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Kim Delaney
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Kim Delaney is an American actress known for her starring role as Detective Diane Russell on the ABC drama television series NYPD Blue, for which she has won an Emmy Award. Early in her career, she played the role of Jenny Gardner in the ABC daytime television drama All My Children and she later had leading roles in the TV dramas Philly, CSI, Miami, and on the Lifetime television drama Army Wives. Delaney, an Irish American, was born on November 29,1961, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delaneys mother was a homemaker and her father a union official and former head of the United Auto Workers. Delaney grew up in Roxborough and has four brothers, Ed, John, Keith, while she was attending J. W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School, she worked as a model for the Elite agency. After her graduation, she went to New York and found employment there as a model, at the same time, she studied acting with William Esper. Delaney first became known for her stint as innocent teenager Jenny Gardner Nelson on the soap opera All My Children, which also was her first job. They come up and will say theyve followed everything Ive done, and they stopped watching the show after I left, after leaving the show, Delaney began acting in feature films. In 1985, she appeared with Emilio Estevez in That Was Then and this Is Now, a film version of the S. E. Hinton novel of the same name. In 1986, she played a nun in the military action movie The Delta Force. In 1987, Delaney was cast as Amanda Jones in Some Kind of Wonderful opposite Peter Gallagher, also in 1987, she appeared both as Jessie in Christmas Comes to Willow Creek, and as associate attorney Leslie Kleinberg during the 2nd season of L. A. Law. In 1988, Delaney starred in the thriller The Drifter, in 1994, she appeared in the film The Force. In 1988, Delaney became a regular on the CBS television series Tour of Duty. After leaving the show in 1989 to give birth to her and husband Joseph Cortese son, theres a lot of things I did to pay the mortgage, Delaney says resignedly. Roles from this include her 1992 appearance as Lucky Santangelo in the television miniseries. In 1995, Delaney began portraying the role of NYPD Blue Detective Diane Russell, originally slated for only four episodes, the role became permanent after her characters relationship with Detective Bobby Simone became a hit with viewers. In this role, she won her first Emmy Award as Best Supporting Actress in a Drama and was nominated for two other Emmy Awards. After Smits left NYPD Blue, producer Steven Bochco chose Delaney for the lead in the new television series Philly, despite critical acclaim, the show lasted only one season. CBS then courted Delaney to take on the lead on its new drama television series CSI, Miami
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Beau Bridges
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Lloyd Vernet Beau Bridges III is an American actor and director. He is a three-time Emmy, two-time Golden Globe and one-time Grammy Award winner and he is also a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award nominee. Bridges was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 7,2003 at 7065 Hollywood Boulevard for his contributions to the television industry and he is the elder brother of fellow actor Jeff Bridges. Bridges was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actors Lloyd and he was nicknamed Beau by his parents after Ashley Wilkes son in Gone with the Wind. His younger brother is actor Jeff Bridges, and he has a younger sister, another brother, Garrett, died in 1948 of sudden infant death syndrome. Beau has shared a relationship with Jeff, for whom he acted as a surrogate father during childhood. He and his siblings were raised in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles, in 1959, he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard Reserve and served for eight years. In 1948, Bridges had a juvenile role in the iconic film Force of Evil. In the 1962–1963 television season, Bridges, along with his brother, Jeff, appeared on their fathers CBS anthology series. He appeared in television series too, including National Velvet, The Fugitive, Bonanza, Mr. Novak. In 1965, he guest-starred as Corporal Corbett in Then Came the Mighty Hunter, Season 2, Episode 3 of the military series and he found steady work in television and film throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He appeared in feature films during that time as The Other Side of the Mountain, Greased Lightning, Norma Rae, Heart Like a Wheel. In 1989, in perhaps his best known role, he starred opposite his brother Jeff as one of The Fabulous Baker Boys. In the 1993–94 television season, Bridges appeared with his father in the 15-episode CBS comedy/western series, Harts of the West, set at a dude ranch in Nevada. In 1995, Bridges starred with his father and his son Dylan in The Sandkings, in 1998, he starred as Judge Bob Gibbs in the one-season Maximum Bob on ABC. He had a role in the Showtime series Beggars and Choosers. In 2001, he guest-starred as Daniel McFarland, the stepfather of Jack McFarland and he played a single father and college professor in the fantasy adventure film, Voyage of the Unicorn, based on the novel by James C. From 2002 to 2003, he took on the role of Senator Tom Gage, newly appointed Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in January 2005, he was cast as Major General Hank Landry, the new commander of Stargate Command in Stargate SG-1
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John Schneider (screen actor)
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John Richard Schneider is an American actor and country music singer. Alongside his acting career, Schneider has been a singer since the early 1980s, releasing nine studio albums and a greatest hits package, as well as eighteen singles. Schneider was born April 8,1960, in Mount Kisco, New York, the son of Shirley Conklin and John Jack Schneider III and his family included an older brother Robert, an artist living in southern New York. Johns life as an entertainer began at the age of eight and this once got him into trouble, when he had himself chained up and tossed into a swimming pool with the intention of re-creating Harry Houdinis legendary escape act. When he was 14, he and his moved to Georgia. Beginning in 2001, he portrayed Jonathan Kent, the father of Clark Kent on Smallville. Schneider directed some episodes of Smallville, including Talisman, some episodes contain references to Schneiders work in The Dukes of Hazzard, e. g. the season five episode Exposed is notable for reuniting Schneider with his former Dukes co-star Tom Wopat. Schneider guest starred for the half of season five appearing in the episodes Void. Schneider returned for the season 10 premiere of Smallville, reprising his role as Jonathan Kent in a recurring role, Schneider has appeared in many films and TV series, including five guest spots on Hee Haw and the miniseries 10.5. He had a role on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and made guest appearances on such shows as Diagnosis, Murder, Touched by an Angel, JAG and Walker. In 2009, Schneider made an appearance on CSI in an episode titled Kill Me If You Can and he appeared in the first season of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, in which his real-life son Chasen Schneider had a recurring role. During the summer of 2008 and early 2009, John portrayed Marshall Bowman and he declined to continue through the second season and his character was killed off. In 2011, he starred in the film Doonby, as a drifter who comes into a small town, however, a menacing force stalks him. Its Its a Wonderful Life without the part, Schneider explains. Reach down into the throat of Its a Wonderful Life, pull it inside out and he returned to the role of Bo Duke in a commercial for Autotrader. com in 2014. Tom Wopat returned as Luke Duke, a indiegogo campaign from the upcoming movie intituled A Gift Of The Heart starring John Schneider and Austin St. John was launched. During the 1980s, Schneider parlayed his success as Bo Duke with a string of country music hits, Schneider has recorded 10 albums to date, including works on Scotti Brothers Records and MCA Nashville. His co-star, Tom Wopat, also enjoyed success on the music charts
