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Feelin' So Good is the first video album by American recording artist and actress Jennifer Lopez.
It was first released in the United States on DVD and VHS on November 7, 2000 by SMV Enterprises, the home media division of Sony's music and entertainment label Sony Music Entertainment.
Executively produced by Lopez alongside Cory Rooney and Benny Medina, Feelin' So Good provides a documentary-style look at the launch of Lopez's music career.
With a run time of one hour, it contains a mixture of interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, music videos and live performances.
The interview segments of Feelin' So Good were conducted by Lopez's sister Lynda, who interviews not only Lopez, but also her mother, Medina and her future husband Marc Anthony.
Feelin' So Good received generally favorable reviews from critics, although it was noted that it would be of no interest to those who were not fans of Lopez.
It was additionally praised for showing Lopez's transition from her acting career to a music career.
In the United States, Feelin' So Good was certified as a Gold Video Longform by the RIAA for shipments of 50,000 units.
From a young age, Lopez's Puerto Rican parents stressed the importance of work ethic and being able to speak English.
They encouraged their three daughters to put on performances at home, singing and dancing in front of each other and their friends so that they would stay "out of trouble".
While attending her final year of high school, Lopez learned about a film casting that was seeking several teenage girls for small roles.
She auditioned and was cast in My Little Girl (1986), an low-budget film co-written and directed by Connie Kaiserman.
After she finished filming her role in the film, Lopez knew that she wanted to become a "famous movie star".
She told her parents this, but they ensisted that it was a "really stupid" idea and that "no Latinos did that".
Their disagreements led Lopez to move out of their family home and into an apartment in Manhattan.
During this period, Lopez performed in regional productions of several musicals, before being hired for the chorus in a musical that toured Europe for five months.
She was unhappy with the role, as she was the only member of the chorus not to have a solo.
From there, she got a job on the show Synchronicity in Japan, where she acted as a dancer, singer and a choreographer.
Lopez then gained her first regular high-profile job as a Fly Girl dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color.
She moved to Los Angeles with then-boyfriend David Cruz to film the series and remained a regular cast member until 1993 when she decided to pursue an acting career.
After a series of co-starring film roles, Lopez received her big break came in 1996, when she was cast to play the title role in Selena, a biopic of the late American singer-songwriter Selena.
In the film, Selena's real voice is used for the musical sequences in Selena, but Lopez would nonetheless sing the lyrics during the scenes instead of lip synching.
When asked by an interview if Selena inspired her to launch a music career, Lopez stated: "I really, really became inspired, because I started my career in musical theater on stage.
So doing the movie just reminded me of how much I missed singing, dancing, and the like..." After filming Selena, Lopez was "really feeling [her] Latin roots" and cut a demo in Spanish.
Lopez's manager then sent the song, entitled "Vivir Sin Ti", to Sony Music Entertainment's Work Records, who showed an interest in signing Lopez.
Tommy Mottola, the head of the label suggested to her that she sing in English instead.
She complied and began recording her debut studio album On the 6.
Transition from film to music
During production of the On the 6, Lopez was aware of the fact that she received her recording contract on the premise of her looks and having an already established name in the entertainment industry, and wanted to prove that she had musical talent.
Prior to the debut of her music, critics wondered why she would take the risk of launching a music career.
It was noted that: "If the album was a flop, not only would it embarrass Lopez, but it might even damage her career."
Lopez's debut single "If You Had My Love" was serviced to radio in the United States on May 4, 1999.
The song debuted at 72 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on the week of May 15, 1999, and entered the top ten two weeks later.
A month after the single's release, it moved to number six, earning the "Greatest Gainer" title of the week, and reached the top spot on June 12, 1999.
The song dethroned Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca" as the number-one song in the country; this was the first time a Latin artist followed another Latin artist to the top of the chart since Gloria Estefan's "Coming Out Of The Dark" replaced Timmy T's "One More Try" in March 1991.
Lopez also became the first artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 with their debut single since Britney Spears did with her single "...Baby One More Time" four months prior. "
If You Had My Love" stayed atop the Billboard Hot 100 for a period of a month, and remained in the top ten until September of 1999. "
If You Had My Love" was also a success internationally; topping the charts in countries including New Zealand, Australia, and Canada.
The song also peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart and reached the top ten of seven other countries.
"No Me Ames", a duet with American recording artist Marc Anthony was released as a B-side to "If You Had My Love" and as the album's second single.
The song was promoted by Sony Discos, who released a salsa and a ballad version of the song on their respective radio formats.
The surprising success of both "If You Had My Love" and the album made the "popular actor even more popular".
Both the music industry and the public became intrigued by "this woman who seemed to have so many different talents".
Following the release of "If You Had My Love" and "No Me Ames", three additional singles were released.
By the end of 1999, Lopez had successfully converted herself from a film star to a pop star.
Video contents
"Rather than the usual collection", Feelin' So Good provides a documentary-style look at the launch of Lopez's music career.
It contains a mixture of interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, music videos and live performances.
The interview footage in-between the performance segments has been described as "very slick and promotional".
It was also noted that in the interview footage Lopez "comes through energetically" and without "much star-ego".
The video album provides very basic information about the singer's career, rather than going too much into detail.
The release has been compared to the DVD releases of Mariah Carey.
Cory Rooney and Lopez acted as album executive producers of the DVD, while Lopez acted as a video executive producer, alongside Benny Medina.
