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Grosse Pointe, Michigan
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Grosse Pointe is a waterfront city adjacent to Detroit in Wayne County in the U. S. state of Michigan. The municipality covers just over one mile and had a population of 5,421 at the 2010 census. It is bordered on the west by Grosse Pointe Park, on the north by Detroit, on the east by Grosse Pointe Farms, Grosse Pointe is about eight miles east of downtown Detroit, accessible by Jefferson Avenue or several other cross streets. Grosse Pointe is one of five similarly named municipalities in northeastern Wayne County, together with The Park and The Farms, the City comprises part of the southern Pointes, which are older and more densely populated than the northern Pointes. Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe Farms, and Grosse Pointe Park make up the Grosse Pointe South High School district, Grosse Pointe was incorporated as a village in 1880, but at that time also included what is now Grosse Pointe Farms. The community was divided along its present lines in 1893 over issues of allowing the sale of alcohol and it was incorporated as a city in 1934. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 2.25 square miles. The water is part of Lake St. Clair, the street layout of Grosse Pointe is basically a grid inside of its Cadieux, Mack, and Fisher Road boundaries. Inside this small rectangle, most blocks contain rows of homes built between 1910 and 1950, on parcels 50 feet wide on average. Some streets offer large backyards, such as Washington and Lakeland, in some areas homes are configured in a traditionally urban, close-together fashion, while other nearby blocks may offer yards up to 150 feet wide. Home sizes and styles vary widely, from 1,500 to 12,000 square feet, most of the largest homes are within a few blocks of the lakefront, there are several blocks of mansions south of Kercheval Avenue. Predominant architecture includes the neo-Georgian, Tudor revival, Dutch Colonial, some Victorian homes and traditional bungalow homes can also be found, mostly just north and south of the Village retail district. Some blocks, generally just south of the Village, have townhouses, there are retail and low-rise office buildings along Kercheval Avenue in the Village district, on Fisher Road near Grosse Pointe South High School, and along Mack Avenue bordering Detroit. As of the census of 2010, there were 5,421 people,2,236 households, the population density was 5,114.2 inhabitants per square mile. There were 2,446 housing units at a density of 2,307.5 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 93. 2% White,3. 3% African American,0. 1% Native American,1. 6% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,0. 2% from other races, and 1. 5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 8% of the population,30. 2% of all households were made up of individuals and 14% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the family size was 3.06
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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University of Montana
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The University of Montana is a public research university in Missoula, Montana, in the United States. Founded in 1893, the university is the second largest of the Montana University System, second to Montana State University, the main campus is at the foot of Mount Sentinel, the hill bearing Missoulas most recognizable landmark, a large hillside letter M. The University of Montana ranks 17th in the nation and fifth among universities in producing Rhodes Scholars. The University of Montana has 11 Truman Scholars,14 Goldwater Scholars and 40 Udall Scholars to its name, the University of Montanas Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library houses the earliest authorized edition of the Lewis and Clark journals. Rolling Stone labelled the university the most scenic campus in America and Outside magazine called it among the top 10 colleges nationally for combining academic quality, an act of Congress of February 18,1881 dedicated 72 sections in Montana Territory for the creation of the University. Montana was admitted to the Union on November 8,1889, the cities bids were supported by the rival Copper Kings, William A. Clark and Marcus Daly, respectively. Missoula won the vote for the new university at the Third Montana Legislative Assembly in February 1893. The University was formally opened in 1895, while plans for a university campus were progressing, classes were temporarily held at nearby Willard School. The South Missoula Land Company, owned by A. B. Hammond, Richard Eddy and Marcus Daly, in June 1898 the cornerstone for A. J. Gibson designed University Hall was laid and Missoula became the University City, the University of Montana comprises eleven full colleges and schools, College of Humanities & Sciences, Phyllis J. The Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences is divided into five academic departments, in 1914, the University of Montana School of Law became a member of The Association of American Law Schools and in 1923, the School received accreditation from the American Bar Association. For the fall 2014 term, University of Montana offered admission to 4,956 freshmen out of 5,345 applicants, the first set of buildings were set up around the oval in 1895. Since that time, various plans and architectural styles have been used. Today the campus consists of 220 acres and is bordered to the east by Mount Sentinel, landmarks include, The Oval A3 acres swath of grass running east to west, marking the traditional center of the university. Today it is divided into quadrants by two intersecting paths, though originally the oval was solid grass and forbidden to be crossed by students. A double row of trees was planted around the oval on Arbor Day 1896, the original gravel driveway that once surrounded the Oval has also been replaced by sidewalk. The original master plan of the university called for all buildings to face the center of the oval, but this proved difficult. On the western extreme of the Oval is a grizzly bear statue created by ceramic artist
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Emil Skoda (Law & Order)
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Emil Skoda, M. D. is a fictional character on the TV crime dramas Law & Order and Law & Order, Special Victims Unit. He also appeared once each in Law & Order, Criminal Intent and he is portrayed by J. K. Simmons. Dr. Skoda is a psychiatrist who works with the New York Police Department, in addition to his own private practice, he often testifies for the prosecution as an expert witness on whether a defendant is legally sane to stand trial. He also profiles suspects and offers advice to the District Attorneys regarding witnesses, Skoda has appeared in three of the five American-based incarnations of Law & Order, the original series, Law & Order, Criminal Intent, and Law & Order, Special Victims Unit. He has also made a appearance on New York Undercover, another series produced by Dick Wolf. Unlike his predecessor, Dr. Elizabeth Olivet, almost nothing has been revealed about Skodas personal life, one exception occurs in the episode Burned, in which he compares a teenage suspect to his own son and admits that he enjoys rollerblading and Nintendo. Skoda is also far more skeptical than Olivet of defendants pleading insanity, in more than one episode, both Skoda and Olivet are hired to evaluate a suspect, and argue over the appropriate diagnosis. Skoda also has differences in philosophy with Captain Donald Cragen, with whom he argued passionately on cases, as has often taken place in the Law & Order franchise, Simmons first appeared as a different character—Jerry Luppin in the Season 4 episode Sanctuary. J. K. Simmons at the Internet Movie Database Dr. Emil Skoda at the Internet Movie Database
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Law & Order
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Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It originally aired on NBC and, in syndication, on cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13,1990, and completed its 20th, at the time of its cancellation, Law & Order was the longest-running crime drama on American primetime television. Its record of 20 seasons is a tie with Gunsmoke for the longest-running live-action scripted American prime-time series with ongoing characters, although it has fewer episodes than Gunsmoke, Law & Order ranks as the longest-running hour-long primetime TV series. Gunsmoke, for its first six seasons, was originally a half-hour program, plots are often based on real cases that recently made headlines, although the motivation for the crime and the perpetrator may be different. The show has been noted for its revolving cast over the years, the success of the series has led to the creation of additional shows, making Law & Order a franchise, with also a television film, several video games, and international adaptations of the series. It has won and has been nominated for awards over the years. On May 14,2010, NBC announced that it had canceled Law & Order, in July 2010, however, he indicated that those attempts had failed and declared that the series had now moved to the history books. However, in February 2015, rumors started that NBC was planning to bring the back for 10 episodes. In May 2015, former star Sam Waterston announced to The Hollywood Reporter that he supports and would join a revival of Law & Order, saying, Youre darn right. Creator Dick Wolf has expressed wanting to use a L&O revival to do a ripped from the headlines story-line surrounding the trial of Robert Durst. Everybody who knows me knows its something I want to do, he continued, at the 2015 Television Critics Association summer press tour, Wolf noted everyone wants a revival, It is a question of. Most of the involved are very successful in their careers. To try to get everything in sequence is more difficult than it looks on the outside. I would love to do it if we can make it work, in 1988, Dick Wolf developed a concept for a new television series that would depict a relatively optimistic picture of the American criminal justice system. He initially toyed with the idea of calling it Night & Day, the first half of each episode would follow two detectives and their commanding officer as they investigate a violent crime. The second half of the episode would follow the District Attorneys Office, through this, Law & Order would be able to investigate some of the larger issues of the day by focusing on stories that were based on real cases making headlines. Wolf took the idea to then-president of Universal Television Kerry McCluggage, who pointed out the similarity to a 1963 series titled Arrest and Trial, which lasted one season
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Neo-Nazism
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Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II social or political movements seeking to revive the far-right tenets of Nazism. The term neo-Nazism can also refer to the ideology of these movements, Neo-Nazism borrows elements from Nazi doctrine, including ultranationalism, racism, ableism, xenophobia, homophobia, antiziganism, antisemitism, and initiating the Fourth Reich. Holocaust denial is a feature, as is incorporation of Nazi symbols. Neo-Nazi activity is a phenomenon, with organized representation in many countries. In some European and Latin American countries, laws have been enacted that prohibit the expression of pro-Nazi, racist, Many Nazi-related symbols are banned in European countries in an effort to curtail neo-Nazism. The major postwar far-right party was the Austrian National Democratic Party, until it was banned in 1988 for violating Austrias anti-Nazi legislation, the Freedom Party of Austria served as a shelter for ex-Nazis almost from its inception. In 1980, scandals undermined Austrias two main parties, and the economy stagnated, jörg Haider became leader of the FPÖ and offered partial justification for Nazism, calling its employment policy effective. Professor Ali Mazrui, however, identified the FPÖ as neo-Nazi in a BBC world lecture, Haider, who in 2005 left the Freedom Party and formed the Alliance for Austrias Future, was killed in a traffic accident in October,2008. Barbara Rosenkranz, the Freedom Partys candidate for the Austrian presidential election,2010, is controversial for having made allegedly pro-Nazi statements, Rosenkranz is married to Horst Rosenkranz, a key member of a banned neo-Nazi party, who is known for publishing far-right books. Rosenkranz says she cannot detect anything dishonourable in her husbands activities, the volume Rechtsextremismus in Österreich seit 1945, issued by DÖW in 1979, listed nearly 50 active far right organizations in Austria. Their influence waned gradually, partly due to programs in secondary schools and universities which emphasized Austrian identity. Votes for the RFS, the Freedom Partys academic student organization, in the 1995 elections for the student representative body Österreichische Hochschülerschaft, the RFS got 4% of the vote. The FPÖ won 22% of the votes at the General Election in the same year, in 1993 Küssel was repeatedly convicted on charges of NS-Wiederbetätigung under the Austrian anti-Nazi law and sentenced to ten years in prison. The VAPO de facto disbanded in the course of the imprisonment of its leading figures, due to procedural errors Küssels sentence was revoked by the OGH and his trial was reheld in 1994 at the end of which he was sentenced to eleven years in prison. A Belgian neo-Nazi organization, Bloed, Bodem, Eer en Trouw, was created in 2004 after splitting from the international network. The group rose to prominence in September 2006, after 17 members were arrested under the December 2003 anti-terrorist laws and laws against racism, antisemitism. According to Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx and Interior Minister Patrick Dewael, a police operation, which mobilized 150 agents, searched five military barracks as well as 18 private addresses in Flanders. They found weapons, munitions, explosives and a homemade bomb large enough to make a car explode, the leading suspect, B. T. was organizing the trafficking of weapons and was developing international links, in particular with the Dutch far-right movement De Nationale Alliantie
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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
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Oz (TV series)
