Stylists - Lucinda Chambers

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I've just been paging through Rose (2005, p.5) where she talks about the "terminology debate". By that she is referring to whether it is better to say "people with disabilities" or "disabled people." She comments that there is no complete agreement among disabled people as to appropriate terminology. Some, not wanting to be defined by disability, prefer "person with disabilities." Others, considering the experience of impairment and disability to be separate in the social model of disability, prefer "disabled person." She then goes on to discuss impairment versus disability and appropriate contexts for those terms.

While reading it, I suddenly had a thought: we never worry about whether it's right to say "person with impairment" or "impaired person." I suspect most of us would never say "impaired person" when speaking about people with disabilities. Thinking further about it, I realized quickly that most of us would never consider saying "impaired person" because that already has a negative, commonly accepted meaning--that of an intoxicated person. Still, it is striking how that particular set of words cannot be transposed and still be synonymous or appropriate.

I, like Rose, am very pragmatic. I use "disabled people" sometimes and "people with disabilities" at other times. Do I have a disability or an impairment? I definitely have an impairment. If we use Rose's definition that disability is "... the loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in society on an equal level due to social, attitudinal and environment barriers..." then I do not generally consider myself disabled, but life certainly can be difficult in some ways because of my impairment!

Rose, Christine. 2005. "Do You Have a Disability - Yes or No? Or Is There a Better Way of Asking?" pp:91. Learning and Skills Development Agency: United Kingdom. Available from https://www.lsneducation.org.uk/user/order.aspx?code=052243&src=XOWEB

The irony is that although these folks are from the same nation---often times the same county even the same city---there still exists that individuality that stipulates 'I am who I am...'  Meaning of course that these bronze bombshells do NOT feel any different from the next person sitting there.

Brazilians are proud people and unique. And they have every right under the sun to be that way. However, I doubt from Alessandria Ambrosio, one the most recognizable faces behind Victoria's Secret that one will ever hear a true blue (or bronze in this case) Brazilian ever brag or boast about their looks.

As from my experience even Gisele Bundchen thinks and feels that she's an 'ordinary' looking girl! Got to admit though, it is an amazing attribute to have---the humbleness and humility to believe you're 'just the same as the other girls.'

Often times I hear that New York City is the most ethnically diverse city in the world, and it probably is for that matter. Whilst living in Australia, most Aussie's boasted that Melbourne in Victoria Australia captured the title as of the 1990's. Maybe so, I still need to check. However, I think as far as nation settlement is concerned none, including the United States, could ever boast about the different ethnicities that live in Brazil.

I could go through an entire expose in history laying out who, what, when, and where most folks who inhabit Brazil came from and when they did; however, that's not my intention here or anywhere for that matter. I think we can sum it up in a word...Rio de Janerio, or maybe Ipanema?  B-R-A-S-I-L !!

This should be a different section altogether, and maybe next week it will...but...just a few things to share with you folks-especially all my mates at Chess.com-who during breaks between moves actually come over to have a look!

Just trying to select 4 to 6 Brazilian models to feature per week--realistically--will run into next summer 2009! So...I'll do my best trying to feature as many shots as possible from the biggest real Supermodel to glamour models to beauty models to fit models.

Most folks who frequent Simpleminds know that I pay honor and tribute to those fashionista's that have come before me, during me, and some even afterward, and those still to come; my analogy is the more the better! Yet I've been asked this question a lot and I ask it a lot: "Can a student ever be as smart as their teacher? Or "...will the slave ever know as much as his master?" I'm just getting ready for a hat-tip folks!

I say "No." It's philosophical and it's Biblical and a question for the ages: however, this student will always pay Divine Providence to the friends and folks at the Fashion Model Directory, the largest single model database in the world; also, I need to mention Bellazon , dot org; those folks are incredible! I remember when they started up and have literally watched them grow. If one needs knowledge about a model and perhaps the most up-to-date photographs anywhere, Bellazon is your place.

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Name: Natalie Reid

Nationality: Canadian

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Come join us on the Retrology Sim - RK Model Auction Slurl - at 9am SLT, Saturday October 11, 2008.  Models will be auctioned for various services, such as photography work (by model), print/ad work (use of model), model mentoring, personal shopper, etc!  Please come and support the Runway Kidz members!  Proceeds will be used towards funding RK events, including RK:1 (October 17, 18 and 19th) as well as future projects and funding for in-world Headquarters.  We are a non-profit model support network organization, for models by models.

Models up for Auction (updated list! added 3 models):

Auctioneer:  Alianna Logan
Text MC:  Krystanna Wycliffe
Live MC/Hostess:  Summer Deadlight

Hope to see you there! Bring lindens $$ holla!

+Summer Deadlight+
Founder, Team Leader
Runway Kidz @ 2008

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That's right, the sexiest models you have ever met, or imagined meeting. Those rippling abercrombie beef steaks are mere sloppy joe meat compared to our 3e models. Those Baywatch babes look like beached whales next to the stunning conceptual models of 3e design.
Our models don't have the trappings of flesh and blood, yuk! Nobody finds bloody flesh sexy, unless you're related to the Manson family. Our models are suspended in the rhealm of outside of the box thinking. Our team of quantum physicists used all 10 dimensions of string theory to come up with these 7 community solutions. Here is the short on the 7, and I don't mean dwarves:
(1-7...coming soon, iPhone won't let me copy paste the 7 designs, and iPhone still doesn't have an external keyboard!!! Bloggin ain't easy on the iPhone.)
Aren't these 7 designs(not dwarves) sexy! Don't ya know Joe, they are Palin-sexy. That's one motherly moose-huntin' maverick! Our three teams(tech, econ, & sub) will collaborate to make these a reality, bringing them all into the 5 dimensions of our world: verticle, horizontal, depth, space-time, and love.

Alongside a photo spread that shows her in little more than a T-shirt, Halle Berry talks about being the sexiest woman alive, a title Esquire magazine gives her in its November issue.

``I don't know exactly what it means, but being 42 and having just had a baby, I think I'll take it,'' says Berry, who gave birth to her daughter, Nahla, in March.

``Sexiness is a state of mind — a comfortable state of being,'' she says. ``It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.'' But Berry, who won an Oscar for her role in ``Monster's Ball,'' can't claim the sexiest-woman honor all to herself.

Halle Berry Bio and Photo Gallery