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This report assesses the development of a "data divide" in America.
Policy should be reformed to better integrate the national labs with regional economies.
ITIF presents a framework for evaluating and resolving cross-border Internet policy conflicts.
This report provides a snapshot of states' efforts to create open data policies and portals.
The U.S. Export-Import Bank remains vital to supporting America's traded sector competitiveness.
The Chinese government has created a broad strategy to "informatize" its economy and society.
The future economic health of the U.S. economy will depend on the strength of its national innovation system.
When implemented properly, de-identification can enable the benefits of data analytics without threats to...
The State New Economy Index uses 25 indicators to measure the extent to which state economies are knowledge-...
ITIF's annual review of books covering technology and innovation issues.
Setting carbon targets will not lead to deep decarbonization.
The Motion Picture Association of America launched its innovative new Website: WheretoWatch.com.
DOE's building efficiency challenge is serving as a critical driver of technology development and implementation.
Climate mitigation and energy access are not mutually exclusive.
What local Governments need to know to boost growth.
The LA City Council's decision to ban GM crops is alarming to say the least.
The United States and India found a way forward on the Trade Facilitation Agreement.
We applaud NYSDFS for their efforts to listen to stakeholders and adjust their proposal.
The Obama administration has missed an opportunity to jump-start adoption of contactless payment systems.
The current strategy for U.S. manufacturing is similar to USA Basketball's, circa 2004.
Daniel Castro spoke about security, freedom, and privacy at a panel discussion hosted by the Knight...
Robert Atkinson presented to the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners on Innovation-Based...
Stephen Ezell presented "Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage" to the BioPharma...
Matthew Stepp discussed key reforms to improve development and deployment at a roundtable discussion on...
Stephen Ezell presented at the 2013 ALEC conference in Chicago.
Matthew Stepp briefed the Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium on the "Turning the Page:...
Daniel Castro spoke on the topic of "How the Internet is Creating Opportunities for Latinos" at...
Senior Analyst Daniel Castro will discuss the trade-offs involved in COPPA as a part of the panel discussion.
Senior Analysts, Stephen Ezell and Matthew Stepp present on innovation policy at the Center for Clean Air...
ITIF president Rob Atkinson gave the keynote address at an innovation policy forum presented by the Institute...
Val Giddings testifies before the New Jersey State Assembly on GMO labeling.
Labeling legislation is driven by fear, ideology and commercial interests not on a concern for consumers or...
ITIF responds to the Administration's request for comments on the Strategy for American Innovation.
ITIF files comments on effective universal service under a new Communications Act.
ITIF argues the FCC should develop flexible regulations under section 706.
ITIF cautions the FCC against encouraging inefficient use of public resources on municipal broadband...
ITIF filed comments with the FCC supporting a combined, larger company that can better serve consumers with...
ITIF files comments advocating for a flexible interconnection regime with the House Energy and Commerce...
The DOJ should rework these consent decrees to modernizing the way music copyrights are licensed in the...
Government data policy needs to balance privacy with innovation.
Conventional economics provides an increasingly poor guide for economic policy and should be replaced by an evolutionary economics framework.
Rob Atkinson contributed the chapter "Public Policy, Innovation and New Technologies" to the textbook
"Guide to U.S. Economic Policy."
Robert Atkinson contributed the chapter "Innovation in Cities and Innovation by Cities" for the book "Creating Competitiveness: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Polices for Growth."
In a chapter for the new book Practicing Sustainability, Rob Atkinson wrote about sustainability from an innovation economics perspective.
"Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage." This new book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way and the United States is running the risk of losing.
Daniel Castro contributed a chapter titled "U.S. Federal Cybersecurity Policy" in the book "Cybersecurity: Public Sector Threats and Responses."
Rob Atkinson contributed a chapter titled chapter "Who's Who in Internet Politics" for the book "The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet."
Supply-Side Follies methodically debunks the common assumptions of conservative economics and demonstrates why it is a flawed doctrine that is setting up the U.S. for a major economic downturn in the near future.
Taking into account the historical record, the book discusses the shortcomings of prevailing liberal and conservative economic doctrines and lays out a new growth economics agenda aimed at maximizing the productivity and innovation-enhancing forces of the New Economy.


