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Boiler Room (Los Angeles)
Boiler room may refer to: * Boiler room (building), a room or space in a building for mechanical equipment and its associated electrical equipment * Boiler room (business), a busy centre of activity, often selling questionable goods by telephone * Boiler Room (band), a nu metal band formed in 1996 * ''Boiler Room'' (film), a 2000 U.S. film * Boiler Room (music project), a music project launched in London in 2010 * Boiler room (ship), a compartment on a steamship that houses the boiler * Boiler Room, a restaurant launched by Vivian Howard * "The Boiler Room", an episode of the ''Tanner '88 ''Tanner '88'' is a political mockumentary miniseries written by Garry Trudeau and directed by Robert Altman. First broadcast by HBO during the months leading up to the 1988 U.S. presidential election, it purports to tell the behind-the-scenes s ...'' television series * "The Boiler Room", an animated short from the TV series ''Mickey Mouse and Friends'' * "The Boiler Room", a 2017 music album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boiler Room (building)
A mechanical room, boiler room or plant room is a room or space in a building dedicated to the mechanical equipment and its associated electrical equipment, as opposed to rooms intended for human occupancy or storage. Unless a building is served by a centralized heating plant, the size of the mechanical room is usually proportional to the size of the building. A small building or home may have at most a utility room but in larger buildings, mechanical rooms can be of considerable size, often requiring multiple rooms throughout the building, or even occupying one or more complete floors (see: mechanical floor). Equipment Mechanical rooms typically house the following equipment: *Air handlers *Boilers *Chillers *Heat exchangers * Water heaters and tanks *Water pumps (for domestic, heating/cooling, and firefighting water) *Main distribution piping and valves *Sprinkler distribution piping and pumps *Back-up electrical generators *Elevator machinery *Back-up batteries *Other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boiler Room (business)
In business, the term boiler room refers to an outbound call center selling questionable investments by telephone. It usually refers to a room where salespeople work using unfair, dishonest sales tactics, sometimes selling penny stocks or private placements or committing outright stock fraud. A common boiler room tactic is the use of falsified and bolstered information in combination with verified company-released information. The term is pejorative: it is often used to imply high-pressure sales tactics and, sometimes, poor working conditions. Business structure The classic image of a boiler room is that it has an undisclosed relationship with the companies it promotes, or an undisclosed profit motive for promoting those companies. Once the insider investors are in place, a boiler room promotes (by telephone calls to brokerage clients or spam email) these thinly traded stocks (i.e. stocks that are not purchased or sold very often) where there is no actual market. The broker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boiler Room (band)
Boiler Room was an American nu metal band from New York City, New York. The band formed in 1996, releasing two studio albums and one single before disbanding in 2001. Career Early years and ''Boiler Room'' The beginnings of the band can be traced back to the early 1990s. Vocalist Chris Lino, guitarist Joey Barracato, bassist James Meselsohn and drummer Mike Meselsohn played together in the thrash metal band ''Bible Black'', producing demos in 1993 and 1994. Unable to secure a record deal, the band ultimately dissolved before the members reconvened in 1996 as ''Boiler Room''. The newly christened band toured through their local club scene for several years, building up their material and performance skills. The same year, they independently released their debut album, the self-titled ''Boiler Room'' (often mistakenly referred to as ''Low Society)'', featuring at least two re-worked songs from their ''Bible Black'' days in ''Do or Die'' and ''Judgement Day.'' The album, prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boiler Room (film)
