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Waterloo, Iowa
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Waterloo is a city in and the county seat of Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census the population decreased by 0. 5% to 68,406, Waterloo is part of the Waterloo – Cedar Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the more populous of the two cities. Waterloo was originally known as Prairie Rapids Crossing, the town was established, according to the original researcher as reported by staff of the Grout Museum in Waterloo, near two Meskwaki American tribal seasonal camps alongside the Cedar River. It was first settled in 1845 when George and Mary Melrose Hanna and they were followed by the Virden and Mullan families in 1846. Evidence of these earliest families can still be found in the street names Hanna Blvd, on December 8,1845 the Iowa State Register and Waterloo Herald was the first newspaper published in Waterloo. The name Waterloo supplanted the original name, Prairie Rapids Crossing, since the signed petition did not include the name of the proposed post office location, Mullan was charged with selecting the name when he submitted the petition. Tradition has it that as he flipped through a list of other post offices in the United States, the name struck his fancy, and on December 29,1851, a post office was established under that name. The town was called the same, and Mullan served as the first postmaster from December 29,1851 until August 11,1854. There were two extended periods of growth over the next 115 years. From 1895 to 1915, the population increased from 8,490 to 33,097, from 1925 to 1960, population increased from 36,771 to 71,755. The 1895 to 1915 period was a time of the growth in manufacturing, rail transportation. During this period the Waterloo Gasoline Traction Engine Company moved to Waterloo and shortly after, another major employer throughout the first two-thirds of the 20th century was the Illinois Central Railroad. Among the others was the brass era automobile manufacturer, the Maytag-Mason Motor Company. On June 7,1934, bank robber Tommy Carroll had a shoot-out with the FBI when he, accidentally parking next to a police car and wasting time dropping his gun and picking it back up, Carroll was forced to flee into an alley where he was shot. Carroll was then taken to Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo, where he died shortly after, Waterloo suffered particularly in the agricultural recession of the 1980s, due to the major employers at the time being heavily rooted in agriculture. In particular, John Deere, the areas largest employer, cut 10,000 jobs, and it is estimated Waterloo lost 14% of its population during this time. Today the city enjoys a broader base, as city leaders have sought to diversify the industrial and commercial mix. Deere remains a presence in the city, but employs only roughly one-third the number of people it did at its peak
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Omaha, Nebraska
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Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, Omaha is the anchor of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which includes Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha. According to the 2010 census, Omahas population was 408,958, according to the 2014 Population Estimates, Omahas population was 446,599. Including its suburbs, Omaha formed the 60th-largest metropolitan area in the United States in 2013, the Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, Nebraska-IA Combined Statistical Area is 931,667, according to the U. S. Census Bureaus 2013 estimate. There are nearly 1.3 million residents within the Greater Omaha area, comprising a 50-mile radius of Downtown Omaha, Omahas pioneer period began in 1854, when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along the Missouri River, and a crossing called Lone Tree Ferry earned the city its nickname, Omaha introduced this new West to the world in 1898, when it played host to the Worlds Fair, dubbed the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. During the 19th century, Omahas central location in the United States spurred the city to become an important national transportation hub, throughout the rest of the 19th century, the transportation and jobbing sectors were important in the city, along with its railroads and breweries. In the 20th century, the Omaha Stockyards, once the worlds largest, Omaha is also the home to five Fortune 1000 headquarters, Green Plains Renewable Energy, TD Ameritrade, Valmont Industries, Werner Enterprises, and West Corporation. And Leo A Daly, the Gallup Organization, of Gallup Poll fame, Enron began in Omaha as Northern Natural Gas in 1930, before taking over a smaller Houston company in 1985 to form InterNorth, which Kenneth Lay moved permanently to Houston, in 1987. The modern economy of Omaha is diverse and built on skilled knowledge jobs, in 2009, Forbes