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Cannes Film Festival 2015 | The Scene
French director Jacques Audiard (C) holds his prize as he poses with Sri Lankan actress Kalieaswari Srinivasan (L) and Sri Lankan actor Jesuthasan Antonythasan during a photocall after he was awarded with the Palme d'Or for his film "Dheepan" during the closing ceremony of the 68th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southeastern France, on May 24, 2015. AFP PHOTO / BERTRAND LANGLOISBERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP/Getty Images ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD ** (BERTRAND LANGLOIS / AFP/Getty Images)
Colombian director Cesar Augusto Acevedo poses with his prize at a photocall after he was awarded with the Camera d'Or for his film "La Tierra y la Sombra" during the closing ceremony of the 68th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southeastern France, on May 24, 2015. AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCELOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD ** (LOIC VENANCE / AFP/Getty Images)
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(FromL) Feature Film jury members French actress Sophie Marceau, Canadian director Xavier Dolan, Malian singer songwriter Rokia Traore, US actor Jake Gyllenhaal, British actress Sienna Miller, Spanish actress Rossy de Palma and Mexican director Guillermo del Toro attend the closing ceremony of the 68th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southeastern France, on May 24, 2015. AFP PHOTO / VALERY HACHEVALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD ** (VALERY HACHE / AFP/Getty Images)
(FromL) US directors and Presidents of the Feature Film jury Joel Coen and Ethan Coen and jury members French actress Sophie Marceau, Canadian director Xavier Dolan, Malian singer songwriter Rokia Traore, US actor Jake Gyllenhaal, British actress Sienna Miller, Spanish actress Rossy de Palma and Mexican director Guillermo del Toro attend the closing ceremony of the 68th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southeastern France, on May 24, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULATANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD ** (ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT / AFP/Getty Images)
French director Jacques Audiard (C) poses on stage with US directors and Presidents of the Feature Film jury Joel (L) and Ethan Coen (3rdL), Sri Lankan actress Kalieaswari Srinivasan (2ndL), Sri Lankan actor Jesuthasan Antonythasan (2ndR) and Belgian actress Cecile de France after being awarded with the Palme d'Or from his film "Dheepan" during the closing ceremony of the 68th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southeastern France, on May 24, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULATANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD ** (ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT / AFP/Getty Images)
Mexican director Michel Franco (L) smiles as he arrives to attend a photocall after he was awarded with the Best Screenplay prize for his film "Chronic" during the closing ceremony of the 68th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southeastern France, on May 24, 2015. AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCELOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD ** (LOIC VENANCE / AFP/Getty Images)
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French actress Emmanuelle Bercot poses with her prize during a photocall after she was awarded with the Best Actress prize during the closing ceremony of the 68th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southeastern France, on May 24, 2015. AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCELOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD ** (LOIC VENANCE / AFP/Getty Images)
Actress Marion Cotillard at the screening of the film "Chronic" at the 68th international film festival in Cannes.
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Italian actress and director and president of the Un Certain Regard Jury Isabella Rossellini, center, poses with jury members French actor Tahar Rahim, left, Saudi director Haifaa al-Mansour, second left, Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, second right, and Greek director Panos H.Koutras, right, as they arrive for the closing ceremony of the Un Certain Regard section at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
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German fashion photographer Ellen von Unwerth, left, and British model Emma Miller pose as they arrive for the screening of the film "Macbeth" at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
French director Luc Jacquet, left, and French glaciologist and actor Claude Lorius pose during a photocall for the film "La Glace et le Ciel" ("Ice and the Sky") at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
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Australian director Justin Kurzel, left, French actress Marion Cotillard and German-Irish actor Michael Fassbender arrive for the screening of the film "Macbeth."
German-Irish actor Michael Fassbender and French actress Marion Cotillard during a photocall for the film "Macbeth" at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
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Mexican actress Nailea Norvind, left, US actress Robin Bartlett, British actor Tim Roth, Mexican director Michel Franco and US actress Sarah Sutherland arrive for the screening of the film "Chronic" at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
US actress Mackenzie Foy, left, US director Mark Osborne and US actor Riley Osborne pose before leaving the Festival palace after the screening of the film "The Little Prince" at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
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Jury members Sienna Miller, left, and Xavier Dolan pose upon arrival for the screening of the film "Macbeth" at the 68th international film festival in Cannes.
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US actor Riley Osborne, left, US director Mark Osborne, US actress Mackenzie Foy, French actress Marion Cotillard, French actor Guillaume Gallienne, French actress Florence Foresti, French actor Laurent Lafitte and French actor Andre Dussollier arrive for the screening of "The Little Prince" during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival.
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Dita Von Teese visits the Avakian suite during the 68th Cannes Film Festival at Carlton Hotel on May 23, 2015 in Cannes, France.
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Italian actor Pierfrancesco Diliberto, left, Italian actor Stefano Accorsi and Italian actor Alessandro Siani at the screening of the film "The Little Prince" at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes.
Miss France 2005 Cindy Fabre, right, and Miss France 2008 Valerie Begue arrive for the screening of "Macbeth" during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival.
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Jury members arrive for the Un Certain Regard Award Ceremony of the 68th Cannes Film Festival. From left: French actor Tahar Rahim, Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, Italian actress Isabella Rossellini, Saudi director Haifaa Al-Mansour and Greek director Panos H. Koutras
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From left, Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard and director Justin Kurzel pose during the photocall for "Macbeth" at the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival.
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From left, Mexican actress Nailea Norvind, U.S. actress Robin Bartlett, British actor Tim Roth, Mexican director Michel Franco and U.S. actress Sarah Sutherland arrive for the screening of "Chronic" during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival.
German model Toni Garrn arrives for the screening of "The Little Prince" during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival.
French actress Florence Foresti leaves the screening of "The Little Prince" during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival.
British model Jourdan Dunn arrives for the screening of "The Little Prince" during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival.
Miss France 1992, Linda Hardy, arrives for the screening of 'The Little Prince" during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival.
Actor Tim Roth of the film "Chronic" at the 68th international Cannes film festival.
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Actors Elizabeth Debicki, left, David Thewlis, Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, director Justin Kurzel, actor Essie Davis and producer Iain Canning at the screening of "Macbeth."
Actress Elizabeth Debicki arrives at the screening of the film "Macbeth" at the 68th international film festival in Cannes.
Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat arrives for the screening of "Macbeth" in Cannes.
Nicole Kimpel and Antonio Banderas at the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit.
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Actress Krisha Fairchild at the Majestic Cannes International Film Festival 2015 for her movie "Krisha."
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Marion Cotillard arrives for the amfAR 22st Annual Cinema Against AIDS benefit.
Kendall Jenner attends the Cinema Against AIDS amfAR gala.
Hong Won-Chan, left, Natalie Portman and Laszlo Nemes arrive at the Palais des Festivals for the screening of the film "Sicario."
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Jury member, French actress Sophie Marceau arrives for the screening of "Nie Yinniang" ("The Assassin") during Cannes.
Malian director Souleymane Cisse, fifth from the left, with the cast of his film "Oka" ("Our House") as they arrive for the screening of the film "Nie Yinniang" ("The Assassin").
Models galore! Lily Donaldson, Kendall Jenner, Joan Smalls, Jourdan Dunn, Lara Stone, fashion editor Carine Roitfeld, Karolina Kurkova, Doutzen Kroes, Maryna Linchuk, Adriana Lima and Karlie Kloss stand on stage during amfAR 22st Cinema Against AIDS.
Taiwanese actor Chang Chen, left, Taiwanese actress Shu Qi and Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien arrive for the screening of the film "Nie Yinniang" ("The Assassin").
Sri Lankan actor Jesuthasan Antonythasan, French director Jacques Audiard, Sri Lankan actress Claudine Vinasithamby, Sri Lankan actress Kalieaswari Srinivasan and French actor Vincent Rottiers arrive for the screening of "Dheepan."
French actor Marc Zinga, left, Sri Lankan actor Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Sri Lankan actress Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Sri Lankan actress Claudine Vinasithamby, French director Jacques Audiard, French actor Vincent Rottiers and guests leave the screening of "Dheepan."
French actress Marion Cotillard and German actor Michael Fassbender conduct the auction during the amfAR 22st Cinema Against AIDS on the sidelines of the 68th Cannes Film Festival at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes, southern France.
