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Isaiah Washington
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Isaiah Washington IV is an American actor. A veteran of several Spike Lee films, Washington is best known for his role as Dr. Preston Burke on the ABC medical drama Greys Anatomy from 2005 until 2007, Washington currently plays Thelonius Jaha on The CWs The 100. Washington was born in Houston, Texas where his parents were residents in the Houston Heights community and his parents moved to Missouri City, Texas around 1980, where he was one of the first graduates from Willowridge High School, Houston, in 1981. Washington revealed in an interview with Star Jones that his father, after whom he was named, was murdered when he was 13 years old, Washington went on to serve in the United States Air Force and attended Howard University. In 2005, Washington originated the role of gifted cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Preston Burke on the ABC medical drama Greys Anatomy and his portrayal earned him two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award. He was paired onscreen with Sandra Oh, who plays intern Dr. Cristina Yang, Washington had originally auditioned for the role of Dr. Derek Shepherd, which ultimately went to Patrick Dempsey. Burke had originally described as a nebbishy, stout forty-something man. For his portrayal of Dr. Burke, Isaiah was honored by TV Guide as one of TVs Sexiest Men in June 2006, prior to the TV Guide honor, Isaiah was named as one of Peoples 50 Beautiful People in May 2006. On March 6,2014, ABC announced that Washington would be returning to the show in a guest appearance as Burke and he returned in season 10, which served as part of a farewell storyline for Sandra Ohs character, Dr. Cristina Yang. The characters had previously engaged to be married. In the shows season, Washington became a central figure in a widely reported backstage controversy. In October 2006, rumors surfaced that Washington had insulted co-star T. R. Knight with a homophobic slur, shortly after the details of the argument became public, Knight publicly disclosed that he was gay. The situation seemed somewhat resolved when Washington issued a statement, apologizing for his use of words during the recent incident on-set. The controversy later resurfaced when the cast appeared at the Golden Globes in January 2007, while being interviewed on the red carpet prior to the awards, Washington joked, I love gay. After the show won Best Drama, Washington, in response to queries as to any conflicts backstage, said, No. However, in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, after being rebuked by his studio, Touchstone Television, Washington issued a statement apologizing at length for using the epithet in an argument with Patrick Dempsey. However, on June 7,2007, ABC announced it had decided not to renew Washingtons contract, Im mad as hell and Im not going to take it anymore, Washington said in a statement released by his publicist, borrowing the famous line from Network. In another report, Washington stated he was planning to spend the summer pursuing charity work in Sierra Leone, work on an independent film, Washington, in late June 2007, began asserting that racism within the media was a factor in his firing from the series
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Joey Lauren Adams
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Joey Lauren Adams is an American actress and director who has appeared in more than 40 films. She began her career in 1977 with a small role in Exorcist II. From there she began to find larger roles, in 1991, she appeared in Top of the Heap, the 100th episode of Married. With Children, and subsequently starred in its short-lived spinoff, in 1993, Adams landed her first major film role as Simone in Richard Linklaters Dazed and Confused. The same year, she appeared in the Saturday Night Live spinoff film Coneheads as one of Connie Coneheads friends, two years later, Adams appeared in Mallrats, written and directed by Kevin Smith. The two started dating during the films post-production, and their relationship provided the inspiration for Smiths next film, the relationship did not last long but ended on friendly terms. Meanwhile, in 1996, while Smith was finalizing the script for Chasing Amy, Adams was cast in the slapstick comedy Bio-Dome, Adams played the role of Monique, Bud Macintoshs girlfriend. In 1997s Chasing Amy, Adams played the role of Alyssa Jones. Later, Smith would describe Chasing Amy as a sort of penance/valentine, in addition to her acting work on the film, Adams wrote and performed the song Alive for the films soundtrack. From there, Adams was originally slated to play the lead in Smiths next film, 1999s Dogma. In both of these appearances, Adams reprises the Alyssa Jones role and her post-Smith projects included playing a spunky veterinarians assistant who falls in love with a single father in 1998s A Cool, Dry Place. The following year, Adams appeared in her first big-budget Hollywood release and she then went on to appear in many smaller films, including Beautiful and In the Shadows. In 2005, she had a guest role in an episode of the TV series Veronica Mars, also in 2006, Adams released her directorial debut film, Come Early Morning, starring Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan, Diane Ladd, Tim Blake Nelson and Laura Prepon. The film, shot on location in Little Rock, Arkansas, was selected for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, in 2006, she, along with Lian Lunson and Nicole Holofcener, was awarded the Women in Film Dorothy Arzner Directors Award. On November 24,2009, Interscope Records released Adams directorial debut for a video entitled Belle of the Boulevard by Dashboard Confessional. Adams returned to TV in March 2010, on the Showtime series The United States of Tara and she appeared in six episodes as Pammy, a barmaid who falls for Buck, one of the title characters alternate personalities. Regarding her unique voice she has commented, Its not a normal voice and it doesnt fit into peoples preconceptions about what a womans voice should sound like. My mom doesnt think I have a voice, though
