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JoLyne Merchant: Local History Teacher Lives the Past and Shapes the Future
JoLyne Merchant
Tara Bone, contributing writer
In JoLyne Merchant's classroom, her 133 history students do more than memorize facts—they ask big questions and uncover answers by researching, analyzing and bringing the past to life.
JoLyne believes history is the place to find answers to modern-day challenges. She said every day she leads her students through the past, always tying the past to the present and making it relevant in her students' daily lives.
"History is worth something, it's not just dates and names," she said. "It's a place we find answers for a successful future."
JoLyne has been finding answers and working with students for 16 years. She currently teaches 7th and 8th graders at Thomas Edison Charter School's south campus in Nibley. She said her desire to teach every day comes from her students and the opportunity she has to impact their learning.
"I love the kids. I always tell them they're why I love my job," she said. "They're amazing and middle school is an age you can really influence them to see the bigger picture."
Each year, all of JoLyne's students see a bigger picture as they participate in the National History Day (NHD) program. NHD is a hands-on learning program in which students choose a historical topic to conduct extensive research on and then present their findings in a documentary, website, paper, performance or exhibit. The 3-D exhibits can be up to 6 feet tall. Students present their projects to judges and can move on to regional, state and national competitions.
Since starting NHD in her classroom 13 years ago, every year JoLyne has had a student compete at nationals in Washington D.C. According to nhd.org, more than half a million middle school and high school students participate annually in the program, and only a fraction of those compete at the national competition held in Washington, D.C. every June.
For JoLyne, the NHD experience is valuable for all students because they get excited about history and learn important skills.
"They learn how to research, they know how to do a bibliography, and they know how to work and complete a big project," she said. "Especially in this day of false news, they know how to analyze a source and think critically."
JoLyne is humble about her impact. She is seen coming in early, staying late to work with students and pouring over student projects. She also oversees the Cache and Box Elder County History Fair in the spring and helps with the state fair. Others have taken notice of her work, too. She was awarded the 2015 NHD Behring Ambassador Teacher of the Year, the 2012 Behring Ambassador History Teacher of the Year and Utah's 2009 History Teacher of the Year.
Kathyrn Fielding also feels the influence of Merchant's efforts because many of her children have had Merchant as a history teacher. Kathyrn's son, Carter, competed in the national history fair competition in Washington DC two years in a row "because of Mrs. Merchant's caring and continual guidance."
Kathyrn feels that Merchant has instilled a love of researching and learning into her children that will carry them through their entire lives.
"She expects great things from her students and they rise to the challenge," Kathyrn said. "She brings history to life and guides them to greatness!"
JoLyne Merchant and her husband, Cody, and two sons, Wyatt and Montana
Where did JoLyne's passion for teaching and curiosity for learning come from? The dinner table with her dad.
"We'd sit at the table and ask [dad] questions, and if he didn't know the answer, he'd jump up and run over to the encyclopedias on the book shelf and look up the answer," she said. "That's where my love of learning came from, seeing him, when he didn't know the answer he'd look it up. It grew from there."
Her love for history doesn't just stop at the history books. JoLyne and her husband, Cody, live it. They provide historical demonstrations with period artifacts through their company, Merchant Historical Enterprises.
In 2002, the Salt Lake Olympic Committee asked them to show the world how Native American and fur traders lived. For weeks, the Merchant family, with their young children, turned back time and lived all day and into the night on Washington Square in Salt Lake City in their tepee.
JoLyne said she enjoys doing historical demonstrations because they try to get rid of stereotypes and help people understand different cultures.
"We try to dispel myths, we let them feel, touch, and work with artifacts, so they can see how things worked," she said. "They're excellent primary sources."
In the spare minutes she has, JoLyne likes to play games with her family. Her son Wyatt is 20, daughter Cimmeron is 24, and youngest son Montana is 13. They live in Hyrum and enjoy spending time outdoors. But the outdoors may have to wait because the school history fair day is December 14. Mrs. Merchant and her students will be working overtime.
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Dies ist eine Liste historischer Computer von Siemens und dessen Beteiligungsgesellschaften. Nicht aufgeführt sind modernere Personal-Computer, z. B. von Siemens Nixdorf und Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Spezialrechner (Medizintechnik, Militär), Lerncomputer, Server u. ä. Es sind nicht alle Modellvarianten aufgeführt, nur solche mit erheblichen Neuerungen. Datumsangaben sind tlw. abweichend, insbesondere bei Lizenznachbauten wie der 4004.

Großrechner
Frühe Großrechneranlagen, Minirechner, u. ä. Erstveröffentlichung von 1959–1975 (Einsatz oft weit länger)

Mittlere Datentechnik
Mittlere Datentechnik, Bürorechner, "Kleinrechner" ab ca. 1974

Personal Computer
Personal Computer u. ä. 1980er, 1990er (Auswahl)

Neuere Großrechner
Großrechner ab ca. 1987

Andere Systeme
 Simatic (Automatisierungstechnik) ab 1958
 Sinix-Computer (Banken-, Einzel-/Mehrplatzsysteme), Mitte/Ende 1980er
 Transdata 9600, SBC-System (Siemens Banken-Computer), Ende 1970er, 1980er
 Transdata 9700, Datenkassensystem, CAD-System, Ende 1980er

Weblinks

 Umfangreiche Siemens-Chronik
 f10479.de Computer von Siemens und Fujitsu, größtenteils BS2000 Großrechner
 Computer-Archiv.de
 CC-Computerarchiv Preislisten von Siemens und anderer Computer, Peripherie und Software, 1971–2001
 Übersicht, Computermuseum München

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Teachers in Ontario may not be getting enough mathematics training, Aung San Suu Kyi is no longer an honorary Canadian, and Vancouver eases up slightly on its alcohol rules.
1. Math woes: We take a look at the battle over math education playing out across Canada, the changes to Ontario's math curriculum and whether Canadian educators are properly trained to teach the subject.
2. Launching soon: Our new Capital Dispatch Newsletter will deliver the latest political news straight to your inbox. Sign up now to be in the know about what's happening on Parliament Hill, and why it matters.
3. Honour rescinded: Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, who has repeatedly failed to condemn atrocities against Rohingya Muslims, is no longer an honorary Canadian citizen after a vote in the Senate.
4. Booze at the beach: Vancouver will begin offering beer and wine for sale in concession stands on two of its beaches. Some will be disappointed to hear that it remains illegal to bring one's own alcohol.
5. Melania in Africa: U.S. First Lady Melania Trump has arrived in Ghana to begin her first solo international trip since moving into the White House. The First Lady will also visit Malawi, Kenya and Egypt.
A new study has found that a sizable number of negative tweets about "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" sent to the film's director were not coming from a place of honest criticism, but from trolls working for the Kremlin.


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Paris International Model United Nations PIMUN 2019
SOCHUM
Jan Philipp Huth
Delegation from the Federative Republic of Brazil
The issues before the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee are
(I) the rights of cultural and ethnic minorities with special emphasis on the detention of Uighur Muslims and
(II) the harmful impact of coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights.
It is of the utmost importance to the Federative Republic of Brazil to remain actively involved in these matters. We hereby express our willingness to constructively contribute to a swift settlement on these issues within the international community. Our particular focus will be on harmonizing the respect of fundamental human rights and the sovereignty of any member state based on the internationally recognised principle of non-interference.
(I) Rights of Cultural and Ethnic Minorities with Special Emphasis on the Detention of the Uighur Muslims
The Uighur Muslims are an ethnic group primarily living in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region on Chinese territory. In the past decades, the Xinjiang Region has repeatedly been appalled by violent conflicts between supporters of local separatist movements and Chinese security forces. Due to a severe aggravation of the disturbances since 2008, the Chinese authorities set up a strict inspection of the region in order to prevent further endangerments of public security and policy.
The Federative Republic of Brazil, as a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), attaches the highest importance towards the maintenance and evolution of global human rights standards and invites all nations to join its endeavours in this field. By establishing governmental protection agencies such as the Fundação Nacional do Índio and by Art. 68 of our constitution

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Judge: Brothers' lawsuit against Olympia officer to go ahead
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A federal judge says a lawsuit by two brothers against the Olympia police officer who shot them can move forward.
Officer Ryan Donald shot Bryson Chaplin and Andre Thompson in 2015 after confronting them for stealing beer. He said the pair attacked him with a skateboard; they claimed they were shot as they re-emerged from the woods after initially fleeing the officer. Chaplin was paralyzed, and Thompson suffered an abdominal wound.
Donald is white while the brothers are black; the shooting set off a series of protests in Olympia.
A Thurston County jury found Chaplin and Thompson guilty of third-degree assault, but they are pursuing a federal lawsuit that alleges the shooting was negligent. They say the physical evidence and expert testimony disprove the Donald's story, and the city failed to properly train the officer, whose supervisor had noted he had a tendency to use force rashly.
U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton last week refused to dismiss the claims, saying the record "does not rule out the possibility that Donald acted unreasonably."


