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Korean name
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A Korean name consists of a family name followed by a given name, as used by the Korean people in both South Korea and North Korea. In the Korean language, ireum or seongmyeong usually refers to the family name, traditional Korean family names typically consist of only one syllable. There is no name in the English language sense. Many Koreans have their names made of a generational name syllable. The generational name syllable is shared by siblings in North Korea, married men and women usually keep their full personal names, and children inherit the fathers family name. The family names are subdivided into bongwan, i. e. extended families which originate in the system used in previous historical periods. Each clan is identified by a place, and traces its origin to a common patrilineal ancestor. During periods of Mongol influence, the ruling class supplemented their Korean names with Mongolian names, some keep the original order of names, while others reverse the names to match the usual Western pattern. Fewer than 300 Korean family names were in use in 2000, for various reasons, there is a growth in the number of Korean surnames. Each family name is divided into one or more clans, identifying the city of origin. For example, the most populous clan is Gimhae Kim, that is, clans are further subdivided into various pa, or branches stemming from a more recent common ancestor, so that a full identification of a persons family name would be clan-surname-branch. Traditionally, Korean women keep their names after their marriage. In the premodern, patriarchal Korean society, people were extremely conscious of familial values, Korean women keep their surnames after marriage based on traditional reasoning that it is what they inherited from their parents and ancestors, and cannot be changed. According to traditions, each clan publishes a comprehensive genealogy every 30 years, around a dozen two-syllable surnames are used, all of which rank after the 100 most common surnames. The five most common names, which together make up over half of the Korean population, are used by over 20 million people in South Korea. After the 2015 census, it was revealed that family names were becoming more common in South Korea. Between 2000 and 2015, more than 4,800 new surnames were registered, during the census, a total of 5,582 distinct surnames were collected, 73% of which do not have corresponding hanja characters. It was also revealed that despite the surge in the number of surnames, the ratio of top 10 surnames had not changed
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Ottawa
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Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It stands on the bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, the two form the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area and the National Capital Region. The 2016 census reported a population of 934,243, making it the fourth-largest city in Canada, the City of Ottawa reported that the city had an estimated population of 960,754 as of December 2015. Founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as Ottawa in 1855, the city name Ottawa was chosen in reference to the Ottawa River nearby, the name of which is derived from the Algonquin Odawa, meaning to trade. The city is the most educated in Canada, and is home to a number of post-secondary, research, and cultural institutions, including the National Arts Centre, Ottawa also has the highest standard of living in the nation and low unemployment. It ranked second out of 150 worldwide in the Numbeo quality of life index 2014–2015, with the draining of the Champlain Sea around ten thousand years ago the Ottawa Valley became habitable. The area was used for wild harvesting, hunting, fishing, trade, travel. The Ottawa river valley has archaeological sites with arrow heads, pottery, the area has three major rivers that meet, making it an important trade and travel area for thousands of years. The Algonquins called the Ottawa River Kichi Sibi or Kichissippi meaning Great River or Grand River, Étienne Brûlé, the first European to travel up the Ottawa River, passed by Ottawa in 1610 on his way to the Great Lakes. Three years later, Samuel de Champlain wrote about the waterfalls of the area and about his encounters with the Algonquins, the early explorers and traders were later followed by many missionaries. The first maps of the area used the word Ottawa to name the river, philemon Wright, a New Englander, created the first settlement in the area on 7 March 1800 on the north side of the river, across from Ottawa in Hull. He, with five other families and twenty-five labourers, set about to create a community called Wrightsville. Wright pioneered the Ottawa Valley timber trade by transporting timber by river from the Ottawa Valley to Quebec City, the following year, the town would soon be named after British military engineer Colonel John By who was responsible for the entire Rideau Waterway construction project. Colonel By set up military barracks on the site of todays Parliament Hill and he also laid out the streets of the town and created two distinct neighbourhoods named Upper Town west of the canal and Lower Town east of the canal. Similar to its Upper Canada and Lower Canada namesakes, historically Upper Town was predominantly English speaking and Protestant whereas Lower Town was predominantly French, Irish, bytowns population grew to 1,000 as the Rideau Canal was being completed in 1832. In 1855 Bytown was renamed Ottawa and incorporated as a city, William Pittman Lett was installed as the first city clerk guiding it through 36 years of development. On New Years Eve 1857, Queen Victoria, as a symbolic, in reality, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald had assigned this selection process to the Executive Branch of the Government, as previous attempts to arrive at a consensus had ended in deadlock
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Ontario
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Ontario, one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada, is located in east-central Canada. It is Canadas most populous province by a margin, accounting for nearly 40 percent of all Canadians. Ontario is fourth-largest in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and it is home to the nations capital city, Ottawa, and the nations most populous city, Toronto. There is only about 1 km of land made up of portages including Height of Land Portage on the Minnesota border. Ontario is sometimes divided into two regions, Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario. The great majority of Ontarios population and arable land is located in the south, in contrast, the larger, northern part of Ontario is sparsely populated with cold winters and is heavily forested. The province is named after Lake Ontario, a thought to be derived from Ontarí, io, a Huron word meaning great lake, or possibly skanadario. Ontario has about 250,000 freshwater lakes, the province consists of three main geographical regions, The thinly populated Canadian Shield in the northwestern and central portions, which comprises over half the land area of Ontario. Although this area mostly does not support agriculture, it is rich in minerals and in part covered by the Central and Midwestern Canadian Shield forests, studded with lakes, Northern Ontario is subdivided into two sub-regions, Northwestern Ontario and Northeastern Ontario. The virtually unpopulated Hudson Bay Lowlands in the north and northeast, mainly swampy. Southern Ontario which is further sub-divided into four regions, Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, Golden Horseshoe, the highest point is Ishpatina Ridge at 693 metres above sea level located in Temagami, Northeastern Ontario. In the south, elevations of over 500 m are surpassed near Collingwood, above the Blue Mountains in the Dundalk Highlands, the Carolinian forest zone covers most of the southwestern region of the province. A well-known geographic feature is Niagara Falls, part of the Niagara Escarpment, the Saint Lawrence Seaway allows navigation to and from the Atlantic Ocean as far inland as Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario. Northern Ontario occupies roughly 87 percent of the area of the province. Point Pelee is a peninsula of Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario that is the southernmost extent of Canadas mainland, Pelee Island and Middle Island in Lake Erie extend slightly farther. All are south of 42°N – slightly farther south than the border of California. The climate of Ontario varies by season and location, the effects of these major air masses on temperature and precipitation depend mainly on latitude, proximity to major bodies of water and to a small extent, terrain relief. In general, most of Ontarios climate is classified as humid continental, Ontario has three main climatic regions
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Alexander Payne
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Alexander Payne is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer, known for the films Citizen Ruth, Election, About Schmidt, Sideways, The Descendants, and Nebraska. His films are noted for their humor and satirical depictions of contemporary American society. Payne is a winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Payne was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Peggy and George Payne, Payne is the youngest of three sons and grew up in what is now known as the Dundee-Happy Hollow Historic District, the same neighborhood as billionaire Warren Buffett. His father is of Greek and German descent, and his mother is of Greek ancestry and his paternal grandfather, Nicholas Nick Payne, anglicized the last name from Papadopoulos. His family comes from three areas in Greece, the island of Syros, Livadia, and Aegio, Paynes family was part of the fabric of Omaha, which he references as part of his upbringing. His grandfather was a founder of The Virginia Cafe, with Paynes father taking over the restaurant, Payne went there regularly as a child. The restaurant was destroyed in a fire in 1969, the W. Dale Clark Library is now located on the site, Paynes paternal grandmother, Clara Payne, was from a German Nebraska family from Lincoln, Nebraska. In Omaha, Payne attended Brownell-Talbot School, Dundee Elementary School and he graduated from Creighton Prep for high school in 1979. At Prep, Payne wrote a column for his high school newspaper and was the editor of the high school yearbook. Payne then attended Stanford University, where he majored in Spanish. Payne got his MFA in 1990 from the UCLA Film School, in the 1960s, Paynes father received a Super 8mm projector from Kraft Foods as a loyalty reward, and eventually passed it on to his son when Alexander was about 14 years old. The ensuing screenplay, which was turned down, would ultimately become About Schmidt and he says that he cleared about $60,000, which was enough to fund his simple lifestyle at the time for about five years. Payne sees his talent as being one of learned economy and he refers to the essay written by Tennessee Williams on The Catastrophe of Success. Payne worked in various capacities on films and television before he co-wrote and directed his first full-length film, Payne was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Election. In 2003 he received a Golden Globe for his screenplay for About Schmidt, to the surprise of many who kept track of Hollywood news, Payne and his writing partner Jim Taylor were not nominated for an Oscar for the About Schmidt screenplay. He won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe in 2005 for Best Adapted Screenplay for Sideways, while the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. In total, Sideways received five Academy Award nominations, Payne returned to directing in 2011 after a seven-year hiatus with the film The Descendants, starring George Clooney