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Kaley Cuoco
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Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American actress. Cuoco has also appeared in such as To Be Fat like Me, Hop. In October 2014, Cuoco was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Cuoco was born in Camarillo, California, the elder daughter of Layne Ann, a homemaker, and Gary Carmine Cuoco, a realtor. Her father is of Italian descent while her mother is of English and her sister, Briana, competed on the fifth season of The Voice. As a child, Cuoco was a ranked amateur tennis player. She stopped playing at the age of 16, Cuoco made her first feature film appearance as the young Karin Carter in the 1995 action thriller Virtuosity. In September 2002, Cuoco began a role as Bridget Hennessy on the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules. Bridget was the oldest child, despite Cuoco being six years younger than Amy Davidson, because of low ratings, ABC canceled the series on May 17,2005. In addition to the season of 8 Simple Rules, Cuoco had starring roles on the NBC miniseries 10. Cuoco voiced the character of Kirstee Smith in Bratz from 2004 to 2005, in the eighth season of the TV show Charmed, Cuoco appeared as Billie Jenkins, a powerful young witch with the powers of telekinesis and projection. Executive producer Brad Kern stated that Cuocos character was brought in as a possible spin-off. Prior to the 2010–2011 season, she earned $60,000 an episode for the series, in 2010, the cast negotiated a raise for each actor to make $200,000 per episode. On September 13,2010, she broke her leg in a horse-riding accident, a video of the event was posted on YouTube and became a viral success. A clip from the performance was played during Cuocos January 8,2013 appearance on the late night talk show Conan. As of August 2014, Cuoco and her co-stars from The Big Bang Theory Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons, Cuoco starred in the Lifetime film To Be Fat Like Me, which premiered on January 8,2007. She played a role in the Prison Break episodes The Message and Chicago. She also appeared in the 2010 film The Penthouse, in 2011, Cuoco appeared in Allure magazines annual Naked Truth feature. That same year, she appeared in the films Hop and The Last Ride and she was also chosen to host the Teen Choice Awards in 2011, as well as the Peoples Choice Awards in 2012 and 2013
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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USA Network
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USA Network is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable division of NBCUniversal, itself a subsidiary of Comcast. As of July 2015, USA Network is available to approximately 95.567 million pay television households in the United States, USA Network originally launched on September 22,1977 as the Madison Square Garden Network. The network was founded by cable provider UA-Columbia Cablevision and Kay Koplovitz, the channel was one of the first national cable television channels, using satellite delivery as opposed to microwave relay to distribute its programming to cable systems. Initially, the network ran a mix of college and less well-known professional sports, the channel began its broadcast day after 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time on weekdays and 12,00 p. m. Eastern Time on weekends. That fall, USA began signing on at 12,00 p. m. Eastern Time on weekdays, it added some talk shows. Sports programming began airing at 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time weekdays, in the fall of 1981, USA began its daily programming at 6,00 a. m. Later, in 1982, Time Inc. and Gulf+Westerns Paramount Pictures unit would buy stakes in the venture, the three partners had a non-compete clause that would prevent them from owning other basic cable networks independently from the USA joint venture. Said clause would cause Time Inc. to drop out of the venture in 1987, as the company attempted to buy CNN from Ted Turner, MCA and Paramount subsequently became the sole owners of the channel. In the fall of 1982, USA began operating on a 24-hour-a-day schedule, running a mix of shows, a childrens program. Weekends featured a mix of movies, some drama series and talk shows during the morning hours. Overnights consisted of old films and film shorts, and music as part of a show called Night Flight. One tradition on USA was a lineup of game show reruns mixed in with several original low-budget productions that aired over the years. It began in October 1984 with reruns of The Gong Show, more shows were progressively added soon afterward such as The Jokers Wild, Tic-Tac-Dough, Press Your Luck, High Rollers and Hollywood Squares, along with Wipeout, Face the Music and Name That Tune. In June 1987, the channel debuted another original game show, when it began, the game show block ran for an hour, but expanded significantly the following year. By 1989, the network ran game shows Monday through Fridays from 12,00 to 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time. In January 1989, USA debuted USA Up All Night, a showcase of feature films that aired as part of its weekend overnight schedule. Short news updates, branded as USA Updates, were shown from as early as 1989 until 2000, however, when KYWs news operations were heavily revamped in response to falling ratings in 1991, production of USA Updates was then taken over by the All News Channel. The ANC-produced updates continued through 2000, USA Network has not carried any news programming since the news updates were discontinued, USA Network was the first cable channel to preempted the syndicated market by purchasing a 26 Touchstone films package in October 1989
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10.5: Apocalypse
