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A marsh is a type of wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species. Marshes can often be found at the edges of lakes and streams, where they form a transition between the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They are often dominated by grasses, rushes or reeds. If woody plants are present they tend to be low-growing shrubs. This form of vegetation is what differentiates marshes from other types of wetland such as swamps, which are dominated by trees, and bogs, which are wetlands that have accumulated deposits of acidic peat.
Marshes provide habitat for many types of plants and animals which have adapted to living in flooded conditions. The plants must be able to survive in wet soil with low oxygen levels. Many of these plants therefore have aerenchyma, channels within the stem that allow air to move from the leaves into the rooting zone. Marsh plants also tend to have rhizomes for underground storage and reproduction. Familiar examples include cattails, sedges, papyrus and sawgrass. Aquatic animals, from fish to salamanders, are generally able to live with a low amount of oxygen in the water. Some can obtain oxygen from the air instead, while others can live indefinitely in conditions of low oxygen. Marshes provide habitat for many kinds of invertebrates, fish, amphibians, waterfowl and aquatic mammals. Marshes have extremely high levels of biological production, some of the highest in the world, and therefore are important in supporting fisheries. Marshes also improve water quality by acting as a sink to filter pollutants and sediment from the water that flows through them. Marshes (and other wetlands) are able to absorb water during periods of heavy rainfall and slowly release it into waterways and therefore reduce the magnitude of flooding. The pH in marshes tends to be neutral to alkaline, as opposed to bogs, where peat accumulates under more acid conditions.
Randall Gilbert Marsh (born April 8, 1949 in Covington, Kentucky) is a former umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the National League from 1981 to 1999 and throughout both major leagues from 2000-2009. Marsh wore the uniform number 30. He umpired in the World Series in 1990, 1997, 1999, 2003 and 2006, serving as crew chief for the last three Series, and in the All-Star Game in 1985, 1988, 1996 and 2006, calling balls and strikes for the 1996 game. He is the tenth umpire in history to serve as crew chief for three World Series.
He has also officiated in eight League Championship Series (1989, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2009) and in five Division Series (1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006). He has been a crew chief since the 1998 season.
Marsh was the crew chief of Crew P for 2009, which included: Mike Winters, Alfonso Márquez, and Lance Barksdale.
Marsh is known for a comparatively small yet highly consistent strike zone, meaning he is among the most popular umpires for pitchers as well as hitters.
John Felix Anthony Cena (/ˈsiːnə/; born April 23, 1977) is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is currently signed to WWE as a member of its Raw brand.
In WWE, Cena has won 19 championships in total, including 12 world titles (having won the WWE Championship a record 10 times and the World Heavyweight Championship twice). In addition, Cena has also won the WWE United States Championship three times, and is a four-time Tag Team Champion, having held the World Tag Team Championship twice (once each with Shawn Michaels and Batista), and the WWE Tag Team Championship twice (once each with David Otunga and The Miz). Cena also won the 2008 Royal Rumble match, and is a two-time Superstar of the Year Slammy Award winner (2009 and 2010). He also has the fourth highest number of combined days as WWE Champion behind Bob Backlund, Hulk Hogan and Bruno Sammartino.
Cena started his professional wrestling career in 2000, wrestling for Ultimate Pro Wrestling, where he held the UPW Heavyweight Championship. In 2001, Cena signed a contract with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) where he held the OVW Heavyweight Championship and the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (with Rico Constantino).
Actors: Sascha Turnheim (actor), Lily Davis (actress), Michael Bordenave (actor), Moise Jean Felix (actor), Moise Jean Felix (actor), Jehanne Jungeunet (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Mike Mitchell (actor), Mark Stirton (director), Mark Stirton (writer), Mark Stirton (editor), Michael Grant Clark (actor), Steve Campbell (actor), Michael Grant Clark (producer), Scott Ironside (actor), Shawn Paul Hastings (actor), Graham Robertson (actor), Patrick Wight (actor), Nicky Fraser (actor), Nicky Fraser (composer), Mark Wyness (actor), Kerwin Robertson (producer),
Plot: A mercenary spaceship ferrying a convict is attacked by a horde of unidentified fighter craft. Forced to abandon their crippled ship the survivors land on "The Planet". Soon they discover that they are not alone, as they battle to survive they begin to fall prey to a malevolent force. A force which turns the souls of their fallen comrades against them. Forming a rescue plan the survivors race to carry it out while they still can. Unknown to the team, the prisoner is also on the planet and his presence there could change the universe as they know it, forever.
