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100 | $2 billion arms deal | "the arms procurement saga, Chief Dokpesi and Africa Independent Television was accused of partisan for airing some controversial documentaries such as ""The Lion of Bourdillon"", which Chief Bola Tinubu considered defamatory. This documentary generated several controversies, leading to a ₦150 billion libel suit against AIT by Chief Bola Tinubu. On 1 December 2015, Attahiru Bafarawa, the former Governor of Sokoto State, was arrested and detained by the EFCC in connection with the arms procurement deal having been mentioned by Colonel Dasuki. He was arrested alongside Dokpesi. Preliminary evidence showed that Attahiru Bafarawa received ₦4.6 billion from the office of the" |
101 | $2 billion arms deal | "National Security Adviser with no clear basis for the financial transaction. In response to the allegation, Bafarawa said he received the money from the Office of the National Security Adviser for spiritual purpose. On 8 December 2015, the family of Bafawara in a statement signed by the Media Aide to the former governor, Alhaji Yusuf Dingyadi advised the EFCC to charge Bafawara and his son to court if there are evidence against them rather than keeping them in their custody. According to ""Thisday"", the family of Bafawara said Today is one week since Bafarawa was detained by the EFCC. And" |
102 | $2 billion arms deal | today marks two weeks that his son Sagir Bafarawa has been in detention. Why are they being detained without charges? If the EFCC has any evidence that they have committed any crime it should charge them to court. We thought that the era of detaining people while searching for evidence was over. We call on the EFCC to release them forthwith if they have nothing against them. On 30 November 2015, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda, a former Minister of State for Finance, was arrested and detained by the EFCC in connections with the arms procurement deal having been mentioned by Colonel |
103 | $2 billion arms deal | "Dasuki. He was arrested alongside Chief Raymond Dokpesi, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa and his son. Preliminary evidence showed that Ambassador Yuguda received ₦1.5 billion from the office of the National Security Adviser with no coherent basis for the financial transaction. The money was transferred into his account through an unknown company for inexplicable purpose. According to Premium Times, ""The funds were directly transferred to him from the NSA office and he has been unable to explain the rationale for the transfer. The transfers were made to his account between December 2014 and May 2015"". Additional ₦1.275 billion was also transferred to" |
104 | $2 billion arms deal | "his account during the campaign for the Nigerian general election, 2015 Also ₦775 million was transferred into his account from the office of the Accountant General of the Federation. On 30 November 2015, Shaibu Salisu, a former Director of Finance in the office of the National Security Adviser, was arrested in connection with the arms procurement deal. Investigation reveal that Salisu operates a joint account with Sambo Dasuki. According to ""Thisday"", EFCC operatives said ""We just discovered a huge sum of money in foreign currencies in a joint account – being operated by the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo" |
105 | $2 billion arms deal | "Dasuki and a director in his office, one Shauibu Salisu. He is also being interrogated by EFCC operatives."" Salisu's confessional statements led to Dasuki's arrest. Investigation also revealed a payment of ₦650 million into the account Nduka Obaigbena, owner of Arise TV and Thisday publisher. He denied receiving any money from the Office of the National Security Adviser. On 12 December 2015, the management of ""Thisday"" denied receiving money related to arms procurement from the former National Security Adviser. The management in its response to an invitation letter from the EFCC dated 8 November 2015, received in its Abuja office" |
106 | $2 billion arms deal | "on 8 December 2015, said all funds received from the Office of the National Security Adviser , ""are payments for compensation to mitigate the dastardly Boko Haram twin bombings of the ThisDay Newspapers offices in Abuja and Kaduna on Thursday April 26, 2012"". On Thursday 3 December 2015, Saliu Atawodi, an Air vice-marshal (rtd) and Chairman of the Presidential Implementation Committee on Marine Safety, was arrested by EFCC on alleged involvement in the arms procurement deal. He was accused of illegal diversion of ₦600 million meant for the procurement of military boats for use in fighting against insurgency. However, the" |
107 | $2 billion arms deal | Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Tuesday 6 June 2017, discharged and acquitted Atawodi. In a judgement delivered by Justice Tani Hassan-Yusuf, the Court dismissed the judgment of an Abuja High Court which earlier asked Atawodi to open his defense. On 14 December 2015, the EFCC arraigned Colonel Dasuki, Bafarawa, Saliu Atawodi, Dokpesi, Yuguda, Salisu, Sagir Attahiru, Dahaltu Investment Limited, Aminu Baba-Kusa, former Executive Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, and his company Acacia Holding Limited and Reliance Referral Hospital Limited before Justice Hussein Baba Yusuf of Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama on alleged unlawful diversion of |
108 | $2 billion arms deal | "public funds. Several pieces of evidence established the fact that about $2 billions was transferred into the Office of the National Security Adviser. ""Premium Times"" published a letter sent to Goodluck Jonathan by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala requesting the former President's approval of a transfer of about $300 million (£5.5 million) from money recovered from the late General Sani Abacha to the office of the National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, a few days before the presidential election held in April 2015. The letter, dated 20 January 2015, was addressed to the former president following the 12 January 2015 request for funds by" |
109 | $2 billion arms deal | the office of the National Security Adviser under the leadership of Dasuki for the procurement of arms and intelligence equipment. The letter reads Please find a request by the National Security Adviser (NSA) for the transfer of $300 million and £5.5 million of the recovered Abacha funds to an ONSA (Office of the National Security Adviser) operations account. The NSA has explained that this is to enable the purchase of ammunition, security, and other intelligence equipment for the security agencies in order to enable them fully confront the ongoing Boko Haram threat. His request is sequel to the meeting you |
110 | $2 billion arms deal | chaired with the committee on the use of recovered funds where the decision was made that recovered Abacha funds would be split 50-50 between urgent security needs to confront Boko Haram and development need (including a portion for the Future Generations window of the Sovereign Wealth Fund). This letter is to seek your approval to borrow these funds, for now, to disburse to the NSA. These funds form part of the projected Federal Government Independent Revenue, to be appropriated, in the light and for accountability, given the peculiar nature of security and intelligence transactions, we would expect the NSA to |
111 | $2 billion arms deal | "account to Your Excellency for the utilisation of the funds. The transfer was approved by Goodluck Jonathan. In a counter-claim, while speaking in Washington DC on ""Presidential elections and democratic consolidation in Africa: Case studies on Nigeria and Tanzania,"" a forum co-hosted by the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Goodluck Jonathan refuted the allegations by the EFCC and its operative that he awarded a contract potentially worth $2 billion for arms procurement during his administration. He said ""Where did the money come from? I did not award any $2 billion contract" |
