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Perković slings over 70m to 231′ 4″
Croatian icon Sandra Perković throws her 1kg 70,51m (231′ 4″) at the Winter Croatian Championship meet in Split. It's the 1st throw over 70m since Russian *Natalya Sadova's 70,02 m (229′ 8″) toss in twenty-two years ago (1999). It was her 2nd PB of the day, coming three rounds after her 69,96m (229′ 6″) opening.
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I'm especially interested in discovering the weather, specifically the wind, conditions.
Watch the video here:
Perković throws 70,51m
*suspended twice for doping – 2001 (caffeine) and 2006 (anabolic steroid)
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Why is it that so many married people feel alone and lonely? They feel like they are living together separately. No love, no kisses, no sex, no communication. Rather than oneness, they feel like ships crossing in the night. In this podcast, Tony discusses what has happened?
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Assistant Supervisor and former disgraced "Unity Team" president Pete Thomassen's executive assistant, MARIA SABATER, was fired last Friday, for allegedly using a union issued credit card for personal expenses.
Inside sources say the highly paid (over $100,000 yearly) Sabater, ran up over $25,000 in personal charges on the district council's credit card. Thomassen authorized Sabater to have use of a council credit card and cell phone, paid for with union funds.
"I am absolutely shocked, why isn't Pete held accountable?" a carpenter said who did not want his name used for fear of retaliation.
Sabater, has been employed by the District Council, as Thomassen's executive assistant since 2000. Prior to that she was employed by Dockbuilders Local Union 1456, as its office manager beginning in 1995.
It is unknown how and when the union eventually discovered the alleged pattern of theft by Sabater, or if they contacted the Department of Labor or federal authorities to request an investigation.
Almost all the carpenters I have spoken with on the condition of anonymity agreed, that this union is in serious need of "major reform."
Supervisor Frank Spencer has been criticized for his highly questionable action of naming Peter Thomassen as his assistant supervisor following the "emergency supervision".
On August 5, 2009 carpenter boss Mike Forde, along with nine others were arrested and charged with a 29-count indictment for corruption, racketeering, bribery and perjury, in a conspiracy that stretches over a decade, involving six contractors, business agents, business manager, benefit fund trustees, shop stewards, associates, council employees and testing positive for cocaine use.
UBC General President Douglas McCarron fired Forde, local 608 business manager, John Greaney and local 608 business agent, Brian Hayes, on August 13, 2009 and ordered an "emergency supervision" of the district council and appointed Vice President Frank Spencer, supervisor.
"Thomassen should be fired, he betrayed the carpenters, has no integrity and was Forde's biggest enabler and defender," a source said.
In 2007 Thomassen, was found guilty of contempt of court for violating the Consent Decree by failing to give the Government prior notice of the District Council's intent to enter into collective bargaining agreements in 2001 with associations of contractors that altered job referral rules.
"First Pete sells out the carpenters with the 2001 contract, then he lies about it, then he turns a blind eye to contractor corruption indentified in the Forde indictment, then his son shaves his body hair to avoid detection of drug use and receives a big salary increase, and now his assistant allegedly steals union funds, it's just incredible."
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Thomassen's Assistant Fired For Theft Of Union Funds
Assistant Supervisor and former disgraced "Unity Team" president Pete Thomassen's executive assistant, MARIA SABATER, was fired last Friday, for allegedly using a union issued credit card for personal expenses.
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- For The Membership....May 5, 2010 at 2:49 PM
It is Time! Peter RETIRES or is let go.
You know it the right thing to do.
Do what is right!
- InsiderMay 5, 2010 at 7:01 PM
<pre>Its Reported to the DOL and here are the facts:ReplyDelete
1. Pete gave her a cell phone paid by the members.
2. She had a gas credit card for years and Pete signed the checks.
3. Pete has allowed her to use the DC van on weekends.
4. She has an e-bay business which she ran during work hours. She sold the furniture from the 10th apartment which was worth thousands of dollars for
$700 to a friend. And delivered it herself.
- InsiderMay 5, 2010 at 7:09 PM
Heres more info on Maria Sabater: Sabater also holds the so-called the title of "fleet manager," ---that's what her business card says, she has received perks from the car fleet company, has used the councils van for personal use and made use of the 10th floor conference room at council headquarters for a personal party for her daughter.ReplyDelete
Keep up the good work
- Steve....May 5, 2010 at 11:03 PM
Are you Kidding?ReplyDelete
An assistant making over 100,000???
what are we GOLDMAN SACHS?
- PISSED-OFFMay 6, 2010 at 11:18 AM
PUT ALL THESE FUCKS IN JAIL. ALL OF THEM- AN MAKE THEM PAY BACK WHATEVER THEY STOLE. TAKE THEIR HOUSES-CARS-EVERYTHING.ReplyDelete
- a concerned non family memberMay 6, 2010 at 7:47 PM
Pete "RESIGNED" today, after hours in Spencers office. But he never filed retirement papers! Resignation, huh? Today or tomorrow is his last day. Honest Injun!ReplyDelete
- a concerned non family memberMay 6, 2010 at 7:49 PM
By today I mean Thursday the 6th of may 2010. looks like Frank has been listening and is beginning to take action. Three cheers for Spencer!!!ReplyDelete
- There are thieves among us stillMay 14, 2010 at 1:56 PM
An assistant making over $100k!!!! There's a BIG flag for you....ReplyDelete
I'm sure some of the other overpaid executive assistants were doing the same as Ms. Sabater. Some thing to look into....
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After years of attack dog politics, the American people may not be able to let go of constant invectives and dueling gotchas. The latest example is the case of Illinois's corrupt Governor Rod R. Blagojevich. His crimes seem real enough and – should he be convicted of the alleged wrongdoings – he deserves punishment for his malfeasance. Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has laid out the charges in clear terms, and has also been unambiguous about the president-elect's lack of involvement.
Yet in news cycle after news cycle, the drumbeat continues about a "shadow" over the Obama presidency and about "distractions" that are frustrating the incoming president's preparations to govern the nation on January 20. The political opposition takes it from there, attacking the incoming president for not saying enough, for a lack of transparency, or simply for shady behavior indistinct from the shady behavior that started the process.
Who casts these shadows? Who has witnessed a "distracted" President-elect Obama unable to fill his cabinet posts? It feels trite to say.