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Oz is an American television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series 56 episodes. It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by the cable network HBO. Oz premiered on July 12,1997 and ran for six seasons, Oz is the nickname for the Oswald State Correctional Facility, formerly Oswald State Penitentiary, a fictional level 4 maximum-security state prison, apparently in New York. The prison is most likely named after New York Commissioner of Correctional Services Russell George Oswald, the character Tim McManus refers to Attica as his hometown and the riot as his original impetus for his wanting to set up Emerald City. The nickname Oz is also a reference to the classic film The Wizard of Oz, in contrast, a poster for the series uses the tagline, Its no place like home. Moreover, most of the story arcs are set in Emerald City. In 2008, the show was placed at #73 on Entertainment Weeklys New TV Classics list, the majority of Ozs story arcs are set in Emerald City, named for a setting from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. In this experimental unit of the prison, unit manager Tim McManus emphasizes rehabilitation and learning responsibility during incarceration, Emerald City is an extremely controlled environment, with a carefully managed balance of members from each racial and social group, intended to ease tensions among these various factions. Under McManus and Warden Leo Glynn, all inmates in Em City struggle to fulfill their own needs, some fight for power – either over the drug trade or over other inmate factions and individuals. Others, corrections officers and inmates alike, simply want to survive, some long enough to make parole, the show offers a no holds barred account of prison life. The shows wheelchair-bound narrator, inmate Augustus Hill, explains the show, and provides context, thematic analysis, Oz chronicles McManus attempts to keep control over the inmates of Em City. There are many groups of inmates throughout the show, and not everyone within each group survives the shows events, in contrast to the dangerous criminals, character Tobias Beecher gives a look at a usually law-abiding man who made one fatal drunk-driving mistake. In Australia, Oz was screened uncensored on the free-to-air channel and this was also the case in Brazil, where it was aired by the SBT Network Corporation, late at night, in Ireland, where the series aired on free-to-air channel TG4 at 11 p. m. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was aired on the federal TV station called FTV, in Canada, Oz aired on the Showcase Channel at Friday 10 p. m. EST. In Croatia, Estonia, and Slovenia, the show was aired late at night on public, non-commercial, state-owned channels HRT, ETV, in Denmark, it appeared late at night on the non-commercial public service channel DR1. In Finland, it broadcast on the free-to-air channel Nelonen, in France, the show aired on commercial cable channel Serie Club, also late at night. In Malaysia, full episodes of Oz aired late at night on ntv7, in the Netherlands, Oz aired on the commercial channel RTL5. In New Zealand Oz aired on The Box at 9. 30pm on Wednesdays in the early 2000s, in Norway and Sweden, it aired on the commercial channels ZTV and TV3 late at night
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TNT (U.S. TV network)
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TNT is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. As of July 2015, TNT is available to approximately 94.259 million cable, satellite and telco households in the United States. The channel launched at 8 p. m. Eastern Time on October 3,1988 with a performance of The Star Spangled Banner. Its inaugural telecast was the 1939 classic film Gone with the Wind and it was said that the movie was chosen as the channels first program because it was Turners favorite movie. It would also serve as the first program aired on sister channel Turner Classic Movies, incidentally, Gone With the Wind had its premiere held in Atlanta, Georgia, Turners hometown and the headquarters of the channels corporate parent, Turner Broadcasting System. The city served as the setting for the film, TNT was initially a vehicle for older movies and television shows, but slowly began to add original programming and newer reruns. At one point, Monday Nitro was regularly the highest-rated weekly program on cable television, the program beat Monday Night Raw, the flagship show of the World Wrestling Federation, in the ratings for 83 consecutive weeks from 1996 to 1998. The channel was known for its late night programming. One such program was MonsterVision, a Saturday night B movie showcase that aired from 1993 to 2000 It featured a Godzilla movie marathon at the end of every month. This running joke culminated in a Friday the 13th all-night Halloween marathon in 1998, the Rudy and Gogo World Famous Cartoon Show, which ran from 1995 to 1997, was an original childrens program on the channel featuring classic Warner Bros. MGM, and Popeye shorts, hosted by a pair of a marionette. In 1998, TNT dropped all of its cartoons, relegating those shows to Cartoon Network. Most of the series and shorts that were dropped would also serve as the core of Boomerang. During the 1990s, TNT scheduled an afternoon block that included Due South, Kung Fu, The Legend Continues, Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman. In 1998, TNT took over production of the fifth and final season of Babylon 5 from the Prime Time Entertainment Network after the syndication block ceased operations. The following year, TNT produced the Babylon 5 spinoff series Crusade, in 2001, TNT debuted what became its most successful original series at the time, Witchblade, which ran for two seasons, ending in 2002. On June 12,2001, TNT underwent a rebrand, with the introduction of a new logo designed by Trollbäck + Company as well as a new slogan. The slogan emphasized the new focus on dramatic programming, including sports and off-network syndicated dramas such as Law & Order, NYPD Blue, ER
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The Closer
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The Closer is an American television police procedural, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief. Deputy Chief Johnson sometimes uses deceit and intimidation to persuade a suspect to confess, the series ran on TNT from June 13,2005, to August 13,2012. The Closer was created by James Duff and the Shephard/Robin Company in association with Warner Bros, on Monday, July 11,2011, the series began its seventh and final season, having finished its sixth season as cables highest rated drama. The Closers final six episodes airing on Monday, July 9,2012, with its finale airing on Monday. Following the finale, The Closers spin-off Major Crimes premiered, each episode of The Closer deals with an aspect of the Los Angeles culture as it interfaces with law enforcement in the megacity. The show deals with complex and subtle issues of policy, ethics, personal integrity. Season five introduced Mary McDonnell as Captain Sharon Raydor of Internal Affairs, Raydor and Johnson start out as rivals, but gradually they develop grudging respect for each other and form an uneasy alliance. Raydor went on to star in The Closers spin-off, Major Crimes, Taylor and Raydor take an active role in attempting to combat the leaker and the legal matters do not reach a final resolution until the series end, in the episode The Last Word. On December 10,2010, TNT announced that the season of The Closer. The channel said that the decision to retire the show was made by Kyra Sedgwick, on January 30,2011, the media announced that the final season would add six episodes to the usual fifteen episode order, building toward the spin-off series, Major Crimes. The cast consists largely of an ensemble of detectives who make up the LAPDs fictional Major Crimes Division and it is led by Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, played by Kyra Sedgwick. In interviews, Sedgwick has acknowledged that the show owes a debt to Prime Suspect and her admiration for that show, other main characters include Johnsons superior officer, Assistant Chief Will Pope, Robbery-Homicide Division Commander Russell Taylor and her FBI agent boyfriend-then-husband Fritz Howard. The remainder of the cast makes up Brendas squad, each with expertise in a specific area, the first and only departure from the regular cast occurred in Season 5, when actress Gina Ravera left and her character, Detective Irene Daniels, was transferred to another division. Mary McDonnell, a recurring cast member in Seasons 5 and 6, joined the cast full-time for Season 7, continuing her role as Captain Sharon Raydor. Both gender researchers and members of the media have claimed that the series has expanded the vocabulary of what is acceptable for women as seen through the lens of popular culture. We’ve certainly seen women in powerful positions before, says author and gender researcher Maddy Dychtwald, pointing out Angie Dickinson in 1974s Police Woman, and Cagney & Lacey from 1981. But those women were largely token in a sea of dominant males, just glance at the equal number of recent Emmy nominations for basic and premium cable shows is confirmation, he adds. It’s helped people get used to the idea that summer is a time to original series on televisions
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Starz
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Starz is an American premium cable and satellite television network which serves as Starz Inc. s flagship service. Starzs programming features theatrically released motion pictures and first-run original television series, the headquarters of Starz, and its sister networks Starz Encore and MoviePlex, are located at the Meridian International Business Center complex in Englewood, Colorado. Through March 31,2016, STARZs programming was subscribed to approximately 24.0 million television households in the United States, the network was originally operated as a joint venture between TCI and Liberty Media, with TCI owning a 50. 1% controlling interest in the channel. The network carried the moniker Encore 8 in its branding as part of a numbering system that was used by Encores multiplex channels. Early trademark filings indicated that TCI/Liberty originally proposed names including Applause, Starz focused more on recent feature films, while Starz ENCORE focused on films released between the 1960s and the 1980s, before adding recent film fare itself in July 1999. Films from those studios were not carried on STARZ until 1997, the network restricted the scheduling of films that contained graphic sexual or violent content to late evening and overnight time periods. Starz was available to an estimated 2.8 million pay television subscribers by 1996, as a startup network, Starz endured major losses during its early years, with total deficits topping US$203 million and annual losses of US$150 million by 1997. It was predicted to lose an additional US$300 million in revenue before it was predicted to break even, Liberty Media assumed the former companys stake in the subsidiary in 1999, following TCIs merger with AT&T Corporation. By May 1998, Starz maintained a subscriber base reaching 7.6 million households with a cable or satellite television subscription, Encore Media Group was later renamed the Starz Encore Media Group in 2000. As part of a restructuring plan in 2003, Starz Encore Group eliminated 100 jobs in its nine regional offices. On March 25,2005, the Starz Encore Group corporate entity was renamed Starz Entertainment, on November 19,2009, Liberty Media spun off Starz into a separate public tracking stock called Liberty Starz. The spin-off of the subsidiary was completed on January 11,2013, on April 5,2016, Starz was rebranded and added all the Encore channels to its moniker, therefore increasing the Starz channel lineup to 14 Starz premium channels. Its main channel was rebranded Starz Encore and carries reruns of Starz Originals in addition to films, on June 30,2016, Lionsgate agreed to acquire Starz Inc. for $4.4 billion in cash and stock. On December 8,2016, the merger between Lionsgate and Starz was completed, Starz broadcasts its primary and multiplex channels on Eastern and Pacific Time Zone schedules. Some providers offer Encore and MoviePlexs multiplex channels on a digital cable tier from Starz. However, Encore and, depending on its carriage, MoviePlex are frequently sold together in a package with Starz, in 1994, Encore launched the pay television industrys first themed multiplex service – seven additional movie channels that each focused on a specific genre. Starz continued to include the Encore 8 moniker in its main IDs, feature presentation bumpers and select bumpers until 2002. The tie to Encore branding-wise continued even as Starz was given its own slate of multiplex channels in the late 1990s, the first of these to debut was Starz
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J. Jonah Jameson
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John Jonah Jameson, Jr. better known as J. Jonah Jameson, is a supporting character of Spider-Man in the Marvel Comics Universe. Jameson is usually the publisher or editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle and he employs photojournalist Peter Parker, who, unbeknownst to Jameson, is Spider-Man himself. Portrayals of Jameson have varied throughout the years, sometimes he is shown as a foolishly stubborn and pompous skinflint who micromanages his employees and resents Spider-Man out of jealousy. In either case, he has remained an important part of the Spider-Man mythos, as a result of his fathers wedding to May Parker, Jameson and Peter Parker are related by marriage. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, Jameson first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #1, Stan Lee stated in an interview on Talk of the Nation that he modeled J. Jonah Jameson as a much grumpier version of himself. According to Behind the Mustache, a featured in Spider-Mans Tangled Web #20, Jameson was raised as a child by David. David was an officer of the United States Army, a war veteran decorated as a hero, at home, however, David regularly abused his wife and son. As a result, J. Jonah Jameson grew convinced that No ones a hero every day of the week and it is unknown if Jameson Jr. remembered him. He was a Boy Scout during his childhood, in high school, his interests were mainly boxing and photography. He met his first wife, Joan, when both joined their high schools photo club. When the schools three top athletes started bullying him, he fought back and beat all three of them to a pulp and this impressed Joan, and they started dating. They married as soon as they finished school, after school, Jameson sought employment as a journalist. According to Marvels #1, he found employment in the Daily Bugle, in 1939, he witnessed the first appearances of Jim Hammond, the android Human Torch, and Namor, Prince of Atlantis, who are jointly considered Marvels first superheroes. Jameson was immediately skeptical of both of them, he doubted that someone with powers who operated outside the law could be trusted. When the U. S. A. joined World War II in 1941, Sergeant Fury and His Howling Commandos #110 featured him as covering a mission of Sergeant Nicholas Fury, who was heading a team of commandos during the war. After the war, he and Joan had a son, John Jonah III, when Jameson returned from a journalistic mission in Korea, he was grieved to find that his wife had died in a mugging incident during his absence. Focusing on his life to dull the pain, he was eventually promoted to chief editor of the Daily Bugle. Jameson gained a deserved reputation for journalistic integrity, but his greedy opportunism