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Cristina Yang
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Cristina Yang, M. D. Ph. D. is a fictional character from the medical drama television series Greys Anatomy, which has aired for over 12 years on the American Broadcasting Company in the United States. The character was created by series producer Shonda Rhimes, and is portrayed by actress Sandra Oh, Yang earlier in the series got engaged to Preston Burke, in the past had a relationship with renowned surgeon and mentor Colin Marlow, and wed but later divorced Owen Hunt. Oh originally auditioned for the role of Miranda Bailey, although Chandra Wilson was ultimately cast in the part, Oh has received generally positive reviews for her portrayal, with Mark Perigard of the Boston Herald considering her friendship with Meredith to be the secret core of Greys. Oh has also garnered numerous awards and nominations for her role as Yang, including Golden Globe and she was additionally nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series each year, from 2005 to 2009. Characterizing the character, ABC noted her competitiveness, ambition, and intelligence as her main traits, while her aggressive, in May 2012, E. Online reported that Oh had signed on for two more years, along with her fellow cast members. Oh left the show after season 10, and her character Cristina Yang was written out of the storyline as a main cast member, an atheistic competitive intern of Korean-American ancestry, she first desired to become a doctor after a childhood car accident which killed her biological father. Yang also suffers from dyslexia, and was raised in Beverly Hills, California by her mother and she has BA from Smith College, an MD from Stanford University and a PhD from University of California, Berkeley, making her a double doctor. Cristina and Merediths relationship is an aspect of both the show and the characters. Derek Shepherd once metaphorically compares the pair of women to E. T. and Eliott from E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a set of characters linked mentally, physically, Cristina is second-closest to Karev, whom she affectionately calls Evilspawn and likes to tease. What Cristina lacks in soft skills and medical nuance, she makes up for with her extreme technical prowess during surgery and her all consuming devotion to cardiothoracics and learning. She is dismissive of those she feels are beneath her level of skill, during in internship, Cristina has on-again, off-again sexual encounters with chief of cardiothoracic surgery Preston Burke that leads to an accidental pregnancy. Yang schedules an abortion without telling him about the due to Burkes behavior towards their lack of relationship status. However, Yang experiences a pregnancy and Burke discovers the pregnancy after Yang collapses from a burst fallopian tube. Burke and Yang begin a relationship in the aftermath of her miscarriage, after Burke is shot in the arm and develops a hand tremor, Yang helps him cover it up by developing a covert partnership wherein she performs most of his surgeries. Yang initially denies involvement during a confrontation, but then confesses everything to Richard Webber, Yangs actions jeopardize Burkes chances of becoming chief, which he sees as a huge betrayal. After a short breakup, Yang breaks the silence and Burke proposes marriage, Yang forbids Burke from telling anyone of the engagement until she can tell Meredith first. When Meredith suffers an accident before Yang can share her news and, unable to cope with the intense emotions, Yang flees the hospital to binge shop in a bargain store. Cristina saves Merediths life and is able to tell her her news, Yang is pressured into elaborate wedding plans despite her reluctance
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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Grey's Anatomy
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Greys Anatomy is an American medical drama television series that premiered on American Broadcasting Company as a mid-season replacement on March 27,2005. The series focuses on the lives of surgical interns, residents and attending physicians, as they evolve into seasoned doctors while trying to maintain personal lives. The title is a play on Grays Anatomy, a human anatomy textbook by Henry Gray. The shows premise originated with Shonda Rhimes, who serves as a producer, along with Betsy Beers, Mark Gordon, Krista Vernoff, Rob Corn, Mark Wilding. Although it is set in Seattle at the fictional Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital it is filmed in Los Angeles. The show was originally titled Complications, a reference to the complicated medical procedures, the series was created to be racially diverse, utilizing a color-blind casting technique. It revolves around the title character Dr. Meredith Grey played by Ellen Pompeo. The original cast consisted of nine star-billed actors, Pompeo, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl, Justin Chambers, T. R. Knight, Chandra Wilson, James Pickens Jr. Isaiah Washington and Patrick Dempsey. The cast has undergone changes through the shows run, with many members leaving and being replaced by others. In its twelfth season, the show had an ensemble of sixteen actors. On February 10,2017, ABC renewed Greys Anatomy for a fourteenth season,3 drama on all of broadcast. Greys Anatomy has been received by critics throughout much of its run. Since its inception, the show has been described by the media outlets as a television phenomena or a juggernaut, owing to its longevity and dominant ratings. It is considered to have had a significant impact on culture and has received numerous awards. It has received multiple Emmy nominations, including two for Outstanding Drama Series, in 2012, Greys Anatomy was named the fifth-highest revenue earning show, in terms of advertising per half-hour. It is the longest running scripted primetime show airing on ABC. The series follows Meredith Grey, the daughter of a general surgeon named Ellis Grey. The residents are joined by Jackson Avery and April Kepner, former Mercy-West residents who join Seattle Grace following an administrative merger in the sixth season
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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Screen Actors Guild Award
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The statuette given, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy, is called The Actor. It is 16 inches tall, weighs over 12 pounds, is cast in solid bronze, SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in Hollywood since 1995. It is considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards, the awards have been telecast since 1998 on TNT, and since 2007 have been simulcast on TBS. The inaugural SAG Awards aired live on February 25,1995 from Universal Studios Stage 12, the second SAG awards aired live from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, while subsequent awards have been held at the Shrine Exposition Center
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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
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Arliss
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Arliss is an American sitcom about a sports agent and his group of associates. The series premiered on HBO in 1996 and ended in 2002, oscar-winning actor James Coburns 2002 appearance in the episode The Immortal was his last television performance before his fatal heart attack in 2002. Joining Scott Hudson and Bobby The Brain Heenan, Robert did not appear as himself but was named as Arliss and he announced that the WCW would appear on Arliss because none of the Big Three networks would have WCW. Arliss stayed in character on color commentary as Randy Savage, Gorgeous George, Arliss said he was scouting Dennis Rodman, who was doing his third stint with the company. Wuhl appeared for cross-promotion as WCW was owned by Time Warner, in the Arliss episode entitled To Thy Own Self Be True, WCW creative head Eric Bischoff guest stars along with wrestlers Lex Luger, Randy Savage and Gorgeous George. On the 10th of February 2002, the show, which ran for seven seasons, is a prime example of how HBO differs from traditional networks due to its nature as a network its viewers specifically pay to be able to watch. Arliss was cited by so many viewers as the reason that they paid for the network that its relatively small fan base was able to keep the show on the air for a lengthy run. Entertainment Weekly consistently referred to it as one of the worst shows on television, the show frequently used obscure sports references, making the humor something only die-hard sports fans could appreciate. Simmons also noted that HBO was forced to reschedule the show because it wasnt able to hold enough viewers before Six Feet Under, simmons viewpoint notwithstanding, ESPN later acquired the rights to air content-edited reruns of Arli$$ for several years on ESPN Classic. Arliss at the Internet Movie Database
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BBC America
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BBC America is a digital cable and satellite television network in the United States which is jointly owned by BBC Worldwide and AMC Networks. Consequently, BBC America operates as a channel and accepts traditional advertising. It is also funded by cable and satellite TV subscription fees, as of February 2015, BBC America is available to approximately 78,375,000 television households in the United States. BBC America was launched on March 29,1998, presenting a mixture of comedy, drama and lifestyle programs from BBC Television and other British television broadcasters including ITV and Channel 4. In the channels early days, it focused on repeats of popular shows such as Changing Rooms. BBC Americas head of television programming later stated that it was important for the channel to establish a niche since non-UK viewers found the shows appealing. Most of the newer programs appeared as part of BBC Americas evening schedule, after CEO Paul Lee was appointed president of ABC Family in 2009, the network appointed Bill Hilary from Comedy Central to serve as its chief executive officer. Hilary appointed Kathryn Mitchell to the new position of general manager, under Hilarys tenure, BBC America was restructured, it moved its main offices to New York City and had its programming budget increase substantially. The channel was led by Garth Ancier, who served as the president of BBC Worldwide Americas from February 2007 until 2010, meanwhile, Perry Simon serves as general manager. In 2014, AMC Networks acquired a 49. 9% equity stake in BBC America for $200 million, as part of the deal, AMC Networks also took on the responsibility of negotiating U. S. broadcast and advertising sales for the BBC World News channel. Some of the programs on the channel are edited either for adult content or to allow for commercials, additional series which have been previously broadcast may periodically return to the schedule as part of the networks rotation of daytime programming. In the mid-2000s, BBC America produced a few of its own shows along with some joint productions, the first original series produced solely by the channel was Copper, which premiered in the summer of 2012. BBC America has also branched into co-producing British series, including Robin Hood, The Musketeers, and, from its fourth series and they also co-produce the Canadian series Orphan Black. BBC America used to broadcast BBC World News each Monday through Friday morning from 6,00 to 8,00 a. m, all news programs now air exclusively on the BBC World News channel, also distributed by AMC Networks in the United States. The weekday morning simulcast used to include BBC World News bulletins, World Business Report, Sport Today, Asia Today, most of these were removed from the schedule without any announcement on April 6,2009. The weekend morning simulcast was also dropped on April 4,2009. According to BBC America, the simulcast was dropped because of disappointing ratings, from 2007 to 2011, BBC America broadcast BBC World News America, a live Washington, D. C. –based program anchored by Matt Frei. Katty Kay served as a Washington-based correspondent, an international edition of Newsnight debuted on February 29,2008, in the 10 p. m. time slot
