title: Steven Levitan

text: As executive producer, Levitan won an Emmy Award in 1996 for "Frasier" in the Outstanding Comedy Series category. He was also nominated in that same year for Outstanding Writing in Comedy Series category for "The Larry Sanders Show". He was nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series category for "Just Shoot Me!" and two more as executive producer. Levitan won the Humanitas Prize (for writers whose work best communicates and encourages human values) in 1996 for the "Frasier" episode titled "Breaking the Ice". Levitan has also won a CableACE Award and a Writers Guild nomination for "The Larry Sanders Show". He also garnered a Producers Guild Award and a Television Critics Association Award for "Frasier", a People’s Choice Award for "Stark Raving Mad" and a Golden Globe nomination for "Just Shoot Me!"


title: Steven Levitan

text: His company, Steven Levitan Productions, has produced the series "Just Shoot Me!", "Stark Raving Mad", "Greg the Bunny", "Oliver Beene" and "Stacked".


title: Steven Levitan

text: Levitan and television writer/producer Christopher Lloyd joined as partners in 2006 and together created a production company named "Picture Day". It is under this company that they produced their co-creations "Back to You" and "Modern Family". In 2010, "Modern Family" won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, as well as two other Emmy Awards: Outstanding Supporting Actor in Comedy Series for Eric Stonestreet, and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd. He has also earned Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series nominations for "Modern Family" episodes "See You Next Fall" (2011) and "Baby on Board" (2012), winning the latter.


title: Steven Levitan

text: On June 19, 2018, Levitan, along with Seth MacFarlane and Judd Apatow, announced he was considering leaving 20th Century Fox as protest of Fox News's reporting of Donald Trump's family separation policy which is at odds with "Modern Family"s programming.


title: Steven Levitan

text: Levitan was married to his wife Krista from 1992 to 2018. They have three children, two daughters Hannah and Allie, and a son, Griffin.


title: Steven Levitan

text: In July 2021, Levitan became engaged to Kristina Maria McElligott. They married on September 17, 2022. The wedding was a reunion for many members of the "Modern Family" cast.


title: Imran Khan (singer)

text: Imran Khan (born 28 May 1984) is a Dutch-Pakistani singer, songwriter. Khan sings in Punjabi and English. He first reached stardom in 2007 after the release of his first single "Ni Nachleh". Khan was signed to Prestige Records in late 2007, and released the single "Ni Nachleh" on the label. His second single, "Amplifier", was released on 13 July 2009. As of July 2022, his song "Satisfya" is his most viewed video with over 800 million+ views. His debut 15-track album "Unforgettable" was released on 27 July 2009 via Prestige Records, produced by Eren E.


title: Imran Khan (singer)

text: Khan was born in The Hague to a Pakistani Punjabi Muslim Jat family. Khan's family originally hails from Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan. He has two brothers and one sister. He is unmarried.


title: Imran Khan (singer)

text: Khan started his music career in his late teens. After Prestige Records released his debut single "Ni Nachleh", he continued his career by performing in several countries.


title: Imran Khan (singer)

text: Khan's first released single, "Amplifier", was produced by Eren E, was released on 12 July 2009. It received 2 million views on YouTube on it first week of release and currently has 505 million views and counting on YouTube. His second single, "Bewafa," was produced by Hakan Ozan and was released on 30 August 2009; as of May 2022, its music video had been viewed more than 300 million times on YouTube.


title: Imran Khan (singer)

text: In July 2009, Khan released his debut album, "Unforgettable". It includes the singles "Amplifier", "Bewafa", and a remix of his first single, "Ni Nachleh". It was nominated for Best Album at the 2010 UK Asian Music Awards but did not win.


title: Imran Khan (singer)

text: Khan released the single "Satisfya" on 9 May 2013. Unlike his previous singles, it was released by IK Records. It was produced by his "Amplifier" music producer, Eren E. The music video shows Khan driving a yellow Lamborghini Aventador and sitting with a cheetah. The video was directed by David Zennie, and as of November 2022, it has 810+ million views.


title: Imran Khan (singer)

text: Khan made his Bollywood debut as a singer for the Hindi film "Tevar", which was released on 9 January 2015. As of 2016 the song has over more than 2 million hits.


title: Imran Khan (singer)

text: Khan released a single titled "Imaginary" on 8 June 2015, produced by Eren E. The single was released on his own record label, IK Records. Khan shot the video with David Zennie at Akon's house in Los Angeles. "Imaginary"'s official music video received 6 million views within a month of its release and currently has 91 million+ views on YouTube. Khan came out with another song, "Hattrick", which received 2 million views in a month and currently has 32 million+ views.


title: Imran Khan (singer)

text: In 2021, he released two singles, "M.O.B." on 14 May, featuring J.J. Esko; and "They Don't Like It" on 28 September.


title: Imran Khan (singer)

text: "Unforgettable" is Khan's debut album, released on 27 July 2009 via Prestige Records. It was produced by Eren E and Hakan Ozan. It contains 15 tracks.


title: Imran Khan (singer)

text: The album was nominated for the "Best Album" award at the UK Asian Music Awards 2010 and won "Best Album" at the 2010 Brit Asia TV Music Awards.


title: Rosabell Laurenti Sellers

text: Rosabell Laurenti Sellers (born March 27, 1996) is an American-Italian actress. She is known for her role as the titular character in the children's series, "Mia and Me", and also as Tyene Sand in "Game of Thrones".


title: Rosabell Laurenti Sellers

text: Sellers was born in Santa Monica, California to American actress Mary Sellers and Italian filmmaker . She grew up in New York City before moving to Rome. She has one brother and one sister.


title: Rosabell Laurenti Sellers

text: Sellers made her debut in the theater in 2004 at the age of eight, when she and her brother were assigned to the part of the children of Medea in the production of the theater company "La Mama". After staging in New York and a tour of the same show in Poland and Austria, she moved briefly to Rome that same year with her family.


title: Rosabell Laurenti Sellers

text: After she arrived in Italy, she began to take part in TV and film productions. In 2006 she participated in the mini-series directed by Maurizio Ponzi's "E poi c'è Filippo", the years following in "L'amore e la guerra", the television series "Medicina generale" and the television movie "Fuga per la libertà – L'aviatore", the miniseries "Coco Chanel" and the film "Mi Ricordo Anna Frank" in the lead role. In 2009, in Fausto Brizzi's "Many Kisses Later", while the following year in the miniseries "Paura di amare".


title: Rosabell Laurenti Sellers

text: In 2010, Sellers played the daughter of Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) in Larysa Kondracki's "The Whistleblower". In 2012, she took part in the TV series "Una grande famiglia" and arrived on Rai 2 in the series "Mia and Me" that features alternating sequences in live action and scenes created in computer graphics. In June 2012 she took a part in Edoardo Leo's "Buongiorno papà", alongside Raoul Bova. Meanwhile, at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, she was presented in Ivano De Matteo's "Balancing Act" and in "A Liberal Passion", alongside Alessandro Preziosi and Valentina Lodovini, loosely based on the 2008 novel by Chiara Gamberale.


title: Rosabell Laurenti Sellers

text: Sellers is studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Sellers has participated in many equestrian competitions and has also studied tap dance. Sellers is fluent in English and Italian.


title: Rosabell Laurenti Sellers

text: Sellers founded the Young Actors for Humanitarian Involvement, to get teen Italian talents involved in charities such as ActionAid and Smile Again. She also serves meals at Rome's "Comunità di Sant'Egidio" soup kitchen. Sellers also has volunteered with another organization called "Veto the Squito" which helps raise money for insecticide treated bed nets in Africa. She has also collaborated with the League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism.


title: Gol Gumbaz

text: Gol Gumbaz (), also written Gol Gumbad, is a 17th-century mausoleum located in Bijapur, a city in Karnataka, India. It houses the remains of Mohammad Adil Shah, seventh sultan of the Adil Shahi dynasty, and some of his relatives. Begun in the mid-17th century, the structure never reached completion. The mausoleum is notable for its scale and exceptionally large dome.


title: Gol Gumbaz

text: The building is one of those put by UNESCO on its "tentative list" to become a World Heritage Site in 2014, under the name Monuments and Forts of the Deccan Sultanate.


title: Gol Gumbaz

text: The construction of the Gol Gumbaz began in the mid-17th century, during the close of Mohammad Adil Shah's reign, which was from 1627 to 1656. It is located directly behind the "dargah" of Hashim Pir, a Sufi saint; Richard Eaton views this as suggestive of the close relationship between the ruler and the saint. The mausoleum was never completed; construction may have halted in 1656 due to Mohammad Adil Shah's death that year.


title: Gol Gumbaz

text: The Gol Gumbaz is one of the most ambitious structures built by the Adil Shahi dynasty. It is the most technically advanced domed structure to have been erected in the Deccan, and one of the largest single-chamber structures in the world. The architect of the structure is not known. Bianca Alfieri asserts that the building's size was a conscious decision made by Mohammad Adil Shah in order to rival the architecture of the Ibrahim Rauza, the tomb of the ruler's predecessor Ibrahim Adil Shah II. Alternatively, Elizabeth Merklinger suggests that the size was an attempt to assert the stature of the Adil Shahi dynasty, in light of its later absorption by the Mughal Empire.


title: Gol Gumbaz

text: The mausoleum is contained in a larger walled complex, with other buildings such as a mosque, a "naqqar khana," and a "dharmshala".


title: Gol Gumbaz

text: Despite the grand nature of the monument, the plan of the Gol Gumbaz is simple. It is a cube 47.5 m on each side, topped by a hemispherical dome of diameter approximately 44 m. domed octagonal towers, each divided into seven floors and topped by a bulbous dome, line the four corners of the cube. The levels of the towers are marked by arcades and contain staircases within.


title: Gol Gumbaz

text: The walls of the structure are built of dark grey basalt and decorated plaster. Each side wall of the cube bears three blind arches; the spandrels of the arches contain medallion motifs, and the central arch on each side wall is filled with a stone screen containing doorways and windows. Cornices project from the building, supported by corbels. Atop the cornices are rows of small arches, themselves topped by large merlons. Leaves surround the base of the mausoleum's dome, hiding the joint between the dome and its drum.


