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Adelaide
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Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia. In June 2016, Adelaide had a resident population of 1,326,354 million. South Australia, with a total of 1, the demonym Adelaidean is used in reference to the city and its residents. Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city. Adelaide stretches 20 km from the coast to the foothills, and 94 to 104 km from Gawler at its northern extent to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, Colonel William Light, one of Adelaides founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens, in the area originally inhabited by the Kaurna people. Lights design set out Adelaide in a layout, interspaced by wide boulevards and large public squares. Early Adelaide was shaped by prosperity and wealth—until the Second World War, it was Australias third-largest city and it has been noted for early examples of religious freedom, a commitment to political progressivism and civil liberties. It has been known as the City of Churches since the mid-19th century, as South Australias seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions. Most of these are concentrated in the city centre along the boulevard of North Terrace, King William Street. Today, Adelaide is noted for its festivals and sporting events, its food and wine, its long beachfronts. It ranks highly in terms of liveability, being listed in the Top 10 of The Economist Intelligence Units Worlds Most Liveable Cities index in 2010,2011,2012 and 2015. It was also ranked the most liveable city in Australia by the Property Council of Australia in 2011,2012 and 2013, prior to its proclamation as a British settlement in 1836, the area around Adelaide was inhabited by the indigenous Kaurna Aboriginal nation. Kaurna culture and language was almost completely destroyed within a few decades of the European settlement of South Australia in 1836, however, extensive documentation by early missionaries and other researchers has enabled a modern revival of both language and culture. South Australia was officially proclaimed as a new British colony on 28 December 1836, the event is commemorated in South Australia as Proclamation Day. The site of the capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light. Adelaide was established as a colony of free immigrants, promising civil liberties and freedom from religious persecution. Wakefields idea was for the Government to survey and sell the land at a rate that would maintain land values high enough to be unaffordable for labourers and journeymen
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Australia
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the worlds sixth-largest country by total area, the neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. Australias capital is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney, for about 50,000 years before the first British settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who spoke languages classifiable into roughly 250 groups. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades, and by the 1850s most of the continent had been explored, on 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated, forming the Commonwealth of Australia. Australia has since maintained a liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy comprising six states. The population of 24 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard, Australia has the worlds 13th-largest economy and ninth-highest per capita income. With the second-highest human development index globally, the country highly in quality of life, health, education, economic freedom. The name Australia is derived from the Latin Terra Australis a name used for putative lands in the southern hemisphere since ancient times, the Dutch adjectival form Australische was used in a Dutch book in Batavia in 1638, to refer to the newly discovered lands to the south. On 12 December 1817, Macquarie recommended to the Colonial Office that it be formally adopted, in 1824, the Admiralty agreed that the continent should be known officially as Australia. The first official published use of the term Australia came with the 1830 publication of The Australia Directory and these first inhabitants may have been ancestors of modern Indigenous Australians. The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, were originally horticulturists, the northern coasts and waters of Australia were visited sporadically by fishermen from Maritime Southeast Asia. The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland, and the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent, are attributed to the Dutch. The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon. He sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in early 1606, the Dutch charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines and named the island continent New Holland during the 17th century, but made no attempt at settlement. William Dampier, an English explorer and privateer, landed on the north-west coast of New Holland in 1688, in 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain. The first settlement led to the foundation of Sydney, and the exploration, a British settlement was established in Van Diemens Land, now known as Tasmania, in 1803, and it became a separate colony in 1825. The United Kingdom formally claimed the part of Western Australia in 1828. Separate colonies were carved from parts of New South Wales, South Australia in 1836, Victoria in 1851, the Northern Territory was founded in 1911 when it was excised from South Australia