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Bean (film)
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Bean is a 1997 feature film based on the television series Mr. Bean. It stars Rowan Atkinson in the role and Peter MacNicol. It was directed by Mel Smith, the film used many of the ideas and skits from the original television series. Mr. Bean is a meaning, but hopelessly clumsy. The curator of the Grierson, David Langley, impressed with the profile of Dr. Bean. After Bean causes some initial mishaps with the police and breaking a family heirloom, Alison leaves for her mothers house with son Kevin. David soon begins to question Beans intelligence after he suggests they head to a park and causes mayhem with a ride. His worst fears are realised when Bean accidentally ruins the painting shortly after it arrives. Fearing that he lose his job and possibly face criminal charges for the damage, David becomes despondent and gets drunk. To save his career, Bean sneaks back into the gallery, distracts the guard by lacing his drink with laxatives, the plan proves a success, fooling everyone including Newton. Bean nearly panics when he realises he has to make a speech, grateful for having his daughter back, David is surprised to find his saviour to be Bean, who asks to stay another week with him. Spending quality time with Davids family, Bean soon returns to the airport, thanking David for the time he spent, before returning to London. The film was criticised for breaking with the tradition of having Mr. Bean as the centre of attention. However, the movie grossed over USD$250 million globally on an estimated at $18 million. In 2007, it was followed by a sequel, called Mr. Beans Holiday, the film holds a 42% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an average score of 5. 3/10 based on 31 reviews. The film holds a score of 52 on Metacritic based on 20 reviews, the films original score was by Howard Goodall, who had also written the music for the television series, although the original Mr. Bean theme was not used. Other non-original songs were featured, in particular The Beatles Yesterday. The CD soundtrack features the OMC cover of I Love L. A. despite the original by Randy Newman being the version in the film and this had been used for Comic Relief in 1992
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Last Night (1998 film)
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Last Night is a 1998 Canadian apocalyptic black comedy-drama film directed by Don McKellar and starring McKellar, Sandra Oh and Callum Keith Rennie. The film was made and released when many were concerned about the Year 2000 problem and it was filmed and set in Toronto. The film was released to reviews for McKellars direction and Ohs acting. It won awards at the Cannes and Toronto International Film Festivals, in Toronto, a group of friends and family prepare for the end of the world, expected at midnight as the result of a calamity that is not explained, but which has been expected for several months. There has been panic and rioting after the imminent catastrophe was announced and he unexpectedly meets Sandra, who is stranded in the city and attempting to reunite with her new husband Duncan, who works at a power company. Duncan spends much of the day calling his customers to reassure them that their heating gas will be kept on until the very end, Sandra and Duncan have a suicide pact. Although intending to die alone, Patrick invites Sandra up to his apartment, meanwhile, Patricks best friend Craig embarks on a nearly non-stop sex marathon as he attempts to fulfill every fantasy he has ever had, pursuing interracial sex, sex with his old French teacher Mme. Carlton, and sex with a virgin, among others, with Sandra in need of a car and Craig having a car collection, Patrick and Sandra visit him and ask for one of his vehicles. Craig at first refuses, wanting to die with a complete collection, Craig also attempts to have a homosexual affair with Patrick, one of his fantasies, but Patrick indicates he is not interested in having sex with anyone on his last night. Duncan is randomly murdered by a rioter, and Craigs car Sandra has borrowed is vandalized, upon realizing she will not reunite with Duncan, Sandra asks Patrick to join her suicide pact. As midnight approaches, they sit on the roof facing each other, listening to the song Guantanamera, each holding a loaded pistol to the others temple. However, as the final approach, both characters are overcome with emotion and simultaneously let their pistols slip away as they slowly embrace in a kiss. Director Don McKellar wrote the screenplay after being approached by the French company Haut et Court, consisting of films depicting the approaching millennium seen from the perspectives of 10 different countries. His script does not explain why the world is ending because he did not view that as the point of the story, the film marked McKellars first attempt at directing a feature film. For the C$2.2 million budget, McKellar secured the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as the main sponsor, initially concerned about directing and acting at the same time, McKellar opted to keep the direction simple, aiming for a fairly austere and elegant style. Shortly before shooting began, he learned a Hollywood film called Armageddon was in the works, Last Night was filmed on location in and near Toronto between September 15 and October 19,1997. Shooting primarily took place at the Macdonald Block and apartment buildings near The Annex, filmmakers used computers to depict a car being overturned. Last Night premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1998, afterwards, Lions Gate Entertainment obtained distribution rights in the United States
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The Princess Diaries (film)
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The Princess Diaries is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Garry Marshall and written by Gina Wendkos, based on Meg Cabots 2000 novel of the same name. It stars Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis, a teenager who discovers that she is the heir to the throne of the fictional Kingdom of Genovia, the film also stars Heather Matarazzo, Héctor Elizondo, Mandy Moore, and Robert Schwartzman. Released in North America on August 3,2001 and was a commercial success, the film was followed by a sequel, The Princess Diaries 2, Royal Engagement, released in August 2004. Teenager Mia Thermopolis lives with her artist mother, Helen, and her black and white cat, Fat Louie, a somewhat awkward and unpopular girl, she is terrified of public speaking and often wishes to be invisible. She has a crush on the popular Josh Bryant, but is teased by both him and his cheerleader girlfriend, Lana Thomas. Mia’s only friendships are in the form of the equally unpopular Lilly Moscovitz and Lillys brother Michael, just before her 16th birthday, Mia learns her paternal grandmother, Clarisse, is visiting from Genovia, a small European kingdom. When Mia goes to meet her at a house, Clarisse reveals she is actually Queen Clarisse Renaldi. Mia is stunned to learn she is a princess and heir to the Genovian throne, in shock, Mia runs home and angrily confronts her mother, who explains she had planned to tell Mia on her 18th birthday, but that her father’s death has forced the matter. Queen Clarisse visits and explains that if Mia refuses the throne, Helen persuades a hesitant Mia to attend princess lessons with the Queen, telling her she does not have to make her decision until the upcoming Genovian Independence Day ball. Mia is given a makeover, the use of a limousine. This and Mias frequent absences for the lessons make Lilly suspicious and jealous, Mia breaks down and tells Lilly everything, swearing her to secrecy. In a craven urge for fame, many of her classmates bluff that they are friends of the princess to reporters, at a state dinner, Mia embarrasses herself with her clumsiness, delighting her rivals for the crown. However, all is not lost as the situation amuses a stuffy diplomat, Mia sees this and is impressed with her grandmother. Later, Mia is delighted when Josh Bryant invites her to a beach party, things go wrong when the press arrive, tipped off by Lana. She breaks down into tears in her mothers arms when she gets home, the photos appear on tabloid covers the following day, leaving Queen Clarisse furious at Mia. A humiliated Mia tells her that she is renouncing the throne, Joe later reminds the Queen that although Mia is a princess, she is still a teenager and her granddaughter. While Lilly is excited at the prospect of attending a ball, Michael, brokenhearted over Mias initial feelings for Josh. Clarisse apologizes to Mia for being furious at her over the beach incident, Mia, terrified at this large responsibility placed upon her, plans to run away
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Under the Tuscan Sun (film)
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Under the Tuscan Sun is a 2003 American romantic comedy drama film written, produced, and directed by Audrey Wells and starring Diane Lane. Based on Frances Mayes 1996 memoir Under the Tuscan Sun, the film is about a divorced writer who buys a villa in Tuscany on a whim. Frances Mayes is a San Francisco writer whose seemingly perfect life takes an turn when she learns that her husband has been cheating on her. The divorce—and the loss of her house to her ex-husband and his much-younger, pregnant new partner—leaves her depressed and her best friend Patti, a lesbian who is expecting a child, is beginning to think Frances might never recover. She urges Frances to take an Italian vacation to Tuscany using the ticket she purchased before she became pregnant, at first Frances refuses, but after another depressing day in her gloomy apartment, she decides that its a good idea to get away for a while. In Tuscany, her tour stops in the small town of Cortona. After wandering through the streets, she notices a posting for a villa for sale in Cortona. She rejoins her tour group on the bus, and just outside town, while they wait, Frances realizes that theyve stopped directly in front of the very villa that she had seen for sale—something she believes is a sign. She asks the driver to stop and she gets off the bus, through a series of serendipitous events, she becomes the owner of a lovely yet dilapidated villa in beautiful Tuscany. Frances begins her new life with the help of a variety of interesting characters and unusual and she hires a crew of Polish immigrants to renovate the house. Later, she is visited by the now very pregnant Patti, Frances meets and has a brief romantic affair with Marcello, but their relationship does not last. She is about to give up on happiness when one of her Polish workers, a teenager named Pawel, and a neighbors young daughter come to her for help. Her father does not approve of him, due to his being Polish and not having a family, yet they are much in love. Frances persuades the family to support their love, by proclaiming that she is Pawels family. During the wedding celebration, Frances meets an American writer who is traveling in Tuscany,2 in the U. S. box office in the weekend of September 28,2003. This was more than half of its estimated $18 million budget, the film was a box office success, earning $43,610,723 domestically and a further $15,268,000 internationally, totaling $58,878,723 worldwide. The film received reviews from critics. Diane Lanes performance was praised and she was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe Award
