Artist of the week 171: Margarita Gluzberg | Art and design. You can't help but get lost in Margarita Gluzberg's art. Take her vast, poster-sized drawings where pin-up girls, sports stars and haute couture creations overlap and dissolve into each other. Or the dark paintings, as glossy as high-end magazines or polished boutique windows, with carefully arranged plates of food disappearing as light reflects off their shiny surfaces.
Covetable items come in and out of focus, creating a light-headed haze of consumer cravings. Gluzberg was born in Moscow in 1968, and her early years were dominated by a longing for all things western, from jeans to bubble gum. When she moved to London aged 11, the new cityscape full of bright billboards and shops bore a stark contrast to the ad-free, bare concrete landscape of the declining USSR. What emerges is the sense that it's not the diamond necklaces or snakeskin clutches that matter. Why we like her: For Hairstyles for the Great Depression from 2009. Culture Isn't Costly. Successful company culture can make the difference between a workplace people dread and one they brag about. You don’t have to have a Google-sized budget to offer great culture.
Many culture-changing initiatives have no direct costs to the company. In fact, when properly executed, culture-improving initiatives can lower company costs in both the short and long term. I’ve spent the past 10 years learning about and implementing solutions to make work better for employers and managers alike. I’ve touched hundreds of companies large and small and have seen many distinct cultures. Make Rules for the 95%, Not the 5% Most of your employees are hard working, motivated, and professional. For one, fewer rules can start saving you money right away. Celebrate Going Home Early It’s not true that the longer you work, the more work you will get done.
Stop Swearing Not all rules are bad. Cultivate Experts Talk About the Future Let Employees Manage Their Own Energy Recognize Your Team Every Day. New Year resolutions: Anti-ageing diet that will help you drop a decade. By Elizabeth Peyton-jones UPDATED: 14:43 GMT, 1 January 2012 Introducing the eating plan that could revolutionise our battle with wrinkles, sags and bags. After seeing how changes in diet improved the looks and energy levels in her clients, dietician and naturopath Elizabeth Peyton-Jones became convinced that the most effective way to turn back the years was simply to change what we ate.
In this exclusive extract from her new book, she lists the five most ageing processes, the five food baddies and the ‘youth’ foods that will hold back the years Five ageing accelerators 1 Sluggish digestion A well-functioning digestive system is central to the anti-ageing process. Best detoxifier: beetroot is your daily age-defying vitamin and mineral feast. The charcoal test To check your gut’s transit time, take 5g–10g charcoal (available from health-food shops) two hours before eating and five hours before bed. 2 Inflammation 3 Oxidation 4 Hormone imbalance Top brassica 5 Acidification 1 Sugar 2 Salt 4 Meat. Are you a maximiser or a satisficer? Agonising over decisions risks a life of unhappiness, warn scientists.
By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 01:59 GMT, 17 December 2011 IF you spend hours deliberating over something as trivial as a new jumper, then beware. Scientists say that makes you a ‘maximiser’ – and it could lead to a lifetime of misery. A study has revealed two different types of decision-makers; 'maximisers' who obsess over every choice before and after making one while 'satisficers' who are content with whatever decision they make. According to scientists in the U.S., maximisers' indecisiveness when it comes to making choices means they can never enjoy the 'psychological benefits' of commitment and cause themselves 'a lot of grief'. Happier? The research also claimed this indecision and desire to make the right choice could drive off partners, cost them a potentially lucrative career and even damage their health. And maximisers even get nervous at the sight of a 'final reductions' sign during the Christmas sales, as they feel they're being forced into commitment.
Why Women Make Excellent Entrepreneurs in the Digital Age. Nellie Akalp is CEO of CorpNet.com. Since forming more than 100,000 corporations and LLCs across the U.S, she has built a strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs in starting and protecting their business the right way. To learn more about Nellie and see how she can help your business get off the ground quickly, visit here or "Like" CorpNet.com on Facebook. In 2010, women became the majority of the U.S. workforce for the first time in the country’s history.
