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One facet of the U.S. strategy for re-engagement in the Asia-Pacific
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including both traditional allies such as Japan and Australia and
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Ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Australia and Indonesia
in November, his administration has increased its rhetoric in its
strategy of re-engagement with East Asia. In an opinion article in the
November issue of Foreign Policy magazine titled "America's Pacific
Century," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the region "a
key driver of global politics" and promised substantive U.S.
The United States' main goal in this strategy is to counterbalance an
increasingly powerful China, especially in light of Beijing's recent
moves to aggressively stake its maritime claim in the region. To this
end, the United States has pursued a leadership role in Asian
multilateral organizations such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
and the East Asia Summit while attempting to strengthen bilateral
relations with Asian nations, including both traditional allies such as
Australia and Japan and emerging regional powers, particularly India and
Indonesia. While these nations will be wary of risking damage to their
already established relations with China, increased U.S. attention will
offer them strategic opportunities to fulfill vital domestic needs.
Traditional U.S. Allies
U.S. strategy for the Asia-Pacific region necessarily involves a
maritime security component. The United States relies on its control of
the oceans to project its power globally, and the Asia-Pacific region in
particular is increasing both in economic significance and in
competition. Washington is thus looking to strengthen its partnerships
with capable regional militaries, such as Japan and Australia, to
provide it with both security assistance and political backing for a
sustained presence in the region.
Japan and the United States have seen their strategic interests align
over the past year as China has increased its maritime assertiveness in
the region. Japan's interest in regional maritime security runs not only
to the the East China Sea, the location of a longtime dispute with China
over resources and territory, but also in the South China Sea. A recent
change in Japanese leadership and the Fukushima nuclear disaster also
have brought Tokyo and Washington closer together, as Japan, constrained
by domestic issues, has welcomed the U.S. presence in the region. Both
Tokyo and Washington are focusing their attention on how they can meet
challenges in a changing regional security environment and use maritime
security as the pre-eminent avenue for increased involvement.
In addition to improving bilateral relations with the United States,
Japan has shown an interest in accepting wider responsibilities in the
Asia-Pacific region. Tokyo has called for closer ties with India through
India's Look East policy and indicated that it would be receptive to a
trilateral dialogue with India and the United States over regional
security issues. It also has worked to enhance relations with Myanmar
and to develop security relationships with South China Sea stakeholders
such as Vietnam and the Philippines.
Similar to Japan, Australia is an increasingly strategic partner to U.S.
regional interests. Australia's pivotal location between the Indian and
Pacific oceans and its existing military infrastructure in the north and
west make the country an important ally to supporting maritime security
in the region's waters. Australia sees a partnership with the United
States as a way to build economic opportunities while ensuring freedom
of navigation for critical resources. An enhanced U.S. presence
contributes to regional balance and provides Australia leverage in the
region and with China, its major trading partner.
Obama's Australia visit will take him to Darwin, Northern Territory,
where he will finalize agreements that will give the U.S. military
access to Australian bases, key to a U.S. foothold. U.S. strategy
presumes that Australia's existing basing architecture is insufficient
to meet emerging challenges in the Indian and Pacific oceans, and thus,
during the 2010 Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations, the
two sides agreed to enhance the U.S. military presence in the country.
A substantive U.S. re-engagement strategy based around maritime security
will begin with Indonesia. The archipelago nation covers critical
international sea lanes through which energy supplies and goods are
transported. Indonesia also - with U.S. support - is emerging as a
leader in regional blocs such as the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN). Already the largest ASEAN economy, Indonesia has been
attempting to increase its military prowess as well, with President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono recently announcing a 35 percent increase in
the country's defense budget to about $7.1 billion. Indonesia also has
made regional political leadership overtures ahead of the 2011 East Asia
Summit, agreeing in September to joint patrols with Vietnam of their
shared maritime border and working with India on joint patrols of the
Strait of Malacca.
U.S.-Indonesian relations began to warm in August 2010 when the Obama
administration lifted a decade-long ban on U.S. military contact with
Indonesia's Kopassus special forces. Obama also visited the country in
2010, calling for improved U.S. relations with the Muslim world and
pursuing security and economic partnerships. Since his visit, strong
overtures have continued, with gestures such as Washington backing
Jakarta against the Papuan independence movement despite Papuan
accusations of military human rights abuses. The United States also has
initiated joint ocean exploratory initiatives and worked toward
increasing bilateral trade. The two also have conducted joint air force
exercises as part of Garuda Shield 2011. Obama will meet with Indonesian
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the sidelines of the East Asia
Summit, where Yudhoyono will take advantage of the U.S.-Indonesian
strategic relationship to gain its support for an enhanced Indonesian
regional leadership role.
However, Indonesia has tried to simultaneously balance its new
partnership with the United States with its relations with China, as
shown in the joint Indonesian-Chinese special operations training
program Sharp Knife 2011.While it does not intend to be seen as
countering or limiting China, Indonesia sees its strategic needs
aligning with U.S. overtures such that a maritime security conducive for
unimpeded resource exports would be ensured (these exports are vital to
the country's economy). The Jakarta-Washington partnership also enhances
the perception of Indonesia's regional leadership status as a partner to
a dominant power, secures leverage amongst regional powers and promotes
markets for bilateral trade.
India represents the most strategic and important potential partner in
the U.S. Indian Ocean-Pacific Rim strategy. India and the United States
likely will further define their strategic cooperation in Bali at the
November East Asia Summit (EAS), particularly on regional security,
economic and strategic issues. A comprehensive Indian Ocean-Pacific Rim
strategy requires India's partnership on maritime security and increased
influence in the Indian Ocean arena.
The United States is betting on India's rising stature and on a
perceived willingness to more aggressively engage Asia-Pacific players
to bring it into the region as a prominent player with similar interests
and strategic goals. The Obama administration has tried to build on
closer Indian-Japanese relations by pushing for trilateral discussions.
Since the initiation of the 2001 Malabar Exercise, the United States has
attempted to enhance Indian-U.S. military ties as well as regional
relations, including Japan, Australia and Singapore in Malabar 2007. The
United States has also supported Indian military exercises near the
Chinese-Pakistani border. Washington has hoped to develop U.S.-Indian
relations into a broader and more comprehensive strategic platform,
though the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and the 2008 financial crisis
made such moves of secondary interest. Post-9/11 Indian-U.S.
counterterrorism cooperation and mutual concerns and goals in East Asia
also have drawn India and the United States closer. Despite the
commencement of a strategic dialogue through a nuclear deal, the much
sought after regional strategic agenda has yet to develop.
