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Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. It is a popular tourist destination, with a reported 10 million visitors in 2003, as of 2017, the Walk of Fame comprises over 2,600 stars, spaced at 6-foot intervals. The monuments are coral-pink terrazzo five-point stars rimmed with brass inlaid into a charcoal-colored terrazzo background, in the upper portion of each star field the name of the honoree is inlaid in brass block letters. Below the inscription, in the half of the star field. Approximately 20 new stars are added to the Walk each year, special category stars recognize various contributions by corporate entities, service organizations, and special honorees, and display emblems unique to those honorees. The moons are silver and grey terrazzo circles rimmed in brass on a square pink terrazzo background, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce credits E. M. Stuart, its volunteer president in 1953, with the original idea for creating a Walk of Fame. Stuart reportedly proposed the Walk as a means to maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamor, Harry Sugarman, another Chamber member and president of the Hollywood Improvement Association, receives credit in an independent account. A committee was formed to flesh out the idea, and a firm was retained to develop specific proposals. By 1955 the basic concept and general design had been agreed upon, multiple accounts exist for the origin of the star concept. By another account, the stars were inspired, by Sugarmans drinks menu, which featured celebrity photos framed in gold stars. In February 1956 a prototype was unveiled featuring a caricature of an example honoree inside a star on a brown background. The committees met at the Brown Derby restaurant, and included such prominent names as Cecil B, deMille, Samuel Goldwyn, Jesse L. Lasky, Walt Disney, Hal Roach, Mack Sennett, and Walter Lantz. A requirement stipulated by the audio recording committee specified minimum sales of one million records or 250,000 albums for all music category nominees. The committee soon realized that many important recording artists would be excluded from the Walk by that requirement, as a result, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was formed for the purpose of creating a separate award system for the music business. The first Grammy Awards were presented in Beverly Hills in 1959, construction of the Walk began in 1958 but two lawsuits delayed completion. The first was filed by local property owners challenging the legality of the $1.25 million tax assessment levied upon them to pay for the Walk, along with new street lighting, in October 1959 the assessment was ruled legal. The second lawsuit, filed by Charles Chaplin, Jr. sought damages for the exclusion of his father, chaplins suit was dismissed in 1960, paving the way for completion of the project. Woodwards name was one of eight drawn at random from the original 1,558, the other seven names were Olive Borden, Ronald Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster, Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence
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Morton Grove, Illinois
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Morton Grove is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 23,270, the Village of Morton Grove is represented by a governing board consisting of a Village President and six Village Trustee. The President and Trustee are elected to four-year terms, the Village President is the presiding officer of Village Board meetings. The President is also the executive officer of the Village. The Village President of Morton Grove since May 13,2013, is Mayor Daniel P. DiMaria, regularly scheduled Board meetings are held on the second and fourth Mondays of each month, beginning with a closed door executive session at 6,00 PM. The Village Board is the body of the Village and exercises all powers entrusted to it under Illinois statutes. These include police powers related to the health, safety and welfare of the community, Morton Grove was incorporated in December 1895. The village serves as the headquarters for Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, Morton Grove is located at 42°2′28″N 87°47′11″W. According to the 2010 census, Morton Grove has an area of 5.09 square miles. The North Branch of the Chicago River runs through the middle of the suburb within Cook County Forest Preserve area, potawatomi Native Americans, followed by French traders, first inhabited the area around present day Morton Grove. Farmers from England, Germany and Luxembourg started arriving in the 1830s, the community was named after banker Levi Parsons Morton. Morton was a president of the United States and an ambassador to France. He became the Governor of New York just eight days after the village was incorporated, December 24,1895, the first mayor, George Harrer, was of German descent and the largest park in the village is named after him. The earliest inhabitants witnessed open prairies resembling vast seas of tall grasses, most of these original prairies were later utilized for agriculture, and the rich soil attracted farmers. Local farmers traveled along Millers Mill Road to sell their produce in Chicago and they later traveled along the railroad, when it came through in the 1870s. Greenhouses arrived in the 1890s and quickly grew into the world’s largest floral business, the floral business received worldwide recognition for taking first place for roses at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. With the end of the 19th into the 20th century, the continued to grow. As the Jazz Age roared on, one of the changes that illustrated the new era was the transformation of farmland into an airfield that existed north of Dempster St. from 1919 to 1932
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Switched at Birth (TV series)
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Switched at Birth is an American teen/family drama television series that premiered on ABC Family on June 6,2011, at 9,00 ET/PT. According to ABC Family, it is the first mainstream television series to have multiple deaf and hard-of-hearing series regulars, the shows debut was ABC Familys highest-rated series debut to date. The series won an honorary Peabody Award in 2013, and on July 30, on August 13,2014, ABC Family renewed the series for a fourth season, which premiered on January 6,2015. On October 21,2015, ABC Family confirmed the series had been renewed for its fifth season, on March 19,2016, it was announced that the fifth season was bumped from a March 2016 to a January 2017 premiere date. In October 2016, the announced that the final season would premiere on January 31,2017. Genetic testing confirms Bay is not the Kennishes biological daughter and she uses the phrase real parents, but is informed that biological is the preferred term. Daphne is deaf, having lost her hearing as a result of contracting meningitis at age three and this forces the girls, along with both families, to understand their differences and embrace their similarities. Both mothers learn to bond with their daughters, while often unintentionally angering their legal ones. John learns to relate to his daughter by coaching her deaf schools basketball team. Bay is driven by a need to find her biological father Angelo Sorrento and that causes a bond between her and Emmett that later becomes an intense romance. Sean Berdy as Emmett Bledsoe, Daphnes best friend who is also deaf, lucas Grabeel as Toby Kennish, Bay and Daphnes older brother. Katie Leclerc as Daphne Paloma Vasquez, the daughter of John. Hard of hearing rather than deaf, Leclerc learned ASL at age 17, vanessa Marano as Bay Madeline Kennish, the biological daughter of Regina Vasquez and Angelo Sorrento. She was raised in the neighborhood of Mission Hills by John. Bay is a talented artist who has a particular love for Frida Kahlo. Bay can be impulsive at times, and, at first. However, she gets better in accepting that Regina and the Kennishes are both her family. Constance Marie as Regina Vasquez, Bays biological mother and Daphnes legal mother, D. W. Moffett as John Kennish, Bays legal father and Daphnes biological father
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The West Wing
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The West Wing is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22,1999, to May 14,2006. The West Wing was produced by Warner Bros, for the first four seasons, there were three executive producers, Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme, and John Wells. The West Wing received acclaim from critics, as well as praise from political science professors, in total, The West Wing won three Golden Globe Awards and 26 Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Drama Series, which it won four consecutive times from 2000 through 2003. In the years since its run, it has appeared on lists of the greatest television dramas ever made. The Writers Guild of America also ranked it #10 in its 101 Best-Written TV Series list, the West Wing employed a broad ensemble cast to portray the many positions involved in the daily work of the federal government. The President, the First Lady, and the Presidents senior staff, numerous secondary characters, appearing intermittently, complement storylines that generally revolve around this core group. Sam Seaborn is the Deputy Communications Director and he departs the White House following the re-election of President Bartlet to run for Congress. He is recruited to become Santos Deputy Chief of Staff at the series end, mandy Hampton is Josh Lymans ex-girlfriend and a media consultant contracted by the Bartlet administration. She departs without explanation following the first season, charlie Young is originally the Personal Aide to the President and later a Deputy Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff. He is in a relationship with Zoey Bartlet, at the series end he begins to study law at Georgetown. She succeeds Leo McGarry as Chief of Staff and departs White House at the end of the Bartlet administration, post-series, she marries Danny Concannon and has a child. He is fired from the Bartlet administration during a leak investigation and he has twin children with his ex-wife who is a congresswoman from Maryland. Leo McGarry, Bartlets close personal friend and Chief of Staff, following a heart attack, he becomes Counselor to the President, and later the Democratic Candidate for Vice President. Josh Lyman, is the Deputy Chief of Staff to Leo McGarry and C. J. Cregg, when Santos is elected, Josh becomes White House Chief of Staff. Josiah Jed Bartlet is the President of the United States, an economist by training, he is a former Congressman and Governor from New Hampshire who unexpectedly won the Democratic Party nomination. He suffers from multiple sclerosis, a fact he hides from the electorate. Donna Moss is the Senior Assistant to Josh Lyman and she later departs to be a spokesperson for the Russell campaign and then the Santos campaign. Upon Santos election, she becomes Chief of Staff to the First Lady, abbey Bartlet is the First Lady, Jeds wife, and a physician
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The L Word
