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Several books have been written about Bachchan . |
Bachchan himself wrote a book in 2002 : " Soul Curry for you and me - An Empowering Philosophy That Can Enrich Your Life " . |
He was named " Hottest Vegetarian " by PETA India in 2012 . He won the title of " Asia 's Sexiest Vegetarian " in a contest poll run by PETA Asia . { { cite news | url = vegetarian |
In Allahabad , the Amitabh Bachchan Sports Complex and Amitabh Bachchan Road are named after him . |
There is a temple in Kolkata , where Amitabh is worshipped as a God . |
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" Ally McBeal " is ! -- DO NOT change the tense please ! Read WP : MOSTV # Lead _ paragraphs-- an American legal drama | legal comedy-drama television series , originally aired on Fox Broadcasting Company | Fox from September 8 , 1997 , to May 20 , 2002 . Created by David E. Kelley , the series stars Calista Flockhart in the Ally McBeal ( character ) | title role as a lawyer working in the fictional Boston List of fictional law firms | law firm Cage and Fish , with other lawyers whose lives and loves were eccentric , humorous , and dramatic . The series received critical acclaim in its early seasons , winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy in 1997 and 1998 , and also winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series | Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1999 . |
The series , set in the fictional Boston List of fictional law firms | law firm Cage and Fish , begins with main character Ally McBeal ( character ) | Allison Marie " Ally " McBeal joining the firm co-owned by her law school classmate Richard Fish ( Greg Germann ) after leaving her previous job due to sexual harassment . On her first day , Ally is horrified to find that she will be working alongside her ex-boyfriend Billy Thomas ( Gil Bellows ) & amp ; mdash ; whom she has never gotten over . To make things worse , Billy is now married to fellow lawyer Georgia ( Courtney Thorne-Smith ) , who later joins Cage and Fish . The triangle among the three forms the basis for the main plot for the show 's first three seasons . |
Although ostensibly a legal drama , the main focus of the series was the romantic and personal lives of the main characters , often using legal proceedings as plot device s to contrast or reinforce a character 's drama . For example , bitter divorce litigation of a client might provide a backdrop for Ally 's decision to break up with a boyfriend . Legal arguments were also frequently used to explore multiple sides of various social issues . |
Cage and Fish ( which becomes Cage / Fish & amp ; McBeal or Cage , Fish , & amp ; Associates towards the end of the series ) , the fictional law firm where most of the characters work , is depicted as a highly sexualized environment symbolized by its unisex restroom . Lawyers and secretaries in the firm routinely date , flirt with , or have a romantic history with each other and frequently run into former or potential romantic interests in the courtroom or on the street outside . |
The series had many offbeat and frequently surreal running gags and themes , such as Ally 's tendency to immediately fall over whenever she met somebody she found attractive , Richard Fish 's Wattle ( anatomy ) | wattle fetish and humorous mottos ( " Fishisms " & amp ; " Bygones " ) , John 's gymnastic dismounts out of the office 's unisex bathroom stalls , or the dancing twins ( played by Eric & amp ; Steve Cohen ) at the bar , that ran through the series . The show also used vivid , dramatic fantasy sequences for Ally 's and other characters ' wishful thinking ; of particular note is the early internet sensation the dancing baby . |
The series also featured regular visits to a local bar where singer Vonda Shepard regularly performed ( though occasionally handing over the microphone to the characters ) . Star contemporary singers also performed in the bar at the end of the shows , including acts such as Mariah Carey , Barry White and Anastacia . The series also took place in the same Continuity ( fiction ) | continuity as David E. Kelley 's legal drama " The Practice " ( which aired on American Broadcasting Company | ABC ) , as the two shows crossed over with one another on occasion , a very rare occurrence for two shows that aired on different networks . |
Ultimately , in the last installment of the fifth and final season , " Bygones , " Ally decided to resign from Cage & amp ; Fish , leave Boston , and go to New York City . |
