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Britain Buys 20 Tomahawk Missiles Ready to Strike IS
By EKELEME JUDITH OLUCHI on September 27, 2014
Britain has bought 20 Tomahawk missiles from the US in preparation for its bombing campaign against Islamic State.
Costing £1million each, they are fired from submarines and can be computer-programmed to turn corners.
They have already been fired in the Gulf by the US and are likely to be among the first weapons used by the British military.
The submarines loiter offshore before going to depth to fire the Tomahawks which can cover more than 850 miles, can be retargeted in flight and can loiter above a target for more than two hours.
RAF Tornados will fly the first UK missions aiming to 'decapitate' IS commanders, convoys of jihadists fighters and control bunkers during initial air operations over Iraq.
Special forces troops have been in the region identifying potential targets for weeks and will be asked to identify any areas where civilians are being used as human shields
There are fears that IS will try to engineer large civilian casualities for propaganda purposes. More than 3,000 Yazidi women and hundreds of civilians are being held in Syria and Iraq by the group.
The RAF will operate over areas including Baghdad, the giant dams at Mosul and Haditha, the Sinjar mountains, the IS stronghold of Mosul and the cities of Irbil and Kirkuk.
The UK's air war will be run from a bunker on the giant al-Udeid airbase in Qatar and linked directly to US Central Command. Targets will be chosen from a list drawn-up by the US military but it is likely the UK jets will also be used to survey the ground for mobile IS units before being instructed to strike.
Special Forces units known as Smash teams have carried out reconnaissance to provide up-to-date information on the jihadistss.
In some attacks, they will use a process called 'painting a target' to pinpoint a site to be struck. A laser beam from a portable device is bounced off a building or military installation from a few hundred yards – this is detected by the aircraft or a missile sensor, which then deploys the weapon.
The Tornados, veterans of both Gulf Wars and Afghanistan, will be armed with Paveway bombs to target small compounds, Storm Shadow bunker busters and supersonic Brimstone missiles that can hit moving targets such as people in cars or on motorbikes.
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Smoothies are a staple for many health conscious folks. They are a great way to get more fruit and greens into your diet. Kids love them too! Green smoothies are a regular part of our breakfast menu. You can find many different recipes for smoothies but I tend to just go by what I have on hand. Here in this infographic is how I build my smoothies no matter what kind of smoothie I'm making.
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As early as 1953, members of the Eisenhower Administration were considering how a new flag would be created to include stars for the admission of the potential new states of Alaska and Hawaii. When the last states had been admitted in 1912, a joint Army-Navy board submitted recommendations to the President who made the final choice. On July 14, 1953 President Eisenhower declared that his preferred method to select a flag design was to appoint a joint committee with six members: three representatives from the Armed forces and one each from the Interior Department, State Department and Commission on Fine Arts.
In September, 1958 the White House staff decided the time had finally come to determine the procedure for selecting the 49-star flag design. On October 16, 1958 the White House issued a press release stating that the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury, along with the Chairman of the Commission on Fine Arts were appointed to informally propose the new flag designs to the President. In September 1958, Acting Secretary of the Army, had already sent designs for the 49-star and 50-star flags to the Secretary of Defense that included the designs that would be ultimately selected by the President. At a Cabinet meeting on November 19, 1958, President Eisenhower received a briefing on the history of the flag design process and several suggestions were made regarding designs for the new flags. The President stated a preference for seven staggered rows of seven stars and those at the meeting concurred that this kind of arrangement would easily allow for the addition of the 50th star.
The Committee formally submitted their designs for the 49-star flag on December 30, 1958. On January 3, 1959 President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10798 establishing the design of the 49-star flag. On July 4, 1959 this flag was first officially raised over Fort McHenry National Historic Site with Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton presiding. The Committee formally submitted their designs for the 50-star flag on August 17, 1959. On August 21, 1959 President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10834 establishing the design of the 50-star flag. This flag was first officially raised over Fort McHenry National Historic Site on July 4, 1960 with Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton presiding.
From the first year of the Eisenhower administration the public had anticipated that Alaska and Hawaii might be added as new states and that a new flag design would be needed. The earliest submission of a 50-star flag design came in 1953, but the bulk of the submissions began pouring in after the admission of Alaska in 1958. By the time the official design was declared for the 50-star flag more than 3,000 people had sent in their ideas, some of them submitting multiple designs. The designs came in a wide range of media from simple pencil sketches to professionally constructed flags. This was an especially popular project for elementary school children who expressed their ideas with construction paper, crayons, tempera paint and tiny stick-on stars.


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Christmas has been and gone, and we're finally into 2015. Have you made any resolutions? Here at the Direct Cosmetics office we've been restocking our warehouse with big brand products at fantastic prices. Take a peek at our new arrivals page to see the latest and greatest Direct Cosmetics deals. Overwhelmed by the choice? Don't worry – we've put together a guide of the best beauty buys to start you off. We've scoured the catwalks for upcoming beauty trends and bundled together our top beauty recommendations to produce a list of some of the best items you should be looking out for on the Direct Cosmetics website.
This season's fashion shows have brought plenty of new beauty trends. First off, centre partings were inescapable on the catwalk – only disappearing when stylists chose to employ the equally on-trend slicked back look that we've seen cropping up since the summer. Elsewhere, we saw the return of Woodstock waves – perfectly styled to create that seemingly effortless tousled look. To achieve this look, stock up on your favourite hairspray. Now might be the time to try out dry shampoo as a styling tool too, particularly if you want to try the slicked back, wet-look style. Finally, pick up a few hair accessories to nail the bohemian look.
This season's shows featured rather muted cosmetics, but when makeup was used, the eyes were the centre of attention. Big brows are still very much en vogue, and now they're joined by dramatic winged eyeliner and cat eyes. That means renewing your inventory of eyeliner and mascara. Brown eyeshadow is another must-have this season.
