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66384997 | Interfaith Partners of South Carolina | 2021-01-14 21:19:56+00:00 | Interfaith Partners of South Carolina (IPSC) is an organization formed in 2010 to promote better understanding among people of the many religious, spiritual, and secular-ethical traditions throughout South Carolina.
In a state often noted for its predominantly conservative and religiously Christian population, Interfaith Partners of South Carolina works to draw public attention to the broad diversity of religious, spiritual and secular-ethical traditions and practice in South Carolina. Regional affiliated chapters include Aiken and Florence.
Initially, IPSC held meetings of an advisory committee drawn from around the state, occasional panel discussions, festivals, and book studies. Additionally, as an effort to recruit wider participation in the Charter For Compassion, there was a project of author and religious studies pertaining to scholar Karen Armstrong.
A key initiative since 2011 has been South Carolina Interfaith Month. Beginning that year, then-Governor Nikki Haley issued an official proclamation declaring January as South Carolina Interfaith Harmony Month. Her successor, Governor Henry McMaster, has continued to issue the proclamation. IPSC has held a yearly kickoff media conference the last week of December at which time a calendar of January events has been announced. Open events have been held by houses of worship and religious and other groups for the entire month. In 2019 and 2020, the mayors of Charleston and Aiken (S.C.) issued similar proclamations by their respective cities in collaboration with IPSC.
The group supports minority groups and those at risk because of hate speech. Some examples are:
Public statement supporting Syrian refugees from that country's civil war
Statement expressing sorrow and concern after the 2015 Mother Emanuel shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, and after the 2019 Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque shootings.
Following a bomb threat to the Jewish Community Center of Columbia in 2017, partnership with Jewish leaders to devise a plan for building community support for the Center through a spring interfaith festival.
Partnership in developing and implementing Action Plan for Election Season Peace in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election and continuing following the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot in Washington, D.C. (according to the organization’s web site)
IPSC leadership visited the FBI in Washington, DC, in 2019 to receive the Director's Community Leadership Award for the state. Regional affiliated chapters include Aiken and Florence.
The mission of Interfaith Partners of South Carolina is to bring together people of diverse religious, spiritual, and secular paths throughout our state to cultivate a more harmonious community. |
39526305 | Islamic Museum of Australia | 2013-05-30 04:42:11+00:00 | The Islamic Museum of Australia (IMA) is a community museum in Thornbury, Melbourne, Australia. It began as a not-for-profit foundation founded in May 2010 with the purpose of establishing the first Islamic museum in Australia. It aims to showcase the artistic heritage and historical contributions of Muslims in Australia and abroad through the display of artworks and historical artefacts.
Designed by desypher, a Melbourne-based architectural firm, the $10 million museum was opened on 28 February 2014 by the Australian treasurer Joe Hockey. It shared a $4 million grant from the Government of Victoria's multicultural facilities program. The museum was established by Moustafa Fahour, who is director of the museum and Maysaa Fahour, with his brother Ahmed Fahour (CEO of Australia Post) and family contributing $4 million, early in 2014, to the IMA.
The unique architectural style features a rusted Corten Steel facade representing the Australian outback, wrapped a white cube covered in geometric tilework with Arabic calligraphy.
The site backs onto Merri Creek, near the border of Thornbury and Brunswick East, two of Melbourne's well-established multicultural suburbs.
The IMA is the first centre of its kind in Australia to showcase a diverse range of Islamic arts including architecture, calligraphy, paintings, glass, ceramics and textiles. The museum also aims to promote new and established Islamic artists, both local and international. The Temoporary Gallery has hosted exhibitions such as Mush by Sydney based Blake Prize-winning artist Khaled Sabsabi, and Borderlands: Islamic design covered surfboards by Sydney-based artist Phillip George.
The permanent art gallery contains many unique works, including a 2011 Archibald Prize shortlisted portrait of Waleed Aly. The effort to establish this purpose-built Islamic Museum was geared towards sharing the artistic and historical achievements of Muslims internationally, and particularly in Australia. The Australian Muslim History gallery focuses on the history of Afghan cameleers, Malay pearlers, Albanian farmers and others. This was documented in the book and documentary, Boundless Plains, produced by the IMA based on a 2011 expedition unearthing unique Muslim stories from outback Australia.
The Museum's Modern Middle Eastern Cafe is run by Masterchef Australia 2013 Top 3 finalist Samira El-Khafir, who is Fahour's sister.
The Islamic Museum of Australia's permanent exhibition was Highly Commended in the 2014 Museums Australia MAGNA awards, endorsed as: "An important new museum which sensitively interconnects Australia's Muslim heritage with strong interpretive themes".