identified Omaha as the nations number one Best Bang-For-The Buck City and ranked it number one on Americas Fastest-Recovering Cities list. Also, Omaha hosted the U. S. Olympic swim trials in 2008,2012 and 2016, the word Omaha means Dwellers on the bluff. In 1804 the Lewis and Clark Expedition passed by the riverbanks where the city of Omaha would be built, there was fierce competition among fur traders until John Jacob Astor created the monopoly of the American Fur Company. The Mormons built a town called Cutlers Park in the area in 1846, while it was temporary, the settlement provided the basis for further development in the future. Through 26 separate treaties with the United States federal government, Native American tribes in Nebraska gradually ceded the lands comprising the state. The treaty and cession involving the Omaha area occurred in 1854 when the Omaha Tribe ceded most of east-central Nebraska, Logan Fontenelle, an interpreter for the Omaha and signatory to the 1854 treaty, played an essential role in those proceedings. Before it was legal to claim land in Indian Country, William D. Brown was operating the Lone Tree Ferry to bring settlers from Council Bluffs, Brown is generally credited as having the first vision for a city where Omaha now sits. The passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act in 1854 was presaged by the out of claims around the area to become Omaha by residents from neighboring Council Bluffs. On July 4,1854, the city was established at a picnic on Capital Hill
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Intensive care medicine
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They may also be admitted for intensive/invasive monitoring, such as the crucial hours after major surgery when deemed too unstable to transfer to a less intensively monitored unit. Intensive care is only offered to those whose condition is potentially reversible. A prime requisite for admission to an intensive care unit is that the condition can be overcome. Medical studies suggest a relation between ICU volume and quality of care for mechanically ventilated patients, after adjustment for severity of illness, demographic variables, and characteristics of the ICUs, higher ICU volume was significantly associated with lower ICU and hospital mortality rates. For example, adjusted ICU mortality was 21. 2% in hospitals with 87 to 150 mechanically ventilated patients annually, hospitals with intermediate numbers of patients had outcomes between these extremes. This may include interpreting machine noises as human voices, seeing walls quiver, in general, it is the most expensive, technologically advanced and resource-intensive area of medical care. In the United States, estimates of the 2000 expenditure for critical care medicine ranged from US$15–55 billion, during that year, critical care medicine accounted for 0. 56% of GDP,4. 2% of national health expenditure and about 13% of hospital costs. In 2011 hospital stays with ICU services accounted for just over one-quarter of all discharges, the mean hospital charge was 2.5 times higher for discharges with ICU services than for those without. Intensive care usually takes a system by system approach to treatment, the nine key systems are each considered on an observation-intervention-impression basis to produce a daily plan. As well as the key systems, intensive care treatment raises other issues including health, pressure points, mobilisation and physiotherapy. The nine key IC systems are, cardiovascular system, central nervous system, endocrine system, gastro-intestinal tract, hematology, microbiology, peripheries, renal, and respiratory system. The provision of care is, in general, administered in a specialized unit of a hospital called the intensive care unit or critical care unit. The naming is not rigidly standardized, Critical care medicine is a relatively new but increasingly important medical specialty. Physicians with training in critical care medicine are referred to as intensivists, US board certification in critical care medicine is available through all five specialty boards. The American Society of Critical Care Medicine is a well-established multiprofessional society for working in the ICU including nurses, respriatory therapists. Most medical research has demonstrated that ICU care provided by intensivists produces better outcomes and this has led the Leapfrog Group to make a primary recommendation that all ICU patients be managed or co-managed by a dedicated intensivist who is exclusively responsible for patients in one ICU. However, in the US, there is a shortage of intensivists. Other members of the care team may also pursue additional training in critical care medicine as intensivists
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
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Community (TV series)