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BBC
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The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, the BBC is the worlds oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 20,950 staff in total,16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting, the total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed contract staff are included. The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and used to fund the BBCs radio, TV, britains first live public broadcast from the Marconi factory in Chelmsford took place in June 1920. It was sponsored by the Daily Mails Lord Northcliffe and featured the famous Australian Soprano Dame Nellie Melba, the Melba broadcast caught the peoples imagination and marked a turning point in the British publics attitude to radio. However, this public enthusiasm was not shared in official circles where such broadcasts were held to interfere with important military and civil communications. By late 1920, pressure from these quarters and uneasiness among the staff of the licensing authority, the General Post Office, was sufficient to lead to a ban on further Chelmsford broadcasts. But by 1922, the GPO had received nearly 100 broadcast licence requests, John Reith, a Scottish Calvinist, was appointed its General Manager in December 1922 a few weeks after the company made its first official broadcast. The company was to be financed by a royalty on the sale of BBC wireless receiving sets from approved manufacturers, to this day, the BBC aims to follow the Reithian directive to inform, educate and entertain. The financial arrangements soon proved inadequate, set sales were disappointing as amateurs made their own receivers and listeners bought rival unlicensed sets. By mid-1923, discussions between the GPO and the BBC had become deadlocked and the Postmaster-General commissioned a review of broadcasting by the Sykes Committee and this was to be followed by a simple 10 shillings licence fee with no royalty once the wireless manufactures protection expired. The BBCs broadcasting monopoly was made explicit for the duration of its current broadcast licence, the BBC was also banned from presenting news bulletins before 19.00, and required to source all news from external wire services. Mid-1925 found the future of broadcasting under further consideration, this time by the Crawford committee, by now the BBC under Reiths leadership had forged a consensus favouring a continuation of the unified broadcasting service, but more money was still required to finance rapid expansion. Wireless manufacturers were anxious to exit the loss making consortium with Reith keen that the BBC be seen as a service rather than a commercial enterprise. The recommendations of the Crawford Committee were published in March the following year and were still under consideration by the GPO when the 1926 general strike broke out in May. The strike temporarily interrupted newspaper production and with restrictions on news bulletins waived the BBC suddenly became the source of news for the duration of the crisis. The crisis placed the BBC in a delicate position, the Government was divided on how to handle the BBC but ended up trusting Reith, whose opposition to the strike mirrored the PMs own
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1st AACTA Awards
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The ceremony was televised on the Nine Network. The Academy presented awards for achievements in film, and announced the nominees at the AACTA Awards Luncheon. These awards will serve as a continuum to the Australian Film Institute Awards, a gold statuette was created by Australian sculptor Ron Gomboc, which depicts a human silhouette based on the shape of the Southern Cross constellation. The president of the awards is Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, works entered between 7 October 2010 and 2 November 2011 for films, and 5 May 2010 and 24 May 2011 for short films and documentaries were eligible for awards. The films were showcased at the inaugural Festival of Film from 6 October –14 November in Sydney and Melbourne, for the general public, and for Academy and AFI members to view and judge. The first nominees were announced on 30 August 2011, for non-feature film categories, Best Feature Length Documentary, Best Short Animation, round