Start Your Engines!

Summary Andrew announces that for season fourteen, the show will embrace all the new technology available to assist people in making them safer drivers, meaning that they will leave such things as back-up cameras installed in the vehicles used on the show. It also means that the nominees will have to use the GPS on their phones to find their way on the 70 km drive to the Drivers' Rehabilitation Centre located at Dunnville Airport. The seven nominees for Canada's Worst Driver Season 14 are: Karlene Bowen, a once professional driver who has such high anxiety behind the wheel the result of being hit by a vehicle as a pedestrian as she was walking across a crosswalk thirteen years ago; Brittany Dube, a distracted driver, usually by her phone, and chronic speeder, who failed her driver's exam eleven times; Descy McMurray, a chronic speeder who has written off in the range of twenty cars, and who admits that she should be dead by now from one of her many caused serious car accidents, one those when she was pregnant; Alexis Pratola, who seems oblivious to the effect of her careless driving, despite her infant daughter being in the car during one of her many caused and preventable serious accidents; Ryan Whittier, with all of his several car accidents being caused by using his hand held phone when he's driving; Darris Wilderman, whose reckless driving seems to be a death wish, perhaps due to being in a stolen vehicle when he was twelve, that joyride which ended up killing his partner-in-crime, his cousin; and Brandon Wilkins, who flaunts the rules of the road, while getting overly frustrated to the point of losing focus whenever anything goes wrong behind the wheel. Brandon's participation in the show is dependent on getting a doctor's certificate to okay his participation due to he having broken his arm in a skateboarding accident a week ago, his own personal doctor at home who did not sign such a release. After arriving at the Drivers' Rehabilitation Centre, the drive which goes smoother for some than for others, the nominees are placed through an assessment drive which will give the evaluators a first glance at their driving skills or lack thereof. That assessment drive includes a reverse through a curvilinear enclosed course, a maneuvering section through a concrete corral, and a slalom which must be driven at at least 50kph. At the end of this process, the evaluators contemplate doing something that they have never done in the previous thirteen years of the show: graduate someone at the end of the season's first show.

S14.E1 ∙ Start Your Engines!

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Andrew Younghusband Cam Woolley Philippe Létourneau Shyamala Kiru

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Genres : Comedy Documentary

Release date : Oct 28, 2018

Countries of origin : Canada

Official sites : Discovery Channel

Language : English

Production companies : Eggplant Picture & Sound Proper Television Inc.

Summary Andrew announces that for season fourteen, the show will embrace all the new technology available to assist people in making them safer drivers, meaning that they will leave such things as back-up cameras installed in the vehicles used on the show. It also means that the nominees will have to use the GPS on their phones to find their way on the 70 km drive to the Drivers' Rehabilitation Centre located at Dunnville Airport. The seven nominees for Canada's Worst Driver Season 14 are: Karlene Bowen, a once professional driver who has such high anxiety behind the wheel the result of being hit by a vehicle as a pedestrian as she was walking across a crosswalk thirteen years ago; Brittany Dube, a distracted driver, usually by her phone, and chronic speeder, who failed her driver's exam eleven times; Descy McMurray, a chronic speeder who has written off in the range of twenty cars, and who admits that she should be dead by now from one of her many caused serious car accidents, one those when she was pregnant; Alexis Pratola, who seems oblivious to the effect of her careless driving, despite her infant daughter being in the car during one of her many caused and preventable serious accidents; Ryan Whittier, with all of his several car accidents being caused by using his hand held phone when he's driving; Darris Wilderman, whose reckless driving seems to be a death wish, perhaps due to being in a stolen vehicle when he was twelve, that joyride which ended up killing his partner-in-crime, his cousin; and Brandon Wilkins, who flaunts the rules of the road, while getting overly frustrated to the point of losing focus whenever anything goes wrong behind the wheel. Brandon's participation in the show is dependent on getting a doctor's certificate to okay his participation due to he having broken his arm in a skateboarding accident a week ago, his own personal doctor at home who did not sign such a release. After arriving at the Drivers' Rehabilitation Centre, the drive which goes smoother for some than for others, the nominees are placed through an assessment drive which will give the evaluators a first glance at their driving skills or lack thereof. That assessment drive includes a reverse through a curvilinear enclosed course, a maneuvering section through a concrete corral, and a slalom which must be driven at at least 50kph. At the end of this process, the evaluators contemplate doing something that they have never done in the previous thirteen years of the show: graduate someone at the end of the season's first show.

Details

Genres : Comedy Documentary

Release date : Oct 28, 2018

Countries of origin : Canada

Official sites : Discovery Channel

Language : English

Production companies : Eggplant Picture & Sound Proper Television Inc.

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In the Diplomatic Service

In the Diplomatic Service

Dick Stansbury chooses a life of travel and pleasure rather than a more useful career. He returns from three years of foreign travel. His uncle, Major Blaine, interests him in a bold breach of ethics made by one of the foreign diplomats, Doctor Montell, but as yet nothing has been proved against the doctor, as he knows all the men in the Secret Service in Washington. Dick met him abroad, and Major Blaine persuades him to undertake the task of Doctor Montell's unmasking. Beverly Ryerson has a friend, an eccentric young authoress, Helen Wardlow, who is disgusted because, she says, there is no more originality in life. Beverly assures her that such is not the case. Dick, Beverly, Doctor Montell, Helen, Mrs. Ryerson, Beverly's step-mother, and her nephew, Lyna Hardi, who is loaning her money to pay her bridge debts, and who in return demands that she aid his cause with Beverly, are all at the Diplomats' Ball. Dick and Dr. Montell interest the girls and they induce Mrs. Ryerson to invite the men to a party at her country-house. Dick seizes the opportunity to ensnare the doctor in a plot that will prove his deceptions against the government. Dick has invented a "machine gun," supposed to fire a bomb that will burst anywhere within several hundred feet of an airship, asphyxiating the pilot and passengers with poisonous gas. He brings the model of the gun with him to the house-party, and takes care to talk about his invention where Montell can overhear him. He is soon approached by Montell with a proposition to deceive his own government, and sell the model to a foreign nation. Dick asks for time to consider the offer. Montell is determined to have the invention at once, and Hardi attempts to steal it for him, but is prevented by a Secret Service man. His reason for this move is that in trying to discredit big rival he has told Beverly that Dick is a traitor to his country. He has arranged for Beverly to overhear Dr. Montell and Dick talking about the invention. Though Dick has so far refused to sell, she fears he may succumb to the doctor's inducements, and to save him Beverly surreptitiously takes the model to her own room, though it is soon returned to Dick by one of his detectives. Montell and two accomplices then try to steal the model. Dick has been warned of their approach. He extends a wire from one of the house-lights to the model, and gets the janitor to operate a magneto at a signal. When the three malefactors step on a wet rug with the machine, they are held fast by the sudden shock of the electricity and caught by Dick. The ignominious recall of Dr. Montell by his own country is inevitable. Dick spares Hardi, since he has plotted against him only as a rival, not against him as a representative of the foreign government. In order to clear Beverly's mind of any possible doubt as to his loyalty to the nation, Dick next day asks her to accompany him to a junk dealer, to whom he offers his "wonderful invention." The junk-dealer finally consents to give him twenty-five cents for it. Out of sentiment, however, Beverly buys it back for $25. A happy denouement follows, and Helen, having found ample material for a plot, types busily away on her new story.

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