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The timing for "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" to return is doubly right. A digitally restored version opened at the Brattle on Christmas Day and runs through Monday. Next year marks the 50th anniversary of Jacques Demy's legendary musical, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and the final sequence takes place at Christmastime. As spun-sugar holiday treats go, "Umbrellas" is hard to resist.
The movie sounds like nothing special in outline. Geneviève, 17, works in her mother's umbrella shop. She loves Guy, 20, an auto mechanic, who loves her right back. Guy lives with his godmother — a reminder that we're watching a fairy tale. Except that reality intrudes. Guy's draft notice arrives. The year is 1957, and this being France, he's off to fight in Algeria. That's not the only bit of seriousness in the movie. There's also a funeral, two marriages, and two births. Change a few particulars, and the plot could belong to hundreds of other stories — and millions of lives.
Yet how the movie sounds is the first thing that's special about it. "Umbrellas" is entirely sung. "I don't like operas/ Movies are better," Guy sings before taking Geneviève to a performance of "Carmen." The joke is funny since, of course, he's in a movie and it's also an opera. Even the most banal dialogue gets sung. But that's the point: Michel Legrand's music exalts every word, the way love exalts life and beauty exalts appearance.
Beauty is the second thing that's special about "Umbrellas." Geneviève is played by Catherine Deneuve in full, fabulous bloom. Watching her, one thinks it's possible that motion pictures were invented for the purpose of putting this woman on screen. She's even more beautiful than the classic songs Legrand wrote for the movie, "I Will Wait for You" and "Watch What Happens." Forget the dialogue. Deneuve's complexion sings, too. Danielle Licari dubs her voice, not that you'd notice.
It's not just Deneuve's look that sets apart "Umbrellas" but the look of the whole film. The vibrancy of the solid blocks of background color that Demy uses is almost as startling as the sung dialogue. There are pink walls, red walls, lavender walls, blue walls, green walls, variously striped walls. A lampshade is lemonade-yellow, and a workman's overalls electric blue. As a piece of art direction "Umbrellas" isn't color coordinated. It's color inundated.
What prevents chromatic overload is the way Demy keeps his camera in near-constant motion, not unlike the soundtrack. Guy and Geneviève go dancing one night — "A mambo!" she announces — but it's the camera that's terpsichorean. The look of "Umbrellas" is every bit as headlong and buoyant as its sound. When Guy departs from Cherbourg station to be inducted into the army, the camera tracks alongside the train, leaving Deneuve behind on the platform. It's emotionally crushing — and visually thrilling.
"Umbrellas" is unashamedly slight, and while the slightness is much of the pleasure, it does make for eventual sagging. Part of the sagginess is owing to Marc Michel, as M. Cassard, Guy's older, prosperous rival for Geneviève. You keep waiting for that fuzzy-caterpillar mustache to crawl off his face and turn into a butterfly. Even so, his presence is a nice referential touch. Michel had played the same character three years before, in Demy's first film, "Lola."
In fact, "Umbrellas" can be seen as the linking title in a trilogy. Demy's next film, "The Young Girls of Rochefort," reunites him with Legrand for a musical set in a small French port. "Rochefort" is more traditional, with spoken dialogue and dance sequences — including the glorious "Pair of Twins" number (Deneuve and her sister Francoise Dorleac being the pair in question). It also features what may be Legrand's loveliest melody, "You Must Believe in Spring," and, hooray for Hollywood, none other than Gene Kelly. So if you enjoy "Umbrellas" as a belated Christmas present at the Brattle, you should think about firing up the DVD player to celebrate New Year's with "Rochefort."Mark Feeney can be reached at email@example.com.


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New EMC VSPEX Solution Transforms Virtualized Microsoft SharePoint Environments
VSPEX Helps Customers Tune SharePoint Storage Performance in 80% Less Time, Shorten SharePoint Provisioning by 4X, and Reduce Backup Storage by 10-30X; EMC Announces Enhanced VSPEX Private Cloud and End User Solutions
Jan 10, 2013, 12:40 EST
HOPKINTON, Mass., Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
News Summary:
EMC® today announced:
- New EMC VSPEX™ Proven Infrastructure configurations for virtualized SharePoint environments accelerate deployment and adoption.
- VSPEX is based on best-of-breed storage, virtualization, server and network technology.
- When used with EMC's award-winning unified storage and backup and recovery technologies in a virtualized SharePoint environment, VSPEX can help customers tune SharePoint storage performance in 80% less time, shorten SharePoint provisioning by 4X, and reduce time to manage backup by 81%.
- According to the latest end-user study from IDC¹, more SharePoint was deployed on EMC storage than any other technology vendor.
- EMC also announced updates for all 14 of the original VSPEX configurations to ensure customers can choose from the latest technology when deploying their VSPEX, as well as an online education and sales enablement center and simplified technical documentation for partners.
Full Story:
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced new EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure configurations optimized for virtualized Microsoft SharePoint environments. VSPEX provides customers the power to choose the hypervisor, server, and network technology they prefer to go along with EMC's award-winning VNX® and VNXe® unified storage and EMC Data Domain®, EMC Avamar® and EMC NetWorker® backup and recovery solutions to address the uniqueness of their SharePoint environments. The simple, efficient and flexible VSPEX for SharePoint configuration can scale from 1,000 users up to 10,000 users and can be used with all of the private cloud solutions in the VSPEX catalog. Since its April 2012 launch, EMC partners have sold hundreds of VSPEX, which offer a wide variety of configurations enabling channel partners to accommodate a diverse range of customer deployment preferences. Today EMC also announced updates for all 14 of the original VSPEX configurations to ensure customers can choose from the latest technology when deploying their VSPEX, as well as an online education and sales enablement center and simplified technical documentation for partners.