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Essay Game Show on Narrative Writingpart 2
This is part 2 of 2 of a mock game show that judges essays of students. This program will enhance student writing skills by helping them improve in organization, content, word choice, voice, and sentence fluency.
Tips On: How to Become a Good Narrative Writer
Tips for becoming a good narrative writer by reading a variety of novels and experimenting with narrative styles. Consider taking writing classes to help improve writing skills with advice from a writer and playwright.
Causes of the War of 1812
A video explaining why the United States declared war on Britain in 1812 and proceeded to attack Canada. This video uses historical artwork and photos along with the narration.(Amateur video)
Reconstruction Begins- Social Issues
This video is accompanied by text. "While Southerners were mourning the loss of their financially lucrative labor source, more than four million former slaves were trying to find their way as freedmen. The majority of the emancipated blacks were illiterate, with limited skills and financial resources..."
The one factor that connected most former slaves was a thirst for religion. Many masters had allowed their slaves to worship beside them, but with the Emancipation Proclamation former sla
Preschool Lesson: Building Capital Letters With Dough
Here, Ryan has fun building letters with roll-a-dough while improving his finger strength and motor skills. This multisensory activity is also a great prewriting exercise.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
This clip, from a Universal Newsreel, combines Japanese and American historical footage of the Pearl Harbor attack. The events, which took place on December 7, 1941 - a Sunday that year - initially surprised the United States.
California's Water Supply
California is considered a "dry state." So how is it home to one of the largest populations in North America? In this video, taken from QUEST, learn about California's delicate balance of it's water resources and the historical measures that have made living in California possible for its residents. Run time 07:30.
Man Mound Park - Baraboo, Wisconsin
On Saturday, August 9, 2008, the Man Mound Archeological Site was rededicated by the organizations that were responsible for its preservation: the Sauk County Historical Society, the Wisconsin Archaeological Society and the Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs. "Only one effigy mound in the shape of a human being has survived nearly intact. It is located near the base of a high hill in Man Mound County Park, to the northeast of Baraboo. Pro
Samurai: The Way of the Warrior
This is an article about the Japanese warriors known as the Samurai. There are no moving images in this video; it just has narration. (02:42) Great for improving listening skills.
Rounding 3-digit Numbers to the Nearest Ten
Math With Larry presents an interactive white board lesson on rounding. Larry quickly reviews place value and then shares the rounding rules. Teacher encourages students to highlight or underline the digit the student is rounding to decrease confusion. The teacher tells students why rounding is an important skills and how to use it. (3:44)
Researching The Salem Witch Project
Learn how to get started writing a research paper. See how
to develop a plan for writing about a historical subject such as the
Salem Witch Trials.
Learn English Through Song - Vocabulary Study
Learn vocabulary study skills from the lyrics of the song Brown Girl in the Ring by Boney M. Learn English Through Song helps English Second Language (ESL) students study speaking, conversation,
vocabulary, pronunciation, listening and grammar. More songs at www.learn-to-speak-english-esl.com
We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants - Labor Leaders
Tribute to historical leaders of the U.S. Labor Movement.An amateur video that morphs labor leaders' faces. Slides, text, and music are used.
Gold Fever
This documentary interweaves, prospector Al Doherty's journey along the Klondike trail with exotic side trips to Thailand, India and Africa. Audiences will come to understand the cultural, economic and historical significance of gold; and take a wild ride down a mineshaft in the depths of an alien underground world where no large format camera has gone before.
Klondike Gold Rush
A collage of historical photographs and films based on the bestselling book "The Klondike Gold Rush: Photographs from 1896-1899."
Vikings: Journey To New Worlds
This originally 40-minute documentary provides a comprehensive portrait of the Vikings, exploring their historical and cultural impact as well as their technological and scientific achievements. Audiences take a cinematic adventure through the lands that the Vikings settled and explored, including Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland.
RFK - Bobby Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
At the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bob Kennedy was the country's attorney general. At first he advocated a strike against the island, ninety miles south of Florida, where the Soviet Union was installing offensive ballistic missiles. As he listened to the debate amongst the President's closest advisors, however, he changed his mind.
Move the video forward, to 1:10, to view a short clip of Bobby's role in the crisis. Included are recreated scenes, hist
Causes of the English Civil War.
