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What's coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Sky Cinema and Disney+ in November 2022
By Will Millar
28th Oct 2022, 8:44am - 1 min read
As seasonal trees strip their autumn leaves and arctic temperatures force the window's shut, TV bingers across the UK will be curling up on the sofa to scrawl through the hundreds of shows coming to streaming services this November.
It really is that time of year again, summer's completely out of the picture, Christmas is on the horizon and Halloween is still creeping around. The TLDR is that you should expect a bit of everything on your screens this November.
From the highly anticipated Enola Homes 2 and My Policeman (Yes.. more Harry Styles) to the Santa Claus franchise, there's sure to be a wide range of television shows and films for bingers to sink their teeth into.
For football fans, the new sports-documentary FIFA Uncovered tackles corruption, power, and politics, just in time for the controversial Qatar World Cup 2022. Meanwhile, Sebastián Lelio's adaptation of The Wonder by Emma Donoghue features Florence Pugh at her best.
But with so much on offer, a new favourite could slip by unnoticed… to save your precious time and a few fingers going a bit achy, we've compiled a directory of all the shows hitting the major streaming sites this November.
What's coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, Sky Cinema and Disney?
Buddy Games (2019)
Felon (2008)
Gabby's Dollhouse (Season 6) Netflix Original Series
Jungleland (2019)
Kimi ni todoke: From Me to You (Multiple Seasons)
Molang (Multiple Seasons)
Spell (2020)
The Takeover (2022) Netflix Original Film
Travel Man: 48 Hours In… (Season 5)
Young Royals (Season 2) Netflix Original Series
Young Sheldon (Season 4)
Channel 4's The Undateables is coming to Netflix
Killer Sally (Limited Series) Netflix Original Series
Till Death (Season 2)
The Undateables (Multiple Seasons)
Blockbuster (Season 1) Netflix Original Series
Panayotis Pascot: Almost (2022) Netflix Original Special
The Dragon Prince: Mystery of Aaravos (Season 4) Netflix Original Series
The much-anticipated Enola Holmes 2 starring Millie-Bobby Brown comes to Netflix on November 4
Buying Beverly Hills (Season 1) Netflix Original Series
Ẹlẹṣin Ọba: The King's Horseman (2022) Netflix Original Film
Enola Holmes 2 (2022) Netflix Original Film
Lookism (Season 1) Netflix Original Series
Manifest (Season 4 – Part 1) Netflix Original Series
Scarlet Hill (Season 1)
The Fabulous (Season 1) Netflix Original Series
The Secrets of Greco Family (Season 1)
The Syndicate (Season 1)
Blitzed! (2020)
Cuba's Wild Revolution (2020)
Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste (Season 1) Netflix Original Series
The Haunting of Margam Castle (2020)
Neal Brennan: Blocks (2022) Netflix Original Special
Illumination's Minions & More 2 (2022)
The Claus Family 2 (2022) Netflix Original Film
Triviaverse (2022) Netflix Original Special
FIFA Uncovered (Season 1) Netflix Original Series
The Crown (Season 5) Netflix Original Series
The Soccer Football Movie (2022) Netflix Original Film
Sepp Blatter in FIFA Uncovered (Season 1)
Falling for Christmas (2022) Netflix Original Film
Lost Bullet 2 (2022) Netflix Original Film
Love Never Lies: Destination Sardinia (Season 1) Netflix Original Series
Motherland (Season 3)
State of Alabama vs. Britanny Smith (2022) Netflix Original Documentary
Warrior Nun (Season 2) Netflix Original Series
Ancient Apocalypse (Season 1) Netflix Original Series
Don't Leave (2022) Netflix Original Film
Down to Earth with Zac Efron (Season 2) Netflix Original Series
Is That Black Enough For You?!? (2022) Netflix Original Film
Monica, O My Darling (2022) Netflix Original Film
My Father's Dragon (2022) Netflix Original Film
The Hidden Lives of Pets (Season 1)
Johanna Nordström: Call the Police (2022) Netflix Original Special
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure (2022) Netflix Original Special
Run for the Money (Season 1) Netflix Original Series
Florence Pugh stars in The Wonder (2022)
Off Track (2022) Netflix Original Film
One of Us Is Lying (Season 2) Netflix Original Series
Racionais MC's: From the Streets of São Paulo (2022) Netflix Original Film –
The Lost Lotteries (2022) Netflix Original Film
The Wonder (2022) Netflix Original Film
1899 (Season 1) Netflix Original Series
Christmas With You (2022) Netflix Original Film
Dead to Me (Season 3) Netflix Original Series
I Am Vanessa Guillen (2022) Netflix Original Documentary
Jen and Judy return for the final season of Dead to Me
Elite (Season 6) Netflix Original Series
Reign Supreme (Season 1) Netflix Original Series
Slumberland (2022) Netflix Original Film
Somebody (Season 1) Netflix Original Series
The Jonestown Haunting (2020)
First Love (Season 1) Netflix Original Series
The Noel Diary (2022) Netflix Original Film
The Noel Diary (2022)
My Name is Vendetta (2022) Netflix Original Film
Los simuladores (2002)
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
2 Days in the Valley (1996)
A Belle for Christmas (2014)
American Gigolo (1980)
Arthur Christmas (2011)
Black Rain (1989)
Brown Sugar (2002)
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop (2011)
Cousins (1989)
Domestic Disturbance (2001)
Face/Off (1997)
Fruitvale Station (2013)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Heaven's Gate (1981)
Hitman (2007)
Hitman (Uncut) (2007)
1999 hit '10 things I Hate About You' featuring Heath Ledger comes to Prime
Jumping the Broom (2011)
Just Like Heaven (2005)
Just Wright (2010)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Kingdom of Heaven (Directors Cut Roadshow Version) (2005)
Men at Work (1990)
Miami Blues (1990)
Mousehunt (1997)
Nick of Time (1995)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
Prince Avalanche (2013)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Salvador (1986)
Scrooged (1988)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Sliver (1993)
Something Wild (1986)
Soul Plane (2004)
Surviving Christmas (2004)
Tales From the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
The Big Country (1958)
The Doors (1991)
The Machinist (2004)
The Madness of King George (1994)
The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
The Professional (1994)
The Expendables franchise is coming to Prime
The Relic (1997)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Tooth Fairy 2 (2012)
Train (1965)
Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls (2007)
Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)
War Horse (2011)
En donde estan los ladrones? (2017)
El Presidente: The Corruption Game S2 (2022), Amazon Original Series
My Policeman (2022), Amazon Original Movie
Harry Styles appears in new Prime original move My Policeman
Savage X Fenty Vol. 4 (2022), Amazon Original Series
Autumn Beat (2022), Amazon Original Movie
Warm Bodies (2013)
The English (2022), Amazon Original Series
From the Top of My Lungs (2022), Amazon Original Series
Mammals (2022), Amazon Original Series
La Caida / Dive (2022), Amazon Original Movie
James Cordon will star in Mammals (2022)
The Mindy Project S1-6 (2013)
Pasos de héroe (2016)
The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022), Amazon Original Movie
Busco Novia (2021)
Animal Kingdom S6 (2022)
Good Night Oppy (2022), Amazon Original Movie
Angry Angel (2017)
Angel Falls Christmas (2021)
Peter Dinklage as Cyrano & Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Christian
Star Wars: Andor – Episode 9
Grey's Anatomy – Season 19 – Episode 2 (UK)
The Old Man – Episode 7
Donna Hay Christmas
The Mysterious Benedict Society – Season 2 – Episode 3
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers – Season 2 – Episode 6
9-1-1: Lone Star – Season 3 – Episode 18
Station 19 – Season 6 – New Episode
Pink Lie S1 (New Episode)
Black Rock Shooter Dawn Fall S1 (New Episode)
NCIS: Hawaii – New Episode
Women In Taipei – New Episode
What We Do In The Shadows – Seasons 3 & 4
The Simpsons – Season 33
The Kardashians – Season 2 – Episode 7
Marvel Studios' Assembled: The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Director by Night
Marvel Studios Legends – King T'challa"
Marvel Studios Legends – "Princess Shuri"
Marvel Studios Legends – "The Dora Milaje"
The Kardashians are back on DIsney+ this November
The Walking Dead – Season 11 – Episode 22
Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War S1 (New Episode)
Save our Squad with David Beckham
"The Montaners"
Star Wars: Andor – Episode 10
Zootopia+ – All 6 Shorts
Mary Poppins Returns (Sing-Along Version)
The Santa Clauses – Episodes 1 & 2
Limitless With Chris Hemsworth
Station 19 – Season 6 – New Episode (UK)
Grey's Anatomy S19 see's a host of new members join the cast
Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
The Wonderful Autumn Of Mickey Mouse
Elton John Live – Farewell From The Dodger Stadium
The Santa Clauses – Episode 3
The Kardashians – Season 2 – Episode 10
Willow – Episode 1
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers – Season 2 – Episode 10
ack Rock Shooter Dawn Fall S1 (New Episode)
Rabbit Academy
Jared Leto in Morbius
Nine Bullets
The Phantom of the Open
The Northman (2022)
The Reef 2
A Christmas Story Christmas
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The Government Grant System: Inhibitor of Truth and Innovation?
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Detroit bankruptcy plan proposes slashing pension benefits up to 34%
Citigroup CEO gets $14 million pay package
U.S. Speedskating extends contract with Under Armour
Stocks go nowhere in early trading
Mortgage bailout now profitable for taxpayers
Hedge funds hot for oil and Apple
G20: Bring on the Fed bashing
Netflix speeds lag for Verizon users amid dispute
Jacksonville is hot for startups
Business Wire ends feed to high speed traders
Stocks: Pushing on to new highs?
Ukraine faces default as Russia stalls
GM accused of deadly recall delay
Chinese snap up fine art for use in laundering schemes
Don't expect more WhatsApp-like deals
Obama drops controversial Social Security proposal
Colorado stash: $184M in marijuana taxes
Porsche to 911 GT3 owners: Stop driving the car
WhatsApp founder: Food stamps to billionaire
Posted: 21 Feb 2014 09:03 AM PST
Detroit city employees and retirees face losing up to 34% of their promised pension benefits under the city's bankruptcy plan filed in court Friday.
Another big pay day for a Wall Street CEO. Citigroup's Michael Corbat received more than $14 million in total compensation last year, according to a new SEC filing.
Under Armour has extended its exclusive contract with the U.S. Speedskating Association despite some controversy involving the suits worn by athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Stocks were mostly unchanged Friday as investors analyzed mixed signals about the health of the economy and corporate earnings.
U.S. taxpayers have recouped all of the $187 billion they gave mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in one of the most expensive bailouts of the financial crisis.
Top economic policymakers meet this weekend in Australia but will struggle to achieve common ground on new challenges to the global recovery.
Having trouble streaming "House of Cards?" A stand-off involving Verizon and Netflix may be to blame.
Jacksonville, Fla., is attempting an image change. It's hoping to swap its reputation as a stodgy old Southern city with that of an emerging hub for startups.
For some investors, it's the milliseconds that count.
Markets could end the week on a high note as investors shrug off mixed signals about the health of the economy and corporate earnings.
Ukraine's plans to tap Russia for $2 billion in emergency funding have fallen apart, leaving the country sliding towards economic disaster.
General Motors has been accused of dragging its feet for a decade on recalling popular compact cars with a defect that was involved in the deaths of at least six people.
Wealthy Chinese interested in moving their riches out of the country are doing so with help from an unusual cast of characters: sculptors, painters and calligraphers.
Don't expect Facebook's $19 billion WhatsApp purchase to set off a messaging app shopping spree.
The White House said Thursday that President Obama will not push a proposal that would reduce the annual growth in Social Security benefits.
Colorado expects to take in about $184 million in tax revenue from marijuana in the first 18 months after legislation -- and much of that money will be funneled into teaching kids to stay away from pot.
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Sarkozy vs. de Villepin: France's Trial of the Century
By Bruce Crumley / Paris Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009
Francois Mori / AP
Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, followed by his wife Marie-Laure, arrives at a Paris courthouse on Sept. 21, 2009
Sarkozy's Comments on Leaders Draw Shock, Denial
Sarkozy's London Calling
Bastille Day Celebrations
The trial pitting French President Nicolas Sarkozy against fellow conservative and former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has just opened and already the French media is buzzing with words like hatred, treason and war. In the same courtroom in which a French revolutionary tribunal sentenced Marie Antoinette to the guillotine in 1793, a panel of judges will hear whether de Villepin was actively involved in a smear campaign that was apparently designed to torpedo Sarkozy's ultimately successful 2007 presidential bid. The outcome will determine whether the flamboyant de Villepin's political career dies on the spike of a guilty verdict — or allows him to continue his anti-Sarkozy drive, further strengthened by an acquittal.
The case is known as "Clearstream" — a reference to a Luxembourg bank in which a number of top French politicians and business figures purportedly held accounts containing illegal kickback money from arms contracts. Those claims turned out to be false — as was the forged list of names of 89 Clearstream account holders that was sent to a French investigating judge in 2004 by an anonymous whistle-blower. Among those cited were then Finance Minister Sarkozy, who at the time was locked in a fierce battle with his boss, Prime Minister de Villepin, over who would run as the right's standard-bearer in the 2007 elections to succeed conservative President Jacques Chirac. The court will examine whether de Villepin used what he eventually learned was a fraudulent list in the hope that it would scuttle Sarkozy's presidential bid.
(See pictures of Nicolas Sarkozy.)
The agonizingly twisted, confusing chronology of the case runs from 2003 to 2007, when de Villepin was formerly placed under investigation. The former Prime Minister is accused of "complicity in false accusation, complicity in using forgeries, receipt of stolen property and breach of trust" in complaints filed by 39 plaintiffs, first among them Sarkozy. Three other defendants join de Villepin on trial for their roles in producing, detaining and disseminating the Clearstream list.
As an unshakable Chirac supporter and longtime Elysée chief of staff, de Villepin shared his mentor's hatred of Sarkozy, who in 1994 dropped nearly 20 years of filial devotion to Chirac to back an unexpected presidential run by a rival conservative politician. Chirac won that contest — and promptly sent Sarkozy into political exile until 2002, when law-and-order hard-liner Sarkozy was tapped for a key Interior Ministry post. But neither Chirac nor de Villepin ever forgave Sarkozy.
By 2005, with Sarkozy's presidential run surging, Chirac threw his weight behind de Villepin as the right's candidate to retain the Elysée, eventually appointing his Dauphin as Prime Minister to enhance his chances. The question now before the court in Paris is whether that passionate anti-Sarkozy drive went so far as using illicit dirty tricks.
(See the top 10 political sex scandals.)
De Villepin denies that he sought to use the list as a way to smear Sarkozy — despite the fact that an intelligence agent he'd asked to investigate the list determined it was a forgery. Notes taken at the time by that same intelligence official suggest that de Villepin and Chirac wanted to exploit the list to undermine Sarkozy. "At no point did I ask for any investigation on any political figures," de Villepin told the press after he was questioned by investigators last year. "And at no point did I participate in any political maneuver."
Legal experts and commentators say the evidence against de Villepin is partial at best — and that a conviction will be difficult. Sarkozy, who will be represented by his lawyer in court because of constitutional restraints, has publicly said he wants to see the people responsible for Clearstream "hanging from a butcher's hook." That's one reason he became a civil party to the case. Another may well be his belief that a guilty verdict for de Villepin could be the only way to rid himself of the one conservative rival who has ceaselessly criticized his record as President.
The monthlong trial is a game for big stakes. For de Villepin, a conviction would mean a maximum five-year prison sentence and a 10-year ban from public office — a death blow to his political credibility. Acquittal, however, would allow de Villepin to claim the title as the main Clearstream victim — and add legal persecution to his long list of accusations to pound Sarkozy with.
See pictures of President Obama in France.
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Last week Picky Eaters was launched in Delhi by Dr. Ishi Khosla. This book is authored by Rakhee Vaswani. Author told during launch that the book is about picky eaters and they could be of any age. Picky Eaters could be a child or an eighty year old person. Book endorses recipes experimented, curated by author to make picky eaters eat healthy food which they would normally skip. Here are the few photos from the event. You can check out near by book store or online for a copy of the book.


