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Hennepin, Minnesota
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Hennepin County /ˈhɛnəpɪn kaʊnti/ is a county in the U. S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 census the population was 1,152,425 and it is the most populous county in Minnesota and the 34th-most populous county in the United States, more than one in five Minnesotans live in Hennepin County. Its county seat is Minneapolis, the states most populous city, the county is named in honor of the 17th-century explorer Father Louis Hennepin. Hennepin County is included in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area, the center of population of Minnesota is in Hennepin County, in the city of Minneapolis. Hennepin County was created in 1852 by the Minnesota Territorial Legislature, Father Louis Hennepins name was chosen because he originally named St. Anthony Falls and recorded some of the earliest accounts of the area for the Western world. Hennepin Countys early history is linked to the establishment of the cities of Minneapolis. The history of Hennepin County is cataloged at the Hennepin History Museum, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 607 square miles, of which 554 square miles is land and 53 square miles is water. Hennepin is one of 17 Minnesota counties with more savanna soils than prairie or forest soils. The highest waterfall on the Mississippi River, the Saint Anthony Falls is in Hennepin County next to downtown Minneapolis, but in the 19th century, barges and boats now pass through locks to move between the parts of the river above and below the dams. There were 468,824 housing units at a density of 325/km². The racial makeup of the county was 80. 53% White,8. 95% Black or African American,1. 00% Native American,4. 80% Asian,0. 05% Pacific Islander,2. 06% from other races, and 2. 60% from two or more races. 4. 07% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,22. 8% were of German,12. 0% Norwegian,7. 6% Irish and 7. 2% Swedish ancestry. 31. 80% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 40% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 3.07. In the county 24. 00% of the population was under the age of 18,9. 70% was between 18 and 24,33. 70% from 25 to 44,21. 70% from 45 to 64, the median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 97.00 males, for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.70 males. Males had an income of $42,466 versus $32,400 for females. The per capita income for the county was $28,789, about 5. 00% of families and 8. 30% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10. 50% of those under age 18 and 5. 90% of those age 65 or over. Hennepin County is the wealthiest county in Minnesota and one of the 100 highest-income counties in the United States, besides English, languages with significant numbers of speakers in Hennepin County include Arabic, Hmong, Khmer, Lao, Russian, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese
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Rosemount, Minnesota
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Rosemount is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States, in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. The population was 21,874 at the 2010 census, Rosemount was established as a township in 1858 and incorporated as a city in 1972, encompassing the old village of Rosemount and Pine Bend. Rosemount is home to the Pine Bend Refinery, which is the largest oil refinery in Minnesota, Rosemount was also home to a military gunpowder plant in the 1940s called Gopher Ordnance Works. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 35.21 square miles. U. S. Highway 52, Minnesota Highway 3, Minnesota Highway 55, Rosemount is the home of the Rosemount High School Irish and Dakota County Technical College, a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. As of the census of 2010, there were 21,874 people,7,587 households, the population density was 658.5 inhabitants per square mile. There were 7,853 housing units at a density of 236.4 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 87. 3% White,3. 0% African American,0. 4% Native American,5. 6% Asian,1. 1% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 1% of the population. 16. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.88 and the average family size was 3.27. The median age in the city was 34.7 years. 30. 7% of residents were under the age of 18,6. 8% were between the ages of 18 and 24,29. 8% were from 25 to 44,25. 2% were from 45 to 64, and 7. 7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49. 4% male and 50. 6% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 14,619 people,4,742 households, and 3,931 families residing in the city. The population density was 434.2 people per square mile, there were 4,845 housing units at an average density of 143.9 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 92. 78% White,2. 03% African American,0. 30% Native American,2. 13% Asian,0. 80% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 83% of the population. 13. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 4. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 3.08 and the average family size was 3.38. In the city, the population was out with 35. 1% under the age of 18,6. 3% from 18 to 24,36. 5% from 25 to 44,16. 8% from 45 to 64. The median age was 31 years, for every 100 females there were 99.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.6 males, the median income for a household in the city was $65,916, and the median income for a family was $68,929
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University of Minnesota
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The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota. The Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses are approximately 3 miles apart, and it is the oldest and largest campus within the University of Minnesota system and has the sixth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 51,147 students in 2013–14. The university is the institution of the University of Minnesota system, and is organized into 19 colleges and schools, with sister campuses in Crookston, Duluth, Morris. Minnesota is one of Americas Public Ivy universities, which refers to top universities in the United States capable of providing a collegiate experience comparable with the Ivy League. Founded in 1851, The University of Minnesota is categorized as an R1 Doctoral University with the highest research activity in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, Minnesota faculty, alumni, and researchers have won 25 Nobel Prizes and three Pulitzer Prizes. Notable University of Minnesota alumni include two Vice Presidents of the United States, Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, and Bob Dylan, who