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Sideways
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Sideways is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne and written by Jim Taylor and Payne. Sandra Oh and Virginia Madsen also star, Payne and Taylor won multiple awards for their screenplay. The principal actors and actresses received accolades for their performances, Sideways won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and was nominated for four other awards including Best Picture. The film premiered at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival on September 13,2004 and was released in the United States on October 22,2004. In the wine country, the pair visit Miles favorite restaurant, The Hitching Post II, and meet Maya, Jack senses that Maya is interested in Miles, who downplays his friends intuition, and tells Jack that Maya is married. Jack tells Maya that Miles manuscript has been accepted for publication, later, at a tasting in a local winery, they meet an attractive wine pourer named Stephanie, who is also acquainted with Maya. Jack is immediately attracted to Stephanie and arranges a date, to include Miles and Maya. During the date, Miles gets drunk and telephones Vicki, his ex-wife and they return to Stephanies home, where Jack and Stephanie immediately adjourn to her bedroom for sex, while Miles and Maya connect through their mutual interest in wine. Miles tells Maya about his book, and Maya says she is finishing a degree in horticulture so she can leave serving. Miles makes a pass at Maya, which she rejects. They leave separately, but not before he gives her a copy of his manuscript, after spending the day together, Miles and Maya return to her apartment and have sex. The next day, Miles lets it slip that Jack is to be married, disgusted with the dishonesty, Maya dumps Miles and later tells Stephanie who, furious and devastated to learn shes been used, hits Jack repeatedly and breaks his nose using her motorcycle helmet. On finding out his manuscript has been rejected again, Miles drinks heavily, and when the server cuts him off, he ends up drinking from the spit bucket, but Jack eases him out of the room in time. That night, with Stephanie gone, Jack hooks up with another waitress named Cammi, hours later, Jack shows up back at the motel room he shares with Miles – naked and confessing that Cammis husband came home early while she and Jack were having sex. Jack explains he was forced to flee without his clothes and wallet, Jack convinces Miles to drive him back to Cammis house and sneak inside, where he discovers Cammi and her husband having sex. Miles spies Jacks wallet, grabs it and runs from the house, barely escaping Cammis irate husband, to explain the broken nose and cover up the infidelity to his fiancée, Jack runs Miles convertible into a tree, giving the appearance they had been in an accident. The pair return to the home of Jacks fiancée, where he is welcomed with open arms, following the wedding ceremony, Miles runs into his ex-wife Vicki and meets her new husband. After learning that she is pregnant, Miles accepts that he will never get Vicki back
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Wilby Wonderful
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Wilby Wonderful is a 2004 film by Daniel MacIvor. The film is a drama about 24 hours in the life of the small town of Wilby. It focuses on the changes occurring in the lives of several different inhabitants as development comes to the island, the title comes from a sign created to promote the town, comically, it has been painted wrong, and says Wilby Wonderful, as opposed to Wonderful Wilby. Wilby Wonderful received a 71% rating from review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, in the midst of it, Wilbys inhabitants attempt to maintain business as usual. Sandra just got back to the island and re-opened a coffee shop, sandra’s teenaged daughter Emily resentfully observes her mothers doings, shes hoping for a serious romance different from her moms history, but her boyfriend may have more basic intentions. Duck remains stoic in front of the turmoil, seemingly the only one recognizing everyone elses dramas while himself persistently seeking Dans company, and the towns mayor may be playing up the scandal in order to conclude a deal to turn the Watch into a golf course. The scandal will force the characters to reevaluate their lives and come to terms with their own secrets and it was largely shot at a decommissioned Canadian Forces station, dubbed Camp Wilby by cast and crew. While Wilby is never located in the film, Daniel MacIvor has acknowledged its similarities to his birthplace of Cape Breton. The original title was Honey and the town was named after that, but when a movie of the same name came out, Daniel MacIvor decided for Wilby instead as a reference to hope and to the future. Give me the chance to fall and Statement, performed by Gentleman RegAll about you, performed by Young IdeasWhat went wrong and Save me too, performed by Scott B.17 in D Major, Op.31, No. Rebecca Jenkins won a Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award in 2004 for Best Supporting Actress - Canadian Film, list of artistic depictions of dyslexia Wilby Wonderful at the Internet Movie Database Wilby Wonderful at AllMovie Wilby Wonderful site. Archived from the original on 2004-04-14
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Sorry, Haters
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Sorry, Haters is a 2005 film written and directed by Jeff Stanzler, starring Robin Wright Penn, Abdel Kechiche, Élodie Bouchez and Sandra Oh, distributed by IFC Films. It was a selection in both the Toronto and American Film Institute film festivals. It was released on DVD on August 8,2006, Ashade, a New York City taxicab driver from Syria encounters a strange fare in Phoebe, played by Robin Wright Penn. The lead character, bitter from a recent divorce, forces friendship upon Ashade who accepts it very reluctantly, when she learns of Ashades familys legal problems, she imposes upon him further. This imposition reveals a side to Phoebe, causing Ashade to flee their brief friendship. Phoebe retaliates in spite, turning Ashades life upside-down, in order to put his life back in order, Ashade must seek out Phoebe and enlist her help, and in doing so, he learns about and falls prey to her dark secret. In 2007, Sorry, Haters was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Female Lead, the film was shot in 5 days
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Hard Candy (film)
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Hard Candy is a 2005 American psychological crime thriller film focusing on the torture of a male sexual predator by a 14-year-old female vigilante. The film was directed by David Slade, written by Brian Nelson and it was the first feature film for Slade, who had primarily directed music videos. The film premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, and was screened at the Florida Film Festival in April 2006 and it had limited release in two theaters in the US. The film made over $7 million at the box office, including almost $6 million from outside the US, Page won Best Actress at the 2006 Austin Film Critics Association Awards. The film opens with a charged, flirtatious online chat between 14-year-old Hayley Stark and Jeff Kohlver, a 32-year-old photographer. Jeff and Hayley meet at a coffeehouse, and he takes her back to his house, Hayley makes them both screwdrivers and asks him to take photographs. Before he can, Jeff gets dizzy, his vision blurs, when Jeff wakes, he is bound to a chair. Hayley explains she has been tracking him and drugged him because she knows he is a pedophile, rapist, Jeff denies these allegations, claiming he had innocent intentions. Hayley searches Jeffs house and finds his gun and safe, in the safe, Hayley finds sick pictures and a photo of Donna Mauer, a local girl who has been kidnapped and remains missing. Jeff denies involvement in Mauers disappearance and succeeds in reaching his gun, when Jeff wakes, he finds himself bound to a steel table with a bag of ice on his genitals. Hayley explains she will castrate Jeff, Jeff threatens, bribes and sweet-talks Hayley to dissuade her, when that doesnt work, he tries to get her sympathy by telling her he was abused as a child. Following the operation, Hayley leaves the kitchen, claiming to take a shower, when he reluctantly checks the site of the operation, he realizes he is actually unharmed, and Hayley has elaborately faked his castration. He storms off in a rage to get Hayley in the bathroom, scalpel in hand, he attacks, only to find the shower empty. Hayley attacks him from behind, and as they struggle, Hayley incapacitates him with a stun gun, Hayley poses as a police officer and asks Jeffs ex-girlfriend, Janelle, to come immediately to Jeffs house. Jeff regains consciousness to find that Hayley has bound his wrists, Hayley makes Jeff an offer, if he commits suicide, she promises to erase the evidence of his crimes, but if he refuses, she promises to expose his secrets. The conversation is interrupted when a neighbor knocks on the front door, Hayley tells the neighbor that she is Jeffs niece, the neighbor leaves shortly afterwards. When Hayley returns, Jeff breaks free from his bindings and pursues her, eventually finding her on the roof of his house, Hayley has brought her rope from the kitchen and fashioned it into a noose secured to the chimney. Hayley keeps Jeff at bay with his own gun, Jeff finally confesses that he watched while another man raped and murdered Donna Mauer
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The Night Listener (film)
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The Night Listener is a 2006 psychological thriller film directed by Patrick Stettner. The screenplay by Armistead Maupin, Terry Anderson, and Stettner is based on Maupins 2000 bestselling novel of the same name, Gabriel Noone, a popular gay New York City radio show host, is dealing with a separation from his partner, Jess. Noone is given a written by teenager Pete Logand, who chronicles the many years of sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his parents. Diagnosed with AIDS, the youth has been adopted by Donna Logand, Noone begins a telephone relationship with the boy and Donna. He and Pete become increasingly close and form a relationship, much to the dismay of Jess, especially after he speaks to Donna and suspects she. Noones personal secretary Anna adds fuel to the fire by discussing her research into people who fabricate elaborate stories to get attention, determined to prove the boy exists and his story is true, Noone decides to pay a surprise visit to Pete in his hometown in rural Wisconsin. Noone discovers the address on Petes correspondence is actually a mail drop. Soon after, while eating in a diner, he overhears another patron. Hes stunned to learn shes blind and uses a guide dog, Noone follows her home and Donna senses he has followed her. She invites him into her home and talks openly about Pete and she assures him he can visit the boy the following day, then suddenly becomes angry and tells him she will not allow him to meet her son. Increasingly suspicious, Noone contacts all the hospitals in Madison, the site of the nearest facilities, noones paranoia about the boys existence grows and, hoping to find proof of his existence, he breaks into Donnas home. A police officer arrests him for breaking and entering and then, mistakenly believing him to be one of the boys abusers, attacks him with a stun baton before taking him to the station. Noone convinces the police he meant no harm and is released, only to find Donna waiting for him with the news that Pete is dead, also, that he was in a Milwaukee hospital, and was never in Madison. Distressed that Noone doesnt believe her, Donna collapses in the middle of a road and she then moves everything out of her home and disappears before the police can question her. Noone is now convinced that the boy is a figment of the womans imagination. In response to a call from Donna, Noone goes to a motel where she was staying, and finds Petes stuffed rabbit. He plays the video of a child, who seems to be Pete, the phone rings and the caller claims to be the boy, waiting for his mother at the airport. The caller ends the conversation after Noone asks what happened in Donnas past, Petes voice changes to sound more womanly, just as the conversation is cut off