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Tag: Maartje van den Heuvel
Legacy documentary for social change -Maartje van den Heuvel
On December 21, 2016 December 23, 2016 By JanIn Coursework, Part 2 project exercises, Part 2 The B&W Document, Research & Reflection, UncategorizedLeave a comment
As far as I can see Maartje van den Heuvel is a curator at Leiden University. She wrote an article entitled Mirror of Visual Culture, Discussing Documentary published in Documentary Now: Contemporary Strategies in Photography, Film and the Visual Arts which is provided, as a PDF via the OCA, as a study resource. We are asked to read the introduction and the first section of the article then write a short summary …so here goes…
Van den Heuvel has quite a large introduction to her article in which she discusses the new path that documentary seems to be taking, that is within the walls of the museum and in exhibitions citing domumentas X and 11 as indicators of this: Documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH is a non-profit organization supported and funded by the City of Kassel and the State of Hesse, as well as by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
In 1955, Arnold Bode, a painter and professor founded the 'Society of Western Art of the 20th Century' in an attempt to show art that had 'been deemed by the Nazis as degenerate as well as works from classical modernity that had never been seen in Germany.'
The first documenta was a retrospective of works from major movements (Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, the Blaue Reiter, Futurism) and brilliant individualists such as Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, and Henry Moore. In this journey through the art of the first fifty years of the century, German founders of modern art such as Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, or Max Beckmann were presented alongside classics of modernism. [The second was held in 1959]
In 1997, Catherine David became the first woman to direct documenta.
Each documenta takes its character from the ideas and concept of its Artistic Director, and is therefore not only a forum for current trends in contemporary art, but a place where innovative and standards-setting exhibition concepts are trialed. In each edition, documenta has played a leading role in taking the international discourse about art in new directions. Over the past decades, documenta has established itself as an institution that goes far beyond a survey of what is currently happening, inviting the attention of the international art world every five years for this "museum of 100 days." The discourse and the dynamics of the discussion surrounding each documenta reflects and challenges the expectations of society about art.
Van den Heuvel raises the debate of the 'legitimacy and effectiveness of documentary practices within the art circuit.' This article was written in 2005 (published in 2006) and we still are having these discussions even now. Her observations that the mass media is increasing the general public's visual literacy and understanding of the world has only multiplied as the internet and different social media platforms have increased exponentially over the past decade.
In her essay Documentary: the militant eye-witness van den Heuvel reviews the 'visual tradition…of documentary.'
in bullet points:
'documentary' can apply to every image made with a camera – interesting tie in with earlier exercise
there are 2 historical visual traditions – the human interest approach from the West eg Lewis and Hine and the FSA and then the Socialist/ Political stance that came from the East supporting the revolutionary Socialist and Communist struggle of the working class – everyone likes citing these traditions…from van den Heuvel to Rosler et al.
the 1960's/70's was still influenced by the revolutionist mood, images were captured using 35mm B&W film with high contrast and lots of grain. Photo-stories still has accompanying text directing the interpretation.
At this time there was a distinct line drawn between advertising photography in colour offering a vision of the perfect/the illusion/the dream B&W therefore was gritty reality.
After the 1970's came a blurring of the lines -Meyerowitz and Eggleston were shooting in colour, Stephen Shores Uncommon Places was originally published in 1982…
Had documentary lost its way with the advent of TV and the growth of TV channels and broadcasts? Had the 'window on the world' that photography offered been replaced? – this was argued by Rosler.
Van den Heuvel argues that rather than sitting in a corner and sulking , ok so that's my words not hers, documentary found new paths to travel.. documentary images cropped up in advertising and fiction. Docudramas and Reality TV also helped the crossover.
Images made for documentary purposes have now found different meanings – as art, as remembrances of the past and as teaching tools. – this can truly be seen when looking at the work of Brandt, Lewis and Hine.
Documentary images have come under intense scrutiny trying to establish the aspects which make it so.
The importance of 'visual literacy' that was first mooted in the 1970's is becoming relevant again.
Contemporary photographers are using different technical and stylistic approaches to documentary e.g Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff who use colour, huge canvas' and topographical/architectural photography which lends itself more to the art market.
These images can stand alone and do not need to be part of a photo-story.
Only reading the first section (I'll probably read the second later on) it further underlines why we regarded, and still do to a certain extent, B&W images to be the medium of choice for documentary. In both West and East there was strong tradition for its use; it was used politically by governments, the bipartisan and revolutionaries alike.
Whilst some may have taken different paths there are still many practitioners out there who currently shoot B&W and use photo-stories, as well as stand alone images, to make their points… as we will see from the next exercise pertaining to Marcus Bleasdale. Like her I feel that the documentary genre is still alive and kicking, that mainstream media has not diminished its impact and that it can function just as well in a museum/gallery setting.
Documenta gGmbH (no date) Available at: https://www.documenta.de/en/about#16_documenta_ggmbh (Accessed: 21 December 2016).
http://www.oca-student.com/sites/default/files/oca-content/key-resources/res-files/heuvel_discussingdocumentary.pdf (Accessed:21 December 2016)