received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities is also a member of the Association of American Universities which is an association of the 62 leading research universities in the United States and Canada. In its 2017 edition, U. S. News & World Report ranked Minnesota 38th in their Best Global University Rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2015 ranks Minnesota 46th in the world. In 2015, Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked the university 11th in the world for mathematics, the University of Minnesota is ranked 14 over-all among the nations top research universities by the Center for Measuring University Performance. The U. S. News & World Reports 2016 rankings placed the program of the University as the 69th-best National University in the United States. Additionally, nineteen of the Universitys graduate-school departments have been ranked in the nations top-twenty by the U. S. National Research Council, in both 2008 and 2012 U. S. News & World Report ranked the College of Pharmacy 2nd in the nation. 2016 U. S. News & Report now rank the College of Pharmacy 2nd in the nation. In 2011, U. S. News & World Report ranked the School of Public Health 8th in the nation, the University of Minnesota ranked 19th in NIH funding in 2008. Minnesota is listed as a Public Ivy in 2001 Greenes Guides The Public Ivies, the university developed Gopher, a precursor to the World Wide Web which used hyperlinks to connect documents across computers on the internet. However, the produced by CERN was favored by the public since it was freely distributed. The University also houses the Charles Babbage Institute, a research, the department has strong roots in early days of supercomputing with Seymour Cray of Cray supercomputers. Notable faculty of the department are Yousef Saad, Vipin Kumar, Jaideep Srivastava, John Riedl, some notable alumni of the department are Ed Chi, Imrich Chlamtac, Leah Culver, Jeff Dean, Mark P. McCahill, Arvind Mithal, and Calvin Mooers. Puffed rice - Alexander P. Anderson led to the discovery of puffed rice, transistorized cardiac pacemaker - Earl Bakken founded Medtronic, where he developed the first external, battery-operated, transistorized, wearable artificial pacemaker in 1957
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Jerry Belson
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Jerry Belson was a writer, director, and producer of Hollywood films for over forty years. Belsons writing credits include the Steven Spielberg films Always and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, several episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show and Gomer Pyle, U. S. M. C. and I Spy. During the early 1960s, concurrent with contributing scripts for TV sitcoms with then writing partner Garry Marshall, Belson also helped produce The Drew Carey Show, The Norm Show and The Tracey Ullman Show. Ganz noted Belson had heard it used years ago by a teacher in a typewriter repair class and he won three Emmy Awards, for the Tracy Ullman Show in 1989 and 1990, and for “Tracey Takes On. ” in 1997. Belson died in Los Angeles, California on October 10,2006 and his sister, screenwriter Monica Johnson, died on November 1,2010. The Dick Van Dyke Show Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theater Gomer Pyle U. S. M. C, love, American Style The Murdocks And The McClays Barefoot In The Park The Odd Couple Evil Roy Slade Cops Mixed Nuts The Tracey Ullman Show Tracey Takes On. The Drew Carey Show The Norm Show How Sweet It Is, the Grasshopper Smile Fun With Dick And Jane Close Encounters of the Third Kind The End Smokey and the Bandit II Student Bodies Jekyll and Hyde. Together Again Surrender Always The Roast Smile Jerry Belson at the Internet Movie Database
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The Simpsons
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The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a depiction of working-class life epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks, Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19,1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a prime time show and became an early hit for Fox. Since its debut on December 17,1989,615 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast and its 28th season began on September 25,2016. It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program, the Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27,2007, and grossed over $527 million. On May 4,2015, the series was renewed for seasons 27 and 28, on November 4,2016, the series was renewed for seasons 29 and 30, consisting of 22 episodes each. The Simpsons received widespread critical acclaim throughout its first nine or ten seasons, Time named it the 20th centurys best television series, and Erik Adams of The A. V. Club named it televisions crowning achievement regardless of format, on January 14,2000, the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards,30 Annie Awards, Homers exclamatory catchphrase Doh. has been adopted into the English language, while The Simpsons has influenced many adult-oriented animated sitcoms. Despite this, the show has also criticized for what many perceive as a decline in quality over the years. The Simpsons are a family who live in a fictional Middle American town of Springfield, Homer, the father, works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality. He is married to Marge Simpson, a stereotypical American housewife, although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another. The family owns a dog, Santas Little Helper, and a cat, Snowball V, renamed Snowball II in I, both pets have had starring roles in several episodes. The show includes an array of supporting characters, co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople. The creators originally intended many of these characters as jokes or for fulfilling needed functions in the town
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Roseanne (TV series)