112 | $2 billion arms deal | "for procurement of weapons."" Several confessional statements help in the investigation of the arms procurement deal. Salisu, who operated a joint bank account with Dasuki, claimed to have withdrawn $47 million from the Central Bank of Nigeria; the money was delivered in 11 briefcases to Dasuki at his residence. Salisu's statement reads “I could remember on the 20/11/2014, I was directed by the NSA, M.S. Dasuki to go to the CBN and collect the sum of $47m in cash and the balance in Euro and the directive was obeyed and the monies were delivered to the NSA in about 11" |
113 | $2 billion arms deal | "suit cases. I acknowledged the receipt of the money from the CBN which was handed over to M.S. Dasuki. I did not benefit even one cent. The request for the funds was tag(sic) Special Services signed by the NSA, M.S. Dasuki, addressed to the Governor of CBN. I did not know the source of the money into our CBN Account. The foreign currencies that I collected from the CBN were delivered to the NSA in his house, No. 13, John Kadiya Street, Asokoro."" Ambassador Yuguda claimed to have delivered a sum of N600 million to six chairmen of the National" |
114 | $2 billion arms deal | Working Committee, the Contact and Mobilisation Committee of the People's Democratic Party for the 2015 general election. According to him, the beneficiaries includes Yerima Abdullahi, Chief Bode George, Peter Odili, Jim Nwobodo, Attahiru Bafarawa and Ahmadu Ali. He transferred N300 million to BAM Properties, whose account details were sent to him by Bello Haliru, a former National Chairman of the People's Democratic Party. He also claimed to have sent N200 million to Bello Sarkin Yaki, the Governorship aspirant in Kebbi State. According to him, Mahmud Shinkafi, the former Governor of Zamfara State, received ₦100 million. Bashir's confessional statement reads For |
115 | $2 billion arms deal | the cash disbursement of ₦600million, it was meant for the six zonal chairmen for Contact and Mobilisation Committees for Election of 2015. The chairmen are Bode George, Amb. Yerima Abdullahi; Peter Odili; Attahiru Bafarawa; Jim Nwobodo; Ahmadu Ali. The sum of ₦100million was given to each chairman. I gave the money in company of Prof. Alkali, who was Political Adviser to former president. The zonal chairmen are for the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP). I also instructed Jabbama Limited to transfer the sum of N100m to Dalhatu Limited on the request of Attahiru Bafarawa. I also remember that Bello Sarkin Yaki was |
116 | $2 billion arms deal | among the people that the then NSA instructed that I send the sum of N200million to. He was the PDP gubernatorial candidate in Kebbi State. I knew the chairman of Stallion Limited whose second name I cannot remember. Between December 2014 to June 2015, on the instruction of the then NSA, I introduced Jabbama Limited to a staff of the company on the instruction of the chairman. When the account was in credit, disbursement was made from time to time on the instruction of the then NSA. Part in foreign exchange or transfers. I wish to add that sometime in |
117 | $2 billion arms deal | February 2015, I instructed Jabbama to transfer the sum of N300m to BAM Properties. The account was given to me by Bello Haliru as one of the people the former NSA requested me to give money. I also remember that Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi was sent the sum of N100million on the instruction of the then NSA. Further to my statement of 30th November, 2015, I have brought the sum of $829,800(equivalent to N200m) and N600m was given to me to distribute to the six PDP Zonal Committee chairmen. I don’t know who are the directors of Dalhatu Investment Limited but |
118 | $2 billion arms deal | "funds were transferred to the company’s account on the instruction of Dalhatu Bafarawa for the total amount of N1.5billion received from the then NSA by Jabbama Limited. I shall endeavour to recover the sum of N600million given to the six zonal PDP committee chairmen, while I appeal to the commission to use their machineries to trace the remaining balance of the money transferred to various accounts In a counter-claim, Chief Bode George denied the allegations of receiving a total sum of ₦100 million from Yuguda for the 2015 general election. He described the claim by Yuguda as ""mischievous and deliberately" |
119 | $2 billion arms deal | "fraudulent."" Bode's statement reads “My attention has been drawn to another mischievous and deliberately fraudulent claim that I collected N100 million from Bashir Yuguda, the former Minister of State for Finance. This is another blatant falsehood, stripped of any iota of truth. This is yet again a depraved continuation of lynch mob journalism orchestrated by an online newspaper. The salient fact is that very early this year, long before the election period, the party set up Contact and Mobilization Committee for each zone to reconcile various factions and ensure a firm unity of purpose within the zones before the election." |
120 | $2 billion arms deal | I was elected as the Chairman for the South-West zone. The committee which was made up of 18 senior members of the party with distinguished history of honour and exemplary leadership, met at least 10 times in my office in Lagos. These people travelled all the way from every corner of the South-West, with three members representing each state. All of them are very much alive to testify to my assertions. Sometime in the middle of these deliberations, Yuguda came to me and said the party was reimbursing the 18 elders of the committee for their transportation, accommodation and feeding |
121 | $20 a Week | $20 a Week is a 1935 American melodrama film directed by Wesley Ford and starring Jimmy Savo, Eddie Lambert, and Dorothy Darling. It was released on February 2, 1935. Sally Blair, a feisty young stenographer is in the employ of a Mr. Warner, an insurance agent who fancies his chances. She accepts a date even though she had made plans with the new salesman, Peter Douglas. Warner takes Sally to a nightclub and, in a private room, tries to kiss her. She retaliates by punching him. Warner, for reasons unknown, promotes Sally to his personal secretary. Later, at a wedding, |
122 | $20 a Week | "Peter proposes to Sally. The next day, Peter's mother, who believes Sally is after his money, warns her to keep away from Peter. Naturally, they end up getting married. In November 1934, Rob Eden's story, ""$20 a Week"" was purchased by the independent producer Burton L. King, with the intent of making the film independently and distributing it through Ajax Distributing Corporation. The film was to be the first in a series of four pictures. By the end of the month King had formed his production house, Four-Leaf Clover Productions, and had signed Pauline Stark to star in the film." |
123 | $25 Million Dollar Hoax | "$25 Million Dollar Hoax is an unscripted television series that was originally shown on American network NBC in November 2004. It is based on a United Kingdom show titled ""The Million Pound Hoax"", broadcast on Sky One earlier that year. ""$25 Million Dollar Hoax"" consists of three unscripted hour-long episodes in which small-town girl Chrissy Sanford plays a hoax on her family by convincing them she had won a US$25,000,000 lottery prize through the internet, and that it had changed her from a sweet girl into a spend-a-holic. This program is an example of reality television. ""$25 Million Dollar Hoax""" |
124 | $30 Film School | "$30 Film School is a book written by Michael W. Dean on how to make films on a limited budget, and is part of the $30 School book series which includes ""$30 Music School"" and ""$30 Writing School"". Like the other books of this series, ""$30 Film School"" advocates a start-to-finish DIY ethic, and includes interviews with professionals in the given field, as well as a CD or DVD of extras. Published by Muska & Lipman in 2003, the first edition sold 30,000 copies. The second edition was released in March 2006, and included a DVD featuring software, tutorials, and" |