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La Liga I 2016-17 fue la 99.ª temporada de la Liga I, la primera división del sistema de ligas del fútbol rumano. La temporada comenzó el 22 de julio de 2016 y terminó el 5 de junio de 2017. Para esta edición participaran 14 equipos.

Al final de la temporada, el club campeón y subcampeón se clasificaron para la Liga de Campeones de la UEFA 2017-18, mientras que los equipos que acaben en tercer y cuarto lugar se clasificaron para la fase de clasificación de la UEFA Europa League 2017-18. Un tercer cupo a la UEFA Europa League 2017-18 fue para el vencedor de la Copa de Rumania.

Formato
Esta es la segunda edición en la que el torneo está formado de tres partes:
 Temporada regular: Se integra por 26 jornadas.
 Ronda de campeonato: Se integra por 10 jornadas.
 Ronda de descenso: Se integra por 14 jornadas.

Temporada regular
En esta fase participan los 14 clubes de la Liga I jugando todos contra todos durante las 26 jornadas respectivas, a partidos de ida y vuelta.

Ronda de campeonato
En esta fase participaran los 6 clubes mejor ubicados en la tabla general al término de la temporada regular, jugaran todos contra todos durante 10 jornadas a partidos de ida y vuelta.

Los equipos comienzan la Ronda de campeonato con sus puntos de la temporada regular reducido a la mitad, redondeado hacia abajo.

El club con más puntos al término de la ronda de campeonato se proclamará campeón, y tiene derecho a disputar la Liga de Campeones de la UEFA, partiendo de la tercera fase de clasificación al igual que el equipo que termine en segundo lugar. El tercero jugará la UEFA Europa League desde la tercera ronda preliminar, al igual que el campeón de la Copa de Rumania, mientras que el cuarto también se clasifica y partirá de la segunda ronda.

Ronda de descenso
En esta fase participaran los 8 clubes peor ubicados en la tabla general al término de la temporada regular, jugaran todos contra todos durante 14 jornadas a partidos de ida y vuelta.

Los equipos comienzan la ronda de descenso con sus puntos de la temporada regular reducido a la mitad, redondeado hacia abajo.

El ganador de la ronda de descenso termina séptimo en la clasificación general de la temporada, el equipo de segundo puesto - octavo, y así sucesivamente, con el último equipo colocado en la ronda de descenso siendo el 14a.

El 12° lugar: entra a Play-offs con un equipo de la Liga II para un lugar en la temporada 2017/18 de la Liga I.

El 13° y 14° lugar descienden automáticamente a la Liga II.

Ascensos y descensos
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Equipos

Temporada regular

Tabla de posiciones

Resultados

Ronda por el campeonato

Tabla de posiciones
Para esta ronda los clubes comienzan con sus puntos reducidos a la mitad y sin ningún récord de la fase anterior.

Resultados

Ronda por la permanencia

Tabla de posiciones
Para esta ronda los clubes comienzan con sus puntos reducidos a la mitad y sin ningún récord de la fase anterior.

Resultados

Play-off de permanencia

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Goleadores
Actualizado al 5 de junio de 2017

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Sitio web oficial
 Liga rumana temporada 2016/17
 http://es.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=rou/index.html

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Fútbol en 2016
Fútbol en 2017
Deporte en Rumania en 2016
Deporte en Rumania en 2017


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Alex Ross's Wagnerism
The Daily — Sep 22, 2020
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In Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music, New Yorker music critic Alex Ross readily points out that Monteverdi, Bach, and Beethoven have each had an impact on music as great or even greater than Richard Wagner's. The nineteenth-century German composer's "effect on neighboring arts was, however, unprecedented," writes Ross, "and it has not been equaled since, even in the popular arena."
Reviewing Wagnerism for the New York Times, composer John Adams observes that the book "has its own 'Wagnerian' heft and ambitiousness of intent, being nothing less than a history of ideas that spans an arc from Nietzsche and George Eliot to Philip K. Dick, Apocalypse Now, and neo-Nazi skinheads." In Bookforum, Geoffrey O'Brien calls Ross's third book after The Rest Is Noise, a history of music in the twentieth century, and the essay collection Listen to This, "an aerial view of a culture's nervous system as it responds to an unexpected stimulus."
The word "encyclopedic" crops up in more than a few reviews—see Peter Conrad in the Observer, for example, or Tim Riley in the Los Angeles Review of Books, and at 4Columns, Geeta Dayal suggests that, while Wagnerism is "an important book," it's "also many books in one." There's just an awful lot of influence to map. In cinema and television alone, Wagner's music can be heard on more than a thousand soundtracks, but "the Wagnerization of film," as Ross puts it in a recent issue of the New Yorker, extends far beyond the composer's IMDb credits. "Cinema's integration of image, word, and music promised a fulfillment of [Wagner's] idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or 'total work of art,'" writes Ross. "His informal system of assigning leitmotifs to characters and themes became a defining trait of film scores. And Hollywood has drawn repeatedly from Wagner's gallery of mythic archetypes: his gods, heroes, sorcerers, and questers."
Embraced by Bolsheviks and Nazis alike, Wagner was a vortex of contradictions, "an anti-Semite and a racist who praised the Civil War as 'the only war whose aim was humane' for ending slavery and cheered the king of Zululand for defeating the British," as Ashley Naftule notes at the A.V. Club. "Because of what Ross calls 'the emphatic vagueness of his convictions,' entire groups who would have good reason to dismiss Wagner could still claim him as one of their own." Though he inspired figures as varied as Black activist and historian W. E. B. Du Bois, novelist Willa Cather, and architect Louis Sullivan, Wagner will nevertheless be indelibly marked by one association above all others.
In the New Republic, Adam Kirsch argues that "the deep compatibility between Wagnerism and Nazism reveals something essential about the composer that lovers of his music have no choice but to reckon with." Ross's reckoning leads to the argument that Wagner's work is simply too multifarious, too great to cede to Hitler alone. "Instead of uniformly absolving or canceling Wagner," writes Olivia Giovetti at Literary Hub, "Ross instead asks across 800 pages if we can hold the two impulses at the same time."
Talking to Lindsay Pereira in the Observer, Ross suggests that "Wagnerism really ended as a worldwide phenomenon" after the Second World War. "Werner Herzog and Terrence Malick have made beautiful references to Wagner in their films, often focusing on the theme of the ruination of nature, which is a preoccupation of Wagner's Ring cycle. The philosophers Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek have presented vigorous new interpretations of Wagner. So Wagnerism goes on, but more as a kind of underground."


Before designing tablet formulations, it is important to understand the "Tableting Properties" of excipients and API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) powders. Those properties refer to "Compressibility", "Compactability" and "Manufacturability", which are difficult to evaluate quantitatively. The study evaluates "Tableting Properties" by using a Gamlen benchtop single-punch tablet press – developed to measure these parameters using a single device. The study confirmed the ability of the Gamlen device to evaluate the characteristics of typical pharmaceutical additives.


