie has been a member of Temple Beth Avodah since she was a baby," says Rabbi Stern. "As she has grown up, I have been endlessly amazed by her tenacity and the dedication of her parents. Her excitement over her Bat Mitzvah was positively electric! She showed this with an extraordinary smile and, after every completed prayer, a "Yesher Koach!" straight from her sound board."
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I feel compelled to write some reflections on the occasion of Oasis shutting down after 19 years, but it's hard to find the right words.
I'm 46 now, and 27 when I started this site in 1995, so it seems like there should be some profound summation or insightful conclusion, especially when you consider that this site launched the same year as Amazon, and three years before Google.
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As I right this there are only nine days left until oasis closes. I purpose we all come to this website on the day it closes and right a final good bye entry. Just a suggestion. Does any one know any similar websites? I suppose this website is closing down due to recent rise in popularity of other social media so I'm looking for something similar to replace it ( not that any one could truly recreate such a website)
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Enjoy the slumber of a youthful woman with a full belly!
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The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony Channels Beethoven
Nights like last night are murder on fingers and instruments. In the dressing room before their concert, members of the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony were running their hands under a hot faucet, trying to loosen their digits from the chill outside. Throughout the show, instruments were retuned on the fly. And the ensemble rose to the occasion with an all-Beethoven program in celebration of the composer's birthday that he probably would have approved of.
They warmed up with the Symphony No. 1. On the surface, it's almost a homage to Haydn – and yet, it was pretty cutting-edge for 1800, considering that the symphony itself was a relatively new creation. As Beethoven's career went on, his phrasing grew more expansive, but he never hung on a single idea for very long. That restlessness is a joy both to play and to witness, but it demands intense concentration, and maestro David Bernard and his crew were up to it. In the case of this piece, that included a fearless embrace of both nebulosity and precision on the jaunty third movement's scherzo and a sizzling command of the rapids and rippes of the conclusion.
Bernard is a composer's conductor. He'll go wherever the music demands, to the most whispery pianissimo or the most roaring fortissimo: limits do not exist in his world. What distinguishes the orchestra he leads from many others is that they seize on the fun parts and highlight them, but without compromising the material that develops and builds to those moments. Other orchestras play Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 with more legato: a recent New York Philharmonic performance saw that orchestra swaying and swinging it with a warm nocturnal triumph. Bernard didn't go there: his interpretation was more Teutonically meticulous, with a careful, split-second command of minute details. Dancing interludes were more like marches: rapidfire runs, especially from the high strings, were jeweled and clear-cut rather than slurry, no small achievement given the demands of both material and meteorology. The second movement, which draws a straight line back to Bach, was absolutely gorgeous.
And pianist Spencer Meyer brought a similarly minutely articulate, glistening approach to Beethoven's Concerto No. 4, Op. 58. He and the orchestra negotiated transitions between cantabile and stormy elegantly, sailed through the demanding solo interlude toward the end of the first movement with flying colors, and followed a spacious, diligent interpretation that added an element of suspense as the second movement built from unease to contentment. A little later on, there's a hammering series of jarring, off-center close harmonies straight out of a David Lynch film soundtrack, and Meyer jumped at the chance to drive them straight to the Twin Peaks lodge. Moments like that remind more than anything why Beethoven's work is still so relevant and so exciting over 150 years later. The orchestra plays the program again today, February 10 at 3 PM at All Saints Church, 230 E 60th St. if the storm has left you stir-crazy and you need something potentially transcendent to warm you up.
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Feb 8th 2010 By Eliot Glazer
Girls in Adult Diapers -- Is It Porn?
As it turns out, there are, indeed, grown-ups who get off at the sight of a hot babe all gussied up in one of those giant, white, crinkly pee-and-poop buckets.
And, honestly, everyone should be so lucky to have such a focused passion. If it means that the sight of -- again -- a giant, white, velcro repository for urine and feces is your thing, more power to ya.
But when this kind of thing goes up on YouTube, it becomes our responsibility to ask: Is it, like, porn? Keep reading to cast your vote.
|Yes. Now if you'll excuse me I have to cry alone.
|1403 (44.1%)
|No ... there's obviously a non-pornographic explanation for this.
