Did you know what the Most Common Passwords are?
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Harry Beckett, Barbadian-born British trumpeter and flugelhorn player, died from a stroke he was , 75
Harold Winston “Harry” Beckett was a British
trumpeter and flugelhorn player.
(30 May 1935[1] – 22 July 2010)  |
Biography
A resident in the UK since 1954, Harry Beckett had an international reputation. In 1961, he played with Charles Mingus in the film All Night Long. In the late 1960s he worked and recorded within the band of bass player and composer Graham Collier. Since 1970, he has been leading groups of his own, recording for Philips, RCA and Ogun Records amongst other labels.
He was a key figure of important groups in the British free jazz/improvised music scene, including Ian Carr‘s Nucleus, the Brotherhood of Breath and The Dedication Orchestra, London Jazz Composers Orchestra, London Improvisers Orchestra, John Surman‘s Octet, Django Bates, Ronnie Scott‘s Quintet, Kathy Stobart, Charlie Watts, Stan Tracey‘s Big Band and Octet; Elton Dean‘s Ninesense. He has also recorded with Keef Hartley, Jah Wobble, David Sylvian and worked with David Murray. He toured abroad with Johnny Dyani, Chris McGregor, Keith Tippett, John Tchicai, Joachim Kühn, Dudu Pukwana‘s Zila, George Gruntz‘s Bands, Belgian quintet The Wrong Object, Pierre Dørge‘s New Jungle Band and Annie Whitehead‘s Robert Wyatt project, Soupsongs, which also featured Phil Manzanera and Julie Tippetts, amongst other jazz and rock luminaries.
His most recent, dub-oriented album, The Modern Sound of Harry Beckett, was produced by famed British producer Adrian Sherwood and released on On-U Sound in late 2008.
In 1972, Beckett won the Melody Maker jazz Poll as ‘Top Trumpeter in Britain’. He was a member of the Orchestre National de Jazz between 1997 and 2000.
Beckett died on 22 July 2010 after suffering a stroke.[2]
Discography
- Flare Up (Jazzprint, 1970) with John Surman, Mike Osborne, Alan Skidmore
- Memories of Bacares (Ogun, 1975) with Daryl Runswick
- Pictures of You (Virgin, 1985) with Elton Dean, Pete Sabberton, Mick Hutton, Tony Marsh, Tim Whitehead, Leroy Osborne
- Live, Vol. 2 (West Wind, 1987) with Chris McGregor, Courtney Pine, Clifford Jarvis
- Passion and Possesion (ITM, 1991) Duos with Django Bates, Joachim Kühn, Keith Tippett
- All Four One (Spotlite, 1991) with Jon Corbett, Claude Deppa
- Images of Clarity (Evidence, 1992) with Didier Levallet
- Before and After (Spotlite, 1999) with Chris Biscoe
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Dick Buckley American jazz historian and DJ,died of pneumonia he was , 85,
Dick Buckley hosted the jazz program, Jazz with Dick Buckley, on Chicago Public Radio ,died of pneumonia he was , 85. His program, which was on WBEZ from 1977 through 2008, tended toward jazz of the 1930s and 1940s, or what he has called “Golden Era” jazz. In the early eighties, he also hosted a jazz program on WXFM. Buckley had previously been involved with jazz shows on WAIT, 
WNIB, and WAAF. Buckley is known for his rich baritone voice and encyclopedic knowledge of jazz.
(1924 – July 22, 2010)
Born August 26, 1925 in Decatur, Indiana, died July 22, 2010 he grew up feeling that he was “the only jazz fan” around.[1] During WWII, he trained as a bombardier in San Angelo, TX to serve in the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) between 1943-’46. It was during his military career that he began his radio career.[1]“Till I was 21 or 22, I wasn’t aware my voice was exceptional. An Armed Forces station needed an announcer and said, `We’ll give you experience.’ That was the start.”[2]
He subsequently attended Indiana University where he played trombone for the marching band.[3] At odds with his father, who wanted him to be an electrical engineer, he enrolled in a broadcasting school and has been broadcasting ever since.[4]
For a 1989 Sun-Times article by Bob Herguth, Buckley said “I grew up with radio. It was just that my tastes progressed to jazz bands. My mother, Ella May, who’s 96 and lives in Plymouth Place in La Grange, still doesn’t understand where she went wrong in my taste in music.” [4]
By 1986, Mr. Buckley was hosting his Sunday noon-4pm segment on WBEZ. Other jazz hosts for the station at that time were Neil Tesser and Barry Winograd, whom Mr. Buckley felt could ably and comfortably handle the playing of contemporary jazz, leaving him to play his favorites.[1]
In 1988, satellite technology carried the unique voice of Mr. Buckley broadcasting live from the Chicago Jazz Fest, together with 17 other ‘BEZ entities including Neil Tesser, and Richard Steele. Those live broadcasts were made from a trailer near Petrillo Music Shell, and were syndicated to over 150 radio stations, with listeners numbering as many as 10 million, estimated.[5]
On Jan. 14, 2007, Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ) made a major change to a talk, news and public affairs format, and Buckley’s show was shortened from three hours to one hour.
On Sunday July 27, 2008, Dick Buckley bid the airwaves farewell in his final broadcast, a two hour special featuring guests and testimonials.[6]
Dick Buckley died on Thursday, July 22, 2010 at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, IL from complications of pneumonia. He was 85.
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Phillip Walker, American blues musician, died of heart failure.he was , 73
Phillip Walker was an American contemporary blues guitarist, most noted for his 1959 hit single, “Hello My Darling”, produced by J. R. Fulbright died of heart failure.he was , 73. Although Walker continued playing throughout his life, he recorded more sparsely.
(February 11, 1937 – July 22, 2010[1])
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Career
Walker grew up on the Texas Gulf Coast, and by his mid-teens was playing guitar in Houston. He worked with Lonesome Sundown (and would do so again in the 1970s) and Lonnie Brooks. In the mid 1950s he had a spell in Clifton Chenier‘s band.[2] He spent the 1960s in Los Angeles, California leading a band that played a catholic repertoire of the R&B chart music, joined by his singing wife Ina, alias Bea Bopp.[2] Singles furnished his album Bottom of the Top (Playboy, 1973), succeeded by sets for Joliet, Rounder, Hightone, JSP and Black Top.[2]
Walker was also known for his variety of styles and the changes he would often make for each album. Not until 1969 did he begin to record more regularly when he joined with producer Bruce Bromberg. Since then, fans had a more steady supply of Walker’s music.
He appeared on show 237 of the WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour in 2002 when Live at Biscuits & Blues had just been released.
Walker’s final studio release is Going Back Home (2007) on Delta Groove Productions.
Death
On July 22, 2010, Delta Groove Productions issued an email statement regarding Walker’s death: “It is with deepest sorrow that we report on the sudden and unexpected passing of legendary blues guitarist Phillip Walker. He died of apparent heart failure at 4:30 AM, early Thursday morning, July 22, 2010. He was 73 years old.” [3] Another article was posted on All About Jazz.[4]
Discography
- 1973 Bottom of the Top (Playboy)
- 1977 Someday You’ll Have These Blues (Joliet)
- 1980 The Blues Show! Live at Pit Inn (Yupiteru)
- 1982 From L.A. to L.A. (Rounder)
- 1984 Tough As I Want to Be (Rounder)
- 1988 Blues (Hightone)
- 1994 Big Blues from Texas (JSP)
- 1995 Working Girl Blues (Black Top)
- 1998 I Got a Sweet Tooth (Black Top)
- 2002 Live at Biscuits & Blues (M.C.)
- 2007 Going Back Home (Delta Groove Productions)
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Did you know what star wet the bed when she was fired from Saturday Night Live.?
