Array-ne I have lived in downtown Vancouver for a bit more than five and a half years, now, and I continue to be amazed at the fact that I can live so closely to all the important theatres. The Tinseltown, by the way, is currently the only theatre in the downtown area that has stadium-style seating, and it is also the only first-run theatre in the downtown area that is not owned (in whole or part) by either Famous Players or Cineplex Odeon.All of these theatres are within a half-hour’s walk from my place, and it is fairly rare that I have to go any further afield for a press or preview screening. The one major exception is the SilverCity Metropolis theatre in Burnaby, which is the nearest stadium-style theatre to Vancouver that is run by one of the two main Canadian theatre chains.
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After the abysmal Daredevil, I can’t claim I went after this seemingly pointless spin-off, featuring the love/bane of Daredevil’s existence, the mysterious and cold-blooded hired assassin Elektra, with any high hopes. It’s to Frank Miller’s credit that he never allowed her to become an all-out good gal, but rather stay ambiguous and dangerous to everybody around her â and her death in the comic book is still somewhat of a trauma for me, after reading it for the first time when I was around nine or ten.
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-ne 14 AprilTAX FREEDOM DAY 20051775 - Gen. Thomas Gage, commander of British forces in North America, received orders from Parliament authorizing him to use aggressive military force against the American rebels.1777 - NY adopted a new constitution as an independent state. 1860 - First Pony Express rider arrived in San Francisco with mail originating in St. Joseph, Missouri.1861 - Robert E. Lee resigned from Union army.1862 - Union mortar boats of Flag Officer Foote’s force commenced regular bombardment of Fort Pillow, Tennessee the next Army-Navy objective on the drive down the Mississippi.1865 - John Wilkes Booth shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington. The stricken president was carried from the box to a house across the street, where he died the following morning.1865 - John WIlkes Booth was a well-regarded actor who, along with friends Samuel Arnold, Michael O’Laughlin, and John Surratt, conspired to kidnap Lincoln and deliver him to the South. The havoc wrought on Union commerce by Confederate raiders dealt the whaling industry a blow from which it never recovered.1865 - In one of his last legislative acts before being assassinated, President Abraham Lincoln green-lighted a proposal to create the Secret Service on this day in 1865. Along the way, the Secret Service’s job description was also expanded to include quelling frauds against the government.1865 - Mobile, Alabama, was captured.1874 - The increasingly heated battle over greenbacks, the paper notes first printed to support the Union during the Civil War, took another turn as Congress passed The Legal Tender Act. The passage of the revised bill brought the amount of greenbacks in circulation up to 82 million.1898 - Commissioning of first Post Civil War hospital ship, USS Solace.1918 - Six days after being assigned for the first time to the western front, two American pilots from the U.S. First Aero Squadron engaged in America’s first aerial dogfight with enemy aircraft. Jenkins graduates as ensign in the Coast Guard Reserve, becoming the first commissioned African-American officer in the Coast Guard.1945 - Robert Dole, later US senator and 1996 presidential candidate, was severely crippled by an artillery shell. Dole spent nearly 40 months in army hospitals and lost most of the use of his right arm as a result.1945 - US 7th Army and allies forces captured Nuremberg and Stuttgart, Germany. The US 3rd Army captures Bayreuth.1945 - Reichsfuhrer SS Himmler orders that no prisoners at Dachau shall be allowed to fall into the hands of the enemy alive.1945 - Allied forces conduct Operation Teardrop. In north Luzon, US 1st Corps continues attacking near Baguio but fails to make significant progress.1945 - Japanese Kamikaze attacks damage the battleship USS New York. On Okinawa, American forces attack strong Japanese defenses in the hilly Motobu Peninsula in the north.1945 - B-29’s damaged the Imperial Palace during firebombing raid over Tokyo.1945 - The Fifth Army, now under Lucian K. By the time of the unconditional surrender of the Germans, signed at Caserta on April 29, almost 660,000 Axis troops lay dead–compared with 321,000 Allied dead.1949 - The International Military Tribunal at Nurembergâs made its last judgment.1950 - President Harry S. 4, but at a loss of eight bombers and their crews from combat and operational causes.1953 - Viet Minh invaded Laos with 40,00 troops in their war against French colonial forces.1960 - The 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile.1961 - Cuban-American invasion army departed Nicaragua.1961 - The Soviet Union made its first live television broadcast.1965 - The Joint Chiefs of Staff order the deployment of the 173rd Airborne Brigade from Okinawa to South