I am a strict defender of the media's place in the overall checks and balances of a democratic society, but
the media are responsible. The 24-hour news cycle has had a definitively corrosive effect, in which even the most innocuous of events can rise to the level of Breaking News and every public scandal, however meaningless, is treated as the second coming of Watergate.
Reporters on cable news channels often replace interviewing with a series of leading questions that bully the respondents into the answers they were seeking in the first place. Actually, many reporters taking positions are not reporters at all, but op-ed columnists or commentators, and should be labeled as such. There is nothing wrong with having opinions and sharing them with whoever will listen, but dressing them up as fair, balanced or even smart journalism is ridiculous and a disservice to the profession.
One of the major problems plaguing straightforward journalism is that it tends to be boring in light of our action-packed, video-game-fueled world, whereas controversy and reports of high-level wrongdoings are exciting. Alternatively, much straightforward reporting on television is so weightless that it almost becomes elevator music. When there's nothing better to say, the networks tout their news teams as "the best team in … (name the area that's being covered)." Do these journalists understand the difference between marketing and journalism? I don't remember a single course in journalism school on how to position your media outlet for greater credibility and the resultant higher ratings and increased advertising.
Newspapers, the bastion of solid, in-depth reporting, are no longer read by the majority of the population, and the Web emphasizes the new and brief over depth and accuracy. So the news most of us see is little different from "Access Hollywood" or "Entertainment Tonight," and reporters are becoming little different from paparazzi.
This modern reality encourages news outlets to focus on the spectacular rather than the important, and to cover political marketing as if it were the Gettysburg Address. It's no wonder the politicians unabashedly fabricate their "gotcha" moments when the media invariably leads with them and further energizes them with insistent questioning on the issue.
In the final analysis, it is up to citizens to separate reality from political posturing, but it doesn't help that the media in its current form seek anything "new" versus anything "news," and highlights any hint of controversy over the intellectually honest reporting of what truly drives America and the world.


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Unfortunately, that's all we've got time for tonight. I've been Oliver Emmerson, taking you through Tottenham's defeat to Bayer Leverkusen. Until next time, goodnight.
Kampl's goal decided it, finishing well past Lloris after a period of Bayer pressure. Tottenham did threaten through Dier, who hit the bar, and could have had a penalty, but their perforamance didn't merit anything.
That's it, Tottenham lose again at Wembley in the Champions League and they now face a monumental struggle to qualify for the knockout round. They're four points behind Monaco, and two behind Bayer, with a trip to France next up. If they lose away at Monaco next time out and Bayer beat CSKA, they'll be out.
Full-time: Tottenham Hotspur 0-1 Bayer Leverkusen (Kampl)
90+3: Nkoudou bounds down the left and fires a cross towards Sissoko, but it's a little too high for the Frenchman.
90: Five minutes of stoppage time. Spurs don't look at all like scoring.
88: Winks swings in a free-kick, Nkoudou onto it but he loses the ball before fouling Hernandez.
85: Record signing Kevin Volland on for Leverkusen.
84: The ball breaks for Davies, the crowd cry 'shoooot' and he does, wide.
83: Off the bar! Dier steps up to take the free-kick and hits it brilliantly, the ball cracking off the underside of the bar before Leverkusen smother away Janssen's rebound.
81: Alli fouled on the edge of the area, chance for Spurs. However, Eriksen isn't on the pitch to take it.
80: This is comfortable for Leverkusen, in all honesty. They look more likely to score a second than Tottenham do to get an equaliser, Toprak heading just over from an outswinging corner.
73: Next change, Nkoudou coming on for Son. Can he make an impact for the first time in a Spurs shirt? His side need him to, desperately.
70: Brandt off, replaced by Calhanoglu.
66: Tottenham change, Winks on for Eriksen.
65: It's been coming, in all honesty. Spurs allowed the ball to be played around them in front of the defence, Aranguiz unleashing a shot that was deflected through to Kampl, who showed composure to slot the ball past Lloris. 0-1!
GOAL! Kampl puts Leverkusen ahead!
61: Shocking mistake from Spurs as he gets no power on a header back to Dier, Mehmedi intercepting and teeing up Hernandez, who first has a shot blocked by Vertonghen before Lloris saves well at the second attempt.
60: Effort! Walker driving through the heart of the Leverkusen defence, his cross-cum-shot isn't met by Janssen and rolls wide of the post.
55: 85,512 makes this the record attendance for an English side playing at home in Europe, just edging out the crowd that Spurs got in for the Monaco game.
48: Much better from Spurs, Alli tripped by Toprak just inside the area, but no decision given! Eriksen continues with the play, shooting wide. Replays make it look like that was a poor decision from the referee.
45: Back underway!
That wasn't great from Spurs, with Bayer the better side, another nervy display so far at Wembley from Tottenham. They'll hope to improve in the second half, they might have to in order to take something from this one.
Half-time: Tottenham Hotspur 0-0 Bayer Leverkusen
45+1: Spurs have the ball in the net as Alli hammers in a rebound from Janssen's shot, but the whistle had gone way earlier as Janssen fouled Tah.
43: So close! That's superb defending from Jan Vertonghen, sliding in to deny Brandt after Walker had made a costly error in the area, witht the Belgian again on hand to deflect Hernandez's follow up out for a corner, just wide of the post. A nervy mistake that sums up Tottenham's first half.
39: Brandt, with an opportunity to shoot, opts to play in Hernandez inside the area, Wanyama across brilliantly to intercept.
33: Eriksen driving forward from deep with space to attack, shooting from around 20 yards out, a central effort beaten away by Leno.
31: There's that change, an attacking move with Dembele off for Janssen. Son out to the left, Eriksen dropping deeper rather than Alli. Elsewhere, Monaco are 2-0 up through Falcao.
29: Ah, now it makes a little more sense, Dembele spotted limping.
28: Vincent Janssen is getting ready, will he be brought on after just half an hour? It's not worked for Spurs so far, but that would be a really early change.
22: A momentary gasp of panic from the Leverkusen bench as Leno spills a fairly routine cross, however Tah is on hand to sweep the ball away.
16: Half a chance for Sissoko to get an assist as he spins away from Wendell, but again his final ball is lacking.
14: Elsewhere in the group, Monaco have taken an early lead against CSKA, putting them on eight points.
13: Wendell with the chance to deliver after Wanyama fouls in his own half, but it's an easy one for Lloris to claim.
11: Dele Alli sets Sissoko away with a lovely flick down the right flank, but the Frenchman can't get his cross right. Blocked.
