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Dead Heat (other)
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Dead Heat may refer to: * Dead heat, in racing sports, an unresolvable tie Film and television * ''Dead Heat'' (1988 film), an American comedy horror cop film * ''Dead Heat'' (2002 film), an American crime comedy film * "Dead Heat" (''Murder, She Wrote''), a 1985 television episode Literature * ''Dead Heat'' (Rosenberg novel), a 2008 ''Last Jihad'' novel by Joel C. Rosenberg * ''Dead Heat'' (Stone novel), a 1996 novel by Del Stone Jr. *''Dead Heat'', a 1984 Michael Spraggue novel by Linda Barnes *''Dead Heat'', a 2015 Alpha and Omega novel by Patricia Briggs *''Dead Heat'', a 2007 novel by Dick Francis and Felix Francis See also *Heat death (other) *List of dead heat horse races *Photo finish *Tie (draw) A draw or tie occurs in a competitive sport when the results are identical or inconclusive. Ties or draws are possible in some, but not all, sports and games. Such an outcome, sometimes referred to as deadlock, can also occur in other areas of lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Heat
A dead heat is a rare situation in various racing sports in which the performances of competitors are judged to be so close that no difference between them can be resolved. The result is declared a Tie (draw), tie and the competitors are awarded a joint ranking. Dead heats can occur in both head-to-head races and competitions where competitors race sequentially and are ranked by finishing time. Photo finishes have been a long-standing method of resolving outcomes too ambiguous to be distinguished by the naked eye. Improvements in technology, including digital super-slow motion replay and pressure-sensitive digital timers, have increased precision in resolving dead heats. Consequently, dead heats are declared less often than they once were. Etymology The Oxford English Dictionary attributes the term to horse racing. Meets formerly had the same horses run several "heats" in a day, with victors being decided by the total number of wins. A heat which had no clear single winner wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Heat (1988 Film)
''Dead Heat'' (released in the Philippines as ''Iron Cops'') is a 1988 American buddy cop action zombie comedy film directed by Mark Goldblatt and starring Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Darren McGavin, Lindsay Frost and Vincent Price. The film is about an LAPD police officer who is murdered while attempting to arrest zombies who have been reanimated by the head of Dante Laboratories in order to carry out violent armed robberies, and decides to get revenge with the help of his former partner. Plot Detectives Roger Mortis and Doug Bigelow are called to the scene of a rather violent jewelry store robbery. The robbers take on a squadron of police in a messy shootout, but neither seems affected when they are riddled with bullets. Thanks to the combined, albeit extreme measures of Mortis and Bigelow, they are able to take out the criminals. Narrowly avoiding termination their captain assigns them to the investigation. Meanwhile, a coroner friend of Roger's, Rebecca informs the detective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Heat (2002 Film)
''Dead Heat'' is a 2002 crime comedy-drama film starring Kiefer Sutherland, Anthony LaPaglia and Radha Mitchell. It was written and directed by Mark Malone. Plot Situated in Boston, Albert Paul 'Pally' LaMarr ( Kiefer Sutherland) plays the role of a 35 year old police officer who has recently suffered a heart attack while facing a bandit, forcing him into retirement. The loss of his career created a void that drove him into depression and left him contemplating suicide. His wife, Charlotte LaMarr (Radha Mitchell) calls Pally's half-brother Ray LaMarr (Anthony LaPaglia) to come and visit him with the intention of bringing his spirits up. Ray is a small time crook and he convinces Pally to finance a long-shot race horse. Unknowingly, Pally becomes in over his head as Ray's new found jockey Tony LaRoche (Lothaire Bluteau) is a gambling addict who is in debt with a Mob kingpin Frank Finnegan (Daniel Benzali). Ray and Pally become guilty by association and Tony's debt is now theirs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Heat (Murder, She Wrote)
This is a list of '' Murder, She Wrote'' episodes in the order that they originally aired on CBS. Most of the episodes took place either in Jessica's fictional hometown of Cabot Cove, Maine, or in New York City, but her travels promoting books or visiting relatives and friends led to cases throughout the U.S. and around the world. After the final episode aired in 1996, Angela Lansbury Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was an Irish-British and American film, stage, and television actress. Her career spanned eight decades, much of it in the United States, and her work received a great deal ... sporadically reprised the character of Jessica Fletcher in a handful of feature-length ''Murder, She Wrote'' specials starting in 1997. The last TV movie aired in May 2003. In February 2007, on the ABC daytime talk show '' The View'', Lansbury announced that she hoped to make another ''Murder, She Wrote'' TV movie in the near future but only if her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Heat (Rosenberg Novel)
Joel C. Rosenberg (born April 17, 1967) is an American-Israeli communications strategist, author, and non-profit executive. He has written sixteen novels about terrorism and Bible prophecy, including the Gold Medallion Book Award-winner '' The Ezekiel Option.'' He also has written three nonfiction books, ''Epicenter'', ''Inside the Revolution,'' and ''Enemies and Allies.'' Early life Rosenberg was born in 1967 near Rochester, New York. He has stated that his father is of Jewish descent and his mother was born into a Methodist family of English descent. His parents were agnostic and became born-again Christians when he was a child in 1973. At the age of 17, he became a born-again Christian and now identifies as a Jewish believer in Jesus. He graduated in 1988 from Syracuse University, after which he worked for Rush Limbaugh as a research assistant. Later, he worked for U.S. presidential candidate Steve Forbes as a campaign advisor. Rosenberg opened a political consultancy busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Heat (Stone Novel)
