title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: The film was released on January 14, 2000, to largely negative reviews. It was a box office bomb, only grossing over $14.8 million over its $60 million dollar budget during its theatrical release.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: "Supernova" chronicles the search-and-rescue patrol of the medical ship "Nightingale 229" in deep space in the early 22nd century and its six-member crew, which includes captain and pilot A.J. Marley, co-pilot Nick Vanzant, medical officer Kaela Evers, medical technician Yerzy Penalosa, search and rescue paramedic Danika Lund and computer technician Benjamin Sotomejor. Aboard their vessel, they receive an emergency distress signal coming from an ice mining operation on the moon Titan 37, more than 3,000 light-years away.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: The crew answers the call and dimension-jumps—during which Captain Marley suffers fatal injuries due to a malfunction of the ship's equipment—arriving in the path of Titan 37's debris cloud, some of which damages the ship and causes the loss of 82 percent of its maneuvering fuel. Worse still, Titan 37 orbits a blue giant, and its high gravity field will pull the ship to the point where it will be incinerated in 17 hours, 12 minutes—which happens to be almost the same amount of time that the "Nightingale 229" will need to recharge its jump drive, their only possible hope for escape. With only an 11-minute window for escape, the surviving crew soon find themselves in danger from the disturbing young man they rescue, and the mysterious alien artifact he has smuggled aboard. This artifact is analyzed by the ship's computer and is said to contain nine-dimensional matter.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: It is ultimately discovered that the young man who called for rescue is actually Karl Larson, an old former lover of Kaela (it is implied that he was abusive). Karl came into contact with the nine-dimensional matter after recovering the artifact. It somehow enabled him to acquire super-strength and supernatural healing abilities, and made him younger (such that Kaela did not recognize him). Karl murders most of the crew except Kaela and strands Nick on the mining platform. Karl unsuccessfully attempts to romantically reconcile with Kaela. Nick finds his way back to the medical ship through a rescue pod left on the mining platform, and a battle ensues between Nick and Karl. Karl is ultimately killed by Kaela using explosives placed near the alien artifact which Karl was obsessed with retrieving. The explosion ejects the artifact into space, hurtling it towards the blue giant.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: With moments left before the dimension jump activates, Kaela and Nick place themselves into the only remaining dimensional stabilization chamber (Karl had destroyed all but one), which is the only thing that enables human beings to survive the ship's dimensional jump drive. The pods are meant to hold only one person; however, two subjects might be genetically mixed during the dimensional jump. Before Nick and Kaela enter the only remaining pod, the computer warns them that the nine-dimensional matter is reacting with the gravity of the blue giant sun and will cause a nine-dimensional reaction that will spread in all directions, such that the reaction's resulting supernova will reach Earth within 51 years. The computer hypothesizes that the reaction will either destroy life on Earth or "enable humankind to achieve a new level of existence". Just before the blue giant supernovas, the ship engages in a dimensional jump which brings Nick and Kaela back to Earth. As a result of their being in the same pod, the two of them each have one eye of the other person's original eye color. The ship's computer also reveals that Kaela is pregnant, which may be the result of them being in the pod together during the jump, or the result of their copulation hours earlier.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: The film was originally pitched by William Malone in 1990 as "Dead Star". Malone envisioned it as a modestly budgeted film which would cost around $5–6 million and be like ""Dead Calm" in space".


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: The original script was about a space expedition that discovers artifacts from an alien civilization and brings them back to Earth; one of the artifacts unleashes an evil force. Malone and producer Ash R Shah asked H. R. Giger to produce some conceptual sketches to help promote the script.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: MGM bought the project and a series of writers were put on the script, including David Campbell Wilson, Daniel Chuba, Cathy Rabin and Thomas Wheeler. By 1997 the story had changed to be about a deep space medical ship called the "Nova" which answers a distress signal and finds an aging cargo vessel about to be sucked into a black hole. The sole survivor of the sinking ship comes on board the "Nova".


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: Australian Geoffrey Wright was originally attached to direct but left the project two months before principal photography was to begin due to "creative differences." Apparently, he had an idea about shooting the entire film in zero gravity, but MGM disagreed. Vincent D'Onofrio was originally cast as the computer tech but when Wright was fired, D'Onofrio also walked out. James Spader was cast in the lead.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: Wright was replaced by Jack Sholder. However, MGM head Frank Mancuso was reluctant to use him. James Spader campaigned for Walter Hill, who had written and produced the three "Alien" films. Hill says he "was interested in doing a science fiction thing"; he thought the script "had fixable problems" and he wanted to work with James Spader.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: MGM were worried that the Screen Actors Guild would strike that summer. They did not delay the April 1998 start date, which left Hill only weeks to organize the production. He spent much of that time reworking the script, not knowing that the president of United Artists (Lindsay Doran) was very attached to the script.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: "Walter's vision of the film was different from the studio's. It's a shame that couldn't be resolved during production," screenwriter David Wilson said.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: Special-effects house Digital Domain was once considering a production partnership with MGM. Under such a deal, the special effects would be delivered below market rates, since Digital, as a partial owner of some MGM films, would have an incentive to keep costs down. However, this partnership fell through and the production had to pay for "the full spa treatment," according to producer Daniel Chubas. MGM had to scrap about half of the planned effects shots. A weightless sex scene between Robin Tunney and Peter Facinelli was shot in seats mounted on a rotating pole that was digitally removed in post-production. The script also involved a cutting-edge robot—remotely operated by someone's manipulating gloves—that performs long-distance medical examinations. This became an actor dressed as an android. Finally, a sequence where Spader rescued someone inside a bubble of zero-gravity water was never filmed.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: After principal photography was finished in July 1998, Walter Hill spent a total of 24 weeks editing his director's cut of the film which still did not have all the special effects scenes added into it. MGM decided to screen the film to a test audience. Hill told them that the screening would be a complete disaster because the film was still not finished, and because he wanted to shoot some more footage. MGM refused, saying the additional footage would cost another $1.5 million. Hill would not return to work until Mancuso met with him, and Mancuso would not meet with Hill until the director returned to work.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: MGM screened the film and, just like Hill said, the test screening audience hated it. Hill would later remark:


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: We limped in, in post we had a tremendous amount of effect stuff to do. They decided they wanted to preview the movie without the effects. I said this was insane, it's a science fiction movie. The effects had to be added. They wanted to see how it played. I told them it would be like shit, terrible, very bad preview, you will give up on the movie. These previews under these conditions are political. "Are you saying you won't preview the movie?" I said "You own the God damn thing. If you want to preview it, I can't prevent you, but I won't go." They saw this as defiance.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: After test screenings went badly MGM hired another director, Jack Sholder, to re-edit Hill's footage and do some re-shoots to try and save the film. Sholder deleted a lot of the scenes from Hill's version, including many scenes of character development, added the scene where James Spader's character is piloting the ship to safety after they jump into the supernova high-gravity field (originally auto-pilot saved the ship from the crash but Sholder wanted to give Spader's character something more to do), added some scenes with more focus on humor, changed the original voice of the ship's computer Sweetie and added a new one which had "more emotion", removed entire dialogue from another computer called George who was on Titan and who gave Nick some information about the mining colony, removed the original rocklike/electronic score by Burkhard Dallwitz, and added a new one by David C. Williams.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: After Sholder's cut was test screened and got a better reaction from a test audience, new executives took over MGM/UA: Alex Yemenidjian, and Chris McGurk. They were unhappy with the reaction that "Supernova" got from the test screening of Sholder's cut. The studio went back to Hill, who proposed $5 million of reshoots and wanted more time for filming. When he was refused, Hill quit the project for good and MGM then shelved the film.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: In August 1999, MGM board member Francis Ford Coppola was brought in by MGM to supervise another re-editing of the film costing $1 million at his American Zoetrope facility in Northern California. This work included digitally placing Bassett's and Spader's faces on the bodies of (a computer-tinted) Tunney and Facinelli so that their characters could enjoy a love scene.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: But even Coppola's re-edited version had negative test screening and did not get the PG-13 rating by the MPAA that the studio wanted. Creature designer Patrick Tatopoulos, whose special effects were mostly cut out from the film, said that Walter Hill wanted the film to be much more grotesque, strange and disturbing while MGM wanted to make it more of a hip, sexy film in space and they did not want a full-blown makeup effects film.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: "I hope that my experience in the film industry has helped improve the picture and rectified some of the problems that losing a director caused," said Coppola.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: The theatrical trailer of the film, featuring songs "Fly" by Sugar Ray and "Mama Told Me Not To Come" by Three Dog Night, shows many alternate takes of some scenes, extended versions of some others, parts of a few deleted scenes, including the one where Nick finds the real Troy on the Titan moon turned into a fetus and Troy begging Nick to help him, and a couple of shots of the original ending where Karl is killed by a dimensional jump.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: Dialogue by the ship's computer, Sweetie, in a theatrical ending where it tells Nick and Kaela that the Supernova will either destroy Earth or make it and humankind better, and that Kaela is pregnant, was added later in post-production during one of the re-edits of the film, most probably during the one supervised by Francis Ford Coppola. Original dialogue said only that the supernova will destroy Earth in 257 years and that it's unstoppable.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: When he took over the editing of the film, Francis Ford Coppola put together the zero-gravity sex scene between Angela Bassett and James Spader using outtakes of the zero gravity sex scene between Robin Tunney and Peter Facinelli that happens later in the film, with Tunney's skin color being digitally darkened. He did this to add more to the relationship between Bassett's and Spader's characters.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: Originally, main villain Karl mutated into a demonic monster during the final part of the film. Although much time and effort was spent on special make-up effects for these scenes, MGM decided that they didn't like it because they "couldn't see the actor", so all the creature footage was cut and re-shot with Karl being only partially mutated in the final cut.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: Many promotional stills come from deleted scenes which were not included on DVD/Blu-ray versions of the film. These include: Kaela and Danika dressing up the Flyboy robot, Nick investigating the Titan mining colony and more areas of it, Nick finding more cocooned dead bodies of miners and examining them, Karl's original monstrous look, and Karl's original death sequence.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: Walter Hill said in an interview some years after the film was released that his version was much darker, had a very different setup and that ending was much different. He also expressed a strong dislike for the way the studio ruined the film, but said that James Spader did a great job with his role.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: Lou Diamond Phillips, who plays Yerzy, turned down the role the first few times it was offered to him, but once Walter Hill was hired as director, Hill called Phillips and sent him 40 pages of his re-written script, which Phillips liked and accepted the role. However, when the filming began, Hill was forced to keep rewriting the script while studio executives were on the set watching over him. Hill also heavily rewrote the original script because he wanted to distance the film from "Alien" (1979), a film which he produced. Phillips also said that once Francis Ford Coppola was called in to re-edit the film, he sent everyone from the cast a letter saying, "All of your work in this film is quite good. It has its problems. I'm going to recut it, hopefully in the spirit of what Walter Hill wanted." However, Hill ultimately took his name from the film.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: "Supernova" opened on January 14, 2000 in 2,280 theaters, during the Martin Luther King weekend, alongside "Next Friday" and the wide releases of "Girl, Interrupted" and "The Hurricane".