A slideshow giving reasons for the English Civil War. The King´s personality, the problems with parliament and the need for money due to war are listed. His marriage to Catholic Henrieta Maria and his religious policies are also presented. The main events in this historical period can be read and there is background music but it does not belong to the time studied.(Amateur video)
Historical Primary Sources
Historical Primary Sources. Randall Niles looks at the Gettysburg Address to stress the importance of trustworthy documents in the study of history. (3:13)
The Place Value Number Line - Virtual Manipulative
A number line is a common representation of integers used to teach concepts of positive and negative numbers, zero, place-value, and arithmetic operations. The Place Value Number Line manipulative is designed to introduce, practice, and test skills in representing place value on a number line. There are instructions on the right side of the Java applet.

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You may or may not know, but in addition to being a mama and a blogger here at Babble I am also a freelance wardrobe stylist. I pull together looks for photo shoots and do the occasional personal wardrobe styling as well, but I must say that my absolute favorite "styling gig" has been styling my own daughter. I have so much fun dressing her up in fun, little outfits – especially since I can't be quite as fashion forward with myself right now with this post baby bod and also because I know I won't get to choose her ensembles forever. I'm enjoying having my own little real-life doll to play dress up with while I can.
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Jul 23, 2006 11:56 pmBack into "The Jungle"
When I say that there"has been a controversy" over this claim, the stress should be on has -- because the debate is now over.
An article by Christopher Phelps published last month by the History News Network reviewed the evidence and settled the matter pretty decisively. No grounds exist at all for See Sharp's claims that the 1906 text was censored. Sinclair reprinted that version himself and sold it for decades. Even the fanciest possible footwork by a defender of the See Sharp edition cannot quite get around the very inconvenient fact that he could have reprinted the serialized version, but didn't.
Well, there's a new bit of evidence against the bogus claim of censorship. And it comes from Sinclair himself.
Last week, in an update to the HNN article, Phelps cited a letter by the novelist written in 1958 that is worth the attention of anyone who has been following this matter. Here it is:
"The book was finished at the end of 1905," writes Sinclair,"and was not published until June of 1906. It started as a serial in the weekly Socialist paper, The Appeal to Reason, which at that time had a circulation of something like three-fourths of a million copies. It published large installments, I would say at a guess about a newspaper page; so all my revelations concerning conditions in the packing houses had been put before a huge public early in the year. I had been offering the manuscript of the book to publishers in New York -— I think to five -— without result. They were afraid of it, and finally growing desperate I decided to publish the book myself. I got Jack London to write his tremendous endorsement of the book. I announced the publication in The Appeal to Reason, and I was taking in several hundred orders a week. I had the plates made and paid for. Then -— I have forgotten how -— it occurred to me to offer the book to Doubleday-Page; and they immediately accepted it and agreed to take over my plates and to let me have and sell my own edition."
Okay, let's go over that again, m'kay?
Sinclair says he prepared an edition of the book after it ran as a serial, but could not interest a commercial publisher. He was ready to publish it himself....had the plates for it made....then got an offer from Doubleday -- which bought and used his plates.
So much for the damned dirty capitalist censors depriving the world of"the version of The Jungle that Sinclair very badly wanted to be the standard edition."
As I've said before, it is hard to believe someone has not yet prepared a variorum edition of the book: a scholarly text marking all the changes between 1905 and 1906. This might not be nearly as exciting has a halfbaked, fact-free story of" censorship." But it would be honest work, which counts for something.
At this point, the See Sharp crew looks as indifferent to historical accuracy as the slaughterhouses bosses were to hygiene back in Sinclair's day. They need to stop offering tainted goods to the public using false labels.
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"So uh, anybody want to teach me to use this thing? Sometime before we get to the dragon mountain?"
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"Here's A Ton Of New 'The Hobbit' Pics, And A Clip Of Gandalf Giving Bilbo A Sword (And Some Terrible Advice)"
Wow, didn't take long for that video to come down.
"You shall not see a clip of a movie slated for release in a few weeks!"
Oops, s–t. I'll try to find a replacement, but we might be screwed.
Okay, replaced. Shhhh — don't tell New Line Cinema.
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Band accuses Apple of ripping off their music video concept
There was a lot to see during yesterday's epic Apple event, and it all started with a very cool video called "Perspective." The 2-minute clip is a pretty standard event-opening video for Apple, stating some principles the company believes in and patting the user on the back for being part of it. I...
