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We are delighted to be able to announce that Westfield Primary School has been awarded the KITE MARK AWARD for 'The whole school approach to Mental Health and Well-being'.
As you are aware, our children's mental and physical well-being continues to be extremely important to us and now more than ever we feel that it is vitally important. We are very proud of all that we offer our children and that this was recognised in the application we presented to the Hertfordshire Healthy Young Minds panel of mental health professionals. The panel commented on the wealth of information that was provided along with this submission.
"The information was very comprehensive and provided useful informative about Westfield approach to emotional wellbeing in the school. The submission demonstrated a range of strong interventions supporting the development of resilience and positive emotional wellbeing. The panel also highlighted the strong Leadership and Management section which is key in order for the linked 11 areas to be following through within the school community."
A very personal thank you to all the staff and parents for supporting us embed this culture and ethos into our school for the wellbeing of us all.
Mrs Stace and Milo complete the 2.6 Challenge!
I am delighted to say that I got up early this morning to take on my 2.6 Challenge on Northchurch common and I did it!!!!
In true Westfield style I definitely put myself in the ' stretch zone ', as I am certainly more a dog walker than a runner!
That said, as my morning quote on my calendar quite rightly said , 'If you never try you'll never know'
I now know that I 'CAN ' run 2.6 K which for many of you I appreciate would be a walk in the park – however for me, it felt more like a marathon!
Thanks to Milo running by my side and my daughter's support and company I am proud to share the attached photos .
Thank you Harrison for inspiring me to do this – I hope Harrison, Milo and I have now inspired you to put yourselves in the stretch zone and try something new and take part in the 2.6 challenge – it's never too late!
In fact, I have now decided that I will get up and go on my second run on Friday – you never know, maybe I could run 5 K by the end of lockdown!!!
Enjoy your day everyone
Mrs Stace and Milo
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Operation Encompass is a police and education early information sharing partnership enabling schools to offer immediate support for children and young people experiencing domestic abuse. Information is shared by the police with a school's trained Key Adult (DSL) prior to the start of the next school day after officers have attended a domestic abuse incident thus enabling appropriate support to be given, dependent upon the needs and wishes of the child.
Children experiencing domestic abuse are negatively impacted by this exposure; domestic abuse has been identified as an Adverse Childhood Experience and can lead to emotional, physical and psychological harm. Operation Encompass aims to mitigate this harm by enabling immediate support, making a child's day better and giving them a better tomorrow. Operation Encompass believes that children are victims of domestic abuse in their own right and should be acknowledged as such.
The principles of Operation Encompass are very simple and easy to adopt. Within every school a trained Key Adult is appointed – the Key Adult receives information about abusive incidents directly from the police. The Key Adult will be notified prior to the start of the next school day that the police have attended an incident of domestic abuse to which a child has been exposed. This timely knowledge enables a plan for appropriate support to be made for that child so that all interactions, from when the child first arrives at the school gates, are of a positive nature.
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CHICAGO (June 19, 2017) - The U.S. Soccer Development Academy will broadcast 12 feature games, two per day across six days, during the 2017 Summer Showcase and Playoffs live on the Development Academy Facebook page and ussoccerda.com. The feature games will spotlight top Academy clubs from across the nation in the U-14, U-15/16 and U-17/18 age groups. The final two feature games, set to take place on Monday, June 26, will highlight two games from the final day of the U-15/16 and U-17/18 Academy Playoffs and will be announced on June 25.
The feature games were selected based on a variety of factors, including: teams that embody Academy ideals, uphold Academy standards and philosophies, and produce quality soccer in competition leading up to the event. The final two feature games will have Knockout Round contention at stake for the final day of Playoff group play.
The four known Playoff games that will be featured provide exceptionally intriguing storylines. For the U-15/16 age group, Sockers FC (Chicago, Ill.), who will face Academy powerhouse New York Red Bulls (Harrison, N.J.), enter the Playoffs with the second-best regular season record, finishing with a 2.4 points-per-game-played average. The second U-15/16 feature game will showcase Capital Area RailHawks - CASL (Raleigh, N.C.), who finished second in the Southeast Division regular season, taking on Real So Cal (Woodland Hills, Calif.) who are 8-3-4 in their last 15 games in a consistently strong Southwest Division.
In the U-17/18 age group, the first feature game will see Indiana Fire (Westfield, Ind.) on their home turf against perennial power Players Development Academy (Somerset, N.J.). An all-MLS Academy showdown is set to take place when FC Dallas (Frisco, Texas) looks to continue their quest for back-to-back Academy Championships against U.S. Men's National Team player Jordan Morris' former Academy club, Seattle Sounders (Tukwila, Wash.).
Find the entire 2017 Summer Showcase and Playoffs schedule of games and field locations here.
In total, the Development Academy Summer Showcase and Playoffs will feature 309 games at Westfield Indiana's Grand Park from June 20-26. The venue is home to the Chicago Fire's affiliate Academy club, Indiana Fire, which plays all its home games at Grand Park. This complex encompasses a 400-acre Sports Campus with 32 soccer fields, 24 Kentucky Bluegrass soccer fields, seven turf fields and a championship stadium with a top class grass field. Follow all the action live on Twitter (@ussoccer_acad) and Instagram (@ussoccer_acad).


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Q: ng2-bootstrap, call Modal defined in child component from parent compent I am using ng2-bootstrap for the modal stuff.
I am trying to separate my modals and my other components apart. So I have the following files:
addPlaylist.modal.ts
import {Component} from '@angular/core';
import {CORE_DIRECTIVES} from '@angular/common';

import {MODAL_DIRECTVES, BS_VIEW_PROVIDERS} from 'ng2-bootstrap/ng2-bootstrap';

@Component({
  selector: 'addplaylist-modal',
  directives: [MODAL_DIRECTVES, CORE_DIRECTIVES],
  viewProviders: [BS_VIEW_PROVIDERS],
  templateUrl: 'app/channel/modals/addPlaylistModal.html'
})

export class AddPlaylistModalComponent {
  constructor() {
    console.log(this);
  }
}

addPlaylistModal.html

        <button type="button" class="close" (click)="lgModal.hide()" aria-label="Close">
          ×
        </button>

Large modal

        ...

In it's parent component's html I have code piece like this:

   //some other code
  <addplaylist-modal></addplaylist-modal>

This is the parent component:
channel.component.ts
import { AddPlaylistModalComponent } from './shared/addPlaylist.modal';

@Component({
  selector: 'channel',
  styleUrls: ['app/channel/channel.css'],
  directives: [PlatformsComponent, PagesComponent, PlaylistComponent, VideosComponent, AddPlaylistModalComponent],
  providers: [PlatformService],
  templateUrl: 'app/channel/channel.html'
})

What I want to do, I want to be able to let the parent componet to access it and open the modal even if I write the (click)="lgModal.show()" at parent component.
Now if I click the    , it will say " can not read property show of undefined"
So, how to let the parent component know that the lgModal is defined and it's in its child component.