10: Better from the hosts after a somewhat flustured start, in which Leverkusen put them under a heap of pressure. No shots on goal, yet.
3: Shaky start from Spurs, Lloris beating Hernandez in his own area, only for a sloppy pass to be spooned up in the air by Vertonghen, the home defence just about clearing the danger.
0: Underway at Wembley!
The two teams are out, the Champions League anthem rings around Wembley, it's almost time to get underway!
Just under 10 minutes until kick-off now, given the state of play in the group, a win would be huge for Spurs. However, a draw is a must as they look to stay in a positive position.
No Kane in the squad, and Vincent Janssen only makes the bench as Son is given the nod up front, with a fairly defensive looking midfield selected by Pochettino.
Bayer Leverkusen XI: Leno; Wendell, Toprak, Tah, Herichs; Aranguiz, Baumgartlinger, Kampl, Brandt; Mehmedi, Hernandez.
Tottenham Hotspur XI: Lloris; Walker, Dier, Vertonghen, Davies; Wanyama, Dembele, Sissoko, Alli, Eriksen; Son.
We've got some confirmed team news in! No Kane in the Tottenham squad.
Spurs will be hoping to be boosted by the return of Harry Kane tonight, with Kane having missed the last two European games with an ankle problem picked up during a Premier League win over Sunderland, a game in which he scored. Mauricio Pochettino revealed that he's 50/50 for the game earlier in the week, so the striker may get on the bench. Toby Alderweireld is extremely likely to be out with a knee injury.
It's Bayer who come into the game off the back of a weekend win, having triumphed 2-1 away at Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga, with late goals from Admir Mehmedi and Tin Jedvag giving them some confidence coming into this game. Spurs drew their third consecutive Premier League game, held 1-1 by Leicester City at White Hart Lane.
Tottenham are using Wembley for their Champions League home games this season whilst White Hart Lane is renovated during certain midweek's. It's been suggested that it's a disadvantage, and they'll have 'six away games' to a certain extent, an idea that was fuelled even more after the defeat to Monaco. However, there will be over 70,000 'home' fans in tonight supporting Tottenham, hoping to create an atmosphere that can spur their side to three points.
Bayer are unbeaten so far, but haven't won a game yet as three draws leaves them third in the group, and in need of at least a point tonight to keep their qualification hopes in good light. They started with a high scoring 2-2 draw against CSKA, before drawing 1-1 away in France to Monaco, then of course being held at home by Spurs.
It's been a tricky campaign so far for Tottenham after making a welcome return to European football, with the Lilywhites having been on the back-foot since losing their opening game 2-1 at home to Monaco. They responded with an excellent away win in Russia, Son Heung-Min scoring the only goal against CSKA, before some inspired Hugo Lloris goalkeeping secured a 0-0 draw away at Bayer a few weeks ago.
This group, Group E, is extremely tight as it stands, with no side having ran away with proceedings after three games. Monaco top the group on five points, Spurs second with four, Leverkusen third on three points and CSKA Moscow bottom of the table with two points. It's all so close that by the end of the night, fourth placed CSKA could be top!
Hello everyone and welcome to VAVEL UK's live minute-by-minute commentary of tonight's UEFA Champions League clash between Tottenham Hotspur and Bayer Leverkusen at Wembley. I'm Oliver Emmerson, and I'll be taking you through the game, with kick-off in London set for 7:45PM BST. It's matchday four and a crucially important one, as by the end of the night we'll have a much clearer idea of who's going to progress through to the knockout stage.


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One of the biggest mistakes that technology founders of tech startups make is that they spend entirely too much time in trying to perfect the technology. This is particularly pronounced in Continental Europe, as against the US, where the culture of commercialising innovations is much more ingrained.
The Silicon Valley culture is exemplified by IDEO, which has helped some of the Valley's greatest companies by designing iconic products. Their focus is not to spend months on end to make a product, but to drive teams to create prototypes in hours. Their belief is that having a product prototype is far more real than the best presentation and can enable users to experience it and give feedback in more meaningful ways.
It is only when you take the product to customers that you begin to get feedback on how it will function. More importantly, as a technology entrepreneur, you often consider the greatest value of the product lies in its technological excellence. On the contrary, the greatest value of any product lies in what it enables for customers. These are vastly different things and often, the advantage derived from technological excellence is offset by the complexity of making the products in scale. Technology entrepreneurs come from the world of research, where it is par for the course to create something devilishly complicated before lunch, and do an encore around tea-time. However, successful companies thrive on replicability and zero-failure rates, which only comes from simplifying technology to make it manufacture-ready.
There's another risk of trying to get technology-excellence to the market. It always takes longer than you expect, since you often find that the machines required to manufacture your product don't exist and need to be custom-designed. The process of making the whole thing work also needs to be defined. As it occurs with first-time attempts, things don't quite work as expected. This entails time delay, which ultimately results in competitors moving ahead. If it's a global market need, the competitors with simpler products or stronger partnerships can rapidly move ahead and create platforms, and in the process, the bulk of the market demand. This only leaves tiny verticals that you can address, forcing your product to be consigned to the niche segment.
Failure is the most valuable step in a startup, since it enable you to 'pivot' or recognise perceived value for your customers. That's the value you get paid for, no more and no less. You ignore this at your own peril. This is why, for any kingdom to survive, when the king dies, the new king is immediately crowned. And so continues the dynasty.
