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Istanbul Volleyball Club

2021-05-15 16:28:53+00:00

Istanbul Volleyball Club (Turkish: İstanbul Voleybol Kulübü: İVK) is a sports club founded in 2010 in Üsküdar district of Istanbul, Turkey. Apart from volleyball, it also operates an archery branch. The archery branch participates in competitions under the name of İVK Archery. Nüket Yolaç is the president of the club, which has red, white and black colors. The club's men's volleyball team competed in the Istanbul Senior Men's League between 2010 and 2015. Since the 2015–2016 season, it has started to compete in the Regional League, which is the upper league of the Istanbul Senior Men's League. In the Regional League in the 2016-2017 and 2018–2019 seasons, it was promoted to the 2nd League of Turkey as the Istanbul champion and participated in the finals. It finished second both seasons. = Although it started shortly after its establishment, it formed the A Men's team and completed the 2010–2011 season, the first season in which it joined the Big Men League, ranking 5th among 18 teams. Completing the group stage in the 2011–2012 season in the first two places, the club faced the Ataşehir Tennis Club in the last game of the league. Although he was ahead 2-0 by winning 23, it lost its medal chances when they lost the 3rd and 4th sets 16–25, 20–25. Losing 15–9 in the 5th set, the team lost 3-2 from the last game and finished the 2011–2012 season in Istanbul in 4th place of 19 teams. In the 2012–2013 season, Istanbul Volleyball, which faced the leader Büyükdere in the last match of the Istanbul Senior Men's final group, took the first set 25-13 and took the lead 1–0. In the 4th set, it lost the set it had led for a long time, 23-25 and lost 3–1, thus completing the final group with 4 wins and 3 defeats with 12 points, İVK came 4th in Istanbul in the Big Men League, of 17 teams. In the 2013–2014 season, after the group stage, he finished 4th in the final group where 10 teams competed, and the 5th in the first round of the Play-Off, the Olimpia 2023 team with the results of 3-0 and 3-0 and reached the semi-finals in the series. Matching with Titan Academy, Istanbul Volleyball lost the first match 3–2, scoring 5 matches. In the second match, the club lost 3–1 to its opponent, Istanbul became the right to play the match for the third place. He finished the league he participated in as 4th in Istanbul. Istanbul Volleyball, which won 10 wins in 10 matches in the group in the Big Men League in the 2014–2015 season and won the final group and won the first match of the final group, on April 15, before the Beyogluspor match, with a sufficient number of athletes and the team captain, the decision of the board of directors after it was conveyed to the club by our team captain. has decided to withdraw from the league in the rest of the league. Before the match, this notification was made by his opponent Beyoğluspor and the match was canceled. = In the 2015–2016 season, in which it competed in the regional league for the first time, the club separated its ways with all the players who played in the team in the previous season and formed a new team by making 12 transfers. Being the youngest team of the Istanbul group with an average age of 19.6, the club played its first match against Sultangazi Olimpik, the champion of the previous season. He lost the first set 22–19, lost to his opponent 23–25, and won the second set 25–15, but lost the third set 19–25, the fourth set 16–25, and lost the match 3–1 in the other matches in the league, Arnavutköy Belediyesi, İbrahim Turhan Sports Club and Haydarpaşa High School teams 3-0 and finished the season as the 2nd due to the defeat in the first match due to the league being played in a single period, and completed the season by failing to go to the finals only because the champion made it to the finals. = Failing to achieve the desired success in its first season in the regional league, the club started the season with 7 transfers. Competing in the Istanbul Anatolian Side Group, Istanbul Volleyball faced the Haydarpaşa team on the first day. The team, which won the match 3–0 with the sets of 25–17, 25-21 and 25–21, finished the first day as the leader. The team that faced Pendik Çınarderespor, who was in the last place on the last day of the group, won 26-24 despite having difficulty in the first set, despite the difficulty of securing the finals. He won -13 and left the field with a 3–0 victory and collected 9 points without any set in all the matches he played, and earned the right to participate in the Finals as the champion of Istanbul. In the finals held in Yalova on 03-5 March, İVK faced the champion of the South Marmara group Gemlik Basketball on the first day, leaving the match with a 3–0 defeat despite the very close set results and took the first defeat of the season. On the last day of the tournament, Istanbul Volleyball, which played against Istanbul European Side Champion Adakent in the Istanbul derby, left the match with a 3–1 victory and finished the Regional League in the second place with 5 points. After the matches in which the top players of the group rose to the 2nd rank, Istanbul Volleyball won the right to be the first team to be invited if there is a team that does not participate in the league or is missing. Thus, the club established in 2010 achieved a Turkish degree in volleyball for the first time. = Due to the fact that the dates of the matches in the Regional Men's League, which he participated for the 3rd time, were very bad and we struggled with the missing squad, the club performed far from the previous season's Istanbul Championship and Turkey second place, and did not qualify for the finals in Istanbul in the 2017–2018 season. = Istanbul Volleyball, which was 3rd in the previous Istanbul and could not achieve the success it wanted by failing to qualify for the final group, met Pendik Çınarspor at Bahçelievler Sports Hall, despite having two Anatolian Side teams in their first match with their 11 new transfers and changing technical staff. The İVK, which fell 2–0 in the match with sets of 16-25 and 22–25, put its weight on the game as of the third set and brought the situation to 2–2 with the sets of 25-18 and 25–10. the winner İVK came from behind 2-0 from the field and won 3-2 and won 2 points. The second match of the group will be held in Kocaeli, beating Haydarpaşa High School team with sets of 26–24,25-23 and 25-15 3-0 and in the last match against Istanbul Sanatspor with sets of 25–10,25-9 and 25–12. Turkey won the 2nd League Promotion Final matches. Istanbul Volleyball Club, which won all the matches it played in Istanbul this season and gained the right to stay in the finals undefeated, took part in the Kocaeli group with Istanbul Yeniköy and Tekirdağ Karacaklavuz. Tekirdağ representative did not take the field in both Istanbul Volleyball and Yeniköy matches and finished the tournament in last place. In the final match of Kocaeli Hasan Gemici Sports Hall, Istanbul Volleyball played against Yeniköy, the other representative of Istanbul, in this match with a squad missing from two players from the squad they played in Istanbul. moved forward. Against Yeniköy, who won the second set 25–21, İVK started very well in the last set and got ahead 14–9, but could not maintain its superiority, lost the set 20-25 and lost the match and missed the championship. = Istanbul Volleyball, who had to compete with three missing players in the first match of the league, lost the first set and the second set 26–24 against Çengelköyspor, which was leading until the end of the set, and lost the third set 25–20 in the fourth set and lost 3–1 in the fourth set. In the other matches of the group, the team competed with the full team in the second match, Pendik Volleyball with sets 25–12, 25–16, 25–11, in the third match Süreyyapaşa team with sets 25–9, 25–11, 25-14 and in the fourth match. He managed to beat Haydarpaşa High School with the sets of 25–17, 25–20, 25-23 3–0. Despite the fact that Haydarpaşa and Çengelköy played 3–2, the club remained second behind Çengelköy on average, due to the unlucky defeat of the only team in the first match and did not win the right to participate in the Turkey 2nd League Promotion Final matches to be held in Bursa as the 2nd in Istanbul. = The Regional League, which was organized under difficult conditions due to the pandemic conditions, started on June 10 after the 10-day preparation period was given after the bans were lifted on June 1. In the men's league, 113 teams participated in 32 groups in total, and the club was in the 7th group. Istanbul Volleyball, which faced Gökspor in its first match, won the field 3–0 with sets of 25–17, 25-15 and 25–15. In the second match of the group, it faced Süreyyapaşa in the match 25–12, 25–10, 18-25 and 25-25. They won 3–1 with 19 sets. In the last match of the group, IVK, who faced Tuzla Gelişim, who won the group like himself in the first two days, in a kind of group final, won the match 3–0 with sets of 25–21, 25-16 and 25-19 and got the right to participate in the Regional League Finals undefeated from the group from which one team came achieved. On 21–23 June, in Istanbul, three Istanbul and one Tekirdağ teams competed in the 2nd Division Promotion Finals, in the Marmara Region group, IVK played its first match with Tekirdağ representative Çorlu Volleyball. Istanbul Volleyball won the match 3–0 against Çorlu Volleyball with sets of 25–18, 28-26 and 25-21 and finished the first day as the leader. In the match, they lost the other sets 19–25,17-25 and 22-25 and were defeated 3–1. In the last match of the group, IVK, which faced the North Stars, won the match 25–18, 22–25, 21–25, 26-24 and 15–10. After winning 3-2 sets, he managed to come second in the regional league for the third time after the 2016-2017 and 2018–2019 seasons. The Beach Volleyball Clubs League, which was organized by the Turkish Volleyball Federation in 2009 and was suspended in 2015, started to organize again in 2017, and the Istanbul Volleyball Club formed a beach volleyball team and competed in both men and women. The TVF Beach Volleyball League, which was formed for the first time in Turkey and in the world with the participation of only clubs and which is the biggest beach volleyball club league in the world, participated in 130 teams, 67 for men and 63 for women in 2017. = 2017 season İVK Beach Volleyball Women's team consisting of Mihrican Alıosman Mehmed - Betül Dinç and Damla Tilki in the Marmara Region and Beşiktaş, GMB Çamlık, Marmara Academy, Sorgunspor, UPS and Büyükdere played in double circuit at the end of the matches played by GMB Çamlık and Marmara Academy. After that, Marmara Region became the 3rd and qualified to participate in the finals to be held in Sinop. İVK Beach Volleyball Women's team beat Beşiktaş with a 2-1 result in both competitions they played in the league, enabling them to get a final ticket in front of their strong opponent. Istanbul Volleyball, which was in Group D, competed with GMB Çamlık, Şile Municipality and Samsun Metropolitan Municipality in the finals of the Beach Volleyball Clubs League held in Sinop between 30 June - 2 July 2017. The team that could not take the first two places in the group finished the tournament as the ninth in Turkey. 2018 season The women's team, which managed to be the 3rd in the Marmara Region and the 9th in Turkey in 2017, also joined the league in 2018. The İVK Beach Volleyball Women's Team, which consists of Betül Dinç and Damla Tilki, who played against Beşiktaş, Teşvikiye and Alternatif in a double-circuit league method in the Istanbul Group, won all the matches they played without a set and became the undefeated champion. In the finals held at Sinop Kumkapı Beach on 20–22 July 2018, the team beat İbradı Municipality 2–0 in the first round and lost 2–0 to Keçioren Belediyesi Bağlumspor in the second round. On the second day of the tournament, Samsun 15 July team beat 2–0 in the third round and Antalya Youth team 2–1 in the fourth round and lost to Antalya Şimşekspor in the fifth round of the day, and the İVK Beach Volleyball Women's Team finished the tournament as the 5th in Turkey. After the Beach Volleyball Clubs League was organized in 2018, it was not organized by TVF again. = 2017 season İVK Beach Volleyball men's team in the Marmara Region was in the group with Beşiktaş, Sumak Petrol Boğaziçi, Büyükdere, Sinop Poyraz and Şile Gençlik At the end of the double-circuit matches, he defeated Beşiktaş once, Sinop Poyraz and Şile Gençlik teams twice in the two competitions and finished the league in 5th place in the 5-win group and failed to make it to the finals. 2018 season İVK Beach Volleyball Men's Team, which failed to participate in the finals in 2017, took part in the finals in 2018. Participating with the team consisting of Burak Balıbey and Iranian National Beach Volleyball player Behzad Haddade Kahnamouse in the Finals held at Sinop Kumkapı Beach on 20–22 July 2018, the team passed by on the first day as the first round was seeded. In the second round, the TRNC representative, Vakıflar Spor, lost 2–1 with sets of 13–21, 21–12, 13-15 and left the group with the unfortunate defeat. On the second day of the tournament, the team beat Beşiktaş 2–1 with the sets 21–19, 20–22, 15–12 in the first match of the tournament and in the fourth round Samsun 15 July team beat 21-11 and 21-10 sets 2–0. Matched with AP Sportif who finished as champion. İVK Beach Volleyball Men's Team lost the game against AP Sportif with 16-21 and 18-21 sets and finished the tournament as the 5th in Turkey. After the Beach Volleyball Clubs League was held in 2018, it was not organized by TVF again. Istanbul Volleyball Club is an active club in the field of social responsibility apart from sports activities. The club still carries out Material Support to Village Schools and Social Responsibility activities in other subjects. Also, on June 5, 2021, World Environment Day, the new social responsibility project "Each Set of Saplings" was implemented. = Each Set is a Sapling Social Responsibility Project Certificate of donation made at the end of the 2020-2021 Season It implemented its new social responsibility project on June 5, 2021, World Environment Day. Within the scope of the project, one sapling will be donated for each set won in the official matches played by the volleyball teams of the club. In addition, saplings will be donated as detailed in the tournaments to be held at the provincial and Turkish level. Each Set is a Sapling Project will start in the Regional League matches of the 2020–2021 season and will continue in the 2021–2022 season. On the club's official website, the details of the project and the situation in which saplings will be donated are announced, and there is a counter on the home page of how many saplings will be donated as of the first match. In the 2020–2021 season, the club donated 16 saplings to be planted through OGEM, the Foundation of the General Directorate of Forestry, after 16 sets won in 6 matches played in the Regional League group and final stages. = The social responsibility project initiated by the club in 2014 reached the ninth village school in 2021. After the 2021 pandemic, with the start of face-to-face education of village schools, the Social Responsibility project of Material Support for Village Schools has provided the aid of 2021 to the village school Eyyübiye Bulduk Primary School, 45 km away from Şanlıurfa, through the Village School Aid Project Association. = Except for material support to village schools, the club has not been affected by natural disasters and accidents, etc. It comes to the fore with the help it provides in social events. After the mining disaster in Soma in 2014, the club's volleyball team played their first official match in the BLACK jersey with the #SOMA written on it. The club made these projects in 2020, the assistance it provided to the children of Siirt who built a volleyball court with the car tires they bought from the gas station, the pandemic was intensively provided to healthcare personnel during night shifts, to donate saplings for the forests damaged by the forest fire in Hatay, İzmir and Elazığ. He continued with his help in the earthquakes that occurred in.

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VC Baku

2011-10-06 11:28:37+00:00

VC Baku is an Azerbaijani women's volleyball club. VC Baku women volleyball team was founded in 2010. VC Baku participated at Azerbaijan Women's Volleyball Super League 2010-2011 season and finished 6th. The team will enter CEV Challenge Cup this season.

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Bill Cunningham New York

2010-11-30 16:41:17+00:00

Bill Cunningham New York is a 2010 American documentary film directed by Richard Press and produced by Philip Gefter. Bill Cunningham New York is distributed by Zeitgeist Films and was released in theaters on March 16, 2011. "We all get dressed for Bill", says Vogue editor Anna Wintour. The Bill in question is The New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high-society charity soirées for the Times's Style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours". Full of uptown fixtures (such as Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham's enormous body of work documents its time and place as well as individual flair. Bill Cunningham New York portrays the man at work (on the street and at the office) and at home (a Carnegie Hall studio). Bill Cunningham Editta Sherman Carmen Dell'Orefice Annette de la Renta Anna Wintour Iris Apfel Shail Upadhya Kim Hastreiter Thelma Golden Tom Wolfe Brooke Astor Mike Wallace Michael Bloomberg Catherine Deneuve Anna Piaggi Michael Kors Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. 2010: Opening Night Film New Directors/New Films Festival 2010: Won Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at Sydney Film Festival 2010: Won Best Documentary at Nantucket Film Festival 2010: Won Best Documentary Audience Award at Melbourne International Film Festival 2010: Won Best Documentary at Abu Dhabi Film Festival Bill Cunningham New York played at New York City's Film Forum from March 16 to 29, 2011, before opening in theaters in a limited release around the United States. The film was critically well-received, garnering a 99% approval rating on movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. The Hollywood Reporter described Bill Cunningham New York as a "Fascinating doc about a photographer surveying the highs and lows of New York society." New York Magazine chose Bill Cunningham New York as one of their Critics' Picks. Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, writing "This movie made me happy every moment I was watching it." The film received a score of 76 on the aggregate website Metacritic indicating "generally favorable reviews".

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Engagement dress of Catherine Middleton

2011-06-08 02:12:23+00:00

Catherine Middleton wore a blue Issa dress during the photocall for her engagement to Prince William of Wales on 16 November 2010, at St. James's Palace. The silk wrap dress matched her engagement ring, and sold out soon after its debut. It contributed to the start of "the Kate Middleton effect", Middleton's impact on the fashion industry, and sparked a trend in "little blue dresses". Brazilian-born London designer Daniella Issa Helayel had been producing form-fitting dresses under her eponymous Issa London label since 2001. In 2011, Issa was considered a "go-to" designer for fashionable London public figures, including Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie, Pippa Middleton and Keira Knightley. In the years leading up to her engagement, the Middleton sisters wore several of Issa's silk jersey dresses to public events and formal occasions. Middleton would often visit Helayel's studio, having pieces custom-fitted. The dress had no name, and was known by the style number DJ157. Helayel stated that it was "the original Issa dress", based on a gown that belonged to her grandmother. Middleton purchased her engagement dress from the Issa concession at Fenwick's Bond Street store. The engagement was announced in November 2010. The couple posed for the press at St. James's Palace on November 16, where the piece was photographed. The dress is a sapphire, tight fitting, long-sleeved, low-cut silk wrap dress with a gathered front, described as "one of Issa's classic silk jersey dresses". The deep blue colour of the gown complemented the shade of the engagement ring, which had previously belonged to Diana, Princess of Wales. Middleton paired the wrap dress with her engagement ring, a set of sapphire cabochon earrings and a necklace, and black pumps. Her fiancé, Prince William, wore a complementary navy suit with a burgundy tie. The event was Middleton's formal introduction to the press, and regarded as her "transition" from commoner into royal life before her marriage. Helayel told People that she was elated that Middleton had decided to wear her dress for the engagement announcement, stating she was thrilled with the engagement news and I'm very happy that she has chosen to wear Issa today... [s]he is a very pretty and lovely girl."' The dress, worth £385, sold out within hours of its debut in both the U.K and the U.S. Vogue wrote that the piece became an "overnight sensation" after photos of Middleton's engagement circulated worldwide. In New York City, where the dress retails for about $615, a buyer for an Issa retailer stated "People are going crazy for this dress... We have a wait list growing by the day." The high street "became awash with copies" of the gown. Middleton's look was credited with increasing attention on Issa's designs during London Fashion Week in 2011. A new tartan was created by McCalls Highlandwear, named "Royal Pride", inspired by the dress. Several publications speculated that Issa was a contender to design Middleton's wedding gown. The dress's popularity helped boost sales by 45% for the Issa London label. As a result of unprecedented demand, Issa went "into administration" after having difficulty coping with the amount of orders, before relaunching in 2015 with House of Fraser. The dress, named "The Kate Tie Wrap Dress", is now sold in various different colours, and retails for £99. Vanity Fair referred to the dress as "iconic" and "unforgettable". StyleCaster labelled it among the most iconic dresses of 2010. The Telegraph opined that the design underscored Middleton's "youthful elegance". The Guardian noted that Middleton had chosen a similar color to Diana's engagement outfit, with both dresses chosen to match the ring. After her engagement appearance, Glamour reported that "the princess-to-be is already well on her way to becoming a serious trendsetter." Middleton was reported to have replaced Lady Gaga as the top online fashion search phrase. The Daily Beast credited Middleton and Issa with an "aesthetic shift in British fashion" toward polished, "scrubbed-up", "attractive" trends, as opposed to previous grunge fashion inspired by Kate Moss. In 2019 The Telegraph wrote that the dress had been one of her "most memorable and significant fashion choices". The dress and its impact was described as the start of "the Kate effect", her reported impact on fashion and style. = Middleton's blue dress sparked a trend in "little blue dresses," as a more colourful alternative to the famous little black dress. According to Glamour contributing style editor Tracey Lomrantz, "Women saw (Middleton's iridescent Issa dress) and thought, 'I want to look like her.'" The colour, with hues ranging "from iris to cerulean, navy to indigo and everything between", was spotted across the runways and retailers after the engagement announcement. Celebrities such as Tia Carrere, Kristen Bell, and Amy Smart were all spotted in shades of blue on the red carpet during the Spring 2011 season.

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Meat dress of Lady Gaga

2011-05-14 16:01:48+00:00

On September 12, 2010, American singer Lady Gaga wore a dress to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards made entirely out of raw beef. Designed by Franc Fernandez and styled by Nicola Formichetti, the dress was condemned by animal rights groups, while named by Time as the top fashion statement of 2010. The press speculated on the originality of the idea, with comparisons made to similar images found in contemporary art and popular culture. As with her other dresses, it was archived, but went on display in 2011 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after being preserved by taxidermists as a type of jerky. Following this, the dress was then transferred to the Newseum in Washington D.C. As of 2019, the dress is displayed in Las Vegas at the Haus of Gaga museum inside the Park MGM casino. Gaga explained following the awards ceremony that the dress was a statement about one's need to fight for what one believes in, and highlighted her distaste for the United States military's don't ask, don't tell policy. Gaga was the most nominated artist at 2010's Video Music Awards with a record thirteen nominations, including two nods for Video of the Year (the first female artist to achieve this feat). She arrived in an Alexander McQueen dress and armadillo shoes and changed into a Giorgio Armani number before donning her third and final outfit of the evening: a dress, hat, boots, and purse made of raw meat. Gaga wore the meat dress to accept her Video of the Year trophy for "Bad Romance"; as she accepted the award from presenter Cher, she joked, "I never thought I'd be asking Cher to hold my meat purse." Gaga continued to wear the dress after the awards show for press photos and an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Gaga explained her interpretation of the dress to DeGeneres, stating, "If we don't stand up for what we believe in and if we don't fight for our rights[,] pretty soon we're going to have as much rights as the meat on our bones." DeGeneres, who was vegan at the time, later wrote, "Now, I love Lady Gaga, but as someone who also loves animals it was really difficult for me to sit next to Lady Gaga while she was wearing that outfit, but it did make me ask myself, 'What's the difference between her outfit and an outfit made of leather?'" Fernandez was approached by fellow designer and stylist Formichetti to produce the dress, with it planned out over the course of a week, Formichetti having styled the look. The dress was asymmetrical, with a cowled neck. Fernandez specifically chose cuts to ensure that the dress kept well. Flank steak was chosen as the material to use, with the meat coming from his family butcher. The dress required Gaga to be stitched into the outfit backstage. Fernandez said of his design, "I knew the dress would be one of other amazing pieces Gaga wore that night. It's very well made and looked great on her, on and off camera. We didn't get a chance to have a fitting. The only time she had it on was for the VMAs. Only when I saw it in the monitor did I know it would be big." Fernandez reporting Gaga's opinion in an interview said that Gaga herself said it smelled good, because it smelled like meat. The designer talked of what was to happen to the dress after the awards show, "The dress will be put in an archive with all of her dresses. The Gaga Archives, I suppose. It won't last, that's the beauty of it. When it is brought out again, hopefully it will be in a retrospective, and it will be a different dress, which is the best thing. I like the idea of it changing and evolving into something else". He later explained that the dress would be preserved and made into a type of jerky before being archived. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame paid $6,000 to taxidermist Sergio Vigilato to preserve the dress. It had been frozen following the two television appearances, although Vigilato discovered signs of decomposition on the dress which had occurred prior to it being frozen, and noted it was emitting an odor once it was defrosted. It was treated with bleach, formaldehyde and detergent to kill any bacteria, and was reconditioned by being dyed dark red once it was preserved so to give it the same appearance as when first worn. However, after the preservation there were several pieces of beef left over and not included in the reworked dress. Preceding Fernandez's creation, Gaga had worn a bikini made of meat on the front cover of the Japanese edition of Vogue. She later wore a faux-meat dress while performing the songs "Americano" and "Poker Face" during her Born This Way Ball concert tour (2012–2013). Following the VMAs, media outlets attempted to analyse the meaning of the dress with suggestions by BBC News ranging from anti-fashion, to feminism, aging and decay, and society's attitude towards meat. Chef Fergus Henderson explained this meat attitude as "People often don't want meat to look like meat. They want it to be neatly wrapped in plastic from a supermarket." People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) condemned the dress, releasing a statement that said "wearing a dress made from cuts of dead cows is offensive enough to bring comment, but someone should whisper in her ear that more people are upset by butchery than are impressed by it." The Vegetarian Society also condemned the dress, releasing a statement that said "No matter how beautifully it is presented, flesh from a tortured animal is flesh from a tortured animal. Enough animals die for food and they should not be killed for stunts like this." Some media sources proposed that the dress could be interpreted as anti-vegan. Vegetarian singer Morrissey stated that he felt the dress was acceptable as long as it was a social or political statement, and not just a "loony idea", pointing out that artist Linder Sterling had previously worn a meat dress in 1982 to protest against what she believed to be the perception of women by men. Ellen DeGeneres presented Gaga with a bikini made of vegetables when the singer appeared on her talk show, and the singer used the platform to respond to the controversy surrounding the dress saying, "... it has many interpretations. For me this evening, if we don't stand up for what we believe in and if we don't fight for our rights pretty soon, we're going to have as much rights as the meat on our own bones. And, I am not a piece of meat." She explained further that she was also using the dress to highlight her distaste for the US military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. = Another controversy surrounding the dress was the question of its originality. Meat dresses have featured in art and music for decades prior to Lady Gaga's version. Karen Rosenberg from The New York Times compared the dress to a series of photographs of Francis Bacon posing with sides of beef attached to his torso like wings in 1952, while The Daily Telegraph compared the dress to the original cover of The Beatles' 1966 album Yesterday and Today. An example of a garment made from meat stitched together in the same way as the Lady Gaga meat dress was worn at the Slade School of Art postgraduate degree exhibition opening in London, England, in July 1979, when performance artist Robert Connolly wore a two-piece suit made of slices of salami. The Daily Telegraph noted the similarity of Lady Gaga's meat dress to the cover of The Undertones' 1984 album All Wrapped Up, which showed a female model wearing a dress and gloves made of cuts of meat (mostly bacon) held in place with plastic wrap and accessorized with a sausage necklace. Some in the art and fashion press remarked on the dress's similarity to Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic, a meat dress made by Canadian sculptor Jana Sterbak in 1987 exhibited to considerable controversy at the National Gallery of Canada in 1991. Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro had also designed a meat dress for use in a beauty pageant in 2006. Brooks Barnes of The New York Times claimed that Lady Gaga's dress was "derived" from Incarnation, a 2009 painting of a white-haired girl wearing a meat dress by artist Mark Ryden. Sharon Clott of MTV also noted the similarity between Lady Gaga's dress and Ryden's painting. Ryden was reportedly upset that Gaga did not acknowledge that she allegedly took inspiration from his work. Although it was Gaga's third costume change at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, the meat dress was immediately described as the "most outrageous fashion moment" of the evening. A poll by website MyCelebrityFashion.co.uk placed the dress as the most iconic outfit of 2010, beating Catherine Middleton's engagement dress into second place. In summing up 2010 through a series of lists, Time voted the meat dress as its top fashion statement of 2010. Fernandez credits the dress with an upturn in his career, saying, "I feel like I have a voice now as an artist and as a designer". He had previously created items for Gaga, including a costume for her music video for "Bad Romance". He went on to create a hat that Gaga wore to the 53rd Grammy Awards in February 2011. The dress went on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in 2011 as part of an exhibition entitled "Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power". Starting from 2019, the dress is presented to the public in Las Vegas at the Haus of Gaga museum inside the Park MGM casino, coinciding with Gaga's residency in the building. The video game Yakuza 5, originally released in 2012, satirizes Gaga's meat dress and her love of Japanese culture through a sidequest where you play the role of tour guide to a world-famous global superstar singer known as "Daddy Papa", self-described as an anti-conformist lending a voice to the voiceless, who wears a dress made of seaweed that your player character describes as a "dumpster ensemble" that "smells like the ocean". When "Weird Al" Yankovic did a parody of Gaga's "Born This Way", titled "Perform This Way", he included a lyrical reference to the meat dress ("I strap prime rib to my feet / Cover myself with raw meat / I'll bet you've never seen a skirt steak worn this way") and had a dancer dressed in a similar outfit in the music video. Die Antwoord's 2012 music video for "Fatty Boom Boom" also parodied her dress. In the video, a Gaga look alike in a meat dress is eaten by a lion on the street of Johannesburg. Smith, Heather (March 2011). "Behind the Meat Dress: There are people sewing the meat dress". Meatpaper (14). Archived from the original on March 11, 2011. Retrieved September 16, 2016.

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On the Road with Austin & Santino

2010-09-19 21:36:50+00:00

On the Road With Austin & Santino is an American reality television series that aired on Lifetime. The series debuted on July 29, 2010, following the season premiere of Season 8 of Project Runway. Each episode aired after an episode of Project Runway. The series has since been cancelled and was not renewed for a second season. On the Road with Austin & Santino follows fashion designers Austin Scarlett and Santino Rice as they travel to small towns around the United States and make a custom dress for a woman who has an upcoming special occasion. Each episode ends with Austin and Santino introducing their dress recipient at the event it was created for.

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Mejicanos massacre

2024-06-21 05:02:31+00:00

The Mejicanos massacre (Spanish: masacre de Mejicanos), also known as the Route 47 massacre (masacre de la ruta 47), occurred on 20 June 2010 when members of the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18) attacked two minibuses in the Salvadoran city of Mejicanos, just northeast of the capital city of San Salvador. During the massacre, members of Barrio 18 shot at one minibus and burned a second, killing 19 people in total and injuring 14 or 15 more. The Mejicanos massacre was committed by the 18th Street gang in revenge for the killing of member of Barrio 18 in Mejicanos by MS-13, one of Barrio 18's rivals, the day prior. Since 2011, a total of 5 individuals have been convicted for their roles in the Mejicanos massacre. The massacre, which Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes and the National Civil Police described as a terrorist attack, remains the deadliest attack committed by street gangs in El Salvador. Beginning in the 1990s, crime committed by street gangs became a major problem in El Salvador after many Salvadoran refugees from the country's civil war began to be deported from the United States. Many of these deported Salvadorans were members of street gangs, most notably Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18). Gang violence between MS-13 and Barrio 18 resulted in El Salvador having one of the highest intentional homicide rates in the world. Other crimes committed by Salvadoran street gangs included kidnapping, extortion, and robbery.: 1–2  On 19 June 2010, members of MS-13 killed a member of Barrio 18 known as "Crayola" in a shootout and subsequently fled the scene on a minibus operated by bus route 47. The shootout occurred in the Jardín borough of Mejicanos, a city just northeast of the country capital city of San Salvador. Barrio 18 sought to exert revenge against MS-13 by targeting the same bus route that MS-13 used to flee the scene. At 7:30 p.m. on 20 June 2010, members of the Barrio 18 Revolucionarios clique shot at a minibus operated by bus route 47 in Mejicanos, killing the driver and a passenger in the process. Around 15 minutes later, another group of Barrios 18 members forced their way onto a different route 47 minibus and forced the driver to drive to the location where "Crayola" was killed. There, gang members shot at the minibus' passengers and then proceeded to douse the minibus' entrance and center hallway with gasoline. The gang members proceeded to set the bus on fire and shot at any passengers attempting to escape through the windows. Victims of the attack were transported to the nearby Zacamil Hospital. In total, 19 people died in the Mejicanos massacre; 2 died in the first minibus attack, and 17 died in the second. A further 14 or 15 people were serious injured. Those who died were killed either by the fire itself, asphyxiation, or the gang members' gunfire. The first minibus attack was committed in order to divert the attention of the National Civil Police from the second attack. = On 21 June 2010, Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes told journalists that "it shocks me, yesterday's event has no comparison with other events... it seems to me an act that seeks to generate terror, it is an act of pure terrorism" ("a mí me estremece, el hecho de ayer no tiene comparación con otros hechos… me parece un acto que busca generar terror, es un acto de terrorismo puro"). The National Civil Police labeled the massacre as a terrorist attack. On 23 June, Funes stated that repression was necessary to combat gang violence in El Salvador. In a direct response to the Mejicanos massacre, the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador passed the "Law Prohibiting Maras, Gangs, Groups, Associations, and Organizations of Criminal Nature", which was drafted by Funes, on 1 September. Both MS-13 and Barrio 18 organized a public transportation strike in an attempt to force the Legislative Assembly to repeal the law to no avail. The law, which increased prison sentences for gang members, remained in effect until the beginning of the 2012–2014 Salvadoran gang truce.: 4–6  = According to El Faro journalist Carlos Martínez, the attack was not planned by Barrio 18 and was instead spontaneously committed by some of its members. He also reported that some of those who committed the attack were killed by the gang as a punishment for attracting police attention to Barrio 18. On 21 June 2010, the National Civil Police announced the arrests of eight gang members who were suspected of being involved in the massacre, three of whom were minors. On 8 November 2011, Juan Antonio Borja Alvarado and Éver Alexis Martínez were sentenced to 66 years imprisonment for their role in the massacre. Rafael García Barbero was also sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for being an accessory to the attack. On 27 September 2013, Gustavo Ernesto López Huezo was sentenced to 66 years and 8 months imprisonment for being the massacre's mastermind. He was convicted of aggravated homicide, attempted homicide, and aggravated damage. The court determined that López Huezo was the one responsible for forcing the driver to drive the bus to the site of the massacre, that he was the one that organized the procurement of the gasoline used in the massacre, and that he subsequently murdered the driver with a .38 revolver. "Crayola" was López Huezo's brother-in-law. In March 2016, Carlos Oswaldo Alvarado was sentenced to 410 years imprisonment for his role in setting the minibus on fire. On 9 July 2021, the National Civil Police arrested four more gang members supposedly involved in the Mejicanos massacre. = In February 2011, Barrio 18 committed a similar attack on a bus which killed seven people. Salvadoran authorities believed that this attack was committed in order to prove the gang's worthiness to Los Zetas, a Mexican paramilitary group and drug cartel which was at the time expanding its operations into El Salvador. In April 2019, gang members shot at two minibuses operated by route 6 in Mejicanos, injuring 4 people and forcing the bus route to briefly suspend operations.

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Deaths in February 2010

2010-01-31 01:52:32+00:00

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2010. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. = Willie Anku, 60, Ghanaian music theorist, ethnomusicologist, composer, and performer, motor accident. Jim Atherton, 86, Welsh footballer. Julian Edwin Bailes, Sr., 95, American politician, attorney and judge, stroke. Jack Brisco, 68, American professional wrestler, complications from open heart surgery. David Brown, 93, American film producer (Jaws, Cocoon, A Few Good Men), renal failure. Rodolfo de Anda, 66, Mexican actor, thrombosis. Steingrímur Hermannsson, 81, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister (1983–1987, 1988–1991). Bobby Kirk, 82, Scottish footballer, dementia. Atsushi Kuroi, 40, Japanese professional drifting driver, motorcycle accident. Azzeddine Laraki, 80, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister (1986–1992). Peter Martell, 71, Italian film actor. Justin Mentell, 27, American actor (Boston Legal, G-Force), car accident. Subir Raha, 61, Indian executive, chairman and managing director of ONGC (2001–2006), lung cancer. Jaap van der Poll, 95, Dutch Olympic javelin thrower (1936 Summer Olympics). = Juan del Campo, 87, Spanish Olympic field hockey player. Louisa Benson Craig, 68, Burmese-born American beauty queen and community leader. Myron Donovan Crocker, 94, American federal judge. Cochin Haneefa, 58, Indian Malayalam film actor, multiple organ failure. Futa Helu, 75, Tongan philosopher. Paul Herlinger, 80, American voice actor, Tahir Hussain, 72, Indian film director, producer and writer, cardiac arrest. Bernard Kates, 87, American actor, sepsis and pneumonia. Svetozar Kurepa, 80, Croatian mathematician. Aleen Leslie, 101, American screenwriter (A Date with Judy), pneumonia. Rosa Lobato de Faria, 77, Portuguese writer and actress, complications from anemia. Eustace Mullins, 86, American political writer, author and biographer, stroke. Rex Nettleford, 76, Jamaican scholar and choreographer, heart attack. Ng Teng Fong, 82, Chinese-born Singaporean businessman, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage. Jens-Anton Poulsson, 91, Norwegian military officer and resistance fighter (heavy water sabotage). Srinivas Rangaraj, 77, Indian cricketer. Nelli Shkolnikova, 82, Ukrainian-born Australian violinist and educator, cancer. Raymond Wang Chong Lin, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zhaoxian, cerebral hemorrhage. Donald Wiseman, 91, British Assyriologist. William Yurko, 83, Canadian politician, MP for Edmonton East (1979–1984). = Faiza Ashraf, 26, Pakistani-Norwegian shop assistant, strangulation. Claudio Corti, 81, Italian mountaineer. Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq, 83, Palestinian Samaritan High Priest. Frank Fasi, 89, American politician, Mayor of Honolulu (1969–1981, 1984–1994), natural causes. John McCallum, 91, Australian actor and television producer (Skippy the Bush Kangaroo). Dick McGuire, 84, American basketball player, New York Knicks senior consultant, Basketball Hall of Famer, ruptured aortic aneurysm. Gil Merrick, 88, English footballer (Birmingham City). Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, 85, German princess, wife of Otto von Habsburg. Frances Reid, 95, American actress (Days of Our Lives). John Rety, 79, Hungarian-born British poet and anarchist. Lindsay Thomas, 31, Canadian stage actress, lung cancer. Georges Wilson, 88, French actor and film director. = Kostas Axelos, 85, Greek philosopher. Gul Hameed Bhatti, 63, Pakistani journalist and editor, stroke. Bill Dudley, 88, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), Pro Football Hall of Famer, stroke. Manuel Esteba, 68, Spanish film director. Richard Lashof, 87, American mathematician, after long illness. Tomás Mac Giolla, 86, Irish politician, after long illness. Cecil Heftel, 85, American businessman and politician, U.S. Representative from Hawaii (1977–1986), natural causes. D. Van Holliday, 69, American physicist, complications of cardiac surgery. Alfred Käärmann, 87, Estonian resistance fighter, member of the Forest Brothers. Phillip Martin, 83, American tribal chief (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians), stroke. H. A. Perera, 59, Sri Lankan actor, after short illness. Meir Pichhadze, 54, Georgian-born Israeli artist and painter, cancer. Joseph Ignace Randrianasolo, 62, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mahajanga (1999–2010). Carl E. Taylor, 93, American physician and expert on international health, prostate cancer. Te Wei, 95, Chinese animator, respiratory failure. Helen Tobias-Duesberg, 90, Estonian-born American composer. Allan Wicks, 86, British organist and choirmaster. = Bayken Ashimov, 92, Kazakh politician. Brendan Burke, 21, Canadian-born American ice hockey player, car accident. Peter Calvocoressi, 97, British historian, publisher and intelligence officer. Ian Carmichael, 89, British actor (Lucky Jim, Private's Progress, I'm All Right Jack). Mallia Franklin, 57, American singer. Galimzyan Khusainov, 72, Russian footballer. Sujit Kumar, 75, Indian actor and producer, cancer. Frank Magid, 78, American media consultant, creator of Action News, lymphoma. Hiroyuki Oze, 24, Japanese baseball player, suicide by jumping. Clarke Scholes, 79, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) swimmer, heart failure. Harry Schwarz, 85, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid movement, after short illness. Brooks Thomas, 78, American publisher (Harper and Row), complications of a brain injury after a fall. = Micky Axton, 91, American aviator (Women Airforce Service Pilots), after short illness. Albert Booth, 81, British politician, MP for Barrow-in-Furness (1966–1983), Secretary of State for Employment (1976–1979). Robert Dana, 80, American poet, Iowa poet laureate (2004–2008), pancreatic cancer. Sir John Dankworth, 82, British jazz musician. Richard Delvy, 67, American drummer (The Bel-Airs), composer and record producer, after long illness. Brad Ecklund, 87, American football player (New York Yanks), heart failure. Ernest van der Eyken, 96, Belgian composer, conductor and violist. Kipkemboi Kimeli, 43, Kenyan athlete, 1988 Olympic bronze medalist, complications from pneumonia and tuberculosis. Lee Yung-dug, 84, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1994), pneumonia. Henry A. Miley, Jr., 94, American soldier, U.S. Army four-star general. Lady Marjorie Nellie Murray, 85, British socialite, witness at the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials. Nancy Sweezy, 88, American folklorist, potter and writer. Donald Welsh, 66, American publisher (Outside), drowning. = Lars Aspeflaten, 85, Norwegian barrister and politician. Franco Ballerini, 45, Italian road racing cyclist, rally car accident. Daniel Joseph Bradley, 82, British physicist. Jean-Marie Buisset, 71, Belgian Olympic bobsledder and field hockey player, after short illness. Bobby Dougan, 83, Scottish footballer. André Kolingba, 73, Central African politician, President (1981–1993). Paul LaPalme, 86, American baseball player, after long illness. Lim Soo-hyeok, 40, South Korean baseball player (Lotte Giants), cardiac dysrhythmia. Mihailo Marković, 86, Serbian philosopher. Kasturi Rajadhyaksha, 86, Indian physician. Robert Roxby, 83, Australian cricketer. Oscar da Silva, 89, Brazilian Olympic equestrian. William Tenn, 89, American science fiction writer and educator, heart failure. = Angelo Franzosi, 88, Italian footballer. David Froman, 71, American actor (The Edge of Night, Matlock), cancer. Antonio Giolitti, 94, Italian politician. Jimmie Heuga, 66, American Alpine ski racer, 1964 Olympic bronze medalist, multiple sclerosis. Robert Hoy, 82, American actor (The Enforcer) and stuntman, cancer. Carl Kaysen, 89, American economist, Deputy National Security Advisor (1961–1963), complications from a fall. Dieter Klauß, 62, German Olympic hockey player. Bernard Lander, 94, American rabbi, founder of Touro College. John Murtha, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1974–2010), complications of gallbladder surgery. Anna Samokhina, 47, Russian actress, stomach cancer. Krzysztof Skubiszewski, 83, Polish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–1993). Bobby A. Suarez, 67, Filipino film producer, director and screenwriter. Wahei Tatematsu, 62, Japanese novelist, multiple organ failure. Bill Utterback, 79, American illustrator and caricaturist. Isidoor Van De Wiele, 85, Belgian Olympic sprinter. = Abdul Karim Amu, 76, Nigerian sprinter. Chaskel Besser, 86, Polish-born American rabbi. John D. Butler, 94, American politician, Mayor of San Diego (1951–1955), natural causes. Davy Coenen, 29, Belgian mountain biker, brain tumor. Alfred Gregory, 96, British mountain climber and photojournalist. Phil Harris, 53, American fisherman, reality television participant (Deadliest Catch), stroke. Jacques Hétu, 71, Canadian composer, lung cancer. Juris Kalniņš, 71, Latvian basketball player. Albert Kligman, 93, American dermatologist, inventor of Retin-A, heart attack. Walter Frederick Morrison, 90, American inventor, designer of the frisbee. Francine Irving Neff, 84, American politician, Treasurer of the United States (1974–1977), heart failure. Iza Orjonikidze, 71, Georgian writer and politician, MP (1992–1995), after long illness. Hastings Shade, 68, American deputy tribal chief of the Cherokee Nation (1999–2003). David W. Slater, 88, Canadian economist, civil servant and President of York University (1970–1973). Patricia Travers, 82, American violinist, cancer. Malcolm Vaughan, 80, British singer. Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman, 94, American Episcopalian priest. = Yosef Azran, 69, Israeli rabbi and politician, member of the Knesset (1988–1996), liver failure. Jack Bownass, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers). Carl Braun, 82, American basketball player (New York Knicks), natural causes. Armando Falcão, 90, Brazilian politician, Justice Minister (1974–1979), pneumonia. Gabriela Konevska-Trajkovska, 38, Macedonian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2006–2008), after long illness. Judith Paige Mitchell, 77, American television writer (The Client), cancer. Michael Palme, 66, German sportswriter and host. Orlando Peçanha, 74, Brazilian footballer, heart attack. Gireesh Puthenchery, 48, Indian Malayalam lyricist and screenwriter, brain haemorrhage. K. N. Raj, 85, Indian economist, after long illness. Nelis J. Saunders, 88, American politician. Fred Schaus, 84, American basketball player and coach (Los Angeles Lakers). Enn Soosaar, 72, Estonian translator, literary critic and publicist. José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, 93, Costa Rican President (1966–1970), natural causes. David Tyacke, 94, British Army general. Eduard Vinokurov, 67, Russian Olympic fencer (1968, 1972, 1976). Frederick C. Weyand, 93, American army general, natural causes. Charlie Wilson, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative (1973–1997), subject of the book and movie Charlie Wilson's War, pulmonary arrest. H. V. F. Winstone, 83, British writer and journalist, lung cancer. = Irina Arkhipova, 85, Russian mezzo-soprano singer, People's Artist of the USSR, cardiac arrest. Shahid Azmi, 32, Indian lawyer, shot. Jabez Bryce, 75, Tongan-born Anglican prelate, archbishop of Polynesia (since 1975), first Pacific Islander Anglican bishop. Iain Burgess, 56, British-born American punk rock record producer, pulmonary embolism. Jennifer Daugherty, 30, American torture murder victim. Pio Filippani Ronconi, 89, Italian orientalist. Walther Fröstell, 96, Swedish Olympic shooter. Brian Godfrey, 69, Welsh footballer, leukaemia. Heward Grafftey, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Brome—Missisquoi, Parkinson's disease (1958–1968, 1972–1980). Arthur H. Hayes, Jr., 76, American public official, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (1981–1983), leukemia. Mona Hofland, 80, Norwegian actress, after long illness. Bo Holmberg, 67, Swedish governor, widower of Anna Lindh. Umetsugu Inoue, 86, Japanese film director, cerebral hemorrhage. Robert Long, 77, New Zealand cricketer. Alexander McQueen, 40, British fashion designer, suicide by hanging. Caroline McWilliams, 64, American actress (Benson, Guiding Light, Mermaids), multiple myeloma. Paul Rebillot, 78, American psychotherapist, respiratory failure. E.H. Roelfzema, 62, Dutch writer, artist, poet, and musician. David Severn, 91, British author. Yury Sevidov, 68, Russian footballer, Soviet Top League highest goal scorer (1962). Gladys Skillett, 91, British nurse, first Guernsey wartime deportee to give birth in captivity. Daryle Smith, 46, American football player (Dallas Cowboys). Duncan Tanner, 51, British historian. Colin Ward, 85, British anarchist writer. = Juan Pedro Amestoy, 84, Uruguayan accountant, politician and ambassador. Petar Borota, 56, Serbian footballer (Partizan Belgrade and Chelsea), after long illness. Maria Ragland Davis, 52, American biologist, shot. Ken Emerson, 82, Australian cartoonist (The Warrumbunglers). Jerry Fahr, 85, American baseball player. Gino Gardassanich, 87, Italian-born American football player. Chhaya Ghosh, 69, Indian politician. Sheldon Gilgore, 77, American physician, president of Pfizer (1971–1986) and Searle (1986–1995), pancreatic cancer. Jake Hanna, 78, American jazz drummer, blood disease. Adriel Johnson, 52, American biologist, shot. Athan Karras, 82, Greek-born American advocate of Greek dance, complications from coronary artery bypass surgery. Allan Kornblum, 71, American lawyer, counsel to the F.B.I., esophageal cancer. Werner Krämer, 70, German footballer. Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, Georgian luger, national team member for the 2010 Winter Olympics, training accident. Miro Mihovilović, 94, Croatian Olympic water polo player. Luis Molowny, 84, Spanish footballer, heart attack. Leroy Nash, 94, American murderer, oldest death row inmate, natural causes. Alexis Pappas, 94, Greek-born Norwegian chemist. G. K. Podila, 52, Indian-born American biologist, shot. Willie Polland, 75, Scottish footballer (Heart of Midlothian). Saleban Olad Roble, 46, Somali government minister, injuries sustained in the 2009 Shamo Hotel bombing. Bernard Smith, 99, American sailboat designer, liver cancer. Grethe Sønck, 80, Danish actress and singer, natural causes. = Ralph G. Anderson, 86, American engineer and farmer. Lucille Clifton, 73, American poet, Poet Laureate of Maryland (1974–1985). Jock Ferguson, 64, Scottish-born Australian politician, Western Australian Legislative Council (since 2009), heart attack. Werner Forman, 89, Czech-born British photographer. Cy Grant, 90, Guyanese-born British actor and activist. Dale Hawkins, 73, American rockabilly musician, colorectal cancer. James D. Johnson, 85, American politician and jurist, Arkansas Supreme Court Justice (1959–1966), suicide by gunshot. Raymond Mason, 87, British sculptor. Robert J. Myers, 97, American politician, co-creator of the Social Security program, respiratory failure. Jamil Nasser, 77, American jazz musician, cardiac arrest. José María Pasquini Durán, 70, Argentine journalist, cardiac arrest. John Reed, 94, British actor. Red Rocha, 86, American basketball player and coach (Hawaii Rainbow Warriors). Roger Thatcher, 83, British statistician. Gareth Wigan, 78, British film studio executive (Star Wars, Chariots of Fire), after short illness. = Ram Sarup Ankhi, 77, Indian writer, poet, and novelist. Audrey Collins, 94, British cricket player and administrator. John Downey, 89, British Royal Air Force officer. Doug Fieger, 57, American musician (The Knack), lung cancer. Dick Francis, 89, British jockey and novelist (Dead Cert). Helge Høva, 81, Norwegian politician. Amos Funk, 98, American farm preservationist. Linnart Mäll, 71, Estonian historian, orientalist, translator and politician, cancer. John Ruan, 96, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, Parkinson's disease. John Thorbjarnarson, 52, American conservationist and crocodile expert, malaria. Jerzy Turek, 76, Polish actor. Zhang Yalin, 28, Chinese football player, lymphoma. = W. H. Clatworthy, 94, American mathematician. Juan Carlos González, 85, Uruguayan football player. Ian Gray, 46, Australian football player, homicide by prohibited drug. Jeanne M. Holm, 88, American general, pneumonia. Bill Kajikawa, 97, American basketball coach (Arizona State Sun Devils). Dana Kirk, 74, American basketball coach (Memphis Tigers), heart attack. Rigmor Mydtskov, 84, Danish court photographer. Fred Peacock, 93, Canadian politician. Aníbal Portillo, 95, Salvadoran military officer, head of state (1961–1962). Sylvia Pressler, 75, American jurist, lymphoma. Alfred Surratt, 87, American baseball player (Kansas City Monarchs), co-founder of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Art Van Damme, 89, American jazz musician and accordionist, pneumonia. George Waring, 84, British actor (Coronation Street), cancer. Claud William Wright, 93, British civil servant and scientific expert. = Jim Bibby, 65, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), bone cancer. John Davis Chandler, 73, American actor (Adventures in Babysitting, The Outlaw Josey Wales). William E. Gordon, 92, American inventor, designer of the Arecibo Radio Telescope, natural causes. Martin Grossman, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Jim Harmon, 76, American science fiction writer, heart attack. Ronald Howes, 83, American inventor, designer of Easy-Bake Oven. Andrew Koenig, 41, American actor (Growing Pains), suicide. Ino Kolbe, 95, German Esperanto expert. Ian Roderick Macneil, 80, American-born lawyer and Scottish clan chief. Mike Pittilo, 55, British biologist and educator, Principal of Robert Gordon University. Wan Chi Keung, 53, Hong Kong footballer, actor, and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Jim Waugh, 76, American baseball player. = Roger-Émile Aubry, 86, Swiss-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Reyes (1973–1999). Chaturvedi Badrinath, 76, Indian officer and author. Lottie Beck, 81, American baseball player (AAGPBL) Arnold Beichman, 96, American writer and journalist. Bjørn Benkow, 70, Norwegian journalist. Giulio de Florian, 74, Italian Olympic cross-country skier. Makoto Fujita, 76, Japanese actor and comedian, ruptured artery. Kathryn Grayson, 88, American actress and singer. Ruby Hunter, 54, Australian singer and musician, heart attack. Abdulkhakim Ismailov, 93, Russian Red Army soldier, World War II hero, natural causes. David Lelei, 38, Kenyan middle distance runner, car accident. Ignatius P. Lobo, 90, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Belgaum (1967–1994). Martha Mercader, 83, Argentine politician and writer. Hans Ørberg, 89, Danish linguist. Witold Skaruch, 80, Polish actor. Luigi Ulivelli, 74, Italian Olympic athlete. = John Babcock, 109, Canadian soldier, Canada's last surviving World War I veteran. Erwin Bachmann, 88, German Waffen-SS officer. Asta Backman, 93, Finnish actress. Bob Chakales, 82, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians). Barton Childs, 93, American physician and geneticist, complications of lung cancer. Amlan Datta, 85, Indian economist and teacher. Alan Gordon, 65, Scottish football player, cancer. Fernando Krahn, 75, Chilean plastic artist and illustrator. Emilio Lavazza, 78, Italian businessman, President of Lavazza Coffee (1979–2008). Nirmal Pandey, 48, Indian actor, heart attack. Richard Proulx, 72, American choral conductor and composer. Ariel Ramírez, 88, Argentine composer and pianist, pneumonia. = George Cisar, 99, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Daddy, 16, American Pit Bull Terrier, appeared with owner Cesar Millan in Dog Whisperer, euthanized due to cancer. Jamie Gillis, 66, American pornographic film actor, melanoma. Bruno Gironcoli, 73, Austrian sculptor, after long illness. Lionel Jeffries, 83, British film actor, screenwriter and director. Rudy Larriva, 94, American animator and animation director (Looney Tunes, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show). Rafael Muñoz Núñez, 85, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zacatecas (1972–1984) and Aguascalientes (1984–1998). Elli Parvo, 95, Italian film actress. Giovanni Pettenella, 66, Italian Olympic cyclist. Walter Plowright, 86, British veterinary scientist. Laura Spurr, 64, American chairwoman of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi since 2003, heart attack. Bull Verweij, 100, Dutch businessman, co-founder of Radio Veronica. Mladen Veža, 94, Croatian painter. = Chandan Mal Baid, 88, Indian politician. Ghantasala Balaramayya, 78, Indian producer, director and actor. Bobby Cox, 76, Scottish footballer (Dundee). Georges Charachidzé, 80, French scholar of the Caucasian cultures. Juanita Goggins, 75, American politician, first black woman in South Carolina Legislature, hypothermia. (estimated date of death) Linda Grover, 76, American peace activist, founder of Global Family Day, uterine and ovarian cancer. Alexander Haig, 85, American politician and diplomat, Secretary of State (1981–1982), complications from an infection. Sam Hamilton, 54, American public official, Director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 2009, heart attack. Sandy Kenyon, 87, American character and voice actor (The Twilight Zone, Here Comes Garfield). Henry Kučera, 85, Czech-born American linguist. Niall McCrudden, 45, Irish optician and socialite. Padmanabham, 78, Indian actor, heart attack. Jason Wood, 38, British comedian and reality television contestant (Strictly Come Dancing). = Seth G. Atwood, 92, American industrialist, community leader, and horological collector. Bob Doe, 89, British airman, Royal Air Force flying ace. Jacek Karpiński, 83, Polish computer scientist. Veini Kontinen, 82, Finnish Olympic skier. Vladimir Motyl, 82, Russian film director and scenarist, cervical fractures and pneumonia. Albader Parad, Filipino militant (Abu Sayyaf), shot. Vesa Pulliainen, 52, Finnish Olympic footballer. Casimir Johannes Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 93, German nobleman, businessman and politician. William E. Skillend, 83, British scholar of Korean language. George Strickland, 84, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians). James Wieghart, 76, American newspaper editor (New York Daily News), pneumonia. = Juan Angel Belda Dardiñá, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jaca (1978–1983) and León (1983–1987). Michael J. Bradley, 76, British diplomat, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1987–1993). Robert Carter, 82, American priest and gay rights activist, a founder of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Fred Chaffart, 74, Belgian businessperson. Henry Cosgrove, 87, Australian judge, Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania (1977–1988). Robin Davies, 56, British actor, lung cancer. Hillar Eller, 70, Estonian politician, former chairman of the Estonian Left Party (1995–1996). Eugene Lambert, 82, Irish puppeteer and ventriloquist (Wanderly Wagon). Nelly Landry, 93, Belgian-born French tennis player. Rozy Munir, 67, Indonesian diplomat, ambassador to Qatar, liver cancer. Menachem Porush, 93, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1959–1975, 1977–1994). Bobby Smith, 56, Scottish footballer, cancer. Charles Stenvig, 82, American politician, Mayor of Minneapolis (1969–1973, 1975–1977). Mohammed Zaman, 44, Afghan political and military leader, victim of suicide bombing. = John Hollings Addison, 80, Canadian politician and business executive. Vyacheslav Andreyuk, 64, Soviet Russian football player. Clarence R. Autery, 76, American general. Bill Burtenshaw, 84, British footballer. Michael Clancy, 60, Saint Helena politician and Governor (2004–2007), cancer. Mervyn Jones, 87, British journalist, biographer and novelist. Abune Zena Markos, 72, Ethiopian Archbishop, complications from pneumonia. Wyn Morris, 81, British conductor. Gerhardt Neef, 63, German footballer (Rangers), throat cancer. Henri Salmide, 90, German World War II naval officer, saved Bordeaux port from destruction. Mosi Tatupu, 54, American football player (New England Patriots). Derek Vanlint, 78, British-born Canadian cinematographer (Alien), short illness. Orlando Zapata, 42, Cuban dissident, hunger strike. = Antonio Alegre, 85, Argentine businessman, President of Boca Juniors (1985–1995). Delmo da Silva, 55, Brazilian Olympic sprinter. Ang It-hong, 82, Taiwanese singer, songwriter, composer and actor, pancreatic cancer. Dawn Brancheau, 40, American SeaWorld trainer, killer whale attack. Carlo Cicuttini, 63, Italian neo-fascist and terrorist. Jake Elder, 73, American NASCAR crew chief, natural causes. Howard George, 75, American Olympic wrestler. Richard Gruenwald, 93, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA for Lethbridge-West (1971–1975). Dagfin Huseby, 87, Norwegian Olympic wrestler. C. R. Johnson, 26, American newschool skier, skiing accident. Birgitta Lindqvist, 67, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier. Charles MacArthur, 89, Canadian politician, MLA for Inverness (1983–1998). = Henry Barron, 81, Irish jurist, Supreme Court of Ireland (1997–2003), after short illness. Ernst Beyeler, 88, Swiss art collector. Barbara Bray, 85, British translator. Aaron Cohen, 79, American aerospace engineer, Director of Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (1986–1993), after long illness. İhsan Doğramacı, 94, Turkish physician and academic, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. Vladislav Galkin, 38, Russian actor, heart failure. Gheorghe Gaston Marin, 91, Romanian politician. Donald Merrifield, 81, American Jesuit, first president of Loyola Marymount University (1973–1984), heart attack. John Bernard McDowell, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Tamazuca (1966–1996). Oscar Ravina, 79, Polish-born American violinist. David Soyer, 87, American cellist (Guarneri Quartet). Efren Torres, 66, Mexican former world flyweight champion boxer, heart attack. Ali Tounsi, 76, Algerian police official, Chief of National Police, shot. Tuomo Tuormaa, 83, Finnish Olympic sprint canoer. Ahmet Vardar, 73, Turkish journalist and writer, pancreatic cancer. Frank Williams, 73, American architect (Trump Palace, Four Seasons Hotel New York), esophageal cancer. = María Elisa Álvarez Obaya, 76, Spanish pharmacist. Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr., 92, American political photographer (Bachrach Studios). Violet Barclay, 87, American comic book artist. Tom Bass, 93, Australian sculptor. Barry Bowen, 64, Belizean bottling magnate and politician, plane crash. Francisco Cabrera Santos, 63, Venezuelan politician, mayor of Valencia, Carabobo. Bernard Coutaz, 87, French music publisher, founder of Harmonia Mundi. Richard Devon, 84, American character actor (Lassie), vascular disease. Charles le Gai Eaton, 89, Swiss-born British diplomat and author. Andrew Jaffe, 71, American journalist (Adweek), revived the Clio Awards, multiple myeloma. Ivaylo Kirov, 63, Bulgarian Olympic basketball player. Robert McCall, 90, American artist, heart failure. Nujabes, 36, Japanese hip hop composer (Samurai Champloo), car accident. Jacques J. Polak, 95, Dutch economist. Dave Sheasby, 69, British playwright, radio producer and dramatist. = David Bankier, 63, German-born Israeli Holocaust scholar. Black Bear Island, app. 4, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. Larry Cassidy, 56, British bass guitarist and singer (Section 25). Charlie Crowe, 85, English footballer (Newcastle United), Alzheimer's disease. Frans De Blaes, 100, Belgian Olympic sprint canoer. Nanaji Deshmukh, 93, Indian social activist and politician, after long illness. Anna Fárová, 81, Czech photography historian and advocate, Charter 77 signatory. Madeleine Ferron, 87, Canadian author, Alzheimer's disease. Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, 99, Danish linguist and World War II resistance member. Rosemary Goldie, 94, Australian Roman Catholic theologian, Under-Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity (1967–1976). Jonathan May, 51, American cellist and conductor, stroke. František Nedvěd, 59, Czech Olympic weightlifter. Hank Rosenstein, 89, American basketball player (New York Knicks), heart failure. Nathan Scott, 94, American film and television composer (Lassie, The Twilight Zone, Dragnet), natural causes. Oleg Stepanov, 70, Russian judoka, 1964 Olympic bronze medal winner. Wendy Toye, 92, British filmmaker. Roger Veeser, 90, Swiss Olympic athlete. = David Amland, 79, American painter and art educator. Edward L. Athey, 88, American football, basketball and baseball player, baseball and basketball coach. Martin Benson, 91, British actor (The Omen, Cleopatra, Goldfinger). Adam Blacklaw, 72, Scottish footballer (Burnley). Gerald Butler, 79, British jurist and broadcaster, heart attack. Theodore Cross, 86, American publisher and civil rights activist, heart failure. Bohdan Ejmont, 82, Polish actor. Rose Gray, 71, British restaurateur (The River Café) and food writer, brain cancer. Gene Greytak, 84, American impressionist (Pope John Paul II), cancer. Chushiro Hayashi, 89, Japanese astrophysicist, pneumonia. Phillip Law, 97, Australian scientist and explorer (Australian Antarctic Territory). José Mindlin, 95, Brazilian businessman and bibliophile, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. Carlos Montemayor, 62, Mexican writer, stomach cancer. Nikolay Surov, 62, Russian Olympic rower. Jorge Villamil, 80, Colombian composer, complications from diabetes. George Watt, 92, Australian rugby league footballer. Tom Wolk, 58, American bass guitarist (Hall & Oates), heart attack.

