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"I occupy two highly improbable worlds," says Mr Max Wallis - nursing a pint in an East London pub, a few days after our coastal shoot. "However, I'm in a lovely position where people are interested in both." A published poet-come-model, the 23-year-old is on a mission. Having released his first critically acclaimed poetry collection Modern Love, he wants to modernise the medium with his latest project - filmed poems inspired by modelling. "The traditional method of publishing is not fast enough for me," he says. "I want to forge my own future."

Completing his first work aged eight (on the contentious subject of mangetout), the London-based wordsmith wrote tirelessly, despite living among a family of scientists. "My grandad invented the wires for Cern," he offers, absentmindedly. Heading to Manchester University to study biology - which he excelled at - he soon swapped for a creative writing Masters, and signed up to a young poet scheme at the Barbican in London. After showing some poems to his mentor, Modern Love was published in 2011 by flipped eye. It was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize in 2012.

With the collection charting a modern sex- and text-filled love affair, he wanted his work to be up to the minute from day one. "Someone said I used language that didn't actually exist 10 years ago," he says of his insightful collection. "Writers are scared of putting in modern elements, but if you're writing about now - you have to mention things like mobile phones."

Someone said I used language that didn't actually exist 10 years ago, but if you're writing about now - you have to mention things like mobile phones

Despite poetry being his first passion, modelling has been a welcome addition to his career. After friends sent in his picture, he was signed up by agencies such as Q in New York and Independent Men in Milan. He completed his first season on the catwalks in Paris earlier this year and has a major billboard campaign dropping this spring. Instead of it being a distraction, Mr Wallis has used this contrasting arena as a foil for his poems. "Even in modelling there's poetry. A review for a show I saw referred to things like the 'origami of the dresses'. It's interesting to look at the concealment of language," he says. When pitching his concept for sponsoring from the Arts Council, he knew he was on to something and had a ready bank of material to utilise. "I'm interesting at the moment because they haven't read poetry about modelling. I knew this couple - the girl was a model. They broke up, the girl skyrocketed, and she was on every surface in New York, and the guy had to see that. The poems are about that - falling in love in this ridiculous world."

By insisting his new work be on a digital platform, Mr Wallis wants to help build an alternative method of consuming poetry. He doesn't question the quality of contemporary work, but thinks it can be published faster, and heard by more people. "The biggest growth of posting literature online is in poetry. People like poetry and read it but it's seen as niche and dry - so I'm interested in how you get it wet! How do you get Joe Bloggs involved? I'm purposely not going through normal channels. I'm interested in how you attack new people... so to speak." Poetry can be seen as a dated form of expression, yet, as Mr Wallis points out, it is an ideal literary form in a world obsessed with brevity. "You're dealing with people who scroll through Facebook feeds. No one has time any more. Poetry is just bite-size chunks, and with a 30-second video [like "As in Those Slow Moments", above], someone can open it, and as they cogitate whether to close it, it's already half way through." Getting people to experience poems without even realising it? You have to admire his desire.

People like poetry and read it but it's seen as niche and dry - I'm interested in how you attack new people...

With the likes of Harper's Bazaar publishing his videos - "Time Zones Apart" is online now - and his written work receiving plaudits from Faber favourite Mr Sam Riviere and more, Mr Wallis has successfully piqued the interest of both the fashion and literary worlds.

As he finishes his drink, he ponders the broader benefits of his work. It becomes clear that the exposure one associates with modelling undoubtedly spurs on his writing. "It'd be lovely to have about 85 poems in all different markets. Then you've got yourself appearing all around the globe." Considering the campaign he has coming out in spring - whether it's billboards or poetry videos - one feels he'll enjoy attention in whichever world he chooses.

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In the latest episode of our video series, A Saturday With..., the designer and founder of Ami, Mr Alexandre Mattiussi, takes us through how he spends Saturdays in his native Paris. This year's winner of the prestigious Andam Fashion Award, Mr Mattiussi spends a portion of his weekend attending to business matters: since its inception in 2011, Ami has enjoyed an almost unprecedented degree of success (and has become one of our favourite brands at MR PORTER) in such a short space of time, so it's easy to see why Mr Mattiussi is constantly working. "I like to go to the office on Saturdays because it's much quieter," he says. "I go there to work in the calm, and think about the collection." Of course Mr Mattiussi still finds time to zip off on his moped and unwind with friends, with those two most French of essentials in tow: a good wine and some fromage. Watch the video, above, to find out more.

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Cat Of A Different Color
by Dana Marie Bell, paranormal (2008)
Samhain Publishing, $3.50, ISBN 978-1-60504-239-8

Adrian Giordano is a confirmed bachelor and he doesn't intend to get married anytime soon. Oh, wait, this is one of those stories so let me rephrase that sentence. Adrian Giordano is a confirmed Puma bachelor and he doesn't intend to settle down with a mate anytime soon. There, that's more like it. Of course, you know how things are. One look at Sheridan Montgomery, the new girl in town, and his fangs (among other things) are showing. She's a legally blind albino Puma on the run from a pack of rogue Wolves, so Adrian gets to flex some muscles and do that protective hunk gig during the courtship ritual.

One of my biggest problem with the author's previous Halle Pumas stories is that Ms Bell doesn't know when to stop cranking out those one-liners, to the point that when her characters should be scared or worried, they are still on that caustic trip instead and the whole story feels like a surreal comedy that can't be taken seriously as a result. I'm glad to report that this problem isn't prevalent in Cat Of A Different Color: the characters exhibit more realistic emotions as befitting the situation they are in. The author's sense of humor is still intact, but it shows up at the right places.