Mutual interests between the powers, however, will not necessarily lead
to closer U.S.-Indian cooperation in the region. India's strategic
interests in East Asia derive primarily from the domestic needs of
ensuring energy security, safeguarding its sea-lanes in the Andaman Sea
and enhancing the international image of India as a rising power. India
is looking for markets to expand its rapid economic growth, avenues to
amend its domestic energy deficits and methods to address its security
concerns - all of which require the advancement of a reinvigorated Look
East policy. Thus, India has attempted to diversify its energy
procurement sources from unstable sources in the Middle East and West
Africa to relatively stable locations such as Vietnam and Myanmar while
also attempting to build positive relations through confidence-building
measures in the region. In 2010, only 30.6 million barrels of India's
oil originated from ASEAN countries as opposed to the 210.3 million
barrels that China procured from those sources.
India has shown signs of engaging with the U.S. strategy in East Asia
through ties with Japan, boosting its strategic partnership with
Vietnam, mandating the Indian Navy as net security provider to island
nations in the Indian Ocean Region, economically engaging Myanmar and
patrolling the Strait of Malacca with Indonesia. India may find it
appropriate to pursue its interests in ASEAN nations through a
reinvigorated Look East policy, coupled with cooperation with the United
States on regional issues. Maritime security will require U.S. naval
capacity and power projection, particularly as India gauges the possible
Chinese threat to its Andaman Sea and Indian Ocean periphery. In
particular, China's relations and cooperation with littoral Indian Ocean
states and ASEAN raises Indian concerns of weakness and vulnerability.
India thus may find it beneficial for growing Chinese power and
attention to be diverted to issues of less interest to India's area of
strategic concern. China's recent assertiveness in the South China Sea
and East China Sea and the simultaneous momentum amongst Asia-Pacific
stakeholders to address the issue has provided a fortuitous opportunity
for India to re-engage its strategic needs by deflecting Chinese
interests closer to Beijing's periphery. With Japan pushing for closer
Indian-Japanese military and naval relations based on its 2009 Action
Plan, U.S. hopes of Indian prominence in East Asia through trilateral
agreements and ASEAN nations similarly open to an increased Indian
position in Southeast Asia, India may find it opportune to further
integrate into the regional security, economic and strategic discussions
with a renewed push of its Look East policy. India's primary interests,
however, will be to procure new and sustainable energy resources and
The U.S. re-engagement strategy has been centered on ensuring maritime
security and providing a pivot point in the region to growing Chinese
power. The powers around which Washington hopes to anchor its strategy
in the region do not have an interest in damaging their respective
relations with Beijing. The interest in the U.S. strategy, however,
derives from an opportune alignment of strategic imperatives in which an
enhanced U.S. presence provides a point of leverage, ensures freedom of
navigation, increases economic opportunities and fortifies the
leadership positions of growing powers. For India and Indonesia, U.S.
offers of cooperation present unique strategic opportunities.
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- Teresa Gomez, Wonderland Day Care Center & Wonderland Home Day Care, Unsung Hero Award Winner
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(Tallmadge, OH) Summit Racing Equipment will be the title sponsor for the UMP DIRTcar Late Model division at Attica Raceway Park for the 2012 racing season which begins Friday, March 30.Also, Summit Racing will also be a sponsor of the "Central Ohio Farmers/ Summit Racing Equipment Night" on Friday, July 13 when the DIRTcar Summer Nationals "Hell Tour" makes a stop at Attica Raceway Park. The event will also feature the UMP DIRTcar Modifieds racing as part of the Summit Racing Modified Nationals Tour."Summit Racing is dedicated to supporting sportsman circle track racing, both on a local level with the UMP Late Models at Attica as well as regionally with the DIRTcar Modified Nationals Tour," said Jim Greenleaf, Summit Racing Motorsports and Events Manager. "That support also extends to having parts, safety gear, tools, and other equipment in stock and shipping them quickly so racers can make it to the track every week."Established in 1968, Summit Racing Equipment is the leading high performance parts and accessories company in the world. Summit Racing offers the largest selection, best prices, and best customer service in the high performance industry via catalogs, Internet, and Retail Super Stores. The company is headquartered in Tallmadge, Ohio with retail locations in Tallmadge, Ohio; Sparks, Nevada; and McDonough, Georgia. Also available online at www.summitracingequipment.com.Attica Raceway Park's Summit Racing Equipment UMP Late Models will again be racing under the UMP DIRTcar sanction for the 2012 racing season. The season kicks off on Friday, March 30 with a rain date for Saturday, March 31. Racing with the late models will be the O'Reilly Auto Parts 410 and Fremont Fence 305 Sprints.
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Ora Starks began her duties as a warden on Monday and she said she is excited to begin her new journey.
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"I have not taken the time to slow down because I am so goal oriented and I have so many goals that I desire to achieve", said Starks.
Starks attended Mississippi Valley State University, where she received a bachelor of science in 1994 and master of arts in criminal justice in 1999.
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Starks is not all work and no play, she said she enjoys various hobbies, such as traveling, reading, shopping and public service.
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Iran | 'As if one were under water'
The Iranian women's team failed to defend its title in the West Asian Women's Football Championship, losing 1–2 to hosts Jordan earlier this month. (Yalda Moaiery | ISNA)
Kreuzberg team of Berlin learns about football under cover
Berlin | After months of diplomatic wrangling, filmmaker Ayat Najafi had to content himself with experiencing the centerpiece of his new project, Football Under Cover, as an exile.
At Ararat Stadium in Tehran on 28 Apr 06, Najafi stood outside the arena along with husbands of the women inside—players for the Iranian women's national team, their amateur opponents, BSV Al-Dersimspor of Kreuzberg, and about 1,000 female supporters. As the women for the multicultural team from Berlin had to comply with Islamic clothing restrictions during the visit, Najafi had to respect the mandates covering gender segregation at public sporting events. He was tethered by mobile phone to the all-woman crew within, but it was not enough.
"For me the most terrible moment—it's a sensitive moment—was not as a filmmaker but as a human," said Najafi in a Sept 5 interview from his home in Berlin. "I fell in love with these footballers. They had all these problems, and they just want to play football. … At the very end I couldn't be involved. I was really nervous outside the stadium when I had nothing to do."