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Roseanne is an American sitcom that was broadcast on ABC from October 18,1988, to May 20,1997. Lauded for its portrayal of the average American family, the series stars Roseanne Barr, and revolves around the Conners. The series reached #1 in the Nielsen ratings, becoming the most watched show in the United States from 1989 to 1990. The show remained in the top four for six of its nine seasons, in 1993, the episode A Stash from the Past was ranked #21 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time. In 2002, Roseanne was ranked #35 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, in 2013, it was ranked #32 on TV Guides 60 Best Series of All Time. In coming up with ideas for new shows, Marcy Carsey, up until that point, there had been shows with working mothers, but only as an adjunct to the father in the family. Werner had suggested that they take a chance on Barr whom they had seen on The Tonight Show and this was because he saw the unique in your face voice that they were looking for, and he contacted her agent and offered her the role. The show is centered on the Conners, an American working-class family struggling to get by on a household income in the fictional town of Lanford. Lanford was nominally located in Fulton County, but other on-air references over the years suggest the town is in the vicinity of Aurora, Elgin, and DeKalb, which are much closer to Chicago. The family consisted of outspoken Roseanne, married to husband Dan, later in the series, Roseanne becomes pregnant again and gives birth to a boy named Jerry Garcia Conner. Establishing shots were photographed in Evansville, Indiana, the hometown of first-season producer Matt Williams, exterior shots of the Conner household were based on a real home located in Evansville, located at 620 Runnymede Ave, a few blocks from Williams alma mater, University of Evansville. My show seeks to portray various slices of life, and homosexuals are a reality. Both actresses appeared together in one episode, story arcs occasionally spanned across several episodes or an entire season. Roseanne is a worker at Wellman Plastics, along with her sister Jackie. Jackie has a relationship with Booker, the foreman at Wellman. Dan finds sporadic work as a contractor and faces a strained relationship with his irresponsible. Roseannes parents, Beverly and Al, consider moving to Lanford, tomboy Darlene struggles with her femininity as she enters puberty and gets her first period. Becky faces dating problems with her first boyfriend Chip, who is introduced in the Lovers Lane episode, Season one also finds the Conners experiencing, and surviving, a tornado
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Bruce Helford
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Bruce Helford is an American television writer and producer. Helford was the co-creator of The Drew Carey Show and he served as executive producer of the series for its entire run, from 1995 to 2004. Helford also served as producer and writer for Roseanne during season five of the series. He also created or co-created the series The Norm Show, Wanda at Large, Freddie, George Lopez, Nikki, in 1995, Helford launched Mohawk Productions to produce shows created or executive produced by him. Mohawk is affiliated with Warner Bros, anger Management starring Charlie Sheen premiered in 2012 on cable channel FX. Bruce Helford at the Internet Movie Database
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The Drew Carey Show
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The show was created by Carey, who had both stand-up comedy and writing experience, and Bruce Helford, who was once a writer for Roseanne. It was the first television show to have an episode simulcast on the Internet, produced by Mohawk Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, it debuted on September 13,1995, and ranked among the Top 30 programs for four seasons before sliding in popularity, ratings declined sharply during the final two seasons, and the last two episodes aired on September 8,2004. Drew Carey is a version of himself, a self-proclaimed everyman. Drew Carey has been quoted as saying his character is what the actor would have if he had not become an actor. He has a gang of friends who embark with him on his everyday trials, Drews friends include erudite but unambitious Lewis, excitable dimwitted Oswald and his friend Kate. In the final two seasons, Kate gets married and moves to Guam, in the same episode that introduces and develops Drews relationship with Kellie. For its first seven seasons, Drews workplace is the office of fictional Cleveland department store Winfred-Louder, one of his coworkers is Mimi Bobeck, a large woman with a clownish wardrobe, a lot of make-up, and a foul mutual dislike for Drew. The two eventually become closer, primarily because Mimi fell in love with and married Drews crossdressing heterosexual brother Steve, a frequently recurring character. In addition to his day job, Drew, along with Oswald, Lewis, and Kate, runs a business out of his garage, selling Buzz Beer. It becomes popular in the region and is sold at the groups hangout, the first seasons opening credits consisted of a caricature of Carey — consisting of his face and a yellow tie — singing the Robert McGuire-penned Moon Over Parma. In the first season, Drew and Mimi worked under Mr. Bell, other characters that appeared exclusively in this period were Drews hillbilly neighbor Jules and his family. Drews first girlfriend Lisa was introduced in season, as was Jay, Kates love interest who used to attend the same high school as Drew. Both characters lasted until Season 2, where they were written out of the show in the early episodes. Nine of the titles were related to chemistry in some way, with names such as The Joining of Two Unlike Elements Is a Mixture. However, this theme was abandoned by the end of the season, Moon Over Parma was phased out during the second season by Five OClock World sung by The Vogues. This season introduced openings that paid homage to music videos included the cast dancing and singing around the various sets of the show. In the third season, yet another change was made to Cleveland Rocks and this change lasted until the second wave of the show ended, with the finale of Season 7
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Drop Dead Gorgeous (film)
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In 1995, Mount Rose is preparing for its annual beauty pageant. Amber Atkins is a teenager who signs up to compete in the pageant so she can follow in the footsteps of her idols, Diane Sawyer, and her mother. Amber works after school applying makeups to corpses at the mortuary, various business connections between the Leeman Furniture Store and the judges of the pageant cause many to speculate that the contest will be rigged or fixed. Amber decides to out of the pageant after her mother is injured in an explosion at their mobile home. At the dress rehearsal, fellow contestant Jenelle Betz swaps numbers with Amber, when Jenelle walks on stage at the beginning of rehearsal, a stage light falls and hits her in the head, knocking her unconscious and rendering her deaf. Luckily, Jenelle is a master of language so she claims that despite dropping out of the pageant. At the pageant, Ambers dance costume mysteriously goes missing, Amber blames Becky and the two get into a catty fight. Ambers best friend and fellow contestant Lisa Swenson tears them apart, after comforting a crying Amber, Lisa drops out of the pageant in order to give her own costume to Amber. During judging, the years winner Mary Johanson reprises her talent act while being pushed around the stage in her hospital wheelchair