File photo of Alan Browne in action for Preston.
ALAN BROWNE SCORED his 11th goal of the season in Preston's 2-1 win away to Bolton Wanderers, a result which lifts North End to 14th in the table. Cork-born Browne opened the scoring five minutes before the break, before another Irish international, Sean Maguire, assisted Tom Barkhuizen for a second eight minutes from time.
Clayton Donaldson pulled a late goal back for Bolton, who saw Irish U18 international Luca Connell subbed early in the first-half through injury.
Callum O'Dowda created the only goal of Bristol City's win against Blackburn, which keeps them in the sixth and final play-off spot, sitting between West Brom and Derby with the same number of points.
Nottingham Forest remain in contention to snaffle that position, with Martin O'Neill's team five points behind after a 2-1 win over Brentford.
Elsewhere, Derby and Birmingham kept in the playoff hunt with wins against Hull City and QPR respectively, while there were draws between Rotherham and Wigan along with Sheffield Wednesday and Reading. Swansea City beat Millwall 1-0.
In League One, Kieran Sadlier scored his first goal for Doncaster Rovers in a 3-1 win over Peterborough, while James Collins scored his ninth goal in as many games as Luton Town beat Wycombe 3-0.
Patrick Madden scored the only goal of Fleetwood's 1-0 win at Bradford City, while Jimmy Dunne scored for Sunderland in a 1-1 draw with Oxford.
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The Rochester School District is plagued by high leadership turnover and instability, operates with little accountability, and "seems driven more by the needs of administrators, teachers, and parents, with student concerns often taking a back seat to adult interests."
The Rochester school district is dysfunctional New York State Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said at a press conference today.
ucator, Jaime Aquino, which was released this afternoon. The problems are widespread, severe, and have gone on for many years, his report says. "One can only conclude," Aquino wrote, "that the District leaves supervision, school direction, and learning to chance."
Aquino, a former administrator in the Los Angeles and Denver school districts, was sent to Rochester late last summer by state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia as a result of the persistently poor performance by the city's public schools. Since then, he has studied the district's operations and talked with district administrators, staff, parents, and community representatives.
His report contains 106 specific "findings" and 84 recommendations, covering areas of school board governance, district leadership, teaching and learning, special education, the district's program for children with limited English ability, organizational structure, accountability, human resources, finances, parent and community engagement, school climate, and operations.
The district has had a high level of change among its key leaders – not only in superintendents but in other senior administrators as well.
The district develops strategic plans but "they have varied in quality and failed to guide meaningful progress."
The district doesn't have a system to hold staff accountable for meeting goals. There are no clear systems for monitoring and reporting progress.
There is no district-wide professional development plan or program.
Although the district is facing a serious structural deficit, "most stakeholders (Board, administrators, teachers, parents, and community members) don't understand that and assume "that funding will always be available." And the district hasn't faced this challenge "with a sense of urgency."
The current superintendent is not visible enough in city schools. "When she does visit," Aquino wrote, "it is usually to attend Board Leadership meetings or special events."
A "long-term culture of fear" exists in the district.
Significant tension exists among board members and between the board and the superintendent.
The board doesn't act as a unified body. "As a result, superintendents have had to manage seven individual Board Commissioners, rather than work with a unified board to support student achievement."
The board doesn't have a clear understanding of its role, and sometimes seeing its role as one of managing the district.The school board sometimes creates advisory committees to study and make recommendations on important district issues. That "might be seen as a strategy to bypass the Superintendent and assume management functions," Aquino wrote, "or the Board's frustration with the administration's inability to adequately address the challenges affecting the District."
The Board puts pressure on staff hiring and promotion when decisions should be left to district administrators.
The district's instructional program is weak and disjointed. Curriculum varies from school to school.
Almost 90 percent of students in third through eighth grade need academic intervention services, apparently because of weak programs in the lower grades.
The district has no system of assessing program effectiveness.
Aquino's report includes his recommendations for each finding, and it notes the support he can provide. By February 8, 2019, the district is to submit a plan to Elia responding to his recommendations, and Aquino will then submit quarterly progress reports to Elia. No deadline has been set for the conclusion of his work in Rochester.
In a statement released this afternoon, school board members said they had just received the report and would issue a statement in response after taking time to review it.


Bedada, T., Mezemir, W., Dera, F., Sima, W., Gebre, S., Edicho, R., Biegna, A., Teklu, D., & Tullu, K. (2018). Virological and bacteriological quality of drinking water in Ethiopia. Applied Water Science, 8(2), 1-6.
Bedada, Tesfaye, Walelign Mezemir, Firehiwot Dera, Waktole Sima, Samson Gebre, Redwan Edicho, Almaz Biegna, Dejenie Teklu, and Kassu Tullu. "Virological and bacteriological quality of drinking water in Ethiopia." Applied Water Science 8.2 (2018): 1-6.


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Where the Heart Is (2000)
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Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, some eccentric, kindly strangers "adopt" Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.
Director: Matt Williams
Actors: Ashley Judd, Dylan Bruno, James Frain, Joan Cusack, Natalie Portman, Sally Field, Stockard Channing
Made of Honor (2008)
Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think…
Logan Lucky (2017)
Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
All Nighter (2017)
When a globe-trotting, workaholic father trying to visit his daughter on a last minute layover in Los Angeles discovers that she's disappeared, he forces her awkward, nervous ex-boyfriend, still nursing…
Mad Dog Time (1996)
With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire.
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989)
Our favourite police men are called together to deal with a gang who rob banks and jewelers. Using their various talents as well as their extraordinary luck, the crooks stand…
Spaghettiman
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A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
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A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Book of Monsters (2018)
Sophie's 18th birthday becomes a bloodbath when monsters descend upon her house, devouring the guests and killing anyone who tries to leave. To survive the night, Sophie must face her…
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Addams Family Values (1993)
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse…
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
While attending a party at James Franco's house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse.
The Escort (2016)
Desperate for a good story, a sex-addicted journalist throws himself into the world of high-class escorts when he starts following a Stanford-educated prostitute.
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Српска лига Београд је једна од 4 Српске лиге у фудбалу. Српске лиге су трећи ниво лигашких фудбалских такмичења у Србији.

Првенство Српске лиге Београд у фудбалу 2000/01. бројала је 18 клубова. Виши степен такмичења је Друга лига СР Југославије, а нижа Београдска зона.

За сезону 2000/01.
ОФК Младеновац из Младеновца је првак Српске лиге Београд дао је 66, а примио 30 гола. Гол разлика 36 гола и освојио 67 бода.
Минули шампионат по процени "Спортових" извештача пратило је 114.100 гледалаца, што чини просек од 393 гледалаца по утакмици, 3.356 по колу, односно 6.339 по клубу.
Грубу игру и неспортско понашање, арбитри су казнили са 1.224 жута и 94 црвена картона, или просечно 38,76 картона по колу, 73,22 картона по клубу и по утакмици 4,31 картона.
За најбољег фудбалера Српске лиге Београд проглашен је Горан Михајловић из ОФК Младеновца са освојених 90 бодова, а голгетер такође Горан Михајловић из ОФК Младеновца са датим 22 гола.
165 различитих играча се нашло у тиму кола, просек по клубу 9 играча.
Из Вождовца, Београд 12 различитих играча се нашло у тиму кола.
Из ОФК Младеновца 8 играча је проглашено за играча кола.
Александар Хајдер из Срема, Јаково 12 пута се нашао у тиму кола, једном играч кола.
Најбољи фудбалер Српске лиге Београд и голгетер Горан Михајловић из ОФК Младеновца 10 пута се нашао у тиму кола, четири пута играч кола.

За сезону 2001/02.