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Xavier Gens
Dougray Scott
Henry Ian Cusick
Ulrich Thomsen
I was worried the streak might be broken. "Hitman" stars Timothy Olyphant, who's a good actor, and it's about a squad of assassins who are raised up from childhood to be perfect killers — kind of a cool idea. Would this be the first time in history that a movie based on a video game turned out to be good?
Never fear! The streak continues. "Hitman" ought to be all about the fighting and killing, yet the fight scenes aren't terribly good. They're not even abundant, which is the sort of thing you can usually count on in a movie like this. I haven't played "Hitman," but I'm guessing the movie has chosen, for some reason, to re-create the story scenes that play between levels. The ones that players skip.
Olyphant plays Agent 47, an orphan who was trained in the art of killing with other orphans and castoffs by a secret organization. This organization shaves their heads clean and tattoos barcodes on the backs of their skulls — you know, to help them totally blend into a crowd and not stand out in any way.
The story is convoluted and chaotic, but it mostly involves Agent 47 pursuing Russian president Belicoff (Ulrich Thomsen), whom he was supposed to kill but who wound up alive instead. It could be that Agent 47's own people are turning against him. He doesn't really know who his "people" are. He only communicates with them via instant messenger on his laptop. His handler's remarks are read aloud by the computer software, I guess so the audience doesn't get bored reading them. He even communicates this way in a crowded train station, where anybody walking past could overhear. Again, stealth, not really this secret organization's strong suit.
Agent 47 winds up protecting/kidnapping Nika (Olga Kurylenko), a semi-Russian babe who's been sleeping with Belicoff. The agent was supposed to kill her but changed his mind. He makes her ride in the trunk of his car most of the time. He's also being pursued by Mike Whittier (Dougray Scott), an Interpol agent.
"Hitman" serves as a reminder that Russian accents are nearly always funny. This is especially true when one of them is coming from Robert Knepper (as a coldblooded Russian mobster), who plays the sinister T-Bag on TV's "Prison Break."
The director is a French fellow named Xavier Gens. His first feature, a horror flick called "Frontiere(s)," is set to be released by Lionsgate at some point in 2008. I've heard good things about it, as far as French horror flicks go. No doubt it's better than "Hitman," which was written by Skip Woods, who wrote the John Travolta/Halle Berry disaster "Swordfish," which I probably could have mentioned at the beginning of this review to save you the trouble of reading any further.
D (1 hr., 40 min.; R, a lot of harsh profanity, plenty of violence and shooting, some brief partial nudity.)
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Forgive me if I have deserted make-up in favour of skincare lately, but in this post I will rectify my quietness on this subject.
Foundations: among a plethora of the latest launches, I would like to put two brands in the spotlight, namely Giorgio Armani's Maestro Fusion Make-Up SPF 15 and YSL Le Teint Touche Eclat, both of which made quite an impression on me and my make-up 'looks'.
Giorgio Armani's Maestro is the culmination of eight years of intensive research ( it comes in eight shades ) and the end result is nothing short of flawless. This oil-based foundation heralds the introduction of 'Micro-fil' textures ( i.e higher pigment levels than BB aka blemish balms ) which represent the latest generation of very fine and lightweight formulas that add luminosity and softness to your skin. This foundation blends into the skin so well that you almost feel like you haven't applied anything at all and yet your face will look like you made an effort but haven't gone over the top. It has a velvety texture that in reality is highly-pigmented. One word of advice though-make sure that you skin is well moisturised prior to application of this product or use a good primer, like Armani's Fluid Master Primer, after you apply your usual serum or cream.
YSL Touch Eclat is a cult product, so the brand's latest foundation launch had a lot to live up to andI would be surprised if it doesn't win you over. With 22 shades, one is bound to suit your skin tone. This sheer, silky and moisturising formula is simply wonderful. It took about nine years to research andperfect and it really does make you feel model like, when it comes to how your make-up looks. My shade was tested on my jaw line and YSL make-up artist at Harvey Nichols counter got it spot on the first time round.
The other 'worthy' blusher comes from an Ecocert French brand called Studio 78. I tried the brand's products with lovely Kat, who is an in-store make-up artist at Content store, in October. I loved the brand's very chic packaging, black labelling/prints on the white, glossy paper and the actual blush compact, with a little mirror in the top cover-handy if you need to re-apply your make-up while on the go. It uses innovative baked formula technology for mineral pressed powders that actually gives long-lasting result. You can build this powder blush up with your fingers but Kat's tip was to use a brush and having used it at home myself, I think it's a perfect tip that does make a difference to the final result. This blush ( We Walk/ On Se Promene ) actually enhances your skin naturally and has great staying power-what more can you ask for?
Lips: if you need something that will hydrate, plump and protect your lips during the cold months, look no further than Ole Henriksen's 'Fresh lips SPF 15' – it's like a soothing balm and gloss rolled into one ( contains camphor and cocoa seed butter ). It has a perfect application tip, that glides seamlessly along and around your lips and it smells and tastes delicious-an added bonus as far as I am concerned. My eldest niece wants one for Christmas ( and yes, Father Christmas did take notice and nodded his approval ).
Eyeshadow: well, the one from Jane Iredale is actually called a powdered eyeliner/highlighter and my chosen ( and so far, favourite ) shade is called Malachite. It has a golden, powdered highlighter at one end, and a jade green powdered eyeshadow with a slight grey undertone at the other end. This clever product, as its shade name suggests, has a bit of a mystery to it. You have to unscrew the top off each end and then apply the product/highlighter with a round shaped applicator as desired. It not only looks slightly sci-fi cool, it actually is very easy to use ( ok, after a couple of tries and some helpful tips from a pro ) and I love the precision and the pigmentation that it adds to my eye area.
I agree that Touche Eclat foundation is a little too dewy, but Armani is light-weight and lasts well through the day.