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Tim Blake Nelson
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Timothy Blake Nelson is an American actor, writer and director. Nelson has had a wide career becoming a character actor of sorts. His most famous roles include Delmar ODonnell in O Brother, Where Art Thou, Dr. Pendanski in Holes, Daniel Danny Dalton Jr. in Syriana, and Dr. Samuel Sterns in The Incredible Hulk. Nelson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Ruth Nelson, who is a social activist and philanthropist in Tulsa, and Don Nelson. His uncle is businessman George Kaiser and his maternal grandparents, who were from Germany, escaped the Nazis shortly before World War II, moving to Britain in 1938 and emigrating to the United States in 1941. His fathers family were Russian Jewish immigrants, Nelson attended the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain Resort Arts and Conference Center in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. He is a 1982 graduate of Holland Hall School in Tulsa, and a graduate of Brown University, additionally, Nelson is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Nelson won the Workman/Driskoll award for excellence in Classical Studies and he graduated from Juilliard in 1990. Nelsons debut play, Eye of God, was produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1992, the Grey Zone premiered at MCC Theater in New York in 1996, where his 1998 work Anadarko was also produced. He was a co-star of the comedy show The Unnaturals. His co-stars were Paul Zaloom, John Mariano and Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Nelson has appeared as an actor in film, TV and theatre. He had a role as Delmar in the film O Brother. According to directors Joel and Ethan Coen, he was the one in the cast or crew who had read Homers Odyssey. He sings In the Jailhouse Now on the films soundtrack and he played Samuel Sterns in the 2008 film The Incredible Hulk. He also narrates the 2001 audiobook At the Altar of Speed, The Fast Life and Tragic Death of Dale Earnhardt, Sr. He has directed film versions of his plays The Grey Zone and Eye of God and he also directed the film O, based on William Shakespeares play Othello and set in a modern-day high school. He is on the Board of Directors for The Actors Center in New York City, Nelson guest-starred on the CSI, Crime Scene Investigation season 10 episode Working Stiffs. Nelson currently resides in New York City with his wife, Lisa Benavides, on May 8,2009, Nelson was inducted as an honorary member of the University of Tulsas Beta of Oklahoma chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa national collegiate honor society
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Colin Stetson
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Colin Stetson is an American saxophonist and multireedist. He is best known as a collaborator of the indie rock acts Arcade Fire, Bon Iver. In addition to saxophone, he plays clarinet, bass clarinet, French horn, flute, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and currently based in Montreal, Quebec, Stetson attended the University of Michigan School of Music, where he joined Transmission Trio. He also played with the groups Boostamonte and the Peoples Bizarre, black Emperor, Angélique Kidjo, Kevin Devine, Beanie Burnett, BADBADNOTGOOD, and Anthony Braxton. His extended saxophone techniques cover advanced circular breathing, multiphonics, altissimo, microtones, vocalisations, percussive valve-work, clicking keys and his first solo album, New History Warfare, Vol.1, was released in 2008. His second album, New History Warfare Vol.2, Judges, was released by Constellation Records in early 2011, on June 16, the album was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize. On July 6, the album was named as a nominee for the 2011 award. Stetson was chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform at the All Tomorrows Parties festival that he curated in December 2011 in Minehead, England. His latest album, New History Warfare Vol.3, To See More Light, was released by Constellation Records in April 2013, Stetson and regular collaborator Sarah Neufeld composed the score to the 2013 film Blue Caprice and the film Outlaws and Angels 2016. Tiny Beast with Transmission Trio Slow Descent New History Warfare Vol.1 Righteous Wrath 7″ New History Warfare Vol.2, Judges Those Who Didnt Run EP New History Warfare Vol
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Sarah Neufeld
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Sarah Neufeld is a Canadian violinist and current touring member of the indie rock band Arcade Fire. She is also a member of the post rock band Bell Orchestre, alongside Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry, at age 18, she moved from East Vancouver to Montreal, Quebec, with electronic artist Tim Hecker, where she subsequently joined both bands. She currently lives in Montreal between tours, in 2009 Neufeld joined The Luyas. She released her first solo album, Hero Brother, in 2013, in 2016, Neufeld released her second solo album, The Ridge on Paper Bag records. The album features Arcade Fire drummer Jeremy Gara, the Ridge sees Neufeld incoporate more vocals than her previous record, Hero Brother. Neufeld and regular collaborator Colin Stetson composed the score to the 2013 film Blue Caprice
