document_title: Christmas with the Kranks

question_text: who played blair in christmas with the kranks

text: Christmas with the Kranks

text: Plot[edit]

text: After Riverside, Illinois couple Luther (Tim Allen) and Nora Krank (Jamie Lee Curtis) see their daughter, Blair (Julie Gonzalo), depart for a Peace Corps assignment in Peru on the Sunday following Thanksgiving, empty nest syndrome sets in. Luther calculates the couple spent $6,132 during the previous year's holiday season and, not looking forward to celebrating Christmas without their daughter, he suggests they invest the money usually spent on decorations, gifts, and entertainment and treat themselves to a ten-day Caribbean cruise instead. Skeptical at first, Nora finally agrees under the condition that they still give a donation to the church and Children's Hospital. Luther tries to refuse but finally agrees and they begin planning the trip.

text: The Kranks are amazed to discover they are considered pariahs as a result of their decision. Luther's co-workers think he has become Ebenezer Scrooge when he gives all his employees letters that state about his Christmas boycott, local stationer Aubie is distressed to lose the couple's order for their engraved greeting cards and Christmas Eve party invitations, the Boy Scout troop is upset and angered when the Kranks refuse to purchase one of their Christmas trees to help the scouts make enough money for a camporee, and the police are stunned to discover they won't be buying this year's calendar from them. Most vocal in their objections are neighbors Vic Frohmeyer (Dan Aykroyd) and Walt Scheel (M. Emmet Walsh). Vic, who's the unelected leader of the street, organizes a campaign to force the Kranks to decorate their home so Hemlock Street won't lose the coveted award for best decorations. Vic has political and bureaucratic connections in Chicago. Walt doesn't seem to like Luther, so his efforts are primarily personal. However, it is revealed that Walt's wife Bev is suffering from cancer, perhaps dampening his holiday spirits. Children picket, led by Vic's son Spike (Erik Per Sullivan), neighbors constantly call, and Christmas carolers try to revive the Kranks' holiday spirit by singing on their lawn, which Luther stops by freezing his front lawn. Even the newspaper gets into the act by publishing a front page story complete with a photograph of the unlit Krank house and states that the Kranks' street has lost the prize and won sixth place because of how Luther and Nora refused to decorate their house. Still, Luther and Nora continue to stand their ground.

text: The two are in the process of packing on Christmas Eve morning when they receive a call from Blair, who announces she's at Miami International Airport, en route home with her Peruvian fiancé as a surprise for her parents. She's anxious to introduce Enrique to her family's holiday traditions, and when she asks if they're having their usual party that night, a panicked Nora says yes. Comic chaos ensues as the couple finds themselves trying to decorate the house and coordinate a party with only twelve hours to spare before their daughter and future son-in-law arrive.

text: While Nora scrambles to find food, especially Blair's favorite honey glazed ham, Luther goes to buy a tree from the Boy Scouts but they only have one worthless non-green tree left since their sales went big and rapid. Luther decides to give a donation by giving them money but taking the tree in the process; he then rejects it by throwing it in his backyard. While Spike leads a picket at the Kranks', Luther arranges to borrow the tree of neighbor Wes Trogdon who is going away for a week with his kids and wife to close relatives being given the warning that he is not to break one ornament or damage it. Luther and Spike try to transport it across the street on Spike's Radio Flyer wagon, only for the neighbors to confuse this to be Luther stealing the family's Christmas tree and end up being called for the police to arrest him for theft. Spike comes to Luther's rescue by showing the neighbors and officers that Luther has Trogdon's keys and thus was given permission to borrow the tree. Nora comes home enraged at Luther for making the borrowed Christmas tree a "Disaster" and how she had to buy "Smoked Trout" to replace the honey ham (which was crushed by a truck). Once it is established why Luther is trying frantically to decorate his home, the neighbors, led by Vic, come out full force to help him and Nora ready it for Blair. Blair calls to say she landed from Miami; despite this, she is sent by a police transport to their house thus leaving her still unaware of the chaos.

text: After subtly giving everybody, including Blair and Enrique, a half-hearted toast, Luther tries to convince Nora to accept the cruise when she confronts him for the toast, but she refuses, disgusted that he isn't happy Blair is home. Having a change of heart, Luther sadly slips out of the house and goes across the street to the Scheel home. Bev's cancer, once in remission, has returned and, knowing this may be their last holiday together, Luther insists they take the cruise in place of him and Nora, going so far as to offer to take care of their hated cat, Muffles, so they can go. At first Walt and Bev decline, but ultimately decide to accept his generosity; as a result, Luther, whose holiday spirit has been renewed, realizes skipping Christmas wasn't as good an idea as he had originally thought.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Tim Allen as Luther Krank
Jamie Lee Curtis as Nora Krank, Luther's wife
Dan Aykroyd as Vic Frohmeyer, the Kranks' domineering neighbor
Dava Hulsey as Amanda Frohmeyer, the doting wife of Vic and loving mother of Spike.
Julie Gonzalo as Blair Krank, the Kranks' daughter
M. Emmet Walsh as Walt Scheel, the Kranks' obnoxious neighbor
Elizabeth Franz as Bev Scheel, Walt's ailing wife
Erik Per Sullivan as Spike Frohmeyer, Vic's kid
Cheech Marin as Officer Salino
Jake Busey as Officer Treen, Salino's partner
Austin Pendleton as Marty, an umbrella salesman who is actually Santa Claus
Tom Poston as Father Zabriskie, a priest
Kim Rhodes as Julie, Luther's employee
Arden Myrin as Daisy
René Lavan as Enrique Decardenal, Blair's fiance
Patrick Breen as Aubie, a stationier
Caroline Rhea as Candi, a friend of Nora's
Felicity Huffman as Merry, a friend of Nora's
Kevin Chamberlin as Duke Scanlon, a Boy Scout leader