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by Peter Sobczynski
Please enjoy the only complely accurate list of the ten best films of 2012.
Whether 2012 was a good or bad year for movies depends to a great extent on where you were looking for your cinematic entertainment. If you were hanging around the multiplexes exclusively, then you might assume that the year was simply one never-ending slog of inane sequels, pointless remakes, idiotic high-concept ideas (seriously, a movie based on "Battleship" that didn't even include the line "You sank my battleship"--what the what?) and other assorted crap, much of which one was obliged to pay a premium in order to see it in the increasingly tedious "miracle" of 3-D. Throw in the continual phasing-out of celluloid for digital projection (taken to its off-putting extreme with the ultra-high-resolution 48fps process used on "The Hobbit") and many of you may have come home from the latest dud wondering why you didn't just stay home and watch "Whitney" instead. On the other hand, those who looked beyond the most heavily-hyped items could usually find something worth seeing--although that might have been a little more difficult for those outside of the major cities, though thhe increasing dominance of Video-on-Demand is helping on that front--and indeed, it was there that many of the year's very best films could be found.
Below, please find my list of what I consider to be the 10 best films (and more) that I saw during the past year--the ones that astounded me, entertained me and reminded me how much fun this job can be at times. Some of these titles are ones that you may be familiar with while others may be a complete mystery to you. Nevertheless, all of them are more than worth your time and energy and even if you don't care for some of them as much as I obviously do, I can promise you one thing--each and every one of them is incalculably better than the likes of "Parental Guidance." Trust me on this.
1. THE MASTER (directed by Paul Thomas Anderson): Thanks to such instant classics as "Boogie Nights," "Magnolia" and "There Will Be Blood," Anderson has become one of those rare filmmakers for whom each new project is considered to be a major event in the world of cinema and he certainly didn't disappoint with this masterpiece. Although initial reports suggested that the was going to be centered around a look at the development of a Scientology-like cult in post-war America, its true focus turned out to be the odd and unlikely relationship that develops between an emotionally volatile veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) at loose ends after the end of WW II and the charismatic leader of a new spiritual movement (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) who takes him under his wing out of equal parts pity and fascination. Beautifully crafted and brilliantly acted by Phoenix, Hoffman and Amy Adams as the unexpected power behind the latter's throne, this is the kind of wildly ambitious, go-for-broke filmmaking that has become increasingly rare over the years and while I know that I cannot exactly sum up what it all means in a pat sentence or two, I also know that this is the kind of film in which the mysteries will only deepen and become more complex with each subsequent viewing.
2. DJANGO UNCHAINED (directed by Quentin Tarantino): Part spaghetti western, part romance, part blaxploitation homage, part delicious comedy, part over-the-top gorefest and part crackpot history lesson of a subject too often ignored or glossed over by Hollywood, it is doubtful that there is any other filmmaker, past or present, other than Tarantino who would have even attempted to pull together such a weird and potentially volatile mix of ingredients into the same film and if there was, it is even more doubtful that they could have pulled off such an audacious feat as well as he has. As the freed slave-turned-bounty hunter doggedly trying to track down his still-enslaved wife and his wily mentor, Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz make for a wonderful duo (with the latter contributing a performance every bit the equal of his award-winning work as the chief Nazi in Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds") while Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson are alternately hilarious and horrifying as the chief villains, a theoretically genteel plantation owner and the house Negro willing to sell out his fellow slaves in an instant. Throw in a complex and nervy examination of the horrors of slavery (which has inevitably inspired all sorts of criticism from observers, though not all of them apparently bothered to see the film before griping about it), nimbly executed action scenes and plenty of chances for Tarantino to display his flair for colorful and memorable dialogue (with the opening scene with Waltz confronting Foxx's current owners in the middle of the night and a group of Klansmen critiquing their malfunctioning wardrobe being among the best of his career) and you have a film that is both outrageous and outrageously entertaining.
3. HOLY MOTORS (directed by Leos Carax): Perennial enfant terrible Carax doesn't work very often--this marks only his fifth feature film to date since making his debut in 1984--so when he does get around to putting out a new project, you can pretty much guarantee that it is something that comes directly from his heart and not just something he slapped together for a quick paycheck and that is certainly the case here. The film stars longtime Carax stand-in Denis Levant as a mysterious man named Mr. Oscar who, one fine morning, enters his limousine--a behemoth that makes the car in "Cosmopolis" seem like a hatchback and which has French film icon Edith Scob behind the wheel--and sets off to complete nine assignments for his mysterious employer that find him adopting a number of elaborate disguises and enacting different bizarre scenarios. In one, he embodies an ogre-like creature who busts up a fashion shoot at the famed Pere Lachaise cemetery and drags the ever-silent model (Eva Mendes) back underground with him for surprising reasons. In another, he unexpectedly meets up with another performer and old flame (Kylie Minogue) and their reunion takes on an unexpected musical form that generates more real emotion in just a few minutes of screen time than the whole of "Les Miserables" could manage. Alternately stylish and surreal and featuring an astonishing performance by Levant at its center, this may likely prove to be far too much for those looking for a simple night of entertainment at the movies but for those in the mood for something way off the beaten path, this is the kind of cinematic experience that you will never forget.
4. ZERO DARK THIRTY (directed by Kathryn Bigelow): I will be reviewing this already-controversial film at length in the next few days, so a full litany of my thoughts regarding Bigelow's chronicle of the decade-long CIA manhunt for Osama bin Laden will have to wait until then. What I can tell you is that for the first two hours, Bigelow and writer Mark Boal (whose previous collaboration was a little thing called "The Hurt Locker") have crafted a masterful procedural in the vein of "All the President's Men" and "Zodiac" that follows one dedicated analyst (another great performance from the increasingly invaluable Jessica Chastain) sifting through mountains of data and potential leads, not to mention doubt from her superiors, in pursuit of her quarry. For the final half-hour, they then recreate the raid on bin Laden's Pakistan compound in a manner that manages to be incredibly nerve-wracking even though the outcome is obviously a given. Regardless of where you stand on the political spectrum, this is a must-see of the highest order.
5. MOONRISE KINGDOM (directed by Wes Anderson): In the latest effort from cult favorite Anderson, a couple of 12-year-old kids living off the coast of New England circa 1965 fall in love and run away to a nearby island with parents, a Scout troop, a Social Services representative and a beleaguered local cop in hot pursuit. Filled with weird humor, mannered performances and plenty of stylistic quirks, the film comes perilously close to feeling like a parody of Anderson's distinctive cinematic style and the only thing that keeps it from slipping over the edge is that it is flat-out brilliant--a touching and hilarious tale of young love that contain big laughs, convincing sentiment and wonderful turns fro a cast including the likes of Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and young newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward. In fact, I would go so far as to say that this is Anderson's best work since the 1998 masterpiece "Rushmore" and since that was one of the true masterpieces of the Nineties, that is high praise indeed.
6. ARGO (directed by Ben Affleck): After the critical and commercial success of his previous turns behind the camera, "Gone Baby Gone" and "The Town," the notion of Ben Affleck carving out a second career for himself as a filmmaker of note should no longer come as a surprise to anyone. That said, even the supporters of those films may be surprised with just how good his latest stint in the director's chair really is. The film tells the little-known story (one only officially declassified in 1997) about the rescue of six Americans in Iran who managed to escape from the U.S. Embassy as it was being seized by protestors and holed up in secret in the home of the Canadian ambassador who would be celebrated as the man who spirited them to freedom. In fact, their escape was engineered by a CIA agent (Affleck) who teamed up with a Hollywood producer (Alan Arkin) and legendary makeup designer John Chambers (John Goodman) to create a fake film production that would serve as a cover to get the Americans out under the guise of being a Canadian film crew scouting locations for a cheesy sci-fi epic. Eschewing flash for a more low-key, Seventies-style approach, Affleck gives us a film filled with great performances (with Arkin stealing every single moment in which he is on-screen) and manages to generate plenty of genuine tension despite the outcome being a forgone conclusion. The result is a great thriller and officially launches Affleck into the realm of great American filmmakers.
7. BERNIE (directed by Richard Linklater): One of the strangest and funniest filmsof the year, this true-life dark comedy from Richard Linklater tells the story of the unusual friendship between a beloved small-town mortician (Jack Black) and the miserly and much-hated heiress (Shirley MacLaine) that ends with her being killed with a bullet in the back, him standing on trial for her murder and virtually the entire town taking the side of the accused to such a degree that it is the prosecution that demanded a change of venue on the grounds that they couldn't get a fair trial. It sounds batty and borderline unpleasant--it is, after all, a comedy inspired by a real woman's murder--but Linklater finds just the right tone for the material throughout and the film is further blessed with wonderful performances from Black (in what may be the best work of his entire career), MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey, who is so convincing as the D.A. charged with the exceedingly peculiar case that I actually did not recognize him during his first couple of scenes even though I knew he was in the film. By happenstance, I found myself watching this again just the other day just to see if it was as good as I remembered and as it turns out, it was even better.
8. RUST AND BONE (directed by Jacques Audriad): On paper, the premise of this film--a chronicle of the tempestuous romance that develops between a self-centered and emotionless lunk who all but ignores his young son while trying to make it as a professional kickboxer and a sexy killer whale trainer forced to reevaluate her entire life after she loses both her legs in a terrible accident at work--makes it sound like either an exceptionally hideous Nicolas Sparks epic or a parody of an exceptionally hideous Nicolas Sparks epic. There is no way that a movie like this should work but this one does beautifully thanks to the powerful, irony-free manner in which Audriad (who previously helmed the acclaimed "The Beat My Heart Skipped" and "A Prophet") handles the material, the strong and risky performance by Matthias Schoenaerts as the bruiser antihero and, most notably, the astounding work from Marion Cotillard, the best of her not-too-shabby career to date, as his legless lover--she is so firmly committed to the character that even though we instinctively know that we are watching special effects at work in the scenes involving her missing limbs, she makes the illusion come across as completely convincing. This may well be the most polarizing title on this list--many viewers may simply find it impossible to get around the basic concept and those that do may still have problems with some of the melodramatic twists in store, particularly one involving the kid--but for those people who happen to be on its wavelength, it is the kind of gorgeous cinematic rhapsody that reminds you of why you fell in love with the movies in the first place.
9. COSMOPOLIS (directed by David Cronenberg): Cronenberg has made some of the more unusual films of our time but even many of his most devoted fans were perplexed with this admittedly outr� adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel chronicling a young Wall Street hotshot (Robert Pattinson) as he embarks on a day-long trip across town for a haircut in a specially appointed limousine large enough to allow him to conduct business, affairs and even a prostate exam while hardly acknowledging the chaos erupting in the streets around him. This is definitely a challenging movie and those roped into watching it merely by the presence of Pattinson are going to come away from it enormously disappointed (though it should be noted that his performance is quite good and is the best evidence yet that he may indeed have a post-"Twilight" career of note). Those up to the challenge, however, are likely to find this to be one of the most darkly funny and conceptually fascinating films of Cronenberg's entire career.
10. BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (directed by Benh Zeitlin): Every year, a bunch of movies emerge from the Sundance Film Festival riding a wave of rave reviews from people convinced that they have seen the Next Big Thing, only to meet with total indifferences from viewers watching them at proper altitude levels. One significant exception to that rule was this mesmerizing debut from director Zeitlin about a startlingly resourceful 6-year-old girl named Hushpuppy (newcomer Quvenzhane Wallis) living in a remote Louisiana floodplain with her father (Dwight Henry) and a few others who have deliberately cut themselves off from civilization. Following a massive storm and her father's subsequent illness, Hushpuppy takes it upon herself to set off in search of her long-lost mother and along the way finds herself confronting some hard truths about her father, the forces of nature and, logically enough, a group of giant prehistoric creatures freed by the melting ice caps. It sounds unbearably precious, I realize, but this film works astoundingly well that to the combination of Zeitlin's bold visual style and the amazing lead performance from Wallis--with the movie told entirely from her perspective, it more or less rests on her tiny shoulders and her work is so graceful and natural that there may be a riot in Hollywood if her name is not listed among the nominees for the Best Actress Oscar.
Here are my ten runner-up titles, a collection of equally impressive titles that probably would have made the main list in another year.
11. PROMETHEUS (directed by Ridley Scott)
12. LOOPER (directed by Rian Johnson)
13: PARANORMAN
14: AMOUR (directed by Michael Haneke)
15. KILLER JOE (directed by William Friedkin)
16. THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (directed by Drew Goddard)
17. SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (directed by David O. Russell:
18. NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS (directed by Jonathan Demme)
19. THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (directed by Christopher Nolan)
20: DAMSELS IN DISTRESS (directed by Whit Stillman)
Throughout the year, I also enjoyed (in roughly the order of their commercial release):
"Haywire," "Crazy Horse," "The Grey," "The Innkeepers," "The Woman in Black," "The Secret World of Arietty," "Undefeated," "Wanderlust," "Jiro Dreams of Sushi," "Casa de mi Padre," "Jeff, Who Lives At Home," "Natural Selection," "This Is Not A Movie," "4:44 Last Day On Earth," "The Turin Horse," "The Hunger Games," "Mirror Mirror," "Keyhole," "Lockout," "Marley," "The Pirates: Band of Misfits," "Safe," "The Sound of My Voice," "The Avengers," "Dark Shadows," "The Loved One," "Safety Not Guaranteed," "Patang," "Your Sister's Sister," "The Invisible War," "To Rome With Love," "Seeing a Friend for the End of the World," "Magic Mike," "Savages," "The Imposter," "Searching for Sugar Man," "Compliance," "Premium Rush," "Samsara," "Resident Evil: Retribution," "The Hole," "Frankenweenie," "Taken 2," "Smashed," "Flight," "Skyfall," "Anna Karenina," "The Central Park Five," "Room 237," "The Impossible," "West of Memphis" and "Not Fade Away." which, fittingly for the movie concluding this list, contained the year's most memorable closing image.


