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Mitchel Air Force Base
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Mitchel Air Force Base also known as Mitchel Field, was a United States Air Force base located on the Hempstead Plains of Long Island, New York, United States. During the American Revolutionary War it was known as the Hempstead Plains, in the War of 1812 and in the Mexican War, it was a training center for Infantry units. During the American Civil War, it was the location of Camp Winfield Scott, in 1898, in the Spanish–American War, Mitchels site was known as Camp Black. Curtiss JN-4 Jennies became a common sight over Long Island in 1917 and 1918, hundreds of aviators were trained for war at these training fields, two of the largest in the United States. Numerous new wooden buildings and tents were erected on Roosevelt Field and Field #2 in 1918 in order to meet this rapid expansion, Mitchel Field continued to grow after World War I and between 1929 and 1932. Much of this still exists today, being used for non-military purposes. In the 1920s and 1930s, various observation, fighter, and it became a major aerodrome for both the Air Corps as well as various civilian activity. The 1920s was considered the age of air racing and on 27 November 1920. The race consisted of four laps of a 29 miles course, thirty-eight pilots entered and took off individually. The winner was Capt. Corliss Moseley, flying a Verville-Packard VCP-R racer, in October 1923, Mitchel Field was the scene of the first airplane jumping contest in the nation. During the same year, two worlds airplane speed records were established there, in 1924, the airmail service had its inception in experimental flights begun at the airfield. In September 1929, Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, then a Lieutenant, in 1938, Mitchel was the starting point for the first nonstop transcontinental bomber flight, made by Army B-18 Bolos. Mitchel Field also served as a base from which the first demonstration of long-range aerial reconnaissance was made, in May 1939, three B-17s, with Lt. Curtis LeMay navigating, flew 620 miles out to sea and intercepted the Italian ocean liner SS Rex. This was a example of the range, mobility. On September 21 of that year the base was struck by the Long Island Express hurricane, flooding produced water that was over knee-deep, numerous trees were toppled and the glass was smashed atop the traffic control tower. During 1943, Mitchel AAF became an area for Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers. Mitchel Field was a source of supply in initial garrisoning and defense of North Atlantic air bases in Newfoundland, Greenland. From the airfield the planning for the air defense of Nova Scotia, Antisubmarine patrol missions along the Atlantic coast were carried out in 1942 by the United States Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command aircraft based at Mitchel
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Long Island
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Long Island is an island located just off the northeast coast of the United States and a region within the U. S. state of New York. Stretching east-northeast from New York Harbor into the Atlantic Ocean, the island comprises four counties, Kings and Queens to the west, then Nassau, more generally, Long Island may also refer collectively both to the main Island as well as its nearby, surrounding outer barrier islands. North of the island is the Long Island Sound, across from which lie the states of Connecticut, across the Sound, to the northwest, lies Westchester County on mainland New York. To the west, Long Island is separated from the Bronx and the island of Manhattan by the East River. To the extreme southwest, it is separated from the New York City borough of Staten Island and the U. S. state of New Jersey by Upper New York Bay, the Narrows, to the east lie Block Island and numerous smaller islands. Its population density is 5,595.1 inhabitants per square mile, Long Island is culturally and ethnically diverse. Some of the wealthiest and most expensive neighborhoods in the Western Hemisphere are located on Long Island, nine bridges and 13 tunnels connect Brooklyn and Queens to the three other boroughs of New York City. Ferries connect Suffolk County northward across Long Island Sound to the state of Connecticut, the Long Island Rail Road is the busiest commuter railroad in North America and operates 24/7. At the time of European contact, the Lenape people inhabited the western end of Long Island, giovanni da Verrazzano was the first European to record an encounter with the Lenapes, after entering what is now New York Bay in 1524. In 1609, the English navigator Henry Hudson explored the harbor, adriaen Block followed in 1615 and is credited as the first European to determine that both Manhattan and Long Island are islands. Native American land deeds recorded by the Dutch from 1636 state that the Indians referred to Long Island as Sewanhaka, sewan was one of the terms for wampum, and is also translated as loose or scattered, which may refer either to the wampum or to Long Island. The name t Lange Eylandt alias Matouwacs appears in Dutch maps from the 1650s, later, the English referred to the land as Nassau Island, after the Dutch Prince William of Nassau, Prince of Orange. It is unclear when the name Nassau Island was discontinued, the very first settlements on Long Island were by settlers from England and its colonies in present-day New England. Lion Gardiner settled nearby Gardiners Island, the first settlement on the geographic Long Island itself was on October 21,1640, when Southold was established by the Rev. John Youngs and settlers from New Haven, Connecticut. Peter Hallock, one of the settlers, drew the long straw and was granted the honor to step ashore first and he is considered the first New World settler on Long Island. Southampton was settled in the same year, Hempstead followed in 1644, East Hampton in 1648, Huntington in 1653, and Brookhaven in 1655. While the eastern region of Long Island was first settled by the English, until 1664, the jurisdiction of Long Island was split, roughly at the present border between Nassau County and Suffolk County. The Dutch founded six towns in present-day Brooklyn beginning in 1645 and these included, Brooklyn, Gravesend, Flatlands, Flatbush, New Utrecht, and Bushwick
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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Farmingdale State College
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The State University of New York at Farmingdale is an American institution of higher education located on Long Island in East Farmingdale, New York. Also known as Farmingdale State College or SUNY Farmingdale, it is a technology college of the State University of New York. The college was chartered in 1912 as a school of applied agriculture under the name of New York State School Of Agriculture on Long Island, the State University of New York at Farmingdale was founded in 1912. The founding of the College was originally proposed by State Assemblyman John Lupton in 1909, Lupton Hall, which houses the departments of Chemistry and Physics as well the School of Engineering Technology, now bears his name. Two of the oldest buildings on campus are Hicks Hall and Cutler Hall, the buildings house four oil on canvas murals, painted in 1936 by local artists Frederick Marshall and C. E. Lessing as a part of the Works Progress Administration. The murals depict agricultural scenes, including wheat-threshing, rice harvesting, Ward Hall, also constructed in 1914, was the original dormitory and now houses College offices, including Alumni Relations and Business Outreach. When the College first admitted students in March 1916, Ward Hall was not yet completed, students slept instead in temporary quarters on the upper level of Conklin Hall, which was then the physical plant. Later historical buildings include Knapp Hall, completed in 1937, and Thompson Hall, competed in 1938, theodore Roosevelt Jr. delivered the address at the College’s second commencement exercises on May 26,1920. A Memorial Oak was planted on June 4,1921 to honor American soldiers killed in World War I, the Oak was planted in soil collected from all 48 states as well as from the allied nations from the war. “Its Roots Rest in Soil From All The Allied Nations, From Every State And Dependency Of Our Country, “On Fames Eternal Camping-Ground Their Silent Tents Are Spread, And Glory Guards With Solemn Round The Bivouac Of The Dead. Each program falls under the authority of one of four Schools. S.00 annually Associate professors are paid $78,900.00 annually Assistant professors are paid $68,000, Farmingdale State College is primarily a commuter school, but does offer residence halls. The Campus Center also features an energy-efficient roofing structure, the program serves as a laboratory for the education of the student-athlete, and is conducted in keeping with the general educational mission of the College. The newly renovated Nold Hall athletic facility offers world-class equipment and facilities, fernando Caldeiro - NASA astronaut, graduated with degree in aerospace technology. Michael DenDekker- Member of the New York State Assembly from the 34th district, DJ Richie Rich- Member of the rap trio 3rd Bass. William Fichtner - Actor Roy Gussow- Abstract sculptor Ryan LaFlare- Professional mixed martial arts fighter, John Romita Jr. - Illustrator for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. William N. Valavanis- Bonsai master According to the 2017 U. S. News & World Report, in 2009, PayScale. com reported that the college ranked 88th among the Top 200 public colleges highest graduate earning power. UniversityPrimeTime. com ranked the college as the fifth-safest campus in the nation in 2015
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Alexander Mahone
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Alexander Alex Mahone is a fictional character portrayed by William Fichtner in the American television series Prison Break. Mahone is introduced in the premiere of the season as a special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is later arrested in Panama and imprisoned in Penitenciaría Federal de Sona in the second-season finale, Mahone manages to escape, and is coerced into taking down the Company, a secret group of multinationals which exerts an influence on the White House. An assassin is hired by the Company to murder his son, the writers created Mahones character in the second season so that there would be a fugitive pursuer who was not corrupt. When the writers saw that the number of antagonists was increasing, the writers try to let Mahone inhabit a gray area, shifting the audiences sympathy for the character. Mahone was born in Boardman, Ohio into an abusive family, after joining the military Mahone was transferred to Special Ops during the Gulf War, later becoming an FBI agent. The nature of his quick advancement is questioned, and many of his files are classified and he married a woman named Pamela and they had a son, Cameron. The marriage lasts for 12 years until Mahone abruptly ends it without explanation, before separating from his wife Mahone pursued Oscar Shales, a murderer whom he struggled to capture, it is revealed that Mahone killed Shales and buried the body in his backyard. Fearful that his wife would discover his secret, he cuts her out of his life, Mahone is plagued with visions of Shales, which cause him to self-medicate with prescription drugs. After eight prisoners escape from the Fox River State Penitentiary, Mahone leads the investigation to capture them, reviewing their files, he decides to concentrate his efforts on Michael Scofield, mastermind of the breakout. He tracks the escapees to Oswego, Illinois, but they manage to escape, Mahone continues to pursue Michael and his brother Lincoln Burrows, who are able to avoid him on several occasions. While investigating a car explosion Mahone is shown to have a drug problem, Mahone eventually tracks down John Abruzzi and David Tweener Apolskis. Mahone orders his men to shoot Abruzzi to death when he fails to surrender, when he returns to his office, Mahone is questioned by Internal Affairs Agent Richard Sullins about their suspicious deaths. It is revealed that Mahone was being blackmailed by Paul Kellerman, Kellerman threatens to reveal that Mahone killed Shales, and forces him to kill all the escapees in exchange for his silence. Although hesitant, Mahone agrees when an operative of the Company, Agent Kim, Mahone continues his hunt for the remaining six escapees but is betrayed and shot by Kellerman, who transfers his allegiance to the brothers. He survives and decides to stop chasing the escapees, but is forced to resume his search when his son is injured in a car accident orchestrated by one of Kims agents, before returning to work, he murders the agent who arranged the accident. Mahone returns to his FBI field office, where he is informed by Agent Wheeler that Internal Affairs is investigating him, when Charles Haywire Patoshik murders a civilian, Mahone asks Brad Bellick to help him find Haywire. Bellick finds Haywire, chasing him up a mill, Mahone climbs the mill
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Prison Break
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Prison Break is an American television serial drama created by Paul Scheuring, that was broadcast on Fox for four seasons from 2005 to 2009, and a fifth season in 2017. The series was produced by Adelstein-Parouse Productions, in association with Original Television, along with creator Paul Scheuring, the series is executive produced by Matt Olmstead, Kevin Hooks, Marty Adelstein, Dawn Parouse, Neal H. Moritz, and Brett Ratner who directed the pilot episode. The series theme music, composed by Ramin Djawadi, was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2006, the series was originally turned down by Fox in 2003, which was concerned about the long-term prospects of such a series. Following the popularity of serialized prime time television series Lost and 24, the first season received generally positive reviews, and performed well in the ratings. The first season was planned for a 13-episode run, but was extended to include an extra nine episodes due to its popularity. In the United States, all four seasons have been released on DVD, the success of the series has inspired short videos for mobile phones, several official tie-ins in print and on the Internet, as well as a video game. A spin-off series, Prison Break, Proof of Innocence, was produced exclusively for mobile phones, the series has spawned an official magazine and a tie-in novel. The fourth season of Prison Break returned from its mid-season break in a new timeslot on April 17,2009, two additional episodes, titled The Old Ball and Chain and Free were produced, and were later transformed into a standalone feature, titled The Final Break. The events of this take place before the last scene of the series finale. The feature was released on DVD and Blu-ray July 21,2009, a nine-episode fifth season was announced by Fox in January 2016 and debuted on April 4,2017, and airs on Tuesdays at 9,00 pm. The first season follows the rescue of Lincoln Burrows, who is accused of murdering Terrence Steadman, Lincoln is sentenced to death and is incarcerated in Fox River State Penitentiary where he awaits his execution. Lincolns brother, brilliant structural engineer Michael Scofield, is convinced of Lincolns innocence, in order to gain access to Fox River, Michael commits an armed robbery which results in his being sentenced to Fox River. The brothers fight to ward off the execution is aided by their lifelong friend Veronica Donovan, however, they are hindered by covert agents, members of an organization known as The Company. The Company was responsible for framing Lincoln, and they did so because of Lincolns father Aldo Burrows, the second season begins eight hours after the escape, focusing mainly on the eight escapees. Series creator Paul Scheuring describes the season as The Fugitive times eight. The fugitives split up and journey to locations across the country with the authorities close behind them as they pursue their individual goals. Brad Bellick gets fired from the prison where he worked as the main guard, several of the escapees reunite in search of a large cache of money buried long ago by another Fox River inmate, Charles Westmoreland. Federal agent Alexander Mahone is assigned to track down and capture the eight fugitives, but is revealed to be working for The Company, which wants all eight men dead