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: Before its release, MGM predicted that the film would not perform well at the box office. The film made $5.8 million in its opening weekend, ranking #8; by the end of its run, the film grossed only $14.2 million in North America and $598,000 in other territories, for a worldwide gross of $14.8 million. Against a budget of $90 million, the film was a box-office bomb, with an estimated loss of $83 million.


title: Supernova (2000 film)

text: "Supernova" received negative reviews from critics and holds a "Rotten" 10% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 61 reviews, with the consensus: "This is an insult to the Sci-fi genre with no excitement and bad FX." "The New York Times" reviewer Lawrence Van Gelder called it "light on originality and low on suspense though high on design and special effects." On Metacritic, which uses an average of critics' reviews, the film holds a 19/100, indicating "overwhelming dislike". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "D" on an A+ to F scale. "Film Comment" praised Hill's directing and writing work for giving the action "an extraordinary vividness and sense of grim veracity", and touted the cinematography and visual effects, but strongly criticized Coppola and the cuts he made for weakening the characters and disconnecting the film's relationships and stylistic unity, resulting in the film being "consigned to the void".


The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon were held on November 8, 2022, to elect the six U.S. representatives from the state of Oregon, one from each of the state's six congressional districts. Primaries for these seats were held on May 17, 2022. The elections coincided with the elections and primaries of other federal and state offices.


title: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon

text: District boundaries were redrawn to ensure that the districts are apportioned based on data from the 2020 United States census, which added a sixth seat to Oregon's delegation. Democrats won the new sixth district, but Republicans gained Oregon's fifth district, leaving the Congressional delegation with a 4 to 2 party split in favor of the Democrats. This was the first time since 1994 that Republicans won more than one House seat in Oregon.


text: From 2012 to 2020, the 1st district was located in northwestern Oregon and included the western Portland metro area, including the Portland suburbs of Beaverton and Hillsboro, and parts of Portland west of the Willamette River. The district was kept largely the same despite redistricting, exchanging Yamhill County for Tillamook County and taking in more of Portland. The incumbent is Democrat Suzanne Bonamici, who was re-elected with 64.6% of the vote in 2020.


text: From 2012 to 2020, the 2nd district was the largest of Oregon's districts and covered roughly two-thirds of the state east of the Cascades, encompassing the central, eastern, and southern regions of the state, including Bend and Medford. The district was kept mostly the same during redistricting, but it did lose Bend to the 5th district and Hood River County to the 3rd, while taking in all of Josephine County and about half of Douglas County. The incumbent is Republican Cliff Bentz, who was elected with 59.9% of the vote in 2020.


text: From 2012 to 2020, the 3rd district encompassed the eastern Portland metro area, covering Portland and Gresham. The district was kept largely the same despite redistricting, though it did take in Hood River County, and lost some of Portland to the 1st district. The incumbent is Democrat Earl Blumenauer, who was re-elected with 73.0% of the vote in 2020.


text: From 2012 to 2020, the 4th district included the southern Willamette Valley and the South Coast, including Eugene, Corvallis, and Roseburg. The district was kept largely the same despite redistricting, though it did gain parts of the central coast previously in the 5th district, making the district more Democratic leaning. The incumbent, Democrat Peter DeFazio, who was re-elected with 51.5% of the vote in 2020, has decided to retire, rather than seek a 19th consecutive term in Congress.


text: From 2012 to 2020, the 5th district straddled the central coast, and included Salem and the southern Portland suburbs. The new 5th district keeps the southern suburbs of Portland and reaches further into the city, but does not include any coastline, instead stretching southwards through the eastern parts of Marion and Linn counties to Bend.


text: The incumbent, Democrat Kurt Schrader, was re-elected with 51.9% of the vote in 2020. He lost renomination to Jamie McLeod-Skinner.


text: The 6th district was created following the 2020 census. It consists of Polk County and Yamhill County, in addition to portions of Marion County (including the state capital, Salem), Clackamas County, and Washington County.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mackay () is a city in the Mackay Region on the eastern or Coral Sea coast of Queensland, Australia. It is located about north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mackay is described as being in either Central Queensland or North Queensland, as these regions are not precisely defined.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: More generally, the area is known as the Mackay–Whitsunday Region. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia's sugar.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The city was named after John Mackay. In 1860, he was the leader of an expedition into the Pioneer Valley. Initially Mackay proposed to name the river Mackay River after his father George Mackay. Thomas Henry Fitzgerald surveyed the township and proposed it was called Alexandra after Princess Alexandra of Denmark, who married Prince Edward (later King Edward VII). However, in 1862 the river was renamed to be the Pioneer River, after in which Queensland Governor George Bowen travelled to the area, and the township name was changed to be Mackay in honour of John Mackay. Fitzgerald then decided to use the name Alexandra for his sugar cane plantation and sugar mill, which eventually provided the name to the Mackay suburb of Alexandra today.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: There has always been much contention over the pronunciation of the name Mackay. Correspondence received by Mackay City Library in 2007, from descendants of John Mackay, confirms that the correct pronunciation is , from the Gaelic name "MacAoidh" which is pronounced "ɑɪ" not "eɪ".


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: "Yuwibara ("also known as "Yuibera, Yuri, Juipera, Yuwiburra)" is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Yuwibara country. It is closely related to the Biri languages/dialects. The Yuwibara language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Mackay Region.""


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Captain James Cook, sailed past the Mackay coast on 1 June 1770 and named several local landmarks, including Cape Palmerston, Slade Point and Cape Hillsborough. It was during this trip that the Endeavour's botanist, Sir Joseph Banks, briefly recorded seeing Aboriginal people.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: In 1860, John Mackay led an overland expedition to the region to obtain land. Finding most of the inland areas already having been selected by other British colonists, Mackay turned toward the coast and entered what he called the "May Plains" but is now known as the Pioneer Valley. Mackay was the first European to visit the region that is now named after him. He selected three large areas of land which he named Greenmount, Cape Palmerston and Shamrock Vale. In 1862 he returned with James Starr and 1200 head of livestock to establish these cattle stations but soon got into financial difficulty and sold them off.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: In 1863, Mackay was declared a port of entry for settlers. Amongst the first boatload of arrivals was hotelier and future mayor Korah Halcomb Wills. Mackay was initially named Alexandra but the government soon changed it to Mackay to honour its founder. The first sale of town allotments was in 1864.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: During the 1860s, the local Aboriginal population, as Henry Ling Roth puts it, "did what they could to defend their country and their lives." The local detachment of the Native Police under Robert Arthur Johnstone started patrolling the area in 1867, and encountered several Aboriginal camps on the north side of the Pioneer River, one of which contained more than 200 people. A newspaper report of the time says that Johnstone dealt with these people "in the usual and only effectual mode for restraining their savage propensities." The usual mode of the Native Police was terror, violence and massacre. In 1868 a large group of Aboriginal people killed 7 cattle at Greenmount. Johnstone and his troopers were sent out after them but it is unclear if he succeeded in "administering a lesson to the blackskins." Colonist, George Bridgman, provided some sanctuary to the remnants of the tribes and in 1871 an Aboriginal Reserve was gazetted near Rosella. This reserve shut in 1885.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: In 1865, John Spiller, an Englishman who was connected with sugar plantations in colonial Java, planted the first sugarcane crop in the Mackay region. John Ewen Davidson and T. H. Fitzgerald built the first production sugar mill in 1868. Most of the labour on the sugar plantations was provided by South Sea Islanders. The first 70 of these workers arrived in Mackay on 12 May 1867 aboard the "Prima Donna". and were sent to work at Fitzgerald's Alexandra Plantation.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: By the mid-1880s there were over 30 sugar plantations and 26 sugar mills in the Mackay region. Over one third of the 6000 inhabitants were South Sea Islander labourers. On Boxing Day 1883, a race riot occurred between members of these workers and some of the European population at the Mackay racecourse. Hundreds of people on both sides threw bottles at each other until around 50 Anglo-Australian horsemen wielding stirrup irons galloped into the group of Islanders, knocking them down with their improvised weapons and riding over them. Officially two Islanders were killed but it was believed a greater number later died of injuries. One white man involved, George Goyner, was found guilty of assault and sentenced to two months in prison. Around thirty Islanders were also imprisoned.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: In 1918, Mackay was hit by a major tropical cyclone causing severe damage and loss of life with hurricane-force winds and a large storm surge. The resulting death toll was further increased by an outbreak of bubonic plague.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The foundation stone of the Mackay War Memorial was laid on the river bank on 18 November 1928 by the mayor George Albert Milton. It was unveiled on 1 May 1929 by the mayor. Due to flooding, the memorial was relocated to Jubilee Park in 1945. Due to the construction of the Civic Centre, it was relocated to another part of the park in March 1973.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The largest loss of life in an Australian aircraft accident was a B17 aircraft, with 40 of 41 people on board perishing, on 14 June 1943, after departing from Mackay Aerodrome, and crashing in the Bakers Creek area.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The Rats of Tobruk Memorial commemorates those who died at and since the Battle of Tobruk. The memorial was dedicated on 4 March 2001.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: On 18 February 1958, Mackay was hit with massive flooding caused by heavy rainfall upstream with 878 mm of rain falling at Finch Hatton in 24 hours. The flood peaked at . The water flowed down the valley and flooded Mackay within hours. Residents were rescued off rooftops by boats and taken to emergency accommodation. The flood broke Australian records.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: In 1970 Queen Elizabeth II, The Duke of Edinburgh and Her Royal Highness Princess Anne toured Australia including Queensland. The Queensland tour began on Sunday 12 April when the royal yacht "Britannia" entered Moreton Bay at Caloundra, sailing into Newstead Wharf. After visiting Brisbane, Longreach and Mount Isa the Royal Family travelled to Mackay. The visit to Mackay in the evening followed a late afternoon flight from Mount Isa on the 16 April. Their Royal Highnesses were taken to the Anglican Parish Hall at the intersection of Sydney and Gordon Streets for a civic reception, held in honour of their arrival.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: On 15 February 2008, almost exactly 50 years from the last major flood, Mackay was devastated by severe flooding caused by over 600 mm of rain in 6 hours with around 2000 homes affected.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mackay was battered by Tropical Cyclone Ului, a category three cyclone which crossed the coast at nearby Airlie Beach, around 1:30 am on Sunday 21 March 2010. Over 60,000 homes lost power and some phone services also failed during the storm, but no deaths were reported.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mackay is situated on the 21st parallel south adjacent to the Coral sea coast and about both banks of the Pioneer River. The Clarke Range lies to the west of the city. The city is expanding to accommodate for growth with most of the expansion happening in the Beachside, Southern, Central and Pioneer Valley suburbs. Suburbs to the north of the city such as Midge Point are also fast growing with residential estates in demand.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: There is disagreement about how to describe the location of Mackay, with debate ongoing as to whether the city is located in North Queensland or Central Queensland.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: There is no uniform agreement among either state or federal government agencies on the definition of North Queensland, with government services for Mackay being provided through both Townsville (North Queensland) and Rockhampton (Central Queensland).


