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Sneezing panda video
The name “panda” originates with a Himalayan language, possibly Nepali. As used in the West the name was originally applied to the red panda. Until its relation to the red panda was discovered in 1901, the giant panda was known as Mottled Bear (Ailuropus melanoleucus) or Particolored Bear.
The Chinese language name for the giant panda, literally translates to “large bear cat,” or just “bear cat”. There are two explanations for the origin of this name.
Physiologically, the eyes of most other bear species have round pupils, but the giant pandas have pupils that are vertical slits like cats’ eyes. These unusual eyes, combined with its ability to effortlessly scale trees, maybe what inspired the Chinese to call the panda the “bear cat.” However, this explanation seem unlikely as locals from different provinces use names such as “spotted bear” and “bamboo bear” for giant panda, which shows that the farmers are more likely to use “bear” as the noun when they see an obviously bear-sized animal.
On the other hand, some researchers believe that the name “bear cat,” originally belonged to the red panda, which also live on bamboo in China, and they are actually cat-size. When Himalayan first saw giant panda, they named it “large bear cat,” due to the similaries in behaviors and habitat. This will also explain why Chinese zoological texts and dictionaries published in the early 20th centuries, before the series of civil wars, always used the word “large” in the name and never just “bear cat.”
In Taiwan, the modern name for panda is “cat bear,” where cat is grammatically the adjective and bear is the noun. Although many researchers have found this name to be likely derived by misunderstandings with writing formats, “cat bear” logically makes more sense and thus there are no effort to change the name to the original name of “large bear cat.” Some even propose that “cat bear” should be the official Chinese name internationally.
Take a look at this cute sneezing panda!
Peabody Award
The George Foster Peabody Awards, better known as simply the Peabody Awards, are annual, international awards for excellence in radio and television broadcasting. First awarded in 1941 for programs from the previous year, they are considered the oldest honors in electronic media. The awards are administered by the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia (UGA). The awards are named after the businessman and philanthropist George Foster Peabody. As part of his philanthropic activities, Peabody donated the funds that created the awards. Lambdin Kay, public-service director for WSB radio in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, is credited for creating the award.
The Peabody Awards are generally regarded as the most prestigious awards honoring distinction and achievement within the fields of broadcast journalism, documentary film making, educational programming, children’s programming, and entertainment.
The Peabody Awards were originally only for radio, but in 1948, television awards were introduced. In the late 1990s additional categories for material distributed via the World Wide Web were added. Materials created solely for theatrical motion picture release are not eligible.
Peabody Award Complete List 2007
Reality show “Project Runway” IMDB User Rating: 9.1/10 (35 votes) won one of 35 Peabody Awards on Wednesday, becoming the first program of that genre to take one of the annual prizes that recognize achievement in electronic media.
30 Rock Universal Media Studios in association with Broadway Video Television and Little Stranger Inc.
Tina Fey`s creation is not only a great workplace comedy in the tradition of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” complete with fresh, indelible secondary characters, but also a sly, gleeful satire of corporate media, especially the network that airs it.
Art:21 – Art in the 21st Century Art:21, Inc.
Trusting artists to speak for themselves and viewers to “get” what they talk about, the PBS series provides a unique forum for the display, analysis and appreciation of myriad forms of contemporary visual art.
Speaking of Faith: The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi American Public Media
Delving into the “adventurous, cosmopolitan” Islam of a 13th century Persian poet now enjoying revival worldwide, this public-radio series continues to illuminate connections among people of all faiths.
Bob Woodruff Reporting: Wounds of War – The Long Road Home of Our Nation`s Veterans ABC News
Severely injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq, Woodruff made wounded veterans and their struggle with recovery and red tape his special focus and served them well with his sensitive, dogged reporting.
Money for Nothing, The Buried and the Dead, Television Justice, Kinder Prison WFAA-TV
The Dallas station distinguished itself with not one but four investigative series in 2007, probing dubious practices by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, the Texas Railroad Commission, a police department that got too cozy with a TV sexual-predator sting operation and a Homeland Security Prison holding immigrant families.