Did you know that Sarah Silverman does not consume alcohol, because it nauseates her?
Did you know that she had a lifelong battle with clinical depression?
Did you know know that she struggled with bedwetting from the time she was young until well into her teens?
Did you know that the last time she wet her bed was when she was fired from Saturday Night Live?[24][32]
Did you know that she published her biography in April of 2010, entitled The Bedwetter,
which touches heavily on that very subject?
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Who is Sarah Jane Morris?
Who is Sarah Jane Morris? The entertainment world knows her as an American actress. She had a recurring role on Felicity as Zoe Webb (2001-2002). She played Sally Field‘s TV daughter-in-law, Julia Walker, on Brothers & Sisters (from 2006-2009).
Personal life
Sarah was born April 12, 1977 in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Walker Morris, a commercial airline pilot, and Janie Morris, a social worker. She was the youngest of fo
ur siblings. Morris graduated from the private all-girls’ Hutchison School in Memphis, Tennessee. Sarah went to Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma,[1] and where she met her future husband, Ned Brower (they married on February 19, 2005). They had their first child together, a son Emmett Andrew on January 24, 2010[2] .
She uses yoga to help relieve her anxiety.[3]
Career
Morris moved to Los Angeles after college to pursue an acting career and immediately found work on such network television series as Boston Public, Undeclared and Ed.
On the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Episode dated 5 September 2008, Sarah Jane Morris admitted to stealing used grease from restaurants, to make bio-diesel.
Filmography
| Film | |||
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| Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
| 2000 | Coyote Ugly | Girl at the Surprise Party | |
| 2005 | Underclassman | Jamie | Uncredited Role |
| 2007 | Look | Courtney | |
| 2008 | Seven Pounds | Susan | |
| 2009 | Seeds | Vivian | Short film |
| 2010 | 6 Month Rule | Beth | post-production |
| Television | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2001 | Boston Public | Sally Barnes | Episode: Chapter Fifteen Episode: Chapter Nineteen |
| Murder in Small Town X | Abigail ‘Abby’ Flint | Unknown episodes | |
| Dark Angel | X6/Ralph | Episode: Bag ‘Em | |
| Undeclared | Jana | Episode: Rush and Pledge Episode: Hell Week |
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| Undressed | Paula | Unknown episodes | |
| 2001–2002 | Felicity | Zoe Webb | 8 episodes |
| 2002 | First Monday | Brittany Kant | Episode: Age of Consent |
| 2003 | Ed | Stacie | Episode: The Decision |
| 2005 | Cold Case | Amy Lind (1999) | Episode: Start-Up |
| 2006 | Windfall | Zoe Reida | 4 episodes |
| 2006-2009 | Brothers & Sisters | Julia Walker | 65 episodes |
| 2008 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Marla Reynolds | Episode: Kissinger |
| 2009 | Ghost Whisperer | Caroline Mayhew | Episode: Head Over Heels |
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Did you know who was the first black player to play NHL hockey?
Did you know the first African-American to break the color barrier in Sports?
Major league baseball player: Jackie Robinson, 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers.
Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame: Jackie Robinson, 1962
NFL quarterback: Willie Thrower, 1953.
NFL football coach: Fritz Pollard, 1922–1937.
Golf champion: Tiger Woods, 1997, won the Masters golf tournament.
NHL hockey player: Willie O’Ree, 1958, Boston
World cycling champion: Marshall W. “Major” Taylor, 
1899.
Tennis champion: Althea Gibson became the first black person to play in and win Wimbledon 
and the United States national tennis championship. She won both tournaments twice, in 1957and 1958. In all, Gibson won 56 tournaments, including five Grand Slam singles events. The first black male champion was Arthur Ashe who won the 1968 U.S. Open, the 1970 Australian Open, and the 1975 Wimbledon championship.
Heavyweight boxing champion: Jack Johnson, 1908.
Olympic medalist (Summer games): George Poage, 1904, won 
two bronze medals in the 200 m hurdles and 400 m hurdles.
Olympic gold medalist (Summer games): John Baxter “Doc” Taylor, 
1908, won a gold medal as part of the 4 x 400 m relay team.
Olympic gold medalist (Summer games; individual): DeHart Hubbard, 1924, for the long jump;
e first woman was Alice Coachman, who won the high jump in 1948.
Olympic medalist (Winter games): Debi Thomas, 1988, won the bronze in figure skating.
Olympic gold medalist (Winter games): Vonetta Flowers, 2002, bobsled.
Olympic gold medalist (Winter games; individual): Shani Davis, 2006, 1,000 m Speed
skating.
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That Bob and Tom is the only five time Marconi Award winner?
Did you know that Bob & Tom have began airing on WGN for a hour each day, five days a week?
Did you know that The Bob & Tom Show is a syndicated US radio program established by Bob Kevoian and Tom Griswold at radio station WFBQ in Indianapolis, Indiana?
Did you know that WFBQ is owned by Clear Channel Communications, a media conglomerate which owns more than a thousand radio stations, the program enjoys extensive popularity.
Did you know that the Bob and Tom show is the only five time Marconi Award winner?
The show won in 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2006.
Did you know that from 1991 to 1998, Bob & Tom received The Billboard Magazine Radio Personality of the Year award.
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Did you know that (71%), of people reported that they were driving while drowsy ?
Did you know that:
About one-half of America’s adult drivers – 51 percent or approximately 100 million people – are on the roads feeling sleepy while they are driving. Nearly two in 10 drivers – 17 percent or approximately 14 million people – say they have actually fallen asleep at the wheel in the past year.
This marks the fifth consecutive year that approximately one-half or more of adult drivers admit to driving while drowsy or sleepy in NSF’s annual poll. One percent of the respondents say they had an accident because they dozed off or were too tired to drive, a figure that has remained consistent in the polls.
Did you know that males and young adults between 18 and 29 are at the highest risk for drowsy driving and falling asleep at the wheel?
Did you know that two-thirds of young adults who drive, reported that they were driving while drowsy ? Adults with children in the household are more likely to drive drowsy than those without children.
Did you know that older adults, 65 and over, are the least likely to drive drowsy or to fall asleep at the wheel?
Did you know that more than one-half (59%) of the drowsy drivers admit they did not stop because of their sleepiness?
Did you know the Warning Signs of Fatigue While Driving?
There are several signs to indicate fatigue while driving, many people may not associate the symptoms with fatigue or sleepiness and continue to drive when they should stop.
- Difficulty focusing, frequent blinking, or heavy eyelids.
- Trouble keeping your head up.
- Yawning repeatedly.
- Trouble remembering the last few miles driven; missing exits or traffic signs.
- Drifting from your lane, tailgating, or hitting a shoulder rumble strip
Did you know how to preventing a fall-asleep crash?
The best way to prevent a fall-asleep crash is to plan ahead and get plenty of sleep before hitting the road. If you start to feel tired while driving, stop or have a driving companion take over.
If you a
re not stopping for the night, find a safe, well-lit area and take a 15-20 minute nap.
Did you know Caffeine from coffee or energy drinks can promote short-term alertness?
Did you know it takes about 30 minutes for the drinks to enter the bloodstream?
Did you know that Blasting a radio, opening a window and similar “tricks” to stay awake do not work? That’s proof!!!
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Who is Sarah Kate Silverman?
Who is Sarah Kate Silverman? The entertinment world knows her as an American comedian, writer, actress, singer and musician. Although usually credited as Sarah Silverman, she is sometimes credited by her nickname, Big S. Her satirical comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics such as racism, sexism, and religion.
