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Time for honesty in the #Brexit debate: no deal Brexit, revocation or a #PeoplesVote
Posted in politics, tagged brexit, conservative party, labour party, mps, parliament on March 13, 2019| 1 Comment »
After the dishonesty of the referendum campaign, the simplistic boasts of the negotiations about how easy securing Britain's future would be, and the humiliating chaos of parliamentary proceedings on the Withdrawal Agreement, it is no wonder that the public and our businesses are in such despair at politicians.
Our politics has failed. There is a piece to be written about the way in which Brexit has highlighted and increased pressure on the failure of our democracy and its institutions, but this is not it.
At the time of writing there are just 400 hours until we are due to exit the European Union. If our politicians manage Thatcher levels of sleep – which are probably not the most useful preparation for what must be done over the next 16 days – that leaves just 333 hours in which to do the work. Those that see theological evils in the European Union can be reassured that we can't even do the 'Number of the Beast' properly.
Politicians have dressed their failure with all sorts of unicorn promises about better deals (the ERG and Labour), blame for not getting behind the Prime Minister (Remainers, the ERG and the DUP), and consistent can-kicking (everyone). Each of these groups is flailing around and screaming louder and louder as the ratchet of the clock tightens and the scale of the political problems in taking a decision – any decision – becomes clear. Daniel Finkelstein's article in the Times today demonstrates the political calculations for just the Conservative Party underlying decisions which should be about the national interest in this mess. Similar calculations apply to Labour and in different ways to all parties.
These challenges will form a fascinating and complicated Venn diagram for future students of political science to study. However, there is no time left for that pontification now. Having proved unsurprisingly so comprehensively incapable of translating a binary, advisory referendum into a complex and lasting solution that commands political support, and having destroyed public trust in our politics in the process, MPs have a very small window in which they can show leadership and re-establish any measure of trust.
Today's Order Paper is depressing. The Prime Minister's politically confusing motion states the legal reality of what happens if no deal occurs. The response of the senior, cross-party group of MPs, who cannot agree on a way forward, is to kick the can down the road yet again, tabling an amendment that simply takes no deal off the table and ignores that legal reality. And tomorrow the Commons will vote on a motion for an extension and almost certainly do so without agreeing on a way forward that offers clarity to the public or Brussels. Even now, MPs are pretending to the public that we can secure an extension to continue this torturous farce by simply passing a motion in the House of Commons.
It is time for MPs to be honest about the options – and there are only three that make any sense, the Prime Minister's deal having been rejected by Parliament so completely on two occasions:
A hard Brexit with no deal;
A revocation of Article 50 and remaining;
A further referendum on the terms of the Prime Minister's deal or remaining.
It is no good Labour's lamentable front bench wittering on about another deal. It is no good ERGers bombastically proclaiming there are better ways to negotiate Brexit.
Brussels has been clear: there is no room for further negotiation. None at all. The talking is done.
There is also no transition without a deal.
And there is no extension without a credible and decisive way forward.
Politicians have sold the public varying visions of Britain's future on the basis of gross oversimplification, to protect their own political interests. They must now grasp the nettle of the consequences of their untruths, and show the public they understand the clear choices they face, however difficult they are to make.
Yes, it will be politically painful. Yes, it might have destructive consequences for our political institutions – our parliament, our electoral system, and our failing 'broad church' political parties – but that is the price politicians must pay for their comprehensive failure.
And that might just be a good thing.
Shoddy tech journalism from The Guardian (surprise!)
Posted in current affairs, media, tagged conservative party, guardian, lib dems, politics, tech on April 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Today's Guardian carries an article by Charles Arthur entitled 'Did the Tories and Lib Dems live up to their 2010 tech manifesto pledges?'
In usual Guardian preachy style, Arthur offers up a scorecard. At least, he calls it a scorecard but there are no scores on it – merely a commentary. One or two of his observations bear closer scrutiny.
On scrapping ID cards, he offers the following bizarre criticism of the commitment in the Conservative manifesto, failing to even acknowledge that it was also in the Liberal Democrats' manifesto:
'There were no ID cards to scrap. No national ID register was set up.'
It must be an alternate universe where The Guardian reported on 27 May 2010:
'The 15,000 identity cards already issued are to be cancelled without any refund of the £30 fee to holders within a month of the legislation reaching the statute book.'
Or where The Guardian on 10 Feb 2011 showed images of Damian Green shredding hard drives with the caption 'Minister helps destroys the national identity register'.
If he could be arsed to read the Annual Report and Accounts of the Identity and Passport Service 2010-2011, he would see that it cost taxpayers rather a lot of money to scrap a scheme that apparently didn't exist. (Note 2a on page 41 if you are really interested – which incidentally suggests the figure of cards issued wasn't 15,000, as reported by The Guardian.)
Arthur makes the following disingenuous statement about the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act:
'The use of RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) by councils to spy on people was forestalled to some extent, but the coalition tried to introduce an extensive surveillance act in July 2014 – leaning on RIPA – that outraged privacy campaigners, especially in the light of the Snowden revelations over surveillance by GCHQ and the NSA of internet communications.'
Arthur misrepresents what actually made it to the statute book, using the weaselly form of words 'tried to introduce', whilst failing to report any of the safeguards that were secured by the Liberal Democrats and reported in – guess where? – The Guardian on 10 July 2014:
Those measures that could prove crucial in the longer term include:
• The "tip to toe" review of Ripa, the foundation stone of the surveillance state, to be completed by 2016, could prove particularly potent in ensuring that such state snooping in the name of counter-terrorism and serious crime is brought strictly under control. Debate is still going on whether it should be an "expert review" led by David Anderson, the counter-terror law watchdog, or a joint committee of peers and MPs.
It will issue an interim report before the general election on whether there are sufficient privacy safeguards in the post-Snowden age and whether there should be a major shakeup of the oversight regime for the security services.
• The creation of a US-style privacy and civil liberties board to ensure that civil liberties are a foundation stone of counter-terrorism legislation, rather than an afterthought. Bolstered by annual transparency reports from the state agencies, it could be the alarm system that the current oversight regime has failed to provide. It will effectively be a major expansion of the current one-man role of David Anderson.
• The appointment of a senior diplomat to lead discussions with the US government and companies to establish a new international agreement for sharing data across boundaries is also significant. This would smooth the way where US wiretap laws conflict with UK Ripa laws but also could provide a way of expanding the existing mutual legal assistance treaty rather than a "snooper's charter" that sees British ministers issuing demands that US companies hand over ever more personal data on UK citizens.
This is a major package, albeit rushed, that will shape how we live and work in the digital world. It may just "safeguard the existing position" – these powers have been in use in Britain since 2009 – but it also provides an opportunity to introduce some civil liberties elements that up until now were missing.
Funny how there is no mention of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board by Arthur, perhaps one of the most significant legislative developments as far as surveillance goes. This is the body that The Guardian itself described on 16 October 2014 as one of 'several embryonic cautiously hopeful signs' in the wake of the Snowden affair – and was duly legislated for this year. A more constructive use of column inches might have been to challenge the next government to put those provisions into action.
In specific criticism of the Liberal Democrats Arthur claims there was no Freedoms Bill – omitting entirely to visit the Protection of Freedoms Act from 2010-12. If you care to look at the Act and Arthur's criticisms, you will see that a substantial number are addressed.