The science of iOS 7's parallax effect
One of the subtle, but cool features of iOS 7 is the parallax effect that gives on-screen elements a sense of depth and movement as you tilt your phone. In a recent article, Macworld's Marco Tabini examines the science behind the visual technology. Tabini boils it down to our perception of perspe...
Putting Apple's retail traffic into perspective
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"Court chooses watchdog for Indian trust reform effort"
The plaintiffs in a long-running court case filed against the federal government to straighten out its management of American Indian trust funds have asked a federal judge to begin a second trial in January to settle the matter of how much the government owes.
Citing court-appointed monitor Joseph Kieffer's July report that said the Interior and Justice departments haven't attempted to account for money owed to Indians—despite a December 1999 decision ordering them to do so — the plaintiffs representing Indians in a class-action suit requested that a second trial be held to find an exact amount, which could reach several billion dollars.
"The first Kieffer report uncovers and confirms what plaintiffs have claimed all along, that defendants have not taken—nor did they ever intend to take—the steps necessary to fulfill their duty to account to individual Indian trust beneficiaries," according to the motion.
Plaintiff spokesman Phillip Smith declined to comment, saying the motion "speaks for itself." Interior officials could not be reached for comment.
The motion follows a separate opinion issued by a court special master late last month, finding that DOI officials routinely recorded over e-mail backup tapes containing messages that potentially could have been relevant to the trust funds case.
The special master rejected the government's claim that hard copies of e-mail records provide the same information, and found that DOI officials "had sustained a policy of overwriting e-mail backup tapes and destroying potentially responsive evidence on the thin reed that they were under no obligation to do so," according to the opinion.
It's not clear how a final amount would be determined. There are tens of millions of trust fund records in Interior's possession, many stored in boxes or outdated computer systems. Many more have been destroyed or lost during more than 100 years of management.
The implementation plan for the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Trust Asset Accounting Management System (TAAMS), a national system designed to handle trust-related documents, includes "data cleanup" as a major step.
In March, Interior's special trustee for American Indians, Thomas Slonaker, testified before Congress that TAAMS won't be fully accurate until historical data is corrected.
Interior has held Indian-owned lands in trust for more than 100 years, leasing the properties and managing revenues earned off them through farming, oil drilling and other activities. Longtime mismanagement has left landowners and descendants unable to know how much money is in their accounts.
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I have a feeling that this is nothing to worry about, but figured I'd ask here anyway.. Is this cause for alarm?
What sort of beer? What yeast? From 30K feet, the sulphury smell is fairly common for certain yest strains....
I'm trying to catalog every brew online so I don't have to keep notes all over the house. Check it out on my blog site below:http://brewzak.wordpress.com/
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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) calls are trading at a slightly slower-than-usual pace today, but still more than double the number of puts exchanged. Short-term strikes are especially in demand, as each of the 10 most active options will expire within the next five weeks.
Garnering noteworthy attention in FB's options pits is the weekly 6/27 64.50-strike call, where 6,163 contracts have traded. The majority of these were exchanged when a 6,150-contract block crossed the tape less than 45 minutes into the session -- near the bid price for $0.72 apiece, suggesting the lot was sold. Also, with just 41 contracts in open interest here, it's safe to assume the bets were freshly minted. In total, the call seller collected a premium of $442,800 (premium received * number of contracts * 100 shares per contract).
Simply stated, this trader wants Facebook shares -- currently 1.3% higher at $59.34 -- to remain below $64.50 through the close on Friday, June 27, when the weekly options expire. If that happens, he will retain the premium collected as profit. However, if the social networking stock rallies beyond the strike, the call writer risks being assigned, and having to sell the shares for $64.50 apiece, no matter how much they're worth.
In essence, today's call seller is gambling on FB's recent price history to continue. Since hitting a record high of $72.59 on March 11, the shares have tumbled more than 18%, and have faced resistance in the $60-to-$64 area for the past two months. As such, delta, on the weekly call rests at 0.23, denoting a less than 1-in-4 chance of an in-the-money finish at expiration.
Nevertheless, now is not a great time to be selling FB options, as the equity's Schaeffer's Volatility Index (SVI) of 36% ranks lower than 80% of all similar readings from the previous year. In other words, short-term contracts are relatively inexpensive right now, from a volatility perspective.
