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Derek Haas
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Derek Haas is an American writer and producer. Derek Haas attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he earned both his B. A. and M. A. in English Literature and he lives in Los Angeles, and has made a name as a screenwriter and co-author of several successful Hollywood films. In 2008 he published his novel The Silver Bear about the contract killer Columbus. The sequel Columbus was released in 2009, and in 2011 and his fourth novel, The Right Hand, was released in 2012. Haas was the editor of popcornfiction. com, where he published stories by different authors. One of his own works, Shake, was sold to Bruckheimer Films, popcornfiction. com stopped publishing new stories in 2013 after Haas became too busy with television. Haas created and executive produces the NBC drama Chicago Fire, along with his writing partner Michael Brandt, Brandt and Haas also developed and executive produce Chicago P. D. Chicago Med, the spin off of Chicago Fire premiered in November 2015
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Derek Haas
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Kristen Stewart
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Kristen Jaymes Stewart is an American actress and model. Born in Los Angeles to parents working in business, Stewart began her acting career in 1997 with uncredited roles. She gained notice in 2002 for playing Jodie Fosters daughter in the thriller Panic Room and she went on to star in Speak, Catch That Kid, Zathura, and Into The Wild, for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She received widespread recognition in 2008 for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga film series, Stewart has appeared in a wide variety of films, including Adventureland, The Runaways, Snow White and the Huntsman, On the Road, Camp X-Ray, Still Alice and Equals. She won the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2010 and was awarded the Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Actress in 2011 for Welcome to the Rileys. She starred in Personal Shopper, written for her by director Olivier Assayras, Stewart was listed as the highest-earning female actress in the Vanity Fair Hollywood Top Earners List of 2010, with an estimated earning of $28.5 million. In 2011, she was named number one on Forbes list of Hollywoods Best Actors for the Buck, Forbes also named her as the highest paid actress in 2012, with total earnings of $34.5 million. She is the face of Chanel and Balenciaga fashion brands, Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles. Both of her parents work in the entertainment industry and her father, John Stewart, is a stage manager and television producer who has worked for Fox and currently works on Comedy Central show @midnight. Her mother, Jules Mann-Stewart, is originally from Maroochydore, Queensland and she is a script supervisor and has also directed a film, the 2012 prison drama K-11. She has a brother, Cameron B. Stewart, and two adopted brothers, Dana and Taylor, Stewart attended local schools until the seventh grade. As she became involved in acting, she continued her education by correspondence until completing high school. As she grew up with a family who worked behind the camera, Stewart thought she would become a screenwriter/director and she recalled, I never wanted to be the center of attention — I wasnt that I want to be famous, I want to be an actor kid. I never sought out acting, but I always practiced my autograph because I love pens, Id write my name on everything. She began acting at 8, after an agent saw her perform in her elementary schools Christmas play, after auditioning for a year, Stewart gained her first role with a small, nonspeaking part in the Disney Channel TV-movie The Thirteenth Year. Her next film was The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, where she played the ring toss girl and she also appeared in the independent film The Safety of Objects, as the tomboy daughter of a troubled single mother. Stewart also played a tomboy, diabetic daughter of a mother in the film Panic Room
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Stewart at the
2014 Cannes Film Festival
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Stewart at the 2007 Breakthrough Awards of Hollywood Life Magazine.
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Stewart at the Australian premiere of
Snow White and the Huntsman in June 2012
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Stewart at the UK premiere of
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 in November 2012
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Corbin Bleu
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Corbin Bleu Reivers, known professionally as Corbin Bleu, is an American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter. He performed in the High School Musical film series, songs from the films also charted worldwide, with the song I Dont Dance peaking inside the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. It was also named as the theme song for the 2007 Little League World Series, the Discovery Kids drama series Flight 29 Down. His first lead role was in the film Catch That Kid, guest-starring roles include appearances on Hannah Montana, The Amanda Show, Cover Me, Based on the True Life of an FBI Family, Malcolm & Eddie, and The Good Wife. He appeared on the show Neds Declassified School Survival Guide, in 2009 he was cast as up-and-coming model Isaac Taylor in The CW Television Network drama The Beautiful Life, TBL. He has also pursued a career, and released his debut album Another Side on May 1,2007. The album debuted at number thirty-six on the U. S. Billboard 200, selling 18,000 copies in its first week. Bleu released his album, Speed of Light, on March 10,2009, in the U. S, The album spawned the singles Celebrate You and Moments That Matter. In 2010, Bleu played Usnavi in the Broadway company of In the Heights, Bleu was considered as host for The X Factor USA, Fake Off. In 2012, he returned to Broadway in the revival of Godspell, in September 4,2013, he was announced as a contestant on the 17th season of Dancing with the Stars. He partnered with professional dancer Karina Smirnoff, Corbin and his partner made it to the finals, but became the runners-up behind Amber Riley. In 2015, Bleu appeared in Family Shots with The Human Race Theatre Company, in 2016, Bleu played Ted Hanover in the Broadway company of Holiday Inn, The New Irving Berlin Musical. Bleu was born in Brooklyn New York, the son of Martha and David Reivers and his mother is Italian American and his father is Jamaican American. He has three sisters, Jag, Phoenix, and Hunter, as a child, Bleu studied dance for several years, focusing on ballet and jazz. Bleu appeared in commercials starting at the age of two, for products such as Life cereal, Bounty, Hasbro, and Nabisco. He began taking jazz and ballet classes, usually being the boy in the class. By the age of four he was a model with the Ford Modeling Agency in New York, at age six Corbin appeared in his first professional theater production off Broadway, at The Town Hall. This three-concert series, created, written, and hosted by Scott Siegel, took place one weekend
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Bleu at the Summer with the Stars, Red Carpet in 2011
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Bleu at the
Kids' Inaugural: "We Are the Future" 2009
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In concert, July 13, 2007
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Max Thieriot