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Sam Raimi
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His most recent work is the 2013 Disney fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful. Raimi has also produced several television series and founded his own production company, Renaissance Pictures. Recently, he worked as the producer of The Possession, Raimi was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. He is the fourth of five born to Celia Barbara and Leonard Ronald Raimi. He was raised in Conservative Judaism, his ancestors emigrated from Russia, Raimi graduated from Groves High School and later went on to attend Michigan State University, where he majored in English but left after three semesters to film The Evil Dead. Raimi became fascinated with making films when his father brought a movie camera home one day and he began to make Super 8 movies with childhood friend Bruce Campbell. In college, he teamed up with his brothers roommate Robert Tapert and Campbell to shoot Within the Woods and he began work on his third film Crimewave, intended as a live-action comic book—the film was not successful, due in part to unwanted studio intervention. Raimi then returned to the genre with the seminal Evil Dead II. With his brother Ivan Raimi, Sam Raimi also wrote Easy Wheels, a long-time comic book buff, he then attempted to adapt The Shadow into a movie, but was unable to secure the rights, so he created his own super-hero, Darkman. Army of Darkness, the movie in the Evil Dead trilogy, was a box office flop. Raimi achieved great critical and commercial success with the blockbuster Spider-Man, the movie has grossed over US$800 million worldwide, spawning two sequels, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3, both directed by Raimi and both grossing roughly $800 million each. After the completion of the third Spider-Man film, he planned on producing two more sequels but could not find a satisfactory script, Raimi frequently collaborates with Joel and Ethan Coen, beginning when Joel was one of the editors of Evil Dead. The Coens co-wrote Crimewave and The Hudsucker Proxy with Raimi in the mid-1980s, Raimi made cameo appearances in Millers Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy, and with Joel Coen in Spies Like Us. The Coen brothers gave Raimi advice on shooting in snow for A Simple Plan, the film was written by his childhood friend writer-director Mike Binder and shot at the camp that they both attended when they were younger. Raimi also produced the entire The Grudge franchise, according to Entertainment Weekly, Raimi had expressed an interest in directing a film version of The Hobbit, the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In 2008, Guillermo del Toro was selected as the director, Raimi may direct By Any Means Necessary, the next film based on the Jack Ryan CIA character created by Tom Clancy for Paramount Pictures. Disney also approached him to direct W. I. T. C. H, the Movie, based on the popular comic. Blizzard Entertainment announced on July 22,2009 that Sam Raimi will be directing a Warcraft film, however at Comic-Con International 2012, it was revealed that he would not be the one directing the World of Warcraft adaptation
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Spider-Man in film
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The first live-action film based on Spider-Man was the short Spider-Man by Donald F. Glut in 1969. This was followed by Spider-Man, an American made-for-television film that premiered on the CBS network in 1977 and it starred Nicholas Hammond and was intended as a backdoor pilot for what became a weekly episodic TV series. The first two films were met with reviews from critics, while the third film met mixed reviews. In 2010, Sony announced that the franchise would be rebooted, Marc Webb was hired to direct, with Andrew Garfield starring, and The Amazing Spider-Man was released to positive reviews. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 saw mixed reviews and this younger version of Peter Parker is played by Tom Holland, and appears in Captain America, Civil War before starring in Spider-Man, Homecoming in 2017 and Avengers, Infinity War in 2018. A sequel to Homecoming is slated for 2019, Raimis trilogy grossed nearly US$2.5 billion worldwide on a $597 million total budget, while Webbs films grossed over $1.4 billion on a $480 million total budget. The Spider-Man films are the eighth highest-grossing film franchise, having grossed over $3.9 billion collectively, in 1977, the pilot episode of The Amazing Spider-Man television series was released by Columbia Pictures as Spider-Man outside of the United States. In 1978, episodes from the series were re-edited and released outside of the United States as a feature film titled Spider-Man Strikes Back. In 1981, a film using the same method was released as Spider-Man. On July 22,1978, Tōei released a theatrical spin-off of their Spider-Man TV series at the Tōei Cartoon Festival, the film was directed by Kōichi Takemoto, who also directed eight episodes of the TV series. The week after the release, a character introduced in the film, Jūzō Mamiya. Like the rest of the series, the film was available for streaming on Marvels official website in 2009. The low box office performance of 1983s Superman III made feature-film adaptations of comic book properties a very low priority in Hollywood until the 1990s, in 1985, after a brief option on Spider-Man by Roger Corman expired, Marvel Comics optioned the property to Cannon Films. Cannon chiefs Menahem Golan and his cousin Yoram Globus agreed to pay Marvel Comics $225,000 over the five-year option period, however, the rights would revert to Marvel if a film was not made by April 1990. Tobe Hooper, then preparing both Invaders From Mars and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, was mooted as director, Golan and Globus misunderstood the concept of the character and instructed writer Leslie Stevens, creator of The Outer Limits, to write a treatment reflecting their misconception. In Stevens story, a corporate scientist intentionally subjects ID-badge photographer Peter Parker to radioactive bombardment, transforming him into a hairy, suicidal and this human tarantula refuses to join the scientist’s new master-race of mutants, battling a succession of mutations kept in a basement laboratory. Unhappy with this perceived debasement of his comic creation, Marvel’s Stan Lee pushed for a new story and screenplay, written for Cannon by Ted Newsom. The variation on the story had Otto Octavius as a teacher
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Whiplash (2014 film)
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Whiplash is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, depicting the relationship between an ambitious jazz student and an aggressive instructor. Paul Reiser co-stars as the students father, the film opened in limited release domestically in the US and Canada on October 10,2014, gradually expanding to over 500 screens and finally closing after 24 weeks on March 26,2015. Over this time the film grossed $49 million, against a budget of $3.3 million. Whiplash premiered in competition in the US Dramatic Category at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 16,2014, sony Pictures Worldwide acquired the international distribution rights. At the 87th Academy Awards, Whiplash won Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Supporting Actor for Simmons, Andrew Neiman is a first-year jazz student at the prestigious Shaffer Conservatory in New York. He has been playing drums from an age and aspires to become like Buddy Rich. Famed conductor Terence Fletcher discovers Andrew practicing in the room late one night. At a jazz competition, Andrew misplaces Carls sheet music, since Carl cannot play without it, Andrew steps in, telling Fletcher that he can perform Whiplash from memory. After a successful performance, Fletcher promotes him to core drummer, soon after, Fletcher recruits Ryan Connolly, the core drummer from Andrews former lower-level class. Andrew believes Connolly is the talented and experienced drummer, and is infuriated when Fletcher promotes him to core. Determined to impress Fletcher, Andrew practices until his hands bleed and breaks up with his new girlfriend Nicole, believing she will hold him back. He endures a grueling 2 A. M. tryout session with Fletcher, on the way to another competition, Andrews bus breaks down. He rents a car but arrives late, and realizes he left his drumsticks at the rental office, after a dressing-down from Fletcher, Andrew races back to the rental office to retrieve the drumsticks, but his car is broadsided by a semi-trailer. He crawls from the wreckage, runs back to the theater and arrives on stage bloody, when he struggles to play Caravan due to his injuries, Fletcher halts the performance to tell Andrew he is done. Enraged, Andrew attacks Fletcher in front of the audience and is dismissed from Shaffer Conservatory, at his fathers request, Andrew meets with a lawyer representing the parents of Sean Casey, a former student of Fletchers. Seans parents want to prevent Fletcher from teaching again, Andrew agrees to testify on the condition of anonymity, and Fletcher is fired from Shaffer Conservatory. Months later, Andrew has abandoned drumming and is working in a restaurant while applying to different colleges, one evening he discovers Fletcher performing at a jazz club. After the performance, Fletcher invites Andrew to drink him, seeming more hospitable
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Cave Johnson (Portal)
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Cave Johnson is a fictional character from the Portal franchise first introduced in the 2011 video game Portal 2. He is voiced by American actor J. K. Simmons and he is referenced by a computer username in the first game and appears indirectly in Portal 2. Cave Johnson was created by designer Erik Wolpaw and is voiced by actor J. K and his physical appearance is based on that of Portal 2 lead animator Bill Fletcher. He is described as an eccentric billionaire and extroverted, enthusiastic. He was the founder and CEO of Aperture Science and he was also a shower curtain visionary. He was initially considered to be the character of Portal 2. They later envisioned Cave Johnson as the primary antagonist, but this was also scrapped and this idea was revealed as a result of leaked quotes from the character. Johnson was envisioned since Portal as an industrial, Southern guy who would contrast with the anti-septic, though their idea of the character underwent several changes over the development, the selection of J. K. Simmons helped to solidify the character. Cave Johnsons only full appearance to date is in the 2011 video game Portal 2, Simmons, spoke original lines for various trailers for Portal 2, including at the PAX East exposition in 2011. In these pre-recorded messages, he is accompanied by or makes reference to his personal assistant. As Chell progresses through this area, the appear to indicate a decline in Aperture as well as Cave himself. He indicates that if the process isnt able to be done on him before he dies to put Caroline in charge and this leads the player to find out Caroline is in fact the personality on which the GLaDOS computer system controlling Aperture Sciences testing course is based. J. K. Simmons returned to the role for Lego Dimensions, 1UP. coms Steve Watts compared Cave Johnson to the industrialist Howard Hughes. A writer for Edge wrote that the star turn was J. K. Simmons as Cave Johnson. PALGNs Adam Ghiggino wrote that the dialogue of Portal 2 was funny, gamesRadars Tyler Wilde called Cave bombastic and praised Simmons for perfectly portraying him. GameSpys Will Tuttle wrote that it is not to feel oddly honored to take part in some of the experiments that ranged across his entire career. He also wrote of Simmons that his voice adeptly blend gravitas and silliness, gamePros Will Herring wrote that Valve should be commended for the introduction of the character. Official Xbox Magazines Jon Hicks described Cave as a cigar-chewing, damn-the-expense-and-particularly-the-health-restrictions type, computer and Video Games Andy Robinson described Caves personality as loud and that Simmons is on form here
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Portal 2