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Community is an American television sitcom created by Dan Harmon that premiered on NBC on September 17,2009. It makes heavy use of meta-humor and pop references, often parodying film and television clichés. Harmon based the program on his own experiences attending a community college, Each episode was written in accordance with Harmons story circle template, a methodology designed to create effective, structured storytelling. Harmon served as the showrunner for its first three seasons, but was fired prior to the fourth and replaced by writers David Guarascio. After a lukewarm response from fans and critics, Harmon was re-hired for the fifth broadcast season. Screen commissioned a sixth season, which premiered on March 17,2015, Community received acclaim for its acting and writing, and appeared on numerous critics year-end best-of lists for 2009,2010, and 2011. Despite low ratings, it developed a following, united by the mantra six seasons and a movie. The show completed six seasons and an adaptation is in development. The show entered broadcast syndication in 2013, was released on DVD, Stan in Australia, and Netflix in the UK, Canada, Ireland, and Latin America. Jeff Winger is disbarred and suspended from his law firm when it is discovered that he lied about possessing a degree from Columbia University. This leaves him no choice but to enroll at Greendale Community College to earn a legitimate degree. Jeff quickly becomes attracted to his activist classmate, Britta Perry, despite their differences, the group soon become close friends. The show features an ensemble cast of characters, focusing on the members of a study group, Joel McHale as Jeff Winger, a former lawyer who enrolls at Greendale after being suspended from his law firm for falsely claiming to have a bachelors degree. Jeff is a sarcastic, outspoken, self-confident lothario who constantly manipulates people to get what he wants, however, throughout the series, becoming closer to his new study group changes some of Jeffs habits and views. He is more willing to make sacrifices for his friends over time and selectively reveals that he can be more patient. Gillian Jacobs as Britta Perry, a self-proclaimed anarchist, atheist, Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir, a film student of Palestinian and Polish descent, with an encyclopedic knowledge of TV shows and movies. Abed struggles to interact with others via normal means, so he chooses to interpret the groups everyday activities by comparing them to film. Despite being out-of-touch with reality at times, Abed is an observer of human behavior
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Blink-182
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Blink-182 is an American rock band formed in Poway, California in 1992. The band currently consists of bassist and vocalist Mark Hoppus, drummer Travis Barker, Blink-182 was initially known as Blink until an Irish band of the same name threatened legal action, in response, the band appended the meaningless number -182. In its early years, Blink-182 toured heavily behind the bands debut, the group signed with major label MCA Records to co-distribute its second album, Dude Ranch. Raynor was fired midway through a 1998 tour and replaced by Barker, the groups next two releases, Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, were enormous successes on the strength of radio and MTV airplay. The eponymously titled Blink-182 followed in 2003 and marked a shift for the group. DeLonge quit in 2005, sending the band into what was termed an indefinite hiatus and they reunited in 2009, producing the trios sixth album, Neighborhoods. In 2015, DeLonge again exited and was replaced by Alkaline Trio guitarist and vocalist Matt Skiba, the bands seventh studio album, California, was released on July 1,2016. Blink-182 is considered a key group in the development of pop punk, the trio has sold over thirteen million albums in the United States, and over 50 million albums worldwide. Blink-182 was formed in Poway, California, a suburb outside of San Diego, tom DeLonge was expelled from Poway High for attending a basketball game drunk and was forced to attend another local school for one semester. At Rancho Bernardo High School, DeLonge performed at a Battle of the Bands competition and he also befriended Kerry Key, who too was interested in punk music. Keys girlfriend, Anne Hoppus, introduced her brother Mark Hoppus—who had recently moved from Ridgecrest to work at a record store, the two clicked instantly and played for hours in DeLonges garage, exchanging lyrics and co-writing songs—one of which became Carousel. Hoppus, in trying to impress Delonge, managed to fall from a lamppost in front of DeLonges garage and crack his ankles, the trio began to practice together in Raynors bedroom, spending hours together writing music, attending punk shows and movies, and playing practical jokes. Hoppus and DeLonge would alternate singing vocal parts, the trio first operated under a variety of names, including Duck Tape and Figure 8, until DeLonge rechristened the