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Skokomish River Opens August 3rd
Recreational salmon fishing on the Skokomish River opens Aug. 3
OLYMPIA – The recreational salmon fishery on the Skokomish River from the mouth to the Highway 101 Bridge will get under way Aug. 3, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced today.
After several weeks of discussions, state and tribal co-managers agreed to open salmon fisheries beginning in August, said Pat Pattillo, salmon policy coordinator for WDFW.
Earlier this year, the state and Skokomish Tribe were unable to reach agreement on the fisheries during the annual salmon season-setting process, known as North of Falcon. Since then, the co-managers have continued negotiations.
"We spent the last several weeks working out the details of the salmon fishery to ensure conservations goals will be met for wild chinook salmon," said Pattillo. "We also worked to structure the fishery to avoid potential gear conflicts between anglers and treaty tribal fishers."
The hatchery chinook fishery on the Skokomish River from the Highway 106 Bridge upstream, will be open to salmon fishing Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays each week through Aug. 25. Fishing is closed on the other days to avoid gear conflicts, as well as limit impacts to wild chinook salmon, said Pattillo.
Anglers should note that the fishery above the Highway 106 Bridge gets under way with a two-day opening (Aug. 3-4), and will be closed Aug. 5-8 before reopening on its regular weekly schedule Friday, Aug. 9.
The hatchery chinook fishery downstream from the Highway 106 Bridge will be open seven days a week through Aug. 25.
Anglers will be required to use single-point barbless hooks when fishing the Skokomish River, where a night closure and anti-snagging rule will be in effect.
Sport fishing for salmon on the Skokomish River from the mouth to the Highway 106 Bridge is as follows:
Aug. 3 through Aug. 25 – Daily limit two salmon; release chum and wild chinook. Anglers must keep the first two legal salmon and stop fishing for the day.
Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 – Daily limit six salmon, up to four adult salmon may be retained. Release chum and chinook.
Oct. 16 until further notice – Daily limit six salmon, up to four adult salmon may be retained. Release chinook.
Sport fishing for salmon on the Skokomish River from the Highway 106 Bridge to the Highway 101 Bridge is as follows:
Aug. 3 through Aug. 25 – Open to salmon fishing Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays each week. Daily limit two salmon; release chum and wild chinook. Anglers must keep the first two legal salmon and stop fishing for the day.
Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 – Open to salmon fishing Sept. 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and Oct. 1-Oct. 15. Daily limit six salmon, up to four adult salmon may be retained. Release chum and chinook.
For more information, see the fishing rule change at https://fortress.wa.gov/dfw/erules/efishrules/erule.jsp?id=1337.
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Future proof: What's next for strategy in Asia?
Gabey Goh, WARC
Asia (general region)
Role of the planner, strategist
As the WARC Awards for Asian Strategy enter a second decade, Gabey Goh, WARC's Asia Editor, looks ahead and wonders how the strategic discipline will be shaped by new thinking and talent.
Jeroen De Flander, the author and expert on strategy execution, once said, "You cannot be everything to everyone. If you decide to go north, you cannot go south at the same time."
But if you were to poll the strategist community, I'm willing to bet that it currently feels like the discipline has become everything to everyone, and is trying to move in four directions at once.
On the plus side, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many agency strategists now have a closer relationship with their clients, as the rapid development of the public health crisis underscored the need to solve significant new challenges. For some, this has resulted in a feeling of greater understanding and respect for the discipline and what it can offer.
But while strategy continues to grow in importance to marketing, the fact remains that agency strategists are being asked to do more with less, and with have room to breathe (and, indeed, think).
Agencies are not capturing the value of strategy
A consistent theme of WARC's Future of Strategy research over recent years has been a sense that agency structures do not properly capture the value of strategy – too often, it is effectively thrown in for free.
This is arguably the strategic discipline's greatest, and longest-running, obstacle: It's hard to advocate for more resources when it's difficult to directly attribute your contribution to outcomes in the way a tactical, performance-driven campaign does.
And because of this ambiguity, it's probably no surprise that many practitioners do not see themselves remaining at traditional shops for the long term. Indeed, only a third of APAC strategists expect their next role to be at an agency, whereas many are seeing brighter paths working for brands and consultancies.
What is strategy … really?
Part of the difficulty in accurately capturing strategy's value lies in there not being a widely accepted classification of what "strategy" means within the context of the marketing function and the services provided by agencies. Equally, I'm convinced that if you were to ask five agency strategists, "What is strategy?", you'd walk away with five wildly different answers.
This isn't a profession where you attend a university for four years and emerge with a bachelor's degree in marketing strategy, credentialled up and ready to go. This is a discipline that finds its practitioners from all walks of life, and from all corners of the agency structure.
Some strategists appear born for the role; others were previously suits who liked insights and research work; others were analysts, academics or researchers that wanted to be closer to the action; and a few probably transferred in, discovered they liked the work, and simply never left.
Despite evidence that clients need strategic help more than ever, though, many strategy departments in agencies across the globe have seen cuts in budgets and headcounts, while freelancers have lost clients. With cutbacks threatening younger talent and the push for greater diversity, this is a hard pill for strategists in Asia to swallow, given how far the region has come.
WARC has been tracking this progression via our annual WARC Awards for Asian Strategy, first launched in 2011 (and, until this year, known as the WARC Prize for Asian Strategy) to showcase Asia's smartest strategic thinking. To date, it remains the only awards scheme in the region dedicated to celebrating the crucial role that agency strategists play in moving the marketing needle.
Former jury member Frank Reitgassl, currently group head of brand strategy and development at Zurich Insurance, recalled strategy still being in its infancy when he first moved to Asia more than a decade ago:
The role of planning was often reduced to research and the 'unearthing' of consumer insights as inspiration for eccentric ECDs and their hard-working bees. Strategy award papers were often flimsy, post-rationalised stories about small campaigns (e.g. numerous launches of new limited-edition burgers by fast-food chains, etc.) that often didn't stand the test on the global stage. And Asian offices of international agencies were looked at as offices that 'just don't do the same quality of work as their US or European equivalents.'
But much has changed since then: Today, the pool of talent from Asia runs much deeper, is more diverse and, more often than before, you'll see Asia-based offices driving global strategy.
Last year's WARC Awards for Asian Strategy served as a celebration of this hard-fought journey. And, this year, in tandem with its new name, it seemed fitting that the focus turns toward what's next.
As such, this year's Awards aim to celebrate strategy as a marketing discipline and career, looking ahead to how the next ten years will be shaped by new thinking and talent.
Where does the future of strategy lie?
While we wait to see what this year's slate of entries will bring, we'll also be asking young agency strategists across Asia to share their take on what they see as strategy's future. This next generation of enquiring minds, after all, will soon bear the mantle of articulating not what strategy is, but rather, what it can – and should – be.
Covering 15 markets, this weekly content programme will showcase the breadth of talent the region has to offer. And the WARC Awards for Asian Strategy will, as always, shine the spotlight on the brilliant work that emerged during the past year.
We humbly invite you to join us for the ride.
How to enter the WARC Awards for Asian Strategy
The WARC Awards for Asian Strategy are now open for entries. The deadline for submission is 14th July, 2021.
Now in their 11th year, the Awards aim to showcase the region's best strategic thinking with a view to inspire the next generation of strategists.
Entry is free. For more info on how to submit your work, visit the Awards website.
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Gabey Goh
Asia Editor, WARC
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We were particularly touched by the personal letters written by young people who have benefited from the supply of fresh drinking water. With best wishes with your continued charity work in providing water to those communities in Africa who need it.
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In most circumstances, the past is a serious distraction from the present and the future. You can profit from past experiences, using something you've learned back there/then to confront something directly ahead of you or something you're planning on accomplishing, say finishing the composition of a story or a book.
Otherwise, dwelling back there/then takes away from the vision and energy necessary to cope with now, meaning you're still not happy with the results from the past and you've blown some practice time or actual playing time in dealing with the immediate now.
So far as completing that story or book you mentioned a moment ago, too much time dawdling or dithering in the past will have an impact on the completion date. Too much time spent reviewing the "could have" and "should have" of the past is the equivalent of taking aim at the future, then shooting yourself in the foot.
Another thing to consider, in case you happen to be coming off a good streak of doing well, being happy, and getting the sense of somehow extending your horizons. This is a good sign that you've progressed, matured, ripened, learned. You're on a good forward momentum. Even so, spend some time in the past, looking for where you left something, or wondering if you got all the value out of an experience, and you're going to make a significant discovery.
Looking back is still not the best idea because you'll see things in terms of the growth and progress you made, then begin to wonder why you were so slow to come around, thinking, you were okay back then, but could have done more. Right. The old guilt spiral.
You try to save going back into the past as occasions to review something you composed yesterday or the week before or maybe even longer than that. When you do, you hope you won't stay in the past for too long. Rather, you'll be transported somewhere, in the manner of Dorothy Gale being transported to Oz. Some of the people and places might appear familiar to you because, after all, you'll have been transported to a place in your imagination, which is fed by your actual experiences and day dreams. Some of the places will surprise you because of the way they seem so real, so convincing.
Some individuals and places you encounter during this transportation will send you right back to LAX, or wherever it was from which you began, in the most literary and literal manner possible, all because of one potentially wrong word or attribution.
This much is clear, going back in the past to review what you've done is fraught with the mischief of one or two words too many, one or two sentences not enough, a judgment coming from you instead of one of your characters, perhaps one or more stereotypes you let creep into the language.
Being at this game as long as you have, making contact with others who have, and your own reading have brought you to a point you once thought was cynical but which you now regard instead as manageable. When you go back in time to review, the greater likelihood is that you will get bounced out of your imaginative venue, but the odds are growing better for you to spot the knock-out place, then figure a way to repair it so that the thing that survives all this time travel is the product of your imagination.
The hidden joy and great temptation for dwelling in the past is the awareness of how, being at this as long as you have, you'll not only find places where you screwed up but good information about how to avoid future screw-ups.
This is, of course, the existential elephant in the living room. You come away confident, then you write something or do something or, with deliberation, do not do something you consider significant. Then, no sooner than you get back in time to deconstruct it or, as they say in the worlds of John LeCarre, be debriefed, than you realize you've got to go back and fix it.


