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'Namaste England' song Tere Liye: Arjun Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra's romance creates love in the air
New Delhi: The first track from Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra starrer 'Namaste England' is out and the romantic number is all about the romantic rendezvous and crackling chemistry between the lead characters. Titled 'Tere Liye', the video of the song is set against the colourful backdrop of Punjab. Penned by Javed Akhtar and composed...
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Atif Aslam's 'Bol' to release this Eid!
Talented director Shoaib Mansoor is back with a hard hitting social drama tittled Bol after his critically acclaimed and award winning Khuda Kay Liye. Eros International's Bol, in association with Geo Films and Shoman Productions is the story of a girl, a daughter who stands up and challenges the age old societal norms of treating...
Atif Aslam to feature in pakistani flick Bol
Pakistani filmmaker Shoaib Mansoor of Khuda Kay Liye fame has casted Atif Aslam in the lead role of a doctor in his latest Pakistani flick Bol. The attention grabbing story is based in the heart of Lahore, taking you through a journey in the life of a family experiencing the ups and downs and the...
Atif Aslam to make his acting debut in Bollywood
First it was the Pakistani singer Ali Zafar who made his debut in Bollywood with the film Tere Bin Laden, and now its well know vocalist and singer from Pakistan, Atif Aslam, who will be making his debut in Bollywood in a film being produced by Kumar Taurani of Tips. Kumar Taurani confirmed the news...
I have acting offers from Bollywood – Atif Aslam
New Delhi, Pakistani singer Atif Aslam, who crooned his way into the hearts of Indians with Bollywood songs, has revealed he has acting offers from the industry and is open to them. "Artists don't belong to any nation," he says. "I would like to act in a Bollywood film. It's not my forte, but I...


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(-) Sexuality Education
Young Key Populations
(-) School Health and Nutrition
Early and Unintended Pregnancy
Puberty Education and Menstrual Hygiene Management
Global perspectives on peer sex education for college students
According to the World Health Organization, sexually transmitted diseases and infections continue to be a public health problem across the globe, with most infected persons being between the ages of 15 and 49.
Literature Reviews | 2013
Situation analysis. A summary of school health in India and in four states: Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu
This rapid situation analysis examines the national and selected States' pictures of SHN and was conducted taking the internationally agreed pillars of FRESH into consideration and using mixed methods of literature review, secondary data analysis, and primary qualitative data analysis from key in
Sexuality educators: taking a stand by participating in research
Life Orientation teachers play a critical role in the teaching and learning of sexuality education in South African schools.
Policies & Strategies | 2013
School health nutrition and HIV and AIDS policy
The aim of this School Health and Nutrition and HIV Prevention is to promote and facilitate the implementation of health and nutrition programming and HIV Prevention throughout the education sector in Guyana.
Sexuality education matters: Preparing pre-service teachers to teach sexuality education
Sexuality Education Matters is designed to support pre-service teacher education programs to prepare students to teach sexuality education in primary and secondary schools. It builds on the research and teaching experience of Debbie Ollis and Lyn Harrison at Deakin University.
Mixed method evaluation of a passive mHealth sexual information texting service in Uganda
The authors evaluate the impact of a health information intervention implemented through mobile phones, using a clustered randomized control trial augmented by qualitative interviews.
Cost analysis of school-based sexuality education programs in six countries
Policy-makers who are making decisions on sexuality education programs face important economic questions: what are the costs of developing sexuality education programs; and what are the costs of implementing and scaling them up?
Toolkits & Guides | 2013
Producing your school's sex and relationships education policy
The aim of this guidance document is to help schools to produce their sex and relationships education (SRE) policy. It provides a list of questions and considerations to structure a policy document, and it suggests some possibile openings.
Sexual and reproductive health and rights: implications for comprehensive sex education among young people in Uganda
This paper presents the findings from an explorative study comparing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) against local realities for young people in Uganda.
Advocacy Materials | 2013
Educación sexual integral: Derecho humano y contribución a la formación integral
El documento que presentamos es un resumen del trabajo conjunto elaborado por le Dirección de Tutoría y Orientación Educativa del Ministerio de Educación y la Representación de la UNESCO en Perú, cuyo propósito es proveer información y argumentación con respecto a la necesidad e importancia de la

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The annual BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn series of outdoor shows at Prospect Park doesn't usually include opera, and it's not usually associated with science, either. But on August 6, loungers on the grassy bandshell knoll will get both at The Hubble Cantata, a new performance combining an orchestra, a hundred-member choir, and two Metropolitan Opera star singers with astrophysics, virtual reality, and 3-D sound.
The piece began four years ago. Maine music foundation Bay Chamber Concerts commissioned composer Paola Prestini to write a piece about the Hubble, with scientific input from the telescope's lead astrophysicist, Mario Livio. Prestini and librettist Royce Vavrek created a story where a human couple's relationship is mirrored in the life cycle of a star, from birth in a nebula to death in a supernova. "It becomes this piece about searching, and the unknown, and trying to find somebody in this infinite vastness," says Vavrek. The story ends when the woman floats into the sky to join the stars.
The artists are intentionally holding off on showing Hubble imagery until the end of the show.
This theme of loss was inspired by the impending end of the Hubble's era: The telescope has been in operation since 1990, providing breathtaking photos of the far reaches of space, but talks are under way to decommission it over the next few years. It successor, the James Webb Telescope, is slated to launch in 2018, with much more advanced contemporary technology. Prestini wrote the music for the piece based on this story. "Royce's words, and the way that they married the scientific language, became a roadmap," she says. "We learned that the choir represented the cosmos. Then the electronics in the music, which I designed with [the engineering firm] Arup, were infused with Mario Livio's actual voice." Prestini and Vavrek's collaboration resulted in a twenty-minute piece that's been performed several times, most recently with the L.A. Philharmonic.
The performance at Celebrate Brooklyn marks the premiere of an expanded, hour-long composition and a completely new companion film directed by Eliza McNitt, who has created films for scientific organizations like the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. For most of the cantata, subtly animated stills shot by Sasha Arutyunova and directed by McNitt will be projected on a screen behind Jessica Rivera and Nathan Gunn, the Met Opera singers portraying the couple. But the best part is the very end, when the audience turns on a phone app and slips on Google Cardboard VR headsets to experience Fistful of Stars, a five-minute virtual reality trip into the heavens.
Thanks to the Hubble, we learned space is cool beyond imagination.
The virtual reality film propels viewers through a photorealistic simulation of the Hubble Telescope and out the other side, where they'll witness the life cycle of a star. For this portion of the visuals McNitt enlisted Endless Collective, a small VR company of expert animators who have worked on films including Gravity. It's more than worth the heavy logistics required to pull it off: As approximately six thousand guests ender the bandshell, each will get a free Google Cardboard, a foldable VR headset allowing anyone to turn their phone into a virtual reality device. Guests are strongly encouraged to download the app in advance (the iOS version is available now, with Android arriving shortly), although beefed-up on-site Wi-Fi should help out those who didn't get the memo.
The Hubble Cantata premieres August 6. Watch a preview of the event below.