Ros Taylor, former editor of guardian.co.uk/law described the Protection of Freedoms Act as a 'a small but significant piece of legislation':
'This assortment of measures was intended to allay fears about DNA retention, CCTV, police and local authority powers and a number of other infringements of individual liberty (including, and very laudably, the right of men convicted of buggery to have their conviction disregarded).'
Where can you find Taylor's comments? In The Guardian on 10 May 2012.
Arthur also states that 'Fingerprinting of children continues, but parents can opt out of having their children take part.' Our manifesto commitment – which he quotes just before – said 'stop children being fingerprinted at school without their parents' permission'. I struggle to see how what we did is inconsistent with what we committed to.
I am proud of what my own party, which has civil liberties at its core, achieved during five years of government with less than 60 MPs out of 650. Critics should remember: we were in coalition with a party that isn't known first and foremost for its whole-hearted embrace of civil liberties, following thirteen years of a Labour government that had no regard for personal freedom and made us one of the most surveilled countries in the western world.
I have no problem when someone wishes to challenge the record of parties in government. I have no problem with someone who wishes to challenge me as a Liberal Democrat on my party's record.
However, when readers rely on 'quality' newspapers to be informed, there is no excuse for such shoddy and misleading journalism in a paper that proudly boasts to the world that it won the Pulitzer prize for journalism in 2014.
Posted in comment, conservative party, current affairs, election, history, labour party, liberal democrats, national, politics, tagged conservative party, general election, history, labour party, lib dems, politics, vote 2010 on May 23, 2010| 1 Comment »
The election was little more than two weeks ago, though, in truth, the astonishing developments of recent days make it feel like half a lifetime has passed.
This weekend is the first since before the start of the campaign that I have had a moment to catch breath and reflect on the incredible and exhausting roller-coaster of emotions that has carried me through the last few weeks. I am still struggling to get my head around a moment in history that has taken the party to which I have devoted most of my adult life from being the second party of opposition, fighting against media expectations of annihilation, through the incredible highs of Nick Clegg's performances in the television debates, to the shock and dismay as we lost seats, and, finally, after careful and determined negotiations, on an extraordinary journey into government. Not at any moment had I envisaged the highs and lows of the last seventeen days, nor the conflict of emotion, loyalty and reason that has tested me and many, many party members.
As regular readers of my blog will know, I have never been backward in offering up frank criticisms of the Conservative Party. At the risk of offending "socialist" colleagues (I use the term advisedly these days), I have long mischievously regarded the Labour Party as merely a hundred-year anachronism that, hugely significant in its impact on the politics of the twentieth century, is merely the upstart younger brother of a progressive Liberal tradition that has a far longer and richer history as a counter-weight to the political and societal inhibitions of Conservatism. With that as my starting point, the idea of a coalition with the Conservative Party was never something I had entertained, instead attaching my instincts in terms of coalition in a balanced parliament situation to the romantic notion of a realignment of the left and a partnership with a Labour Party looking to rediscover its sense of purpose.
I use the term 'romantic' quite deliberately. That sense that Labour were the natural partner of the Liberal Democrats paid scant regard to the illiberal and authoritarian reality of thirteen years of Labour government, but owed more to my admiration for the integrity of leaders such as Paddy Ashdown and Menzies Campbell who sought the prize of a realignment of the left in order to usher in a new era of liberal reforms. That emotional detachment from political reality governed many of my initial reactions to the General Election result and the truly baffling parliamentary arithmetic delivered by a cynical, angry public to the political class.
Despite an illegal war (yes, it was illegal), huge incursions by the state into our private lives, the threat to traditional British rights such as trial by jury, repeated failure to deliver on reform of the Lords and our electoral system (even though these were manifesto promises), the running down of our rural communities and the ruin of our agricultural industry, the bankrupting of the nation's finances, and complicity in the ruin of confidence in our Parliament, Labour somehow still felt a more appropriate partner for government. However, listing these abject failures, just as I did in the pause for thought that was created by Nick Clegg's commitment to allow the party with the greatest mandate to seek to form a government first, forced me to recognise that the political instincts of the Labour Party, still nominally progressive, are as far from my own and my understanding of my party's as are those of the Conservative Party. More importantly, from the point of view of attempting to come to terms with the political and economic reality of 2010, the Labour Party is exhausted and broken, uncertain of what it believes or what sort of party it should become.
By contrast, the Conservative Party revealed a confident capacity to subordinate expectation, objectives and tradition to the practical necessity of negotiating with its erstwhile political opponent – qualities that had clearly escaped the observations of many commentators who saw minority government as its only route to power. If I am being completely honest, they are qualities that had escaped me, also, my ready preference to hide behind (well-founded!) tribal prejudices proving that I did not know the party I had been campaigning against as well as I liked to believe.
The outcome, a Coalition Agreement and a Coalition Government which sees Liberal Democrats at every ministerial level, is a genuinely radical attempt to confront the challenges facing the country and, in its composition, demonstrates a commitment from both the Liberal Democrats and the Conservative Party to making this arrangement work.
Knowing how many of my fellow party members share my instinct, I am proud at the way the Liberal Democrats both locally and nationally have responded to the challenge set by the electorate. That there was such considered acclaim for the agreement at the special conference convened to provide an opportunity for members to discuss the Coalition Agreement does not detract from the hard questions the party asked itself. We fully recognise that a new and tough challenge will be to promote ourselves as a party of government, making clear the very real impact that having Liberal Democrats in government will have on people's lives.
Of course the proof of the pudding will be in its eating at the end of this Parliament and the extent to which the Coalition has delivered on its clear commitments. However, the ambition is tremendous and a high benchmark that has the potential to reconnect the public with politicians and provide a real opportunity to break open the old ways of doing things. The list on which this Coalition is determined to deliver includes things I never seriously believed I would see in the programme of a single government: fixed term parliaments to end the game-playing of sitting prime ministers; an opportunity for the country to decide on voting reform, jemmying the crowbar of preferential voting into our creaking and unrepresentative electoral system; reform of the House of Lords; an ambitious plan to green our economy; a Freedom Bill to roll back the powers of the state; huge investment in the schooling of the country's poorest pupils; and the raising of the income tax threshold to help those on the lowest incomes.
Most of all, this Parliament provides a uniquely important opportunity for all those supporters of electoral reform: to demonstrate that pluralist politics can work and that the national interest is served by a strong and distinctly Liberal voice in government.
Despite the colourful, passionate and necessary rhetoric of the election, my own emerging understanding of this unprecedented situation is that coalition cannot be founded on our deeply-held prejudices as politicians, but instead has to be grounded in an objective assessment of how best to serve the national interest in all its iterations, however personally troubling the accompanying journey might be. I believe Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats and David Cameron's Conservative Party have made just that assessment, setting aside instinctive and fundamental differences to establish a coincidence of interests to best serve a tired, cynical, yet hopeful public.
I wish them – us – every success.
And I look forward to pressing the case for Liberal Democrat achievements in Government against robust challenges from both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party in five years' time.