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation, Vulcan Productions Inc., The Big Table Film Company
The centerpiece of this thoughtful, topical edition of NOVA was the recreation, verbatim, of key testimony and argument from a six-week trial in Pennsylvania that served as a crash course in modern evolutionary theory, the evidence for evolution and the nature of science.
Whole Lotta Shakin` Texas Heritage Music Foundation
A red-hot retrospective of rockabilly music, this 10-part series distributed by Public Radio International blended rare interviews, archival radio broadcasts and foot-stomping tunes by obscure practitioners as well as legends such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
White Horse BBC World News America, BBC America, BBC World
Uncommonly beautiful for a nightly news feature, but no less trenchant for being artful, it captured a rustic, sleepy inland village on the verge of obliteration by the Chinese government in its attempt to further the country`s economic miracle.
Just Words The Center for Emerging Media
Marc Steiner`s 55 weekly radio reports, four minutes each, gave voice to marginalized people – low-wage workers, recovering drug addicts, the homeless – who rarely get to speak for themselves in the mainstream media and, in doing so, made common social issues immediate and personal.
CNN Presents: God`s Warriors CNN
In six hours over three nights, CNN explored how rising fundamentalist disenchantment with the modern, secular world has affected Judaism, Islam and Christianity in sometimes similar but also different ways.
Dexter Showtime, John Goldwyn Productions, The Colleton Company, Clyde Phillips Productions
With a premise that questions our fondness for avenging heroes – a serial killer who channels his dark urges into police forensics and the killing of other sociopaths – this Showtime series is a masterful psychological thriller and a complex and ambiguous meditation on morality.
Planet Earth Discovery Channel, BBC
Awesome, spectacular, humbling, exhilarating – pick your effusive adjective – the 11-part series documented the natural wonders of our world, some familiar, others never before seen, in stunning high-definition clarity.
CBS News Sunday Morning: The Way Home CBS News
Two unflinchingly candid women who lost limbs while serving in the military in Iraq were the centerpiece of this powerful, thought-provoking report by correspondent Kimberly Dozier, a recovering war casualty herself.
Fight for Open Records WTAE-TV
The Pittsburgh station`s relentless legal campaign to obtain public records of a state-run student loan program netted evidence of financial misconduct and pushed the state to rewrite an antiquated right-to-know law.
To Die in Jerusalem HBO Documentary Films in association with Priddy Brothers
The anguish of the Israeli-Palestine conflict was embodied in this frank documentary about two mothers who lost their respective teenaged daughters, one a suicide bomber, the other her victim.
Design Squad WGBH Educational Foundation
Created to inspire boys and girls in their `tweens and teens to consider an engineering profession, this lively, fast-paced series puts an educational emphasis into the reality-competition television format.
Craft in America: Memory, Landscape and Community Craft in America Inc.
This three-hour chronicle of America`s rich, ongoing traditions of weaving, quilting, woodworking and other craft art was as carefully wrought and as beautifully shot as its subject matter.
Univision`s Ya Es Hora Univision Communications
More than a million legal Hispanic immigrants sought U.S. citizenship as the result of Univision`s multi-faceted campaign to explain the benefits and responsibilities of becoming citizens and how to go about applying.
NATURE: Silence of the Bees Partisan Pictures, Inc., Thirteen/WNET New York
The first in-depth investigation of an alarming, world-wide die-off of honeybees, this documentary underscored the critical role of these pollinators to our food supply and surveyed the forensics that have yet to solve the mystery.
A Journey Across Afghanistan: Opium and Roses Balkan News Corporation – bTV
Surprising and visually distinctive, this Bulgarian news network`s road trip yeilded a rare, everyday Afghan perspective on the fighting between Taliban and western troops, while revealing fascinating efforts to supplant the growing of opium poppies with rose bushes to produce rose oil.
The MTT Files American Public Media, San Francisco Symphony
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas brought his wealth of knowledge and idiosyncratic insight to bear on subjects as diverse as Igor “Firebird” Stravinsky and James “Cold Sweat” Brown in this delightful, surprising public-radio series.