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10.5, Apocalypse is a 2006 television miniseries written and directed by John Lafia. A sequel to 2004s 10.5, the film follows a series of catastrophic seismic disasters including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, a minor earthquake in Seattle forms the trigger to a magnitude 10.5 earthquake which destroys Los Angeles, California. The earthquake creates fault lines in the sea floor, which in turn creates a tsunami which capsizes a large cruise ship and causes massive damage to Honolulu. It turns out to be only the first of a series of events, including the awakening of an extinct volcano in Sun Valley, Idaho. Deforestation takes place at Kings Peak, Utah and The Hoover Dam in Boulder City, Nevada collapses when Lake Mead starts to heat up and expand beyond the spillways capacity. Las Vegas, Nevada is then destroyed when acidic water undermines underground limestone, the worst of the seismic events is a massive fault which has opened up under South Dakota, destroying Mount Rushmore in the process, and begins to travel southward towards the Gulf of Mexico. The theory also states that related seismic activity would be accelerated during the initial period of reversal. However, Dr. Earl Hill had been ostracised by the USGS for that theory, when Las Vegas sinks into the ground, he is caught in the casino of the Atlas Hotel. Samantha concludes that the massive faultline travelling towards the Gulf of Mexico threatens to re-create the Central American Seaway when it reaches the ocean, the second part of the miniseries begins with Dr. Hills rescue from the ruins of the Atlas Hotel just before it is swallowed up completely. At the same time, a fault line forms in North Dakota, passing through South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas. If it reaches Houston, Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, as predicted, a massive evacuation of the region is ordered, as an earthquake strikes Sedona, Arizona destroying the Chapel of the Holy Cross in the process. However, a plant in fictional Red Plains, Texas, is right in the faults path. If it is destroyed, the area and hundreds of miles around will be contaminated by nuclear waste. The main fault follows the new path around Red Plains, saving the nuclear plant, the scientists at the USGS cheer, only to find that nothing can stop the fault altogether. Once again it turns south, slicing through the middle of Houston to reach the Gulf of Mexico, at the same time, the northern half of the fault has reached Hudson Bay. Corbel Stewart Myiow Navajo Indian Raynald Lapierre.5, Apocalypse began filming in Montreal, Quebec, a sequel to 10.5, the miniseries used much of the same staff, headed by returning executive producers Howard Braunstein, Michael Jaffe, and Gary Pearl. The Sun Valley, Idaho scene was filmed at the Mont Tremblant Resort, all of the news reporters that appeared on TV in the film are all local news reporters for various news stations in Montreal. The visual effects for the movie were created by visual effects company Hybride,10.5, Apocalypse at the Internet Movie Database 10.5, Apocalypse at AllMovie
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Earthquake
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An earthquake is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earths lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in size from those that are so weak that they cannot be felt to those violent enough to people around. The seismicity or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type, Earthquakes are measured using measurements from seismometers. The moment magnitude is the most common scale on which earthquakes larger than approximately 5 are reported for the entire globe and these two scales are numerically similar over their range of validity. Magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes are mostly imperceptible or weak and magnitude 7 and over potentially cause damage over larger areas. The largest earthquakes in historic times have been of magnitude slightly over 9, intensity of shaking is measured on the modified Mercalli scale. The shallower an earthquake, the damage to structures it causes. At the Earths surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground, when the epicenter of a large earthquake is located offshore, the seabed may be displaced sufficiently to cause a tsunami. Earthquakes can also trigger landslides, and occasionally volcanic activity, in its most general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event — whether natural or caused by humans — that generates seismic waves. Earthquakes are caused mostly by rupture of faults, but also by other events such as volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts. An earthquakes point of rupture is called its focus or hypocenter. The epicenter is the point at ground level directly above the hypocenter, tectonic earthquakes occur anywhere in the earth where there is sufficient stored elastic strain energy to drive fracture propagation along a fault plane. The sides of a fault move past each other smoothly and aseismically only if there are no irregularities or asperities along the surface that increase the frictional resistance. Most fault surfaces do have such asperities and this leads to a form of stick-slip behavior, once the fault has locked, continued relative motion between the plates leads to increasing stress and therefore, stored strain energy in the volume around the fault surface. This continues until the stress has risen sufficiently to break through the asperity, suddenly allowing sliding over the portion of the fault. This energy is released as a combination of radiated elastic strain seismic waves, frictional heating of the fault surface and this process of gradual build-up of strain and stress punctuated by occasional sudden earthquake failure is referred to as the elastic-rebound theory. It is estimated that only 10 percent or less of a total energy is radiated as seismic energy. Most of the energy is used to power the earthquake fracture growth or is converted into heat generated by friction
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Richter magnitude scale
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The Richter magnitude scale assigns a magnitude number to quantify the size of an earthquake. As measured with a seismometer, an earthquake that registers 5.0 on the Richter scale has a shaking amplitude 10 times greater than an earthquake that registered 4.0 at the same distance. This means that, for instance, an earthquake of magnitude 5 releases 31.6 times as energy as an earthquake of magnitude 4. In the United States, the Richter scale was succeeded in the 1970s by the moment magnitude scale, the moment magnitude scale is now the scale used by the United States Geological Survey to estimate magnitudes for all modern large earthquakes. Richter derived his earthquake-magnitude scale from the apparent magnitude scale used to measure the brightness of stars and that fixed measure was chosen to avoid negative values for magnitude, given that the slightest earthquakes that could be recorded and located at the time were around magnitude 3.0. The Richter magnitude scale itself has no limit, and contemporary seismometers can register, record. M L was not designed to be applied to data with distances to the hypocenter of the earthquake that were greater than 600 km. Later, to express the size of earthquakes around the planet, Gutenberg and Richter developed a surface wave magnitude scale and these are types of waves that are recorded at teleseismic distances. The two scales were adjusted such that they were consistent with the M L scale and that adjustment succeeded better with the M s scale than with the M b scale. Each scale saturates when the earthquake is greater than magnitude 8.0, because of this, researchers in the 1970s developed the moment magnitude scale. The older magnitude-scales were superseded by methods for calculating the seismic moment, about the origins of the Richter magnitude scale, C. F. Richter said, I found a paper by Professor K. Wadati of Japan in which he compared large earthquakes by plotting the maximum ground motion against distance to the epicenter. I tried a similar procedure for our stations, but the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large, dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically. I was lucky, because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil, the particular instrument used would become saturated by strong earthquakes and unable to record high values. The scale was replaced in the 1970s by the moment magnitude scale, for earthquakes adequately measured by the Richter scale, anything above 5 is classified as a risk by the USGS. Several scales have historically described as the Richter scale, especially the local magnitude M L. In addition, the body wave magnitude, m b, a couple of new techniques to measure magnitude are in the development stage by seismologists. All magnitude scales have been designed to give similar results
