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San Diego Comic-Con
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Los Angeles, and the Alternative Press Expo and it is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards. In 2010, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees, the convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear. Detroit, Michigan-born, comics fan Shel Dorf, had, in the mid-1960s, mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions. When he moved to San Diego, California, in 1970, he organized a convention on March 21,1970. Dorf went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, Alf co-chaired the first convention with Krueger and became chairman in 1971. Following the initial gathering, Dorfs first three-day San Diego comics convention, other locations in the conventions early years included the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention Center in 1991. I was quietly walking the floor stunned and in awe of just how much bigger it really was, the convention is organized by a panel of 13 board members,16 to 20 full-time and part-time workers, and 80 volunteers who assist via committees. Comic Con International is an organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as the Alternative Press Expo. The convention logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Josh Beatman in 1995, in September 2010, the convention announced that it would stay in San Diego through 2015. In 2015, working with Lionsgate, a channel was created to host Comic-Con related content. According to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, the convention has a regional economic impact of $162.8 million. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, like most comic-book conventions, Comic-Con features a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such as studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers. And like most comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. Despite the name, artists alleys can include writers and even models, academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium
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Brooklyn
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Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a Census-estimated 2,636,735 residents in 2015. It borders the borough of Queens at the end of Long Island. Today, if New York City dissolved, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous city in the U. S. behind Los Angeles, the borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves, Brooklyns official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght which translates from early modern Dutch as Unity makes strength. Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms. The history of European settlement in Brooklyn spans more than 350 years, the neighborhood of Marine Park was home to North Americas first tidal mill. It was built by the Dutch, and the foundation can be seen today, however, the area was not formally settled as a town. Many incidents and documents relating to this period are in Gabriel Furmans early compilation, what is today Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the final English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, a prelude to the Second Anglo–Dutch War. The English reorganized the six old Dutch towns on southwestern Long Island as Kings County on November 1,1683 and this tract of land was recognized as a political entity for the first time, and the municipal groundwork was laid for a later expansive idea of Brooklyn identity. On August 27,1776 was fought the Battle of Long Island, the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War after independence was declared, and the largest of the entire conflict. British troops forced Continental Army troops under George Washington off the heights near the sites of Green-Wood Cemetery, Prospect Park. The fortified American positions at Brooklyn Heights consequently became untenable and were evacuated a few days later, One result of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 was the evacuation of the British from New York City, celebrated by residents into the 20th century. The New York Navy Yard operated in Wallabout Bay for the entire 19th century, the first center of urbanization sprang up in the Town of Brooklyn, directly across from Lower Manhattan, which saw the incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn in 1817. Reliable steam ferry service across the East River to Fulton Landing converted Brooklyn Heights into a town for Wall Street. Ferry Road to Jamaica Pass became Fulton Street to East New York, Town and Village were combined to form the first, kernel incarnation of the City of Brooklyn in 1834. Industrial deconcentration in mid-century was bringing shipbuilding and other manufacturing to the part of the county. Each of the two cities and six towns in Kings County remained independent municipalities, and purposely created non-aligning street grids with different naming systems and it later became the most popular and highest circulation afternoon paper in America. The publisher changed to L. Van Anden on April 19,1842, on May 14,1849 the name was shortened to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, on September 5,1938 it was further shortened to Brooklyn Eagle
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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Las Vegas
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The city anchors the Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area and is the largest city within the greater Mojave Desert. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city known primarily for its gambling, shopping, fine dining, entertainment and it is the leading financial, commercial, and cultural center for Nevada. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World and it is a top three destination in the United States for business conventions and a global leader in the hospitality industry, claiming more AAA Five Diamond hotels than any city in the world. Today, Las Vegas annually ranks as one of the worlds most visited tourist destinations. The citys tolerance for numerous forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of Sin City, and has made Las Vegas a popular setting for literature, films, television programs, Las Vegas was settled in 1905 and officially incorporated in 1911. At the close of the 20th century, it was the most populated American city founded within that century, population growth has accelerated since the 1960s, and between 1990 and 2000 the population nearly doubled, increasing by 85. 2%. Rapid growth has continued into the 21st century, and according to a 2013 estimate, perhaps the earliest visitors to the Las Vegas area were nomadic Paleo-Indians, who traveled there 10,000 years ago, leaving behind petroglyphs. Anasazi and Paiute tribes followed at least 2,000 years ago, a young Mexican scout named Rafael Rivera is credited as the first non-Native American to encounter the valley, in 1829. Trader Antonio Armijo led a 60-man party along the Spanish Trail to Los Angeles, the area was named Las Vegas, which is Spanish for the meadows, as it featured abundant wild grasses, as well as desert spring waters for westward travelers. The year 1844 marked the arrival of John C, frémont, whose writings helped lure pioneers to the area. Downtown Las Vegas Fremont Street is named after him, eleven years later members of the LDS Church chose Las Vegas as the site to build a fort halfway between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, where they would travel to gather supplies. The fort was abandoned several years afterward, the remainder of this Old Mormon Fort can still be seen at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Washington Avenue. Las Vegas was founded as a city in 1905, when 110 acres of adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks were auctioned in what would become the downtown area. In 1911, Las Vegas was incorporated as a city,1931 was a pivotal year for Las Vegas. At that time, Nevada legalized casino gambling and reduced residency requirements for divorce to six weeks and this year also witnessed the beginning of construction on nearby Hoover Dam. The influx of workers and their families helped Las Vegas avoid economic calamity during the Great Depression. The construction work was completed in 1935, in 1941, the Las Vegas Army Air Corps Gunnery School was established. Currently known as Nellis Air Force Base, it is home to the team called the Thunderbirds
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Mountain Lakes, New Jersey
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Mountain Lakes is a borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, and a suburb of New York City. The borough was named for a pair of lakes in the area, New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Mountain Lakes as the 26th best place to live in New Jersey in its rankings of the New Jerseys Top Towns 2011-2012 in New Jersey. Grimes Homestead, is an 18th-century historic home that served as a way station on the Underground Railroad, Mountain Lakes was originally a planned community, founded in 1910 by Herbert Hapgood. It became an independent town in 1924, the United States Navys Underwater Sound Reference Laboratories was located in Mountain Lakes during World War II. While this has changed in recent years, the still has a less diverse population than the rest of New Jersey. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough had an area of 2.885 square miles. Part of The Tourne county park is in Mountain Lakes, man-made lakes in Mountain Lakes include Birchwood Lake, Crystal Lake, Mountain Lake, Sunset Lake, Wildwood Lake, and Cove Lake. It is only legal to swim in Birchwood Lake, and Mountain Lake in the areas that are roped off, swimming is allowed between the hours of 5 am to 10 PM every day between the months of June and August with a beach badge purchased at the borough hall. As of the census of 2010, there were 4,160 people,1,313 households, the population density was 1,590.3 per square mile. There were 1,363 housing units at a density of 521.1 per square mile. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 55% of the population,11. 3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.17 and the family size was 3.44. In the borough, the population was out with 34. 9% under the age of 18,4. 8% from 18 to 24,16. 8% from 25 to 44,33. 5% from 45 to 64. The median age was 41.8 years, for every 100 females there were 99.9 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and old there were 93.5 males, the Census Bureaus 2006-2010 American Community Survey showed that median household income was $155,139 and the median family income was $181,600. Males had an income of $144,688 versus $77,734 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $75,525, about 2. 1% of families and 2. 1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2. 0% of those under age 18 and 5. 2% of those age 65 or over. According to The New York Times, a group of foreigners have been moving to the borough, including Germans, Chinese, South Africans
