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Fiona Malena in KelownaBy Kristina FedorovAnd Taria Soames

Fiona Malena, a Calgary-born Spanish Flamenco dancer was per-forming in Kelowna this past week. She started dancing Flamenco in her late teens, and moved to Spain at age nineteen for formal training. She now lives part-time in Spain, and part-time in Canada; or as Fiona puts it, “Wherever my work takes me.”

Flamenco dancing is a beautiful art form practiced all over the world. It is a Spanish art form but many oth-er cultures perform and practice it. Flamenco originated in Andalucía, and many of the gypsies practiced it before anyone else. Flamenco consists of Cante (singing), Toque

(Guitar), Baile (Dance), and Palmas (handclaps).

Over the years many different styles of flamenco have formed. In total there are 151 styles of fla-menco that are practiced all over the world. Andalucía was where flamenco was formed. The gypsies would sing, clap, dance, and play guitar. Over a number of years fla-menco’s popularity spread out and beyond the gypsies. Many people all over Spain started dancing fla-menco, and it became an actual dance style.

Solea, Alegria, Buleria, Tangos, and Fandangos are some of the more popular styles; They all have a 12 beat rhythm that’s a little confus-ing. Like I said, there are 151 styles of flamenco and these are only a few of the vast and beautiful styles of flamenco that are performed all over the world.

The very unique thing about Fla-menco is the fact that it is not just a dance, a song or a rhythm; it is an expression and contribution of many different people. Fiona de-scribes it as a “multi-dimensional art, like a full relief painting… There are so many layers to it.” It is very rhythmic, extremely expres-sive and always different. Each show will be different because the troupe works with each other so closely; half the performance is im-

provised and can never be replicat-ed.

We asked Fiona what her favourite style of flamenco was and she replied, “Every year it is different.” This year though, it is the Peten-eras. The Peteneras is a very mysti-cal dance. It is claimed that the verses of the song are cursed and therefore it is rare to be performed. “The Peteneras is very flexible, it requires a lot of personal involve-ment and improvisation so many people find it very hard to work with,” Fiona said, “It is extremely deep.”

“La Cueva” (The Caves) Fiona Malena’s current show, was creat-ed in the historic caves in Cap-

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Bible Trivia

By Megan Ferguson

Hey guys! I found this cool quiz about the Old Testament on this site:http://www.religionresourceson-line.org /bible-quiz/printable-bible-quiz-questions-and-answers/

Since I’m too lazy to create my own quiz, I stole one off the site. ALL CREDIT GOES TO THEM!

1.) How many books are there in the Old Testament?

a) 66

b) 12

c) 39

d) 27

2.) What is the name commonly given to the first five books of the Old Testament?

a) Pseudepigrapha

b) Apocrypha

c) Septuagint

d) Pentateuch

3.) Who wrote the first five books of the Old Testament?

a) Moses

b) Noah

c) Adam

d) Abraham

4.) In what language was the Old Testament written?

a) Assyrian

b) Greek

c) Latin

d) Hebrew

5.) What time period does the Old Testament cover?

a) The beginning of man to the time of the Messiah's death

b) The building of the temple of Solomon to the time of its destruc-tion

c) The beginning of man to the time of the Messiah

padocia, Turkey. The caves are over 1,700 years old and the area has been declared a World Her-itage Site. Christians hid in the caves during time of persecution and created an underground city for themselves. The caves are five stories deep underground and tun-nels and ladders connect them all. Fiona said the inspiration for “La Cueva” was mainly the Turkish landscape and the music of Istan-bul. She had “never experienced anything like it.”

Fiona says, “It is hard to be an artist, these days you must do ev-erything for yourself.” She is her own producer, publicist and man-ager. She controls every aspect of her work and it is very challenging. Funding is a challenge. For such a large performance it takes a lot of money to travel and pay the rest of the troupe. She has done well enough to live off her work since 2007. “The sacrifices are worth it.” Fiona said with a smile. When asked how these challenges have changed her Fiona said, “Well, I’ve become a lot more stressed out!” At the same time, she emphasized how much she has learned about her ability to give and how possi-bilities are endless.

The performance itself empha-sized just how much Fiona Malena loves her art. She lives and breathes Flamenco just as her oth-er performers do. With a chance to get to know Alvalro, her guitarist,

and Mert, her percussionist, it made the whole experience much more meaningful. As audience members we could see the interac-tions between them, the power of the music, singing, and dance all bound together. It is impossible to describe the thrill of watching Fiona beat out a perfect rhythm with flying feet while maintaining a perfectly held upper body and beautifully articulated handwork. The passion that was conveyed throughout the entire performance brought us to tears many times. It was truly inspiring, and we can’t wait for Fiona Malena to return to Kelowna!

