![]() If this film’s directors, Valérie Müller and the French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, don’t offer much overt material on Polina’s inner life, it’s because they don’t have to: the point of Polina, and this movie, is that her dancing is her being. Unmoored in Europe, she later regains some exuberance in Belgium with an improvisational troupe that takes inspiration from street life and electronic dance music.Įnduring bruises, torn toenails and hard falls is only one part of a dancer’s day-to-day life. After leaving Russia for France, however, she fails to find her groove while working with a romantic partner under the guidance of a compassionate but stern contemporary dance choreographer (Juliette Binoche). The teenage Polina, played in a confident, winning, lived-in performance by Anastasia Shevtsova (a real-life ballerina who trained with the Mariinsky Ballet), gets a shot at the Bolshoi, but breaks away from that to follow her artistic instincts. The title character is first seen as a young girl in a Russian ballet school, dancing to her own beat on the way home from class. Polina is a version of Paula (Latin): feminine of Paul. In “Black Swan” (2010) they were made - perhaps more accurately - mind-bendingly horrific.Īdapted from Bastien Vivès’s graphic novel, “Polina” takes a largely straightforward and sometimes documentary-style approach in its depiction of a dancer’s life. Polina as a name for girls is of Latin origin, and the name Polina means 'small'. In the 1948 classic “The Red Shoes” even the most unpretty parts of the process were made beautiful. Rather than asking questions about her life and service, journalists would ask questions about her makeup, or her thoughts on the unflattering army uniform.One of the most affecting songs in the musical “A Chorus Line” observes, “everything was beautiful at the ballet.” The amount of sweat, strain and pain that goes into creating that beauty has had its cinematic moments. She lives in a huge apartment in Kensington and loves to party, her instagram feed looks like a non-stop holiday. However, Lyudmila was met with misogyny in the media. Polina is a 26-year-old glamorous Russian girl from London. It was thought that her inspirational story would motivate the American population to get involved in World War 2. While it seems Call of Duty: Vanguard’s setting falls after Lyudmila’s service, the parallels between Polina and Lyudmila are clear.Īfter being honorably discharged from service, Lyudmila Pavlichenko was sent to the US to tell her story. Her parents Anton and Svetlana were also slain Russian soldiers slaughtered them - her younger brother Semyon died this week. ![]() To that point, Lyudmila Pavlichenko had killed 309 enemy soldiers and had been the subject of numerous threats and even bribes by the Nazis, who were desperate to see the back of Lyudmila. Polina, 10, was shot dead while in a car with her family. In real life, Lyudmila Pavlichenko had seen the last of frontline combat due to being injured by a Mortar Shell. Call of Duty: Vanguard’s gameplay demo picks up over a year later, as Polina Petrova is much more experienced. This invasion was what first brought the war to her doorstep. Despite being in her fourth year of university, she was one of the first people to enroll, as her school was destroyed by the Nazi’s invasion. What had prompted Lyudmila to enroll with the Soviet army was Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. However, she soon escapes and begins making her way through Stalingrad, killing Nazis as she goes. Initially, the player poses as a civilian, and is directed into a room by German soldiers. The demo begins as the invasion is in full swing, with the player awakening in a crumbling building infested with German soldiers. This is an exciting sneak peek into what can be expected from this year’s Call of Duty campaign offering, and the early signs are pretty promising.Ĭall of Duty: Vanguard’s Stalingrad demo featured Assassins Creed-style climbing, Call of Duty’s new blind fire mechanic, and a lot of the chaos that can be expected from Vanguard’s campaign. This gameplay demo featured a mission from Call of Duty: Vanguard’s campaign, depicting the German invasion of Stalingrad. ![]() However, for the Call of Duty fan who is more concerned with the solo campaign experience, Vanguard’s Stalingrad demo may have been the most exciting footage released yet. Not least of all in Vanguard's multiplayer reveal event, which highlighted a number of new features and modes. To this point, fans have received a lot of gameplay footage from Call of Duty: Vanguard. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We can only mail to the person the record is for. ![]() You are welcome to provide a shipper from a courier of your choice at your expense for us to use to mail your documents back to you.Ĭan you send my record to the Secretary of State for authentication (apostille) for me? The only way to expedite the process is in the mailing. Requests are processed in the ordered received. This timeframe does not include mail time. Generally, 7-10 business days to process your request and send the results out for delivery. If you do not have an Oregon record, you will receive a notice stating that a search within our master fingerprint file was conducted and did not reveal any criminal record in Oregon. We will not mail results to your attorney, family, friend, or employer. Due to the confidentiality of criminal history information, responses will only be mailed to the person requesting. You will need to submit a hard copy of your fingerprints on the applicant fingerprint card.Ĭan I use previously submitted fingerprints already on record? The fee is $30.00.