Taxi to the Dark Side Jigsaw Pictures, Tall Woods, Wider Film, ZDF/ARTE
The brutal death of an Afghani cab driver while in U.S. military custody gave director Alex Gibney the central thread of his searing exploration of detainee interrogation techniques and who, ulimately, bears responsiblity.
Security Risks at Sky Harbor KNXV-TV
This Phoenix station`s unnerving expose of outrageous lapses in baggage-screening at the city`s main airport shook up the Transportation Security Administration all the way to Washington, D.C.
Wait, Wait…Don`t Tell Me! National Public Radio, Chicago Public Radio, Urgent Haircut Productions
A zippy update of one of broadcasting`s long-ago staples, this live quiz show reminds listeners of the week`s news even as host Peter Sagal and various panelists make witty sport of it.
Independent Lens: Sisters in Law Vixen Films, Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Directors Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi make viewers flies on the wall of a small-town courthouse in Cameroon overseen by two dynamic, wisecracking, larger-than-life sisters – one the court`s president, the other its state prosecutor – who are helping women stand up to abuse.
Virginia Tech Shooting: The First 48 Hours WSLS-TV
Covering the the worst mass shooting in United States history and its immediate aftermath, the news staff of this station in Roanoke, Virginia, demonstrated knowledge of their community, mastery of their journalistic craft and remarkable, much-needed calm.
The Brian Lehrer Show: Radio That Builds Community Rather Than Divides WNYC Radio
Lehrer`s talk show is a wide open yet shrewdly managed forum in which every sort of political, social and cultural issue is consdiered and where New Yorkers, in all their diversity, can get to know each other.
Nimrod Nation Sundance Channel, Public Road Productions, Wieden and Kennedy
The subject of Brett Morgen`s lyrical, unhurried, eight-part exploration of small town life is Watersmeet, Michigan, a folksy hamlet reminiscent of Mayberry and Lake Wobegone, but undeniably, hearteningly real.
FRONTLINE: Cheney`s Law FRONTLINE, Kirk Documentary Group, Ltd., WGBH-Boston
In a strongly researched and reported hour that sometimes played like a political thriller, “FRONTLINE” traced the Bush Administration`s expansion of Presidental wartime powers to a determined, secretive campaign by the Vice President, that stretches back three decades.
mtvU: Half of Us mtvU
Responding to studies that have shown that nearly half of all college students have experienced bouts of disabling depression, mtvU created an impressive, multi-platform campaign that includes public-service spots and a comprehensive website where students can get information, advice, even upbeat music.
Independent Lens: Billy Strayhorn – Lush Life Robert Levi Films, Independent Television Service (ITVS), Washington Square Films
Along with celebrating the work of the often overlooked arranger and composer (”Take the `A` Train”) who was crucial to Duke Ellington`s sound and success, the documentary senstitively explored the homophobia that kept Strayhorn in the shadows.
CBS News 60 Minutes: The Killings in Haditha CBS News, 60 Minutes
This thorough, open-minded investigation of the worst single killing of civilians by American troops since Vietnam put not just the incident into better perspective but the entire Iraq War and the terrible choices it presents both solidier and civilian.
Mad Men AMC, Lionsgate Pictures Television
The way they were on Madison Avenue, in the Manhattan towers and the bedroom communities of New York, circa 1960, is recalled in rich detail and a haze of cigarette smoke in this exemplary period dramatic series.
The Colbert Report Hello Doggie Inc., Busboy Productions, and Spartina Productions
Let none dare call it “truthiness.” Colbert, in his weeknight Comedy Central send-up of politics and all that is bombastic and self-serving in cable-news bloviasion, has come into his own as one of electronic media`s sharpest satirists.
Wikipedia List of Peabody Award Winners (previous years)
Down periscope
Down Periscope is a comedy movie of 1996 with Kelsey Grammer as the captain of a rust-bucket submarine (called the USS Stingray). Rob Schneider ensures comic support as the uptight executive officer, and Lauren Holly starring as the Navy’s first female submarine crew member.