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Geologist
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A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes that shape it. Geologists usually study geology, although backgrounds in physics, chemistry, biology, field work is an important component of geology, although many subdisciplines incorporate laboratory work. Some geologists work in the mining business searching for metals, oils and they are also in the forefront of natural hazards and disasters prevention and mitigation, studying natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic activity, tsunamis, weather storms. Their studies are used to warn the public of the occurrence of these events. Geologists are also important contributors to climate change discussions, james Hutton is often viewed as the first modern geologist. In 1785 he presented a paper entitled Theory of the Earth to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Hutton published a two-volume version of his ideas in 1795. The first geological map of the U. S. was produced in 1809 by William Maclure, in 1807, Maclure commenced the self-imposed task of making a geological survey of the United States. Almost every state in the Union was traversed and mapped by him and this antedates William Smiths geological map of England by six years, although it was constructed using a different classification of rocks. Sir Charles Lyell first published his famous book, Principles of Geology and this book, which influenced the thought of Charles Darwin, successfully promoted the doctrine of uniformitarianism. This theory states that slow geological processes have occurred throughout the Earths history and are still occurring today, in contrast, catastrophism is the theory that Earths features formed in single, catastrophic events and remained unchanged thereafter. Though Hutton believed in uniformitarianism, the idea was not widely accepted at the time, most geologists also need skills in GIS and other mapping techniques. Geology students often spend portions of the year, especially the summer though sometimes during a January term, geologists may concentrate their studies or research in one or more of the following disciplines, Dendrochronology, the study of dating based on tree ring patterns. Economic geology, the study of ore genesis, and the mechanisms of ore creation, geochemistry, the applied branch deals with the study of the chemical makeup and behaviour of rocks, and the study of the behaviour of their minerals. Geochronology, the study of isotope geology specifically toward determining the date within the past of rock formation, metamorphism, mineralization and geological events. Geomorphology, the study of landforms and the processes that create them Hydrogeology, igneous petrology, the study of igneous processes such as igneous differentiation, fractional crystallization, intrusive and volcanological phenomena. Isotope geology, the case of the composition of rocks to determine the processes of rock. Metamorphic petrology, the study of the effects of metamorphism on minerals, marine geology, the study of the seafloor, involves geophysical, geochemical, sedimentological and paleontological investigations of the ocean floor and coastal margins. Marine geology has strong ties to physical oceanography and plate tectonics, palaeoclimatology, the application of geological science to determine the climatic conditions present in the Earths atmosphere within the Earths history
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Seattle
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Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States and the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 684,451 residents as of 2015, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. In July 2013, it was the major city in the United States. The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about 100 miles south of the Canada–United States border, a major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015. The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, the settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, after Chief Siahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Logging was Seattles first major industry, but by the late-19th century, growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed as a technology center beginning in the 1980s, in 1994, Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed along Jackson Street, from the current Chinatown/International District, to the Central District, the jazz scene developed the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and others. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix and the alternative rock subgenre grunge, archaeological excavations suggest that Native Americans have inhabited the Seattle area for at least 4,000 years. By the time the first European settlers arrived, the people occupied at least seventeen villages in the areas around Elliott Bay, the first European to visit the Seattle area was George Vancouver, in May 1792 during his 1791–95 expedition to chart the Pacific Northwest. In 1851, a party led by Luther Collins made a location on land at the mouth of the Duwamish River. Thirteen days later, members of the Collins Party on the way to their claim passed three scouts of the Denny Party, members of the Denny Party claimed land on Alki Point on September 28,1851. The rest of the Denny Party set sail from Portland, Oregon, after a difficult winter, most of the Denny Party relocated across Elliott Bay and claimed land a second time at the site of present-day Pioneer Square, naming this new settlement Duwamps. For the next few years, New York Alki and Duwamps competed for dominance, david Swinson Doc Maynard, one of the founders of Duwamps, was the primary advocate to name the settlement after Chief Sealth of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. The name Seattle appears on official Washington Territory papers dated May 23,1853, in 1855, nominal land settlements were established. On January 14,1865, the Legislature of Territorial Washington incorporated the Town of Seattle with a board of managing the city
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Washington (state)