title: Gol Gumbaz

text: The interior is a huge single chamber that is approximately 41 m across and 60 m high. In the centre of the chamber floor is a raised platform bearing the cenotaphs of Mohammad Adil Shah, his younger wife Arus Bibi, his older wife, his favourite mistress Rhamba, his daughter, and a grandson. The cenotaphs mark the location of the actual tombs, which are found in a crypt underneath and accessed by a staircase under the western entrance of the mausoleum. Though typical of Indian Muslim tombs, this is the only instance of such a practice in Adil Shahi architecture. Mohammad Adil Shah's cenotaph is covered by a wooden canopy; Michell and Zebrowski speculate that this is a later addition. A half-octagonal room is attached to the north facade of the building, though this is also a later addition.


title: Gol Gumbaz

text: At the time of its construction, the Gol Gumbaz boasted the |largest dome]] in the Islamic world. Its external diameter is nearly 44 m. The dome is built of brick and cemented with layers of lime. It has six small openings in its base as well as a flat section at its crown. The dome rests on a circular base, which is internally supported by interlocking pendentives, formed from eight intersecting arches that arise from the interior hall. Similar vaulting is found, though on a smaller scale, in the Jami Masjid of Bijapur and the Ibrahim Rauza. Outside of Bijapur, this pendentive support system is virtually unknown. The conceptual origin of the Gol Gumbaz's pendentives is debated, though a Central Asian influence has been suggested by multiple scholars.


title: Gol Gumbaz

text: Around the base of the dome is a gallery, accessed by the staircases in the towers. It is known as the 'whispering gallery' since the faintest sound from here is heard across the dome, due to sound reflecting off the dome.


title: Gol Gumbaz

text: In Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833 is a picture of Gol Gumbaz entitled "Tomb of Mahomed Shah" by Samuel Prout, engraved by R. Sands and accompanied by a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon reflecting on the claim that he had a happy end.


title: Michael Ontkean

text: Michael Leonard Ontkean (born 24 January 1946) is a retired Canadian actor. Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Ontkean relocated to the United States to attend the University of New Hampshire on a hockey scholarship before pursuing a career in acting in the early 1970s.


title: Michael Ontkean

text: He initially came to prominence portraying Officer Willie Gillis on the crime drama series "The Rookies" from 1972 to 1974, followed by lead roles in the hockey sports comedy film "Slap Shot" (1977) and the romantic comedy "Willie & Phil" (1980). In 1982, he had a starring role opposite Harry Hamlin and Kate Jackson in the drama "Making Love", in which he portrayed a married man who comes to terms with his homosexuality. Ontkean continued to appear in films, such as "Clara's Heart" (1988) and "Postcards from the Edge" (1990) before being cast as Sheriff Harry S. Truman on David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" (1990–1991), the role for which he is probably best known.


title: Michael Ontkean

text: Ontkean was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of Muriel (née Cooper), an actress, and Leonard Ontkean, a boxer and actor. He was a child actor in Vancouver, appearing on the Canadian television series "Hudson's Bay" (1959). His family later relocated to Toronto, where he attended St. Michael's Choir School and Holy Rosary Catholic School before attending St. Michael's College School. He grew up playing hockey and he earned a hockey scholarship to the University of New Hampshire, a Division I program playing in the ECAC. In his three years on the varsity program, Ontkean scored 63 goals and 111 points in 85 games played. He led the team in goal scoring his junior year with 30 goals, and was second behind fellow Canadian Louis Frigon his senior year.


title: Michael Ontkean

text: Ontkean began in Hollywood by guest starring in "The Partridge Family" in 1971, and he was a television guest player on such shows as "Ironside" and "Longstreet", but his break was in the ABC series "The Rookies" (1972–1976), in which he played Officer Willie Gillis for the first two seasons. He was replaced by actor, Bruce Fairbairn in "The Rookies". Ontkean's hockey skill played a large role in his landing the role of Ned Braden in "Slap Shot" (1977), as he performed all of his on-ice shots himself. In 1979, he appeared in the first episode of "Tales of the Unexpected".


title: Michael Ontkean

text: Other early movie roles included "Necromancy" (1972) with Orson Welles; "Voices" (1979) with Amy Irving; "Willie & Phil" (1980) with Margot Kidder; "The Blood of Others" (1984); "Kids Don't Tell" (1985) with JoBeth Williams; "The Right of the People" (1986); "The Allnighter" and "Maid to Order" (both 1987) (the latter with Ally Sheedy); "Clara's Heart" (1988) with Whoopi Goldberg, and "Bye Bye Blues" (1989).


title: Michael Ontkean

text: "Making Love" (1982) is about a married man who discovers his homosexuality. Ontkean was not the director's first choice for the film: Arthur Hiller had previously approached Tom Berenger, Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford, William Hurt and Peter Strauss to play the lead, before finally approaching Ontkean. According to Hiller, the reaction of most actors was to tell him not to even consider them for the role. The film reunited Ontkean with Kate Jackson; the two had previously co-starred together in "The Rookies". Many years later, Ontkean tried to prevent clips from the film from being included in "The Celluloid Closet", a 1996 documentary about LGBT characters in film, but he was unsuccessful.


title: Michael Ontkean

text: Ontkean appeared as Sheriff Harry S. Truman in David Lynch and Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks" (1990–1991). He filmed scenes for "" but, like many others from the original TV series, his scenes were deleted from the final film.


title: Michael Ontkean

text: Ontkean subsequently appeared in many film and television productions including "In Defense of a Married Man" (1990); "In a Child's Name" (1991) with Valerie Bertinelli; "Legacy of Lies" (1992); "Rapture" and "Vendetta II: The New Mafia" (both 1993); "" and "The Stepford Husbands" (both 1996); "Summer of the Monkeys" and "A Chance of Snow" (both 1998; the latter again with JoBeth Williams); "Bear with Me" (2000), and "Mrs. Ashboro's Cat" (2003).


title: Michael Ontkean

text: Ontkean had a recurring role on Fox's short-lived series "North Shore" in 2004, and also appeared in the 2008 comedy TV show "Sophie".


title: Michael Ontkean

text: He had a supporting role in the 2011 film "The Descendants", which was his last role to date before he decided to retire from acting. The movie was filmed in Hawaii, where he lives.


title: Michael Ontkean

text: Ontkean was approached to reprise his role as Sheriff Truman for the 2017 revival of "Twin Peaks". At first, Ontkean was reportedly excited about returning to the role, and enlisted "Twin Peaks" authority Brad Dukes to help him find the jacket which his character once wore on the show. Dukes located a suitable replica, bought it and sent it to Ontkean. However, in 2015, Ontkean dropped out of the "Twin Peaks" revival, for reasons which were never made public. Dukes recalled: "We last spoke in August and he informed me he wasn't going to Washington after all. I told him I was heartbroken to hear that. Aside from being heartbroken, I am puzzled. "Twin Peaks" is not "Twin Peaks" without Michael Ontkean as Sheriff Harry S. Truman."


title: Michael Ontkean

text: Ontkean's role was replaced by Robert Forster, playing Sheriff Truman's brother Frank. Forster was initially David Lynch's first choice to play Harry Truman in 1990.


title: Michael Ontkean

text: Michael was married to Jamie Smith-Jackson, an actress and design director and owner of Jamie Jackson Design. The couple later divorced; they have two daughters, Jenna Millman and Sadie Sapphire Ontkean.


title: Henry Jackman

text: Henry Pryce Jackman (born 1974) is an English composer. He composed music for films such as "", "", "Winnie the Pooh", "Wreck-It Ralph", "Puss in Boots", "Monsters vs. Aliens", "Captain Phillips", "Kick-Ass", "Kick-Ass 2", "Big Hero 6", "The Interview" and "Detective Pikachu", as well as the video games "" and "Disney Infinity 2.0".


title: Henry Jackman

text: Jackman was born in Hillingdon, London. He studied classical music at St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School, Eton College, Framlingham College and University of Oxford.


title: Henry Jackman

text: Jackman has done programming and production work with artists including Mike Oldfield ("Voyager"), Sally Oldfield ("Flaming Star"), Trevor Horn/Art of Noise ("The Seduction of Claude Debussy"), Elton John and Gary Barlow. He co-produced Seal's unreleased 2001 album "Togetherland". "This Could Be Heaven", released from the album, was also co-written by Jackman and used on the movie "The Family Man" and included on the deluxe edition of Seal's compilation album "Hits".


title: Henry Jackman

text: Jackman has released three albums, "Utopia" (2003), "Transfiguration" (2005), and "Acoustica" (2007; with Augustus Isadore).


title: Henry Jackman

text: Jackman had various minor roles on film scores since 2006, generally working with mentor Hans Zimmer, including for "The Da Vinci Code" (music programmer), "The Dark Knight" (music arranger) and additional music for "", "", "The Simpsons Movie", "Kung Fu Panda" and "Hancock". In 2009, Jackman, Zimmer and John Powell won the 2008 Annie Award for Music in an Animated Television Production or Short Form for their work on DreamWorks Animation's "Secrets of the Furious Five" (a sequel to "Kung Fu Panda"). He has since composed soundtracks for "Monsters vs. Aliens", "Henri IV", "Gulliver's Travels", "", "Winnie the Pooh", "", "Wreck-It Ralph", "", and "". His first major video game score was "".


title: Henry Jackman

text: Henry Jackman is the son of keyboardist and arranger Andrew Pryce Jackman, who was a member of The Syn and worked for many years with Chris Squire of Yes. His uncle Gregg Jackman is a sound engineer and producer who has worked with the King's Singers and Barclay James Harvest; Henry and his uncle both worked on Moa's 1999 album "Universal". His grandfather, Bill Jackman, played clarinet on "When I'm Sixty-Four" on The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: Wet Wet Wet are a Scottish soft rock band formed in 1982. They scored a number of hits in the UK charts and around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. They are best known for their 1994 cover of The Troggs' 1960s hit "Love Is All Around", which was used on the soundtrack to the film "Four Weddings and a Funeral". The song was an international success, and spent 15 weeks atop the British charts. The band is currently composed of founding member Graeme Clark (bass, vocals) and lead vocalist Kevin Simm, who replaced founding member Marti Pellow in 2018 after he left during the previous year. Graeme Duffin (lead guitar, vocals) has also been with the band as a touring musician since 1983. The band were named Best British Newcomer at the 1988 Brit Awards.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: The quartet formed at Clydebank High School in Clydebank, Scotland, in 1982, under the name "Vortex Motion", mostly playing covers of The Clash and Magazine. "It was either crime, the dole, football, or music — and we chose music," said Tommy Cunningham. The original line-up consisted of: Neil Mitchell (keyboards), Tommy Cunningham (drums), Graeme Clark (bass), Mark McLachlan (a.k.a. Marti Pellow) (vocals) and Lindsey McCauley (guitar).