Organizations implement SharePoint to improve internal and external productivity and collaboration. For many customers, SharePoint is often deployed in a highly distributed model that can result in significant data growth, management complexity and isolated islands of information and infrastructure. VSPEX Proven Infrastructure for virtualized SharePoint environments enables customers to confidently consolidate or deploy new SharePoint environments and leverage the power of virtualization to lower costs and simplify management. VSPEX includes EMC's award-winning unified storage systems, which according to IDC¹ are most preferred by SharePoint customers over other vendors.
Available in early 2013 exclusively through partners in the EMC Velocity™ partner program, the new EMC VSPEX for SharePoint simplifies infrastructure design and deployment so partners can focus on rapidly consolidating existing or deploying new SharePoint environments for their customers. VSPEX enables EMC and Microsoft's mutual customers to take advantage of the power of SharePoint so they can more quickly respond to business and competitive requirements.
VSPEX in Virtualized SharePoint Environments: Efficient, Easy to Manage, Powerful
VSPEX Proven Infrastructure for virtualized SharePoint is designed for customers looking to consolidate storage and infrastructure and lower costs associated with SharePoint use cases such as Document Repository (file shares replacement) and Enterprise Content Management. With VSPEX, customers can realize greater efficiency, flexibility, higher availability, faster and simplified backup and recovery and reduce TCO. VSPEX provides Microsoft customers and others a choice of industry leading virtualization technologies for their private cloud Infrastructures.
EMC unified storage solutions deliver predictable performance and significantly reduce the planning, sizing and configuration burdens of adopting a private cloud environment. EMC backup and recovery solutions leverage industry-leading deduplication technologies to significantly reduce backup storage requirements and enable fast, reliable data protection.
Validated in tests and studies conducted by EMC and leading industry analyst firms, these technologies combined in VSPEX can help users in virtualized SharePoint environments:
- tune SharePoint storage performance in 80% less time
- shorten SharePoint provisioning by 4X with EMC Storage Integrator (ESI)
- accelerate SQL Server transactions per second by 4X
- cut time to manage backup by 81%
- reduce backup storage by 10-30X
EMC Extends VSPEX Value for Customers and Partners with Enhanced Solutions, New Enablement Center, and Simplified Technical Documentation
- New Technical Integration – To ensure customers can choose from the latest technology when deploying their VSPEX EMC announced today that the original VSPEX Private Cloud and End User Computing solutions are now updated with VMware vSphere 5.1, Windows Server 2012, EMC FAST™ Cache, EMC FAST VP, and specific to the VSPEX End User Computing solutions, RSA SecurID® two-factor authentication. Click here for a complete list of the latest VSPEX offerings.
- New Online VSPEX Enablement Center for Partners – EMC Velocity partners can now easily access information about becoming a VSPEX-enabled partner. Current VSPEX-enabled partners can use the enablement center to help identify the best solution to address customer challenges, as well other resources to support their VSPEX sales and development efforts such as reference architectures, solution overviews, training, vLabs, and instructional videos.
- Simplified VSPEX Technical Documentation – Technical documentation for the VSPEX Private Cloud and VSPEX End User Computing solutions are now delivered as a single document – The VSPEX reference architecture, sizing guide and deployment guide are now a single document that can be accessed on EMC Community Network here.
Customer Quote:
Nigel Farr, Client Services Director, Equiniti ICS
"Consolidating and virtualizing SharePoint and other mission-critical applications on an EMC VNX unified storage solution has helped Equiniti ICS deliver our hosted services customers improved performance, agility, reduced costs, increased data protection, and rapid recovery. EMC's ability to address our quality of services requirements has also enabled us to provide these customers with a confident solution that's simple and efficient. Solutions like VSPEX will make our future deployments easier."
Reseller Quote:
Tony Jimenez, President & CEO, MicroTech
"SharePoint is a mission-critical application that our customers rely on for many things, such as sharing ideas and expertise so they can make the right decisions for their business. All of this collaboration results in data that needs to be managed, secure, and highly-available in the cloud. Our customers like VSPEX because it's simple, efficient, and it gives them the flexibility they need for their unique IT requirements. Another added benefit is that the customer can rely on their value-added reseller to configure a customized, complete VSPEX solution that can be deployed in no time. We believe VSPEX will gain significant momentum in virtualized SharePoint environments because it's based on EMC unified storage and backup and recovery technologies that can help them significantly reduce backup storage and tune and provision SharePoint in less time."
EMC Quote:
Jeremy Burton, Executive Vice President, Product Operations and Marketing, EMC Corporation
"EMC VSPEX is a simple, efficient, and flexible reference architecture optimized for the most popular use cases for customers moving to cloud computing. Virtualized SharePoint has become a mission-critical application and therefore needs to be managed and protected – the new EMC VSPEX for SharePoint enables customers to accelerate their IT transformation with faster deployments, simplified management, backup, and storage provisioning while decreasing data volume, lowering the cost and complexity of management as well as data security and governance risk."
Additional Resources:
- Read about EMC Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint
- Join the VSPEX conversation on EMC Community Network
- Learn more about VSPEX
- EMC Everything Microsoft Community
- Learn more about partnering with EMC
- Learn more about Microsoft at www.microsoft.com
- Follow @EMCVSPEX on Twitter
- Join the #EMCChannel conversations on Twitter.
