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Thank God it's almost over
Perhaps the worst year in recent memory both politically and socially sees America revert to the 1950s- racist, sexist and homophobic- and Britain shoot itself in the metaphorical political foot. And then, just to prove that this year could get more ridiculous, Honey G is releasing an album.
Please tell me I'm not the only one questioning the fate of the world after the year we've had? Between Brexit and the Trump election the world is set to go down the toilet. Britain has split itself away from the european world powers in a shocking show of internalised racism that has resulted, amongst other things, in a drastic fall in the worth of the pound, the murder of a young mother and MP- Jo Cox- and a simmering, bitter resentment of the older generations. Why, you ask? Mainly, it seems, because free movement throughout the EU allows skilled and unskilled foreign workers to live and work in Britain. (Not to sound bitter or anything but if you're losing out on a job to a second language, unskilled worker then maybe you shouldn't have said job.) Now maybe that sounds closed minded, after all the lies fed to the British people, chiefly by UKIP, throughout the referendum promised more funds to the NHS and a better, stronger, British economy. However, as I've mentioned, those were lies. No extra money is going to the NHS. The pound has hit an all time low this year, with the exchange rate lower than it had been in over a decade this June, putting a strain on the economy. In short, everything is going to hell in a hand basket, and just to add insult to injury the first thing the government is going to try to arrange (according to rumours on the internet) is… drum roll please… FREE MOVEMENT. If it wasn't actually happening it would be laughable.
On top of all that the US has shocked the world, and left many of its residents in extreme distress, by electing a misogynistic, racist, sex offending Wotsit as its president.Well Done. Now I'm not saying Hillary would have been better- I'm not American, I wasn't there for the campaigning, and I know next to nothing about her career- but I do know that she has never once suggested a) a wall around Mexico, b) sexually assaulting employees or c) making Muslims register in a Nazi-Germany-esque way. So in my books she's better than the Wotsit.
OK so we're politically f***ed, the economy is circling the drain and Boris Johnson is now in charge of foreign affairs, how could this get any worse? I'll tell you how. Our best loved celebrities could all die over the period of a shocking couple of months, only to be followed to the grave by the British pillar of society, the pinnacle of culture and true joy of this miserable country: The Great British Bake Off.
And then, just to prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that we were well and truly screwed, that our lives could not possibly get any more intolerable Honey G… released an album.
But hey, thank God it's almost over.
Let me know what the highlight (or lowlight) of your year has been
TheSarcastic Blogger
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Christopher Nolan
Nolan and Narrative
Christopher Nolan is a filmmaker, but more than a filmmaker, he's a storyteller. The art of storytelling has been around for centuries. Many have written about this refined practice from Greek and German philosophers Aristotle and Schopenhauer to authors that have a more scientific perspective like Lisa Zunshine. Nolan pushes the medium of film past its traditional boundaries and effectively stimulates the evolution of narrative.
Nolan is a master storyteller challenging his audience and his medium. In Poetics Aristotle writes about the sequence in which a story is normally presented:
And a whole is that which has a beginning, middle, and end: a beginning is that which is not itself necessarily after anything else, but after which it is natural for another thing to be or come to be; an end is the opposite, something that is itself naturally after something else, either necessarily or for the most part, with no other thing naturally after it; and a middle is that which is itself both after something else and has another thing after it. Therefore, well-organized stories must neither begin from wherever they may happen to nor end where they may happen to, but must have the look that has been described. (30)
In Memento, Nolan uses his keen understanding of chronology and gives the audience a more challenging, but more elegant narrative. Memento plays sequentially, showing one scene after another after another and has a beginning, middle, and end, but the story is not handed to us in that same chronological order. At first glance, the story of Leonard Shelby, Nolan's protagonist, is given to the audience in reverse. The opening sequence of the film leads us and actively tells us the narrative is being inverted by playing, literally, in reverse. On first viewing, the audience believes that the end of the story is the beginning of the film and the end of the movie is the beginning of the narrative, but Nolan crafts a story with such finesse that only after careful analysis does the audience realize the story's true parabolic rhythm.
The journey unravels from the first scene in color and cuts to the actual or narrative beginning, which is in grayscale. The rhythm plays on in the film, back and forth, color to black and white, until the two beginnings meet at the apex, or the middle of the narrative creating a single story arch, but its unity isn't realized by the audience (at least it wasn't realized by myself until many viewings later). The apex or middle of the narrative is the moment Leonard Shelby drives up to the tattoo parlor, which is when the credits roll. This challenging film left me speechless. I can only describe this feature as the evolution of filmmaking and the refining of narrative.
In Following, Nolan's first feature, Nolan experiments with the timeline of the story. Nolan's success in Memento developed from his experimentation in Following. Memento was a new revelation in film and in narrative. Showing how our thoughts could be rationalized visually.
The Prestige, like Memento, plays sequentially. The film plays but the arrangement of the images are not in any decipherable order upon first viewing until the drowning of Hugh Jackman's character Robert Angier, and trial of Alfred Borden (played by Christian Bale). Unlike the Memento, The Prestige has no chronological pattern. The story unfolds not through casual action, but through recollections of the characters. Using this technique The Prestige accentuates our perception of reality. Memories, like thoughts, don't always follow a chronological pattern and are often connected by a series of logic. I, as an audience member engaged in the story, had no footing when it came to the chronology of the feature. I only knew the film had just begun. But I was able to follow the movie by logically connecting one sequence to another. Nolan employs the audience to actively participate by analyzing the story. The sequential order of Nolan's movies have grown beyond the Aristotelian model and transformed it. Nolan is aware of film versus narrative. In The Prestige, just as in Memento, he pushes and challenges the sequential order of the story.
In Lisa Zunshine's Why We Read Fiction Theory of Mind and the Novel, Zunshine covers the "Theory of Mind," or "mind-reading," and among these are "Levels of Intentionality." Allow me to elaborate by summarizing Zunshine's definition of "mind-reading." Zunshine states that "mind-reading" is a common activity, that's not telepathy, but "Mind-reading," according to Zunshine, is the ability to read another's emotions through nonverbal communication. The realization of nonverbal communication is the awareness of a conscious outside of the observer's consciousness. Zunshine's written comprehension of consciousness develops and also leads into the "Levels of Intentionality." Zunshine analyzes "Levels of Intentionality" in great depth, writing:
A representation of a mind as represented by a mind as represented by yet another mind will thus be supported by cognitive processes distinct from… cognitive process supporting a mental representation…(29)
In The Prestige, after the trial and imprisonment of Alfred Borden, Borden receives the diary of rival magician and victim Robert Angier. Angier writes about his experience reading the diary Angier stole from Borden. And later in the story it is revealed (while Borden is reading) that Borden's diary was given to Angier intentionally to deceive Angier by Angier's former lover and accomplice Olivia (Scarlet Johansson), and even later we learn that Borden's copy of Angier's diary was also given to deliberately deceive Borden by one of Angier's representatives. Nolan uses several "Levels of Intentionality," and according to Zunshine, with whom I agree, to appeal to our "mind-reading capabilities." The discovery and revelations made through out The Prestige enlighten and excite Nolan's audience.