You can read the Coalition Agreement, approved by the Liberal Democrats and the Conservative Party 11th May 2010, here:
You can read the Coalition's Programme for Government, published 20th May 2010, here:
Rage Against The Election: the absurdity of our electoral system #gonick #libdems #nickclegg #vote2010
Posted in conservative party, election, labour party, liberal democrats, national, politics, tagged conservative party, general election, labour party, lib dems, politics, vote 2010 on May 3, 2010| 2 Comments »
Below is a pictorial representation of the projected share of the vote, based on the latest You Gov polling data for 2nd May (34% Tories [blue], 28% Labour [red], 29% Lib Dems [yellow], 9% others [green]):
Below is a pictorial representation of the number of seats that these percentages would translate into, using the BBC's seat projector:
That's 264 Conservative MPs [blue], 267 Labour MPs [red], 90 Liberal Democrat MPs [yellow] and 29 others [green].
Look carefully at those two charts and those two sets of figures.
More British citizens could vote for the Liberal Democrats than for the Labour Party. More British citizens could decide they would rather see Nick Clegg leading the country than Gordon Brown. Yet, when it comes to the translation of votes into seats, the Labour Party could receive almost three times as many seats – all because of the vagaries of our electoral system.
Can you imagine if this were The X-Factor or Britain's Got Talent?
Would we sit quietly by and accept that we could all cast our votes but the final result could bear no relation to how those votes were cast? Of course not. The switchboards would be jammed. The internet would be crashing. The tabloids would be screaming about fixes and fiddles.
This isn't The X-Factor. This isn't Britain's Got Talent. It's far more important.
This is the future of our country. Those who are elected will make the laws that determine how we live our lives. Our electoral system fiddles the result.
Isn't it time we got a little angrier?
Rage Against The Election: Daily Mail rigs its polling against Clegg #gonick #nickcleggsfault
Posted in comment, conservative party, election, liberal democrats, national, politics, tagged conservative party, general election, lib dems, nick clegg, politics, vote 2010 on April 23, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Further to my post earlier today on the dark machinations of the Barclays-Murdoch-Rothermere media establishment, it would appear that the media mischief continues.
The Daily Mail has been caught out by sharp-eyed web-watchers, rigging its online debate poll against Nick Clegg. It appears that as the Mail's debate poll was showing a colossal lead for Nick Clegg, someone took the decision to pull it and start over.
Check out this blog post here for a more detailed account. Pay particular attention to the screen shots and remember you can never trust a word you read in the papers of these desperate men…
Rage Against The Election: Voyaging into Fleet Street's Heart of Darkness #GE2010 #GE10 #ukelection #vote2010
Posted in comment, election, liberal democrats, tagged conservative party, free speech, general election, lib dems, murdoch, nick clegg, press, vote 2010 on April 23, 2010| 2 Comments »
"He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision—he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath—'The horror! The horror!'"
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
The sudden surge in support for the Liberal Democrats was accompanied, predictably, and properly, by increased scrutiny of the party and its policies.
However, until the television debates, breaking up the self-serving establishment consensus between Labour and the Tories on the one hand, and Fleet Street's finest on the other, was not regarded as a real likelihood in any election. The balance of probabilities afforded the mainstream media the opportunity to to relax into complacent clichés about the Liberal Democrats, from gentle teasing about beards and sandals to attempts to portray them as out of touch loonies.
Nick Clegg's clear and robust presentation of the Liberal Democrats' key proposals has put paid to both those tired canards – and the likes of the Barclays, Murdoch and Rothermere are now in a blind panic for two reasons. Firstly, Cameron, their favoured son, is not walking it, despite the combined might of their media empires and Labour's dismal record in Government. Secondly, they have woken up to the fact that they have absolutely no handle on Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats, and the grass roots-led political insurgency that is threatening to take this election out of the clutches of the press and hand it back to the voter. (And if anyone believes that rumours of political interference are exaggerated, remember Murdoch's explicit admission of political editorial control in his newspapers.)
Their panic became very clear in the headlines of the last forty-eight hours. The Telegraph screamed sleaze in 9/11 point headlines about donations that were properly accounted for and properly spent, insinuating that Clegg had pocketed the cash. (Amusingly, the subsequent debunking of this particular untruth revealed that Clegg actually paid out more money than he received.) At the same time, the Daily Mail attempted, outrageously, to slur Clegg with Nazi allusions. (The hypocrisy of the Mail is breath-taking – you may remember their "outrage" when they attacked Chris Huhne for condemning William Hague and the Conservative Party for the Tories' European associations with right-wing homophobes and climate change-deniers.)
To what extent are we to believe Tory denials of involvement in any conspiracy to smear Nick Clegg?
Not at all, if Nick Robinson is to be believed. He wrote on his blog last night:
"I now learn that political reporters from the Tory-backing papers were called in one by one to discuss how Team Cameron would deal with "Cleggmania" and to be offered Tory HQ's favourite titbits about the Lib Dems – much of which appears in today's papers."
Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a brutal analysis of man's duality and the conflict between the idealistic projection of civilised values and the savage reality of desperate men. If Nick Clegg on a resurgent Liberal tide is the Barclays-Murdoch-Rothermere Establishment's nightmare vision, then yesterday's headlines are the result of his media henchmen attempting to fulfil the political equivalent of Kurtz's scribbled instruction: "Exterminate the brutes!"
Perhaps this is what lay behind the showdown at the offices of The Independent, when Murdoch's son, James, and News International stooge Rebekah Brooks (formerly Wade), stormed in carrying copies of the Independent and its wrap-around advert proclaiming "Murdoch won't decide this election – you will." One experienced journalist described the episode as being "like a scene out of Dodge City". Very interestingly, the Guardian reports that the Indy showdown was preceded by a meeting between the Murdoch and Rothermere camps.
They should beware.
Those who remember Conrad's book, or are familiar with its allegorical Vietnam War reinterpretation Apocalypse Now, will know how this story ends: with Kurtz's isolation precipitating a descent into a destructive madness of self-obsession and self-aggrandisement, rendering him even more irrelevant to the world around him.
Life in the political wilderness and isolation from political civilisation destroying these faux-mythical beasts of the media Establishment?
As Michael Wolff writes of Murdoch's flailing around: "this is one way for empires to end".
Let's hope.
Rage Against The Election: undermining a rotten electoral system #gonick #libdems #nickclegg
Posted in conservative party, election, labour party, liberal democrats, national, politics, tagged conservative party, general election, labour party, lib dems, politics, rage against the election, vote 2010 on April 21, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Robert Maynard Hutchins once opined that "The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
As this General Election began, there was every chance that it would be just another painfully lingering stage in the atrophication of our politics. Even those of us who have been a part of the reforming insurgency for years have felt alienated from our own political processes, disenfranchised by constitutional arrangements which have advantaged a cosy establishment deal for sixty-five years. For decades we have been told by the Labour and Conservative parties what our democratic choice is. It is a political narrative that has been reinforced by a media establishment that, as David Yelland rightly pointed out on Sunday, has become indistinguishable from those two old parties.
The television debates have changed everything.
By giving Nick Clegg the exposure that the Liberal Democrats have sought for years, they have shown that there is a credible third choice. They have revealed, comprehensively, that the Liberal Democrats can survive appropriately intense levels of public scrutiny, outside of the exhausted – and exhausting – monologuing of Brown and Cameron.