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Maximillion Drake Max Thieriot is an American actor who made his acting debut in the 2004 adventure comedy film Catch That Kid. Thieriot currently stars as Dylan Massett in the A&E drama-thriller television series Bates Motel, in 2015, he appeared as John Coffee Jack Hays in the History Channel miniseries Texas Rising. For his roles in the horror and thriller genres, Thieriot has been referred to as a scream king, Thieriot was born in Los Altos Hills, California, the son of Bridgit and George Cameron Thieriot. He has one sister, Frankie, and one brother, Aidan and he was raised in the small town of Occidental in Sonoma County, California. Thieriots ancestors once owned the San Francisco Chronicle, thieriots paternal grandparents, Ferdinand Melly and Frances Harrison Thieriot, died in the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria in 1956. Thieriot was signed to talent manager Don Gibble after taking his improvisation class and he modeled for Gap and appeared in two short films, before being cast in his first feature film role, 2004s adventure film Catch That Kid, alongside Kristen Stewart and Corbin Bleu. He was subsequently cast in 2005s action comedy film The Pacifier and he was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor for his role. Thieriot appeared in the drama The Astronaut Farmer, released on February 23,2007, as well as in the film version of Nancy Drew. In 2008, he played a version of Hayden Christensens lead character in Jumper (co-starring with Rachel Bilson and, for the second time. That same year, he appeared in Kit Kittredge, An American Girl, in 2009, Thieriot co-starred in the erotic thriller Chloe, theatrically released by Sony Pictures Classics on March 26,2010. Chloe enjoyed commercial success and became director Atom Egoyans biggest ever box office earner, the following year, he appeared in Wes Cravens horror film My Soul to Take, replacing Dennis Hoppers son Henry Lee Hopper in the cast. Thieriot portrayed the main character Adam Bug Hellerman, who is one of seven characters chosen to die. In 2011, he starred in the independent comedy The Family Tree, alongside Dermot Mulroney and Britt Robertson, Thieriot then co-starred with Jennifer Lawrence in the Mark Tonderai-directed psychological horror-thriller House at the End of the Street, which was released to commercial success in 2012. That same year, he starred in the drama film Disconnect, in 2013, Thieriot joined the main cast of the critically acclaimed drama-thriller series Bates Motel, alongside Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore. He made his debut on the series with the fifth season episode Hidden. In 2015, he starred in the History Channel event miniseries Texas Rising as John Jack Hays, a captain of the Texas Rangers, Thieriot has been cast as Officer Clay in an untitled United States Navy SEALs pilot at CBS, opposite Jim Caviezel and Jessica Paré. In 2012, Thieriot became engaged to Lexi Murphy, his girlfriend of seven years and he proposed during a trip to the Caribbean, where the pair met as teenagers. On June 1,2013, they were married in Arizona, the couple announced they had welcomed their first child, a boy named Beaux Thieriot, in late December 2015
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Thieriot at the 2013
PaleyFest for
Bates Motel
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Jennifer Beals
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Jennifer Beals is an American actress and a former teen model. She is best known for her role as Alexandra Alex Owens in the 1983 romantic drama film Flashdance, Beals earned an NAACP Image Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination for the former. She has appeared in more than 50 films, Beals was born on December 19,1963 in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Jeanne, an elementary school teacher, and Alfred Beals, who owned grocery stores. Beals father was black and her mother is Irish-American and she has two brothers, Bobby and Gregory. Her father died when Beals was 10 years old, and her mother married Edward Cohen in 1981, Beals has said her biracial heritage had some effect on her, as she always lived sort of on the outside, with an idea of being the other in society. She got her first job at age 13 at an ice store, using her height at the time. Beals graduated from the progressive Francis W. Parker School and she also was chosen to attend the elite Goodman Theatre Young Peoples Drama Workshop. Beals attended Yale University, receiving a B. A. in American Literature in 1987, while at Yale, Beals was a resident of Morse College. Beals had a role in the 1980 film My Bodyguard. Beals was cast for this key role while still a student at Yale and she was nominated for a Golden Globe and the film received an Academy Award for Best Song. Many of Beals elaborate dance moves were performed by stunt double Marine Jahan. She also appeared in the Cinderella episode of Faerie Tale Theatre, Beals was asked by Joel Schumacher to do St. Elmos Fire but turned it down, preferring to stay at Yale. After completing her studies at Yale in 1987, Beals returned to acting as the love interest in the boxing film Split Decisions opposite Craig Sheffer, starring opposite Nicolas Cage, she portrayed a lusty and thirsty vampire in 1989s Vampires Kiss. Beals was considered for the role of Catwoman in Tim Burtons 1992 film Batman Returns, in 1995, Beals and Denzel Washington co-starred in Devil in a Blue Dress, a period film based on a Walter Mosley novel featuring L. A. private detective, Easy Rawlins. Beals plays a woman passing for white. That same year she appeared with Tim Roth in two segments of the four-story anthology Four Rooms, one of which was directed by her then-husband, Alexandre Rockwell. Rockwell had previously directed her in the 1992 independent film In the Soup, in 2003, she played one of the sequestered jury members in the film adaptation of Runaway Jury. She had a role in 2006s The Grudge 2, sequel to the hit horror film of two years earlier
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Beals at the
GLAAD Awards in 2009
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Beals in Sweden during promotion for Flashdance, July 1983
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20th Century Fox
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, the studio was formerly owned by News Corporation. 20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2015, 20th Century Fox celebrated its 80th anniversary as a studio. Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, the studios biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading men James Dunn, at first, it was expected that the new company was originally to be called Fox-20th Century, even though 20th Century was the senior partner in the merger. However, 20th Century brought more to the bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck, the new company, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31,1935, the hyphen was dropped in 1985. Schenck became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, while Kent remained as President, Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production, replacing Foxs longtime production chief Winfield Sheehan. The company established a training school. The contracts included an option for renewal for as long as seven years. For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary, however, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915. The companys films retained the 20th Century Pictures searchlight logo on their credits as well as its opening fanfare. Also on the Fox payroll he found two players who he built up into the studios leading assets, Alice Faye and seven-year-old Shirley Temple, favoring popular biographies and musicals, Zanuck built Fox back to profitability. Thanks to record attendance during World War II, Fox overtook RKO, while Zanuck went off for eighteen months war service, junior partner William Goetz kept profits high by going for light entertainment. The studios—indeed the industrys—biggest star was creamy blonde Betty Grable, in 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio. Together with Zanuck, who returned in 1943, they intended to make Foxs output more serious-minded. During the next few years, with pictures like The Razors Edge, Wilson, Gentlemans Agreement, The Snake Pit, Boomerang, and Pinky, Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams Leave Her to Heaven, starring Gene Tierney and they also made the 1958 film version of South Pacific
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Logo used as of 2013
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Entrance to 20th Century Fox studio lot.