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Khabib will not be stripped of title after brawl
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• October 8, 2018
Khabib Nurmagomedov, the UFC undisputed and undefeated lightweight champion, will not be stripped of his UFC title, according to mixed martial arts journalist Ariel Helwani.
The Russian who defeated Conor McGregor in style, was still enraged even after his victory. Leading up to the fight, McGregor had insulted Khabib's Muslim faith, his father and country, not to mention his violent attack on Khabib's bus which nearly blinded one of the Russian's entourage. So it is no surprise that Khabib was going to react in some way. Little did spectators expect Khabib to react in and outside the ring.
After his dominant victory over McGregor, Khabib appeared to be in a heated argument with one of McGregor's team-mate Dillon Danis who was outside the ring. The Russian then jumped out of the octagon and attacked Danis, which sparked a mass brawl between both fighters' entourages.
The UFC 229 main event was billed as the "biggest fight in UFC history" and the company's president, Dana White, labelled the scenes as "disgusting".
Khabib took exception to McGregor's pre-fight trash talk. Khabib later apologised to the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC), who sanctioned the Las Vegas bout, and admitted: "This is not my best side."
Won't be stripped of title
In reply to a question asking whether Khabib wouldn't be stripped of his lightweight strap, White said: "No it's not 100 per cent.
"The thing is, we're regulated by the NSAC… The NSAC is going to go after [Nurmagomedov], I'm sure, pretty hard. He doesn't have to worry about me right now."
UFC journalist Helwani believes White is completely unbothered by the incident and wouldn't dream of stripping Nurmagomedov, because it would be bad business.
"[A lot of people are] counting on Dana to do the right thing and strip Khabib of the belt. I can assure you, none of that is going to happen," Helwani said.
"[Dana White] is an owner and he's going to do what's best for business… So he's not trying to set a moral standard here.
"Khabib Nurmagomedov is a huge star, he's a huge draw. Nothing is going to happen to him as far as the UFC is concerned. That's my prediction."
Helwani did concede, however, that the NSAC may rule their gavel against the undefeated champion.
"As far as the NSAC is concerned, they have every right – because he is a sanctioned fighter, because he jumped out of the cage, because he incited all of this – to fine him or suspend him," he added.
"But again, even if they suspend him for six to nine months, he only fights every six to nine months, so what would that really do?
"I don't expect any huge fallout in terms of suspensions or things like that.
"This is the fight game and unfortunately these things happen, and this is one of those times where we can't compare it to the 'regular sports', if you will."
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STATEWIDE – Virginia High School League Film Festival Official Selection Announcement
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS NAMED IN VHSL FILM FESTIVAL
Festival to be held at Virginia Commonwealth University
CONTACT: Lisa Giles, lgiles@vhsl.org
CHARLOTTESVILLE—High school filmmakers across the Commonwealth submitted 93 films from 42 schools to the 2nd Annual VHSL Film Festival (state championship), and 32 have been designated Official Selections and will be honored with a screening at the festival, which will be held at Virginia Commonwealth University, June 3-4.
The Official Selections are as follows:
A Craving, Jefferson Forest High School, Forest
Devine, Clover Hill High School, Midlothian
Ignorance is Bliss, Stone Bridge High School, Ashburn
Monophobia, South County High School, Lorton
Snafu, Princess Anne High School, Virginia Beach
Sunland, South Lakes High School, Reston
Tragically Crazy, Grafton High School, Yorktown
Vertical, Fort Defiance High School, Fort Defiance
Not Good Enough, Maggie Walker Governor's School, Richmond
Papa Fred, South Lakes High School, Reston
Pocket Change, Annandale High School, Annandale
Ram Pride, James W. Robinson Secondary, Fairfax
The Mystery of Adam's Cave, Radford High School, Radford
The Red Thread, Princess Anne High School, Virginia Beach
Stick with It, George C. Marshall High School, Falls Church
What Makes You Tic?, Grafton High School, Yorktown
Alone, Princess Anne High School, Virginia Beach
Cope, Chancellor High School, Fredericksburg
Cycle, Fluvanna County High School, Palmyra
Disillusionesque, George Wythe High School, Wytheville
Pressure, Clover Hill High School, Midlothian
Static, Woodgrove High School, Purcellville
Transcendence, Blacksburg High School, Blacksburg
Untouchable, James W. Robinson Secondary School, Fairfax
COMMERICAL/PSA
Be the Change, Granby High School, Norfolk
Be the Difference, South Lakes High School, Reston
Freeze Frame, Hopewell High School, Hopewell
Listen Carefully, Kettle Run High School, Nokesville
McDonald's, Annandale High School, Annandale
Safe Driving: It's Simple, Chancellor High School, Fredericksburg
Stop Disorder Blindness, Salem High School, Virginia Beach
The Best a Man Can Get, Woodgrove High School, Purcellville
The following animations are up for consideration, with an Official Selection follow-up announcement expected May 20:
Bye, Princess Anne High School, Virginia Beach
The Magic Motley, Clover Hill High School, Midlothian
The Master's Flying Machine, William Byrd High School, Vinton
UNI, Churchland High School, Portsmouth
Writer's Block, Kettle Run High School, Nokesville
In addition to screenings, the festival will include guest speakers, a filmmaker Q&A, a mixer, a photographed red carpet, and an awards ceremony.
The festival is open to the general public, and tickets may be purchased at:
Commercial/PSA screening, go to: http://vhslfilmpsa.bpt.me/
Experimentals screening, go to: http://vhslfilmexp.bpt.me/
Animations screenings, go to: http://vhslfilmani16.bpt.me/
Documentary screenings, go to: http://vhslfilmdoc16.bpt.me/
Narrative screenings, go to: http://vhslfilmnar16.bpt.me/
VHSL Vanguard, go to: http://vhslfilmvan.bpt.me/
Full Festival Ticket: http://vhslfilmfull.bpt.me/
For more information on the festival, including sponsorship or serving as a volunteer, please contact Lisa Giles, VHSL Director of Activities and Student Services at lgiles@vhsl.org or 434.977.8475.
For information on exhibiting or placing an ad in the festival program, please contact Sharon Condoulis, programs assistant, at scondoulis@vhsl.org or 434.977.8475.
About VHSL: An alliance of Virginia's public high schools, the 315 member schools of the VHSL serve the Commonwealth's youth by establishing and maintaining standards for student activities and competitions that promote education, leadership, sportsmanship, character and citizenship. Nearly 200,000 students participate in 28 different sports and 11 academic activities, culminating in over 155 state championships each year.
Founded in 1913, the VHSL is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization.


