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Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Posted on April 27, 2020 by carlosdev
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
(2018) Biographical Drama (Focus) Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, David Tennant, Guy Pearce, Gemma Chan, Martin Compston, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Brendan Coyle, Ian Hart, Adrian Lester, James McArdle, Maria Dragus, Eileen O'Higgins, Ian Hallard, Kandiff Kirwan, Adam Bond, Angela Bain, Izuka Hoyle, Liah O'Prey, Katherine O'Donnelly. Directed by Josie Rourke
You would think that history is immutable, written in stone; this event happened to these people on this date. History is, however, very much subject to interpretation and particularly to revision. If we don't like what we know about history, we extrapolate what we don't know; in trying to give context we often rob history of its own truth.
The rivalry between Elizabeth Tudor (Robbie), Queen of England, and Mary Stuart (Ronan), Queen of Scotland, was largely a political one, made personal because the two were cousins. In this revisionist version of that rivalry, both queens are manipulated by the venal and fragile egos of the men at court as well as by the tides of religious fervor that was sweeping both nations. Mary was a devout Catholic and was despised by the largely Protestant population of her country, the most outspoken of whom was John Knox (Tenant), founder of the Presbyterian Church. Also whereas Elizabeth chose to forego marriage and children and concentrate on ruling her country, Mary chose to strengthen her grip on the thrown through marriage leading to a series of romances that may have done more to harm her standing than help.
Elizabeth is portrayed here as sympathetic and admiring of her cousin Mary, but forced into a rivalry reluctantly, even though there's absolutely no evidence in that regard; screenwriter Beau Willimon (House of Cards) even dreams up a face to face meeting between the two monarchs even though that never happened in actuality; I suppose it makes for good drama but then again, Hollywood has never been the place to go to for history lessons and generally, I have been okay with that unless the "dramatic license" becomes egregious.
Both actresses do very well with their roles, and why would they not; Ronan and Robbie are two of the most talented actresses in the business and they are given two compelling historical figures to work with. Sadly, both of the women here are portrayed as victims of their time rather than as shapers of it. Often, progressives have a tendency to passively denigrate that which they are trying to portray as worthy; the truth is that Elizabeth was one of the most politically savvy figures of her time or any other time, for that matter. If she was manipulated, it was no more so than any other male political figure including her father Henry VIII; chief of state manipulation has been a human tradition ever since we started putting people in charge.
The film has sumptuous production values with wonderful costumes (Elizabeth's wigs alone are worth a gander) but I truly wish the film had portrayed both of these figures as the compelling characters that they are rather than using them to make a political point about an era that neither would have recognized or, likely, approved of.
REASONS TO SEE: Ronan and Robbie give wonderful performances.
REASONS TO AVOID: Eschews historical accuracy for woke political messaging.
FAMILY VALUES: There is violence and sexuality.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: David Tennant plays John Knox, founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. His father was the Moderator of the General Assembly for that church.
BEYOND THE THEATERS: Amazon, AMC On Demand, AppleTV, Fandango Now, Google Play, HBO Now, Microsoft, Movies Anywhere, Redbox, Vudu, YouTube
CRITICAL MASS: As of 4/27/20: Rotten Tomatoes: 62% positive reviews, Metacritic: 60/100
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Elizabeth
NEXT: Finding Grace
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New Releases for the Week of December 21, 2018
(Warner Brothers) Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Temeura Morrison. Directed by James Wan
Arthur Curry, the son of a lighthouse keeper, discovers that he is heir to the throne to Atlantis. There are forces aligned against him, however, that want him to stay on land – and who also wish to wage war against the land-dwellers.
Release Formats: Standard, 3D, DBOX, DBOX 3D, DTSX, IMAX, IMAX 3D, RPX, RPX 3D, ScreenX, XD, XD 3D
Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and for some language)
Ben is Back
(Roadside Attractions) Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Courtney B. Vance, Kathryn Newton. When her drug addicted teen son from a first marriage returns unexpectedly on Christmas Eve, a mother is at first delighted but cautious. As the evening goes on it becomes apparent that things are not as they seem with him and soon she is dragged unwillingly into his world with the rest of her family dragged in behind her. Look for the review on Cinema365 tomorrow.
Now Playing: Barnstorm Theater, Regal Oviedo Marketplace, Regal Winter Park Village
Rating: R (for language throughout and some drug use)
(Paramount) Hailee Steinfeld, Dylan O'Brien (voice), John Cena, Megyn Price. In 1987 a young girl finds the battle-scarred and broken Transformer Bumblebee in the junkyard of a small California town. She soon finds herself in the middle of an interstellar conflict which threatens the very existence of planet Earth itself.
See the trailer clips, interviews, video featurettes and B-roll video here
Release Formats: Standard, 3D, 4DX, Dolby, RPX, XD, XD 3D
Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of sci-fi action violence)
(Focus) Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Guy Pearce, David Tennant. The story of the half-sister of Queen Elizabeth I the two of whom were once close but turned into bitter rivals and eventually, deadly foes.
Now Playing: AMC Altamonte Mall, AMC Disney Springs, Cinemark Artegon Marketplace, Cinemark Universal Citywalk, Regal Oviedo Marketplace, Regal Pointe Orlando, Regal Waterford Lakes, Regal Winter Park Village, Rialto Spanish Springs Square
Rating: R (for some violence and sexuality)
(Disney) Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer. The Banks children, one of the beneficiaries of the legendary Mary Poppins, have all grown up and have children of their own. Now Mary returns to save the Banks family once more with her heartwarming brand of magic.
See the trailer, interviews and video featurettes here
Release Formats: Standard, DBOX, Dolby, RPX
Now Playing: Wide Release (opened Wednesday)
Rating: PG (for some mild thematic elements and brief action)
Second Act
(STX) Jennifer Lopez, Leah Remini, Vanessa Hudgens, Treat Williams. An ambitious big box retail clerk reinvents her job history and biography and ends up with a golden opportunity to show the Wall Street boys club what a street smart Puerto Rican woman can do.
Rating: PG-13 (for some crude sexual references, and language)
Welcome to Marwen
(Universal/DreamWorks) Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Diane Kruger, Janelle Monáe. A man who was the victim of a brutal beating that cost him his memory, tries to rebuild his shattered life through a make-believe town that he constructs where he can be heroic and strong. This is based on an actual incident.
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of fantasy violence, some disturbing images, brief suggestive content, thematic material and language)
(Yash Raj) Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Karina Kaif, Salman Khan. A young man born to wealth and privilege and was content in his life. Then he meets two women who broaden his outlook and give him a purpose he never knew he needed.
See the trailer, promos and a clip here
Now Playing: AMC West Oaks, Cinemark Universal Citywalk, Touchstar Southchase
American Renegades
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Padi Padi Leche Manasu
Shoah: Four Sisters
Swimming with Men
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(Warner Brothers) Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Rihanna, Mindy Kaling, Elliott Gould, Dakota Fanning, Awkwafina. Directed by Gary Ross
Danny Ocean's sister is released from jail and looks to prove herself by taking on an Ocean-like heist – robbing the annual Met Gala in New York City. However, she can't do it alone; she'll need a team of larcenous ladies. Sound familiar?
See the trailer and video featurettes video here.
Release Formats: Standard, 3D, Dolby, IMAX, RPX, XD
Genre: Heist Action
Rating: PG-13 (for language, drug use, and some suggestive comments)
First Reformed
(A24) Amanda Seyfried, Ethan Hawke, Cedric the Entertainer, Victoria Hill. A priest in a small congregation in upstate New York discovers he's been sent to close the parish down following a tragedy. Grappling with worldly concerns as well as a tormented past of his own, he struggles to keep his faith in a world where that is increasingly hard to find.
Now Playing: Regal Winter Park Village, Rialto Spanish Springs Square
Rating: R (for some disturbing violent images)
(A24) Alex Wolff, Gabriel Byrne, Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro. After the death of a family's matriarch, they begin to suspect that there are mysteries in their ancestry that might have dire consequences in the here and now. The buzz on this horror film has been HUGE.
Rating: R (for horror violence, disturbing images, language, drug use and brief graphic nudity)
(Global Road) Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum. In a future Los Angeles that is being torn apart by riots, a Nurse runs a secret members-only emergency room for criminals.
Rating: R (for violence and language throughout, some sexual references and brief drug use)
(Bleecker Street) Saoirse Ronan, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, Billy Howle. A young newlywed couple in 1962 England find that their storybook romance is colliding with the reality of changing sexual mores, class pressure and evolving expectations leading to a fateful wedding night.
Now Playing: AMC Altamonte Mall, AMC Disney Springs, Regal Winter Park Village, Rialto Spanish Springs Square
Rating: R (for some sexual content and nudity)
(Neon/Shudder) Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, Guillaume Bouchéde. The mistress of a French billionaire accompanies him to his remote hunting cabin in the desert prior to a hunting trip with the boys. When the other hunters arrive early, a party spirals out of control and leaves the woman in a fight for survival where there's only life and death. This played this year's Florida Film Festival.
Rating: R (for strong bloody gruesome violence, a rape, sexuality, graphic nudity, drug use and language)
(Sony Classics) Elisabeth Ross, Saoirse Ronan, Annette Bening, Corey Stoll. In the early 20th century, an aging actress and her lover visit the estate of her elderly and infirm brother. This is based on Anton Chekhov's classic play.
Rating: PG-13 (for some mature thematic elements, a scene of violence, drug use, and partial nudity)
Kaala
Sid and Aya
Bernard and Huey
Filmworker
Here Comes Miss Modern
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There's always a little love/hate in every mother-daughter relationship.