125 | $40 a Day | "$40 a Day is a Food Network show hosted by Rachael Ray. In each episode, Rachael takes a one-day trip to an American, Canadian, or European city with only US$40 to spend on food. While touring the city, she finds restaurants to go to (often based on local recommendations), and usually manages to fit three meals and some sort of snack or after-dinner drink into her small budget. The show premiered on April 1, 2002, five months after the debut of ""30 Minute Meals"", making it her second show on the Food Network. Some clips are sometimes used in Ray's" |
126 | $40 a Day | "later series, ""Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels"". Another Food Network series, ""Giada's Weekend Getaways"" starring Giada De Laurentiis, is similar in format. In 2010, The Travel Channel began airing reruns of the show. As of 2013, the show is no longer in reruns on the Travel Channel. According to Ray, visiting a fast food restaurant, particularly those of national chains, is considered cheating (she says so explicitly in the Orlando episode). On occasion, smaller sit-down restaurant chains (such as Bahama Breeze in the Las Vegas episode, or Bongos in the South Beach episode) are visited. Generally, non-food items and non-food-related activities" |
127 | $40 a Day | are not included in her budget. Rachael always offers tips on what to see in the various cities, as well as hints on how to save money and find bargains while traveling. She also emphasizes researching whatever city she plans to visit through the Internet and asking the local citizens for their recommendations. Initially, Rachael only used item prices against her $40 limit. She started including applicable taxes and tips during the first season. On occasion, she does go over budget; however, during her trips to Philadelphia and Arizona, she did so on purpose. Her cheapest day was in Vancouver, |
128 | $40 a Day | British Columbia, in 2003, when she spent just under $25 USD including taxes and tips (at the time, less than $40 Canadian, although she budgeted for $40 USD). On occasions, she has had to get creative to stay on-budget; for example, she accidentally blew half her budget on her second meal in her first Miami episode. The pilot, shot in Los Angeles, had a 12-hour limit, but subsequent episodes raised it to 24 hours. Usually episodes begin in the morning with breakfast, occasionally brunch. Episodes almost always feature four paid meals, but on at least one occasion, in the Research |
129 | $40 a Day | Triangle (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC), she did five meals. Also on rare occasion, only three meals are paid, and a fourth ends up being free. On only one occasion, in Antigua, she partook of a hotel's free Continental breakfast, but she still did four paid meals in that episode. On her first visit to Las Vegas during the first season, Rachael began with dinner and stayed overnight, ending with breakfast. She did several episodes in Europe when the euro was still valued less than the U.S. dollar. She has not visited Europe since the U.S. dollar has fallen under the euro |
130 | $5 Cover | "$5 Cover was an online series created by filmmaker Craig Brewer and produced by MTV. It is a fictional series created to complement the documentary series ""$5 Cover Amplified"". The 15-part series debuted in May 2009 and feature artists from the city of Memphis, Tennessee, including Alicja Trout, Clare Grant, Jeff Pope, Amy LaVere, Al Kapone, Valerie June, Jack Oblivian, Brad Postlethwaite of Snowglobe, Muck Sticky, and Ben Nichols of Lucero. Each episode explores living and making rent in the historical, and still very active, Memphis music scene. The show is described in MTV's official press release as ""a rough-and-tumble" |
131 | $9.99 | "$9.99 is a 2008 Australian stop-motion adult animated drama film written and directed by Tatia Rosenthal, with the screenplay by Etgar Keret. The film marks the third collaboration between Rosenthal and Keret. It features a voice cast of Geoffrey Rush, Samuel Johnson, Anthony LaPaglia and Claudia Karvan. The film mainly focuses on 28-year-old Dave Peck, who is unemployed but prefers the search for the meaning of life to the search for gainful employment. While looking in a magazine, Dave finds an advertisement for a book that will tell him the meaning of life ""for the low price of $9.99."" Dave," |
132 | $9.99 | "fascinated by this, begins his journey in his Sydney apartment to find the true meaning of life. As the film progresses, stories of Dave's family and neighbours are woven in and examine the post-modern meaning of hope. ""$9.99"" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 4 September 2008. The film was then released in Los Angeles and New York on 19 June 2009 and then in Australia on 17 September 2009. Upon release, the film earned mostly positive reviews. As of July 2012, it holds a ""Fresh"" score of 75 per cent on the film review website Rotten Tomatoes" |
133 | $O$ | "$O$ is the debut album by South African rap-rave group Die Antwoord. The album was initially a widely circulated internet-only release, and made available to stream for free on the band's website prior to Interscope Records signing the band. The song ""Wat Pomp?"" had a music video released on 6 June 2009, followed by ""Enter the Ninja"" (a track with previous exposure as a viral video on YouTube and other video-hosting services), which received an official release on 9 August 2010. ""Fish Paste"" and ""Beat Boy"" have also been released as promotional singles. ""Enter the Ninja"" debuted at #37 in" |
134 | $O$ | "the UK Music Charts on 19 September 2010. Following the group's signing to Interscope in the US, it was announced that $O$ would be re-released in physical format with a different track listing. Diplo produced one of the new tracks on the re-release, ""Evil Boy"", for which a promotional video was made available on 6 October 2010. The US iTunes digital release includes the previously hidden track ""$O$"" separately, a bonus track ""Wat Pomp?"" and an alternate version of ""Evil Boy"" titled as ""Evil Boy (F**k You In The Face Mix)"" not present on US physical release. In an interview" |
135 | $h*! My Dad Says | "$#*! My Dad Says (pronounced ""Bleep My Dad Says"") is an American television sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Television that aired on CBS. It was based on the Twitter feed Shit My Dad Says, created by Justin Halpern and consisting of quotations from his father, Sam. The show originally ran from September 23, 2010, to February 17, 2011, and aired on Thursdays at 8:30 pm/7:30 pm Central. After 18 episodes aired, the series was replaced in mid-season by ""Rules of Engagement"", which had moved to Thursdays from Mondays. On May 15, 2011, CBS announced that it had canceled ""$#*! My" |
136 | $h*! My Dad Says | "Dad Says"". Ed is a very opinionated 72-year-old who has been divorced three times. His two adult sons, Henry and Vince, are accustomed to his unsolicited and often politically incorrect rants. When Henry, a struggling writer and blogger, can no longer afford his rent, he is forced to move back in with Ed, which creates new issues in their tricky father–son relationship. As weeks go by Henry is unable to find a job as a writer, mostly due to the lack of good material. He finally lands a job, when during his interview Ed interrupts with an irrational phone call" |
137 | $h*! My Dad Says | "that sparks the interest of the eccentric editor conducting the interview. Henry is ultimately hired, but is forced to continue living with Ed in order to have readily-available material via his father's unsolicited rants, hence the title ""$#*! My Dad Says"". In November 2009, CBS announced that it was developing a television pilot based on the Twitter feed, which would be written by Halpern and Patrick Schumacker. William Shatner landed the lead role in late February 2010, which triggered a green-light to produce the pilot. Nicole Sullivan and Ryan Devlin came on board in early March. Casting was completed with" |
