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Maryse Larivière
L'image intérieure Part 2: The Unseen Film
From a conversation with Ulla von Brandenburg, a performance at The Little Shop, a presentation at the Power Plant and afterward, an exchange with David Dorembaum.
Ulla von Brandenburg's The Little Shop is a film that I will only ever feel gazing inward; a film composed of flickering images emerging from all senses, an internal illumination. The enumeration of all the different collections contained in The Little Shop anchors this intimate projection of the store and home, an authentic place, a very special space. An antique store located in Park Extension, Montreal, The Little Shop was first established nearly fifty years ago by Ann Silverstone, an art dealer in Montreal in the 1930s, and her life-long friend Phyliss Lewis. The utterances detailing the invisible images inside me are ignited by the warmth of the Alsatian porcelain cup, white, translucent, delicate, a flowery lace motif around the rim, slowly coming to my lips with a sip of hot tea. Each morning, the cup I was given years ago by Ulla brings back contemplation, a moment here and then, afar and now, a remembrance in search of a lost thing. Holding on to the cup, without thinking, an intuition persists, and magic is revived at the instant of taste. The febrile circumstances of art occur; texture, light, and ambiance are beaming outward, in secret, sugary images of the sensible unfolding in a film loop to conjure the face of a woman, the heart of a space, her parted lips.
Bouquet of silk flowers
Eiffel tower models
Statue of Liberty miniatures
Black feather dusters
Dresden porcelain figurines
Children tea sets
Architect triangular scale rulers
Beaded vanity bags
Blown glass balls
Wedding cake toppers
Styrofoam heads
French berets
Pearl hatpins
Small carpets
Dress gloves
Souvenir thimbles
Snowing globes
Sea captain wood statues
Russian dolls
Raggedy Ann dolls
Mickey Mouse dolls
Miniature chairs
Bedraggled blankets
Cabbage Patch Kids dolls
First communion capes
Crocheted lace blankets
Corette bra boxes
Reels of thread
Fleece sheets
Stuffed puppet hands
Tupperware containers
Wool combs
Decorative parrots
Vintage panoramic photographs
In 2005, Ulla was awarded a residency stipend by the city of Hamburg, allowing her to travel to create new works. She could have chosen any city, but Montreal intrigued her. First introduced to The Little Shop by her cousin, Ulla would go hang out there around teatime, at the end of the afternoon, and would spend time with the shopkeepers. She didn't have many friends beyond a few acquaintances from the local art scene and her cousin's family, so her time with the women at the store - most of them still very active although in their late seventies and early eighties - was an opportunity to socialize. The conversations amongst them were a host of simplicity and pleasure that would incite Ulla to fix perfume on to the image. During one of her visits, Ulla documented the shop, extracted the tender features of each objects in the house with her Bolex 8mm film camera, and at its center, the women drinking tea together - a film set out to be the expression of an intimate world, a community of women. The deliberate sincerity of these interiors, in reality and on film, is crystalized in the quiet assemblage of the many disparate things the space brings together. This remarkable setting creates a discreet political space through which to deploy the profuse imagination this community shares, with each other, with the objects, a diffuse resistance. Objects are organized in a specific order, in categories, each rooms dedicated to a unique collection. The quilts, a whole wall of vintage quilts, folded and piled on a table, all the way up to the ceiling. This wall, a point of convergence in the front room; some quilts are especially old and h u m o r o u s , some date all the way back to the 1900s. Affective tissues, collection of collections, the lace room, each room is organized thematically with a collection of objects that relates to its original function, and the camera embracing all of the things displayed in each room, filming these different collections, caressing the whole place with its cyclopean eye, an invisible oeuvre Ulla returns to incessantly, the space behind the curtain that opens onto poetic praxis.
Make-up cases
Rubber overshoes
Fur vest
Hatboxes
Stripped shirts
Charmeuse dresses
Dust coats
Grand boubous
Mink stoles with head
In the main room, on the first floor, the site of their reunion consists of two armchairs, a pouf, a side table with a telephone, porcelain teacups and saucers, a kettle, a tin box, pens, receipts, and a notebook. Ann, in her eighties, probably late eighties, recorded all the transactions from the store in a notebook. She wanted to remember, taking notes of everyone that would come through, and of everything they would purchase and maybe there would be some notes about their discussions or noteworthy anecdotes guests would share with her. She wanted to remember, account for this community that was created, all these objects, her collections, all the people passing through The Little Shop. She recorded everything in these notebooks, noting the daily history of the life of her shop. Opened nearly fifty years ago, the store presented an outlet for Ann and her friends to be together, a space for women to be together, sitting around, sitting together, talking together, weaving their personal narratives into the lives of these inanimate objects. Since Ann passed away, her daughter Jill runs the store; she keeps it all alive. She is also in the film. She is in the film and in the store, with all the objects her mother garnered throughout the years and the dust, unsettled with every shuffle of things and unfolding of the quilts. Recently, Ulla was looking to include 18 L'image intérieure the film The Little Shop in an exhibition of all of her twenty-four films. All of Ulla's films have no cut; they are all seamlessly edited in camera, and p r e s e n t e d as is, in a loop. The soundtrack to all of her black and white films is a voice-over of the artist singing hypnotic songs she wrote herself, or simply silence. Except for The Little Shop, which has a recording to match the moving images. But the cassette with these women's voices that she wanted to use for the soundtrack could not be found. It was lost; it is still missing. I cannot show the film without the voices. Without the recording of the women's voices, their discussions, the film cannot be shown, Ulla will not show it, or it would feel incomplete, devoid of emotions. Loosing something, and never finding it again; what opens up is a negative space, what is left is an enigmatic thing, almost. A place recessed behind the scene of imagination, loosing something and finding it right there, the lost voices of the women, the conversations that the women were having that day documented using a tape recorder simply put on a table while they were having tea. Maybe the cassette is in a box somewhere in Ulla's studio, maybe we will hear the voices again, see the lively faces again, amidst the discrete murmurs of the objects. Maybe the slowness of its apparition in words, its silence, both amplify this invisible oeuvre. Loosing something, and finding it right here. Nearness is palpable.