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The series originally ran on Showtime from January 18,2004 to March 8,2009, and subsequently in syndication on Logo and through on-demand services. The show was created by executive producer Ilene Chaiken, other executive producers include Steve Golin and Larry Kennar. Besides Chaiken, writers of the show have included Guinevere Turner, Susan Miller, Cherien Dabis, the pilot episode premiered on January 18,2004. The original six-year run ended with the series airing on March 8,2009. Outside the United States, the series is distributed by MGM Worldwide Television, the L Word was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, at Coast Mountain Films Studio, as well as on location in Los Angeles, California. The studio was owned by and named for Dufferin Gate Productions, the sister company to Temple Street Productions. The main characters throughout the series, and the seasons in which appeared and left, The original code-name for the project was Earthlings. Contemporary use of the phrase the L word as an alias for lesbian dates to at least the 1981 play My Blue Heaven by Jane Chambers, in which a character stammers out, lord God, I never met one before. Season 1 premiered in the United States on January 18,2004, on Showtime, set in West Hollywood, the series first introduces Bette Porter and Tina Kennard, a couple with a seven-year relationship who want to have a child. Tina eventually becomes pregnant through artificial insemination but has a miscarriage during episode 1.09, Luck, Later in the series, Bette develops an affair with Candace Jewell. The pilot introduced a coming out/love triangle storyline involving Tina and Bette’s neighbor, Tim Haspel, his girlfriend, Jenny Schecter. Marina is part of Tina and Bette’s circle of friends, and owns the neighborhood café, The Planet, which serves as the groups hang-out and focal point for the show. In the first season, Dana falls for a chef named Lara Perkins whose sexuality is questioned by the group until Lara has an unexpected meeting with Dana in the locker room. At the end of the season, Tina sees Bette and Candace touching hands, Tina and Bette break up, with Tina living at Alices and Bette stays in their home. Season 2 began airing on Showtime on February 20,2005 and it starts by unveiling to the viewers a secret Tina is keeping from everyone, she successfully became impregnated after a second insemination. Tina and Bette are still apart, Tina and Bette reconcile during the final episode. The character of Marina was written out of the show, mark makes them part of his latest documentary by setting up hidden cameras in the house to videotape them. During episode 2.09, Late, Later, Latent, Jenny discovers Mark’s tapes, Season 2 introduces a developing affair between Alice and Dana, which becomes public in episode 2.07, Luminous
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William Hurt
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William McChord Hurt is an American actor. He received his training at the Juilliard School and began acting on stage in the 1970s. Hurt made his debut as a troubled scientist in the science-fiction feature Altered States. He subsequently played a role, as a lawyer who succumbs to the temptations of Kathleen Turner. In 1985, Hurt garnered critical acclaim and multiple acting awards, including an Academy Award and he received another two Academy Award nominations for his lead performances in Children of a Lesser God and Broadcast News. Hurt remained a stage actor throughout the 1980s, appearing in Off-Broadway productions, including Henry V, Fifth of July, Richard II. Hurt received his first Tony Award nomination in 1985 for the Broadway production of Hurlyburly, other notable films in recent years have included A. I. Artificial Intelligence, The Village, Syriana, The Good Shepherd, Mr. Brooks, Into the Wild, The Incredible Hulk, Robin Hood and Captain America, Civil War. Hurt was born in Washington, D. C. the son of Claire Isabel, who worked at Time, Inc. and Alfred McChord Hurt, with his father, he lived in Lahore, Mogadishu and Khartoum. After his parents divorced, his mother married Henry Luce III during Hurts childhood, Hurt graduated from Middlesex School in 1968 where he was vice president of the Dramatics Club and had the lead role in several school plays. His high school yearbook predicted, With characteristics such as these, Hurt attended Tufts University and studied theology, but turned instead to acting and joined the Juilliard School. Two of his classmates there were the late actors Christopher Reeve, Hurt began his career in stage productions, only later acting in films. From 1977 to 1989, he was a member of the company at Circle Repertory Company. He won an Obie Award for his appearance there in Corinne Jackers My Life, and won a 1978 Theatre World Award for his performances in Fifth of July, Ulysses in Traction. In 1979, Hurt played Hamlet under the direction of Marshall W. Mason opposite Lindsay Crouse and his first major film role was in the science-fiction film Altered States where his performance as an obsessed scientist gained him wide recognition. His performance with Richard Crenna, Ted Danson and newcomer Kathleen Turner in Lawrence Kasdans neo-noir classic Body Heat elevated Hurt to stardom and he appeared in the thriller Gorky Park opposite Lee Marvin. He received the Best Male Performance Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and he has received three additional Oscar nominations, Best Actor for Children of a Lesser God and Broadcast News and Best Supporting Actor for A History Of Violence. Hurt also starred in Tuck Everlasting as Angus Tuck, also in 2005, Hurt played a mysterious government operative in Stephen Gaghans ensemble drama about the politics of big oil, Syriana
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Academy Award for Best Actress
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The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered a performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Janet Gaynor receiving the award for her roles in 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the branch of AMPAS. In the first three years of the awards, actresses were nominated as the best in their categories, at that time, all of their work during the qualifying period was listed after the award. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actress is nominated for a performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year, one actress has been nominated posthumously, Jeanne Eagels. Only three film characters have been nominated more than once in this category, elizabeth I of England, Leslie Crosbie in The Letter, and Esther Blodgett in A Star is Born. Six women on the list have received an Honorary Academy Award for their acting, they are Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Mary Pickford, Deborah Kerr, Gena Rowlands, since its inception, the award has been given to 74 actresses. Katharine Hepburn has won the most awards in this category, with four Oscars, meryl Streep, who has a total of 20 Oscar nominations, has been nominated in this category on 16 occasions, resulting in two awards. As of the 2017 ceremony, Emma Stone is the most recent winner in category for her role as Mia Dolan in La La Land. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31, for the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1,1932 to December 31,1933
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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Reform Jewish
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It is characterized by a lesser stress on ritual and personal observance, regarding Jewish Law as of basically non-binding nature, and great openness to external influences and progressive values. The origins of Reform Judaism lay in 19th-century Germany, where its early principles were formulated by Rabbi Abraham Geiger and its greatest center today is in North America. They warrant and obligate further modification and reject any fixed, permanent set of beliefs, a clear description became particularly challenging since the turn toward a policy favouring inclusiveness over a coherent theology in the 1970s. This largely overlapped with what researchers termed as the transition from Classical to New Reform in America, the movement ceased stressing principles and core beliefs, focusing more on the personal spiritual experience. This shift was not accompanied by a new doctrine or by the abandonment of the former. The leadership allowed and encouraged a variety of positions, from selective adoption of halakhic observance to elements approaching religious humanism. The declining importance of the foundation, in favour of pluralism and equivocalness. It also diversified Reform to a degree which made it hard to formulate a definition of it. Early Reform thinkers in Germany clung to this precept, the 1885 Pittsburgh Platform described the One God, the God-Idea as taught in our sacred Scripture as consecrating the Jewish people to be its priests. It was grounded on a wholly theistic understanding, although the term God-idea was excoriated by outside critics, so was the 1937 Columbus Declaration of Principles, which spoke of a One, living God who rules the world. Even the 1976 San Francisco Centenary Perspective, drafted at a time of discord among Reform theologians. Challenges of modern culture have made steady belief difficult for some, nevertheless, we ground our lives, personally and communally, on Gods reality. The 1999 Pittsburgh Statement of Principles declared the reality and oneness of God, British Liberal Judaism affirms the Jewish conception of God, One and indivisible, transcendent and immanent, Creator and Sustainer. All the People Israel are a link in the chain of revelation, capable of reaching new insights. The chief promulgator of this concept was Abraham Geiger, generally considered founder of the movement, while also subject to change and new understanding, the basic premise of progressive revelation endures in Reform thought. This highly rationalistic view virtually identified human reason and intellect with divine action, in the decades around World War II, this rationalistic and optimistic theology was challenged and questioned. The senior representative of postwar Reform theology, Eugene Borowitz, regarded theophany in postmodern terms and closely linked it with human experience. He rejected the notion of revelation in the meaning of comparing human betterment with divine inspiration, stressing that past experiences were unique
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Liturgical Hebrew