Silverman first gained notice as a writer and occasional performer on Saturday Night Live. She starred in and produced The Sarah Silverman Program, which ran from Feb 2007 to May 2010, on Comedy Central.[1] She often performs her act by playing a caricature of a Jewish-American princess, mocking bigotry and stereotypes of ethnic groups and religious denominations, by having her comic character endorsing them in an ironic fashion.[2][3][4]
Early life
Sarah Silverman, the youngest of four daughters, was born December 1, 1970 in Bedford, New Hampshire. Her mother, Beth Ann Halpin, was George McGovern‘s personal campaign photographer and founded the theater company New Thalian Players.[5] Her father, Donald Silverman, was a social worker by training who ran the discount clothing store Crazy Sophie’s Outlet. Her family is Jewish, the descendants of immigrants from Poland and Russia.
She appeared in community theater at age 12, most notably with Community Players of Concord, New Hampshire in “Annie” and also appeared on a local television show in the Boston area called Community Auditions at age 15. She attended The Derryfield School in Manchester, New Hampshire. At seventeen, she performed stand-up comedy in a restaurant, singing a song she called “Mammaries”. She then attended New York University and continued her stand-up in Greenwich Village.[6][7][8][9]
Career
Silverman first received national attention in the 1993–94 season of Saturday Night Live (SNL) as a writer and featured player. She was fired after one season because only one of the sketches she wrote survived to dress rehearsal, and none aired. Bob Odenkirk, a former SNL writer explained, “I could see how it wouldn’t work at SNL because she’s got her own voice, she’s very much Sarah Silverman all the time. She can play a character but she doesn’t disappear into the character — she makes the character her.”[6] Silverman states she was upset when SNL fired her via fax. She parodied the situation when she appeared on The Larry Sanders Show episode “The New Writer” (1996), playing Sanders’ new staff writer, whose jokes are not used because of the chauvinism and bias of the male chief comedy writer, who favors the jokes of his male co-writers. She appeared in three episodes of Larry Sanders during its last two seasons.
Silverman was a featured performer on the HBO sketch comedy show Mr. Show (1995-97). She made TV program guest appearances on Seinfeld, in the episode “The Money“; (1997) on Star Trek: Voyager, in the two-part time travel episode “Future’s End” (1996); on V.I.P. in the episode “48 1/2 Hours” (2002); on Greg the Bunny as a series regular (2002); and on the puppet television comedy Crank Yankers, as the voice of Hadassah Guberman (2003, 2007). She had small parts in the films There’s Something About Mary, Say It Isn’t So, School of Rock, The Way of the Gun, Overnight Delivery, Screwed, Heartbreakers, Evolution, School for Scoundrels, and Rent, playing a mixture of comic and serious roles. Her stand-up comedy act, a one-woman show, was released in 2005 as a feature film, Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic. As part of the film’s publicity campaign, she appeared online in Slate, as the cover subject of Heeb magazine, and in roasts on Comedy Central of Pamela Anderson and Hugh Hefner. In 2005, Silverman played a therapist in a skit for a bonus DVD of the album Lullabies to Paralyze by the band Queens of the Stone Age. Silverman also appears at the end of the video for American glam metal band Steel Panther‘s “Death To All But Metal”.
Silverman guest starred in a second season episode of the USA cable program Monk as Marci Maven. She returned in the sixth season premiere and for the 100th episode of Monk. According to the audio commentary on the Clerks II DVD, director Kevin Smith offered her the role that eventually went to Rosario Dawson, but she turned it down out of fear of being typecast in “girlfriend roles”. However, she told Smith the script was “really funny” and mentioned that if the role of Randal Graves was being offered to her she “would do it in a heartbeat.”
On Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Silverman parodied sketches from Chappelle’s Show, replaying Dave Chappelle‘s characterizations of Rick James and “Tyrone”, as well as a Donnell Rawlings character based on the miniseries Roots. The parody addressed a popular rumor that Silverman was the planned replacement for Chappelle after he left his popular television show.
In 2006, Silverman placed #50 on Maxim Hot 100 List.[10] In 2007, she placed #29 and appeared on the cover.[11] She made the cover of The Observer in the United Kingdom, with an article naming her “the world’s hottest, most controversial comedian”.[12]
In June 2007 she hosted the MTV Movie Awards. During her opening act, she commented on the upcoming jail sentence of Paris Hilton, who was in the audience, “In a couple of days, Paris Hilton is going to jail… As a matter of fact, I heard that to make her feel more comfortable in prison, the guards are going to paint the bars to look like penises. I think it is wrong, too. I just worry she is going to break her teeth on those things.”[13] In September 2007 she appeared at the MTV Video Music Awards. Following the comeback performance of Britney Spears, Silverman mocked her on stage, saying: “Wow, she is amazing. I mean, she is 25 years old, and she has already accomplished everything she’s going to accomplish in her life.”[14]
In January 2008 she appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to show Jimmy Kimmel, her boyfriend, a special video. The video turned out to be a song called “I’m Fucking Matt Damon“, in which she and Matt Damon sang a duet about having an affair behind Kimmel’s back. The video created an “instant YouTube sensation”.[15] Kimmel responded with his own video a month later with Damon’s friend Ben Affleck, which enlisted a panoply of stars, to record Kimmel’s song “I’m Fucking Ben Affleck“.[16]
On September 13, 2008, Silverman won a Creative Arts Emmy for writing the song “I’m Fucking Matt Damon”.[17]
In October 2008, Silverman visited the United Kingdom to promote the release of The Sarah Silverman Program on Paramount Comedy, but her media and stage performances failed to impress audiences. Her debut stand-up performance at the Hammersmith Apollo was widely panned by the critics and audiences alike. The performance bombed when Silverman’s warm-up act failed to appear and Silverman rushed through a short 35-40 minute set. The heckling audience, who had been charged £40-50 a seat, refused to leave the theatre and Silverman, sporting a pair of after-show slippers, was forced to return to the stage for an impromptu question and answer session. Steve Bennett from comedy website Chortle declared that “minute for minute, there are sex phonelines that are cheaper than Sarah Silverman.”[18][19]
Silverman sold her idea of a book of humorous essays to HarperCollins for $2.5 million. The Observer reported that David Hirshey 
was her editor.[20][21] The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee was released in April 2010.[1]
Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
Silverman’s concert film, Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic, based on her one-woman show of the same name, was released in 2005. Liam Lynch directed the movie, distributed by Roadside Attractions. Rotten Tomatoes gave Jesus Is Magic a “fresh” rating of 64% with 54 positive reviews and 30 negative ones, with the “cream of the crop” giving it a rating of 67%.[22] It made US$124,475 on its opening weekend, showing on seven screens. The box office performance led to an expanded release in as many as 57 theaters, resulting in a box office take of more than US$1.3 million.[23] The DVD was released in June 2006. The soundtrack featured songs and standup from the movie, and previously unreleased songs.[24]
The Sarah Silverman Program
Silverman’s television sitcom, The Sarah Silverman Program, debuted on Comedy Central in February 2007. The show proved to be a ratings success, scoring the highest premiere ratings of any Comedy Central show in three years, with 1.81 million viewers and the highest 18–49 rating of the night on cable.[1][25] It portrays the day-to-day adventures of fictionalized versions of Silverman, her sister Laura and their friends. A number of comedic actors from Mr. Show have reappeared on The Sarah Silverman Program. Silverman was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her acting on the show. At the awards ceremony, she wore a fake mustache.