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: Clark and Cunningham met on the school bus and became close friends. Mutual friend Neil Mitchell, prompted by his pals' positive attitude, promised to supply keyboards when he could scrape together enough money from his paper round. To complete the quartet, Clark approached Mark McLachlan, who at the time was training to be a painter and decorator. He said, "At break we all went behind the kitchen for a fly smoke, and there in the corner was this quiet kid who said very little, but when he sang, everyone listened." It was sometime in 1983 that Graeme Duffin joined Wet Wet Wet, after the departure of co-founder Lindsey McCauley. Duffin had previously been in a Glasgow-based band called New Celeste and recorded two albums with them "High Sands and the Liquid Lake" (1977) in Holland (with sleeve notes by Billy Connolly) on the Universe label and "On the Line" (1979) in Berlin on the Hansa Records label. The band combined folk, rock and jazz players.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: With the line-up complete, rehearsals took place in Mrs. Clark's kitchen. They rehearsed for about two years, working on song producing and writing skills. They eventually made their live debut at Glasgow's Nightmoves venue. At this gig they met Elliot Davis, who would become the band's manager. The band name Wet Wet Wet was chosen from a line in the 1982 Scritti Politti song "Gettin' Havin' & Holdin'" ("it's tired of joking... wet, wet with tears"), and McLachlan changed his name to stage name "Marti Pellow". Their first professional gig was a New Year's Eve show at Glasgow's Barrowlands.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: David Bates signed the band to PolyGram in 1985. One of the first demo songs they did was "Wishing I Was Lucky". When the band took the demo to Bates in late 1986, he discarded it as a poor effort. The band decided at this point that they could no longer work with him. Six months later, the band and their new A&R Manager, Nick Angel, released the single, and it reached number six in the UK singles chart. "I was in a queue in a fish and chip shop in Glasgow when it came on Radio Clyde," Cunningham remembers. "I felt like shouting to everybody, 'That's me and my mates!' It was an incredible feeling I've not forgotten." The parent album, "Popped In Souled Out", also became a hit and produced three more hit singles, namely "Sweet Little Mystery", "Temptation", and "Angel Eyes". They supported Lionel Richie on his UK tour.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: In 1988, Wet Wet Wet scored their first Number 1 hit with a cover version of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends", recorded for the charity ChildLine. Another Beatles song, "She's Leaving Home", was equally-billed on the flip side, performed by Billy Bragg. In the same year, an album - entitled "The Memphis Sessions" - was released from their spell in the United States prior to hitting the big time. It was produced and mixed by Willie Mitchell. It was recorded at his Royal Studios in Memphis, Tennessee.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: The following year the band released their third album, "Holding Back the River", which was also a success and produced the hit single "Sweet Surrender". The album was well-received, relying more on strings and other classical arrangements. At the end of 1989, the band appeared on the Band Aid II charity single.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: In 1992, the band released a fourth studio album, entitled "High on the Happy Side", which spawned the Number 1 hit single "Goodnight Girl" – the only self-penned chart-topping single they have had to date. The song proved something of a saviour, as the previous two single releases from the album had failed in the singles charts, although the album reached the top of the UK Albums Chart. In total, five singles were released from it. The following day saw the release of a special-edition album, "Cloak & Dagger", released under the alias "Maggie Pie & The Impostors". "Maggie Pie" was Marti Pellow, and the "impostors" were (on album cover, clockwise from top left) Neil Mitchell, Graeme Duffin, Tommy Cunningham, and Graeme Clark.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: The band's first greatest-hits package, "", was released towards the end of 1993. The eighteen-song selection included "Shed a Tear" and "Cold Cold Heart", which were recorded with Nile Rodgers in New York City especially for the album and released as singles.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: In 1994, Wet Wet Wet had their biggest hit, a cover version of The Troggs' single "Love Is All Around", which was used on the soundtrack to the film "Four Weddings and a Funeral". It was a huge international success and spent 15 weeks atop the British charts. The week before it could have equalled the record for the longest-standing number-one single, held by Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", Pellow insisted on its deletion because he wanted to focus on getting their next album, "Picture This", finished. However, even after its deletion, there were still enough copies in the shops to get the song to number 2 in its 16th week, finally knocked off the top spot by Whigfield's debut single "Saturday Night". In any event, it remained in the Top 40 for the remainder of the year. In the official UK best-selling singles list issued in 2002 (the 50th anniversary of the chart), it was placed 12th. "Love Is All Around" also featured on the 1995 album "Picture This", their sixth, which also spawned the hit single "Julia Says" and "Don't Want to Forgive Me Now". The album, although well received by critics, would ultimately live in the shadow of "Love Is All Around".


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: During the rest of the 1990s the band maintained a strong UK following, although success in the singles charts became more sporadic. Their seventh studio album, 1997's "Ten", celebrated the group's decade at the top.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: After the tour in support of "10", things turned sour over a dispute about royalty-sharing. Revenue from the group's songwriting had been a four-way equal split. Cunningham turned up for a routine band meeting, only to discover that the other three members wanted to revise the policy, paying him a lesser amount. Cunningham instantly quit the group saying that the band had run its course and that the band was no longer a healthy place to be.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: In 1999 Pellow also quit the band, to focus on getting himself healthy again after succumbing to a debilitating alcohol and drug addiction. Pellow succeeded in kicking his habits, and returned to the public eye in 2001 with his debut solo album, "Smile".


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: In March 2004, the band cautiously reformed in order to work on an eighth album. A single entitled "All I Want" was released in November 2004 from the band's second "", released a week later. They undertook a successful tour of the UK the following month.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: In July 2005, Wet Wet Wet played at the Summer Weekender festival in England, and were one of the headline acts at Live 8 Edinburgh in Scotland. On 31 December 2006, Wet Wet Wet were the headline act for Aberdeen's Hogmanay celebrations when the celebrations in all other Scottish cities was held off because of strong winds and heavy rain. They performed thirteen songs in an hour-long set.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: A single, "Too Many People", was released on 5 November 2007, and its parent album, "Timeless", on 12 November. These preceded a sold-out December tour, a taste of which was given at their Newmarket concert in August. In preparation for the tour, the band also announced that they will be playing two intimate dates at zavvi stores in Glasgow and London in November. "Weightless", the second single from the album, was released on 4 February and charted at Number 10, giving them their first top-ten hit in eleven years.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: In March 2012, it was announced that the band would perform its first concert in over five years, at Glasgow Green on 20 July, to celebrate their 25th anniversary of the release of their debut album, "Popped In, Souled Out".


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: In May 2013, UK music promoter Stuart Galbraith of Kilimanjaro Live confirmed a ten date UK tour for Wet Wet Wet commencing in December 2013.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: On 8 October 2013, Wet Wet Wet announced via their Twitter page that they would be releasing a new Greatest Hits album, "", on 25 November 2013. The album features three new tracks as well as songs from their back catalogue.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: On 25 September 2018, the band announced that Kevin Simm (formerly of Liberty X) was their new singer. Simm started singing with the band at two shows: St Lukes in Calton, Glasgow, and 229 The Venue in London in November 2018. Following on from their sold-out shows, they announced a nationwide 18-date tour, starting in April 2019.


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: In November 2020, the band announced the 2021 release of new album "The Journey", their first studio album since 2007 and the first including vocals from former "The Voice UK" winner Kevin Simm, who also re-recorded the vocals on a number of their hits for the bonus CD (which comes with the 2CD/DVD version of album).


title: Wet Wet Wet

text: In May 2022, drummer Tommy Cunningham announced that he quit the band due to his hearing problem, and keyboard player Niel Mitchell also left the band.


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: Maryam d'Abo is a British actress, best known as Bond girl Kara Milovy in the 1987 James Bond film "The Living Daylights".


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: Born in London to Georgian mother Nino Kvinitadze, daughter of General Giorgi Kvinitadze, and Anglo-Dutch father Peter Claude Holland d'Abo, of a landed gentry family of West Wratting, Cambridgeshire. d'Abo was raised in Paris and Geneva.


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: D’Abo was drawing from the age of eight, but by 13 wanted to become an actress; she joined an amateur theatre company while at school in Geneva. She decided to do a foundation course at the London College of Printing at 18, but abandoned those studies in order to go to drama school at Drama Centre London. She left after one term in order to make her film debut.


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: D'Abo made her screen debut in the low-budget science fiction horror film "Xtro" (1982), playing Analise Mercier, a French au pair, who becomes a human incubator for an alien. She appeared in the film "Until September" (1984) and had small roles in television mini-series based on Sidney Sheldon's novels "Master of the Game" (1984) and "If Tomorrow Comes". She also appeared in Oscar winner Taylor Hackford's film "White Nights" (1985) and in an uncredited role as a woman pouring champagne to Klaus Maria Brandauer at a hunting party in the Oscar winning "Out of Africa" (1985), directed by Oscar winner Sydney Pollack. Other credits include "Arthur the King" (1985).


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: She worked on the French stage in Lyon playing Varinia in "Spartacus" directed by Jacques Weber in 1981, played Roxane in "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the Grenier de Toulouse in 1982, then worked in a 1987 French TV movie, "Les Idiots" (The Idiots), written by Gérard Brach, with Jean Carmet and Jean-Pierre Marielle.


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: D'Abo had a starring role in "The Living Daylights" (1987) as Kara Milovy, the sweet and vulnerable Czechoslovakian cellist and would-be sniper who falls for James Bond. As a tie-in with the film, she also appeared in a Bond-themed "Playboy" cover and multi-page pictorial in the September 1987 issue, but later said in an interview with "People" magazine that "I wouldn't do those pictures now... I've learned a lot since then".


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: On television, d'Abo played Ta'Ra, an alien medical officer in the science fiction miniseries "Something Is Out There" (1988), which was followed by a six-episode NBC mini-series of the same name, and she played Anne Summerton in the TV adaptation of Jeffrey Archer's novel "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less" (1990) directed by Clive Donner.


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: D'Abo had a supporting role as a pretentious stained-glass artist in the low-budget British comedy "Leon the Pig Farmer" (1992). She appeared in the 1994 film "The Browning Version" and starred in "Timelock" (1996).