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Hebrew is a language native to Israel, spoken by over 9 million people worldwide, of whom over 5 million are in Israel. Historically, it is regarded as the language of the Israelites and their ancestors, the earliest examples of written Paleo-Hebrew date from the 10th century BCE. Hebrew belongs to the West Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family, Hebrew is the only living Canaanite language left, and the only truly successful example of a revived dead language. Hebrew had ceased to be a spoken language somewhere between 200 and 400 CE, declining since the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt. Aramaic and to a lesser extent Greek were already in use as international languages, especially among elites and it survived into the medieval period as the language of Jewish liturgy, rabbinic literature, intra-Jewish commerce, and poetry. Then, in the 19th century, it was revived as a spoken and literary language, and, according to Ethnologue, had become, as of 1998, the language of 5 million people worldwide. After Israel, the United States has the second largest Hebrew-speaking population, with 220,000 fluent speakers, Modern Hebrew is one of the two official languages of the State of Israel, while premodern Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jewish communities around the world today. Ancient Hebrew is also the tongue of the Samaritans, while modern Hebrew or Arabic is their vernacular. For this reason, Hebrew has been referred to by Jews as Leshon Hakodesh, the modern word Hebrew is derived from the word Ivri, one of several names for the Israelite people. It is traditionally understood to be a based on the name of Abrahams ancestor, Eber. This name is based upon the root ʕ-b-r meaning to cross over. Interpretations of the term ʕibrim link it to this verb, cross over, in the Bible, the Hebrew language is called Yәhudit because Judah was the surviving kingdom at the time of the quotation. In Isaiah 19,18 it is called the Language of Canaan, Hebrew belongs to the Canaanite group of languages. In turn, the Canaanite languages are a branch of the Northwest Semitic family of languages, according to Avraham ben-Yosef, Hebrew flourished as a spoken language in the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah during about 1200 to 586 BCE. Scholars debate the degree to which Hebrew was a vernacular in ancient times following the Babylonian exile. In July 2008 Israeli archaeologist Yossi Garfinkel discovered a ceramic shard at Khirbet Qeiyafa which he claimed may be the earliest Hebrew writing yet discovered, dating around 3000 years ago. The Gezer calendar also dates back to the 10th century BCE at the beginning of the Monarchic Period, classified as Archaic Biblical Hebrew, the calendar presents a list of seasons and related agricultural activities. The Gezer calendar is written in an old Semitic script, akin to the Phoenician one that through the Greeks, the Gezer calendar is written without any vowels, and it does not use consonants to imply vowels even in the places where later Hebrew spelling requires it
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John Hersey High School
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Middle schools whose graduates usually attend Hersey include Thomas Middle School, MacArthur Middle School and River Trails Middle School. JHHS also receives students from private schools such as St. James, St. Alphonsus Ligouri, St. Emily, St. Paul, St. Peter Lutheran. John Hersey High School was opened in the fall of 1968 in Arlington Heights, Illinois and these towns included Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Mt. Prospect, Prospect Heights and Wheeling. John Hersey High Schools colors are orange, brown, and white, John Hersey High School is known as one of the few schools in the state that specifically caters to students with special needs. The hard-of-hearing population at JHHS is one of the largest in the area, Hersey also welcomed the CLS program, formerly housed at Wheeling High School, to its school in 2006. JHHS built a new arts and fitness section in June 2009. The Hersey Bands excellence was recognized through placement on the John Philip Sousa Foundations Roll of Honor of Historic High School Concert Bands, Hersey Bands were founded by band director Don Caneva. During Canevas ten-year reign at Hersey, his bands brought home over 100 first-place awards, a few scenes from the 2010 remake A Nightmare on Elm Street were filmed at Hersey in the first week of May 2009. In 2012, the average ACT score at Hersey for the class was 25.2. Hersey has made Adequate Yearly Progress on the Prairie State Achievement Examination, according to U. S. News & World Report, Hersey is one of the top 30 schools in Illinois for the 2007/08 school year. U. S. News also states that 48. 6% of 12th graders participate in AP classes, also according to U. S. News & World Report, Hersey was ranked as the 10th top ranked high school in Illinois in 2012. In 2012 Hersey also held the ranking of #304. According to U. S. News & World Report, Hersey was ranked as the 9th top ranked school in Illinois. Hersey High School won 1st place in the 2007 National Deaf Academic Bowl competition, in 2007, the Hersey Huskie Rugby Club went to the Tier II State Championship, but lost to the Morton Mustangs. The Hersey Marching Huskies won the University of Illinois field competition in 2006 and won the best overall award, Hersey HS competes in the Mid-Suburban League East Division. JHHS is also a member of the Illinois High School Association, teams from Hersey are stylized as the Huskies. Hersey also keeps records and trophies won by Arlington High School, the school sponsors interscholastic teams from both young men and women in basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, volleyball, and water polo. Young men may compete in baseball, football, and wrestling, while women may compete in badminton, bowling, cheerleading
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Arlington Heights, Illinois
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Arlington Heights is a town in Cook County in the U. S. state of Illinois. A suburb of Chicago, it lies about 25 miles northwest of the citys downtown, the population was 75,101 at the 2010 census. Arlington Heights is known for Arlington Park Race Track, home of the Arlington Million, the village is also home to the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, which has one of the largest collections in the state. Arlington Heights lies mostly in the part of Wheeling Township, with territory in adjacent Elk Grove and Palatine townships. The General Land Office began selling land here in 1835, in 1853, William Dunton, originally from Oswego, New York, persuaded the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad to make a stop here, and laid out a town called Dunton. Dunton Avenue, named after William Dunton, is the base line that splits addresses east and west. By 1850, the area had changed its ethnic composition. By the late 1850s the area had become noted for its truck farms, the little town at the depot slowly grew, acquiring a blacksmith, a cheese factory, a hardware store, and a hotel. It incorporated as Arlington Heights in 1887, when its population numbered about 1,000, most were farmers, but they were joined by others who worked in Chicago, since Arlington Heights was an early commuter suburb. The town developed religious institutions that reflected the origins of its citizens, the first churches were Presbyterian and Methodist, with St. Peter Lutheran Church, a German Lutheran church, following in 1860. Today, the village has many Roman Catholics, boasting three very large churches, St. James, St. By the start of the 20th century Arlington Heights had about 1,400 inhabitants, by then Arlington Heights was also known for Arlington Park, a racetrack founded in 1927 by the California millionaire Harry D. Curly Brown upon land formerly consisting of 12 farms, camp McDonald and two country clubs were founded in the 1930s. On July 31,1985, a burned down the grandstand. The current six-story grandstand was completed and opened for use June 28,1989, by then virtually all the available land had been taken up, and the formerly isolated depot stop found itself part of a continuous built-up area stretching from Lake Michigan to the Fox River. Arlington Heights is located at 42°05′42″N 87°58′51″W, according to the 2010 census, Arlington Heights has a total area of 16.639 square miles, of which 16.61 square miles is land and 0.029 square miles is water. Some of the most popular restaurants include Javiers Sabor Mexicano, Peggy Kinanes, Mago Grill, Bistro Chen, although land and space is now limited in Arlington Heights, business and community development along with community design are key concerns. The Village of Arlington Heights is also instrumental in business, residential, the community is served by many fine hotels
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Harper College
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William Rainey Harper College is a comprehensive community college in Palatine, Illinois, United States. The college was established by referendum in 1965 and opened in September 1967 and it is named for Dr. William Rainey Harper, a pioneer in the junior college movement in the United States and the first president of the University of Chicago. Harper College has a 200-acre campus approximately 25 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, the campus was designed to have an informal layout. The structures are built into the contours of the land. According to the architects Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum Inc, avanté incorporates energy-saving elements using a holistic approach. Harper College offers more than 50 transfer options, allowing students to earn their associate degree before transferring to a college or university to complete their bachelors degree. The college also offers more than 40 career programs which grant a degree or certificate. These programs range in length from sixteen weeks to two years and these programs are designed for working adult students who already have their associate degree. Offering two vocational bachelors degrees on a basis will not turn Harper College into a four-year university. As in other states, Harper would remain a community college that would offer a few bachelors degree programs in addition to its current offerings. The College is also home to an award-winning Speech & Debate team, in the past 16 years, the team has won the Illinois Intercollegiate Speech and Debate Tournament on 7 occasions. The College offers 15 Study Abroad programs spread amongst Central America, Europe, a few programs are directly administered by the College, on the other hand, most are in conjunction with the Illinois Consortium for International Studies and Programs. The football program was eliminated in January 2012,2003 NJCAA Division III National Champions 2004 NJCAA Division III National Champions 2008 NJCAA Division III National Champions Notable coaches, John Eliasik and Dragan Teonic. NJCAA2010 Wrestling Champions NJCAA Division III National Champions in 2006 and 2001, the 2006-07 team finished second in the nation, earned fifth consecutive district title and had 10 National qualifiers and seven All-Americans. In 1986 she won both the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama for her role in Children of a Lesser God and he is known for his research and publications on social media and crime. Harper College Harper College Athletics Harper College Faculty Senate Harper College Adjunct Faculty Association
