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Both the physical and psychological health of your elderly relative should be maintained in a New York nursing home, so if your loved one is susceptible to emotional mood swings from watching certain forms of television shows, you should be ready to discuss these issues if your relative is going to stay at a nursing home. This can be a particular concern if your loved one is not able to change a television channel or suffers from dementia.
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Workers become hurt during all times of the year but some seasons can present especially dangerous conditions. For example, the winter months can be particularly dangerous for people who work in some parts of the country and are employed in certain occupations, such as those who work outdoors. There are a number of factors to consider when it comes to work-related injuries and cold weather, and these issues are especially relevant given the recent polar vortex that impacted many parts of the U.S. By recognizing some of the risks you may face, you could lessen the probability of a work accident.
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Sarah Sanders Has Not Had a Formal Press Briefing in 43 Days, Setting a New White House Record
By Alexandra Hutzler On 4/23/19 at 3:36 PM EDT
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President Donald Trump's White House has set a new record for the longest span of time without a formal press briefing.
The 43 days since White House press secretary Sarah Sanders last stood before the podium in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room is the longest any administration has gone without the on-camera briefing since the tradition began during Bill Clinton's presidency.
The prolonged silence has come amid a particularly chaotic time for the Trump administration following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's redacted report on the Russia investigation. While it cleared the Trump campaign of conspiring with Russia, the 448-page document exposed not only presidential misconduct but also a hotbed of conflict within the White House, where aides routinely ignored the president's demands.
It's likely no coincidence, experts say, that the White House has chosen to forgo formal press briefings—a major symbol of government transparency.
"I can say, honestly, it's a huge avenue for accountability for the America people," Jesse Lee, a senior communications adviser at the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank, told Newsweek about the briefings. Lee worked in the Obama administration's press office for both terms, serving as a senior member of the White House's digital team before becoming the director of rapid response.
"If you are the press secretary and you are caught defending an indefensible policy or an indefensible act by the president, you can get pilloried out there for an hour, and the American people see it," Lee said. "That's what drives home to everybody watching that you don't have a leg to stand on and that something has to change. That oftentimes does force change. It's no accident that they've cut that off."
In fact, withholding formal press briefings is nothing new for the Trump administration. This 43-day stretch breaks the White House's previous record, 42 days, in March, which had broken the 41-day record set in January.
So far, Sanders has held only two formal press briefings in 2019. On both occasions, the briefing lasted for just 30 minutes or less. Occasionally, she will talk with reporters in the White House driveway, but those interactions are sporadic at best.
"What's happened is, as more and more things have become indefensible and as more corruption and lies have come out that she doesn't have a good answer for, she just took her ball and went home," Lee said.
Whenever Sanders does decide to get back behind the podium, she is likely to face a grilling from press members. It was revealed in the Mueller report that she had falsely spoken about "countless" FBI agents' favorable reaction to the firing of James Comey, and their lack of confidence in the bureau chief, during a May 2017 briefing.
The press secretary has not offered an apology or a public correction, even though many have called for her resignation. Asked if Sanders has any credibility left, Lee said she started off in a big hole by following Sean Spicer in the job and has "just dug herself deeper from day one."
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders speaks during a briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on January 28, 2019. It's been a record 43 days since Sanders held a formal press briefing. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Sanders is not the only one who has seriously cut down on press briefings. The Pentagon has gone more than 300 days since the last time a Department of Defense spokesperson gave an on-camera briefing to the media.
But that still hasn't stopped Trump from spreading his message. Twitter and other forms of social media have allowed the president to sidestep traditional avenues of sharing information in favor of a more autocratic communications strategy.
"We have a president who really wants to be his own press secretary, communications director, chief of staff and secretary of defense. He wants complete control over it," New York University professor Tad Devine told Newsweek. Devine, who has been a media consultant for multiple presidential campaigns in the U.S. and to several candidates for prime minister overseas, served as a chief strategist for Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign.
But there has been a growing argument that the media should not bother covering press events, either by Trump or his aides, given the administration's penchant for deliberately misleading the media.
On Monday, Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski suggested that media outlets should boycott White House aides "who repeatedly lie." In late 2018, after CNN's Jim Acosta had his press pass temporarily revoked, the issue of whether reporters should abstain from pool sprays or press conferences became a major subject of debate.
But Devine said that the day the press begins to boycott the administration will be the day that "Trump has really won."
"There's nothing Trump would like more than to be able to go on Fox News and say that the mainstream media is boycotting him and that they won't cover him," he said. "Then he will really spill out his version of reality to people."
Instead of refusing to cover Trump or his officials, reporters should confront them with the truth at every opportunity, Devine said. He also encouraged news outlets to work together to push back on the president when he makes false statements.
"Even if an entire presidential press conference is only reiterating that one question over and over again, I think they'd be doing a tremendous service to the public because they will be demonstrating in real time, in front of people, that this guy is lying," he said. "The press needs to understand that the old rules don't apply anymore."
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The small town of Aubusson, on the River Creuse in France, had a long history of producing elaborate and costly tapestries. They were known for their elegance and delicate colouring and often depicted romantic pastoral scenes derived from artists such as Boucher; historic scenes, inspired by classical mythology; or more formalized architectural vistas. Aubusson was particularly noted for its finely balanced compositions of garlands and bouquets which became famous and sought after throughout Europe.
Aesop was by tradition a labourer who was a contemporary of Croesus and Peisistratus in the mid-sixth century BC in Ancient Greece.
The various collections that go under the rubric ""Aesop's Fables"" are still taught as moral lessons and for centuries have been influential subject matter for artistic endeavour.
The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf:In a village was a young boy who had a job watching the village's sheep. Two times he called out, ""Wolf! Wolf!"" Each time the villagers came running to help the boy. And both times the boy just laughed at the villagers and called them names. But then the wolf really did come and start eating the sheep. The boy called, ""Wolf! Wolf!"" but the villagers just ignored his calls. They thought he was just trying to trick them again. The wolf took his time and had a huge meal of the entire flock of sheep.
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing:Once upon a time there was a wolf who decided to disguise himself so he could get some food without working too hard. He took a sheep's skin and hung it over his body. Then he went into the sheep pasture and pretended to graze with the sheep. He fooled everyone. Even the shepherd didn't realize she had a wolf grazing with her sheep. Soon the shepherd moved the sheep into the barn and the wolf went with them. The barn door was closed and locked and the wolf was just about ready to have a nice meal when the shepherd came back. She decided she wanted some food for her meal. She grabbed the wolf who was still disguised as a sheep and killed him for her meal.
The Wolf and the Crane:One day a wolf had a bone stuck in his throat. He called to a crane and hired him for a large sum of money to put her head in his mouth and remove the bone. The crane did as she was hired to do and got the bone out and then asked to be paid. The wolf just grinned and said, ""Ha! You've already been paid. I let you take your head safely out of my mouth when I could have crushed you with my powerful jaws".
The Wolf and a Mountain Goat:One day a wolf looked up and saw a mountain goat eating on a ledge high up on the side of a steep mountain. The wolf called out to the goat, ""You should come down here to eat, you might fall if you stay up there. And the grass is very tender down here."" But the mountain goat was too smart for the wolf and called back, ""I don't think you are worried about my dinner. You are just looking for your own food!""