one voting for feature film categories commenced on 2 November and ended on 16 November. Following the announcement of the nominees on 30 November, round two voting commenced to determine the winners in each category, and ended on 14 December 2011. Foreign films were recognised at the AACTA International Awards ceremony. The nominees were announced at the AACTA Awards Luncheon on 15 January 2011, in conjunction with the Australia Week Black Tie Gala, and this marks the first time in ten years since the awards have been presented in Sydney, which had been held in Melbourne previously. The awards date has been shifted from its usual November/December date, to January,2012, the awards ceremony was broadcast by the Nine Network. During the AACTA Awards luncheon, special awards were handed out to individuals for their contribution to the Australian screen industry. The Longford Lyell Award, an achievement award, was presented to Don McAlpine. The Outstanding Achievement in Television Screen Craft award was given to production designer Herbert Pinter, winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Official website
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CityNews
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CityNews is the title of news and current affairs programming on the City television network in Canada. The newscast was broadcast in Toronto as CityPulse for the first time as an episode on September 28,1975. The first episode of CityPulse aired on September 12,1977, on August 1,2005, the last newscast to use the CityPulse title aired and it was renamed CityNews the next day. Its main innovation in television news was to have its reporters play a more participatory role in their stories, by the mid-1980s, the newscasts style, pioneered by Moses Znaimer, was promoted as a format for local news shows to copy around North America. Until 1987, the anchors on CityPulse sat behind a desk in a dark studio with two orange-red-black striped beams and a television set between the two anchors. CityPulse at Six was anchored by Gord Martineau and Dini Petty for much of the years from 1980 to 1987, Weather presenters in that era include CHUM Radio veteran Jay Nelson, Brian Hill, Greg Rist, and David Onley. Sports anchors included Jim McKenny, Russ Salzberg, John Saunders, Debbie Van Kiekebelt, CityPulse Tonight, known as CityPulse News at 10 prior to 1981, was anchored by Bill Cameron, later by Gord Martineau, and then Anne Mroczkowski. In 1987, Mroczkowski moved to the show to co-anchor with Martineau. J. D. Roberts began his news anchoring career as anchor of CityPulse Tonight after several years as an entertainment reporter and MuchMusic video jockey. On May 4,1987, CityPulse moved into another set back at 299 Queen Street West in Toronto. By March 2008, CityNews Toronto was struggling in the ratings, coming in third after CTV, on January 21,2008, CityNews at 5 debuted, drawing a scant 1% share of the Toronto market at 5 p. m. The application was approved on December 10,2008, the new station was in direct competition with CP24 when it was launched in October 2008 as CityNews Channel. In December 2008, Citytv laid off employees, including the entire CityNews Entertainment unit. Entertainment reporters Larysa Harapyn and Liz West were released, and entertainment stories are now read by the anchors, in September 2009, Citytv moved into its current newsroom at 33 Dundas Street East in downtown Toronto. On January 19,2010, CityNews at Noon, CityOnline and CityNews at Five were cancelled as part of layoffs, many long-time CityNews on-air personalities, including Anne Mroczkowski and Laura DiBattista, were let go. Citytv Toronto reinstated the 6 and 11 p. m. newscasts on Saturday and Sunday evenings on March 5,2011, with Pam Seatle anchoring the 6 p. m. newscast, and Melanie Ng anchoring at 11 p. m. On September 5,2011 Citytv Toronto also reinstated CityNews at Five with anchors Francis DSouza, Tom Hayes, the following day on September 6,2011, Breakfast Television on all five of Citytvs owned-and-operated stations expanded to three-and-a-half hours, from 5, 30-9 a. m. Avery Haines then left CityNews at Five to start a segment called The Inside Story that features on Tuesdays and Thursdays on CityNews at Six
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Hugo Weaving