Chapters overview
Feelin' So Good opens with a intertitle that features a behind-the-scenes look at Lopez during the artwork shoot for On the 6, artist's proof of said photoshoot and brief clips of the music videos to the album's five singles.
In the second chapter, "Why Risk a Music Career?",
Lopez is interviewed by her sister Lynda Lopez, who oversees each interview segment, about the risks of starting a music career after having an already thriving movie career.
Critics believed that she was only launching a music career with an intent to expand her brand, while Lopez felt as if it was simply the "next natural step" in her career.
Lopez's manager Benny Medina further discusses this, labeling her as the "ultimate" triple threat – "the actor, singer and dancer".
Lopez then confers, in the chapter "Press Tours / Promotions", about the extensive promotional schedule she was on to promote the album.
She examines the differences in promoting an album and a film, stating that promoting an album is more "personal" as it is something that is "closer to your heart" and something she "really believes in".
According to Lopez, by the end of the promotional tour for the album she "lost" her voice from the amount of interviews she had.
Following this, Lopez's performance of the Darkchild remix of "If You Had My Love" at the 1999 VH1 Fashion Awards is shown.
In the fifth chapter, "Beginning of the Year", Lopez discusses her hectic schedule in the beginning of 1999; balancing film events and choosing the album's first single and shooting its music video.
Lopez then goes into detail about the concept behind the music video of "If You Had My Love".
Lopez's sister Lynda makes a formal introduction to the music video, as having a "special place" in her heart, and it is shown.
Lopez then explains how her duet with Marc Anthony on "No Me Ames" came about and the concept of the video.
Video footage is shown, as Lopez discusses her first ever live performance, with "No Me Ames", in April 1999 at Madison Square Garden alongside Marc Anthony.
Following this, the official music video to "No Me Ames" is shown.
In the eleventh chapter of Feelin' So Good, appropriately entitled "First Number One Single", Lopez reveals the moment when she found out that "If You Had My Love" went number one in the United States.
She then went on to discuss the events that occoured during the release week of On the 6 in "Record Release Week".
Lopez then reveals how she came to record "Let's Get Loud" and her performance of the song at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup is shown.
In "Jennifer's Energy", Medina discusses Lopez's ability to work at late hours of the night.
Her 1999 Billboard Music Awards performance of the Hex Hector remix of "Waiting for Tonight" is then shown.
Lopez then speaks of filming the music video for "Waiting for Tonight" and behind the scenes footage on set of the video is shown.
She also explains how the Hex Hector remix of the song came about and the alternative music video that was created for it.
The twentieth chapter, "Jennifer's Mom", is an interview with Lopez's mother discussing what was like to see Lopez on television for the first time.
Lopez then discusses her surprise to the amount of fans she had and their dedication in "Fan Support".
In "Working on Record", the twenty-second chapter of Feelin' So Good, Lopez discusses the process of writing and recording the album.
Lopez's sister Lynda interviews her choreographer Tina Landon on what it is like to work with her, before her 1999 Blockbuster Awards performance of "If You Had My Love" is shown.
Footage is then shown of Lopez "goofing around" during a photoshoot, before the music video to her song "Baila" is shown, for the very first time.
In "Film Energy vs. Music Energy" Lopez compares the difference between the fans of her movies and of her music.
In the final interview footage of Feelin' So Good, Lopez explains the concept behind the music video of "Feelin' So Good" and why Big Pun and Fat Joe were chosen to be featured on the song.
The music video is then shown and is faded out into the end credits.
DVD bonus features
Digitally remastered with Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, the DVD edition of Feelin' So Good contains interactive menus and instant chapter access to songs.
It also contains song lyrics and a biography of Lopez in both English and Spanish, as well as an exclusive photo gallery.
Additionally, the video albums contains the music videos to Lopez's songs: "If You Had My Love", "Waiting for Tonight", "No Me Ames", "Feelin' So Good" and "Baila".
It also contains four live televised performances by Lopez in 1999.
First is her Blockbuster Movie Awards performance of "If You Had My Love", followed by her VH1 Fashion Awards performance of the Darkchild remix of "If You Had My Love".
Then, her performance at the Billboard Music Awards of the Hex Hector remix of "Waiting for Tonight" and lastly her Woman's World Cup Finale performance of "Let's Get Loud".
Release and response
Release dates and formats
Feelin' So Good was released on DVD and VHS formats in the United States on November 7, 2000 by SMV Enterprises, the home media division of Sony Corporation's music and entertainment label Sony Music Entertainment.
It was then released in Canada the following week by CBS Video on DVD and VHS.
In the United Kingdom, the video album received a DVD release on January 30, 2001 and a VHS release on April 30, 2001 by SMV Enterprises.
Jennifer Lopez: Feelin' So Good was released on DVD in Japan on June 20, 2001 by Sony Music Records, and on DVD and VHS in France on April 8, 2002 by Sony BMG.
The Region 1 cover features a black and white photo of Lopez during the photoshoot of On the 6, while the Region 2 edition features a golden hue image also taken during the photoshoot of On the 6.
Feelin' So Good and Let's Get Loud were released as a two disc DVD set in France on October 20, 2003.
Jennifer Lopez: Feelin' So Good was re-released on DVD in Japan on November 21, 2007.
Feelin' So Good received generally favorable reviews from critics.
Perry Seibert of Allmusic awarded the DVD three out of five stars, commenting that fans of Lopez will "greatly enjoy this disc", but it carries little interest to the average DVD consumer.