A: Your solution might look something like this:
ChildComponent
@Component({
  ...
  exportAs: 'child'  <== add this line
})
export class AddPlaylistModalComponent {
  @ViewChild('lgModal') lgModal; <== reference to Modal directive
  show(){   <== public method
    this.lgModal.show();
  }
}

ParentComponent
template: `Add
           <addplaylist-modal #c="child"></addplaylist-modal>`

See also the completed sample here https://plnkr.co/edit/2UAB7lpqqAvchTsLwzr6?p=preview

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Lindsey Grayzel and Deia Schlosberg had never met, but on October 11, 2016, the documentary filmmakers were each arrested while filming #Shut It Down climate activists who turned off all pipelines carrying Canadian tar sands oil into the U.S. as part of a direct action protest.
Though Schlosberg was in North Dakota and Grayzel was in Washington, the two filmmakers quickly found themselves in remarkably similar situations. Along with two other filmmakers, they were arrested and charged with the same felonies as the climate activists, charges carrying penalties of up to 40 years in prison. Since then, their charges have been dropped/suspended and they have joined forces to bring Grayzel's feature film, The Reluctant Radical, about Ken Ward, one of the #ShutItDown activists, to fruition.
On April 27, as part of The Portland EcoFilm Festival at the historic Hollywood Theatre, director/producer Grayzel, co-producer Schlosberg, the film's subject, Ken Ward, and Grayzel's attorney Braden Pence, were on hand to screen works-in-progress clips from The Reluctant Radical, Schlosberg's award-winning short Backyard, and to discuss the essential protection that the First Amendment provides for documentary filmmakers.
When asked what brought the filmmakers together, Schlosberg, producer of Josh Fox's How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change, said, "Jail. Lindsey and I had never experienced anything like that: being arrested for doing our jobs, charged with felonies for doing our jobs. So we got in touch, discussed legal strategy, confided in each other and realized we were on the same page about a lot of things." After Grayzel sent her a few scenes from The Reluctant Radical, Schlosberg said she "was struck by how powerful it is" and signed on as co-producer.
The most important thing about the freedom of speech and of the press is that the Constitution simply and categorically prohibits the government from limiting the topic at all: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press . . ." This simple language precludes any attempt to limit the definition of what constitutes "speech" or who constitutes "press." Thus, these terms, and the protections associated with them, are necessarily entitled to the broadest possible interpretation.
The second thing to understand is that the freedoms of speech and of the press are inextricably linked to one another, by both the text of the Constitution and by practical necessity: an idea is powerless to affect change when it is whispered alone into the darkness; press is powerless to affect change when it lacks substance. It is at the juncture of speech and press where the promise of the first amendment is found, a place as diverse as the newspaper editorial room, the sidewalk soapbox, and the social media mobile phone app. Thus, we are all members of the "press" protected by the Constitution, and anyone who wants to exercise the freedom of speech must be willing to fight for the freedom of press.
1. Maintain separation of actions between yourself documenting and your subjects protesting. Do not help protests with logistics, help facilitate their actions, give suggestions, etc. Be an observer, not a participant. Avoid sharing transportation with your subjects to the protest site.
2. Identify yourself as media to law enforcement in the field. If practical, wear an identifying media badge, outfit your gear with the name of your film/company/news organization, etc. Have identifying business cards with your gear. Have an internet trail documenting your work on the project, and colleagues who could testify on your behalf that they were aware of your work on the subject.
3. If your camera allows for recording on two cards simultaneously, use it. If things look they are going awry, hand off one of the cards to someone else who is trustworthy and won't be arrested, or hide it somewhere you can come back and retrieve it later.
4. Plan ahead. If there is reason to believe you might be arrested, arrange ahead of time for someone to bail you out, and an attorney who is licensed in the state you are filming in.
5. Don't be intimidated to do your job! You have a right to film on public property. If the police tell you to move, you need to move, but don't move before you are told you have to. Often, they won't tell you to move and then you have a better shot. Heck, the police officer arresting Ken at the Exxon station was downright excited at the prospect of seeing himself on YouTube.
Meanwhile, as The Reluctant Radical wraps up post-production — and prepares to shoot Ward's unexpected second trial (after his first ended in a mistrial) — the team has turned to Kickstarter to raise money for post-production needs including final editing, a musical score, post production sound mix, and color correction. Portland-based film composer Mark Orton (Nebraska, Box Trolls) has already signed on to do the score.
Find out more about The Reluctant Radical here.