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It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State or the State of Washington to distinguish it from Washington, Washington is the 18th largest state with an area of 71,362 square miles, and the 13th most populous state with over 7 million people. Washington is the second most populous state on the West Coast and in the Western United States, Mount Rainier, an active stratovolcano, is the states highest elevation at almost 14,411 feet and is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States. Washington is a leading lumber producer and its rugged surface is rich in stands of Douglas fir, hemlock, ponderosa pine, white pine, spruce, larch, and cedar. Manufacturing industries in Washington include aircraft and missiles, shipbuilding and other equipment, lumber, food processing, metals and metal products, chemicals. Washington has over 1,000 dams, including the Grand Coulee Dam, built for a variety of purposes including irrigation, power, flood control, the Washington Territory was named after George Washington, the first President of the United States. The area was part of a region called the Columbia District after the Columbia River. The area was renamed Washington in order to avoid confusion with the District of Columbia, Washington is the only U. S. state named after a president. To distinguish it from the U. S. capital, which is named for George Washington, Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State, or, in more formal contexts. Washingtonians and other residents of the Pacific Northwest refer to the state simply as Washington, calling the nations capital Washington, D. C. or, often, Washington is the northwestern-most state of the contiguous United States. Washington is bordered by Oregon to the south, with the Columbia River forming the western part, to the west of Washington lies the Pacific Ocean. The high mountains of the Cascade Range run north-south, bisecting the state, from the Cascade Mountains westward, Western Washington has a mostly marine west coast climate, with mild temperatures and wet winters, autumns and springs, and relatively dry summers. The Cascade Range contains several volcanoes, which reach altitudes significantly higher than the rest of the mountains, from the north to the south, these major volcanoes are Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams. Mount Rainier, the tallest mountain in the state, is 50 miles south of the city of Seattle and it is also covered with more glacial ice than any other peak in the contiguous 48 states. Western Washington also is home of the Olympic Mountains, far west on the Olympic Peninsula and these deep forests, such as the Hoh Rainforest, are among the only temperate rainforests in the continental United States. Eastern Washington – the part of the state east of the Cascades – has a dry climate. It includes large areas of steppe and a few truly arid deserts lying in the rain shadow of the Cascades. Farther east, the climate becomes less arid, with annual rainfall increasing as one goes east to 21.2 inches in Pullman, the Okanogan Highlands and the rugged Kettle River Range and Selkirk Mountains cover much of the northeastern quadrant of the state
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
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The agencys primary purpose is to coordinate the response to a disaster that has occurred in the United States and that overwhelms the resources of local and state authorities. The governor of the state in which the disaster occurs must declare a state of emergency and formally request from the president that FEMA, FEMA also provides these services for territories of the United States, such as Puerto Rico. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, or the Space Shuttle Columbia in the 2003 return-flight disaster, in addition to this, FEMA provides funds for training of response personnel throughout the United States and its territories as part of the agencys preparedness effort. Federal emergency management in the U. S. has existed in one form or another for over 200 years, a series of devastating fires struck the port city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, early in the 19th century. The 7th U. S. Congress passed a measure in 1803 that provided relief for Portsmouth merchants by extending the time they had for remitting tariffs on imported goods and this is widely considered the first piece of legislation passed by the federal government that provided relief after a disaster. Between 1803 and 1930, ad hoc legislation was passed more than 100 times for relief or compensation after a disaster, examples include the waiving of duties and tariffs to the merchants of New York City after the Great Fire of New York. After the collapse of the John T, fords Theater in June 1893, the 54th Congress passed legislation compensating those who were injured in the building. After the start of the Great Depression in 1929, President Herbert Hoover had commissioned the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, the purpose of the RFC was to lend money to banks and institutions to stimulate economic activity. RFC was also responsible for dispensing federal dollars in the wake of a disaster, RFC can be considered the first organized federal disaster response agency. The Bureau of Public Roads in 1934 was given authority to finance the reconstruction of highways and roads after a disaster. The Flood Control Act of 1944 also gave the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authority over control and irrigation projects. This agency would oversee disasters until its incorporation into FEMA in 1978, over the years, Congress increasingly extended the range of covered categories for assistance, and several presidential executive orders did the same. In time, this array of agencies themselves underwent reorganization. One of the first such federal agencies was the Federal Civil Defense Administration, functions to administer disaster relief were then given to the President himself, who delegated to the Housing and Home Finance Administration. Subsequently, a new office of the Office of Defense Mobilization was created, then, in 1978 an effort was made to consolidate the several singular functions, FEMA was created to house civil defense and disaster preparedness under one roof. This was a controversial decision. FEMA was established under the 1978 Reorganization Plan No,3, and activated April 1,1979, by President Jimmy Carter in his Executive Order 12127. In July, Carter signed Executive Order 12148 shifting disaster relief efforts to the new federal-level agency, FEMA was also given the responsibility for overseeing the nations Civil Defense, a function which had previously been performed by the Department of Defenses Defense Civil Preparedness Agency
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Redding, California
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Redding, officially the City of Redding, is the county seat of Shasta County, California, in the northern part of the state. It lies along the Sacramento River, which provided transportation and power in its early years, Interstate 5 bisects the entire city, which has a population of 89,861, from the south to north before it approaches Shasta Lake, located about 15 miles north of downtown. Redding is the largest city in the Shasta Cascade region, and it is the fourth-largest city in the Sacramento Valley, behind Sacramento, Elk Grove, the site of Redding was settled by Native Americans of the Wintu tribe around the year 1000. The original county seat was Shasta, located approximately 6 miles west on 299W, Redding became the county seat after the railroad was built. Situated along the Siskiyou Trail, Redding became a stop on a trade and travel route connecting Californias Central Valley, during the early 19th century, Hudsons Bay Company trappers and numerous European-American settlers passed through the site while traveling along the Siskiyou Trail. The first European-American settler in the area was Pierson B and he was an admirer of John Sutter. In 1844, Reading received the Rancho Buena Ventura