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IFC Films
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IFC Films is an American film production and distribution company based in New York City. It is an offshoot of IFC owned by AMC Networks and it distributes independent films and documentaries under its namesake, Sundance Selects and IFC Midnight brands. IFC has several ventures in video on demand, available through cable television pay-per-view, Apple iTunes, in 2002, IFC Films struck a deal with MGM Home Entertainment to release its theatrical films to home video. That same year, In 2006, IFC Films began distributing films to Apple iTunes. The first batch were thirteen films with nominations in the Film Independent Spirit Awards, on May 27,2010, IFC Films struck another home video distribution deal with Paramount Home Media Distribution. IFC Films first release was a drama in 1999, Spring Forward, directed by Tom Gilroy. S. A
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2013 Sundance Film Festival
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The 2013 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 17,2013 until January 27,2013 in Park City, Utah, United States, with screenings in Salt Lake City, Utah, Ogden, Utah, and Sundance, Utah. A record 12,146 films were submitted,429 more films than the 2012 festival,4,044 feature films were submitted and 119 were selected. 8,102 short films were submitted and 65 were selected, the festival had films representing 32 countries, from 51 first-time filmmakers,27 of which had films in competition. For the first time in the history, half of the films featured were made by women. In the U. S. dramatic competition,8 directors were women and 8 were men, in the U. S. documentary competition,8 directors were women and 8 were men. In the dramatic category, however, only 3 of the 18 films were directed by women. Linsanity, a documentary about the rise of Asian American basketball player Jeremy Lin, the Los Angeles Times wrote that it received a rousing response, easily making it one of the most crowd-pleasing documentaries to play the festival this year. The awards ceremony was held on January 26,2013 a few north of Park City, Utah at Kimball Junction at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse. Grand Jury Prize, Documentary - Blood Brother U. S, Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic - Fruitvale World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, Documentary - A River Changes Course World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic - Jiseul Audience Award, U. S. Documentary - Blood Brother Audience Award, U. S. S, Documentary - Cutie and the Boxer Directing Award, U. S. S. Screenwriting Award, World Cinema Dramatic - Wajma Editing Award, U. S, Documentary - Gideons Army Editing Award, World Cinema Documentary - The Summit Cinematography Award, U. S. Documentary - Dirty Wars, The World Is a Battlefield Cinematography Award, Dramatic - Aint Them Bodies Saints and Mother of George Cinematography Award, World Cinema Documentary - Who is Dayani Cristal. Cinematography Award, World Cinema Dramatic - Lasting U. S, Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking - Inequality for All U. S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking - American Promise U. S, the Shorts Awards were presented January 22,2013 at the Jupiter Bowl at Redstone Square. Short Film Grand Jury Prize - The Whistle Short Film Jury Award, U. S. Johnston for Aint Them Bodies Saints For the first time since 2009, Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, and the U. S. Blood Brother also won top prizes in the U. S. Documentary competition, the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, nineteen of the jury members, which award prizes to films, were announced on December 19,2012. The 5 members of the Alfred P. Sloan Jury, which also took part in the Science in Film Forum Panel, were announced on January 17,2013
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D.C. sniper attacks
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The D. C. or Beltway sniper attacks were a series of coordinated shootings that took place over three weeks in October 2002 in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D. C. Ten people were killed and three victims were critically injured in several locations throughout the Washington, D. C. metropolitan area. The rampage was perpetrated by John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, in September 2003, Muhammad was sentenced to death. One month later, Malvo was sentenced to six life sentences without the possibility of parole. On November 10,2009, Muhammad was executed by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center near Jarratt, on February 16,2002, Keenya Cook was shot and killed at the front door of her home in Tacoma, Washington. On March 19,2002, Jerry Taylor was killed by a shot to the chest fired from long range as he practiced chip shots at a Tucson. Several other deaths and injuries followed in other states from March to August 2002. On August 1,2002, John Gaeta was changing a tire at a lot in Hammond, Louisiana. The bullet exited through Gaetas back, and he pretended to be dead while Malvo stole his wallet, Gaeta ran to a service station after the shooter left and discovered that he was bleeding, he went