138 | $h*! My Dad Says | "the addition of Will Sasso as Vince and Stephanie Lemelin as Sam later that month. Both Sasso and Sullivan had previously been cast-mates on the series ""Mad TV"". The series was picked up by CBS in May 2010, with reports saying that the role of Henry (played by Ryan Devlin in the pilot) would be recast. In July, Jonathan Sadowski was cast in the role. The character Sam (Stephanie Lemelin) was eliminated, never appearing in the broadcast pilot or subsequent episodes. ""$#*! My Dad Says"" received negative reviews, with Metacritic assigning it a score of 28/100. Over 12 million viewers" |
139 | $h*! My Dad Says | watched the premiere, although the next two episodes lost nearly 20% of that audience. The fourth and fifth episodes improved in ratings, being 10.16 million and 10.91 million respectively. The show won the award for Favorite New TV Comedy at the 37th People's Choice Awards on January 5, 2011. The title of the broadcast series was modified from the source material in order to comply with Federal Communications Commission regulations on the use of profane language during prime time. The profanity was also toned down and modified from Halpern's Twitter feeds. On May 19, 2010, CBS announced the show's official |
140 | $h*! My Dad Says | "name and 8:30 pm time slot at its upfront presentation of the fall 2010 schedule. Addressing reporters' concerns regarding the title, the network assured them that the expletive would not be used in promos. Soon thereafter, the Parents Television Council announced that it was protesting the title because it alluded to an obscenity. The PTC threatened CBS with broadcast license challenges for any affiliate airing the show or its promos before 10 pm. Responding to the controversy, CBS stated, ""[The show] will in no way be indecent and will adhere to all CBS standards. Parents who choose to do so" |
141 | $pread | "$pread was a quarterly magazine by and for sex workers and those who support their rights. The magazine's focus was: ""personal experiences and political insights"" and it ""contain(ed) practical information like news, features, health columns, and resources related to the sex industry"". Articles were written by readers as well as by figures from academic, cultural, and literary backgrounds, most of whom are current or former sex workers. The magazine was launched on March 15, 2005 by Rachel Aimee, Rebecca Lynn, and Raven Strega. ""$pread"" was based in New York City, and was sold throughout the United States and Canada at" |
142 | $pread | "independent bookstores and via national distributors. A co-editor said, ""We want the general public to become aware of issues such as the physical working conditions of sex workers and their health care and housing needs, and to start considering sex workers as real people rather than mythical beasts who only come to life when someone drops a quarter into a slot."" ""$pread"" published personal experiences, political insights, and contained practical information, such as news, features, health columns, and sex industry resources. ""$pread"" supported the sex work community by donating 15% of each print run to the workplaces of and the" |
143 | $pread | "outreach organizations utilized by sex workers. The tax outreach program ""helps sex workers who don't know they can and should file taxes"", said Audacia Ray, an executive editor at the magazine. As of August 30, 2010, ""$pread"" has ceased printed publication due to both financial issues and not having enough people to keep the operation running, even if ""there was $100k made available"". Because ""$pread"" was part of the sex workers rights movement, it was criticized by some branches of feminism that believe that sex work is inherently degrading: Among feminists, perceptions are no less polarized – sex workers are" |
144 | $pread | "either fully empowered agents using their sexuality in unassailably positive ways, or victims of a job that degrades them by its very nature. Most feminist dialogues about sex work sound more like monologues; defensiveness, mischaracterizations, and willful ignorance abound, making casualties of complexity and nuance. The Feminist Press released a collection of some of the articles and essays from the original publications of the magazine into a 368-page book on the 15th March 2015 entitled ""$pread : The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution"". ""Mary Christmas"" is a pseudonym of Emily O'Hara," |
145 | $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) | """$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"", also known as ""$pringfield"", is the tenth episode of ""The Simpsons"" fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 16, 1993. In the episode, Springfield decides to legalize gambling to revitalize its economy. A casino owned by Mr. Burns is created and Homer gets a job as a blackjack dealer. Meanwhile, Marge develops a gambling addiction, Bart starts his own casino, and Burns develops an odd personality in a parody of Howard Hughes. The episode was written by Bill Oakley and" |
146 | $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) | "Josh Weinstein, and directed by Wes Archer. Gerry Cooney and Robert Goulet guest starred as themselves. The episode features cultural references to the films """", ""The Wizard of Oz"", ""Rain Man"", and """". Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 11.7, and was the highest-rated show on the Fox network the week it aired. The economy of Springfield is in decline, so Mayor Quimby listens to suggestions from citizens on how to improve it. Principal Skinner states that legalized gambling has helped rejuvenate run-down economies, and that it can" |
147 | $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) | work for Springfield as well. Everybody, even Marge, likes the idea. Mr. Burns and Mayor Quimby work together to build a casino, where Homer gets a job as a blackjack dealer. The casino is designed by Mr. Burns himself, as the proposals he received were not to his liking. While Marge waits for Homer's shift to end at the casino, she finds a quarter on the floor and uses it to play a slot machine. She wins and almost immediately becomes addicted to gambling. Meanwhile, since Bart is too young to gamble at Mr. Burns' Casino, he starts his own |
148 | $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) | casino for his friends to play in his treehouse, and intercepts Robert Goulet to perform there. Mr. Burns also grows even richer, but in the process becomes a Howard Hughes-type hermit, developing a profound fear of microscopic germs, urinating in jars, and wearing tissue boxes instead of shoes. Due to her addiction, Marge spends every waking moment at the casino and neglects her family. For instance, she forgets to help Lisa make a costume for her geography pageant. Enraged, Homer bursts into the casino and barges around searching for Marge. The security cameras capture Homer's rampage, and when Mr. Burns |
149 | $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) | "sees him he demotes him back to his old job at the power plant. After realizing how much he misses the plant, Mr. Burns decides to return. Homer confronts Marge with her behavior, and she finally realizes that she has a problem. Lisa does win a special prize in the geography pageant, as Homer's poor costume design gives Lisa the appearance that she did the work all by herself. Ralph receives the same prize, as his costume is simply a note taped to his shirt that reads ""Idaho"". The episode was written by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, and directed" |
150 | $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) | "by Wes Archer. The story of the episode originated from a newspaper article that Oakley and Weinstein found about a town in Mississippi that was introducing riverboat gambling. Oakley said another inspiration for it was that there had not been many episodes about Springfield as a whole and how ""crummy"" the town was, so they filled the whole first act with scenes showing how ""crummy"" and ""dismal"" Springfield was. Oakley particularly liked the animation of the lights inside the casino on the slot machines and the lamps in the ceiling. The ""way they radiate out"" had always amazed him. Archer," |