(2017) Dramedy (A24) Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Beanie Feldstein, Timothée Chalamet, Lucas Hedges, Odeya Rush, Kathryn Newton, Tracy Letts, Lois Smith, Laura Marano, Andy Buckley, Danielle Macdonald, Jordan Rodrigues, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Kristen Cloke, Daniel Zovatto, John Karna, Bayne Gibby, Bob Stephenson, Marielle Scott, Chris Witaske, Suzanne LaChasse. Directed by Greta Gerwig
Adolescence is a difficult period. We all undergo it; we don't all survive it. We muddle through as best we can as we learn to find out who we are and hopefully, who we want to become. It's a wonder that any of us live to be 21.
Christine McPherson (Ronan) insists that people call her "Lady Bird." That isn't her name; she just likes the sound of it. A high school senior at an all-girls Catholic school in suburban Sacramento, California, she is chafing at the bit to get free of the Great Central Valley and move somewhere sophisticated and cultured i.e. New York. Her mother Marion (Metcalf) would prefer that Lady Bird stay somewhere local, mainly because that's about all the family can afford. At least Marion can take comfort in that her daughter, who is surprisingly smart, doesn't really have the grades to get into any schools she really wants to go to.
Lady Bird has a fairly small circle; in addition to her mother with whom she has a contentious relationship, there's her brother Miguel (Rodrigues) who graduated college but has only been able to find a job bagging groceries and her father Larry (Letts) who is as loving and kind as her mother is critical and demanding. Lady Bird's bestie Julie Steffans (Feldstein) is, like herself, from the wrong side of the tracks. Julie is, like Lady Bird, on the outside looking in on the popularity scale.
Like most girls her age, Lady Bird is very interested in boys but they mystify her. She doesn't really know how to act around them or to let them know she likes them. She's also interested in sex but she wants it on her terms. I think it's pretty much safe to say that Lady Bird wants to live life in all its aspects on her own terms which at 17 isn't necessarily an unusual thing. She will explore different aspects of high school life, experience all sorts of different things both good and bad and continue to work towards her goal of going to college in New York, as hopeless a goal as it may seem.
The term "coming of age film" can cover a whole lot of sins but in this case, it is truly apt. We actually see real growth (as opposed to Hollywood growth which is generally unearned) in Lady Bird. Greta Gerwig, riding the director's chair solo for the first time in her career, does a bang-up job. Although only semi-autobiographical (Gerwig has gone on record that this is more emotionally autobiographical than factually so) there is an air of authenticity to it. If Lady Bird isn't Gerwig she's certainly a cousin and that's not a bad thing.
Ronan and Metcalf both turn in performances that have legitimate shots at Oscar nominations. When mother and daughter are going at it the screen just about crackles with electricity. Marion loves her daughter passionately but doesn't always express that love in healthy ways. She's outspoken (like her daughter) and hyper-critical which is definitely not appreciated. Larry does his best to mitigate things but he's a little intimidated by Marion as well and when he loses his job he clearly begins to doubt himself although that's an aspect of the story that isn't explored thoroughly. Then again, it's not Larry's story – it's Lady Bird's.
In a sense this is also a love letter to Sacramento (where Gerwig grew up and where this is set). Although Lady Bird complains about the provincialness of the city, it's clear that Gerwig has a great deal of affection for the place. Residents and regular visitors will recognize a lot of different landmarks and local hangouts shown at various times in the film. One can't complain about a movie with this much love for the capitol of California.
There is a pretty frank portrayal of Lady Bird's sexuality; she becomes attracted to two different guys during the course of the film and contemplates losing her virginity. The frank discussion of the event is going to feel familiar to most women, although those who find such things distasteful are going to have a difficult time with that particular scene. I suppose it is going to depend on how comfortable you are with sexual discussions.
Gerwig doesn't get everything right. The ending feels a bit rushed and a little bit of a nonsequitir. Her move from one BFF to another one who is more shallow just so Lady Bird can get closer to a guy she's interested in comes off as a little bit cliché and maybe a little bit out of character. However, those are relatively minor things and she does for the most part nail the film.
I commented on Facebook that everyone who has ever been an adolescent girl should see this and I stand by that. It is going to resonate deeply with most women who will recognize the situations and the character dynamics. Men are also going to enjoy this because they will also get a chance to laugh at some of the foibles of adolescent girls – and maybe get to understand the women in their lives just a teensy bit better. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
REASONS TO GO: The writing is smart and the characters realistic. You have to love a film that gives Sacto this much love.
REASONS TO STAY: The ending feels a little bit rushed.
FAMILY VALUES: There is plenty of profanity, a lot of teen sexuality, some brief nudity and lots of teen partying.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Lady Bird recently set a Rotten Tomatoes record for the most positive reviews without a single negative review – 164 consecutive positives and counting.
CRITICAL MASS: As of 11/28/17: Rotten Tomatoes: 100% positive reviews. Metacritic: 94/100.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Girl Flu
NEXT: Gangster Land
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New Releases for the Week of November 17, 2017
(Warner Brothers) Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Ciaran Hinds, Jesse Eisenberg, Amber Heard, Jeremy Irons, Amy Adams, Connie Nielsen. Directed by Zack Snyder
With Superman no longer in the picture, Earth is facing a threat beyond any it has surmounted up to now. Batman gathers the heroes of Earth – Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash and Cyborg – to stand against the threat of Steppenwolf and his legions but they may not be enough.
See the trailer, interviews, clips, featurettes and B-roll video here.
Release Formats: Standard, 3D, IMAX, DBOX, Dolby, RPX
Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of sci-fi violence and action)
(A24) Saoirse Ronan, Odeya Rush, Timothée Chalamet, Laurie Metcalf. A spirited and iconoclastic young woman living in Northern California with a mom who doesn't understand her confronts the obstacles of growing up as she tries to reconcile her own burgeoning sexuality. The director is writer and actress Greta Gerwig.
Rating: R (for language, sexual content, brief graphic nudity and teen partying)
Sidemen: Long Road to Glory
(Abramorama) Pinetop Perkins, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Hubert Sumlin, Marc Maron. Three musicians who helped develop the Chicago blues sound with such legends as Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters have influenced not only the blues but popular music in general and rock and roll specifically. Late in life, they would win a Grammy on their own. This is their incredible story.
Genre: Musical Documentary
(Columbia) Starring the voices of Steven Yeun, Kristin Chenoweth, Christopher Plummer, Zachary Levi. The story of the first Christmas as seen through the eyes of the animals who were present.
Rating: PG (for some thematic elements)
(Lionsgate) Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, Mandy Patinkin. A young boy with facial disfigurements attends a mainstream school for the first time. Unsure of himself and self-conscious about his face, he endures bullying but slowly begins to win everyone over in the school with his amazing perseverance and optimistic attitude.
Rating: PG (for thematic elements including bullying, and some mild language)
Frank Serpico
Khakee: The Power of Police
Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru
Tumhari Sulu
Aida's Secrets
Last Flag Flying
Tragedy Girls
Ghost Bride
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But is it art?
(2017) Animated Feature (Good Deed) Featuring the voices of Douglas Booth, Saoirse Ronan, Helen McCrory, Chris O'Dowd, Robert Gulaczyk, Jerome Flynn, Cezary Lukaszewicz, Eleanor Tomlinson, Aidan Turner, James Green, Bill Thomas, Martin Herdman, Robin Hodges, Josh Burdett, John Sessions, Joe Stuckey, Piotr Pamula, Kamila Dyoubari . Directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
As a painter, Vincent Van Gogh was one of the world's most influential, creating works that remain iconic to this day – most of us have seen at least pictures of some of his work. As a person, Vincent Van Gogh was an enigma; beset by mental and emotional issues throughout his life (there are some experts who believe he was bipolar) that led to him shooting himself fatally at age 30 in 1890. He remains a mystery to many, producing over 800 paintings in the last 10 years of his life and then abruptly choosing suicide.
Armand Roulin (Booth) is a roustabout, a ne'er do well who is the son of Joseph Roulin (O'Dowd), the postmaster of Arles where Van Gogh lived and a friend to the Dutch painter. Joseph has come into possession of a letter that Vincent (Gulaczyk) wrote to his beloved brother Theo (Pamula) near the end of his life. It is 1891 and Van Gogh has been dead for a year. Joseph has tasked his son with the job of delivering the letter from the late master to his brother in Paris, only when Armand gets there he is unable to locate Theo. He goes to Vincent's art supply dealer Pere Tanguy (Sessions) who informs him that Theo has followed Vincent into the hereafter. Armand then decides that in lieu of delivering the letter to Theo he will deliver it instead to Theo's wife Johanna. Tanguy doesn't know where she is living but suggests contacting Dr. Gachet (Flynn) in Auvers who treated Vincent in the last months of his life and was with him when he died.
Roulin travels to Auvers only to find that the good Doctor is out of town. He decides to stay at the same inn and pub where Vincent stayed; the kindly innkeeper's daughter Adeline Ravoux (Tomlinson) who remembered the painter quite fondly puts him up in the very room where Vincent lived and died. Armand sets out while he waits for the doctor to return with talking with various townspeople about the painter, from the doctor's daughter Marguerite (Ronan), his housekeeper (McCrory), a boatman (Flynn) and the local policeman (Herdman). The more Armand interviews the people who knew Van Gogh the more murky his death becomes. Was it really suicide, as the painter himself confessed to on his deathbed? Or was it something else?
First off, this movie is a remarkable achievement in animation. The filmmakers started by filming the actors against green screen, then utilized more than 100 artists to create each frame as an oil painting in the style of Van Gogh (inserting actual paintings of the master in various places more than 40 of them – see if you can spot them all) which came out to about approximately 65,000 paintings all told. In a way, we're getting a view inside Van Gogh's head and coming about as close as we will ever get to seeing the world through Van Gogh's eyes.