Yassir Morsi, from the International Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia, in his review lists a number of deficiencies, saying the museum displays "how European we are when we colonise our Islamic history". He says the museum's only saving grace is the large oil painting of Waleed Aly.
Etihad Airways and Dubai-based Habtoor Leighton Group are principal partners, while the museum branding was completed by Design 55 - a Dubai based studio. Gallery One from the Jumeirah Beach Residence Dubai, supplies the museum's gift store. The museum has a major UAE influence.
The federal government contributed $1.5 million towards the IMA in the 2012-13 budget. The Australian Labor Party promised to contribute a further $3 million during its unsuccessful re-election campaign in 2013.
In February 2015 the Saudi Government contributed $1 million towards the IMA. In March of that year the federal government allocated $500,000 and the state government pledged $450,000 for an arts and culture education program which will be developed by the IMA.
The Australian Muslim Artists launched in 2018, as an annual non-acquisitive exhibition featuring the work of emerging and established Australian Muslim artists. AMA is also a database of artists and art professionals intended as a networking tool for both local and international artists. Following the establishment of the AMA Art Prize in 2019, the exhibition includes only shortlisted entries for the prize. In 2021 the AMA exhibition is available for viewing online.
The Australian Muslim Artists Art Prize was established in 2019, with the prize initially (until 2020) worth A$15,000, as an annual acquisitive art prize hosted by IMA in collaboration with sponsor La Trobe University. As of 2021 the award is worth A$10,000. The prize is open "to any Australian artist whose work is influenced by Islamic art or Muslim identity". The winning work is added to the university's collection managed by La Trobe Art Institute.
The partnership with La Trobe includes possibilities such as the university providing training in Islamic cultures for teachers, adding a new component to journalism courses and "work-integrated learning opportunities".
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2019: Abdul Abdullah, for an embroidery entitled You can call me troublesome
Future Australian Muslim Artists category (for students in years 10–12): Hashim Mohamed
2020: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, for Transplants (Euphorbia, Monstera, Sansevieria)
2021: Fatima Killeen, for her collagraph print on paper, The Crooked Narrative |
28138540 | Thrangu Monastery (Canada) | 2010-07-24 13:23:08+00:00 | Thrangu Monastery, Canada's first traditional Tibetan Buddhist monastery, was officially opened in Richmond, British Columbia, on July 25, 2010, by the Very Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, the worldwide leader of Thrangu Monasteries.
Thrangu Rinpoche is a prominent tulku (reincarnate lama) in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, the ninth reincarnation in his particular line. His full name and title is the Very Venerable Ninth Khenchen Thrangu Tulku, Karma Lodrö Lungrik Maway Senge. "Khenchen" denotes great scholarly accomplishment, and the term "Rinpoche" is an honorific title commonly afforded to Tibetan lamas.
Thrangu Rinpoche was born in Tibet in 1933 and went to India when he was 27. Since then, he has been in residence at the Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, India. He oversees a number of Thrangu establishments in several parts of the world. The new Canadian monastery will be under the direction of the resident lama, Lama Pema Tsewang, who was born in 1972 in Tsum, Gorkha District, Nepal. In 2002, Thrangu Rinpoche appointed him to the very high position of a "Vajra Master".
The Shrine Hall or (Lhakhang) of the monastery has 30-foot ceilings, contains Tibetan art and a four-metre (16 ft) tall gold-leaf-covered statue of Shakyamuni Buddha, "filled with precious offerings including scriptures, scrolls and sacred stones and pebbles from 108 countries, including China, Hong Kong, India, Tibet, Sri Lanka and Canada. The two side walls have 500 Medicine Buddha statues each and there are 200 Amitabha statues adjacent to the main entrance. Behind the Shakyamuni statue are the six ornaments, and the 12 mandalas are painted on the ceiling. The six pillars are decorated with traditional Tibetan designs with statues of Guru Rinpoche and Four-Arm Chenrezig on top. The shrine hall can comfortably accommodate up to 500 people."
A spokesperson said: "The central Buddha is flanked by 35 smaller Buddhas of confession and 1,000 medicine Buddhas that offer protection from illness and danger.
There are 8 retreat rooms at the monastery, where practitioners can engage in short and long term retreats, a library with texts in a number of languages, and a room for visiting teachers.