While this story doesn't break any significant new ground if you have read any mate-mate stories of this sort, Cat Of A Different Color is nonetheless an enjoyable read. There are various moments in this short story when I feel that the author could have downplayed the main characters' interactions with secondary characters in order to provide more much-needed focus on their rather superficial romance. Still, the pacing is fine, the characters are likable stereotypes, and the author's sense of humor makes this one a bouncy and fun read.

Without all that distracting non-stop one-liners cluttering this story, I feel as if I'm finally getting to know what the author is capable of, and I believe I like what I see here.

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The Beautiful Stranger’s Birthday Week! Feb 5th-Feb12th

Published On 02/19/2013 | By Beautiful Stranger | Life Is A ....., Lifestyle

I’m not even gonna lie..I celebrate the whole damn month!

Where should I start, so basically most anything I decide to do I make sure its BIG like my PERSONALITY and I had to make a whole WEEK out of my 30th  celebration!!! So here it goes in pictures! From Day #1 to Day #5 and beyond.. …..

Day #1 started with a mani and pedi during the day at BK’s own Top Nail Design in Flatbush then the evening was filled with even more fun at the LA Lakers vs. BK Nets gam e at Barclays Center in downtown BK!  Which by the way the Lakers did win with 92 points!  Woot!  How about there were more Lakers fans at Barclays that night than there were actual BK nets fans..damn shame huh? lol ..just had to rub that in one time! hahahahhahahah!!!

Day #1 LA Lakers vs. BK Nets game at Barclay Center in BK! And yes I got my PURPLE & Gold on! From head to toe literally! Don't hate New Yorkers...yes I am a brand spanking new Lakers fan and proud of it

Day #1 LA Lakers vs. BK Nets game at Barclay Center in BK! And yes I got my PURPLE & Gold on! From head to toe literally! Don’t hate New Yorkers…yes I am a brand spanking new Lakers fan and proud of it

I ultimately ended the night with of course rockin’ the mic on the air at 106.1 BLI

On Air after the LA Lakers and BK Nets game on Day #1 of my bday celebration week!

On Air after the LA Lakers and BK Nets game on Day #1 of my bday celebration week!

Now to Day #2 ….now y’all know I almost NEVER relax because I literally work 7 days a week and shit!  So This was all about me, myself and I on some relaxation tip! So I took myself to once again the great boor of BK to the famous Body by Brooklyn for the special treatment…I mean the works!  It was The best hour and a half of my entire young LIFE!  Lawwwwddd I kid you not!!!

Body By Brooklyn #1 Spa in all of BK NY!!! Awesome!!!! A must go!

Body By Brooklyn #1 Spa in all of BK NY!!! Awesome!!!! A must go!

Day #2 continued on with a fabulous Fashion Week Event I attended for Haitian designer Charles Dieujuste!  It all went down at Sun Studios in NYC!  I was invited by my childhood friend and Fashion Stylist and jewelry designer Stacy Armand!  It was an incredible evening filled with ambitious spirit, a beautiful collection by a talented designer and celebrity sightings from Mobb Wive’s very own Ramona Rizzo!  She is a beauty and so was the overall connection and event! Pics below say it all! Check it out!

Day #3 was my SINGING debut day ….a part of this fearlessly turning 30 week was for me to do things I never thought I would do before but I always secretly wanted to do …so that included me singing my heart out on a song … or at least singing to the best of my ability!!!  I needed help of course so I summoned the best of the best in local talent that is about to make both Miguel and Chris Brown have several seats and I speak of none other than Deacon Jackson and Charles Caldwell!!!  They are beyond awesome and so was our session at WBLS studios!  They even got to sing for our very own LENNY GREEN in studio!  Check the pics out below!!! Oh and wait till you hear the song when its fully mixed and produced!  ITs something special I tell ya!  I won’t even spoil it by giving you the song title and artist…I’m just going to make you wait…trust…its worth it! **giggles** Oh yeah and how can I forget …after putting in that work in our studio session we passed by the new NYC hotspot Kiss & Fly over in the meat packing industry grabbing some drinks and of course  a birthday red velvet cupcake :) Special thanks and shout to Deacon Jackson, Charles Caldwell, and producer and sound engineer extraordinaire Jason “Bombaye” Pezzotti

Off to Day #4 …you ready? It’s tattoo time…..check out my next blog post for more!!!!  This one is getting a tad bit too long! LOL … BE continued :) xo B. Stranger

To Be Continued…….

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Barbara De Laleu - (Radio Personality/Producer/Entrepreneur) Barbara De Laleu – The ace of entertainment & pop culture. Ms. Delaleu is a blogger, entrepreneur, a new radio personality better known as Roxie Digital of the new Radio 103.9 NY, and morning show producer and member of the La Invasion Mananera morning show team at La Invasora 1600 AM NY. With a history of leadership in the radio industry, community service, academia and not-for-profit organizations, Barbara is definitely a contender in the ever- growing entertainment industry. During Barbara's career as a radio personality and producer, she was a weekend and fill-in radio personality for Cox Media Group Long Island's 106.1 WBLI and 102.3 WBAB for almost 9 years while concurrently working for 5 years with Inner City now Emmis Communication's 107.5 WBLS and 1190 WLIB AM as a dedicated board engineer and producer for the long running Imhotep Gary Byrd show. Also close to heart as a natural community leader and activist, De Laleu is co-founder of the No Disrespect Campaign with her business partner and morning show producer of New York's Hot97 Shani Kulture. Furthermore, De Laleu has held titles such as Vice President and Programming Committee Chair of the Alliance for Women in Media developing her reputation as the organizations “rising star”. She has also been the recipient of numerous awards including PopCrunch Media’s 50 Hottest Women in Radio, the 2005 recipient of Who’s Who Among American Colleges and Universities and the 2008 recipient of AWRT’s BELL (Bringing Excellence at a Local Level) AWARD. During the Summer of 2012, Barbara participated in the International Field Program in Buenos Aires Argentina where she had the opportunity to work with a local radio station and NGO on environmental and community outreach issues. At the end of this experience, Barbara completed a Masters Program in Media Studies at The New School University while concurrently graduating from The Organizational Change Management Program in Milano to the School of Management and Urban Policy Programs in Spring of 2013. She is in the midst of her PhD work focusing heavily on the disparity of media ownership by minorities and women across local and global communities. In her spare time, Barbara shares her voiceover talents internationally and locally with radio stations in Buenos Aires Argentina and Holland-Amsterdam to BET Networks, Black Enterprise Magazine, WBLS, WLIB, WBLI, Radio 103.9 NY, Aetna, American Impact Media, Sports Illustrated and interviewed some of top names in entertainment and music today. In her future, Barbara’s ultimate career goal is to obtain ownership of media, particularly radio stations in Haiti and the US. To find out more about Ms. De Laleu aka Roxie, please visit The Beautiful Stranger or