to a hospital and was released within an hour. On March 1,2010, he received a letter of apology from Malvo. On September 5,2002, at 10,30 p. m. Paul LaRuffa, LaRuffa survived the shooting, and his laptop computer was found in John Allen Muhammads car when he and Malvo were arrested. On September 21,2002, at 12,15 a. m, 41-year-old Million A. Woldemariam was fatally shot in the head and back with a. 22-caliber pistol in Atlanta, Georgia. Woldemariam was helping the owner of a Sammys Package Store close up for the night when the shooting occurred, nineteen hours later on the same day, Claudine Parker, a liquor store clerk in Montgomery, Alabama, was shot and killed during a robbery. Her co-worker, Kellie Adams, was injured but survived, on September 23,2002, at 6,30 p. m. 45-year-old Hong Im Ballenger was shot in the head and killed with a Bushmaster rifle in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Muhammad and Malvo were linked to the killing, at 5,20 p. m. on October 2,2002, a shot was fired through a window of a Michaels craft store in Aspen Hill, Maryland. The bullet narrowly missed Ann Chapman, a cashier at the store, since no one was injured, no serious alarms were raised. On the morning of October 3, four people were dead within a span of approximately two hours in Aspen Hill and other nearby areas in Montgomery County. Another was killed that evening in the Takoma neighborhood of the District of Columbia, at 7,41 a. m. James L. Buchanan, a 39-year-old landscaper known as Sonny, was shot dead at 11411 Rockville Pike near Rockville, Maryland
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John Allen Muhammad
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John Allen Muhammad was an American convicted murderer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He, along with his partner, Lee Boyd Malvo, carried out the Beltway sniper attacks of October 2002. Muhammad and Malvo were arrested in connection with the attacks on October 24,2002, born as John Allen Williams, Muhammad joined the Nation of Islam in 1987 and later changed his surname to Muhammad. His trial for one of the began in October 2003. Four months later he was sentenced to death, while awaiting execution in Virginia, in August 2005, he was extradited to Maryland to face some of the charges there, for which he was convicted of six counts of first-degree murder on May 30,2006. Upon completion of the activity in Maryland, Muhammad was returned to Virginias death row pending an agreement with another state or the District of Columbia seeking to try him. He was not tried on charges in other Virginia jurisdictions. All appeals of his conviction for killing Dean Harold Meyers had been made, appeals for Muhammads other trials remained pending at the time of his execution. Muhammad was executed by lethal injection on November 10,2009, at 9,06 p. m. EST at the Greensville Correctional Center near Jarratt, Virginia, Muhammad declined to make a final statement. After his mothers death, his father left, Williams was mainly raised by his grandfather and an aunt. In 1987 he joined the Nation of Islam, and changed his name in 2001, Muhammad kidnapped his children and brought them to Antigua around 1999, apparently engaging in credit card and immigration document fraud. It was during this time that he became close with Lee Boyd Malvo, Williams changed his name to John Allen Muhammad in October 2001. After his arrest, authorities claimed that Muhammad admitted that he admired and modeled himself after Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Muhammad was twice divorced, his second ex-wife, Mildred Muhammad, Muhammad was arrested on federal charges of violating the restraining order by possessing a weapon. Under federal law, those with restraining orders are prohibited from purchasing or possessing guns, in August 1978, Muhammad enlisted in the Louisiana Army National Guard at Baton Rouge as a combat engineer. Muhammad transferred to the Regular Army on November 6,1985, in 1991, he served in the Gulf War with a company that dismantled Iraqi chemical warfare rockets. In 1992, he was at Fort Ord, California, with the 13th Engineers, while in the U. S. Army, Muhammad was trained as a mechanic, truck driver, and specialist metalworker. He qualified with the Armys standard rifle, the M16, earning the Expert Riflemans Badge and this rating is the Armys highest of three levels of basic rifle marksmanship for a soldier
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Tacoma, Washington
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Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washingtons Puget Sound,32 miles southwest of Seattle,31 miles northeast of the capital, Olympia. The population was 198,397, according to the 2010 census, Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third largest in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of activity for the South Sound region. Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, originally called Takhoma or Tahoma and it is locally known as the City of Destiny because the area was chosen to be the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century. The decision of the railroad was influenced by Tacomas neighboring deep-water harbor, by connecting the bay with the railroad, Tacomas motto became When rails meet sails. Today, Commencement Bay serves the Port of Tacoma, a center of trade on the Pacific Coast. Like most central cities, Tacoma suffered a decline in the mid-20th century as a result of suburbanization. Neighborhoods such as the 6th Avenue District have become revitalized, tacoma-Pierce County has been named one of the most livable areas in the United States. In 2006, Tacoma was listed as one of the most walkable cities in the country and that same year, the womens magazine Self named Tacoma the Most Sexually Healthy City in the United States. In contrast, Tacoma was also ranked as the most stressed-out city in the country in a 2004 survey, Tacoma gained notoriety in 1940 for the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which earned the nickname Galloping Gertie. The city of Tacoma and surrounding areas were inhabited for thousands of years by American Indians, predominantly the Puyallup people, mcCarver, who named his project Tacoma City, derived from the indigenous name for the mountain. Tacoma was incorporated on November 12,1875, following the merger of Old Tacoma, the transcontinental link was effected in 1887, but the railroad built its depot on New Tacoma, two miles south of the Carr-McCarver development. The two communities together and joined. The population grew from 1,098 in 1880 to 36,006 in 1890, rudyard Kipling visited Tacoma in 1889 and said it was literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest. George Francis Train was a resident for a few years in the late 19th century, in 1890, he staged a global circumnavigation starting and ending in Tacoma to promote the city. A plaque in downtown Tacoma marks the start and finish line, in November 1885, white citizens led by then-mayor Jacob Weisbach expelled several hundred Chinese residents peacefully living in the city. The next day two Chinese settlements were burned to the ground, the discovery of gold in the Klondike in 1898 led Tacomas prominence in the region to be eclipsed by the booming development of Seattle
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Chevrolet Caprice
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The Chevrolet Caprice is a full-sized automobile produced by Chevrolet in North America for the 1965 to 1996 model years. Full-size Chevrolet sales peaked in 1965 with over a million sold and it was the most popular American car in the sixties and early seventies, which, during its lifetime, included the Biscayne, Bel Air, and Impala. The 1971 to 1976 models are the largest Chevrolets ever built, the downsized 1977 and restyled 1991 models were awarded Motor Trend Car of the Year. The Caprice name was coined by Bob Lund after a restaurant he frequented in New York City. Some say the car was named after Caprice Chapman, daughter of auto executive, a Caprice Custom Sedan option package was offered on the 1965 Chevrolet Impala 4-door hardtop, adding $200 to the $2,742 price tag. Full wheel covers were the same as that years Super Sport, the Super Sports blackout rear trim panel was also used, without the Impala SS nameplate. The interior featured a higher-grade cloth and vinyl seat and door trim, faux walnut trim on the dashboard and door panels, pull straps on the doors, a full vinyl roof was optional. A283 cu in,195 hp V8 engine was standard, the Caprice was intended to compete with the Ford LTD, Plymouth VIP, AMCs Ambassador DPL, and even the smaller Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. These models included luxuriously upholstered interiors with simulated wood dashboard and door-panel trim, thicker carpeting, sound insulation, courtesy lighting, Caprice gained series status for the 1966 model year, and was positioned as the top-line full-size Chevrolet. It included a hardtop, six- or nine-passenger station wagon. The Caprice Estate, a new station wagon model with simulated woodgrain trim was the first Chevrolet woodie wagon since 1954. All wagons featured a bench seat interior. A V8 engine was standard for Caprice models, while features such as an automatic transmission, power steering, white sidewall tires, and vinyl top were extra-cost options, most were built with these options. According to some journalists at the time, a fully optioned Caprice could rival the appearance, comfort, lenses and silver trim on Caprices differed slightly from the other full-sized models. Sedans and coupe models included luxurious cloth and vinyl bench seats with a center armrest in the rear seat. Optional on both was a Strato bench seat which combined bucket-style seat backs and center armrest with a cushion for six-passenger seating. Caprices had unique standard wheel covers, although some of the optional wheels, New options included the Comfortron air conditioning system where the driver could set a constant year-round temperature. A Tilt/Telescopic steering wheel option could be adjusted vertically in six positions, the 1965-70 GM B platform is the fourth best selling automobile platform in history after the Volkswagen Beetle, Ford Model T, and the Lada Riva
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Washington metropolitan area
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The Washington metropolitan area is the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D. C. the capital of the United States. The area includes all of the district and parts of the U. S. states of Maryland and Virginia. The Washington metropolitan area is one of the most educated and most affluent metropolitan areas in the United States, the regions three largest cities are the federal territory of Washington, D. C. the county of Arlington, and the independent city of Alexandria. The area is sometimes referred to as the National Capital Region. Another term used to describe the region is the D. C, the area is increasingly referred to as the DMV, a shorthand for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. The area in the region that is surrounded by Interstate 495 is also