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Portal 2 is a 2011 first-person puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It is the sequel to Portal and was released on April 19,2011, for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The retail versions of the game are distributed by Electronic Arts while online distribution of the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Portal 2 was announced on March 5,2010, following a week-long alternate reality game based on new patches to the original game. These gels were created by the team from the Independent Games Festival-winning DigiPen student project Tag, the storyline introduces new characters, including Wheatley and Cave Johnson. Ellen McLain reprised the role of GLaDOS, jonathan Coulton and The National each produced a song for the game. Portal 2 also includes a cooperative mode, in which the robotic player-characters Atlas. Valve provided post-release support for the game, including downloadable content. The voice work of McLain, Merchant, and Simmons were also praised, as were the new elements, the challenging but surmountable learning curve. Some journalists ranked Portal 2 among the best games of 2011, Portal 2 has since been hailed as one of the greatest video games of all time. Portal 2 is a first-person perspective puzzle game, the Player takes the role of Chell in the single-player campaign, as one of two robots—Atlas and P-Body—in the cooperative campaign, or as a simplistic humanoid icon in community-developed puzzles. These four characters can explore and interact with the environment, characters can withstand limited damage but will die after sustained injury. There is no penalty for falling onto a surface. When Chell dies in the game, the game restarts from a recent checkpoint, in the cooperative game. The goal of both campaigns is to explore the Aperture Science Laboratory—a complicated, malleable mechanized maze, while most of the game takes place in modular test chambers with clearly defined entrances and exits, other parts occur in behind-the-scenes areas where the objective is less clear. The initial tutorial levels guide the player through the general movement controls, characters can use these portals to move between rooms or to fling objects or themselves across a distance. Outlines of placed portals are visible through walls and other obstacles for easy location, Game elements include Thermal Discouragement Beams, Excursion Funnels, and Hard Light Bridges, all of which can be transmitted through portals. Aerial Faith Plates launch the player or objects through the air, the player must disable turrets or avoid their line of sight. The heart-decorated Weighted Companion Cube reappears briefly, early demonstrations included Pneumatic Diversity Vents, shown to transport objects and transfer suction power through portals, but these do not appear in the final game
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The Legend of Korra
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The Legend of Korra is an American animated television series that aired on the Nickelodeon television network from 2012 to 2014. It was created by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino as a sequel to Avatar, The Last Airbender, which aired from 2005 to 2008. Animated in a style influenced by anime, the series is set in a fictional universe in which some people can manipulate, or bend. Only one person, the Avatar, can bend all four elements, the series follows Avatar Korra, the reincarnation of Aang from the previous series, as she faces political and spiritual unrest in a modernizing world. Most animation was done by Studio Mir of South Korea, the Legend of Korra ran for fifty-two episodes, separated into four seasons. It is to be continued as a comics series, like its parent show, The Legend of Korra received critical acclaim, drawing favorable comparisons with the HBO series Game of Thrones and the work of Hayao Miyazaki. The Legend of Korra was initially conceived as a twelve-episode miniseries, the series was expanded further in July 2012 to 52 episodes. These episodes are grouped into four separate seasons composed of twelve to fourteen episodes each, beginning with episode 9 of season 3, new episodes were first distributed through the Internet rather than broadcast. The Legend of Korra concluded with the fourth season, the Legend of Korra is set in the fictional world of Avatar, The Last Airbender,70 years after the events of that series. The world is separated into four nations, the northern and southern Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, the distinguishing element of the series is bending, the ability of some people to telekinetically manipulate the classical element associated with their nation. Bending is carried out by spiritual and physical exercises, portrayed as similar to Chinese martial arts, only one person, the Avatar, can bend all four elements. Cyclically reincarnating among the four nations, the Avatar maintains peace and balance in the world. The Legend of Korra focuses on Avatar Korra, a girl from the Southern Water Tribe. The second season is set in the southern polar region, while the third and fourth seasons take place mostly in the Earth Kingdom and, to a lesser degree. The first season, Book One, Air, sees Korra move to Republic City to learn airbending from Tenzin and she enters the pro-bending league, and befriends the brothers Bolin and Mako, as well as Asami Sato, heiress to Future Industries, a leading engineering corporation. The ambitious politician Tarrlok enlists Korra to fight the uprising of the Equalists, led by the masked Amon. Korra and her friends, aided by police chief Lin Beifong and United Forces General Iroh, unmask Amon as a bloodbender and Tarrloks brother, a spiritual meeting with her predecessor Aang allows Korra to realize her powers and to restore the bending abilities of Amons victims. The second season, Book Two, Spirits, begins six months later, Korra turns to her spirit-attuned uncle Unalaq, chief of the Northern Water Tribe, for tutelage, and opens the polar portals to the Spirit World at his direction
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Gravity Falls
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Gravity Falls is an American animated television series produced by Disney Television Animation that first aired on Disney Channel from June 15,2012 to February 15,2016. The kids help Stan run The Mystery Shack, the tourist trap that he owns, Hirsch first coined the concept for the show in an 11-minute low-budget student film which he made at the California Institute of the Arts. Hirsch was called in to do a pitch for Disney Channel for a show based on the short pilot, Disney Channel bought the idea and started airing the series in the summer of 2012. The series was inspired by Hirschs own childhood experiences with his sister during their summer vacations. On November 20,2015, Hirsch announced that the series would finish with its second season, the show culminated with a one-hour finale titled Weirdmageddon 3, Take Back the Falls, that aired on February 15,2016. A 68-hour marathon aired on Disney XD from February 12,2016, up until the finale on February 15,2016, due to only having 39 episodes before its airing, the show was looped four times to fill the 68-hour slot. Hirsch has stated he remains open to continuing the series with additional episodes or specials, things are not what they seem in this small town, and with the help of a mysterious journal that Dipper finds in the forest, they begin unraveling the local mysteries. Dipper Pines – The 12-year-old twin brother of Mabel Pines, Mabel Pines – The 12-year-old twin sister of Dipper Pines. Grunkle Stan – The great-uncle of Dipper and Mabel Pines, Soos Ramirez – The 22-year-old handyman at the Mystery Shack. Wendy Corduroy – A 15-year-old girl who is an employee at The Mystery Shack. Stanford Pines, also known as The Author – Grunkle Stans six-fingered long-lost twin brother, promoted to main cast after the tenth episode of season 2, having briefly appeared in a silent capacity in previous episodes. Candy Chiu and Grenda – Mabels best friends, fiddleford Hadron Old Man McGucket – The local kook of Gravity Falls, and former friend of Stanford. Bill Cipher – A powerful dream demon from another plane of existence that can influence or control citizens of Gravity Falls through a trans-dimensional mindscape, lil Gideon Gleeful – A young con artist and rival of Grunkle Stan. Toby Determined – Homely proprietor of and sole editor for the Gravity Falls Gossiper, the Northwests – The most popular and wealthy family in Gravity Falls, they are a father, a mother, and a daughter. Robert Robbie Stacy Valentino – A local teenage Emo boy who is Dippers primary rival for Wendys affections, tambry, Thompson, Nate, and Lee – Wendys four friends. Manly Dan – A lumberjack, Wendys father, lazy Susan – The owner of Greasys Diner who always has one eye closed, and is Stans crush. Tyler Cutebiker – Local Enthusiasm Enthusiast, the current mayor of the town, shandra Jimenez – The reporter of Gravity Falls. Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland – The two police officers of Gravity Falls, bud Gleeful – Stans rival, Gideons father, and a car dealer
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Kung Fu Panda 3
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Kung Fu Panda 3 is a 2016 Chinese-American 3D computer-animated action-comedy martial arts film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the installment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise. To prevent Kai from taking all of China, Po forms the army of pandas to battle Kais jade minions and Po must become a master of chi to defeat him. The film was directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni, written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, produced by Melissa Cobb, and executive produced by Guillermo del Toro. They are joined by Bryan Cranston, J. K. Simmons and Kate Hudson in the roles of Li Shan, Kai, and Mei Mei, respectively. Kung Fu Panda 3 received a release in China on January 23 for a special three-hour sneak preview and was released starting from January 28 in South Korea. It was released in theatres across the United States and Canada on January 29 in 3D, the film received generally positive reviews from critics and was a financial success, grossing $521 million worldwide. In the Spirit Realm, Grandmaster Oogway fights against an adversary named Kai, Oogway willingly gives in and also has his chi stolen, but not before warning Kai that the Dragon Warrior, Po, will stop him. Kai takes this as a challenge to steal the chi from the Dragon Warrior, meanwhile, Master Shifu announces his retirement from teaching to begin his training to master chi and passes the role of teacher to Po. Excited at first, Po discovers that teaching kung fu is not as easy as he expected, as the Furious Five members Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper, and Monkey are injured as a result. Po is demoralized as a teacher, which makes him question who he really is, in response, Shifu advises Po that instead of trying to be a teacher, he should try to be himself. Po heads home to his father, Mr. Ping, at his noodle shop. They both soon learn that Li is Pos biological father and they bond with other, much to Pings jealousy. After introducing Li to Shifu and his friends, the valley is attacked by jade zombies controlled by Kai and resembling past Kung Fu masters, the team then learns through research that Kai was Oogways old friend who fought with him as brothers-in-arms long ago. When Oogway was injured, Kai carried him until they reached a village of pandas. The pandas taught Oogway how to give chi, but when the power-hungry Kai decided to drain it from them to increase his power, Oogway defeated him and banished him to the spirit realm. To defeat Kai, Po must learn to master chi himself, Po, Li and Mr. Ping travel to the village while Shifu and the Furious Five stay behind where Shifu sends Crane and Mantis to track the jade zombies and find Kai. Although Po is eager to learn chi, he first learns the life of a panda in the village
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Zootopia
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Zootopia is a 2016 American 3D computer-animated buddy comedy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 55th Disney animated feature film, K. Simmons, Octavia Spencer, Alan Tudyk, and Shakira. The film received critical acclaim with praise directed toward its animation, voice cast, characters, humor, screenplay. Despite being the police academy valedictorian, Judy is relegated to parking duty by Chief Bogo, on her first day, she is hustled by Nick Wilde and Finnick, a con artist duo of foxes. The next day, Judy abandons parking duty to arrest Duke Weaselton, Bogo reprimands her, but an otter named Mrs. Otterton enters Bogos office pleading for someone to find her husband Emmitt, one of fourteen predators who have gone missing. When Judy volunteers and Assistant Mayor Dawn Bellwether praises the assignment, after determining Nick was the last one to see Otterton, Judy blackmails him into assisting her by covertly recording his confession to tax evasion. They track Otterton to a limousine owned by crime boss Mr. Big, at his home, Manchas mentions that Otterton had been yelling about night howlers. Moments later, Manchas himself turns savage and chases the pair, Judy saves Nick by trapping Manchas and calls the ZPD for help. When Bogo and other police arrive, however, Manchas has vanished, Bogo demands Judys resignation, but Nick reminds Bogo she still has 10 hours to solve the case. As they leave, Nick reveals to Judy that he was bullied as a child for being a fox, deciding there was no use in fighting prejudiced ideas about fox behavior, he became a con artist. Bellwether gives Judy and Nick access to the citys traffic-camera system and they discover Manchas was captured by wolves, which Judy surmises are the night howlers. Lionheart and those involved are arrested and Bellwether becomes the new mayor, Judy, praised for solving the case and now friends with Nick, asks him to join the ZPD as her partner. However, she upsets him at a conference by suggesting a biological cause for the recent savage behavior. TV network ZNN covers singer Gazelles peace protest and the police misconduct against predators, guilt-ridden over what happened, Judy quits her job. After she returns to Zootopia and reconciles with Nick, they confront Weaselton and they find Doug in a lab hidden in the subway tunnels, creating an illegal drug made from night howlers, which he has been shooting at predators with a dart gun. Judy and Nick are trapped in a pit after Nick refuses to abandon Judy when she is injured. Bellwether shoots a serum pellet at Nick to make him kill Judy, and frames a call to the ZPD, enraged, Bellwether threatens to frame Judy and Nick for the attacks like she framed Lionheart, but Judy has recorded Bellwethers confession. Bogo and the ZPD arrive and Bellwether is arrested, in the news coverage that follows, Lionheart denies knowledge of Bellwethers plot and states that his imprisonment of the savaged predators was doing the wrong thing for the right reason
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Farmers Insurance Group