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Blindness (film)
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Blindness is a 2008 Brazilian-Canadian film, an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by Portuguese author José Saramago about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness. The film was written by Don McKellar and directed by Fernando Meirelles with Julianne Moore, Saramago originally refused to sell the rights for a film adaptation, but the producers were able to acquire it with the condition that the film would be set in an unnamed and unrecognizable city. Blindness premiered as the film at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14,2008. A young Japanese professional is struck blind in his car at a crossing and is approached by a few people, one offers to drive him home. The blinded man describes his sudden affliction, an expanse of dazzling white, among the doctors patients are an old man with a black eye-patch, a woman with dark glasses and a young boy. During a dinner with his wife, the doctor discusses the strange case, the woman with dark glasses, revealed to be a call-girl, becomes the third victim of the strange blindness after an appointment with a john in a hotel. The next day, the doctor goes blind as well, around the city, more citizens are struck blind, causing widespread panic, and the government organizes a quarantine for the blind in a derelict asylum. When a hazmat crew arrives to pick up the doctor, his wife climbs into the van, in the asylum, the doctor and his wife are first to arrive and both agree they will keep her sight a secret. Several others arrive, the woman with glasses, the Japanese man, the car thief. The wife comes across the old man with the eye-patch, who describes the condition of the world outside, the sudden blindness, known as the white sickness, is now international, with hundreds of cases reported every day. The increasingly totalitarian government resorts to increasingly ruthless measures to try to staunch the epidemic, as more blind people are crammed into the prison, overcrowding and lack of outside support causes hygiene and living conditions to degrade. Soon, the walls and floors are caked in filth and human feces, anxiety over the availability of food undermines the morale and the lack of organization prevents the fair distribution of food. The soldiers who guard the asylum become hostile, Living conditions degenerate further when an armed clique of men, led by an ex-barman who declares himself the king of ward 3 gains control over the food deliveries. The MRE rations are distributed only in exchange for valuables, faced with starvation, the doctors wife kills the king. His death initiates a chaotic war between the wards, which culminates with the asylum being burned down and many inmates dying in the fire, the survivors discover that the guards have abandoned their posts and they are free to venture into the city. Society has fallen as the population is blind amid a city devastated and overrun with filth. The doctors wife leads her husband and others in search of food, the doctor and his wife arrive in a supermarket filled with stumbling blind people and they find food in a basement storeroom. As she prepares to leave and meet her husband outside, she is attacked by the people who smell the food she is carrying
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Rabbit Hole (film)
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Kidman produced the project via her company, Blossom Films. The film premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010, the plot deals with a couple struggling to heal after the death of their young son. Kidman was critically acclaimed for her performance as Becca Corbett and received Academy Award, Golden Globe Award and it received a limited release in the United States on December 17,2010 and expanded nationwide on January 14,2011. Becca and Howie Corbetts four-year-old son Danny is killed in a car accident after he runs out into the street after his dog. Becca wants to give away Dannys clothes, remove Dannys things, and sell their house, Howie also wants to have another child with Becca, but she refuses. Beccas mother, Nat, has also lost a child—Beccas brother, Becca states the two deaths are not comparable but eventually realizes their grief is the same in that it will never stop. Beccas sister, Izzy, is pregnant, and Becca keeps giving Izzy advice about becoming a mother, Becca and Howie attend a self-help group, but Becca is irritated by some members of the group, particularly by one couple who attribute their childs death to Gods will. Howie continues to attend the meetings without Becca and he and long-time member Gabby start smoking pot in her car before the meetings, however, Howie backs out of it stating he is in love with his wife. Meanwhile, Becca starts meeting with Jason, the driver of the car that hit Danny. She discovers he feels guilty and tells him she does not blame him for the accident, Jason tells her about a comic book he is writing called Rabbit Hole, which is about parallel universes. He brings the book to her at home and as he gives it to Becca, Howie realises who he is, Howie is distressed at this revelation and demands that Jason leave immediately. Jason complies but is distraught by Howies reaction, Howie and Becca begin to have new activities, such as bowling and playing games and they start to accept their sons death. Howie and Becca decide to have a garden lunch, the scene begins with Howie telling Becca how the lunch would take place, while simultaneously the screen fades into the lunch as Howie continues to speak in the background. The film ends with Becca and Howie sitting in their garden alone after all their guests have left staring into space, Becca reaches out to Howie and touches his hand. They hold hands affectionately as they continue to sit and stare into space, the $3.2 million production had a 28-day shoot. Due to a conflict, Kidman declined a role in Woody Allens You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. In a 2014 interview on The Howard Stern Show, Eckhart claimed to have researched his role by pretending to have lost a child in a support group, owen Pallett was initially scheduled to compose the score, but then Abel Korzeniowski was announced. Ultimately, the position went to Anton Sanko, Rabbit Hole premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010, then played at three other film festivals
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Asian Canadian
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Asian Canadians refers to Canadians who can trace their ancestry back to the continent of Asia or Asian peoples. Canadians of Asian ancestry comprise the largest visible minority group in Canada, at 15% of the Canadian population, most Asian Canadians are concentrated in the urban areas of Southern Ontario, the Greater Vancouver area, Calgary, and other large Canadian cities. In Canada, the term Asian is pan-continental in official data such as the census, in contrast to its usage in other English-speaking countries such as Australia. Canada has a history of East Asian immigration. During the 19th century, many Chinese arrived to take part in the British Columbia gold rushes, the Chinese who came from Guangdong Province helped build the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Fraser Canyon. Many Japanese people arrived in the 1890s and became fishermen and merchants in British Columbia, in 1923, the federal government passed the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923, which banned all Chinese immigration, and led to immigration restrictions for all East Asians. In 1947, the act was repealed, during and after the Vietnam War and the Korean War, a large wave of Vietnamese and Korean refugees began arriving in Canada. The Canadian Parliament created the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada in 1985 to better address issues surrounding Canada-Asia relations, including trade, citizenship, when Hong Kong reverted to mainland Chinese rule, people emigrated and found new homes in Canada. In recent decades, a number of people have come to Canada from India. As of 2011, South Asians alone make up over 15 percent of the Greater Toronto Areas population, today, Asian Canadians form a significant minority within the population, and over 5 million Asians call Canada their home. Often referred by the Canadian media as model minorities, Asian Canadians are among the educated, Asian Canadian students, in particular those of East Asian or South Asian background, make up the majority of students at several Canadian universities. Based on the 2011 census, there are 4,659,395 Asian Canadians with the ethnic identities. Asian Canadian Demographics according to recent estimates
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Double Happiness (film)
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Double Happiness is a 1994 Canadian drama film directed by Mina Shum, co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada. The film stars Sandra Oh as Jade Li, an actress struggling to assert her independence from the expectations of her Chinese Canadian family, callum Keith Rennie also stars as Mark, Jades love interest. Oh received critical acclaim for her performance, and won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for the film. Jade Li is a feisty, 22-year-old Chinese-Canadian aspiring actress who lives at home with her traditional Chinese family, her father, her dutiful mother. Their older brother, Winston, has been disowned—a fate Jade is not eager to share and her family tries to put on the perfect public persona at all costs so as to maintain their dignity as well as uphold their traditional Chinese values. One primary part of this persona is prosperity, Jades father hopes that true financial prosperity will become reality through penny stocks. Jade, meanwhile, tries to achieve that happy medium between giving in to her parents wishes and fulfilling her own needs and desires - double happiness, an adept cultural chameleon, though, she also leads a double life, hanging out with best friend Lisa. When her fathers childhood friend arrives for a visit, Jade must juggle her competing identities even more carefully than usual, because of its instability, Jades parents dont understand or widely publicize Jades aspirations to be an actress. Their main want for Jade is to date and marry a nice Chinese boy, initially, they believe that the boy is Andrew, with who Jade even agrees to go out. But Jade, beyond wanting to be an actress, wishes her family had more western sensibilities and she is attracted to a slightly awkward but persistent Caucasian English graduate student named Mark. Jade has to figure out how to please her family, who would not approve of her dating a Caucasian, and be true to herself. Her older brother is out of the picture for that very reason. Naturally, something must give sooner or later, and the facade of the perfect Chinese daughter soon begins to crumble, Film and the City, The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema. Double Happiness at the Internet Movie Database Double Happiness at AllMovie
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Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity
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Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity is a 2002 Canadian film directed by Mina Shum, starring Sandra Oh. Twelve-year-old Mindy Ho tries Taoist magic to fix her single mothers financial situation, Mindys misdirected charms appear to cause an aging security guard to lose his job and a local butcher to win the lottery. The guard, the butcher and her mothers stories all intersect, kevin Yee plays Raymond Lee, a young boy who loses his turtle, Mindy tries to help him find the animal by using her magic. The film was made in Vancouver, British Columbia, there are lengthy passages of dialogue in Cantonese, but no English subtitles. org
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Nepean, Ontario
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Nepean /nəˈpiːən/ is a part of Ottawa, Ontario, located west of Ottawas inner core. It was formerly a city in its own right until amalgamated with the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton in 2001 to become the new city of Ottawa, however, the name Nepean continues in common usage in reference to the area. The population of Nepean is about 180,000 people, as with the rest of the National Capital Region, however, Nepeans economy was also heavily dependent on federal government employment. Most of Nepeans employed residents commute to downtown Ottawa or Kanata for work, Nepeans policies of operational and capital budgeting prudence contrasted with the budget philosophies of some other municipalities in the area. Nepean instituted a strict pay-as-you-go budgeting scheme, the city entered amalgamation with a large surplus and a record of tax restraint. However, most big-ticket municipal infrastructure items were the responsibility of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, hydro services were the responsibility of the Hydro-Electric Commission of the City of Nepean. Education in the City of Nepean was provided by the Carleton Board of Education, prior to amalgamation, Nepeans City Council spent many tax dollars aggressively campaigning against what they referred to as the megacity model. These efforts were in vain, as the one-city model eventually prevailed, Nepean has a humid continental climate, with warm, humid summers and cold winters. The summers start in early June and end in early September with a summer high temperature of 27 °C. In Nepean, summers have about 220 mm of rain, there is a 95% chance that all the precipitation comes by thunderstorms in the summer. There is also a chance of cool, average rainy days in the summertime. Nepean is also the Ottawa suburb that has the most hours of sunshine, in the winter, Nepean gets about 150–200 cm of snow yearly with an average temperature of −5 °C. Spring starts around late March and lasts until late May, with temperatures of about 10–15 °C, the springtime has about 165 mm of rain a year. The average temperature for fall is around 10 °C, autumn is the driest season in Nepean with only 100 mm of rainfall annually. The gardening zone for this area is 6A, Nepean Township, originally known as Township D, was established in 1792 and originally included what is now the central area of Ottawa west of the Rideau River. Jehiel Collins, from Vermont, is believed to have been the first person to settle in Nepean Township, Nepean was incorporated as a city on November 24,1978. The geographic boundaries of Nepean changed considerably over time, the original town hall of the township of Nepean was located in Westboro. Nepeans centre then moved to the community of Bells Corners, in the 1950 and 1960s, Nepeans urban area began to expand in previous rural areas in such areas as the community of Centrepointe in the east, and the community of Barrhaven in the south
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Koreans
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Koreans are an ethnic group native to the whole Korean Peninsula and southeastern Manchuria. Over the course of the 20th century, significant Korean communities have emerged in Australia, Canada, United States and, to a lesser extent, as of 2013, there were an estimated 7.4 million ethnic Korean expatriates around the planet. South Koreans refer to themselves as Hanguk-in, or Hanguk-saram, both of which mean Korean nation people, when referring to members of the Korean diaspora, Koreans often use the term Han-in. North Koreans refer to themselves as Joseon-in or Joseon-saram, both of which literally mean Joseon people, using similar words, Koreans in China refer to themselves as Chaoxianzu in Chinese or Joseonjok in Korean, which are cognates that literally mean Joseon ethnic group. Ethnic Koreans living in Russia and Central Asia refer to themselves as Koryo-saram, alluding to Goryeo, Koreans are the descendants of the peoples that migrated for over 13. 000-7.000 years from Southeast Asia and todays Russian Far East into the Korean Peninsula and southern Manchuria. Later Chinese and other, often said to be Siberian or paleo-Asian tribes migrated into parts of Korea, archaeological evidence suggests that most of the later arriving tribes were migrants from south-central Siberia. During the Four Commanderies of Han some Chinese clans migrated to northern Korea, susumu Ōno, Ki-Moon Lee and Choong-Soon Kim suspect that proto-Dravidian people migrated to Korea and parts of Japan. Susumu Ōno suggest also an Austronesian immigration into the Korean peninsula, the largest concentration of dolmens in the world is found on the Korean Peninsula. In fact, with an estimated 35, 000-100,000 dolmen, Korean males also exhibit a moderate frequency of Haplogroup C-M217. About 2% of Korean males belong to Haplogroup D-M174, the D1b-M55 subclade has been found with maximal frequency in a small sample of the Ainu people of Japan, and is generally frequent throughout the Japanese Archipelago. Haplogroup D4 is the modal haplogroup among Koreans and among Northeast Asians in general. Haplogroup B, which very frequently in many populations of Southeast Asia, Polynesia. Haplogroup A has been detected in approximately 7% to 15% of Koreans, Haplogroup A is the most common mtDNA haplogroup among the Chukchi, Eskimo, Na-Dene, and many Amerind ethnic groups of North and Central America. The language of the Korean people is the Korean language, which uses Hangul as its writing system with some Hanja. There are more than 78 million speakers of the Korean language worldwide, estimating the size, growth rate, sex ratio, and age structure of North Koreas population has been extremely difficult. Until release of data in 1989, the 1963 edition of the North Korea Central Yearbook was the last official publication to disclose population figures. After 1963 demographers used varying methods to estimate the population, thus, on the basis of remarks made by President Kim Il-sung in 1977 concerning school attendance, the population that year was calculated at 17.2 million persons. During the 1980s, health statistics, including life expectancy and causes of mortality, were made available to the outside world
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Immigration
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As for economic effects, research suggests that migration is beneficial both to the receiving and sending countries. Studies show that the elimination of barriers to migration would have effects on world GDP. Development economists argue that reducing barriers to labor mobility between developing countries and developed countries would be one of the most efficient tools of poverty reduction. Research shows that country of origin matters for speed and depth of immigrant assimilation, many animals have migrated across evolutionary history, including pre-humans. Human migration started with the out of Africa into the Middle East, and then to Asia, Australia, Europe, Russia. This is discussed in the article pre-modern human migration, recent history is discussed in the articles history of human migration and human migration. When people cross national borders during their migration, they are called migrants or immigrants from the perspective of the country which they enter, from the perspective of the country which they leave, they are called emigrant or outmigrant. Sociology designates immigration usually as migration, as of 2015, the number of international migrants has reached 244 million worldwide, which reflects a 41% increase since 2000. One third of the worlds international migrants are living in just 20 countries, the largest number of international migrants live in the United States, with 19% of the worlds total. Germany and Russia host 12 million migrants each, taking the second, Saudi Arabia hosts 10 million migrants, followed by the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. Between 2000 and 2015, Asia added more international migrants than any major area in the world. Europe added the second largest with about 20 million, in most parts of the world, migration occurs between countries that are located within the same major area. In 2015, the number of international migrants below the age of 20 reached 37 million, while 177 million are between the ages of 20 and 64. International migrants living in Africa were the youngest, with an age of 29, followed by Asia, and Latin America/Caribbean, while migrants were older in Northern America, Europe. Nearly half of all international migrants originate in Asia, and Europe was the birthplace of the second largest number of migrants, india has the largest diaspora in the world, followed by Mexico and Russia. The other top desired destination countries were Canada, France, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Germany, one theory of immigration distinguishes between push and pull factors. Push factors refer primarily to the motive for immigration from the country of origin, in the case of economic migration, differentials in wage rates are common. If the value of wages in the new country surpasses the value of wages in ones country, he or she may choose to migrate
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Biochemistry
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Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. By controlling information flow through biochemical signaling and the flow of energy through metabolism. Biochemistry is closely related to biology, the study of the molecular mechanisms by which genetic information encoded in DNA is able to result in the processes of life. Depending on the definition of the terms used, molecular biology can be thought of as a branch of biochemistry, or biochemistry as a tool with which to investigate. The chemistry of the cell depends on the reactions of smaller molecules. These can be inorganic, for water and metal ions, or organic, for example the amino acids. The mechanisms by which cells harness energy from their environment via chemical reactions are known as metabolism, the findings of biochemistry are applied primarily in medicine, nutrition, and agriculture. In medicine, biochemists investigate the causes and cures of diseases, in nutrition, they study how to maintain health and study the effects of nutritional deficiencies. In agriculture, biochemists investigate soil and fertilizers, and try to discover ways to improve crop cultivation, crop storage and pest control. However, biochemistry as a scientific discipline has its beginning sometime in the 19th century, or a little earlier. Gowland Hopkins on enzymes and the nature of biochemistry. The term biochemistry itself is derived from a combination of biology, the German chemist Carl Neuberg however is often cited to have coined the word in 1903, while some credited it to Franz Hofmeister. Then, in 1828, Friedrich Wöhler published a paper on the synthesis of urea and these techniques allowed for the discovery and detailed analysis of many molecules and metabolic pathways of the cell, such as glycolysis and the Krebs cycle. Another significant historic event in biochemistry is the discovery of the gene and this part of biochemistry is often called molecular biology. In the 1950s, James D. Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, in 1958, George Beadle and Edward Tatum received the Nobel Prize for work in fungi showing that one gene produces one enzyme. In 1988, Colin Pitchfork was the first person convicted of murder with DNA evidence, mello received the 2006 Nobel Prize for discovering the role of RNA interference, in the silencing of gene expression. Around two dozen of the 92 naturally occurring elements are essential to various kinds of biological life. Most rare elements on Earth are not needed by life, while a few common ones are not used, most organisms share element needs, but there are a few differences between plants and animals