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WORKLOAD: Courses are taught with the expectation that students do much of their learning outside of class. Therefore, students should expect to study approximately 2 hours outside of class for every hour they are in a lecture class. this workload will often result in students' serious consideration of their other commitments. Mt. SAC Teacher Preparation Institute recommends that students who are working full-time (40 hours per week) take no more than 6 units per semester; students who are working part-time (20 hours per week) should take no more than 12 units.

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Broadcasters who have already been going toe-to-toe with the Consumer Electronics Association and CTIA: The Wireless Industry Association over spectrum issues face a new and powerful group lobbying for a broadband-centric future.

A passel of Internet powerhouses have banded together to form what they bill as the first trade association representing the Internet economy, The Internet Association.

The association boasts 14 members -- Amazon, AOL, eBay, Expedia, Facebook, Google, IAC (Bing), LinkedIn, Monster Worldwide, Rackspace, salesforce.com, TripAdvisor, Yahoo and Zynga. Notably absent from that list of search giants Microsoft, which has squared off against Google in that space.

The association will be run by president and CEO Michal Beckerman, who until June was the deputy staff director at the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The companies bill the group as "an umbrella public policy organization dedicated to strengthening and protecting a free and innovative Internet" that will be relentless in pushing its policy goals.

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There are a host of issues to keep the group busy, including cybersecurity, online privacy and piracy, the impact of usage plans on video use, freeing up more spectrum for wireless -- a longtime Google goal -- and the status of over-the-top video. The FCC is currently considering whether or not to classify online video distributors as multichannel video providers, which would mean granting them the same rights and responsibilities under FCC rules as cable and satellite carriers.

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TenLordsaLapin Mon 17-Dec-07 13:29:38

For reasons explained in the old thread here, please can we use this one now? Thank you smile

Saturn74 Mon 17-Dec-07 13:31:26

Ooh, I preferred the old title! wink

TenLordsaLapin Mon 17-Dec-07 13:34:41

I know, it was prettier, but you can imagine what a pain that must be!

DanJARMouse Mon 17-Dec-07 13:37:19

Thank you for the parcel of goodies you sent to us.

Very much appreciated. Appologies fro not posting on here sooner, am not on MN much what with the boy! (except to do a daily update on the BFing thread!)

snowfunwhenyoureknackered Mon 17-Dec-07 14:59:39

tiredemma, please see the old thread for my post thanking you for the lovely parcel!

I hope you get to see it, I'd hate for you to think I hadn't received your generous gifts

ssd x x x

LadyOfTheHollyAndTheIvy Mon 17-Dec-07 16:35:22

Did anyone get a Fisher Price Laugh & Learn Activity Table thing?
I posted it on Thursday. Maybe am being a little premature? hmm
It had a long way to go.

TenLordsaLapin Mon 17-Dec-07 16:46:33

LadyOTHATI, I will probably get an email about yours, she's very rarely on MN at the moment... I'll post if/when I hear

thankyoooooo Mon 17-Dec-07 16:51:03

thanks soooo much!!!

what a surprise and SOUPY!shock

Caroline sent me a framed pic of soupy lol grin I chuckled when I saw that grin dh really didn't get it hmm I told him its an mn thing wink!!!!
Im over the moon and ds and dd will be as well on xmas day

thanks so much for the pressies for me, I loved the MN labels and smilies

thankyou thankyou thankyou
you really are lovely smile
It means a lot and really has taken some pressure off me.

SquonkaClaus Mon 17-Dec-07 16:56:45

lapin - do you know if my donee received the vouchers yet? It's been over a week since I posted them?

TenLordsaLapin Mon 17-Dec-07 17:06:26

I'll email her Squonk but I know she's moving house (don't worry, deliveries going to a reliable address) and she hasn't been on MN for a few weeks

SpacecadetLovesChristmas Mon 17-Dec-07 17:11:08

lapin, do you know if 2 of my receivers have ahd their stuff, I posted them a week ago

mummyhill Mon 17-Dec-07 17:43:56

Lapin not yet lost my interwebconection am hoping that this means that they are having a christmas amnesty, will be able to pay them on thursday any way.

TenLordsaLapin Mon 17-Dec-07 17:48:39

Sorry SC, I thought I had replied to you. I've emailed them to ask.