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: D'Abo has had roles in various low-budget, straight-to-video action, horror and fantasy films such as "" (1992), as well as guest roles on television shows "Tales from the Crypt" (1993), "Red Shoe Diaries" (1992) and "Murder, She Wrote" (1992).


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: She reunited with her James Bond director John Glen for a guest-starring role on the television series "Space Precinct" and for the feature film "The Point Men" (2001). Glen later claimed that the reason he cast her in three different projects was because she was one of his favourite actresses. She played the mother of Lara (played by Keira Knightley) in the television miniseries version of "Doctor Zhivago" (2002), and she was Queen Hecuba in the Emmy-nominated miniseries "Helen of Troy" (2003). She had a small role in the French film "L'Enfer" ("Hell", 2005), directed by Danis Tanovic whose stars included fellow Bond Girl Carole Bouquet.


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: D'Abo and John Cork wrote the book "Bond Girls Are Forever", published in 2002, which is a tribute to the women who have played the role of a Bond girl. It was inspired by the documentary "Bond Girls Are Forever", which she produced with Planetgrande, featuring d'Abo and other Bond girls, including Ursula Andress. The documentary appeared on the American AMC network in 2002, timed to coincide with the theatrical release of "Die Another Day". It was later included as a gift with the purchase of "Die Another Day" on DVD by some retailers. In 2006, a new version of the documentary, updated to include interviews with cast from "Casino Royale" (2006) was again aired on the AMC network and later released as a bonus feature on the March 2007 Blu-ray disc and DVD release of "Casino Royale".


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: In 2004 d’Abo wrote and, with Cabin Creek Films, co-produced the documentary film "Bearing Witness", about five female war reporters featuring Marie Colvin and Janine di Giovanni, which Barbara Kopple and Marijana Wotton directed for A&E. The feature documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: In 2007, d'Abo had surgery for a brain hemorrhage; after recovering, she was inspired to meet other people who had similar experiences. She worked on and produced a 2009 documentary on the topic.


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: In 2009, d'Abo had a supporting role in the British period fantasy-thriller "Dorian Gray". She appeared in the 2014 Indian film "Tigers" directed by Danis Tanovic.


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: Maryam d'Abo is signed to Models 1. In 2015, she modeled for fashion retailer JD Williams' AW 15 collection that includes clothing for women in their 50s.


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: D'Abo is the cousin of Mike d'Abo, a singer and member of 1960s group Manfred Mann. This makes her first cousin once removed of actress Olivia d'Abo. Maryam and Olivia once lived in Los Angeles, buying a house together in 1988, after Olivia turned 19.


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: D'Abo is the granddaughter (on her mother's side) of the anti-communist Georgian General Giorgi Kvinitadze.


title: Maryam d'Abo

text: In November 2003, d'Abo married Hugh Hudson, the Oscar-nominated British director of "Chariots of Fire" (1981).


title: The Dreaming

text: The Dreaming, also referred to as Dreamtime, is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs. It was originally used by Francis Gillen, quickly adopted by his colleague Baldwin Spencer and thereafter popularised by A. P. Elkin, who, however, later revised his views.


title: The Dreaming

text: The Dreaming is used to represent Aboriginal concepts of "Everywhen", during which the land was inhabited by ancestral figures, often of heroic proportions or with supernatural abilities. These figures were often distinct from gods, as they did not control the material world and were not worshipped but only revered. The concept of the Dreamtime has subsequently become widely adopted beyond its original Australian context and is now part of global popular culture.


title: The Dreaming

text: The term is based on a rendition of the Arandic word "alcheringa", used by the Aranda (Arunta, Arrernte) people of Central Australia, although it has been argued that it is based on a misunderstanding or mistranslation. Some scholars suggest that the word's meaning is closer to "eternal, uncreated". Anthropologist William Stanner said that the concept was best understood by non-Aboriginal people as "a complex of meanings". Jukurrpa is a widespread term used by Warlpiri people and other peoples of the Western Desert cultural bloc.


title: The Dreaming

text: By the 1990s, Dreaming had acquired its own currency in popular culture, based on idealised or fictionalised conceptions of Australian mythology. Since the 1970s, Dreaming has also returned from academic usage via popular culture and tourism and is now ubiquitous in the English vocabulary of Aboriginal Australians in a kind of "self-fulfilling academic prophecy".


title: The Dreaming

text: The station-master, magistrate, and amateur ethnographer Francis Gillen first used the terms in an ethnographical report in 1896. With Walter Baldwin Spencer, Gillen published a major work, "Native Tribes of Central Australia", in 1899. In that work, they spoke of the "Alcheringa" as "the name applied to the far distant past with which the earliest traditions of the tribe deal". Five years later, in their "Northern Tribes of Central Australia", they gloss the far distant age as "the dream times", link it to the word "alcheri" meaning 'dream', and affirm that the term is current also among the Kaitish and Unmatjera.


title: The Dreaming

text: Early doubts about the precision of Spencer and Gillen's English gloss were expressed by the German Lutheran pastor and missionary Carl Strehlow in his 1908 book "Die Aranda" ("The Arrernte"). He noted that his Arrente contacts explained "altjira", whose etymology was unknown, as an eternal being who had no beginning. In the Upper Arrernte language, the proper verb for 'to dream' was "altjirerama", literally 'to see God'. Strehlow theorised that the noun is the somewhat rare word "altjirrinja", which Spencer and Gillen gave a corrupted transcription and a false etymology. "The native," Strehlow concluded, "knows nothing of 'dreamtime' as a designation of a certain period of their history."


title: The Dreaming

text: Strehlow gives "Altjira" or "Altjira mara" ("mara" meaning 'good') as the Arrente word for the eternal creator of the world and humankind. Strehlow describes him as a tall strong man with red skin, long fair hair, and emu legs, with many red-skinned wives (with dog legs) and children. In Strehlow's account, "Altjira" lives in the sky (which is a body of land through which runs the Milky Way, a river).


title: The Dreaming

text: However, by the time Strehlow was writing, his contacts had been converts to Christianity for decades, and critics suggested that "Altjira" had been used by missionaries as a word for the Christian God.


title: The Dreaming

text: In 1926, Spencer conducted a field study to challenge Strehlow's conclusion about "Altjira" and the implied criticism of Gillen and Spencer's original work. Spencer found attestations of "altjira" from the 1890s that used the word to mean 'associated with past times' or 'eternal', not 'god'.


title: The Dreaming

text: Academic Sam Gill finds Strehlow's use of "Altjira" ambiguous, sometimes describing a supreme being, and sometimes describing a totem being but not necessarily a supreme one. He attributes the clash partly to Spencer's cultural evolutionist beliefs that Aboriginal people were at a pre-religion "stage" of development (and thus could not believe in a supreme being), while Strehlow as a Christian missionary found presence of belief in the divine a useful entry point for proselytising.


title: The Dreaming

text: Linguist David Campbell Moore is critical of Spencer and Gillen's "Dreamtime" translation, concluding:


title: The Dreaming

text: In English, anthropologists have variously translated words normally understood to mean Dreaming or Dreamtime in a variety of other ways, including "Everywhen", "world-dawn", "ancestral past", "ancestral present", "ancestral now" (satirically), "unfixed in time", "abiding events" or "abiding law".


title: The Dreaming

text: Most translations of the Dreaming into other languages are based on the translation of the word "dream". Examples include in French ("dream spaces") and in Croatian (a gerund derived from the verb for 'to dream').


title: The Dreaming

text: The concept of the Dreaming is inadequately explained by English terms, and difficult to explain in terms of non-Aboriginal cultures. It has been described as "an all-embracing concept that provides rules for living, a moral code, as well as rules for interacting with the natural environment ... [it] provides for a total, integrated way of life ... a lived daily reality". It embraces past, present and future. Another definition suggests that it represents "the relationship between people, plants, animals and the physical features of the land; the knowledge of how these relationships came to be, what they mean and how they need to be maintained in daily life and in ceremony". According to Simon Wright, ""jukurrpa" has an expansive meaning for Warlpiri people, encompassing their own law and related cultural knowledge systems, along with what non-Indigenous people refer to as 'dreaming


title: The Dreaming

text: A dreaming is often associated with a particular place, and may also belong to specific ages, gender or skin groups. Dreamings may be represented in artworks, for example "Pikilyi Jukurrpa" by Theo (Faye) Nangala represents the Dreaming of Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs) in the Northern Territory, and belongs to the Japanangka/ Nanpanangka and Japangardi/ Napanangka skin groups.


title: The Dreaming

text: "Dreaming" is now also used as a term for a system of totemic symbols, so that an Aboriginal person may "own" a specific Dreaming, such as Kangaroo Dreaming, Shark Dreaming, Honey Ant Dreaming, Badger Dreaming, or any combination of Dreamings pertinent to their country. This is because in the Dreaming an individual's entire ancestry exists as one, culminating in the idea that all worldly knowledge is accumulated through one's ancestors. Many Aboriginal Australians also refer to the world-creation time as "Dreamtime". The Dreaming laid down the patterns of life for the Aboriginal people.


title: The Dreaming

text: Creation is believed to be the work of culture heroes who travelled across a formless land, creating sacred sites and significant places of interest in their travels. In this way, "songlines" (or "Yiri" in the Warlpiri language) were established, some of which could travel right across Australia, through as many as six to ten different language groupings. The dreaming and travelling trails of these heroic spirit beings are the songlines. The signs of the spirit beings may be of spiritual essence, physical remains such as petrosomatoglyphs of body impressions or footprints, among natural and elemental simulacra.


title: The Dreaming

text: Some of the ancestor or spirit beings inhabiting the Dreamtime become one with parts of the landscape, such as rocks or trees. The concept of a life force is also often associated with sacred sites, and ceremonies performed at such sites "are a re-creation of the events which created the site during The Dreaming". The ceremony helps the life force at the site to remain active and to keep creating new life: if not performed, new life cannot be created.


title: The Dreaming

text: Dreaming existed before the life of the individual begins, and continues to exist when the life of the individual ends. Both before and after life, it is believed that this spirit-child exists in the Dreaming and is only initiated into life by being born through a mother. The spirit of the child is culturally understood to enter the developing fetus during the fifth month of pregnancy. When the mother felt the child move in the womb for the first time, it was thought that this was the work of the spirit of the land in which the mother then stood. Upon birth, the child is considered to be a special custodian of that part of their country and is taught the stories and songlines of that place. As Wolf (1994: p. 14) states: "A 'black fella' may regard his totem or the place from which his spirit came as his Dreaming. He may also regard tribal law as his Dreaming."