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Carnegie Mellon University
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Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools, in 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University. The universitys 140-acre main campus is 3 miles from Downtown Pittsburgh, john Heinz III College of Information Systems and Public Policy, and the School of Computer Science. The university also has campuses in Qatar and Silicon Valley, with degree-granting programs in six continents, Carnegie Mellon consistently ranks in the top 25 in the national U. S. News & World Report rankings. It is home to the world’s first degree-granting Robotics and Drama programs, the university spent $242 million on research in 2015. Carnegie Mellon counts 13,650 students from 114 countries, over 100,000 living alumni, Carnegies vision was to open a vocational training school for the sons and daughters of working-class Pittsburghers. Carnegie was inspired for the design of his school by the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, in 1912 the institution changed its name to Carnegie Institute of Technology and began offering four-year degrees. The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research was founded in 1913 by banker and industrialist brothers Andrew, Mellon in honor of their father, Thomas Mellon, the patriarch of the Mellon family. The Institute began as an organization which performed work for government. In 1927, the Mellon Institute incorporated as an independent nonprofit, in 1938, the Mellon Institutes iconic building was completed and it moved to its new, and current, location on Fifth Avenue. In 1967, with support from Paul Mellon, Carnegie Tech merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to become Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellons coordinate womens college, the Margaret Morrison Carnegie College closed in 1973 and merged its academic programs with the rest of the university. The industrial research mission of the Mellon Institute survived the merger as the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute and continued doing work on contract to industry, CMRI closed in 2001 and its programs were subsumed by other parts of the university or spun off into independent entities. Carnegie Mellons 140-acre main campus is three miles from downtown Pittsburgh, between Schenley Park and the Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, and Oakland neighborhoods, Carnegie Mellon is bordered to the west by the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Carnegie Mellon owns 81 buildings in the Oakland and Squirrel Hill neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, for decades the center of student life on campus was Skibo Hall, the Universitys student union. Built in the 1950s, Skibo Halls design was typical of Mid-Century Modern architecture, the original Skibo was razed in the summer of 1994 and replaced by a new student union that is fully wi-fi enabled. Known as University Center, the building was dedicated in 1996, in 2014, Carnegie Mellon re-dedicated the University Center as the Cohon University Center in recognition of the eighth president of the university, Jared Cohon. A large grassy area known as the Cut forms the backbone of the campus, the Cut was formed by filling in a ravine with soil from a nearby hill that was leveled to build the College of Fine Arts building. The northwestern part of the campus was acquired from the United States Bureau of Mines in the 1980s, the sculpture was controversial for its placement, the general lack of input that the campus community had, and its aesthetic appeal
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Niko Bellic
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Niko Bellic is voiced by Michael Hollick, who also provides some motion capture for the character, along with Sam Glen, Bas Rutten, Amir Perets and Mario DLeon. Nikos nationality is never specified in the game, and has been a subject of some debate, prior to the game being launched, it was believed by some that he was Russian, Croatian, or Serbian. In the games backstory, Nikos father is portrayed as a violent alcoholic who abuses him, his mother. According to the backstory, Niko participates in the war as a youth, serving in an unknown militia as an infantryman, tank operator. A defining moment in the war for Niko in the backstory is when his unit of fifteen young men from his village are ambushed by the enemy. Niko barely escapes the ambush, and weeks later concludes that the unit has been betrayed by one of their own soldiers and he returns to the pit where his friends were buried, digs up the bodies, counted them, and identifies each of the corpses. From this he learns there are two other survivors, Florian Cravic and Darko Brevic. Niko vows to search for the perpetrator, motivated not solely by revenge, by the end of the war, Niko experiences difficulty finding work and leading a normal life, and his elder brother has been killed in action during the war. Before the war, his cousin Roman Bellic decides to settle in the United States in order to lead a new life in Liberty City, after being released from a brief stint in prison, Niko joins a smuggling and trafficking ring run by Russian criminal Ray Bulgarin. During one smuggling run into Italy, the boat that Niko is working on sinks in the Adriatic Sea, a mile from the nearest shoreline. Niko manages to abandon the ship and swim to safety, however everything else placed on the ship was lost beyond salvaging, and Bulgarin accused Niko of escaping with the money on board. Although Niko denies the accusations, Bulgarin refuses to him and he is too powerful to argue with. He spends the following seven months at sea in the Atlantic Ocean, befriending the crew of the Platypus, Niko eventually discovers that Florian Cravic, one of the two survivors of the ambush, is also residing in Liberty City. Upon arriving in Liberty City aboard the Platypus and being greeted by an excited Roman, starting from Roman, Nikos professional and personal relationships keep expanding over the course of the game. Niko and Roman are soon kidnapped by henchmen of Glebovs superior, the powerful but mentally unstable Russian Mafia don, Mikhail Faustin, the two are interrogated in the basement of Faustins mansion, however Faustin enters the basement, angry because he had not authorized the kidnapping. Faustin kills the henchman interrogating Niko and shoots Roman in the stomach for screaming too loudly. After being released, Faustin reveals that he hated Vlad Glebov and actually approves of Niko for killing him, Faustin gives Niko work as a hired gun, but eventually orders him to kill the son of a rival Russian mafia don, Kenny Petrović. Deciding he has no choice, Niko confronts Faustin at his club, Perestroika, chasing the him to the clubs rooftop, Niko corners Faustin and aims a gun at him
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Grand Theft Auto IV
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The soundtrack to the game Grand Theft Auto IV, like the previous games in the series, is mostly made up of in-game radio stations. These radio stations can be listened to when driving various vehicles in the game, Radio stations in past games have included licensed music, original music made specifically for the game, DJ chat, and spoof advertising. This game includes 19 in-game radio stations (20 in the PC edition, of the 19 stations,16 are musical stations while the other three are talk radio. The songs included with the downloadable content carry over to the compilation disc Grand Theft Auto, Episodes from Liberty City, instead there are three exclusive radio stations featuring 48 songs not available for the original game. The radio stations play songs in an order, and will still start at a random point whenever the player enters a vehicle. The radio station that is on when the player enters a vehicle is based on the type of vehicle the player enters, along with the in-game radio stations, other credited music is heard exclusively at certain points in the game. This includes the opening sequence and when walking through the interiors of certain buildings in the game. Michael Hunter composed and produced the song called Soviet Connection — The Theme from Grand Theft Auto IV. As part of a partnership between Rockstar Games and Amazon. com, most of the heard on the in-game radio stations is available for download through the Amazon MP3 digital music store. Beginning with the release of The Lost and Damned, Rockstars soundtrack sales partner is the iTunes Store, like previous games in the Grand Theft Auto series, Grand Theft Auto IV features a soundtrack that can be heard through radio stations while the player is in a vehicle. Liberty City is serviced by 19 radio stations, three of which are talk radio stations, the other stations feature music from a large range of genres, including tracks from Genesis, David Bowie, Bob Marley, The Who, Queen, Kanye West and Elton John. Grand Theft Auto IV uses a music system to that of Grand Theft Auto. In other games in the series, each station was essentially a single looped sound file, playing the same songs. Certain songs are edited to incorporate references to the fictional Liberty City. Saturday Night Live actors Bill Hader and Jason Sudeikis appear on the liberal and conservative talk shows respectively. Numerous other comedians, including Jim Norton, Patrice ONeal, Rick Shapiro, in the PC version there is also a Independence FM station which plays music files stored in My Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\User Music path. Songs that featured with the content can also be heard in the original version. DJ, Mister Cee, DJ Green Lantern, Funkmaster Flex and Statik Selektah Genre, Hip hop, rap, R&B DJ, Mixed by DJ PremierGenre, Hip hop † Not included in Grand Theft Auto, Episodes from Liberty City