Beyond The Prestige in levels of intentionality is Inception, a film that delves deep into layers of dreams by taking the audience into dreams within dreams. Inception follows our protagonist, Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), an extractor on the run and searching for a way to return home. Funny thing about the character's name Cobb; Cobb is a reference back to Nolan's first feature film, Following. But in Inception Cobb is an extractor. Extractor's search minds and extract information from the secure crevices of the mind in dreams, like dream thieves. In the film Cobb is asked to incept an idea rather than extract for the opportunity to return home. Cobb's target is a businessman, Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy). Cobb pulls together a team of players to complete this mission.
Ariadne (Ellen Page) is introduced to our protagonist to help his team with their operation. Ariadne, in Inception, aids Cobb in his return from the labyrinth of his mind and assists Cobb in his battle against Mal (Marion Cotillard). Ariadne, in Greek mythology, aids Theseus in his return from the Labyrinth built in Crete and assists in his battle against the Minotaur.
After the team is prepped, the moment arises when they can move in on their target. Fischer is drugged by Cobb and dragged into a dream. And although Fischer is the target and his subconscious fills the dream, we find that we are actually in the mind of the chemist, Yusuf (Dileep Rao), another team member of Cobb's. Yusuf's dream is the first level of which we are aware. Cobb's plan requires the team to dive deeper, meaning the team enters a second dream. This time we are in a hotel, the dream's owner is Arthur (Joesph Gordon-Levitt), Cobb's collaborator and right hand man. Breaking it down slowly, it's not that challenging to follow. In real-time, as this is all being revealed to the audience, it's a little unclear. The group is with Fischer on a plane when they put the target to sleep and enter Yusuf's mind because they're being chased by Fischer's subconscious after capturing Fischer. Yusuf is on the run and the group dives down into Arthur's dream, another level of dream consciousness with each level being affected by the previous. Technically speaking, we are down three levels if you count the films continuity, or reality as the story proposes it, and the two dream levels. The band continues further still on the run from Fischer's subconscious. With only three remaining operatives and Fischer, the team finds themselves in mind of Eames (Tom Hardy), the forger. As the group and Fischer's proceedings continue, the world is not only affected by Fischer's subconscious but it's revealed that Cobb's subconscious comes into play causing the mission to go awry. This mistake launches Fisher into limbo, a level of the dream without control, and leads the last two players, Cobb and Ariadne, to follow him into the last layer. These two layers can be considered the third and forth or forth and fifth layers of the dreams depending on how you look at it.
Now we'll break down all the layers in real-time, which is still comprehensible but as Zunshine covered, " [a] representation of a mind as represented by a mind as represented…" (29). The group is on a plane in the film's continuity. They enters Yusuf's dream of the city, but are attacked by Fischer's subconscious, and dive into Arthur. The plan leads them down into Eames' dream while Eames, Yusuf and Arthur are fighting Fischer's subconscious on all levels. Yusuf and Arthur continue with the intent to wake everyone up at a predetermined moment so they all wake up before the flight lands. When a problem occurs and a figure from Cobb's subconscious forces Cobb and Ariadne to head down into the last layer of limbo. This puts Eames in the position with Yusuf and Arthur each fighting on their levels to protect and wake the sleeping party members. Whether the story becomes difficult to follow or not Zunshine claims the appeal is really to our "mind-reading capabilities," practicing to enhance our brains and keep our minds sharp.
I do believe the challenge attracts me; I would say it's Nolan's awareness of film that draws me back. Nolan's aware he is using the film medium, a fake consciousness, to depict a surreal world, but he does so to unearth the truth. In Schopenhauer's essay On Aesthetics, he states, "…Is intrinsic to the work of art to present the form alone, without the material, and to do so manifestly and obviously." (160:5) Schopenhauer, writing long before film, justifies Nolan's utilization of the medium because without the realization it's art, the audience can't differentiate the "Idea or pure form" from the medium. Without the realization of the medium, the works would not allure and attract, but horrify and sadden, or even disgust. Seeing the danger and action confronted by Leonard DiCaprio in Inception running through the city of Mombasa excites and entices the viewer. A film recording done of an execution by men with a handheld camcorder is quite the opposite when it is real, unraveling life before our eyes. This is the honest truth, and it horrifies, saddens and disgust. Or even the filming of a child slipping from railing as he attempts to slide down a staircase on the handrail forces us to cringe upon the realization that the pain that person endured was real. Neither of these examples are considered art.
Nolan utilizes the magic of film giving the audience only a taste of everything without foregoing too much, making the audience aware of the fake medium but revealing a genuine truth. A cut to a Parisian Café allows the audience to believe our characters arrived at their destination logically and that they're dining in a city familiar to us. Later, it is revealed to the audience the character's actual method of transportation was a dream. Nolan uses a cut to move us from scene to scene fully aware that the audience has learned to make logical assumptions about a features continuity based on the exposure to previous films. Nolan's breaking of the audience's assumptions heightens the viewer's awareness of themselves as a viewer and intensifies their awareness of the art they are viewing. We learn we exit and enter the dream world throughout the film. Nolan edits the audience into a dream. He uses this technique to force the audience to decipher reality from the dream and exploit the story by capitalizing on the medium itself.
Nolan implements his editing techniques throughout all his films using editing and sequential order of scenes to remind the audience of the medium. And through this technique, Schopenhauer would speculate, we can decipher the "pure form" separated from the artwork. Memento uses cuts to emphasize Leonard Shelby's memory. Nolan rationalizes Shelby's recollections visually unifying them via the protagonist's narrative. Nolan overlaps scenes in Memento taking several minutes from a previous sequence and replays them revealing an excerpt further in the main character's past. This replaying of a previous scene orients the audience using a pattern of logic. The Prestige cuts between the awareness of our rivals. Nolan edits us into the lives of Robert Angier and rival magician Alfred Borden. And Inception follows the protagonist Cobb, and the consciousness of the other supporting characters in their dreams, cutting from dream to reality, and between dreams. Nolan challenges the audience and the art of film, never clearly identifying the transition between reality and the dream. Nolan pushes film, progressing and evolving the medium, and refining the art of the narrative, taking it beyond its traditions into the next stage of storytelling.
Works Cited and Bibliography
Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. Joe Sachs. Newburyport: Focus Publishing, 2006. Print.