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Carmen Miranda in
The Gang's All Here. In 1946, she was the highest-paid actress in the United States.
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Alice Faye,
Don Ameche, and
Carmen Miranda in
That Night in Rio, produced by Fox in 1941.
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Denmark
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Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Scandinavian country in Europe and a sovereign state. The southernmost and smallest of the Nordic countries, it is south-west of Sweden and south of Norway, Denmark also comprises two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark has an area of 42,924 square kilometres. The country consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, the islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. The unified kingdom of Denmark emerged in the 10th century as a proficient seafaring nation in the struggle for control of the Baltic Sea, Denmark, Sweden and Norway were ruled together under the Kalmar Union, established in 1397 and ending with Swedish secession in 1523. Denmark and Norway remained under the monarch until outside forces dissolved the union in 1814. The union with Norway made it possible for Denmark to inherit the Faroe Islands, Iceland, beginning in the 17th century, there were several cessions of territory to Sweden. In the 19th century there was a surge of nationalist movements, Denmark remained neutral during World War I. In April 1940, a German invasion saw brief military skirmishes while the Danish resistance movement was active from 1943 until the German surrender in May 1945, the Constitution of Denmark was signed on 5 June 1849, ending the absolute monarchy which had begun in 1660. It establishes a constitutional monarchy organised as a parliamentary democracy, the government and national parliament are seated in Copenhagen, the nations capital, largest city and main commercial centre. Denmark exercises hegemonic influence in the Danish Realm, devolving powers to handle internal affairs, Home rule was established in the Faroe Islands in 1948, in Greenland home rule was established in 1979 and further autonomy in 2009. Denmark became a member of the European Economic Community in 1973, maintaining certain opt-outs, it retains its own currency, the krone. It is among the members of NATO, the Nordic Council, the OECD, OSCE. The etymology of the word Denmark, and especially the relationship between Danes and Denmark and the unifying of Denmark as a kingdom, is a subject which attracts debate. This is centred primarily on the prefix Dan and whether it refers to the Dani or a historical person Dan and the exact meaning of the -mark ending. Most handbooks derive the first part of the word, and the name of the people, from a word meaning land, related to German Tenne threshing floor. The -mark is believed to mean woodland or borderland, with references to the border forests in south Schleswig. The first recorded use of the word Danmark within Denmark itself is found on the two Jelling stones, which are believed to have been erected by Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth
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The gilded side of the
Trundholm sun chariot dating from the Nordic Bronze Age.
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Flag
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The
Ladby ship, the largest ship burial found in Denmark.
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Larger of the two Jelling stones, raised by
Harald Bluetooth.
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Mount Everest
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Mount Everest, also known in Nepal as Sagarmāthā and in China as Chomolungma/珠穆朗玛峰, is Earths highest mountain. Its peak is 8,848 metres above sea level, Mount Everest is in the Mahalangur Range. The international border between China and Nepal runs across Everests summit point and its massif includes neighbouring peaks Lhotse,8,516 m, Nuptse,7,855 m, and Changtse,7,580 m. In 1856, the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India established the first published height of Everest, then known as Peak XV, at 8,840 m. The current official height of 8,848 m as recognised by China and Nepal was established by a 1955 Indian survey, in 2005, China remeasured the height of the mountain and got a result of 8844.43 m. An argument regarding the height between China and Nepal lasted five years from 2005 to 2010, China argued it should be measured by its rock height which is 8,844 m but Nepal said it should be measured by its snow height 8,848 m. In 2010, an agreement was reached by both sides that the height of Everest is 8,848 m and Nepal recognises Chinas claim that the rock height of Everest is 8,844 m. In 1865, Everest was given its official English name by the Royal Geographical Society upon a recommendation by Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India. As there appeared to be several different local names, Waugh chose to name the mountain after his predecessor in the post, Sir George Everest, Mount Everest attracts many climbers, some of them highly experienced mountaineers. There are two main climbing routes, one approaching the summit from the southeast in Nepal and the other from the north in Tibet, as of 2016 there are well over 200 corpses on the mountain, with some of them even serving as landmarks. The first recorded efforts to reach Everests summit were made by British mountaineers, with Nepal not allowing foreigners into the country at the time, the British made several attempts on the north ridge route from the Tibetan side. Tragedy struck on the descent from the North Col when seven porters were killed in an avalanche. They had been spotted high on the mountain that day but disappeared in the clouds, never to be seen again, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first official ascent of Everest in 1953 using the southeast ridge route. Tenzing had reached 8,595 m the previous year as a member of the 1952 Swiss expedition, the Chinese mountaineering team of Wang Fuzhou, Gonpo, and Qu Yinhua made the first reported ascent of the peak from the north ridge on 25 May 1960. In 1802, the British began the Great Trigonometric Survey of India to fix the locations, heights, starting in southern India, the survey teams moved northward using giant theodolites, each weighing 500 kg and requiring 12 men to carry, to measure heights as accurately as possible. They reached the Himalayan foothills by the 1830s, but Nepal was unwilling to allow the British to enter the country due to suspicions of political aggression, several requests by the surveyors to enter Nepal were turned down. The British were forced to continue their observations from Terai, a region south of Nepal which is parallel to the Himalayas, conditions in Terai were difficult because of torrential rains and malaria. Three survey officers died from malaria while two others had to retire because of failing health, nonetheless, in 1847, the British continued the survey and began detailed observations of the Himalayan peaks from observation stations up to 240 km distant
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Everest's north face from the Tibetan plateau