Aaron Beierle of DVD Talk stated that: "It's interesting to watch this disc after watching Lopez in The Cell.
I think it's been impressive to watch her mature as an actress; although much has been made of her supposedly demanding attitude, I think she's talented as not only a singer/dancer but as a dramatic actress – I'm sure a comedic role is right around the corner".
The reviewer additionally stated that the most interesting segment of the release was the "Waiting for Tonight" music video.
He concluded by stating that: "Although I'm not really a big fan of her music, I do appreciate it and found it enjoyable and entertaining to listen to throughout."
Let's Get Loud is the second DVD by American singer Jennifer Lopez, released in February 2003 and recorded in Puerto Rico.
Program Start – 0:37
"Let's Get Loud" – 4:10
"Ain't It Funny" – 11:08
"Cariño" – 6:38
"Play" – 5:43
"Feelin' So Good" – 3:41
"I'm Real" – 4:17
Dancer Introductions
Medley: "Secretly"/"Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" – 5:12
"I Could Fall in Love" – 7:01
"Si Ya Se Acabó" – 4:38
Band Introductions
Medley: "Waiting for Tonight"/"Walking on Sunshine" – 8:04
"If You Had My Love" – 7:17
"Love Don't Cost a Thing" – 5:58
"Plenarriqueña" – 5:42
End Credits – 6:56
Jennifer Lopez DVDs
"No Me Ames" (duet with Marc Anthony)
"Waiting for Tonight" (Hex Hector Remix)
"Feelin' So Good" (featuring Big Pun and Fat Joe)
"I'm Real"
"I'm Real" (Murder Remix featuring Ja Rule)
"Ain't It Funny" (Murder Remix featuring Ja Rule and Caddillac Tah)
"I'm Gonna Be Alright" (Track Masters Remix featuring Nas)
"Jenny from the Block" (featuring Styles P and Jadakiss)
"I'm Glad"
"Outro"
"Baby I Love U!" –
"Jenny from the Block" (Seismic Crew's Latin Disco Trip) – 6:41
"All I Have" (Ignorants Mix featuring LL Cool J) – 4:03
"I'm Glad" (Paul Oakenfold Perfecto Remix) – 5:47
"The One" (Bastone & Burnz Club Mix) – 7:40
"Baby I Love U!" (
R. Kelly Remix) – 4:11
The Jennifer Lopez produced dramatic mini-series "Como Ama Una Mujer" is Jennifer Lopez's first Spanish-Language TV Project.
The five-part dramatic mini-series will debut on the Univision Television Network this fall.
An original production filmed in Mexico, "Como Ama Una Mujer" (How a Woman Loves) is inspired by the lyrics of Jennifer's first Spanish-language album of the same name released  in 2007.
At the end of each episode, Jennifer herself will perform the theme song that inspired that episode.
The five part mini-series tells the story of a woman's journey to find her true soul-mate, but with her glamorous life and professional success come heartbreak.
Leonor Varela (Blade II, The Tailor of Panama) portrays the lead character of Sofia, a famous singer/actress.
Raul Mendez (Los Justos, Un Mundo Maravilloso, Matando Cabos, The Legend of Zorro) plays Diego.
Cristián de la Fuente (Soñar No Cuesta Nada, Driven, Vampires: Los Muertos) - Andres.
Gabriela de la Garza (Ángel, Las Alas de Amor, Belinda) plays Laura.
Rebecca Jones (Cuna de Lobos, Dos Vidas, and Huracan) - Barbara.
Rocío Verdejo (Los Justos, Corazón Marchito) plays Adriana.
Martin Altomaro (Un Mundo Maravilloso, Demasiado Amor) - Paco.
Josefo Rodríguez (Sombra del Otro, Miroslava) plays Fernando.
Karoll Marquez (La Verdad, Cotidiano) plays Sofia's brother Nicolas.
Luis Fernando Padilla (Destruir Dice, Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real) plays Felipe, Andres' best friend and soccer teammate.
Gravitational lensing is caused by a massive body between a distant object and ourselves.
It can create the appearance of two or more objects where there is really only one.
The light from the object gets bent round the massive body in between.
The massive body, such as a galaxy or black hole, creates a very strong gravitational field in space.
The exact nature of the effect depends on:
relative distance and position between observer, lens and lightsource
size of the lens
mass inside the lens
Albert Einstein predicted the possibility of gravitational lensing.
The discovery that our Sun bends the light of distant objects when their light passes close to it was evidence that the general theory of relativity was correct.
Types of lensing
strong lensing
weak lensing
microlensing
Strong lensing
Strong lensing betrays itself by producing multiple images from the same object.
A well-known example is Einstein's Cross (Q2237+0305) at a distance of 8 billion lightyears.
Here, the gravitational lens produces four images from the same object (a quasar), although it is only one object.
The light of the quasar does not travel in a straight line to earth.
Instead, it is bent along the gravitational field of a galaxy in front of it.
This galaxy is at a distance of 400 million lightyears.
The first discovery of this kind (except the Sun) happened in 1979.
Two quasars were close to each other.
They both had the same spectrum and proved to be two images of the same quasar (Q0957+651).
In 1980 scientists found out which group of galaxies functioned as the lens.
Weak lensing
Weak lensing does not produce multiple images of the same object.
Instead it produces a highly deformed or stretched image from an object far beyond the lens.
In 1986 this was discovered in cluster Abell 370.