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text: Production[edit]

text: Development[edit]

text: Joe Roth knew about John Grisham's Skipping Christmas before it was even published in 2001. He was asked by Grisham to read the book in galley form, assuming he could direct a movie based on it. Roth recalls: "It turns out he was right. Even while I was reading it, all I could think was that this would make a great Christmas movie. It had humor, it had wonderful characters and it had heart." It was a huge change for him as he, who previously directed thrillers, would now do work for a film lighter in tone and style. With the rights of the book received and the May 2000 founding of Revolution Studios, he stated that "as a start-up company, there was a great deal of work to do in order to get up and running."[2]

text: Later, filmmaker Chris Columbus, who also bought the rights to Skipping Christmas and had written a screenplay, called Roth about directing the adaption. As Roth explains: "Naturally, I thought he was going to direct it. But he said, 'No, you should direct it.' It turns out I was getting ready to direct another project. But when I read Chris's script, I knew I had to at least try to direct it. I promised myself that if I could get the right cast in place, I would do it." Producer Michael Barnathan said, "Joe read the script on a Sunday, bought it on Monday, decided he wanted to direct it on Tuesday and by Friday had cast Tim [Allen] and Jamie Lee [Curtis]. The following Monday morning we started pre-production."[2]

text: Setting[edit]

text: Christmas with the Kranks takes place mostly in the Kranks's neighborhood of Hemlock Street in Riverside, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, over the course of four weeks from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve. Production designer Garreth Stover originally looked for locations with the right weather conditions and suburban ambience for Hemlock Street, as described specifically in Columbus's script of the film. He was scouting from the metropolitan area of Chicago to Minnesota, but due to the extreme conditions of this part of the United States at the time, the filmmakers felt it was better to set up the neighborhood in an empty location instead of finding one.[2]

text: When looking for a place to build the set 15 weeks before filming began, Stover chose a parking lot of a former Boeing aircraft factory in Downey, California, about 15 miles away from downtown Los Angeles and in the midst of Downey Studios. The rest of the first three weeks were spent on designing the houses with assistance from construction coordinator David Elliott. In the next 12 weeks, hundreds of carpenters, plasterers and painters working built had built what would become the largest exterior set ever for a movie, being more than 700 feet long and including 16 houses. What Stover called "the core five" were the houses of the Kranks, the Frohmeyers, the Scheels, the Beckers and Trogdons, which he claimed had "full ground floors that are dressed and you can see into." He also said that the second floor of the Kranks' was built on a soundstage. Producer Michael Barnathan claimed that the set would later be available for other movies, TV series and commercials to use.[2]However, due to health complaints from the locals over toxic residues from factory period and lack of profit, the studio closed in 2012 and was razed to build a mall.[3]

text: Costumes[edit]

text: Susie DeSanto handled the costume design of Christmas with the Kranks. According to DeSanto, "I was looking for a project that was really textural, and maybe a bit nostalgic. I saw Christmas With the Kranks like a Christmas card, a beautiful Christmas memory of how we wish the holiday to be. So a lot of the fabrics I chose were not so much high-tech bright colors, but wools, plaids and mixing patterns. Joe [Roth] was specific about what he wanted, but within that, he allowed me a great deal of freedom to express myself.”[2]

text: DeSanto viewed that all the characters in Christmas with the Kranks would wear dresses that are supposed to serve as their "accents" rather than overtly defining them. Luther Krank is seen wearing the same-colored shirt and suit at work all the time, and according to DeSanto, this "tells that Luther’s a punch-the-clock kind of guy, so the whole idea of skipping Christmas and going off on a tropical vacation is completely averse to anything he’s ever done." She described Nora as "tasteful and kind of folksy, a middle-American woman approaching middle age. In our first meeting, Jamie Lee Curtis was totally prepared. She wanted to look like a real Midwestern woman who lives in the suburbs of Chicago and is as obsessed with Christmas as everyone around her. Nora dresses for the seasons and I found out by speaking to people at Marshall Field’s in Chicago that the Christmas sweater is a big deal. And Jamie wears it so well.” As for Vic Frohmeyer, she saw him as "a sort of commander-in-chief of the neighborhood, so I wanted something with a bit of a military flair. Since he’s also a college professor, we cut the pattern from a general’s jacket and made it professorial by using a vintage tweed mixed with corduroy.”[2]

text: Music[edit]

text: The soundtrack features many holiday standards, including "Jingle Bell Rock" by Brenda Lee; "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Billy May & His Orchestra with vocal by Alvin Stoller; "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" by Eddie Dunstedter; "White Christmas" by Dean Martin; "Frosty the Snowman" by Steve Van Zandt; "Blue Christmas" by Elvis Presley; and "The Christmas Song" by Ella Fitzgerald.

text: Critical reception[edit]

text: On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 5% based on 131 reviews with an average rating of 2.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "A mirthless movie as fresh as last year's fruit cake, Christmas with the Kranks is a coarse, garish comedy that promotes conformity."[4] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 22 out of 100 based on 33 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[5] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[6]

text: Home media[edit]

text: Christmas with the Kranks was released on DVD and VHS on November 8, 2005.

text: Box office[edit]

text: The film was a box office success. On its opening weekend, it earned $21,570,867 on 3,393 screens, ranking #3 behind National Treasure and The Incredibles. It eventually grossed $96,572,480 worldwide.[1]


document_title: Ontario Hydro

question_text: when did the separation of ontario hydro occur

root

text: Ontario Hydro

text: Origins[edit]

text: The notion of generating electric power on the Niagara River was first entertained in 1888, when the Niagara Parks Commission solicited proposals for the construction of an electric scenic railway from Queenston to Chippawa. The Niagara Falls Park & River Railway was granted the privilege in 1892, and by 1900 it was using a dynamo of 200,000 horsepower (150,000 kW) which was the largest in Canada.[1] Starting in 1899, several private syndicates sought privileges from the commission for generating power for sale, including:[2]

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text:
the Canadian Niagara Power Company, backed by British investors
the Ontario Power Company, backed by American investors
the Electrical Development Company, backed by the Toronto Street Railway and the Toronto Electric Light Company (controlled by William Mackenzie, Frederic Thomas Nicholls and Henry Mill Pellatt)

text: By 1900, a total capacity of 400,000 horsepower (300,000 kW) was in development at Niagara, and concern was expressed as to whether such natural resources were being best exploited for the public welfare.[3] In June 1902, an informal convention was held at Berlin, (now Kitchener) which commissioned a report by Daniel B. Detweiler, Elias W.B. Snider and F.S. Spence, who recommended in February 1903 that authority be sought from the Ontario Legislature to allow municipal councils to organize a cooperative to develop, transmit, buy and sell electrical energy.[4] The provincial government of George William Ross refused to allow this, and it was only after its loss in the 1905 election that work began on creating a public utility. During that election campaign, James Pliny Whitney (who would become Premier) declared:

text:
“

The water power of Niagara should be as free as the air.[5]

”

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text: Creation of Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario[edit]

text: In May 1906, the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario ("Hydro" or "HEPCO") was formed[6] and its first commissioners were Adam Beck, John S. Hendrie, and Cecil B. Smith,[7] HEPCO was a unique hybrid of a government department, crown corporation and municipal cooperative that coexisted with the existing private companies. It was a "politically rational" rather than a "technically efficient" solution that depended on the watershed election of 1905.[8]

text: On January 1, 1907, referendums in Toronto and 18 other municipalities approved the provisional contracts that their councils had concluded with HEPC,[9] and subsequent referendums one year later authorized utility bond issues for the construction of local distribution systems.[10] The victories in Toronto were in large part due to the leadership and commitment of Adam Beck's ally, William Peyton Hubbard.[11] The first transmission lines began providing power to southwestern Ontario in 1910.