Клубови

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|  style="background:#fff; text-align:center;"|3. Црвена звезда ИБЦ

Мали Мокри Луг

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|  style="background:#fff; text-align:center;"|5. РадничкиОбреновац

|  style="background:#fff; text-align:center;"|6. СинђелићБеоград

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|  style="background:#fff; text-align:center;"|8. ГСП ПолетБеоград

|  style="background:#fff; text-align:center;"|9. Балкан БуковицаМиријево

|  style="background:#fff; text-align:center;"|10. КомграпБеоград

|  style="background:#fff; text-align:center;"|11. ТрудбеникБеоград

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|  style="background:#fff; text-align:center;"|14. ВождовацБеоград

|  style="background:#fff; text-align:center;"|15. ЗмајЗемун

|  style="background:#fff; text-align:center;"|16. ДорћолБеоград

|  style="background:#fff; text-align:center;"|17. ПалилулацКрњача

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Резултати по колима (број гледалаца)

Посећеност утакмица
Није реално стање пошто у многим извештајима са утакмица нема података о броју гледалаца.

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Тим кола

Број играча за "Тим кола" по клубовима

Играчи који су били у тиму кола по клубовима
165 различитих играча се нашло у тиму кола, просек по клубу 9 играча.
Из Вождовца, Београд 12 различитих играча се нашло у тиму кола.
Из ОФК Младеновца 8 играча је проглашено за играча кола.
Александар Хајдер из Срема, Јаково 12 пута се нашао у тиму кола, једном играч кола.
Најбољи фудбалер Српске лиге Београд и голгетер Горан Михајловић из ОФК Младеновца 10 пута се нашао у тиму кола, четири пута играч кола.

 Најбољи фудбалер Српске лиге Београд

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|align=left |Игор Шошо||align=center|||align=left| Вождовац
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Жути и црвени картони
Није реално стање пошто у многим извештајима са утакмица нема података за жуте и црвене картоне.

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Финале купа на територији Београда

Напомене

Референце

Спољашње везе
 Фудбалски савез Београда - званични сајт
 Резултати и табеле "Српске лиге Београд" www.srbijasport.net

Српска лига Београд
Сезона 2000/01. у југословенском фудбалу

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The Best Time to Plant a Yoshino Cherry
By Susan Klatz Beal
Wooden Crafts: Adirondack Chairs
Ylang Ylang Plants
Information on the Dawn Redwood Tree
What Is a Tangelo Orange?
What Kind of a Plum Will Pollinate a Shiro Plum?
The Yoshino cherry tree (Prinus yedoensis Matsum) is one of several ornamental, flowering cherry trees that are now grown in the United States but are native to Japan. The trees are grown mostly for their spectacular spring flower display, although the trees have an interesting overall shape, and the leaves change to warm shades of yellow in the fall. These trees are planted across a wide area of the United States, extending across the warmer southern portions of U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 5 and zone 8.
The Yoshino cherry (Prinus yedoensis) first came to the U.S. when plant explorer and U.S. Department of Agriculture official Dr. David Fairchild ordered 100 cherry trees -- 25 single-flowered and 75 flowering cherry trees -- to plant on a hillside area on his Chevy Chase, Maryland property. He wanted to test their hardiness. Mrs. Eliza Ruhamah Skidmore first mentioned planting the trees in the United States in 1885, upon her return to Washington D.C. from Japan. She approached the U.S. Army Superintendent of the Office for Public Buildings about planting along the Potomac River, but no one would listen to her. Over the course of the next 24 years, she continued to suggest that the trees be planted throughout Washington, but nothing happened.
In honor of Arbor Day 1908, Dr. Fairchild decided to give the children of every school in Washington D.C. cherry tree saplings to plant in their school yard as an Arbor Day observance. During his Arbor Day speech, he proposed that the "speedway," (now known as the Tidal Basin area,) be turned into a "Field of Cherries." By 1909, Mrs. Skidmore decided to raise the money to buy the trees and bequeath them to the city. She wrote a letter to First Lady Helen Herron Taft, knowing that the first lady was familiar with the trees because she had lived in Japan.
Gift From Japan
After lengthy discussions with the Japanese Consul in New York, Mrs. Taft agreed to accept a donation of 2,000 cherry trees that were given as a gift from the city of Tokyo. The trees arrived in Seattle, Washington, on December 10, 1909, and in Washington D.C. on January 6, 1910. Unfortunately, to everyone's horror, the trees were diseased and infested with insects. To prevent the spread of disease or worse, Department of Agriculture officials ordered the destruction of the trees. President William Howard Taft authorized their burning on January 28, 1910. Some were kept to be planted in a quarantined area where they were studied.
The Second Gift
A second gift of 3,020 cherry trees of 12 different varieties was shipped from Japan on February 12, 1912. It arrived in Washington D.C. on March 26, 1912. Of those 12 varieties, 1800 trees were "Somei-Yoshino" cherry trees. On March 27, 1912, the first lady and the wife of the Japanese ambassador planted two of the trees near Independence Avenue and the northern bank of the Tidal Basin. The ceremony, albeit a small one is considered the beginning of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
These trees are known most for their spectacular flowers that bloom in spring, depending on temperature and the length of days. The Yoshino Cherry tree in particular, cannot tolerate long periods of sub-zero temperatures, and doesn't do well in climates where temperatures drop below 10 degrees F. Trees can be planted in early spring, after the danger of frost has past, or in early fall, allowing plenty of time for roots to establish before the first freeze. They require regular watering throughout the entire growing season the first year after planting. Apply a layer of mulch around the trees after planting.
National Park Service: Cherry Blossom Festival: History of the Cherry Trees
Virginia Tech: Yoshino Cherry - Prunus Xyedoensis Matsun
North Carolina State University: Prunus X Yedoensis - Yoshino Cherry
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University: Outstanding Plants of the Arnold Arboretum: Prunus X Yedoensis "Daybreak"
University of Florida IFAS Extension: Prunus X Yedoensis - Yoshino Cherry
Clemson Cooperative Extension: Cherry - Prunus spp.
North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension: Ornamental Cherries Enliven Landscape With Spring Cheer
Susan Beal began her writing career in 2007. Her numerous articles specialize in plants and gardening as well as many other areas. Beal has professional training in music, but is a longtime gardener and plant collector. Her experience with gardening, coupled with extensive research, lends a voice of expertise to her articles.
What's the Difference Between Potting Soil & Cactus Mix?
Pink Yoshino Cherry Tree Varieties
What Do Eagle Wood Carvings Represent in Antique Furniture?
Scientific Name of a Prickly Pear
Fast Facts About Dogwood Flowers
How to Plant Korean Pears
How Big Do Cherry Trees Get?
What Two Cherry Trees Are Needed to Produce Bing Cherries?
Sycamore Trees vs. Ash Trees
1 What's the Difference Between Potting Soil & Cactus Mix?
2 Pink Yoshino Cherry Tree Varieties
3 What Do Eagle Wood Carvings Represent in Antique Furniture?
4 Scientific Name of a Prickly Pear