Before you decide to buy any bedroom furniture there are things that you have to consider. Reason being in the basis of a person's preferences the use of furniture is dynamic. There are those things that you should put into consideration. With the aim of satisfying your needs and wants you should do this consideration before you buy. Doing this sets you in the right direction for making ideal choices. Discussed below are some of the factors to put into consideration prior to purchasing bedroom furniture.
To begin with, you should look into styles. The style is one of the critical factors that have to be considered. This is in reference to your style preference as an individual. Additionally your home style. Though few people might see your bedroom furniture, it is vital that you go for the ideal furniture. This is crucial to satisfying your styles. The architectural nature of the furniture should be taken into account. Reason being it brings out the taste that the furniture has. This too is crucial.
The furniture material should be put into consideration. In a lot of case the materials for making outdoor and indoor furniture is different. Make sure that the bedroom furniture you purchase have a material feature whose properties match the environment of your bedroom. Plastics and even wood. All this is dependent on your style and preference. Besides materials, aesthetics and practical concerns should be taken into consideration.
The dimensions need should be put into consideration. This is vital as you buy furniture. The furniture that you buy should be easy to arrange. There should be space for moving around after you furniture has need put in place. the bedroom should in no way feel cramped. In the process of shopping you should have measurements of your staircases and doorways so that you buy furniture that is fitting and avoid having a hard time passing through. By doing that you are going to avoid the stress of purchasing furniture the is not capable of passing through your doors.
Lastly, the element of functionality should be considered. Bedroom furniture that you purchase is supposed to be functional in the sense that you should try them prior to buying. This entails things like having a look at drawers and if the bed produces squeaking sounds. Despite the availability of consumer reviews, it is important that you find out for yourself whether the furniture works according to your expectations.
Being able to manage homes can be difficult especially if you have other jobs to do. You are then supposed to start looking for a company that will help take care of your homes. By this, they can create the best environment for the tenants. Hence making them like their homes and feel comfortable when living in them. Here are the merits of engaging homeowners' association management firm.
You should know that when you have employed homeowner management firms, you will be able to get the money of rent at the right time. It is hectic dealing with tenants whenever they are paying rent. By engaging the HOA management company, you will be able to escape such things. The HOA management company make sure that they do not let you down and that you will receive the full amount of money the tenants pay at the right time.
When there is an issue with the houses you should know that the HOA management firm will be able to help solve it. Such problems include, lack of water, blockage of drainage pipes and cleanliness of the environment. HOA management company strives to make the environment suitable for the tenants.
The next merit of hiring the HOA management company is that they take less time in filling vacant homes. You should know that they have different platforms that help them find tenants who are searching for homes. The homeowners' association management company are also experts in advertising homes and therefore making it easy for clients to find them. You should know that the homeowners' association management company can make sites that make the clients first view their page. A site will make your homes to be full of tenants since they will be able to check out the web page and therefore decide on the home they will want to rent.
The other benefit is that the homeowners' association management company is they can follow the law accordingly. The company also strives to know any changes made by the government and therefore works on improving in that area. You should now know that the law will not be on you since you will be following it accordingly.
The other benefit of the HOA management company is that it can keep the records of the tenants and other important things. This means that if you require the records of a particular home, you will be able to get them. The HOA management company also states the dates and names in the documents so that the work can be clear.
When one looks into guns; then they find that this is not something that they want to venture into. Though this is the case, you should note that the handling of a gun is not all about violence, there are some health benefits you might get from the venture. In case you are not certain of the benefits of getting into this venture then here are some of the things you should put in mind.
When you go to the shooting range, then this is something that will aid in building your physical attributes. When you get into this venture then you will find that it is something that will help in making stamina. When you do this, some of the things that you should put in mind is that this is something that will aid in your eye and hand coordination. By taking the time to aim, then you should note that this is something that will aid in giving your arms some power.
When you get into the venture then you should note that this is something that will give you some mental traits development. When you ask shooters some of the things that you should note is that this is the type of venture that mostly uses the brain. What you should note is that when you are dealing with the shooting then you will be able to learn of how you can think outside the box. It is a venture that you can use to train your mind to solve problem and deep creative thinking.
When you do the shooting, then this is something that can give your body adrenaline rush. Some of the things that you should put in mind is that when you do this, then you are bound to have the level of adrenaline increasing in the blood, and as a result then this is something that will lead to you having the breakdown of the glycogen. Some of the things that you should note is that by doing this, then you should note that it is something that will help you lessen stress.
Thus, this is the reason you should warrant that you choose an ideal shooting range facility. It is paramount for you to make sure that it is a facility that is certified to help you deal with the venture. By doing this, then you will find that you will not only enjoy the fun, you can be sure you will be safe. the only way that you can be assured that you will get the best then you should research. By choosing right, this is something that will help you with your entire health.
When people are involved in accidents, some may sustain injuries while others are tragic and leads to loss of lives. Although most injured people are rushed to general doctors after being involved in accidents, it is advisable to take them to an accident doctors who are in a better position to handle and treat their injuries. However with increased number of accident doctors that are located in different places, finding a suitable one can be a daunting task. Suitable accident doctors should meet the following requirements.
It is crucial to find out if the car accident doctor is experienced in the field. The injured people will receive better service from accident doctors since they understand how to handle different injuries as opposed to general doctors. Despite the excruciating pain that people are faced with, it is crucial to find out the period that the accident doctors have been offering their services. During the selection process, patients are advised to seek medical attention from accident doctors that have been offering their services for a long time. When patients that have been involved in accidents seek the services of accident doctors they are guaranteed of getting medical documentation that will help them seek compensation. Before visiting a car accident doctor, it is essential to find out their areas of specialization. People that have been involved in an accident may seek medical attention from neurologists that check out for injuries in the brain or spinal cord, chiropractor, and orthopaedics.
The family members of the affected patient should take their loved one to an accident doctor that has a history of offering quality services. The improvement in technology has made it possible for people to access the website and read the unbiased comments that have been made. Additional information should be sought from people that have benefited from similar services. The other area that is worth consideration is the location of the hospital facility that the patients should visit. People should seek services from accident doctors that are easily reachable. When people access urgent medical attention within a short time, serious injuries can be avoided.
Patients are advised to check if the accident doctors have a valid license before offering their services. It is only suitable accident doctors that are issued with the licenses. The licenses are a monitoring tool that is used to check suitable accident doctors and protect members of the public from quacks. One should ask the accident doctors on the amount that they expect after treating their patients. Some injuries may require specialized treatment, and this is likely to be expensive. For people that are registered with insurance companies, it is crucial to visit accident doctor within 14 days so that they can pay their bills using their insurance covers. Since the patients may have a lot of questions that need clarification they should confirm if the accident doctors offer consultation services.
There are very many different bags that exist and this is to say that they get to be of different shapes, sizes and designs and this is to mean that one is able to choose the one they want. All the bags that exist are used for so many different porpoises and this is to mean that there are those that are for difficult tasks like carrying of luggage and those that are not and this makes all the difference. For so many years, leather bags have been in existence and this is to say that they have been used for so long and this is due to the unique styles they have and this attracts so many people. Leather is a very strong material and this is why it is used in making clothes, furniture, bags, shoes and so many other things. Most people are scared of buying leather just because it is expensive but what they dont see is how important leather things are. This is why so many doctors go for the leather doctor bags that are made for them as they can get to use them in their profession to carry their stuff. These kind of bags bring about the charming look on doctors when they have them and this will make them feel good about the way they look thus boosting their confidence so easily.
These shows that the leather doctor bags help the doctors be able to maintain a professional image as they are walking around with something that is classic and of quality. The leather doctor bags are very long lasting and this is wonderful as it means that they get to be durable and not get to spoil all the time and this is wonderful as they will serve for long and be of help to the doctors. The leather doctors bags are able to offer people with the a long term service and this saves them money as they will not have to get any new bag. Whenever a doctor visits a place carrying the leather doctors bag he or she is able to receive so much attention that comes with respect due to their style and this is pretty great. This is to say that these bags can make on get a great first impression of you and this is wonderful.
This is great as one is able to choose the style that makes them feel comfortable or something they really like. Italian leather bags are made to perfection and this is to say that they are able to make one feel like they have made such a great investment in getting the bag.
If you are suffering from depression or anxiety, then you know that you will need to get rid of those as soon as possible. If you have ever tried it before, then you know that depression and anxiety is real and cannot easily be removed by your mind alone. But the great news is that you can get healing therapy for that. And even greater news is that you can get these healing therapy online. If you take part in online healing therapy, then you will be able to avail of all its wonderful benefits. This article is for the people that are curious to know what the benefits to online healing therapy are. So out of all the great benefits that online healing therapy can provide, here are only the top 3 benefits.
The first benefit to online healing therapy is that it produces a great deal of convenience on your part. If you go to an actual therapy class, then you will have to undergo some inconveniences such as finding time to go out, going through the traffic, and all that. You can be sure that you will face even greater inconveniences when you are always on a tight schedule every day. You can be sure that online healing therapy produces convenience because you can do it from the comfort of your home, office, or anywhere else. So this is the first great benefit that online healing therapy can provide for you.
The second benefit to online healing therapy is the confidence that it will offer you. If you meet an actual therapists in person, then you might feel very shy and will not want to talk about your depression or anxiety. Holding back is not good because how can your therapist help you? But since you meet your therapist online through online healing therapy, you can be sure that you will gain more confidence to tell everything. So this is benefit number two that you will receive from online healing therapy.
Affordability is yet another of the greatest benefits that you will receive from online healing therapy. When you go to an actual therapist classroom, then you will find that each session can cost quite a lot. If you do not have the funds for it, then you will just avoid seeing a healing therapist at all. But when you go online, you can be sure that the prices are more affordable. So the fact that online healing therapy is so affordable compared to actually meeting a therapist is the third great benefit that you will surely receive; however, you can be sure that online healing therapy can offer you and anyone else with many more wonderful benefits.
Reasons Why Spending More Time With Your Family Is Important to The Family Members.
Family members need the attention of their mothers, fathers or siblings. Some career persons are usually very busy during times that their family members need to be with them much. Being in a leadership position will automatically consume more time to lead effectively. Leaders need more time to manage whatever group or group of persons they can manage.
Some people may find it wise to delegate their authority to their employees at home to do the upbringing for them. Parenting is a daunting task which requires a lot of time and resources.
A child whose parent affords him or her enough time finds it easy to effectively communicate with the parent openly and honestly. Parents are always sources of motivation to their children as many children love to follow the footprints of their parents.
Every parent must provide their children with the basic human needs and also other needs. Having work distractions when one is with their family is unhealthy to the family as it causes such a family get bored by such circumstances as most of such distractions would end or terminate such a family time.
Children need their parents even after they have grown up. A child who has attained the age of the majority and is working could not need their parents much as a child who is below the age of the majority and is schooling. It is not only the child who may need their parents with them.
Parent's activities and organization affects their children significantly either positively if well planned or negatively if not well planned.
The to-do list should be placed or put in a conspicuous place so that every family member can look at it on a daily basis. A family to-do list is helpful as it helps the family activities to be well planned and prepared for in advance.
carried everywhere including the workplace.
If an activity which needs to be done on a routine basis is done at irregular ways, such a routine will not be set in the minds of the kids as a necessary behaviour.
A parent who takes disciplinary sanctions against a child who goes against what they have already warned against enjoys living an easy parenting life.
When taking appointments for self, parents should also take their children with them so as to save on time and thus make a good and easy life out of the strict and limited time.
There are times to where you may probably feel that you are losing control of yourself. There are also cases sometimes where you find that there are obstacles in the way when you try to achieve something. This would also make you feel that life is overwhelming and is likewise pressurizing.
We may also find that it's sometimes hard to deal with the problems and that we are not ready mentally for it. This in fact is quite normal for many of us and to how our minds think. This then leads to depression and stress because of our sensitive nature.
In this world that we are living today with lots of pressure present, we mostly suffer with mental collapse. Even people who are strong becomes victims. When we end up becoming ill, we usually go with others and then share to them the problems that we are facing. Also, when we feel down, we then think that we have a weakness. If this is what you are feeling, you need to take it seriously. The question then is what gives us mental health?
When you also feel content and happy with your lifestyle, it could be because you are mentally tough. This will also give you confidence about yourself. In case you are unhappy with your lifestyle, it's best that you work on the case of building your mental strength. There are several ways with how you can actually do it. It is very important that you talk with people in case you have problems that are bothering you constantly. You also may need to let go of your emotions. You should talk with someone who is a friend and who will also be there for you. If you are feeling low, it's best for you to talk with a professional like your doctor.
It is important to also consider taking things easy. This is important because we always take too much without us realizing, which then leads to exhaustion. There's also the need to prioritize your task and make sure that you do the things that are important first. Thinking wisely in fact is the best option and it can be done through taking on activities that you truly enjoy.
You also need to balance your life. Living a balanced life will help you know that the most important part is working in harmony. When going through different stages in our life, our sense of balance will likewise change. Working hard and to also put in lots of hours will provide you lots of benefits and help you to feel great.
Among the most important things which will help your kid to have fun and feel comfortable is kids car seats which may be bought from the stroller depot Canada. Kids car seats safety is one of the significant consideration so as it does not harm the kid. This is because you would not want to put your kid on a Canadian stroller depot kids car seat which has defects as this will be risking the safety of your kid. Currently in the market, there are so many companies such as Calgary baby stores. Among the many worries customers have is selecting the best company which is selling kids car seats, the best stores around include Kacz' kids and the stroller depot canada. Below are some of the features to look for when shopping for the best kids car seats.
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Verner Dixon was, responsible for direct sale activities and marketing programs for commercial and government clients. His responsibilities include the introduction and implementation of new technology, innovative ideas concerning management techniques, employee incentive/training programs, product development, marketing strategies, advertising campaigns, sales promotions and customer service policies. Verner recruited contractors, hired, trained, supervised, and motivated personnel and had the responsibility to increased client base and gross annual revenues.
Verner worked for several years in the telecommunications industry and has a vast knowledge of Millimeter wave technology. He has also performed these same management activities in the telecommunication industry.
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Verner Dixon is past president of the Association of Information Technology Professionals and a past member of the Las Vegas Chamber Technology Committee. He is a member of AITP, PMI, NAIOP, WITI and TBAN. He has published articles on robotic camera systems in Broadcast Engineering magazine and on disaster recovery in Casino Enterprise Management magazine.
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During construction, any number of events — from natural disasters and theft of materials to a fire or vandalism — could thwart progress on a project and result in substantial additional costs. In such circumstances, how is the cost of replacement of materials and labor paid for? That's where builder's risk insurance comes in.