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: In its news coverage, the national Australian Broadcasting Corporation consistently describes Mackay as being in North Queensland. The ABC's local radio station in Mackay is also called ABC Tropical North.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: However, Queensland Health designates Mackay as a health district distinct from both Central Queensland and Townsville health districts and the Mackay-based rescue helicopter, part of the Queensland Health Aeromedical Retrieval Service, is called CQ Rescue.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mackay has a humid subtropical climate ("Cwa") under the Köppen climate classification. Average maximum temperatures range from in January to in July, while minimums range from .


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Winters are sunny and fairly dry, with minimum temperatures usually around , but rarely any lower than . Days are pleasant and warm; however, occasional cloudy days may keep the temperature below all day. Frost is extremely rare in Mackay; however, it has been recorded to the west of the city during some winters. Mackay gets around 110.0 clear days annually.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Spring is usually dry, but significantly hotter and more humid than winter, with temperatures beginning to top on a regular basis by November. Occasional thunderstorms may cause heavy downpours, but the very heavy rain will not arrive until later in summer.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: December is the start of the wet season, which lasts until March or April. High humidity, almost daily rainfall and very warm nights are typical of this time of year. Monsoonal low pressure systems and tropical cyclones occasionally affect Mackay, and cause very heavy, prolonged periods of rain, with totals of up to often being recorded in 24 hours during these systems.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Extreme temperatures in Mackay have ranged from . The highest rainfall ever recorded in 1 day was on 22 January 1918, which is among the heaviest 24-hour fall of any Australian city.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: As of the 2007–08, Mackay contributed $15.4 billion to the Australian economy, or 7.1% of Queensland's gross state product (GSP). This is largely on the back of its export-oriented industries of sugar and mining.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mackay is famous for its history as one of Australia's largest sugarcane farming regions. However, in recent years, the mining industry has become the mainstay of the local economy.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mackay is widely recognised as the gateway to the Bowen Basin coal mining reserves of Central Queensland. It is the single largest coal reserve in Australia, with 34 operational coal mines extracting more than 100 million tonnes annually. While much of this is used in Australia, Japan and China are the largest export recipients.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mackay was known as the "sugar capital" of Australia, producing a sizeable portion of Australia's domestic supplies and exports. However, the industry experienced a decline in the 2000s.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The industry in Mackay has its roots back in the 19th century. Historically, plantations were small and had their own mills to crush the cane during harvest. Over the years as the industry grew and developed, "co-operatives" were formed to consolidate the harvesting, crushing and distribution of the sugar in selected zones. Throughout the 20th century, the privately owned mills in the Mackay district closed one by one until only three remained – Marian, Racecourse Mill,


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The Marian Sugar Cane Mill is situated in Marian, 25 km west of Mackay. At the Farleigh Mill, there are mill tours accessed via the internet. Racecourse Mill also does tours, and therefore accessible via the internet. Mackay Sugar operates three of these remaining mills, including Racecourse, which became site of the region's first sugar refinery (which is owned by CSR Limited) in the 1990s. Growers in the region have a total cane production area of approximately 86,000 hectares. The growers are capable (in good seasons) of supplying up to 6.5 million tonnes of cane to the factories for processing. On average, Mackay Sugar produces about 850,000 tonnes of raw sugar and 180,000 tonnes of the by-product molasses annually.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The sugar industry in Mackay has faced steep challenges since 2000, since it is largely dependent on high world sugar prices to remain viable. However, efforts are going into diversifying the use of sugar cane for different purposes. These include a planned energy co-generation plant that could deliver up to 30 per cent of Mackay's annual electricity supply.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Compared to many of its neighbouring cities and regions in Queensland, Mackay's tourism industry is small and still developing. This is despite being close to notable attractions including Eungella National Park, the Great Barrier Reef, and the Whitsunday Islands.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Latest figures indicate about 685,000 domestic and international visitors come to the region annually. More telling, however, is that domestic and international visitor night stays have increased to 2.7 million annually, an increase of nearly 1 million since 2000.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Several new hotels have opened in the region since 2000, further indication of a growing industry. These include The Clarion International, Quest Serviced Apartments and the Ibis Mackay Airport.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Like tourism, the marine industry in Mackay is small but has a lot of potential. Mackay is well situated to become a major service centre for the marine industry, being in immediate proximity to the Whitsundays, and located halfway between Brisbane and Cairns.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Currently the Mackay Marina is the largest base in the district for the maintenance, refit and related services for all marine craft, particularly Super Yachts. The Mackay Whitsunday Super Yacht Cluster, a group of regional companies focusing on providing integrated repair, refit and provisioning for the increasing number of visiting super yachts, was established in 2001 to support and promote the development of this sector.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mackay has three main shopping centres. Caneland Central is the largest of these, with more than 130 speciality stores. Myer is among the new anchor tenants. This expansion was opened on 13 October 2011.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mount Pleasant Shopping Centre is the second major shopping centre in the Mackay region. It hosts department stores, supermarkets and other speciality outlets. Outside the main centre, a number of bulky-good outlets also operate, along with a six-screen Birch Carroll and Coyle cinema complex.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The Mackay City Heart, located in the older city centre, is also another thriving part of the city. It is the home of many of the region's banks, law, accounting and other professional service firms.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The Bluewater Trail project, managed by the Mackay Regional Council, covers more than of dedicated pedestrian paths and bikeways. The primary purpose of the Bluewater trail is to facilitate pedestrian and cyclist-friendly activities that can be enjoyed anytime during the day or night. Now completed the track links several new attractions and tourism infrastructure pieces around the city including the Bluewater Lagoon, the Bluewater Quay and the Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens. It also incorporates the Sandfly Creek walkway through East Mackay, and the Catherine Freeman Walk which connects West Mackay to the city under the Ron Camm Bridge.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Located in the south of Mackay, the Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens are the start of the Bluewater Trail. The gardens opened and replaced Queen's Park as Mackay's botanic gardens in 2003 containing an array of rare plants native to the Mackay area and Central Queensland. Before 2003, the area was commonly called The Lagoons, and is centred on the shores of a billabong that years ago formed part of the Pioneer River further to the north.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Heading east past the Mackay Base Hospital and along the Catherine Freeman Walk, the Bluewater Lagoon emerges. Comprising three tiered lagoons, the lagoon is a free family-friendly leisure facility overlooking the Pioneer River in the heart of Mackay's city centre. A waterfall connects the two main lagoon areas, which vary in depth up to . Similar to the well-known Streets Beach at the South Bank Parklands in Brisbane, the lagoon is a popular summertime attraction for locals and visitors.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Further east along the trail is Bluewater Quay. As part of Queensland's 150th anniversary celebrations, $12 million has been invested into the transformation of River Street, to the immediate east of the Forgan Bridge. The street now has various public amenities including access to a new viewing platform, upgraded fishing jetty, stage areas, cafes and space for weekend markets. Being long, the quay is built around the historic Leichhardt Tree (which falls under the Nauclea evergreen variety), a common meeting point for new migrants to Mackay who arrived at the old Port district along River Street.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The Bluewater Trail project has been very successful, gained significant recognition and received several awards:


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The Mackay region is home to the Mackay Festival of Arts held annually throughout July. Now more than 20 years old, it is the largest regional arts festival in Queensland. The festival features wine and cheese tasting sessions, live jazz and other music, stand-up routines, art exhibitions, dance and other performances.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Artspace Mackay, which opened in a new award-winning building designed by Cox Rayner Architects in February 2003, contains the Mackay Regional Council (MRC) Art Collection. This includes more than 1,200 artworks, and "one of the biggest holdings of artists' books in Australia outside of the capital cities".