Mary J. Blige performs during the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS event, which is on the sidelines of the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
Actress Jane Fonda dressed in Schiaparelli Haute Couture and Cartier jewels for the premiere of "Youth" at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Actor Harvey Keitel, his wife, Daphna Kastner, and their son arrive for the amfAR 22st Cinema Against AIDS.
Rita Ora, left, and Italian designer Eva Cavalli arrive for the amfAR 22st Cinema Against AIDS event.
Calvin Klein Collection wardrobe model Kendall Jenner wore a cassis silk crepe bandeau tie-top with a voluminous, high-waist skirt for her appearance at amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS Gala, held May 21 at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France.
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Michelle Rodriguez poses for photographers upon arrival for the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit.
Singer Rita Ora wears a Marchesa strapless gown with asymmetric ruffled peplum and back sash from the Fall 15 Collection at the amFAR gala at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21.
Karlie Kloss strikes a pose on the red carpet for the "Youth" premiere at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
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Emily Blunt donned a bespoke Stella McCartney nude silk crepe de chine diamond-embroidered long-sleeve gown with open back at the "Sicario" premiere on Tuesday at the 2015 Cannes International Film Festival.
Benicio Del Toro, center, laughs as he arrives with Emily Blunt and Josh Brolin for the screening of the film "Sicario" at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19.
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Cate Blanchett poses on the red carpet at the "Sicario" screening at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19.
Antonio Banderas gestures as he arrives for the screening of "Sicario" at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19.
Natalie Portman attends the "Sicario" screening at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19.
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Un Certain Regard jury President Isabella Rossellini arrives at the "Sicario" screening at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19.
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Dutch model Doutzen Kroes blow kisses at the "Sicario" premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19.
Josh Brolin poses for photographers during a photo call for "Sicario" at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19.
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Benicio Del Toro attends a press conference for the film "Sicario" at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19.
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Emily Blunt attends the press conference for "Sicario" at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19.
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Aishwarya Rai attends a photocall for "Jazbaa" at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19.
"A Tale Of Love And Darkness" director Natalie Portman with child actor Amir Tessler at the film's photocall at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17.
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Disney Pixar CEO John Lasseter and Amy Poehler arrive for the screening of "Inside Out" during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2015.
Actors Mindy Kaling, Lewis Black, Phyllis Smith and Amy Poehler attend the premiere of "Inside Out."
Actress Andie Macdowell poses on the red carpet while attending the screening of "Inside Out."
Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor arrives for the screening of "Inside Out."
Eva Longoria arrives for the screening of "Inside Out."
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Paris Hilton poses with an unidentified guest as she arrives for the screening of "Inside Out."
Jonas Riviera, left, Philippino co-director Ronnie Del Carmen, director Pete Docter and Disney Pixar CEO John Lasseter arrive for the screening of "Inside Out."
Brazilian model Ana Beatriz Barros arrives for the screening of "Inside Out"
Amy Poehler exits the screening of Disney's "Inside Out."
Isabelle Huppert arrives with Norwegian director Joachim Trier, left, and Irish actor Gabriel Byrne for the screening of "Louder than Bombs" at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18.
Director Joachim Trier, left, Isabelle Huppert and Gabriel Byrne arrive for the screening of the competiton film "Louder Than Bombs" on May 18.
Director Gus Van Sant, left, Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts, writer-producer Chris Sparling and producer Ken Kao pose as they arrive at the premiere of "The Sea of Trees."
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For "The Sea of Trees" premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 16, Naomi Watts chose to wear a Giorgio Armani Privé multi-layer bustier dress in silk gauze, embroidered all over with sequins and crystals.
Rooney Mara, left, director Todd Haynes and Cate Blanchett pose at the "Carol" premeire on May 17.
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Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara at the May 17 "Carol" photocall at the Cannes Film Festival.
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"Carol" stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara pose in complementary Alexander McQueen outfits during a May 17 photocall at the Cannes Film Festival.
Diane Kruger in Prada at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of "The Sea of Trees" on May 16.
Charlotte Casiraghi wears a Gucci one-of-a-kind blue-geranium-printed chiffon pleated gown with a burgundy grosgrain ribbon belt, pale pink open-toe platform shoes and burgundy satin antique gold cat closure clutch at the May 17 world premiere of the restoration of Luchino Visconti's "Rocco and His Brothers" at the Cannes Film Festival.
Diane Kruger poses for photographers in a Prada gown at the Cannes Film Festival on May 16.
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Gianna Jun wears a Gucci one-of-a-kind pink-and-black lame V-neck gown with a black grosgrain ribbon belt, pink open-toe platform shoes, a blush satin clutch, Chiodo earrings in pink gold and diamonds and a Chiodo ring in pink gold and diamonds to the "Rocco and His Brothers" restoration screening at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17.
A closer look at Naomi Watts' earrings as she poses for photographers May 16 at the Cannes Film Festival.
British actress and member of the Feature Film jury Sienna Miller poses as she arrives for the screening of the film "Carol."
At the "Mad Max: Fury Road" premiere, Fan Bingbing wears a dusty gray V-neck tulle gown with smocking detail along billowing sleeves and delicate pastel multi-color feather and crystal bouquets paired with a feather and crystal bouquet headpiece from the spring '15 Marchesa collection.
Naomi Watts in a Ralph Lauren Collection strapless black wool-cashmere floral lace evening dress with tulle overlay at the premiere of "Mad Max: Fury Road" at the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival.
Julianne Moore in a custom Givenchy red velvet and leather single-sleeve gown at the Cannes premiere of "Mad Max: Fury Road."
Charlize Theron is in a strapless yellow Dior gown at the Cannes premiere of "Mad Max: Fury Road."
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Another look at Charlize Theron's gown on the Cannes red carpet.
Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy pose at the premiere of their film "Mad Max: Fury Road" during the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o arrives for the screening of "La Tete Haute" ("Standing Tall"), which opened the Cannes Film Festival on May 13.
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Oscar winner Julianne Moore arrives for the screening of "La Tete Haute" ("Standing Tall") and the opening ceremony of the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival.
Members of the Cannes jury at the opening ceremony and premiere of "La Tete Haute" ("Standing Tall"), from left, General Delegate of the Cannes Film Festival Thierry Fremaux and jury members Ethan Coen, Sophie Marceau, Rossy de Palma, Guillermo del Toro, Rokia Traore, Xavier Dolan, Sienna Miller, Jake Gyllenhaal and Joel Coen.
Naomi Watts at the opening ceremony.
Natalie Portman, left, and her husband, choreographer Benjamin Millepied, at the opening ceremony.
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Isabella Rossellini faces the cameras at the opening ceremony and premiere of "La Tete Haute" ("Standing Tall").
Bar Refaeli on the red carpet at the the opening ceremony.
Chinese actress Zhao Tao, center, and Israeli socialite and tv host Hofit Golan, right, pose as they arrive for the opening ceremony.
Israeli socialite and TV host Hofit Golan poses at the opening ceremony
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Karlie Kloss chose a crystal mesh jumpsuit with an asymmetrical neckline and white bandeau top from the Atelier Versace fall 2014 collection for the opening ceremony.
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Lupita Nyong'o displays her dress on the red carpet.
Italian actress and director Isabella Rossellini poses on the red carpet.
President of the Cannes feature film jury Ethan Coen jokes with jury member Sienna Miller during a press conference ahead of the opening of the festival.
Jury members Sophie Marceau and Jake Gyllenhaal confer with each other during the press conference.
Spanish actress and jury member Rossy de Palma gestures during the press conference.
French actor and Master of Ceremony Lambert Wilson poses during a photocall ahead of the opening of the 68th Cannes Film Festival's opening.
Jake Gyllenhaal, who's serving as a member of the feature film jury, looks out from the balcony of the Grand Hyatt Cannes Hotel Martinez on the eve of the opening of the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
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Jury member Sienna Miller arrives at the Martinez Hotel ahead of the festival on Tuesday.
Jury presidents Joel, left, and Ethan Coen attend a cocktail reception for the jury members at the Martinez Hotel on Tuesday.
French actress and jury member Sophie Marceau at the Martinez Hotel cocktail reception for the jury members.
General delegate of the Cannes Film Festival Thierry Fremaux is shown with Spanish actress and jury member Rossy de Palma at the Grand Hyatt Cannes Hotel Martinez.
Malian singer-songwriter Rokia Traore, a member of the Cannes jury, arrives at the Martinez Hotel.
"Pacific Rim" director and jury member Guillermo del Toro is shown on the balcony of the Grand Hyatt Cannes Hotel Martinez.
Canadian director and jury member Xavier Dolan, right, talks to a guest on the balcony of the Grand Hyatt Cannes Hotel Martinez.
Cannes Film Festival President Pierre Lescure is shown at the Grand Hyatt Cannes Hotel Martinez.
A poster of "Terminator Genisys" at the Cannes Film Festival, which runs Wednesday to May 24.
Preparations for the Cannes festival continue along the Croisette Boulevard.