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Services, lodging and camping facilities can be found all along the Parkway. The scenery is simply spectacular with panoramic views of the St. Lawrence along most of the 1000 Islands Parkway — stop and take it in.
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On water, cruise the 1000 Islands aboard the Rockport Boat Line in Rockport, or Gananoque Boat Lines (also in Gananoque) docking at Ivy Lea.
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It looks like Apple is building a car.
Personally, I believe that environmentally friendly, point to point transport, will be the future of modern transit systems. This is not to say that mass transit systems do not have a role. We just need to keep in mind their practical limitations. Ever tried to do the family shopping by train?


A drink-driver in Southampton has caused thousands of pounds of damage after stealing a car from a garage forecourt and crashing it into a listed property.
Kevin Canney had been cycling past the Europa Garage in Lowford when he saw a Land Rover unattended with the key in the ignition, the Southern Daily Echo reported. While under the influence Mr Canney jumped inside the vehicle and drove off, with staff giving pursuit until, not far down the road, he failed to negotiate a T-junction and crashed into the Country Life house.
Opportunistic thieves will always look for vehicles that are easy to steal, that is why it is imperative that a car garage or dealership has a good combined motor trade insurance policy so all their cars and valuables are protected. However, it is also very important that companies implement diligent security measures to ensure they are not an easy target; leaving keys inside an unattended vehicle is not only asking for trouble but it could also invalidate an insurance claim, as it could on a personal claims policy.
Mr Canney's case was taken to Southampton Crown Court where it was heard that the Land Rover Discovery was written off as a result of the incident. A further £8,000 of damage was caused to the house he crashed into.
Mr Canney, 35, who was on bail for shoplifting at the time and has no settled address, admitted to four counts of theft and one each of aggravated taking and driving away without consent, failing to provide a specimen for analysis and having no insurance and a driving licence. He was jailed for 20 months and banned from driving for five years.


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Q: Efficient big endian byte array to native integer conversion in C 1) Are there any compiler builtins, or assembly instructions for x86, ARM or another architecture that will take a big endian byte array (2 bytes -> uint16_t, 4 bytes -> uint32_t, 8 bytes -> uint64_t) and convert it to an unsigned integer of native endianness (big, little, mixed) .
2) Are there also any builtins or instructions to perform the inverse conversion (integer to big endian byte array).
Naive native C functions would be:
static inline void put_be16(uint8_t a[static sizeof(uint16_t)], uint16_t val)
{
    a[0] = (val >> 8) & 0xff;
    a[1] = val & 0xff;
}

static inline uint16_t get_be16(uint8_t const a[static sizeof(uint16_t)])
{
    return (a[0] << 8) | a[1];
}

These are for reading unsigned integers from inbound network packets, and encoding unsigned integers for use in outbound network packets.
Solutions must prevent, or mitigate unaligned memory accesses.
Edit: And looking to be efficient, so something that operates directly on the input/output buffer is what I'm really looking for.

A: As far as the C side, I think this has been asked before. I found this with a quick search:
Convert Little Endian to Big Endian
You can use htonl(), htons(), and related, which will convert to and from a known big-endian format. You can also use a union to extract the individual bytes from an int or long, etc., as in:
union extract_byte_val {
    long long_val;
    uint8_t bytes_val[sizeof(long)];
}

For example:
long x = 128;
union extract_byte_val eb;
eb.long_val = htonl(x);

eb.bytes_val is now {0, 0, 0, 128}, since eb.long_val is bug-endian.

A: I think you can do it like that
int swap_int(unsigned char *byte) {
unsigned char temp;

temp = byte[3];
byte[3] = byte[0];
byte[0] = temp;
temp = byte[2];
byte[2] = byte[1];
byte[1] = temp;}

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A Face Like a Beast (10) Kill 15 enemies with a Metal Beast while wearing the Zaulia Threads.
Beard Beard Action Beard! (10) Make out with Ophelia while wearing the Mountain Man Threads.
Carnivore (10) Run down 20 animals in the Deuce with the Coiling Maw equipped.
Cry Me a River (10) Kill 20 Drowning Doom units with the Eye of Sorrow.
Hammer of Fate Champion (10) Win 10 games on Hammer of Infinite Fate maps - ranked or vs. the Bru"tal AI.
Hammer of Infinite Fate Tourist (10) Play a multiplayer game on all Hammer of Infinite Fate multiplayer maps.
If You Want Blood, You Got It (10) Kill 20 Tainted Coil units with the Disgorger.
Norwegian Sendoff (10) Visit the grave of a fallen hero while wearing the Black Metal Threads.
Whispering Rock (10) Chisel four Razputin heads onto Mt. Rockmore.
Boar Bather (50) Rode a Razorfire Boar into the Sea of Black Tears and live to tell the tale.
Chicks n' Booze n' Stuff (15) Completed "Sanctuary of Sin"
Fistfull of Fog (15) Completed "Dry Ice, Wet Graves"
French Kiss Instructor (15) Completed "Pilgrimage of Screams"
Got a Car and a Date (15) Completed "Welcome to the Age of Metal"
Hair Remover (15) Completed "Battle for Bladehenge"
No More Tears (15) Completed "Sea of Black Tears"
Ran to the Hills (15) Completed "It's Raining Death"
Start a Revolution (15) Completed "Exploited in the Bowels of Hell"
Thick as a Baby's Arm (15) Completed "Lair of the Metal Queen"