Mexican land grant for the occupied by todays Redding and Cottonwood, California. At the time it was the northernmost nonnative settlement in California, the railroad routed the tracks through an area then known as Poverty Flats, stimulating the development of the European-American town of Redding. The railroad stop was named by the Southern Pacific for railroad man Benjamin B, in 1874 town residents changed the spelling of the name to Reading, to honor local pioneer Pierson B. But the railroad did not officially recognize the change and the town restored its original spelling, Redding, Redding was incorporated on October 4,1887 with a population of 600 people. By 1910, Redding had a population of 3,572 supported by a significant mineral extraction industry, however, with the decline of these industries, which had also produced significant amounts of pollution damaging to local agriculture, the population dropped to 2,962 in 1920. By 1930 the population had recovered to 4,188 and then boomed during the 1930s with the construction of nearby Shasta Dam, in 1892 brothers John and Charles Ruggles thought that they could make some easy money by robbing a stagecoach. On May 10,1892, the brothers robbed the Weaverville stage, later, on May 12, the brothers stopped the stage again but Charles was hit with buckshot fired by a guard riding inside the coach. On July 24,1892, a lynch mob wearing masks entered the jail, in what became known as the lynching of the Ruggles brothers, the two men were hanged together from a derrick. The city did not grow markedly until the 1950s, stimulated by postwar expansion of the industry to satisfy pent-up demand for new housing across the country. In addition, construction of the Whiskeytown and Keswick dams brought many workers to the area, completion of Interstate 5 in the late 1960s brought a higher level of traffic and added to development. By 1970, Redding had grown to 16,659 people, in the 1970s, Redding annexed the town of Enterprise, located on the eastern bank of the Sacramento River. The city acquired other county areas, increasing the population to around 35,000, Enterprise residents voted to support the annexation primarily to acquire less expensive electricity via Reddings municipal utility, which receives power from the dam
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Quicksand
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Quicksand is a colloid hydrogel consisting of fine granular material, and water. Quicksand forms in saturated loose sand when the sand is suddenly agitated, when water in the sand cannot escape, it creates a liquefied soil that loses strength and cannot support weight. Quicksand can form in standing water or in upwards flowing water, in the case of upwards flowing water, seepage forces oppose the force of gravity and suspend the soil particles. The saturated sediment may appear quite solid until a change in pressure or shock initiates liquefaction. This causes the sand to form a suspension and lose strength, the cushioning of water gives quicksand, and other liquefied sediments, a spongy, fluidlike texture. Objects in liquefied sand sink to the level at which the weight of the object is equal to the weight of the displaced soil/water mix, liquefaction is a special case of quicksand. In this case, sudden earthquake forces immediately increase the pressure of shallow groundwater. The saturated liquefied soil loses strength, causing buildings or other objects on surface to sink or fall. Quicksand is a shear thinning non-Newtonian fluid, when undisturbed, it appears to be solid. Someone stepping on it will start to sink, to move within the quicksand, a person or object must apply sufficient pressure on the compacted sand to re-introduce enough water to liquefy it. The forces required to do this are large, to remove a foot from quicksand at a speed of 0.01 m/s would require the same amount of force as that needed to lift a medium-sized car. Contrary to popular belief, quicksand itself is harmless, a human or animal is unlikely to sink entirely into quicksand, Quicksand has a density of about 2 grams per milliliter, whereas the density of the human body is only about 1 gram per milliliter. At that level of density, sinking in quicksand is impossible, descending about up to the waist is possible, but not any further. Even objects with a higher density than quicksand will float on it—until they move, aluminum, for example, has a density of about 2.7 grams per milliliter, but a piece of aluminum will float on top of quicksand until motion causes the sand to liquefy. Continued or panicked movement, however, may cause a person in quicksand to sink deeper, leading to belief that quicksand is dangerous. Since it increasingly impairs movement, this, then, can lead to a situation where other such as weather exposure, dehydration, hypothermia. Quicksand may be escaped by slow movement of the legs in order to increase viscosity of the fluid, Quicksand may be found on riverbanks, near lakes, in marshes, or near the coast. People falling into quicksand or a substance is a trope of adventure fiction
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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President of the United States
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The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. The president is considered to be one of the worlds most powerful political figures, the role includes being the commander-in-chief of the worlds most expensive military with the second largest nuclear arsenal and leading the nation with the largest economy by nominal GDP. The office of President holds significant hard and soft power both in the United States and abroad, Constitution vests the executive power of the United States in the president. The president is empowered to grant federal pardons and reprieves. The president is responsible for dictating the legislative agenda of the party to which the president is a member. The president also directs the foreign and domestic policy of the United States, since the office of President was established in 1789, its power has grown substantially, as has the power of the federal government as a whole. However, nine vice presidents have assumed the presidency without having elected to the office. The Twenty-second Amendment prohibits anyone from being elected president for a third term, in all,44 individuals have served 45 presidencies spanning 57 full four-year terms. On January 20,2017, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th, in 1776, the Thirteen Colonies, acting through the Second Continental Congress, declared political independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution. The new states, though independent of each other as nation states, desiring to avoid anything that remotely resembled a monarchy, Congress negotiated the Articles of Confederation to establish a weak alliance between the states. Out from under any monarchy, the states assigned some formerly royal prerogatives to Congress, only after all the states agreed to a resolution settling competing western land claims did the Articles take effect on March 1,1781, when Maryland became the final state to ratify them. In 1783, the Treaty of Paris secured independence for each of the former colonies, with peace at hand, the states each turned toward their own internal affairs. Prospects for the convention appeared bleak until James Madison and Edmund Randolph succeeded in securing George Washingtons attendance to Philadelphia as a delegate for Virginia. It was through the negotiations at Philadelphia that the presidency framed in the U. S. The first power the Constitution confers upon the president is the veto, the Presentment Clause requires any bill passed by Congress to be presented to the president before it can become law. Once the legislation has been presented, the president has three options, Sign the legislation, the bill becomes law. Veto the legislation and return it to Congress, expressing any objections, in this instance, the president neither signs nor vetoes the legislation