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Building intended as secretariat of LSG Department
Inter-departmental tussles are reportedly delaying the opening of Swaraj Bhavan here, constructed to house 17 major offices of the Local Self-government Department (LSGD).
Swaraj Bhavan, envisaged as the secretariat of the department, was constructed during the tenure of the previous Left Democratic Front (LDF) government using Rs.9.55 crore. But for some minor finishing touches, the work on the nine-storey complex, with a built-up area of 99,207 sq ft, has been completed.
When the State received the Panchayat Empowerment and Incentive Scheme Award (PEIAS) in 2009-10 and 2010-11, the then Minister for Local Self-government, Paloli Mohammed Kutty, decided to use the prize money to construct the building. A budgetary allocation of Rs.1 crore and money from other Revenue sources were used to start the work.
The civic representatives who reached the capital from various parts of the State were finding it difficult to reach the LSGD offices in different locations, sources said. Also, many offices were functioning out of rented premises and this was a drain on the exchequer. The space constraints were also causing a lot of inconvenience to the public, they said.
It was proposed to shift 17 offices including the Commissionerate of Rural Development; Directorate of Urban Affairs; offices of the Kudumbasree Mission; Information Kerala Mission; Clean Kerala Mission; and the regional centre of the Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA); to the new complex as part of developing it as a secretariat of the department.
In addition to the office space, the complex comprises an auditorium, with a seating capacity of 200; two mini conference halls; dormitories; and a kitchen. Ample parking space too has been provided. Official sources told The Hindu here that the trifurcation of the LSGD had derailed plans to shift the offices.
The offices of the Chief Town Planner, the Kudumbasree Mission and many others continued to function from rented premises and the government was paying a substantial sum as rent, sources said.
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One of the "Gold" games they "supported" (EverQuest) was completely fubared by an expansion about a month or two into my subscription. After that, it was unplayable (unless you just wanted to spend a lot of time looking for your corpse after random crashes or staring at white textures). I filed a bug report, and numerous people complained of the same problems in the official TransGaming forums.
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Fix the underlying problems and companies might actually port their programs.
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exactly why i want to see this crap. It can either greatly succeed or greatly fail. Companies fail to see the potential benefit in porting games to linux. There is a chance that Mr. Fatfuck with his black suit and fathers day tie might look at Transgamings success and see the market value (although skewed), in dollars and cents. And if it fails? well good.
Transgaming has their foot in the door already with the worlds largest game publisher, thats a huge deal.
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Liam Neeson attending the TIFF premiere of The Other Man, on 7 September 2008. |
Born | Liam John Neeson 7 June 1952 Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1973–present |
Spouse | Natasha Richardson (m. 1994–2009; her death) |
Children | 2 |
Relatives | Vanessa Redgrave (mother-in-law) Tony Richardson (deceased father-in-law) Joely Richardson (sister-in-law) |
Liam John Neeson,[1] OBE (born 7 June 1952)[2] is an Irish actor, who has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards. He has starred in a number of notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Bryan Mills in Taken, Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars (the film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Alfred Kinsey in Kinsey, Ra's al Ghul in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Rises, and the voice of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia film series.
He starred in other notable films such as Excalibur, The Dead Pool, Nell, Rob Roy, Les Misérables, The Haunting, Love Actually, Kingdom of Heaven, Clash of the Titans, The A-Team, Unknown and The Grey, as well as smaller arthouse films (e.g. Deception, Breakfast on Pluto, Chloe). He was ranked at number 69 on Empire magazine's 100 greatest movie stars of all time in 1997.
He was born in Ballymena, County Antrim and educated at St Patrick's College (now St Patrick's, Dundonald), Ballymena Technical College and Queen's University Belfast. He moved to Dublin after university to further his acting career, joining the renowned Abbey Theatre. In the early 1990s, he moved again to the United States, where the wide acclaim for his performance in Schindler's List led to more high-profile work. He is widowed and lives in New York with his two sons.