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Aerial photo from the south, behind Nuptse and Lhotse
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Mount Everest from space
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Go-cart
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Kart racing or karting is a variant of open-wheel motorsport with small, open, four-wheeled vehicles called karts, go-karts, or gearbox/shifter karts depending on the design. They are usually raced on scaled-down circuits, Karting is commonly perceived as the stepping stone to the higher ranks of motorsports. Karts vary widely in speed and some can reach speeds exceeding 260 kilometres per hour, American Art Ingels is generally accepted to be the father of karting. A veteran hot rodder and a car builder at Kurtis Kraft. Instantly popular, Karting rapidly spread to countries, and currently has a large following in Europe. The first kart manufacturer was an American company, Go Kart Manufacturing Co, in 1959, McCulloch was the first company to produce engines for karts. Its first engine, the McCulloch MC-10, was an adapted chainsaw two-stroke engine, later, in the 1960s, motorcycle engines were also adapted for kart use, before dedicated manufacturers, especially in Italy, started to build engines for the sport. The chassis are made of steel tubing, there is no suspension, therefore chassis have to be flexible enough to work as a suspension and stiff enough not to break or give way on a turn. Kart chassis are classified in the USA as Open, Caged, all Commission Internationale de Karting - Fédération Internationale de lAutomobile or CIK-FIA approved chassis are Straight and Open. Open karts have no roll cage, Caged karts have a roll cage surrounding the driver, they are mostly used on dirt tracks. In Straight chassis the driver sits in the center, Straight chassis are used for sprint racing. In Offset chassis the driver sits on the left side, Offset chassis are used for left-turn-only speedway racing. The stiffness of the chassis enables different handling characteristics for different circumstances, typically, for dry conditions a stiffer chassis is preferable, while in wet or other poor traction conditions, a more flexible chassis may work better. The best chassis allow for stiffening bars at the rear, front, braking is achieved by a disc brake mounted on the rear axle. Front disc brakes are used in most shifter kart classes and are popular in other classes, however. Shifter karts have dual master cylinders, one for the front, professionally raced karts typically weigh 165 to 175 lb, complete without driver. Avanti, Tony Kart, Trulli, Birel, CRG, Gillard, Intrepid, Kosmic, Zanardi or FA Kart, emmick, Coyote, Bandit, Shadow, MGM, Titan, PRC and Margay are American companies producing kart chassis. Amusement park go-karts can be powered by 4-stroke engines or electric motors and they are adequate for racing and fun kart applications
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Rotax World Final kart racing
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Kart racing in the streets of Berlin, DDR in 1963
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Sprint race at Granja Viana, Brazil
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Pack of Laydown Enduros at
Daytona, USA
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James LeGros
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James LeGros is an American actor. His mother was a teacher and his father was a real estate broker and he was raised in Redlands, California, and attended the Professional Conservatory at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California, as well as the University of California, Irvine. LeGros is the son-in-law of late actor Robert Loggia, James LeGros appeared as Rick in Gus Van Sants 1989 Drugstore Cowboy. One of his roles was in Living in Oblivion. LeGros played Chad Palomino, an acting diva with endless a-list star demands for a b-movie director. LeGros appeared on Showtimes Sleeper Cell and on Law & Order and he was also a cast member on the television series Ally McBeal and guest-starred on Roseanne, Punky Brewster, The Outer Limits, and Friends. He portrayed Dr. Dan Harris on the NBC series Mercy, LeGros portrayed Peter Gray in the upcoming Dark Sky thriller Bitter Feast. He is the first actor to appear on TV as Deputy United States Marshall Raylan Givens in the TV film Pronto, LeGros also appeared on the TV series Justified as antagonist Wade Messer. Notes James LeGros at the Internet Movie Database
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LeGros at the
2006 Toronto International Film Festival
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Michael Shulman and James LeGros on the set of
Sherman's Way
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Stark Sands
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Stark Bunker Sands is an American film, stage and television actor. He is known for his role as Tunny in the original Broadway cast of American Idiot and he is a two-time Tony Award nominee. He is also known for the roles of Lance Sussman in Die, Mommie, Die. and he starred as Dash in FOXs series Minority Report. Sands was born in Dallas, Texas, stark is his mothers maiden name, and Bunker was his late fathers middle name, as well as his maternal great-grandmothers maiden name. He has a twin brother, Jacob, and an older sister. Sands attended Highland Park High School, and went on to gain his BFA in acting from the University of Southern California and he has also co-starred in the independent film Pack of Dogs, directed by Ian Kessner. Sands made his debut opposite Natasha Lyonne and Jason Priestley in Die, Mommie, Die. an adaptation of Charles Buschs play of the same name. He also appeared in the film Shall We Dance, with Richard Gere, in 2007, he received a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role in the Broadway revival of Journeys End. From May 2 to June 8,2008, he performed the role of Alex in A Seagull in the Hamptons at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, Sands also participated in the seven-episode HBO miniseries Generation Kill about the 2003 Iraq invasion, airing during the summer of 2008. In the miniseries he played Marine Lt. Nathaniel Fick, Sands had previously played a U. S. Marine, Walter Gust, in Flags of Our Fathers. Clair Bayfield Award, which honors the best performance by an actor in a Shakespearean play in the New York metropolitan area. From June 25 to July 12,2009, Sands appeared in the Shakespeare in the Parks production of Twelfth Night, featuring Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald, Sands played the role of Tunny in the Broadway production of American Idiot, again playing a member of the military. He left the production on March 13,2011, David Larsen took over the role, Sands was in the 2010 HBO pilot The Miraculous Year, which was not picked up by HBO. He was part of the main cast of the CBS television series Rookies, the show was picked up for mid-season, under the new name NYC22, but was canceled after airing 13 episodes due to inadequate ratings. Sands played the character of Troy Nelson in the film Inside Llewyn Davis, Sands played one of the lead characters, Charlie Price, in the musical Kinky Boots which opened at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, for a four-week run in October 2012. He reprised his role when the show premiered on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 4,2013, for his role as Charlie, Sands was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, but lost to his co-star Billy Porter. He played his final performance on January 26,2014, in 2014, Sands was cast in the NBC pilot Salvation. This was not picked up to series, Sands was cast in FOXs pilot, Minority Report, as Dash, a precog