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Jerry Garcia Week 2012 Day 1: Turning 70…
July 31, 2012 November 9, 2014 halmasonbergDays Between, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Jerry garcia Sampler, Jerry garcia Week, John Perry Barlow, Losing Jerry, Wolfgang's VaultLeave a comment
Today, had he lived, Jerry Garcia would have turned 70. I wonder what kind of a celebration we would have had. Assuming he had managed to regain his health, had finally quit the persian for good, and was still making music. It would have been a time to smile. Wide. But here we find ourselves caught in the melancholy between mourning and celebration. So much music to rediscover, to explore, the vast online Archive of Garcia's contribution, the stories, the words, the songs, that smile…
Dead.net has put up some tributes to Jerry from back in 1995, the year of his death. I'm gonna borrow a handful over the next few days to post here. Along with some music that another incredible soul, Mr. Bill Graham, would have liked as it appears on the site dedicated to his vault of treasures known as Wolfgang's Vault.
To begin, here are some words from John Perry Barlow on losing Garcia.
Losing Jerry
In the time since Jer shuffled off his sorry old meat and flew away, I have found myself incapable of writing about it, or even talking about it very much.
I've been silent as a flat coon on this, one of the most important deaths of my death-shadowed life. I've received hundreds of e-messages from my fellow bereaved, nearly all of them more eloquent in their grief than I could be in mine, despite their never having personally known the guy.
These folks never had the delight of engaging him in mind-play, where he was as light and agile as a child Baryshnikov on springs, perfectly capable of juggling concepts taken evenly from Kirkegaard, Coltrane, and comic books into the same sentence or three. They never experienced the great skeptical arch of his eyebrow, never benefited from his uncanny talent for popping the self-inflated, even while extending to those thus reduced his most enthusiastic support for their real talents and virtues. They never heard him exclaim in delight, "That's a fat trip!" when he himself was the fattest trip there was. They never heard his acerbic cackle. Never watched close up the cycles of his wild internal weather, rolling in and out, blackness and radiance, winter and spring, until finally spring promised, then failed to return, as we all know would happen someday.
They hadn't lost these personal things like the rest of us here inside the Village of the Dead, and yet they mourned their loss far more movingly than I have been able to do.
Of course, in some dimensions, we have all lost the same things. We have all lost the glistening, piercing soar of those notes he played, dancing like electricity over the dense sonic jungle arising from his fellow Dead. We've all lost the redeeming sorrow in his straining wail, the brief but bottomless silence between his notes.
We've all lost the Grateful Dead
Something may or may not assemble itself out of these perfectly great spare parts he leaves. The living Dead might play again. If they do, they may even have the ability to invoke the Holy Who-Knows which sometimes was there in the space between the Deadheads and "The Boyz." Hell, it might be as good, whatever that means. It might even be better. But it won't be the Grateful Dead.
Losing the Dead is terribly hard. The Grateful Dead have been my tribe for 30 years. Their religion, where the only dogma was music, was my religion. They've been the only thing that was always there. Through many other beginnings and ends, and many other deaths, the trip just got longer and stranger. Now we don't know what is coming. It'll be a trip, undoubtedly strange, possibly long, but it won't be that trip.
Even having lost all this, I can't seem to feel it properly or weep over it like I want to, or find the right thing to say. And it's not like I don't have practice. Seems like I've been practicing for this event a long time, eulogizing Pigpen, Keith, Brent – whose absence still tears at me hard – and a lot of others, inside and out of this dangerous place with death in its very name. It's not at all like me to say nothing at the funeral of someone I loved. Or remain silent later.
Somebody asked me, in an interview right before he died, what it was like to know Jerry Garcia. The question hit me strange. I thought about all the ways in which he and his various manifestations had woven themselves into my life over the last 30 years, and I said, "God, I can't imagine what it would be like not to know Jerry Garcia." Now I'm there. I should be able to imagine it easily now that it's real, but I still can't. It's too big. I can't wrap my mind around it. Or my heart.
In a way, it feels as if my inability to mourn him as I have others is appropriate. Jerry would not want to be mourned. He hated the fuss he generated in life. He would have been appalled by the fuss made over his death. He kept his emotions for his music.
But still, I miss him. I miss him in the ways it will take me years to figure out.
-John Perry Barlow
This passage is an excerpt from GARCIA – A Grateful Celebration, originally published in 1995 byDupree's Diamond News. To learn more about Dupree's Diamond News or how to obtain a copy of GARCIA – A Grateful Celebration, click here.
And now we can begin to celebrate the music in this Jerry Garcia Sampler. Enjoy and see you tomorrow!
Favorite Quotes: Bruce Springsteen on Adulthood & Music
July 30, 2012 November 9, 2014 halmasonbergBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Bruce Springsteen at sixty-two, David Remnick, Favorite Quotes, NEW YORKER, We Are AliveLeave a comment
"For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in. Music, when it's really great, pries that shit back open and lets people back in, it lets light in, and air in, and energy in, and sends people home with that and sends me back to the hotel with it. People carry that with them sometimes for a very long period of time."
–Bruce Springsteen, The New Yorker, We Are Alive: Bruce Springsteen at sixty-two by David Remnick, July 30, 2012.
Great American Films Still Get Made, They're Just Hard To Find: Lonergan's 3-Hr MARGARET
July 29, 2012 November 9, 2014 halmasonberg150 minutes, 160 minute, 180 minute, 2-1/2 hr, 3-hour, 3-Hr, 9/11, Amazon, Anna Paquin, Blu-Ray, CERTIFIED COPY, Combo pack, Director's Cut, DVD, Extended Cut, Gary Gilbert, It is Margaret you mourn for, Kenneth Lonergan, MARGARET, Mark Ruffalo, Martin Scorsese, Matt Damon, N.Y., New York, NORWEGIAN WOOD, opera, Scott Rudin, Spring and Fall, THE DESCENDANTS, Thelma Schoonmaker, To a young child, UP IN THE AIR, writer, YOU CAN COUNT ON MELeave a comment
"Kenny, you made a masterpiece. Unfortunately it's in the wrong decade and the wrong country."
These were actor Mark Ruffalo's words to writer/director Kenneth Lonergan upon seeing the 3-hour cut of Lonergan's film MARGARET.
For those who don't know, playwright Lonergan's second film (his first was the incredibly well-received YOU CAN COUNT ON ME, also starring Ruffalo), underwent a tremendous journey from script to screen. The epic urban tale was filmed in 2005 by Lonergan and lingered in an interminably long editing limbo. Lonergan had a difficult time finding the cut that worked for him; an artist struggling to find his vision while financiers and a studio breathed down his neck. Not that Lonergan was a victim here. His needs (to be left alone to do the work) are a lot to ask when so much time and money is on the line. Something Lonergan is well-aware of. And he seems to carry little resentment over how things went down. He seems to understand all-too-well the role he played in the film's history.
"Nobody really did anything wrong, exactly, it's just everyone was very frightened and nervous. Some people can have fights and then go back to work; I have a big fight and I shake for the rest of the day. Or even if it's not a fight, it's just a conversation, and a problem comes up I think about that [constantly], so I very much need to be left alone completely and that's the one thing that's very difficult for people. Understandably. I mean, write a cheque for $12 million dollars and you wanna make sure it's going to come out all right, it's reasonable. But I need to find a way to separate the two things… Not that it was all bad, the film came out very well, I'm happy with the result and I'm happy that people seem to like it. So I don't know what more I can ask for. Except to be younger."
Producer Scott Rudin pushed Lonergan to complete his cut until he finally realized what was happening:
"Kenny's not a guy who takes distractions well or easily. He's somebody who is highly concentrated on the work and not at all interested in the politics. So when the politics started to become noisier than the work, that was hard for him."
Lonergan was contracted to deliver a two and a half hour film. Financier/producer Gary Gilbert stepped in when this seemed like an impossibility and commissioned a 2-hr cut from a different editor. This satisfied no one but the financier himself. Finally, in the fall of 2008, Lonergan delievered a 2-1/2 hr cut that everyone but Gilbert signed off on. Many say Gilbert didn't sign off out of bitterness and a vindictive nature due to the negative response to his handling of Lonergan and his insistence of his own 2-hour cut as the preferred version of the film. Gilbert refused to pay his half of the $12.5 million budget. Lawsuits ensued.
According to Rudin:
"The guy who pays for the movie is not supposed to be [in the editing room]. . . . He's a guy who wrote a check. Mr. Gilbert badly hurt the movie. Mr. Gilbert going in and working in the editorial department was a very destructive act… If you're making a movie with Kenny Lonergan and you sign off on the script, he's the director, that's the contract you made. Because you decide that you're anxious about your investment, that doesn't give you the right to completely recalibrate your relationship."