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Monday 08 February
By northerner
Be careful what you condemn. Everyone has some sort of a fetish about something. Look up the definition for fetish. For some, having a fascination with bodily functions is a fetish. Some guys, like me, have a "fetish" for gorgeous, shapely legs. I assume she continued to remove her diaper to show...um...what she did. To some that's disgusting. To some it might be fascinating. Some never outgrew the fascination with those things and they can be, well, fascinating or arousing. Be careful what you criticize. More than a few would disagree. Is it porn? Depends on your perspective. Beauty, or crud, is in the eye of the beholder. If the girl in the clip gets her kicks out of wearing a Depends, so what? Who is she hurting? Herself? How? So much worse stuff on You Tube and other such sites. And I agree, carrying that fetish to its extremes is totally disgusting. By the way, didn't you guys show a sexy, scantily clad model last year who, as you put it, liked "butt fudge"? Sounds like she may be of the same camp. Her choice. Not yours. Falls under the first amendment. If we don't like it, we don't look at it. Works for me. Just sayin'.
Saturday 13 February
By The Martins
Northerner, finding long leggged women who wear short skirts and heels to be attractive is hardly a fetish. I'm guessing close to 100% of all heterosexual men find young scantily women with shapely legs to be sexually stimulating.
Being attracted to long legged young women becomes a fetish only when one is rendered incapable of sexual arousal unless ones partner is female, has long shapely legs, is wearing a mini skirt, and stilleto heels as well.
Even then, this isn't on par with the wearing of adult diapers as a means of achieving sexual arousal, with or without excrement or urination.
The former describes a preference the later describes a perversion. In psychological parlance, it is what is known as a paraphilia. People who engage in such practices are understood to be acting in a manner that is harmfull to themselves and their partner(s).
There is nothing uplifting orfulfilling about crapping in a diaper and then having sex. It is demeani9ng, belittling, and debasing.
Friday 19 February
By David
@ The Martins
You're wrong about that. I have a foot fetish but can be completely satisfied sexually without the stimulation of my partner's feet. It's just like a bonus or special treat.
Wednesday 17 November
By Gimme
@The Martins
I am a heterosexual male that finds young scantily women with shapely legs to be sexually stimulating.
I also have a diaper fetish.
I am perfectly capable of getting off and getting my partner off in bed. I have been with many women over the years. Only with one partner have I thought about diapers during the throes of sex. She also had the same fetish, and we used it to develop our healthy, sexual lifestyle.
Am I perverted because I lead a sexual lifestyle that both me and my partner enjoyed quite a bit (and harmed neither of us)?
On top of that, some people find being demeaned, belittled, and debased sexually arousing.
So please, for the sake of the rest of humanity, do a little research before upchucking your words onto the internet.
I'll be honest, your comment made me quite upset. If you don't find something sexually stimulating, then don't worry about it. Some people have fetishes. Some people have weird fetishes: Literally every object on this planet is sexualized by at least one person. Chances are, you have been with or will be with someone who has a fetish. Respect these facts. If you don't, then you're a douchebag. That's right. A douchebag.
Monday 08 February
By Michael
This is the exact opposite of porn: it could turn a guy off women entirely.
But you didn't include that in your survey.
@northerner: yeah, fetishes, yeah, free country. But it's also free for me to say your fetish is lame.
Monday 08 February
By northerner
And I absolutely respect and welcome your opinion. You're right, to you and others it is lame. But there are more who enjoy this fetish than you might think. They keep it to themselves and enjoy small group blogs about it. It's a normal bodily function, a normal biological process. Some find pleasure in it, rather than a nuisance. As I said, the taking of it to its extremes is disgusting to most who enjoy the fetish and that applies to only a few extremists, but again, it's their choice. It's not hurting anyone. I prefer my mentioned fetish of long and lovely legs and a short skirt perched atop strappy stiletto heels (as in Blake Lively, to name one). Now there's something women have that's definitely not a turn off.
Tuesday 09 February
By Michael
There are a lot of people who like Nickelback, too. Doesn't mean they have taste.
And long shapely legs isn't a fetish, it's a genetic feature designed to make the male of the species want to procreate. Like red buttocks on baboons. Nature is funny.
Friday 05 November
By Maranda
For your information porn isn't meant strictly for guys and I know plenty of people who do get off to this. Now stop being ignorant. Just because your tastes are average doesn't mean everyone's are.
Tuesday 09 February
By dude...
Dude. this fetish is not normal. Yes, there are other fetishes, but there are also people that suck horse dick. So, it's what is normal that is normal. Not the fact that everyone has a fetish.