The match had come about as a by-product of a fortuitous meeting at the 2005 Berlinale Talent Campus, a segment of the Berlin International Film Festival that caters to up-and-coming filmmakers. As part of the Artistic and Cultural Programme of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, organizers had selected "Shoot Goals! Shoot Movies!" as a theme. The result was 45 short films, including Najafi's Move It, a four-minute meditation on an Iranian woman's footballing passions. At the conference, Najafi met Marlene Assmann, who had helped produce her own film, Der Weg ist das Spiel (The Way Is the Game), about the origins of BSV Al-Dersimspor as a melding of players with Turkish, German, Greek, Arab and Eastern European backgrounds. Assmann, along with two sisters and a cousin, had helped establish the side in the distinctive capital borough abutting the earlier location of the Berlin Wall.
Assmann and Najafi together conceived another cultural exchange, on the level of nations, in proposing a home-and-home friendly series between Al-Dersimspor and Iran. The matches would be depicted in a documentary film, tentatively titled Football Under Cover. As Najafi details in our interview, the diplomatic hurdles proved mountainous, but ultimately surmountable due to ideological splits within the regime. The Iranian diplomatic corps seemed to object to the exchange, while the matches had the blessing of Iranian football authorities, who have been trying to develop women's football over the past decade. (There are some 20 women's clubs in the country.)
Nevertheless, the initial game—the first outdoor, in-country public exhibition for the women's national team since the 1979 revolution—survived at least four postponements due to tumultuous negotiations over the German players' visas. "It is a miracle that we are here," Najafi told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in late Apr 06, when Al-Dersimspor, film crew and entourage finally touched down in Tehran. While many of Al-Dersimspor's players have Islamic backgrounds, cultural adjustments still were required.
Players received final instructions on board the plane, according to FAZ's Swantje Karich, who accompanied the group ("Neunzig Minuten Freiheit," 4 May 06):
In Iran women do not give their hand to men. Eye contact with men should be avoided. A principle: as a woman one should react rather than act. Now it is time to put on the headcloth. Some players are familiar with the parental and religious demands … [but] no one wants to be the first to put it on. There is some internal rebellion. Shame and uncertainty shows up on their faces.
Adjustment might have been the theme for Al-Dersimspor's visit. Tehran is 1,500m (4,921′) above sea level and often cloaked in smog. The Kreuzberg players were concerned about their performance in "trackies" and head covering, although Valerie Assmann told FAZ: "It is not so bad as we thought. It feels as if one were under water, because the headcloth rests so snugly against the ears."
BSV Al-Dersimspor, with team president, in playing attire in Tehran. For more pictures, see an online essay at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung website. (Andrea Geiger | FAZ)
Quotations from the Quran were broadcast before the game began, as Najafi began his wait outside the stadium. Taking a 2–0 halftime lead, Al-Dersimspor's players removed their head coverings and danced in the changing room, experiencing "a manifestation of the liberty of women in Iran" when permitted such relaxation away from the public eye. The game concluded 2–2—"a beautiful result," writes Karich. "That was it: 90 minutes of freedom and a little bit more." Afterward, the Iranian and German players shared a meal and exchanged jerseys.
With the first match concluded, planning began on the return fixture, billed beforehand by the German Interior Ministry as a "meeting of cultures" and part of Germany's ongoing "dialogue with Islam" (Saeid Najar Nobari, "Berlin Football Officials Hail Iran's Women Soccer Match as Promoting Cultural Dialogue," Islamic Republic News Agency, May 11). Similar delays and negotiations over symbolic particulars—the manner of players' dress, the flag under which Iranian players would enter the stadium—resulted in scheduling of the game for Jun 1 of this year, more than a year after the first meeting.
On the night before the event at a stadium adjacent to the Viktoria Park Biergarten in Kreuzberg, Marlene Assmann learned by e-mail from Iranian authorities that the match could not take place due to "technical problems." By the next day, a sign had been posted at the stadium entrance: "Freundschaftsspiel abgesagt" (Friendly game canceled). What would have been the Iranian women's team's first appearance in the West since 1979 had been lost to murky bureaucratic fumblings in the Islamic regime. Yet Najafi, himself familiar with long-running disputes over mounting theatrical productions in Iran—"These girls can't get a football match, and I can't show my work," he tells Exberliner—ventures that Iranian officials in Berlin, rather than Tehran, proved to be the ultimate bottleneck.
That the event also corresponded, according to Der Spiegel, to an annual morals campaign enforcing clothing restrictions in Iran (Anne Haeming, "Iran Cancels Women's Football Game in Berlin," Spiegel Online, Jun 1) was of less importance, in Najafi's reading, than objections among officials at the Iranian embassy. Exiled Iranians in Berlin planned a small demonstration before the game, and German players intended to compete minus the coverings they had worn in Iran.
These developments meant heart-rending disappointments for the organizers and players, but accentuated the film project's use of women's football to illustrate the realities of daily life for women in contrasting societies. "In our film," Najafi tells Basil Glew-Galloway of Exberliner ("A Game of Politics," Sept 07), "you can see the German girls' side."
They are in the modern world, in Berlin, Germany. They just talk about football and their career in football. In Iran, the girls always talk about something else. They talk about their emotions surrounding football, their futures, whether or not they will even be able to continue playing, and the restrictions placed on them as women. The Iranian girls want to do something with their football, they want to change something. I think if their situation normalizes, they might be able to just play football, and just think about football. But for now, football is part of a larger reality for them.
"Female football in Iran is not just football," he summarizes.
Najafi, Assmann and collaborators continue to prepare Football Under Cover for a first screening at the Berlinale in Feb 08—three years after the genesis of an idea.
Interview with Ayat Najafi
GG: You have done two short films on women's football, The Forward's Fear of the Penalty Kick, and Move It, both of which feature a woman player, Banafsheh Alavi. How did you find out about her and discover this interest in women's football?
AN: The first time I heard about women's football was from a European journalist … this was four years ago. It really interested me, first of all because I'm really a fan of football from childhood. I always loved football. I got to know about women's football, but I didn't know that female football was in Iran.
The second thing which interested me was I always followed women's activities in Iran. When I heard about female football I thought that it had great potential. Then I tried to find some footballers, but it was really hard for me because of the culture of Iran, with the religious [restrictions]. So it wasn't easy to reach them. I tried so hard, and the first female footballer that I could find was Banafsheh Alavi.