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi,Actors: Justin Chatwin (actor), Jonathan Culp (producer), Jonathan Culp (producer), Jonathan Culp (director), James O'Reilly (actor), Joseph Recinos (actor), Veronika Hurnik (actor), Chris Mills (actor), Amanda Brooks (actor), Leslie Walters (actor),
Plot: Something is cooking in the town of Grimsville, Ontario. A bunch of wayward youths take on Grimsville High, Squirrely's Pizza and the Moose Meat Ladies with their revolutionary underground grilled cheese sandwich club. It's the next best thing to getting the hell out!
Keywords: anarchism, independent-film, satire, underground-filmActors: Eric Peterson (actor), Art Hindle (actor), Ruth Secord (costume designer), Kevin Sullivan (producer), Marcia Bennett (actress), Wendy Crewson (actress), Kevin Sullivan (producer), Cedric Smith (actor), Richard Blackburn (actor), Michael Murphy (actor), George Ploszczansky (miscellaneous crew), Richard McMillan (actor), Shannon Lawson (actress), Nicky Guadagni (actress), Shawn Doyle (actor),
Plot: It's the post WWI era Toronto. Despite Prohibition, Daniel Small continues to operate Corman Distilleries, while his son, Ambrose Small, has just sold his chain of theaters for $1 million. Daniel acquired Corman from the family of Ambrose's wife, Theresa Small. Theresa being wealthy from the liquor business is ironic due to her temperance stance. The sale of the theaters doesn't sit well with Ambrose's business manager, Jack Doughty, to who the theaters represented his livelihood. Immediately following the sale, Ambrose disappears without a trace. Initially, Theresa doesn't want the police involved since she believes he is just out carousing, while his business associates believe he has met with some foul play. Increasingly, the public, especially the anti-Catholic forces, believe devout Catholic Theresa had Protestant Ambrose murdered so that she could funnel his money into the Catholic church. Believing her husband still alive, Theresa hires the young Cole Willis to find Ambrose. Cole is a junior detective with the Tratt Detective Agency, which handles much of the security for the Small family businesses. Edgar Tratt originally hired Cole as a favor to his father and acts as Cole's mentor. As Cole enters into his investigation, he believes that some people know more than they let on about Ambrose's disappearance, whether it be Jack, who absconded with $100,000 of the Small's money, Jack's slatternly wife Vivian Doughty, or Theresa herself, the latter despite Cole's growing attraction to her.
Keywords: bigotry, catholic, independent-film, missing-man, prohibition, public-opinion, toronto-ontario-canadaActors: Sam Raimi (actor), David Proval (actor), Frank Oz (actor), Chazz Palminteri (actor), Anthony LaPaglia (actor), Leo Burmester (actor), Bob Minor (actor), Forrest J Ackerman (actor), Kim Coates (actor), Robert Loggia (actor), Dario Argento (actor), John W. Iwanonkiw (actor), Marshall Bell (actor), Don Rickles (actor), Luis Guzmán (actor),
Plot: Marie has two appetites, sex and blood. Her career as a vampire is going along fine until two problems come up, she is interrupted while feeding on Sal (the shark) Macelli and she begins to develope a relationship with the policeman who has been trying to put Sal away. Sal wakes up in the morgue very confused and very thirsty. He goes back to his old haunts and begins to create an organized crime family of vampires while Marie and her policeman lover hunt him.