text: The commission's process of expansion was from municipality to municipality, generally in the following manner:[12]

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the municipal council would approach the commission, expressing its interest in establishing a local distribution system;
Hydro engineers would then visit the municipality to assess current facilities and probable total load, before producing estimates as to the total cost of extending transmission lines to the municipal boundary, the delivered price of power, and building or upgrading the community's distribution system;
if the council agreed, a provisional contract would be negotiated between the council and the Commission, subject to ratification by the voters;
upon successful ratification, thirty-year debentures would be issued by the municipality to cover construction and equipment expenses, and Hydro would then build a tie line to the nearest point in its network.

text: During the 1920s, Hydro's network expanded significantly:

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In September 1921, Hydro acquired the Toronto Electric Light Company and various railway interests, making it the largest electric power system in the world.[13]
In 1921 and 1924, legislative amendments authorized grant-in-aid programs that encouraged rural electrification in Ontario by reducing unit rates in the areas to be served.[14]
By the end of the 1920s, most remaining private power producers were unable to withstand any expansion by Hydro into their service area, and some survived only because Hydro did not see the need to enter their markets.[15]

text: In 1926, the Ferguson government gave its approval for Abitibi Power and Paper Company to develop the Abitibi Canyon, the largest such development since the Niagara River, in preference to incurring more debt for Ontario Hydro.[16] The development was encouraged through secret commitments for long-term purchases of electricity and indemnification of Hydro against any losses.[16] Questions were asked at the time as to how the additional 100,000 horsepower (75,000 kW) in capacity would be used, as there were virtually no customers for it.[17] When Abitibi was placed in receivership in 1932, legislation was passed over the following years to allow Ontario Hydro to take control of several Abitibi power developments.[a] Certain dealings relating to the 1933 acquisition came to be known as the "great Abitibi swindle,"[19] which resulted in the fall of the Henry government in the 1934 Ontario election, to be succeeded by that of Mitchell Hepburn.[19]

text: In 1939, the commission was given authority to regulate all other electricity generators, thus bringing all private utilities in the province under its supervision. It also received authority to acquire any utility that was not producing at its capacity.[20][21]

text: In 1948, HEPCO changed most of its system from 25 Hz to 60 Hz. However, the Fort Erie area south of Niagara Falls stayed on the remaining 25 Hz generators until 1966, and this area had electricity throughout the 1965 Eastern Seaboard Blackout.

text: By the 1950s the commission was operating as a single integrated system. As demand rose in the post-war period, Ontario Hydro started expanding its generation system bringing on line many new hydroelectric stations. In 1953, Ontario Hydro began to interconnect with other utilities, the first interconnection being the Keith-Waterman line in Windsor which crosses the Detroit River to Detroit, Michigan interconnecting with Detroit Edison in the United States. This line was originally constructed at 120,000 volts and was later upgraded to 230,000 volts in 1973. Shortly thereafter, other interconnections with New York State were built. The first coal-fired generating stations in the system were also built in this period. The expansion of coal continued during the 1960s and 1970s but was overtaken by the development of nuclear power.

text: Hydro-Electric Railways[edit]

text: In 1912, Adam Beck began to promote the creation and operation of electric interurban railways in the territory served by the commission, and the Legislative Assembly granted authority to do so in the Hydro-Electric Railway Act, 1914.[22] Changes in government policy and public sentiment in the 1920s restricted their development, and all such operations ceased in the 1930s (with the exception of the Hamilton Street Railway streetcar system, which continued until 1946).[23]

text: Expansion[edit]

text: In the 1960s, HEPCO was the first utility in North America to utilize ultra-high voltage transmission lines. Planning for the UHV lines began in 1960 and in 1967, HEPCO put into service transmission lines carrying 500,000 volts that carry power from hydroelectric sources in remote Northern Ontario to high load areas in southern Ontario such as Toronto, London, and Ottawa. By 1970 all but the most remote municipal power systems in Ontario were organized into a single grid. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ontario Hydro gradually expanded the 500 kV transmission system into what it is today.

text: Before its own nuclear power stations started coming onstream, Ontario Hydro had the following capacity and output:[24]

text:
Ontario Hydro's power resources (1969)

Power source
Type
Dependable capacity (GW)
Annual energy output

Generated
Hydro-electric
5.8
32,662.5 GWh (117,585,000 GJ)

Thermal-electric
4.7
18,771.4 GWh (67,577,040 GJ)

Purchased
Hydro-electric
0.5
6,503.5 GWh (23,412,600 GJ)

Nuclear
0.2
411.5 GWh (1,481,400 GJ)

Total
11.2
62,448.9 GWh (224,816,040 GJ)

text: HEPCO becomes Ontario Hydro[edit]

text: In 1974, the commission was reconstituted as a crown corporation known as Ontario Hydro,[25] which had been the commission's nickname. In many Canadian provinces, including Ontario, hydroelectric power is so common that "hydro" has become synonymous with electric power regardless of the actual source of the electricity.

text: Nuclear power stations[edit]

text: In the late 1950s, the corporation became involved in development, design and construction of CANDU nuclear power stations.

text: In 1965, the first commercial sized station came on line at Douglas Point.

text: During the 1960s and 1970s, Ontario Hydro's nuclear generating program expanded with the building of the first four units of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station followed by stations at Bruce Nuclear Generating Station and a second four units at Pickering. By the late 1980s, Ontario Hydro operated one of the largest fleets of nuclear-powered generating stations in the world.

text:
Ontario Hydro nuclear power stations

Station
Units
In service
Status

Nuclear Power Demonstration
1
1962
Decommissioned in 1987

Douglas Point
1
1968
Decommissioned in 1984 and located next to Bruce NGS; site leased to Bruce Power by OPG; equipment owned by AECL

Bruce
1–4
1977–1979
Unit 3 limited to 92.5% of capacity

5–8
1984–1987
Now operated by Bruce Power, but site owned by OPG

Pickering
1–4
1971
Units 2–3 in safe shutdown state

5–8
1983

Darlington
1–4
1990–1993
in operations for OPG

text: The Bruce Nuclear Generating Station became the largest nuclear generating station in the world in 2011 (and has remained the largest) by net electrical power rating, total reactor count, and number of operational reactors.

text: The last nuclear plant to be built in Ontario, Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, was planned in the 1970s. Construction started in 1981, but because of a series of political decision to delay construction, construction took an inordinately long time. Costs continued to mount during the delay and the plant was completed in 1993. This delay in the schedule caused the projected costs to increase tremendously, from an initial projected cost of $7.0 billion to $14.5 billion. The delay accounted for seventy percent of the cost increase.[26]

text: Management, overcapacity and cost overruns[edit]

text: The quality of Hydro's management, given its size and scope of operations, has long been a concern. In 1922, Dougall Carmichael, then Minister without Portfolio, announced to the Legislature that he was quitting his position as Commissioner because Hydro "was either inefficient or dishonest." He was forced to retract the allegation of dishonesty.[27]

text: In the 1970s, controversy arose relating to Hydro's expansion strategy, and several inquiries were held:

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in 1974–1975, the Solandt Commission issued reports with respect to transmission lines that were to be constructed between Nanticoke and Pickering,[28] and from Lennox to Oshawa.[29]
in 1980, the Porter Commission recommended that Hydro change its focus from capacity expansion to demand management,[30] but the report was ignored.[31]

text: In the 1980s there were large increases in the rates charged, arising from:

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cost increases in the construction of Darlington (as noted in the previous section),
cost overruns for the supply of boilers by Babcock & Wilcox Canada at the existing nuclear stations, the total for which had ballooned to $850 million[32] and
the negotiation of take-or-pay contracts with Rio Algom and Denison Mines for the supply of uranium, prior to the collapse of world prices,[33] which were subsequently cancelled in 1991 at a cost of $717 million.[34]

text: In 1989, Ontario Hydro published a four-volume study, up to the year 2014, entitled Providing the Balance of Power, with different scenarios attempting to solve the need for additional facilities to replace aging electricity generation stations. This was derailed when electricity growth rates declined due to the recession of the early 1990s.

text: Break-up[edit]

text: In 1998, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario passed the Energy Competition Act, 1998,[35] which:

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authorized the establishment of a market in electricity
reorganized Ontario Hydro into five companies: Ontario Power Generation (OPG), the Ontario Hydro Services Company (later renamed Hydro One), the Independent Electricity Market Operator (later renamed the Independent Electricity System Operator), the Electrical Safety Authority, and Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation.[36] (The two commercial companies, Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One, were intended to eventually operate as private businesses rather than as crown corporations.)

text: Ontario Hydro ceased operations on March 31, 1999. Its assets and functions were transferred by provincial statute to two commercial successor corporations, Ontario Power Generation Inc. and Ontario Hydro Services Company Inc., as well as to two not-for-profit agencies, the Independent Electricity Market Operator and the Electrical Safety Authority.[37]

text: Stranded debt[edit]

text: On March 31, 1999, Ontario Hydro reported in its financial statements that it had long term debts of $26.2 billion and assets totaling $39.6 billion.[38]

text: The fair value of its assets was substantially less than the $39.6 billion reported in the 1999 financial statements and therefore, in order to ensure the successor entities were financially solvent, the reorganization gave rise to $19.5 billion of stranded debt.[39] The stranded debt was the shortfall between the fair value of Ontario Hydro's assets and the value of Ontario Hydro’s total debt and other liabilities transferred to the new entities.[40]

text: Since 2002, the stranded debt is being paid down through a Debt Retirement Charge levied upon Ontario ratepayers.[41][42][43] The Debt Retirement Charge is 0.7 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) of electricity consumed in Ontario.[44]

text: As of March 31, 2014, the remaining stranded debt was $2.6 billion.[45] Beginning in 2016, the Ontario government removed the Debt Retirement Charge from residential electricity users’ electricity bills. The charge will remain on all other electricity users’ bills until the remaining stranded debt is retired.[46] The Debt Retirement Charge is expected to terminate on April 1, 2018.[47]

text: Further reading[edit]

text:
E.B. Biggar (1920). Hydro-Electric Development in Ontario: A History of Water Power Administration under the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. Toronto: Ryerson Press. OL 24132048M.
Reginald Pelham Bolton (1913). An Expensive Experiment: The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. New York: Baker and Taylor. OCLC 697759925.
Boothman, Barry E.C. (1994). Night of the Longest Day: The Receivership of Abitibi Power and Paper (PDF). Annual Conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. 15. pp. 22–32. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-11-12.  (Section 14: Business History)
A. Brady (1936). "The Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission". Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science. 2 (3): 331–353. JSTOR 136665.
Ronald J. Daniels, ed. (1996). Ontario Hydro at the Millennium: Has Monopoly's Moment Passed?. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-1426-0.
Merrill Denison (1960). The people's power: The history of Ontario Hydro. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. OCLC 519902804.
Keith R. Fleming (1992). Power at Cost: Ontario Hydro and Rural Electrification, 1911–1958. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-0868-6.
Neil B. Freeman (1996). The Politics of Power: Ontario Hydro and Its Government, 1906–1995. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-0798-8.
Howard Hampton (2003). Public power: The fight for publicly owned electricity. Toronto: Insomniac Press. ISBN 1-894663-44-6.
Aynsley Kellow (1996). "Ontario: The decline and fall of the electric empire". Transforming Power: The Politics of Electricity Planning. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-47122-2.
Jean Manore (1999). Cross-currents: Hydroelectricity and the Engineering of Northern Ontario. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 0-88920-317-2.
Nelles, H.V. (2005). Politics of Development: Forests, Mines, and Hydro-Electric Power in Ontario, 1849–1941 (2nd ed.). McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-2758-3.
* A. Lennox Stanton (1929). "The Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 77 (4013): 1115–1130. JSTOR 41358311.
Jamie Swift; Keith Stewart (2004). Hydro: The Decline and Fall of Ontario's Electric Empire. Between the Lines. ISBN 1-896357-88-1.


document_title: Jennifer Lopez: All I Have

question_text: how long is the all i have show

question_tokens: how long is the all i have show

text: Jennifer Lopez: All I Have

text: Background and development[edit]

text: It was first reported that Lopez had been offered a Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood in October 2014, in a deal which was said to be worth $350,000 per night.[5] The residency was officially confirmed in May 2015. "The show is going to be a multifaceted, high-energy 'Jenny from the Block' party, mixing all aspects of what my fans and I love," Lopez stated.[6] She announced on September 19, 2015, during her performance at the iHeartRadio Music Festival 2015 that her 2016 residency was named "All I Have" while a promotional poster was being displayed on the stage's backdrop.[7][8] She is reportedly working on new music to perform at her residency.[9]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: Eve Barlow of The Guardian gave the show 5/5 stars and commended it as "two hours of high-octane entertainment", writing: "Tonight, Lopez promised to give us all she had. Via a catalogue spanning many genres, flavours and dance moves, she delivered a heck of a party. To borrow from her 2001 smash hit Play: that’s the hotness right there."[10] Billboard rated the residency's opening night 4.5/5 stars, with Katie Atkinson stating, "It's not surprising that Lopez was tailor-made for Vegas."[11] Writing for Time magazine, Nolan Feeney praised the show as "a spectacle as lively and extravagant as the city itself" while also noting, "the latest in a slew of pop stars to set up shop in Vegas, she brings a showmanship that’s hard to top". Feeney particularly favored the Latin music set, stating that it was "the most electrifying part" of the residency.[12] Gerrick D. Kennedy of the Los Angeles Times dubbed Lopez "Queen of the Strip" and observed that "the production aims, and greatly succeeds, at setting a new gold standard for Vegas popstar showcases", while also commenting on Lopez's showmanship and sex appeal.[13]