in a re-enactment of her dance movements. When the new winner is announced, Amber is named first runner-up to Rebecca, during the victory parade the next day, Rebecca is killed in a freak accident when the elaborate float on which she is riding explodes. Rebeccas tragic death and Gladyss antics leave Amber as the new pageant winner, upon arrival there, Amber and the other state winners are devastated to find that the cosmetics company has been shut down by the IRS for tax evasion. This sends all the contestants except Amber on a rampage, vandalizing and destroying the property, a few years later, Gladys escapes from prison and is sniping from the top of the Mount Rose supermarket, declaring her intent to take revenge on Amber. During the six-hour police standoff, a reporter doing a live report at the scene is hit by a stray bullet. Amber quickly picks up the microphone and takes over, impressing the news station with her poise. The film closes with a scene showing Amber as co-anchor of the news for Minneapolis–St. Paul television station WAZB-TV, thus living her dream of becoming the next Diane Sawyer. The movie is set in the town of Mount Rose. The accents portrayed in the movie are that of the North Central American dialect found in the Midwest, notably Minnesota
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Sugar & Spice
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Sugar & Spice is a 2001 American teen crime comedy film directed by Francine McDougall, and starring Marley Shelton, Marla Sokoloff, Mena Suvari, James Marsden, and Melissa George. The plot follows a group of school cheerleaders who conspire and commit armed robbery when one of them becomes pregnant. It was loosely based on a 1999 series of robberies perpetrated by four girls from the Kingwood area of Houston. Sokoloff stated that Its not the same, of course, yet Im not sure if Sugar & Spice would have made if that hadnt happened. Bruce Westbrook of the Houston Chronicle wrote that The actors didnt seem worried by taking an approach to teen crime. The story is narrated by Lisa Janusch, the bitter and jealous head cheerleader of Lincoln High Schools B-squad, Diane Weston, the popular head cheerleader of Lincoln High Schools A-squad, becomes pregnant by the star football quarterback Jack Bartlett. The two move out of their parents homes to find an apartment of their own, Jack initially has problems staying in a job, due to his tactless personality, but finally gets hired at a video rental store. In spite of their problems coming up with the rent money, Jack, Lisa, Dianes bitter rival, occasionally runs into Jack at the rental store. She is interested in winning Jacks heart, but fails to get his attention and they promise each other not to tell Jack about their plan, because of his inability to lie to others. The squad watches heist films to learn how to rob banks, following the womens advice, Diane and her friends visit a bug exterminator, The Terminator, who sells illegal arms and ammo. He refuses to sell them the guns unless they accept his daughter, Fern Rogers, the squad agrees to do so and they begin rehearsing the robbery, as well as their choreography for the winter ball. During winter break, they order masks to hide their identities, Lucy backs out of the heist because she receives a scholarship to Harvard. At Christmas, Diane receives an engagement ring from Jack and she then finds out he sold his GTO in order to buy her the ring. The squad is forced to buy a new vehicle, which turns out to be an old van with bad brakes. At their first robbery at a supermarket, Lucy returns to the group having decided to help them after all, Lisa happens to be in the store at the time of the robbery, and notices that they perform cheerleader stunts in order to cover up the security cameras. The squad robs the bank and come close to shooting a customer after one of the guns discharges and they make off with armloads of cash and celebrate their success after burning their costumes. The robbery is reported on TV, neither Diane nor her friends expect Lisa to suspect them until they are confronted by her and the B-squad in the high school cafeteria, followed by the FBI. The group is outraged, but come to appreciate this decision, in order to cover up her actions, Diane tells Jack she won the lottery and after they have their children, Jack wins his senatorial campaign, and Dianes squad lead successful lives after high school
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Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
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Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is a 2015 American horror comedy film directed by Christopher B. Landon and written by Landon, Carrie Evans, Emi Mochizuki, the film stars Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, Joey Morgan, Sarah Dumont and David Koechner. Principal photography began on May 8,2014 in Los Angeles, three high school sophomores, Ben, Carter, and Augie, are trying to recruit new members for their Scout group, led by their Scout Leader Rogers. While Augie has always been happy about being a Scout, Ben, Carter tries convincing Ben to quit but he cant as Augie is about to get his Condor Patch. Their conversation of quitting is cut short when Ben accidentally hits a deer and they manage to get help from Carters sister, Kendall, and her friends. Ben, whos had a crush on Kendall, gets some advice from her, before they leave, the two are invited to the Secret Seniors Party and Carter is given the address. When they go to get alcohol for the party, they meet Denise and she and Ben hit it off and she agrees to buy the alcohol for them. The two then meet up with Augie in the woods so they can set up their campsite and that night, still concerned about the disappearance of Scout Leader Rogers, the trio talk about how great their friendship has been before heading to sleep. Before the night is out, Carter wakes Ben so they can attend the party, Augie catches up, however, and is disappointed by their choice. The two drive into town to find that the bouncer for the club is no longer there. The two are attacked by a zombie bouncer and stripper before being saved by a shotgun wielding Denise. Augie goes to Scout Leader Rogers house to him, only to be attacked by Scout Leader Rogers as a zombie. Augie manages to deter him, and flee the scene, Ben, Carter, and Denise go to the police station to discover that the town has been evacuated, before they are chased by a zombie horde into a holding cell. They wait for hours when the zombies hear music from outside, Augie, seeing Bens car, runs in and unlocks the cell, freeing them. They all escape and make their way down the freeway, after walking for a bit, the four are picked up by Corporal Reeves. They drive to the party to see if anyone is evacuated, the group starts to argue, but Reeves has been bitten before and turns into a zombie. Denise kills him and they try to get a signal on his radio and they hear information about bombing the town and start panicking. Carter then remembers his sisters diary has the party information in it, the four take the vehicle and drive to Carters house