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Play (theatre)
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A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. Plays are performed at a variety of levels, from Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theater, to Community theatre, there are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference as to whether their plays were performed or read. The term play can refer to both the works of playwrights and to their complete theatrical performance. Comedies are plays which are designed to be humorous, comedies are often filled with witty remarks, unusual characters, and strange circumstances. Certain comedies are geared toward different age groups, comedies were one of the two original play types of Ancient Greece, along with tragedies. An example of a comedy would be William Shakespeares play A Midsummer Nights Dream, a generally nonsensical genre of play, farces are often overacted and often involve slapstick humor. An example of a farce includes William Shakespeares play The Comedy of Errors, a satire play takes a comic look at current events people while at the same time attempting to make a political or social statement, for example pointing out corruption. An example of a satire would be Nikolai Gogols The Government Inspector, satire plays are generally one of the most popular forms of comedy, and often considered to be their own genre entirely. This is a genre that explored relationships between men and women, and was considered risqué in its time, however, since restoration comedy dealt with unspoken aspects of relationships, it created a type of connection between audience and performance that was more informal and private. It is commonly agreed that restoration comedy has origins in Molière’s theories of comedy, the inconsistency between restoration comedy’s morals and the morals of the era is something that often arises during the study of this genre. This may give clues as to why, despite its original success, however, in recent years, it has become a topic of interest for theatre theorists, who have been looking into theatre styles that have their own conventions of performance. These plays contain darker themes such as death and disaster, often the protagonist of the play has a tragic flaw, a trait which leads to their downfall. Tragic plays convey all emotions and have extremely dramatic conflicts, tragedy was one of the two original play types of Ancient Greece. Some examples of tragedies include William Shakespeares Hamlet, and also John Websters play The Duchess of Malfi and these plays focus on actual historical events. They can be tragedies or comedies, but are neither of these. History as a genre was popularized by William Shakespeare. Examples of historical plays include Friedrich Schillers Demetrius and William Shakespeares King John, ballad opera, a popular theatre style at the time, was the first style of musical to be performed in the American colonies. The first musical of American origin was premiered in Philadelphia in 1767, and was called “The Disappointment”, however, around the 1920s, theatre styles were beginning to be defined more clearly
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Tarzan (musical)
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Tarzan is based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios film of the same name. The songs are written by Phil Collins with a book by David Henry Hwang, the musical mostly follows the plot of the Disney film, Tarzan is raised by gorillas, meets Jane, a young English naturalist, and falls in love. Janes entourage plans to kill the gorillas, and Tarzans loyalties are tested, the original Broadway production opened in 2006, directed and designed by Bob Crowley with choreography by Meryl Tankard. The production ran for 35 previews and 486 performances, subsequently, the show has been staged in several other countries and by regional theatres. A workshop was held in 2004, with Daniel Manche as the Child Tarzan, Matthew Morrison as the Adult Tarzan, Adam Pascal as Tarzan Storyteller and Laura Bell Bundy as Jane. Bob Crowley designed the sets and costumes and directed the original Broadway production, choreography was by Meryl Tankard, danton Burroughs, grandson of Edgar Rice Burroughs, attended the opening night party, as did Phil Collins. The production was nominated for a Tony award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical, due to poor ticket sales, the show closed on July 8,2007 after 35 previews and 486 performances. The musical follows the plot of the Disney film, with a few minor changes, Terk, who was a female in the film, is a male in the musical. The major character of Tantor the elephant is cut from the musical. Off of the West African coast, a young English couple and their newborn son barely survive a shipwreck and they construct a tree house for their son before being killed by a leopard. In the African Jungle, Kerchak, the leader of a tribe of gorillas admires his new infant son with his mate, the leopard suddenly appears and kidnaps the newborn baby gorilla. Kala goes off to find her son but finds the boy instead. She mothers him and raises him despite Kerchaks refusal to treat Tarzan as his son, Tarzan cannot keep up with the tribe and Kerchak views him as a threat. Tarzan is befriended by the lighthearted Terk, a gorilla who teaches him the ways of the gorillas. Kerchak finds Tarzan constructing a spear and he exiles him from the gorilla tribe, Kala worries for him and goes off to find him. She discovers him despairing by the waters edge, Kala tells him that even though they look different, underneath the skin, they are just the same. Years pass and the boy grows into a young man, athletic. Kala tries to convince Kerchak to accept Tarzan, Kerchak wont change his mind until Tarzan kills the leopard that has been terrorizing the tribe
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Jumpers (play)
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Jumpers is a play by Tom Stoppard which was first performed in 1972. It explores and satirises the field of philosophy, likening it to a less-than skilful competitive gymnastics display. Jumpers raises questions such as What do we know, and Where do values come from. It is set in a reality where some British astronauts have landed on the moon. It was inspired by the notion that a moon landing would ruin the moon as a poetic trope. One such flipping prof, McFee, is dead in the cabaret chaos of the opening scene. Caught in between is Dotty, Georges disturbed wife and Archies patient, Dotty, a former student of Georges, ended a semi-successful stage career when the sight of astronauts on the moon unhinged her sanity. According to Dotty, the conquering of the moon revealed the human race—once scientifically and spiritually the center of the universe—as little, local. The play was first performed by the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic Theatre, London on 2 February 1972 with Michael Hordern and Diana Rigg in the roles of George. Peter Wood directed the production and Carl Toms designed its sets. The play premiered on Broadway on April 22,1974, at the Billy Rose Theatre and closed on June 1,1974, directed again by Peter Wood, it featured Brian Bedford and Jill Clayburgh. Bedford won the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Performance, in 1984 Nicholas Hytner directed a production at the Royal Exchange, Manchester with Tom Courtenay as George, Julie Walters as Dotty and John Bennett as Archie. A revival directed for the Royal National Theatre by David Leveaux opened in Londons Lyttelton Theatre on June 19,2003. The show transferred to Broadway on April 25,2004, playing at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, the Broadway show featured Simon Russell Beale as George and Essie Davis as Dotty. The play received a Tony Award nomination for Best play revival, reviews Internet Broadway Database,2 productions
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Broadway theatre