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Farmers Insurance Group is an American insurer group of automobiles, homes and small businesses and also provides other insurance and financial services products. Farmers Insurance has more than 50,000 exclusive and independent agents,1922 Farmers future co-founders John C. Tyler and Thomas E. Leavey first met after Tyler moved to California, Tyler and Leavey had both grown up with rural backgrounds and believed that farmers and ranchers, who had better driving rates than urbanites, deserved lower insurance premiums. During the 1920s, farmers across the United States were establishing their own mutual insurance firms,1927 Tyler and Leavey received a loan from the founder of Bank of America, enabling them to start their company. 1928 Tyler and Leavey opened the doors to their newly founded company, Farmers Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange, in downtown Los Angeles, Tyler served as president with Leavey as vice president. A sales manager and secretary completed the four-employee team, on March 28,1928, the first meeting of the board of governors was convened. Two days later, Charles Brisco insures his 1925 Cadillac Phaeton,1935 Truck Insurance Exchange, a new reciprocal insurer, was launched to specialize in truck insurance. 1936 Farmers Insurance Exchange was named the leading reciprocal in earned premiums for auto insurance by National Underwriter,1942 Fire Insurance Exchange, the third reciprocal insurer, was launched, specializing in home insurance. 1950 Mid-Century Insurance Company became a subsidiary of the Farmers Insurance Exchange,1953 Seattle-based New World Life Insurance Company was acquired by Farmers. 1959 Farmers began annual participation in the Pasadena Rose Parade, launching its involvement in parades, Tyler died at the age of 86. Thomas E. Leavey, the remaining co-founder, took the CEO position,1988 After an eight-month takeover battle, BATUS Inc. the American subsidiary of British conglomerate B. A. T. Industries Plc, acquired Farmers Group, Inc. for $5.2 billion,1989,1991, and 1994 Multiple, large-scale disasters posed financial challenges to Farmers Insurance. The 1989 San Francisco earthquake,1991 Oakland fire, and 1994 Northridge, California and it was estimated that the losses from the Northridge earthquake alone were $1.3 billion. 1998 In September 1998, the Zurich Financial Services Group was created from the merger with the services business of B. A. T. Industries through a holding structure. In August 2000, Farmers Financial Solutions registered with the U. S. Securities, through it, Farmers began offering mutual fund and variable insurance products. In October 2000, the Zurich structure was simplified and unified under a single Swiss holding company, Allied Zurich and Zurich Allied shares were replaced by shares of the newly incorporated Zurich Financial Services with a primary listing on SWX Swiss Exchange and a secondary listing in London. Zurich Financial Services American Depositary Receipts are traded on the American Stock Exchange,2007 In July 2007, the Farmers Exchanges acquired Bristol West Holdings, Inc
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M&M's
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M&Ms are colorful button-shaped chocolates produced by Mars, Incorporated. The candy shell, each of which has the letter m printed in lower case on one side, the original candy had a milk chocolate filling which, upon introducing other variations, was branded as the plain variety. Peanut M&Ms, which feature a peanut coated in chocolate, and finally a candy shell, were the first variation to be introduced. Numerous other variations have been introduced, some of which are regular widespread varieties while others are limited in duration or geographic availability, M&Ms originated in the United States in 1941, and are now sold in as many as 100 countries. More than 400 million individual M&Ms are produced every day in the United States and they are produced in different colors, some of which have changed over the years. The candy-coated chocolate concept was inspired by a used to allow soldiers to carry chocolate without having it melt. The companys longest-lasting slogan reflects this, Melts in your mouth, a traditional milk chocolate M&M weighs about 0.91 grams /0.032 ounces and has about 4.7 kilocalories of food energy. Forrest Mars, Sr. son of the Mars Company founder, Mars received a patent for his own process on March 3,1941. Production began in 1941 in a located at 285 Badger Avenue in Clinton Hill, Newark. When the company was founded it was M&M Limited, the two Ms represent the names of Forrest E. Mars Sr. the founder of Newark Company, and Bruce Murrie, son of Hershey Chocolates president William F. R. Murrie, the arrangement allowed the candies to be made with Hershey chocolate, as Hershey had control of the rationed chocolate at the time. During the war, the candies were sold to the military. In 1950, a black M was imprinted on the candies giving them a unique trademark and it was changed to white in 1954. In the early 1950s, the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, Peanut M&Ms were introduced in 1954 but first appeared only in the color tan. They were debuted at the time as the tagline Melts in your mouth. In 1960, M&Ms added the yellow, red, and green colors, in 1976, orange was added to the M&M rainbow to replace red, which was discontinued due to the red dye scare over Red Dyes #2 and #4 having been evaluated to be carcinogenic in nature. In spite of the fact that M&Ms had used the less controversial Red Dye #40, Red M&Ms were re-introduced in 1987. In the 1980s, M&Ms were introduced internationally to Australia, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, by 1993, the holiday symbols were replaced with the standard trademark M
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Detroit
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Detroit is the most populous city in the U. S. state of Michigan, the fourth-largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United States–Canada border. It is the seat of Wayne County, the most populous county in the state, the municipality of Detroit had a 2015 estimated population of 677,116, making it the 21st-most populous city in the United States. Roughly one-half of Michigans population lives in Metro Detroit alone, the Detroit–Windsor area, a commercial link straddling the Canada–U. S. Border, has a population of about 5.7 million. Detroit is a port on the Detroit River, a strait that connects the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States, the City of Detroit anchors the second-largest economic region in the Midwest, behind Chicago, and the thirteenth-largest in the United States. Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a tunnel and various bridges, Detroit was founded on July 24,1701 by the French explorer and adventurer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and a party of settlers. During the 19th century, it became an important industrial hub at the center of the Great Lakes region, with expansion of the American automobile industry in the early 20th century, the Detroit area emerged as a significant metropolitan region within the United States. The city became the fourth-largest in the country for a period, in the 1950s and 1960s, suburban expansion continued with construction of a regional freeway system. A great portion of Detroits public transport was abandoned in favour of becoming a city in the post-war period. Due to industrial restructuring and loss of jobs in the auto industry, between 2000 and 2010 the citys population fell by 25 percent, changing its ranking from the nations 10th-largest city to 18th. In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and this resulted from suburbanization, corruption, industrial restructuring and the decline of Detroits auto industry. In 2013, the state of Michigan declared an emergency for the city. Detroit has experienced urban decay as its population and jobs have shifted to its suburbs or elsewhere, conservation efforts managed to save many architectural pieces since the 2000s and allowed several large-scale revitalisations. More recently, the population of Downtown Detroit, Midtown Detroit, paleo-Indian people inhabited areas near Detroit as early as 11,000 years ago. In the 17th century, the region was inhabited by Huron, Odawa, Potawatomi, for the next hundred years, virtually no British, colonist, or French action was contemplated without consultation with, or consideration of the Iroquois likely response. When the French and Indian War evicted the Kingdom of France from Canada, the 1798 raids and resultant 1799 decisive Sullivan Expedition reopened the Ohio Country to westward emigration, which began almost immediately, and by 1800 white settlers were pouring westwards. By 1773, the population of Detroit was 1,400, by 1778, its population was up to 2,144 and it was the third-largest city in the Province of Quebec
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Middle school
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A middle school is an educational stage, which exists in some countries, and takes place between primary school and high school. The concept, regulation and classification of schools, as well as the ages covered. In Afghanistan, middle school consists of grades 6,7 and 8, besides there is a change in the scenario. In Albania, middle school is included in the education which lasts 9 years. In Algeria, a middle school includes grades 6 through 10, most regions of Australia do not have middle schools, as students go directly from primary school to secondary school. The first middle school established in Australia was The Armidale School, Schools have since followed this trend, such as The Kings School. The Northern Territory has introduced a three tier system featuring Middle Schools for years 7–9 and high school year 10–12, many schools across Queensland have introduced a Middle School tier within their schools. The middle schools cover the grades/years 5 to 8, in Brazil, middle school is a mandatory stage that precedes High School called Ensino Fundamental II consisting of grades 6 to 9, ages 11 to 14. In Canada, the middle school and junior high school are both used, depending on which grades the school caters to. Another common model is grades 5–8, alberta, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island junior high schools include only grades 7–9, with the first year of high school traditionally being grade 10. In some places students go from school to secondary school. Quebec uses a system that is different from those of the other provinces. The Secondary level has five grades, starting after Elementary Grade 6 and these are called Secondary I to Secondary V. In the Peoples Republic of China, middle school has two stages, junior stage and senior stage, some middle schools have both stages while some have either of them. Other students may avoid the exam, based on their talents, like athletics. In the Czech Republic after completing the elementary school a student may apply for high school. Students have the opportunity to enroll in school from Grade 5 or Grade 7 of elementary school. Thus they can spend five years in school, followed by eight in high school
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Worthington, Ohio
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Worthington is a city in Franklin County, Ohio, United States, and is a northern suburb of the larger Columbus. The population was 13,575 at the 2010 census, James Kilbourne was elected president and Josiah Topping secretary. On August 30,1802 James Kilbourne and Nathaniel Little arrived at Colonel Thomas Worthingtons home in Chillicothe and they tentatively reserved land along the Scioto River on the Pickaway Plains for their new settlement. Jonas Stanbery and his partner, an American Revolutionary War general, sixteen thousand acres were purchased along the Whetstone River at $1.50 per acre. This land was part of the United States Military District surveyed by Israel Ludlow in 1797, on May 7,1803 James Kilbourne arrived at what is now Worthington to inspect the Scioto Companys purchase. A work party of seven hired laborers, paid $12 per month each, on August 10,1803 the Scioto Company voted to name the village for Thomas Worthington, one of Ohios first two senators, and for each member to contribute $2 to support a library. In September 1803 the first settlers departed Connecticut by horse, Ezra Griswold was the lone settler who traveled by oxcart. With this he is officially the first settler of Worthington, beating his fellow Company men to the site, by December 1803, Worthington was divided into 160, three quarter acre city lots with a 5-acre public green in the center of the village. Thirty seven persons bid between $53 and $0.25 to select a lot and those who bid nothing were given a choice of the remaining lots. Farm lots, ranging from 20 to 130 acres and averaging 93 acres, were sold off in the same way, both the Episcopal Church and Worthington Academy were given an 80-acre farm lot and 20-acre wood lot to provide financial support. By August 11,1804 the plat maps were completed, payments or notes promising payments collected, on January 28,1805, having completed its work of apportioning land and establishing the church, school and library, the Scioto Company was dissolved. On February 20,1808 the Worthington Academy was incorporated by the Ohio legislature and its bell now adorns Kilbourne Middle School. That same year James Kilbourne erected a building for a newspaper. This building still stands at 679-681 High Street as the oldest commercial building in use in the state. In 1811, Ezra Griswold built a large south-facing brick tavern on the lot north of the northeast quadrant of the public square and that same year, the Orange Johnson house was constructed north of the Village Green. During the War of 1812, several Worthington militia marched north with General William Hulls army and were surrendered at Detroit on August 12,1812, on September 7,1814, Zophar Topping died while serving with Indian scouts. He was one of two Worthington casualties during the war along with Luther Palmer, on May 24,1813 James Kilbourne took a seat in the United States House of Representatives. On August 25,1817 President James Monroe visited Worthington, also in 1817, Philander Chase moved to Worthington to become the first rector of St. Johns Episcopal Church
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Columbus, Ohio