''Boiler Room'' is a 2000 American crime drama film written and directed by Ben Younger and starring Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan, Tom Everett Scott, Ron Rifkin, and Jamie Kennedy. The film was conceived when screenwriter Ben Younger interviewed for a job at brokerage firm Sterling Foster. Younger said, "I walked in and immediately realized, 'This is my movie.' I mean, you see these kids and know something is going on." The film was nominated for several awards including a Black Reel Award, a British Independent Film Award, and two Independent Spirit Awards. It won the Special Jury Prize at the 2000 Deauville Film Festival. Plot In 1999, Seth Davis, a 19-year-old Queens College dropout, runs an unlicensed casino in his home near the campus, catering to college students. Although he earns a successful living, he is a disappointment to his father, Marty, a New York City federal judge. One night, his cousin Adam stops by the casino to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boiler Room (music Project)
Boiler Room, a division of DICE (ticketing company), DICE, is an online music broadcasting and promotional platform based in London, UK. They commission and stream music sessions around the world. Founded in London in 2010, Boiler Room has now hosted shows in around 100 cities worldwide. It has regular operations in London, Amsterdam, New York City, Berlin, Lisbon, São Paulo, Mexico City, Tokyo, Sydney, Lima and Los Angeles and produces about 30 to 35 new shows each month. Its music programming originally focused on electronic music such as UK garage, garage, House music, house, techno, Dub music, dub but eventually expanded to include Grime (music), grime, Hip hop music, hip hop, classical, and jazz. According to ''The Guardian'', by 2015 Boiler Room had streamed over 3.5 billion minutes of music, with audiences of up to 400,000 watching. Boiler Room increased in presence significantly between 2017 and 2018 due to a number of marketing communications and new initiatives includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boiler Room (ship)
On a ship, the fire room, or FR or boiler room or stokehold, referred to the space, or spaces, of a vessel where water was brought to a boil. The steam was then transmitted to a separate engine room, often (but not always) located immediately aft, where it was utilized to power the vessel. To increase the safety and damage survivability of a vessel, the machinery necessary for operations may be segregated into various spaces, the fire room was one of these spaces, and was among the largest physical compartment of the machinery space. On some ships, the space comprised more than one fire room, such as forward and aft, or port or starboard fire rooms, or may be simply numbered. Each room was connected to a flue, exhausting into a stack ventilating smoke. By their nature, fire rooms were less complex than their allied engine room and were normally supervised by less senior personnel. On a large percentage of vessels, ships and boats, the fire room was located near the bottom, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Howard
Vivian Howard is an American chef, restaurateur, author and television host. From 2013 to 2018, Howard hosted the PBS television series '' A Chef's Life'' focusing on the ingredients and cooking traditions of eastern North Carolina — using the backdrop of the ''Chef & the Farmer'' restaurant in Kinston, North Carolina, which Howard co-owns with her husband and business partner, artist Ben Knight. In 2014, Howard was the first woman since Julia Child to win a Peabody Award for a cooking program. In 2017, she authored the cookbook-memoir ''Deep Run Roots.'' Background Howard grew up in Deep Run, North Carolina, a small community near the town of Kinston. Her parents, John and Scarlett Howard, were farmers who raised hogs and grew tobacco, cotton, soybeans, wheat, and corn. Her father owns J.C. Howard Farms, Inc., a pork production company with 27,000 pigs, and owns 5,000 acres of row crop farmland, 5,000 acres in forestland, a timber production company, and fourteen John Deer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanner '88
''Tanner '88'' is a political mockumentary miniseries written by Garry Trudeau and directed by Robert Altman. First broadcast by HBO during the months leading up to the 1988 U.S. presidential election, it purports to tell the behind-the-scenes story of the campaign of former Michigan U.S. representative Jack Tanner during his bid to secure the Democratic Party's nomination for president of the United States. The story is told from a number of different points of view, including Tanner, his campaign staff, the small army of news reporters that constantly follow the candidate, and volunteers. Many political figures of the time appear (some in cameos, some extended), including Bruce Babbitt, Bob Dole, Kitty Dukakis, Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson, and Pat Robertson. Trudeau and Altman revisited the story 16 years later in ''Tanner on Tanner''. Plot summary Representative Jack Tanner of Michigan (Michael Murphy) is an obscure liberal Democratic politician who struggles to find a voice i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