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The City Centre is noted for its art-deco inspired architecture, with many buildings throughout the main streets of the central business district featuring distinctive designs from the early 20th century. Some of the most famous buildings are the former Main Post Office dating from 1940 with its clock tower, the Masonic Temple built in 1936, the Pioneer Shia Council built in 1935, Taylors Hotel (1936) and the Ambassador Hotel (1937). The Commonwealth Bank which was built as early as 1880 and the Old Court house dating from 1885 are two of the oldest buildings in town. The Technical College which was built 1911-12 is a part of the University. One of the most famous houses built in an art-deco style is Chaseley House in Sydney Street. The Town Hall dating from 1916 is one of the buildings which survived the cyclone of 1918 undamaged. St. Paul's Uniting Church which was completed in 1898 is the oldest church in town. One of the largest churches is St. Patrick Church whose parsonage built in 1915 is one of the oldest residential buildings in Mackay.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The precinct was upgraded in the 1990s through a unique community arts project. The overall theme depicts the environmental beauty of the Mackay region and consists of bronzed plaques, sculptures and terrazzo/mosaic tiles. Of particular interest is a sculptured free-form seat in the shape of a bommie, or bombora, and covered in myriad colours depicting the Great Barrier Reef through to the rainforests of Eungella National Park. Many boutique stores, restaurants, bars and nightclubs are established throughout the precinct.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mackay Marina Village is a coastal precinct located adjacent to the Mackay Harbour. The marina itself has nearly 500 berths. It is also home to a sizeable residential village of luxury apartments, in addition to the Clarion Mackay Marina luxury hotel.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The scenic Pioneer Valley spreads out to the west of Mackay, with the Pioneer River meandering through it to the mouth at the port of Mackay. Nearly all of the sugar cane grown in the Mackay region comes from the Pioneer Valley, and it is synonymous with the rich soils and irrigation with which the sugar industry in Mackay has thrived over the past century.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Among the natural assets of the Pioneer Valley are the walking tracks and swimming holes of Finch Hatton Gorge. The Eungella National Park, located at the very top of the range, is the longest and oldest stretch of subtropical rainforest in Australia, covering more than 51,700 hectares. It is one of the few places where platypus can be seen swimming in the wild, while more than 225 species of bird have been recorded in the surrounding forests.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mackay has 31 beaches within driving distance. Closest to the city are Illawong, Far and Town beaches. The patrolled Harbour Beach, adjacent to the Mackay Marina, is the most popular, being suitable for swimming. Lambert's Beach is also close to the city. Further north of the city are popular beaches at Bucasia, Dolphin Heads, Blacks Beach, Shoal Point and Eimeo – collectively these areas are known as the Northern Beaches. The Northern Beaches are popular with visitors, but are increasingly being developed as residential areas for Mackay's growing population.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The islands immediately off Mackay are renowned for their azure blue waters, and are popular with fishermen. St Bees Island in particular is a well-known fishing spot. Brampton Island, to the north-east of the city, is a resort destination, with body therapy, water sports and snorkelling on offer. Flights to Brampton are available from Mackay Airport, as are boats from the marina. Carlisle, Scawfell and Keswick are other notable islands. Each is a national park surrounded by coral reefs. During the peak season from June to the end of August, whales can be heard and seen around these islands.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Held annually in June, River Sessions is Mackay and Central Queensland's premier youth and contemporary music festival. The festival features the best rock, hip-hop, alternative, folk, pop and dance music acts from around Australia.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Two major highways, the A1 (Bruce Highway), and State Route 70 (Peak Downs Highway), pass through Mackay. The A1 connects the city to Townsville, Proserpine and Cairns in the north, and Rockhampton and Brisbane in the south. The Peak Downs Highway connects it to Moranbah, Clermont and Emerald in the south-west. In September 2020 the city was fully bypassed with users of the Bruce Highway able to use the new Mackay Ring Road to avoid the city.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The North Coast railway line meets the western line in the city's south. Trains from Brisbane pass through Mackay railway station and continue through to Proserpine, Townsville and Cairns, including the regular "Spirit of Queensland" service between Brisbane and Cairns. Minerals from the western line (Moranbah and other coal mining centres) are transported to Hay Point and Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminals for trans-shipment to other destinations. Mackay Harbour deals mainly with sugar exports and visiting cruise ships.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The city is served by Mackay Airport, from which QantasLink, Virgin Australia, and Jetstar offer flights to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, as well as to regional destinations such as Geelong, Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton and Gladstone. MacAir Airlines previously provided a limited service into and out of Mackay for mining companies before it went into receivership in 2009.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mackay Transit Coaches operates from North Mackay to South Mackay. The area with the best service coverage is Mackay's central business district.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The Mackay Base Hospital in West Mackay, about from the city centre, is the main hospital for Central Queensland and has recently undergone extensive upgrades. The Mater Hospital, and the Mackay Specialist Day Hospital are in the city's north. The Pioneer Valley Hospital, which had initially ceased operating, has been converted into an injury rehabilitation center.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The Queensland Department of Education has 11 primary schools and 5 high schools in Mackay. The high schools are Pioneer State High School, Mackay State High School, Mackay North State High School, Mackay Northern Beaches State High School and Mirani State High School. One of the primary schools, Eungella State School was opened on 31 January 1928. Another, Mackay North State School, opened on 23 March 1915. The school celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2015.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The private system encompasses six and a half primary schools, Whitsunday Anglican School, two P-12 colleges, one P-10 college, one 7–10 college and St Patrick's College, which is the state's only 11–12 college.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The Mackay campus of Central Queensland University is in the outer suburb of Ooralea, while the local campus of James Cook University is in South Mackay. The city is also home to a TAFE (a technical/vocational college), which is in the south of the inner city.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The Mackay Regional Council operates the Dudley Denny City Library at 134 Victoria Street, and the Gordon White Library in the outer suburb of Mount Pleasant.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mackay is governed locally by the Mackay Regional Council, a product of the amalgamation of the former City of Mackay, formed in 1869, with surrounding shires. The mayor is Greg Williamson. Julieanne Gilbert is the member for the state seat of Mackay and George Christensen is the federal member for the Division of Dawson, which includes Mackay and the surrounding areas.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The rates charged by the Mackay Regional Council for residential properties are amongst the highest in Queensland.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Rugby league is the most popular sport in Mackay, Mackay Cutters rugby league team played their first season in 2008 in the Queensland Cup and act as a feeder team to the North Queensland Cowboys (NRL). The 2nd placed Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs hosted a 'home' game at Mackay against the ladder leading Melbourne Storm in Round 16 of the 2012 NRL season for a record Mackay sporting ground attendance. In soccer, Magpies Crusaders United represents the Mackay region in the National Premier Leagues Queensland (NPLQ). In Basketball, Mackay Meteorettes (women) and Mackay Meteors (men) represent the region in the NBL1 North. Mackay also has a local Australian rules football league AFL Mackay and premiership AFLW matches are played at the Great Barrier Reef Arena.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mackay also has a local roller derby league: Mackay City Roller Maidens. The Mackay Cricket Association organises competition among its 6 member clubs: Magpies, Pioneer Valley, Brothers Mackay, Northern Suburbs, Southern Suburbs, and Walkerston. In the 1920s the Olympic Theatre in Mackay was a popular venue for professional boxing and saw stars like Colin Bell and Tom Heeney fight there. Such teams in junior and senior are: Mackay City Hawks, Northern Beaches Magpies, Moranbah Bulldogs, Eastern Swans, Sarina Demons and Mackay Saints.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Mackay is served by several local radio stations including 4MK, Star 101.9, H!T FM, Triple M, ABC Tropical North, 4CRM and My105.9FM. The ABC's national radio services are also available in Mackay.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The city receives broadcasts from five television networks – Seven Queensland, WIN Television (an affiliate of Nine Network), Channel 10, ABC TV and SBS. All networks also provide their additional digital multi-channel television stations to Mackay.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Of the three commercial networks, Seven Queensland airs a half-hour local news bulletin for Mackay and the Whitsundays each weeknight at 6pm, produced from a newsroom in the city and broadcast from studios in Maroochydore.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: WIN previously produced a local "WIN News" bulletin for the area between April 2009 and May 2015. Southern Cross Nine aired a regional Queensland edition of "Nine News" from Brisbane, with local opt-outs for Mackay, from July 2017 to February 2019.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: The Mackay branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association meets at the CWA Hall at 43 Gordon Street.