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NFL Hall of Famers Who Played Too Long
Some football greats went beyond their expiration dates.
Emmitt Smith played 15 seasons in the NFL.
For every Jerome Bettis, John Elway and Michael Strahan who goes out on top, dozens of NFL geezers can never say goodbye, no, no, no, no. But that's what Michael Jackson said. Because when that dreaded retirement day finally does come — poof! — it's all gone forever. The competition. The camaraderie. The adulation. The accolades. The perks. The big prize.
Oh, yeah, the money, too.
These Hall of Famers played beyond their usefulness, ruined the backs of their football cards, further abused their bodies and in many cases tarnished their legacies.
25. Art Monk
Art Monk caught 940 passes in his career.
Position: Wide receiver
Career: 1980-95 (16 seasons)
Teams: Washington Redskins (1980-93), New York Jets (1994), Philadelphia Eagles (1995)
Hall of Fame: 2008
Art Monk Stats
Art Monk won two Super Bowls with the Redskins.
Key stats: 224 G, 940 REC, 68 TD
First-team All-Pro: 1 (1984)
Pro Bowls: 3 (1984-86)
Super Bowl championships: 2 (1987, 1991)
Bottom Line: Art Monk
Art Monk played one season with the Jets.
This guy had it all — respect, Super Bowls, stats, records, money and business interests.
In a perfect world, the 37-year-old would have retired in burgundy and gold, but he decided to be the third wheel with a crummy Jets team instead.
"There's nothing that can replace it," he would say later. "I miss all of it. I miss being sore on Monday morning."
24. Terrell Owens
Terrell Owens caught 1,078 passes in his career.
Career: 1996-2010 (15 seasons)
Teams: San Francisco 49ers (1996-2003), Philadelphia Eagles (2004-05), Dallas Cowboys (2006-08), Buffalo Bills (2009), Cincinnati Bengals (2010)
Terrell Owens Stats
Terrell Owens wasn't the most popular teammate in NFL history.
Key stats: 219 G, 1078 REC, 153 TD
First-Team All-Pro: 5 (2000-02, 2004, 2007)
Pro Bowls: 6 (2000-04, 2007)
Super Bowl championships: None
Bottom Line: Terrell Owens
Terrell Owens scored 153 touchdowns in his NFL career.
This pain in the posterior, er, Hall of Famer lacked only a Super Bowl ring in his bling box, but at what point does a has-been concede that it ain't gonna happen?
In this case, when you're a 37-year-old with the 4-12 Bengals of all teams. Rather than pad his stats, T.O. should have called a T.O. two years earlier.
23. Ray Guy
Ray Guy played his whole career with the Raiders.
Position: Punter
Teams: Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders
Ray Guy Stats
Ray Guy was a first-round pick (23rd overall) in the 1973 draft.
Key stats: 207 G, 1,049 P, 42.4 YD/P
First-team All-Pro: 6 (1973-78)
Super Bowl championships: 3 (1976, 1980, 1983)
Bottom Line: Ray Guy
Ray Guy was the first pure punter inducted into the Hall of Fame.
This former first-rounder was a master of hang time, but hang-'em-up time, not so much.
Ray Guy failed to reach his career average in four of his final five seasons and even dropped below the 40.0-yard mark in one of them.
22. Eric Dickerson
Eric Dickerson never played in a Super Bowl.
Position: Running back
Teams: Los Angeles Rams (1983-87), Indianapolis Colts (1987-91), Los Angeles Raiders (1992), Atlanta Falcons (1993)
Eric Dickerson Stats
Eric Dickerson was a six-time Pro Bowler.
Key stats: 146 G, 15,396 YSCM (yards from scrimmage), 96 TD
First-team All-Pro: 5 (1983-84, 1986-88)
Pro Bowls: 6 (1983-84, 1986-89)
Bottom Line: Eric Dickerson
Eric Dickerson rushed for 13,259 yards.
The Big Three-Oh has been the point of no return for many a running back. Meet Exhibit A.
After a 1,311-yard season at age 29, ol' goggle-eyes ran into a brick wall. No. matter. Mr. Benny chased the money until the Falcons waived him four years later.
"They told me I could announce my retirement if I wanted," Eric Dickerson said at the time. I believe that qualifies as a hint.
21. Paul Krause
Paul Krause, No. 22, made a lot of tackles.
Teams: Washington Redskins (1964-1967), Minnesota Vikings (1968-79)
Paul Krause Stats
Paul Krause played in 226 NFL games.
Key stats: 226 G, 81 INT, 19 FR
First-team All-Pro: 3 (1964-65, 1975)
Pro Bowls: 8 (1964-65, 1969, 1971-75)
Bottom Line: Paul Krause
Paul Krause, right, was a three-time All-Pro.
His 1975 season was among the most remarkable (and most overlooked) by a 33-year-old at any position. Then the free-fall off Eagle Mountain began in earnest.
Paul Krause stayed four more seasons with a Vikings defense that also had seen better days.
20. Thurman Thomas
Thurman Thomas was a second-round pick (40th overall) out of Oklahoma State in 1988.
Teams: Buffalo Bills 1988-99), Miami Dolphins (2000)
Thurman Thomas Stats
Thurman Thomas scored 88 touchdowns in his career.
Key stats: 182G, 16,532 YSCM, 88 TD
Bottom Line: Thurman Thomas
Thurman Thomas played one season with the Dolphins.
This twin threat turned 30 before the 1996 season but still eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark for the final time.
From that point on, Thurman Thomas' career went down, down, down, down in pursuit of the Super Bowl prize.
The 34-year-old was a shell of his former self when he finally retired as a Dolphin four years later.
19. Elvin Bethea
Elvin Bethea played his whole career with the Houston Oilers.
Position: Defensive end
Teams: Houston Oilers
Elvin Bethea Stats
Elvin Bethea put the hurt on many opponents.
Key stats: 210 G, 16 FR, sacks not available
First-team All-Pro: None
Pro Bowls: 8 (1969, 1971-75, 1978-79)
Bottom Line: Elvin Bethea
Elvin Bethea, No. 65, was an eight-time Pro Bowler.
In his final four seasons, this edge rusher went from a Pro Bowler with a wild-card team to an average starter with a non-contender to a 37-year-old reserve with a really, really bad team in need of fresh blood.
See, when the bar is so low and the money so easy, it's difficult to walk out the door.
18. Ken Stabler
Ken Stabler won one Super Bowl with the Raiders.
Position: Quarterback
Teams: Oakland Raiders (1970-79), Houston Oilers (1980-81), New Orleans Saints (1982-84)
Ken Stabler Stats
Ken Stabler was a two-time All-Pro.
Key stats: 184 G, 27,938 YDS, 194 TD
First-team All-Pro: 2 (1974, 1976)
Super Bowl championships: 1 (1976)
Bottom Line: Ken Stabler
Ken Stabler went 11-11 as a starter with the Saints to close his NFL career.
This late-night terror was done at 36 years old. (That's 54, according to the Kenny Stabler Quarterback Exchange Rate.)
But he left H-town to reunite with coach Bum Phillips in New Orleans, where the Aints won 19 games in their three seasons together.
"Snake" Stabler in N'awlins was like Attila the Hun at a Roman meat market.
17. Deion Sanders
Deion Sanders started his NFL career with the Atlanta Falcons.
Position: Cornerback, punt returner
Career: 1989-2000, 2004-05 (14 seasons)
Teams: Atlanta Falcons (1989-93), San Francisco 49ers (1994), Dallas Cowboys (1995-1999), Washington Redskins (2000), Baltimore Ravens (2004-05)
Deion Sanders Stats
Deion Sanders had 53 career interceptions.
Bottom Line: Deion Sanders
Deion Sanders won two Super Bowl rings.
The 33-year-old retired after one above-average season in a Washington Redskins uni. Deion Sanders stayed that way for three years, only to sign consecutive one-year, $1.5-million deals with the Ravens to be a nickel back.
"I prepare to win it all, and that's one of the reasons I'm here," he said. Predictably, Prime Time morphed into Past His Prime, and the Ravens finished 9-7 and 6-10 in the next two seasons.
16. Carl Eller
Carl Eller, No. 81, was a key player on the Vikings' "Purple People Eaters" defense.
Teams: Minnesota Vikings (1964-78), Seattle Seahawks (1979)
Carl Eller Stats
Carl Eller was a six-time Pro Bowler.
Bottom Line: Carl Eller
Carl Eller, leaping, played all but one season of his NFL career with the Vikings.
This pass-rush specialist played so long, he could have changed his name to Carl Elder.
Rather than bow out gracefully with the organization that drafted him, he pulled up stakes instead.
The 37-year-old played out the string as a part-time starter in the Pacific Northwest, where he was woefully out of place with a young defense.
15. Darrell Green
Darrell Green had 54 interceptions in his career.
Teams: Washington Redskins
Darrell Green Stats
Darrell Green was one of the fastest players in NFL history.
First-team All-Pro: 4 (1986, 1987, 1990, 1991)
Pro Bowls: 7 (1984, 1986-87, 1990-91, 1996-97)
Bottom Line: Darrell Green
Darrell Green played in 295 career games.
The fastest man in football also was among the slowest to leave it.
While still productive at 37 years of age, Darrell Green was on borrowed time.
The Ageless Wonder played five more seasons, the final three as a reserve with ordinary teams.
14. Art Shell
Art Shell, No. 78, was a blocking machine.
Position: Offensive tackle
Art Shell Stats
Art Shell, No. 78, liked to mix it up.
Key stats: 207 G, 8 FR
Bottom Line: Art Shell
Art Shell became the Raiders' head coach after his playing days.
By the time the Raidahs moved to Southern California after the 1981 season, Art Shell's best days were in the rearview mirror.
But the 36-year-old backup made the move south, where his streak of 168 consecutive starts came to an unceremonious conclusion in a strike-shortened season.
13. Jackie Slater
Jackie Slater was a third-round draft pick (86th overall) out of Jackson State in 1976.
Teams: Los Angeles Rams
Jackie Slater Stats
Jackie Slater, No. 78, played his whole career with the Rams.
Pro Bowls: 7 (1983, 1985-90)
Bottom Line: Jackie Slater
Jackie Slater was a seven-time Pro Bowler.
There was no quit in this guy, all right.
The big fella maxed out at age 36, but Jackie Slater played five more seasons, when he did little more than take up a roster spot with bad teams.
12. Warren Moon
Warren Moon made his NFL debut at the age of 28 in 1984.
Teams: Houston Oilers (1984-93), Minnesota Vikings (1994-96), Seattle Seahawks (1997-98), Kansas City Chiefs (1999-2000)
Warren Moon Stats
Warren Moon, center, passed for over 49,000 yards in his career.
Bottom Line: Warren Moon
Warren Moon was the first undrafted quarterback inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The movie "Bad Moon" was about a Pacific Northwest photojournalist who turned into a werewolf at night. It could have been about a Seattle has-been who became a nightmare of a quarterback on Sundays.
Warren Moon's final three seasons were a horror show — 5-7 record and 54.6 pass completion percentage.
11. Richard Dent
Richard Dent was the MVP of Super Bowl XX.
Teams: Chicago Bears (1983-93, 1995), Philadelphia Eagles (1994), Indianapolis Colts (1996), Philadelphia Eagles (1997)
Richard Dent Stats
Richard Dent was known as "The Colonel."
Key stats: 203 G, 137.5 SK, 13 FR
Pro Bowls: 4 (1944-95, 1988, 1990)
Bottom Line: Richard Dent
Richard Dent had 137.5 career sacks.
The Super Bowl XX Most Valuable Player was known as "The Colonel" in his prime.
The guy hung on for so long, he was demoted to second lieutenant before retirement.
Richard Dent's final four seasons were spent as a broken-down pass-rush specialist with four different teams.
10. Len Dawson
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson in 1969.
AFL/NFL Career: 1957-1975 (19 seasons)
AFL/NFL teams: Pittsburgh Steelers (1957-59), Cleveland Browns (1960-61), Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs (1962-75)
Len Dawson Stats
Len Dawson won one Super Bowl.
Key AFL/NFL stats: 211 G, 28,711 YDS, 239 TD
AFL/NFL first-team All-Pro: 2 (1962, 1966)
AFL All-Star Games/Pro Bowls: 7 (1962, 1964, 1966-69, 1971)
AFL/Super Bowl championships: 4 (1962, 1966, 1969)
Bottom Line: Len Dawson
Len Dawson retired from the NFL when he was 40.
Lenny "The Cool" Dawson thought he could play forever. So did the front office, apparently.
In five consecutive drafts (1969 to 1973), the Chiefs neglected to draft a quarterback before the sixth round despite his advanced age. After a 7-11-1 record in three injury-riddled seasons, the 40-year-old finally had enough, but there was no suitable replacement.
There would be no playoff victories in Kansas City over the next 15 seasons, either.
9. Jerry Kramer
Jerry Kramer played his whole career with the Packers.
Position: Offensive tackle, placekicker
Teams: Green Bay Packers
Jerry Kramer Stats
Jerry Kramer was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2018.
Key stats: 130 G, 3 FR, 29 FG
First-team All-Pro: 5 (1960, 1962-63, 1966, 1967)
NFL/Super Bowl championships: 7 (1961-62, 1965-67)
Bottom Line: Jerry Kramer
Jerry Kramer was a key part of the Packers' championship teams in the 1960s.
This guy could have went out a Super Bowl winner in the final game of the Lombardi era. One week after he executed an iconic block on the final play of the Ice Bowl. Really, how cool would that have been?
But nooooo, Jerry Kramer returned for one nightmare season, which he spent at odds with line coach Ray Wietecha with a 6-7-1 team.
As Kramer's much-abused body would probably agree, it was one too many.
8. Emmitt Smith
Emmitt Smith is the NFL's all-time leading rusher with 18,355 yards.
Teams: Dallas Cowboys (1990-2002), Arizona Cardinals (2003-04)
Emmitt Smith Stats
Emmitt Smith won three Super Bowls with the Cowboys.
Key stats: 226 G, 21,579 YFS, 175 TD
First-Team All-Pro: 4 1992-95
Bottom Line: Emmitt Smith
Emmitt Smith played for the Cardinals to close out his NFL career.
Mamas, don't let your Triplets grow up to be ex-Cowboys. Michael Irvin stayed in Big D. Troy Aikman, too.
After the organization released the No. 1 ground gainer in league history after 13 seasons, he signed with the sad-sack Cardinals rather than ride off into the sunset.
"In my mind, I'm a 1,300-yard back, and I will be out to prove that," he said at the time. Turned out he was a 1,193-yard back. Over his final two uneventful seasons.
7. Franco Harris
Franco Harris won four Super Bowls with the Steelers.
Teams: Pittsburgh Steelers (1972-83), Seattle Seahawks (1984)
Franco Harris Stats
Franco Harris scored 100 touchdowns in his career.
Key stats: 173 G, 14,407 YSCM, 100 TD
Super Bowl championships: 4 (1974, 1975, 1978, 1979)
Bottom Line: Franco Harris
Franco Harris finished his career in Seattle.
At 33, the Stillers workhorse had a 1,000-yard season that left him 363 yards behind Jim Brown as the all-time ground gainer in NFL history. But when Franco Harris held out before the 1984 season, neither side would budge.
Rather than lower his demands or retire with his legacy intact, Harris headed to the Pacific Northwest, where he looked grossly out of place in navy and green.
It was a move that he and his old team would soon regret. He played in only eight more games and fell short of the record.
6. Sonny Jurgensen
Sonny Jurgensen started his NFL career with the Eagles in 1957.
Teams: Philadelphia Eagles (1957-1963), Washington Redskins (1964-74)
Sonny Jurgensen Stats
Sonny Jurgensen threw for 32,224 yards in his career.
Pro Bowls: 5 (1961, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969)
NFL/Super Bowl championships: 1 (1960)
Bottom Line: Sonny Jurgensen
Sonny Jurgensen played in 218 career games.
This pot-bellied member of the Over The Hill Gang wanted an ever-elusive league championship with the Redskins in the worst way. It's just that, at age 40, he almost required a walker to remain upright in the pocket.
In his final game, he came off the bench to throw a killer pick-six and be sacked three times in the divisional playoff round. On 13 drop-backs.
That's no way for an all-time gunslinger to go out, people, no way at all.
5. Lou Groza
Lou Groza scored over 1,600 points in his NFL career.
AAFC-NFL career: 1946-67 (21 seasons)
Teams: Cleveland Browns
Lou Groza Stats
Lou Groza played 21 seasons of pro football.
Key AAFC/NFL statistics: 268 G, 264 FG, 1,608 PT
AAFC/NFL first-team All-Pro: 4 (1952-55)
AAFC/NFL/Super Bowl championships: 8 (1946-50, 1954-55, 1964)
Bottom Line: Lou Groza
Lou Groza was nicknamed "The Toe."
At 41, "The Toe" had a remarkable 1965 season, but really, how much longer could Lou Groza fool Father Time?
His reluctance to get out while the gettin' was good might have cost the Brownies a playoff berth or more.
In the next two seasons, he bricked 11 field goals in five losses that helped decide close East Conference races.
4. Jackie Smith
Jackie Smith was drafted in the 10th round (129th overall) by the St. Louis Cardinals out of Northwestern State in 1963.
Position: Tight end
Teams: St. Louis Cardinals (1963-77), Dallas Cowboys (1978)
Jackie Smith Stats
Jackie Smith had 480 receptions in his career.
Bottom Line: Jackie Smith
Jackie Smith is remembered for dropping this touchdown pass in Super Bowl XIII against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
This borderline Hall of Famermaxed out at 30 years of age in the 1970 season, but he couldn't take a hint and hung on for eight more seasons.
Or just long enough to gag in his final game. The 38-year-old muffed what should have been a gimme touchdown in Super Bowl XIII, an all-time gaffe that would become his legacy.
3. Joe Namath
Joe Namath helped the Jets win their first Super Bowl title in 1969.
AFL/NFL teams: New York Jets (1965-76), Los Angeles Rams (1977)
Joe Namath Stats
Joe Namath was one of the NFL's greatest characters.
AFL/NFL first-team All-Pro: 1 (1968)
AFL All-Star Games/Pro Bowls: 5 (1965, 1967–69, 1972)
AFL/Super Bowl championships: 2 (1968)
Bottom Line: Joe Namath
Joe Namath finished his career with the Rams in Los Angeles.
Had "Broadway Joe" been near his prime, a move to Hollywood might have been plausible. But, no, not at 33 years of age, not with two bum knees and a 4-17 record to show for the two previous seasons.
In his final game, Joe Willie threw four interceptions in a loss against the Chicago Bears on Monday Night Football.
Don't you just hate when old age treats heroes like this?
2. Johnny Unitas
Johnny Unitas threw for 40,239 yards in his career.
Teams: Baltimore Colts (1956-72), San Diego Chargers (1973)
Johnny Unitas Stats
Johnny Unitas was a five-time All-Pro.
First-team All-Pro: 5 (1958-59, 1964-65, 1967)
Pro Bowls: 10 (1957-64, 1966, 1967)
NFL/Super Bowl championships: 4 (1958-59, 1968, 1970)
Bottom Line: Johnny Unitas
Johnny played five games with the San Diego Chargers to end his career.
The classic Chargers unis are the best in pro football history, it says here. Only the legendary Johnny U ever looked bad in one.
So close was his connection to the Colts and Baltimore, he shouldn't have been allowed to leave them. Sure, he surpassed the career 40,000-yard mark with the Bolts, but that didn't affect his legacy one iota.
Seriously, every time we see "Chargers" at the bottom of his resume, I want to take Wite-Out to it.
1. Junior Seau
Junior Seau was a 12-time Pro Bowler.
Teams: San Diego Chargers (1990-2002), Miami Dolphins (2003-05), New England Patriots (2006-09)
Junior Seau Stats
Junior Seau made a lot of plays in his career.
Key stats: 268 G, 56.5 SK, 18 FR
Pro Bowls: 12 (1991-2002)
Bottom Line: Junior Seau
Junior Seau never won a Super Bowl.
This maniacal hit machine chased a Super Bowl title until he was 40 years old, a full six years after his last productive season. Then he checked himself out three years later.
At what point might retirement have saved his life? He was found to have degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head hits.
How sad.
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The Wabbit was searching for something to do, so he took himself up a Tower at Palazzo Madama for a good look around. He observed the Alps for a while and grinned, then he examined all the buildings, casting a critical eye over the brickwork. Nothing ever seemed particularly solid to the Wabbit and he was always a little surprised when he found everything in the same place as before. A few shards of tile fell off the roof so he mentally noted it for the attention of the caretaker. Then he spotted something white flying towards him. It got bigger and bigger and bigger until he could see nothing else. The white thing squawked in his ear, wheeled upwards, circled the tower and returned to settle on his arm. "Hello Parakalo!" said the Wabbit. The dove gripped the Wabbit's arm with strong talons and cooed, "I'm an excellent bird." The Wabbit was delighted. "How are things from your point of view, my Parakalo?" Parakalo's wings made a staccato beat that moved the heavy summer air. "I bring news of strange vibrations, which only we birds can detect." The building shook under the Wabbit's feet and a piece of masonry fell from the tower. It narrowly missed the Wabbit and he murmured, "Shake, rattle and roll? Got any ideas?" A piercing whistle from Parakalo's wings echoed all round the walls. "We think it's caused by worms." The Wabbit's look indicated sheer disbelief. "Well," cooed Parakalo, "I'm a bird. I should know."
Hidden away in a warm and bright caffè in Verona, The team gathered to discuss what sort of adventure they'd just had. "You start, Skratch," said the Wabbit, "We want your point of view. What did you make of all that." Skratch drew his chair in and leaned forward. "Surely you mean my focalisation?" The Wabbit nodded. "Well," purred Skratch," Given the presence of flying pizzas and an extraordinary tiger, it was definitely a fantasy adventure." Wabsworth raised a paw. "These are merely attributes of demarcations. The talking tiger with laser eyes constitutes fantasy - but the flying pizzas belong to science fiction." The Wabbit grinned because he's been reading. "The matter does not depend on that kind of architextuality. We have to talk about the context of the narrative moment and how it's enunciated." Lapinette shook her head. "No, no, no. Skratch was talking about textual transcendence and that is transtextuality." Skratch meaowed loudly. "Perhaps that's why it resembled a video game with overlaid enunciations employing a complexity of multi facteted heterogeneous structures" Lapinette laughed. "We went round in a circle. We're back to architexts!" They all laughed until the Wabbit rapped on the table. "Can we agree it was a story?" Lapinette frowned. "What's the story about our drinks?" The Wabbit looked in several different directions and yelled. "Multi proseccos please, as many as you can see!"
[The characters are relying on Garard Genette's theories regarding narrative.]
The Wabbit and Lapinette escorted the prisoner to the harbour, but with a surge of energy he wrenched free. His eyes flashed, his snout flared and his ribs gleamed through his skin. With a yell, he plunged into the sea. He was a floating body of menace. The water surged and threshed around him. "This time you were lucky, Wabbit," he shouted. Lapinette plucked her edged weapon from her frock and brandished it. But the Wabbit merely frowned. He dug out his radio from his fur and pressed a button. A roar shook the rocks and all the buildings along the bay. Terni the Dragon swooped down from the sky and grasped the Agent of Rabit by the ears. He shook him up and he shook him down. He shook him until his bones rattled. The Wabbit grinned. "Agent, you may now swim to a destination of your choosing. Tell all your kind what happened." Terni rose and hovered, still holding the Agent by the ears. He puffed a tiny ball of flame. The Agent became rather warm. Then Terni dropped him. A cloud of steam rose from the Agent's fur. "Laundry is extra," grinned the Wabbit. The Agent scowled and shook a fist. He ducked until he was hardly visible below the waves and they all watched his wake as he sped towards the horizon. Lapinette's ears quivered. "Wabbit, sometimes you go too far." The Wabbit giggled. "And with any luck, so will he."
The Wabbit dropped Lapinette onto the beach. Sending her in alone was at least equivalent to a battalion. She let her parachute drop and padded along the beach. Drawing an edged weapon from under her frock, she looked all around. An alien pizza lay just where the waves broke. It looked dead but it was hard to tell since the water swirled it round and round. She poked it. It gasped and lay still. Lapinette knew there might be more. The Lepus lay on the horizon and it let out a foghorn blast. Lapinette waved her weapon in response and started to run. All around was destruction. Beach huts lay in ruins. Restaurants without roofs and upturned small crafts suggested an attack. She came across a few more dead pizzas. She looked up. The Wabbit circled in the helichopper, ruffling the sea into small seahorse waves. The Wabbit's munitions dump was no longer there, but at the end of the beach lay a sandbank, spiky with splintered wood. She signalled to the Wabbit. His helichopper wheeled and coasted along the seafront. She watched it drop and land. But something made her fur creep and she ran backwards watching the shore. The Lepus fired a warning cannon and it was then that she saw them. Hundreds of them, dripping mozzarella and boiling tomato. They swarmed along the beach like sea turtles. Lapinette started to sprint ...