band Blink. Shortly thereafter, DeLonge and Raynor borrowed a four-track recorder from friend and collaborator Cam Jones and were preparing to record a demo tape, Hoppus promptly broke up with his girlfriend and returned to the band. Flyswatter—a combination of songs and punk covers—was recorded in Raynors bedroom in May 1993. Southern California had a large population in the early 1990s, aided by an avid surfing, skating. In contrast to East Coast punk music, the West Coast wave of groups, Blink included, New York is gloomy, dark and cold. The Californian middle-class suburbs have nothing to be that bummed about, San Diego at this time was hardly a hotbed of activity, but the bands popularity grew as did California punk rock concurrently in the mainstream
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Seth Rogen
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Seth Aaron Rogen is a Canadian-American actor, filmmaker, and comedian. He began his career performing stand-up comedy during his teenage years, while still living in his native Vancouver, he landed a supporting role in the series Freaks and Geeks. Shortly after he moved to Portland, Oregon for his role, Rogen later got a part on sitcom Undeclared, which also hired him as a staff writer. After landing his job as a writer on the final season of Da Ali G Show, for which he. Rogen made his first movie appearance in Donnie Darko with a role as a rebellious student in Donnies high school classes in 2001. Rogen was cast in a supporting role and credited as a co-producer in Apatows directorial debut. After Rogen received critical praise for his performance, Universal Pictures agreed to cast him as the lead in Apatows films Knocked Up, Rogen co-starred as Steve Wozniak in Universals Steve Jobs biopic in 2015. In 2016, he developed the AMC television series Preacher with his writing partner Evan Goldberg and he also serves as a writer and executive producer, and directed the first two episodes of the series with Goldberg. Rogen and Goldberg co-wrote the films Superbad, Pineapple Express, The Green Hornet, This Is the End and he has also done voice work for the films Horton Hears a Who. The Kung Fu Panda film series, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Monsters vs. Aliens, Paul, Rogen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. His mother, Sandy, is a worker, and his father, Mark Rogen, worked for non-profit organizations. Since Rogens father is American, he has American citizenship by birth and he has described his parents, who met on kibbutz Beit Alfa in Israel, as radical Jewish socialists. Rogen has a sister named Danya. Rogen attended Vancouver Talmud Torah Elementary School and Point Grey Secondary School and he was also known for the stand-up comedy he performed at Camp Miriam, a Habonim Dror camp. As a child, Rogen did not want to pursue any other than comedy, As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job. He got his start in business at age 12 after enrolling in a comedy workshop taught by Mark Pooley. His early comedy routines involved jokes about his bar mitzvah, his grandparents, during his teenage years he would perform stand-up comedy routines at places like bar mitzvahs and small parties, later shifting to bars. A mohel paid him to write jokes, at the age of 13, he co-wrote a rough draft of Superbad with childhood friend Evan Goldberg, whom he had met at bar mitzvah classes
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Attack of the Show!
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Attack of the Show. is an American live television program that formerly aired weeknights on G4, G4 Canada Fuel TV, HOW TO Channel, and Maxxx. Episodes were hosted by Kevin Pereira, Olivia Munn, Zach Selwyn, Layla Kayleigh, Sarah Lane, Alison Haislip, Candace Bailey, reviewed new technology, aired parodies, discussed pop culture and general news, and gave previews of video games, movies, and digital media. The show premiered on March 28,2005 as a replacement for The Screen Savers, the show originally aired live five days a week, the week of January 2,2006, the show was truncated to air for only four days a week. Fridays featured a Mash Up that compiled segments from the four live shows. The show returned to live five days a week in September 2008. Would go to four days a week with a best of show running in the Friday time-slot, aired its 1, 000th episode on July 9,2009. Upgraded to High Definition on April 5,2010 to coincide with its first ever Epic April event of new premieres, along with the addition of Candace Bailey, on January 11,2011 Attack of the Show respawned with new graphics and a new set. On October 26,2012 G4 canceled Attack of the Show, due to low ratings, five months after Kevin Pereira canceled his contract. The series taped its final scenes on December 21,2012, host Kevin Rose left the G4 Network and AOTS on May 22,2005. The show announced a search for a new host among the shows audience, in the end none of the