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Quiz Show (film)
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Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical film produced and directed by Robert Redford, and written by Paul Attanasio, based on Richard N. Goodwins memoir Remembering America, A Voice From the Sixties. It stars John Turturro, Rob Morrow, and Ralph Fiennes, with Paul Scofield, David Paymer, Hank Azaria, the film received generally positive reviews and was nominated for several awards, including a Best Picture Oscar nomination and several Golden Globes. It had a box office return. The evenings main attraction is Queens resident Herb Stempel, the reigning champion, Enright and Freedman are surprised when Columbia University instructor Charles Van Doren, son of a prominent literary family, visits their office to audition. Realizing that they have found a challenger for Stempel, they subtly offer to rig the game in Van Dorens favor. Enright later informs Stempel that he must lose in order to boost the shows ratings, Stempel begrudgingly agrees, on the condition that he can remain on television. He threatens to reveal the reason for his success, he had been given the answers in advance. Stempel and Van Doren face each other on Twenty One, where the match comes down to a question regarding Marty. Despite knowing the film, Stempel gives the wrong answer of On the Waterfront. In the weeks that follow, Van Dorens winning streak makes him a national celebrity, meanwhile, Stempel, having lost his prize money to an unscrupulous bookie, begins threatening legal action against NBC after weeks go by without his return to television. He visits New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan, who convenes a grand jury to look into his allegations, Richard Goodwin, a young Congressional lawyer, learns that the grand jury findings have been sealed and travels to New York City to investigate rumors of rigged quiz shows. Visiting a number of contestants, including Stempel and Van Doren, however, Stempels volatile personality damages his credibility, and nobody else seems willing at first to confirm that the show is rigged. Stempel desperately confesses to Goodwin that he was in on the fix, as Goodwin collects more evidence, Van Doren deliberately loses. He is rewarded by NBC with a contract to appear as a special correspondent on the morning Today show. The House Committee for Legislative Oversight convenes a hearing, at which Goodwin presents his evidence of the quiz shows corruption, during the hearing, Stempels testimony fails to convince the committee. Both NBC network head Robert Kintner and Geritol executive Martin Rittenhome deny any knowledge of Twenty One being rigged, after being subpoenaed by Goodwin, Van Doren testifies before the committee and admits his role in the deception. After the hearing adjourns, he learns from reporters that he has fired from Today. Goodwin believes he is on the verge of a victory against Geritol and NBC and he silently watches the producers testimony, vindicating the sponsors and the network from any wrongdoing, and taking full responsibility for rigging the show
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Heat (1995 film)
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Heat is a 1995 American crime film written, produced and directed by Michael Mann, and starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Val Kilmer. De Niro plays Neil McCauley, a thief, while Pacino plays Lt. Vincent Hanna. The story is based on the former Chicago police officer Chuck Adamsons pursuit during the 1960s of a criminal named McCauley, after whom De Niros character is named. Mann originally wrote and filmed the script as a pilot of a television series and it was well received by critics. Career criminals Neil McCauley and his crew, Chris Shiherlis, Michael Cheritto, during the heist, Waingro impulsively kills a guard, infuritating McCauley. As the team attempts to kill Waingro, he escapes, McCauleys fence, Nate, suggests he sell the stolen bonds back to their original owner, money launderer Roger Van Zant. Van Zant agrees, but instructs his men to ambush McCauley at the meeting, McCauley survives the ambush and vows revenge against Van Zant. LAPD Lieutenant Vincent Hanna, working with Sergeant Drucker and Detectives Sammy Casals, Mike Bosko and Danny Schwartz, investigate the heist and they discover their next target to be a precious metals depository. The unit stakes out the depository and observe the crime in progress, Hanna, dissatisfied with the lack of evidence, lets McCauleys crew escape. Despite the increased police surveillance, McCauleys crew agrees to one last brazen bank robbery worth $12 million to secure their financial futures, Waingro approaches Van Zant with information about eliminating McCauleys crew. McCauley starts a relationship with Eady, a designer he meets in a cafe, Hanna moves into a hotel after learning his wife Justine is having an affair. Hanna pulls over McCauley on the freeway and invites him to coffee, both men reaffirm their commitment to their work and to using lethal force if necessary to stop the other. After coffee, Hanna discovers that McCauleys crew have evaded their surveillance, when Trejo withdraws from the robbery, McCauley recruits ex-convict Donald Breedan into the crew. Hannas unit receives a tip and interrupt McCauleys crew in the middle of their bank robbery. In the ensuing gunfight, several officers, including Bosko, are killed, while McCauleys crew loses Breedan. Shiherlis is wounded, but escapes with McCauley, McCauley leaves Shiherlis with a doctor to treat his wounds. He breaks into Trejos house to find Trejo near death, Trejo reveals that Waingro alerted Van Zant to their bank robbery, who subsequently informed the police. McCauley finishes off Trejo at his own request, then kills Van Zant at his home, McCauley approaches Eady, who has accepted his criminal activities, with a plan to flee to New Zealand
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Contact (1997 American film)
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Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis. It is a adaptation of Carl Sagans 1985 novel of the same name, Sagan. Jodie Foster portrays the films protagonist, Dr. Eleanor Ellie Arroway, the film also stars Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Tom Skerritt, William Fichtner, John Hurt, Angela Bassett, Jake Busey, and David Morse. Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan began working on the film in 1979, together, they wrote a 100+ page film treatment and set up Contact at Warner Bros. with Peter Guber and Lynda Obst as producers. When development stalled on the film, Sagan published Contact as a novel in 1985, roland Joffé and George Miller had planned to direct it, but Joffé dropped out in 1993 and Warner Bros. fired Miller in 1995. Robert Zemeckis was eventually hired to direct, and filming for Contact lasted from September 1996 to February 1997, Sony Pictures Imageworks handled most of the visual effects sequences. The film was released on July 11,1997, to positive reviews. Contact grossed approximately $171 million in box office totals. The film won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and received multiple awards, the use of digitally-altered footage of President Bill Clinton in the film was questioned and CNN revised an internal policy, both as results of the film. Individual lawsuits from George Miller and Francis Ford Coppola were filed, Dr. Ellie Arroway works for the SETI program at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Fascinated by science and communication since she was a child, she listens to radio emissions from space hoping to find evidence of alien life, David Drumlin, the presidents science advisor, pulls the funding from SETI because he believes the endeavor is futile. Arroway gains backing from secretive billionaire industrialist S. R. Hadden, four years later, with Drumlin seeking to close SETI, Arroway discovers a signal repeating a sequence of prime numbers, apparently sent from the star system Vega some 26 light-years away. This announcement causes Drumlin and the National Security Council led by Michael Kitz, Arroways team then discover a video buried in the signal, Adolf Hitlers opening address at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Arroway and her team postulate that this would have been the first television signal strong enough to leave Earths atmosphere, taking 26 years to reach Vega, the project is put under tight security and its progress followed worldwide. Arroway learns that the signal also contains more than 60,000 pages of indecipherable data, the reclusive Hadden secretly meets with Arroway to provide the means to decode the pages, found when they are arranged in three dimensions rather than two-dimensional pages. The pages reveal schematics for a machine which is determined to be some kind of transport for a single occupant. The nations of the fund the construction of the machine at Cape Canaveral. An international panel is assembled to choose a candidate to travel in the machine, although Arroway is a frontrunner to go, her hopes are scuppered by Christian philosopher Palmer Joss, a panel member whom Arroway met in Puerto Rico and had a brief romantic encounter
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Armageddon (1998 film)
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Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film follows a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers sent by NASA to stop an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Armageddon opened in only two and a half months after the similar asteroid impact-based film Deep Impact, which starred Robert Duvall. Armageddon fared better at the box office, while astronomers described Deep Impact as being more scientifically accurate, Armageddon was an international box-office success despite generally negative reviews from critics, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide. A massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis and bombards a swath of land around the North Atlantic, NASA discovers through the Hubble that the meteors were debris propelled from the asteroid belt by a rogue asteroid roughly the size of Texas. The asteroid will collide with Earth in 18 days, causing an extinction event. NASA scientists, led by Dan Truman, plan to trigger a thermonuclear detonation at least 800 feet inside the asteroid to split it in two, driving the pieces apart so both will fly past the Earth. NASA contacts Harry Stamper, considered the best deep-sea oil driller in the world, Harry insists he will need his full team to help execute NASAs plan, and they agree to help but only after their list of unusual rewards are met. NASA puts Harry and his crew through a short and rigorous training program, while Harrys team re-outfit the mobile drillers, Armadillos. During training, Truman and Harry are skeptical about the abilities of A. J, frost, a hot-headed drill operator who has been dating Harrys daughter Grace against Harrys wishes. The destruction of Shanghai by a meteorite forces the government to reveal the asteroids existence, the shuttles are launched and arrive at the space station, where its sole cosmonaut Lev Andropov helps with refueling. A major fire breaks out during the process, forcing the crews, including Lev. The shuttles perform the slingshot around the Moon, but approaching the asteroid, the Independences engines are destroyed by trailing debris, Grace, aware A. J. was aboard the Independence, is traumatized by this news, believing he was killed. Lev, and Bear survive the impact and head towards the Freedom target site in their Armadillo, Freedom safely lands on the asteroid, but overshoots the target zone, landing on a much harder metallic field than planned, and their drilling quickly falls behind schedule. Truman delays the military, while Harry convinces the shuttle commander Colonel Willie Sharp to disarm the remote trigger, Harrys crew continues to work, but in their haste, they accidentally hit a gas pocket, blowing their Armadillo into space and losing another man. As the world learns of the apparent failure, another meteorite decimates most of Paris. All seems lost until Independences Armadillo arrives, with A. J. at the controls, they reach the required depth for the bomb. However, flying debris from the damages the triggering device
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The Perfect Storm (film)
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The Perfect Storm is a 2000 American biographical disaster drama film directed by Wolfgang Petersen. The film stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, William Fichtner, reilly, Diane Lane, Karen Allen and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. It was released on June 30,2000, by Warner Bros, in October 1991, the commercial fishing boat Andrea Gail returns to port in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a poor catch. Desperate for money, Captain Billy Tyne convinces the Andrea Gail crew to him for one more late season fishing expedition. The crew heads out past their usual fishing grounds in the Grand Banks, initially unsuccessful, they head to the Flemish Cap, where their luck greatly improves. At the height of their fishing the ice breaks, the only way to sell their catch before it spoils is to hurry back to shore. After debating whether to sail through the storm or to wait it out. However, between the Andrea Gail and Gloucester is a confluence of two powerful weather fronts and a hurricane, which the Andrea Gail crew underestimates. After repeated warnings from ships, Andrea Gail loses her antenna. A New York Air National Guard HH-60 Pave Hawk rescue helicopter responds, but after failing to perform a midair refueling with an HC-130 Hercules, all but one of the Air National Guard crew members are rescued by a Coast Guard vessel, the USCGC Tamaroa. After Andrea Gail endures various problems, the struggles to sail through pounding waves and shrieking winds, while friends and family worry. The vessel encounters a rogue wave. The boat is overturned, Billy elects to go down with his ship and he surfaces and watches as the Andrea Gail rights itself before sinking stern-first into the Atlantic. The rapidly rising swell carries the man away, there are no survivors and the film ends with Linda reading the eulogy at the memorial service, followed by her remembering Billys voice soliloquising about what it means to be a swordboat captain. George Clooney as Frank William Billy Tyne, Jr. captain of the Andrea Gail, Billy is a divorced father of two daughters, who is determined to undertake one last fishing trip before the end of the season to make up for a recent string of poor catches. Mark Wahlberg as Robert Bobby Shatford, the least experienced of the crew of the Andrea Gail, Bobby is the son of Ethel Shatford, the owner of the Crows Nest, and boyfriend to Chris Cotter. He enjoys commercial fishing, but his relationship with Chris creates conflict within himself. Yet, he is compelled by the potential to more money at sea than he could make with a job on shore to sign on for one last trip
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Crash (2004 film)
