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Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell (born August 7, 1950) is an American musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music. Crowell has had five number one singles on Hot Country Songs, all from his 1988 album Diamonds & Dirt. He has also written songs and produced for other artists.

He was influenced by songwriters Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. Crowell played guitar and sang for three years in Emmylou Harris' Hot Band.

He has won two Grammy Awards in his career, one in 1990 for Best Country Song for the song "After All This Time" and one in 2014 Best Americana Album for his album Old Yellow Moon.

Early life
Crowell was born on August 7, 1950, in Houston, Texas, to James Walter Crowell and Addie Cauzette Willoughby

He came from a musical family, with one grandfather being a church choir leader and the other a bluegrass banjo player. His grandmother played guitar and his father sang semi-professionally at bars and honky tonks. At age 11, he started playing drums in his father's band. In his teen years, he played in various garage rock bands in Houston, performing hits of the day mixed with a few country numbers.

1972–1986: Early career
In August 1972 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in search of a musical career and got a job as a songwriter after being discovered by Jerry Reed. He later met and befriended fellow songwriter Guy Clark, who became a major influence on his songwriting and vice versa. While there, he said, "I got a real cold splash in the face of what real songwriting is about. I started filling my mind with as many symbols and images as I could. I started reading. I got real hungry to have something to contribute". Emmylou Harris had recorded one of Crowell's songs, "Bluebird Wine", on her Pieces of the Sky album and made a request to meet him. After he sat in with Emmylou at her gig at the Armadillo World Headquarters in early January 1975, she asked him to play rhythm guitar in her backing band, The Hot Band. He accepted and left the following day to join Emmylou in Los Angeles.

In 1977 as a side project, he formed a musical group, The Cherry Bombs, together with Vince Gill, Tony Brown and others. One year later, he signed a solo deal with Warner Bros. Records and in August 1978, released his debut album, Ain't Living Long Like This.

His debut album, as well as his following two albums, But What Will the Neighbors Think and Rodney Crowell, were not commercially successful despite garnering a huge cult following. Crowell himself criticized his debut album for not translating onto vinyl the same clarity and energy he felt in the studio. His single "Ashes by Now" from "But What Will the Neighbors Think" reached No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1980.

Though he had already several country hits by artists covering his songs (including "I Ain't Living Long Like This" by Waylon Jennings, "Leaving Louisiana..." by the Oak Ridge Boys, and several covers by Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris, Jerry Reed and others), Crowell got his first big taste of pop songwriting success with "Shame on the Moon". "Shame on the Moon" was recorded on the 1982 album The Distance by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band. Glenn Frey joined Seger on background harmony on the song. Appealing to a broad cross-section of listeners, the song spent four weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, topped the adult contemporary chart, and placed in the Top 15 of the country chart in early 1983. The song's dark, poetic and hypnotic style helped boost Crowell's cult status.

The album Rodney Crowell was released in 1981 (see 1981 in country music) by Warner Bros. Records and was his last album on that label before switching to Columbia. The first album Crowell produced by himself, it reached No. 47 on the Top Country Albums chart and No. 105 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The songs "Stars on the Water" and "Victim or a Fool" were released as singles. "Stars on the Water" reached No. 30 on the Hot Country Songs chart, Crowell's highest charting song up to that point. It peaked at No. 21 on the Canadian country charts. "Victim or a Fool" reached No. 34 in the U.S.

In 1981, Crowell put his career on hold to produce several of his wife Rosanne Cash's albums.

In 1983, Crystal Gayle had a number one country single with his song "'Til I Gain Control Again" from her first Elektra album, True Love. The song was first recorded in 1975 by Emmylou Harris and appeared on Elite Hotel that year.

In 1984, Crowell returned to working on his own music career and recorded what was to be a new album for Warner Bros., Street Language. That album, a pop-sounding effort co–produced by David Malloy, was rejected by Warner Bros, and was rejected by the label and never released. Warner Bros. requested a more Nashville-friendly record, but Crowell negotiated a release from his contract and moved to Columbia Records.

1986–1995: Columbia Records and mainstream success
After producing Rosanne Cash's Rhythm & Romance, Crowell signed to Columbia Records in 1986. His first album for that label was reworked Street Language, co-produced with Booker T. Jones and featuring a blend of soul and country music. The album did not chart.

Although best known as a songwriter and alternative country artist, Crowell enjoyed mainstream popularity during the late 1980s and early 1990s. His critically acclaimed album 1988's Diamonds & Dirt produced five consecutive No. 1 singles during a 17-month span in 1988 and 1989: "It's Such a Small World" (a duet with Cash), "I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried," "She's Crazy For Leavin'," "After All This Time" and "Above and Beyond" (a cover of Buck Owens' 1962 hit). Crowell's "After All This Time" won the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Country Song. His follow-up album, 1989's Keys to the Highway, produced two top 5 hits in 1990, which were "Many a Long and Lonesome Highway" and "If Looks Could Kill."

After 1992's Life Is Messy, he left Columbia Records and signed to MCA Records where he released two more albums — Let the Picture Paint Itself and Jewel of the South.

2001–2010: Songwriting success, critical acclaim
Crowell continued to enjoy success as a songwriter in the 1990s and 2000s. Crowell's songs that reached to Top Ten in the country charts in the decade included "Song for the Life" by Alan Jackson, "Making Memories of Us" by Keith Urban, "Ashes by Now" by Lee Ann Womack, and "Please Remember Me" by Tim McGraw.

In 2001, after a brief hiatus from recording, Crowell released The Houston Kid on Sugar Hill Records, his first studio album since 1995's Jewel of the South. Many songs on the album were semi-autobiographical, and the album included a duet Crowell had recorded and released as a single in 1998 with his ex father-in-law Johnny Cash, "I Walk the Line Revisited". Crowell followed up this effort with Fate's Right Hand in 2003 and The Outsider in 2005, both of which appeared on Columbia Nashville, a division of Sony Music. Leading critics and Crowell consider these three albums his finest work as a solo artist.

Rodney Crowell was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003 with fellow inductees Hal Blair, Paul Overstreet and John Prine.

2004 saw the release of The Notorious Cherry Bombs, a reunion of Crowell's 1970s road band, including Vince Gill and Tony Brown. The future Keith Urban hit "Making Memories of Us" was included on this disc. In 2005, Crowell served as producer for established Irish singer-songwriter Kieran Goss on the album "Blue Sky Sunrise".

In 2007, Rodney Crowell was inducted into the Music City Walk of Fame.

Crowell released his next album, Sex & Gasoline, on Yep Roc Records in 2008, ending his relationship with Sony Music. The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album. Crowell figures prominently in musician-neuroscientist Daniel Levitin's book The World in Six Songs for which he was interviewed, and three Crowell songs, "Shame On The Moon," "I Know Love Is All I Need" and "I Walk the Line (Revisited)" are featured in the book.

In 2009, Crowell wrote Wynonna Judd's title track to her album Sing: Chapter 1, which also was released in 2009. The song was given several electronic dance music remixes, and sent to dance radio as Judd's second release from the album. In August 2009, the single reached No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart.

Crowell produced Chely Wright's 2009 album, Lifted Off the Ground. Wright also made a cameo appearance in Crowell's 2008 music video for his single "Sex and Gasoline".

2011–present
Vintage Books published Crowell's memoir, Chinaberry Sidewalks, in 2011. "Chinaberry Sidewalks" focuses primarily on Crowell's relationship with his parents’ marriage and his own early years growing up in Houston, Texas.

In 2012, Vanguard Records released KIN: Songs by Rodney Crowell and Mary Karr. Karr wrote the lyrics and Crowell set them to music. KIN was Karr's first foray into songwriting. Crowell performed four tracks on the album; one as a duet with Kris Kristofferson. A variety of other artists recorded the other songs on the album, including Norah Jones, Vince Gill, Lucinda Williams, Lee Ann Womack, Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson and Emmylou Harris.

On February 26, 2013, Crowell and Emmylou Harris released Old Yellow Moon on Harris' longtime label Nonesuch Records. The album reached Number 4 on Billboard's Country albums chart and Number 29 on the Billboard Hot 200 charts. In 2013, the album won the Americana Music Awards' Album of the Year award and Crowell and Harris were named group/duo of the year. On January 26, 2014, Crowell won his second Grammy Award when Old Yellow Moon won the Grammy for Best Americana Album. On May 11, 2015, Crowell and Emmylou Harris released The Traveling Kind on Nonesuch Records. Crowell released his first album on New West Records, Tarpaper Sky, on April 15, 2014. Crowell co-produced the record with his long-time collaborator, Steuart Smith. In the fall of 2014, Crowell was hired as music director for the Hank Williams biopic I Saw the Light.