Also, 57% of college students are now women. While men continue to dominate the executive ranks and corporate board rooms, women now hold a number of lucrative careers: they make up 54% of accountants, 45% of law associates and approximately 50% of all banking and insurance jobs. These statistics, which appeared in Hanna Rosin's Atlantic article "The End of Men," have prompted considerable attention and debate. Women are advancing in entrepreneurship as well. The Digital Age and Childcare 1. 2. 3. 4. Why one in four women is on psych meds | Victoria Bekiempis. Are women crazy? The world's mostly male "great thinkers" have tended to say so, characterising women as the weaker sex both physically and psychologically. In Plato's "Timaeus", female moodiness and misbehavior are explained with the wandering uterus theory. The wily womb, in this account, "gets disconnected and angry, and wandering in every direction through the body, closes up the passages of the breath, and by obstructing respiration, drives them to extremity, causing all varieties of disease.
" Several hundred years later, a Greek surgeon by the name of Galen would expand upon the Athenian's explanation. From Galen's era until the mid 19th century, there were several "prescriptions" available for nasty cases of hysteria: Married women needed to have more sex with their husbands, and single females were told to seek "pelvic massages" from qualified technicians, to produce "hysterical paroxysm" (what's now known simply as an "orgasm").
"One in four is too many. Electric blue lobster recused from the pot goes to Natural History Museum. By Sara Nelson Updated: 09:30 GMT, 17 November 2011 An incredible electric-blue lobster has been saved from the dinner table after it was spotted at a fish market and rehomed. The striking crustacean was found by stunned fishermen off the east coast of Scotland and displayed for sale at a fish market in London. However, fishmonger Rex Goldsmith thought the stunning lobster was too nice to eat and bought it before handing it over to researchers at the Natural History Museum.
Rescue me: This stunning blue lobster has been rehomed at London's Natural History Museum after a fisherman spotted it at Billingsgate Market Scientists at the museum believe the European lobster, traditionally a much darker shade of blue, hatched out with the unusual colour due to a rare genetic variant. It has now been given to the London Aquarium and will be on display once it has been through quarantine. Rex, 45, was buying supplies for his shop, The Chelsea Fishmonger, when he saw the lobster at Billingsgate Market.
A Nazi Photographer Is Quickly Identified. So Is His Wife, Who Was Killed in the War. Nicola Lacey: Moll - my kind of criminal. Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, now on television in a new adaptation, sprang in part from Hardy's reaction to the case of Martha Brown, hanged in 1856 for the murder of her abusive husband. Novels have often served to fix our image of legal processes: think of Dickens's condemnation of the chancery court in Bleak House, or Fielding's satire on 18th-century criminal justice in novels like Tom Jones. In Tess, Hardy gave us an enduring image of the stereotype of female criminality that pervaded the Victorian era and indeed cast its shadow over 20th-century popular culture and criminology. The image of the female offender has often approached the ultimate stereo- type of conventional femininity: passive; driven by emotion rather than reason; moved by impulses located in the body rather than the mind.
Like most female criminals in novels of the Victorian period, Tess's position as a woman underlines her social powerlessness. n.lacey@lse.ac.uk. The witch trial that made legal history. 17 August 2011Last updated at 11:06 By Frances Cronin BBC News Anne Redferne and her mother Chattox were two of those accused of being Pendle witches In recent years children as young as three have given evidence in court cases, but in the past children under 14 were seen as unreliable witnesses. A notorious 17th Century witch trial changed that. Nine-year-old Jennet Device was an illegitimate beggar and would have been lost to history but for her role in one of the most disturbing trials on record.
Jennet's evidence in the 1612 Pendle witch trial in Lancashire led to the execution of 10 people, including all of her own family. In England at that time paranoia was endemic. "It was a mandate for the British to fight witches," explains Prof Ronald Hutton from the University of Bristol. At the time Lancashire had a reputation for being full of trouble-makers and subversives. In March 1612, Alizon cursed a pedlar who would not give her any pins. Continue reading the main story Jennet's evidence. Amy Winehouse sang of a deeply feminine suffering. She sang about the ache of the body ...