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Crash is a 2004 American ensemble drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. The film is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles, a self-described passion piece for Haggis, Crash was inspired by a real-life incident, in which his Porsche was carjacked in 1991 outside a video store on Wilshire Boulevard. The film differs from other films about racism in its rather impartial approach to the issue. Rather than separating the characters into victims and offenders, victims of racism are often shown to be prejudiced themselves in different contexts, also, racist remarks and actions are often shown to stem from ignorance and misconception rather than malice. Matt Dillon was particularly praised for his performance and received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, additionally, the cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. It was also nominated for nine BAFTA awards, and won two, for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Thandie Newton, today The film begins with commentary by passenger Detective Graham Waters, who has suffered a car accident with his partner Ria. He mentions that the citizens of Los Angeles have lost their sense of touch, Ria and the driver of the other car, Kim Lee, exchange racially charged insults. When Waters exits the car, he arrives at a police investigation crime scene concerning the discovery of a dead kid. Yesterday While purchasing a revolver at a gun store, Farhad, a Persian shop owner, the gun store owner grows impatient and degrades the two of them by referring to Farhad as Osama. Farhad asserts that he is an American citizen, but the store owner continues exchanging racially stereotypical insults at Farhad and has the security guard escort him out of the store, Dorri demands the store owner to give her the gun or give her back the money. After the store gives the gun to Dorri, she asks for the ones in the red box. The store owner asks why, but Dorri does not answer, Anthony and Peter carjack the married couple as they are about to enter their Lincoln Navigator. Later, at the Cabot house, Hispanic locksmith Daniel Ruiz is changing their locks when Jean notices his tattoos. She loudly complains to Rick about having been carjacked and now having to endure a Hispanic man changing their locks, having overheard this, Daniel leaves the keys on Jeans kitchen counter. Detectives Waters and Ria arrive at the scene of a shooting between two drivers, the surviving shooter is a white male, identified as an undercover police officer. The dead shooter, a male, is revealed also to be an undercover police officer. There is an amount of cash found in the black officers trunk. This is the time the white officer has shot and killed a black man
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Blades of Glory
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Blades of Glory is a 2007 American sports comedy film directed by Josh Gordon & Will Speck, written by Jeff Cox, Craig Cox, John Altschuler and Dave Krinskyand and starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder. The movie was produced by MTV Films, Red Hour and Smart Entertainment, while standing on the awards podium, the two have an argument that escalates into a fight and ends with the World Games mascot being accidentally set on fire. Jimmys competitive adoptive father, billionaire Darren MacElroy, immediately disowns him, jimmys obsessive stalker, Hector, tells him of a loophole in the ban allowing him to compete in pair skating. In hopes of entering the upcoming World Winter Sport Games, Jimmy contacts his old coach, Robert, but is unable to find a partner. However, it is dangerous, the only attempt of the maneuver was behind the Bamboo Curtain in North Korea. Nonetheless, they decide to attempt it as Robert is convinced that two males would be suited for the move because of the physics of a same-sex team. In the meantime, brother and sister competitors Stranz and Fairchild command Katie, their sister, to disrupt the duo by going out with Jimmy. Since Katie has fallen in love with Jimmy after going on a date with him, Katie gets Chazzs attention after attending a sex addicts meeting as the newest member, then invites Chazz to her room, and tries to seduce him. Chazz refuses out of respect for Jimmy, delighting Katie, Jimmy witnesses this and is outraged at Chazzs and Katies betrayals. Chazz attempts numerous times to apologize to Jimmy, but is unsuccessful, in an attempt to sabotage the performance the following day, Stranz and Fairchild kidnap both Chazz and Jimmy, but both are able to escape. Chazz and Jimmy arrive in the ice rink just in time to compete, Fairchild, seeing the two doing well, throws pearls onto the ice, causing Chazz to trip and break his ankle, rendering him unable to perform his role in the Iron Lotus. Jimmy then offers to places with him. Although they have never practiced the others roles, they perform it perfectly, Jimmy reconciles with Katie, and Stranz and Fairchild are arrested due to the kidnappings and Stranz accidentally shooting a mascot. Stranz and Fairchild begin arguing, then each other incestuously before they are handcuffed by the authorities. Jimmy and Chazz receive the medal and fly off into the sky via rockets on their skates. During the credits, Hector is seen playing dolls of himself, Jimmy, the stadium used for the outside shoots is the unique Montreal Olympic Stadium, built for the 1976 Olympics. The outdoor chase scenes were also shot on-location in Montréal, the building used for athlete housing in Montréal was the unique Habitat 67, built for Expo 67. The film was delayed for an undetermined period of time when Jon Heder broke his ankle while doing a skating program for the film
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Black Hawk Down (film)
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The film features a large ensemble cast, including Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Jason Isaacs, Tom Hardy, and Sam Shepard. It won two Oscars for Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing at the 74th Academy Awards, although it was received positively by American film critics, the film was strongly criticized by a number of groups and military officials. In 1993, following the ousting of the government and start of a civil war. After the bulk of the peacekeepers are withdrawn, the Mogadishu-based militia loyal to Mohamed Farrah Aidid declares war on the remaining UN personnel. In response, U. S. Army Rangers, Delta Force counter-terrorist operators, and 160th SOAR aviators are deployed to Mogadishu to capture Aidid, who has proclaimed himself president of the country. To consolidate his power and subdue the population in the south, Aidid and his militia seize Red Cross food shipments, outside Mogadishu, Rangers and Delta Force capture Osman Ali Atto, a faction leader selling arms to Aidids militia. A mission is planned to capture Omar Salad Elmi and Abdi Hassan Awale Qeybdiid, the U. S. forces include experienced men as well as new recruits, including PFC Todd Blackburn and a desk clerk, SPC Grimes, going on his first mission. When his Lieutenant is removed from duty after having a seizure, Staff Sergeant Matthew Eversmann is placed in command of Ranger Chalk Four. The operation begins and Delta Force operators capture Aidids advisers inside the target building, the Rangers and helicopters escorting the ground-extraction convoy take heavy fire, while Eversmanns Chalk Four is dropped a block away by mistake. Both pilots are killed, the two chiefs are wounded, and one Delta Force sniper on board escapes in another helicopter. The ground forces are rerouted to converge on the crash site, the Somali militia erects roadblocks, and LTC Danny McKnights Humvee column is unable to reach the crash area while sustaining heavy casualties. Meanwhile, two Ranger Chalks, including Eversmanns unit, reach Super-Six Ones crash site and set up a perimeter to await evacuation with the two wounded men and the fallen pilots. In the interim, Super Six-Four, piloted by CWO Michael Durant, is shot down by an RPG. With CPT Mike Steeles Rangers pinned down and sustaining heavy casualties, two Delta Force snipers, SFC Randy Shughart and MSG Gary Gordon are inserted by helicopter to Super Six-Four s crash site, where they find Durant still alive. Being only armed with M4 carbines, MPK-PDWs, and M14s, the site is eventually overrun, Gordon and Shughart are killed, McKnights column relinquish their attempt to reach Six-Ones crash site and return to base with their prisoners and the casualties. As night falls, Aidids militia launch an assault on the trapped Americans at Super Six-Ones crash site. The wounded and casualties are evacuated in the vehicles, but a few of Rangers and Delta Force soldiers are forced to run from the crash site back to the Pakistani Compound UN Safe Zone. Adapting Black Hawk Down, a Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden was the idea of director Simon West, West moved on to direct Lara Croft, Tomb Raider instead
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Nine Lives (2005 film)
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Nine Lives is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Rodrigo García. The screenplay, an example of cinema, relates nine short. Their themes include parent-child relationships, fractured love, adultery, illness, imprisoned Sandra has an emotional breakdown when the broken telephone in her cubicle prevents her from communicating with her daughter on visiting day. Diana and Damian, two former flames now married to others, unexpectedly have a poignant reunion in the aisle of the local supermarket, holly returns home to confront her sexually abusive stepfather and dissolves into gun-waving hysteria. Feuding married couple Sonia and Martin have an emotional meltdown while visiting their friends Lisa, teenaged Samantha is torn between her non-communicative parents Ruth, and Larry, each of whom questions her about everything the other one has to say. Divorcée Lorna must cope with her ex-husband Andrews sexual desire for her during his wifes funeral. Ruth, primary caretaker for her husband, becomes increasingly guilt-ridden during a tryst with drunken widower Henry in a hotel. Camille is facing breast cancer surgery and uses her time to lash out at her quietly supportive husband Richard. Maggie discusses life with her daughter Maria during a picnic in the cemetery and it opened on seven screens and earned $28,387 in its opening weekend. It eventually grossed $478,830 in the US and $1,084,093 in foreign markets for a worldwide box office of $1,562,923. The films reward for intense concentration is a feeling of deep empathy, for once, you dont harbor the uneasy suspicion of having been emotionally manipulated. Mr. García has made a film that could be described as radically realistic, in its subtle, understated performances, the actors vanish into characters who behave like ordinary people observed through one-way glass. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, Rodrigo Garcia, a movie like this, with the appearance of new characters and situations, focuses us, we watch more intently, because it is important what happens. He added, stories might seem the stuff of soap opera, the peculiar overall structure makes them distinctive as well, the way these little semi-Chekhovian, semi-Andre Dubus pieces play out against each other. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it that rare film that actually accrues a cumulative power. By the time its over it has become a testament to the resilience of women in coping with a critical moment in their lives. Each segment seems perfectly shaped and timed, not lasting a second too long yet always of sufficient length to be satisfying in itself, garcías large ensemble cast is impeccable, and he and his actors have created a film as memorable as it is subtle. Nine Lives is a sophisticated, elegant-looking film shot in distinctive, wide-ranging L. A. locales, list of American films of 2005 Nine Lives at the Internet Movie Database Nine Lives at Rotten Tomatoes Nine Lives at AllMovie Nine Lives at Metacritic
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The Longest Yard (2005 film)
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The Longest Yard is a 2005 American sports comedy film, a remake of the 1974 film of the same name. Burt Reynolds, who played Sandlers role in the original, co-stars as Nate Scarborough, Chris Rock plays Crewes friend, known as Caretaker. The film was produced by MTV Films and Happy Madison Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures, paul Crewe is a former NFL player who, one night, gets drunk and goes joyriding in his girlfriends Bentley, crashing it. It is revealed that he was arrested for shaving points in a big game, Crewe informs Hazen that what Hazens team needs is a tune-up game to boost the guards confidence, and is therefore coerced to form an inmate team to play against the guards. He does so with the help of a friend, Caretaker. Caretaker tells Crewe that they need more brothers on the team, when Crewe goes to the basketball court to ask the black inmates to join the team, their leader, Deacon Moss rebuffs him. Crewe challenges Deacon to a basketball game, saying that if he wins, the brothers will join the team. Deacon accepts, and despite Deacons undisguised personal fouls in which he elbows, punches or grabs Crewe, Crewe continues without complaint, because the match is a question of pride and respect. On the game-winning shot, Crewe cleanly steals the ball from Deacon and scores, realizing he wouldnt be allowed to win, Crewe lets Deacon score the final shot. Although Deacon beats Crewe, one of the brothers, a fast runner named Earl Megget, impressed with Crewes decision to take the beating, having witnessed this, the other brothers, including Deacon, decide to join the team too. Hazen and the guards attempts to hinder Crewes team by flooding their field. Inmate Unger spies on the activities of the inmates and after being pressured by the guards, Caretaker unknowingly enters the cell to give a photo gift to Crewe, but is killed when he tries to turn the dial on the radio. The Mean Machine overcomes a rough start, due to individual inmates attempts to retaliate against guards for the abuse theyve suffered. Crewe angrily tells the inmates that winning the game is important and will damage the guards more than their personal grudges. The first half ends with the score tied, the angered Hazen informs Crewe in private that if he does not lose he will be charged for Caretakers murder. After Crewe fakes an injury in order to leave the field, after seeing that Hazen has broken his promise and two members of the Mean Machine are injured, Crewe asks Skitchy if the time spent in jail for punching the warden was worth it. Skitchy replies, It was worth every second, and inspired Crewe returns to the field. The team initially doubts Crewe’s resolve and allows him to be sacked twice, Moss puts his hand in, followed by the rest of the team