Keywords: black-comedy, blood-spatter, bone-saw, burned-alive, character-says-i-love-you, church, climbing-a-wall, corpse, cult, cult-filmActors: Barry Banner (actor), Barry Papick (actor), Kôichi Ôhata (director), Kôichi Ôhata (writer), Riku Sanjyo (writer), Joan Baker (actress), Jason Beck (actor), Michael Goldwasser (actor), Dave Couch (actor), Michael Pascuzzi (actor), Hayato Ikeda (director), Gordon Miller (actor),
Genres: Animation,Actors: Katharine Ross (actress), Parley Baer (actor), Wilford Brimley (actor), Bo Hopkins (actor), Jackie Cooper (director), Candy Clark (actress), Bill McCamey (miscellaneous crew), Roger La Page (producer), Martin Starger (producer), Richard Vane (miscellaneous crew), Jacqueline Brookes (actress), Patti Dalzell (miscellaneous crew), Jerry Dronsky (editor), Arlene Banas (actress), Katharyn Powers (writer),
Plot: Sammy Garrett, the wife of a champion rodeo performer, is tired of her subsidiary role at home as a housewife. So she becomes an aspiring rodeo rider herself, encouraged by her one-time performer mother and eventually confronts her new lifestyle despite her husband's disapproval. Based on the true story of rodeo champion Sue Pirtle.
Keywords: bronc-riding, marriage, pregnancy, rodeo, rodeo-cowboyActors: John Carradine (actor), Marlin Skiles (composer), Bram Stoker (writer), John Carradine (actor), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), Rochelle Hudson (actress), Roger Gentry (actor), Roger Gentry (actor), Roger Gentry (actor), Roger Gentry (actor), David L. Hewitt (director), David L. Hewitt (producer), David L. Hewitt (writer), Ron Doyle (actor), Ron Doyle (actor),
Plot: John Carradine narrates five horror tales, each with a comically predictable surprise ending. In the first, "The Witches Clock" (sic), The Farrells have purchased an old mansion in Salem Massachusetts, and are warned by the town doctor, Finchley, of the history of witches in the community, and the old clock which they brought up from the attic. Then an old man named Tristram Halbin comes for a visit. The second story, "King of the Vampires" deals with a slight-figured killer, called the King of the Vampires by Scotland Yard, which sends Brenner to investigate. The third, "Monster Raid," is about a man turned zombie when he OD's on his experimental drug, who returns to avenge his death at the hands of his widow and her lover-now husband. "Spark of Life" deals with a doctor Mendell obsessed with the experiments of a thrown-out professor named Erich von Frankenstein, and two of his students who try to restore a cadaver to life. "Count Alucard" (called "Alucard" by Carradine and "Dracula: on the end credits, is a variation on the Dracula story, with the Count acquiring the deed to Carfax Abbey from Harker, as vampiresses and dead bodies start turning up. It, too, has a surprise ending unrelated to Stoker.
Keywords: abbey, anthology, based-on-novel, clock, creature-feature, criminal, death, doctor, dracula, independent-filmActors: Steve Forrest (actor), Vince Edwards (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), Jimmy Ames (actor), Nicky Blair (actor), Richard Deacon (actor), Paul Bryar (actor), Benny Burt (actor), Robert Burton (actor), Budd Buster (actor), Paul Brinegar (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Gene Coogan (actor), Peter Brocco (actor), Michael Fox (actor),
Plot: Detective Chris Kelvaney has a brother, Eddie, who also is a policeman. He witnessed a murderer running away from the scene of the crime. Chris has contacts with the gangster Beaumonte, who is willing to pay $15,000 if Eddie withdraws his testimony. But Eddie is an honorable cop and refuses. Beaumonte makes sure that Eddie is killed. After his death, Kelvaney starts to track down his brother's killer.
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Plot: The three Morgan brothers, Glenn, Jim and Buddy are all air mail pilots. The plane flown by Jim is shot down by Hugh Jeffries for the money it carries. Another flight is made by Buddy followed by Jeffries intending to shoot him down also...
Keywords: 1930s, affection, airmail, airplane, b-movie, border, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brother-brother-relationship, chase, crash