Amy Winehouse at Glastonbury 2008. Photograph: Rex Features It was often noted that Amy Winehouse's music harked back to another age — to the heydays of Motown and soul, R&B, jazz, girl groups and Phil Spector's Wall of Sound; it was there in the brass, in the impeccable period production and the sublime smoke and burnish of her voice. But it was a quality that seeped into her words too, into the lyrics that nodded not to her contemporaries, but to the work of early female blues singers such as Big Mama Thornton and Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith. These were songs sometimes written by the blueswomen themselves and occasionally contributed by male songwriters (JC Johnson for example, who wrote Smith's Empty Bed Blues and Waters's You Can't Do What My Last Man Did), but that took a female perspective – tales of hound dogs and backdoor men, coffee grinders, deep sea divers, and of love lost, deserted, thrown out and taken back again.
Partners in crime fiction. Benjamin Black The series of Parker books by Richard Stark – aka Donald Westlake – which began in the 1960s and ended with the author's sudden death on the last day of 2008 are among the finest crime novels of the past 50 years. Parker – we do not learn his first name, if indeed he has one – is an elemental force, a Nietzschean Übermensch beyond good and evil as well as the long arm of the law. He has no past outside the books, and no life except the one that his woman, Clare, makes for him. He is a sort of marvellous machine, and utterly convincing. When we first encountered him, in The Hunter, published in 1962, he was a bit of a thug, "big and shaggy, with flat square shoulders and arms too long in sleeves too short", resembling the actor Jack Palance on whom Stark had modelled him.
But as the series progressed he became leaner and smoother, a true professional, clinical, disinterested, ruthless, a man to see the job done and get away clean. Lee Child Same for crime series characters. Books Set In ... I wish I could've had a DNA test to prove to my father I wasn't a 'cuckoo in the nest' of Italian POW. By Celia Haddon Updated: 09:14 GMT, 8 November 2010 Perhaps selfishly, most real-life stories I read in magazines leave me relatively unmoved. But over the past few months I have been deeply affected by the increased use of DNA testing on children. Why are people so against it, I wonder? The controversy is usually linked to stories of fathers who discover that their supposed children are not theirs. Tormented: Celia Haddon aged 4, was called a cuckoo in the nest by her father. But what of the children whose true fathers doubt their paternity? I was one of those children, though I didn’t know it. ‘The cuckoo in the nest’ is what he called me.
What I didn’t know about, or understand, was the implication that I was not his child. In the Fifties, young children in the middle classes were not enlightened about sex and reproduction. An ill matched couple: Celia Haddon believes if DNA testing had been available in 1944 it would have changed her life ‘Such charming men. It seems to have worked.
IVF and the great lie about fertility and the over-40s... My mother was 29 when she had me, and used to joke about what an old mum that made her. For as long as I can remember, the same message has been drummed into women — your fertility diminishes after 35, so your chances of becoming a mother dwindle, particularly after 40. Of course nobody can argue with the biological reality that younger women are more fertile than older women. But what if fertility isn’t quite the clear-cut issue we often perceive it to be? Blessed: Deborah Bucknall fell pregnant with her son Oliver when she was 44 What if women of 38 and over were needlessly spending thousands of pounds on IVF to get pregnant? Or if women who felt their families were already complete were having unwanted pregnancies because of the mistaken belief that their chances of conceiving were negligible?
So what is going on? Neither of my parents was alive and my only sibling was abroad, so I didn’t feel I had the support to bring up a child on my own. ‘I feel so blessed,’ she says. Are women writers unimaginative - or their publishers? A recipe for predictable reading ... a mother and daughter in the kitchen. Photograph: Hulton Getty Stop press: judge "shocked" to find women on top. Henry Sutton, chair of the fiction judges for the New Writing Prize, is also "surprised and saddened" to find that eight out of nine writers on the shortlist and all three winners are female.
"Surprised", I can understand. He could also have borrowed the "dismayed" and "outraged" usually deployed for an all-male shortlist. Perhaps he's been reading coverage of the Orange prize. That conclusion, though, is hard to square with the "innovative" and "bold" winners of New Writing, where women were not sparkling rarities, but the bulk of the top tier. Yet there's one obvious reason why the New Writing prize would differ from established women's fiction awards. According to New Writing, women are writing the good stuff. Gray thinks that the limitations are self-imposed, that women writers don't experiment when we want to be "taken seriously".
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