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 2005 American action comedy film directed by Doug Liman and written by Simon Kinberg. Besides being a box office hit, it is notable for establishing Jolie. The film opens with construction executive John and tech support consultant Jane Smith answering questions during marriage counselling, the couple has been married for five or six years, but their marriage is suffering to the point that they cannot remember the last time they had sex. They quickly fell in love and married, John later states that Jane looked like Christmas morning to him on the day they met. In reality, John and Jane are both skilled contract killers working for different firms, both among the best in their field, each concealing their true professions from one another. The couple live in a large Colonial Revival house in the suburbs and, to keep up appearances, socialise with their conventionally wealthy neighbors. Under these cover stories, John and Jane balance their apparently mundane marriage – which both of them find after a few years to be growing dull and suffocating – with their secretive work. When both are assigned to kill DIA prisoner Benjamin The Tank Danz during a transfer, they encounter each other on the job, each is then assigned to eliminate the other. After making escalating attempts on each others lives, the Smiths conflict culminates in a shootout that nearly demolishes their home. In a protracted, evenly matched fight, they wind up with guns in each others faces, John declines to shoot, his feelings for Jane rekindled, and lays his gun down. Jane finds she cannot shoot John either, and the two have passionate sex, the renewed Smith partnership is quickly threatened by their employers, who join forces to eliminate the couple. Johns best friend and coworker, Eddie, turns down a bounty of $400,000 for each Smith, after meeting with Eddie, the Smiths decide to fight together to preserve their marriage. They kidnap Danz from his high-security prison to use him as a bargaining chip, Danz reveals that he was merely bait, hired jointly by their employers after it was discovered that the Smiths were married, in the hopes of having one Smith kill the other. John and Jane forgo their separate contingency plans and make their last stand together, the film ends with the couple meeting the marriage counselor again, where the Smiths state how much their marriage has thrived, with John encouraging him to ask for an update on their sex lives. An alternate ending shows that they chose to move to country and had a child who inherited their assassin skills. Kinberg noticed that the way they were describing it sounded aggressive and mercenary, the albums were released at different times to avoid confusion, the former was released on June 28,2005, and the latter on June 7,2005. The film ranked at the top in its weekend, accumulating $50,342,878. Mr. & Mrs. Smith went on to gross $186,336,279 in North America and had a total of $478,207,520
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The Dark Knight (film)
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The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced, and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Nolans inspiration for the film was the Jokers comic book debut in 1940, the 1988 graphic novel The Killing Joke, and the 1996 series The Long Halloween, the nickname the Dark Knight was first applied to Batman in Batman #1, in a story written by Bill Finger. The Dark Knight was filmed primarily in Chicago, as well as in other locations in the United States, the United Kingdom. Nolan used IMAX70 mm film cameras to film some sequences, Warner Bros. initially created a viral marketing campaign for The Dark Knight, developing promotional websites and trailers highlighting screenshots of Ledger as the Joker. With over $1 billion in worldwide, it is the 26th-highest-grossing film of all time. The film received eight Academy Award nominations, it won the award for Best Sound Editing, the Dark Knight Rises, the final film in the trilogy, was released on July 20,2012. A gang of criminals rob a Gotham City mob bank, double-crossing and murdering each other there is only one left, The Joker. Batman, District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant Jim Gordon form an alliance to rid Gotham of organized crime, Mob bosses Sal Maroni, Gambol and the Chechen hold a videoconference with corrupt accountant Lau, who has taken their funds and fled to Hong Kong. The Joker interrupts, warns them that Batman is unhindered by the law, and offers to him in exchange for half of their money. After escaping and smuggling himself as a corpse, the Joker kills Gambol, the mob ultimately decides to take the Joker up on his offer. Dent arrests the mob, while Batman finds Lau in Hong Kong. The Joker threatens to keep killing people unless Batman reveals his identity, and starts by murdering Police Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb, the Joker also tries to kill Mayor Anthony Garcia, but Gordon sacrifices himself to stop the assassination. Dent learns that Rachel is the next target, Bruce decides to reveal his secret identity. Before he can, however, Dent announces that he is Batman, Dent is taken into protective custody, but the Joker appears and attacks the convoy. Batman comes to Dents rescue and Gordon, who faked his death, Rachel and Dent are escorted away by Michael Wuertz and Anna Ramirez, detectives on Maronis payroll. Batman interrogates the Joker, who reveals that Rachel and Dent have been trapped in separate locations rigged with explosives, Batman races to save Rachel, while Gordon goes to save Dent. Batman arrives at the building, realizing that the Joker sent him to Dents location instead, both buildings explode, killing Rachel and disfiguring half of Dents face. The Joker escapes the jail with Lau. Coleman Reese, an accountant at Wayne Enterprises, deduces that Bruce is Batman, after observing the unpredictability of the Joker, Maroni informs the Jokers location to Commissioner Gordon
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Date Night
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It was released in the United States on April 9,2010, and grossed $152 million against its $55 million budget. Phil and Claire Foster are a couple from New Jersey with two children, Ollie and Charlotte, and whose domestic life has become boring and routine. Phil is a tax lawyer while Claire is a realtor, to avoid the routine that had become their weekly date night, Phil decides that he will take Claire to a trendy Manhattan restaurant, but they cannot get a table. Phil takes a reservation from a couple, the Tripplehorns. While eating they are approached by two men, Collins and Armstrong, who question them about a flash drive they believe Phil, Phil and Claire explain that they are not the Tripplehorns, but the men threaten them at gunpoint. Not seeing any way out, Phil tells them it is in a boathouse in Central Park. At the boathouse, Claire pretends to search, while Collins and Armstrongs backs are turned, Phil hits them with a paddle, at a police station, Phil and Claire talk with Detective Arroyo, but discover Collins and Armstrong are also detectives, presumably on Milettos payroll. Realizing they cannot trust the police, they decide to find the real Tripplehorns and they return to the restaurant and find the cellphone number of the Tripplehorns. Claire remembers a former client, Holbrooke Grant, is a security expert and he is consistently seen never wearing a shirt. At his apartment, Grant traces the signal to an apartment owned by Tom Felton. Collins and Armstrong arrive, but Phil and Claire escape in Grants Audi R8 and they arrive at Feltons apartment and break in. They question Felton, nicknamed Taste, and his wife Whippit about the flash drive and it turns out that they went to the restaurant, but left when they spotted Collins. Realizing they are in danger, the give the flash drive to Phil. When Phil and Claire get back in the Audi, Armstrong, Phil and Claire crash the Audi head-on into a Ford Crown Victoria taxicab, resulting in their Audi and the Ford being attached at the bumpers. Phil and the cab driver decide to drive off to get away, Phil climbs into the Ford to navigate while Claire navigates the Audi. Phil checks the flash drive on the drivers Amazon Kindle and finds pictures of district attorney Frank Crenshaw with prostitutes, after evading Collins and Armstrong, they are eventually hit and are separated by an SUV. The cab falls into the river, Phil and the driver escape, in a subway, Phil determines that Felton obtained the flash drive to blackmail Crenshaw. They return to Grants apartment, and Grant is reluctant to help after becoming exhausted by their incompetence, Phil and Claire go to an illegal strip club that Crenshaw frequents, with Claire under the guise of a new prostitute and Phil as her pimp
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The Lone Ranger (2013 film)
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The Lone Ranger is a 2013 American western action film directed by Gore Verbinski from a screenplay written by Justin Haythe, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. Based on the series of the same name, the film stars Johnny Depp as Tonto, the narrator of the events. It relates Tontos memories of the duos earliest efforts to subdue local villainy, william Fichtner, Barry Pepper, Ruth Wilson, James Badge Dale, Tom Wilkinson and Helena Bonham Carter also are featured in supporting roles. It is the first theatrical film featuring the Lone Ranger and Tonto characters in more than 32 years, the film was released theatrically in the United States on July 3,2013. The film grossed $260.5 million worldwide against an estimated $225 million production budget, the film received two Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. In 1933, a boy, Will, who idolizes the legendary Lone Ranger, Tonto proceeds to recount his experiences with that Old West adventurer. In 1869, lawyer John Reid returns home to Colby, Texas via the uncompleted Transcontinental Railroad, unknown to Reid, the train is also carrying Tonto and outlaw Butch Cavendish, who is being transported for his hanging after being captured by Dan Reid, Johns Texas Ranger brother. Cavendishs gang rescues Butch and derails the train, Dan deputizes John as a Texas Ranger, and with six others they go after the Cavendish gang. Cavendishs men ambush and kill their pursuers in a canyon and Cavendish cuts out, Tonto, who has escaped from jail, comes across the dead men and buries them. However, a white spirit horse awakens John as a spirit walker, Tonto also tells him Collins, one of the Rangers, betrayed Dan and is working with Cavendish, whom Tonto believes is a wendigo. As John is thought to be dead, he wears a mask to protect his identity from enemies, Tonto gives John a silver bullet made from the fallen Rangers badges and tells him to use it on Cavendish. At a brothel Collins recently visited, Red Harrington informs them about Dan, meanwhile, Cavendishs men, disguised as Comanches, raid frontier settlements. John and Tonto arrive after raiders abduct Dans widow and son, Rebecca, regretting his earlier actions, Collins attempts to help Rebecca and Danny escape, but is shot dead by Cole, who rescues them. Claiming the raiders are hostile Comanches, Cole announces the construction of the railroad. A Comanche tribe captures John and Tonto soon after the pair finds railroad tracks in Native territory. The tribe leader tells John of Tontos past, As a boy, Tonto had rescued Cavendish and another man from near-death, the men murdered the tribe to keep the location a secret, leaving Tonto with great guilt. Tonto and John escape as the attack the Comanche. At the silver mine, they capture Cavendish, Tonto demands that John use the silver bullet to kill Cavendish, but John refuses
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Phantom (2013 film)
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Phantom is a 2013 American film about a Soviet submarine during the Cold War in the 1960s. Todd Robinson wrote and directed the film and it stars Ed Harris, David Duchovny and William Fichtner. The film tells the story of a Soviet Navy submarine captain attempting to prevent a war and it is loosely based on the real-life events involving the sinking of the submarine K-129 in 1968. Captain Dmitri Zubov, is a veteran Soviet Navy captain finishing up a career that failed to live up to the legacy of his legendary father and he is given an assignment by Markov to lead a top secret mission and given the command of his old ship. Due to mistakes he made during his service, involving the deaths of many of his past crew in a fire, Demi interrupts a party involving his crew, including Alex Kozlov, his up-and-coming executive officer headed for great success. Furthermore, Markov commits suicide as the submarine departs, after a demonstration, Demi questions Bruni about the device and the missions objectives. Soon after, Brunis men hold Demi at gunpoint, Bruni eventually reveals to Demi that he and his comrades are rogue operatives and not here under orders from the Soviet government. Their plan is to start a war between the United States and China by disguising the ship as a Chinese vessel and launching a nuclear missile at the American fleet. Demi, Kozlov and the crew plot and execute a plan that eventually takes back the ship. Two other members of the crew, Tyrtov and Sasha, attempt to disable the missile, eventually, fighting ensues, causing the deaths of many of both Demis crew and Brunis men. The submarine is badly damaged by Russian torpedoes and sinks to the ocean floor. The crew begin breathing in poisonous fumes as Alex is sent on an attempt for the remaining crew. Bruni explains to Demi that he was on his crew when the took place. Eventually, the sub is recovered and the crew, including Demi. Demis wife and daughter praise his actions while Alex, now a Captain, salutes the sub and it is then revealed that Demi and his men, watching from afar, are ghosts, watching from the afterlife. Onboard scenes took place in the former Foxtrot class B-39 soviet submarine which is now a museum at San Diego, the soundtrack to Phantom was released on February 26,2013. The score was co-produced by Jeff Rona and Nathan Rightnour, west Coast Midnight Run gave it a B score declaring it solidly entertaining if uneven solid acting all around and nice flashbacks that peel off the layer of intrigue for the viewer. Despite a less than grandiose feast of special effects, offset mostly by skilled acting from Harris, Duchovny and Fichtner
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Elysium (film)
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Elysium is a 2013 American science fiction film produced, written and directed by Neill Blomkamp. It stars Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Alice Braga, the film takes place on both a ravaged Earth, and a luxurious space habitat called Elysium. The film was released on August 9,2013 by TriStar Pictures and it was a modest success and received generally positive reviews from critics, even though many considered it a disappointment after Blomkamps first film District 9. Elysium was released on DVD and Blu-ray discs in Region 1 on December 17,2013, in 2154, Earth is overpopulated and polluted. Most of the citizens live in poverty, on the edge of starvation. The rich and powerful live on Elysium — a gigantic space habitat located in Earths orbit, Elysium is technologically advanced with some of its technology including Med-Bays, medical machines that can cure all diseases, reverse the aging process, and regenerate new body parts. A long-running feud exists between the residents of Elysium and the citizens of Earth, who want Elysian technology to cure their medical ailments. During an industrial accident at the factory, Max is trapped in a chamber and is hit by a dose of radiation. After being rescued, he is informed that he has five days to live before succumbing to radiation poisoning. Desperate for a cure, he and his friend Julio seek help from a smuggler named Spider to get him to Elysium. While two of the shuttles are shot down in space, killing everyone on board, the shuttle makes it. Elysian President Patel reprimands her for her immoral and unsubtle methods, regarded as a loose cannon, Kruger is dismissed from service. Delacourt, vowing to protect Elysium and her own power, bargains with John Carlyle to create a program that can override Elysiums computer core to give her the Presidency, Carlyle stores the reboot program in his brain for transport to Elysium and encrypts it with a lethal protection program. Spider agrees to get Max to Elysium if he can steal financial information from Carlyle, to assist him, Spiders men surgically attach a powered exoskeleton to Max. With Julio and a team of Spiders men, Max shoots down Carlyles ship, Max downloads the program to his suits neural implant but realizes that the encryption makes it unusable. Alerted to the theft by Carlyles medical implant, Delacourt secretly reinstates Kruger. In the ensuing shootout, Julio is killed and Max is wounded and he reaches out to his childhood friend Frey, now a nurse, whose daughter Matilda has leukemia. Frey begs Max to take Matilda to Elysium to be cured, Delacourt orders an airspace lockdown over Los Angeles to buy enough time to recover Carlyles program