However the debates are only half of this extraordinary political story.
The Rage Against The Election Facebook Group is symbolic of the other.
The debates have combined with the democratisation of comment through mediums like Facebook and Twitter to demonstrate exactly why Labour and the Conservatives were right to fear offering choice to voters: people want to make their own minds up.
Voters are sick to the back teeth of smug politicians ignoring their fears and concerns, whilst abusing expenses paid for by the taxpayer.
They are no longer prepared to be told how it has to be.
Labour and Tory politicians, and their media conglomerate friends, have always been very quick to scoff at the idea that people are interested in subjects as dry as reform of the way we vote. Very late in the day, and terrified of the implications of a huge surge in support for a reforming third party, they are now waking up to the fact that, in an era where people expect there to be clarity, logic and fairness in the decision-making process, the electorate are far more sophisticated than they had hoped. Even more terrifying for parties that have thrived on being able to control the political message, they are terrified that people now have the tools to express their anger.
I wonder what that anger will look like if the creaking constitutional arrangements that inform our decrepit voting system fail to reflect their wishes?
Tom Stoppard once wrote "It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting." He could not be more right and Vernon Bogdanor, writing in today's Telegraph, shows how comprehensively our electoral system could fail an electorate that is determined to change the way in which politics is done in Britain. The Conservative manifesto proclaims support for the system on the basis that "it gives voters the chance to kick out a government they are fed up with."
As he points out, on current projections, "In some polls, Labour is pushed into third place. But, through the quirks of the electoral system, the party could still win the most seats…"
People are not stupid. More over, as Stoppard identified, it's the counting that matters.
The fundamental misjudgement that commentators make is to think that people, particularly young people, are disinterested in voting.
They are not.
They are disinterested in a rotten and unrepresentative politics that ignores them.
In fact, young people are some of the most savvy, discerning and committed voters, doing so on a regular basis. Crucially, the vehicle for their engagement, like the debates, is television. And worryingly, for Brown and Cameron at least, they expect the result to reflect how they vote.
Remember the reaction to allegations of vote-rigging on X-Factor and Big Brother?
If Labour get least votes, but end up with most seats, I can't believe their won't be fury at what could only be described as constitutional vote-rigging. Just as importantly, the Tories' defence of the status quo, that has served them so well in the past, will be demolished by an absurd and outrageous political reality.
Vernon Bogdanor asks "Is first-past-the-post on its last legs?"
Even before May 6th, Rage Against The Election suggests the answer is a damning yes.


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Scene setting: For their A/W 2017 runway show, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana cast a host of 'millennials'- largely social media starlets with gargantuan numbers of followers- to walk in their runway show. For their womenswear offering (which also included a plethora of menswear looks), the duo followed suit, casting a diverse range of faces from Andrea, Alice and Charlotte Dellal to Tabitha Simmons, garnering a rapturous applause from its audience. At the show's finale, the crowd of models took to the stage, before assembling on staircases at the end of the runway, as waiters appeared, handing out pink champagne to the crowd.
Mood board: Idiosyncratically ostentatious and eclectic, Dolce & Gabbana's A/W 2017 collection featured seductive corset dresses, tuxedo suits, puffer jackets and pyjamas. Florals, leopard print, lace and shimmering sequins all contributed to the opulent finishes, alongside astronaut detail dresses, which echoed the space-theme illustration of the show invite.
Team work: The duo recruited the singer Austin Mahone, who also sang live at their A/W 2017 menswear show, to serenade the audience with a rendition of Modjo's 'Lady (Hear me Tonight)', accompanied by a pianist.
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It is something that we all strive for in our families. Between school, work, and other activities, it can be hard to achieve the right balance that provides quality time for the family as a whole. One of the best times to connect as a family after a busy day is dinner. That's why I'm partnering with the Kraft Heinz Food Company to talk about how to fit in family meals on busy weeknights.
Numerous quality conversations have occurred around the dinner table in our home. I enjoy the little things that I discover about my kids through the course of dinner conversation. I find out who likes art class, who thought math class was boring, and who played during nap time. All of these details give me insight into who my child is and what they like.
While I'm sure that we all agree that family meals are essential, squeezing them in can be a challenge. My children are still in elementary school, but I know that this challenge is particularly poignant in high school when after school activities, group projects, and sports become priorities to kids. Throw parents' work schedules in the mix, and family dinner time can be a pickle!
I enjoy cooking and presenting a home cooked meal to my family. Yet I also know that if I wait for the perfect, no-rush evening, we would rarely have family dinner. Here are three tips on fitting in family dinner on busy weeknights.
–Deliberately leave open times for dinner. When looking at the "big picture" of weekly activities, deliberately leave time open for family dinner. Try to have at least a few times a week when everyone can be home and around the dinner table.
–Schedule it in. We schedule everything else in our planner. Why not dinner, too? This is especially important with older kids (although it works well with my spouse, too). Let everyone know when dinner is and what time they should make sure to be home.
–Give yourself a break from cooking. Utilize meal ideas that are already prepped and ready to go. For elementary school aged kids, the KRAFT Macaroni & Cheese Frozen Dinners are a neat option. They include the KRAFT Macaroni & Cheese that kids enjoy plus a protein and a fruit or vegetable. They do not contain artificial flavors, colors, or preservatives.
The KRAFT Macaroni & Cheese with Grilled BBQ Chicken and Carrots variety is my daughter's favorite. She likes the taste of the chicken, and carrots are her favorite vegetable, making it a meal that she enjoys. Of course, she can't go wrong with any of the KRAFT Macaroni & Cheese Frozen Dinners!
The KRAFT Macaroni & Cheese Frozen Dinners are now available at Publix. The four varieties, KRAFT Macaroni & Cheese with Whole Wheat Chicken Nuggets and Broccoli, KRAFT Macaroni & Cheese with Grilled BBQ Chicken and Carrots, KRAFT Macaroni & Cheese with Chicken & Beef Meatballs and Apples, and KRAFT Macaroni & Cheese with Roasted Chicken and Broccoli, are located in the frozen aisle.
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of the Kraft Heinz Food Company.
I will definitely pick some of these up! I feel like certain nights of the week are SO rushed and this would be a huge time saver.
That is so great! I had no idea that Kraft had moved into little mac and cheese based meals like this. I have to get some for the fam.
Eating a microwavable meal is better than going through the drive through that is for sure. Sure the kids love eating them.
I have never seen these before! They would probably do for a good after school snack too!
I have never seen these before but I am definitely going to do them. There are nights that we just don't have time to do anything and something like this would be perfect.
These look so good! My daughter will really like them. She's always been a fan of Kraft mac and cheese. I've seen these in stores, so I'll pick one up the next time I'm out.
I had no idea about these. My kiddos love mac and cheese. I have to add this to my grocery list. Thanks for sharing!
Kraft Dinner was always such a treat and convenience growing up. My sister and I would always make some together.
We are big about eating together as a family. We have it scheduled every day so we can spend that time together.
We recently purchased these for the first time and my girls love them. When they are hungry after school, they easily pop it in the microwave.
When our daughter was in her growing years, we made it a family rule to be at the dinner table. Sometimes that dinner table was McDonalds, but we always sat down and ate together.