The voice acting can be stiff and stuffy at times, but unlike a lot of reviewers I found the story compelling. There is a bit of a mystery to the death of Van Gogh, particularly in light of a 2011 biography that questions the official account of his death and hints that he may have been the victim of an accidental shooting and that he insisted it was suicide to protect the person who shot him. There are certainly some compelling reasons to think it, mainly based on the angle of the shot that mortally wounded the painter. Most suicides put the gun to their head; most don't kill themselves by shooting themselves in the stomach which is an exceedingly painful way to go. The angle of the wound also suggests a trajectory that would have made it physically unlikely that Van Gogh shot himself although it was possible.
That said, most scholars today agree that this new theory is less likely than suicide and while the filmmakers here seem to lean in the direction of homicide, it at least gives us a bit of a gateway into examining the painter's works, particularly in the last months of his life. While the movie seems preoccupied with Van Gogh's death more than his life – something in which Adeline Ravoux actually scolds Armand about during the film – there is no doubt that the filmmakers hold his work in great reverence.
And that's really the beauty of the film. It brings the world of Van Gogh to life, gives it depth and meaning in ways that most of us could never do on our own. It will hopefully give some folks the impetus to take a closer look at his work and his life; it did me for sure. Spending so much time trying to make sense of his death may give the movie a bit of a morbid tinge but that doesn't detract at all from the overall beauty that Van Gogh created – and the filmmakers re-created with such obvious love. I wouldn't be surprised if this ended up on the shortlist for the Best Animated Feature Oscar for next year.
REASONS TO GO: The technique is startling and brilliant. The use of Van Gogh's paintings is clever. The story is compelling. The end credits are extremely well done. The film will likely motivate you to explore Van Gogh, his life and his work.
REASONS TO STAY: The film seems more concerned with Van Gogh's death than with his life. Some of the voice acting is a little stiff.
FAMILY VALUES: The themes here are fairly mature; there's also some violence, a bit of sexuality and plenty of smoking.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Each one of the film's more than 65,000 frames were hand-painted using similar techniques to what Van Gogh actually used. It took a team of more than 125 artists more than seven years to complete the massive task.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: The Painting (Le tableau)
FINAL RATING: 8..5/10
NEXT: Clarity
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New Releases for the Week of October 6, 2017
Posted on October 5, 2017 by carlosdev
(Warner Brothers) Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Dave Bautista, Robin Wright, David Dastmalchian, Jared Leto, Hiam Abbass, Edward James Olmos, Lennie James. Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Thirty years following the events of Blade Runner, a replicant hunter discovers a long-buried secret that could plunge what's left of society – nearly destroyed after an electromagnetic pulse detonation in 2022 plunged the technologically-dependent planet into darkness – into chaos. His quest to prevent that from happening leads him on a search to find a legend, one who has been missing for thirty years – a Blade Runner named Rick Deckard.
See the trailer, a clip, a featurette, short films and SDCC coverage here.
Release Formats: Standard, 3D, IMAX
Rating: R (for violence, some sexuality. nudity, and language)
Generational Sins
(Freestyle) Daniel MacPherson, Dax Spanogle, Barrett Donner, Bill Farmer. The final wish of a dying mother is that her two sons who have been estranged from each other for some time make a pilgrimage together to the home they grew up in. Both are reluctant to go – the place holds unpleasant memories for the both of them but they soon discover that there is potential for healing and hope in the journey.
Rating: PG-13 (for mature thematic material involving violence and alcohol abuse, and for some language and suggestive content)
Let's Play Two
(Abramorama) Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament. During the Chicago Cubs magical 2016 baseball season, legendary grunge band Pearl Jam was invited to play two dates at Wrigley Field while the Cubbies were out on the road. The band would play material spanning their 25-year-career as well as covers of songs that influenced them. The result was two amazing nights that are being presented on the big screen for the first time.
(Good Deed) Starring the voices of Robert Gulaczyk, Chris O'Dowd, Helen McCrory, Saoirse Ronan. The life and mysterious death of the master impressionist Vincent Van Gogh is examined in a unique animated film that Van Gogh himself would appreciate; each frame is an individual oil painting, more than 65,000 of them painted over seven years. This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to see a truly one-of-a-kind work on the big screen.
Rating: PG-13 (for mature thematic material, some violence. sexual material and smoking)
The Mountain Between Us
(20th Century Fox) Idris Elba, Kate Winslet, Beau Bridges, Dermot Mulroney. Two strangers survive a small plane crash in the rugged wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. Alone and with no help coming, they must make a journey on their own to cross the frozen landscape to civilization.
Rating: PG-13 (for a scene of sexuality, peril, injury images, and brief strong language)
(Lionsgate) Starring the voices of Kristin Chenoweth, Emily Blunt, Zoe Saldana, Live Schreiber. The wildly popular children's TV show comes to the big screen as the Mane Six of Ponyville, finding their town threatened by a dark force, must travel beyond Equestria to get help. Using the magic of friendship they make new friends who will help them win the day. Either that or you get contact diabetes from the sugar.
See the trailer, interviews, a clip and B-roll video here
Rating: PG (for mild action)
The Stray
(Pure Flix) Sarah Lancaster, Michael Cassidy, Scott Christopher, Connor Corum. A young father hopes to bond with his son by taking him hiking, along with two of his son's friends and the family dog. As they trek through the beautiful countryside of Colorado, all five of them are hit by lightning. This bizarre occurrence apparently actually happened.
Genre: Family/Faith
Rating: PG (for thematic elements including a perilous situation)
Viceroy's House
(IFC) Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Hugh Bonneville, Simon Callow. This is the story of Lord Mountbatten, the last British governor of India who was tasked with the mission of getting India ready for becoming an independent state. With religious factions at odds with one another, it became clear that this would be no easy feat. This is playing at the Enzian as part of the South Asia Film Festival, going on this weekend at the Maitland theater.
See the trailer, clips and a featurette here
Now Playing: Enzian Theater (Monday only), Cinematique Theater Daytona
(Focus) Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard. Directed by acclaimed British director Stephen Frears, this is the true story of Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim, an Indian clerk with whom she came to rely upon for advice in her later years.
See the trailer, clips, interviews, a featurette and B-roll video here
Now Playing: AMC Altamonte Mall, AMC Disney Springs, Cinemark Artegon Marketplace, Old Mill Playhouse, Regal Oviedo Mall, Regal Winter Park Village
Rating: PG-13 (for some thematic elements and language)
Earth: One Amazing Day
Vico C, La Vida Del Filofoso
City of Rock
The Unknown Girl
Woodshock
2307: Winter's Dream
The Osiris Child: Science Fiction Volume One
The Mountains Between Us
South Asia Film Festival (Enzian Theater, Maitland, October 6-8)
Tampa Bay International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (Tampa Theater Tampa, October 6-14)
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The romance of Ireland meets the romance of Long Island.
(2015) Romance (Fox Searchlight) Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Maeve McGrath, Fiona Glascott, Eileen O'Higgins, Peter Campion, Emily Bett Rickards, Eve Macklin, Nora-Jane Noone, Mary O'Driscoll, Samantha Munro, Jessica Paré, Jane Brennan, Eva Birthistle, Brid Brennan, Hugh Gormley, Jenn Murray. Directed by John Crowley
There comes a time in the lives of some people – a lot of people, actually – in which the realization that they have no future sets in. At that moment, they may choose to accept that fate or they may choose to pack up and leave and try to make something of themselves elsewhere.
Eilis Lacey (Ronan) had that decision made for her, by her fiercely protective big sister Rose (Glascott) who wrote Father Flood (Broadbent) in New York to help find Eilis lodging and a job in the Big Apple and so he does, in Brooklyn which in 1951 (when this is set) was full of a rainbow of different cultures, including the Irish. Leaving Rose to care for their widowed mother (J. Brennan) and leaving the employ of a miserable harpy (B. Brennan), she sets sail for the Land of Opportunity.
Once in Brooklyn, she is given lodging at a boarding house run by the no-nonsense Mrs. Kehoe (Walters) who tries to keep Patty (Rickards), Diana (Macklin) and Sheila (Noone) in rein which given their Irish high spirits is no easy task. Desperately homesick, Eilis tries to fit in at the boarding house and tries to fit in at the high-end department store where she works under the watchful eye of Miss Fortini (Paré).
At a dance put on by the local Church, she meets Tony Fiorello (Cohen) who has a thing for Irish girls. His soft-spoken geniality and gentle self-deprecating humor appeals to her and slowly she starts out liking her new beau to falling in love with him. However, a family emergency calls her home to Ireland where she ends up facing a new wrinkle there in the form of a new suitor who is equally kind-hearted and quite the catch, young Jim Farrell (Gleeson) who by the standards of Enniscorthy in County Wexford is well-off. Now the young woman's heart is torn between two continents and two very different lives. Which will she choose?
Da Queen is fond of describing acting performances that she admires as "quiet," a trait I find curiously endearing. It means something much different to her than to thee and me and yet in this case, I think she might have something. Ronan is absolutely outstanding here, almost certain to get a nomination for Best Actress at the forthcoming Oscars. Much of her acting takes place in her eyes and on her expressive face; her lilting Irish accent is easily understood, and her longings and yearnings are written in her expressions. Any critic who dismisses the role as bland and unmemorable clearly hasn't been watching this actress closely, and they are well-advised to – methinks she will be one of the industry's outstanding actresses for decades to come.
The film is beautifully photographed, from the lush greenery of the Emerald Isle to the windswept barrens of the Long Isle (Long Island NYC) to the brownstone comforts of Brooklyn. Much of the movie takes place in the latter location, a Brooklyn where the Dodgers are still Dem Bums, the streets are alive with color and vitality, Coney Island is still the working class escape and the world is full of possibilities. Sure, this is an idealized Brooklyn because it is largely the Brooklyn of memory and memory makes fonder the places we've lived in. The Los Angeles of the 1960s was far from perfect but in my own memory, it is an idyllic place and probably nothing like what it really was and certainly nothing like what it is now. That is the nature of places; they change, often faster and more profoundly than we do ourselves.