I told my idea about the short film to her, and she really liked it. We made the short film to show in the Berlinale Talent Campus, Move It. During the making of the film I really found her interesting. I found that she has a very, very strong character. She had something to say. I thought it might be interesting for a documentary film. …
GG: Tell us more about Banafsheh Alavi. How old is she? Does she live in Tehran? How long has she been playing football?
AN: Banafsheh Alavi is married. She is studying the English language in university. I think she started football as soon as they established women's football. The thing is that she has loved football from childhood. And the most interesting thing about her was when she was a child, she was raised up like boys. … The first time that she found an article in the newspaper that they established women's football—that was nine years ago—she joined a club. She had some friends, and [Iran] established a league. For the very first national team that [Iran] established for female football, she was a member. She played both in attack, as a forward, and also as goalkeeper.
GG: Move It involves Banafsheh juggling a ball down a street, and a car is tracking her movement, following her. She ends up in a wider space, an open area. That submission was made to the Berlin competition to show her passion for the game?
AN: The film is four minutes. What I wanted to show with the movie is exactly this passion of football and passion of being in a match, but at the same time the loneliness of this girl—no support, no one really wants to hear about her passion. So I asked her to play along the street, followed by a boy. … This boy listens to football from the radio of his car. Together with the voice of this football match, which we hear from the radio, then she went to this wide shot, to this football stadium, which is a kind of football pitch for training. When you see the whole thing, you can understand that Banafsheh going through this football field is just her imagination. So it's not a real field, it's just the imagination of Banafsheh at that moment. She imagines that she enters a real football [field]. At the same time, you hear the voice from a stadium, that people are cheering.
GG: Did she participate in the first match with the Berlin team [28 Apr 06] that features in Football Under Cover?
AN: Unfortunately not. … Banafsheh has a very strong and independent character. It's what I admire and appreciate. But being independent in Iran is always problematic. She had some problem with the football federation, and so she wasn't in the match. So we had to choose another girl [to take her place]. … Unfortunately, [Banafsheh is] off the national football team.
GG: This match in Apr 06 was the first outdoor competition in public for the Iranian team.
AN: In Iran. Before that they had a match in Jordan. …
Produced by Al Jazeera's English-language service, "Egypt—Bending It Like Beckham" aired on the Everywoman program on Jul 26. "If my fiancé [sic] wanted to play football, I would forbid her," says a male player.
GG: Explain how difficult it was to make that first match happen. I understand that the arrangements were complicated.
AN: Extremely complicated [laughs]. In my opinion the biggest problem with female football for the fundamentalist party of Iran is [dealing with] taboo. Not only football, but whatever women do is still like a taboo. The problem in Iran is that the fundamentalists are not as strong as a majority; they have just a minority. The problem is this minority has a real power, has a great control of everything, like the money, like the army. I can say that this minority has this control. So then you go, for example, in Iran and ask people, ask the normal men, and talk with them about female football, they all like it.
We saw a documentary about female football in Egypt [see above]. There was a scene [in which] young boys start talking about [women's] football, and they are all against it. But if you ask the normal people in Iran, ask their opinion about female football, they are all for it. And we have it in our film. We talk to the normal people, and they all like it. What is actually against [women's football] is this fundamentalist idea. The most important part of our project was to convince them that there is nothing against [the fundamentalists]. It's just about football. There is nothing political behind this. It's nothing against religion. In reality, there is nothing. When you talk about female football, it's just a sport. It's right that women also can do that, and they do it very well. It's very beautiful, very nice. The biggest problem was to break this taboo for [the fundamentalists].
The other problem was they didn't like the men being involved. They said, for example, if you want to [film] them, you use women cinematographers, female crew. In the stadium they just let the women come, so it was out of our control.
Another problem was the regime change [in Aug 05]. When we started the project, in the very beginning, Iran had a new government. The new government in Iran is hardline, so to deal with them was really hard. We had the problem to convince them again, so we had to start from the very beginning. The new people were against everything. These kind of ideas were risky for them to accept. So this taboo that I spoke about was strong. It was really hard for us to get the visas for the German team to come to Iran. It was [almost] impossible. We faced so many problems. But fortunately there are still some people in the Iranian regime that are a fan of this kind of thing and still believe in reforms. I can tell you that in Iran when we embarked on the project there were two groups. One group was totally for the idea, and one group was totally against the idea. Fortunately the people for the idea could win, and we could make it.
The people in the Iranian football federation were all great fans of women's football. … The female football section and the international section all did their best to let it happen. The biggest problem were the people behind the problem: we didn't know who they were, they were unreachable. …
GG: So there is an invisible clerical element in Iran that is creating those difficulties, similar to the clerical group creating a controversy over women's being able to watch men's games in Iran—the topic of Jafar Panahi's film Offside [see 28 Mar 07].
AN: There are these taboos I told you about. For example, in Jafar Panahi's film we see very clearly that women can go to cinema together with men. So what's the difference between cinema and football? There is no logical thinking behind this. The only problem is this taboo.
GG: Tell us about the German team, BSV Al-Dersimspor. It was quite bold and courageous of them to be involved in this film and to take on the trip to Iran.
AN: At the Berlinale, one of the footballers [Marlene Assmann] made a film [Der Weg ist das Spiel] about the whole team. … The thing I like about the German team is they play football just because of football and nothing else. … They want to be a team, like real sisters. The trip to Iran was really important for them, because they could do something else with football. This is a really multicultural team, people from Turkey, people from Germany, some Greeks, some Arabs, some people from Eastern Europe. But when you go inside the team, you really feel the great friendship between them. In my opinion, they are the only team that has this character. … When you go to other areas in Berlin—I followed some of [Dersimspor's] matches—the girls are just German. They are one of the few female teams that have some foreigners. This multicultural base of the team has a very important role in the film.
GG: So that there were some Muslim players on the German team perhaps helped the match take place.
AN: The team was really open to the idea. When Marlene came with the idea to the team … they said, "We want to make it." We had great support from them. The date changed sometimes, and we had the visa problems, but they all said, "We want to make it." For example, they had to postpone some of their matches in the league, and at the end of the league they had [a backlog] of matches—every two days they had a match.
GG: Some of Dersimspor's players have backgrounds in Islam, but they might not have experienced what it's like to be in Iran with the restrictions and to play in head coverings.