candidates were actually selected, although this was never actually announced on the air. Sarah Lane, who had previously been a co-host and segment contributor and she continued in this capacity until April 6,2006, when she and Brendan Moran announced their engagement and stated that they would be leaving the show. The Morans appeared on the show, via satellite, on July 13,2006, Olivia Munn was hired to replace Lane and began hosting with Kevin Pereira on Monday, April 10,2006. Zach Selwyn, the runner up on ESPNs Dream Job, was hired to replace Moran, Munn said at the 2010 Comic Con that she would not be leaving AOTS, though she only occasionally appeared on the show for the rest of that year. She was still featured in the credits and other AOTS set pieces. Bailey became the new co-host with Pereira on January 11,2011, AOTS has also featured Chris Hardwick, Chris Gore, and Blair Herter in the occasional absence of Kevin Pereira. In addition to the interim cohosts, Grace Helbig has also filled in for Candace Bailey, on May 9,2012, Kevin Pereira announced on-air that he was officially leaving AOTS to pursue work in television production. He stated, I plan to turn my attention to full-time with my production company Super Creative and live touring nerd-carnival leetUP and his last day on AOTS was May 31. Beginning August 28,2012, the show debuted a new opening credit
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Zac Efron
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Zachary David Alexander Zac Efron is an American actor and singer. He began acting professionally in the early 2000s, and rose to prominence in the late 2000s for his role in the High School Musical franchise. During this time, he starred in the musical film Hairspray. He has since appeared in films like New Years Eve, The Lucky One, Neighbors, Dirty Grandpa, Efron was born in San Luis Obispo, California, and later moved to Arroyo Grande, California. His father, David Efron, is an engineer at a power station. Efron has a brother, Dylan, and had, as he has described and he was raised in an agnostic household and did not practice any religion as a child. His surname, Efron, is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname, taken from a Biblical place name, Efron has said that he would flip out if he got a B and not an A in school, as well as that he was a class clown. His father encouraged him to acting when Zac was eleven years old. Efron subsequently appeared in productions at his high school, worked in the theater The Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville. He performed in such as Gypsy, Peter Pan, or, The Boy Who Wouldnt Grow Up, Little Shop of Horrors. He was recommended to an agent in Los Angeles by his drama teacher, Efron was later signed to the Creative Artists Agency. Efron graduated from Arroyo Grande High School in 2006 and was accepted into the University of Southern California. Efron began acting in the early 2000s with guest roles on television series including Firefly, ER. In 2004, he began appearing as a character in the first season of the WB series Summerland. For the show’s second season, which aired in 2005, he was promoted to the main cast. He also appeared in films, including the Lifetime television film Miracle Run. Efron’s career reached a point with the teen musical television film High School Musical. The film, which also starred Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, the film’s soundtrack was certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA, making it one of the best-selling albums of the year in the United States
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Arrested Development (TV series)
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Arrested Development is an American television sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz, which originally aired on Fox for three seasons from November 2,2003 to February 10,2006. A fourth season of 15 episodes was released on Netflix on May 26,2013, the show follows the fictitious Bluth family, a formerly wealthy and habitually dysfunctional family. It is presented in a format, incorporating handheld camera work and voice-over narration, as well as the use of occasional archival photos. The show also utilizes several long-running Easter egg jokes throughout each season, Ron Howard serves as both an executive producer and the series uncredited narrator. Set in Newport Beach, California, Arrested Development was filmed primarily in Culver City, in 2007, Time listed the show among its All-TIME100 TV Shows, in 2008, it was ranked 16th on Entertainment Weeklys New TV Classics list. In 2011, IGN named Arrested Development the funniest show of all time and its humor has been cited as a key influence on later single-camera sitcoms such as 30 Rock and Community. Despite critical acclaim, Arrested Development received low ratings and viewership on Fox, rumors of an additional season and a feature film persisted until 2011, when