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Now let's skip ahead to 2013. The bragging has stopped. Nobody wants a demonstration. People wonder why I'm using a device that can barely access the Internet. As the screen on my Kindle flashes between book pages, the guy sitting next to me on the subway scrolls through an ebook on his iPhone. He doesn't ask me if he should buy a Kindle. Could it be that in just five years, I went from cutting-edge to dinosaur?
In 2012, ereader sales dropped by 28% while tablet sales grew by over 78%. It all makes perfect sense: people want to spend their money wisely. Why buy an ereader that only serves on purpose when you can buy a tablet that does so much more?
The writing is on the wall for slow and steady demise of ereaders, so why can't I shake my Kindle habit? Currently, I'm reading on my fifth Kindle, the Paperwhite. The first three broke, and I left the fourth on an airplane. Clearly it isn't the durability of Kindle that keeps me hooked.
I simply love to read, and in my opinion, the Kindle offers the best reading experience — for now, anyway. I can read any book I want, uninterrupted for hours and hours. The screen won't flash with notifications and messages; apps won't ping my device asking to be updated; and I won't be tempted to abandon my book for some mind-numbing yet highly addictive game (ahem, 7×7).
The Kindle experience isn't perfect (typos and strange formatting in ebooks, awkward page-flipping, no page numbers), but it's more portable than print and less interruptive than a tablet.
Next year, I might be singing the praises of a new ebook app or tablet and wondering how I could have stuck with an ereader for so long, but for now, I'm happy to read on my single-use, black-and-white Kindle while my fellow subway riders play 7×7 on their retina-display iPads.


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Q: With SerilogWeb.Owin discontinued, is there an "official" integration? I came across the discontinuation notice of the SerilogWeb.Owin package, and in reading the GitHub issue there was discussion about "redirecting folks somewhere" given the ~5K+ downloads of the package.
But I haven't been able to figure out where I'm being redirected to!
So where should I be looking for a "Serilog-blessed" integration for using Serilog with an (OWIN) self-hosted Web API?