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Today's mission critical apps are dependent on not only new types of unstructured data such as videos and texts, but also new heuristic statistical models and analytic frameworks.
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The term "mission critical app" used to be easy to define. In the past, most developers or storage administrators may have considered inventory or customer relationship management apps as mission critical. Think: PeopleSoft, or Siebel running on Oracle databases. These applications handled structured data in rows or columns. Everything was nice and orderly, with clearly defined data types that could be easily processed via a relational database and squeezed through a rigorous transformation process for back-end analysis by business intelligence systems.
But we no longer live in a highly structured world, at least as far as data is concerned. Today's mission critical apps are dependent on not only new types of unstructured data such as videos and texts, but also new heuristic statistical models and analytic frameworks.
These are the new mission critical apps, and we're seeing them put to use across different industries. Insurance companies are using video and imaging to run claim processing alongside drivers' histories and calculate premiums using actuarial data. Financial services firms are using modern AI algorithms and predictive analytics along with traditional transactional applications. Manufacturers are analyzing pictures and videos from assembly line robots and Internet of Things (IoT) devices for quality control. And public service agencies using applications to process and analyze data from CCTV footage, texts, and social media in the fight against crime and terrorism.
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Object storage offers some significant benefits for enterprises managing a lot of unstructured data. Data to be more easily found over a distributed system. Stored metadata can go so far as to tell which camera shot a particular video or took a specific photo, and even what actors were used. Object stores are also extremely scalable, and can grow along with the data. In short, highly scalable object stores help bring structure to the unstructured.
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Object storage also creates an atmosphere that is critical to managing multi-tenant workload isolation, enabling agility, and preventing data duplication. By combining highly scalable object stores with elastic compute platforms, enterprises can create a distributed data environment that lets analytics teams set up customized clusters as they wish, helping them meet their SLAs without having to recreate or move large data sets. Data platform teams can find consistency among multiple analytics cluster silos. Meanwhile, data engineers can dynamically provision those clusters with the right resources, versions, and data.
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Q: matching different types of resolution to my program i have this code:
<LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/linearLayout1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="66dp" android:gravity="center"
        >