Comedy Central canceled the Sarah Silverman Program after three seasons.[26]
Controversy
In a July 2001 interview on NBC‘s Late Night with Conan O’Brien Silverman used the ethnic slur “chink” explaining that a friend advised her to avoid jury duty by writing a racial slur on the selection form, “something inappropriate, like ‘I hate chinks.'” Silverman said she decided that she did not want to be thought of as a racist, so “I wrote ‘I love chinks’ – and who doesn’t?” Silverman said that the joke satirizes the racist thought process. Guy Aoki, of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA), objected to her use of the slur.[27][28] NBC and O’Brien apologized, but Silverman did not, later appearing on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher in July and August 2001. Silverman questioned Aoki’s sincerity, accusing him of exploiting the opportunity for publicity. On an episode of the show, Aoki appeared with Silverman, and stated that he did not accept Silverman’s explanation, saying that it was not successful satire and that comedians should consult with groups such as his before performing such material. Silverman stated in an NPR’s Fresh Air interview that she was asked to repeat the joke on Politically Incorrect, among other places, but she eventually dropped the joke from her act because she felt it was becoming stale.[24] Silverman has since turned the complaint into grist for her stand-up act, saying that the experience helped teach her the important lesson that racism is bad: “And I mean bad, like in that black way.”[29]
A minor controversy also arose over Silverman’s performance in the documentary film The Aristocrats (2005). The film shows Silverman giving an apparently autobiographical account of her life as a child sex performer and mentions how Joe Franklin, a New York radio and TV personality whose nostalgic programs have aired since the early 1950s, would ask her to perform privately for him in his apartment. Silverman looks at the camera and, in a deadpan voice, accused Franklin of raping her. The film was edited in such a way that it appears as if Franklin knows what Silverman said about him. Later, after her clip, Franklin is shown stating “Sarah Silverman is a young lady to watch”. After the film came out, Franklin took offense to Silverman’s using his name and considered suing her. A month later the New York Times noted he remained undecided, but said, “the best thing I could do is get Sarah better writers so she’d have funnier material.[30]
Personal life
Silverman has said that she does not consume alcohol, because it nauseates her. She is open about her lifelong battle with clinical depression, crediting her subsequent emotional health to taking prescription drug Zoloft.[8][31][32] She struggled with bedwetting from the time she was young until well into her teens and has joked that the last time she wet her bed was when she was fired from Saturday Night Live.[24][32] Her biography published in April of 2010, entitled The Bedwetter,
touches heavily on that very subject.
Silverman talked about having dated Dave Attell
on one of her appearances on The Howard Stern Show. Silverman and Colin Quinn
joked about having been romantically linked during her Saturday Night Live career. In her first appearance on the Stern show in June 2001 she said she was dating someone named Tom who wrote for SNL. A February 2007 magazine article said Silverman was in a relationship that began in 2002 with Jimmy Kimmel,
host of Jimmy Kimmel Live![33] She referred to the relationship in some of her comedy, “I’m Jewish, but I wear this Saint Christopher medal sometimes; my boyfriend is Catholic — but you know… it was cute the way he gave it to me. He said if it doesn’t burn a hole through my skin, it will protect me.[6]” In July 2008 Vanity Fair reported that the couple had split, ending their relationship of five years. However in October 2008 it was revealed by Fox News and People magazine that they were on “the road back to being together.”[34] The couple attended the wedding of Howard Stern together,[35] but split again in March 2009.[36]
Silverman has stated she does not want to get married until same-sex couples are able to.[37] She has also stated she doesn’t want to have biological children to avoid the risk that they might inherit her depression.[38]
Silverman’s biological sister Laura plays her sister on The Sarah Silverman Program. Another sister, Susan, is a rabbi who lives on a kibbutz in Israel with her husband and five children.[39]
Silverman is a fan of Jenny Lewis and appeared in Lewis’ music video for the song “Rise Up With Fists!!” She is also a fan of comedian Steve Martin who was one of her major inspirations as a younger comedian.[12] Silverman enjoys playing Scrabble on the Internet. One of her regular opponents is Alyssa Milano
who lives in the same building as her.[31] She credited comedian Tig Notaro 
as one of her best friends in an interview in The Advocate.[37]
She is ethnically Jewish, which she has frequently mined for material, but does not follow the religion claiming “I have no religion. But culturally I can’t escape it; I’m very Jewish.”[40][41] Her humor has also touched on other religions. In 2009 she suggested the Pope sell the Vatican and use some of the money for luxurious housing and the remainder to stop world hunger saying he would “get crazy pussy.”[42]
As of January 2010 Silverman is dating Family Guy producer/writer Alec Sulkin.[43]
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Television work
- Community Auditions (1985)
- Saturday Night Live (writer & cast member, 1993–1994)
- Mr. Show (featured performer, 1995)
- The Larry Sanders Show (1994-1996)
- Star Trek Voyager (“Future’s End“, two episodes, 1996)
- Brotherly Love (pizza parlor waitress 1997)
- Seinfeld (“The Money“, 1997)
- Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (voice as herself, “Alderman”, 1998)
- Smog (unsold pilot, 1999)
- Late Last Night (1999)
- Futurama (“The Cryonic Woman“, 2000; “Futurama: Bender’s Big Score, 2007)
- Super Nerds (unsold pilot, 2000)
- Rocky Times (unsold pilot, 2000)
- Greg the Bunny (2002–2004)
- Crank Yankers (voice, 2002-2007)
- Frasier (Jane, “Maris Returns”, 2003)
- Pilot Season (miniseries, 2004)
- Entourage (herself, 2004)
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force (“Robositter“, 2004, credited as Big S)
- Drawn Together (“The Other Cousin“, episode 1.5, 2004, Cousin Bleh)
- Monk (Mr. Monk and The T.V Star, 2004)
- American Dad! (“Stan Knows Best“, 2005, voice)
- Tom Goes to the Mayor (“Pipe Camp”, episode 11, 2005)
- Celebrity Poker Showdown (twice, 2003-2004)
- Comic Relief (stand-up segment 2006)
- Monk (Mr. Monk’s Biggest Fan, 2007)
- The Andy Milonakis Show (herself, 2007)
- The Sarah Silverman Program (2007-present)
- Monk (Mr. Monk’s 100th Case, 2008)
- 8 out of 10 cats (“Herself”, 2008)
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (“Herself”, 2008)
- JAG (Blind Side “Lt. Schiparelli”, 1997)
- The Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget (2008) (pre-recorded video message)
- The Simpsons (“Stealing First Base“, 2010, voice)
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Doug Oldham, American gospel music singer, died from complications from a fall he was , 79
Doug Oldham was an American Southern Gospel singer and a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame died from complications from a fall he was , 79. [1]
(November 11, 1930 – July 21, 2010)  |
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Musical career
Oldham was a musical performer for more than 60 years recording artist with 64 albums to his credit, often traveling and performing with his wife Laura Lee. [2] The couple produced a CD and wrote three books together.
Oldham was a regular performer on “The Old Time Gospel Hour” and traveled with the Bill Gaither Trio and the Slaughters during the 1960s. [3] He was also a performer on several of Bill Gaither‘s Gaither Homecoming videos.
Awards and honors
In 2006, Doug was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. [4]
He was the recipient of two GMA Dove Awards and an Angel Award. [3]
In 2007, Liberty University named a campus recital hall at the Fine Arts Building, the “Oldham Recital Hall, in his honor and established the Liberty University Oldham Concert Hall Scholarship Fund at the Center for Worship. [2]
Personal life
Oldham and his wife Laura Lee had three daughters. He was the recipient of an honorary doctorate degree and was named an Honorary Colonel of Alabama. [3]
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Anthony Rolfe Johnson, English tenor, died from Alzheimer’s disease.he was 69
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, CBE was an English operatic tenor died from Alzheimer’s disease.he was 69.
(5 November 1940 – 21 July 2010)
Born in Tackley in Oxfordshire, Rolfe Johnson studied with Ellis Keeler and Vera Rosza at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He first appeared in opera in the chorus and in small roles at the Glyndebourne Festival between 1972 and 1976. His major operatic debut was in Iolanthe in 1973 with the English Opera Group.