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Hugo Wallace Weaving is a Nigerian-born English-Australian film and stage actor. Weavings first television role was in the 1984 Australian television series Bodyline, in film, he first rose to prominence for his performance as Martin in the Australian drama Proof. Weaving played Anthony Tick Belrose/Mitzi Del Bra in the comedy-drama The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and his roles as a voice actor include Rex in Babe, Noah in Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two, and Megatron in the Transformers film series. Weavings awards for acting include a Satellite Award, MTV Movie Award, while in England, he attended The Downs School, Wraxall, near Bristol, and Queen Elizabeths Hospital. His family moved back to Australia in 1976, where he attended Knox Grammar School in Sydney and he graduated from Sydneys National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981. Weavings first television role was in the 1984 Australian television series Bodyline, Weaving appeared in the Australian miniseries The Dirtwater Dynasty in 1988 and as Geoffrey Chambers in the drama Barlow and Chambers, A Long Way From Home. He starred opposite Nicole Kidman in the 1989 film Bangkok Hilton, in 1991, Weaving received the Australian Film Institutes Best Actor award for his performance in the low-budget Proof. He appeared as Sir John in the 1993 Yahoo Serious comedy Reckless Kelly, in 1998, he received the Best Actor award from the Montreal Film Festival for his performance as a suspected serial killer in The Interview. Weaving played the enigmatic and evil–minded Agent Smith in the 1999 film The Matrix and he later reprised that role in the films 2003 sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. He was an actor in the cartoon film The Magic Pudding. He garnered additional acclaim in the role of half–elven lord Elrond in Peter Jacksons three-film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Weaving was the main actor in Andrew Kotatkos award-winning film Everything Goes. He starred as a heroin-addicted ex-rugby league player in the 2005 Australian indie film Little Fish, opposite Cate Blanchett. Weaving played the role as V in the 2006 film V for Vendetta, in which he was reunited with the Wachowskis, creators of The Matrix trilogy. Actor James Purefoy was originally signed to play the role, but was fired six weeks into filming over creative differences, Weaving reshot most of James Purefoys scenes as V apart from a couple of minor dialogue-free scenes early in the film. Stuntman David Leitch performed all of Vs stunts, Weaving reprised his role as Elrond for the video game The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-Earth II. He regularly appears in productions by the Sydney Theatre Company, in 2006, he worked with Cate Blanchett on a reprise of the STC production of Hedda Gabler in New York City. Weaving himself was unaware of the controversy and had accepted the role based on Michael Bays personal request, in a November 2008 Sun Herald interview, though Weaving reprised his role in two sequels, he does not have much personal investment in the Transformers films. In February 2010, Weaving revealed to The Age, Director Michael Bay talks to me on the phone and we were doing the voice for the second one and I still hadnt seen the first one
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Home and Away
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Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988, the soap opera was initially going to be called Refuge, but the name was changed to the friendlier title of Home and Away once production began. The show premiered with a pilot episode. Since then, each subsequent episode has aired for a duration of twenty-two minutes and Home, in Australia, it is currently broadcast from Mondays to Thursdays at 7,00 pm. Home and Away follows the lives and loves of the residents in Summer Bay, Home and Away was not without controversy. During the first season alone, it featured several adult-themed storylines such as teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol addiction and drug overdose. A storyline, in particular concerning rape outraged the public and a protest erupted, the series has dealt with similar storylines over the years which have often exceeded its restricted time slot. Palm Beach in Sydneys Northern Beaches district has been used as the location for Summer Bay since 1988, the exterior scenes are filmed mainly at Palm Beach, while the interior scenes are filmed at the Australian Technology Park in Redfern. Home and Away has been sold to over eighty countries around the world and it is popular in the United Kingdom, and is one of the highest-rating shows on RTÉ Television in Ireland and TV2 in New Zealand. In Australia, Home and Away is the most awarded program at the Logie Awards, with a total of forty-six wins, including Best Drama Program. Some cast members have won other awards such as the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor. In 2015, Home and Away was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame, after the Seven Network cancelled their soap opera Neighbours on 12 July 1985 due to low ratings, rival network Ten picked it up and turned it into a success. A couple of later, Sevens head of drama, Alan Bateman, became desperate to get back into the soap market. While on a trip to Kangaroo Point, New South Wales with his family, seeing the degree of conflict the influx of parentless children on a tight-knit community was having, Bateman came away with the idea for a new serial. He explained Nobody in the community wanted them to move in, suddenly I thought, there is my slice of life in a community. Bateman began outlining the storyline and set the serial in the town of Summer Bay. While Seven Network executives were unconvinced by the idea, audience research was positive, the soap opera was initially called Refuge, but the name was changed to the friendlier title of Home and Away once production began. Home and Away has since become the second-longest drama series in Australian television after Neighbours, the storyline featured a majority of the cast boarded onto a ferry boat for a night cruise, however, a massive storm ruined the celebrations, leading the boat to sink