AN: Actually, they know about the Islamic rules, because the basis of the team belongs to an Islamic community in Berlin. … But it's not something you can find in the team. When you meet the girls, there is nothing Islamic about them. But they appreciate the Islamic situation, because they know it from their background. Playing football [in Iran] is something different, something new for them. … They didn't know how they could use their skills in the football field with these long shorts, long sleeves, and the scarf. It was a really new experience for them.
GG: There were spectators, all women, at the football match in Iran. Presumably you were not allowed to watch or to participate in the filmmaking?
AN: It's true. It was the hardest moment for me. I tried for this match for more than nine months, and at the end I couldn't be involved. So it felt kind of sad for me. I couldn't wait to see the film of the match. For me as a filmmaker, it wasn't so easy to accept that the film couldn't be under my control. For me the most terrible moment—it's a sensitive moment—was not as a filmmaker but as a human. I fell in love with these footballers. They had all these problems, and they just want to play football. With all the problems that the regime makes, and authority makes, and Islamic dress makes, they just want to play football. I love this effort. At the very end I couldn't be involved. I was really nervous outside the stadium when I had nothing to do.
GG: So you stood outside the stadium and listened?
AN: We couldn't listen. It wasn't clear. The assistant director of the film called me every five minutes … but you want to see, you want to feel the atmosphere. Also as a football fan, no one can report the football for you. You want to see for yourself. When your favorite team plays, you prefer to go to the stadium than stay home and watch it on television. For me just to hear what was going on, it wasn't enough.
GG: The second game that was to take place on Jun 1 was canceled by these secret, unknown channels in Tehran. Have you learned any more about what was behind the match being canceled?
AN: It's very hard to say. With the totalitarian regime we always have this problem. We are not really clear. This time the fundamentalism could win against this reform element. I think the Iranian embassy in Berlin made this problem. It's just my own idea, not a reality maybe. It's what I found out myself.
Because from the very beginning when the team contacted the embassy, the embassy wasn't so cooperative. For example, they didn't like the stadium … there were some Iranians, some opposition, that wanted to have a demonstration. In my imagination, the people in the Iranian embassy sent a letter to Iran and convinced them to cancel the match. When IRIFF, the Iranian football federation, bought the ticket for them—[the cancellation] came on the day of their flight—it means that they had permission from the Iranian side. Without the permission inside the country, they couldn't buy the ticket. From outside the only source that could make the cancellation was the embassy.
In the first match, we also had this problem. The Iranian embassy was not so cooperative. In the first match we could pass this obstacle because we were inside Iran. When you are in Iran the decision of the people in Iran is more important than the decision of people in the embassy. … When the Iranian team wanted to come to Berlin, because it was out of Iran, the decision of people in the embassy was more important than the decision of people inside the country.
At an August friendly in Tehran, Iran, in red, scores en route to a 5–2 victory over Jordan.
GG: Did the film and the football matches become more political and more contentious than you expected at the beginning, or was it always going to happen that way?
AN: As long as this fundamentalism exists in Iran, every human activity would be seen as political, unfortunately. … Not only women's activities, but any kind of independent activity in front of this fundamentalism would be political. …
In the first match in the West Asian competition [on Sept 3], [Iran] won 13–0 against Syria. Two years ago in the first match against Syria, they won 5–0. In two years, they had no real matches, [but] they have had great development. So just imagine them with a better organization, better experience. They can reach the international level very soon. But unfortunately this fundamentalism behind them really doesn't like them to improve, to go further.
In my opinion, as long as this fundamentalism exists, these footballers will have this political situation [with] them. And I'm so sorry about that.
GG: The cancellation of the second match was very disappointing to you and to all the players, but in a way does it make your film project stronger, because it proves the point you are making about restrictions on women playing the game?
AN: The reason that we made this film was to have the female football in Iran. My main goal is to see that female football in Iran has its own development, finds its own way, and they can play football without problems. It made my film more strong, but I'm not happy with that. I think my film has its own strength, and it works without these problems. So I hope finally to see that they really can play football and go to international matches without facing this fundamentalism. That would be my dream.
- Football Under Cover premieres at the 2008 Berlinale on Feb 10. It releases to cinemas in Germany on Apr 10.
- Photographer Olivia Arthur presents images of Iranian women that defy Western stereotypes (Isabel Albiston, "Iranian Women: Beyond the Veil," Telegraph Magazine, Nov 10). Of periodic government crackdowns on female dress, Arthur says they are farcical. "The fashion police stop women in the street and tell them to put their headscarves on properly and not to wear make-up. But in Teheran, a city of 15 million people, where most young women wear make-up and nail varnish, the police can only stop a few. The next day everyone will come out and do exactly the same thing."
- The Iranian women's team lost the first leg of a 2008 Asian Cup qualifier Oct 20 in Gurgaon, India, outside New Delhi (Garima Verma, "Iran Lose, but Their Voices Are Heard," Times News Network, Oct 20). Despite the 1–3 loss to India, Iran, according to the reporter, had its backing in the stands—"30 Persian girls" who created "one helluva atmosphere which would have even put the aura of a guys' match to shame." "Women in our country would even eclipse men when it comes to living the game," Iran defender Katayoun Khosrowyar told the India Times writer.


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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:37 pm
Post subject: Pet names
No, not the silly kind that your lover/spouse/whatever calls you.
Names for actual pets. This thread was inspired by:
horsin'around wrote:
Anyway, we got the Great Cat of Re when he was just a fluffy little ball, and Jose was visiting...you see where it went. The name stuck and Jon has great fun bellowing, "THE GREAT CAT OF RE!" and having him (the cat) come charging in from all over the house. He's actually a rather large cat. We never thought he'd live up to his presumptuous name.
That is one seriously awesome cat name.
So, if you have pets, what are they called and why, and if you don't then what would you want to call them if you did?
We used to have quite a lot of cats, all named after a prominent characteristic or habit.
was the grumpy, tail-less (car accident, and the cause of the grumpiness) tortoiseshell matriarch. She was called Matty because she used to hog the doormat.
All the following cats were Matty's kittens. We have no clue as to the identities of the fathers.
had a doubly-appropriate name, being both grey and often going to sleep in the wastepaper bin.
was born brown, though he later turned black. "Blacko" just doesn't have the same ring to it, though. He was also big and stupid.
was something of a play-fighter, hence his name - short for "rough and tumble."
was another black cat, her name being a bilingual portmanteau made out of "belle" and "ink."
was short for "Dusty Two" - she was almost the exact same colour as Dusty, but from a later litter. She didn't share her older sister's love of bins, though.