title: The Dreaming

text: In the "Wangga" genre, the songs and dances express themes related to death and regeneration. They are performed publicly with the singer composing from their daily lives or while Dreaming of a "nyuidj" (dead spirit).


title: The Dreaming

text: Dreaming stories vary throughout Australia, with variations on the same theme. The meaning and significance of particular places and creatures is wedded to their origin in The Dreaming, and certain places have a particular potency or Dreaming. For example, the story of how the sun was made is different in New South Wales and in Western Australia. Stories cover many themes and topics, as there are stories about creation of sacred places, land, people, animals and plants, law and custom. In Perth, the Noongar believe that the Darling Scarp is the body of the "Wagyl" – a serpent being that meandered over the land creating rivers, waterways and lakes and who created the Swan River. In another example, the Gagudju people of Arnhemland, for which Kakadu National Park is named, believe that the sandstone escarpment that dominates the park's landscape was created in the Dreamtime when "Ginga" (the crocodile-man) was badly burned during a ceremony and jumped into the water to save himself.


title: Kes (film)

text: Kes is a 1969 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Ken Loach (credited as Kenneth Loach) and produced by Tony Garnett, based on the 1968 novel "A Kestrel for a Knave", written by the Hoyland Nether–born author Barry Hines. "Kes" follows the story of Billy, who comes from a dysfunctional working-class family and is a no-hoper at school, but discovers his own private means of fulfillment when he adopts a fledgling kestrel and proceeds to train it in the art of falconry.


title: Kes (film)

text: The film has been much praised, especially for the performance of the teenage David Bradley, who had never acted before, in the lead role, and for Loach's compassionate treatment of his working-class subject; it remains a biting indictment of the British education system of the time as well as of the limited career options then available to lower-class, unskilled workers in regional Britain. It was ranked seventh in the British Film Institute's Top Ten (British) Films. This was Loach's second feature film for cinema release.


title: Kes (film)

text: Fifteen-year-old Billy Casper, growing up in the late 1960s in a poor South Yorkshire community dominated by the local coal mining industry, has little hope in life. He is picked on, both at home by his physically and verbally abusive older half-brother, Jud (who works at the mine), and at school by his schoolmates and abusive teachers. Although he insists that his earlier petty criminal behaviour is behind him, he occasionally steals eggs and milk from milk floats. He has difficulty paying attention in school and is often provoked into tussles with classmates. Billy's father left the family some time ago, and his mother refers to him at one point, while somberly speaking to her friends about her children and their chances in life, as a "hopeless case". Billy is due to leave school soon, as an "Easter Leaver", without taking any public examinations (and therefore no qualifications); Jud states early in the film that he expects Billy will shortly be joining him at work in the mine, whereas Billy says that he does not know what job he will do, but also says nothing would make him work in the mine.


title: Kes (film)

text: One day, Billy takes a kestrel from a nest on a farm. His interest in learning falconry prompts him to steal a book on the subject from a secondhand book shop, as he is underage and needs – but lies about the reasons he cannot obtain – adult authorisation for a borrower's card from the public library. As the relationship between Billy and "Kes", the kestrel, improves during the training, so does Billy's outlook and horizons. For the first time in the film, Billy receives praise, from his English teacher after delivering an impromptu talk about training Kes.


title: Kes (film)

text: Jud leaves money and instructions for Billy to place a bet on two horses, but, after consulting a bettor who tells him the horses are unlikely to win, Billy spends the money on fish and chips and intends to purchase meat for his bird (instead the butcher gives him scrap meat free of charge). However, the horses do win. Outraged at losing a payout of more than £10, Jud takes revenge by killing Billy's kestrel. Grief-stricken, Billy retrieves the bird's broken body from the waste bin and, after showing it to Jud and his mother, buries the bird on the hillside overlooking the field where he had flown.


title: Kes (film)

text: The film (and the book upon which it was based, by Barry Hines) were semi-autobiographical, Hines having been a teacher in the school in which it was set, and wishing to critique the education system of the time. His younger brother Richard had found a new life after his student experiences at the local secondary modern school by training the original bird "Kes", the inspiration for the movie. Richard assisted the movie production by acting as the handler for the birds in the film. Both brothers grew up in the area shown in the film, and their father was a worker in the local coal mine, though he was a kind man in contrast to the absentee father in the film. Both the film and the book provide a portrait of life in the mining areas of Yorkshire of the time; reportedly, the miners in the area were then the lowest-paid workers in a developed country. Shortly before the film's release, the Yorkshire coalfield where the film was set was brought to a standstill for two weeks by an unofficial strike.


title: Kes (film)

text: Set in and around Barnsley, the film was one of the first of several collaborations between Ken Loach and Barry Hines that used authentic Yorkshire dialect. The extras were all hired from in and around Barnsley. The DVD version of the film has certain scenes dubbed over with fewer dialect terms than in the original. In a 2013 interview, director Ken Loach said that, upon its release, United Artists organised a screening of the film for some American executives and they said that they could understand Hungarian better than the dialect in the film.


title: Kes (film)

text: The production company was set up with the name "Kestrel Films". Ken Loach and Tony Garnett used this for some of their later collaborations such as "Family Life" and "The Save the Children Fund Film".


title: Kes (film)

text: The film was shot on location, including in St Helens School, Athersley South, and Edward Sheerien School (demolished in 2011); and in and around the streets of Hoyland and Hoyland Common. A number of the shooting locations are detailed in a "then and now" comparison page compiled by Adam Scovell in 2018.


title: Kes (film)

text: Much of the film's content has been discussed as a critique of the British education system of the time, known as the Tripartite System, which sorted children into different types of schools depending on their academic ability. The view of the creators is that such a system was harmful both to the children involved and to wider society. In his 2006 book, "Life After Kes", Simon Golding commented that "Billy Casper, unlike the author [Golding], was a victim of the 11-plus, a government directive that turned out, for those who passed the exam, prospective white-collar workers, fresh from grammar schools, into jobs that were safe and well paid. The failures, housed in secondary modern schools, could only look forward to unskilled manual labour or the dangers of the coal face. "Kes" protests at this educational void that does not take into account individual skills, and suggests this is a consequence of capitalist society, which demands a steady supply of unskilled labour." Golding also quoted director Ken Loach who stated that, "It [the film] should be dedicated to all the lads who had failed their 11-plus. There's a colossal waste of people and talent, often through schools where full potential is not brought out."


title: Kes (film)

text: In "Ken Loach: The Politics of Film and Television", John Hill noted how the film's producers were against the bleak depiction of educational prospects for children in the film, writing, "Garnett [the film's producer] recalls how, in raising finance for the film, they encountered pressures to make the film's ending more positive, such as having Billy - with the help of his teacher - obtain a job at a zoo. As Garnett observes, however, this would have been to betray the film's point of view, which was concerned to raise questions about 'the system' rather than individuals."


title: Kes (film)

text: The film has also been noted for its themes around familial bonds during childhood and the effect their absence can have on children. Actor Andrew Garfield, who played Billy in a stage adaptation of "Kes" early in his career, commented that, "Billy needs to be loved by both his mother and brother. Like any child, he instinctively loves them both. He may resent his mother for not seeming to care about him, but he cannot help but love her. This causes Billy a lot of emotional pain when his mother rejects him. With Jud the rejection is even more blatant; he goes out of his way to hurt Billy, both physically and emotionally. Billy desires approval, comfort, support, guidance and attention from his family, but he receives nothing from them. A hug from his mum would make his day. I believe that love does exist within his family but expressing it is considered to be embarrassing and inappropriate. ... I think that Kes represents to Billy the ideal relationship that he finds so difficult to have with the people around him. Billy trusts, protects and is supported by Kes. He spends all of his time thinking of Kes and day dreaming about her. Billy looks up to Kes and feels privileged to be her friend. Kes has everything that Billy desires: freedom, pride, respect and independence."


title: Kes (film)

text: The certificate given to the film has occasionally been reviewed by the British Board of Film Classification, as there is a small amount of swearing, including more than one instance of the word "twat". It was originally classified by the then British Board of Film Censors as U for Universal (suitable for children), at a time when the only other certificates were A (more suitable for adult audiences) and X (for showing when no person under 16 years was present ... raised to 18 years in July, 1970). Three years later, Stephen Murphy, the BBFC Secretary, wrote in a letter that it would have been given the new Advisory certificate under the system then in place. Murphy also argued that the word "bugger" is a term of affection and not considered offensive in the area that the film was set. In 1987, the VHS release was given a PG certificate on the grounds of "the frequent use of mild language", and the film has remained PG since that time.


title: Kes (film)

text: A digitally restored version of the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection in April 2011. The extras feature a new documentary featuring Loach, Menges, producer Tony Garnett, and actor David Bradley, a 1993 episode of "The South Bank Show" with Ken Loach, "Cathy Come Home" (1966), an early television feature by Loach, with an afterword by film writer Graham Fuller, and an alternative, internationally released soundtrack, with postsync dialogue.


title: Kes (film)

text: The film was a word-of-mouth hit in Britain, eventually making a profit. However, it was a commercial flop in the US. In his four-star review, Roger Ebert said that the film failed to open in Chicago, and attributed the problems to the Yorkshire accents. Ebert saw the film at a 1972 showing organised by the Biological Honor Society at the Loyola University Chicago, which led him to ask, "were they interested in the movie, or the kestrel?" Nevertheless, he described the film as "one of the best, the warmest, the most moving films of recent years".


title: Kes (film)

text: On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 31 reviews, with an average rating of 9.56/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A harrowing coming of age tale told simply and truly, "Kes" is a spare and richly humane tribute to the small pockets of beauty to be found in an oppressive world."


title: Kes (film)

text: Reflecting on changes in the film's locale and setting in the intervening 40-odd years, Graham Fuller wrote in 2011:


title: Kes (film)

text: Graeme Ross, writing in 2019 in "The Independent", placed the film 8th in his "best British movies of all time", saying:


title: DocuSign

text: DocuSign, Inc. is an American company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that allows organizations to manage electronic agreements. As part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, DocuSign offers eSignature, a way to sign electronically on different devices. DocuSign has over 1 million customers and hundreds of millions of users in more than 180 countries. Signatures processed by DocuSign are compliant with the US ESIGN Act and the European Union's eIDAS regulation, including EU Advanced and EU, Qualified Signatures.