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text: Retroactive Review: The Butterfly Effect (2004) January 30, 2014 by The Tribe in Culture, Film Samantha Evans brings a fresh review to a decade old film: The Butterfly Effect.The Butterfly Effect might never be billed as an educational thriller, but it certainly left me with a few things to consider by the time I was done watching. A 2004 American science fiction psychological thriller written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, it is a painful, thought-provoking film. Evan Treborn blacks out stressful and traumatic experiences in his childhood, but—while in college—learns that by reading back his journal he is transported to relive these moments. When the love of his life and childhood friend, Kayleigh Miller (Amy Smart), commits suicide, Evan attempts to bring her back to life by reading back his journal and changing his actions during the events leading up to Kayleigh's death. He realizes that he can change the future during these black out moments, and by doing so, in an attempt to perfect Kayleigh's life, he creates a series of alternate universes, each one worse than the next.Ashton Kutcher is fantastic in this film. Having only ever seen him in slap comedy and romantic comedies, I was surprised by his ability to play such a complex role. I have always respected Ashton Kutcher, but this film allowed another, unexpected side of his acting ability. He was able to capture the pain and the disappointment central to this psychological thriller.The title of the film directly refers, of course, to 'the butterfly effect', a popular hypothetical example of chaos theory that illustrates how small initial differences in one's actions may lead to large unforeseen consequences over time. In the film this concept of demonstrated every time Evan goes back to his childhood: even when he changes just one specific moment that seems insignificant, his entire present reality is different.This film created such anticipation within me. It was painful to watch, and yet I could not turn it off. I had to know what would happen, how life would change, and how he would react to his new alternative reality. Every time he tried to fix his life, to mend what had happened, he only made it worse. Ultimately, the film questioned whether or not it is best to leave life as it is, to not get involved in the lives of others or even try to change your own life. The ending only created more questions: is it best if love never happens for the sake of our long-term happiness? Or, as John Locke argued in the affirmative, do we we all contribute to our society and affect the lives of the people around us in small, but significant ways?The Butterfly Effect remains a great film. It made me think about life, and love, and change. It made me realize that there is no wrong, there is no right, and there is no single way to live; the only thing we can do is hope and work towards happiness and perfection. As Evan Treborn told his father in the mental hospital, 'I'll send you a postcard when everything is perfect'. Samantha Evans Image Credit: all rights including distribution owned by New Line Cinema


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I'm coming down with a cold, my eyes are permanently half-closed and I don't want to get out of bed. It's going to be a great week.
Almost everyone I know is leaving in a few days. I don't know if I care or not. A few people I know and like are staying, and then a whole new crop of people are coming in. For awhile there I thought it would just be me and the Brazilians.


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The Black Fox/
Fiction published under H. F. Heard
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A demon lurks at the heart of the Church in this classic fantasy of black magic set in Victorian England.
Canon Throcton is a brilliant scholar, but the men of the Church can't bring themselves to trust him. His devoted study of Hebrew and Arabic has drawn him far from their intellectual center, and his interest in the obscure writings of the Middle East verges on heresy. Canon knows his brothers in the cathedral don't take him seriously, but he doesn't care. A great and terrible power hides within him, and he'll unleash it even if it destroys the Church, the town, and everyone he holds dear.
When a junior colleague is elevated above him, Canon reaches into his darkest volume of forbidden lore and tries his hand at black magic. It works better than he ever could have dreamed. His enemy is destroyed and Canon feels the tug of unimaginable power. He's taken the first step along the road to damnation—and soon he'll burn.
The Black Fox is English gothic at its best, a story of weird fiction steeped in author H. F. Heard's unparalleled knowledge of world religion. Never before had black magic been written about with such deep understanding, and never since has it been more terrifying.


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- Be careful when lifting and carrying your belongings – hold your items close to your body, use the strength of your arms and legs to lift the heavier pieces and slowly move along with the items.
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Is AI the future of data implementation?
Data is crucial for understanding your website and your customer. It tells you who's visiting your site, the content that keeps them engaged, and the reasons they leave. However, to be able to gather reliable and actionable analytics, you have to start with the implementation.
Any implementation requires a data strategy and planning. It needs to be aligned with your business goals so that you're measuring the most relevant actions and customer behaviour to gain actionable insights. It requires an understanding of the site's technical structure and the tools and technologies that fit your business needs. It is arguably one of the most critical but time-consuming tasks. Therefore, it's no surprise that the presentation of "Launch It" at this year's Adobe Summit caused much excitement and left me wondering whether I might soon be out of a job!
So, what is Launch It? In short, Launch It uses the power of AI, natural language processing and image recognition to scan a site, identify key pages and actions, create a strategy document (or SDR) and automatically tag your site with the appropriate JavaScript. Turning a task that would usually take days, or even weeks, into a 5-minute job. Sounds great right? Sure, if you're working with a very simple site, a very clean dataLayer and a very clear customer journey… and here are where the problems start to arise. In my (admittedly, somewhat limited) implementation experience, I have yet to come across a site that ticks all these boxes. If a company doesn't know what their checkout page looks like, how will an AI know? So far so good on the job front.
However, we can't deny that when Launch It is integrated with a tool like Adobe Launch, an API-powered tag management system, it becomes a very powerful asset. Using APIs, we can take the SDR created by Launch It, and automatically deploy code through Adobe Launch. It can add extensions, map data elements and create rules within minutes, and all with a simple click of the 'Create Implementation' button. So, whilst a bit more work is needed before we're able to use AI to automatically create an SDR, the future of automated tagging is perhaps not so far away.
Launch It is currently a concept technology only, and whilst I think there's still a long way to go before we start relying solely on AI-generated analytics, it's an interesting step that leverages new capabilities like AI and automation. Whilst the idea of cutting down the time-consuming strategy and planning process of an implementation is a nice one, human intervention will remain very much needed. Hopefully this means my job is safe…for now.


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During the trip, you will be able to visit "City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia". It is a fascinating complex combined of science, nature and art and its purpose is to spread the undeniable relevance of science and culture in modern times society. The complex consists of 5 main elements:
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It is definitely worth to see! As the rest of Valencia also is. We will be able to do that with a professional guide! Lots of amazing sites to see such as Plaza of the Virgen, Catedral, Plaza of the Reina, Plaza del Patriarca, Palacio del Marques de Dos Aguas, Plaza Redonda, Lonja and Mercado central and more.
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Indifference in identity
On the construction of the photographic image of the city of Guimarães
Originally published on Visual Narratives: European Capital of Culture Guimarães 2012
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"What is written about a person or an event is frankly an interpretation, as are handmade visual statements, like paintings and drawings. Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire",
Susan Sontag, On Photography.
Susan Sontag's concerns, which led to her well-known essay On Photography, may today be easily understood within the context of the emergence of photography and following Walter Benjamin's remarkable essay on this new, yet mechanically reproducible, visual art. Nevertheless, both authors' concerns and doubts about the art of photography seem now solved or taken as facts, given to us by the infinite probabilities of photography, not only as an interpretation of itself, but also through the multiplication of different viewpoints, of different subjects relating to those same viewpoints or searching for new ones, in and out of the photographic image, instead of taking it as a "miniature of reality", which itself (the reality) has proven to be infinite as of both the unconscious gaze and the camera itself, as Benjamin had stated. Today, it seems evident that photography is no longer just a document, capable of replacing a bygone reality (although it may work as such), nor is it merely the result of the photographer's desire to keep a memory alive (not just his memory but a collective one). Photography isn't pure fiction as well, an invented narrative, albeit on the surface all may be fiction, all elements may be manufactured, invented, masterfully arranged to create a troubling picture between fiction and reality, or a latent ambiguity between document and narrative. Not even Demand's photographs reenact that doubt today, since what is interesting is not the manufacturing of reality through models later photographed by the author, but the fiction told by those models transformed into images, making the process of storytelling visible, without any ambiguity. Similarly, the ambiguity can be generated not only around the dichotomies imaginary-reality or document-fiction, but also around several parallel dichotomies, in all the frontiers capable of creating a visual disarray, where photographers start (and have started) by questioning the genres and their identities, following, once again, the history of facts, the different struggles cities, societies and cultures have faced.