In 2015, Crowell provided background vocals on "It Doesn't Hurt Right Now", a song he co-wrote with Jewel for her album Picking Up the Pieces as well as on "Holy War", a track which appears on I Am the Rain, a 2016 album by Chely Wright. On December 20, 2016, Crowell released a music video for the song "It Ain't Over Yet", which features guest vocals from Rosanne Cash and John Paul White as well as harmonia from Mickey Raphael. The song appears on his album Close Ties, which was released in 2017. The album also features a duet with Sheryl Crow titled "I'm Tied To Ya".

In 2019, Crowell received the Poet's Award from the Academy of Country Music for his achievements in songwriting. He also released a collaborative album, titled TEXAS on August 15, 2019.

Personal life
In 1975, Crowell married Martha Dant Watts, and their daughter Hannah was born in May 1976. The brief marriage ended in divorce, with Crowell retaining custody of Hannah.

Crowell was subsequently married to Rosanne Cash (daughter of Johnny Cash) from 1979 to 1992 and they had an influence on each other's careers, with Crowell producing most of her albums during that period and her success influencing his songwriting. They collaborated on a number of duets, including 1988's "It's Such a Small World." Although Crowell and Cash are now divorced, they remain on friendly terms, performing together occasionally. Crowell and Cash have three daughters: Caitlin (b. 1980), Chelsea (b. 1982), and Carrie (b. 1988).

Crowell married Claudia Church in 1998; they live south of Nashville.

Awards and nominations
Americana Music Honors & Awards

Academy of Country Music Awards

ASCAP Country Music Awards

Country Music Association Awards

Grammy Awards

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Kicking & Screaming (2005 film)

Kicking & Screaming is a 2005 American sports comedy film directed by Jesse Dylan and written by Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick. The film stars Will Ferrell and Robert Duvall as a father and son who exploit their own sons' soccer teams to try to beat the other. Mike Ditka, Kate Walsh, and Josh Hutcherson also star. It was released on May 13, 2005, to mixed reviews and grossed $56 million worldwide.

Plot
Phil Weston is an average person who had endured his father Buck Weston's over-competitiveness throughout his childhood, an upbringing which has left permanent mental scars. Now middle-aged and married, with a young son named Sam, Phil runs a small vitamin store, while Buck operates a local chain of sports stores.

Buck is the coach of the Gladiators, the most successful little-league soccer team in the district. Sam is on Buck's soccer team, but Buck keeps him on the bench, a humiliation he also visited upon his son decades prior. Buck eventually transfers Sam to the Tigers, the league's worst team.

At Sam's first game with his new team, their coach is absent. Rather than forfeit, Phil decides to coach the team, a position he takes up permanently. However, despite Phil's best efforts the team does not seem to improve. In desperation, Phil recruits Mike Ditka, Buck's neighbor and hated enemy. Enticed by the opportunity to beat Buck, Ditka accepts the position. Despite grueling training, the team continues to lose.

Ditka introduces Phil to two exceptionally talented Italian boys working in a local butcher's shop. Phil succeeds in gaining their uncle's permission for them to play for the Tigers. They have an immediate impact, scoring repeatedly. The resulting winning streak makes them serious contenders in the league. After Phil boasts about the Tigers potentially reaching the finals, he and Buck make a bet: if the Gladiators win then Phil would sell his store and work for Buck. If the Tigers win then Buck would hand over his most prized possession, 'The Pelé Ball', a soccer ball struck by the famous player which Phil caught as a child and Buck took from him.

Meanwhile, Ditka also introduces Phil to coffee, which rapidly changes him from a mild-mannered caring dad to an obnoxious, egotistical, over-competitive coach, not unlike his father, abusing kids and parents alike. The team's mantra becomes "Get the ball to the Italians", which, though effective, demoralizes his team. In the ultimate over-competitive act, he benches his son for the entire semi-final game.

The Tigers make it to the finals where they face off against the Gladiators. At half-time, the score is 2–1 to the Gladiators. In a heart-to-heart discussion with his son, Phil realizes the error of his ways. He tells his team to do exactly the opposite of what he taught them. Although the Gladiators score one more goal after half-time, the Tigers don't give up hope. Phil gives the goalie a vision test with glasses from the crowd. From there, Ambrose scores one goal—making the score 3–2. After another goal, the score is tied. The team rallies and produces a spectacular team performance to win 4–3, with Sam scoring the winning goal against his uncle Bucky, (Buck's child from his second wife and Phil's younger half-brother, who was born on the exact day as Sam) using a move that he practiced when his dad benched him in the semi-finals.

Honoring the bet, Buck tries to give Phil the ball, but Phil refuses. Making peace with his father, they merge their businesses, realizing there is more to life than winning.

The film ends with an adapted version of the "He's Got Balls" commercial originally produced by Buck. In it, the entire Tigers team appear, announcing the merger of Phil's vitamin shop—Phil's Pills—and Buck's Sporting Goods Store. The team shouts, after the "He's got balls" line, "And vitamins."

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 41% based on 139 reviews, and an average rating of 5.5/10. The web site's critical consensus reads, "The script is mediocre and fails to give Ferrell a proper comedic showcase." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 45 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.

Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, saying that it was "an entertaining family movie". Scott Foundas of Variety called it "An immensely likable, funny comedy that finds a novel approach to that familiar combo of kids and sports." David Palmer gave the film 3.5 out of 5 stars, saying that Ferrell and the film were much funnier than "a PG-rated kids film has any right being".

Box office
The film grossed $20.2 million in its opening weekend, finishing in 2nd place behind fellow newcomer Monster-in-Law ($23.1 million).

Kicking and Screaming earned $52.8 million in the U.S. and Canada, and $3.2 million in other territories for a worldwide total $56.1 million, against a production budget of $45 million. Kicking and Screaming became the highest grossing soccer movie, beating Bend It Like Beckham which grossed $32.5 million.

Golden Raspberry Awards

 * Will Ferrell nominated for Worst Actor (also for Bewitched)

Teen Choice Awards

 * Choice Movie, Actor: Ferrell nominated for Comedy (also for Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
 * Choice Movie, Hissy Fit: Ferrell
 * 2005: Choice Movie Sleazebag: Ferrell

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Tina May

Daphne Christina May (30 March 1961 – 26 March 2022), known professionally as Tina May, was an English jazz vocalist.

Early life and career
The younger of two daughters born to Harry May and Daphne E. Walton, May lived in Frampton-on-Severn when she was young and attended Stroud High School and later Cheltenham Ladies' College. She played clarinet from an early age, before studying classical singing at Cheltenham. She began singing jazz while attending Cardiff University. May recorded numerous albums for 33 Jazz Records. She also worked with Tony Coe, Nikki Iles, Stan Sulzmann, Ray Bryant, Enrico Pieranunzi, Patrick Villanueva and with Ray Guntrip, on three albums, including her final studio outing, Mood In Blue, which was released in 2023. (see discography below).

May also lectured and taught extensively; her employers included Trinity College of Music, Leeds College of Music, Birmingham Conservatoire, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and the University of West London. In addition, she regularly attached workshops and masterclasses to her own tours.

Personal life
In 1989, May married Clark Tracey, with whom she recorded several albums in the 1990s. They later divorced and, at the time of her death, May's partner of roughly two and a half years was saxophonist Simon Spillett.