In the course of a long and varied career he performed in Handel‘s oratorios, sang the role of Evangelist in J. S. Bach‘s St John Passion and St Matthew Passion, and sang solos in Haydn‘s The Seasons and The Creation. Operas he recorded include Mozart‘s The Magic Flute, Gilbert and Sullivan‘s The Mikado, Mozart’s Idomeneo and La clemenza di Tito, and Britten‘s Peter Grimes as well as appearing in the latter’s War Requiem, amongst many others. He performed much early music, including Monteverdi‘s Ulysses and Orfeo.
He performed at the world’s major opera houses, including the English National Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, La Monnaie in Brussels, La Scala, Milan, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, the Vienna State Opera, and the Paris Opera.
He sang Polixenes in the world premiere of Philippe Boesmans‘ adaptation of Shakespeare‘s The Winter’s Tale.
Aside from opera, he appeared in concert with the world’s major symphony orchestras, such as the New York Philharmonic and Boston Philharmonic, and conductors, such as Mstislav Rostropovich and Seiji Ozawa. He also gave song recitals with Graham Johnson, many of which were recorded; he was a founder member of Graham Johnson’s The Songmakers’ Almanac. In 1988 he re-launched the Gregynog Festival, remaining its artistic director until 2006.
He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1992 Queen’s Birthday Honours.[1]
He died of Alzheimer’s disease on 21 July 2010.[2][3]
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Did you know what “Criminal Conversation” is?
Did you know what criminal conversion is?
A large percentage of the people would have given a wrong answer if they thought it was a criminal act…
Criminal conversion is:
1. (Law) (formerly) a common law action brought by a husband by which he claimed damages against an adulterer
Criminal conversion is an alienation of Affections, it is a civil action by a husband or wife against a third party for that party’s conduct which deprived the husband or wife filing the action of the love and affection that previously existed between husband/wife and his/her spouse. The party bringing the suit does not have to show evidence of adultery.
Generally, the requirements for a claim of Alienation of Affections are:
– Plaintiff and his or her spouse were happily married and a genuine love and affection existed between them;
– Defendant’s actions were a contributing factor that caused Plaintiff’s spouse to alienate his or her affections from Plaintiff;
– Defendant was aware that his or her actions would likely cause Plaintiff’s spouse to alienate his or her affections from Plaintiff;
– For Compensatory Damages: Defendant’s conduct proximately resulted in Plaintiff’s loss of services in the home, loss of support, including present and future earnings of his or her spouse, loss of consortium (sexual relations),emotional distress (and, in some cases, therapy costs and costs of prescription medication), and/or injury to Plaintiff’s reputation. Compensatory damages may also include the costs of litigation, including attorney’s fees for both the Alienation or Criminal conversation action or attorney’s fees involving, his or her spouse if the relationship with Plaintiff’s spouse ended subsequent to his or her relationship with Defendant; and
– For Punitive Damages: Defendant’s conduct was willful, malicious, wanton, and oppressive.
Defenses to Alienation of Affections:
– There was no love and affection that existed between Plaintiff and his or her spouse.
– Condonation: a term in our law which typically means a conditional forgiveness.
Criminal Conversation is a civil action brought for adultery. It is what is called a strict liability action in that if your spouse has sexual relations with a third party, then that third party has committed Criminal Conversation and civil damages may be sought, even if you and your spouse are already separated but not divorced.
Generally, the requirements for a claim of Criminal Conversation are:
1) A third party (known as “Defendant”) and Plaintiff’s spouse engaged in an adulterous relationship while Plaintiff and his spouse were married;
2) For Compensatory Damages: Defendant’s wrongful and malicious conduct proximately damaged Plaintiff by casting dishonor on the marriage bed, alienating the affections of Plaintiff’s spouse for him or her, destroying domestic comfort, causing loss of consortium (sexual relations), loss of support, including present and future earnings of his spouse, emotional distress (and, in some cases, therapy costs and costs of prescription medication) all resulting in mental anguish and humiliation. The costs of litigation can also be included, including attorney’s fees, with the Plaintiff’s spouse if the relationship with Plaintiff’s spouse ended subsequent to his or her relationship with Defendant; and
3) For Punitive Damages: Defendant’s conduct was willful, malicious, wanton, and oppressive.
A defense specific to Criminal Conversation is:
– Connivance: occurs when one party causes or induces the other party to commit the act.
Other various counterclaims or defenses can be raised if these claims are brought against a third party lover. Some of those counterclaims or defenses are:
1) Invasion of Privacy
2) Malicious Prosecution
3) Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
4) Abuse of Process
Although the claims Alienation of Affections and Criminal Conversation are often paired and discussed together, the two claims can be brought separately.
Both claims are civil actions (and not criminal, despite the terms “Criminal Conversation”) brought against a third party paramour, or lover.
Both claims are commonly referred to as “Heart-Balm” actions and more than half of the states have abolished them.
Both claims can be raised before or after a person and his or her spouse have separated or divorced. But, it needs to be pointed out that only criminal conversation can relate to pre or post separation.
There is a three (3) year statute of limitations on both actions. For Alienation of Affection, this begins running at the time of the loss of the affection.
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Who is Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong?
Who is Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong? The music world knows her as Dido, she is a British singer-songwriter.
Following the sampling of her single “Thank You” on Eminem‘s 2000 hit, “Stan“, Dido shot to worldwide success with her debut album No Angel (1999). The album sold in excess of 21 million copies worldwide,[2] and won several awards; including the MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act, two NRJ Awards for Best New Act and Best Album, and two BRIT Awards for Best British Female and Best Album. Her following album, Life for Rent (2003), continued her mainstream success with the help of popular singles “White Flag” and “Life for Rent“. The album went on to sell around 12 million copies worldwide and saw her receive more accolades; including the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year for “White Flag”, two further BRIT and NRJ Awards, as well as a Grammy Award nomination. Her third and latest studio album, Safe Trip Home (2008) received critical praise to help maintain her success.
Dido was (born 25 December 1971 in London, UK) as Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong[3][4] at St. Mary Abbots hospital in Kensington, London on Christmas Day 1971.[5] Because she was born on Christmas Day, she also celebrates an “official birthday” on 25 June, following the example of Paddington Bear.[6] Her mother, Clare (née Collins), is a French poet[4] and her father, William O’Malley Armstrong, was an Irish publisher and former managing director of Sidgwick & Jackson.[7][8] Her older brother, Rowland Constantine O’Malley Armstrong,[9] is better known as record producer Rollo part of the British electronica trio Faithless. Despite their impressive birth names, the pair were known from childhood by the names that are famous now — Dido and Rollo.[4] Dido has made it clear that “Dido” is now her real name and not simply a stage name or nickname.[1][6][10]
Dido was named after the mythical Queen of Carthage. As a child, she had to deal with the ambiguous and unusual nature of her name, which led to her being bullied[1] and even to her pretending to have an ordinary name.[4] As she explains:
Dido was educated at Thornhill Primary School in Dallington, City of London Girls’ and Westminster School. After she stole a recorder from school at age five,[11] her parents enrolled her at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. By the time she reached her teens she had learned to play the piano, recorder and the violin. She later studied law at Birkbeck, University of London, while working as a literary agent. She never completed the degree, deciding instead to take up music full-time. After learning the guitar, she showcased her skills to audiences during her 2004 Life for Rent tour.