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Canberra Girls Grammar School
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Canberra Girls Grammar School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school predominantly for girls, located in Deakin, a suburb of Canberra, the capital of Australia. It has an enrolment policy and caters for approximately 1,600 students, with co-education from Early Learning to Year 2. Boarding facilities are available on the Senior Campus for up to 95 students in Years 7 to 12, CGGS is also licensed to offer the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme and Diploma Programme. St Gabriels School was established with nine students in 1926, as a day and boarding school for girls, by the Church of England religious order and it catered for the small but growing community in what was designated as the new Federal capital. From 1926 to early 1928, the Old Rectory of St John the Baptist Church, the rectory was known as Glebe House, and was close to the city. In May 1927, the day before the opening of Parliament House, the school officially moved into its new site in 1928. In 1933, the school was renamed Canberra Church of England Girls Grammar School, CCEGGS was nearly closed down during the Great Depression, and sold some of its land in order to remain solvent. A boom period in the 1970s saw the school expand, with the Junior School moving to a new Campus in Grey Street, Deakin, today the junior school remains on a separate campus within the suburb. In 2001, the name changed again, this time to its current form Canberra Girls Grammar School. In 2004, CGGS opened an Early Learning Centre catering for 3 to 5 year olds on its Junior School campus, Canberra Girls Grammar School is located over two campuses in the inner Canberra suburb of Deakin, within view of Australias Parliament House. The Schools most recent additions include a music centre with an adjoining 1, in the senior campus a new administration block, drive through and entrance was built in 2011 and a new award-winning science wing completed in 2012. Canberra Girls Grammar School was authorized to offer the International Baccalaureate World School Diploma Programme on 21 July 2010, the school was also authorized to offer the Primary Years Programme on 15 September 2011. The junior school curriculum is based upon the New South Wales Department of Education Board of Studies syllabus and it also has many co-curricular studies. Students in the school are prepared for the ACT Year 12 Certificate. A high percentage of students who graduate with a Year 12 Certificate also obtain an ATAR, in 2007, of the 150 students awarded a Year 12 certificate, 91% were awarded Tertiary Education Statements. Also that year, the median ATAR gained by students was 86 compared with the average of students all across ACT colleges of 79. Students from Canberra Girls Grammar School had the second highest median ATAR of the ACT colleges that year, 92% of students from the school who were awarded Tertiary Education Statements in 2007 scored over 65 for their ATAR compared with 79% of all ACT students. Students in Years 11 and 12 are also given the option to study the International Baccalaureate instead of the BSSS curriculum, as with most Australian schools, Canberra Girls Grammar School utilises a house system for activities and competitions
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Charlie Puth
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Charles Otto Charlie Puth Jr. is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Puths initial exposure came through the success of his song videos uploaded to YouTube. He subsequently gained wider recognition for multiple releases, including his debut single Marvin Gaye. The song topped charts in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, Puth wrote, co-produced, and performed with Wiz Khalifa on the song See You Again, included in the Furious 7 soundtrack as a tribute to the late Paul Walker. Puth was born December 2,1991, in Rumson, New Jersey, the son of Debra, a teacher, who also wrote commercials for HBO, and Charles Puth. His father is Catholic and his mother is Jewish and he has two younger siblings, twins Stephen and Mikaela. As a two-year-old, Puths right eyebrow was permanently scarred in a nearly fatal dog-bite incident, Puth has perfect pitch, a rare auditory phenomenon that enables him to identify