title: DocuSign

text: In April 2018, DocuSign filed for an initial public offering. At the time of the IPO, the largest shareholders were venture investment firms Sigma Partners, Ignition Partners, Frazier Technology Ventures, and former CEO Keith Krach was the largest individual shareholder. None of the original founders are major shareholders. The company went public on the NASDAQ on April 27, 2018.


title: DocuSign

text: DocuSign was founded in 2003 by Court Lorenzini, Tom Gonser, and Eric Ranft. Tom Gonser came up with the idea when he was at NetUpdate, a company he founded in 1998, and where he served as CEO. Through its history, NetUpdate had acquired several companies, including an e-signature start-up in Seattle called DocuTouch that had been funded by Timberline Venture Partners, Bill Kallman and Jeff Tung with $4M. Timberline invested another $1 M in the merger into Netupdate. DocuTouch held patents on Web-based digital signatures and collaboration. With internal support from Gonser, Lorenzini negotiated the purchase of certain DocuTouch assets from NetUpdate and started DocuSign. Gonser then left the NetUpdate Board to focus on DocuSign full-time.


title: DocuSign

text: The firm began sales in 2005 when zipForm, now zipLogix, integrated DocuSign into its virtual real estate forms. Mock trials featuring licensed attorneys and real judges highlighted the admissibility of DocuSign contracts in court based on encrypted audit logs of signature events, as well as the impossibility of changing contracts.


title: DocuSign

text: In January 2007, Court Lorenzini stepped down as CEO and Chairman of the Board and took on the role of Executive Vice President of Business Development. He was replaced as CEO by Matthew Schiltz, who served in that role until January 2010. Steven King replaced Schultz as CEO and moved the corporate headquarters from Seattle to San Francisco. Keith Krach became DocuSign's chairman of the board in January 2010 and its CEO in August 2011.


title: DocuSign

text: In June 2010, DocuSign added support for iPhone, iPad and phone-based user authentication. DocuSign also began referring to its service as “eSignature Transaction Management”. By the end of 2010, the company handled 73 percent of the Saas-based electronic signature market with 80 million signatures processed. Scale Venture Partners led an investment round of $27 million in December 2010.


title: DocuSign

text: DocuSign opened an office in London, England, in September 2011. In the same year, DocuSign opened an office in San Francisco that now functions as its global headquarters.


title: DocuSign

text: DocuSign signed an agreement with PayPal in April 2012 that allowed users to capture signatures and payments in a single transaction with DocuSign Payment. Similar partnerships with Salesforce.com, and Google Drive preceded the PayPal agreement.


title: DocuSign

text: In July 2012, "Business Insider" reported that about 90% of Fortune 500 companies had signed up to use DocuSign.


title: DocuSign

text: On January 10, 2013, DocuSign and Equifax announced a partnership to simplify electronic delivery of the Requests for Transcript of Tax Return Form 4506-T to the United States Internal Revenue Service. Under the partnership, Equifax allows lenders to use DocuSign to securely send requests to loan applicants. DocuSign and Equifax were among 14 firms that participated in a nine-month feasibility study of electronic signatures for 4506-T forms in 2011.


title: DocuSign

text: In October 2015, Keith Krach announced he would step down as CEO once a search for a new CEO was completed . In 2016, DocuSign was ranked #3 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list.


title: DocuSign

text: In January 2017, veteran software executive Daniel Springer was named as the new CEO. Also in 2017, DocuSign was ranked #4 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list.


title: DocuSign

text: In March 2019, DocuSign announced the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, a suite of products and integrations for automating and connecting the entire agreement process digitally. This marked the company's transition from their former position in digital transaction management.


title: DocuSign

text: On June 21, 2022, DocuSign announced that Daniel Springer had agreed to step aside as Chief Executive Officer. Effective immediately, Chairman of the Board Mary Agnes "Maggie" Wilderotter was appointed interim CEO to help the senior executive team drive improved execution in all phases of the company's business.


title: DocuSign

text: DocuSign announced on September 22, 2022, that Allan Thygesen as its new CEO. Prior to his tenure, Thygesen was an executive at Google. Thygesen assumed office on October 10.


title: DocuSign

text: In 2004, DocuSign raised $4.6 million in a Series A financing from Ignition Partners and Frazier Technology Ventures. In 2006, Sigma Partners led Series A1 and Series B financings, becoming the largest shareholder, a position it held at the time of the IPO, with returns over $700 million. Between 2006 and 2009 DocuSign raised $30 million that allowed the firm to add corporate clients and process 48 million signatures.


title: DocuSign

text: In July 2012, DocuSign raised $47.5 million in venture funding from investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; the round later grew closer to $56 million. In March 2014, the company announced it had raised $85 million in a new funding round. Though unconfirmed, "The Wall Street Journal" reported the round was based on a company valuation of $1.6 billion.


title: DocuSign

text: In May 2015, the company announced it had raised $233 million in a new funding round, with some estimating a $3 billion company valuation.


title: DocuSign

text: In 2018, the company announced plans for an initial public offering on the NASDAQ, with the goal of raising up to $543 million when the company goes public. Neither the original founders nor current CEO Daniel Springer were major shareholders at that time. Former CEO Keith Krach was the largest individual shareholder at 5.5%, about 8.5 million shares at the time of the IPO. Venture capital firms Sigma Partners, Ignition Partners, and now-defunct company Frazier Technology Ventures were the largest shareholders.


title: DocuSign

text: DocuSign's services are offered either by subscription or free of charge as a mobile device app. Signatures and documents are uploaded, then encrypted and a unique hash created. If a signed document is later changed, the hash will not match the information stored by DocuSign if a document has been tampered with or compromised. By 2018, more than 20 billion pieces of paper and 608,000 barrels of oil had been saved by the company through avoidance of wasted printouts for signatures.


title: DocuSign

text: DocuSign Professional emails recipients an electronically signed document requesting review of a document after it is uploaded. Each party must agree to complete business electronically, review the document, and apply a signature. Signatures may be added from a stored copy of a signature or generated automatically by the software. Phone confirmation and background checks are offered as premium services.


title: DocuSign

text: DocuSign released its mobile app DocuSign Ink in November 2011. It is available free of charge, and runs on Apple iOS, Google Android and Windows Phone operating systems. DocuSign Ink allows users to sign and annotate documents by attaching a stored signature, which may be created in graphic design software, captured from an image of a paper document or selected from a variety of prefabricated signatures based on the user's legal name. The saved signature can be applied to PDFs, word processing documents and images. To complete a document, participants apply their signatures and send completed documents to cloud storage for review.


title: DocuSign

text: On 15 March 2015, CEO Keith Krach announced the formation of the $30 million DocuSign IMPACT Foundation to give to charities and transform lives through DocuSign technology.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Vahid Halilhodžić (; born 15 October 1952) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player. He is regarded as one of the most controversially successful Bosnian football managers, due to his successful tenure in coaching various national teams yet having problematic relations with his teams and players due to different approaches.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Regarded as one of the best Yugoslav players, Halilhodžić had successful playing spells with Velež Mostar and French clubs Nantes and Paris Saint-Germain before retiring in 1987. During that time, he earned 15 full international caps for Yugoslavia and was part of national squads who won the 1978 European Under-21 Championship and played at the 1982 FIFA World Cup. He was top scorer of the French league in 1983 and 1985.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: In the early 1990s, Halilhodžić turned to coaching and, after a short stint as a sporting director at Velež, permanently moved to France in 1993 after fleeing war-torn Bosnia with his family. Since then, he managed a number of teams in French-speaking countries and his achievements include winning the 1997 CAF Champions League with Moroccan side Raja Casablanca, leading French side Lille from second level to third place in Ligue 1 in less than three years, winning the 2003–04 Coupe de France with Paris Saint-Germain, and winning the Croatian league in 2011 with Dinamo Zagreb.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Halilhodžić also qualified for the 2010 World Cup with Ivory Coast (although he was sacked only months before the final tournament) and the 2014 World Cup with Algeria, with whom he reached the round of 16, Algeria's best result in history. Later, he qualified for the 2018 World Cup with Japan, but again was fired just prior to the tournament. After a short stint with Nantes in 2018, where he helped avoid relegation to Ligue 2, Halilhodžić became head coach of the Morocco national team, whom he qualified for the 2022 World Cup. Like with Ivory Coast and Japan, he was also sacked by Royal Moroccan Football Federation on August 11, 2022 after Morocco's poor performance at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations and his fallout with star player Hakim Ziyech.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Born in Jablanica, Halilhodžić started playing football in his early teens at local minnows Turbina Jablanica, as the club's ground was located some 100 metres from his family home. According to his admission, he did not consider becoming a professional footballer at the time and instead chose to continue his formal education, moving to the nearby city of Mostar at age 14 to study at the local electrotechnical high school, without ever appearing for Turbina in an official match. Nevertheless, it was in Mostar that he first started taking football seriously as he went on to join Yugoslav First League side Velež Mostar academy at age 16, in part on the insistence of his brother Salem, who at the time played for the club as a striker. Halilhodžić then went on to play there at youth levels for the next two and a half years, and, upon signing a professional contract with the club, was sent on a six-month loan to second level side Neretva Metković to gain some experience.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Upon his return from loan, he quickly broke into the first-team squad in the 1972–73 season, forming a successful attacking partnership with Dušan Bajević and helping Velež finish the season as league runners-up behind Red Star Belgrade. Halilhodžić then went on to become one of the club's key players throughout the 1970s, appearing in a total of 376 matches and scoring 253 goals for the club (including 207 appearances and 103 goals in the Yugoslav First League) before leaving the country in September 1981 to join French side Nantes. Earlier that year, he was instrumental in winning the club's first major silverware, scoring two goals in their 3–2 Yugoslav Cup final win against Željezničar.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: At Nantes, he struggled in his first year although he quickly became a first-team regular, scoring 7 goals in 28 appearances in the 1981–82 season. He also got sent off in the first round of the UEFA Cup vs. Lokeren and received a 4 matches suspension from UEFA. The following season, he helped Nantes win their sixth French championship title and was the league's top scorer with 27 goals in 36 appearances. Halilhodžić went on to spend five years at La Beaujoire, appearing in a total of 163 league matches and scoring 92 goals for the club, also becoming league top scorer in the 1984–85 season with 28 goals.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: In 1986, Halilhodžić decided to return to Mostar so he could spend more time with his father, who in the meantime fell seriously ill. While negotiating a new contract with Nantes, he intentionally asked for a salary bigger than anything the club could afford so that he could be released and return home. However, Francis Borelli, chairman of Paris Saint-Germain, stepped in and made him a "fantastic offer" to sign a one-year contract, with the intention of bringing Halilhodžić to Parc des Princes in order to strengthen the team for their upcoming 1986–87 European Cup campaign.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Halilhodžić accepted the offer and went on to appear for the club in the first 18 games of the 1986–87 season, scoring eight goals. However, his mother back home died during the season, and it was then that Halilhodžić decided to finally retire from active football.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Halilhodžić was capped 15 times for the Yugoslavia national team, scoring eight goals. After debuting as a full international in June 1976, he also appeared in a few matches for Yugoslavia under-21 team in 1978, helping them win the 1978 European Under-21 Championship where he claimed the Golden Player award for the best player in the tournament. Halilhodžić, who was 26 at the time, took advantage of the rule that allowed two players over the age of 21 to participate – hence him and Velimir Zajec (who had also already debuted for Yugoslavia full squad in 1977) were the two senior players brought in to strengthen the under-21 squad.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Spanning nine years, Halilhodžić's time with the national team was marked by frequently alternating ups and downs, periods of automatic inclusion followed by years-long omissions and frustrating substitute stints.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: He made his debut as a substitute at UEFA Euro 1976 under head coach Biće Mladinić during the third place match versus Holland that Yugoslavia lost 2–3 at Zagreb's Maksimir Stadium. The 23-year-old Halilhodžić came on for Slaviša Žungul.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Over the next couple of years, he recorded two more substitute appearances – first in September 1976 in a friendly against Italy in Rome and in November 1977 at home against Spain (the infamously violent qualifying home loss at Belgrade's Marakana that ended Yugoslavia's chances of going to the 1978 World Cup).