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St. Paul Pioneer Press
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The St. Paul Pioneer Press is a newspaper based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, primarily serving the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Circulation is heaviest in the metro region, including Ramsey, Dakota. The papers main rival is the Star Tribune, based in neighboring Minneapolis, the Pioneer Press has been owned by MediaNews Group since April 2006. The Pioneer Press traces its history to both the Minnesota Pioneer, Minnesotas first daily newspaper, and the Saint Paul Dispatch, Ridder Publications acquired the Pioneer and the Dispatch in 1927. Ridder merged with Knight Publications to form Knight Ridder in 1974, the paper is sometimes called the Pi Press, just as Strib is used for the Star Tribune. From 1947 to 1949, the newspaper printed the comic strip Lil Folks and this comic introduced a number of characters who would later return in 1950 in the syndicated comic strip Peanuts, including Charlie Brown and a dog strongly resembling Snoopy. In 1952, the Dispatch began sponsoring a treasure hunt as part of the Saint Paul Winter Carnival. Clues to finding a medallion are printed in the paper, and the first person to find and return it with the clues, the prize started off at $1,000 and as of 2004 rose to $10,000. The paper has won three Pulitzer Prizes, in 1986,1988, and 2000, Dohrmann would win a Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting in 2000 for his reports on the scandal. Dohrmann and his editor prepared for hostile reactions to the newspaper from the local community, the McClatchy Company acquired the paper in June 2006 when it bought Knight Ridder. As owner of the Star Tribune, McClatchy had to sell the Pioneer Press because of antitrust concerns, the Pioneer Press was subsequently sold by McClatchy to MediaNews Group later in the year. Joseph H. Ball, who was a columnist for the Pioneer Press before becoming a Republican U. S, senator for Minnesota Jim Caple Nick Coleman Carole Nelson Douglas, author of a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and 62 other novels. George Dohrmann, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting, dick Gordon Herb Greenberg Mark Kellogg, the first Associated Press correspondent to die in the line of duty when he was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Bob Sansevere, sports columnist and member of the KQRS-FM morning show with Tom Barnard, joe Soucheray, general columnist and host of the KSTP afternoon program, Garage Logic. Charley Walters, sports columnist Jacqui Banaszynski, writer, editor, bruce Orwall, writer and current editor at The Wall Street Journal. Deborah Howell, executive editor and vice president who died in 2010, city Pages Minnesota Daily Star Tribune Villager Official website Mobile
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The Orlando Sentinel
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The Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida and the Central Florida region. The Sentinel is owned by Tribune Publishing, the Sentinel prices are $1.50 daily and $2 on Saturdays, Sundays and Thanksgiving Day, sales tax is included at newsracks. The Sentinels predecessors date to 1876, when the Orange County Reporter was first published, the Reporter became a daily newspaper in 1905, and merged with the Orlando Evening Star in 1906. Another Orlando paper, the South Florida Sentinel, started publishing as a daily in 1913. Then known as the Morning Sentinel, it bought the Reporter-Star in 1931, Andersen eventually bought both papers outright in 1945, selling them to the Tribune Company of Chicago in 1965. In 1973, the two merged into the daily Sentinel Star. Tribune appointed Charles T. Brumback as president in 1976, harold Tip Lifvendahl was named president and publisher in 1981. The newspaper was renamed the Orlando Sentinel in 1982, john Puerner succeeded Lifvendahl in 1993, who was replaced by Kathleen M. Waltz in 2000. She announced her resignation in February 2008, howard Greenberg, already publisher of fellow Tribune newspaper the Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale, was named publisher of both papers after Waltz left. In 2008, the Tribune Company called for a redesign of the Sentinel, according to one listing, some of the Sentinels predecessors are, Orlando Reporter, 1892–1903. 1993, investigative reporting, Jeff Brazil and Steve Berry, for exposing the unjust seizure of millions of dollars from motorists—most of them minorities—by a sheriffs drug squad. Bersia, for his editorial campaign attacking predatory lending practices in the state
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Matt Groening
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Matthew Abram Matt Groening is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, animator, and voice actor. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell, the Simpsons has gone on to become the longest-running U. S. primetime-television series in history, as well as the longest-running animated series and sitcom. Groening made his first professional cartoon sale of Life in Hell to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978, at its peak, the cartoon was carried in 250 weekly newspapers. Life in Hell caught the attention of James L. Brooks, in 1985, Brooks contacted Groening with the proposition of working in animation for the Fox variety show The Tracey Ullman Show. Originally, Brooks wanted Groening to adapt his Life in Hell characters for the show, the shorts would be spun off into their own series The Simpsons, which has since aired 615 episodes. Groening has won 12 Primetime Emmy Awards, ten for The Simpsons, in 2002, he won the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for his work on Life in Hell. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 14,2012, Groening was born on February 15,1954 in Portland, Oregon, the middle of five children. His Norwegian American mother, Margaret Ruth, was once a teacher, Homer, born in Main Centre, Saskatchewan, Canada, grew up in a Mennonite, Plautdietsch-speaking family. Matts grandfather, Abram Groening, was a professor at Tabor College, Groening grew up in Portland, and attended Ainsworth Elementary School and Lincoln High School. He served as the editor of the newspaper, The Cooper Point Journal, for which he also wrote articles. He befriended fellow cartoonist Lynda Barry after discovering that she had written a fan letter to Joseph Heller, one of Groenings favorite authors, Groening has credited Barry with being probably biggest inspiration. He first became interested in cartoons after watching the Disney animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians, in 1977, at the age of 23, Groening moved to Los Angeles to become a writer. Groening distributed the book in the book corner of Licorice Pizza. He made his first professional sale to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978. The strip, titled Forbidden Words, appeared in the September/October issue of that year, Groening had gained employment at the Los Angeles Reader, a newly formed alternative newspaper, delivering papers, typesetting, editing and answering phones. He showed his cartoons to the editor, James Vowell, who was impressed, Life in Hell made its official debut as a comic strip in the Reader on April 25,1980. Vowell also gave Groening his own weekly column, Sound Mix. However, the column would rarely actually be about music, as he would write about his various enthusiasms, obsessions, pet peeves
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The Simpsons episode guides
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Five official episode guides for American animated sitcom The Simpsons have been published by HarperCollins since 1997. The first guide covers seasons 1 to 8, while the three cover seasons 9 to 14. The fifth was released in 2010 and covers seasons 1 to 20, the first guide, The Simpsons, A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, was published in the fall of 1997. It was edited by Ray Richmond and Antonia Coffman, and includes a foreword by series creator Matt Groening. As an in-joke, the made a actual appearance in the 2003 episode Today I Am a Clown. The guide provides a history of the first eight seasons of The Simpsons. Each episode is covered in one or two pages, featuring a synopsis, credits, pictures, and memorable quotes, as well as the episodes chalkboard gag. Obscure or hidden jokes are also brought to attention, and a list of Itchy & Scratchy cartoons. On two pages there are biographies of each of the five immediate members of the Simpson family, namely Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The book is the first companion to the original The Simpsons, A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, the Simpsons Forever. was edited by Scott M. Gimple and released in 1999. Groening wrote an introduction to The Simpsons Forever, just as he did with the original book. Groening goes on to describe the format of the book, which, like the last, the guide also includes the lyrics to the Simpsons-related songs, Do the Bartman and Deep, Deep Trouble. A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family. Still Continued is a guide for the eleventh and twelfth seasons of The Simpsons. It was edited by Jesse L. McCann and published in 2002 by HarperCollins, the book is a companion to the prior Simpsons episode guides. The book consists of synopses and quotes for each episode, beginning with Beyond Blunderdome, in this way it follows the last two books. However, this edition dedicates two pages of coverage to every episode, and four pages of coverage for each Halloween special and it thus outdoes the prior editions, which had one-to-two page coverage for each episode. The book also continues the work of the last two editions by listing the times Homer cries Doh. or says Mmm. as well as new couch gags, sketches from the early production are included. Groening wrote an introduction to the book, as he had for the previous editions, in it, he refers to the eleventh and twelfth seasons as the Wackier-Than-Ever Years, and explains that it had been the objective to take the series in unexpected directions
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HarperPerennial
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Harper Perennial is a paperback imprint of the publishing house HarperCollins Publishers. Harper Perennial has divisions located in New York, London, Toronto, the imprint is descended from the Perennial Library imprint founded by Harper & Row in 1964. In Fall of 2005, Harper Perennial rebranded with a new logo, in the end matter, books often feature a brand-specific P. S. section that features extra material such as interviews, essays, etc. In November,2011, they released The Shakespeare Guide to Italy, Retracing the Bards Unknown Travels by Richard Paul Roe, Harper Perennial Home The Olive Reader, Harper Perennial Blog Harper Perennial Podcast Harper Perennial Myspace
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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OCLC
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The Online Computer Library Center is a US-based nonprofit cooperative organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the worlds information and reducing information costs. It was founded in 1967 as the Ohio College Library Center, OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog in the world. OCLC is funded mainly by the fees that libraries have to pay for its services, the group first met on July 5,1967 on the campus of the Ohio State University to sign the articles of incorporation for the nonprofit organization. The group hired Frederick G. Kilgour, a former Yale University medical school librarian, Kilgour wished to merge the latest information storage and retrieval system of the time, the computer, with the oldest, the library. The goal of network and database was to bring libraries together to cooperatively keep track of the worlds information in order to best serve researchers and scholars. The first library to do online cataloging through OCLC was the Alden Library at Ohio University on August 26,1971 and this was the first occurrence of online cataloging by any library worldwide. Membership in OCLC is based on use of services and contribution of data, between 1967 and 1977, OCLC membership was limited to institutions in Ohio, but in 1978, a new governance structure was established that allowed institutions from other states to join. In 2002, the structure was again modified to accommodate participation from outside the United States. As OCLC expanded services in the United States outside of Ohio, it relied on establishing strategic partnerships with networks, organizations that provided training, support, by 2008, there were 15 independent United States regional service providers. OCLC networks played a key role in OCLC governance, with networks electing delegates to serve on OCLC Members Council, in early 2009, OCLC negotiated new contracts with the former networks and opened a centralized support center. OCLC provides bibliographic, abstract and full-text information to anyone, OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat—the OCLC Online Union Catalog, the largest online public access catalog in the