Considering Sontag and Benjamin's ideas, there is another connection established by both authors: one of them warns of photography's potential dangers (which are also strongly contextualized), the other warns of the more playful, albeit historical, gesture of a collection of images (in fact, the collection image is explored by both: the monument postcard or the souvenir). Photography and tourism seemed to be natural correlatives in the naked eyes of these authors. The impact photography began to hold in the cities themselves became unquestionable, conditioning and transforming them into new forms. Even today, in the work of some authors, the photographic image seems to embody the time to come, always seeming to anticipate the urban or artificial transformation that has not taken place yet.
If we consider these ideas as facts or as issues raised and solved by the photographic image, we reach what the photographic narratives from this contest were pursuing, when their starting points were those, returning to Sontag and Benjamin, fulfilled the desires of early photographic image: an historic city whose monuments soon called the attention of the photographers, a rich folklore and an event like the European Capital of Culture, which called for the reinvention of culture with an updated or "modernized" iconography and a set of ephemeral transformations. The photographic image would emerge out of its own condition, out of the need for a document of historical value, which from the start would bring the subject's gaze over the city and its transformations, over the culture and its processes of metamorphosis, emerging also out of a postcard destiny, an icon maker. However, the work of the several photographers seem to confirm the other question that arises from the consummated facts. Photography wouldn't be not a document that replaces the memory of an event or tells personal stories of the people who created it, but it would be clearly related to a subjective gaze (both the photographer and the viewer's) that survives its own purpose (the purpose of the event, the city, the present time). The question was then how to create a photographic narrative about Guimarães, the European Capital of Culture, without creating an image that would match the city's identity (summoning all the metaphors of the birthplace of the nation), or its folklore, or the ephemeral events of an European capital of culture, or even its ashes and scars, answering questions raised by other domains, in crystallized images: what remained of it, what can be drawn from it?
It seems that the answer meets one of contemporary photography's concerns, especially when it presents itself as a work of art, a living autonomous construction, which does not simulate or intend to simulate, but just presents and presents itself, in and out of its limits, when these carry in themselves the whole expression of photography (and of its art): how to create an indifferent surface in identity? How to create an image of Guimarães and of Guimarães European Capital of Culture that may cross time, compressing its very difference (the difference in the way each person thinks and sees), and become just photography? Interestingly, this question does not rule out the possibility of an iconographic record; on the contrary, it would be up to the photographer to decide whether to capture it in that record. Plus, there was still the a priori condition of the construction of a narrative. As aforementioned, building fictions in photography have become a regular practice (for Baudrillard, for example, the photographic image is not a representation but a fiction, whereby the world in itself begins to act and impose its own fiction, not far from the "unconscious reality" defined by Benjamin, when he awoke to the infinite creation, a condition stimulated by the mechanical reproduction through the construction of the eye-camera mutual desire). The photographer's gaze is not an indifferent one. It is always subjective, even if photography might be considered a document or a record, because it holds the infinite possibility of the mechanical medium (the camera). Even at a second level, at the development or post-production, the result may still reveal invisible layers of reality, the unconsciousness of reality. Since its inception, every photograph has a story (which many choose tointerpret from its historical context) and the story of the desire to capture something (which is what makes the photographer photograph): a fragment of the possible to which photography gives life and legitimizes. Taken as a work of art, photography works from the inside with exclusive means, such as the frame, which is not identical to frames in painting or film: in the first, the frame implies an infinite (while, at the same time, it sets its boundaries, such as in Bacon's need of limiting it within a contour); in the second, the frame means a forward and backward movement, even in static plans (with a voice or a sound), even in silence. Photography can bring up all this: the infinite in the boundaries of reality, a voice or sound in the tonal values of light and color, an invisible movement, imperceptible to the naked eye, extracted from a long period of exposure.
This simple idea has been expanded and several photographers have introduced multiple layers of subjectivity, multiple ambiguities, multiple stories, multiple fictions, maximizing the infinite ability of photography to create a reality within a series. Then, the narrative appears in each photo and along the different photos within a series. The series, that has easily become an idea behind the photograph itself (somehow after Sontag and Benjamin's ideas of fragment and collection), increasingly tells a whole story, through pictures only, allowing for the emergence of ambiguity, in the void, the void between images, the non-images, which the eye takes to the mind.
Finally, we were pleased to find many of these ideas in the series of the award-winning authors, because, in a way, they knew exactly how to extract a visual matter rich enough to survive time, from history, territory, tradition, and iconography or from the ephemeral event celebrating the city's culture and its transformation by the very same event. For example, in the series "Intermission", by Cláudio Reis, we can find an attempt to draw a continuous line, crossing different places and trying to create a city, but the city is precisely found in the interval, in the void created by the author in order to raise the doubt, which leads us to build another possible city. In "Industrial Symphony", by Nelson Miranda, instead of finding the photographic tradition that creates a memory of a distant time, of an apogee about which our era dreams, regretting its loss, we are given another image, or even a stronger and more despairing sound, in the tones of its colors and strong contrasts of light and shadow, a terrain vague (as the author calls it, quoting Ignasi de Solà-Morales who, in turn, took it from by Marcel Carné's film). In the series "When I blink my eyes I see the world twice", by Bruno Carnide and Cátia Biscaia, despite the apparent distance that the authors established in relation to the city, they used the very mechanics of building a fiction to create a fairytale city and, at the same time, a far too real one. These are the only photos where we can exactly watch the saturation of the real which photography allows for in a singular way. At the limit, it is the photographic series that strongly deconstructs the idea "seen by the eyes", revealing a continuous and living process much closer to our understanding of the world, where several kinds of image occur and are transformed through our memories and experiences.