title: Mackay, Queensland

text: Yumplatok (also known as Torres Strait Creole and Broken) is a contemporary Torres Strait Island language originating in the Torres Strait. The contact with missionaries and others since the 1800s has led to the development of a pidgin language, which transitioned into a creole language and now has its own distinctive sound system, grammar, vocabulary, usage and meaning. Torres Strait Creole is spoken by most Torres Strait Islanders and is a mixture of Standard Australian English and traditional languages. It is an English-based creole; however, each island has its own version of creole. Torres Strait Creole is also spoken on the Australian mainland, including Northern Peninsula Area Region and coastal communities such as Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton and Brisbane.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: Big Brother 10 is the tenth season of the American reality television series "Big Brother". It is based upon the Dutch series of the same name, which gained notoriety in 1999 and 2000. The series premiered on CBS on July 13, 2008, and lasted ten weeks until the live finale on September 16, 2008. The tenth season saw a slight increase in ratings compared to the past seasons of the series, which had the lowest ratings. The season premiered to a total of 6.29 million viewers, the lowest premiere numbers for any season. The season finale had a total of 7.63 million viewers, the third lowest rated finale. The series averaged 6.72 million viewers, making it the second lowest rated season of the series. "Big Brother 10" featured a total of 13 HouseGuests, the first time there had been a decrease in HouseGuests.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: Speculation on the show not returning for the Summer 2008 Television Season developed as the previous series had been accelerated to the second half of the 2007-08 television season as part of replacement programming following the writers' strike. However, CBS announced on March 17, 2008, following speculation that it would not be returning that the Series Ten would be a summer 2008 broadcast. Casting for "Big Brother 10" began on February 25, 2008. Applications were due on April 25, 2008, and video tape submissions were due on April 4, 2008. During May 2008 interviews for the 40 semi-finalists were held with the finalists being chosen on May 21, 2008. Casting calls were held in various cities across the country including Los Angeles, California, Charleston, South Carolina, Louisville, Kentucky, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Phoenix, Arizona. Series producer Allison Grodner stated "We’re going to have our wildest group yet. We’ve found some very extreme personalities with very extreme points of view." "Big Brother 8" winner Dick Donato later announced on "" that "Big Brother 10" would feature a wider range of HouseGuests. Grodner later confirmed that the cast of "Big Brother 10" would feature no pre-existing relationships, making it the first season since "Big Brother 3" to do so. Grodner later stated "Big Brother 9 involved couples, singles, and soul mates who were young, single, impulsive, and ready to party. We do a 180 with Big Brother 10. This summer you’re going to find a 22-year-old body builder and a 75-year-old great grandpa in the house, and everyone else in between. We’ve had diversity of age in past, but he’s clearly the oldest contestant we’ve ever had." The cast was officially revealed on July 8.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: The 13 HouseGuests this season were competing for the main prize of $500,000. The winner of the series, determined by the previously evicted HouseGuests, would win the $500,000 prize, while the Runner-Up would receive a $50,000 prize. Other than the main prize, various luxuries and prizes were given out throughout the season.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: The fan-favorite award introduced in season seven, "America's Favorite Juror", was awarded to a member from the Jury of Seven for a $25,000 prize. This is the last season to have only Jury members eligible for the Public vote; beginning from the next season, the eligibility for the fan poll is extended to all evicted HouseGuests including the winner, but not expelled or withdrawn HouseGuests.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: "Big Brother 10" was broadcast on CBS from July 13, 2008, to September 16, 2008. This season lasted a total of 71 days, making it the shortest season of the series to date. This season initially featured no changes to the schedule that was used in the previous edition, with episodes airing on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Sunday each week. The Wednesday episode, which aired at 8pm Eastern Time, featured the live eviction and subsequent Head of Household competition taking place. During the live eviction, the show was hosted by Julie Chen. The Sunday episode, which aired at 8pm Eastern Time, featured the food competition and nomination ceremony, as well as some highlights from the previous days. The Tuesday episode, which aired at 9pm Eastern Time, featured the Power of Veto competition and the Power of Veto ceremony, along with more highlights of recent events in the game. Some changes to the scheduling format were made. Before the third eviction, it was announced that the eviction episode would be moved to Thursday, matching the schedule previously used in "Big Brother 8".


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: Much like the previous editions, the live feeds were also available again for this season. HouseGuests enter the house a few days before the premiere, and the feeds are not live for the first few days. They later go live after the broadcast of the launch episode. This season saw the return of the spin-off series "". The series featured a different co-host each week, as it had since the seventh season. The web series aired thirty-minute episodes on weeknights, and allowed fans to call in and express their opinions on the events of the game. Evicted HouseGuests were also interviewed on the series following their eviction. This season also saw the return of the "" spin-off series, which aired on Showtime Too nightly from midnight to 3a.m. Eastern Time. The show served as a live feed into the house, and was edited only for slanderous statements and music copyrights. Much like the previous season, "Big Brother 10" is available for digital purchasing on iTunes and Amazon.com.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: The house used for "Big Brother 10" had a "classics" theme, with areas such as the kitchen being decorated in the style of an old diner. The outside of the house is decorated to look like a standard two-story home. One bedroom features a black and red color theme, while another was decorated with items promoting peace and love. A third bedroom featured props such as a stuffed poodle for a HouseGuest to keep. The living room features several green colored couches. The living room is connected to the kitchen, which is connected to the HoH stairway and a hallway. There is one door in the hallway, which features a spa available to the HouseGuests. The hallway then leads to the bathroom. Workout equipment can also be found outside in the backyard, and is available for use at any time. There are also multiple lawn chairs that the HouseGuests may use to lay out in the sun, along with a swimming pool and a hot tub. The washing machine and dryer are also outside for the HouseGuests to use. There is also a large couch under a roof by the sliding glass door that the HouseGuests may use in case of rain.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: The format remained largely unchanged from previous seasons. HouseGuests were incarcerated in the Big Brother House with no contact to and from the outside world. Each week, the HouseGuests took part in several compulsory challenges that determined who would win food, luxuries and power in the House. The winner of the Head of Household competition was immune from nominations and was instructed to nominate two fellow HouseGuests for eviction. After a HouseGuest became Head of Household he or she was ineligible to take part in the next Head of Household competition.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: The winner of the Power of Veto competition won the right to save one of the nominated HouseGuests from eviction. If the Veto winner exercised the power, the Head of Household then had to nominate another HouseGuest for eviction.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: On eviction night all HouseGuests except for the Head of Household and the two nominees voted to evict one of the two nominees. Before the voting began the nominees had the chance to say a final message to their fellow HouseGuests. This compulsory vote was conducted in the privacy of the Diary Room by the host Julie Chen. In the event of a tie, the Head of Household would break the tie and reveal their vote in front of the other HouseGuests. Unlike other versions of "Big Brother", the HouseGuests could discuss the nomination and eviction process open and freely. The nominee with the most votes from the other HouseGuests was evicted from the House on Thursday and interviewed by Julie Chen. HouseGuests could voluntarily leave the House at any time and those who broke the rules were expelled by Big Brother. The last seven evictiees of the season form the Jury that voted for the winner on the season finale, they were known as the jury members. The jury members were sequestered in a separate house and was not allowed to watch the show except for segments that included all of the HouseGuests. The jury members were not shown any Diary Room interviews or any footage that included strategy or details regarding nominations.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: Jessie Godderz returned to compete on "Big Brother 11" the following year, then made appearances in the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth seasons as a guest, as well as on "Celebrity Big Brother". Brian Hart was also a candidate to return for "Big Brother 11", though he ultimately did not enter the game. Dan Gheesling also returned to "Big Brother 11" to host a luxury competition, then later returned to "Big Brother 14" in 2012 as a coach to the new HouseGuests. In 2020, Memphis and Keesha returned to compete again on "Big Brother: All-Stars".