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Independence Day: Resurgence
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Independence Day, Resurgence is a 2016 American science fiction film written and directed by Roland Emmerich with co-writers Dean Devlin, Nicolas Wright, James A. Woods, and James Vanderbilt. Through reverse engineering, the world has harnessed the power of alien technology, plans for a sequel to Independence Day began as early as 2001, with 20th Century Fox eventually green-lighting the project in 2014. Principal photography began in April 2015 at locations primarily in New Mexico but also in the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah, which were featured in the original. Independence Day, Resurgence was released in the United States on June 24,2016, in 2D, 3D, the film received generally unfavorable reviews from critics, who found the plot convoluted and action sequences overblown, though some praised its overall humor. As the twentieth anniversary of the approaches, ESD Director David Levinson meets with warlord Dikembe Umbutu. They travel to an alien city destroyer and discover that alien survivors sent a distress call to their home world before their defeat. An unidentified spherical city destroyer ship emerges from a wormhole near Earths Moon, narrowly escaping death, those on board the space tug are able to avoid capture and return to Area 51. General Joshua Adams groups interrogate one of the held in captivity at Area 51s prison facility from the war. They learn that the aliens exist in eusociality and that one of their colossal Queens is commanding the invasion, Levinson hypothesizes that and leads an attack on a city destroyer ship, if they kill the supervising Queen, her forces will cease drilling and retreat. In Area 51, Okun opens the container and releases a giant white sphere of virtual intelligence. She reveals that her mission is to evacuate survivors from worlds targeted by the aliens, whom she calls Harvesters. Knowing the Harvester Queen has become aware of the spheres presence, Whitmore volunteers to pilot the transport ship on a suicide mission, leading the Queens ship into a trap before detonating a bomb, thus sacrificing himself but destroying the enemy ship. However, the Harvester Queen survives by using an energy shield and this allows Dylans party, which arrives just in time, to kill her before she can take the sphere. With the Queen dead, all the alien fighters are rendered inactive, while the mothership stops drilling. Okun reveals that the sphere has asked humanity to lead her resistance and has offered them new technology in preparation for a counterattack on the Harvesters home world. The following includes backstory and details covered in the current film, in the original 1996 film, in cast interviews and in the canon novel Independence Day, Crucible. Originally from the city of Los Angeles, he grew up in an orphanage after his parents were killed in the invasion of 1996, jeff Goldblum as David Levinson, a scientist, MIT-educated computer expert, strategist, and environmental activist. Formerly a satellite technician at a television company in New York City
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014 film)
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It is the fifth film of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series and is also a reboot that features the main characters, portrayed by a new cast and the first in the reboot series. The film was announced shortly before Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Peter Laird sold the rights to the characters to Nickelodeon in October 2009, the film was released on August 8,2014. The film received negative reviews from critics, but was a box office success, earning $493.3 million on a $125 million budget. Conversely, it was nominated at the 28th Kids Choice Awards for Favorite Movie, Favorite Movie Actor. A sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Out of the Shadows, was released on June 3,2016, April ONeil, a local reporter for Channel 6 Eyewitness News in New York City, investigates a crime wave by a group of criminals called the Foot Clan. At a dock at night, she sees the Foot raiding cargo containers, after an unseen vigilante attacks the thieves, April notices a symbol left behind. Aprils supervisor Bernadette Thompson and her coworkers are oblivious to her story, later while covering a charity event thrown by Sacks Industries, April expresses gratitude to the companys CEO Eric Sacks, who was her late fathers lab partner. Frustrated by the vigilante, the Foot Clans leader Shredder has the Foot Soldiers take hostages at a station in order to draw him out. April, at the scene, becomes a hostage herself, four mysterious figures arrive, take out the Clan, and free the hostages. April follows them to a rooftop and is shocked to see that the vigilantes are anthropomorphic mutant turtles, when she regains consciousness, they advise her not to tell anyone of them. As they leave, April hears Raphael and Leonardos names, unable to convince Bernadette of the Turtles existence, April is dismissed. Her coworker Vern Fenwick drives her to Sacks estate where she confides in him about her discovery, Sacks believes her and reveals that he and Aprils father had been experimenting on a mutagen created to cure disease, which was thought lost in the fire that killed her dad. At Splinters behest, the Turtles bring April to their sewer lair, Splinter explains April had saved them all from the fire and freed them into the sewers. The mutagen caused the five of them to grow and develop humanoid attributes, Splinter took on the role of their father, using Aprils father as an example. After finding a book on Ninjutsu in a drain, he proceeded to teach himself, then the Turtles. When April reveals she told Sacks about her discovery of the Turtles, Splinter informs her that Sacks turned on her father, then, Shredder and the Foot Soldiers attack the lair, defeating Splinter and incapacitating Raphael while the other Turtles are captured. April comes out of hiding and she and Raphael plan to save the others. At Sacks estate, he has the Turtles blood drained in order to create an antidote to a virus that Sacks hopes to flood New York with
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Cheektowaga, New York
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Cheektowaga is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 88,226, the town is in the north-central part of the county. It is the second largest suburb of Buffalo, after the town of Amherst, the town of Cheektowaga contains the village of Sloan and half of the village of Depew. The remainder, outside the villages, is a place also named Cheektowaga. The town is home to the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Erie Countys principal airport, Villa Maria College, Empire State College, and the Walden Galleria are in Cheektowaga. Cheektowaga was first settled by the Seneca people of the Iroquois Confederacy, Cheektowaga was formed from the town of Amherst on March 22,1839, and upon the formation of West Seneca on October 16,1851, was reduced to its present limits—about 30 square miles. Throughout the 19th century, it was referred to by its original name, originally a rural farming area, the town was extensively developed during the post-World War II subdivision boom of the 1950s. Factories such as the Westinghouse Electric Corporation plant on Genesee Street generated employment to the area for many decades, the town maintains a strong blue-collar presence. Cheektowaga has a large Polish-American community, much of which relocated from Buffalos East Side, the Walden Galleria opened in 1989, becoming the Buffalo Niagara regions largest mall. Garrison Cemetery, Our Lady Help of Christians Chapel, and Villa Maria Motherhouse Complex are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 29.5 square miles, of which 29.4 square miles is land and 0.1 square miles. The town is bordered by Lancaster on the east, West Seneca on the south, the city of Buffalo on the west, the town includes the waterways of Scajaquada Creek, Cayuga Creek and Ellicott Creek. Bellevue - A neighborhood between Union Road and the Depew border and it is home to the Bellevue Fire Department and a portion of Cayuga Creek. It is also home to the historic Bellevue Hotel, a local bar, Cheektowaga - A census-designated place corresponding to all of the town outside the villages of Sloan and Depew. Cleveland Hill - A neighborhood located on the town line, has its own school district. Depew - The village of Depew is in the part of the town. Doyle - A neighborhood near the town line. Forks - A location near Union Road and Broadway, Maryvale - A neighborhood located just west of the airport, this community is also a school district, containing Maryvale High School
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Buffalo, New York
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Buffalo is a city in western New York state and the county seat of Erie County, on the eastern shores of Lake Erie at the head of the Niagara River. As of 2014, Buffalo is New York states 2nd-most populous city after New York City, the metropolitan area has a population of 1.13 million. After an economic downturn in the half of the 20th century, Buffalos economy has transitioned to sectors that include financial services, technology, biomedical engineering. Residents of Buffalo are called Buffalonians, the citys nicknames include The Queen City, The Nickel City and The City of Good Neighbors. The city of Buffalo received its name from a creek called Buffalo Creek. British military engineer Captain John Montresor made reference to Buffalo Creek in his journal of 1764, there are several theories regarding how Buffalo Creek received its name. In 1804, as principal agent opening the area for the Holland Land Company, Joseph Ellicott, designed a radial street and grid system that branches out from downtown like bicycle spokes similar to the street system he used in the nations capital. Although Ellicott named the settlement New Amsterdam, the name did not catch on, during the War of 1812, on December 30,1813, Buffalo was burned by British forces. The George Coit House 1818 and Samuel Schenck House 1823 are currently the oldest houses within the limits of the City of Buffalo, on October 26,1825, the Erie Canal was completed with Buffalo a port-of-call for settlers heading westward. At the time, the population was about 2,400, the Erie Canal brought about a surge in population and commerce, which led Buffalo to incorporate as a city in 1832. In 1845, construction began on the Macedonia Baptist Church, an important meeting place for the abolitionist movement, Buffalo was a terminus point of the Underground Railroad with many fugitive slaves crossing the Niagara River to Fort Erie, Ontario in search of freedom. During the 1840s, Buffalos port continued to develop, both passenger and commercial traffic expanded with some 93,000 passengers heading west from the port of Buffalo. Grain and commercial goods shipments led to repeated expansion of the harbor, in 1843, the worlds first steam-powered grain elevator was constructed by local merchant Joseph Dart and engineer Robert Dunbar. Darts Elevator enabled faster unloading of lake freighters along with the transshipment of grain in bulk from barges, canal boats, by 1850, the citys population was 81,000. At the dawn of the 20th century, local mills were among the first to benefit from hydroelectric power generated by the Niagara River, the city got the nickname City of Light at this time due to the widespread electric lighting. It was also part of the revolution, hosting the brass era car builders Pierce Arrow. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by an anarchist at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on September 6,1901, McKinley died in the city eight days later and Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in at the Wilcox Mansion as the 26th President of the United States. The Great Depression of 1929–39 saw severe unemployment, especially working class men
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German Americans
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The German American ethnic group consists of Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 46 million in 2014, German Americans are the largest of the groups reported by the US Census Bureau in its American Community Survey. The group accounts for about 1⁄3 of the total ethnic German population in the world, none of the German states had American colonies. In the 1670s the first significant groups of German immigrants arrived in the British colonies, settling primarily in New York, immigration continued in very large numbers during the 19th century, with eight million arrivals from Germany. Between 1820 and 1870 over seven and a half million German immigrants came to the United States — more than doubling the population of the country. By 2010, their population grew to 49.8 million immigrants, there is a German belt that extends all the way across the United States, from eastern Pennsylvania to the Oregon coast. The state of Pennsylvania has 3.5 million people of German ancestry and they were pulled by the attractions of land and religious freedom, and pushed out of Europe by shortages of land and religious or political oppression. Many arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, the arrivals before 1850 were mostly farmers who sought out the most productive land, where their intensive farming techniques would pay off. After 1840, many came to cities, where Germania—German-speaking districts—soon emerged, German Americans established the first kindergartens in the United States, introduced the Christmas tree tradition, and introduced popular foods such as hot dogs and hamburgers to America. The great majority of people with some German ancestry have become Americanized and hardly can be distinguished, traditional Oktoberfest celebrations and the German-American Day are popular festivities. There are major events in cities with German heritage including Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, San Antonio. The Germans included many quite distinct subgroups with differing religious and cultural values and they generally opposed womens suffrage but this was used as argument in favor of suffrage when German Americans became pariahs during World War I. The first English settlers arrived at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 and he was followed in 1608 by five glassmakers and three carpenters or house builders. The first permanent German settlement in what became the United States was Germantown, Pennsylvania, large numbers of Germans migrated from the 1680s to 1760s, with Pennsylvania the favored destination. They migrated to America for a variety of reasons, often immigrants paid for their passage by selling their labor for a period of years as indentured servants. Large sections of Pennsylvania and upstate New York attracted Germans, most were Lutheran or German Reformed, many belonged to small religious sects such as the Moravians and Mennonites. German Catholics did not arrive in number until after the War of 1812, in 1709, Protestant Germans from the Pfalz or Palatine region of Germany escaped conditions of hardship, traveling first to Rotterdam and then to London. Anne, Queen of Great Britain, helped them get to her colonies in America, the trip was long and difficult to survive because of the poor quality of food and water aboard ships and the infectious disease typhus
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Bachelor of Arts