Martin Scorsese and his longtime editor Thelma Schoonmaker (both friends and supporters of Lonergan's) were brought in to the editing room to heal wounds and delivered a 160 minute cut that everyone signed off on, including Lonergan, but again Gilbert refused. Mark Ruffalo:
"There comes a point where people cut off their nose to spite their face, and I certainly witnessed that. Whatever bad blood went down between them, I never felt like Gary ever got over it and actually tried to ensure that the movie and Kenny would be harmed."
So with three cuts now in limbo and still no version really satisfying Lonergan's vision, the film ended up in cinema purgatory for a total 6 years, unseen by a curious public confused by the many behind-the-scenes tales.
Eventually, in the fall of 2011, Lonergan's own 2-1/2 hour cut of the film was released with almost no marketing. It disappeared almost immediately. A twitter campaign fueled by fans and critics resurrected the film for another theatrical release in October of that same year. But it was too-little too-late and the film was barely recognized by the public at large.
Now, the 2-1/2 hour cut has been released on DVD and Blu-ray. But Lonergan's 3 hr cut has also been released, though you will not find it streaming or for rental. It is available ONLY on DVD and ONLY on the DVD/Blu-ray Combo pack sold on Amazon. And while this is not being marketed as a Director's Cut but as an Extended Cut, it is widely considered the cut to see as it seems to be the version that comes closest to capturing Lonergan's vision.
In the writer/director's own words:
"It's not a director's cut. We're calling it an extended cut. It's a different version. A director's cut is where they take the movie away from you and chop it to pieces and send it out without your permission…This is just another version with a little bit more of everything in it."
Matt Damon, who is one of the film's many notable stars, explains:
"One of the reasons this took so long is because [Lonergan] didn't want to give up and he's put his whole soul into this thing to the exclusion of any other work he could have been doing. And it wasn't a triumph at the end because they weren't able to release his version."
Well, now that version is available. But sadly, that availability is limited and will still only be seen by a select few "in the know." So, while it's great that we finally get to see the film, there is still a battle to find a way to put this cut of the film out there for others to access, to discover, to be potentially moved by (not to mention to see it in Hi-def on Blu-ray). In a country where surface mediocrity is lauded as deep and introspective (THE DESCENDANTS, UP IN THE AIR), it's a shame that one of the greatest contemporary American films has gotten so lost, so mismanaged, so belittled. Academy voters were either unaware or indifferent. Not that an award is the be-all and end-all of any work of art, but it does offer an opportunity to raise awareness of a film's existence. But then the question comes into play as to whether the average American movie-goer would even get that they were in the presence of one of the greatest American films to come along in years. Very few contemporary films suggest that Americans as filmmakers and filmwatchers are capable of any level of depth or insight. More than not, most American films showcase our unwillingness to dig beneath the surface, to understand anything but the most literal, the most blatant. This was not always the case, but it appears we have somehow managed to devolve into such a state. It's not that there aren't daring writers and filmmakers out there, it's just that the battle to get those films made, no less released, is near-impossible. The corporatization of the industry combined with a slow infantalization and anti-intellectualization of the populace has culminated in a rather hostile creative landscape. To quote Ruffalo again, "it's in the wrong decade and the wrong country."
Of the three best contemporary films I've seen recently, only MARGARET is American-made. The other two, CERTIFIED COPY and NORWEGIAN WOOD, are both foreign-made, foreign-language films. Only the 3-hour cut of MARGARET represents the artistic potential and expressive sensibility present in our country and, as stated already, most Americans are completely unaware of its existence and will have a hard time seeing it even if they are. And, by any contemporary standard, the film's an anomaly; films like MARGARET rarely, if ever, get made here. And when they do, birthing them is usually an extraordinarily painful process and these babies are reviled as bastard children or stillbirths by the masses (certainly by the corporate powers-that-be). But thankfully, there are those who recognize their beauty and their innate humanity and fight vigorously and tirelessly to see these children find their proper place in the world. And that's where our hope for the future lies. But it's a staggering uphill battle.
Then there are those who recognized something extraordinary in Lonergan's theatrical cut who have not been able to make the leap to the three hour cut. I've read online a number of self-proclaimed reviewers mourning the longer cut as "ruining" a masterpiece. They complain about "unnecessary" imagery of people walking the streets of N.Y., of the soundscape of the film having been changed to no longer focus exclusively on the main characters, but on the people in the world around them. I have heard complaints of too many shots of planes and buildings and of the 3-hour cut's use of opera music. We have become so unaccustomed to anything but the most patent and transparent that we have lost sight of subtext, of metaphor, of cinematic language. I cannot imagine MARGARET without the scenes of our main character Lisa walking among the throngs of New Yorkers, her voice, her story, no more important than the voices and stories taking place all around her. This is a film about a teenager slowly coming to the realization that she is not the center of the universe. That her life is no more or less important than the lives of those around her. She is literally becoming aware of the world she lives in.
As for the opera music and scenes, the entire film centers around how teenagers often see their experiences as taking place in a melodramatic world; they hear the histrionic scores of their lives as they stumble their way through a rather self-centered world on the brink of shattering with no real understanding or perception of the consequences of their actions. This isn't a judgement, but an observation. Without this, the film loses one of its most powerful threads thus weakening the final moments of this beautiful, touching and emotionally poignant film. After all, the movie is titled MARGARET, who is not a character in the film, but taken from a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem titled "Spring and Fall: To a young child:"
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What héart héard of, ghóst guéssed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.
THIS is what the film's about at its heart, in its soul, and all the pieces Lonergan has placed back into his Extended Cut and all the changes he's made from the shorter version work toward enhancing this theme, both emotionally, practically and aesthetically. The shorter version is, while still extraordinary, more "conventional" than the longer cut. Certainly less poetic. And, as a result, it lacks the nuances of its sibling.
For example: Planes and buildings… The film takes place in a world still reeling from the aftermath of 9/11: the violence and suffering, the trauma, the fear, pain, longing and need for retribution that so many felt in the years following that tragic event. And how we eventually lost some of what we gained through our shared experience. Lonergan:
"Don't you remember how everybody was slightly more awake or more attuned? You'd hear a car backfire and you'd jump? I remember it took several years before I stopped noticing airplanes. It was sort of like the city was still shaking from it, but also didn't quite know how to be about it. I feel like it just suddenly supercharged everybody with an awareness that they didn't have before, but without much more information… In 2003, every time an airplane went by you went 'Oof,' felt nervous. That's not the case any more. That lasted for about 5 years… so [back then] everyone was a bit nervous and on edge. It was a bit different for a few years and unfortunately I don't think the difference has sunk in in quite the way that I wish it had. For a moment it felt like, I felt like, the U.S. had joined the rest of the world, and then two weeks later all the TV commercials were back and it was all the same again. And I don't think it's very different now from how it was in 2000."
For anyone who has read any of my other posts either on writing or on film, it should come as no surprise that Lonergan's MARGARET is my kind of film. My personal journey as a writer has taken me down a path where I have started not only to trust my subconscious throughout the storytelling process, but to consider it my most valued and faithful partner:
"I tried to turn off my conscious mind and that's why the first draft of the script, it was never meant to be shot, but it was 306 pages, because I let scenes go on. I knew where it was going and I knew where the beats were and I just kind of closed my eyes, and it's amazing what happens when you do that. I had a wonderful time writing it and it was very easy to cut a hundred pages out of it in two weeks — you know when she goes to see the bus driver in Brooklyn, that scene is probably six pages long and it was sixteen pages long when I wrote it."