- Connect with EMC via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and ECN
About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com
1 IDC, "IDC's Storage Users Demand Survey 2011 - Fall Edition: Customers Still Want Choice, #234651
EMC, Avamar, Data Domain, FAST, NetWorker, RSA, SecureID, Velocity, VNX, VNXe and VSPEX are either registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iii) the relative and varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and mixture of product and services revenues; (iv) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures and new product introductions; (v) component and product quality and availability; (vi) fluctuations in VMware, Inc.'s operating results and risks associated with trading of VMware stock; (vii) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product offerings and rapid technological and market change; (viii) risks associated with managing the growth of our business, including risks associated with acquisitions and investments and the challenges and costs of integration, restructuring and achieving anticipated synergies; (ix) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (x) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (xi) fluctuating currency exchange rates; (xii) threats and other disruptions to our secure data centers or networks; (xiii) our ability to protect our proprietary technology; (xiv) war or acts of terrorism; and (xv) other one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
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Recently, Fremont was recognized by our district for making significant gains in "Closing the Achievement Gap" ; and well as making "10% or higher growth on the SBAC "(Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium). In each of these categories, Fremont was awarded $10,000.00 for a total of $20,000.00!
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I would like to personally invite and welcome parents become actively involved in your child's education by joining the Fremont Parent Teacher Association (PTA). The Fremont PTA has a wide variety of activities to support the students - so feel free to attend our first meeting on September 12th at 6:30 p.m. in the Fremont Auditorium. For more information, you can go to: firstname.lastname@example.com .
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Another way to provide support is simply by checking your child's backpack and looking for homework folders or student agendas that have assignments. Although these things may seem small, they help to solidify the partnership between the school and home. When the partnership between our Fremont staff and the family is strong…student achievement is strengthened and accelerated.
I am looking forward to an exciting and productive school year of supporting all students in our continued quest for academic excellence. Thank you for my warm welcome to Fremont.
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Monday mornings I sort through the weekend's long trail of
emails. As part of this routine, I receive my weekly search results
on "chemoreception" from pubmed.gov-- an online database of
biomedical publications. Usually I scan the titles and chalk it up
to a "read later" file in my head- not today.
Today, there was one title that really caught my eye,
"Functional Bitter Taste Receptors are Expressed in Brain Cells." I
clicked on the link to read the abstract, crossing my fingers that
I had access to the full paper (sometimes publishers don't allow
open access for up to a year after publication).
It turns out, it's not the newest of news, as the study was
published in March, but it's new to me because my search filter
only pulled it up today, a good 2 months late for some reason. I
read on with interest and found that the study was done in rats,
and the scientists show evidence that yes in fact, at least in
rats, the animals have bitter receptors that in their brains that
when they bind bitter chemicals, it activates the cell.
What's interesting will be to see if there are taste cells in
the brain that are similar to taste cells in the tongue (within
taste buds, shown on the left) and to the taste cells that have
been found in the digestive system (shown on the right). Both of
these cell types are shown below with the signalling pathways that
occur once the cell is activated by a taste molecule. (This image
is from a paper published by David E. Cummings and Joost Overduin
in 2007.)
I don't have access to the full paper "Functional Bitter Taste
Receptors are Expressed in Brain Cells", but the authors indicate
that they discuss the physiological relevance of this in their
results section. I don't know much about the anatomy of rats, so I
can't guess what the authors discuss, but it is important to note
that although mice and rats are studied to understand mammalian
biology, and although there are many genes that are similar between
these groups, results in one species does not necessarily mean you
will find the same results in another species. This point that was
made clear in the recent AChemS (Association for Chemoreception
Sciences) meeting I attended in April, where even distinct
differences between mice and rats in terms of taste and smell were
discussed. So it is unclear at this point if mice or even humans
also have bitter receptors in their brains.
I want to also note that these authors were not at AChemS, and
so I don't have any insight from the meeting on the general feel
for this new discovery among other taste and smell scientists. I
did a quick to search on Bing to see if the story had been picke
dup elsewhere, but I couldn't find any other information. If I
learn more from my colleagues at the Rocky Mountain Taste and Smell
Center, I will put it up on the blog as a follow up post.
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CHAPEL HILL – The UNC BOG recognized our former Governor James Holshouser and honored his life with an award in his name. UNC System President Tom Ross says Holshouser was a great leader and influenced many.
"This University and our entire state lost a consummate public servant, a source of infinite wisdom and a true statesman, this summer with the passing of Jim Holshouser" Ross stated.
Holshouser served as Governor of North Carolina from 1973 to 1977. He also served on the Board of Governors for the UNC system for more than 30 years where many members have said they valued his thoughts and practices.
"I always told people that Governor Holshouser should have been named Mr. E.F. Hutton, because when he spoke truly everyone listened" Ross said "in word and indeed he personified the true meaning of statesmanship and servant leadership, and our university had no greater friend or stronger ally."
To honor Holshouser the BOG voted to change the name of their public service award to the Governor Holshouser award for excellence in public service. This award was originally created in 2007 to encourage, identify, recognize, and reward public service by faculty of the University. Holshouser exemplified many of the characteristics that this award represents. BOG member Peter Hans says words do not describe the loss of Holshouser.
"President mentioned in his remarks, we lost a giant in June, and a man who epitomizes public service" Hans commented.
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Committed to recognizing and supporting the important scholarship undertaken by Lewis & Clark faculty, and the invaluable opportunities that research experiences provide for students, President Glassner is making funds available from the Strategic Initiative Fund to faculty members in all three schools to employ students as research assistants during the academic year 2011/2012.
The aim of this initiative is twofold: to support faculty research and creative activity, and to give greater numbers of students on all three campuses the experience of collaborative research or creative work.