Fox canceled " Ally McBeal " after five seasons . In addition to being the lowest-rated season of " Ally McBeal " and the grounds for the show 's cancelation , the fifth season was also the only season of the show that failed to win any Emmy or Golden Globe awards . |
In Australia , " Ally McBeal " was aired by the Seven Network from 1997 to 2002 . In 2010 , it was aired repeatedly by Network 10 . |
Seymore Walsh , a stern judge often exasperated by the eccentricities of the Cage & amp ; Fish lawyers and played by actor Albert Hall , was also a recurring character on " The Practice " . In addition , Judge Jennifer ( Whipper ) Cone appears on " The Practice " episode " Line of Duty " ( S02 E15 ) , while Judge Roberta Kittelson , a recurring character on " The Practice " , has a featured guest role in the " Ally McBeal " episode " Do you Wanna Dance ? " |
Most of the primary " Practice " cast members guest starred in the " Ally McBeal " episode " The Inmates " ( S01 E20 ) , in a storyline that concluded with the " Practice " episode " Axe Murderer " ( S02 E26 ) , featuring Calista Flockhart and Gil Bellows reprising their " Ally " characters . What is unusual about this continuing storyline is that " Ally McBeal " and " The Practice " aired on different networks . Bobby Donnell , the main character of " The Practice " played by Dylan McDermott , was featured heavily in both this crossover and another " Ally McBeal " episode , " These are the Days . " |
Regular " Practice " cast members Lara Flynn Boyle and Michael Badalucco each had a cameo in " Ally McBeal " ( Boyle as a woman who trades insults with Ally in the episode " Making Spirits Bright " and Badalucco as one of Ally 's dates in the episode " I Know him by Heart " ) but it is unclear whether they were playing the same characters they play on " The Practice " . |
Upon premiering in 1997 , the show was an instant hit , averaging around 11 million viewers per episode . The show 's second season saw an increase in ratings and soon became a top 20 show , averaging around 13 million viewers per episode . The show 's ratings began to decline in the third season , but stabilized in the fourth season after Robert Downey Jr . joined the regular cast as Ally 's boyfriend Larry Paul , and a fresher aesthetic was created by new art director Matthew DeCoste . However , Downey 's character was written out after the end of the season due to the actor 's troubles with drug addiction . |
The first two seasons , as well as the fourth , remain the most critically acclaimed and saw the most awards success at the Emmys , SAG Awards and the Golden Globes . In 2007 , " Ally McBeal " placed # 48 on " Entertainment Weekly " |
" Ally McBeal " received some criticism from TV critics and feminists who found the title character annoying and demeaning to women ( specifically regarding professional womenMichelle L. Hammers , " Cautionary Tales of Liberation and Female Professionalism : The Case Against " Ally McBeal " " " Western Journal of Communication " 69 2 , April ( 2005 ) : 168 . " The ease with which " McBeal " |
" Ally McBeal " was a heavily music-oriented show . Vonda Shepard , a virtually unknown musician at the time , was featured continually on the show . Her song " Searchin ' My Soul " became the show 's theme song . Many of the songs Shepard performed were established hits with lyrics that paralleled the events of the episode , including " Both Sides Now ( song ) | Both Sides Now , " " Hooked on a Feeling " and " Tell Him ( Bert Berns song ) | Tell Him . " Besides recording background music for the show , Shepard frequently appeared at the ends of episodes as a musician performing at a local piano bar frequented by the main characters . On rare occasions , her character would have conventional dialogue . A portion of " Searchin ' My Soul " was played at the beginning of each episode , but the song was never played in its entirety . |
Several of the characters had a musical leitmotif that played when they appeared . John Cage 's was " You 're the First , the Last , My Everything , " Ling Woo 's was the Wicked Witch of the West theme from " The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 film ) | The Wizard of Oz " , and Ally McBeal herself picked " Tell Him ( Bert Berns song ) | Tell Him , " when told by a psychiatrist that she needed a theme . |
Due to the popularity of the show and Shepard 's music , a soundtrack titled " Songs from Ally McBeal " was released in 1998 , as well as a successor soundtrack titled " Heart and Soul : New Songs from Ally McBeal " in 1999 . Two compilation albums from the show featuring Shepard were also released in 2000 and 2001 . A Christmas album was also released under the title " Ally McBeal : A Very Ally Christmas " . |