The growth Kenneth Lonergan has shown from his first feature to his second is monumental. Where YOU CAN COUNT ON ME had a terrific script with terrific performances, it was most certainly directed by someone whose hand had not yet steadied to the cinematic craft, though Lonergan himself is a lover of cinema, particularly classic. With MARGARET, Lonergen has made one of the most profound, insightful and emotionally gripping pieces of cinema to come out of the heart and mind of an American filmmaker in years. It is the greatest reflection of who and what we are, of how we see and experience the world. This is a film that showcases what American filmmakers are capable of beyond our technological prowess. I urge you to find a way to see it.
In its full 180 minute Extended Cut version, of course.
Kenneth Lonergan on Margaret | Film interview, TimeOut Chicago
Kenneth Lonergan Discusses The Changes In The New Cut Of 'Margaret,' Digital Vs. Film, 3D & More, IndieWire
Kenneth Lonergan On The Inspirations, Performances, Resonances & Structure Of 'Margaret', IndieWire
Kenneth Lonergan's Thwarted Masterpiece, NY Times
Disney's SLEEPING BEAUTY Sparkles in 70mm at the Academy
July 22, 2012 July 22, 2012 halmasonbergAcademy, AMPAS, Andreas Deja, Cinerama, IT'S A MAD, Last 70mm Festival, MAD, MAD WORLD, Michael Giaimo, Seattle, SLEEPING BEAUTYLeave a comment
I've been doing the 70mm festival over at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. The festival is being billed as "The Last 70mm Film Festival." A rather ill-concieved and overly pessimistic title, particularly given the fact that this festival is sold out and Seattle recently held a mega-successful, mega-70mm fest at their Cinerama Theatre.
Last week the Academy offered a chance to see a gorgeous 70mm print of IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (audio of that Q&A to be posted here soon!). And this past Monday gave us the incredibly rare screening of Disney's SLEEPING BEAUTY, which I was thrilled to finally see in that format. The print was gorgeous.
In addition to the 70mm features, the Academy has put together pre-shows of restored 70mm shorts, as well as terrific Q&A's to introduce these incredible films and the technology behind them. This past week offered a Q&A with animators Andreas Deja and Michael Giaimo, hosted by Randy Haberkamp, Managing Director, Programming, Education and Preservation at AMPAS. I'm including the audio with some stills (courtesy of Richard Harbaugh) from that Q&A for your enjoyment. Wish I could show you the stunning 70mm print as well! The beginning of Mr. Haberkamp's intro is clipped, but the remainder is here in its entirety.
NORWEGIAN WOOD Film Honors Murakami's Dream
July 22, 2012 November 9, 2014 halmasonbergBlu-Ray, DVD, Haruki Murakami, NORWEGIAN WOOD, SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA, Tran Anh HungLeave a comment
I've read most (though not yet all) of Haruki Murakami's books. NORWEGIAN WOOD is easily his most straight-forward and accessible. This from a writer known for his stream-of-consiousness and oftentimes abstract and dreamlike storytelling qualities. The book came as a surprise to those who may have wondered if Murakami was capable of writing outside his surreal comfort-zone (a zone I love, by the way). Apparently, Murakami wrote NORWEGIAN WOOD to answer this question for himself as well. It's a beautiful work, heart-wrenching and melancholy, but also filled with vivid joys and hidden pleasures.
I was concerned when I heard the book was being adapted to film. It was somewhat of a relief to learn that the film was being done in Murakami's country of origin, Japan, and not here in Hollywood. Then when I found out the director would be Vietnamese-born Tran Anh Hung, who gave us the stunning and evocative THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA, my hopes raised even higher, despite the fact I had hoped for a Japanese director (Hung lives in France and doesn't speak Japanese). But Hung's sensibilities as a filmmaker offered the possibility that the emotional backbone of the story would be honored.
The film was released internationally in 2010 to some good reviews, but it wasn't until January 2012 that the film found a VERY limited release here in the States (with the exception of one film fest screening at the always open-minded Seattle International Film Festival back in 2011). Following its almost non-existent U.S. theatrical run, the film finally found its way to DVD here in the States –but oddly not Blu-ray in this somewhat artistically limited country of ours. And that's a shame as WOOD is a visually stunning film and deserves the hi-def treatment (a region-A Hong Kong Blu-ray version is available).
Tran Anh Hung's interpretation of Murakami's NORWEGIAN WOOD is an incredibly visceral and moving experience. Like PAPAYA, the story unfolds through a series of impressionistic moments, emotional beats and haunting imagery. The casting is terrific with faces that burn into our mind's eye and linger as if excised directly from our own past, from our dreams, fantasies and nightmares. The film is a beautiful piece of work and I believe will stick with me for some time to come. It is also a film I will return to. I already feel the pull to experience it again and it hasn't even been 24 hours.
Sadly but not surprisingly, American critics were luke warm at best in their response to WOOD. However, I think Salon.com's Andrew O'Hehir summed it up best:
"This is a wonderful, passionate, well-nigh unforgettable adaptation of a great novel about the horrors of love, and the wonderful fact that at least some of us live through it and come back for more."
The film brought me back to the roller coaster of complex emotions that still linger in my sense-memory of the madness and joys of youthful love and the inevitable loss which followed –in much the same way Murakami's novel so hauntingly did. The New York Times Stephen Holden summed the film up in what I expect was meant to be a negative illustration, but one I think apt and, for me, praise-worthy:
"Norwegian Wood" registers less as a coherent narrative than as a tortuous reverie steeped in mournful yearning."
For me, the most natural form of storytelling –the one that registers in our deepest recesses– are the ones told, not as so-called "coherent narratives," but as reveries, steeped in metaphor. All of us, as human beings, lie our heads down each night to face our subconscious which naturally, organically, works through our struggles, joys and fears with surreal, metaphorical storytelling. We wake, oftentimes having to interpret the stories we've created for ourselves while our defenses were down. And these stories often linger within us, even if the events themselves have been forgotten. For me, NORWEGIAN WOOD successfully taps into that same place where dreams are born.
Obama's New Look: Boxing Gloves.
July 14, 2012 halmasonbergLeave a comment
This is so very interesting. Many liberal Democrats I know complained throughout Obama's first term that he was not tough enough on Republicans, that he and Democrats in general, never learned how to play hard-ball; never learned how to take on Republicans at their own game. Well, he's doing it now. And for anyone with a moral backbone and a sense of pride, there's something slightly icky about it. But only slightly. There's another side to the coin that feels like "Finally!" I guess you can't win against a dishonest and morally corrupt opponent without meeting them, to a certain degree, on their own playing field. And it's even more interesting (and totally expected and in keeping with today's right wing hypocritical antics) that Republicans are calling foul. If Reagan gave us anything, it was a growing sense of greed as the national pastime. Even baseball reeks of it. Reagan probably never imagined the seeds he sowed would grow into such a mammoth disintegration of the country he loved. Yet, he is the father of so much of what we see today when we look at our nation in the mirror.
At the very least, there are some Republican's that are calling foul on Romney as well, knowing that a nominee who is clearly hiding something and being called out publicly on it, can only run so far. Particularly when there is a campaign (however under-funded by comparison) to keep that news on the front page. Today's Republican party has shown, via its actions (and non-actions) in Congress and in the public comments made by so many of its members over the last three and a half years, that truth has no place and that honesty is a luxury ill-afforded to the winners in any race. If you can get away with it, do. If you don't get caught, then lying, cheating and stealing is justifiable. If you can convince people to shoot themselves in the foot and make them fight for their right to do so, then make it happen and never apologize.
But just as there are greedy, dishonest Democrats, there are also selfless and honest Republicans most unhappy with the direction their own party has taken. I hope they regain the stronger voice in the years to come.
In the meantime, the "American values" publicly espoused by today's Republican Party have become one of the gravest smears on our nation. On human beings in general. And the anti-intellectualism and rampant fear it has fostered has placed us in low-standing with many of our friends and neighbors around the globe. It has also cultivated an underlying sense of self-hatred in our citizens while advancing an already existent distrust of our nation and its people by many who have long questioned our motives and values.
Obama's vision of working together as a nation has failed. Despite the promise and hope his election elicited in not only the American people, but in the world over. But it was not for lack of trying, oh no. It was due simply to a lack of participation.
I hope one day Americans as a group come to learn that our strength lies not in who we bully, but in who we care for.