There were most likely others that we never knew about - with at least two litters you'd expect more than five kittens, and since we only know about Two through second-hand information it seems a fairly good bet that there were others that didn't stay in the family.
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:04 pm
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I foresee this becoming more about the pets themselves than their names.
Anyway, my family's two cats don't have any real logic behind their names (though their names were chosen in part by coolness), but our dog's name has an explination.
Nikki (short for Nicolette) - is the smaller cat (between a foot and 18 inches- that's 30.5 cm & 45.75 cm), but she's very confident and can be really mean. She loves boxes, loud noises, and fruit snacks, but she's terrified fo paper.
Phoeni (aka Phoenix) - is massive; almost two feet without his tail (61 cm) and a maximum reach of more than a yard (1 meter). He's easily frightened, though, and is famous for his enormous blue eyes.
Cooper, the dog, is a Havanese- a cirus dog. He walks on his hind legs and dances in circles for treats. Anyway, as soon as I heard what my mom planned to name him, I personally renamed him Koopa. Even my mom calls him that, now.
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:19 pm
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We've two cats.
Gizmmo: We didn't name him. He used to be fat, but now he's just a rather large flap that hangs down and jiggles when he walks. He's white underneath and has a dark tabby coloring on top - like he's wearing a cape actually. he's still pretty big. He likes socks and has the creepiest meow you've ever heard. We think he's part maine coon because he has these HUGE almond-shaped bright green eyes - except he's short haired, so it doesn't really fit. He's 14, and if you leave ANYTHING on the counter he will steal it the moment you turn your back
Samwise: I bottle fed him. :3 He's smallish for a four-year-old cat. He's a really pretty tabby - my brother calls him a Mackrel tabby because his stripes are really close together and very distinctive. He's VERY affectionate and sweet, but also extremely mischievous. We think he thinks he's human- because he keeps trying to pick things up with his paws. He even tries to open doors! He's gotten pretty good at opening cabinets with his nose. He's very smart, and I love him so. He's a glutton, and is rather chunky. We nicknamed him "Sir Licksalot" for obvious reasons.
. . .Yes I love my cats to death, what of it?
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Tasha, a bluehealer/bordercollie mix was named when we got her from the humane society, but most people who inquired about her name asked if it came from Star Trek, which is apparently the only time the name Tasha has ever been used ever, so that might be it.
Midnight, a bluehealer/spanial mix who grew up to have an astounding resemblence to Tasha, despite no relation, got her name somewhat poorly. The parents were letting the young kids decide how to name the puppy, and I remember advocating Brownie, because she was black with some brown bits, like the treat, but the younger brothers apparently couldn't understand, and were totally confused by the idea of naming a black dog Brownie, and eventually in exassperation I said the first "black" word that popped into my head, and it stuck. As I'm older, Brownie wasn't a really great name either, but Midnight doesn't even sound like a name at all to the observer. She was often simply called "Puppy" instead well into adulthood.
Phantom is called Phantom because that's what he was called on the pet rescue site where my family found him. As it turns out, phantom is the name of an obscure flavor of poodle (obscure as in, I'm pretty sure that someone at some point, just made up the term, because he had a bunch of mixed breed poodles that he wanted to sell as if he had bred them like that intentionally). Anyway, they thought that was his name, and even when they found out, Phantom is just a cool name for a pet, so it stayed.
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I had two cats when I was younger and since we were
young when we got them (I was three and my brother was 5) I just let my brother pick the names. He called them Paddywack and Cozy. It was in a book he'd read and the cats looked like the cats in the book. Cozy was HUGE! He could lie on three people and have his head in one lap and his tail hanging off the lap of the other end! He was an awesome cat and really protective of his sister (my cat) Paddywack. She was quite shy and even moreso after he died on the road.
I also had fish, but since they were a shoal of neon tetra fish we just called them The Mob. Until they started eating each other. Eventually there was only one left and we called him Hannibal
EDIT: I forgot to mention that when I get a job I'm going to get a new cat and call it Schroedinger ^_^ (Cookies to all my theoretical physics buddies who get the reference!)
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I'm dreading Ponce discovering this thread. I can't imagine how long her response is going to be.
Ben, my first dog, was given his name just because it suited him, there was no real meaning behind it, though I did almost call him Tom.
Columbus, my cat, (who is actually a girl) used to explore a lot when she was a kitten, (ironically enough she won't leave the house [read: couch] now.)
Jet, my current dog, has black fur and can also run ridiculously fast.
And we used to have a kitten named Matilda, we called her Tilly.
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:22 am
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theBSDude wrote:
I foresee this becoming more about the pets themselves than their names.
Having started the topic, and therefore being able to decide what the topic actually is (and thus whether or not something is off-topic), we declare this to be fine and dandy.
theBSDude wrote:
She loves boxes, loud noises, and fruit snacks, but she's terrified fo paper.
How very weird.
What if you shake a big sheet of paper to make loud noises?
Tinu. wrote:
my brother calls him a Mackrel tabby because his stripes are really close together and very distinctive.
Mackerel is actually a valid tabby pattern.
Tinu. wrote:
. . .Yes I love my cats to death, what of it?
Virturealm wrote:
the younger brothers apparently couldn't understand, and were totally confused by the idea of naming a black dog Brownie
If Bruno were still alive, he'd probably try to shred their trousers. That'll show them.
That, or steal the robin off their Christmas cake and try to eat it. He did that once.
Well, we did say he was stupid.
TheBritishInvasion wrote:
I'm dreading Ponce discovering this thread.
Speaking of Ponce, Krislyn would be a rather good name...
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Allicat wrote:
I forgot to mention that when I get a job I'm going to get a new cat and call it Schroedinger ^_^ (Cookies to all my theoretical physics buddies who get the reference!)
Woohoo! Cookies!
Just be sure the cat doesn't get into a state of superposition.
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Before I was born, my parents got a kitten. He was cute and fluffy, naturally, but his dominant characteristic was his skittishness. Door slams? He flees and isn't seen for the rest of the day. So of course they named him
In the end, Killer had the last laugh -- he grew up to be a mighty hunter, bringing not merely mice and birds, but rabbits, snakes, and on a couple of occasions, squirrels. When I was a kid, he got in an accident with a VW Bug. Killer was okay, but the VW Bug needed several hundred dollars of repairs. The second time he tangled with a VW Bug a few years later, though, the Bug won.