or recreate music, without a reference note. His mother introduced him to music and began teaching him the piano at age 4. He started studying jazz at age 10 and participated in a youth jazz ensemble at Count Basie Theatres Cool School in Red Bank. He was hired by The Count Basie Theatre to play in a Charlie Brown production, in grade six, he went door to door selling a Christmas album called Have a Merry Charlie Christmas that he had recorded and produced, making $600 in sales. He attended the Holy Cross School, Rumson, and Forrestdale Middle School, during his seventh grade to senior years, he attended Manhattan School of Music Pre-College as a jazz piano major and a classical studies minor. Puth graduated in 2013 from the Berklee College of Music, where he majored in music production, in September 2009, he started his own YouTube channel, entitled Charlies Vlogs, posting comedy videos and acoustic covers. In 2010, Puth released the video of his first song. On December 10, he released his extended play, The Otto Tunes. In 2011, he won a video competition sponsored by Perez Hilton. In the same year Ellen DeGeneres announced that she had signed Puth and Luther to her label, eleveneleven, Puth had performed the song on the show. In December 2012 he released a single, Break Again. The music video was released days later, on January 25,2012, Puth and Luther performed the song and Lady Antebellums Need You Now on The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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Natalie Dormer
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Natalie Dormer is an English actress. Born and brought up in Berkshire, she was educated at Chiltern Edge Secondary School and Reading Blue Coat School and her first professional acting role was in the Shakespeare comedy The Comedy of Errors in 2003. She made her debut in Lasse Hallstroms romantic film Casanova. In 2012, her performance in After Miss Julie at the Young Vic garnered her widespread critical acclaim. Dormer garnered international attention for her performance of Margaery Tyrell on the HBO series Game of Thrones, Dormer was born in Reading, Berkshire. She is of part Norwegian ancestry and is half Welsh, Dormer attended Chiltern Edge Secondary School before moving to Reading Blue Coat School, historically an independent boys school that admits girls in the sixth form. She grew up with her stepfather, mother, sister Samantha and she has said that she was the victim of bullying while at school, but still to this day cant place why. At school, Dormer was head girl, a first class student, vice-captain of the netball team. During her school years, Dormer trained in dance at the Allenova School of Dancing, Dormer decided she would audition for drama schools and decided to train at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Six months after graduating from Webber Douglas, Dormer won the role of Victoria in Casanova and this was her film debut and it was released in 2005. The director, Lasse Hallström, was so impressed with Dormers comedic timing that he had the script writer expand her part, on the strength of her audition for the role and her performance, she secured a three-film deal with Touchstone Pictures, which was never exercised. In 2005, Dormer had a part in Distant Shores. After the filming of Casanova, Dormer was out of work for ten months and she was attached to an independent film which kept being delayed because of financial problems. Taken off the circuit, Dormer waitressed and worked in data entry to support herself. She has said that her being out of work for so long was the best lesson I could have had in the first 12 months of my career. In 2007 and 2008, Dormer played Anne Boleyn in the first two seasons of The Tudors, for which she received positive reviews. Robert Abele of LA Weekly wrote, Natalie Dormer presents a painterly exquisiteness and her enigmatic, time-halting loveliness is a boon for The Tudors, and damn near worth losing your head over. Her departure from The Tudors leaves a tremendous void, in 2008, Dormer played Moira Nicholson in Agatha Christies Marple, Why Didnt They Ask Evans. and appeared in a number of films such as Fence Walker and City of Life
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Andie MacDowell