The Wolf and the Lamb: One day a wolf happened to run into a lamb. The wolf decided that he would find some good reason to eat the lamb. The wolf said to the lamb, ""Sir, last year you insulted me!"" but the lamb replied, ""I wasn't yet born last year."" So the wolf said, ""You have eaten in my pasture"" but the lamb said, ""I don't eat grass yet"". Then the wolf tried again, ""You drank from my well"". The lamb replied, ""The only thing I drink is milk"". At that point the wolf ate the lamb saying, ""Well! You certainly like to argue!""
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The small town of Aubusson, on the River Creuse in France, has a long history of producing elaborate and costly tapestries, famous throughout the world. Its origins were born with the arrival of weavers from Flanders, who took refuge in Aubusson around 1580.
Aubusson tapestries are known for their elegance and delicate colouring, often depicting romantic pastoral scenes derived from artists such as Boucher; historic scenes inspired by classical mythology; or more formalised architectural vistas. Aubusson was particularly noted for its finely balanced compositions of garlands and bouquets which became famous and sought after throughout Europe.
Louis XIV was instrumental in the development of the French tapestry industry, He recognized that by taking over the leadership of tapestry art from the Flemish, France could project its power and its culture worldwide, as well as increase its wealth.
In the 1662 the tapestry workshop of the Gobelins was proclaimed a "Manufacture Royale," followed by Beauvais and Savonnerie. Originally these factories wove to furnish the royal palace at Versailles exclusively.
The weavers of Aubusson were granted this title of 'Manufacture Royale' a couple of years later in 1665, recognising their place alongside these other leading tapestry makers. And at a time when the other Royal French tapestry producers could not supply outdside the Royal Court Aubusson flourished amongst the aristocracy and upper classes of Europe. Their output has always been considered to be the finest in the world.
Louis the XV, Louis the XVI and Napoleon I later all commissioned work from Aubusson. The latter two ordering in the greatest quantites. A 1786 inventory lists more than one hundred Aubusson carpets at the palace of Versailles and a 1789 inventory of all royal palaces describes a great many more.
A downturn in fortunes came after the French revolution and the arrival of wallpaper. However, tapestry made something of a comeback during the 1930s, with artists such as Cocteau, Dufy, Dali, Braque, Calder and Picasso being invited to Aubusson to express themselves through the medium of wool.
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Staff News: St. Paul Saints, Hickory Crawdads, Lexington Legends
We hear from staff today from Saints of St. Paul (Triple-A Est), the Hickory Crawdads (High-A Est) and the Legends of Lexington (Atlantic League).
At the Champ de la SCH, Chris Schwab becomes Executive Vice-President Sales and Operations, Zane Heinselman takes over as vice president / deputy general manager, and Sierra bailey is now Vice President, Brand Marketing and Experience.
Schwab, 40, has been promoted from senior vice president / assistant general manager to executive vice president, sales and operations. He will continue to play a leadership role in ticket sales and corporate partnerships with the Saints, a position in which he has helped shape the organization's sales philosophy and contributed significantly to its growth. Additionally, as part of the Saints 'transition from independent baseball to affiliate baseball, Schwab will now serve as one of the primary liaison between the Saints front office and the Twins' baseball operations staff. Schwab started as an intern with the Saints in 2004, then went to work for the Canaries from Sioux Falls, eventually becoming deputy general manager. After joining the Saints in 2010, he was appointed Deputy Managing Director in 2011 and remained in that role until this week's announcement. Schwab graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Heinselman, 28, has been elevated to vice president / deputy general manager. Heinselman has proven to be a leader throughout his tenure with the Saints, including a successful tenure as Director of Sales and Corporate Partnerships, during which he led the Saints' efforts to develop new partnerships in business and strengthen existing ones. Notably, Heinselman played an important role in the planning, development and implementation of creative income generation concepts during the pandemic-affected 2020 season. He will now play an even more active role in the day-to-day leadership of the staff of the Saints. He will continue to focus on sales, both corporate and ticket sales, as well as company-wide revenue-generating initiatives. Heinselman will also act as an intermediary between the Saints and Major League Baseball for national sponsorships and ticket sales initiatives. He started as an intern with the Saints in 2014 and was hired full time following his internship. Heinselman is a graduate of St. John's University (MN).
Bailey, 34, moves from director of marketing and promotions to vice president, marketing and brand experience. She has been at the forefront of the Saints' promotions and will continue in this role. During his time, the Saints gained national attention for several promotions, including large-scale fan engagements such as the World's Biggest Pillow Fight, Twister, and the viral Food Fight. She was also at the helm of the Astro the Grouch 2020/2021 competition. Bailey will continue to oversee the club's marketing efforts, but will now combine the organization's branding messages across various platforms as she oversees social media initiatives. Bailey continues to be the point of contact for the Saints' successful internship program. The club has had remarkable success with interns finding jobs in the sports industry. During the 2021 season, Bailey, along with Entertainment Director Joshua Will, launched a first-of-its-kind podcast that took fans behind the scenes of the promotions department titled "Funny In Theory." She started with the Saints as an intern in 2009 and continued to work for the Minnesota Twins and Timberwolves in their promotion departments before joining the Saints in 2013. Bailey graduated from the University of Minnesota.
In Hickory, Robby willis and Ashley salinas were promoted to Deputy Co-General Managers of the Crawdads. Willis will be the sales AGM and Salinas will be the marketing AGM.
Willis, who previously held the title of Sales Director, first joined the team for the 2016 season as Group Sales Director. He will continue to oversee group and corporate sales departments in his new role.
Salinas joined the club in 2017 as a Creative Services Specialist. She is responsible for the team's graphic design, marketing, media relations and the team's store. In addition, she oversees the stadium's entertainment department.
"We are delighted with what Ashley and Robby bring to the table and where they will help lead the organization in the years to come," CEO Douglas Locascio said in a press release.
In Lexington, the Legends announced that Colin Dodd is now Vice President of Sales and Business Operations and Michael koltak is vice president of baseball operations.
"Colin and Michael have had a huge impact on this company and this team with their work ethic and tenacity, especially with our move to the Atlantic League. Now that we own and operate two teams in Lexington, these men can lead us to significant growth on and off the pitch. President and CEO Andy Shea said via a press release.
The Legends also welcomed on board Savannah Stephenson as an account manager, Drew Fagaly as Facilities Specialist and Taylor Retinger as Manager of Luxury Suites.
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Love in Lowercase by Francesc Miralles, translated by Julie Wark
Love in Lowercase
by Francesc Miralles, trans. Julie Wark
Penguin Books, 2016; original publication 2006
I first heard about this book at the end of librarian Annie Spence's Dear Fahrenheit 451, which I could basically have read and called it work time. It's full of library shop talk, but anyone who loves books as objects would find something to enjoy about Spence's book. At the end, Spence puts together a series of reading suggestions - basically readers' advisory in book form, and I decided to try a couple of the books that she recommended.
I decided to try Love in Lowercase by Francesc Miralles, which has been described as a "Rosie Project-esqe" read. I wouldn't know, because I haven't read The Rosie Project, but lots of people seemed to like it, and Spence talked about how books, language, stories, and culture play a large role in Love in Lowercase, on top of it being a romance. Usually my sort of thing. Once started, though, this had more of a Paulo Coehlo-esque feeling for me, which - not my sort of thing. But there was enough to it, and it read easily enough, for me to keep going, and it's not very long.