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Authors Anna Janko
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Anna Janko
(b. 1957) – one of the best contemporary Polish women writers, a poet and literary critic. She has written several volumes of poetry and the novels The Match Girl and Passion According to Saint Hanka. Janko was nominated for the NIKE Literary Prize in 2001 and 2013 and the ANGELUS Central European Literature Award in 2008; she has also won many awards and literary prizes such as the City of Gdańsk Book of the Year in 1981 for her volume of poetry A Candle for the Devil, the Dresden Independent Writers' Society Prize in 1993 for her poetic oeuvre, a nomination for the Hermenegilda Kociubińska Silver Inkwell Literary Prize in 2008, and a nomination for the Cogito Media Prize for her novel The Match Girl in 2008. Her first book for children – Oleś and Mrs Róża was published in 2018.
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I would like to thank the Academy for, in their latest attempt to court a younger viewership, choosing a host for the 85th Academy Awards whose creative output I'm completely unfamiliar with. This is a first. Congratulations, you just alienated a 26-year-old.
Per the Washington Post, the creator of the cult favorite TV show Family Guy (1999-present), Seth MacFarlane, is poised to emcee Movie Night on February 24, 2013. Isn't he the guy who made a movie about a foul-mouthed CGI teddy bear? (Who cares if it grossed more than $420 million worldwide; what does that box office take say about us?) Isn't MacFarlane also the guy who last week couldn't find the microphone while presenting an award at the Emmys? Honestly, I thought this was a joke until I read press release attached to WP TV columnist Lisa de Moraes's news brief.
It's not that I have a list of more desirable candidates for the coveted hosting gig. But, if you insist… How about Jimmy Fallon? Hugh Jackman, perhaps? Louis C.K., if you want to be "edgy"? Ellen DeGeneres again? Wait, wait! I got it! Amy Poehler would be awesome as Oscar host. You might think she's more associated with TV than she is with film. OK, that's true, but so are all these other people (except Jackman, of course). After all, it's not like MacFarlane is known for much else besides stupid animated fart jokes on TV.
None of this is to say that I won't be watching the Oscars telecast when it airs. I hate it, always, but I can't help myself.