text: MTV News' Molly Lambert called the residency "a quintessentially Las Vegas show", writing: "This sort of robust entertainment is what we expect from Vegas: A glamorous star who can act, dance, and sing is really a nostalgic throwback — an old-fashioned kind of star-as-star — someone superior to mere human beings." Lambert added: "As for the singing? Well, a lot of it sounds live, although there are clearly backing tracks to help out."[14] USA Today writer Jaleesa M. Jones described it as "a transcendent experience that harked back to the early 00's (when she was still rocking track suits and gelled-down baby hairs) while celebrating the best of the present (all bejeweled everything)."[15] Mike Weatherford of the Las Vegas Review-Journal commented that "the showcase is far easier on the eyes than the ears. It’s more like a production show with a centerpiece."[16] Rolling Stone writer Stephen L. Betts described Lopez's rendition of "I Hope You Dance" by country singer Lee Ann Womack as one of the show's highlights, calling it "emotional".[17]

text: Commercial reception[edit]

text: Tickets for the residency were available for sale to the public on May 16, 2015, through Ticketmaster for all dates with ticket prices ranging from US$59-$416.[citation needed] The concert which took place on August 13, 2016 earned over $1 million in revenue, becoming Planet Hollywood's highest-grossing show to date,[18][19] breaking the previous box office record for a single show, previously set by Britney: Piece of Me.[20] The record was once again broken by the final show of Britney: Piece of Me in December 2017.[21] It was the most successful Las Vegas residency of 2016, grossing $34.6 million.[22] By the 116th show on September 22, 2018, the residency had sold a total of 467,314 tickets, grossing $97.5 million.[23] Celebrities who have attended the show include: Justin Bieber, Jeremy Bieber, Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Jessica Alba, Kerry Washington, Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas, Drake, Selena Gomez, Sofia Vergara, Ellen DeGeneres, Smokey Robinson, Marc Anthony, Heidi Klum, Laverne Cox, Kevin Hart, Pitbull, LL Cool J, Ne-Yo, Ja Rule, Drew Barrymore, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Dua Lipa.[23][24]

text: Set list[edit]

text: The following set list is representative of the show on January 20, 2016. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the show.[25]

text:
"If You Had My Love"
"Love Don't Cost a Thing"
"Got A Lot of Livin' to Do"
"Get Right"
"I'm Real (Murder Remix)"
"Feelin' So Good"
"Jenny from the Block"
"I'm Into You"
"Girls"
"Booty" (contains excerpts from "Hotline Bling")
"Feel the Light"
"I Hope You Dance"
"Ain't It Funny (Murder Remix)"
"Very Special"
"All I Have"
"Hold It Don't Drop It"
"Quimbara"
"Quien será"
"Let's Get Loud"
"Tens"
"Waiting for Tonight"
"Dance Again"
"On the Floor"

tag: ol

text: Notes:

text:
On the opening night, January 20, 2016, Lopez was joined on stage by guest performers Ja Rule, Ne-Yo and Pitbull.[25]
Towards the end of the residence, Lopez performed her new single "Dinero".

text: Shows[edit]

text:
Date

Attendance

Revenue

Leg 1[26]

January 20, 2016

43,576 / 43,576

$8,831,592

January 22, 2016

January 23, 2016

January 27, 2016

January 29, 2016

January 30, 2016

February 3, 2016

February 5, 2016

February 6, 2016

February 9, 2016

Leg 2[27]

May 22, 2016

52,488 / 53,589

$11,518,415

May 25, 2016

May 27, 2016

May 28, 2016

May 29, 2016

June 1, 2016

June 3, 2016

June 4, 2016

June 8, 2016

June 10, 2016

June 11, 2016

June 12, 2016

Leg 3[28]

July 20, 2016

51,338 / 53,949

$10,324,156

July 22, 2016

July 23, 2016

July 27, 2016

July 29, 2016

July 30, 2016

August 3, 2016

August 5, 2016

August 6, 2016

August 10, 2016

August 12, 2016

August 13, 2016

Leg 4[28][29]

December 9, 2016

20,408 / 22,332

$4,229,985

December 10, 2016

December 13, 2016

December 16, 2016

December 17, 2016

Leg 5[30]

February 8, 2017

36,958 / 39,653

$7,275,365

February 10, 2017

February 11, 2017

February 14, 2017

February 17, 2017

February 18, 2017

February 21, 2017

February 24, 2017

February 25, 2017

Leg 6[31]

May 24, 2017

43,040 / 47,973

$8,342,437

May 26, 2017

May 27, 2017

May 28, 2017

May 31, 2017

June 2, 2017

June 3, 2017

June 7, 2017

June 9, 2017

June 10, 2017

June 11, 2017

Leg 7

September 6, 2017

36,796 / 39,701

$7,459,287

September 8, 2017

September 9, 2017

September 13, 2017

September 15, 2017

September 16, 2017

September 20, 2017

September 22, 2017

September 23, 2017

September 27, 2017

11,408 /	12,652

$2,158,041

September 29, 2017

September 30, 2017

Leg 8[32]

February 21, 2018

8,574 /	9,007

$1,689,417

February 23, 2018

February 24, 2018

N/A

N/A

February 28, 2018

March 2, 2018

24,473 / 26,249

$4,677,007

March 3, 2018

March 24, 2018

March 28, 2018

March 30, 2018

March 31, 2018

April 4, 2018

34,786 / 41,305

$6,292,505

April 6, 2018

April 7, 2018

April 10, 2018

April 11, 2018

April 13, 2018

April 14, 2018

April 17, 2018

April 18, 2018

April 20, 2018

April 21, 2018

Leg 9[33]

May 16, 2018

32,753 / 39,901

$6,194,547

May 18, 2018

May 19, 2018

May 22, 2018

May 25, 2018

May 26, 2018

May 27, 2018

May 30, 2018

June 1, 2018

June 2, 2018

June 6, 2018

21,478 / 24,463

$4,108,431

June 8, 2018

June 9, 2018

June 14, 2018

June 15, 2018

June 16, 2018

Leg 10[34]

September 1, 2018

—

—

September 2, 2018

17,860 / 18,905

$3,773,203

September 5, 2018

September 7, 2018

September 8, 2018

September 12, 2018

12,419 / 12,946

$2,576,956

September 14, 2018

September 15, 2018

September 19, 2018

18,959 / 19,076

$4,274,801

September 21, 2018

September 22, 2018

September 26, 2018

19,989 / 20,030

$4,428,356

September 28, 2018

September 29, 2018

Total

467,314 (approx. figure)