FlamesparodyOfAChristmasName Mon 17-Dec-07 17:55:34

grin Thankyou Raggydoll (now I know who you were thought I would do another thanks)

SPACEY!!!! Was askin after you the other day - how's things? I neverr seem to get the chance to hunt you down on msn anymore

well, I'd just like to thank my 2 givers again. your M&S vouchers were used today when I managed to get to the shops. thank you thank you thank you!

i am incredibly relieved to also say i have managed to post my 2 boxes so huge apologies to anyone who's still waiting for a box. you won't know it's me lol, but you should have something by the end of the week.

WhenScoobyGotStuckUpTheChimney Mon 17-Dec-07 18:07:50

Lapin did you find out if my parcel had arrived? smile

Staceym11PipersPiping Mon 17-Dec-07 18:14:55

THank you thank you thank you to the Faulkner familyfor the parcels with the lovely wrapped gifts. i carefully unwrapped and re-wrapped once i found out who they were for! they are brill, dd will love the princess doll and ds will really like the diggers and trucks book! grin

thank you so much for the boots voucher too i shall think about what to get for myself for xmas with it!

thank you!!!!!!!

TenLordsaLapin Mon 17-Dec-07 18:17:50

I emailed but didn't get a reply - I;ll try again.

FlamesparodyOfAChristmasName Mon 17-Dec-07 18:27:44

Oh wabbit - I sorted my problem wink

Jas Mon 17-Dec-07 18:28:55

I got all excited thinking CliffRichardSucksEggsInHell had outed herself as my donor, only to be told otherwise in the next pots. Oh, well. I would love to know who you are (very nosey face)so I can thank you againsmile

SelfishMrsClaus Mon 17-Dec-07 18:32:51

Mine will be posted a week tomorrow, so I hope they will arrive soon If not then I have a receipt here, it was sent parcel force so it couldn't be sent recorded (according to the lady at the PO)

SelfishMrsClaus Mon 17-Dec-07 18:34:49

Very badly structured first sentence there!! I meant mine will have been posted a week tomorrow! blush

Miaou Mon 17-Dec-07 18:41:04

Two thank yous today!!

KIF - thank you so much for thinking of me and my little ds2 - the little activity arch is just super - and something I don't have and wondered about getting for him, so a perfect gift! And I can't wait to open the two little pressies for me - which look and feel suspiciously like chocolate and a bath bomb ... grin Thank you!

And secondly - Thank you so much to K E from London (you know who you are grin) - what a fabulous parcel!!! I am going to have the most fabby pair of socks by the end of January, and the dds will have a lovely pair of cross-stitch pictures for their rooms! Not to mention the gorgeous choccy and the wonderful book by MrMiaou's favourite cook (how did you know????) grin I am going to wrap them up for Christmas day and get the pleasure all over again!! grin

MorePresentsForMiaou Mon 17-Dec-07 18:52:43

Miaou, you are most welcome, you know that grin
Glad the parcel is such a hit but am kicking myself for not putting in a little something for ds1, I am ever so sorry blush. I meant to, but was in a parcel frenzy at the time and he got missed out

SpacecadetLovesChristmas Mon 17-Dec-07 19:26:59

Thanks Lapin

Flame- have been soo busy..but found myself drawn back to MN again!grin

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is Margot Kidder the best Lois Lane there has been? (both TV and film)

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HoveringKestrel Sat 15-Jun-13 14:15:39

I happen to think so.

Anybody prefer someone else?

Sparklysilversequins Thu 20-Jun-13 10:14:24

I actually really disliked her but then I find Lois Lane the most annoying character, ever, in fiction.

Amy Adams did ok. She was certainly slightly more likeable.

fedupofnamechanging Thu 20-Jun-13 10:16:42

I agree with you, OP. The others are seriously bland.

RoooneyMara Thu 20-Jun-13 10:17:40

Oh definitely. How could anyone else be Lois Lane? I did like the one in the TV series but she wasn't the same person.

RoooneyMara Thu 20-Jun-13 10:18:46

and don't even start me on Dean Cain. I read in the radio times once that he eats boiled onions and eggs for breakfast, and it made me feel so ill that I couldn't watch him any more.

Margot Kidder is Lois Lane. The others are meh, although I like Amy Adams and I haven't seen Man of Steel yet.

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As we hope you've seen, we've just launched a new Mumsnet campaign called #ThisIsMyChild. The campaign aims to support parents of children with additional needs by busting some myths - and with luck will open up a conversation about how we can all act together to make day-to-day life a bit easier for these families.

The talk thread is over here if you want to catch up - and do also have a look at our brilliant gallery of photos of Mumsnetter's DC, all of whom have additional needs.

Today, we've a guest blog from SaintlyJimJams, who's been an MNer for many years. JimJams blogs over at A Life Unlimited, and writes here about other people's reactions to her son Archie, who has autism - do have a read, and let us know what you think.

"My eldest son Archie is a handsome chap; fourteen years old and 'hot', according to a female friend of my middle son. He is also severely autistic.

When I remember the early years with my youngest two, the memories are of birthday parties, holidays and funny things they said. Their life has, in the main been lived in anonymity; they draw attention to themselves when they want to - otherwise they, and we, are left alone. But life with Archie has always been different - non-verbal but not quiet, he has always had a way of inviting attention when we venture out, and when I think back, the responses of strangers form a large part of the memories.

Over the years I have grown a skin so thick it would compete with a rhino, but in the early years other people's reactions could affect me greatly. I remember with absolute clarity the expression on the face of a man who held my gaze and shook his head slowly at me on a ferry to Ireland as Archie tried, one again, to exit the duty free shop via the entrance (he liked the alarms). This man, the father of two young daughters who had spent the crossing sitting quietly reading and drawing pictures, had been watching us for a while as I, heavily pregnant, crashed around after Archie trying to contain him to one small space in a large boat. Not content to judge in silence, he had to show his disapproval with the slow head shake.