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Christian
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A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Christian derives from the Koine Greek word Christós, a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mashiach, while there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term Christian is also used as an adjective to describe anything associated with Christianity, or in a sense all that is noble, and good. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, by 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3 billion. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey Christianity will remain the worlds largest religion in 2050, about half of all Christians worldwide are Catholic, while more than a third are Protestant. Orthodox communions comprise 12% of the worlds Christians, other Christian groups make up the remainder. Christians make up the majority of the population in 158 countries and territories,280 million Christian live as a minority. In the Greek Septuagint, christos was used to translate the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, in other European languages, equivalent words to Christian are likewise derived from the Greek, such as Chrétien in French and Cristiano in Spanish. The second mention of the term follows in Acts 26,28, where Herod Agrippa II replied to Paul the Apostle, Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. The third and final New Testament reference to the term is in 1 Peter 4,16, which believers, Yet if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed. The city of Antioch, where someone gave them the name Christians, had a reputation for coming up with such nicknames, in the Annals he relates that by vulgar appellation commonly called Christians and identifies Christians as Neros scapegoats for the Great Fire of Rome. Another term for Christians which appears in the New Testament is Nazarenes which is used by the Jewish lawyer Tertullus in Acts 24, the Hebrew equivalent of Nazarenes, Notzrim, occurs in the Babylonian Talmud, and is still the modern Israeli Hebrew term for Christian. A wide range of beliefs and practices is found across the world among those who call themselves Christian, denominations and sects disagree on a common definition of Christianity. Most Baptists and fundamentalists, for example, would not acknowledge Mormonism or Christian Science as Christian, in fact, the nearly 77 percent of Americans who self-identify as Christian are a diverse pluribus of Christianities that are far from any collective unity. The identification of Jesus as the Messiah is not accepted by Judaism, the term for a Christian in Hebrew is נוּצְרי, a Talmudic term originally derived from the fact that Jesus came from the Galilean village of Nazareth, today in northern Israel. Adherents of Messianic Judaism are referred to in modern Hebrew as יְהוּדִים מָשִׁיחַיים, the term Nasara rose to prominence in July 2014, after the Fall of Mosul to the terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The nun or ن— the first letter of Nasara—was spray-painted on the property of Christians ejected from the city, where there is a distinction, Nasrani refers to people from a Christian culture and Masihi is used by Christians themselves for those with a religious faith in Jesus. In some countries Nasrani tends to be used generically for non-Muslim Western foreigners, another Arabic word sometimes used for Christians, particularly in a political context, is Ṣalībī from ṣalīb which refers to Crusaders and has negative connotations
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Ballet
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Ballet /ˈbæleɪ/ is a type of performance dance that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread, highly technical form of dance with its own based on French terminology. It has been influential and has defined the foundational techniques used in many other dance genres. Becoming a ballet dancer requires years of training, Ballet has been taught in various schools around the world, which have historically incorporated their own cultures to evolve the art. Ballet may also refer to a dance work, which consists of the choreography. A well-known example of this is The Nutcracker, a ballet that was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa. Ballets are choreographed and performed by trained artists, the word came into English usage from the French around 1630. Ballet originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th and 16th centuries before being spread from Italy to France by an Italian aristocrat, Catherine de Medici, in France, ballet developed even further under her aristocratic influence. The dancers in these early court ballets were mostly noble amateurs, Ballets in this period were lengthy and elaborate and often served a political purpose. Ornamented costumes were meant to impress viewers and restricted freedom of movement. The ballets were performed in large chambers with viewers on three sides, French court ballet reached its height under the reign of King Louis XIV. Known as the Sun King, Louis symbolized the brilliance of France, in 1661 Louis founded the Académie Royale de Danse to establish standards and certify dance instructors. In 1672, Louis XIV made Jean-Baptiste Lully the director of the Académie Royale de Musique from which the first professional ballet company, Lully is considered the most important composer of music for ballets de cour and instrumental to the development of the form. Ballet went into decline in France after 1830, though it continued to develop in Denmark, Italy, the arrival in Europe on the eve of First World War of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev, revived interest in the ballet and started the modern era. The Russian choreographer Michel Fokine challenged tradition and called for reforms that reinvigorated ballet as an art form, in the 20th century, ballet had a wide influence on other dance genres, and subgenres of ballet have also evolved. In the United States, choreographer George Balanchine developed what is now known as neoclassical ballet, other developments include contemporary ballet and post-structural ballet. Also in the century, ballet took a turn dividing it from classical ballet to the introduction of modern dance. Stylistic variations have emerged and evolved since the Italian Renaissance, early, classical variations are primarily associated with geographic origin
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Sir Robert Borden High School
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Sir Robert Borden High School is a high school located on Greenbank Road in the Nepean district of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Architecturally, the building itself is divided into different wings. The wing known affectionately as The Square houses the sciences, science, computer. Another wing, The Circle, which overlooks sports fields and a neighbourhood, houses the Math, Technology. These two wings are centred on a foyer on the level, which is a popular place for students to socialize. The Pit is the center of the school, and named after the large dent in the first floor lobby, a sound system was installed to facilitate performances by student bands or student council activities over the lunch hour. Sir Robert Borden High School is often recognized in its community for its music, arts and athletics programs, having won many local sports championships and arts. The school mascot, Bolt the Bengal, represents its many sports teams, the school is also used after hours and on weekends by many community groups and sports leagues, and is often used as a polling station in municipal, provincial and federal elections. The schools principal is currently Wendy Verreault who took over for Barb Gage at the beginning of the 2012-13 school year, the vice-principals are Steve Jackson and Rob Anderson
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Flute
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The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening, according to the instrument classification of Hornbostel–Sachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute can be referred to as a player, flautist, flutist or, less commonly. Flutes are the earliest extant musical instruments, as paleolithic instruments with hand-bored holes have been found, a number of flutes dating to about 43,000 to 35,000 years ago have been found in the Swabian Jura region of present-day Germany. These flutes demonstrate that a musical tradition existed from the earliest period of modern human presence in Europe. Flutes, including the famous Bansuri, have been a part of Indian classical music since 1500 BC. A major deity of Hinduism, Krishna, has been associated with the flute, the English verb flout has the same linguistic root, and the modern Dutch verb fluiten still shares the two meanings. Attempts to trace the word back to the Latin flare have been pronounced phonologically impossible or inadmissable, the first known use of the word flute was in the 14th century. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this was in Geoffrey Chaucers The Hous of Fame, today, a musician who plays any instrument in the flute family can be called a flutist, or flautist, or simply a flute player. Flutist dates back to at least 1603, the earliest quote cited by the Oxford English Dictionary, flautist was used in 1860 by Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Marble Faun, after being adopted during the 18th century from Italy, like many musical terms in England since the Italian Renaissance. Other English terms, now obsolete, are fluter and flutenist. The oldest flute ever discovered may be a fragment of the femur of a cave bear. In 2008 another flute dated back to at least 35,000 years ago was discovered in Hohle Fels cave near Ulm, the five-holed flute has a V-shaped mouthpiece and is made from a vulture wing bone. The researchers involved in the officially published their findings in the journal Nature. The flute, one of several found, was found in the Hohle Fels cavern next to the Venus of Hohle Fels, on announcing the discovery, scientists suggested that the finds demonstrate the presence of a well-established musical tradition at the time when modern humans colonized Europe. Scientists have also suggested that the discovery of the flute may help to explain the probable behavioural and cognitive gulf between Neanderthals and early modern human. A three-holed flute,18.7 cm long, made from a mammoth tusk was discovered in 2004, the earliest extant Chinese transverse flute is a chi flute discovered in the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng at the Suizhou site, Hubei province, China. It dates from 433 BC, of the later Zhou Dynasty and it is fashioned of lacquered bamboo with closed ends and has five stops that are at the flutes side instead of the top
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Journalism