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Pente à neige
Amusement centers
Ice rinks and winter sports
Pôle des Rapides
Swoosh down the slopes without leaving the city this winter at La Pente à neige! A snowy playground in Montréal's Southwest borough, this outdoor fun centre features snow tubing, tobogganing, ski and snowboarding, plus a full calendar of free family activities once Old Man Winter comes a-knockin'.
Located at Ignace Bourget Park in Lasalle, La Pente à neige offers groomed tubing runs, a bunny hill for beginner skiers and snowboarders plus a free, bring-your-own-sled slope. What's more, it also features Montréal's only snowpark, rails and all.
No equipment? No problem! Onsite rentals provide everything you need. Need some lessons? Certified instructors can get you up and going in no time.
Chilly fingers or toes? Just pop into the heated yurt and sit a spell, cuddle up with a good book or play a board game with friends. Hot beverages and snacks are available onsite.
With a diversified program of free activities for all ages and interests, including exhibitions, games of skill, special events and more, La Pente à neige has more than a few surprises in store this winter. The best part? You don't even have to leave the island: La Pente à neige is easily accessible by car or metro.
Dec 21, 2019 to Jan 3, 2020: Mon, Tue, Wed, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thu, Fri, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sat, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sun, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Jan 4 to Mar 1, 2020: Sun, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Thu, Fri, 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Sat, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Mar 2 to 6, 2020: Mon, Tue, Wed, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thu, Fri, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sat, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sun, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Mar 7 to 29, 2020: Sun, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Thu, Fri, 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Sat, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Closed: Dec 25 and Jan 1.
Thursdays on regular hours, only the snowpark is open.
Passeport MTL Accepted
Admission fees apply
Parc Ignace-Bourget
Corner of Newman and de Montmagny Avenues
Montréal, QC H8N 1A1
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Sport is on the agenda for Hackney this Black History Season as the Council hosts an exhibition, a public debate and a sports photography project for young people.
Gaining unprecedented access to top sporting events across the country, young people have been learning on-the-job about sports photo journalism with iconic sports photographer Ernest Simons.
Ernest Simons is one of only a few Black photojournalists who have captured sports persons in action at major events and as individuals through studio portraits. As well as providing training, Ernest will be displaying some of his most notable photographs at an exhibition alongside works produced by young people taking part in the project.
The exhibition 'Sport Through a Lens' will be on display at Hackney Central library from November and Dalston CLR James Library from January.
As well as an exhibition there will also be a public debate on sport and the role it plays in the lives of Black people. Called the 'The Great Sports Debate 2', the free event is taking place at Hackney Town Hall on Thursday 2 November.
Panellists for the debate include Olympic Taekwondo Silver Medallist, Lutalo Muhammed, Vice President UK Athletics, Donna Fraser, Award winning NBA Global Broadcaster (BBC, BT Sports and Sky) Benny Bonsu, Chief football correspondent for the Mirror Newspaper and sports broadcaster Darren Lewis and will be moderated by Leon Mann, journalist, producer and documentary maker and founder of the Football Black List.
These are a fantastic series of events that residents can get involved with this Black History Season. This focus on sports has provided young people with an opportunity to learn from the best in the field, display their work, and also enable discussion, through The Great Sports Debate 2, on some of the complex issues that affects African and Caribbean communities surrounding sport and physical activity.
For more information on the photography exhibition 'Sport Through a Lens' at Hackney's libraries, or to see other events Hackney is hosting for Black History Season visit: www.hackney.gov.uk/black-history-month.
Black History Season is a national annual celebration of the contribution that African and Caribbean communities have made both locally and across the globe.


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Q: Get specific value from string read from stream I have a string that was read from a stream using stream reader. This was after a WEB API call and get the response from the request. For a cleared view, here is my code.
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("SOME URL");
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

Stream resStream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(resStream);

string s = reader.ReadToEnd();

resStream.Flush();
resStream.Close();
reader.Close();

My string (s) there have a value of "value1=sometring1&value2=somestring2". I want to get somestring1 and sometring2. I think there's a better way to do this and not convert the whole stream as a string to get each value. Do you have any ideas? Thanks!

A: I'd suggest reading into the string and afterwards splitting the data using a method like the following one:
private Dictionary<string, string> SplitValuePairString(string originalString)
{
    Dictionary<string, string> result = new Dictionary<string, string>();

    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(originalString))
    {
        var keyValuePairs = originalString.Split(new char[] { '&' });

        foreach (string keyValuePair in keyValuePairs)
        {
            var parts = keyValuePair.Split(new char[] { '=' });

            if (parts.Length == 2)
            {
                result.Add(parts[0], parts[1]);
            }
        }
    }

    return result;
}

A: I think you can parse your string response with a Regex (if it always has this number of parameters, else you will have more results in the MatchCollection) :
MatchCollection results = Regex.Matches(reader.ReadToEnd(), "=([a-z]*[0-9]*)");

string value1 = results[0].Groups[1].Value;
string value2 = results[1].Groups[1].Value;

This code returns exactly from the string "value1=sometring1&value2=somestring2":
somestring1
somestring2

A: If you convert the stream to a string then you can easily get somestring1 and sometring2 with System.Web.HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(s)

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Q: Debugar aplicação .net core no docker no windows 7 Eu preciso gerar uma aplicação em um container docker, mas o meu computador está com o SO do windows 7.
Instalei o Docker Toolbox, e dentro do bash proprio dele consigo rodar o container hello world, mas o visual studio 2017 não reconhece que o docker esta instalado.
Gostaria de saber como resolver.


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The Public Service Commission (PSC) of Sri Lanka is an independent government commission established under the Constitution of Sri Lanka to manage human resources in the public service.

The first Public Service Commission was established in 1946 under the Ceylon (Constitution) Order in Council, with powers over the appointment, transfer, promotion and disciplinary control over public officers. In 1972, the First Republican Constitution abolished the Public Service Commission and vested authority over the public service in the Cabinet, assisted by Advisory Boards for appointments and discipline. The Second Republican Constitution in 1978, reestablished the Public Service Commission as an independent statutory body. Appointments of department heads were retained by the President. The Eighteenth Amendment once age removed the Public Service Commission, only to be reestablished in the Nineteenth Amendment, which was repealed by the Twentieth Amendment.

References

External links
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Politics of Sri Lanka
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Law of Sri Lanka
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FluMist, the live, attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) that is given intranasally, instead of like a traditional flu shot, was first approved by the FDA in 2003.
At that time, it could be given to healthy, nonpregnant persons aged 5 to 49 years.
The age indication was lowered to include healthy kids between the ages of 2 to 4 years in 2007, in time for the 2007-08 flu season.
And of course, for the 2016-17 flu season, the ACIP and AAP recommended that FluMist not be used at all.
About 14 million doses of FluMist would have been available in the United States during the 2016-17 flu season. Although a small percentage of the 171 to 176 million total doses of available flu vaccine, FluMist has been very popular with pediatricians, parents and especially children, as it helps avoid a shot.
Based on data from observational studies showing lower than expected effectiveness of FluMist Quadrivalent from 2013 through 2016, on June 22, 2016, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), an advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), voted to recommend that FluMist Quadrivalent should not be used during the 2016-2017 influenza season.
There are "discordant results among" studies though and experts aren't sure why.
What's Going On With The Nasal FluMist Vaccine?
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Ten years after 9/11, it's time for President Obama to finally call an end to America's adventures abroad.
The long war provoked by the attacks of Sept. 11 is over. The congressional resolutions authorizing combat in Afghanistan and Iraq no longer justify military operations in either country — or anywhere else. U.S. President Barack Obama gained office by denouncing his predecessor's assertion of unilateral power to commit the nation to an endless war against terror. Yet, despite the absence of legislative authorization, Obama is moving down George W. Bush's path to unilateral warfare. This is the real existential threat to American democracy. And it's why the best way to honor the victims of 9/11 is for Americans to rededicate themselves to the Constitution, which requires the president and Congress to hammer out a new resolution defining war aims for a new decade.
The legal authority for America's present military engagements collapsed in two stages. The first involved Iraq. When Congress authorized the use of force in October 2002, it refused to give the president a blank check. Once Saddam Hussein fell, the 2002 resolution only authorized U.S. troops to operate as part of a U.N.-sponsored occupation force. When the U.N. Security Council planned to terminate this authority on Jan. 1, 2009, President George W. Bush's administration devoted its final months to a new agreement with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government to legalize continuing military operations. But this time, it cut Congress entirely out of the negotiations.
Joseph Biden, then chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, responded with a proposal declaring that any bilateral agreement with Iraq "should involve a joint decision by the executive and legislative branches." This was not strong enough for Sen. Barack Obama, who signed onto a bill proposed by Sen. Hillary Clinton that would deny all funds to any agreement not approved by both houses. As she explained, it was "outrageous that the Bush administration would seek to circumvent the U.S. Congress on a matter of such vital interest to national security."
Bush simply ignored these protests and continued his end run around the Constitution. His lame-duck deal with Maliki went into effect on Jan. 1, 2009, and once they took office, Obama, Biden, and Clinton conveniently forgot their objections. They embraced the Dec. 31, 2011, pullout date established by the Bush-Maliki agreement, implicitly endorsing Bush's power grab.
A similar pattern is now unfolding in the battle against al Qaeda — but this time, Obama will be solely responsible for the decision to cut out Congress. The legal authority for the war on terror is a congressional resolution, passed immediately after the 9/11 attacks, approving the use of force against groups that "planned, authorized, committed, or aided" the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. But a decade later, this resolution can no longer credibly support ongoing military operations.
Al Qaeda's operatives in Pakistan are currently reeling from drone attacks that have killed a series of top commanders. Their capacity to coordinate attacks on the United States has been decimated. Official estimates place the entire Pakistan contingent at 500 or less; and the number of al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan is fewer than 100.
These undisputed facts are a tribute to America's success, but they severely undercut the legal basis of the current campaign in Afghanistan. The 2001 resolution targeted only the groups responsible for 9/11, and these are disintegrating before our eyes. While it also authorized assaults on countries and organizations that "harbored" the original terrorist attackers, this grant is also wearing thin. Originally, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan provided safe harbor for Osama bin Laden, but the Taliban who then dominated the government have now fragmented into a loose coalition of rebel groups, each under independent leadership. Nobody can say which, if any, of these insurgent networks are "harboring" the tiny number of al Qaeda members remaining in the country. One thing is plain: The scale of the U.S. military effort is utterly disproportionate to the harboring problem, if there is one.
Terrorism remains a serious threat, warranting a serious strategic response. But it is no longer the Afghanistan-centered problem that Congress confronted a decade ago. If another attack hits the homeland, it will likely come from terrorists based in Somalia, Yemen, or some other failed state, acting independently of al Qaeda's increasingly disorganized "central command." Yet these new groups simply aren't within the scope of Congress's decade-old authorization. Now is the time for the president to declare victory in the war against al Qaeda and return to Congress for a new resolution dealing with the new threats of the coming decade, in a world where trillion-dollar wars are an unaffordable luxury.
Yet Obama seems reluctant to declare that, at long last, Americans have indeed earned the right to proclaim "mission accomplished" — at least as far as this mission has been constitutionally defined by Congress on the statute books. While all presidents love to claim credit, there is something they like even more: power. As long as he pretends to be fighting yesterday's war against al Qaeda and its vaguely defined "affiliates," Obama can continue to wield the war-making powers granted him by the 2001 resolution. Once he declares that this mission has been accomplished, the Constitution gives him no choice but to deal with troublemakers in Congress in hammering out new strategic principles for the real-world threats we face.
But if Obama chooses to preserve his short-term freedom of action, the United States will pay a terrible long-term price. In using legal fictions to transform Congress's decade-old resolution into an open-ended authorization for unilateral war-making, he will be opening up a path for future presidents to launch major military initiatives without regard to the views of Congress or the American people. Is that what we really want?