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Columbus is the capital and largest city of the U. S. state of Ohio. It is the 15th-largest city in the United States, with a population of 850,106 as of 2015 estimates and this makes Columbus the fourth-most populous state capital in the United States, and the third-largest city in the Midwestern United States. It is the city of the Columbus, Ohio, Metropolitan Statistical Area. With a population of 2,021,632, it is Ohios third-largest metropolitan area, Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County. The city proper has also expanded and annexed portions of adjoining Delaware County, named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. As of 2013, the city has the headquarters of five corporations in the U. S, fortune 500, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, American Electric Power, L Brands, Big Lots, and Cardinal Health. In 2012, Columbus was ranked in BusinessWeeks 50 best cities in America. In 2013, Forbes gave Columbus an A rating as one of the top cities for business in the U. S. and later that included the city on its list of Best Places for Business. Columbus was also ranked as the No.1 up-and-coming tech city in the nation by Forbes in 2008, and the city was ranked a top-ten city by Relocate America in 2010. In 2007, fDi Magazine ranked the city no.3 in the U. S. for cities of the future, and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium was rated no.1 in 2009 by USA Travel Guide. The area including modern-day Columbus once comprised the Ohio Country, under the control of the French colonial empire through the Viceroyalty of New France from 1663 until 1763. In the 18th century, European traders flocked to the area, the area found itself frequently caught between warring factions, including American Indian and European interests. In the 1740s, Pennsylvania traders overran the territory until the French forcibly evicted them, in the early 1750s, the Ohio Company sent George Washington to the Ohio Country to survey. Fighting for control of the territory in the French and Indian War became part of the international Seven Years War, during this period, the region routinely suffered turmoil, massacres, and battles. The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded the Ohio Country to the British Empire, after the American Revolution, the Ohio Country became part of the Virginia Military District, under the control of the United States. Colonists from the East Coast moved in, but rather finding a empty frontier, they encountered people of the Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Shawnee. The tribes resisted expansion by the fledgling United States, leading to years of bitter conflict, the decisive Battle of Fallen Timbers resulted in the Treaty of Greenville, which finally opened the way for new settlements. By 1797, a surveyor from Virginia named Lucas Sullivant had founded a permanent settlement on the west bank of the forks of the Scioto River
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Thomas Worthington High School
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Thomas Worthington High School is a public school in Worthington, Ohio. The school was named Worthington High School until 1991, when sister school, Worthington Kilbourne High School, with approximately 1700 students, TWHS is the largest school in the Worthington City School District. Its mascot is the cardinal, and the colors are red. A map of the divisions is located here. TWHS offers many clubs and organizations to its students
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Missoula, Montana
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Missoula /mᵻˈzuːlə/ is a city in the U. S. state of Montana and is the county seat of Missoula County. In 2015, the United States Census Bureau estimated the population at 71,022. In the 1990s, Missoula overtook Great Falls as Montana’s second‑largest city, Missoula is home to the University of Montana, a public research university. Missoula was founded in 1860 as Hellgate Trading Post while still part of Washington Territory, by 1866, the settlement had moved east,5 miles upstream, and renamed Missoula Mills, later shortened to Missoula. The mills provided supplies to settlers traveling along the Mullan Road. The establishment of Fort Missoula in 1877 to protect settlers further stabilized the economy, the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1883 brought rapid growth and the maturation of the local lumber industry. In 1893, the Montana Legislature chose the city as the site for the states first university, along with the U. S. Forest Service headquarters founded in 1908, lumber and the university remained staples of the local economy for the next hundred years. The city is governed by a government with twelve city council members. Notable residents include the first woman in the U. S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin, archaeological artifacts date the Missoula Valleys earliest inhabitants to the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago with settlements as early as 3500 BCE. From the 1700s until European settlements began a years later, it was primarily the Salish, Kootenai, Pend dOreille, Blackfeet. Hell Gate would remain the name of the area until it was renamed Missoula in 1866, the Lewis and Clark Expedition brought the first U. S. citizens to the area. They twice stopped just south of Missoula at Travelers Rest and they camped there the first time on their westbound trip in September 1805. When they stayed there again on their return in June–July 1806, Clark left heading south along the Bitterroot River and Lewis traveled north, then east, through Hellgate Canyon. The desire for a more convenient water supply to power a lumber, the Missoula Mills replaced Hell Gate Village as the economic power of the valley and replaced it as the county seat in 1866. The name Missoula came from the Salish name for the Clark Fork River, nmesuletkw, Fort Missoula was established in 1877 to help protect further arriving settlers. Growth accelerated with the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1883, in 1893, Missoula was chosen as the location of the states first university, the University of Montana. The continued economic windfall from railroad construction and lumber mills led to a boom in Missoulas population. A. B. Hammond and Copper Kings Marcus Daly and William A. Clark competed fiercely in the region over lumber share, the United States Forest Service work in Missoula began in 1905
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Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
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Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America is an American collegiate social fraternity for men with a special interest in music. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia was founded as the Sinfonia Club at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts on October 6,1898, by Ossian Everett Mills, bursar of the conservatory. By 1901, two additional chapters had formed and the 1st National Convention was held in Boston to establish a national constitution. Since 1970, Phi Mu Alpha headquarters are located at Lyrecrest, membership in Phi Mu Alpha is divided into four classes, probationary, collegiate, alumni, and honorary. Probationary members are those who are participating in a program of between four and 12 weeks in length in preparation for initiation as full, active collegiate members. Collegiate members transfer to alumni membership after they graduate, honorary membership can be bestowed under guidelines established by the National Constitution. The fraternity has local, regional, and national levels of governance, the most fundamental local unit is the collegiate chapter chartered at a college or university. Phi Mu Alpha also charters local alumni associations, which are issued to groups of members in a particular geographic area. Chapters and alumni associations are grouped into provinces, a National Executive Committee, elected by a National Assembly at each triennial National Convention, governs the national organization. Phi Mu Alpha has several identifying symbols, including a badge, the colors red, black, and gold, a coat of arms, a flag, and an official flower. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia was founded as the Sinfonia Club by Ossian Everett Mills at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Ossian Everett Mills, bursar of the conservatory, had been holding devotional meetings with a small group of male students since 1886. Mills was profoundly interested in the physical, mental, moral, Mills sought to encourage the personal development of the young men at the conservatory through wholesome social interaction among them. This led Mills to suggested that the Old Boys of the conservatory invite the New Boys to a get acquainted reception on September 22,1898. Several of the men who attended the reception began to discuss the possibility of organizing a permanent social club. The origin of the name Sinfonia is attributed to George W. Chadwick, Chadwick was elected as the second honorary member of the club after Ossian Mills, and he suggested the name Sinfonia after the name of a student organization he was a member of in Leipzig, Germany. Prior to 1947, the corporate name of the fraternity was Sinfonia Fraternity of America, though the Greek letters Phi, Mu. The delegates to the 29th National Convention in 1946 approved changing the name to Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America. The traditional date given in fraternity resources for the founding of Beta Chapter at Broad Street Conservatory is October 6,1900, Phi Mu Alpha continued to grow and to maintain an emphasis on the development of high character among male musicians through the next two decades
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Seattle Repertory Theatre
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Seattle Repertory Theatre is a major regional theatre located in Seattle, Washington, at the Seattle Center. It is a member of Theatre Puget Sound and Theatre Communications Group, founded in 1963, it is led by Artistic Director Braden Abraham and Managing Director Jeffrey Herrmann. It received the 1990 Regional Theatre Tony Award, the first home of the Seattle Rep was the Seattle Playhouse, built as part of the fair grounds for the 1962 Century 21 Exposition, Seattles 1962 Worlds Fair. The building, extant as of 2009, was renovated in 1987 as a home for the Intiman Theatre, actor Hal Holbrook had appeared at the Playhouse during the fair, and is believed to be the person who suggested it as a home for a repertory theater company. Seattle businessman and arts patron Bagley Wright and others raised money, stuart Vaughan was the founding artistic director and directed the first production, King Lear, which opened the new companys first season on November 14,1963. The original acting company included Seattle native Marjorie Nelson and an associate member from the University of Washington. Both went on to become mainstays of Pacific Northwest theater, donald Foster came aboard as executive director in 1964. The first summer Theater-in-the-Park production was The Taming of the Shrew, the first Northwest tour included Twelfth Night and Ah, Wilderness. Peter Donnelly joined The Rep on a Ford Foundation grant as a management intern, in 1966, Allen Fletcher became The Reps second artistic director. The Off-Center series focused on contemporary works, the first of Off-Center production, in 1967, featured The Death of Bessie Smith and The American Dream, two one-act plays by Edward Albee. The Rep was invited to the Bergen International Festival in 1968, in 1970, Peter Donnelly became producing director, and W. Duncan Ross became artistic director. In 1972, The Reps artistic role in the state was acknowledged with the Washington State Governors Arts Award and that same year was the beginning of Rep ‘n Rap, a summer tour program featuring Thurbermania. The following year, there was a presentation of Promenade All directed by Hume Cronyn. The 2nd Stage series began a year later with Max Frischs Biography, in 1975, a tour of the western states included Seven Keys to Baldpate by George M. Cohan. Private funding and a bond issue raised $5.8 million for a new theater. The first Mobile Outreach Bunch toured Washington and Idaho schools with The Energy Show, John Hirsch joined as consulting artistic director with Daniel Sullivan as resident director that same year, and Plays-in-Progress, initiated by Daniel Sullivan, began developing new plays. In 1981, Daniel Sullivan became artistic director and the Seattle Repertory Organization held the first Elegant Elephant Sale, an event that continued for nearly two decades. On December 29, ground was broken for the new Bagley Wright Theatre, in 1984, Herb Gardners Im Not Rappaport starring Harold Gould, Cleavon Little and David Strathairn opened prior to its Broadway run
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Broadway theatre
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Along with Londons West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City, the great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggars Opera, in 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice, the company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, by the 1840s, P. T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan. In 1829, at Broadway and Prince Street, Niblos Garden opened, the 3, 000-seat theatre presented all sorts of musical and non-musical entertainments. In 1844, Palmos Opera House opened and presented opera for four seasons before bankruptcy led to its rebranding as a venue for plays under the name Burtons Theatre. The Astor Opera House opened in 1847, booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865, and would later revive the role at his own Booths Theatre. Other renowned Shakespeareans who appeared in New York in this era were Henry Irving, Tommaso Salvini, Fanny Davenport, lydia Thompson came to America in 1868 heading a small theatrical troupe, adapting popular English burlesques for middle-class New York audiences. Thompsons troupe called the British Blondes, was the most popular entertainment in New York during the 1868–1869 theatrical season, the six-month tour ran for almost six extremely profitable years. Theatre in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown beginning around 1850, in 1870, the heart of Broadway was in Union Square, and by the end of the century, many theatres were near Madison Square. Broadways first long-run musical was a 50-performance hit called The Elves in 1857, New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keenes musical burletta The Seven Sisters shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. It was at a performance by Keenes troupe of Our American Cousin in Washington, the production was a staggering five-and-a-half hours long, but despite its length, it ran for a record-breaking 474 performances. The same year, The Black Domino/Between You, Me and the Post was the first show to call itself a musical comedy, Tony Pastor opened the first vaudeville theatre one block east of Union Square in 1881, where Lillian Russell performed. Comedians Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart produced and starred in musicals on Broadway between 1878 and 1890, with book and lyrics by Harrigan and music by his father-in-law David Braham. They starred high quality singers, instead of the women of repute who had starred in earlier musical forms. Plays could run longer and still draw in the audiences, leading to better profits, as in England, during the latter half of the century, the theatre began to be cleaned up, with less prostitution hindering the attendance of the theatre by women