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Attorney General Madigan Awards $3.3 Million to County Recorders from Settlement with 'Robo-Signing' Firm
Funds Distributed From National Settlement With Lender Processing Services for Faulty Practices Against Homeowners in Foreclosure
Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2013. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced the distribution of $3.3 million to Illinois county recorders from the national settlement with Lender Processing Services Inc. (LPS) that resolved allegations that the Jacksonville, Fla.-based firm engaged in pervasive "robo-signing" of mortgage documents and other faulty practices while servicing loans of struggling homeowners at risk of foreclosure.
Madigan and 45 other attorneys general reached the settlement in January following an extensive investigation into LPS and its subsidiaries – LPS Default Solutions and DocX – all of which primarily provide support to banks and mortgage loan servicers. The attorneys general alleged LPS and its subsidiaries engaged in widespread "robo-signing" of mortgage documents, many of which were filed in county recorders offices. The states' investigation revealed a practice by DocX of so-called "surrogate signing," or the signing of documents by an unauthorized person in the name of another and notarizing those documents as if they had been signed by the proper person. The settlement requires that LPS reform its business practices, including prohibiting LPS from signing off on mortgage documents with signatures of unauthorized people or people without firsthand knowledge of facts attested to in the documents.
As part of the settlement, LPS paid $3,364,326 to Illinois for cy pres distribution. Madigan said all of the money will be distributed to Illinois' 102 county recorder offices.
"LPS and its subsidiaries demonstrated an utter disregard for accuracy and fairness in verifying key mortgage documents," Madigan said. "The settlement holds LPS accountable for its unlawful actions and will provide added resources to Illinois' county recorders to enhance their efforts in maintaining accurate public records."
The LPS settlement and subsequent funding distribution is part of Attorney General Madigan's ongoing effort to address the misconduct that contributed to the financial crisis by holding lenders and other financial institutions accountable for their unlawful practices, while providing relief and assistance to Illinois families struggling to save their homes as a result of the foreclosure crisis.
Madigan took a lead role in the February 2012 national foreclosure settlement, in conjunction with other states and the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, with five of the nation's largest banks – Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank and GMAC/Ally – to address allegations of widespread "robo-signing" of foreclosure documents and other fraudulent practices while servicing loans of struggling homeowners. As part of that $25 billion national settlement, Illinois borrowers already have received more than $1.4 billion in direct relief.
Source: illinoisattorneygeneral.gov
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Don't buy CBD oil in Nova, Ohio unless the store can tell you where the source comes from. CBD oil is getting very popular and many small shops are taking advantage of the profits by ordering poor quality CBD oil from overseas that has minimal health benefits.
CBD, additionally called Cannabidiol, is simply among 85 different chemical substances in cannabis plants. CBD Hemp Oil is derived from hemp, or marijuana expanded with hardly any THC (commonly much less compared to 0.3%). For the sake of this short article we will describe cannabis as marijuana grown for its psychoactive effects, and hemp as marijuana expanded for its sensible uses as a fiber. Cannabis is marketed for its THC material and hemp is utilized for its CBD web content.
THC is the psychedelic or intoxicating substance discovered in marijuana plants whereas, CBD oil is not psychoactive or envigorating as well as has actually revealed strong signs of being a reliable therapy for a range of diseases and psychological health and wellness disorders.
Where Can I Buy CBD Hemp Oil in Nova, Ohio?
Hemp oil is lawful in all 50 states but the manufacturing of CBD Hemp Oil is not. Despite the fact that both come from cannabis, hemp oil is derived from clean and sterile marijuana seeds, which are lawful under the Controlled Substances Act. CBD Oil is originated from the plant's flowers which are illegal in some states.
While there may be local CBD shops in Nova, you should try a bottle of premium CBD before spending a lot of money on it.
However, this doesn't quit the import of CBD oil made from industrialized hemp grown legally, which is why you have the ability to purchase it legally on the internet.
You could find products consisting of hemp oil in the charm section of your local retailer, but to obtain CBD Oil you'll either should remain in a state where it's lawful to create or buy an import.
Cannabidiol, or CBD in Nova as it is frequently understood, is a very fascinating chemical. And it is accountable for many people altering their views on marijuana usage for medicinal purposes. While everybody has actually heard of THC, very few recognize CBD. The two chemicals are both consisted of in marijuana, however they serve extremely various purposes. While the THC in cannabis is going to get you high, CBD is something that positions massive benefits from a medical viewpoint – and also it does not have the exact same adverse effects on the body as THC. Here are some realities to find out about CBD.
When we check out the main ingredients in cannabis, we right away keep in mind the significance of THC as well as CBD. These chemicals are present in the highest concentrations in cannabis plant, despite just how it is expanded. Also entertainment cannabis breeders have discovered that there are high levels of CBD in their plant. Some have actually even managed to expand marijuana with a lot of CBD, however very little THC – and also these stress are coming to be more and more preferred annually. Individuals want the advantages of CBD without the adverse side-effects of THC.
As opposed to popular belief, products such as CBD oil or CBD capsules are not getting you high. The CBD in these products, or the CBD you find in marijuana, is not mosting likely to make you feel the same as the THC does. It is THC which is a psychedelic material – CBD is not. It does not act similarly when it enters into call with your mind's paths. It does not interfere with your psychomotor or psychological functions either. For those that want a simpler description: CBD is One Hundred Percent risk-free as well as is not getting you high!
There are many different health advantages to taking CBD. For instance, it could help individuals who are experiencing too much nausea or vomiting and vomiting due to the fact that they are undergoing radiation treatment or other kind of therapy. It is additionally excellent at subduing the seizures some individuals get on a routine basis. Another benefit to CBD is how it assists combat swelling as well as neurodegenerative disorders. It is likewise fantastic for clinical depression and also stress and anxiety patients. So if you are suffering from one of these problems, you might wish to talk with your doctor regarding the opportunity of getting on CBD oil or CBD capsule supplements for a couple of months.
It interests keep in mind that the strains of marijuana that just consist of a lot of THC are the ones that cause individuals to feel sleepy, disoriented and "high." Numerous users that utilize the cannabis stress which contain a high quantity of CBD comment that they do not experience the very same signs. As a matter of fact, some insurance claim to feel more sharp. This is because CBD is neutralizing the impact of the THC on your body, providing those pressures of marijuana relatively safe as well.
There has actually been a significant increase in information attention to medicinal marijuana in Nova, OH, with reports on CNN, ABC, CBS, and neighborhood publications regarding high-cannabidiol marijuana oil efficiently managing the signs and symptoms of rare epileptic conditions like Dravet disorder, Doose disorder, childish convulsions, cortical dysplasia, as well as extra.
These diseases can create hundreds to countless seizures a week, while additionally impairing growth in a variety of other methods. For family members with kids dealing with such conditions, the difficulties are overwhelming. As a result of the incredibly intricate nature of Dravet as well as relevant disorders, conventional drugs are inadequate and commonly make the troubles worse. With no various other hope, family members have actually looked to high-CBD cannabis oil, which is showing to deal with amazing efficiency.
To make clear, high-CBD cannabis oil is non-psychoactive and obviously much more advantageous compared to high-THC marijuana oil. Cannabidiol is another cannabinoid in the cannabis plant, like the a lot more widely known psychoactive cannabinoid THC, with considerable research recommending neuroprotectant, anticancer, antidiabetic, anti-ischemic, antispasmodic, antipsychotic, and also antibacterial residential or commercial properties, to name a few.
In addition, marijuana oil is a type of extract from marijuana. Such oil has huge amounts of concentrated cannabinoids that could be by mouth consumed instead of smoked, maintaining the medicinal compounds as well as permitting them to be supplied with gastrointestinal system, as opposed to the respiratory system.
The research study recommends that CBD has panacea-like homes, and also in method, this is confirming to be the situation. On August 11th, 2013, Sanjay Gupta launched a docudrama on CNN about Charlotte Figi. Charlotte is a young Dravet disorder patient that was having 300 grand mal seizures a week. No drugs or dietary modifications could do anything to reduce this number.
Charlotte's moms and dads learnt more about high-CBD cannabis oil, and also after literally the first dose, Charlotte's seizures stopped. She now has less than three minor seizures a month. This case is nothing except miraculous, and it's not isolated. Dr. Margaret Gedde, a Colorado Springs physician, is tracking 11 brand-new clients of the Stanely siblings, the carriers of Charlotte's high-CBD medication. 9 of them have had 90-100% decreases in seizures, which once again, is merely remarkable.
The epileptic problems that CBD is showing to be effective versus are incredibly complex, as well as not even the most powerful, well looked into drugs have been capable of generating any type of recovery. Yet high-CBD marijuana oil is right away and also potently lowering signs and symptoms, with the only side effects being systemically beneficial – even more energy, far better knowing, improved actions, and a lot more.
It must not be surprising that results like these have actually been taking place for many years. Just like study shows cannabinoids are therapeutically effective versus epilepsy, there is research recommending they can get rid of cancers and also control other major diseases. And in practice, for epilepsy and also these various other conditions, the outcomes are translating to human beings. Individuals have been reliably getting rid of cancers cells for several years and also mitigating conditions like diabetes, Crohn's, fibromyalgia, heart problem, persistent pain, several sclerosis, as well as a lot more. This is as severe as it gets, and also even more interest needs to be given this concern.
The background of Hemp as well as it usage dates back to the Rock Age of man as hemp impacts are found in China and Taiwan which are thought to be over 10,000 years old. These medieval Oriental people used this really fiber making their house items including garments, footwear, ropes or even paper. The Chinese are credited for the introduction of paper to the globe which first paper that was made comprised of hemp.
Till the 14th century hemp was one of the most usual product that was utilized for clothes. Hemp clothing were especially preferred in lower classes of European countries. Every village in Europe in Dark Age had an accessibility to a load area. Moreover, hemp clothing were likewise used as battle clothes. The traditional European hemp was not used as a medicine as a result of its reduced addiction as well as narcotic content. Despite this reality, it was still grown in big amounts as a result of its fiber web content and traditions prove that it was even used by Christopher Columbus for connecting ropes on his ship.
The Spanish are approved for presenting hemp to the American material as they started the growing of hemp in Chile in 1545. The growing spread and this new, helpful plant obtained acknowledgment as in May,1607 well-known historian Gabriel Archer reported to see hemp farming in Powhatan town where Richmond, Virginia currently day stands. Another historian Samuel Argall likewise claimed this widespread farming of hemp which was much better than the European variation in Upper Potomac.
In 1619, a main act of cultivating "Indian as well as English" hemp was gone by the federal government of Virginia State. The Puritans are the very first well-known cultivators of hemp in New England. Famous American Head Of State George Washington as well as Thomas Jefferson grew hemp on their ranches. Another dad of the nation, Benjamin Franklin started the very first American paper mill, which exclusively used paper as its raw source.
The era of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Reign of terror increased the consumption and also manufacturing of hemp as it was a main resource of military uniforms. The fundamental reason that hemp was chosen over flax was its extra stamina, longevity and also lower cost. These variables override the rugged texture of hemp. United States during the Second Globe Battle thoroughly used hemp as it was used for making uniforms, ropes as well as canvas. At that time, Kentucky and Midwest were the major suppliers of hemp. Hemp has actually added significantly to Kentucky's economic climate and a big area of Kentucky even today is committed for hemp hacienda as well as farming.
The hemp market was badly impacted at the beginning of the twentieth century as it saw the innovation of heavy steam and also diesel motor which fortified the way of sea transportation. As sea transportation was halted, the demand for rope dramatically declined. Innovation of man-made fibers and also artificial fibers likewise acquired a decrease in the demand.
Nowadays, the manufacturing of hemp is legitimately permitted but on a smaller scale as a result of the discovery of its narcotics result. The U.S Federal government permitted a prevalent development of hemp during the Second Globe Battle to counter the production of Manila hemp which was expanded in Japanese swarms back then. An American also produced a film on hemp which showed how enhanced production of hemp resulted in American victory in World Battle 2.
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package com.example.android.popularmovies.adapters;