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Rebecca Jenkins
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Rebecca Jenkins is a Canadian actress and singer. She had starring roles in the 1990s CBC series Black Harbour, and she also had a supporting role in the 1992 film Bob Roberts, as Dolores Perrigrew. In NBCs miniseries 10.5 she portrayed California governor Carla Williams, Jenkins appeared in the January 17,2006, episode of the WB series Supernatural, where she played the loving wife to a faith healer. Her next project was a movie entitled Past Sins directed by David Winning. Past Sins aired on Lifetime in November,2006, in 2012, she appeared in Sarah Polleys documentary film Stories We Tell, playing Polleys mother Diane in dramatic recreations. As a singer, Jenkins has primarily been a backing vocalist for Jane Siberry and she also performed the title track Bye Bye Blues in Calgary at the September 1,2005, opening the night of the celebration of Albertas centennial. In 2007, she was scheduled to release her first solo album and her husband, Joel Bakan, an accomplished jazz guitarist, accompanies her as well as Al Matheson on trumpet and Liam Macdonald on drums and percussion. Following this jazz release, there was to be a release of an album of her original material and she also cohosted a five-week radio series called Quiet, Theres a Lady on Stage with singer-songwriter David Ramsden. The radio show was recorded four new female singers weekly in the CBCs Glenn Gould Studio. Guests included Carole Pope, Holly Cole, Lee Whalen, Lori Yates, Molly Johnson, Kate Fenner and she married Joel Bakan, the writer of the book and documentary film The Corporation, in July 2004. Rebecca Jenkins at the Internet Movie Database Rebecca Jenkins Fan Website
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Erin Karpluk
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Erin Karpluk is a Canadian actress. She is best known for portraying Erica Strange on the television series Being Erica, erin Karpluk was born in Jasper, Alberta to a high school principal mother and a railway engineer father. Her family is of Ukrainian descent and she majored in theatre at the University of Victoria and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2000. Karpluk began her career in Vancouver and between 2000 and 2005, she appeared in more than a dozen television movies and series before landing the role of Kate in Godivas. Her work during this period included Voice of Sylan in the episode of Dark Angel. She was also in a short-lived US television series called Glory Days in 2002, in 2004, she appeared in Legend of Earthsea and played a serial killer in Ripper 2, Letter from Within. She earned a Leo nomination for her first season of Godivas, since Godivas, Karpluk has continued to work in television and short films. In 2007 she appeared in Bionic Woman, Flash Gordon, and she had a leading role in a 2008 television movie, Smokejumpers, directed by John Terlesky. Karpluk was offered the role of Erica Strange in the CBC Television series Being Erica when she was working in Los Angeles on The L Word. In 2009, Karpluk won the Gemini award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for her portrayal of the titular character and she also had a recurring role as Alice the radio station manager during the first season of The CWs Life Unexpected. Her only appearance in the season was in the series finale because of a scheduling conflict resulting from Being Erica being picked up for a third year. Karpluk has also had recurring roles on Rookie Blue and Slasher, erin Karpluk at the Internet Movie Database Film Reference entry
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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Australian Cinematographers Society
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Its National Headquarters and clubhouse is located in North Sydney. The ACS states the aims, To keep members informed about the latest technology with new equipment demonstrations and ideas through meetings. To further the advancement of Cinematography in all fields and give due recognition to the work performed by Australian Cinematographers. To provide a forum for Cinematographers to meet other members of the industry to discuss and exchange ideas, promote friendship. Its first President was Syd Wood ACS and its current President is Ron Johanson OAM ACS. The ACS presents annual awards for achievements in cinematography, including the Golden Tripod, members of the Society who are accredited are allowed to use the ACS suffix after their name. The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts awarded the Australian Cinematographers Society as the recipient of the 2014 Byron Kennedy Award at the 3rd annual AACTA Awards. The award was presented to Ron Johanson ACS on behalf of the Society at the AACTA Awards Ceremony in Sydney on Thursday,30 January 2014, five members of the society have been awarded with the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Dean Semler ACS for Dances With Wolves, john Seale ACS for The English Patient. Andrew Lesnie ACS for The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, russell Boyd ACS for Master and Commander, The Far Side of the World. Dion Beebe ACS for Memoirs of a Geisha, AC Magazine is the quarterly journal of the Australian Cinematographers Society. The Shadowcatchers, A history of Cinematography in Australia Australian Cinematographers Society website The Shadowcatchers website Showreelfinder, online showcase of Australian Cinematographer Society National Award Winners
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Southern California Earthquake Center
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Its headquarters are at the University of Southern California. A community of over 600 scientists from 16 Core Institutions,47 Participating Institutions, SCEC also partners with a large number of other research and education/outreach organizations in many disciplines. Funding for SCEC activities is provided by the National Science Foundation, the current director of SCEC is Thomas H. Jordan. To support this community, SCEC engages in technology research that will revolutionize our methods of doing collaborative research. The director of two programs is Dr. Robert de Groot. SCEC/UseIT interns work on multi-disciplinary, collaborative teams to tackle a scientific “Grand Challenge” posed by SCEC director Dr. Thomas H. Jordan, the Grand Challenge varies each year but always entails performing computer science research that is needed by earthquake scientists or outreach professionals. The SCEC SURE program pairs a student, one-on-one, to research with a pre-eminent earthquake scientist or specialist. Many SURE interns also have the opportunity to work alongside graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, SCEC is one of three institutions that form the Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities, responsible for creating the California earthquake forecast, UCERF. The current version, with the latest forecast results, is known as UCERF3, SCEC Headquarters are located at the University of Southern Californias Park campus just south of Downtown Los Angeles. Administrative offices for SCEC are located on the first floor of the Zumberge Hall of Science on Trousdale Parkway. Geological Survey Golden Menlo Park Pasadena Keiiti Aki Sources http, //www. scec. org/ Official SCEC site http, //www. data. scec. org/recent/index. html Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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AllMovie