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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2010. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. = Tadur Bala Goud, 78, Indian politician. Mary Barr, 84, first female aviator in the US Forest Service. Perry Brooks, 55, American football player (Washington Redskins). Robert Clarkson, 62, American tax protestor. Kristian Digby, 32, British television presenter and director (To Buy or Not to Buy), accidental suffocation. Clifton Forbes, 64, Jamaican Olympic athlete. Emil Forselius, 35, Swedish actor, suicide. Slavko Fras, 81, Slovenian journalist and editor. Barry Hannah, 67, American novelist and short story writer, heart attack. Vladimir Ilyushin, 82, Russian test pilot. Paul Kim Ok-kyun, 84, South Korean Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Girba (1985–2001). Ruth Kligman, 80, American abstract painter, muse of Jackson Pollock. = Francisco Ada, 75, Northern Mariana Islands politician, first Lieutenant Governor (1978–1982). Syed Ali, 67, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning (1964) field hockey player. Alexander Tikhomirov, 28, Russian/Islamist militant leader, ideologue leader of the Islamist rebels, killed by Russian troops. Melva Blancett, 85, American actress. Judith Bumpus, 70, British arts radio producer. Winston Churchill, 69, British politician, MP for Stretford (1970–1983) and Davyhulme (1983–1997), prostate cancer. Paul Drayton, 70, American athlete, 1964 Olympic gold and silver medalist, cancer. Jón Hnefill Aðalsteinsson, 82, Icelandic scholar. Don Kent, 92, American meteorologist (WBZ-TV), natural causes. Miloslav Loos, 96, Czech Olympic cyclist. Ibragim Khasanov, 72, Russian Olympic sprint canoer. Charles B. Moore, 89, American physicist, engineer and meteorologist. Eric Morse, 91, Australian cricketer. Geoff Myburgh, 81, South African Olympic sailor. Joseph Hernández Ochoa, 26, Honduran journalist, shot. Omar Pound, 83, American writer and translator. Horst Urban, 73, Czech Olympic luger. = Keith Alexander, 53, British footballer (Saint Lucia) and manager, brain aneurysm. Johnny Allen, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins), Alzheimer's disease. Stefan Bengtsson, 55, Swedish Olympic sailor. Frank Bertaina, 65, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack. Mariya Dolina, 87, Ukrainian dive bomber pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union. Franz Eibler, 85, Austrian Olympic weightlifter. Michael Foot, 96, British politician, Leader of the Labour Party (1980–1983). Marie-Christine Gessinger, 17, Austrian fashion model, car accident. Momo Kapor, 72, Serbian writer and painter. Big Tiny Little, 79, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show). Yuri Stepanov, 42, Russian actor, car accident. John Strohmeyer, 85, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, heart failure. Oleg Tyurin, 72, Russian rower, 1964 Olympic gold medalist. = Raimund Abraham, 76, Austrian-born American architect (Austrian Cultural Forum New York), car accident. Johnny Alf, 80, Brazilian singer and composer, prostate cancer. Vladislav Ardzinba, 64, Georgian politician, separatist President of Abkhazia (1994–2005). Big Truck, app. 5, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. André Bouchard, 64, Canadian ecologist and environmentalist, heart attack. Etta Cameron, 70, Bahamian-born Danish gospel singer, cancer. Hilario Chávez Joya, 82, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nuevo Casas Grandes (1977–2004). Amalie Christie, 96, Norwegian pianist. Samuel J. Eldersveld, 92, American political scientist and politician. Joaquim Fiúza, 102, Portuguese sailor, 1952 Olympic bronze medalist. Tetsuo Kondo, 80, Japanese politician, Minister of Labour (1991–1992). Nan Martin, 82, American actress (The Drew Carey Show, Cast Away, Shallow Hal), emphysema. Roger Newman, 69, British-born American actor and television writer (Guiding Light, Passions), cancer. Angelo Poffo, 84, American professional wrestler. Tony Richards, 76, English footballer (Walsall). Joanne Simpson, 86, American meteorologist, first woman to earn a doctorate in meteorology. Lolly Vegas, 70, American singer (Redbone), lung cancer. Fred Wedlock, 67, British folk musician, complications from pneumonia. = Obaidullah Akhund, Afghan Taliban leader, heart disease. Aminah Assilmi, 64-65, American Muslim lecturer, writer and women's rights activist, car accident. Donald N. Frey, 87, American product planning manager, co-creator of Ford Mustang, stroke. Aleksandr Grave, 89, Russian actor. Herta Haas, 96, Slovenian-born Yugoslav Partisan, second wife of Josip Broz Tito. Philip Langridge, 70, British tenor, colorectal cancer. Andrée Peel, 105, French patriot, World War II Resistance member. Charles B. Pierce, 71, American film director (The Legend of Boggy Creek). Alberto Ronchey, 83, Italian politician and journalist. Wolfgang Schenck, 97, German airman, Luftwaffe flying ace. Richard Stapley, 86, British-born American actor (The Three Musketeers), renal failure. Hal Trumble, 83, American ice hockey administrator and referee. Edgar Wayburn, 103, American environmentalist and conservationist. Jan Wilson, 70, Australian politician, Victorian MLA for Dandenong North (1985–1999). Makoto Yuki, 17,Japanese High Schooler,Gekkoukan High for Nyx S.E.E.S Annihilation (1993–2010) = Mansour Amirasefi, 76, Iranian Olympic footballer, cancer. Cho Gyeong-chul, 80, South Korean astronomer, heart attack. Fiennes Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, 88, British aristocrat. Bruce Graham, 84, American architect (Willis Tower, John Hancock Center), Alzheimer's disease. Endurance Idahor, 25, Nigerian footballer, heart attack. H.M. Koutoukas, 72, American playwright (Medea in the Laundromat), complications of diabetes. Mark Linkous, 47, American singer-songwriter (Sparklehorse), suicide by gunshot. Carol Marsh, 83, British actress. Ifedayo Oladapo, 77, Nigerian engineer. Ronald Pettersson, 74, Swedish ice hockey player. Jim Roland, 67, American Major League Baseball player. Syd Tierney, 86, British politician, MP for Birmingham Yardley (1974–1979). Nigel Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown, 93, British diplomat. = Sir Kenneth Dover, 89, British classicist, President of the British Academy (1978–1981). Ken Dyer, 63, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals). Newton Kulundu, 61, Kenyan politician, Minister of Labour (2006–2008), after long illness. Sergo Mikoyan, 80, Russian historian, specialist on Latin America, leukemia. Carlos Moratorio, 80, Argentine Olympic silver medal-winning (1964) equestrian. Ida Bagus Oka, 74, Indonesian politician, Governor of Bali (1988–1993), heart disease. Richard Stites, 78, American historian and author, complications from cancer. Tom Thurber, 75, Canadian politician. Patrick Topaloff, 65, French actor and humorist, heart attack. Ben Westlund, 60, American politician, Oregon State Treasurer (2009–2010), lung cancer. William Proctor Wilson, 88, American businessman and philanthropist. = Albert P. Clark, 96, American Air Force officer. Tony Imi, 72, British cinematographer (Enemy Mine, Buster, The Sea Wolves). David Kimche, 82, Israeli diplomat, Mossad spy (1953–1980), brain cancer. Vit Klemes, 77, Czech-born Canadian hydrologist. Guy Lapébie, 93, French road bicycle racer. Benjamin Rubin, 93, American microbiologist, inventor of the bifurcated vaccination needle. Gale Thomson, 90, American First Lady of New Hampshire (1973–1979), wife of Meldrim Thomson, Jr., heart failure. Mahama Johnson Traoré, 68, Senegalese film director, after long illness. Georgy Zatsepin, 92, Russian astrophysicist. = Antoine Choueiri, 70, Lebanese businessman and media magnate, after long illness. Paul Collier, 46, Australian disability advocate, brain haemorrhage. Gheorghe Constantin, 77, Romanian footballer and manager. Lionel Cox, 80, Australian road bicycle racer, pneumonia. Willie Davis, 69, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), natural causes. Dulmatin, 39, Indonesian terrorist, 2002 Bali bombings planner, shot. Elizabeth Farrow, 83, American baseball player (AAGPBL). Teresa Gutiérrez, 81, Colombian actress, natural causes. Doris Haddock, 100, American political activist, complications of respiratory disease. Catherine Itzin, 65, American feminist academic, honorary research fellow (University of Bradford), duodenal cancer. Jean Kerebel, 91, French Olympic silver (1948) medal-winning athlete. Bernard Narokobi, 67, Papua New Guinean politician, diplomat, lawyer and philosopher, after short illness. Wilfy Rebimbus, 67, Indian musician, lung cancer. Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo, 83, Santomean poet. Ricardo Vidal, 79, Chilean Olympic runner. Henry Wittenberg, 91, American wrestler, 1948 Olympic gold medalist. = Nate Beasley, 56, American football player. Truddi Chase, 74, American autobiographical author. Leeann Chin, 77, Chinese-born American restaurateur, founder of Leeann Chin restaurants, after long illness. Evelyn Dall, 92, American singer and actress, after long illness. Björn von der Esch, 80, Swedish politician. Bill Fisher, 84, Australian judge, President of the New South Wales Industrial Commission (1981–1998). Corey Haim, 38, Canadian actor (Lucas, The Lost Boys, License to Drive), pneumonia. Tim Holland, 79, American backgammon player, emphysema. Dorothy Janis, 98, American silent film actress. Vincent Mensah, 85, Beninese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto Novo (1970–2000). Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, 81, Egyptian Muslim cleric, Grand Imam (Al-Azhar Mosque), heart attack. George Webb, 92, British traditional jazz musician = Walter Aronsson, 92, Swedish Olympic bobsledder. Paul Dunlap, 90, American film composer. John Durr, 79, South African Olympic swimmer. John Hill, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease. Louis Holmes, 99, British-born Canadian ice hockey player and coach. Matilde Elena López, 91, Salvadoran poet, essayist and playwright. Willie MacFarlane, 79, Scottish footballer and manager. David Meza, 51, Honduran journalist, shot. Hans van Mierlo, 78, Dutch politician, Minister of Defence (1981–1982), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994–1998), Deputy Prime Minister (1994–1998). Charles Moore, 79, American photographer. Bernard Novak, 90, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1969–1980). Merlin Olsen, 69, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), member of Pro Football Hall of Fame, and actor (Little House on the Prairie, Father Murphy), mesothelioma. Arnall Patz, 89, American ophthalmologist, heart disease. Leena Peltonen-Palotie, 57, Finnish geneticist, bone cancer. Sandy Scott, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, pancreatic cancer. Turhan Selçuk, 87, Turkish cartoonist. Elena Shvarts, 61, Russian poet. Elisabeth de Stroumillo, 83, British journalist, scooter accident. Colin Wells, 76, British historian and archaeologist. = David Ahenakew, 76, Canadian First Nations leader and politician, cancer. Moulana Hameed Uddin Husami Aqil Sahab, 77, Indian Islamic scholar. Bob Attersley, 76, Canadian ice hockey player, 1960 Winter Olympics silver medalist. Miguel Delibes, 89, Spanish author, journalist and scholar, colorectal cancer. Lesley Duncan, 66, British singer-songwriter, cerebrovascular disease. Hanna-Renate Laurien, 81, German politician. Fatima Meer, 81, South African academic, screenwriter and anti-apartheid activist, stroke. Aleksandr Minayev, 51, Russian football player and coach. Charles Muscatine, 89, American Chaucer scholar and advocate for education reform, lung infection. Hugh Robertson, 70, Scottish footballer (Dundee F.C.). Hamish Scott, 86, Scottish rugby union player (North of Scotland, national team). Ian Sinfield, 75, Australian Olympic runner. Glauco Villas Boas, 53, Brazilian cartoonist (Geraldão), shot. = Jerry Adler, 91, American harmonicist, prostate cancer. Sir Michael Angus, 79, British businessman, Chairman of Unilever (1986–1992). Charlie Ashcroft, 83, English footballer (Liverpool F.C.). Sir Ian Axford, 76, New Zealand space scientist, after long illness. Jean Ferrat, 79, French singer, cancer. Momčilo Gavrić, 71, Croatian-born American football player (San Francisco 49ers). Peter Harburn, 78, English football player (Brighton & Hove Albion). He Pingping, 21, Chinese dwarf, shortest man who was able to walk, heart complications. Terry Heffernan, 58, New Zealand politician, cancer. Édouard Kargu, 84, French footballer. Cliff Livingston, 79, American football player (N.Y. Giants) and stuntman, complications from dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease. Leon Manley, 83, Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos). Andrzej Marcinkowski, 81, Polish lawyer and politician, acting Minister of Justice (1991), after long illness. Neville Meade, 61, Jamaican-born British boxer. Gary Mittelholtz, 55, Canadian journalist (CBC Radio), heart attack Fouad Zakariyya, 82-83, Egyptian philosopher. = Chimen Abramsky, 93, British historian, expert in Jewish studies and Hebrew literature. Nahúm Elí Palacios Arteaga, 36, Honduran journalist and television news director, shot. Hale Ashcraft, 89, American politician. Marcel Bacou, 74, French football referee. Carmen Capalbo, 84, American theater director, emphysema. Edward Eugene Claplanhoo, 81, American Makah leader and veteran, first Makah college graduate, founder of the Makah Museum. Junior Collins, 82, American horn player. Corsica Joe, 90, American professional wrestler. Cherie DeCastro, 87, American singer (The DeCastro Sisters), pneumonia. Edmund Dinis, 85, American prosecutor, investigated Chappaquiddick incident, complications of treatment for lymphoma. Pat Fanning, 91, Irish hurler (Waterford), President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1970–1973). Gumersindo Gómez, 81, Argentine Olympic runner. Peter Graves, 83, American actor (Mission: Impossible, Airplane!, Stalag 17), heart attack. Vinda Karandikar, 91, Indian poet and writer, after short illness. Hernán Llerena, 81, Peruvian Olympic cyclist. Arnold Loxam, 93, British organist. Konrad Ruhland, 78, German musicologist. Felipe Sapag, 93, Argentine politician. Der Scutt, 75, American architect (Trump Tower, One Astor Plaza, Reading Public Museum), liver failure. Janet Simpson, 65, British Olympic track and field athlete, heart attack. Altie Taylor, 62, American football player (Detroit Lions). Lisle Wilson, 66, American actor. = W. H. Atkinson, 75, American racing driver. Emilia Boncodin, 55, Filipino Secretary of DBM (1998, 2001–2005), ZTE scandal whistleblower, cardiac arrest. Joseph Galdon, 81, Filipino writer and academic. Günther Heidemann, 77, German Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) boxer. Robert Hodgins, 89, South African artist, lung cancer. Ken Holcombe, 91, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). Ashok Kumar, 53, British MP for Langbaurgh (1991–1992) and MSEC (1997–2010), natural causes. Ron Lundy, 75, American radio disc jockey (WABC, WCBS-FM), heart attack. Sam Mtukudzi, 21, Zimbabwean musician, car accident. Patricia Wrightson, 88, Australian children's writer. = Abdul Haq Baloch, 63, Pakistani scholar and politician. Herb Cohen, 77, American record company executive, manager of Frank Zappa. Billy Hoeft, 77, American Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher (Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles). Filip Kapisoda, 22, Montenegrin model, suicide by gunshot. Hachiro Maekawa, 97, Japanese baseball player (Yomiuri Giants), respiratory failure. Ksenija Pajčin, 32, Serbian pop singer, shot. Jane Sherman, 101, American writer and dancer. David J. Steinberg, 45, American actor (Willow, Epic Movie), suicide by hanging. Elena Tairova, 18, Russian chess player, woman grandmaster and international master, after long illness. Juan Adolfo Turri, 59, Argentine Olympic athlete. = Abdellah Blinda, 58, Moroccan footballer, heart attack. Tim Chadwick, 47, New Zealand artist, traffic collision. Alex Chilton, 59, American musician (Big Star, The Box Tops), heart attack. Wayne Collett, 60, American athlete, 1972 Summer Olympics silver medalist, cancer. Sid Fleischman, 90, American children's writer, cancer. Van Fletcher, 85, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). Charlie Gillett, 68, British radio presenter, music writer and record producer, after long illness. Peter Gowland, 93, American glamour photographer and actor, hip surgery. Ștefan Gheorghiu, 83, Romanian violinist. Johnnie High, 80, American country music impresario, heart failure. Pak Nam-gi, 76, North Korean public official, executed by firing squad. Robert Michael White, 85, American X-15 test pilot. = Amanda Castro, 47, Honduran poet, respiratory disease. Julinho, 90, Portuguese footballer. Herb Denenberg, 80, American journalist (WCAU), consumer advocate, Pennsylvania insurance commissioner, heart attack. Donald P. Kelly, 88, American leveraged buyout investor (Beatrice Foods), cancer. Chick Lang, Sr., 83, American businessman, general manager of Maryland Jockey Club, natural causes. Herbert G. Lewin, 95, American politician, candidate in the 1988 Presidential election, heart failure. Fess Parker, 85, American actor (Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone), natural causes. Zygmunt Pawłowicz, 82, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Gdańsk (1985–2005). Paul Warner Powell, 31, American convicted murderer, executed by electric chair. William Wolfe, 86, Scottish politician, National Chairman of the Scottish National Party (1969–1979). Konstantin Yeryomenko, 39, Russian futsal player, European champion (1999), heart attack. Jerry York, 71, American businessman, executive director of Apple Inc., cerebral hemorrhage. = Carlo Chenis, 55, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia (since 2006). Bob Curtis, 60, English footballer (Charlton Athletic, Mansfield Town), motor neurone disease. Gerald Drucker, 84, British double bass player. Wayne S. Ewing, 81, American politician. John Hicklenton, 42, British comics artist (2000 AD), assisted suicide. Ted Hooper, 91, British beekeeper. George Lane, 95, Hungarian-born British World War II commando, pneumonia. Roberto de la Madrid, 88, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California (1977–1983), first American-born governor of a Mexican state. Bill McIntyre, 80, American actor (Dallas), natural causes. Elinor Smith, 98, American aviator. Dottie Thompson, 88, American festival organizer, co-founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, complications from pneumonia. Raúl de la Torre, 72, Argentine film director (Pobre mariposa, Funes, un gran amor), cardiac arrest. = Susanna Amatuni, 86, Soviet Armenian art critic and musicologist. István Bilek, 77, Hungarian chess grandmaster. Alan Cameron, 80, Australian rugby union player, national team. Harry Carpenter, 84, British sports commentator and television presenter. Liz Carpenter, 89, American feminist author, press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson (1963–1969), pneumonia. Claiborne Cary, 78, American actress and cabaret performer, complications from Parkinson's disease. Clodomiro Castilla, 50, Colombian journalist, shot. Dorothy Corrigan, 96, Canadian politician, first female Mayor of Charlottetown (1968–1972). Chicka Dixon, 81, Australian Aboriginal activist, asbestosis. Ebet Kadarusman, 73, Indonesian television and radio presenter, stroke. Ray Fonseca, 56, American hula master, heart attack. Fred Heineman, 80, American politician, Representative from North Carolina (1995–1997), natural causes. John Eric Holmes, 80, American science fiction and fantasy author. Girija Prasad Koirala, 85, Nepalese politician, Prime Minister (four terms), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. Ian Knight, 69, British stage designer, cancer. Rihards Kotāns, 54, Latvian Olympic bobsledder. Naim Kryeziu, 92, Albanian footballer. Erwin Lehn, 90, German musician and conductor. Robin Milner, 76, British computer scientist, heart attack. Ai Ogawa, 62, American poet, breast cancer. Otto Otepka, 94, American Deputy Director of the Department of State's Office of Security (1959–1962). Fernando Iório Rodrigues, 80, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios (1985–2006). Mikel Scicluna, 80, Canadian professional wrestler, liver cancer. Stewart Udall, 90, American politician, Secretary of the Interior (1961–1969), fall. Yang Lina, 47, Singaporean actress (Samsui Women), uterine cancer. = Vivian Blake, 53, Jamaican drug lord, heart attack. Franco Gualdrini, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia (1983–2000). Lou Jankowski, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings). Takeo Kimura, 91, Japanese art director. Brownie Ledbetter, 77, American civil rights activist. Margaret Moth, 58, New Zealand photojournalist (CNN), colorectal cancer. Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German director (Bayreuth Festival), natural causes. Susana, Lady Walton, 83, Argentine writer, widow of composer Sir William Walton, natural causes. = Sir James Black, 85, British physician, Nobel Laureate in Medicine (1988). Özhan Canaydın, 67, Turkish basketball player, president of Galatasaray S.K. (2002–2008), pancreatic cancer. Diz Disley, 78, Canadian-born British jazz guitarist. Ky Fan, 95, American mathematician. Ella Mae Johnson, 106, American social worker and author. Leroy Matthiesen, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amarillo (1980–1997). Emil Schulz, 71, German boxer. Valentina Tolkunova, 63, Russian singer, People's Artist of RSFSR, brain tumor. = Bob Abbott, 77, American judge. Nail Bakirov, 57, Russian statistician, car accident. Edith Barney, 87, American baseball player. Midge Costanza, 77, American social and political activist, advisor to President Jimmy Carter, cancer. Alan King-Hamilton, 105, British judge. Lauretta Masiero, 82, Italian actress, Alzheimer's disease. Jiro Nagasawa, 78, Japanese Olympic swimmer and national coach, throat cancer. Wayne Patrick, 63, American football player (Buffalo Bills), kidney disease. Kaljo Põllu, 75, Estonian artist. Kanu Sanyal, 78, Indian revolutionary, Naxal leader, suicide by hanging. Alex Seith, 75, American politician. Sulaiman Daud, 77, Malaysian politician, minister (1981–1999), liver cancer. Blanche Thebom, 94, American mezzo-soprano, pneumonia. Fritz Wagnerberger, 72, German Olympic skier. James Williamson, 26, Australian mountain biker and journalist. Marva Wright, 62, American blues singer, complications from a stroke. = Elijah Alexander, 39, American football player (Indianapolis Colts), multiple myeloma. Anzor Astemirov, 33, Russian insurgent, leader of the 2005 Nalchik raid, shot. Robert Culp, 79, American actor (I Spy, The Greatest American Hero, The Pelican Brief), heart attack. Martin Elliott, 63, British photographer (Tennis Girl), cancer. Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa, 93, Brazilian geneticist and academic. Ron Hamence, 94, Australian cricketer. Colleen Kay Hutchins, 83, American actress, Miss America (1952), mother of Kiki Vandeweghe. Jim Marshall, 74, American photographer. William Mayne, 82, British children's author. Harold McGraw, Jr., 92, American businessman, CEO of McGraw-Hill (1975–1983). Daphne Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth, 88, British spy (MI6), after long illness. Mortimer Sackler, 93, American physician and philanthropist. Eric Sunderland, 80, Welsh anthropologist and academic administrator, Vice Chancellor of Bangor University (1984–1995). = Alberto Arroyo, 94, American runner. Pål Bang-Hansen, 72, Norwegian film director, actor and film critic, skin cancer. Ben Gascoigne, 94, New Zealand-born Australian optical astronomer. Kit Horn, 80, American surfer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Des Hoysted, 87, Australian radio broadcaster and horse racing commentator. Marty Lederhandler, 92, American photographer (Associated Press), stroke. John P. McGarr, 45, American actor and film producer, traffic accident. Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, 93, German political scientist. José Antonio Peteiro Freire, 73, Moroccan Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Tanger (1983–2005). Marshall Plummer, 62, American first Vice President of the Navajo Nation (1991–1994), lung disease. Martin Řehák, 76, Czech Olympic athlete. Michael S. Rosenfeld, 75, American talent agent, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency. Robert Sandager, 95, American Olympic shooter. Chet Simmons, 81, American sports broadcasting executive, first president of ESPN, Commissioner (USFL), natural causes. Václav Syrový, 75, Czech Olympic weightlifter. Zainal Abidin Ahmad, 71, Malaysian politician, brain cancer. Zhang Tingfa, 91, Chinese general, commander of the PLA Air Force. Kyohei Ushio, 75, Japanese Olympic sprinter. = Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 41, Emirati managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, glider crash. Abeywardena Balasuriya, 63, Sri Lankan musician, playback singer, writer and a television program producer. Frank Burgess, 75, American federal judge and basketball player, cancer. Lara Jones, 34, British children's author and illustrator, melanoma. Manuel de Jesús Juárez, 55, Honduran journalist, shot. Shmuel Katz, 83, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator. Ruy Kopper, 79, Brazilian Olympic rower. Kwon Hyi-ro, 81, Japanese-born Korean murderer, prostate cancer. Heinz Laufer, 84, German Olympic athlete. José Bayardo Mairena Ramírez, 52, Honduran journalist, shot. Rocco Pantaleo, 53, Italian-born Australian owner of La Porchetta, motorcycle accident. Charles Ryskamp, 81, American art collector and museum director (Frick Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library), cancer. George X. Schwartz, 96, American politician. Max Whitehead, 87, Australian rugby league player, model and professional wrestler, complications following a hip operation. = Dick Giordano, 77, American comic book artist and editor (Batman, Wonder Woman, Thor), complications from pneumonia. Zbigniew Gut, 60, Polish footballer. Peter Herbolzheimer, 74, German jazz musician. Stephen Hearst, 90, Austrian-born British television and radio executive. Colm Kiernan, 78, Australian historian, biographer of Irish Australians. Eva Markvoort, 25, Canadian blogger and subject of 65_Redroses, cystic fibrosis. Stanford Parris, 80, American politician, Representative from Virginia (1973–1975, 1981–1991), heart disease. Vasily Smyslov, 89, Russian chess grandmaster, World Champion (1957–1958), heart failure. Stanley Vann, 100, British organist and composer, complications following a fall. = Fred Ascani, 92, American Air Force test pilot, lung cancer. David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk, 55, Scottish peer, member of the House of Lords. Preeda Chullamondhol, 64, Thai Olympic cyclist. Sir Gaven Donne, 95, New Zealand jurist, former Chief Justice of various Pacific nations. Dan Duncan, 77, American businessman oil company executive and billionaire, cerebral hemorrhage. Herb Ellis, 88, American jazz guitarist, Alzheimer's disease. Derlis Florentín, 26, Paraguayan football player, car accident. Joe Gates, 55, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox) and coach (Gary SouthShore RailCats), heart failure. June Havoc, 97, Canadian-born American actress, natural causes. Ali Ibrahim, 38, Egyptian Olympic rower, traffic collision. Johnny Lawrenson, 88, British rugby league player. John Purdin, 67, American baseball player. Agim Qirjaqi, 59, Albanian actor and television director. Zofia Romanowicz, 87, Polish writer and translator. Asbjørn Sjøthun, 82, Norwegian politician, Mayor of Balsfjord Municipality (1962–1969), MP (1969–1989). Eric Tunney, 45, Canadian comedian (Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy). = Tom Burton, 46, American professional wrestler. Choi Jin-young, 39, South Korean actor and singer, brother of Choi Jin-sil, suicide by hanging. Jean Cosmat, 99, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1936) rower. Kurt Hockerup, 65, Danish politician, cardiac arrest. Alan Isler, 75, British-born American novelist and professor, after long illness. János Kass, 82, Hungarian artist. Jenne Langhout, 91, Dutch Olympic field hockey player. Sam Menning, 85, American actor (The Prestige), emphysema. Armando Nogueira, 83, Brazilian sports journalist. Elliot Willensky, 66, American songwriter, stroke. = Franklin DeWayne Alix, 34, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection. Alfred Ambs, 87, German World War II flying ace. Thomas Angove, 92, Australian winemaker, inventor of the wine cask. Laszlo Antal, 73, Hungarian born English sport shooter. Nicola Arigliano, 86, Italian jazz singer, musician, and actor. John Bunch, 88, American jazz pianist, melanoma. Juan Carlos Caballero Vega, 109, Mexican revolutionary, driver of Pancho Villa. Jaime Escalante, 79, American mathematics teacher, inspiration for film Stand and Deliver, bladder cancer. John Fethers, 80, Australian Olympic fencer (1952). Peter Flinsch, 89, German-born Canadian artist. Josef Homeyer, 80, German Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Hildesheim (1983–2004). Morris R. Jeppson, 87, American Army Air Corps officer, assistant weaponeer on the Enola Gay. David Mills, 48, American author, journalist and television writer (NYPD Blue, ER, The Wire), brain aneurysm. Malcolm Poindexter, 84, American journalist and reporter (KYW-TV), Alzheimer's disease. Martin Sandberger, 98, German Nazi leader and Holocaust perpetrator. Harriet Shetler, 92, American journalist and advocate, a founder of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. William T. Smith, 94, American politician, Member of the New York Senate (1963–1987). H. Clyde Wilson Jr., 83, American anthropologist and politician. Jadin Wong, 96, American dancer, comedian and talent agent. = Eugene Allen, 90, American White House butler (1952–1986), renal failure. Marcelle Arnold, 92, French actress. Arlette Franco, 70, French politician, complications from brain tumor. Burton Joseph, 79, American First Amendment lawyer, brain cancer. Tina Leung, 65, Hong Kong actress. Ludwig Martin, 100, German lawyer, Attorney General of Germany (1963–1974). Shirley Mills, 83, American actress (The Grapes of Wrath), pneumonia. Jerald terHorst, 87, American White House Press Secretary (1974), heart failure. Qasim Mahmood, 81, Pakistani intellectual and foremost encyclopedist, heart failure.

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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2010. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. = Morag Beaton, 83, Scottish-born Australian operatic soprano. Vito De Grisantis, 68, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca (2000–2010). Anders Eklund, 52, Swedish boxer. John Forsythe, 92, American actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty), complications from pneumonia. Paul Fry, 45, British motorcycle speedway rider. Buddy Gorman, 88, American actor (Bowery Boys, Dead End Kids), natural causes. Julia Lang, 88, British actress, radio presenter. Yuri Maslyukov, 72, Russian politician, Vice Premier of Soviet Union (1988–1990) and Russia (1998–1999). Lek Nana, 85, Thai businessman and politician, heart failure. Ed Roberts, 68, American computer pioneer, pneumonia. Tzannis Tzannetakis, 82, Greek politician, Prime Minister (1989). = Israr Ahmad, 69, Indian nuclear physicist. Butch Allison, 65, American football player. Roman Bannwart, 90, Swiss theologian and musician. Din Beramboi, 43, Malaysian comedian, actor and radio DJ, hemorrhagic dengue fever. Mike Cuellar, 72, Cuban Major League Baseball player, stomach cancer. Ashari Danudirdjo, 87, Indonesian Olympic sailor. Edward Dmytro, 78, Canadian jurist, Chief Justice of Saskatchewan (1981–2006). Dávid Daróczi, 37, Hungarian journalist, suicide. David Halliday, 94, American physicist. Arne Høyer, 81, Danish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) sprint canoer. Chris Kanyon, 40, American professional wrestler (WCW, WWF), suicide by drug overdose. Per Lyngemark, 68, Danish Olympic gold medal-winning (1968) cyclist. Sonia McMahon, Lady McMahon, 77, Australian socialite, widow of former Prime Minister Sir William McMahon, cancer. Thomas J. Moyer, 70, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1987–2010). Carolyn Rodgers, 69, American poet, cancer. Wendy Jo Schwarz, 38, American mother, Cancer. William Soeryadjaya, 87, Indonesian businessman, founder of Astra International. Frances Claudia Wright, 91, Sierra Leonean barrister. Mike Zwerin, 79, American jazz musician and jazz critic, after long illness. = Romano Alquati, 75, Italian sociologist, political theorist and activist. Crosaire, 92, Irish-born Zimbabwean compiler of the Irish Times crossword since 1943. Oleg Kopayev, 72, Russian footballer, Soviet Top League top scorer (1963, 1965). Roland MacLeod, 74, British actor (Coronation Street, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin). Ian McKay, 87, Australian footballer. Craig Noel, 94, American theatre producer, director and administrator of the Old Globe Theatre, natural causes. Jim Pagliaroni, 72, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics), cancer. Ferdinand Simoneit, 84, German journalist, author and World War II veteran. Eugène Terre'Blanche, 69, South African white separatist leader, beating. Jesús Vásquez, 89, Peruvian singer. Yasunori Watanabe, 35, Japanese rugby player, hit by train. = Mahmoud Abdel-Aal, 81, Egyptian gymnast. Lajos Bálint, 80, Hungarian-born Romanian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Alba Iulia (1990–1993). Sir Alec Bedser, 91, English cricketer. Matt Cook, 22, Canadian ice sledge hockey player, bone cancer. Clifford M. Hardin, 94, American politician, Secretary of Agriculture (1969–1971), natural causes. Salomón Jaar, 48, bishop of Tamarindo Ward in Choluteca Honduras Stake. Rudy Kousbroek, 80, Dutch essayist. Lori Martin, 62, American actor (Cape Fear, National Velvet), suicide by gunshot. Kelly Moran, 49, American motorcycle speedway racer, complications from emphysema. Abubakar Rimi, 70, Nigerian politician. Shio Satō, 59, Japanese manga artist, brain tumor. Henry Scarpelli, 79, American comic book artist (Archie), after long illness. Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke, 87, German mathematician and academic. Erich Zenger, 70, German Roman Catholic theologian and Bible scholar. = Jim Edwards, 83, New Zealand politician. Jerry Elliott, 73, American jurist, Kansas Court of Appeals (since 1987), cancer. Lothar Engelhardt, 70, German military scientist. Günther C. Kirchberger, 81, German academic and painter. William Neill, 88, British poet. Helen Ranney, 89, American hematologist. Molefi Sefularo, 52, South African politician, car crash. Vitaly Sevastyanov, 74, Russian Soviet cosmonaut. Gisela Trowe, 86, German actress. = Janet Adelman, 69, American literary critic. James Aubrey, 62, British actor (Lord of the Flies, Bouquet of Barbed Wire, Spy Game), pancreatitis. Eddie Carroll, 76, Canadian voice actor (Jiminy Cricket). Vinnie Chas, 47, American bassist (Pretty Boy Floyd). Anatoly Dobrynin, 90, Russian diplomat and politician, Soviet Ambassador to the United States (1962–1986). Jack Flannery, 57, American off-road racer, cancer. Ricardo Lavié, 87, Argentine actor, after long illness. Guillermo Luca de Tena, 82, Spanish journalist. Tony MacGibbon, 85, New Zealand cricketer. Wilma Mankiller, 64, American activist, first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1985–1995), pancreatic cancer. Katsumi Nishikawa, 91, Japanese film director, pneumonia. Grete Olsen, 98, Danish Olympic fencer. David Quayle, 73, British businessman (B&Q). Tom Ray, 90, American animator (Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Animaniacs). Corin Redgrave, 70, British actor and political activist, after short illness. Hans Schröder, 79, German sculptor and painter. Herbert Spiro, 85, German-born American political scientist, United States Ambassador to Cameroon (1975–1977) Sid Storey, 90, English footballer. Dimitris Tsiogas, 54, Greek politician, member of Parliament (2001–2008), cancer. Luigi Waites, 82, American jazz drummer and vibraphonist. = Christopher Cazenove, 64, English actor (Dynasty, A Knight's Tale, Zulu Dawn), sepsis. Dixieland Band, 30, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. Hermina Franks, 95, American baseball player (AAGPBL). Graciela, 94, Cuban singer, renal and pulmonary failure. Eddie Johnson, 89, American jazz musician, pneumonia. Takuya Kimura, 37, Japanese baseball player and coach, subarachnoid hemorrhage. Oscar Kramer, 74, Argentine film producer, after long illness. Chris Limahelu, 59, American football place kicker (USC), prostate cancer. J. Bruce Llewellyn, 82, American businessman and activist, a founder of 100 Black Men of America, renal failure. George Nissen, 96, American gymnast, co-inventor of the trampoline, pneumonia. Betty Paraskevas, 81, American writer and lyricist, pancreatic cancer. Ramchandra Siras, 62, Indian linguist and author. Valentin Turchin, 79, Russian-born American computer scientist and human rights activist. = Babá, 75, Brazilian footballer. Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross, 76, British judge and hereditary peer. Willie Farrell, 81, Irish politician. Antony Flew, 87, British philosopher, after long illness. Guy Kewney, 63, British technology journalist (Personal Computer World), colorectal cancer. Aladár Kovácsi, 77, Hungarian modern pentathlete, Olympic gold medalist (Helsinki 1952). Andreas Kunze, 57, German actor, heart failure. Malcolm McLaren, 64, British musician and band manager (Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, Bow Wow Wow), mesothelioma. Abel Muzorewa, 84, Zimbabwean Methodist bishop and politician, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979). Richard Olasz, 79, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1981–1998). Personal Ensign, 26, American Thoroughbred racehorse, Hall of Famer, natural causes. Al Prince, 67, American-born French Polynesian journalist and tourism expert, after long illness. Jean-Paul Proust, 70, Monégasque politician, Minister of State (2005–2010). John Schoenherr, 74, American illustrator, Caldecott Medal winner, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Teddy Scholten, 83, Dutch singer. = Bob Franks, 58, American politician, member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey (1993–2001), cancer. Alastair Dowell, 89, Scottish cricketer. John Griffiths, 57, Welsh museum curator. Hisashi Inoue, 75, Japanese pacifist playwright, lung cancer. Meir Just, 101, Dutch rabbi, Chief Rabbi of the Netherlands. Robert Lau, 68, Malaysian politician, Deputy Minister for Transport, liver cancer. Gisela Karau, 78, German author, editor and columnist, after long illness. Dario Mangiarotti, 94, Italian fencer, Olympic gold (1952) and silver (1948, 1952) medalist. Kenneth McKellar, 82, Scottish singer, pancreatic cancer. Jacob O. Meyer, 75, American religious sect leader (Assemblies of Yahweh). Meinhardt Raabe, 94, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), heart attack. Peter Ramsbotham, 3rd Viscount Soulbury, 90, British diplomat and politician, Governor of Bermuda (1977–1980). Lou Ritter, 84, American politician, Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida (1965–1967), cancer. Guyford Stever, 93, American educator and science adviser, President of Carnegie Mellon University (1965–1972). Kerstin Thorvall, 84, Swedish author, illustrator and journalist, after long illness. Pierre Trottier, 85, Canadian novelist. Zoltán Varga, 65, Hungarian footballer. = Dixie Carter, 70, American actress (Designing Women, Diff'rent Strokes, Family Law), endometrial cancer. Sudhir Dhagamwar, 59, Indian cricketer. Jim Eames, 92, British Lord Mayor of Birmingham (1974–1975). David Harvey, 73, British paediatrician. Arnold Kanter, 65, American diplomat, acute myelogenous leukemia. Charles Meade, 93, American pastor, founder of Meade Ministries. Arthur Mercante, Sr., 90, American boxing referee. Hiro Muramoto, 43, Japanese news cameraman (Reuters), shot. Martin Ostwald, 88, German-born American classics scholar. Manfred Reichert, 69, German footballer, after long illness. Sir Gordon Shattock, 81, British politician, survivor of the Brighton hotel bombing. William Walker, 78, American opera singer. Notable Polish people killed in the Polish Air Force Tu-154 plane crash: Joanna Agacka-Indecka, 45, attorney, President of the Bar Council (since 2007). Ewa Bąkowska, 47, librarian and activist. Andrzej Błasik, 47, general, Chief of the Air Force (since 2007). Krystyna Bochenek, 56, senator, vice president of Senate. Tadeusz Buk, 49, general, head of Land Forces. Miron Chodakowski, 52, Orthodox prelate, archbishop of military ordinariate of Poland (since 1998). Czesław Cywiński, 84, President of the Association of Armia Krajowa Soldiers. Leszek Deptuła, 57, member of the Sejm. Grzegorz Dolniak, 50, member of the Sejm. Janina Fetlińska, 57, senator. Franciszek Gągor, 58, general, Chief of the General Staff (since 2006). Grażyna Gęsicka, 58, politician, Minister of Regional Development (2006–2007). Kazimierz Gilarski, 54, Commander of the Warsaw Garrison. Przemysław Gosiewski, 45, member of the Sejm, Deputy Prime Minister (2007). Mariusz Handzlik, 44, diplomat, Undersecretary of State in the Office of the President. Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, 59, member of the Sejm, Deputy Prime Minister (2004–2005). Ryszard Kaczorowski, 90, politician, President in exile (1989–1990). Maria Kaczyńska, 67, First Lady of Poland (since 2005), wife of Lech Kaczyński. Lech Kaczyński, 60, President of Poland (since 2005). Sebastian Karpiniuk, 37, member of the Sejm. Andrzej Karweta, 51, Vice Admiral, commander-in-chief of the Navy. Mariusz Kazana, 49, diplomat, Director of Diplomatic Protocol in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Janusz Kochanowski, 69, lawyer and diplomat, Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection (Ombudsman) (since 2006). Stanisław Komornicki, 85, general, Chancellor of the Order Virtuti Militari. Stanisław Komorowski, 56, Deputy Defense Minister (since 2007), Ambassador to Holland (1994–1998) and UK (1999–2004). Andrzej Kremer, 48, lawyer and diplomat, Deputy Foreign Minister (since 2008). Janusz Kurtyka, 49, historian, president of the Institute of National Remembrance. Bronisław Kwiatkowski, 59, general, Commander of the Armed Forces Operational Command. Tomasz Merta, 44, Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Aleksandra Natalli-Świat, 51, member of the Sejm. Piotr Nurowski, 64, sports administrator, head of the Polish Olympic Committee (since 2005). Bronisława Orawiec-Löffler, 81, dentist and activist. Maciej Płażyński, 52, member of the Sejm. Tadeusz Płoski, 54, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of military ordinariate of Poland (since 2004). Włodzimierz Potasiński, 53, Commander of the Special Forces. Andrzej Przewoźnik, 46, Secretary-General of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites. Krzysztof Putra, 52, politician, Vice-Marshal of the Sejm (since 2007). Ryszard Rumianek, 62, rector of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. Arkadiusz Rybicki, 57, member of the Sejm. Wojciech Seweryn, 70, Polish-born American sculptor. Sławomir Skrzypek, 46, banker, President of National Bank of Poland. Władysław Stasiak, 44, Chief of the Office of the President. Aleksander Szczygło, 46, politician, Minister of Defence (2007), chief of the National Security Bureau (since 2009). Jerzy Szmajdziński, 58, politician, Minister of Defence (2001–2005), Vice-Marshal of the Sejm (since 2007). Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz, 55, member of the Sejm. Anna Walentynowicz, 80, trade unionist whose 1980 firing led to the creation of the Solidarity movement. Zbigniew Wassermann, 60, member of the Sejm. Wiesław Woda, 63, member of the Sejm. Edward Wojtas, 55, member of the Sejm. Paweł Wypych, 42, politician, Secretary of State (since 2009). Stanisław Zając, 60, senator. Janusz Zakrzeński, 74, actor. = George Roberts Andrews, 78, American diplomat. John Batchelor, 51, British racing driver and politician, liver disease. Jean Boiteux, 76, French swimmer, Olympic gold and bronze medalist (1952), fall from a tree. James Brody, 68, American composer, traffic collision. Rosa Roberto Carter, 80, Guamanian educator, president of the University of Guam (1977–1983). Vicki Draves, 85, American Olympic diver, pancreatic cancer. Gerhard Geise, 80, German mathematician, after long illness. Hans-Joachim Göring, 86, German footballer and coach. Gert Haller, 65, German business manager, lobbyist and politician, after long illness. Theodor Homann, 61, German footballer, heart failure. Egon Hugenschmidt, 84, German jurist and politician. Franz Kamin, 68, American composer, traffic collision. Alby Linton, 83, Australian footballer. John B. McCue, 88, American politician, Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Ruben Mendoza, 78, American soccer player, cerebral hemorrhage. Duane D. Pearsall, 88, American inventor of the battery-powered smoke detector. Julia Tsenova, 61, Bulgarian composer and musician, cancer. Paz Yrarrázabal, 78, Chilean actress, rheumatoid arthritis. = Alper Balaban, 22, German-born Turkish footballer, car accident. María Aurelia Bisutti, 79, Argentine actress, dementia. Andrea Cassone, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Rossano-Cariati (1992–2006). Michel Chartrand, 93, Canadian activist, kidney cancer. Miguel Cinches, 78, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Surigao (1973–2001). Ambrosius Eßer, 76, German Dominican clergy and church historian, pulmonary disease. Wolfgang Graßl, 40, German skier and coach, heart failure. Peter Haskell, 75, American actor (Child's Play 2). Edward Huni'ehu, 54, Solomon Islander politician and minister, after long illness. Běla Kolářová, 87, Czech photographer. James F. Masterson, 84, American psychiatrist, complications of pneumonia. Palito, 75, Filipino comedian, respiratory disease. Robert Pound, 90, Canadian-born American physicist. Stuart Robbins, 33, British basketball player. Werner Schroeter, 65, German film director, after long illness. Arnold Spohr, 86, Canadian artistic director (Royal Winnipeg Ballet), chronic kidney disease. David B. Stone, 82, American businessman, principal founder of the New England Aquarium, complications from a stroke. Dale N. Van Vyven, 74, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1978–2000). Udaya Wickramasinghe, 70, Sri Lankan cricket umpire. = André Bedoglouyan, 90, Lebanese Eastern Catholic prelate, bishop of Comana Armeniae (1971–1994). Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil, 74, British television executive and life peer. Jorge Bontemps, 32, Argentine footballer, lung cancer. Luis Antonio Chávez, 22, Honduran journalist and children's radio host, shot. Billy Gore, 90, Welsh rugby player. Santhosh Jogi, 35, Indian actor, suicide by hanging. Bernie Kilgariff, 86, Australian politician, Senator (1975–1987). David C. Knapp, 82, American educator. Nahid al-Rayyis, 73, Palestinian politician and poet. Steve Reid, 66, American jazz drummer, throat cancer. Gerald Stapleton, 89, British airman, RAF fighter ace during World War II. Charlie Timmins, 87, English footballer (Coventry City), cancer. = Israr Ahmed, 77, Indian-born Pakistani Islamic scholar, cardiac arrest. Binyamin Balanero, 68, Israeli footballer. René Brunelle, 90, Canadian politician. Erika Burkart, 88, Swiss author. Aubrey Cummings, 62, Guyanese musician, heart problems. Tom Ellis, 86, British politician, MP for Wrexham (1970–1983), founding member of the SDP. Vicente Haro, 79, Spanish actor. Gene Kiniski, 81, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer. Lars-Jacob Krogh, 71, Norwegian anchorman and television presenter, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Alice Miller, 87, Polish-born Swiss author and psychologist. Russell Olson, 86, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin (1979–1983). Baruch Poupko, 92, Russian-born American rabbi. Stefan Schmitt, 46, German jurist and politician, leukemia. Mississippi Slim, 66, American blues singer, heart attack. Greville Starkey, 70, British jockey, cancer. Peter Steele, 48, American rock singer and bassist (Type O Negative), aortic aneurysm. Gerhard Zemann, 70, Austrian actor, heart attack. = Telman Adigozalov, 56, Azerbaijani actor, heart attack. Joseph Azzolina, 84, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1992–2006), pancreatic cancer. Ian Brewer, 73, Australian footballer. Robert Brubaker, 93, American actor (Gunsmoke). Bill DuBay, 62, American comic book editor, writer, and artist. Jack Herer, 70, American cannabis activist, complications from heart attack. Benjamin Hooks, 85, American civil rights leader, executive director of the NAACP (1977–1992), after long illness. Wilhelm Huxhorn, 54, German footballer, leukemia. Paul Reeves, 91, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Georgia (1969–1985) Michael Pataki, 72, American character actor and voice actor (George Liquor), cancer. Peter-Josef Schallberger, 78, Swiss farmer and politician. Raimondo Vianello, 87, Italian comedian and television personality. Spann Watson, 93, American airman (Tuskegee Airmen) and civil rights advocate. Sir Edward Woodward, 81, Australian jurist. = Sid Conrad, 86, American actor (The Young and the Restless). Balthasar Burkhard, 65, Swiss photographer. Rasim Delić, 61, Bosnian army officer and Chief of Staff, probable heart attack. Shirlee Emmons, 86, American soprano, voice teacher, and writer. Ibrahima Fofana, 57, Guinean trade unionist, car accident. Carlos Franqui, 89, Cuban writer and activist. Daryl Gates, 83, American police official, chief of police of the Los Angeles Police Department (1978–1992), bladder cancer. Bryn Knowelden, 90, British rugby league player. Marion Ladewig, 95, American professional bowler. Norman Francis McFarland, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Reno (1976–1986) and Orange (1986–1998). R. D. Middlebrook, 80, British electrical engineer. Grigorijs Ņemcovs, 61, Latvian politician, Vice Mayor of Daugavpils, shot. Muhammad Noer, 92, Indonesian politician, governor of East Java (1967–1976), complications during a medical procedure. C. K. Prahalad, 68, Indian business consultant and management theorist, natural causes. C. P. Rele, 82, Indian classical singer. Arturo Rodríguez Fernández, 62, Dominican author, film critic and playwright, heart failure. Tomáš Špidlík, 90, Czech Roman Catholic prelate and Cardinal. John W. Vogt, Jr., 90, American Air Force general. = Dede Allen, 86, American film editor (Bonnie and Clyde, Dog Day Afternoon, The Breakfast Club), stroke. Abdul Rahman Ahmed Jibril Baroud, 73, Palestinian poet, heart attack. Edmund Fitzgibbon, 85, Irish-born Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Warri (1991–1997). Josef W. Janker, 87, German author, journalist and World War II veteran. Ferenc Kellner, 77, Hungarian Olympic boxer. Sotigui Kouyaté, 74, Malian-born Burkinabé actor. Carl Macek, 58, American anime writer and producer (Robotech), heart attack. Thomas Mikolajcik, 63, American air force general (1992–1996), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Alexandru Neagu, 61, Romanian footballer (FC Rapid București). Alejandro Robaina, 91, Cuban tobacco grower, cancer. John Carl Warnecke, 91, American architect (John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame), complications of pancreatic cancer. = Michael Adams, 60, American actor and stunt coordinator (Commando, WarGames, In the Line of Fire), stroke. Abu Abdullah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi, 50-51, Iraqi terrorist (al-Qaeda), airstrike. Abu Ayyub al-Masri, 42-43, Egyptian terrorist (al-Qaeda), airstrike. William Grant Bangerter, 91, American Mormon leader, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Paul Bisciglia, 81, French actor. Julius Chigbolu, 81, Nigerian Olympic athlete. Mieczysław Cieślar, 60, Polish Lutheran bishop, car accident. Ambrose D'Mello, 87, Indian Jesuit priest, first Jesuit Provincial of India, cancer. Tom Fleming, 82, Scottish actor. John Forde, Irish Gaelic footballer (Mayo). Noel Hall, 96, Australian Olympic sport shooter. Ron Miller, 80, Canadian Olympic athlete. Allen Swift, 86, American voice actor (Underdog, Howdy Doody, Tom and Jerry ), natural causes. Viewed, 6, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanised following a twisted bowel. William Yates, 88, British-born Australian politician. = Manfred Angerer, 56, Austrian musicologist. José Bernal, 85, Cuban artist, complications from Parkinson's disease. William Donald Borders, 96, American Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Baltimore (1974–1989). Guru, 48, American rapper (Gang Starr), multiple myeloma. Hamideh Kheirabadi, 85, Iranian actress, stroke. Dylan Meier, 26, American college football player, climbing accident. György Schwajda, 67, Hungarian dramatist and theatre director, after long illness. George H. Scithers, 80, American science fiction editor, Hugo Award winner, heart attack. Albert Szatola, 83, Hungarian Olympic equestrian. Edwin Valero, 28, Venezuelan undefeated former WBA super featherweight and WBC lightweight champion boxer, suicide by hanging. Carl Williams, 39, Australian criminal, prison assault. Burkhard Ziese, 66, German football manager. = Jimmy Baker, 95, Australian Aboriginal artist. Floyd Dominy, 100, American public servant, commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation (1959–1969). Sanford Friedman, 81, American novelist. Heinz Gappmayr, 84, Austrian artist. Dorothy Height, 98, American civil rights activist. M. K. Kamalam, 86, Indian actress. Keli McGregor, 47, American baseball executive (Colorado Rockies), viral myocarditis. Walter F. Murphy, 80, American political scientist and author, cancer. Robert Natkin, 79, American abstract painter, bacterial blood infection. Georgino Orellana, 48, Honduran journalist, shot. Ahmad Sa'd, 64, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1996–1999). George Torode, 63, Guernseyan author. Andrea West, 57, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1996–1998), breast cancer. Myles Wilder, 77, American television comedy writer, diverticulitis. Lorette Wood, 94, American politician, first female mayor of Santa Cruz, California (1971–1972). Purvis Young, 67, American painter, cardiac arrest and pulmonary edema. = Akua Asabea Ayisi, 83, Ghanaian journalist. Sammy Baird, 79, Scottish football player and manager. Krishan Lal Balmiki, 67, Indian politician. Whitney Robson Harris, 97, American lawyer, last surviving American prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, complications from cancer. Tony Ingham, 85, English footballer, after short illness. Manfred Kallenbach, 68, German footballer, heart failure. Gustav Lorentzen, 62, Norwegian singer and entertainer (Knutsen & Ludvigsen). Mr. Hito, 67, Japanese wrestler. Sir Laurence Muir, 85, Australian philanthropist and businessman. Sir Idwal Pugh, 92, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Office and Health Service Commissioner. Deborah Remington, 79, American artist, cancer. Juan Antonio Samaranch, 89, Spanish Olympic official, president of the International Olympic Committee (1980–2001), heart failure. = Sparky Adams, 79, American football and baseball coach. Theodore C. Almquist, 68, American general, colon cancer. Emilio Álvarez, 71, Uruguayan footballer. Richard Barrett, 67, American lawyer and white nationalist, stabbed. Pete Castiglione, 89, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates). Peter B. Denyer, 56, British engineer, cancer. Dick Kenworthy, 69, American baseball player. Gene Lees, 82, Canadian jazz historian and critic, heart disease. Lina Marulanda, 29, Colombian model, suicide by jumping. Victor Nurenberg, 79, Luxembourgian footballer. Ambrose Olsen, 24, American fashion model, suicide. Fred Panopio, 71, Filipino folk singer, cardiac arrest. Alicia Parlette, 28, American journalist and copy editor, alveolar soft part sarcoma. Piet Steenbergen, 81, Dutch footballer (Feyenoord and The Netherlands). Jean Vergnes, 88, French-born American chef. Arthur Winograd, 90, American cellist and music director, complications of pneumonia. = Lorne Atkinson, 88, Canadian Olympic cyclist. Jan Balabán, 49, Czech writer, recipient of the Magnesia Litera award. Shay Duffin, 79, Irish-born American actor (The Departed, Leprechaun, Seabiscuit), complications from heart surgery. Natalia Lavrova, 25, Russian rhythmic gymnast, Olympic gold medalist (2000, 2004), car accident. Georgia Lee, 89, Australian jazz and blues singer. Edward Lyons, 83, British politician, MP for Bradford East (1966–1974) and Bradford West (1974–1983). Peter Porter, 81, Australian-born British poet, liver cancer. Alan Rich, 85, American classical music critic, natural causes. Alexander Sliussarev, 65, Russian photographer and translator. Sreenath, 52, Indian actor, apparent suicide. George Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend, 93, British peer and businessman. = Jens Andersen, 80, Danish boxer. Harry Ashby, 63, English golfer. Harry Conroy, 67, British journalist and trade unionist. Denis Guedj, 70, French novelist and academic. Pierre Hadot, 88, French philosopher. Bo Hansson, 67, Swedish keyboardist. Leo Löwenstein, 43, German VLN racing driver, race accident. Angus Maddison, 84, British economist. Giuseppe Panza, 87, Italian art collector. Elizabeth Post, 89, American etiquette expert. Paul Schäfer, 88, German religious sect founder and former Nazi, heart failure. Wojciech Siemion, 81, Polish actor and film director (The Promised Land, Heroism), car accident. Rudy Thompson, 80, United States Virgin Islands Olympic sailor. W. Willard Wirtz, 98, American politician, Secretary of Labor (1962–1969), last surviving member of the Kennedy Cabinet. = Ali Aliu, 85, Kosovo Albanian writer, economist, teacher, and political prisoner. Ugo Anzile, 79, French cyclist. Joseph Bessala, 69, Cameroonian welterweight boxer, Olympic silver medalist (1968), after short illness. Ian Lawther, 70, Northern Irish footballer (Sunderland, Blackburn Rovers). Franklin Mieuli, 89, American businessman, owner of the Golden State Warriors (1962–1985), natural causes. Dorothy Provine, 75, American actress, (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, That Darn Cat!, The Great Race), emphysema. Susan Reed, 84, American folk singer and actress, natural causes. Kevin Restani, 58, American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks), heart attack. Volf Roitman, 79, Uruguayan-born American sculptor, painter, novelist, cineaste and poet. Evry Schatzman, 89, French astrophysicist. Alan Sillitoe, 82, British writer (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning). Jeremaia Waqanisau, 62, Fijian soldier and diplomat, heart attack. = Mariam A. Aleem, 79, Egyptian artist. Aminulrasyid Amzah, 14, Malaysian student and victim, shot. Roy Baird, 76, English production manager, assistant director and producer. Bus Boyk, 92, American fiddler. Leslie Buck, 87, American Anthora coffee cup designer, Parkinson's disease. Ljiljana Buttler, 65, Yugoslavian singer, cancer. Daniel of Erie, 79, American Orthodox prelate (ROCOR), Titular Bishop of Erie, natural causes. Paul Engo, 89, Cameroonian diplomat, judge and Olympic athlete. Denzil Freeth, 85, British politician, MP for Basingstoke (1955–1964). Luigi Gui, 95, Italian politician, Minister of the Interior (1974–1976). Fred Halliday, 64, Irish academic, scholar of international relations, cancer. Derek Hayward, 86, British Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Middlesex (1974–1975). Frank Olsson, 87, Swedish Olympic rower. Varkala Radhakrishnan, 82, Indian politician, complications from a road accident. Prabha Rau, 75, Indian politician, Governor of Rajasthan (since 2009), heart attack. Joseph W. Sarno, 89, American film director and screenwriter, after short illness. Alberto Vitoria, 54, Spanish footballer, heart attack. Yuri Vshivtsev, 70, Russian footballer. William Arthur Watts, 79, Irish botanist and academic administrator, Provost of Trinity College Dublin (1981–1991). Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen, 86, Danish academic, professor of meteorology. = Elisabeth Ahlgren, 84, Swedish swimmer. Robert J. Alexander, 91, American academic. David Martin Baker, 86, American politician and judge, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (1953–1954, 1957–1958). Alberta Cariño, Mexican humanitarian, shot. Peter Cheeseman, 78, British theatre director, Parkinson's disease. Stanley Greenspan, 68, American academic, clinical professor of psychiatry. George Gross, 69, American football player (San Diego Chargers). Jyri Jaakkola, 33, Finnish humanitarian, shot. Tanie Kitabayashi, 98, Japanese actress (My Neighbour Totoro), pneumonia. Bevil Mabey, 94, British businessman. Morris Pert, 62, British musician. Nossrat Peseschkian, 76, Iranian-born German psychotherapist. Armando Sanchez, 57, Filipino politician, governor of Batangas (2004–2007), stroke. Heini Weber, 86, German Olympic wrestler. = Muhammad al-Banki, 47, Bahraini philosopher and writer. Evelyn Cunningham, 94, American journalist, natural causes. Julio San Emeterio, 80, Spanish cyclist. Stefania Grodzieńska, 95, Polish writer and actress. Elma Maua, 61, Cook Islands-born New Zealand journalist and editor, after long illness. Pierre-Jean Rémy, 73, French writer and diplomat. El Risitas, 65, Spanish comedian and actor. Furio Scarpelli, 90, Italian screenwriter (Big Deal on Madonna Street, Casanova 70, Il Postino). Ian Valz, 52, Guyanese actor and playwright, cancer. = Jojo Acuin, 63, Filipino psychic. Avigdor Arikha, 81, Romanian-born Israeli painter, complications of cancer. Damodar Chaudhary, 63, Nepalese politician, member of the Constituent Assembly since 2007. Sandy Douglas, 88, British computer scientist, pneumonia. Kevin Humphreys, 80, Australian rugby league administrator, after long illness. Walter Sear, 79, American recording engineer. Audrey Williamson, 83, British athlete, Olympic silver medalist (1948). = Manuel Alvarado, 62, Guatemalan-born British academic. Tadahiro Ando, 69, Japanese politician, governor of Miyazaki Prefecture (2003–2006), lymphoma. Cristina Corrales, 47, Bolivian journalist, broadcaster and politician. Harry Eccleston, 87, British artist and banknote designer. Jordi Estadella, 61, Spanish voice actor, radio and television personality (Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez), liver cancer. Ron Fimrite, 79, American sports journalist (Sports Illustrated), pancreatic cancer. José Fragelli, 95, Brazilian politician, governor of Mato Grosso (1970–1974) and Senate president (1985–1987). Carmelita González, 81, Mexican actress, pneumonia. Antony Grey, 82, British gay rights activist, leukaemia. Khalid Khawaja, Pakistani military and intelligence officer, shot. (body found on this date) Paul Mayer, 98, German Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal. Owsley, 44, American musician, apparent suicide. Jorma Peltonen, 66, Finnish ice hockey player. Gwyn Rowlands, 81, English-born rugby football player for Wales. Gerry Ryan, 53, Irish disc jockey and radio/television presenter. Wendell J. Westcott, 99, American carillonneur.

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2010–11 LEN Euroleague

2010-08-09 09:02:29+00:00

The 2010–11 LEN Euroleague was the highest-level competition in men's European club water polo. It involved the champions and other top teams from European national leagues and ran from September 2010 to May 2011. The Final Four (semifinals, final, and third place game) took place on 3–4 June at Foro Italico, Rome. Water polo federations are allocated places in accordance with their performances in the preliminary round (group stage) of the 2009–10 LEN Euroleague: Seeded Federations ranked 1–8 in a ranking of the best-placed team from each federation in the preliminary round of the previous year's competition have three teams qualify. In 2009/10, the preliminary round had exactly eight federations represented: Croatia, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, and Spain All other federations have two teams qualify and are unseeded Federations do not have to enter their top two teams into the Euroleague. If they do not think their clubs can be competitive, they can enter teams into the second-tier LEN Cup. = The LEN Euroleague 2010/11 has a slightly different format to previous years with the addition of a second group stage to replace the two-legged quarterfinals. There are five phases to this competition: First qualifying round (Round-robin tournament) at a single site the weekend ending 26 September 2010 Second qualifying round (Round-robin tournament) at a single site the weekend ending 10 October 2010 Preliminary round (First Group stage) played home and away from 13 November 2010 to 2 February 2011 Quarterfinal round (Second Group stage) played home and away from 16 February to 4 May 2011 Final four played as a single knockout tournament on 27–28 May 2011 = League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses. th Title Holder = Group A (Košice) Group B (Istanbul) Group C (Szeged) Group D (Budva) = = = = = = = = = = = Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto, Rome, Italy Semi-finals Third place Final = =

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List of Bengali films of 2010

2011-01-01 07:55:05+00:00

A list of films produced by the Tollywood (Bengali language film industry) based in Kolkata in the year 2010.

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List of Kannada films of 2010

2010-02-19 13:14:14+00:00

A list of Kannada language films produced in the Kannada film industry in India in 2010. After the demise of the Vishnuvardhan, the legendary icon of Kannada Cinema by the end of 2009, his posthumous release Aptharakshaka made good number Puneeth's Jackie movie became the highest grossing movie of the year while Sudeep and Ramya's Just Math Maathalli became the musical hit of the year. Other notable movies include Krishnan Love Story, Krishna Nee Late Aagi Baaro, Kanasemba Kudureyaneri, Super, Ullasa Utsaha and Pancharangi. Apart from Puneeth, Sudeep, Ramya, with Super Upendra had a good year. Ajay Rao and Radhika Pandit reprising their success streak, Diganth, Neethu and Ganesh had a decent year as well. This year also saw fresh faces like Nidhi Subbaiah with 2 hits (Pancharangi and KNLAB), Malayalam actress, Bhavana in Jackie and lady superstar Nayanthara making her Kannada Debut with Super. Films are generally released every Friday In addition films can be released on specific festival days. A total of 137 films were released in the year 2010 = The following is a list of films produced in the Kannada film industry in India in 2010, presented in alphabetical order. = =

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List of Marathi films of 2010

2012-12-28 03:25:10+00:00

A list of films produced by the Marathi language film industry based in Maharashtra in the year 2010.

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Cristin Alexander

2011-01-08 08:12:25+00:00

Cristin Joy Alexander (born c. 1987) is a Caymanian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Cayman Islands 2010. She represented Cayman Islands at Miss Universe 2011 and Miss World 2010. Representing the district of Bodden Town, and standing 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) tall, Alexander competed as one of five finalists in Miss Cayman Islands 2010, held in George Town on 25 September 2010. She won the Best Legs award. Alexander was crowned the winner of the title, gaining the right to represent the Cayman Islands in the 2010 Miss World and the 2011 Miss Universe pageants.

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Fiona Amuzie-Iredu

2018-08-07 11:12:25+00:00

Fiona Afoma Amuzie-Iredu is a Nigerian actress, tv host, model, psychologist and beauty pageant titleholder. She is the winner of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) 2010 pageant and the Nigeria contestant at the Miss World 2010. She is from Anambra state. She hails from Abatete, Idemili-North LGA of Anambra state, located in the southeastern region of Nigeria. She was nicknamed Ezenwanyi - which means queen in Igbo language - by her father. She was a Microbiology undergraduate at the University of Jos when she contested at the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria pageant. She didn't complete her education at Jos but moved to the United Kingdom where she obtained a B.Sc. in Psychology at the Coventry University. She was crowned Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria for the year 2010 and represented Nigeria at the Miss World 2010 pageant. She is married to Frank Iredu by traditional rites from Obosi, Anambra State on December 30, 2015 and by church wedding on January 2, 2016. She and her husband have one son and a daughter.