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Technically the eighth movie in a franchise spanning five different decades, I think every ticket buyer knows exactly what they are getting with Creed II. It's more of the same formula that's been packing in audiences because it works. Once again Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan), son of the legendary Apollo Creed, climbs high, only to be brought low by a challenger, the son of Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), the man who killed his father in the ring. Once more he finds himself with something to prove, a personal score to settle that blinds him as a fighter. I was able to predict every major plot beat from early on, and that's beside the point. Creed II is at its peak performance when it offers small, well-developed character moments to go along with the training montages and boxing beat downs. Spending more time with the characters is where this movie elevates itself from the formula. There's a potently dramatic subplot where Adonis's wife, played by Tessa Thompson, worries that she may have past down her degenerative hearing loss their newborn child. There's a wordless scene of looks that explains everything over the course of an auditory test, and it's gut wrenching. I wasn't expecting the film to humanize the villains as well. Ivan has been living in shame since his loss to Rocky (Sylvester Stallone), cast out by the elites of his society, and his own wife walked out on him and his son. They both see this opportunity as a way to prove something to the woman who abandoned them and the country that turned its back. It's not just a scene either; the Russians (Ukrainians?) get the second biggest storyline of the movie. It made it so that I was genuinely having mixed emotions during the climactic bout, not wanting either side to really lose. That's solid writing, movie. The performances are uniformly strong (even Lundgren!) and the emotions build and build until it crescendos. Creed II likely won't be the last in the franchise, and even though I can predict the sequel already, as long as the filmmakers find room to meaningfully flesh out these enjoyable and winning characters, I'm game.
Tags: boxing, dolph lundgren, drama, michael b. jordan, sequel, sports, sylvester stallone, tessa thompson
Death of a Nation (2018)
Conservative documentary filmmaker, and modern-day snake oil salesman, Dinesh D'Souza is, for all intents and purposes, stuck. His series of "alternative fact" disingenuous documentaries stretching back to 2012 have lambasted a cavalcade of conservative political targets, many of them grossly exaggerated, relying upon a core audience of ticket-buyers who were essentially looking for a vaguely academic cover for their crackpot theories that would otherwise bring them scorn at the Thanksgiving dinner table. Then in November of 2016 Donald Trump miraculously won the presidency and the Republican Party now controlled both houses of Congress. D'Souza no longer had "anti-colonialist with daddy issues" Obama or "Saul Alinsky demonic disciple" Hillary Clinton to kick around any longer. D'Souza's last documentary, 2016's Hillary's America, barely even touched upon Trump, possibly because even D'Souza thought Trump was not destined to see the Oval Office unless part of a public tour.
D'Souza used to represent the loony fringe, but now a member of that conspiracy-minded, anti-intellectual underbelly has ascended all the way to the presidency. D'Souza's debased theories aren't just parroted by the trolls of the Internet any longer, the president now repeats them verbatim. In an unexpected manner, D'Souza had catapulted to being mainstream, and now I don't think he knows what to do with himself, his platform of agitation against the powers that be trying to reshape the "real America," and his future as a huckster. With Republicans presently in charge of the government, whom will D'Souza complain is thwarting the "real patriots" (I apologize, I'm going to go through a year's supply of air quotes with this review, I can already sense it) from making American great again? His latest pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-documentary Death of a Nation portends his struggle (a subtle reference? You be the judge, dear reader).
Donald Trump is president of the United States. This is an inescapable fact. But even with all that executive power he seems to be stymied by the threat of radical liberalism, or so argues D'Souza. The Democrats are aligned with none other than Hitler (oh, we'll be getting to that claim later) and they are poised to lead this country into ruin. "How do nations die?" D'Souza solemnly intones, as is his custom for his voice over narration. "Tell a lie big enough, and tell it frequently enough, and it will be believed." Astonishingly, he's using that old Hitler claim NOT to refer to a president who has, as of this review's writing, lied over 6,500 times since his 2017 inauguration according to the running record by The Washington Post, a.k.a. "fake news." Over the course of an hour and forty minutes, D'Souza attempts to recycle a flawed thesis from his other alarmist movies about how the Democratic Party is destroying the foundations of the country, conveniently ignoring their minority status and most of objective reality.
Once again, D'Souza falls back to a crooked mirror of historical distortion in an attempt to defend racism, xenophobia, and general incompetence, this time connected to that of President Trump. For D'Souza, it's not Trump who is racist, but the Democrats are the real racists. It's not Trump who is sexist, but the Democrats are the real sexists. He trotted out this "nuh uh" line of defense with Hillary's America where he shoddily sought to recast 150 years of historical policy to declare the Democrats the real racists. With his new film, D'Souza doubles down on the same flimsy claims that he stripped free of supportive context, you know, like the fact that both parties were racist for decades because your average American just so happened to be racist. D'Souza declares that the party of Lincoln is still the one black voters should be supporting, blithely ignoring more pertinent examples of policy for the last fifty years. D'Souza's rhetorical contortions are strained to the breaking point and amount to him saying African-Americans should support the GOP because Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and Woodrow Wilson was racist. What's the better track record for civil rights, the last 50 years or the middle of the nineteenth century? D'Souza even denies the existence of Nixon's "Southern strategy" despite the fact that we have LITERAL audio recordings of Nixon and aides discussing this strategy in detail and by name. Too often the only way to believe much of D'Souza's flaccid arguments is by performing your own homemade lobotomy.
D'Souza ties himself into knots trying to mitigate the racism of our current Commander in Chief, a man who called Nazis "very fine people," has re-tweeted anti-Semitic tweets, who frequently refers to Hispanic immigrants and asylum-seekers as an "invasion," refers to African and Caribbean countries as "shit holes," and consistently goes after African-American critics in much more personal terms, castigating their intelligence, referring to them as "dogs," and all the things a not-so racist person probably would refrain from doing. "We knew we weren't electing a choir boy," D'Souza intones, his feeble attempt to hand wave away all the personal failings and possible criminal activities of the president. It's the same broad excuse that the White House press office has exhorted, that in electing Trump as president that the voters (never mind it wasn't a majority of voters) have declared their general apathy to any number of scandals that arise ("Look, the voters made their voice known when they elected Trump and don't care how many babies he eats on live television…"). You can't separate the two; you can't approve the policies but disapprove of the man. You can't choose to ignore who he fundamentally is, which is likely why D'Souza ignores as much of Trump's actual words and deeds as possible.
The epitome of D'Souza's slimy, bad faith arguments, and a fuller picture at the depths he will lower himself, is when he directly declares that Adolf Hitler was really a liberal. Wow. That's bold. Ignore Hitler's antisemitism, anti-communist, anti-homosexual actions, castigation of foreigners as evil and stealing work from "real proud Germans," rescinding of personal liberties, an independent press, and checks and balances, and his general anti-democratic policies, you still have a man whose ideology was built upon white supremacy and a racist belief in genetic superiority. Does that sound more like Bernie Sanders or like Jason Kessler, the organizer of the Charlottesville rally where, according to our president, "very fine people" chanted, "Jews will not replace us," and ultimately killed a woman protesting their presence? D'Souza interviews white nationalist/neo-Nazi, Richard Spencer, and D'Souza even tries to somehow label him and the "Unite the Right" marchers of Charlottesville as liberals. They are self-described Nazis!
I would ordinarily chalk up D'Souza's slimy re-litigation of labels as another sign of his moral repugnance and move along, but this is deserving of additional attention. This isn't just academic. We have a genuine spike in hate crimes targeting Jewish citizens, most recently a Pittsburgh synagogue where a man murdered a dozen under the belief that Jews, with the thanks of conservative boogeyman George Soros, were funding the migrant caravan ("invasion"). This is but one example of a mentally distraught, angry, and dangerous individual resorting to violence having been fed on a stream of twisted lies and racist rhetoric meant to agitate and divide. It was only a month ago that explosives were sent throughout the mail with the attempt to eliminate Trump's perceived enemies. D'Souza and his ilk are not simply harmless kooks bilking a willing audience in search of some veneer of prestige for its baser inclinations. This stuff is serious now. When elevated to the platform presented through Trump's presidency, these words can have serious consequences. I'm not applying a one-to-one system of blame, as every person is responsible for his or her own direct actions. However, D'Souza is knowingly stoking fires and accelerating resentment within his core, secluded audience. When D'Souza plays fast and loose with the history around Hitler, at turns mitigating the man's actions as well as smearing modern-day political figures with the hackiest guilt-by-association tactics, he is doing the work of the white nationalists for them.
It makes it harder to watch and merely criticize Death of a Nation as a work of film. I could critique its poor production values, insistence on including footage of D'Souza walking around important locations and looking forlorn, as well as its corny insistence on stock footage meant to represent a beer ad's rendition of what constitutes America. I could rightfully complain that once again D'Souza brings things to a halt so he can showcase his wife singing. I could make fun of the stodgy dramatic recreations. I could write an entire essay on the logical fallacy and open insult of comparing Donald Trump to Abraham Lincoln, let alone smashing their faces together as the key poster art. I could laugh at D'Souza crediting himself as playing some small part for electing Trump. I could complain of D'Souza's tortured, leaning style with interview subjects, desperately trying to coax them into saying the hidden phrase he's in search of. The careful way he handles Spencer is bizarre, as if he didn't want to upset the white nationalists who might buy tickets. The technical merits of this movie are beyond the point, not that there was much merit to them to begin with. It's all about his fallacious arguments.
A funny thing happened weeks before the release of this movie in the summer of 2018. President Trump officially pardoned Dinesh D'Souza for his federal campaign finance crimes, sparing him a felonious record (though the rub is to accept a pardon one must accept guilt too). Is it possible that this entire film project was conceived as a means of flattering Trump and working forward the possibility of a pardon for its filmmaker? After three movies of disingenuous gambits, I wouldn't put anything past D'Souza. He is, after all, the same man whose 1995 book declared the end of racism yet he routinely tweets racist missives (try and find some innocent meaning in his reference to Obama as a "grown up Trayvon"). Death of a Nation is what D'Souza plans to do with his mighty megaphone, and it turns out it's blame others and fall back on the same old bromides for his reactionary base. I'm sure in two more years he'll be fired up again to warn us all about the dire threat not re-electing Trump will pose to our nation, but hopefully by that time the nation will have tuned him out for good.
Nate's Grade: F
Tags: bad movies, dinesh d'souza, documentary, F movies, indie, politcs, trump
Border is a hard movie to describe without giving away key parts of its plot. Ostensibly this Swedish film is about Tina, a customs agent with a genetic deformity who can literally smell fear. She's bedeviled by another man, Vore, who looks to have the same genetic deformity she has, which unleashes a flurry of gnawing questions over whether the two have some deeper connection, who might be her real family, and whether this genetic deformity is really what she's been lead to believe. The movie is from the writer of Let the Right One In and takes a very macabre and understated look into a fairy tale realm bleeding into our own world. The movie is mostly grounded and benefits greatly from its lead actress, Eva Melander, who gives a rousing, nuanced performance under heavy prosthetic makeup. Tonally, it feels like the darker impulses, which can get extremely disturbing, are at odds with some of the other competing storylines, like her gradual self-awakening and the potential romance with Vore. Nothing will prepare you for how weird things will get including an awkward sex scene that defies belief. Border holds out a bit too long with its pertinent information, delaying the mystery without enough clues to tease things out in a satisfying manner. Afterwards, the remaining reveals reflect more on the cruel depths of Vore and less with Tina's response. It makes an uncomfortable direction feel like it's meant more as provocation. Ultimately I think I needed more from the story and characters to better meet out the aims of its genre-defying vision. It's definitely a different movie and will register for those looking for dark, adult fairy tales.
Tags: dark, drama, fairy tale, foreign, romance
Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) and his best pal Vanellope (voiced by Sarah Silverman) must venture out of their arcade home once Vanellope's game gets broken. She's in danger of having her racing game shelved for good unless they can find a new steering wheel controller. Thanks to the installation of wi-fi, Ralph and Vanellope hop along the information super highway and visit an online metropolis bursting with life and possibility. It's a world of advanced games, races, and interactivity and Vanellope might not want to go back to her old world, much to the chagrin of Ralph.