As leader

 * Never Let Me Go (33 Records, 1992)
 * Fun (33 Records, 1993)
 * It Ain't Necessarily So (33 Records, 1994)
 * Time Will Tell (33 Records, 1995)
 * Jazz Piquant with Tony Coe (33 Records, 1998)
 * Change of Sky with Nikki Iles (33 Records, 1998)
 * One Fine Day (33 Records, 1999)
 * Live in Paris (33 Records, 2000)
 * The Ella Fitzgerald Songbook Revisted with Lee Gibson, Barbara Jay (Spotlite, 2000)
 * I'll Take Romance (Linn, 2003)
 * Early May (33 Records, 2004)
 * More Than You Know with Tony Coe, Nikki Iles (33 Records, 2004)
 * A Wing and a Prayer (33 Records, 2006)
 * Sings the Ray Bryant Songbook (33 Records, 2006)
 * Out of the Blue with Ray Guntrip (rayguntripmusic, 2008)
 * I Never Told You (33 Records, 2009)
 * Tina May Sings Piaf (33 Records, 2011)
 * Where You Belong with Ray Guntrip (rayguntripmusic, 2011)
 * No More Hanky Panky (33 Records, 2011)
 * Troubadours with Dylan Fowler (33 Records, 2013)
 * Divas (Hep, 2013)
 * My Kinda Love (Hep, 2014)
 * Home Is Where the Heart Is with Enrico Pieranunzi (33 Records, 2015)
 * Musica Paradiso: Songs and Stories from the Silver Screen with Guillermo Rozenthuler (2016)
 * Telling Jokes with Steve Plews (ASC, 2016)
 * Cafe Paranoia: Tina May Sings Mark Murphy with Andy Lutter (33 Records, 2017)
 * 52nd Street: Tina May Sings the Songs of Duncan Lamont (33 Records, 2021)
 * Mood In Blue by Ray Guntrip & Tina May (DigiMix Records Ltd - DGMX 594, 2023) (Vocals recorded August, 2021 and co-produced by Gary Barnacle)

As guest

 * Transatlantic Airs with Michael Hashim (33 Jazz, 1994)
 * Ellington's Sacred Music with Stan Tracey Jazz Orchestra & the Durham Cathedral Choir (33 Jazz, 2000)
 * Cornucopia 2 with Humphrey Lyttelton (Caligraph, 2007)
 * I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue: Humph Celebration Concert (AudioGO, 2011)

Articles

 * Masarick, Jack. "Soaring free as the Bird". Evening Standard. 30 September 1988. p. 36
 * Gelly, Dave. "More Music". The Observer. 29 April 1992.
 * "Perth date for jazz singer Tina May". The Perthshire Advertiser. 19 November 1993. p. 15
 * Hadsley, Neville. "Tina's Breath of Fresh Air: Tina tells Neville Hadsley why she chose path of jazz singer instead of actress". The Birmingham Post. 22 November 1993. p. 14
 * Gelly, Dave. "Jazz Releases". The Observer. 31 July 1994.
 * Lacey, Hester. "How We Met: Rory Bremner and Tina May". The Independent. 13 August 1995.
 * May, Tina. "Jazz Essentials: Tina May on Carmen McCrae". The Guardian. 1 March 1996.
 * Genay, Rosalie. "Tina May Talks to Rosalie Genay". ReVoice. 16 September 2013.
 * Clarke, Colin. "Telling Jokes". Fanfare. March/April 2017.
 * Clarke, Colin. "Telling Jokes". Fanfare. March/April 2017.

Books

 * Jazz: The Rough Guide (1995) by Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestly and Chris Parker
 * The Penguin Jazz Guide. The History of 1001 Best Albums by Brian Morton and Richard Cook
 * The Jazz Singers. The Ultimate Guide by Scott Yanow. Backbeat Books (Hal Leonard)
 * Jazz Writings by Nathan Davis

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Christine McGlade

Christine Moya McGlade (born August 25, 1963) is a Canadian digital designer and strategist, executive, and professor, as well as a former television producer, and children's television host.

Overview
McGlade is best known for her long run as host of the internationally popular kids sketch comedy TV program You Can't Do That on Television, which aired on the CTV Television Network in Canada and Nickelodeon in the United States. She was with the show from its very beginning as a local television show on Ottawa, Ontario, television station CJOH-TV in 1979 until partway through the 1986 season. (In 1985 and 1986 Alasdair Gillis was her co-host.) She also served as host for Whatever Turns You On, the short-lived spinoff that aired on CTV in the fall of 1979.

For nine years, McGlade was the Director of Interactive at Ontario's public educational television network, TVOntario. During her tenure there, she was the executive in charge of production for TVO on successful and well-known Transmedia Projects such as Inside Disaster, Chocolocate, and Green Heroes.

She has also worked on social issues as Director of Interactive for Canada's largest volunteer network, getinvolved.ca.

McGlade was a senior partner at communications firm Q Media Solutions. She is the founder and senior partner of Analytical Engine Interactive Inc., a service design and digital strategy consultancy and is a lecturer teaching digital strategy, data analytics and visualization at OCAD University and design and communications at Humber College, Centennial College, and Sheridan College.

You Can't Do That on Television
McGlade became a cast member on You Can't Do That on Television by "accident", according to fansite YCDTOTV.com. When show creator Roger Price held auditions for the show in the fall of 1978, McGlade went to the auditions only to support a friend. She had no ambitions in acting or show business, but Price insisted that she either audition or leave. McGlade auditioned and was chosen for the show, although her friend was not. During the live, local, hour-long episodes that aired on CJOH in 1979 and 1981, she often introduced the live contest segments and music videos. In later years, after the show was converted into a half-hour program devoted exclusively to comedy, McGlade became the focal point of many of the episodes' story lines.

McGlade also hosted Whatever Turns You On in 1979, which was a half-hour network version of You Can't Do That on Television produced for the full CTV Television Network, without live or local content, and Something Else in 1982 which was a spin-off of You Can't Do That on Television consisting of live local and musical segments that were no longer part of YCDTOT's format.

McGlade's nickname on the show was "Moose", which was also her nickname in real life. According to McGlade's personal blog, she was given the name by a sixth-grade classmate "based on the fact that I was always the smallest kid in the class. I think [the classmate] may have been referring to the character in the Archie comics, the giant blonde one, called 'Moose.'" After she mentioned this to Roger Price, he decided to write it into the show, and thereafter McGlade was known as "Moose" not only to her schoolmates, but to millions of viewers in the U.S., Canada and around the world. Though she frequently took her fellow cast members gently to task for referring to her by the nickname, and was referred to more often as "Christine" in later years, the nickname's use persisted among the veterans in the cast, most specifically Lisa Ruddy and Les Lye, until almost the end of her tenure.

McGlade's tenure as host continued through "Garbage", the fifth episode of the 1986 season, by which time she was the last of the original cast members, other than Lye. (Ruddy had left at the end of 1985.) Though, in keeping with YCDTOTV custom, her departure was not overtly acknowledged on camera, some viewers have suggested that her final scene – in which she and her fellow cast members were carted off the set in garbage bags – may be a tongue-in-cheek reference to it. After McGlade's departure, Alasdair Gillis served as the show's primary host through the end of the 1986 season, at which time he left the cast as well.

In all, McGlade was the third longest-serving member of cast, having appeared in ninety-one episodes of YCDTOTV, and hosting eighty-nine. (She made only a brief appearance in 1979's Episode Five, and her ninety-first appearance was the cameo in "Age".) Among cast members, only Les Lye (all 144 episodes) and Abby Hagyard (113) appeared in more episodes.

Later acting career
After leaving YCDTOTV, McGlade starred on Turkey Television, a comedy/variety show aired on Nickelodeon which was also created by Price. As well as acting on the show (along with former YCDTOTV castmates Kevin Kubusheskie, Adam Reid and Les Lye), McGlade also served as assistant producer.

In 1983, she hosted Let Me Prove It on the short-lived pay television service, C Channel. The show later aired in reruns on YTV between 1988 and 1991.

While producing Snit Station interstitials at YTV in the early 2000s, she occasionally played the character "The Wart".

Production and digital career
McGlade moved to Toronto at age 21. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and later a Master of Design from OCAD University, where she now also teaches.

From 1992 to 1999, McGlade worked as a producer, director, and writer for adult current affairs programming at TVOntario and its French-language sister station TFO and then was Director of Interactive and Digital Media at the network from 2005 to 2012. From 1999 to 2000, she was producer and director of the CBC Playground block of preschool programming at CBC Television, and then from 2000 to 2003 and developed and produced the Vortex and Snit Station programming blocks at YTV.

She was senior partner at media production company Q Media Solutions from 2012 until 2014. She founded her own digital strategy company, Analytical Engine Interactive Inc., in 2016.

Family
McGlade has three children, two of whom are twins.

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Japan at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Japan competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 266 competitors, 156 men and 110 women, took part in 156 events in 28 sports.

Medalists

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Archery
Sayoko Kawauchi was the most successful Japanese archer in Sydney, advancing to the quarterfinal before being defeated by eventual silver medallist Kim Nam-Soon.