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: It was not until October 1978 that now 26-year-old Halilhodžić (riding high from his under-21 European championship win) got his first national team start – the opening Euro 80 qualifying clash versus Spain at home in Maksimir. With his first inclusion in the starting lineup by returning coach Mladinić also came his first goal – Yugoslavia was down 0–2 in the first half when Halilhodžić pulled one back in the 44th minute for 1–2, which ended up being the final score as Yugoslavia again lost at home to Spain. With his performance versus Spain, Halilhodžić's stock was somewhat raised and as a result he got to start the next qualifier away at Romania that Yugoslavia also lost, this time 2–3. The second consecutive qualifier loss prompted the end of Biće Mladinić's time as head coach – he got replaced by interim coach Dražan Jerković. Halilhodžić played the next friendly match under Jerković, scoring a hat-trick against Greece.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: The resumption of Euro 1980 qualifying five months later in April 1979 saw the return of Miljan Miljanić to the Yugoslav bench as the FA's permanent solution at the head coaching position. Miljanić made major changes to the team he inherited from Mladinić with Halilhodžić one of the many casualties. The changes worked as Yugoslavia won its remaining four qualifiers (including a win away at Spain) as well as its two friendlies versus Italy and Argentina (none of the six matches featured Halilhodžić), but the opening two losses still proved too much to overcome as "Plavi" finished a point behind Spain in the group and did not progress to Euro 1980.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Halilhodžić made two substitute appearances at the 1982 World Cup: playing the last 15 minutes of the controversial group match versus Spain as well as the entire second half against Honduras. For the position of forward at the tournament, Miljanić preferred Safet Sušić, and in his later interviews, Halilhodžić often expressed dismay and disappointment with head coach Miljanić for not giving him a more prominent role in the Yugoslav team at the 1982 World Cup.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: On more than one occasion in the 2000s and 2010s, a retired Halilhodžić expressed bitterness over not getting a bigger part in the national team during the 1970s and 1980s, sarcastically citing "the fact my surname was too long for Belgrade scoreboards", thus insinuating that he feels the fact he is a Muslim may have been the reason for his modest playing time in the national team.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: In July 1997, he signed with Moroccan side Raja Casablanca. In his first season with the club, he won the 1997 CAF Champions League in December 1997, and the 1997–98 Moroccan Championship in May 1998. These successes raised his international profile.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: In October 1998, he returned to France to coach Lille, which at the time was struggling to survive in the French Division 2. His first season at the club ended with Lille finishing fourth, missing a promotion spot on goal difference. In the 1999–2000 season, Halilhodžić's club dominated the competition and finished top of table, 16 points clear of second-placed Guingamp, earning promotion to the French Ligue 1.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Lille's strong performances on the pitch continued the following season, and they finished third in the 2000–01 French Division 1, only seven points behind champions Nantes, thus qualifying for the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League for the first time in club's history. The following season, after knocking out Parma in qualifying, Lille finished third in group stage behind Deportivo de La Coruña and Manchester United, progressing to the 2001–02 UEFA Cup where they reached the Round of 16 before being knocked out by Borussia Dortmund on away goals.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: On 14 October 2002, he was hired by another Ligue 1 club, Rennes, to save them from relegation after the club had picked up only eight points in the opening ten matches of the season under Philippe Bergeroo. Halilhodžić then managed to take the club to a 15th-place finish in the 20-club league, avoiding relegation zone by two points. After his successes with Lille and Rennes, he started to become one of the most sought after coaches in Europe, and whilst receiving offers from several German and Spanish clubs, he joined Paris Saint-Germain in June 2003.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: During his first season at the helm of PSG, the club experienced one of the greatest and unexpectedly successful seasons in its history by winning the 2003–04 Coupe de France and arriving second in the 2003–04 Ligue 1, just three points behind Lyon, qualifying for the 2004–05 Champions League.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Halilhodžić's second season at the club, however, was not a success. From their opening Champions League group stage 0–3 home loss versus Chelsea, to their French league struggles, PSG never succeeded in replicating the winning form of the previous season. Going into the final round of Champions League group stage fixtures in December 2004, Halilhodžić's team still had a chance of advancing as beating CSKA Moscow at home would have seen PSG move on to the knockout stage. Even just a draw combined with group leaders Chelsea winning or drawing away at Porto would have ensured progress while a draw regardless of the other match outcome guaranteed at least a spot in the UEFA Cup round of 32. The club, however, suffered a disappointing 1–3 defeat at its home stadium, courtesy of a Sergei Semak hat-trick, which meant straight elimination from Europe. It was a bitter loss that even prompted club president Francis Graille to publicly relay his disappointment at the "lack of pride" shown by the squad, though remaining guardedly coy when explicitly asked about Halilhodžić's future at the club.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Now with only domestic competition to worry about, PSG began the calendar year 2005 looking to improve its league standing. Sluggish form continued, however, and on 8 February 2005, following a 0–2 defeat at home versus Lens that saw PSG drop to 12th spot in the 2004–05 Ligue 1 table, the club's management decided to sack Halilhodžić. He was replaced by the coach of the reserves team, Laurent Fournier, under whom the club was knocked out of 2004–05 Coupe de France by Auxerre in March and eventually finished ninth in the league.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: On 2 October 2005, Halilhodžić was signed by Turkish Süper Lig side Trabzonspor. Although he led the club to fourth place in the 2005–06 Süper Lig, just behind Istanbul's "Big Three", thus qualifying for the 2006–07 UEFA Cup, Halilhodžić decided to leave Turkey in June 2006 after just one season with the club.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: In May 2008, Halilhodžić was hired to train the Ivory Coast national team, captained by Didier Drogba and including the likes of Yaya and Kolo Touré, Salomon Kalou, Emmanuel Eboué and the young Gervinho. In a two-year unbeaten run in African qualifiers, the team qualified for both the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Angola and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. In January 2010 in the quarter-finals of the continental championship against Algeria, however, the Ivory Coast were eliminated after Madjid Bougherra scored a 2–2 equaliser in injury time, with Hameur Bouazza adding Algeria's third goal in the opening minutes of extra time.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: The defeat came as a huge disappointment for many Ivorians, for whom the national football team played a central social role and a source of national pride and unity, especially as the country was recovering from the 2002–07 civil war and preparing for its first post-war elections in October that year. As a consequence, Halilhodžić was fired on 27 February 2010, less than four months before the 2010 World Cup finals tournament in South Africa.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Back in Europe, Halilhodžić was announced as the new manager of Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb on 16 August 2010, signing a two-and-a-half-year contract and replacing club legend Velimir Zajec who had been fired after being knocked out of the Champions League qualifying on penalties by the Moldovan side Sheriff Tiraspol. Although eliminated from the Champions League, Dinamo had the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League to compete in, and Halilhodžić was tasked with guiding Dinamo's European campaign while continuing their dominance in the national championship.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Club fans immediately took to Halilhodžić, as Dinamo started playing an attractive and more attacking style of football. On 16 September 2010, exactly one month after signing his contract, he led Dinamo to a somewhat improbable 2–0 victory over Spanish side Villarreal at the start of the Europa League group stage. Despite some encouraging results early in the season, Dinamo eventually failed to progress past the group stage, losing the deciding match in December 2010 at home against Greek club PAOK. Despite the setback, Halilhodžić stayed on due to support of both the fans and club management.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: In the 2010–11 Croatian First League the club was a runaway leader without any real competition. Towards the end of the season, issues arose over the renegotiation of terms of his contract, and on 6 May 2011 he abruptly left the club following a vicious shouting incident with Dinamo's president Zdravko Mamić in the team dressing room during half-time of the league match versus Inter Zaprešić at Maksimir.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: On 22 June 2011, the Algerian Football Federation announced that Halilhodžić would take over the vacant Algeria national team manager position starting on 1 July. On 2 July, the deal was made official with Halilhodžić signing a three-year contract. He successfully led Algeria through the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualification and in preparation for the finals tournament to be held in January 2013 in South Africa, the team invited Bosnia and Herzegovina (Halilhodžić's country of birth) for a friendly match in November 2012. Algeria lost 0–1 in injury time on a rainy night in Algiers.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Despite arriving at the final tournament with plenty of confidence and with the emergence of young stars Islam Slimani and El Arbi Hillel Soudani, as well as the addition to the squad of talented Valencia winger Sofiane Feghouli, Algeria finished bottom of their group, losing their opening two matches to Tunisia and Togo without scoring a single goal. Although the result was widely regarded as a disappointment, the Algerian Football Federation decided to keep Halilhodžić in charge and allow the team to gain more experience.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Now focusing on the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, Algeria under Halilhodžić secured a spot at the finals tournament on 19 November 2013 having beaten the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations runners-up Burkina Faso in a two-legged tie on away goals rule following a 3–3 aggregate score in the African qualifying play-offs. This was only the fourth time the country qualified for a World Cup in 32 years.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Algeria's performance at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil was a significant surprise as they beat South Korea 4–2 and drew with Russia 1–1 to progress past the group stage for the first time in the team's history. In the round of 16, "Les Fennecs" had to face a very strong Germany side. Although Algeria put up a very spirited resistance, they lost the game after a goalless 90 minutes, followed by extra time in which Germany scored twice through André Schürrle and Mesut Özil, with substitute Abdelmoumene Djabou pulling back one in the dying moments of the game to make it 1–2. Germany later went on to deliver a historic 7–1 thrashing of hosts Brazil and win their fourth World Cup title.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Despite the exit, Algeria's performance was the team's biggest success in history and Halilhodžić was frequently praised for his strategic counter-attacking tactics, calm yet motivating influence on the players, and skillful game management. Although he was offered a contract extension after the tournament, on 7 July 2014 he left the team.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: On 7 March 2015, it was reported that Halilhodžić would take over as the Japan national team's new manager. He was officially appointed on 12 March, replacing Javier Aguirre, who had been sacked over his involvement in a 2011 match-fixing investigation in Spain. Prior to this appointment, Halilhodžić was one of the shortlisted candidates for managing Bosnia and Herzegovina, but he rejected that offer after having two meetings with the Bosnian Football Association. In June 2016, Halilhodžić's Japan hosted Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 2016 Kirin Cup, losing 1–2.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: In September 2016, the 2018 World Cup qualifying final round was kicked off. Six teams including Japan, Saudi Arabia and Australia scramble for two direct qualifying spots. In the first match Japan was unexpectedly beaten 1–2 by UAE because of a wrongly disallowed Japanese goal. Nevertheless, the Japanese media called questions on his selection of squad.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Since then, media criticism of his strategy and his selection of squad has haunted him throughout his office. He abandoned the decade-long Japanese traditional playing style of short passes, instead, he emphasized intense fighting for the ball (as he called it in French, "duel") and quick pace football. His most controversial call was to drop Keisuke Honda (AC Milan), Shinji Kagawa (Dortmund) and Shinji Okazaki (Leicester). Another controversial call was to put Hotaru Yamaguchi, a player in the domestic second division, to his starting lineup.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Finishing the group with 6 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses with 7 conceded goals, Japan's performance was inconsistent, yet it secured crucial victories at critical moments to earn itself the top spot. The two critical moments was first, winning 2–1 against Saudi Arabia in November 2016 to end the first half of the group matches in the first place; second, beating Australia 2–0 in August 2017 to secure top spot and qualified to the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It is at these two moments the Japanese media temporarily admitted Halilhodžić is right on his strategy and his selection of squad. Yet they were called into questions once again after Japan's poor performance in the international friendlies in October and November against Haiti, Brazil and Belgium.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: In December, Halilhodžić summoned his second and third team to 2017 East Asian Cup. Half of the team were uncapped. This unconventional inexperienced Japan team lost to South Korea 1–4. The Japanese media saw this as a humiliating defeat. Without realizing the Japan–South Korea football rivalry, Halilhodžić comments "I was amazed by South Korea's explosiveness of power, technique and control of the game. South Korea dominated us in every way." His comments made himself under siege by the Japanese media for weeks. Halilhodžić was dismissed in early April 2018, following friendlies with non-World Cup teams—last minute draw with Mali and 1-2 loss to Ukraine, with former international Akira Nishino named the new head coach. JFA President Kozo Tashima told reporters at a news conference, that poor results and a lack of “communication and trust” with the players as the reasons for Halilhodžić's dismissal.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: Halilhodžić's spiky personality frequently ruffled feathers after arriving in Japan to take over from Javier Aguirre in March 2015, and rumors of his impending dismissal swirled throughout his three-year reign. Soon after Halilhodžić's dismissal, Japan's midfielder Keisuke Honda, who had had an increasingly fractious relationship with the Bosnian throughout 2017 over the head coach's rigid tactics, came out publicly against the fired coach by saying: "To submit myself to the kind of football Halilhodžić played in order to get picked, that would be shameful for me. I'm proud that I've stayed true to myself". On 24 May 2018, Halilhodžić launched a lawsuit in a Tokyo district court against the JFA president Kozo Tashima, believing that he was fired illegally—specifically that Tashima failed to consult the JFA board when dismissing Halilhodžić.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: In July 2018, he was on a 4-man shortlist for the vacant Egyptian national team manager job alongside Quique Sánchez Flores, Jorge Luis Pinto, and Javier Aguirre. Aguirre ended up getting hired.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: In October 2018, Halilhodžić became the new manager of FC Nantes, a club he had played for as a striker. His first win came on 22 October when Nantes beat Toulouse 4–0 at the Stade de la Beaujoire.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: On 5 May 2019, Nantes beat Dijon at home 3–0 and Halilhodžić made a club record, winning five Ligue 1 matches in a row, a venture which was not done in over 18 years in the club. Halilhodžić's Nantes beat Lyon, Paris Saint-Germain, Amiens, Marseille and at the end Dijon to capture that record.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: On 2 August 2019, Halilhodžić decided to leave Nantes after disagreements with the club's owner and president Waldemar Kita.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: In August 2019, it was confirmed that Halilhodžić would take over as the Morocco national team's new manager. His first win came on 10 September when Morocco beat Niger 1–0 at the Stade de Marrakech. On 29 March 2022, Halilhodžić qualified Morocco for the 2022 World Cup, eliminating DR Congo in the CAF Third Round qualifiers.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: On 11 August 2022, Halilhodžić was officially sacked by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation over disagreements with its president on how the team should move forward. This marked the third time—the other two being Ivory Coast and Japan—Halilhodžić was sacked before a World Cup tournament after prior successful qualification.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: During the Bosnian War in 1992, Halilhodžić was wounded in Mostar but recovered within a few months. He left Mostar in May 1993 due to threats received from the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) as the armed conflict between Bosniaks and Croats escalated in Herzegovina. Following his departure, his house was looted and burned down. In 1995, he became a French citizen.