Fear not, this is not Disney's rehash of The Emoji Movie, a slapdash gallivant through Internet culture, apps, and the most famous online brands. The first forty minutes or so of Ralph Breaks the Internet are silly and visually appealing as our familiar characters expand their horizons to the world of online gaming. Much like the first film, there are a lot of rules and mechanics to establish as a foundation before things can get too complicated. The first Wreck-It Ralph was a bit more structured and clean in this aspect whereas the sequel gets to feel a tad episodic. The Grand Theft Auto/Twisted Metal world of street racing provides a splendid contrast and plenty of satirical touches. It's still amusing as Ralph and Vanellope discover the new worlds and we see how the filmmakers choose to depict their inner workings, like a concierge working a search bar or spammers as pushy street promoters. Although it also leads to some questions, like this world has Google but no YouTube, instead combining YouTube and Buzzfeed into one entity where hearts count as upvotes/likes. Is there a reason Disney might not want to have steered children to YouTube? Or is there something more corporate about promoting a rival media company when Disney is planning their own online streaming magical kingdom? It's an entertaining beginning but I started to get worried about whether or not this was the extent of what we were going to get with a Ralph sequel. Is this really all going to be about raising money to buy an arcade controller wheel?
It's about the forty-five minute mark where the film takes a welcomed turn, where it focuses far more on the character relationships between Ralph and Vanellope, and that's when the film deepens into something much more special. The antics beforehand were colorful and amusing but too episodic, but once Ralph and Vanellope are split apart, now those same imaginative antics are used in the service of developing characters and exploring their inner conflicts. It's like the movie went next level with its potential. Vannelope's excursion into the Disney Corporate Realm leads to fun cameos (Groot), and newly sad cameos (Stan Lee, R.I.P.), but the meta interaction with the Disney princesses is a hoot. The film cleverly ribs the Disney traditions of old but, and this is the key part, finds ways to relate it back to character conflicts and assumptions. The Disney princesses lead Vanellope into a new soul-searching direction, which leads to an inspired musical number that's filled with silly, ironic non-sequitors and a declaration of purpose, a wonderful melding of the Disney storytelling of old and new. From here, the movie gets better and better as Ralph goes to greater lengths to sabotage Vanellope's plans to leave him for a new game. The final act grows from this misguided attempt to hold onto selfish needs and rebuke change, and it culminates in a climax that is built around the characters and what they're willing to give up for one another. For a movie that starts with silly gags about eBay and Twitter, it grows into something that genuinely could bring some tears.
The overall message, that growing apart is okay and can be healthy, that friendships will inevitably change over time and to not stand in the way of change, is a lesson I was not anticipating from a "family film." I was expecting Ralph Breaks the Internet to mostly cover the dark side of the Internet, in an albeit family-friendly manner, about the casual cruelty and lack of empathy that is magnified from the perceived anonymity. The movie does cover some of this material briefly when Ralph stumbles into a hall of mean-spirited comments ("First rule of the Internet: never read the comments"). I was expecting a more simplified and pat lesson about the evils of the Internet, but instead the filmmakers deliver something far more applicable and important for young people. They could have gone for easy life lessons about online behavior, and instead Ralph Breaks the Internet goes above and beyond to make its message more personal and sympathetic.
Reilly (Kong: Skull Island) provides a lot of heart to his doofus; enough to keep him grounded even when his character starts making bad decisions to keep the status quo. Silverman (Battle of the Sexes) has a harder time just because she's asked to keep her voice at a childlike level, which can be grating at certain points. She is still able to convey an array of emotions. The relationship between Ralph and Vanellope is key to the series being more than the sum of its parts, and both actors help this through their sometimes warm, sometimes bickering interactions. The biggest new addition is Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) as Shank, the leader of a gang of car thieves. She's a tough lady that takes an immediate shine to the attitude and gusto of Vanellope. The character and her world are more welcomed than Gadot as a vocal actor. She's fairly limited in range. I did enjoy that they specifically animated Jason Mantzoukas (Netflix's Big Mouth) as a nerdy question-asker and Oscar-nominee June Squibb (Nebraska) for five seconds each.
The Wreck-It Ralph franchise is another stellar plank in a growing armada of Disney animated franchises that could challenge Pixar for supremacy. Walking away from Ralph Breaks the Internet, I had to think it over but I concluded that I was more emotionally fulfilled and pleased than with Pixar's Incredibles 2. I'm not going to argue that Ralph is the better of the two movies when it comes to storytelling, visual inventiveness, or action, but I was happier and more satisfied leaving Ralph. This is an imaginative, colorful, cheerful, and heartfelt movie with a valuable message and the understanding of narrative structure to see it through. I'm now thinking about a potential third Ralph movie (the director says there won't be another, but let's see what Disney says after those box-office grosses come in). We've gone to the realm of online gaming, so what's next? Maybe Ralph's game gets transferred to a collector's home out of the country, like in Japan, and then it's about Japanese gaming culture. Or my pal Ben Bailey suggested Ralph's game gets relocated into a movie theater, one of the few places arcade machines are still present, and it's Ralph in the world of the movies. The fact that I'm pitching sequels says something about the franchise's potential and its accomplishment. Ralph Breaks the Internet is a worthy sequel with of equal parts compassion and wit.
Tags: alan tudyk, alfred molina, animated, bill hader, comedy, disney, gal gadot, internet, john c. reilly, racing, sarah silverman, sequel, taraji p. henson, video games
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Netflix might just be the best pasture yet for brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. The Oscar-winning filmmakers were reportedly creating a Western series for the online streaming giant but that has turned into an anthology film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The Coens' love of the beautiful, the bizarre, the bucolic and the brazen are on full display with their six-part anthology movie that serves as reminder of what wonderfully unique cinematic voices they are. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is uneven, as most anthology films tend to by design, but it reaches that vintage Coen sweet spot of absurdity and profundity.
The best segment is also the one that kicks things off, the titular adventures of Buster Scruggs, a singing Gene Autry-style cowboy who manages to get into all sorts of scrapes. The tonal balancing act on this one is pure Coen, at once inviting an audience to nostalgically recall the Westerns of old while kicking you in the teeth with dark, hilariously violent turns that veer into inspired slapstick. There is a delightful absurdity to the segment thanks to the cheerful sociopath nature of Buster Scruggs, the fastest gun in the West that's eager to show off at a moment's notice. He's a typical Coen creation, a wicked wordsmith finding himself into heaps of trouble, but through his quick wits and sudden bursts of violence, he's able to rouse an entire saloon full of witnesses to his murder into a swinging, carousing group following him in song. I laughed long and hard throughout much of this segment. I was hooked and wanted to see where it would go next and how depraved it might get. Tim Blake Nelson (O Bother Where Art Thou) is wonderful as Buster Scruggs and perfectly finds the exact wavelength needed for the Coen's brand of funny and peculiar. He's like a combo Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny breaking the fourth wall to let the audience in on his merry bravado. The segment ends in a fitting fashion, another song that manages to be hilarious and strangely poignant at the same time. The Coens allow the scene to linger into a full-on duet of metaphysical proportions. I could have watched an entire series following Buster Scruggs but it may have been wise to cut things short and not to overstay its novelty.
The other best segments take very different tonal destinations. "All Gold Canyon" is a slower and more leisurely segment, following Tom Waits as a prospector who systematically works the land in search of a hidden trove of gold he nicknames "Mr. Pocket." The step-by-step process has a lyrical nature to it, and it reminded me of the opening of There Will Be Blood where we follow Daniel Plainview's initial success at unearthing the beginning of his fortune. Waits is fantastic and truly deserving of Oscar consideration as the prospector. He's hardscrabble and resilient, and there's a late moment where he's narrating a near escape from death where he's tearfully thankful, possibly losing himself in the moment, and so grateful that it made me tear up myself. The segment ebbs and flows on the strength of the visual storytelling and Waits. It's a lovely short with a few hidden punches, which is also another fine way to describe the other best segment, "The Gal Who Got Rattled." It stars Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) as a woman making her way to Oregon with a wagon train. She's heading west for a new life, one she was not prepared for and only doing so at the urging of her pushy brother who dies shortly into the journey. Now she's on her own and struggling to find her own place in the larger world. There's a very sweet and hopeful romance between her and Billy Knapp (Bill Heck), one of the wagon train leaders who is thinking of settling down. It's also a segment that slows down, accounting for the longest running time of the six. It goes to great care to establish the rhythms of life on the road, where many people walked the thousands of miles across the plains. The budding courtship is at a realistic simmer, something with more promise than heat. It's such an involving story that its downturn of an ending almost feels criminal, albeit even if the tragic setups were well placed. Both of these segments take a break from the signature irony of the Coens and sincerely round out their characters and personal journeys and the dangers that await them.
The remaining three segments aren't bad by any stretch (I'd rate each from fine to mostly good) but they don't get close to the entertainment and artistic majesty of the others. The second segment, "Near Algodones," has some fun moments as James Franco is an inept bank robber who seems to go from bad situation to new bad situation, getting out through miraculous means until his luck runs out. The interaction with a kooky Stephen Root is a highlight but the segment feels more like a series of ideas than any sort of story. Even for an anthology movie, the segment feels too episodic for its own good. The third segment, "Meal Ticket," is about a traveling sideshow in small dusty towns in the middle of winter. Liam Neeson plays the owner and the main act is a thespian (Henry Melling, best known as Dudley Dursely in the Harry Potter films) with no arms and no legs. The thespian character says nothing else but his prepared oratory. It makes him a bit harder to try and understand internally. I was also confused by their relationship. Are they father/son? Business partners? It's also the most repetitious short, by nature, with the monologues and stops bleeding into one another, giving the impression of the thankless and hard life of a performer trying to eek out a living. It's a bit too oblique. The final segment, "The Mortal Remains," is like an Agatha Christie chamber play. We listen to five characters engage in a philosophical and contentious debate inside a speeding stagecoach that will not slow down. It's an actors showcase with very specifically written characters, the Coens sharp ear for local color coming through. The conversation takes on a symbolism of passing over to judgment in the afterlife, or maybe it doesn't and I'm trying to read more into things. You may start to tune out the incessant chatter as I did. It's a perfunctory finish for the movie.
Being a Coen brothers' film, the technical merits are mesmerizing. The cinematography by Bruno Delbonnel (Amelie, Inside Llewyn Davis) is sumptuous and often stunning. The use of light and color is a gorgeous tapestry, and some of the visual arrangements could be copied into ready-made scenic postcards, in particular "Meal Ticket" and "All Gold Canyon." The isolation, hostility, warmth, majesty of the setting is expertly communicated to the viewer. The production design and costuming are consummate as well. The musical score by longtime collaborator Carter Burwell is classic in its use of melancholy strings and motifs. It's a glorious looking movie made with master craft care.
Before its release, the Coens had talked about how hard it was to make their kind of movies within the traditional studio system, even with their 30 years of hits and classics. Netflix is desperately hungry for prestige content, so it looks like a suitable match. I'd happily welcome more Coen brothers' movies like The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a goofy Western that's equally heart wrenching as it is heart-warming, neither shying away from the cruelty and indifference of the harsh setting nor neglecting to take in its splendor. Just give them whatever money they need Netflix to keep these sort of movies a comin'.
Tags: anthology, clancy brown, coen brothers, dark comedy, drama, james franco, liam neeson, netflix, quirky, stephen root, thriller, tim blake nelson, tom waits, western, zoe kazan