The Canadian temple is a daughter establishment of the Tibetan mother temple, Thrangu Monastery near Jyekundo or Gyêgu town in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai (ancient Kham), China which was severely damaged on April 14, 2010, in the 2010 Yushu earthquake in which many monks and thousands of laypeople died. |
51905540 | Christ the King Church, Shenzhen | 2016-10-08 11:01:34+00:00 | Christ the King Church (simplified Chinese: 深圳耶稣君王堂; traditional Chinese: 深圳耶穌君王堂; pinyin: Shēnzhèn Yēsū Jūnwāngtáng) is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Bao'an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It was founded and built in November 2010.
Christ the King Church was founded and built in November 2010.
The church covers an area of 2,735 km2 (1,056 sq mi) and 64 metres (210 ft) in height of the imitation Gothic architecture style. There is a statue of Jesus at the top of the church, and he opened his arms as if to welcome the believers.
The church has three Sunday Masses (主日弥撒). One is at 8:00pm on Saturday evening, at 9:00am Sunday morning and 3:00pm on Sunday afternoon. There are weekday Masses (平日弥撒) at 7:00am from Monday to Saturday.
Take subway Line 5 (Huanzhong Line) to get off at Xingdong Station. Getting out from Exit C and walk 1.2 km (0.75 mi) to reach the church.
Kejia, Yan (2004-01-01). Catholic church in China [中国天主教]. ISBN 9787508505992.
Ping, Liu (2014-08-01). 《中国天主教艺术简史》 [Brief History of Chinese Catholic Art] (in Chinese). Beijing: China Fortune Press. ISBN 9787504751430. |
36649464 | Church of Croatian Martyrs, Čavoglave | 2012-08-06 18:46:25+00:00 | The Church of Croatian Martyrs (Croatian: Crkva hrvatskih mučenika) is a Roman Catholic church in Čavoglave, Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia. The church was designed by Gorana Banić and Emil Šverko (between 2003 and 2007).
The cornerstone for the church was laid in 2004 by Ante Ivas, Bishop of Šibenik. Croatian singer Marko Perković, who was born in Čavoglave, aided with funding of the construction of the church. It was completed in 2010. On 9 October of the same year, the church bells were blessed by Ivas. The church has three bells, which were cast in workshop "Grass Mayer" in Innsbruck.
The first bell, weighing 450 kilos, is dedicated to Aloysius Stepinac. The second bell, weighing 250 kilos, is dedicated to St. Elijah. The third bell, weighing 130 kilos, is dedicated to St. Michael and St. Benedict. |
53210726 | Chachapoyas Cathedral | 2017-02-16 16:47:30+00:00 | The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Chachapoyas (Spanish: Catedral de San Juan Bautista ), also called Chachapoyas Cathedral, is a parish of the Catholic Church and seat of the Diocese of Chachapoyas. The cathedral church is located on the main square of the city of Chachapoyas, the capital of the Department of Amazonas, Peru. It is under the pastoral responsibility of Bishop Emiliano Antonio Cisneros Martínez.
The settlement was founded in 1538. It was elevated to cathedral status with the erection of the Diocese of Chachapoyas on June 2, 1843, split from the diocese of Maynas by the bull "Ex Sublimi Petri" of Pope Gregory XVI.
The old building was rebuilt in 1928 after an earthquake and then modernized in the 1970s, but was remodeled once again in 2010 giving it back its original style. |
47799813 | St. Jude Church, Karanakodam | 2015-09-13 01:59:06+00:00 | St. Jude Church Karanakodam is a Syro-Malabar Catholic parish in Ernakulam, Kerala, India. It is a part of Archeparchy of Ernakulam–Angamaly. The parish church is situated Midway between Kathrikkadavu Junction and Thammanam Junction along the Thammanam Pullepady Road. The road opposite to the Church leads to the rear entry of the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium, Kaloor.
This is a small parish with 450 families, Rev. Fr. Thomas Mangalassery leads the parish. A seventeen-member parish council, trustees and vice chairman assists the vicar for smooth functioning of the parish.
The parish is spread over two former princely kingdoms, namely Travancore and Kochi. The Ernakulam-Angamaly dioceses had lot of agricultural property in Travancore. But during the 1930–1940 period, the enmity between these two kingdoms was at its extremes and it was not possible to transport products from Travancore to Kochi. At this juncture, the great visionary and the architect of Ernakulum – Angamaly diocese, Bishop Mar Augustine Kandathil, purchased about 30 acres of waste land and developed it into fertile agricultural farms. Time passed by and the rules changed. Finally the diocese was left with only 5.46 acres of land. The present St Jude's Church and its adjacent St Catherine Convent and St Jude Nagar are part of this property.
