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The Zodiac Killer is a serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s. His identity remains unknown. The Zodiac coined his name in a series of taunting letters he sent to the press. His letters included four cryptograms (or ciphers), three of which have yet to be solved.

The Zodiac murdered five known victims in Benicia, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa, and San Francisco between December 1968 and October 1969. Four men and three women between the ages of 16 and 29 were targeted. Others have also been suspected to be Zodiac victims, albeit inconclusively. The lack of consensus about the number of victims, the inability of law enforcement to crack the ciphers, and the fact that several people have inconclusively been portrayed as "persons of interest" or possible suspects, has elicited this case's designation as a perfect crime.

In April 2004, the San Francisco Police Department marked the case "inactive", but reopened it some time before March 2007. The case remains open in other jurisdictions as well.


The symbol used by the Zodiac Killer in signing his correspondence.

The victims

Confirmed
Although the Zodiac claimed in letters to newspapers that he murdered as many as 37 people, investigators agree on only seven confirmed victims, two of whom survived. They are:

David Arthur Faraday, 17, and Betty Lou Jensen, 16: Shot and killed on December 20, 1968, on Lake Herman Road just within the city limits of Benicia.
Michael Renault Mageau, 19, and Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin, 22: Shot on July 4, 1969, at the Blue Rock Springs Golf Course parking lot on the outskirts of Vallejo; Darlene was DOA at Kaiser Foundation Hospital, while Michael survived.
Bryan Calvin Hartnell, 20, and Cecelia Ann Shepard, 22: Stabbed on September 27, 1969, on what is today locally referred to as "Zodiac Island"at Lake Berryessa in Napa County; Hartnell survived six stab wounds to the back, but Shepard died of her injuries two days later.
Paul Lee Stine, 29: Shot and killed on October 11, 1969, in Presidio Heights in San Francisco.

Suspected
Many others have been identified as potential Zodiac victims, although evidence is inconclusive. Of the following popular suspected victims, none have been confirmed:

Robert Domingos, 18, and Linda Edwards, 17: Shot and killed on June 4, 1963, at a beach near Lompoc. Edwards and Domingos were named as possible Zodiac victims because of specific similarities between their attack and the Zodiac's attack at Lake Berryessa six years later.

Cheri Jo Bates, 18: Stabbed to death and nearly decapitated on October 30, 1966, at Riverside Community College in Riverside. Bates' possible connection to the Zodiac only came to light four years after her murder when San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery received a tip regarding similarities between the Zodiac killings and the circumstances surrounding Bates' death.

Kathleen Johns, 22: Abducted on March 22, 1970, on Highway 132 by I-580, west of Modesto. Johns escaped from the car of a man who drove her and her infant daughter around on the backroads between Stockton and Patterson for some three hours. After escaping to the police station in Patterson, she saw the Zodiac's wanted poster and identified him as her kidnapper.
Donna Lass, 25: Last seen September 26, 1970, in South Lake Tahoe. A postcard with an ad from Forest Pines condominiums (near Incline Village at Lake Tahoe) pasted on the back was received at the Chronicle on March 22, 1971, and has been interpreted by some as the Zodiac claiming Lass' disappearance as a victim. However, no evidence has ever been uncovered to connect Donna Lass's disappearance with the Zodiac Killer.


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Keira Christina Knightley (pronounced /ˌkɪərəˈnaɪtlɪ/; born 26 March 1985) is a Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Academy Award-nominated English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress, and came to international prominence in 2003, after co-starring in the films Bend It Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Knightley has since become a notable lead actress, having appeared in several Hollywood films and earning an Academy Award nomination for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, As of 2008, Forbes claims Knightley to be the second highest paid actress in hollywood (behind Cameron Diaz) having reportly earned $32 Million in 2007 making her the only non American person on the list of highest paid actors or actresses.


Keira Knightley at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival.

Early life
Knightley was born in Teddington, Middlesex England, the daughter of Sharman Macdonald, an award-winning playwright, and Will Knightley, a theatre and television actor. Her father is English and her mother is Scottish and of half Welsh ancestry. She has an elder brother, Caleb, who was born in 1979. Knightley lived most of her life in Richmond, attending Teddington School and Esher College. Knightley has dyslexia, but nevertheless was successful in school and was thus permitted to acquire a talent agent and pursue an acting career. She requested for an agent as early as the age of three but got one when she turned six, from her mother as a reward for studying hard. Knightley has noted that she was "single-minded about acting" during her childhood. She performed in a number of local amateur productions including After Juliet (written by her mother) and United States (written by her then drama teacher, Ian McShane, no relation to the Deadwood actor).


Keira at the BAFTAs 2008


Knightley at a London Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest premiere in July 2006


Keira attends the premiere of Atonement, Leicester Square, London

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Rebecca Alie Romijn (born November 6, 1972) is an American film and television actress and former fashion model.


Rebecca Romijn, March 2007

Early life
Romijn (pronounced "Ro-Maine" in the USA - its proper Dutch pronunciation is [ro:'mɛin]) was born in Berkeley, California, the daughter of Elizabeth (née Kuizenga), a public school English teacher and textbook author, and Jaap Romijn, a custom furniture maker. Her father, a native of Barneveld, The Netherlands, is Dutch, and her mother is a second-generation Dutch American who met Romijn's father while studying in Europe.Romijn's maternal grandfather, Dr. Henry B. Kuizenga, was a Presbyterian minister and seminary professor. Her maternal grandmother is first cousins with Dorothy Letterman, David Letterman's mother. Many sources say that she was once nicknamed the "Jolly Blonde Giant" but she has admitted to making that up 'for a laugh'. While studying music (voice) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she became involved with fashion modeling and eventually moved to Paris for more than two years. She stands 5 feet 11 inches (1.8 m).