Vietnam. and 8,435 were wounded in action.1967 - In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Haiphong for 1st time.1969 - North Korean aircraft shoots down Navy EC-121 reconnaissance aircraft from VQ-1 over the Sea of Japan.1971 - President Nixon ended a blockade against People’s Republic of China.1973 - Acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray resigned after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal.1975 - The American airlift of Vietnamese orphans to the United States ends after 2,600 children are transported to America. Although the first flight ended in tragedy, all other flights took place without incident, and Baby Lift aircraft ferried orphans across the Pacific until the mission concluded on April 14, only 16 days before the fall of Saigon and the end of the war.1980 - Mariel Boat Lift: The second major Cuban exodus began. Over 117,000 people in more than 5,000 boats were assisted by the Coast Guard and Navy forces.1981 - The first test flight of America’s first operational space shuttle, the Columbia 1, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.1986 - United States launches air strikes against Libya in retaliation for the Libyan sponsorship of terrorism against American troops and citizens. That year, the U.S. uncovered evidence of Libyan-sponsored terrorist plots against the United States, including planned assassination attempts against U.S. officials and the bombing of a U.S. embassy-sponsored dance in Khartoum, Sudan. The United States maintained sanctions, even after one of the Lockerbie suspects was convicted in 2001.1987 - Secretary of State George P. Gorbachev, who proposed the elimination of short-range nuclear missiles in East Germany and Czechoslovakia as part of an arms control agreement with the United States.1988 - Representatives of the USSR, Afghanistan, the United States, and Pakistan sign an agreement calling for the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan. North.1991 - The final withdrawal of American combat troops from southern Iraq began, 88 days after the United States launched its massive offensive to drive Saddam Husseinâs forces from Kuwait.1992 - Libya cut itself off from the world for 24 hours to mark the sixth anniversary of the U.S. air raid, the same day the World Court rejected Libya’s appeal to prevent sanctions against it for refusing to turn over suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.1994 - Two American F-15 warplanes inadvertently shot down two U.S. helicopters over northern Iraq, killing 26 people, including 15 Americans.1995 - The UN Security Council (Resolution 986) gave permission to Iraq, still under sanctions for its invasion of Kuwait, to sell billion dollars’ worth of oil to buy food, medicine and other supplies. Iraq later rejected the offer.1997 - An Iraqi Oil Ministry official reports that Iraq expects to earn more than 0 billion from its contract with Russia for the development of the West Qurna oil field in southern Iraq. The official states that production will begin soon(initially about 250,000 barrels per day, increasing to 600,000 barrels per day).1998 - The Clinton administration agreed to create a Persian-language radio service to transmit anti-government propaganda into Iran. A 1986 lawsuit by former employee Henry Boisvert complained that the vehicles did not pass all the tests the company claimed it did.1999 - The German capital began to be moved from Bonn to Berlin.1999 - NATO warplanes mistakenly struck refugee vehicles and some 60-75 ethnic Albanians were reported killed near Djakovica in Kosovo. A week later NATO acknowledged that 2 separate groups of vehicles were hit.1999 - The US pledged 7 million to help the Kenyan victims of the 1998 US Embassy bombing in Nairobi.2001 - The 21 men and 3 women crew of the US spy plane who were held in China for 11 days landed at their home base, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in Washington, where they were greeted by thousands of friends, family members and other well-wishers.2003 - In the 27th day of Operation Iraqi Freedom US troops poured into Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit and fought pockets of hard-core defenders. Iraqis and US troops began jointly patrolling the streets of Baghdad to quell the lawlessness.2003 - US commandos in Baghdad captured Abul Abbas, the leader of the violent Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner Achille Lauro in 1985. Abbas died in 2004 while in U.S. custody.2003 - Four Islamic militants were convicted in a deadly bombing outside the U.S. Consulate in Pakistan.2004 - In Iraq U.S. warplanes and helicopters hammered gunmen in Fallujah, straining a truce there. A 2,500-strong U.S. force massed on the outskirts of the holy city of Najaf for a showdown with radical cleric al-Sadr.2004 - The UN emissary to Iraq proposed a caretaker government to replace the Governing Council on June 30 to shepherd the country to free election in Jan 2005.Congressional Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This DayJORDAN, ROBERTRank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy.