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AllMovie is an online guide service website with information about films, television programs, and screen actors. As of 2013, AllMovie. com and the AllMovie consumer brand are owned by All Media Network, AllMovie was founded by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine, who also founded AllMusic and AllGame. The AllMovie database was licensed to tens of thousands of distributors and retailers for point-of-sale systems, websites, the AllMovie database is comprehensive, including basic product information, cast and production credits, plot synopsis, professional reviews, biographies, relational links and more. AllMovie data was accessed on the web at the AllMovie. com website and it was also available via the AMG LASSO media recognition service, which can automatically recognize DVDs. In late 2007, Macrovision acquired AMG for a reported $72 million, the AMG consumer facing web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in August 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. The buyers also include the founders of SideReel and Ackrell Capital investor Mike Ackrell. All Media Network offices are located in San Francisco, California, AllMusic AllGame SideReel All Media Network Official website
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Child's Play 2
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Childs Play 2 is a 1990 American supernatural slasher film and the sequel to Childs Play, written by Don Mancini and directed by John Lafia. The film stars Alex Vincent, who returns as Andy Barclay, Gerrit Graham and BAFTA-winner Jenny Agutter as Andys foster parents, Christine Elise as Kyle and it is also noted for being the debut appearance of Adam Wylie. Unlike its predecessor, the sequel uses more comic elements in regard to the Chucky character, Childs Play 2 was released on November 9,1990, exactly two years after the first film was released. The film took in an estimated $10,718,520 in 1,996 screens and it holds a 40% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 15 reviews. It was followed by Childs Play 3, as a result of Andy Barclay blaming Chucky for the murders committed, the company has suffered. One of the men working on Chucky is killed via electrocution, as a result, meanwhile, Andy is now in foster care, due to his mother being in a mental hospital for supporting his story about Chucky. Andy is adopted by Phil and Joanne Simpson, in his new home, Andy meets his new foster sister Kyle. After work Mattson stops at a store and while he leaves his car, Chucky uses the car phone to ring Grace Poole. He claims to be a relative of Andys in order to get his new address and he then carjacks the car and orders Mattson to drive outside the Simpson household at gun point. Chucky then kills him by suffocating him with a plastic bag, in the house, Chucky accidentally activates Tommy, another Good-Guy doll, and destroys him with Joannes ornament. Chucky then buries the doll in the garden and takes his place as Tommy, Phil punishes the children believing one of them broke the ornament. After Andy spends the rest of the day with Kyle, Chucky waits for nightfall, however, Kyle, who snuck out, arrives and the ritual is interrupted. After Andy claimed Chucky tied him up, Phil throws Chucky in the basement, the next day, Chucky hitches a ride on the bus to Andys school. Andy escapes, and Chucky beats Miss Kettlewell to death with a yardstick, after Andy insisted Chucky got him in trouble, Phil considers taking him back to the foster center. That night, Andy tries to kill Chucky with a knife in the basement. Phil goes to investigate the commotion but he is killed by Chucky who trips him and throws him to the floor, Joanne, convinced that Andy killed him, sends him back to the foster center. Later, Kyle discovers the doll in the garden and realizes Andy was telling the truth all along. After finding Joannes dead body, Chucky attacks her and orders her to him to the center
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Man's Best Friend (1993 film)
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Mans Best Friend is a 1993 American horror comedy film, directed and written by John Lafia. It stars Ally Sheedy, Lance Henriksen, Robert Costanzo, Frederic Lehne, John Cassini and it was released by New Line Cinema on November 19,1993. The official tagline was Nature created him, but no one can control him. The films soundtrack was composed by Joel Goldsmith and its reception was mediocre, however, it was a modest success at the box office, grossing $12.9 million behind a $6 million budget. As she proceeds back to work, an animal assailant attacks, Dr. Jarret, a scientist performing vivisection and genetic altering and the owner of EMAX, comes in and shoots the animal with a sedative to stop the attack. When Judy does not appear, she breaks into the laboratory and she discovers a Tibetan Mastiff named Max who does not appear to have been experimented on and lets the dog out of his cage. Dr. Jarret discovers that there is an intruder in the laboratory and chases Lori out of the building, Jarret immediately goes to the police and complains that his dog has been stolen. Later that day, when Lori goes shopping, a mugger steals her purse, Max chases the thief, brutally kills him, and brings Loris purse back to her. Unaware that the dog has killed the mugger, Lori develops a bond with Max, feeling protected with him around, however, her boyfriend Perry initially refuses to allow Lori to keep the dog, despite his heroic actions. He finally agrees to let Max stay, but only if he stays in the backyard, however, Max can understand human conversations and becomes overprotective of Lori. He later finds Lori and Perry having sex in their bedroom and tries to attack Perry, Dr. Jarret is questioned by detectives Frankie Kovacs and Emilio Bendetti about Max. Max is also prone to violent rages, and Jarrett regularly gives him a drug to keep him relaxed, all of these incidents go unnoticed by Lori. Realizing Max gnawed through the lines of his truck in an attempt to kill him. He tries to convince Max to eat it but Max smells the poison in the meat, after Perry escapes in his truck, Max eats Loris talking pet parrot, who begins berating him. Max proceeds to dump the poison ridden hamburger in the toilet, noticing Perrys animosity towards their new dog, Lori decides to find Max a new home. She takes him to a junkyard and leaves him with the owner Ray, however, when Lori leaves, Ray chains Max to the wall and hits him over the head with a shovel, knocking him out. When Max wakes up, he pulls loose from his chain, unfortunately, Ray arms himself with a blow torch and burns Maxs face, but right as he is about to get his gun, he is soon overpowered and killed. Max, now severely scarred, leaves the junkyard and makes his way back to Loris house, the police, after discovering the dead mugger and having Dr. Jarret clarify that it was Max who killed him, now intend to stop Max at any cost