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone. The novel is one of the stories in American literature and has been widely translated. The Library of Congress has declared it Americas greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale and its groundbreaking success and the success of the Broadway musical adapted from the novel led Baum to write thirteen additional Oz books that serve as official sequels to the first story. Baum dedicated the book to my good friend & comrade, My Wife, in January 1901, George M. Hill Company completed printing the first edition, a total of 10,000 copies, which quickly sold out. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz sold three million copies by the time it entered the domain in 1956. The book was published by George M. Hill Company and its first edition had a printing of 10,000 copies and was sold in advance of the publication date of September 1,1900. On May 17,1900, the first copy of the book came off the press, Baum assembled it by hand, the public saw the book for the first time at a book fair at the Palmer House in Chicago, July 5–20. The books copyright was registered on August 1, full distribution followed in September, by October 1900, the first edition had already sold out and the second edition of 15,000 copies was nearly depleted. In a letter to his brother Harry, Baum wrote that the books publisher George M. Hill predicted a sale of about 250,000 copies, in spite of this favorable conjecture, Hill did not initially predict that the book would be phenomenally successful. He agreed to publish the book only when the manager of the Chicago Grand Opera House Fred R. Hamlin committed to making The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into a stage play to publicize the novel. The play The Wizard of Oz debuted on June 16,1902 and it was revised to suit adult preferences and was crafted as a musical extravaganza, with the costumes modeled after Denslows drawings. Hills publishing company became bankrupt in 1901, so Baum and Denslow agreed to have the Indianapolis-based Bobbs-Merrill Company resume publishing the novel, Baums son Harry Neal told the Chicago Tribune in 1944 that L. Frank told his children whimsical stories before they became material for his books. Harry called his father the swellest man I knew, a man who was able to give a decent reason as to why black birds cooked in a pie could afterwards get out, by 1938, more than one million copies of the book had been printed. Less than two decades later in 1956, the sales of his novel had grown to three million copies in print, Dorothy is a young girl who lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry and her little dog Toto on a Kansas farm. One day, Dorothy and Toto are caught up in a cyclone that deposits her farmhouse into Munchkin Country in the magical Land of Oz, the falling house has killed the Wicked Witch of the East, the evil ruler of the Munchkins. The Good Witch of the North arrives with the grateful Munchkins, the Good Witch tells Dorothy that the only way she can return home is to go to the Emerald City and ask the great and powerful Wizard of Oz to help her. As Dorothy embarks on her journey, the Good Witch of the North kisses her on the forehead, on her way down the yellow brick road, Dorothy attends a banquet held by a Munchkin man named Boq. The next day, Dorothy frees the Scarecrow from the pole on which he is hanging, applies oil from a can to the connections of the Tin Woodman
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Henry Winkler
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Henry Franklin Winkler is an American actor, director, comedian, producer, and author. Winkler is best known for his role as Arthur Fonzarelli in the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days. The Fonz, or Fonzie, a greaser, hot rodder and auto mechanic, started out as a minor character at the shows beginning. He also starred as Sy Mittleman on Adult Swims Childrens Hospital, Winkler also starred on Parks and Recreation. Winkler was born on the West Side of Manhattan, New York City, New York, the son of Ilse Anna Marie Winkler and Harry Irving Winkler, a lumber company president. Winklers Jewish parents emigrated from Berlin, Germany, to the United States in 1939, Winkler said that his parents came to the United States for a six-month business trip but that they knew they were never going back. His father smuggled the only assets the family had left, family jewels, although they did not keep kosher, Winkler was raised in the traditions of Conservative Judaism, but said that he was not religious as an adult. The family attended Congregation Habonim, where his mother, a homemaker and his parents were founding members of the temple. Winkler said he was anxious as a child because of his undiagnosed dyslexia. He said he was considered to be slow, stupid, not living up to my potential and he said his father spoke 11 languages and could do math in his head and did not understand Winklers problems at school, where Winkler would celebrate a C grade. Winkler has said that his relationship with his German parents was strained and he stated his father referred to him as dumb dog and often punished him for his difficulties in school. 87 on W. 78th Street and then graduated from McBurney School in 1963, Winkler said he did not graduate with his class because of his learning disability and problems with a geometry class, which he finally passed after attending summer school. In 1967, Winkler received his B. A. degree from Emerson College, at Emerson, he was a member of the Alpha Pi Theta Fraternity. In 1970, Winkler earned an M. F. A. degree from the Yale School of Drama, in 1978, Emerson awarded Winkler an honorary D. H. L. Winkler has also received an honorary D. H. L. degree from Austin College, Winkler said he had wanted to be an actor from the time he was a young child. Winklers first job on television was as an extra on a show in New York. He received $10 for the role, after working in theater and getting fired from a play in Washington, Winkler moved to New York City and supported himself by appearing in television commercials, one year doing over 30. He was able to support himself with the work so he could do theater for free at Manhattan Theater Club
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Sesame Street
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Sesame Street is a long-running American childrens television series, produced by Sesame Workshop and created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett. The program is known for its content, and images communicated through the use of Jim Hensons Muppets, animation, short films, humor. The show has undergone significant changes throughout its history, with the creation of Sesame Street, producers and writers of a childrens television show used, for the first time, educational goals and a curriculum to shape its content. It was also the first time a shows educational effects were studied, the show was initially funded by government and private foundations but has become somewhat self-supporting due to revenues from licensing arrangements, international sales, and other media. By 2006, there were independently produced versions, or co-productions, in 2001 there were over 120 million viewers of various international versions of Sesame Street, and by the shows 40th anniversary in 2009, it was broadcast in more than 140 countries. By its 40th anniversary in 2009, Sesame Street was the childrens television show in the United States. A1996 survey found that 95% of all American preschoolers had watched the show by the time they were three years old, in 2008, it was estimated that 77 million Americans had watched the series as children. As of 2014, Sesame Street has won 167 Emmy Awards and 8 Grammy Awards—more than any other childrens show, Sesame Street was conceived in 1966 during discussions between television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Foundation vice president Lloyd Morrisett. Their goal was to create a television show that would master the addictive qualities of television and do something good with them. The program premiered on television stations on November 10,1969. It was the first preschool educational television program to base its contents and production values on laboratory, initial responses to the show included adulatory reviews, some controversy, and high ratings. By its 40th anniversary in 2009, Sesame Street was broadcast in over 120 countries, Sesame Street has evolved from its initial inception. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become an American institution, the cast and crew expanded during this time, with emphasis on the hiring of women crew members and the addition of minorities to the cast. The shows success continued into the 1980s, Sesame Streets curriculum has expanded to include more affective topics such as relationships, ethics, and emotions. After the turn of the 21st century, Sesame Street made major structural changes, for example, starting in 2002, its format became more narrative and included ongoing storylines. After its thirtieth anniversary in 1999 and due to the popularity of the Muppet Elmo, upon its fortieth anniversary in 2009, the show received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy at the 36th Daytime Emmy Awards. In April 2017, Sesame Street will introduce a new puppet called Julia with Autism to the show, and will be voiced by Stacey Gordon, who started Puppet Pie and has a son on the autism spectrum. From its first episode, Sesame Street has structured its format by using a visual style, fast-moving action, humor
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Billy Joel
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William Martin Billy Joel is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Since releasing his first hit song, Piano Man, in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and his compilation album Greatest Hits Vol.1 &2 is one of the best-selling albums in the US. Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the US and he is also a six-time Grammy Award winner who has been nominated for 23 Grammy Awards. He has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, making him one of the artists of all time. Joel was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 2001, Joel received the Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2013, Joel received the Kennedy Center Honors, the nations highest honor for influencing American culture through the arts, with the exception of the 2007 songs All My Life and Christmas in Fallujah, Joel stopped writing and releasing pop/rock material after 1993s River of Dreams. However, he continues to tour, and he plays songs from all eras of his solo career. William Martin Joel was born in the Bronx on May 9,1949, in 1963, when ZIP codes were assigned, the section of Levittown in Oyster Bay was given a Hicksville, New York ZIP code and has since been part of Hicksville. Joels father, Howard Joel, a classical pianist, was born in Germany, to a Jewish family, Howard immigrated to Switzerland and later to the US to escape the Nazi regime. Joels mother, Rosalind, was born in England to Jewish parents, Philip, Rosalind and Howard Joel divorced in 1957. Howard Joel moved to Vienna, Austria, Billy Joel has a sister, Judith, and a half-brother, Alexander Joel, a classical conductor in Europe, who was the chief musical director of the Staatstheater Braunschweig from 2001 to 2014. He reluctantly began piano lessons at an age, at his mothers insistence, his teachers including the noted American pianist Morton Estrin. As a teenager, Joel took up boxing so he could defend himself and he boxed successfully on the amateur Golden Gloves circuit for a short time, winning 22 bouts, but abandoned the sport shortly after his nose was broken in his 24th boxing match. Joel attended Hicksville High School until 1967, but he did not graduate with his class, though Joel was a comparatively strong student, at the end of his senior year, he did not have enough credits to graduate. Rather than attend school to earn his diploma, Joel decided to begin a career in music, I told them. If Im not going to Columbia University, Im going to Columbia Records, Joel did eventually sign with Columbia. In 1992, he submitted essays to the board and was awarded his diploma at Hicksville Highs annual-graduation ceremony,25 years after leaving. After seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, Joel decided to pursue a career in music, in an interview he said of the groups impact, That one performance changed my life … Up to that moment Id never considered playing rock as a career
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Just the Way You Are (Billy Joel song)