A: The package boils down to the following, which I derived from the issues in [the repo](https://github.com/serilog-web/owin/blob/master/src/SerilogWeb.Owin/Owin/LoggerFactory.cs
):

*

*Adding a RequestId to allow traces to be correlated
using (Serilog.Context.LogContext.PushProperty("RequestId", Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N"))

*Plug in a logger redirector:
app.SetLoggerFactory(new SerilogOwinFactory());

*Copy in the impl (this works with WebApi 5.2.4, Katana 4.0, Serilog 2.6) and incorporates learnings from another question about efficiently forwarding events without the writing treating the message as a template, and ensuring the Exception is included a first class element of the message in order that it can be formatted and/or demystyfied corrrectly:
And the good news is that, when you reach ASP.NET Core, there will be a fully maintained package with a deeper integration waiting for you, with a one-liner hookin ;)

// From https://github.com/serilog-web/owin/blob/master/src/SerilogWeb.Owin/Owin/LoggerFactory.cs

// Copyright 2015 SerilogWeb, Serilog Contributors
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
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// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.Owin.Logging;
using Serilog;
using Serilog.Core;
using Serilog.Events;
using ILogger = Serilog.ILogger;

namespace SerilogWeb.Owin
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Implementation of Microsoft.Owin.Logger.ILoggerFactory.
    /// </summary>
    public class SerilogOwinFactory : ILoggerFactory
    {
        readonly Func<ILogger> _getLogger;
        readonly Func<TraceEventType, LogEventLevel> _getLogEventLevel;

        /// <summary>
        /// Create a logger factory.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="logger">The logger; if not provided the global <see cref="Serilog.Log.Logger"/> will be used.</param>
        /// <param name="getLogEventLevel"></param>
        public SerilogOwinFactory(ILogger logger = null, Func<TraceEventType, LogEventLevel> getLogEventLevel = null)
        {
            _getLogger = logger == null ? (Func<ILogger>)(() => Log.Logger) : (() => logger);
            _getLogEventLevel = getLogEventLevel ?? ToLogEventLevel;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new ILogger instance of the given name.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="name">The logger context name.</param>
        /// <returns>A logger instance.</returns>
        public Microsoft.Owin.Logging.ILogger Create(string name)
        {
            return new Logger(_getLogger().ForContext(Constants.SourceContextPropertyName, name), _getLogEventLevel);
        }

        static LogEventLevel ToLogEventLevel(TraceEventType traceEventType)
        {
            switch (traceEventType)
            {
                case TraceEventType.Critical:
                    return LogEventLevel.Fatal;
                case TraceEventType.Error:
                    return LogEventLevel.Error;
                case TraceEventType.Warning:
                    return LogEventLevel.Warning;
                case TraceEventType.Information:
                    return LogEventLevel.Information;
                case TraceEventType.Verbose:
                    return LogEventLevel.Verbose;
                case TraceEventType.Start:
                    return LogEventLevel.Debug;
                case TraceEventType.Stop:
                    return LogEventLevel.Debug;
                case TraceEventType.Suspend:
                    return LogEventLevel.Debug;
                case TraceEventType.Resume:
                    return LogEventLevel.Debug;
                case TraceEventType.Transfer:
                    return LogEventLevel.Debug;
                default:
                    throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("traceEventType");
            }
        }

        class Logger : Microsoft.Owin.Logging.ILogger
        {
            readonly ILogger _logger;
            readonly Func<TraceEventType, LogEventLevel> _getLogEventLevel;
            static readonly Exception _exceptionPlaceHolder = new Exception("(Exception enclosed)");

            internal Logger(ILogger logger, Func<TraceEventType, LogEventLevel> getLogEventLevel)
            {
                _logger = logger;
                _getLogEventLevel = getLogEventLevel;
            }

            public bool WriteCore(TraceEventType eventType, int eventId, object state, Exception exception, Func<object, Exception, string> formatter)
            {
                var level = _getLogEventLevel(eventType);

                // According to docs http://katanaproject.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#src/Microsoft.Owin/Logging/ILogger.cs
                // "To check IsEnabled call WriteCore with only TraceEventType and check the return value, no event will be written."
                if (state == null)
                    return _logger.IsEnabled(level);
                if (!_logger.IsEnabled(level))
                    return false;
                var formattedMessage = formatter(state, null); // Omit exception as we're including it in the LogEvent
                var template = new Serilog.Events.MessageTemplate(new[] { new Serilog.Parsing.TextToken(formattedMessage) });
                var logEvent = new Serilog.Events.LogEvent(DateTimeOffset.Now, level, exception, template, Enumerable.Empty<Serilog.Events.LogEventProperty>());
                _logger.ForContext("eventId", eventId).Write(logEvent);
                return true;
            }
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Good old paint chips... they are free! I grabbed 5 reds and 5 blues when I was at Home Depot last week.
I wanted to make my garland a little different... I used two star punches and punched stars out of the paint chips.
I glued the red stars on the blue paint chips and the blue stars on the red.
Finished! The best thing about this project is that it cost me nothing! Come back tomorrow for more 4th of July projects!


Focal invites you to join the MyTime Men's Group for our monthly get-together.
This evening is an opportunity for men who are dads, grandads, uncles, male friends or siblings of a young person with disability to meet up.
The group meets regularly during school terms and gives men a chance to chat, go on outings, go to dinner and have information sessions about topics of interest.


A recent survey of my Wild at Heart Newsletter readers focused on what characteristic about a person most attracted them immediately. I designed a list of options encompassing everything from clothes to smile to physique. I had the survey program randomize the choices for each participant, so people didn't see them in the same order. Hundreds of readers responded. And the results surprised me!
What topped the list? Well, what didn't top the list made my jaw drop. Clothes and the words people used didn't get a single vote. And weight, tone of voice, gestures, and physique all also scored poorly. Topping the list was…eyes, and a not too distant second was personality, then smile.
What is a person supposed to make of these results? All the Hollywood films, the magazines, and the fashion and exercise blogs would have us believe that looks come first. But what do YOU really think? Apparently, attraction is really all about personality. Because how they feel about the world comes through clearly in someone's eyes. And a smile? That conveys the same. Add eyes, personality, and smile together and they account for what attracts 64% of you to someone. So what sparkles for you is what is on the inside, not what you can buy in a store or practice building at the gym.
What does this mean about love at first sight? After reading these results, I'd say it means it's all in our heads. In a good way. And that we should all smile and let our eyes sparkle a little more, as we reach for that chocolate bar! Right?


The Parent Forum meeting scheduled for 6pm tonight (Thursday 31st January) has been postponed due to the inclement weather that is forecast this evening. The meeting will now take place on Thursday 7th February at 6pm.
Thank you to parents who came along to our Year 7 Curriculum Event on 10th January. You can view a copy of the booklet by clicking here.
Year 7 Parents' Evening is taking place on Thursday 24th January from 4.00-7.00pm. Appointment sheets are in your child's planner. If you need any assistance in making appointments then please do not hesitate to contact Ms Jones, Year 7 Manager on 01983 409182 or email ajones@thebayceschool.org. Click here to view more information.
Wishing all of our students and their families a very Happy New Year. A reminder that students in Years 7-10 return to school on Tuesday 8th January. Students in Year 11 are attending subject specific workshops on Monday 7th January.


Our Player Sponsorship package is a fantastic way for fans and local businesses to show your support for your Cod Army favourites for the new 2013/14 League 2 campaign.
Long serving Nathan Pond, new signing Steve Schumacher, striker Jon Parkin, attacker David Ball, youngster Richard Wright have been snapped up so far so there are plenty of players to choose from.
New signings Antoni Sarcevic, Jeff Hughes, Matt Blair, Stephen Jordan, Mark Roberts and Liam Hogan are available as are last season's player of the year Scott Davies and top scorer Junior Brown and the rest of the squad.
Call 01253 775080 or 07854 846820 to sign up your player or e-mail commercial@fleetwoodtownfc.com for details.