It is a romance, but unlike my usual feelings about romance in books (which can be boiled down to "more please") I hardly cared what happened to this one. At the most it was a catalyst to get Simon, bachelor professor of German at a university in Barcelona, to get out of his comfortable routine. It was one of those insta-love (though with a small twist) things that seem so far-fetched that it stretches even my incredibly stretchy suspension of disbelief, and Gabriela doesn't quite get fleshed out enough to make sense, though - as I think about it, I suspect that's at least a little on purpose, because Simon doesn't know her at all either, despite being wildly in love with her. She puts up with it very well.
More interesting to me was Simon himself, on his own. As the book begins he's a very crabby young-ish man who has a comfortable life: he's a professor, who teaches his classes, feeds himself, occasionally goes out for a drink or a walk on his own, likes classical music and film, and generally has a very low opinion of the rest of humanity. But at the same time, he misses human connection, and he almost knows it; he spends New Year's Eve panicking about his own mortality, but he doesn't seem to realize that what's missing is relationships that mean something to him. Enter the cat.
Simon doesn't like cats, of course; he thinks they're dirty, but out of some sort of soft, human impulse, he puts a saucer of milk out for an orange tabby that shows up at his door on New Year's Day, and suddenly things start to happen. Coincidence leads to coincidence, plus Simon actually starts trying, after finding himself drawn into relationships with both his elderly upstairs neighbour and the vet who gives Mishima the cat his vaccinations. His most fascinating interactions come in the form of Valdemar, a physicist-turned-fugitive author who may or may not be experiencing a serious break from reality.
A warning for those of you who find unresolved endings frustrating: this is not the book for you. But it does leave the reader feeling like Simon's life is at least going to be quite a lot more interesting, and like he has the tools now to actually have friendships and relationships, as awkward as they're going to be while he's still learning. And by the end of the book I was glad of that; I didn't love this book, but I liked it, and enough that I can see myself picking up Miralles' book Wabi-Sabi, which also involves cats and relationships and will likely be a mildly entertaining and fast read.
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Four of eight female students who took prescription drugs at John Marshall High School have been suspended.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Four John Marshall High School students who took prescription drugs and had to be rushed to the hospital have been suspended from school.
Eight female students in the 6th, 7th and 8th grades became ill Friday after taking the drugs. All of them are okay. Four of them returned to class Monday.
The students were sent home after being suspended for 45 days, pending a hearing. Oklahoma City Public Schools spokesperson Tierney Cook-Tinnin said the hearing will use the Student Code of Conduct to determine the appropriate punishment for their actions.
After the girls were taken to the hospital, police confiscated a Seroquel pill and bottle from the school. Seroquel is used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Results from toxicology tests and medical exams have not come in yet, so it's not known if Seroquel is the drug the girls ingested.
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The billionaire founder of LinkedIn says there's something more important to success than ambition or a detailed career plan
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LinkedIn cofounder and investor Reid Hoffman is one of the most well-connected people in tech.
He said that a strong network is more important to career success than a detailed plan.
Hoffman said most people don't recognise the power of referrals.
LinkedIn cofounder and investor Reid Hoffman is one of the most well-connected people in Silicon Valley.
His circle of friends includes SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, fellow billionaire investor (and political opposite) Peter Thiel, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg; he's a prominent Democratic donor in US politics; and he's on the boards of several companies, like Microsoft and Airbnb. He's both a tech gatekeeper and guru, and is a prominent writer and speaker on career success.
In a recent episode of Business Insider's podcast "Success! How I Did It," Hoffman explained that a strong network is more important than even the most detailed or ambitious career plan.
He said that the reason why certain parts of the world, like Silicon Valley, produce so many successful companies is because it has an entrenched network of people that make things happen.
"And so, as opposed to saying, 'I have a master plan,'" Hoffman said, referring to either a great startup idea or plan to climb a corporate ladder, you're better off focusing more energy on building "as strong a network as possible, because that's the thing that most catapults you, in terms of your capabilities, in terms of your abilities to do things."
To accomplish this, he said, you have to become a "central node" in a network, where you are adding value to the people who can move your career forward.
As for how to get this going, Hoffman it's much better to get a "warm introduction" than it is to cold call or blindly approach someone, whether that's over the phone, online, or in person.
It ties into the advice he gave author Keith Ferrazzi for his book "Never Eat Alone," which is to only accept LinkedIn requests from people you would feel comfortable chatting with or introducing to someone else in your network.
And as Hoffman wrote in a 2015 presentation about his book "The Alliance," "People — not Google, not books, not blog posts — have the information you need to solve tough problems."
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The legacy of Franco
Forty years after his death, Spain still struggles with a dictator.
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By Guy Hedgecoe
November 20, 2015 5:30 am CET
MADRID — A few years ago, the artist Eugenio Merino put Francisco Franco in a Coca-Cola refrigerator. It wasn't really Franco, of course, but a life-sized, silicon sculpture of the former Spanish dictator, which Merino titled "Always Franco." The work, Merino says, shows how the former leader is frozen in Spaniards' consciousness and "still present in Spain. How is he present? He's present in our politics, he's present in our historical memory."
Franco turned out to be more present than even Merino had bargained for.
The day after the work went on display in a major Madrid art show in early 2012, the National Francisco Franco Foundation (FNFF), an organization which seeks to keep the dictator's memory alive, announced it would present a lawsuit, demanding €18,000 in damages from Merino for "caricaturing the former head of state, constituting a provocation in every way." The chairman of the venue where the art show was being held appeared to agree and Merino was barred from showing his work there the following year. Meanwhile, the court case dragged on.
November 20 marks exactly 40 years since Franco died in bed. During that time, Spain has transformed itself into a dynamic, modern nation, but its former caudillo has remained a provocative figure whose legacy continues to divide Spaniards and confound their leaders.
Merino and many other Spaniards regard him as a murderous fascist who is comparable to Hitler or Mussolini. He did, after all, lead the 1936 rebellion against a leftist republican government, unleashing three years of civil war, before governing for 36 years with a repressive right-wing ideology known as National Catholicism. Franco's British biographer, Paul Preston, estimates that the dictator was responsible for the cold-blooded killings of upwards of 150,000 people, who were then buried in unmarked graves, during the war and in the years that followed.
And yet, his supporters see him as a hero.
"You could compare Franco to De Gaulle, or to Churchill — Churchill before World War II, that is," says Jaime Alonso, vice president of the FNFF. "You could compare him to Napoleon, without a shadow of a doubt. You could compare him to Cromwell in England, and to Kemal Atatürk in Istanbul — all those who have created a nation and who prevented that nation from being destroyed."
Alonso is talking in the headquarters of the FNFF, in Madrid's Chamartín district. Nearby, history books are laid out on a table, most of them bearing titles that glorify Franco. But there are also other reminders of the former dictator: wall tiles, t-shirts and coffee cups are all on show and for sale, each bearing the black eagle symbol of the Franco regime. There's even a mobile phone holster with the emblem. This place is a tiny Francoist theme park.
It's disconcerting talking to Alonso, because he flatly contradicts so many mainstream assumptions about the civil war and its victor. He denies that Franco was a coup-monger who overthrew a democratic government. Instead, Alonso says half of Spain had been gripped by Stalinism and the right-wing rebels were merely seeking to restore order, as well as "Christian, Western" values. The decades that followed the war, he continues, were not the dark years of poverty and ostracism that are so often portrayed as the Franco era, they were a period of national glory and economic development. The outlawing of political parties, he points out, prevented the kind of petty bickering between politicians that we see today.
Alonso seems to be genuinely hurt by Eugenio Merino's irreverent artwork. But he's also affronted by the fact that so many Spaniards have a negative view of Franco. "They want history to be different to how it happened," he says, unable to hide his exasperation.
