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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Conscience
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Conscience is an aptitude, faculty, intuition or judgment that assists in distinguishing right from wrong. Moral judgment may derive from values or norms, Religious views of conscience usually see it as linked to a morality inherent in all humans, to a beneficent universe and/or to divinity. Common secular or scientific views regard the capacity for conscience as probably genetically determined, commonly used metaphors for conscience include the voice within, the inner light. Or even Socrates reliance on what the Greeks called his daimōnic sign, according to Adi Shankara in his Vekachudamani morally right action, helps purify the heart and provide mental tranquility but it alone does not give us direct perception of the Reality. This knowledge requires discrimination between the eternal and non-eternal and eventually a realization in contemplation that the true self merges in a universe of pure consciousness, Conscience also features prominently in Buddhism. In the Pali scriptures, for example, Buddha links the positive aspect of conscience to a pure heart and it is regarded as a spiritual power, and one of the “Guardians of the World”. The Buddha also associated conscience with compassion for those who must endure cravings and suffering in the world until right conduct culminates in right mindfulness, the only rewards of our existence here are an unstained character and unselfish acts. The Islamic concept of Taqwa is closely related to conscience, in the Qur’ān verses 2,197 &22,37 Taqwa refers to right conduct or piety, guarding of oneself or guarding against evil. Qur’ān verse 47,17 says that God is the source of the believers taqwā which is not simply the product of individual will. In Qur’ān verses 91, 7–8, God the Almighty talks about how He has perfected the soul, Qur’ān verse 49,13 states, O humankind. Marshall Hodgson wrote the work, The Venture of Islam, Conscience. In the Protestant Christian tradition, Martin Luther insisted in the Diet of Worms that his conscience was captive to the Word of God, to Luther, conscience falls within the ethical, rather than the religious, sphere. John Calvin saw conscience as a battleground, the enemies who rise up in our conscience against his Kingdom, many Christians regard following ones conscience as important as, or even more important than, obeying human authority. In the Gospel of John Jesus challenges those accusing a woman of adultery stating, He that is without sin among you, and again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, Catholic theology sees conscience as the last practical judgment of reason which at the appropriate moment enjoins to do good and to avoid evil. Thus, conscience is not like the will, nor a habit like prudence, but the space in which we can listen to and hear the truth, the good. Thus, Catholics are taught to carefully educate themselves as to revealed norms and norms derived therefrom, Catholics are also to examine their conscience daily and with special care before confession. Catholic teaching holds that, Man has the right to act according to his conscience and he must not be forced to act contrary to his conscience
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September 11 attacks
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The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11,2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, two of the planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia and it was the deadliest incident for firefighters and law enforcement officers in the history of the United States, with 343 and 72 killed respectively. Suspicion for the attack fell on al-Qaeda. The United States responded to the attacks by launching the War on Terror and invading Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, many countries strengthened their anti-terrorism legislation and expanded the powers of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to prevent terrorist attacks. Although al-Qaedas leader, Osama bin Laden, initially denied any involvement, al-Qaeda and bin Laden cited U. S. support of Israel, the presence of U. S. troops in Saudi Arabia, and sanctions against Iraq as motives. Having evaded capture for almost a decade, bin Laden was located and killed by SEAL Team Six of the U. S. Navy in May 2011. S. many closings, evacuations, and cancellations followed, out of respect or fear of further attacks. Cleanup of the World Trade Center site was completed in May 2002, on November 18,2006, construction of One World Trade Center began at the World Trade Center site. The building was opened on November 3,2014. The origins of al-Qaeda can be traced to 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden traveled to Afghanistan and helped organize Arab mujahideen to resist the Soviets. Under the guidance of Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden became more radical, in 1996, bin Laden issued his first fatwā, calling