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Maria Augusta von Trapp (née Kutschera; January 26, 1905 – March 28, 1987) was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. Her story and that of her family's escape from the Nazis after the Anschluss was the inspiration for the musical The Sound of Music.


photo from Declaration of Intention, January 21, 1944

Birth
Maria Kutschera was born in 1905 in Austria on a train going from her parents' village in Tyrol to a hospital in Vienna. She was an orphan by her seventh birthday. She graduated from the State Teachers College for Progressive Education in Vienna at age 18, in 1923. She entered Nonnberg Abbey, a Benedictine (Roman Catholic) convent in Salzburg, intending to become a nun. While still a novice, she was asked to teach one of the seven children of widowed naval commander Georg Ritter von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp. Maria and Georg were married on November 26, 1927.

Trapp lost his fortune in 1935. Previously, it had been safely invested in a bank in London. The Captain, to help Mrs. Lammer, a friend in the banking business, withdrew the money from the English bank and deposited it in Mrs. Lammer's bank, which promptly failed. Austria had been experiencing economic pressure as a result of German pressure and other factors.

To survive, the Trapps sent away most of their servants, moved into the top floor, and rented the empty rooms to students of the Catholic University. The Archbishop sent Father Wasner to stay with them as their chaplain and the family began turning its love of music into a career. After performing at a festival in 1935, they became a popular touring act. Shortly after the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938, the family moved to Italy and then to the United States. The family home became the headquarters of Heinrich Himmler.

Initially calling themselves the Trapp Family Choir, the von Trapps began to perform in the United States and Canada. After an unsuccessful engagement with Charles Wagner, they signed on with F. C. ("Freddie") Schang. Freddie thought the name Trapp Family Choir was too churchy and otherwise "Americanized" their repertoire and at his suggestion, the group changed its name to the Trapp Family Singers. The family, which by then included ten children, became famous in a new context and was soon touring the world. After the war, they founded the Trapp Family Austrian Relief, Inc., which sent hundreds of thousands of pounds of food and clothing to impoverished Austria.

The Trapp family made a series of 78 rpm discs for RCA Victor, some of which were later issued on RCA Camden LPs. There were also a few later recordings released on LPs, including some stereo sessions. The family also made an appearance on an Elvis Presley Christmas record.


Nonnberg Abbey viewed from Kapuziner Hill, Salzburg, Austria

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Comic-Con International: San Diego, commonly known as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con, is an annual multigenre fan convention founded as the Golden State Comic Book Convention and later the San Diego Comic Book Convention in 1970 by Shel Dorf and a group of San Diegans. It is traditionally a four-day event (Thursday through Sunday—though a four hour preview night on Wednesday is open to guests pre-registered for all four days) held during the summer in San Diego, California, at the San Diego Convention Center. Comic-Con is both the name of the annual event and the common name of the organization.

Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon and the Alternative Press Expo (APE), both held in San Francisco, California. Since 1974, Comic-Con has bestowed its annual Inkpot Award to guests and persons of interest in the industries of popular arts as well as to members of Comic-Con's Board of Directors and convention committee. It is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards.

Originally showcasing comic books, science fiction/fantasy and film/television (as was evident by the three circled figures appearing in Comic-Con's original logo), and related popular arts, the convention has expanded over the years to include a larger range of pop culture elements, such as horror, anime, manga, animation, toys, collectible card games, video games and webcomics. The convention is the largest of its kind in the world, filling to capacity the San Diego Convention Center with over 125,000 attendees in 2007. Although Comiket in Tokyo, Japan is four times larger in terms of attendance than Comic-Con, its focus is solely as a gather for the buying, selling, and trading of dōjinshi (self printed comic books and fanzines), somewhat akin to a huge swap meet, and is not a convention in the American sense.


Sign inside the San Diego Comic-Con.

History and organization
The first convention drew 300 people and was held at the U. S. Grant Hotel in 1970. Other locations in the convention's early years included the El Cortez Hotel, University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention center in 1991.The convention is organized by a panel of thirteen board members, sixteen to twenty full-time and part-time workers, and eighty volunteers that assist with different committees. Comic Con International is a not-for-profit organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding Alternative Press Expo (APE) and WonderCon. The convention is currently scheduled to remain in San Diego until 2012.

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Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003) and The Massacre (2005). Both albums achieved multi-platinum success, selling over twenty-one million copies combined.

Born in South Jamaica, Queens, 50 Cent began drug dealing at the age of twelve during the 1980s' crack epidemic. After leaving drug dealing to pursue a rap career, he was shot nine times in 2000. After releasing his album Guess Who's Back? in 2002, 50 Cent was discovered by rapper Eminem and signed to Interscope Records. With the help of Eminem and Dr. Dre—who produced his first major commercial successes—he became one of the world's highest selling rappers. In 2003, he founded the record label G-Unit Records, which signed several successful rappers such as Young Buck, Lloyd Banks, and Tony Yayo.

50 Cent has engaged in feuds with other rappers including Ja Rule, The Game, and Fat Joe. He has also pursued an acting career, appearing in the semi-autobiographical film Get Rich or Die Tryin' in 2005 and the Iraq War film Home of the Brave in 2006.