After Franco's death, the machinery of democracy cranked swiftly into motion. The dictator had groomed the young Prince Juan Carlos to continue his style of autocratic rule after his death. But instead of obeying his mentor, the new monarch set about creating a parliamentary system that included the legalization of political parties and a new constitution, approved in 1978 by referendum.
Those years of accelerated political and social change became known as la Transición and they were lauded around the world for showing how a country could emerge from dictatorial rule and transform itself into a modern state in a consensual and relatively peaceful way.
Much of the praise was due to the fact that moderates from the Franco regime and from the previously outlawed opposition on the left were able to sit down and talk about the future in a mature way. The priority was Spain, rather than party political interests or personal vanity.
Eugenio Merino poses with 'Frozen Franco' in 2012
For this extraordinary, improvised transition to be a success, there had to be ground rules. The biggest of all was that the past was off limits. An amnesty law was introduced, initially aimed at protecting former outlaws on the left, though it would later shield former members of the Franco regime from prosecution for human rights abuses. This decision to leave the past in the past became known as el pacto del olvido, the pact of forgetting. That was not entirely accurate: The past was not forgotten, but agreement did exist among the main political powers not to use it as a weapon.
For those like Merino, that meant sweeping the collusion, repression and outright violence of Spain's recent past under the carpet.
"The issue of Franco and the issue of the amnesty and all the rest of it, none of that has been resolved," he says. "So it bothers me a lot that people don't get that. Maybe we need to talk more about Franco and therefore knock the whole thing on the head and move on, instead of spending the next 100 years talking about him."
The biggest reminder of Franco is his resting place, 35 miles north of Madrid. El Valle de los Caídos, the Valley of the Fallen, is situated on a hillside overlooking a wooded valley. Built at Franco's behest by republican prisoners between 1940 and 1959, it is a massive monument to the dictator's National Catholicism ideology. A 150-meter stone cross — the tallest in the world — towers above a large esplanade adorned with the eagle insignia of the regime. In the center of the esplanade is the entrance to a narrow, 260-meter-long basilica, drilled into the mountain. At the end of it lie the tombs of both Franco and José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the leader of the falangist fascist party who was killed by republicans in 1936.
On a winter morning I got talking to a woman in her mid-fifties outside the basilica who came as often as she could to visit the tomb of the man she called, slightly disconcertingly, "grandfather."
"I like coming here, it makes me feel peaceful," she said, smiling as she looked out across the valley and toward the snow-capped Sierra de Guadarrama beyond. And then, without a hint of embarrassment: "I love this place — I've always been pro-Franco."
Out-and-out Franco admirers like this woman are a relatively small minority. "We lived better under Franco" is a phrase that, while rarely heard now, was more common in the years following the dictator's death. The person saying it would invariably be referring not to the killing of republicans and social straitjacket of the time, but to the economic and, perhaps, political stability that period represented.
In defending the regime, Franco's apologists can point to the fact that the republicans also committed atrocities during the civil war, killing an estimated 50,000 civilians.
And yet others have a very different reaction to this monument to Franco. "You can tell that it's been built by a dictator — you can tell that it's fascist," a young German man said to me after studying the monument. "It's weird that they still hold Mass here and people still come here and pray."
Many people, like this German, get the impression that Spain simply hasn't tried to get to grips with its recent past. But that's not altogether true.
In 2007, the reformist Socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero approved a Historical Memory Law which sought to remove physical vestiges of the Franco regime, such as street names and statues, declared illegitimate the military tribunals that had sentenced people to prison or death during the Franco years, and backed state funding for the exhumation of victims of the dictatorship buried in unmarked graves. Beyond these specific aims, there was a broader, more abstract, reach to the law, which claimed to offer "moral reparation" to Franco's victims.
In retrospect, the Historical Memory Law was doomed from the start. Many on the left dismissed it as far too weak, while the right attacked it for opening up old wounds. A number of statues of Franco were removed from squares across the country, as were many other symbols of his regime. But the law's impotence was reflected by the fact that elsewhere, street signs dedicated to the caudillo and his murderous generals remained.
"The idea was that we had to finish with this tragic past in Spain," José Álvarez Junco, a historian who helped the government draw up part of the law, told me. "In the end it was almost the opposite."
The Historical Memory Law aside, neither of the two parties that have dominated the country's politics for three decades, the Popular Party (PP) — founded by former members of the Franco regime — and the Socialists, has committed itself to a meaningful exploration or resolution of the Franco years. When a well-known judge, Baltasar Garzón, announced in 2008 that he would investigate human rights crimes from the civil war and dictatorship era, he faced opposition not just from far-right organizations, but also fellow magistrates on the left and right. In the face of such resistance, his probe came to nothing.
Arguably, the stability of Spanish democracy once depended on such a refusal to look back. But more recently that claim has melted away with Spain's consolidation as a modern democracy and member of the European Union and NATO.
It's hard to escape the feeling that digging up the past would implicitly mean acknowledging the weaknesses of the Transición, that process which Spain's traditional political class looks back on with such fondness and no little self-satisfaction.
Questioning the decision not to investigate human rights violations and the brutality of that time also means questioning the sacred status of the Transición. Few Spaniards in positions of authority have been prepared to do so.
In 2011, a committee of experts commissioned by the then-Socialist government recommended that Franco's body be removed from its mausoleum and buried somewhere less tendentious. But within days the conservative PP had taken power and that report has remained untouched ever since.
"Moving Franco's body away from the Valley of the Fallen would be quite simple," says Emilio Silva, president of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH), an organization which locates and exhumes Franco's victims. "But it would be like removing one of the pillars from the Transición."
Also in 2011, the PP administration withdrew state funding from the ARMH, citing economic constraints.
However, one effort to bring Spain's dark past into the open has been successful. Eugenio Merino eventually won his legal battle with the FNFF over his "Always Franco" artwork. The judge ruled that his sculpture was "ironic and humorous," rather than offensive.
"What really gets to me is that people say to me: 'What? Not Franco again!'" Merino says, of his history-based art projects.
"What do they mean, 'Franco again?' It's as if, when you talk about Franco you're delving into the past. But you're not, you're talking about the present."
Guy Hedgecoe is a Madrid-based journalist and author of "Freezing Franco: The Battle for Spain's Memory."
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Can Hot People in Animal Masks Find True Love on Sexy Beasts?
Maybe—but Netflix's wacky dating show definitely proves you don't need a face to vibe to a body.
By Tracy Moore
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Bizarre antics aside, one is tempted to get a little optimistic about where dating shows are headed. Sexy Beasts proudly advertises contestants who are "ready to say goodbye to superficial dating" to find The One, and are willing to don elaborate prosthetic animal masks to do so. Could this novel setup prove we've evolved past the usual boozed-up, heteronormative hot people in hot tubs? Does it mean we've arrived at a dating show that's fluid or nonbinary, or at the very least, truly anti-lookist? Could this be a radical new dating show for furries?
The answer to these questions is no, no, and…maybe?
Sexy Beasts may not be about faces, but it knows that what's below the neck still counts. An animal mask can't thwart outrageous self-confidence, much less a bangin' bod. And these bods are fit, thin, hetero, and able-bodied. Still, to convey just how desirable they are while sporting a freakish dinosaur head, they'll have to improvise. A big-bicep beaver confesses he looks at asses first, and personality second—while frequently giving big-ups to his big guns (20 inches, if you're curious). Another contestant is a self-professed nerd, he says, but definitely the hot kind. The show frequently cuts to contestants mugging for the camera with their best campy come-hithers, scenes that look more like a commercial for living it up after getting the Gardasil shot.