Lieutenant Commander Thomas Dodge (Kelsey Grammer), a capable (if somewhat unorthodox) US Navy officer, is about to be denied command of his own submarine for a third time because of his rather unconventional ways (not to mention a widely known tattoo on his penis reading ‘Welcome aboard!’. He is particularly opposed by Rear Admiral Yancy Graham (Bruce Dern). Failure to secure his command will result in him being dropped from the command program. His commander, Vice Admiral Dean Winslow (Rip Torn), manages to convince the Navy to give him a last chance: to test the Navy’s defenses against enemy diesel submarines. For this purpose, Dodge is granted the command over a rusty and outdated Balao-class diesel sub, the USS Stingray, which should simulate a situation with Russian diesel subs sold to terrorists. Adm. Winslow gives Dodge the order to “think like a pirate”, meaning to disregard the traditional rules of warfare and play by his own discretion. Winslow tells Dodge that if he can win the wargame, including sinking a mock target in Norfolk harbor, he will do what he can to get Dodge command of a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine.
His opponent in the wargame is Rear Admiral Graham, who is overseeing the maneuvers of the ultra-modern submarine USS Orlando, headed by Commander Carl Knox (William H. Macy). Graham, motivated by his dislike for Dodge and his own ambition (he brags that he has never lost a wargame, and that he is in line for a third star), tries to arrange circumstances to make Dodge’s mission even more difficult. He handpicks a motley crew consisting mostly of what he considers rejects and failures: hot-tempered Executive Officer Martin Pascal (Rob Schneider), rebellious Engineman 1st Class Brad Stapanek, sharp-eared Sonar Technician 2nd Class E.T. ‘Sonar’ Lovacelli, compulsive gambler Seaman Stanley ‘Spots’ Sylvesterson, shock-prone (and shock-addled) electrician Seaman Nitro, and the not-so-culinary cook Seaman Buckman. Also, as part of a pilot program instituted by Graham, Lieutenant Emily Lake (Lauren Holly) joins the crew as the Navy’s first female diving officer. Finally, he informs Dodge that the containment area of the exercise has been cut in half, effectively limiting what targets Dodge can pursue, and with the helpful reminder that the Stingray will unconditionally surrender upon being informed of a “shooting solution” (or enemy lock-on) at any time during the wargame.
Using risky and unorthodox strategies to offset their technological disadvantage, Dodge and the Stingray crew manage to take out their assigned target in Charleston Harbor. After Dodge remembers his orders to “think like a pirate” and leaves the exercise area, Pascal attempts to relieve Dodge of his command. No one supports Pascal, and Dodge makes him walk the plank for the attempted munity. Graham then assumes personal command of the wargame from the Orlando’s helm and is able to “kill” the Stingray, but not before it launches two torpedoes at the dummy target in Norfolk harbor. Since the shots were fired prior to the kill, and they found their target, Dodge is the victor of the game.
Winslow congratulates Dodge on a job well done and tells him that he will not get a Los Angeles Class submarine. Instead he will be given a Seawolf-class submarine, and a “proper crew”. Dodge requests that he be allowed to transfer the crew of the Stingray.
IMDB User Rating: 5.3/10 (6,055 votes)
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Pat Sajak Bald?
Pat Sajak (born Patrick Leonard Sajdak on October 26, 1946), is a television personality and a former talk show host, best known as the host of the American television game show, Wheel of Fortune.
Sajak once commented on Wheel of Fortune that his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has the wrong emblem. His is a movie camera when it should be a TV set. He quipped on the show that “someone should pry it off and sell it on eBay - it’s a collectible!” The star has since been corrected.
Pat Sajak Bald?
On the April 1, 2008 airdate of Wheel Of Fortune, Pat reveals to everyone that he was wearing a hairpiece and for the first time, we see Pat Sajak with a bald head. Sajak was quick to remind the audience the show took place on April 1st.