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I was named after Keely Smith who sang with Louie Prima (That Old Black Magic).2. I used to want boys to know that because I thought it would convince them that I really was and that they should ask me to the dance or the movies.5. My parents did not give me a middle name because my mom thought my name was long enough. After Daniel proposed, I decided I wanted to take my entire last name as my middle name.8. Originally, we had thought about using all the letters in both of our last names and making a new one. You may call me Kiwi only if you have known me since high school and (I liked you) or are my Aunt Susan, otherwise I will think you are making fun of my name and that pisses me off.15. The only one who calls me babe or baby is Daniel and I like it that way. Daniel also likes to call me Keel. I met my husband in January of 2003 and we hit it off straight away even though I thought there was a possibility that he might not be 18 yet because he looked so young. I knew the first time Daniel and I sat and talked that we were going to be good friends, but neither of us was looking for a relationship at the time.28. I was just finalizing a nasty divorce (that took 18 months) after six years of a horrible marriage.29. Bailey is named for our love of Baileys Irish Cream. We also have a 1 and a half year old (6-18-2005) Pug named Max.37. In six years I performed in 4 musicals and 4 operas with that company. Daniel and I share an addiction to buying DVDs.61. We turned off our cable a few years ago because we thought there was nothing good on TV and we had other things we wanted to do with our time. On really stressful, sad occasions I beg Daniel to go buy me cigarettes or I try to get him all excited about going out to get cigarettes. At age 28, I still required Daniel to hold my hand when a nurse gave me shots or took blood. The mere thought of getting an IV put in makes me all woozy.72. I got it two years ago after a normal work injury. Back then doctorâs thought by cutting off the limb, the pain would go away. I used to take 4 different meds daily after going through dozens to find some that would work for me. I stopped taking all of my meds over a year ago when Daniel and I started trying for a baby.79. They helped me control the insulin resistance and Daniel had to give me shots in my stomach to make me more fertile.83. Someday, Daniel and I would like to travel to Europe and I would also really like him to show me some of Japan and China since he got to go there during college and his stories are so interesting.Labels: Lists
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I’m a qualified electrical fitter/mechanic - electrician by trade. I had my first car, the Green Machine, otherwise known as The Beast, a green ‘75 Toyota Corolla, for eleven and a half years - it’s still in the family.9. I am driving only my second car - a ‘96 EF Ford Falcon.15. I also collect stamps - a philatelist.19. Represented the Tatiara in three Burdon Shield (under 16) cricket matches taking a total of six catches and scoring 1 n.o., 1 and 0.27. My best bowling figures in a match were 4 for 26 for North Gambier C grade in a semi-final where I was on a hatrick after taking the fourth wicket but it was the last of the match and I also scored 32 runs in that game.28. in approximately 45 minutes vs Kongorong for North Gambier C grade which included three 6s (my only 6s!).29. My in-laws live in Korea - pretty close to the perfect distance away.42. I have one of the best relationships with my mother-in-law - we don’t speak the same language.43. Favourite Formula 1 driver - Ayrton Senna.44. Can say my name in a few languages - and it makes speakers of that language laugh.47. Only ever attended three concerts - MC Solaar in Copenhagen (left before he came on as it was too loud), Hunters & Collectors at Telstra Rally Australia and Avril Lavigne at Challenge Stadium, Perth.50. Passed my driving test first time - both car and motorbike.52. Longest time that I have grown a beard is six months - from the time I turned 18.59. Favourite Slovak phrase - proti smeru hodinovych ruciciek - anticlockwise.61. Favourite TV shows - Seinfeld and Red Dwarf.65. Favourite movie - Falling Down or anything with Arnie.66. Stayed in Carbisdale Castle, Scotland - the world’s best Youth Hostel.71. I’ve come within six inches of scoring a hole-in-one but never managed to score an eagle. Nicknames include Scoohooter (I rode a YB100 Yamaha - a little motorbike), Hammy, Hammus Bonus, Big Ears, Prince Charles, Green Eggs (and Ham - I love this one), Hammy Hamster, Hamster and Wingnut. Never scored a goal in three years of junior soccer or in indoor soccer. I’ve had more than 46 bases and extensions (fillings) done to my teeth - that’s a lot of needles.85. I am one of the world’s worst dancers - think Elaine on Seinfeld.100. My favourite subject is myself - which, if you have reached this point, you would probably already have worked out.Man, this was much more difficult than I expected.
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but please, ask for the mail service that Rosie DIDN’T use..;) )Who still misses school.My Hub thinks I’m a geek because I loved school.What is not to love about it?And it’s trueThe teachers make or break youWhen it comes to your opinions on schoolSo I started thinking aboutMy favouritesMy not-so-favouritesThe weird onesThe hot onesA few have definitely come to mindAnd others, not so muchONES THAT I DONT REMEMBER A THING ABOUT EXCEPT MAYBE THEIR NAME
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