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: On Day 1, the thirteen HouseGuests met for the first time outside of the house. Before being able to speak to one another, they were required to cast their vote for the HouseGuest they would most like to see win the title of Head of Household. Without the results being revealed, the HouseGuests entered the house. That night, the HouseGuests competed in the "Buggin' Out" food competition. For this competition, HouseGuests split into teams and had to get into separate replica cars suspended on a zip-line. The teams were required to travel from one end of the backyard to the other, dropping off one HouseGuest each time they did so; the last HouseGuest remaining in the replica would win a new car, and earn their team food for the week. Ultimately, Memphis was the winner of the car while April, Brian, Jerry, Keesha, Libra, and Ollie were placed on the slop diet for the week. Upon returning inside, the HouseGuests learned that Jerry had been crowned the first Head of Household of the season. Shortly following this, Brian, Dan, and Ollie formed an alliance with the goal of making it to the end together. That night, Jessie and Renny engaged in an argument when he alleged that she was being loud, thus preventing him from sleeping. The following day, Brian formed an alliance with Jerry, and later attempted to get him to nominate Jessie and Renny for eviction due to their conflict. On Day 2, Jerry chose to nominate Jessie and Renny for eviction, citing their early conflict as the main reason for this. When picking player for the Power of Veto competition, April, Memphis, and Michelle were selected to compete; Angie was selected to host. On Day 5, HouseGuests competed in the "Sweet Dreams, Honey" Power of Veto competition. For this competition, HouseGuests had to crawl through honey and dig through pillows in an attempt to find five stuffed bears; the first HouseGuest to do so would be the winner. Jessie was the winner of the Power of Veto. Following this, April, Keesha, and Libra became suspicious of Brian, feeling that he was making too many alliances in the game. Upon confronting Ollie about his friendship with Brian and Dan, Ollie told the girls about his alliance with them. The girls and Ollie then began to rally the house up against Brian, with Angie, April, Jessie, Keesha, Libra, Memphis, Michelle, and Ollie forming an alliance before holding a meeting with Jerry to convince him to nominate Brian. On Day 6, Jessie chose to use the Power of Veto to remove himself from the block, with Jerry nominating Brian in his place. On Day 9, Brian became the first HouseGuest to be evicted from the house in a vote of nine to one.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: Following Brian's eviction, HouseGuests competed in the "Majority Rules" Head of Household competition. For this competition, the HouseGuests were asked a series of questions about which of two HouseGuests would adhere to certain situations. The object was not to base the answer on personal opinions, but how they thought the majority would answer. The minority of the voters were eliminated each round; if there was a tie, none of the HouseGuests would be eliminated. Jessie was the winner. Jessie expressed interest in nominating Renny that week, however, the other members of the eight person alliance pressured him to nominate Dan and Steven due to their close friendship with Brian. On Day 10, HouseGuests competed in the "Stop Your Wining!" food competition. For this competition, HouseGuests split into two teams and were required to fill up wine bottles from wine that was pouring out from barrels suspended in the air; the team with the most wine in their bottles at the end would be the winners. The team of April, Jerry, Keesha, Libra, Memphis, and Renny were the losing team, thus were placed on the slop diet for the week. Later that day, Jessie chose to nominate Dan and Steven for eviction, with Steven being his main target. Realizing that the alliance of eight would soon fall apart, Angie, Jessie, Memphis, and Michelle formed an alliance outside of the group. The other members of the alliance of eight began to fear that Keesha would use the Power of Veto to save Steven, due to their friendship; Keesha later told Steven that she would use the Power of Veto to remove him from the block. On Day 11, HouseGuests competed in the "License to Veto" Power of Veto competition. For this competition, HouseGuests were shown various license plates with portions of a phrase on them, and had to determine which three plates made up a specific Big Brother phrase. If a HouseGuests answered incorrectly, they were eliminated; the last remaining HouseGuest would be the winner. Michelle was the winner of the Power of Veto. Following this, Steven attempted to convince Jessie and Michelle to use the Power of Veto and backdoor Libra that week, a plan which they initially were receptive to. On Day 13, however, Michelle chose not to use the Power of Veto on either nominee. On Day 16, Steven became the second HouseGuest to be evicted from the house in a unanimous vote of nine to zero.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: Following Steven's eviction, HouseGuests competed in the "Alien Abduction" Head of Household competition. For this competition, HouseGuests were asked questions about objects that had been "abducted" from the house. They faced off two at a time, with the winner of each round selecting the next two to face off; the last HouseGuest remaining was the winner. Keesha was the winner. Soon after winning, Keesha decided she would be going against the alliance of eight, with the goal of avenging Steven's eviction. Her alliance of April, Libra, and Ollie were supportive of her decision, and the four decided to target Angie that week. On Day 17, HouseGuests competed in the "BB Valley High Sock Hop" food competition. For this competition, HouseGuests split into couples and had to communicate with each other from opposite sides of a wall in an attempt to find matching socks. When the couple found a match, they could place it anywhere on the board, though the location they placed them in determined what food they earned for the week. Later that day, Keesha chose to nominate Angie and Jessie for eviction, with Angie being her main target. When picking players for the Power of Veto competition, Libra, Memphis, and Ollie were selected to compete; Dan was selected to host. On Day 18, HouseGuests competed in "The Garden of Veto" Power of Veto competition. For this competition, HouseGuests dressed as flowers and led in a bed of soil with water being poured on them. The HouseGuest to remain in their bed for the time closest to an hour without going over would be the winner. Keesha was the winner of the Power of Veto. Following this, Jessie attempted on numerous occasions to convince Keesha to use the Power of Veto and nominate Libra, as Jessie felt the other HouseGuests would evict her. On Day 20, Keesha chose not to use the Power of Veto on either nominee. Following a vote from the viewers, Dan was given the title of America's Player for the upcoming week. On Day 24, Angie became the third HouseGuest to be evicted from the house in a unanimous vote of eight to zero.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: Following Angie's eviction, HouseGuests competed in the "Livin' On the Edge" endurance Head of Household competition. For this competition, HouseGuests stood on the side of a building wall that was slanted towards the ground. The HouseGuests had only a bar to hold onto, and the last HouseGuest remaining would be the winner. April was the winner. During the competition, April convinced Michelle to drop out of the competition when she promised both Michelle and Jessie safety for that week. Due to the endurance competition, there was no food competition for this week. On Day 25, April chose to nominate Jessie and Memphis for eviction. When picking players for the Power of Veto competition, Michelle, Libra, and Jerry were selected to compete; Renny was selected to host. On Day 26, HouseGuests competed in the "Slap Shot" Power of Veto competition. For this competition, HouseGuests attempted to hit a hockey puck into the center of a goal, and the HouseGuest furthest away each round was eliminated. The eliminated HouseGuests could claim a prize, however, a prize could be stolen from a HouseGuest. Libra was the winner of the competition, however, chose to take a prize and allowed Jerry to win the Power of Veto. On Day 28, Jerry chose not to use the Power of Veto on either nominee. Following this, April insisted that her alliance keep Jessie in the house, in an attempt to honor her word to Michelle. Due to Jessie's various arguments with the other HouseGuests, Keesha and Libra began plotting to evict him, thus dividing the HouseGuests into two groups. With Keesha, Libra, and Renny wanting to keep Memphis, Jerry, Michelle, and Ollie wanted to keep Jessie in the game. It later became apparent that Dan would have the deciding vote, causing both sides to attempt to sway him; as America's Player, Dan was required to vote however the viewers chose. On Day 31, Jessie became the fourth HouseGuest to be evicted from the house in a vote of four to three.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: Following Jessie's eviction, HouseGuests competed in the "Rude Awakening" Head of Household competition. For this competition, HouseGuests were asked true or false questions about fan-submitted messages they had heard the previous night; an incorrect answer resulted in elimination, and the last HouseGuest remaining was the winner. Michelle was the winner. Following these events, an argument between all of the HouseGuests (except for Dan) erupted, with HouseGuests April, Jerry, and Michelle attacking Dan's religious beliefs. Though April and Michelle ended the conflict, Jerry went on to continuously insult Dan's religious and personal beliefs weeks afterwards. On Day 32, HouseGuests competed in the "In the News" food competition. For this competition, previously evicted HouseGuest Brian returned to host the competition, while one representative from each previous season returned to participate. The current HouseGuests would select one of the returning HouseGuests to give them news from the outside world, and had to determine if they were being truthful or not; a correct answer earned the house food for a specific day of the week, while an incorrect answer placed them on the slop diet for that day. Later that day, Michelle chose to nominate Keesha and Libra for eviction, with Libra being her main target. When picking players for the Power of Veto competition, April, Jerry, and Memphis selected to compete; Ollie was selected to host. On Day 33, HouseGuests competed in the "Cry Me a Veto" Power of Veto competition. For this competition, HouseGuests were required to chop up onions with the option of three different techniques, and were then required to place their chopped onions into a box; they could place them into either their Veto box or their prize box. The HouseGuest with the heaviest Veto box at the end of the competition would be the winner of the Power of Veto, while the two HouseGuests with the most weight in their prize box would win prizes. Jerry was the winner of the Power of Veto. Despite Jerry's attempts at convincing Michelle to nominate Dan should he use the Power of Veto, she was reluctant about doing so as she wanted Libra evicted that week. On Day 35, Jerry chose not to use the Power of Veto on either nominee. During his speech, Jerry infamously referred to Dan as "Judas" due to his vote the previous week. That night, Dan and Memphis made a deal to get to the end together, thus forming The Renegades alliance. On Day 38, Libra became the fifth HouseGuest to be evicted from the house in a unanimous vote of six to zero. She became the first member of the Jury of Seven.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: Following Libra's eviction, HouseGuests competed in the "Diary Room Confessionals" Head of Household competition. For this competition, HouseGuests were given quotes made by the first four evicted HouseGuests and were required to be the first to correctly guess who had made the comment; a correct answer allowed that HouseGuest to eliminate someone from the competition, while an incorrect answer resulted in their own elimination. Renny was the winner. On Day 39, HouseGuests competed in the "Big Brother Rock, Paper, Scissors" food competition. For this competition, HouseGuests competed in a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, with these being replaced with Slop, Pig Ears, and Crickets. The winner of each round would have to eat the food to earn a point for their team; the team with the most points at the end of the competition would earn food for the week. The team of Jerry, Memphis, and Ollie were placed on the slop diet for the week. The viewers chose to rewards the HouseGuests on the slop diet with lollipops, which they could eat while on the slop diet. Renny, hoping to evict April that week, debated nominating Dan or Memphis as a pawn against her in an attempt to keep Jerry and Ollie from being mad at her. Her alliance with them and Keesha, however, attempted to talk her out of this plan. Later that day, Renny chose to nominate April and Jerry for eviction. When picking players for the Power of Veto competition, Dan, Keesha, and Ollie were selected to compete; Michelle was selected to host. On Day 40, HouseGuests competed in the "Haunted Yard" Power of Veto competition. For this competition, HouseGuests had to determine the quantity of an object used to make an object. Each round, HouseGuests could either stay or fold; folding would allow them to continue in the game, but could not get a point whereas the HouseGuest with the answer closest to the correct one would earn a point, though the farthest was eliminated. Dan was the winner of the Power of Veto. Dan, upset with Renny's decision to not nominate April and Ollie together, later debated using the Power of Veto to save Jerry. On Day 42, Dan chose not to use the Power of Veto on either nominee. On Day 45, April became the sixth HouseGuest to be evicted from the house in a vote of four to one. She became the second member of the Jury of Seven.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: Following April's eviction, HouseGuests competed in the "King of the Jungle" endurance Head of Household competition. For this competition, HouseGuests held onto rope swings in the backyard in an attempt to be the last one remaining. Dan was the winner. During the competition, Dan promised both Ollie and Michelle safety and also stated he would allow Ollie to choose one of the nominees as well as the replacement nominee should the Power of Veto be used. Ollie later decided he would like to see Memphis, though Dan was fearful of this due to his Renegades alliance with Memphis. On Day 46, Dan chose to nominate Jerry and Memphis for eviction. Jerry later won a public vote that allowed him to receive a phone call from home. When picking players for the Power of Veto competition, Keesha, Michelle, and Renny were selected to compete; Ollie was selected to host. On Day 47, HouseGuests competed in the "One Giant Leap" Power of Veto competition. For this competition, HouseGuests were required to travel across a zip-line in an attempt to gather puzzle pieces and be the first to complete the puzzle; the HouseGuests competed in heats, with the winners of the first two heats facing off in the final round. Memphis was the winner. Ollie later informed Dan that he would like Keesha to be nominated in the place of Memphis, as part of his deal with Dan stated he could choose the replacement nominee. On Day 49, Memphis chose to use the Power of Veto to remove himself from the block, with Dan nominating Michelle in his place. Dan's decision led to much controversy inside and outside of the house when Ollie engaged in numerous arguments with the other HouseGuests. On Day 52, Michelle became the seventh HouseGuest to be evicted from the house in a vote of three to one. The HouseGuests learned that it would be a Double Eviction week, and that another HouseGuest would be evicted within the hour. HouseGuests then competed in the "Big Brother Headlines" Head of Household competition. For this competition, HouseGuests were questioned over which HouseGuest the viewers felt would most fit a specific news headline; the HouseGuest with the most points after seven questions would win. Keesha was the winner. Keesha chose to nominate Jerry and Ollie for eviction. HouseGuests then competed in the "Veto In a Haystack" Power of Veto competition. For this competition, HouseGuests dug through barrels of hay in an attempt to find two Veto medallions; the first to complete this would be the winner. Dan was the winner of the Power of Veto; Dan then chose to not to use the Power of Veto on either nominee. Minutes later, Ollie became the eighth HouseGuest to be evicted from the house in a unanimous vote of three to zero. He became the fourth member of the Jury of Seven.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: Following Michelle and Ollie's eviction, HouseGuests competed in the "Days Go By" Head of Household competition. For this competition, HouseGuests were given an event in the house, and they were required to figure out which day this event occurred; they would roll a skee-ball up a ramp in an attempt to make their ball land on the date that the event occurred. The number of days they were incorrect would earn the HouseGuests a penalty point, and the HouseGuest with the lowest number of penalty points was the winner. Jerry was the winner. In an attempt to keep their Renegades alliance intact, Dan and Memphis agreed that Memphis should make a deal with Jerry to keep himself safe. The two then decided that Memphis needed to win the Power of Veto, allowing them both to be safe and decide who would be evicted. On Day 53, Jerry chose to nominate Dan and Keesha for eviction. On Day 54, HouseGuests competed in the "Rock A Bye Veto" Power of Veto competition. For this competition, HouseGuests had to correctly figure out which two faces of the HouseGuests made up a set of faces. The HouseGuest who finished the competition in the fastest amount of time was the winner. Memphis was the winner of the Power of Veto. On Day 56, Memphis chose to use the Power of Veto to remove Dan from the block, with Renny being the only eligible HouseGuest to be nominated in his place. On Day 59, Renny became the ninth HouseGuest to be evicted from the house in a unanimous vote of two to zero.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: Following Renny's eviction, HouseGuests competed in the "Freeze Frame" Head of Household competition. For this competition, HouseGuests were asked questions about images of previous competitions that they had been shown beforehand; the HouseGuest with the most correct answers after seven questions was the winner. Dan was the winner. Upon returning inside, the HouseGuests found a sumo wrestler inside who would sit up and down and random times; the HouseGuests later discovered he was sitting on an envelope, which revealed to the HouseGuests that they would begin a luxury competition that same day. Previously evicted HouseGuest Jessie later returned to host the competition, which required the four to attempt to guess a phrase based on various clues in an attempt to win a trip to a luxury island; Dan was the winner. In the Diary Room he learned he could bring either a current HouseGuest or a Jury Member on his trip with him, and he chose to bring Michelle; he later lied to his fellow HouseGuests and stated he chose to bring nobody with him. Dan and Memphis later decided he should nominate Memphis for eviction in a further attempt to hide their Renegades alliance. On Day 60, Dan chose to nominate Jerry and Memphis for eviction. On Day 61, HouseGuests competed in the "Stairway to Veto" Power of Veto competition. For this competition, each HouseGuest had their own staircase, with two facts on each step. The first HouseGuest to figure out which HouseGuest went with the facts and completely finish their stairway would win the Power of Veto. Memphis was the winner of the final Power of Veto competition. On Day 64, Memphis chose to use the Power of Veto to remove himself from the block, with Keesha being the only eligible HouseGuest to nominate in his place. Minutes later, Keesha became the tenth HouseGuest to be evicted from the house when Memphis cast the sole vote against her.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: Following Keesha's eviction, HouseGuests began competing in the "On a Wing and Prayer" Head of Household competition. For this competition, HouseGuests stood atop of model airplanes in an attempt to be the last one remaining. Dan was the winner. On Day 65, Jerry and Memphis competed against one another in the second round of the final Head of Household competition. For this competition, HouseGuests were required to knock over cardboard cutouts of the thirteen HouseGuests, leaving only the Head of Household and final nominees from the week standing; the HouseGuest to finish in the fastest time would be the winner. Memphis was the winner. On Day 66, Dan and Memphis competed against one another in the "Jury Statements" final round of the final Head of Household competition. For this competition, HouseGuests were asked to finish a sentence made by one of the six members of the Jury of Seven. Dan was the winner, thus became the final Head of Household of the season. Dan then cast the sole vote to evict Jerry from the house, making the Renegade alliance the Final Two. On Day 71, Dan was crowned the winner of "Big Brother 10" in a Jury vote of seven to zero.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: Viewers from Canada and the United States had control over a player from July 29 to August 7. Dan, after accepting the offer by America to become their designated player, was asked to complete various tasks that America specified for a chance to win $20,000 at the end of the week. Once Dan received the tasks, he made meaningful efforts to complete the tasks in any way he could.


