The opening scene, set at Christmas in the toy section of a department store, is almost spooky in its pre-technological stillness: the dolls in glass cases might be playthings from a distant century, and the dim lighting blankets everything in shadow. It’s the perfect place for Therese (Rooney Mara), a doleful shop girl wearing a Santa Claus hat that’s the only jolly thing about her, to meet Carol (Cate Blanchett), a vamp in a mink coat who just about devours Therese with her appraising and adoring glances.

Carol is like a secret agent of love

     The movie is based on The Price of Salt, a 1952 Patricia Highsmith novel that was originally published under a pseudonym. The Highsmith world is a jungle that brims with predators, and when we first see Carol, with her hot-pink hat and scarf and slightly bored but grand manner, it’s easy to assume that she’s some sort of restless femme fatale. Blanchett gives her a smile that’s obscenely ripe, as well as a voice of aristocratic hauteur that puts the sin in insinuating. It’s all very Barbara Stanwyck-as-black-widow.

Yet there’s a good reason for Carol’s highly suggestive manner. She’s wealthy and privileged but trapped in a society that has no place for her desires, so she has little choice but to suggest them. She’s like a secret agent of love. Her seduction of Therese, which begins over a lunch of creamed spinach and martinis, almost has to be cloaked and conniving, because she’s opening up the younger woman to feelings that no one at the time even has words for.

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MEPs are considering a new set of rules for telecoms companies inside the EU.

The plan could have major implications for net neutrality, where traffic is not slowed down or priced differently because of its content or origin miris spa.

Some people fear the plan may lead to such restrictions but others argue that first it would have to be turned into specific regulations .

Some tech companies, campaign groups and the inventor of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee have all called for the adoption of amendments to the rules, which they believe would better safeguard the principles of net neutrality.

However, this would mean rejecting the plan in a form to which EU governments have already agreed.

Another part of the legislation, which would abolish mobile roaming charges within the EU, is popular with MEPs, so enthusiasm for rejecting it in its current form and further delaying this move is low, according to some analysts.

What is net neutrality?

The idea that data should be ferried from place to place as quickly as possible, regardless of what it is, is how most people assume the internet works miris spa.

That's the essence of net neutrality.

However, it's possible to decide to prioritise certain types of data over others - perhaps, for example, by charging the producers of such data a fee to make sure their content gets delivered promptly.

For big video streaming sites, the prospect is worrying. They could find themselves coughing up lots of money in fees simply to give their users the same experience as before.

Some argue, however, that such fees are fair since it costs internet service providers a lot of money to keep providing such content, no matter how popular the streaming sites become.

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Greenpeace and French environmental campaigners had called for the shipment, sent by France-based nuclear company Areva, to be stopped.

The BBC Shanghai is due to reach Australia by 27 Novemberspa 香港.

French officials said an inspection had revealed no problems that could prevent the ship from sailing.

The 25 tonnes of nuclear waste comes from Areva's reprocessing plant in Beaumont-Hague, near the port of Cherbourg, from where the ship set sail on Thursdaymiris spa hk .

Yannick Rousselet, of Greenpeace France, said the BBC Shanghai "should not be used" to transport the nuclear waste.

Nathalie Geismar, of French environmental group Robin des Bois, said that other ports had found a "staggering number of flaws" in the 14-year-old ship.

Shortly before the cargo ship set sail, French Green MP Denis Baupin tweeted (in French) that Areva was "using a dustbin ship to carry waste, without any serious inspection".

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (Ansto) said a full inspection of the ship had been carried out by both French maritime safety authorities and by the French nuclear safety regulator on 14 October miris spa.

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The government's official position is that marriage should only be between a man and a woman miris spa hk.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has denied government MPs a free vote on any bill legalising same-sex marriage.

The bill allows couples, regardless of "sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex status" to marry.

Australia's Marriage Act limits marriage to a union of a man and a woman reenex.

The bill was introduced by government backbencher Warren Entsch, one of several government backbenchers who plan to defy Mr Abbott by crossing the floor of the parliament to vote in favour of marriage equality.

The ban on a free vote for government MPs means it is likely to fail.
Plebiscite

Mr Abbott has said the matter should be "put to the people" in a non-binding plebiscite after the next general election, due in 2016.

Meanwhile, cross bench senators have backed an Australian Greens bill calling for a gay marriage plebiscite before the election spa hong kong.

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The Capitol Police are responsible for protecting senators, congressmen and women, other staff and visitors to the Capitol in Washington DC.

They also police the Capitol grounds and the surrounding area reenex.

Mr Dine was testifying to the House Administration Committee after a series of embarrassing episodes affecting the police force.

He said there was no excuse for leaving guns behind in toilets and more lockers are being installed to store firearmsreenex.

A first-time offender is typically suspended for five days but this could be increased to 30 days, he said. There could be sackings for individuals who re-offend.

"I would be remiss if I did not say that the officers involved in these recent weapons cases reported in the media in no way intended to leave their weapons unattended.

"But as noted, this is not acceptable and they will be held accountable,'' he said reenex.

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