Oh my goodness, yes! I have some stock of this at home because I like it and it's so easy to prepare.
This is the busiest time of year for us and I love meals that are quick and easy. We've recently tried these and they were a hit. I'm going back to stock up.
Yes I would like to get free from cooking some days this Macorni and cheese sounds like great idea.
We just saw thees at Publix tonight! We have been eating out a lot while our kitchen remodel is in full swing but I bet my son would love these.
We are huge Kraft Mac n cheese fans here but I hadn't seen the frozen dinners yet. We will have to try them!


The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has given up on issuing identity cards to enrolled citizens, saying it will now focus on giving National Identification Numbers (NINs) without the card in a three-year plan outlined by its director-general, Aliyu Aziz Abubakar.
Experts say this new development will defeat the purpose of the national e-identity card, which is supposedly built with high tech functionalities to enable its use as Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card for banks, travel identification document and other functionalities through the use of a single smart card.
The commission has continued to insist that the issuance of an actual card is less important than the NINs for Nigerian citizens. However, it remains that significantly more Nigerians have Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) than those with NINs, despite the fact that enrolment process for national identity numbers started over a decade ago, compared to commencement of BVN enrolment in 2014, and about 47 percent unbanked population in Nigeria.
In September 2017, the NIMC said it had successfully enrolled 21.36 million Nigerians on the scheme started in 2014, while the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System had been able to deliver 32.8 million BVNs.


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IBPS RRB 2019 exam is scheduled to be conducted on August 3, 4, 11, 17, 18 and 25. The exam will be conducted for the recruitment of candidates as Officers in Scale I, II, and II, and Office Assistants. The exam is conducted in three phases - prelims, mains and interview for Officer Scale I and Office Assistant whereas a single exam is conducted for Officer Scale II, and III.
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Home Governance Village Council Elections
Every year, the Village of Martins Additions' Election and "Celebration on the Sidewalk" is held on the second Thursday of May from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Brookville Marketplace area on Brookville Road.
Official 2019 VMA Election Packet
Election Polls are open from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. (absentee ballots will be accepted until 3:00 p.m. the day of the election) for residents to vote for open Council Seats. Voting will be followed by the Village's Annual Meeting, where the Council will vote on the the next year's tax rates and budget, which are typically introduced at the March Council meeting.
The Village of Martin's Additions is governed by a municipal Charter that provides for a five-member elected Council to appoint an Election Committee (Committee) that operates according to rules and procedures adopted by the Council, pursuant to Section 602 of the Village Charter. The Committee maintains the voter rolls, accepts and makes nominations of candidates for the Village Council, and oversees the annual election. Any qualified voter may nominate another qualified voter or may declare his or her own candidacy.
VILLAGE COUNCIL ELECTION PROCESS
The Election of Council members takes place on the second Thursday in May in accordance with Section 602 of the Charter. Council members are elected to terms of two years. In general, the number of seats open on the Council alternates between two and three seats every other year unless there is a vacancy as provided for in Section 408 of the Charter. All elections are managed by the Committee. The Committee consists of a minimum of three, but preferably no less than five, qualified voter volunteers appointed by the Council. Each year the details of the election cycle for that year are published in the Village newsletter. The Village Council has passed the following Election Rules and Procedures:
Election Rules and Procedures Policy No. 2-16-2A
Action/Adopted: February 15, 2018
Effective Date: February 15, 2018 (May 9, 2018)
Amended: January 17, 2019
Leading up to the Election, the Election Committee Hosts a candidate forum for candidates to answer questions submitted by residents.
On Sunday April 28, 2019, the Village hosted its annual candidate forum, where the three candidates for Village Council (Katya Hill, Peter Kahn, and Richard Krajeck) each gave statements about their candidacy and responded to questions submitted by residents.
The candidate forum was audio recorded, and can be listened to by clicking the link below:
VMA Candidate Forum Audio
HOW TO REQUEST AN ABSENTEE BALLOT
As of 4/18/2019, absentee ballots are available to all qualified voters.
Come to the Village Office to fill out an absentee ballot request form (the Village Office is upstairs at 7013 Brookville Road). Or print out the absentee request form (CLICK HERE FOR FORM), then scan and email it to VMAelections@gmail.com. Please print clearly! You can also send the Election Committee an email request that contains the same information – the eligible voter's full name and address in Martin's Additions, email address, etc. You may also send your absentee request form by U.S. mail to the VMA Election Committee, P.O. Box 151030, Chevy Chase, MD 20825.
If you want to have absentee ballots sent by email to household members, you will need to provide a separate individual email address for each voter. After verifying that the recipient is a qualified voter, the Election Committee will email an assigned absentee ballot security number and one ballot to each eligible voter.
Residents can request and receive absentee ballots by email, but you will need to print out your absentee ballot in order to vote. The absentee voting instructions are included with the ballot.
For fairness, the three candidates' names are rotated on the ballots (each candidate is listed first on one-third of the ballots). You'll receive ballot version A, B, or C.
If you have any questions or need absentee voting assistance, please call or email the VMA Election Committee (301-654-0176 or VMAelections@gmail.com).
INTERESTED IN RUNNING?
All Candidates for Village Council (and Village staff) are required to complete a conflict-of-interest form. The current form was approved at the February 18, 2018 VMA Council Meeting:
VMA Conflict of Interest Questionnaire
In addition, candidates are asked to fill out the following Candidate Statement Form. Completed forms are due by 5:00 p.m. on March 25:
2019 VMA Candidate Statement Form
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2016 is almost in the books. Wow! It is amazing how fast a year goes by. It is amazing how fast a life goes by. I just turned 50 this past week. Looking at that number as I type it causes me to do a real double take.
It reminds me of the words of an ancient author by the name of James who wrote, "What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."
That is why it is so vital to step out of the busy daily rhythm of life and reflect on what we have learned and the kind of people we've become over that past 300 plus days.. It is really healthy to set aside time for reflection at the end of each year to seek to understand what we have learned, how we have grown, what we need to do more of, what we need to do less of, and what circumstances or experiences shaped us in a significant way.
You and I both know people who avoid this and experience the consequences as a result.
They fail to change destructive behaviors.
They repeat the same mistakes time and again.
They fail to capitalize on the experiences that could open new doors of opportunity.
They miss the opportunity to gain true wisdom.
I recently read an email from Ryan Levesque, a very successful entrepreneur and creator of the Ask Method, in which he outlined 9 vital questions to ask yourself at the end of each year. These are fantastic questions. I thoroughly enjoyed working through them for myself and have provided them for you below with a few minor tweaks of my own.
Victor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor, author, and psychiatrist once wrote, "We need to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead think of ourselves as those who are being questioned by life, daily and hourly."
There is so much wisdom and truth in that statement. Namely that the circumstances, choices, and experiences of our lives and how we choose to respond to them, reveal so much to us about ourselves. Answer these questions and find out what life reveals to you.
Well…what would you say it is? Intelligence? Charisma? Tenacity? The ability to think strategically or focus on the big picture?
Do you know what he found? It wasn't cognitive ability or IQ or technical skill. Nope. The quality that separated the average leaders from the great ones was emotional intelligence or EQ. Now, before I outline what EQ is, I want to provide one extra detail so that the importance of this will sink in more deeply.
