Alle soorten weer zijn de afgelopen tijd al voorbijgekomen, en dat blijft de komende periode ook zo. De grote vraag van dit moment is: krijgen we donderdagochtend opnieuw te maken met sneeuw?
Tijdens de openingsceremonie van de Olympische Winterspelen in Milaan werd de Oekraïense equipe vergezeld door een Russische vrijwilligster.
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Our cartoonist reflects on the Manchester United co-owner’s recent statements and electioneering, via the prism of Cracker’s DCI Bilborough
Continue reading...His maximal studies of US institutions such as welfare bureaucracy and an intensive care unit were packed with human detail and free from explicit commentary
• Frederick Wiseman, prolific documentary film-maker, dies aged 96
The documentary form is often thought to be governed by a manageable feature-length high concept: the story of a person, an institution, an historical episode. The subject itself and the film’s attitude towards it, its editorial slant, are habitually plain enough and the procedure is metonymic: the camera focuses on a part, and the whole is illuminated by implication. Often they have a sexed-up, quirky story to tell, which might mean a selective and sneakily tendentious approach to editing the material. But that is not quite the case with the films of Frederick Wiseman. His colossal, immersive movies about ordinary people and ordinary lives enclosed in some kind of institution, and characterised by the absence of voiceovers, intertitles or the off-camera directorial presence of the interviewing voice, are not amenable to the elevator pitch; they are the entire elevator shaft itself, and the whole building that houses it.
Whereas epic-length films might be generally held to be appropriate for big and distinctively historical subjects, such as Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah or Marcel Ophüls’s The Sorrow and the Pity, Wiseman applies the maximal approach to static cross-section studies of sometimes less obviously momentous topics such as Paris’s Crazy Horse nightclub or the French restaurant Le Bois Sans Feuilles. However his greatest works are top-to-bottom body-politic pictures of public institutions, huge, intricate constructions of unglamour; his movies themselves were virtual institutions, movie-edifices mirroring their subjects in architectural form and indeed almost always funded by one particular public institution: PBS, the Public Broadcasting System.
Continue reading...‘Get the files out’, says former secretary of state, adding that she and Bill Clinton have ‘nothing to hide’
A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Monday ordered the National Park Service to reinstall a slavery exhibit at a Philadelphia historic site, pending the outcome of litigation after the city sued the federal government over its removal.
The National Park Service last month dismantled and removed a long-established slavery-related exhibit at the Independence National Historical park, which holds the former residence of George Washington, in response to Donald Trump’s claims, which have been rejected by civil rights groups, of “anti-American ideology” at historical and cultural institutions.
Heading to D.C. Will give an Air Force One Press Conference, shortly. Marco was fantastic in Munich! AOC and Newscum were an embarrassment to our Nation. For one thing they shouldn’t be talking badly about the U.S.A., especially on “foreign soil.” They made fools of themselves, and always will! Crooked Hillary merely showed her anger and Trump Derangement. Really bad representatives of our now very successful Country!
Continue reading...Ashleigh Nelson is in the mix for a bobsleigh medal at the Winter Olympics – but that doesn’t mean she enjoys it
Ashleigh Nelson was never meant to be in the Winter Olympics. If you’d asked her 18 months ago where she expected to be competing this week, she would have told you she would be at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham running the 60m at the UK Indoor Championships, not standing at the top of the world’s newest ice track riding a £75,000 bobsleigh.
“I was tricked into it,” Nelson says. “You laugh, but it’s true.” Nelson got into it only after the GB bob pilot Adele Nicoll sent her a message on Instagram just after the Paris Olympics asking if she fancied giving it a go.
Continue reading...ARNHEM (ANP) - Femke Bol loopt donderdag niet de 600 meter op de indoorwedstrijd uit de World Tour in het Franse Liévin. De Nederlandse topatlete meldt op Instagram dat ze kampt met een peesblessure in haar voet. "Helaas zal ik deze week niet lopen in Liévin. Het is geen makkelijk besluit, maar ik moet luisteren naar mijn lichaam", schrijft ze.
Bol, de tweevoudig wereldkampioene op de 400 meter horden, liep vorige week zondag haar eerste wedstrijd over 800 meter. De Amersfoortse is overgestapt van de horden naar de middenafstand. Ze liep een tijd van 1.59,07 en dat was meteen een Nederlands indoorrecord.
Digital burglaries remain routine, and data shows most corps still don't stick to basic infosec standards
Britain is telling businesses to "lock the door" on cybercrims as new government data suggests most still haven't even found the latch.…