50 Cent, American rapper

Early life
50 Cent, born Curtis James Jackson III, grew up in the South Jamaica neighborhood of Queens in New York City. He grew up without a father and was raised by his mother Sabrina Jackson, who gave birth to him at the age of fifteen. Sabrina, a cocaine dealer, raised Jackson until the age of eight, when she was murdered. Twenty-three at the time, she became unconscious after someone drugged her drink. She was then left for dead after the gas in her apartment was turned on and the windows shut closed. After her death, Jackson moved into his grandparents' house with his eight aunts and uncles.He recalls, "My grandmother told me, 'Your mother's not coming home. She's not gonna come back to pick you up. You're gonna stay with us now.' That's when I started adjusting to the streets a little bit". Jackson grew up with his younger cousin, Michael Francis, who earned the nickname "25 Cent" for being his younger counterpart. Francis raps under the stage name "Two Five".


50 Cent's mug shot, August 23, 1994


In Bangkok, Thailand, February 26, 2006


From left: With Olivia, Lloyd Banks, and Young Buck in Bangkok, Thailand, February 2006


An anti-50 Cent billboard in Tribeca, New York.

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Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan (Arabic: رانيا العبدالله) (born Rania Al-Yassin on August 31, 1970), is the queen consort of King Abdullah II of Jordan.


US President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush welcome Jordan's King Abdullah II and Queen Rania upon their arrival to the White House for a social dinner Tuesday evening, March 6, 2007.

Early life
Rania Al-Yassin was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents from Tulkarm. She attended primary and secondary school at New English School in Kuwait, then earned a degree in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo. After her graduation in 1991, Queen Rania worked at Citibank and Apple Computer. In 1995, She earned a DEA degree in Management from the HEC University of Geneva in Switzerland.

Marriage and children
She met Jordanian King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein, then Prince, at a dinner party in January 1993. Two months later, they announced their engagement and on June 10, 1993, they were married. They have four children:

Prince Hussein (born June 28, 1994)
Princess Iman (born September 27, 1996)
Princess Salma (born September 26, 2000)
Prince Hashem (born January 30, 2005)


Queen Rania, May of 2006


Queen Rania speaking to Columbia University president Lee Bollinger at the 2008 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

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Danica Patrick (born March 25, 1982 in Beloit, Wisconsin) is an American auto racing driver competing in the IndyCar Series. She was raised in Roscoe, Illinois. Patrick was named the Rookie of the Year for both the 2005 Indianapolis 500 and the 2005 IndyCar Series season. In May 2006, she published her autobiography, Danica: Crossing the Line. With her win in the 2008 Indy Japan 300, Patrick became the first woman to win an Indy car race.


Danica Patrick on Pole Day at Indy, 2007.

Early racing career
Danica Patrick began go-karting in 1992 at Sugar River Raceway outside of Brodhead, Wisconsin and went on to win several national championships. She moved to England at the age of 16 in order to advance her racing career. Focusing primarily on road racing, Patrick raced in several developmental open-wheel series while in Europe, including Formula Ford and Formula Vauxhall. Patrick earned a second-place finish in England's extremely competitive Formula Ford Festival, the highest-ever finish by either a woman or an American in the event.

In 2002, Patrick signed a multi-year deal to race for the team of Bobby Rahal. After making several starts in the Barber Dodge Pro Series, she moved to the Toyota Atlantic Championship for 2003. Driving for Rahal Letterman Racing with sponsorship from Argent, Patrick achieved moderate success in the Toyota Atlantic series. During her time in Atlantics, she won one pole and was a consistent podium finisher (top three); however, she never won a race. In 2004, Patrick finished third in the Championship.

As well as participating in Atlantics, Patrick also made an appearance in the American Le Mans Series, driving for the Prodrive Ferrari team to tenth place at the 2003 Grand Prix of Atlanta. She would attempt sports cars later in her career with a run at the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2006.


Patrick at the 2006 Indianapolis 500


Patrick won her first IRL race at the 2008 Indy Japan 300, and became first woman to win an IndyCar Series race.


Danica Patrick after qualifying for the 2007 Indianapolis 500


Patrick at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.

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Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American pop singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award.

Justin Timberlake came to fame as one of the lead singers of pop boy band 'N Sync, whose launch was financed by Lou Pearlman. In 2002, he released his debut solo album, Justified, which sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. Timberlake's second solo release, FutureSex/LoveSounds, was released in 2006 with the U.S. number-one hit singles "SexyBack", "My Love", and "What Goes Around... Comes Around". The album also spawned three additional U.S. top twenty hits ("Summer Love", "LoveStoned", and "Until the End of Time"). As of January 2008, FutureSex/LoveSounds has sold more than 8.6 million copies. With his first two albums, Timberlake has sold more than 18 million records worldwide alone, as well as more than 50 million copies as one of the two lead singers in 'N Sync. His other ventures include record label Tennman Records, fashion label William Rast, and several restaurants.


Justin Timberlake at the Shrek the Third London premiere.

Early life
Timberlake was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Lynn Harless (née Bomar) and Randall Timberlake.He has English ancestry, although he has also claimed some American Indian ancestry, probably through unconfirmed descent from Henry Timberlake.His paternal grandfather, Charles L. Timberlake, husband of Bobbye Joice, was a Baptist minister, and Timberlake was raised in the Baptist religion; he considers himself more "spiritual than religious", though still a Christian. His parents divorced about 1985 and both have remarried; his mother, who now runs an entertainment company called Just-in Time Entertainment, remarried to Paul Harless, a banker, when Justin was aged five; while his father, a choir director at a Baptist church, has two children, Jonathan (born c. 1993) and Stephen (born c. 1998), from his second marriage to Lisa. A half-sister, Laura Chwieseni, died shortly after birth in 1997 and is mentioned on one of Timberlake's record acknowledgments as "My Angel in Heaven". Timberlake grew up in Shelby Forest, a small community between Memphis and Millington. His first attempts at a singing career saw him singing country music songs on Star Search as "Justin Randall".