Capps, Robert and Patrick Di Justo. "Inception, Explained." Wired Magazine. 29 Nov. 2010. Wired Dec. 2010. Web. 22 April 2011.
Nolan, Christopher, dir. Memento. Newmarket Films, 2001. Film.
—. The Prestige. Buena Vista Pictures, 2006. Film.
—. Inception. Warner Bros. Pictures, 2010. Film.
—. Following. Zeitgeist Films, 1999. VHS.
Schopenhauer, Arthur. "On Aesthetics." Essays and Aphorisms. Trans. R. J. Hollingdale. New York: Penguin Group, 2004. Print.
Zunshine, Lisa. Why We Read Fiction Theory of Mind and the Novel. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2006. Print.
Christopher Nolan is a London native, born in 1970. Nolan studied English literature at University College London. The filmmaker creates films that please critics and audiences alike. Nolan is slowly becoming the next great filmmaker in cinematic history, known for crafting his films with a masterful touch.
The Prestige and Memento both challenge linear narrative using very different methods. Each film presents the information out of sequential order refining the art of storytelling and its complexities.
And a whole is that which has a beginning, middle, and end: a beginning is that which is not itself necessarily after anything else, but after which it is natural for another thing to be or come to be; an end is the opposite, something that is itself naturally after something else, either necessarily or for the most part, with no other thing naturally after it; and a middle is that which is itself both after something else and has another thing after it. Therefore, well-organized stories must neither begin from wherever they may happen to nor end where they may happen to, but must have the look that has been described.
Aristotle's comments in Poetics lay the foundation for refinement developed later by Christopher Nolan in several of his films.
The Prestige explores story using a series of recollections. The audience has no sense of time. The only concept of time is as the characters reveal events. The film plays through slowly uncovering to the audience a missing or vital moment in the story. The audience is shown two men and learns about their history from the men's writings and encounters. When Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) receives Robert Angier's (Hugh Jackman) diary the scene moves from Christian Bale in an English prison to Hugh Jackman riding a North American train reading the writings of Alfred Borden.
Memento takes linear storytelling and turns it on its head. The narrator and main character of the story suffers from short-term memory loss the film is played in increments. Each increment is the amount of time or sequence the narrator can remember. A better description is the sequences are his experiences as he remains aware or before he forgets his immediate frame of thought. At the same time the audience is shown black and white sequences from another point and time narrator also tells the audience a story from his past, which could also imply the narrator's lost touch with reality.
Leonard Shelby (Guy Pierce) is a man looking for justice but cannot make new memories and in time begins questioning his old memories. Through out the film we see Pierce thinking and analyzing situations around him. Shelby is constantly searching for his role in situations. The story is seen completely out of chronological order.
A common method used on both of these films is their appeal to the logic of the audience. The audience can discover the sequence of events by inferring their logical order.
Memento only implies the narrator's living in a false reality. Inception, on the other hand, thoroughly questions the narrator's reality. Inception is shown through a subjective reality. Time is a small factor of Inception, but unlike Memento and The Prestige not utilized in such a complex manner. The audience follows Mr. Cobb, an extractor or thief of sorts, on a journey through dreams and by the end of the film we find ourselves asking, "Did the dream ever really end?" In Inception, Nolan plays with the idea of reality opposed to the idea of time in Memento and The Prestige. The main character is our subject and we experience the story with him. Mr. Cobb's reality becomes the audience's reality.

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Tim Rogers of You Am I has always been a complicated man: a hard-drinking musician with the soul of a poet; a flamboyant flâneur; a raconteur, a romantic and a raffish ne'er-do-well. In this offbeat, endearing memoir, Tim walks us through years jam-packed with love, shame, joy, enthusiasms, regrets, fights, family – and music, always music.
A work of real grace and tenderness, Detours is often impossibly sad and beautiful – but also full of wit, wordplay and punching jolts of larrikin energy to make you laugh out loud.
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The time I have spent writing this book has caused me a lot of pain. Sometimes because of what I have remembered about my childhood and sometimes because of what I couldn't remember. It is funny how your mind blocks things out when those things can hurt you. There are a lot of things I wish I didn't remember…
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"A Peanuts Christmas" spans the full 50 year run of Peanuts, taking Christmas-related comics from the early days of Patty, Violet, and Charlie Brown comparing presents to Rerun's conversations with "Santa Claws". It's especially fun to read around Christmas. My only complaint is that sometimes small bits of story lines are missing, and the strips are not dated (Not normally something that annoys me, but one strip that was in the book was from several months away from Christmas, something that was essential to get the joke.) Overall, A good collection of strips, and a good introduction to the revolving lineup of Peanuts.
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State representatives Terry Johnson and Stephen Slesnick want vehicles to have just one license plate on the back bumper, and say it could save around $1 million annually.
In our commitment to balanced news, supporters of the bill say not only would it save the state money, but car owners as well whose vehicles aren't build for front plates.
On the flip side, some law enforcement officials say having front and back plates makes it easier to locate vehicles in crime or traffic investigations.
There are millions of drivers and cars with Ohio plates on the roads. But as the state looks to save money, House Bill 133 could cut the number of license plates in half.
"Given the state of our state, and having drastic budget cuts, we have to look at all things possible that can generate revenue for the state," said Rep. Steve Slesnick (D), a sponsor of the bill.
The idea is to drop the front license plate, and save around $1 million.
"I guess the argument lies where, if there's a hit-and-run, or something that turns up on a security camera if you need to see it at both ends. But, I don't know. I think it sounds like a pretty good idea, a pretty good cost-cutting idea," said Seth Rosin of Cincinnati.
Where will the million or so dollars in savings actually come from? If you remove the front license plate, and only have the one on the back, that's where state lawmakers say they're going to find these savings. It'll come through the cost of materials needed to make two license plates rather than their proposal of just one.
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Event and Signing Dates in UK
Monday, 30 October 2017
Exciting news - Dave Hill will be appearing at the following events and signings across the UK later this month to coincide with the publication of So Here It Is.
Tuesday 14th November An Evening with Dave Hill, in conversation with Mike Read
The Robin 2, Wolverhampton http://www.therobin.co.uk/whats_on/giginfo.asp?gigid=5114
Thursday 16th November Waterstones Manchester Trafford, signing
Signing: 6pm to 7pm https://www.waterstones.com/events/meet-dave-hill/trafford-centre
Tuesday 21st Nov Waterstones Birmingham, signing
Signing 5.30 to 6.30pm https://www.waterstones.com/events/dave-hill-signing/birmingham
Monday 27th November Bath, Topping and Co Bookshop, an evening with Dave Hill
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Two questions regarding the Dave Hill autobiography.
1) Will the books that have been pledged and paid for be arriving in advance of the book signings?