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d) The time of the Messiah to the time of His death

6.) Which of these books is NOT found in the Old Testament?

a) Jude

b) Hosea

c) Amos

d) Joel

7.) Which of these books is NOT found in the Old Testament?

a) Deuteronomy

b) Revelation

c) Leviticus

d) Numbers

8.) Which of these books is NOT found in the Old Testament?

a) 3 Kings

b) 2 Chronicles

c) Psalms

d) 2 Samuel

9.) Which of these women is men-tioned in the Old Testament?

a) Elisabeth

b) Anna

c) Rachel

d) Martha

10.) Which of these books come first in order in the Old Testament?

a) Lamentations

b) Ecclesiastes

c) Ruth

d) Exodus

Answers can be found at the back of the paper! Give the quiz a go before checking to see if you were right.

Citation: Clark, Dave. "Printable B i b l e Q u i z Q u e s t i o n s a n d Answers." Religion Resources On-line of All Types!. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 July 2014

Anchor

A Poem by Emily Pearson

I’d give anything to see you smile againMy dear, you’ve been hurt too many timesI want to be the one to wipe you tearsI’ll anchor your heart when you come undoneGive you all my love when you’ve felt like you’ve had enoughYour eyes, they sparkle beneath starlightI want to see that smile again, dar-ling in your weakest moments, you’ll be made strongI’ll anchor your heart when you come undone

Be the one to give you all the love even when you’ve had enoughI’ll anchor your heart my dearI’m coming back for you, you’ll be my bride all dressed up in whiteThe day is coming when I’ll take you homeUp to the heavens where our wed-ding will beMy love, I’m coming for youI’ll anchor your heart, when you come undoneGive you all my love when you’ve had enoughDon’t look back now, darling.I’m here now; so let me hold you closeI’ll whisper to you when you’re hurtWhen your heart has been thrown into the dirtI’ll be the one, to anchor your heart when you come undoneMy dearest, don’t lose hopeI’ll anchor heart, when the waves toss aroundI’ll be the one to catch, when you feel like you’re about to drownI’ll anchor your heart when your shaken and undoneMy love, the time will come when I will take you homeUp to the heavens where you be-long

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Photo taken by Samara Paine, Grade 10

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Life

An IMO by Grace Kelly

Let’s be honest for a second, life sucks. It’s seriously dreadful. Movies with happy endings and optimistic songs about the good life are misleading and even dan-gerous if you start to believe in them. I’m tired of Disney princess-es that get the prince in the end, and I’m tired of feel-good vibes from music and movies that tell you you’re a beautiful snowflake even if your personality is worse than Joan Rivers’ (rest her soul) 500th nose-job.But most of all I’m tired of meeting older people that are depressed because of their wasted potential and their misconception that the world was a place where every-thing turned out in your favor if you only persevered long enough through the crushing pain and heartbreak to get to the other side.I’m not older than most of you, and I’m not half as experienced as less than half of you are, but I thought I’d share some things that I’ve come to realize are true a"er being alive for 18 years.

1. The world is not on your side.People are not standing in the wings waiting for you to achieve and cheering when you do, as soon as you leave home, that kind of support is gone. You have to learn to be your own motivation; you have to be your own cheer-leading squad. The world, or rather the people that it’s made up of, are only concerned about one thing: themselves. Eventually you’re go-ing to have to start thinking like that too, or you’re bound to drown before you even get in the water.

2. People aren’t kind.This point you can defy all you like, but you have to admit that the general population is bound to drive past a hitch-hiker, avoid giv-ing a homeless person change, and ignore the food bank basket at the grocery store. To those few that do do these things, kudos. But people, just your everyday, run-of-the-mill person isn’t going to be kind or generous to you if you are A) A stranger, B) Can’t do anything for t h e m o r C ) S e e m l i k e a deadweight.