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Along with Londons West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City, the great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggars Opera, in 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice, the company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, by the 1840s, P. T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan. In 1829, at Broadway and Prince Street, Niblos Garden opened, the 3, 000-seat theatre presented all sorts of musical and non-musical entertainments. In 1844, Palmos Opera House opened and presented opera for four seasons before bankruptcy led to its rebranding as a venue for plays under the name Burtons Theatre. The Astor Opera House opened in 1847, booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865, and would later revive the role at his own Booths Theatre. Other renowned Shakespeareans who appeared in New York in this era were Henry Irving, Tommaso Salvini, Fanny Davenport, lydia Thompson came to America in 1868 heading a small theatrical troupe, adapting popular English burlesques for middle-class New York audiences. Thompsons troupe called the British Blondes, was the most popular entertainment in New York during the 1868–1869 theatrical season, the six-month tour ran for almost six extremely profitable years. Theatre in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown beginning around 1850, in 1870, the heart of Broadway was in Union Square, and by the end of the century, many theatres were near Madison Square. Broadways first long-run musical was a 50-performance hit called The Elves in 1857, New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keenes musical burletta The Seven Sisters shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. It was at a performance by Keenes troupe of Our American Cousin in Washington, the production was a staggering five-and-a-half hours long, but despite its length, it ran for a record-breaking 474 performances. The same year, The Black Domino/Between You, Me and the Post was the first show to call itself a musical comedy, Tony Pastor opened the first vaudeville theatre one block east of Union Square in 1881, where Lillian Russell performed. Comedians Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart produced and starred in musicals on Broadway between 1878 and 1890, with book and lyrics by Harrigan and music by his father-in-law David Braham. They starred high quality singers, instead of the women of repute who had starred in earlier musical forms. Plays could run longer and still draw in the audiences, leading to better profits, as in England, during the latter half of the century, the theatre began to be cleaned up, with less prostitution hindering the attendance of the theatre by women
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Television
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Television or TV is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome, or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a set, a television program. Television is a medium for entertainment, education, news, politics, gossip. Television became available in experimental forms in the late 1920s. After World War II, a form of black-and-white TV broadcasting became popular in the United States and Britain, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses. During the 1950s, television was the medium for influencing public opinion. In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the US, for many reasons, the storage of television and video programming now occurs on the cloud. At the end of the first decade of the 2000s, digital television transmissions greatly increased in popularity, another development was the move from standard-definition television to high-definition television, which provides a resolution that is substantially higher. HDTV may be transmitted in various formats, 1080p, 1080i, in 2013, 79% of the worlds households owned a television set. Most TV sets sold in the 2000s were flat-panel, mainly LEDs, major manufacturers announced the discontinuation of CRT, DLP, plasma, and even fluorescent-backlit LCDs by the mid-2010s. In the near future, LEDs are gradually expected to be replaced by OLEDs, also, major manufacturers have announced that they will increasingly produce smart TVs in the mid-2010s. Smart TVs with integrated Internet and Web 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s, Television signals were initially distributed only as terrestrial television using high-powered radio-frequency transmitters to broadcast the signal to individual television receivers. Alternatively television signals are distributed by cable or optical fiber, satellite systems and. Until the early 2000s, these were transmitted as analog signals, a standard television set is composed of multiple internal electronic circuits, including a tuner for receiving and decoding broadcast signals. A visual display device which lacks a tuner is correctly called a video monitor rather than a television, the word television comes from Ancient Greek τῆλε, meaning far, and Latin visio, meaning sight. The Anglicised version of the term is first attested in 1907 and it was. formed in English or borrowed from French télévision. In the 19th century and early 20th century, other. proposals for the name of a technology for sending pictures over distance were telephote. The abbreviation TV is from 1948, the use of the term to mean a television set dates from 1941
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Law & Order
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Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It originally aired on NBC and, in syndication, on cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13,1990, and completed its 20th, at the time of its cancellation, Law & Order was the longest-running crime drama on American primetime television. Its record of 20 seasons is a tie with Gunsmoke for the longest-running live-action scripted American prime-time series with ongoing characters, although it has fewer episodes than Gunsmoke, Law & Order ranks as the longest-running hour-long primetime TV series. Gunsmoke, for its first six seasons, was originally a half-hour program, plots are often based on real cases that recently made headlines, although the motivation for the crime and the perpetrator may be different. The show has been noted for its revolving cast over the years, the success of the series has led to the creation of additional shows, making Law & Order a franchise, with also a television film, several video games, and international adaptations of the series. It has won and has been nominated for awards over the years. On May 14,2010, NBC announced that it had canceled Law & Order, in July 2010, however, he indicated that those attempts had failed and declared that the series had now moved to the history books. However, in February 2015, rumors started that NBC was planning to bring the back for 10 episodes. In May 2015, former star Sam Waterston announced to The Hollywood Reporter that he supports and would join a revival of Law & Order, saying, Youre darn right. Creator Dick Wolf has expressed wanting to use a L&O revival to do a ripped from the headlines story-line surrounding the trial of Robert Durst. Everybody who knows me knows its something I want to do, he continued, at the 2015 Television Critics Association summer press tour, Wolf noted everyone wants a revival, It is a question of. Most of the involved are very successful in their careers. To try to get everything in sequence is more difficult than it looks on the outside. I would love to do it if we can make it work, in 1988, Dick Wolf developed a concept for a new television series that would depict a relatively optimistic picture of the American criminal justice system. He initially toyed with the idea of calling it Night & Day, the first half of each episode would follow two detectives and their commanding officer as they investigate a violent crime. The second half of the episode would follow the District Attorneys Office, through this, Law & Order would be able to investigate some of the larger issues of the day by focusing on stories that were based on real cases making headlines. Wolf took the idea to then-president of Universal Television Kerry McCluggage, who pointed out the similarity to a 1963 series titled Arrest and Trial, which lasted one season
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Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series)
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Hawaii Five-0 is an American action police procedural television series, which premiered on Monday, September 20,2010 on CBS. The series is a reboot of the series, which aired on CBS from 1968 to 1980. Like the original, it follows a state police task force set up to fight crime in the state of Hawaii. On March 25,2016, CBS renewed the series for a seventh season, on March 23,2017, CBS renewed the series for an eighth season. The series covers the actions of a small, specialized DPS task force in Hawaii, headed by Lt. Commander Steve McGarrett, the task force answers only to the Governor of the state of Hawaii and was given immunity and means to investigate crimes ranging from terrorism to kidnapping. McGarrett chooses as his partner Honolulu PD Detective Danny Danno Williams and he fills out the team by selecting Chin Ho Kelly, his fathers protégé, and Chins cousin, Kono Kalakaua, a rookie HPD cop. They are assisted by Dr. Max Bergman, an examiner for the County of Honolulu, and Jerry Ortega, Chins high school classmate. Steve later adds Lou Grover, a former HPD SWAT commander, to the Five-0 team and Catherine Rollins, Alex OLoughlin as Lieutenant Commander Steven J. Steve McGarrett, USNR. A decorated former Navy SEAL, McGarrett is head of the Five-0 Task Force, johns murder and storyline forms the premise of Steves return to Hawaii and the formation of the Task Force. Scott Caan as Detective Sergeant Danny Danno Williams, HPD and he is a divorced single father who transferred from Newark PD in New Jersey to be with his daughter and is the de facto second-in-command of Five-0. Daniel Dae Kim as Detective Lieutenant Chin Ho Kelly, HPD, a veteran HPD detective, he was John McGarretts former rookie and provides technical expertise and local know-how. Grace Park as Officer Kono Kalakaua, HPD, a former surfer, she was personally recruited by McGarrett while still in her final days at the HPD Academy. She is the cousin of Lieutenant Kelly, Masi Oka as Dr. Max Bergman, the eccentric and well-respected County of Honolulu medical examiner Lauren German as Special Agent Lori Weston Michelle Borth as Lieutenant Catherine Rollins, USNR. A former Navy Intelligence officer and McGarretts ex-girlfriend, chi McBride as former HPD SWAT Captain Lou Grover. A transfer from Chicago PD and has two children with his wife Renée, Jorge Garcia as Jerry Ortega, a conspiracy theorist who assisted Five-0 during several investigations and is eventually hired as a consultant. In Episode 7/21, Ua Maloo Ka Wai, Jerry is finally given the badge of a member of the 5-0 team. Taylor Wily as Kamekona Tupuola, a rehabilitated ex-convict, turned entrepreneur and owner of the Waiola Shave Ice, Kamekonas Shrimp Truck and he is a CI for the Five-0 Task Force and their friend. Mark Dacascos as Wo Fat, a lord and mastermind with ties to the Yakuza, arms merchants, terrorists, high-ranking government officials