151 | $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) | "who directed the animation of the episode, also thought they turned out well. The lights were especially hard for them to animate back then because the show was animated traditionally on cels, so Archer was pleased with the results. A deleted scene from the episode shows Homer dealing cards to James Bond. The staff liked the scene, so they decided to put it in the clip show episode ""The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular"". There was a brief period when the episode had a different subplot that revolved around the restaurant chain Planet Hollywood. Groening had been told by a spokesperson" |
152 | $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) | "that if he put Planet Hollywood in ""The Simpsons"", the creators of the restaurant, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and Sylvester Stallone, would agree to make guest appearances on the show. The writers of ""The Simpsons"" were excited about this so they wrote a new subplot for the episode that featured Planet Hollywood and the three actors. However, for unknown reasons, they were unable to appear in the episode. Instead, Gerry Cooney and Robert Goulet guest starred as themselves. Executive producer David Mirkin enjoyed directing Goulet because he was ""such a good sport"" and had ""a great sense of humor"". Oakley" |
153 | $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) | "thought it was nice that Goulet was willing to make fun of himself in the episode, which at the time was rare for guest stars on ""The Simpsons"". This episode features the first appearances of Gunter and Ernst, the Siegfried and Roy-esque casino magicians who are attacked by their white tiger, Anastasia. Ten years after this episode first aired, Roy Horn was attacked by one of the duo's white tigers. ""The Simpsons"" production team dismissed the novelty of the prediction by saying that it was ""bound to happen"" sooner or later. The Rich Texan also makes his debut appearance in" |
154 | $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) | "this episode, referred to as ""Senator"" by Homer. The title is a reference to the 1964 film ""Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"", the music of which was composed by Laurie Johnson. Two of his songs, ""Happy-go-lively"" and ""Rue de la park"" can be heard within the News on Parade segment at the beginning of the episode. Burns' bed looks similar to the one occupied by Keir Dullea's character Dave Bowman in the end of the 1968 film, """". Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise appear at the casino to reprise their roles from" |
155 | $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) | "the 1988 film ""Rain Man"". Homer is impressed by the card-counting abilities of a man who resembles Raymond Babbitt, Hoffman's character in the film. Krusty's show at midnight is similar to Bill Cosby's 1971 album ""For Adults Only"", which was recorded at a casino at midnight. Marge reminds Homer that his lifelong dream was to be a contestant on the television show ""The Gong Show"". Burns's paranoid obsession with germs and cleanliness, and his refusal to leave his bedroom once the casino opens, parodies American magnate Howard Hughes, who had obsessive-compulsive disorder, and was involved in the casino business in" |
156 | $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) | "his later years. The ""Spruce Moose"", an absurdly tiny wooden plane Burns makes in the episode, is a parody of Hughes' impractically enormous wooden plane, derisively nicknamed the ""Spruce Goose"". Homer parodies the scene in the 1939 film ""The Wizard of Oz"" when the Scarecrow demonstrates his newly acquired intelligence by (incorrectly) reciting the law that governs the lengths of the sides of an isosceles triangle. Unlike in the film, somebody correctly points out that the Pythagorean theorem recited applies only to right triangles, not all isosceles triangles. In its original American broadcast, ""$pringfield"" finished 35th in the ratings for" |
157 | $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) | "the week of December 13 to December 19, 1993, with a Nielsen Rating of 11.7, translating to 11 million households. The episode was the highest-rated show on the Fox network that week. Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson commented that ""this excellent episode includes a surprising number of concurrent plots. Homer also works in the casino and tries to care for the family without Marge. It balances them deftly and provides great laughs along the way."" Adam Suraf of Dunkirkma.net named it the third best episode of the season." |
158 | $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) | "He also praised the episode's cultural references. The authors of the book ""I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide"", Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, wrote: ""There's a lovely nod to the earlier episodes in which Marge protests the citizenry's hare-brained ideas at council meetings. A series of bizarre moments rather than a story—we're especially fond of Homer's photographic memory and Mr Burns' descent into insanity—but great fun."" Patrick Bromley of DVD Verdict gave the episode a grade of A, and Bill Gibron of DVD Talk gave it a score of 4 out of 5. The" |
159 | & (Ayumi Hamasaki EP) | "& is an extended play by Japanese recording artist and songwriter Ayumi Hamasaki. It was released on 9 July 2003, by record label Avex Trax. Hamasaki's fourth extended play, ""&"" consists of four recordings; ""Ourselves"", ""Greatful Days"", ""Hanabi: Episode II"", and ""Theme of A-Nation 03"", with three additional instrumentals of the first three tracks. It was released in two different formats; a stand-alone CD, and a digital EP. The artwork for the EP depicts Hamasaki posing in front of a cloudy backdrop, with the title of the work superimposed over her hair. ""&"" contains predominantly J-pop and dance music. Hamasaki" |
160 | & (Ayumi Hamasaki EP) | "contributed by writing the lyrics to all the tracks, while Japanese production and manager Max Matsuura served as the EP's main producer. ""&"" received favourable reviews from music critics who commended the EP's production and commercial appeal. ""&"" reached number one on the Oricon Singles Chart, and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for shipments of 500,000 units. ""Ourselves"", ""Greatful Days"", ""Hanabi: Episode II"", and ""Theme of A-Nation 03"" served as promotional singles, while all but the latter track receiving music videos respectively. ""&"" was awarded the Japan Record Award at the 46th Japan" |
161 | & (Ayumi Hamasaki EP) | "Record Awards for Best Pop/Rock Album. Ayumi Hamasaki announced that she would release a new extended play, marketed as a single, entitled ""&"". It consists of four recordings – ""Ourselves"", ""Greatful Days"", ""Hanabi: Episode II"", and ""Theme of A-Nation 03"" – with additional instrumental versions of the first three tracks. ""&"" was released on 9 July 2003 as the first single from Hamasaki's 2003 extended play, ""Memorial Address"". (""Ourselves"", ""Greatful Days"", and ""Hanabi: Episode II"" were included in ""Memorial Address"".) ""&"" follows the releases of Hamasaki's previous extended plays; ""Nothing from Nothing"" (1995), ""A"" (1999), and ""H"" (2002). Hamasaki did" |
162 | & (Ayumi Hamasaki EP) | "not release another extended-play single until ""Five"" in 2011. ""&"" was released in two formats: a stand-alone CD and a digital EP. The artwork for the EP depicts Hamasaki posing in front of a cloudy backdrop, with the title of the work superimposed over her hair. ""&"" opens with the first track, ""Ourselves"", which is an R&B tune with influences of ""exoticism pop"". The lyrics describe Hamasaki's ""painful"" sense of sorrow and love. ""Greatful Days"" is a ""refreshing"" pop song that showcases Hamasaki's ""festive"" nature, her ""pastel"" vocals, and a ""relaxing"" positive message of happiness. ""Hanabi: Episode II"" is an" |