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button1"
            android:layout_width="120px"
            android:layout_height="65dp"
            android:text="hight"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:drawableTop="@drawable/up"
            android:gravity="center|bottom"
             />
        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button2"
            android:layout_width="120px"
            android:layout_height="65dp"
            android:text="low "
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:drawableTop="@drawable/down"
            android:gravity="center|bottom"
             />
        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button3"
            android:layout_width="120px"
            android:layout_height="65dp"
            android:text="refresh"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:drawableTop="@drawable/refresh"
            android:gravity="center|bottom"
             />
        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btnGraf"
            android:layout_width="120px"
            android:layout_height="65dp"
            android:text="graf"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:drawableTop="@drawable/graf2"
            android:gravity="center|bottom"
            />
    </LinearLayout>

when i run on 480 X 800 device it looks excellent
but if i run on 720 X 1280 device the buttons looks small and ugly.
How can I make the buttons grow evenly and will take all the screen ?

A: Set their width to 0dp and use weights.  That will cause them to grow in accordance to their weight.

A: try to put the same drawables in drawable-hdpi folder drawable-mdpi drawable-xhdpi folders they will looks more better. and use the dip unit for the height an width attributes

A: Place your images in drawable-xhdpi folder,  since Nexus phones always take images from these folder. Otherwise you have to design a seperate layout for them, like layout-normal-xhdpi.