Later it was understood that this was a greatly deformed image of a galaxy far beyond the cluster.
The object can appear larger or smaller, as is shown in the table.
Weak lenses allow us to observe very distant galaxies, which we would be unable to observe without such lens.
By bending the light, the amount of light (magnitude) from the source increases.
This way a very distant and faint galaxy can become visible, while we normally would not be able to observe it.
Microlensing
In cases of microlensing, there is no distortion in shape.
However, the amount of light visible from an object changes periodically.
This can be used to detect exoplanets.
Light from a distant star is bent and enhanced by the gravitational field of a closer star.
The presence of an exo-planet rotating around that closer star bends the light of the star farther away periodically.
Object OGLE-2005-BLG-390-Lb, discovered 25 January 2006, is the first exoplanet detected by using microlensing.
Lasse Lindh (born 27 March 1974) is a Swedish indie pop musician.
His first album, Bra, came out on EMI in 1998.
It had three singles which made the charts in Sweden.
Lindh began singing in English for his second album, You Wake Up at Sea Tac .
The title is a reference to a line in Fight Club.
The album  was released in 2002.
Lindh's relationship with South Korea dates back to 2006.
His songs "The Stuff" and "C'mon Through" were used in the MBC TV series Soulmate.
In 2014, his song "Run to You" was used in the SBS drama Angel Eyes.
In 2016-2017, his song "Hush" was used in the Korean drama Guardian: The Lonely and Great God.
His most recent album is in  Swedish.
Lindh has sang on the recordings of Club 8.
His most recent album is Sparks.
Bra (1998)
You Wake Up at Sea Tac (2002)
Lasse Lindh (2005)
Attica EP (2006)
Jag Tyckte Jag Var Glad (2007)
When You Grow Old... Your Heart Dies (2007)
Pool (2008)
Sparks (2009)
Svenska hjärtan (2005)
Sommarens sista smak   (2005)
Radion spelar aldrig våran sång (2006)
Du skär (2006)
Varje litet steg (2007)
Ingen vind kan blåsa omkull oss nu (2007)
Du behöver aldrig mer vara rädd  (2008)
Kom kampsång (with Timo Räisänen) (2008)
MySpace.com Blog
Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970 in Dublin, Ireland) is the main songwriter and singer/guitarist for Irish rock group The Frames.
He is also known for starring in the movie Once and co-writing its Academy Award-winning song, "Falling Slowly."
Hansard quit school at age 13 to begin busking on local Dublin streets.
He formed The Frames in 1990, and they have been an important part of the Irish music scene ever since.
Their first album, Another Love Song, was released on Island Records in 1991, and their most recent, The Cost, was released in 2006.
Hansard first came to international attention as guitar player Outspan Foster in the 1991 Alan Parker movie The Commitments, after attending the New York movie Academy School of Acting.
He has often stated that he regretted taking the role, because he felt it distracted from his music career.
In 2003, he presented the television programme Other Voices: Songs from a Room, which showcased Irish music talent on RTÉ.
On 22 April 2006, he released his first album without The Frames, The swell season, on Overcoat Recordings in collaboration with Czech singer and multi-instrumentalist Markéta Irglová, Marja Tuhkanen from Finland on violin and viola, and Bertrand Galen from France on cello.
Hansard also spent part of 2006 in front of the cameras for a music-infused Irish movie Once, in which Hansard plays a Dublin busker, and Irglová an immigrant street vendor.
The movie had its American premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 and received the Festival's World Cinema Audience Award.
During the promotional tour, he and Irglová began dating.
Said Hansard about his relationship with Irglova: "I had been falling in love with her for a long time, but I kept telling myself she's just a kid".
One of the songs they wrote together for the movie ("Falling Slowly") won an Oscar for Best Song in February 2008.
Hansard became the first Irish-born person to win in that category.
Hansard and Irglová also recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" for the movie I'm Not There in 2007.
In 2009, Hansard said that he and Irglova were no longer romantically linked, and that they are now "good friends."
Aside from his projects with The Frames and Irglová, Hansard also appeared as part of the band on the 2006 Oxfam charity album, The Cake Sale.
In addition, Hansard has recorded a few cover songs, both alone and with band member Colm Mac Con Iomaire, for the Today FM discs Even Better than the Real Thing.
Songs that he has recorded include Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River" on Vol.
1 and Britney Spears' "Everytime" on Vol.
Outside music, he appeared on a Simpsons episode as a street musician in Ireland.
Hansard has remarked about his musical influences:  "In my house, when I was a kid, there was the holy trinity, which was Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison and Bob Dylan with Bob sitting center."
Hansard and The Frames toured as the support act for Bob Dylan in Australia and New Zealand in August 2007 and Hansard  often performs Van Morrison's songs in concert.
"Into the Mystic" and "And the Healing Has Begun" were included on the collector's edition of the soundtrack for the movie Once.
The Ciscaucasian hamster (Mesocricetus raddei) is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family.
It is found only in Russia and some areas of Devon.
A MacBook Pro is a type of laptop computer made by Apple Inc. It replaced the PowerBook G4 and was the second Intel model to be released.
It runs macOS and comes with a built in webcam and microphone and a power adapter that is attached by magnets.
MacBook Pros are housed in aluminum metal and are currently available in 13", 14" and 16" models.
In June 2020, at the WWDC, Apple announced that Macs will be transitioning from Intel processsors to Apple silicon.