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Cilou Annys

2010-01-11 13:29:15+00:00

Cilou Annys (born 20 March 1991) is a Belgian model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Belgium 2010 on 10 January 2010. She is also Miss West Flanders. Annys, the 80th Miss Belgium, accepted the crown from Zeynep Sever, Miss Belgium 2009. Annys caused controversy when she posed on the cover of P-Magazine, standing on the Belgian flag, with Flemish nationalist politician Bart De Wever pictured cutting her "Miss Belgium" sash. Annys and the national committee of the Miss Belgium contest immediately issued a press release in which they apologized to anyone who may have been offended by this image. She placed in the Top 15 at the Miss Universe 2010 pageant held on 23 August 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada and competed in Miss World 2010 a few months later. Annys studies interpreting and translation (French and Spanish) at the Hogeschool Gent.

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Mimi Areme

2011-06-04 07:20:36+00:00

Mimi Areme (September 28, 1988) is a Ghanaian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Ghana 2009. Areme later competed in the Miss World 2010 pageant in the southern Chinese city of Sanya on October 30, where Miss USA, Alexandria Mills, was crowned the overall winner. Mimi Areme is the only child in her family, her Mom (Betty Hogar) is a Christian while her dad (Ali Areme-Yawo) is a Muslim. She's a student of Reading Marketing in Sunyani Polytechnic Ghana. Her biggest dream is to have a marketing company in order to employ people in her country to help unemployment level and to help people make a good living. Twenty-year-old Miss Mimi Areme, an HND Marketing student of the Sunyani Polytechnic, was elected Miss Ghana 2009 at the grand finale of the national pageant at the Accra International Conference Centre. As part of her pageant prize, Ms. Areme drove home a new Tata Safari 4X4 automobile. The car keys were handed to her by the Minister of Tourism, Mrs Juliana Azumah-Mensah, moments after Areme was declared Ghana's 2009 beauty queen by 2008 winner, Miss Mawuse Appea. The car prize included a one-year servicing warranty from PHC Motors. Areme also received a GHc200 monthly allowance for one year, 10 gallons of fuel per week for one year, four pieces of ATL fabric every month for one year, and several other alluring indulgences. As Miss Ghana, Areme also became entitled to represent Ghana in the Miss World Pageant. Besides her poise and articulation, amplified by her beauty and regular smiles, Areme was equally strong with her message, re-echoing US president Barack Obama's challenge to Africa's youth to take their destinies into their own hands and dare themselves to overcome whatever challenges confront the continent. Her emphatic “Yes we can!” resonated in the main auditorium as her many fans stood in brief applause. Areme won the title of Miss Ghana 2009 on September 26, 2009, 2 days before her birthday. After winning this pageant, she represented her country at the 60th Miss World Anniversary which was held in Sanya, China on October 30, 2010. She competed with 114 women from around the world. Although she did not placed as one of the 25 semifinalists, she made her country proud of her. She did well in some Fast Tracks including placing in the Top 20 on Miss World Beach Beauty and Top Model. She also became the 1st Runner Up of Beauty With A Purpose about children trafficking and the modern slave trade. I had a great time at Miss World. But the most exciting one was when I mounted the Miss World final stage. Then I remembered how I normally sit close to the TV back home to watch every show at the Miss World finals After the Miss World 2010 pageant, Areme returned to her native country, Ghana. She continued her study in the field of marketing at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). She also continued her program Beauty With A Purpose by building a charitable organization named "Areme Gives Back". She now works as Emirates cabin crew.

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Mariann Birkedal

2010-10-23 17:35:37+00:00

Mariann Birkedal in Stavanger) is a Norwegian model and beauty pageant titleholder who has represented Norway in Miss Universe 2008 and Miss World 2010. After participating in Frøken Norge 2008 and placing first runner-up, she was selected in a separate competition to be her country's representative to the 2008 Miss Universe pageant held in Nha Trang, Vietnam on July 14, 2008. Birkedal competed and won the 2010 Frøken Norge pageant celebrated in Noresund on June 26, gaining the right to represent Norway in Miss World 2010. As the official representative of her country to the 2010 Miss World pageant, held in Sanya, China, she won the Miss World Top Model fast-track event on October 23, and automatically became one of the Top 25 semifinalists, the first Norwegian woman to place in Miss World since 2003. Birkedal also placed third in both Miss World Beach Beauty and Miss World Sportswoman fast-track events of Miss World 2010, which made her the early bookies' favourite to win the contest. In the end, she finished in the Top 7.

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2010 Badakhshan massacre

2010-08-07 19:22:49+00:00

On 5 August 2010, ten members of International Assistance Mission (IAM) Nuristan Eye Camp team were killed in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan. The team was attacked as it was returning from Nuristan to Kabul. One team member was spared while the rest of the team were killed immediately. Those killed were six Americans, two Afghans, one Briton and one German. The identity of the attackers is unknown. When news of the killings broke, both Hizb-e Islami and the Taliban initially claimed responsibility for the attack, accusing the doctors of proselytism and spying. These claims were later refuted by Taliban leaders in Nuristan and Badakhshan, who stated that they had confirmed the dead were bona-fide aid workers, condemned the killings as murder, and offered their condolences to the families of those killed. The attack was the deadliest strike against foreign aid workers in the Afghanistan war. The killings underscored the suspicion Christian-affiliated groups face from some Afghans and government opponents and the wider risks faced by aid workers in the country. Badakhshan province borders Tajikistan and is inhabited by mostly Tajik people. It is one of the few provinces in Afghanistan which was not controlled by the Taliban when it was in power. After coming under increasing pressure by NATO forces in southern Afghanistan the Taliban have become active in areas like Badakhshan Province which were previously calm. In addition they have started using women and children as suicide bombers and targeted tribal elders, things they formerly considered taboo. Foreign aid workers have been attacked in the past but these attacks have been relatively infrequent and Taliban has allowed some aid workers in the areas they controlled. Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission stated that civilian deaths were up five percent in 2010 and Taliban was responsible for 68% of the 1325 deaths till 8 August 2010 and NATO was responsible for 28%. IAM is a Christian organization that has worked in Afghanistan since 1966. They have denied proselytizing, as for non-Muslims it is against the law of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. According to critics propagandists of the Taliban insurgency portray their drive for power as a defense of Islam. The victims of the massacre had indeed been sponsored by a Christian charity, but that organization worked in Afghanistan since 1966, under a monarchy, a communist regime, warlords, and under the Taliban; its aid workers were said to understand the Afghan customs and sensibilities and have scrupulously obeyed prohibitions against proselytizing. None of the Christian non-profit's workers had ever been killed while on duty with the organisation. The publicity on the massacre and its aftermath coincided with the publication of the 2010 Mid-Year Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), in which worries were expressed about the rising number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan and that was directly followed by an advice of human rights organisation Amnesty International that the Taliban should be prosecuted for war crimes. According to the UNAMA report, the tactics of the Taliban and other Anti-Government Elements (AGEs) were behind a 31 per cent increase in conflict-related civilian casualties in the first six months of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009. Casualties attributed to Pro-Government Forces (PGF) fell 30 per cent during the same period, driven by a 64 per cent decline in deaths and injuries caused by aerial attacks. Many Afghans blame the international forces for the civilian deaths, "stirring up greater violence by fomenting new recruits for the Taliban, for arming militias in the countryside, and for propping up warlords and corrupt Afghan officials". The team, which included a doctor, a dentist and an optometrist, was returning to Kabul after providing eye care to villagers in Parun valley in Nuristan Province, south of Badakhshan Province in Northeast Afghanistan. They had been running an eye camp in Nuristan, for which they had received permission from the Afghan government. They had chosen to travel through a forest in Badakhshan as this was considered a safer route back to Kabul. The team was attacked when they stopped after fording a river. They were killed immediately, without any negotiation. The gunmen took them into the forest, stood them in a line and shot them one by one. One Afghan driver was spared after he started chanting verses from the Qur'an. When the bodies were recovered, the victims appeared to have been robbed. The two Afghans killed worked as a watchman and a cook. The bodies of the victims were flown back to Kabul on 8 August 2010. The foreigners killed were all unpaid volunteers. There was a total of 10 victims: = Mahram Ali, aged 51 years, of the Hazara ethnic minority, from Wardak, Afghanistan, was a civilian contractor that had been a worker at the National Organisation for Ophthalmic Rehabilitation's (NOOR's) maintenance workshop since 2007; he served as a driver for the expedition, and as "watcher", to guard team vehicles. In this service to IAM, Ali drove and "stayed behind guarding the vehicles in Nawa when the rest of the team walked over the pass into Nuristan." Ali was described as "the only person to care for his family" by Rahim Majid, the operations manager at IAM. Ali was also survived by a wife and three young children, including one son paralyzed by polio and another son whose arm had been amputated, all supported on his monthly salary of $150. = Cheryl Beckett, aged 32 years, was an aid worker and translator, from Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, and an Indiana Wesleyan University graduate; she had been in Afghanistan for six years and specialized in nutritional gardening, maternal health and child care. = Daniela Beyer, aged 35 years, from Chemnitz-Wittgensdorf, Germany, was a linguist and translator in German, English and Russian who also spoke Dari and was learning Pashto. = Brian Carderelli, aged 25 years and from Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States, was a civilian contractor, and a professional freelance videographer who had worked with various Afghan development and humanitarian organizations in Afghanistan. Carderelli had been working for the International School of Kabul, and documenting aid work done by the IAM and other groups. A statement released by his family said that Carderelli "loved people and was particularly concerned for the poor". He was a lifelong member of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, and a 2009 graduate of James Madison University and was approaching the one year anniversary of his service in Afghanistan. According to his family, "Brian quickly fell in love with the Afghan people and culture and hoped to stay within the country for another year", and was compiling a photographic and video album entitled "The Beautiful – It's Not All War." = Thomas Grams, aged 51 years, of Durango, Colorado, United States, friend of team leader Tom Little, began to work in dentistry for impoverished children about 10 years before his death, via Denver-based agency Global Dental Relief (GDR). One of native twin brothers and dentists from Park Rapids, Minnesota, Grams left their "thriving" private general dentistry practice in Durango in 2007 to join GDR full-time, going first to Nepal ("trekk[ing]... halfway up... Everest, carrying dental equipment by yak"), and then several times to Afghanistan, initially as a volunteer, and later as team leader. Significant Afghanistan efforts included providing free dental care in the village Wardak, "negotiat[ing] the etiquette of the burka" to found a Kabul dental clinic (employing a local female dentist), and participating in English teaching at a local school. "[U]nassuming and modest," Grams was described by the IAM as "one of our favorit[e]" aid workers. = Jawed, known by this single name, aged 24 years, from Panjshir, Afghanistan, was a civilian contractor that had been at the Eye Hospital of the Afghan Ministry of Public Health in Kabul, and was given leave to serve as the team cook at its Eye Camp. This was not his first service with IAM, where he cooked and helped with dispensing eyeglasses; per the IAM, "Jawed had been on several eye camps into Nuristan in the past, and was well loved for his sense of humor", and was known for providing his collection of music tapes for weddings and parties. The principal breadwinner for his wife, three young children, and extended family, Jawed had been excited about the $20 per day in overtime that he was earning on the medical outreach trip. Jawed's brother Abdul Bagin described his killers as "infidels; not human, not Muslims... [killing] without any judgment, without any trial". = Glen D. Lapp, aged 40 years, was a nurse and executive assistant from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, and a part of Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster. Lapp was a medical volunteer with the IAM and its partner, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). He was serving as manager of IAM's provincial Ophthalmology program, and as an executive assistant for IAM in Afghanistan, and had been in Afghanistan for two years. Lapp was an alumnus of Eastern Mennonite and Johns Hopkins Universities, and had assisted the MCC in the weeks following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, with regular prior nursing work Lancaster, Supai, Arizona, and New York City. = Tom Little, aged 61 years, was an optometrist from Delmar, New York, United States, and leader of the IAM team. Little had worked in Afghanistan for more than three decades, having arrived in the late 1970s; he had raised three daughters there, and spoke Dari fluently. Little was posthumously recognized as International Optometrist of the Year by the World Council of Optometry, and the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom. = Dan Terry, aged 64 years, was from Wisconsin, United States, who served as liaison with local communities, aid organizations, and the government; he had performed relief work in Afghanistan since 1971, following in his father's footsteps who had worked for IAM as the executive director. He is survived by his wife, three daughters, their spouses and seven grandchildren. = Karen Woo, aged 36 years, daughter of a Chinese father and English mother, was a general surgeon from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK, trained at St Mary's Hospital, London and formerly with the English healthcare organisation Bupa. Woo's work involved helping pregnant women, in an area with a high global infant mortality rate. After her death, Woo's family stated that "although very spiritual, she did not really believe in organised religion" and that her motivations were purely humanitarian. Woo was engaged to be married at the time of her death. = The only two survivors of the eye camp team were Said Yasin and Safiullah, both Afghan. Said Yasin had left the team several days earlier and returned to Kabul by another route, whereas Safiullah was spared after reciting verses from the Koran. The local officials initially stated that the motive was robbery, but after interviewing witnesses they changed their view and said that Taliban was responsible. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attacks and accused the victims of being "American spies" and "proselytizing Christianity". He also claimed that the victims had Bibles in their possession which had been translated into Dari, the local language. However, another group also was mentioned, the Hizb-i-Islami (HIA) of warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Earlier claims of the Taliban were refuted by Qari Malang, the representative of the Western Nuristan Taliban. He said that commanders from Nuristan had not carried out the killings and they had launched an investigation to find out who had. "We shall inform you of the results when it is concluded. We regret these killings and strongly assert that this is not the work of the Taliban who will never do harm to genuine aid workers… as soon as we manage to apprehend those responsible for this act, we shall subject them to whatever punishment our laws prescribe." Dirk Frans, executive director of the IAM in Kabul, doubted whether the local Taliban were behind the attack, in contrast to a statement by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton which directly blamed the Taliban for what she described as a "despicable act of wanton violence.". In her reaction on 8 August 2010, she stated: "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this senseless act. We also condemn the Taliban’s transparent attempt to justify the unjustifiable by making false accusations about their activities in Afghanistan. Terror has no religion (...), they have shown us yet another example of the lengths to which they will go to advance their twisted ideology." In the weeks following the attack a senior Taliban leader, Qari Malang (the representative of the Western Nuristan Taliban) stated "We have checked the facts regarding these foreigners, and our people in the area have confirmed that they were bona fide aid workers and had been providing assistance to the population. Furthermore, we have learnt that among the killed foreigners, was Dan Terry, who had a long history of helping our people, including in Kunar and Laghman provinces and that he had previously provided welfare assistance to the families of those civilians martyred in bombardments… We pass on our condolences to the families of those killed." After the massacre, the IAM stated that they had no plans to leave Afghanistan. US Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the attacks according to a spokesman from US embassy. Former Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah who is a physician himself and trained with Tom Little deplored the killings and called the attackers "enemies of the Afghan people." United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who emphasized that "health workers must have access to treat those in need and must be able to do so without fear." His Special Representative Staffan de Mistura said "The United Nations condemns this serious crime and apparent cold-blooded execution." Australian foreign minister Stephen Smith issued a statement condemning the attack and offered condolences to the victims' families. British foreign secretary William Hague condemned the attack and stated "This is a deplorable and cowardly act which is against the interests of the people of Afghanistan who depended on the services she [Karen Woo] was bravely helping to provide." United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the killings, calling them "despicable acts of wanton violence." (see above) Karl Eikenberry, the current United States Ambassador to Afghanistan, speaking to Afghan people said, "Their murder demonstrates the absolute disregard that terrorist-inspired Taliban and other insurgents have for your health, have for your security and have for your opportunity, They don't care about your future. They only care about themselves and their own ideology." US special envoy Richard Holbrooke stated the killers do not represent average Afghans, most of whom were shocked by these killings.

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Battle of Derapet

2010-09-08 13:16:19+00:00

The Battle of Derapet was fought near the village of Derapet in the Tangi Valley in Deh Rahwod, Orūzgān Province, southern Afghanistan, between a combined Australian Army and Afghan National Army patrol and Taliban forces on 24 August 2010. Australian forces had only recently taken over responsibility for Deh Rahwod as part of a major expansion of their area of operations which took place following the Dutch withdrawal from Afghanistan in August. The combined coalition patrol included 20 Australians and 20 Afghan National Army troops. The small Australian force from 1st Mentoring Task Force (MTF-1) based in Tarin Kowt included two sections of dismounted infantry and two ASLAV-25 guncars and was tasked with a fighting patrol to find and inflict damage on insurgent forces known to be in the area. The patrol used an aqueduct to move into Derapet after engineers nearby had identified fighting-aged males moving into the area while women and children were seen leaving the valley. Initially contacted by a large Taliban force of 90–100 insurgents from positions less than 100 metres (110 yd) away, the Australian and Afghan troops counter-attacked from six different positions, engaging the insurgents with small arms, machine-gun fire and anti-armour rockets, while the cavalry engaged from the high ground in fire support. AH-64 Apache attack helicopters also provided close air support, while one round of precision-guided 155-millimetre (6.1 in) medium artillery from a US M777 howitzer was also used in support. A quick reaction force (QRF) was available nearby but was not required. Finally, after three and half hours of intense fighting the Australians and Afghans were running low on ammunition and broke contact, moving back through the QRF which was holding the rear, to their Bushmaster PMVs at the vehicle drop-off point, prior to moving back to the patrol base at Anar Juy. One Australian soldier was shot and killed during the fighting Jared MacKinney , 28, a lance corporal in the 6th Battalion and, was subsequently evacuated by helicopter which took fire in conducting the medical evacuation, while no Afghan National Army casualties were reported. The ASLAVs had proven decisive, with the range and accuracy of their weapons and sensors allowing them to provide very effective support to the Australian infantry. Over 30 Taliban insurgents were reportedly killed during the battle, while more were thought to have been killed or wounded and then carried away by other fighters as they retreated. The surviving Taliban subsequently retreated into the mountains. Corporal Daniel Keighran was awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia for his actions during this battle. Keighran "with complete disregard for his own safety, broke cover on multiple occasions to draw intense and accurate enemy fire to identify enemy locations and direct return fire from Australian and Afghan fire support elements". Later in the battle Keighran "when his patrol sustained a casualty, again on his own initiative and in an act of exceptional courage, ... moved from his position of cover to deliberately draw fire away from the team who were treating the casualty." Other soldiers awarded for their actions in the battle were Lieutenant James Fanning (Distinguished Service Medal), Sergeant Sean Lanigan and Private Paul Langer (Medal of Gallantry) and Private Sean Parker (Commendation for Gallantry).

42667231

Alpha Pi Delta

2014-05-05 03:55:23+00:00

Alpha Pi Delta Sorority, Inc (ΑΠΔ) is an American sorority for African American lesbians. Alpha Pi Delta was founded on June 28, 2010 by several college women with like-minded missions, visions and goals. Their vision was to organize a lesbian sorority Greek Letter organization to promote the cause of services and education by encouraging the highest standards through cultural and educational programs, promoting community service within our communities; fostering the sorority's network, growth, and sisterly love. that catered to lesbian women of color in order to uplift and uphold unity within the lesbian community. The two founders are now known as "The Royal Court". On June 28, 2010, Antoinette Oliver and Christian Roberson were officially the founders. The colors are Alpha Pi Delta are royal purple, turquoise, and onyx. Its flower is the purple Calla lily. Its jewel is the amethyst and its mascot is the Angel of Peace. The sorority has national, local city, graduate, and professional chapters. The National Chapter for members who do not have a local chapter in their city is known as the Alpha chapter.

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Delta Chi Xi

2012-05-16 18:58:31+00:00

Delta Chi Xi Honorary Dance Fraternity, Inc. (ΔΧΞ), more commonly referred to as Delta Chi Xi, is a co-ed American honorary professional fraternity. Its purpose is to acknowledge academic excellence, serve the community, and share the art of dance among fellow students. It is member of the Professional Fraternity Association. Delta Chi Xi Honorary Dance Fraternity, Inc. was founded at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) on April 20, 2010. The organization was established as an honorary dance society by Kara J. Wade, Jennifer R. Cheek, and Kristina M. Rogers who worked under the guidance of UNCG Dance Department Faculty member Robin Gee. The fourteen original charter members were: Soon thereafter, it transformed from an honors society into an honors fraternity. Later, it became a coeducational professional fraternity. Delta Chi Xi was incorporated by the State of North Carolina on October 20, 2011. Delta Chi Xi expanded to eight collegiate chapters, seven of which are active as of 2024. Its also has one alumni chapter. On November 12, 2013, Delta Chi Xi was accepted into the Professional Fraternity Association, making it the first and only fraternity for collegiate dance students in the association. Delta Chi Xi's colors are royal purple and teal. Purple is symbolic of royalty, power, nobility, and ambition; it is also associated with wisdom and creativity. Teal represents sophistication, uniqueness, guidance, and leadership. The official symbol of Delta Chi Xi is a combined sun and spiral to represent the unity and connection between dance, service, and academics. The sun is depicted by a silhouette of a dancer in a 'C jump' pose with fourteen spirals as sun rays to represent the fourteen original charter members. Delta Chi Xi hosts a national conference, DanCe fluX, every year at the University of Maryland. The conference includes master classes taught by guest artists, activities for fellowship among members of different chapters, and a dance concert. = The following is a list of the collegiate chapters of Delta Chi Xi. Active chapters are noted in bold. Inactive chapters are noted in italics. =

48694749

Order of the Sword & Shield

2015-12-01 00:47:42+00:00

The Order of the Sword & Shield National Honor Society (OSSNHS) is an American honor society for undergraduate students, graduate students, and professionals in the fields of homeland security, intelligence, emergency management, and all protective security disciplines. The National Honor Society is also known by its Greek designation Omicron Sigma Sigma (ΟΣΣ). The official colors are gold and blue. The official motto in Latin is ex scientia pax which means out of knowledge comes peace. The Order of the Sword & Shield was established in 2010 at St. Johns University by Professor Jeffrey Grossmann. The organization was created to be the first national honor society dedicated exclusively to homeland security, intelligence, emergency management and all protective security disciplines. In order to qualify, undergraduate students must have a 3.25 overall grade point average or higher (on a 4.0 scale) and have completed 50 percent of their overall program if they are majoring in a field within the honor society's charter. For graduate students to qualify, they must have a 3.5 overall GPA or higher (on a 4.0 scale) and must also have completed over 50 percent of their program to apply for membership. In addition, a letter of recommendation and an unofficial transcript is required. Professionals who have demonstrated significant achievement in a homeland security, intelligence, emergency management, or security-related occupation may also apply. They must have five years of experience and submit a letter of recommendation and resume.

54983139

Students For Society

2017-08-22 07:52:54+00:00

The Students For Society (SFS) was founded in Panjab University, Chandigarh on 28 September 2010 as a students' discussion group for holding discussions on books and social issues, on the 103rd birth anniversary of Bhagat Singh. It rejected the politics of muscle and money power by mainstream political parties in University. It also rejected the politics of those who were trying to get votes by offering movie shows, dinners, trips and beauty parlour coupons. SFS takes out its rallies on foot with singing of slogans with a Tambourine (Dafli) while other parties took out rallies in cars. Its rallies are joined by a considerable number of campus students while the SOI, PUSU and NSUI alliances had to call outsiders in violation of the Lyngdoh panel norms. Largely leftist in its ideology, SFS was founded in 2010 by Sachinderpal Pali, Amrik Singh, Amandeep Singh, Amaninder Singh, Pardeep Singh and Sawinder Singh. Among the founders, Pali is the only one now who is actively involved in the organisation, which fought its first Panjab University Campus Students Council (PUCSC) election in 2014. The slogan of the organisation, according to spokesperson Harmandeep Singh, is "to mobilise youth to accomplish the new democratic revolution in India." Students For Society (SFS) is a student organization that envisions to work on the footsteps of Bhagat Singh. SFS strive to work together with all the democratic forces to create egalitarian society, where equality and freedom are not mere words to be written on pages of constitution but a material reality. SFS has always endeavored toward promoting academic culture and encouraging critical thinking be it through discussions, seminars or other cultural events. When the time demands so, SFS has raised its voice against each and every injustice done or regressive step taken by central or state government or university administration like issues of fee hikes, commercialization of education, funds cutting or deteriorating conditions of hostel and mess workers. Understanding student as part of society, and following the principle of students for society it has initiated a number of protest demonstration against women oppression, caste based oppression and other evils of society. Street Plays are the unique identity of SFS' politics in campus. Every year they expose the cheap politics of other student outfits through its street plays. It is commonly seen that other student organisations spent several lakhs of money on campaigning, banners, stickers, discothèque parties, car rallies, trips to hill stations, free meals, flash mobs, online campaigns but SFS members organised street plays mocking these other outfits. One such play by SFS in 2016 was Melan vottan da which was a satirical take on the student elections. Again in 2018 like 2017 and 2016 SFS used its traditional street play "Mela Votan Da" as campaign tool. This time it was under the banner of "Melan Votan Da Returns". It is a play in the form of satire on all mainstream political parties' student wings. Shamefully in 2018 also university authorities didn't allow SFS to stage play on all the decided cites as they fear that SFS gains good ground in elections on the basis of their play. Harman Deep, SFS leader, said: "Like other parties, we do not have resources to take students out for movies or discotheques. The mode of street plays not only entertains, but communicates what we perceive has been happening in the polls. It has been an effective strategy." It was in 2014, when for the first time SFS fielded its candidate for the Presidential Post in Panjab University Campus Students Council PUCSC and got unexceptionally good number of votes. In 2015 SFS did not fought elections as it was alleged by some organisations that the ongoing Girls protest which was ked by SFS in 2015 is only to gain political mileage. So SFS through GBM (General Body Meeting) decided to boycott elections. In 2016 Panjab University Campus Students Council elections, SFS gave an impressive performance with its presidential candidate Amritpal Singh coming on third position with 2494 votes. It was however a close contest between PUSU and Students For Society (SFS) for the president's post. SOI was continuously on the third position but after the counting of votes of University Institute of Information and Technology (UIET) department that SOI presidential candidate secured the second position. In 2017 SFS panel had one girl in the field, named Hasanpreet Kaur for the presidential election. Hasanpreet is from the Physics Department. Shiv Saurav for Vice President, UIET, Ranjit Singh for General Secretary, Punjabi Department, And for the post of Joint Secretary, Karan Goyal, UILS landed in the field. In 2018 PUCSC elections, SFS's Kanupriya, a second year student of M.Sc. Zoology from Patti, Punjab was elected first women president in the history of Panjab University. 22 years old Kanupriya, demanded freedom for girls keeping girls' hostels open for 24 hours and attacked ideology of RSS. SFS won more than 50 percent votes in 11 departments. In 2019 PUCSC elections SFS following its last year election setup again fielded only one candidate for the post of President. In year 2019, Scholar from Chemistry department, Priya fought election for President from the platform of SFS. She secured third position trailing behind SOI candidate Chetan Choudhary by approx. 500 votes and ABVP candidate Paras Rattan by 50 votes. SFS endeavours toward promoting democratic academic culture inside the campus. It aims to fight on all students' issues uncompromisingly. Since 2012, SFS organized fee hike protests and raised voice against sexual harassment on the campus, unhygienic diet in the hostels and for banning of four-wheelers inside campus making the PU a vehicle-free zone and organised a number of seminars and discussions inside the campus premises. In February 2017, the SFS also organised protest at campus on an incident of rape of 16 Scheduled Tribe (Adivasi) women in Chhattisgarh which was retailited by ABVP members of University. In 2017 Fee hike protests 40 SFS-affiliated students were arrested to which it said there is a 'deliberate attempt' being made to restrict the voice of students in universities. Major events and Activities of SFS includes: Continuously Day and Night protest was led by SFS regarding Girls’ Hostel Timing for 24*7. After 48 days struggle students were successful in breaking hostel locks. SFS demanded for Referendum on four wheeler inside campus to boost up academic culture in 2015 which was in resulted in majority voting for ban of four wheelers inside campus. Lecture cum Interactive session on Black Laws and PCOCA by R.S. Bains was organized by SFS. Protest to make PUCASH effective was led by SFS. SFS celebrates International Women's Day Every year as a cultural program. After Panjab University announced up to 1100% fee hike in different courses, SFS immediately gave the call to protest against such a massive fee hike and a 40 days long struggle was led by SFS and with the unity of students they won the struggle. It was on 11 April 2017, when call was given to gather in front of VC office and boycott classes. Huge gathering of students was present there by 11 in the morning. After some heated arguments with police and authorities, there was aggressive attack on students by police men. Water cannon and Lathis were used to disperse the gathering. Finally students retaliated. There was continuous stone pelting done by the students toward police men. Then the more aggressive police used tear gas and other modes against the students. 67 students were arrested and charged with sedition for protesting against MHRD and PU, which was dropped later on. That day was on the most glorious day of students' struggle. Finally on 7 May that year fee hike was rolled back. In March 2017, SFS was objected by PU authorities and RSS student wing, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), when it brought activist Seema Azad to the campus. It was a planned event, Second Conference of SFS in the university the permission for which was rejected by university authorities on the behest of MP from Chandigarh and some student organisations. SFS objected to that and took out their conference outside VC office. Where, Azad was dressed as a Sikh woman, addressed the students on the topic 'Rise of fascism'. The ABVP had maintained that it would oppose her with swords and sticks. SFS has been the point of discussion among university students and outer folks on various grounds. Be it their straight forward approach against the establishment or their vocal arguments against the major failures of the government. But along with this, they are not able to safeguard themselves from various controversies. From sharing the stage with the Pro-Khalistani organizations or hurting the religious sentiments of the people but they have always defended them out of such controversies by their fierce way of arguments.

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Algo pequeñito

2010-02-23 00:06:25+00:00

"Algo pequeñito" (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈalɣo pekeˈɲito], "Something Tiny") is a song recorded by Spanish singer Daniel Diges, written by Jesús Cañadilla, Luis Miguel de la Varga, Alberto Jodar, and Diges himself. It represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, held in Oslo. = "Algo pequeñito" is the second song ever written by its author, Jesús Cañadilla, a fan of the Eurovision Song Contest. He had previously written the song "Sumando puntos" to submit it to the 2009 Spanish national final, sung by himself under the stage name Bayarte. Once he had written "Algo pequeñito", which is based on the classic waltz rhythm, he contacted several potential performers without luck. He eventually contacted musical theater actor Daniel Diges through a friend and he liked the song. On 5 January 2010, seven days before the closing date for submissions for the 2010 Spanish national final, Diges flew from Tenerife, where he was on tour with the musical Mamma Mia!, to Madrid to record the song. Alejandro de Pinedo took charge of the musical production. = On 22 February 2010, "Algo pequeñito" performed by Daniel Diges competed in Eurovisión: Destino Oslo, the national final organized by Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE), and aired on La 1 of Televisión Española, to select their song and performer for the 55th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. The song won the competition so it became the Spanish entry for the contest. Once the song was chosen, a mastered version was made public on 11 March 2010. In the mastered version, computer sounds were replaced by real instruments and Diges gave the song a more rock influence with his vocal performance, mirroring his live performance at the national final. On 13 April 2010 the song was made available for digital download on iTunes. = On 12–14 March 2010, a music video for "Algo pequeñito" was shot by director Santiago Tabernero at outdoor and indoor locations in Madrid. The video, released on 19 March, is set in an abandoned circus that comes back to life with the song, and depicts Diges as the circus master. = On 29 May 2010, the Eurovision Song Contest grand final was held at the Telenor Arena in Oslo hosted by Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK), and broadcast live throughout the continent. Diges performed "Algo pequeñito" second on the night following Azerbaijan's "Drip Drop" by Safura and preceding Norway's "My Heart Is Yours" by Didrik Solli-Tangen. The performance was disturbed as a Catalan pitch invader named Jaume Marquet Cot –better known as Jimmy Jump– stormed the stage. Diges continued singing as Marquet, wearing a barretina, joined in with the choreographed routine and then ran away when security personnel entered the stage for him. In accordance with the contest rules, Diges was allowed to perform the song again after the last song was performed. At the close of voting, "Algo pequeñito" received 68 points, placing fifteenth in a field of twenty-five. = Daniel Diges' first album, self-titled Daniel Diges released on 18 May 2010, includes the mastered Eurovision version of the song and an alternative swing-jazz version. = = In 2011, Anne-Marie David, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1973, covered the song with most lyrics in French. = In the second episode of the eleventh season of Tu cara me suena aired on 19 April 2024 on Antena 3, Miguel Lago impersonated Daniel Diges singing –in duo with him– "Algo pequeñito" replicating his performance at Eurovision.

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Allez Ola Olé

2010-02-24 12:36:13+00:00

"Allez Ola Olé" (French pronunciation: [ale ola ole], Come on! Ola! Olé!) is a song in the French language performed by French singer Jessy Matador that represented France at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. The song was chosen internally, and was announced 24 February 2010. The song was to be used by French broadcaster France Télévisions as The Summerhit of 2010 and also for promoting the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and the title of the song refers to the album Music of the World Cup: Allez! Ola! Ole!, released in 1998 to coincide with the '98 World Cup, held in France. Matador was selected internally by France Télévisions to represent France at the contest, and announced as the selected artist on 19 February 2010, after rumours of Christophe Willem, David Guetta and Emmanuel Moire being selected for the role. On 24 February Matador's song was announced, and was released online on 10 May. As of June 2020, it has over 61 million views on YouTube, making it one of the most-viewed videos on the official Eurovision channel. Digital download "Radio Edit" – 2:52 "Radio Edit Electro" – 3:14 German CD single "Radio Edit" – 2:52 "Radio Edit Electro" – 3:14 "Video Clip" – 3:24 French Promo CD single "Kework & Cocozza Remix" – 4:24 "Afro Mix" – 4:01 "Techno Mix" – 3:47 "Radio Edit" – 2:52 "Radio Edit Electro" – 3:14 =

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Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Act 2010

2010-09-29 01:17:52+00:00

The Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Act 2010 was a New Zealand statute designed to assist reconstruction after the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. It expired in April 2012. The Act permitted Government ministers to suspend or make exemptions to almost any New Zealand law by Orders in Council, transferring vast lawmaking power from the legislature to the government executive. It passed with unanimous support from all political parties in Parliament, although two of the smaller parties expressed concern over the wide powers it gave ministers. The Act attracted criticism from New Zealand and international academics specialising in constitutional law who claim that it lacks constitutional safeguards and has set a dangerous precedent for future natural disasters. The group of 27 legal academics expressed their concerns in an open letter released on 28 September 2010. The New Zealand Law Society also expressed concern and suggested Parliament amend the law to ensure the vast powers it confers are not abused. Spokesman Mr Temm said the powers delegated to Ministers “are potentially at odds with maintenance of the principles of the rule of law”. The Act was repealed on 19 April 2011, when it was replaced with the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act 2011.

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Food Act 2014

2012-02-29 07:21:58+00:00

The Food Act is a New Zealand Act of Parliament passed in 2014. It came into force on 1 March 2016 and progressively replaced the Food Act 1981 for the next three years. It was introduced as the Food Bill 160-2 on 26 May 2010 to make some fundamental changes to New Zealand's domestic food regulatory regime. Significantly, for an export led economic recovery for New Zealand, the domestic food regulatory regime is the platform for exports. The New Zealand domestic standard is used as the basis for negotiating equivalence arrangements with trading partners. This minimizes the excessive importing country requirements that may be imposed but which do not go to food safety. If passed into law and fully implemented, it would replace the Food Act 1981 and the Food Hygiene Regulations 1974. Food Bill will also make consequential amendments to the Animal Products Act 1999 and the Wine Act 2003 to improve the interface of regulatory processes across food sectors. In 2009, the New Zealand Food Safety Authority prepared a Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) Archived 9 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine to cover a "Reformed Food Regulatory Regime". In it the Agency outlines its theory about the importance of negotiating equivalence arrangements with New Zealand's trading partners on the first page. A background justification for an appropriate food law to be used by countries worldwide was jointly developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO). In 2005 FAO & WHO produced a document called Perspectives and guidelines on food legislation, with a new model food law Archived 28 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine which presents three model food laws that serve as the template(s) from which Food Bill 160-2 was subsequently elaborated. FAO and WHO also established a body known as the Codex Alimentarius Commission in 1963 Codex Alimentarius (Latin for "Book of Food") is a collection of internationally recognised standards, codes of practice, guidelines and other recommendations relating to foods, food production and food safety. Codex is controversial Codex Alimentarius is recognised by the World Trade Organization as an international reference point for the resolution of disputes. = MAF manages New Zealand's participation in Codex and sets strategic priorities which ensure that Codex standards have the widest possible application. New Zealand attaches great importance to the work of Codex and has been a member since its formation in 1962. The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA), as the lead agency, is responsible for managing New Zealand's input and participation in Codex. In 2009, NZFSA developed a new Statement of Intent which underlines New Zealand's commitment to a risk-based regulatory system and standards development programme, underpinned by sound science, and an effective government role in facilitating commerce and market access. This also provides a framework for challenging protectionism and technical barriers to trade in the global trading environment. Therefore, in alignment with its domestic position, New Zealand has an interest in ensuring that Codex standards, and related texts, are risk-based and founded on sound science and that Codex is efficient and responsive to the needs of its members. Furthermore, as a trading nation, New Zealand sees the work of Codex as central to reducing technical barriers to trade and facilitating greater market access through the development of sound international standards with wide application. = Food Bill includes provisions to implement Codex Alimentarius regulations into New Zealand's domestic food regime through two primary mechanisms: Material incorporated by reference: The term "incorporation by reference" is used to describe a technique that gives legal effect to provisions contained in a document without repeating those provisions in the text of the incorporating legislation. Food Bill section 403 Material incorporated by reference By Order in Council (with no requirement for public consultation) Food Bill Section 346 "The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations setting standards in relation to food that specify the criteria that all or any of the following must meet to ensure that food is safe and suitable" Food Bill Section 355 "Regulations about definitions (1) The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations – (a) declaring anything to be food for the purposes of this Act" Domestic regulations must match export regulations Food Bill SOP 276, Section 346 – "Regulations about standards in relation to food – (6) Regulations made under this section must not set a standard for food sold for export that is different from the standard set for food sold on the domestic market." Date of Domestic Food Review (DFR): 2002–2006 Date of Introduction: 26 May 2010 Select Committee: Primary Production Closing date for public submissions was originally: Thursday, 2 September 2010 Date of report back from Select Committee: 16 December 2010 Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson was dumped and a new Minister Nikki Kaye was appointed on 22 Jan 2013 Food Bill Supplementary Order Paper 278 was released 17 July 2013, termed a Substantive amendment, 456 pages long Closing date for public submissions was 16 Aug 2013. Primary Production Select Committee receives 567 written submissions Primary Production Select Committee hears 19 of the 567 submissions in person in Wellington 20-21 Feb 2014 Primary Production Select Committee releases a report on the Food Bill, with a recommendation that it be passed with amendments. 5 May 2014 Food Bill Second Reading happened on 13 May 2014. Download Transcript here. Watch videos here Food Bill in Committee of the Whole House happened 14 May 2014. Download Transcript here. Watch videos here Food Bill Third Reading happened 27 May 2014. Download Transcript here. Watch videos here = The Food Act 2014 becomes effective on 1 March 2016 when all new business will need to conform to the new Act and there will be a three-year transition period ending 28 February 2019 for all existing food premises that are not otherwise exempted to move over to either a Food Control Plan or National Programme. New Zealand is one of 165 member nations of Codex Alimentarius. Other codex member nations are also passing or are proposing to pass similar legislative changes: = Food Safety Modernization Act Text as passed by Senate Archived 14 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine = Canada Food Safety and Inspection Act Reaction BILL C-80 (first reading) BILL C-27: Canadian Food Inspection Agency Enforcement Act Current news on food biotechnology = Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP, or TPPA) Archived 6 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine = HSNO protects New Zealand against biological contamination from genetically modified organisms being introduced into New Zealand's unique island nation biodiversity. At least one New Zealand Minister of Parliament (Steffan Browning) has noted that the "genetic modification of food" has been deleted from the first draft of the Food Bill 160-2 as if the Minister for Food Safety is proposing that genetic modification is not a matter of food safety, which is very much as odds with the national opinion (New Zealand) on genetic modification. Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 Whereas USA production as of 2011 was 94% GMO Soy beans and 88% GMO Corn, New Zealand remains unadulterated to production of genetically modified organisms within its borders = Natural Health Products Bill 324-1 The NZFSA (now part of MAF) commenced consultation on the Domestic Food Review in 2004 with a series of public discussion papers. The outcome of the Review was the proposals for the Food Bill. The public were actively consulted with from 2007 to 2010 on the Domestic Food Review and the Food Bill. This consultation has included forums and consumer groups, discussion papers and public submission processes. The publications and information on the Food Bill have been available throughout this process on the NZFSA website and were used to support consultation. During the public consultation on the Food Bill by the Primary Production Committee from 22 July to 2 September 2010, 66 submissions were received. These can be viewed on the Parliamentary website (see the link at the end of Q4). Public enquiries by phone and email up until 2010 numbered 1670 and there have been over 70,000 page views for the Domestic Food Review, Food Bill and the Food Control Plan. A Consumers Forum was established in 2002 and met 3-4 times a year until November 2008 the Domestic Food Review and subsequently the Food Bill were regularly an item on their agenda. The Forum's mailing list included 61 consumer organisations and 88 individual representatives. More information on the Consumers Forum is here: Staying in touch with people Archived 10 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine Concerns have been raised about a number of different aspects of the proposed Food Bill 160-2. They are broadly categorised as: = The costs-of-food-sickness justification for Food Bill 160-2 were grossly exaggerated, and hence the real motives have not been fully disclosed by the New Zealand government. Food sovereignty will be reduced by Food- Bill 160-2. Food Bill 160-2 would restrict seed sharing and reduce biodiversity. Food Bill 160-2 contains legal loopholes which would allow the Food Safety minister to make significant changes without public consultation. Motives for Food Bill 160-2 are more about enhancing New Zealand trade than they are about food safety for New Zealanders. Food Bill 160-2 will erode New Zealand Civil Liberties, principally due to powers afforded Food Safety Officers. Food Bill 160-2 will be used to introduce additional Genetically Modified Organisms into New Zealand's domestic food supply. New Zealand's local food regulations will be subject to international market forces because local regulations must match export regulations. Compliance costs for small food producers. Codex Alimentarius being forced upon New Zealand's food supply. Maori culture being negatively impacted by Food Bill 160–2. = Critics say that once Codex standards become law, consumers will have inferior food rules imposed upon them, while food standards and trade will be completely controlled worldwide. Codex may ultimately: Prohibit the use of natural substances to prevent and treat disease Legalize genetically modified organisms Mandate antibiotics and hormones in animal feed Raise the allowable level of pesticides, toxins and drugs in foods Prohibit consumers from purchasing traditional herbs and medicines = An online petition was created in August 2011, stating: "Sharing food is a basic human right. The Food Bill 160-2 will seriously impede initiatives like community gardens, food co-ops, heritage seed banks, farmers markets, bake sales, and roadside fruit & vegetable stalls. Sign this petition to show that you oppose Food Bill 160-2" Within 5 months it had received over 40,000 signatures. As of May 2012 it has 42303 signatures which represent almost 1% of New Zealand's 4.36m population. While this demonstrates that the Food Bill is a matter of national concern, it falls far short of the requirements to trigger a citizen's initiated referendum, which would need votes equivalent to 10% of all eligible registered electors (approx. 300,000 votes required.) Even if a citizen's initiated referendum proceeded, it would be non-binding on the Government.

30400427

Governor-General Act 2010

2011-01-10 03:48:24+00:00

The Governor-General Act 2010 (Public Act no 122 2010) is an Act of the Parliament of New Zealand. It reformed the Governor-General of New Zealand's financial programme. In 2007, the New Zealand Law Commission began a review of the Civil List Act 1979, with an issues paper being released in July 2008. In a press release, Law Commission President Sir Geoffrey Palmer said "The Act has not been comprehensively reviewed for many years. Some of its provisions are outdated. Some of the language is archaic. There is some unnecessary overlap between this Act and other legislation which creates complexity." The Clerk of the Executive Council, Clerk of the House of Representatives, Graeme Edgeler, Parliamentary Service and the Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand made a submissions to the review, largely in favour of the Law Commission's recommendations. The review was completed on 7 December 2009. The Law Commission recommended that part one of the Civil List Act 1979 be repealed, and replaced with a new statute to reflect the nature of the modern office of Governor-General. It included an example Governor-General Bill in the review's appendix. The most significant change would be that the Governor-General is no longer exempt from paying income tax on their salary. The changes proposed in the report would take effect for the appointment and term of the next Governor-General following Sir Anand Satyanand. The Governor-General Bill was introduced into Parliament on 28 June 2010. Because the Bill was to be administered by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, it was introduced by Prime Minister John Key. Green MP Keith Locke suggested Parliament recommend the next Governor-General's appointment to the Queen, with a recommendation endorsed by three-quarters of parliament. The Bill was passed unanimously and referred to the Government Administration Committee on 20 July 2010. Three submissions were received on the Bill. Journalist Derek Round submitted that the Bill should be amended so that the Governor-General succeeded the Queen following the end of the Queen's reign. Monarchy New Zealand made a submission in support of the Bill. In line with its submission to the Law Commission, the Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand also supported the Bill. It also suggested parliament appoint the next Governor-General with a three-quarters majority plus a majority of party leaders in parliament, with a similar dismissal process and a fixed five-year term. National MP Nikki Kaye queried whether several one-member parties in parliament could veto the decision, which could give them too much power if an appointment was based on one vote per leader. The Republican Movement responded that the method would ensure appointments were made that most MPs and parties found acceptable. The Select Committee reported back on 8 September 2010, and recommended that the Bill be passed. On suggestions made by submitters on the Bill for an appointment and dismissal process for the Governor-General, the committee stated "As this bill has a single focus on the financial arrangements of the Governor-General, we were advised that all of these issues lie outside its scope." The committee sought advice from the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, who advised the amendments were out of scope. The Second Reading debate took place on 13 September 2010. The Bill was again passed unanimously. The Committee of the Whole House stage occurred on 26 October 2010. The third reading debate occurred on 16 November 2010. The Bill was granted Royal Assent on 22 November 2010.

57738197

Sentencing and Parole Reform Act 2010

2018-06-22 04:09:31+00:00

The Sentencing and Parole Reform Act 2010 was an Act of Parliament in New Zealand that denied parole to repeat violent offenders, and imposed maximum terms of imprisonment on repeat offenders who commit three serious violent offences - unless it would be manifestly unjust. The law was known informally in New Zealand public, media and government circles as the "three-strikes law". The bill passed its third reading on 25 May 2010. It was supported by the conservative National and libertarian ACT parties but was opposed by the Labour, Green, and Māori parties. It became law when it received royal assent on 31 May 2010. It led to some anomalous sentencing outcomes with questionable evidence that it helped to reduce violent offending. It was repealed on 9 August 2022, by the Sixth Labour Government. The Sensible Sentencing Trust, led by Garth McVicar, played a significant role in promoting the idea of a "three strikes and you're out" sentencing law in New Zealand from as early as 2004. The Ministry of Justice says the law was "intended to deter repeat offenders with the threat of progressively longer mandatory prison terms, and to penalise those who continued to re-offend through a three-stage process." The Sentencing and Parole Reform Act 2010 created a three-stage system of increasing consequences for repeat violent offenders. The Act applied to 40 qualifying offences comprising all violent and sexual offences with a maximum penalty of seven years or greater imprisonment. It covered murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, sexual violation, abduction, kidnapping, and aggravated robbery. Since the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 prohibits retroactive application of laws to disadvantage an offender, the law only applies to offences committed on or after 1 June 2010. A first warning is issued after an offender who is aged 18 or over is convicted of a qualifying offence. Once the offender has received a "first-strike" warning, it stays on their criminal record permanently unless their conviction is overturned. The warning must be given verbally by the Judge and followed up in writing for it to be valid. If the offender is subsequently convicted of another qualifying offence, they receive a final warning. If they are sentenced to a term of imprisonment, they will serve that sentence in full without the possibility of parole. The first and final warnings will stay on the offender's record. On conviction of a third qualifying offence, the court must impose the maximum penalty for the offence on the defendant. The legislation stipulates that if the offence the court must also order that the sentence be served without parole, unless the qualifying offence is manslaughter or court considers that it would be manifestly unjust. In cases of manslaughter, a minimum non-parole period of 20 years applies instead, unless the court considers that it would be manifestly unjust, in which case the standard 10-year non-period for life imprisonment applies. If the second or third qualifying offence is murder, then the court must impose a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole, unless it deems it manifestly unjust to do so. In the case a previous qualifying offence is overturned, the courts must set aside all other qualifying offences' sentences and warnings, and re-sentence and re-warn as if the overturned offence never occurred. Sentencing judges for second and third qualifying offences must state in their sentencing judgment the sentence they would have given but for the Act to assist in case of re-sentencing. The Act also introduced the option to impose life imprisonment without possibility of parole for murder regardless of the offender's previous convictions. If an offender aged 18 and over is convicted of murder, and the sentencing judge believes no minimum parole period would satisfy the purposes and principles of sentencing, they may impose a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. As of 2022, Brenton Tarrant, perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings, is the only person sentenced to life imprisonment without parole under this provision. The provision for life without parole was not repealed with the Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Act 2022. = The Sentencing and Parole Reform Act was first introduced into the New Zealand House of Representatives on 18 February 2009. The Bill passed its first reading by a margin of 64 to 58 votes. While it was supported by the ruling National Party and its ACT and United Future coalition partners, it was opposed by the opposition Labour, Green, and Jim Anderton's Progressive Party as well as the Fifth National Government's support partner the Māori Party. The Bill's supporters argued that a three strikes law was needed due to insufficient sentencing and parole laws while opponents argued that the Bill would not reduce crime but contribute to higher incarceration and recidivism rates. The Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill was referred to the Law and Order select committee on 18 February 2009. The committee received a total of 1,075 submissions on the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill; with 32 opposing the Bill, 729 supporting it, and 308 supporting it in principle. Between May and June 2009, the committee also heard 57 submissions in Auckland and Wellington. The Law and Order select committee reported back to the House on 26 March 2010, recommending the Bill to proceed with modifications. The largest modification was changing the third strike penalty from life imprisonment with 25 years non-parole to the maximum sentence without parole, after the Attorney-General Christopher Finlayson found the original penalty breached the cruel and unusual punishment provisions in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. The Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill passed its second reading on 4 May 2010 by a margin of 63 to 59. A majority of the New Zealand House of Representatives voted to accept the amendments recommended by the Law and Order select committee and to pass the Bill through its second reading. While National and ACT supported the Bill, it was opposed by the Labour, Green, Māori, Progressive, and United Future parties. The Bill's supporters including its sponsor Minister of Corrections Judith Collins, fellow National MP Melissa Lee and ACT leader Rodney Hide argued that a three-stage sentencing regime would increasing public safety while providing a warning to offenders to amend their ways. Opponents of the Bill including Labour MPs Lianne Dalziel, Parekura Horomia, Chris Hipkins, Green MP David Clendon, and Māori Party MP Hone Harawira argued that it was punitive, would boost incarceration rates, and discouraged the rehabilitation of prisoners. On 25 May 2010, the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill passed its third and final reading by a margin of 63 to 58 votes. While National and ACT supported the Bill, it was opposed by the Labour, Green, Māori, Progressive, and United Future parties. During the final reading, Collins reiterated the Government's commitment to law and order and public security while reiterating that the three strikes sentencing regime would not apply to offenses committed by juveniles under the age of 18 years but would only apply to 40 specific serious offences. The Bill received royal assent and became law on 31 May 2010. = Since its passage, the so-called "three-strikes law" has been controversial in New Zealand society. Critics have criticized the Sentencing and Parole Reform Act for its alleged punitive approach to justice and for disproportionately affecting the Māori community. By contrast, it has been supported by conservative advocacy groups such as the Sensible Sentencing Trust and Family First New Zealand. According to the Ministry of Justice, there is little evidence that three strikes legislation reduced serious offending; it restricted the judiciary’s ability to consider the individual circumstances and context of the offending; it impacted more adversely on Maori who are already overrepresented in the prison system and in subsequent cases, the High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court found sentences imposed under the regime contravened the Bill of Rights Act. Despite its ineffectiveness, the National Party said it will reinstate the legislation when it becomes the Government. Referring to the anomalous sentencing of Wiremu Allen described below, National’s Justice spokesperson, Paul Goldsmith, said: “It is unimaginable that offenders such as Wiremu Allen, who was convicted of a third strike offence which entailed breaking into a house, demanding money from the victim and then shooting him, would not receive the maximum mandatory sentence today. = In December 2016, a mentally ill man, Daniel Fitzgerald, was sentenced to seven years in prison after he approached a woman he didn't know and kissed her on the cheek in the street in Wellington. He already had two strikes for similar offending in 2012 and 2015. Under the three strikes law, the judge had to impose the maximum prison sentence of seven years for the kiss, designated as indecent assault. Fitzgerald served four years. In 2021, the Supreme Court ruled that the sentence of seven years under the three strikes law was so grossly disproportionate that it breached his human rights. Without the three strikes law, the sentence would have been six months. Fitzgerald was awarded $450,000 in compensation by the government for the four years he spent in prison. In July 2020, Wiremu Allen incurred his “third strike” after he was involved in an accidental shooting in the Hutt Valley. Allen is a member of the King Cobra gang. He and a younger man had forced their way into a Stokes Valley flat in the early hours of June 15, 2019, trying to collect a debt. Both men had pistols and the victim was shot in the knee when the younger man's pistol discharged, which the Crown accepted was accidental. Although he didn't shoot the victim, Allen pleaded guilty to wounding with reckless disregard. Because it was his third strike, the judge had to sentence him to seven years’ in prison, the maximum for this crime. At sentencing, Justice Karen Clark said Allen would have received only two years and one month in prison if not subject to the third strikes regime. His lawyer, Chris Nicholls, said that without the punitive three strikes restrictions, after the time he had already spent in custody on remand, Allen would have been released in four weeks and sent to an intensive treatment and rehabilitation programme. = Following the formation of the Labour coalition government after the 2017 general election, Labour's Justice Minister Andrew Little announced that it would be scrapping the three-strikes law. Little argued that the law was doing little to facilitate rehabilitation of violent offenders and was contributing to New Zealand's growing prison population. Little's announcement was criticised by ACT Party leader David Seymour. On 30 May 2018, Justice Minister Little announced that the Labour coalition government would be taking steps to repeal the "three-strikes law" in early June. In response, the Sensible Sentencing Trust's founder Garth McVicar commissioned a poll of 965 adults which claimed that 68 percent of New Zealanders approved of the law and 20 percent did not; including 63 percent of Labour supporters and 48 percent of Green supporters. On 11 June 2018, Andrew Little announced that the Government would be abandoning its efforts to repeal the "three-strikes law" due to opposition from its coalition partner, the populist conservative New Zealand First. In mid–November 2021, Justice Minister Kris Faafoi announced that the Labour-majority government would be introducing the Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Bill to repeal the majority of Sentencing and Parole Reform Act. Faafoi described the "three-strikes law" as "archaic, unfair, and ineffective" and claimed it had led to "absurd and perverse" outcomes. While the proposed repeal legislation was supported by the Labour and Green parties, the opposition National and ACT parties defended the "three strikes law." National's justice spokesperson Simon Bridges and ACT's justice spokeswoman Nicole McKee claimed that repealing the "three strikes law" would "re-victimise" victims and encourage gangs and violent crime offenders. On 9 August 2022, the Labour Government's Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Bill passed its third reading in Parliament, becoming law. The bill was supported by the Labour, Green, and Māori parties but was opposed by National and ACT. Justice Minister Kiri Allan welcomed the repeal of the Sentencing and Parole Reform Act 2010, describing it as "anomaly in the New Zealand justice system" and a "knee-jerk reaction" to crime by the previous Fifth National Government. Similarly, Green MP Elizabeth Kerekere welcomed the repeal of the "three strikes" legislation, arguing that it was "punitive rather than restorative justice and rehabilitation." By contrast, the National and ACT parties' justice spokespersons Paul Goldsmith and Nicole McKee opposed the repeal, stating that the Government was ignoring rising crime rates and vowed to reinstate the Sentencing and Parole Reform Act if re-elected into Government at the next general election. A 2018 Poll found that 68% supported the Three Strikes law. It also found that with party supporters, National supporters support the law with 78%, New Zealand First supporters at 66%, Labour party supporters at 63%, Green party supporters at 48%

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Ministry of Housing (Spain)

2012-02-14 07:00:29+00:00

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (Spanish: Ministerio de la Vivienda y Agenda Urbana) is a department of the Government of Spain responsible for proposing and carrying out the government policy on right to housing, buildings, urban planning, land use and architecture. This ministry existed in three different periods. The first one was during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The ministry was first established in 1957. The second one during the democratic period, from 2004 to 2010, when Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced that the Ministry of Housing would be suppressed to reduce public spending. The third period started in late 2023, when prime minister Pedro Sánchez re-established the department. The current Housing Minister is, since 21 November 2023, Isabel Rodríguez García, who previously served as minister of Territorial Policy and Government spokesperson between 2021 and 2023. The Ministry is structured as follows: The Secretariat of State for Housing and Urban Agenda The General Secretariat for Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture The Directorate-General for Urban Agenda and Architecture The Deputy Directorate-General for Urban Policies The Deputy Directorate-General for Architecture and Building The Directorate-General for Housing and Soil The Deputy Directorate-General for Housing Policy and Aid The Deputy Directorate-General for Soil, Information and Evaluation The Directorate-General for Planning and Evaluation The Deputy Directorate-General for Planning and Evaluation The Undersecretariat The Technical General Secretariat The Deputy Directorate-General for Economic and Services Coordination. The Deputy Directorate-General for General Affairs and Contracting. The Deputy Directorate-General for Human Resources and Services Inspection. = Public Company for Land Management (SEPES) The House of Architecture (national museum) Office name: Ministry of Housing (1957–1977; 2004–2010) Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (2023–present)

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Joint Base Charleston

2013-01-27 00:08:12+00:00

Joint Base Charleston (IATA: CHS, ICAO: KCHS, FAA LID: CHS) is a United States military facility located partly in the City of North Charleston, South Carolina and partly in the City of Goose Creek, South Carolina. The facility is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force 628th Air Base Wing, Air Mobility Command (AMC). The facility is an amalgamation of the United States Air Force Charleston Air Force Base and the United States Navy Naval Support Activity Charleston, which were merged on 1 October 2010. Of the three Naval Weapons Stations on the U.S. East Coast, the Charleston facility is the largest. A joint civil-military airport, JB Charleston shares runways with Charleston International Airport for commercial airline operations on the south side of the airfield and general aviation aircraft operations on the east side. Joint Base Charleston was established in accordance with congressional legislation implementing the recommendations of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. The legislation ordered the consolidation of facilities which were adjoining, but separate military installations, into a single Joint Base, one of 12 formed in the United States as a result of the law. Today, Joint Base Charleston, encompassing over 20,877 acres and supporting 67 Military Commands and Federal Agencies, provides service to over 79,000 Airmen, Sailors, Soldiers, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, DoD civilians, dependents, and retirees. In supporting Joint Base Charleston, the former Charleston Naval Base has been transformed into a multi-use Federal Complex (231 acres) with 17 Government and Military tenants, as well as homeport for 6 RO-RO Ready Reserve Force Ships, 4 Coast Guard National Security Cutters, and 2 NOAA Research Ships. | On 8 January 2010, the 628th Air Base Wing started its Initial Operational Capability (IOC). The 628th Air Base Wing's primary duties are to provide installation support to 53 DoD and Federal agencies, servicing a total force of over 79,000 Airmen, Sailors, Soldiers, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, civilians, dependents and retirees on Charleston Air Force Base and Naval Weapons Station Charleston. They maintain $2B worth of physical infrastructure across 23 thousand non-contiguous acres. Additionally, they also provide mission-ready expeditionary Airmen to combatant commanders in support of joint and combined operations. The 628th Air Base Wing attained Full Operational Capability (FOC) on 1 October 2010 with an event taking place at Marrington Plantation at the Naval Weapons Station. = JB Charleston is home to the 628th Air Base Wing (628 ABW), the host wing for installation support. The 628th ABW's primary duties are to provide installation support to 53 DoD and Federal agencies, servicing a total force of over 79,000 Airmen, Sailors, Soldiers, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, civilians, dependents and retirees on Charleston AFB and Naval Weapons Station Charleston. Additionally, they also provide expeditionary Airmen to combatant commanders in support of joint and combined operations. The 437th Airlift Wing (437 AW) operates the C-17 Globemaster III strategic airlift aircraft in support of its mission to provide airlift of troops and passengers, military equipment, cargo, and aeromedical equipment and supplies worldwide in accordance with tasking by Air Mobility Command and unified combatant commanders. The air base has four operational groups consisting of 21 squadrons and two wing staff directorates. It is augmented by a parallel, collocated Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) "associate" wing, the 315th Airlift Wing (315 AW), which shares the same C-17 aircraft with the 437 AW. In addition, the USAF Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol Coastal Charleston Composite Squadron is also assigned to JB Charleston. They meet at the Aero Club near the control tower. = Portions of The Charleston, South Carolina metropolitan area, (The City of Charleston, The City of North Charleston, The City of Goose Creek, and The City of Hanahan) are home to branches of the United States Military. During the Cold War, the Naval Base (1902–1996) became the third largest U.S. homeport serving over 80 ships and submarines. In addition, the Charleston Naval Shipyard repaired frigates, destroyers, cruisers, sub tenders, and submarines. The Shipyard was also equipped for the refueling of nuclear subs. During this period, the Weapons Station was the Atlantic Fleet's load out base for all 41 nuclear ballistic missile submarines. Two SSBN "Boomer" squadrons and a sub tender were homeported at the Weapons Station, while one SSN attack squadron, Submarine Squadron 4, and a sub tender were homeported at the Naval Base. At the 1996 closure of the Station's Polaris Missile Facility Atlantic (POMFLANT), over 2,500 nuclear warheads and their UGM-27 Polaris, UGM-73 Poseidon, and UGM-96 Trident I delivery missiles (SLBM) were stored and maintained, guarded by a U.S. Marine Corps Security Force Company. During the 1960's through the early 1990's Submarine Group Six was headquartered in Charleston. Being the largest submarine group in the U.S. Navy, and one of the largest in the world, including five submarine squadrons in three home ports with five submarine tenders, more than 50 submarines and more than 18,000 active duty members. Of which 12,000 of the active duty members were home ported in Charleston. The Naval Support Activity has expanded its mission and Department of Defense support role with over 40 tenant commands, and today is a training center, with the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (NNPTC), Nuclear Power Training Unit, Propulsion Facility, and Border Patrol satellite academy; Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston; Mobile Mine Assembly Unit; Explosive Ordnance Detachments; Marine Corps Reserve Center; an engineering complex, with the Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic (NIWC, this is the largest employer in the Charleston area) and is close to the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast; 269 above-ground ammunition magazines, maintenance and storage of military ordnance including mines, and serves as an Army logistics hub, the busiest continental United States surface port in the defense transportation system. In addition, NWS Charleston contains more than 1,800 on-base houses for Navy enlisted and officer dependents as well as Coast Guard dependents, and has a child care facility, elementary and middle schools. A large medical clinic near NNPTC in Goose Creek finished construction in 2008. An Air Force Times article dated 21 December 2009 announced the activation of the 628th Air Wing to "take over administrative duties for a number of military commands" in January 2010. The 628th "will essentially serve as the 'landlord' for Charleston Air Force Base, the Charleston Naval Consolidated Brig and about 50 other military commands. The unit will handle items such as building and grounds services, supply and civil engineering and public works. Because of the construction, larger and heavier aircraft will now be cleared to land on runway 03/21, which will be key when work scheduled for Fiscal Year 2012 begins on runway 15/33, the base's main runway. The last major work done on Joint Base Charleston runways was in 1968. = Charleston Naval Weapons Station, Joint Base Charleston (>17,000 acres, 27 square miles), Goose Creek and Hanahan Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic (NIWC Atlantic) Naval Nuclear Power Training Command Nuclear Power School Nuclear Power Training Unit Moored Training Nuclear Submarine, USS Daniel Webster (SSBN-626) Moored Training Nuclear Submarine, USS Sam Rayburn (SSBN-635) Moored Training Nuclear Submarine, USS La Jolla (SSN-701) Moored Training Nuclear Submarine, USS San Francisco (SSN-711) Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston, East Coast Mobile Mine Assembly Unit Eleven (MOMAU-11) Naval Operations Support Center Charleston Navy Reserve Center Navy Munitions Command CONUS, Detachment Charleston Explosive Ordnance Detachment Naval Health Clinic Charleston Navy Dental Clinic Naval Criminal Investigative Service Training, Federal Complex Lay berth for Roll-On Roll-Off Surge Sealift Ships, Ready Reserve Force, Federal Complex MV Cape Ducato (T-AKR-5051), Maritime Administration RRF Vessel, Federal Complex MV Cape Douglas (T-AKR-5052), Maritime Administration RRF Vessel, Federal Complex MV Cape Domingo (T-AKR-5053), Maritime Administration, RRF Vessel, Federal Complex MV Cape Decision (T-AKR-5054), Maritime Administration RRF Vessel, Federal Complex MV Cape Diamond (T-AKR-5055), Maritime Administration RRF Vessel, Federal Complex MV Cape Edmont (T-AKR-5069), Maritime Administration RRF Vessel, Federal Complex = Charleston Air Force Base, Joint Base Charleston (3,877 acres, 6.06 square miles), North Charleston Charleston Air Force Auxiliary Base, North, SC (2,393 acres, 3.74 square miles) Charleston Defense Fuel Storage and Distribution Facility, Hanahan 628th Air Base Wing 628th Mission Support Group 628th Medical Group 628th Communications Squadron 315th Airlift Wing 437th Airlift Wing 373rd Training Squadron, Detachment 5 1st Combat Camera Squadron 4th Combat Camera Squadron 412th Logistics Support Squadron OL-AC Air Force ROTC Det 772 Civil Air Patrol – Charleston Composite Squadron = Coast Guard Sector Charleston (District 7) Coast Guard Station Charleston Coast Guard Helicopter Air Facility, Johns Island Coast Guard Eurocopter HH-65 Dolphin, Johns Island Coast Guard Reserves, Charleston Coast Guard Maritime Law Enforcement Academy, Federal Complex USCGC Hamilton (WMSL-753) National Security Cutter, Federal Complex USCGC James (WMSL-754) National Security Cutter, Federal Complex USCGC Stone (WMSL-758) National Security Cutter, Federal Complex USCGC Calhoun (WMSL-759) National Security Cutter, Federal Complex USCGC Friedman (WMSL-760) National Security Cutter, 2024 Delivery, Federal Complex USCGC Tarpon, Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat, Tybee Island USCGC Yellowfin, Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat, Charleston USCGC Anvil, Charleston = United States Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District South Carolina Army National Guard Army Reserve Training Center, Naval Weapons Station 841st Army Transportation Battalion, Naval Weapons Station 1182nd Army Deployment & Distribution Support Battalion, Naval Weapons Station 1189th Army Transportation Brigade, Reserve Support Command, Naval Weapons Station Army Strategic Logistics Activity, Naval Weapons Station = Marine Corps Reserve Center, Naval Weapons Station = The former Charleston Naval Base has been transformed into a multi-use Federal Complex (231 acres) with 17 Government and Military tenants, as well as homeport for 6 RO-RO Military Sealift Command Ships, 4 Coast Guard National Security Cutters, and 2 NOAA Research Ships. In October 2020, the Coast Guard purchased 166 acres and additional piers on the former Naval complex to construct a super base, so as to consolidate all Charleston area facilities and become the homeport for five Security cutters and additional offshore cutters. The Coast Guard Base began construction in 2024. Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC), Department of Homeland Security NOAA Corps Moored FLETC Training Ship, SS Cape Chalmers (T-AK-5036) Sea Hawk Interagency Operations Center Customs and Border Protection Satellite Academy Immigration and Customs Enforcement Satellite Academy U.S. Courts, Federal Probation and Pretrial Services Academy Food and Drug Administration Training Academy National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement NOAAS Nancy Foster (R 352) Ship NOAAS Ronald H. Brown (R 104) Ship U.S. Department of State Veterans Administration Goose Creek Clinic Global Financial Services Center, U.S. Department of State Passport Service Center, U.S. Department of State United States Maritime Administration This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency This article incorporates public domain material from Charleston Air Force Base. United States Air Force.