Guess what else Goleman's research revealed? When he calculated the value of emotional intelligence against the other capabilities leaders need in order to achieve excellent performance, he found that EQ was TWICE as important as all other capabilities…regardless of the job or level of positional authority. Did you catch that?! EQ has 2X the impact on our effectiveness as leaders than any other skill or capacity!
So what is EQ? Goleman breaks down emotional intelligence into 5 skills that enable leaders to maximize their own performance and the performance of those on their teams. Take a look and reflect on how much each one of these is reflected in your own life.
Self-Awareness – knowing one's strengths, weaknesses, drives, values, and impact on others.
Self-regulation – controlling or redirecting disruptive impulses and moods.
Motivation – relishing achievement for its own sake.
Empathy – understanding other people's emotional makeup.
Social skill – building rapport with others to move them in desired directions.
If you have the courage to honestly assess your own level of EQ based on the 5 skills that Goleman outlines above, how would you rate yourself on a scale of 1-10?
What does your rating reveal to you about yourself?
Which of these skills represents areas of strength?
Which of these skills needs attention?
What connection might exist between the grade you gave yourself and some of the frustrations, conflicts or performance issues you are experiencing at work?
If you were to focus on developing and improving only one of these five skills (the skill that would have the greatest impact on becoming more successful as a leader), which one would you focus on?
On a scale of 1-10, how motivated are you improve in this area?
Ok. If you've made it this far, you have just taken an incredibly important step. You have defined reality and in doing so, you've just grown your own level of self-awareness. Congratulations! Max Anders writes that, "The leader's first responsibility is to define reality."
But what now? How can you change and improve? Great question. Let's talk about what the change plan might look like in my next post.
Most of us have a change that we'd like to make and guess what? The people we choose to surround ourselves with will have a massive impact on whether or not that change is realized.
As I've outlined in previous emails the authors of the book Change Everything, demonstrate that change is not only possible, but inevitable when we understand and leverage all of the different sources that make change possible.
I have already written about the first two sources that the authors outlined, Personal Motivation (getting really clear on why I want to make this change, what it will look like when I do, and what my default future will look like if I do nothing) and Personal Ability (what are the critical knowledge and skills that make change possible?) Leveraging these to sources of change help us "love what we hate" and "do what we can't".
Today I'm going to touch on the third source of change, Social Motivation. This source helps us get very intentional about our people environment. If we're serious developing new habits, then we'd better plan on being serious about putting the right people around us.
Author Malcom Gladwell wrote, "The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are."
Those whose lives have experienced significant change through Alcoholics Anonymous and Weight Watchers understand the truth and power of this principle well.
So how can we tap into this source of change in our everyday efforts to change and transform our own lives? Let me just give you one principle to apply in your existing relationships. Turn accomplices into friends. There it is, but what does it mean? It means that you have people in your life who are consciously or unconsciously sabotaging your efforts to change and you must identify these folks and have a transformational conversation with them. What does that look like? I would break it down like this.
Take some time to reflect on who is in your inner-circle and identify which of your friends (this could and very likely does include family members) through their actions and words are encouraging the changes you want to make and which ones are undermining those efforts.
Set aside 15 minutes with each of them to have a sit-down face-to-face meeting. During the meeting begin by painting a clear picture of the kind of person you want to become and the changes you are serious about making. It could be that they have no idea.
Next, balancing honesty and kindness, explain the things they are doing that are undermining your change efforts and provide them with concrete replacement behaviors (words and/or actions that they enable them to be an active partner in your change efforts).
Finally, thank them for their friendship, explain how vital their support is for your success, and invite them to be a fan, not just a friend.
If you're like me, there is a change you seriously want to make in your life, but have been unsuccessful in making. You know that if you made this change, the quality of your life would be significantly better. You would be happier, healthier, more confident, and more at peace with yourself. This change would be in harmony with the person you genuinely want to become. So why haven't you made it?
The authors of the book Change Everything, contend that the reason isn't that you don't have enough will power, but that you have not leveraged key sources of influence that make change possible.
In one of my previous emails I gave you the first key source of influence which is personal motivation. Change requires real motivation and the way to increase motivation is first, by getting real clear on the person you will be once you have made this change and second, by visiting your default future (what will your life be like in 5 years if you do not make this change).
There are 6 sources of change that they outline in this book. Source 2 is personal ability. To put it simply, one of the reasons we fail to make important personal changes (health, finances, relationships, personal habits, etc.) is that we lack the critical knowledge and skills that make change possible.
One of the reasons many people fail to quit smoking is that they are literally unaware of the impact of second hand smoke on their children.
If you are someone who wants to eat healthier, one reason you might not be changing your eating habits is that you don't realize (knowledge) just how many calories and how much fat was actually in that Triple Hog Dare Ya sandwich at Applebees (not that the name shouldn't tell you all you need to know:-)).
Weight Watchers is one of the most effective organizations in the world in helping people lose weight. It should come as no surprise then, that one of the core components of their strategy is to teach people how to count calories. Learning and applying this simple skill equips them with a much higher level of awareness of just how many calories they are consuming in relationship to how many calories their bodies actually need on a daily basis.
Maybe you aren't changing because of a key skill you need to develop. Dave Ramsey has helped thousands of people change their spending habits, get out of debt, and become financially free. One of the core components that makes Dave's program (Financial Peace University) so successful is teaching people the skill of learning how to track expenses and then develop a monthly spending plan (a budget). Learning this skill provides people with a powerful tool to change their spending habits and get their spending under control.
So, if you are serious about making a change, take 10 minutes to reflect on and answer the questions I have provided below.
What is the change that you are genuinely seeking?
What is deeply motivating your desire to change this? Consider writing a one or two sentence motivation statement that you could read and refer to on a daily basis to keep your motivation strong.
What knowledge or skills do you lack that would make this change more possible?
What resources do you need to gain that knowledge and skill? Is it a book? Is it a class or seminar?
In my next post I'm going to share with you the third source of influence for change. It is probably my favorite and it is very powerful...stay tuned!
As I outlined in my last post, the reason that you and I often fail to make the changes we want is NOT BECAUSE WE LACK THE WILLPOWER.
It's because we haven't tapped into some of the most vital and powerful resources that make change possible.
According to the authors of Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success, Joseph Grenny and Kerry Patterson, there are six sources of influence that they have identified in their study of 5,000 people who successfully changed (long-lasting behavioral changes) areas of their lives that were deeply important to them.
And, get this...their research revealed that the people who use these sources of influence and apply these skills, are "1,000 percent more successful at producing change than those who try other means."
Wow! That is an impressive number.
So what are those resources?
The first source of influence or skill to develop is to "love what you hate."
As the authors point out in the book, the changes that we need to make are often boring, uncomfortable and oftentimes challenging. In theory we would love to make these changes, but in the rubber-meets-the-road reality of everyday life, it's a different story.
So, we need to make something that feels undesirable, desirable and enjoyable. Why? Because we ultimately do the things we enjoy.
And how do we do that? Well, by "visiting your default future" and "telling the whole vivid story." In other words, paint a very clear and graphic picture of your life 3-5 years from now if you continue on with your current behaviors.