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A Bachelor of Arts is a bachelors degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both. Bachelor of Arts degree programs take three to four years depending on the country, academic institution, and specific specializations, majors or minors. The word baccalaureus or baccalarium should not be confused with baccalaureatus, degree diplomas generally are printed on high-quality paper or parchment, individual institutions set the preferred abbreviation for their degrees. In Pakistan, the Bachelor of Arts degree can also be attained within two years as an external degree, in colleges and universities in Australia, New Zealand, Nepal and South Africa, the BA degree can be taken over three years of full-time study. Unlike in other countries, students do not receive a grade for their Bachelor of Arts degree with varying levels of honours. Qualified students may be admitted, after they have achieved their Bachelors program with an overall grade point average. Thus, to achieve a Bachelor Honours degree, a postgraduate year. A student who holds a Honours degree is eligible for entry to either a Doctorate or a very high research Master´s degree program. Education in Canada is controlled by the Provinces and can be different depending on the province in Canada. Canadian universities typically offer a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degrees, in many universities and colleges, Bachelor of Arts degrees are differentiated either as Bachelors of Arts or as honours Bachelor of Arts degree. The honours degrees are designated with the abbreviation in brackets of. It should not be confused with the consecutive Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, Latin Baccalaureatus in Artibus Cum Honore, BA hon. de jure without brackets and with a dot. It is a degree, which is considered to be the equivalent of a corresponding maîtrise degree under the French influenced system. Going back in history, a three-year Bachelor of Arts degree was called a pass degree or general degree. Students may be required to undertake a long high-quality research empirical thesis combined with a selection of courses from the relevant field of studies. The consecutive B. cum Honore degree is essential if students ultimate goal is to study towards a two- or three-year very high research masters´ degree qualification. A student holding a Baccalaureatus Cum Honore degree also may choose to complete a Doctor of Philosophy program without the requirement to first complete a masters degree, over the years, in some universities certain Baccalaureatus cum Honore programs have been changed to corresponding master´s degrees. In general, in all four countries, the B. A. degree is the standard required for entry into a masters programme, in science, a BA hons degree is generally a prerequisite for entrance to a Ph. D program or a very-high-research-activity master´s programme
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Criminal justice
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Those accused of crime have some protections against abuse of investigatory and prosecution powers. This report made more than 200 recommendations as part of an approach toward the prevention. Some of those recommendations found their way into the Omnibus Crime Control, the Commission advocated a systems approach to criminal justice, with improved coordination among law enforcement, courts, and correctional agencies. The Presidents Commission defined the criminal justice system as the means for society to enforce the standards of conduct necessary to protect individuals, in Canada, the criminal justice system aims to balance the goals of crime control and prevention, and justice. In Sweden, the goal for the criminal justice system is to reduce crime. In China, the system aims to keep the society function well. Overall, criminal justice plays a role throughout society as a whole in any place. ==Law== LINARES, DIANA The Law From Old English lagu, legal comes from Latin legalis, from lex law, the purpose of law is to provide an objective set of rules for governing conduct and maintaining order in a society. The oldest known codified law is the Code of hammurabi, dating back to about 1754 BC, the preface directly credits the laws to the code of hammurabi of Ur. In different parts of the world, law could be established by philosophers or religion, in the modern world, laws are typically created and enforced by governments. These codified laws may coexist with or contradict other forms of control, such as religious proscriptions, professional rules and ethics, or the cultural mores. Within the realm of codified law, there are two forms of law that the courts are concerned with. Civil laws are rules and regulations which govern transactions and grievances between individual citizens, Criminal law is concerned with actions which are dangerous or harmful to society as a whole, in which prosecution is pursued not by an individual but rather by the state. The purpose of law is to provide the specific definition of what constitutes a crime. No criminal law can be valid unless it includes both of these factors, the subject of criminal justice is, of course, primarily concerned with the enforcement of criminal law. ### The criminal justice system consists of three parts, Legislative, adjudication, and corrections. In the criminal justice system, these distinct agencies operate together both under the rule of law and as the means of maintaining the rule of law within society. When warranted, law enforcement agencies or police officers are empowered to use force and other forms of coercion and means to effect public
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American Academy of Dramatic Arts
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The American Academy of Dramatic Arts is a two-year performing arts conservatory with bi-coastal facilities at 120 Madison Avenue, Manhattan, and at 1336 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles. The oldest acting school in the English speaking world, the Academy in New York City was founded in 1884 to train actors for the stage and its first home was the original Lyceum Theatre on what is now Park Avenue South. In 1963, the moved to its current home, a landmark building designed by noted architect Stanford White as the original Colony Club. In 1974, the Academy opened another campus in Pasadena, California, the Los Angeles campus moved from Pasadena to Hollywood in 2001 in a new building next to the site of the former studios of Charlie Chaplin. The Academy remains dedicated to training professional actors and it offers a two-year program in which students have to be invited back for the second year. Auditions are held at the end of the year for the third year company. Students who graduate in New York receive an Associate of Occupational Studies degree, students from New York and Los Angeles can get a Bachelor of Arts degree from selected universities. Numerous students of the Academy have gone on to distinguished careers throughout the entertainment industry, receiving nominations for Tonys, Oscars, from their Web site, The Academy has many teachers and faculty who have many professional connections and credits. Notable faculty includes, David Dean Bottrell, Karen Hensel, Sandy Martin, Ian Ogilvy, notes American Academy of Dramatic Arts Home Page
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Broadway theatre
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Along with Londons West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City, the great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggars Opera, in 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice, the company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, by the 1840s, P. T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan. In 1829, at Broadway and Prince Street, Niblos Garden opened, the 3, 000-seat theatre presented all sorts of musical and non-musical entertainments. In 1844, Palmos Opera House opened and presented opera for four seasons before bankruptcy led to its rebranding as a venue for plays under the name Burtons Theatre. The Astor Opera House opened in 1847, booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865, and would later revive the role at his own Booths Theatre. Other renowned Shakespeareans who appeared in New York in this era were Henry Irving, Tommaso Salvini, Fanny Davenport, lydia Thompson came to America in 1868 heading a small theatrical troupe, adapting popular English burlesques for middle-class New York audiences. Thompsons troupe called the British Blondes, was the most popular entertainment in New York during the 1868–1869 theatrical season, the six-month tour ran for almost six extremely profitable years. Theatre in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown beginning around 1850, in 1870, the heart of Broadway was in Union Square, and by the end of the century, many theatres were near Madison Square. Broadways first long-run musical was a 50-performance hit called The Elves in 1857, New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keenes musical burletta The Seven Sisters shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. It was at a performance by Keenes troupe of Our American Cousin in Washington, the production was a staggering five-and-a-half hours long, but despite its length, it ran for a record-breaking 474 performances. The same year, The Black Domino/Between You, Me and the Post was the first show to call itself a musical comedy, Tony Pastor opened the first vaudeville theatre one block east of Union Square in 1881, where Lillian Russell performed. Comedians Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart produced and starred in musicals on Broadway between 1878 and 1890, with book and lyrics by Harrigan and music by his father-in-law David Braham. They starred high quality singers, instead of the women of repute who had starred in earlier musical forms. Plays could run longer and still draw in the audiences, leading to better profits, as in England, during the latter half of the century, the theatre began to be cleaned up, with less prostitution hindering the attendance of the theatre by women
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As the World Turns
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As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2,1956, to September 17,2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a show to her other soap opera Guiding Light. Running for 54 years, As the World Turns holds the second-longest continuous run of any daytime soap opera on American television. As the World Turns was produced for the first 43 years in Manhattan, set in the fictional town of Oakdale, Illinois, the show debuted on April 2,1956, at 1,30 pm EST. Prior to that date, all serials had been 15 minutes in length, as the World Turns and The Edge of Night, which premiered on the same day at 4,30 pm EST, were the first two to be 30 minutes in length from their premiere. At first, viewers did not respond to the new half-hour serial, in 1959, the show started a streak of weekly ratings wins that was not interrupted for over 12 years. The show switched to color on August 21,1967, and expanded from a half-hour in length to one starting on December 1,1975. In the year-to-date ratings, As the World Turns was the daytime drama from 1958 until 1978. At its height, core actors such as Helen Wagner, Don MacLaughlin, Don Hastings, three of these actors – Wagner, Hastings, and Fulton – are also the three longest serving actors in the history of American soap operas. The show passed its 10, 000th episode on May 12,1995, on September 18,2009, As the World Turns became the last remaining Procter and Gamble-produced soap opera for CBS after Guiding Light aired its final episode on the network. On December 8,2009, CBS announced that it cancelled As the World Turns after almost 54 years due to low ratings. The show taped its final Procter and Gamble scenes for CBS on June 23,2010, on October 18,2010, CBS replaced As the World Turns with a newly debuted talk show The Talk. As the World Turns was the creation of Irna Phillips, who beginning in the 1930s, had one of the foremost creators and writers of radio soap operas. Phillips wrote, As the world turns, we know the bleakness of winter, the promise of spring, the fullness of summer, and so it was with As the World Turns, with its slow-moving psychological character studies of families headed by legal and medical professionals. The personal and professional lives of doctors and lawyers remained central to As the World Turns throughout its run, Phillips style favored gradual evolution over radical change. Slow, conversational, and emotionally intense, the show moved at the pace of life itself –, each new addition to the cast was done in a gradual manner, and was usually a key contact to one of the members of the Hughes family. As such, the show earned a reputation as being quite conservative, during the shows early decades, the content-related policies of its sponsor Procter & Gamble Productions may have contributed to the perception of conservatism. As the World Turns premiered on April 2,1956 and it was the first television daytime drama with a 30-minute running time, all daytime dramas until then had 15-minute running times
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Bruce Willis
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Walter Bruce Willis is an American actor, producer, and singer. His career began on the Off-Broadway stage and then in television in the 1980s and he is known for his role of John McClane in the Die Hard series. He has appeared in over 60 films, including Color of Night, Pulp Fiction,12 Monkeys, The Fifth Element, Armageddon, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Sin City, Red, The Expendables 2, and Looper. Willis married actress Demi Moore in 1987, and they had three daughters, including Rumer, before their divorce in 2000, since 2009, he has been married to model Emma Heming, with whom he has two daughters. Willis was born Walter Bruce Willis on March 19,1955, in the town of Idar-Oberstein and his father, David Willis, was an American soldier. His mother, Marlene, was German, born in Kassel, Willis is the oldest of four children, he has a sister, Florence, and a brother, David. His brother Robert died of cancer in 2001, aged 42. After being discharged from the military in 1957, Williss father took his back to Carneys Point Township. Willis has described himself as having come from a line of blue collar people. His mother worked in a bank and his father was a welder, master mechanic, Willis attended Penns Grove High School in his hometown, where he encountered issues with a stutter. He was nicknamed Buck-Buck by his schoolmates, after high school, Willis took a job as a security guard at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant and transported work crews at the DuPont Chambers Works factory in Deepwater, New Jersey. After working as an investigator, Willis turned to acting. He enrolled in the Drama Program at Montclair State University, where he was cast in the production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Willis left school in his year and moved to New York City. Willis left New York City and headed to California to audition for television shows. In 1984, he appeared in an episode of the TV series Miami Vice, in 1985, he was the guest actor in the first episode of the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone, Shatterday. He auditioned for the role of David Addison Jr. of the television series Moonlighting, competing against 3,000 other actors for the position, during the height of the shows success, beverage maker Seagram hired Willis as the pitchman for their Golden Wine Cooler products. The advertising campaign paid the rising star between $5–7 million over two years, in spite of that, Willis chose not to renew his contract with the company when he decided to stop drinking alcohol in 1988