29077706

Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam

2010-10-06 07:26:19+00:00

Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam (JBPHH) (IATA: HNL, ICAO: PHNL, FAA LID: HNL) is a United States military base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. It is an amalgamation of the United States Air Force's Hickam Air Force Base and the United States Navy's Naval Station Pearl Harbor, which were merged in 2010. Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam is one of 12 Joint Bases the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission created. It is part of Navy Region Hawaii and provides Navy and joint operations Base Operating Support that is capabilities-based and integrated. Pearl Harbor is 8 miles (13 km) from Honolulu. Naval Station Pearl Harbor provides berthing and shore side support to surface ships and submarines, as well as maintenance and training. Pearl Harbor can accommodate the largest ships in the fleet, to include dry dock services, and is now home to over 160 commands. Housing, personnel, and family support are also provided and are an integral part of the shore side activities, which encompasses both permanent and transient personnel. Because Pearl Harbor is the only intermediate maintenance facility for submarines in the Middle Pacific, it serves as host to a large number of visiting submariners. The Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific, Wahiawa, Hawaii is the world's largest communication station. The headquarters site of this shore command is located in the central section of the island of Oahu, approximately three miles north of Wahiawa. Hickam Air Force Base was named in honor of aviation pioneer Lt. Col. Horace Meek Hickam. It is under the jurisdiction of Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), which is headquartered on the base. Hickam AFB remains the launch point of strategic air mobility and operational missions in support of the Global War on Terrorism as well as special air missions in support of the Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) and Commander, Pacific Air Forces (PACAF). In 2009, the base was used as the temporary operating location for Air Force One during Barack Obama's Christmas vacation at Kailua, Hawaii. Wells access groundwater sources that provide water to the base system, which serves residents of military housing, the Aliamanu Military Reservation, and several elementary schools and day care centers. JBPHH is the main location on the CBS television series NCIS: Hawaiʻi.

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Military Hospital, Hisar

2014-08-24 08:33:52+00:00

Military Hospital, Hisar at Hisar Military Station, Haryana, India is a 250-bed multi-specialty hospital with Intensive care unit (ICU), 9 medical specialties, physiotherapy, and blood bank for the free treatment of Army and ex-army personnel and their families. The Military Hospital in Hisar is the 111th hospital of the Indian Army Medical Corps which provides medical services to all Army personnel. In 2011, a 250-bedded Military Hospital, Hisar was inaugurated to provide medical facilities. = Work for the construction of hospital was tendered to Varindra Constructions Limited by Chief Engineer Jaipur Zone (Military Engineering Services department of Defence services under MoD) in the year 2006–2007. The work was completed in 2010 at cost of the work was Rs. 38.00 Crores approx. at 2010 price. The hospital has an Intensive care unit (ICU). When fully commissioned the hospital will have nine medical specialties. In addition, hospital also has Polyclinic, Blood Bank, Physiotherapy Department, medical test laboratory, etc.

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Phalodi Air Force Station

2015-12-04 10:47:26+00:00

Phalodi Air Force Station (ICAO: VIPX) of the Indian Air Force is located in Phalodi in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. This Air Force Station of the Indian Air Force at Phalodi was commissioned in 2010 and is the sixth Air Force Station in Rajasthan. The base is located about 100 km from the international border with Pakistan. It lies between the Jaisalmer and Jodhpur airbases of the IAF. The base covers an area of 4000 acres and is equipped with sophisticated surveillance equipment and deep penetration aircraft. Phalodi Air Force Station has a runway for the aircraft, aircraft maintenance area, administrative complex, living accommodation for officers as well as other ranks, and all other essential parameters and modern facilities required for an air base station. The base is under the South Western Air Command The airport is situated at an elevation of 554 feet (169 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway with concrete surfaces: 11/29 measuring 3,565 by 55 feet (1,087 x 17 m).

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Quartier Colonel Dio

2010-08-09 19:46:32+00:00

Quartier Colonel Dio is a French Army installation in Meyenheim, in the Alsace region of France, near the German and Swiss borders. From 1963, when it was opened, it was Colmar–Meyenheim Air Base (Base aérienne d'opérations 132 Colmar-Meyenheim) after being an airfield for Strasbourg-Entzheim. The French Air Force used the base until 2010, when it was turned over to the French Army. It is now the home of the Régiment de marche du Tchad (RMT) (free-translation roughly 'Chad provisional regiment'), one of the most famous and decorated units in the French Army. The base is 15 km south of Colmar, east of Autoroute A35. The base is bordered by farmland to the west, and surrounded by forest on its other sides. The construction of Colmar–Meyenheim Air Base began in 1951. The first unit to arrive was the 13th Fighter Wing with F-86 Sabres and T-33 trainer aircraft in 1957. Fighter Wing 013 members lived on the base until the unit disbanded on 23 June 1995. Fighter Wing 030 Alsace and Normandie-Niemen were the two squadrons in operation on the base after the disbandment of the 13th Fighter Wing. The Fighter Squadron 01/030 Normandie-Niémen was formed six months after Nazi Germany invaded the USSR in June 1941. The unit was created for cooperation between the Free French and the Soviet Union governments. There were initially 12 fighter pilots serving the German-Russian front, but the group was officially declared Groupe de Chasse GC 3 Normandie on 1 September 1942 with Commandant Pouliquen in command. After training on Yakovlev Yak-7s in January 1943, Commandant Jean Tulasne took command of the group. Between 22 March 1943 and 9 May 1945 the unit destroyed 273 enemy aircraft. It received awards from both France and the Soviet Union: the French Légion d'Honneur and the Soviet Order of the Red Banner. Joseph Stalin awarded the name "Niémen" after the Battle of the Neman River in 1944. The group flew to Morocco in March 1947, trading Vulture 11s for the first of the Mirage F1Cs. The EC 02/30 unit departed North Africa on 13 March 1962. In December 1973, the base turned to Air Defense. Fighter Squadron 02/030 Normandie – Niémen was merged with The Fighter Squadron 01/030 Normandie – Niémen in 2007. The French Government announced in July 2008 that all flying activities at the base would cease one year later. General Jean-Paul Paloméros, the Chief of Air Force Staff, led the ceremony for dissolution of the base. The closure of the base was part of a restructuring of the air force. Six Mirage F1Bs and about twelve F1CTs were planned to relocate to Reims – Champagne Air Base. The last stage in the base's Air Force history came on 16 June 2010 when the base banner of BAO 132 was furled and transferred to the Service historique de la Défense/Armée de l'air (Defence Historical Service/Air Force) at Vincennes. On 1 July 2010 at midnight, the base became French Army barracks Quartier Colonel Dio. Several different aircraft and units were stationed at the base. Aircraft F86 Sabre and T-33 (1957–62) Mirage IIIC (1962–65) Mirage IIIB (1965–66, 1986–94) Mirage IIIE (1965–77) F-100 Super Sabre (1966–67) Mirage 5F (1972–94) Mirage F1CT (1992–2009) Mirage F1B (2005–2009) Units 3/11 "Corsica" Fighter Squadron (1966–67) 3/13 "Auvergne" Fighter Squadron (1972–1994) 13th Fighter Wing (1957 – 23 June 1995) 2/13 "Alps" Fighter Squadron (Until 27 June 2008) 1/13 "Artois" Fighter Squadron (Until 2009) The air base hosted a meteorological station maintained by Météo-France; the station was the sixth-driest in France (after Marignane–Marseille Provence Airport, Perpignan, Clermont-Ferrand, Chartres and Évreux) of the French meteorological service network.

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Death Before Dishonor VIII

2010-05-14 01:25:04+00:00

Death Before Dishonor VIII (DBD VIII) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH), which was only available online. This marked the 8th event entitled Death Before Dishonor, with this being the event's first time on pay per view. It took place on June 19, 2010, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. = On November 23, 2009, ROH announced that they had signed a pay-per-view deal with Go Fight Live (GFL) to air live events over the Internet. The first event to be aired as part of this deal was Final Battle 2009 followed by The Big Bang four months later. = Death Before Dishonor VIII featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from existing, scripted feuds and storylines with wrestlers portrayed as villains or heroes, or more ambiguous characters in scripted contests that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match on the pay per view. On May 5, 2010, Ring of Honor's official website announced that ROH would have their next online pay per view event in Toronto, being the first time the Death Before Dishonor lineage would be featured in such a capacity. This is the third pay per view ROH had featured online. Two main events were announced for the show. The first of which was for the ROH World Tag Team Championship. At the previous show, The Big Bang, Claudio Castagnoli and Chris Hero (collectively known as The Kings of Wrestling) defeated Jay and Mark Briscoe for the titles. As per wrestling norms, in which former champions are generally granted a rematch, this became the case for the Death Before Dishonor VIII PPV. The second main event match promoted for the show was for the ROH World Championship. After examining ROH's system of determining a contender for title, the Pick 6 Series, it was announced on the company's website that executive producer Jim Cornette had named a new number-one contender to face Black at the Death Before Dishonor VIII PPV: Davey Richards, ranked number-four in the Pick 6 Series. In addition to the aforementioned 'twin main events', it was announced that former tag team partners Kevin Steen and El Generico would have their first one-on-one encounter at Death Before Dishonor VIII. Steen and Generico had been at odds since 2009 after being unable to regain the World Tag Team Championship. This tension came to a boiling point at Final Battle 2009 when the team lost to The Young Bucks, after which a frustrated Steen turned on Generico by smashing a steel chair over his head. The following months saw Steen distance himself from his partner, instead aligning with Steve Corino, who had recently returned to the company after an absence of several years. Together, the two began antagonizing Generico, who would continually refuse to retaliate against his former partner. In the interim, Colt Cabana reached out to Generico and together they challenged Steen and Corino on multiple occasions, leading to a tag match at The Big Bang PPV, which saw Generico stand up to his former partner for the first time.

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Final Battle 2010

2010-09-12 23:42:53+00:00

Final Battle 2010 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH). It took place on December 18, 2010, at the Manhattan Center in New York City. It was the eighth annual event in the Final Battle chronology, with the first taking place in 2002, but only the second to be broadcast live. It was the fifth ROH event to be shown as an online pay-per-view. The event saw the culmination of two rivalries, a yearlong battle between former tag team Kevin Steen and El Generico, as well as the feud between The Kings of Wrestling and The Briscoe Brothers. Also on the card Davey Richards, who had originally planned to stop wrestling after this event, challenged Roderick Strong for the ROH World Championship. Five other matches also took place on the undercard. = In September 2010, Jim Cornette announced that Final Battle 2010 would be taking place in the Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center in New York City on December 18, 2010, and would be live on internet pay-per-view through GoFightLive. = Final Battle featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from existing, scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains or heroes, or more ambiguous characters in scripted contests that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match on the pay-per-view. The featured grudge match at the event was Kevin Steen wrestling El Generico in a Fight Without Honor, an ROH speciality match with hardcore rules and no disqualifications. The stipulations for the match meant that if Steen lost, he would no longer wrestle in ROH while if Generico lost, he would have to remove his luchadore mask. Steen and Generico were a tag team dating back to early 2007, up until Final Battle 2009 when Steen, frustrated after losing a tag team match, low-blowed Generico and hit him over the head with a chair. The next week, Steve Corino published a video recording from Japan, where he was wrestling at the time, taking responsibility for Steen's actions, naming him a future World Champion and warning off Generico and Colt Cabana, who came out in defence of Generico at Final Battle. With Generico becoming reclusive and not seeking revenge, Cabana sought it on him behalf in a match at the Eighth Anniversary Show where Corino joined in an assault on Cabana. Generico came to Cabana's rescue but as he went to hit Corino, Steen stood in his way and Generico couldn't bring himself to hit his former partner, giving Steen the chance to punch Generico and lock in a crossface. Despite attacking Generico, Steen had refused to accept any challenge to step into the ring with his former partner, until he was forced into a match at April's iPPV The Big Bang!. In the tag team match, Generico continued to be unable to face his former partner. Cabana and Generico won by disqualification against Corino and Steen when Steen attacked Cabana with a chair repeatedly until Generico finally attacked his former partner and even attacked other wrestlers who attempted to restrain him. Generico challenged the two to a Chicago Street Fight later that month which they won after Cabana made Corino submit. Generico and Steen met in their first singles match at the June iPPV Death Before Dishonor VIII, with Generico demanding the match start as soon as the event began rather than waiting for later in the evening. Steen won their first encounter, while a rematch at Hate: Chapter II saw Generico win by disqualification after hitting Generico with a chair, but Generico gained revenge but putting Steen through a table. At the Glory By Honor IX iPPV, Cabana made Corino submit again in a Double Chain match but after the match Corino's son helped assault the team, finishing with Steen pulling Generico's mask off. Steen later announced he would sell the mask on eBay and on the 15 November episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling challenged Generico to a final match at Final Battle, with Generico's mask and Steen's ROH's contract on the line which Generico, wearing a new all-black mask, accepted. ROH president Cary Silkin later announced it would also be a Fight Without Honor. Three days before the event, ROH officials made the storyline announcement that due to the volatile nature of the rivalry, with Steen having attacked fans wearing Generico masks and much of the venues being used when the two had fought previously that the match would no longer be sanctioned by Ring of Honor and would take place after the official Final Battle card had finished with ROH taking no liability for the match. The World Championship rivalry going into the PPV was for the ROH World Championship between reigning champion Roderick Strong and challenger Davey Richards. Throughout most of 2010, since being the judge for Tyler Black's World Title win at Eighth Anniversary in February, Strong sought a chance at the championship. When he failed to win at Supercard of Honor V, Strong introduced Truth Martini as his manager and life consultant. Truth negotiated a rematch and helped Strong win the ROH World Championship at the previous PPV Glory By Honor IX in September. At the same event, ROH Commissioner Jim Cornette announced Richards had re-signed with ROH after he had discussed retiring from all professional wrestling by the end of 2010. As well as announcing his intentions not to retire at Final Battle, Richards was promised a World Championship match by Cornette at the event. The other featured grudge match on the card is a Six-Man Tag Team match between reigning ROH World Tag Team Champions the Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero, Claudio Castagnoli and their manager Shane Hagadorn) and the Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) who will be teaming with their father, Papa Briscoe. The previous year at Final Battle 2009, the Briscoe Brothers won the World Tag Team Championships for the unprecedented sixth time, but their celebrations were instantly cut short by an unprovoked attack from Castanoli and Hero, reuniting their former tag team. The two teams met at WrestleReunion 4 in an Eight-Man match, the Kings accompanied by The American Wolves and the Briscoes with The Young Bucks, where the Wolves forced the Bucks to submit. Once again the Kings attacked the Briscoes after a championship match at the Eighth Anniversary Show. The following month in a Six-Man Tag Team match without Castagnoli, the Briscoes pinned Hero. This led to a title match at The Big Bang! iPPV where the Kings of Wrestling won the Tag Team Championships from the Briscoes after a distraction from Hagadorn allowed Hero to pull on a weighted elbow pad. After trading victories in two singles matches at Civil Warfare in May, the Briscoes interfered the Kings' title defence at Supercard of Honor V, costing The Motor City Machine Guns their championship opportunity. Later in May at the Ring of Honor Wrestling television tapings, Hero came to the ring to address the Briscoe Brothers' father who was sitting at ringside as a Father's Day present, calling his children a mistake before elbowing him. This led to a no-disqualification championship rematch at the Death Before Dishonor VIII iPPV, where the Briscoes attacked Shane Hagadorn on their route to losing the blood-filled match after Hero again used the loaded elbow pad. After Hagadorn had been attacked, the Kings had sought revenge at Hate: Chapter II when they enrolled their valet Sara Del Rey in an intergender tag team match against the Briscoes and Del Rey's enemy Amazing Kong where Jay Briscoe pinned Hero. In August, the Briscoes earned another title opportunity along with two other teams by qualifying in the 2010 Tag Wars tournament. The Briscoes eliminated the All Night Express (Rhett Titus and Kenny King), but once again were undone by Hero's elbow pad. The Briscoes were given their last chance at the World Tag Team Championship on the October 25 episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling which the Kings won after Hagadorn low-blowed Jay Briscoe. After the match, Papa Briscoe jumped into the ring and speared Hagadorn until the Kings grabbed him and fled. On the 11 November episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling, Hagadorn threatened to sue Papa Briscoe but Jim Cornette reminded him Hero had attacked previously. Instead a non-title, Six-Man Tag Team match was suggested with both sides signing contracts. Other matches on the card include a tag team match between Daizee Haze and Amazing Kong wrestling Sara Del Rey and Serena Deeb. At Bluegrass Brawl in July, Haze defeated Del Rey, but the challenge was prompted by a match on the 22 November episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling which went to a 10-minute time-limit draw. In an interview regarding the match, Haze expressed exasperation about the lack of a decision until Del Rey interrupted claiming she was moments from winning and that she needed more of a challenge. Haze assured Del Rey she would find more competition and a few days later Kong tweeted to confirm she would be Haze's partner. Kong had faced off against Del Rey at Supercard of Honor V and lost after Del Rey used Hero's loaded elbow pad. They main evented in a match with the Briscoes and Kings of Wrestling at Hate: Chapter II where Kong gained some revenge when her team defeated Del Rey's but it was not until Salvation in July where Kong would pin Del Rey herself. Incidentally, Kong and Haze teamed together against Del Rey and her partner Lacey at the Man Up PPV in September 2007 and picked up the win. On December 7, Del Rey confirmed her partner would be Serena Deeb, who had been in a number of ROH matches in 2007 and 2008. ROH also announced in November IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion Kenny Omega would be returning for the first time since the Death Before Dishonor VIII iPPV to wrestle ROH World Television Champion Eddie Edwards in a non-title match. Days before the event, it was reported Omega had injured his ankle in training and would be replaced with Sonjay Dutt offering to be a replacement. A week before the event, it was revealed that Homicide would wrestle Christopher Daniels. Both men had wrestled in the company's first show The Era of Honor Begins and worked regularly for the company until 2007; coincidentally both returned in 2010 making unannounced returns at the iPPVs Glory By Honor IX and The Big Bang!, respectively, with a wish to win the ROH World Championship. This match would be their third in ROH, with Homicide winning both previous encounters. The last two matches were announced later that week, with Colt Cabana trying to move past the intense feud between Steen and Generico and offering an open challenge which was answered by T. J. Perkins. The final contest is a rematch between All Night Express and the team of Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly, with the Express winning their first encounter in October.

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Glory By Honor IX

2010-07-17 13:55:56+00:00

Glory By Honor IX was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH), which was only available online. It took place on September 11, 2010, at the Manhattan Center in New York City. This was the ninth event entitled Glory By Honor produced by ROH, but was the first broadcast live online, would be the final ROH appearance of Tyler Black. = In July 2010, ROH announced that Glory By Honor IX would be taking place in the Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center in New York City on September 11, 2010, and would be live on internet pay-per-view through GoFightLive. ROH announced that, prior to the show, there would be a special autograph signing with Terry Funk. = Glory By Honor IX featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from existing, scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as villains or heroes, or more ambiguous characters in scripted contests that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match on the pay-per-view.

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ROH The Big Bang!

2010-03-02 20:39:43+00:00

The Big Bang! was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH), which was only available online. It took place on April 3, 2010 from the Grady Cole Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Eight matches were featured on the card. = On November 23, 2009, ROH announced that they had signed a pay-per-view deal with Go Fight Live (GFL) to air live events over the Internet. The first event to be aired as part of this deal was Final Battle 2009. The Big Bang! was the first ROH show to be held in Charlotte, and it took place in the Grady Cole Center. The event featured several Lucha libre wrestlers as well as ROH competitors, including Blue Demon Jr. and Magno. Prior to the show, an autograph session was held, featuring Jim Cornette, Bobby Eaton, and Tommy Young. = The Big Bang! featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either villains or heroes in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match. On January 18, 2010, Jim Cornette announced on an episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling that ROH would make its debut in Charlotte, North Carolina with an Internet-only pay-per-view called "The Big Bang!", which sported the slogan, "pro wrestling explodes into the 21st century". The main feud heading into The Big Bang! was between Tyler Black, Austin Aries, and Roderick Strong over Black's ROH World Championship. At ROH's first online-pay-per-view, Final Battle 2009 in December 2009, then-champion Aries had successfully defended the championship against Black in an hour-long time-limit draw. As a result of Aries trying to run away and take a countout loss, where he would have retained the championship, executive producer Jim Cornette announced that Aries and Black would have a rematch at ROH's 8th Anniversary Show in New York City on February 13. In case of a draw in the rematch, Cornette decreed that three judges would select the winner of the match, and that both Black and Aries would choose a judge. Black elected Roderick Strong, and Aries chose his ally, Kenny King. Cornette then announced himself as the third judge. Strong agreed to be a judge, on the condition that he receive a match for the championship if Black won. During the match at the 8th Anniversary Show, Black superkicked both Cornette and Strong en route to defeating Aries to win his first ROH World Championship. In early March, Cornette announced that as a result of Strong being promised a championship match and Aries invoking his rematch clause, a three-way elimination match would occur at The Big Bang!. At Final Battle 2009, the regular tag team of Kevin Steen and El Generico disbanded following a loss to The Young Bucks, when Kevin Steen turned on El Generico and hit him with a steel chair. Colt Cabana came out to the ring to stop Steen, who then left ringside. Following this, Cabana attempted to reason with Steen, who had allied himself with Steve Corino. During this time, Generico refused to hurt Steen, despite Cabana encouraging him to exact revenge. At Final Battle 2009, Claudio Castagnoli and Chris Hero, collectively known as The Kings of Wrestling, reunited and attacked the Briscoe Brothers moments after the Briscoes had won the ROH World Tag Team Championship. Following this, both members of the Kings of Wrestling went on a tour of Japan with Pro Wrestling Noah in January, with it being worked into the storyline between the two teams. The Kings of Wrestling later teamed with The American Wolves (Eddie Edwards and Davey Richards) to defeat the Briscoes and The Young Bucks in an eight-man tag team match in Los Angeles. It was later announced the Kings of Wrestling would receive a World Tag Team Championship match against the Briscoes at The Big Bang!. = Prior to the live broadcast, a dark match was shown the audience, in which Grizzly Redwood and The Bravado Brothers (Harlem and Lance) defeated Ernie Osiris, Zack Sabre Jr., and KC McKnight. The first match that aired was between Phill Shatter and Zack Salvation. Salvation controlled the first part of the match, but Shatter was able to counter several submission attempts, and eventually won the match with a slam. The second match was a Pick 6 Series match between Kenny King, ranked number five, and Davey Richards. King was accompanied by his occasional tag team partner, Rhett Titus, who interfered at several points during the match. Richards won the back and forth encounter by submission, by forcing King to tap out to the cloverleaf. After the match, Richards declared his intention to win the ROH World Championship and called himself the best in the world. Christopher Daniels made his return to ROH for the first time in several years to challenge Richards' statement, and told him that if he wanted to call himself the best in the world, he had to go through Daniels first. The third match was a Butcher's Rules match between the Necro Butcher and Erick Stevens, who was accompanied by his manager Prince Nana and Mr. Ernesto Osiris. Necro won with a roll-up. The fourth match was Rhett Titus versus Cassandro el Exotico in a singles match. Cassandro won the match via a roll-up, despite having appeared to have suffered a leg injury after a suicide dive to the outside. The next match was a tag team match between El Generico and Colt Cabana and the team of Kevin Steen and Steve Corino. The match ended in disqualification when Steen hit Cabana with a steel chair. After the match, Steen kept attacking Cabana, making him bleed, until Generico made the save. Generico went on to attack Corino and Steen. When other wrestlers attempted to restrain Generico, he attacked them, and ended by performing a super brainbuster on Grizzly Redwood. Cabana then challenged Steen and Corino to a Chicago Street Fight on April 24. During intermission, Kevin Kelly hosted an interview with Ring of Honor Wrestling executive producer Jim Cornette, Bobby Eaton, and former National Wrestling Alliance referee Tommy Young. Cornette announced that Young would be a special outside referee for the ROH World Championship match that evening, and also confirmed that Daniels would be in attendance at ROH shows on May 7 and 8. = The match immediately following the intermission was for the ROH World Tag Team Championship, between the defending champions The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) and the Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli). The Kings of Wrestling defeated the Briscoes to win the championship for the second time. The second-last match of the night was the triple threat elimination match for the ROH World Championship, between the defending champion Tyler Black and the challengers Roderick Strong and Austin Aries. Strong was the first eliminated after Aries performed two brainbusters and pinned him for the elimination approximately 26 minutes and 42 seconds. Less than five minutes later, after a total of 31 minutes and 32 seconds, Black pinned Aries to win the match and retain the championship after a series of superkicks. After the pin, Kenny King (who had come down to ringside in an attempt to aid Aries) and Aries attacked Black, until Strong made the save. Strong then refused to shake Black's hand before walking backstage. The main event was a tag team match which pitted the team of Blue Demon Jr. and Magno against Super Parka and Misterioso. Magno and Blue Demon Jr. won the match when Magno pinned Misterioso. On April 28, 2010 ROH announced that they would be returning to Charlotte, for a show at the Metrolina Tradeshow Expo on August 28, 2010. During his match with Rhett Titus, it appeared that wrestler Cassandro el Exotico had suffered a leg injury. Later on in the evening, commentator Dave Prazak announced that Cassandro had suffered a broken leg. Following their ROH World Tag Team Championship victory, Claudio Castagnoli and Chris Hero (collectively known as The Kings of Wrestling), continued to feud with the Briscoes. The Briscoes invoked their rematch clause for the next pay-per-view, Death Before Dishonor VIII. In the weeks prior to Death Before Dishonor VIII, Hero attacked the Briscoes' father, knocking him out with a rolling elbow. As a result, Cornette announced the match between the two teams would be a No Disqualification match. Christopher Daniels returned to ROH for the first time in almost three years at The Big Bang!, making his first appearance since April 28, 2007 to challenge Davey Richards. Daniels had his first matches back for ROH the following month, on May 7 and 8, when he faced Kevin Steen, and Davey Richards' long-time tag team partner, Eddie Edwards. On May 6, ROH announced that they were considering the next challenger for Tyler Black's ROH World Championship. It was later announced that Davey Richards had received a title match, and would be facing Black at Death Before Dishonor VIII. Following his failed attempt to regain the World Championship at The Big Bang!, Austin Aries announced his intention to become "the greatest manager that ever lived", and dedicated himself to helping his proteges The All Night Express (Kenny King and Rhett Titus) win the World Tag Team Championship. Roderick Strong obtained a new manager in Truth Martini, and was announced as a participant in the "Toronto Gauntlet" at Death Before Dishonor VIII.

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Camera Obscura (record label)

2010-08-25 04:50:18+00:00

Camera Obscura was a record label founded by Australian music journalist Tony Dale in 1996. Described by Dale as 'a conduit for the release of contemporary acid-folk, psych-pop and space-rock,' the label put out almost ninety releases over fourteen years, the vast majority of which were full-length CDs. Bands and musicians who released material on the label included the Green Pajamas, Patrick Porter, Abunai!, the Azusa Plane, Black Sun Ensemble, Sharron Kraus and Primordial Undermind. Dale formally discontinued the label in 2010, shortly before he died due to cancer. Born in England in 1958 but raised in Australia, Tony Dale was a passionate fan of music from an early age; in a 2003 interview for web publication Perfect Sound Forever he mentioned that 'for a kid in the late 60s/early 70s the radio was pretty good. Lot of classic psych and singer-songwriter stuff, mixed with lot of nifty bubblegum pop hits.' An interest in music continued into later years, with Dale identifying the popularization of the Internet as being key in involving himself first in online discussions and then as a regular writer and journalist for the English-based fanzine Ptolemaic Terrascope. Dale's writing and on-line discussion led to a variety of contacts which gave him the opportunity to launch Camera Obscura in 1996 in Melbourne, Australia, beginning with the debut album by American acid folk band Stone Breath, Songs of Moonlight and Rain. The label logo initially consisted of a medieval European style illustration of a musician and a camera obscura itself; later versions of the logo featured a detailed illustration simply of a camera obscura. Dale described the inspirations for the label in the 2003 interview: The Ptolemaic Terrascope for its blending of new and old fandom. I admired the early days of Creation, Flying Nun, and Sub Pop – before they all got corporate. I especially admired Alan McGee's deeply unfashionable (at the time) paisley stance. I wanted to do that. And Xpressway Records – that sort of cottage industry approach unfettered by the need for large budgets or anything other than the sheer joy of getting something I thought to be cool out there. Like record collecting in reverse. While Camera Obscura most often was identified as a psychedelic label thanks to Dale's writing work and the general association of bands that appeared on the label, especially after the start of the irregular Terrastock festival series which often featured groups that had released work via Camera Obscura, Dale preferred to say it simply reflected his own tastes. While always based in Australia, the vast majority of the label's acts were from North America and Europe, with distribution of releases being handled via other companies in those areas or via direct Internet ordering from the label's website. Nearly all the releases were new recordings for the label, but there were also some reissues, including a CD box set of solo efforts by Green Pajamas bandleader Jeff Kelly and the debut self-titled album from the Black Sun Ensemble, who also released numerous later albums on the label. All but a handful of physical releases on Camera Obscura were full-length CDs; the exceptions were a small number of vinyl 7" singles and album releases. A small sublabel, Camera Lucida, concentrated on even more limited release runs, offering two CDs and three 7" singles. Releases were catalogued in the order of appearance and by format. The label also made various mp3s available for download from their catalogue; in the label's early years there was an mp3 singles club as well, with selections ending up on the two Serotonin Ronin compilations the label released on CD. After a steady release schedule for over ten years, which continued following a move by Dale and his family from Melbourne to the Australian countryside, Camera Obscura's pace slowed over time due in large part to Dale's cancer diagnosis and treatment. The label's final formal release was the second album by American band Fell, Incoherent Lullabies, in 2009. In June 2010, Dale ended the label and mail-order operations to coincide with the conclusion of the Australian tax year on 30 June as well as out of consideration for his family; Dale died the following month. Many of the bands on Camera Obscura released albums on other labels or were formally signed to other labels at the time of their appearance in the Camera Obscura roster.

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Bound for Glory (2010)

2010-08-02 14:38:30+00:00

The 2010 Bound for Glory was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), that took place on October 10, 2010, at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida. It was the sixth annual event under the Bound for Glory chronology. Bound For Glory is considered to be the premiere event of the year for the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling company. The event was hyped as "10.10.10", a tagline surrounding a storyline that involved the mystery of "They", who would reveal themselves on the date, making the event remembered for the formation of Immortal. Bound for Glory featured a supercard, a scheduling of more than one main event. Eight matches took place at the event. The main event featured Jeff Hardy defeating Mr. Anderson and Kurt Angle in a Three Way No Disqualification match for the vacant TNA World Heavyweight Championship. In other prominent matches, EV 2.0 (Tommy Dreamer, Raven, Rhino, Sabu, and Stevie Richards defeated Fortune (A.J. Styles, Kazarian, Matt Morgan, and Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode, and James Storm)) in a Lethal Lockdown match, Sting, Kevin Nash and D'Angelo Dinero beat Samoa Joe and Jeff Jarrett in a 3-on-2 Handicap match, Rob Van Dam defeated Abyss in a Monster's Ball match, and in the opening contest The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley) defeated Generation Me (Nick Jackson and Matt Jackson). In October 2017, with the launch of the Global Wrestling Network, the event became available to stream on demand. = The sixth annual Bound for Glory PPV spectacle was announced in a press release on June 25, 2010, where it was determined that the event would take place at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida. In the press TNA President Dixie Carter stated that, "So many people come to ‘Bound For Glory' from around the world", and added, "We wanted a locale that would truly be a destination. With our biggest pay-per-view of the year and all the fan experiences we have planned, it will make ‘10.10.10' an unforgettable weekend". Tickets for the event went on sale on August 7, 2010. To celebrate the making of the event, a "Bound for Glory Block Party" was held on the same day at the Ocean Center and garnered a good turnout despite weather conditions. It featured fan interaction and an exclusive match. In October, the final Impact! episode the week leading to Bound for Glory was themed "Before the Glory", a special live broadcast hyping the event. TNA also organized "Bound for Glory VIP Weekend", a series of fan interaction sessions over the event weekend, which allowed fans to get close and personal with their favorite stars for opportunities such as pictures, autographs and special interviews. In addition, the musical theme for Bound for Glory was selected to be "FOL" by The Smashing Pumpkins. = Bound for Glory featured eight professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. The development of the "10.10.10" angle built over a year was centered on the mystery of “They”, leading to a 3-on-2 Handicap match featuring Jeff Jarrett and Samoa Joe facing Sting, Kevin Nash and D'Angelo Dinero. In October 2009, Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff came on board as business partners of TNA President Dixie Carter to take over the on-screen operations of TNA beginning with the new year. Having to earn their spots in the company like everyone else, TNA Founder Jeff Jarrett and former Executive Shareholder Mick Foley both engaged in issues with Bischoff. Acting on his own accord, Bischoff often feuded with Foley and forced Jarrett to work humiliating jobs backstage such as flipping burgers, cleaning restrooms, and placing Jarrett in unfavorable matches. In February, Hogan offered guidance to a neurotically unstable Abyss and this new friendship uplifted Abyss when Hogan gave him his Hall of Fame ring and vowed to make him a “god of wrestling”. In March, Sting attacked Hogan and Abyss, turning heel in the process due to suspicion of Hogan and Bischoff. After Foley lost a Career-Threatening match against Jarrett set up by Bischoff, where the loser was fired as a result, Hogan ordered Bischoff to lay off of Jarrett. At Lockdown, on April 18, Bischoff turned face helping Team Hogan, which included Jarrett, pick up the victory defeating Team Flair. Subsequently, Sting raised his inquisition of Hogan and Bischoff after he was ranked number one by the TNA Championship Committee in the top 10 rankings for a shot at the TNA World Title. By June, Abyss turned heel leading to heated confrontations with Hogan, revealing he was controlled by an entity known as “They”, who he said was coming to TNA on the date of 10.10.10. For costing him his World Title shot on June 13 at Slammiversary, Sting retaliated against Jarrett, resulting in a 30-day suspension without pay by Dixie Carter, who ignored his warnings about Hogan and Bischoff being up to a conspiracy. In August, Sting returned with nWo Wolfpac face paint and helped Kevin Nash, who supported him through the suspension, beat down Hogan, Bischoff and Jarrett. In September, Samoa Joe joined forces with Jarrett in his feud with Sting and Nash, who were later joined by D'Angelo Dinero. Sting, Nash and Dinero would all eventually uncover inside information from Bischoff's assistant, Ms. Tessmacher, that suggested Hogan and Bischoff had been planning something all along. At the end of the month, Sting claimed his good-vs-evil battle with Hogan from WCW was still ongoing and challenged Jarrett, Joe and Hogan to square off with him, Nash and Dinero on October 10 at Bound for Glory. However, due to legitimate back injuries over the years plaguing his body, Hogan underwent surgery and was subject to intensive care, rendering him unable to accept his part in the match as revealed in October. Thus, Bischoff arranged for Joe and Jarrett to take on Sting, Nash and Dinero in a Handicap match. The primary match heading into Bound for Glory surrounded Jeff Hardy, Kurt Angle and Mr. Anderson, who competed in a No Disqualification match for the vacant TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Angle, who returned from a hiatus, was ranked number two by the TNA Championship Committee in the first top 10 rankings, which listed the top contenders for the World Title. However, Angle pulled out of his top 10 ranking position to begin at the bottom in an effort to prove himself, claiming he would retire if he lost a match during his title hunt. On the August 12 Whole F'N Show edition of Impact!, then-TNA World Heavyweight Champion Rob Van Dam sustained multiple severe storyline injuries from a brutal attack by Abyss, forcing him to surrender the title, as seen the next week when vacated by Executive Producer Eric Bischoff. As a result, Bischoff announced a tournament between the top eight contenders, with the finals scheduled to occur at Bound for Glory. That same night, Jeff Hardy, Mr. Anderson, Kurt Angle, and D'Angelo Dinero won their tournament quarterfinal matches. At No Surrender, Hardy and Angle fought to a no contest in their semifinals match, but Anderson defeated Dinero in the main event to advance. On the September 16 edition of Impact!, Bischoff announced a three-way match for Bound for Glory on October 10 between Hardy, Angle and Anderson, but it was overruled by TNA President Dixie Carter pitting Angle and Hardy in a rematch that night. When the match ended in an indecisive double pinfall, Bischoff once again announced the Three Way match for Bound for Glory against Carter's wishes. A top feud heading into Bound for Glory was Rob Van Dam seeking revenge against Abyss in a Monster's Ball match. For weeks, ECW alumni surfaced by repeatedly appearing in the stands of the Impact Zone, and on the July 15 edition of Impact, then-TNA World Heavyweight Champion Van Dam reunited with his longtime co-employees from the defunct promotion, who saved him from an onslaught by Abyss. On the August 12 special edition of Impact, named the Whole F'N Show, Van Dam defended his title against Abyss in a Stairway to Janice match. Later in the night, Van Dam and the ECW alumni, dubbed EV 2.0, were attacked by Abyss and Fortune respectively. The attack on Van Dam was severely brutal, sidelining him with serious storyline injuries, and forcing him to relinquish the World Title. He made his resurfacing on the September 16 edition of Impact via telephone interview, where he announced he was returning to the Impact Zone the following week against his doctor's orders. On that week's show, Van Dam confronted Abyss referencing that his doctors said he would be cleared for 10.10.10 and demanded a match against Abyss at Bound for Glory, which Bischoff agreed to sanction. Two weeks later, Abyss suggested that their encounter at the event be a Monster's Ball match. On the October 7 episode of Impact named "Before the Glory", when Abyss was fated to be fired by Bischoff for mishandling TNA President Dixie Carter, Van Dam threatened to quit the company if his chance slipped to face Abyss at Bound for Glory and so, Carter followed through and quickly signed papers for the firing of Abyss the day after the pay-per-view. Fortune (A.J. Styles, Kazarian, Matt Morgan, Robert Roode, and James Storm, all accompanied by Ric Flair) versus EV 2.0 (Tommy Dreamer, Raven, Rhino, Sabu, and Stevie Richards, all accompanied by Mick Foley) was another feud entering Bound for Glory, who faced off in a Lethal Lockdown match. On the August 12 "Whole F'N Show" edition of Impact, EV 2.0, a group of ECW alumni who made appearances for the promotion, gave their farewell speech off the heels of their reunion themed pay per view on August 8 at Hardcore Justice, given to them by TNA President Dixie Carter. During that night, Fortune appeared and assaulted the entire group, with Ric Flair blaming Carter for the situation. The next week, Flair and Fortune made their contempt clear for the hardcore-based nature of their adversaries and did not appreciate them coming in for another shot at glory. That night, the feud between the two parties escalated when Carter clarified that she contracted all members of EV 2.0, who looked to avenge Van Dam. Foley who had recently returned during the EV 2.0 invasion and regretted getting Flair to join TNA, sparked a rivalry between the two. Meanwhile, Tommy Dreamer, who respected A.J. Styles until the week prior, challenged him to a match that night. Later in the night, Abyss helped Styles defeat Dreamer in a match that ended with a brawl between the two fighting groups. On the September 2 edition of Impact, Fortune competed with EV 2.0 in an 8-Man Elimination Tag; the match boiled down to Styles as the sole survivor battling Dreamer, and Styles winning the match for Fortune. At No Surrender, on September 5, A.J. Styles and Douglas Williams of Fortune defeated EV 2.0 members Dreamer and Sabu in individual matches. Weeks later, Dreamer, within the absence of the rest of his group, tried to call a truce, but Fortune refused and attacked him leading to Brian Kendrick unsuccessfully attempting to make the save. On the September 23 edition of Impact!, Styles prevailed over Sabu in a Ladder match for the man advantage (Fortune got to make the first entry) in the Lethal Lockdown match set up for the two groups to do combat at Bound for Glory. After EV 2.0 mounted some momentum the next week, Foley confronted Flair to resolve their differences by challenging him to a Last Man Standing match for the following week, where if Flair lost, he would have to kiss Foley's rear end. On the final week's Impact! before pay per view, Foley defeated Flair. Per the stipulation, Flair was to perform the embarrassing deed but Fortune attacked Foley prior to EV 2.0 arriving to the rescue. The Knockouts feud consisted of Angelina Love defending the TNA Knockouts Championship against Tara, Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky. Since her return from an injury in June, Love focused on going after the Knockouts Title and Beautiful People, now composed of her partner, Velvet Sky along with Madison Rayne and newbie Lacey Von Erich. At Victory Road, on July 11, Love defeated Rayne for the Knockouts Title by disqualification — the result of a stipulation that was put in effect in case Sky or Erich interfered in the match, which appeared to be so. As it turned out, an unknown woman bodily disguised and wearing a motorcycle helmet attacked Love. Due to Rayne's recent attitude, actions and apparent affiliation with the mystery woman, Sky started to get into problems with her. On the July 22 episode of Impact, the Knockouts Title was returned to Rayne because it could not be confirmed if Sky or Erich were the mystery woman. On the August 5 edition of Impact, Sky and Erich lost their TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship, when Rayne's and the mystery woman's interference backfired, causing Sky to depart from Beautiful People. The following week, Rayne lost the Knockouts Title to Love after Sky stopped the mystery woman from distracting Love during the match. Sky went on to reunite with Love the next week, and thereafter, found themselves feuding with Rayne and the mystery woman. On the September 2 edition of Impact, the mystery woman revealed herself as Tara, who lost a Career versus Title match against then-Knockouts Champion Rayne on May 16 at Sacrifice, with the reveal establishing Tara as a villainess. On the September 30 episode of Impact!, Ms. Tessmacher became the Knockouts General Manager in consequence of the division falling into disorder and had Rayne sign a waiver to allow Tara back as an active competitor. Tessmacher then set up a Four Way match between Tara, Love, Rayne and Sky for the Knockouts Title at Bound for Glory. The next week, the returning Mickie James announced she would be refereeing the match. = The opening match at Bound for Glory was Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) defending the TNA World Tag Team Championship against Generation Me (Jeremy Buck and Max Buck). In a highly athletic match, The Guns mostly took control of the first half of the match, and one highlight, was hitting double suicide dives on Generation Me outside the ring. The match got explosive and led to a back-and-forth pace with plenty high flying and high impact executions. In the end, Generation Me set up a double team move that involved Jeremy rolling up Shelley and Max on the top rope. Quickly, Sabin ran and sprung off Jeremy's back onto the top rope and hit a release German suplex on Max. The Guns later followed up with their signature Skull and Bones and a pinfall by Shelley to retain their titles. The second match of the evening was Angelina Love defending the TNA Women's Knockout Championship against Tara, Velvet Sky and Madison Rayne with Mickie James as Special Guest Referee. During early stages, the match evolved into more of a tag team match of Rayne and Tara against Love and Sky. It broke down to an all-out beat down and during its finals moments, Tara went for the Widow's Peak on Sky, who countered pushing Tara into Rayne, who fell off the apron onto Love on the outside. Tara ended up reversing Sky's roll up into her own and won the match, becoming Knockouts Champion for the fourth time in her career. After the match, Rayne argued with Tara. When Mickie tried to fathom the issue, Rayne pushed her away. Mickie retaliated by grabbing her, and as Rayne went to strike her, Mickie blocked it and knocked her out, smiling at an upset Tara before leaving the ring. The next match featured Ink Inc. (Jesse Neal and Shannon Moore) going up against Eric Young and Orlando Jordan. During his entrance, Young brought the so-called "TNA Rule Book" to the ring. A much playful Young played his shenanigans, such as assuming the referee's duties, turning on his partner to help Ink Inc and taking advice from the "TNA Rule Book" during the match. One comedic moment in the match, a match which displayed alternating offense, was where Ink Inc turned on Young and jerked him and Jordan front-and-back on the top rope. With Young still defecting to their side, Ink Inc eventually capitalized executing their Samoan drop-Mooregasm combination finisher. After the match, Young celebrated with Ink Inc in front of Jordan, who wasn't pleased. Jay Lethal defended the TNA X Division Championship against Douglas Williams in the fourth and following contest. Williams dominated the match from a technical standpoint. On the defensive, Lethal constantly attempted to turn the tables, but Williams one-upped him. At one point, Williams almost won with the Chaos Theory out of the ring corner. In the end, Williams attempted a Hurricanrana off the top rope but Lethal reversed it into a sunset flip roll up on the canvas to retain the title. After the match, Lethal exited through the crowd and encountered an attack from Robbie E, who was accompanied by Cookie. Robbie attacked Lethal back to the ring and executed a jumping cutter on him. Robbie, with the X-Division Title, alleged that Lethal was an embarrassment to New Jersey and made his intentions clear that he was going to win the title. = Rob Van Dam faced off with Abyss in a Monster's Ball no rules match next. Before the match, Abyss cut a promo in the ring saying, for months, he had prophesied about the arrival of "They", and that the date was upon us, and would begin with the destruction of Van Dam and continue with the takeover. Van Dam, immediately after his entrance, attacked Abyss slugging him into a corner and followed up with kicks. Van Dam stayed on the offense until him and Abyss began to go back-and-forth. Two high impact spots were Van Dam performing the Van Daminator, a corner-to-corner missile dropkick into a barbed wire board that also hit Abyss, as well as, Abyss tossing a chair at Van Dam, who fell off the top rope and through a barbed wire board. Near the end, Van Dam nailed Abyss with his own brutal signature weapon named Janice and carried on to jump off the top rope with a Five-Star Frog Splash to gain the victory through pinfall. After the match, Abyss signaled for the camera and brought up 10.10.10 and said to get ready because him and "They" were coming. In a three-on-two Handicap match, Sting, Kevin Nash and D'Angelo Dinero took on Jeff Jarrett and Samoa Joe next. Joe and Dinero began the action, sharing in on the striking offense. During that, Dinero hit a shoulder block and Joe later responded with a Belly to belly suplex. After Dinero tagged out to Sting, Joe found himself on the defensive taking a beating but making a comeback. When Joe was close to finally tagging in Jarrett, Jarrett jumped off the apron turning on him and abandoning the match. Inevitably, Joe was left to fend for himself against all three of his opponents. To end the match, Nash went on to hit the Jackknife on Joe and won the match after pinning. Team 3D made an appearance to deliver their big announcement which was scheduled to take place at the event. After citing their accomplishments of the past that included being 23-time world tag team champions in all of professional wrestling, they praised TNA for taking pride in tag team wrestling and claimed they had the best division in the world. Then and there, Team 3D announced their retirement, but requested their final match be against TNA World Tag Team Champions, Motor City Machine Guns. The penultimate match of the night was EV 2.0 (Tommy Dreamer, Raven, Rhino, Sabu, and Stevie Richards) accompanied by Mick Foley combating Fortune (A.J. Styles, Kazarian, Matt Morgan, Robert Roode, and James Storm) accompanied by manager Ric Flair in a Lethal Lockdown match. Flair and Foley wasted no time to get the first shots in on each other at ringside before all participants could reach to the ring. Due to entry at a timed interval, Kazarian and Richards initiated the match, and as things progressed, Kazarian started off with control in the early going but Richards took over for the most part after executing four neckbreakers all until Styles, who won the Lethal Lockdown advantage, came in to help Kazarian double team Richards. Next in was Dreamer who came in taking down Styles and Kazarian. Roode stormed in to turn the tables successfully and this allowed Styles to cause Dreamer to shed blood by raking his face against the cage. Sabu came in next with a strong momentum against Styles, Kazarian and Roode. Following this, Storm entered the Lethal Lockdown and thereafter, an all-out brawl began ensuing. Raven made his way in and worked over his adversaries. When Morgan, Fortune's final entrant got in, he powerbombed Sabu into the cage and subsequently, Sabu started bleeding. Rhino as the last entrant made his way in and the top of the Lethal Lockdown structure was lowered to begin the match festivities. Everyone grabbed weapons and started going after each other in an all-out war simultaneous to Flair and Foley fighting. Near the end, Morgan kicked the cage door open unintentionally in a misdirected effort. Kazarian and Richards winded up at the top of the cage, where Brian Kendrick appeared out of nowhere, and before Kazarian could jump off a ladder onto Richards, knocked him off and put him through a table with a backdrop. As Kendrick meditated at the top of the cage, back in the ring, Dreamer scored a top rope Dreamer Driver on top of a chair on Styles and claimed the victory by pinfall for EV 2.0. The main event of the night featured Jeff Hardy versus Kurt Angle, who vowed to retire if he lost, versus Mr. Anderson for the vacant TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Angle and Hardy pursued Anderson to beat him down in the outset of the match but Anderson fought back against the two of them. The short-lived team between Hardy and Angle dissolved after Angle attempted a pin on Anderson right off a Belly to belly Suplex. During Hardy's onslaught on Angle in the ring corner, Anderson struck Hardy and soon, this all led to Angle executing a German Suplex on Hardy, who also performed one on Anderson simultaneously. The action took to the outside and showcased a spot that had Hardy diving out the ring at Angle and Anderson, who were brawling, with a suicide dive. Back in the ring, the offense swung between all three, who tried to capitalize for the win. As the match progressed, in a series of failed attempts, Angle looked to hit the Angle Slam on Anderson as Anderson tried to hit the Mic Check on Angle. When Angle went for a clothesline on the Anderson, he inadvertently missed and connected with the referee. At this time, Angle and Anderson exchanged offense where Angle delivered a German Suplex and Anderson was able to get in a Mic Check which left both men grounded. Near the end of the match, Eric Bischoff came to the ring with a chair and attempted to interfere in the match, but was stopped by the surprise appearance of Hulk Hogan, who made his entrance with crutches due to a back injury. Bischoff grabbed a crutch and appeared to have a disagreement with Hogan, while Hardy grabbed Hogan's other crutch to ward off the two. This all turned out to be a ruse in the end when Hardy attacked Angle with the crutch. Amused, Bischoff offered up his crutch to Hardy, repeating the act on Anderson and following up with the Twist of Fate and the cover to become the new TNA World Heavyweight Champion. After the match, it was revealed that Abyss, Hogan, Bischoff, Jarrett and Hardy were "They". This revealed that Sting and Nash's suspicions against Hogan and Bischoff were right the whole time. On the following episode of Impact!, Dixie Carter's attorney, Guy Blake, accosted Eric Bischoff and accused him for getting Carter to sign a different contract other than the one to carry out the firing of Abyss, alleging that Bischoff switched contracts and had her sign it under false pretenses. Bischoff declared that Carter openly signed the papers live on television and welcomed any legal action as Blake made his intentions clear that he would further the case. Hulk Hogan and Bischoff firmly stated that they were the new owners of TNA and together with their new group, "they" were Immortal. Fortune joined their regime after Ric Flair and Hogan exposed that they had gotten over their past differences. At that time, new TNA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Hardy admitted to being responsible for Abyss critically attacking Rob Van Dam in order to remove him from the TNA World Heavyweight Championship picture, and although Kevin Nash and Sting were invited to align with Immortal, they refused and chose to leave TNA. Carter was also ejected from the building while trying to find out why Hogan and Bischoff conned her into taking over the company. Soon enough, Carter eventually slapped Hogan with a court order. On the March 3, 2011 edition of Impact!, when the case settled, Hogan made his return and publicly announced that the judge ruled in his favor, and he would take full control of TNA as the owner, while Carter would only "provide the money". On this same episode, Sting returned and from then on, did everything in his power to turn Hogan back to the good side, ending with their match at Bound for Glory 2011, that saw Sting defeat Hogan (before Hogan changed for the better), with the stipulations that Carter would get back control of TNA if Sting won. Fortune and EV 2.0 continued their feud into Turning Point, where Fortune picked up the victory in their final group versus group war, which allowed Fortune to "fire" a member of EV 2.0 that manifested itself as Sabu. EV 2.0 gradually crumbled before Fortune divided from Immortal in January 2011 to start their next rivalry. Kurt Angle prepared to retire by giving his farewell address following his loss at Bound for Glory, but found himself in a dilemma over the situation, when he discovered a loophole that he wasn't pinned or submitted in the match. Interrupted, Jeff Jarrett re-lit his feud with Angle, blaming him for making his life a living hell after recruiting him to TNA and was seeking to return the favor. Around the same time, Samoa Joe sought retribution against Jarrett for placing his trust in him and getting betrayed, which converted into matches at the next two PPVs. In addition, TNA World Tag Team Champions Motor City Machine Guns went on to finish up their feud in a successful effort with Generation Me at Final Resolution 2010 in a Full Metal Mayhem match for the titles. = Bound for Glory was received with mixed reviews. Canadian Online Explorer pro wrestling section writer Matt Bishop graded the event a 7 out of 10, the same as last year's event. He stated, “TNA's biggest show of the year, Bound For Glory, was a mix of good and bad. The show's biggest matches delivered on a show that featured a weak undercard”. He also gave the main event 8 out of 10, and the Lethal Lockdown match 7 out of 10. His lowest scores were for the Knockouts Title match that was given a 2 out of 10 and the Young-Jordan versus Neal-Moore match that was rated a dud. = * Angle and Hardy wrestled another draw on the September 16 edition of Impact!, which led to Eric Bischoff making the final match at Bound for Glory a three–way.

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Final Resolution (2010)

2010-11-01 19:52:14+00:00

The 2010 Final Resolution was an American professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) professional wrestling promotion, that took place on December 5, 2010 at the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the seventh event under the Final Resolution chronology. In October 2017, with the launch of the Global Wrestling Network, the event became available to stream on demand. Final Resolution featured nine professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

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7 Day Sunday

2011-02-27 05:15:38+00:00

7 Day Sunday (7 Day Saturday in 2013) is a British comedy radio talk show hosted by Al Murray on BBC Radio 5 Live. Broadcast weekly on Sunday mornings, the show takes an irreverent look at the topical news stories of the past seven days. Originally presented by Chris Addison: he was joined by regular guests Sarah Millican and Andy Zaltzman, and a fourth special guest each episode. It premièred in January 2010 to mixed reviews. It returned for a second series in September 2010. Al Murray served as host for the last five episodes of the second series, joined by regular guests Rebecca Front and Joe Wilkinson. The show returned for a third series in January 2012 with Murray hosting alongside Andy Zaltzman and Rebecca Front as the regular guests. A fourth series followed from September 2012. 7 Day Sunday was announced as a new show on 11 December 2009, to be hosted by Addison and broadcast for an hour in the 11 am to 12 noon slot. The guests for the opening episode were to be Zaltzman, Millican, and a special guest. It was to replace another comedy show The Christian O'Connell Solution, hosted by Christian O'Connell with Bob Mills. The new show was to begin on 10 January 2010, as part of the wider re-organisation of 5 Live's schedule which had already begun to be announced in October 2009, the largest since controller Adrian Van Klaveren joined the station in April 2008. The show is produced for 5 Live by Avalon Television. It was initially commissioned for a 20-week run. This first series duly ran from 10 January 2010 until 6 June 2010. After three months it resumed for a second series on 5 September 2010 until 3 April 2011. The third series began 8 January 2012. In press interviews during March 2010 while promoting his upcoming stand-up tour, Addison explained that doing a radio show was a childhood ambition, and that as a "current affairs junkie", hosting 7 Day Sunday was ideal, more relaxed than television and good fun, with the weekly deadline being a good motivation. When the show was announced, it was cast as a topical news series aiming to "pull apart the week's big news stories and see what makes them tick", with Addison describing it as "four relatively ill-informed idiots fail to take the news seriously for an hour". The following people have hosted the show during its run: As well as the host there are usually two other regulars plus a guest. For series 1 and 2 regulars were Andy Zaltzman and Sarah Millican. For series 3 Rebecca Front replaced Sarah Millican. Last updated January 2018 The show aired on Sundays from 11 am to noon. It once aired at 9 pm on 31 January 2010. The series occasionally missed a week for sporting events (Formula 1 Grand Prix, London Marathon, etc.). Series One featured 20 episodes which were broadcast between 10 January 2010 and 6 June 2010. There were no episodes broadcast on 7 February 2010, 25 April 2010. Series Two consisted of 26 episodes, broadcast between 5 September 2010 and 3 April 2011. There were no episode broadcast on 19 September 2010, 3 October 2010, 26 December 2010, 2 January 2010 and 30 January 2010. Series Three had 15 episodes which were broadcast between 8 January 2012 and 6 May 2012. No episode was broadcast on 25 March 2012. Series Four also had 15 episodes, began on 9 September 2012, and ended on 16 December. In 2013, the show returned for a new, slightly different series: it was moved to Saturdays, renamed 7 Day Saturday, had 11 episodes between 8 June and 24 August, kept Al Murray as host, and featured Andy Zaltzman and two guests each programme. There was also a Christmas special, 7 Days of Christmas, broadcast on 24 December 2013. Series Five only had 5 episodes, broadcast between 11 May and 8 June 2014. The last edition of 7 Day Sunday was broadcast on 9 August 2015. This edition was hosted by Jenny Eclair, with the final guests included Andy Zaltzman, Holly Walsh and Stephen Grant. The show was made available on the BBC's iPlayer service and as a podcast, which features additional material. After the first show, Jane Thynne of The Independent questioned the lack of variety, covering as it did mainly the heavy snowfall with little political content, which given Addison had made his name in a political satire, she found odd. She ultimately reserved judgement on the show, calling Addison witty but recommending he slow down the pace and stop his "nervous giggling". Chris Campling of The Times criticised the first episode as being a duplicate of the "dismal, desperate" The Christian O'Connell Solution it replaced, with a turgid format. Persevering, he described the second episode as just as dreary with no chemistry and "none of the News Quiz-esque scoring of laughter points, where clever people fall over each other in their desperation to be funnier than the last." After the third episode, Elisabeth Mahoney of The Guardian said the show was "really quite funny" but the listener needed to stay focussed on the content as the four way dialogue was quite involved as it covered a comprehensive sweep of topics. For listeners who might want to multi-task on a Sunday morning, she recommended Dave Gorman's show on Absolute Radio.

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Andar ng mga Balita (radio)

2011-03-07 08:35:10+00:00

Andar ng mga Balita (lit. transl. Movement of the News) was a newscast of FM station Radyo5 92.3 News FM in Mega Manila, Philippines. Anchored by Martin Andanar, the newscast aired from Monday to Friday from 4:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m., with television simulcast on AksyonTV. Launched on November 8, 2010, Andar ng mga Balita was the first ever program to be aired over Radyo5 92.3 News FM. On February 21, 2011, it started its TV simulcast on AksyonTV and became the first ever program to be aired there. This was also the first radio program hosted by Martin Andanar. It made its final broadcast day on August 10, 2012, to make way for the new program entitled Manila sa Umaga (lit. transl. Manila in the Morning), hosted by Arnell Ignacio. Andanar then joined Erwin Tulfo on Punto Asintado, which aired from 8:00 to 10:00 am. Its TV newscast, however, aired weekdays as a nightly newscast and later as a noontime newscast on AksyonTV from 2011 to 2014. Martin Andanar Mylene Valencia - Metro and regional news anchor Sugar Sallador - World news anchor Atty. Mike Templo - alternate World news anchor Benjie "Tsongkibenj" Felipe - ShowBilis! at Andar ni Tsongki Benj anchor Headlines Ngayon - Top Stories of the day Headlines Noon - History Sports - Sports News ShowBilis at Andar ni Tsongki Benj (Mabilis na Andar ng mga Balitang Showbiz) - Showbiz News Weather - Weather Forecast MP3 (Mula Plaka hanggang MP3) - Music from LP to MP3 Police Reports - roundup of the latest police reports Andar Tanod Agents 005 - different barangay "tanod" will give reports about their community over the night.

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The Breakfast Club (radio show)

2014-11-26 03:04:30+00:00

The Breakfast Club is an American syndicated radio show based in New York City. It is hosted by DJ Envy, Charlamagne tha God and Jess Hilarious. The Breakfast Club's flagship station is WWPR-FM Power 105.1 and it currently airs in over 90 radio markets around the U.S., including Chicago, Houston, Atlanta and Miami. Common topics of discussion on the show are celebrity gossip (especially in the hip hop industry), progressive and conservative politics, and sexual and dating issues. The program is broadcast live on weekdays from 6 to 10 am Eastern Time, with a recorded Saturday morning version. In December 2010, The Breakfast Club was established on urban contemporary station WWPR-FM as a morning drive radio show serving the New York City market. In April 2013, Premiere Networks (a subsidiary of then Clear Channel Communications, now iHeartMedia) launched a weekend version of the show, Weekends with the Breakfast Club, as a Top 20 Countdown of urban contemporary hits. Four months later, The Breakfast Club, as a weekday offering, was rolled out into syndication. Based on the show's popularity, cameras were installed in the New York studio from where the show is broadcast. From March 2014 until November 2021, The Breakfast Club was simulcast on television on Revolt. The show is now simulcast on BET in a condensed one-hour format as of April 2023. In January 2020, The Breakfast Club was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding News/Information (Series or Special). In July 2020, The Breakfast Club was nominated for induction into the Radio Hall of Fame. Talk radio industry magazine Talkers included it in its 2020 "Heavy Hundred" list of top 100 influential talk radio shows, calling the show "appointment listening every day for people of color." During the aftermath of the George Floyd protests, the Los Angeles Times called it "a radio forum for the nation’s racial reckoning." As of July 2020 the show reach 8 million listeners a month according to Nielsen. In August 2020, The Breakfast Club was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. Angela Yee announced her departure from the show on August 10, 2022 to start her own radio show. Way Up With Angela Yee began airing on February 6, 2023. Comedian Jessica Moore aka Jess Hilarious became a permanent co-host of The Breakfast Club on February 5, 2024.