Other artists featured on the show include Michael Jackson , Barry White , Al Green , Tina Turner , Macy Gray , Gloria Gaynor , Chayanne , Barry Manilow , Anastacia , Elton John , Sting ( musician ) | Sting and Mariah Carey . Josh Groban played the role of Malcolm Wyatt in the May 2001 season finale , performing " You 're Still You . " The series creator , David E. Kelley , was impressed with Groban 's performance at The Family Celebration event and based on the audience reaction to Groban 's singing , Kelley created a character for him in that finale . The background score for the show was composed by Danny Lux . |
Due to music licensing issues , none of the seasons of " Ally McBeal " were available on DVD-Video | DVD in the United States ( only 6 random episodes could be found on the R1 edition ) until 2009 , though the show had been available in Italy , Belgium , the Netherlands , Japan , Hong Kong , Portugal , Spain , France , Germany , the United Kingdom , Mexico , Taiwan , Australia , Brazil , and the Czech Republic with all the show 's music intact since 2005 . In the UK , Ireland , and Spain all seasons are available in a complete box set . |
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 20th Century Fox released the complete first season on DVD in Region 1 on October 6 , 2009 . They also released a special complete series edition on the same day . |
In 1999 , at the height of the show 's popularity , a half-hour version entitled " Ally " began airing in parallel with the main program . This version , designed in a sitcom format , used re-edited scenes from the main program , along with previously unseen footage . The intention was to further develop the plots in the comedy-drama in a sitcom style . It also focused only on Ally 's personal life , cutting all the courtroom plots . The repackaged show was cancelled partway through its initial run . While 13 episodes of " Ally " were produced , only ten aired . |
McBeal and 1990s yuppie | young affluent professional women were parodied in the song " Ally McBeal " ( tune of " Like a Rolling Stone " by Bob Dylan ) by a cappella group Da Vinci 's Notebook on their album " The Life and Times of Mike Fanning " , released in 2000 . |
In episode 2 , season 3 of the British comedy " The Adam and Joe Show " , the show was parodied as " Ally McSqueal " using soft toys .. YouTube . Retrieved on 2012-04-23 . |
Episode 2 , season 2 of the show " Futurama " , " When Aliens Attack , " centers on an invasion of Earth by the Omicronians precipitated by a signal loss during the climax of an episode of " Single Female Lawyer " , whose main character is Jenny McNeal . |
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Augustine of Hippo ( was a Catholic bishop and theologian , a Roman Africans | Roman African having Chaouis Berbers | Berber origins , doctor of the Church , and Neoplatonism | Neoplatonic philosopher from Numidia ( Roman province ) | Numidia whose writings influenced the development of the Western Church and Western philosophy , and indirectly all of Western Christianity . He was the bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa and is viewed as one of the most important Latin Church Fathers | Church Fathers of the Latin Church for his writings in the Patristics | Patristic Period . Among his most important works are " The City of God " , " De doctrina Christiana " , and " Confessions ( Augustine ) | Confessions " . |
According to his contemporary , Jerome , Augustine " established anew the ancient Faith . " ref group = lower-alpha Jerome wrote to Augustine in 418 : " You are known throughout the world ; Catholics honour and esteem you as the one who has established anew the ancient Faith " ( " conditor antiquae rursum fidei " ) . Cf . " . |
Augustine is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church , the Eastern Orthodox Churches , and the Anglican Communion and as a preeminent Doctor of the Church . He is also the patron of the Augustinians . His memorial is celebrated on 28 August , the day of his death . Augustine is the patron saint of brewers , printers , theologians , and a number of cities and dioceses .. |
In the Eastern Christianity | East , his teachings are more disputed , and were notably attacked by John Romanides . |
Augustine of Hippo ( ) . |
Hippo Regius , where Augustine was the bishop , was in modern-day Annaba , Algeria . |
Augustine was born in the year 354 AD in the municipium of Thagaste ( now Souk Ahras , Algeria ) in the Roman province of Numidia . |