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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Law & Order, Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30,2001, Criminal Intent focuses on the investigations of the Major Case Squad in a fictionalized version of the New York City Police Department set in New York Citys One Police Plaza. In the style of the original Law & Order, episodes are often ripped from the headlines or loosely based on a crime that received media attention. The series aired on NBC for the first six seasons but was moved to the NBCUniversal-owned USA Network starting with the season to share costs. During its NBC run, each episode aired on USA the week after its original NBC airing, the series ended on June 26,2011, after 10 seasons comprising 195 episodes. The Major Case Squad investigates high-profile cases such as those involving VIPs, local government officials and employees, the industry. The series pays attention to the actions and motives of the criminals, rather than focusing exclusively on the police and prosecutions. A feature of each Criminal Intent episode is that the cold open always involves a series of cut-scenes that show events from the suspects and victims lives, clues to the crimes eventual solution can often be found in this teaser sequence. Unlike other Law & Order series, most Criminal Intent episodes end in confessions rather than continuing to the trial phase, seasons 1-4 and 10 focus on Detectives Robert Bobby Goren and Alexandra Eames as the primary detectives in every episode. After season 7, Mike Logan retired from the NYPD and was replaced with Detective Zack Nichols until season 10, the UK-aired version of Law & Order, Criminal Intent features the song Theres Only Me by Rob Dougan in the opening credits. Another Rob Dougan track, Im Not Driving Anymore, is used as the theme for Law & Order and Law & Order, from season 6 the UK-aired version theme is Urban Warfare by Paul Dinletir. Law & Order, Criminal Intent was created in 2001 by René Balcer, Balcer served as the shows executive producer, showrunner, and head writer for its first five seasons. The show dominated its time slot on Sundays at 9,00 p. m. for its first three seasons, and was often the highest-rated show of the night, with an average audience of 15.5 million viewers. The show aired Sundays on NBC, with each episode being repeated on USA Network the following Saturday. Beginning in Season 4, it faced new competition from ABCs night-time soap opera Desperate Housewives. Balcer left the show at the end of Season 5, and the show was handed off to Warren Leight, under Leights leadership, the show acquired a new, more melodramatic tone. The mystery aspect of the show was simplified in favor of personal stories involving the detectives. For example, Goren endured his mothers battle with cancer
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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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Villain
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A villain is an evil character in a story, whether a historical narrative or, especially, a work of fiction. The villain usually is the antagonist, the character who tends to have an effect on other characters. A female villain is called a villainess. It referred to a person of less than knightly status and so came to mean a person who was not chivalrous, the villain therefore could appear twice, once in the opening of the story, and a second time as the person sought out by the hero. When a character performed only these acts, the character was a pure villain, the functions could also be spread out among several characters. If a dragon acted as the villain, but was killed by the hero, another character might take on the role of the villain, two other characters could appear in roles that are villainous in the more general sense. One is the hero, this character is always villainous. Among these characters are Cinderellas stepsisters, chopping off parts of their feet to fit on the shoe, another character, the dispatcher, sends a hero on his quest. This might be an innocent request, to fulfil a legitimate need, in fiction, villains commonly function in the dual role of adversary and foil to the storys heroes. In their role as adversary, the villain serves as an obstacle the hero must struggle to overcome, in their role as foil, the villain exemplifies characteristics that are diametrically opposed to those of the hero, creating a contrast distinguishing heroic traits from villainous ones. Others point out many acts of villains have a hint of wish-fulfillment. Because of this, a convincing villain must be given a characterization that provides a motive for doing wrong, as put by film critic Roger Ebert, Each film is only as good as its villain. Since the heroes and the gimmicks tend to repeat from film to film, tod Slaughter always portrayed villainous characters on both stage and screen in a melodramatic manner, with mustache-twirling, eye-rolling, leering, cackling, and hand-rubbing. Brad Warner states that only cartoon villains cackle with glee while rubbing their hands together and dream of ruling the world in the name of all that is wicked, ben Bova recommends to authors that their works not contain villains. He states, in his Tips for writers, In the real world there are no villains, no one actually sets out to do evil. Or, more accurately, fiction serves as a lens to focus of what they know in life, there are no villains cackling and rubbing their hands in glee as they contemplate their evil deeds. There are only people with problems, struggling to solve them, david Lubar adds, This is a brilliant observation that has served me well in all my writing. He may be driven by greed, neuroses, or the conviction that his cause is just, in an attempt to add realism to their stories, many writers will try to create sympathetic villains, the antithesis to an antihero called a antivillain
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Las Vegas Valley
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The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area located in the southern part of the U. S. state of Nevada. The largest urban agglomeration in the state, it is the heart of the Las Vegas–Paradise-Henderson, the Valley is largely defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a 600 sq mi basin area surrounded by mountains to the north, south, east and west of the metropolitan area. The Valley is home to the three largest incorporated cities in Nevada, Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas, six unincorporated towns governed by the Clark County government are part of the Las Vegas Township and constitute the largest community in the state of Nevada. Since the 1990s the Las Vegas Valley has seen exponential growth, in 2014, a record breaking 41 million visited the Las Vegas area, producing a gross metropolitan product of more than $100 billion. The first reported non-Native American visitor to the Las Vegas Valley was the Mexican scout Rafael Rivera in 1829. Las Vegas was named by Mexicans in the Antonio Armijo party, including Rivera, in the 19th century, areas of the valley contained artesian wells that supported extensive green areas, or meadows, hence the name Las Vegas. The area was settled by Mormon farmers in 1854 and later became the site of a United States Army fort in 1864. Since the 1930s, Las Vegas has generally been identified as a center as well as a resort destination. Nellis Air Force Base is located in the northeast corner of the valley, the ranges that the Nellis pilots use and various other land areas used by various federal agencies, limit growth of the valley in terms of geographic area. Businessman Howard Hughes arrived in the late 1960s and purchased many casino hotels, as well as television, legitimate corporations began to purchase casino hotels as well, and the mob was run out by the federal government over the next several years. The constant stream of tourist dollars from the hotels and casinos was augmented by a new source of money from the establishment of what is now Nellis Air Force Base. The influx of personnel and casino job-hunters helped start a land building boom which is now leveling off. The Las Vegas area remains one of the top entertainment destinations. The valley is contained in the Las Vegas Valley landform and this includes the cities of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and Henderson, and the unincorporated towns of Paradise, Spring Valley, Sunrise Manor, Enterprise, Winchester, and Whitney. The valley is located within the larger metropolitan area, as the metropolitan area covers all of Clark County -including parts that do not fall within the valley. The government of Clark County has an Urban Planning Area of Las Vegas and this definition is a roughly rectangular area, about 20 mi from east to west and 30 miles from north to south. Notable exclusions from the Urban Planning Area include Red Rock, Blue Diamond, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is the largest police department in the valley and the state and exercises jurisdiction in the entire county. The department does not exercise jurisdiction in areas with separate police forces such as North Las Vegas, Henderson, Boulder City, Nellis Air Force Base
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The Lion King (musical)