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November 30Varsity football defeats Cy-Fair High School in non-district game to remain undefeated going into district play.
November 30Varsity volleyball loses in third round of playoffs to #1 ranked Klein High School.
November 14Varsity Football clinches district championship.
Bridgeland falls short to Rockwall-Heath in the third round of UIL playoffs
Haylie Stum, Reporter|December 30, 2020
The fairytale story of the Bridgeland Bears' undefeated season came to a close as Rockwall-Heath handed the Bears their first loss in Waco last Saturday. With a blindside victory of 24-48, the Hawks claimed their spot over the Bears in the fourth round of playoffs
The start of the game appeared promising for the Bears. Zachary Evans, a huge working part of the Hawks' offense, was put on the injured list due to a torn ACL from the week prior. And with Rockwall-Heath on offense first, they picked up nearly no significant gain with a lively Bear defense. When forced to punt the ball, Bridgeland's Joshua Ryan was unable to receive the punt cleanly. This mishap would result in a Hawks ball recovery to send their offense back out onto the Mclane Stadium turf.
Rising recruit and starting quarterback for Rockwall-Heath, Joshua Hoover redeemed his first possession with help from his team to send the ball on a rope to wide receiver Jordan Nabors up the middle and into the endzone for a Hawk touchdown and first score of the game.
It was all Hoover and wide receiver Corban Cleveland on their next time out on the field. After Hoover sent the ball to Cleveland to bring up a juggled first down, he spotted him in the endzone again for Cleveland to make a beautiful layout grab. With this play, the Hawks extended their lead to two scores.
The blue-and-orange broke their goose egg on the board on their next scoring charge. Starting quarterback Conner Weigman picked up a crucial first down on the keeper. After the play, the bulldog of the Bear offense Mason Culton went down on the field and never came back on. The Bears were still able to manufacture a touchdown after Weigman sent a laser into the hands of Andrew Maleski behind the goal line.
Bridgeland's offensive jab was quickly answered with Hawk star Jay Fair running the kick after the touchdown back all the way into Bear territory to tack on another six points to their score. Although the extra point was blocked by the Bear defense, Rockwall-Heath was able to keep the score unfazed by one possession with a 7-20 lead.
The Bear offense came back out on the turf just before the clock ticked down to zero in the first quarter. With a Weigman dime thrown across his body to wide receiver Hunter Wallis to start and another ball on the keeper by the four-star QB, the Bridgeland coaches called upon Ethan Hajdik to get things done at the start of the second quarter. His first field goal attempt was no good, but was reversed with an illegal formation on the defense called by the referees. His second attempt was sent straight into the left goal post, cutting the Bears' deficit down three points.
With eight minutes and twenty seconds left in the second quarter, the Hawks cleanly executed a short drive up the middle across the goal line to answer the Bears' newfound offensive awakening. Weigman was able to assemble another touchdown in response by utilizing different players in the drive like Atrevion Hunter, Christian Phillips, and Dylan Goffney. The scoring play consisted of Goffney pulling down Weigman's throw on his toes to make the new score 17-27.
Showing some fight, Bridgeland cornerback Joshua Ryan intercepted Hoover's pass to put the ball back into the hands of the offense at the 46-yard line. This sign of life from the Bears was quickly shut down by the Hawks as they recovered a fumble by Weigman on the first play of the Bears' drive.
The Hawk defense's efforts did not go unnoticed by Josh Hoover. Hoover used the opportunity to hand the ball off to Preston Landis who in turn carried the football all the way to the goal line where he would dive in for another six points. After the good extra point kick, the new score of the "WTD" showdown was 17-34.
After a field goal attempt from Hajdik, Connor Gower tried to give the ball back to Weigman one more time in the first half by intercepting Hoover's throw. Even with a good start with a complete pass to Goffney on the bounds' edge, Weigman was unable to find any success with the shortage on time.
Four minutes into the start of the second half, Brittan Snider for Rockwall-Heath snaked his way into the endzone on the carry. After Hawk cornerback Dez Mims intercepted Weigman's throw, he put the ball back into the hands of Josh Hoover. Hoover delivered by locating Fair at the back corner of the endzone for another red-and-black touchdown.
The last bit of significant action in the third quarter was the Bear offense trying to counteract such a huge point differential formulated by the Hawks. Phillips on the carry moved the offense to the 20-yard line where Weigman would find sophomore Jordan Wooden to bully his way across the white line for a touchdown.
The final quarter of the game was silent from both sides, but the score was loud enough. The final score of the game amounted to 24-48 Rockwall-Heath.
Rockwall-Heath's key to their success was their effectiveness of their attack throughout the game. With an interception and three forced fumbles, they transfigured all four turnovers into touchdowns. This is very well reflected in the final score.
While the Hawks ended Bridgeland's winning streak and playoff run, they also ended the highschool careers of the Bear seniors. Being the first group of athletes the football program has brought up from freshman to senior, Coach Raffield, the head coach of the football team, takes their devastation to heart.
Senior defensive lineman Aundre' Dewalt sits with tears in his eyes after the game against Rockwell-Heath. (Ella Barnes )
"It's a heartbreaker. Once we leave that locker room, we'll probably never get to get together like this again, and just to wrap my head around that is so hard. It's so hard to understand. To see the pain in their faces is the hardest thing after everything. Hard to shake," Raffield said.
Although it wasn't the outcome the Bridgeland community was hoping for, this has been the deepest the Bear football team has ever made it in the postseason bracket. Coach Matt Rader, the Bridgeland receivers coach, thinks that this kind of growth will help propel the future of their program upward.
"It's a huge step up from last year. Being able to win two times is not an easy thing to do. We just have to make sure to play on and build upon what the team this year has done for us," Rader said.
In a year full of chaos, one thing stayed stable- Bridgeland football's fanbase. Coach Rader thinks that even in these times, the Bear fans' continuous support was unmatched.
"They [fans] have been really great, even in this year when not a lot of them can show up," Rader said. "The ones that have showed up brought just as much passion as it was when the stands were completely full."
A fairytale ending to a fairytale season wasn't the case for the Bears, but an important season nonetheless. Even without the win, the 2020 season will go down as one to remember.
"This group of kids have set the standard at our place [Bridgeland] that will be remembered forever. They have a legacy that will never leave. Ever," Raffield said.
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Play Dough Pictionary is one of my favorite community building and academic review activities. One of the reasons it stays on the top of my list is that it has led to many meaningful discussions about creativity. After playing the game, I will often ask the group to share one word to describe the activity. The words imagination and creativity come up regularly. When I ask participants "How many of you consider yourselves creative?" something interesting happens. When I ask the question of 3rd graders almost everyone raises their hand. When I ask the same question of 8th graders, high school students or adults, very few do.
This is a great opportunity to explore the true definition of creativity and help them reflect on examples in their day-to-day life when they ARE creative. These examples of creativity have a wide range (e.g., figuring out a way to effectively work out a conflict with a peer or family member, finding a way to fix something when they don't have "right" tools, making an argument to persuade their parents to see something their way, writing a paper in English, working out a system for keeping group members accountable in a group project). I try to help learners realize that everyone has the ability to be creative, and that it is a skill that can be practiced.
The ability to make new things or think of new ideas. The ability to produce something new through imaginative skill, whether a new solution to a problem, a new method or device, or a new artistic object or form. The term generally refers to a richness of ideas and originality of thinking.
Dr. Jonathan Plucker a leader in the study of creativity and learning from Indiana University defines creativity as "the production of original, useful things." (Wirthy, 2002).
One of my strongest reasons for promoting experiential approaches to teaching and group work is that they promote creativity and creative problem-solving skills. Creativity in my view is one of the most important life skills. Proponents of the 21st century skills movement would argue one of the top skills necessary to thrive in the 21st century workplace.
Fifty years ago E. Paul Torrance pioneered the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking. In longitudinal studies that followed, there was a strong correlation between high scorers on this test and their success and accomplishments as adults. When Jonathan Plucker reanalyzed the data in 1999, the correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ. (Bronson & Merryman, 2010).
As educators we can cultivate creativity in learners by engaging them in insightful problem-solving tasks, giving them opportunities to experiment, collaborate, explore, make metaphors take ownership over their learning, take risks in learning, and by asking more questions than giving answers. Find ways to intentionally structure opportunities for inquiry, exploration, creating meaning from metaphor. Educators cultivate creativity when they are willing to go with the flow of lessons being created by their students and take advantage of unplanned opportunities for learning that arise.
When your group takes and activity or discussion somewhere unexpected, be flexible enough to go with it if appropriate. Being open to these opportunities and knowing how to guide them is one of the qualities that makes for a successful educator. Nurturing creativity in learners is what experiential education is all about.


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class MaintenanceForecastsController < OrganizationAwareController

  add_breadcrumb "Home", :root_path
  add_breadcrumb "Service Schedule", :maintenance_forecasts_path

  INDEX_KEY_LIST_VAR    = "maintenance_forecast_key_list_cache_var"

  # GET /maintenance_forecasts
  # GET /maintenance_forecasts.json
  def index

    start_month = Date.today.beginning_of_month
    @months = []
    @months << start_month
    (1..5).each do |i|
      @months << start_month + i.months
    end

    service = MaintenanceSchedulingService.new
    @service_schedules = service.services_due(@organization_list)

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # index.html.erb
    end

  end

end

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The online registration for DISCOVER INDIA SUMMER CAMP is open now.
Registration is online only. No paper forms will be accepted.
The purpose of the Discover India Camp is to develop competence and confidence in the participants as children growing up in Indian and American cultures. Students are given the opportunity to learn more about the Indian culture through a wide range of fun and meaningful activities/subjects including character education, yoga, arts, history and recreation. While the camp is not exclusively for kids of Indian heritage, it is geared towards this unique group of children.
Age Limits: Rising 1st - to 7th Grade. Students in Balavihar classes are registered as per their grade in Regular School as of Sept 30, 2019.
GENERAL INFORMATION The double doors to the camp area during camp hours will be locked for safety. If you have any changes in drop off or pick up please inform your camper's assigned counsellor/organizers. You will get an email with detailed information closer to camp dates. Camp will provide one snack and Gatorade if campers are playing outdoor sports.
What to bring to camp Small backpack with a small water bottle, snack (we have 2 snack breaks), colored pencils/crayons. Dress in clothes you don't mind getting dirty because fun can be messy sometimes. Don't forget to bring smiles!!
Carpooling Campers' information will be shared with all parents closer to camp dates so you can make arrangements for carpooling if needed.
Friday Fun Campers will have a fun day outside after lunch. Please dress them up in clothes you don't mind getting wet and dirty. There will be face painting, water fun, snow cones and snacks. All parents are invited. Pickup that day will be under the cover carport up the handicap ramp. The main Temple building will be locked during pickup that day to ensure safety.
Youth Counsellor Opportunities Limited number of Youth Counsellor Opportunities are available for the Camp week. Rising 9th-12th Graders are eligible. Please click on the link below to fill out the form online. Counsellors will be selected on a first come first serve basis.