Away from these bold looks, we continued to see metallics on the runway. This season, gold looks set to dominate. Think gentle hints of warm gold to brighten the eyes, not dramatic heavy metallics across both your lids.
Another key look on the catwalk was small, bright flashes of neon colour on the upper eyelid. Some of the stylists created these incredible blocks of colour by using tiny pieces of brightly coloured leather – or lipstick!
While we're on the subject of lips, we're afraid to report that they were fairly muted on the catwalk at recent shows. Instead, most stylists chose to focus on the eyes or go for a natural look. There was one trend we spotted: red lips. Yes, they're back! After last summer's orange lippy trend and the autumn's love affair with berry lips, we're returning to classic Hollywood red.
Dewy, glowing skin isn't so much of a trend as an eternal beauty goal. Improve your skincare routine this year by stocking up on SPF products and exfoliating regularly!
Recently on the Direct Cosmetics blog, we listed some winter skincare tips – take a look, and don't forget to head over to the Direct Cosmetics site to secure big brand cosmetics for next season.
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Five people injured in early morning blaze that broke out in a Queens Village home
Photo via Getty Images
The FDNY is investigating the cause of a fire that broke out on the second floor of a Queens Village home on Monday morning.
Officials say that FDNY responded to a 911 call regarding a fire at 100-24 208th St. at 1:41 a.m. on Oct. 14. The fire was quickly labeled all hands on deck, with the FDNY deploying 12 units and 60 firefighters to the scene.
The fire was brought under control by 2:31 a.m. Five people, including one firefighter, suffered minor injuries as a result of the fire.
Three of the victims refused medical attention, while the other two — including the firefighter — were taken to LIJ Hospital/Queens for treatment.
The fire marshal is working to determine the cause of the fire.
Cops seek man who stole package from Ridgewood apartment building
Southeast Queens leaders offer support of AG's lawsuit against NYPD
One injured in early morning apartment fire in Jackson Heights
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Workplace Violence Essay
"And who has not thought that the impersonal world deserves no better than to be
destroyed by one fabulous sign of his displeasure?"
(J. Bronowski, The Face of Violence)
Workplace violence has become a concern for both public and private companies, and has prompted these companies to implement anti-violence programs.
As well they should, for the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows in their Special Report on Workplace Violence, researched by Dr. Greg Warchol , that in each year for the period of 1992 – 96 more than 2.2 million residents were victims of violent acts while they were working or on duty. (BJS Special Report, July 1998, NCJ 168634)
The most common violent act committed was simple assault with an estimated 1.5 million victimizations each year and then followed by an estimated yearly average of 395,000 aggravated assaults, 51,000 rapes and sexual assaults, 84,000 robberies and 1,000 homicides.
A stranger to the victim committed the majority of workplace crime while less than 1% were intimates. Men were more likely to be the perpetrator and or the victim of violence. In the public arena retail workers had the highest rate of robbery and aggravated assault victimization while police and teachers were the most often victimized in the public arena. 20 % of violent incidents in the workplace involved an armed offender of which a firearm was used fewer than 10% of the time. This is that data that faces all employers in every sector and by which they must base their approach to formulate programs that will help create a safe and comfortable atmosphere for both their employees and their clients.
Many of the conditions that prevail in today's workplace seem to breed critical incidents. Among them are:
1.)	Competitive pressures. Relentless global market forces demand constant changes in methods of production and workplace organization. Employees find themselves having to perform in new ways and more efficiently. In addition, privacy has been eroded by electronic surveillance on the job, drug testing and computerized performance monitoring. Abrasive co-workers or autocratic supervisors create additional stresses. The long-term consequences may be overwhelming psychological stress leading to hostility and outbursts of violent or bizarre behavior.
2.)	Domestic dysfunction overspill. Family discord, domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse, and other social ills intrude into the workplace. According to the U.S. Department of labor, "Seventy four percent of employed battered women are harassed by their abusive partners at work, causing 54 percent to miss at least three full days of work a month and 20 percent to lose their jobs. These figures do not take into account battering that is unreported to employers due to the absence of guaranteed protection and counseling. The total effect and extent of domestic overspill is yet to be recognized.
3.)	Changing workplace demographics. Growing ethnic, linguistic,...
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Home Community Perth & Kinross Council awards foodbank £10,000 in funding
Perth & Kinross Council awards foodbank £10,000 in funding
Perth & Kinross Council has today confirmed that a grant of £10,000 is to be made to Perth & Kinross Foodbank to alleviate the charity's funding pressures in the current financial year.
Perth foodbank has been awarded £10,000 in funding that has come from the Council's Community Justice and Inequality Fund.
Councillor Murray Lyle, Depute Leader of Perth & Kinross Council, said: "Perth & Kinross Foodbank benefits vulnerable residents of Perth and Kinross when they are facing a difficult time in their life. I'm pleased that Perth & Kinross Council has been able to identify appropriate funding to support them to continue this work. The £10,000 identified will be paid in 2017/18, and we are considering how the Council can support the Foodbank going forward."
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Councillor Peter Barrett, Convener of the Council's Housing and Communities Committee, which includes both community safety and equalities within its remit, said: "Perth & Kinross Foodbank does tremendous work I am very pleased that we have been able to respond positively to help put the organisation on a sustainable financial footing. The support we are providing will also trigger other savings in their costs. The roll out of Universal Credit will increase demand for the supports provided by the Foodbank, and we are committed to supporting a partnership with them to tackle poverty and inequalities in our area."
Councillor Willie Wilson, Depute Provost, said: "Foodbank volunteers and staff do fantastic work to help people in need in this area. I would urge everyone who can to contribute to the work of the Foodbank by taking part in local collections. This is now easier than ever with collection points in all Perth and Kinross libraries."
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On The Content of His Character
By John McWhorter
If Obama loses, let's please not assume that racism was the cause.