The first MacBook Pro was the 15" model, but a 17" model was released later that year.
New models were released in late 2006, late 2007, early 2008, late 2008, and early 2009.
In June 2009, a 13" model was added and the other sizes were also updated.
The next updates happened in April 2010 and February 2011.
Another update was released in June 2012, in which a new 15" model was introduced with a much higher display resolution (dubbed the Retina Display, meaning that it can display more pixels, creating a smoother image).
However, Apple stopped making the 17" model.
In September 2016, Apple released the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, a strip that replaces function keys.
It came in 13" and 15" models.
Updates followed in mid 2017, mid 2018 and mid 2019.
The 16-inch MacBook Pro, featuring Intel Core i7 or i9 processors, was released in November 2019.
It replaced 15-inch MacBook Pro.
In early 2020, 13-inch model had been updated with new 10th gen Intel Core and Intel Iris Plus graphics.
In November 2020, Apple made a move from Intel processors to Apple Silicon with 13-inch MacBook Pro.
It features an 8-core CPU, 8-core graphics and 16-core Neural Engine.
The battery life has been extended to 20 hours.
However, Apple continued selling Intel-based MacBook Pro until October 2021, when the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with either M1 Pro or M1 Max processor has been released.
Aluminum unibody
The aluminum unibody case makes the MacBook Pro lighter, polished, and stronger.
On the left side of the computer, there is a button next to many indicator lights.
This button will turn on the lights.
They say how much battery power the computer has left.
More lights on means more battery.
A built-in battery gives around 10 to 11 hours of power to Intel-based models and around 17 to 21 hours of power to Apple silicon models of the computer.
This battery can be recharged up to 1,000 times, whereas typical notebooks can only be recharged 200 to 300 times.
Glass trackpad
The trackpad is the part of the laptop that is touch-sensitive.
It allows the use to move the cursor on the screen by using their finger.
The entire trackpad is also the trackpad button, adding more space to the trackpad.
Right-click can be done with two fingers or using a right-click area.
Some gestures (involving 2 or more fingers at once) are:
Use two fingers to scroll up and down a page.
Pinching with two fingers to zoom in and out.
Rotate an image by turning two fingers.
Swipe with four fingers to show your desktop, view all open windows or switch applications.
The 13-inch models have 256 GB SSD, all the way up to 2 TB.
The 14-inch and 16-inch models have 512 GB SSD, all the way up to 8 TB.
The CPUs in the computers are either Apple M1, Apple M1 Pro or Apple M1 Max.
Previously, The MacBook Pro used Intel Core chips.
An SD card slot in the early 13" and 15" MacBook Pros, as well as the new 14" and 16" MacBook Pros, can be used to import photos from a camera or camcorder.
The GPU is intergrated into either Apple M1, Apple M1 Pro or Apple M1 Max chips.
Previously, the MacBook Pro used Intel UHD Graphics, Intel Iris Plus or AMD Radeon Pro graphics.
The 13" MacBook Pro have 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports.
The 14" and 16" MacBook Pro have three Thunderbolt 4 ports, Magsafe 3 and HDMI 2.0 ports, and a SD card reader and a 3.5 mm headphone jack.
Features to reduce environmental impact
They have arsenic-free display glass
They are BFR-free
They have a mercury-free LED-backlit display glass
They have PVC-free internal cables
Their enclosure is made from highly recyclable aluminum and glass
Their packaging has been reduced
They meet Energy Star 5.0 requirements
They are rated EPEAT Gold
MacBook Pro website
Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) was an Emmy-nominated American movie actress who appeared in more than 70 Hollywood movies from the silent era to talkies, from color to the advent of television and epic movies.
She may be best known and loved for her film noir movies femme fatale roles in movies by director Fritz Lang.
Born in Palisades, N.J., she was part of a famous theatrical family with a lineage dating back to traveling minstrels in 18th century England.
Her father was actor Richard Bennett, her mother, actress Adrienne Morrison, and her sisters, actress Constance Bennett and dancer, Barbara Bennett.
Joan first acted onstage with her father at age 18 and by 19 had become a movie star courtesy of her roles in such movies as Bulldog Drummond (1929) and Disraeli (1929).
She moved quickly from movie to movie throughout the 1930s, appearing with John Barrymore in his version of Moby Dick (1930) and playing Amy to Katharine Hepburn's Jo in Little Women (1933).
Of the three Bennett sisters, Joan would achieve the greatest fame.
Contracted to 20th Century Fox, Joan Bennett appeared as a blonde ingenue in several movies including Puttin' on the Ritz in 1930 and Me and My Gal in 1932, before leaving this studio to appear in Little Women (1933).
The latter movie brought Bennett to the attention of producer Walter Wanger, who signed her to a contract and eventually (in 1940) married her.
Wanger managed Bennett's career, and with director Tay Garnett convinced her to change her hair from blonde (her natural color) to brunette.
With this change her screen persona evolved into that of a glamorous seductive, femme fatale and she began to attract attention in a series of highly acclaimed movie noirs by director Fritz Lang.
During the search to find an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, Bennett was tested and impressed producer David O. Selznick.
She was briefly considered to be a front runner for this part but Selznick eventually turned his attention to Paulette Goddard, who was then rejected in favour of Vivien Leigh.
In the 1940s Bennett appeared in four movies directed by Fritz Lang with whom she and Wanger had formed their own movie company.