Shooter glasses
Wash basins and pitchers
Tomato-shaped jars
Bonbon trays
Tape cassettes
Dish clothes
Rolls of fabric
Cake plates and domes
Wallpaper rolls
Woven wall hangings
Birdcages
Clothing irons
Girl with watering can
The film Ulla made that day is an oddity within her filmography. A documentary film, The Little Shop very much stands out from her other works. This film yields the i n e x h a u s t i b l e metaphorical potential of the quilts, the unconscious image behind all of her films, an appetite for fleeting images, for buoyant pieces of felt. Ulla holds on to the pursuit, to all the quilts she ever bought there, as many quilts as she could afford, in fact she might have spent a small fortune on them. Those 20 L'image intérieure quilts, you may have seen them in her films, in her exhibitions, they are probably quilts she acquired from The Little Shop. She showed her whole collection of quilts in an exhibition once. She always uses the same quilts over and over in different iterations of her work. The quilts often reincarnate in hand-made clothes, a piece of felt, a curtain, a shawl, a blanket, a flag, in a kaleidoscope of presences, hiding the darkness behind, and the question of who is standing behind, holding them up, remains. The quilt, an ongoing conversation of colors, echoing her thinking of what it feels to experience what it means to be there, the atmosphere, within the shop, within herself, a foundational space in her artistic trajectory. Returning after ten years, Ulla found the store almost intact, barely changed, much the same, over time, an intimate space, an objective world of sensations that is inside, a place of vulnerability, of experimentation that she wish she could keep to herself, but that she could show in its entirety, the whole place. The store is a bit of a museum, or even a work of art, and sometimes, a character. She wants to purchase the whole thing if it ever was to be dismantled, she would like to keep it together, and I leave the space, the space that is inhabited, that is turned into an exhibition, it is already an exhibition, a collection of obsessions, a fictive museum, desire operating through loosing something and never finding it again, the difficult return, a film you will never see because she cannot find it there, because it is inside of her here. I think we hear her singing. It is her voice, yes, I hear them talking.
Origami birds
Magnifying mirrors
Drum mallets
Elastics Stools
Sea conches
Maryse Larivière is an artist, writer and scholar whose work re-imagines how we engage with the textual, visual and social through bodily and emotional acts of encounter. Her practice crosses art, literature, politics and theory, taking the form of text, performance, sculpture, collage and film. Recent exhibitions include Talking Back, Otherwise (Art Museum University of Toronto), Down to Write You this Poem Sat (Oakville Galleries) and A Pool Is Water (Galerie Division Montreal).
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Heathers, the 1989 black comedy about murder and high school, has aged well. The cinema has grown markedly more savage since then, but also, curiously, more provincial and shallow.
Compare Heathers with its modern counterparts, notably the Gossip Girl series (created by Cicely von Ziegesar, an alum of the college where I make my living -- don't blame me!) which portrays unashamedly and with straight faces the shallow lives of the very kind of insufferable kids that Heathers is intent on blowing away. With titles like Because I'm Worth It and Only In Your Dreams, the Gossip Girl series glorifies the sense of superiority and privilege that Heathers quite rightly savages. Some of those kids should watch Heathers. Nobody deserves to be murdered, but a slap across the face might do them some good.
Heathers is not perfect -- there are individual lines and scenes that hit the floor with a desperate klunk. But taken as a whole it is kind of inspired, and especially today its deeply radical streak is as welcome as fresh Spring air. This is a picture that could not be made today, although the world needs it more than ever. It succeeds in part because it makes you laugh at some appalling things, and then throws cold water on you, asking "Why are you laughing? This isn't funny."
Indeed, for a comedy the subject matter is deeply serious. High school bullying is nothing to laugh about, as the filmmakers are very well aware. Heathers is deeply exploitative in the sense that it takes its audiences back to school and reminds them of how badly this behavior hurts its victims. It preys on your own memories of the despicable people you knew back then, and who made themselves known to you in evil ways. You're not sorry to see Heather #1 and the jocks die. At the same time, the murders are both funny and terrifying. Heathers walks a razor-thin line with great skill.
While we're on the subject, it always amazes me when people are surprised by things like Columbine and other school shootings. I want to say to the parents, Actions have consequences, and your kids are helping to create the stresses that cause these things to happen. You and your kids are, perhaps, not as guilty as the actual shooters, but are conspirators nonetheless, carrying part of the responsibility and the blame.
But kids don't change. I see random acts of cruelty all the time at my workplace, usually on the Digest of Civil Discourse, which is rarely civil or discursive. On the other hand, the atmosphere here is better than it used to be. Instead of just devising a plan of action to take in the event of a shooting (which they have done) the college has been pro-active and banned all fraternities and sororities from the campus. It's made the place much safer and kinder overall.
Still, we produce alums like Cicely von Ziegesar, a real-life Heather whose books, at least on the cultural level, are swinging the pendulum right back into the most dangerous territory of all: youthful arrogance.
-- Freder.
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It's no secret that Santa Barbara is a top destination for water lovers, with miles of Pacific coastline to enjoy a swim or a surf session. But venturing away from the beach to explore the surrounding state parks, wilderness areas and mountain ranges will reward visitors with opportunities to take a dip in freshwater creeks, wade beneath waterfalls and bathe in natural hot springs. If you're looking to enjoy water in all its forms, check out our seven favorite swimming spots around Santa Barbara.