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Guys and Dolls
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Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. The premiere on Broadway was in 1950 and it ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Guys and Dolls was selected as the winner of the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Guys and Dolls was conceived by producers Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin as an adaptation of Damon Runyons short stories and these stories, written in the 1920s and 1930s, concerned gangsters, gamblers, and other characters of the New York underworld. Runyon was known for the dialect he employed in his stories, mixing highly formal language. Frank Loesser, who had spent most of his career as a lyricist for movie musicals, was hired as composer, George S. Kaufman was hired as director. When the first version of the book, or dialogue, written by Jo Swerling was deemed unusable, Feuer. Loesser had already much of the score to correspond with the first version of the book. Burrows would recall as follows, Frank Loessers fourteen songs were all great, later on, the critics spoke of the show as integrated. The word integration usually means that the composer has written songs that follow the story line gracefully, well, we accomplished that but we did it in reverse. The character of Miss Adelaide was created specifically to fit Vivian Blaine into the musical, when Loesser suggested reprising some songs in the second act, Kaufman warned, If you reprise the songs, we’ll reprise the jokes. A pantomime of never-ceasing activities depicts the hustle and bustle of New York City, three small-time gamblers, Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Benny Southstreet, and Rusty Charlie, argue over which horse will win a big race. The band members of the Save-a-Soul Mission, led by the pious and beautiful Sergeant Sarah Brown, call for sinners to Follow the Fold, Nicely and Bennys employer, Nathan Detroit, runs an illegal floating crap game. Due to local policeman Lt. Brannigans strong-armed police activity, he has only one likely spot to hold the game. However, the owner, Joey Biltmore, requires a $1,000 security deposit, Nathan hopes to get $1,000 by winning a bet against Sky Masterson, a gambler willing to bet on virtually anything. Nathan proposes a bet which he believes he cannot lose, Sky must take a doll of Nathans choice to dinner in Havana, Sky agrees, and Nathan chooses Sarah Brown. At the mission, Sky claims he wants to be saved and he offers Sarah a deal, He will bring the mission one dozen genuine sinners if she will accompany him to Havana the next night. Sarah rebuffs him, telling him that she plans to fall in love with an upright, Sky replies that he plans on being surprised when he falls in love
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Carousel (musical)
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Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc Molnárs 1909 play Liliom, the story revolves around carousel barker Billy Bigelow, whose romance with millworker Julie Jordan comes at the price of both their jobs. He attempts a robbery to provide for Julie and their child, after it goes wrong. A secondary plot line deals with millworker Carrie Pipperidge and her romance with ambitious fisherman Enoch Snow, the show includes the well-known songs If I Loved You, June Is Bustin Out All Over and Youll Never Walk Alone. Richard Rodgers later wrote that Carousel was his favorite of all his musicals, following the spectacular success of the first Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma. The pair sought to collaborate on another piece, knowing that any resulting work would be compared with Oklahoma, after acquiring the rights, the team created a work with lengthy sequences of music and made the ending more hopeful. The musical required considerable modification during out-of-town tryouts, but once it opened on Broadway on April 19,1945, Carousel initially ran for 890 performances and duplicated its success in the West End in 1950. Though it has never achieved as much success as Oklahoma. The piece has been revived, and has been recorded several times. A production by Nicholas Hytner enjoyed success in 1992 in London, in 1994 in New York, in 1999, Time magazine named Carousel the best musical of the 20th century. Ferenc Molnárs Hungarian-language drama, Liliom, premiered in Budapest in 1909, the audience was puzzled by the work, and it lasted only thirty-odd performances before being withdrawn, the first shadow on Molnárs successful career as a playwright. Liliom was not presented again until after World War I, when it reappeared on the Budapest stage, it was a tremendous hit. Except for the ending, the plots of Liliom and Carousel are very similar, andreas Zavocky, a carnival barker, falls in love with Julie Zeller, a servant girl, and they begin living together. With both discharged from their jobs, Liliom is discontented and contemplates leaving Julie, but decides not to do so on learning that she is pregnant. A subplot involves Julies friend Marie, who has fallen in love with Wolf Biefeld and he dies, and his spirit is taken to heavens police court. As Ficsur suggested while the two waited to commit the crime, would-be robbers like them do not come before God Himself. Liliom is told by the magistrate that he may go back to Earth for one day to attempt to redeem the wrongs he has done to his family, on his return to Earth, Liliom encounters his daughter, Louise, who like her mother is now a factory worker. Saying that he knew her father, he tries to give her a star he stole from the heavens, when Louise refuses to take it, he strikes her
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Houston Grand Opera
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Houston Grand Opera, located in Houston, Texas, was founded in 1955 by German-born impresario Walter Herbert and Houstonians Elva Lobit, Edward Bing, and Charles Cockrell. HGOs inaugural season featured two performances of two operas, Salome and Madame Butterfly, david Gockley succeeded Walter Herbert as general director in 1972 and remained in the post until accepting the general directorship at San Francisco Opera in 2005. He began his tenure there in 2006, Gockley was succeeded at Houston Grand Opera by Anthony Freud, previously the general director at Welsh National Opera. Summers serves as artistic and music director and Leech serves as managing director, oversight of the HGO Association is provided by a board of directors, a body of trustees also supports the organization. The company now presents six to eight productions per season and has a budget of $24 million. Houston Grand Opera performances are held in the Wortham Theater Center and their combined capacity is more than 3,300. Under Gockley’s leadership, the company began regularly commissioning and producing new works—almost exclusively from American composers—and the company continues to do so, HGO has also staged seven American premieres. The Houston Grand Opera Studio, co-founded by Gockley and composer Carlisle Floyd in 1977, was one of the earliest comprehensive young artist training programs in the United States. It provides advanced training and professional opportunities to outstanding young artists, Houston Grand Opera is supported by an active auxiliary organization, the Houston Grand Opera Guild, established in October 1955. The company has received a Tony Award, two Grammy Awards, and two Emmy Awards—the only opera company in the world to win all three honors, the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, with more than 45 core members, plays all Houston Grand Opera performances. Patrick Summers has been the director since 1998. No music director was appointed during the Walter Herbert years until 1971, later music directors/principal conductors include Chris Nance, John DeMain, and Vyekoslav Šutej. The Houston Grand Opera Chorus has been led since 1988 by Chorus Master Richard Bado, an alumnus of HGO’s young artist training program, the HGO Studio primarily trains young singers and pianist/coaches but has also trained aspiring conductors in a residency program of up to three years. The HGO Young Artists Vocal Academy, established in 2011 and administered by the HGO Studio, is an intensive program for undergraduate vocal music students. Participants selected for the program receive training that includes daily voice lessons and coachings as well as classes in characterization, movement, diction, HGOco offers training to high school seniors. In 2007, HGO established HGOco, a designed to create partnerships between the company and the community. The libretto was created from the words of some of the residents. In 2009, HGOco received the Leading Lights Diversity Award in Arts, Song cycles have also been created in cooperation with workers in the Houston Ship Channel, Houstons veterans community, and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
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Birds of Paradise (musical)
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Birds of Paradise is a musical with music by David Evans, lyrics by Winnie Holzman, and the book by Evans and Holzman. It had a brief run Off-Broadway in 1987, the story involves a group of amateur actors involved in a musical adaptation of The Seagull. The Harbour Island Players is a theatre group whose lives are turned upside down when a professional actor, down on his luck, decides to direct. The group is awaiting the arrival of Lawrence Wood, the actor, Wood, who grew up on Harbour Island is visiting his hometown for the first time in twenty years. He has agreed to observe their rehearsal, thrilled at the prospect of a real professional in their midst, each member feels, for the first time since theyve been working together, that its finally worth it. Wood arrives and we learn that hes in trouble, both personally and professionally, the amateurs are dazzled by his presence and blind to his problems. Its from his bizarre musical adaption of Anton Chekhovs The Seagull, over the groups protests, Wood asks to hear the song, an eerie ballad about a young girl who flies to the moon only to find she cant get back down. Intrigued by the song, by Homers loony talent, and most of all, Wood asks to see the script and reflects on how good it feels to be a big fish in a little pond. In an attempt to recover what has been missing in his life, Wood offers to direct, the others are beside themselves with excitement, especially Marjorie, Homers mother who still carries a torch for Wood from high school days. The next morning, Julia and Homer arrive early for rehearsal, since childhood, Homer has been unrequitedly in love with Julia. Before rehearsal, they fantasize about how the events of the past evening might change their lives. The rest of the group arrives and, in a sequence that tracks the first weeks of rehearsal, as the final week of rehearsals approaches, Andy gives him a message about a call from his agent in New York. Wood claims hes not interested and Andy seizes the opportunity to confide in his brother about his fantasy life. Later, in the middle of a rehearsal, Wood takes Marjorie, Hope. This results in a hilarious misunderstanding as the attempt to make sense of what he said. Wood calls his agent in New York and is furious to learn that she wants him to audition for a part that he feels is beneath him, when the rehearsal reconvenes, he vents his rage on Homer, insisting that he slow down one of the numbers. Homer, equally enraged, deliberately plays it as slowly as possible, as the song reaches its climax, Wood and Julia steal a clandestine kiss, unwittingly, witnessed by a heartbroken Homer. Its the night before dress rehearsal, with great conviction Andy, Hope, and Dave perform a number from Seagull and demonstrate how far theyve come
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Forensic psychiatry
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Forensic psychiatry is a sub-speciality of psychiatry and is related to criminology. It encompasses the interface between law and psychiatry, Forensic psychiatrists work with courts in evaluating an individuals competency to stand trial, defences based on mental disorders, and sentencing recommendations. There are two areas of criminal evaluations in forensic psychiatry. These are Competency to Stand trial and Mental State at the Time of the Offence and this is the competency evaluation to determine that a defendant has the mental capacity to understand the charges and assist his attorney. In English and Welsh law, a concept is that of fitness to plead. Forensic psychiatrists are called to be expert witnesses in both criminal and civil proceedings. Expert witnesses give their opinion about a specific issue, often the psychiatrist will have prepared a detailed report before testifying. The primary duty of the witness is to provide an independent opinion to the court. An expert is allowed to testify in court with respect to matters of opinion only when the matters in question are not ordinarily understandable to the finders of fact be they judge or jury. This gives the court an opinion, and only an opinion, durham rule, Excuses a defendant whose conduct is the product of mental disorder. ALI test, Excuses a defendant who, because of a disease or defect. Not guilty by reason of insanity is one potential outcome in this type of trial and it is important to note that insanity is a legal and not a medical term. Often there will be a psychiatrist testifying for both the defense and the prosecution, Forensic psychiatrists are also involved in the care of prisoners, both those in jails and those in prisons, and in the care of the mentally ill who have committed criminal acts. These teams have dual responsibilities, to both the welfare of their clients and the safety of the public. The aim is not so much to predict as to prevent violence, risk assessment and management is a growth area in the forensic field, with much Canadian academic work being done in Ontario and British Columbia. The aim of this is to move away from prediction to prevention, by identifying and this may entail monitoring, treatment, rehabilitation, supervision, and victim safety planning and depends on the availability of funding and legal powers. These schemes may be based on published assessments such as the HCR-20, research in this area has been extended to the use of Bayesian networks, which are probabilistic graphical models typically designed to model cause and effect or dependent relationships. In 2015, two BN models were published with application to psychiatry for violence risk assessment and risk management purposes