Men's team competition:
 * Makiyama, Matsushita, Hamano – Round of 16, 14th place (0-1)

Men's competition
Men's 100 m
 * Shingo Kawabata
 * Round 1 – 10.39
 * Round 2 – 10.6 (did not advance)

 * Koji Ito
 * Round 1 – 10.45
 * Round 2 – 10.25
 * Semifinal – 10.39 (did not advance)

 * Shigeyuki Kojima
 * Round 1 – 10.59 (did not advance)

Men's 200 m
 * Shingo Suetsugu
 * Round 1 – 20.6
 * Round 2 – 20.37
 * Semifinal – 20.69 (did not advance)

 * Koji Ito
 * Round 1 – 20.75
 * Round 2 – 20.56
 * Semifinal – 20.67 (did not advance)

Men's 400 m
 * Jun Osakada
 * Round 1 – 45.88
 * Round 2 – 46.15 (did not advance)

 * Takahiko Yamamura
 * Round 1 – 46.25 (did not advance)

 * Kenji Tabata
 * Round 1 – 46.59 (did not advance)

Men's 5,000 m
 * Toshinari Takaoka
 * Round 1 – 13:29.99
 * Final – 13:46.90 (15th place)

 * Katsuhiko Hanada
 * Round 1 – 13:41.31 (did not advance)

Men's 10,000 m
 * Toshinari Takaoka
 * Round 1 – 27:59.95
 * Final – 27:40.44 (7th place)

 * Katsuhiko Hanada
 * Round 1 – 27:45.13
 * Final – 28:08.11 (15th place)

Men's 110 m Hurdles
 * Satoru Tanigawa
 * Round 1 – 13.74
 * Round 2 – 13.94 (did not advance)

Men's 400 m Hurdles
 * Kazuhiko Yamazaki
 * Round 1 – 50.15 (did not advance)

 * Hideaki Kawamura
 * Round 1 – 50.68 (did not advance)

 * Dai Tamesue
 * Round 1 – 01:01.81 (did not advance)

Men's 4 × 100 m
 * Nobuharu Asahara, Koji Ito, Shingo Kawabata, Shigeyuki Kojima, Shingo Suetsugu
 * Round 1 – 38.52
 * Semifinal – 38.31
 * Final – 38.66 (6th place)

Men's 4 × 400 m
 * Shunji Karube, Jun Osakada, Kenji Tabata, Takahiko Tamamura
 * Round 1 – 03:05.21
 * Semifinal – 03:13.63 (did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw
 * Koji Murofushi
 * Qualifying – 78.49
 * Final – 76.60 (9th place)

Men's Long Jump
 * Masaki Morinaga
 * Qualifying – 7.84 (did not advance)

 * Daisuke Watanabe
 * Qualifying – NM (did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump
 * Takamori Sugibayashi
 * Qualifying – 16.67 (did not advance)

Men's High Jump
 * Takahisa Yoshida
 * Qualifying – 2.15 (did not advance)

Men's Pole Vault
 * Manabu Yokoyama
 * Qualifying – 5.55 (did not advance)

Men's 20 km Walk
 * Satoshi Yanagisawa
 * Final – 1:25:03 (22nd place)

 * Daisuke Ikeshima
 * Final – 1:25:34 (27th place)

Men's 50 km Walk
 * Fumio Imamura
 * Final – 4:13:28 (36th place)

 * Akihiko Koike
 * Final – DQ

Men's marathon
 * Shinji Kawashima
 * Final – 2:17:21 (21st place)

 * Nobuyuki Sato
 * Final – 2:20:52 (41st place)

 * Takayuki Inubushi
 * Final – DNF

Women's competition
Women's 5,000 m
 * Yoshiko Ichikawa
 * Round 1 – 15:23.41 (did not advance)

 * Megumi Tanaka
 * Round 1 – 15:39.83 (did not advance)

 * Michiko Shimizu
 * Round 1 – 15:48.20 (did not advance)

Women's 10,000 m
 * Harumi Hiroyama
 * Round 1 – 32:07.68
 * Final – 32:24.17 (20th place)

 * Chiemi Takahashi
 * Round 1 – 32:34.70
 * Final – 31:52.59 (15th place)

 * Yuko Kawakami
 * Round 1 – 32:36.60
 * Final – 31:27.44 (10th place)

Women's 100 m Hurdles
 * Yvonne Kanazawa
 * Round 1 – 13.13
 * Round 2 – 13.11
 * Semifinal – 13.16 (did not advance)

Women's 800 m Wheelchair
 * Wakako Tsuchida
 * Final – 01:56.49 (silver medal)

Women's High Jump
 * Yoko Ota
 * Qualifying – 1.94
 * Final – 1.90 (11th place)

 * Miki Imai
 * Qualifying – 1.92 (did not advance)

Women's Marathon
 * Naoko Takahashi
 * Final – 2:23:14 (gold medal)

 * Eri Yamaguchi
 * Final – 2:27:03 (7th place)

 * Ari Ichihashi
 * Final – 2:30:34 (15th place)

Badminton
Men's singles
 * Hidetaka Yamada
 * Round of 64: Bye
 * Round of 32: Lost to Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia

 * Keita Masuda
 * Round of 64: Bye
 * Round of 32: Lost to Xia Xuanze of China

Women's singles
 * Kanako Yonekura
 * Round of 64: Defeated Tatiana Vattier of France
 * Round of 32: Defeated Anu Weckstrom of Finland
 * Round of 16: Lost to Dai Yun of China

 * Yasuko Mizui
 * Round of 64: Bye
 * Round of 32: Defeated Marina Yakusheva of Russia
 * Round of 16: Defeated Julia Mann of Great Britain
 * Quarterfinal: Lost to Gong Zhichao of China

 * Takako Ida
 * Round of 64: Bye
 * Round of 32: Lost to Mette Sorensen of Denmark

Women's doubles
 * Haruko Matsuda, Yoshiko Iwata
 * Round of 32: Defeated Amrita Sawaram, Marie-Helene Valerie Pierre of Mauritius
 * Round of 16: Lost to Qin Yiyuan, Gao Ling of China

 * Satomi Igawa, Hiroko Nagamine
 * Round of 32: Lost to Irina Rousliakova, Marina Yakusheva of Russia

Men's Team Competition
Japan, which had won a bronze medal in the first Olympic baseball tournament and a silver medal in the second, once again made the semifinals in the third. The Japanese team defeated the Netherlands, Italy, Australia, and Africa but lost to the three teams that finished at the top of the group: the United States, Korea, and Cuba. In the semifinals, Japan played Cuba for the second time in as many games, losing again to the two-time gold medallists. Playing for the bronze medal against Korea, the Japanese team was again defeated.

 * Preliminary Round (4-3)
 * Lost to United States 2-4
 * Defeated Netherlands 10-2
 * Defeated Australia 7-3
 * Defeated Italy 6-1
 * Defeated South Africa 8-0
 * Lost to Korea 6-7
 * Lost to Cuba 2-6

 * Semifinals
 * Lost to Cuba 0-3

 * Bronze-medal match
 * Lost to Korea 1-3

 * Team Roster

 * So Taguchi
 * Fumihiro Suzuki
 * Nobuhiko Matsunaka
 * Jun Haima
 * Norihiro Nakamura
 * Yukio Tanaka
 * Yoshinori Okihara
 * Osamu Nogami
 * Yoshihiko Kajiyama
 * Yoshikazu Doi
 * Masato Kawano
 * Shunsuke Watanabe
 * Yuji Yoshimi
 * Masanori Ishikawa

 * Akichika Yamada
 * Toshiya Sugiuchi
 * Daisuke Matsuzaka
 * Masanori Sugiura
 * Shinnosuke Abe
 * Kosuke Noda
 * Tomohiro Iizuka
 * Jun Hirose
 * Norihiro Akahoshi
 * Tomohiro Kuroki
 * Manager: Kozo Ohtagaki
 * Coach: Hiroyuki Hayashi
 * Coach: Keiichi Nagasaki
 * Coach: Osamu Nomura

Boxing
Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)
 * Kazumasa Tsujimoto
 * Round 1 – Defeated Hassan Oucheikh of Morocco
 * Round 2 – Lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux of Cuba (did not advance)

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)
 * Hidehiko Tsukamoto
 * Round 1 – Lost to Yosvani Aguilera of Cuba (did not advance)

Women's competition
Women's Kayak Singles 500 m
 * Sayuri Maruyama
 * Qualifying Heat – 02:00.833 (did not advance)

