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True flies are insects of the order Diptera (from the Greek di = two, and ptera = wings). They possess a pair of wings on the mesothorax and a pair of halteres, derived from the hind wings, on the metathorax. Apart from secondarily flightless insects (including some flies), the only other order of insects with any form of halteres are the Strepsiptera, and theirs are on the mesothorax, with the flight wings on the metathorax.
The presence of a single pair of patent, metathoracic flight wings distinguishes true flies from other insects with "fly" in their names, such as mayflies, dragonflies, damselflies, stoneflies, whiteflies, fireflies, alderflies, dobsonflies, snakeflies, sawflies, caddisflies, butterflies or scorpionflies. Some true flies have become secondarily wingless, especially in the superfamily Hippoboscoidea, or among those that are inquilines in social insect colonies.
Some authors draw a distinction in writing the common names of insects. True flies are written as two words, such as crane fly, robber fly, bee fly, moth fly, and fruit fly. In contrast, common names of nondipteran insects that have "fly" in their names are written as one word, e.g., butterfly, stonefly, dragonfly, scorpionfly, sawfly, caddisfly, whitefly. In practice, however, this is a comparatively new convention, and, especially in older books, one commonly might see the likes of "saw fly" and "caddis fly". In any case, non-entomologists cannot in general be expected to tell dipterans, "true flies", from other insects.
Avril Ramona Lavigne (pronunciation: /ˈævrɨl ləˈviːn/; AV-ril lə-VEEN; born 27 September 1984) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She was born in Belleville, Ontario, but spent most of her youth in the small town of Napanee. By the age of 15, she had appeared on stage with Shania Twain; by 16, she had signed a two-album recording contract with Arista Records worth more than $2 million. In 2002, when she was 17 years old, Lavigne broke onto the music scene with her debut album Let Go.
Let Go made Lavigne the youngest female soloist to reach No. 1 in the UK, and the album was certified four-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. By 2009, over 16 million copies had been sold worldwide. Her breakthrough single, "Complicated", peaked at No. 1 in many countries around the world, as did the album Let Go. Her second album, Under My Skin, was released in 2004 and was her first album to peak at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200, eventually selling more than 10 million copies worldwide. The Best Damn Thing, Lavigne’s third album, was released in 2007, becoming her third No. 1 album in the UK Albums Chart and featuring her first U.S. Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single, "Girlfriend". Lavigne has scored six number-one singles worldwide, including "Complicated", "Sk8er Boi", "I'm with You", "My Happy Ending", "Nobody's Home", and "Girlfriend". With more than 30 million copies of her albums sold worldwide, Lavigne is one of the top-selling artists releasing albums in the U.S., with over 10.25 million copies certified by the RIAA. Her fourth studio album, Goodbye Lullaby, was released in March 2011. Goodbye Lullaby gave Lavigne her fourth top 10 album on the U.S. Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart and her third No. 1 album in both Japan and Australia. Three months after the release of Goodbye Lullaby, Lavigne began work on her fifth album, which will be released on Epic Records following her departure from RCA Records.
Ludovico Einaudi OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [ludoˈviːko eiˈnaudi]) (born 23 November 1955 in Turin, Piedmont) is an Italian pianist and composer.
Einaudi was born in Turin, Italy. His mother played to him on the piano as a child. He began his musical training at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, gaining a diploma in composition in 1982. That same year, he studied with Luciano Berio and gained a scholarship to the Tanglewood Music Festival.
After studying at the Conservatory in Milan, and subsequently with Berio, he spent several years composing in traditional forms. In the mid-1980s he began to search for a more personal expression in a series of works for dance and multimedia, and later for piano. His music is ambient, meditative and often introspective, drawing on minimalism, world music, and contemporary pop. He has made a significant impact in the film world, with four international awards to his name.[citation needed]
His father, Giulio Einaudi, was a publisher, and his grandfather, Luigi Einaudi, was President of Italy between 1948 and 1955. He currently resides on a vineyard in the Italian region of Piedmont.