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Sands in 2007
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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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Spy Kids trilogy
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The main plot initially follows the adventures of two Cortez children who become involved in their parents espionage. The rest of their family are also spies as well, including their estranged uncle Machete, the films tend to have a strong Hispanic heritage theme, as Rodriguez is of Mexican descent. Ten years before the first film, there was a period of political turmoil. Fearless agents were recruited for espionage missions against enemy spies, Gregorio Cortez and Ingrid Avellan were enemy spies assigned to kill each other, but instead they fell in love and married. After a typical wedding, Gregorio and Ingrid took a break from espionage, after retiring from espionage for ten years, Gregorio and Ingrid are pulled back into duty for their important assignment despite the fact they were out of practice, and were captured. On their first mission, Carmen and Juni manage to bring around their estranged uncle, Isador Machete Cortez, a genius gadget inventor and Juni helps to redeem Fegan Floop. Together, Carmen and Juni thwart the plan of Alexander Minion to develop an army of androids resembling young children for a mastermind named Mr. Lisp, the robots based on Carmen and Juni became part of Floops show. Juni gets fired from the OSS after fighting with Gary over a version of the transmooker. Juni loses his spot for the best spy kid of the year award, eventually, Donnagon is fired and Gary is suspended, and the transmooker is destroyed. Juni is offered his job back, but in order to take a break from the OSS, after retiring from the OSS, Juni is thrust back into service when an evil mastermind named Sebastian the Toymaker creates a fictional video game called Game Over, which hypnotizes its users. Carmen was sent on a mission to disable the game, with the help of his maternal grandfather, Valentin Avellan, who uses a wheelchair, Juni is sent after Carmen and helps her to disable the game in order to save the world. It is revealed that Sebastian was the one who disabled Valentin in the first place, instead of avenging his former partner, Valentin forgives Sebastian who is redeemed. The OSS has become the worlds top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has become defunct, a retired spy Marissa is thrown back into the action along with her two stepchildren, Rebecca and Cecil, when a maniacal Timekeeper attempts to take over the world. In order to save the world, Rebecca and Cecil must team up with Marissa, on June 16,2016, Netflix announced an animated Spy Kids television show entitled Spy Kids, Mission Critical with The Weinstein Company set to be released in 2018. List indicator Italics indicate a cameo, a dark grey cell indicates the character did not appear in the film. Spy Kids was heavily influenced by James Bond films, technology in the films is almost always portrayed as looking friendly, and a bit cartoonish. The spy organization featured in the films is called the OSS, the initials seem to have been derived from the Office of Strategic Services, a former American intelligence organization during World War II which later evolved into the CIA. Note there is a character named Donnagon Giggles, after William Joseph Donovan, what the initials stand for in the Spy Kids universe is never specified on screen, but, according to one of the books, they stand for the Organization of Super Spies
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DVD box set of the four films
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Roger Ebert
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Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic and historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, the two verbally sparred and traded humorous barbs while discussing films. They created and trademarked the phrase Two Thumbs Up, used when both hosts gave the film a positive review. After Siskel died in 1999, Ebert continued hosting the show with various co-hosts and then, starting in 2000, Ebert lived with cancer of the thyroid and salivary glands from 2002. This required treatments necessitating the removal of his jaw, which cost him the ability to speak or eat normally. His ability to write remained unimpaired, however, and he continued to publish frequently both online and in print until his death on April 4,2013. Roger Joseph Ebert was born in Urbana, Illinois, the child of Annabel, a bookkeeper, and Walter Harry Ebert. He was raised Roman Catholic, attending St. Marys elementary school and his paternal grandparents were German immigrants and his maternal ancestry was Irish and Dutch. In his senior year, he was president and editor-in-chief of his high school newspaper. In 1958, he won the Illinois High School Association state speech championship in radio speaking, regarding his early influences in film criticism, Ebert wrote in the 1998 parody collection Mad About the Movies, I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine. Mads parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin – of the way a movie might look original on the outside, I did not read the magazine, I plundered it for clues to the universe. Pauline Kael lost it at the movies, I lost it at Mad magazine, Ebert began taking classes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an early-entrance student, completing his high-school courses while also taking his first university class. After graduating from Urbana High School in 1960, Ebert then attended and received his degree in 1964. As an undergraduate, he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, One of the first movie reviews he ever wrote was a review of La Dolce Vita, published in The Daily Illini in October 1961. Ebert spent a semester as a student in the department of English there before attending the University of Cape Town on a Rotary fellowship for a year. He returned from Cape Town to his studies at Illinois for two more semesters and then, after being accepted as a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago. Instead Kogan referred Ebert to the city editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, Jim Hoge and he attended doctoral classes at the University of Chicago while working as a general reporter at the Sun-Times for a year
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Ebert giving an interview for
Sound Opinions in 2006
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Roger Ebert (right) with
Russ Meyer in 1970.