Wednesday 17 February
By Adam
So wouldn't the fact that, as you say, "everyone has a fetish" therefore make it normal? And where do you have the authority to say it isn't normal? There are many different fetishes in the world just as much as there are reasons why someone would have a said fetish, and If you are so closed mided about sexuality, then why are reading this article? Why am I reading this article? Because Ive been aware of this fetish, among many others, for well over a decade. This seems to be the one fetish that everyone in the media wants to make fun of, from springer to tyra to these little articles that aol links up to. btw, it's technically not porn without at least seeing genitalia and definitely not real porn without penetration or the use of masturbation within the video.
Friday 19 February
By Cory
You are stating that it isn't normal for people to have fetish's of many different kinds. Yes there are fetish's that aren't common and can be agreed by more than one person that are disgusting but to state something isn't " normal "... what is normal? We are all different individuals with a different equilibrium for our lives. Your normal is different then my normal and my normal is different then her normal and her normal is different then everyone else's normal. Watch how you state normal, people need to stop using it like its something so easily understood.
Friday 12 February
By Just Asking
The diapers would work is certain situations ....Have you ever been sleeping , or dreaming and have the urge to pee and not want to get up out of bed ?
Saturday 13 February
By Raquel
It's not a fetish that does anything for me. Then again, most fetishes don't. Perhaps is the idea of helplessness that would turn someone on who enjoyed women in diapers? Maybe it appeals to their nurturing side? Regardless, the woman here is obviously of legal age. If she had been very young looking, I'd say that might be crossing the line. Since she actually looks like a woman, though, I say there's nothing wrong with it, as odd as it may seem to us.
Monday 15 February
By Raven
This would fall under the category of porn. Even if it does porn is part of free speech, there is nothing wrong with labeling something porn. I do believe in most of the 50 states porn is legal to buy and sell. This is a fetish without a doubt. But remember that there are shoe fetishes that are seemingly just as innocent, but when looked at closer you realize that they should be labeled as porn. The question is would you want your child stumbeling on this. My answer is no. It is one thing for an adult who knows what it is that they are looking at to view it and do with it as they will lol, but to have it available for children to stumble on is really the question we should be answering. I am not one who believes that children should be sheltered from the world. Sex is natural and normal, but children as they grow and discover, will learn what their preferences are. It should not be from a random unexplained video.
Monday 15 February
By Carl2229
I am one of the many thousands of people (probably millions worldwide) who enjoy wearing diapers, as well as seeing women women wearing them. While I am a firm supporter of the first ammendment, I don't think that this is appropriate for you-tube.
There is a proper time and place for fetish films, but a public/family forum like you-tube isn't it. Legal? Certainly. Appropriate? Not in my opinion.
Wednesday 17 February
By Dan
I think it's hilarious and I think men spend way too much time thinking of ways to make women look foolish and degraded. This is just one of those ways.
Thursday 18 February
By BreezeTasia
I think the only thing this does is ENCOURAGE CHILD MOLESTATION!
Friday 05 November
By Maranda
That's ridiculous. They're are plenty of people in the adult baby/diaper lover community who want to recapture their moments of innocence through experiencing a piece of their childhood once more. They would never want to take from a child what ended for them so soon.
Friday 19 February
By vikki
I think this is just disgusting. Yes, some fetishes are very weird and sometimes disturbing to the majority of people. but if it was, say, girls popping ballons with their butts, or watching girls put on a variety of shoes (yes, this is the stuff that is on youtube as well, and its not hard to stumble apon it if you type in something general like "shoe advice") But there are some things that cross the line. Yes, these girls look "of age" but isnt there anyone else that agrees that it is just a safe way to dip into the pedofile fetish?? They make porn of girls whose faces and bodies make look of age, but they are playing with stuffed bears and wearing pink dresses with pigtails. Idk, maybe its just me. but if you have to put a girl in those kinds of setting (now getting all the way down to diapers), it dosent matter if her body is grown up, cuz thats obviously not what they're turned on by. their getting turned on by the setting of it being a child.
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Birth Date: 09/11/70
Family: Wife Tabitha
Previously Traveled With: The Kingsmen, Dove Brothers
Favorite Food: Japanese and Mexican
Favorite Singer: Arthur Rice, Jeff Chapman, Brian Free and Steve Perry.