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The show is produced by Disney Theatrical Productions. On June 13,2006, the Broadway production moved to the Minskoff Theatre to make way for the version of Mary Poppins. It is Broadways third longest-running show in history and the highest grossing Broadway production of all time, the show debuted in the West Ends Lyceum Theatre on October 19,1999, and is still running. The cast of the West End production were invited to perform at the Royal Variety Performance in 1999 and 2008, as the sun rises, Rafiki the mandrill calls the animals to Pride Rock. She greets King Mufasa and Queen Sarabi before presenting their cub to the gathered animals, elsewhere, Mufasas brother, Scar, laments his lost chance at becoming king. Back at her baobab tree, Rafiki paints an image of the cub and asks the spirits to conjure the new princes name, time passes and Simba grows into a lively young cub. Mufasa shows Simba the Pride Lands from the top of Pride Rock, Mufasa warns Simba not to stray beyond the boundaries of the Pride Lands, pointing out a shadowy area in the distance. Zazu, a hornbill who acts as Mufasas advisor, arrives, Simba goes to see his uncle Scar. The scheming lion piques the cubs curiosity by mentioning the elephant graveyard, Simba arrives and asks his best friend, a female cub named Nala, to come with him to the elephant graveyard. He lies to the lionesses about where they are going, and Sarafina and Sarabi allow the cubs to go, Simba and Nala formulate a plan and manage to lose Zazu, while Simba brags about his future position. The cubs go to the graveyard and begin to explore, Zazu catches up, but they are confronted by three hyenas, Shenzi, Banzai and Ed. The hyenas intend to eat the trespassers and gloat about their find, Mufasa rescues the cubs and frightens off the hyenas. Mufasa is disappointed and angry at Simbas reckless disobedience, and explains the difference between bravery and bravado, Mufasa tells Simba about the great kings of the past and how they watch over everything from the stars. Mufasa says that he always be there for his son. Later he discusses Simbas behavior with Zazu, who reminds Mufasa that he had the tendency to get into trouble at Simbas age. Back at the elephant graveyard, Scar tells the hyenas of his plan to kill Mufasa and he raises an army of hyenas, promising that they will never go hungry again if they support him. Scar takes Simba to a gorge and tells him to wait there, on Scars signal, the hyenas start a wildebeest stampede into the gorge. Scar tells Mufasa that Simba is trapped in the gorge, Mufasa leaps into the stampede and manages to save his son, but as he tries to escape, Scar throws him off the cliff back into the stampede, killing him
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The Walt Disney Company
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The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. It is the second largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue. Disney was founded on October 16,1923 – by brothers Walt Disney, the company also operated under the names The Walt Disney Studio and then Walt Disney Productions. Taking on its current name in 1986, it expanded its operations and also started divisions focused upon theater, radio, music, publishing. In addition, Disney has since created corporate divisions in order to more mature content than is typically associated with its flagship family-oriented brands. The company is best known for the products of its studio, Walt Disney Studios. Disneys other three divisions are Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Disney Media Networks, and Disney Consumer Products. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6,1991, Mickey Mouse, an early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, is a primary symbol and mascot for Disney. In early 1923, Kansas City, Missouri, animator Walt Disney created a film entitled Alices Wonderland. After the bankruptcy in 1923 of his previous firm, Laugh-O-Gram Studios, Disney moved to Hollywood to join his brother, Walt and Roy Disney formed Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio that same year. More animated films followed after Alice, in January 1926, with the completion of the Disney studio on Hyperion Street, the Disney Brothers Studios name was changed to the Walt Disney Studio. The distributor owned Oswald, so Disney only made a few hundred dollars, Disney completed 26 Oswald shorts before losing the contract in February 1928, due to a legal loophole, when Winklers husband Charles Mintz took over their distribution company. After failing to take over the Disney Studio, Mintz hired away four of Disneys primary animators to start his own animation studio, Snappy Comedies. In 1928, to recover from the loss of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Disney came up with the idea of a character named Mortimer while on a train headed to California. The mouse was later renamed Mickey Mouse and starred in several Disney produced films, ub Iwerks refined Disneys initial design of Mickey Mouse. Disneys first sound film Steamboat Willie, a cartoon starring Mickey, was released on November 18,1928 through Pat Powers distribution company and it was the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon released, but the third to be created, behind Plane Crazy and The Gallopin Gaucho. Disney used Pat Powers Cinephone system, created by Powers using Lee De Forests Phonofilm system, Steamboat Willie premiered at B. S. Mosss Colony Theater in New York City, now The Broadway Theatre. Disneys Plane Crazy and The Galloping Gaucho were then retrofitted with synchronized sound tracks, Disney continued to produce cartoons with Mickey Mouse and other characters, and began the Silly Symphonies series with Columbia Pictures signing on as Symphonies distributor in August 1929
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Morristown, New Jersey
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Morristown is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States and the seat of Morris County. Morristown has been called the capital of the American Revolution because of its strategic role in the war for independence from Great Britain. Today this history is visible in a variety of locations throughout the town that make up Morristown National Historical Park. According to British colonial records, the first permanent European settlement at Morristown occurred in 1715, Morris County was created on March 15,1739, from portions of Hunterdon County. The county, and ultimately Morristown itself, was named for the popular Governor of the Province, Lewis Morris, who championed benefits for the colonists. Morristown was incorporated as a town by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 6,1865, within Morris Township, the area was inhabited by the Lenni Lenape Native Americans for up to 6,000 years prior to exploration by Europeans. Morristown was settled around 1715 by English Presbyterians from Southold, New York on Long Island and New Haven, the towns central location and road connections led to its selection as the seat of the new Morris County shortly after its separation from Hunterdon County on March 15,1739. The village and county were named for Lewis Morris, the first, by the middle of the 18th century, Morristown had 250 residents, with two churches, a courthouse, two taverns, two schools, several stores, and numerous mills and farms nearby. George Washington first came to Morristown in May 1773, two years before the Revolutionary War broke out, and traveled there to New York City together with John Parke Custis. In 1777, General George Washington and the Continental Army marched from the victories at Trenton and Princeton to encamp near Morristown from January to May, Washington had his headquarters during that first encampment at Jacob Arnolds Tavern located at the Morristown Green in the center of the town. Morristown was selected for its strategic location. It was between Philadelphia and New York and near New England, the churches were used for inoculations for smallpox. That first headquarters, Arnolds Tavern, was eventually moved.5 miles south of the green onto Mount Kemble Avenue to become All Souls Hospital in the late 19th century. It suffered a fire in 1918, and the structure was demolished. From December 1779 to June 1780 the Continental Armys second encampment at Morristown was at Jockey Hollow, then, Washingtons headquarters in Morristown was located at the Ford Mansion, a large mansion near what was then the edge of town. Fords widow and children shared the house with Martha Washington and officers of the Continental Army, the winter of 1780 was the worst winter of the Revolutionary War. The starvation was complicated by inflation of money and lack of pay for the army. The entire Pennsylvania contingent successfully mutinied and later,200 New Jersey soldiers attempted to emulate them, during Washingtons second stay, in March 1780, he declared St. Patricks Day a holiday to honor his many Irish troops
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 2)