In the increasingly unlikely event that Barack Obama does not become president, Martin Luther King's dream would reveal itself as tragically unrealized 40 years after his death. Not, however, because whites were standing in that dream's way, but because of the black people standing alongside them.
Yes, black people. I find myself unable to trust that more than a sliver of black America would be able, if Obama lost, to assess that outcome according to--of all things--the content of his character.
For 40 years, black America has been misled by a claim that we can only be our best with the total eclipse of racist bias. Few put it in so many words, but the obsession with things like tabulating ever-finer shades of racism and calling for a "national conversation" on race in which whites would listen to blacks talk about racism are based on an assumption: that the descendants of African slaves in the United States are the only group of humans in history whose problems will vanish with a "level playing field," something no other group has ever supposed could be a reality.
The general conversation is drifting slowly away from this Utopianist canard, but nothing could help hustle it into obsolescence more than an Obama presidency, especially for the generation who grew up watching a black man and his family in the White House and had little memory of a time when it would have been considered an impossibility. At the same time, nothing could breathe new life into this gestural pessimism like an Obama loss. It would be the perfect enabler for a good ten years of aggrieved mulling over "the persistence of racism," which, for all of its cathartic seduction, would make no one less poor, more gainfully employed, or better educated.
The prevailing sentiment would be expressed in tart declarations, considered the height of black authenticity, that bigotry did in the Obama campaign. Even now, the idea that white swing voters might pass on him because of his positions or campaign performance is considered a peculiar notion, likely from someone unhip to the gospel that America remains all about racism despite Colin Powell and Oprah. The money question is considered to be why our Great Black Hope isn't polling tens of points ahead of John McCain and his discredited party. But Obama has been a sure shot only with Blue America college-town sorts, animated not only by Obama's intellect, but also by his "diverseness" and its symbolic import for showing that our nasty past is truly past.
Obama, in fact, has limitations as a communicator beyond black people and the "Stuff White People Like" set. In his first debate with John McCain, when McCain assailed him as a big spender, Obama was almost strangely uninterested in pointing up the things he wants to spend money on--i.e., exactly the things needed by the struggling working class people he has trouble making inroads with. Luckily, he's gotten past this some recently (see his calling health care a "right" during the second debate and his brass-tacks speech in Toledo on Monday). However, overall, professorial Obama still seems oblivious to the power of slogans. Reagan had "Morning in America"; Bill Clinton had "The End of Welfare As We Know It." Obama has had the likes of the gauzy "Yes, We Can," stirring as an opening gambit and good on T-shirts, but offering little to the folks facing layoffs while trying to pay their mortgage. To struggling black folks, ethnic identification pushes Obama over the edge regardless. But all folks aren't black.
The Wisconsin chairman of the Republican Party notes, then, that for lunch pail whites, "I don't think race is an issue at all. A bigger problem is that Barack Obama has a sort of show pony style. The speeches and the classic double speak and being a great orator, that kind of thing doesn't play well in Wisconsin." That is, there are plenty of non-racist whites who need a candidate to show them something more than I.Q. and a poignant multicultural provenance. In not finding Obama's dreams of his father worthy of a vote, they are evaluating him as Dr. King would have counseled.
These are transitional times. In a recent Bloggingheads dialogue, Ta-Nehisi Coates admitted to me that Iowa had forced him to "reassess" his pessimism as to how far America has come on race. If Obama loses, people like Coates will desist in their reassessments, and settle back into their cognitive comfort zone. Whites will cheer on the sidelines: Nothing would establish a Good White Person's bona fides on the race thing more than assenting that the racism "out there" is "still around" and has vanquished the audacity of hope.
The grievous result of this fetishization of racism would be that it would put a kibosh on the upsurge in black voters' political engagement amidst the Obamenon. Newspaper articles would quote blacks disillusioned from getting excited about any future black candidate--e.g. "I thought maybe America was finally getting past racism but it turned out not to be true." 2009 would be a year of countless panel discussions, quickie books, and celebrated rap couplets wallowing in the notion that the white man wouldn't let Obama into the Oval Office where he belonged, urgently reminding us that to be black is still to be a victim.
Promising black politicians like Cory Booker, Deval Patrick, Adrian Fenty, and Harold Ford would find it harder than Obama did to attract support for presidential runs: No matter how stirring their speeches, the good word would be, "Look what happened to Obama!" And for years to come, professors would teach the 2008 election as a lesson about racism rather than about a heartening near-victory that no one could have imagined as recently as 15 years ago.
In August the hot news was The New York Times/CBS poll noting that one in 20 whites said they would not vote for a black man. Even those most self-appointedly vigilant about the depth of America's racist roots had a hard time pretending that one in 20 was exactly threatening--but then the poll also showed that one in five whites thought most of their friends would not vote for a black presidential candidate. But imagine a poll asking people about their friends that revealed, say, that they thought most of them weren't racists--something not hard to imagine. Social scientists would likely laugh it out of the room--"anecdotal," and so on--because it would be telling them something they didn't want to hear.
In September it was the AP/Yahoo poll making the inbox rounds, showing that a third of white Democrats agreed with the pairing of at least one negative adjective with blacks. But how hard is it to imagine that someone who says black people are more likely to, for example, be angry than whites might nevertheless be an Obama fan? After all, it wasn't so long ago that the wise cocktail party comment on Obama was that he is "the kind of black person white people are okay with." In line with that, the same poll shows that three out of five whites who pair a negative adjective with blacks intend to vote for Obama anyway.
And so it goes: All evidence is that the role of racism in Obama's reception has been and will be blissfully marginal. Yet it is hardly unlikely that the race will be close. And as such, because there surely are backwards people out there who will not vote for Obama because he is black, it will not be impossible to fashion an argument that racism decided a McCain victory.