3. Happy endings aren’t real.Happy endings aren’t real unless you’re looking forward to dying, in which case you’ll definitely have a happy ending.You’re probably going to get mar-ried young to a person that you’re sure you love, you’ll go on to mort-gage a house that is far out of your price range, go into debt, stay at the same dead end job for years upon years, have a couple of kids and then realize that you really don’t like your partner at all. At this point you’ll either do one of two things: stay with them or di-vorce them. I’m going to leave the divorce option alone because you’ve all seen how that story plays out, but if you decide to stay and work things out with your spouse, your life will continue as normal, except it will be harder. Your children and money problems will cause stress to both you and your Mr. or Mrs., and eventually you will both get some kind of

heart condition or other disease, for which you’ll take medication that creates other problems. It’s all downhill from there. You’ll work a little bit past retirement age, and if you’re lucky you’ll die at home while gardening rather than in a hospital surrounded by people you don’t remember anymore.Bam. Life.

I have been visiting elderly people in a care facility every single week for the last five years of my life. During the span of those thou-sands of visits I have heard differ-ent variations of the story that I wrote above from over a hundred different people. Every time an el-derly person starts telling me about their life, they always have so much they regret. That’s proba-bly the hardest thing to hear, that you’ve gotten to the end of your life and you regret almost every-thing. I don’t want to be one of those people. I want to have realis-tic expectations for what my life will be so that when I die I won’t be disappointed with myself. My mantra that I repeat to myself when life seems to be going right is this: life sucks and then you die.I still have hope for the little bits of happiness in-between the sucking and the dying, like graduating from post-secondary, getting married, and maybe having my first child. And of course if you’re a Christian there’s that awesome bit about go-ing to heaven when you die. But otherwise life is just depressing and full of ups and downs, and from what I’ve seen, mostly downs.It’s all pretty horrible. As I see it you can either hold onto the bad things that happen in life and die a hard, cold-hearted bitter old lady or man, or you can let it all go and cling to the good things that hap-

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Conflict

An Article by Adley Soames

Before you read this article, I will warn you, it may leave you feeling depressed. However, I did not write this article to depress you, but to inform you on the subject of con-flict. As Canadians, we are very re-moved from the conflicts of the world, but that does not mean that these conflicts do not happen. In fact, the total area of countries cur-rently dealing with conflict adds up to almost half of the world. Al-though not all of these conflicts are extremely serious, they are still wars, which involve violence and death. So I start this article by say-ing this: half of our planet is cur-rently at war.

I cannot, in detail, report on every war on the planet, so instead I will give a paragraph on the most vio-lent war currently in progress. The most violent war today is the Syri-an civil war, with over 30,000 deaths this year. The Syrian war has been described as a Proxy war, which means third parties are fighting each other on behalf of more powerful parties. All in all it is a very complicated situation, which started with simple protest-ing against President Bashar al As-sad. Bashar al Assad responded by attacking the protestors with his army. That conflict grew into a civil war, with Syria on one side against a number of armed opposition groups including the Free Syrian Army and the Islamic Front. In 2013, Hezbollah (a militant group based in Lebanon and funded by Iran) joined the civil war on the side of the Syrian army. Around the same time, ISIS (Islamic State, originally linked to Al-Qaeda) en-tered the battle from the east and began conquering parts of Syria and Iraq for themselves. By July 2014 ISIS had taken control of a third of Syria’s territory and most of its oil and gas production. More recently, Russia and Iran began strengthening their military sup-port of the Syrian government. The countries Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United States re-sponded by transferring weapons to the rebel groups in Syria. This is but a brief description of all the powers involved in the Syrian civil war, which could be summed up as Russia and Iran verses Europe, U.S.A and a number of Arab states, all fighting over Syria, with ISIS

fighting both sides while nudging their way into power. In the end, the large powers get a war; ISIS gets oil and gas, while Syria gets destroyed.

As I stated at the beginning of the article, I did not write this to scare you, depress you, or make you join the army; I simply wrote this to in-form you of the world’s current conflict situation, which is much larger, more complicated and more serious then is o"en understood by Canadians. If you wish to under-stand more of the world’s current conflicts, then I suggest research-ing in further detail, The Syrian Civ-il War, the Iraq Crisis, the Mexican drug war and the South Sudanese

Civil War. Those four wars are the world’s most serious conflicts, however many other wars are be-ginning to overtake them in death tolls.

I hope this article has inspired a few of you to further your investi-gation into the world’s current con-flicts. Although we may never in-vent a solution to war, it is very beneficial for as many people as possible to be aware of war. Some-times it’s easy for first-world coun-try citizens to take peace and free-dom for granted. Not only is it im-portant for us to remember our own soldiers, but to take into con-sideration the lives of other coun-tries’ men and women who have given their lives and continue to fight all across the world. Thank you for reading.

pen, the few things that brighten a day, or make you smile or give you hope, even if they’re tiny. That way when you’re (hopefully) old and dying, you’ll know that your life wasn’t completely wasted, it was only partially wasted.