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: "Big Brother 10" aired episodes three times a week, with shows airing Sundays at 8p.m., Tuesdays at 9p.m., and Thursdays at 8p.m. Originally the live eviction was scheduled for Wednesdays at 8p.m. but on July 25, 2008, CBS announced "Big Brother" and "Greatest American Dog" would swap nights effective on July 31, 2008, returning the live eviction to Thursdays. The premiere episode which aired Sunday July 13, 2008 scored 6.29 million viewers, which was the "lowest rated season premiere for the show."


title: Big Brother 10 (American season)

text: "Big Brother 10" came under fire from critics such as the Parents Television Council for airing the word "fucking" during the Tuesday, August 5 episode of the show. The event in question was aired during an argument between Libra and Jessie in which Libra said, "Memphis was in the fucking room!"


title: White Mountains (New Hampshire)

text: The White Mountains are a mountain range covering about a quarter of the state of New Hampshire and a small portion of western Maine in the United States. They are part of the northern Appalachian Mountains and the most rugged mountains in New England. The range is heavily visited due to its proximity to Boston, New York City, and Montreal.


title: White Mountains (New Hampshire)

text: Most of the area is public land, including the White Mountain National Forest and a number of state parks. Its most famous mountain is Mount Washington, which is the highest peak in the Northeastern U.S. and for 76 years held the record for fastest surface wind gust in the world ( in 1934). Mount Washington is part of a line of summits, the Presidential Range, that are named after U.S. presidents and other prominent Americans.


title: White Mountains (New Hampshire)

text: The White Mountains also include the Franconia Range, Sandwich Range, Carter-Moriah Range and Kinsman Range in New Hampshire, and the Mahoosuc Range straddling the border between it and Maine. In all, there are 48 peaks within New Hampshire as well as one (Old Speck Mountain) in Maine over , known as the four-thousand footers.


title: White Mountains (New Hampshire)

text: The Whites are known for a system of alpine huts for hikers operated by the Appalachian Mountain Club. The Appalachian Trail crosses the area from southwest to northeast.


title: White Mountains (New Hampshire)

text: It is not clear where the name "White Mountains" came from. There is no record of what Native Americans called the range, although pre-Colonial names for many individual peaks are known. The name and similar ones such as "White Hills" or "Wine Hills" are found in literature from Colonial times. According to tradition, the mountains were first sighted from shipboard off the coast near the Piscataqua estuary. The highest peaks would often be snow-capped, appearing white. An alternate theory is that the mica-laden granite of the summits looked white to observers.


title: White Mountains (New Hampshire)

text: The White Mountains are a physiographic section of the larger New England province, which in turn is part of the larger Appalachian physiographic division.


title: White Mountains (New Hampshire)

text: The magma intrusions forming the White Mountains today were created 124 to 100 million years ago as the North American Plate moved westward over the New England hotspot.


title: White Mountains (New Hampshire)

text: Widespread evidence of glaciation may be seen in the U-shaped form of various notches, or mountain passes. Glacial cirques form the heads of Tuckerman Ravine on Mt. Washington and King Ravine on Mt. Adams. Glacial striations are visible at numerous locations, including on the exposed rocks at the summit of Pine Mountain in Gorham.


title: White Mountains (New Hampshire)

text: The Red Hill Syenite, a rock unit of the White Mountains, found in central New Hampshire, is of interest to researchers due to the fact that it contains feldspathoids as well as quartz-bearing rocks.


title: White Mountains (New Hampshire)

text: The White Mountain National Forest, formed in 1911 after passage of the Weeks Act, includes most of the mountain range and now covers in New Hampshire and western Maine. The Mount Washington Auto Road and Mount Washington Cog Railway ascend the range's highest peak, which hosts a visitor center and weather observatory. Heavily visited Arethusa Falls, the second tallest waterfall in New Hampshire, lies on a southwest flank of Crawford Notch. The Old Man of the Mountain, a rock formation on Cannon Mountain that resembled the craggy profile of a man's face, was a White Mountain landmark until it fell in May 2003. It remains the state symbol of New Hampshire. The range also includes a natural feature dubbed "The Basin", consisting of a granite bowl, in diameter, fed by a waterfall, worn smooth by the Pemigewasset River. The areas around The Basin are popular spots for swimming in the cold water.


title: White Mountains (New Hampshire)

text: The range is crossed north–south by U.S. Route 3 and Interstate 93 through Franconia Notch and New Hampshire Route 16 through Pinkham Notch, and east–west by the Kancamagus Highway (part of New Hampshire Route 112) through Kancamagus Pass and U.S. Route 302 through Crawford Notch. Many of these highways are designated as scenic routes.