Men's competition
Men's Kayak Singles
 * Taro Ando
 * Qualifying – 442.64 (did not advance)

Cross Country Mountain Bike
Men's Cross Country Mountain Bike
 * Raita Suzuki
 * Final – Lapped (34th place)

Women's Mountain Bike
 * Hiroko Nambu
 * Final – 2:06:13.88 (26th place)

Road Cycling
Men's Road Race
 * Yoshiyuki Abe
 * Final – DNF

Women's Road Race
 * Miho Oki
 * Final – 3:12:40 (40th place)

Men's competition
Men's Sprint
 * Shinichi Ota
 * Qualifying – 10.603
 * Repechage – 2nd place – Heat 2
 * First round – Lost to Viesturs Berzins of Latvia
 * Tomohiro Nagatsuka
 * Qualifying – 10.595
 * Repechage – 3rd place – Heat 1
 * First round – Lost to Pavel Buráň of Czech Republic

Men's 1 km Time Trial
 * Narihiro Inamura
 * Final – 01:05.085 (9th place)

Men's Point Race
 * Makoto Iljima
 * Points – 6
 * Laps Down – 2 (16th place)

Men's Keirin
 * Shinichi Ota
 * First round – Heat – 1; Place – 3
 * Repechage – Heat – 1; Place – 2
 * Second round – Heat – 2; Place – 6 (did not advance)
 * Yuichiro Kamiyama
 * First round – Heat – 3; Place – 6
 * Repechage – Heat – 3; DNF (did not advance)

Men's Olympic Sprint
 * Narihiro Inamura, Yuichiro Kamiyama, Tomohiro Nagatsuka
 * Qualifying – 45.406
 * Second round – 45.264 (did not advance)

Women's competition
Women's Point Race
 * Akemi Morimoto
 * Points – 0 (16th place)

Diving
Men's 3 Metre Springboard
 * Ken Terauchi
 * Preliminary – 389.88
 * Semi-final – 226.89 – 616.77
 * Final – 407.58 – 634.47 (8th place)

Men's 10 Metre Platform
 * Ken Terauchi
 * Preliminary – 457.59
 * Semi-final – 191.49 – 649.08
 * Final – 445.41 – 636.90 (5th place)

Fencing
Four fencers, two men and two women, represented Japan in 2000.

 * Men's foil
 * Naoto Okazaki

 * Men's sabre
 * Masashi Nagara

 * Women's foil
 * Yuko Arai
 * Miwako Shimada

Men's Team Competition

 * Team Roster

 * ( 1.) Seigo Narazaki
 * ( 2.) Yuji Nakazawa
 * ( 3.) Naoki Matsuda
 * ( 4.) Ryuzo Morioka
 * ( 5.) Tsuneyasu Miyamoto
 * ( 6.) Junichi Inamoto
 * ( 7.) Hidetoshi Nakata
 * ( 8.) Tomakazu Myojin
 * ( 9.) Tomoyuki Hirase
 * (10.) Shunsuke Nakamura
 * (11.) Atsuhiro Miura
 * (12.) Tomoyuki Sakai
 * (13.) Atsushi Yanagisawa
 * (14.) Masashi Motoyama
 * (15.) Norihiro Nishi
 * (16.) Kōji Nakata
 * (17.) Naohiro Takahara
 * (18.) Ryota Tsuzuki
 * (19.) Kota Yoshihara
 * (20.) Satoshi Yamaguchi
 * (21.) Yasuhito Endō
 * (22.) Hitoshi Sogahata

 * Group D

 * Quarter-finals

Sailing
Five men and four women competed in six different Sailing events at the 2000 Olympics, including two top 10 finishes.

Men's Double Handed Dinghy (470)
 * Eiichiro Hamazaki and Yuji Miyai
 * Race 1 – 19
 * Race 2 – (22)
 * Race 3 – (26)
 * Race 4 – 13
 * Race 5 – 4
 * Race 6 – 16
 * Race 7 – 17
 * Race 8 – 18
 * Race 9 – 10
 * Race 10 – 16
 * Race 11 – 20
 * Final – 133 (18th place)

Women's Mistral
 * Masako Imai
 * Race 1 – 6
 * Race 2 – 12
 * Race 3 – 10
 * Race 4 – 10
 * Race 5 – (15)
 * Race 6 – 5
 * Race 7 – 9
 * Race 8 – 11
 * Race 9 – (16)
 * Race 10 – 7
 * Race 11 – 8
 * Final – 78 (10th place)

Women's Single Handed Dinghy (Europe)
 * Maiko Sato
 * Race 1 – 21
 * Race 2 – 13
 * Race 3 – 20
 * Race 4 – 22
 * Race 5 – 22
 * Race 6 – 17
 * Race 7 – 22
 * Race 8 – (24)
 * Race 9 – 22
 * Race 10 – (23)
 * Race 11 – 13
 * Final – 172 (23rd place)

Women's Double Handed Dinghy (470)
 * Yumiko Shige and Yurie Alicia Kinoshita
 * Race 1 – 9
 * Race 2 – 5
 * Race 3 – 10
 * Race 4 – 7
 * Race 5 – 1
 * Race 6 – (14)
 * Race 7 – 8
 * Race 8 – 3
 * Race 9 – (12)
 * Race 10 – 12
 * Race 11 – 11
 * Final – 66 (8th place)

Open Laser
 * Kunio Suzuki
 * Race 1 – (38)
 * Race 2 – 12
 * Race 3 – 19
 * Race 4 – 15
 * Race 5 – 32
 * Race 6 – (36)
 * Race 7 – 17
 * Race 8 – 25
 * Race 9 – 24
 * Race 10 – 30
 * Race 11 – 28
 * Final – 202 (27th place)

Open High Performance Two Handed Dinghy (49er)
 * Kenji Nakamura and Tomoyuki Sasaki
 * Race 1 – 4
 * Race 2 – 4
 * Race 3 – 10
 * Race 4 – 15
 * Race 5 – 9
 * Race 6 – 16
 * Race 7 – (17)
 * Race 8 – 15
 * Race 9 – 15
 * Race 10 – 13
 * Race 11 – 16
 * Race 12 – (17)
 * Race 13 – 14
 * Race 14 – 16
 * Race 15 – 14
 * Race 16 – 12
 * Final – 173 (16th place)

Women's Team Competition

 * Preliminary Round Robin
 * Defeated Cuba (4:1)
 * Defeated PR China (3:1)
 * Defeated United States (2:1)
 * Defeated Australia (1:0)
 * Defeated Canada (4:3)
 * Defeated Italy (2:0)
 * Defeated New Zealand (2:1)

 * Semifinals
 * Defeated Australia (1:0)

 * Final
 * Lost to United States (1:2) → [[Image:Med 2.png]] Silver Medal

 * Team Roster
 * Misako Ando
 * Yumiko Fujii
 * Taeko Ishikawa
 * Kazue Ito
 * Yoshimi Kobayashi
 * Shiori Koseki
 * Mariko Masubuchi
 * Naomi Matsumoto
 * Emi Naito
 * Haruka Saito
 * Juri Takayama
 * Hiroko Tamoto
 * Reika Utsugi
 * Miyo Yamada
 * Noriko Yamaji

Swimming
Men's 400 m Freestyle
 * Masato Hirano
 * Preliminary Heat – 03:51.41 (did not advance)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle
 * Masato Hirano
 * Preliminary Heat – 15:14.43 (did not advance)

 * Yota Arase
 * Preliminary Heat – 15:18.20 (did not advance)

Men's 100 m Butterfly
 * Takashi Yamamoto
 * Preliminary Heat – 52.91
 * Semi-final – 53.01
 * Final – 52.58 (5th place)

Men's 200 m Butterfly
 * Takashi Yamamoto
 * Preliminary Heat – 01:58.07
 * Semi-final – 01:57.66 (did not advance)

 * Hisayoshi Tanaka
 * Preliminary Heat – 01:59.00
 * Semi-final – 01:58.06 (did not advance)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke
 * Kosuke Kitajima
 * Preliminary Heat – 01:01.68
 * Semi-final – 01:01.31
 * Final – 01:01.00 (4th place)

 * Akira Hayashi
 * Preliminary Heat – 01:02.86 (did not advance)

Men's 200 m Breaststroke
 * Akira Hayashi
 * Preliminary Heat – 02:15.54
 * Semi-final – 02:15.16 (did not advance)