The Syrian Catholic people in Karanakkodam, Thammanam, Kathrikadavu were part of basilica, Edapally, Chambakkara and Elamkulam Parishes, but they had no relations with those churches except for baptism, marriage and funeral ceremonies. For all other purposes they depended on the Latin churches of St Francis Church Kaloor and St John the Baptist Church Palarivattom. In 1970 Cardinal Joseph Parecattil decided to establish a new Syrian Catholic church at Karanakkodam and earmarked 2 acres of land, and entrusted the responsibility to the then-Procurator Rev Fr Jose Thachil to build the church. The auxiliary bishop Mar Sebastian Mankuzhikary laid the foundation stone for the church. Under the leadership of Fr. Thachil a small but beautiful church was constructed, and on 28 February 1971, Cardinal Parecattil blessed and dedicated it in the name of Saint Jude the Apostle, a name that was then uncommon.
A majority of the parishioners hail from Changanassery, Palai, and Thrissur dioceses, and have deep-rooted faith. Almost 95% of the parishioners have migrated to Cochin and settled around this church.
One of the former parish priests, Fr Thachil, visited Europe and the Holy Land, and brought back A-class relics (Thirusheship) of St Jude from Rome. These were installed at the altar on 28 September 1978. The development of the church from then on went at a very fast pace.
On 28 February 1981, Cardinal Parecattil elevated St Jude's Church to St Jude's Parish. Also on this day he blessed the parish hall.
The initial church was small and could not accommodate all parishioners. A new church was constructed by extending the existing one. On 25 April 2010, Bishop Mar Sebastian Adiyanthriath blessed the new church.
1. Mariyan Sodality (now known as Catholic Living Concept – CLC) – 8 September 1973
2. Altar Boys – 16 August 1976
3. Vincent D Paul Society – 7 November 1976
4. "Marananathara Sahaya Fund" – 1 January 1979
5. "Mathru Sangam" – 10 May 1981
6. "Vivaha Sahaya Fund" – 15 August 1983
7. Parish Council – 1989.
8. KCYM – 1989
9. "Thiru Bala Sakhiyam" – January 1991
10. Parish Bullettin – 3 March 1991
11. Catechism Counsel – 26 July 1992
12. First St. Joseph's Feast – March 1993
13. Silver jubilee Calibrations of the church was inaugurated by Cardinal Antony Padiyara – 18 February 1995.
14. Kerala Catholic Congress – May 2015
Rev Fr. Thomas Mangalassery (Present)
Rev Fr Sebastian Urakkadan
Rev.Fr. Job Koottungal
Rev.Fr. Issac Damian Painumakal
Rev.Fr. Paul Kavalakattu
Rev.Fr. Sebastin Manickathan
Rev.Fr. Kuriakose Mampilly
Rev.Fr. Dr.jose Thachil
Rev.Fr. Jose Mulavanal
Rev.Fr. Jose Thachil
Rev.Fr. Mathew Edasserry
Rev.Fr. James Palliparambil
Rev.Fr. Jose Nalpatt
Rev.Fr. Jose Thachil
Sunday: 6.30 AM,8.45AM,6.30 PM
Week Days: 6.30 AM
Thursday: 6.30 AM Holy Mass and Novena | 6.00 PM Holy Mass and Novena
First Friday of every month 6.00 PM Mass and Adoration
Everyday Mass is followed by Rosary and Sapra |
51138924 | Dottie Ardina | 2016-07-22 19:53:55+00:00 | Dottie Ardina (born 2 December 1993) is a Filipino professional golfer.
Ardina won numerous amateur tournament in Asia and represented the Philippines at the Espirito Santo Trophy (World Amateur Team Championships) in 2006 and 2010. Her 2006 appearance, at age 12, made her the youngest player ever to compete at the World Amateur Team Championships.
Ardina turned professional in 2013.
Ardina has played on the Symetra Tour since 2014. Her best finish on the Symetra Tour was a tie for 2nd at the 2015 Four Winds Invitational. She also played on the LPGA Tour in 2014.
Also in 2014, she won the Thailand Singha-Sat LPGA Championship.
Ardina qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics. While initially it was thought she would compete, ultimately she declared herself unable to compete due to Zika virus threat.