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Surgery – Colon and Rectal
In some cases, a patient may need colorectal surgery for problems related to their small bowel, colon, or rectum. From a problem as common as hemorrhoids to the management of cancer, our surgical team specializing in the treatment of colon cancer and other causes for colorectal surgery in Houston offers comprehensive, personalized solutions using state-of-the-art surgical techniques that minimize the impact of treatment on the patient and result in the shortest recovery time possible.
We are large group of physician specialists who provide care to patients with colorectal conditions, including colon cancer. Our doctors handling colorectal surgery in Houston are fellowship-trained teaching faculty McGovern Medical School, where they also pursue a multitude of research interests.
Bring your concerns about conditions that may require colorectal surgery to UT Physicians surgeons. Call (713) 486-4600.
Colorectal Surgery and Cancer
Treatment for colon or rectal cancer depends on the location and stage of the cancer. If colorectal surgery is indicated, our surgeons in Houston provide full oncologic resection in a purely laparoscopic fashion, commonly known as minimally invasive surgery, which minimizes scarring and recovery time.
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Diverticular disease is a common condition that is characterized by a weakness in the wall of the large bowel. This weakness can form pockets called diverticuli, which can cause bleeding or become inflamed. This condition is called diverticulitis. Often, diverticuli cause no symptoms, but if diverticulitis symptoms are present, they may include irregular bowel movements, abdominal pain, passing of blood in stool, and rectal bleeding. Some people develop peritonitis, which occurs when the inflammation spreads to the abdominal lining.
Diverticular treatment in Houston is available. Colorectal surgery is sometimes needed for problems related to diverticulitis and, when indicated, generally involves removing a small portion of the large bowel to prevent further complications of the disease. Houston diverticular disease specialists approach these cases with minimally invasive, state-of-the-art techniques that result in the shortest recovery time possible, even when colorectal surgery is called for.
Treatment for Hemorrhoids in Houston
Symptoms of a hemorrhoid can include pain, bleeding, or swelling in the lower portion of the rectum or anus. Hemorrhoids are very common, and result from increased pressure in the veins of the anus, which causes the veins to swell painfully. Common causes of hemorrhoids include straining during bowel movements, constipation, sitting for long periods of time, and anal infections. Hemorrhoids may occur either inside or outside of the body.
There are many treatments for hemorrhoids, including the application of medicines, rubber band ligation, sclerotherapy, coagulation, mucosal resection, and traditional hemorrhoidectomy, a form of colorectal surgery. During a consultation with one of our Houston hemorrhoid doctors, we explain your treatment options and provide you with the tools you need to determine the best possible treatment for you. We then provide you with colorectal surgery in Houston as necessary and monitor you throughout your recovery.
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23920 Katy Freeway, Suite 580
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But no, it is a warming mat for pets, Black dog is very arthritic and the cold weather is making life a little unpleasant
Here it is with its little cover on, as you can see by the dog fur adhering to the cover it was tried out by all 5 dogs last night, some liked it more than others. It has carbon fibers embedded in the mat and so is safe against water and can be wiped down, the cover of course can be washed. Just what's needed.
And just because I managed to get a reasonable pic of the dining room, here's the table all set with dinner. Nothing quite like a dose of the lurgy to keep a body quietly at home with nothing to blog for a week.


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The Nun is a thinly-sketched Conjuring spinoff that's light on real scares, but offers enough stylish atmosphere to make up (some of) the difference.
Trading in the creaky old houses and haunted apartments from the previous Conjuring movies for a decaying monastery, The Nun is certainly the "biggest" installment in the horror franchise yet. The Conjuring, of course, started out as a single film (very) loosely inspired by the exploits of real-life paranormal researchers Ed and Lorraine Warren, but has since evolved into an entire cinematic universe of sequels and spinoffs. James Wan has served as the architect for this property since the beginning and he remains involved here as a writer and producer, assisting second-time feature director Corin Hardy (The Hallow). However, even with Wan's creative input, this quasi-prequel lands somewhere in the middle on the Conjuring movie quality scale. The Nun is a thinly-sketched Conjuring spinoff that's light on real scares, but offers enough stylish atmosphere to make up (some of) the difference.
Set in 1952, The Nun follows Father Burke (Demián Bichir) - a priest who specializes in the supernatural - and soon-to-be nun Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga) as they travel to the Abbey of St. Carta in Romania, on the Vatican's orders. There, the pair attempt to uncover the truth behind the apparent suicide of a nun who resided at the mysterious and remote building. Aiding them along the way is Frenchie (Jonas Bloquet), the fellow who delivers supplies to the Abbey... and the only person from the closest village who's willing to visit the supposedly-cursed building.
Upon reaching the Abbey, Burke and Irene are quick to realize that something is terribly wrong with this place and find themselves under attack by the dangerous (and demonic) being that hides within its walls. Armed with nothing more than their inner strength, faith, and unnatural powers that Irene possesses yet doesn't fully understand, the duo set out to learn the truth about this creature, so that they might defeat it at long last. But is it already too late to stop this terrible monster?
Scripted by Annabelle and Annabelle: Creation screenwriter Gary Dauberman (from a story he cowrote with Wan), The Nun provides both a backstory for Valak (aka. the titular demon nun, who previously appeared in The Conjuring 2) and a standalone mystery, set against the striking backdrop of the St. Carta Abbey. These narrative and world-building elements are simple and a little silly overall, but serve the film's main interest: creating a rich sense of Gothic atmosphere, in the vein of old-school Hammer Horror movies about creatures like Dracula and Frankenstein's monster. Indeed, The Nun's fog-ridden primary setting is brought to often gorgeously macabre life on the big screen, thanks to the rich production design by Jennifer Spence and cinematography by Maxime Alexandre - both of whom also worked on Annabelle: Creation and make excellent use of shadow and light with their contributions here.
Unfortunately, The Nun generally skimps on developing its themes about faith and the struggle to keep dark forces at bay (both the mundane and fantastical variety), in order to move along to the next creepy set piece or sequence. Similarly, the film doesn't take the time to paint Father Burke's troubled history and/or Sister Irene's abilities in anything other than broad strokes, making it feel all the more like an exercise in style over substance. As indicated earlier, though, those set pieces are rather slick-looking and justification enough to see this one in IMAX (though the format is not a necessity here). The Nun also tends to be louder and more in-your-face with its jump scares than Conjuring films past, resulting in an experience that's less spooky, but still entertaining as a horror blockbuster and benefits from the enhanced audio of IMAX (especially the ominous score by Penny Dreadful's Abel Korzeniowski).