When they adjusted the Hobbit movies so there was going to be three instead of two, it required some very noticeable padding and filler material to meet out that requirement. The second Fantastic Beasts film (of a planned five film series, expanded from a trilogy) feels exactly that way, a mostly table-setting movie with more incidents than plot, a few pertinent revelations, and not much in the manner of resolution. The second Fantastic Beasts does improve on its predecessor in several regards. It introduces a formidable villain that's well played by Johnny Depp. It introduces a compelling younger version of Albus Dumbledore that's played by the dashing Jude Law. It also finds more purpose for its hero, the shy magical zookeeper Newt (Eddie Redmayne), as the series inches closer to a wizards-vs-wizards world war. Things take a turn for the darker; within the First Act, a baby is murdered. They didn't even do that in the new Halloween. The larger world building of Beasts, written by author J.K. Rowling for the screen and directed by longtime stalwart David Yates, has been its biggest draw. The supporting characters are back, though not everyone has much to do. Rowling is improving as a screenwriter but she still has trouble executing exposition-heavy scenes, resorting to sequence after sequence of characters prattling on. Ultimately, it doesn't feel like there's much of consequence until the very end, so we endure characters running through underdeveloped and contrived storylines. One of these involves Katherine Waterston mistakenly believing Newt is engaged (his brother is) and somehow, despite having access to magic let alone other forms of media, never findings out the easy truth. It's stuff like that that show me Rowling was struggling to find material for every character to push them forward on this now extended journey. Crimes of Gindelwald is an overall step in the right direction for the prequel series even if this individual movie has trouble standing on its own magical merits.
Tags: action, david yates, drama, eddie redmayne, ezra miller, harry potter, j.k. rowling, johnny depp, jude law, katherine waterston, magic, period film, prequel, sequel, supernatural, zoe kravitz
Widows has an all-star cast, an Oscar-nominated director, and a best-selling novelist-turned screenwriter, so my expectations might have been turned up a bit too high. It follows a team of titular widows (Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Dibecki) picking up the pieces in the wake of their husbands' deaths. It seems their dearly departed spouses stole money from a local criminal who very much demands the sum returned. The women must enter into a criminal heist, using notes left behind by a dead hubby, to settle the debt and spare their lives. Widows is a higher caliber crime movie with notable texture given to a wide assortment of characters; even the villains are given small character touches to better flesh them out and feel more realized. There's a concurrent election tying together different corrupt and criminal enterprises that widens the scope of the film into a grander scale. The characters and performances are the selling point of the movie and provide consistent entertainment. Davis (Fences) is the strong-willed linchpin of the group and I could watch her boss around people for hours. Dibecki (The Great Gatsby) has a nice turn as a trophy wife accustomed to being abused. The problem is that there might be too many characters. Rodriguez has far more significance in the first thirty minutes and then is put on ice. Likewise, Carrie Coon and Cynthia Erivo are hastily added when the plot requires something of them. That plot, adapted by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) and director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave), proves to be the film's biggest hindrance by the end. The second half plot turns seem to come from a schlockier version of this story, not the classier version we had been treated to beforehand. There are character decisions that baffle credulity and personal safety. The quality of the characters deserved a movie that could refrain from the hacky genre twists. McQueen's precise camerawork is still alive and well and highlights tension and also moments of social commentary, like when we watch a car travel mere blocks from a rundown inner city neighborhood to a fancy gated residence. There's a lot to like with Widows, and plenty to get excited about, but I wanted to like even more.
Tags: action, book, carrie coon, colin farrell, cynthia erivo, daniel kaluuya, drama, elizabeth debicki, gillian flynn, heist, liam neeson, michelle rodriguez, robert duvall, steve mcqueen, strong heroine, thriller, viola davis
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was an international best-selling trilogy that gave way to three hit Swedish movies, one Hollywood remake that netted a Best Actress nomination, and millions in worldwide revenue. The problem was that its author, Stieg Larsson, died of a heart attack in 2004, before the publication of any of the original novels. The property was too valuable to simply collect dust and thus a new author came aboard to tell further adventures of Lisbeth Salander, the pint-sized Gothic avenger. A new set of novels began being published in 2015, and after David Fincher's 2011 version underperformed at the box-office, it seemed expected to reboot the franchise with a new big screen story that had yet to be adapted. In steps a new director, a new dragon-tattooed lady for The Girl in the Spider's Web. Unfortunately, my fears have come true and the eventual reckoning has happened: they have made Lisbeth Salander boring.
Lisbeth (Claire Foy) is thrown into another criminal conspiracy with shadowy forces at play. A network of high-powered assassins, known as "spiders," has stolen a dangerous technology that will allow the user control of nuclear arsenals. Lisbeth is hired to retrieve this tech, betrayed, and then on the run from Swedish authorities, professional killers, a dogged NSA operative (Laketih Stanfield), and the head of this cabal, Camilla Salander (Sylvia Hoeks, Blade Runner 2049), her long lost sister Lisbeth left behind years ago.
In her first 2010 outing, Salander was presented as a complex, emotionally withdrawn figure, eminently capable but flawed, hurt, and looking to punish others from her fraught history with terrible men. Strip away all the Gothic trinkets and camouflage, her assertions of identity, and she's still a deeply intriguing human being. However, even the latter Swedish films started veering in this more derivative direction. As I wrote presciently with the second Swedish Dragon Tattoo movie back in 2010: "We project the interest we felt for her from the first film to the Salander stand-in represented in the second film. She's still a resourceful, loyal, and cavalier presence, but the plot corners her into being a creature of action. She becomes the fantasy bisexual ass-kicking protagonist that was merely hinted at previously. That sounds like a good thing, but trust me, it does the audience a disservice to box in such a fascinating character." With Spider's Web, Lisbeth Salander has become a Gothic Jason Bourne spy figure, and as anyone who has seen the Bourne movies can attest, he's the most boring character in his own movies, which is why he needs to be kept constantly on the move and hunted. He's only interesting when he's getting out of jams, and Lisbeth is now sadly in that realm.
Lisbeth has been reduced to her most essential, and most superficial, characteristics, which also go for the film as a whole. The Dragon Tattoo series began as a twisty investigative procedural with a litany of suspects and dark secrets worth killing over. From there, the Swedish films turned Lisbeth into an indestructible Terminator capable of getting the drop on anyone and axe-fighting oversized men. The Swedish series began more grounded as a mystery/thriller and suddenly, and regrettably, transformed into a preposterous Hollywood-style action-thriller, following the edict of bigger being better. That same mentality has carried over past Larsson's contributions, and now Lisbeth has become an action superhero and the series has become trashy fun, high-calorie junk food, a safe excursion to a seedy underbelly. The Girl in the Spider's Web still provides a consistent degree of entertainment, but it's not playing at a higher level, content to hand-wave away its story for cool chases and fights. It's the kind of movie where, to escape an encroaching fireball, Lisbeth dives into a bathtub of water. It makes for a visually interesting shot but it's pretty cliché 90s action movie stuff. Director Fede Alvarez has a slick handle with visuals and evidenced real talent at sustaining and developing tension with 2016's Don't Breathe. He has obvious visual talent. There are some engaging fights, like a close-quarter struggle in a bathroom, and some nifty chase scenes, like a motorcycle chase over a frozen lake. I would have liked even more action if Spider's Web was going to brush aside narrative and moral complexity for stylish set pieces.
The story of The Girl in the Spider's Web feels like a lukewarm repackaging of spy clichés, and the film does little to make any of it feel important or relevant. There's a super powerful technology that everyone wants, which falls into the wrong hands, and now it's about retrieving this device and saving the world. That's like the plot of just about every James Bond movie. It's a formula, but where Spider's Web missteps are that it doesn't add anything else to this staid foundation. There are scenes but it's usually about this group going after this group, or this group now going after this group, and without wider relevance it becomes redundant plot placeholders, something meant to distract long enough to get our characters from Point A to Point B. With a mystery, there's a natural momentum that builds as the case builds coherency and the investigation focuses the direction. With action thriller mode, Spider's Web just has a bunch of guys that occasionally interact until the movie needs some of them dead. This model by itself can work but it requires concerted effort, and that just isn't present here.
The most interesting aspect of Spider's Web is the further examination on Salander's troubled upbringing, this time introducing a sister that has been plotting vengeance. Salander is, first and foremost, the selling point of this franchise; she is, after all, the titular girl with that particular tattoo. She is what separates this from any other paperback thriller. The Swedish sequels opened up her past traumas with her Soviet-defected father. He was the Big Bad Man behind the scenes trying to institutionalize and neutralize her. While skirting into the above-stated dangerous territory, the Swedish sequels still knew that Lisbeth Salander's complicated history was the real mystery the audience craved, and it set up a series of antagonists ready to be foiled for years-in-the-making payback. I don't really know how the events of Spider's Web gibe with the overall series. I had to look up whether the evil father in the opening was the same evil father in the other films (both are listed as Alexander Zalachenko, so I think so). But the established history has Lisbeth committed after trying to set dear old dad on fire to save her abused mother. I don't see how any of that is likely if she escapes her father's clutches as a pre-teen and is supposedly on the run. The secret Salander sister revelation also impacts little. She was the one left behind, whose continued abuse and degradation are strongly referenced. It doesn't feel like Lisbeth harbors great guilt over leaving her sister behind. During their final face-to-face, Camilla actually poses a worthy question: "Why did the woman who hurts men who hurt women never come back and save her own abused sister?" Because this storyline is flagrantly underdeveloped, the evil sister angle is a cheap twist. There's nothing to the Camilla character, so she serves as a symbol of shame, and yet the movie doesn't seem to capitalize on this in the slightest, which is a puzzling disservice.
Foy (Netflix's The Crown, First Man) is having a big year for herself but feels slightly miscast. She never really gets an opportunity to show off her range, which is a byproduct of the streamlined, reductionist screenplay emphasizing bare plot mechanics. She is missing the intensity or fire that we've seen in prior Salanders, breakout-star Noomi Rapace and the Oscar-nominated Rooney Mara. When Foy tries for glower you see the effort. She's more grumpy than tortured, like maybe she skipped a meal. Even with the requisite piercings, tattoos, and black leather wardrobe, Foy seems a bit too clean-cut for the part. Personal admission: Foy with her sharp bangs, saucer-eyes, facial shape, and Gothic accessories, looks remarkably like an ex-girlfriend of mine from the early 2000s. That was something that kept sneaking into my mind throughout the film, which made the experience a tad stranger as if I was imagining an ex engaged in action heroics. Even excusing that personal connection, Foy ranks a distant third place for the Girls With.
The new Dragon Tattoo movie will likely also be its last. I can't imagine fans getting too much pleasure out of a streamlined, underdeveloped spy thriller that sands away the edge and complexity of its characters for rote action movie chases. It's not a bad movie and it does carry moments of excitement and entertainment, but it's also become a standard Hollywood thriller, no different than a dozen other high-tech, junky hacker thrillers. The Girl in the Spider's Web gets caught in its own formulaic web. If Lisbeth Salander has been transformed into a standard action hero, then we don't deserve more adventures.
Tags: book, claire foy, dragon tattoo series, drama, fede alvarez, lakeith stanfield, reboot, strong heroine, thriller
The second go at a twenty-first century feature-length Grinch movie is a thoroughly, spectacularly bland movie. This mediocre enterprise barely stretches to feature length at 86 minutes and it lacks the charm of the original Dr. Seuss cartoon. Benedict Cumberbatch voices the green recluse with his three-sizes-too-small heart set on stealing the Christmas celebration of others. That's great casting, but why is he settling for his Doctor Strange-style American voice? The man has such a natural, rich, velvety voice. Another miscue is the fact that this Grinch isn't really feared by the people of Whoville. He lives just outside of ton and isn't really that mean. He's less a villain and more just a grumpy sad guy who has to over explain everything for the audience to understand ("I thought stealing Christmas would make me feel better, but really I was running from myself…"). This movie is brightly colored and nicely animated but it's strictly just for little kids. The lessons are pretty simplistic. The characters are mostly annoying, precocious, or mute. The humor is mostly slapstick. There is nothing to engage bigger thinkers. This Grinch movie actually made me start re-evaluating the 2000 Ron Howard version, which at least tried something and had an enjoyably hammy Jim Carrey performance with some creepy good makeup prosthetics, and I didn't even like that movie. The new animated Grinch film is inoffensively lackluster. At best it's a disposable 90 minutes to distract easily distractible children and give mom and dad time for a nap.
Tags: animated, benedict cumberbatch, christmas, comedy, dr. suess, fantasy, rashida jones