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Life & Culture | Television
All in the (Soccer) Game
Like it or not, the coming week will feature plenty of free viewing of the UEFA championship.
France's forward Antoine Griezmann (back) is fouled by Switzerland's midfielder Valon Behrami during the Euro 2016 group A football match between Switzerland and France, June 19, 2016.Credit: Frank Fife, AFP
Truth be told, I'm not much of a sports fan. Not that there's anything wrong with this – being excited by the experience of following what happens on the court, field, course or track (or trek), while munching potato crisps on the couch facing the TV set (hence the sobriquet "couch potato"). It's just that I think there are more productive (or less inane) ways of wasting my time. But I do make it a point of keeping score, as it were, and being constantly aware and updated as to who's been playing against whom, and in what sort of sport. I do want to be able to follow what my fellowmen and some women are talking about whenever there is a tournament of WWI (world-wide interest) going on. Which is most of the (TV watching) time.
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Take next week, for instance: Tomorrow, starting at 16.00, you can watch the 37th game of the UEFA Euro football (that is, soccer, if you speak American) championship, on Channel 1 (broadcasting its swan song, as it is due to close down in September and reopen, refurbished, come October). That will take about two and a half hours of your time, given the preliminaries, the running commentary, the game itself (2 x 45 minutes), half time and overtime and recap, and it is free to all (or for all). By 19.00, possibly with some spare time for the loo and a swift meal (i.e. fast-food), you will be ripe and ready for game 38, on Sports 1. Here is where your free viewing pleasure ends: Sports 1 is accessible only if you are a subscriber to the services of a TV provider that carries the sports bundle of channels, and you have paid for the right to follow all kinds of sports on screen. But you can stay tuned to the same channel, as at 22.00 they will be broadcasting the 40th game, which will last you till about 01.00. Then you can take a nap, and at about 04.00 you can switch on again to follow American sports of all kinds (the NBA basketball series ended last Sunday).
On Monday, you can divide your viewing time between Sports 1 (for subscribers) and Channel 2, free for all. You will be able to watch some of the quarter-finals on Channel 10 (on June 30 or July 1); the semi-finals will be broadcast on Channel 10, and Channel 2 has the final, 51st game of the tournament, on July 10. The powers that be have decided to split the competitions between subscribers' channels (Sports 1, 21 games), and the public broadcasting channels (Channel 2 got 13 games, final included; Channel 10 got 10, opening game included; and Channel 1 only seven). So more than half is being offered for free, as if it were the Israeli TV viewers' inalienable right to get a fix of European soccer for free, whether they like it or not. And don't tell me I can switch to other channels while the young men chasing a ball on a green field overtake the screen. No programmer in his right mind schedules anything worth watching when another TV channel is carrying the ball to the goal.
Here one should give credit where it's due: Live sports broadcasts are the ultimate in TV, as it were, since it was there – on the playing field – that the live TV broadcast originated. (Read on to find out when and where.) "Television" means, basically, carrying visual information (moving pictures) over a distance. The span of visual information thus transmitted runs the gamut from a bit of visual data that is prepackaged, contrived and concocted by writers, actors and editors (be it a TV movie, series or documentary), and a live broadcast of a series of unfolding events, with reporters and cameramen chasing these events, trying to form a story out of bits of breaking news.
The live sports broadcast is somewhere in the middle. It is, on the one hand, a structured, pre-planned game played according to strict rules, with a referee on the field, a controlled event that has to play itself out. At the same time it is a work in progress that can go this way or that, and end with a victory, defeat or draw. You follow it as if it were the most important thing in a world that is – in real life, not on the playing fields – falling apart.
Ah, what do I care? Let it fall apart, but only after the game I've been watching ends, and the muscular young lad takes off his shirt (the sports equivalent of the fat lady singing). Especially when Israel is not taking part in the tournament, so I don't really care who wins.
In the process I learn a lot of unnecessary information about the private lives of some players; the sportscasters have to prattle about something while the ball moves here and there with nothing happening either way. For instance, I know there are two Albanian brothers, both football players, one of whom plays for Albania, while the other plays for Switzerland. I know that Iceland, with its 330,000 citizens, has more than 20,000 young men and women registered as football players. That will serve me very well in any upcoming game of Trivial Pursuit.
Last but not least, one has to acknowledge that a sports event was the first time TV served as a global village, when many viewers all over the world were glued to TV sets to follow the first ever world-wide live broadcast. That was 80 years ago, at the 1936 Olympics, carried over the airwaves from Berlin.