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Go (1999)
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Go is a 1999 American crime comedy film written by John August and directed by Doug Liman, with intertwining plots involving three sets of characters. Around Christmas in Los Angeles, Ronna Martin, working overtime at her job to avoid being evicted, is approached at work by Adam and Zack. They were hoping to buy from her co-worker, Simon Baines, before she can give Adam and Zack the drugs, Ronna grows suspicious of Burke, a stranger with the two who presses her for the ecstasy. In a panic, she flushes the drugs down the toilet, Ronna then steals aspirin to replace the ecstasy she disposed of, helped by her friend and another co-worker, Manny, who swallowed two of the pills without knowing their strength. Todd soon discovers that the pills are fake and pursues Ronna, Ronna flees with Manny, but he is overcome by the drugs. Ronna leaves him in an alley and promises to return with her car, before he can shoot Ronna, she is hit by a car that speeds away. The story restarts from the perspective of Simon, who is on a trip to Las Vegas with his three best friends, Marcus, Tiny, and Singh, Tiny and Singh soon get food poisoning, leaving Simon and Marcus to their own devices. Simon crashes a wedding and has sex with two of the bridesmaids before their hotel room accidentally catches fire, Simon and Marcus leave the hotel, stealing a car from someone who thinks Marcus is a parking attendant. The pair goes to a club, where Simon orders a private lap dance for them using Todds loaned credit card. Simon shoots Victor Jr. with a gun that he found in the stolen car, the four barely escape the bouncer and his father, Victor Sr. but Victor Sr. traces Todds address from the credit card Simon left at the strip club. The story then changes perspective to Adam and Zack, actors in a soap opera who are secretly gay and in a relationship. Having been busted for possession, they are forced to work with Burke. When they cannot find their usual dealer, Simon, the two convince Ronna to come up with the drugs, when Ronna arrives later to make the deal, Zack secretly warns her away, leading her to dispose of the drugs in the bathroom. After the unsuccessful bust, Burke invites Adam and Zack to Christmas dinner, Adam and Zack observe strange behavior from Burke and his wife, Irene, Burke espousing the quality of his bed to Zack while naked and Irene coming onto Adam. Burke and Irene finally pitch an Amway-type company to Adam and Zack over dinner, idly discussing their now-confirmed infidelity with each other, Adam and Zack realize they both cheated with the same person, Jimmy. They discover he is at a rave and confront him there, while leaving the rave, they accidentally run over Ronna in the parking lot, panicking and driving away when they see Todd with a gun. Zack tries to reassure Adam that, even if Ronna had survived being run over, Adam then discovers to his horror that he is still wearing his wire. Fearing they have recorded and will be discovered, the two return to the accident scene to remove Ronnas body, but discover she is still alive
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Equilibrium (film)
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Equilibrium is a 2002 American dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Kurt Wimmer and starring Christian Bale, Emily Watson, and Taye Diggs. The film follows John Preston, an enforcement officer in a future in which feelings and artistic expression are outlawed and citizens take daily injections of drugs to suppress their emotions. Ultimately, he aids a resistance movement using advanced martial arts, Libria is governed by the Tetragrammaton Council, led by Father, who is seen only on giant video screens throughout the city. At the pinnacle of Librian law enforcement are the Grammaton Clerics, the Clerics frequently raid the Nether regions outside the city to search for and destroy illegal materials – art, literature, and music – and execute the people hiding them. A resistance movement, known as the Underground, emerges with the goal of toppling Father, John Preston is a high-ranking Cleric. His wife, Viviana, was executed as a Sense Offender, following a raid, Preston notices his partner, Errol Partridge, saving a book of poems instead of turning it in for incineration. Preston tracks down Partridge, who is hiding in the Nether region reading the book, Partridge confesses to Preston that he believes he was wrong to serve the government. He acknowledges that the consequences of feeling emotions are a heavy cost, Preston is forced to execute him. Preston dreams occasionally about his wife and the day she was arrested, as a result, he begins to experience brief episodes of emotion that evoke memories, stir feelings, and make him more aware of his surroundings. He intentionally skips more doses of Prozium and hides them behind the mirror in his bathroom, Prestons partner is replaced with career-conscious Brandt, who expresses his admiration for Prestons uncompromising work as a cleric. On their first raid, they arrest Mary OBrien, a citizen identified as a Sense Offender, to Brandts surprise, Preston prevents him from executing OBrien on the spot, saying that he wants to keep her alive for interrogation. Brandt grows suspicious of Prestons hesitation to execute Sense Offenders and destroy contraband, as a result of his new secret emotions, Preston feels remorse for having killed Partridge, and he also develops an emotional relationship with OBrien. Preston eventually uncovers clues that lead to a meeting with Jurgen, Jurgen convinces him that Father must be assassinated. They plan to disrupt Prozium production in an attempt to spark a popular uprising, Preston is brought before Vice-Counsel DuPont, who reveals that there is a traitor in the upper ranks of the Clerics. DuPont appears to be onto Preston, but then assigns him the task of uncovering and stopping the traitor, relieved to learn he has not been implicated, Preston accepts and renews a promise to locate the Undergrounds leadership. He learns of OBriens scheduled execution, but Jurgen advises against interfering, Jurgen decides to allow the leaders of the resistance to be captured by Preston, so that Preston can gain the governments trust in order to approach Father and assassinate him. Unable to bear OBriens execution, Preston unsuccessfully rushes to stop it, Brandt catches Preston having an emotional breakdown in the streets, arrests him, and brings him before the Vice-Counsel. Preston tricks DuPont into believing that Brandt is the real traitor, following Brandts arrest, Preston is informed that a search of his home will take place as a formality
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Ultraviolet (film)
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Ultraviolet is a 2006 American dystopian science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Kurt Wimmer and produced by Screen Gems. It stars Milla Jovovich as Violet Song, Cameron Bright as Six and it was released in North America on March 3,2006. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on June 27,2006, a novelization of the film was written by Yvonne Navarro, with more back-story and character development. The book differs from the film in a number of ways, including a more ambiguous ending, an anime series titled Ultraviolet, Code 044 was released by the Japanese anime satellite television network Animax, and created by Madhouse. Because of its similarities with Equilibrium and because they share the same director. Ultraviolet takes place in 2078, in the following a global epidemic that causes vampire-like symptoms, including super-human physical abilities. The infected hemophages die within twelve years after being infected, having been infected a decade earlier, Violet Song Jat Shariff has become a member of an underground resistance movement fighting to protect the hemophages from the government. Working with the resistance, Violet steals a weapon that was created to exterminate all hemophages. Rather than kill the child, Violet flees with the boy and she eventually converses with Daxus, who tells her that the boy is his son, but she does not believe him. Instead she takes him to her friend Garth, who tells her the boy has no antigens and he also tells her that the boy has a tracking device embedded in him, that they can track him easily and he has only 8 hours to live. In the meantime, Nerva reveals to Violet that the antigens in Sixs blood are actually deadly to humans, furthermore, Daxus clarifies that the boy is his clone, his previous claim to her being a ruse to earn her sympathy. Since the hemophages are nearly exterminated, the Archministry intends to engineer a new plague to maintain its power, when he refuses to give her the cure, Violet escapes with Six and lets him spend his last moments at a playground. Daxus arrives and takes Sixs body for dissection, later, however, Violet realizes that Six may not actually be dead. She storms the Archministry and reaches a lab just as Daxus is about to begin the dissection, in the ensuing fight, Daxus reveals that he uses enhancements he gained from an accidental exposure to the hemophage virus to aid in his rise to power. Violet kills Daxus and leaves with Sixs body, Six later wakes up, having been immunized by the hemophage virus in Violets tears. It is theorized that Six may, after all, be instrumental in creating a cure for the hemophages, production was finished in late June 2004. The film was shot digitally on high-definition video using a Sony HDW-F900, in 2005, the films trailer was leaked on the internet. Director Kurt Wimmer then visited several message boards and demanded all clips be removed in order to keep the plot a secret
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Character actor
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A character actor or character actress is a supporting actor who plays unusual, interesting, or eccentric characters. The term, often contrasted with that of leading actor, is somewhat abstract, in a literal sense, all actors can be considered character actors since they all play characters, but in the usual sense it is an actor who plays a distinctive and important supporting role. In either case, character actor roles are more substantial than bit parts or non-speaking extras, the term is used primarily to describe television and film actors, and is less used to describe theater actors. An early use of the term was in the 1883 edition of The Stage, Actors with a long career history of playing character roles may be difficult for audiences to recognize as being the same actor, if they play such roles convincingly and memorably. Unlike leading actors, they are seen as less glamorous. Generally, the names of actors are not featured prominently in movie and television advertising on the marquee. Some character actors have distinctive voices or accents, or they develop memorable mannerisms, a character actor with a long career may not have a well-known name, yet may be instantly recognizable. During the course of a career, an actor can sometimes shift between leading roles and secondary roles. Some leading actors, as they get older, find that access to leading roles is limited by their increasing age, in the past, actors of color, who were often barred from roles for which they were otherwise suited, found work performing ethnic stereotypes. Sometimes character actors have developed based on specific talents needed in genre films, such as dancing, horsemanship, acrobatics, swimming ability. Some character actors develop a following with a particular audience. Ed Lauter usually portrayed a menacing figure because of his long, angular face which was recognized in public. Character actors can play a variety of types, such as the femme fatale, gunslinger, sidekick, town drunk, villain, whore with a heart of gold, Character actors subsume themselves into the characters they portray, such that their off-screen acting persona is practically unrecognizable. According to one view, great actors are rarely out of work. They are also highly regarded by fellow actors. Stock character Commedia dellarte Quinlan, David, quinlans Illustrated Directory of Film Character Actors. Character Kings, Hollywoods Familiar Faces Discuss the Art & Business of Acting
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Passion of Mind
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Passion of Mind is a 2000 American psychological romantic drama film starring Demi Moore. It was the first English-language film from Belgian director Alain Berliner, Marty is a high-powered single literary agent in Manhattan. Marie is a widow in Provence with two daughters and a peaceful life, Marty has been seeing a therapist to deal with her vivid dreams of Maries life, when Marie falls asleep she dreams Martys life, but is much less disturbed by it. Each woman is convinced that the other is a figment of her imagination, when Marty meets Aaron they become friends and eventually lovers, terrified that her vivid other life means that shes losing her mind, Marty does not want to tell Aaron about it but finally does. The two men react very differently, William is jealous, while Aaron is skeptical but not at all threatened, and wants only for Marty to be happy. Dreams and real life begin to merge when Marie goes on holiday with William to Paris, eventually Marty/Marie must come to terms with reality and choose which life is real and which is illusion. Passion of Mind at the Internet Movie Database Passion of Mind at Rotten Tomatoes
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Demi Moore
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Demi Gene Guynes, professionally known as Demi Moore, is an American actress, former songwriter, and model. Moore dropped out of school at age 16 to pursue an acting career. After making her debut later that year, she appeared on the soap opera General Hospital and subsequently gained recognition for her work in Blame It on Rio. Her first film to both a critical and commercial hit was About Last Night. Which established her as a Hollywood star, in 1990, Moore starred in Ghost, the highest-grossing film of that year, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. She had a string of additional successes in the early 1990s, including A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal. In 1996, Moore became the actress in film history when she was paid a then-unprecedented fee of $12.5 million to star in Striptease. Her next major role, G. I. Moore was born on November 11,1962 in Roswell and her biological father, Air Force airman Charles Harmon, Sr. left her mother, Virginia, after a two-month marriage, before Moore was born. When Moore was three months old, her mother married Dan Guynes, an advertising salesman who frequently changed jobs, as a result. Moore said in 1991, My dad was Dan Guynes, there is a man who would be considered my biological father who I dont really have a relationship with. Moore learned of him at age 13, when she found her mother and stepfathers marriage certificate, Dan Guynes committed suicide in October 1980 at age 37, two years after he separated from Moores mother. Charles Harmon appeared on Inside Edition in 1995, making an appeal to see his grandchildren, Virginia Guynes had a long record of arrests for crimes, including drunk driving and arson. Moore broke off contact with her in 1990, when Guynes walked away from a rehab stay Moore had paid for at the Hazelden Foundation in Minnesota. Guynes posed nude for the magazine High Society in 1993, where she spoofed Moores Vanity Fair pregnancy and bodypaint covers, Moore and Guynes briefly reconciled shortly before Guynes died of cancer in July 1998 at age 54. Moore was cross-eyed as a child, this was corrected by two operations. She also suffered from kidney dysfunction, at age 15, Moore moved to West Hollywood, California, where her mother worked for a magazine-distribution company. Moore attended Fairfax High School there, and recalled, I moved out of my familys house when I was 16 and left high school in my junior year. In August 1979, three months before her 17th birthday, Moore met musician Freddy Moore who was married and at the leader of the band Boy