Of course, the best case will only be that racism tipped the election by a few points. But besides the fact that there will be equally coherent arguments that it did not, the proper analogy would be that pneumonia is often what kills AIDS patients. No one would claim that this means that pneumonia, as opposed to lung cancer, heart disease, or AIDS itself, is a grievously urgent medical crisis in America. Yet black America's shorthand consensus will be founded upon just such a logical fallacy: that "Obama lost because America remains a deeply racist country."
Why would such an athletically pessimistic conclusion be so attractive to black people? Partly because of insecurity, as Shelby Steele artfully framed it in his signature book titled, as it happens, The Content of Our Character. Unsure of our worth after 350 years of abuse and just 40 years blinking in the light of an America past Jim Crow, we too easily seek the crutch of noble victimhood as a substitute for a true inner pride it can still be hard to feel deep down.
Another reason is that for blacks who are not poor--i.e. most black people, as quiet as it's kept--this Cassandra tendency is a gesture of solidarity with our less fortunate fellow blacks. Black America is poised awkwardly between a private commitment to keeping our heads up despite the obstacles and a sense that our public face should be one of tribalist plangency. Tyler Perry's plays and movies are runaway hits with black audiences featuring Perry's drag grandmother character Madea counseling Bill Cosby-esque "deal with it" wisdom. Yet, as Peggy Noonan nailed it on blacks' reception of Reverend Jeremiah Wright's victimologist rantings, we are also committed to Walt Whitman's "barbaric yawp," asserting "I'm still loyal to our bitterness."
This bone-deep antipathic sentiment is processed as a key element in informed black identity. To let it go is to risk, for one, seeming unfeeling about the innocent black 17-year-old slammed against a police car by cops trawling a neighborhood on a drug bust. Then also, to let it go would mean imagining that Barack Obama missed the prize simply because he wasn't up to it. Many black people aren't ready to face something like that squarely just yet: Black America, understandably given its history, is nursing an inner-wound.
That Obama's loss in the general election may have more to do with his performance than his melanin will be treated as something to acknowledge parenthetically at best. And that will be a dismissal of the very lesson Dr. King tried to teach us. Two decades ago, when Jesse Jackson ran for president and Time magazine did a cover with his picture and the headline "JESSE!?", it was just to sell copies: We all knew America wasn't ready for a black President. Perhaps the reaction was partly due to certain things about Jackson himself, but who knew that not so long later, a black man would be within a hair's breadth of the White House in part because of his race? Yet, if we truly understand that King's lesson was that black people are whites' equals and not eternal poster children, then we must confront the fact that race is not the only reason Obama could lose.
King's next birthday celebration will be, as it happens, the day before Inauguration Day, and I dread the prospect of black America treating King Day as an opportunity to rue how McCain's swearing in will show "far we have to go" 40 years after King's death, rather than celebrating that how close Obama came to the prize showed how magnificently far we have come.
John McWhorter is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English.
John McWhorter teaches linguistics at Columbia University. He is the author of Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America.
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Storyteller Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi believes in the power of the spoken word to enlighten, educate and delight all who listen! A versatile performer, emcee and workshop presenter, her stories of wit, wonder and wisdom captivate audiences of all ages whether she is standing in the classroom or on a concert stage. Through her school residency programs, she helps children tell and write their own stories. Her writing workshop "The Writer's Exchange" is a favorite at local retirement communities. She frequently combines story and art in her workshops and believes that creating a piece of art from images in a story sets the stage for the word to enter, stimulates the imagination and improves access to personal creativity.
Lorraine is co-founder with Karen Pillsworth of "Tall Tale/Short Story Productions. Together they produce storytelling events for grown-ups.
She is also co-founder with Gail Burger, Kusum Gupta and Muriel Horowitz, of the Dutchess Interfaith Story Circle that celebrated its 10th anniversary in October 2014. The circle meets in a different house of worship every month to share stories from a variety of faith traditions and holds an annual Peace Concert: An Afternoon of Sharing Stories.
Her book Wisdom in the Telling Finding Inspiration and Grace in Traditional Folktales and Myths Retold was the winner of the 2008 Storytelling World Resource Award for Special Storytelling Resources.


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'It didn't matter if someone liked it or not': six leading architects revisit their first commission
Amenity centre and passenger terminal for Fred Olsen, Millwall docks, London, 1969-70
I met Richard Rogers in the early 60s at Yale School of Architecture in the US, where we were both studying for our master's. We got on well and combined forces to form Team 4, with Wendy Cheeseman and her sister Georgie Walton, who was the only registered architect at the firm. Wendy and I married and, after four years, we set up Foster Associates in her bedsit. It was 1967: there were no associates and no projects.
A part-time architecture student worked with us. His father worked for a shipping company in Millwall docks in east London, called Fred Olsen. He knew it was looking to build an amenity centre for its workforce and I got an audience with the dock manager. I was 33.
Norman Foster at Millwall Docks: 'The dock manager had never met an architect before. He gave me three weeks to come up with a proposal.' Photograph: Michael Franke/The Guardian
The facilities at the Port of London were horrific. Olsen was a progressive Norwegian company: it wanted to raise conditions for its employees. I arrived early and explored the site. The dock manager had never met an architect before. He showed me some existing designs. As the conversation went on, I began to raise questions – not just about the building, but about how the entire operation worked. In the end, he agreed to give me three weeks to come up with a proposal.
Olsen's ships combined trade with holiday cruises, carrying passengers and freight in the same vessel. I saw that a similar strategy could be used to bring dock workers and managers together under one roof. I identified a narrow plot between two sheds on the waterfront. I put the dockers' amenities on the ground floor and offices for administrative staff and management on the floor above.
A Foster sketch of his 1969 project, drawn on a lamp-post for photographer Michael Franke
"You can't put foul-mouthed dockers next to secretaries," was the immediate response. I had shaken everything up to such an extent that it was suggested I meet Fred Olsen himself. I argued that if you want to raise standards in the workplace, you should go beyond providing showers and toilets, and start to overcome the ingrained prejudices between management and workforce. He agreed to the project and gave us one year to deliver it.