While the love triangle between Jim, Tony and Eilis is a bit of a stretch (finding two really nice guys who are actually gentlemen is damn near impossible as any woman will tell you), the relationships that Eilis works out with the two of them feel authentic. Eilis is at times too good to be true – a little naive but with an absolute heart of gold (in fact, the movie has no real antagonist other than the harridan Miss Kelly at the grocery where Eilis works at the movie's start) and a sweet nature that is straight out of a 50s romance movie.
The world has changed a lot since the time Brooklyn was set in and much of the innocence of that time is long gone. It is not uncommon for those who remember that era to long for its simplicity. Don't discount the value of nostalgia in marketing a movie – as fellow critic Roger Moore correctly pointed out, the movie seems to be consciously aimed at those who like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. And there's nothing wrong with going after that demographic either; certainly the audience we saw at our screening skewed older. However, nostalgia isn't all this film has going for it; Ronan's star turn is likely to get that Oscar nod and could well attract more film buffs here than nostalgia-seeking retirees. This is a contender for my year's best ten list; go give this one a watch and it might end up on yours too.
REASONS TO GO: Ronan is magnificent. Beautifully shot. Well-written. A lovely slice of life.
REASONS TO STAY: Maybe a little too idealized.
FAMILY VALUES: Some brief profanity and a scene of sexuality.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Although Ronan was born in The Bronx, she was raised in Ireland by her Irish parents; this is the first time in a movie that she's used her native Irish accent.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Avalon
NEXT: The Ridiculous 6
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THE GOOD DINOSAUR
(Disney*Pixar) Starring the voices of Raymond Ochoa, Jack Bright, Jeffrey Wright, Sam Elliott, Frances McDormand, Steve Zahn. Directed by Peter Sohn
In a world where the asteroid that caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs missed the Earth, an Apatosaurus named Arlo who as the runt of the litter was always frightened of everything in the world around him, is forced to make friends with a feral human boy named Spot. Alone and far from home in a dangerous world, the two must work together to make it home.
See the trailer, clips, a featurette and B-roll video here.
Rating: PG (for peril, action and thematic elements)
Bone Tomahawk
(RLJ Entertainment) Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Sean Young. After a small town in the Old West is attacked by savage cannibalistic cave dwellers (try and say that five times fast), a grizzled sheriff leads a dysfunctional posse after them to rescue the captives they took from the town. Little did they realize that the cannibals were far more ruthless and resourceful than they could have imagined – and that the rescue mission has become a fight for survival.
(Fox Searchlight) Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters. A woman in the 1950s emigrates from Ireland to the United States to find herself a new life. At first beset by pangs of homesickness, she begins to ease into her situation, buoyed by a promising romance. However when personal matters require her to return to Ireland, she finds herself forced to choose between two lives – one in her homeland, one in her new home. Scripted by Nick Hornby.
See the trailer, clips, a featurette and an interview here.
Now Playing: AMC Altamonte Mall, AMC Disney Springs, AMC Loew's Universal Cineplex, AMC West Oaks, Regal Oviedo Marketplace, Regal Waterford Lakes, Regal Winter Park Village
Rating: PG-13 (for a scene of sexuality and brief strong language)
(MGM/New Line) Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad. The son of the late boxing champion Apollo Creed never knew his father, who died in the ring before he was born. Angry at life, he only feels comfortable in the boxing ring. Knowing that he needs the kind of training that he can't get just anywhere, he seeks out his father's one-time rival and closest friend Rocky Balboa, who sees something in the young man that Creed doesn't see in himself. But Rocky has a deadly battle of his own to wage and young Adonis Creed will be taking on a foe that may be more than he can overcome. Jordan in the title role is reunited with his Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler.
Genre: Sports Drama
Rating: PG-13 (for violence, language and some sensuality)
(Universal) Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, David Thewlis, Christopher Eccleston. In the 1960s the Kray Brothers were the most notorious and feared gangsters in London. Their story, previously chronicled in The Krays starring Gary and Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet, benefits from an Oscar-caliber performance by Tom Hardy – as both Kray twins. The movie will be opening on more screens in two weeks.
Now Playing: Regal Winter Park Village (opening wider December 11)
Rating: R (for strong violence, language throughout, some sexual and drug material)
Tamasha
(UTV) Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor, Javed Sheikh, Faraaz Servaia. A tourist and a nomad living on an island near France fall for one another as they organize "tamashas" all over the island.
Now Playing: AMC West Oaks, Touchstar Southchase
(Bleecker Street) Bryan Cranston, Louis C.K., John Goodman, Diane Lane. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is called in before the House Un-American Activities Commission to testify about his beliefs and to incriminate other colleagues who might be leaning too far to the left for American tastes as of 1947. Instead, he stands up against Congress and is sent to prison before being blacklisted. Instead, he perseveres and becomes an American hero in the process.
Genre Biographical Drama
(20th Century Fox) James McAvoy, Daniel Radcliffe, Jessica Brown Findlay, Charles Dance. A reimagining of the Mary Shelley classic, as a medical doctor wishing to conquer death becomes obsessed to the point of madness. Only his faithful assistant Igor can save him from his own deteriorating mental state and from his horrifying creation.
Rating: PG-13 (for macabre images, violence and a sequence of destruction)
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Caught in the act!
(2014) Comedy (Fox Searchlight) Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F. Murray Abraham, Matthieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Owen Wilson, Lea Seydoux, Bob Balaban, Fisher Stevens, Florian Lukas, Giselda Volodi. Directed by Wes Anderson
There was a time when elegance was in fashion, when gentility was all the rage and a gentleman was a gentleman and a lady was a lady. Those days are gone.
A student sits down by a shrine to read a book called The Grand Budapest Hotel. In 1985, a famous Author (Wilkinson) reads the book aloud and tells us about the time back in 1969 when he was young (Law) and visited the namesake hotel of the book in the beautiful Republic of Zubrowka and spoke with the owner of the hotel (Abraham). He, in turn, tells a tale of when he was but a young ambitious lobby boy named Zero Moustafa (Revolori) who came to be taken under the wing of the greatest concierge that ever lived – the legendary Monsieur Gustave (Fiennes).
Gustave has made his reputation by knowing what his clientele needs before they themselves know. He specializes in elderly dowagers, flirting and bestowing on them the sheerest form of flattery, leading them into bed. One of his more devoted clients is Madame D (Swinton), but there are many and nearly all of them blonde.
When one of his clients passes away, Gustave takes Zero to pay his final respects but it turns out that Dmitri (Brody), the manipulative greedy son, is absolutely scandalized that his mother had carnal relations with someone like Gustave whom he considers to be a perverted little bisexual. Dmitri has in his employ Jopling (Dafoe), a psychopathic assassin.
As it turns out Gustave is accused of the murder of his client and jailed. Zero, his devoted protégé and friend and Zero's fiancée Agatha (Ronan), a comely assistant pastry chef with a distinctive wine-colored birthmark shaped like Mexico on her cheek, will have to overcome the canny Inspector Henckels (Norton) and the ruthless Jopling to help Gustave clear his name.
Anderson has always had a quirky comedic sense that crosses Ernst Lubitsch with the Coen Brothers. This is in my opinion his best film to date, taking all of the promise he has shown in films like Rushmore and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and delivering on it. The timing is impressive and the film is funny throughout.
In talking about this film one has to talk about the production design. Each time period has a certain color palate which grows more dingy and dreary in 1969 and 1985 1932 however is awash in color, the pink jewelbox of the hotel dominant. Often the movie looks like it was printed on paper, with animated cutouts doing some of the action. The stylized movements of the actors and the oddball facial hair of the men complete the overall air of gentility and hilarity.
Fiennes is perfect as Gustave. Genteel, manipulative, a bit of a cad but with a heart of gold, Fiennes carries the movie in his coat pocket. It is a magnificent performance that unleashes hidden depths from Fiennes who often plays roles that are emotionally closed off. This is right in his wheelhouse and he steps into it and knocks it out of the part with enthusiastic gusto. While I find it unlikely he'll be nominated for any awards later on for the role, this is definitely one of the best performances you'll see this year that won't get awards consideration.
The only reason this doesn't have a perfect score is the unnecessarily convoluted structure of having a student sitting by the grave of an older author who talks about his younger self hearing a story from an old man who tells about what happened to him and his mentor as a young man. The problem with peeling back the layers from an onion is that someone inevitably ends up in tears. Nonetheless this is a terrific movie, quirky but funny and satisfying and thoroughly enjoyable.
REASONS TO GO: Imaginative and funny. Fiennes is transcendent. Clever for all the right reasons.
REASONS TO STAY: The beginning is unnecessarily complicated.
FAMILY VALUES: A fair amount of ungentlemanly language, some unseemly violence and some naughty bits.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The name of the fictional Republic of Zubrowka where the film is set actually comes from a Polish brand of vodka.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: The Hudsucker Proxy
NEXT: Fireflies in the Garden
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Q: make a SQL query on some databases of the same server I'm trying to make a simple select query on several databases on the same server, the server has 104 databases where 52 have the same schema so that is 2 different schemas (this are being generated by equipment on production floor, is a mistake that I have to handle until the equipment vendor figures how to create a single database for each scheme).
So I have a query like
select *
from TB_AOIResult
where serialnumber = 'snx'