1. Seven Falls and Three Pools
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Just 10 minutes from downtown Santa Barbara in Los Padres National Forest, the 3-mile hike to Seven Falls and Three Pools sends hikers rock hopping up Mission Creek to enjoy a dip and scenic waterfalls. From the trailhead on Tunnel Creek Road, follow the access trail for a little over a mile, then decide whether to venture up the creek to the base of Seven Falls, or hike the steep trail that winds up above the falls and down to Three Pools for a swim. Exploring up the creek requires rock hopping and wading through the water, so comfortable water shoes are a plus. Those who opt for the more difficult route up to Three Pools can top off the adventure with a 15-foot cliff jump into one of the pools.
2. Gaviota Hot Spring
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Thirty miles north of Santa Barbara on U.S. 101, Gaviota State Park offers hiking, camping and—of course—a natural hot spring perfect for a post-hike dip. Getting to the hot spring requires only a one-mile roundtrip hike starting from the trailhead at the parking lot ($2 parking fee). After hiking 0.5 mile on the Gaviota Peak Trail, continue straight at the fork for the Gaviota Hot Springs Trail, which leads to the warm pool after 200 yards. The milky blue hot spring is nestled amongst trees and foliage, creating a spa-worthy, secluded feel. Those looking for more of an adventure can hike the Gaviota Peak Trail and soak in the hot spring after finishing the 6.5-mile loop.
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This Christmas the nurses, nurses aides and social workers at Liberty Hospice in Dunn delivered Christmas stockings and beautiful gift bags to their patients. Five families each also received a Christmas dinner basket that included a turkey or ham and all the fixings! These wonderful gifts were made possible by the collaboration of Liberty Hospice employees and Community Care Partners, First Baptist Church of Dunn and Saint Matthews United Methodist Church of Fuquay Varina.
Liberty employees provided the stockings, gift baskets and dinner fixings. First Baptist Church of Dunn provided the turkeys and hams and the Partners in Christ, PinC. Ladies group at Saint Matthews provided all the stocking stuffers and the gift bags!
This Christmas holiday will hopefully be a little brighter for these patients because of wonderful community partnerships like these that can truly make a difference!
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Again, we would like to extend our thanks to everyone that voted and those that have allowed Liberty Home Care and Hospice to care for them and/or their loved one!
Hospice volunteers play an indispensable role in enabling our Liberty Hospice patients and their families to offer the best care possible for patients living with life-limiting illness, their families and caregivers. By sharing their time, energy, and expertise, our volunteers bring compassion and caring to the lives of those in need. It is federally mandated under Medicare that five percent of all patient care hours be provided by trained volunteers, but volunteers do not do it for the 5% they do what they do because they care and give back every day. This regulation reflects the vital role that volunteers play in the hospice philosophy of care and ensures that a hospice program has roots deep in the community.
In each of our Liberty Hospice office we have volunteers who assist with clerical support, siting with patients to provide a gentle voice, a simple touch or plan one more game of checkers. Our volunteers are available during the calm times and the crisis, during the living moments and the making of memories to the closure and helping their loved ones through the grieving journey.
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As a company, we strive to provide the same quality of care to our patients that we would provided to our loved ones. It means so much to Liberty when we get letters from our patients sharing the story of the care they received. Recently, Wayne Breeding sent in the following letter through our website and with his permission, we share it to celebrate his care team.
Recently our family benefited from services provided by one of your physical therapists, Edwin Bondoc, and we would be remiss to not take an opportunity to convey just how very valuable his services and assistance were. My wife has worked with many physical therapists over the years, and repeatedly commented just how impressed she was. Words are inadequate to convey his professionalism, knowledge and skills to manage challenges following my surgical procedure. Edwin's respect for me, as the patient, were evidenced by his encouragement, intonation and simply "paying attention" to the cues of me (as his patient) are just some of the qualities that demonstrate the passion he has for his chosen profession. Without any hesitation, my wife and I would recommend Liberty/Edwin to families in similar situations. While we shared our gratitude with him on many occasions, we did not feel this to be enough. We sincerely hope the management of Liberty will take the opportunity to recognize him for exemplary service.
We would be further remiss to share regarding Lisa Ledford. Although a personal friend, she did not "push" Liberty on us, but simply and succinctly shared the services that were available, and provided a very professional profile concerning the PT services that would be provided, if chosen. Of course, the hospital immediately defers to First Health, but after much conversation we decided to request Liberty. This was the best decision for us, and Lisa's ability to "step" out of a friend role and into a professional capacity, and clearly separate the two is to be commended. She also stepped aside, and did not, out of anxiousness or concern for what was to follow, have the need to be more than a friend throughout the remainder of my treatment as she knew what the quality of service would be.
Lastly, once again my initial assessment upon discharge occurred by a PT who was also experiencing medical issues, and had just learned of some fairly serious concerns for her own well-being resulting in a need for surgery. Yet, all that said her complete focus was on my assessment and ensuring all my needs were addressed. The information shared was through conversation with my wife and quite innocent, but again it speaks to the caliber and compassion of the staff that we had the privilege of working with through my recovery.
We are grateful for the care we received especially in a health care environment that is often less than adequate – in our case, Liberty, through these dedicated staff, excelled.