I remember as well the mother attending a family day on Dartmoor with the rangers. Families were pond-dipping as we came past and stopped to fish out suncream from our rucksack. When Archie was young, he didn't really like or understand stopping - and the ensuing screaming caused many heads to spin. This is fine: looking for the source of an unexpected noise is a normal human response. But while most people looked briefly and then returned to their activity, one mother remained staring until I mouthed 'don't stare' at her, at which point she turned away without a word.

Then there was the owner of a bathroom shop, who reduced a helper of mine to angry tears after she came out to complain about Archie jumping up and down excitedly on an empty pavement outside the shop (he'd spotted some shutters, shutters are exciting). Three memories, representing the years of tuts, sighs and comments we have received.

But it's not all bad; I remember as well the kind people. The stranger who approached me in the supermarket to tell me she knew Archie was autistic, and that he was beautiful. Someone else who followed us around a camping exhibition before asking me whether Archie was autistic, saying 'my son is, and I recognised his noises' - then beaming with happiness at him. The two older ladies sitting in an empty winter beach café, who laughed with genuine pleasure when Archie sniffed their sandwiches.

We've met various people on trains, during difficult moments caused by trains stopping. I remember in particular the grandmother on her way to visit her autistic grandson, who fished sweets out of her bag and complained about other people staring. I remember too the owner of a convenience store who would always give Archie an extra apple when he visited her shop - it's not that unusual for strangers to give Archie gifts. At Camp Bestival, a difficult experience on the whole, the people running the PlayStation bus made it a little easier by allowing Archie to queue jump every visit (he liked to climb to the top to view the festival), and on the last day appeared with a little pile of presents.

For the last year or so, Archie has had a handbrake obsession. He loves to look at handbrakes, and particularly likes watching them go off and on, up and down, or handbrake lights on and off. He knows he isn't allowed to touch cars, but he will peer through car windows at handbrakes. It can look slightly odd - although he never does anything threatening - and a walk across a car park can be a good way of observing, in a few minutes, the whole range of responses that we encounter in our life with Archie.

Many people are amused and intrigued, and often, once Archie's behaviour has been explained to them, they take time to show him their handbrakes (this really is beyond the call of duty!). Others are confused and can appear, hands on hips, until Archie's interest is explained (at which stage a few remain with hands on hips, but hey ho). A small number of people swear or shout or become aggressive. We do our best to avoid these.

Strangers make a difference to our days out with Archie in a way they just never have with the younger boys. In the days before rhino hide, a difficult encounter could send me home in tears.

Sometimes people ask how they should respond when faced with a severely autistic child - maybe peering at their handbrake or sniffing their sandwich or even them - and really the best response is always to smile or, if appropriate, laugh; troublesome behaviours can be very funny. Once, for example, Archie launched himself through an open car window across a policeman's lap, in an attempt to find the siren button - the policeman did laugh.

If a child is very upset, it's always fine to ask whether you can help - and it is equally fine to just ignore whatever is going on. Often well-meaning people are worried about doing or saying the wrong thing - but unless you are shaking your head, shouting or swearing, this isn't really something you should be concerned about. I used to see attention from others as a negative aspect of having an autistic child. Now I see it as a positive, and I call Archie my filter, as he fast tracks me to the lovely people out there; the ones worth knowing."

Do have a look at Christianne's blog, A Life Unlimited. This post, in which she explains how an anonymous and exceptionally generous MNer donated the specialist equipment that helps Archie to communicate, is a great place to start. On Twitter, Christianne is @CATS_Chris

LaSpooney Wed 21-Aug-13 19:50:54

Thank you, Saintly.
I've been following the blog for a few months now and it just gives me such hope and a big smile when I see how much Archie has progressed and what an inspiration he and you are. DS is 6 and a half, completely non verbal, plodding on (but mainly standing still) with PECS (now via Ipad) taking more interest in others, mainly adults but sometimes children. But then there are, of course, plenty of odd noises and random shouting, pinching other people's food at Softplay today, going for cuddles with any woman he sees over the age of 50! Bracing myself for a trip to Italy at the end of the week - I've already written down in the phrasebook the Italian for "my son is not naughty, he's autistic" but whether I'll use it is another matter!
Look forward to future posts on the blog.
Highly impressed with the This Is My Child campaign too - if it educates just a few people it has to be worth it.

We had whole years and years of standing still LaSpooney. I can sort of list the breakthroughs. The first was learning to imitate aged 8. Then he could learn through observation and we didn't have to teach everything hand over hand. The next was developing a functional yes/no aged about 10ish. And then the next was surfing - partly because it gave a safe community and partly because it was the first extended activity and next the talker and using that to develop phrases.

But it was a long depressing time really. I had sort of given up. Then we went on a Growing Minds programme when Archie was 8 and they said something like 'you think you know what his future is, but actually you don't'. And they ended up being right. smile

Good luck in Italy!

LIZS Thu 22-Aug-13 09:41:23

Great blog. Have followed your family's story on and off for many years and am in awe at the progress ds1 has made and the dedication you have to all your boys.

Thank you Liz - although I think we & ds1 have been very lucky that things have clicked into place for him. He's currently sat next to me with minecraft on the iPad. He doesn't play it the way his brothers do but he happily passes the time building things & knocking them down smile

Pyewacket Fri 23-Aug-13 14:35:50

What a lovely blog, Archie sounds wonderful and i can relate to so much you have written. My daughter is 4, recently diagnosed, i am still working on the rhino hide.