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That joy is the gift that keeps giving: After a proper date with the two remaining contestants, there's a second round of elimination and reveal. Then, the two animal heads left standing find out if they can bear to look at the real face they just ditched those other two smokeshows for.
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GardaWorld was chosen to be recognized this year because of its outstanding dedication to employing Veterans, Reservists and Military Spouses in all aspects of its business, both in Canada and Internationally.
The Honourable Erin O'Toole, founder of the Celebration of Service said; "It is great to see Canadian success stories like GardaWorld step up to show the value of hiring Canadian Armed Forces Veterans and Reservists. Veterans have a range of talents and direct leadership experience that allow them to transition into companies like GardaWorld who have high-level operations in Canada and globally."
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Title: Pickpocket
Color: Black and white
Director: Robert Bresson
Language: French, with English subtitles
Starring: Martin LaSalle as Michel, Marika Green as Jane
Synopsis: Often viewed as Bresson's strongest film, Pickpocket is the story of a masterful Parisian thief, Michel. It is loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, and the true theme of the film, much like that of the novel, is redemption.
The diegesis of the film itself is relatively banal. Michel, a pickpocket in Paris, attracts the attention of police investigators early on for a robbery of a handful of cash from a women's purse. Taken in for questioning, they are forced to let him go on account of no evidence - Michel claims the money is in fact for his mother. Returning to his mother's dimly lit apartment, we find out that his she is dying in bed, and that a neighbor, Jane, is taking care of her. She rebukes Michel for not visiting his mother more as he departs.
Michel visits a bar, where he encounters both a friend who can offer him "employment" and a police investigator, with whom he enters into a philosophical debate about the place of criminals in society. Michel believes that certain men of extreme talent deserve to be above the law - as he inquires when justifiying his attempts to step beyond the confines of morality, "Will we be judged? By what law?''
Michel falls in with a masterful thief who teaches him how to expertly take wallets from coat pockets and watches from wrists without being caught, and Bresson spends nearly fifteen minutes focusing on Michel's practice of the tasks, both in his apartment and on crowded trains. He is caught only once, and his victim demands that he return his wallet. Michel does so expresionlessly, and walks into the corrider of the subway station.
Michel has a conversation with his mother as she lay dying, in which he tells her that he believes he can do nothing but steal - it's the entirety of his life. She is oddly comfortable with his revelation; the peace of the dying is an accepting one. She, like Michel, raises the notion of him being a "superior" sort of individual, even if his superiority bears a immoral quality to it. Like Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov, Michel is a pyschologically tortured anti-hero.
In one of the most memorable scenes, Michel and the group of cutpurses he works with target a crowded bus station, where their work stealing takes on nearly sexual proportions. They reach into pockets of passersby, taking their wallets and then returning them unnoticed; Michel grabs a woman's purse as she shuffles it under her arm, replacing it with a folded newspaper; one man has a wad of bills slipped from his closed billfold as he passes by, and never catches on.
One of the more interesting rumors regarding the film, and this scene is particular, is that Bresson hired a number of real pickpocket's to aid n the filming of this scene - and had to keep replacing them with new advisors as they were arrested.
As Michel exits a train car, he sees the rest of his gang being arrested, and he slips off into the crowd to avoid a similar fate. His narrative overdub, present throughout the film under the pretext of being a reading of a journal written at some later point (we never quite find out where to place it, chronologically) , tells us that he was forced to leave Paris for a time, where he engaged in carnal pleasures and kept out of sight. It's a difficult story to believe - Michel, like many of Bresson's characters, does not "act" emotionally, and it's hard to picture him cavorting about with women and wine.
Upon returning to Paris a year later, Michel seeks out Jane, who had earlier been romantically involved with one of his friends. In her apartment is a child, who we find out is her's; after she became pregnant, Michel's former friend abandoned her. Michel's attraction to Jane becomes apparent, but his profession keeps a distance between them. Jane is the epitome of goodness - a devoutly spiritual girl, thrust into a world of suffering and yet not willing to denounce it.
Michel is, of course, arrested almost immediately after, in a scene strikingly similar to the opening shot of the film: a racetrack. He is incarcerated, and Jane visits him in prison. They embrace through the bars of his cell, and the film ends.
Analysis: It is difficult to write about Bresson's Pickpocket. In many ways, it is a paradoxical film: austere and emotional, simple yet meaningful, constructed but not inaccessible. In discussing Bresson's movie, the critic Susan Sontag acknowledges the tension of its form, which is "designed to discipline...at the same time that it arouses." Although Pickpocket is an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, in interviews Bresson has not been willing to discuss the connection. Such a refusal is perhaps a reflection of the nature of the film, however; what is on the screen seems to be only a part of some larger experience that is had in viewing this movie. While the content of that experience begins with the diegesis, it is completed by the subjective experience of the viewer. I believe that Bresson's minimalist style, sparse scene construction, and the emphasis on action rather than on acting in Pickpocket are the sources of the discipline and the forces behind the postponement of easy gratification that Sontag discusses in her essay. Artifice, especially pickpocketing, is the most important part of the film's structure. The manner in which Bresson films Michel's thievery "induces a certain tranquility" in viewers precisely because it avoids comment in both the narrative and the visuals. Rick Thompson, lecturer in Film Studies at Latrobe University, writes that Bresson's "systematic use of ellipsis...cuts off our dependence on the dominance of narrative…."
Let us then turn our attention first to the structure of the movie. The first and last shots in Pickpocket that reveal Michel's thieving are almost identical. P. Adams Sitney, in his essay entitled Cinematography vs. The Cinema: Bresson's Figures, argues that this repetition "highlights the nullity of the film's central development". What is perhaps important about these two scenes is the effect that the repetition of pickpocketing has on the viewer. Pickpocket is not a film fundamentally concerned with character development. As Thompson notes, "the on-screen actions themselves, as done and framed and cut, without comment, explanation, or dialogue, are sufficient for us to understand Michel's experience." In close-up shots of Michel's face - especially those in the bar, where he discusses his philosophy - there is no betrayal of emotion, and little sense that we are seeing a "performance." As mentioned previously, Pickpocket is instead a film which is interested in the viewer's subjective experience of it, especially the effect it has on her by means of focusing on the act of stealing. In both of the racetrack scenes, note that the camera is focused tightly on Michel's face. His blank expression does not reveal his emotional state even here, when his emotion should (at least in the normative viewer's expectations) be running the highest, as he reaches for his mark. In the dichotomy between the image on screen and the overlaid emotional context, however, Bresson establishes a tangible sense of tension. The acts of thievery themselves - Michel's fingers plying into his victims pockets and purses while diverting their attention elsewhere - may be at least partially responsible; his detached demeanor is at odds with the affront of violating the personal space of society, and the viewer is left uncertain as to how she should interpret this split, especially early in the film. I believe that this divide is not an unintentional confusion on Bresson's part, but rather an example of how he, "disciplines the emotions at the same time that he arouses them." He is not only arousing his viewer's emotions, he is shaping their experience by leaving them uncertain, forcing them outside the passive role of merely observing by making them uncomfortable.