At first I use this, it retrieves the data, but also a lot of errors as several databases on the server do not have that table .
[exec sp_MSforeachdb 'use ?;SELECT  *  FROM \[TB_AOIResult\] where barcode ="102564AG1710200018476"'

go]1
then
so far the only way that I have found is to declare all the 52 databases (at this moment, the machines will generate a new db per week) in this statement, that is severally impractical
declare @sql1 as VARCHAR(4000)
SET @sql1 ='IF ''?''IN(''KY_Result_201715'',''KY_Result_201714'',''KY_Result_201713'',''KY_Result_201712''[enter image description here][2])
            EXECUTE(''USE [?]
                      SELECT  *  FROM [TB_AOIResult] where barcode ="102564AG1710200018476" '')'

EXEC sp_MSforeachdb @command1 = @sql1

Could someone help me and explain me if there is any other way to do this query in all the databases with the same schema and avoid to run in the ones that does not have the table, without write the name of each database?
Thanks

A: Finally I solve it as follows:
exec sp_MSforeachdb @command1 = 'USE ?;
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = N''TB_AOIResult'') BEGIN SELECT * FROM TB_AOIResult where barcode like ''102564AG171020001847%'' END'

go

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Despite the fact that a New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene report found that more black babies were killed by abortion in the city than were born there in 2012, Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged to partner with Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers to expand their businesses and to wipe out pro-life crisis pregnancy centers.
As reported by CNS News, the "Summary of Vital Statistics 2012 The City of New York, Pregnancy Outcomes," prepared by the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, states that 31,328 African American babies were killed by abortion in 2012 in New York City, while only 24,758 black babies were born, leaving 6,570 more abortions than births in that year. The number of black babies aborted comprise 42.4 percent of the total number of abortions in the city, which numbered 73,815.
Table 1 of the report provides "total number of live births, spontaneous terminations (miscarriages), and induced terminations (abortions) for women" between the ages of 15 and 49 and of various races and boroughs of residence in New York City.
In November following the election of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Breitbart News reported that de Blasio pledged to partner with Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers to expand their businesses even further by providing them with "city-sponsored" space to set up shop.
Furthermore, de Blasio has pledged to use Obamacare to expand state-funded abortion coverage to more New York City women.


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February 6, 2019 Features, Student Lifestyle, Students
Graduate student brings unique background to Men's Basketball Team
Story and photos by Tyra Jonas
It's easy to walk around Central Michigan University's campus and assume people are there for the same reason as us— to get a four-year degree, meet to new friends, make memories or join clubs. However, students are here with stories far bigger than just receiving a degree, and it begins with basketball graduate student Bobby Naubert.
Naubert showed up to CMU with a story that isn't average— passion for basketball and education. His story began in his backyard playing basketball with his brother. He developed a love for the game in high school and played at Madonna University in Livonia, Mich.
Bobby Naubert and Assistant Coach Kyle Gerdeman
After four years at Madonna University, Naubert went to do open tryouts for an agency with hundreds of basketball players trying to bring their passion for the game overseas. It was challenging for him because everyone was trying to play and be the best.
Soon enough, he received an offer to tryout for a team called TVI IBBENBURN located in northern Germany. "Within the second day they offered me to play," Naubert said. He expressed the language barrier was challenging, but being able to play in a new place was a lot of fun.
After two years of playing, he returned back to his alma mater at Madonna University to pursue coaching and continuing his education. Naubert was the head coach of a new JV program and assisted with the varsity team while in a master's program there.
After a season of coaching, Naubert received an opportunity to bring his love of coaching to CMU as a graduate assistant. As a graduate assistant, Naubert does various tasks, one being film breakdown. Film breakdown is knowing everything about the opponent and how they play. They compress the information down for the assistant coaches.
After film breakdown, they simulate what the opposing team would do during a game with the scout team, so they can practice with the starters. During the games, all four graduate assistants are doing stats. Naubert's job is to see what the offense is running, how productive the team is being with the plays, what kind of shots are happening and more. He relays this information during the game to the assistant coaches to communicate to Coach Keno.
"It's nice to have an open line of communication with the coaches because there are a lot of different angles in basketball that you have to look at," Naubert said.
Bobby Naubert and Head Coach Keno Davis
Balancing a master's program and working with the men's team is not always easy. It requires Naubert to plan four weeks ahead. He said that most professors are really understanding of his position as a GA. Naubert says missing class is sometimes tough, but it has never got to a point where he felt he was going to fail the class. "I don't think a lot of people understand how much responsibility being a GA is. You're going to spend a lot of early mornings and late nights, but if the team is successful it makes it all worth it," he said.
Once he graduates this spring, Naubert wants to be a coach. "You never really know in coaching. It's such a weird business. I just want to be around the game," he said. "I love building the relationships with the players and being able to stay connected. I don't care what level I coach, I want to be able to help people in basketball."
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JoAnn Johnson, 72, of Chattanooga, TN passed April 8th, 2019. Joan was born to James Howard Johnson and Mozella Sims Johnson, November 23, 1946, in Chattanooga, TN. She graduated from Orange Grove in 1984. She was never married.
Her family remembers her as a loving woman with a pure heart.
She was preceded in death by sister, Joyce Ann Johnson; Brother-in-law, Robert Baker; sister, Sandra Kaye Johnson- Bush; sister, Charlotte Lingo; brother-in-law, Lenard Coleman; brother, Alonzo Johnson Sr; brother, Richard "Rickey" Johnson; sister, Lucille Harris Johnson; and many more. She also joins 2 siblings sister, Barbara Jean Mitchell and sister, Jackie Ruth Scott. She also leaves to cherish her memory a family full of great-neices, great-nephews, cousins and close friends.
May our God grant you peace and calm your anxious hearts.


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i just wanna ask though, have you studied japanese first before going to japan? also, have you tried applying on studighibli,gonzo, mad house or other 2d animation studios? are they like the ones you've mentioned? is student visa okay to apply for jobs? well if ever i study in japanese language school first, what if i find a job during or after my studies? should i go back in our country to change my visa toworking? thanks in advance!


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Q: SQL Server query: Adjust money column I'm trying to do the following WITHOUT CURSORS. Is it possible?
I have this variable:
DECLARE @Amount MONEY = 800;

Sample table that I current have:
EntryID    Amount
--------------------------------------------
1       200
2       250
3       600
4       100
...     ....(could be many more rows)

I want to be able to update the table to only show the "Amount" that it needs to add up to the @Amount variable ($800). So I'd like the table to end up like this:
EntryID    Amount
--------------------------------------------
1       200 (uses up full 200)
2       250 (uses up full 250)
3       350 (uses up 350 of the 600)

OR LIKE THIS
EntryID    Amount     Distrib
--------------------------------------------
1       200        200
2       250        250
3       600        350
4       100        0
...     ...            ...