$100,000,000

text: Cancelled shows[edit]

text:
Date

Reason for cancellation

October 4, 2017

2017 Las Vegas shooting[35]

October 6, 2017

October 7, 2017


document_title: Be Thankful for What You Got

question_text: who made the song diamond in the back

question_tokens: who made the song diamond in the back

text: Be Thankful for What You Got

text: History[edit]

text: DeVaughn wrote "A Cadillac Don't Come Easy" eventually re-written to become "Be Thankful for What You Got" in 1972, and spent $900 toward its development[vague] to Omega Sound (a Philadelphia production house). The producers at Omega (Frank Fioravanti and sax player/ MFSB session group member, John Davis) decided to go for a strong groove with a smooth, almost jazzy arrangement, eventually booking time to record at Sigma Sound Studio in Philadelphia.

text: The session featured members of the MFSB group — guitarist Norman Harris, drummer Earl Young, bassist Ron Baker, and vibist Vince Montana — secured by Allan Felder, who also developed the separate ad lib back-up chorus with his sister's vocal choir.[The B-Side of the single entitled "Diamond in the Back" was the same title adopted by Ludacris 2004][citation needed] Frank Fioravanti could have released the record on the company's own label Sound Gems, but it was just starting out and instead secured its release on the Roxbury Records record label, run by producer-songwriter Wes Farrell.

text: The record sold nearly two million copies on its release in spring 1974, reaching #1 on the U.S. R&B charts and #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[2] With a sound and content influenced by Curtis Mayfield (and often erroneously attributed to him), its simple and encouraging lyrics hit home, to the extent that it became featured on gospel radio stations.

text: The edited version, which is the first part of the song, became a hit. The other half of the song is a longer instrumental with the repeated chords and rhythm before the final chorus comes in. The song is seven minutes long and radio stations preferred the sung portions over the instrumental portions.

text: The song is noted for its repeated line: "Diamond in the back,/ Sun roof top,/ Diggi'n the scene, with a gangsta lean".

text: DeVaughn's second album Figures Can't Calculate (TEC, 1980) included a remake.

text: The song is featured in the films Bug (2002), Be Cool (2005) and La Mission (2010).

text:
Preceded by
"I'm in Love" by Aretha Franklin
Billboard Hot Soul Singles number one single
June 1, 1974
Succeeded by
"Hollywood Swinging" by Kool & the Gang

text: Sampled[edit]

text: The song has been sampled several times, such as by N.W.A in "Gangsta Gangsta", Ludacris in "Diamond in the Back" and Ice Cube in "Stand Tall".


document_title: Kakamega

question_text: where is the crying stone found in kenya

text: Kakamega

text: Naming[edit]

text: Kakamega derives its modern name from the local dialect. The story goes that when European settlers first visited the area now known as Kakamega and were offered maize meal, the local staple food called Obusuma, they tried to emulate the eating style for which the tribe was famous. To the hosts though, the visitors were more like ‘pinching’ the Obusuma. The resulting administrative area was named ‘Kakamega’, which roughly translates to ‘pinch.’[2]

text: Economics[edit]

text: Local Inhabitants are mostly the Luhya tribe, whose economic activity is mainly farming and fishing.

text: Kakamega serves as the headquarters of Kenya's largest sugar producing firm, Mumias Sugar, located in the town of Mumias.[3]

text: Kakamega was the scene of the Kakamega gold rush in the early 1930s, fueled partly by the reports of the geologist Albert Ernest Kitson.[4]

text: Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology is a new institution of higher learning created by an act of parliament in December 2006 which is in the heart of Kakamega town on the Kakamega-Webuye road. It is expected to spur growth in this capital of Western Province.

text: Kakamega Forest is the main tourist destination in the area. Another attraction is the Crying Stone of Ilesi located along the highway towards Kisumu. It is a 40 metres high rock dome resembling a human figure whose "eyes" drop water.[5]

text: Administration[edit]

text: In the recently concluded elections, Wycliffe Oparanya was voted as the first Governor of Kakamega County. Kakamega forms a municipality with ten wards (Amalemba, Bukhulunya, Central, Mahiakalo, Maraba, Matende, Milimani, Musaa, Shibiriri and Sichilayi). All of them belong to Lurambi Constituency, which has a total of fifteen wards. The remaining five are located within Kakamega municipal Council, the rural council of Kakamega District.[6]

text: Rainforest[edit]

text: Kakamega area receives a very high amount of annual precipitation and contains Kakamega Forest, a preserve which is a remnant of a rainforest that stretched west through Uganda.

text: As a rainforest, the canopy of the trees has grown into a thin mesh of interlocking top branches that block most sunlight from reaching the ground below, resulting in less vegetation at the ground level. With few bushes along the darkened forest floor, the main obstacle is ancient fallen tree trunks blocking the paths between the standing trees. The German funded project BIOTA East is working in the forest since 2001, whereby firstly forest inventories for all sorts of life forms were performed and the aim is to find strategies for a sustainable use of the forest.

text: More than 400 species of birds have been found in the Kakamega rainforest. The many song birds fill the air with various birdcalls.

text: Kakamega is also home to Africa's largest and most aggressive cobra, the Kakamega forest cobra. Reputed by locals to spend a lot of time in the trees, stories abound of fearsome attacks on unsuspecting passers-by. Other snakes in the area include the forest adder, black mamba, and the green mamba.

text: Forest Tour Guide[edit]

text: There are official guides in Kakamega rainforest who take tourists visiting the forest around in the forest nature trails, and they explain the biodiversity of Kakamega forest. Most of the tour guides have participated in various areas of research into the biology of the forest, and they are thus well qualified to describe the area. The guides will also tell visitors about Luyhia (Luhya) cultural practices such as circumcision and bullfighting, and give information about the medicinal plants in Kakamega forest. Guiding association in Kakamega forest

text: International Not-for-profit Activity[edit]

text: Although Kakamega is not the focus of a large number of aid agencies, some international non-profits are involved in the area. Among them are the ones listed below.