So keen is the sense of tension in the racetrack scenes that both times that Michel attempts the physical act of pickpocketing, he fails. When he thinks he gets away with his crime the first time, his capture undercuts the view we are offered by him: that he is a being somehow above society, a man of "exceptional talents". What we are given by Bresson instead are facets of Michel's self that are in conflict with each other. By calling specific, close, obsessive attention to the depersonalized actions of Michel's hands in these two scenes, Bresson invites the viewer into an awareness of the character's internal struggle. Unlike in normative film, it is only an invitation - a passive viewer would not be likely to perceive the significance of fingers on a purse. We are drawn into Michel's world by our own means, and as the first shots of his apartment reveal, it is a world of impressionistic shadows and dark spaces, into and out of which Michel seems to fade. In his own words, he claims that he wishes to "master the world", but Bresson is careful to show us that despite the appearances given by the plot, Michel cannot do so, for he is too caught in his own paradox. Bresson has Michel pass into empty spaces, and repeatedly fades or dissolves to a similarly framed shot and has his lead actor enter into it. The effect isolates Michel from not just the characters around him, but even the physical world. It is a subtle effect, but the emotional result it evokes is present even if the viewer does not consciously realize its source.
In discussing the racetrack scenes, Sitney observes that "both times Michel's failure created a possibility for visual stimulus to take on meaning for him." More than important solely to Michel, however, the twice-shown setup at the track asserts to the viewer that Michel exists only in a sort of relative space, and when pushed out of it and into the so-called real world, with its entertainments and noise and police setups, he cannot cope. We, as audience members presumably living in that existence, want to see an affirmation of Michel's inability to escape it, and the clasp of the handcuffs upon Michel's wrists the second time around satisfies that desire. Bresson doesn't provide us with just that image, however; we are in some way invested in Michel by the time he is arrested, and while satisfying in some visceral sense, it does not yet answer to the larger expectation the film engenders in its viewers, the desire to place Michel within a manageable context, both visually and emotionally. We are not truly gratified by either alternative we've been shown: an orgy of thievery and crime, while visually exciting, offers no possibilities for either Michel or his compatriots, or his capture and incarceration which are conceptually (but not visually) anticlimactic.
The redeeming agent in the film is, of course, Jane. Her role as such is largely defined by the fact that she comes to Michel when he is in prison, when his arrogant philosophy is revealed as being unarguably flawed. Sitney points out that, "for Michel the walls of the prison dissolve and only his 'idea' of superiority, and consequently the sense of his inferiority at having blundered, remains visible." Much of the film is concerned with entrapment: the shadow-filled, cluttered apartment that Michel lives in, the effect of fate and existence on man (as Michel says at one point, "I may appear careless, but I'd nothing to fear."), even the reflexive condition of the narrator, writing of his life as if to answer the question Michel poses at the film's end, "Why live?" The gratification that the film is seeking is found in an effort to provide an answer - if Sontag is correct, it is the ultimate "state of spiritual balance" that transcends Michel's own search for meaning. His imprisonment is a result of the act that has been focused on for the majority of the film. It is in prison that there are no shadows or spaces to disappear into, nor any place for Michel's hands to disappear into. Behind the bars of the jail, Michel is without artifice. The discipline of the visuals allow Jane's interactions to be more important than they have been earlier. Michel's internal opposition resolves itself here - the letter from Jane nods to the journal that Michel has been reading from throughout the film, and unifies the voice of Michel. As Sitney points out, it is after this "critical" change that "Michel announces his conversion." The change in question is from Michel-the-thief, Michel-the-nihilist to Michel as a man stripped to his essence. In the final scene of the film, which consists of Michel and Jane, their hands intertwining between the bars of the prison as the camera drifts between the bars, Michel speaks: "Oh, Jane, what a droll path we took to find each other."
The discipline that Pickpocket evokes comes from its resilience to its internal tensions. Visually, there is a confidence in the setup of the empty spaces in this film. Characters do not shy away from the shadows and passageways in Bresson's Paris, they move into and through them, entering and exiting scenes almost out of sight of the viewer. Moreover, by focusing so closely on process, Bresson moves the content of the movie away from performances of actors. Except for the last scene, there is nothing spectacular about the acting in Pickpocket, aside from the fact that it is largely absent. Even when confronted by one of his victims, Michel does not grimace or cower - and so we as viewers are not able to empathize him. The visuals, filled with dark spaces, empty door frames, and looming furniture also deemphasize the immediate personality of the characters - there is anything but a dramatic quality to the figures moving through this space. Finally, the cyclical structure of the film brings about a similar effect - it is only at the end of the film, when Jane's visit to Michel in jail breaks the "repetition" of the film, that the tensions (about Michel, at least) are resolved. What Bresson does not do, however, is explain (either on screen or in later interviews) what the film is about. The weight of watching it - and it is an almost tangible one - is the sole burden of the viewer, and her's alone to wrestle with. It becomes an existential experience - fraught with all the difficulties of an existential crisis. Perhaps "an" is the wrong article to use here; the "existential crisis" is always essentially an individual's interaction with the question, "Why live?" Bresson seems to offer an answer - live not for the world, which is empty and dark, and live not for oneself, for such is at best arrogance, destined to fail, but live rather for love. The temptation to assert that this really is Bresson's response is certainly there, but it isn't his, at least not originally - Dostoyevsky's novel ends with the same message. There is no easy gratification in Pickpocket - the determination of whether Bresson is endorsing Dostoyevsky's answer, criticizing it, or simply presenting it is the crux of the subjective experience of viewing the film.
(Information on the actors' names and year of release taken from www.imdb.com; the analysis was originally written as a reponse piece for a film criticism course at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.)
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I know I'm a few weeks late with this annual "best of" post, but I was hopelessly stranded in New York following the great blizzard of 2014 which seemed to push everything back a bit.
2013 was a year full of exciting new opportunities, both in business and personally. Hopefully 2014 brings even more great times, including a complete revamp of this blog to match my new rebranding efforts, but in the essence of time, I wanted to get the 2013 best of finished up before 2014 is done with!
I managed to compile my favorite 75 or so images that stood out to me in 2013. 2013 was a definitive year in jump-starting my marketing and rebranding campaigns, with a continuance in my entertainment and music personal projects while expanding focus on portrait and advertising clients. These may not be the overall "best" or even the ones that were published, but rather, the ones that I personally liked from my work in 2013.
The highlight of my year was definitely my mid-season decision to pickup a Fuji x100s. The camera has helped me see in a whole new way and its refreshing. Ive also started creating little motion gifs from select still sequenced images. Most are just ridiculous but its fun. There is a certain look to the images straight from the camera and a way that people react to a smaller camera rather than 2 huge bodies and lens setups. I only wish Fuji would make the exact same camera but with a 50mm 1.2 option or a super wide option.
In addition to gif-making, the other main 'take a break from editing' activity this year has been writing and recording my own musical ideas. I've written, played and performed music for years and ultimately got tired of having a guitar melody or other musical idea in my head only to forget it a few hours later. I have been using Apple's Garageband software exclusively and have been recording all of the instruments on my own as well. Its been a great alternative creative outlet when my eyes can't take anymore picture editing. Click here to listen.
Here are the links to several previous years' "Best Of" posts. Check them out and let me know what you think.


That was quite a family saga you told there, Ann. I'm glad you have such wonderful memories of Christmastime. It's a magical time for children, or it can be.
It should be for children.
But as you point out, there's so much more to a 'magical' Christmas than presents. It's a time of year that can be miserable if you haven't your family around and there's not much money for the frills. Not because of a misplaced sense of guilt at not being able to lavish as much money on your kids as other people, simply because it's a poignant reminder that you're out of the loop.