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Neeson was born on 7 June 1952, in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and is the son of Katherine "Kitty" (née Brown), a cook, and Bernard "Barney" Neeson, a caretaker at the Ballymena Boys All Saints Primary School.[3] He was raised Roman Catholic[4][5][6] and was called Liam after the local priest.[7] He was the third of four siblings; he has three sisters, Elizabeth, Bernadette, and Rosaline.[8] At age nine, Neeson began boxing lessons at the All Saints Youth Club, and later became Ulster amateur senior boxing champion.[9] At age eleven, Neeson first stepped on stage. His English teacher gave him the lead role in a school play, which he accepted because the girl he was attracted to would be starring.[10] From then on, he kept acting in school productions for the following years.[11]
His interest in acting and decision to become an actor was also influenced by minister Ian Paisley, whose church Neeson would sneak into. Neeson has said of Paisley that "He had a magnificent presence and it was incredible to watch this six foot-plus man just Bible-thumping away... It was acting but it was also great acting and stirring too."[12]
Neeson was enrolled in 1971 as a physics and computer science undergraduate student at Queen's University Belfast in Belfast, Northern Ireland, before leaving to work for the Guinness Brewery.[13]
He discovered a talent for football at Queens University. He was spotted by Seán Thomas at Bohemian F.C.. There was a club trial in Dublin. He only played one game as a substitute against Shamrock Rovers and was not offered a contract to continue playing.[14]
After leaving university, Neeson returned to Ballymena where he worked in a variety of casual jobs, from a fork-lift operator at Guinness to a truck driver. He also attended teacher training college in Newcastle for two years before again returning to his home town. In 1976, Neeson joined the Lyric Players' Theatre in Belfast where he performed for two years. He got his first film experience in 1977, playing Jesus Christ and Evangelist in the religious film, Pilgrim's Progress directed by Ken Anderson. Neeson moved to Dublin in 1978 after he was offered a part in a production at the Project Arts Centre. The play was Ron Hutchinson's "Says I, Says He", a drama about The Troubles. He acted in several other Project productions and joined the Abbey Theatre. In 1980, filmmaker John Boorman saw him on stage, acting as Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men, and offered him the part of Sir Gawain in the upcoming Arthurian film, Excalibur. After Excalibur, Neeson moved to London, where he continued working on stage, small budget films and television series. He lived with the actress Helen Mirren at this time, whom he met working on Excalibur.[15] Between 1982 and 1987, Neeson starred in five films; most notably alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in 1984's The Bounty and Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons in 1986's The Mission. He also starred as a guest actor in the third season of the television series Miami Vice in 1986.
In 1987, Neeson made a conscious decision to move to Hollywood in order to star in high-profile roles.[15] That year, he starred alongside Cher and Dennis Quaid in Suspect. The role brought Neeson critical applause, but it was 1990's Darkman that would bring his name to public attention. Although the film was successful, Neeson's following years would not give him the same recognition. In 1993, he joined Ellis Island co-star and future wife Natasha Richardson in the Broadway play Anna Christie. (They also worked together in Nell, released the following year.) He recited the Van Morrison song "Coney Island" on the 1994 Van Morrison tribute album, No Prima Donna: The Songs of Van Morrison. A single was also released with Neeson's version.
Director Steven Spielberg, impressed by his performance in Nell, offered him the coveted role of Oskar Schindler in the film about the Holocaust, Schindler's List.[16] His critically acclaimed performance later earned him a nomination for a Best Actor Oscar; however, the award went to Tom Hanks for his performance in Philadelphia. Neeson also garnered BAFTA and Golden Globes nominations for Schindler's List. Schindler's List established Neeson as a widely sought-after actor. He later starred in period pieces Rob Roy (1995) and Michael Collins (1996), the latter earning him another Golden Globe nomination and a win for Best Starring Role at the Venice Film Festival. Neeson went on to star as Jean Valjean in the 1998 adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and in The Haunting (1999) as Dr. David Marrow.
In 1999, Neeson starred as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, in director George Lucas' Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. As it was the first Star Wars film to be released in over sixteen years, it was surrounded by a large amount of anticipation from the media. Neeson's connection to the Star Wars films started in the Crown Bar, Belfast. Neeson stated to Ricki Lake, "I probably wouldn't have taken the role if it wasn't for the advice of Peter King in the Crown during a Lyric reunion." The Phantom Menace was an enormous box-office success and remains the most financially successful Star Wars film unadjusted for inflation.[17] Qui-Gon's voice, provided by Neeson, would later be heard during a brief scene in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002). Qui-Gon was supposed to make an appearance in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) as a Force Ghost, and Neeson had hinted at involvement.[18] However, he was ultimately unable to appear due to a motorcycle injury, and his character is only mentioned in the film.[19] In 2011, he reappeared as the voice of Qui-Gon in the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Neeson narrated the 2001 documentaries Journey Into Amazing Caves and The Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure. After being nominated for a Tony Award for his role opposite Laura Linney in The Crucible, Neeson teamed up with Harrison Ford in Kathryn Bigelow's submarine thriller K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) as Captain Mikhail Polenin and appeared in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York (with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brendan Gleeson, Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis). He also played a recently widowed writer in Richard Curtis' ensemble comedy Love Actually (2003).[20] His role as Alfred Kinsey in Kinsey again put Neeson up for nomination for a Golden Globe Award but lost to Leonardo DiCaprio for The Aviator.