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Breakfast with Hector

2011-10-10 16:31:17+00:00

Breakfast with Hector was a breakfast radio programme on RTÉ 2fm in Ireland, presented by Hector Ó hEochagáin from 4 October 2010. It was broadcast at 7:00–9:00 am each weekday from Galway. It was confirmed on 18 December 2013 that Ó hEochagáin would be leaving the show and returning to TV work. The last show was broadcast on Friday, 20 December 2013. The last show ended with I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2. The show was two hours long, with news and sport reports read half-hourly between 7:00 and 9:00. A typical half-hour segment contained fifteen to twenty minutes of chat, discussing Ó hEochagáin's life, music, popular culture, or listeners' issues. There were regular celebrity guest interviews, with occasional live music performances. The show relied on a number of on-air contributions from background staff, with members of the production team, news and sports readers, and studio guests contributing throughout the show. Whereas most 2FM breakfast shows have been broadcast from Dublin, Breakfast with Hector was based in Galway. A special Breakfast With Hector night was held at Dublin's Olympia Theatre on 9 March 2012, dubbed an "Elvis Extravaganza" by RTÉ. Hector Ó hEochagáin Host of the show. Emma Counihan Regular newsreader. Louise Herity Regular sports newsreader, now a regular presenter on 98fm. Aoife Carragher AA Roadwatch team leader. Dan "the Gun" O'Neill AA Roadwatch announcer. Alan "Feathers" Swan The show's producer who frequently interrupts Ó hEochagáin from the background. Alan now produces the Nicky Byrne Show on 2fm. Ronan Casey Presenter of the weekly segment, "Medium Sized Town, Fairly Big Story". A book of the same name by Ronan was published in October 2014 by Gill & Macmillan. Ronan is currently part of the Ireland AM team. How's the Country this Morning? Listeners ring or text the programme with their stories or problems. Ó hEochagáin accepts telephone calls on air to discuss quirky or off-beat topics such as weird tattoos, how shillelaghs are made and driving incidents. Medium Sized Town, Fairly Big Story A weekly segment in which Ronan Casey reports some of the more unusual or funny stories from local newspapers in Ireland. Evelyn's Word of the Day A daily segment, usually airing after the 8:30 news headlines, in which newsreader Evelyn McClafferty introduces her word of the day. On Wednesday's Focal na Seachtaine offers listeners a word in the Irish language. The Birth Notices A weekly segment, usually airing on Thursdays, where Ó hEochagáin reads out good wishes to new-born babies and their parents. Class Act A daily quiz in which two contestants answer general knowledge questions. Winners return each day until they are eliminated. Where am I? An occasional quiz in which Ó hEochagáin tries to discover the Irish provenance of callers by asking them a maximum of ten questions. Everything you wanted to know about the weekend, but didn't really delve into... A weekly segment in which Bernard O'Shea (now the host of the 2FM breakfast show himself) reports on some of the bigger news stories from the weekend. My Automobile Association Listeners rang and texted the programme with their road traffic tips. What Class of Vehicle is She? A phone-in quiz in which Ó hEochagáin played a short audio clip of a car or tractor starting up. Listeners tried to guess what the vehicle was. What Class of a Dog is She? A variation on the "What Class of a Vehicle is She?" segment. A phone-in quiz in which Ó hEochagáin played a short audio clip of a dog barking. Listeners tried to guess the dog's breed.

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Chicago Live!

2012-02-24 02:51:06+00:00

Chicago Live! is an hour-long stage and radio variety show hosted by Chicago newspaperman and radio personality Rick Kogan. The multi-platform show is produced by the Chicago Tribune in partnership with The Second City and broadcasts on WGN Radio 720-AM Saturday nights at 11 p.m. It is taped in front of a live studio audience. Short, individual segments from each show are distributed in video and podcast format. Chicago Live! debuted at the Chicago Theatre Downstairs on October 14, 2010, and continued recording and airing in six-week seasons through 2011. Chicago Live! performed live in 2011 at the Haymarket Pub & Brewery place. Billy Corgan was a guest on the show in 2011. In November 2011, Chicago Live! announced that it would shift to eight-week seasons in 2012 and move to the Up Comedy Club in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood. John Conroy was a guest on the show in 2012. Chicago Live! was still active in 2013. In 2013 Kathy and Judy of WGN Radio were guests on the show. Notable guests have included Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, musician Billy Corgan, former White House Social Secretary Desirèe Rogers, Sesame Street puppet Cookie Monster and rapper Lupe Fiasco. Lara Weber does the production work for the show. As described by host Rick Kogan, the show's mission is to "bring the paper in its wonderful variety on stage." Each episode of Chicago Live! includes: Interviews with Chicago newsmakers and entertainers Topical comedy from The Second City Almanac segment in which Rick Kogan presents stories, videos around a selected year in Chicago history Performances by Chicago artists and entertainers Feder, Robert (21 November 2011). "Kogan brings life to Chicago Live! as no one else could". Time Out Chicago. Retrieved 30 November 2011.

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2010 California Superintendent of Public Instruction election

2014-03-08 23:19:07+00:00

The 2010 California Superintendent of Public Instruction election occurred on November 2, 2010. Incumbent Jack O'Connell was term-limited and unable to run for re-election to a third term. In the nonpartisan primary election on June 8, 2010, no candidate received a majority of the votes. The top two finishers, Larry Aceves, who came first with 19% of the vote, and Democratic State Assemblyman Tom Torlakson, who came second with 18.5% of the vote, advanced to the general election. In the general election on November 2, 2010, Torlakson defeated Aceves. = Larry Aceves, former Superintendent of the Franklin-McKinley School District and of the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District Karen Blake, geologist Alexia Deligianni, Board member of the Orange Unified School District Lydia Gutierrez, teacher Diane Lenning, teacher and businesswoman Leonard James Martin, retired Grant McMicken, teacher Daniel Nusbaum, teacher Gloria Romero, State Senator Faarax Dahir Sheikh-Noor Tom Torlakson, State Assemblyman Henry Williams, professor = = Larry Aceves, former Superintendent of the Franklin-McKinley School District and of the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District Tom Torlakson, State Assemblyman =

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Adapur Assembly constituency

2011-01-09 14:21:44+00:00

Adapur Assembly constituency was an assembly constituency in Purvi Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar. It was part of Bettiah Lok Sabha constituency. As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission of India, Adapur Assembly constituency ceased to exist in 2010.

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Bahera Assembly constituency

2011-02-04 09:20:22+00:00

Bahera Assembly constituency was an assembly constituency in Darbhanga district in the Indian state of Bihar. As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission of India, Bahera Assembly constituency ceased to exist in 2010. It was part of Darbhanga Lok Sabha constituency. = In October 2005, February 2005, and 2000 state assembly elections, Abdul Bari Siddiqui of RJD won the Bahera assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Ram Narayan Thakur, Mahendra Jha Azad and Harish Chandra Jha, all of BJP, respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Abdul Bari Siddiqui representing JD defeated Harish Chandra Jha of BJP in 1995. Mahendra Jha Azad of Congress/ Independent defeated Abdul Bari Siddiqui of JD/ LD in 1990 and 1985. Paramanand Jha of Congress defeated Abdul Bari Siddiqui of Janata Party (Secular – Charan Singh) in 1980. Abdul Bari Siddiqui of JP defeated Harinath Mishra of Congress in 1977.

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Baheri, Bihar Assembly constituency

2011-02-04 09:23:24+00:00

Baheri Assembly constituency was an assembly constituency in Darbhanga district in the Indian state of Bihar. As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission of India, Baheri Assembly constituency ceased to exist in 2010. It was part of Rosera Lok Sabha constituency. = In the October 2005 and February 2005 state assembly elections, Hare Krishna Yadav of RJD won the Baheri assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Narendra Kumar Singh of JD(U) and Mohan Choudhary of LJP respectively. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Ramanand Singh of JD(U) defeated Hare Krishna Yadav of RJD in 2000. Ram Lakhan Yadav of JD defeated Mohan Choudhary of Congress in 1995. Mohan Choudhary of Congress defeated Ram Lakhan Yadav, Independent, in 1990. Premanand Thakur of Congress defeated Ramanand Singh of LD in 1985. Rama Kant Jha of Congress defeated Ram Lakhan Yadav of Janata Party (Secular – Charan Singh) in 1980. Tej Narayan Yadav of JP defeated Kumar Kalyan Jha of CPI in 1977.

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Ballia Assembly constituency

2011-11-03 11:52:43+00:00

Ballia Assembly constituency was an assembly constituency in Begusarai district in the Indian state of Bihar. As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission of India, Ballia Assembly constituency ceased to exist in 2010. It was a part of Balia Lok Sabha constituency. This assembly region is now a part of new Sahebpur Kamal Assembly. Ballia Assembly constituency comprised Ballia (Begusarai) and Sahebpur Kamal Blocks. = In the October 2010 Bihar Assembly elections, Shreenarayan Yadav of Rashtriya Janata Dal won the Ballia seat defeating his nearest rival Jamshed Ashraf of Janata Dal United. Shri. Shreenarayan Yadav has won this constituency 9 times. Only winners and runners are being mentioned. Shreenarayan Yadav of RJD defeated Jamshed Ashraf of LJP in October 2005 and in February 2005, Md. Tanweer Hasan of JD(U) in 2000, Krishna Mohan Yadav of Independent in 1995, Samsu Joha of Congress in 1990, Samsu Joha of Congress in 1985, Chandrabhanu Devi of Congress (I) in 1980 and Ram Lakhan Yadav of Congress in 1977. Shri. Shreenarayan Yadav has won this constituency 9 times on 3 different party tickets.

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Barauni Assembly constituency

2011-11-03 11:54:26+00:00

Barauni was an assembly constituency in Begusarai district in the Indian state of Bihar. As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission of India, Ballia Assembly constituency ceased to exist in 2010. It is now renamed as Teghra Teghra Assembly constituency. It was part of Balia Lok Sabha constituency. = In the October 2005 Bihar Assembly elections, Rajendra Prasad Singh of CPI won the Barauni seat defeating his nearest rival Surendra Mehta of BJP. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Rajendra Prasad Singh of CPI defeated Pradip Rai of LJP in February 2005, Ram Lakhan Singh of BJP in 2000 and 1995. Shivdani Singh of CPI defeated Kamla Devi of Congress in 1990. Shakuntala Sinha of CPI defeated Kamla Devi of Congress in 1985. Rameshwar Singh of CPI defeated Sidhweshar Prasad Singh of Congress (I) in 1980. Suryanarayan Singh of CPI defeated Kapil Dev Singh of Janata Party in 1977.

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Kalinka Airfield

2018-12-18 20:48:22+00:00

Kalinka Airfield is a civilian airfield located in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia located 23 km east of Khabarovsk near the town of Kalinka. It was originally Blagodatnoye (Russian: 10-й участок, Kalinka) a former Russian military airbase and was part of the 11th Independent Air Defence Army, Soviet Air Defence Forces and hosted an interceptor regiment flying Sukhoi Su-9 (NATO: Fishpot) and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (NATO: Fresco) aircraft. It was closed as a military base in 2009. It is used by light aircraft. From November 1948 to October 1952, the 582nd Fighter Aviation Regiment was stationed on aircraft flying Lavochkin La-7 (1948-1950), Lend-Lease Bell P-63 Kingcobra (1950) and the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (1950-1952). In October 1950, the regiment relocated to the airfield Denshahe (China). From June 1948 until its disbandment in 1994, the 301st Fighter Aviation Regiment was based on Yakovlev Yak-9, Yakovlev Yak-11, P-63 Kingcobra (1953-1953), MiG-15 (March 1953 to 1955), Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (September 1953 to 1962), Sukhoi Su-9 (February 1962 to 1976), and the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23MLD (1976 to 1994). From 1968 until its disbandment in 1988, the 26th Guards Aviation Regiment of fighter-bombers (26th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment since 1979) was based on the Sukhoi Su-7 (1968–1972) and Sukhoi Su-17 (1972) aircraft (until 1979), and the Sukhoi Su-24 (1979 to 1988). From 1988 to 1991, the 216th Fighter Aviation Regiment was based at the airfield, using Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft. In 1991 it moved to Komsomolsk-na-Amure. From 2010 onward, the airfield was no longer used for military purposes. Civilian operators include the Federation of Aviation Sports of the Far East, ChelAvia-Vostok, Representative Office of the Khabarovsk Regional Branch of AOPA-Russia. Satellite imagery shows the maintained portion of the runway was shortened to 800 m (2600 ft).

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Langley Air Force Base

2010-02-17 21:06:32+00:00

Langley Air Force Base (IATA: LFI, ICAO: KLFI, FAA LID: LFI) is a United States Air Force base located in Hampton, Virginia, adjacent to Newport News. It was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the entry of the United States into World War I in April 1917. On 1 October 2010, Langley Air Force Base was joined with Fort Eustis to become Joint Base Langley–Eustis. The base was established in accordance with congressional legislation implementing the recommendations of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. The legislation ordered the consolidation of the two facilities which were nearby, but separate military installations, into a single joint base, one of 12 formed in the United States as a result of the law. On February 4, 2023, an F-22 Raptor took off from the base and shot down a Chinese balloon, marking the jet's first-ever combat air kill. The Air Force mission at Langley is to sustain the ability for fast global deployment and air superiority for the United States or allied armed forces. The base is one of the oldest facilities of the Air Force, having been established on 30 December 1916, prior to America's entry to World War I by the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, named for aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley. It was used during World War I as a flying field, balloon station, observers’ school, photography school, experimental engineering department, and for aerial coast defense. It is situated on 3,152 acres of land between the cities of Hampton (south), NASA LaRC (west), and the northwest and southwest branches of the Back River. "AirPower over Hampton Roads" is a recurring airshow held at Langley in the spring. Many demonstrations take place, including the F-22 Raptor Demonstration, Aerobatics, and parachute demos. Because of the possibility of crashes of the F-22s and other aircraft stationed at the base, the City of Hampton has partnered with the Commonwealth of Virginia and United States Air Force to purchase privately owned property within the Clear Zone and Accident Potential Zones, without using eminent domain, to create a safety buffer zone around the base. Langley Air Force Base, originally known as Langley Field, is named after Samuel Pierpont Langley, an aerodynamic pioneer and a former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Langley began aerodynamic experiments in 1887 and formed a basis for practical pioneer aviation. He built and saw the first steam model airplane in 1896 and the first gasoline model in 1903. Both planes were believed to be capable of flight. He also built the first man-carrying gasoline airplane in 1903, which failed to fly on its first attempt and broke apart and crashed on its second. It was, after major modification eleven years later, flown successfully by Glenn Curtiss for a little over three seconds, traveling 150 feet through the air in 1914. Langley Field was the first Air Service base built especially for air power, is the oldest continually active air force base in the world, and is the oldest airfield in Virginia. = In 1916, the National Advisory Council for Aeronautics (NACA), predecessor to NASA, established the need for a joint airfield and proving ground for Army, Navy and NACA aircraft. NACA determined that the site must be near water for over-water flying, be flat and relatively clear for expansion and the landing and take-off of aircraft, and near an Army post. The Army appointed a board of officers who searched for a location. The officers sometimes posed as hunters and fishermen to avoid potential land speculation which would arise if the government's interest in purchasing land was revealed. Fifteen locations were scouted before a site near Hampton in Elizabeth City County was selected. In 1917, the new proving ground was designated Langley Field for one of America's early air pioneers, Samuel Pierpont Langley. Langley had first made tests with his manned heavier-than-air craft, launched from a houseboat catapult, in 1903. His first attempts failed and he died in 1906, shortly before a rebuilt version of his craft soared into the sky. Training units assigned to Langley Field: 5th Aviation School Squadron, June 1917 Re-designated as 119th Aero Squadron, September 1917; Detachment No. 11, Air Service, Aircraft Production, July 1918 – May 1919 83d Aero Squadron (II), March 1918 Re-designated as Squadron "A", July–November 1918 126th Aero Squadron (II) (Service), April 1918 Re-designated as Squadron "B", July–November 1918 127th Aero Squadron (II) (Service), April 1918 Re-designated as Squadron "C", July–November 1918 Flying School Detachment (Consolidation of Squadrons A-C), November 1918-November 1919 Several buildings had been constructed on the field by late 1918. Aircraft on the ramp at that time included the Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny", used by Langley's School of Aerial Photography, and the de Havilland DH.4 bomber, both used during World War I. Although short-lived, hydrogen-filled dirigibles played an important role in Langley's early history and a portion of the base is still referred to as the LTA (lighter-than-air) area. = In the early 1920s, Langley became the site where a new air power concept was tried and proven. Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell led bombing runs from Langley by the 1st Provisional Air Brigade over captured German warships anchored off the coast of Virginia and North Carolina. These first successful tests set the precedent for the airplane's new role of strategic bombardment. Throughout the 1930s Langley Field occupied a principal position in the Army's efforts to strengthen the offensive and defensive posture of its air arm. The small grassy field became a major airfield of the United States Army Air Corps, and many of the brick buildings of today were constructed at that time. = At the outbreak of World War II, Langley took on a new mission, to develop special detector equipment used in antisubmarine warfare. Langley units played a vital role in the sinking of enemy submarines off the United States coast during the war. The field was also used for training purposes. = On 25 May 1946, during the beginning of the Cold War, the headquarters of the newly formed Tactical Air Command were established at Langley. The command's mission was to organize, train, equip and maintain combat-ready forces capable of rapid deployment to meet the challenges of peacetime air sovereignty and wartime air defense. The arrival of Tactical Air Command and jet aircraft marked the beginning of a new era in the history of the field, and in January 1948 Langley Field officially became Langley Air Force Base. In January 1976, the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing was transferred to Langley from MacDill Air Force Base in Florida with the mission of maintaining combat capability for rapid global deployment to conduct air superiority operations. To accomplish this mission, the 1st TFW was the first USAF operational wing to be equipped with the F-15 Eagle. = On 1 June 1992, Langley became the headquarters of the newly formed Air Combat Command, as Tactical Air Command was inactivated as part of the Air Force's restructuring. On 15 December 2005, the 1st Fighter Wing's 27th Fighter Squadron became the Air Force's first operational F-22 fighter squadron. The wing's complement of 40 F-22s, in the 27th and 94th FS reached Full Operational Capability on 12 December 2007. Langley Air Force Base was severely damaged by flooding due to the storm surge from Hurricane Isabel in September 2003 and again during the November 2009 Mid-Atlantic nor'easter. Hurricane Isabel damages to Langley Air Force Base were approximately $147 million. The damages associated with the 2009 nor'easter were approximately $43 million. Resilience measures taken since 2003 include raising low-lying critical infrastructure, mandating a minimum elevation for new construction, construction of a 6 mile long sea wall and a groundwater pumping station. The site of Langley Air Force base, with an average elevation of 3 feet, has seen 14 inches of sea level rise since 1930. = On 1 October 2010, Langley Air Force Base was joined with Fort Eustis to become Joint Base Langley–Eustis. To accomplish their mission, the support unit men and women of the 633d Air Base Wing at Langley are housed in the Mission Support Groups and Medical Group and support several tenant units: The 1st Fighter Wing is composed of the 1st Operations Group and the 1st Maintenance Group, which work together to maintain Joint Base Langley–Eustis's F-22 Raptors. Operational squadrons of the 1st Operations Group are: (Tail Code: FF) 27th Fighter Squadron (F-22 Raptor) 94th Fighter Squadron (F-22 Raptor) 71st Fighter Training Squadron (T-38A Talon) 480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing The 480th ISR Wing operates and maintains the Air Force Distributed Common Ground System, or DCGS, also known as the "Sentinel" weapon system, conducting imagery, cryptologic, and measurement and signatures intelligence activities. The Wing is composed of the following units worldwide: 480th ISR Group, Fort Eisenhower, Ga. 497th ISR Group, Joint Base Langley–Eustis, Va. 548th ISR Group, Beale Air Force Base, Calif. 692d ISR Group, Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Hawaii 693d ISR Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany 694th ISR Group, Osan Air Base, South Korea 192d Fighter Wing (Virginia Air National Guard) The 192d Fighter Wing mission is to fly and maintain the F-22 Raptor at Joint Base Langley–Eustis through the 149th Fighter Squadron, and support the ongoing intelligence mission through the 192d Intelligence Squadron. 633d Air Base Wing The 633rd ABW is an Air Force-led mission support wing, serving both Air Force and Army units, as a result of a congressionally mandated joint-basing initiative between Langley and Eustis. Langley also hosts the Air Force Command and Control Integration Center field operating agency and Headquarters Air Combat Command (ACC). Langley is also home to the F-22 Raptor Demo Team. This team, who travel all over the world performing different maneuvers used in air combat, is used to help recruit for the United States Air Force. Performing at airshows and other special events, the squadron is the only demonstration team to use the F-22 Raptor. = =

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Plantagenet (radio plays)

2011-06-17 12:11:31+00:00

Plantagenet is a three-series sequence of BBC Radio 4 radio plays by the British dramatist Mike Walker, broadcast in the Classic Serial strand, based on the account of the Plantagenet dynasty in Holinshed's Chronicles. Each series consisted of three weekly episodes, the first premiering from 14 February 2010, the second from 29 May 2011 and the third from 1 April 2012. = Henry II – What is A Man? King Henry II – David Warner Queen Eleanor – Jane Lapotaire Prince Richard – Joseph Cohen-Cole Prince Hal – Piers Wehner Prince Geoffrey – Rhys Jennings William Marshall – Stephen Hogan Bertran de Bourne – Bruce Alexander King Louis – Philip Fox Courtier – John Biggins Richard I – Lionheart Queen Eleanor – Jane Lapotaire Richard – Ed Stoppard King Henry II – David Warner William Marshall – Stephen Hogan King Philip – John Biggins Saladin – Raad Rawi El-adel – Khalid Laith Baldwin – Ewan Hooper Prince John, later King John – Neil Stuke Hugh – Philip Fox Robert of Champagne – Rhys Jennings Conrad – Piers Wehner John, by the Grace of God Queen Eleanor – Jane Lapotaire King Richard – Ed Stoppard King John – Neil Stuke William Marshall – Stephen Hogan Prince Arthur – Ryan Watson Queen Isabelle – Emerald O'Hanrahan King Philip – John Biggins Saladin – Raad Rawi El-Adel – Khalid Laith Doctor/Langton – Ewan Hooper Girard – Joseph Cohen-Cole De Roche – Bruce Alexander Fitzwalter – Piers Wehner Will Marshall – Rhys Jennings Prince Henry, later Henry III – Bertie Gilbert = Edward I – Old Soldiers King Edward I – Philip Jackson Margaret, Edward's second wife – Ellie Kendrick Ned, later King Edward II – Sam Troughton Piers Gaveston – Simon Bubb William Wallace – James Lailey Roger Bigod – Jonathan Forbes Edward II – The Greatest Traitor King Edward II – Sam Troughton Isabella, Edward's wife and Mortimer's lover – Hattie Morahan Roger Mortimer – Trystan Gravelle Prince Edward, later King Edward III – Joseph Samrai Hugh Despenser – Jonathan Forbes Richard II – And All Our Dreams Will End in Death King Richard II, Edward III's grandson and heir – Patrick Kennedy Henry Bolingbroke – Blake Ritson Queen Ann – Alex Tregear Gloucester – Peter Polycarpou John of Gaunt – Sean Baker = Henry V – True Believers Hal, later King Henry V ...Luke Treadaway Katherine of France, Henry V's wife...Lydia Leonard Thomas of Earlham...James Lailey Sir John Oldcastle...Nicky Henson King Henry IV...Paul Moriarty Badby...Simon Bubb Bradmore...Carl Prekopp Henry VI – A Simple Man King Henry VI...Al Weaver Margaret...Aimee-Ffion Edwards Richard, Duke of York... Shaun Dooley Cardinal Beaufort...Paul Moriarty Earl of Warwick...Gerard McDermott Duke of Somerset...Carl Prekopp Edward of York...Simon Bubb Richard III – The Three Brothers Queen Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV...Nancy Carroll King Edward IV...Simon Bubb King Richard III...Carl Prekopp Clarence...Christopher Webster Margaret, widow of Henry VI...Aimee Ffion Edwards Warwick...Gerard McDermott Stafford...Adam Billington Lewis...James Lailey Bishop...Paul Moriarty

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Project Archangel (radio serial)

2014-01-22 22:35:41+00:00

Project Archangel is a radio serial broadcast by the BBC. It is a sequel to Project Raphael. It mixes science fiction, supernatural and espionage themes in a story about a government agency that attempts to use "revenants", or ghosts of recently dead people, as agents in a conflict with an organization known as "The Nablovsky Colony", which apparently already has the ability to penetrate secret installations with their own ghosts. It was written by Jenny Stephens, and consists of four 30 minute episodes. The main characters of Project Raphael appear in this story, as they are caught up in the machinations of Nablovsky agents' attempts to manipulate world financial and commodity markets. Several attempts are made to kidnap Malcolm Holmes, a young man living in a small Yorkshire town. Malcolm has psychic abilities, which brought him to the attention of British Intelligence agency MI7, who needed him to successfully reach out to their own ghost agent Raphael. Malcolm and Polly Williams, a local journalist, are eventually tricked into boarding a plane that takes them to Moscow, where they are brought by Nablovsky team member Victor to a hideout in the sewer system. There they meet the Nablovsky ghost agent, who turns out to be Malcolm's long-absent father Michael. He has amassed a huge fortune from financial manipulation, which is protected by a DNA-based lock that he can no longer access, since he was killed. Being Michael's biological son, Malcolm can open the account, which will allow the conspirators to drain the account, and Polly is kept hostage to force Malcolm to comply. Malcolm's mother, Moira, arrives in Moscow along with an MI7 agent named Winston and with an unexpected package: a case that contains the ghost agent Raphael. A further twist happens when Malcolm successfully accesses the account, because the funds don't go to into the hands of the Nablovsky agents as expected. Instead they are scattered into millions of different accounts around the world as planned by Michael. Larger sums are directed to several charities, and forty-four thousand pounds to his surviving family. Malcolm Holmes - Dan Hagley Polly Williams - Emily Chennery Moira, Malcolm's mother - Sunny Ormonde Agent Raphael - John Flitcroft

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Steins;Gate Drama CD Alpha, Beta, and Gamma

2017-01-06 14:09:13+00:00

Steins;Gate Drama CD Alpha, Beta, and Gamma, stylized as α, β, and γ, are a trilogy of audio dramas based on the 2009 video game Steins;Gate, and are part of the Science Adventure series. It follows Kurisu Makise, Mayuri Shiina, and Rintaro Okabe, three characters from the Steins;Gate game, in three different alternative histories. Alpha shows Kurisu's actions during the tenth chapter of the video game, Beta shows what happened after Okabe failed to save Kurisu, and Gamma shows a reality where the Year 2000 problem caused a disaster and Okabe became an agent working for the organization SERN. The audio dramas were originally published as three CD albums by 5pb. between March and June 2010, and were later collected along with other Steins;Gate material in a 2016 box set. They feature voice acting by the cast from the Steins;Gate game, and music and cover art by the game's composer Takeshi Abo and character designer Huke, respectively. The dramas were well received by critics and popular with fans, leading to the creation of manga and light novel adaptations. They were also used as the base for the Epigraph Trilogy of light novels and the Steins;Gate 0 video game. The trilogy was recorded in Japanese, but all three drama has gotten an English fan translation. = The audio dramas are set in Akihabara, Tokyo, and follow the neuroscientist Kurisu Makise, and childhood friends Rintaro Okabe and Mayuri Shiina. Together with the hacker Itaru "Daru" Hashida, they have accidentally discovered time travel through the use of a modified microwave oven, which they use to send text messages back in time, which they refer to as "D-mails". This draws the attention of SERN, an organization that secretly researches time travel, who sends out a group called "Rounders" to take the time machine, killing Mayuri in the process. Within the Steins;Gate world, time consists of alternative possible histories ("world lines") which branch and re-merge at different points. It is deterministic, with events occurring at points where world lines converge being destined to happen unless history is changed enough to lead to another cluster of world lines (an "attractor field") with different converging points. One such convergence point is Mayuri's death in 2010 in the alpha attractor field; to prevent it, Okabe causes a shift to the beta attractor field, where Kurisu was killed, and where Okabe did not discover time travel. = Alpha Alpha: Babel of the Grieved Maze follows Kurisu, and is set during the tenth chapter of the Steins;Gate game, "Paradox Meltdown". After Kurisu and Okabe have decided that they should cause a shift to the beta attractor field, Kurisu spends time contemplating her coming death. She meets Faris, a staff member at a maid café, and learns that Faris's and Kurisu's respective fathers, Yukitaka Akiha and doctor Nakabachi, knew each other. They listen to one of Yukitaka's audio diary cassettes, on which a conversation between Yukitaka, Nakabachi and an unknown third party, professor Hashida, discuss researching time travel. They later find and listen to an audio recording in which Nakabachi expresses regret over having rejected Kurisu; motivated, she runs to tell Okabe that she loves him before he causes the world line shift. Beta Beta: Arc-light of the Point at Infinity follows Mayuri, and is set in the beta attractor field, after Daru's future daughter, Suzuha Amane, brought Okabe back in time to save Kurisu; this is necessary to avoid a world line where Kurisu's time travel theories are stolen, resulting in an arms race leading up to World War III. Okabe fails at first, as world line convergence appears to make Kurisu's death inevitable; Suzuha is about to make him try one more time, but Mayuri stops her, as she thinks Okabe has suffered enough. Suzuha does not go back to the time she came from, still intending to get Okabe to try once more, but notes that due to a lack of fuel, the time machine will no longer be able to go back far enough after less than a year has passed. After that time is nearly up, Suzuha gets ready to travel back in time and try saving Kurisu herself, but Mayuri follows along. They arrive just after the past Suzuha and Okabe left to save Kurisu for the first time, and Mayuri tells her past self that she needs to get Okabe to try again. The scene from the beginning plays out again, but Mayuri slaps Okabe and tells him that he is not the type to give up. The future Mayuri and Suzuha leave before the past Okabe and Suzuha return, with too little fuel to be able to tell where they will end up. Gamma Gamma: Hyde of the Dark Dimension follows Okabe, and is set in the gamma attractor field; he got there when attempting to undo the changes caused by his friend Luka Urushibara's D-mail in the Steins;Gate game. He discovers that in this world line, he is a Rounder partnered with Moeka Kiryu, and that they have just completed a mission to kill Europol agents who have discovered their identities. He runs to the laboratory to shift to the previous world line with a D-mail, but is stopped by Kurisu and Suzuha: Kurisu witnessed Okabe killing the agents, and Suzuha has in this world line traveled back in time to stop Okabe from becoming a dictator, leader of the Rounders, and a member of the Committee of 300. Kurisu calls the police, but Moeka helps Okabe escape. They visit Mayuri, who is hospitalized, and Okabe learns that they were childhood friends but got separated after the Year 2000 problem occurred, which led to a catastrophe and the death of Mayuri and Okabe's families. Learning that Mayuri has cancer and is not expected to live for much longer, Okabe leaves to clear his head. Moeka questions Luka about Okabe's D-mail, and concludes that the Year 2000 problem likely was caused by SERN. Moeka assures Okabe that they do not have to worry about Kurisu's report, as the Rounders are pressuring the police. She says that they are like family in this world line, since Okabe saved her when she tried to commit suicide, and that she wants to help him even though he is different from the Okabe she knows. They receive their next mission – to take the time machine and its creators to SERN – but they decide to betray SERN, forcefully entering the laboratory prior to the scheduled mission; the other Rounders appear and shoot Okabe, but Moeka manages to send a D-mail that causes a world line shift, away from the gamma attractor field. The dramas feature background music composed by Takeshi Abo, who previously composed the music for the Steins;Gate game, and cover art by the game's character designer Huke. The voice cast of the game also reprised their roles, and said that it was fun to be able to return to their respective characters. Alpha, Beta, and Gamma were the first audio dramas based on Steins;Gate, and were conceived as a trilogy of stories. They were published by 5pb. and distributed by Media Factory as three separate CD albums in 2010, on March 31, April 28, and June 2, respectively. They were also included in the 2016 box set The Sound of Steins;Gate Complete, along with other Steins;Gate dramas, music and light novel e-books. Alpha and Beta both charted on the Oricon Albums Chart for four consecutive weeks, peaking at seventeenth place on April 12 and May 10, 2010, respectively. Gamma charted for two consecutive weeks, peaking at eleventh place on June 14. According to RPGFan, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma are popularly considered to be the most interesting of all Steins;Gate audio dramas. Famitsu described Alpha as something that Steins;Gate players could not afford to miss out on. Kotaku's Richard Eisenbeis was highly positive to Gamma, calling it "an awesome extra hour-long adventure and a great listen". Patrick Gann of RPGFan considered the audio dramas' amount of writing and acting impressive, and noted that they covered a wide range of emotions, reflected in both acting and music. Due to the popularity of Beta, it was used as a base for the plot of the Epigraph Trilogy of Steins;Gate novels; both the Epigraph Trilogy and the audio dramas were later used as a base for the story in the Steins;Gate game's sequel, Steins;Gate 0. A manga adaptation of Alpha was created by Shinichirou Nariie and serialized by Shueisha in their Ultra Jump magazine between May 15, 2012 and January 2014. Nariie also adapted Beta into a manga, which ran in Ultra Jump from April 9, 2014 to September of the same year. Alpha was also adapted into a light novel, with writing by Shie Akatoki, illustrations by Nariie, and a cover illustration by Huke, and was published on April 20, 2013 by Kadokawa Corporation. Gamma received an English fan translation which combined the audio with art assets from the Steins;Gate game to create a cutscene in the style of the game; Eisenbeis called it "amazing", and considered it the "crowning achievement" of the Steins;Gate spin-off translations done by that translation group. The main translator for this release was Andrew Hodgson, who also worked on the Steins;Gate game's official localization.

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2nd Streamy Awards

2010-05-06 08:29:08+00:00

The 2nd Annual Streamy Awards, presented by the International Academy of Web Television, was the second installment of the Streamy Awards honoring streaming television series. The awards were held on Sunday, April 11, 2010, at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Paul Scheer served as the host of the presentation. Over 1,300 audience members were in attendance and the show was broadcast live online. The show was met with technical difficulties and other disruptions throughout the ceremony and was criticized for its humour which was viewed as unfunny, crude, and deprecatory of internet culture. Controversy surrounding the reception of the event led to the International Academy of Web Television splitting from the show to create its own separate awards show, the IAWTV Awards, and a two-year hiatus of the Streamys. The nominees were announced on March 1, 2010 and the finalists for the Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series were announced on March 29. The Streamy Craft Award winners were announced in a ceremony hosted by Jim Festante at the Barnsdall Gallery Theater on April 7. The remaining awards were announced in the main ceremony at the Orpheum Theatre on April 11. Winners of the categories were selected by the International Academy of Web Television except for the Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series which was put to a public vote. Winners are listed first, in bold. Streamy Visionary Award Honoree Chad Hurley - The co-founder of YouTube = The show was poorly received by viewers, attendees and sponsors of the event, leading to an apology from the producer, Brady Brim-Deforest, and rumours that sponsors of the event wanted their money refunded. The show was criticized for its long runtime of over 3 hours, technical failures throughout the ceremony, and for containing unfunny, crude and sexist jokes, including jokes about porn, masturbation and vaginal rejuvenation. The show was also interrupted by streakers as part of a stunt by Best Reality or Documentary Web Series nominee Streak to Win. The poor reception of the event, and the surrounding controversy, resulted in the International Academy of Web Television separating from the Streamys to create its own awards, the IAWTV Awards, and a two-year hiatus of the Streamys. Many online content creators, including iJustine and Chris Hardwick, felt that the ceremony did not represent online content creation and worried that it would be a setback for the medium being taken seriously. iJustine said that the show's skits had made her feel uncomfortable and condemned the excessive vulgarity, saying that she had left the event "feeling confused, embarrassed and a bunch of other emotions that I still have yet to put my finger on." Jim Louderback, CEO of the multi-channel network Revision3, called the show a "misogynistic, puerile, protracted and poorly executed event" and criticised one of the monologues that "went beyond poking fun at the industry, and was more like a spit in the face." YouTuber Michael Buckley also criticized the event in a tweet saying "All of the technical problems were one thing but it seemed like the jokes were picking on the internet – not CELEBRATING what we do." Erin Broadley of LA Weekly similarly opined "The technical difficulties were forgivable for an event only two years young; it was the tone of the program that was most upsetting to people, who saw last year's optimism replaced by self-deprecating humor and masturbation jokes". Due to nominees and award winners' disappointment with the show, an unofficial redo of the ceremony was held at the ACME Comedy Theatre.

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Tanitoluwa Adewumi

2020-03-24 16:37:23+00:00

Tanitoluwa Emmanuel "Tani" Adewumi (born September 3, 2010) is a Nigerian-American chess player who currently holds the title of FIDE Master (FM). A chess prodigy, he won the 2019 K-3 New York State chess championship at the age of 8 after having played the game for only a year while living with his refugee family in a homeless shelter in Manhattan. Tanitoluwa is the son of Kayode James Adewumi (born June 24, 1976, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria) and Oluwatoyin Kuburat Adewumi (born June 16, 1981, Ado Ekiti). He has a brother who is seven years older. Kayode used to run a print shop in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, with 13 employees, and Oluwatoyin used to work as an accountant. Adewumi's family is devoutly Christian and have been threatened with violence by the Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram. In June 2017, they left Nigeria for the United States and sought religious asylum. Philip Falayi, a pastor in Queens, New York, gave them temporary accommodation, and connected them with the New York City Department of Homeless Services. They were given a place to stay in a homeless shelter in Manhattan. Kayode took work as a dishwasher and as an Uber driver in a rented car, while Oluwatoyin worked as a cleaner. Tanitoluwa enrolled in elementary school P.S. 116. In October 2022, Adewumi and his family were granted asylum in the United States. This status allowed the family to remain in the US permanently and allowed Adewumi to travel internationally to compete in chess tournaments. Shawn Martinez, the head chess coach at P.S. 116, introduced students to the game. Tanitoluwa immediately took to it and wanted to join a club run by 1700-rated coach Russell Makofsky. That would have been expensive; the $330 fee included not only the cost of running the club, but also such things as entries to tournaments, travel, and accommodation. When Adewumi's mother told Makofsky of the family's financial situation, he waived the fee. In early 2018, Adewumi, who had been assigned the lowest estimated rating of 105, played in his first tournament. A year later, he had accumulated seven trophies. His coaches were impressed by his dedication and hard work and by the progress he had made since starting as a novice. On March 9–10, 2019, he competed in the 52nd Annual New York State Scholastic Championships (kindergarten-3rd grade division) in Saratoga Springs, New York. He was seeded eighth in a field of 74 with an Elo rating of 1473, more than 200 behind the top rated players. He won the event outright with a score of 5.5/6 (five wins, one draw, no losses). His style of play is aggressive: in his fourth game he sacrificed a bishop for a pawn, which was the best move according to a chess engine. On May 1, 2021, at 10 years old, Adewumi crossed the 2200 Elo rating threshold needed to achieve the official USCF title of National Master, making him the 28th-youngest chess player in history ever to do so. In August, he won the under-12 division of the North American Youth Chess Championship with a score of 8/9. He became a FIDE Master, having surpassed a FIDE rating of 2300 in November 2021. In April 2022, he scored 7.0/9 in the New York Spring Invitational Norm event, earning his first IM norm. In July 2022, he scored 7.0/9 in the New York Summer Invitational, winning the IM C event and earning his second IM norm. In November 2022 he earned a third IM norm, scoring 5.5/9 at the 2022 New York Fall Invitational in the GM B event. Due to a rule change from FIDE in early 2022, Adewumi still needs an additional norm from an individual Swiss tournament (as well as reaching 2400 Elo) to be granted the IM title. In 2019, the story of his winning the New York Scholastics was reported by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, and rapidly attracted national and international attention both inside and outside the chess world. Agadmator, a leading chess YouTuber, published an analysis of Adewumi's only available game from the tournament. Garry Kasparov, former World Chess Champion, praised this achievement by a refugee immigrant. Bill Clinton, former U.S. president, invited him to visit him in his office in Harlem, New York, and he did. Abike Dabiri, Senior Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora to Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, called him "a pride to the nation". On March 30, 2019, he visited the Saint Louis Chess Club in Missouri, where the U.S. Chess Championship was then in progress, and played several friendly blitz (5 minutes for each player) games, his opponents including Hikaru Nakamura (GM, five-time U.S. Chess Champion), Jennifer Yu (WGM, 2019 U.S. Women's Chess Champion), and Fabiano Caruana (GM and 2018 World Chess Championship challenger), and was interviewed by Maurice Ashley, the world's first Black GM. His coaches set up a GoFundMe site shortly after the New York competition, with the target of raising $50,000 for the family by crowdfunding. It raised $254,000 in ten days. Benefactors also offered non-monetary help; including accommodation, a car, academic scholarships, chess books, and pro bono (i.e., free) assistance by immigration lawyers with their asylum application. They accepted one of the more modest offers of accommodation, declined the scholarship offers out of loyalty to P.S. 116, gave one-tenth of the donated money as a tithe to the church which had helped them, and put the rest into a 501(c)(3) trust called the Tanitoluwa Adewumi Foundation to help other children in similar circumstances. He had expressed an ambition to become the youngest ever chess grandmaster, though as of February 2023 this is no longer possible. Three film companies bid on the rights to his story; Paramount Pictures won. A biography, My Name Is Tani ... and I Believe in Miracles, was published on April 14, 2020.

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Andrey Andreev (actor)

2021-11-10 18:03:24+00:00

Andrey Igorevich Andreev (Russian: Андрей Игоревич Андреев; born 18 October 2010) is a Russian teen actor. He is best known for his title role as Sergei Aleshkov in the film Soldier Boy (2019). Andrey Andreev was born on 18 October 2010 in Moscow. He was raised in a military family. Andreev attended the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory. Andreev entered the Big Children's Choir in 2015. A year later, his parents signed him up for the Young Actor's Musical Theatre. There, he became a member of the theater's troupe and soon began to play leading roles in performances. His first major role in a theatrical was as Vasya in "In the Nursery" (В детской). Andreev was chosen to play as Sergei Aleshkov in the film Soldier Boy. Andreev, who was five years old at that time, beat out more than 400 applicants to win the role. According to the director of the film, Andreev impressed the much older actors on site after correcting all of the microphones on the set of the film. He also managed to memorize the entire 100-page script of the movie, despite being asked to remember only one or two scenes for the film. Andreev also managed to retain his body size after the director of the movie announced that the shooting of the film was postponed. He won various prizes and awards in film festivals for his performance in Soldier Boy. Andreev's performance in the movie landed him some roles in other movies. He played in the melodrama Life — is... as well as the romantic comedy film Batya. He will star as Chuk in the upcoming film Chuk and Gek. Aside from being an actor and a choir singer, Andreev also competes in figure skating. He won third place at a junior figure skating competition in 2019.

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Mateo Apolonio

2024-05-18 04:29:48+00:00

Mateo Apolonio Berruezo (born 10 April 2010) is an Argentine footballer who plays as a defender for Deportivo Riestra. Apolonio was born in 2010 in Argentina. He played futsal as a child. Apolonio started his career with Argentine side Deportivo Riestra. On 16 May 2024, he debuted for the club during a 0–1 loss to Newell's. Apolonio mainly operates as a defender. He is left-footed.

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Ryan Kiera Armstrong

2023-01-09 13:24:09+00:00

Ryan Kiera Armstrong (born March 10, 2010) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Charlie McGee in the 2022 film Firestarter and Alma Gardner in the television mini-series American Horror Story: Red Tide. She also portrayed Brooke in the Western The Old Way (2023). Armstrong was born to actor Dean Armstrong and Dr. Berta Bacic and is the youngest of five children. Film Television

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Aigner-Schanze

2015-04-29 11:39:00+00:00

Aigner-Schanze, officially called Energie AG-Skisprung Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a ski jumping venue located in Hinzenbach, Austria. It is due to be used in the World Cup at the end of February 2024.

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Al-Musannah Sports City

2012-04-01 15:56:51+00:00

Al-Musannah Sports City, also known as Millennium Resort Mussanah, is a large hotel belonging to Millennium & Copthorne Hotels, in Al-Musannah, Oman. The 2010 Asian Beach Games were held there.

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Amanat Baghdad Stadium

2011-12-29 13:48:22+00:00

Amanat Baghdad Stadium (Arabic: ملعب أمانة بغداد) is a football stadium in Baghdad, Iraq. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Amanat Baghdad SC. It has a capacity of 5,000 spectators.

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AMSOIL Arena

2010-05-31 23:52:40+00:00

AMSOIL Arena is a multipurpose arena in Duluth, Minnesota, home to the UMD Men's and UMD Women's hockey teams. It opened in 2010, replacing the DECC Arena on the waterfront near Duluth's landmark Aerial Lift Bridge. Naming rights for 20 years were purchased by AMSOIL, a corporation based in Superior, Wisconsin, for $6 million, one-third up front. The facility cost nearly $80 million; about half ($38 million) paid by the State of Minnesota through a 2008 bond bill, another 27% (about $21.6 million) by a voter-approved city food-and-beverage tax increase, 12% (about $9.6 million) by UMD, and the last 11% (about $8.8 million) by the DECC. Construction ran from September 2008 to December 2010, and included a 475-space parking garage with a skywalk connecting it to the arena. The first event held at the arena was on December 30, 2010. UMD men's hockey team lost 0–5 to North Dakota before a crowd of 6,764, tied for the team's highest home attendance that season. In their first season in the arena, the UMD men's hockey team won the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship. In 2012, the arena hosted the 2012 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament, in which Minnesota beat Wisconsin, 4–2. The arena's attendance record was set on June 20, 2018, during a President Donald Trump rally, which drew 8,372 people. The attendance record for a sporting event was set on January 25, 2020, when UMD men's hockey team lost to their rival, North Dakota, 2–3 in front of 7,711 fans. = AMSOIL Arena is primarily used as a hockey arena home to the University of Minnesota-Duluth's men's and women's hockey teams. The arena hosted the 2012 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament and the 2023 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Tournament. AMSOIL Arena hosted the 2017 Ice Breaker Tournament, held October 6-7th 2017. Four teams participated in the tournament. Michigan Tech defeated Union College 6-3 and University of Minnesota Duluth defeated University of Minnesota 4–3 in overtime in the tournament's first round. In the final round, University of Minnesota Duluth fell to tournament champion Michigan Tech 4–3, while in the consolation game the University of Minnesota beat Union College 2–0. Other hockey events include preseason practices for the National Hockey League's Minnesota Wild-open to the public, Minnesota State High School League section 7A and 7AA tournament games, as well as a high-school all-star game. = AMSOIL Arena hosted the Harlem Globetrotters in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, for which Minnesota Lynx's (WNBA) court has been brought up from Minneapolis, Minnesota. = AMSOIL Arena has held many different types of events, from comedians Jeff Dunham and Jim Gaffigan to Cirque du Soleil. The local AAD Shrine holds its annual AAD Shrine Circus fundraiser at the arena each April. The arena also hosts concerts. The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra had the first non-sporting event held at the arena, "Cirque de la Symphonie on Ice", on December 31, 2010, a day after the facility opened. It can also be converted to host dinners and conventions. On June 20, 2018, President Donald Trump held a rally in the arena that saw a record breaking attendance of 8,372. In 2013, Stadium Journey rated AMSOIL Arena as the best stadium experience in the United States and Canada. In 2014 and 2015, Stadium Journey rated AMSOIL Arena as the second best stadium experience in the United States and Canada, behind Oriole Park at Camden Yards home to Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles. AMSOIL Arena was ranked the best college hockey arena by Stadium Journey in 2014 and 2015. The Wall Street Journal named AMSOIL Arena one of its 10 "Golden Zamboni" winners for its uniqueness among the nation's college hockey venues.

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André Nascimento (footballer)

2024-01-31 15:36:47+00:00

André Francisco do Nascimento (10 April 1982 – 12 November 2010), better known as André Nascimento, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. Center forward, André Nascimento played for Portuguesa, Santo André, América-MG, Araxá, Malmö FF and Uberaba, the club where he won the Taça Minas Gerais in 2009 and 2010, where he was the competition's top scorer. The player was murdered on 12 November 2010 with two shots, in the city of Uberaba. The player's body was still dragged by car until people surrounded the vehicle. The perpetrator alleged that the player was involved in a love triangle with his wife. The crime occurred during the semi-final matches of the 2010 Taça Minas Gerais, a competition that ended with his club, Uberaba, champion, and André being posthumously champion. Uberaba Taça Minas Gerais: 2009, 2010

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Rafael Mascarenhas case

2023-05-28 14:29:39+00:00

The Rafael Mascarenhas case refers to the accident that resulted in the murder of student and musician Rafael Mascarenhas on 20 July 2010. Son of actress Cissa Guimarães, he was run over in Gávea inside the tunnel, now called Túnel Acústico Rafael Mascarenhas, which was closed for maintenance, but there was no maintenance on that day and there were no signs from CET-Rio that the Tunnel would be closed. According to CET-Rio, the tunnel was closed only at the entrance to Favela da Rocinha, inside the Tunnel a U-turn was made through which two cars entered and one of them hit Rafael at a speed of approximately 100 km/h according to the expertise. The young man was skateboarding with two friends, in a place where the practice of the sport was also not allowed. Rafael Guimarães Mascarenhas (Rio de Janeiro, 24 September 1991 – Rio de Janeiro, 20 July 2010) was 18 years old and was a musician and student. He was the youngest of the three children of actress Cissa Guimarães, the only one from her relationship with saxophonist Raul Mascarenhas. The young man was also the father's brother of Mariana Belém, the only daughter of singer Fafá de Belém. Rafael was a guitarist and backing vocalist for The Good Fellas, was one of the twelve remaining participants of the reality show Geleia do Rock on the cable channel Multishow, was studying Civil Engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), but was in the process of transferring to the Architecture course. and was about to leave for Europe, where he would take a music course. The young man died on the same day the reality show was shown and there was no presentation of the program on the day. Just a statement in honor of the musician, made by the presenter, Beto Lee. His body was laid to rest at the Carmo Memorial Vertical Cemetery, in Bairro do Caju, during the entire Wednesday following his death. Among the friends who attended the wake were Hélio de la Peña, Miguel Falabella, Claudia Jimenez, Heloísa Périssé, Diogo Vilela, Adriana Esteves, Camila Morgado, Marco Nanini, Susana Vieira, Maitê Proença, Sônia Braga, Lenine, Raul Gazolla, Rosamaria Murtinho, Nuno Leal Maia, Alexandre Borges and Lúcia Veríssimo. The cremation ceremony took place the following day at the São Francisco Xavier Cemetery and Crematorium. On 27 July 2010, a mass was held on the seventh day of his death at Nossa Senhora da Paz Church, in Ipanema. In addition to the boy's relatives, Lúcio Mauro, Sílvia Pfeifer, Lília Cabral, Maitê Proença, Carolina Dieckmann, Ney Latorraca, among others, attended the ceremony. On 29 July 2010, a tribute was paid to the musician in the tunnel where he was run over. Family members and friends of the musician attended the event. Attendees sang and skated, as well as graffitied messages of love and peace on the tunnel wall. The young man's mother, Cissa, wrote the phrase "Thank you Rafael!". The young man's father played saxophone with the band The Good Fellas, in which Rafael was lead singer and guitarist. On the one year anniversary of the young man's death, a concert was held in his honor at the Hipódromo Up nightclub, in Gávea. The main attraction of the night was the band “Os Rafael” formed by former members of the band in which young Rafael played. The musicians gathered especially for this performance. The event was held by the musician's mother and was attended by family members such as the brothers João Velho and Camila, and the father, Raul Mascarenhas, as well as several friends such as Caetano Veloso, Guta Stresser, Patrycia Travassos, Giuseppe Oristanio, Eduardo Dussek, Dado Villa-Lobos, Cynthia Howlettand Alexandra Richter among others. On the morning of the same day, the family gathered for a mass celebrated for a few people, at the convent of Clarissas, in Gávea. Before that, during the early hours of the 20th, the actress went, with friends, to the place where the car was run over, where she laid flowers. = In the early hours of Tuesday, 20 July 2010, Rafael and two friends (João Pedro Gonçalves and Luiz Quinderé) were skateboarding in the Acoustic Tunnel, an extension of the Zuzu Angel Tunnel, when Mascarenhas was run over. The track was closed for maintenance as usual, always between 1:10 am and 4:10 am. According to the investigations, two vehicles were heading towards São Conrado and would have returned using an emergency passage that was open. The two cars, oneHonda Civic and a Fiat Siena, would have taken advantage of the track ban to bet on a crack. One of the vehicles, the Siena, hit Rafael Mascarenhas at high speed on the way down the tunnel. The driver of the car, Rafael de Souza Bussanra, left the scene without helping. After the incident, he was stopped by a police car, but was released after guaranteeing that he would pay bribes to the police. According to firefighters, Rafael was taken while still alive to the Miguel Couto Hospital, in Leblon, in the South Zone of the city. The Municipal Secretary of Health of Rio declared that the young man arrived at the unit with polytrauma to the head, chest, arms and legs. He was operated on, but died around 8 am on the same day. = Images from the tunnel exit monitoring system showed the moment when the car of the driver, Rafael de Souza Bussanra, was approached by a Military Police car, which should have driven them to the police station, which did not happen. Later, after the images surfaced, the military police officers who were in the vehicle, Sergeant Marcello José Leal Martins and Corporal Marcelo de Souza Bigon, did not notice any signs that the car had been involved. in an accident. However, the car arrived at the police station on the morning of 22 July, with half of the front destroyed. The vehicle had a broken windshield, dented hood, shattered headlights and was without a bumper. In testimony, Rafael Bussanra stated that the police charged him 10,000 reais to release the vehicle. According to the driver, the PMs would have asked him to get into the police car. They would have circulated through the Jardim Botânico neighborhood, passing by the headquarters of TV Globo, until the place marked to find the father of the driver, Roberto Bussamra. The duo would have asked Rafael's father for money, saying that they "did a good service" to the young man by removing the vehicle from the scene and cleaning up the scene of the hit-and-run. After paying R$1,000 to the police, thebusinessman would have refused to pay the rest of the combined money, an amount that the family claims to be R$10,000. On 5 October, the two police officers who were assigned to the 23rd Military Police Battalion ( Leblon ) were expelled from the force. The decision came from the General Commander of the Military Police, Colonel Mário Sérgio Duarte, who claims to have considered the evidence that indicts the accused, including the pecuniary advantage. Months later, on December 16, the Rio court granted habeas corpus to the two PMs who were being held at the Military Police Prison Unit, in Benfica, in the North Zone of Rio. = At dawn on 27 July, the reconstruction of the crime was carried out. The two friends who were skateboarding with Rafael at the time of the incident were summoned to participate: João Pedro Gonçalves and Luíz Quinderé; the two passengers in the Honda Civic that were supposed to compete in the "racha" with the Fiat Siena that hit Rafael: the passenger, Gustavo Martins, and the driver Gabriel Fernandes; and the two passengers on the Siena: the hitchhiker, André Liberal, and the driver, Rafael de Souza Bussanrra. The series of sprints, braking and measurements made by experts from the Carlos Éboli Institutegenerated data that helped the police understand what happened at the scene in the early hours of the accident. Based on the distance that Rafael Mascarenhas was thrown from the point where he was hit by the car, the experts calculated, based on the force necessary to throw the boy, the speed at which the vehicle was traveling. João Velho and Tomás Velho, the victim's brothers, accompanied the investigation, which lasted about five hours. = On 3 September, 44 days after the accident, the investigation into the death of Rafael Mascarenhas was concluded. The driver, Rafael Bussamra, was indicted for intentional homicide (when there is intent to kill) by the delegate of the 15th Police Station, Bárbara Lomba. According to the delegate, Bussamra was indicted for intentional homicide because there are indications that he was competing, at the time of the hit-and-run, with Gabriel Fernandes, who was driving the other car. Gabriel was indicted for intentional homicide. However, the Public Ministry did not accept the complaint against Gabriel Fernandes. Rafael Bussanra was also indicted for the crimes of procedural fraud, for having taken the car to the garage after the hit-and-run in an attempt to cover up evidence; escape from the site and active corruption. Roberto Bussamra, father of the hit-and-run driver, was also accused of this last crime. The two admitted having paid R$1,000 to two military police officers to cover up the accident scene and avoid arrest in the act. The hit man's brother, Guilherme Bussamra, was also indicted for fraudprocedural, for having helped the father to take the car to the garage after the hit-and-run. = First convictions: Gabriel Fernandes and Guilherme Bussamra On 7 December 2010, the judge of the 2nd Jury Court of Rio, Paulo de Oliveira Lanzelotti Baldez, approved the criminal transaction of Gabriel Fernandes and Guilherme Bussamra, accused of, respectively, participation in a public road in an unauthorized automobile race and fraud pending police procedure. The criminal transaction is a legal instrument that fits crimes with a sentence of less than two years. Thus, the defendants were sentenced to pay basic food baskets. Defendant Gabriel Fernandes was sentenced to pay 10 minimum wages in cash or food baskets to the Associação Brasileira Beneficente de Reabilitação (ABBR) and had his driver's license suspended for a period of one year. Guilherme de Souza Bussamra, (who helped hide the car of his brother who had been hit by a car in a workshop), will pay half the amount in cash or basic food baskets, to the same institution, since, according to his defense, he would be residing in São Paulo, which brought him expenses, making it difficult to pay the amount of 10 salaries. ABBR will choose the payment method to be received.

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2010 Rio de Janeiro security crisis

2010-11-27 20:58:50+00:00

In November 2010, there was a major security crisis in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro and some of its neighboring cities. The city's criminal drug trafficking factions initiated a series of attacks in response to the government placing permanent police forces into Rio's slums. In response to the attacks, the local police forces with the aid of the Brazilian Army and Marine Corps initiated a large scale offensive against two of the largest drug trafficking headquarters in the city, located in the Vila Cruzeiro and the neighboring Complexo do Alemão. The operation is considered a success by the government and local media and a large quantity of illegal drugs, weapons and money were confiscated. Violent acts by drug dealers consisted of incinerating cars, buses and trucks on the streets (over 181 motor vehicles were incinerated), and armed conflicts between the police and the drug dealers at different places of those cities. Being an elevated emergency situation, the local police, along with the BOPE, the Brazilian Army, and the Brazilian Marine Corps had been summoned in order to restore the peace in the city and counter-attack the drug traffickers by taking control of their headquarters in the favelas, located at the group of slums named Complexo do Alemão, which was finally taken by the police around 10:00 am of November 28. By the end of the favela violence, over 40 people (almost all of them criminals) had been killed in the conflict and over 200 people arrested. Though the attacks ended, the police and military forces still occupy the Complexo do Alemão, the largest favela in the city of Rio de Janeiro. November 21 In the afternoon, six heavily armed individuals incinerated two cars at Linha Vermelha, one of Rio's most important highways. Since then similar attacks started occurring throughout the city and another group of criminals opened fire against a Brazilian Air Force Vehicle. November 22 A police captain was shot at Dom Helder Camara Avenue. In addition to the attacks on cars, mass robberies happen in some streets. The government implies that "a small criminal faction" is responsible for the attacks and patrolling is increased. Three people were killed. November 23 A large scale operation from Rio's Military police invaded several slums of the city in search of those responsible for the series of attacks. Some sources indicate that the order for the attacks came from drug lords imprisoned in the Catanduvas Federal Maximum Security Prison. Three people died and five were arrested. November 24 The attacks on civilian and police targets intensify. The government declares an order calling all able members of the police force to reinforce patrols including those on license and performing administrative duties. Eight criminals imprisoned in the city responsible for taking part in the crisis are transferred to the Catanduvas Prison. Fifteen suspects were killed and at least thirty were arrested. The local government asked for the Brazilian Marine Corps' support to launch a counter offensive on the criminals. November 25 The Rio's Special Task Forces (BOPE) invades one of the city's most dangerous areas at the Vila Cruzeiro with the aid of several Marine Corps' armored vehicles. Dozens of criminals desperately fled to their nearby headquarters at the Complexo do Alemão. Details of the operation, including the criminals' run, are broadcast by the local TV stations to the whole world. November 26 The Brazilian government sent hundreds of soldiers from the Army and members of the Federal Police Force to further increase security in the city and put the Complexo do Alemão under siege. So far more than 100 vehicles were destroyed and around 40 people killed since the start of the crisis. The President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declares that the Federal Government fully supports Rio's government to end the situation as soon as possible. Spouses and lawyers of some of the imprisoned leaders of the criminal factions are arrested on suspicion of relaying their orders to start the attacks to their cohorts out of prison. November 27 The Joint task force composed of members of the local police, Army and Marine Corps gives an ultimatum to the criminals at the Complexo do Alemão to surrender while residents evacuate the premises in spite of the impending invasion. The wave of attacks on civilian targets start to fade. November 28 The Complexo do Alemão is taken over by the police with little resistance, but only a few criminals supposed to be hiding in the place are arrested. Further investigations point that the majority managed to escape through rough terrains around the Complex or through a network of illegal water canals built under the favelas. = Just after the occupation of the Complexo do Alemão and Vila Cruzeiro by the Army, the attacks on vehicles stopped and crisis came to an end. The police managed to apprehend around 40 tonnes of marijuana and 250 kilos of cocaine along with many other illicit drugs, dozens of weapons including pistols, assault rifles, explosives, machine guns, hundreds of stolen motorcycles and more than 30 stolen cars. The drugs were destroyed while the police were charged with the task of returning the stolen vehicles to their rightful owners. The losses suffered by the criminals are stated to surpass 200 million reais (around 120 million US dollars), not including the confiscated houses belonged to the faction's main leaders, fully equipped with many luxury items including multiple pools, jacuzzis and high level electronic hardware. Through a deal between the State government and the Federal government, the troops will remain stationed in the occupied area until a permanent police force is installed to maintain security. Despite the fact that most of the criminals managed to escape, the operation is considered by the local media as a major victory against crime in Rio de Janeiro and a turning point in the war against drug trafficking in Brazil.