Three of these movies, Man Hunt (1941), The Woman in the Window (1945), and Scarlet Street (1945) established her as a movie noir femme fatale and leading Hollywood actress.
She also worked with noted directors Jean Renoir in The Woman on the Beach (1947) and Max Ophüls in The Reckless Moment.
Other highlights of the more mature phase of her career include the role of Spencer Tracy's wife and Elizabeth Taylor's mother in both Father of the Bride (1950) and Father's Little Dividend (1951).
Scandal & later years
In 1950, Bennett changed agents.
In 1951 Wanger shot and injured Bennett's new MCA agent, Jennings Lang (1915-1996), with whom she had allegedly begun an affair.
The resulting scandal hurt her career much more than Wanger's, according to the double standards toward women of the time.
Wanger's attorney, Jerry Giesler, mounted a "temporary insanity" defense and Wanger served a four-month sentence at the Castaic Honor Farm two hours' drive north of Los Angeles, quickly returning to his movie career to make a string of intelligent hit movies.
Bennett, meanwhile was forced to flee to Chicago to appear in theater, and later in television because the scandal was too great a stain on her movie career and the movie studios were already floundering in the 1950s as it was.
Though Humphrey Bogart, a longtime friend of Bennett's, pleaded with the studios on her behalf to keep her role in We're No Angels following the shooting scandal, that movie proved to be one of Bennett's last.
Wanger and Bennett remained married until 1965.
Bennett continued to work steadily in theatre and television and was a cast member of the television series Dark Shadows for its entire five year run, from 1966 until 1971, receiving an Emmy Award nomination for her performance therein.
Bennett also appeared in a few more movies, most notably the cult horror thriller from Italian director Dario Argento's Suspiria.
In the last decades of her life, she was married to David Wilde, a Yale graduate and movie critic.
Bennett died from a heart attack in Scarsdale, New York at the age of 80, and was buried in Pleasant View Cemetery, Lyme, Connecticut.
The Valley of Decision (1916)
The Eternal City (1923)
Power (1928)
The Divine Lady (1929)
Bulldog Drummond (1929)
Three Live Ghosts (1929)
Disraeli (1929)
The Mississippi Gambler (1929)
Puttin' on the Ritz (1930)
Crazy That Way (1930)
Moby Dick (1930)
Maybe It's Love (1930)
Scotland Yard (1930)
Many a Slip (1931)
Hush Money (1931)
Careless Lady (1932)
The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932)
Week Ends Only (1932)
Wild Girl (1932)
Arizona to Broadway (1933)
Little Women (1933)
The Pursuit of Happiness (1934)
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)
Mississippi (1935)
Two for Tonight (1935)
She Couldn't Take It (1935)
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
Big Brown Eyes (1936)
Thirteen Hours by Air (1936)
Two in a Crowd (1936)
Wedding Present (1936)
Vogues of 1938 (1937)
I Met My Love Again (1938)
The Texans (1938)
Artists and Models Abroads (1938)
Trade Winds (1938)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939)
The House Across the Bay (1940)
The Man I Married (1940)
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
She Knew All the Answers (1941)
Man Hunt (1941)
Wild Geese Calling (1941)
The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
Twin Beds (1942)
Margin of Error (1943)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Nob Hill (1945)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)
The Macomber Affair (1947)
The Woman on the Beach (1947)
Secret Beyond the Door.. (1948)
Hollow Triumph (1948)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
For Heaven's Sake (1950)
The Guy Who Came Back (1951)
Highway Dragnet (1954)
There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
Navy Wife (1956)
Desire in the Dust (1960)
House of Dark Shadows (1970)
Suspiria (1977)
Short subjects
Screen Snapshots (1932)
The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935)
Hollywood Party (1937)
6 (1942)
Joan Geraldine Bennett
Photographs of Joan Bennett
Article on Walter Wanger shooting Jennings Lang
The  were riots where many of the citizens of Japan became upset and rebelled against the government.
This happened between July 1918 to September 1918.
They caused the ending of the Terauchi Masatake government.
A very large rise in the price of rice caused very bad economic (money) problems, especially in rural areas (outside of cities) where rice was the main food of daily life for the people.
Farmers, became angry at the government (who set the amount of money the farmer's made) and the rice merchants when they learned that they were making much less money for growing the rice than it was being sold for to the public.
They blamed the government and the merchants for letting the price of rice rise so high.
The rise in the price of rice happened just at the worst point in the rapid rise in prices in many things such as food and rents that was happening just after World War I. This caused problems for the people of Japan.
The Siberian Intervention made things worse because the government themselves bought lots of rice to feed their soldiers who were outside of Japan.
This made the price of rice rise even more.
The government did not do anything to stop it, and it spread to the towns and cities.
The riots
The Rice Riots were the biggest, most violent and widespread in modern Japanese history.
The first protest happened in the small fishing town of Uozu in Toyama Prefecture, on 23 July 1918.
Starting with peaceful petitioning, the protest quickly grew into riots, strikes, looting, incendiary bombings of police stations and government offices and into armed fights.
By mid-September 1918, over 623 protests and or riots had happened in 38 cities, 153 towns and 177 villages, with over 2 million people taking part in them.
25,000 people were arrested, and 8200 were convicted of crimes.
Punishments were given including minor fines and up to the death penalty.
Prime Minister Terauchi said he and his cabinet were to blame for the riots, and they all ended their jobs on 29 September 1918.