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Els Diables de Terrassa és un grup de diables, de cultura popular i tradicional catalana format a Terrassa el 1981, amb un vestuari pintat per Floreal Soriguera. La seva primera actuació va ser al Raval de Montserrat juntament amb el Drac de Terrassa, a partir d'aquell moment li va quedar el nom de Raval Infernal.

Ha estat la primera colla en gravar un correfoc amb la modalitat de vídeo 360 graus. Han apadrinant colles com la Pàjara de Terrassa, Diables de la Maurina entre d'altres i a les seves actuacions principals sempre realitzen els populars versots satírics. Tenen 5 ceptrots (forques grans), els quals són forques que representen a un personatge de l'infern, aquests són Llucifer, el senyor de l'infern, una de les forques més grans de Catalunya, té una capacitat de 205 carretilles. Les seves principals actuacions són l'Enterrament de la Sardina, el Raval infernal, el correbars de Carnestoltes, el correfoc de Festa Major i les diades de la colla.També han actuat fora de Catalunya com a Sestao i a Formentera, entre d'altres.

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Phuket Tourist Association (PTA) President Somboon Chirayus yesterday told the Gazette that despite the reopening of Phuket International Airport on Sunday, there have been many cancellations among foreign tour groups.
Cancellation rates among Japanese visitors are the highest, at about 50%, he said.
Mr Somboon, deputy managing director of Merlin Phuket Hotels and Resorts, said the direct flight from Narita to Phuket was now operating at half-capacity.
These flights had been nearly full every day before the recent increase in tensions in the capital and closure of Phuket Airport by protesters over the weekend, he said.
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Methee Tanmanatragul, President of Thai Hotels Association Southern Chapter, earlier told the Gazette that the airport closures by anti-government protesters cost Phuket more than 250 million baht a day in tourism revenue, and about 400 million baht per day was lost in the Southern region as a whole.