Under the terms of the program, faculty members may have funds to compensate currently matriculating students to perform research-related duties, ranging from gathering research materials to co-authoring or co-creating the final product of a scholarly or creative project. The key requirement is that students be involved in a clearly identified scholarly or creative project and perform tasks the researcher or artist would ordinarily undertake.
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If you've been using Outlook Web App for a while, you may notice some recent changes. Outlook Web App has been upgraded with new features and new ways to manage your mailbox. For a quick introduction of how to get around in Outlook Web App, see Getting started in Outlook Web App.
Note: Some of the features described here may not be available for your account.
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New features for your account
Navigation has moved to an upper corner. Use the links in the upper corner to switch to different types of information.
Jump to your personal information with one click. Click your name in the upper corner, and then click Change to update your information. If instant messaging is enabled, you can also change your status here.
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Offline access through the latest web browsers. See Using Outlook Web App offline to learn more.
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Region's small biz community takes stock of health exchange
By Thursday evening, Michael Toledo was still waiting to hear back from his insurance guy.
"I called him this morning, but he never got back to me," said Toledo, who's general manager of Stamford's Auto Tech Foreign Car Service, which specializes in repairing Audis, Jaguars and other international cars.
"He sounds pretty busy," Toledo added. "He's trying to figure out the impact (of the Affordable Care Act) on all his customers."
That could take a while. This past Tuesday, the state launched Access Health CT, a health insurance exchange mandated by the new federal law. While three Connecticut companies had enrolled in the marketplace by Friday, Auto Tech Foreign Car Service was not one of them -- at least for now.
The 44-year-old firm has 17 workers, most of whom receive health benefits -- because that helps attract talent, Toledo explained, and it's long been considered something of a moral duty.
"But it's a huge expense, one of our bigger bills," he added. "We're hopeful that with increased competition we'll have more choices, but we haven't heard anything yet."
"It's still sort of a wait and see," he said.
Across Southwestern Connecticut, managers of small businesses -- the overwhelming majority of this state's firms, which employ nearly half its workers -- are finally confronting what the impact on their bottom line will be from perhaps the largest piece of legislation in recent memory. But for all the noisy national debate of recent years -- to say nothing of all the public forums, Webinars and piles of papers produced in recent months to make sense of it -- the prevailing air among regional small business leaders this past week was that of confusion.
"No one understands how it works," said Jack Condlin, president and CEO of the Stamford Chamber of Commerce. Asked what he'd tell a small business owner seeking help, he added: "I'd say, `Go talk to your legal adviser.'"
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In fact, the near-term impact of the legislation will likely be small, several experts said.
While companies with more than 50 full-time-equivalent positions will be required by January 2015 to offer good health plans -- or pay an annual penalty of $2,000 per employee above a staff of 30 -- small businesses won't be required to do so. For now, small business managers are generally facing two questions:
First, should they keep operating as they have been -- whether they provide health insurance or don't -- or should they enroll in the new program from Access Health CT called Small Business Help Operations Plan (SHOP)?
That plan is separated into three tiers -- gold, silver and bronze -- which allows companies and employees a variety of options about how much insurance to procure from Anthem, United Health Care or the new non-profit Healthy CT.
Second, the small businesses could decide -- since the legislation is designed to make it simpler for individuals to get insurance on their own -- to completely drop whatever health benefits they now offer.
"I think it's too early to tell at the moment, because the exchange has just opened and people are just beginning to get the information about the plans on the exchange and the costs of those plans," said attorney Robert Noonan, asked to speculate on how the majority of small businesses will act.
Noonan's law firm -- Robert Noonan & Associates -- is steeped in employment law and has followed the trajectory of the Affordable Care Act since 2010.
"Where this was done in the past, Massachusetts," Noonan added, "many employers found the (exchange) was very popular. I wouldn't be surprised if we see that same thing on a national level."
For now, Access Health CT CEO Kevin Counihan is hoping to spread to small business owners three pieces of news.
First, the new exchange allows employers to buy a defined-contribution product without annual membership fees from a broad array of carriers. Second, some employers will be eligible for tax credits. Finally, he and his team have helped train over 700 brokers to represent the carriers in the exchange.
"We have three sales already," Counihan said Friday, sounding upbeat. "I would have predicted zero at this point -- it only opened on Tuesday and we haven't marketed it one bit. I'm surprised anyone knew about it."
However, some observers are urging small businesses to approach the new exchange with caution.
David Lewis, CEO of the human resources firm Operations Inc., in Norwalk, said he's advising his some 700 clients to observe the exchange closely, but "not to touch it with a 10-foot pole."
Practically all of his clients already offer insurance to their employees, he said. While the exchange could make doing so somewhat cheaper, he said, he wants to ascertain whether it can do so without problems first.
"My father always taught me, as nice as a new car may look, never buy it the first year it comes out," he said. "Let them figure out what's wrong with it, let them tweak it, and you can get it after that. I think in this particular case, that same type of advice applies."
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The Gentian Garden Club's annual meeting will take place on Wednesday, May 22. This meeting will be held at the Glocester Country Club. The theme for the year has been "Garden Settings" and this will be the final meeting for two-year president Lois Hartley. Hartley will be passing the presidency on to Alyce Pedder and Jackie Marro. The swearing-in for the new executive team will be held at this meeting. For the program, Cindy Gianfrancesco will speak on "Protecting our Aquatic Ecosystem."
The Gentian Garden Club's spring plant sale will be held Saturday, May 18. The plant sale features perennials, annuals, herbs and vegetables from members' gardens. Gentian members will be working at the plant sale and are happy to answer questions about gardening and about becoming a member.