The building was challenging technologically as well as socially. At the time, nobody in the UK had the knowhow to produce a glass wall with high thermal performance. At my own cost, I flew to Pittsburgh to obtain a set of working drawings from a company that could make the glass. Inside, we introduced a gaming area on the ground floor: there were ping-pong tables and dart boards. Upstairs, Olsen's art collection was on the walls; this was revolutionary for an office building.
The Olsen building was visited by the computer company IBM, which commissioned us to build a temporary head office in Cosham, near Portsmouth. It is now grade II-listed. Today, a concrete wall is all that remains of the Olsen site. Revisiting the location brought back some extraordinary memories. Olsen really was a bastion of hope in a desert of industrial unrest. Four years ago, my wife organised a surprise party for my 80th birthday and I found myself standing next to Fred Olsen. He said his only regret was that we didn't build more projects together.
I am still doing versions of the same thing: building communities, whether I am designing for a Swiss village or a disadvantaged community in Odisha, India, as I am through my foundation. That has remained a constant, since that very first commission.
Harvey Nichols, London fashion week window displays, 1997
Thomas Heatherwick with the original store model, a 'ginormous polystyrene and aeroply structure'. Photograph: Michael Franke/The Guardian
I met Terence Conran in my final year at the Royal College of Art, in 1994. He had come to give a talk and decided to buy a piece from my design degree show – a gazebo made from birch ply – for his back garden. He then asked me to design an interior display for the Conran Shop, so I made a layered structure from a kilometre of cardboard that displayed hundreds of kitchen items. Mary Portas, who worked for Harvey Nichols at the time, saw it and asked if I could design a window display at the department store for London fashion week 1997. I was 27 and this was my first proper public project.
When you think of a window display, you automatically think: well, there is a window; what shall I put behind it? But I've always found it interesting to try to take a step further back. I thought maybe I could do something more engaging, more dynamic. I didn't want to make something that was imprisoned behind glass, so focused instead on the masonry between the windows and came up with this ginormous polystyrene and aeroply structure that weaved between the windows and the building.
I presented the idea to Mary, thinking she would say no. Everyone who saw the plan thought it would be impossible to get the permissions. But Mary was up for it. I soon discovered that, when you try to do something different, people want to be involved. We then had to find a way of stretching our minuscule budget to get this thing built. There was a team of us working for £3 an hour (about £5.60 today) in a vast studio in east London, including a couple of stone carvers from St Paul's cathedral and a DJ who walked past and asked if he could help. It was 1997, so computer-aided design wasn't really available. I had to carve this incredibly complex form into a 1:20 model that we then scaled up manually, using huge sheets of graph paper.
I experienced a slight shudder on seeing the model again after 22 years. It was the first time I had done something so public – and there it was, suspended above people's heads on Knightsbridge. I was anxious, but in a good way: you should be scared, you should be worried. It was a great success, thank goodness – it won a D&AD [Design and Art Direction] award that year. I remember sitting on a bus listening to people wonder what it was about. For me, it didn't matter if someone liked it or not. It made the street more vivid and engaging.
Today, there are 200 people working at my studio; we don't build things ourselves any more, but we still try to inspire curiosity in the public. The Harvey Nichols window display took a year from idea to installation. Right now, we are designing a new terminal at Changi airport in Singapore that will take 10 years to complete. It involves billions of pounds of construction work and will endure for decades; but I feel the same strong sense of duty to the people who will experience it.
My first public commission taught me the quality of just keeping believing, like a long-distance runner. It is easy for special things not to happen, but, occasionally, some of them do. And in order for them to happen, you must put everything of yourself into them.
Dawson's Heights, Dulwich, London, 1972
Kate Macintosh at Dawson's Heights: 'Getting started felt exhilarating and terrifying.' Photograph: Michael Franke/The Guardian
My father suggested I study architecture, which was a pretty advanced attitude for a man of his generation. After the second world war, he headed a department in a Scottish housing organisation; he was committed to providing decent housing for everybody, a belief we shared.
I studied at Edinburgh School of Art from 1955 to 1961. I remember a tutor taking me to one side and saying: "Young ladies are not terribly practical. Have you thought of doing something like interior design?" I am a stubborn person and I thought: I'll bloody show you. Thereafter, I paid particular attention to how my propositions would be built.
After graduation, I worked abroad – first in Poland, then in various architects' offices in Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The whole mood in Europe was one of optimism. When I came back, I got a job with Denys Lasdun, working on the National Theatre. After about a year, I saw that this huge project was going to take ages to get on site. I was the most junior member of the team and I needed to get my boots dirty, sharpish, and take on a commission of my own.
A lot of female architects start by doing private houses, but I saw it as much more challenging to design a community. I saw there was huge pressure on London's boroughs to provide housing. In 1965, at the age of 27, I took a job in the department of architecture and planning at Southwark council and, to my immense good fortune, I was immediately presented with this phenomenal site in Dulwich: Dawson's Hill.
There was a slightly chaotic meeting where we had to present our schemes. There was one architect from Hong Kong who was proposing four tower blocks and another who was proposing a high-density, low-rise scheme. My design was two staggered ziggurats. This was a response to the specific characteristics of the site – the stupendous views to north and south and the extremely unstable ground conditions. At the extremities, the ziggurats descend from their maximum height of 12 storeys to four, reflecting the surrounding scale of suburban villas.
Getting started felt exhilarating and terrifying. When you are young, you feel you can take on the world. The housing manager of Southwark drew up the brief, but as far as I was concerned my clients were the people on Southwark's housing list: those in most urgent need of homes.
I devised a system that enabled one-, two- and three-bedroom homes to share the same access. My theory was that a mix of different family sizes, living next door to one another, would have more capacity to help each other out with babysitting or shopping. All of the 296 maisonettes have a private balcony; in some cases, two. On site, I remember nearly losing a boot in the sticky London clay: a clerk of works had to heave me out.