So the SUM() is equal to @Amount
Thanks in advance!
PS - I'm doing this in SQL Server 2012
UPDATE:
Here's my final solution.  Thanks again, Gordon:
DECLARE @Amount money = 800;
DECLARE @tmpPaymentDist TABLE (EntryID INT, Amount MONEY, Distrib MONEY);

INSERT INTO @tmpPaymentDist (EntryID, Amount) VALUES (1, 200);
INSERT INTO @tmpPaymentDist (EntryID, Amount) VALUES (2, 250);
INSERT INTO @tmpPaymentDist (EntryID, Amount) VALUES (3, 600);
INSERT INTO @tmpPaymentDist (EntryID, Amount) VALUES (4, 100);

with toupdate as (
    select t.*,
        (case when sum(amount) over (order by entryid) <= @amount
        then amount
        when sum(amount) over (order by entryid) < @amount + amount
        then @amount - (sum(amount) over (order by entryid) - amount)
        else 0
    end) as new_distrib
    from @tmpPaymentDist t
)

update T set distrib = new_distrib
FROM @tmpPaymentDist T
INNER JOIN toupdate T2 ON T2.EntryID = T.EntryID
WHERE T2.new_distrib > 0

SELECT * FROM @tmpPaymentDist

A: Yes, you can do this without cursors, using cumulative sums:
select t.*,
       (case when sum(amount) over (order by entryid) <= @amount
             then amount
             when sum(amount) over (order by entryid) < @amount + amount
             then @amount - (sum(amount) over (order by entryid) - amount)
             else 0
        end) as distrib
from table t;

That is, use cumulative sums for the calculation.
For an update, you can use the same logic:
with toupdate as (
      select t.*,
             (case when sum(amount) over (order by entryid) <= @amount
                   then amount
                   when sum(amount) over (order by entryid) < @amount + amount
                   then @amount - (sum(amount) over (order by entryid) - amount)
                   else 0
              end) as new_distrib
      from table t
     )
update toudpate
    set distrib = new_distrib;


As part of my continued effort to bring you great homeschool resources, here is a resource to not only help you get organized and keep good records, but help see your child's strengths. There are lots of choices in these free homeschool report cards!
Just download and print the reports cards on both sides of the paper. There are cute report cards for elementary age kids and more traditional looking report cards for older grades. Plus there are various choices for the inside depending on if you want to give grades, check off skills, etc.
Should your Homeschool Student have a Report Card?
Now, right off the bat I want to tell you that I did not do report cards for the younger years. I was much more interested in having them actually understand the material and develop a love of learning!
If they don't understand something I am not going to just give them a bad grade and move on. We are going to reteach, practice, and reevaluate if they comprehend the material. I don't want them to be worried about grades – isn't that one of the perks of Homeschooling?!?
Report Cards help kids learn to take constructive criticism. Not everything kids hear in a report card or job evaluation is going to be positive. And for that matter, they may not agree with how they were evaluated. But it is a good skill for kids to learn what information they need to listen to to make improvements on (we all have something we should improve on) and what areas are subjective and they may not want to change.
Report Cards help kids start to see what they are good at. They learn their are certain objectives, absolutes that they must reach. If they don't, they need to work harder, try a different strategy, or they may no be the best at that area. And THAT'S OKAY. Not everyone is going to be a doctor or nuclear physicist. They don't all need to get A's in Math.
Report Cards Give us Records. It is important that we have records that show we did indeed teach our children and that they were learning the material. These records will be used down the road for various things including college entrance materials and graduation records.
Report cards help make us accountable to carefully evaluate our child's efforts, progress and work to make sure they are succeeding. If not we may need to tweak the curriculum, teaching style, or get some additional help.
Report Cards are the Norm. Although I'm not a big fan of doing things because everyone else does, there are certain things that we all should know what it is and have an experience with because that is "what people do". Every kid has ridden the bus (so we ride it at the fair), every kid has taken a sack lunch, every kid had a frustrating teacher (that is what extracurriculars are for), etc. Report Cards are part of what people remember from their schooling years and now your child will understand that common reference point too.
6 Report Card Backs (so you can choose the one that works best for your particular child/family). There is a specific one for Kindergarten, several options using subjects as the criteria and grading either (Outstanding, Satisfactory, Needs Improvement, Incomplete) OR standard grades (A,B,C,D,F,I), and options for using one based on checking off areas completed.
I would recommend waiting until 4th or 5th grade to begin accessing actual grades. At that point it is good prep for the Jr.High/High School years (this is just my opinion).


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Макс Фольмер (;  —  ) — німецький фізико-хімік, який зробив важливий внесок в електрохімію, зокрема в кінетику електродів. Він спільно розробив рівняння Батлера–Фольмера. Фольмер очолював і був директором Інституту фізичної хімії та електрохімії Берлінської вищої технічної школи в Шарлоттенбурзі. Після Другої світової війни поїхав до Радянського Союзу, де очолив конструкторське бюро з виробництва важкої води. Після повернення до НДР через десять років він став професором Берлінського університету імені Гумбольдта та президентом Академії наук НДР.

Освіта
З 1905 до 1908 рік Фольмер вивчав хімію в Марбурзькому університеті імені Філіппа. Після цього він поїхав до Лейпцизького університету, де здобув докторський ступінь у 1910 році за дисертацію про фотохімічні реакції у високому вакуумі. У 1912 році він став асистентом викладача в Лейпцигу, а після закінчення там габілітації у 1913 році став приват-доцентом університету.

Кар'єра

Перші роки
У 1916 році Фольмер почав працювати над військовими дослідженнями в Інституті фізичної хімії Університету Фрідріха-Вільгельма (сьогодні Берлінський університет імені Гумбольдта). З 1918 до 1920 рік він проводив дослідження в галузі промисловості в Auergesellschaft у Берліні. У 1919 році він винайшов ртутний паровий ежектор й опублікував статтю разом з Отто Штерном, у якій було описано рівняння, яке назвали прізвищами авторів. Крім того, він описав ізотерму Фольмера.

У 1920 році Фольмера призначили екстраординарним професором фізичної хімії та електрохімії у Гамбурзькому університеті. У 1922 році він отримав посади ординарного професора та директора Інституту фізичної хімії та електрохімії Берлінської вищої технічної школи (Шарлоттенбург); посаду раніше обіймав Вальтер Нернст. Саме під час перебування там він відкрив міграцію адсорбованих молекул, відому як дифузія Фольмера. У 1930 році він опублікував статтю, у якій описав рівняння Батлера-Фолмера, на основі більш ранньої роботи Джона Альфреда Валентина Батлера. Ця робота лягла в основу феноменологічної кінетичної електрохімії.

У Радянському Союзі
Фольмер, Манфред фон Арденне, директор його приватної лабораторії Forschungslaboratoriums für Elektronenphysik, Густав Герц, лауреат Нобелівської премії та директор дослідницької лабораторії II у Siemens, і Петер Адольф Тіссен, ординарний професор Берлінського університету Гумбольдта та директор Інституту фізичної хімії та електрохімії Кайзера у Далемі уклали угоду. Пакт був запорукою того, що той, хто першим вступить у контакт з Радянським Союзом, буде говорити за решту. Вони переслідували три цілі: (1) запобігти розграбовуванню їхніх інститутів, (2) продовжувати їхню роботу з мінімальними перервами та (3) захистити себе від судового переслідування за будь-які політичні дії минулого. До кінця Другої світової війни Тіссен, член нацистської партії, мав контакти з комуністами. 27 квітня 1945 року Тіссен прибув до інституту фон Арденна на броньованій машині з майором Радянської Армії, який також був провідним радянським хіміком. Усіх чотирьох учасників пакту вивезли до Радянського Союзу. Герц став головою Інституту G в Агудзері (Agudzery), близько 10 км на південний схід від Сухумі та передмістя Гульрипши. Фольмера спочатку призначили в інститут Герца. Теми, доручені Інституту Густава Герца G: (1) Розділення ізотопів шляхом дифузії в потоці інертних газів, під керівництвом Густава Герца, (2) Розробка конденсаційного насоса, на чолі з Юстусом Мюленпфордтом, (3) Розробка та створення мас-спектрометру для визначення ізотопного складу урану, керівником якого був Вернер Шютце, (4) Розробка безкаркасних (керамічних) дифузійних перегородок для фільтрів, очолював Рейнхольд Райхман, та (5) Розробка теорії стійкості та управління дифузійним каскадом, керівником якої був Хайнц Барвіч; Барвич був заступником Герца в Siemens. Фон Арденне став на чолі Інституту А в Сінопі, передмісті Сухумі.

Наприкінці січня 1946 року Фольмера направили до Науково-дослідного інституту-9 (НДІ-9, НДІ № 9) у Москві. Фольмер отримав конструкторське бюро для роботи з виробництва важкої води; Роберт Депель також працював у НДІ-9. Група Фольмера у складі фізико-хіміка Віктора Баєрля та фізика Густава Ріхтера, очолювані О. М. Розеном, розробила процес виробництва важкої води, шляхом дистилювання аміаку. Будівництво заводу з виробництва в Норильську завершили у 1948 році, після чого група Фольмера працювала з групою Зінаїди Єршової, яка займалася отриманням ізотопів плутонію.

Повернення до Німеччини
У березні 1955 року Фольмер повернувся до НДР. Він отримав національну премію Радянського Союзу першого ступеня «Hervorragender Wissenschaftler des Volkes» («Видатний учений народу»). 1 травня 1955 року він став ординарним професором Берлінського університету імені Гумбольдта. 10 листопада 1955 року став членом Вищої ради з атомної енергетики при Раді міністрів Німецької Демократичної Республіки. З 8 грудня 1955 до 1959 рік він обіймав посаду президента Німецької академії наук, потім — віцепрезидента до 1961 року. З 27 серпня 1957 року він став першим членом Forschungsrat НДР.

У Берлінському технічному університеті, де Фольмер працював стільки років, на його честь назвали лабораторію з біофізичної хімії. Також на честь Фольмера назвали вулиці в Адлерсхофі, Потсдамі та Гільдені.