In 1995, Dido began recording demo tracks which were put together on a collection entitled Odds & Ends and sent out by Nettwerk management. Nettwerk had signed her after she was brought to their attention by her collaborations with Faithless (Dido co-wrote and provided vocals for album tracks, such as “Flowerstand Man” and “Hem of His Garment”) and the UK dance act spearheaded by her brother, Rollo Armstrong. The collection was released by Nettwerk on CD-R acetate in 1995 and featured a mixture of finished productions and demo versions which she later considered for release on her debut album, released in 1999 as No Angel. Odds & Ends brought her to the attention of Arista Records, who signed her in the USA, striking a deal with her brother’s record label, Cheeky Records, to co-sign her. Of the tracks included on Odds & Ends, “Take My Hand” was included on all editions of No Angel as a bonus track; “Sweet Eyed Baby” was remixed and renamed to “Don’t Think of Me”, while “Worthless” and “Me” were released exclusively on the Japanese edition.
Cheeky Records, to which Dido was signed, was sold to BMG records in 1999. This delayed the release of No Angel in the United Kingdom, but also allowed her to concentrate on promoting the album No Angel in the United States, including a slot on Sarah McLachlan‘s Lilith Fair tour. Through touring, both before and after the album was available, Dido’s music began to receive more exposure. The first official single chosen by Dido and her label, “Here with Me“, was used as the theme music for the television programme Roswell. Arguably it was this, as well as the airplay on MTV throughout Europe of the single’s video, which brought her mass attention.
In 1998, the music producer for the film Sliding Doors picked her track “Thank You” for the soundtrack. No Angel was first released in 1999, and Dido toured extensively to promote the record.
Eminem helped introduce Dido to the US audience in 2000 when he sampled the first verse of “Thank You” in his UK number-one single “Stan“, after seeking permission from Dido herself; she also appeared in the music video as Stan’s long-suffering girlfriend. She reportedly did not want to do the video at first, as she was uncomfortable with the scene in the video where she had to be tied up and have her mouth covered with duct tape, but later agreed to it and got along well with Eminem and the crew on set. Interest soared in her debut album, leading it to hit charts in Europe on import sales alone, charting in the top five on the UK albums chart before its official UK re-release. “Thank You” was also sampled by the Airheadz in their trance track “Stanley Here I am” originally as a bootleg, but later entering the UK Top 40 in in April 2001.
Her No Angel went on to become the top-selling album of 2001 – both in the United Kingdom and worldwide,[12] debuting at, and returning to, number one in the official UK albums chart many times throughout the year. It spawned two Top Ten hit singles, “Here with Me” and “Thank You”, a further Top Twenty hit, “Hunter”
Dido – Hunter
Uploaded by Hakunamatata67. – Watch more music videos, in HD!and a fourth and final single release “All You Want” which reached the top 25. It was certified platinum in over thirty-five countries, and is estimated to have sold over 21 million copies worldwide.[2] It is the second biggest selling album of the 21st century in the UK. Dido’s widely emulated hairstyle at this time became known as the “Dido flip“. Her sold-out worldwide tour featured hip-hop artist Pete Miser as her live band’s DJ. After the tour, in 2002, Dido took a sabbatical, and began to write and record her second album.
Life for Rent was released on 29 September 2003 (world), 30 September 2003 (USA & Canada) and became one of the fastest selling albums in UK music history, debuting at number one in the UK, Ireland, France, Denmark, Switzerland, South Africa, Australia, Greece, Mexico, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand, the USA, Italy, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria and many more. Preceded by the hit single “White Flag“, the music video for which features Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Bones star David Boreanaz, the album sold over 152,000 copies in the first day alone in the UK, and went on to sell over 400,000 in the first week. Three further singles—”Life for Rent“, “Don’t Leave Home” and “Sand in My Shoes“—were lifted from the album, with Dido embarking on a worldwide tour in support of the album (a DVD of footage from the tour was released in 2005 entitled Live at Brixton Academy). It is the 4th biggest selling album of the 21st century in the UK.
Dido performing with Youssou N’Dour in Hyde Park, London.
Following her sold-out world tour of 2004, Dido was asked to perform at three of the Live 8 concerts on 2 July 2005—performing in London, then at the Eden Project in Cornwall, before flying over to Paris, performing both solo (“White Flag”) and duetting with Youssou N’Dour (“Thank You” and “Seven Seconds”).
Also in 2005, Dido provided vocals for her brother’s side project Dusted on the album Safe from Harm. She sings on the tracks: “Time Takes Time”, “Hurt U” and “Winter” and she co-wrote three tracks on the album: “Always Remember to Respect & Honour Your Mother, Part 1”, “The Biggest Fool in the World” and “Winter”.
Dido started working on her third album in October 2005 in Los Angeles. The album was produced by Jon Brion and Dido herself. Collaborators include Brian Eno, Questlove, Mick Fleetwood, Rollo Armstrong and Matt Chamberlain. Recording sessions were held at London’s Abbey Road and at Jon Brion‘s 
home studio in Los Angeles.
Dido’s official website was relaunched to coincide with the release of the album. The release of the album was postponed several times, though no official reason was ever given for this. The first single from the album, “Don’t Believe in Love” leaked to the Internet on 5 September 2008 and was made available digitally on 27 October 2008. The full album was leaked to the internet on the 1st November, 2008, some 16 days before its official launch date. On 13 November 2008, the full album was available for a world premier listening at iLike.[13]
On 22 August 2008, Dido’s official website confirmed that the album was to be entitled Safe Trip Home, with the official release date of 17 November 2008. A free song from the album, “Look No Further” was made available to download from the site for a limited time. Other songs included on the album are: “It Comes And It Goes”, “The Day Before the Day”, “Never Want To Say It’s Love” and “Grafton Street”. The latter was composed in collaboration with Brian Eno.[14] The album cover features a photograph of astronaut Bruce McCandless II during a spacewalk, as part of space shuttle mission STS-41-B.
| “ | I recorded my vocals next to the hoover in Jon’s broom cupboard. It was so small, there wasn’t even room for a guitar: I got quite addicted to singing in there. | ” |
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In December 2008, Dido’s song “Let’s Do The Things We Normally Do”, was criticised by Gregory Campbell, MP for East Londonderry and Minister for Sports, Arts and Leisure for Northern Ireland, for referencing lyrics from a song, “The Men Behind the Wire” which was written in the aftermath of the introduction of detention without trial for persons accused of being members of paramilitary groups. Campbell described “The Men Behind the Wire” as “written about people who were murderers, arsonists and terrorists”. Campbell suggested “she [Dido] should clarify her position so that her fans and the wider public knows where she stands on these things”.[15] The album failed to sell as well as her previous efforts. The album is nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.[16]
A.R. Rahman is rumored to be collaborating with Dido on her new album.[19] [20]
In addition to her solo work, Dido has co-written and provided vocals for tracks with Faithless, including “One Step Too Far“—which was released in the UK as a limited edition single, where it debuted at number six—and “No Roots”, the title track of the fourth Faithless album. Rollo—Dido’s brother—co-writes and co-produces much of Dido’s solo material, including many tracks on No Angel and Life for Rent.
She provided guest vocals for each of the six studio albums by Faithless, from 1996’s Reverence to 2010’s The Dance. Dido worked with her brother on a CD to accompany the children’s book he wrote with Jason White, Safe from Harm; the CD is also titled Safe from Harm and the artist is listed as “Dusted”. She co-wrote Britney Spears‘s worldwide number one hit “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman“, soundtrack feature track to Spears’s first major film debut.
In 2006 she re-released the song “Christmas Day”, although it failed to chart in the UK. This had appeared originally on a 2001 EP of “All You Want” (a song from No Angel).
Dido has provided guest vocals to tracks by other artists including “Feels like Fire” for Carlos Santana‘s 2002 album, Shaman, and a duet with Rufus Wainwright entitled “I Eat Dinner (When the Hunger’s Gone)” for the Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason film soundtrack. Dido also sang vocals for Eminem in the cut “Stan“. A sample of the Dido track “Do you have a little time” is used on the song “Don’t you trust me” by Tupac, on the album “Loyal to the Game“, which was almost entirely produced by Eminem in 2004.