Favorite Movie: Blazin' Saddles
Favorite Group: The Kingdom Heirs and The Kingsmen
Favorite Album: Kingsmen Live Albums and Gold City's Pillars of Faith
Favorite Song: I Can Pray, This Love Is Mine
Favorite Music: As an artist I like all kinds of music. I believe you can learn a lot from different styles and genres of music but I grew up in Southern Gospel.
Favorite Vacation Spot: Hawaii
Favorite TV Show: C.S.I. Miami, Burn Notice, White Collar
Things I Love To Do: Studio work and background vocals.
Person I Most Admire: My Mom
- Inducted Into The Gospel Music Hall of Fame (Kingsmen)
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One of the most controversial moments in wrestling took place when Eric Bischoff signed Alundra Blayze away from WWE. Well, it turns out that the former WCW president is still close to his former employee. The two of them were spotted hanging out together in Arizona recently.
While WWE is still mulling over the candidates to induct the Ultimate Warrior into the hall of fame during Wrestlemania 30 weekend, CM Punk has revealed that he has asked management for the role. The feeling backstage is that officials are hoping to get Hulk Hogan to do it.
The leading candidate to win the Royal Rumble right now is Batista. WWE is said to want to capitalize on the momentum of his return by throwing him immediately into the main event scene of Wrestlemania 30. A title match against Randy Orton has been heavily discussed backstage.
"Maybe the reason I don't like you hitting on me isn't because I'm mean- maybe I'm tired, or taken, or you look like a mass murderer."
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Former TNA knockout SoCal Val posted an interesting picture of herself riding in a shopping cart.
Mickie James posted an old school picture of herself sleeping on a military plane while working for WWE.
Jake Roberts posted a picture of himself with former WCW star Marc Mero.
Since some fans requested to see it, Rob Van Dam posted a picture of himself with long hair on Twitter.
Aksana is the latest WWE diva to be featured in a "day off" photo shoot.
A picture of Kurt Angle and Gail Kim in India. The two were sent by TNA to do a special promotional tour for the company.
"Yes, of course. I'm Mexican. I grew up watching him. I saw him several times before he came to WWE or any other company in the US. He wrestled for years and years in Mexico, especially in Ciudad Juarez. I've always admired him. He started from the bottom and at the end of his career he was one of the most amazing, most popular Superstars in the world."
"Everything kinda went downhill very fast. There was an accident that my son was involved in, and a good friend of ours was in the accident with my son. Just the marriage basically crashing and burning. After the show [Hogan Knows Best], I kinda hit rock bottom. Everything got dark, everything happened at once. I was drinking alcohol very heavily. It just all kept piling up, it all kept mounting and mounting and I didn't know how to handle it. I always wondered how could someone possibly take their own life, and so I got to that point where I said, 'You know what, maybe this would be easy. You know, maybe this would be an easy way to fix things.'"
"I was doing everything I could to kill myself except put a loaded weapon in my hand."
Now that he is done filming Guardians of the Galaxy, Batista is back in the United States and just taking a break from working.
Tamina Snuka posted a picture of herself having dinner with the Usos and Camacho.
Through Twitter, Sheamus and Mark Cuban joked around with one another about the Dallas Mavericks and their on screen incident in WWE.
Chris Jericho revelaed that he ran into Hulk Hogan recently, and the two of them shared a very good conversation.
Former TNA star Homicide and Devon recently met up in San Antonio.
Eric Bischoff posted a picture of his wife, as the two of them visited a really small town in Wyoming.
Prior to becoming the voice of WWE, Michael Cole worked as a journalist for CBS Radio. Presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, who famously lost the election race to George Bush, was his first major assignment. He had to explore the losing side of things in the piece.
Michael Cole will not be on commentary for Smackdown this week. Instead, JBL will be joined on television by Josh Mathews. No word yet on why Cole did not work the event, but there does not appear to be any backstage heat from WWE towards their long time commentator.
Since Miz is someone that the company wants to keep around for a long time, WWE is experimenting with him as a commentator on Smackdown this week, where the former heavyweight champion will be joining Michael Cole and JBL for the entire episode.
WWE purposely had Summer Rae and Rosa Mendes wear similar outfits on Monday Night Raw as a rib to Michael Cole for mixing up the two performers the previous week.