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
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Grand Theft Auto, Vice City is an open world action-adventure third-person shooter video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 27 October 2002 for the PlayStation 2, on 12 May 2003 for Microsoft Windows, a remastered version was released for mobile platforms in 2012, for the games tenth anniversary. It is the title in the Grand Theft Auto series. Set within the fictional Vice City, based on Miami, the game follows Tommy Vercetti following his release from prison. After he is caught up in a drug deal, he seeks out those responsible while building a criminal empire. The game is played from a perspective, and its world is navigated on foot or by vehicle. The open world design lets the player freely roam Vice City, the game was also influenced by the film and television of the era, including Scarface and Miami Vice. Much of the development work constituted creating the world to fit the inspiration and time period. Upon release, the game received acclaim, with praise particularly directed at its music, gameplay. However, the game generated controversy, with criticism directed at the depiction of violence. The game sparked lawsuits and protests while being labelled as violent, Vice City became the best-selling video game of 2002 and has sold over 20 million copies. Considered one of the most significant titles of the generation of video games. Since its release, the game has received numerous ports to many gaming platforms and its successor, Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas, was released in October 2004, and a prequel, Vice City Stories, was released in 2006. Grand Theft Auto, Vice City is a game played from a third-person view. In the game, the controls the criminal Tommy Vercetti. It is possible to have several active missions running at one time, outside of missions, the player can freely roam the games open world and has the ability to complete optional side missions. Composed of two islands and several smaller areas, the world is much larger in area than earlier entries in the series. The islands are unlocked for the player as the story progresses, the player may run, jump, or drive vehicles to navigate the games world
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Video game
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A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor. The word video in video game referred to a raster display device. Some theorists categorize video games as an art form, but this designation is controversial, the electronic systems used to play video games are known as platforms, examples of these are personal computers and video game consoles. These platforms range from large mainframe computers to small handheld computing devices, the input device used for games, the game controller, varies across platforms. Common controllers include gamepads, joysticks, mouse devices, keyboards, the touchscreens of mobile devices, and buttons, or even, with the Kinect sensor, a persons hands and body. Players typically view the game on a screen or television or computer monitor, or sometimes on virtual reality head-mounted display goggles. There are often game sound effects, music and, in the 2010s, some games in the 2000s include haptic, vibration-creating effects, force feedback peripherals and virtual reality headsets. In the 2010s, the game industry is of increasing commercial importance, with growth driven particularly by the emerging Asian markets and mobile games. As of 2015, video games generated sales of USD74 billion annually worldwide, early games used interactive electronic devices with various display formats. The earliest example is from 1947—a Cathode ray tube Amusement Device was filed for a patent on 25 January 1947, by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann, and issued on 14 December 1948, as U. S. Written by MIT students Martin Graetz, Steve Russell, and Wayne Wiitanens on a DEC PDP-1 computer in 1961, and the hit ping pong-style Pong, used the DEC PDP-1s vector display to have two spaceships battle each other. In 1971, Computer Space, created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, was the first commercially sold and it used a black-and-white television for its display, and the computer system was made of 74 series TTL chips. The game was featured in the 1973 science fiction film Soylent Green, Computer Space was followed in 1972 by the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home console. Modeled after a late 1960s prototype console developed by Ralph H. Baer called the Brown Box and these were followed by two versions of Ataris Pong, an arcade version in 1972 and a home version in 1975 that dramatically increased video game popularity. The commercial success of Pong led numerous other companies to develop Pong clones and their own systems, the game inspired arcade machines to become prevalent in mainstream locations such as shopping malls, traditional storefronts, restaurants, and convenience stores. The game also became the subject of articles and stories on television and in newspapers and magazines. Space Invaders was soon licensed for the Atari VCS, becoming the first killer app, the term platform refers to the specific combination of electronic components or computer hardware which, in conjunction with software, allows a video game to operate. The term system is commonly used
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 26 October 2004 for the PlayStation 2, a high definition remaster received a physical release on both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 on 30 June 2015 and 1 December 2015, respectively. It is the title in the Grand Theft Auto series. It was released on the day as the handheld game Grand Theft Auto Advance. Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas is played from a perspective in an open world environment. The game is set within the fictional U. S. state of San Andreas, the state of San Andreas consists of three metropolitan cities, Los Santos, based on Los Angeles, San Fierro, based on San Francisco, and Las Venturas, based on Las Vegas. The single-player story follows Carl CJ Johnson, who returns home to Los Santos from Liberty City after his mothers murder. It became the video game of 2004, and has sold over 27.5 million copies worldwide as of 2011. The game, like its predecessors, is cited as a landmark in video games for its influence within the industry. However, the violence and sexual content of San Andreas has been the source of public concern. In particular, a software patch, dubbed the Hot Coffee mod. The next main entry in the series, Grand Theft Auto IV, was released on 29 April 2008, San Andreas has been ported to various other platforms and services, such as OS X, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and mobile devices. San Andreas is structured similarly to the two games in the series. The core gameplay consists of elements of a shooter and a driving game, affording the player a large. On foot, the character is capable of walking, running, sprinting, swimming, climbing and jumping as well as using weapons. Players can drive a variety of vehicles, including automobiles, buses, semis, boats, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, trains, tanks, players may also import vehicles in addition to stealing them. The open, non-linear environment allows players to explore and choose how they wish to play the game, although storyline missions are necessary to progress through the game and unlock certain cities and content, they are not required as players can complete them at their own leisure. When not taking on a mission, players can free-roam and look around the cities of San Andreas, eat in restaurants, or cause havoc by attacking people
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National Hockey League
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Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the playoff champion at the end of each season. At its inception, the NHL had four teams—all in Canada, the league expanded to the United States in 1924, when the Boston Bruins joined, and has since consisted of American and Canadian teams. After a labour-management dispute that led to the cancellation of the entire 2004–05 season, in 2009, the NHL enjoyed record highs in terms of sponsorships, attendance, and television audiences. The league draws many highly skilled players from all over the world, canadians have historically constituted the majority of the players in the league, with an increasing percentage of American and European players in recent seasons. The National Hockey League was established in 1917 as the successor to the National Hockey Association, founded in 1909, the NHA began play one year later with seven teams in Ontario and Quebec, and was one of the first major leagues in professional ice hockey. Realizing the NHA constitution left them unable to force Livingstone out, the four teams voted instead to suspend the NHA, frank Calder was chosen as its first president, serving until his death in 1943. The Bulldogs were unable to play, and the remaining owners created a new team in Toronto, the first games were played on December 19,1917. The Montreal Arena burned down in January 1918, causing the Wanderers to cease operations, the NHL replaced the NHA as one of the leagues that competed for the Stanley Cup, which was an interleague competition back then. Toronto won the first NHL title, and then defeated the Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association for the 1918 Stanley Cup. The Canadiens won the title in 1919, however their Stanley Cup Final against the PCHAs Seattle Metropolitans was abandoned as a result of the Spanish Flu epidemic. Montreal in 1924 won their first Stanley Cup as a member of the NHL, the Hamilton Tigers, won the regular season title in 1924–25 but refused to play in the championship series unless they were given a C$200 bonus. The league refused and declared the Canadiens the league champion after defeated the Toronto St. Patricks in the semi-final. Montreal was then defeated by the Victoria Cougars of the Western Canada Hockey League for the 1925 Stanley Cup and it was the last time a non-NHL team won the trophy, as the Stanley Cup became the de facto NHL championship in 1926 after the WCHL ceased operation. The National Hockey League embarked on rapid expansion in the 1920s, adding the Montreal Maroons, the Bruins were the first American team in the league. The New York Americans began play in 1925 after purchasing the assets of the Hamilton Tigers, the New York Rangers were added in 1926. The Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Cougars were also added after the league purchased the assets of the defunct WCHL, a group purchased the Toronto St. Patricks in 1927 and immediately renamed them the Maple Leafs. The first NHL All-Star Game was held in 1934 to benefit Ace Bailey, the second was held in 1937 in support of Howie Morenzs family when he died of a coronary embolism after breaking his leg during a game
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The West Wing
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The West Wing is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22,1999, to May 14,2006. The West Wing was produced by Warner Bros, for the first four seasons, there were three executive producers, Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme, and John Wells. The West Wing received acclaim from critics, as well as praise from political science professors, in total, The West Wing won three Golden Globe Awards and 26 Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Drama Series, which it won four consecutive times from 2000 through 2003. In the years since its run, it has appeared on lists of the greatest television dramas ever made. The Writers Guild of America also ranked it #10 in its 101 Best-Written TV Series list, the West Wing employed a broad ensemble cast to portray the many positions involved in the daily work of the federal government. The President, the First Lady, and the Presidents senior staff, numerous secondary characters, appearing intermittently, complement storylines that generally revolve around this core group. Sam Seaborn is the Deputy Communications Director and he departs the White House following the re-election of President Bartlet to run for Congress. He is recruited to become Santos Deputy Chief of Staff at the series end, mandy Hampton is Josh Lymans ex-girlfriend and a media consultant contracted by the Bartlet administration. She departs without explanation following the first season, charlie Young is originally the Personal Aide to the President and later a Deputy Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff. He is in a relationship with Zoey Bartlet, at the series end he begins to study law at Georgetown. She succeeds Leo McGarry as Chief of Staff and departs White House at the end of the Bartlet administration, post-series, she marries Danny Concannon and has a child. He is fired from the Bartlet administration during a leak investigation and he has twin children with his ex-wife who is a congresswoman from Maryland. Leo McGarry, Bartlets close personal friend and Chief of Staff, following a heart attack, he becomes Counselor to the President, and later the Democratic Candidate for Vice President. Josh Lyman, is the Deputy Chief of Staff to Leo McGarry and C. J. Cregg, when Santos is elected, Josh becomes White House Chief of Staff. Josiah Jed Bartlet is the President of the United States, an economist by training, he is a former Congressman and Governor from New Hampshire who unexpectedly won the Democratic Party nomination. He suffers from multiple sclerosis, a fact he hides from the electorate. Donna Moss is the Senior Assistant to Josh Lyman and she later departs to be a spokesperson for the Russell campaign and then the Santos campaign. Upon Santos election, she becomes Chief of Staff to the First Lady, abbey Bartlet is the First Lady, Jeds wife, and a physician
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The West Wing (season 5)
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The fifth season of the American political drama television series The West Wing aired in the United States on NBC from September 24,2003, to May 19,2004, and consisted of 22 episodes. This was the first season with executive producer John Wells as showrunner after series creator Aaron Sorkin departed the series after the conclusion of the previous season. The fifth season had star billing for nine major roles, all nine of these were filled by returning main cast members from the fourth season, martin Sheen receives the and credit for his role as President Josiah Bartlet. The rest of the ensemble are credited alphabetically, while Stockard Channing is only credited for the episodes in which she appears. Stockard Channing as Abbey Bartlet Dulé Hill as Charlie Young Allison Janney as C. J. Bartlet takes the back from Acting President Walken. The fifth season begins toward the end of Bartlets first year of his term in office. By the end of the season, however, over a year has elapsed, the fifth season received 12 Emmy Award nominations for the 56th Primetime Emmy Awards, winning one award—Allison Janney for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, her fourth win. It was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series, the first year the series did not win the award, thomas Del Ruth received two nominations from the American Society of Cinematographers for the episodes 7A WF83429 and Gaza. Amazon. com called the episode Access memorable and described the episode as a Frontline-type day-in-the-life documentary and they said it was one of Allison Janneys showcase hours