for American soldiers to leave Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden used Islamic texts to exhort Muslims to attack Americans until the stated grievances are reversed, Muslim legal scholars have throughout Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries, according to bin Laden. Bin Laden, who orchestrated the attacks, initially denied but later admitted involvement, in November 2001, U. S. forces recovered a videotape from a destroyed house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. In the video, bin Laden is seen talking to Khaled al-Harbi, on December 27,2001, a second bin Laden video was released. In the video, he said, It has become clear that the West in general and it is the hatred of crusaders. Terrorism against America deserves to be praised because it was a response to injustice, aimed at forcing America to stop its support for Israel, the transcript refers several times to the United States specifically targeting Muslims. He said that the attacks were carried out because, we are free, and want to regain freedom for our nation. As you undermine our security we undermine yours, Bin Laden said he had personally directed his followers to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
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Babe Carey
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Babe Carey is a fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children. She was originally portrayed by actress Alexa Havins, from October 13,2003, to October 8,2007, the character was killed off on the October 23,2008 episode of the show, after suffering injuries during a series of tornadoes. In September 2011, Babe briefly returned to Pine Valley as an apparition appearing to JR. Though originally scripted as age 19 in 2003, in a romance with character JR Chandler, Babes birth date was later set by the series as April 10,1983. The writers often had the character referred to as Baby Doll by her mother, Krystal Carey, in addition, the series displayed significant comparisons between her and legendary character Dixie Cooney. Havins moved to New York City to study at the prestigious Circle in the Square Theatre School and her noted ambition resulted in an ABC contract in New York City, after her return there, signing on in the role of character Babe Carey Chandler on All My Children. And she said, Because Alexa can play trash with her eyes closed, the character was originally designed as a bad girl the audience could hate, but was later presented as a flawed good girl. Havins preferred the character to be driven and said her all-time favorite Babe moments are when the character was being spunky, I love when shes pumped and shes like a cheerleader, seeing the good in everything, she said. I loved when Little Adam almost drowned. There was this side of her that hadnt come out for a while. And I loved playing that because that was a range of emotions between loving your child, being scared to death, hating your husband for not being responsible, there was not one set way of thought or feeling in those scenes. While with the series, Havins was often put in feature stories, when asked in 2006 by Soap Opera Weekly if difficult to be in such constant heavy stories, she stated, We laugh at our scheduling producer because she always feels bad. Shes like, I dont mean to kill you, but you dabble, I am in every set, which is great. In early 2007, rumors circulated that Havins would not be renewing her contract as Babe Carey once it expired later in the year, after her husband and All My Children co-star at the time, Justin Bruening, exited the show, the rumors gained momentum. James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten, new writers of the series, were reluctant to state whether or not Havins would be departing the soap opera. In their interview with TV Guide, the two remained ambiguous about the matter, though hinting at a recast, Barbara Esensten commented, It’s out there that we will probably lose her, and it certainly isn’t our choice. However, we’re still writing the show as if not leaving. If we should have to recast Babe, we’ll help the take over the part by writing specifically for the new actor like what we did with the Greenlee recast. We saw some little things in Sabine Singh, so we wrote for her accordingly, luckily, Jim and I don’t have any trouble separating the actor from a character because the latter is really paramount in our eyes
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All My Children