In 1993, he joined the cast of The Mickey Mouse Club. His castmates included future girlfriend and pop superstar Britney Spears, future tourmate Christina Aguilera, and future bandmate JC Chasez.When the show ended in 1995, Timberlake recruited Chasez to be in an all-male singing group organized by boy band manager Lou Pearlman;that group would become 'N Sync. Timberlake made his acting debut in the 1999 Disney Channel movie Model Behavior, in which he plays Jason Sharpe, a model who falls in love with a waitress after mistaking her for another model.


Timberlake at the Shrek the Third London premiere in June 2007


Timberlake at a concert in St. Paul, Minnesota (2007)


Timberlake golfing in 2006.

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Margaret "Maggie" Ruth Gyllenhaal (born November 16, 1977) is an American actress. She is the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, and the older sister of Jake Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal began her acting career in a film directed by her father, and later achieved recognition in her own right playing her real-life brother's on-screen sister in the cult hit Donnie Darko. Gyllenhaal made her breakthrough in the sadomasochistic romance, Secretary, for which she received critical acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination. Gyllenhaal has chosen an eclectic range of roles, from indie films such as Sherrybaby, for which she was also nominated for a Golden Globe, to the romantic comedy Trust the Man and big-budget studio films such as World Trade Center and The Dark Knight.

Gyllenhaal is a politically active Democrat and like her brother and parents supports the American Civil Liberties Union. Gyllenhaal participated in anti-war demonstrations in the lead-up to the US-led invasion of Iraq and achieved some notoriety for being quoted as saying America was "responsible in some way" for the 9/11 attacks.



Maggie Gyllenhaal, 2004

Biography

Early life
Gyllenhaal was born in New York City, the daughter of film director Stephen Gyllenhaal and film producer and screenwriter Naomi Achs. Jake Gyllenhaal, her brother, is also an actor, and her brother in the film Donnie Darko. Gyllenhaal's father was raised in the Swedenborgian religion and is a descendant of the Swedish noble Gyllenhaal family; her last Swedish ancestor was her great-great-grandfather, Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal. Her mother is from a New York City Jewish-American family, and is the ex-wife of Eric Foner, a history professor at Columbia University.

Gyllenhaal grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from the Harvard-Westlake prep school. While there, she attended a semester away program in Vershire, Vermont called The Mountain School. She graduated from Columbia University in 1999 with a BA in literature and Eastern religions and spent a summer studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Career
Gyllenhaal's first film roles were directed by her father: Waterland (1992), her feature film debut, A Dangerous Woman (1993), and Homegrown (1998); the latter two also featured her brother. After graduating from college, she had a number of supporting roles, in such films as 40 Days and 40 Nights, Riding in Cars with Boys and Cecil B. DeMented. Paper magazine has described these roles, including her casting as Donnie Darko's sister opposite real-life brother Jake, as "the girl you're not supposed to notice".

Gyllenhaal's break-out role was in the black comedy Secretary (2002), a film about two people who embark on a mutually fulfilling BDSM lifestyle. The film earned Gyllenhaal widespread acclaim including a Golden Globe nomination,and marked the first time Gyllenhaal performed full frontal nudity on camera.Although impressed with the script, Gyllenhaal initially had some qualms about doing the film, which she believed could deliver an antifeminist message. But after carefully discussing the script with the film's director, Steven Shainberg, she agreed to join the project. Although insisting Shainberg did not exploit her, Gyllenhaal has said she felt "slightly taken advantage of" and in agreeing to do certain scenes she "conceded in a way that maybe in retrospect I wish I hadn't."

In 2003, Gyllenhaal then had a series of supporting roles in films such as the Spike Jonze/Charlie Kaufman comedy Adaptation., and Mona Lisa Smile starring Julia Roberts. She also appeared in smaller independent films such as John Sayles's Casa de los Babys, and Criminal with John C. Reilly and Diego Luna.Another notable appearance was in Happy Endings in which she played a singer. She further recorded songs for the movie's soundtrack. The following year, Gyllenhaal was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She also played a love interest of Harold Crick, played by Will Ferrell, in Stranger Than Fiction.

Gyllenhaal has also appeared in theatre. She starred as Alice in the Mark Taper Forum production of Patrick Marber's Closer, and performed at the Taper in a production of Tony Kushner's Homebody/ Kabul. Kushner gave Gyllenhaal the role in Homebody/ Kabul on the strength of her performance in Closer.

Gyllenhaal shot a commercial for Rock the Vote, and along with her brother Jake Gyllenhaal, visited the University of Southern California to encourage students to vote during the 2004 U.S. Election. Besides acting, she has modeled for Miu Miu, Reebok and Agent Provocateur, and was the first person to record the first unabridged audiobook version of Sylvia Plath's novel, The Bell Jar.

In 2008, Gyllenhaal was also set to play "Suky" in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee but pulled out before filming began. She has been replaced by Maria Bello. She appeared in The Dark Knight, the sequel to Batman Begins, in which she replaced Katie Holmes as Assistant District Attorney, Rachel Dawes.

Personal life
Gyllenhaal has been in a relationship with actor Peter Sarsgaard since 2002.They announced their engagement in April 2006. They have a daughter, Ramona, born on October 4, 2006, and reside in Brooklyn, New York.Sarsgaard is close friends with Gyllenhaal's brother Jake.