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Rosalie Anderson Andie MacDowell is an American actress and fashion model. She made her debut in 1984s Greystoke, The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, before receiving critical acclaim for her role in Sex, Lies. Since then she has appeared in notable films, including Groundhog Day and Four Weddings. She has also starred in Green Card, Short Cuts, Michael, from 2013 to 2015, she starred in the drama series Cedar Cove. She has modeled for Calvin Klein Inc. and has been a spokeswoman for LOréal since 1986 celebrating 30 years with the company in 2016. Andie MacDowell was born in Gaffney, South Carolina, the daughter of Pauline Paula Johnston, a teacher, and Marion St. Pierre MacDowell. Her ancestry includes English, French, Scottish, Irish, and her family owned an Antebellum period summer house in Arden, North Carolina, which has since been made into a bed-and-breakfast named the Blake House Inn. Graffiti from her childhood visits are preserved in a bedroom closet. She attended Winthrop University for two years before moving briefly to Columbia, South Carolina and she was initially spotted by a rep from Wilhelmina Models while on a trip to Los Angeles before she would later sign with Elite Model Management in New York City in 1978. In the early 1980s, MacDowell modelled for Vogue magazine and appeared in ad campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent, Vassarette, Armani perfume, Sabeth-Row, Mink International, Anne Klein, in 1985, she had a supporting part as a doctor in St. Elmos Fire. MacDowell studied method acting with teachers from the Actors Studio, in addition to working privately with the renowned coach Harold Guskin, Four years later, director Steven Soderbergh cast her in the independent film Sex, Lies, and Videotape. In the 1990s, MacDowell achieved stardom due to the box office success of director Harold Ramiss 1993 comedy, Groundhog Day, and Four Weddings, since 1986, MacDowell has appeared in print and television advertisements for the cosmetic and haircare company LOréal. In later years she has acted primarily on television and in independent films, in 2012 she co-starred in the short-lived ABC Family series Jane by Design. From 2013 to 2015, she starred in the Hallmark Channel family series Cedar Cove, MacDowell married rancher and fellow former model Paul Qualley in 1986. The two met while both were posing for Gap ads and they had a son, Justin, and two daughters, Rainey and Sarah Margaret Qualley, an actress. She was married to businessman Rhett Hartzog from November 10,2001, as of 2013, MacDowell resides in Marina Del Rey, California. She and actor Malcolm MacDowell are not related, Andie MacDowell on Twitter Andie MacDowell at the Internet Movie Database
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The Sydney Morning Herald
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The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia, the newspaper is published six days a week. It is available at outlets in Sydney, regional New South Wales, Canberra, the Sydney Morning Herald includes a variety of supplements, including the magazines Good Weekend, and Sunday Life. By February 2016, average circulation had fallen to 104,000, similarWeb rates the site as the fifth most visited news website in Australia and as the 42nd newspapers website globally, attracting more than 15 million visitors per month. In 1931 a Centenary Supplement was published, the original four-page weekly had a print run of 750. In 1840, the newspaper began to publish daily, in 1841, an Englishman named John Fairfax purchased the operation, renaming it The Sydney Morning Herald the following year. Fairfax, whose family were to control the newspaper for almost 150 years, based his editorial policies upon principles of candour, honesty and we have no wish to mislead, no interest to gratify by unsparing abuse or indiscriminate approbation. During the decade 1890, Donald Murray worked there, the SMH was late to the trend of printing news rather than just advertising on the front page, doing so from 15 April 1944. Of the countrys metropolitan dailies, only The West Australian was later in making the switch, in 1949, the newspaper launched a Sunday edition, The Sunday Herald. Four years later, this was merged with the newly acquired Sun newspaper to create The Sun-Herald, in 1995, the company launched the newspapers web edition smh. com. au. The site has grown to include interactive and multimedia features beyond the content in the print edition. Around the same time, the organisation moved from Jones Street to new offices at Darling Park and built a new printing press at Chullora, the SMH has since moved with other Sydney Fairfax divisions to a building at Darling Island. In May 2007, Fairfax Media announced it would be moving from a format to the smaller compact or tabloid-size, in the footsteps of The Times. Fairfax Media dumped these plans later in the year, however, in June 2012, Fairfax Media again announced it planned to shift both broadsheet newspapers to tabloid size, in March 2013. Fairfax also announced it would cut staff across the group by 1,900 over three years and erect paywalls around the papers websites. The subscription type is to be a model, limiting readers to a number of free stories per month, with a payment required for further access. In July 2013 it was announced that the SMHs news director, Darren Goodsir, would become Editor-in-Chief, on 22 February 2014, the final Saturday edition was produced in broadsheet format with this too converted to compact format on 1 March 2014. Ahead of the decommissioning of the plant at Chullora in June 2014
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