2) If books are not purchased on the day from the booksellers (in other words they've been bought in advance from Unbound) will it still be possible to get them dedicated on the day?
October 30, 2017
Good question(s) Trevor.
Would be great if the backers had the book a day or two in advance of the mini tour. A nice little thank you to the backers.
October 30, 2017
Hi everyone, Dave is coming in to sign the books tomorrow (2nd November) and these will go in the post next week (w/c 6th Nov) so they should hopefully be with everyone before the tour starts. Many thanks for everyone's patience while we made the book.
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A company I won't name recently instituted a policy that has their two senior developers spending a few hours per week–half hour to an hour every day–examining code pushed to the source repository by other programmers. At first I thought it was a good idea, if a bit excessive. Then I learned what they're concentrating on.
Would you believe they're concentrating on things like indentation, naming conventions, and other such mostly lexical constructs? That's right, they're paying senior developers to spend something like 10% of their time doing a job that can be done more accurately, more completely, and much faster by an inexpensive tool that is triggered with every check-in.
And they wonder why they can't meet ship dates.
Style issues are important, but you don't pay your best developers to play StyleCop. If they're going to review others' code, they should be concentrating on system architecture issues, correctness, testability, maintainability, critical performance issues, and a whole host of high-level issues that it takes actual human intelligence to evaluate.
Having your best developers spend time acting like mindless automatons is not only a huge waste of money and talent, it's almost guaranteed to cost you a senior developer or two. I hope, anyway. Forcing any developer to play static analyzer on a regular basis is one of the fastest ways to crush his spirit. And any developer who's worth the money you're paying him will be working for your competitor in no time flat rather than waste his time doing monkey work.
The drawbacks of having your senior developers spend their time examining code for style issues:
- They can't do as good a job as StyleCop and other tools.
- They can't do it as fast as StyleCop and other tools.
- They can't do it on every check-in.
- There are much more important things for them to spend their time on.
- They hate doing it.
- They will find somewhere else to work. Some place that values their knowledge and experience, and gives them interesting problems to solve.
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Dignified Pet Services presents 'People in the Neighborhood'
As Senior Manager of Best Friends Animal Society's National Events Team, Julie Honse is always on the go, finding ways to rescue and improve the lives of animals. Organizing and executing annual Strut Your Mutt fundraising events held across the country as well as assisting in the planning of Super Adoption Weekends held twice yearly in LA, NYC and Salt Lake City. It is a big job — but just the tip of the iceberg of this dynamo's world.
"The Super Adoption Weekends are amazing, as they allow anywhere from 400 to 600 animals to be adopted and find permanent homes," Julie enthuses.
A Portland native and Wilson High grad, Julie is the proud mom of five dogs, two cats (all adopted rescues), and two chickens. Happily there's plenty of room for them to roam at her home in Eastmoreland.
"I love being able to walk my dogs in such a beautiful neighborhood," she says. "Portland is a pet utopia."
Julie attended U of O as a journalism major. "I wanted to be a war correspondent and travel the world reporting. I got a dog and took in a stray cat and realized I could never leave them. When I adopted my cat I had never been to a shelter before. I signed up to volunteer at the Oregon Humane Society, and found myself becoming more and more involved," she shares.
Julie's been an active volunteer at OHS for more than 17 years — these days teaching classes on dog handling and safety and helping run dog playgroups. Recognized for her contributions, OHS honored Julie with the Volunteer of the Year Award in 1999, Rescue Ranger (with Brian Behrens) in 2009, and Lifetime Achievement in 2012. She also shares her expertise with Born Again Pit Bull Rescue (BAPBR) as an advisory board member.
"I work remotely from my home office, travel often, and have a packed schedule. I am very social too, and love having friends over and entertaining."
She also loves cooking and gardening. "We have a huge garden and I love to grow as much food as our yard can produce," says Julie. "I'm vegan, and I love experimenting with recipes. My latest thing is vegan cheese. I make smoked Gouda and dilled Havarti with some of the ingredients sourced right from my yard. I also like spicy foods and will try anything," she smiles.
While all these interests would fill most peoples' days, Julie somehow packs in more. She's a member in two book clubs, and runs and plays tennis — every day.
"I also run marathons," she adds. "I guess you could say I am very efficient with my time. I am positive and energetic and always try to see the bright side of things. I like to laugh and hang out with friends whenever I can--their humor and support keeps me fueled."
Asked if anything about her would surprise people, Julie says, "I guess to know that I am very musical. I sing, play drums, and love music. I have a professional karaoke set and love to throw parties. I like '80s, new wave and alternative rock. A few of my friends like to come over and sing with me, which is always fun and welcome," she laughs.
Julie is as focused about her bucket list as her life. "My bucket list consists of four things, really. One I have done but would love to do again. We vacationed in Africa. Because I'd been fascinated with gorillas ever since I saw Gorillas in the Mist as a kid, we went into the mountains in Uganda and spent an hour with the gorillas. It was an amazing experience and I can't wait to go back. That's the first thing," she shares.
"Next is that my boyfriend and I are huge cycling fans. We are glued to the TV during the Tour de France. I would like to rent an RV and follow the Tour in France."
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"The last thing is to have a swimming pool. I've always wanted one as I like to swim, and would love my dogs to have a pool to swim in. "Hey, you gotta dream big—right?," she laughs.
This gal's got it all, including a guilty pleasure. "My subscription to US Magazine," she laughs. "I spend what little down time I have reading a magazine. It feels like a luxury . . . to read a magazine," she sighs.
And the shoe that is "so Julie"?
"Tom's, of course. They support the Rhino Conservation Project, and they are covered with bright blue and bright orange rhinos. They are casual and they support something that is important to me."
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This year women directed ten of the sixty-three films submitted (16%) and wrote and directed three (4.75%): Leticia Tonos wrote and directed Love Child, Athina Rachel Tsangari wrote and directed Attenberg and Juanita Wilson wrote and directed As If I Am Not There. Others directed another writer's screenplay, or co-wrote their screenplays—usually with men—although Pernilla August co-wrote Beyond with Lolita Ray. Here are the trailers, in alphabetical order by the directors' first names. Now I've watched them, I want to see ALL these films, and am glad some are available on MUBI. Which one would you most like to see? Is it time for a major international women filmmakers award, to celebrate films like these and encourage investors to fund more of them?
Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness from Poland
Anne Hui's A Simple Life, from Hong Kong
Anne Sewitsky's Happy Happy from Norway
Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg from Greece
Juanita Wilson's As If I Am Not There from Ireland
Leticia Tonos' Love Child from the Dominican Republic
Maria Peters' Sonny Boy from the Netherlands
Nadine Labaki's Where Do We Go Now? from Lebanon
Pernilla August's Beyond from Sweden (& starring Noomi Rapace!)