Scholars generally agree that Augustine and his family were Berbers , an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa , Contra Faustum , I , 1 . |
Augustine 's family name , Aurelius , suggests that his father 's ancestors were liberti | freedmen of the " Aurelia ( gens ) | gens Aurelia " given full Roman citizenship by the Edict of Caracalla in 212 . Augustine 's family had been Roman , from a legal standpoint , for at least a century when he was born . |
At the age of 11 , Augustine was sent to school at Madaurus ( now M 'Daourouch ) , a small Numidia n city about His first insight into the nature of sin occurred when he and a number of friends stole fruit they did not want from a neighborhood garden . He tells this story in his autobiography , " The Confessions " . He remembers that he stole the fruit , not because he was hungry , but because " it was not permitted . " From this incident he concluded the human person is naturally inclined to sin , and in need of the grace of Christ . |
At the age of 17 , through the generosity of his fellow citizen Romanianus , |
It was while he was a student in Carthage that he read Cicero ' s dialogue " Hortensius ( Cicero ) | Hortensius " ( now lost ) , which he described as leaving a lasting impression , enkindling in his heart the love of wisdom and a great thirst for truth . It started his interest in philosophy.Augustine of Hippo , " Confessions " , 3 : 4 Although raised to follow Christianity , Augustine decided to become a Manichaeism | Manichaean , much to his mother 's despair . |
At about the age of 17 , Augustine began an affair with a young woman in Carthage . Though his mother wanted him to marry a person of his class , the woman remained his lover |
Augustine was from the beginning a brilliant student , with an eager intellectual curiosity , but he never mastered Greek - he tells us that his first Greek teacher was a brutal man who constantly beat his students , and Augustine rebelled and refused to study . By the time he realized that he needed to know Greek , it was too late ; and although he acquired a smattering of the language , he was never eloquent with it . However , his mastery of Latin was another matter . He became an expert both in the eloquent use of the language and in the use of clever arguments to make his points . |
Augustine taught grammar at Thagaste during 373 and 374 . The following year he moved to Carthage to conduct a school of rhetoric and would remain there for the next nine years . Disturbed by unruly students in Carthage , he moved to establish a school in Rome , where he believed the best and brightest rhetoricians practiced , in 383 . However , Augustine was disappointed with the apathetic reception . It was the custom for students to pay their fees to the professor on the last day of the term , and many students attended faithfully all term , and then did not pay . |
Manichaean friends introduced him to the prefect of the City of Rome , Quintus Aurelius Symmachus | Symmachus , who while traveling through Carthage had been asked by the imperial court at Milan to provide a rhetoric professor . Augustine won the job and headed north to take his position in Milan in late 384 . Thirty years old , he had won the most visible academic position in the Latin world at a time when such posts gave ready access to political careers . |
Although Augustine spent ten years as a Manichaean , he was never an initiate or " elect , " but an " auditor , " the lowest level in this religion 's hierarchy . Initially Augustine was not strongly influenced by Christianity and its ideologies , but after coming in contact with Ambrose of Milan , Augustine reevaluated himself and was forever changed . |
Augustine arrived in Milan and visited Ambrose having heard of his reputation as an orator . Augustine quickly discovered that Ambrose was a spectacular orator . Like Augustine , Ambrose was a master of rhetoric , but older and more experienced . |
Augustine 's mother had followed him to Milan and arranged a respectable marriage for him . Although Augustine acquiesced , he had to dismiss his concubine and grieved for having forsaken his lover . He wrote , " My mistress being torn from my side as an impediment to my marriage , my heart , which clave to her , was racked , and wounded , and bleeding . " Augustine confessed that he was not a lover of wedlock so much as a slave of lust , so he procured another concubine since he had to wait two years until his fiancée came of age . However , his emotional wound was not healed.Augustine of Hippo , " Confessions " , 6 : 15 It was during this period that he uttered his famous prayer , " Grant me chastity and sexual abstinence | continence , but not yet . " |