Особисте життя
Фольмер одружився з фізико-хіміком Лотте Пуш. Макс і Лотте знали та спілкувалися з фізиком Лізою Майтнер і хіміком Отто Ганом з 1920-х років.

Вибіркова бібліографія

Статті

 O. Stern and M. Volmer Über die Abklingzeit der Fluoreszenz, Physik. Zeitschr. 20 183—188 (1919), як цитується в Mehra and Rechenberg, том 1, частина 2, 2001, 849.
 T. Erdey-Grúz і M. Volmer Z. Phys. Chem. 150 (A) 203—213 (1930)

Книги

 Макс Фольмер, Kinetik der Phasenbildung (1939)
 Макс Фольмер, Zur Kinetik der Phasenbildung und der Elektrodenreaktionen. Acht Arbeiten. (Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Geest & Portig K.-G., 1983)
 Макс Фольмер і Л. Дунш, Zur Kinetik der Phasenbildung und Elektrodenreaktion. Acht Arbeiten. (Deutsch Harri GmbH, 1983)

 Heinemann-Grüder, Andreas Keinerlei Untergang: German Armaments Engineers during the Second World War and in the Service of the Victorious Powers in Monika Renneberg and Mark Walker (editors) Science, Technology and National Socialism 30–50 (Cambridge, 2002 paperback edition)
 Hentschel, Klaus (editor) and Ann M. Hentschel (editorial assistant and translator) Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources (Birkhäuser, 1996)
 Kruglov, Arkadii The History of the Soviet Atomic Industry (Taylor and Francis, 2002)
 Mehra, Jagdish, and Rechenberg, Helmut The Historical Development of Quantum Theory. Volume 1 Part 2 The Quantum Theory of Planck, Einstein, Bohr and Sommerfeld 1900—1925: Its Foundation and the Rise of Its Difficulties. (Springer, 2001)
 Naimark, Norman M. The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945—1949 (Hardcover — Aug 11, 1995) Belknap
 Sime, Ruth Lewin Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (University of California, First Paperback Edition, 1997)
 Oleynikov, Pavel V. German Scientists in the Soviet Atomic Project, The Nonproliferation Review Volume 7, Number 2, 1 — 30 (2000). The author has been a group leader at the Institute of Technical Physics of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center in Snezhinsk (Chelyabinsk-70).

Примітки

Посилання

Члени Академії наук НДР
Члени Прусської академії наук
Науковці Берлінського університету
Викладачі Берлінського технічного університету
Науковці Гамбурзького університету
Науковці Лейпцизького університету
Випускники Лейпцизького університету
Випускники Марбурзького університету
Електрохіміки
Німецькі фізико-хіміки
Померли 1965
Народились 1885

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package edu.ucla.cens.whatsinvasive;

import java.io.File;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.text.util.Linkify;
import android.view.ContextMenu;
import android.view.ContextMenu.ContextMenuInfo;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnCreateContextMenuListener;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.ResourceCursorAdapter;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.TwoLineListItem;
import edu.ucla.cens.whatsinvasive.data.PhotoDatabase;
import edu.ucla.cens.whatsinvasive.data.PhotoDatabase.PhotoDatabaseRow;
import edu.ucla.cens.whatsinvasive.tools.Media;

public class Queue extends ListActivity implements PhotoDatabase.OnChangeListener {
	private final int CONTEXT_VIEW = 1;
	private final int CONTEXT_EDIT_NOTE = 2;
	private final int CONTEXT_REMOVE = 3;

	private static final int ACTIVITY_EDIT_NOTE = 0;

	private PhotoDatabase mDatabase;
	private Cursor mCursor;
	private Handler mHandler;

	@Override
	protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

		this.setContentView(R.layout.queue);
		this.setTitle(R.string.title_queue);

		mHandler = new Handler();

        TextView extrat = new TextView(this);
        extrat.setAutoLinkMask(Linkify.WEB_URLS);
        extrat.setText(getString(R.string.queue_message_full));
        extrat.setTextSize(18);
        extrat.setClickable(false);
        extrat.setLongClickable(false);

        getListView().addFooterView(extrat);
        getListView().setFooterDividersEnabled(true);

        mDatabase = new PhotoDatabase(this);

		getListView().setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener(){

			public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2,
					long arg3) {
				if(!(arg1 instanceof TextView) )
					arg1.performLongClick();
			}});
		getListView().setOnCreateContextMenuListener(new OnCreateContextMenuListener(){

			public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v,
					ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {

					AdapterView.AdapterContextMenuInfo info = (AdapterView.AdapterContextMenuInfo) menuInfo;
					TagData data = (TagData) info.targetView.getTag();
					if(data != null){
						menu.setHeaderTitle(getString(R.string.queue_actions));
						menu.add(0, CONTEXT_VIEW, 1, getString(R.string.queue_view));
						if(data.uploaded == null) {
						    menu.add(0, CONTEXT_EDIT_NOTE, 2, getString(R.string.queue_edit_note));
							menu.add(0, CONTEXT_REMOVE, 3, getString(R.string.queue_do_not_upload));
						}
					}
				}
		});
	}

    public void onDatabseChanged(PhotoDatabase source) {
        mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                if(Queue.this.mCursor != null)
                    Queue.this.mCursor.requery();
            }
        });
    }

	@Override
	protected void onResume() {
	    mDatabase.tryOpen();
	    PhotoDatabase.addChangeListener(this);

        mCursor = mDatabase.getReadCursor();

        startManagingCursor(mCursor);
        setListAdapter(new QueueAdapter(this, mCursor));

        super.onResume();
	}

	@Override
	protected void onPause() {
	    // We have to close the database here so that the other
	    // activities (e.g. ViewTag) can use the PhotoDatabase
	    PhotoDatabase.removeChangeListener(this);

	    stopManagingCursor(mCursor);
	    mCursor.close();
	    mDatabase.close();

	    super.onPause();
	}

	@Override
	protected void onStop() {
	    // We have to close the cursor here and not in the onPause method
	    // if we want to avoid the empty view from being displayed before the
	    // view is killed
	    mCursor.close();

	    super.onStop();
	}

	@Override
	public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
		AdapterView.AdapterContextMenuInfo menuInfo = (AdapterView.AdapterContextMenuInfo)item.getMenuInfo();
		TagData data = (TagData) menuInfo.targetView.getTag();

		switch (item.getItemId()) {
			case CONTEXT_VIEW:
				Intent intent = new Intent(this, ViewTag.class);
				intent.putExtra("id", data.id);

				startActivity(intent);

				break;
			case CONTEXT_EDIT_NOTE:
			    PhotoDatabaseRow row;

		        row = mDatabase.fetchPhoto(data.id);

	            Intent intent2 = new Intent(this, NoteEdit.class);
	            intent2.putExtra("id", data.id);
	            String title = getString(R.string.note_title_prefix) + " " + row.tagsValue;
	            intent2.putExtra("title", title);
	            intent2.putExtra("note", row.noteValue);

	            startActivityForResult(intent2, ACTIVITY_EDIT_NOTE);

			    break;
			case CONTEXT_REMOVE:
				mDatabase.deletePhoto(data.id);

				if(data.filename!=null)
					(new File(data.filename)).delete();

				break;
		}

		return false;
	}

	@Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        switch(requestCode) {
        case ACTIVITY_EDIT_NOTE:
            if(resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
                int rowId = data.getIntExtra("id", -1);
                String note = data.getStringExtra("note");

                mDatabase.tryOpen();
                mDatabase.updateNote(rowId, note);

                break;
            }
        }
    }

    private class QueueAdapter extends ResourceCursorAdapter {

		public QueueAdapter(Context context, Cursor c) {
			super(context, R.layout.queue_list_item, c, true);
		}

		@Override
		public void bindView(View v, Context context, Cursor cursor) {
			int indexTags = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(PhotoDatabase.KEY_PHOTO_TAGS);
			int indexTime = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(PhotoDatabase.KEY_PHOTO_TIME);
			int indexPhoto = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(PhotoDatabase.KEY_PHOTO_FILENAME);
			int indexUploaded = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(PhotoDatabase.KEY_PHOTO_UPLOADED);
			int indexLat = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(PhotoDatabase.KEY_PHOTO_LATITUDE);
			int indexLon = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(PhotoDatabase.KEY_PHOTO_LONGITUDE);

			TwoLineListItem view = (TwoLineListItem) v;

			view.getText1().setText((cursor.getCount() - cursor.getPosition()) +") "+ cursor.getString(indexTags));
			view.getText1().setTextSize(16);

			String time = cursor.getString(indexTime);
			SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
			df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));

			Date date = new Date(0);

			try {
			    date = df.parse(time);
            } catch (ParseException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

            df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());

			String text = getString(R.string.tag_tagged_at) + " " + df.format(date);

			if(!cursor.isNull(indexUploaded))
				text += "\nUploaded "+ cursor.getString(indexUploaded);

			view.getText2().setText(text);

			TagData data = new TagData();

			ImageView image = (ImageView) view.findViewById(android.R.id.selectedIcon);

			if(cursor.getString(indexPhoto) != null){
				String photo = cursor.getString(indexPhoto);

				if((new File(photo)).exists()){
					data.filename = photo;

					if(cursor.isNull(indexUploaded))
						image.setImageBitmap(resizeImage(photo, false));
					else
						image.setImageBitmap(resizeImage(photo, true));
				}else{
					image.setImageBitmap(null);
				}
			}else{
				Bitmap preview = Bitmap.createBitmap(80, 60, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);

				if(cursor.isNull(indexUploaded)){
					image.setImageBitmap(preview);
				}else{
					Bitmap overlay = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(Queue.this.getResources(), R.drawable.btn_check_buttonless_on);

