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Instant-runoff voting (IRV), also known as the alternative vote (AV), transferable vote, ranked choice voting, or preferential voting is an electoral system used to elect a single winner from a field of more than two candidates. It is a preferential voting system in which voters rank the candidates in order of preference rather than voting for a single candidate.
Ballots are initially distributed based on each elector's first preference. If a candidate secures more than half of votes cast, that candidate wins. Otherwise, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. Ballots assigned to the eliminated candidate are recounted and added to the totals of the remaining candidates based on who is ranked next on each ballot. This process continues until one candidate wins by obtaining more than half the votes.
IRV has the effect of avoiding split votes when multiple candidates earn support from like-minded voters. For example, suppose there are two similar candidates A & B, and a third opposing candidate C, with raw popularity of 35%, 25% and 40% respectively. In a plurality voting system, candidate C may win with 40% of the votes, even though 60% of electors prefer either A or B. Alternatively, voters are pressured to choose the seemingly stronger candidate of either A or B, despite personal preference for the other, in order to help ensure the defeat of C. It is often the resulting situation that candidate A or B would never get to ballot, whereas voters would be presented a two candidate choice. With IRV, the electors backing B as their first choice can allocate their preferences as #1 for B and #2 for A, which means A will win despite the split vote in first choices.
Actors: Chae Balistreri (actor), Annie Borden (actor), Brian Brown (actor), Steve Brudniak (actor), Tom Byrne (actor), Kent Cummins (actor), Michael Davis (actor), Marcus Eddie (actor), Jacob Flores (actor), Albraden Hills (actor), Bill Johnson (actor), Jim Kipping (actor), Ian McClure (actor), Ronnie Nunn (actor), Miguel Acosta (actor),
Plot: A fast-paced hip-hop comedy, centers on the unlikely romance between Alvin, an unemployed banker, and Wanda B, a beautiful hip-hop singer. Recent MBA graduate and pretty-good drummer, Alvin accepts a summer job at Camp Kickitoo, which turns out to be not your usual summer camp, but a rehab facility for minor drug offenders, introducing a mixed bag of colorful characters. Initially assigned to the kitchen as a pot washer, Alvin becomes a camp counselor in charge of Wanda, an angry camper unjustly busted for marijuana possession. United by music, stormy relationship evolves into steamy love affair.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Logan Borsari (actor), Shadie Elnashai (actor), Max Gail (actor), Eddie Jones (actor), Peter Kobor (actor), Pat Morita (actor), Michael Muhney (actor), Frank Nicotero (actor), Mark Allan Stewart (actor), Will Zahrn (actor), Amber Benson (actress), Darci Dunnagan (actress), Adrienne Frantz (actress), Ellie Gerber (actress), Morris Berenbaum (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Southey Blanton (actor), Benjamin Brown (actor), Adam Clark (actor), Gordon Danniels (actor), Malcolm Goodwin (actor), Michael Harding (actor), Stevonte Hart (actor), Leland L. Jones (actor), Malcolm David Kelley (actor), Elijah Long (actor), Michael L. Nesbitt (actor), Michael J. Pagan (actor), Charles Parnell (actor), Selassie Singh (actor), Michael Beasley (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Mark Burk (actor), Brendan Dunphy (actor), Richard Galbreath (actor), Patrick Gouran (actor), Ethan Henry (actor), Justin Marxen (actor), Mike Schneider (actor), Lonnie Schuyler (actor), Travis Shepherd (actor), Lauren Bartusek (actress), Amy Burgmaier (actress), Maggie Conroy (actress), Ashlynn Dale (actress), Shawn Marie Diddy (actress), Mikeal Burgin (actor),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Dale Baltrop (actor), Noah Bremer (actor), Steven Copes (actor), Jim Detmar (actor), Nicholas Lemme (actor), Robert Marbury (actor), Stephen Pelinski (actor), Eric Webster (actor), Catherine Campion (actress), Mikki Daniels (actress), Nadine Gross (actress), Tracy Rispin (actress), Catherine Campion (producer), Abi Basch (writer), Darren Roark (writer),
Genres: Romance, Short,Actors: Frank Anello (actor), David Arquette (actor), Richard Bright (actor), Earl R. Burt (actor), Matthew Nathan Castens (actor), Matt Dillon (actor), Greg Dulli (actor), Noah Emmerich (actor), Tom Gibis (actor), Ben Gooding (actor), Timothy Hutton (actor), Edward Kaspszak (actor), Adam LeFevre (actor), John Carroll Lynch (actor), Herbie Ade (actor),
Plot: New York based jazz pianist Willie Conway heads back to his small hometown of Knights Ridge, Massachusetts for a high school reunion. The trip is as much to go to the reunion and see his old friends - none of whom left Knights Ridge after graduation - as it is to get away from his current life, at which he is at a crossroads both personally and professionally. He is just eking out a living with his piano playing gigs, and as such he is thinking about taking a sales job. He's also not sure if he's ready to marry his long time girlfriend, lawyer Tracy Stover. Most of Willie's Knights Ridge blue collar friends' best days were in high school, they still having that "trophy" mentality of girlfriends and wives. Only Michael "Mo" Morris is happily married with a family. Paul Kirkwood, whose room is plastered with magazine pictures of models, wants his waitress ex-girlfriend Jan back only because he knows now that he can't have her. And Tommy "Birdman" Rowland, who was the big man in high school, is trying to end his affair with his now married high school girlfriend, Darian Smalls. Despite knowing about Darian, Tommy's current girlfriend, Sharon Cassidy, stands by her man through bad and worse. A cousin of their bar owning friend Stanley "Stinky" Womack, the beautiful Andera who is visiting from Chicago, may provide the voice of reason for this group of friends in dealing with their women problems. Some reason is what Willie may need in trying to figure out why he is attracted to Marty, his father's thirteen year old neighbor, especially as Willie learns that Tracy has decided to join him for the reunion.