In November 2007, Gyllenhaal volunteered to help raise funds for TrickleUp.org, a non-profit organization that helps people take the first steps out of poverty by helping them start a microenterprise. In the latest fundraising campaign, Gyllenhaal helped design and promote a necklace that sells for $100, with all proceeds going to the charity.

Controversy
Gyllenhaal drew fire for a comment made during an interview with NY1 at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival where she suggested that the United States was somewhat responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks. She remarked, "I think America has done reprehensible things and is responsible in some way..." In response to the criticism, she issued a statement saying that 9/11 was "an occasion to be brave enough to ask some serious questions about America's role in the world" and that it was "useful as individuals or nations to ask how we may have knowingly or unknowingly contributed to this conflict." She pointedly denied saying that the 9/11 attacks were deserved. Gyllenhaal later said that she regretted her comments, and asserted that film interviews were not the "right place" to discuss politics.Gyllenhaal also said that she had "nothing but gratitude and admiration" for firefighters and that she should have "been more gentle and more thoughtful" in her comments.

Gyllenhaal eventually met with Port Authority officer Will Jimeno and his wife, Allison, whom Gyllenhaal depicted in the 2006 film World Trade Center.She said she would have left the project if the Jimenos wanted, but Allison Jimeno expressed that she and her husband were comfortable with her and "had no problem with her in [the] movie."

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Kyoto Broadcasting System Company.ltd (株式会社京都放送, Kabushiki-gaisha Kyoto Hoso, KBS) is a commercial broadcasting station headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It is also known as "KBS Kyoto" (KBS京都, "KBS Kyoto") as a television and radio station in Kyoto Prefecture, and "KBS Shiga" (KBS滋賀, "KBS Shiga") as a radio station in Shiga Prefecture. It is a network radio station of National Radio Network (NRN) and a local TV station. The radio broadcasting area of the station is in Kyoto Prefecture and Shiga Prefecture, and the TV broadcasting area is Kyoto Prefecture. Since April 1, 2005, KBS has started digital television broadcasting on ISDB format.


Headquarters of Kyoto Broadcasting System in Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Broadcasting

Radio
KBS Kyoto Radio (京都放送ラジオ)
Kyoto - 1143 kHz, 20 kW, JOBR
Maizuru - 1215 kHz, 2 kW, JOBO
Fukuchiyama - 1485 kHz, 100 W, JOBE
KBS Shiga (Hikone) - 1215 kHz, 1 kW, JOBW

TV (Analog)
JOBR-TV - KBS Kyoto Television (京都放送テレビジョン)
Kyoto - Channel 34, 10 kW
Uji-Momoyama - Channel 57
Maizuru - Channel 57, 100 W
Fukuchiyama - Channel 56, 200 W
Miyazu - Channel 39, 100 W
Yamashina - Channel 62, 10 W
Wazuka - Channel 40, 10 W
Yawata - Channel 43, 3 W
Kameoka - Channel 41, 300 W

TV (Digital)
JOBR-DTV - KBS Kyoto Digital Television (京都放送デジタルテレビジョン)
Remote Controller ID 5
Kyoto - Channel 23

Supplement
Originally, Kyoto Broadcasting was called Kinki Broadcasting (近畿放送, It was called Radio Kyoto (KHK, ラジオ京都) before that). However, the abbreviation of KBS continues use as it is.
Its television service is classified into the independent UHF stations.
It was rolled in Itoman fraud case for a certain period of time in 1990's.
A part of the net program that things except independent UHF bureau produce is broadcast.

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Kyoto Purple Sanga Live (京都パープルサンガ中継), etc...

Radio
Shofukutei Kohei no Hokka Hoka Radio (笑福亭晃瓶のほっかほかラジオ)
IKUYO KURUYO no Hakiriki Friday (いくよ・くるよのはりきりフライデー)
All Night Nippon (produced by Nippon Broadcasting System (LF))
All Night Nippon (Mon. - Sat. from 25:00 until 27:00)
All Night Nippon Ever Green (Mon. - Thu. from 27:00 until 29:00)
All Night Nippon R Special Night (Fri. from 27:00 until 29:00, and Sat. from 27:00 until 28:30)
All Night Nippon Record (Sat. from 28:30 until 29:00, not broadcast on JOLF)
Fukuyama Masaharu All Night Nippon Saturday Special Tamashii no Radio (Sat. from 23:30 until 25:00)
Nippon Retto Zubari Request (日本列島ズバリリクエスト) → HY! YOUNG 11 (ハイヤングイレブン) → HY! YOUNG KYOTO (ハイヤングKYOTO) → Free Campus KYOTO (フリーキャンパスKYOTO) → Music Station (ミュージックステーション) → Hyper Night (はいぱぁナイト) (end), etc...

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Kyoto Animation (京都アニメーション, Kyoto Animeshon, often shortened to simply KyoAni) is a Japanese animation studio located in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It was established in 1981, became a limited company in 1985 and then became a corporation in 1999. Presided by Hideaki Hatta, the company is affiliated with noted studio Sunrise and is also parent to the studio Animation Do. Although founded in 1981 Kyoto Animation has only produced seven anime series as of 2007, five of them being television series.

The company has garnered a great deal of respect from its fanbase for its dedication to consistent and high quality animation as well as its reliance on faithful adaptations of popular existing material.

Kyoto Animation Co., Ltd.
株式会社京都アニメーション

Type Business corporation
Founded 1981
Headquarters Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Key people Hideaki Hatta, President
Industry Japanese animation
Revenue 10,000,000 yen
Subsidiaries Animation Do
Website kyotoanimation.co.jp

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Series run: January 6, 2005 - March 31, 2005
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Episodes: 13 x 24 minutes (+ 2 x 24 minute Air in Summer)
Adaptation of Key's visual novel.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Series run: April 2, 2006 - July 2, 2006
Genres: Comedy, Mystery, Postmodern, Science Fiction, Supernatural
Episodes: 14 x 24 minutes
Adaptation of the light novel series

The lead character from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, which is arguably the company's most successful series to date.