		        	Canvas canvas = new Canvas(preview);
		        	canvas.drawBitmap(overlay, 26, 10, null);

					image.setImageBitmap(preview);
				}
			}

			data.id = cursor.getInt(cursor.getColumnIndex(PhotoDatabase.KEY_PHOTO_ROWID));
			data.lat = cursor.getString(indexLat);
			data.lon = cursor.getString(indexLon);
			data.uploaded = cursor.getString(indexUploaded);

			v.setTag(data);
		}

		private Bitmap resizeImage(String path, boolean uploaded){
            	Bitmap thumb = Media.resizeImage(path, new Media.Size(48,48));

            	if(uploaded) {
        	        	Bitmap preview = Bitmap.createBitmap(thumb.getWidth(), thumb.getHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);

        	        	Bitmap overlay = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(Queue.this.getResources(), R.drawable.btn_check_buttonless_on);

        	        	Canvas canvas = new Canvas(preview);
        	        	canvas.drawBitmap(thumb, 0, 0, null);
        	        	canvas.drawBitmap(overlay, (thumb.getWidth()/2)-14, 10, null);

        	        	return preview;
            	} else {
            		return thumb;
            	}
		}
	}

	private class TagData {
		public String lat;
		public String lon;
		public int id;
		public String filename;
		public String uploaded;
	}
}

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Hope Wall on display in Breathitt Co.
JACKSON – Drug addiction is not the first thing that comes to mind when you first glance at the dozens of smiling faces displayed in the lobby of the Breathitt County Judicial Center.
"You look at these people and you'd never know the struggles they have faced and overcome," commented Drema Terry, Drug Court coordinator for the 39th Judicial Circuit, as she watched Operation UNITE's Hope Wall being set up on February 28.
Unveiled last August, the 20-foot long wall features about 150 individuals who are now in recovery and living clean, sober lives. It demonstrates that substance abuse addiction has no boundaries, that all walks of life are affected.
"It illustrates the success that can be achieved through determination and persistence," said Chief Circuit Judge Frank A. Fletcher. "The wall humanizes our neighbors and friends who have merely encountered a detour in life."
Providing inspiration and encouragement to seek help for an addiction, or for those currently in treatment or recovery, is the primary reason for the Hope Wall.
"It represents a tremendous success in the lives of these people," said Commonwealth Attorney Darrell Herald. "They've rebuilt their lives and their families. They're now contributing to society instead of being a drain on it. That's a great benefit."
"A majority of the folks featured on the Hope Wall have received a UNITE Treatment Voucher to help them overcome their addiction," noted Dan Smoot, UNITE president/CEO. "These are people who may have otherwise continued down a destructive path of drugs."
"More than 3,300 people – including 74 Breathitt County residents – have entered a substance abuse treatment program using a UNITE voucher since the initiative began in 2005," Smoot added.
Treatment vouchers for short-term or long-term residential treatment are available to low-income residents of the 32 counties served by UNITE across southern and eastern Kentucky. For more information call UNITE's Treatment Help-Line at 1-866-908-6483.
"This wall only represents a small percentage of the successes of the recovery efforts that we're seeing," said Terry, adding that drug addiction continues to have a huge impact throughout the region. "But," she said, "when I look at this wall I see hope."
"The Jackson Police Department has been with Operation UNITE from the very start," commented Police Chief Ken Spicer. "Overcoming prescription drug abuse issues requires a coordinated effort, and I'm proud to have this wall in our community to show the success of UNITE's treatment initiative."
The wall will remain on display in Breathitt County through Friday morning, March 14.
Anyone who has been in recovery for at least 18 months is eligible to be featured on the wall.


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ARC grant success for ACU researchers
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ACU projects have been awarded more than $3.1 million in funding in the latest round of Australian Research Council (ARC) grants.
ACU received funding for eight research projects, including two Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) and a $373,753 Discovery Indigenous grant.
Dr Karen McLean from the Learning Sciences Institute Australia will use her $369,996 DECRA grant to investigate how caregivers learn about the provision of children's play at home and in the community.
Dr Matthew Crawford from the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry will use his $382,983 DECRA grant to investigate the role of religious belief and education training in the formation of a person's sense of self in society, leading to either social harmony or conflict.
ACU has also received funding for five discovery projects, supporting a wide range of research projects across the University. The funded projects include:
$503,472 for Professor Jocelyn Nuttall from the Learning Sciences Institute Australia for Learning-rich leadership for quality improvement in early education
$256,966 for Associate Professor Noah Riseman from the Faculty of Education and Arts for Transgender Australians: the history of an identity
$535,418 for Associate Professor Clarence Ng from the Learning Sciences Institute Australia for Raising the literacy bar for economically-disadvantaged students
$351,361 for Dr Steve Matthews from the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry and Plunkett Centre for Ethics for Dementia, moral agency and identity
$425,349 for Associate Professor Carl Walkley, who will commence at the Mary Mackillop Institute for Health Research in 2018, for Understanding how RNA editing regulates RNA fate.
Visit the ACU Research website to learn more about research at ACU.


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When Southwest Flight 1380 made an emergency landing in Philadelphia after one of its engines exploded midflight and a fan blade punctured the cabin, causing a sudden drop in pressure, the heroic actions of Captain Tammie Jo Shults demonstrated a great lesson in leadership and crisis management.
One of the Navy's first female fighter pilots, Captain Shults has been heavily praised for her heroic actions to navigate Flight 1380 first to an altitude where passengers could breathe and then safely land with one engine, avoiding what could have been an even bigger catastrophe. Captain Shults has been described as extraordinarily cool under pressure and impossible to rattle, with her recent actions only reiterating those claims.
Pilots engage in some of the most rigorous training of any profession. They constantly prepare for disastrous situations and practice maneuvers that are unlikely to occur, such as landing a plane with one engine. While most of us will never face these situations, there is a core principle that pilots are taught for handling emergencies that we could all learn from: the ANC protocol.
And why "Airplane!" is his favorite disaster movie.
Kevin Bush spends his days dreaming up the things that should keep you awake at night. Last summer, the onetime Housing and Urban Development official, who helped direct the department's Hurricane Sandy response, was named DC's first chief resilience officer. Part of his job is to envision the various catastrophes that might strike the District and to figure out what steps the city should take to mitigate harm. His two-year stint is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities program, which is designed to help urban centers around the world prepare for 21st-century challenges.
We met up with Bush at the Wilson Building to find out exactly what we should be freaking out about.
What do you mean when you talk about resiliency?
The clearest and most uniform definition I have is that it's simply the immune system. Cities are complicated systems of systems; there's road systems, there's health systems, there's housing systems. They all come together and interact in ways we don't always recognize. We're trying to step back a little from the day-to-day fire drills of governing a city of 700,000 people and say, "What are the different things that we need to be resilient to?"—whether that's population and economic growth, technological change, climate change, you name it. How is our immune system weak and how is it strong? How can we build up immunities to things that we can expect coming on down the line?
Though lava flows are capturing the headlines, Hawaii is facing other, longer-term threats to its idyllic landscape. In the past few years, record-breaking tides and rising sea levels have threatened the coveted island way of life and resort-based economy. Beaches have been washed out and beachfront entertainment cancelled; hotels have readied generators; property owners living near the coasts have prepared for flooding, and residents and visitors alike have photographed fish swimming down the streets. It may seem bizarre to visitors, but for residents and climate change experts, it's not surprising, given the consistency of higher tides year after year.
All over the Hawaiian islands, residents have come to see rising tides as an ongoing, growing threat and a clear sign of things to come. Their observations accord with the current climate science. Scientists now believe Hawaii could experience a sea-level increase of three feet by the year 2100, a change which is in line with global predictions and could substantially reshape the economy and way of life on the Islands.
wrestles with a fundamental question: can anything be done to prevent attacks on our loved ones, our children, our schools, our churches, concerts, and communities?
reported to law enforcement, those in authority may also struggle to decide how best to assess and intervene, particularly if no crime has yet been committed.


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Inside Facebook's 'Arms Race' to Protect Users Ahead of Midterm Elections
In 2016's presidential election, more than 126 million Americans saw incendiary Facebook posts from accounts, pages and ads linked to Russia
Published Sep 4, 2018 at 5:42 AM
Facebook plans to build a physical "war room" to coordinate response in real time to foreign interference in November's midterm elections, the company's head of civic engagement told NBC News.
Samidh Chakrabarti is leading Facebook's efforts to secure the platform for elections around the world, and he told NBC News in an exclusive interview that the company is "much more effective than we used to be" and the entire company is "laser focused on getting it right."
In 2016's presidential election, more than 126 million Americans saw incendiary Facebook posts from accounts, pages and ads linked to Russia. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has so far declined to say how much foreign interference remains.
Chakrabarti said Facebook's efforts around political ad transparency are making the platform more trustworthy, but he acknowledged that bad actors are getting more sophisticated: "It is an arms race. And we're always working to try to stay one step ahead."
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