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How the Police Bill targets Gypsies, Roma and Travellers
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will further criminalise so-called 'unauthorised encampments', increasing repression of Gyspies, Travellers, and Roma people. Charlotte Powell interviewed Luke Smith about the impact of the bill, the fightback in the #KilltheBill coalition, and prospects for the future if the bill passes. Luke Smith is the founder of GRTsocialists.
Riot police surround a chalet during the eviction of Dale Farm in 2011. Photo: The advocacy project
The anti-GRT elements of the policing bill follow on from Tory policy plans announced during the 2019 elections. Can you describe a bit about what GRT oppression has looked like up to this point?
Oppression of Gypsies and Travellers overlaps with oppression of Roma people, but there are differences. Roma face more problems with immigration enforcement and the Home Office making our lives a misery by deporting people. They go to airports and select people based on the colour of their skin, because Roma are slightly darker than your average European. I'm a Romany Gypsy: our origin is northern India. In the UK there was a lot of mixing between Roma and the nomadic communities native to these Isles, whereas there is a history of racial segregation that they experienced in countries that they settled into, like Romania and the Czech Republic.
Oppression against Gypsies, and Travellers, on the other hand, revolves around the fact that we're a community that doesn't fit in with capitalism and previously didn't fit in with feudalism even – we were the antithesis to the feudal society. We're not tied to the land, we work for ourselves. We try not to have any masters. To this day, a huge majority of us are self-employed. We posed a threat to feudal society because we weren't slaving for landowners, and showed people the chance of a better life than serfdom. This threat was identified under Henry VIII, and you can see it in the Egyptian Act of 1530: it essentially said, 'As long as you give up your ungodly and unclean ways, and your thieving (a racial trope which goes back to the mediaeval times), if you stop palmistry, and you just work for the aristocrats, like everybody else, we'll leave you alone.' And many did settle and leave the nomadic ways behind. But we have lived thousands of years being oppressed everywhere we go, and we survived. Many of our ancestors refused to settle, and then the government created laws allowing the seizure of our assets, which is basically the same as the law Priti Patel's bringing out in this bill.
What happens now is no different. We would be deported to colonies as punishment, and now the Home Office can deport us to countries we've never lived in as immigration enforcement. We would be hanged on the second offence of petty crime, and that disproportionate prejudice for incarceration of GRT people over average offenders still exists. We would suffer pogroms, with people coming to camps to burn us all out, and that still happens today – we get petrol bombs thrown at sites and all sorts. GRT oppression looks like the state sending troops and police to evict us from sites, or violent vigilante mobs. It looks like being chased from county to county. We're still chased, we're not allowed to sit on any of the land.
Our oppression today looks like: we die around 12 years younger than average. We have high infant mortality rates. We have the lowest educational attainment. We're often bullied in schools, called racial slurs. And not only from skinheads or Tommy Robinson: often it's from teachers, civil servants, nurses, social workers, judges, lawyers, doctors. We've experienced medical racism, not only from the Nazis but also in the UK. A lot of families who are still nomadic find it a struggle to register at GP surgeries.
Denying someone somewhere to live is a form of state violence in and of itself. There is a history of forced assimilation which underpinned the Tinker Experiments in Scotland from the 1940s to the '80s. Forcibly adopting our children, giving them to non-Gypsy and Traveller families. That oppression is going to be worsened by this bill that's coming out.
What would this bill change about the oppression of GRT communities?
This bill is going to make that oppression worse mainly for the 15 to 20% of us that are homeless. I call it homelessness, because you might have a roof over your head in the form of a trailer or caravan, but you're still homeless if you're being chased from place to place. This bill is proposing that the same people imposing police brutality upon us should have the discretion to seize our goods until criminal proceedings have taken place. Those criminal proceedings can sell those assets and put us in prison for three months, and give us fines of up to £2,500. These are vulnerable families that really can't afford those impositions. So those people that still live our historic way of life, that we've lived for thousands of years, are going to be criminalised out of existence.
If you stop in an area and a police officer thinks you've got the intent to reside there – it could be a motorway services, it could be private land – they can seize your vehicles. This used to only apply for groups of five or six vehicles, but under this bill it will be for one, so just one family can now be criminalised. The criminal sentencing is up to three months in prison. If you put the parents in prison, what happens to the children? The children get forcibly assimilated and taken into care.
The solution to homelessness is give people somewhere to bloody live, right? Organisations like GRT Socialists and GRT charities and NGOs have been telling them for years: provide transit sites so people can carry on being nomadic. Allow for negotiated stopping, so they can stop in one area or the next and negotiate with the council over how long to stay, and the council could agree to provide bins and toilets, then nobody is leaving a mess. It's actually cheaper to do that, but the Tories prefer to tackle these problems through the Home Office and Ministry of Justice Department, through repression. They want us to not exist.
This bill is going to make life even harder for GRT people. It's going to make it harder to access GP surgeries, when our health outcomes are some of the worst in the country. It's going to make our kids even harder to educate. It's going to make running a business even more difficult. And seizing our assets means that people can't go to work and earn money to feed their family. It also means that people will become conventionally homeless, because they haven't even got a trailer.
How did GRT Socialists start up?
GRT Socialists started as the Labour GRT campaign. It was a campaign to say to Labour politicians: you're saying that you're socialists on your party card. In reality, your socialism is exclusionary, it doesn't include people like us. I got involved during the rise of Jeremy Corbyn. Most of our community are apolitical. We don't trust any politicians. As I got deeper into the Labour Party, I met loads of people and started learning about trans rights, sex worker rights, about racism against the Black community, about Islamophobia. And I realised we're all being oppressed: they isolate us and abuse us separately, but in the same ways.
There's been some terrible stuff on Labour party leaflets. These leaflets are the consent-manufacturing machine for taking away our rights and dehumanising us on that pyramid towards genocide. We're climbing up that pyramid at lightspeed at the minute, with politicians dehumanising us, calling us vermin, incursions, invasions.
Politicians consistently use bogus talking points, like 'unauthorised encampments produce rubbish'. That comes from the fact that local authorities are being racially exclusionary and refuse to provide bins to Gypsies and Travellers in their constituencies, even if they're just roaming through. But it goes deeper than that, because they're refusing to do it for people on permanent sites as well. They don't want to talk about the poor access to water on a lot of sites, or the fact that they put sites on old rubbish disposal tips. But they really need to find the courage to do that, because that is the truth: that there are reasons for all these things happening. But it's easier to use us as a political football because it gains votes without councillors having to pull their finger out.
Through all of this, the Labour Party are being the helpers towards a police state. When the Tories attack minorities like us, they're taking your rights through the side door. That's why we're centre stage in the attacks of this bill, but before you blink, it's everybody else.
The campaign recently changed its name from 'Labour GRT' to 'GRT Socialists'. What is your relationship to Labour now, given Labour's terrible record with anti-GRT racism?
I do see it moving away from Labour. I got into electoral politics wanting a better world and wanting better things for my children. I think electoral politics has failed us in such a way that I don't know if that can ever be repaired. But then Sisters Uncut came along and made this coalition and forced the government into a partial retreat. Marcus Rashford came along, and was more of a leader of the opposition than our leader of the opposition, getting those school meals for people. Then I thought: electoral politics, what's the point? If I'm going to have to fight within my own party against all these people that hate me and want me to die, who want to bat for landlords over tenants, with 50% or so front-benchers being landlords, where are you going to get the change that's needed to happen?
I think direct action may be where the answers lie. But I'm new to this. I'm new to abolitionist thinking as well. The police have always abused us, but it wasn't until I went to university – and that's rare for my community – that I had time to think about these issues and see how the police are part of the problem. They don't protect us: this is a mythical lie. They're here to protect property, not people.
How can the police save us when the police are doing the lion's share of the abuse? More bobbies on the beat? I don't want to see more bobbies on the frickin' beat, I want to see investment in grassroots boxing for my community. I want to see investment in proper housing, proper sites, proper jobs.
How are more charity/NGO-style GRT organisations responding to the police bill?
Pretty well, overall, but I have some issues with these charities. A lot of them don't contain a lot of GRT individuals. They're being better recently, since we've been holding them to account on their employment practices. There's been a historic issue where they just employ GRT people at the base roll. They employ them as receptionist workers so they can say they have GRT employees.
My other issue with the charities is that they're so involved with the state. It's very difficult for them to criticise the Tories without jeopardising their funding. And they're very involved with the police, while the community is at odds with the police just by existing. The idea that you can cosy up to the police and have serving officers on your board whilst being an advocate for GRT rights is completely contradictory. I think this sort of racism is inherent in the police service. You can't work within a system that's so far gone, and then say, 'Oh, we've got the Gypsy and Traveller Police Association.' Those individuals might be from our community but the state is still going to make them enforce pogroms on us. It's like a black police officer at a riot or a vigil beating black women.
Representation politics, identity politics, this seeps into liberal politics, saying 'I can do no wrong, because I'm from that community.' If you're from my community, and your politics is clapped, you're still not going to help our community. Selling out your community is not progress.
What future do you see for the fightback against GRT oppression after this bill passes or is defeated? Do you think it will be tied to whatever happens to the broader KTB movement, or once again be a separate struggle with erratic support from other parts of the left?