Ĭan my fingerprints be transmitted electronically to you to process my request? We offer fingerprinting only at our Salem office:įingerprinting is available Monday – Friday from 8 AM to 4:30 PM on a first come first served basis. Your name, date of birth, place of birth, gender, race, your signature, and the signature of the person taking the prints.The card must be legible and complete, either written or typed.Properly rolled impressions of all 10 digits, 2 thumbprints, plus the 4 fingers of each hand (slaps/flats) with sufficient clear ridge details.The fingerprints need to be properly rolled using the blue applicant fingerprint card (FD258). You can contact your local law enforcement agency, a fingerprinting service, or stop at our Salem office. ![]() ![]() For those that live with smaller data caps, that may seem like a lot. Both start throttling that data if you go over certain data limits - 28 GB per month in T-Mobile’s case, 23 GB per month in Sprint’s case. Much like Sprint’s own unlimited package, T-Mobile’s unlimited plan isn’t truly unlimited. While not every carrier is following suit, they’re all making progress toward something slightly less antagonistic toward their customers. Now, it’s once again forcing change in the industry, killing off every single one of its cell-phone plans except for an “Unlimited” package for $60 a month. T-Mobile already did mobile customers a great service several years ago, when it forced every other telecom to kill off the onerous two-year contract (even if it meant that those “free” upgrades and phones also went away). And the idea of commoditized mobile data, paid for like a gallon of milk or metered out like electricity, grated on many users who first started using smartphones during the days of unlimited data. ![]() Tiered data plans made life a pain, forcing customers to be cautious about streaming a video and audio in the wild, lest they blow through their data cap. In other words, at the same time that everyone suddenly was using a lot more data, data was becoming a more complicated thing to buy. North Americans’ total overall data usage was nearly doubling every year - here’s how much total data in petabytes North Americans were using on their smartphones, for every year since 2010. By 2015, Swedish telecom giant Ericsson estimated the average North American smartphone owner used about 5.1 GB of data per month - and forecasts that by 2022, smartphone users will use 22 GB per month. When AT&T announced it was discontinuing its unlimited plan in 2010, the telecom company said the average user was downloading about 200 MB per month. Throttling was annoying overage charges could be disastrous for someone who forget to switch over to their Wi-Fi network when they got home.īut during the past five years, people have only been using more and more data. The next five years was a period of tiered data plans, usually enforced by either hard throttling or large overage charges if you went over your data limit. Verizon did the same in 2011, again allowing unlimited-data customers to continue on their plans, but not offering new customers the option of unlimited data. AT&T announced in mid-2010 they would be eliminating their unlimited-data plan for new customers, “grandfathering” in any customers that were already on such a plan. Indeed, many plans in the aughts still hinged not on how much data you could download, but on how many voice minutes you got or how many text messages you could send.īy the turn of the decade, as the number of voice calls plunged and data usage surged, telecom companies began to realize the mistake they had made. How many emails could you really download to your BlackBerry or Treo?Īnd during the early days of the smartphone revolution, when a free iPhone was the carrot to get you to sign a two-year contract, unlimited data was almost always part of that deal. ![]() Before the iPhone, most telecoms saw no reason to restrict the amount of data you could download. Unlimited data plans, like MySpace, good Judd Apatow movies, and a booming housing market, were a defining feature of the mid-’00s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Planning ahead (in writing) is one of the keys to personal effectiveness. Preparation is the distinguishing factor that separates the winners from the losers. One of the most common mistakes people make, is to leave things until the last minute. His training programmes are both structured and clear, designed to help delegates organise their thinking and, wherever necessary, to improve their techniques and skills.ĭo you want to receive an email whenever we post a new blog? The blogs contain article 5-10 minutes long - ideal for reading during your coffee break! Over the years, Chris has designed and delivered thousands of training programmes and has coached and motivated many management teams, groups and individuals. He is also well aware of the disciplines and problems associated with running a business. Learn more about effective prioritisation, planning, delegation, goal setting and more, on our popular one-day Time Management Course.Ĭhris Farmer is the founder of the Corporate Coach Group and has many years’ experience in training leaders and managers, in both the public and private sectors, to achieve their organisational goals, especially during tough economic times. ![]() Remember that the "high value" QI and Q2 work should take priority over lower Impact value Q3 and Q4 work. They tick-off many things on their "to do list" and then kid themselves they have had a "productive day", doing many easy, trivial tasks, whilst putting-off the more difficult, important tasks. Instead of doing the right thing they "get busy" doing lower value, easy work. ![]() Many people procrastinate on their "Major Projects" work because it is complex and difficult. Use the time saved to crack-on with your "Major Projects" tasks. Consider not doing the Q4 "Fill ins" activity, or delegate them (since they are of low Impact-value).If you cannot delegate the task, then do only the minimum needed to satisfy the requirements of the task. Delegate Q3 "Thankless tasks" to people who are paid less than you are, since these tasks are of lower Impact value.Whenever you can, do Q2 "Quick wins" tasks, since they too, are High Impact Value, and can be done quickly.Work Q1 "Major projects" tasks as much as possible, since they are high value and they take a long time to complete, so you cannot afford to procrastinate on them.Then prioritise tasks according to the following principles: Plot each task on the Matrix according to its Impact-Effort score. Think of all your tasks and judge each by its Impact (which are the consequences if either done or ignored) and its Effort, (the difficulty and time needed to complete the task). "Effort" which refers to the difficulty of the task and therefore, the time investment necessary to achieve the task. "Impact" which refers to the pleasurable consequences that are gained if the task is completed, or the painful consequences we must suffer if the task is ignored. The Matrix works by measuring tasks against two criteria: Definition: The Action Priority Matrix is a model that helps people prioritise work by categorising tasks according to their potential Impact and the Effort required. ![]() |