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2010 Southern Ladies, Karambunai Open
2011 Queen Sirikit Cup, Truevisions International Junior, Philippine Closed Match Play, Malaysian Junior Open, Singha Thailand Open
2012 RSGC AmBank Junior Amateur Open, WWWExpress-DHL National Amateur, Philippine Amateur Championship (Closed), Taiwan Amateur, Penang Amateur, SICC DBS Junior Invitational
2013 Philippine Amateur Open, WWWExpress-DHL Amateur, TrueVisions International Junior # 12
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2020 (1) Ballarat Icons Pro-Am
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2014 (1) 3rd Singha-SAT Thai LPGA Championship
Espirito Santo Trophy (representing the Philippines): 2006, 2010, 2012 |
66962207 | Rahul Bajaj (golfer) | 2021-03-02 17:50:15+00:00 | Rahul Bajaj (born 18 August 1986) is an Indian professional golfer. As an amateur, he was part of the Indian team that won the silver medal at the 2010 Asian Games. Bajaj turned professional a year later at the 2011 Indian Open. He played on the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) between from 2012 to 2018 and won once on the PGTI's Feeder Tour, in 2012. He also played on the Asian Tour, Asian Development Tour (ADT), the MENA Tour.
Bajaj currently teaches golf at Noida Golf Course and runs his own online golf equipment company.
Rahul was born in Jammu, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. His father is Col. Pradeep Kumar Bajaj, a now retired Army Officer. His mother is Suman Bajaj is a designer who owns her own boutique. His sister Shweta Bajaj is a freelance journalist who has in the past worked for Zee News and News X.
Bajaj went to Army Public School in Noida. He also has a Commerce degree from Delhi University's School of Open Learning. As a child, Rahul watched his father play golf at Noida Golf Course (NGC). He took up the game himself at the age of 15.
In 2006, Bajaj started participating in amateur tournaments organized by the Indian Golf Union. He won his first amateur tournament at the Jaypee Amateur Golf Tournament in 2008 by a single shot over Gagan Verma. Other notable wins include the Samarvir Sahi Amateur in 2009, and the Chandigarh Open in 2010. During this span, he also finished in the top-3 in a few amateur events
Bajaj was part of the Asian Games team in 2010 that won the team silver in Guangzhou. Other team members included Rashid Khan, Abhinav Lohan, and Abhijit Singh Chadha. He was also part of the team that won silver at the 2010 South Asian Games. The team at Dhaka included Chikkarangappa, and Ashbeer Singh Saini who were joined by Khan and Bajaj. As part of the Indian Golf Team, Bajaj represented his country at the 2010 Eisenhower Trophy where the team finished T45.
Bajaj turned professional at the 2011 Indian Open. Between 2012 and 2018, he played on the Professional Golf Tour of India. He has also played events on the Asian Tour, Asian Development Tour (ADT), the MENA Tour.
He won his first event as a professional at the 2012 PGTI Feeder Tour event held at Rambagh Golf Club in Jaipur. Bajaj shot scores of 69, 68, 67 over three days to beat his nearest competitors Mandeo Singh Pathania and Akshay Sharma by three shots.
Two years later, Bajaj lost a playoff at the same event to Akshay Sharma to finish second. In 2016, he led the field after the first round of the Asian Tour's Qualifying School Final Stage.
Post-2018, Bajaj has reduced the number of events that he plays professionally to concentrate on teaching golf at Noida Golf Course. He also runs an online golf equipment company called Golf Garage India.
2008 Jaypee Amateur Golf Tournament
2009 Samarvir Sahi Amateur
2010 Chandigarh Open
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Eisenhower Trophy (representing India): 2010
Asian Games (representing India): 2010
South Asian Games (representing India): 2010 |
51076130 | Tiffany Chan | 2016-07-15 00:09:25+00:00 | Tiffany Chan, born Chan Tsz Ching, (Chinese: 陳芷澄; born 12 September 1993) is a professional golfer from Hong Kong.
Chan attended Daytona State College where she was a two-time NJCAA champion. She played for the University of Southern California in 2016 and 2017.
Chan played on the Hong Kong team in the Espirito Santo Trophy (World Amateur Team Championship) three times (2010, 2012, 2014) and the Asian Games twice (2010, 2014).
In 2016, Chan won the Hong Kong Ladies Open on the Ladies Asian Golf Tour.
Chan qualified for and attended the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, representing Hong Kong.
Chan turned professional in 2017 and competed on the Symetra Tour. She earned her 2018 LPGA Tour card through qualifying school.