163 | & (Ayumi Hamasaki EP) | "answer song to Hamasaki's 2002 song, ""Hanabi"". It describes Hamasaki's ""miserable"" state and ""struggle[s]"" that is transformed into strength. ""Theme of A-Nation 03"" was used for the Avex A-Nation concert tour in 2003, and emphasizes traditional Japanese instrumentals, progressing more oriental J-pop sounds. The next three tracks are instrumental versions of ""Ourselves"", ""Greatful Days"", and ""Hanabi: Episode II"". ""Ourselves"", ""Greatful Days"", and ""Hanabi: Episode II"" all served as the EP's promotional singles, released on 9 July 2003; the singles did not chart in any Japanese music charts. The singles were promoted through different endorsements deals in Japan; ""Ourselves"" was used" |
164 | & (Ayumi Hamasaki EP) | "as the televised theme song for Japanese cosmetics brand, Visee, and ""Greatful Days"" was used as the theme song for Hamasaki's 2004 TV series, ""Ayuready?"". However, by the time the promotion of ""&"", ""Memorial Address"", and her 2003–2004 ""arena tour"" was complete, Hamasaki had grown dissatisfied with her position in Avex; she felt that the company was treating her as a product instead of a person. Although Hamasaki initially supported the exploitation of her popularity for commercial purposes, saying that it was ""necessary that [she is] viewed as a product"", she eventually opposed Avex's decision to market her as a" |
165 | & (Ayumi Hamasaki EP) | """product rather than a person"". All three songs featured an accompanying music video, which were included on several DVD compilations by Hamasaki. ""&"" received favourable reviews from music critics. A reviewer from ""CD Journal"" commended the EP's production, and highlighted all the singles as stand out tracks; the reviewer highlighted its ""music quality"" as a positive note. Kondo Yang from ""Listen Japan"" was positive in his review, stating that ""&"" was a sign of growing ""maturity"" in Hamasaki's music. He also felt that her ""charisma"" and ""personality"" was a reason why ""&"" became successful. Eri Kato from ""Hot Express"" was" |
166 | & (Ayumi Hamasaki EP) | "positive in her review, commending Hamasaki's songwriting and composing skills, particularly with ""Hanabi: Episode II"", and the music arrangements. She later praised them as ""unique masterpieces"" and Alexey Eremenko, who wrote the biography for Hamasaki on AllMusic, highlighted ""Ourselves"" and ""Greatful Days"" as one of the stand-out tracks of the extended play and Hamasaki's long career. On the Japanese Oricon Singles Chart, ""&"" reached number one on its debut week, her third consecutive EP to have reached number one, and her sixteenth number one single overall. The EP lasted sixteen weeks in the top 100, selling 591,000 units, and was" |
167 | & (The Moth & The Flame EP) | "& (stilized with the character ⅋; sometimes written Ampersand), is an EP and the debut major label recording by rock group The Moth & The Flame, released digitally on November 5, 2013 internationally. It was produced by drummer/producer Joey Waronker (Beck, Atoms for Peace, R.E.M.) and mixed by Peter Katis (The National, Interpol). All songs were written by The Moth & The Flame. To promote the EP, The Moth & the Flame toured Europe supporting Imagine Dragons during the fall and winter of 2013. The ""Sorry"" music video premiered on mtvU on Friday November 22, 2013. It features actor Kirby" |
168 | & Juliet | """& Juliet"" is an upcoming musical featuring the music of Max Martin, with a book by David West Read. The story focuses on the ""what if"" Juliet hadn't killed herself at the end of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The world premiere production will play at the Manchester Opera House from 10 September to 12 October. It will then open in the West End at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 20 November 2019, following previews from 2 November. The cast will include Miriam-Teak Lee as Juliet, and will be directed by Luke Sheppard, with choreography by Jennifer Weber and set design by" |
169 | & Then Boom | "& Then Boom is the debut studio album by American new wave band Iglu & Hartly. It was released on September 29, 2008. Reviews of ""& Then Boom"" upon release were mixed. As of March 2015, the album holds an aggregated score of a 42 out of 100, indicating ""mixed or average reviews"", based on six sources. Allmusic journalist Anthony Tognazzini described ""& Then Boom"" as ""fizzy, fun retro-glam-electro-pop from beginning to end"", also noting the variety of the sounds on the record. There were three-star reviews from the ""Hot Press"" and ""Q"", with the former's Edwin McFee calling it" |
170 | & Then Boom | "a ""guilty pleasure"" and latter calling it a ""kitchen-sink hybrid"" that ""works remarkably well"". Caroline Sullivan of ""The Guardian"" gave the album a similar score, praising it as ""crisp electro-rock with a big hook in every tune, and lyrics that present them as a bunch of civic-minded young fellows."" However, in more varied reviews, ""The Guardian""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s sister paper ""The Observer"", Craig McLean opined that ""On the one hand, it's riotously good fun; on the other, it's a bit naff."" Shaun Newport, writing for musicOMH, called it a ""frustration and disappointment"" to listen to, saying that the group ""sound nice, look" |
171 | & Then Boom | "nice but you’d be pressed to find any substance."" However, he did give them credit for ""absolutely signif[ying] the beginning of the end of our love affair with the ’80s. It was cool, then it was pop and now it has shamelessly gone too far. Thank goodness we always have time to learn from our mistakes."" Entertainment.ie's Lauren Murphy called most of the rapping ""cringeworthy"", with her overall verdict of the album describing it as ""two different, disjointed and discordant bands - neither with any direction, and both offering only minimal splashes of fun."" There were extremely negative reviews that" |
172 | & Then Boom | "questioned if BBC Radio 1's promotion of Iglu & Hartly was a joke, as well as criticized the record's cheap and unprofessional-sounding production and songwriting. It got a zero-out-of-ten review from David Renshaw of ""Drowned in Sound"", calling it ""the worst album of [2008]."" Racheal Crowther, a critic for ""DIY"", rated it a one out of ten, writing that the tracks were ""so similar it feels like listening to one really long song rather than an album."" In a two-out-of-ten review from ""NME"", Rick Martin called it ""an abomination of a debut album, informed by all the most disgusting musical" |
173 | &&&&& | "&&&&& is the debut mixtape by Venezuelan electronic producer Arca. It was released on 23 July 2013 through Hippos in Tanks and SoundCloud. Even though 14 tracks are listed, the entire mixtape is in sequence as a single track. A vinyl release of the mixtape with an alternative album cover was released on January 2014 and was limited to 500 copies. ""&&&&&"" is an experimental electronic record with influences of dub, hip-hop, grime and ambient music. Stereogum described the record as ""even darker and denser"" than Arca's two previous ""Stretch"" EPs. ""&&&&&"" received critical acclaim from music critics. Tiny Mix" |
174 | &&&&& | "Tapes says the mixtape ""has the potential to conjure an emotional frenzy that’s alluring to the senses in a way that so much electronic artistry fails to even approach."" ""No Ripcord"" praised the mixtape for ""its density, its intensity, its I'm-lost-in-a-big-city feel, its warm gust of beats blowing while the subway comes squeaking into the station, its darkness, its late-night ecstasy, its rawness, its rawness like raw milk, like drinking raw milk or eating sushi in an inexpensive restaurant somewhere on a street with trash and tweakers, its little motifs that twinkle like stars or Christmas lights, its muscular compactness.""" |