Just so that we don’t leave on a depressing note, here’s a quote from Rainer Marie Rilke, “Let ev-erything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

Tune in next issue for an IMO about why teenaged relationships are a great idea.

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Meet Kennedy MacInnis!

Random Facts

about the HCOS

Weekly Staff

By Jennica Wlodarczyk

1. Deanna's family has chicken-killing days.2. Grace is a ginger.3. Jaleesa lives in Alberta and en-joys emoticon usage.4. Davin likes medieval weapons.

5. Amongst groups of little kids, Joshua is actually known as "Bat-man."6. Megan actually gets out of her house five days a week.7. Jazzannah is the second-oldest child out of five.8. Genevieve's family is wonderful-ly creative; once they went as far as frying icing in a pan.9. Kristina does not like puns.10. Jubilee lives in the real world now. It's weird.11. Jesse has a sweet YouTube channel.12. Jennica likes making pointless lists.13. Megan has a cool blog.14. Jazzannah still has her ban-dana from CHEC.15. Jesse once kissed a chicken.16. Deanna's heritage is partially Russian.17. Kristina's heritage is also par-tially Russian.18. Once in a while, the HCOS Weekly staff will have fun little Skype party conversations.19. These conversations usually end up being stopped by the editor, who reminds everyone that there is work to be done.20. We appreciate all of our mem-bers - even the non-official ones.21. Kennedy has cool story ideas.22. Most of the members have met each other, which is super cool.23. Jennica was very tired when she wrote this list.24. Genevieve is really cool. This is partially because she has an awe-some, Google-researched knowl-edge of the Belarusian language.25. This edition of the HCOS Week-ly is the longest one published (so far) in the 2014-2015 school year.26. While we may not always be punctual or organized, we at the HCOS Weekly really do love giving you guys content to read every two weeks, and hope you enjoy the HCOS Weekly as much as we do!

An InterviewBy Jennica Wlodarczyk

1. Hello Kennedy! What are some interesting facts about yourself t h a t o u r rea d e rs p ro ba b l y wouldn’t know? I have red hair and green eyes, and I enjoy curling as a sport :D

2. Do you have any pets? Yes, I have a dog and a cat. My dog is a Black Brindle purebred Cane Corso named Bella, and my cat is a black green-eyed cat name Izzie.

3. What is your favourite subject in school? My favourite subject in school is Social Studies. I LOVE learning about history.

4. What is your favourite song at the moment? My favourite song at the moment would have to be Lau-ra Story and her song Blessings.

5. What is your job with the HCOS Weekly, and why do you enjoy it? I am a contributing writer for the HCOS Weekly. I enjoy my job be-cause I can write about anything.

6. What was one of the most

defining moments in your life? When I got saved when I was 11 years old.

7. What is one of your pet peeves? One of my biggest pet peeves is people whistling through their nose! It drives me insane!

8. If you were invisible for a day, what would you do? I would get on a plane and go to Europe! Then I would get on the plane for free xD

9. Do you like strawberry jam or raspberry jam better? I like rasp-berry jam better!!!

10. Thanks for allowing me to in-terview you! As a final question, what are your thoughts on the Ogopogo? My thoughts on the Ogopogo: I believe that they exist-ed, but not that they exist anymore. I think that they have long since died out.

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Young Justice's "Nightwing" by Jazzannah Green

"Homeschool Mom" by Joshua Wlodarczyk

Super Comics

Bible Trivia

Answers!

For all of you who tested your Bib-lical knowledge on page 7, here's the answer sheet for you to assess your score.

Answers:

1. C.2. D.3. A.4. D.5. C.6. A.7. B.8. A.9. C.10. D.

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Jesse Ongkili, Artist

Jazzannah Green Melody BrockeMegan Ferguson

Jesse's Art Galleria

Jesse's Art-Icle

Hey all! This week's theme was "Middle Earth"! The three pictures are as follows: Jazzanah Green, Melody Brocke, and Megan Fergu-son (try and guess their race)! As you may have noticed, we didn't get many GUYS in this week, so be sure to request yourself in the next issue! This upcoming theme will be SUPERHEROES! If you are interest-ed, please message me with the superpower(s) you would like to weild in the upcoming edition, and I'll be happy to draw you from a su-perhero/heroine perspective! You can either message me on Skype ( jesseongkili) or email me at hcosweekly@outlook.com. I look forward to seeing YOU in the next edition!