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Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the news of the day and that informs society to at least some degree. The word applies to the occupation, the methods of gathering information, journalistic media include, print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels. Concepts of the role for journalism varies between countries. In some nations, the media is controlled by a government intervention. In others, the media is independent from the government. In the United States, journalism is protected by the freedom of the clause in the First Amendment. The role and status of journalism, along with that of the media, has undergone changes over the last two decades with the advent of digital technology and publication of news on the Internet. Notably, in the American media landscape, newsrooms have reduced their staff and coverage as traditional media channels, such as television, for instance, between 2007 and 2012, CNN edited its story packages into nearly half of their original time length. This compactness in coverage has been linked to broad audience attrition, in the United States, journalism is produced by media organizations or by individuals. Bloggers are often, but not always, journalists, the Federal Trade Commission requires that bloggers who receive free promotional gifts, then write about products, must disclose that they received the products for free. This is to eliminate conflicts of interest and protect consumers, fake news is news that is not truthful or is produced by unreliable media organizations. Fake news is spread on social media. Readers can determine fake news by evaluating whether the news has been published by a news organization. In the US, a news organization is an incorporated entity, has an editorial board. All of these organizations have codes of ethics that members abide by, many news organizations have their own codes of ethics that guide journalists professional publications. The New York Times code of standards and ethics is considered particularly rigorous, when they write stories, journalists are concerned with issues of objectivity and bias. Some types of stories are intended to represent the authors own opinion, in a physical newspaper, information is organized into sections and it is easy to see which stories are supposed to be opinion and which are supposed to be neutral. Online, many of these distinctions break down, readers should pay careful attention to headings and other design elements to ensure that they understand the journalists intent
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Carleton University
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Carleton University is a comprehensive university located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The enabling legislation is The Carleton University Act,1952, S. O and it was founded on rented premises in 1942, and grew to meet the needs of returning World War II veterans and later became Ontarios first private, non-denominational college. It would expand further in the 1960s, consistent with government policy that saw increased access to education as a social good. Carleton is a university that offers more than 65 academic programs across a wide range of disciplines. It is named after the former Carleton County, Ontario, which included the city of Ottawa at the time Carleton was founded, Carleton County, in turn, was named in honour of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, an early Governor-General of British North America. As of 2016, Carleton has enrollment of more than 22,000 undergraduate, the university is represented in U Sports by the Carleton Ravens. I learned very early the lesson that it is people, not buildings. And if we put our hearts to it we can do something worthwhile, – Henry Marshall Tory Carleton College, a non-denominational institution, was founded in 1942 at the height of the Second World War by the Ottawa Association for the Advancement of Learning. It began in a building and only offered night courses in public administration. When the war ended in 1945, the college began expanding to meet the needs of veterans coming home, the Faculty of Arts and Science was established, which included courses in journalism and first-year engineering. In 1946, the moved to First Avenue in The Glebe neighbourhood. Its first degrees were conferred in 1946 to graduates of its programs in Journalism, for nearly a decade the college operated on a shoestring budget, with funds raised mainly through community initiatives and modest student fees. During the war, student fees were low and Carleton gave special grants to veterans returning home who wished to continue their studies. The faculty was composed largely of part-time professors who worked full-time in the Public Service, however, full-time teaching staff were still mostly young scholars at the beginning of their careers. In 1952 the Carleton College Act was passed by the Ontario Legislature, changing its name to Carleton College. Carleton thus became the provinces first private, non-sectarian college, in the same year, the 62-hectare property nestled between the Rideau Canal and the Rideau River on which the current campus is located was acquired. Some of the land was donated by a prominent Ottawa businessman Harry Stevenson Southam, construction began on the new campus in 1953. In 1957 the Carleton University Act,1952 was amended, granting Carleton status as a public university, Carletons motto, Ours the Task Eternal, is taken from Walt Whitmans poem, Pioneers
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National Theatre School of Canada
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The National Theatre School of Canada is a private college located in Montreal, Quebec. It occupies the landmark, the Monument-National, on Saint Lawrence Boulevard as well as a building in The Plateau district, at the corner of Saint Denis Street. Monument-National The campus of the National Theatre School stretches all the way to the Monument National in the core of downtown Montreal and this hundred year old theatre, owned and operated by the NTS, has been classed a heritage building. Situated in the heart of the Quartier des spectacles, on the famous “Main” and close the St-Laurent metro station, recently restored and renovated, the Monument-National is composed of three performance halls, including a number of spaces offering unlimited conversion and transformation possibilities. The Monument-National’s two stages can accommodate every kind of production, from concerts to large-scale shows. On the third floor, we discover La Balustrade, a 55-seat cabaret style theatre, Michel Saint-Denis served as senior artistic advisor. Michel Saint-Denis was an authority on theatre training who also later co-founded Juilliard School. Jean Gascon was the Schools first Director-General who was succeeded two years by James de Beaujeu Domville who served as its Director-General from 1964 until 1968. The notion of a theatre school first received focused attention as an indirect result of the so-called Massey Report of 1951. Actor David GARDNER chaired the committee and director-teacher Michel Saint-Denis was brought in from outside the country to act as senior advisor, the French-born Saint-Denis had what many regarded as an ideal background to offer guidance to the theatre school project. He also was involved in founding 2 different theatre schools in that city, the CTC committee had been formed with a mandate to create a truly bilingual school, located in Toronto. The school changed locations several times over the decade until in 1970 it settled at 5030 rue Saint-Denis. Beginning in 1965, it also rented performing space in the Monument-National, in the first year of its operation the National Theatre School offered only classes in acting. Directing has been the most changeable program at the school, while the history of the National Theatre School has generally involved a quiet, steady growth of prestige, the institution has not been without controversy. As a result of the protest, the school reversed its neglect of Québécois plays. The National Theatre School typically graduates approx,60 students a year from its combined programs and English and French sections, and its alumni include many of Canadas foremost theatre artists. Some of its highly recognizable graduates are Colm Feore, Martha Henry, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Sandra Oh and most recently Alex Furber and Andrew Brodkin. It offers professional training in all the theatre arts in both English and French, making it one of the only co-lingual theatre schools in the world
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Montreal
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Montreal, officially Montréal, is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the 2nd-most populous in Canada as a whole. Originally called Ville-Marie, or City of Mary, it is believed to be named after Mount Royal, the city has a distinct four-season continental climate, with warm-to-hot summers and cold, snowy winters. In 2016, Montreal had a population of 1,704,694, Montreals metropolitan area had a population of 4,098,927 and a population of 1,958,257 in the urban agglomeration, with all of the municipalities on the Island of Montreal included. Legally a French-speaking city,60. 5% of Montrealers speak French at home,21. 2% speak English and 19. 8% speak neither, Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with 56% of the population able to speak both official languages. Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the world after Paris, historically the commercial capital of Canada, it was surpassed in population and economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s. It remains an important centre of commerce, aerospace, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, education, culture, tourism, gaming, film, Montreal was also named a UNESCO City of Design. In 2009, Montreal was named North Americas leading host city for international events, according to the 2009 preliminary rankings of the International Congress. According to the 2015 Global Liveability Ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit, in the 2017 edition of their Best Student Cities ranking, Quacquarelli Symonds ranked Montreal as the worlds best city to study abroad. Also, Montreal has 11 universities with 170,000 students enrolled, the Greater Montréal region has the highest number of university students per capita among all metropolitan areas in North America. It is the only Canadian city to have held the Summer Olympics, currently, the city hosts the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One, the Montreal International Jazz Festival and the Just for Laughs festival. In 2012, Montreal was ranked as a Beta+ world city, in Kanien’kéha, or Mohawk language, the island is called Tiohtià, ke Tsi or Ka-wé-no-te. In Anishinaabemowin, or Ojibwe language, the land is called Mooniyaang, though the city was first named by French colonizers Ville Marie, or City of Mary, its current name comes from Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The most popular theory is that the name derives from Mont Réal, Cartiers 1535 diary entry, naming the mountain, according to the Commission de toponymie du Québec and the Geographical Names Board of Canada, Canadian place names have only one official form. Thus, Montreal is officially spelled with an accent over the e in both English and French. In practice, this is limited to governmental uses. English-speaking Montrealers, including English-language media, regularly omit the accent when writing in English, archaeological evidence demonstrates that First Nations native people occupied the island of Montreal as early as 4,000 years ago. By the year AD1000, they had started to cultivate maize, within a few hundred years, they had built fortified villages. Archeologists have found evidence of their habitation there and at locations in the valley since at least the 14th century
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