Sarah Raven cooks up a home-grown lunch for Caroline Boucher
The News Review:
- Sarah Raven cooks up a home-grown lunch for Caroline Boucher
- Kidnapping drama captures an audience
- Child bill is the way to a new stolen generation
- Prospects, especially pitchers, make Sox’ future bright
- DVDs of the week: John Cassavetes box set, Raging Bull, The Police…
- East, west, home’s best
Sarah Raven cooks up a home-grown lunch for Caroline Boucher
The Observer – Oct 9, 2005
Set high on the Weald with views towards Romney Marsh, the 90-acre property was a rather neglected spread with a pretty tile-hung house, a straggle of outbuildings and no garden to speak of. Sarah was a newly qualified doctor working in the renal unit of Brighton Hospital. She’d qualified late, at 30, having already done a history degree and then having to get the requisite science A-levels for a medical degree (it doesn’t take long to realise that Sarah Raven is not one to let the grass grow under her feet). So after the birth of her second daughter (at home in Sussex in front of the fire), when the hospital hours were simply not conducive to having a family, she began to wonder what she could do at home and began to look at the outbuildings a little more critically… Sarah was a newly qualified doctor working in the renal unit of Brighton Hospital. She’d qualified late, at 30, having already done a history degree and then having to get the requisite science A-levels for a medical degree (it doesn’t take long to realise that Sarah Raven is not one to let the grass grow under her feet). So after the birth of her second daughter (at home in Sussex in front of the fire), when the hospital hours were simply not conducive to having a family, she began to wonder what she could do at home and began to look at the outbuildings a little more critically.
Kidnapping drama captures an audience
International Herald Tribune – Oct 9, 2005
" Now, Jakubowicz, 27, has made "Secuestro Express" (Kidnapping Express), a title that refers to abductions in which wealthy captives typically are kidnapped for a few hours until they or their families produce the money to buy their freedom. The movie tells the story of two upper-class Venezuelans, Carla and Martin, who are held overnight by three armed men as Carla's father scrambles to come up with the ransom. In Venezuela, "Secuestro Express" has smashed all box-office records for a home-grown production, and it is fast eclipsing Hollywood's biggest hits. It is the first Venezuelan film to be distributed internationally by a Hollywood studio – Miramax. On Sunday, it will be shown at the Raindance Film Festival in London. But the film has also been harshly criticized by Venezuela's populist government for its grim portrayal of life in Caracas.
Child bill is the way to a new stolen generation
The Age – Oct 9, 2005
It is a disaster to remove a child from a family that, withhelp, could meet the child’s needs; and it is a miscarriage ofjustice if this is donewithout adequate assessment and adequatetreatment. Protective Servicesworkers’ training is totally inadequate forassessing capacity to respond totreatment. Not only doesProtectiveServices fail to assist, it sometimes undermines the potential forreunion by restricting access between child and parents. The Children’s Court cannot direct appropriate access and thenew billcontinues this omission. Another potentiallycatastrophic change is being quietly slippedthrough under the guise of “helping” case management. This istheautomatic presumption that Children’s Court clinic reports willbe routinely available to Child Protection unless there iscompelling advanceevidence of expected harm. The cost of the new law will be a generation ofchildren takenfrom their families.
Prospects, especially pitchers, make Sox’ future bright
Providence Journal – Providence Journal (subscription) – Oct 9, 2005
Lester and Sanchez, both of whom will be 22 next season, are hot prospects. So, will the Red Sox have a vastly different look next year? Most likely. But, unlike years past, not all of those holes are going to have to be filled with high-priced free agents. Now, it seems, the Red Sox are going to be able to augment their roster with some home-grown talent.
DVDs of the week: John Cassavetes box set, Raging Bull, The Police…
Telegraph.co.uk – Oct 9, 2005
50 Raging Bull: The Ultimate Edition 18, MGM Home Ent, DVD (2 discs) £19. 99 “If you feel it, you feel it,” declares twitchily hip “black” (but white-looking) jazz trumpeter Benny (Ben Carruthers) from behind his shades early in John Cassavetes’s Shadows (1959). It’s a startlingly original film that feels as if a home-grown American Nouvelle Vague had swept over us with an authentic blast from the Beat-Generation New York streets. This kind of raw “existential” craving for spontaneity and emotional reality is the driving force of the movie, itself an edgy, low-budget, jazzily rough-and-ready quest for the truth of moments and situations, a distillation of Method which announces in a final title that “The film you have just seen was an improvisation”. He seized on new freedoms in 1950s cinema, perhaps above all on the light Arriflex camera that could be whirled into streets, clubs and bedrooms to catch something fresh and human.
East, west, home’s best
Telegraph.co.uk – Oct 9, 2005
The idea is to try and make learning absorbing and fun. We are not alone in this idea. The number of home-educated children in Britain has grown from a tiny amount 20 years ago to around 150,000 today – one per cent or so of the school-age population. By the end of this decade, the figure is expected to triple. The law states that you are required to “cause [your child] to receive efficient full-time education suitable (a) to his age, ability, and aptitude, and (b) to any special educational needs he may have, either by regular attendance at school or otherwise. ” Home education falls under “otherwise”. International studies have found that home-educated children outperform the conventionally educated.