I'll never separate from the fight for trans people, the fight for sex workers or the fight for women. I wouldn't ever turn my back on that movement, regardless of how it turns out. I've learned too much about the oppression of people, now I could never shut that box and just be like, let's go back to defeatism.
But I don't think we have a future in this country. I'm at the point now where I'm basically panic-swinging back at the state. I think the writing's on the wall for a lot of families, that they are going to lose their children. I think the bill will pass and people will lose their lives over it. I've got to a point where I think we're going to be defeated, but I'm going to fight anyway. I think there's no saving us at this point, but I'm going to try. I'm not telling everybody that because I want people to fight for us. Just to say that somebody said something, when we look back in 100 years' time, and our community is devastated and destroyed. I just want people to say that there were people that stood there with us. People like my family have lived in wagons with horses nomadically for probably thousands of years. And it's the end of a long chapter of survival.
What I want to know is what's going to happen when our community starts swinging back. When they start taking our children, what happens when we start getting violent back? Because when you start taking children away from poor families, they haven't got anything to lose. You've taken their dignity. You've taken everything from them.
Do you think the Kill the Bill movement will change the relationship between GRT organising and the left?
A lot more people are looking out for each other now: I will defend sex workers till my dying breath, I'll defend trans people to my dying breath, I'll defend black people to my dying breath. So I'm 'joining the party' you could say. Because we're all minorities, but eventually we're all going to become the majority and they're going to have bitten off more than they can chew. Their greed is going to bite them in the ass because they're not paying for enough police to defend them from what's potentially coming. They won't have enough police to defend them, they won't have enough tanks, guns or whatever. I'm not saying I'm taking part in it, but we're facing a point where there's going to be massive unrest sooner or later, just because of the concentration of wealth at the top.
You meet people, and it gives you a little bit of hope. That's what keeps me going. And in this moment everything's heightened: the kind of fear of what could happen is so much but also the hope in this coalition.
I never felt more safe in an area than when I was with Sisters Uncut and everyone else at a protest. We were surrounded by police who could kick off at any point, but that feeling of solidarity was overwhelming. It kind of felt like this is what it feels like to be human. Everybody looking out for each other, not letting the police beat everyone. I never had that feeling before, the Labour Party never gave me that. Whereas in direct action, I feel a lot more powerful, as weird as that sounds.
There's something very human about protest. You're coming together, you're working together. And it's the least capitalist thing, because you're not abusing each other. You're not going after people. You're just trying to accept people for who they are. And they're accepting you for who you are. In that moment, you're outside of the system. And you're like, shit, this is what it feels like. This is what it feels like to not be alone. And in the struggle.
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Residents of Osogbo, capital of the State of Osun on Tuesday trooped out en-masse to jubilate and appreciate Governor Rauf Aregbesola as he toured ongoing and just completed road projects all within the metropolis.
The Governor moved through the popular Ola-Iya Junction to the Freedom Park, Orisumbare, Igbona, Ayetoro to have a feel of the ongoing dualisation of the Osogbo/Ikirun/Ila Odo Boundary Road as well as the Workers Drive to the Ilesha Garage end of the Oba Adesoji Aderemi Bye-pass.
At every point, junction and the spot where Governor Aregbesola hoped down from his vehicle or waved at the people through his car roof, it was jubilation with the residents all beaming with smiles.
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Advances in Anthropology > Vol.4 No.3, August 2014
Were the First Europeans Pale or Dark Skinned? ()
Clyde Winters
Uthman dan Fodio Institute, Chicago, USA.
DOI: 10.4236/aa.2014.43016 PDF HTML 5,442 Downloads 7,384 Views Citations
This is an overview of the Out of Africa (OoA) settlement of Europe during the Aurignacian period. Klyosov claims that the first Europeans were fair (pale) skin, and Neanderthal who never lived in Africa. Archaeological evidence indicated that Neanderthals originated in Africa and between 139 kya and 125 kya the Neanderthals migrated back into Africa and spread from Morocco to East Africa. The archaeological, anthropological and genetic evidence indicated that the first Europeans were dark skin Sub-Saharan Africans who carried mtDNA haplogroup N and Y-chromosome C6 into Europe.
Haplogroup, Neanderthal, Phenotype, Skeletal, Mousterian, mtDNA, SLC24A5
Winters, C. (2014). Were the First Europeans Pale or Dark Skinned?. Advances in Anthropology, 4, 124-132. doi: 10.4236/aa.2014.43016.
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Bob doesn't have a phone but sometimes I let him use mine to text his friends. When he does, it looks like this.
This grassy path was more beautiful that the linoleum path from the waiting room to the MRI room at the radiology place. I've been on each in the past two days and so grateful for both.
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When these guys aren't busy eating upholstered items, they're really quite delightful.
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"So that night, we went to the store as it was closing and picked out little plastic cartons of pre-made Thanksgiving food - enough for ten people. We filled up a whole shopping cart. My mom wanted her friends and family over and she wanted the celebration even though she needed to change her part of it. I was disappointed because I thought I would get to help out in the kitchen. I was sad and afraid it would all be different. The one thing she didn't buy pre-made was the whipped cream. She let me pour the carton of cream into the big blue bowl and use the hand mixer to whip it up. I got to lick the beaters.
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"Yeah, mom. I will totally say that."
In 2009, I first posted the recipe for my beloved Mademoiselle Magic Stuffing. It has become an annual tradition. Enjoy the original post here. I'm off to try to figure out where Von's is hiding the dried currants this year.
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"I'm so sorry. It's the first day of Thanksgiving break and I... uh..."
"Are you available this afternoon?"
"We'll see you at 4:00pm."
"I'm making you another coffee, Mom."
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"Wait a minute - I thought we were going newer photos to older photos."
"I did. That's me at the top of my side. I'm just older so everything's in black and white."
"I need to re-do my side."
"I think we should have used construction paper under the photos for more color. Old color."
"Was 'midnight tri-fold' in our vows?"
"I did the Island of the Blue Dolphins diorama last year when you were out of town so technically the tri-fold should be all you."
"I love you forever for not enforcing that."
So, we just want to say thanks for getting us these glorious couch blankets to eat. The seven minutes you were gone dropping Bob off at school just now were long. Like, really long. We were super bored without any delicious throw pillows or dog beds to jam into our canine mouth-holes. The blankets aren't as bouncy and rippable as the pillows/beds were, but we made do. The fun tassels on the corners were especially chewy and delightful. In a show of our appreciation we've redecorated a bit and we hope you'll enjoy what we've done with the place.
There was a time I used to think baseball was boring. That was before I understood all of the slow moving parts are just a build up for when The Most Unbelievable Play of All Time Happens. And sometimes it just keeps happening. You just have to wait for it. This makes baseball the opposite of boring.
"Mom, why can't I stay home alone tonight? That thing's not for kids. I don't get why I have to go to a school board meeting."
"You don't have to go, you get to go."
"Really, Mom? That's how you're selling it?"
I took two excellent trips in the last two weeks. "Excellent" in this case is the strongest word I can think of without sounding hyperbolic, even though saying things like "life changing" would be true. I am also happy to be home.
Sometimes you get a magnificent ten hours of sleep while a giant horse head stares at you. It's not the same kind of sleep you get when there is a very tall man and two enthusiastic, snoring dogs in your bed. (And sometimes a very tall eleven year-old boy-child.) The horse bed is supremely comfortable but you are always aware that the crowded bed is better.
Mr. Rosenberg took this photo a few days ago. I think this is what is called a buttermilk sky. I am making an appointment with myself to grab a blanket and lay down in the backyard and watch the next time I see one of these overhead. I think I need to make sky-watching a thing. My new thing.
While I was out of town last week, my sweet Levi experienced a smidge of ennui. He moped around. He slept on my side of the bed, on my pillow even. He smoked a pack of Gitanes. He drank café Americanos he made himself in the one cup, stovetop espresso maker. He wrote cryptic haiku on rumpled cocktail napkins and listened to hours of Edith Piaf (on vinyl). He was too shrouded in a certain malaise to even bark at the mailman.
Please don't tell him I'm leaving again in the morning. Let us have this night.
I was out of town the last five days. I missed all of my guys. All of my guys missed me too, but only this one couldn't be persuaded to go on his evening walk with Mr. Rosenberg. Levi wouldn't leave my side.
The lost Victorian mansions of downtown LA.
This Thanksgiving menu planner is pret-ty cool.
It's always the right time to listen to this song.
And a koala joey in a basket.
Look at the lovely view. Just look at it.
I'm on board with the one in, one out approach to keeping down clutter. Replacing instead of adding belongings is especially important because all two not small adults, one giant eleven-year-old, and two medium-ish dogs of us are sharing one 864 square foot house.
And yet... and yet. How do I account for the overflowing travel mug/water bottle cabinet? These two beat-to-hell water bottles do not "spark joy." They have ceased to be useful or beautiful and they are still here.
A much younger Bob created the Harry Potter and goldfish/baseball/scratch-that-out-and-start-that-triangle-over-right-here artwork on the bottles, but we have a lot of Bob's artwork. The bottles are leaky and smell like the indoor pool at the Y.
These bottles have been carried around in a Star Wars lunch box. They have been battered inside a Little League baseball bag. They have been used to dig sand and hold weeds that are pretending to be flowers. They are not history themselves but are witnesses.
I remind myself that I am a witness too as I carefully place the bottles in the trash.
Ted and Levi appear to enjoy their No Concept of Personal Space policy even at the big, wide, dog park.
Levi was jumping up at the window to say an extremely enthusiastic hello to the UPS guy. I leaned over to close the window just in case Levi got any ideas about plowing through the screen to join him. My heavy dog pal came down hard on my bare foot then pushed off again, leaving this paw shaped bruise on my right foot.
It makes me laugh every time I look down. And limp a little. But mostly laugh.