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WATTS – Flash Of White Light
Posted on January 20, 2015 by Real Gone
Boston rock 'n' rollers Watts dropped their second full length LP 'On The Dial' in 2010. Its selection of trashy tunes that by and large sounded like a collision between mid-70s Stones and New York Dolls overseen by Tommy Stinson and the band were more than happy to wear the influences proudly upon their collective sleeve. A few years on, 'Flash of White Light' essentially brings more of the same, though it's obvious from the outset that the hooks are bigger and the general swagger comes with more confidence than before. The core of the Watts sound, however, remains unchanged.
At the most direct – and their least subtle in terms of flaunting that influence – 'Rocks' even kicks off with a riff that's almost a direct lift from 'Brown Sugar', though tweaked just enough and played louder, firmly marking guitarist John Blout's heavy hand in the music's creation. Joining the riff, the rhythm section of Tim McCoy (bass) and John Lynch (drums) prove to be heavy hitters in the engine room, while vocalist Dan Kopko's cigarette ravaged vocal rasp is the perfect compliment. If the UK's Quireboys chopped in their Faces fixation and reworked tunes from 'Sticky Fingers', the results may come somewhere close to this. Again, boasting a riff with a knowing wink, 'Flying Over With Bombs' is instantly reminiscent of Guns N' Roses' 'Sweet Child o' Mine' with its shrill tone and especially the way that riff is underscored by the rhythm section. It's here that McCoy proves his mettle, his bass rising through the rock sounds with a particularly full performance. Guitar wise, the sloppy electric sounds that emerge mid-way are classic Watts in their discordance – a particularly free solo helping to sweep aside those early G N'R comparisons. With such a well-rounded tune, it's a pity that Kopko is left with little more than a needlessly repetitive chorus to hand, but you can't have everything.
Knocking both these tunes for six, the title cut takes a Stones-eque riff, amps it up to garage rock volumes and gives it a proto-punk New York Dolls send off. The riffs are fast and sharp, the vocal pointed, the rhythms hard. If the speed doesn't get you, the call-and-response chorus and stabbed piano sound in the left speaker channel surely will; this is old-school rock 'n' roll at its finest. Slowing down a touch, 'The Mess In The Make Up' awakens the ghosts of The Replacements and mixes solid riffs with a screamer of a solo and incessant hook – all delivered with drawling (in)sincerity to brilliant effect – while the punchy 'Trick' nods rather naturally towards the noisier end of Cheap Trick. The influences are there musically, but the band hammer the point home farther by name-checking them in the chorus for good measure. It's another great work out for the rhythm section, but then since drummer John Lynch sidelines in a Cheap Trick covers band between Watts duties, its only fair such influence should be flaunted.
Knowing they can't just trot out more of the same on an infinite loop – although, admittedly, that'd be great – 'Wrapped Like Candy' is more laid back from the outset, a slow arrangement allows a clean toned guitar to drop in with a more low key riff, a tone that's perhaps closer to melodic rock than bar-room swagger. The vocals croon accordingly, but from the second half, Watts stop fighting the urge to rock out and crank the dials; the guitars mark their place with something grubbier, a few leads reverting to the dirty. Kicking into 'Wasted Angels', it's mere seconds before Watts can be heard at their best once more – Blout's main riff drives home a simplistic attitude, while a thinner chord progression chiming through the chorus is a dead ringer for Keith Richards circa 1971. The chorus is a repetitive affair, but its equally simple attitude is a perfect foil for the riff. If you want Stonesy attitude painted with a more garage rock undercoat, this is a sure fire winner.
If you liked 'On The Dial', you'll love 'Flash of White Light'. If you've never heard Watts, start here. Granted, pretty much everything works to a very strict formula, but if trashy rock is your bag, it's eleven tunes will likely push the right buttons, perhaps even bravely attempting to the fill that void left behind when Stinson's Bash & Pop prematurely pulled the plug. Sometimes a bit of old time rock 'n' roll is all you need…and Watts are happy to oblige.
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Naussac is een plaats en voormalige gemeente in het Franse departement Lozère (regio Occitanie) en telt 201 inwoners (2004). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Mende. Op 1 januari 2016 fuseerde Naussac met de gemeente Fontanes tot de gemeente Naussac-Fontanes.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Naussac bedraagt 13,0 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 15,5 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