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It's not only more dangerous because we are getting an even more unfettered Obama whose political power has been trampled upon and the blow to his ego may provoke retaliation in ways we've not yet imagined. No. It's more dangerous because of the "land mines" already set up against us by Obama and his band of merry men that could be set off all over the globe as well as here at home. Ebola. ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood. Economic collapse. A weakened military simultaneously overlapping old enemies on the rise, aka Russia. Pick your poison. Any and all of them are terrifying enough, but add to that our malificent imposter-and-chief at the helm directing our ship into and not out of the storm, and one begins to realize how busy hell has been in plotting the times in which we live. May heaven be are hope and vision.
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If President Obama suffered a "shellacking" in the 2010 elections, then what he endured Tuesday night was nothing short of a vicious gangland beatdown the likes of which have rarely been seen before in the history of electoral politics.
This, of course, is a wonderful and well-deserved outcome. But beware: America now enters the two most dangerous years of her existence -- or certainly the most dangerous since the Great Depression and possibly going all the way back to the Civil War.
Not to dismiss the promising results of Tuesday's election.
Voters clearly and forcefully rejected the party, politics and policies of President Obama. They slapped his socialist agenda back into the days of Soviet gulags, where it belongs.
His grand visions of mighty government ruling unchecked over desperate ghettos have been snuffed out.
Gone, too, were the so-called "low-information voters" who have been coaxed to the polls since 2008 on lies and false promises that the federal government would solve all their problems.
They are used up and wrung out.
Even the onslaught of threats and desperate accusations in endless emails to their Obamaphones couldn't motivate those people to the polls one more time.
Voters rejected the craven, crass and mafioso tactics of Senate Leader Harry Reid.
Voters stripped him of his baldly partisan use of the United States Senate as a graveyard for all House legislation in order to protect his Democrats from tough votes and insulate the President from reality.
The little man with giant fists got staggered by a nasty uppercut from voters even though Reid saw it coming for weeks. Now, the ex-boxer stumbles on the canvas all tangled in the ropes, waiting for the bell.
And voters also rejected the loony-toon delusions of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. Honestly, the woman should be running a hat and wig shop in Haight-Ashbury, selling weed and prescription pills on the side. How it is that Democrats in Congress have taken her so seriously for so long will baffle historians for decades.
The silver lining for Democrats today is now they now have the perfect excuse to bounce both of them out of leadership forever.
And this is where things get very, very dangerous for America. President
Obama still has two more years left in his final term.
Already, he has demonstrated again and again that he has no regard for the constitution or the legitimacy of laws when they do not suit his agenda. He flaunts his disregard for the constitutional process, dismisses laws he doesn't like and rewrites others.
He mocks the powers of Congress. The Supreme Court has slapped him down more than any president in recent times. All of this as he tells us he is an expert on constitutional law.
Now come his very explicit threats to pass more illegal and unconstitutional presidential edicts to grant amnesty to illegal aliens already in the United States. This, in turn, will issue invitations for millions more illegals to come streaming across the border.
It will not end at immigration.
Unchecked power is addictive.
Disowned by Democrats and made to feel irrelevant in this election, President Obama's enormous and unjustified ego is deeply wounded. He is frustrated and feels caged, cornered. This is when people like him are most dangerous.
Buoyant Republicans will make an effort to engage him.
But President Obama is not a listener. He is not a negotiator. He is not a learner. He will just take what he wants. It is easier that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's court-packing scheme during the Great Depression was nothing like the strains this president has put on Constitution. Indeed, not since the Civil War has America faced such a dire threat to her existence as a lawful, constitutional republic.
The difference in leadership between then and now could not be more striking.
To bind the union, Abraham Lincoln took an economic and political war and elevated it into something higher. He made it about emancipating slaves and won. And saved the Republic.
This president does the opposite. He got elected promising to elevate politics but instead finds unity and sows discord, often inciting racial divisions.
America's only hope today is that President Obama finally turns to the bust of Lincoln he keeps in the Oval Office and listens.
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Utilization of a population health survey in policy and practice: A case study
Rachel Laws, Lesley King, Louise L. Hardy, Andrew Milat, Chris Rissel, Robyn Newson, Lucie Rychetnik, Adrian E. Bauman
Background: There is growing interest by funding bodies and researchers in assessing the impact of research on real world policy and practice. Population health monitoring surveys provide an important source of data on the prevalence and patterns of health problems, but few empirical studies have explored if and how such data is used to influence policy or practice decisions. Here we provide a case study analysis of how the findings from an Australian population monitoring survey series of children's weight and weight-related behaviors (Schools Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey (SPANS)) have been used, and the key facilitators and barriers to their utilization.Methods: Data collection included semi-structured interviews with the chief investigators (n = 3) and end-users (n = 9) of SPANS data to explore if, how and under what circumstances the survey findings had been used, bibliometric analysis and verification using documentary evidence. Data analysis involved thematic coding of interview data and triangulation with other data sources to produce case summaries of policy and practice impacts for each of the three survey years (1997, 2004, 2010). Case summaries were then reviewed and discussed by the authors to distil key themes on if, how and why the SPANS findings had been used to guide policy and practice.Results: We found that the survey findings were used for agenda setting (raising awareness of issues), identifying areas and target groups for interventions, informing new policies, and supporting and justifying existing policies and programs across a range of sectors. Reported factors influencing use of the findings were: i) the perceived credibility of survey findings; ii) dissemination strategies used; and, iii) a range of contextual factors.Conclusions: Using a novel approach, our case study provides important new insights into how and under what circumstances population health monitoring data can be used to influence real world policy and practice. The findings highlight the importance of population monitoring programs being conducted by independent credible agencies, researchers engaging end-users from the inception of survey programs and utilizing existing policy networks and structures, and using a range of strategies to disseminate the findings that go beyond traditional peer review publications.
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Laws, R., King, L., Hardy, L. L., Milat, A., Rissel, C., Newson, R., Rychetnik, L., & Bauman, A. E. (2013). Utilization of a population health survey in policy and practice: A case study. Health Research Policy and Systems, 11(1), [4]. https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-4505-11-4
Laws, Rachel ; King, Lesley ; Hardy, Louise L. ; Milat, Andrew ; Rissel, Chris ; Newson, Robyn ; Rychetnik, Lucie ; Bauman, Adrian E. / Utilization of a population health survey in policy and practice : A case study. In: Health Research Policy and Systems. 2013 ; Vol. 11, No. 1.
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Review: The Nice Guys, the First Great Comedy of Summer
By Lesley CoffinMay 20th, 2016, 8:25 am
I know, we're pretty much a month from the calendar's official start of summer. But at this point in the movie release schedule, we're about to be in full swing. And so far, we have three comedy films which will be competing for funniest comedy of the year: Love & Friendship, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and The Nice Guys. Love & Friendship's already in limited release (it might be hard to find, but totally worth seeking out) and you'll have to find Hunt for the Wilderpeople a little later this summer. But The Nice Guys is out this weekend in wide release, and it really is that breath of fresh air audiences have been asking the big studios for. Sure, the big budget movies can be great, but variety is the spice of life, and sometimes you just want a breezy, funny, thrilling comedy…something The Nice Guys delivers with a vengeance.