2010 Hong Kong Ladies Close, Hong Kong Junior Open
2011 Hong Kong Close Amateur, Faldo Series (Hong Kong) Qualifying
2012 Hong Kong Ladies Close, Jack Kramer Memorial, China Amateur Open
2013 Hatter Classic
2014 North Florida Invitational, JMU Eagle Landing Invite, MSU Ocala Spring Invitational, NJCAA National Championship, World University Championship, LPGA Xavier Invitational, FIU Pat Bradley Invitational
2015 FGCU Eagle Invitational, Hurricane Invitational, MSU Ocala Spring Invitational, NJCAA Region 8 Championship, NJCAA National Championship
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2015 TLPGA Future Open (as an amateur)
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2016 Hong Kong Ladies Open (as an amateur)
Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Hong Kong): 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016
Patsy Hankins Trophy (representing Asia/Pacific): 2016 (winners) |
39302475 | Ariya Jutanugarn | 2013-05-05 00:21:58+00:00 | Ariya Jutanugarn (Thai: เอรียา จุฑานุกาล, RTGS: Eriya Chuthanukan, pronounced [ʔēː.rīː.jāː t͡ɕùʔ.tʰāː.núʔ.kāːn]; born 23 November 1995) is a Thai professional golfer who plays on the American-based LPGA Tour. She was born in Bangkok. She is the first golfer, male or female, from Thailand to win a major championship. She became the number one ranked golfer in the Women's World Golf Rankings in June 2017.
Jutanugarn has an older sister, Moriya, who is also a professional golfer. Their parents are father Somboon and mother Narumon and they have four older half-siblings through their father. The two sisters often play matches together and travel with their parents, who handle their business and financial affairs. The parents own a professional golf shop at the Rose Garden Golf Course near Bangkok.
Jutanugarn qualified for the 2007 Honda LPGA Thailand at age 11, making her the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA Tour event. As of early May 2013, she had played in three LPGA tournaments and four Ladies European Tour (LET) tournaments and had five top-4 finishes. In 2012, she was winner of the American Junior Golf Association (AFGA) girl Player of the Year for the second consecutive year. She turned professional at the end of 2012 and joined the Ladies European Tour in 2013.
Jutanugarn has an aggressive and fearless playing style. At the 2013 Honda LPGA Thailand, she led by two shots going to the final hole and lost by one shot to Korea's Inbee Park. She placed 4th one week later at the HSBC Women's Champions in Singapore. A few weeks later, she won her first professional tournament at the LET's Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco. The win put her on top of the LET Order of Merit (money list). She led the first two days at the Kingsmill Championship in Williamsburg, Virginia in May 2013. She shot a 7-under-par on the first day.
In a practice round at the 2013 Wegmans LPGA Championship, Jutanugarn injured her shoulder by tumbling down an incline while chasing her sister Moriya with a water bottle. The injury required corrective surgery, which was performed in Bangkok.
Jutanugarn finished T-3 at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn her tour card for 2015. At the 2016 ANA Inspiration, she had a two-stroke lead with three holes left and closed with three bogeys to finish fourth.
At the 2016 Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic, Jutanugarn earned her first LPGA Tour win and became the first Thai winner on this tour. She went on to win the next two LPGA tournaments, thereby becoming the first player in LPGA history to win her first three titles in consecutive fashion. Jutanugarn won her first major championship with a three-stroke victory at the 2016 Women's British Open.
Despite a mid-season slump in 2017 where Jutanugarn missed five cuts plus one withdrawal in a seven-tournament stretch, she still managed to win her 6th and 7th Tour titles. Her second Tour title of the year was the CME Group Tour Championship, the last event of the year, where she won $500,000 after finishing the weekend with back-to-back 67s. In addition to her two Tour wins, Jutanugarn racked up three runner-up finishes, a third place showing, and a total of 10 top-10 appearances which saw her win $1,549,858 and bringing her career total to $4,583,332. This was the second consecutive season where she earned more than $1,500,000.
In 2018, Jutanugarn won three times, including the U.S. Women's Open on 3 June 2018. On 18 November 2018, Jutanugarn won the season-long Race to the CME Globe and the $1,000,000 bonus. For the 2018 season, Jutanugarn won the LPGA Player of the Year, the LPGA Vare Trophy with a scoring average of 69.415, the Leaders Top 10 competition with 17 top-10 finishes and the LPGA money title at $2,743,949. She also set single-season records in rounds in the 60s (57) and birdies (470). She ended the 2018 season ranked number one in the world.
In May 2021, Jutanugarn won the Honda LPGA Thailand in her home country. It was her first victory since 2018. After the win, she told media that she had considered quitting golf during her winless seasons in 2019 and 2020.
2011 U.S. Girls' Junior, AJGA Rolex Girls Junior, Junior PGA, Junior orange bowl international
2012 Canadian Women's Amateur, AJGA Rolex Girls Junior, Junior PGA, AJGA Polo Golf Junior Classic, Women's Western Amateur, Thunderbird international Junior
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LPGA Tour playoff record (3–2)
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^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013.