Keywords: adultery, affection, bar, birthday-party, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, class-reunion, cult-film, dream-girl, eating-disorder, extramarital-affairActors: Jeff Cadiente (actor), Bill Cameron (actor), Bryan Cranston (actor), James Crittenden (actor), Armando Daniel (actor), Max Daniels (actor), Shelly Desai (actor), Art Edler (actor), David 'Shark' Fralick (actor), Juan García (actor), Blake Gibbons (actor), Jesse D. Goins (actor), Ramiro González (actor), David Gunn (actor), Mark Adair-Rios (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Tim Bagley (actor), B.J. Barie (actor), Phil Boardman (actor), Jim Carrey (actor), Jim Carrey (actor), Reg E. Cathey (actor), Blake Clark (actor), Christopher Darga (actor), Jim Doughan (actor), Denis Forest (actor), Peter Greene (actor), Kevin Grevioux (actor), Peter Jazwinski (actor), Richard Jeni (actor), Joseph Alfieri (actor),
Plot: Stanley Ipkiss is a bank clerk that is an incredibly nice man. Unfortunately, he is too nice for his own good and is a pushover when it comes to confrontations. After one of the worst days of his life, he finds a mask that depicts Loki, the Norse night god of mischief. Now, when he puts it on, he becomes his inner, self: a cartoony romantic wild man. However, a small time crime boss, Dorian Tyrel, comes across this character dubbed "The Mask" by the media. After Ipkiss's alter ego indirectly kills his friend in crime, Tyrel now wants this green-faced goon destroyed.
Keywords: abandoned-warehouse, animal-licking-someone, animal-urination, anti-hero, award, bad-luck, balloon, bank, bank-clerk, bank-robberyActors: Raymond J. Barry (actor), Jay Brazeau (actor), John Candy (actor), Paul Coeur (actor), Kristoffer Cooper (actor), Doug E. Doug (actor), Bill Dow (actor), Christopher Gaze (actor), Larry Gilman (actor), Jack Goth (actor), Charles Harvey (actor), Oliver Hunter (actor), Charles Hyatt (actor), Matthew Robert Kelly (actor), Clive Anderson (actor),
Plot: Irving Blitzer disgraced himself when putting extra weights into his team's bob in the Olympics, resulting in his gold medal being taken away from him. Years later, Derice Bannock, son to a former friend of Irv, fails to qualify for the 100-yard sprint for the Olympics due to a stupid accident. But when he hears of Irving Blitzer living also on Jamaica, Derice decides to go to the Games anyway, if not as a sprinter, then as a bobsledder. After some starting problems, the first Jamaican bobsledding team is formed and heads for Calgary. In the freezing weather Derice, Sanka, Junior and Yul are only laughed at, since nobody can take a Jamaican bobsledding team led by a disgraced trainer seriously. But team spirit and a healthy self confidence may lead to a few surprises in the upcoming Winter Games.
Keywords: airplane, airport, based-on-true-story, bobsled, coach, cult-film, hotel-room, jamaica, line-dancing, olympic-athleteActors: Desi Arnaz Jr. (actor), James Blendick (actor), Ron Burke (actor), Armand Cerami (actor), Michael Constantine (actor), Ciri De Saulnier (actor), Robert G. Denison (actor), Fiseha Dimetros (actor), William Dozier (actor), Brett Dunham (actor), Steve Eastin (actor), Paul L. Ehrmann (actor), Dana Elcar (actor), Fabian (actor), Gino Ardito (actor),
Plot: The life of a stressed out air controller falls apart as he battles a court case involving a mid-air collision which is causing the unhappiness of his wife.
Keywords: air-traffic-controller, airplane-accident, airportTry To Say Goodbye
Jory Eve
(I Still Know What You Did Last Summer)
I'm holding a letter that I wrote last night
Tryin' to remember what it says inside
The words are written but never been said
Your voice keeps calling in my head
I don't believe it's time
But I try to say goodbye
But I feel so lost inside
I don't know my name
And I can't erase what's weighing on my mind
It says I'd be leavin' on a redeye plane
But I know I'm coming back again
You've heard the story a thousand times
The song is playing in your mind
I'm asking myself why
Then I try to say goodbye...
But I feel so lost inside
I don't know my name
I can't erase what's weighing on my mind
I try to stay awake, trying to write the words
And I'm trying to write the word goodbye
... to say goodbye
But I feel so lost inside
I don't know my name
And I can't erase what's weighing on my mind
And I try to say goodbye
But I feel so lost inside
And I try to say goodbye
And I try...
And I try... to say goodbye
And I try to say goodbye
I try...