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Virginia Lucille Wood
Virginia Lucille Wood passed away peacefully at her home in Deming, New Mexico on Thursday, March 16, 2017. Virginia was born on March 10, 1923, in Cadillac, MI to her parents Lawrence Cass and Margaret Devoy. Virginia grew up in Cadillac, MI.
Virginia married Robert H. Wood in 1942 and together raised six children: Vicki, Bill, Tim, Kevin, Larry and Kathy in Grattan, MI on Slayton Lake in a house that Bob built three times.
Virginia retired from Amway Corporation after many years of dedication and moved to Summerland Key, Florida. Virginia was surrounded by family and friends and enjoyed doing crossword while having coffee (or drinks) on her front porch while swinging on her swing. Virginia loved to entertain and was always a gracious host who would provide wonderful food and drink to any and all who would cross her doorstep. Virginia held many holiday cocktail parties on Summerland Key to be remembered, some that are still being talked about to this day!
Virginia also enjoyed reading, sewing, cooking and especially gambling across the country and back with her sister, Carrie Helen, her daughters, Vicki and Kathy and really anyone who would go with her!
Virginia was a strong, beautiful, generous, loving woman who will be greatly missed by her family and friends.
Virginia was preceded in death by her long time honey, Bob Wood, her daughter, Vicki Wood, her son, Larry Wood and her grandson, Ryan Bellinger as well her siblings: Dick, Marion and Bill.
Virginia is survived by her children, Tim & Peggy Wood, Belding, MI, Bill & Maxine Wood, Columbiana, Al, Kevin & Joel Lowery Cedar Key, FL, and Kathy & Chris Madsen, Deming, NM. Virginia loved her grandchildren: Brechen, Tiffany, Tim, Eric, Monica, Cal, Jenny, Amber, Bob, Matt, Kassi, Kris, David, Molly, Mitchell, Leslie and was so proud of them. Virginia was also survived by many Great Grandchildren, nieces, and nephews and her siblings – Carrie Helen Stoll, Larry Cass and Judy Gumper.
Special thanks to the Ambercare Hospice especially, Dan and Edna for your loving care and support. The journey would not have been so smooth without you.
Cremation will take place at Terrazas Crematory. Arrangements are with Terrazas Funeral Chapels & Crematory


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List of the best Elizabeth Hurley movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Elizabeth Hurley's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. The order of these top Elizabeth Hurley movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Elizabeth Hurley movies will be at the top of the list. Elizabeth Hurley has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest Elizabeth Hurley movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Elizabeth Hurley films to end the squabble once and for all.
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Bedazzled Elizabeth Hurley, Brendan Fraser, Frances O'Connor
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Permanent Midnight Elizabeth Hurley, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson
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The Weight of Water is a 2000 French-American mystery thriller film based on Anita Shreve's 1997 novel of the same name. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the film stars Elizabeth Hurley, Catherine ...more
Serving Sara Amy Adams, Elizabeth Hurley, Matthew Perry
Serving Sara is a 2002 romantic comedy film which stars Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, and Bruce Campbell. Joe Tyler is a process server who is given the assignment to serve Sara Moore with ...more
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Elizabeth Hurley, Heather Graham, Will Ferrell
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is a 1999 action comedy film and the second film in the Austin Powers series. It is preceded by the original film, Austin Powers: International Man of ...more
Kill Cruise Elizabeth Hurley, Patsy Kensit, Jürgen Prochnow
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Double Whammy Elizabeth Hurley, Steve Buscemi, Denis Leary
Double Whammy is a 2001 comedy/drama film. Although intended to be released in theaters, it was ultimately distributed direct-to-video.
Passenger 57 Elizabeth Hurley, Wesley Snipes, Tom Sizemore
Passenger 57 is a 1992 American action film directed by Kevin Hooks. The film stars Wesley Snipes and Bruce Payne. The film's success made Snipes a popular action hero icon. It also introduced ...more
Method Elizabeth Hurley, Jeremy Sisto, Sam Douglas
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Dangerous Ground Elizabeth Hurley, Ice Cube, Ving Rhames
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Aria Elizabeth Hurley, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton
Aria is a 1987 British anthology film produced by Don Boyd from Virgin Group's visual section consisting of ten short films by a variety of directors. It was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film ...more
EDtv Matthew McConaughey, Elizabeth Hurley, Ellen DeGeneres
EDtv is a 1999 American satirical comedy film directed by Ron Howard. An adaptation of the Quebec film Louis 19, le roi des ondes, it stars Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, ...more
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Samson and Delilah is a German/Italian/American telefilm that was first shown on TNT in the USA. It was directed by Nicolas Roeg. The lion is a puppet from Jim Henson's Creature Shop. This ...more
Christabel Elizabeth Hurley, Stephen Dillane, Jim Carter
Christabel is a five-part British drama series first shown on BBC1 between 16 November and 17 December 1988. It is based on the memoirs of Christabel Bielenberg, an English woman married to a ...more
Rowing with the Wind Elizabeth Hurley, Hugh Grant, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Rowing with the Wind aka Remando al viento is a 1988 Spanish film written and directed by Gonzalo Suárez. The film won seven Goya Awards. It concerns the English writer Mary Shelley and
My Favorite Martian Elizabeth Hurley, Christopher Lloyd, Daryl Hannah
My Favorite Martian is a 1999 comic science fiction film starring Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Daryl Hannah, Elizabeth Hurley, Wallace Shawn and Ray Walston, based on the 1960s television ...more
Wonder Woman Elizabeth Hurley, Adrianne Palicki, Phil McGraw
David E. Kelley's take has incorporated the superhero's signature lasso, cuffs, and plane in the script, but it is a serious, non-campy take on the DC Comics character. THE SERIES The plot is ...more
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen Elizabeth Hurley, C. Thomas Howell, Claire Bloom
Mad Dogs and Englishmen is a 1995 British thriller film directed by Henry Cole and starring Elizabeth Hurley, C. Thomas Howell and Joss Ackland. An upper-class drug addict is pursued by the ...more
High Midnight Elizabeth Hurley, Rachael Leigh Cook, Vincent D'Onofrio
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The Last Guy on Earth Elizabeth Hurley, Whoopi Goldberg, Yasmine Bleeth
Dawg Elizabeth Hurley, Denis Leary, Alex Borstein
Dawg is 2002 dramedy film directed by Victoria Hochberg. It stars Denis Leary and Elizabeth Hurley, in their second film together. Steffani Brass was nominated for Young Artist Award for her ...more
The Human Face John Cleese, Pierce Brosnan, Kevyn Major Howard
The Human Face is a 4 part BBC series that examines the science behind facial beauty, expression, and fame. Actor and comedian John Cleese investigated identity, perception, creativity and ...more
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Sullivan has memorable debut for Tar Heels
Gordon Engelhardt
Emily Sullivan made her women's college basketball debut one to remember on Sunday.
The 6-foot-4 freshman from Memorial High scored 11 of her 17 points in the third quarter in the University of North Carolina's 107-54 romp over Scotland Select in an exhibition game at Stirling, Scotland. She also had four rebounds, one block and one steal in 15 minutes.
The Tar Heels are on a 12-day trip overseas in the United Kingdom, mainly Scotland and Ireland. They will play two more games this week before returning back to Chapel Hill.
UNC finished 14-18 overall (4-12 Atlantic Coastal Conference) last season, but return its top three scorers — led by 5-11 guard Stephanie Watts. Sullivan is one of seven freshmen on the roster and is expected to compete for playing time on a guard-heavy team.
The Cary, North Carolina native was considered a three-star recruit by ESPN, which also ranked her as the No. 15 center in the 2016 class.
She averaged a double-double with 18.2 points and 10.7 rebounds per game her senior year at Memorial, and led the state with 6.7 blocks per game on her way to becoming the Courier & Press All-Metro Player of the Year.