There is evidence that Augustine may have considered this former relationship to be equivalent to marriage . |
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He later wrote an account of his conversion in his " Confessions ( Augustine ) | Confessions " ( ) , which has since become a classic of Christian theology and a key text in the history of autobiography . This work is an outpouring of thanksgiving and penitence . Although it is written as an account of his life , the " Confessions " also talks about the nature of time , causality , free will , and other important philosophical topics . The following is taken from that work : |
Thou wast within and I without , and there I sought Thee . |
Thou wast with me when I was not with Thee . |
Thou didst call , and cry , and burst my deafness . |
Thou didst gleam , and glow , and dispel my blindness . |
Thou didst touch me , and I burned for Thy peace . |
For Thyself Thou hast made us , |
And restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease . |
Late have I loved Thee , Thou Beauty ever old and ever new.poem } } |
Ambrose baptized Augustine and his son Adeodatus , in Milan on Easter Vigil , April 24-25 , 387 . Augustine then sold his patrimony and gave the money to the poor . The only thing he kept was the family house , which he converted into a monastic foundation for himself and a group of friends . |
In 391 Augustine was ordination | ordained a priest in Hippo Regius ( now Annaba ) , in Algeria . He became a famous preacher ( more than 350 preserved sermons are believed to be authentic ) , and was noted for combating the Manichaean religion , to which he had formerly adhered . |
In 395 , he was made coadjutor Bishop of Hippo , and became full Bishop shortly thereafter , hence the name " Augustine of Hippo " ; and he gave his property to the church of Thagaste.Augustine , " ep . " 126.1 He remained in that position until his death in 430 . He wrote his autobiographical " Confessions " in 397-398 . His work " The City of God " was written to console his fellow Christians shortly after the Visigoths had Sack of Rome ( 410 ) | sacked Rome in 410 . |
Augustine worked tirelessly in trying to convince the people of Hippo to convert to Christianity . Though he had left his monastery , he continued to lead a monastic life in the episcopal residence . He left a " Monastic rule | regula " for his monastery that led to his designation as the " patron saint of regular clergy . " at " saints.sqpn.com " . Retrieved 30 September 2011 |
Much of Augustine 's later life was recorded by his friend Possidius , bishop of Calama ( Numidia ) | Calama ( present-day Guelma , Algeria ) , in his " Sancti Augustini Vita " . Possidius admired Augustine as a man of powerful intellect and a stirring orator who took every opportunity to defend Christianity against its detractors . Possidius also described Augustine 's personal traits in detail , drawing a portrait of a man who ate sparingly , worked tirelessly , despised gossip , shunned the temptations of the flesh , and exercised prudence in the financial stewardship of his see . |
Shortly before Augustine 's death , the Vandals , a Germanic peoples | Germanic tribe that had converted to Arianism , invaded Africa ( Roman province ) | Roman Africa . The Vandals besieged Hippo in the spring of 430 , when Augustine entered his final illness . According to Possidius , one of the few miracles attributed to Augustine , the healing of an ill man , took place during the siege . Shortly after his death , the Vandals lifted the siege of Hippo , but they returned not long thereafter and burned the city . They destroyed all of it but Augustine 's cathedral and library , which they left untouched. at " PhilosophyBasics.com " . Retrieved 30 September 2011 . |
Augustine was canonization | canonized by popular acclaim , and later recognized as a Doctor of the Church in 1298 by Pope Boniface VIII . His feast day is 28 August , the day on which he died . He is considered the patron saint of brewers , printers , theologians , and a number of cities and dioceses . He is invoked against sore eyes . |
According to Bede ' s " True Martyrology " , Augustine 's body was later Translation ( relic ) | translated or moved to Cagliari , Sardinia , by the Catholic bishops expelled from North Africa by Huneric . Around 720 , his remains were transported again by Peter , bishop of Pavia and uncle of the Lombard king Liutprand , King of the Lombards | Liutprand , to the church of San Pietro in Ciel d 'Oro in Pavia , in order to save them from frequent coastal raids by Muslim s . In January 1327 , Pope John XXII issued the papal bull " Veneranda Santorum Patrum " , in which he appointed the Augustinians guardians of the tomb of Augustine ( called " Arca " ) , which was remade in 1362 and elaborately carved with bas-reliefs of scenes from Augustine 's life . |