We've had a couple of cats since then.
was named based on the character in "Bunnicula".
got her name based on the time of year -- we got her close to Thanksgiving. She lasted a long time -- just shy of twenty years. We think a fox may have gotten her at last when she went out hunting. Which is mildly amazing to begin with; imagine a ninety year old woman stalking and killing a deer with nothing but her teeth and nails, and you'll have a good idea how we felt every time Pilgrim brought home a new conquest in her old age.
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ATM I have only one pet, I paid for him, but since we all play with him, litter is on chore rotations and it's usually mom's job to feed him...
I named him Iroh, just...well, for the very awesomness of Iroh!
When I met him in our local pet shelter, he was rather small, just finished his kittenhood. He looked at me through the bars, like he was expecting me. But that's not how I first saw him, they had adorable pictures from the Animal shelter's website. The name they gave him was Scorpion, and I immediately knew that he was mine (For secret reasons all my own....well, you can have a cookie if you figure out the scorpion thing)
The first time I heald him, he was holding onto my shoulder so hard, the left all these little clawmarks on my back....little booger. So, we roughouse with him, and he roughouses with us....
Recently, I've taken to calling him Meow-meow... O.o
I'll talk about my lovely baby girls later.....You know I love you ladies!
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Tyris, you are full of win and genius. What a brilliant thread!
Note: a (p) after the name means pony.
Meadow Lark (p)
Faenor (EVIL!)
Bingo (p)
Scarlett (p)
Chubby (p)
Midge (p)
Dragonfly (p)
Silk (p)
Rosie (p)
Safire (p)
Stupid *wince* (p)
Olliver (p)
Saana (p)
Black Thunder (p)
Independance (Indy)
Jingles (p)
The Great Cat of Re
Wild: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and Six.
Domestic: Columbine, Cinnamon, Belle
Pig: Archie
Snake: Smores
Peregrine Falcon: Elation
Mouse: Scrap
Gerbil: Col. Robert Hamilton
Goat: Basil
...and I think that's everyone.
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As the Ewok said ... EEE chi mama!
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EDIT: I forgot to mention that when I get a job I'm going to get a new cat and call it Schroedinger ^_^ (Cookies to all my theoretical physics buddies who get the reference!)
Brilliant. XD
Wait. . .You have a falcon Ponce!?!
We've had so many cats. . .and about three generations of chickens - we'd still have them if a dump cooper's hwk hadn't eaten them (I TOLD dad to cover the top of the pen!) (Then again, it was a HUGE hawk - we saw it several times), a singe,hyperactive dog, and about 5 hamsters -I should tell you their stories, they all died horrid deaths. . .>>;
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I like that you listed humans there, ponce. ^_^
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I had to list the humans. It's in my contract.
Yes, I have a falcon, Nu. had a lovely battle over custody with the county. They thought - as do I - that the peregrine should be returned to the wild. Normally, I would wholeheartedly agree; wild animals
be wild. Heck, I haven't been to a zoo since I was seven, and I cried the entire time I was there.
Unfortunately, Elation has protracted a rare wing disease that can cause feather damage to her pins' and whatnot. If I release her in the mountains, she'll die, for sure. So she needs to stay with me, no matter how much a nuisance she is.
everyone has to wear leather gauntlets and guards when they go outside; she is prone to swooping in out of nowhere to land on you. She is also prone to leaving delightful presents, such as rabbit entrails, mice, and on one memorable occasion, an unlucky bat.
At least she doesn't go after my bunnies, who live inside.
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The dinner theatre fundraiser, An Evening with Cole Porter, begins at 6 p.m. and will allow patrons to see the extensive headway in the revitalized theater space within the historic 1938 building.
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"This event speaks to the outstanding support the Delta Arts Alliance has from its members and patrons," said Rori Herbison, interim executive director. "We are at about $12,000 right now and our fundraising goal is $15,000. We're in pretty good shape heading into the weekend."
All proceeds from the gala, which will feature haute cuisine and festive libations, go straight to renovation costs.
"The money raised gives us the ability to provide grants and match funding," added Herbison. "It helps us inch closer to the completion of this project."
Those planning to attend are encouraged to reserve a seat today, as seating is limited to 200 patrons.
Tickets for the event, $75 each, are available at the Delta Arts Alliance office (662-843-3344) and from any board member. Cocktail hour begins at 6 p.m. followed by dinner and entertainment at 7 p.m.
Tickets provide a meal, two beverages of the patron's choosing and admission to an evening of entertainment. There will also be an opportunity to purchase a bottomless wine glass and choose from a fine selection of international wines.
Bolivar County artists will provide singing performances, along with two youth from the DAA dance school who will be performing solo routines.
Herbison said people throughout the community have been reminiscing about the once active space that made Ellis so unique.
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"There is a great want in the community to see the completion of this restoration and renovation."
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He attended North Cleveland Church of God. He was a veteran of the United States Navy.
He is survived by his parents, Delmer Hutchinson and Linda Myers Hutchinson of Cleveland; three daughters: Lacey Hutchinson of Newburg, Ore., Emily Hutchinson and Lydia Hutchinson, both of Ely, Nev.; one sister, Debra and husband, Craig Mallet, of Cleveland; and nieces: Melanie and Marissa Mallet, both of Cleveland.
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If a spike in income is resulting from a sale of real estate or stock, consider a charitable strategy that would keep your adjusted gross income below the threshold levels—and thus prevent the surtax on the capital gain from the sale and on the dividends from your other stock investments. The strategy is to transfer the property to a charitable remainder trust, which is an instrument that pays you and/or another beneficiary income for life or a term of years, with the remainder going to a charity such as our organization.
Example: Roger and Alison, both aged 65, plan to sell a rental property appraised at $400,000 with an adjusted cost basis of $150,000. If they did not sell the property, their adjusted gross income would be $230,000. By selling the property, they increase their adjusted gross income above the threshold level and subject themselves to the 3.8% surtax. Because they have depreciated the property, part of the capital gain would be subject to a 28.8% tax (25% rate on gain attributable to depreciation plus the 3.8% surtax).
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Remote exploitation of an integer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Systems Inc.'s Adobe Reader versions 10.1.4 and earlier could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user.