What if you choose to continue with the same high fat, high calorie diet that you have been on? How will it effect your weight, your self-esteem, your energy, your blood pressure, your cholesterol levels? What will you look like? How will you feel? Imagine it. Picture it. Feel it. Spell it out in graphic detail. Write it out and read it out loud to yourself.
One of the most powerful reasons we don't change is that we have not painted a future picture of the vivid reality of what our default future will be if we make no changes. A practical and powerful idea for you on this one is to identify someone you know who is already living your default future. Reflect on their life for about 30 minutes and let the full weight of that sink into your consciousness.
On the flip side, paint a vivid picture of what your life will look like when you successfully make the changes you want to make. I have a friend who wanted to become a positive inspirational person at work. One of the practical steps she took to love what she hated was to create a vision board filled with inspirational pictures and quotes that regularly reminded her of the kind of person she wanted to be. She placed this in a prominent place close to her desk and reflected on it so that it could be a force to "pull her up" in those moments when she felt the pull to enter into the negative office politics around her.
Then use your default future and your ideal future to craft a "personal motivation statement." This is a concise statement that captures WHY making this change is so important to you. This connects you to the transcendent values that you want to define your life and serves as the compass for your actions. Discovering your "why" provides you with the kind of "pull power" that you need, the motivation it takes to trade short term happiness in favor of long term joy.
So I have 2 questions for you to think on and answer because coaching is all about deepening the learning and forwarding the action. First, what did you learn that was most valuable to you? Second, what is the one simple concrete step you will take to apply what you learned?
One of my favorite aspects of being a coach is having the privilege of collaborating with my clients to make changes in their lives that are deeply important to them.
Often, that's the reason I begin working with them in the first place. They feel "stuck" in some area of their life or business, have attempted to fix or change it multiple times, but have been unsuccessful.
Have you ever been there? You wanted to...lose weight, quit smoking, stop reacting to your spouse negatively, treat your employees better, get in shape, lay off the Doritos and start eating healthier...and the list goes on.
And then what happened next? In a moment of inspiration after watching the ball drop in Times Square, you dove into changing that behavior with all of the fury of a LeBron James dunk...for about 5-7 days. And then...well..."Give me that bag of Doritos! Losing weight is overrated!"
And what do most of us conclude after failing to make those changes? Well, after beating ourselves up and wallowing in our own self-hatred, we come to the conclusion that we're doomed because we're not one of THOSE people who were born with truckloads of self-discipline.
We just don't have enough will power! I'll bet you have heard those words uttered more than a few times throughout the course of your life.
But what would you think if I told you that is not true? What if I told you that you could change any behavior that you really wanted to change? What if I told you that the change you so desperately seek would, in fact, be inevitable if you understood and leveraged the key ingredients that make change possible?
In their book, Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success, Joseph Grenny and Kerry Patterson and their team studied 3,000 people who successfully changed (long-lasting behavioral changes) areas of their lives that were deeply important to them. Throughout the course of their study of these folks, they were able to identify 6 sources of change that every one them used in order to make and sustain the changes they were seeking.
In some of my upcoming posts I'm going to be sharing these 6 sources with you and giving you some practical ideas on how you can begin implementing them in your own life.
But for now I simply want you to hold out the possibility that change truly is possible, even predictable. You just need to start thinking about change differently.
There are some things that you may need to UNLEARN first before you experience the change that you desire. Mark Twain once wrote, "Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned." And the first thing you may need to unlearn is this: Your level of willpower is NOT the problem.
Last Friday we traveled to Michigan to enjoy a weekend with some of our dear friends over Labor Day. One of things on the agenda, along with tackling a do-it-yourselfer house project, boating, swimming and eating bad stuff, was a 5k race that my friend's oldest daughter ran in.
This race was called the Running with the Cows 5K. It's an event hosted by a family who owns a large dairy farm (they milk 1,400 cows 3 times a day…that's big in my book. I grew up on a farm where we milked 20…) and who is passionate about sharing their knowledge of dairy farming to help farmers in northern Ugandan produce a quality milk product to improve nutrition and build business. I love supporting people who have a passion to use their lives to live transcendently and make a difference in this world!
So anyhow, after we arrived around 8:30 am and I was hanging out waiting for the race to begin, I thought to myself, "You might as well run! You're here. Make the most of it." So I did. And, even though it was ugly, I finished!
There is a race that you are supposed to run, that only you can run, a calling in this life that you were meant to fulfill that no one else can. Focus on what that unique and irreplaceable contribution is that you were meant to make.
It's no better to be the tortoise or the hare. Stay with me on this one. You remember that story that we learned when we were kids, right? The hare was faster and should have easily won the race...BUT he became distracted and the tortoise, because he was steady and focused ended up winning. The moral of the story: It's better to be steady and focused because the race isn't to the fast, but to the steady. Tell that to Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt!
My point is, if you are a rabbit, be the best rabbit you can be. If you are a turtle, understand how your strengths of steadiness and consistency can best be utilized…but don't try to be a rabbit! You'll just get discouraged.
So what in the world does this have to do with the 5k? Glad you asked. During the race I kept trading places with a girl whose pace wasn't fast, but it was very steady (she was the tortoise). I, on the other hand would run past her, then walk for a while and yield the lead back (I was the hare). The whole race was that way.
What I realized though, was that I probably run the way I do because of my personality more than anything. In the DISC personality profile, I am a high "I". Which means my core tendency is to approach life with bursts of energy and focus really well in small spurts, but then I can have a tendency to get bored and distracted if I have to focus on any one thing for an extended period of time. Some of you know exactly what I'm talking about.
So, for example, when I am working in my office, in order for me to work effectively, I have to schedule short periodic breaks into my work schedule, to give my mind periodic opportunities to recharge for another burst of energy. This is vital form me in order to be able to work productively throughout an entire day. I also have to start each day with a clear understanding of what my top priorities are or I can fritter my time away doing a thousand little, but not very important tasks.
My guess is this girl who kept trading places with me during the race was an "S". She was steady, stable, and consistent. That has some tremendous strengths…and like my personality style, it has some caution points as well (obviously...she finished before I did!). I'll discuss the DISC in a future email and you'll have the opportunity to find out your core personality style. This is one of my favorite activities that I like to do with my clients. It is a HUGE eye opener for most people.
Bottom line? One of the keys to living your life well is to understand what your core personality is and to live in alignment with it, leveraging the unique strengths of your style while limiting and being aware of the caution points and limitations of your style.
It's amazing what you can learn while running in a cow pasture!


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Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) Review – Zoey Deutch Stands Out, Everybody Else Does Not
Date: 21. September, 2020Author: Luke 0 Comments
I need to admit something – unlike plenty of people, I have only seen the original Zombieland (2009) once and that was the year it came out. For me, it was enjoyable movie, which I remember fondly (even though I wonder how it would play for me today) but I wasn't really craving "seconds", never thought this film should have had a sequel. But I am not a Hollywood producer, who were trying to make something happen ever since the first one came out, but didn't have the script ready, or the main actors weren't available. But finally, it happened and 10 years later, the result is… meh.