Valerie Donzelli's Declaration of War from France
And then I was noodling over at sister site HerFilm, where Kyna has just published her first newsletter, and Lotus Wollschlager has joined Kyna as a reviewer (you can sign up for the newsletter here.) And I found a link to Swedish statistics, where there's a beautiful graph showing the gender difference between Swedish films funded by the Swedish Film Institute—with its gender equity mandate—and the films that the institute hasn't funded, and a link to French stats, which I've wanted to know about forever. People have often told me that women filmmakers are more strongly represented in France than anywhere else in the world, and these stats are very interesting in relation to gender, so I'm working on them right now and will post my wee analysis soon.


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Roy Blunt - Out of Step With Missouri
For years, Roy Blunt has been a Congressman from a different part of Missouri and I could pretty much ignore his philandering and prize-winning corruption. But now he's trying to become my embarrassment, too, as a candidate for Senate, so I'm starting to pay attention to whether he can fill the shoes of Senator Kit "Earmark" Bond.
Yesterday, Roy Blunt announced that he is opposing "pre-existing condition" coverage in Health Care Reform. He wants insurance companies to be able to deny coverage for those with high blood pressure, minor skin cancer, diabetes, even genetic conditions. It really is a shocking position to take - 89% of Americans support the provisions requiring coverage of pre-existing conditions.
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States of Matter
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Physical science: states of matter; properties of a solid, liquid, and gas; mathematics; technology.
Students will design experiments to explore the characteristic properties of matter.
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Through Astronauts Eyes
Through Astronauts Eyes
This image shows the International Space Station with Atlantis docked on the right and a Russian Soyuz on the far left.
Hanging Out in Space
With his feet secured on a restraint on the space station remote manipulator system's robotic arm, or Canadarm2, NASA astronaut Ron Garan carries the pump module.
Old Glory in Orbit
The crews of STS-135 and Expedition 28 float on the ISS with a U.S. flag that was flown on the first space shuttle mission, STS-1, in 1981.
International Partnerships
In this view of the ISS cupola, a variety of modules and components of the station showcase the contributions of the many nations making up some of the international partnerships behind the space station.
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The Expedition 28 crew and the STS-135 Atlantis astronauts take a break from a busy day in space to pose for a portrait aboard the orbiting complex's Kibo laboratory of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Southern Lights on Display
One of the STS-135 Atlantis crew members took this photo of the Southern Lights, or Aurora Australis, while visiting the ISS.
Managing the Cargo
On Atlantis' middeck, mission specialists Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus discuss the large tasks of moving supplies on the joint shuttle/ISS complex during flight Day 6 for the four shuttle crew members.
Shuttle Spacewalks Completed
Following the 6-hour, 31-minute spacewalk of NASA astronauts Ron Garan (top left) and Mike Fossum (top right), five members of the joint shuttle-station crew pose for photographs in the Quest airlock of the ISS.
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Kompakt Signs John Tejada, Preps New Single and Album
A veteran producer of eclectic electronic sounds and delectable dance music, John Tejada just announced that he is teaming up with another giant in the scene for his next single and album, the illustrious Kompakt label. The Cologne-based imprint will release Tejada's "Unstable Condition" b/w "The Living Night" 12" on May 2, which is described as "resonating the melodic vastness of Aphex Twin's classic sounds of Polygon Window." On June 20, Kompakt will unveil a full-length album by Tejada, called Parabolas. More info on the hotly tipped releases will be released in the coming weeks.


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The first of the three (!!) movies adapter J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit has just hit movie theaters, the book written before, and taking place before, The Lord of the Rings. I'm going to see An Unexpected Journey tomorrow night, but I've spent the last few nights re-watching The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and the Return of the King as prep work -- on my Apple TV.
Yes, the story has been rejiggered, the closeups are repetitive, some of the cuts are awkward, but I was surprised how much better Weta's more organic special effects have held up than some of the more plastic special effects of other companies, and how the moments that work, really, really work.
My guess is that the Hobbit will be more dramatically indulgent (3 movies!) and technically turbulent than LotR. I'm not a big fan of 3D, and I've never experienced 48fps, but I look forward to it and hope it's more Fellowship and less King Kong.
If you've seen The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, jump into our movie forum and share your review. If you want to check out, or just catch up, on the Lord of the Rings trilogy, you can do so right on your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Apple TV, or Mac.
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Can I remove a department from a branch?
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[Rimmer] found the process of revising so gruellingly unpleasant, so galling, so noxious, that, like most people faced with tasks they find hateful, he devised more and more elaborate ways of not doing it in a 'doing it' kind of way.
In fact, it was now possible for Rimmer to revise solidly for three months and not learn anything at all.
The first week of study, he would always devote to the construction of a revision timetable. At school Rimmer was always at his happiest colouring in geography maps: under his loving hand, the ice-fields of Europa would be shaded a delicate blue, the subterranean silica deposits of Ganymede would be rendered, centimetre by painstaking centimetre, a bright and powerful yellow, and the regions of frozen methane on Pluto slowly became a luscious, inviting green. Up until the age of thirteen, he was constantly head of the class in geography. After this point, it became necessary to know and understand the subject, and Rimmer's marks plunged to the murky depths of 'F' for fail.
He brought his love of cartography to the making of revision timetables. Weeks of patient effort would be spent planning, designing and creating a revision schedule which, when finished, were minor works of art.
Every hour of every day was subdivided into different study periods, each labelled in his lovely, tiny copperplate hand; then painted over in watercolours, a different colour for each subject, the colours gradually becoming bolder and more urgent shades as the exam time approached. The effect was if a myriad tiny rainbows had splintered and sprinkled across the poster-sized sheet of creamwove card.
The only problem was this: because the timetables often took seven or eight weeks, and sometimes more, to complete, by the time Rimmer had finished them the exam was almost on him. He'd then have to cram three months of astronavigation revision into a single week. Gripped by an almost deranging panic, he'd then decide to sacrifice the first two days of that final week to the making of another timetable. This time for someone who had to pack three months of revision into five days.
Because five days now had to accomodate three months' work, the first thing that had to go was sleep. To prepare for an unrelenting twenty-four hours a day sleep-free schedule, Rimmer would spend the whole of the first remaining day in bed - to be extra, ultra fresh, so he would be able to squeeze three whole months of revision into four short days.
Within an hour of getting up the next morning, he would feel explicably exhausted, and start early on his supply of Go-Double-Plus caffeine tablets. By lunchtime he'd overdose, and have to make the journey down to the ship's medical unit for a sedative to help him calm down. The sedative usually sent him off to sleep, and he'd wake up the following morning with only three days left, and an anxiety that was so crippling he could scarcely move. A month of revision to be crammed into each day.