 * Kosuke Kitajima
 * Preliminary Heat – 02:15.71 (did not advance)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley
 * Susumu Tabuchi
 * Preliminary Heat – 02:05.68 (did not advance)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley
 * Shinya Taniguchi
 * Preliminary Heat – 04:17.36 (did not advance)
 * Final – 04:20.93 (8th place)

 * Susumu Tabuchi
 * Preliminary Heat – 04:20.76 (did not advance)

Women's 50 m Freestyle
 * Sumika Minamoto
 * Preliminary Heat – 25.52
 * Semi-final – 25.43
 * Final – 25.65 (8th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle
 * Sumika Minamoto
 * Preliminary Heat – 55.8
 * Semi-final – 55.62
 * Final – 55.53 (7th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle
 * Sachiko Yamada
 * Preliminary Heat – 04:12.45 (did not advance)

 * Yasuko Tajima
 * Preliminary Heat – 04:14.23 (did not advance)

Women's 800 m Freestyle
 * Sachiko Yamada
 * Preliminary Heat – 08:33.06
 * Final – 08:37.39 (8th place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly
 * Junko Onishi
 * Preliminary Heat – 59.11
 * Semi-final – 59.04
 * Final – 59.13 (6th place)

 * Maki Mita
 * Preliminary Heat – 01:00.97 (did not advance)

Women's 200 m Butterfly
 * Maki Mita
 * Preliminary Heat – 02:09.85
 * Semi-final – 02:09.88
 * Final – 02:09.66 (7th place)

 * Yuko Nakanishi
 * Preliminary Heat – 02:10.22
 * Semi-final – 02:09.89
 * Final – 02:10.72 (8th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke
 * Masami Tanaka
 * Preliminary Heat – 01:09.12
 * Semi-final – 01:09.04
 * Final – 01:08.37 (6th place)

 * Junko Isoda
 * Preliminary Heat – DNS (did not advance)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke
 * Masami Tanaka
 * Preliminary Heat – 02:27.39
 * Semi-final – 02:26.24
 * Final – 02:26.98 (7th place)

 * Junko Isoda
 * Preliminary Heat – 02:29.60
 * Semi-final – 02:31.71 (did not advance)

Women's 100 m Backstroke
 * Mai Nakamura
 * Preliminary Heat – 01:00.88
 * Semi-final – 01:01.07
 * Final – 01:00.55 (silver medal)

 * Noriko Inada
 * Preliminary Heat – 01:02.19
 * Semi-final – 01:01.25
 * Final – 01:01.14 (5th place)

Women's 200 m Backstroke
 * Miki Nakao
 * Preliminary Heat – 02:11.69
 * Semi-final – 02:12.49
 * Final – 02:11.05 (bronze medal)

 * Tomoko Hagiwara
 * Preliminary Heat – 02:12.15
 * Semi-final – 02:11.02
 * Final – 02:11.21 (4th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley
 * Tomoko Hagiwara
 * Preliminary Heat – 02:15.16
 * Semi-final – 02:15.09
 * Final – 02:15.64 (8th place)

 * Yasuko Tajima
 * Preliminary Heat – 02:21.65 (did not advance)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley
 * Yasuko Tajima
 * Preliminary Heat – 04:40.35 (did not advance)
 * Final – 04:35.96 (silver medal)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley
 * Sumika Minamoto, Mai Nakamura, Junko Onishi, Masami Tanaka
 * Preliminary Heat – 04:05.76
 * Final – 04:04.16 (bronze medal)

Synchronized swimming
Japan won two silver medals in the synchronized swimming competition at the 2000 Olympics.

Team
 * Ayano Egami, Raika Fujii, Yoko Isoda, Rei Jimbo, Miya Tachibana, Miho Takeda, Yuko Yoneda, Yoko Yoneda, Juri Tatsumi
 * Technical Routine – 34.51
 * Free Routine – 64.35
 * Final – 98.86 (silver medal)

Duet
 * Miya Tachibana, Miho Takeda
 * Technical Routine – 34.3
 * Free Routine – 64.35
 * Final – 98.65 (silver medal)

Triathlon
Women's Individual Competition:
 * Kiyomi Niwata – 2:03:53.01 (14th place)
 * Akiko Hirao – 2:04:18.70 (17th place)
 * Haruna Hosoya – DNF

Men's Individual Competition:
 * Takumi Obara – 1:50:29.95 (21st place)
 * Hideo Fukui – 1:52:04.79 (36th place)
 * Hiroyuki Nishiuchi – 1:56:59.76 (46th place)

Weightlifting
Men

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Claudia Church

Claudia Lorraine Church (born January 12, 1962) is an American country music singer-songwriter whose singles include "What's the Matter With You Baby" and "Home in My Heart (North Carolina)".

Biography
Church was the second daughter of Claude and Lucille Church. Her father was a member of the US Army, so she lived in such places as Okinawa; Fayetteville, North Carolina; Sandy, Utah; and Colorado Springs, Colorado; before she graduated from General William Mitchell High School. After graduating, she moved to Dallas to attend college and continued her modeling career. Modeling had her working in cities such as Chicago and Paris. In 1988, she moved to Nashville to realize her dreams of becoming a singer.

She has been married to singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell since 1998. They met while shooting a music video. During a brief break-up, Crowell wrote the song "Please Remember Me", which later became a hit for Tim McGraw. Later Crowell wrote "Making Memories of Us" for her as a Valentine's Day gift. The song became a major hit for Keith Urban.

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Kicking and Screaming (1995 film)

Kicking and Screaming is a 1995 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach in his feature directorial debut. The film stars Josh Hamilton, Olivia d'Abo, Parker Posey, Chris Eigeman, and Eric Stoltz.

Premise
A group of college graduates in the fictional town of Munton refuse to move on with their lives, each in their own peculiar way.

Production
Much of the film was shot at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Jason Blum, Baumbach's college roommate who was producing a film for the first time, obtained financing after receiving a letter from family acquaintance Steve Martin endorsing the script. Blum attached the letter to copies of the script he sent around Hollywood.

Reception and legacy
Kicking and Screaming received mostly positive reviews, with many critical assessments describing it as remarkably competent for a directorial and writing debut, expecting that Baumbach would "graduate to better things."

Roger Ebert praised the film's "good eye and a terrific ear; the dialogue by writer-director Noah Baumbach is not simply accurate... but a distillation of reality–elevating aimless brainy small-talk into a statement." Reviews often mentioned the thin and meandering plot, but most noted this as a facet of the characters' life stage. Janet Maslin of The New York Times stated, "Kicking and Screaming occupies its postage-stamp size terrain with confident comic style."

According to Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times, "You begin to wonder why you're bothering to watch the aimless lives of these four unfold... At 25 he may be too close to the material to achieve the detachment from which irony and meaning flow." In a 2020 retrospective article, Nathan Dunne of The Guardian wrote the film is "a charming distillation of 90s slacker posturing and the tedium of a quarter-life crisis."

The film premiered in 1995 at the New York Film Festival to critical acclaim. Baumbach was chosen as one of Newsweek's "Ten New Faces of 1996". The Criterion Collection released the film on DVD on August 22, 2006, in the United States.

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 57% based on 37 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Witty and watchable yet undeniably flawed, Kicking and Screaming marks writer-director Noah Baumbach as an emerging talent with intriguing potential." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 75 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

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Gorky Park (Moscow)

Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure (Центральный парк культуры и отдыха (ЦПКиО) имени Горького) is a central park in Moscow, named after Maxim Gorky. In August 2018, the Park's 90th anniversary was celebrated.

History

Gorky Park, located at Krymsky Val and situated just across the Moskva River from Park Kultury Metro station, opened in 1928. The park followed the plan of Konstantin Melnikov, a widely known Soviet avant-garde and constructivist architect, and amalgamated the extensive gardens of the old and of the Neskuchny Palace, covering an area of 300 acre along the river. The history of the Neskuchny Garden can be traced back to 1753, when it emerged in the area between Kaluzhskaya Zastava and Trubetskoy Moskva river-side estate. The neighboring area to Neskuchny Garden, from Krymsky Val to Neskuchny Garden, received little attention right up until the 1920s. Initially it was covered with park gardens, meadows and vegetable gardens belonging to the owners of neighboring estates. It formed a wasteland by the end of the 19th century, and served as a waste heap.