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Ebert and his wife Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert (left) giving the thumbs up to
Nancy Kwan (right) at the
Hawaii International Film Festival on October 20, 2010
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Ebert (right) at the
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Chicago Sun Times
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The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the paper of the Sun-Times Media Group. The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city and it began in 1844 as the Chicago Daily Journal, which was the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine OLeary was responsible for the Chicago fire. The Evening Journal, whose West Side building at 17-19 S. Canal was undamaged, in 1929, the newspaper was relaunched as the Chicago Daily Illustrated Times. The modern paper grew out of the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun, founded December 4,1941 by Marshall Field III, and the Chicago Daily Times. The newspaper was owned by Field Enterprises, controlled by the Marshall Field family, when the Daily News ended its run in 1978, much of its staff, including Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko, were moved to the Sun-Times. During the Field period, the newspaper had a populist, progressive character that leaned Democratic but was independent of the citys Democratic establishment, although the graphic style was urban tabloid, the paper was well regarded for journalistic quality and did not rely on sensational front-page stories. It typically ran articles from the Washington Post/Los Angeles Times wire service, the advice column Ask Ann Landers debuted in 1943. Ann Landers was the pseudonym of staff writer Ruth Crowley, who answered readers letters until 1955, eppie Lederer, sister of Dear Abby columnist Abigail van Buren, assumed the role thereafter as Ann Landers. Kups Column, written by Irv Kupcinet, also made its first appearance in 1943, Jack Olsen joined the Sun-Times as editor-in-chief in 1954, before moving on to Time and Sports Illustrated magazines and authoring true-crime books. Hired as literary editor in 1955 was Hoke Norris, who covered the civil-rights movement for the Sun-Times. Jerome Holtzman became a member of the Chicago Sun sports department after first being a boy for the Daily News in the 1940s. He and Edgar Munzel, another longtime sportswriter for the paper, famed for his World War II exploits, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin made the Sun-Times his home base in 1962. The following year, Mauldin drew one of his most renowned illustrations, two years out of college, Roger Ebert became a staff writer in 1966, and a year later was named Sun-Times film critic. He continued in this role for the remainder of his life, after the friend wrote a story about it, Grizzard fired Banks. With that, the employees union intervened, a federal arbitrator ruled for Banks and 13 months later. The articles received considerable publicity and acclaim, but a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize met resistance from some who believed the Mirage series represented a form of entrapment. In March 1978, the afternoon publication the Chicago Daily News, sister paper of the Sun-Times
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The November 19, 2008 front page of the Chicago Sun-Times
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Chuck Neubauer in the former Chicago Sun-Times newsroom, 1998.
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Current Chicago Sun-Times headquarters, located in the
River North Point building at 350 North Orleans Street
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Spy Kids
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The first installment in the Spy Kids film series, the film was theatrically released in the United States on March 30,2001 by Dimension Films. It was a critical and commercial success, grossing over $147 million worldwide, three sequels were released, The Island of Lost Dreams in 2002, Game Over in 2003, and All the Time in the World in 2011. The film was nominated for Best Fantasy Film at 28th Saturn Awards, Ingrid and Gregorio Cortez are rival spies who fall in love. They retire and have two children, 12-year-old Carmen and 9-year-old Juni and they work for the Organization of Super Spies doing desk work. The children have no idea of their parents previous career, Ingrid and Gregorio are called back into the field when agents go missing. The children are left in the care of Uncle Felix Gumm, Gregorio suspects that a kids TV show star Fegan Floop has kidnapped the agents, and mutated them into his Fooglies, creatures on his show. They are captured by Floops Thumb-Thumb robots whose arms, legs, and head are made of thumbs, Felix is alerted to the parents capture, activates the fail-safe, tells the children the truth, and that he is not their uncle. The house is assaulted by Thumb-Thumbs, and the children alone on a submarine thats set to auto-pilot to a safe house. At the safe house, Carmen unlocks the door using her name. Inside of Floops castle, he introduces his latest creation to Mr. Lisp and he wishes to replace the world leaders children with these super-strong robots to control the world. The androids are dumb, and cannot function outside of their inherent programming, Lisp is furious, demanding usable androids to sell to his clients. Floop along with his second-in-command Alexander Minion interrogate Gregorio and Ingrid, Floop demands the Third Brain, but Ingrid has no idea what hes talking about. Gregorio claims that he destroyed the brain years ago, thinking the brain must be with the children, Floop sends his minions after them. Gregorio reveals to Ingrid the truth about the Third Brain and it was the codename of a project back when he worked in the science division of OSS. It was to house the skills of all of the worlds best super spies, the project was deemed too dangerous, was scrapped and the materials to be destroyed, but Gregorio couldnt destroy the brain. Back at the house, the kids are visited by Ms. Gradenko. Gradenko says she works for OSS, and is there to help the children, Gradenko wants the Third Brain, but Carmen does not know anything. Gradenko orders the house to be dismantled, and Juni sees Thumb-Thumbs outside destroying the submarine, gradenkos intentions revealed, Juni accidentally exposes the Third Brain, and a chase ensues with Carmen and some henchmen with jet packs
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Kim Possible