At this point he would start smoking. A lifelong non-smoker, he'd become a forty-a-day man. He'd spend the whole day pacing up and down his room, smoking three or four cigarettes at a time, stopping occasionally to stare at the titles in his bookcase, not knowing which one to read first, and popping twice the recommended dosage of dog-worming tablets, which he erroneously believed to contain amphetamine.
Realizing he was getting nowhere, he'd try to get rid of his soul-bending tension by treating himself to an evening in one of Red Dwarf's quieter bars. There he would sit, in the plastic oak-beamed 'Happy Astro' pub, nursing a small beer, grimly trying to be light-hearted and totally relaxed. Two small beers and three hours of stomach-knotting relaxation later, he would go back to his bunk and spend half the night awake, praying to a God he didn't believe in for a miracle that couldn't happen.
Two days to go, and ravaged by the combination of anxiety, nicotine, caffeine tablets, alcohol he wasn't used to, dog-worming pills, and overall exhaustion, he would sleep in till mid-afternoon.
After a long scream, he would rationalize that the day was a total write-off, and the rest of the afternoon would be spent shopping for the three best alarm clocks money could buy. This would often take five or six hours, and he would arrive back at his sleeping quarters exhausted, but knowing he was fully prepared for the final day's revision before his exam.
Waking at four-thirty in the morning, after exercising, showering and breakfasting, he would sit down to prepare a final, final revision timetable, which would condense three months of revision into twelve short hours. This done, he would give up and go back to bed. Maybe he didn't know a single thing about astronavigation, but at least he'd be fresh for the exam the next day.
Which is why Rimmer failed exams. (Grant & Naylor, 1989, pp. 63-65)
I don't do anything like this for my own studies but it never fails to amuse. Happy revising!
Grant, R., & Naylor, D. (1989). Red Dwarf: Infinity welcomes careful drivers. London: Penguin.


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I have 2-235/40 R17 and 2-275/40 R17 RA-1's that need to exit my garage ASAP. They have been run 3 DE events and 3 autoX's and have more than 50% left and hate to just chuck them. These would be good practice tires for DE or autoX. PM me for address and come get them.
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For what it's worth, Mike Licona recently plugged a book on NDEs. Here's the plug:
And here's the book:
Titus Rivas, Anny Dirven, & Rudolf Smit, The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences (International Association for Near-Death Studies, 2016).
Rivas is a New Age figure. This presents a common dilemma in paranormal studies. Because "mainstream" scholarship generally ignores the topic, investigation is often relegated to quacks and debunkers. However, Licona is not a flake, so the fact that he recommends this book counts for something. Presumably, the value of the book, if any, lies in the collection of case studies rather than the editorial viewpoint of the authors.


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The Downtown District is full of excitement, delicious restaurants, museums, festivals, live music, new attractions, and so much more that locals, foodies, and tourists will embrace what the area has to offer.
Indulge in our delicious Cajun cuisine indigenous to Louisiana, while listening to guides bring our rich Southern Louisiana culture and history to life.
It is highly recommended that visitors to Louisiana State University (LSU) make their visit even more memorable by scooting over just a short distance to the Downtown C'est Si Bon Food Tour.
When:Thursday and Friday
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Time: 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Friday's
How much: $47
How long: About 2.5 hours
What is included: All Food Tastings, Enough for Lunch
Who: All Age Groups and Fitness Levels
Capacity: 14 people per tour
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Weather conditions: Rain or Shine
Where: Meets Downtown near Third Street ... (exact location provided after ticket purchase)
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San Francisco Shopping
A Shopper's Dream Come True
Leave some room in your luggage for all the shopping you'll do on both sides of the San Francisco Bay! Shopping in San Francisco is a pleasure with shopping districts that offer such a huge variety of shops and department stores that you are sure to find what you are looking for, and have a great time while you're at it.
San Francisco's shopping districts vary from quiet, tree-lined streets to bustling commercial corridors. Parking is plentiful, inexpensive and there is no mall congestion to endure. San Francisco offers a mix of unique shopping districts, and shopping malls and centers. The only thing more dynamic than the 40 shopping districts is the world of gifts and products found throughout San Francisco – the most culturally and ethnically diverse city in America.
Shopping on the west side of the Bay in San Francisco is a pleasure with shopping districts that offer such a huge variety of shops and department stores. Iconoclastic shopping areas such as Union Square, Market District, Chinatown, Ghiradelli Square, Fisherman's Wharf, Northpoint Shopping Center, and others, are located within an easy drive of the San Remo Hotel, or, take the Jack London Ferry to Fisherman's Wharf and use the San Francisco Trolley system for an inexpensive, easy, and fun way to get around.
Website • 0.7 miles
LOCATION: The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 415) 705-5500
Pier 39 is a shopping center and popular tourist attraction built on a pier in San Francisco. At Pier 39, there are many shops, restaurants, a video arcade, street performances, an interpretive center for the Marine Mammal Center, the Aquarium of the Bay, virtual 3D rides, and views of California sea lions sunning themselves out on docks on Pier 39's marina.
The Pier 39 marina is also home to the floating Forbes Island restaurant. A two-story carousel is one of the pier's more notable features, although it is not directly visible from the street and sits towards the end of the pier. Family-oriented entertainment and the presence of marine mammals such as the seals make this a popular stop for families with kids.
Located at the edge of the Fisherman's Wharf district, Pier 39 is close to North Beach, Chinatown, and the Embarcadero. The area is easily accessible via the historic F Market streetcars. From the pier you can see Angel Island, Alcatraz, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Bay Bridge.
California Sea Lions have been always present in San Francisco Bay. They started to haul out on docks of Pier 39 in September 1989. Before that they mostly used Seal Rock for that purpose. Ever since September 1989 the number of sea lions on Seal Rock has been steadily decreasing, while their number on Pier 39 has generally increased. Some people speculate that sea lions moved to docks because of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, but the earthquake occurred months after the first sea lions had arrived at Pier 39. It is likely that the sea lions feel safer inside the Bay.
Although the reason for their migration to the pier is unclear, the refurbishing of the docks in September 1989 required the removal of all boats from that area, leaving large open spaces for the sea lions to move into. Once the project was completed, boat owners returned, but did their best to navigate around the sea lions; no efforts were made to encourage the new guests to leave.
Website • 2.1 miles
LOCATION: 865 Market Street, San Francisco, CA (415) 512-6776
Union Square is a plaza of 2.6 acres bordered by Geary, Powell, Post and Stockton Streets in San Francisco, California. "Union Square" also refers to the central shopping, hotel, and theater district that surrounds the plaza for several blocks. The area got its name because it was once used for rallies and support for the Union Army during the Civil War.