Shane Black returns to his action-comedy roots (he's never really ventured that far, even with Iron Man 3) but goes back in time to the 1970s. The guys of the title are divorced enforcer Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) and private detective/widowed father Holland March (Ryan Gosling). A former client of Healy's goes missing and after a few violent encounters, the two join up to find her and find themselves deeper than they could have expected. I know that sounds vague, but a lot of the comedy comes from the way twists are spooled out during the movie.
And it should be known that part of the reason The Nice Guys is such a fun and funny movie is because of the way Black uses plot twists and characters for humor. The story might not ultimately be that important; I think I'd enjoy a second watch knowing how things unfold. But it also isn't just some generic base to put the jokes and action set pieces on…they all work in tandem to give an entertaining structure to the movie, and ultimately make it all the more enjoyable. That also means taking breaks for character and plot development that most other comedies wouldn't. It isn't a million laughs, but the laughs The Nice Guys earn are big and solid moments throughout.
And the secret ingredient this time has to be Ryan Gosling's pitch perfect comic performance. I know Gosling is a charismatic performer, and showed comic spark in Crazy Stupid Love (and his SNL/talk show visits), but his performance here really is something of a game changer for him. The commitment he gives to all his roles is still evident on screen, but his own light touch as a personality bleeds into the character. There are moments when a glance at the camera almost seems to show a twinkle in his eye, like he's enjoying every single moment he's on screen. And the biggest discovery this movie offers is…Gosling is brilliant with physical comedy.
Australian actress Angourie Rice plays his daughter Holly, and she is also somewhat of a discovery here. Like a mix of Veronica Mars and Nora Charles, she plays Holly as a smart, resourceful teenager with the good heart the movie needs. She and Gosling are so good together, they could have carried the movie entirely on their own and I still would have happily watched. But then we wouldn't have gotten Crowe, who hasn't been this enjoyable on screen in a long time…and I'm not sure he's ever been this funny before. While not on the same level as Gosling's performance, he is often hilarious and fully committed. The remaining cast members are all good (perhaps not stand-out but solid supporting work), but their roles and action within the film really should remain hidden because of how they're revealed.
The Nice Guys isn't really period specific. The movie doesn't look like a movie from the 70s as much as it looks like a retro movie from the late 80s and early 90s (when Black first started making movies) set in the past. The movie isn't patronizing about its period detail; Shane clearly thinks the 70s in LA were pretty cool. But it also doesn't treat the time as so precious they can't play within it. He uses the style to create a world, but focuses on characters and narrative to build that world up into something lived in. We hear so often about style over substance, The Nice Guys is the perfect example of how to have both. Although if there is one (ultimately minor complaint) it's using women to establish that style of the adult film world…it ultimately isn't as bad as I feared, but there were many times it felt like it was going over the edge…but for the most part, pulled itself back.
Since the trailer for The Nice Guys, I've been apprehensively excited about it. It looked potentially entertaining, but comedy trailers can be tough to judge. The incredible thing about The Nice Guys is that as jazzed as I was to see it based on that trailer, there was still so much that hadn't been spoiled for me, I walked out on a high. The Nice Guys is a simply a fun, smart, and totally entertaining comedy, with three characters you want to go on the adventure with.
Lesley Coffin is a New York transplant from the midwest. She is the New York-based writer/podcast editor for Filmoria and film contributor at The Interrobang. When not doing that, she's writing books on classic Hollywood, including Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector and her new book Hitchcock's Stars: Alfred Hitchcock and the Hollywood Studio System.
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The NWHC's prion research further demonstrates that stems and leaves from tainted plants are infectious when injected into laboratory mice. Christopher Johnson, the research biologist who conducted the study, writes in the abstract: "Our results suggest that prions are taken up by plants and that contaminated plants may represent a previously unrecognized risk of human, domestic species, and wildlife exposure to CWD."
One of a class of neurological, prion-caused diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, CWD affects deer by causing progressive loss of body condition, behavioral changes, excessive salivation, and death. Other prion-caused diseases include scrapie in sheep and goats, bovine spongiform encephalopathy—or mad cow disease—in cattle, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
While it is thought that CWD is spread through the saliva and feces of deer infected with the fatal brain disease, according to NWHC researchers and other experts these new findings are significant because they reveal a previously unknown potential route of exposure.
The disease has also become a pressing issue nationwide: The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified chronic wasting disease in seventeen states and predicts it will spread to other states. CWD was discovered in Wisconsin's deer herd in 2002 and has been found since the mid-1990s in northeastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming.
Soon after the discovery of CWD in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources embarked on an aggressive effort to halt spread of the disease by putting in place additional and longer hunting seasons, requiring hunters to shoot a female deer before taking a buck, and hiring sharpshooters to kill deer.
But the ambitious program grew unpopular with hunters and landowners, and the number of hunters participating in the state's annual deer hunt declined. Meanwhile, the disease spread.
Current reports by the DNR show that the prevalence of the disease has increased in all sex and age classes of deer. During the past eleven years, for example, agency data estimates the prevalence of CWD in adult males has risen from 8–10% to more than 20%. And in adult females, the prevalence has grown from about 3–4% to about 9%. In a disease hot spot in southwestern Wisconsin, CWD prevalence has increased to 27% among deer two-and-a-half years or older.
Tami Ryan, who heads the DNR's Wildlife Health Section, says the agency is interested in learning more about Johnson's study. Ryan would like to see more data, especially on whether lab animals can become infected by eating tainted plant material rather than just via injection.
"I'm also interested in the contamination level," says Ryan. "What is the concentration and frequency of exposure that would result in infection? Is this as great a risk as coming into contact with another infected animal? A level of risk assessment is necessary." For the moment, she concludes, "I don't hear alarm bells."
While more than 800 Wisconsin hunters who have consumed CWD-tainted venison show no signs of prion brain disease, Wisconsin Department of Health Services veterinarian James Kazmierczak says that a little-understood molecular species barrier prevents CWD prions from making people and cattle sick.
But research on how prions affect humans is still ongoing. In 2004, for example, a CDC study published in the scientific journal Emerging Infectious Diseases concluded that the transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) to humans indicates that "the species barrier may not completely protect humans from animal protein diseases."
The article also cited lab studies in which CWD prions were found to infect human prion proteins. Still, the article concluded, "limited investigations have not identified strong evidence for CWD transmission to humans."
Another study, led by Marcelo Barria from the Mitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Brain Disorders at the University of Texas and published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry in 2011, showed that CWD prions in the laboratory can be manipulated over generations to change and become more infectious to humans.
"Our findings lead to a new view that the species barrier should not be seen as a static process but rather a dynamic biological phenomenon that can change over time when prion strains mature and evolve," researchers concluded.
NWHC researcher Christopher Johnson says he is testing whether animals can become infected by eating CWD-laden plant tissues, noting that his work will address Tami Ryan's questions about the prion concentrations in plants necessary to cause infection.
"We're just scratching the surface here," says Johnson.
This article was composed by Ron Seely for the nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, which collaborates with Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media and the UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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Hinojar de Cervera ([ino'xaɾ de θeɾ'βeɾa]) es una localidad del municipio español de Santo Domingo de Silos, en la provincia de Burgos.