import android.content.Context;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ImageView;

import com.example.android.popularmovies.R;
import com.example.android.popularmovies.models.Movie;
import com.squareup.picasso.Picasso;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * MovieAdapter Recycler View
 * <p>
 * {@link android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView}
 */
public class MovieAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<MovieAdapter.MovieAdapterViewHolder> {

    private Context mContext;
    private List<Movie> mMovies;
    private final MovieAdapterOnClickHandler mClickHandler;

    public interface MovieAdapterOnClickHandler {
        void onClick(Movie movie);
    }

    public MovieAdapter(Context context, MovieAdapterOnClickHandler clickHandler) {
        mContext = context;
        mMovies = new ArrayList<>();
        mClickHandler = clickHandler;
    }

    /**
     * Cache of the children views foa a movie list itan
     */
    public class MovieAdapterViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder implements View.OnClickListener {

        public final ImageView mPosterImageView;

        /**
         * Constructor for our ViewHolder. Within this constructor, we get a reference to our
         * TextViews and set an onClickListener to listen for clicks. Those will be handled in the
         * onClick method below.
         *
         * @param itemView The View that you inflated in
         */
        public MovieAdapterViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);
            mPosterImageView = (ImageView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.iv_movie_poster);
            itemView.setOnClickListener(this);
        }

        /**
         * This gets called by the child views during a click.
         *
         * @param view The View that was clicked
         */
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            int adapterPosition = getAdapterPosition();
            mClickHandler.onClick(mMovies.get(adapterPosition));
        }

        /**
         * A method we wrote for convenience. This method will take an string as input and
         * use that string to display the appropriate image within a list item.
         *
         * @param posterEndpoint The Movie Poster Endpoint URL.
         */
        private void bind(String posterEndpoint) {
            Picasso.with(mContext)
                    .load(posterEndpoint)
                    .placeholder(R.drawable.default_movie_poster)
                    .error(R.drawable.default_poster)
                    .into(mPosterImageView);
        }
    }

    /**
     * This gets called when each new ViewHolder is created. This happens when the RecyclerView
     * is laid out. Enough ViewHolders will be created to fill the screen and allow for scrolling.
     *
     * @param viewGroup The viewGroup that these ViewHolders are container within.
     * @param viewType  If your RecyclerView has more than one type of item (which ours doesn't) you
     *                  can use this viewType integer to provide a different layout. See
     *                  {@link android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.Adapter#getItemViewType(int)}
     *                  for more details.
     * @return A new MovieAdapterViewHolder that holds the View for each list item
     */
    @Override
    public MovieAdapterViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup viewGroup, int viewType) {
        Context context = viewGroup.getContext();
        int layoutIdMovieListItem = R.layout.movie_list_item;
        LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
        boolean shouldAttachToParentImmediately = false;

        View view = inflater.inflate(layoutIdMovieListItem, viewGroup, shouldAttachToParentImmediately);

        return new MovieAdapterViewHolder(view);
    }

    /**
     * OnBindViewHolder is called by the RecyclerView to display the data at the specified
     * position. In this method, we update the contents of the ViewHolder to display the movie
     * poster for this particular position, using the "position" argument that is conveniently
     * passed into us. Call bind method form holder.
     *
     * @param movieAdapterViewHolder The ViewHolder which should be updated to represent the
     *                               contents of the item at the given position in the data set.
     * @param position               The position of the item within the adapter's data set.
     */
    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(MovieAdapterViewHolder movieAdapterViewHolder, int position) {
        movieAdapterViewHolder.bind(mMovies.get(position).getPosterEndpoint());
    }

    /**
     * This method simply returns the number of items to display. It is used behind the scenes
     * to help layout our Views and for animations.
     *
     * @return The number of items available in our movie list
     */
    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        if (mMovies == null) {
            return 0;
        }
        return mMovies.size();
    }

    /**
     * This method is used to set the movie list on a MovieAdapter if we've already
     * created one. This is handy when we get new data from the web but don't want to create a
     * new MovieAdapter to display it.
     *
     * @param movieData The new movie data to be displayed.
     */
    public void setMovieData(List<Movie> movieData) {
        mMovies = movieData;
        notifyDataSetChanged();
    }

    /**
     * Clear all data from list.
     */
    public void clearData() {
        mMovies.clear();
        notifyDataSetChanged();
    }

    /**
     * Return the movie list
     *
     * @return movieList
     */
    public List<Movie> getMovieData() {
        return mMovies;
    }
}

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More than 120 representatives of Styrian municipalities followed the invitation and were honored for their commitment in the field of climate protection and energy efficiency.
This year, the municipalities Lebring-St.Margarethen and Semriach faced the external auditing, which was carried out by the Energy Institute Vorarlberg. At the awards gala, the two communities were honored for their long term commitment and energy policy work.
The community of Lebring - St. Margarethen was awarded by the fourth "e" for its degree of implementation of 62.8%. Semriach has been re-certified with the fourth "e" and now holds at a conversion rate of 70.3% and is only a small step away from the fifth "e".
Provincial Councilor Anton Lang presented the awards and praised the particularly high level of commitment and the pioneering role of the e5 and Klimabündnis - communities for climate protection.
Another highlight of the event was the presentation of ORF Weather Moderator Marcus Wadsak on "Climate Change - Facts versus Fake and Fiction".