175 | &10 | "&10 is the third studio album by South Korean duo Davichi. The album was digitally released on January 25, 2018, with the physical release following the same day. ""Days Without You"" (너 없는 시간들) served as the promotional single, with Wanna One's Kang Daniel starring in the music video. This album also marks Davichi's 10th anniversary since debut. On December 14, 2017 Davichi were reported to be returning with a full-length album in January 2018. According to reports, Davichi were busy preparing for their year-end concert 'La eve - Davichi Concert' and also recording tracks of the album when they" |
176 | &ME | "&ME is a European film, romantic comedy, written and directed by Norbert ter Hall based on a novel by Oscar van den Boogaard. It was produced by Phanta Vision Film International and released in 2009. Every month the European Parliament moves from Brussels to its seat in Strasbourg. A week later everything is moved back. The unconventional love story ""'&ME"" takes place against this attempt to maintain European idealism and unity. &ME tells the story of Eduard (Mark Waschke), a gay and disillusioned bureaucrat, who leaves Berlin for Brussels to take up a post within the European Parliament. There he" |
177 | &ME | "meets the beautiful and idealistic young lawyer Edurne (Verónica Echegui), from Spain, who has finally escaped the clutches of her over-protective mother (Rossy de Palma). Edurne falls madly for Eduard, a handsome, sophisticated man that she can show off to the world. Eduard is happy to go along with the situation, surprised at the level of affection he feels for this young woman. He might even call it love, ""because love - c'est bizarre."" The attractive Richard (Teun Luijkx) enters and is soon the focus of both Eduard and Edurne's attention. Will Richard turn out to be the glue that" |
178 | &ME | "holds them together or the wedge that drives them apart? And can they all, in the process, discover that elusive thing called happiness? ""&ME"" was shot across four countries in eight weeks, is told in five languages and employed an international cast and crew, claiming eight different nationalities. &ME takes place in the setting of the European Parliament moving every month from Brussels to Strasbourg in a convoy of enormous trucks. The &ME screenplay is based on the novel ""Fremdkörper"" by bestseller author Oscar van den Boogaard. His books are sold and translated in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, the" |
179 | &NOW Festival | "&Now is traveling biennial literary festival and a publishing organization, both focused on innovative literature. The festival’s main emphasis is on work that blends or crosses genres and includes a wide variety of work, such as multimedia projects, performance pieces, criti-fictional presentations, and otherwise. The festival seeks out ""literary art as it is practiced today by authors who consciously treat their work as a process that is aware of its own literary and extra-literary history, that is as much about its form and materials, language, communities, and practice as it is about its subject matter."" Most of the work presented" |
180 | &NOW Festival | by authors is considered experimental literature. Most of the presentations are readings and panels focused on literature. The main population in attendance is made up of writers, performers and intermedia artists, alongside undergraduate and graduate student writers and scholars doing research on contemporary literatures. Most participants visit from the US, Mexico, and Northern Europe. Members of the Executive Board are currently Dimitri Anastasopoulos, Sylvie Bauer, Amina Cain, Antoine Cazé, Jeffrey DeShell, Rebecca Goodman, Christina Milletti, Martin Nakell, Davis Schneiderman Co-Director: &Now Books, Elisabeth Sheffield, Anna Joy Springer, Anne-Laure Tissut, and Steve Tomasula, Conference Founder. The &Now Conference of Innovative Writing |
181 | &NOW Festival | & the Literary Arts was founded in 2004 at the University of Notre Dame by Steve Tomasula, and featured keynote speakers Stephanie Strickland, Lydia Davis, Stacey Levine, Joe Amato (poet), and Debra Di Blasi. In April, 2006, Lake Forest College hosted the &Now Festival. The leading keynote speaker was William H. Gass. In April, 2008, the festival was held at Chapman University. The featured speakers at this festival included Steve Katz, Stacey Levine, Wendy Walker, Tom Lafarge, Ishmael Reed, FC2 Flash Reading, Steve Tomasula, and David Antin. The festival was hosted at University at Buffalo in October 2009, and was |
182 | &NOW Festival | the first festival to be hosted annually. Notable contributors included Rikki Ducornet, Percival Everett, Nathaniel Mackey, and Jorge Volpi. The University of California, San Diego hosted the fifth &Now Festival in October, 2011. The featured speakers included Rae Armantrout, Ricardo Domínguez, Cathy Gere, Bhanu Kapil, Carole Maso, Miranda Mellis, Vanessa Place, V.S. Ramachandran, Connie Samaras, Davis Schneiderman, Roberto Tejada, and Steve Tomasula. The sixth &Now festival took place at University of Paris-Sorbonne and Paris Diderot University in June, 2012. The featured guest speakers were Ben Marcus and Robert Coover. The seventh &NOW took place at the University of Colorado Boulder |
183 | &NOW Festival | "in 2013. The keynote speakers were Lynne Tillman and Percival Everett. The eighth NOW festival was held at the California Institute of the Arts in March 2015. The keynote speaker was M. NourbeSe Philip and the organizing committee was Tisa Bryant, Douglas Kearney, Maggie Nelson, Janet Sarbanes, Mady Schutzman, Matias Viegener, and Christine Wertheim. &NOW Books, an imprint of Lake Forest College, was founded in 2004 by Davis Schneiderman and Steve Tomasula and serves as the publishing arm of the &Now Festival. &NOW Books released its first anthology, ""The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing,"" in 2009, and Volume II" |
184 | &PROUD | &PROUD (And Proud) is an organization in Yangon, Myanmar, that organizes LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay Bi, Transgender, Intersex) art and culture events. &PROUD is best known for their yearly &PROUD Yangon LGBT Film Festival, which took place in the last weekend of January. &PROUD furthermore organizes a yearly photo exhibition, Rainbow Reels film making workshops, and &PROUD on the road, which takes film screenings to other cities, colleges and universities in Myanmar. &PROUD was founded in 2014 by Colors Rainbow (the main LGBT rights organization in Myanmar), YG Events, Abadi Art, and a number of individuals in Yangon. It is funded |
185 | &PROUD | by a number of international donors such as embassies and UN organizations and NGOs. The &PROUD Yangon LGBTQ Film Festival had its first edition from November 14 to the 16 during the year of 2014 at the French Institute in Yangon. The festival showcases films on Asian LGBTI lives, and combines film screenings with debates, performances and parties. The 2015 edition was moved from November to January 2016 due to the elections in Myanmar. It was hosted at the French Institute between January 28 to the 31 and attracted 3500 visitors over four days. For the third edition, the festival |
186 | &PROUD | will return to the French Institute from January 26–29 in 2017. &PROUD Film Festival is a founding member of the Asia-Pacific Queer Film Festival Alliance (APQFFA). Part of &PROUD's main activities is a yearly photo exhibition at Myanmar Deitta gallery that coincides with the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) on May 17. In the run up to the exhibition, a photo competition is organised, welcoming photos that portrait the Myanmar LGBT community in a positive light. The week-long exhibition combines the best photos from the competition with an exhibition from a leading Southeast Asian photographer In 2014, Vietnamese |
187 | &TV | "&TV (And TV) is a Hindi language entertainment channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. Launched as a General Entertainment Channel from ZEEL group from its ""&"" bouquet, it started broadcasting on 2 March 2015. Some &TV shows are also aired on Zee TV USA, Africa/Mauritius, Canada and the Caribbean. In Mauritius, &TV shows like Gangaa, Agent Raghav - Crime Branch,Santoshi Maa and ""Bhagyalaxmi"" are aired on MBC 4 and MBC 2 as the channel has still not been launched in the African region. In 2016 &TV was launched on the Dish and Sling TV platform in the USA. It was" |