In October 1695 , some workmen in the Church of San Pietro in Ciel d 'Oro in Pavia discovered a marble box containing some human bones ( including part of a skull ) . A dispute arose between the Augustinian hermits ( Order of Saint Augustine ) and the regular canons ( Canons Regular of Saint Augustine ) as to whether these were the bones of Augustine . The hermits did not believe so ; the canons affirmed that they were . Eventually Pope Benedict XIII ( 1724-1730 ) directed the Bishop of Pavia , Monsignor Pertusati , to make a determination . The bishop declared that , in his opinion , the bones were those of Saint Augustine . . Augnet.org ( 2007-04-22 ) . Retrieved on 2015-06-17 . |
The Augustinians were expelled from Pavia in 1700 , taking refuge in Milan with the relics of Augustine , and the disassembled " Arca " , which were removed to the cathedral there . San Pietro fell into disrepair , but was finally rebuilt in the 1870s , under the urging of Agostino Gaetano Riboldi , and reconsecrated in 1896 when the relics of Augustine and the shrine were once again reinstalled . |
In 1842 , a portion of Augustine 's right arm ( cubitus ) was secured from Pavia and returned to Annaba . It now rests in the Saint Augustin Basilica within a glass tube inserted into the arm of a life-size marble statue of the saint . |
Augustine 's large contribution of writings covered diverse fields including theology , philosophy and sociology . Along with John Chrysostom , Augustine was among the most prolific scholars of the early church by quantity . |
Augustine was one of the first Christian Late Latin | ancient Latin authors with a very clear vision of Christian anthropology | theological anthropology . He saw the human being as a perfect unity of two substances : soul and body . In his late treatise " s : Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers : Series I / Volume III / Moral Treatises of St. Augustin / On Care to Be Had for the Dead / Section 5 | On Care to Be Had for the Dead , section 5 " ( 420 AD ) he exhorted to respect the body on the grounds that it belonged to the very nature of the human person .Augustine of Hippo , " De cura pro mortuis gerenda " Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum | CSEL 41 , 627 [ 13-22 ] ; abbr title = " Patrologia Latina " Patrologia Latina | PL / abbr 40 , 595 : " Nullo modo ipsa spernenda sunt corpora . ( ... ) Haec enim non ad ornamentum vel adiutorium , quod adhibetur extrinsecus , sed ad ipsam naturam hominis pertinent " . Augustine 's favourite figure to describe " body-soul " unity is marriage : " caro tua , coniunx tua - your body is your wife " .Augustine of Hippo , " Enarrationes in psalmos " , 143 , 6 . Corpus Christianorum | CCL 40 , 2077 [ 46 ] - 2078 [ 74 ] ; 46 , 234-35.Augustine of Hippo , " De utilitate ieiunii " , 4 , 4-5 . |
Initially , the two elements were in perfect harmony . After the Augustine of Hippo # Original sin | fall of humanity they are now experiencing dramatic combat between one another . They are two categorically different things . The body is a three-dimensional object composed of the four elements , whereas the soul has no spatial dimensions.Augustine of Hippo , " De quantitate animae " 1.2 ; 5.9 . Soul is a kind of substance , participating in reason , fit for ruling the body.Augustine of Hippo , " De quantitate animae " 13.12 : " Substantia quaedam rationis particeps , regendo corpori accomodata " . |
Augustine was not preoccupied , as Plato and Descartes were , with going too much into details in efforts to explain the metaphysics of the soul-body union . It sufficed for him to admit that they are metaphysically distinct : to be a human is to be a composite of soul and body , and the soul is superior to the body . The latter statement is grounded in his hierarchical classification of things into those that merely exist , those that exist and live , and those that exist , live , and have intelligence or reason.Augustine of Hippo , " On the free will " ( " De libero arbitrio " ) 2.3.7-6.13 . |
Like other Church Fathers such as Athenagoras of Athens | Athenagoras , . U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops |
Augustine held that " the timing of the infusion of the soul was a mystery known to God alone . " |