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Our aim is to serve the scholarly community by gathering, researching and disseminating documents relevant to the history of musical thought. While primarily focused on music theory, our work also aims to document the deep links between music and the other arts and sciences, which have influenced intellectual life from the medieval era to the present. Our earliest projects, first and foremost the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum, made pioneering use of technology and the internet by making freely available hundreds of music treatises in Latin dating from the Late Antiquity. In the twenty-first century CHMTL aims to continue to be at the forefront of research in computer-assisted studies of the music of the past.

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Bartók's two violin sonatas are among his knottiest pieces. But Fiona McNaught and Daniel Tong's lucid, searching performance of No 2 was an utterly gripping experience. They explored the first movement's fragile sound-world with a mesmerising sense of concentration, and maintained the dance-impulse behind the second through the music's constant tempo fluctuations. It was a neat idea to lead into the Sonata's sound-world by prefacing it with three of Joesph Szigeti's transcriptions of Bartók's piano pieces For Children.

McNaught and Tong's revelatory account of Ravel's Sonata brought out the work's darker undercurrent more powerfully than in many performances I've heard. The later stages of the first movement became a real climb out of earlier shadows, and the low-key, slower than usual, start to the 'Blues' second movement made the violin theme sound, for once, genuinely nostalgic (in accordance with Ravel's marking), as well as bringing out the movement's increasingly obsessive quality.

They also explored some fairly sombre shadows in Brahms's G major Sonata, Op 78, with some steady tempi but, even in their intense reading of the middle movement, no feeling of trying to squeeze more out of the music than was already there. The finale was relatively swift, by contrast, Tong's crisp articulation offsetting the husky viola-like sound of McNaught's bottom string, with the wind-down at the end beautifully paced.

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Throughout the evening McNaught's astonishing technical command -- bow-control, intonation, rhythmic precision -- was matched by Tong's combination of power and clarity. Balance was pretty well ideal -- and the same can be said for the evening as a whole.

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The foundation of My Dollar Plan is actually the same as the name… it’s based on our dollar plan. Readers wanted to know what it looks like, how we created it and how we manage our finances to it. So far I’ve only mentioned it in theory and haven’t explained the nuts and bolts.

Today we’re kicking off the series to create your own dollar plan!
Over the next several months, I’ll guide you through the process. Along the way, I’ll share examples from our plan to give you ideas. Each step will be spaced out so that you have time to work on your own plan as we go. As always, feel free to leave comments and ask questions. I’ll answer them as we go.

Where are you heading in life? If you could look back on your life 10, 20, or 50 years down the road, what would you want to have accomplished?

Many of us set goals, but have you gone to the next step to align your financial life with your goals?

By the end of the series, you’ll have a roadmap that takes you from where you are now to where you want to get to… financially. And we’ll put some checkpoints in too. Let’s get started!

Step 1: Brainstorming

All good plans begin with a brainstorming session. You probably have a handful of goals in your head, but have you devoted time to really generating a bunch of ideas that you want to pursue?

Create the environment.
What situation do your creative juices flow best in? Is it with a big empty posterboard sized paper? How about sticky notes? A plain piece of notebook paper? Get the supplies and get comfortable.

Block out some time. An hour should be good to get started. Make sure you won’t have any interruptions. The last thing you want is to get going on a roll and have the phone ring.

Start writing. Write down your goals in life. These can be short-term, long-term, or anywhere in between. The goals do not have to be financial. Anything goes here. Write for an hour and include any thoughts that pop into your head. This isn’t the time to restrict yourself. If you want it, write it down.

Walk away. This is a critical piece in brainstorming. Too often after we jotted down all our ideas, we try to classify them immediately. Give the brainstorming some time for reflection. By letting the ideas just sit for a day or two, you’ll find yourself thinking about them, adding to them, and building some excitement.

Group your ideas. Once you’ve given the ideas time to develop, it’s time to group similar items. You may find your ideas fall into some general categories: family, career, retirement, etc. You’ll be able to focus on a category of plans together since they are likely intertwined.

Another consideration:

Get your spouse involved. You can do a joint brainstorming session, or you can brainstorm separately and work to combine your ideas later.

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    I have never felt so in control as from when dh and I set out our goals and targets for the next five years.
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Affected beneficiaries can choose to enroll in another Medicare Advantage or Prescription Drug Plan, if they do not want to remain in Original Medicare or the newly assigned Prescription Drug Plan. They have been granted a special election period during which they may make one change in their Medicare health care and prescription drug coverage. This special election period is in effect now through May 31, 2013. Coverage in the new plan is effective the first of the month following their plan selection.

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Dustin Brown and Mike Richards each scored in the third period to draw the Kings even, but with time winding down Legwand won a faceoff in the offensive zone and cleaned up Mattias Ekholm's shot from the point.

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Fox Point — The Fox Point-Bayside School Board on Tuesday night unanimously approved exceeding the district's revenue limit by $399,518 for energy efficiency investments.

The money will be used for a second group of projects from a $1.75 million package of facility investments presented to the district by Johnson Controls two years ago.

District officials estimated the expenditures would add 28 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation to tax bills, or $56 on a home assessed at $200,000.

"This makes a lot of sense," said board member Mike Weidner. "Besides being more energy-efficient, it's going to make the buildings more comfortable for students, faculty and staff."

Improvements will include heating ventilator replacements at Stormonth Elementary and Bayside Middle School, and upgraded hot water pumps at both schools.

"A lot of this equipment is old and may fail at any time," said board member Timothy Welchert, adding that replacing it this year avoids the possibility of unexpected breakdowns.

Board President Alice Lawton was especially pleased by the scheduled work at the middle school, where she said "the fifth-grade wing has been notoriously problematic."

The district estimates total savings from the improvements at $472,502 over an 18-year period.

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I’ve written before about the challenges of pet care on the road but we recently ran into a situation we were unable to prepare for, even as seasoned road warriors.