188 | &flix | "&flix is an English movie channel from Zee Entertainment Enterprises which formally launched on 3 June 2018, replacing Zee Studio. This is the second English movie channel under the ‘&’ brand. In September 2017, the broadcaster had launched a premium English movie channel &Privé HD. Earlier, Zee's English movie channel for the mainstream audience was Zee Studio which was launched in 2005 and discontinued on 31 May 2018. &flix then took over and a soft launch testing was carried out until the first movie premiere of the channel """" aired on 3 June 2018 by which then the channel started" |
189 | &moshik | "&moshik, formerly ""&samhoud places"", is a fine-dining restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The restaurant was awarded two Michelin stars for 2013. However it owed this rating to the past performance of its head chef as the restaurant was opened too briefly for a thorough review. In November 2013, the restaurant was again awarded two stars, this time under their own power. The head chef of ""&moshik"" is Moshik Roth, one of the leading molecular chefs in the Netherlands. The restaurant is the successor of 't Brouwerskolkje in Overveen. ""&moshik"" is a cooperation between Israeli chef Moshik Roth and entrepreneur Salem Samhoud." |
190 | &pizza | "&pizza (pronounced ""and pizza"") is an American fast casual pizza restaurant chain, with 30 locations in Washington, D.C., Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Miami and Virginia. The restaurant sells personal and customizable oblong-shaped pizzas. They tailor each location to its neighborhood, with local artists designing the interiors. Some locations serve beer, wine, and cocktails. &pizza was founded by Michael Lastoria and Steve Salis, with the first shop opening in July 2012 on H Street in Northeast, Washington, D.C. Salis served as CEO from inception-2015. Currently, Lastoria serves as CEO and creative director. In 2016, the restaurant received a $25 million investment" |
191 | &pizza | "from AVALT, to expand into New York City, opening its first location there in June 2017. In July 2017, &pizza and the bakery Milk Bar announced a joint venture, to open in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In October 2017, &pizza announced funding from RSE Ventures. The restaurant has advocated in Congress for a $15 minimum wage by 2023. ""The Washington Post"" called the restaurant ""the pizza shop for the 21st century"", describing it as ""Chipotle for pizza"". It was named best pizza in the ""Washington City Paper"" Best of D.C. in 2017; was #12 on the Restaurant Business 2017" |
192 | &pizza | "Future 50 list of fastest-growing small concept restaurants; and was on the ""Fast Company"" World's Most Innovative Companies 2018 list. Since 2015, the restaurant has held an annual Pi Day tradition, where they hold weddings in their pizza shops, offering free pizza, cake, alcohol, officiants and photography. In 2018, &pizza hosted over a dozen weddings at locations in DC, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia. For employees who want it, the restaurant pays for them to get a tattoo of its ampersand logo. The advocacy group Our Harvard Square has criticized &pizza for encouraging tattoos of its logo on employees and" |
193 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | """...And Ladies of the Club"" is a novel, written by Helen Hooven Santmyer, about a group of women in the fictional town of Waynesboro, Ohio who begin a women's literary club, which evolves through the years into a significant community service organization in the town. The novel, which looks at the club as it changes throughout the years, spans decades in the lives of the women involved in the club, between 1868 and 1932. Many characters are introduced in the course of the novel, but the primary characters are Anne Gordon and Sally Rausch, who in 1868 are new graduates" |
194 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | "of the Waynesboro Female College. They marry soon after the opening of the book, and the decades that follow chronicle their marriages and those of their children and grandchildren. Santmyer focuses not just on the lives of the women in the Club, but also their families, friends, politics, and developments in their small town and the larger world. On the day of their graduation from the Waynesboro Female College in 1868, best friends Anne Alexander and Sarah ""Sally"" Cochran are invited along with several of the College's female teachers by Mrs. Lowrey, who along with her professor husband operates the" |
195 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | College, to become founding members of a new local society, the Waynesboro Women's Club. The club is intended to promote culture and literature among the educated citizens of the Ohio town, while avoiding controversial subjects such as women's suffrage and other reform movements. Socially ambitious Sally agrees to join because she believes the club might become important in the town, and wants to establish herself as a serious-minded member of adult society. Introspective Anne, the class valedictorian, joins in order to support Sally. Other early members of the Club include Miss Louisa Tucker, a beautiful but cold mathematics teacher who |
196 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | later marries the commencement speaker General Deming; scholarly Amanda Reid, who overcame a poor background to earn a degree from Oberlin and has returned to teach at the Female College; Miss Agatha Pinney, an elderly teacher whose sciatica leads to a secret addiction to the laudanum she is prescribed; Mary, Thomasina and Eliza Ballard, the wife and daughters of a prominent local judge; and the Misses Gardiner, two reclusive spinsters whose nephew, Douglas, attends Princeton and becomes a local attorney and judge. The club's membership grows over time to include the daughters, granddaughters, and other relatives of the early members, |
197 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | "and other society women, particularly the wives of the town's numerous and often-changing Protestant ministers. Although the club itself is framed as non-controversial, club meetings and social events sponsored by its members often lead to discussions and conflicts stemming from the widely varying social and political views of the members and their families on subjects such as race, class, ethnic and religious biases, women's rights, labor reform, and the morality of drinking alcohol, attending the theater and celebrating Christmas. Anne, the daughter of a doctor, is in love with Dr. John ""Dock"" Gordon, her father's protege and a friend of" |
198 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | her late brother Rob who was killed in the Civil War. Depressed by his war experiences, John gave up his medical practice for several years, but with Anne's encouragement resumes his practice and the two marry. Anne's father consents to the match, but warns her that John is too affected by the suffering he sees as a doctor and that he is likely to make a poor husband, so Anne will have to be very tolerant. Sally develops a relationship with John's friend Captain Ludwig Rausch, who has bought a small local rope-making business and begun building it into a |
199 | """...And Ladies of the Club""" | large, updated factory. Although Ludwig is a German immigrant, his ambitions match Sally's and her banker father, approving of his work ethic and prospects, agrees to their marriage. Thomasina Ballard also makes an unexpected marriage to a church organist as a result of a wedding poem she wrote for Anne. Over the years, Anne and Sally continue their club activities while raising families. Anne and John have a son, Johnny, and a daughter, Binny; Sally and Ludwig have a daughter, Elsa, and several sons. Although John is an intelligent and caring doctor, he is secretly unfaithful to Anne as a |