Kanon

Series run: October 5, 2006 - March 15, 2007
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Episodes: 24 x 24 minutes
This series is the second adaptation of a visual novel of the same name by Key. The first was created by Toei Animation in 2002.
Lucky Star

Series run: April 8, 2007 -
Genres: Comedy, Seinen
Adaptation of the manga by Kagami Yoshimizu

Clannad

Series run: TBA
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Another adaptation of a visual novel by Key.


TV series animated and partially produced
Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu

Series run: August 26, 2003 - November 18, 2003
Genres: Comedy, Military, Romance, Shonen
Episodes: 12 x 24 minutes
Adapted from the Full Metal Panic! light novel series. Kyoto Animation was the Chief Animation company involved in this series working in tandem with other studios. The series was produced under the banner of Jindai High School Production Committee.

Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid
Series run: July 13, 2005 - October 19, 2005
Genres: Comedy, Mecha, Military, Romance, Shonen
Episodes: 13 x 24 minutes (+ 1 x 24 minute OVA)
Adapted from the Full Metal Panic! light novel series. Kyoto Animation was the chief animation studio involved in this series working in tandem with other studios. The series was produced under the banner of Full Metal Panic! Film Partners


Original productions involved in
Munto

Release dates: April 14, 2003 - April 20, 2003
Genres: Fantasy, Adventure
Episodes: 1 x 52 minutes
Munto was unique in that it was an OVA that was first distributed online through KyoAni's website in 3 parts.

Munto 2: Beyond the Walls of Time

Release dates: 2004
Genres: Fantasy, Adventure
Episodes: 1 x 58 minutes
Munto 2 was also first distributed online, but in 2 parts.

Kyoto Animation has also been involved in a number of other series, including Kiddy Grade, InuYasha, Nurse Witch Komugi, Tenchi Universe, and Generator Gawl.


References
a b Kyotoanimation Web Site. Retrieved on 2007-02-14.
ANN Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu Encyclopedia Entry.
ANN Full Metal Panic: Second Raid Encyclopedia Entry.
Full Metal Panic Production Entry on WOWOW.

(Japanese) Kyoto Animation official website
(Japanese) Animation Do official website
Kyoto Animation at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia

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Kyocera Corporation or Kyosera Kabushiki-gaisha is a Japanese company based in Kyoto, Japan. The company was founded as Kyoto Ceramic Co., Ltd. (京都セラミツク株式会社, Kyoto Seramikku Kabushiki-gaisha) in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori. It manufactures ceramics and printing-related devices, as well as a comprehensive line of imaging products. Kyocera acquired the famous Yashica Camera Company Ltd. in 1983, along with Yashica's prior licensing agreement with Carl Zeiss, and manufactured a line of high-quality film and digital cameras under the Yashica and Contax trade names, until Kyocera abandoned all film and digital camera production in 2005. In January 2000 Kyocera acquired photocopier manufacturer Mita Industrial, and a month later they bought the mobile phone manufacturing operations of San Diego, California-based QUALCOMM to form Kyocera Wireless.

In the 1980s, Kyocera marketed high-end audio components, such as CD players, receivers, turntables, and cassette decks. These featured unique elements, including Kyocera ceramic-based platforms, and are sought by collectors to the present day. It also introduced a portable LCD screen computer in 1985, the Kyotronic 85. Kyocera also produces ceramics, such as their ceramic knives.

Kyocera are currently the shirt sponsor of Reading F.C., of the English Premiership, Kyoto Purple Sanga in the J-League, Borussia Moenchengladbach in the Bundesliga, and Atletico Paranaense in Brazil. Kyocera also sponsor Atletico's stadium, the Kyocera Arena, and have their insignia on the back of Atletico Madrid's shirts.

In 2003, Kyocera Wireless California started the India subsidiary at Bangalore. It was named Kyocera Wireless India. KWI has tied up with several leading players for providing CDMA services in India. For 2005, Kyocera copiers and printers have received J.D. Power and Associates' highest ranking in their latest customer satisfaction survey.


Headquarters of Kyocera in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan

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Solar cells
Kyocera Corporation has announced a plan to increase its solar cell production to 500 MW per year in 2010. 500 MW is about three times the 2007 output of 180 MW, and the company will reinforce production bases in Japan, the US, Europe and China, investing a total of about \30 billion through FY2010. Through this production enhancement, Kyocera looks to meet increasing demand across the world for solar cells.

Digital Imaging Products
KM-1820
KM-1635
KM-1650
KM-2035
KM-2050
KM-2550
KM-3050
KM-4050
KM-5050
KM-6030
KM-8030
KM-C2550
KM-C3225
KM-C3232

Laser Printers
FS-820
FS-920
FS-1030d
FS-2000d
FS-3900dn
FS-4000dn
FS-9130dn
FS-9530dn
FS-c5020n
FS-c5015n
FS-c5025n
FS-c5030n
FS-c8100dn