The First All-Russian Agricultural and Handicraft Industries Exhibition opened in 1923 on a former rubbish dump in Moscow. The area had been cleared during the course of communist community work days. A resolution for the exhibition was passed on 19 October 1922 and the exhibition opened one and a half years later on 19 May 1923. After bidding for the exhibition's layout plan, which proposed four arrangements—Sokol, Khodynskoye Pole, Petrovsko-Razumovsky park and the river areas near Krymsky bridge—preference was given to the last option.

On 15 March 1928 by a resolution of the Presidium of the Moscow Council, the Agricultural and Handicraft Industries Exhibition was enlarged and transformed into the Central Park of Culture and Leisure—the country's first park of its kind, which was referred to as an outdoor "cultural enterprise". In 1932 the park was named after M. A. Gorky. The idea of a need for a central park of culture and leisure in Moscow arose in the late 1920s in relation to Moscow's reconstruction with notions of a socialist "city of the future". The park was named after the writer and political activist Maxim Gorky.

Transformation

In 2011 Gorky Park underwent a major reconstruction. New director of Central Park of Culture and Leisure Sergei Kapkov demolished approximately 100 attractions and illegal objects. More than two thousand square meters of new asphalt roadbed was laid on the site of demolished objects and 1.9 ha of new lawns and flowerbeds were laid out. All amusement rides but one, a two deck carousel, have been removed in order to transform the place into a recreational zone. Abandoned buildings, carts, tents, advertising structures and attractions were cleaned in the process. Renovation of monuments, cleaning the ponds and delivering soil and grass turf was started. Gorky Park was transformed in several months, becoming the first Russian park that could now compete with the leading parks of the world. A 15,000 square meter ice rink, with separate zones for children, hockey, dancing, and general skating, was officially opened in December 2011. In winter, a skating school of Alexei Yagudin runs on the skating rink.

Shortly after he took over the park, Sergei Kapkov was appointed to the role of Moscow Government Minister and Head of the Department of Cultural Heritage. Olga Zakharova has since replaced Sergei Kapkov and has held the position ever since.

In literature and the arts

 * The Moscow river and park is referenced in the song Wind of Change, by German hard rock band Scorpions.
 * The novel and movie Gorky Park take their titles from the park.

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Wade Hayes

Tony Wade Hayes (born April 20, 1969) is an American country music artist. Signed to Columbia Records in 1994, he made his debut that year with his gold-certified album Old Enough to Know Better. Its title track "Old Enough to Know Better", which served as his debut single, reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. He released two more albums for Columbia Nashville: On a Good Night in 1996 and When the Wrong One Loves You Right in 1998. Later albums were released on Monument Records and independently. In addition to "Old Enough to Know Better", Hayes reached top ten on the Billboard charts with "I'm Still Dancin' with You", "Don't Stop", "What I Meant to Say", "On a Good Night", and "The Day That She Left Tulsa (In a Chevy)".

In 2003, he founded the duo McHayes with Mark McClurg. The duo charted one single on the country charts and recorded one unreleased album for the Universal South label, Lessons in Lonely. Hayes' career was briefly placed on hiatus due to a diagnosis of Stage IV colon cancer, which went into remission in 2012. Hayes has continued to tour and record independently since.

Biography
Wade Hayes was born and raised in Bethel Acres, Oklahoma. His father, Don Hayes, also a professional country musician, inspired him to begin playing music as well. Initially, Hayes had learned to play mandolin, but later switched to guitar after his father bought him one. When he was 11 years old, his family moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where his father signed with an independent record label. The label soon declared bankruptcy. The family returned to Oklahoma, where Wade later found work as a musician in his father's band.

Although he attended three different colleges, Hayes dropped out of college in 1991 in pursuit of a career in country music, after seeing bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs perform on the 1991 Country Music Association awards show. Wade returned to Nashville, where he began recording demo tapes and writing his own material. Eventually, Hayes partnered with a songwriter named Chick Rains, who recommended him to Don Cook, a record producer who has produced albums for several country music artists, including Brooks & Dunn.

1994–1996: Old Enough to Know Better
With Cook's help, Hayes was signed to a record deal with Columbia Records in late 1994. The same year, Hayes' debut single, "Old Enough to Know Better", was released, and by early 1995, it peaked at Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. The single was followed by the release of Hayes' debut album, also titled Old Enough to Know Better, which produced three additional Top Ten singles on the country music charts: "I'm Still Dancin' with You", "Don't Stop" and "What I Meant to Say", at No. 4, No. 10 and No. 5 respectively. It was also certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipping 500,000 copies. Also in 1995, Hayes was nominated for Top New Male Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association.

1996–1997: On a Good Night
On a Good Night, Hayes' second album, was released via Columbia in 1996. Although the album's lead-off single (which was the title track) peaked at No. 2 on the country charts, the second and third singles — "Where Do I Go to Start All Over" and "It's over My Head" — both failed to make Top 40. Nonetheless, the album was certified gold as well. Also included on this album was a cover of "Undo the Right", a song originally recorded by Willie Nelson.

1997–1999: When the Wrong One Loves You Right
In 1997, Hayes also issued a cover of Glen Campbell's song "Wichita Lineman" as the first single for a third album which was to have been titled Tore Up from the Floor Up. This cover failed to reach Top 40, however, and the album was delayed. It was followed with "The Day That She Left Tulsa (In a Chevy)", which reached No. 5 on the country charts. After this song's release, Hayes's third album – by then re-titled When the Wrong One Loves You Right — was issued, with the Glen Campbell cover omitted. "The Day That She Left Tulsa" was followed by "When the Wrong One Loves You Right", "How Do You Sleep at Night" (his final Top 40 hit at No. 13), and finally, "Tore Up from the Floor Up". Hayes considered When the Wrong One Loves You Right as a more mature effort than his first two albums, with more of an emphasis on ballads than his previous two albums.

2000–2001: Highways and Heartaches
By 2000, Hayes had switched from Columbia Records to Monument Records. His fourth and final album before his nine-year hiatus, titled Highways & Heartaches, was released in 2000. Three singles were released from the album before Hayes left Monument.

2001–2004: Duo formation and hiatus
In 2003, Hayes joined fiddler Mark McClurg to form the duo McHayes, which charted one single ("It Doesn't Mean I Don't Love You", which reached No. 41 on the country charts) and recorded one unreleased album for Universal South Records. After McHayes disbanded in July 2004, McClurg rejoined Jackson's road band, and Hayes went on hiatus.

2008–2009: Return to music and Place to Turn Around
He rejoined the music business in 2008, taking a role as lead guitarist and singer in former Alabama lead singer Randy Owen's road band. Hayes also returned to touring on his own. Hayes released a fifth album, Place to Turn Around, in July 2009, on an independent label. The album features eleven songs, with ten being penned by Hayes.

In 2012, Hayes released the single "Is It Already Time" through RPM Entertainment.

2016–2017: Old Country Song
On June 9, 2017, Hayes released Old Country Song. The 11-cut collection of old and new songs was produced by Dave Mcfee and Hayes. It was released on Conabor Records.

Personal life
On April 4, 1999, Hayes married Danni Boatwright. The couple divorced in 2003. Boatwright later was a contestant on the CBS reality television series Survivor.

In December 2011, Hayes was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer, which was successfully operated on that same month. The last tumors were removed in March 2012.

On September 25, 2018, Hayes became engaged to Lea Bayer, a realtor. The two were introduced by her first cousin, country singer John Rich. On December 4, 2018, Billboard Magazine published an article announcing their engagement and Hayes’ new song. They were married on January 25, 2019.

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There was a lot of information on this page that needs to be moved to voting machines. Some of it is just better left out entirely though. It does still need a bunch of work. I tried to get it to the point where the article is acutally talking about vote counting, rather than vote recording...

If anyone wants to jump in on this, the ACE articles in the external links have a lot of great information. -- Electiontechnology 08:02, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunate organization of articles
The vote counting method (manual, optical scan, etc) is a direct consequence of the technology used to hold an election, or carry out a plebiscite. It does not really make sense to write a separate article about just the counting phase across all such technologies. That could of course change if you found some notable aspect that is independent of election implementation technology.

The page Voting system (disambiguation) briefly defines the scope of this article by differentiating it from other areas of interest that could be labeled "voting systems". That page separates the technology used for casting votes (Voting machines) from the technology used to count and tabulate them. However, the novel End-to-end auditable voting systems do not fit anywhere when the subject matter is split in that way.