A: Here is some updated code that will scale the size of the buttons to use the available width if your layout.
Some notes first though:
- Please avoid using exact pixel sizes.  Notice that I have changed the height of each of the buttons to wrap_content.  If you require the buttons to be bigger, please use DP instead of PX.  This will ensure that the button sizes remain consistent across devices with different screen resolutions.
<LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/linearLayout1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="66dp"
        android:gravity="center" >

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button1"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:drawableTop="@drawable/up"
            android:gravity="center|bottom"
            android:text="hight"
            android:textStyle="bold" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button2"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:drawableTop="@drawable/down"
            android:gravity="center|bottom"
            android:text="low "
            android:textStyle="bold" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button3"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:drawableTop="@drawable/refresh"
            android:gravity="center|bottom"
            android:text="refresh"
            android:textStyle="bold" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btnGraf"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:drawableTop="@drawable/graf2"
            android:gravity="center|bottom"
            android:text="graf"
            android:textStyle="bold" />
    </LinearLayout>

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Q: Disable chrome as multi process.Chrome version 68 not able to capture the URL I have installed the chrome 68 on my machine. windows 7 as OS. I have application called pace to monitor the user activity when user browse the url from chrome.
My application calculate the productive hours and non productive hours, but when i show in grid title and URL which user visited the url is not getting captured.
But in case of version 67 of chrome my app is working fine and capturing the URL fine and it is working fine in IE11.
Is there any property in version 68 which blocks the capturing of the URL in windows 7. Is there any flag which stops it. Please let me know aspa.
I m using this code
AutomationElement elementx = element.FindFirst(TreeScope.Descendants, conditions);

string url = ((ValuePattern)elementx.GetCurrentPattern(ValuePattern.Pattern)).Current.Value as string;"

to find the first tab.
As all the tabs are active as per chrome new version that is 68. So it get confused which one is the active tab. As there is change related to chrome in terms of process. Now it creates separate process for tabs. How can i disable the multi process property or setting or flag in chrome. Or how can i fix the issue related to chrome 68, as it was working fine in version 67. how can i make the chrome single process. To find active tab in chrome 68 version.


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Year Two, A Beginning
marinayakhnis Clinton Fellowship 1
Sometimes, major life decisions are made in mere seconds whereas other times, they involve intense deliberation and thought. Rarely if ever do the underlying factors that drive our decisions make sense.
Last year, in mid-April, while returning from a site visit to another Fellow's organization in Uttarkhand, I travelled to Punjab and UP with a friend of mine from Odisha. We didn't have much time to plan this impromptu trip, and so our travels involved a lot of purani buses, open windows, and dust. A blur of stops in the middle of the night, road-side chai stalls, colors, scents, gurdwaras, train stations and of course, the gurdwara.
On my way to Amritsar.
The trip was a much-needed distraction from work and life in Bangalore, which was increasingly untenable due to problems with permanent housing, hours spent commuting to work each day, endless registration issues, and the stress of switching from Odisha to Karnataka mid-year.
At the time, I thought that my work in India was coming to an end, and that I would be heading home in only a few months. I was ready to leave India, but at the same time my work felt unfinished. I was just starting to understand what my organization was all about.
Somewhere in Uttar Pradesh, near Saharanpur, a musician came onto the bus and began singing. To say that he was half-dressed would be an understatement: he looked like an actor straight out of Ramayan. The expression on his face was tired and listless, as though he had been hopping in and out of buses all day.
Paardesi, pardesi, jaana nahi
My friend and I listened silently, and I observed the musician, with his sunken eyes, as he paid the conductor and hopped off of the bus.
"What was he singing about?" I asked my friend.
My friend laughed for several seconds. "The song was about a foreigner, and the singer is asking the foreigner not to leave." [This is mostly correct although, for the sake of accuracy, pardesi actually refers to someone who has been living away from their country for a long time].
At the time, I had been struggling with India. Really struggling. It wasn't the cultural differences, lack of certain consumer goods, or whatever it is expats typically struggle with (a joke compared to post-Soviet Ukraine in the early 1990s). My mounting frustration was more intangible, a function of being treated differently, and not even in any outwardly negative way. Laugh if you will, but India has put me through a meat-grinder of twisted, privileged "otherization," and by April of last year, I had vowed to leave for good.
Which makes it difficult to articulate why I ultimately choose to stay for another year. I enjoy my work, which is intellectually challenging, but this was hardly the only consideration. Perhaps India has some lessons to teach me yet about patience and acceptance, or maybe an ektar-wielding musician dressed like an extra from a soap opera about Hindu mythology struck a chord with me somewhere between defeat and Saharanpur.
marinayakhnis
As an undergraduate, Marina conducted fieldwork in Ukraine on Roma health and later wrote an Honors Thesis on the basis of that material. Her interest in public health and minority issues led her to intern with the US Department of Health and Human Services and several human rights groups. After completing a year of AmeriCorps service in the research and evaluation department of an NGO that helps incarcerated individuals, Marina traveled to Ukraine on a 10-month Fulbright research grant. During her time in Ukraine, she researched an indigenous group known as the Crimean Tatars and became active in youth group that promotes ethnic tolerance in Crimea. Marina speaks Russian and Turkish and is a strong proponent of the use of evaluation in international development programs.
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Priyanjana says:
Nice post Marina, especially the last but one paragraph…


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BrainPop (stylized as BrainPOP) is a group of children's educational websites based in New York City. It hosts over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K–12 (ages 5 to 18), together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, math, engineering and technology, health, arts and music. In 2022, Kirkbi A/S, the private investment and holding company that owns a controlling stake in Lego, acquired BrainPop.

BrainPop is used in more than 25% of U.S. schools and also offers subscriptions for families and homeschoolers. It is also used in schools in several other countries, where it offers videos in local languages that are designed for students in those countries. The site is available by subscription but has some free content, including a movie of the day, several movies from each topic area, educators' materials, and games. Its content can also be accessed using its smartphone and tablet applications.

Most of the videos feature the characters Tim and Moby. The videos and other materials are aligned to state education standards and designed to engage students and assist teachers and home schoolers. In addition to BrainPop.com for older children, the company offers BrainPop Jr. for younger children (grades K-3); BrainPop Español; BrainPop Français; BrainPop ELL for non-native speakers learning English; BrainPop Educators, a free site for teachers and parents to post materials like lesson plans, and interact with BrainPop and each other; GameUp, a library of educational games; and My BrainPop, a tool for students and teachers to record learning accomplishments.

Description of the site

Company history
BrainPop was founded in 1999 by Avraham Kadar, M.D., an immunologist and pediatrician, to explain medical concepts to his young patients using animation. The BrainPop websites display animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and are intended to be fun and motivational for students to watch. The sites' movies cover the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, engineering & technology, health, and arts and music. The sites also access educational games. As of 2022, BrainPop is used in two thirds of U.S. school districts and in many schools outside the U.S., as well as by parents, homeschoolers and others. Kadar served as CEO from BrainPop's founding until 2019, when Scott Kirkpatrick was named CEO. As of 2011, BrainPop hosted more than 11 million unique visits each month. BrainPop uses an in-house team of educators, animators and writers to produce and continually update the sites, incorporating teacher and parent input.

The site's resources include BrainPop.com, for grades 3 and up (age 9 and over) and BrainPop Jr., for grades K-3 (ages 5 to 9). The sites also offer movies in several languages for regional markets aligned to local educational standards. The site's interactive resource for teachers and homeschoolers, BrainPop Educators, features tips, tools and best practices by and for educators. My BrainPop is a tool for students and teachers to record learning accomplishments, and teachers can track students' progress. In 2009, BrainPop introduced BrainPop ELL (originally called BrainPop ESL), targeted at students learning English as a second language. Schools and parents can use the site to help shape the student's curriculum. BrainPop's free GameUp website contains online games from third-party game publishers that coordinate with the BrainPop, BrainPop Jr. and BrainPop ELL curricula.

BrainPop movies may be used to introduce a new lesson or topic, for illustrating complex subject matter or to review before a test. Content is aligned to USA state education standards and is searchable by topic or state standard. In addition to movies, the site displays quizzes, educational games, experiments and other related content that students can use interactively to reinforce the lessons in the movies. BrainPop products are compatible with PCs, Macs, projectors and interactive whiteboards, as well as applications for tablets and smart phones.  No downloading, installation or special hardware is required.  The movies feature recurring characters such as the robot Moby, Tim (a teenager, at BrainPop) and Annie (a younger girl, at BrainPop Jr.). Most of the movies begin with the characters responding to correspondence and end humorously, often with Tim getting annoyed at Moby or vice versa.

After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, BrainPOP offered free access to the site to affected families, teachers and schools.

On October 11, 2022, Kirkbi A/S, the private investment and holding company that owns a controlling stake in Lego, acquired BrainPOP for $875 million. Kirkpatrick is expected to continue to act as BrainPOP's CEO, and Kadar will remain on the board, as the current team is expected to continue to operate BrainPop independently.

Reputation
"BrainPOP has built a reputation for quality, thoughtfulness, and robust support for teachers". BrainPop and its products have earned numerous awards and recognition from Common Sense Media, Association of Educational Publishers, District Administration magazine, Forbes magazine, Association for Library Service to Children, Association of Educational Publishers, Digital Innovation in Learning Awards, Tech & Learning Magazine, the KAPi Awards, the CODiE Awards, Apps for Homeschooling, International Serious Play Awards, Learning Magazine, EdNet's Best, Teacher's Choice Awards, eSchool News, Homeschool.com, Apple Education, the Interactive Media Awards, Teachers With Apps and Distinguished Achievement Awards, Media & Methods. A 2009 multi-grade study by SEG research, entitled "A Study of the Effectiveness of BrainPop",  involved over 1,000 students in schools in Palm Beach County, Florida and New York City.  The BrainPop-financed study concluded, "Students in classes using BrainPop made significant improvements compared to students in classes not using BrainPop."