People studying this part of Japanese history think that the riots and so the need for rice in some way may have caused the Japanese to grow their occupation of other countries.
Evidence of this is thought to be the increase in rice production in Taiwan and Korea.
Judith Chapman (born Judith Shepard on November 15, 1952) is an actress well known to fans of daytime television in the United States.
She has appeared on many daytime dramas since the mid-1970s.
Her first daytime role was that of "Natalie Bannon Hughes" on As the World Turns from 1975 to 1978.
Her character became known as "Nasty Natalie."
Her present role started in January 2005, when she joined the cast of The Young and the Restless replacing Joan Van Ark in the role of Gloria Fisher.
In addition to her many daytime television roles, Chapman has had a long career in both stage and movies.
Her most recent movie role was that of the mother of Judy (Parker Posey) in the 2002 romantic comedy, The Sweetest Thing.
Chapman was born in Greenville, South Carolina on November 15, 1952.
She is the daughter of United States Air Force general Leland Shepard.
In her spare time, Chapman enjoys yoga and directing local theater in the Palm Springs, California area.
She has a home in that area as well as one in Los Angeles where her show is made.
Until recently, she was part-owner of St. James at The Vineyard, a fancy restaurant in Palm Springs.
Chapman was also a guest actress on two episodes of Magnum, P.I. - "The Black Orchid" from season 1, and "The Woman on the Beach" from season 2.
two of the most popular episodes of that series.
As the World Turns - Natalie Bannon Hughes (1975-1978)
General Hospital - Ginny Blake Webber (1984-1986)
Days of Our Lives - Anjelica Deveraux Curtis (1989-1990, 1991)
The Young and the Restless - Gloria Abbott Bardwell (2005-present)
Guest roles
Kojak - Gretchen Hodges (1976)
False Face - Heather/Jane (1977)
Barnaby Jones - Rita Lockwood (1978)
Fantasy Island Evelyn Wallace (1978)
The Paper Chase - Amelia Hutton (1979)
Beyond Westworld - Laura Garvey (1980)
Family - Jo Hamlin (1980)
The Incredible Hulk - Nancy (1980)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Lara Teasian (1980)
B.J. and the Bear - Pamela Gerard (1980)
Fitz and Bones - Clementine (1981)
The Five of Me - Sally (1981)
The Love Boat - Nancy Atwell (1981)
Farrell for the People - Victoria Walton-Mason (1982)
Ryan's Hope - Charlotte Greer (1983)
Simon & Simon - Denise Carroll (1983)
Trapper John, MD (1983)
One Life to Live - Sandra Montaign (1987)
Stingray - Carla (1987)
One Life to Live - Sandra Montaigne (1987)
Murder She Wrote (three episodes, 1987-92)
MacGyver - Dr. Sandra Millhouse (1988)
Chameleons - Lainie Roberts (1989)
In the Heat of the Night - Charlotte Sinclaire (1989)
Mortal Fear (1994)
Desire - Julie Seaver (1983)
And God Created Woman - Alexandra (1988)
Dead Space - Stote (1991)
Night of the Running Man - Roz Chambers (1994)
Scorpio One - Gibson (1997)
28 Days - Deirdre, Soap Opera Cast (2000)
The Sweetest Thing - Judy's Mother (2002)
Hinduism is the second largest religious affiliation in Bangladesh, covering over at least 8.5% of the population.
In terms of population, the independent nation-state of Bangladesh is the third-largest Hindu state of the world after the Republic of India and Nepali states, and hosts the world's largest minority population of Hindus of Bengali ethnic origin.
In nature, Bangladeshi Hinduism closely resembles the forms and customs of Hinduism practiced in the neighboring Indian state of West Bengal, with which Bangladesh (at one time known as East Bengal) was united with that country until the Partition of India in 1947.
The river Ganges is a sacred holy river that flows into the country from Bharat.
Note: This was just their claim based on their estimation research and is not related to any government census authority.
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Bangladesh Minority Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, (and Tribal) Unity Council of North America.
The bilateral relations between the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan and the Republic of India have been traditionally close.
With independence in 1947, India inherited the suzerainty over Bhutan enjoyed by the British Raj.
Although modified and modernised since, India remains influential over Bhutan's foreign policy, defence and commerce.
Indo-Irish relations between the Republic of Ireland and the Republic of India picked up steam during the freedom struggles of the respective countries against a common imperial empire in the United Kingdom.
Political relations between the two states have largely been based on socio-cultural ties, although political and economic ties have also helped build relations.
Indians recognise Northern Ireland as part of its country.
Cornish people (Cornish: Kernowyon) are often regarded as a distinct ethnic group or national identity of the United Kingdom, originating in Cornwall.
They are described as a Celtic people.
In the 19th century, many Cornish people moved abroad to find jobs in mining.
Today, descendents of Cornish people can be found all over the world, including Australia, Canada, America, Mexico and South Africa.
www.cornwall.gov.uk, the website of Cornwall Council
www.cornishculture.co.uk, an online guide to Cornish Celtic culture
Argentine-Indian relations are foreign relations between Argentina and India.
Diplomatic relations were established on February 3rd, 1949.
India has an embassy in Buenos Aires and Argentina has an embassy in New Delhi.
Indians have expressed its desires to agree with the Argentinian claims on British colonies in Southern Atlantic Ocean and other territorial border disputes with Chile.
Government of Argentina
The Yaqui River (Río Yaqui in Spanish) (Hiak Vatwe in Yaqui) is a river in the state of Sonora in northwest Mexico.