Zombieland: Double Tap is one of those sequels that definitely counts on you going in and LOVING the original. And that means you want to see plenty of the original movie to be referenced here, right? No, you don't want that? Would you rather have meaningful story line that makes sense within that world and characters who have some growth? Well, then look way further than this movie, because this ain't it, chief. I am not saying Zombieland: Double Tap is a horrible movie, not by any means. It's just fairly repetitive, all the beats seemed really familiar (and I need to mention this again, I've only seen the first movie once, 10 years ago!) and most of the jokes were predictable. That was the case until Madison (character played by Zoey Deutch) showed up.
I don't know how they've managed to do it, or whether there is just something about Zoey, but she was THE standout performance of this movie. Which is strange, as her character of super-dumb, yet friendly (really friendly) blond girl is nothing new and most of the time is actually really annoying character addition. But she reacts to everything with such a sincerity and all her line readings always landed where they had to, it's almost impossible not to laugh at almost everything she says. I am not even overstating anything when I say I only laughed at her jokes. They also were smart about her character not becoming the annoying one, so they've done something, that I appreciated. Since it's a new a movie, I won't say anything more, but that definitely was a smart decision and played well.
The other jokes delivered by the main foursome (technically just a threesome as Abigail Breslin is basically here as almost a glorified cameo) were fine, but they all seemed kind of over this movie, mainly Emma Stone. I don't know whether this was the direction she was given, or they just dumped a truck full of money in her garden to make this movie and she wanted two trucks, but she seemed checked out in most of her scenes. And she's somebody who usually is the standout in most of her movies. Truly strange.
This movie also wastes perfectly fine Rosario Dawson (because Woody Harrelson definitely needed that love interest) and Thomas Middleditch, so that's not helped to make this film's case. What did help was the runtime, as it never feels boring, there is always something happening and as far as the comedy sequels made long after their first films, this one is not that bad. But it doesn't stand on its own. And the world of zombies should give you plenty of choices on how to spin a sequel into something not as predictable.
If it wasn't for Zoey Deutch, actress who I am going to follow with more interest from now on, my final score would've been a bit lower, and I would be forced to write something along the lines "there is no one scene or character that's memorable". Luckily, she's here, so there is a reason for you to watch this and who knows? Maybe you'll enjoy it much better than I have. Just get ready for plenty of the same where at the end, not much has changed.
That's all for this one! Did you see it? What did you think about it? Let me know!
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Time Keeps Ticking Away In This Mesmerising Artwork At Tate Modern
Christian Marclay: The Clock, Tate modern ★★★★★
By Tabish Khan Last edited 16 months ago
Tabish Khan Time Keeps Ticking Away In This Mesmerising Artwork At Tate Modern Christian Marclay: The Clock, Tate modern 5
Hunker down in the comfy sofas for a long watch. Photographer: White Cube (Ben Westoby)
Christopher Walken recounts the story of how he concealed a watch up his backside in Pulp Fiction, and Doc Emmett Brown and Marty McFly look at the clock waiting for lightning to strike.
These two iconic film scenes are both about time and feature timepieces. If you've ever wondered how often time features in a movie, it's a lot. So much so that artist Christian Marclay used tons of footage to create a film that runs for 24 hours — that's right, an entire day and it's showing at Tate Modern.
What's special about 'The Clock' is the time on screen is the same as the time in real life — i.e. any clock or watch on screen will show the time as 11.35 only when it's also 11.35 when we're watching it — yes, it's meta. It's a meticulously constructed film right down to clocks ticking over to a new minute just as our watches also tick over.
This highly complex work took three months to construct and it's hard to put in words how mesmerising it is. In between shots of the time there are references to the passage of time whether it's persons on screen rushing for a train or a funeral marking the end of time, at least it's the end for the person in the coffin.
Time keeps on ticking. Photograph: White Cube
By disconnecting each scene from the rest of the film it makes it even more intriguing. We recognise a young Idris Elba and Julia Roberts abed in separate scenes but what films are they in? A clock ticks towards noon for a shootout to begin – Russell Crowe, Sharon Stone and Leonardo DiCaprio all look out for it to tick over but once it does we cut away and never see the ensuing gunfight. Time is stripped of its context.
For the hardcore among you, Tate Modern opens for 24 hours during special screenings for those bold enough to try and sit through the entire thing. It's a feat of endurance that's almost a work of art in of itself. Thankfully the gallery is filled with comfy sofas so it's easy to hunker down for a long session.
Digital clocks too, as well as references to time feature. Image courtesy White Cube, London and Paula Cooper, New York
On a conceptual level The Clock is the perfect work right now, given we Londoners are always rushing around, always late for something and never able to achieve what we want in a day. Time is now our most valuable commodity and yet we never quite manage to lose ourselves in it, this writer is constantly failing to take some time to relax. As Einstein said:
Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing
This film invites you to get lost in time while reminding us how valuable it is. We find ourselves ironically losing track of time and wondering what time it is. We glance at our watch before realising foolishly that the time is on the screen in front of us.
It's a stunning film that everyone should put aside some time to experience. Ok, we're done with time now — time's up.
Christian Marclay: The Clock is on at Tate Modern from 14 September to 20 January. Entrance is free.
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The best books about runners, records, and the remarkable human spirit
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I think that we're all a Work In Progress whatever our relative levels of success so I'm drawn to people who share that belief, are way out there and are still working on their own stuff. Especially if they've managed to do so without becoming a righteous arse in the process. 'Cos I want reasons to be reminded how incredible it can be to use as much of what we've been given and be ALIVE in every sense of the word. I want to keep learning and growing and getting stronger and faster and more bombproof and compassionate and connected as I moved through my fifth decade and beyond. These books really resonate with me – I hope they will for you too.
So You Want to Run an Ultra: How to Prepare for Ultimate Endurance
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This book shows that it is a very long way, that it can be good for you, and that you most certainly don't have to be super-human to finish one. It also goes further by inspiring you to get started and by guiding you each step of the way. So, whether you're just curious to know more about this fast-growing global sport or searching for the right answers to your own ultra-running breakthrough, this book will prove as valuable as your favourite running shoes.
Runaway Comrade
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An enthralling account of one man's quest to win the oldest ultramarathon in the world through the prism of apartheid South Africa in the '70s and '80s. Not only is it an incredibly intimate account but also a fascinating insight into international politics and business machinations during that turbulent time.
British Marathon Running Legends of the 1980s
By Gabrielle Collison
Britain used to be a hotbed of marathon talent that ruled the world over 26.2 miles decades before Lottery funding. This is a collection of 21 interviews of men and women who left their mark on the sport often by force of will alone. For those of us who grew up watching these people – and I was one - this is the how and why they did it which at the time was the bit that was never really in the spotlight. So it squares the circle for me. And for those of you who came later – welcome to Old School…
Broken: 2020: the year running records were rewritten
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Ally Beavan had a ringside seat during the lockdown year of 2020 as a few special ultrarunners lined up to take a shot at many of the long-standing records in the sport. As support crew, pacer, or simply cheerleader on many of these attempts, Beavan puts us right where the action is for a rare and often entertaining insight into what a very special time if you could run a long way very fast. I was compelled, informed, and entertained in equal measure.
The Art of Resilience
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Once again this is about so much more than the incredible physical feat involved in swimming a lap of Great Britain. Ross Edgley is also a student of the world with the smarts and courage to write his own rule book. Once again this is an engaging mix of the deeply personal, science, philosophy, and the humanity of community that has to come together to make extraordinary stuff possible.
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