title: White Mountains (New Hampshire)

text: Several amusement parks lie in or near the White Mountains, including Story Land, Santa's Village, Whale's Tale Water Park and Clark's Trading Post. The White Mountains region is also home to numerous hiking attractions through the various river gorges, ravines, and caves in the area. The Flume Gorge, Lost River Reservation and Polar Caves Park all provide moderate hikes that one can complete in a few hours. Skiing is a popular attraction in the area. Cannon Mountain Ski Area, Loon Mountain Ski Resort, Attitash Mountain Resort, Wildcat Mountain Ski Area, Bretton Woods Mountain Resort, and Waterville Valley Resort are all popular winter ski resorts, and many of them provide year-round outdoor activities such as bridle paths, hiking trails, alpine slides, and the like. The Mount Washington Hotel located in Bretton Woods was the site of the Bretton Woods Conference following World War II, and today remains one of the few early twentieth century grand hotels still in use. An estimated six million visitors visit the region yearly.


title: White Mountains (New Hampshire)

text: Some of the earliest maps of the White Mountains were produced as tourist maps and not topographical maps. One of the first two tourist maps of the mountains was that produced by Franklin Leavitt, a self-taught artist born near Lancaster, New Hampshire in 1824. Leavitt's hand-drawn map, today in the collection of Harvard University, is largely folk art, but does convey some of the region's features. Leavitt drew several versions of his map, beginning in 1852. The fourth version, printed in 1871, was printed at Boston and carried a retail price of one dollar. Other early maps of the region were drawn by H. Conant and by Harvard astronomer George Phillips Bond, who published the first topographical map of the region in 1853.


title: White Mountains (New Hampshire)

text: The White Mountains drew hundreds of painters during the 19th century. This group of artists is sometimes referred to as belonging to the "White Mountain school" of art. Others dispute the notion that these painters were a "school", since they did not all paint in the same style as, for example, those artists of the Hudson River School.


title: White Mountains (New Hampshire)

text: Nathaniel Hawthorne chose the White Mountains as the setting for his short story "The Great Carbuncle". Other White Mountain tales by Hawthorne include "The Ambitious Guest", "Sketches from Memory" and "The Great Stone Face". The White Mountain region also figures prominently in the writings of Louisa May Alcott, including the novel "Eight Cousins" and its sequel, "Rose in Bloom".


title: Matthew Nable

text: Matthew Nable (born 8 March 1972) is an Australian film and television actor, writer, sports commentator and former professional rugby league player. After playing in the Winfield Cup Premiership during the 1990s for the Manly-Warringah and South Sydney clubs, he wrote and starred in the rugby league-centred drama "The Final Winter" in 2007. Nable went on to act in films such as "Killer Elite" and "Riddick". He appeared on The CW's "Arrow" and "Legends of Tomorrow" as Ra's al Ghul.


title: Matthew Nable

text: Nable grew up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney and also, as a young boy, spent two years at Portsea, Victoria, when his father, Dave, a soldier, was stationed there. His father had also worked as a trainer for the Australian national rugby league team, and his brother, Adam Nable, would become a professional player as well.


title: Matthew Nable

text: Matt Nable rose through the junior ranks at the Manly-Warringah club and made five appearances for the Graham Lowe-coached team over 1991 and 1992. Following this he wouldn't appear in the premiership until 1995 when he played three games for the South Sydney Rabbitohs.


title: Matthew Nable

text: After another season in England where he played for Carlisle before moving to the , Nable quit football and then tried his hand at boxing, fighting for the state light-heavyweight title as an amateur. He then worked as a beer salesman and personal trainer, but eventually decided to leave paid employment to become a writer.


title: Matthew Nable

text: After encouragement from his mentor, Booker Prize-winning novelist Thomas Keneally, Nable wrote a screenplay for "The Final Winter" based on his unpublished novel of the same name. With friends he also managed to raise $1.6m and they worked together to make the film which was released in 2007, and earned critical praise but was a box office failure.


title: Matthew Nable

text: Nable went on to act in the United States as a Los Angeles detective in the 2008 television movie "S.I.S.".


title: Matthew Nable

text: In 2009, his book "We Don't Live Here Anymore" was published, in 2011 he published his second book "Faces in the Clouds", which won critical praise.


title: Matthew Nable

text: Nable appeared in the main cast of critically acclaimed and award-winning SBS drama series, "East West 101", and in the 2011 action film "Killer Elite" alongside Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Yvonne Strahovski, Jason Statham, and Dominic Purcell.


title: Matthew Nable

text: Nable starred in the 2012 Australian drama series, "". The same year he was announced as a cast member of another Australian TV series, "". He also had a role in the film "33 Postcards".


title: Matthew Nable

text: In March 2014 it was reported that Nable would appear in the Nine Network's upcoming miniseries "Gallipoli".


title: Matthew Nable

text: On 4 September, 2014, Stephen Amell announced on Facebook that Nable would portray the role of Ra's al Ghul on the third season of "Arrow". Despite Liam Neeson (Ra's al Ghul in "The Dark Knight" Trilogy) expressing an interest in reprising his role for the television series' third season and the CW Network reaching out to him, he was unavailable and Nable was cast as Ra's instead. IGN's Jesse Scheeden said he brought "charisma and danger to the part". Nable portrayed the character in ten episodes of the third season. He reprised his role in a first season episode of "Legends of Tomorrow".


title: Matthew Nable

text: In October 2019, Nable starred in the opening cinematic of the 2019 Bathurst 1000, broadcast on Fox Sports Australia. Nable has since featured in numerous Fox Sports cinematics, promotions and advertisements, primarily for their Rugby League division, Fox League.


title: Extant (TV series)

text: Extant is an American science fiction drama television series created by Mickey Fisher and, as executive producer, Steven Spielberg. The story revolves around astronaut Molly Woods (Halle Berry) who returns home to her family inexplicably pregnant after 13 months in outer space on a solo mission.


title: Extant (TV series)

text: On August 7, 2013, CBS announced that it had placed a 13-episode straight-to-series order, bypassing the traditional pilot stage. Steven Spielberg served as one of the executive producers. Production began in Los Angeles on February 10, 2014. The series was broadcast in the United States on the CBS television network, and was a production of Amblin Television.


title: Extant (TV series)

text: "Extant" premiered on July 9, 2014. On October 9, 2014, CBS renewed "Extant" for a second season, which premiered on July 1, 2015, and concluded on September 9, 2015. On October 9, 2015, CBS cancelled "Extant" after two seasons.


title: Extant (TV series)

text: Molly Woods, an astronaut with ISEA (International Space Exploration Agency) is assigned a 13-month solo mission aboard space station "Seraphim". She returns home to her husband John, a robotics engineer who created their son Ethan, a prototype android called a "humanich". When Molly discovers that she has mysteriously become pregnant despite years of infertility, she begins a search for answers.


title: Extant (TV series)

text: "Extant" has received generally favorable reviews. On Metacritic, the first season holds a score of 68 out of 100, based on 31 critics, and season 2 has a score of 63 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season holds a "certified fresh" rating of 81% based on 42 reviews, with the consensus reading: "While many of its ideas are clearly borrowed from other sources, "Extant" benefits from a unique approach to some familiar stories and a strong lead in Halle Berry." The second season holds a "fresh" rating of 73% based on 11 reviews, with the consensus reading: "Extant amps up the action in Season Two, adding much-needed stamina to shore up Halle Berry's compelling performance."


title: Extant (TV series)

text: Including Live + 3 day (DVR) viewing, the series premiere was watched by 11.88 million viewers and attained an 18-49 rating of 2.2.


title: Extant (TV series)

text: In 2014, "Extant" was chosen, along with six others, for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Most Exciting New Series.


title: Extant (TV series)

text: On December 16, 2014, CBS Home Entertainment released the first season on DVD and Blu-ray in Region 1. The second season was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 15, 2015.


title: Extant (TV series)

text: The series is available for streaming on Amazon Video devices four days after broadcast on CBS. In Canada, the series premiered on July 9, 2014, on Global Television Network. In Australia, the series premiered on July 13, 2014, on Network Ten. The series premiered in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2014, on Amazon Video. It made its television premiere on January 20, 2015, on Syfy. In New Zealand, it debuted on July 23, 2014, on Prime.


title: Warlock (1989 film)

text: Warlock is a 1989 American supernatural horror film directed by Steve Miner and written by David Twohy. Julian Sands stars as the title character, a son of Satan who travels from the late 1600s to modern times with the mission of destroying the world. Lori Singer and Richard E. Grant co-star as a 20th century woman and a 17th century witch-hunter attempting to stop him.


title: Warlock (1989 film)

text: The film was shown internationally in 1989, but did not receive an American release until January 11, 1991. It received mixed reviews and grossed $9 million on a $15 million budget. Two sequels followed, with Sands reprising his role in the , although both serve as standalone films with no connection to the original.


title: Warlock (1989 film)

text: The Warlock is taken captive in Boston, Massachusetts in 1691 by the witch-hunter Giles Redferne. The Warlock is sentenced to death for his activities, including the death of Redferne's wife, but Satan propels the Warlock forward in time to late 20th century Los Angeles, California. Redferne follows through the portal.


title: Warlock (1989 film)

text: When the Warlock crash lands at the house of a waitress named Kassandra and her roommate, Chas, he is taken in by them. While Kassandra is out, the Warlock murders Chas. The Warlock confronts a fake psychic, tricking her into allowing herself to be possessed by Satan who tells him to reassemble The Grand Grimoire, a book separated into three pieces which can unmake Creation. Ripping out the psychic's eyes and using them as a compass, the Warlock finds the first piece of the Grand Grimoire hidden inside an antique table at Kassandra's flat.