It is the largest river system in the state of Sonora.
The Yaqui river is used for irrigation.
Kacchu is a Japanese traditional armor.
Japanese swords and scabbards are higher quality than swords from other countries.
Therefore, Kacchu also needed to develop to protect the body from attack.
Kacchu was also made to be worn by horses.
It was made of leather, bronze and iron.
Among the samurai it was used only for protection.
Kacchu is now often used in feasts, entertainment and festivals.
It has become colorful, simple and luxurious.
Because Japanese people are becoming interested in the samurai, kacchu is becoming more popular.
Kacchu has a high popularity among couples on the birth of the boy.
In marriage, a bridegroom wears a tuxedo or hakama but, recently there have been more men wearing Kacchu.
Kanetsugu Naoe’s (直江 兼続) Kacchu is especially popular.
He was a strategist in the Warring State Period in Japan.
He is also called the general Kanetsugu Naoe of Uesugi.
Kanetsugu Naoe only loved one woman, Osen(お船) and did not have another wife in time of polygamy.
Therefore, couples think they swear to love forever by wearing his Kacchu.
In fact, the Kanji for "love"(愛)　sticks out from his helmet.
This Kanji has four different meanings: “personal grace of love”(仁徳愛), “people of love”(民衆愛), “Aizenmyouou”(愛染明王), and “Atagoshinkou”(愛宕信仰). “
Aizenmyouou” means the hero who realizes sexual desires and “Atagoshinkou” means the religion of gods from Atago temple.
When a boy is born, Kacchu is decorated on “Tango no sekku”(端午の節句), called “Children’s day”, is the festival which celebrates boy’s growing and children’s health.
As charms, Kacchu and Katana(刀) are decorated on the inside with symbols which are meant to protect a boy’s body and soul.
Naoe-kanetsugu.com(直江兼続.com).
Yonezawa city.
Retrieved on 3 May 2009
General Kanetsugu Naoe of Uesugi(上杉の智将　直江兼続).
Retrieved on 1 June 2009
Kyoto National Museum (1987).
Calligraphy is the art of writing.
The word is from the Greek language and means "beautiful writing".
In the west, this was an interest in decorating words on the page.
Calligraphy in the Western world was always considered a minor art.
East Asian calligraphy was a "high art" form before the Tang Dynasty.
It continues to have a high status among the arts.
It is practiced today by many people including school children.
Mad cow disease is the common name of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
It's a disease that affects a cow's nervous system and their physical state.
It comes from the chemistry structure of prion protein.
When cattle get this disease, they have holes forming in their brains.
The brain becomes spongy and begins to waste away.
The cattle become very violent and show signs of mental disorder and have trouble when they move.
It has a long incubation period, about 4~5 years.
Cattle that are 4~5 years old can get the disease very easily.
It was not a common disease, but in 1996 the Minister of Health and Welfare in England said that it could be contracted by humans.
Mad cow disease has damaged the cattle industry.
Some food was made from cattle that had the disease.
In England, the nation that was worst affected, more than 179,000 cattle were infected and 4.4 million were killed in an attempt to get rid of the disease.
In 2012, Korean President Lee's negotiations about the import of beef from the USA made the public angry.
Many people went to the square in front of city hall and protested.
It caused a lot of trouble, and the approval rating of the president sharply decreased.
Only Indian (Desi Cow) cows were able to survive from the disease.
Researchers are still trying to figure out why only the Desi Cows can resist succumbing to the disorder.
Other countries have started importing Indian cow breeds to their countries.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ("mad cow disease" in humans)
Galen of Pergamum (AD 129 – 199/217) was a prominent Roman physician and philosopher from Pergamon, a Greek city in western Asia Minor.
He was an important medical researcher during the time of the Roman Empire.
His theories influenced Western medical science for over a thousand years.
Some of his observations in his books were wrong, as he could only dissect animals (mostly pigs and apes) and compare them to humans, because he was not allowed to dissect human corpses.
Later on in the Renaissance period people, such as Andreas Vesalius wrote books showing that some of what Galen said was wrong.
Ibn Battuta (1304 – 1368 or 1369) was a Moroccan explorer.
He is known for the account of his journeys called the Rihla ("Voyage").
He travelled for nearly 30 years and covered most of the Islamic world.
He also explored West Africa, Southern and Eastern Europe, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China.
This distance was more than Marco Polo travelled; about .
Ibn Battuta was considered the greatest traveller of the medieval period.
Battuta also made  maps that were used by cartographers.
He also met Mohammad bin tughlaq and write a book called the travels of bin battutta
Ibn Battuta was born on February 24, 1304 in Tangier.
His family consisted of judges and scholars of Islamic law.
At age 21, Ibn Battuta started his long exploration when he went on the Hajj.
This is a year-long pilgrimage that brings Muslims closer to God.
Ibn Battuta first went across North Africa (Maghreb), to the great port Alexandria in 1326.
Ibn spent 30 years visiting every Muslim country of his day.
He recorded details about the social and political life he saw on his journeys.
He gave information all about Muhammad Bin Tuglaq.
Ibn Battuta met a Syrian Arab Damascene girl who was a slave of a black African governor in Mali.
Ibn Battuta engaged in a conversation with her in Arabic.
The black man was a scholar of Islam and his name was Farba Sulayman.
He was openly violating the rule in Islam against enslaving Arabs.