We were traveling and our dog, Claire, started going downhill in a hurry. She was 17 years old so aches and pains related to age were to be expected, but she was having trouble walking and was having a peculiar type of seizure. Last Tuesday she stopped eating. We had planned on waiting until we got back to our long-term park to go to the vet but Claire’s health continued to deteriorate. We could no longer escape the hard decision; it was time for our buddy to cross over.

Out of desperation we had to look for a local vet to help with end of life care. This put us all in an awkward situation. The vet had never seen Claire before and we had no experience with them. They fit us into an already full schedule because of our friends who recommended them.

I had a work phone conference scheduled and my wife handed me a note 30 minutes into a 2 hour phone conference that the vet had to move our appointment up. There was no way I could leave and my wife and parents had to take her in. It was either that or put the dog through another agonizing day with no food. My wife gets hero props for stepping up to handle that difficult situation.

This situation was sad but not tragic. Claire was 17, which is a ripe old age for any dog and had developed a heart condition. She lived a great life that was full of days in the park and chasing ball for hours on end. But those are the realities of pet care on the road. Many times you’re picking a vet out of the phone book. You don’t know them, they don’t know you. A few are difficult about giving you a prescription to order your pet medications on the road.

Our experience taking two dogs on the road in an RV has done it for us, we’re not getting any more animals. The expense of vet bills, the difficulty of getting care on the road, and the limitations imposed by pet ownership are just too much. I’m hoping after a couple years we won’t notice the huge empty space in our life so much, but it sure hurts now.

Not having pets is liberating in its own way and we were lucky enough to have the best dog in the world and that seems like a good place to let it end.

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Registered at MLK: October 31st, 2011, 12:30 am.

Gender: Female

Species: Hyena

Character Description

Character Overview: Ed & Shenzi hook up for some ungodly reason & have this utterly insane but very smart daughter that just runs around the Pridelands muttering gibberish & grows up to be a sort of hyena version of Rafiki.

Personality: Personality a cross between your typical mad wandering visionary/prophet/shaman and a spacey Luna Lovegood sort.

Description: Appearence: TLK hyena greys, hair a snarled mass of knots, bits of leaves & grass perpetually hanging from her...just completely unkempt and strung out.

A mother is never given for her in-story and she is classed as "Motherless" by peers---a bottom tier social caste like an Untouchable because in Hyena society all rank decends from the mother. And not only does Tafauti *not* have a known female parent to vouch for her, she also is regarded/known to be Ed's daughter, who in my TLK-verse is an unmigrated Clan-born male--meaning that by self-respecting hyena standards no one with an ounce of status or even class would breed with, so while Ed is certainly always pleased to re-realize he's got a cub the odd times he rediscovers/remembers he has one, it is not really any kind of help. Concensus is, no wonder the cub is a little Motherless...(what? ;3 I'm sure hyenas would have a little fun with it!). Her name comes from the other cubs in the communal den.

Being removed from central society such a huge degree, the remarkably acute Tafauti develops some qualities quite rare in a hyena: an ounce of perceptive intellegence that eventually deepens into flashes of true insight, and a thinking nature. The distance also accentuates and aggravates her doubtful genetic bequest however, and the cub, while amiable and functional, is also undeniably off and irretrievably strange, swinging anywhere from idiosyncratic and flakey to ineffable and downright bizarre and growing increasingly unhinged with age.

Age-wise Tafauti is a relative contemporary a few seasons older than Simba, and spends her childhood in the Elephant Graveyard "excursioning" into the Pridelands like all of her kind as she gets old enough like trade school. She is as happy as the next hyena at rumors of Scar's coup to move in there permanently, and is roughly 16 months hyena age (equivalent to around 12-13 in human years,) when Mufasa is assassinated and the Clan uproots to the Pridelands. At first expansively optimistic at the change in circumstances, she grows increasingly disenchanted as she ages into her teens, the hopeful illusion of a brighter and more stable progressive future fading as ever more prey-seeking hyenas stream into the Pridelands to the join the Elephant Graveyard Clan in their spiffy & well-fed new digs. Her place and security within the Clan gets pushed even farther to the outer margins with the influx of new blood.

In the lions she sees an inkling of a kinder life and slouches on the edges of it, but not always, or ever, really, on their good side. She is not a blameless character; in particular as an adolescent she sees in Nala & the other Pride children for the first time in her life someone younger, smaller, and more disenfranchised than herself that she has power over and plagues the poor cub(s) whenever their paths cross. Indeed, typical of her species she is positively rude to *all* lions at feeding times, gloating like her clanmates over the lioness' hard won kills becoming hyena feasts. But it was quiet where the big cats kept to themselves, and even more fascinating, there hobbled through them occassionally, if one got sick or injured, a gnarled, rickety old mandrill--an outsider, a peculiar interloper who kept his own counsel like herself. Only...wise.

As Tafauti reaches young adulthood she wanders ever farther from the core life of the Clan and takes to meandering the Pridelands and outlying vicinity, the disheveled hyena eventually haunting Rafiki's tree as somewhere to drift to. Neither is particularly pleased at first--Rafiki having his least favorite, most detestable brand of predator parking itself at his door, and Tafauti sulkily grudging the shaman her own interest and want of learning and a role model--so she doesn't show up with any regularity and never stays, but in time a conditional and cautious groundwork of association is laid down.