referred to as being inside the Beltway. The city of Washington, which is at the center of the area, is referred to as the District because it is the federal District of Columbia, the Virginian portion of the region is known as Northern Virginia. Senate, and the U. S. House of Representatives, the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board, a component of MWCOG, is the federally designated metropolitan planning organization for the metropolitan Washington area. The area has been a magnet for international immigration since the late 1960s and it is also a magnet for internal migration. Census estimates show that persons of post-1965 immigrant stock will likely represent 25% of the population by 2010. Forbes magazine stated in its 2008 Americas Best- And Worst-Educated Cities report, The D. C. area is less than half the size of L. A. but both cities have around 100,000 Ph. D. s. In the 21st century, the Washington metropolitan area has overtaken the San Francisco Bay Area as the metropolitan area in the nation. The median household income of the region is US$72,800, census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Claritas Inc. and other sources. A Dice. com report showed that the Washington–Baltimore area had the second-highest number of tech jobs listed,8,289, changes in house prices for the D. C. S. residential real estate market. McLean ZIP code 22102 had the highest median home prices among ZIP codes within the Washington metropolitan area as of 2013, asian Americans had the highest median net worth in the Washington area. Although the median net worth for white D. C. -area households was 81 times that of black D. C. -area households, defense contracting Many defense contractors are based in the region to be close to the Pentagon in Arlington. Tourism Tourism is a significant industry in the Washington metropolitan region, the convention industry is also significant, in 2016, D. C. hosted fifteen city-wide conventions with an estimated total economic impact of $277.9 million. Fort Lee gained 7,344 mostly military employees, fort Meade gained 5,361 employees, primarily as a result of the expansion of the National Security Agency
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, which simultaneously serves as the nations prime federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Department of Justice, Intelligence Community and reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence. A leading U. S. counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigative organization, although many of the FBIs functions are unique, its activities in support of national security are comparable to those of the British MI5 and the Russian FSB. At an FBI field office, a senior-level FBI officer concurrently serves as the representative of the Director of National Intelligence. Despite its domestic focus, the FBI also maintains a significant international footprint and these overseas offices exist primarily for the purpose of coordination with foreign security services and do not usually conduct unilateral operations in the host countries. The FBI can and does at times carry out secret activities overseas, just as the CIA has a domestic function. The FBI was established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation and its name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935. The FBI headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building, located in Washington, in the fiscal year 2012, the Bureaus total budget was approximately $8.12 billion. In 1896, the National Bureau of Criminal Identification was founded, the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley created an urgent perception that America was under threat from anarchists. The Departments of Justice and Labor had been keeping records on anarchists for years, the Justice Department had been tasked with the regulation of interstate commerce since 1887, though it lacked the staff to do so. It had made little effort to relieve its staff shortage until the breakage of the Oregon land fraud scandal at approximately the turn of the 20th Century, President Roosevelt instructed Attorney General Charles Bonaparte to organize an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General. Bonaparte reached out to other agencies, including the Secret Service, for personnel, on May 27,1908, the Congress forbade this use of Treasury employees by the Justice Department, citing fears that the new agency would serve as a secret police department. Again at Roosevelts urging, Bonaparte moved to organize a formal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Investigation was created on July 26,1908, after the Congress had adjourned for the summer. Attorney General Bonaparte, using Department of Justice expense funds, hired thirty-four people, including veterans of the Secret Service. Its first Chief was Stanley Finch, Bonaparte notified the Congress of these actions in December 1908. The bureaus first official task was visiting and making surveys of the houses of prostitution in preparation for enforcing the White Slave Traffic Act, or Mann Act, in 1932, the bureau was renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation. The following year it was linked to the Bureau of Prohibition, in the same year, its name was officially changed from the Division of Investigation to the present-day Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI. J. Edgar Hoover served as Director from 1924 to 1972, a combined 48 years with the BOI, DOI, Hoover was substantially involved in most major cases and projects that the FBI handled during his tenure