In 2004, Neeson hosted an episode of the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live. He starred as a redneck trucker, Marlon Weaver, in an "Appalachian Emergency Room" sketch and a hippie in a one-off sketch about two stoners (the other played by Amy Poehler) who attempt to borrow a police dog in order to find their lost stash of marijuana. Despite vowing not to play any characters who were Irish stereotypes, Neeson did play a stereotypically Irish man named Lorcan McArdle in the home makeover show parody "You Call This A House, Do Ya?"[21] In 2005, Neeson played Godfrey of Ibelin in Ridley Scott's epic adventure Kingdom of Heaven, Ra's al Ghul, one of the main villains in Batman Begins, and as Father Bernard in Neil Jordan's adaptation of Patrick McCabe's novel, Breakfast on Pluto.
In 2005, he voiced the role of a kindly priest on The Simpsons, who (briefly) converted Bart and Homer to Catholicism.[22] That same year, he gave his voice to the lion Aslan in the blockbuster fantasy film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.[23] A year later, he narrated the documentary Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity. Neeson starred in the 2008 hit Taken, which brought his image back into the public eye and resulted in his casting in many more mainstream Hollywood movies. In 2007, he starred in the American Civil War epic Seraphim Falls.
Neeson's voice is featured in the video game Fallout 3 as the main character's father, James.[24] The executive producer of the game, Todd Howard, said "This role was written with Liam in mind, and provides the dramatic tone for the entire game".[25] Fallout 3, the third game in the Fallout series, has been extremely well received by critics and shipped 4.7 million copies by the end of 2008, the year it was released.[26]
In the director's commentary of the 2007 Transformers DVD, Michael Bay said that he had told the animators to seek inspiration from Neeson in creating Optimus Prime's body language. Neeson appeared as Alistair Little in the BBC Northern Ireland/Big Fish Films television drama Five Minutes of Heaven, which tells the true story of a young Protestant man convicted of murdering a Catholic boy during The Troubles.[27]
He starred in the action film Taken in 2008, a French produced film also starring Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace. It is based on a script by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen and was directed by Pierre Morel. Neeson plays a retired Central Intelligence Agency operative from their elite Special Activities Division who sets about tracking down his teenage daughter after she is kidnapped for sexual slavery while travelling in Europe. Taken was a huge worldwide box office hit, grossing $223,882,658 worldwide and making almost $200,000,000 more than its initial budget. He again gave his voice to Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008).[28]
Neeson has wrapped filming the psychological thriller After.Life with Christina Ricci and Justin Long.[29] He also provided a voice for Hayao Miyazaki's anime film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, which received an August 2009 release.[30]
In 2010, Neeson played Zeus in the remake of the 1981 film, Clash of the Titans. The film went on becoming a huge box office hit and grossing $475 million worldwide.[31]
Neeson also starred in the erotic thriller Chloe, theatrically released by Sony Pictures Classics on 26 March 2010. Chloe had enjoyed commercial success and became director Atom Egoyan's biggest money maker ever.[32] Later the same year, he played John "Hannibal" Smith in the spin-off movie from the TV series The A-Team.[33][34]
In 2010, Neeson voiced the character Aslan again in the sequel The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. In late 2010, Neeson stated, "Aslan symbolises a Christlike figure, but he also symbolises for me Mohammed, Buddha and all the great spiritual leaders and prophets over the centuries"; this disappointed many fans of the series, who felt that he was "destroying the author's legacy to be politically correct".[35][36]
In 2011, Neeson starred in Unknown, a German-British-American co-production of a French book, it was filmed in Berlin in early 2010. It has been compared to Taken, which was set in Paris. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film enjoyed box office success in the United States. It was largely funded by Dark Castle entertainment with smaller amounts coming from the Berlin film agency.