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The song also topped the Billboard Easy Listening Chart for the entire month of January 1978. Just the Way You Are garnered two Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 1979, Joel shared that the melody and chord progression for this song came to him while he was dreaming. The song, which Joel had written for his first wife Elizabeth Weber, was not liked by either Joel or his band, but Joel has stated that, at the request of both Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow, Joel agreed to put the song on the final mix. He noted that during performances of the song around the time of his first divorce, when Just the Way You Are was released as a single, it was shortened by over a minute. The differences are the removal of the verse and an earlier fade. A live performance of the song was used as a music video. On February 18,1978, the peaked at #3. The single version was included in the first release of Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II, the saxophone solo was played by Phil Woods, a well-known jazz performer and Grammy award winner. Woods was criticized by purists in the jazz community for playing on a rock session. The performance here on a hit record undoubtedly exposed him to a wider audience,7 U. S. Ska Rangers Natalia Dicenta Billy Joels daughter Alexa Ray Joel It was included as the pre-set Demonstration Song on the Yamaha PSS-170. Billy Joel also performed a version of his song with lyrics by Tony Geiss on Sesame Street where he sang to Oscar the Grouch along with Marlee Matlin who translated into sign language. Joel has performed the song as a duet in live performances with Elton John during their Face to Face tours together, list of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1978 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Oscar the Grouch
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Oscar the Grouch is a character on the television program Sesame Street. He has a body, has no visible nose. His favorite thing in life is trash, as evidenced by the song I Love Trash, a running theme is his compulsive hoarding of seemingly useless items in his trash can. The Grouch aptly describes his interaction with the other characters. His birthday, as noted by Sesame Workshop, is on June 1, the character is performed by Caroll Spinney, and has been performed by him since the shows first episode. Since 2015, Eric Jacobson is the understudy for the character, initially, the Puppet characters on Sesame Street would not actually appear on Sesame Street itself, but be relegated to the intermediary segments. Muppets creator Jim Henson wanted them to be integrated into the series, suggesting a giant bird, the source of Oscars name is unresolved. Most sources suggest it is derived from Oscars Tavern, in recent years, however, the family of Canadian folk musician Oscar Brand has suggested he was the namesake. Brand was a board member for the shows non-profit production company. The claim has made in an interview with the CBC around the time of Brands 90th birthday. Named “Oscar the Grouch”, writers would eventually add other Grouches, the initial puppet, built by staff builder John Lovelady, was yellow, but since there was already a very large yellow character named Big Bird, they decided to change Oscar to orange. Oscar was orange for only the first season of Sesame Street and this was explained within the show by a visit to Swamp Mushy Muddy. Big Bird is Spinneys other lead character and is described by Oscar as his friend during public appearances. Oscar especially likes to prank him every morning by putting ketchup in his alarm clock, when Big Bird and Oscar are required in a scene together, Jim Martin often operates Oscar to a vocal track by Spinney so the latter can perform Big Bird. However, occasionally, Matt Vogel will instead operate the Big Bird puppet to a track by Spinney. During the first season of Sesame Street, the set was arranged such that Spinney. A subsequent redesign of the set allowed him to switch hands, according to Sesame Streets Robert W. Morrow, Oscar was created to indirectly demonstrate racial and ethnic diversity. Since his manners and tastes were different from those of the characters, his creators hoped to address social issues by using his differences as a metaphor for racial
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We Didn't Start the Fire
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We Didnt Start the Fire is a song by Billy Joel. Its lyrics include brief, rapid-fire allusions to more than 100 headline events between 1949, the year of Joels birth, and 1989, when the song was released on his album Storm Front, the tune was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. The song was also a No.1 hit in the US, Joel got the idea for the song when he had just turned 40. He was in a studio and met a friend of Sean Lennon who had just turned 21 who said Its a terrible time to be 21. Joel replied to him, Yeah, I remember when I was 21 -- I thought it was a time and we had Vietnam, and yknow, drug problems. The friend replied, Yeah, yeah, yeah, but its different for you and you were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties. Joel retorted, Wait a minute, didnt you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis, Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song. Joel has said, Im a history nut, at one time I wanted to be a history teacher. According to his mother, he was a bookworm by the age of seven, unlike most of Joels songs, the lyrics were written before the melody, owing to the somewhat unusual style of the song. The song was a commercial success and was Joels third Billboard No.1 hit. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and it was 1989 and I said Okay, whats happened in my life. I wrote down the year 1949, popular singer of the day, Doris Day. Its one of the worst melodies Ive ever written, I kind of like the lyric though. Joel has said, Theres an element of malevolence in the song and he has mentioned having mixed feelings about the song. Its a nightmare to live, because if I miss one word. He has called it a novelty song that not really define me as well as album songs that probably dont get played. In 1993, when discussing it with documentary film maker David Horn, Joel compared its melodic content unfavorably to his song The Longest Time and its really not much of a song. If you take the melody by itself, terrible. Blender magazine ranked We Didnt Start the Fire No.41 on its list of the 50 Worst Songs Ever and they considered the production bombastic and stated that the song resembles a term paper scribbled the night before its due
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Picket Fences
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Picket Fences is an American television drama about the residents of the town of Rome, Wisconsin, created and produced by David E. Kelley. The show initially ran from September 18,1992, to June 26,1996 and it sometimes struggled to maintain a stable prime-time audience and had fluctuating ratings, due in part to its Friday night time slot. In its first season on the air it placed 80th in the prime-time Nielsen ratings, the shows exteriors were shot in the L. A. suburb of Monrovia, California, with many of the townspeople appearing in the background of episodes. The series follows the lives of the residents of the town of Rome, Wisconsin, where weird things happen, including cows udders exploding. Struggling to maintain order in the community is Sheriff Jimmy Brock, Sheriff Brock is married to the town doctor, Jill, his second wife. They attempt to raise their three children, Kimberly, Matthew and Zachary, max and Kenny are impulsive and somewhat immature sheriffs deputies. Bombastic lawyer Douglas Wambaugh usually irritated Judge Henry Bone, after several prosecutors came and went, Don Cheadle joined the cast as John Littleton. Kelly Connell played medical examiner Carter Pike and Zelda Rubenstein portrayed police dispatcher Ginny Weedon, other actors who were in the cast included Marlee Matlin, Richard Masur, and Dabbs Greer. Illustrative of the matter is that the regular cast included a judge. Religious issues were discussed, and the towns Roman Catholic. She was offered the job as part of her 3,000 hours community service sentencing Acting Mayor Maxine Stewart, shot, Mayor Laurie Bey, returns as mayor at series end. Tom Skerritt as Sheriff James Jimmy Brock Kathy Baker as Dr. A, John Littleton Marlee Matlin as Mayor Laurie Bey Ray Walston as Judge Henry Bone Picket Fences had a total of 88 episodes and four seasons. The series had two episodes with another David E. Kelley series, Chicago Hope, one occurring in each series. In the first, on Picket Fences, Dr. Jill Brock accompanies Douglas Wambaugh to Chicago Hope Hospital over concerns of his heart, in the second, Wambaugh is back at Chicago Hope Hospital causing trouble for the doctors. Lauren Holly later joined the cast of Chicago Hope as Dr. Jeremy Hanlon, originally, the two shows would be shot with different viewpoints– one from the X-Files perspective and the other from Picket Fences. On June 19,2007, 20th Century Fox released the first season of Picket Fences on DVD in Region 1, until 2014, this was the only DVD release in the world. On August 20,2014, Season 1 was released in Australia, Season 2, for the first time ever, was released in Australia in December 2014. Season 3 was released in Australia in March 2016, the complete series was released through ViaVision in 2016
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Supreme Court of the United States
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The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest federal court of the United States. In the legal system of the United States, the Supreme Court is the interpreter of federal constitutional law. The Court normally consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight justices who are nominated by the President. Once appointed, justices have life tenure unless they resign, retire, in modern discourse, the justices are often categorized as having conservative, moderate, or liberal philosophies of law and of judicial interpretation. Each justice has one vote, and while many cases are decided unanimously, the Court meets in the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D. C. The Supreme Court is sometimes referred to as SCOTUS, in analogy to other acronyms such as POTUS. The ratification of the United States Constitution established the Supreme Court in 1789 and its powers are detailed in Article Three of the Constitution. The Supreme Court is the court specifically established by the Constitution. The Court first convened on February 2,1790, by which five of its six initial positions had been filled. According to historian Fergus Bordewich, in its first session, he Supreme Court convened for the first time at the Royal Exchange Building on Broad Street and they had no cases to consider. After a week of inactivity, they adjourned until September, the sixth member was not confirmed until May 12,1790. Because the full Court had only six members, every decision that it made by a majority was made by two-thirds. However, Congress has always allowed less than the Courts full membership to make decisions, under Chief Justices Jay, Rutledge, and Ellsworth, the Court heard few cases, its first decision was West v. Barnes, a case involving a procedural issue. The Courts power and prestige grew substantially during the Marshall Court, the Marshall Court also ended the practice of each justice issuing his opinion seriatim, a remnant of British tradition, and instead issuing a single majority opinion. Also during Marshalls tenure, although beyond the Courts control, the impeachment, the Taney Court made several important rulings, such as Sheldon v. Nevertheless, it is primarily remembered for its ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which helped precipitate the Civil War. In the Reconstruction era, the Chase, Waite, and Fuller Courts interpreted the new Civil War amendments to the Constitution, during World War II, the Court continued to favor government power, upholding the internment of Japanese citizens and the mandatory pledge of allegiance. Nevertheless, Gobitis was soon repudiated, and the Steel Seizure Case restricted the pro-government trend, the Warren Court dramatically expanded the force of Constitutional civil liberties. It held that segregation in public schools violates equal protection and that traditional legislative district boundaries violated the right to vote