Given the strong suspicions of election fraud that still surround the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections in the USA, the subject of how an election should be organized in order to achieve legitimacy for the results, must be considered of primary interest to the public, and it is likely that most people who land on the Vote counting system page are actually having this broader question in mind.

As I see it, there are two areas of broad notoriety: 1) How to measure the preferences of the people, and 2) how to translate the measured preferences into an actual decision (e.g. of who should sit in a congress). The latter question is the subject of the current Voting systems page.

The second question determines the exact questions that people are asked to answer in an election, e.g. "which candiadate is your first, second, third preference". Still the question of how to collect answers and total them is largely independent of the questions being asked. I think the disambiguation page should reflect this primary division of the subject, and if necessary, this page should be renamed to reflect its real scope. The technical details of the various voting machines should be seen as subordinate to the broader question of how to count votes. Cacadril (talk) 01:10, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Edit Buttons Are Working Wierdly
Just a small notice, the edit buttons (as in my browser,which is Firefox 44.0.2) are not showing up as normal, as in usual wikipedia articles, so I believe they should be looked upon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ragwiks (talk • contribs) 13:42, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: page moved.  Event horizon51  (talk) 13:18, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Vote counting system → Vote counting – Generally, vote counting is a task and a corresponding procedure, but not a "system". While some legislations may make use of electronic vote counting technology that may be considered a "system", the majority of legislations still rely on manual counting. As this constitutes an overview article, we need to be sufficiently generic. There already are more specific articles on all kinds of counting technology. --PanchoS (talk) 17:26, 19 May 2016 (UTC) – Fixed Requested move badge: PanchoS (talk) 18:03, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
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Redirect from Hand counting
Hand counting redirects to this article. On 2020-02-18, @Dmehus changed target from the beginning of the Manual counting section to the subsection on Errors in manual counts. I'm not sure the reason to redirect just to Errors in manual counting, rather than to the whole Manual counting section. The whole term manual counting does mean hand counting here, as stated in the first sentence of Manual counting.

@Dmehus also added a hatnote about the use of "hand counting" to mean counting on one's fingers. I'm not familiar with that usage, but it may certainly happen. Redirected people won't see the hatnote unless we redirect to the top of the article. Numbersinstitute (talk) 07:11, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , I changed it to "Errors in manual counting" as that's where it's mentioned. I'll re-adjust the section to "Manual counting." The hatnote, though, is necessary because it's ambiguous and could refer to counting with one's hands, at finger-counting. Doug Mehus T · C  07:14, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅. It's back to Vote counting. Doug Mehus T · C  07:16, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Simplistic
This is terribly written and far to simplistic to describe the testing of voting machines. 2601:280:4781:4CF0:BD63:D192:13FE:CF32 (talk) 14:38, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

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What consists of the base on a prism? Length times width?--STANG281 05:50, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

This passage, which i have rewrit, must reflect a failure of visual imagination by someone reconstructing what they had learned:
 * The rectangular prism, or cuboid, and square prism are among the types of right prism, with a rectangular and square base, respectively.

I say so for the following reasons: To imagine an oblique rectangular prism, picture two identical rigid rectangles, with eyes at the vertices; tie the eyes together in pairs with 4 equal-length inelastic strings. Hold one horizontal; the other will hang below it, also horizontal; that's your right rectangular prism. Have someone you trust nail down the bottom one, and keep all the strings taut. If you displace the top in any direction not parallel to a side, while keeping the strings taut, you have an oblique rectangular prism. Or, if you have trouble seeing that, move the top so that two edges stay in the same vertical plane they previously occupied, then (try to) move it perpendicular to that plane (it won't move a finite distance perpendicularly). In either case, the only right angles are on the top and bottom, and you have what must be called an oblique rectangular prism. The rectangular prisms must be the oblique rectangular prisms and the right rectangular prisms. If i'm wrong, come up with a reliable reference that verifies the other supposed meaning. (If you do, the old article still needs work to clarify the illogical terminology.) --Jerzy (t) 19:07, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)
 * It is unmathematical to waste those prism terms on the cuboid and the square cuboid.
 * A std. dictionary, in case of the analogous right circular cylinder, does not waste the name "circular cylinder" on it: if you make the proper parallel oblique cuts off the ends of a right elliptical cylinder, you get an oblique circular cylinder; the oblique and right circular cylinders together constitue the circular cylinders.

I suggest one more good formula
current article (quote):"Take a polygon with n vertices, n edges. Its prism has 2n vertices, 3n edges, and 2 + n faces. Take a polyhedron with v vertices, e edges, and f faces. Its prism has 2v vertices, 2e + v edges, 2f + e faces, and 2 + f cells. Take a polychoron with v vertices, e edges, f faces and c cells. Its prism has 2v vertices, 2e + v edges, 2f + e faces, and 2c + f cells, and 2 + c hypercells."
 * I suggest "Take a polygon, polyhedron, or polychoron and sum the number of vertices w/ number edges, and number of faces,and,..,number of polychorons(=1). If one takes the prism of the original object, the corresponding sum is 3 times larger." I don't have a citation for this theorem, but it's easy to prove from the above formulae, and there aren't citations for those formulae either.-Rich Peterson75.45.106.99 (talk) 22:51, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I should have said that this along with the formulas, not formulae, already there would provide nice setting for the Pascal's triangle method of counting vertices edges etc on an n-cube:Just go to the nth row of triangle for 1+2x.(I know this method used to be on Wikipedia but I can't find it now.)Best wishes, Rich Peterson75.45.106.99 (talk) 23:04, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Do prism really have to have polygonal faces?
If you slice a cylinder lengthways along its axis you get two shapes that have many of the properties of a prism, but are not prisms by the current definition. The solid has one flat face and one that is curved. It's volume is the area of the end face times it's length and its surface area can be found in the same way as a prism. But its not a prism and its not a cylinder. What is to stop this being considered a prism? (Aside from the obvious fact that the current definition exludes it by requiring polygonal faces).

Perhaps a prism could be "A solid with two congruent parallel faces, and where any cross section parallel to those faces is congruent to them." Thoughts?

 * The shape you are describing is a right semicircular cylinder, half of a right circular cylinder.
 * In the same way that "A cone with a polygonal base is called a pyramid.", a cylinder with two polygonal bases is called a prism. --DavidCary (talk) 17:50, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Why the edit to the lead paragraph?
The previous text had been:
 * In geometry, an n-sided prism is a polyhedron made of an n-sided polygonal base, a translated copy, and n faces joining corresponding sides.

People reading that had found it confusing, largely because of the ambiguous use of "side": n-sided prism uses "side" to refer to (lateral) faces, while "n-sided polygon" uses "side" to refer to edges. The sense of "side" as "face" got the readers to ask "shouldn't a prism with an n-sided base have n + 2 sides (faces)?" I took the original intent of "an n-sided prism" to be an attempt to explain the nomenclature so, after clarifying the initial definition, I added the sentence about naming at the end.

The entry under faces in the table, too, was confusing because something like "p + 2" was expected, corresponding to the 2p and 3p in the vertices and edges entries, but that may just have been the result of the confusion set up by the initial paragraph, so I left it alone. An alternative --- p + 2 (two p-gons as bases and p parallelograms as lateral faces) --- would be clearer, but longer. PGoldenberg (talk) 13:49, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

 * One also can't count on a casual reader to understand translated. —Tamfang (talk) 01:31, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Claim that Azrieli Towers are prism is incorrect.
The claim made in this article that the Azrieli Towers are prism (sic) is incorrect. A cylinder is not a prism, and those buildings include a cylinder, therefore the statement is incorrect. The fact that cylinders can be approximated by prims is irrelevant to this fact. Aparently the claim was made by a non-existent user, Ace-af

Moreover, the inclusion in this article of an image of these buildings is misleading and confusing given that only two of them are prisms, and one is not. One of my students was in fact confused by this image.

I hope the usual maintainer of this page can fix these issues. I am not proficient in using wikipedia hypertags. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by c-67-175-215-221.hsd1.il.comcast.net (talk) 07:37, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Euclid's inconsistency
Where is the inconsistency in Euclid's definition of a prism? How is a triangular-based prism in conflict with it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.0.106.148 (talk) 18:37, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * There is no inconsistency. Whoever wrote that paragraph was synthesizing from the comments of two older works, both of which mention that they hold minority opinions. I would not consider those older works to be reliable sources, but I'll rewrite that paragraph to mention the opposing views.--Bill Cherowitzo (talk) 20:43, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

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