Netflix agreed to license new episodes and distribute them exclusively on its video streaming service. These episodes were released in 2013. Netflix has also commissioned a fifth season of Arrested Development, which is expected to premiere in 2017, a script for an Arrested Development film has also been in development, with the main cast reported to reprise their original roles in both the fifth season and the film. Discussion that led to the creation of the began in the summer of 2002. Howard met with David Nevins, the President of Imagine Television, Katie OConnell, a vice president. In light of recent corporate accounting scandals, such as Enron and Adelphia, Howard and Imagine were immediately interested in using this idea, and signed Hurwitz to write the show. The idea was pitched and sold in the fall of 2002, There was a bidding war for the show between Fox and NBC, with the show ultimately selling to Fox as a put pilot with a six-figure penalty. Over the next few months, Hurwitz developed the characters and plot for the series, the script of the pilot episode was submitted in January 2003 and filmed in March 2003. It was submitted in late April to Fox and was added to the fall schedule that May. Alia Shawkat was the first cast in the series, Michael Cera, Tony Hale, and Jessica Walter were cast from video tapes and flown in to audition for Fox. Jason Bateman and Portia de Rossi both read and auditioned for the network and were immediately chosen, the character of Gob was apparently the most challenging to cast. Howard provided the narration for the pilot, and his narrating meshed so well with the tone of the program that the decision was made to keep his voice
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The Lego Batman Movie
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While Will Arnett reprises his role as Batman for the film, the other major characters were voiced by Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson and Ralph Fiennes. The Lego Batman Movie is both the feature film to be produced by Warner Animation Group and the second to be based on Lego properties. The Lego Batman Movie premiered in Dublin, Ireland on January 29,2017, internationally, the film was released in 3D, RealD 3D, Dolby Cinema, and IMAX 3D. The film received reviews and has grossed $297 million worldwide. Without warning, Joker crashes the party with the other villains, all of whom surrender, with the exception of Harley Quinn. Just as he plans his heist of the device, Alfred intervenes and advises him to charge of Dick Grayson. Annoyed at his recklessness, and suspecting his arch-rival wanted to be sent there, realizing that the city does need him, Barbara releases Batman and Robin and teams up with them and Alfred to stop the Joker. Although Batman finds himself able to trust and rely on his new team, upon reaching Wayne Island, he chooses to send them away, rather than losing them like his parents. Upon facing him alone, Joker express belief that Batman is incapable of change and zaps him to the Phantom Zone, arriving in the Zone, Batman witnesses the harm his selfishness has caused to everyone and slowly accepts his greatest fear. However, the group fail to stop Jokers bombs going off, in October 2014, it was announced that Will Arnett was set to reprise his role in the Lego Batman spin-off film, which Chris McKay would direct for a 2017 release. McKay was earlier attached to direct The Lego Movie Sequel, on August 12,2015, it was revealed that Zach Galifianakis would voice the Joker in the film. On October 16,2015, Rosario Dawson signed on to voice Barbara Gordon, the daughter of police commissioner James Gordon, on November 3,2015, Ralph Fiennes was cast in the film to voice the character Alfred Pennyworth. On January 31,2017, Chris Hardwick announced on an episode of his Comedy Central program @midnight that he is part of the films cast, on February 2,2017, one week before the films release, it was revealed that Héctor Elizondo was voicing Commissioner Gordon. Conan OBrien, Riki Lindhome, Zoë Kravitz, and more were revealed to round out the cast of villains on February 3,2017, as part of its production, the movie was designed to make numerous references to previous Batman movies, cartoons and comics. In addition, other references also include previous costumes worn by Batman and Robin, and the various Batmobiles used. In most cases, their appearances in the movie are done in a Lego style, although not part of the DC franchise, Iron Man from Marvel Comics is referenced in the movie as part of a small joke about Batmans password for entering the Batcave. The way in which the Gremlins attack a plane references The Twilight Zone episode Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. The film also includes Batman watching the scene from Jerry Maguire where Tom Cruise says You complete me, the films other references include Pulp Fiction, Gleaming the Cube, and Gymkata
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