After 80 years, it's still a magical time for me, lots of good memories. I guess I'm lucky.
You are very lucky. My cherished memories of Christmas are childhood memories. Once I stopped being a child it ceased having much importance. I wonder what memories my own children will have?
Beautiful! I will try to start or end Christmas with you and your family next year.
That would be great mom. Hope Kate will be taking good care of you for the next few days.
That's what it was like for me the last four years. It was a sadness in the heart that I couldn't bear.
Thank you so much for sharing you memories, Ann. I had a hard time reading half of it…tears tend to make the screen go blurry 🙂 Such beautful memories.
A very lovely story but quite sad at the end.
I wish there was a love button I could push. Your post captured everything good and fine about Christmas.


"For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman," says the man who was once considered to be the world's greatest athlete.
Bruce Jenner, now known as reality star Kim Kardashian's step-father, was once a man who was famed for taking America to great heights. She had championed the decathlon event at the 1976 Olympics, and for the longest period of time, the life that she led, had become a reflection of that moment of glory. Today, Jenner has come out as Caitlyn, and she openly identifies as transgender.
Never having been associated with the world of transgender individuals, I cannot claim to understand the agony they suffer on a daily basis; I do however, have always been intrigued by the subject, and curious to understand their difficulties.
My knowledge has led me to believe that their struggles are defined by, confusion. To question yourself about whether you are a girl or a boy, knowing the answer, but being confounded by your external appearance, I can assure you, is not easy on them, at all.
Jenner too, then, is no different from any other transgender individual who has had to fight to understand their own self. According to Jenner, she has lived her entire life as a lie, and her obsession to create a 'macho' persona was a result of the inner conflict that she faced, as a child, and as an adult. Not being able to dress, behave or come out as a woman, made her even more determined to amplify her masculine persona. She was even married, thrice, and has fathered six children.
The struggle of living as a symbol of masculinity for 65 years of her life, undoubtedly has taken a toll on Jenner, however, it is the approach that she has taken towards presenting her external feminine appearance that intrigues me most about her case.
Her decision to come out in Vanity Fair Magazine, looking plush and fancy while wearing dresses designed by some of the world's most acclaimed designers, and being photographed by a renowned photographer like Annie Leibovitz, made me think, and think hard.
What if, Jenner was not who she was today? – A celebrated athlete, a motivational speaker, an obscure, but nonetheless, a reality television celebrity. What if, she was just an average human being whose life, barring other issues, was to a degree, defined by the amount of money she earned. What then?
Most certainly, Jenner's openly public and courageous coming out, would have and will encourage innumerable people to face their fears, and spread awareness about the issue. On the other hand though, the pomp and show of her coming out, in my understanding, ridicules the process of transitioning, a process that, for most transgender individuals, comes with a lifetime full of hurdles. Not only because it means constantly fighting for support from their loved ones, but also because the process calls for some serious financial backup. Surgeries, hormone treatments, therapy sessions, the beginning of a new life, all require money. Their fight and their pain are real, in the truest sense of the word. Jenner's out rightly public transition almost makes her struggles appear facile, and her words capricious. But then again, if you have it, flaunt it, while humility takes a stroll in your very own backyard.
Every individual has the right to lead their lives however they deem fit, but, contentious issues call for a certain degree of regard and caution, for not everybody can transition into womanhood in elegant designer dresses.


A group calling itself Whirl-Mart infests the halls of commerce with site-appropriate dance: The ritual consists of interested humans arriving at a predetermined Wal-Mart at 12 noon on the first Sunday of every month and proceeding to push empty shopping carts slowly and silently through the aisles. Eventually, all of the participants locate one another and form a single-file chain of anti-shoppers which weaves, wanders, and whirls throughout the different departments of the store for about an hour. Overall, it is a soothing and fun experience for the actors, and perhaps a memorable spectacle for shoppers. It is a collective reclamation of space that is otherwise only used for buying and selling. It is a symbolic display of the will to resist the capitalist ideology. And, it is a living, breathing, moving, evolving sculpture.
A parody group calling itself the Organization of Corporations Against Coöperation staged a protest against small business and in favor of giant corporations. They picketed a small bookshop with signs saying things like "Size Does Matter" and urged passers-by to patronize instead huge chain bookstores. The same group later managed to get a branch of one such giant bookstore chain to close for one day - they masqueraded as a pro-corporate taskforce who was monitoring local anti-corporate activity and said that a planned protest might get out-of-hand, recommending that the bookstore close up shop for the day of the protest.
Or, how about the guys who create prayer services where they gather in supermarkets to worship the wonderful products that we're presented with. "Praise the fresh chickens and their fleshy whiteness!". Yeah, halleluja.
they have doctor approval and go slow over uneven pavement but still. Just seems like tht17#82a&;s not an ok thing to do with a 1 month old. Can't you guys just all go for a walk together and then train for the marathon on your own?


We are now in the middle of National Picnic Week, and what better way to celebrate than to whip up some delicious frozen treats to enjoy with your friends and family in the (fingers crossed) sunshine! FAGE have come up with this fun and healthy alternative to ice-lollies; let us introduce you to the Yog-Pop! This recipe uses apricots and pistachios, but feel free to use your own favourite flavours and fruits.
In a bowl whisk together the Greek yoghurt and cream until thick and creamy.
Fold in the pistachio nuts and apricot jam and fill your lolly moulds.
Place in the freezer for a minimum of 2 hours.


The herb long has been used in herbal remedies to rid the body of pinworms, roundworms, and other parasites. And if you've got one, chances are, you're eager to see it go. However, it can also be used to enhance digestion for the worm-free.
The most common use for this bitter herb is to stimulate the digestive system. You may be familiar with the practice of taking bitters before meals to aid digestion. A bitter taste in the mouth triggers release of bile from the gallbladder and other secretions from intestinal glands, which enables us to digest food.
Wormwood's bitter substances, called absinthin, have also been used to brew beer and distill alcohol. Absinthe, an old French liqueur prepared from wormwood, is now illegal because absinthol, a volatile oil the herb contains, has been found to cause nerve depression, mental impairment, and loss of reproductive function when used for a long time.


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Q: How to add new filter in plp page in hybris? Like I have added one boolean type attribute into Product table.so I want to filter on that attribute basis on my plp page.

A: Please have a look at your solr.impex file.
You can add a new SolrIndexedProperty eg: 'onSale' using below code:
INSERT_UPDATE SolrIndexedProperty;solrIndexedType(identifier)[unique=true];name[unique=true];type(code);sortableType(code);currency[default=false];localized[default=false];multiValue[default=false];facet[default=true];facetType(code);useForSpellchecking[default=false];useForAutocomplete[default=false];fieldValueProvider;valueProviderParameter
;$solrIndexedType; onSale  ;boolean;     ;     ;true ;     ;     ;MultiSelectOr ;true;true;springELValueProvider;

Setting the value of attribute 'onSale' can be done where other values are being set. Please do a full solr indexing after running the impex.

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Enter the address where you prefer that the records be sent in the last window. One thing is certain: if the disks are not organized and the extra part will not be able to see what is going on, it will be difficult to generate an instance. For example, if an individual's medical records are stolen, the victim can not simply stop or cancel his health history as he can with a credit card.
Give as much detail as possible to acquire the recordings you request. In the event that the Arizona registration may contain inaccurate information, there is a way to correct it. Your tax records provide additional insight into your employment history.