Since they are friends in real life, Michael Cole flew down to Houston this week to do commentary at Reality of Wrestling Christmas Chaos, an event promoted by Booker T. The two of them requested and received permission from WWE to do so.
For some reason, Jerry Lawler was not present on Tuesday when WWE taped the episode of Monday Night Raw that is set to air on December 23rd. Michael Cole and JBL worked the commentating booth as a duo instead.
During Monday Night Raw, a peculiar scene took place where JBL, Jerry Lawler and Michael Cole were taking pictures of themselves. That segment was done because Vince McMahon wanted to take a jab at Barack Obama for doing that at the funeral of Nelson Mandela.


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Vt. property taxes heading up againBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press Bureau | November 17,2013MONTPELIER Fewer than six months after passing the largest increase in statewide property taxes since the birth of the current education funding system, lawmakers are bracing for what looks to be another large rate hike next year.
Preliminary estimates from the Shumlin administration and the Legislatures Joint Fiscal Office indicate that lawmakers will have to raise statewide property taxes by 5 cents next year in order to keep pace with school spending.
If projections hold true, it would be the second consecutive 5-cent increase, and would push the statewide assessment to 99 cents for every $100 of assessed property value, or $1,435 on a $150,000 home.
The impacts would be especially pronounced on a class of homeowners too well off for property tax subsidies, but with incomes in many cases modest enough to make higher tax bills a financial challenge.
According to the Joint Fiscal Office, a 3.8 percent rise in school spending next year would, under the current funding formula, translate into a 10 percent rate increase, on average, for households reporting income of more than $92,000 the threshold at which taxpayers no longer qualify for income sensitivity.
Its unsustainable, says Rep. David Sharpe, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Ways and Means. Its a big problem.
The disconnect between the projected rise in school budgets in fiscal year 2015 and its disproportionate impact on residential tax bills is the consequence of a complex education-financing system that an increasing number of lawmakers say is in need of repair.
The other revenue Vermont uses to pay for public education sales and use tax, purchase and use tax, the lottery, and whats known as a general fund transfer arent rising at the same clip as school budgets.
Paying for schools, then, requires an ever-growing reliance on the property tax. And with mechanisms in place to cushion the impact of rate hikes on the 60 percent of homeowners who qualify for income sensitivity, that means residents with incomes in excess of $92,000 will bear the brunt.
The House last year passed a package of financing reforms, some of which sought to curb local spending, and others which tried to redistribute tax obligations away from the non-income-sensitized population and onto renters and people with incomes below $92,000.
The Senate, however, mostly jettisoned the plan. And households with no income sensitivity will likely see their overall share of education financing jump from under 26 percent in fiscal year 2009 to more than 30 percent in fiscal year 2015.
Vermont Republicans have long been sounding the alarm over education costs, and fault the financing system, known as Act 68, for accelerating spending that rose by about 70 percent between 2000 and 2010, even as student enrollment figures plummeted.
Republicans, by and large, say income sensitivity removes the financial disincentive that local voters would otherwise need to say no to annual budget increases in their school districts.
And the non-income-sensitized voters who remain, Republicans say, lack the critical electoral mass to sway outcomes.
As property tax rates continue to rise, however, more rank-and-file Democrats have shown a willingness to consider reforms aimed at curbing local spending.
While theres no move afoot to impose maximum staff-to-student ratios, or mandate district consolidation proposals former Republican Gov. James Douglas perennially sought to enact lawmakers in a Democrat-controlled Legislature seem to be flirting more seriously with extending a heavier hand from Montpelier into local budget deliberations.
Some lawmakers, meanwhile, are seeking more wholesale reforms; the House Committee on Ways and Means last week dedicated nearly an hour to a proposal that would reconfigure entirely the way Vermont pays for its schools.
The plan would replace the property tax-based system with a hybrid formula that has an equal reliance on income taxes. Rep. Jim Condon, a Colchester Democrat who is trying to generate traction for the concept, said the system would create a more direct line between budgets and taxpayers by magnifying the cause-and-effect relationship between spending increases and rates for people with incomes below $92,000.
The concept appeals even to proponents of Act 68, who say that while the system has ensured equity across school districts, property values arent always a useful indicator of a persons ability to pay.
When the average voter goes to the polls to decide their school budget, theres a disconnect between what theyre voting on and how thats going to affect their tax bill, Condon said. The idea here is that this would help relieve some of what I think are inequities.