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Buck v. Bell
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Buck v. Bell,274 U. S.200, is a decision of the United States Supreme Court, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The decision was seen as an endorsement of negative eugenics—the attempt to improve the human race by eliminating defectives from the gene pool. The Supreme Court has never expressly overturned Buck v. Bell, the concept of eugenics had been put forward in 1883 by Francis Galton, who also coined the name. The trend first became popular in Europe, but also found proponents in the United States by the start of the 20th century, indiana passed the first eugenic sterilization statute, but it was legally flawed. To remedy this situation, Harry Laughlin of the Eugenics Record Office at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in 1924 the Commonwealth of Virginia adopted a statute authorizing the compulsory sterilization of the intellectually disabled for the purpose of eugenics. This 1924 statute was based on Laughlins model. Looking to determine if the new law would pass a legal challenge, according to Priddy, Bucks 52-year-old mother possessed a mental age of 8 and had a record of prostitution and immorality. She had three children without good knowledge of their parentage, Carrie, one of these children, had been adopted and attended school for five years, reaching the level of sixth grade. However, according to Priddy, she had proved to be incorrigible. Her adopted family had committed her to the State Colony as feeble-minded and it was later discovered that Carries pregnancy was not caused by any immorality on her own part. While the litigation was making its way through the system, Priddy died and his successor, Dr. John Hendren Bell. The Board of Directors issued an order for the sterilization of Buck, and her guardian appealed the case to the Circuit Court of Amherst County, the case then moved to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. The appellate court sustained the law as compliant with both the state and federal constitutions, and it then went to the United States Supreme Court. Buck and her guardian contended that the due process clause guarantees all adults the right to procreate which was being violated and they also made the argument that the Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment was being violated since not all similarly situated people were being treated the same. The sterilization law was only for the feeble-minded at certain state institutions and made no mention of other state institutions or those who were not in an institution. On May 2,1927, in an 8–1 decision, the Court accepted that she, her mother and her daughter were feeble-minded and promiscuous, the ruling legitimized Virginias sterilization procedures until they were repealed in 1974. The ruling was written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, the principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Holmes concluded his argument by declaring that Three generations of imbeciles are enough, the sole dissenter in the court, Justice Pierce Butler, a devout Catholic, did not write a dissenting opinion
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Blue's Clues
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Blues Clues is an American childrens television series that premiered on Nickelodeon in Sunday, September 8,1996. It was hosted originally by Steve Burns, who left in 2002 and was replaced by Donovan Patton, the show follows an animated blue-spotted dog named Blue as she leaves a treasure hunt for the host and the viewers. Blues Clues became the show for preschoolers on American commercial television and was critical to Nickelodeons growth. It has been called one of the most successful, critically acclaimed, a spin-off called Blues Room premiered in 2004. Research was part of the creative and decision-making process in the production of the show and was integrated into all aspects and its home-based setting is familiar to American children but has a look, unlike other childrens TV shows. A live production of Blues Clues, which used many of the innovations developed by the shows creators. As of 2002, over 2 million people had attended over 1,000 performances, by 2002, Blues Clues had received several awards for excellence in childrens programming, educational software, and licensing, and had been nominated for nine Emmy Awards. It has been syndicated in 120 countries and translated into 15 languages, regional versions of the show featuring local hosts have been produced in other countries. It was one of the first preschool shows to incorporate American Sign Language into its content, the shows extensive use of research in its development and production process inspired several research studies that have provided evidence for its effectiveness as a learning tool. Blues Clues is the second longest-running Nick Jr series, after Dora the Explorer, Blues Clues was developed during a transitional period for childrens television. It set no guidelines or criteria for educational programs and had no provisions for enforcement, according to author Diane Tracy in her 2002 book, Blues Clues for Success, The state of childrens television was pretty dismal. The Federal Communications Commission ruled in 1997 that the commercial broadcast networks had to air educational childrens programs for a minimum of three hours per week. Nickelodeon assigned a team of producers to create a new U. S. television program for children in mid-1994 using research on early childhood education. Angela Santomero, Todd Kessler, and Traci Paige Johnson met at Nickelodeon Studios for a month to develop Blues Clues, according to The New York Times, Kessler was the first creator to be brought on board to the project, Santomero and Johnson joined soon after. He later worked as a producer for Nickelodeon from 1993 to 1994 prior to working on Blues Clues. Researcher Daniel R. Anderson of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Kessler handled the shows production, Santomero the research, and Johnson the animation and design. They were given a modest $150,000 to produce a pilot, Blues Clues premiered in the U. S. on September 8,1996. It was a hit, largely due to the producers extensive research
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Seinfeld
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Seinfeld is an American sitcom that originally ran for nine seasons on NBC, from 1989 to 1998. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a version of himself. It is often described as being a show about nothing, as many of its episodes are about the minutiae of daily life, Seinfeld was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment. In syndication, the series has been distributed by Sony Pictures Television since 2002, a favorite among critics, the series led the Nielsen ratings in seasons six and nine, and finished among the top two every year from 1994 to 1998. In 2002, TV Guide named Seinfeld the greatest television program of all time, E. named it the number 1 reason the 90s ruled. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America named Seinfeld the No.2 Best Written TV Series of All Time and that same year, Entertainment Weekly named it the No.3 best TV series of all time and TV Guide ranked it at No.2. Main Jerry Seinfeld – Jerry is a minor celeb stand-up comedian who is depicted as the voice of reason amidst the general insanity generated by the people in his world. The in-show character is a mild germaphobe and neat freak, as well as an avid Superman, New York Mets, Jerrys apartment is the center of a world visited by his eccentric friends and a focus of the show. Plot lines often involve Jerrys social interactions and romantic relationships around New York City and he typically finds minor, pedantic reasons to break up with women, including a habit of eating peas one at a time, oversized man hands and an irritating laugh. Other plot lines involve his longtime enemy Newman and his overbearing relatives, Elaine Benes – Elaine is Jerrys ex-girlfriend and later friend. She is attractive and genial, while also being humorous, arrogant and she sometimes has a tendency to be too honest with people, which often gets her into trouble. She usually gets caught up in her boyfriends quirks, eccentric employers unusual behaviors and idiosyncrasies, and she tends to make poor choices in men she chooses to date and is often overly reactionary. First she works at Pendant Publishing with Mr. Lippman, is hired as a personal assistant for Mr. Pitt. One of Elaines trademark moves is her forceful shove while exclaiming Get Out, when she receives good, objectionable or surprising news. Another is her memorable Little Kicks dance move, which is described as a full body heave accompanied by a double-fisted thumbs-up and she hates The English Patient, which is met with significant social disapproval. Elaine is popularly described as an amalgamation of Davids and Seinfelds girlfriends during their days in New York as struggling comedians. Cosmo Kramer – Kramer is Jerrys wacky neighbor and his trademarks include his humorous upright pompadour hairstyle, vintage clothes, and energetic sliding bursts through Jerrys apartment door. Kramer was heavily based on a neighbor of Davids during his amateur comedic years in Manhattan and this is seen in his success with women and employers
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The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)