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Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictional suburb of Philadelphia, which is modeled on the actual Philadelphia suburb of Rosemont. The original series featured Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytimes most popular characters, the title of the series refers to the bonds of humanity. All My Children was the first new network daytime drama to debut in the 1970s, originally owned by Creative Horizons, Inc. the company created by Nixon and her husband, Bob, the show was sold to ABC in January 1975. The series started at a half-hour in per-installment length, then was expanded to an hour on April 25,1977. Earlier, the show had experimented with the format for one week starting on June 30,1975. From 1970 to 1990, All My Children was recorded at ABCs TV18 at 101 West 67th St, from March 1990 to December 2009, it was taped at ABCs Studio TV23 at 320 West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York. In December 2009, the locale for taping the series moved from Manhattan to less costly Los Angeles, California. The show was produced in Stages 1 and 2 at the Andrita Studios in Los Angeles, California from 2010 to 2011. All My Children started taping in high definition on January 4,2010, All My Children became the third soap opera to be produced and broadcast in high definition. At one point, the programs popularity positioned it as the most widely recorded television show in the United States, also, in a departure from societal norms at the time, All My Children, in the mid-1970s, had an audience that was estimated to be 30% male. The show ranked No.1 in the daytime Nielsen ratings in the 1978–79 season, throughout most of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, All My Children was the No.2 daytime soap opera on the air. However, like the rest of the operas in the United States. By the 2010s, it had one of the least watched soap operas in daytime television. On April 14,2011, it was announced that ABC canceled All My Children after 41 years on the air due to low ratings. On July 7,2011, ABC sold the rights of All My Children to third-party production company Prospect Park with the show set to continue on the internet as a series of webisodes. The show taped its final scenes for ABC on August 30,2011, on September 26,2011, the following Monday, ABC replaced All My Children with a newly debuted talk show The Chew. Prospect Park had suspended its plan to revive the series on November 23,2011, due to lack of funding and unsuccessful negotiation with the organizations representing the actors. On January 7,2013, Prospect Park officially brought back its project to restore All My Children as a web series
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Kendall Hart
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Kendall Hart is a fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children. The character was portrayed by Sarah Michelle Gellar from 1993 to 1995, on March 7,2013, it was announced that Minshew would guest star on the Prospect Parks continuation of All My Children. She appeared on the second July 8 episode, and exited the same day, Kendall is the daughter of Erica Kane, a child conceived when Erica was raped on the night of her 14th birthday by movie matinee idol Richard Fields. The writers scripted her as a heroine, while keeping devious aspects of the character intact, Kendall has been the subject of Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome, which caused the shows producers to de-SORAS her mother, Erica Kane, portrayed by Susan Lucci. Lucci says that Erica was 15 when the show began in 1970, Erica being 15 in 1970 placed her birth year at 1955. When Kendall first appears on the show in 1993, she is 16 years old and this was despite the fact that Kendall was conceived when Erica was raped at the age of 14 before the show began in 1970. Fans protested the age differences due to the changes making Erica, in response to this, the shows producers rapidly aged Kendall to 23, which moved Ericas birth year one year forward to 1956. When Minshew took over the role in 2002, the birth year was changed to 1976, Ericas birth year was subsequently pushed even later than where it was before. For at least two years, the producers of All My Children had been thinking about introducing a new character to complicate Ericas storylines, a casting call went out for a young actress to portray the part of Kendall Hart, Ericas long-lost daughter. Many teenage actors in New York auditioned for the role, the actresses were told that Kendall would be Ericas new assistant. I didnt know when I auditioned for Kendall that she would turn out to be who she is, I had heard rumors, but everybody was denying it. Besides, I was scared enough at the thought of working with Susan, when they told me I was playing her daughter, I was like, What. I remember on my first day when I walked into the hall, Susan and Michael were rehearsing a scene. I kept thinking, What if Im really bad and they fire me, I just snuck in the back and tried to blend in with the coffee machine, when all of a sudden, Susan said, Hold it, we need to stop for a minute. Gellar said that Lucci walked over to her and said, Congratulations, Im very glad youre here and hugged her. She put her arm around me and said, Dont worry, and then she introduced me to everyone who was there. She really did help me and always made sure I was okay during my first couple of weeks when I was still unsettled, both Susan and Michael made me feel comfortable, Gellar stated. Kendall made her All My Children debut on March 11,1993 and she was angry for being abandoned at birth – even though going through the pregnancy had resulted from a rape, which Kendall was unaware of – and determined to exact revenge against Erica as payback