Iterations of Condons proposal have been around for years, and an overhaul of the funding formula wont happen anytime soon.
But Sharpe said he thinks the legislative appetite will be stronger in 2014 for some of the more modest reforms pushed by the House last year. And while they may not be enough to address the problem in fiscal year 2015, according to Sharpe, they could help suppress the spending trajectory in future years.
Gov. Peter Shumlin has thus far assumed a mostly passive role in the school spending reform, and continues to reiterate his support for an education-financing system that he says is the most elegant in the nation.
But Shumlins commissioner of taxes last week told House lawmakers that the administration, in light of the looming rate increase, wants to hold a symposium in early January to discuss possible solutions.
The idea wold be to get to get some local and national experts on finance, and just take a look at our system, Commissioner of Taxes Mary Peterson said.
Peterson said that the existing school finance system, enacted 15 years ago, is very elderly in terms of education funding systems. And it appears that the Democratic governor may look to take more of a lead role in addressing a broad-based tax on Vermonters that is now growing at a faster clip than nearly any other revenue stream in state government.
Peterson said she hopes to hold the symposium shortly after lawmakers reconvene in January.
We have equity. We have local control. We have quality, Peterson said. But I think its fair to raise the question of whether we should spend quite so much.MORE IN This Just InMONTPELIER Controlling costs and ensuring educational opportunity across the state are two of... Full StoryMONTPELIER U.S. Sen. Full StoryArlington health Full Story
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BREAKING McCallie wrestling coach Gordon Connell has decided to step down after more than three-plus decades.
Connell has a long history in the sport beyond his numerous accomplishments at McCallie. He was the first athlete at Brainerd to win a state championship of any kind when he did so in wrestling in 1966. He coached Hixson to its first state championship. He started the program at Middle Tennessee State.
The coach also has national and international ties. He has been charged with making video at the NCAA wrestling tournament for years and he also has filmed numerous world championships. But he also walked back on the mat in 2004 to win the world seniors championship.
Ward Gossett is an assistant sports editor and writer for the Times Free Press. Ward has a long history in Chattanooga journalism. He actually wrote a bylined story for the Chattanooga News-Free Press as a third-grader. He Began working part-time there in 1968 and was hired full time in 1970. Ward now covers high school athletics, primarily football, wrestling and baseball and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga wrestling. Over a 40-year career, he has covered ...


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For The First Time in Nine Years, I'm Not Going "Back to School"
As soon as I discovered I was pregnant at the end of last summer, I set the wheels in motion to take a half-year sabbatical from my job teaching music, theatre and English at Maine's smallest K-12 public school. We're allowed a full year at half pay every seven years, but my family wouldn't quite be able to swing that financially. Besides, between my six-week maternity leave, summer vacation and a four-month sabbatical, I piled up eight months of time at home with my daughter Penrose. The second half of the school year might be a nice break from around-the-clock parenting.
The word "sabbatical" is derived from the word "Sabbath," and it's supposed to be just that–a rest. In an academic or ecclesiastic context, you're supposed to do something wholly unrelated to your job. But a public school teacher's sabbatical is a little bit different. I needed to come up with a plan for somehow enriching the school. Writing a book and caring for a member of the class of 2032 wasn't quite enough, so I'm going to be working on curriculum mapping and taking clarinet lessons.
School started the Tuesday after Labor Day. Ordinarily I'd have already been in workshops for two days, agonized over a bulletin board (cutting out letters has never been my forte), and picked out a back-to-school outfit. Instead, I woke up on a pee-soaked trundle bed next to a happily kicking 4-month-old. We weren't on a schedule and we didn't have an agenda, so I cleaned up and moved us into my bed to get a few more hours of sleep. Read the rest of this entry →


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Spaced is an organisation that operates out of Perth and provides platforms for residencies, exchanges and new work to be undertaken in remote areas of Western Australia; linking the very best artists with these communities. Acting Director, Hannah Mathews talks to Alex Bellemore about the spaced projects. Alex Bellemore: Can you explain the origins of the.
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The Lost Generation Project is a community arts and culture initiative that uses film and digital media to give a voice to people with intellectual disability. Prensented by DADAA and the WA Disability Services Commission, the project aims to promote the social inclusion of people with disability. It involves the creation of short films featuring.
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You don't have to be rich to be an arts philanthropist, says Jo Malone of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.