Toponimia
El nombre de Hinojar de Cervera parece que le viene de la gran cantidad de plantas de hinojo que se dan en la zona y por las peñas de Cervera.

El primer documento escrito que se conoce y hace referencia al pueblo data de mayo de 1222, cuando Rodrigo de Pedro y Muño de Fernando, naturales de Fenoiar, actuaron como testigos de la compra de una finca de Ordoño del Castillo en Espinosa de Cervera. Otro documento datado en 1338 hace mención a que el pueblo de Henoiar pagaba como diezmo al monasterio de Silos 16 almudes y medio. Unos años más tarde, en 1346, aparece en otro manuscrito que los animales de Fenojar ya pueden pastar en todo el Valle de Tabladillo.

Sin embargo, no es hasta el año 1460 cuando el pueblo aparece por vez primera con su grafía actual, en ese documento se dice que el Obispo de Osma entrega la parroquia de Hinojar a los monjes de Silos.

Geografía

Clima

Historia
La presencia humana en estas zonas se remonta a épocas prehistóricas como lo demuestra el castro excavado durante los años cuarenta del  en el alto de la Yecla, en cuyo yacimiento se han encontrado vestigios de poblaciones celtas correspondientes a la Edad del Hierro, con una antigüedad aproximada de unos 2500 años.