Of course when the way of life a creature has known for all of it's adult life is threatened, despite an interest in the other side and respect for individual members and philosophies, despite the rightness or wrongness of your lifestyle, fighting for your own life-bonds and familiarities overrides extenuating circumstances and when Simba returns, Tafauti is no exception, throwing her lot in with the Clan during the melee against the lions. After the fight and the fire however, the bloated conglomerate of hyenas that the Elephant Graveyard Clan had become in it's Pridelands heyday dissolves into smaller clans in the weeks that follow, many departing. More fractured than ever by the fierce battle, raging inferno, and desolate ash of recent events, and overwrought by the lean seasons leading into them, the final thread unravels (perhaps in more ways than one,) and Tafauti steps out of the weave and weft of the Elephant Graveyard Clan.

She isn't meant to be a particularly melancholy character despite how that all sounds, though, just a complex one. Weird, in both the modern "dizzy"/"wacko" meaning and the archaic "uncanny"/"eeire" meaning of the word. What I play with her in my head is anything from...either just this flaky oddball nutcase irking the hell out of Zazu & psyching out Nala & Co; or more substantially, inexplicably showing up wandering during Simba's reign: A thinking, feeling character, not without a dicey/chancy edge if for no other reason than sheer instability/fevered delirium/muttering lunacy and prone to divulging often barely coherent truths (and perhaps incomplete ones, maybe even sometimes intentionally so,) along with basic herbal cures, who in the end is empathetic with a concept of decency if not always able to handle that.

And yes, I used "weft" in a sentence. It was glorious.

....Because I actually had someone ask me questions, it's more Storytime with CGW! :D

Where does she go after the Elephant Graveyard clan dissipates?

Does she have more run-ins with Rafiki?

Does she have any involvement with Zira's pride?

I know that eventually Simba does grant her a dispensation to pass through the Pridelands freely, (after several tense, indecipherable run-ins with each trying to figure the other out,) since she does know Rafiki and he vouches for her (relative) harmlessness. Even with Simba's grant it's still understandably a very uneasy truce with the Pride, though--especially since it was all well & good for Simba to grant it, when it was the rest of the pride lionesses that actually lived through the hyena occupation!--so Tafauti mostly chooses to circulate/wander between the Pridelands and other nearby areas like the meerkat colony's savannah & desert edge, the Outlands within reason, and the remoter portions of her childhood home in the Elephant Graveyard.

As for Rafiki, yeah, I mean, Simba's final battle puts a wall back up there for sure. But he's also the closest thing Tafauti ever had to a mentor, so I'm sure their paths do cross again. See, as long as the hyenas had occupied the Pridelands Rafiki didn't want to give ANY hyena anymore potential influence than they already had in Scar's kingdom, and Tafauti *was* a pretty bitter/conflicted thing when she first showed up at his tree and had some growing she needed to do yet. It wasn't so much that he was prejudiced against Tafauti herself, though, as much as the times, and she did manage to pick up some snatches of wisdom and folk remedies from him with a tacit sort of tolerance verging on guidance. I see Rafiki putting in a good word for her to Simba afterwards (see above) to be like finally an acknowledgement, and the start of an extended probationary testing of her dedication over time to a shaman's path once the hyenas are routed out of power.

And re: Zira....well, truth be told I kinda cringe putting any hyena in her line of fire, no matter how you turn it it just never turns out well for the hyena D: I'm sure there's been times Tafauti's come into the borders of the Outlands (especially because I don't really know where Rafiki's tree is, I know its on a kind of deserty verge, but it is it the verge of the Outlands? Are the Outlands on a total different part of the map than the tree? Am I thinking about this all way too much?) but she's also savy enough to avoid hotly dangerous situations. Especially in that Zira must've spent some time in the Pride when Scar was king to have been so crazy about him, so chances are the hyenas that were living around the Pridelands at that time would have a pretty good grasp on Zira's character: Creepy Stalker Dangerous Obsessive Fangirl. I could venture a very tentative guess that she could feasibly have interacted a bit with various Outlanders during Scar's rule, though.

Also, RE: The Ship--

Don't ask, I don't really think they're a ship. While I do really seriously believe Ed is clan-born, (I think that's the basis of him laughing his ass off at Banzai paying his dues,)he's just as likely to be a relative of Shenzi's. So as far as the OC goes just say she's revenge for Banzai messing something up big time and move on, lol.

So......RE: Tafauti & Nala

Yes, Tafauti picks on, pranks, and bullies Zazu, Nala, and the other sub-canon Pride cubs, having been an urchin most her childhood. She does eventually grow out of it and makes it up to Nala by adulthood, though, or Nala never would have let Simba let her be in the Pridelands no matter how much assurance Rafiki could put forward.

I'm always really leary of injecting OCs too visibly into canon events, so I'm leaving this as a footnote/appendix:

Nala, as a young adult under the latter part of Scar's reign, simply notices that Tafauti wanders a lot and puts on a lot of mileage, which a questioning lioness like Nala would, and confronts her about what she knows about the territory beyond the Pridelands, in the early stages of gathering information for her eventual escape.

By this age of their lives, Tafauti is already in contact/understanding with Rafiki and it makes total, UTTER sense that the baboon would see the possibility in the situation. So Tafauti tells Nala what she knows of the borders of the Pridelands--nothing more but nothing less either knowing it a way to settle their past and make her amends--then leaves the rest up to Nala, whatever she does with the information however long after.

It establishes enough of a truce between the two that her presence is (unhappily, but still) tolerated in the Pridelands later once Simba's reign is more established.

(I need to do an updated one one of these days, all I have is sketch from 2006. Will come back to that.)

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The importance of investment portfolio allocation has become more apparent since the onset of the late 2000s Great Recession. Individual willingness to take financial risks affects portfolio decisions and investment returns among other factors. Previous research found that people of different ages More information...
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Type of Resource: Peer-reviewed
Tags: Risk tolerance
Date: 3/4/2013


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