He was set to reunite with director Steven Spielberg and star as Abraham Lincoln in the film based on the book Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.[37][37] In preparation for the role, Neeson visited Washington, D.C., Springfield, Illinois where Lincoln lived prior to being elected, and read Lincoln's personal letters.[38] He was later replaced in the role by Daniel Day-Lewis.
Director Lee Daniels has confirmed that Neeson will play former U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson in Daniels' developing film Selma, which is about Martin Luther King, Jr., Johnson, and the civil rights marches.[39]
Neeson also starred as Ben Ryan in the drama Before and After alongside Meryl Streep. This film was about how a family dealt with the aftereffects of a murder their son was accused of committing. It was announced in July 2010 that Neeson would guest-star on the new Showtime series The Big C.[40] In 2011, he played himself, in BBC2's series Life's Too Short, starring Warwick Davis. It was announced that Liam Neeson would reprise his role as Ra's Al Ghul for the film: The Dark Knight Rises. He narrated the first trailer for the film that was released in July 2011.
In late 2011, Liam Neeson was cast to play the lead character of the journalist, in a new album recording, and arena production, of Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds. He replaced Richard Burton, who, through CGI animation, had post-humously appeared in the arena production. Neeson would also not physically appear on the stage, instead he plays the role through the use of 3D holography.
Neeson was married to actress Natasha Richardson from 3 July 1994, until her death on 18 March 2009, when she suffered a severe head injury in a skiing accident at the Mont Tremblant Resort, in Quebec. Richardson and Neeson had two sons: Michael and Daniel. Neeson lives in Millbrook, New York. In August 2004 Neeson and his wife purchased an additional 16 acres next to their estate.[41][42]
A heavy smoker earlier in his career, Neeson has since quit smoking. When he took the role of Hannibal for the 2010 film adaptation of The A-Team, Neeson had reservations about smoking cigars (which is a signature trait of the Hannibal character) in the film due to being an ex-smoker, but agreed to keep that personality trait of Hannibal intact for the film.[43] In August 2009, Neeson stated on ABC's Good Morning America that he had been naturalised as a United States citizen.[44]
Neeson is a fan of Liverpool F.C.[45]
In March 2011, Neeson was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.[46]
A January 2012 article in The Sun indicated that Neeson has thought of leaving Catholicism and converting to Islam. This reportedly followed a period of filming in Istanbul, Turkey and hearing the call to prayer.[47]
Neeson was offered the 'Freedom of the Town of Ballymena' by Ballymena Borough Council, but because of objections made by members of the Democratic Unionist Party regarding his comments that he had felt like a 'second-class citizen' growing up as a Catholic in the town, he declined the award, citing tensions.[48] Neeson continues to practice the Catholic faith and has raised his children as Catholics. He has also expressed admiration for The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola.[49]
He was appointed as Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in her 1999 New Year Honours.[50] The American Ireland Fund honoured Neeson with their Performing Arts Award for the great distinction he has brought to Ireland at their 2008 Dinner Gala in New York.[citation needed]
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Pop legend Ronnie Spector pays tribute to Amy Winehouse
She says 'Every time I looked at her, it was like I was looking at myself'
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Spector told of her heartbreak upon hearing the singer had passed away and how she can "think of nobody but Amy".
When I saw her two weeks ago on TV and she was all drugged out, drinking and stuff, I said, 'Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it! Don't become like I was 20 years ago! I cleaned up. You gotta clean up!' And two weeks later, she's dead. I'm devastated.
Spector, who as part of The Ronettes has been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, says she saw many similarities between herself and the late singer, saying she had "my beehive, my eyeliner, my attitude" before stating that "she reminded me of my youth".
Spector, who was once married to infamous producer Phil Spector, also spoke of Amy visiting her show earlier in the year:
Amy came to my show in London about six months ago, and she was so shy. She was hiding behind somebody, but I could see the hairstyle and I knew she was there. That was all I needed. When I sang 'Back To Black' I could see the tears in her eyes and there were tears in mine.
Ronnie Spector will release a cover of 'Back To Black' with all proceeds going to the Daytop Village treatment centre for drug addiction.
It was also announced today (July 27) that Amy's family are to set up the Amy Winehouse Foundation, in order to help people with problems with addiction.
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