Durante la época romana, este lugar también tuvo relativa importancia, pues por aquí pasaba una calzada romana que comunicaba la populosa ciudad de Clunia con la costa Cantábrica a través del Valle de Tabladillo y el homónimo poblado de Tabladillo que llegó a tener el rango de municipio libre, que se gobernaba por sus propias leyes y cuyos habitantes disfrutaban de ciertos derechos y privilegios otorgados por Roma. En los momentos actuales, ese lugar se encuentra labrado para la producción de cereales, desprendiéndose de las investigaciones que Tabladillo, más que de una ciudad notable se trataba de una población creada para la producción de los tres productos básicos alimenticios, así como para los negocios. El topónimo Tabladillo proviene del latín tabula o tabola que significa tierra plantada de árboles y hortalizas.

No se sabe con certeza la fecha de fundación del pueblo, si bien su origen puede deberse a la repoblación, tras la expulsión de los árabes de estos parajes a finales del , de los habitantes que de forma aislada y dispersa habitaban las zonas montañosas.

Hinojar de Cervera siempre ha sido un pueblo pequeño y de reducida población. Su mayor volumen de residentes se dio a mediados del , desprendiendo el censo de 1640 una población de 360 habitantes. Fue entonces, cuando sintiéndose respaldado por una creciente vecindad y ante los problemas que se derivaban de una organización administrativa tutelada desde la villa de Santo Domingo de Silos, solicitó, en 1646, la desanexión del citado municipio, solicitud que le fue concedida por el rey Felipe IV con fecha 18 de abril de 1647. Sin embargo, poco le duró la independencia municipal, pues el mismo monarca se la arrebató nuevamente con fecha de 26 de julio del mismo año, volviéndose a la situación administrativa anterior. Pese a ello, sus ansias de constituirse en municipio independiente no cesaron, volviendo a solicitarlo nuevamente en 1740, durante el reinado de Felipe V, pero en esa ocasión la solicitud fue denegada por el monarca con el argumento de que existía una Real Cédula de pertenencia a la Villa de Silos desde tiempos inmemoriales salvo, claro está, el ínterin de 1647.

El 8 de mayo de 1813 y amparados por la promulgación de la Constitución de 1812 en las Cortes de Cádiz, la cual facilita un acento descentralizador en lo administrativo de entidades de población sumamente pequeñas, las autoridades silenses sin poner obstáculos aceptan y prometen cumplir con las provisiones reales y conceden la «independencia». Hinojar y el vecino Hortezuelos conforman un municipio independiente de la villa de Silos con todas las prerrogativas que ello confiere, su amojonamiento y reconocimiento de los límites territoriales por parte de la Autoridades Superiores y el nombramiento de su alcalde, recayendo el cargo en la persona de Leandro Andrés. En esta ocasión, se desconoce cuanto tiempo duró aquello que nuevamente se perdió.

Los hinojareños, no conformes con la situación de dependencia administrativa de la villa monástica, intentaron nuevamente la segregación en 1910, aunque es muy posible que en esa ocasión no llegara a ser tramitada la solicitud por el consistorio silense, pues no se ha encontrado ningún documento que así lo atestigüe.

En el aspecto religioso, aunque de la parroquia de Hinojar de Cervera ya existe constancia de mediados del , la iglesia actual data de mediados del , consiste en un edificio de planta basilical de una sola nave con dos sacristías adosadas a la cabecera y espadaña a los pies del edificio, se encuentra bajo la advocación del apóstol San Bartolomé cuya festividad se celebra el 24 de agosto.

En lo referente a la educación, se tiene conocimiento de que la primera escuela del pueblo fue construida en 1858, siendo nombrado como primer maestro Julián Alameda Carazo, natural del pueblo, el cual desempeñó su trabajo hasta su fallecimiento en 1869. Sin embargo, este no es el primer ni único caso de persona cultivada que sale de Hinojar, pues ya con anterioridad otro hinojareño, Melchor Carazo Andrés, emigró para ejercer de maestro en otros lugares de la Ribera del Duero y acabó preso durante largos años en la cárcel de Valladolid por su destacada actuación en apoyo al pretendiente Carlos durante la primera de las guerras carlistas.

La escuela fue cerrada en 1972, después de más de un siglo de actividad pedagógica, como consecuencia del fuerte descenso de población producto de la emigración de sus gentes hacia las zonas más industrializadas del país que se dio en el ecuador del .

Demografía

Monumentos y lugares de interés

Iglesia de San Bartolomé Apóstol
La construcción de esta iglesia se remonta a la época de esplendor del arte barroco en la Península, aunque no hay signos que así lo justifiquen. Consta de una sola nave con dos habitáculos adosados a ambos lados del altar, uno de ellos alberga la pila bautismal y el otro es utilizado como sacristía. Su cerramiento es a base de muros de mampostería, excepto el lado de la espadaña, situado a los pies de la iglesia que es de sillería con tres huecos, de los cuales dos son iguales, donde están colocadas las campanas, y otro centrado en la parte superior que permanece libre de elementos. La primera referencia que se tiene sobre la iglesia data de 1460 con motivo de haber sido transferida por el obispo de Osma a los monjes del Monasterio de Silos, dada la amistad que unía a ambas partes. El final de la restauración del retablo y colocación de sus campanas data de mediados del .

