Crucial. Excruciating. Crucible. These words and others in English are derived from the one Latin word, "crux." Literally in Latin, "crux" means "cross." The dictionary says "crux" means "The basic, central, or critical point or feature." That's why we speak of the "crux of the matter" or "the crux of an argument." CRUX is the center, the intersection, the point of it all. So in this series talk about how to follow Jesus during Holy Week, using Greek and Latin words that correspond to a life that has been changed by Jesus' CRUX.
Big Idea: Faith is not just intellectual assent to Christian ideas about Jesus or trusting God to do things for you: it is transformational, whole-person, whole-life commitment to Him.
Big Idea: Holiness is a way of life for Christ-followers.
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Individual 4th place at the Olympic Games in Sydney, victories in the German Masters in Stuttgart, the GPs in Zurich, Monaco and Geneva. Second prizes in the heavy GP of Calgary, the World Cup of Geneva, ... the outstanding record of Otterongo and Ludo Philippaerts is virtually unbeatable. Ludo still talks about Otterongo as being the best horse he ever had under saddle. Unfortunately for breeding though, Otterongo was a gelding and so never had a chance to pass on his assets. By way of the cloning technique it has become possible to make his genes available again and we are therefore terribly pleased to be the first to present this exclusive Darco son to you. Otterongo Alpha Z is not just ´the clone of´, he is also a hugely talented youngster in his own right who gives his rider a feeling of being really unique. He has pleasant contact manners, has the right mentality and jumps, just like his ´original´, with heaps of capacity.


Kyle Poissonnier is a man with a wonderful story of how hard work, perseverance, and the ability to adapt can lead to transformational changes! Catalyst for Change Wear is brand dedicated to making a difference. Kyle stops by to talk about social media, influence, and hard work can help launch a brand anyone can relate to!
Catalyst for Change Wear, or CFC, is a clothing brand Kyle developed in college. As a senior at Husson University, his assignment was to build a fake business plan and it transformed into an influential real-life company. Kyle's clothing brand focuses on changing culture and supporting individuals in unfortunate situations. It started with a suicide awareness campaign that donated 50% of profits to the Maine Suicide Prevention Program. The campaign was so successful for both the business and the organization; CFC continued to work with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention- Maine Chapter and the Maine Children's Cancer Program.
Through the CFC clothing line, companies are able to raise awareness and money. The company has a loyal following across the country. This year, CFC has already donated roughly $13,000 to their two charities. "We just did a check presentation this morning at Maine Med in Portland for LifeFlight. They had their 20-year anniversary so we created a shirt for them and sold it for a week. As a result, we cut them a check for $1,800. Not only were they able to raise money, but they were able to raise awareness through this effort", said Kyle.
After 10 years, the business continues to grow. Most of their marketing is done through social media. The business has been tagged in more than 4,000 photos and has an organic fan base of more than 7,500 engaged followers. CFC works hard to stay fresh and release seasonal specials. For example, they just wrapped up a breast cancer awareness campaign where they created pink state of Maine clothes and made bold statements on t-shirts. It introduced many new followers to the business who had been through cancer. CFC shares those raw stories to help their consumers make connections and relate. Their Instagram page is mostly consists of the company reposting stories consumers have told. Nothing is staged or manufactured- it is all authentic with CFC.
Although the business has a storefront in Westbrook, CFC does 95% of their business online and they have catered to their customers who want to make purchases instantly on their mobile devices. They understand that attention spans are smaller than ever and there is a small window of opportunity to grab a prospective buyer's attention, as they' scrolling through their social media feeds. Because of this, CFC allows the consumer to dictate the brand's designs and plans. They release polls and questionnaires and incorporate the opinions of their buyers. This method has proven very successful for them. They realize their focus needs to remain on their small, loyal fan base and pleasing those followers.
With the holiday season right around the corner, the CFC team is busy preparing for black Friday. During the holiday season, they will release new designs at midnight, as they have had tremendous success with this method. They have been raw and unedited in the promotion of their brand and attribute a lot of their success to that. "We post everything. We show you when we are there at midnight printing. When we're testing something out, we ask what you might think of a certain style or color", said Kyle. CFC values their customer's input and incorporates it into everything they do.
Kyle will serve as a panelist at the Social Influence Forum at the Maine Business Expo on November 14 at the Holiday Inn by the Bay. During the event, Kyle looks forward to the opportunity to gather feedback from consumers and advice from other business owners. In the meantime, you can learn more about CFC clothing at CFCwear.com or on Instagram or Facebook.


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Rural roadway safety is an important issue for communities throughout the country and presents a challenge for state, local, and Tribal agencies. The Improving Safety on Rural Local and Tribal Roads – Safety Toolkit was created to help rural local and Tribal roadway safety practitioners address these challenges. The Safety Toolkit provides a step-by-step process to assist local agency and Tribal practitioners in completing traffic safety analyses, identify safety issues, countermeasures to address them, and an implementation process. Each step in the Toolkit contains a set of tools, examples, and links to resources appropriate to the needs of safety practitioners. The report presents a seven-step safety analysis process based on a similar process developed in the Highway Safety Manual. The seven steps are: compile data; conduct network screening; select sites for investigation; diagnose site conditions and identify countermeasures; prioritize countermeasures for implementation; implement countermeasures; and evaluate effectiveness of implemented countermeasures. Accompanying the Safety Toolkit are two User Guides (FHWA-SA-14-073 and FHWA-SA-14-074) which present step-by-step processes of example scenarios.
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Photo: David LaBahn, Director of the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA); Thomas McCarthy, Attorney fromWiley Rein law firm– Before the United States Supreme Court where they came to represent and support murder victims family members of NOVJL. Many thanks also to Scott Burns of the NDAA for his strong support of NOVJL and leadership of the nation's prosecutors who support our victim community every day.
Craig S. Lerner of the George Mason University School of Law has completed another of the major legal studies and analyses of the issue of life sentences for some of the worst teen killers. This definitive work significantly clarifies the legal issues.
The Supreme Court has ruled twice in recent years pertaining to sentencing of extremely violent teens, and are currently considering a third. See the linked pages for full coverage.
March 2013 – Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy publishes an article dissecting problems in the way the U.S. Supreme Court has been handling cases of sentences for juvenile killers.
This ruling came down in 2005, a close verdict at 5-4, and found the death penalty for offenders under the age of 18 a violation of the 8th Amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. Influential in their ruling was the presentation regarding continued development of the frontal lobe of the brain until, on average, the mid-20's.
The New York Times published an important analysis about the way this science was argued, and explains what may be a misapplication of that brain research in "The Brain on the Stand". Within the same year as the Roper ruling, the movement to end natural life sentences for teens began.
It is important to note that this decision entirely RELIES on and affirms support for the life sentence for some juvenile offenders who commit exceptionally heinous murders.
Shirley Crook was murdered by a sadistic 17-year-old named Christopher Simmons.
Two 14 year old convicted killers challenged their adult life sentences, one from Alabama, and one from Arkansas who was an accomplice to the murder. Attorney Brian Stevenson from Equal Justice Initiative has been funded for years to work to undo JLWOP sentences through courts when state legislatures have repeatedly refused to over turn them. Advocates for the offenders have not been able to win the argument through the courts of public opinion and through state legislatures. National consensus remains consistent – that life sentences for some of the few worst teen killers are appropriate when the offender is a dangerous sociopath or demonstrated extremely dangerous. Read more about this case, legal arguments, supporting resources, NOVJL's presence at the Supreme Court during oral arguments, and about the courage of NOVJL member Candy Cheathem and her family who asked the court to preserve the life sentence for her father's murderer.
Although there are some factual accuracies in this article, there is a good summary of legal information related to these cases at this Georgetown Law site.
In January 2011 the United States Supreme Court made an important ruling that offenders of state crimes have no Constitutional "Right to Parole", as has been argued by offender advocates for sometime. We are most gratified the US Supreme Court has put to rest, once and for all, one of the most dangerous and yet silly arguments made by anti-incarceration activists – that all offenders should have a right to parole release.
More on this case from the LA Times.
This case is relevant for all of us who are victims of juvenile lifers in the face of this assault by offender advocates to retroactively undo the natural life sentences being served by those who murdered our loved ones. Teague v Lane resolved some complex questions around the issue of whether or not changes in criminal law or procedure should or can be applied retroactively. The Teague standard is that retroactivity only applies to cases on direct appeal, but not to cases that are finished with their appeals process.
As we await Supreme Court rulings on the constitutionality of life sentences for teen killers, it is important for victims families to know about the status of the appeals process in the cases of the offenders so that they will know where they stand in any future rulings.
May 2011, the Supreme Court in a sharply divided 5-4 ruling, put a cap on the population of the prisons in California. Read more about how federal courts will have a say in the numbers of people incarcerated in states, and under what conditions.


It seems you no longer produce the DD102 conductivity interface. Is there any chance you will be again? If not would it be possible for you to give me information on how to construct one myself? Thanks.
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The audit in Bulgaria is conducted in accordance with the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs). These standards require the auditor to comply with the ethical requirements and to plan and conduct the audit in a way to provide reasonable assurance that there will be no significant deviations in the audit of the financial statements. An audit involves the performance of procedures regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The audit further includes assessments of the suitability of the accounting technology used and of the reliability of the estimates by the management body, as well as the overall settlement as a whole.
Because of the inherent limitations of the audit, taken together with the inherent limitations of the internal control, there is an imminent risk that significant deviations will not be detected, even though the audit is properly planned and performed in accordance with ISAs.
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Dr. Deborah Gennero believes a truly healthy mouth should feel good, look beautiful, and function properly. If any one of these elements is missing, you need the help of a caring dental professional to return your mouth to optimal health. This philosophy of oral balance informs every dental restoration Dr. Gennero places.
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Your mouth is a place of many contrasts: a delicate ecosystem yet one of the harshest environments in your body. Every aspect, from the spacing of the teeth to the hundreds of species of bacteria flourishing on every surface, plays a role in whether you enjoy good or bad dental health. Choosing not to replace a missing tooth, fill a cavity, or straighten unevenly spaced teeth will result in an increasingly unhealthy oral environment.
Restoring the balance to your mouth may entail conservative treatments, such as filling a cavity, or a more involved procedure, such as orthodontictherapy. Rest assured that Dr. Gennero will always recommend as conservative a treatment plan as possible and that her recommendations are based on your individual needs. Before beginning any treatment, Dr. Gennero will walk you through the various steps, so you feel educated and empowered.


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A report out yesterday (January 26th) from Fox Sports' Jay Glazer cites sources as saying that the NFL's Deflategate investigation has focused on a New England Patriots' locker room attendant who it's believed might have tampered with the footballs.
The NFL has interviewed the attendant, according to the report, and allegedly has video showing him taking footballs from the officials' locker room after they'd been inspected and approved to another area on the way to the field. According to ProFootballTalk, that area was into a bathroom for 90 seconds before coming out. Although he's considered to be a, quote, "strong person of interest," the league is still trying to determine if there was any wrong Rdoing.
Hours after that report broke yesterday, Patriots owner Robert Kraft made an unexpected appearance before the media in Arizona, where his team and the Seattle Seahawks have arrived ahead of the Super Bowl, and demanded that the NFL apologize if and when the Pats are found to have not done anything wrong.


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Phantom Thread Trailer
Who knew the world of fashion could be so strained and dramatic? But that's exactly what it is for the world renowned dressmaker depicted in 'Phantom Thread'. A romantic period drama with Paul Thomas Anderson at the helm, it's also set to be Daniel Day-Lewis' final film.
It's the 1950s and Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) is one of the leading names in high fashion in London, dressing the likes of the royal family, the biggest filmstars and a variety of famous heiresses and socialites. He's aided at The House of Woodcock by his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville), though the pair could not be more different.
Reynolds is a flighty self-confessed bachelor who sees love as almost a curse on his work. His life has seen too many women flit in and out of it, but when he meets the pretty yet headstrong Alma (Vicky Krieps), a woman several years his junior, he begins to feel as if he's found the perfect relationship.
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Hampstead Review
Deliberately appealing to older audiences, this undemanding comedy-drama comes with a hint of social relevance in its true story about an outcast who takes on the system in a leafy corner of London. While the script is too thin to make much of the premise, the film at least benefits from the likeable presence of Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson in the lead roles, plus a lively supporting cast.
Keaton plays Emily, an American widow living in the posh village on the edge of Hampstead Heath. Her late husband left her with a lot of debt, which her grown son Philip (James Norton) is helping her sort through. And her neighbour Fiona (Lesley Manville) is trying to set her up with an accountant (Jason Watkins) who has romantic inclinations. But Emily is much more intrigued by the homeless Irishman Donald (Gleeson) living in the lushly overgrown grounds of an abandoned hospital. And when she realises that developers want to build a glassy block of expensive flats there, she kicks into action with the help of a quirky young friend (Hugh Skinner).
Director Joel Hopkins keeps everything picturesque and twinkly as the story gently tips into a courtroom drama with an accompanying romance. Despite its basis in fact, there's little about this film that's remotely believable, not that it will matter to the core audience in search of some warm escapism. They'll enjoy the squeaky clean story and the stylised version of an England furnished with impeccably matching antiques and huge bouquets of flowers. And the cast makes it watchable. Keaton does her usual kooky thing, smart but clumsy, with perfect timing in her interaction with everyone around her. There may not be much chemistry with Gleeson, but he gives the tetchy Donald plenty of scruffy charm.
Continue reading: Hampstead Review
Hampstead Trailer
It's been one year since Emily's husband Charles passed away, but she has very mixed feelings towards his memory. There are good things in her life too; a loving grown-up son named Philip and a lovely home in Hampstead Heath, but her life is far more complicated than that. After one date with a fiddle-player named James Smythe, she struggles to shake him off. She'd love to find love again but she's desperate not to settle for anyone. One day though, she espies a bearded old man washing in the ponds across from her house. Curiosity gets the better of her and she follows him home to a quaint but run-down old shack in the middle of the woods. Charmed by his wit and his amusingly grumpy temperament, she decides to help him save his home when he is given an eviction notice by land owners who wish to build on his property. His unshakeable pride works against his cause, but Emily refuses to give up saving the man she's falling deeply in love with.
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Lesley Manville at The ITV Gala held at the London Palladium, London, United Kingdom - Thursday 24th November 2016
Gary Oldman & Alexandra Edenborough's Divorce Is Finalised, Ending Six Years Of Marriage
By Elinor Cosgrave in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 04 October 2015
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Gary Oldman is now a single man after his divorce from Alexandra Edenborough has been finalised.
Gary Oldman and Alexandra Edenborough's divorce has been finalised. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge signed off on the divorce on Tuesday (29th September). The couple were married for six years.
Alexandra Edenborough and Gary Oldman at the Palm Springs Film Festival in January 2014.
Read More: Gary Oldman Brands The USSR Government The 'Real Killer' In Child 44.
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Mr. Turner Review
By Rich Cline
It's no surprise that Mike Leigh would take a distinctly original approach to the celebrity biopic, and this film about 19th century painter J.M.W. Turner is refreshingly unstructured and abrasive. By avoiding the usual formula, Leigh also reinvents the period drama as something almost startlingly realistic, packing the screen with sardonic humour and honest emotions that are extremely complex. And since it's about a painter, the film looks absolutely gorgeous, as Leigh and his ace cinematographer Dick Pope recreate the look of Turner's paintings on-screen.
The film is set in the 1820s, when Turner (Timothy Spall) is a celebrity on the art scene, courting controversy with his visceral landscapes. People either love or hate his work, but his financial success means he can do whatever he wants. Living with his father (Paul Jesson) and loyal housekeeper Hannah (Dorothy Atkinson), Turner openly challenges his critics. But his private life is just as tempestuous. He ignores the two daughters he fathered with Mrs Danby (Ruth Sheen) and has a second incognito life with the widow Sophie Booth (Marion Bailey), calling himself "Mr Mallard". Meanwhile, he continues to push boundaries in his work, challenging the status quo to such an extent that he becomes a joke in social circles.
Spall won the Best Actor award at Cannes for his astonishing performance as the fiercely independent Turner, a man who went to extreme ends to maintain his anarchic lifestyle and produce his distinctive paintings. In one key scene, he straps himself to a ship's mast during a storm so he can better capture the extreme weather in his work. Yes, Turner was a hurricane of a man, brushing off anyone who disparaged his art, including Queen Victoria. And it's no surprise that so few people liked him: Spall plays him believably as monosyllabic grump who growls more than he speaks.
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Disney rewrites its own history again with this revisionist version of its 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty. As she did with Alice in Wonderland, screenwriter Linda Woolverton uses simplistic plotting and clumsy dialogue to turn a children's story into an eerily dark Lord of the Rings-style effects extravaganza. Fortunately, it's held together by an imperious performance from Angelina Jolie.
She plays the story's wicked witch as a misunderstood hero, a happy fairy who grew up in a magical realm next to a kingdom of humans who were constantly afraid of what they didn't understand. And things take a grim turn when her childhood friend Stefan (Sharlto Copley) brutally violates her in order to become the human's king. Now the two lands are at war with each other, and in a fit of rage Maleficent curses Stefan's firstborn Aurora (Dakota Fanning) to fall into a deep sleep before she turns 16. So Stefan hides her in a country house cared for by three bumbling pixies (Imelda Staunton, Lesley Manville and Juno Temple). But it's actually Maleficent who watches over Aurora, and as they bond Maleficent begins to wish she could undo that pesky curse.
Yes, this is not remotely the familiar 17th century Sleeping Beauty fairytale: it's a completely different plot that reduces the "sleeping" bit from 100 years to little more than a power nap. It also re-casts Maleficent as a woman who had one brief moment of nastiness, while the increasingly paranoid and cruel Stefan is the real villain of the piece. The problem is that this shift leaves all of the characters feeling shallow and uninteresting. Aside from Jolie's fabulously prowling horned fairy, no one on-screen really registers at all. The terrific trio of pixies are sidelined in silly slapstick, while the Handsome Prince (Brendon Thwaites) is utterly hapless and Maleficent's crow-like sidekick (Sam Riley) is the victim of an over-zealous make-up designer.
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Mr Turner Trailer
Director Mike Leigh has made a new biopic about one of Britains finest landscape artists, J.M.W. Turner. 'Mr Turner' will see key events of Turner's life like the death of his father which had a profound effect on him; as well as the relationships he built such as the one with his housekeeper who loves him, but he underappreciates. The film will tell the story of Turner's legacy which saw him help pioneer landscape painting with his works, helping the style rival history painting.
As well as being skilled at landscape painting, Turner was also known for being well versed in watercolour landscape painting. He was considered an anarchistic character in his life, due acts such as strapping himself to a ship, in order to paint a storm.
The film is directed by Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky, Another Year, Vera Drake), who's expressed that he wanted to make a film that captures Turner's personality, which Leigh describes as complex and compulsive. 'Mr Turner' is set to be released in the UK on the 31st of October 2014.
Maleficent - Featurette
'Maleficent' stars Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning talk about the upcoming fairytale movie alongside screenwriter Linda Woolverton and director Robert Stromberg in a short featurette.
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Maleficent - Full-Length Trailer
Maleficent is a cruel sorceress who will stop at nothing to destroy those who have stolen her wings and ruined her world. As a child, she lived happily in the forest kingdom with a powerful force inside her that she was mostly unaware of. However, it wasn't long before it spun out of control at the arrival of the human kingdom's brutal army, who were intent on taking over. She fought bravely as the guardian of her land, but her valour soon turned to viciousness when she is callously deceived. A new person now filled with a dark desire for vengeance, she takes it upon herself to curse the daughter of her betrayer's successor, forcing her to die when she reaches her sixteenth birthday. Can Princess Aurora persuade Maleficent to turn her curse around, or is the wicked fairy truly a lost cause?
Adapted from the 1959 animated Disney movie 'Sleeping Beauty', 'Maleficent' is the untold story of the film's embittered villain. It marks the directorial debut of double Oscar winning visual effects designer Robert Stromberg with a screenplay by Linda Woolverton ('Beauty and the Beast', 'The Lion King'), Paul Dini ('Superman' animated TV series) and John Lee Hancock ('The Blind Side', 'Snow White and the Huntsman'). It is due to hit the UK on May 30th 2014.
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Maleficent - Teaser Trailer
Maleficent is a merciless sorceress who dubs herself the 'Mistress of All Evil'. But she hasn't always had a heart of stone. As a beautiful young girl she was happy and contented with her life in the forested kingdom, but deep down she held within her a powerful strength; a strength that would surface when she became the guardian of the entire land as a brutal army take siege. However, through all her great feats of bravery, she is faced with a callous deception that transforms her completely. In a fit of rage she places a curse on baby Princess Aurora; the daughter of the usurping King's successor; that would see her prick her finger on a spindle and die on her sixteenth birthday. However, on meeting a much older Aurora, Maleficent starts to wonder if she could actually help to bring happiness back to the land, and to Maleficent herself.
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Madison Elementary Music Position
MADISON'S DUAL LANGUAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MISSION
Academic Excellence - Biliteracy - Cultural Learning - Social Justice
Our school is a place where students, parents and community members feel welcomed and valued. Our students will persevere to achieve academic excellence, biliteracy and social success, as well as creativity and physical well - being. Our staff is flexible, accountable and collaborative.
What is Madison's dual language Program (Spanish/English)?
Dual Language enrichment education is a proven program in which native English-speaking children and native Spanish speaking children are educated in both English and Spanish. Reading and writing is taught primarily in the child's native language through 2nd grade. After 2nd grade, reading and writing is taught in both languages. Beginning in Kindergarten, mathematics is primarily taught in English and science and social studies is taught in Spanish. One teacher at each grade level is a native or nearly native Spanish speaker. The Spanish-speaking teacher teams with an English-speaking teacher. The students are mixed within the classroom. Approximately 50% of the students in the program are native English speakers and 50% of the students are native Spanish speakers. The students are partnered in what is called bilingual pairs. Research tells us that the results of a well designed dual language education program are outstanding for both English and Spanish speakers.
Interest and experience working with our Latinx student population. Spanish-speaking candidates highly encouraged to apply
Passionate that music should be accessible for any student
Music hold a valid Washington State Teaching Certificate with endorsement in music
Major in Music Education with an emphasis in elementary general music
Ability to instruct students in elementary school band
Experience and training desirable in the following areas: Keyboard proficiency; Orff; Kodaly; Children's Voices; Computer Skills; Music Technology, Composition; Instrumental Pedagogy; Vocal Music; and Musical Theater
Instruct music with an equity and multicultural lens to support the dual language, Spanish/English, mission and vision of Madison.
Bilingual (English/Spanish) skills required; must be able to fluently speak, read and write in Spanish
MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT & MADISON ELEMENTARY WASHINGTON STATE
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The Mount Vernon School District is located 60 miles north of Seattle in the fertile Skagit Valley. We are a growing and diverse school district that employs nearly 900 people serving 6,200+ students in grades kindergarten-12. We have Six elementary schools (grades K-5), two middle schools (grades 6-8), one high school (grades 9-12), and one home school parent partnership (grades K-12).
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CITY OF MOUNT VERNON & SKAGIT VALLEY
Mount Vernon, Washington is located 60 miles north of Seattle in the heart of the Skagit Valley. Founded to support a thriving logging industry, Mount Vernon is now best known for its annual Tulip Festival, which draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to our little corner of the world. With the foothills of the Cascade Mountain Range to the east and the Puget Sound to the west, Mount Vernon doesn't lack for artistic inspiration. The Mount Vernon School District takes advantage of that inspiration and allows its music programs to blossom.
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For more information please email:
Susan Husband - Madison Directora/Principal: shusband@mvsd320.org
Wolter, Madison - Madison Subdirectora/Assistant Principal: mwolter@mvsd320.org
Jacob Scherr - MVHS Band Director: jscherr@mvsd320.org
If you would like to apply for the position, applications are now being accepted online via our district website.
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Hackberry is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,261 at the 2010 census, down from 1,699 in 2000. The losses were due to extensive damage from hurricanes Rita and Ike in 2005 and 2008, respectively. It is part of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History
The community of Hackberry was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ike in September 2008. Ike's  storm surge crawled  inland and devastated Hackberry. The small community was flooded by the high storm surge and all structures (houses, churches, buildings, etc.) were affected. Flooding caused by the hurricane killed many cattle and other farm animals.
The community also suffered severe damage in Hurricane Rita, in 2005, and again suffered severe damage due to the landfall of Category 4 Hurricane Laura in the late evening and early morning of August 26, 2020, Hackberry being within the eye-wall of the storm.

Geography
Hackberry is located in north-central Cameron Parish at  (29.986485, -93.397190), at an elevation of  above sea level on the west side of Calcasieu Lake. Louisiana State Highway 27 passes through the CDP, leading north  to Sulphur and south  to Holly Beach on the Gulf of Mexico.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the Hackberry CDP has a total area of , of which  is land and , or 18.59%, is water.

Climate
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.  According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Hackberry has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,699 people, 626 households, and 458 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 20.7 people per square mile (8.0/km). There were 818 housing units at an average density of 9.9 per square mile (3.8/km). The racial makeup of the CDP was 97.53% White, 0.47% African American, 0.29% Native American, 0.71% Asian, 0.53% from other races, and 0.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.12% of the population.

There were 626 households, out of which 34.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.3% were married couples living together, 8.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.8% were non-families. 22.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.21.

In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 26.3% under the age of 18, 9.9% from 18 to 24, 26.4% from 25 to 44, 27.0% from 45 to 64, and 10.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.4 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $37,366, and the median income for a family was $51,780. Males had a median income of $36,719 versus $25,192 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $16,332. About 3.9% of families and 9.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.5% of those under age 18 and 4.4% of those age 65 or over.

The population had dropped to 1,261 at the 2010 census, as many people left after the community was flooded deeply in Hurricane Ike.

Government
The United States Postal Service Hackberry Post Office is located at 904 Main Street in the CDP.

Education
Hackberry is served by the Cameron Parish School Board. Hackberry High School, a primary and secondary school, serves Hackberry.

Cameron Parish Public Library operates the Hackberry Branch at 983 Main Street in the Hackberry CDP.

Notable people
The Grammy Award-nominated Hackberry Ramblers, a Cajun music group, are from the community.

References

Census-designated places in Cameron Parish, Louisiana
Census-designated places in Louisiana
Census-designated places in Lake Charles metropolitan area

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Q: Most effective way to manage multiple tenant storage in Azure? We're creating a multi-tenant application that must segregate data between tenants. Each tenant will save various documents, each of which can fall into several different document categories. We plan to use Azure blob storage for these documents. However, given our user base and the number of documents and size of each one, we're not sure how to best manage storage accounts with our current Azure subscription.
Here are some numbers to consider. With 5,000 users at 27,000 8Mb documents per year per user, that is 1080TB per year total. A storage container maxes out at 500TB per storage account.
So my question is what would be the most efficient and cost effective way to store this data and stay within the Azure limits?
Here are a few things we've considered:

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*Create a storage account for each client. THIS DOES NOT WORK because you can only have 100 storage accounts per subscription (this would have been the most ideal solution).

*Create a blob container for each client. A storage account can have up to 500TB, so this could potentially work except for eventually we would have to split off into other storage accounts. I'm not sure how that would work if eventually a user had data in two accounts. Could get messy.
Perhaps we are missing something fundamentally simple here.
UPDATE
For now our thought is to use Azure table storage with a table for each document type. Within each table the partition key would be the tenant's ID, and the row key would be the document ID. Each row would also contain metadata type information for the document, along with a URI (or something) linking to the blob itself.

A: I am just going to put my thought on the topic, and it do have some redundant information to Gaurav Mantri's answer. This is based on a design that I came up with after doing something very similar at my current work.
Azure Blob storage

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*Randomly select a pod from pod pool when tenant is created and store its namespace along with the tenant information.

*Provide an api for creating containers where container names are composite of tenant id Guid::ToString("N") + <resourcename>. You dont need to sell the to your users as containers, i can be folders, worksets or filebox, you find a name.

*Provide an api for maintaining documents within these containers.
This means that you can just increase the pod pool if getting more tenants, ect remove those pods that is getting filled up.
The benefits of this is that you do not need to keep two systems for your data, using both table storage and blob storage. Blob storage already have a way to present data as a directory/files hierarchy.
Extension Points
Blob Storage Api Broker
On top of the above design I made an Owin Middleware that wraps in between clients and blob storage, basicly just forwarding requests from clients to blob storage.
This step is off cause not needed, as you can delegate normal sas tokens and talk directly to blob storage from clients. But it makes it easy to hook into when actions are executed on files. Each tenant will get its own endpoint files/teantid/<resourcename>/
Using such an API would also enable you to hook into whatever token authentication system you may be useing already to validate the authenticate and authorize the incoming requests and then sign the requests in this API.
Blob Storage Metadata
Using the above api broker extension, combined with metadata one can actually take it a step further and modify incoming requests to always include metadata and add in filters on the xml returned to blob storage before sending it to clients to filter out containers or blobs. One example would be when users delete a blob, then set a x-ms-meta-status:deleted and filter them out when returning blobs/containers. This way you can add different procedures for deleting data behind the scenes.
One should be careful here, since you don't want to put to much logic in here since it adds a penalty on all requests, but doing it smart can make this work very nice.
This extensions would also allow you to allow your users to create "empty" subfolders inside a container, but placing a zero byte file with a status:hidden that also will be filtered out. (remember that blob storage only can show virtual folders if there is something in them). This could also be achieved using table storage.
Azure Search
Another great extension point is that for each blob you could keep it in Azure Search to be able to find content, and this is most likely my favorite. I dont see any good solution using just blob storage or table storage that could give you a good search functionality or to some extend even a good filtering experience. With Azure Search this would give users a really rich experience for finding their content again.
Snapshots
Another extension is that snapshots could be created for every time a file is modified automatically. This becomes even easier with the broker api, otherwise monitoring logs is an options.
These ideas comes from a project that I started that I wanted to share, but since I am busy the coming months at work I don't see myself releasing my project before the summer holidays give me time to finish. The motivation of the project is to provide a nuget package that enables other developers to quickly set up this broker api that i mentioned above and configure a multi tenant blob storage solution.
I kindly ask you to vote up this answer if you read this and believe such a project could have saved you time in your current development process. This way I can see if I could use more time on the project or not.
I think that gaurav Mantris answer is more spot on for the question above, but just wanted to share my ideas on the topic.

A: Not really an answer but think of it as "food for thought" :). Basically your architecture should be based on the fact that each storage account has some scalability targets and your design should be such that you don't exceed those to maintain high availability of storage for your application.
Some recommendations:

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*Start by creating multiple storage accounts (say 10 to begin with). Let's call them Pods.

*Each tenant will get one of the pod. You can pick a pod storage account randomly or use some predefined logic. The information about the pod is stored along side tenant information.

*From the description it seems that currently you're storing the file information in just one table. This would put a lot of stress on just one table/storage account which is not a scalable design IMHO. Instead when a tenant is created, you assign a pod to the tenant and then create a table for each tenant which will store the file information in that table. This would have following benefits: 1) You have nicely isolated each tenant data, 2) The read requests are now load-balanced thus allowing you to stay within scalability targets and 3) Since each tenant data lies in a separate table, your PartitionKey became free and you can assign some other value if needed.

Now coming on to storing files:

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*Again you can go with the Pod concept wherein files for each tenant reside in the pod storage account for that tenant.

*If you see issues with this approach, you can randomly pick the pod storage account and put the file there and store the blob URL in the Files table.

*You could either go with just one blob container (say tenant-files) or separate blob containers for each tenant.

*With just one blob container for all tenants, management overhead is smaller as you just have to create this container when a new pod is commissioned. However the downside is that you can't logically separate files by tenant so if you want to provide direct access to the files (using Shared Access Signature), it would be problematic.

*With separate blob containers for each tenant, the management overhead is more but you get nice logical isolation. In this as a tenant is brought on board, you would have to create container for that tenant in each pod storage account. Similarly when a new pod is commissioned, you have to ensure that a blob container is created for each tenant in the system.

Hope this gives you some idea about how you can go about architecting your solution. We're using some of these concepts in our solution (which explicitly uses Azure Storage as data store). It would be really interesting to see what architecture you come up with.

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