text: CES Canada (Community Education Services Canada), established in 2004, is a Canadian non-profit organization based in the greater Toronto area. In July 2013 CES Canada was granted Special Consultative status with the United Nations. Focusing on the four cornerstones of Education, Water, Health and Nutrition, it provides access to secondary education for Kenyan youth orphaned by HIV/Aids. In partnership with CES Kenya, CES has provided 1500 scholarships in 26 secondary schools located in Kakamega, Navakholo and Bungoma Counties of rural western Kenya. 320 students have earned the KCSE with over half going on to higher learning. The CESCED (CES School of Continuing Education) Leadership training programs offer ICT studies, teacher internships and seminars on healthy living and personal growth. Health initiatives include the PAD Feminine Hygiene program, the provision of anti-malaria mosquito nets and health/hygiene kits for 250 students each year, clean water wells, hand washing stations, and the IC2 Read Eyewear Project. In 2013 the CES De-Worming Project provided education and medication for 50,000 primary school children. Nutrition outreach includes Dairy and Poultry farms with vegetable gardens in 5 schools. CES has built one secondary school, a Dormitory for 80 girls, 2 Science Labs, 2 Computer Labs and a Kitchen. In 2011 CES initiated the annual Canada Day Run held at Masinde Muliro University. CES Canada has 6 chapters in Thunder Bay, Calgary, Ottawa, Parry Sound-Muskoka, New Brunswick, and Kyoto, Japan. [7]

text: The primary mission of KEEF is to provide scholarships for very bright students from Kakamega County in Western Kenya who do not have the financial means to pay the fees for secondary and post-secondary schools in Kenya. KEEF was established in 2004 under the Society Act of British Columbia and was granted charitable status by The Canada Revenue Agency in 2006. KEEF is a nonprofit organization, not affiliated with any government or religious organization. KEEF’s Board of Directors from British Columbia, Canada, is represented in Kakamega by volunteers who interview and select students meeting the academic criteria and showing a proven need for assistance. KEEF works with local Kenyan communities through personal involvement and close collaboration. [8]

text: Kakamega Orphan Project is a Quaker founded initiative that helps support the education and wellbeing of orphans and other vulnerable young people. Th organization supports over 150 elementary school and 150 high school students, as well as college students and programs for out of school youth. It is funded primarily by a US partner organization, the Friends of Kakamega.[9]

text: ACCES (African Canadian Continuing Education Society) is a Canadian non-profit that provides a suite of programs to foster social and economic improvements among the poorest of the poor, both in rural areas and the slums of Kibera in Nairobi. The flagship program of ACCES is providing post-secondary scholarships to bright and needy students from poor families. More than 2,000 students have graduated with an ACCES scholarship since 1993, and many are now at the top of their professions. The alumni have started an association (ACCES Alumni Association - AAA) which now sponsors secondary students through donations from its members. As of 2013, more than two million shillings has been raised and an endowment fund started with more than one million shillings to continue helping poor students to access higher education. ACCES also partners with the Ministry of Education to enhance primary schools in poor rural areas, including teacher training, learning and teaching materials, construction of classrooms and subsidies for poor families who cannot afford to access education for their children. ACCES also provides community development activities through its network of partnerships, such as the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Kenya Environmental Research Program and many others. Using an integrated approach, ACCES brings income generation, agri-busimness, health, hygiene, clean water, gender equity, child rights, and governance to help communities become self-sufficient and sustainable. ACCES has as its chief operating principle the idea of “Kenyanization” whereby all of its programs are initiated, designed and implemented by a staff of Kenyans, working with local partners, government and institutions. Not only is the aim of ACCES to have Kenyans helping each other, but to have as the final outcome, self-sufficient, sustainable and independent communities. ACCES impacts more than 20,000 people annually. [10]

text: Kenya Aid is an Australian-based organisation that helps inhabitants of rural Kenya access quality preventative and primary health care solutions. Committed to reducing the burden of disease and improving the quality of health services in developing countries, Kenya Aid's main focus is on preventing and effectively treating Kenya's three biggest killers: HIV, malaria and TB. Additionally, Kenya Aid is tackling two often neglected health issues in Western Kenya; the adequate management of female menstruation and Tungiasis, an inflammatory skin disease that is caused by the parasitic sand flea Tunga penetrans, or jiggers. See [11] and [12]

text: The "Health Aid Kenya" project is improving the qualities of health services - collecting surplus laboratory and hospital equipment at Danish hospitals etc., and create changes at dispensaries and health centres in the Kakamega district and surrounding areas in Western Kenya. The main focus is to install microscopes and electricity (solar cell panels) at specific locations and thereby secure proper diagnoses of malaria in the rural areas. The project also provide needed equipment to Kakamega Provincial General Hospital - and support the hospital create a pathological department which the hospital is preparing in cooperation with the local university.

text: Solar Cookers International, an NGO that works to promote solar cooking, maintains an office in Kakamega.

text: One Acre Fund, a nonprofit organization that supplies smallholder farmers with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty. Headquartered in Kakamega, Kenya, the organization works with farmers in rural villages throughout Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Malawi.

text: Education[edit]

text: Kakamega is home to Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. This campus offers courses in Engineering, Computer Science, Education, Disaster Management, Journalism and Mass Communication, Science, Nursing, Criminology subjects. The Shamberere Technical Training Institute is also local.


document_title: Aurora Teagarden

question_text: where does aurora teagarden live in the movies

text: Aurora Teagarden

text: Aurora Teagarden book series[edit]

text:
Real Murders (1990)[2]
A Bone to Pick (1992)[3]
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (1994)[4]
The Julius House (1995)[5]
Dead over Heels (1996)[6]
"Deeply Dead" in Murder, They Wrote (1997)[7]
A Fool and His Honey (1999)[8]
Last Scene Alive (2002)[9]
Poppy Done to Death (2003)[10]
All the Little Liars (2016) [11]
Sleep Like a Baby (2017) [12]

text: TV Adaptation[edit]

text: On June 4, 2014, author Charlaine Harris announced on her Facebook page that the Aurora Teagarden books would be adapted into a series of two-hour films, starring Candace Cameron Bure[13] and would air on the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Channel.[1][14]

text: Main cast[edit]

text:
Candace Cameron Bure as Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden, a librarian in the small town of Lawrenceton who runs the Real Murders Club[15][16]
Lexa Doig as Sally Allison, a reporter with the local newspaper, Aurora's best friend, and a member of the Real Murders Club
Marilu Henner as Aida Teagarden, the town's real estate agent and Aurora's mother who disapproves of her daughter's involvement in solving murders
Bruce Dawson as John Queensland, an active member of the Real Murders Club who shares Aurora's passion to solve murders and later starts dating Aurora's mother
Miranda Frigon as Lynn Smith, a detective with the homicide division of the police force (later chief) who often finds Aurora annoyingly in the middle of her investigations
Peter Benson as Arthur Smith, a detective with the burglary division of the police force who is married to Lynn Smith and briefly dated Aurora
Yannick Bisson as Martin Bartell, a former CIA agent who moves to town, falls in love with Aurora, and goes on to date her

text: Characters[edit]

text: A dark grey cell indicates the character was not in the film.