Desfiladero de La Yecla
El conocido paraje de La Yecla es una profunda y estrecha garganta excavada en los bancos de calizas del relieve de las Peñas de Cervera. Una serie de puentes y pasarelas colgantes, permiten recorrer este desfiladero; al fondo no llegan casi nunca los rayos del sol. Por su interior discurre el arroyo del Cauce, un afluente del río Mataviejas.

El desfiladero está incluido en el espacio natural de La Yecla y los Sabinares del Arlanza.

Fiestas
Fiestas de San Bartolomé, 24 y 25 de agosto. Nuestra Señora del Pilar, 12 de octubre.

Turismo

Localidad muy pintoresca en el Camino del Cid. Famosa por sus fiestas patronales que se celebran los días 24 y 25 de agosto en honor a su Santo Patrón San Bartolomé.

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Enlaces externos

 Hinojar de Cervera

Localidades de Santo Domingo de Silos
Partido judicial de Salas de los Infantes
Localidades de la provincia de Burgos
Municipios desaparecidos de la provincia de Burgos

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Sandy Hook PSA showcases television report of 'tomorrow's news'
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"We're here at the scene of tomorrow's shooting," is how the latest PSA from Sandy Hook Promise begins.The video depicts a reporter covering "tomorrow's shooting."She speaks with parents, teachers and students who know the "future shooter." One interaction shows a mother and her daughter. The reporter asks her, "How will you explain the shooting to your daughter?" The woman looks at her young daughter and says, "Actually, I won't get to explain it to her because she won't make it." WATCH THE FULL VIDEO BELOWSandy Hook Promise, which is a group dedicated to teaching others how to spot warning signs in potential shootings, has released other PSAs that have been just as powerful as this one. Last year, they posted a video seeming to showcase a budding relationship between two teens. At the end of the video, however, a student opens fire and the viewer is taken back to all the scenes where the shooter showed many signs of possible violence. The Sandy Hook shooting took place Dec. 14, 2012 when a 20-year-old man opened fire at an elementary school and killed 20 children and six adults before turning the gun on himself.
"We're here at the scene of tomorrow's shooting," is how the latest PSA from Sandy Hook Promise begins.
The video depicts a reporter covering "tomorrow's shooting."
She speaks with parents, teachers and students who know the "future shooter."
One interaction shows a mother and her daughter. The reporter asks her, "How will you explain the shooting to your daughter?"
The woman looks at her young daughter and says, "Actually, I won't get to explain it to her because she won't make it."
WATCH THE FULL VIDEO BELOW
Sandy Hook Promise, which is a group dedicated to teaching others how to spot warning signs in potential shootings, has released other PSAs that have been just as powerful as this one. Last year, they posted a video seeming to showcase a budding relationship between two teens. At the end of the video, however, a student opens fire and the viewer is taken back to all the scenes where the shooter showed many signs of possible violence.
The Sandy Hook shooting took place Dec. 14, 2012 when a 20-year-old man opened fire at an elementary school and killed 20 children and six adults before turning the gun on himself.


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Rule 5 (2) of the Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) (England and Wales) Rules 2006 allows ten electors for a Parish in which the casual vacancies exist to request the Returning Officer to hold an election to fill those vacancies. That request must be made in writing within fourteen working days of the date of notice.
On Tuesday 6th March 2018, the Returning Officer received a request to hold an election to fill the vacancies accordingly.
The 'Notice of Election' was published yesterday, and can be found on the Parish Council's website at the link below.


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Ashley Judd believes sister Wynonna placed GPS device, according to police report
By Brian Wilson;
The Tennessean;
Leipers' Fork resident and actress Ashley Judd believes her sister, country music star Wynonna Judd, is responsible for placing a GPS tracking device on a car owned by the movie star, according to a Franklin Police Department report.
Ashley Judd, 45, told police that she suspected her elder sister of placing a tracking device on a silver Mini Cooper in early November as part of an ongoing custody dispute among the two and the driver of the car, whose name was redacted by police.
"It is believed that the device was placed there in order to track their movement," said the report.
Dana McLendon, an attorney representing Wynonna Judd, declined to comment on the police documents.
Hours after details of the report became public, the country singer tweeted that she was homesick and posted a picture with the following quote: "Be thankful for all you have, because you never know what will happen next."
Franklin police have declared the case inactive pending further leads. No charges have been filed from the incident.
On Nov. 8, Ashley Judd's Mini Cooper was taken to the Quick Muffler repair shop in Franklin where a large plastic box was found on the car's rear passenger side, according to a statement the mechanic Tim Goodson gave police.
Police found a cellular GPS tracking device in the box and determined it was registered to Janice Diane Swafford-Holt, a Nashville private investigator.
Det. Dawn Bennett contacted Swafford-Holt to get more details about the device.
After the detective talked with the private investigator, Wynonna Judd's attorney called the detective and said the singer had hired the private investigator and had instructed the private investigator to buy the device, according to the police report.
The police report said the device was given to Wynonna Judd who gave it to her ex-husband Arch Kelley, who allegedly placed the device on the vehicle.
When police talked with Kelley, he denied any involvement.
After confidential information about the Judds' case was leaked to the media in November, Deputy Chief Mike Jordan was placed on suspension by police after other officers said he disclosed details from the incident.
Mark Cook contributed to this report.
Contact Brian Wilson at 615-726-5970 or brwilson@tennessean.com.


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