The Egyptian government implemented the e-Visa for Egypt in December 2017, in order to expedite the visa application process for travelers to the country for short stays. From this date, citizens of 46 countries, including South Korean passport holders, are required to pre-register an Egypt online visa application before short-term travel to the country.
The e-Visa for South Korean citizens application eliminates the need to get a visa for Egypt from an Egyptian Embassy or Consulate or wait in long queues for an Egypt visa on arrival.
The online Egypt visa from South Korea is available as either a single-entry or multiple-entry e-visa for Egypt. Both allow for a 30-day stay in Egypt and are valid for a maximum period of 3 months from the date of first entry.
The simple Egypt Online Visa Application takes just minutes to complete. Applicants will need to meet the e-Visa for Egypt requirements for South Korea, answer a series of security questions, and pay the Egypt online visa fee using a credit or debit card.
Do South Korean citizens need a visa for Egypt?
From December 2017, citizens of 46 countries including all European Union member states, the United States, and South Korea are eligible to apply for the Egypt online visa for stays of up to 30 days.
Previously, South Korean citizens were visa-exempt for short stays in Egypt. However, as of December 2017, it is now required to pre-register for an Egypt online visa for South Koreans for short-term touristic or business visits, or queue at the border for an Egypt visa on arrival.
The single-entry Egypt visa for South Koreans allows for a stay of up to 30 consecutive days within a 90-day validity period. Eligible passport holders can get the single-entry Egypt visa on arrival for South Korea at Egyptian border entry points but this may require waiting in long queues to apply for the visa.
It is not possible to get a multiple-entry Egypt visa on arrival for South Koreans. Those wishing to enter and exit Egypt multiple times for a maximum of 30 days within a 90-day period must apply for the e-Visa Egypt through the online application.
South Koreans traveling to the Red Sea Sinai resorts are eligible to get an e-Visa for Egypt on arrival valid for 15 days from Sharm el-Sheikh, Saint Catherine, or Taba airports. However, if intending to leave the Sinai resorts to travel to the rest of Egypt, an Egypt e-Visa for South Korean citizens will be required.
Providing a current email address to receive the Egypt e-Visa from South Korea in the inbox.
As the Egypt e-Visa can take up to 5 business days to process, South Korean travelers are also required to submit the Egypt online visa application at least 7 days before the arrival date to allow enough time for the Egypt visa from South Korea to arrive.
If they meet the Egypt e-Visa requirements for South Korea, eligible applicants can then fill in the e-Visa for Egypt application online, which will only take around 5-10 minutes.
To complete the application, it's necessary to provide a range of personal information, including full name, date of birth and nationality, as well as data from the passport information page, including document number, and issue/expiry dates. Applicants will also need to answer a few security questions, besides providing details of their travel to Egypt.
If the application is successful, the approved Egypt visa from South Korea will be sent to the inbox of the traveler. Any delays or rejection of the visa application may be due to errors entered on the form, so it's important to check all the information on the document, as well as the email address, before submitting.
Upon receiving the Egypt Visa for South Korean citizens, the traveler can then print a copy to present alongside the corresponding passport at Egyptian border control, and beat the Egypt visa on arrival application queues.


Whether you realize it or not, I have just described religious leaders of today's church denominations. These are the individuals that must present their congregation--audience--with a new subject every Sunday. They feel the need to present a new religious program in order for their ministry to grow. All this is because they haven't discovered their purpose and assignment in the Kingdom. "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
Far too often, I read of leaders who claim to be representatives of their brand of gospel make a statement such as "a breakthrough is coming for you". Never did Jesus say that a breakthrough was being given. That is not a Kingdom mindset. All you have to do is to ask and believe as an obedient Kingdom citizen. Anything else is religion. The only breakthrough people need is a breakthrough in their carnal soulish nature to obedience and faith in God's Word! When you read the Gospels, you will know that Jesus was too busy to be bored or boring. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them. Great multitudes followed Him—from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan. He was spreading the Kingdom message and its culture everywhere He went.
Jesus never deviated from the assignment for which His Father commissioned Him. He did ask His Father to re-consider, but then He realized not His Will but the Father's. He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will."...Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done."... So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
Those who have a religious mindset feel the need to have a new message or program every time they come together. They feel without something "fresh" and unheard before, they aren't "earning their keep" and will lose their congregation and ultimately their job. But the Lord Jesus followed and stayed on focus on the Kingdom message. What is the purpose of the Kingdom message? It is to restore those who are lost back to their rightful place in the Kingdom. The Kingdom message is to grow and mature disciples to spread His Kingdom gospel to all the world. Everything else is only a distraction. We need to wear blinders if necessary, and always keep our eyes on God's Message of Kingdom of God.
Remember, your faith in the King's Word is your foundation for eternal life and for your purpose while on this earth.


Aggregate is a standard LINQ operator for in-memory collections that allows us to build a custom aggregation. Although LINQ provides a few standard aggregation operators, like Count, Min, Max, and Average, if you want an inline implementation of, say, a standard deviation calculation, then the Aggregate extension method is one approach you can use (the other approach being that you could write your own operator).
Let's say we wanted to see the total number of threads running on a machine. We could get that number lambda style, or with a query comprehension, or with a custom aggregate.
This particular overloaded version of Aggregate follows a common pattern of "Initialize – Accumulate – Terminate". You can see this pattern in extensible aggregation strategies from Oracle to SQLCLR. The first parameter represents an initialization expression. We need to provide an initialized accumulator – in this case just an integer value of 0.
The second parameter is a Func<int, Process, int> expression that the aggregate method will invoke as it iterates across the sequence of inputs. For each process we get our accumulator value (an int), and a reference to the current process in the iteration stage (a Process), and we return a new accumulator value (an int).
The last parameter is the terminate expression. This is an opportunity to provide any final calculations. For our summation, we just need to return the value in the accumulator.
Now, let's compute a more thorough summary of running threads, including a standard deviation. Although we could get away with a simple double accumulator for stddev, we can also use a more sophisticated accumulator to encapsulate some calculations, facilitate unit tests, and make the syntax easier on the eye.
You iterate through the datasets several times, wouldn't it be better to build a custom aggregates that determines the average, sum, min, max and count all in a single pass? Then you could go back through again to determine the standard deviation.
BlindWanderer: good point, and something that we could certainly do (as you've proved!).


Public relations expert Sandra Wills Hannon, Ph.D., APR, shares tips, techniques, and methods to develop an award winning public relations plan. This presentation also outlines how to create a timeline and diversify the aim and approach of your plans to achieve greater success with the target audience. Other panelists included Heathere Evans-Keenan, President of Keenan PR and Julie Phillips-Turner, President of Phillips Turner Communications.


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