Today, there still seems to be a good community feel there. The homes are 30% leaseholder-owned and I would like it to stay at that level. The central space remains car-free and it still feels very safe. I've been told by residents that children from the surrounding area come there to play.
Dawson's Heights is still the largest building I've designed. It was completed in the mid-70s, before the introduction of right-to-buy. After 1979, local authorities were starved of funding, including a restriction on their right to raise rents; this led to poor maintenance by Southwark during the 80s. It is now owned by a large housing association, Southern Housing Group, which has invested in its maintenance. Looking back, I feel immensely grateful that my career spanned what was a golden age for the public sector.
Asif Khan
West Beach cafe, Littlehampton, 2008
Asif Khan at West Beach cafe: 'I take my kids there every year.' Photograph: Michael Franke/The Guardian
In my final year at architecture school, I completed a self-funded project in Brazil – a canopy kit I had designed and installed in a favela outside Recife – and was invited to give a short presentation about it at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. I put a lot of energy into that six-minute talk, because I was still a student and I was presenting alongside professionals. I thought: this might be my big break.
Afterwards, I got an email from someone in the audience who told me I must speak to Jane Wood, a property developer in Littlehampton, West Sussex. It was 2007 and she had just commissioned Thomas Heatherwick, a rising star, to design a cafe on the site of a fish and chip kiosk on the seafront, now known as East Beach cafe. She was creating a real buzz about the town.
Jane and I emailed back and forth for a year; during that time, I became a father. It made me feel that anything was possible. When Heatherwick's cafe was nearing completion, Jane invited me to look at a new site on the neighbouring west beach. She picked me up from the station wearing big sunglasses and driving a white van full of catering equipment. I had this idea that we were about to arrive at a remarkable location on an unspoilt beach backed by dunes. When I got out of the van, my dreams fell into a hole. It was a grey, windy day and in front of me was a brick burger kiosk that hadn't been used for six months. Jane said she wanted to replace it with something simple, like a beach hut or a shack that served fish and chips and local ice-cream. I did some rapid growing up in those 30 minutes.
I went back with an idea for a building that opens up to take in the weather and closes down when conditions are hostile. I brought images of agricultural structures, doll's houses, sash windows and the colour blue.
The day before the cafe opened, we installed a light sculpture I had designed. Jane saw it and said: "It's not right for this place. You can do this in Clerkenwell, but not in Littlehampton." I was so upset, but it taught me one of the biggest lessons of my career: the responsibility you have to the people of a place.
After West Beach cafe, the financial crisis hit. I had to start again – to get out there and exhibit work, to look for opportunities and, where there weren't any, to create them. I took on several commissions to design experimental pavilions in Singapore, Russia and South Korea. That enabled me to grow the studio. Today, we are working on projects all over the world: designing the new Museum of London; converting a Soviet cinema in Almaty, Kazakhstan, into a centre for contemporary culture; and designing 6.5km of walking routes and roadways for Expo 2020 in Dubai. I want to keep this range, so we are continually forced to rethink what is best for a place. I've bound myself to these places just as I did in Littlehampton, where I take my kids every year: the cafe is still there and it feels like home.
King's Grove, Peckham, London, 2008
Mary Duggan at King's Grove: 'I loved that it was a hidden space with a sense of history.' Photograph: Michael Franke/The Guardian
This was the first house by Duggan Morris Architects, a practice I founded in 2004, when I was 33, with my then partner, Joe Morris. I had worked for Gollifer Langston Architects for five years, overseeing the build of seven schools across north London, but you are never really in complete control of a design when you are working for a practice. I was determined to be independent, as was Joe.
Before King's Grove, Joe and I had renovated three houses and managed to accrue enough money to invest in this project – something most architects simply wouldn't be able to do now. (Our first property cost only £60,000.) We were friends with an architect who had bought a small plot and got a planning application for it, but then decided he didn't want to develop the site. He sold it to us for £125,000 and we secured a self-build mortgage. It was an interesting site reached via a long lane and sliced between 10 terraced back gardens. The previous building – a plaster mould workshop – had been demolished. Originally, it would have been a Victorian laundry or milk parlour. I loved that it was a hidden space with a sense of history.
Most architects have an idea of what their own house will look like. I was no different: a light-pink fairytale building surrounded by beautiful gardens. But from our first visit, I realised this wasn't the site for that. I wanted the house to retain the look and feel of the site. It was surrounded by brick walls and consumed by vegetation, so we designed a house in a similar brick. I've learned to trust those first instincts.
The design process was quite easy, because we knew what we wanted; after all, we were also "the client". I think this aspect of the project has had the greatest resonance in my subsequent career: the fact that I was also the investor, the risk-taker, the brief-writer and, ultimately, the decision-maker. As such, I am now able to empathise with clients.
We designed the space with two thoughts in mind: to live in it as a generous two-bed and, down the line, to develop it for sale, or convert it if we wanted to expand our family. (Our daughter was born in the house.) We used inexpensive brick and spent a bit more money on joinery. The kitchen, which fits into a niche in the wall, is made from oak and stainless steel. There is a roof light in the centre of the house, while the front and back doors open up to a south-facing courtyard and a north-facing terrace.
When Joe and I separated in 2016, Duggan Morris demerged and we had to sell the house. A friend bought it and invited me over several times, but I made up excuses. I just didn't want to go back. Then the house was sold again, to a client, who commissioned me in late 2018 to design a studio in the garden. Of course, I had to go back, even though I knew the space intimately.
It wasn't easy because, under different circumstances, I would still be living in King's Grove. In fact, I might be building an extension for myself now. But it was great to see it in really good condition. It is the sort of house in which the details don't tire, because it's made from very honest materials: brick, glass and oak. I got this strong sense that I had designed something that could stand the test of time.