Believing in the necessity to promote vulnerable groups in community and help them keep pace with others in securing livelihoods and decent living, SSSD, with support from UNHCR, provided a small cattle farming grant (a cow) to Ms. M.H., who lives in al-3leiqa village with her four children and old sick father-in-law in the same house. The woman is the family's sole provider, with no husband or regular income to support them.


SMACK! Right on the lips! Feels good, 'eh?
Do you have a friend who loves the Beatles *almost* as much as you? Show them you care! This Valentines day, surprise them with your choice of four different beautiful valentine cards. I've made them personally and now you can use them for yourself! Print out the Beatle heart of your fancy and inscribe a personal message ("Be Mine" or "George Loves You"). Give it to a friend, or your parents (anyone who appreciates the boys!). Perhaps you have a *cyber* Beatle pen pal. All you have to do is save the valentine and email it to them with your happy little message. Now, choose your favorite and make someone's day. Ta!
Because I took the time to make these myself, I ask that you do NOT steal these for your own Beatle site. But you are welcome to create a link directly to this page for people who are interested in exchanging Beatle valentines. Thanks!


Be Extra Careful On The Roads This Holiday Season…..Happy Thanksgiving!
The best day to be on the road while traveling for the Thanksgiving Holiday is Thanksgiving Day, according to a recent study by The University of Alabama Center for Advanced Public Safety.
Data collected and analyzed by traffic experts, shows that fatal crashes are distributed about equally over the holiday week. Thanksgiving Day has less fatalities because most people have already reached their destination, and fewer people on the roads . In addition, the Monday through Wednesday before Thanksgiving has about 25 percent more crashes than would be expected during a non-holiday week.
David Brown, a research associate with The University of Alabama Center for Advanced Public Safety, (CAPS), said in a press release: "These are days of high volume with a mix of both commuter traffic and people getting to their holiday destinations."
Another interesting fact revealed by the study is, that every 10 mile per hour increase in speed doubles the chances of a crash being fatal. "Some aspect of speed is indicated in over one-third of fatal crashes, and reducing speed is clearly the most effective way that drivers can prevent deaths," Brown said.
Overall, traffic fatalities are down in the state this year, but experts still warn that this Thanksgiving holiday travel period can be dangerous for Alabama drivers.
So PLEASE be careful....And HAPPY THANKSGIVING!


On this summer vacation, my mother and I have paid a visit to Zhangjiajie, where lies picturesque scenery and unique customs. Among those, the most impressive is the experience in Mengdong River which is famous for its drifting current.
As the No.1 drifting river, Mengdong River has embraced tourists from all over the world. So when I went to the entrance, I have seen that people speaking Thai were picking their"weapons"—bailers, raincoats, water guns. At first, I was wondering that why so many people armed to the teeth were dotted on the water. Uh~ later, I find it necessary for you to wrap yourself up if you don't want to be drenched through. Because of dry season, there is no enough water in the river to afford us a breathtaking adventure.
However, the joy lies in every turn and every twist of the stream. Sitting on a gas boat with other 11 people in two lines, I was attacked by others in other boats at the very beginning that I couldn't even get my back straight and kept bent all the way so as to avoid being beaten by water. Along the way, being innocent means being bullied. When you meet others' boats, they will attack you in water battles even if you throw in the towel at first. But you should be easy with this movement, for their aggressiveness only show their enjoyment of this game and intention of playing a trick with you.
Therefore, the best way to protect you is to strike first to gain the initiative and the battle can provide you a good platform to release your depression and pressure. When we are alone drifting water, we sing and joke while mountains invites us and waters gurgle and bubble. Cooling water, singing birds and beautiful flowers giving forth their fragrance characterizes a fine summer day. This is an unforgettable experience that will be engraved in my memory forever!