text:
Character

Title

A Bone To Pick

Real Murders

Three Bedrooms, One Corpse

The Julius House

Dead Over Heels

A Bundle of Trouble

Last Scene Alive

Reap What You Sew

TheDisappearing Game

Aurora Teagarden

Candace Cameron Bure

Sally Allison

Lexa Doig

Lexa Doig

Aida Teagarden

Marilu Henner

John Queensland

Bruce Dawson

Arthur Smith

Peter Benson

Lynn Liggett-Smith

Miranda Frigon

Macon Turner

David Ingram

David Ingram

Dean Marshall

LeMaster Cane

Daniel Bacon

Julian Christopher

Lillian Tibbett

Ellie Harvie

Captain Burns

Craig March

Bubba Rankart

Dave Collette

Dave Collette

Dave Collette

Maisie Schlumper

Darla Fay

Darla Fay

Robin Daniels

Robin Dunne

Robin Dunne

Perry Dell

Scott Lyster

Scott Lyster

Officer Heard

Brad Harder

Brad Harder

Brad Harder

Martin Bartell

Yannick Bisson

Terry Sternholtz

Catherine Lough Haggquist

Catherine Lough Haggquist

Larry

Devon Alexander

Devon Alexander

Jason Dell

Keenan Tracey

James Rittinger

text: TV Films[edit]

text:
No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date1"Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A Bone to Pick"Martin WoodCharlaine Harris (novel), Teena Booth (teleplay)April 4, 2015 (2015-04-04)
Having inherited a large estate from a member of the now defunct Real Murders Club, Aurora Teagarden is mystified by a mere acquaintance's gift of money, jewelry, and a two bedroom house with a skull hidden in the couch.  Did the old lady kill someone and leave Aurora to solve the mystery or was she being framed?  Aurora must figure it all out before her ex-boyfriend Arthur, the police detective, and her new love interest Aubrey, the episcopal priest, figure out what she's up to.
2"Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery"Martin WoodCharlaine Harris (novel), Teena Booth (teleplay)July 26, 2015 (2015-07-26)[17][18]
Local crime buffs meet monthly in the small town of Lawrenceton, Georgia to analyze famous murder cases. In this Real Murders Club, they get all too close a look as one of their members is bludgeoned in exactly the same manner as the crime to be discussed that night. Aurora Teagarden, the town librarian, is not only a member of the club, a suspect in the murder but also a potential victim as other murders follow - each mimicking a famous crime. Aurora must work quickly to discover which of her fellow sleuths is the killer.
3"Three Bedrooms, One Corpse: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery"Lynne StopkewichCharlaine Harris (novel), Teena Booth (teleplay)June 12, 2016 (2016-06-12)
While Aurora Teagarden searches for her piece of the American dream, she decides to test the waters of the family business - real estate sales.  Only thing is there's a dead body in the first house she shows to a businessman, Martin Bartell (Yannick Bisson) who is moving to town. When a second body shows up in another home, Aurora realizes there's more to the murders than she thought. Worried that the murderer could be one of the local real estate agents, Aurora recruits fellow Real Murders Club members John and Perry to help her with what turns into a case of art theft. She soon finds herself attracted to Martin who has also become a prime suspect on the police's list.
4"The Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery"Terry IngramCharlaine Harris (novel), Teena Booth (teleplay)August 16, 2016 (2016-08-16)
Ever since she got a sizable inheritance from an acquaintance, Aurora has wanted to buy a house. Her mother, Aida Teagarden, is her real estate agent. Against Aida's advice, Aurora finds what she believes is the perfect house in the country, five miles outside of Lawrenceton. It is the infamous Julius House where the family of three (father, mother, and their teenage daughter) had disappeared into thin air four years ago. As she begins moving in, Aurora is drawn to the mysterious disappearance of the family and starts searching for clues in the house.
5"Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery"Terry IngramCharlaine Harris (novel), Teena Booth (teleplay)March 19, 2017 (2017-03-19)
Aurora and Captain Jack Burns never saw eye to eye but when he winds up murdered, she can't help but get involved despite being told by several people to stay away. The Captain's wife, Bess Burns (Leah Cairns) is suspiciously composed in the aftermath while new detective Pete Lambert (Jim Thorburn) thinks Martin is involved in Burns' death. Aurora finds Bess' sister and her colleague at the library, Lillian, attacked in the library and suspects that Captain Burns was on a case that got him murdered. As Aurora begins digging into the murder, her house is broken into and someone mysteriously leaves her flowers and then a kitten. Tensions also rise between Aurora and Martin as they near one year of being together. Meanwhile, Aurora tries to set up Sally with Tim Prentiss (Jeremy Guilbaut), Martin's colleague from the CIA who has recently moved to town.
6"A Bundle of Trouble: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery"Kevin FairCharlaine Harris (novel), Teena Booth (teleplay)May 21, 2017 (2017-05-21)
Regina, the long-lost niece of Aurora's boyfriend, Martin, turns up with a baby. Before Martin has a chance to reconnect with Regina, she disappears leaving a dead husband, Craig, on Aurora's balcony and her baby, Hayden, hidden in Aurora's bathtub. Aurora and Martin's investigation leads them to Regina and Craig's home in the neighboring town of Corinth, where Craig's parents and Regina's neighbors express bewilderment when told of Regina's newborn baby. Aurora works on balancing her relationship with Martin with her efforts to solve the murder of the baby's father and the disappearance of his mother.
7"Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery"Martin WoodCharlaine Harris (novel), Teena Booth (teleplay)January 7, 2018 (2018-01-07)[19]
Aurora's friend and mystery author, Robin Daniels, is back in town because his book is being made into a film. The lead character is based on Aurora herself, but the actress playing her, Celia Shaw, is found murdered in her trailer. Martin is suspicious of Robin who dated Celia Shaw briefly. Several others involved with the movie had their own problems with Celia. The plot thickens when the police find out that Celia was both poisoned and then clubbed since that made it obvious someone wanted to make sure she was dead. Meanwhile, since John moved away to be closer to his grandchildren, Aida gets friendly with the movie director. Another subplot has Martin preoccupied by the disappearance of his CIA partner, Rex, and leaves for South America at the end of the film to look for him.
8"Reap What You Sew: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery"Terry IngramCharlaine Harris (novel), Teena Booth (teleplay)April 15, 2018 (2018-04-15)[20]
When an old family friend, Poppy Wilson, returns to Lawrenceton, not everyone is happy. When Poppy is murdered, Aurora must face uncomfortable truths in order to get to the truth of who killed her.
9"Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: The Disappearing Game"Martin WoodCharlaine Harris (novel), Teena Booth (teleplay)July 29, 2018 (2018-07-29)[21]
The disappearance of her cousin and his roommate, following the suspicious death of the roommate's girlfriend, spur Aurora on to investigate. As well as enlisting the help of her friends, she is also assisted by handsome college professor Nick Miller (Niall Matter), who has recently moved in across the street.

text: Filming and Broadcast[edit]

text: The films in the series have been shot largely in Vancouver, British Columbia.[22]

text: The films are broadcast in the USA on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Channel 5 took over the broadcast rights for the series in the UK.[23]