Today, this one-block plaza and nearby area is one of the largest collections of department stores, upscale boutiques, tourist trinket shops, art galleries, and salons in the Western United States, which continue to make Union Square a major tourist draw, a vital, cosmopolitan place in downtown San Francisco, and one of the world's premier shopping districts.
Over the years, Union Square became a popular shopping destination. It boasts six major department stores: Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Barneys New York, Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Neiman Marcus. Union Square is also home to several famous upscale boutiques like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Dior, Chanel, Bottega Veneta, Dolce & Gabbana, Stuart Weitzman, Burberry, Prada, Giorgio Armani, Boucheron, Hugo Boss, Tiffany & Co., Piaget, De Beers, Bulgari, Polo Ralph Lauren, Lacoste, Salvatore Ferragamo, Cartier, Bijan, Marc Jacobs, Hermès and Ermenegildo Zegna. It is also home to the country's first Goyard boutique (located on the corner of Powell and Post) and also a block from the Square (located near Post and Kearney) is one of San Francisco's oldest retailers, Gump's.
There are more stores located inside the newly renovated Westfield San Francisco Centre, just south of Union Square along Market Street; the shopping center is anchored by the Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom stores. Old Navy, Forever 21, Anthropologie, Apple Store, United Colors of Benetton, Urban Outfitters, Abercrombie & Fitch, Puma, Gap and American Eagle Outfitters are also located along Market Street, just 2-3 blocks south of Union Square respectively. Two venerable San Francisco institutions, jeweler, Shreve & Co, and clothier Wilkes Bashford, are also located within one block of the square.
There are also several cases of redundancy among retailers. H&M has three stores in Union Square (on Powell, on Post, and inside the Westfield San Francisco Centre). Zara, MNG by Mango, Kenneth Cole, Guess, Juicy Couture, Tumi, BCBG Max Azria, Banana Republic, and Coach both have stores around Union Square and inside the Westfield San Francisco Centre. One of two shopping malls in the area with the other being the Crocker Galleria at the far eastern end of the area bordering the Financial District.
Website • 0.5 miles
LOCATION: Fisherman's Wharf roughly encompasses the northern waterfront area of San Francisco from Ghirardelli Square or Van Ness Avenue east to Pier 35 or Kearny Street.
Once a major fishing pier, Fisherman's Wharf has become the most popular tourist attraction in San Francisco, with great views of the ocean, the Golden Gate Bridge and the city of San Francisco. The Wharf offers plenty to do, with seafood restaurants and shopping from one end to the other. One thing is for sure: There's something for everyone at Fisherman's Wharf: food, views, history, family fun and more.
Dining: A food lover's haven, Fisherman's Wharf boasts some of the best dining in the world. Salivate over fresh Dungeness crab served steaming hote at outdoor stands or in a variety of gourmet recipes at the Wharf's many seafood restaurants. Smell the fresh sourdough bread baking. Savor locally made chocolate. The Wharf's eclectic mix of international cuisine is sure to please.
Entertainment: During the day, street performers are here to tirelessly entertain you: magicians, mimes, musicians, jugglers, clowns and fire-eaters take pride in their efforts to make you feel welcome at Fisherman's Wharf. At night the wharf offers live music, theater, dancing, comedy clubs and much more.
Alcatraz Island: Select the button to the right for details on Alcatraz Island.
Cable Cars: San Francisco is one of few places in the world where people can ride on a national historic landmark. Refurbished and equipped with new tracks, cables, turntables and cable propulsion machinery, San Francisco's famed cable cards operate much as they did on August 2, 1873 when Andrew S. Hallidie guided the first car down the Clay Street grade. Two of the three cable car lines stop in Fisherman's Wharf. Catch the Powell-Mason line at Taylor St. and Bay St., or the Powell-Hyde line at Hyde St. and Beach St.
Hyde Street Pier: Hyde Street Pier is home of the world's largest collection of historic ships by tonnage, where visitors can board several National Landmark vessels, including the schooner Alma and the 1890 ferryboat Eureka. Hyde Street Pier also offers regular ranger guided tours, chantey sings, special programs and hands-on demonstrations for all ages.
Sea Lions: One of Fisherman's Wharf's most popular attractions, the amazing sea lions of PIER 39 hold huge appeal for visitors of all ages. Most of the year, you can find hundreds of these local sea mammals gathered on the docks beside PIER 39, cavorting, eating and basking in the sun. Their numbers vary depending on time of year, but their distinct barks can always be heard from blocks away.
Angel Island: The other island you see from Fisherman's Wharf is Angel Island, one of the last undeveloped islands left in the San Francisco Bay. It is maintained by the National Park Service and can be used for biking, hiking and picnics. Additional information is available at www.angelisland.org.
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LOCATION: 900 North Point St, San Francisco, CA 94109 (415) 775-5500
Ghirardelli Square delights visitors with its lively retail mix, while maintaining Ghirardelli's tradition as a trendsetter for the rest of the world. In 1982 the owners applied for and were granted National Historic Register status, a move that ensured the preservation of Ghirardelli Square for future generations.
Ghirardelli Square, considered the first successful adaptive reuse project in the country. This specialty retail and dining complex, housing shops and restaurants, was originally a chocolate factory established by Domenico Ghirardelli.
Between 1852 and 1895, Ghirardelli's Chocolate Factory was located at four different sites before the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company took over the Pioneer Woolen Mills on North Point Street—today's site of the Ghirardelli Chocolate Manufactory & Soda Fountain and Ghirardelli Square. In the 1960s the chocolate manufacturing operation was sold and transferred to San Leandro. A group of San Franciscans, fearing Ghirardelli Square might be demolished, purchased the property. Unique shops and restaurants were created within the old factory, combining the latest in retailing and fine cuisine with the flavor of old San Francisco. The project officially opened on November 29, 1964.
350 Bay Street, San Francisco, CA 415) 391-2956
Northpoint Shopping Center is located in the heart of the San Francisco, close to Fisherman's Wharf, and Chinatown. The San Francisco Trolley system offers free seasonal transportation to and from area hotels.
Crocker Galleria • 1.5 mi
50 Post Street San Francisco CA USA 94105 415-393-1505
Located in San Francisco's Financial District, beautiful skylight center with many shops and restaurants.
Westfield San Francisco Centre • 1.7 miles
865 Market Street, San Francisco, CA (415) 512-6776
Westfield San Francisco Centre is an upscale, urban shopping center located in San Francisco that is anchored by Nordstrom and Bloomingdale's, and includes a Century Theatres multiplex, a Bristol Farms gourmet grocery store and a branch of San Francisco State University.