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Kim Possible is an American animated action comedy-adventure television series created by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle that originally aired on Disney Channel from June 7,2002 to September 7,2007. The show revolves around high school student Kim Possible, a teenager tasked with fighting crime on a regular basis while coping with everyday issues commonly associated with adolescence. Kim is aided by her clumsy best friend and sidekick Ron Stoppable, distinct from other Disney Channel shows in its use of self-referential humor, Schooley and McCorkle developed fast-paced sitcom-style dialogue to cater to adult viewers. Set in fictional Middleton, USA, the setting and locations exhibit a retro-influenced aesthetic. Kim Possible was the second animated Disney Channel Original Series, defying low expectations, the show premiered to critical acclaim and continued to be praised throughout its run for its humor, writing and animation. Maintaining strong ratings since 2002, Kim Possibles premiere was the most-watched of any Disney Channel Original Series, originally canceled at the end of its third season in 2005, Disney Channel unprecedentedly ordered a fourth installment of the series to appease devoted fans. Nominated for eight Emmy Awards, Kim Possible won one, for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing - Live Action and Animation, Rons personal fears, insecurities and clumsiness sometimes have a tendency to jeopardize the success of their own missions. Kim and Ron are aided remotely by Wade, a 10 year-old computer genius who seldom leaves his bedroom, together, the foursome is known as Team Possible. Not yet of age to drive herself to most of her missions, Kim often relies on favors from various people, lacking a secret identity, Kim is world famous and her profession, although accepted by her peers, is seldom acknowledged by her schoolmates or teachers. As revealed in Kim Possible, A Sitch in Time, Kim initially becomes involved in crime-fighting rather unintentionally, when he becomes trapped by his own laser security system, a billionaire accidentally contacts Kim while he was attempting to reach Team Impossible, to whose aid she immediately rushes. Kimberly Ann Kim Possible, a smart, popular and athletic high school student who moonlights as a crime-fighter, a straight-A student, the character is also a strong-willed, naturally competitive perfectionist. However, she remains humble, refusing to take credit for her actions, speaking in easygoing teenage slang, Kims most famous catchphrases include No big, So not the drama and Whats the sitch. Combined, her first and last names are a pun of the word impossible, ronald Ron Stoppable, Kims clumsy yet resourceful sidekick, her childhood best friend who, unlike Kim, is unpopular, socially awkward and constantly struggling to realize his full potential. Known for his catchphrase Booyah, Ron suffers from a fear of monkeys. The characters first and last names create a pun of the word unstoppable, Rufus, Rons pet naked mole rat who accompanies Kim and Ron on their missions, traveling in his owners pocket. Wade is also responsible for maintaining Kims website, dr. Drakken, born Drew Theodore P. His skin has permanently been turned blue as a result of a laboratory accident, additionally, Drakken is a former college roommate of Kims father James. Shego, Kims primary combatant and most dangerous opponent, a supervillain with the ability to generate powerful green energy blasts from her hands
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The series' intertitle.
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Promotional artwork for "Crush", the series' pilot. From left to right:
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Agent Cody Banks
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Agent Cody Banks is a 2003 American spy action comedy-thriller film, directed by Harald Zwart. Hilary Duff, Angie Harmon, Keith David, Cynthia Stevenson, Daniel Roebuck, Darrell Hammond, Ian McShane, the film was filmed in British Columbia. It was released in the United States on March 14,2003 and this film was the first major motion picture project for Duff apart from the film spinoff of her Lizzie McGuire TV series. The same can be said for Harmon, who had just come off a stint as Assistant D. A. Abbie Carmichael on NBCs Law & Order, a sequel was released the following year. The films executive producers include Madonna and Jason Alexander, Cody Banks, a 15-year-old high school junior, applies for a junior field ops position at the Central Intelligence Agencys SAD after completing a training summer camp. Answering to his handler Agent Ronica Miles, Cody is called upon a mission to find information about a scientist named Dr. Albert Connors, Connors is employed by a SPECTRE type organization named ERIS led by Dr. Brinkman, and his henchman François Molay. As all CIA agents are known to Brinkmans organization, the CIA uses the unknown Banks, who is placed into the school of Dr. Connors daughter Natalie. Cody soon finds he has no social skill with girls and has no time to do this while balancing his chores, the CIA decides to help by doing his chores and homework, trying to build his status, and going into the school to set him up with Natalie. The CIA also assemble a team of experts to train Cody into how to talk to girls. Cody finds that Dr. Brinkman is planning to use nanobots — which can destroy any carbon or silicon-based substance — to destroy the worlds defense systems so he can threaten anyone who opposes him. Since the nanobots are inactive in the cold, he plans to use ice cubes to distribute them, after Connors, Dr. Brinkman, and François leave the lab, Cody tries to take one of the ice cubes, only for it to melt when in his possession. Shortly after this, Cody gets into a fight with a number of bullies, the fight makes the school newspaper, and the CIA suspends Cody from the mission. Meanwhile, with Connors refusing to aid him in his plans, Dr. Brinkman sends François and some men to catch Natalie, meanwhile, disobeying orders to leave her out of it, Cody and Natalie eat ice cream at a restaurant. Cody attempts to explain things to Natalie but François and a group of men come over to their table and fight with Cody, knocking him unconscious, Cody is removed from the mission, and his parents ground him for staying out past his curfew. Cody gets his brother Alex to make sure his parents do not find out that he is gone by giving him the $5,000 the CIA gave him, Cody gets a ride to the top of the mountain and snowboards to the factory where Natalie is held. On the way, he caught in a grove of trees as Ronica finds him using a SoloTrek XFV. After convincing her that they need to rescue Natalie, the pair infiltrate the laboratory and Cody rescues Natalie, however, the trio are captured by Brinkmans men, although Cody quickly manages to escape
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Fantasy
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Fantasy is a fiction genre set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Most fantasy uses magic or other elements as a main plot element, theme. Magic and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds, in popular culture, the fantasy genre is predominantly of the medievalist form. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy works by many writers, artists, filmmakers. Fantasy is studied in a number of disciplines including English and other studies, cultural studies, comparative literature, history. The identifying trait of fantasy is the reliance on imagination to create narrative elements that do not have to rely on history or nature to be coherent. This differs from realistic fiction in that whereas realistic fiction has to attend to the history and natural laws of reality, an author applies his or her imagination to come up with characters, plots, and settings that are impossible in reality. Fantasy has often compared with science fiction and horror because they are the major categories of speculative fiction. Fantasy is distinguished from science fiction by the plausibility of the narrative elements, a science fiction narrative is unlikely, though seeming possible through logical scientific and/or technological extrapolation, whereas fantasy narratives do not need to be scientifically possible. The imagined elements of fantasy do not need an explanation to be narratively functional. Authors have to rely on the suspension of disbelief, an acceptance of the unbelievable or impossible for the sake of enjoyment. Despite both genres heavy reliance on the supernatural, fantasy and horror are distinguishable, horror primarily evokes fear through the protagonists weaknesses or inability to deal with the antagonists. Beginning perhaps with the earliest written documents, mythic and other elements that would come to define fantasy. MacDonald was an influence on both J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. The other major fantasy author of this era was William Morris, lord Dunsany established the genres popularity in both the novel and the short story form. Many popular mainstream authors also began to write fantasy at this time, including H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Indeed, juvenile fantasy was considered more acceptable than fantasy intended for adults, nathaniel Hawthorne wrote fantasy in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, intended for children, though works for adults only verged on fantasy. Political and social trends can affect a societys reception towards fantasy, in the early 20th century, the New Culture Movements enthusiasm for Westernization and science in China compelled them to condemn the fantastical shenmo genre of traditional Chinese literature
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Fairy tales and legends, such as
Dobrynya Nikitich 's rescue of Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon
Gorynych, have been an important source for fantasy.
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Many works are unclear as to the belief of the authors in the marvels they contain, as in the enchanted garden from the
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Science fiction
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Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a literature of ideas. Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a range of subgenres and themes. Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying science fiction is what we point to when we say it, a definition echoed by author Mark C. Glassy, who argues that the definition of science fiction is like the definition of pornography, you do not know what it is, in 1970 or 1971William Atheling Jr. According to science fiction writer Robert A, rod Serlings definition is fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures. Science fiction elements include, A time setting in the future, in alternative timelines, a spatial setting or scenes in outer space, on other worlds, or on subterranean earth. Characters that include aliens, mutants, androids, or humanoid robots, futuristic or plausible technology such as ray guns, teleportation machines, and humanoid computers. Scientific principles that are new or that contradict accepted physical laws, for time travel, wormholes. New and different political or social systems, e. g. utopian, dystopian, post-scarcity, paranormal abilities such as mind control, telepathy, telekinesis Other universes or dimensions and travel between them. A product of the budding Age of Reason and the development of science itself. Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan considered Keplers work the first science fiction story and it depicts a journey to the Moon and how the Earths motion is seen from there. Later, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon, more examples appeared throughout the 19th century. Wells The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry and it is a seminal depiction of an alien invasion of Earth. In the late 19th century, the scientific romance was used in Britain to describe much of this fiction. This produced additional offshoots, such as the 1884 novella Flatland, the term would continue to be used into the early 20th century for writers such as Olaf Stapledon. In the early 20th century, pulp magazines helped develop a new generation of mainly American SF writers, influenced by Hugo Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine. In 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs published A Princess of Mars, the first of his series of Barsoom novels, situated on Mars
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A futuristic setting is a common but not a necessary hallmark of science fiction. A common thread in science fiction is exploring the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations on people's lives.
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H. G. Wells
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Jules Verne
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Arthur C. Clarke
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Suzanne Weyn
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Suzanne Weyn is an American author. She primarily writes childrens and young adult fiction and fantasy novels. And has written over fifty novels and short stories and she is best known for The Bar Code Tattoo, The Bar Code Rebellion and The Bar Code Prophecy. The Bar Code Tattoo has been translated into German, and in 2007 was nominated for the Jugendliteraturpreis for youth literature given by the German government and it was a 2007 Nevada Library nominee for Young Adult literature and American Library Association 2005 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. Weyn spent her childhood in New York City and graduated from Nassau Community College in 1975, following college, Weyn worked as an editor of teen magazines at Starlog Press before starting her writing career. She has been an editor at Scholastic, Inc. and has taught expository, childrens and she has a Masters of Science in teaching adolescents from Pace University. Weyn has written several series for teenage girls, and numerous film novelizations. 1994 Suzanne Weyn at Fantastic Fiction Suzanne Weyn at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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List of American films of 2004
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A list of American films released in 2004. Million Dollar Baby won the 2004 Academy Award for Best Picture, the Aviator won the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. Sideways won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, hotel Rwanda won the Satellite Award for Best Film – Drama. The Incredibles won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the Satellite Award for Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature Born into Brothels won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, super Size Me won the Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film. Dig. won the Grand Jury Prize, Documentary, primer won the Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic. Fahrenheit 9/11 won the Palme dOr Catwoman won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture, American films of 2004 at the Internet Movie Database List of 2004 box office number-one films in the United States
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