LA = low amateur
CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
"T" = tied
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Most consecutive cuts made – 20 (2018 ANA – 2022 Chevron)
Longest streak of top-10s – 3 (2016 British Open – 2017 ANA)
^ Official as of 2023 season
*Includes matchplay and other tournaments without a cut.
Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.
Amateur
Asian Games (representing Thailand): 2010
Professional
International Crown (representing Thailand): 2014, 2016, 2018, 2023 (winners)
Amata Friendship Cup (representing Thailand): 2018 (winners)
2016 – Companion (Fourth Class) of The Most Admirable Order of the Direkgunabhorn
2017 – Commander (Third Class) of The Most Admirable Order of the Direkgunabhorn |
40679192 | Masahiro Kawamura | 2013-10-01 16:19:06+00:00 | Masahiro Kawamura (川村 昌弘, Kawamura Masahiro, born 25 June 1993) is a Japanese professional golfer who plays on the European Tour, having previously played on the Japan Golf Tour and the Asian Tour.
Kawamura won his first title in 2013 at the Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open on the Japan Golf Tour, a tournament also co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour.
In November 2020, Kawamura recorded his best finish to his European Tour career when he finished runner-up at the Aphrodite Hills Cyprus Showdown; one shot behind Robert MacIntyre. He also finished runner-up at the 2023 Magical Kenya Open.
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Japan Golf Tour playoff record (0–1)
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CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Results not in chronological order before 2015.
"T" = Tied
Amateur
Eisenhower Trophy (representing Japan): 2010
Professional
Amata Friendship Cup (representing Japan): 2018 |
26328099 | Kunshan South railway station | 2010-02-24 21:38:49+00:00 | The Kunshan South railway station (simplified Chinese: 昆山南站; traditional Chinese: 崑山南站; pinyin: Kūnshān-nán zhàn) is a railway station on the Jinghu High-Speed Railway and the Huning Intercity Rail. The station is located in Kunshan City, Jiangsu, China.
The Kunshan South Station has 2 platforms and 6 tracks on the Shanghai–Nanjing Intercity Railway, as well as 2 platforms and 6 tracks on the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway. (The two rail lines have the same track alignment in the central Kunshan City). The new station is located about a kilometer to the south from the Kunshan Station on the "old" Jinghu Railway.
The construction of the station started on July 21, 2009. The Station opened on July 1, 2010. |
27365367 | Shanghai–Nanjing intercity railway | 2010-05-15 17:57:22+00:00 | The Shanghai–Nanjing intercity railway or Huning intercity railway (simplified Chinese: 沪宁城际铁路; traditional Chinese: 滬寧城際鐵路; pinyin: Hù–Níng Chéngjì Tiělù) is a 301-kilometer (187 mi)-long high-speed rail line between Shanghai and Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province. Hù and Níng are shorthand Chinese names for Shanghai and Nanjing, respectively. The Huning intercity high-speed railway largely follows the route of the preexisting Nanjing-Shanghai section of the conventional Beijing–Shanghai railway and the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway. Construction of this high-speed railway began in July 2008. The line went into test operations in early April 2010, and opened for full service on July 1, 2010. The line has a design speed of 350 km/h (217 mph). The journey time between the two cities has been shortened from 120 minutes to 73 minutes on nonstop trains.
According to the arrangements of related departments, 120 pairs of trains are operating on the line, and the time interval between services is 5 minutes at the shortest.
The railway links major cities in the Yangtze River Delta, including Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, and Zhenjiang, effectively making the southern Jiangsu city-belt operate like a single metropolitan region.
The Shanghai–Nanjing intercity high-speed railway is also used by the majority of high-speed trains leaving Shanghai's terminals for Wuhan, Yichang, Chongqing, and Chengdu thus making it de facto a part of the Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu passenger-dedicated railway.
The Shanghai–Nanjing high-speed railway has 21 stations altogether along its route. In both Shanghai and Nanjing, this railway's trains may use either one of two different terminals (Shanghai railway station or Shanghai Hongqiao railway station in Shanghai, and Nanjing railway station or Nanjing South railway station in Nanjing).
Due to the alignment of the rail line, some stations along it are shared with the conventional Beijing–Shanghai Railway (Shanghai, Suzhou, Zhejiang, Nanjing), while three others are shared with the new Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway (Shanghai Hongqiao, Kunshan South, Nanjing South). Due to comparatively frequent spacing of stations on the Shanghai–Nanjing high-speed railway, quite a few of them are situated at locations not served by either of the two other railways.