The vulnerability occurs during the processing of a malformed true type font 'cmap' table. When processing a specific element of the 'cmap' table data structure an integer overflow can occur resulting in a buffer, located on the heap, being improperly indexed and written to. The improper indexing of the heap buffer can result in the execution of arbitrary code.
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The seventh grade participated in an Earth Day webcast for the entire school day. We were joined by other schools and individuals around the globe. The webcast was archived in 6 parts and can be viewed on Ms. Adams' website. We had visitors from Arizona, California, New York, British Columbia, Korea, Germany, United Arab Emirates and a tall ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Our students also created placemats for local restaurants to be used on Earth Day. Other projects included movie trailers, paper construction of trash cans and poetry. Thank you to TD Bank (Rye Branch), Betty's Kitchen and Hungry Horse for supporting our projects!
Here is a slide show of some of our work/projects.
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It's that time of year! The students created science Valentines. Each Valentine had to include a minimum of 4 science concepts that we have learned this year in class. They were also limited in colors to foster creativity. We used Pic Collage on the iPads to create the collage. All of the work can be viewed on the assignment page or on each student's blog page.
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Digital Learning Day is recognized across the nation on the first Wednesday in February. Digital Learning Day is about giving every child the opportunity to learn in a robust digital environment every day, with the goal of success in college and a career.
The students created Vokis to share what they are learning in 7th grade. This simple looking cartoon character incorporates several skills, including summarizing, listening, and technology skills to create and post on the blog. View all of the Vokis at the assignment page - http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=266813&assignmentid=14770
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Save the date! - November 1 for Project Safeguard! 8:30 am - 2:30 pm.
News from the classrooms:
This month in Language Arts, the focus has been on reading strategies. As a class, we are reading the novel Stargirl, which examines the choice between following the crowd and displaying your true personality. This theme is one that many seventh graders struggle with, and we have had many enlightening conversations about the behavior described in the book. Also, students are identifying literary strategies such as character development, author's purpose, foreshadowing, developing the plot and many others. We have recently kicked off a project based on Stargirl, which will result in a mock school board meeting. Please visit my website (http://rjh7la.weebly.com) for a description of that project and an outline of the other work we are doing regarding our reading.
At the beginning of the year, we work a great deal on the organization of their writing, and using textual evidence to develop their ideas into a cohesive, professional writing sample. Students will always be required to plan out their writing before they actually begin, as this will further develop the ability to order and explain their ideas. Finally, this week students will be assigned a longer writing response based on their novel they are reading at home. A link to this work is also available on my website under the "Homework" section.
Social studies classes have finished our look at the topic of culture; what it is and how we can use it to compare the way people live. In our current unit, students are studying the development of the first civilizations of the Fertile Crescent located in today's modern Iraq. We are examining how human society changed as a result of the development of agriculture. After a look at life in early Mesopotamia, the classes will be starting a group project on the major river civilization of the Bronze Age. Each group will be required to put together a slideshow based on one of the textbook chapters 4-8 and then present the show to teach the rest of the students about their civilizations.
Reminder: SS pts for the first half of Trimester #1 are due on Tuesday Oct 15th.
Students have finished Chapter 1 on The Real Number System and did an overall great job on the Chapter 1 test! All tests have been returned to students, please ask your child to show you his/her Chapter 1 test. If a student received a grade lower than a 75%, that assignment can be corrected with help if needed, signed by a parent, and returned to me within two weeks of receiving the assignment. Upon completion the student will be given an opportunity to reassess. Students have started Chapter 2 on Rational Number Operations. Throughout this chapter students will be adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing integers, fractions, and decimals. A Family Letter and Activity was sent home at the beginning of Chapter 2. There are several Hands-On Activities throughout the chapter that students will work on together in groups. NECAP testing began last week and continued into this week. Less homework was assigned during NECAP testing. Now that testing is over, we will return to our normal class schedules and assign more practice for home.
Science - The students have researched an astronomer and created a trading card with interesting facts. The cards will be displayed at Harvest Fest on Oct. 23rd. Before NECAP testing we took a walk along the road to investigate the planets. We used one scale for size and distance. If the Sun is the size of a beachball, where are all the planets and how big would they be? The planet walk starts outside our school at the sign on Washington Road. The first 4 planets are on near the school grounds, but the gas giants are beyond on Wallis Road. The names have been painted on the road (with permission) according to scale. If you have some free time, walk the solar system!
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Social Studies classes kicked off the year with an examination of the different disciplines of the Social Sciences and how they are used to understand a given time period or civilization. We've now moved on to a look at concept of culture and how we use it to make comparisons about the way a given group of people lived. At the same time, the students are reviewing some of the basic geographic terms and concepts beginning with a look at relative and exact location.
Science classes have started the year with a few investigations that deal with observations. We followed up by examining how our eyes work. We have incorporated some technology standards too! You can view their work here on their own blog. Click on the assignment on the left hand side of the navigation window. We will also tweet out from time to time. If you don't use twitter you can still follow along at http://twitter.com/7thscience.
Students started 7th grade math sharing information about themselves as math learners by completing a "Mathography." Within the first week students persevered through challenging problems. This year the program we are piloting across all grade levels is the Singapore based Math in Focus series. Over the last two weeks students have been working on Chapter 1 The Real Number System. By the end of Chapter 1 students will understand that real numbers are represented as points on an infinite line and are used to count, measure, estimate, or approximate quantities. MATHCOUNTS has begun! Students meet Mondays after school from 3:00PM-3:30PM. MATHCOUNTS is an after school club that provides enrichment and challenge to any interested 6th, 7th, or 8th grade student! In February, there will be a local competition at the University of New Hampshire.
In Language Arts, students have started the year by reviewing the necessary parts of a paragraph. In order to track student progress, all students completed a short writing exercise that will be assessed by all teachers on the seventh grade team. This process ensures that students are displaying best writing practice in all areas. Students are now reading an article about dress codes in schools - a hot topic!- and discussing the importance of word choice, audience and organization in writing. They are using the article to discover the meaning of unknown words, answer comprehension questions, and write longer constructed responses. In the end, students are looking forward to a debate on the importance of dress codes. Should be interesting . . .
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A Hoe Down Benefit for Christina Flanagan will be held
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kitchen will open at 5pm. Donations will be accepted with
proceeds going to Chris to help defray medical expenses.
Chris has recently been diagnosed with Stage Four Mesothelioma
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