Actors: Kenneth McGregor (actor), John Mitchell (actor), Victoria Gates (actress), Janice LaFlam (producer), Janice LaFlam (actress), Lisa Panzer (actress), Keith Chamberlain (actor), Volieda Webb (actress), Peter John (director), Peter John (actor), Peter John (producer), Peter John (writer), Scott Kollman (composer), Sharon Brice (composer), Carmela John (producer),
Genres: Short,Actors: Ada Rogovtseva (actress), Hilmar Eichhorn (actor), Anatoliy Kotenyov (actor), Sergey Romanyuk (actor), Vladimir Goryanskiy (actor), Sergey Strelnikov (actor), Aleksandr Pashkov (actor), Johannes Gabriel (actor), Sven Philipp (actor), Valeriy Shalyga (director), Darya Baranova (actress), Ivan Lapin (actor), Vladimir Bashkirov (actor), Olga Oleksiy (actress), Valentina Losovskaya (actress),
Plot: June, 1941. A small Russian village at the border is living its everyday life - people work, love, squabble, make plans for the future. The war changes all plans, tears families apart, the first victims fall... Some Russian straggling soldiers who managed to stay alive after the first onslaught of the German army make their own war, some of the locals joining them to avenge their murdered relatives and to fight for their native land. The villagers are rent between the threats and executions introduced by the German invaders for helping the guerrillas and the necessity to help these guerrillas who are of their own flesh and blood. German repressions meet stubborn resistance. Walter, a German lieutenant, feels that the tactics of repression are wrong, but his superiors do not understand him. Walter falls in love with a local peasant girl, Dasha, but for Dasha only one man exists - Grigory, head of the local guerrillas. Grigory in his turn is married to Alyona, but not of his won accord. Alyona knows nothing about Grigory's fate after the war begins, and helps a wounded Russian soldier hiding him from the Germans... How will the war cut all these knots?
Keywords: great-patriotic-war, invader, invasion, nazi-invasion, nazis-invade-ussr, number-as-title, rural-setting, soviet-citizen, world-war-two, year-1941Actors: Charles Evans (producer), Von Ryan (director), Von Ryan (actor), Von Ryan (writer), Von Ryan (producer), Ossie Beck (actor), Elena Caruso (actress), Melanie Malia (actress), Patrick Graves (actor), Besnik Vlashi (producer), Besnik Vlashi (editor),
Plot: "Look Away: A Tale from Salem" is a story of a young woman who seeks answers to the disappearance of her soul mate and miscarried child by channeling a spirit. Missy Proctor is a descendant of the infamous Elizabeth Proctor from Salem Village. In 1692 Elizabeth was convicted of witchcraft and received the punishment of death. However, Elizabeth was pregnant at the time of her scheduled execution, which saved her from the gallows. Once, she delivered her child the witch hunt had been halted. Although Elizabeth was exonerated from the crimes of conducting witchcraft "Look Away: A Tale from Salem" presents the possibility she was a practicing witch. Further, the Proctor family had been suspected of witchcraft throughout several generations. Missy calls upon Ms. Proctor to get her baby back and find the lost love of her life.
Genres: Mystery,Actors: Kathy Burke (actress), Conrad Vernon (actor), Andy Serkis (actor), Newell Alexander (actor), Jean Reno (actor), Bill Nighy (actor), Shane Richie (actor), Christopher Fairbank (actor), Christopher Fairbank (actor), Christopher Fairbank (actor), Hugh Jackman (actor), Ian McKellen (actor), David Suchet (actor), Kate Winslet (actress), Miriam Margolyes (actress),
Plot: Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust "society mouse" who lives the life of a beloved pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Sid comes spewing out of the sink and decides he's hit the jackpot, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the "whirlpool." Sid may be an ignorant slob, but he's no fool, so it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an enterprising scavenger who works the sewers in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger. Roddy immediately wants out, or rather, up; Rita wants to be paid for her trouble; and, speaking of trouble, the villainous Toad - who royally despises all rodents equally, making no distinction between mice and rats--wants them iced... literally. The Toad dispatches his two hapless hench-rats, Spike and Whitey, to get the job done. When they fail, the Toad has no choice but to send to France for his cousin - that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog.
Keywords: animal, boat, cell-phone, computer-animation, dreamworks-animated-film, fart-joke, flatulence, flushed-down-a-toilet, frog, greek-chorusActors: Paul Greenberg (actor), Paul Greenberg (actor), Paul Greenberg (actor), Keith Alcorn (actor), Keith Alcorn (actor), Paul Greenberg (actor), Paul Giamatti (actor), Mark DeCarlo (actor), Nicolas Cage (actor), Bruce Campbell (actor), Larry Cedar (actor), Keith Alcorn (actor), Pat Fraley (actor), Paul Greenberg (actor), Paul Greenberg (actor),
Plot: This is the story of a ten-year-old boy named Lucas Nickle, who has just moved to a new neighborhood, has no friends, and is the target for the local bully and his gang. His parents are leaving for a honeymoon in Puerto Vallarta, so they are too busy to attend to his problems. His sister is distracted by her cellular phone, and the grandmother is obsessed with UFOs and aliens. Lucas is constantly being beat up by the obese yet intimidating neighborhood bully. Because he cannot fight back, he takes out his anger on an anthill in his front yard; He kicks it, stomps it, squirts it with his water gun, and floods it with a hose. This terrifies the ants, who call Lucas the Destroyer. One wizard ant, known as Zoc being a hopeful and adventurous type, is trying to solve this dilemma. He tries to devise a magic potion that he believes will solve all their problems. As the plan to shrink Lucas down to their size with a magic potion and forcing him to live like an ant within the colony--an astonishing new world opens up to him. Lucas learns, first-hand, the value of friendship and teamwork, ultimately leading the ants in an effort to save their colony from annihilation. And in the process, Lucas obtains the things he wants most: friends, companionship, acceptance and the courage to stand up for himself.