Reviews for the websites and movies have been favorable.  A review in Common Sense Media commented: "BrainPOP is a standard-bearer for quality, self-directed online educational content. … A year's subscription is worth it because there's at least a year's worth of content for a kid to explore on BrainPOP." A home schooler wrote in Curriculum Choice: "The videos are very funny, plus they explain information in a way that is easy for kids to understand and remember. … [The quizzes are] a quick and easy way for me to see whether [the students] really grasped the material." A review in The Reading Matrix stated:
These presentations provide meaningful, standard-driven instruction and assessment [due] to the exceptional quality. …  One of the best features that teachers like about BrainPop is its ease of use. … [T]he layout, webinars, and free tutorials make navigating through the tremendous amount of information a cinch. …  [A] State Standards Tool … allows educators to search their state standards in order to fit different activities with appropriate standards. …  [The] interactive characters … help explain concepts, design experiments, and show students how to acquire a particular skill or use the information given. …  Tim and Moby have personalities of their own and are relatable, trustworthy friends to their viewers. … [the] site allows students to teach themselves.

Schools recommend the product.  A teacher wrote to eSchool News, "This product has made my students excited to take the quiz after the video. How many teachers can say that about their students?"  Praising a BrainPop video about Ada Lovelace, Wired magazine wrote, "After reading more about her life and her work, I still feel it is best summarized by BrainPop's Ada Lovelace video, which is designed for kids."  Another reviewer felt that a good feature of BrainPop's movies is their brevity: "just enough to capture and engage children." After budgetary cuts caused the cancellation of a Michigan school's subscription to BrainPop in 2014, teachers raised money from students to bring it back in 2015.

The educational site connexions.org wrote: "I recommend this site to teachers who want to inform and entertain their students. The videos are a unique educational tool with loveable  characters. … BrainPop will not only enliven the classroom, but the site is dependable with lessons following state and grade-level standards."  Teach  Magazine noted, "Tim and Moby … illustrate often difficult concepts in a fun format uniquely suited for the 21st-century learner." In 2011, Canada's TEACH Magazine wrote that the movies are presented "in a fun format uniquely suited for the 21st-century learner. …  BrainPop movies are ideal for both group and one-on-one settings and can be used to introduce new lessons or topics or to illustrate complex themes as review before a test. In 2015, Yahoo! Tech selected BrainPop for its list of "Eleven Great Digital Homework Helpers for Your Kids", and SheKnows Media listed it among its top educational sites for kids.

In 2010, The New York Times wrote of the company's free smartphone and tablet application: "BrainPop is a worthy app, featuring a new brief educational cartoon every day. The cartoon is followed by a quick quiz that will at times challenge even a grown-up." The Epoch Times featured the application as its "iPhone App of the Week" and called the movies "usually funny, if somewhat corny, and always engaging". Explore Knowledge Academy, the first public charter i-school in Nevada, has recommended BrainPop's phone and tablet application, as has ChannelproSMB, Family Circle, Common Sense Media Cool mother Tech and The Educator's Room. ADDitude Magazine selected the app as one of three apps to "sharpen reading skills".

BrainPop characters
Tim and Moby are the main characters in most BrainPop movies.

Tim
Tim is a teenager and does most of the talking in, and narrates, the movies. He  understands what Moby says. The design on his shirt usually matches the topic being covered.  At the beginning of each video, Tim reads a letter from a student asking about the topic. Often at the end of the movies, Moby will humorously annoy Tim, or vice versa.

Moby
Moby is an orange robot who communicates in beeping noises. The three lights on his chest light up when he beeps, and Tim usually translates what he's saying. Moby is Tim's friend but loves to drive him crazy. Moby helps out by fetching things for Tim and asking questions about the topic they are discussing. As a robot, he can do things that people are unable to do, such as changing his hand into a freeze-ray, sending himself back in time, removing his head, and using lasers. Some of the movies, such as the Earth, Radar and Milky Way videos, imply that Moby is of an extraterrestrial origin. However, the Leonardo da Vinci movie implies that he was invented by Leonardo.

Other characters
Cassie and Rita are two teenage girls who are mainly featured in comics that accompany many of the movies in the "FYI" section. They also occasionally appear in the main movies and even narrate a few of them. Like Moby, Cassie enjoys annoying Tim, while some of the movies imply that Rita has a romantic interest in Tim and that he returns her feelings.

Bob is a rat with a broken tail and a patched chest.  He is featured in, and often conducts, experiments called "Experiments with Bob the Ex-Lab Rat", which relate to mostly science movies.

Gary and gary are a father and son featured in comics called "How To With Gary and gary", which show how to do something safely. The capitalized "Gary" is the father, and the lowercase "gary" is the son.

BrainPop Jr.
BrainPop Jr. was launched in 2006. It is similar to BrainPop in subject areas, but the movies are geared towards grades K-3 (age 5–8). The hosts are Moby and a little girl named Annie. Like the regular BrainPop, the site offers a free "Movie of the Week", as well as several free movies in the different curricular areas. Common Sense Media called "BrainPop Jr. "a high-quality educational site that kids can navigate easily on their own. This interactive site includes videos, audio prompts, and graphics familiar to kids in an ideal format for young learners. Kids can take their enjoyment of videos to the next, more effective, level and do something with what they've just watched online … [and explore] sub-categories, like the science and math sections. If your K-3 child likes to learn things online, this site is worth the subscription fee." Common Sense Media also praised the free movies' video quality and topic variety, and writing, "The videos cover a lot of ground but are easy to follow and fun to watch; they'll explain things slowly and deliberately and at a level that's appropriate for young elementary school kids [but] it will be largely up to parents to get kids engaged in further exploration of the material."

Characters in BrainPop Jr.
Annie is a young girl who narrates the movies. She wears red framed glasses and also works with Moby.  She has a teenage sister named Mia. There are many hints in BrainPop Jr. that Annie is Mexican. For instance, her dog's name is Señor Maurice, and she sometimes refers to her father as "Papi".

In BrainPop Jr., Moby shows his emotions more often, like crying or getting excited. Moby is more kind-hearted in BrainPop Jr. than in BrainPop.  He can also do things that he can't do in the BrainPop videos, like sneeze, sweat, and drink water. He can also be sick and smell flowers.

Frank and Joey are two fish that star in the comic strip "Belly Up."

BrainPop Educators and BrainPop ELL
BrainPop Educators was introduced in 2008.  It is an online community of 125,000 teachers, and parents who use BrainPop. This free site offers answer keys to activity pages, graphic organizers, professional development materials, posters, clipart and other resources for educators. It also allows educators to collaborate and share resources, such as lesson plans, organizers and activities for students. The site also offers video tutorials and webinars. My BrainPop, added in 2013, is a tool for students and teachers to record learning accomplishments from game play, activities, quizzes and other content.

BrainPop ELL (English as a second language) is a website launched in 2009 that displays animated videos providing grammar and vocabulary instruction and interactive exercises for non-native English speakers of all ages.  Each video contains an animated story, an introduction to new vocabulary, and an illustration of relevant grammar topics.  The narrator is a boy named Ben, who is accompanied by Moby the robot.  The videos provide a series of increasingly challenging contextualized language and content exercises for English learners, starting with beginner levels and progressing to advanced levels.  Students may select review activities, such as "Words, Words, Words", a vocabulary exercise that uses flashcards and includes a pronunciation guide; "Hear it, Say it", to reinforce vocabulary and speaking; "Read it", for reading comprehension; and "Write it", for writing practice.  There are also games and quizzes to review ideas from the videos. Internet-based websites have been shown to be useful tools to supplement in-class instruction for English language learners. Education Week recommends BrainPop ELL, writing that it "helps build background knowledge and concrete visual examples."

GameUp
In 2011, BrainPop launched its educational games site, GameUp, which contains a collection of free online games from third-party game publishers and BrainPop's designers that help teach a variety of subjects and coordinate with the BrainPop, BrainPop Jr. and BrainPop ELL curricula. BrainPop partners with developer organizations and community developers to continually expand and improve the site's content and align the games with academic standards. More than 100 games were featured on the site by 2014 based on the Common Core State Standards Initiative. GameUp aims to help teachers use educational games in the classroom to engage and motivate students. It is supported by BrainPop Educators.

New Media Consortium wrote: "GameUp features top online educational gaming titles as well as support and supplementary materials to educators. GameUp titles come from an impressive collection of organizations such as Nobelprize.org, iCivics, JASON Project, Mangahigh, and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, to name a few." Edutopia, Education Week and The Wall Street Journal are among other sources that recommend GameUp. BrainPop "curates their games very carefully and considers a wide range of factors, from a game's curricular value to the length of experience appropriate for classroom use, and thoughtfully pairs games with supplemental lessons and materials that allow teachers to quickly and easily integrate the games into their classrooms."

See also
 Educational animation

References

External links
 Official website
 BrainPop Israel official site
 Video of a teacher using BrainPop, from Education Week (2013)

American educational websites
Education companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in New York (state)
Companies based in New York City
American children's websites

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