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GAMING MEETS SCIENCE: Parkinson's app the latest from Surrey's Innovation Boulevard
Video game designer with Surrey-based Conquer Mobile develops app that helps doctors track their patients' motor and cognitive symptoms.
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Kathy O'Donoghue is managing director of Surrey-based Conquer Mobile. A former EA Games designer
Little did Kathy O'Donoghue know when she bumped into Dr. Martin McKeown at a fundraiser that the two might change Parkinson's patient care forever.
She is a former EA game builder and self professed "technogeek" whose sister has Parkinson's. He is a director of UBC's Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre.
When their worlds collided in May, the idea for an app was born, an app that could improve Parkinson's care through simple cognition games.
"I certainly like video gamers and techies using their skills to enable the medical industry. I think it's such a strong story," said Donoghue. "This is the time to connect the medical scientists with the computer scientists. I'm in if I can help."
O'Donoghue, managing director of Surrey-based Conquer Mobile, spent about five years developing games at EA Games, including Need for Speed.
"In electronic arts, we built games that were commercial, sports games, so it's a pretty good feeling to build technology that may help your family," she told the Now. "I'm motivated to find a cure but I'm motivated to help in any way I can so that patients like my sister can have better access to care and to neurologists."
Donoghue's sister (pictured) plays her games every day and "thinks it's pretty cool," she said with a smile.
The app, CognitiaPD, is part of a large-scale Parkinson's research study that will collect data through mobile games. The study, being led by a team from UBC, uses Conquer Mobile's game to collect data and hopefully improve clinical care.
"No medicine is required, only a smart phone and a connection to the App Store," said Donoghue. "It can be made available worldwide."
The app uses two simple games to test cognition. One called Animal Snap focuses on attention, requiring players to tap the screen when an animal appears, thus checking response time. The other, Gift Shop, tests memory.
"For instance it's like grocery shopping," she explained. "An apple and a pear would appear on screen then you'd be asked to say which order they appeared. It increasingly gets more fruit or animals on the screen. Then it looks at whether you got the correct order."
When patients play the game regularly, it allows their doctors to track their symptoms between visits and assess motor and cognitive changes over time, said O'Donoghue.
The app's tracking of symptoms is helpful, O'Donoghue said, because Parkinson's patients often go just once or twice a year for checkups, yet symptoms or response to medication can change dramatically in that time. If not addressed, people can end up in emergency rooms.
"This will result in faster response to patient symptoms and will also collect large amounts of data for research into disease progression," said O'Donoghue.
The project was announced – and concept tested – at the World Parkinson's Congress in Portland, Oregon in late September.
The next step is to distribute the game through Parkinson's support groups to enable participation across North America before it can be launched in the App Store.
Dr. McKeown said what's different about this project is this isn't an "off-the-shelf" app.
"From the bottom up, we've designed something with Parkinson's in mind. And if we were to sell it on the App Store, we foresee that money being folded back into Parkinson's research."
McKeown said it's tough to get a full picture of a patient's symptoms during a check up because symptoms fluctuate throughout the day, making it hard to get a true snapshot.
"It's funny," he told the Now, "if you look at other aspects of medicine, the cardiologists – the heart doctors – they've figured this out. Sometimes people can get a rare irregular heart rhythm… So what do they do? They send them home with a heart monitor for 48 hours and hope that over the 48 hours it will capture the rhythm. We don't have anything like that for Parkinson's… so we usually don't have a full picture of what happens over time. And that's quite critical."
McKeown foresees two groups of people using the app.
"One group would be followed by our clinic so we could track their performance on these apps and make sure it's linked to their healthcare records. But another group would be people who are not affiliated with the clinic and that data would be anonymized," he said.
That data, McKeown explained, could help provide better understanding of the disease "with the end goal of integrating the information learned into clinical care."
O'Donoghue smiles as she swipes through images on her iPad, looking for the best one to show off the Parkinson's app she's helped develop.
Behind her, through the boardroom windows of her second-floor office, is Surrey Memorial Hospital.
The location is intentional.
Conquer Mobile set up shop there in 2015 after Surrey's establishment of Innovation Boulevard – a health tech hub of, you guessed it, innovation. The business is located in the epicentre of the "hub."
The company has already brought one revolutionary product to market – PeriopSim, a simulation-learning tool for training surgical staff. Using surgical video with voice prompts, the app guide learners through procedures, step by step, all while timing and scoring them. For students and veterans alike, the idea is to increase efficiency and accuracy in the operating room.
See also: Conquer Mobile's surgical apps pushing boundaries of technology
Then there's the company's virtual reality version of PeriopSim, which uses HTC Vive VR with hand controllers to enable users to learn to recognize and handle instruments in a fully immersive environment.
The company also developed 3D scanning software which uses a (occipital structure) sensor attached to an iPad to scan the body and create a very accurate 3D model.
The 3D scanning software can be used for medical purposes such as measuring limbs for prosthetics. Basically, in a giant Rubik's Cube, the app fills in the holes and creates a "3D selfie" of whatever is within its borders (pictured).
O'Donoghue said it's great to be situated in the heart of the health tech precinct when developing such products.
"Literally, the surgeons have come over in their scrubs to work over a design session with them," she said. "It's working for them also, they're the ones saving lives and we're enabling some of this technology. So it's quite helpful."
Conquer Mobile CEO Angela Robert told the Now in 2015 it was the "energy" that drew her to Surrey's Innovation Boulevard.
"When you're a startup company, you've got so much to learn and you have very little resources," Robert said at the time.
Conquer Mobile opened in the City Centre 1 building at 13737 96th Ave. in April 2015. There, the business shares office space with others in the health tech field, including Philips, Back in Motion and Target Tape, but also with Kwantlen Polytechnic and Simon Fraser universities.
"Being in proximity of people really helps get things done quicker," Robert said.
And they couldn't get much closer. Surrey Memorial is just across 96th Avenue.
"We need clinicians to validate our product and they're right next door."
Innovation Boulevard was founded by the City of Surrey, SFU and Surrey Memorial Hospital with the goal of creating new health technologies to improve patient care and providing access to state-of-the-art equipment.
Dr. Peter Payne was part of Innovation Boulevard since its modest beginnings in 2013 – when it was just a concept.
"We spent a couple years saying, 'What is this going to be?'" he told the Now.
Since then, 11 new companies have set up shop in the area, six new products have gone to market, 13 new prototypes have been developed, three clinical trials and 52 projects have been launched, and the area has seen $14.5 million of infrastructure investment.
"A lot of people are paying attention," said Payne, who signed on as president and CEO of the Health Tech Innovation Foundation (HTIF) of Innovation Boulevard last June. "Roughly 33 companies have come through the HTIF program… so there's some traction there."
Payne acknowledged there has been some confusion about what Innovation Boulevard and HTIF actually are.
"(Innovation Boulevard) was an idea for a long time and it was mapped out as this region for economic development between the hospital and the new city hall, roughly a square kilometre. It's more than that now," he said. "Just last week, Innovation Boulevard Corporation (IBC) is officially formed. It's now a legal entity. So IBC has the two main partners – the City of Surrey and SFU."
Meanwhile, the HTIF (also located in the City Centre 1 building, pictured above) was incorporated as a not-for-profit in 2014 with former mayor Dianne Watts serving as CEO until she ran for federal politics and won her bid to become MP for South Surrey-White Rock. Then interim CEO Ian Smith served until Payne signed on in June.
HTIF's name is changing soon, Payne revealed, likely to Innovation Boulevard Alliance.
"The analogy we've come up with is Innovation Boulevard Corporation is like a hospital foundation – they are the money. Innovation Boulevard Alliance, if that's what our name becomes, is effectively an operational group… The reason for setting it up that way is we are now at arm's length from the city and SFU, with a separate board of directors, management, so we are allowed to apply for federal money, provincial money, private sponsors. So we have the seed money from SFU and City of Surrey and can leverage that up into a lot more money."
While medical technologies have been the focus of Innovation Boulevard thus far, that's not to say other industries are out of luck, revealed Payne.
"We're looking for things that align with the strategic direction of the City of Surrey… things that are natural fits," said Payne. "So things that promote human health – clean water, clean energy… And the idea is we're going to partner, we see ourselves as a support organization."
Thanks to Innovation Boulevard, companies are "incubating" in Surrey, but Payne is now focused on making sure they stay.
"We want the base here to be at SFU and Surrey because it's where it all started," said Payne. "We want to have local companies and ventures solving global problems. So we'll start here in Surrey but what's next?
"We're really working on outbound and getting things into global markets," he continued.
"We want as much of the money to stay here as possible. What we really need is a business reason to stay here. We're very good at startups and what we're starting to focus on now is, let's give them a reason to stay – not just start here."
amy.reid@thenownewspaper.com
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The Evolution of Cell Phones in Movies & TV Shows
By The Whiz Cells April 1, 2016 November 9th, 2018 No Comments
20 Pictures that Show the Evolution of Cell Phones in Movies and TV Shows
As a society, we tend look to movies and TV shows to take cues on trends, especially when it comes to technology. If we look back through film history, we can certainly notice the changes in cell phone trends in particular. While today virtually everyone owns a cell phone, films used to represent cell phones as a status symbol or an example of advanced technology available only to a small segment of people.
From the very first "brick phones" and flip phones to sliders and even the first touchscreen phones, movies give us a clear indication of exactly how cell phones — and their primary functions — morphed through the years. It used to be that phones were strictly for making calls, but as we know today, our cell phones are so much more.