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Mikhaïl Aleksandrovitch Evstafiev (en ), né en 1963 à Moscou, est un artiste russe, photographe et écrivain.

Biographie

Mikhaïl Evstafiev s'adonne à la peinture et la photographie dès son plus jeune âge. Sa mère, sa grand-mère et son arrière-grand-père, tous sculpteurs, l'ont inspiré dans le cheminement de son propre style artistique.

Au cours des années 1980, il sert en Afghanistan pendant deux ans. Plus tard, il publie le roman  (À deux pas du Paradis) à propos de l'invasion soviétique en Afghanistan.

Puis il couvre les guerres et conflits armés en Bosnie-Herzégovine, Tchétchénie, Géorgie, Haut-Karabagh, Tadjikistan et Transnistrie.

Mikhaïl Evstafiev a exposé ses œuvres notamment en Chine, Russie, États-Unis et dans plusieurs pays européens et ce dans de nombreux lieux prestigieux comme le centre de congrès du palais Hofburg à Vienne, le palais d'État du Kremlin, le hall d'exposition Maly Manezh et la Maison centrale des artistes de Moscou, et dans le Grand Central Terminal de la ville de New York.

Ses peintures et photographies font partie des collections de la Maison moscovite de la photographie, SOLMS et de la Galerie der Leica Camera AG ; ainsi que des collections privées en Autriche, Grande-Bretagne, France, Russie et États-Unis. Son travail fut aussi publié dans des magazines et journaux internationaux, ainsi que de nombreux livres.

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Littérature russe, Liste d'auteurs russophones

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  Site officiel du peintre Mikhaïl Evstafiev

Peintre russe
Photographe russe du XXe siècle
Photographe russe du XXIe siècle
Photographe portraitiste
Photojournaliste
Peintre abstrait
Peintre expressionniste russe
Écrivain russe du XXe siècle
Naissance en 1963
Naissance à Moscou
Naissance en RSFS de Russie
Militaire soviétique de la guerre d'Afghanistan (1979-1989)

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