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The Outer Limits is a Canadian-American television series that originally aired on Showtime, Syfy and in syndication between 1995 and 2002. The series is a revival of the original The Outer Limits series that aired from 1963–65, the revival series maintained an anthology format, but occasionally featured recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows. Over the course of the series,154 episodes were aired, after an attempt to bring back The Outer Limits during the early 1980s, it was finally relaunched in 1995. The success of television speculative fiction such as Star Trek, The X-Files, a deal was made with Trilogy Productions, the company behind such cinema hits as Backdraft and Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. The show would run on the pay-TV channel Showtime, the episodes appeared in syndication the following season. It continued on Showtime until 2001, when Sci Fi quietly took over production for the seventh, as a result that series, unlike the previous ones, was completely free of any swearing or nudity. It was canceled in 2002, after a total of 154 episodes—far more than the incarnation of the show. In the revived show, the Control Voice was supplied by Kevin Conway, the series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. The series contained a story arc about mysterious or extraterrestrial forces. Leslie Stevens was a consultant for the first four seasons, while Joseph Stefano served as an executive consultant. Stefano also remade his episode A Feasibility Study, retitling it Feasibility Study for the third season, Mark Mancina and John Van Tongeren composed new music different from that of Dominic Frontiere and Harry Lubin. They scored ten episodes for the first season, the musical theme for the modern Outer Limits series is credited to Mark Mancina and John VanTongeren. However, the music is used in The Ambush, a theme in the soundtrack of Dune 2000. In most seasons there was a show that intertwines the plots of several of the shows episodes. At each commercial interval, the Control Voice can be heard saying The Outer Limits. please stand by, the voice repeats this phrase upon return from the television ads. The surreal images from the opening are mostly the work of Jerry Uelsmann, a number of episodes from seasons 1–6 feature nudity and adult content, though originally broadcast uncensored, those episodes have been edited for commercial syndication. These DVDs all contain the uncut episodes, as originally aired. The Aliens and Sex titles were released by MGM in the UK
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ER (TV series)
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It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. ER follows the life of the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show became the longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history and it won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, including the 1996 Outstanding Drama Series award, and received 124 Emmy nominations, which makes it the most nominated drama program in history. ER won 116 awards in total, including the Peabody Award, in 1974, author Michael Crichton wrote a screenplay based on his own experiences as a resident physician in a busy hospital emergency room. The screenplay went nowhere and Crichton focused on other topics, in 1990, he published the novel Jurassic Park, and in 1993 began a collaboration with director Steven Spielberg on the film adaptation of the book. Crichton and Spielberg then turned to ER, but decided to film the story as a pilot for a television series rather than as a feature film. Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment provided John Wells as the executive producer. The script used to shoot the pilot was virtually unchanged from what Crichton had written in 1974. Because of a lack of time and money necessary to build a set, the episode of ER was filmed in the former Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles. After Spielberg had joined as a producer, NBC ordered six episodes, ER premiered opposite a Monday Night Football game on ABC and did surprisingly well. Then we moved it to Thursday and it just took off, ERs success surprised the networks and critics alike, as David E. Kelleys new medical drama Chicago Hope was expected to crush the new series. Crichton remained executive producer until his death in November 2008, although he was credited as one throughout that entire final season. Wells, the other initial executive producer, served as showrunner for the first three seasons. He was one of the shows most prolific writers and became a director in later years. Lydia Woodward was a part of the first season production team and she took over as showrunner for the fourth season while Wells focused on the development of other series, including Trinity, Third Watch, and The West Wing. She left her executive position at the end of the sixth season. Joe Sachs, who was a writer and producer of the series, believed keeping a commitment to medical accuracy was important, Wed bend the rules. A medication that would take 10 minutes to work might take 30 seconds instead, a 12- to 24-hour shift gets pushed into 48 minutes
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The Practice
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The Practice is an American legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm. The Practice focused on the law firm of Robert Donnell and Associates, plots typically featured the firms involvement in various high-profile criminal and civil cases that often mirror current events. Conflict between legal ethics and personal morality was a recurring theme, Kelley claimed that he conceived the show as something of a rebuttal to L. A. Law and its romanticized treatment of the American legal system and legal proceedings. At the start of the series, attorney Bobby Donnell employs associate attorneys Ellenor Frutt, Eugene Young, Lindsay Dole, by the fourth episode, Bobbys friend Jimmy Berluti is hired as an associate. Before that, Jimmy is a working as a loan officer. When he falsifies loan documents to help Bobbys struggling practice, he loses his job, Bobby maintains sole control over the firm until an ultimatum by Lindsay motivates him to name Ellenor, Eugene, Lindsay, and Rebecca as junior partners. To maintain control over the firm, Bobby writes into the charter that each received one vote in partnership meetings. While this decision prevents Lindsays power play from becoming ugly, it causes some tension when Bobby and Lindsay later become romantically involved. The partnership agreement also initially alienates Jimmy who feels insulted that he was the one on staff not named a partner. This is exacerbated by the fact that Rebecca is made partner despite her being the receptionist, Rebecca earns her law degree in Season 3, and Jimmy is eventually made partner at the end of Season 7. Bobby and his associates all share a friendship with A. D. A, Helen Gamble, who even shares a brief romance with Bobby – all highly unusual, considering how often Helens job places her in opposition to the firm. While the strategy is effective, it would occasionally backfire once the D. A. s office grew familiar with the strategy. This tactic invariably causes great distress for the attorney employing the plan when they know that the target is most likely innocent. Thus, in cases, Plan B is used only as a last resort. In 2003, Bobby Donnell leaves the firm, fearing he had become the blue-chip lawyer he had long resented and he names Eugene as senior partner. Along with Ellenor, Eugene decides to make Jimmy a full partner and extends an offer to Lindsay, and her associate Claire Wyatt to return to the firm. This occurred at the end of seven, at the end of which most of the cast was fired for budgetary reasons as ABC agreed to renew the show only if the budget per episode was drastically cut. Season eight began with half the original cast missing
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Law & Order, Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural, legal, crime drama television series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced. In the style of the original Law & Order, episodes are often ripped from the headlines or loosely based on crimes that have received media attention. Created and produced by Dick Wolf, the series premiered on NBC on September 20,1999, the show began its 18th season on September 21,2016, and has aired 404 original episodes as of April 5,2017. As the series progressed, additional supporting characters were added as allies of the detectives in the New York County Manhattan District Attorneys office, certain episodes will go into detail about detectives personal lives and how they may or may not tie into the crimes dealt with during the show. Typical episodes follow the detectives and their colleagues as they investigate and prosecute sexually based offenses, on February 1,2016, the series was renewed for an eighteenth season. The season premiered on Wednesday, September 21,2016 at 9 p. m. on NBC, the crime inspired Dick Wolf to write the story for the season one episode of Law & Order titled Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die. Even after writing the episode, however, the continued to haunt Wolf. The original title of the show was Sex Crimes, reflecting the nature of the crimes depicted on the show. Initially there was concern among the producers that, should Sex Crimes fail, additionally, Ted Kotcheff wanted to create a new series that was not dependent upon the original series for success. Wolf felt, however, that it was important and commercially desirable to have Law & Order in the title, the first episode, Payback, premiered on NBC on September 20,1999. Executive producer Neal Baer left Law & Order, SVU as show-runner at the end of twelve, after eleven years on the show. Baer was replaced by former Law & Order, Criminal Intent executive producer/showrunner Warren Leight, in March 2015 it was announced that Warren Leight signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures Television, that will allow him to work on SVU one more season, its seventeenth. Leight joined the show in season thirteen and it was announced on March 10,2016 that original Law & Order veteran producer Rick Eid would take Leights place as showrunner/executive producer starting in season 18. Creator Dick Wolf commented to The Hollywood Reporter, Im extremely pleased that Rick had decided to rejoin the family and hope that he will be here for years to come. Many exterior scenes of Law & Order, Special Victims Unit are filmed on location in New York City, Wolfs home town, as the NYPD encounters varied law enforcement challenges on a daily basis, the backdrop provides the writers a supply of ideal locations from which to choose. When searching for a place to film the interiors of the show, the show moved into the studio space at Chelsea Piers that had been occupied by the original Law & Order series until its cancellation in May 2010. Fort Lee, New Jersey served as the location for Detective Elliot Stablers residence in Queens. The show originally aired on Monday nights at 9,00 p. m. ET for the first nine episodes, from September 20 through November 29,1999
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Texas Book Festival
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The Texas Book Festival is a free annual book fair held in Austin, Texas. The festival was established in 1995 by Laura Bush, then the First Lady of Texas, the first festival took place at the Capitol in November 1996. The festival takes place in late October or early November and it is frequently cited as one of the top book festivals in the U. S. The festival was created to benefit the states public library system, promotes the joy of reading. Since then, the festival has expanded, with a focus on nationally known authors. The revised mission statement, The Texas Book Festival connects authors and readers through experiences that celebrate the culture of literacy, ideas, and imagination. With the assistance of Honorary Chairman and librarian, Mrs. Bush, and a task force and it grew to hosting about 250 authors each year and attracting more than 40,000 attendees. Each year, the festival honors a writer with the Bookend Award for outstanding contribution to the literature of Texas, in addition to the award event, the festival includes childrens books, crafts, and costumed characters. Official website Photos of the 2015 festival The Austin Chronicles full coverage of the current/latest festival
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What the Bleep Do We Know!?