world. WorldCat has holding records from public and private libraries worldwide. org, in October 2005, the OCLC technical staff began a wiki project, WikiD, allowing readers to add commentary and structured-field information associated with any WorldCat record. The Online Computer Library Center acquired the trademark and copyrights associated with the Dewey Decimal Classification System when it bought Forest Press in 1988, a browser for books with their Dewey Decimal Classifications was available until July 2013, it was replaced by the Classify Service. S. The reference management service QuestionPoint provides libraries with tools to communicate with users and this around-the-clock reference service is provided by a cooperative of participating global libraries. OCLC has produced cards for members since 1971 with its shared online catalog. OCLC commercially sells software, e. g. CONTENTdm for managing digital collections, OCLC has been conducting research for the library community for more than 30 years. In accordance with its mission, OCLC makes its research outcomes known through various publications and these publications, including journal articles, reports, newsletters, and presentations, are available through the organizations website. The most recent publications are displayed first, and all archived resources, membership Reports – A number of significant reports on topics ranging from virtual reference in libraries to perceptions about library funding
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Open Library
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Open Library is an online project intended to create one web page for every book ever published. It provides access to public domain and out-of-print books, which can be read online. Its book information is collected from the Library of Congress, other libraries, if books are available in digital form, a button labelled Read appears next to its catalog listing. Links to where books can be purchased or borrowed are also provided, tens of thousands of modern books were made available from four and then 150 libraries and publishers for ebook digital lending. Open Library began in 2006 with Aaron Swartz as the engineer and leader of Open Librarys technical team. The project was led by George Oates from April 2009 to December 2011, Oates was responsible for a complete site redesign during her tenure. In 2015, the project was continued by Giovanni Damiola and then Brenton Cheng, the site was redesigned and relaunched in May 2010. The site uses Infobase, its own database framework based on PostgreSQL, the source code to the site is published under the GNU Affero General Public License. The website was relaunched adding ADA compliance and offering over 1 million modern, under certain provisions of United States copyright law, libraries are sometimes able to reproduce copyrighted works in formats accessible to users with disabilities
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Deseret News
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The Deseret News is a newspaper published in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It is Utahs oldest continuously published daily newspaper and has the largest Sunday circulation in the state, the News is owned by Deseret News Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, a holding company owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The newspaper is printed by the Newspaper Agency Corporation, which it co-owns with The Salt Lake Tribune under a joint operating agreement, in 2006, combined circulation of the two papers was 151,422. The Church News includes news of the LDS Church and has published since 1931, while the Mormon Times is about the people, faith. Since 1974 the Deseret News has also published the Church Almanac, the editorial tone of the Deseret News is usually described as moderate to conservative, and is often assumed to reflect the values of its owner, the LDS Church. For example, the newspaper does not accept advertising that violates church standards, Phelps left Winter Quarters sometime in May, and went to Boston by way of the former Mormon settlement of Nauvoo, Illinois. In Boston, with the help of William I, appleby, the president of the Churchs Eastern States Mission, and Church member Alexander Badlam, Phelps was able to procure a wrought iron Ramage hand-press, type, and other required equipment. He returned to Winter Quarters on November 12,1847, with the press, due partly to its size and weight, the press and equipment would not be taken to Salt Lake City until 1849. By that time many of the Mormon pioneers had left Winter Quarters, in April 1849 the press and other church property was loaded onto ox drawn wagons, and traveled with the Howard Egan Company along the Mormon Trail. The wagon company, with the press, arrived in the Salt Lake Valley August 7,1849, the press was moved into a small adobe building that also served as a coin mint for the settlers. The press was at first used to print the necessary documents used in setting up the provisional State of Deseret, the first issue of the Deseret News was published June 15,1850, and was 8 pages long. Because it was meant to be the voice of the State of Deseret, it was called the Deseret News and it was at first a weekly Saturday publication, and published in pamphlet form in hopes that readers would have the papers bound into volumes. Subscription rate was $2.50 for six months, a jobs press, usually called the Deseret News Press, was also set up so the News could print books, booklets, handbills, broadsides, etc. for paying customers and other publishers. From the beginning paper shortages were a problem for the News staff, starting with the October 19,1850 issue—only four months after publication began—the paper had to be changed to a bi-weekly publication. Even so, many times in the 1850s there were periods when the News could not be published for lack of paper. The publishers asked everyone to donate old paper and cloth to the venture, in the summer of 1854 the first issues of the News were published on homemade paper that was very thick, and grayish in color. Even with paper shortages, occasionally a News extra would be published, during a turbulent time period, later known as the Utah War, the News presses and equipment were moved to the central and southern parts of the state. As armed forces of the United States camped just outside the state at Fort Bridger, Cannon was assigned to take some presses and equipment to Fillmore while Henry McEwan was to take the remainder to Parowan
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Roger Ebert