On Saturday, May 11, Gentian members will be stepping out to visit the Arnold Arboretum in Massachusetts. Then, on Tuesday, May 14, the Garden Therapy program, "Daffodils and Tulips," chaired by Carolyn Hanson and Pat Philbin, will be at Courtland Place in Smithfield in the morning and the Village at Waterman Lake in Smithfield in the afternoon.
The month ends with a Junior Activity led by Melissa Machowski and Debbie Marsland. She and her team will work with second and third graders in worm boxes. This is an activity that the children always look forward to.
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Happy holidays, eh? After a nice little two-day break, the NHL was back at it Monday night with a big slate of games. While we do not have a new No. 1 in our rankings this week, we do have a nice Boston-New York 1-2 thing going. When is the last time that happened in any sport besides baseball? Although the Rangers entered Tuesday with more points than Boston, we can't knock Claude Julien's club out of the top spot just because the schedule-maker gave them only one game last week.
A DISCLAIMER (of sorts): These rankings are based not just on each team's record at the moment, but an empirically tested formula that includes a) realistic near-term future expectations; b) consensus talent level and payroll considerations and; c) whatever the Magic 8-Ball I've had since I was seven years old tells me will happen. One more thing: Rest assured, I don't have it in for your team. OK, so I once hated the Philadelphia Flyers with a passion bordering on the psychotic, but that was 30-something years ago and Dave Schultz has long since retired. I welcome your emails to the link attached to my name above, and I always respond -- even to the ones that start with "Dear Idiot?")
Without further ado, this week's 1-30 list:
Last Week: 1
Boston Bruins (23-9-1)The Big, Bad Bruins keep exposing other teams as early pretenders to their throne. Florida was their latest victim, going into Boston and taking a mighty 8-0 pounding in the Bs' only game of the week. NHL First Star of the Week Brad Marchand scored a hat trick and rang up five points in the victory. He's having an incredible year -- PLUS-25 in his first 33 games of 2011-12, with 15 goals and 14 assists. A total of 70 players were taken before The Little Ball of Hate II in the 2006 draft, including Robin Figren by the Islanders at No. 70. Figren currently plays in Sweden and has yet to make his NHL debut. Last week: 1-0-0
Last Week: 8
New York Rangers (22-8-4)They entered Tuesday ahead of Boston in the Eastern Conference standings, albeit with a game in hand. They took good advantage of the creampuff on their schedule (two games against the Isles) and got some easy points. All of their wins were impressive, though, with their tough defense (Marc Staal is now cleared for contact) and goaltending allowing only five goals in the four games. Henrik Lundqvist isn't a bad guitar player, either. A three-game road trip to Washington, Florida and Philly ? for the Winter Classic -- beckons. Last week: 4-0-0
Last Week: 2
Chicago Blackhawks (23-9-4)Anybody who hasn't seen the Blackhawks' "Sing-Along Christmas Album" video needs to get on YouTube right now. CLICK HERE to thrill to Frolik Navidad or Lepisto, Lepisto, Lepisto and many more heartwarming classics. On the ice, the Hawks continue to make fun of others a lot, too. They're 13-2-3 at home, and Marian Hossa has quietly crept in to the top five in league scoring. Last week: 2-1-0
Last Week: 4
Vancouver Canucks (22-12-2)It was a really bad decision by Nashville to let defenseman Dan Hamhuis go as a free agent in 2010. Yeah, the Preds had/have small-market money issues, but they were pennywise, pound-foolish. Hamhuis entered Monday a combined plus-41 in his year-and-a-half with the Canucks, who at plus-32 (120-88) rank second-best in the west in goal differential, and it seems like they're still just getting warmed up. Last week: 2-1-0
Last Week: 7
St. Louis Blues (21-10-4)This team is big, fast, hungry and has a great coach in Ken Hitchcock. The most interesting story figures to be who the main man in goal will be for the second half. Hitchcock doesn't much like platooning his goalies, so the battle between Jaroslav Halak and Brian Elliott for top dog status should be a good one. The Blues are 15-3-4 under Hitchcock, but a tough week, including two games with Detroit, lies ahead. Last week: 2-1-0
Last Week: 3
Philadelphia Flyers (21-9-4)Claude Giroux had four points in his first game back from a concussion, which should make for some happy HBO "Road to the Winter Classic" viewing this week, unlike the last two where he was mostly shown on an examining table being treated by doctors. The Flyers are going to need to do something about replacing Chris Pronger, though. Their back end has looked a bit leaky without him. Last week: 1-1-0
Last Week: 5
Detroit Red Wings (22-12-1)They lost a couple games last week, but always seem to win when they need to. Jimmy Howard continues to play some great hockey in net, including a 31-save showing Monday night in Nashville. Valtteri Filppula might be one of the best, most unsung players in the league. While others get all the ink in Detroit, Filppula continues to put up close to a point per game. Last week: 1-2-0
Last Week: 10
Pittsburgh Penguins (20-11-4)While they continue to trudge along admirably without Sidney Crosby, his condition is more worrisome than ever. He hasn't practiced with the team since December 7 or spoken to the media since December 12. "I'd be lying if I said I didn't think about it," defenseman Matt Niskanen told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "There is always that scare, guys out there like (Boston's) Marc Savard, who probably aren't coming back. It's always a possibility." Last week: 2-0-0
Last Week: 13