Mobile Phones
CDMA
1100 Series - 1135, 1155
2100 Series - 2119, 2135
2200 Series - 2235, 2255
2300 Series - 2325, 2345
3200 Series - 3225, 3245, 3250
5100 Series - 5135
7135 Smartphone
Aktiv K480
Dorado KX13
Energi
K132
K490/K493/K494
K404
K9
K10
KE413/KE414 (Phantom)
KE424c/KX424 (Blade)
KE433/K7 (Rave)
Koi KX2
KX12 (Walkie Talkie)
KX414 (Phantom)
KX433/KX434 (Rave)
KX440/KX444
QCP-2035
QCP-3035
QCP-6035
S14 (Opal)
Slider Series (SE47/SE44/V5)
SoHo KX1
Milan KX9B & KX9C
KX9a & KX9e
Oystr KX9D
K320 Series (K322/K323)
Cyclops K325
K352
Angel & Jet KX18
Slider Sonic KX5B
Slider Remix KX5
Switch Back K612
Topaz KX7
XCursion KX160
Candid KX16
Strobe K612B
Prisma

Digital CamerasKyocera SL400R
Contax i4R
Contax TVS Digital
Contax SL300R T*
Contax U4R


CONTAX TVS Digital with Zeiss Vario Sonnar 2.8-4.8

Film Cameras

35mm Yashica
Yashica 35mm SLR cameras (1976-2000):
FX-1
FX-2
FX-3
FX-3 Super
FX-3 Super 2000
FX-D
FX-103
FR
FR-I
FR-II
107MP
108MP
109MP
200AF
210AF
230AF
270AF/230 Super
300AF
Yashica T4 Super 35mm "point and shoot" camera (now replaced with the newer "Kyocera T4 zoom"), featuring a Zeiss T* lens.

35mm Contax
Contax G2 autofocus 35mm SLR camera, with a maximum shutter speed of 1/6000 second, also featuring Zeiss lenses.

Medium format
Contax 645

References
Kyocera to Triple Solar Cell Production to 500 MW in FY2010
Solar firm to double capacity

Kyocera Global Site
Kyotronic 85
Kyocera Wireless
Collection of Kyocera Vintage Cassette decks and other brands

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The Wii is Nintendo's seventh-generation video game console. The system's code name was "Revolution", and as with the Nintendo GameCube, this reference appears on the console and its accessories.

The major feature of the Wii console is the console's wireless controller, the Wii Remote, that may be used as a handheld pointing device and can detect motion and rotation in three dimensions. The controller comes with a Nunchuk accessory which provides additional controls, including more motion sensing. The controller also contains a speaker and a rumble device to provide sensory feedback, and can be used to turn the console on and off. The console also features a stand-by mode entitled WiiConnect24, enabling it to receive messages and updates over the Internet while consuming very little electrical power. The console is bundled with a game, Wii Sports, unusual for a games console of its era. In the Japan region, the Wii Sports game is not included with the console but is offered as a standalone title. The Wii has sold over 4 million systems as of February 19, 2007. The Wii, like the Nintendo GameCube, is the smallest and most compact system in its generation. However, it does not have the ability to match certain aspects of its competitors in the peer generation, such as High Definition graphics.

On December 15, 2006, Nintendo announced that it would offer to replace wrist straps for 3.2 million Wii controllers. Consumers reported they were breaking during game play.

By April 2007, the Wall Street Journal declared Nintendo had "become the company to beat in the games business" with the Wii outselling its home system rivals and overshadowing the better selling Nintendo DS portable. Nintendo's profits were up 77% on the fiscal year due to Wii and Nintendo DS sales.


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Salma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican actress, director, television and film producer. Hayek has appeared in more than thirty films and performed as an actress outside of Hollywood in Mexico and Spain. Hayek's charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination against immigrants.

Hayek is the first Mexican national to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. She is also, after Fernanda Montenegro, the second of four Latinas to achieve a Best Actress Oscar nomination.

In July 2007, The Hollywood Reporter ranked Hayek fourth in their inaugural Latino Power 50, a list of the most powerful members of the Hollywood Latino community. That same month, a poll found Hayek to be the "sexiest celebrity" out of a field of 3,000 celebrities (male and female); according to the poll, "65 percent of the U.S. population would use the term 'sexy' to describe her".


Photo prise par l'utilisateur yakobusan sur Flickr Page de l'image originale

Early life
Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, the daughter of Diana Jiménez, an opera singer and talent scout, and Sami Hayek, an oil company executive. Hayek's father is of Lebanese descent while her mother is of Spanish descent. Raised in a wealthy, devoutly Catholic family, she was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Grand Coteau, Louisiana, at the age of twelve.She was also an accomplished gymnast aspiring to compete in the Olympics but her father prevented her from being recruited by the Mexican national team. The religious sisters running the Academy ejected Hayek citing behavioral problems, so she returned to Mexico. She was later sent to live with her aunt in Houston, Texas, where she stayed until she was seventeen. She attended college in Mexico City, where she studied International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana. To the surprise of her family, she dropped out to pursue a career as an actress.


Bikini-clad Salma Hayek, as Santanico Pandemonium, performs an erotic dance with a snake in this promotional still for From Dusk Till Dawn.


Salma Hayek, May 2005

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Omikuji (御御籤, 御神籤, or おみくじ) are random fortunes written on strips of paper at Shinto shrines in Japan.