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Aspen Hill, Maryland
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Aspen Hill is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland. It got its name from trees that once were found near the first post office in the area. The post office was located in a store on what was then known as the Washington-Brookeville Pike. In the 1920s and 1930s, Aspen Hill was known as being the location of Aspen Hill Cemetery, burials at Aspen Hill Cemetery included dogs that had served the during World War I as well as the pets of area residents. Memorial ceremonies honoring pets were often held there on World Day for Animals, in July 1950, Louis M. Denit sold 517 acres of land in Aspen Hill to Gelman Construction Company for about $300,000. Denit was an attorney who specialized in banking and trust law. Gelman Construction Company bought the land in order to build 2,450 three-bedroom ramblers, a center, schools, playgrounds. The homes were priced at less $10,000 each, in January 1955, Minnie Goodman sold 268 acres of land in Aspen Hill to Metropolitan Homes, Inc. At the time, the land was the last vacant tract of land of its size between Rockville and Wheaton, Metropolitan Homes planned to build 12,000 homes, schools, shopping centers, and churches on the land. Prices for the homes started at $15,000 each, Aspen Hill was one of the locations in which a fatal shooting took place in October 2002 as part of the Beltway sniper attacks. As a census-designated place, Aspen Hill’s boundaries are defined by the U. S. Census Bureau, the United States Postal Service does not accept “Aspen Hill” as a place name, addresses in the community must use the place names Rockville, Silver Spring, or Wheaton. Some addresses use Wheaton, notably in the Aspen Hill Shopping Center, while immediately across Aspen Hill Road at the Northgate Plaza Shopping Center, immediately to the west across Connecticut Avenue, addresses use Rockville. As a result, crime statistics which are considered as belonging to Aspen Hill are buried in the statistics of three different areas. Aspen Hill straddles a corner where three statistical areas meet in what locals consider the heart of Aspen Hill. The United States Census Bureau, defines Aspen Hill as a place located at 39°6 North. In the 2000 Census Bureau Gazetteer, Aspen Hill was located at 39°5′19″N 77°4′49″W, the United States Geological Survey definition of Aspen Hill is centered at 39°4′46″N 77°4′24″W, somewhat different from either of the Census Bureaus definitions. Other organizations, such as the Aspen Hill Civic Association, Inc. have their own definitions, the organizational membership bounds of the Civic Association do not include any areas to the east of Georgia Avenue. Other local resources such as the Montgomery Gazette and the Washington Post use a broad definition
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa
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Metacritic
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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products, music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged, Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source, a color of Green, Yellow or Red summarizes the critics recommendations and therefore the general appeal of the product to reviewers and, to a lesser extent, the public. It is regarded as the game industrys foremost review aggregator. Metacritics scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to the critics fame, stature, and volume of reviews. Metacritic was launched in July 1999 by Marc Doyle, his sister Julie Doyle Roberts, rotten Tomatoes was already compiling movie reviews, but Doyle, Roberts, and Dietz saw an opportunity to cover a broader range of media. They sold Metacritic to CNET in 2005, CNET and Metacritic are now owned by the CBS Corporation. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal wrote in September 2004, Mr. Doyle,36, is now a product manager at CNET. Speaking of video games, Doyle said, A site like ours helps people cut through. unobjective promotional language and he added that the review process was not taken as seriously when unconnected magazines and websites provided reviews in isolation. In August 2010, the appearance was revamped, reaction from users was overwhelmingly negative. Certain publications are given more significance because of their stature, games Editor Marc Doyle was interviewed by Keith Stuart of The Guardian to get a look behind the metascoring process. Stuart wrote, the phenomenon, namely Metacritic and GameRankings, have become an enormously important element of online games journalism over the past few years. The ranging of metascores is, Metacritic is regarded as the foremost online review site for the video game industry. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal has written that Metacritic influence the sales of games and he explains its influence as coming from the higher cost of buying video games than music or movie tickets. Many executives say that low scores can hurt the sales potential. He claimed that a number of businesses and financial analysts use Metacritic as an early indicator of a games potential sales and, by extension. In 2004, Jason Hall of Warner Bros. began including quality metrics in contracts with partners licensing its movies for games, if a product does not at least achieve a specific score, some deals require the publisher to pay higher royalties. In 2008, Microsoft began using Metacritic averages to de-list underperforming Xbox Live Arcade games and these are the top 10 individual games with the highest scores on the site as of 2 April 2017