San Jose Sharks (19-11-3)They stubbed a toe -- or is it a fin? -- with a home loss to cellar-dwelling Anaheim on Monday night, but overall they've started to turn things around and nobody is going to want to play them in the second half. The loss of veteran Martin Havlat for 6-8 weeks (torn knee tendon while jumping onto the ice for a shift) means Joe Thornton and others must step up their offensive games. Now that Joe and the fish seem to have their minds into, look for that to happen. Last week: 2-1-0
Last Week: 6
Minnesota Wild (20-12-5)Two weeks after being awarded the top spot in these here rankings, they have yet to win a game (0-5-2). Their latest loss came Monday at home to the Avs, who hadn't won their previous nine on the road. Devin Setoguchi wasn't having a great season while he was healthy (28 games, 13 points, -7), but his continued absence due to an ankle injury has hurt the Wild because they aren't very deep offensively. Last week: 0-3-0
Last Week: 9
Florida Panthers (18-11-7)Add in OT/Shootout losses and this is really just a .500 team. Of course, you can say that about a lot of clubs in the Original 30. Their ugly loss in Boston did not do any favors for anyone who really wants to believe in these cats. They're also the team with the best record in the league despite allowing more goals than they've scored (94-98). Last week: 0-2-3
Last Week: 19
Colorado Avalanche (19-17-1)No joke here, these guys are actually playing some very impressive hockey. They took a team-record eight-game home win streak into Tuesday's tilt with Winnipeg. Not even the Sakic-Forsberg-Roy teams ever went on a roll like that. Center Ryan O'Reilly has been just tremendous (league-high 51 takeaways entering Monday) and 34-year-old Jean-Sebastien Giguere, the league's Third Star of the Week, is turning back the clock with great play in net. Last week: 3-0-0
Last Week: 16
Toronto Maple Leafs (18-13-4)Brian Burke is nothing if not loyal. The man who defended Todd Bertuzzi after his assault on Colorado's Steve Moore just gave coach Ron Wilson an extension, despite his never having taken to the Leafs to the playoffs. Wilson's record since last season's All-Star break is 36-22-10. "This is a coach who's earned this, a coach who's earned this extension," Burke said at the press conference on Monday. "It's not charity. It's not a gift." If you say so, sir. Last week: 2-0-0
Last Week: 11
Dallas Stars (20-14-1)They've done an admirable job of staying in the mix without their No. 1 goaltender, Kari Lehtonen (groin), who could return Thursday after a 12-game absence. But this is still a team with 95 goals scored, 101 allowed and there is a sense that it was never as good as its record. Lehtonen could change that. Last week: 1-2-0
Last Week: 15
Phoenix Coyotes (18-15-3)Their leading scorer (Ray Whitney) is 39. Their third-leading scorer (Shane Doan) is 35. Amazingly, the Yotes keep dancing with Father Time, but even with these two productive old farts at play, Phoenix is only 4-6-0 in its last 10 games. Last week: 2-2-0
Last Week: 12
Nashville Predators (18-14-4)The bumpy ride continues. If not for a couple of a semi-miraculous comeback wins over Columbus, this would be a sub-.500 team. The Preds have lost three of their last four and aren't playing the kind of stingy hockey they've been known for under coach Barry Trotz. It hasn't been Shea Weber's fault, though. The D-man scored a team-leading 29 points in his first 35 games was plus-14 before being taken out of the lineup indefinitely by a concussion. Last week: 1-3-0
Last Week: 22
Los Angeles Kings (17-14-5)While some called it folly, the Kings are 2-0-1 since Darryl Sutter began standing on the bench. None of the victories have been particularly outstanding, but the numbers are the numbers. Sutter seems to be getting highly talented D-man Drew Doughty to play better again: four points, all assists, in the three games under the new bench boss. Last week: 2-0-1
Last Week: 24
Calgary Flames (17-15-4)There are good things to say, which probably means there will be bad things next week. Putting two solid weeks in succession remains a problem for Brent Sutter's team. But make no mistake, that was a nice 3-1 win at Vancouver on Friday. And what's gotten into Curtis Glencross lately? He's scored goals in four straight games. Last week: 3-0-0
Last Week: 14
New Jersey Devils (19-15-1)Their overall record is OK and they have some tremendous talent, but after scoring eight points in three games, forward Zach Parise has just one assist in his last four outings. A pretty solid beating at home by the Rangers continued to cement the feeling that this team is going absolutely nowhere, a sentiment that might be shared by the good folks in Newark, where the Devils' home attendance is 14,760 per game, good for 26th in the league. Last week: 1-2-0
Last Week: 21
Ottawa Senators (17-14-5)With the All-Star Game in Ottawa on January 29, this team has five players on the ballot. And you think Daniel Alfredsson's best days are behind him, do you? The 39-year-old winger has nine points in his last five games, including a one-goal, two-assist, plus-4 performance against Pittsburgh last week. Kyle Turris has been a nice addition so far, with an assist in each of his first three games as a Sen. Last week: 2-0-1
Last Week: 17
Buffalo Sabres (17-15-3)For the second time in a month, they snapped a three-game losing streak at the expense of the Capitals, with Brayden McNabb scoring his first career goal. Meanwhile, it continues to be rough going for the team with the minus-7 goal differential (96-103) and the league's second-highest payroll (behind Philly, according to Capgeek.com). Last week: 1-2-0
Last Week: 18
Winnipeg Jets (16-14-5)They've got weird schedule this week, with a one-game trip (to Colorado Tuesday), then back home Thursday against the Kings. If they're to be taken seriously, they need to start winning on the road, where they are 4-8-4 so far. Not many are calling Blake Wheeler a bust anymore. The top-5 draft choice (fifth overall by Phoenix in 2004) has 25 points in 35 games and is plus-10. Last week: 1-1-1
Last Week: 20