Physicians know well and despise the proverbial "rat race"—five patients waiting to see them, each deserving personalized attention, and the likelihood of lunch fading fast. Undoubtedly they've also seen the ensuing paperwork bulldoze its way into their personal lives. It's no surprise that, according to the Physicians Foundation, physicians spend one of every five minutes on nonclinical paperwork and 58% cite "regulatory/paperwork burdens" as the least satisfying thing that they do. With EMRs now being the norm, physical paper presents even more of a challenge in our fast-paced lives, and the use of the electronic fax falls short.
Most of our patients utilize some third-party service, whether it is home health, hospice, medical supply, or infusion services. Each of these services requires its own set of paperwork that needs our signatures, and the service provider usually exacerbates the problem by habitually sending duplicate documents. The struggle will soon intensify in the home health industry, which is currently undergoing payment reform under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model, as the model will require them to get documents signed even faster. Physicians should prepare now for the onslaught of signature requests.
However, no single EMR does electronic signature well, so a third-party tool will likely be needed for the most benefit.
To understand the solution, it's first necessary to understand the problem with outside paperwork. Faxed paperwork usually comes in bulk, out of order, and mixed with cover letters, restaurant menus, and other fax trash. The fax machines do not assign the documents to the correct patients or document types or route them to the correct providers; someone in your office has to do that. Since the sender has no reliable feedback loop—there's no guarantee that your office actually received their paperwork—they likely will send it multiple times. (A fax confirmation says nothing about actual receipt by your office personnel.) Finally, someone from your office must fax it back to the original sender. Physical paper suffers from all the same issues, and, worse, has to be scanned into the EMR.
Not all electronic signature platforms are the same, and there are some key factors to evaluate when choosing the best one that will reduce your burden and not add to it.
• A health care focus. Business-purpose electronic signature tools simply do not cut it. Not only do they focus on documents that do not change except for a few fields (ie, contracts), but they also lack any meaningful patient associations or clinical workflows. You do not want an e-mail every time you get a document to sign. A typical businessperson does not have nearly the volume of documents that you or your providers sign.
• Revenue capture. Reviewing and signing documents takes time, so the system should help you capture your signature-related revenue. This is only possible with systems that understand health care, and electronic fax does not have the intelligence to know which documents are even billable.
• Aggregate documents from all outside providers. Many postacute providers may offer you access to their portal. Logging into multiple portals is simply not a viable option.
• Clinical workflows. Providers rely on their staff to review, prepare, and perhaps approve documents for signature, so the system should enable those tasks. Ideally, it should also enable the provider to sign directly from the staff person's workspace for greatest efficiency.
• Unique patient records. Without these, you can forget meaningful reporting and searching.
• Document intelligence.Each individual document should come with the metadata—patient, provider, document type, effective date, and diagnosis code if relevant—so you know exactly how to process it and whether it's billable. Without document intelligence, much of the value electronic document delivery and signature offers is lost.
• The ability to offload patient and provider assignment to the sender. If the system requires your staff to assign the correct patients and signing providers, it's no more useful than fax. These tasks should be offloaded to the sender.
• The ability to prevent duplicate documents. Electronic fax ensures you will get duplicate documents. Your e-signature platform should intelligently identify and prevent duplicates.
• The ability to automatically send signed documents to sender. You or your staff should never have to do anything to send signed documents back.
• The ability to reject documents with a reason automatically sent to sender. Not everything sent for your signature should be signed. If you elect not to sign, you easily should be able to tell the sender why you're not signing and have that message communicated to them automatically—unless of course you want them to send it again … and again … and again.
• The ability to let you sign from anywhere. Providers never stop moving, so they should be able to review and sign orders from anywhere, including mobile devices.
• Interoperability. While not required to get started, interoperability is desirable given the number of electronic systems used today. The system must be capable of interoperability, even if isn't yet connected to your electronic medical record (EMR).
• The ability to sign in bulk.A busy provider may have 50 or more documents to sign each day. Bulk signing makes the task easier. While an EMR system may allow you to drag your signature onto an outside document, you typically can sign only one document at a time.
• The ability for providers to sign from staff workspaces. Mimicking the process of a staff person handing a provider a paper to sign (the "old-school" way), the system should enable the provider to review and sign from the staff person's workspace.
• Summary notifications.Rather than sending an e-mail as each document comes in, notifications should give you a count of documents awaiting signature along with document aging, so you know when care is being delayed. It should also give you control of notification frequency.
• Support to outside senders. The solution should support and train outside providers, enabling you to require them to send all documents electronically.
• Easy attachment of documents to the EMR.In the absence of an interface with your EMR, your staff should be able to easily attach documents to the patient record.
It is past time to kick the use of outdated faxing to the curb, even electronic fax, as it can't provide the intelligence needed to optimize practice profitability and efficiency. With electronic signature, you can eliminate fax machine chaos, the signing of duplicates, and the account reps interrupting your flow. Start capturing your signature-related revenue, regain job satisfaction, and reclaim a little sanity. It just may change your life.
— Michael Blackstone, MD, is the founder of Suture Health, Inc, whose core product is SutureSign, the leading electronic signature platform used by physicians and postacute providers across the United States.


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Louvetot ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Seine-Maritime in der Region Normandie. Die Gemeinde gehört zum Arrondissement Rouen und zum Kanton Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine (bis 2015: Kanton Caudebec-en-Caux). Die Einwohner werden Louvetotais genannt.

Geografie
Louvetot liegt etwa 31 Kilometer nordwestlich von Rouen. Umgeben wird Louvetot von den Nachbargemeinden Bois-Himont im Norden und Westen, Auzebosc im Norden, Touffreville-la-Corbeline im Osten, Rives-en-Seine im Süden und Südosten sowie Maulévrier-Sainte-Gertrude im Süden.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Quellen: Cassini und INSEE

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Kirche Notre-Dame
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Q: Casting one-hot encoded array to bool arrays is slow I have a large array with uuids, lets call it labels. Now I need for every different uuid in this array a bool mask which shows me at which positions in the array every uuid is located. I need this for later computations.
I use pandas' get_dummies() function to create a one-hot encoding of the labels array. Each column of the resulting dataframe is then casted to a a boolean array and stored in a dictionary. The key of the entry is the uuid.
The creation of the dataframe with the get_dummies() function is always as fast as I need it. But casting the columns to bools gets really slow:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

labels = np.random.randint(0, 10000, 500000)
%timeit -n 1 -r 1 d = pd.get_dummies(labels);  d = {key: d[key].astype(bool) for i, key in enumerate(d.columns.values)}
>>52.5 s ± 0 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 1 run, 1 loop each)

#smaller dataset
labels = np.random.randint(0, 10000, 100000)
%timeit -n 1 -r 1 d = pd.get_dummies(labels);  d = {key: d[key].astype(bool) for i, key in enumerate(d.columns.values)}
>>3.52 s ± 0 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 1 run, 1 loop each)

#without casting to bool
labels = np.random.randint(0, 10000, 500000)
%timeit -n 1 -r 1 d = pd.get_dummies(labels);  d = {key: d[key] for i, key in enumerate(d.columns.values)}
>>1.24 s ± 0 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 1 run, 1 loop each)

How can I make this faster, i.e. how can I get my boolean masks from the one-hot encoding?

A: In order to convert the df to boolean values you can convert it to a numpy array and compare it to 1 and make a df again:
%timeit pd.DataFrame(d.values==1)
1 loop, best of 3: 281 ms per loop

Its not a good idea to follow my original advice from the comment (a was short one zero when i did the timings there)
%timeit d==1
1 loop, best of 3: 4.83 s per loop

I think pandas is much slower here because its iterating over the columns internally.
edit:
to retain the original index you can do:
e = pd.DataFrame(d.values==1)
e.index = d.index

edit2:
to save another 60 ms its also possible to use pandas eval function
%timeit pd.eval('d==1')
1 loop, best of 3: 220 ms per loop