Like the story, there's not a whole lot of depth to the characters or their arcs in The Nun. Burke and Irene are both pretty archetypical protagonists (see: the world-weary priest and independent-minded novice), though they certainly benefit from being played by talented character actor Bichir and American Horror Story's Farmiga (who's also the younger sister of Conjuring lead Vera Farmiga, as it were). Bloquet likewise brings some welcome charm to his role as the cocky yet good-natured Frenchie - even though the character winds up feeling somewhat under-used in the end. Those three serve as the main leads here, with most every other cast member amounting to a glorified extra. The exception, of course, is that of Valak itself, who is once again brought to terrifically sinister and otherwise freaky life through a near-silent performance by Bonnie Aaron.
On the whole, The Nun isn't as well-crafted as Conjuring 1 & 2 and Annabelle: Creation, but is noticeably more stylized and enjoyable than the original Annabelle. Hardy further helps to compensate for the film's lack of substance by incorporating some very James Wan-esque technical flourishes and camerawork into the proceedings, thus delivering a relatively low-budget horror thrill ride that looks good (some dodgy CGI aside). The Nun also works as a standalone movie for the large part and avoids leaning too heavily on its ties to the bigger Conjuring universe. However, while the film succeeds in expanding the franchise's greater mythology, its connections to the earlier Conjuring movies don't really enrich their narratives or add new layers of meaning to their stories.
Still, as far as September horror films go, The Nun offers enough eerie fun to pass the time before the heavy-hitters start arriving closer to Halloween - though it's not a must-see, by that same count. Even so, it's nice to see The Conjuring films are beginning to branch out a bit from their haunted house formula and exploring different subgenres and styles of supernatural horror, starting with Hardy's Hammer Horror-inspired romp. Here's to hoping Dauberman has even more success with his directing debut on next year's Night at the Museum-style installment, Annabelle 3.
The Nun is now playing in U.S. theaters nationwide. It is 96 minutes long and is rated R for terror, violence, and disturbing/bloody images.
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- The Nun (2018) release date: Sep 07, 2018


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The Blackhawks host Hitchcock-Tulare in Woonsocket today. It's also Parent's night. Games begin at 1:00 with the JHG followed by JHB/JVG/JVB/VG/VB.
$$$Girls' basketball fundraiser today - 2 sets of 2 tickets to be given away to watch SDSU Jackrabbits vs. DWU Tigers on January 16. $5 for a spot on the board. Winner will be awarded at tonight's game.
Girls and Boys Basketball Parent's Night for 7th-12th grade players and cheerleaders will be held at Woonsocket on Dec. 28 vs. Hitchcock-Tulare. Girls Parents night will be announced before their varsity game at 6PM (approx. 5:30PM) The boys' parents' night will be announced before their varsity game at 7:30PM (Approx. 7PM) Cheerleaders will be announced during Boys Parents night.
Tonight's games can be watched on the Woonsocket Santel Channel 104 and on their HS cube http://thecube.com/e/769540?utm_source=amazon&utm_medium=email&utm_content=event_share_link&utm_campaign=notify_follower_event_broadcast
Tomorrow, December 29th, at the Huron Holiday Classic the Lady Blackhawks play Faith at 5:30 in the Huron Arena. Friday, December 30th the guys play Miller at 7:00. The Huron Classic games can be watched live on Santel's Special Events Channel 4 and on http://httv.live/
Tuesday, January 2nd the HS teams travel to Emery. The bus will leave Woonsocket at 2:15 and SC at 2:25.
Friday – December 29th: BB @ SC 9:00 am
GBB @ Huron Holiday Classic 5:30
Saturday – December 30th: SCW 3/4th GBB 10:00am – SC
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Werewolf in Jamaica Plain
A footnote in an annotated edition of Petronius's "Satyriancon" not only provides a Halloween story to put in a local setting, but also allows us to focus on a Jamaica Plain landmark in colonial days (unfortunately long since demolished).
All main roads in "the olden days" had inns. Some of which still survive as the most pleasant of eating places like the Publick House in Sturbridge, founded by a descendent of one of Old Roxbury's best families and the Punch Bowl Tavern in Brookline Village which stood from 1717 to 1833 at Boylston and Harvard Streets.
Jamaica Plain had its Peacock Tavern on the Providence Highway (Centre Street) at the western corner of Allandale Street opposite Judge Dudley's sixth 1735 milestone (still in place in the Arboretum walls.) The tavern was kept by Lemuel Child.
In pre-Revolutionary days the tavern was often frequented by British officers after a skating parties at the pond. F. Drake's "Town of Roxbury" relates that during such a visit one of spark of an officer followed the innkeeper's pretty niece into the cellar, where she had gone for supplies. Given her ardent colonial nature, this inn maid wanted nothing to do with the Briton and doused the light. Being familiar with the place, she easily got out and locked the door behind her. The embarrassed young blood was later released at her pleasure.
In the earliest days of the American Revolution, Peacock Tavern keeper Lemuel Child, now captain of a Roxbury militia company, led his men into action at Arlington on the afternoon of April 19, 1775.
In May 1794 Sam Adams (a sometime brewer, ardent patriot, second governor of Massachusetts, and cousin to the Adams of Quincy) bought the Peacock Tavern and its 40 acres of land. Here the aged patriot resided during his gubernatorial term (1754-97) and for the last summers of his life, which ended in 1803. A memorial plaque is being planned here.
Thus is the stage set for a werewolf tale from antiquity, as found in the 14th century collection of "Aesop's Fables" by Maximus Planudes, though the primeval tale is that of Lycaon, being charged into a wolf in Book I of Ovid's "Metamorphoses."
Place yourself by the door of the Peacock Tavern facing Centre Street as you read:
"A thief put-up at a certain inn and remained there for several days waiting in vain for a suitable opening in his line of business. Finally one day he observed that the innkeeper had put on a handsome new cloak, it being a holiday, and had taken his seat outside by the inn's door.
As there was no one in sight, the thief sat down by him and entered into conversation. After they had talked for some time, the thief all at once yawned and then howled like a wolf. The landlord, naturally surprised, inquired the reason for such a proceeding.
'Well,' answered the thief, 'I'll tell you, but first I want you to promise to keep my clothing for me. I'm going to leave them here with you. I don't know, sir, why I am attacked by these peculiar yawning spells- perhaps for my sins or for some reason I know not. But always after I have yawned three times, I turn into a werewolf, one of the man eating sort.' With these words he yawned a second time and howled again, as before. Upon which the credulous innkeeper rose up affrighted and started off.