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General Hospital
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General Hospital is an American daytime television medical drama. General Hospital premiered on the ABC television network on April 1,1963, same-day broadcasts as well as classic episodes were aired on SOAPnet from January 20,2000, to December 31,2013, following Disney-ABCs decision to discontinue the network. General Hospital is the serial produced in Hollywood, and the longest-running entertainment program in ABC television history. It holds the record for most Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series, the show was created by husband-and-wife soap writers Frank and Doris Hursley, who originally set it in a general hospital, in an unnamed fictional city. In the 1970s, the city was named Port Charles, New York, from its beginning, General Hospital starred John Beradino and Emily McLaughlin, and both actors stayed with the show until their deaths in 1996 and 1991 respectively. They were joined a year later by Rachel Ames who remains to date the longest serving actress on an ABC soap opera, General Hospital was the second soap to air on ABC. In 1964, a sister soap was created for General Hospital, The Young Marrieds, taped at The Prospect Studios, General Hospital aired for a half-hour until July 23,1976. The series was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26,1976, ever since the late 1970s, most of the storylines have revolved around the Quartermaines and the Spencers. From 1979 to 1988, General Hospital had more viewers than any other soap opera. The soap opera is known for its high-profile celebrity guest stars who have included, among others, Roseanne Barr, James Franco. In 2007, the program was listed as one of Time magazines 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME, on April 23,2009, General Hospital began broadcasting in high definition, making it the first ABC soap opera to make such a transition. The series aired its 13, 000th episode on February 24,2014, General Hospital became the oldest American soap opera on September 17,2010, following the final broadcast of CBS As the World Turns. On April 14,2011, ABC announced the cancellation of both All My Children and One Life to Live, leaving General Hospital as the last remaining soap opera airing on the network after January 13,2012, the show celebrated its 50th anniversary on April 1,2013. General Hospital was created by Frank and Doris Hursley and premiered on April 1,1963, the first stories were mainly set on the seventh floor of General Hospital, in an unnamed midsize Eastern city. Launched in 1963, the first stories were set at General Hospital in an unnamed midsized Eastern city. The name of the city, Port Charles, would not be mentioned until 1976 by headwriters Eileen, storylines revolved around Dr. Steve Hardy and his friend, Nurse Jessie Brewer. Jessies turbulent marriage to the much-younger Dr. Phil Brewer was the center of many early storylines, in 1964 Audrey March, a flight attendant and sister of Nurse Lucille, came to town, and was the woman who won Steves heart. By the end of the 1970s, General Hospital was facing dire ratings when executive producer Gloria Monty was brought in to turn the show around, Monty is credited with creation of the first supercouple, Luke Spencer and Laura Webber, played by Anthony Geary and Genie Francis
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Scott Chandler (All My Children)
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Scott Chandler is a fictional character from ABC daytime drama, All My Children. He was most recently portrayed by Adam Mayfield from April 9,2009 to October 13,2010. Previously, Scott was portrayed, most notably by Daniel Cosgrove from November 27,1996 to July 28,1998 and he is a member of the powerful and wealthy Chandler family. Scott is the son of Fred Parker and his wife, Cindy, Fred was an intravenous drug user, and through the sharing of needles he contracted HIV, which resulted in his death from AIDS. In 1988, Cindy is befriended by Jesse and Angie Hubbard, Scott becomes best friends with Jesse and Angies son Frankie, and the Hubbards are Cindys closest supporters when she develops AIDS herself. Cindy was ostracized by many Pine Valley residents, including Skye Chandler, Enid Nelson, Cindy would later die, but not before falling in love with and marrying Skyes uncle Stuart Chandler, who adopts Scott. Scott enrolled in Pine Valley High School in 1995 and developed a crush on his best friend Anita Santos, Scott then turned to Laura Kirk, a girl he was tutoring. Scotts smarts helped him to skip his senior year of high school, Laura and Scotts relationship never actually went anywhere because Laura had a dark past and felt it better that they go separate ways. Next, he began a romance with Hungarian princess, Gillian Andrassy, Kelsey Jefferson, who liked Scott, teamed