Private house, Richmond, London, 1990
David Chipperfield at the home of photographer Nick Knight: 'The whole street lobbied against it, writing to Prince Charles to try to have it stopped.' Photograph: Michael Franke/The Guardian
In 1990, when I was in my mid-30s and still quite inexperienced, I was approached by the fashion photographer Nick Knight and his wife, Charlotte, to expand their London home. They were living in a postwar house that Nick's father had built. Nick wanted a studio upstairs and more space for his young family. At the time, I had a small office of four or five people and we were working with the designer Issey Miyake on a number of store interiors in Japan. This was my first building.
I was excited about everything I was seeing in Japan at the time: they tend to treat the garden as part of the house. Most of Nick's neighbours spent a lot of money on their facades; we did the opposite. We concentrated on how the house and garden could connect. We created a large concrete frame that extended out from the side of the house, which had the effect of partially enclosing a courtyard garden. It also meant that the corner of the living room could be opened up, without a supporting column, framing a view into the garden, creating an outside space that feels like an indoor one.
We ended up with a fight on our hands. The whole street lobbied against it, writing to Prince Charles to try to have it stopped. The people across the road kept their curtains drawn for a couple of years in protest. It was an introduction to conservative English taste, which was quite shocking. It wasn't that the house was too big; it was that the front didn't look like the other houses in the street. That was the worst part of the process for me. Once we started to build, it was easy by comparison.
Designing and building houses for people is a delicate process, which is why I only take on one or two at a time. Success depends very much on how you develop a way of being personal and professional: that relationship is critical.
This was the first time I had a central idea to my work – the idea of creating an expansive view in a suburban street – and it is a strategy I've lived by since. The house has been part of Nick and Charlotte's life for 30 years and I think it has helped them formulate a work-life balance. Nick's work is incredibly intense and demanding, yet he is dedicated to his family. I like to think the house has played a role.
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Dialing 911 from any campus phone will be routed directly to the Ashland County 911 operator.
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Well, that took long enough! Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah has less than a year left in office and the Republican-led House, which has been led by Republicans since their victory in 2010, is finally getting around to a resolution to establish a Select Committee on High Crimes and Misdemeanors within the Executive Branch and the Obama Administration.
`12.(a) There is hereby established the Permanent Select Committee on Oversight of the Executive Branch (hereinafter referred to as the `Select Committee').
`(b)(1) The Speaker shall appoint 12 Members to the Select Committee, five of whom shall be appointed after consultation with the minority leader.
`(2) The Speaker shall designate one Member to serve as chair of the Select Committee, and the minority leader shall designate one Member to serve as ranking minority member of the Select Committee.
`(3) Any vacancy in the Select Committee shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.
`(4) The Select Committee shall enlist the assistance of a Special Task Force established by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for the sole purpose of assisting the Select Committee in its investigations.
`(c) The Select Committee shall investigate allegations of misconduct by officials of the executive branch. The Select Committee shall not have legislative jurisdiction.
`(d)(1) Notwithstanding clause 3(m) of rule X, the Select Committee is authorized to study the sources and methods of entities described in clause 11(b)(1)(A) of rule X insofar as such study is related to the matters described in paragraph (c).
`(2) Clause 11(e) and the first sentence of clause 11(f) of rule X (relating to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) shall apply to the Select Committee.
`(A) Clause 2(a) of rule XI shall not apply to the Select Committee.
`(B) Clause 2(g)(2)(D) of rule XI shall apply to the Select Committee in the same manner as it applies to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
`(C) Pursuant to clause 2(h) of rule XI, two Members of the Select Committee shall constitute a quorum for taking testimony or receiving evidence and one-third of the Members of the Select Committee shall constitute a quorum for taking any action other than one for which the presence of a majority of the Select Committee is required.
`(D) The chair of the Select Committee may authorize and issue subpoenas pursuant to clause 2(m) of rule XI in the investigation and study conducted pursuant to section 3 of this resolution, including for the purpose of taking depositions, as is deemed necessary in the pursuit of truth and justice for the American people.
`(E)(i) The chair of the Select Committee, upon consultation with the ranking minority member, may order the taking of depositions, under oath and pursuant to notice or subpoena, by a Member of the Select Committee or a counsel of the Select Committee.
`(ii) Depositions taken under the authority prescribed in this subdivision shall be governed by the procedures submitted by the chair of the Committee on Rules for printing in the Congressional Record.
`(ii) staff of the Select Committee to question a witness as though pursuant to clause 2(j)(2)(C) of rule XI.'.
(1) PAYMENT OF EXPENSES- There shall be paid out of the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives such sums as may be necessary for the expenses of the Permanent Select Committee on Oversight of the Executive Branch established under clause 12 of rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives (as added by subsection (a)) during the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress.
(2) VOUCHERS- Payments under this subsection shall be made on vouchers signed by the chair of the Select Committee and approved in the manner directed by the Committee on House Administration.
(3) REGULATIONS- Amounts made available under this subsection shall be expended in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Committee on House Administration.
So far, Yoho only has one co-sponsor, Rep. Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-TX). That should tell you all you need to know about the sellout of Republicans in Washington. While I question whether or not the resolution has any chance of passing, the fact that it has taken this long to even see such a document is quite telling. After all, the Republicans don't care about the Obama administration's crimes because they have been involved in aiding him in them.


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We just had our first real cold snap this past week, but the weather was absolutely hideous (raining all day, bitter wind) and it was dark all day so I couldn't take outfit photos. So here's an old outfit from when it was still warm. It's one of those "duh" outfits (hence the post title) that all the pieces go so well together that I almost didn't wear it because I thought it'd be too predictable. But it works, so why not, right?