Washington Capitals (17-15-2)Michal Neuvirth started his fifth straight game, a 4-2 loss at Buffalo on Monday, but neither he nor Tomas Vokoun has been able to hold the No. 1 job, and the Caps are 6-10-1 on the road. Thoughts of this being an "elite" team are rapidly fading. It desperately needs D-man Mike Green back (he returned to practice on Tuesday) and a return to form by Alex Ovechkin, who has a three-game point streak, with a goal in two of the tilts. Remember when three points in three games used to be a dry spell for good old No. 8? Last week: 1-1-1
Last Week: 23
Edmonton Oilers (15-17-3)While the kids up front are still all right, the defense can't keep up. It hasn't helped that veteran Ryan Whitney has been hobbled by ankle woes even after undergoing surgery during the offseason. After putting up 27 points in 35 games last season, he's been able to squeeze out just three assists in his his first 17 games. Last week: 1-1-0
Last Week: 27
Tampa Bay Lightning (14-17-3)Vincent Lecavalier can still pass the puck, but he looks slow. He's only 31, but has been in the league since 1998, and there appears to be a fair amount of hockey mileage on his body. As for the Bolts, they just don't seem to have the motivation they had last season, and time is starting to become an issue. Then again, they are in the Eastern Conference, where you never seem to be too far out of eighth place. Last week: 0-1-1
Last Week: 28
Carolina Hurricanes (12-19-6)Kirk Muller's boys entered Tuesday with a nice little two-game win streak. This constitutes big news for the ice men of Raleigh, and with goalie Cam Ward starting to look like a real NHL player again, maybe a strong second-half run isn't out of the question. Last week: 2-1-0
Last Week: 30
Anaheim Ducks (10-19-6)Coach Bruce Boudreau and his new charges got a nice win at San Jose on Monday night, which is as good a reason as any to bump them out of the cellar here. There's still way too much offensive firepower on this team to ever take the Ducks lightly. Last week: 1-0-1
Last Week: 25
Montreal Canadiens (13-16-7)In whatever language you choose, the Habs have been downright terrible under interim coach Randy Cunneyworth. They've lost five in a row and the natives are more than restless around Saint Catherine Street. Who would have thought many fans would be clamoring for the return of Jacques Martin? Last week: 0-2-0
Last Week: 26
New York Islanders (11-17-6)Just when you want to start buying in a little, these guys go out and get smoked a few times and you're back to feeling they're hopeless. And now goalie Al Montoya is out with a concussion. Does this team ever catch a health break with its goaltending? Last week: 1-3-0
Last Week: 29
Columbus Blue Jackets (9-22-4)Let's just get thee to the draft table already. After a brief bout with relative respectability, they have lost five in a row. While several NHL coaches with better records have already been booted this season, C-bus bench boss Scott Arniel continues to hold his post, as does GM Scott Howson. Last week: 0-2-0


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MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) - The United Nations hopes that political talks between the warring sides in Syria will clinch local ceasefires to allow vital food and medicines to reach millions of civilians, the U.N. humanitarian chief said on Thursday.
Valerie Amos, in an interview with Reuters a day after an international conference on Syria, said mediator Lakhdar Brahimi would press the government and opposition on these humanitarian issues at meetings due to start later in the day.
The two sides, meeting for the first time, vented their mutual hostility on Wednesday but Brahimi said the enemies may be ready to discuss prisoner swaps, local ceasefires and humanitarian aid.
"I have discussed this with Mr. Brahimi and he'll continue to push this. Because political negotiations can take a very long time. And as we saw yesterday, there are big differences between the parties," Amos said in an interview in Montreux, Switzerland.
"But if we are able to get a major push on getting into these communities, it would make a significant difference."
She said it was crucial to gain access to some 250,000 people trapped in besieged communities, many of them in Aleppo, Homs and near Damascus, who have been out of reach for many months. Some say they have been reduced to eating grass in order to avoid starvation.
Another 2.5 million people are in "hard-to-reach" areas, having received U.N. relief supplies just once or so, Amos said.
"The key issue for us is that control of communities shifts all the time. We want to really take advantage when there is a sense we can move very quickly to try to do that," she said, adding that she had met with an opposition delegate in Montreux.
Amos, who submitted a confidential written brief to the U.N. Security Council last Friday, said that there had been little improvement since world powers called unanimously in October for both sides to grant greater access for aid workers and convoys.
"I indicated to the Security Council, as I have done before, that we have made some modest progress on administrative hurdles that we have faced, things like visas for staff and arrangements in place in terms of clearance (for convoys)," Amos said.
"But on the really big-ticket items, like protection of civilians, demilitarization of schools and hospitals, access to besieged and hard-to-reach communities, there has been little or no progress at all," she said.
A food aid delivery reached Yarmouk, a suburb of Damascus besieged by forces of President Bashar al-Assad, on January 18, badly needed after months of isolation but not enough for thousands of trapped civilians who are malnourished and without medicine.
Some 100 of 400 planned U.N. food parcels were delivered in the Yarmouk Palestinian district at the time, Amos said, calling it a "tiny bit of progress".
Russia has been a "strong advocate" in nudging Syrian authorities to grant visas for U.N. aid workers, she said. Russia is Syria's main arms supplier.
But administrative measures are not enough and there were only two U.N. aid convoys in December, after the government rejected three and safety guarantees were not in place for two others, she said. Nine convoys delivered goods in November.