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Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic and historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, the two verbally sparred and traded humorous barbs while discussing films. They created and trademarked the phrase Two Thumbs Up, used when both hosts gave the film a positive review. After Siskel died in 1999, Ebert continued hosting the show with various co-hosts and then, starting in 2000, Ebert lived with cancer of the thyroid and salivary glands from 2002. This required treatments necessitating the removal of his jaw, which cost him the ability to speak or eat normally. His ability to write remained unimpaired, however, and he continued to publish frequently both online and in print until his death on April 4,2013. Roger Joseph Ebert was born in Urbana, Illinois, the child of Annabel, a bookkeeper, and Walter Harry Ebert. He was raised Roman Catholic, attending St. Marys elementary school and his paternal grandparents were German immigrants and his maternal ancestry was Irish and Dutch. In his senior year, he was president and editor-in-chief of his high school newspaper. In 1958, he won the Illinois High School Association state speech championship in radio speaking, regarding his early influences in film criticism, Ebert wrote in the 1998 parody collection Mad About the Movies, I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine. Mads parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin – of the way a movie might look original on the outside, I did not read the magazine, I plundered it for clues to the universe. Pauline Kael lost it at the movies, I lost it at Mad magazine, Ebert began taking classes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an early-entrance student, completing his high-school courses while also taking his first university class. After graduating from Urbana High School in 1960, Ebert then attended and received his degree in 1964. As an undergraduate, he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, One of the first movie reviews he ever wrote was a review of La Dolce Vita, published in The Daily Illini in October 1961. Ebert spent a semester as a student in the department of English there before attending the University of Cape Town on a Rotary fellowship for a year. He returned from Cape Town to his studies at Illinois for two more semesters and then, after being accepted as a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago. Instead Kogan referred Ebert to the city editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, Jim Hoge and he attended doctoral classes at the University of Chicago while working as a general reporter at the Sun-Times for a year
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Chicago Sun-Times
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The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the paper of the Sun-Times Media Group. The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city and it began in 1844 as the Chicago Daily Journal, which was the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine OLeary was responsible for the Chicago fire. The Evening Journal, whose West Side building at 17-19 S. Canal was undamaged, in 1929, the newspaper was relaunched as the Chicago Daily Illustrated Times. The modern paper grew out of the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun, founded December 4,1941 by Marshall Field III, and the Chicago Daily Times. The newspaper was owned by Field Enterprises, controlled by the Marshall Field family, when the Daily News ended its run in 1978, much of its staff, including Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko, were moved to the Sun-Times. During the Field period, the newspaper had a populist, progressive character that leaned Democratic but was independent of the citys Democratic establishment, although the graphic style was urban tabloid, the paper was well regarded for journalistic quality and did not rely on sensational front-page stories. It typically ran articles from the Washington Post/Los Angeles Times wire service, the advice column Ask Ann Landers debuted in 1943. Ann Landers was the pseudonym of staff writer Ruth Crowley, who answered readers letters until 1955, eppie Lederer, sister of Dear Abby columnist Abigail van Buren, assumed the role thereafter as Ann Landers. Kups Column, written by Irv Kupcinet, also made its first appearance in 1943, Jack Olsen joined the Sun-Times as editor-in-chief in 1954, before moving on to Time and Sports Illustrated magazines and authoring true-crime books. Hired as literary editor in 1955 was Hoke Norris, who covered the civil-rights movement for the Sun-Times. Jerome Holtzman became a member of the Chicago Sun sports department after first being a boy for the Daily News in the 1940s. He and Edgar Munzel, another longtime sportswriter for the paper, famed for his World War II exploits, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin made the Sun-Times his home base in 1962. The following year, Mauldin drew one of his most renowned illustrations, two years out of college, Roger Ebert became a staff writer in 1966, and a year later was named Sun-Times film critic. He continued in this role for the remainder of his life, after the friend wrote a story about it, Grizzard fired Banks. With that, the employees union intervened, a federal arbitrator ruled for Banks and 13 months later. The articles received considerable publicity and acclaim, but a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize met resistance from some who believed the Mirage series represented a form of entrapment. In March 1978, the afternoon publication the Chicago Daily News, sister paper of the Sun-Times
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Virtual International Authority File
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The Virtual International Authority File is an international authority file. It is a joint project of national libraries and operated by the Online Computer Library Center. The project was initiated by the US Library of Congress, the German National Library, the National Library of France joined the project on October 5,2007. The project transitions to a service of the OCLC on April 4,2012, the aim is to link the national authority files to a single virtual authority file. In this file, identical records from the different data sets are linked together, a VIAF record receives a standard data number, contains the primary see and see also records from the original records, and refers to the original authority records. The data are available online and are available for research and data exchange. Reciprocal updating uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting protocol, the file numbers are also being added to Wikipedia biographical articles and are incorporated into Wikidata. VIAFs clustering algorithm is run every month, as more data are added from participating libraries, clusters of authority records may coalesce or split, leading to some fluctuation in the VIAF identifier of certain authority records