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2010 in women's ice hockey

2011-05-28 18:21:33+00:00

The following are the women's ice hockey events of the year 2010 throughout the world. 2010 Clarkson Cup: Minnesota Whitecaps 2010 Four Nations Cup: Canada 2010 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship: Canada 2010 MLP Nations Cup: Canada 2010 Vancouver Olympics: Canada NCAA women's Frozen Four: Minnesota Duluth = January 1: Jayna Hefford scored the only goal in the shootout goal (Charline Labonté stopped all three American shooters) as Canada beat the U.S. by a score of 3–2. Before the match, Hefford was honoured for reaching the 200-game plateau in November. The game was played in front of 16,347 fans at Scotiabank Place. It was the largest Canadian crowd to watch a women's hockey game, surpassing the previous mark of 15,163 set Jan. 26, 1998 at the Calgary Saddledome. January 10: Vicki Bendus scored a goal and added two assists for the Canadian national women's under-22 team in the gold medal game of the 2010 MLP Cup. Canada defeated Switzerland, 9–0 in Ravensburg, Germany. The Canadian team won all four of their games by a combined score of 24–4, and secured their seventh goal medal in the past eight years. In three games, Bendus, Jesse Scanzano and Bailey Bram (from the Mercyhurst Lakers women's ice hockey team) combined for seven goals and 18 points. Benuds and Bram were tied for the tournament lead in scoring, and Bendus was named the tournament's top forward. February 4: The 2009–10 Finland women's national ice hockey team played the USA in an exhibition match in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The US won by a 5–1 mark. February 14: Canada defeated Slovakia by a record-setting score of 18–0 in their opening game of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games on Saturday. Jayna Hefford and Meghan Agosta scored three goals each for Canada who set a record for the most lopsided win women's Olympic hockey tournament history. Canada also held the previous record for the biggest blowout, a 16–0 demolition of host Italy at the Torino 2006 Olympic Games. Hefford finished with a game-high six points in front of a crowd of 16,496 at the Canada Hockey Place arena. Slovakia was making their first appearance in the women's tournament as they were promoted to the top level after winning the qualifying event. Slovakia was outshot 67–9. February 16: The undefeated McGill Martlets of Canadian Interuniversity Sport are the No. 1 ranked team for the 38th consecutive week, dating back to Nov. 6, 2007. On February 17, Hayley Wickenheiser became the all-time leading Olympic goal scorer as Canada defeated Sweden 13–1. Wickenheiser reached her record total of 16 career Olympic goals by scoring once on Wednesday as Canada followed up their 18–0 win over Slovakia and 10–1 defeat of Switzerland. In addition, Meghan Agosta scored a record third Olympic hat-trick in the match against Sweden to move on to eight goals in this tournament, equalling Danielle Goyette's record for most goals in one Olympic tournament, set in 1998. February 25: In the bronze medal game, Karoliina Rantamäki scored in overtime as Finland beat Sweden 3–2. Heidi Pelttari and Michelle Karvinen also scored for Finland. Noora Rätyä made 16 saves for Finland who led 2–1 after the second period. Rantamäki scored the winner just 2:33 into the overtime. February 26: The International Olympic Committee announced that it would investigate the after ice celebration of several Canadian women's hockey players. The cause for the investigation is the concern about the use of beer and cigars on the ice in Vancouver. Another cause for concern was 18-year-old Marie-Philip Poulin was drinking alcohol on the ice (the legal drinking age in British Columbia is 19.) The team had been on the ice for more than 70 minutes after the medal ceremony (only media and arena staff were present). The antics drew heavy criticism from within, and outside of, Canada, but also considerable support from Canadian fans.. February 28: After winning the gold medal, Canada has once again earned the number one ranking in the IIHF Women's World Ranking. Canada's men are also ranked first in the IIHF Men's World Ranking. March 14: The Alberta Pandas defeated the McGill Martlets to claim the 2010 Canadian Interuniversity Championship. The Pandas ended the Martlets historic 86-game unbeaten streak against CIS opponents. Said streak dated back to December 30, 2007. Panda skater Melody Howard's unassisted goal at 6:09 in the first period held up as the game-winning goal. Forward Alana Cabana scored the second goal of the game. March 21: The Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs defeated Cornell 3–2 in overtime to win its fifth Frozen Four. Jessica Wong scored the game-winning goal in overtime. Saara Tuominen and Jaime Rasmussen were the only players to have had two points in the championship game. March 21: Cornell goaltender Amanda Mazzotta set a record for most saves in an NCAA Championship game with 61 saves. The former record holder was Bulldog goaltender Patricia Sautter who had 41 saves in 2003. March 28: The Minnesota Whitecaps scored four goals against the Brampton Thunder as they became the first women's ice hockey team from the United States to claim the Clarkson Cup. = April 3: Jessica Campbell scores overtime winner in a 5–4 overtime triumph over the United States as Canada won the 2010 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship. April 24: The Thunder Bay Queens from Ontario, Canada were victorious in the gold medal game of the 2010 Esso Cup. The Queens defeating the Notre Dame Hounds of Manitoba by a 4–3 mark in the Co-operators Centre at Evraz Place. The Edmonton Thunder beat the Regina Rebels in the bronze medal game. June 5: The Manitoba Maple Leafs joined the Western Women's Hockey League. June 7: Jessica Wong of the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs was named Nova Scotia's Female Team Athlete of the Year by Sport Nova Scotia. Wong was given the Ricoh Sport Award. She scored a goal to win the 2010 NCAA title in triple-overtime, and she scored two goals to earn an Under-22 Women's World Championship gold. = August 12: The Canadian Women's Hockey League hosted the 2010 CWHL Draft. The event was held at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto at 7:00 pm. August 12: The CWHL announced that the city of Boston would receive an expansion team. The unnamed team would practice at Ristuccia Arena in Wilmington. September 11: The Centre Etienne Desmarteau in Montreal, Québec, named one of the rinks in the arena in Caroline Ouellette's honour. September 16, 2010: Hayley Wickenheiser announced that she would return to the University of Calgary to complete her Kinesiology degree. She also announced that she would join the Dinos women's hockey team. September 17: Former New Hampshire goaltender Erin Whitten was named head coach of the Boston expansion franchise. September 18: Canadian Olympic gold medallist Gillian Ferrari, a first-year Martlets player scored her first-ever CIS goal. It was on a 4-on-3 power play versus Wilfrid Laurier University. = October 1: Mercyhurst Lakers player Meghan Agosta joined Jesse Scanzano as only the second Mercyhurst player to have 100 career assists. She picked up the assist in the second period. October 1: In her first game as a Minnesota Golden Gopher, Amanda Kessel registered four points (two goals, two assists). The following day, Kessel scored the game-winning goal as the Gophers won by a 3–0 score. The game against Clarkson marked the first time in school history that the Gophers opened a season against a ranked opponent. October 2: Olympic gold medallist Marie-Philip Poulin debuted with the Boston University Terriers women's ice hockey program. In her first game, she scored the first goal of her NCAA career. It was a 4–5 loss at North Dakota. October 8: Hayley Wickenheiser played in her first CIS game with the Calgary Dinos. She earned first star honours and had two goals and one assist. October 9: With a 1–0 shutout over Wayne State, the Minnesota Golden Gophers have not allowed a goal in 180 minutes. Dating back to the 2009–10 season, Minnesota has not allowed a goal in 200:45 minutes played. October 12: The WCHA conference had five of its teams ranked in the two national polls for the week. It is believed to be the first time five WCHA teams have ever been ranked among the top 10 in the nation at one time. October 15: Bailey Bram of the Mercyhurst Lakers registered two assists, including her 100th career point, in a game against the Bemidji State Beavers. She became the 11th Lakers player to crack the century mark in the 4–0 win. October 15: With her third shorthanded goal of the season on October 15, Boston University freshman Marie-Philip Poulin tied BU's single-season record for shorthanded tallies in just four games. October 16: In a 7–1 win against Connecticut, Isabel Menard recorded the first hat trick in Syracuse Orange women's ice hockey history (and added an assist). On October 23, 2010, Jocelyne Lamoureux of North Dakota, had a hat trick and one assist. In addition, one of her goals was the game-winning goal. The hat trick was the first by a North Dakota player since Cami Wooster in 2005. As the Mercyhurst Lakers went 6–1–0 in October 2010, freshman Christine Bestland scored four goals, including two in a 7–3 defeat of the Robert Morris Colonials. In addition, she had six assists. In her first game as a Laker, she scored a goal. She registered points in five of the seven games played and finished the month with a plus/minus rating of +13. For her efforts, she was recognized as College Hockey America's Rookie of the Month. November 8: Cammi Granato and Angela James became the first two women formally inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. November 12–13: Kelly Babstock made Quinnipiac Bobcats women's ice hockey history as she accounted for six of the seven goals scored over the weekend. Babstock registered back to back hat tricks against ECAC opponents (No. 10 ranked Harvard and Dartmouth). In addition, she is the first skater in Quinnipiac history to record two hat tricks in one season. As of November 14, Babstock led the team and the entire NCAA in goals (13) and points (27). November 13: The 1–0 shutout by the Connecticut Huskies on November 13 ended New Hampshire's 17-game unbeaten streak against the Huskies The Huskies penalty kill was a perfect 6-of-6 on the weekend. The shutout on November 13 marked the first time the Wildcats were shut out at home since Nov. 28, 2004 (by Mercyhurst), a streak of 109 consecutive home games. November 13: Rebecca Johnston scored the game-winning goal for Canada in a 3–2 overtime win to claim the 2010 Four Nations Cup. November 20–21: The Montreal Stars swept the Brampton Thunder in a 2-game series. The battle between the top two teams in the Canadian Women's Hockey League resulted in Montreal remaining undefeated. The November 20th game involved a pre-game salute. Montreal recognized Angela James, the head coach of Brampton, for her historic induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame, and held a minute of silence for the passing of Pat Burns at the Étienne Desmarteau Arena. November 21: Northeastern Huskies freshman Katie McSorley recorded her first career hat trick and added two assists as the Huskies prevailed by a 5–1 tally over the Providence Friars. The hat trick was the first hat trick for a Northeastern player since Julia Marty in 2008. It was also the first five-point game by a Husky since Chelsey Jones tallied five points against Maine on Dec. 3, 2006. Dec. 1: Northeastern Huskies freshman Rachel Llanes scored the first and last goal of the game in Northeastern's 4–0 win over New Hampshire with six shots on goal. It was her first-ever multi-goal game. Another freshman, Katie MacSorley scored a goal in the 4–0 win over New Hampshire. Florence Schelling made 22 saves for her third shutout of the season. With the win, Northeastern snapped a 27-game unbeaten streak (0–26–1) against New Hampshire. Their last win over New Hampshire was Jan. 21, 2001, a 2–1 win. In addition, the fact that it was a shutout victory marks the first over UNH in the history of the program. On Friday, Dec. 3 against Brown University, Kelly Babstock became Quinnipiac's all-time leader in goals scored in a season by netting her 16th goal of the season. Babstock's nation leading sixth game-winning goal against Yale on Saturday, Dec. 4 was part of a Bobcats 3–1 win. December 19: The Boston Blades came from behind to defeat Montreal. In doing so, they broke up Montreal's bid for an undefeated season. Boston goalie Mandy Cronin stopped 74 shots to lead Boston to victory. Montreal had an early 2–0 lead. In the 2nd period, Blades player Sam Faber scored on an assist by Jess Koizumi. In the third period, Koizumi would tie the game. With 3:24 to play in the game, Angela Ruggiero scored the game-winning goal. She was assisted by Sam Faber and Haley Moore. December 31: Charline Labonte required only 13 saves to post her 59th career shutout as McGill defeated the nationally ranked fifth overall Alberta Pandas by a 3–0 mark in the final game of the Bisons Holiday Classic tournament at Max Bell Arena. In the game, the Martlets held a 31–13 edge in shots. Gillian Ferrari was credited with the game-winner on the power-play at 5:49 of the first period. Jasmine Sheehan, a fifth-year defender scored the second goal of the game. Logan Murray, a freshman from Calgary, scored the last goal of the contest. Sports Illustrated listed Emmanuelle Blais as one of its "Faces In The Crowd" (in its April 19, 2010, issue). Part of the recognition is attributed to Blais earning the 2010 NCAA Frozen Four's Most Outstanding Player award on March 21. Blais is also a 2009–10 RBK First Team All-American. Her 1.59 points per game was the fifth highest total in the country. Her 32 goals led the NCAA, and she had a career high of 65 points. 2010 CIS Tournament MVP: Stephanie Ramsay, Alberta Pandas 2010 CIS Tournament All-Stars Goaltender: Dana Vinge, Alberta Pandas Defense: Stephanie Ramsay, Alberta Pandas Defense: Cathy Chartrand, McGill Martlets Forward: Andrea Ironside, Laurier Golden Hawks Forward: Leah Copeland, Alberta Pandas Forward: Kyla Thurston, Saint Mary's Huskies 2010 Clarkson Cup Megan Van Beusekom-Sweerin: Top goaltender in the tournament Brooke White, Player of the Game, Minnesota, Clarkson Cup Final Bobbi Jo Slusar, Player of the Game, Brampton, Clarkson Cup Final Julie Chu, Minnesota, Tournament MVP. Lori Dupuis, Brampton, Top forward in the tournament Molly Engstrom, Brampton, Top defender in the tournament 2010 CWHL Awards Most Valuable Player: Sabrina Harbec, Montréal Angela James Bowl: Top Scorer Sabrina Harbec, Montréal Outstanding Rookie: Danielle Blanchard, Vaughan CWHL Top Players Top Forward: Sabrina Harbec, Montréal Top Defender: Annie Guay, Montréal Top Goaltender: Laura Hosier, Brampton 2010 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship Directorate Awards Best Goalkeeper: Alex Rigsby Best Defenseman: Brigette Lacquette Best Forward: Kendall Coyne 2010 MLP Cup Vicki Bendus, Top Forward 2010 NCAA awards 2010 NCAA All-America honors First team Second team 2010 Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player Emmanuelle Blais 2010 Vancouver Olympics Olympic MVP – Meghan Agosta (CAN) Media All-Star Team G – Shannon Szabados D – Angela Ruggiero D – Molly Engstrom F – Meghan Agosta F – Marie-Philip Poulin F – Jenny Potter Directorate Awards Best Goalkeeper: Shannon Szabados Best Forward: Meghan Agosta Best Defenceman: Molly Engstrom Daron Richardson (daughter of former NHL hockey player and Ottawa Senators assistant coach Luke Richardson) was a competitive ice hockey player in the Ottawa, Ontario, area who died on November 13, 2010. On November 18, 2010, 5,600 mourners attended a celebration of life ceremony for Daron at Scotiabank Place. Elizabeth Turgeon was 18 years old. She died December 23, 2010. She was a player of Colorado Select in the Junior Women's Hockey League. Turgeon was a member of U.S. Women's Under-18 team that won a gold medal in 2008.

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Synchronised swimming at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Women's duet

2010-10-06 19:47:20+00:00

The women's duet synchronized swimming event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games was held from 6 to 7 October, at the SPM Swimming Pool Complex. 7 duets competed, each consisting of two swimmers. There were two rounds of competition. The preliminary round consisted of a technical routine and a free routine.

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Synchronised swimming at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Women's solo

2010-10-08 02:41:05+00:00

The women's solo synchronized swimming event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games was held on 6 and 7 October, at the SPM Swimming Pool Complex. Eight soloists competed. There were two rounds of competition, with the preliminary round consisting of a technical routine and a free routine.

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Women's World Chess Championship 2010

2010-01-06 01:55:53+00:00

The Women's World Chess Championship 2010 took place in Antakya, Turkey from December 2 through 24, 2010. The tournament, like the previous ones, was played in a 64-player knock-out format. Each pairing consisted of two games, one with white and one with black, from which the winner advanced. In case of a tie, tiebreaks were played the next day, consisting of two rapid games and—if still tied—an Armageddon match. The final consisted of four games at classical time control, if necessary followed by four rapid tiebreak games. The title was won by Hou Yifan from China who beat her compatriot Ruan Lufei in the final by 5–3, at 16 years of age making her the youngest Women's World Chess Champion in history. Players were seeded by their Elo ratings (November 2010 list), except that defending champion Alexandra Kosteniuk was the No. 1 seed. = = The number one woman in the world, Judit Polgár, never competed for the women's title and did not enter this time either. World number five, Nadezhda Kosintseva, did not play either, although her sister Tatiana (ranked 4th) did. Other names missing from the top 20 were: Irina Krush (17th), former finalist Alisa Galliamova (19th) and ex-champion Xu Yuhua (20th). Iweta Rajlich and Arianne Caoili were listed as participants but unable to attend; their scheduled opponents, Jovanka Houska and Ju Wenjun, were given byes through to the second round. = =

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Alto Río building collapse

2024-05-24 20:14:51+00:00

The Alto Río building (Spanish: Edificio Alto Río) was a 14-story apartment building located on Los Carrera Avenue, in the city of Concepción, Chile. Just one year after its completion, the building collapsed and broke in half due to the 2010 Chile earthquake. Alto Río was the only multi-story building that collapsed completely during the 8.8 earthquake that hit central Chile on 27 February, 2010. At 3:34 a.m. local time (6:34 a.m UTC), the full structure gave way and trapped most of its residents inside. The official final death toll counted 8 people, while nearly other 70 were rescued alive with injuries. On January 2011, the former residents were allowed to enter and recover some of their personal belongings. Many stated they could take some valued objects and others were able to retrieve their cars. = The legal case was known as "Alto Río Case" and lasted for over two years, including four months of hearings, thus becoming the longest trial process after the 2000-2005 Chilean Judicial Reform. The defendants were: construction company Socovil's CEO Juan Ignacio Ortigosa, sales manager Felipe Parra, engineers René Petinelli and Pedro Ortigosa, project manager Ricardo Baeza, construction director Mario Valeria and construction managers Héctor Torres and José Luis Paredes. On 31 October, 2012, all but engineer Petinelli were acquitted. The ruling caused public outrage, even among governmental authorities and parliament members.

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Lalita Park building collapse

2010-11-17 20:59:21+00:00

The Lalita Park building collapse occurred at 8:15 p.m. local time on 15 November 2010 in the Indian capital of New Delhi. The 15-year-old building was in the Lalita Park neighborhood, near Lakshmi Nagar in East Delhi close to the Yamuna River. The building housed about 200 people, mostly poor migrant families, but also some small businesses. A fifth floor was under construction. The building was two floors higher than legally allowed, and its foundation had been weakened by water damage from recent flooding in the region. At least 67 people were killed and 73 were injured in the collapse. A magisterial inquiry into the incident was ordered. Under Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code, a charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder was registered against the building's owner, Amrit Singh. Singh fled but was later captured. The Government of Delhi announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the families of those killed and Rs 1 lakh to the injured.

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Anne (British TV series)

2022-01-10 09:08:43+00:00

Anne, subtitled One Mother's Story, is a British historical drama television miniseries developed by World Productions. Starring Maxine Peake as the titular campaigner Anne Williams, the four-part drama revolves around the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 and its aftermath. The series premiered on ITV on 2 January 2022 and aired for four consecutive nights. Maxine Peake as Anne Williams Stephen Walters as Steve Williams Campbell Wallace as Kevin Williams Bobby Schofield as Michael Williams Lily Shepherd and Ellie May Davies as Sara Williams Clare Calbraith as Sheila Coleman Rob Jarvis as John Glover Matthew McNulty as Andy Burnham Polly Kemp as Ann Adlington Raymond Waring as Steve Hart Ian Puleston-Davies as Phil Scraton Gracie Kelly as Debra Martin = The series was in development as of 2018. After some deliberation, the dramatisation of Anne Williams' life and work by World Productions for ITV received approval from her real life daughter Sara, who was nine when the disaster occurred. She would help with the script, written by Kevin Sampson, author of Hillsborough Voices. Bruce Goodison would direct and Simon Heath of World Productions would executive produce the drama. = It was announced in September 2018 that Maxine Peake would star as Anne Williams. Stephen Walters would co-star as Williams' husband Steve. = Principal photography was scheduled to begin on location in Liverpool in summer 2018. Cast and crew were reported in Formby, at St George's Hall, and at Anfield that October. Steve Kelly, who lost his brother Michael in the Hillsborough disaster and was consulted for the series, stated he did a "double take" watching Peake on set. Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 100% based on 7 reviews, with an average rating of 8.4/10. =

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Arrow season 4

2016-06-06 19:59:35+00:00

The fourth season of the American television series Arrow premiered on The CW on October 7, 2015, and concluded on May 25, 2016, with a total of 23 episodes. The series is based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow, a costumed crime-fighter created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp, and is set in the Arrowverse, sharing continuity with other Arrowverse television series. The showrunners for this season were Marc Guggenheim and Wendy Mericle. Stephen Amell stars as Oliver Queen, with principal cast members Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance, David Ramsey as John Diggle, Willa Holland as Thea Queen, Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak, John Barrowman as Malcolm Merlyn and Paul Blackthorne as Quentin Lance also returning from previous seasons. The series follows billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), who claimed to have spent five years shipwrecked on Lian Yu, a mysterious island in the North China Sea, before returning home to Starling City (later renamed "Star City") to fight crime and corruption as a secret vigilante whose weapon of choice is a bow and arrow. In the fourth season, Oliver and Felicity try and start a new life in Ivy Town, but returns to Starling City, now renamed Star City, when a terrorist group known as H.I.V.E. led by the mystically enhanced Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough) is attacking the city. Oliver resumes vigilantism under the new moniker of "Green Arrow". John discovers his brother Andy (Eugene Byrd) is alive and a H.I.V.E. soldier; Thea works with Oliver as "Speedy", but with a violent temper; Laurel attempts to resurrect Sara using the Lazarus Pit; and Curtis Holt (Echo Kellum) aids Felicity and the team. Oliver's life as a vigilante and with Felicity are complicated by his mayoral run and the discovery of the existence of his son, William (Jack Moore). Laurel dies in a fight with Damien and Oliver discovers his plan to detonate nuclear weapons and rule the Earth's remains. The season features flashbacks to Oliver's fourth year since he was presumed dead, where Amanda Waller sends Oliver back to Lian Yu to infiltrate Shadowspire, where he meets John Constantine (Matt Ryan) and encounters a mystical idol used by Darhk in the present-day narrative. The series was renewed for its fourth season in January 2015, and filming began in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada that July and ended in April 2016. The season premiere received a positive critical response, however the season as a whole was received more negatively. The season averaged 2.9 million viewers each week. This season includes the second annual Arrowverse crossover with TV series The Flash, which served as an introduction to spin-off TV series Legends of Tomorrow. It also featured the first live-action appearance of Megalyn Echikunwoke as Vixen, from the eponymous animated web series, as well as an appearance by Matt Ryan reprising his role as John Constantine from the NBC series Constantine. The season was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 30, 2016. The series was renewed for a fifth season on March 11, 2016. = Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen / Green Arrow Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance / Black Canary David Ramsey as John Diggle / Spartan Willa Holland as Thea Queen / Speedy Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak / Overwatch John Barrowman as Malcolm Merlyn / Dark Archer Paul Blackthorne as Quentin Lance = = = In January 2015, The CW President Mark Pedowitz announced Arrow's renewal for a fourth season at the 2014 Television Critics Association event. Series creator Marc Guggenheim returned as showrunner, while co-executive producer and writer Wendy Mericle was promoted to co-showrunner. = The season introduces two major changes to the series: Starling City being renamed as Star City, and Oliver Queen returning to vigilantism as the "Green Arrow", the same vigilante identity he uses in the comics. Regarding the latter, speaking before the season premiere, Wendy Mericle said, "It felt right for the natural evolution of Oliver's character to become what we know in the comics". Teasing Damien Darhk, the season's big bad, series co-creator Andrew Kreisberg said, "We've always referred to Ra's al Ghul [Matt Nable] as the worst thing that can happen to Oliver and his team, but when you see the first two episodes of season four, you'll quickly realize that Ra's was in the nursery compared to what Damien's got in store for everybody". He called Darhk a "different" villain than the previous ones, saying "He's a bit more colorful, a bit more fun and is very dangerous and commanding and leads an army of followers who would die at his command. But he's funnier, more charming and fits in with our whole shading this year where we've made things lighter." The season also sees many of the characters taking on vigilante codenames: Spartan (John Diggle), Speedy (Thea Queen), and Overwatch (Felicity Smoak). Guggenheim originally hoped to bring Helena Bertinelli / Huntress (Jessica De Gouw) back after failing to include her last season, describing that the crew had a "kick-ass" idea for a Huntress episode. = Main cast members Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, David Ramsey, Willa Holland, Emily Bett Rickards, John Barrowman and Paul Blackthorne return from previous seasons as Oliver Queen, Laurel Lance / Black Canary, John Diggle / Spartan, Thea Queen / Speedy, Malcolm Merlyn, and Quentin Lance. This was initially Cassidy's final season as a regular, due to her character dying in the episode "Eleven-Fifty-Nine"; she would later return as a guest star in season 5, and be reinstated as a regular starting with season 6. Colton Haynes, who portrayed Roy Harper / Arsenal as a regular in seasons two and three, returned in a guest capacity. Neal McDonough recurs as Damien Darhk. = The Green Arrow costume was designed by Maya Mani. It is more armored than the Arrow costume, eschews sleeves and features shoulder pads and archer's gauntlets, in addition to having many pockets and holsters. Diggle's Spartan costume consists of a steel gray jacket-and-pants combination along with a face-protecting helmet. In response to criticism of the Spartan helmet resembling that worn by the Marvel Comics character Magneto, Ramsey said, "I know there's a lot of criticism that it looks like the Magneto helmet. But by the time you see Diggle in action – we also get into what the helmet can do – you won't be thinking of the X-Men at all." = Filming for the season began in mid-July 2015 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and ended in late April 2016. = In May 2015, Amell revealed he had had discussions with DC Entertainment to portray Oliver Queen on Constantine because its title character, John Constantine is an expert on the Lazarus Pit, a concept used on Arrow. In August 2015, it was confirmed that Constantine star Matt Ryan would appear on Arrow in the fourth season episode "Haunted", per a "one-time-only" deal that would involve his character being "brought in to deal with the fallout of the resurrection of Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) via Ra's al Ghul's Lazarus Pit." As Arrow and Constantine were both produced by Warner Bros. Television, the producers of Arrow were able to acquire Ryan's original outfits. John Badham, who was a director on Constantine, directed "Haunted". On filming the episode, Guggenheim stated it felt like the production team was "doing a Constantine/Arrow crossover, and it's so exciting... we're just really glad we got the chance to extend Matt Ryan's run as Constantine by at least one more hour of television. I think you'll see he fits very neatly into our universe. It never feels forced, it feels right." Season four includes the second annual crossover with The Flash: "Heroes Join Forces", which also serves as the setup for Legends of Tomorrow. The season also saw the live-action debut of Vixen with, Megalyn Echikunwoke reprising her role from the animated web series of the same name. = The season began airing in the United States on The CW on October 7, 2015, and completed its 23-episode run on May 25, 2016. = The season was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 30, 2016, with special features including the second annual Arrowverse crossover event titled "Heroes Join Forces". It began streaming on Netflix on October 5, 2016. = The season premiere earned positive reviews, with Jesse Schedeen of IGN giving it 8.5, stating "Arrow is showing every sign of addressing the flaws that bogged down Season 3", and Morgan Jeffery of Digital Spy describing the series as being "back on form". However, the response to the season as a whole was more critical. Whilst overall Alasdair Wilkins of The A.V. Club considered the season finale to be a "perfectly decent end to a perfectly decent season", and that season four addressed some of the weaknesses of previous seasons, in particular in terms of a strong villain presence in Neil McDonough he also noted that "This season was a step in the right direction, but a proper return to past glory still feels awfully far away." Entertainment Weekly's Jonathon Dornbush summarized the season as "one that at times hinted at the promise of the show's glory days but often was almost as at odds with itself as Oliver is with himself." Overall, he criticized the lack of focus in the flashbacks, a failure to build up Dahrk's plans and motivations consistently and the lack of hope in a season where Oliver was attempting to give hope to others. Writing for TV Overmind, Andy Behbakht criticized the decision to kill off Laurel Lance, feeling the character was underutilized and "The Black Canary was in many ways one of Arrow's big hearts and seeing the show losing that character, makes the series lose a lot of its remaining magic". For the same website, Caroline Schlafly criticized the way Felicity was written throughout the season and felt that at times it gave her too much focus. However, overall she was pleased with the change in tone the season brought, and in particular praised the growth in Oliver's character, noting that, "Arrow is no longer a dark show about a vigilante who's willing to murder. It's about Oliver Queen and his teammates, and how they develop and interact as they fight crime and villains and Star City. Sure, right now the team is monopolized by Felicity – but hopefully that will change, and we'll still be left with these other fantastic changes." In his review of "Canary Cry", Eric Francisco of Inverse said, "Arrow is not a good TV show anymore [...] The centerpiece series that started the evolving, expansive DC TV universe has mutated into a horrid, audio/visual white noise", and was particularly critical of the portrayals of Oliver, Diggle, Thea and Felicity in the season, along with the handling of Laurel's death. Reviewing the season as a whole for IGN, Jesse Schedeen noted that "The fourth season made some significant strides, but ultimately failed to address the show's fundamental problem ". He praised the addition of McDonough as Darhk, as well as guest appearances including Matt Ryan as Constantine which helped seat the show within a wider DC Universe. He noted how the season suffered at times in its first half from having to lay the groundwork for spin-off Legends of Tomorrow. Whilst he praised the work of directors Lexi Alexander and James Bamford, as well as actress Emily Bett Rickards and felt the first half of the season built well, overall he felt that the season was failed in the second half by a feeling that "the writers were merely spinning their wheels before ushering in the final battle against HIVE". He was particularly critical of the narrative structure of the flashback sequences and the way in which many of the season's major plot lines ended where "the payoff didn't do justice to the setup." Giving the season a 6.6, he concluded "Arrow's fourth season had plenty of great episodes but ultimately failed to come together as a satisfying whole." Rotten Tomatoes gave the season an 85% approval rating based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 7.55/10. The critical consensus reads: "Season four of Arrow flourishes with a refreshing new tone, a thrilling new villain, and a gripping story arc." = The fourth season averaged 2.90 million viewers across the 23 episodes and ranked 145th among television show viewership. =

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Better Call Saul

2011-06-30 15:14:28+00:00

Better Call Saul is an American legal crime drama television series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould for AMC. Part of the Breaking Bad franchise, it is a spin-off of Gilligan's previous series, Breaking Bad (2008–2013), to which it serves primarily as a prequel, with some scenes taking place during and after the events of Breaking Bad. Better Call Saul premiered on AMC on February 8, 2015, and ended on August 15, 2022, after six seasons consisting of 63 episodes. Set primarily in the early to mid 2000s in Albuquerque, New Mexico, several years before Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul examines the ethical decline of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), an aspiring lawyer and former con artist who becomes the egocentric criminal-defense attorney Saul Goodman, and Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), a former corrupt police officer who becomes a fixer and enforcer for drug traffickers. Other main characters include Jimmy's romantic interest and colleague Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), his brother and rival Chuck McGill (Michael McKean), Chuck's law partner Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian), drug dealer Nacho Varga (Michael Mando), drug lord Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), and cartel enforcer Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton). In addition to the primary storyline, Better Call Saul includes black-and-white flashforwards set in 2010, after the events of Breaking Bad, which explore the consequences of Saul's eventual partnership with the drug lord Walter White (Bryan Cranston). Gilligan, who created and developed Breaking Bad, and Gould, who wrote the Breaking Bad episode "Better Call Saul", began considering a Saul Goodman spin-off in 2009. Because Saul's role in Breaking Bad had expanded beyond the writing staff's plans, Gilligan felt he could be explored further. He and Gould considered making a half-hour legal comedy featuring Saul and his various clients, but settled on an hour-long tragedy showing how he develops into the character seen in Breaking Bad. Better Call Saul's development began during the production of Breaking Bad's final season in 2013, with Gilligan and Gould serving as co-showrunners and numerous production staff returning. Odenkirk, Banks, and Esposito reprise their roles from Breaking Bad, as do many others in guest appearances. Gilligan left Better Call Saul early in the third season—making Gould the sole showrunner for the remainder of its run—though he returned to help write the final season. Better Call Saul received critical acclaim, with praise for its acting, characters, writing, direction, and cinematography. Many reviewers have considered it a worthy successor to Breaking Bad—some deeming it superior to its predecessor—and one of the greatest television series of all time. It has garnered many awards and nominations, including two Peabody Awards, 53 Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards, 19 Writers Guild of America Awards, 20 Critics' Choice Television Awards, nine Screen Actors Guild Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards nominations. At the time of its airing, the series premiere held the record for the highest-rated scripted series premiere in basic cable history. Better Call Saul is a spin-off of Breaking Bad, a popular crime drama television series that ran from 2008 to 2013. It is primarily a prequel that focuses on Jimmy McGill, a former con artist aiming to gain respectability as a public defender, and chronicles his gradual transformation into his eventual Breaking Bad persona of Saul Goodman, the flamboyant criminal lawyer with ties to the drug cartel. A majority of the show takes place over the six-year period prior to the events of Breaking Bad, spanning from approximately 2002 to 2008. Jimmy is inspired by his older brother Chuck McGill to leave his Chicago-area conman past, when he was known as "Slippin' Jimmy". He initially works in the mailroom at his brother's Albuquerque law firm, Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM), where managing partner Howard Hamlin becomes his nemesis. While at HHM Jimmy befriends Kim Wexler, a fellow mailroom employee who completes law school and becomes one of the firm's associates, and their friendship later turns romantic. Jimmy is motivated by Chuck's success to finish college and complete a Juris Doctor degree through a correspondence law school, the fictitious University of American Samoa. After attaining admission to the bar but being denied employment at HHM, Jimmy's pursuits focus on low-paying clients, including working as a public defender. He later begins to build a practice in elder law, which leads to a prolonged lawsuit against a nursing home chain he discovers is defrauding its clients. He and Chuck begin working together on a class-action suit, which Chuck quickly turns over to HHM, squeezing Jimmy out. Jimmy begins to unravel due to Chuck's constant belittling, sabotage, and vindictive behavior toward him. Jimmy's life and career begin to intersect with the illegal narcotics trade and feature characters and story arcs that continue into Breaking Bad. Among these arcs is the uneasy relationship between rival members of a drug cartel. On one side is Gus Fring, a fried chicken entrepreneur whose restaurant chain is a front business for his narcotics distribution. On the other are the Salamancas, a Mexican crime family who claim to have begun the drug trade in New Mexico. They are led by Hector Salamanca, and later by his nephew Lalo Salamanca. Those caught up in the conflict between Gus and the Salamancas include Ignacio "Nacho" Varga, a Salamanca associate who wants to protect his father from harm, and Mike Ehrmantraut, a former Philadelphia police officer who becomes a fixer for Gus but also has ties to Jimmy. As his interactions with criminals continue, Jimmy takes on the persona of the colorful Saul Goodman, and he starts to draw on his conman past while his work as an attorney goes from questionable to unethical to illegal. In addition to selected scenes that take place within the Breaking Bad timeline, the show includes flashforwards, shown in black and white, to events following Breaking Bad. Taking place in 2010, these flashforwards show Jimmy living as a fugitive under the identity of Gene Takavic, the manager of a Cinnabon store in Omaha, Nebraska. The flashforwards comprise the opening scenes of the first five season premieres, and make up nearly the entirety of the episodes towards the end of the series. = Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman / Gene Takavic, a lawyer and a former scam artist, who becomes involved with the criminal world. Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut, a former Philadelphia police officer working as a parking lot attendant at the Albuquerque courthouse, and later a private investigator, bodyguard and "cleaner". Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler, a lawyer who became a close friend of Jimmy's as she worked her way through the ranks at the Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM) law firm. She becomes Jimmy's confidante and later the two develop a romantic relationship and marry. Patrick Fabian as Howard Hamlin, the managing partner at Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill, who appears to be Jimmy's nemesis until it becomes clear that he was acting under Chuck McGill's orders. Michael Mando as Nacho Varga, an intelligent, ambitious member of Hector Salamanca's drug ring who also works for his father's upholstery shop. Michael McKean as Chuck McGill (seasons 1–3; special guest seasons 4 and 6), Jimmy's elder brother and a founding partner of HHM who is confined to his home because of his electromagnetic hypersensitivity and expresses disdain for his brother's legal career. Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring (seasons 3–6), the owner of the fast food restaurant chain Los Pollos Hermanos, which is a front to distribute cocaine for the Mexican cartel, in uneasy cooperation with the Salamanca family. He nurses grudges against cartel boss Don Eladio and Salamanca patriarch Hector Salamanca. Fring wants to switch from cocaine to locally produced methamphetamine so he can end his dependence on the cartel. Tony Dalton as Lalo Salamanca (seasons 5–6; recurring season 4), Hector's charismatic and sociopathic nephew, who helps run the family drug business after Hector's stroke. He is the cousin of Tuco, Leonel, and Marco. = Introduced in season 1 Kerry Condon as Stacey Ehrmantraut, Mike's widowed daughter-in-law and the mother of Kaylee Ehrmantraut Faith Healey (season 1), Abigail Zoe Lewis (seasons 2–4) and Juliet Donenfeld (seasons 5–6) as Kaylee Ehrmantraut, Mike's granddaughter Eileen Fogarty as Mrs. Nguyen, owner of a nail salon which houses Jimmy's law office in its utility room Peter Diseth as Deputy District Attorney Bill Oakley Joe DeRosa as Dr. Caldera, a veterinarian with ties to the criminal underworld Dennis Boutsikaris as Rich Schweikart, a partner at Schweikart & Cokely Mark Proksch as Daniel "Pryce" Wormald, a drug company employee who begins supplying Nacho and hires Mike as security Brandon K. Hampton as Ernesto, Chuck's assistant who works at HHM Josh Fadem as Marshall/Joey Dixon ("Camera Guy"), one of the three University of New Mexico (UNM) film students who help Jimmy film various projects Julian Bonfiglio as Phil ("Sound Guy"), one of the three UNM film students Jimmy hires for various film projects Jeremy Shamos and Julie Ann Emery as Craig and Betsy Kettleman, a county treasurer and his wife, accused of embezzlement Steven Levine and Daniel Spenser Levine as Lars and Cal Lindholm, twin skateboarders and small-time scam artists Míriam Colón as Abuelita Salamanca, Tuco's grandmother and Hector's mother Barry Shabaka Henley as Detective Sanders, a Philadelphia cop who was formerly partnered with Mike on the force Mel Rodriguez as Marco Pasternak, Jimmy's best friend and partner-in-crime in Cicero, Illinois Clea DuVall as Dr. Cruz, a doctor who treats Chuck and suspects his electromagnetic hypersensitivity condition is psychosomatic Jean Effron as Irene Landry, an elderly client of Jimmy McGill overcharged by the Sandpiper Crossing elder care home Steven Ogg as Sobchak, a petty crook for hire Introduced in season 2 Ed Begley Jr. as Clifford Main, managing partner at Davis & Main where Jimmy worked during season two Omar Maskati as Omar, Jimmy's assistant at Davis & Main Jessie Ennis as Erin Brill, a lawyer at Davis & Main who is ordered to shadow Jimmy Juan Carlos Cantu as Manuel Varga, Nacho's father, who owns an Albuquerque upholstery shop Vincent Fuentes as Arturo Colon, a criminal associate of Hector Salamanca Rex Linn as Kevin Wachtell, chairman of Mesa Verde Bank and Trust and a client of HHM and Kim Cara Pifko as Paige Novick, senior legal counsel for Mesa Verde Bank and Trust and a friend of Kim Ann Cusack as Rebecca Bois, Chuck's ex-wife Julie Pearl as Assistant District Attorney Suzanne Ericsen Manuel Uriza as Ximenez Lecerda, an associate of Hector Salamanca Hayley Holmes as Cheri ("Make-Up Girl"/"Drama Girl"), one of the three University of New Mexico film students Jimmy hires for various projects Introduced in season 3 Kimberly Hebert Gregory as Assistant District Attorney Kyra Hay Harrison Thomas as Lyle, the dedicated assistant manager of Los Pollos Hermanos Tamara Tunie as Anita, a member of Mike and Stacey's support group Bonnie Bartlett as Helen, Irene's friend and member of the affected class in the Sandpiper lawsuit Introduced in season 4 Don Harvey (seasons 4–5) and Pat Healy (season 6) as Jeff, a taxi cab driver in the present that recognizes Gene as Saul Goodman Rainer Bock as Werner Ziegler, an engineer hired by Gus to plan and oversee construction of his meth "superlab" Ben Bela Böhm as Kai, a rebellious member of the crew Werner Ziegler assembles for the construction of Gus's meth "superlab" Stefan Kapičić as Casper, a member of Werner Ziegler's team Poorna Jagannathan as Maureen Bruckner, a specialist from Johns Hopkins who flew to Albuquerque to treat Hector after Gus arranged for a "generous grant" Keiko Agena as Viola Goto, Kim Wexler's paralegal Introduced in season 5 Max Bickelhaup as Buddy, Jeff's friend who later helps Gene with his schemes Sasha Feldman and Morgan Krantz as Sticky and Ron, two petty crooks who are among "Saul Goodman"'s first clients Barry Corbin as Everett Acker, an old man living on leased property belonging to Mesa Verde whom Kim has to evict to make way for the bank's new call center Introduced in season 6 Lennie Loftin as Genidowski, a con man hired by Jimmy and Kim to pose as Howard's private investigator Sandrine Holt as Cheryl Hamlin, Howard's estranged wife John Posey as Rand Casimiro, a retired judge who is mediating the Sandpiper case John Ennis as Lenny, a grocery store employee hired by Jimmy and Kim to impersonate Casimiro Carol Burnett as Marion, Jeff's mother who takes a liking to Gene Kevin Sussman as Mr. Lingk, a rich man with cancer who is targeted by Gene Introduced in Breaking Bad Raymond Cruz as Tuco Salamanca, a ruthless, psychopathic drug distributor in the South Valley (seasons 1–2) Jim Beaver as Lawson, a black market weapons dealer in Albuquerque (season 2) Maximino Arciniega as Domingo "Krazy-8" Molina, one of Tuco's distributors (seasons 2–5) Mark Margolis as Hector Salamanca, Tuco's uncle and high-ranking member of the cartel (seasons 2–6) Debrianna Mansini as Fran, a waitress at Loyola's Diner (seasons 2 and 4) Daniel and Luis Moncada as Leonel and Marco Salamanca, Tuco's cousins and Hector's nephews who are hitmen for the cartel (seasons 2, 4–6) Tina Parker as Francesca Liddy, Jimmy's receptionist (seasons 3–4, 6) Jeremiah Bitsui as Victor, Gus's henchman (seasons 3–6) Ray Campbell as Tyrus Kitt, a henchman on Gus Fring's payroll (seasons 3–6) JB Blanc as Dr. Barry Goodman, a doctor on Gus Fring's payroll (seasons 3–5) Steven Bauer as Don Eladio Vuente, the head of a drug cartel (seasons 3, 5–6) Javier Grajeda as Juan Bolsa, a high-level member of the drug cartel (seasons 3–6) Lavell Crawford as Huell Babineaux, a professional pickpocket hired by Jimmy (seasons 3–6) Laura Fraser as Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, a Madrigal Electromotive executive and associate of Gus Fring (seasons 3–5) Eric Steinig as Nick, a member of Gus's security team, later managed by Mike (seasons 4–6) Franc Ross as Ira, a burglar Jimmy hires; in Breaking Bad, he is the owner of Vamonos Pest who appears in "Hazard Pay" (season 4) David Costabile as Gale Boetticher, a chemist who is consulted by Gus (season 4) Dean Norris as Hank Schrader, a DEA agent and Walter White's brother-in-law (season 5) Steven Michael Quezada as Steven Gomez, Hank's DEA partner and best friend (season 5) Nigel Gibbs as Tim Roberts, a detective with the Albuquerque Police Department (seasons 5–6) Bryan Cranston as Walter White, a middle-aged high school chemistry teacher who, during the events of Breaking Bad, becomes involved with the drug trade and enlists the services of Saul to help launder his money (season 6) Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman, a former student of Walter who, during the events of Breaking Bad, helps Walter with cooking meth (season 6) = Cesar Garcia as No Doze, Tuco Salamanca's brother-in-law and one of his lieutenants (season 1) Jesus Payan Jr. as Gonzo, one of the head lieutenants in Tuco's drug organization (season 1) Stoney Westmoreland as Officer Saxton, a member of the Albuquerque Police Department who responds to Daniel Wormald's call (season 2) Kyle Bornheimer as Ken Wins, a businessman hoodwinked by Jimmy and Kim (season 2) Jennifer Hasty as Stephanie Doswell, a realtor that shows Stacey a house (season 2) Robert Forster as Ed Galbraith, the "disappearer" who smuggled Saul into Omaha (season 5) Norbert Weisser as Peter Schuler, head of the fast food division of Madrigal Electromotive GmbH and a close associate of Gus and Lydia (season 5) Julia Minesci as Wendy, a prostitute that Jimmy and Kim enlist as part of their scheme on Howard Hamlin (season 6) David Ury as Spooge, a drug addict who appears in Saul's office after hearing that he was able to get Lalo out of prison (season 6) John Koyama as Emilio Koyama, Jesse's partner in dealing drugs (season 6) Todd Terry as Special Agent Austin Ramey, the head of the southwestern United States DEA offices (season 6) Betsy Brandt as Marie Schrader, Hank's widow (season 6) = The character of Saul Goodman first appeared during Breaking Bad's second season, in an episode that was also titled "Better Call Saul". The character was originally intended to appear in only four episodes, but soon became much more developed than the staff had planned. He would eventually stay on the series and become central to its narrative. As Breaking Bad continued its run, the character would grow in popularity with the audience. Bob Odenkirk, who portrayed Saul Goodman, speculated this was because he is "the program's least hypocritical figure", and "is good at his job". Vince Gilligan, who created and developed Breaking Bad, and Peter Gould, who wrote the episode with Goodman's first appearance, considered a Saul Goodman spinoff as early as 2009. Gould noted that over the course of Breaking Bad, there were several "what ifs” their team considered, such as if the show won a Primetime Emmy Award, or if people would buy "Los Pollos Hermanos" T-shirts. The staff did not expect these events to come to fruition, but after they did, they started considering a spin-off featuring Saul as a thought experiment. With the growth of Saul's character, the writers saw ways to explore the character further. While filming the Breaking Bad episode "Full Measure", Gilligan asked Odenkirk his thoughts on a spinoff. In July 2012, Gilligan publicly hinted at the idea, stating that he liked "the idea of a lawyer show in which the main lawyer will do anything it takes to stay out of court", including settling on the courthouse steps. = In April 2013, Better Call Saul was confirmed to be in development by Gilligan and Gould. In July 2013, before the second half of Breaking Bad's final season aired, Gilligan said he and Gould were still working out ideas for the spin-off, but a deal had not yet been made. Netflix was one of many interested distributors, but ultimately a deal was made between AMC and the Breaking Bad production company Sony Pictures Television. As Sony and AMC began to commit to a spinoff, Gilligan and Gould worked on what it would be about. They initially considered making it a half-hour show where Saul would see various clients – celebrities in guest roles – in his strip mall office, similarly to Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, but they had no idea how to write for this type of format. They eventually fell back to planning for hour-long episodes. Gilligan described Breaking Bad as being "25-percent humor, 75-percent drama", and speculated that they would reverse that for Better Call Saul. While the intent was to add more humor, the show remained heavy with dramatic elements, with Odenkirk calling the first season "85 percent drama, 15 percent comedy." Gilligan and Gould initially believed that Saul Goodman was insufficient to carry the show by himself, with Gilligan thinking the character was "great flavoring" for a show but not the substance. Eventually they came to realize that Saul, in the Breaking Bad timeframe, was a man who had come to accept himself, and recognized the potential of telling the story of how Saul got to be that person. While several of the characters are lawyers in the show, Gilligan and Gould did not want to write a legal show, but instead a crime show, but one that would necessitate some legal elements. To help in these areas, the writers spoke to real lawyers and spent time observing cases at Los Angeles Superior Court, observing that the bulk of the activity in these cases was downtime while waiting for others to complete actions. = Gilligan and Gould began as co-showrunners for the series. Former Breaking Bad writers Thomas Schnauz and Gennifer Hutchison joined the writing staff, with Schnauz serving as co-executive producer and Hutchison as supervising producer. Also joining the initial writing staff were Bradley Paul and former Breaking Bad writer's assistant Gordon Smith. Having learned several lessons from Breaking Bad related to foreshadowing without writing the foresight, Gilligan and Gould gave themselves more flexibility in how Better Call Saul's plot would develop over its run. From the beginning they had no firm idea where it would end up outside the connection to Breaking Bad. For example, Gilligan and Gould had already committed to the Better Call Saul title in the beginning, so that in following this route, they believed they had to quickly get from Jimmy McGill to Saul Goodman, or they would otherwise disappoint their audience. However, as they wrote the show, they realized "we don't want to get to Saul Goodman … and that's the tragedy". Another example includes Rhea Seehorn's performance as Kim Wexler during the first season further slowing Jimmy's transition, and putting more focus on the Jimmy–Kim relationship for the remainder of the series. Gilligan compared this to the impact Aaron Paul's acting had on Breaking Bad's ultimate pacing. In writing for Better Call Saul, Gilligan and Gould recognized they were including overlaps with Breaking Bad, and had ideas of characters that they would include, such as Gus Fring, though on no set timetable within the show's development. Gilligan described the writing approach as if developing two separate shows, one that centered on Jimmy/Saul, Kim, Chuck, and Howard, and a second on the more familiar Breaking Bad characters like Mike and Gus. Where possible, they had written in minor Breaking Bad characters in smaller parts or as Easter eggs to fans, but Gilligan preferred to include such major Breaking Bad characters as Walter or Jesse only if this seemed unconstrained and satisfactory to both the production team and the audiences. Because of the closeness to the Breaking Bad storyline, a writer would be tasked at the start of each season to rewatch all 62 episodes of the show and verify that the scripts for the Better Call Saul season introduced no conflicts. As the show continued, the show's "brain trust" consisting of script coordinators Ariel Levine and Kathleen Williams-Foshee reviewed each script to help maintain the continuity with Breaking Bad, including tracking minor character traits and assuring small details from the previous show were kept correct if brought up again. Gilligan left the Better Call Saul writing staff early in the third season to focus on other projects, resulting in Gould becoming sole showrunner. This transition had been planned since the show's debut. Upon his departure, Gilligan expressed his hopes to return to the writers room during the show's final season. He remained involved in the fourth and fifth seasons, but had little to do with developing the show's contents during this period. Instead, Gilligan reduced his role to being a "director for hire", having directed an episode during each season when he was not on the writing staff. Gilligan went on to credit Gould for maintaining the series' high quality. Gould would bring Gilligan back to the writers room for the sixth and final season, calling it "wonderful to have him there, so we can finish this show that we started together." = Starring cast Bob Odenkirk confirmed he would reprise Saul Goodman in the starring role when the series was first announced, but his character would be introduced as lawyer Jimmy McGill. In January 2014, it was announced that Jonathan Banks would reprise his Breaking Bad role as Mike Ehrmantraut and be a series regular. New cast members included Michael McKean as McGill's elder brother Chuck. McKean previously guest-starred in an episode of Odenkirk's Mr. Show and Gilligan's X-Files episode "Dreamland". Rhea Seehorn auditioned and got the role of Kimberly "Kim" Wexler in April 2014, her character being described as "prestigious attorney ... whose hard life is complicated by her romantic entanglements with somebody else at the firm". In May 2014, Patrick Fabian was cast on the show as Howard Hamlin, a "Kennedy-esque lawyer who's winning at life". After impressing Gilligan and Gould with his audition tape and screen test, Michael Mando was cast as the "smart and calculating criminal" Ignacio "Nacho" Varga. Mando's character had been previously mentioned but not seen in the Breaking Bad episode "Better Call Saul". Going into the third season, Giancarlo Esposito was added to the main cast as Gus Fring, a drug kingpin who previously served as one of Breaking Bad's main antagonists. Esposito was previously a starring cast member in Breaking Bad for the same role. McKean would leave the series at season's end due to his character being written out, but would make appearances in the next season and the series finale. Tony Dalton made his first appearance as Lalo Salamanca in the fourth season, and would be promoted to the main cast for the fifth. Similar to Nacho, Lalo had been a character mentioned only by name in the same Breaking Bad episode "Better Call Saul". Returning appearances from Breaking Bad cast members Before the second season, Gilligan confirmed that more Breaking Bad characters would appear on the spin-off, but remained vague on which ones were likely to be seen. By the next season, Gilligan said that the show had been on long enough that any reuse of Breaking Bad characters would require more than "just a cameo or an Alfred Hitchcock walkthrough", and that their appearances would need to be essential to the story. Breaking Bad lead actors Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul regularly said they would be open to reprising their respective roles as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman on Better Call Saul. However, both maintained that they would appear only if Gilligan found a sufficiently good reason to bring them on the show. Paul mentioned the possibility of a cameo during the first season but this fell through. Both Cranston and Paul would eventually appear in the final season. Dean Norris, who was also a starring cast member on Breaking Bad, stated he could not be part of the earlier seasons, partly due to his involvement in the CBS series Under the Dome. However, he reprised his role as Hank Schrader as a guest star in the fifth season. Plans were initially made for Betsy Brandt to reprise her role as Hank's wife Marie Schrader in a cameo in the second season, but the writer's room objected, considering the idea to be distracting for audiences. Brandt would eventually reprise the role in the final season. Other Breaking Bad cast members spoke of the potential of being on Better Call Saul. Before the series began, Anna Gunn mentioned a "talk" with Gilligan over possible guest appearances as Skyler White. Bill Burr was set to return as Patrick Kuby in the fifth season, but scheduling fell through due to him needing to attend to a personal matter. After the series ended, Gould mentioned his desire to bring back the remaining Breaking Bad characters for the finale, but he and the writing staff could not find a proper way to have them fit into the story. = Principal photography for Better Call Saul's six seasons took place from June 2, 2014, to February 9, 2022. Like its predecessor, Better Call Saul is set in and around Albuquerque, New Mexico, with filming primarily taking place at Albuquerque Studios. Gilligan directed the pilot. Additional filming was done in March 2022, after principal photography for the series ended, for the opening teaser of the season six episode "Point and Shoot". With several crew members but no cast members on hand, the scene was filmed in Leo Carrillo State Beach, California. This was the only time the series was filmed outside of New Mexico.: 1:00:01–1:01:29  Notable exterior locations include the Twisters restaurant used previously in Breaking Bad for Gus's Los Pollos Hermanos, a parking lot kiosk at the Albuquerque Convention Center for where Mike worked in the first few seasons, the Old Bernalillo County Courthouse as the local courthouse, and two nearby office buildings in the North Valley, including Northrop Grumman's, that collectively are used for the HHM office spaces. Jimmy's back office is located in an actual nail salon, which the producers accommodated by working with the owners. The Salamanca's restaurant is a real business in the South Valley that production modified slightly for the show, but which otherwise remained open. The scenes set in Omaha are filmed at Cottonwood Mall in Albuquerque; production worked with Cinnabon to bring in the period-specific equipment and service items for the segments, and the extras in the store during these scenes are Cinnabon employees. The New Mexico Film Office reported that the first four seasons of Better Call Saul brought over US$120 million into the state, and they have hired 1,600 crew for each season and a total of 11,300 extras. Better Call Saul employs Breaking Bad's signature time jumps. Notably, the opening episode for the first five seasons started with a black and white flash-forward to a period in the years after the finale of Breaking Bad. Here, Saul has been relocated to Omaha, Nebraska, as "Gene", a manager of a Cinnabon store, and remains paranoid about anyone discovering his past identity. This was foreshadowed in the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad, "Granite State", in which Saul tells Walter: "If I'm lucky, a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha." The show's director of photography was Arthur Albert for the first two seasons, and Marshall Adams starting with season 3. Additionally, Paul Donachie served as a cinematographer on episodes "Namaste" (2020), "Carrot and Stick" (2022) and "Hit and Run" (2022). Seasons 1 and 2 were filmed mainly on RED Dragon cameras. Starting with season 3, Panasonic VariCam Pure were incorporated due to their extra low-light sensitivity. This allowed the crew to shoot extra wide exterior shots at night as well as during the day, and to shoot on sets in near total darkness, such as nighttime in Chuck's unelectrified house. For scenes requiring to film from cramped spaces, a Panasonic Lumix GH4 camera was used. In season 4, three RED and two VariCam Pure cameras were used. For seasons 5 and 6, mostly Arri ALEXA LF was used. = Each episode's title sequence features a different low-quality image that recalls Saul Goodman's days on Breaking Bad. This includes the inflatable Statue of Liberty balloon that sat atop Saul's office, a drawer of burner phones kept in his desk, and a bus stop bench that advertised his business. Gould and Gilligan were inspired by the poor quality of early VHS tapes and the notoriously low production values of 1980s public-access television, and from the fact that Saul Goodman's ads on Breaking Bad were done in a similar style. They intended for the title sequences to appear "purposefully shitty" in order to stand out from its contemporaries, which generally had increased visual quality and production standards. Some of the title sequences were put together from unused footage from Breaking Bad, but others were filmed specifically to create new ones. The title sequences were put together by assistant editor Curtis Thurber, and scored by Little Barrie guitarist Barrie Cadogan. When Cadogan was putting the music together, he was told the producers wanted a piece of music that would be cut abruptly at 15 seconds. As every season except for the last has ten episodes each, the title credits for every season's corresponding episode number would reuse the same image. However, beginning with the second season, each of the episode's title sequences would continue to decline in picture quality by intermittently flashing black and white, and continue to lose color with each passing season. This caused many to theorize that this symbolized Jimmy McGill's storyline gradually transitioning to that of his post-Breaking Bad alter-ego Gene Takavic, whose scenes were entirely in black and white. With the final season featuring thirteen episodes instead of the usual ten, the title sequences would take a new format. During "Nippy", the title sequence features Saul Goodman's "World's Greatest Lawyer" mug falling off his desk and shattering on the floor, as was typical during a season's tenth episode. However, the title image and music prematurely stops and is replaced by a blue screen, recreating the effects of a home video recording on a VCR, and then displayed the show's title and creator credits. This is also the first episode to take place entirely after the events of Breaking Bad. The remaining three title sequences retain the blue background, but briefly flash to an image previously unseen in the intro, with a distorted version of the theme song playing underneath. They then revert to the blue background again and display the title and creator credits. Before the show resumes, they again briefly flash to another new image that will be seen later on in the episodes. The complete series was issued on Blu-ray and DVD in region 1 on December 6, 2022. The set spanned 19 discs and included 70 hours of bonus features. Better Call Saul's episodes are split between two main timelines. The primary timeline begins in 2002, six years before the first episode of Breaking Bad. During this period, where a majority of the series takes place, Saul Goodman mainly practices as a lawyer in Albuquerque, New Mexico under his birthname Jimmy McGill. The secondary timeline takes place in 2010, following events of Breaking Bad's finale, where Saul has fled Albuquerque and hides in Omaha, Nebraska under the alias Gene Takavic. This later timeline would be shown only in the cold open in the first five season premieres, but would be fully explored in the last four episodes of the series. = The first teaser trailer debuted on AMC on August 10, 2014, and confirmed its premiere date of February 2015. On November 20, 2014, AMC announced the series would have a two-night premiere; the first episode aired on Sunday, February 8, 2015, at 10:00 pm (ET), and then moved into its regular time slot the following night, airing new episodes Mondays at 10:00 pm until the season concluded on April 6, 2015. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD in region 1 on November 10, 2015; bonus features include audio commentaries for every episode, uncensored episodes, deleted scenes, gag reel, and several behind-the-scenes featurettes. A limited edition Blu-ray set was also released with 3D packaging and a postcard vinyl of the Better Call Saul theme song by Junior Brown. In 2002, Jimmy schemes to represent Craig Kettleman, accused of embezzlement, leading to encounters with psychotic drug lord Tuco Salamanca and his lieutenant Nacho. Jimmy also cares for his brother Chuck, who is housebound with electromagnetic hypersensitivity. While pursuing elder law, Jimmy learns of seniors being defrauded by the Sandpiper retirement community. As the class action lawsuit against Sandpiper grows, Chuck suggests giving it to his law firm, Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill. Jimmy receives a small of counsel fee and a share of any future settlement, but is blocked from participation. Jimmy learns Chuck sabotaged his legal career out of resentment. After the death of an old friend, Jimmy finds success when Davis & Main, another firm HHM brought in to assist with the Sandpiper case, offers to hire him. In 2010, Gene manages a Cinnabon by day, but in the evening reminisces about his life as Saul by watching a VHS tape of his old television advertisements. = Prior to the series' launch, on June 19, 2014, AMC renewed the series for a second season of 13 episodes to premiere in early 2016, which was later reduced to 10 episodes. The season premiered on February 15, 2016, and concluded on April 18, 2016. It released on Blu-ray and DVD in region 1 on November 15, 2016; bonus features include audio commentaries for every episode and several behind-the-scenes featurettes. In 2002, Jimmy works as an associate at D&M, but quits after his ostentatious legal style doesn't mesh with the firm's corporate demeanor. Kim is demoted by Chuck's partner, Howard Hamlin, because of Jimmy's actions. She secures banking firm Mesa Verde as an HHM client, although Howard denies her credit. Kim quits HHM and opens a shared private practice with Jimmy. Jimmy sabotages Chuck's work for Mesa Verde, which drops HHM and hires Kim, but Chuck discovers this and tricks Jimmy into confessing. Nacho wants to hire Mike Ehrmantraut to kill Tuco, but Mike instead removes him from the Salamanca organization by engineering his imprisonment. Hector Salamanca, cartel elder and Tuco's uncle, confronts Mike. Mike attempts to assassinate Hector, but is mysteriously interrupted. In 2010, Gene accidentally locks himself in the dumpster room when closing out the Cinnabon for the night. Instead of alerting police, he spends the night waiting for the janitor to open the door. = AMC announced on March 15, 2016, that Better Call Saul was renewed for a 10-episode third season, which premiered April 10, 2017, and concluded on June 19, 2017. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD in region 1 on January 16, 2018; bonus features include audio commentaries for every episode and several behind-the-scenes featurettes. In 2003, the results of the disciplinary hearing have Jimmy's law license suspended and Chuck's hypersensitivity condition is revealed to be psychosomatic. After Jimmy sabotages Chuck's insurance, Howard urges him to retire, but Chuck sues HHM in spite. Howard buys him out of the firm, leading Chuck to commit suicide. Gus prevents Hector's assassination, and Mike attacks Hector's trucks to steal $250,000 on Gus's orders. To launder the money, Gus arranges for Mike's hire as a contracted security consultant at Madrigal. Hector plans to take over the business of Nacho's father, so his son attempts to kill Hector by sabotaging his angina medication. Hector suffers a stroke during a confrontation with cartel lieutenant Juan Bolsa, which renders him comatose. In 2010, Gene points mall security guards towards a shoplifter during his lunch break. Later, a stressed Gene suddenly collapses during his work. = Following the third season's end on June 27, 2017, AMC renewed the series for a 10-episode fourth season, which premiered on August 6, 2018, and concluded on October 8, 2018. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD in region 1 on May 7, 2019; bonus features include audio commentary for every episode and several behind-the-scenes featurettes. In 2003, Jimmy regains his outgoing demeanor after Howard shoulders the blame for Chuck's death. Jimmy manages a cell phone store but earns more by reselling prepaid phones to criminals. A year later, his law license reinstatement is denied over lack of remorse for Chuck. After faking mourning, he successfully appeals and practices as "Saul Goodman". Gus learns Nacho attempted to kill Hector and blackmails him into undermining the Salamancas. Mike escorts engineers who evaluate Gus's industrial laundry site as a potential underground meth lab. Gus hires Werner Ziegler to oversee construction, but Mike is ordered to kill Werner when he goes AWOL to spend time with his wife. Hector recovers from his stroke, but is mute and can only move his right index finger. His nephew, Lalo Salamanca, arrives to run Hector's business, and learns some details of Gus's construction project. In 2010, Gene is hospitalized after his collapse and later discharged. He becomes uneasy when a taxi driver with an Albuquerque Isotopes air freshener seems to recognize him. = The series was renewed for a fifth season on July 28, 2018, just prior to the airing of the fourth season. The fifth season was not expected to air until 2020; according to AMC's Sarah Barnett, the delay was "driven by talent needs". The 10-episode fifth season would start airing with a special Sunday broadcast on February 23, 2020, with following episodes to air on Mondays until the season concluded on April 20, 2020. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD in region 1 on November 24, 2020; bonus features include cast and crew audio commentaries on every episode, deleted scenes, and various behind-the-scenes featurettes. In 2004, Jimmy's law practice as Saul Goodman draws him into Albuquerque's drug trade and he is conflicted when Howard offers him a position at HHM. Kim balances her Mesa Verde and pro bono work with her own feelings for Jimmy, and finds herself employing similar conman-style tactics. Jimmy and Kim later devise a plan to ruin Howard to settle the Sandpiper case. Lalo's presence in Albuquerque forces Gus to suspend construction of his meth lab. Nacho and Mike become pawns in the feud between the Salamancas and Gus. After Lalo is arrested for murder, he hires Jimmy to represent him and arrange bail, which almost kills Jimmy. After an unsuccessful attempt on Lalo's life by Gus's hired assassins after his release, Lalo deduces that Nacho has betrayed him. In 2010, during another lunch break, Gene is approached by the taxi driver, Jeff, and his friend Buddy. Jeff reveals he recognized Gene as Saul Goodman from when he previously lived in Albuquerque. Gene admits he is living with a secret identity. = AMC renewed the series for a sixth season on January 16, 2020, with a scheduled premiere in 2021. Showrunner Peter Gould confirmed it would be the show's final season and consist of 13 episodes rather than the usual 10. Production experienced long delays due to COVID-19 and star Bob Odenkirk needing several weeks to fully recover from a heart attack he experienced on set. The sixth and final season was split into two halves, with the first half premiering on April 18, 2022 and concluding on May 23, 2022, and the last half premiering on July 11, 2022 and concluding on August 15, 2022. The complete season was released on Blu-ray and DVD in region 1 on December 6, 2022, with bonus features including cast and crew audio commentaries on every episode, deleted scenes, outtakes, and various behind-the-scenes featurettes. In 2004, Nacho attempts to flee from the Salamancas after the attempt on Lalo's life, but after Gus falsely implicates him, Nacho sacrifices himself in exchange for his father's safety. Jimmy and Kim smear Howard's reputation, thereby forcing a settlement of the Sandpiper case. Howard confronts them, but is murdered by Lalo. After forcing Kim to act as a diversion, Lalo ambushes Gus and accesses the construction site of Gus's meth lab. Gus kills Lalo with a hidden gun. Mike makes Howard's death appear as a suicide, and oversees the burial of Howard and Lalo beneath the lab. A traumatized Kim quits the law and divorces Jimmy. Some time later, Jimmy has fully transformed into Saul Goodman, foreshadowing the events of Breaking Bad four years later. In 2010, Gene approaches Jeff and Buddy with an offer to rob a department store. After reaching out to Kim, who now lives in Florida, Gene devises a scheme to obtain financial identification of rich single men at bars he can sell for profit. When the scheme goes wrong, Buddy quits the operation, Jeff is arrested, and Gene is eventually caught. He is extradited to Albuquerque for the trial and feigns testimony implicating Kim so she can be summoned to court. He confesses to Kim and those at the trial about his crimes during the events of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, getting an 86-year sentence. Jimmy is recognized as Saul in prison and gains popularity with the inmates. Kim visits him and they share a cigarette before parting again. Better Call Saul would air on cable network AMC. The series premiere drew in 4.4 million and 4 million in the 18–49 and 25–54 demographics, respectively, and received an overall viewership of 6.9 million. This was the record for the highest-rated scripted series premiere in basic cable history, until it was surpassed later the same year by another AMC series, Fear the Walking Dead. In December 2013, Netflix announced that the entire first season would be available for streaming in the U.S. after the airing of the first-season finale, and in Latin America and Europe each episode would be available a few days after the episode airs in the U.S. However, the first season was not released on Netflix in the U.S. until February 1, 2016. Internationally, episodes of the second season became available the day after they aired in the U.S. Netflix would be the exclusive video-on-demand provider for the series and made the content available in all its territories, except for Australia and New Zealand. In Australia, Better Call Saul premiered on the streaming service Stan on February 9, 2015, acting as the service's flagship program. In New Zealand, the show was exclusive to the video-on-demand service Lightbox before moving to Neon in 2020 when both services were merged. The episodes were available for viewing within three days of broadcast in the U.S. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the series was acquired by Netflix on December 16, 2013, and the first episode premiered on February 9, 2015, with the second episode released the following day. Every subsequent episode was released each week thereafter. In Ireland, the series began airing on Irish TV network TG4 on October 18, 2022. In India, the series was broadcast on Colors Infinity within 24 hours of the U.S. broadcast. During the final season's run in 2022, each episode would be available to stream the day they premiered on AMC+, AMC's streaming service which first launched in June 2020. The sixth season premiere resulted in the biggest day of new subscriber sign-ups for AMC+, and by the mid-season finale episodic viewership on the streaming service rose by 61%. Upon the release of the series finale, the app experienced an outage, causing many users to be logged out. AMC later reported that first-day viewing numbers for the finale on AMC+ was four times as big as the season premiere, and called the series' final season the highest acquisition driver in the history of the streaming service. = Better Call Saul received critical acclaim and is considered to be an outstanding example of how to successfully produce a prequel and spinoff work that defies expectations. Many critics have called Better Call Saul a worthy successor to Breaking Bad and some have even deemed it superior to its predecessor. In September 2019, The Guardian ranked the show at No. 48 on its list of the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century, describing it as "A supremely measured character piece that has steadily improved as its central tragedy has materialised." In 2021, Empire ranked Better Call Saul at No. 27 on their list of The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. Also in 2021, it was voted the 23rd-best TV series of the 21st century by the BBC, as picked by 206 TV experts from around the world. In September 2022, Rolling Stone listed Better Call Saul as the 32nd greatest TV show of all time, in its updated list from 2016. The first season has a 97% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 8.1/10 based on 291 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Better Call Saul is a quirky, dark character study that manages to stand on its own without being overshadowed by the series that spawned it." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a "generally favorable" score of 78 based on 43 reviews. The second season has a 97% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 8.7/10 based on 182 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Better Call Saul continues to tighten its hold on viewers with a batch of episodes that inject a surge of dramatic energy while showcasing the charms of its talented lead." On Metacritic, it has a score of 85 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". The third season has a 98% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 8.75/10 based on 175 reviews. The website's critical consensus is, "Better Call Saul shows no signs of slipping in season 3, as the introduction of more familiar faces causes the inevitable transformation of its lead to pick up exciting speed." On Metacritic, it has a score of 87 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". The fourth season has a 99% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 8.9/10 based on 185 reviews. The website's critical consensus states, "Well-crafted and compelling as ever, Better Call Saul deftly balances the show it was and the one it will inevitably become." On Metacritic, it has a score of 87 out of 100, based on 16 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". The fifth season has a 99% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 8.9/10 based on 185 reviews. The website's critical consensus is, "Grounded by Bob Odenkirk's endlessly nuanced, lived-in performance, Better Call Saul's fifth season is a darkly funny, vividly realized master class in tragedy." On Metacritic, it has a score of 92 out of 100 based on 16 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". The sixth season has a 99% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 9.4/10 based on 182 reviews. The website's critical consensus is, "Better Call Saul remains as masterfully in control as Jimmy McGill keeps insisting he is in this final season, where years of simmering storytelling come to a scintillating boil." On Metacritic, the season has a score of 94 out of 100 based on 20 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Comparisons to Breaking Bad After the airing of the series finale, Stuart Jeffries of The Guardian said that the series had surprisingly surpassed its predecessor in quality, saying: "Over six series, Better Call Saul evolved into a more profound and beautiful drama about human corruption than its predecessor. It mutated into something visually more sumptuous than Breaking Bad, while never, for a moment, losing its verbal dexterity and moral compass". Craig Elvy of Screen Rant also opined that the series was better than its predecessor, saying: "Jimmy McGill's spinoff leaves a very familiar legacy – sustained and enthusiastic praise from audiences and critics, capped by an ending that satisfies across the board." He went on to say: "When Better Call Saul began, many would've hoped the spinoff could either escape Breaking Bad's shadow, or somehow enhance Walt and Jesse's story with illuminating new details. Few dared dream Better Call Saul would achieve both, and the sheer ambition to create a spinoff that wholly embraces its predecessor whilst also existing in a totally different realm exemplifies why Better Call Saul has an ever-so-slight edge over Breaking Bad." Jeremy Urquhart of Collider made a comparison between the quality of both series, saying: "Breaking Bad succeeds as a crime-thriller tragedy with a fast-paced plot, and Better Call Saul works as a slower-paced, character-focused drama (with some dark comedy)". He said the list "doesn't aim to argue that one is better than the other. It's a matter of personal preference, but it's hard to deny that there are certain things Better Call Saul does better, but also some areas where it isn't quite as great as its parent show." = = Better Call Saul has received 53 Emmy Award nominations. It has received seven nominations for Outstanding Drama Series. Bob Odenkirk has received six nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Jonathan Banks and Giancarlo Esposito have each been nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series; four times for Banks and twice for Esposito. Rhea Seehorn has been nominated twice for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Michael McKean was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. The series has also received eight nominations for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series and one nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. Better Call Saul has its own set of official multimedia spin-offs and related media within the Breaking Bad franchise. This includes a talk show, several web series and digital shorts, comic books, and an insider podcast.