Metreon • 2.2 miles
101 4th Street, San Francisco, CA (415) 369-6000
The Metreon is a four-story 350000 square foot shopping center located in downtown San Francisco at the corner of 4th St. and Mission St. Built over the corner of the underground Moscone Center convention center
San Francisco Antique and Design Mall • 5.8 – mi
701 Bayshore Blvd San Francisco CA USA 94124
Find a large selection and variety of fine antiques and collectibles for your home. Features San Francisco's best antique and design specialists.
Stonestown Galleria • 11.3 mi
3251 20th Ave. San Francisco CA USA 94132
Stonestown Galleria offers a number of stores, including Williams-Sonoma, Borders Books and Macy's. The mall is located in southwest San Francisco and offers free parking.


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Palestinian Authority President Abbas Meets With Released Terrorists, Vows to 'End Suffering of Heroic Brothers in Occupation's Prisons'
by Ruthie Blum
During meetings this week with terrorists released from Israeli prisons, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas vowed to "make every effort to end the suffering of our heroic brothers and release them from the occupation's prisons so they can take part in building the homeland for which they sacrificed," the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported on Wednesday.
The terrorists with whom Abbas met on Sunday, according to MEMRI, were 14-year-old Osama Zaidat, shot while attempting to stab Israelis in Kiryat Arba in September — and recently released from detention — and Imad Asaf, a member of Fatah's military wing, the Al-Aqsa Brigades, who took part in the Second Intifada in 2000 and was recently let out of jail.
He also greeted members of the family of Muhammad Al-Jallad, who died of his wounds after being shot in November while attempting to carry out a stabbing attack at a checkpoint.
According to MEMRI, this is but one of many instances of Abbas' emphasis on his efforts to free prisoners. The report cited as an example a reception in August for the released prisoner Shadi Al-Baba of the Al-Qassam Brigades, where he said: "The issue of the prisoners will continue to be a top priority for the [Palestinian] leadership, [which will act] to free all the prisoners and detainees."
At the Seventh Fatah Conference on December 1, Abbas similarly praised senior Fatah and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine perpetrators of attacks, including the 2001 assassination of Israeli minister Rehavam Ze'evi, saying: "We remember the martyrs, the wounded and the prisoners and their record… We salute our brave prisoners and respect them. We will not forget our fighting comrades…or [our] glorious woman prisoners."
Abbas' meetings this week come on the heels of discussions in the US and Europe about the continued provision of financial aid to the PA, when its leaders encourage and incentivize terrorism.
Late last month, as The Algemeiner reported, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina reintroduced legislation that would cut off American funding of the PA if it continues to pay monetary rewards to terrorists and their families.
Called the Taylor Force Act — in honor of the 28-year-old West Point graduate who was murdered in a stabbing attack carried out by a Palestinian terrorist in Tel Aviv last March — it was first unveiled in September, two months prior to the presidential and congressional elections.


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To test out my gallery wall idea, first I laid out the pictures with the mirror to see how they all worked out together.
This was after I had already painted the mirror, but before I had built the frames.
Really, once I got the frames built, I realized that only two of the 5 x 7 pictures were going to fit. I'll probably replace these photos with my maternity pictures or pictures of Kalia when she gets here! I love that everything is switchable!
Chris and I measured and hung the frames for the left side...
and the right side...
Then I found an adorable lamp that fit in perfectly to the same shade of pink and added that to the top of the dresser (on sale for $25 at Kirklands!). Here's what Kalia's dresser wall looks like altogether :
Close-up :
I still have to get a changing pad for her to put on here. We intentionally hung this wall higher than we'd actually really like to because we don't want little fingers grabbing these off of the wall. When she gets old enough, or when I find something that inspires me, we'll probably add something to the bottom of this gallery wall to balance it out a little bit more.
Here's the view when you walk in her room :
And here's how it ties in from that view with the crib / part of the closet.
Three walls down, one left to go! Kalia's nursery really is coming together...I love going in there and just sitting. I can't wait for her to get here!! I might say that a million more times within the next month!
My favorite part of doing her nursery...
Here's where we started with this wall :
|Before : gross carpet, gross paint, gross baseboards
and one more of what it looks like today!
|After : new floors, freshly painted ceiling, baseboard, and walls, homemade dresser, gallery wall art!
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69 Ways data journalism was outstanding in 2017
Over the past six years, the Global Editors Network has organised the Data Journalism Awards competition to celebrate and credit outstanding work in the field of data-driven journalism worldwide. It is supported by the Google News Lab and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, in partnership with Chartbeat.
This year, 573 projects were submitted, from 51 countries, representing the 5 continents. The pre-jury of the Data Journalism Awards 2017 went through the submissions and has handed over this year's shortlist of nominated projects. In the next phase, the international jury of the Data Journalism Awards will have to decide on this year's winners.
The Data Journalism Awards 2017 Shortlist recognizes 63 outstanding projects (some were nominated more than once) and brings light on the most innovative data-driven storytelling published by news organizations worldwide. It is a great indicator of trends and innovative techniques in data journalism in the past year as the list of projects below shows.
This announcement was made at the end of the Data Journalism Unconference on 23 May 2017, an event which gathered data journalism experts from the five continents to tackle cross-border data journalism challenges, with the ultimate goal to initiate fruitful international collaborations between newsrooms from around the world.
Together, the shortlisted projects showcase the best of data journalism from 2016-17 and highlight the fact that data-driven storytelling is still going strong internationally.
The level of applications this year is higher than ever. Shortlisted projects come from large organisations well known for their work in data journalism such as The Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight, The New York Times or the BBC. Smaller organisations from all over the world are also represented such as Pajhwok Afghan News (Afghanistan), Nation Media Group (Kenya), or OuestMediaLab (France).
We are proud to see that more and more organisations in Asia take part in the competition every year. For 2017, we received many entries from countries such as China, Indonesia or the Philippines, and 20% of entries came from Asian countries.
Winning projects will receive a prize worth $1801(US) each (that's $18 000 in total) at the DJA 2017 Ceremony in Vienna, on 22 June 2017, during the seventh annual GEN Summit.
Check out all the shortlisted entries here.


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Telehealth is a way for patients at home to have a visit from a VNA nurse using a video telephone and diagnostic system. The program supports direct care visits from VNA professionals with monitoring of chronic conditions using a Home Health Monitoring System.
Telehealth can improve patient care; help avoid emergency room visits or hospital readmittance; and improve patient compliance with the prescribed health care regimens.
Telehealth uses a compact Home Health Monitoring System and an ordinary telephone line to connect patients with nurses in the VNA office by video. Using the system, the patient and the nurse can see and hear each other as the patient uses simple diagnostic tools attached to the system to report on vital signs, weight, pulse, oxygen—even the appearance of wounds. It enhances case management and early detection of medical problems. Telehealth offers many benefits: