Madame Gautier offers an entire range of catered options to suit any occasion, all your guests requirements and to make life easier.
From Dinner Party options from our delivery or party menus or tailored to your special requests, delivered to you to effortlessy reheat and serve!... ... to Larger Events where we can provide canapés, a sumptuous buffet, cook in our large pans or prepare bowl suppers. As well as classic French gourmet menus, we can tailormake delicious lighter options and also cater for vegetarian and vegan palates.
FOOD ALLERGIES & INTOLERANCES - Please ask if you would like to know about the ingredients in our dishes, we can provide a full list of allergens.
Not quite what your looking for? Just get in touch, we have a great team of chefs only happy use their knowledge and expertise for almost anything!
...Dinner parties, Birthday parties, Office parties, any party and......picnics too!
Madame Gautier is tried and tested for both Corporate & Private events, catering for the masses on a budget or at a more executive level. We bring a real theatre of food to any location. We can adapt menus to suit your requirements, please email for more details.
Catering for large amounts of people is our pleasure, we cook fresh delights in giant Paella Pans, so to feed guests, hot delicious meals, quickly & efficiently!
If you don't have the room for the pans at your house, but you would still like to impress your guests with something extra special to eat, why not have Madame Gautier deliver or come to your home to serve up a meal in one, something fresh & delicious that can be served in individual bowls creating a relaxed atmosphere with minimal mess and effort for you.
We have developed a streamlined, efficient ordering service to resolve any corporate catering. Whether it be an executive breakfast meeting, a training day or a buffet spread to feed the whole office, all menus can be tailored to suit you or simply pick what you would like from the sample menus.
Mixing classic French together with contemporary favourites, Canapés are a wonderful way to greet guests that you are entertaining for any occasion, simply delivered or even served by us, we make entertaining easy!
Stunning & eye catching centre-pieces to compliment any Madame Gautier dinner party, or maybe just helping you finish off your own delicious home cooking. Order to collect from any market, or have them delivered to your door.
Thanks you so much for a delicious meal. The whole team love it. We will be singing your praises to all of our clients.
Thanks you so much for another delicious meal. We are all singing your praises.
Thanks again for another stellar Christmas lunch! You never disappoint.
Thank you for making my thanksgiving a perfect feast!! The food was delicious.
Vive la rentrée, vos petits plats commençaient à nous manquer!
It's ever so great that you choose to make such an effort for your customers benefit in this way: Genuinely, thank you.
"this is a cheesecake you would eat off the floor" referencing an old episode of Friends!
great success and your help lowered the stress levels considerably!
I attended a course a couple of weeks ago.
It was fantastic and I really enjoyed the day!
I want to make it again for Easter as it was a total hit back home!!
Thanks again for such a great day and was well worth the trip from Liverpool to you guys.
Puis-je vous passer une nouvelle commande pour ce samedi?
Food was bomb, service was bomb... trust me, you guys are on our speed dial if we need anything :) Thanks!
Many thanks for being my favourite caterer ever!!
Just a word to thank you so much for providing us with such a delicious meal on Saturday.
Our guests enjoyed every mouthful and requests for second helpings abounded!
We will certainly use your excellent cuisine again for parties, and in the meantime will see A at Parliament Hill for top ups on Saturdays!
Once again, many thanks for the wonderful food and all your help.
the food was fabulous and the girls did a fantastic job looking after us all.
We had the MOST wonderful day, things really could not have been any better. E and I spent half of our honeymoon raving about how incredible your food was – the first bite of the tart tatins was particularly divine! And our guests were totally blown away by the quality of everything, and how nice all the staff were!
and thanks for keeping so well to budget.
Thank you so much for a wonderful evening on Friday. The guests all loved the food and the event went so well.
I just wanted to say the confit de boeuf last Thursday was absolutely fabulous!
I live in Queens Park and love your Sunday market stall food.
I'm a regular at your strutton ground market stall for lunch during the week and I absolutely love the beef and chorizo Risi -Bisi that is often on! Cheers for the great food!
Just a quick message to say thank you for the food - we are still enjoying it. I will reach out towards the end of next week to arrange an order.
Thank you so much for delivering our delicious Christmas lunch on Friday. It was a huge success. Delicious and still lovely and hot!
Just have to say I tried the pork + apple casserole dish you had in the market today in Hammersmith - it was absolutely amazing! Hope you have it for sale next week too!
Thanks again for the delicious meals today. Chou Farci has become my husband's favorite dish. Your food is a godsend for Londoners with an impossibly cramped kitchen.
Well, that was absolutely DELICIOUS!
Chicken was utterly wonderful (I just love that sauce), the gratin went down a total treat and the veg were gorgeous. All went down so well. We had a lovely day – drinks in the garden in the sun then a really happy, chatty lunch.
Thank you SO much. Delighted with it all.
Just to let you know, the turkey was absolutely delicious and much enjoyed by all. Beautifully cooked and so tender with delicious stuffing. I was so pleased.
I look forward to enjoying some leftovers tomorrow.
I just wanted to thank you for a gorgeous dinner yesterday. It was a beautifully put-together menu and tasted divine.
My guests were very impressed - but I didn't take credit!
I will be sure to call on you again (and visit your stalls in Pimlico and Strutton Ground regularly).
Thank you again for all your help with my Saturday evening dinner party. The food was great, and the whole process was easy.
If I can serve as a reference, please don't hesitate to do to so.
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Turquoise waters and coconut palms, black sand and golden sand and flamboyant sunsets ... Beyond the tropical postcard, Martinique invites you on a journey to the heart of a living Creole culture. Where old French medieval folk songs are played to the rhythm of the biguine or zouk, and where contemporary art reinvents itself in sugar cane plantations!
The must-sees of your stay in Martinique
Staying in Martinique, all roads lead first to Fort de France! Alangui in its bay of the Caribbean Sea, the historic center is a good introduction to learn about Creole culture. Traditional wooden houses and buildings of colonial architecture attract the eye as the amazing library Schoelcher, presented at the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1889, then transported by boat to Fort de France to be reconstituted!
South of Fort de France, the beaches of blond sand succeed each other, including Sainte-Anne with more than 20 kilometers festooned with coconut trees. Change of scenery in Saint-Pierre. At a height of 1397 meters, Mount Pelee seems to watch over the harbor of this historic city, the first settlement of the island. But on May 8, 1902, the awakening of the volcano destroyed St. Pierre making more than 25 000 victims ... In the historic district, we wander between the ruins preserved in memory: theater, church of the Fort or prison which a prisoner miraculously survived!
To find out more, visit the volcanological museum Franck-Perret, a mine of information on the world of volcanoes. And we explore this famous mountain climbing to his caldera. Going down, we stop on the coast at Carbet, whose decor inspired the painter Paul Gauguin. Another idyllic site, Grand River, an authentic fishing village ideal for recharging with canyoning!
Another variant for canyoning: the spectacular gorges de la Falaise. Natural pools cascading, the river is a passage between walls sometimes 120 meters high! Of all the beaches of Martinique, those of Salines in the south are the most mythical. In the shade of coconut palms, we picnic in the water. But to stroll through the mangrove with dazzling views of the Atlantic Ocean, go to the nature reserve of La Caravelle! And for the postcard with the Diamond Rock on the Caribbean Sea, cape ... Cap 110, the memorial of Anse Caffard, where 15 busts of characters look to Africa, symbolizing the millions of victims of the trade.
Martinique: sport destination!
A trip to Martinique can also be very sporty! Exclusively female, the Raid des Alizés combines classic events of nature raids (mountain biking, kayaking, trail) and solidarity activities. As for sailing, Flying Martinique Regatta has been making Martinique one of the major sailing destinations since 2018. And to admire the boats, traditional boats driven by several rowers, it is necessary to watch their passage on the coast during the Tour of the rounds.
Gastronomy in Martinique
Staying in Martinique, impossible to escape the cod! This fish is part of succulent recipes:
fierce, the West Indian guacamole,
macadam, where she gets married with tomatoes and peppers,
ti dwarf lan mori with green bananas.
You can also eat crayfish bisque, conch, molluscs, fricassee, and crab matoutou, stew served at Easter or Pentecost. At Christmas, we prepare the ham with sugar and pineapple and we make a red currant syrup served with rum. As for the apple cinnamon, it is also delicious in juice.
If the Martinican cuisine is so tasty, it owes to the love for gastronomy and rich scents of local products: spices, vanilla, tropical fruit jams ... Not to mention the rum, inseparable from culture, the only AOC in the world.
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Our Main Idea Lesson Plan develops critical thinking skills as students will be able to determine the main idea of a text, and explain how details support the main idea. This lesson includes ample opportunities to practice locating the main idea sentence within a passage, as well as engaging creativity as students compose their own paragraph with accompanying images or drawings.
Ask one student to stand in front of the room. Ask him/her to tell the class an interesting fact about themselves. Write it in a sentence for display. The student remains in front of the room.
Do this four more times, writing each sentence for display.
Tell students this is a Main Idea sentence. Tell the class each student standing supports the main idea with their information.
Distribute Main Idea content pages. Read and review the information with the students. Use additional resources to enhance understanding.
Ask students to share the main idea of their favorite book.
Distribute Activity pages. Read and review the instructions. Remind students the Main Idea sentence may not always be placed at the beginning of a paragraph. Distribute the scissors, glue, construction paper, colored pencils.
Tell students when they make their paragraph it may be based on something true or make-believe. Students may add images or draw pictures on the construction page related to the paragraphs.
Once all are completed, allow students volunteers to share the correct answers as well as their paragraphs with the class, identifying each main idea sentence.
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Jeremy: A new kind of narration strip! I liked Jeff's bold move in changing the narrator. The Big Lebowski's "Stranger" seemed to be a good fit to narrate other strips in need of such exposition, but I forgot about Morgan Freeman's narration skills. I think Red works just as well as The Stranger.
And I suppose now would be a good time to tell you about my comic pal Joe Hunter, whose character mask from his comic Punchclock Hero has graced Elle's t-shirt in these previous strips. I meant to do a call-out to that detail before, but being lame, it totally slipped my mind. Each time. So anyway, everybody follow Joe on twitter and keep abreast of his work!
I think Jeff made a great move here as well, this is definitely one of those dialog moments that Red does so well. The Stranger would be more of a meet up, truth be told type of narration.
Well since you managed to drop that much dialog without the "F" word let me drop it for y'all. This is one FUN strip, from the art (Love Panel 1 and 3, 2's awesome but those odd numbers are my favs today) to the way you cut the panels at an angle, giving it such momentum. Great job as always guys.
Josh R. Thompson (voice of Geoff Peterson on TLLS w/Craig Ferguson) does such a dead on Morgan Freeman that he startled the daylights out of Freeman himself. Then he made a recording, Morgan Freeman narrates 50 Shades of Gray. He received a cease and desist order. However, he still does it in his standup act. It's hilarious!
Yes, yes, this is all well and good…but WHERE'S BAL?????


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Гравітаційне транспортування (рос. гравитационное транспортирование, англ. gravity transport, нім. Gravitationstransportieren n, Fließförderung f, Schwerkraftförderung f) — переміщення вантажів під дією власної ваги. Для гравітаційного транспортування використовують похилі рольганги, гірничі виробки (скати), східчасті (каскадні) і ґвинтові спуски, дерев'яні настили та ін. До гравітаційного транспортування вдаються на багатоповерхових складах, у ливарних, механічних та інших цехах, у шахтах. На шахтах гравітаційне транспортування широко застосовується для доставки у вибоях, для спуску по скатам, пічкам, ґезенкам та ін., в технологічному комплексі поверхні шахти та на збагачувальних фабриках — для передачі вантажів з верхніх поверхів на нижні, для підводу до комірок бункерів та технологічних агрегатів, для спрямування потоку сипучих матеріалів на навантажувальних та перевантажувальних пунктах.

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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Washington is intensifying its support for this nation's first democratically elected government, as violence spreads across the archipelago. But not all in Indonesia are happy about it.
In the past two weeks, the U.S. has done everything from increasing its financial assistance to Jakarta, to sending out congressional and business delegations, to publicly warning Indonesia's powerful armed forces.
Indeed, the U.S. State Department cited Indonesia on Friday as one of four newly born democracies it would assist in 2000 through $125 million in direct aid, a 66% increase from a year earlier. U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers -- who also visited Jakarta last week -- said Thursday the U.S. would support $10 billion in new loans to Indonesia through the International Monetary Fund and other financial organizations over the next three years.
He added that his department would back a "generous rescheduling" of Jakarta's sovereign debt that has reached 100% of the country's economic output.
"It is inconceivable that the [Southeast Asian] region as a whole could prosper in the years ahead without an open, stable and vibrant Indonesia," Mr. Summers said.
Washington's diplomatic salvo comes as sectarian violence continues to threaten the reform drive of President Abdurrahman Wahid's three-month-old government. Clashes in the Indonesian provinces of Aceh and Maluku this weekend left dozens of people dead, the Associated Press reported. Last week, riots swept through Indonesia's resort island of Lombok as well as through Bintan, an island housing industrial estates near the city-state of Singapore. In most instances, Indonesia's military has been either charged with fomenting the unrest, or doing too little to stop it -- allegations senior Indonesian military officers deny.
Mr. Wahid's travails are stoking a more-confrontational stance by Washington toward the Indonesian military. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke launched a sharp attack against Jakarta's generals earlier this month when he threatened them with international isolation should they attempt to destabilize the new government. A coup against Mr. Wahid "would do Indonesia immense, perhaps irreparable damage," Mr. Holbrooke said. Similar messages have been sent to the Indonesian armed forces from the White House and State Department.
Mr. Holbrooke has also charged Indonesian generals with attempting to impede an investigation by Mr. Wahid's government into alleged atrocities committed by Indonesian troops in East Timor last year.
Indonesia's military denies any attempts to unsettle the Wahid government or obstruct investigations into East Timor. Still, a number of high-ranking officers charge Washington with exacerbating Indonesia's already fractious political environment by seeking democratic reforms at a pace faster than is practical. "Issues that they see as important in the U.S. aren't that important here," said Lt. Gen. Agus Widjojo, the head of the Indonesian military's territorial affairs, in an interview. He also said that Indonesia's weak civilian institutions make it essential for the military to play a central role in guiding Indonesia into a new era.
A number of Islamic and business leaders have also criticized Washington for what they see as its meddling in Indonesia's sovereign affairs. Washington wields significant influence over Indonesian policies through the IMF, World Bank and U.N. -- particularly since economic crisis hit the nation in 1997. "We can't rely too heavily on overseas groups, because in the end, they'll think we're incapable of solving our own problems," says Nazri Adlani, general secretary of the Indonesian Ulamas Council, an influential Islamic group.
President Wahid told reporters last week that he appreciated Washington's concern about the continuation of democracy in Indonesia and said he would deal strongly with any attempts against his government. But he also stressed that his government wouldn't become a "lackey" of outside powers.
Senior U.S. officials respond that Washington's harder line in Indonesia has been sparked by the situation on the ground. One official says Mr. Holbrooke's remarks were needed as a "pre-emptive strike" against what is seen as escalating grumblings within Indonesia's military ranks toward Mr. Wahid's government. "The military leaders need to be told that they have to accept civilian rule," the official says.
--Rin Hindryati contributed to this article.


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Rise of the LSO, AKA the "Super Cookie"
Since the dawn of the first web browsers dragging themselves from the sea to the land and gasping air for the first time (or something like that), there has been someone who wanted to track what's happening in the browser. Whether it's for remembering settings, keeping items in a shopping cart, or aiding in online marketing, the ubiquitous browser cookie has been a staple of the Internet since the early days of the Mosaic browser.
Today, however, there has been an evolution in the browser cookie life cycle, and it's known as the LSO (Local Shared Object, AKA a "Flash cookie"). It's not called the Super Cookie because it can leap buildings in a single bound, but rather because, like the Man of Steel, super cookies are pretty darn close to impervious when normal humans like you or I attempt to get rid of them.
What's the difference between a browser cookie and a super cookie?
The super cookie is both scary and fascinating. Unlike its cousin the browser cookie, the super cookie is a Flash-based cookie that is stored in a different location on a computer than a browser cookie, can be much larger than the 4K allotted the browser cookie, and is much more difficult to uninstall (or even find on your PC) than the cookies you're used to dealing with. In short, it's a nightmare to deal with and opens up all kinds of privacy concerns.
What can I do about the super cookie?
Now, whether you want to keep or kill the super cookie is up to you. Like the browser cookie, a super cookie is only as evil as its creator, and most developers will likely use the LSO to make things like tracking general customer information easier vs. attempting to waylay your privacy and sell your data to the highest bidder. However, there are enough differences between browser cookies and Flash super cookies that it's kind of a "Wild West" situation right now in the Land of Cookies.
If you're afraid of someone using super cookies for evil (and lets face it, that's a possibility), there are several ways to suppress or remove the LSO super cookie:
Manual deletion:
The most tech savvy method to remove the super cookie, manual deletion is probably best suited for the technically minded. A super cookie is usually found in the "Flash Player" directory on your computer, but can be stored elsewhere. Use the search tool on your PC an look for the *.sol file extension.
Better Privacy (Firefox addon):
If you use Firefox you can add the Better Privacy plugin to your install and let the addon work its magic on your LSOs.
Disable/remove Flash:
Not a fan of Flash in the first place? Don't care about certain videos or online games? If so, just disable or full-on remove the Flash player from your computer. If it works for iPhone users, it might work for you, too.
Visit Adobe:
Adobe has a tool that you can use to update your settings quickly and easily. Just go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html and set the "Global Storage Settings" to "Zero". This will prevent new flash cookies from being put on your computer, but if you have any right now you'll still have to remove them as described above.
As you can see, updating, removing, or changing the behavior of Flash super cookies is kind of a pain right now. But like always, we have to roll with the punches, right? Now that you know about the LSO, check them out every now and again and see if you want to keep them around or not.
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Are school vouchers the solution?
CNN education contributor Dr. Steve Perry explains why he supports Mitt Romney's plan for a voucher-like system. From Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien.
Posted by Schools of Thought editors
Filed under: Perry's Principles • video • Voices
My View: Grading art in a standardized-test world
By Katie Lyles, Special to CNN
Editor's note: Katie Lyles has been teaching art in Jefferson County, Colorado, for seven years. In addition to her classroom duties, Katie has been part of her school's cabinet, the Jefferson County Strategic Compensation Steering Committee, and the Leadership Academy for the Colorado Education Association. She was also a member of TURN and a delegate representative for JCEA. Katie is part of the steering committee for the Center for Teaching Quality's New Millennium Initiative.
It takes a thick skin to be an elementary art teacher. And it's not because of the clothes ruined by paint, the challenge of finding storage space for over 500 sculpture projects, or the glitter that sneaks into the most unlikely places.
No, what requires a thick skin is continually battling public perception that art—especially at the elementary level—is an "easy break in the day" for students. When I tell people that I'm an art teacher, I'm often greeted with a patronizing response that goes something like this: "Awwww! It must be fun to color all day!" That's usually followed up with a stimulating question such as, "Do you have any students who eat glue?"
Truth be told, I do have fun coloring all day…while teaching color theory, elements of landscape, how to create visual interest through patterns, and the difference between a portrait and a still-life—and this is just with my second graders (who, by the way, have never attempted to eat the glue!).
Sadly, most people's perceptions about art education come from their personal experience as students. Art classes look a lot different from a seven-year-old's perspective than from a teacher's perspective.
Filed under: Art • Curriculum • Elementary school • Practice • Teachers • Voices
Educators: Kids aren't the only ones bullied
By Hannah Weinberger, Special to CNN
(CNN) - People around the world were shocked and horrified by a viral video that showed Karen Klein, a 68-year-old public school bus monitor, desperately trying to ignore malicious verbal jabs by a group of middle schoolers on her own bus.
For most, it was extreme. For many educators and school staff members, it's no surprise. School workers said it's a regular aspect of their daily lives.
"I've had erasers thrown at me, among other things, but these are things that teachers go through," said Rosalind Wiseman, author of the bestseller "Queen Bees and Wannabes."
"When these types of things come up, there's all of this attention. But most teachers have at least had one student call them a bad name under their breath."
While bullying among students has dominated conversations in school, homes and in the media, kids bullying adults at school is a topic rarely discussed. What some call misbehavior, pranks or insubordination can be bullying, too, educators said. Kids can act threateningly and create a hostile environment inside the limitations of the law, said educator and author David M. Hall, who often leads anti-bullying workshops - and school workers might never report it.
Posted by Hannah Weinberger -- CNN
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Analysis: 40 years after Title IX, 904% more women play high school sports
By Donna Krache, CNN
(CNN) – The year was 1972. "M*A*S*H," "Sanfordand Son" and "Kung Fu" were reasons to stay home and watch TV. Roberta Flack had the number one song on the radio with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." Don McLean drove his Chevy to the levee and sang goodbye to Miss "American Pie."
The women's liberation movement was in full swing, but in schools there were huge educational discrepancies between the genders, both in the kinds of classes they took and in the kinds of extracurricular activities they took part in.
That year, there were only 30,000 girls in the U.S. participating in high school sports.
Today there are more than 3 million.
Listen to CNN's Edgar Treiguts' interview Ann Meyers Drysdale, a former UCLA basketball star and Olympian, and executive of men's and women's professional basketball teams in Phoenix.
Changes came about in large part because of a law known as Title IX.
When President Richard Nixon signed the bill into law on June 23, 1972, it was intended to level the playing field between girls and boys in the educational opportunities that were presented to them. Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 states:
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
The law set out to prevent sex discrimination and harassment in any education activity or program, whether public or private. It covers a wide range of areas, including fairness in college admissions and financial aid, freedom to take any vocational courses (so boys can take what was once called "home ec" and girls can take wood shop) and providing education for pregnant students.
Yet Title IX is most associated with sports because of its impact on high school and college sports for young women. Under the law, "The athletic interests and abilities of male and female students must be equally and effectively accommodated."
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Filed under: Extracurricular • Issues • Policy • video • Women's issues
While Washington, D.C., tops per-student spending at $18,667, Utah is at the bottom with $6,064.
Which places spent most per student on education?
By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN
(CNN) - Public school systems spent an average of $10,615 per student in the 2010 fiscal year, an increase of 1.1% from the previous year, according to Public Education Finances: 2010, a U.S. Census Bureau report released today.
Washington, D.C., schools topped per-pupil spending at $18,667; Utah was lowest, at $6,064. Public schools systems spent $602.6 billion in 2010, a 0.4% decrease since 2009 - the first time the spending level has gone down since the Census Bureau began to keep track.
Although the amount spent per student has steadily crept up in recent decades, it can vary widely based on cost of living and operating. Of the 50 largest school systems, New York City School District spent the most per student in 2010 at $19,597.
Make no mistake: Spending a lot of money doesn't mean a kid is getting a good education, and spending less doesn't mean it's bad. Per-pupil spending comes up often because it's among the few easy-to-compare measurements that crosses school, district and state lines, said Matthew Chingos, a researcher with Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy.
"Per-pupil funding is a pretty terrible measure of quality of education," Chingos said. "In some case, it matters, but sometimes it's hard to find evidence it matters."
Posted by Jamie Gumbrecht -- CNN
Filed under: Economy • School funding
What would you do with a mean kid?
What would you do if you learned your kid was a bully?
In Greece, New York, parents of middle school students who taunted a 68-year-old bus monitor saw it happen on a video that went viral; it captured students hurling insults, threats of physical and sexual assault at Karen Klein. One comment she couldn't ignore referenced Klein's son, who committed suicide a decade ago.
Middle schoolers bully bus monitor, 68, with stream of profanity, jeers
Police and the school district where the incident took place are publicly grappling with how best to discipline the students involved. Meanwhile, the CNN community has weighed in on Facebook and on CNN.com about what they would do if their own kids were the culprits in such an intense case of cruelty.
Some commenters on CNN.com felt students' threats rose to the level of harassment and police action should be taken. Some comments are edited for clarity.
antoinette18 One kid actually said that if he would stick a KNIFE in her, it would be like cutting through butter. That is a THREAT. It went beyond teasing to actually touching her, threatening her with bodily injury through a weapon and sexual assault. They should all be charged as adults. Their parents should be responsible. They are raising animals. And the parents should be forced to take parenting classes and boot camp.
Colorista The harassment and threats should be punished legally. In addition, that big chunk of community service is warranted but I would add that there is a "supervisory clause" and that a parent must be present and participate in all of the hours with their little darlings. Since it is the end of the school year, they should be banned from riding the bus for the first month of school in the fall. Failure to attend/get to school in that time frame means more service hours for mom/dad/miscreant. I am all for a parental boot camp.
Posted by CNN's Sari Zeidler
Filed under: Character education • Issues • Parents
Middle schoolers bully bus monitor with profanity, jeers
Anderson Cooper interviews bus monitor Karen Klein about the verbal abuse she endured on tonight's AC360, 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET
By Faith Karimi, CNN
(CNN) - A profanity-laced video of middle school students in upstate New York verbally abusing a bus monitor is sparking an outpouring of support as strangers worldwide rally to her side.
Students taunted Karen Klein, 68, with a stream of profanity, insults, jeers and physical ridicule. Some boys demand to know her address, saying they want to come to her house to perform sexual acts and steal from her. Another said, "you're so fat."
One comment from a boy aboard the bus was especially painful. He told her that she does not have family because "they all killed themselves because they didn't want to be near you." Klein's oldest son took his own life 10 years ago, according to CNN affiliate WHAM.
The bullying continues unabated for about 10 minutes in the video, reducing Klein to tears as a giggling student jabs her arm with a book. Recorded by a student Monday with a cell phone camera, the brazen example of bullying went viral and spurred international outrage.
The incident occurred in Greece, New York, near Rochester. Klein is a bus monitor for the Greece Central School District and the harassers hail from the Greece Athena Middle School, media reports said.
Tell us in the comments: We hear often about kids bullying kids, but have you witnessed or experienced kids bullying an adult at school, on the playground, on the bus or on field trips?
Posted by Faith Karimi -- CNN
Filed under: Bullying • Issues
Creating an environment of change: Inside teacher training with Ron Clark
By Keiona Johnson, CNN
"Here's the issue we have with education in our country. Educators go to college for four years, get a degree and they sit in a classroom and teach for 30 years. Rarely do they ever get out and see what's going on in other peoples classrooms and so, we're just creating this cycle where we're not having anything new. There's no growth, no development. So what we do at the academy is we let people come and see excellence… If you don't see excellence, you don't know how to get there." – Ron Clark
(CNN) - Recently, CNN got an exclusive look into Ron Clark Academy's world-renowned educator training program in Atlanta. On that day, nearly 120 teachers traveled from near and far to experience what one educator described as a "spiritual awakening."
Created in 2007, the academy is a school and dedicated educator training facility that has welcomed nearly 15,000 educators from around the world. The one and two day sessions are filled with excitement – from bungee jumping in the morning to dancing and sliding in the afternoon. There's also lots of walking on desks, beating of the drums, poetry and rapping! Participation is often required for those in attendance, as they learn how to incorporate music into the classroom, implement games to help promote student engagement and other creative learning techniques that steer them away from "teaching to the test."
Posted by Keiona Johnson - CNN
Filed under: Practice • Teachers • video
Whole Body Math Games are demonstrated at the National Summer Learning Association's 2010 Summer Changes Everything national conference.
Millions of kids miss out on summer learning
By Gary Huggins, Special to CNN
Editor's note: Thursday is Summer Learning Day. Gary Huggins is CEO of the National Summer Learning Association, a national nonprofit organization based in Baltimore that connects and equips schools, providers, communities and families to deliver high-quality summer learning opportunities to our nation's youth to help close the achievement gap and support healthy development.
There's a flaw in our summer equation.
Summer break is a treasured American tradition that arose from the need for children to work on farms during the warm-weather months. But while summer is a special time of year, it's turning into a missed opportunity, at a huge cost.
It seems that for many, summer vacation has now come to equal not just a break from school, but a break from any kind of learning. Summer means freedom for schoolchildren to do absolutely nothing, for three long months.
There is nothing wrong with taking breaks. Everyone needs them. Time off from the regular school routine and curriculum allows students and teachers to recharge their batteries and do things differently.
But we collectively pay a steep bill for our prolonged break from learning. Research shows students typically score lower on standardized tests at the end of the summer than they do at the beginning. Most students lose two months' worth of math skills each summer, and low-income children lose another two to three months in reading, putting them chronically behind their better-off peers. That's an incredible waste of the resources we pour into the school year.
Here's the real flaw in the equation. Our attitude toward summer tells young people that summer is for fun and not learning. Therefore, what we're really telling them is that learning is the opposite of fun.
Filed under: Curriculum • Policy • Practice • Summer learning • Voices
High school students develop app to fight bullying
Students at a Connecticut high school developed an app they hope will curb bullying, CNN affiliate WTIC reported. Users can use the app to report bullying they've experienced, even as a witness. The information is anonymous, but goes to administrators, who can look for common threads and patterns in what's reported. The app was designed by students at Metropolitan Business Academy in New Haven, Connecticut, who said they saw it as a way for kids to help other kids.
Share in the comments: Do you think an anonymous app is a good way to report bullying? Would you want your kids or their school administrators to use it?
Filed under: Bullying • Issues • Technology


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By: eWEEK Staff | August 22, 2017
Today's topics include an analysis on the true cost of ransomware; Facebook awarding $100,000 for spear phishing security research; Google partnering with UC Berkeley to create an eclipse movie; and Microsoft giving Skype for desktops a mobile look makeover.
Ransomware has been a growing internet security attack tactic over the course of the past year—and the costs to businesses are far more than the ransom they pay to their attackers.
In a ransomware attack, an attacker installs malware that encrypts data on a victim's system and then demands a ransom in order to decrypt the data. In June, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center released its 2016 Internet Crime Report, providing statistics on $1.33 billion in victim losses from a total of 298,728 complaints about various internet-related crimes that were reported during the year. Looking specifically at ransomware, the FBI received 2,673 complaints, with a total of $2.4 million in losses.
The true cost of ransomware is much more than just the ransom payments made by victims, however, as businesses must also take into account the disruption to their operations, which is a non-trivial financial concern.
The True Cost of Ransomware
Facebook Awards $100K for Security Research
Google, UC Berkeley Team to Produce Eclipse Movie
Skype Gets a Mobile-Inspired Makeover
Facebook awarded the fourth Internet Defense Prize at the USENIX Security Conference in Vancouver on Aug. 17, giving the winning research team a $100,000 award.
The Internet Defense Prize was started in 2014 as an effort to encourage security researchers to investigate and develop new methods for improving internet security.
A team of security researchers from the University of California, Berkeley won the 2017 prize for a new approach to detecting credential spear phishing attacks. Spear phishing attacks, also sometimes referred to as "whaling," involve a targeted fraudulent email that is sent to a specific individual with the goal of tricking the user into clicking on a link or opening an attachment.
Members of Google's Making and Science initiative nd the Multiverse team at the University of California, Berkeley's Space Science Laboratory have teamed up on a project to produce a high-definition, time expanded video of the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse using images from more than 1,000 amateur photographers and astronomers.
The group of volunteer photographers were stationed along the entire path of totality of the eclipse stretching from Corvallis, Ore., to Charleston, S.C.
The teams from Google and Berkeley will stitch together the crowd-sourced photos to create a continuous view of the solar eclipse as it traversed the United States. The dataset from the so-called Eclipse Megamovie Project will be made available to the general public and to the scientific community for further research. The goal of the Megamovie initiative is to study how the sun's corona changes over time.
Microsoft has released a preview version of its Skype software for desktop PCs that owes much of its look and feel to the iOS and Android versions of the app.
"For Mac, Windows 10 November Update and lower, Windows 8, and Windows 7 users, Skype Preview delivers most of the great features of our next generation mobile experience, but is specifically designed with desktop in mind to take full advantage of the larger screen," blogged Microsoft representatives on Aug. 17.
In fact, the new Skype for desktop computers borrows a lot from its mobile incarnations. It inherits many of the streamlined, chat-centric interface elements that previously set apart the Skype mobile apps from their desktop counterparts.
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Peter Forsberg's competitive spirit continues…
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Peter Forsberg's competitive spirit continues off the ice
Peter Forsberg, left, enjoys a laugh with a fellow floor ball player.
The owner of Mamma Mia Pizzeria in Ornskoldsvik has a close relationship with many of the players coming from Modo hockey. Some of Peter Forsberg's jerseys are displayed above the dinner guests.
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By Adrian Dater | adater@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: November 15, 2014 at 1:06 pm | UPDATED: April 26, 2016 at 8:46 am
ORNSKOLDSVIK, Sweden — Peter Forsberg was in tears. He had just come home from a hockey game his team lost 8-7, and he was inconsolable.
"How many goals did you score?" his father, Kent, asked him.
"Seven," his 10-year-old son said.
Fast-forward 31 years, and while he dearly misses playing hockey for a living, Forsberg's life otherwise seems as good as it gets.
He is partial owner of NextJet airlines, which flies mostly from Stockholm to his hometown here. He owns a stake in Modo, the Swedish League team he grew up playing for. He owns a local luxury hotel and a golf course, among many other business ventures in the Ornskoldsvik area. He is the proud father of two children. He will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday night in Toronto.
Still, the former Avalanche star hasn't lost his competitive drive or his intolerance for losing. It's his essence.
After a recent 7-3 Modo loss to rival Skelleftea at the Fjallraven Center, Forsberg paced in misery inside his luxury box.
Losing as an owner is just as unbearable as it was when he trudged home as a 10-year-old.
"No effort," Forsberg said of his players while glaring into the distance. "It (ticks) me off."
His dad knows well how hard his son takes losing, having coached him from ages 14 to 21 for Modo teams.
"My wife could always tell if we had won or lost the game by just listening for Peter's car door when we got home," Kent Forsberg said. "A normal shut of the door meant we won. A loss, and he would slam the door very hard."
That passion helped drive Forsberg to a magical career with the Avalanche that included two Stanley Cup championships, regular-season and postseason scoring titles and a most valuable player award. He became a Swedish national hero in 1994 when he scored the shootout game-winning goal in the gold medal game of the Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, a shot commemorated on a Swedish postage stamp.
That same fire also led him to play a physical never-back-down style of hockey that undoubtedly shortened his career due to a slew of injuries. A recurring foot injury ended his career in 2011.
PHOTOS: Peters Forsberg to be inducted into the Hall of Fame
Forsberg thought his transition from player to part-owner might soften his temper over losses. No such luck. His fiancée, Nicole, found this out the hard way.
"Nicole asked me, 'OK, does the whole Saturday night depend on if Modo wins or not, if you're going to be in a good mood?' " Forsberg said. "And I'm like, yeah, I'm sorry, but it does. I just get too into it emotionally, even if I just sit there and watch."
But when there is no competition at stake, Forsberg typically is as calm as the waters of the main harbor that bisects this coastal city of about 55,000. Watching him a couple hours before Modo's game that night, eating at his favorite "O-vik" restaurant, you'd never guess this is one of the most competitive people ever to play hockey.
That fire-and-ice demeanor is the same as it always was for Forsberg, and so is his relationship with his hometown.
"He never stopped being one of us. He's the same person as when he was just a little guy, running around in my place," said Giordano Sternad, the owner of Mamma Mia Pizzeria, where Forsberg, his father and other friends dined before the game.
Gesturing toward Forsberg's table in the corner, Sternad said: "He's always been good with his friends. You see him there — quiet — doesn't make a show, both feet on the ground."
On the car ride over to the arena from Mamma Mia's, Forsberg motioned toward the harbor and the flickering lights of homes from the facing northern foothills they call the "High Coast."
"It's really nice for me to look at that and know I'm home," he said. "It always relaxes me. But the games are always tough for me."
Forsberg's older brother, Roger, makes a confession.
"I didn't think he was going to be like the player he became," said Roger, an information technology analyst. "When he started playing, he was not aggressive at all. He was smaller than a lot of guys."
Roger, a pretty good hockey player himself, coached his younger brother on some of the Modo youth teams, but said Peter was more into soccer than hockey as a young boy. One thing his big brother found out early was Peter's fierce distaste for losing.
"We would wrestle on the floor a lot," Roger said, "and me being the older brother, I was stronger and could win when I wanted to. But Peter just would not give up. Never. He would always keep coming back."
Gradually, Forsberg got more into hockey. By his early teens, it became his favorite sport. As he got bigger and stronger, he found he liked the physical nature of the game almost as much as scoring goals or setting them up with pretty passes.
Henrik Gradin, a Modo teammate of Forsberg's for two seasons and one of his close friends, remembers when he and others saw a transformation from a timid player near the age of 16 to a flying, physical force who had to win every battle for every puck.
"He was pretty small and not physical at all his first few years as a player," said Gradin, now an assistant coach with Modo.
"But then he started to just dominate when he got bigger. You used to be able to get the puck from him if you were bigger, but after a while nobody could get the puck from him. It was just impossible."
The better he became, the more opponents would test him physically. Forsberg always has been preternaturally calm off the ice — his friends kid him about his love of sleep and general lounging around — but even in the relatively mild Swedish leagues, Forsberg wouldn't let a big hit go without a reply.
"On the ice, you'd think I was crazy," Forsberg said. "When I was a kid, I was always yelling at the refs, and I wouldn't care if everybody in the stands hated me. I don't really know where that came from."
Kent Forsberg has a theory: "From his mom," he joked, before confessing it's a case of like father, like son.
"I was the same when I played soccer and ice hockey, too," Kent said. "I remember when I had an important soccer game as a young guy and we lost, and when I took the car home, I got out and just ran for an hour and a half around the neighborhood, just so mad about it."
After Modo was routed by Skelleftea, Forsberg's parents knew better than to linger trying to make small talk with their son. During the game, Kent pounded his hands several times on the table in front of his suite while his wife, Gudrun, occasionally shielded her eyes with her hands.
"I hope they wake up," Forsberg said of the players, before heading back to his hotel for the night.
Forsberg's previous plans for postgame beverages with others were a casualty of the outcome.
Forsberg today
During his NHL career, Forsberg made about $86 million in salary. He has several homes and lives the good life. He can do what he wants, when he wants. But he's also committed to giving back to Modo and his hometown.
When Modo last won the Swedish League championship, in 2007, Sternad said Forsberg called him at Mamma Mia's to order several bottles of expensive champagne for the team to celebrate.
"He does a ton of things around here that go unnoticed," Gradin said. "He's always buying tickets for children who otherwise couldn't come to games. He gives a lot to the youth teams."
Forsberg, along with friend and former Vancouver Canucks star Markus Naslund, founded a team of Swedish NHL players called "Icebreakers" that for years played games to benefit local charities. Friends know him for giving free airline tickets and hotel stays. He's also known as a huge tipper.
"Very much so," Sternad said. "He takes good care of our staff."
His mother doesn't speak much English and is shy around reporters. But she is proud that her son hasn't forgotten his Ornskoldsvik roots.
"Peter, he cares for the people here," she said. "He is still one of them."
Roger Forsberg was asked whether he's found it difficult being the brother of someone with such fame and fortune.
"We have never once had any problems between us. He never got bigheaded despite all his success. But succeeding at whatever he does is very important to him," Roger said.
That success continues, and the Hockey Hall of Fame awaits Monday night.
Coming Monday: Playing through the pain toward a Hall of Fame career.
Adrian Dater
Adrian Dater was the Colorado Avalanche writer for The Denver Post from 1995 until December 2014.
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It smells a bit of a pharmacy.
One of the most important things for me when choosing a good lotion, is that it gets absorbed fast. My apartment has a lot of windows (and way too few curtains) and I don't have time to walk around naked waiting for my lotion to dry..This lotion really doesn't let me down. I have to give it maximum 3 seconds to dry and I'm ready to go (whom am I kidding – I'm ready to run cause I'm always running late somewhere)..The result: my skin feels very smooth after use (I can feel a big difference after my first use), and the lotion is definitely "fat" enough to be used during the coldest months of the year. The bottle says you can use it on your face too – but I save my face for my sheet masks and serums..The minus: the smell, it smells a bit of a pharmacy, but luckily the smell doesn't linger on for too long.
Verdict: I think this lotion of wallet friendly since you need little per use, so the bottle lasts for a long time plus I like that it gives my skin hydration and makes it soft, but most importantly – that it gets absorbed very quick.
Makes my skin very soft after use – I almost don't need my body lotion after use (saves me soo much time).
So winter is here and my whole body is saying no to me by being extremely dry: my hair is very very dry, my eyes medium dry, my skin pretty dry (my humour not so dry…I think..or hope?). Anyways I'm doing everything I can to make it easier for me to get out of bed every day: I do my sheet masks, I do my hair masks, I do the fat body lotions and then of course the oils. But then I realised that I had a blind spot in my routine – my soaps (I have too many of them, don't even want to talk about it) – which I don't choose by their effect on my skin but by their smell (preferably rose, lemon or lavender). Soaps do dry out skin – it's common knowledge (read about why here), so I decided to try something new – to get a body soap which wouldn't require me using thick layers of body lotion after showering.
This Avene cleanser is soap free (I told you guys Avene is my safe place and where I head for my good basics), and leaves my skin feeling super hydrated. I think the price is fair considering a bottle is 400 ml and the only minus I see is that you need a lot per use. Of course I sometimes glance at my old soaps in the bath – missing their strong smell (which made me feel like a 100 year old lady with no sense for when enough perfume is enough), but knowing that I'm doing my skin some good makes me feel great, so I will not switch back until these epic months of extreme dryness are over.
Does nothing for my dry hands.
In my experience stuff from Clarins can either be a total hit or a total miss . For example I can't see my beauty routine without their flash balm – which is genius or their body lotion – which has saved my dry skin over and over again. But this hand cream turned out to be a complete disappointment. It smells nice, it sinks in pretty fast – but seriously within 10 minutes of application my hands feel extremely dry again – which is super annoying. Basically one can re-apply this cream all day long without any real results. I won't repurchase this one again.
I used up my 25 gram tube in just a week.
This week we are doing a double up on hand cream reviews…why? Because spring is just ain't arriving and our hands are soo darn dry. If you missed out on our first review check it out here. So what is the verdict on this Crabtree and Evelyn hand cream? First and foremost one can sense the difference after the first use, which is a big plus. The cream smells pleasantly but discreetly of roses, and it gets absorbed very fast which is its biggest plus. I hate sitting around waiting for my hand cream to get absorbed since I obviously always put on too much expecting miracles. If you hands are very dry (we are talking people thinking you are a 100 year old man when they see you hands and making them confused since hands don't match age of face) then you might to need an extra layer of coconut oil before you put on this cream for the big effect. Extra note: I already decided that pink will be the theme of my 2017 wardrobe therefore I'm extra happy that this tube matches the new tune of my life and brightens up the contents of my hand bag.
Doesn't dry out my skin.
My friend was going to sell her a apartment and as tradition entails she got this soap when getting pictures taken of her bathroom/kitchen to make it look a bit stylish/hipster/ buy-me-now worthy. She got obsessed and recommended it to me (or I washed my hand 10 times during a 2 hour visit and had to get myself my own soap)..
I'm no stranger to Swedish brand L:A Bruket (read previous reviews here and here) and generally like their things: they smell great, last for long and the packages are very stylish and make my life feel a bit more stylish in that minimalistic Scandi way. My best birthday gift this year was their Grapefruit candle which smells delicious and lasts for ages (and is painfully pricey which is why I would never give it to myself)…My verdict of this hand wash: smells fresh of lemongrass, doesn't dry out my skin, lasts for loooong (2-3 months) and for all you soap nerds out there: it's cheaper then Aesop (I know there is an expensive hand soap cult out there). Downside: expensive for a hand soap.
Makes my hands very soft.
The hand creams I have purchased this winter have really disappointed me, so I was happy when the winds changed (and my hands became softer..). This cream has a very strong smell, kind off a mix of old lady and hipp Chanel perfume. I like it, but then again – I like heavier smells. What Nantucket Brier really means still remains a mystery, after googling around without any real results I vision a big bush of flowers from Nantucket as the inspiration for the fragrance for this cream (I really don't know what my hands smell of do I). It sinks in a bit slowly and the price is a bit over my budget, but it leaves my hands very soft which is what matters to me. It doesn't contain parabens, mineral oils or colour which is a big plus for my hands. This is a very luxurious hand cream and I use it instead of perfume, and get compliments for the nice smell, which is a big plus.
No effect on dry hands what so ever.
I know I should not complain I got this hand cream for 5 dollars at Marshalls aka I bought it superduper much cheaper then what it costs – and for that price it is an ok purchase..or? Answer is blank no. Yes the cream smells pretty nice, and is a fresh wind to the clinical or super ultra feminine smell of most hand creams with its earthy bergamot notes, but seriously it doesn't do any good for my hands – at all. First and foremost, I have to apply it twice before even feeling any result. Secondly it takes ages to get absorbed. And thirdly – it doesn't work – my hands don't get hydrated when I use the cream at all. I have tried applying it – twice, and an hour later felt how my hands were dry again. Will not repurchase this one again obviously.
Is absorbed fast and makes my hands soft.
Mia Höytö is a Finish eco-certificated brand. It was created by Mia who is a beautician and an economist and has existed for the past 4 years. I stumbled upon this brand when reading about hot ecological Scandinavian beauty products and was intrigued.
This cream is made from organic oils (Sea buckthorn seed oil, argan oil, almond oil ) and extract (rosemary and oat). It promises to nurture your hands and make them soft. I like the clean design of the bottle, and them pump makes it very easy to not overdose on hand cream. The cream is absorbed very quickly and I can feel an instant result. Though when my hands are really dry the cream really has to be re-applied quit a few times to reach the desirable result. The smell of the cream is a bit special, though I can't really put my finger on it (it's neither fruity, sweet, or neutral but smells a bit chemical). Despite my dislike of the smell of this hand cream, I am excited about having found a new eco-friendly brand lead by a cool woman.


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Cannes Critics' Week unveils 2019 line-up
By Melanie Goodfellow2019-04-22T09:27:00+01:00
Source: Xilam
'I Lost My Body'
Cannes Critics' Week has unveiled the line-up for its 58th edition, running May 15-23.
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French-Colombian director Franco Lolli will open the parallel section, devoted to first and second films as well as shorts, with his contemporary drama Litigante.
The Bogotá-shot, character-driven tale revolves around a female lawyer facing a series of personal and professional challenges, including her mother's cancer diagnosis. It is Lolli's second feature after Gente De Bien, which premiered in Cannes Critics' Week in 2014.
"It's rare that we select a second film by someone who has already screened in Critics' Week but we were bowled over by this film," said artistic director Charles Tesson.
"There is an authenticity in the performances and situations lived by the female protagonist," he continued. "It's shot in Bogotá but the story could take place in any number of cities around the world today."
Emerging Chinese filmmaker Gu Xiaogang's debut feature, the contemporary family saga Dwelling In The Fuchun Mountains (Chun Jiang Shui Nuan), has been selected as the closing film.
"Gu Xiaogang finished film school three years ago. He's 30 years old. We didn't know much about him until an old contact sent us the film and now we do," said Tesson.
The film takes its title from one of China's most famous landscape paintings by 14th-century old master artist Huang Gongwang.
"It's the first film in a triptych revolving around three generations of a family. It's striking for the way in which it blends contemporary China with resonances of bygone China, as captured in its art and poetry," said Tesson.
Cannes reveals 2019 Official Selection
A total of 11 features, selected from 1,050 submissions, will premiere in the features line-up, seven of them in competition and four out of competition.
After last year's all-European selection, this year's competition line-up is more of an international mix, with features also hailing from North Africa, South America and Asia.
Tesson highlighted the fact that it was a strong year for North Africa with Algeria and Morocco represented respectively by Amin Sidi-Boumédiène's psychological thriller Abou Leila and Alaa Eddine Aljem's comedy-drama The Unknown Saint.
"These two films break with the aesthetic traditions of the region, which tend to be more classical and realistic. Abou Leila is an ambitious film that has the feel of an American Western and buddy movie rolled into one, unfolding against the backdrop of the desert – it's not the sort of film you expect to see out of Algeria," said Tesson.
He also noted that the French feature in competition this year is an animation – Jérémy Clapin's I Lost My Body (J'ai Perdu Mon Corps), about an amputated hand which goes in search of its body.
Two French productions will premiere as out of competition Special Screenings: Aude-Léa Rapin's Sarajevo-set tale Heroes Don't Die and actress Hafsia Herzi's love story Tu Mérites Un Amour.
Heroes Don't Die is Rapin's debut feature after a number of award-winning shorts including Ton Coeur Au Hasard, which won the grand prix at the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival in 2015 and also screened at Rotterdam.
Adèle Haenel stars as a budding filmmaker whose friend, played by Jonathan Couzinié, believes he is the reincarnation of a man who died in the Yugoslav War. They set off for Sarajevo with plans to make a documentary about their search for his grave.
"It's highly original for a French production, both in its non-French setting and the storyline," said Tesson. "It's an unclassifiable and surprising film."
Tu Mérites Un Amour is the directorial debut of actress Herzi, who is best known for her collaborations with Abdellatif Kechiche in Couscous (Le Grain Et Le Mulet) and his more recent Mektoub features.
Tesson revealed that Herzi had made the film under the radar on a tiny budget.
"Nobody knew this film existed," said Tesson. "She texted me a few months ago to say she had shot the feature with friends and long-time collaborators. We were all very touched by it – it is well-directed."
Shorts Selection
A total of 15 shorts will also play in Cannes Critics, selected from 1,605 submissions. Ten will play in competition while the other five will play across two Special Screening programmes.
"The films in the short competition are reserved for directors who have not made features," explained Tesson. "The Special Screening programmes are for the filmmakers who've had a short film in Critics' Week in the past, such as Moin Hussain, or people who have made a feature and then returned to shorts."
Hussain - a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2018 - screened his second short Real Gods Require Blood in Critics' Week at Cannes 2017 and returns with his third short Naptha, a sci-fi tale set against the backdrop of petrol station.
It plays in the first shorts Special Screening programme reserved for films with a fantasy element alongside Pia Borg's documentary Demonic and Brandon Cronenberg's Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You.
The second programme features two shorts revolving around subjects living outside the mainstream but with strongly pertinent views of reality.
Filmmakers with shorts in competition are also eligible to participate in Critics' Week Next Step programme, aimed at supporting directors as they work towards their first feature.
Jury and Prizes
Colombian filmmaker Ciro Guerra is presiding over the jury this year. Prizes include Nespresso Grand Prize and The Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for feature films and the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for short films.
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CANNES CRITICS WEEK LINE-UP 2019
Litigante, Franco Lolli
CLOSING FILM
Dwelling In The Fuchun Mountains (Chun Jiang Shui Nuan), Xiaogang Gu
FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
Abou Leila, Amin Sidi-Boumédiène
Land Of Ashes (Ceniza Negra), Sofía Quirós Ubeda
A White, White Day (Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur), Hlynur Pálmason
I Lost My Body (J'ai perdu mon corps), Jérémy Clapin
Our Mothers (Nuestras Madres), César Díaz
The Unknown Saint, Alaa Eddine Aljem
Vivarium, Lorcan Finnegan
Heroes Don't Die (Les Héros Ne Meurent Jamais), Aude Léa Rapin
Tu Mérites Un Amour, Hafsia Herzi
SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
Party Day (Dia De Festa), Sofia Bost
The Trap (Fakh), Nada Riyadh
Ikki Illa Meint, Andrias Høgenni
Journey Through A Body, Camille Degeye
Community Gardens (Kolektyvinai Sodai), Vytautas Katkus
Lucía En El Limbo, Valentina Maurel
The Manila Lover, Johanna Pyykkö
Tuesday From 8 To 6 (Mardi De 8 à 18), Cecilia de Arce
She Runs, Qiu Yang
The Last Trip To The Sea (Ultimul Drum Spre Mare), Adi Voicu
SHORT FILMS SPECIAL SCREENING 1
Demonic, Pia Borg
Naptha, Moin Hussain
Please Speak Continuously And Describe Your Experiences As They Come To You, Brandon Cronenberg
Invisible Hero (Invisível Herói), Cristèle Alves Meira
Tenzo, Katsuya Tomita
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'Shirley', starring Elisabeth Moss, among films in the new competitive strand.
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Blanchett headed the Cannes competition jury in 2018.
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Opening statments expected to take place on Wednesday (January 22).


- At 2 today, Steve Roddy will be on a panel on mobile SoC designs. In this session, moderated by Joe Byrne, presenters will discuss new IP cores and how they can be implemented in mobile system-on-a-chip designs.
- At 4:30 today, Tensilica will be demonstrating our HiFi Audio DSP.
- At 1:30 tomorrow (Wednesday), Dror Maydan, our director of software, will be presenting "Emerging Voice and Audio Requirements for SmartPhones."


We partner with Stop Hunger Now to provide nutritionally balanced meals to each student every school day. Having worked with Stop Hunger Now for a number of years, the Partnership has helped fund 1300 meals a day for St. André's students and staff. Beginning the evening before by soaking beans that are added to the SHN packets, a team of ten staff members prepares the day's meal. The smell of woodsmoke and garlic signals the start of the cooks' day at 4am. By 11:00, three stations have been set up around the school to begin feeding the children.
The students eat in their classrooms. For the older children, the process is chaotic as they dig through used plates and utensils at the serving stations for a spoon or fork. For the younger children who eat in their classrooms, lunchtime is more orderly because the cooks deliver the food to their rooms. For some, it is the only meal of their day.
We know that ideally, our nutrition program would be most beneficial to the greater community of Haiti if we could locally source the meals. We have yet to find a reliable and nutritionally comparable local option. We are grateful to Stop Hunger Now for helping us meet the nutritional needs of our students.
I like this program. Thank you for helping these kids with food. most the time they go to school with out any food, and they cannot focus on any subject. The only sugession I have it will be good if we can help these kids with a long term food security wich is teaching them how to produce the local foo so tha they won't need to depend on food donation all the time. Ginving them a meal daily it is not sustainable.Thank you very much.
You are absolutely correct. The answer is to provide opportunity to grow ones own food. However, our focus has always been on primary and secondary education. We have not been able to raise funds beyond this goal as the school is constantly growing, we now have 1200 students. If there were farmers who could coordinate to provide the food for our school, we could buy the food for lunches locally. This is better than buying from a US ngo. However, we have not found such a resource in Haiti. Progress is slow but we see it happening and we pray for better opportunities for all the families in Haiti. Until then, we do what we can to prepare the children to be educated leaders in the future.


It's the best Saturday postal delivery ever!
In a small brown box, six copies of North Georgia Moonshine arrived via my postman in his little red Jeep. The first copies to see the light of day. They were all mine.
Surely, I would rip open the box, but no. It was a slow, savoring process. Securely wrapped in brown paper was the dividend of my last year. I touched, and as any book lover will do, I smelled. Then, I turned to my favorite parts. True, there were sections I wrote because I had to, but then there were the sections I wrote because it was the natural story. The narratives that painted a picture of a man and his legacy. A memory. A history. A story. If pushed, I probably could recite the entire book; I can't count the times I have read the finished book in one sitting. However, my favorite sections still give me chills. As a writer, you know when you nail a line, when the words are balanced in order and time. I nailed quite a few. I still read and ask, "Did I write that? Man, that sounds good."
It was just about this time last year that I switched from low to high gear and began working night and day putting words on the page that would tell a man's life story. It was a real test. This time, no procrastinating would be possible for I had signed on the dotted line. I had to do what I had never done before - finish the book.
I interviewed scores of people, recorded thousands of hours of interviews (and then transcribed them all), read dozens of books, drove thousands of miles to find experts, scoured through archives and captured thousands of photographs - all in the hopes that each little tidbit would contribute to the final story. Some did. Some did not. To this day, evidence of work remains: a tower of books sit on the floor beside my desk, a crate of notes and rough drafts shoved underneath the far corner of my desk, hundreds of files remain on my hard drive. What do I do with them now?
I am proud of the story and the finished product. It was hard work, probably some of the hardest work I've ever done. I hope those involved will feel the same; if not, I still have to be proud of myself, happy with the chapters I wrote, the stories I told, the photographs I captured of a family whose story is fleeting. The story, both the good and bad parts, is complete. And that's all any writer can hope for - a complete story. I have come full circle, and I am a better person that I was a year ago. Not that I'm a better person, but I have fulfilled something that was nothing more than a dream before. I finished the book.
I am a writer; better yet, I am an author. I did it. Yes, Judy, you did it. Enjoy this moment.
I love what I do. I travel. I discover stories. I weave tales that allow lives of complete strangers to become an active part of our lives, to change us, to inspire us. Sometimes for the bad, most of the time for the good. Last weekend, we visited the Smoky Mountains. They aren't my North Georgia Mountains, but darn sure close. The temperature drop in the air awakens a dreamer inside me, releasing excitement, evoking memories and charting courses.
We were scheduled to experience a first: synchronous fireflies. After one bump, there came another which shocked me more than the first. Let me set the scene: a curvy, muddy mountain trail after dark when even the sight of your hand is impossible. It's a touch thing. At the beginning, it's a flashlight thing.
We maneuvered our way towards the trailhead, Len with a headlamp and I with a flashlight. We quickly realized the headlamp was a no-no, so dark it went. My flashlight remained on, steadied on my feet, lighting the path until we move some 100 yards further, find a spot, plant our gear, and enjoy the show.
Holding on tightly to Len to avoid a face-plant, my eyes picked up on a woman darting toward me, reaching for my flashlight. "I know you can hear me," she said with such anger. "Turn that thing off." Len quickly pulled me back from her, and without saying what we wanted to say, made our way into the night.
We were excited, and at that moment, I allowed that woman to deflate my experience. Such anger and bossiness from a woman who was the self-appointed firefly queen. We knew the lights had to go off, but let me get to where I'm going without injury. It's not like there's only ONE firefly for ONE moment, and for sure, we're weren't the youngest whipper-snappers on the trail. Did she chastise everyone? Did she grab for other lights? She was rude, disrespectful, and I'm sure the fireflies thought so, too. She was a blemish (on the Park, on the community, on the experience) that needed to be popped!
I thought about her the next day as we toured the historic buildings along the Roaring Fork River Trail in Gatlinburg . . . seeing carvings, permanent marker script shouting "I've been here" . . . all you're leaving behind is proof of your ignorance.
Be polite. Be respectful. Especially when you're not on your home turf. You leave a scar with every word and mark you leave behind. In essence, when your hurt someone else - when you mouth off at someone - when you deface property - you hurt yourself. There doesn't have to be an ugly side. Forget about that . . . I know you heard me, firefly queen.


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Darth Bane Trilogy
Drew Karpyshyn
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This series follows the life of Sith Lord Darth Bane. From humble beginnings as a soldier to one of the most legendary Dark Lords of the Sith, Darth Bane is a powerful enemy and a compelling character in Star Wars storytelling. Bane works to unite the Sith, and eventually the galaxy, by masterminding the plan for a reborn Sith Empire through the Rule of Two. This trilogy begins with Bane's rocky rise to power, follows with his quest for the perfect apprentice and journey to attain Force mastery, and ultimately takes him on a relentless path to establish an eternal legacy—at first in the creation of his own holocron and eventually in a dangerous attempt with Sith sorcery to attain eternal life! No prior reading is required for this one! But the events and locations from the 2003 Game of the Year, Knights of the Old Republic, are referenced heavily. The reason for this is that the author, Drew Karpyshyn, was the lead writer on the game. Bane journeys to the home of the extinct Rakatan people, where he discovers a holocron of Darth Revan, thentrains at the Sith Academy on Korriban. All of these moments pay off if you've lived in that world through the video game, but aren't necessary to understand and enjoy the book. The Bane Trilogy builds on the Sith history established in the Tales of the Jedi comics from Dark Horse. The Sith have a long history of infighting and backstabbing. Bane rediscovers the lore of the Dark Lords of the ancient past and finds the future of the Sith in a return to the ways of the past. Dark Lords of the Sith would be a good volume to check out. In a weird instance of Legends continuity, the third act of Path of Destruction ties in to two previously published pieces of Star Wars lore. The 2001 Dark Horse comic miniseries Jedi Vs. Sith established the events of the planet Ruusan, which is retold in this book. Over a thousand years forward in the Legends timeline, Kyle Katarn travels to Ruusan and learns of the events with Bane and the Sith, which is detailed in Dark Forces: Jedi Knight. The Bane Trilogy is a Legends staple, and isn't a far cry from being canonical since Bane's ghost makes an appearance in Clone Wars Season 6. It's a rarity for a series to be told from the villain's perspective, a definite must-read for those drawn to the dark side. At Youtini, we've got Path of Destruction in our foundational five books—it's that good! Part of why the Bane books work so well is that he's surrounded by an interesting cast of characters—both Jedi and Sith. You'll root for Bane to weed out the less competent Sith who are more image-obsessed and petty. At the same time, the series will have you pulling for the Jedi like Rohlan Hoth and Valenthyne Farfalla. Karpyshyn succeeds in keeping you on your toes, dividing your loyalties as you decide who's most deserving of coming out on top in any given scenario. This is an extremely cohesive trilogy with one author taking us all the way through the series, telling one overarching story about Bane's Rule of Two. If antiheroes, compelling villains, or KOTOR are your thing, this is the series for you.
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Teen Boy Arrested for Impersonating a Peace Officer, Again
Officers found uniform shirts decorated with San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department patches, a metal badge and uniform pants during a probation check
By Hannah Preston
Published Jul 12, 2018 at 1:54 PM | Updated at 1:29 PM PDT on Jul 13, 2018
Victorville Police Department
The 14-year-old boy was arrested March 6, 2018 for impersonating an officer.
Victorville Police Department deputies found items in the boy's home that indicating the teen was in violation of his probation.
The boy is currently booked at High Desert Juvenile Department.
A 14-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday morning after violating his probation.
The teen also was arrested in March for impersonating an officer.
The Victorville Police Department responded to a call from San Bernardino County Juvenile Probation Officers shortly after 11 a.m. to assist with the boy's probation-check. Police arrived at the 12400 block of Kirkwood Drive, and discovered numerous items that showed the teen was impersonating a peace officer once again.
Officers found uniform shirts decorated with San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department patches, a metal badge and uniform pants.
14-Year-Old Accused of Impersonating Police Officer
A teenage boy was arrested on suspicion of impersonating a police officer in Victorville. Tony Shin reports for NBC4 News on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 6 p.m.
(Published Wednesday, March 7, 2018)
The 14-year-old was arrested and is currently booked at High Desert Juvenile Detention Center in Apple Valley.
It wasn't immediately clear whether there were any victims in the most recent case.
Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact the Victorville Police Department at 760-241-2911. If you wish to remain anonymous, call the We-Tip Hotline at 800-782-7463 or leave information on their website.
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Autograph Collection Hotels has announced that the brand is expected to debut in Belize with the 2020 opening of Alaia, a luxury boutique resort located near the southern part of Ambergris Caye island.
Alaia will join the 135 independent hotels in the brand's collection. The Autograph Collection Hotels is part of Marriott International, Inc. and includes hotels in nearly 30 countries and territories.
Situated in the historic town of San Pedro, Alaia broke ground at the end of 2017 with a launch plan of five phases. The beachfront resort will feature 56 two-bedroom condominiums with lock off option and eight oceanfront villas, totaling 120 keys when completed in 2020.
When completed, Alaia will offer a beach club exclusive to guests and residents, a rooftop suspended pool and lounge with ocean views, a spa, a fitness center, a kids club, a dive shop and a live art gallery.


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The New Wine
RICHARD P. VERRALL
There is profound metaphysical significance in the Master's parable of the new wine and the old bottles, especially when the circumstances which brought it forth are taken into account. The Pharisees, who identified themselves with everything that was orthodox in religion, naturally resented a new teaching which claimed superiority over their own. The new dispensation of spiritual power which Christ Jesus introduced with such convincing signs of healing, was of course the new wine which is referred to in the parable, and which at the last supper he spoke of as "my blood of the new testament." This vital force could not be safely put into the "old bottles" of Judaic teaching, but must have a more receptive place in which to repose. The twelve disciples had been chosen expressly for this purpose, but of these one utterly failed to meet the required test.
The effect of the new wine of spiritual truth, as it animated the thoughts and took form in the acts of the apostles, was shown forth in a great demonstration of spiritual power on the day of Pentecost. So imbued were the disciples with the Holy Spirit that on that day thousands were converted to Christianity. Some of the bystanders, however, failing to understand the cause of the spiritual exaltation of the speakers, supposed them to be intoxicated.
The Right Mental Picture
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