Another work outfit straggler here. This was taken a while ago, so I didn't remember why I added a brooch to this outfit. Oh wait, I think it was the day we had some important meeting or something, but it was too hot to wear a more formal shirt, so I added a brooch to make my T-shirt look less casual. And because my shirt has green stripes, a leaf brooch seemed like a good choice.
Hot as it was back then, it was probably still blessedly cool compared to this past week. Yesterday the heat index was nearly 120F! Thankfully school was out so I no longer have to come into work. Even if I still had to work, I don't think I could bike in this heat. I would be cooked alive.
Is May the longest month of the year, or do I just feel that way because the end of the semester is drawing near? Every year, May is always the hardest month for me to get through, not because it's particularly busier (if anything, it's actually not as busy because classes are ending; I only have grading to do), but because it's just so tedious. At least this year I have two things to look forward to at the end of it: one, Snow Patrol's new album is coming on on May 25th (we only had to wait 7 years for it, but yay!!!) and two, we are going on a family trip in early June. Small things, but they keep me going.
Those, and the fact that I can now start wearing T-shirts and sneakers to work more often.
I had a different outfit planned for this week's SIA. See, when I saw the cherry blossoms and the criss-crossing on the inspiration piece, a Japanese Nabeshima dish, I'd decided to wear my white embroidered cardigan and navy gingham shirt, with light-blue jeans. Unfortunately, the weather warmed up unexpectedly and completely upended my plan. So in the end I picked another embroidered piece – this blouse – and navy culottes (they're supposed to be culottes, but on my short legs, they look more like simple wide-leg pants. Which is just as well, because culottes are really unflattering on me) to represent the blue elements of the dish. Not the outfit I'd imagine, but I still liked it, both as an outfit and an interpretation of this week's inspiration.
If you haven't sent me your outfit, you still have until tomorrow. Otherwise, see you in the round-up post on Wednesday!


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Trajectories from COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting our fundamental assumptions and values and the way we think about the world. The most profound changes come from shifts at these levels. They allow the shifting of the foundational narratives which we use to make sense of the world, to order our societies, and to organise collective action. To help navigate this extraordinary time, and to help us understand what this might mean for the decade ahead, we have identified four broad emerging trajectories from COVID-19.
These trajectories, and the mindsets they represent, are a guide to understanding what may happen next. They can help us detect early signs of shifts we might see and to anticipate some of the consequences. They have been designed as a living and flexible systemic futures tool with many possible uses. Ultimately, it's a tool to help change-makers work with this moment of deep discontinuity to deliver transformational change.
What are the four trajectories and how to use them?
Trajectories comparison/overview tool
What are the key dynamics shaping the 2020s?
View the latest signals of change we're tracking against each of the trajectories (click on one of the icons to view relevant signals of change):
Welcome to the Trajectories from COVID-19 discussion space
Hi, it's Joy Green and Louise Armstrong from Forum for the Future! We both work on systemic futures - with over 25 years of combined experience working on projects and collaborations framed around future actions. A common thread across our work is the awareness that our mindsets and stories we tell ourselves shape our actions and understanding of what is possible. This is a space to explore that practice of how we do this and how to work and shift our worldviews.
The discussion board
Holding a mirror to 2020: what have you seen, heard and experienced?
It's been around 12 months since COVID-19 first emerged and nine months since the first global lockdown tipped us all into discontinuity.
Ecological thinker, Joanna Macy, has likened this experience to 'entering a bardo' – a space between known worlds where there is no map. It is disorienting and frightening – but also a space of potential transformation. The gift it gives is 'mirror wisdom' – the opportunity to see everything reflected just as it is. The parallels to the pandemic are clear: COVID-19 has paused previous normality and held up a mirror to our world and societies. A great deal that was hidden has been starkly revealed, in a continuous stream of extraordinary events.
Every level of our lives continues to be affected. So many structures that seemed solid have shifted while others have proved more resilient than expected. Some certainties have been swept away – but not all of them are going quietly. Some new patterns are becoming more apparent.
There is undoubtedly yet more uncertainty to come but as the curtain falls on 2020, now is the time to look deeply in the mirror, reflecting on what we have seen, what has shifted, what is strengthening or weakening, what we have learned or unlearned.
What have you seen shifting? What have you learned? What have you unlearned? What does this reflection tell you about the year ahead?
Share your thoughts in comments and join us in spotting a collective landscape of shifting patterns.
Here are learnings we captured on a Miro board in a session with Forum for the Future's UK & Europe team.
Louise Armstrong
Thanks for sharing Ron.
A reminder that systemic racism is real and a powerful force to overcome collectively. It is a challenge as it is so pervasive, but individual action and awareness is often the starting place.
A reminder that our governance and democratic system really need attention and to be evolved to suit the needs of us all today. We identified this in our Future of Sustainability report. And a reminder that there is so much division and polarity that is being stocked.
Future of Sustainability – Event Q&A
On 14 and 15 October 2020 we held two launch events for the report From System Shock to System Change: Time to Transform which outlines our work on the trajectories from COVID-19. This thread lists all questions asked by our audiences during the first event. Have a look and feel free to ask any further questions!
Thanks Josephine - this is such a big question. As part of this work we identified 'exploring power' as a key enabler, understanding your own power, privilege and position in the system. This is absolutely critical, recognising that the reason the climate crisis exists is the same reason why injustice is still an everyday reality for too many still. There is a culture of dominance and superiority that exists. Until we dismantle the assumptions and mindsets that are laced with this - we will only get so far. Capitalism is part of our shared story and history. Now we have to find ways to move beyond this and into a healthier dynamic and relationship. Key to this is redefining what we value - how we can we recognise thriving people and ecosystems - that goes beyond the exploitation and extractive models of today. There's pockets of great stuff happening to - from Doughnut economics, to thriving local economies, work from groups like the Finance Innovation Lab. Where we put our attention and focus matters if we're really to reimagine capitalism. Interested to know where you think we need to start to reimagine capitalism?
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