up with Ryan Lavery to break them up. After the original plan went bad, Kelsey called immigration to have Gillian deported. Scott told Gillian he would marry her so she wouldnt have to leave, but before they could say, I do, the wedding was interrupted by Ryan, Gillian fell for it and married Ryan. That same year the Chandler family was being attacked by Lee Hawkins, the real story was that Adam and Stuart had sent Joy into hiding to escape her abusive husband. Scott was electrocuted at the Chandler cabin and fell into a coma, after his recovery, Stuart sent him to college in California to escape Lee. Scott returned to Pine Valley in 1999 to do a documentary about the town, while in Pigeon Hollow, West Virginia, he met an assistant, Becca Tyree. They grew very close and Scott wanted to be intimate, Becca turned him down, telling him she was a virgin and was waiting for marriage. Scott told her he would wait for her, but that all went up in smoke when Greenlee Smythe came to Pine Valley, the two had dated back in California, and she was still very much attracted to Scott. Greenlee set it up for Becca to find a sex tape shed made with him, when Scott found out, he went to confront her but ended up sleeping with her. Becca found the tape and ended their relationship, even though Scott still wanted to be with her, Greenlee made a bet with Leo du Pres to see if he could get Becca to give up her virginity to him
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AJ Chandler
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AJ Chandler is a fictional character from the American serial drama, All My Children. From April 29 to September 2,2013, the role has been portrayed by Eric Nelsen. The role of AJ Chandler was originated by child actors Aidan and Liam ODonnell from 2004 to 2005, in 2004, a MEDEVAC helicopter carrying Bianca Montgomery and Babe Carey—and piloted by Babes ex-husband Paul Cramer—crashes in a storm. Both women are pregnant and give birth during the crisis on March 23,2004, pauls half-sister Kelly from nearby Llanview has just miscarried her own baby, Paul gives Babes son to Kelly and gives Biancas daughter to Babe, telling Bianca that her baby died. Unaware of the origins, Kelly brings Babe and JRs son back to Llanview. Kevin and Kelly name the baby Asa Ace Buchanan II, after Kevins grandfather Asa Buchanan, over the next year, their marriage crumbles and Kevin secures custody. Meanwhile, a devastated Kelly discovers that Paul had stolen Ace from his mother, Paul, desperate for cash, blackmails Kelly by threatening to reveal the secret to Kevin and Llanview. Armed with the truth, Kelly realizes they must return the child to his parents, though broken hearted, Babe and JR wage their own custody battle over their son, now named Adam Chandler III. At one point Babe goes on the run with JRs former stepbrother Jamie Martin and he is often referred to as Little Adam or Little A by his parents, and soon by everyone else. In mid-2008, JR and Babe reunite and take their time in their new relationship, Babe soon dies due to injuries caused by a tornado. Little Adam is now being raised by his father after his mothers death and she was killed on October 23,2008 to save him from being killed. After his mothers death, Krystal divorced Tad, got together with David. David seeks custody of Little Adam by making JR seem like an unfit father, due to the judge at the custody hearing not being able to decide which of the two men Little Adam would be better off with, Jesse and Angie get temporary custody of him. JR gets Little Adam back after Krystal lies on the stand to protect herself in order to keep Adam from revealing a secret about her, JR marries his aunt Marissa Tasker on October 21,2009, while JR is dealing with lymphoma. Marissa legally adopts him on March 3,2010, and he now goes by the name AJ. Even though he doesnt know it, his father JR is having an affair with his ex-stepgrandmother Annie Chandler, JR goes back to his alcoholism in the summer of 2011, after Marissa reveals that she reciprocates the feelings of and is now dating Bianca Montgomery. A frightened AJ spurns his father and turns to Marissa, and his de facto step-grandfather Tad Martin for guidance, on April 29,2013, AJ reappeared on the online reboot of All My Children. He is shown to be the best friend of Biancas daughter, Miranda Montgomery, AJ is frequently seen consoling or advising Miranda
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Colby Chandler (All My Children)