''Dead Heat'' is a novel by Del Stone, Jr. It was published in 1996 by Mojo Press, with illustrations by Dave Dorman and Scott Hampton. It is based on and contains portions from Stone's previous works in ''Roadkill'' (Caliber Comics, 1993) and ''December'' (Hero Illustrated, 1994). The novel won the 1996 International Horror Guild Award for best first novel and was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award for best first novel by an author offered by the Horror Writers Association The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is a worldwide non-profit organization of professional writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting the interests of Horror and Dark fantasy writers. Overview HWA was formed in 1985 with t .... Plot Based on the character Hitch created by Dave Dorman, Dead Heat tells the tale of a research facility in the Australian desert after an accident occurs; mutated DNA causes the mindless dead to rise up as zombies. As the undead population begins to outnu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Barnes (writer)
Linda Barnes (born December 6, 1949) is an American mystery writer. Biography Linda Barnes was born and raised in Detroit, and graduated cum laude from the School of Fine and Applied Arts at Boston University. After college, Barnes became a drama teacher and director at Chelmsford and Lexington, Massachusetts schools. While teaching drama, Barnes wrote two plays, the award-winning "Wings" and "Prometheus", and went on to write highly successful mystery novels. Linda Barnes lives near Boston with her husband and has one son. Novels Barnes is best known for her series featuring Carlotta Carlyle, a 6'1" redheaded detective from Boston. Carlotta Carlyle is in the tradition of the hard-boiled female detectives created by Sue Grafton and Sara Paretsky. Michael Spraggue series * ''Blood Will Have Blood'' (1981) * ''Bitter Finish'' (1982) * ''Dead Heat'' (1984) * ''Cities Of The Dead'' (1985) Carlotta Carlyle series * ''A Trouble Of Fools'' (1987) * ''The Snake Tattoo'' (1989) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Briggs
Patricia Briggs (born 1965) is an American writer of Fantasy novel, fantasy since 1993, and author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. Biography Patricia Briggs was born in 1965 in Butte, Montana, United States. She now resides in Benton City, WA Briggs began writing in 1990 and published her first novel ''Masques'' in 1993. She wrote primarily in the fantasy genre until her editor asked her to write an urban fantasy, since the genre was showing promising growth. Briggs wrote ''Moon Called'', which was published in 2006 and made it to the ''USA Today'' bestseller lists. The second book in the series, ''Blood Bound'', hit The New York Times Best Seller list, ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. The third book, ''Iron Kissed'', was a number one ''New York Times'' bestseller and subsequent novels have continued to perform similarly in sales. Published works Sianim series #''Masques'' (1993) also in Shifter's Wolf #''Wolfsbane'' (2010) also in Shifter's Wolf #''Steal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Francis
Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, winning over 350 races and becoming champion jockey of the British National Hunt. He came to further prominence in 1956 as jockey to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, riding her horse Devon Loch which fell when close to winning the Grand National. Francis retired from the turf and became a journalist and novelist. Many of his novels deal with crime in the horse-racing world, with some of the criminals being outwardly respectable figures. The stories are narrated by the main character, often a jockey, but sometimes a trainer, an owner, a bookie, or someone in a different profession, peripherally linked to racing. This person always faces great obstacles, often including physical injury. More than forty of these novels became international best-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heat Death (other)
Heat death may refer to: *Heat death of the universe, a proposed cosmological event ** Heat death paradox, a philosophical examination of the cosmological event *Hyperthermia, injury up to and including death, from excessive heat *Thermal shock, the destruction of equipment by overheating In arts *'' The Heat Death of the Universe'', 2003 album by punk band Off Minor *"The Heat Death of the Universe", a short story by Pamela Zoline Pamela Zoline (or Pamela Lifton-Zoline; born 1941) is an American writer and painter, born in Chicago, living in the United States in Telluride, Colorado. Background Among science fiction fans, she is known for her controversial short story "The ... See also * Dead Heat (other) * Heat Death of the Universe (other) * {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Dead Heat Horse Races
This list of dead heat horse races includes wins between two or more horses, where the winner could not be determined by a photo finish. Before the 20th century, dead heat horse races could be settled by a second deciding race, unless the owners agreed to divide the prize. * April 24, 1801in the King's Plate at Newmarket, between Worthy and Sorcerer, Worthy won in a deciding heat. * May 15, 1828in the Epsom Derby, between Cadland and The Colonel; Cadland won in a deciding heat. * June 21, 1832in the Ascot Gold Cup, between Camarine and Rowton; Camarine won in a deciding heat. * September 18, 1850in the St. Leger Stakes, between Voltigeur and Russborough; Voltigeur won in a deciding heat. * April 28, 1868in the 2000 Guineas, between Formosa and Moslem. * September 3, 1879in the Grosser Preis von Baden between Kincsem and Prince Giles The First. Kincsem won in a deciding heat. * May 28, 1884in the Epsom Derby, between Harvester and St. Gatien. * June 13, 1900in the Coronation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photo Finish
A photo finish occurs in a sporting race when multiple competitors cross the finishing line at nearly the same time. As the naked eye may not be able to determine which of the competitors crossed the line first, a photo or video taken at the finish line may be used for a more accurate check. Photo finishes make it less likely that officials will declare a race a dead heat. Finish line photos are still used in nearly every modern racing sport. Although some sports use electronic equipment to track the racers during a race, a photo is considered the most important evidence in selecting the winner. They are especially important during close races, but they are also used to assign official times to each competitor during any race. Method of capture Strip photography Photo-finish cameras were developed during the 1940s and 1950s as a means of regulating the racing industry and to reduce cheating. Betting on races became increasingly popular during the middle decades of the twentieth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