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The second season of the television series, Law & Order, Special Victims Unit premiered October 20,2000 and ended May 11,2001 on NBC. The show remained in its slot, Friday nights at 10pm/9c. As Neal Baers first year producing the show, the season was accompanied by drastic changes in tone. Additionally, the series began to increase its focus on scenes with the addition of an Assistant District Attorney for sex crimes to the cast. David J. Burke and Neal Baer served as executive producers to replace Robert Palm. Baer took over in the season finale, Neal Baer, a former pediatrician, left ER to work for Dick Wolfs first Law & Order spin-off. When explaining how he first became interested in the show, Neal Baer said he was drawn to it by Mariska who appeared in ER, Mariska Hargitay felt that Baer gave the show the direction it previously lacked and explained There was no consistency. We had no leader, we had no vision, Jonathan Greene also credited Baer with improving the quality of the show, saying He literally took this, not just to the next level, but up five or six levels above that. In a video interview, Richard Belzer said The shows better this year, the second episode of the season Honor, was based on a script that Jonathan Greene had written previously. In it, the squad is exposed to misogynistic honor killings used to women for adultery. As one reviewer puts it, Airing one full year before the 9/11 terror attacks, in the episode Taken, Olivia Bensons mother dies after falling down a flight of stairs. The characters backstory, as established in the first episode, is that she was raped by a stranger, the writers briefly considered changing this. Deleted scenes that accompany Taken on the DVD show a funeral for Serena Benson, many episodes in later seasons reaffirm the fact that Benson is the product of a rape, meaning that the deleted scenes for Taken are not canon. First season cast members Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, cast member Michelle Hurd began to depart the cast over the first-half of the season. Hurd ultimately departed from the series to join the Showtime drama Leap Years, after her departure from the show, Hurd said, I think its just sad they didnt have faith to stick around with me. However, she said she bore no ill feelings about her time on Law & Order, Special Victims Unit, although Jeffries departed from the Special Victims Unit during the episode Asunder, her character was still present in the episode Runaway, which marked the characters final appearance. Runaway was originally intended to air before Asunder but was broadcast out of order, the retcon explanation in Runaway is that Detective Jeffries transferred to Vice and briefly stepped into the SVU squadroom again when they were in need of extra manpower for a case. Hurd was replaced by rapper-turned-actor, Ice-T who began portraying Detective Odafin Fin Tutuola, Stephanie March joined the cast as Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot, the series using many guest actors and actresses to portray ADA characters in the first season
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Anchors Aweigh
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Anchors Aweigh is the fight song of the United States Naval Academy and march of the United States Navy. It was composed in 1906 by Charles A. Zimmermann with lyrics by Alfred Hart Miles, when he composed Anchors Aweigh, Zimmermann was a lieutenant, and had been bandmaster of the United States Naval Academy Band since 1887. Miles was Midshipman First Class at the Academy, in the class of 1907, another Academy Midshipman, Royal Lovell later wrote what would be adopted into the song as its third verse. To weigh anchor is to bring it aboard a vessel in preparation for departure, the phrase anchors aweigh is a report that the anchors are clear of the sea bottom and, therefore, the ship is officially underway. Anchors aweigh is often misspelled as Anchors away, leading to confusion of the terms, another confusion is evident in the spellings encountered both with and without apostrophe. Here, it is a matter of distinguishing the singular anchor + contraction of is from the plural, although the original aweigh is verbal and transitive, the aweigh used now is adjectival/adverbial in nature and meaning. Weigh as a means to bear or move, thus giving it several shades of meaning and derivation. This lends itself to obvious plays on words, as with Flip Wilsons old routine about Christopher Columbus, Columbus cried, a few minutes later, a crewman reported, Two thousand, one hundred thirty six pounds. The song was first played during the Army–Navy football game on December 1,1906, Navy won the game 10–0 before a crowd in excess of 30,000, their first win in the match up since 1900. Its lyrics were considered too specific to the Academy and not representative of the Navy at large and its melody was also slightly rewritten by Domenico Savino. The song has a joyful, brisk melody, and it has been adopted by other navies around the world. Roll up the score, Navy, anchors aweigh, sail Navy down the field and sink the Army, sink the Army grey. Revised Lyrics of 1926 by George D. Lottman, Stand, Navy, out to sea, Fight our battle cry, Well never change our course, roll out the TNT, Anchors Aweigh. Sail on to victory And sink their bones to Davy Jones, Anchors Aweigh, my boys, Anchors Aweigh. Farewell to college joys, we sail at break of day-ay-ay-ay, through our last night on shore, drink to the foam, Until we meet once more. Heres wishing you a happy voyage home, revised Lyrics of 1997 by MCPON John Hagan, USN which is used today in the fleet, Stand Navy out to sea, fight our battle cry. Well never change our course so vicious foes steer shy-y-y-y, roll out the TNT, anchors aweigh. Sail on to victory, and sink their bones to Davy Jones, Anchors Aweigh, my boys, Anchors Aweigh
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Law & Order (season 17)
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The 17th season of Law & Order premiered on NBC on September 22,2006, and concluded on May 18,2007. Jesse L. Martins character was promoted to detective to replace Farinas character. At the end of the season, Fred Thompson and Milena Govich departed the cast, former cast member Richard Brooks reprised his role as Paul Robinette for the episode Fear America. Jesse L. Martin as Ed Green Milena Govich as Nina Cassady S. Epatha Merkerson as Anita Van Buren Sam Waterston as E. A. D. A, jack McCoy Alana De La Garza as A. D. A. Connie Rubirosa Fred Dalton Thompson as D. A. Arthur Branch Richard Brooks as Paul Robinette Carolyn McCormick as Elizabeth Olivet Episode guide from NBC. com
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 6)
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The sixth season of Law & Order, Criminal Intent premiered on NBC September 19,2006, and ended May 21,2007, this was the last season to air original episodes on NBC. For its first six airings, it faced CBSs The Unit, in late October, Foxs hit series House moved opposite L&O, CI. It was hoped that the show could maintain position, beating the then-marginal The Unit. The shows ratings suffered a drop and it regularly finished fourth in its time slot. By the end of the season, Law & Order, CI saw its lowest ratings ever on NBC and it was announced that Jamey Sheridan wanted to depart the cast at the end of the fifth season. Vance who portrayed Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver decided not to renew his contract at the end of the fifth season and it was the same with Annabella Sciorra, who portrayed Mike Logans partner Detective Barek, there were no reasons cited for Sciorras departure. Julianne Nicholson also joined the cast as Detective Megan Wheeler, replacing Carolyn Barek as Logans partner, Nicholson left the series temporarily to go on maternity leave at the end of the season. Show runner René Balcer and executive producer Fred Berner left the show at the end of five, Balcer and Berner returning to the original Law & Order series. CI was handed off to Warren Leight, a longtime Criminal Intent staffer, under Leights leadership, the show acquired a new, more melodramatic tone. Detective Goren isnt always going to be the smartest guy in the room anymore, the mystery aspect of the show was simplified in favor of more personal stories involving the detectives. For example, Goren endured his mothers battle with cancer. Also, Logans anger issues often come and go in episodes like Maltese Cross, Flipped, the shows look and editing style also changed in an effort to attract viewers of the newer CSI franchise. Norberto Barba replaced Fred Berner as executive producer, the scene cards and sound effect were not used in this season, they were brought back as of the ninth season. Declan Gage, who is portrayed by John Glover, plimptons cousin, Ever Carradine, guest stars in the later episode, Bombshell. Anne Dudek portrays a teacher named Danielle McCaskin, who falls madly in love with her student, in Siren Call, Brooke Shields portrays Kelly Sloane-Raines, a rich supermodel whose husband is believed to be involved in the murder of a small-town police officers daughter. Rip Torn guest stars as Jules Copeland in Bedfellows, the wealthy and snide father of a wealthy and prominent historian. Liza Minnelli guest stars as Beth Harner, a mother who might get closure as a suspect is found that might have been involved in her daughters brutal murder on Halloween night in the 1990s. The episode Masquerade revealed many resemblances to the case of JonBenét Ramsey, fran Drescher and Michael Biehn portray Elaine and Leland Dockerty, a couple whose military daughter disappears over Thanksgiving after she comes home from a tour of duty
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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned
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It was first released for the Xbox 360 on 17 February 2009 and on PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows on 13 April 2010. It is the expansion pack game in the Grand Theft Auto series. The main storyline of the focuses on Johnnys efforts to keep the chapter running, while dealing with internal conflicts, gang warfare, drug running. The storyline shows Johnnys perspective in regard to the diamond deal of Grand Theft Auto IV. The game also features new additions, some in regard to Johnnys connection to the Lost MC, checkpoints are only available by retrying the mission after it has been previously failed — going to the mission start point begins the mission from scratch. Two of the new side jobs featured in The Lost and Damned - Gang Wars, each gang war becomes tougher, the more Johnny continues engaging in them. Other side jobs see Johnny either stealing bikes or working for a congressman met during the games story, meanwhile, the new additions to the activities from Grand Theft Auto IV, include Arm Wrestling, games of Hi-Lo cards, and Air Hockey. The new weapons featured in the include the sawn-off shotgun, assault shotgun, pool cues, grenade launchers. If, at any time, a biker is killed in a mission or gang war, if Terry is called, he will drive to a location near to Johnny and sell him weapons and armour, while Clay can deliver a bike of the players choice to him directly. Races - Racing on bikes with racers carrying bats and smashing each other, Lone Wolf Biker - Free for all style mode where one player is the Lone Wolf and all other players must chase and kill that player to become the Lone Wolf. At the end of the game, whoever was the Lone Wolf for the longest time, own the City - Try to gain control of the city section by section, based on San Andreas gang wars. Club Business - Like the original Mafia mode in GTA IV, the player receives calls from Angus who tells you to carry out certain tasks for The Lost. Chopper vs. Chopper - Helicopter vs bike, Bike rider tries to get through checkpoints while the helicopter tries to stop the biker. Billy Grey, club president of the Lost MC in Alderney, is released from a court-ordered rehab after being arrested for narcotics possession. Shortly after hearing news that the Lost MCs Enforcer, Jason Michaels, was killed in Broker, despite the uncertainty, Johnny is soon forced by Billy to meet with drug lord Elizabeta Torres, who helps to find a buyer for the drugs. Persuading Billy that they must return it to them, he and Jim are made to hand it back themselves, while the pair survive the ambush, the gunfight prompts the arrival of the police, who arrest Billy for the incident, while the pair watch on. Prompted to become the Losts president, Johnny attempts to keep the Lost MC stable, by taking on work with Elizabeta, Jim and Uptown Riders, Malc and DeSean. While the ambush leads to most of the Alderney chapter being killed, Johnny and his friends manage to survive