Here is a look at the cell phone evolution in pictures, depicted through 20 different films and TV shows over the years.
Get Smart (1965-1970)
In this early spy satire TV series, Agent 86, or Maxwell Smart, was a secret agent played by Don Adams. Agent 86 was tasked with operating a number of spy gadgets, none of which he could ever seem to quite get the hang of. The most memorable gadget, of course, was his shoe phone.
The shoe phone was literally a phone in the sole of his shoe that he would hold up to his ear to communicate back to the chief at his counterintelligence unit, CONTROL. Today it might seem silly to need to conceal a mobile phone, but it made for good comedy back then.
Star Trek (1966-1969)
Captain Kirk, played by William Shatner in the Star Trek TV series, used what can only be described in today's terms as a gold flip phone. Known in the TV show as the Communicator, this device was more than just an ordinary cell phone. It became a central plot device, allowing crew members to transmit signals without relying on satellites.
The concept of the Communicator was so advanced at the time that mobile phone inventor Martin Cooper actually credits it as his major influence for developing the first Motorola cell phone. Plus, the Communicator's gold coloring actually makes it fairly fashion forward by today's standards.
Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas in Wall Street, was a high-powered stockbroker. Gekko used his Motorola DynaTAC mobile phone to close deals and perpetuate his "greed is good" philosophy. While today we refer to this as the "brick" phone, back then this was top of the line in mobile tech. It offered an impressive 30 minutes of battery life, after a 10-hour full-charge.
At the time, this cell phone would have been worth approximately $10,000. It's no wonder only a wealthy and powerful character such as Gekko would be seen possessing such a pricey piece of technology.
Lethal Weapon developed into a series of hit films starring Danny Glover and Mel Gibson. In the original film, Danny Govler's character, Detective Murtagh, carried around a mobile phone that's referred to as the "suitcase phone."
The device had an enormous charging dock that was connected to the phone via a spiral cord. The charging dock even had an antenna to boost the phone's signal range. Can you imagine having to hold a suitcase-sized charger in one hand and your phone in the other just to make a simple call?
Saved by the Bell (1989-1993)
When we get nostalgic and remember the days of the first Motorola cell phones, or "brick phones" as we fondly call them, the Zack Morris phone from Saved by the Bell immediately comes to mind. This teen sitcom from the early '90s really popularized cell phone use. For once, using a cell phone wasn't being depicted by high-powered executives (although Zack's father was portrayed as one).
Saved by the Bell highlighted how convenient having a cell phone really is since it allowed Zack, Slater and Screech to get up to their shenanigans. Zack Morris' Motorola cell phone made him a serious trendsetter at the time.
Fictitious businessman Edward Lewis carries an early version of the cell phone to make his important business calls in the hit romantic comedy Pretty Woman. Carried by Richard Gere, the cell phone again symbolizes wealth and power, especially when compared to Julia Roberts' character, Vivian Ward, a Los Angeles sex trade worker. Ward charms Lewis, ultimately leading him to put aside his ego and image and declare his love for her.
Seinfeld (1989-1998)
Hailed as one of the most successful sitcoms of all time, Seinfeld starred Jerry Seinfeld, who played a character of the same name and was seen in later years possessing a cell phone. Eventually other characters started acquiring cell phones as well, including Elaine, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
One episode in particular has a scene explaining the cell phone etiquette of the time. According to the scene, calls made on a cell phone are considered less important due to it being mobile. While cell phones are now used all the time for all sorts of reasons, the show nailed that cell phones do require etiquette, which is a big issue today.
Considered a classic among cell phone movies, Clueless is a film starring Alicia Silverstone that portrays the superficial lives of high school students in Beverly Hills. Main character Cher Horowitz is portrayed as rich and vain and, of course, owning a cell phone. Her friends and clique members all carry cell phones as well, because at the time they were still considered status symbols. Cher had a flip phone with pull-out antennae, which was new and trendy in the mid- '90s.
Tom Cruise starred in Jerry Maguire, the Academy Award-winning classic film from the mid '90s. Cruise's character Jerry, is a workaholic professional sports agent who grows a conscious. The film follows Jerry as he tries to strike it out on his own with his faithful assistant Dorothy, played by Renee Zellweger, and his one loyal client, Rod Tidwell, played by Cuba Gooding Jr.
Of course, being the successful agent he is, Jerry owns a cell phone. The film's most famous scene depicts Tom Cruise screaming, "Show me the money!" into his old flip phone while an amused Cuba Gooding Jr. negotiates his deal on the other end.
The eighteenth James Bond film and the second with star Pierce Brosnan, Tomorrow Never Dies displayed all sorts of advanced technology for the time. The most memorable of scenes is when Brosnan uses a high-tech Ericsson cell phone to steer his BMW in a high-speed chase from the back seat.
This mobile phone was one of four different Sony Ericsson phones used in the film. One of the phones even had a fingerprint scanner. This pricey product placement was effective, since Sony Ericsson phones were incredibly popular in the late '90s and early 2000s.
In a futuristic and dystopian world, would we have any doubts they'd use high-tech phones? Matrix star Keanu Reeves plays Neo, a cyber hacker who uncovers more about the world than he is supposed to. Because it's some undiscernible time in the future, Neo carries a very advanced-looking — for the time — flip phone by Nokia.
The Matrix was a huge success, and the phone became just as popular. Nokia ended up making a model of the flip phone commercially available due to the increased demand from consumers after The Matrix was released.
Zoolander star Ben Stiller plays Derek Zoolander, a male model brainwashed by fashion industry leader Jacobim Mugatu, played by Will Ferrell, and his own agent, Maury, played by Jerry Stiller, in a plot to assassinate the Malaysian prime minister. The satirical film does a good job of playing on some of the social topics of the time, including the trend of cell phones becoming progressively smaller each year — how could they not?
In one scene, Derek answers his ringing phone, which is a tiny flip phone. He then goes on to explain that his phone is a very important part of him.
Sex and the City (1998-2004)
No one could ever accuse Carrie Bradshaw, of the late '90s/early 2000s TV series Sex and the City, of being a tech-savvy gal. But boy, did she have style! Carrie's pink bejeweled flip became one of the most iconic cell phones to an entire generation of women.
Motorola and Swarovski teamed up to create this unique phone especially for Sarah Jessica Parker's character. In the final scene of the show's finale, the producers reveal the real name of Carrie's love interest, Mr. Big, played by Chris Noth, on the screen of her ringing pink phone.
In the first Sex and the City film, which was released in 2008, Samantha Jones, played by Kim Cattrall, hands Carrie an iPhone to use to make a call. Carrie takes one look at it and declares she can't use it.
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Many of the mega-famous cast members of Ocean's Eleven carry Motorola phones. Motorola was essentially the dominating name in cell phone technology at the time. In one scene, two Motorola phones are used in conversation between Rusty, played by Brad Pitt, and Terry Benedict, played by Andy Garcia.
The flip phone used by Tony Benedict is noticeably compact, which was the trending style at the time. The phone used by Rusty had an antenna, something that was still considered beneficial in cell phone communication at the time.
The science fiction and super hero film X2 is a spinoff of the X-Men series. Main character Wolverine, played by Hugh Jackman, has all kinds of sweet gadgets. One of those is the X-Phone, a slick-looking communication device that has no screen or recognizable buttons. Its minimalist look only has an earpiece and a small round control button in the center.
Devil Wears Prada (2006)
The Devil Wears Prada is a film starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. The main character, Andy, played by Hathaway, is the assistant to fashion magazine editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly played by Meryl Streep. In the film, Andy uses a T-Mobile Sidekick phone to answer to Miranda's every request day or night.
At the time, Sidekicks were the coolest phones around and were made popular by celebrities. They were the first cell phones marketed directly to the younger generation and really played on the craze of instant messaging growing among this demographic.
Like any good superhero, Batman, played by Christian Bale, needs top-of-the-line tech to keep criminals off the streets. In The Dark Knight, the second film in the Christopher Nolan-directed trilogy, Batman, aka Bruce Wayne, has a Nokia 5800 Xpress device that he uses to curb the crooks' plans. Eventually, Nokia went on to release a Dark Knight Rises special edition phone — the Nokia Lumia 800 — in conjunction with the launch of the final film.
Following the trend of superheroes with cool devices, Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, played by Robert Downey Jr., is certainly known for his affinity toward technology. In the film, Tony Stark uses an LG VX9400 phone with a cool swivel screen feature.
By the time Iron Man 2 was produced, an ordinary commercially available phone wasn't good enough for Tony Stark's character. The producers had him operate a fictitious transparent phone that was slim and sleek. Because LG was the film's sponsor, the company's logo was added to the cell phone's glass plate.
No Strings Attached (2011)
A primary plot device of this romantic comedy is about texting and the use of cell phones. The two stars of the film, Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman, spend much of the time communicating via their iPhone 3Gs. Up until this point, films didn't show or promote iPhones all that much. Today, virtually all films depicting cell phone communication show the latest version of the iPhone.
By the time Gone Girl came out, iPhones and cell phones in general had become an integral part of everyday life. Storytellers could now develop plots entirely around a character's habitual use of their cell phone. Part of Gone Girl's plot stems from a selfie taken with the main character, played by Ben Affleck, and a woman using her iPhone. This is certainly very different from when phones were simply used to make calls.
The evolution of cell phones in movies is fun to reflect on. It's not just because we get to have a good chuckle looking back to some of the primitive devices, but also because it shows us how our behaviors have evolved as well.
It's clear from these films and shows that cell phones used to be considered a luxury and something only executives and wealthy people needed or could afford. As we progress through the years in film, we begin to see how cell phones evolve into better technology and offer more uses above and beyond the limited amount of talk time they once served.
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'Babylon' Is a Future Classic … And Here's Why
Damien Chazelle's "Babylon" has already impressed mountains of articles that declare it both a masterpiece or a foul catastrophe, which is all of the proof I want that it will likely be mentioned for years and, maybe belatedly, be declared some sort of basic.