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Colby Chandler is a fictional character from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, All My Children. Born on-screen in 1999, the character was aged in 2006. The role has been recast several times, but most recently the role was portrayed by Natalie Hall from 2009 until the cancellation in 2011. When the show was relaunched as a web series to air on The Online Network owned and operated by company, Prospect Park. Colby is the daughter of Adam Chandler and Liza Colby, the role was originated by Carson Grace Levine on May 5,1999 upon the characters onscreen birth. In 2000, Levine was replaced by twins Brianne and Morgan Mullan, kathryn Newton appeared in the role from 2002 to 2004. Abby Wathen also appeared as a teenage Colby in a sequence in 2002. In May 2006, it was reported that Ambyr Childers had been cast in the role of a teenage Colby, Childers first appeared on July 3,2006. Childers revealed that she auditioned for the role about month before her school graduation. At time, she was taking finals, so she flew out to New York City for a screen test and she returned home for her graduation and them came returned to New York for several fittings and eventually started work. In the spring of 2008, rumors began to circulate that Childers the role of Colby was about to recast, an audition script for the role of Edie fed into the rumors. However, a spokesperson initially denied that Childers was departing from the series, in April 2008 it was officially announced that Childers had been released from her contract. Though Childers claimed that she had chosen to leave, other sources hinted that Childers was forced out, Childers made her last appearance on May 6,2008, and was replaced by Brianne Moncrief on May 7. With the decision to move production of All My Children, several actors chose not to relocate to California, though initial reports said that all contract cast members were offered a chance to relocate, another source said that ABC had misled the actors. Apparently Moncrief was one of the actors who never got the offer to go to California, just days later, ABC announced that Natalie Hall had been cast in the role of Colby. Meanwhile, Moncrief made her last appearance on November 12,2009, Hall filmed her first scenes in mid October just before the show relocated to Los Angeles. Hall made her last appearance in the network broadcast of All My Children on September 23,2011. In April 2013, The Online Network launched a Tumblr page, viewers could vaguely make out the name Brooke Newton in the role of Colby Chandler, but nothing was confirmed
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JR Chandler
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JR Chandler is a fictional character from the ABC and The Online Network daytime drama All My Children. He was portrayed by Jacob Young from 2003 to 2011, prior to Ryan Bittle taking over the role in 2013, Bittle was cast as the new JR on Prospect Parks continuation of All My Children. The character was born onscreen on July 3,1989 to Dixie Cooney and her estranged ex-husband. In March 2004, the birth year was revised to 1983. He is a member of both the powerful and wealthy Chandler and Cooney families, being the son of Adam Chandler, the writers characterized JR as caring, but ruthless if betrayed, explaining the latter by way of his difficult upbringing. The characters softer personality has been attributed to his mother, Dixie Cooney, as well as to his son, AJ and it was not until the actor stepped into the All My Children role of JR Chandler that his acting range became more focused. He started to use tools he learned in classes and felt that his acting became more refined because of it, with his portrayal of JR, he explained how this factored in, They twisted JR in a completely different direction, he stated. They started off with JR not respecting his father and having a lot of elements of his mother in him, then they started toying with it and couldnt believe what was coming out of me. Id always been the nice, honorable guy, Id never been the character who was stirring the pot, JRs rich lifestyle was something that Young noted not being familiar with, stating that the JR persona did not come to him until he would put on the suit. They put me in these nice designer suits, and I suddenly feel like a million bucks, then I take that million-buck feeling and go a little sinister with it. One aspect of JRs personality are devious tones sometimes present in his dialogue, when the character is in a good mood and has the upper hand, he has all these one-liners, Young relayed. When working with former All My Children co-star Alexa Havins, Young would often shock Havins with the characters words, to make sure she was unaware of how he was going to deliver a crass line, he would keep it hidden. You can break the wording down and make it a more offensive. And I try to nail that because thats what JRs supposed to do, the writers were looking for an actor who could truly radiate the essence of Adam Chandlers son, and felt that taking JR down the path of darkness would help with that. Young, the chosen as best suited for the part, detailed the transition, They wanted it to be like father, like son, so I watched David Canarys mannerisms. I tried to mold those into my own, enough to where I could be his son and they started writing my dialogue like his. He has some one-liners that are pretty funny, David is as big a goofball as I am onset. We have a great dynamic together, youngs portrayal of JR propelled the character into one of the shows more popular and hated characters
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