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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
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It was first released for the Xbox 360 on 29 October 2009, before then being released for the PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows on 13 April 2010. It is the expansion pack in the Grand Theft Auto series. The story also ties up loose ends in regards to the diamond deal of Grand Theft Auto IV. While The Ballad of Gay Tony features similar gameplay and the setting to that of Grand Theft Auto IV, it contains roughly a similar amount of missions as that of The Lost. However the game differentiates itself from two with new additions and features and some notable changes. The scoring system includes the ability to replay previously passed missions to improve a score on it. In addition to this, the player has access to new activities and side jobs, access to new vehicles, completing a Drug War earns money, and, like Gang Wars, unlocks a new weapon for every 10 Drug Wars completed. In the final stage of these races, the players have access to Nitro which can be used to boost their cars speed and which recharges when not being used. Luis may also be called upon to assist a VIP who needs help with a problem, often after doing work in Club Management. The Underground Fight Tournament can see players either being a spectator in which they bet on an outcome, or enter themselves. If competing themselves, they must complete a round in which they must beat three opponents, one after the other. Players earn money for every round they beat, but lose it if they are Wasted in a round, winning a round also earns back a small portion of health. The new weapons featured in the include the Advance SMG, the Gold SMG, the Advanced MG, the.44 Pistol, the Advanced Sniper Rifle. The Grenade Launcher and Assault Shotgun from The Lost and Damned also return, both these and the new weapons cannot be purchased from the citys gun stores, only from Armando. The new activities featured in the game can see the visiting the Driving Range to shoot golf balls. Air Hockey, introduced in The Lost and Damned also returns, changes made to the game include the ability for Luis to travel around the city right from the start, but being unable to enter clothing stores or visit the citys comedy club, Split Sides. Unlike Johnny, Luis may change his clothing at his safe house, like The Lost and Damned the display and hud are modified from that of Grand Theft Auto, while the map now includes an altimeter whenever the player is in a helicopter or skyidiving/parachuting. Multiplayers modes, including free mode, deathmatch, team deathmatch, race and GTA Race modes, were updated, with a new BASE jumping mode being introduced, as a variation of free mode
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Homefront (video game)
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Homefront is a first-person shooter video game developed by Kaos Studios and published by THQ. The game tells the story of a movement fighting in near-future against the military occupation of the Western United States by a unified Korea. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2011, after THQs bankruptcy, the rights of the game were sold to Crytek who then sold the rights to Koch Media after restructuring their company. Deep Silver, a subsidiary of Koch Media have published the reboot Homefront, the single-player campaign features many elements found in many other first-person shooter video games, such as Call of Duty and Medal of Honor. It takes 5 to 10 hours to finish the game, all depending on the players experience, the multiplayer component of Homefront is focused on large-scale, vehicle-based combat reminiscent of Kaos Studios first title, Frontlines, Fuel of War. The defining innovation of Homefronts multiplayer is its battle system, which is an in-game currency that allows a player to purchase weapons, gear. The multiplayer gameplay takes place in the period before the United States armed forces were completely scattered, each copy of Homefront contains an online pass, granting users access to the full multiplayer experience. Although the online pass is not required to play multiplayer, those who play without an online pass will be unable to progress further than level 5 of the total 75 levels. The online multiplayer function of the game is now due to the sale of THQ in late 2013. Homefront is set in a dystopic United States, in the year 2027 and this precipitates extreme economic turmoil and massive social unrest in the United States. Subsequently, in 2017, the U. S. military recalls much of its overseas presence, by 2024, Koreas annexation has continued throughout Southeast Asia, including its emerging economic powers, giving the GKR an empire reminiscent of Imperial Japan. S. Creating an EMP blast that wipes out much of the electrical infrastructure. In the ensuing chaos, the Korean Peoples Army launches an instant amphibious invasion and they seize control of Hawaii and much of the U. S. Korean paratroopers are deployed over the Midwestern United States, and with the U. S. military severely crippled and scattered, Jacobs sees that the Korean troops have seized control of the town, taking potentially valuable residents into custody and executing resistors. However, the bus carrying Jacobs is ambushed by American resistance fighters Connor and Rianna, who lead him to Oasis, a resistance hideout founded by local state patrolman Boone Karlson. Boone, Connor, and Rianna are aware of Jacobss background as a pilot, Boone initiates the operation with himself, Jacobs, Connor, Rianna, and Hopper. The group plans to steal several tracking beacons from a used as a labor exchange facility. These beacons are to be placed on fuel trucks so they can be tracked and hijacked, however, Arnie betrays the team in order to protect his children, forcing the team to kill him and eliminate all forces in the camp
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Dying Light
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Dying Light is an open world first person survival horror action-adventure video game developed by Techland and published by Warner Bros. Announced in May 2013, it was released in January 2015 for Microsoft Windows, Linux, PlayStation 4, the game was once planned to be released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but was later cancelled due to hardware limitations. The game revolves around an undercover agent named Kyle Crane who is sent to infiltrate a quarantine zone in a city called Harran and it features an enemy-infested, open-world city with a dynamic day and night cycle. The day-night cycle changes the game drastically, as enemies become more aggressive, the gameplay is focused on weapons-based combat and parkour. The game also features a multiplayer mode, and a four-player. The development of the began in early 2012. Prior to the official announcement, several reports claimed that Dying Light was a sequel to Dead Island. The games parkour system puts emphasis on natural movement, to implement that, Techland had to abandon most of the story elements, and had to build them again from scratch. The music development was handled by Paweł Błaszczak, according to him, the soundtrack was inspired by movie soundtracks of the 70s and 80s. The game was the title for the month of January 2015. Techland announced that they would be committed to the game after its release, as a result, in May 2015, they put another project on hold to concentrate on the post-release development of Dying Light. The team released updates, and two downloadable content packages, namely Cuisine & Cargo and The Bozak Horde. An expansion, titled Dying Light, The Following was announced as well and was released on February 9,2016, Dying Light is a first-person zombie apocalypse-themed game set in an open world. Parkour mechanics also applied on combat, players can perform action such as drop-kicking when engaging combat with enemies. A grappling hook is featured in the game, allowing players to climb up buildings. The game is mostly melee-based with the majority of fighting using melee weapons, there are more than 100 weapons that can be used and more than 1000 weapon possibilities when players begin crafting new weapons. The melee-weapons have a limited lifespan and will be degraded and eventually broken if the player uses them for combat for a long time, players can repair a weapon a limited number of times. Crafting weapons require crafting ingredients such as gauze and metal parts and a blueprint, guns are also featured in the game, but players will only gain access to it in the later half of the game
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