Let me leap forward and say I'll be among the many admirers who cherished it from day one.
"Babylon" begins in 1922, at an uncontrolled, intercourse and drugs-fueled occasion that, clearly, relies on the tragic occasion that ruined the movie profession of the as soon as beloved "Fatty" Arbuckle.
It's surprising to witness how far Chazelle takes this, proper from the beginning. After the introductory enterprise with an elephant (in indication of how crass the film is keen to go), we get an all-stops out depiction of a debaucheries Hollywood occasion and a recreation of the demise that Arbuckle scandal and the occasions that swirled round it.
We meet our principal characters:
Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt), a Clark Gable-like film star who can't overcome his B-movie standing.
Manuel (Diego Calva), who will display how far he'll go to get into the movie business.
Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie), who, like Manuel, crashes the occasion in a determined effort to make a connection.
Sidney Palmer (Jovan Adepo), a musician who's sickened by the shortage of artwork and true artists round him.
Lady Fay Zhu (Li Jun Li), a performer with a carnal act and business connections.
Elinor St. John (Jean Smart), a Hollywood gossip columnist each engrossed and repelled by the business.
It's loads for one film, not to mention a 3-hour epic with E.L. Doctorow-like ambitions and narrative objectives. To Chazelle's credit score – he permits sufficient scenes for the supporting characters to discover how Hollywood marginalizes these missing connections and/or victims to horrendous stereotyping.
I perceive the angle of those that hate it: certainly, it's too lengthy, actually disgusting at occasions, not at all times keen to discover the confrontational subjects it brings up and has no less than seven supporting characters too many.
The detractors will let you know these complaints are only for starters. Fair sufficient, it's not good (not like Chazelle's prior movie, "First Man," the most effective movie of 2018). Nevertheless, as laborious because the movie is to advocate to most individuals (that R-rating is a joke – that is what the extinct NC-17 was made for), it's one in every of my favourite movies of the 12 months and is loads smarter than most appear to comprehend.
Adepo's character is initially on the sidelines however turns into a key determine in exploring the problem of racism in early Hollywood movies. The horrible indignity he ultimately faces will doubtless turn out to be the movie's most mentioned scene. The characters are proven at their most weak, although Chazelle stops quick at humanizing any of those opportunists.
"Babylon" jogs my memory a number of my favourite John Schlesinger movie, the lengthy out of print "The Day of the Locust" (1975), which matches this in its depiction of Hollywood being (nearly actually) linked to Dante's circles of hell and the paths of wreckage left by those that create film magic.
There are additionally parts of "Singin' in the Rain" (although Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly would doubtless have hated this film) crossed with a MAD Magazine parody.
Yes, "Babylon" is extraordinarily vulgar, but it surely's additionally actually humorous and has a number of the finest sequences about filmmaking I've ever seen. The madcap sequence of a crazed German director (a hilarious Spike Jonze) racing in opposition to an ideal sundown and a brilliantly edited set piece portraying a set failing to adapt to the sound period, are tour de forces (the latter has a De Palma-esque precision, complexity and humorousness).
By the time the viewer arrives on the perverse Tobey Maguire part (which appears included to encourage audiences on the fence about strolling out to go away instantly), I used to be taken by the bawdy spectacle, pulpy storytelling and suggestion that, as movie artwork rises, the morals and self-control of those that make motion pictures ascends into hell.
Chazelle typically oversteps right here, bombarding his viewers with rancor and gross-out moments. You wouldn't consider that the story may presumably distance itself from its grotesque opening, but it surely does; there are shifting scenes and the central characters develop properly.
When it involves its bittersweet conclusion, filled with visions from cinema historical past, Chazelle refrains from unabashed nostalgia. Instead, he appears to be saying that the magic of Hollywood is how artwork is made regardless of the monsters who make them.
Since "Babylon" is an elaborate interval piece, it makes me surprise if Chazelle has seen one thing as a Hollywood insider whereas making "First Man" that impressed him to make this. Most share Chazelle's fascination with Hollywood's underworld and endless cess pool of sensational gossip and this component appears to have motivated the course of the story.
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Calling "Babylon" a love letter to the flicks, nonetheless, is a stretch. The movie is all the higher for exhibiting us how everybody working behind the digital camera is able to sustaining an ethical heart however ignores it. Like "The Day of the Locust," that is an unsightly ode to Hollywood (and Chazelle is completely biting the hand that feeds him) however as a tragic cautionary story, it's at all times engrossing.
2022 is already a 12 months overloaded with movies about moviemaking: the dour "Blonde," the self-adoring "The Fabelmans," "Bardo" (technically about documentary filmmaking however nonetheless), and "Nope." Chazelle's movie, like his celebrated "La La Land," finds surprise in the potential for making nice artwork however activates its viewers by exhibiting us every thing we dread about the principle characters and their doomed trajectory.
As St. John explains, it's a system that repeats itself, recycles errors, downgrades individuals and, one way or the other, leaves nice movie artwork (and, contrastly, darkish movie historical past) in its wake. If "La La Land" was romanticized and hopeful, that is cynical and mournful.
In addition to the aforementioned "The Day of the Locust," Chazelle's movie can be within the good firm of "The Wild Party" (a a lot milder tackle the Arbuckle tragedy), "Inside Daisy Clover" and, simply probably the most underrated movie of the 1980's, Blake Edwards' "Sunset" (1988), which was doomed by a studio that improperly marketed it as a comedy; "Sunset" depicted Wyatt Earp's days as a advisor on Tom Mix's movies, matches the portrait of sleaze and
Smart's massive, great monologue with Pitt, the place she explains to him how his picture will spend eternity with "angels and ghosts," is great, in addition to totally true.
As Elinor St. John informs Conrad late within the movie, with the ability to thread movie of him via a sprocket is a method of connecting with an viewers that has but to be born. That's as misty eyed because the movie will get about Hollywood film magic, interval.
Otherwise, "Babylon" is bitter about movie historical past, significantly in regards to the sordid tales which have by no means ceased to dribble out of the leisure business. Although set in 1922, it simply may happen in 2022, because the grotesque excesses depicted are precisely what most suspect the wealthy and guarded are doing in "The Big Nipple," which was Bernardo Bertolucci's nickname for Hollywood (and a tremendous alternate title for this film).
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Having seen the movie twice, the ending is neither as sentimental nor tidy as I initially assumed. Yes, a personality is watching a basic movie and making a psychological connection between his previous experiences and the enduring film he's looking ahead to the primary time; nonetheless, the film in query isn't as saying one story impressed each other as a lot as Hollywood magic can alter how we understand our pasts.
Also, the outstanding montage that follows, during which the cinema historical past is encapsulated into a couple of minutes, is much less in regards to the high quality of artwork than the technical evolution of it.
As earlier scenes present intimate shut ups of cameras being loaded and run, the closing footage demonstrates how the creating movie know-how has not merely progressed however how, in frames both chemical or pixelated, our previous and current, each true and fabricated, are eternally preserved.
Three and a Half Stars
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The world is a dangerous place, as Salman Rushdie knows, whether you've been fatwa'd or not, but last Wednesday night Rushdie and his fans overcame death threats, downpours, and subway delays to celebrate the release of his new book, Joseph Anton: A Memoir. Brooklyn's brave booklovers filled the rows of folding chairs in powerHouse Arena, which faced an ad hoc stage outfitted with enormous PA speakers, two high canvas director's chairs, and a vase of flowers. The bravest of all was Rushdie, who, despite a recently re-issued fatwa sat in the center of this spectacle, the object of fifty or sixty sets of eyes, including the glassy eyes of two or three video cameras.
1. powerHouse Arena's owner, bravely introducing Rushdie. 2. Salman Rushdie, describing how it feels to be sentenced to death: "It doesn't feel good."
Rushdie began the evening by reading an opening excerpt of Joseph Anton, a memoir mainly concerned with his life after the fatwa that he received from Ayatollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran, as an unwanted present on Valentine's Day, 1989. The excerpt describes his confrontation with this death sentence in a third-person account that is cool, distanced, and surprisingly funny. When he asks a journalist whether the fatwa was a "rhetorical flourish" or "genuinely dangerous," the journalists says not to worry, because "Khomeini sentences the President of the United States to death every Friday afternoon." The humor moves in both directions: Rushdie's memoir recounts how when asked for his reaction to the threat he responds, "I wish I'd written a more critical book." But the deadpan humor doesn't hide the fatwa's effects on Rushdie's psyche: "He was a new self now. He was the person in the eye of the storm, no longer the Salman his friends knew but the Rushdie who was the author of The Satanic Verses."
1. New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman and Rushdie, fielding questions from the audience.
Following Rushdie's description of his "unfunny Valentine," New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman joined him for a Q&A session. Rushdie is a yarn-spinner, his dignified British accent giving him the air of a cheeky grandfather, loosened up after a glass of brandy. Describing himself as having "the misfortune of being a writer with an interesting life," he explained that he wrote Joseph Anton in the third person because of his own detachment from the experience, which nevertheless inspired him to keep a journal for the first time. When asked about the recently renewed fatwa, Rushdie explained that there is no longer any danger, but only "one old man shaking his fist."
The evening ended with an open Q&A, during which Rushdie was asked about his experience writing the memoir and his analysis of the relationship between the West and Islam. Speaking of both cultures, Rushdie said, "People are asked to find themselves by what outrages them… we name ourselves by what we hate." As the object of an intense, ideological hatred, Rushdie is an authority on this form of identification, though it was absent in powerHouse Arena, where the audience was united by a common appreciation of Rushdie and his work.
— Sam Gold has been sentenced to the lesser charge of being awoken every day two minutes before his alarm clock goes off.
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