title: Vahid Halilhodžić

text: On 23 July 2004, during his tenure as the manager of PSG, Halilhodžić received the Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur of the French Republic. Halilhodžić is married and has two children. His primary residence is in Lille, where his family lives. He speaks Bosnian and French, the result of spending most of his time in France.


title: Khalil Rountree Jr.

text: Khalil Ibn Rountree Jr. (born February 26, 1990) is an American mixed martial artist who currently competes in the light heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As of December 6, 2022, he is #15 in the UFC light heavyweight rankings.


title: Khalil Rountree Jr.

text: Rountree was born in Los Angeles, California. When he was two years old, his father was shot and killed in an attempted robbery while working as the tour manager for Boyz II Men. Growing up overweight and self-described as "non-confrontational," Rountree was in a band traveling the country. Eating unhealthy and smoking cigarettes, he decided to begin training after watching The Ultimate Fighter with his brother. At the age of 20 and weighing 300 lbs, Rountree joined Wand Fight Team gym in an attempt to lose weight. After one year of MMA training, Rountree started his MMA amateur career in 2011. Before his UFC 236 fight against Eryk Anders, Rountree trained in Thailand, focusing on Muay Thai.


title: Khalil Rountree Jr.

text: Rountree had a record of 6–1 in his amateur fights, competing as a Middleweight under the Tuff-N-Uff and King of the Cage (KOTC) banners.


title: Khalil Rountree Jr.

text: Rountree made his professional debut, as a light heavyweight, with Resurrection Fighting Alliance against Livingston Lukow at RFA 15 on June 6, 2014. Rountree won the fight by unanimous decision.


title: Khalil Rountree Jr.

text: Rountree was scheduled to face Blake Troop in a 190 lbs catchweight bout at RFA 21 on December 5, 2014. Rountree won the fight by a first-round knockout, after just 39 seconds.


title: Khalil Rountree Jr.

text: Rountree made his middleweight debut against Cameron Olson at RFA 25 on April 10, 2015. Rountree won the fight by a unanimous decision.


title: Khalil Rountree Jr.

text: Rountree made his final appearance with RFA against Justin Polendey at RFA 33 on December 11, 2015. Rountree won the fight by first-round knockout.


title: Khalil Rountree Jr.

text: In April 2016, Rountree competed as a fighter on . In the first round, he faced Muhammed DeReese and won via knockout. In the elimination round, he faced Cory Hendricks and lost via submission in the first round.


title: Khalil Rountree Jr.

text: Later in the show, Hendricks withdrew himself from the competition due to neck injury and Dana White decided to bring back Rountree for the semi-final round. Rountree moved on to faced Josh Stansbury and won via knockout in the first round to advance and face Andrew Sanchez at the finale.


title: Khalil Rountree Jr.

text: Rountree made his promotional debut on July 8, 2016 at UFC for the TUF 23 Light Heavyweight title against Andrew Sanchez. He lost the fight via unanimous decision.


title: Khalil Rountree Jr.

text: Rountree next faced Tyson Pedro at on November 27, 2016. He was submitted via rear-naked choke in round one.


title: Khalil Rountree Jr.

text: On his third fight Rountree faced Daniel Jolly at on February 4, 2017. He won via knockout in the first round.


title: Khalil Rountree Jr.

text: Rountree was expected to face Gökhan Saki on December 30, 2017 at UFC 219. However, Saki was forced to pull out, citing knee injury, and was replaced by Michał Oleksiejczuk. Rountree lost the fight by unanimous decision. However, after the fight, it was revealed that Oleksiejczuk had tested positive for clomiphene, an anti-estrogenic substance. As a result, the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) officially overturned the result of the fight to a no contest.


title: Khalil Rountree Jr.

text: The bout between Rountree and Gökhan Saki eventually took place at UFC 226 on July 7, 2018. Rountree won the fight via knockout in round one. This fight earned him the "Performance of the Night" award.


title: Khalil Rountree Jr.

text: Rountree faced promotional newcomer Johnny Walker on November 17, 2018 at UFC Fight Night 140. He lost the fight via knockout in the first round.