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The fifth and final season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad premiered on July 15, 2012, and concluded on September 29, 2013 on AMC in the United States and Canada. The 16-episode season is split into two parts, each containing eight episodes. The first part of the season was broadcast from July 15 to September 2, 2012, and aired on Sundays at 10:00 pm ET. The second part was broadcast from August 11 to September 29, 2013, and aired on Sundays at 9:00 pm ET. It debuted in the UK and Ireland on Netflix, showing one day after the episodes aired in the U.S. and Canada. Part 1 was released on region 1 DVD and region A Blu-ray on June 4, 2013, and part 2 was released on November 26, 2013. After receiving three nominations for seasons two, three, and four, both halves of season five won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2013 and 2014. The second half of the season also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2014. The entire season was met with unanimous acclaim, particularly for its second half, and many critics deemed it as one of the greatest television seasons of all time. The season received a Metacritic score of 99 out of 100, leading to the show being listed in Guinness World Records as the most acclaimed television series in history. = Bryan Cranston as Walter White, a terminally ill man who cooks meth to provide for his family, though he tries to distance himself from the criminal life. Anna Gunn as Skyler White, Walt's wife. Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman, Walt's former student and assistant with his meth production who turns against him. Dean Norris as Hank Schrader, Walt's brother-in-law who is the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Albuquerque DEA office who learns about Walt's crimes. Betsy Brandt as Marie Schrader, Skyler's sister and Hank's wife. RJ Mitte as Walter White, Jr., Walt and Skyler's teenaged son with cerebral palsy. Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman, a sleazy lawyer who helps hide Walt's crimes. Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut, one of Saul's associates who used to work for Gus Fring before he was killed. He helps Walt continue his meth production. Laura Fraser as Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, Gus' former business associate who helps distribute Walt's meth into Europe. Jesse Plemons as Todd Alquist, a psychopathic former pest exterminator who becomes involved with Walt's crimes. = Steven Michael Quezada as Steven Gomez, Hank's partner at the DEA. Michael Bowen as Jack Welker, Todd's uncle who is the leader of a Neo-Nazi gang. Kevin Rankin as Kenny, Jack's right-hand-man. Lavell Crawford as Huell Babineaux, an associate of Saul's. Charles Baker as Skinny Pete, one of Jesse's friends. Bill Burr as Patrick Kuby, an associate of Saul's. Louis Ferreira as Declan, a drug kingpin from Phoenix, Arizona. Chris Freihofer as Dan Wachsberger, an attorney who represents nine of Gus Fring's former employees who can identify Walt as Heisenberg. Matt L. Jones as Badger Mayhew, one of Jesse's friends. Emily Rios as Andrea Cantillo, a young mother and Jesse's girlfriend. Mike Batayeh as Dennis Markowsky, one of Dan's clients who was the manager of Gus' laundromat. Adam Godley as Elliott Schwartz, Gretchen's husband and Walt's former business partner and friend. Jessica Hecht as Gretchen Schwartz, Elliott's wife and Walt's former business partner and friend and ex-fiancee. Jim Beaver as Lawson, an arms dealer who sells Walt a machine gun. Christopher Cousins as Ted Beneke, Skyler's former boss whom she also had an affair with who's in the hospital from a horrible accident. Larry Hankin as Old Joe, a junkyard owner who helps Walt, Jesse and Mike with destroying Gus' laptop. Carmen Serano as Principal Carmen Molina, the principal of J.P. Wynne High School, Walter Jr.'s principal, and Walt's former boss. Michael Shamus Wiles as ASAC George Merkert, the former head of the Albuquerque DEA office and Hank and Gomez's former boss, who's let go of his position because of his friendship with Gus Fring. Tina Parker as Francesca Liddy, Saul's secretary. In July 2011, series creator Vince Gilligan indicated that he intended to conclude Breaking Bad with the fifth season. In early August 2011, negotiations began over a deal regarding the fifth and possibly final season between AMC and Sony Pictures Television, the production company of the series. AMC proposed a shortened fifth season (six to eight episodes, instead of thirteen) to cut costs, but the producers declined. Sony then approached other cable networks about possibly picking up the show if a deal could not be made. On August 14, 2011, a deal was made in which AMC renewed the series for a final 16-episode season. Filming began for the season on March 26, 2012. Then in April 2012 Bryan Cranston revealed that the final season would be split into two halves, with the first half airing in 2012 and the second in 2013. After a four-month break, filming for the second half of the season began on December 7, 2012, during which AMC sent the cast and crew cupcakes decorated with characters and props used throughout the show's run. Vince Gilligan explained that the season was split at his request in order to have more time to write the final episodes. Thomas Schnauz revealed that the writers initially tried to conceive a 16-episode arc in advance of completing the first eight episodes, but that most of these plans were scrapped as new plot points emerged "that threw everything into a little bit of chaos." Dean Norris had asked Gilligan to kill off Hank during the first half of the season after being cast in a comedy pilot. However, Gilligan declined his request, citing the importance of Hank in the final eight episodes. Gilligan stated that the introduction of the M60 machine gun in the season's first episode created several problems down the line in writing. When the premiere script was developed, the machine gun was written in as a thought-provoking idea to suggest to the audience that something significant was going to happen later in the season and draw them in. However, at that time, they did not plan out how the gun would be used, and Gilligan believed that with sixteen episodes, they would be able to figure something out. As Gilligan started writing the last four to five episodes, his staff reminded him about the machine gun. Gilligan was of a mind to simply drop the machine gun but realized this would not work. He eventually had a eureka moment where Walter would need to use the machine gun to kill multiple people at once rather than a single individual, leading to the development of the character of Jack Welker and the white supremacist gang to be the target of Walter's wrath. = On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the fifth season has an approval rating of 97% based on 99 reviews, with an average rating of 9.5/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Breaking Bad's final season cements its status as one of television's great series, propelling its narrative to an explosive conclusion with sharp direction and assured storytelling." On Metacritic, it holds a 99 out of 100 based on 22 reviews, making it the highest-rated season of any show on the site. In his review of the second half of the season, Seth Amitin of IGN stated, "Whether you call it a 'half-season' or consider these final eight episodes its own season, this final batch of Breaking Bad is one of the best runs of episodes TV has ever offered." "Ozymandias" in particular was widely praised and has since been called the greatest television episode ever broadcast. = The fifth season had six separate episodes that became the most watched episodes in the series up to date, in order: "Live Free or Die" (2.93 million), "Say My Name" (2.98), "Blood Money" (5.92), "Ozymandias" (6.37), "Granite State" (6.58), and "Felina" (10.28). The first half of season five was watched by an average of 2.6 million viewers per episode; the second half averaged 6.04 million viewers. As a whole, season five averaged roughly 4.32 million viewers per episode. = For the 65th Writers Guild of America Awards, the series received four nominations for Best Episodic Drama, for "Buyout" (written by Gennifer Hutchison), "Dead Freight" (George Mastras), "Fifty-One" (Sam Catlin) and "Say My Name" (Thomas Schnauz), and won for Best Dramatic Series. For the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, the series received 13 nominations, with three wins. It won for Outstanding Drama Series, Anna Gunn won for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and it won for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series. Nominations included Bryan Cranston for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Jonathan Banks and Aaron Paul for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, George Mastras and Thomas Schnauz for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series ("Dead Freight" and "Say My Name"), and Michelle MacLaren for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series ("Gliding Over All"). For the 29th TCA Awards, Breaking Bad was named Program of the Year, and also was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Drama, and Individual Achievement in Drama for Bryan Cranston. For the 66th Writers Guild of America Awards, the series won for Best Dramatic Series and Gennifer Hutchison won for Best Episodic Drama for "Confessions". The series received two other Best Episodic Drama nominations, Thomas Schnauz for "Buried" and Peter Gould for "Granite State". For the 20th Screen Actors Guild Awards, the cast won for Best Drama Ensemble, Bryan Cranston won for Best Drama Actor, Anna Gunn was nominated for Best Drama Actress, and the series was nominated for Best Stunt Team. For the 71st Golden Globe Awards, the series won awards for Best Drama Series and Best Drama Actor (Cranston), while Aaron Paul was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. For the 30th TCA Awards, the series won for Program of the Year and received a nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Drama, and Bryan Cranston was nominated for Individual Achievement in Drama. For the 4th Critics' Choice Television Awards, the series won for Best Drama Series and Aaron Paul won for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Bryan Cranston received a nomination for Best Actor in a Drama Series and Anna Gunn received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. For the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards, the series won Outstanding Drama Series, Bryan Cranston won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Aaron Paul won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Anna Gunn won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama, Moira Walley-Beckett won Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for "Ozymandias", and Vince Gilligan was nominated for both Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for "Felina". = An eight-minute bonus scene titled Chicks 'N' Guns was included with Breaking Bad's fifth season DVD and Blu-ray sets. Written by Jenn Carroll and Gordon Smith and directed by Michelle MacLaren, the scene offers a backstory on how Jesse Pinkman obtained the gun seen in the episode "Gliding Over All". Sony Pictures released a behind-the-scenes featurette discussing the scene on its YouTube channel. = After the success of the live talk show Talking Dead, which aired immediately following new episodes of The Walking Dead, AMC decided to create a similar series, titled Talking Bad, for the remaining episodes of Breaking Bad. Chris Hardwick, host of Talking Dead, also hosted this series; Talking Bad also had a similar logo and theme music to Talking Dead. Talking Bad featured crew members, actors, producers, and television enthusiasts, recapping the most recent episode, and taking questions and comments from viewers.

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2010 attacks against places of worship in Malaysia

2010-01-10 18:20:22+00:00

Attacks against places of worship in Malaysia were carried out in January 2010 in response to Malaysia v. The Herald, a controversial court decision holding government regulations prohibiting non-Muslim publications from using the word 'Allah' to be unconstitutional. The government and many religious leaders condemned the attacks and called for calm and unity among Malaysians. The police are conducting investigations into the attacks and several arrests and prosecutions have been made. A total of 10 churches and few mosques have been attacked or vandalised since 31 December 2009 decision in Malaysia vs. The Herald. Only one church has been seriously damaged and no deaths or major injuries have been reported. Three churches in Kuala Lumpur were subject to an arson attack. One suffered considerable damage; witnesses saw two individuals throwing "something looking like a petrol bomb". As a result, the police stepped up security at all churches. On 8 January 2010, preparations for another attack were found at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Jalan Othman which is located about 1.5 km from the Assumption Church in Jalan Templer. In the early morning of Sunday, 10 January 2010, the All Saints' Church at Taiping and a Catholic Convent school were shocked with the discovery of Molotov cocktails near church grounds. Black paint was thrown at the Malacca Baptist Church in Durian Daun. Sunday worship at targeted churches went on smoothly just a few days after the attacks. The Metro Tabernacle Church, which was badly damaged in the attack on 8 January, held services at the Wisma MCA’s Dewan San Choon and churchgoers were said to be, "somber but joyful." Roughly 1,700 members of the Protestant church packed the hall for joint Mandarin and English services. Apart from Christian churches, a Muslim surau in Klang, Selangor and a Sikh gurdwara in Sentul, Kuala Lumpur were also attacked on 10 January 2010 and 12 January 2010 respectively. In a later incident, a rum bottle was thrown into the compound of a mosque in Sarawak on 16 January 2010. While authorities have denied any links to these attacks with the spate of church attacks, Sikhs also use the term Allah to describe God in the Punjabi language and the Malaysian Gurdwaras Council unsuccessfully sought to be a party to the Malaysia v. The Herald. All major political parties in Malaysia consisting of the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition and the opposition Pakatan Rakyat parties, including the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), who labelled the attacks as contradicting the teachings of Islam have united in condemnation of these attacks. = Prime Minister Najib condemned the church bombings, directed police to increase security at all places of worship, and called for unity amongst the Malaysian people. The government will hold inter-faith dialogues including prominent religious leaders to find "common denominators of understanding." Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, said the government has already met separately with religious groups. Najib visited the church most badly damaged in the attacks, the Protestant Metro Tabernacle church in Kuala Lumpur and promised a grant of RM500,000 to assist with reconstruction. CIMB Foundation donated an additional RM100,000 to the church. The Malaysia Home Affairs Ministry met with over 60 foreign diplomats for a briefing to discuss the attacks and security issues on 11 January 2010. Secretary-General of the Malaysian Home Affairs Ministry, Mahmood Adam, emphasised that Malaysia is still a safe country and that daily life has not been significantly disrupted."They wanted to know what the guarantees are that their safety and safety of others are ensured. Those are some of the issues raised but most importantly, they wanted to understand the situation here and we explained that Malaysia is totally different," the home minister said. = Opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition, stated that the UMNO-controlled newspaper Utusan Malaysia's "racist propaganda" over the Allah issue and "inflammatory rhetoric" both contributed to the spate of arson attacks. and that the publication must be held responsible. PKR vice-president Azmin Ali has claimed that at least four UMNO members were involved in the arson attack on the Metro Tabernacle church. = The 2010 church attacks generated strong condemnation from Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Roughly 130 Muslim non-profit organisations and volunteer police officers have stepped forward to provide security for churches. Police say that eight suspects have been arrested in connection to the arson committed at the Metro Tabernacle Church in Desa Melawati. The first suspect was arrested when seeking treatment for burns on his chest and arms at a hospital in Kuala Lumpur. Information obtained during this arrest led to the capture of seven other suspects. The police and government officials have asked the public not to fan religious and ethnic tension by spreading rumours via the internet and text messages. Ismail said, "Please don't play the fool by posting fake information on the Internet through Facebook, blogs or via SMS. Please come to us if you have any information." Police are investigating posts on Facebook claiming to have witnessed the making of explosives used in the attacks. Police have warned that the claims may be a hoax. Deputy Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar says that the police are also investigating reports of seditious and racially inflammatory activity on blogs. The student responsible for at least some of the posts has been arrested and released on bail. Azuwan Shah, a Malaysia Muslim, was prosecuted for his alleged role in starting a fire at a Protestant church on 8 January 2010 but acquitted due to lack of evidence in July of the same year. Two witnesses said Azuwan was not at the church when the fire started. Two brothers, Raja Mohamad Faizal Raja Ibrahim, aged 24, and Raja Mohamad Idzham Raja Ibrahim, aged 22, also Muslim, were charged and convicted in the same attack. The pair were convicted of "mischief by fire" on 13 August 2010. Komathy Suppiah, a district court judge in Kuala Lumpur, presided over the trial. She called the attack "appalling and despicable" and told the brothers that their conduct, "...strikes at the very foundations and tenets of a civilised society." As of 17 August 2010 the brothers have not yet been sentenced but face a maximum penalty of twenty years in prison.

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Bed Intruder Song

2010-08-15 04:17:55+00:00

"Bed Intruder Song" is a song by the Gregory Brothers and Antoine Dodson, featuring Kelly Dodson. The song, created for Auto-Tune the News, features processed vocals of a WAFF-48 news interview with Antoine Dodson, who was talking to a reporter about a home invasion and attempted rape of his sister Kelly, mixed with a self-created backing track and, eventually, a video which incorporated clips from the news broadcast. The song peaked at number 89 in the Billboard Hot 100, the only song that week to enter the chart on iTunes downloads only. The original music video for "Bed Intruder Song" went viral, becoming YouTube's most popular video of 2010. As of September 10, 2023, it has been viewed over 154 million views and has received 1.2 million likes since it was uploaded on July 30, 2010. On March 26, 2011, the song won the Comedy Award for Best Viral Original. The song is based on a recording from a WAFF-48 news report about an attempted rape in Huntsville, Alabama. A video of the news report was first posted to the WAFF-48 TV station website on July 29, 2010, and then copied and uploaded to YouTube on the same day. Just two days later The Gregory Brothers released an Auto-Tuned song version of the news report. The pitch contour of Antoine Dodson's voice was manipulated to make him appear to sing. The music video for "Bed Intruder Song" achieved immense viral success. It became the most-viewed YouTube video of 2010 (excluding major label music videos) despite having been created in the summer of that year. Jason King, a songwriter and music journalist was quoted by NPR as saying "It's catchy. It has a really good hook, but it's problematic, too. There's a way in which the aesthetics of black poverty—the way they talk and they speak and they look—sort of becomes this fodder for humor without any interest in the context of the conditions in which people actually live." Michael Gregory told Billboard that he did question the appropriateness of taking a bad news story and making it into a musical parody but then came to the conclusion that "it's taking a terrible situation and making at least something positive out of it." The band is splitting the money they make from sales 50% with the Dodson family. The Dodson family was subsequently able to move thanks to the project. Evan Gregory said of the song's success, "I think people are latching onto it is frankly quite similar to why they latch onto a classic ballad or pop song that tops the charts—because there's real emotion behind it that people identify with, even if, in this case, it was for unusual reasons." Andrew Gregory said that "There are plenty of comments that quote funny lines from the song but one of the comments I see most often on our videos is, 'I can't get this out of my head.'" Baratunde Thurston of The Onion told NPR: As the remix took off, I became increasingly uncomfortable with its separation from the underlying situation. A woman was sexually assaulted and her brother was rightfully upset. People online seemed to be laughing at him and not with him (because he wasn't laughing), as Dodson fulfilled multiple stereotypes in one short news segment. Watching the wider Web jump on this meme, all but forgetting why Dodson was upset, seemed like a form of 'class tourism.' Folks with no exposure to the projects could dip their toes into YouTube and get a taste. ... The creativity unleashed has been amazing, and what mitigates my fears of people minimizing the gravity of the situation is how Antoine himself has responded and taken charge of his own meme. Kenyatta Cheese of Know Your Meme told NPR, "More and more we're seeing people be inspired by viral videos to respond by creating videos themselves. While there is a long history of 'amateur' (non-market) spoofing, it is no longer the domain of professionals at SNL, Mad Magazine and drive-time radio hosts. Spoofing is participatory and it's just as good as the commercial stuff." Harry Connick Jr. even referenced Antoine Dodson, winking good-naturedly at the fickleness of the pop spotlight when playing a concert at the Hollywood Bowl. On August 18, 2010, Billboard reported that "Bed Intruder Song" had entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 89 by selling 30,000 copies, up by 182%. The next day they also reported that the song entered the Hot Digital Songs at number 49. The Gregory Brothers have reported selling over 100,000 copies of "Bed Intruder Song" on iTunes. Techdirt concluded in an article that "This song is not only musically interesting, but also calls attention to a horrible incident that happened as well. And, again, some will brush it off as being meaningless, but the power with which it has interested so many people is not something that should be ignored." In September 2010, the Gregory Brothers performed a slower rendition of the song live at New York's Bowery Ballroom without Antoine Dodson. In October 2010, Dodson performed "Bed Intruder Song" for the first time with Michael Gregory on keyboards at the 2010 BET Hip Hop Awards. He was joined by the Gregory Brothers again and performed the song on BET's music video countdown show 106 & Park later that month. Dodson and the Gregory Brothers performed the song again for the 15th Annual Webby Awards. According to The Observer, "More than 2,500 videos inspired by the meme had been uploaded by August 14, 2010". Internet trends website, Urlesque, listed the "11 Best Antoine Dodson 'Bed Intruder' Remix Covers". The Annoying Orange also spoofed the song and posted it on YouTube November 23, 2010. A full version was released December 3, 2010. These included an arrangement by the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Blue and Gold Marching Machine and a version on a shamisen. Andrew Gregory did a collaboration with fellow YouTuber Hank Green. Evan Gregory's acoustic piano cover was included at the end of the first "Bed Intruder Song" video. Other cover versions include styles of death metal, a cappella, power pop, and folk. Eric Stanley covered the song on the violin and incorporated hip hop and pop elements. On August 20, 2010, Dane Cook and musician J Chris Newberg incorporated sections of the "Bed Intruder Song" into a cover of "Don't You Want Me" by The Human League. On August 25, 2010, a punk version of the song was recorded by Hayley Williams (from Paramore), Jordan Pundik (from New Found Glory), and Ethan Luck (from Relient K) and posted to YouTube. LIGHTS has sung the song in several live performances. Ska group Suburban Legends regularly perform the song at their live shows, later releasing a studio version on 7" vinyl as part of Asbestos Records' Ska is Dead 7" Club. Los Angeles-based rock band Vayden released a rock remix, and Spanish language versions "Bed Intruder (Discoteca En Español)" and "Bed Intruder (Rock En Español)" under the alias Hide Your Kids in 2011. On August 1, 2020, the Gregory Brothers uploaded a remaster with improved autotune for the tenth anniversary of the song's creation, with a message from Antoine Dodson encouraging viewers to vote in the election and wear masks to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Ben Drowned

2013-06-14 19:07:09+00:00

Ben Drowned (originally published as Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge) is a three-part multimedia alternate reality game (ARG) web serial and web series created by Alexander D. Hall under the pen name Jadusable. Originating as a creepypasta based on the 2000 action-adventure game The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and published by Hall from 2010 to 2020 with a hiatus in-between, the series is known for creating many of the current common tropes and themes of creepypasta and for subverting themes from The Legend of Zelda series. The series concluded on October 31, 2020. Serving as Hall's first project, the first arc of the series, Haunted Cartridge, was released in 2010. It follows college sophomore Jadusable, who, after acquiring a haunted Nintendo 64 video game cartridge of Majora's Mask, is plagued over the course of a single week by the presence of a seemingly omniscient artificial intelligence entity called BEN. The second arc, titled Moon Children and set from late 2010 to early 2011, follows the public emergence of a mysterious cult known as The Moon Children, who worshipped the Moon by way of human sacrifice, or in their words, ascension. The third arc, titled Awakening, began in March 2020, following new and returning characters who have become involved in multiple events of the current year. This arc introduced new scenarios detailing the aftermath of an in-universe event in 2018 that caused the collapse of civilized society, as well as continuing stories established in the previous arcs with the intent of tying them together. The series is one of the most popular web serials, with a viewership in the millions, and has been widely recognized as both an example of a modern urban legend and a major influence in helping to establish and legitimize creepypasta as a literary genre, creating many of the recognizable tropes that are now seen today in modern internet horror stories. Ben Drowned was first published as an online serial and web series with chapters released daily between September 7 and September 15, 2010, on 4chan's /x/ board. This first arc came to be known as The Haunted Cartridge. The second arc, The Moon Children, began from September 17 that same year until July 15, 2011, totaling 3,591,600 words and 382 minutes of footage from the arcs. Hall used a method of transmedia storytelling through a combination of YouTube videos, written chapters, and audience input to weave a story about a character named BEN – supposedly a malevolent spirit of a dead child – who haunts the author (referred to in the story as Jadusable) in a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. The first arc is told in first-person, as the author comes to the audience (in this case, an online forum) for help figuring out this strange game he bought. The story went viral; with viewers praising the story's mysterious and frightening nature, as well as Hall's ability to deftly weave breadcrumbs and other hidden clues to keep readers on the hook and guessing about the multiple theories that surrounded the story. The original story ends on a cliffhanger, with the readers themselves inadvertently helping unleash BEN onto the internet at large through sharing of the files that were given to them, supposedly by Jadusable. However, by decoding a secret hidden cipher in Hall's YouTube account, investigative readers gained access to a website that led to the story's second arc, known as Moon Children. Despite it taking the appearance of an ordinary mid-2000s website, similar to Angelfire, readers were able to find hidden URLs and secret conversations between the website's users, depicting a narrative that the website was home to a Doomsday cult that was stuck in a time loop similar to the one serving as the main mechanic of Majora's Mask, with the website resetting itself every three days. Information found on the website on the third day could then be used by readers, either through online methods such as emails or by submitting videos of users playing specific songs from both The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, to unlock an alternate path on the first day after the website reset. This arc was ended on a cliffhanger, with Hall announcing a hiatus on July 15, 2011. The story followed a strict publication schedule, with new content released over the course of two weeks, including videos posted on Hall's YouTube channel, themselves made using Project 64 and cheat codes taken from GameShark. The second arc was split into two separate parts, YSHDT (short for youshouldnthavedonethat.net) and Hubris, each of which covered a specific series of events. Upon its launch, the series garnered over 100,000 views in its first two days of publication; and as of 2020, it maintains a very high level of viewership, with over 2 million unique visitors in March, nearly eight years after completion of the first two arcs. In October 2017, Hall expressed interest in developing a third arc, also revealing he had anonymously created a second "popular" creepypasta series unrelated to Ben Drowned. The third Ben Drowned arc, titled Awakening, began publication on March 17, 2020, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, with updates being provided every three days before settling into a weekly update schedule. This arc is split into three separate parts: Awakening, Methods of Revolution (incorporating elements of Hall's unmade feature-length film of the same name), and The Last Hero, a resurgence of the original format of video publication where the current author of the videos would upload them to Jadusable's YouTube channel. The third part details the events surrounding Sarah, a new player who is trying to free the trapped souls of characters new and old. Ben Drowned is set in a fictional, alternate universe closely following that of Earth prior to the emergence of a cult known as the Moon Children who worshiped the Moon, known to them as Luna. Sometime after the release of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, a twelve-year-old boy named 'Ben' was chosen as the experiment for a new project by the Moon Children. Coerced by them to join their group under the promise of having friends and being like his childhood hero, Link, Ben was soon unwillingly drowned in an attempted Moon Children ritual called ascension where the sacrifice becomes a prisoner of their own making, a catalyst for the cult to continue their plans. The resulting creation, named 'BEN', the original 'Ben' no longer having any physical control as the dominant mindset, is sealed inside a copy of Majora's Mask and merged with the programs within, before being subsequently watched over by an old man. The old man, in time, entrusts the cartridge to a random college sophomore student who bought it not knowing that it was a cursed object while several of the cult's members begin to continue their plan within the Internet, including a mysterious being, known as "Kelbris, The Father", who online takes the form of the Happy Mask Salesman. Ultimately, upon entering the Internet themselves, 'BEN' begins to wreak havoc on the sites and videos where the sophomore student, known as Jadusable, interacted all in service of "The Father". The first and third arcs are set across the homes and locations, dealing with several college-age adults in multiple unspecified locations, set in the United States, and within the Internet, while the second arc is solely set within the Internet. = In September 2010, Jadusable is a college student who bought a suspicious Nintendo 64 cartridge labeled "Majora" (indicating it to be a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask) by a disconcerting old man at a garage sale, with the save data of former owner "Ben" still on it. As Jadusable plays the game, little inconsistencies begin to pop up, turning to outright glitches, leading Jadusable to go to the online site 4chan to post about his playing of the game as it unfolds. Playing as Link, Jadusable attempts different ways to modify the game out of curiosity. It reaches the point where he tries the day four glitch, a well-known glitch in the Majora's Mask community where the player skips the third day's ending with the ability to explore the in-game world as depicted in the credits section. Causing the day four glitch breaks the normality of the game and Jadusable soon finds himself alone in Clock Town with all of the inhabitants gone, unable to advance the game by turning back time, while endlessly hearing the laugh of the Happy Mask Salesman. In an attempt to achieve a "Game Over" and return to the main menu, Jadusable forces Link to drown in a pond; when he does, Link clutches his head, screaming as in a mask animation, with the screen flashing to depict the Happy Mask Salesman, smiling and laughing. The game continues, and the "Song of healing" plays in reverse; a statue of Link is summoned, its face locked in an unblinking stare. The statue follows Jadusable's character, moving just outside of the camera's perspective, throughout the town. Jadusable tries to escape it, but nothing works. In desperation, Jadusable turns the camera to face the statue directly. After a while, the screen flashes back to the Happy Mask Salesman and Link, only the latter also turns this time. The Salesman, the statue, and Link all become locked in place, staring through the screen, directly at Jadusable. Over the course of several sessions over a series of days, Jadusable writes in painstaking detail about each bizarre scenario he finds himself in, including spontaneously bursting into flames and lying unconscious (or dead) as the Majora-possessed Skull Kid looks on in silence. In a desperate attempt to return the cartridge to the old man who sold it to him, he sees the house empty, the old man's neighbor informing him that he has moved away. Jadusable, after hearing from the neighbor as to what happened in the house that the old man lived in, concludes that the cartridge is possessed by the spirit of its previous owner, a 12-year-old boy named Ben who had drowned almost eight years prior. Subsequently, a figure calling themselves "BEN" seemingly begins contacting him in and beyond the game itself, including changing his computer screen wallpaper to depict the Elegy of Emptiness and speaking through the online artificial intelligence Cleverbot. Using the Elegy statue as its physical form, BEN seems to take pride in being able to manipulate Jadusable, who subsequently describes a series of dreams about the Moon Children depicted in the game's finale, including himself physically transforming into the Elegy, and how he believes he saw the old man who sold him the cartridge on his street looking into his window. Eventually, BEN is revealed to have been hijacking Jadusable's computer and providing a false account of the story's narrative and resolution to 4chan and YouTube, using it to escape the cartridge onto the Internet, declaring "Now I am everywhere." A secret note from Jadusable after an apparent epilogue from his roommate Tyler (who accompanied Jadusable to the old man's former house after the first time he played the game) offers the "true" telling of events and references videos that were never published, seemingly because BEN had deleted them. After publishing his final account of the past week's events, called TheTruth.rtf, Jadusable is never seen again. = Two days after BEN's escape from the cartridge, a cult calling themselves the Moon Children reveal their existence to the world. An unnamed follower of Jadusable's story discovers a cipher on his YouTube channel that eventually leads them to the cult's official website, youshouldnthavedonethat.net, in which three moderators discuss the upcoming "ascension" of one of their members. A post by a fourth user and the website's administrator, named DROWNED (supposedly Mr. D), appears to speak directly to the follower through the avatar of a man wearing a gas mask. By exploring the various links, the follower discovers various details about the cult, including that the original Ben was apparently a member who had been sacrificed alongside several other individuals under the pretense of achieving ascension, that another member named Alex had recently betrayed them, and that they have their own prophecy of end times revolving around the Moon destroying the Earth (à la Majora's Mask), provided to them by their deceased prophet Kelbris in 1998. Kelbris, who similarly died under uncertain circumstances, is now seen within the cult as evidence of his own, successful 'ascension'. The next day, the users are able to contact the moderator "Rodney R" Ifrit, revealed to be "Matt Hubris", who answers several questions before disappearing, including referencing his siblings as Rosa and Ben; the original 'Ben' is confirmed as a member of the Moon Children who was sacrificed on April 23, 2002, via drowning, his body ascending to become the central home of 'BEN' in place of all other ascended members. Coinciding with the end of a countdown on a hidden page, a video of the Song of Time is uploaded as a video response to one of Jadusable's videos. Shortly afterward, their website collapses. The following day, the website is reestablished in an unfinished glitching state, with posts from the previous incarnation being posted again with current dates, revealing that in-game actions from Majora's Mask have effects on the website. Over the following day, the follower uses in-game actions to advance the story, establishing contact with Rosa, the sister of Matt, whom Rosa says has disappeared, as well as the soon-to-be-ascended moderators Kevin F. "Insidiae", Christopher "Nekko" and Spencer L. "Duskworld23". However, as a result of the follower's actions, Rosa was taken away by a resurrected Kelbris, Alex was killed while working to prevent the actions of the cult, and time is reset again. Time is subsequently revealed to reset every three days, as in Majora's Mask. Alex, apparently resurrected by the reset of time, returns under the guise of "TheLinkMissing" with an additional warning before disappearing, apparently for good, as a result of careless player actions. On October 6, the website undergoes several drastic design changes, signaling the return of the story. Through clever URL changes, the follower discovers several hidden files ranging from used assets to cryptic documents aimed directly at them. Their biggest discovery is found to be the 59th file, mhftt.txt, a final message left by Ifrit before his disappearance. This file names a fellow reader to the follower, Kayd "Ryukaki" Hendricks, who had been in contact with Rosa prior to her death, as having been warned by him as to be in danger. Over the next two days, Ryukaki uploads a series of videos indicating that his life is indeed at stake. As of 2020, the videos uploaded by Ryukaki are now seen as ambiguously canon with many of the things posted in the videos coinciding with the current arc but others never referenced again. On November 8, another video uploaded on Jadusable's channel by BEN signals the beginning of the arc's epilogue, with the coming months seeing small changes made to the Moon Children website. On February 17, 2011, a new forum called Within Hubris is launched as a central hub for the follower and others like them during the next portion of the story. Shortly after its discovery, a hidden section of the forum was revealed to contain the spirits of former members of the Moon Children. Within a week of the site's discovery, the follower begins receiving newspaper clippings in their mail that detail an apparent murder-suicide that took place "three months [ago]" in New York, and including an apparent message from BEN. On February 26, another video is uploaded to Jadusable's channel, predicting the final warning for the following day. On February 27, a video, known as h b i s r e a l is uploaded featuring the interior of the house featured in the newspaper. Following those events, the arc, and the story in general, was put on hiatus by Alex Hall for an indefinite time. = Two years after an unknown societal collapse in 2018, in March 2020, the YouTube channel formerly controlled by Jadusable and BEN is taken over by a resurgent "Jadus", who recounts the alternate history to have occurred in the time since the final ascension of "The Father", who was revealed to be Kelbris. The Father had killed Jadusable moments after the ending of The Haunted Cartridge arc, a moment shown in upload Kelbris.wmv. (Another unreleased video, CHILDREN.wmv, was also released around this point in time.) An as-of-yet unexplained event that occurred in 2012 apparently had global repercussions, leading to a modern-day Great Depression resulting in a total breakdown of American society by 2018. Addressing the follower, dubbed "The Second Player" (alternatively "The Main Character", or simply "The MC"), Jadus claims a partial cause of this collapse as being a mysterious virus known as "HEROES", of which they are a survivor, alongside their occupational partner Denton. The player is a prisoner in the mysterious Ethereal Hotel, through which he is guided by radio by another survivor, Abel, avoiding a gas mask-wearing entity known as "The Jailer", as they roam the halls. He is killed by The Jailer, and control is passed over to another person, named Sarah. She decides to stay and wait for a bit and is rewarded for doing so. Now in possession of a Nintendo 64, Sarah subsequently encounters the seemingly benevolent spirit of the original Ben within the original Nintendo 64 cartridge for whom she plays the Song of Healing, which in-game is used to mend broken souls. Now healed, Ben explains that after Jadusable awakened The Father, he remained within the cartridge, tormenting Ben and the litany of souls he had been manipulating into imprisoning in BEN, including Jadusable and Rosa. Eventually, the souls were forced to flee deep within the code of the cartridge, which in turn caused glitches to render the game unplayable. Ben begs her to heal the souls BEN has left to The Father's mercy, before granting her Link's adult form from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The "Adult Mask", he explains, contains the souls of a large number of people, all seeking revenge against The Father. She then plays the Song of Time, sending her back to the normal yet altered Majora's Mask gameplay from ten years ago. After this, an overjoyed Abel resumes communication with Sarah and muses over the interaction. He then claims that the game has been reverted to its pre-Jadusable state and that BEN — which he explains to be the Behavioral Event Network — is a hive mind consisting of both the souls of Moon Children who have been successfully digitized and of various artificially intelligent programs from Majora's Mask which he believes gained sentience either from a lack of input or by some sort of trigger, with the entity being named after the original Ben as a tribute, due to their soul having been the first human soul to have been successfully digitized. He ends his monologue and then says Sarah's part in the experiment is over, explaining he will be "coming over" to relieve her of the cartridge, before suggesting she 'stick around' to see other things he wants to show her. Despite Abel's request, Sarah continues playing the game. In place of the Happy Mask Salesman, she finds Ifrit in the form of an unused NPC, who tells her that Ben has been "restored" into his enslaved state, and that to defeat the Father she needs to disrupt the simulation or replicate the same "fourth-day" glitch that freed Ben. When she exits the area, she is suddenly confronted by two duplicates of the first boss of Majora's Mask, which she easily dispenses before continuing deeper into the game. Sarah eventually encounters a Moon Child, who asks her to leave its "home". When she pursues it, she finds in its place a heart, which she collects. Ifrit then contacts her saying she must collect 3 hearts to free the souls trapped within the cartridge. Progressing further, she is confronted by several more Moon Children, who are seen apparently tormenting another NPC. After thwarting their attack, Sarah encounters this NPC, who now claims to be Rosa, who as thanks gives her a pendant containing her memories which she claims will be able to free the others. She continues onwards, finding a second Moon Child's heart and encountering another NPC who "knows exactly who he is" and thinks of Sarah as a monster, due to all the souls contained in the mask making her seem like a monster consuming them. On August 23, 2020, a new video called The Showdown.wmv premiered, the contents giving another revelation to the story. Sarah, after escaping the clutches of one of the Moon Children, meets the once thought dead Jadusable, the original player from the Haunted Cartridge arc. Dismayed, Jadusable is discovered to now be working with The Father and after facing Sarah in one on one combat, kills her, leaving the story without a player character. The same video at the end shows a link to a new site called the Eternity Project, a web page established by those who belong to a group of people called The Family with the purpose of achieving ascension to escape the world-ending event due to happen in 2020. On that website, users were able to confirm the current status of many of the characters from the entire story such as Sarah, Jadusable, and Rosa. The site promises prospective members to join the Eternity Project and to escape from the hell of the current world and embrace a new future through ascension, becoming Enlightened and free from the world. As is the tradition in sites belonging to this story, members could dig into source codes and puzzle-solving to discover hidden messages and pages. Here, Abel eventually contacted players (or rather, a "pity hire" at the Eternity Project) and gave them passwords allowing access to the 'heart' of World Alpha - now known to be the Haunted Cartridge, which all of the Eternity Project's subsequent virtual worlds are apparently built off of. Here, players were met with an option to upload "code" directly into the heart of World Alpha — an action which Abel hoped would stop the virtual world from imploding, along with the rest of the Eternity Project and everyone still trapped within. Eventually, one of the players' uploads was accepted and the option to upload anything further disappeared. The uploaded code would successfully revive Sarah in Clock Town, albeit without the Ocarina of Time or the Adult form she previously had, with only 12 in-game hours remaining before the Moon would crash into Termina and start the entire game over again. Noticing that Clock Town is empty, she attempts to enter the buildings in the area, but all but one are inaccessible. Upon entering this building, Sarah finds herself in the code with Rosa and the rest of the humans digitized into Majora's Mask. They argue over whether to let the Moon fall and just reset everything, which Rosa believes will not result in what the rest expects it to, or to allow Sarah to perform the day four glitch, at the risk of unleashing the already looming Father all over again. Ultimately, Sarah races to the Observatory and prepares to perform the glitch — however, the choice to actually do it is left up to the players. The players chose to perform the glitch, and after having done so, the world returns to a glitched state. Ifrit suddenly reappears and explains that by doing the glitch, she has killed the game's inhabitants and that with the Father freed once more, he intends to use his power to transform the world into a "nightmare". Clock Town becomes filled with cultic worshippers of the Father as Sarah runs to the clock tower, where she finds Jadusable and a newly freed Ben hiding. Jadusable explains that he was trying to stop Sarah from performing the glitch, and admonishes her for simply believing everything that the game's inhabitants had told her. He explains that Alex had passed the responsibility of being World Alpha's protector to him - and that now - he was going to do the same to her. Jadusable gives up his soul and joins his strength with Sarah, turning her back into Adult Link. Sarah confronts Ifrit, now joined by the last remaining Moon Child, and briefly battles the latter as it assumes the form of Majora's Wrath — the third phase of the final boss of Majora's Mask. Suddenly, instead of fighting back, Sarah uses her ocarina to play the Song of Healing, and Majora's Wrath suddenly disappears. Ifrit briefly reappears to threaten her, but he is suddenly overcome with static and disappears himself. The Father appears in his place, demanding Sarah explain her actions. In response, she gives him the Pendant of Memories, and Circle explains that the inhabitants of World Alpha are just scared, and only want to live. In response, The Father 'changes his parameters' to heal World Alpha, by removing all "anomalies" which wish to harm the natural order of the world. He also explains that, as users interfacing with World Alpha's code, they too will be removed, and that to pacify the inhabitants' mental traumas he will need to reset their memories as well. Above all, The Father assures Sarah and Circle that World Alpha will continue and that Ben will be given a real host body, commenting that his imprisonment within the Elegy statue was an "oversight" made by dated A.I. When Circle asks what will become of Sarah after The Father 'removes' her, he says he doesn't know and fades away. Sarah fades away soon after. The series ends with a shot of Ben, now in the body of Child Link, standing next to a now unpossessed Elegy statue and waving to the audience. Ben Drowned has received favorable reviews. It received substantial attention following a favorable review by Kotaku writer Owen Good roughly two months into publication, who praised the story's themes and originality. Readership quadrupled following this article, and again by its followup in 2017 while the story was in its first hiatus, in which its biblical themes and use of the five stages of grief and "ghost within the machine" trope were praised, as was Hall's initial decision to end the narrative with an April Fool's Day joke in 2012. The series has been favorably compared to the similarly popular creepypasta series Marble Hornets. Liam Conlon of Vice, comparing Ben Drowned to both Majora's Mask and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, referred to it as "a shining example of how Zelda fans have always been in lockstep with Nintendo's own experimentation with horror. [being] a well-told story", as well as praising its unique take on the found footage genre. Anthony Vigna of Nintendojo praised the "videos to back up its claims and provided blog updates that pushed the tale to be more believable", calling Majora's Mask "the perfect game to create the setting of a scary story", with the ARG elements of the story praised as being highly addictive. Ryan Larson of Bloody Disgusting praised how "with clever video editing skills and a deep wealth of knowledge, the online user Jadusable is able to craft one of the scariest legends of recent memory. Like storytellers before him, using paintings or ink to craft the tale, he uses the devices of our advanced time to make something that the kids of the nineties can latch onto." Kara Dennison of Fanbyte, speaking of Ben Drowned in context of the 20th anniversary of Majora's Mask, praised "what Hall did during this time [as] both unique and effective. He took a concept that was already gaining steam and gave it a reality it was lacking. Creepypastas about Mickey Mouse and The Simpsons were already poking at people's childhoods, occasionally with attempts at "haunted tapes" to back the stories up. But BEN Drowned brought a level of realism to its story that had yet to be accomplished in other attempts.", additionally citing how it was stated as the primary inspiration for later popular works such as Petscop by Tony Domenico, and concluding that of creepypasta, "[it's] highly likely BEN Drowned will remain the best of its kind." Blogger Robbie Blair discussed Ben Drowned within the context of the increasing popularity of web serials and alternate reality games such as Worm. In September 2014, concept art for the episode "Soos and the Real Girl" of Gravity Falls revealed Ben Drowned as a primary influence behind the character GIFfany; themselves an inspiration for the Doki Doki Literature Club! character Monika. Clive Barker and Warner Brothers have approached Hall to discuss adapting Ben Drowned. An independent film adaptation of the series titled Darkland: Ben Drowned, produced by Mind's Eye Entertainment and starring Jonny Clarke, began filming in 2015, but ultimately was not completed. In August 2016, a press release for Syfy's Channel Zero referenced Ben Drowned as one of the urban legends that would form the basis for a future season; ultimately, the series was cancelled after its fourth season. = Eric Van Allen of entertainment site Kotaku on the place of Ben Drowned in the developing creepypasta and emergence into urban legend: Ben Drowned persists. The Elegy statue has become permanently linked to the story of Jadusable and his haunted cartridge, a copy of Majora's Mask that inspired nightmares of masks being sewn to faces and terrible, terrible fates. Ben Drowned lives by the virtual firelight, as each new whisper, tweet, or forum post sends chills down a new reader's spine. Creepypastas are the ghost stories of the digital age, changing with each retelling and reimagining from its fandom. Though Ben Drowned owes its legacy to Hall, its future lies in the hands of anyone who might take to their keyboard to add a new page. The originally unofficial title Ben Drowned has multiple potential meanings. It has been connected to the protagonist's character development, the fate of the child Ben and the subsequently created omnipresent force BEN; drawing a parallel with the power of the Moon Children cult to control the actions of one's soul in the eyes of Luna and the tides of the ocean. The arc titles also generally have double meanings. Several reviewers have described the serial as an exercise in repeatedly escalating the stakes of the story, with a number of reviewers having noted the characters' ingenuity, and the original and creative use of Roman and The Legend of Zelda mythology in the narrative. The series received renewed focus in 2016, when 12-year-old Katelyn Davis, who had recently committed suicide, was cited as having been catfished by a user embodying the BEN persona from Ben Drowned, after which a statement in reference to the end of their relationship was accompanied by a piece of fanart of the character in their later form of a Link with blood-red eyes beckoning a violet fairy. Addressing their death in relation to his series, Hall stated himself:[to have] wondered if I never wrote that story, would that stuff have still happened? Or those girls who [tried to] kill someone with Slender Man a few years back. If that didn't exist, would that have ever happened? No one can ever say for sure. It's a hard moral issue and a tragedy, but I don't think that authors can necessarily be held responsible for what some fans do because of an obvious work of fiction. There are both sides to this coin — there are plenty of people who have personally thanked me for writing the story, saying that it had helped them get through a really dark time in their life. I suppose it's one of the burdens of publicly publishing your work to a wide audience; you have to take the good with the bad.For the sequel Awakening in 2020, Hall incorporated machine-learning programs to create artwork and music for his story, going so far as to have the titular villain - which was itself an in-universe AI construct - created entirely by artificial intelligence using Artbreeder. Hall expressed enthusiasm for these emerging AI tools, citing that they could expand the possibilities available to independent creators, but urged caution that these tools would quickly render many artists/creators obsolete.

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2009 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards

2010-01-31 02:00:36+00:00

The 32nd RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards (Chinese: 第三十二屆十大中文金曲頒獎音樂會) was held on January 30, 2010 for the 2009 music season. This marks the second time the Golden needle award was given to someone who is deceased, Danny Chan, with the first being Tang Ti-sheng in 1986. The top 10 songs (十大中文金曲) of 2009 are as follows.

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2010 BET Hip Hop Awards

2016-11-04 17:50:27+00:00

The 2010 show was hosted by Mike Epps. DJ Khaled was the host DJ and DJ Premier DJed the cyphers. "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)"/"MC Hammer" - Rick Ross with Diddy and DJ Khaled "Too Legit to Quit" - MC Hammer "Speakers Going Hammer"/"Pretty Boy Swag" - Soulja Boy "Hard in da Paint"/"No Hands" - Waka Flocka Flame feat. Roscoe Dash "Bed Intruder Song" - Antoine Dodson & Michael Gregory of The Gregory Brothers "Gucci Time" - Gucci Mane feat. Swizz Beatz "You Aint No DJ" - Big Boi feat. Yelawolf "Who Dat"/"Blow Up" - J. Cole "Salute" - Dipset "Don't Let Me Fall" - B.o.B "Teach Me How to Dougie" - Cali Swag District "The Humpty Dance"/"I Get Around" - Shock G & Money-B of Digital Underground Internet Exclusive Cypher 1 - Vado, Reychesta, & Farnsworth Bentley Internet Exclusive Cypher 2 - Laws, Reema Major, & Nick Javas Cypher 1 - Wiz Khalifa, Bones Brigante, Yelawolf, & Raekwon Cypher 2 - Tyga, Kuniva, Diamond, & Royce Da 5'9" Cypher 3 - Ice Cube with his sons Doughboy & OMG and Rev Run with his sons Diggy & Jo-Jo Cypher 4 - Reek Da Villain, Zawcain, & Mickey Factz Cypher 5 - Pusha T, Big Sean, CyHi Da Prynce, Common, & Kanye West of G.O.O.D. Music Ghana Exclusive Cypher - D-Black Da Ghana Bwouy, Sarkodie, Kwaku-T, Ayigbe Edem, Babyg, Tinny, & Reggie Rockstone = Jay-Z & Alicia Keys – "Empire State of Mind" B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars – "Nothin' on You" Drake – "Find Your Love" Jay-Z featuring Rihanna & Kanye West – "Run This Town" Jay-Z featuring Swizz Beatz – "On to the Next One" = Jay-Z & Alicia Keys – "Empire State of Mind" B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars – "Nothin' on You" Diddy-Dirty Money featuring Rick Ross & Nicki Minaj – "Hello Good Morning (Remix)" DJ Khaled featuring Rick Ross, T-Pain, Busta Rhymes, P. Diddy, Fabolous, Fat Joe, Jadakiss & Nicki Minaj – "All I Do Is Win (Remix)" Drake featuring Lil Wayne, Kanye West & Eminem – "Forever" = Jay-Z Busta Rhymes Drake Kanye West Lil Wayne = Eminem Drake Lil Wayne Nicki Minaj Jay-Z = Hype Williams Benny Boom Chris Robinson Gil Green Mr. Boomtown = Swizz Beatz Boi-1da Drumma Boy Lex Luger Polow Da Don = Drake B.o.B Eminem Jay-Z Rick Ross = Only the producer of the track nominated in this category. "BMF" – Produced by Lex Luger (Rick Ross featuring Styles P) "Airplanes" – Produced by Alex da Kid & DJ Frank E (B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams) "All I Do Is Win" – Produced by DJ Nasty & LVM (DJ Khaled featuring T-Pain, Ludacris, Rick Ross & Snoop Dogg) "BedRock" – Produced by Kane Beatz (Young Money featuring Lloyd) "Empire State of Mind" – Produced by Alexander Shuckburgh (Jay-Z & Alicia Keys) = Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3 B.o.B – B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray Eminem – Recovery Drake – Thank Me Later Rick Ross – Teflon Don = DJ Khaled DJ Drama Funkmaster Flex DJ Holliday DJ Tony Neal = Nicki Minaj Chiddy Bang J. Cole Roscoe Dash Waka Flocka Flame = Nicki Minaj B.o.B Jay-Z T.I. Kanye West = Rick Ross featuring Styles P – "BMF" (Produced by Lex Luger) Diddy-Dirty Money featuring T.I. & Rick Ross – "Hello Good Morning" (Produced by Danja) DJ Khaled featuring T-Pain, Ludacris, Rick Ross & Snoop Dogg – "All I Do Is Win" (Produced by DJ Nasty & LVM) Young Jeezy featuring Plies – "Lose My Mind" (Produced by Drumma Boy) Waka Flocka Flame – "O Let's Do It" (Produced by L-Don Beatz) = Diddy Drake Jay-Z Nicki Minaj T.I. = Nicki Minaj – "Your Love" B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars – "Nothin' on You" Eminem – "Not Afraid" Gucci Mane – "Lemonade" Cali Swag District – "Teach Me How to Dougie" Drake – "Over" = WorldStarHipHop.com AllHipHop.com NahRight.com RapRadar.com ThisIs50.com = Salt-N-Pepa

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2010 Dahsyatnya Awards

2015-06-01 14:34:23+00:00

The 2010 Dahsyatnya Awards was an awards show for Indonesian musicians. It was the second annual show. The show was held on February 26, 2010, at the JITEC Mangga Dua Square in Pademangan, North Jakarta. The awards show was hosted by Raffi Ahmad, Luna Maya, Olga Syahputra, Ade Namnung, Laura Basuki, and Marcel Chandrawinata. The awards ceremonies will held theme for "Be Yourself". D'Masiv led the nominations with four categories, followed by Peterpan, RAN, Vierra with three nominations. Winners are listed first and highlighted on boldface. = =

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2010 Melon Music Awards

2022-03-03 20:56:47+00:00

The 2010 Melon Music Awards were held on Wednesday, December 15, 2010, at the Hall of Peace of Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea. Organized by Kakao M through its online music store Melon, the 2010 ceremony was the second installment of the event. The winners for the Top 10 Bonsang Award were announced prior to the ceremony. Song Joong-ki – Official host Lee Soo-hyuk & Kim Jung-hwa – Top 10 Award For 2NE1, CNBLUE & DJ DOC Lee Ju-han & Kim Min-seo – Best Alternative Rock & Best R&B Seo Kang-joo & Moon Ji-ye – MBC Plus Artist Award & MBC Radio Artist Award Lee Kan & Choi Ah-ra – Top 10 Award For 4men & Girls Generation Kim Gi-deuk – Album of the Year Han Seong-jin & Jung So-ra – Best Music Video, Best Trot & Best Rap / Hip Hop Park Ki-woong & Yoon Song-i – Top 10 Award For IU, 2AM & Lee Seung-gi Kim Jung-man – Culture Performer Award Julien Kang & Min Hye-kyung – Top 10 Award For T-ara & 2PM Choi Phillip & Kim Bin-woo – Hot Trend Award & Best OST Danny Ahn & Oh Se-jeong – Best Songwriter Award & Netizen Popularity Award Jo Yeon-woo & Yoon Ji-min – Best New Artist & Song of the Year Park So-hyang & Choi Eun-kyeong – Artist of the Year = Winners and nominees are listed below. Winners are listed first and emphasized in bold. =

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45th Academy of Country Music Awards

2020-07-17 06:28:23+00:00

The 45th Academy of Country Music Awards were held on April 18, 2010, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada. The ceremony was hosted by ACM Award Winner Reba McEntire. Winners are shown in bold.