Amos said that she would brief the Security Council in person in the second half of February but would not say whether she would seek a tough resolution. Russia has blocked previous resolutions it considered too harsh on its ally Assad.
"I will be saying to the Council: look, access remains a major issue...But I think we also have to brainstorm, given since October we have made such little progress on these big- ticket items," she said.
U.N. aid officials were looking at options for delivering more aid and would discuss them with influential countries at their next high-level meeting set for February 3 in Rome, she said.
"I hope there will be conclusions out of that that I could put to the Security Council," she said of the talks, to be hosted by Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino.
Amos, asked whether humanitarian corridors were under consideration, said that they have proved "notoriously difficult" in war zones as they usually require enforcement.
"But there are truces, pauses, and reconciliation talks going on in some areas locally," she said.
"What can we do on the back of that and what is coming out of these political talks which we can come on the back of ... we will be looking at a range of different measures."
(This story has corrects figures in paras 13, 15 after clarification from spokesman)
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Ralph Boulton)


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Bones Episode Preview: The Pro Crime Scene ThiefSteve Marsi at . Comments
On next week's all-new Bones, the Jeffersonian team probes the death of a crime scene cleanup expert whose remains are found mysteriously sealed in an impenetrable pod that washed up on the beach.
Brennan then goes toe-to-toe with a professional crime scene thief. That's a new type of adversary.
Meanwhile, Angela and Hodgins learn that Cam is involved in a secret romance ... but with whom?!
For a breakdown of last night's moving, 9/11-themed episode and its many great moments from the main and supporting cast, follow the link for our in-depth Bones review of "The Patriot in Purgatory."
Then watch the first teaser for "The Bod in the Pod" below:
Steve Marsi is the Managing Editor of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Google+ or email him here.


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VisitScotland, The Highland Council, and Activision Publishing Inc., an owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard Inc. have announced that the Isle of Skye in Scotland has virtually twinned with Skylands, the home of Skylanders Swap Force.
The Scottish Highlands have been brought together with the virtual islands of Skylands, to celebrate the month of Swaptober and the launch of Skylanders Swap Force. The virtual twinning marks the first time a video game world has twinned with a real destination. Skylanders Swap Force is available now at retail stores in North America and will be available in Australia on October 16 and Europe on October 18.
Activision and VisitScotland brought the virtual world of Skylands to the Scottish Highlands through a visit to the Isle of Skye by Wash Buckler, one of the new Skylanders Swap Force characters. Wash Buckler toured some of the island's most famous landmarks and visited the children at Portree Primary School. Also, there was a Swap takeover of the Isle of Skye website www.skye.co.uk, where Skylanders franchise fans worldwide can type Swap on the homepage to watch the magic unfold.


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This Saturday, LACMA Muse presents its tenth annual Young Directors Night. Centered around short films by local emerging filmmakers, the showcase includes screenings, conversation between the directors and our host panel—filmmaker Elgin James; LA Film Festival associate director Jennifer Wilson; and USC professor Paul Wolff—plus a reception where the Art of Film Award winner will be announced. If you don't already have tickets to this event, scroll down to the end of the post for a special offer.
Congratulations to this year's participants as we received more than a hundred submissions with just six films making the cut. Here's a sneak preview of the selected shorts:
Jordan Bloch: Underdogs
Guy, on the run with someone's blood on his skin, takes refuge in the bathroom of a roadside diner. When a bounty hunter appears, Guy must decide how many people will suffer before he faces his hunter.
Thouly Dosios: House of the Olive Trees
Anna has constructed a world for herself in which her feelings lay suppressed under her tight grip. Her safety net unravels when Markos floats into her life—but their relationship is put to the test during a trip to the seaside.
Fady Hadid: Where We Live
Within one day and night, everything changed for the Hamad family. Once living peacefully alongside relatives in Baghdad, they fell victim to kidnappings and the violence tearing their homeland apart. Forced to flee and seek asylum in America, the Hamads now find themselves far from home, largely friendless, and facing the struggles of the immigrant experience.
Alex O'Flinn: Shoot the Moon
Sixteen-year-old Tommy Pendecrest lives on the wrong side of a hopeless desert town with his drunken father. When his brother Victor returns from the Marines, Tommy becomes increasingly worried about Victor's elusive and eccentric behavior. When Victor commits a violent act that shatters the delicate balance in Tommy's life, Tommy is forced to decide between his wayward brother or salvaging his town standing.
Sylvia Sether: Overdrawn
Attempting to get through another mediocre day as a single, unsatisfied, and broke bank teller, Emma is pushed to her limit and compelled to re-chart the course of her life.
Cat Youell: The Mischievous Case of Cordelia Botkin
In the midst of a disapproving Victorian San Francisco, Cordelia Botkin, a charmingly passionate woman, finds the love of her life in Mr. John C. Dunning. After being given an ultimatum by his controlling wife, however, John breaks it off with an unsuspecting Cordelia, plunging them both into lonely and agonizing depression. Cordelia, cornered and desperate, sees only one way to win John back.
Special offer: tickets for the general public to Young Directors Night are $30 each. But for the first twenty-five people to call 323 857-6151 and become a LACMA Muse member ($50), you'll get two FREE tickets to YDN! Not only does your membership pay for itself right off the bat, you also get a year's worth of Muse benefits, which include invitations to curator-led tours and other events around town all year long, plus discounted tickets on the upcoming ArtWalk and this fall's Tim Burton-themed Costume Ball. Mention promo code "YDN UNFRAMED" when you call. The offer only works over the phone and is only available to the first twenty-five people who take us up on it.
Jason Gaulton, Muse Coordinator