Annie Lennox has joined forces with Dido and 22 other female artists[21] to raise awareness of the issue of mother-to-child transmission of HIV to unborn children in Africa. The single “Sing” was released on World Aids Day on 1 December 2007, in conjunction with Annie Lennox’s appearance at the Nelson Mandela 46664 concert in South Africa.
Dido’s new song, “Everything To Lose”, is being featured in the ‘Sex And the City 2’ soundtrack. The movie hits theaters on May 27. The song was written by Dido in her country house where she is recording her fourth album, which will have an electronic approach. [22] The single leaked on the Internet some days before the official release of the movie on May 9 on Dido’s Youtube official channel [23] and on Dido’s official website. [24]
This year Dido is also featured in the songs ‘North Star’ and ‘Feelin Good’ included in ‘The Dance’, the new album by Faithless.
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Personal life
Upon the release of No Angel in 1999, after a long time promoting the album, Dido broke up with her fiancé, entertainment lawyer Bob Page, after a seven-year relationship.[26] While she has described her departure from him as her becoming “a free agent in every sense”, the two remain friends. A few songs on her No Angel album were written with him in mind (“Thank You” was written as a tribute to him), and she thanked him publicly upon winning the Songwriter of the Year award at the Ivor Novello Awards, adding, “The song ‘Thank You’ still sums up that relationship. Being single might make my album more psycho this time”. Dido is a keen Arsenal F.C fan 
and regularly attended matches with her father as a child. [30] Dido briefly dated Sol Campbell 
who played for the club at the time. [31] [32]
Awards
- 2001: Nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video – “Thank You”
- 2001: Nominated for the MTV Video Music Awards for Best Video of the Year, Best Rap Video, Best Male Video, Best Directed Video and Best Cinematography – “Stan” (Eminem featuring Dido)
- 2001: Won the MTV Europe Music Award for the Best New Act
- 2001: Nominated for the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Female, Best Album ( No Angel ) and Best Song ( “Stan” (Eminem featuring Dido) )
- 2001: Nominated for the BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist
- 2002: Won the NRJ Award for Best Newcomer
- 2002: Won the NRJ Award for Best Album No Angel
- 2002: Won the BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist
- 2002: Won the BRIT Award for Best British Album – No Angel
- 2002: Nominated for the BRIT Award for Best British Video – “Thank You”
- 2003: Nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female – “White Flag“
- 2003: Won the Ivor Novello Award for the Songwriter of the year with “White Flag”
- 2004: Nominated for the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Album ( Life for Rent )
- 2004: Won the BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist
- 2004: Won the BRIT Award for Best British Single – “White Flag”
- 2004: Nominated for the BRIT Award for Mastercard British Album – “Life For Rent”
- 2004: Won the NRJ Award for Best international artist
- 2004: Won the NRJ Award for Best Album – Life for Rent
- 2007: Won an ASCAP UK Award
- 2008: Won an ASCAP UK Award for Songwriter of the Year
- 2010: Nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical – “Safe Trip Home“
- 2010: Nominated for the Brit Awards 2010 for BRITs Album of 30 Years – “No Angel“
Discography
No Angel (1999)
Life for Rent (2003)
- Safe Trip Home (2008)
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Peta Rutter, , New Zealand actress (Power Rangers Mystic Force),died from a brain tumour.she was 51
Peta Gurney Elizabeth Rutter was a New Zealander actress. She was perhaps best known for her role of Udonna, the White Mystic Ranger and mentor in Power Rangers: Mystic Force.
Over the past 25 years, Peta has specialized in cross-disciplinary theatre. She joined INdian Ink for The Dentist’s Chair. She began working in dance and physical thetare with the Sydney based company Darc Swan. In New Zealand she has worked as an actor in Shona McCullagh’s works – Fare Up a Floral Explosion; The Human Garden and Douglas Wright’s – Forbidden Memories and Inland (International Festival 2002). Peta co-directs Nightsong Productions, whose most recent show Head was part of the 2007 Auckland Festival and won the 2005 Chapman Tripp award (most original production). Peta’s screen credits include – This is not a Love Story (dir Keith Hill), The Footstep Man (dir Leon Narby). Her TV credits were extensive.
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Filmography
Film
- This Is Not a Love Story (2002) …. Suzanne
- The Footstep Man (1992) …. Lucie
TV work
- Power Rangers: Mystic Force (2006) TV Series …. Udonna/White Mystic Power Ranger
- Young Hercules
- “Mommy Dearests” (1998) …. Iambewe
- “Dad Always Liked Me Best” (1998) …. Iambewe
- Away Laughing (1991) TV Series …. Various Characters
- Xena: Warrior Princess TV series …. an Amazon (uncredited)
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Did you know that Japan has the fastest Broadband?
Did you know thatJapan Broadband is the World’s Fastest, Cheapest
Japan has the fastest broadband speeds and the lowest cost per megabit per second of all countries surveyed, according to recent data from the OECD (see Figures 1-3). Japan enjoys costs per megabit over four times lower than that of the US. Iceland fell three places from third to sixth in global broadband penetration from Q4 2006 to Q2 2007, while the US remained at 15th place (see Figure 4). Ireland led all countries in net growth of broadband penetration per 100 inhabitants (see Figure 5). Meanwhile, in the US broadband penetration grew to 85.91% among active Internet users, up 0.6 percentage points over September 2007.
Did you know that:
Japan, France, Korea, Sweden, and New Zealand led all countries surveyed in advertised broadband download speeds (see Figure 1). Japan led all countries with an advertised 93,693 Mbits per second speed, followed by France at 44,157 Mb/s, Korea at 43,301 Mb/s, Sweden 21,423 Mb/s, and New Zealand at 13,595 Mb/s broadband speed. The UK came in 12th at 10,624 Mb/s while the US came in at 14th at 8,860 Mb/sec.
Figure 1: Broadband Speed by Country Oct. 2007
Source: OECD
Did you know that Finland, Germany, and Switzerland Lead all Countries in Broadband Prices?
Finland (31.2 equivalent USD), Germany (32.2), Switzerland (32.7), the UK (33.3), and Denmark (33.6) led all countries in the lowest average prices for broadband service (see Figure 2). The US came in 21st place at $53.1 USD for the average monthly broadband subscription fee. Mexico, Turkey, the Slovak Republic, and the Czech Republic came in with the highest average monthly rates topping out at nearly $89/month for broadband service.
Figure 2: Broadband Average Monthly Price by Country Oct. 2007
Source: OECD
Did you know that Japan Leads all Countries in Price per Megabit?
Japan led all countries surveyed in price per megabit per second at $3.09 equivalent US dollars (see Figure 3). France followed at $3.7, Italy at 4.6, the UK at 5.3, and Korea at about $6 per Mb/sec. The US was 11th at $12.6 per Mb/second. Greece, Mexico, and Turkey topped all countries in price per megabit, with Turkey at $97.4 per megabit/second.
Figure 3: Broadband Price per Mb/second by Country – Oct. 2007
Source: OECD
Iceland Cools off in Global Broadband Penetration Rankings
Our April 2007 Bandwidth Report listed Iceland at third place at 29.7 broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants. While Iceland crept up to 29.8 broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants, Switzerland, Korea, and Norway moved ahead of Iceland, behind Denmark and the Netherlands (see Figure 4).
Figure 4: Broadband Penetration per 100 Inhabitants Q2-2007
Source: OECD
Did you know that Ireland Leads all Countries in Broadband Growth?