Literally "sacred lottery", these are usually received by pulling one out randomly from a box that one shakes, hoping for the resulting fortune to be good. The omikuji falls out of a small hole, scrolled up. (Nowadays, these are sometimes coin-slot machines.) Unrolling the piece of paper reveals the fortune written on it, which can be any one of the following:

Great blessing (dai-kichi, 大吉)
Middle blessing (chū-kichi, 中吉)
Small blessing (shō-kichi, 小吉)
Blessing (kichi, 吉)
Half-blessing (han-kichi, 半吉)
Near-blessing (sue-kichi, 末吉)
Near-small-blessing (sue-shō-kichi, 末小吉)
Curse (kyō, 凶)
Small curse (shō-kyō, 小凶)
Half-curse (han-kyō, 半凶)
Near-curse (sue-kyō, 末凶)
Great curse (dai-kyō, 大凶)


Tying omikuji at Kasuga Shrine in Nara


木に結ばれた御神籤


左から、籤の並んだ棚、御神籤箱、料金箱（上賀茂神社：京都市）


御神籤箱


おみくじ自動頒布機

The omikuji predicts the person's chances of his or her hopes coming true, of finding a good match, or generally matters of health, fortune, life, etc. When the prediction is bad, it is a custom to fold up the strip of paper and attach it to a pine tree in the temple grounds. A purported reason for this custom is a pun on the word for pine tree (松 matsu) and the verb 'to wait' (待つ matsu), the idea being that the bad luck will wait by the tree rather than attach itself to the bearer. In the event of the fortune being good, the bearer should keep it. Though nowadays this custom seems more of a children's amusement, omikuji are available at most shrines, and remain one of the traditional activities related to shrine-going, if lesser.

Compare perhaps the custom of writing a prayer on a specially-prepared wooden block called an ema, which is then tied to an ad hoc scaffold.

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The Dark Knight is a 2008 American superhero film co-written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is a sequel to Batman Begins (2005), which rebooted the Batman film series after an eight-year hiatus. Christian Bale reprises the lead role. Batman's primary conflicts in the film include his fight against the Joker (Heath Ledger) and his strained friendship with district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart).

For his conception of the film, Nolan was inspired by the Joker's first two appearances in the comics and Batman: The Long Halloween. The Dark Knight was filmed primarily in Chicago (as was Batman Begins), as well as in several other locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. The director used an IMAX camera to film six major action sequences, including the Joker's first appearance in the film. The Batsuit was redesigned, with a cowl allowing Bale to move his head. The film also introduces a recreation of the Batcycle, known as the Batpod.

Warner Bros. created an aggressive viral marketing campaign for The Dark Knight, developing promotional websites and trailers highlighting screenshots of Heath Ledger as the Joker. After Ledger's death in January 2008, however, the studio refocused its promotional campaign. The film was released on July 16, 2008 in Australia, on July 18, 2008 in North America, and will be released on July 24, 2008 in the United Kingdom.


International poster for The Dark Knight (2008).

Plot
The movie begins with the Joker robbing a mob owned bank, and double crossing his accomplices. That night, multiple Batman impersonators interrupt a meeting between mobsters and the Scarecrow. The real Batman shows up and subdues everyone, but injuries suffered during the confrontation force him to create a new, more functional suit of armor. The mob bosses meet to discuss how to handle Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent, while a Chinese mobster, Lau, lets the mob leaders know he's taken their money to Hong Kong to prevent the police and the district attorney from seizing it in an imminent bank raid. The Joker arrives and propositions to kill Batman for them, and also tries to convince them that Lau will give them all up to the police if he is caught.

After Batman delivers Lau to the police, the mobsters agree to pay the Joker half of their money in return for killing Batman. The Joker tells all of Gotham that if the Batman does not turn himself in to the police, then he will kill innocent people every day. When the Joker begins killing off public officials, Dent pretends to be Batman in order to draw the Joker out of hiding. The Joker attempts to kill Dent during transport, but Gordon and Batman arrive in time to stop and arrest him. With the Joker in custody, Batman interrogates the Joker until he reveals that Rachel and Dent have been taken to opposite sides of the city, and one will die. Batman speeds off to save Rachel, while Gordon and the police head after Dent. Unknown to either of them, the Joker has told them the wrong locations for each person, so Batman is heading for Dent, and Gordon for Rachel. Back at the police station, the Joker manages to escape.

Dent and Rachael awaken to find themselves tied to chairs with barrels of explosive material surrounding them. Harvey attempts to free himself, but accidentally immerses the left side of his face in turpentine when he falls on the floor. Batman arrives and rescues Dent just as the Joker detonates both buildings; the left side of Harvey's face is burned during the explosion. Gordon does not make it to Rachel in time, who dies in the explosion. In the hospital, Harvey is driven to madness over the loss of Rachel, and blames Batman, Gordon and the Joker. The Joker sets up another elaborate plan, first he convinces Harvey to exact revenge on those responsible for Rachel's death. Later, he plants explosives on two ferries and gives the passengers on board the chance to destroy the opposing vessel in order to save their own lives.

While Harvey confronts the corrupt cops and the mobsters one by one, flipping a coin to decide their fates, the Joker declares that he will rule the streets and that anyone left in Gotham will be subject to his rule. Batman discovers the Joker's location at an unfinished skyscraper, and prevents him from blowing up the two ferries. The Joker acknowledges that Batman really is incorruptible, but that he has unleashed Dent's madness upon the city. Batman finds Gordon and his family with Dent at the building where Rachel died. As Dent threatens to kill Gordon's family to pay for the death of Rachel, Batman convinces Harvey to judge him first for not saving Rachel. Harvey's coin lands on the scratched side, and he shoots Batman. Dent focuses his attention back to Gordon's son, and flips the coin again. Before he can determine the boy's fate Batman tackles him over the side of the building. Dent falls to his supposed death and Batman saves Gordon's son. Batman and Gordon decide that the Joker would win if anyone found out about Dent's corruption and madness. In order to uphold Dent's vision, Batman convinces Gordon to blame all of Dent's murders on him. Batman returns to his status as an illegal vigilante to preserve Dent's image as Gotham's hero. As Gordon destroys the batsignal, a manhunt is issued for Batman.

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