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Her experiences are offered by the filmmakers to illustrate the movies thesis about quantum physics and consciousness. The 2004 theatrical release of the film was followed by a changed, extended DVD version in 2006. Bleep was conceived and its production funded by William Arntz, who co-directed the film along with Betsy Chasse and Mark Vicente, the film has been described as an example of quantum mysticism, and has been criticized for both misrepresenting science and containing pseudoscience. While many of its interviewees and subjects are professional scientists in the fields of physics, chemistry, filmed in Portland, Oregon, What the Bleep Do We Know. Presents a viewpoint of the universe and human life within it, with connections to neuroscience. Some ideas discussed in the film are, That the universe is best seen as constructed from thoughts and that empty space is not empty. That matter is not solid, and electrons are able to pop in and that beliefs about who one is and what is real are a direct cause of oneself and of ones own realities. That peptides produced by the brain can cause a reaction to emotion. In the narrative segments of the movie, Marlee Matlin portrays Amanda, in the documentary segments of the film, interviewees discuss the roots and meaning of Amandas experiences. The comments focus primarily on a theme, We create our own reality. The director, William Arntz, has described What the Bleep as a movie for the metaphysical left, lost Boys Studios in Vancouver, and Atomic Visual Effects in Cape Town, South Africa. Lacking the funding and resources of the typical Hollywood film, the filmmakers relied on guerrilla marketing first to get the film into theaters, and then to attract audiences. This has led to accusations, both formal and informal, directed towards the films proponents, of spamming online message boards and forums with many thinly veiled promotional posts. Initially, the film was released in two theaters, one in Yelm, Washington, and the other the Bagdad Theater in Portland, Oregon. Within several weeks, the film had appeared in a dozen or more theaters, according to the makers of the film, Bleep is an expurgation of fuck. William Arntz has referred to the film as WTFDWK in a message to the street team. According to Publishers Weekly, the movie was one of the hits of 2004, as word-of-mouth. Foreign gross added another $5 million for a gross of nearly $16 million
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Desperate Housewives
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Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama and mystery series created by Marc Cherry, and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It originally aired for eight seasons on ABC, from October 3,2004 to May 13,2012, executive producer Cherry served as showrunner. Other executive producers since the season included Bob Daily, George W. Perkins, John Pardee, Joey Murphy, David Grossman. The storyline covers 13 years of the womens lives over eight seasons, the series features an ensemble cast, headed by Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo, Marcia Cross as Bree Van de Kamp, and Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis. Brenda Strong narrates the series as the late Mary Alice Young, appearing sporadically in flashbacks or dream sequences, Desperate Housewives was well received by viewers and critics alike. It won multiple Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, from the 2004–05 through the 2008–09 television seasons, its first five seasons were rated amongst the top 10 most watched series. In 2012, it remained the most-watched comedy series based on data from Eurodata TV Worldwide. Moreover, it was the third-highest revenue earning series for 2010, the show placed #56 on Entertainment Weeklys New TV Classics list. In 2011, it was confirmed that Desperate Housewives would conclude after its eighth season, by the end of the series, it had surpassed Charmed as the longest running hour-long television series featuring all female leads by two episodes. The main mystery of the season is the suicide of Mary Alice Young. The second season premiered on September 25,2005, and its central mystery is that of new neighbor Betty Applewhite, Susans love life becomes even more complicated as her ex-husband Karl Mayer is engaged to Edie and is also started to incline towards Susan. Lynette goes back to her career in advertising while her husband Tom Scavo becomes a father, and Gabrielle decides to be faithful to Carlos. Paul is framed and sent to jail not for the murder he committed in the previous season, the third season premiered on September 24,2006. In the third season, Bree marries Orson Hodge, whose past, meanwhile, Lynette has to adjust to the arrival of Toms previously unknown daughter to the home. The Scavos also experience tension as Tom wants to start a pizzeria, Gabrielle goes through a rough divorce, but finally finds new love in Fairviews new mayor. After being run over by Orson in the season finale, Mike falls into coma. Edie sees her chance to make her move on Mike, Susan loses hope that Mikes memory will return and in the process moves on to a handsome Englishman whose wife is also in a coma, while her daughter Julie Mayer starts dating Edies nephew. Elderly neighbor Karen McCluskey hides something in her freezer, a shooting at the local grocery store leaves two characters dead and changes everyones lives forever
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Joy Turner
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The list of My Name Is Earl characters is from the NBC fictional comedy television series. Earl Jehosephat Hickey — The titular and viewpoint character, he has a history of petty crimes and other repugnant acts such as bullying classmates. The linkage between Earls path and such programs is made plain by the title itself, which incorporates the traditional first-name only introduction by attendees at meetings. Earls father intended to name him Carl, but his cursive letter C was read as an E by the hospital where Earl was born. In many flashbacks, he is wearing an AC/DC, Metallica or Lynyrd Skynyrd shirt. He also appears to be incapable of keeping his eyes open when photographs are taken, Earl moved out of his parents house on March 14,1989. One episode says that Earl is allergic to cats, but the allergy is later given to Randy instead, Earl was sent to Nathanville State Penitentiary as inmate #28301-016 at the start of Season 3 for a crime Joy committed that would have been her third strike. In the Raising Hope episode Throw Maw Maw from the House – Part Two, randall Dew Hickey – Earls younger brother. He is thought to be dimwitted and simple, bordering on mild mental retardation. He doesnt fully understand Earls List, and sometimes resents the importance it plays in Earls life, One of his only two revealed regular jobs Randy had was being a guard at the Nathanville State Penitentiary that Earl was sent to after pleading guilty to a kidnapping Joy committed. Randy Hickey is a fan of H. R. Pufnstuf. He is afraid of birds and allergic to cats, he is afraid of the Popes mitre because he suspects there is a chicken beneath it. He has been shown to be an excellent singer many times and he also is very good at acting. He is a fan of Michael J. Fox, at one point he was married to Catalina and in love with her, but later changed his mind about that. Randy Hickey constantly falls in love with women that are too different from him and he also is shown to be a poor hand-writer. This is evidenced by Randy artistically painting his name in letters on the side of a stolen truck. Joy Farrah Darville Hickey Turner is Earls ex-wife who divorces him in the first episode, having realized that Earl had won $100,000 after he signed the papers, she spends her time plotting schemes to try to get her share. She is openly scornful of Earls List, Joy is the mother of two boys, Dodge and Earl Jr
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My Name Is Earl
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My Name Is Earl is an American sitcom series created by Greg Garcia that aired on the NBC television network from September 20,2005, to May 14,2009, in the United States. It was produced by 20th Century Fox Television and starred Jason Lee as Earl Hickey, the series also stars Ethan Suplee, Jaime Pressly, Nadine Velazquez, and Eddie Steeples. Every time something happened to me, something bad was always waiting around the corner. Thats when I realized that I had to change, so I made a list of everything bad Ive ever done and one by one Im gonna make up for all my mistakes, Im just trying to be a better person. Convinced he has to turn his life around to survive, Earl gives himself over to the power of karma. As his first step of a makeshift twelve-step program to fix his misdeeds, Earl makes a list of every bad thing and every person he has wronged, after doing a first good deed, he finds the $100,000 lottery ticket that was previously lost. Seeing this as a sign of karma rewarding him for his commitment, after a year of doing good deeds, a major plot-twist occurs in season two. She is facing life in prison due to this being her third strike, to soften the jury, she decides to have a surrogate baby for her half-sister Liberty Washington. When things do not go well at her trial, Earl takes the blame for the theft and kidnapping to protect Joys freedom. Behind bars, Earl is forced to surrender his original list and he also meets fellow prisoner and friend Franks girlfriend, Billie. In an attempt to re-capture an escaped Frank, Earl, his brother Randy, through Earls captivity, the Warden grants more and more time off Earls sentence for his good deeds. However, the Warden revokes all of time off on what would be Earls second-to-last day in prison. However, Earl eventually gains the hand and forces the Warden to honor his early release. He reverts to his pre-list ways, doing reckless and bad things until Billie hits him with her car, Billie is subsequently hit by a car herself, leaving them both lying in the street. Eventually, Earl wakes up, finds Billie, and marries her, however, Earl and Billie argue about his list, and Earl eventually chooses the list over her, sending her into a rampage where she undoes the good things that he has accomplished to that point. Earl uses it to doing good deeds on his original list. As he continues to perform good deeds, Earls motives initially come across as shallow and selfish – that he is doing good to improve his karma. As another plot-twist, Darnell blows his Witness Protection cover when Joy goes crazy at an audition for a show entitled ¿Estrada or Nada
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CSI: NY
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CSI, NY is an American police procedural television series that ran on CBS from September 22,2004 to February 22,2013, for a total of nine seasons and 197 original episodes. It is the series in the CSI franchise. Originally in 2004, CSI, NY was produced in partnership with the Canadian media company Alliance Atlantis, the company dissolved after season three in 2007, and all production after that was done under the purview of CBS Paramount Television. The show was filmed at the CBS Studio Center, with many of the scenes shot in. Occasionally, scenes were filmed on location in New York City, the series ended its ninth and final season on February 22,2013. It was canceled by CBS on May 10,2013, CSI, NY follows a group of investigators who work for the New York City crime lab. The series mixes gritty subject matter and deduction in the manner as its predecessors. The team is led by Detective Mac Taylor, a former Marine from Chicago, Mac is a veteran of the NYPD who lost his wife on 9/11, and as such must work to rebuild his personal life while supervising his team. He is organized, efficient, dedicated, and very proper in his management style, Macs partner is originally Stella Bonasera. Stella is half-Greek, half-Italian, and entirely New York City and she helped Mac through the impact of his wifes death and has been by his side ever since. She is an investigator, yet she often speaks before she thinks. Stella leaves New York to head a crime lab in New Orleans and is replaced by Detective Jo Danville, Jo is a former FBI criminalist and an experienced psychological profiler. Mac and she quickly form a friendship and an even stronger working rapport. Jo is still haunted by her ousting from the FBI after pulling the plug on improper lab procedure, together, Mac, Stella, and Jo head an elite team of detectives including Danny Messer, Aiden Burn, and Lindsay Monroe. The team also works alongside CSI Sheldon Hawkes, Detective Don Flack, Medical Examiner Sid Hammerback, Mac Taylor is a Detective First Grade and the director of the NYPD crime lab. Mac lost his wife, Claire, in the World Trade Center attacks, dates occasionally, Stella Bonasera is a half-Greek, half-Italian orphan. She is a Detective First Grade with the NYPD and the Assistant CSI Supervisor of Macs team and she often speaks before she thinks, leading to numerous complaints being made against her by those suspected of crimes. Always going where she can do the most good, Stella resigns from the NYPD crime lab following the finale to run the NOPD crime lab