Ireland, Germany, Sweden, and Australia led all countries in broadband growth from Q2 2006 to Q2 2007 (see Figure 5). The US (4.21) and the UK (4.52) were above the OECD average of 3.68 additional subscribers per 100 inhabitants over that one year period. Japan, Turkey, Portugal, Hungary, and Mexico came in last in broadband growth from Q2 2007 to Q2 2007.
Figure 5: Broadband Penetration Per 100 Inhabitants Net Increase Q2 2006-Q2 2007
Source: OECD
Did you know that US Leads all Countries in Broadband Subscribers?
The US led all countries surveyed with over 66.2 million subscribers on broadband as of June 2007 (see Figure 6). Japan had less than half the broadband subscribers of the US with 27.2 million on broadband, followed by Germany at 17.5 million, Korea at 14.4 million, and the UK at 14.4 million subscribers.
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Carl Gordon, American actor (Roc), died from non-Hodgkin lymphoma he was , 78
Carl Gordon was an American actor who entered the acting profession later in life and was best known for his role in the Fox TV series Roc, in addition to a wide range of roles in film, on stage and television as a character actor.
(January 20, 1932 – July 20, 2010)
Gordon was born Rufus Carl Gordon, Jr. in Goochland, Virginia and was always known by his middle name. He moved with his family as a child and was raised in Brooklyn‘s Bedford-Stuyvesant. He enlisted in the United States Air Force and served during the Korean War as an aircraft mechanic. After completing his military service, he attended Brooklyn College but dropped out to pursue employment.[1]
Around 1970, Gordon had been twice married and twice divorced, had been unable to complete college and had only been able to find work as a sheet-metal worker and as a stockroom clerk that didn’t interest and challenge him. As recounted by The New York Times, he fell to his knees one night and cried out “Lord, tell me what I need to do” and received the answer “Try acting”.[1] He enrolled at Gene Frankel‘s Theatre and Film Workshop, where he was the oldest student and the only African American. After many auditions, he started getting roles as a character actor on Broadway, in film and on television.[1] He appeared in 1967 in the national tour of Happy Ending / Day of Absence, a pair of one-act plays by Douglas Turner Ward, and performed on stage in 30 productions by Ward’s Negro Ensemble Company.[2]
He appeared on film in the 1984 John Sayles movie The Brother from Another Planet.[1] In 1990, Gordon played the role of Doaker in August Wilson‘s The Piano Lesson, the fourth of 10 plays in his Pittsburgh Cycle. He also appeared on Broadway in the 1971 production of Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death, a musical by Melvin Van Peebles and a 2003 production of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom with Charles S. Dutton and Whoopi Goldberg.[1] He appeared on television in episodes of ER and Law & Order.[1]
His most notable role was on the 1991–1994 Fox series Roc, about an African American family in Baltimore. Starring Dutton as Roc Emerson, the show included Gordon in the role of the title character’s father Andrew, an “irascible, sharp-tongued retired train porter”.[2] Reviewer Marvin Kitman in Newsday described Gordon’s character in Roc as a “black Archie Bunker“. He gives portraits of Malcolm X as birthday presents. He is offended that his son watches The Simpsons because they’re white and doesn’t watch Cosby. Andrew also insists that Larry Bird can’t possibly be white and play basketball as well as he does, that Bird was raised in Harlem and his real name is Abdul Mustafa.[2][3][4] Gordon based his character on a strong-willed uncle who owned a grocery store in Philadelphia.[3] Episodes in the second and third season of the show were broadcast live, which didn’t faze Gordon, who described the experience as being “like going back to Broadway”.[1] The decision to air live shows was made as a promotional stunt, but was enabled by the extensive stage experience of Gordon, Dutton and other cast members.[2]
Gordon died at age 78 on July 20, 2010, at his home in Jetersville, Virginia due to non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He was survived by his third wife, Jacqueline Alston-Gordon, as well as by five daughters, a son, nine grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.[1]
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Robert Sandall, British radio presenter and music journalist, died frrom cancer.he was , 58
Robert Paul Sandall was a British music journalist and radio presenter , 58. He was best known for presenting, with Mark Russell, BBC Radio 3‘s Mixing It programme from 1990 until 2007. After ending on Radio 3 the show moved to Resonance FM in London, where it continued under the name Where’s the Skill in That? for a further two years. Sandall also presented editions of the BBC’s Late Junction and contributed to BBC Radio 4‘s Front Row.
(9 June 1952 – 20 July 2010)
Robert Sandall wrote for Q, Rolling Stone, The Word and GQ magazines as wel
l being the rock critic for The Sunday Times from 1988 after a brief period at The Daily Telegraph. From 1996 to 2002 he was director of communications at Virgin Records.
Robert Sandall was married to Anita Mackie and they had one daughter, Grace. He died after a long battle with prostate cancer.
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Cécile Aubry, French film actress, author, screenwriter and director, died from lung cancer she was , 81
Cécile Aubry was a French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director. Born Anne-José Madeleine Henriette Bénard, Aubry began her career as a dancer. At age 20, she was signed to 20th Century Fox.
(3 August 1928 – 19 July 2010[3])
She made her break as the star of Henri-Georges Clouzot‘s Manon (1949), which won the Golden Lion at the famed Venice Film Festival. That brought her a leading role alongside Tyrone Power and Orson Welles in American director Henry Hathaway‘s feature The Black Rose (1950). She had a strong performance in Christian-Jacque‘s Bluebeard (1952), one of 
the first French-produced films to be made in color. For a short time, she was a Hollywood success, signing a lucrative contract with Fox, employing her parents as a publicity team, and regularly appearing in French film magazines as an example of the perfect hybrid of Franco-American femininity.[4]
Her film career was short. It was interrupted by a secret six-year marriage to Si Brahim El Glaoui, the eldest son of the pasha of Marrakesh. She announced her retirement from film in 1959, claiming that she had only enjoyed cinema for its travel opportunities. She went on to write children’s books and scenarios for children’s television with considerable success.[4] [5]
She is known in France for her TV series for children, Poly, about a boy and a horse, and Belle et Sébastien, adapted for television from her books. The main character in both series was played by her son, Mehdi El Glaoui (credited as “Mehdi”).[6]
On 19 July 2010, she died from lung cancer in Dourdan (Essonne), France, aged 81.[3]
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Who s Sarah Jarosz?
Who s Sarah Jarosz? The bluegrass and country music world knows her as a bluegrass multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter whose first CD, Song Up in Her Head, was released by Sugar Hill Records on June 16, 2009. She was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Country Instrumental Perf
ormance for the track “Mansinneedof” from that album.
Jarosz was born in Austin, Texas in 1991, but was raised in Wimberley, Texas. She picked up the mandolin at age 10 and has been called “a songwriter of uncommon wisdom” by the Austin Chronicle. She also plays clawhammer banjo and guitar and wrote all but two of the thirteen tracks on her album. Jarosz began attending the New England Conservatory of Music in the fall of 2009.
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Sarah Jarosz has been interviewed by NPR, where she discussed her life, music, and influences. In 2009. Jarosz was interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine, who conveyed the interviewer’s opinion that Jarosz’ debut was “impressive,” and compared her to Gillian Welch, saying that Jarosz could easily be mistaken for “Welch’s long lost daughter.” Continuing, it goes on to refer to her as a contemporary-bluegrass prodigy with a high opinion of her performance on claw-hammer banjo alongside “dobro king Jerry Douglas,” and was won over by two cover songs: Tom Waits‘ “Come On Up to the House” and The Decemberists‘ murder ballad “Shankill Butchers,” which the interviewer felt was better than the original.
Albums
| Year | Album details | US Billboard 200 |
US Heatseekers |
US Independent |
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| 2009 | Song Up in Her Head
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158 | 3 | 21 | 1 |
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