But the thief clutched him by the cloak, crying out, 'Wait, sir, till I give you my clothes! I don't wish to lose them.' And with these words he opened his mouth and began to yawn a third time. Whereupon the innkeeper, in a panic lest he should be eaten up, ran back into the inn and locked the door, leaving his cloak behind him. Thus the thief having done a good stroke of business, went his way."
Article by Walter H. Marx
K. F Smith, "The Werewolf in Antiquity," Baltimore, 1893; F. Drake, "The Town of Roxbury," 1878, 1910
Reprinted with permission from the October 21, 1994 Jamaica Plain Gazette. Copyright © Gazette Publications, Inc.


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Thursday, 13 August 2015
Fatherland (1994)
Based on the bestseller by Robert Harris, Fatherland depicts a 1964 in which the Cold War and Beatlemania are facts of life. But SS uniformed officers still march down German streets and Hitler is alive and well and set to celebrate his 75th birthday with a visit from the U.S. President Joseph Kennedy, Sr. This is an alternate universe in which the allies lost WWII and Berlin, as the capital of the continent of Germania, is the centre of the world.
Rutger Hauer stars as weary Nazi party detective, SS Officer Xavier 'Xavi' March who is called out one morning to the suspicious death of a founding member of the Party. Meanwhile, western reporters are arriving in Berlin for the big summit between Hitler and Kennedy. One such reporter is German born American Charlie (Miranda Richardson), who is approached by a stranger and given some photographs and cryptic clues to a Nazi war secret regarding the resettlement of the Jews which in turn leads her to March when she stumbles upon the bodies of another high level bureaucrat and a prostitute. The Gestapo muscle in on the subsequent investigations and warn March off, but both he and Charlie continue to pursue the truth until they become targets for the Gestapo's bullets.
There are two really great things about Fatherland. The first is the spectacular production design. The Reich architecture of the Nazi Speer is brought vividly to life via in the Prague location shoot, mixing with the squat 1960s architecture in an eyecatching and disturbingly seamless fashion. The second is how Harris' story still manages to draw a horrific shock reaction from us, despite resting on the revelation of a Holocaust we of course all know happened. His fresh spin on this sickening act of genocide is to show the German people discovering it for the first time and the reveal is helped immeasurably by a chilling turn from Jean Marsh who reveals the fate of the Jews fate to a stunned Charlie.
I've always liked Rutger Hauer even though his choice of films does not always make it easy on us fans. He is excellent here in a role that not only affords him the chance to play a good guy - despite his menacing Nazi uniform - and act with good material a world away from the straight to video fare he has a penchant for appearing in. Richardson is also good as the intrepid American reporter,and looks divine in her 60s 'Mad Men'-esque fashions and it is refreshing to see that the film does not force a romance between the two leads. There's also great support from a wealth of talented British character actors including John Woodvine, John Shrapnel, Peter Vaughan, Michael Kitchen, David Ryall and Neil Dudgeon, as well as an early role for Rupert Penry Jones.
Unfortunately, at the heart of Fatherland is a relatively plodding murder mystery cum conspiracy thriller that is rather underpowered in its telling, which makes several passages rather sluggish.
An unsettling look at an alternate universe that thankfully is just a fantasy, is brought vividly to life in a manner which belies its HBO made for TV roots to deliver something truly striking and distinctive for the eye.
Posted by Mark at Thursday, August 13, 2015
Labels: 1960s, 1990s, Adaptations, Alt Reality, Conspiracy Theories, Crime, Espionage, Fatherland, Film Review, Films, Germany, HBO, Miranda Richardson, Nazis, Robert Harris, Rutger Hauer, The Cold War, WWII
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The Conservatives should bring in shortlists for prospective MPs with equal numbers of male and female candidates to improve the gender balance in the party, one of David Cameron's former cabinet ministers has said.
Caroline Spelman, a former environment secretary, said nobody could argue with a 50:50 gender split for candidates, and the party should not rule out the possibility of all-female shortlists.
At the 2010 election, Cameron introduced an "A-list" of priority candidates that was roughly equally split between men and women. The number of female Conservative MPs rose from 17 to 48. However, the system was dropped after the last election, and fewer than three in 10 candidates selected to stand in 2015 are women.
The prime minister is under pressure to act as several new female MPs have announced they are standing down at the next election, while Anne McIntosh, who represents Thirsk and Malton, was deselected by her local association last week. Cameron was taunted by Ed Miliband during a recent prime minister's questions after he turned up with an entirely male frontbench.
Spelman told the Guardian that in 2010, the system "had the effect of getting a much larger number of female candidates in winnable seats".
She said: "I think 50-50 shortlists are a very good way forward because it gives the selectors both men and women in sufficient numbers. I don't have an objection in principle to [all-female shortlists], but learning from the experience of my Labour colleagues, they have pointed that it can be a burden for a female MP selected from an all-women shortlist because it can give a reason for people not to be entirely supportive. Whereas nobody could argue with a 50:50 shortlist. It's perfectly fair."
She said Cameron had "made a good decision before 2010" in ensuring enough women were selected for winnable seats and it was "up to him" to reinstate the system.
Earlier, she told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that all-female shortlists were "one of the measures on a spectrum of positive discrimination" and the party "shouldn't rule it out".
It comes after the senior Tory peer Baroness Jenkin said the party should consider all-female shortlists as it should not be seen as ignoring "50% of the talent".
"If the number of women MPs ends up retreating at the next election … we need to be considering all the options," she wrote in the Evening Standard. "That includes all-women shortlists, but also other things like postal ballots and primaries."


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I've known this wonderful family since the girls were about 6 months old, and I was beyond thrilled when they asked me to photograph their first birthday! 2017 was the year of the birthday for me. I spent every free second making sure everyone in the Bay Area knew I was photographing birthdays. I had done a handful before so I knew I liked them (more like love them), I knew what to expect and I knew that overall it's a really fun time where you get to meet a lot of really great parents and kiddos.
I will forever feel grateful to Mairead and Ann for letting me photograph their sweet girls 1st birthday. It took place in Golden Gate Park with friends and family. It was the perfect afternoon. A few months later some photos I took were featured in SF Magazine! The article was about birthdays in Golden Gate Park, and it was so amazing to see my photos and name in a magazine. Enjoy this one year old party because the girls are turning two next month!


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