You need to know what kind of document is required and ask your doctors for the specific document. You must also specify a reason why you are interested in the documents. At the moment when someone needs false documents of discharge, a good number of men and women turn to the Web.
You will receive either a duplicate of your DOT medical examination report that you are in the doctor's office or it will be mailed to you. Indicate if you need a certified copy. At some point, you may need to have a copy of your MetroPCS records.
The very first step in obtaining credentials is to learn how you should apply. After downloading, you can add the information you want to reveal in the document by using the word processor and print it from anywhere. It is essential that medical offices classify the patient's contact information and medical history below exactly the same category for consistency.
You must find a way to keep your information from falling into the wrong hands. All personal information would be removed from the health record. The information on the form can be used to know if it is possible to be insured and the premiums you will pay. It must be precise, without any ambiguity. If you need all the information in your adoption file as your original birth certificate and you can not follow one of the processes described above or you do not have time to do so, you can apply to the Superior Court of County Reside or where the adoption has occurred.
Reports are provided exclusively by mail, not email or fax, so make sure you have at least a month's notice if you need call records for an upcoming appearance. It is essential for your credit report to contain specific details. Your credit report is used by insurance companies, credit institutions, homeowners and employers to determine whether you need to lend money, insure your premises or hire you to work. For starters, remember that not all health care reports are written here, although they can be dictated here in the United States. Anyone can request an autopsy report.
An APS form consists of an overview of health problems and symptoms. If you can not download the form, contact your local Veterans Affairs office for assistance. Medical forms and records are some of the documents that can be signed electronically.
On the authorization form, you can specify where your documents should be sent. Checking your medical records is not smart, but it's your right. While you're here, your medical records serve as a worksheet for your health team. Obtaining medical records can be crucial to a series of explanations. Obtaining medical records is not a difficult procedure, but a procedure that is needed before it is needed. Many people are relaxed because they do not keep careful personal records.
If a provider treats his employees like disposable components, such behavior can often be tolerated with good pay. A collection agency can not collect money. In addition, it would be necessary to clarify the terms of the agreement in court.
If the hospital charges you for days off, a phone call must be made to the insurance carrier. It is not essential that a patient is only treated by a doctor. On the other hand, the person could get sick or possibly the mistake. If so, they must act as plenipotentiaries.
Please note on the form. Another type of Medicare fraud is the use of false information to persuade customers into a specific Medicare plan. If the form is not complete, there may be delays in completing your request. In addition, in the case of the application form, it is alleged that the laboratory code 5402 (c) and the laboratory code 4650 (d) undergo a health examination. It is important that you complete the application form and claim whenever possible. The letter form is a simple form to fill out. A single HIPPA type is therefore not available to the individual.
There are many types of information that you should keep. In the event that you can not see that they are in a crisis situation near home, they can find the information they need. Patient Information iii.
Under certain circumstances, you may not get all of your information. The stored information can be obtained during the treatment plan. Therefore, all of your previous information may not be visible yet. An excessive amount of information becomes confusing. After all, you can only hurt yourself in your protest.


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Popular Driver's Permit App, DMV Genius Releases Latest Update for iOS
Just in time for summer, iPhone and iPad users can now prep for the 2013 driver's permit test with the help of DMV Genius. With over 200 questions based on each state's official Driver's Guide, the updated app offers a fresh outlook to the traditional handbook. The new version of DMV Genius features customized questions based on the latest version of the official Driver's Guide allowing users to practice and become familiar with rules and regulations within their state.
Ontario, Canada – Canadian developer, Elegant E-Learning announced today that the updated version of DMV Genius, a driver's permit practice test tool is now available for download. Since launch in Spring of 2012, the app has had over a quarter million downloads and is quickly becoming a popular resource for users within the U.S. looking to have that extra advantage when going to get their permit.
The new version of DMV Genius features customized questions based on the latest version of the official Driver's Guide allowing users to practice and become familiar with rules and regulations within their state. With interactive tests that provide explanations for incorrect answers and useful tips to help along the way, the app proves to be a useful study tool. Additional permit, fines and limits tests are available for purchase for each state incorporating new questions based on the Driver's Guide starting at $.99.
"We wanted to create an app that allows anyone to be able to prepare for the driver's permit test in a way that is educational, informative, but also fun. With the latest update we're excited to include more" adds Andrei Zakhareuski, Founder of Elegant E-Learning, Inc.
DMV Genius features include:
* Updated unique questions based on each state's official 2013 Driver's Handbook
* New rules and regulations included to help prepare for the written test
* Expanded In-App Purchases tailored for each state with over 200 targeted questions
* Immediate feedback and explanations for every wrong answer selected
DMV Genius: Permit Practice Tests for Your State 1.8 is currently Free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category.
DMV Genius: Permit Practice Tests for Your State 1.8
About Elegant E-Learning
Founded in 2008, Elegant E-Learning, Inc. is passionate about online education in general and setting high driving standards in particular. Helping learner drivers across the globe is what we do best. Privately held and based in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada), the company runs several wildly popular websites & mobile apps with a global monthly audience of over 1 million unique visitors. Years of knowledge and experience in driver education let our team of e-learning experts create amazing practice tests that are much more interactive and engaging than the Driver's Manual. We are with our users every step of the way – from helping them to get ready and pass their written permit test at the DMV to guiding them through best driving practices to make sure they are safe on the road. All Material and Software (C) Copyright 2013 Elegant E-Learning, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.


Hi Gus, Will the Steeda Stainless Braided brake lines for the '11 work with the Brembo brakes and are there any additional parts needed.
Hi Gus. The name is Carlo Spiga. Number is 310-228-8725 I would be happy to talk to Bob about the build.
Hey Gus, i have a 2008, i was going to order steeda billet control arms & missed the sale, i also want the steeda cold air & tuner , can i still get a deal?
Hi Gus, I'm interested in purchasing the Steeda Ultimate Induction Pak - V6 - 11-12 ($699.95) for my 2011 v6 Mustang. In an earlier posting you indicated that forum members are able to get a better price than listed. Does this still hold true?
Earlier you indicated "Thanks for contacting me! The price of the V6 kit will be 389.95, same as our 5.0 kit. As usual, forum members will get better pricing which you can PM me for".
Hey Gus, I have a 2012 on order and was looking at stocking up on my aftermarket parts before I pick it up in a couple months. I wanted to get the Q series hood/front fascia and just double checking that it should fit the 2012 without any problems. I'll have a parts list for you guys before too long.
Hi! 93 octane. I have 3.31 rear gears Magnaflow street series mufflers and a C&L 'no tune' c.a.i. with factory 18 inch wheels if this stuff is needed.
Would it (the tune) be e-mailed? I have a USB cable that came with my SCT tuner. Would you need to know my Mustangs computer code?
Sounds like a good price. Talk to you later.


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I am born of one country, raised in another, of middling age, partnered, and childed.
I studied science, work in engineering, love math, play with language, and make art. I write stories - mostly science fiction - and sometimes I'm lucky enough to get paid for it. I've worked for 20 years as an electrical engineer in various fields including pattern recognition, machine intelligence, high speed communications, digital music, and medical devices.
I bike, hike, snowboard, scuba dive, and love being outside. I have been a DJ, an oil painter, and a mountain biker. I listen to everything from golden oldies to heavy metal to classical to electronica.
I am currently mortal and full of squishy organs, but I hope to outlive that.
I'm currently represented by Cameron McClure at Donald Maass Literary Agency.
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