Keywords: affection, air-battle, ambush, animal-abuse, animal-death, animal-in-title, ant, ant's-nest, ant-attack, anthillActors: Fred Armstrong (producer), Fred Armstrong (actor), Michael Boas (actor), Michael Boas (actor), Michael Boas (actor), Dave Puls (director), Dave Puls (writer), Steve Anne (actor), Steve Anne (actor), Jesse Krebs (composer), Steve Anne (actor), John Vincent (actor),
Plot: It is a time of great turmoil in the ancient world. Ragnarok, the day of judgement, is fast approaching. The gods have one last chance to avert certain doom. Using their unique powers, they must make one man happy for one hour. Unfortunately, that man is Derf the Viking! The world's very existence may well depend on Derf's unpredictable temperament. Will the gods succeed in making him happy for just an hour? Or are we doomed?
Genres: Animation, Short,Actors: Joe Mantegna (actor), Jennifer Beals (actress), Rod Steiger (actor), Michael Chiklis (actor), Geoffrey Rowland (editor), T.J. Castronovo (actor), Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini (producer), Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini (actor), Caroline B. Marx (costume designer), Donald L. West (producer), Sam Henry Kass (director), Robb Skyler (actor), Louis Eppolito (actor), Tahnee Welch (actress), Barry Kivel (actor),
Plot: Charlie Davis, an ambitious small-town boxer with dreams of making it as a professional, travels to Reno with his unwavering friend Tiny. On his climb to the top, he loses himself and the people he cares for most.
Keywords: boxer, boxing, independent-filmActors: Robert A. Ferretti (editor), Bill Farmer (actor), Holly Hollywood (actress), Tony Doupe (actor), Robert A. Ferretti (producer), Jenny Hinkey (producer), Alan Gelfant (actor), Charis Michelsen (actress), John Paulsen (actor), Kimberly Shane O'Hara (actress), Kimberly Shane O'Hara (producer), Brian O'Hare (actor), Lisa Hope (producer), Lisa Hope (actress), Timothy Rhys (producer),
Plot: Longtime buddies Mitch and Danny are working-class guys in their 30s that life has slapped around ever since their glory days as high school jocks. But losing doesn't mean they see themselves as losers, and while they lick their wounds every afternoon at a rundown neighborhood bar, they still believe they're just one clutch hit away from getting back in the ballgame. The problem is that their lives become a cycle of idle talk, half-baked plans and fear about the future. Mitch, especially, wants to act, and is never at a loss for ideas about illegal shortcuts. Despite his bravado, he is paralyzed by his lack of confidence. Danny has chosen the moral high road and a newfound faith in his own attempt to get on track. But his is the weaker personality and it's impossible for him not to get caught up in Mitch's schemes. Lucy is a naive, idealistic young woman who is as broke as Mitch and Danny, but who's spirit has not yet been broken by life's disappointments and failures. She has just arrived in town and doesn't intend to stay long. She has big, vague plans for her future, which she'll embark on as soon as she saves enough money to get to New York. Right now, though, her main concern is staying one step ahead of her unbalanced ex-boyfriend, Tino. Mitch and Danny talk and plan and drink and simmer and grow increasingly desperate to make a change in their lives until, finally, Lucy becomes the catalyst they need to risk making a run for it. The odds, of course, are heavily against any good coming of it, but the fact that they believe they're finally taking their destiny into their own hands is reason enough for them to feel victorious about whatever will follow.
Keywords: independent-filmActors: Kar Wai Wong (writer), Alex Man (actor), William Chang (editor), Jeffrey Lau (writer), Kar Wai Wong (director), Teddy Robin Kwan (composer), Maggie Cheung (actress), Chi Fai Chan (actor), Tseng Chang (actor), Jacky Cheung (actor), William Chang (actor), Andy Lau (actor), Ronald Wong (actor), Kau Lam (actor), To-hoi Kong (actor),
Plot: A low-level triad "big brother" has a hot-tempered "little brother" who can't keep out of trouble, and consequently is in constant need of being bailed out by his protector. The "big brother" is super cool, but lacks the ambition to rise in the ranks of the triad societies - and once he meets his cousin from Kowloon and falls in love with her, he even thinks about leaving "the life".
Keywords: abortion, anger, animal-cruelty, arrest, assassination, aunt-nephew-relationship, bar, baseball-bat, beaten-to-death, beatingActors: James Flavin (actor), Philip Morris (actor), Ralph Bellamy (actor), Andy Clyde (actor), Chick Chandler (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), Bert Hanlon (actor), Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian (actor), Russell Hicks (actor), Paul Fix (actor), Alfred P. James (actor), Rollo Lloyd (actor), Noel Madison (actor), Jack Mulhall (actor),
Genres: Drama,