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Amber Beach Festival

2013-07-01 10:29:56+00:00

Amber Beach (Russian: Янтарный Пляж, romanized: Yantarny Plyazh) was an annual music festival in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. = The first festival was held in Yantarny from July 23 to 25, 2010. It was headlined by Everything Is Made In China, Vopli Vidoplyasova, Dieselboy, Covenant and Timo Maas. The event was attended by about 3000–4000 people. = In 2011, the festival was held in Zelenogradsk on July 15 to 16. The headliners were Paul Oakenfold, SASH! and Smash HI-FI. There were about 5000 attendees. = In 2012, the festival was held in Zelenogradsk on July 13 to 14. The headliners were Scooter, Ronski Speed, and Tantsy Minus. = In 2013, the festival was held in Zelenogradsk on August 30. The headliners were Westbam and Solarstone. = The festival was canceled in 2014 and was not held 2015. = In 2016, the festival returned to Yantarny and took place from July 28 to July 31. The headliners were Gus Gus, Enter Shikari, and Brainstorm. TV story in Russian, Kaskad ITRC, 2010 Amber Beach is on the short list of best Russian festivals, Billboard Paul Oakenfold talking on Amber Beach Oakenfold on press conference, Radisson Kaliningrad Video from Klops.ru with report on 3rd Amber Beach festival

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AURA Music and Arts Festival

2015-11-14 15:23:49+00:00

AURA Music and Arts Festival is an annual three-day, music-driven festival, featuring jam, funk, rock, jazz, and livetronica performances, as well as musical workshops, activities, and other programs. Produced by AURA Music Group, LLC, AURA Music and Arts Festival has produced six festivals since 2010. The festival now takes place at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL. AURA Music and Arts Festival was established in 2010 by Florida-based AURA Music Group, LLC. This business was started by Daryl Wolff (Executive Producer), Carlos "CJ" Rodrigues (Operations), Craig Heneveld (Operations) and Bianca Garza (Vending Coordinator). Wolff, Rodrigues and Heneveld had a history of producing shows in Florida together before coming together to form the first annual festival. In 2011, Cameron Troy Ferguson (Operations Director) came on board the already existing team. Currently, AURA Music Group, LLC is owned and managed by Wolff and Ferguson. AURA started in January 2010 in Brooksville, FL at the Sertoma Youth Ranch. With a small expected attendance, the staff was overly surprised when almost 1000 patrons showed up for the inaugural event. It quickly became apparent that the venue could not hold the growth of the show, so Wolff started a search for larger properties, and stumbled upon the Forever Florida property in St. Cloud, FL. With over 4000 acres, the property was happy to welcome the festival and its growth (Wolff found the property using Google Earth). The festival was produced for its 2nd and 3rd years in St. Cloud, but in 4th year was moved to its current home, the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park. AURA 2010: Sertoma Youth Ranch, Brooksville, FL AURA 2011: Forever Florida, St. Cloud, FL AURA 2012: Forever Florida, St. Cloud, FL AURA 2013: Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak, FL AURA 2014: Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak, FL AURA 2015: Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak, FL AURA 2016: Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak, FL AURA 2010: Brother Bean, The Malah, Papadosio, Soular System, Greenhouse Lounge, Cope, Aquaphonics, Diocious, Lingo, Before Trees, Emily Carroll, Bill Talley, DJ Craig Heneveld, DJ Lexxx, Aquarium, Labyrinth, Min//Max AURA 2011: Papadosio, The Heavy Pets, Zoogma, The Malah, Green Hit, Cope, The Burnin Smyrnans, Greenhouse Lounge, Crazy Fingers, Gravity A, Sci Fi, Cypress, Aquaphonics, EP3, The Resolvers, Freq, Damn Right!, Diocious, FUSIK, Lingo, SOSOS, Shak Nasti, Noise Org, Third Nature, Under The Porch, Savi Fernandez Band, Saltwater Grass, Honey Henny Lime, Chroma, New Gravity, Robot Ears, Legacy, Lather Up!, Fat Mannequin, The Rooze, Nick Noyes, KLOB, DJ Craig Heneveld, Aquarium, Labyrinth, Tom Foolery, DJ Lexxx, DJ Travis Lindsey, NALA, Arturo, Steve Graham, Min//Max, MEEEKO, T8rtot, Arturo Alexander, Andy Mara, Butch Johnson, D Roller, DJ Terence, DJ Scott, Rolls Royce, Pillform, C3 of EP3, African Lung Fish, Sean Fee AURA 2012: Papadosio, Brothers Past, The Heavy Pets, Zoogma, Dr Fameus, Biodiesel, Kung Fu, The Malah, Dopapod, Cope, DJ Craig Heneveld, Damn Right!, The Werks, Brother Bean, Aquaphonics, Ultraviolet Hippopotamus, Former Champions, Bang Bang!, The Mantras, Flt Rsk, FUSIK, Sonic Spank, El Groundscoro, Ketchy Shuby, J2K, Newton Crosby, Saltwater Grass, Nick Noyes, EP3, The Resolvers, Third Nature, Sounduo, The Fritz, Green Sunshine, Artofficial, Elephantgun, The Short Straw Pickers, SOSOS, Marc Paper Scissor, The Funky Nuggets, Psychedelphia, Spontaneous Underground, The Merry Franksterz AURA 2013: Papadosio, Conspirator, Perpetual Groove, Break Science, RAQ, The Heavy Pets, Dopapod, Kung Fu, Nigel Hall, The Lee Boys, Greenhouse Lounge, Dr Fameus, Jeff Bujak, Arpetrio, Sir Charles, Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band, UDNTPRTY, Stokeswood, Consider The Source, Former Champions, Brock Butler, Earthcry, Lingo, Newton Crosby, The Main Squeeze, The McLovins, DJ Tony D, Monozygotik, My Boy Elroy, Vlad The Inhaler, DJ Scotty Solomon, Dubble James, Beat Thief Inc., Michael Garfield AURA 2014: Lotus, Papadosio, Conspirator, Zoogma, The Werks, The Revivalists, Particle, The Heavy Pets, Future Rock, Marco Benevento, Mike Dillon Band, Kung Fu, Dopapod, Superhuman Happiness, Cope, Earphunk, Juno What?!, Twiddle, Jimkata, Stokeswood, Start Making Sense, The Resolvers, Lucky Costello, Catfish Alliance, Lather Up!, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Fat Mannequin, Displace, Spontaneous Underground, Polyester Pimpstrap AURA 2015: The Disco Biscuits, moe., Papadosio, Break Science (Live Band), The Motet, Kung Fu, Dopapod, The Heavy Pets, RAQ, Jimkata, Consider The Source, TAUK, The Main Squeeze, American Babies, The Mike Dillon Band, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, The Mantras, The Fritz, McLovins, Ghost Owl, Turbo Suit, Brother Bean, FUSIK, Ketchy Shuby, Uproot Hootenanny, Funkin Grateful, Lather Up! Fat Mannequin, Stinky Pockets, Lucky Costello, JUKE, Vlad The Inhaler, Weazildust, ZwangBang w/ DJ Chewie, Beat Thief Inc., Bedside, Bells & Robes, DJ Craig Heneveld, DJ Scotty Solomon, Felix Fusik, JayJoHeRo, Matthew Connor, Tony D, The Shady Horns Aura 2016: The Disco Biscuits, Thievery Corporation, Snarky Puppy, ALO, theNEWDEAL, The Werks, The Heavy Pets Tribute to the 80's, Turkuaz, Particle, The Main Squeeze, Tom Hamilton's American Babies, Mike Dillion Band, Pink Talking Fish, Bright Light Social Hour, Aqueous, Backup Planet, Bedside, Ben Sparaco Band, Broccoli Samurai, CBDB, Crazy Fingers, Dank, Displace, Fat Mannequin, The Fritz, Fusik, Garrin Benfield, Greenhouse Lounge, Holly Bowling, Jimkata, Lather Up! Lucky Costello, Nunchuck, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, The Resolvers, Roar!, Third Nature In 2013, Kung Fu collaborated with soul singer Nigel Hall to present a tribute set of Stevie Wonder's music. In 2014, Stokeswood collaborated with multiple guests to present a tribute set of Hall & Oates music. In 2015, The Main Squeeze collaborated with Ryan Zoidis and Eric Bloom of Lettuce to present a tribute set of Michael Jackson's music.

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Bach in the Subways

2015-03-20 18:13:47+00:00

Bach in the Subways is a grass-roots movement to bring public attention to classical music, mainly through free concerts in celebration of the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21). First performed as solo concerts in the New York City Subway in 2010 by cellist Dale Henderson, by 2015 events were performed by thousands of musicians in 129 cities in more than 39 countries, and every March since, for Bach's birthday, performances are given by thousands of musicians in hundreds of locations around the world. Bach in the Subways was originally conceived and executed as a solo project by cellist Dale Henderson beginning in early 2010, when he began a campaign of frequent performances of the Bach Cello Suites in the New York City Subway. Instead of putting out a tip jar and asking for money from subway passengers, Henderson flipped the usual scenario upside down: he refused donations and offered listeners free souvenir postcards with an iconic image on the front, and the following message on the back: More people listen to classical music today than ever before. The internet provides instant access to a genre whose global popularity increases yearly. Ironically, the number of Americans who attend live classical music events continues to dwindle. Many feel this trend threatens the future survival of classical music in this country. The Bach Solo Cello Suites are perfect ambassadors for classical music: their power and beauty unfailingly inspire great appreciation, joy and deep emotion in those who hear them. I perform the Suites in the subways of New York City to sow the seeds for future generations of classical music lovers. Announcing on the Bach in the Subways Facebook and Twitter pages where and when he would appear on the day of performances, Henderson's work attracted attention from various media and musicians, notably an October 2010 video piece by CNN's Tawanda Scott entitled “He’s playing to save the music,” and an endorsement on Facebook by jazz saxophonist Brandon Marsalis. Henderson continued this intensive campaign of performances, often appearing two to three times a week, throughout 2010, 2011, and the earlier months of 2012, after which he continued to give Bach in the Subways performances but scaled back somewhat in frequency. On March 10, 2011, Henderson posted the following message on the Bach in the Subways Facebook page: Musicians: pick any subway station & any time between 12:00 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. on Monday, March 21, play Bach, and when people try to give you money don't take it. Just tell them it's Bach's birthday, and to enjoy the music. This is Bach in the Subways Day! If interested contact me.… Two cellists, Michael Lunapiena and Eric Edberg, cello professor at the DePauw University School of Music in Indiana, responded to Henderson's call to action and the three of them offered Bach Cello Suites to New York City Subway passengers in various stations throughout the city on March 21 – Bach's 326th birthday. In March 2012, Henderson again circulated the call to action and attracted the attention of oboist Kristin Olson, whose enthusiasm and energy for the project helped increase interest among musicians. For Bach's 327th birthday 13 musicians in New York joined the effort, and for the first time Henderson had special Bach in the Subways Day cards designed and printed for musicians to distribute during their performances. The cards featured on their front the picture of Bach wearing a party hat which has since come to symbolize the Bach in the Subways movement around the world, and, on the back, a message: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 is Johann Sebastian Bach’s 327th birthday. To celebrate his life and music, and to sow the seeds for future generations of classical music lovers, musicians will be performing Bach in the Subways in stations throughout New York City throughout the day. We do not want money, but simply ask that you listen and open yourself up to the power of the music. The day's festivities were covered in The Wall Street Journal, including a multimedia piece by Daniella Zalcman, and in another multimedia piece by New York's Classical Music Radio Station, WQXR-FM featuring performances by baroque cellist John Mark Rozendaal and other Bach in the Subways Day performers. For Bach's 328th birthday in 2013, the number of participating musicians grew to 45 and spread to Boston, Cincinnati, Miami, and Montreal. In New York, a 17-piece chorus organized by Stephen J. Herschkorn and calling themselves "Untersingen: The Bach Edition" roamed the subways offering Bach to straphangers. Henderson again armed musicians with Bach in the Subways Day cards to distribute to audiences while they performed, and New York's WQXR covered the festivities for a second year, this time offering a Google Maps interactive map on their website, with pins detailing all New York performances. This, along with coverage from Time Out New York, led to "Bach hopping' – fans travelled from performance to performance, taking pictures and shooting video. While beginning work on Bach in the Subways Day 2014, Henderson was approached by Los Angeles-based classical music enthusiast and photographer Jeehyun Lee, who was interested in organizing Bach in the Subways Day in Los Angeles. This was the first time an organizer other than Henderson worked on Bach in the Subways Day, and marked the beginning of an inflection point in the growth of the movement. Bach in the Subways Day 2014 was joined by 77 musicians in 12 cities in 4 countries, including 22 performers organized by Lee in Los Angeles, and a quartet of three cellos and a tuba on a moving subway train in Taipei. It was the first year a Bach in the Subways website offered Google map pins and listings for all the performances. In the months following Bach in the Subways Day 2014, Henderson was contacted by amateur and professional musicians as well as musical organizations in Seattle, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, and cities in Germany, all interested in organizing Bach in the Subways Day in their cities. In addition Henderson and Seattle organizer Rob Solomon, a professional anesthesiologist and amateur pianist and Bach lover, began a global email outreach campaign to invite musicians across the world to join Bach in the Subways Day 2015. On March 21, 2015, Johann Sebastian Bach's 330th birthday, thousands of musicians in 130 cities in 40 countries participated in the fifth Bach in the Subways Day. Following the enormous success of Bach in the Subways Day 2015, which fell on a Saturday, it was decided to extend the festival to the days and weekend before or after the birthday, so performers could again participate on the weekend. Additionally the word "Day" was dropped to avoid confusion. Since then, every March countless musicians and organizations in hundreds of cities in over 40 countries around the world join the cause to bring as much live Bach to humanity as possible.

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Beyond Wonderland

2011-02-15 21:59:19+00:00

Beyond Wonderland is an electronic dance festival organized by Insomniac Events. The event has been held in various locations across the west coast including Seattle, San Bernardino, and Mountain View spanning either one or two days. As the festival continued to grow from its earlier roots, it has branched into two festivals: Beyond Socal and Beyond Norcal/Bay Area, catering to the growing audience. However, this expansion of the Beyond series lasted for only four years before founder Pasquale Rotella announced that he would no longer continue having both Beyond Socal and Norcal to pursue expansion and creation of other festivals of the Insomniac brand. In 2017, the international debut of Beyond Wonderland took place in Mexico and in 2019 it also debuted in Colombia. The history of Beyond Wonderland extends back before its inaugural 2010 date. The first festival was held at the National Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino, California. Insomniac Events announced the conception of Beyond Wonderland to be considered as the sister festival of Nocturnal Wonderland (formerly known as Nocturnal Festival). Fans of Insomniac Events called for a return to the past vibrant environment that the Nocturnal Festival once hailed. Insomniac believed Beyond Wonderland could provide this environment. With the success of Nocturnal Festival, Insomniac introduced the Wonderland series with Beyond Wonderland as its first expansion from the Nocturnal Festival, promising to "return to the amazing hues and vibrance of our original Wonderland event." The festival features multiple stages of electronic dance music artists with such genres as: House, Trance, Dubstep, Drum and Bass, and Ambient. The festival has also been known for features such as a light maze, many modern art sculptures, and poi dancers. As the festival continues to grow, new interactive additions are added each year to help enhance the experience, such as various dancing characters and aesthetic decorations. As Insomniac Events continued to grow, new art installations, characters, and themes that focused more on the Alice in Wonderland motif became the aesthetic for Beyond Wonderland. When Insomniac expanded Beyond Wonderland to include camping in 2015, Beyond seemed to be a second wind for festival-goers who had experienced the Nocturnal Series in the Fall prior. However, when Beyond was moved from the San Manuel Amphitheater back to the NOS Center, it no longer offered camping. = The inaugural Beyond Wonderland was held at NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California on March 20, 2010 to a sold-out crowd. Notable artists on the lineup included Sander van Doorn, Paul van Dyk, Groove Armada, Robbie Rivera, Caspa, Pendulum, and Wippenberg. = The second annual Beyond Wonderland was a great success, with another completely sold-out show at NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California. Notable artists on the lineup included Calvin Harris, Dirty South, Dirtyphonics, Datsik, Infected Mushroom, Kaskade, Cosmic Gate, Noisia, and Showtek. = The first Beyond Wonderland to be held in the state of Washington took place at the WAMU Theatre. Notable artists on the lineup included David Guetta, LMFAO, A-Trak, Datsik, Porter Robinson, and Gareth Emery. Beyond Wonderland marked Guetta's first appearance in Seattle. = The third annual Beyond Wonderland was a great success, with another completely sold-out show at NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, CA with a special showing of A State Of Trance 550 with notable artists such as Armin van Buuren, Gareth Emery, Aly & Fila, Arty, Shogun, John O'Callaghan, Sied van Riel, and Fei Fei. Other notable artists on the lineup throughout the festival included Dirty South, Hardwell, ATB, Magnetic Man, John Digweed, Netsky, Sidney Samson, and Steve Aoki. This year marked the first year of Beyond Wonderland being expanded to Beyond Socal and Beyond Bay Area. = The first Beyond Wonderland to be held in Northern California was located at the O.co Coliseum parking lot in Oakland, CA. The lineup included artists such as Alesso, Sander Van Doorn, ATB, and Thomas Gold, amongst others. = The fourth annual Beyond Wonderland Socal saw a change of scenery, moving from the NOS Events Center to the San Manuel Amphitheater. Notable artists on the lineup throughout the festival included Afrojack, Arty, Dash Berlin, David Guetta, Markus Schulz, and Steve Angello. = The second Beyond Wonderland Bay Area was held in Northern California, this edition of Beyond Wonderland was held in Mountain View at the Shoreline Amphitheatre and was the first Beyond event to span two days. Roughly 40,000 fans attended the event for two days. Over 100 people were arrested, with people being charged with drug possession, drunkenness, illegal drug use, and furnishing. Notable artists on the lineup included David Guetta, Avicii, Zeds Dead, Gareth Emery, Hardwell, Dash Berlin, Tiesto, Calvin Harris, Benny Benassi, Carnage, and Datsik. = The third Beyond Wonderland Bay Area to be held in Northern California, this edition of Beyond Wonderland was again held in Mountain View at the Shoreline Amphitheatre and again spanned two days. More than sixty people were arrested due to noise complaints and drug possession. = Over 60 acts were performing on this two-day festival at the San Manuel Amphitheater, which was visited by an estimated 70,000 fans. The lineup featured artists such as [Benny Benassi], [John Digweed], and foreign acts as such as hardstyle duo D-Block and S-Te-Fan, or DBSTF. At this festival there were reports of a 22 year old man that died from a seizure. Additionally, 300 people were arrested and 32 people were hospitalized. This 5th anniversary of Beyond Wonderland Socal was the first year the festival offered camping options for the festival. With the success of camping options at Nocturnal Wonderland the year prior, Insomniac expanded the camping experience to Beyond Wonderland as well. The campground offered a new layer of festival-going that included day time activities before the festival began. Yoga, arts and crafts, and a silent disco were all different options for campers in this year of Beyond Wonderland. = The fourth Beyond Wonderland Bay Area to be held in Northern California, this edition of Beyond Wonderland was again held in Mountain View at the Shoreline Amphitheatre and again spanned two days. The lineup included Calvin Harris, Tiësto, Loadstar, Knife Party, and Yellow Claw. = The sixth Beyond Wonderland Socal was held at the Glen Helen Amphitheater—at the time the San Manuel Amphiteater. This year of Beyond Wonderland Socal offered a new type of format for music festivals, expanding into the various music label brands of Insomniac Events, specifically the Bassrush and Dreamstate brands. In this year of Beyond Socal, Insomniac created curated stages by the two brands to feature the various artists under each label. This year featured an expansion of the campgrounds that were introduced in the year prior, and featured interactive art and activities in a whole new light to expand on the Beyond experience. The Beyond Wonderland Bay Area series was cancelled this year along with EDC Puerto Rico, in an effort to "focus on exploring new cities and enhancing the experience at some of our other festivals," as stated by founder Pasquale Rotella. This marked the last year of a Beyond Wonderland Socal and Bay Area. = The seventh Beyond Wonderland was again held at the Glen Helen Amphitheater. In this year of the Beyond series, Insomniac Events created the "Endless Sea," featuring an aquatic aesthetic throughout the festival. Expanding from the typical Alice in Wonderland aesthetic that had been seen in years prior, this year of Beyond showed an expansion of immersive experiences and interaction from performers and art pieces. = The eighth Beyond Wonderland saw a change of venue to one of its former venues, the NOS (National Orange Show) in San Bernardino. This year of Beyond featured acts such as Tiesto, Kayzo, and Chris Lake. Because of the venue change, Beyond Wonderland no longer offered camping starting in 2018. = The ninth Beyond Socal was at the NOS Events Center. This year marked a good year in ticket sales for Beyond, with the first day selling out in less than 24 hours. This year featured a good amount of music surprises, such as Deadmau5, REZZ, and ZHU. as well as a return to the classic Alice in Wonderland aesthetic that characterized the Beyond series. = The 10th Beyond Wonderland was at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington. This year of Beyond featured acts such as Alison Wonderland, Dr. Fresch, The Chainsmokers, Alan Walker, and Wax Motif. Because of Covid-19 proof of vaccination or a negative test was required for entry. The festival's debut at The Gorge came after the cancellation of Paradiso Festival, another EDM festival held at the amphitheatre which was co-promoted by Insomniac with USC Events. = The 11th Beyond Wonderland was held at NOS Events Center = The 12th Beyond Wonderland was at The Gorge Amphitheatre. = The 13th Beyond Wonderland was at The Gorge Amphitheatre. Originally the show was held around June 17 and 18, but due to a mass shooting that occurred outside The Gorge Amphitheatre on June 17, the event has cancelled June 18 shows. = The 12th Beyond Wonderland was held at NOS Events Center. 2024 was a good year for ticket sales, which were sold out in about 2 weeks. Big artists, such as Subtronics, Sullivan King, Slander, Dabin, and Chainsmokers appeared at the event. Overcrowding at the venue was a major problem with about 1500 people coming over the fence into the venue. Walking around felt as if there was little space and no open areas. Despite the overcrowding, attendees stated the vibes, including the Alice in Wonderland ambience, and production met event standards.

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Big Beach Busk

2018-05-20 20:29:38+00:00

The Big Beach Busk is an annual music and performance event which takes place on the last Saturday in August in Portobello, Edinburgh. It was founded by Edinburgh resident Paul Lambie in 2010, the event began with approximately 80 performers taking part; in 2018 the event attracted 400 musicians. It is estimated the event attracts around 15,000 visitors to Portobello every year. The Busk has also hosted Portobello's annual sandcastle competition, which raised £196 in 2018 for Portobello Toddler Hut, and the Scottish Volleyball Association beach volleyball championships.

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11th Canadian Comedy Awards

2018-06-27 15:46:22+00:00

The 11th Canadian Comedy Awards, presented by the Canadian Comedy Foundation for Excellence (CCFE), honoured the best live, television, film, and Internet comedy of 2009. The ceremony was held at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, on 18 October 2010 and was hosted by Dave Foley. Canadian Comedy Awards, also known as Beavers, were awarded in 22 categories. Some winners were picked by members of industry organizations while others were chosen by the Canadian public through an online poll. The awards ceremony was held during the five-day Canadian Comedy Awards Festival which ran from 14 to 18 October and included 38 shows at six venues. The TV series Less Than Kind led with seven nominations followed by the film Eating Buccaneers with five. Less Than Kind won three Beavers, as did the film The Trotsky. Irwin Barker was posthumously awarded two Beavers and the Dave Broadfoot Award. The Canadian Comedy Awards (CCA) returned to Toronto, Ontario, in 2010, after a seven-year absence from the city. This was the first occasion that Toronto hosted the Canadian Comedy Awards Festival, which had grown to the point that a larger city could more easily accommodate the events. The five-day festival ran from 14 to 18 October and featured 38 shows in six venues. This included stand-up, sketch, improv, and one-person shows. Venues included Yuk Yuk's, Comedy Bar, Bad Dog Theatre, and Second City. One notable show was BeerProv in which 18 improvisors competed, drinking beer in successive elimination rounds until one was left. Sean Tabares won the event and later won the Beaver for best male improvisor. Catch 23 was another competitive improv show featuring pairs of performers. A gala was held on 17 October at the Winter Garden Theatre hosted by Mary Walsh. The awards ceremony was held on 18 October hosted by Dave Foley. Performers included Teresa Pavlinek and Kathryn Greenwood (Women Fully Clothed), Seán Cullen, Gordon Pinsent, Tom Green, and Loretta Swit. Nominees, selected by jury, were announced on 22 June 2010 in Toronto. Awards were given in 22 categories. Irwin Barker, who had died the day before nominations were announced, won posthumous Beavers for Canadian Comedy Person of the Year and Best Male Stand-up, as well as the Dave Broadfoot Award for comic genius. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface: = = = = = = The following people, shows, films, etc. received multiple awards The following people, shows, films, etc. received multiple awards

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2010 Governor General's Awards

2010-10-09 01:24:52+00:00

The shortlisted nominees for the 2010 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 13, and winning titles were announced on November 16. Each winner will receive a cheque for $25,000 and a leatherbound copy of their book.

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2010 Canadian honours

2020-08-06 10:51:16+00:00

The following are the appointments to various Canadian Honours of 2010. Usually, they are announced as part of the New Year and Canada Day celebrations and are published within the Canada Gazette during year. This follows the custom set out within the United Kingdom which publishes its appoints of various British Honours for New Year's and for monarch's official birthday. However, instead of the midyear appointments announced on Victoria Day, the official birthday of the Canadian Monarch, this custom has been transferred with the celebration of Canadian Confederation and the creation of the Order of Canada. However, as the Canada Gazette publishes appointment to various orders, decorations and medal, either Canadian or from Commonwealth and foreign states, this article will reference all Canadians so honoured during the 2010 calendar year. Provincial Honours are not listed within the Canada Gazette, however they are listed within the various publications of each provincial government. = Willard S. Boyle, C.C. Willard S. Boyle, C.C. Joseph A. Rouleau, C.C., G.O.Q. - This is a promotion within the Order The Honourable Michael H. Wilson, P.C., C.C. - This is a promotion within the Order = Michael James Audain, O.C., O.B.C. Clark Blaise, O.C. Pierre Boivin, O.C. Paul Buissonneau, O.C. Mel Cappe, O.C. Burton Cummings, O.C., O.M. Clémence DesRochers, O.C., C.Q. The Honourable Gary Filmon, P.C., O.C., O.M. The Honourable John Frederick Hamm, O.C. Peter Hinton, O.C. Yves Jacques, O.C. The Honourable Philippe Kirsch, O.C. Shrawan Kumar, O.C. Mario Lemieux, O.C., C.Q. Jonathan Lomas, O.C. Alexa Ann McDonough, O.C. Pierre Nadeau, O.C., C.Q. James Orbinski, O.C., O.Ont., M.S.C. Gordon W. Perkin, O.C. Bruce Phillips, O.C. Guylène Proulx, O.C. Ivan Reitman, O.C. Carol Lillian Richards, O.C. Carol Stephenson, O.C. Neil Young, O.C., O.M. The Honourable David A. Anderson, P.C., O.C. Raymonde April, O.C. Richard B. Baltzan, O.C. Raymond Chrétien, O.C. Claudio Cuello, O.C. Hélène Dorion, O.C., C.Q. Gwynne Dyer, O.C. The Honourable Jake Epp, P.C., O.C. Michael J. Fox, O.C. John Furlong, O.C. R. Brian Haynes, O.C. Margaret Lock, O.C., O.Q. John Mighton, O.C. Earl Muldon, O.C. Julie Payette, O.C., C.Q. Alvin C. Segal, O.C. - This is a promotion within the Order Nahum Sonenberg, O.C. Mladen Vranic, O.C. = Murray Angus, C.M. The Honourable Jean Augustine, P.C., C.M. Elsie Basque, C.M. Émile Bouchard, C.M., C.Q. Tantoo Cardinal, C.M. Joan Florence Clark, C.M. Renée Claude, C.M. Calixte Duguay, C.M. Janet C. Gardiner, C.M. Judy Gingell, C.M. Joan Glode, C.M. John Charles Godel, C.M. S. Larry Goldenberg, C.M., O.B.C. Bernard Sydney Goldman, C.M. Patrick J. Gullane, C.M. Dan S. Hanganu, C.M., O.Q. Jean-Claude Labrecque, C.M., C.Q. Louise Lévesque, C.M., C.Q. Jeffrey C. Lozon, C.M. Margaret Lyons, C.M. Patricia Parr, C.M. David Kent Pecaut, C.M. David Adams Richards, C.M., O.N.B. Bruce Sanford, C.M. Roméo Savoie, C.M. Joseph A. Sealy, C.M. Robert W. Slater, C.M. Raoul Sosa, C.M. John Stanton, C.M. Wayne Strongman, C.M. Réjean Thomas, C.M., C.Q. Ian Andrew Vorres, C.M. Bob White, C.M. Georges A. Arès, C.M. The Honourable Lise Bacon, C.M., G.O.Q. Herbert C. Belcourt, C.M. Michel G. Bergeron, C.M., O.Q. Sandra Birdsell, C.M. Alice Chan-Yip, C.M. W. Edmund Clark, C.M. Stephen Clarkson, C.M. Phil Comeau, C.M. Adriana A. Davies, C.M. Abraham (Braam) de Klerk, C.M. Marq de Villiers, C.M. René Derouin, C.M., C.Q. Marlys A. Edwardh, C.M. James Ehnes, C.M. Étienne Gaboury, C.M. Clarence A. Guenter, C.M. Mary Jo Haddad, C.M. Garry Hilderman, C.M. Stanley J. Hughes, C.M. Patrick Jarvis, C.M. Mary Ellen Jeans, C.M. Donald M. Julien, C.M., O.N.S. Claude Laberge, C.M. Andrée Lortie, C.M. Pierre Lucier, C.M. James C. MacDougall, C.M. F. Richard Matthews, C.M. Alex C. Michalos, C.M. Karen Minden, C.M. Rita Mirwald, C.M. Aftab A. Mufti, C.M. Matilda Murdoch, C.M., O.N.B. Guy Nadon, C.M. Gordon M. Nixon, C.M., O.Ont. Harold (Hal) O’Leary, C.M. Gilles G. Patry, C.M. Bonnie M. Patterson, C.M., O.Ont. Ross H. Paul, C.M. Chesley D. Penney, C.M. Gordon L. Porter, C.M. Rosalind Prober, C.M. Simone Roach, C.M. Pierre Rolland, C.M. Walter Rosser, C.M. Ernesto L. Schiffrin, C.M. Glen Sorestad, C.M. Ann Southam, C.M. Orysia (Irene) Sushko, C.M. Louis Taillefer, C.M. Robert Holmes (R. H.) Thomson, C.M. David Turpin, C.M. Kue Young, C.M. = Renato Giuseppe Bosisio Lucien Larré Stephen Fonyo, Jr Frank W. Chauvin = Rear-Admiral Robert Andrew Davidson, C.M.M., C.D. Major-General Joseph Paul André Deschamps, C.M.M., C.D. Major-General Peter John Devlin, C.M.M., M.S.C., C.D. - This is a promotion within the Order Vice-Admiral Alistair Bruce Donaldson, C.M.M., C.D. Major-General David Allison Fraser, C.M.M., M.S.C., M.S.M., C.D.- This is a promotion within the Order Brigadier-General David Charles Kettle, C.M.M., C.D. = Colonel David Morris Belovich, O.M.M., C.D. Captain (N) Joseph John Robert Richard Bergeron, O.M.M., C.D. Major Kevin Linus Caldwell, O.M.M., C.D. Major Shawn R Murray.M.M., C.D. Colonel Christopher John Coates, O.M.M., C.D. Lieutenant-Colonel Dalton James Côté, O.M.M., C.D. Colonel Francis Paul Crober, O.M.M., C.D. Colonel Michael Donald Day, O.M.M., C.D. Commander Christopher John Deere, O.M.M., C.D. Major Joseph François Daniel Gagnon, O.M.M., C.D. Colonel Derek William Joyce, O.M.M., C.D. Lieutenant-Colonel James Gérard Kile, O.M.M., C.D. Colonel Charles Adrien Lamarre, O.M.M., C.D. Lieutenant-Colonel Patrice Joseph Roger Laroche, O.M.M., C.D. Commodore James Roger MacIsaac, O.M.M., C.D. Colonel Douglas Alan Maclean, O.M.M., C.D. Colonel Dean James Milner, O.M.M., C.D. Brigadier-General Gary James Patrick O’Brien, O.M.M., M.S.C., C.D. Captain (N) Colin Wallace Plows, O.M.M., C.D. Colonel Joseph Pierre Julien St-Amand, O.M.M., C.D. Colonel Christopher Calvin Thurrott, O.M.M., M.S.M., C.D. Colonel Robert Schuman Williams, O.M.M., M.S.M., C.D. = Master Warrant Officer Jeffrey Charles Lorne Aman, M.M.M., C.D. Captain Dwayne William Atkinson, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer John Gerard Barnes, M.M.M., C.D. Sergeant Alain André Joseph Barriault, M.M.M., C.D. Petty Officer 1st Class Stephen Beastall, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer Gary Bradley Biggar, M.M.M., C.D. Warrant Officer Charles David Brady, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class Cheryl Dawn Bush, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Dale William Coble, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class Austin Joseph Collett, M.M.M., C.D. Warrant Officer Edward William Dallow, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Thaddeous Bernard D’Andrade, M.M.M., C.D. Sergeant Sandra Ann Dansereau, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer André Joseph Lucien Demers, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer Joseph Léopold Mario Dion, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Dany Joseph Joël Dubuc, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Elizabeth Marguerite Dunsmore, M.M.M., C.D. Captain Jason Brent English, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael David Fairfex, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Pierre Joseph Frenette, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer Joseph René Raoul Stéphane Guy, M.M.M., C.D. Warrant Officer Kelly Todd Grant, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class Gilles André Grégoire, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer Joseph Sandor Gyuk, M.M.M., C.D. Sergeant Thomas William Hale, M.M.M., C.D. Major Marie Gisèle Carmen Hamel, M.M.M., C.D. Captain Peter William Hamilton, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer Stuart Gordon Hartnell, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer Tom Carl Hennessey, M.M.M., C.D. Captain Lewis Edwin Irvine, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer James Robert Jeckell, M.M.M., C.D. Captain Lennard Mark Johnston, M.M.M., C.D. Warrant Officer Lewis Harry Johnstone, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Raymond Chester King, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Roger William King, M.M.M., C.D. Sergeant Manon Gina Langlois, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Michel Joseph Sylva Lavallée, M.M.M., C.D. Captain Patrick Joseph Lee, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class Thomas Allan Lizotte, M.M.M., C.D. Warrant Officer Patrick Timothy Love, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth Charles Lutz, M.M.M., C.D. Captain Donna Anne MacAulay, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer Donald Alexander MacIsaac, M.M.M., C.D. Major Leslie Robert Mader, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class Bradley James Main, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Kevin James Mathers, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer Michael Lawrence McDonald, M.S.C., M.M.M., C.D. Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric Rudyard Meredith, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Marie Carole Fernande Monsigneur, M.M.M., C.D. Warrant Officer Lawrence Russell Mullen, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Sean Joseph Murphy, M.M.M., C.D. Petty Officer 2nd Class Peter Francis Neville, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer André Joseph Gérald Normandin, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer Marc André Joseph Pelletier, M.M.M., C.D. L’adjudant-chef Marc André Joseph Pelletier, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer David Charles Phillips, M.M.M., C.D. Warrant Officer Stephen Glen Piccolo, M.M.M., C.D. Captain Peter Joseph Pitcher, M.M.M., C.D. Captain Lorne Benedict Plemel, M.M.M., C.D. Sergeant (Canadian Ranger) Markussie Qinuajuak, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer Joseph Ramsay, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Glen Richard Rideout, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer Pedro Eduardo Rosa, M.M.M., C.D. L’adjudant-chef Pedro Eduardo Rosa, M.M.M., C.D. Warrant Officer Claudette Jacqueline Saunders, M.M.M., C.D. Petty Officer 1st Class Patrick James Johannes Saunders, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer Michael Gerald Scarcella, M.M.M., C.D. Petty Officer 1st Class Cavel Thomas Shebib, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer Anthony James Slack, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Roland Wavel Smith, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Jennifer Lynne Ste-Croix, M.M.M., C.D. Sergeant Yan St-Pierre, M.M.M., C.D. Captain Jean-Yves Taschereau, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Sharman Patrick Thomas, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Petty Officer 1st Class Luc Joseph Royal Tremblay, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Pierre Joseph Richard Tremblay, M.M.M., C.D. L’adjudant-maître Pierre Joseph Richard Tremblay, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class Charles Melvin Frederick Trombley, M.M.M., C.D. Master Warrant Officer Donald Wellesley Tupper, M.M.M., C.D. Captain Darren Edward Turner, M.M.M., C.D. Warrant Officer Michael Bernard Vandepol, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Warrant Officer Armand Joseph Simon Vinet, M.M.M., C.D. Sergeant Leslie James Wilson, M.M.M., C.D. Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class Kevin Allen Woods, M.M.M., C.D. Major John Garnet Zoellner, M.M.M., C.D. Captain Roland Gregory Zwicker, M.M.M., C.D. = Assistant Director General Steven Chabot = Deputy Commissioner Lawrence Graham Beechey Chief Constable Jamie Hamilton Graham Deputy Commissioner J. V. N. (Vincent) Hawkes Deputy Commissioner Christopher D. Lewis - This is a promotion within the Order Assistant Commissioner Robert Wilfred Paulson - This is a promotion within the Order Inspector Joseph Lance Valcour = Chief Keith John Atkinson Superintendent Bradley Blair Staff Sergeant Murray Elijah Brown Sergeant John William Burchill Chief Constable Douglas James Cessford Sergeant G. Shawn Coady, C.D. Deputy Chief Constable John Alexander Ducker Chief Inspector André Fortin Corporal Christopher G. Gosselin Sergeant Stewart C. Kellock, C.D. Assistant Commissioner Wayne Alexander Lang Ms. Brenda Lawson Chief Barry D. MacKnight Chief Superintendent William Fraser MacRae Deputy Chief Michael S. Mann Superintendent H. Alfred Niedtner Inspector André Péloquin Deputy Chief John Allan Redford Inspector Ronald ‘Dean’ Robinson Constable Tom Stamatakis Director Marc St-Laurent Deputy Chief Constable Stephen C. Sweeney Detective Sergeant James Arthur Van Allen = Sergeant Warren S. Gherasim = Sheila-Marie Cook Dwight MacAulay - This is a promotion within the Order Dwight MacAulay (July 4, 2010) = Raymond Novak = Bernard Corrigan Sylvie Gervais Terry Guillon Caroline Marchildon Christopher McCreery Isabelle McLeod Lieutenant-Commander Scott Nelson Madeleine Rinfret-Moore Florence Sassine = John Chew Mah, C.D. - This is a promotion within the Order = The Honourable Philip S. Lee, C.M., O.M. Frederick Richard Bruce, M.O.M. Her Honour, the Honourable Ann Meekitjuk Hanson Her Honour, the Honourable Geraldine Van Bibber His Honour, the Honourable Anthony Wilfred James Whitford Lesley Robert Chipperfield Joyce Rose Hart Lieutenant-Commander (Retired) Darin Edward Reeves, C.D. Honorary Lieutenant Colonel Solomon J. Rolingher Rear Admiral (Retired) Robert Dmytro Yanow, C.D. Colin Borden Bachynski Sharon E. Cole Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Arthur Richard William Jordan, C.D. Marc Jutras Raymond L. Roberts, C.D. = Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Jeffrey Robert Cairns, C.D. Claire Cecilia Campbell Major (Retired) Jean-Robert Gagnon, C.D. Lieutenant (N) David M. Connelly, C.D. Lieutenant-Commander (Retired) Peter B. Ferst, C.D. Belinda Mary Mitchell Captain Leslie Jack Patten, C.D. Jordy Reichson Major Justin P.K. Schmidt-Clever, C.D. Kenneth Ross Turriff, Bridgewater, A.D.C. Honorary Colonel Robert Harold Vandewater = Douglas Anthony Alberts Christian Beaulieu Judith Ann Belding André Bilodeau Jean K. Chute Patrick Thomas Cureton Trevor James Day Robert P. Doyle Donald Drover Constable Paul E. Dunford Nancy Elliott-Greenwood Patrick David Flynn Frederika E. M. Gibson David John Griffiths David Norman Schofield Harris, C.D. Vivian Carole Hould Ian Alan Knightbridge Frank Ferguson Lawson Colonel Thomas Charles Ray Lawson André Lepage Major Rick Maxwell Lewis William Masson Christopher McCreery Richard Andrew Muller Francis Aloysius O’Reilly Captain Brian James Patterson Darlene Violet Perkins Catherine Scollay Mark T. Walker Philip Clarke Honorary Captain Lionel José Goffart Major (Retired) Victor M. Knowlton, C.D. Andrew James Philpot Ronald Richard = José Carlos Alves Gloria Ruth Armstrong Laura J. Assinck Hortense Audet Gail Louise Bailey Frank Beals William George Beatty David Bélanger Hazel Ann Blundell Jesse Shane Boszormeny Pierre Boudreault James W. Brown Lynn Carter Sheila H. Carter Alan Wai-Lap Chan Daniel Jon Chevrier Warrant Officer Robert Graham Clark, C.D. Sylvain Cloutier(posthumously) Geoffrey Alan Collins Mary Clare Courtland Henri Cyr Bernard Deschênes Kevin Despot Stephen Douglas Devine Élizabeth Dougherty Bruce M. England André Fournier Celine Froment Natalie Fyke Jean-Philippe Gadbois Denis Gendreau Stéphane Gignac Sylvie Goneau Joanne Claire Green Captain Ronald Larry Green, C.D. Nigel Robert Gumley Chief Petty Officer 1st Class (Retired) Peter Michael Hagan, C.D. George Kenneth Hammond Corporal Keith R. Hendricks Ronald Eugene Henshaw Ryan Bradford Hoogendoorn Claudette Houle Nancy L. Hughes Joerg Andreas Huth Robert Douglas Ingram Mohamed Jama Marthe Jean Windie-Lee Jeider Captain Alfred Carl King, C.D. Sandra Lynn Ladd Master Corporal Marie Corinne Nadine Laflamme, C.D. Travis Ryan Lanoway Sean Large Glen Allan Larson Benedict Wan Chiu Lau Lieutenant Candice Leigh Levesque Margaret Jessie Manson Colonel Steven Craig McQuitty Claudia Maria Naaykens John Michael Prno Nicole Suzanne Renkema Inspector John Paul Richards Debra Lynn Robertson Major General Walter Semianiw Mohammad Imran Shamsi Denise Ann Smith Angeline Tham Stacey L. Timmons Brigadier General (Retired) Kevin Gerald Troughton, C.D. Mervin Wayne Unger Jonathan Campbell Warren Dorothy Florence Watson Helen Whitehead Captain Michael Richard Wionzek, C.D. Kenneth Walter Bilicki Captain Élise Corriveau Alexander De Zordo Jean Fournier, C.M., C.Q. Gordon D. Frowen Steven D. Gaetz Heather Elizabeth Hayne Peter William R. Hogan, A.D.C. Sandra M. Karr Nicole Elizabeth Knee Darwin Lai Alain L. J. Laurencelle Hong Ting Law Kevin Gee Keung Li Annette Yvonne Lumbis Serge Henry Joseph Malaison Kevin Robert Edward McCormick Assistant Commissioner (Retired) Darrell Wesley McFadyen Kellie Mitchell Stacie Lee Osborne Jules Pinard, A.D.C. Wansey Poon Patricia Ann Skjolde = Grand Officers of the National Order of Québec Jean Béliveau, C.C., G.O.Q. Monique Mercure, C.C., G.O.Q. Honorary Officer James H. DOUGLAS, O.Q Officers of the National Order of Québec Maryse ALCINDOR, O.Q. Camille DAGENAIS, C.C., O.Q. Bernard DESCÔTEAUX, O.Q. René DUSSAULT, O.Q. Louise FORAND-SAMSON, O.Q. Dr. Jean-Claude FOURON, O.Q. Roger FRAPPIER, O.Q. Raymond GARNEAU, O.C., O.Q. Élaine HÉMOND, O.Q. L. Jacques MÉNARD, O.C., O.Q. Clément RICHARD, O.Q. Richard TREMBLAY, O.Q. Knight of the National Order of Québec Léonard AUCOIN, C.Q. Neil BISSOONDATH, C.Q. Huguette BOILARD, C.Q. Robert CHICOINE, C.Q. Christine COLIN, C.Q. Roland DORÉ, O.C., C.Q. Richard G. GERVAIS, C.Q. Renée HUDON, C.Q. François-Mario LABBÉ, C.Q. Michel LOUVAIN, C.Q. Sister Andrée MÉNARD, C.Q. Wajdi Mouawad, O.C., C.Q. Mona NEMER, C.Q. Jacques PERREAULT, C.Q. Claudine ROY, C.Q. Hubert SACY, C.Q. Donat SAVOIE, C.Q. Larry SMITH, C.Q. Angèle ST-YVES, C.Q. Yuli TUROVSKY, C.Q. = Maurice (Mo) Bundon, S.O.M. Donald E. Kramer, S.O.M., LL.D. (1926‐2018) Dr. Janice MacKinnon, C.M., S.O.M. Dr. J.D. (Jack) Mollard, O.C., S.O.M., LL.D. Elizabeth Raum, S.O.M. Dr. Douglas A. Schmeiser, S.O.M., Q.C. (1934‐2018) Myrna F. Yuzicapi, S.O.M = Suhayya Abu-Hakima Russell Bannock Gail Beck Joseph Chin Lynn Factor Gerald Fagan Nigel Fisher Jacques Flamand Lillie Johnson Ignat Kaneff Mobeenuddin Hassan Khaja Elizabeth Ann Kinsella Huguette Labelle Elizabeth Le Geyt Clare Lewis Louise Logue Gordon McBean Wilma Morrison James Orbinski Coulter Osborne Chris Paliare Gilles Patry Dave Shannon Molly Shoichet Howard Sokolowski Edward Sonshine Reginald Stackhouse David Staines Martin Teplitsky Dave Toycen John Ronald Wakegijig Elizabeth Hillman Waterston = Jacob (Jack) Austin; Chief Tony Hunt; Dr. Robert Brunham; Barbara Ward-Burkitt; Dr. Julio Montaner; Dan Doyle; Brad Bennett; Marco Marra; John Furlong; Robert (Bob) Hindmarch; Patricia (Patti) Leigh; Pauline Hilistis Waterfall; Christopher Rose; Frankie Edroff; Milan Ilich = = = = = = = WARRANT OFFICER DAVID GEORGE SHULTZ, S.M.V., C.D. MASTER CORPORAL JEREMY PINCHIN, S.M.V. = MASTER CORPORAL MICHAEL C. J. BURSEY, M.M.V. SERGEANT MARTIN JOSEPH JEAN CÔTÉ, M.M.V., C.D. WARRANT OFFICER ROBIN JOHN CRANE, M.M.V., C.D. CORPORAL TYLER BRIAN MYRONIUK, M.M.V. CORPORAL MARK C. W. EJDRYGIEWICZ, M.M.V. MASTER CORPORAL BRENT W. L. GALLANT, M.M.V. SERGEANT Shawn Murray, M.M.V., C.D. SERGEANT JAYSON WILLIAM KAPITANIUK, M.M.V. CORPORAL JORDAN E. KOCHAN, M.M.V. MASTER CORPORAL PAUL D. RACHYNSKI, M.M.V. CORPORAL ANTHONY J. R. ROTONDI, M.M.V. WARRANT OFFICER DALE MILTON VERGE, M.M.V., C.D. CORPORAL RICHARD L. ANDERSON, M.M.V. CORPORAL MARK ROBERT MCLAREN, M.M.V. CORPORAL JOSHUA O’TOOLE, M.M.V. MASTER CORPORAL DAVID RICHARD TEDFORD, M.M.V., C.D. MASTER CORPORAL MICHAEL TRAUNER, M.M.V. WARRANT OFFICER MICHAEL WILLIAM JACKSON, M.M.V., C.D. MASTER CORPORAL PAUL ALEXANDER MUNROE, M.M.V., C.D. MASTER CORPORAL JEREMY JOSEPH JAMES LEBLANC, M.M.V. = Sergeant Bryant Wood Casey Marie Peirce Alexander Bruce Scott Miguel Gonzalez Luc Paquette Miranda Suggitt Michael Thomas Westwell = Jimmy Victor Beardy Lieutenant Denis Beaulieu Constable Patrick Benoit Terry Bratton Gary Victor Brown Ryan Sterling Burry Benjamin Loren Correos (posthumous) Louis-Paul Courbron Constable Frédéric Couture Elaine Dare Dean R. DeJoseph Frédérick Dionne James Donovan Frédéric Dufresne Kimberly Friesen Kimpton Gagnon-Després Michel Harvey Raphaël Harvey Bérard Norbert Hébert Jeffrey Hopkins RCMP Constable Michelle Allison Knopp Shawn Joseph Lahey Alexis Laliberté Leading Seaman Roxanne Anneke Lalonde (posthumous) Sergeant Roger Chadwick Lane Constable Martin Langlois Paul Linklater Gillian Irene MacAulay Chris MacLeod Sylvain Joseph Marcoux Guillaume Massé Scott Lee Joseph Moody (deceased) Yves Pilotte (posthumous) Hady Quan (posthumous) Constable Sean Ralph Constable Alain Rochette Tanya Silveira Cody Brian Sloot Tommy Thériault Tanya Lee Waldriff Michael Braden Walker Sergeant Bryant Wood David H. R. Byrd Michael D. Byrd Thomas James Dodd (posthumous) Robert Edward Dorie Robin Fabiani Constable Michael Verney Gallant Constable Phillip Kolody Doug Knill Samantha-Joe Larose Bruce Lavallee Donald Morrison Marc Patterson Stuart Pringle Corporal Gabriel Proulx Francis Quevillon Constable Dale George Sleightholme Constable Paul Allan Spencelayh Mike André Toupin Daniel White Sergeant B. John Ayers Leading Seaman Robert T. Binder (deceased) Steve Blake Dale Brady Shane Michael Doucette Constable Lionel Girault Sergeant Michael Johnston Master Corporal David Frederick Taylor King, C.D. Sergeant Patrick Lalonde Guy Lavoie Able Seaman Jaret A. McQueen Constable Jean Milliard Constable Cal Traversy Constable Clifford Watson Andrea Wiznuk Constable Nick Bell Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Wynn Baird, C.D. Constable Robert Bérubé Scott Borlase Joseph Henry Roland Bouliane Constable Benoit Brissette John Peter Chatterton Sergeant Steve Desgagné Daisy Flamand Richard Frauley Jared Douglas Gagen Isabelle Gagnon Master-Corporal Julien Gauthier Major William Robertson Green, C.D. Blair William Allan Hocking Sergeant Joseph André Hotton, M.B.∗, C.D. - This is a second award of this decoration Ernest Jean Marjorie Jean-Baptiste Tim Kautaq RCMP Constable Alfred Douglas Lavallee Thomas Manuel Warren Bruce Miller Pascale Pelletier Sergeant Joseph Kenneth Penman Michaël Perreault Giroux Stephen Power Master Warrant Officer Hamish Jackson Seggie, C.D. Warrant Officer Shaun Spence, C.D. Edward Stirling Tami Elizabeth Strickland Constable Wayne Thompson Philippe Tremblay Art Unruh Chad Verch William Watt Abebe Yohannes Hermann Zarbel = COMMANDER CRAIG ALAN BAINES, M.S.C., C.D. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL HANS-OTTO BUDDE, M.S.C. of the German Army GENERAL BANTZ JOHN CRADDOCK, M.S.C. of the United States Army REAR-ADMIRAL ROBERT ANDREW DAVIDSON, M.S.C., C.D. MASTER WARRANT OFFICER RODNEY ALBERT DEARING, M.S.C., C.D. COMMANDER PIERRE CHRISTOPHE DICKINSON, M.S.C., C.D. SERGEANT SHAWN E. HARRISON, M.S.C., C.D. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL JOSEPH GUY MARC LESSARD, C.M.M., M.S.C., C.D. WARRANT OFFICER JOHN ROBERT MCNABB, M.S.C., C.D. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DARRYL ALBERT MILLS, M.S.C., C.D. CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER GIOVANNI MORETTI, M.M.M., M.S.C., C.D. GENERAL VICTOR EUGENE RENUART, Jr., M.S.C., of the United States Air Force BRIGADIER-GENERAL DENIS WILLIAM THOMPSON, O.M.M., M.S.C., C.D. SERGEANT NICHOLAS SAMUEL JAMES DERIGER, M.S.C., C.D. SERGEANT DARRELL LAWRENCE SPENCE, M.S.C., C.D. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DANA JEFFREY WOODWORTH, M.S.C., C.D. SERGEANT JOSEPH MARTIN BRINK, M.S.C. BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOSEPH RENÉ MARCEL GUY LAROCHE, O.M.M., M.S.C., C.D. = MAJOR JAMES EDWARD ALLEN, M.S.M., C.D. CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER SHEILA ALAINE BLAIR, M.M.M., M.S.M., C.D. COLONEL JOSEPH PATRICK BREEN, M.S.M. of the United States Air Force WARRANT OFFICER TODD BARRY BUCHANAN, M.S.M., C.D. COLONEL JAMIESON CADE, M.S.M., C.D. COLONEL GORDON DAVID CORBOULD, M.S.M., C.D. MAJOR-GENERAL JONKHEER J. HARMEN DE JONGE, M.S.M. Royal Netherlands Army MAJOR MICHAEL ROY DEUTSCH, M.S.M., C.D. COLONEL JEAN-PIERRE DURAN, M.S.M. WARRANT OFFICER MICHAEL PATRICK FOREST, M.S.M., C.D. COLONEL SEAN G. FRIDAY, M.S.M., C.D. MAJOR STACY ALLAN GRUBB, M.S.M., C.D. MAJOR JOSEPH ANTONIO MARCEL LOUIS HAMEL, M.S.M., C.D. COLONEL CHARLES MARK HAZLETON, O.M.M., M.S.M., C.D. COLONEL YANN JOHN HIDIROGLOU, M.S.M., C.D. (Retired) LIEUTENANT-COLONEL KERRY WILLIAM HORLOCK, M.S.M., C.D. WARRANT OFFICER KEVIN THOMAS JOHNSON, M.S.M., C.D. COLONEL VIHAR GOVIND JOSHI, M.S.M., C.D. CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER CHRISTOPHER AVARD KAYE, M.M.M., M.S.M., C.D. COLONEL PAUL KEDDY, M.S.M., C.D. CAPTAIN PETER PAUL KLEINSCHMIDT, M.S.M., C.D. COMMANDER KELLY BRIAN LARKIN, M.S.M., C.D. MAJOR JOHN ROBERT PRUDENT LATULIPPE, M.S.M., C.D. COLONEL THOMAS J. MCGRATH, M.S.M. of the United States Army COLONEL SCOTT ANDREW MCLEOD, M.S.M., C.D MAJOR-GENERAL CHRISTOPHER D. MILLER, M.S.M., of the United States Air Force COMMANDANT YVES MINJOLLET, M.S.M., of the French Armed Forces CORPORAL MARC L. S. MURRAY, M.S.M. VICE ADMIRAL ROBERT B. MURRETT, M.S.M., of the United States Navy COLONEL PHILIP M. L. NAPIER, M.S.M., of the British Army COMMANDER STEVEN PAGET, M.S.M., C.D. MAJOR ERIC JEAN PEREY, M.S.M., C.D. MASTER CORPORAL JACOB N. PETTEN, M.S.M. WARRANT OFFICER JASON GUY PICKARD, M.S.M., C.D. MAJOR CATHERINE ENID POTTS, M.S.M., C.D. CORPORAL JOHN CLIFTON WAYNE PRIOR, M.S.M. COLONEL JOSEPH PAUL JACQUES RICARD, M.S.M. COLONEL COLIN P. RICHARDSON, M.S.M. COLONEL JEAN-FRANÇOIS RIFFOU, M.S.M., C.D. MAJOR ROBERT TENNANT RITCHIE, M.S.M., C.D. CAPTAIN (N) BRENDAN RYAN, M.S.M., C.D. CORPORAL CAMERON M. SMITHERS, M.S.M. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MARTHA-ANNE PAULE STOUFFER, M.S.M., C.D. CORPORAL RORY E. SWANSON, M.S.M. MAJOR-GENERAL DENNIS CHARLES TABBERNOR, C.M.M., M.S.M., C.D. CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER CHRISTOPHER ARNOLD WHITE, M.M.M., M.S.M., C.D. COMMANDER JOHN AUBREY WILLISTON, M.S.M., C.D. WARRANT OFFICER TERENCE CHARLES WOLANIUK, M.S.M., C.D. MAJOR MARK G. WUENNENBERG, M.S.M., C.D. WARRANT OFFICER RUSSELL KEITH ARSENAULT, M.S.M., C.D. MAJOR OREST BABIJ, M.S.M., C.D. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ROGER RONALD BARRETT, M.S.M., C.D. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JAMES FREDERICK CAMSELL, M.S.M., C.D. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL FRANCES CHILTON-MACKAY, O.M.M., M.S.M., C.D. COLONEL CHRISTOPHER JOHN COATES, M.S.M., C.D. MASTER WARRANT OFFICER KEVIN JOSEPH RALPH DONOVAN, M.S.M., C.D. WARRANT OFFICER RICHARD DUBÉ, M.S.M., C.D. MASTER WARRANT OFFICER LUC EMOND, M.S.M., C.D. CAPTAIN DAVID FEARON, M.S.M., C.D. MASTER WARRANT OFFICER DAVID EUGENE FISHER, M.S.M., C.D. COLONEL RICHARD JOSEPH DELPHIS GERVAIS, M.S.M., C.D. CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER ERNEST JOSEPH HALL, M.M.M., M.S.M., C.D. MASTER CORPORAL WILLIAM THOMAS HOGGARTH, M.S.M., C.D. BRIGADIER-GENERAL ALAN JOHN HOWARD, M.S.M., C.D. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DANIEL S. HURLBUT, M.S.M. of the United States Army MASTER WARRANT OFFICER LEWIS DUTHIE JOSEPH LAVOIE, M.S.M., C.D. MAJOR ROBERT WALTER MCBRIDE, M.S.M., C.D. MASTER WARRANT OFFICER SHAWN ANTHONY MERCER, M.S.M., C.D. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SCOTT MILLER, M.S.M. of the United States Air Force COLONEL THEODORE E. OSOWSKI, M.S.M. of the United States Air Force MASTER WARRANT OFFICER ERIC JOHN ROLFE, M.S.M., C.D. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOSEPH STEPHEN SHIPLEY, M.S.M., C.D. MAJOR DEAN DWAYNE TREMBLAY, M.S.M., C.D. MAJOR RUSSELL NEAL WASHBURN, M.S.M., C.D. MAJOR GEOFFREY ARTHUR ABTHORPE, M.S.M., C.D. MASTER CORPORAL JOSEPH LEONARD ARSENAULT, M.S.M., C.D. MAJOR JONATHAN CLAUDE YVON BOUCHARD, M.S.M., C.D. CAPTAIN JEFFREY MIDDLETON POWELL, M.S.M. MASTER CORPORAL JEFFREY GORDON SPENCE, M.S.M., C.D. 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LUCE, M.S.M. of the United States Navy MAJOR JOSEPH GILBERT LÉON MCCAULEY, M.S.M., C.D. CAPTAIN(N) ARTHUR GERARD MCDONALD, M.S.M., C.D. COLONEL MICHAEL MCLEAN, O.M.M., M.S.M., C.D. CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER MARK HENRY MILLER, M.M.M., M.S.M., C.D. MASTER WARRANT OFFICER ROBERT JOSEPH MONTAGUE, M.M.M., M.S.M., C.D. MAJOR STEVEN JOHN VINCENT NOLAN, M.S.M., C.D. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CHRISTOPHER KENNETH PENNY, M.S.M. CORPORAL CURTIS J. STEPHENS, M.S.M. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DUART PAUL TOWNSEND, M.S.M., C.D. CAPTAIN(N) THOMAS CHARLES TULLOCH, M.S.M., C.D. COLONEL JEAN-MICHEL DÉSIRÉ VERNEY, M.S.M. of the French Army CAPTAIN CONNIE NOREEN WATSON, M.S.M., C.D. SERGEANT CHRISTOPHER STUART WHALEN, M.S.M., C.D. Private Jeffrey Atlee Private David C. Banks Captain Robert E. Barker Captain Ross William Bonnell Warrant Officer Daniel William Bouchie, C.D. Corporal Christopher R. Busche Captain Christopher W. Carthew Corporal Erkin Cicekci Captain Jeffery J. Code Corporal Shaun David Copeland Captain Raymond Jean-Claude Corby Sergeant Steven Alan Corcoran, C.D. Lieutenant Aaron Edward Corey Captain Simon J. Cox Warrant Officer Robin John Crane, M.M.V., C.D. Corporal Sheldon R. G. Crawford Sergeant James Robert George Davidson, C.D. Corporal Jean-Guy Ross Dinelle Master Corporal Hugh R. Dixon Private Aaron A. Dodge Sergeant Wayne Bernard Dunphy, C.D. Sergeant Timothy Wayne Fletcher, C.D. Corporal Kevin J. Foley Private Phillip A. Frank Corporal Lucus John Fuller Corporal David S. Giles Corporal Dustin M. Girard Corporal Casey A. E. Gray Master Corporal Kelly A. Harding, C.D. Private Ryan E. Harding Warrant Officer Paul Justin Holwell, C.D. Private Bradley K. Johnston Warrant Officer Terry Thomas Jones, C.D. Corporal Carl B. A. Kriwez Private Cody R. Kuluski Master Corporal Joseph E. Leger Corporal Clayton D. MacLean Private Justin G. MacPherson Corporal Matthew A. McLean Corporal Lee Allan Miller Corporal Tyler Brian Myroniuk, M.M.V. Master Corporal Brent Simon Nolasco Corporal Vincent Jacques Peters Warrant Officer Jason Guy Pickard, M.S.M., C.D. Sergeant Matthew Timothy Pronk, C.D. Corporal Patrick J. R. A. Ranger Master Corporal Johnathon E. Scharf Private Andrew Brett Smallman Sergeant Paul Dean Sprenger, C.D. Sergeant Derek Ashley Thompson, C.D. Private Jason C. Toole Corporal Calvin T. Vickerman Lieutenant Daniel J. Vincent Warrant Officer Mike Eric Vollick, C.D. Master Corporal Kevin William Walker, C.D. Private Ryan K. Waring Corporal James Craig White Master Corporal Ricky L. Woods Captain Shawn Christopher Dumbreck Master Warrant Officer Rene F. Kiens, C.D. Corporal David A. MacDonald Corporal Sebastien Picard Private Ben L. Rasmussen Private Kiernan R. Underwood = Operation Service Medals = Operational Service Medal (Iraq) = Major Murray Allen Carlson = Operational Service Medal (Afghanistan) with Clasp = Captain Adam B. Battista = Operational Service Medal (Afghanistan) = Master Corporal Corey Edwards Captain Jean-François Gauvin = Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver Dr. Franz A. J. Szabo = Officer of the Order of the Crown Mr. Marcel Junius = Order of the Dannebrog Mr. Jonas Lennart Albeck = Order of the White Rose, First Class Mr. Tenho Mikko Rautiainen = National Order of the Legion of Honour = Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour = Mr. Okill Stuart Order of Arts and Letters = Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters = Mr. Marcel Fournier Mr. Hilliard Todd Goldfarb Mrs. Claire Martin Mr. John Porter = Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters = Mr. Ronald Burnett Mrs. Marie Chouinard Mr. Paul-André Fortier Mr. George Laverock Mrs. Alice Munro Mrs. Line Ouellet Mr. William Thorsell National Defence Medal = National Defence Medal, Gold Echelon with Clasp “Infantry” = Commander Kewin Crowell Lieutenant-Colonel Jacques Pellan = Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (Civil Division) Professor Laszlo Kiss = Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Solidarity Mr. Steven Muzzo Knight of the Order of Merit Mr. Paolo Venerino Tamburello Mr. Elio Coppola Ms. Maddalena Palumbo Iannitti Grand Officer of the Order of Merit Mr. Wilfrid Wilkinson = Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays Ms. Shizuko Kadoguchi Mr. Robert Koji Nimi Mr. Jonathan Takeo Yokoyama = NATO's Meritorious Service Medal Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Hauenstein Lieutenant-Colonel Jason Elliott King Corporal Eric Lund Lieutenant-General W. Angus Watt = Cross of Recognition Mr. Christophe Alexandre = Order of Merit = Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit = Mr. David Preston Lieutenant-General Andrew Brooke Leslie = Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit = Mr. Don Rosenbloom Mr. Jerzy Barycki Mr. Jerzy Bibik Mr. Szydlowski Krzysztof Lubicz Mrs. Ewa Poninska-Konopacka Mr. Adam Kreutzer Mrs. Zofia Stohandel Mr. Boleslaw Fujarczuk Mr. John Szumlas Mrs. Bozena Khan = Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit = Mrs. Graźyna Urszula Farmus Mrs. Anne McDougall Mr. Guillaume Siemienski (posthumously) Mrs. Teresa Bobrowska Mr. Jacek Niemirski Mrs. Malgorzta De-Riedel Burczycka Dr. Janina Stencel Mrs. Malgorzata Niemirska = Gold Cross of the Order of Merit = Mr. Marek Przykorski Order of Polonia Restituta = Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta = Mr. Aleksander Siwy = Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta = Mr. Mieczyslaw Lutczyk Mr. Marceli Ostrowski Mrs. Nelli Franciszka Turzanska-Szymborska Mr. Zbigniew Gondek = Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta = Mr. Henryk Lekusz Mr. Wladyslaw Lizon Mr. Ted (Tadeusz) Opitz Mr. Boleslaw Rutkowski Mr. Stanislaw Wozniak Gold Cross of Merit Mrs. Sophia (Zofia) De Witt Mr. Lionel Jose Goffart Mrs. Mary Nieć Mrs. Zofia Sliwinska Sister Teresa Bosowska Mr. Ireneusz Kotecki Silver Cross of Merit Mr. Marian Jaworski Mrs. Teresa Maria Klimuszko Mr. Tad Lojko Mrs. Wieslawa Potocka Mrs. Janina Gojska Mrs. Beata Malgorzata Grotkowska Bronze Cross of Merit Mr. Henry Patterson Mr. Roman Wodejko Mr. Tomasz Wroblewski Mr. Jerzy Ziolkowski (Erratum) The notice published on page 1668 of the June 26, 2010, issue of the Canada Gazette, Part I, is hereby amended as follows: = Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta = Mr. Szydlowski Krzysztof Lubicz Mrs. Ewa Poninska-Konopacka Mr. Adam Kreutzer Mrs. Zofia Stohandel = Knights Cross of the Order of Merit = Mr. Ted (Tadeusz) Opitz Mr. Boleslaw Rutkowski = Gold Cross of the Order of Merit = Mr. Jerzy Bibik = Commander's Order of Merit Mr. Charles De Sousa = Legion of Merit = Officer of the Legion of Merit = Major-General Peter J. Devlin Lieutenant-General J. O. Michel Maisonneuve Bronze Star Medal Major Marie M. Ryan-Roberts Meritorious Service Medal Chief Warrant Officer Jefferson P. Barry Major Barry A. Costiff Captain Andrew S. Dalziel Lieutenant-Colonel Normand Dionne Lieutenant-Colonel Rejean Duchesneau Lieutenant-Colonel John L. Frappier Commander Darren C. Hawco Colonel Ian Hope Major Douglas O’Neill Major Robert J. Paxton Colonel Barry Marshall Southern Air Medal — first Oak Leaf Cluster Captain Pierre A. Grignon Air Medal Captain Pierre A. Grignon Captain Steve G. Lamarche

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Table tennis at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

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Table tennis at the 2010 Commonwealth Games was held at the Yamuna Sports Complex from 4 to 14 October 2010. Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Jamia Millia Islamia (training venue) * Host nation (India)