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Red Giant Entertainment
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Red Giant Entertainment, Inc. is a Florida-headquartered comic book publisher and transmedia entertainment company first established in 2010. Red Giant was founded Benny R. Powell, who served as the head marketing writer for Priceline. com in the companys early days. David Campiti, director and COO, also is CEO of Glass House Graphics, Isen Robbins and Aimee Schoof are both from Intrinsic Value Films and Red Giant Media. Chris Crosby is CTO and the CEO of Keenspot Entertainment, internet personality Mark Markiplier Fischbach joined the board in November 2014. Red Giant publishes a variety of webcomics with strategic partner Keenspot, including Wayward Sons, Legends, Exposure], Jade Warriors, Buzzboy, Medusas Daughter, Katrina and these comics are then collected as digital collections on ComiXology. Red Giants Giant-Size Comics is a print comic book line of free, the four free Giant-Size titles include Giant-Size Action, Giant-Size Adventure, Giant-Size Fantasy, and Giant-Size Thrills. Darchon is scheduled to appear monthly in Giant-Size Thrills, the horror title. In November 2013, it was announced that DC Comics veteran Brian Augustyn had been hired as editor for the Giant-Size Comics line. On August 26,2014, Red Giant announced that Larry Hama is writing the Companys new Monster Isle monthly series debuting this November. On August 27,2014, Red Giant announced that Brian Augustyn is scripting a new Amped comic series debuting in November as part of the monthly Giant-Sized line. On June 19,2015, Red Giant announced it released a new GSL #1 comic for download with online advertising featuring Markiplier, the company publishes collected print editions of their webcomics, which are distributed to comic book and specialty stores worldwide through Diamond Comic Distributors. The Cartoon Art of Mike Deodato, Jr. Mike Deodatos Jade Warriors Mike Deodatos Comics & Stories Mike Deodato Jrs Sketchbook Banzai Girl Volume 1 Dreams Betrayed Buzzboy, Sidekicks Rule. The films indicate Intrinsic Value, Red Giant Media, or by Red Giant officers, Isen Robbins, Aimee Schoof and they are listed on the Red Giant Entertainment website. Exposure Bandai Namco Games America Inc. announced a partnership to more comic influenced games on July 23,2014. First game to be released by 2014 Holiday season, incorporated June 27,2005 under the name Castmor Resources, Ltd. Red Giant Entertainment, Inc. established in Clermont, Florida, acquired Red Giant Entertainment, Inc. a Florida corporation, on June 11,2012. On June 26,2012, Castmor Resources changed name to Red Giant Entertainment, on March 4,2013, Red Giant acquired ComicGenesis, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company that operates a user-generated comic site that hosts over 10,000 independent webcomics. Neither had been delivered as of January 2014, the company said both projects had gone to the printer as of December 30,2014 and that digital downloads would be sent to the Kickstarter backers in January 2015
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D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear
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Sniper,23 Days of Fear is a 2003 T. V. movie created by USA Network based on the Beltway sniper attacks of 2002. In October 2002, Chief Charles Moose of the Montgomery County Police Department, heads an effort to track down those responsible for a recent string of murders in Montgomery County, Maryland. Indeed, quite a few newspapers outside the targeted by snipers came right out. Sniper,23 Days of Fear originally aired on the USA Network on October 17,2003, just as John Allen Muhammad, sniper,23 Days of Fear at the Internet Movie Database
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Deadline Hollywood
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Deadline. com, official name Deadline Hollywood, and previously known as news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily, is an online magazine founded by Nikki Finke in 2006. Owned by Jay Penske since 2009, it is a brand of the Penske Media Corporation, the site is updated several times a day, with the infotainment industry as its focus. Finke began writing her LA Weekly column Deadline Hollywood in June 2002, in 2009, she sold DHD to Mail. com Media for a reported seven-figure payday, under an agreement by which she would hire an additional writer but remain the sites editor. In September 2009, the URL was changed to deadline. com, in November 2013, Finke left Deadline after a year-long disagreement between herself and Penske, who had bought Variety, a competing trade magazine and website. In 2010, Nikki Finke hired Variety reporter Mike Fleming Jr. Finke remained the editor of Deadline Hollywood, official website About Deadline. com at PMC
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TheWrap
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TheWrap is an entertainment and media news website founded by Sharon Waxman in 2009. According to CBS Market Watch, Waxman raised $500,000 for The Wrap News, as a portal site covering entertainment and media. A second round of financing was closed in 2010, by 2013, TheWrap. com had grown into a site with 30 employees. It also convenes an annual conference attended by leaders in entertainment, media, TheWrap competes with other Hollywood news sites, with its most direct competition as of 2014 being Deadline. com
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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