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New York Undercover
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New York Undercover is an American police drama that aired on the FOX television network from 1994 to 1998. New York Undercover is notable for being the first police drama on American television to feature two people of color in the starring roles, in addition to the main storylines in each episode, subplots explored the private lives of the shows characters. At the beginning of the season, a new detective. In the third-season finale in May 1997, Torres and Moreno are married, however, in that same episode, Torres and McNamara are both killed by a gang of bank robbers. New York Undercover returned with a new cast for its fourth, Williams and Moreno were assigned to a new unit, resulting in DArbanville-Quinn being dropped from the cast. Joining the detectives were Lt. Malcolm Barker, Det. Nell Delaney, the new unit eventually captured the last bank robber responsible for the deaths of Torres and McNamara. Julius Clarence J. C. Williams – J. C. is an African-American detective at the Fourth Precinct and he has a son, Gregory, whom he fathered as a teenager with then-girlfriend Chantal Tierney. His partner Eddie Torres is his closest friend, J. C. is the only character to appear in all 89 episodes. Eduardo Eddie Torres – Born in the Bronx, Eddie is a Puerto Rican-American detective and his partner J. C. Williams is his closest friend. Eddie was killed in the line of duty after his car was bombed, patti DArbanville-Quinn as Lt. Virginia Cooper – Virginia is the shows commanding officer during the first three seasons. She is married and had four children, one of whom died at the age of eight and she is the commanding officer of the detective squad at the NYPDs Fourth Precinct. Nina Moreno-Torres – Nina is a Puerto Rican-American, at the age of 16, she married her boyfriend Luis and gave birth to a daughter, Melissa. She gave the girl up for adoption after Luis abandoned her and she later dated and married Eddie Torres. Her mother is a sergeant with the NYPD, Tommy McNamara – Tommy is an Irish-Italian American detecive. His father was an officer who was killed in the line of duty. Prior to his transfer to the Fourth Precinct, he had little interaction with New Yorks African-American. Tommy is also killed after being shot to death by Nadine Jordan, marisa Ryan as Det. Nell Delaney – Nell is a young officer introduced in the fourth season. She lied about her age upon entering the academy
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Dale Earnhardt
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Ralph Dale Earnhardt Sr. known professionally as Dale Earnhardt, was an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner, best known for his involvement in stock car racing for NASCAR. The third child of racing driver Ralph Earnhardt and first of two to Martha Coleman, he began his career in 1975 in the World 600 as part of the Winston Cup Series. Regarded as one of the most significant drivers in NASCAR history, Earnhardt won a total of 76 Winston Cup races over the course of his career and he also earned seven NASCAR Winston Cup championships, tying for the most all-time with Richard Petty. This feat, accomplished in 1994, would not be equaled again for 22 years until Jimmie Johnson in 2016 and his aggressive driving style earned him the nickname The Intimidator. Earnhardt has been inducted into halls of fame, including the NASCAR Hall of Fame inaugural class in 2010. He was born on April 29,1951 in Kannapolis, North Carolina, as the child of Martha. Although Ralph did not want his son to pursue a career as a car driver. Ralph was a teacher for Dale and after Ralph died of a heart attack at his home in 1973 at age 45. Earnhardt had four siblings, two brothers, Danny and Randy, and two sisters, Cathy and Kaye, in 1968, at the age of 17, Earnhardt married his first wife Latane Brown. With her, Earnhardt fathered his first son Kerry a year later, Dale and Latane divorced in 1970. In 1971, Earnhardt married his second wife Brenda Gee, the daughter of NASCAR car builder Robert Gee, in his marriage with Gee, Earnhardt had two more children, a daughter Kelley King Earnhardt in 1972 and a son Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 1974. Not long after Dale Jr. was born, Earnhardt and Gee divorced, Earnhardt then married his third and final wife, Teresa Houston in 1982. She gave birth to their daughter Taylor Nicole Earnhardt in 1988, Taylor and her husband, Brandon Putnam, are professional rodeo performers. Earnhardt began his career in the Winston Cup in 1975. He drove the No.8 Ed Niegre Dodge Charger and finished 22nd in that race, just one ahead of his future car owner. Earnhardt competed in eight more races until 1979, during his sophomore season, Earnhardt, now with 20-year-old Doug Richert as his crew chief, began the season winning the Busch Clash. With wins at Atlanta, Bristol, Nashville, Martinsville, and Charlotte, to this day, Earnhardt had been the first driver in all of NASCAR Winston Cup history to follow a Rookie of the Year title with a NASCAR Winston Cup Championship the next season. He was also the driver in NASCAR history to win both the Rookie of the Year and Cup Series championship, following David Pearson and Richard Petty
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3: The Dale Earnhardt Story
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3, The Dale Earnhardt Story is a 2004 television movie produced by ESPN depicting the life of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt. Its central theme focuses on the relationship between him and his father, Ralph Earnhardt, as well as the relationship between him and his youngest son, Dale Earnhardt, Jr and it was first broadcast on December 11,2004, and subsequently released on DVD. Many of the race scenes were filmed at Rockingham Speedway. The track had lost its races and at the time was used mostly as a test facility, chad McCumbee, who portrayed Earnhardt Jr. later became a NASCAR driver in the Truck Series. He also raced alongside Dale Jr. himself at the Pocono 500, driving Kyle Pettys 45 car, actors playing the part of the Flying Aces were Ray Everett, Greg Davis, David Brooks, Robbie Hicks, and Don Gyr. The script of film was not approved by Earnhardts widow, Teresa Earnhardt. The film, although capturing the essence of Earnhardt, is inaccurate in many of the events seen in it, richard Childress, the former car owner and team owner of Earnhardt, sued ESPN for copyright infringement with its use of the 3 logo. The relationship between Darrell Waltrip and Earnhardt in the film primarily on their fierce rivalry, with little attention given to the friendship that would develop between the two. Waltrip noted this on his website during the runup to the film, Waltrip eventually drove for Earnhardts race team in 1998. Several cars shown in the film were historically inaccurate, also notable was a wrong-year scene featuring Morgan-McClure Motorsports, where a late 1990s Kodak Max film livery was used for Sterling Marlins car instead of the Kodak Gold film livery. Also, the car was a Pontiac, the real car MMM fielded at the time was a Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Morgan-McClure Motorsports did, however, field a Pontiac Grand Prix in the 2003 season. Another inaccuracy is the depiction of Wallaces car as a Dodge Intrepid in the Daytona 500 – Penske Racing did not switch to Dodge until 2003, and he was driving a Ford Taurus in 2001. Labontes No.18 is shown as a Chevrolet Monte Carlo in the 2001 Daytona 500 scene with the Chevrolet body style used between 2003 and 2005 and his corresponding 2003–2005 paint scheme and he actually drove a Pontiac Grand Prix in 2001 with his paint scheme from that year. The February 23,1986 incident at Richmond International Raceway was inaccurately depicted, in the film, his now-famous line I didnt mean to wreck him, I just wanted to rattle his cage a little was part of the post-race interview. That line, however, was not said at that time, instead it was said at Bristol on August 28,1999 after he spun out Terry Labonte on the final lap to win the Goodys Headache Powder 500. In Earnhardts first Daytona 500 start, the film shows him driving a Chevrolet Monte Carlo, however, he actually drove a Buick. Also mentioned in the scene that he finished 4th in the race, He finished 8th in his first Daytona 500 start and thus it is also inaccurate
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Will Pope
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Assistant Police Chief Will Pope is a fictional character featured in TNTs The Closer, portrayed by J. K. Pope is the Assistant Chief for Operations of the Los Angeles Police Department, despite bringing Brenda Leigh Johnson in for the job, he doesnt seem to want to let her actually do her work. He had an affair with Johnson when they worked together in Washington. After he ended it, he divorced his first wife to marry a woman named Estelle and this history causes some personal tension between the two of them. In season six, Pope expects to be on the short list to become the new Chief of Police, when Tommy Delk is named Chief, Pope is assigned to the traffic division and considers quitting the force. When Delk suddenly dies, Pope is named Interim Chief, to the surprise of many, Pope seems to still harbor feelings for Johnson, and he acts jealous of her relationship with Fritz Howard. Pope commands the authority of his team, and the department detectives generally respect him, closing cases and convicting criminals is his first priority, even if it means he has to take the heat from his superiors. He always defends his team and is more willing to take the blame for them. Pope can be something of a chameleon, often playing both sides of the fence to get what he wants, unlike Brenda, he plays along with law enforcement politics in order to keep the department running smoothly. Although he can be overly controlling, he has a spot for Brenda and is always eager to please her. When she first transfers to the LAPD, for example, Pope readily defends her against the other detectives complaints, and he is often fiercely protective of her
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Los Angeles Police Department
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The Los Angeles Police Department, officially the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the law enforcement agency for the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. With 9,843 officers and 2,773 civilian staff, it is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States, after the New York City Police Department, the department serves an area of 498 square miles and a population of 4,030,904 people. The LAPD has been fictionalized in numerous movies, novels, the department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racism, police brutality, and police corruption. The first specific Los Angeles police force was founded in 1853, as the Los Angeles Rangers, the Rangers were soon succeeded by the Los Angeles City Guards, another volunteer group. Neither force was particularly efficient and Los Angeles became known for its violence, gambling, the first paid force was created in 1869, when six officers were hired to serve under City Marshal William C. Warren. By 1900, under John M. Glass, there were 70 officers, in 1903, with the start of the Civil Service, this force was increased to 200. During World War II, under Clemence B, horrall, the overall number of personnel was depleted by the demands of the military. Despite efforts to maintain numbers, the police could do little to control the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots, Parker advocated police professionalism and autonomy from civilian administration. However, the Bloody Christmas scandal in 1951 led to calls for civilian accountability, under Parker, LAPD created the first SWAT team in United States law enforcement. Officer John Nelson and then-Inspector Daryl Gates created the program in 1965 to deal with threats from radical organizations such as the Black Panther Party operating during the Vietnam War era. The old headquarters for the LAPD was Parker Center, named former chief William H. Parker. The new headquarters is the new Police Administration Building located at 100 W. 1st St. immediately south of Los Angeles City Hall, the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners also known as the Police Commission, is a five-member body of appointed officials which oversees the LAPD. The board is responsible for setting policies for the department and overseeing the LAPDs overall management, the Chief of Police reports to the board, but the rest of the department reports to the chief. The Office of the Inspector General is an independent part of the LAPD that has oversight over the department’s internal disciplinary process and it was created by the recommendation of the Christopher Commission and it is exempt from civil service and reports directly to the Board of Police Commissioners. The current Inspector General is Alexander A. Bustamante who was formerly an Assistant United States Attorney, the OIG receives copies of every complaint filed against members of the LAPD as well as tracking specific cases along with any resultant litigation. The OIG also conducts audits on select investigations and conducts regular reviews of the system in order to ensure fairness. As well as overseeing the LAPDs disciplinary process, the Inspector General may undertake special investigations as directed by the Board of Police Commissioners, the Office of the Chief of Police is the administrative office comprising the Chief of Staff and the Employee Relations Group. The majority of the LAPDs approximately 10,000 officers are assigned within the Office of Operations, an Assistant Chief, currently First Assistant Chief Michel Moore, commands the office, and reports directly to the chief of police
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