List of stations:
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Nanjing City
Nanjing
Xianlin
Zhenjiang City
Baohuashan (closed 10 April 2020)
Zhenjiang (bus connection available to Yangzhou)
Dantu
Danyang
Changzhou City
Changzhou
Qishuyan
Wuxi City
Huishan
Wuxi
Wuxi New District
Suzhou City
Suzhou New District
Suzhou
Suzhou Industrial Park
Yangcheng Lake
Kunshan South
Huaqiao
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Anting North
Shanghai Hongqiao
Nanxiang North
Shanghai West
Shanghai
At Shanghai Hongqiao, some trains arriving from Nanjing continue to the Shanghai–Hangzhou High-Speed Railway, providing a one-seat service along the entire Nanjing–Shanghai–Hangzhou line. |
26539498 | Suzhou Industrial Park railway station | 2010-03-13 15:47:36+00:00 | Suzhou Industrial Park railway station or Suzhou Yuanqu railway station (Chinese: 苏州园区站; pinyin: Sūzhōu Yuánqū zhàn) is a railway station of Shanghai–Nanjing Intercity Railway located in Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
This station's area is 8120 square metres. It has three floors (2 above ground and 1 underground). It has 5 tracks and 3 platforms.
To enter the station, passengers can use the escalator from the ground floor to the ticket office or to the waiting hall on the 2nd floor. Passengers can exit the station through the underground passage to reach the bus station north or west of the square. There is a designated taxi pick-up area underground.
This station has 11 bus routes:
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It is served by Line 3 and will be served by Line 8 of Suzhou Rail Transit. |
26328098 | Suzhou North railway station | 2010-02-24 21:38:47+00:00 | The Suzhou North railway station (Chinese: 苏州北站) is a high-speed railway station in Suzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China. It will be served by the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway. It is 10.5 kilometers away from Suzhou railway station. |
33592218 | Suzhou RunHua Global Center | 2011-10-31 13:35:46+00:00 | The Suzhou RunHua Global Center (Chinese: 苏州盛高环球大厦), formerly the SPG Global Towers, are a pair of skyscrapers in Suzhou, China. Groundbreaking on the buildings began in 2007, and they were completed in 2010. Building A is 282 m (925 ft) to the architectural tip with 49 floors, and is used mostly for office space, while tower B is 240 m (790 ft) to the architectural tip with 54 floors, and is residential.
The towers bear a striking resemblance to the One Liberty Place skyscraper complex in Philadelphia, United States. |
27389500 | Killing of Aiyana Jones | 2010-05-18 01:23:09+00:00 | Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones (July 20, 2002 – May 16, 2010) was a seven-year-old African American girl from Detroit's East Side who was shot in the neck and killed by police officer Joseph Weekley during a raid conducted by the Detroit Police Department's Special Response Team. The Team was targeting a suspect in the apartment a floor above Jones' on May 16, 2010. Her death drew national media attention and led U.S. Representative John Conyers to ask U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for a federal investigation into the incident.
Officer Joseph Weekley was charged in connection with Jones' killing. In October 2011, he was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013.
His retrial began in September 2014. On October 3, the judge, Cynthia Gray Hathaway, dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley, leaving him on trial for only one charge: recklessly discharging a firearm.
On October 10, the second trial ended in another mistrial.
On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor dropped the last remaining charge against Weekley, ensuring there would not be a third trial.
On May 14, 2010, Southeastern High School senior Jerian Blake was shot and killed near the intersection of Mack and Beniteau streets on Detroit's east side. By the end of the following day, police had identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in Blake's death and obtained a warrant to search 4054 Lillibridge St, where Owens was believed to be hiding.
The building was a duplex; Owens's girlfriend LaKrysta Sanders lived in the upstairs apartment, while her mother and Aiyana Jones' grandmother, Mertilla Jones, lived in the downstairs apartment. At the time of the incident Aiyana Jones was asleep on the couch in the front room of the downstairs apartment. Owens was in the upstairs apartment.
An A&E reality TV television crew was accompanying the police Special Response Team gathering footage for The First 48. Weekley had been featured on another A&E police reality show, Detroit SWAT.
Two weeks prior to the incident, a Detroit police officer had been killed in the line of duty while attempting to arrest a suspect.
Owens was later found guilty of Blake's murder.
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Aiyana Jones was the daughter of Charles Jones and Dominika Stanley. She was one of three children of the couple and had four halfsiblings.
According to press reports, police were on the scene by 12:40 a.m. on Sunday, May 16, 2010. In an attempt to distract the occupants, police fired a flash grenade through the front window of the lower apartment, where Aiyana Jones was sleeping. Officer Weekley claimed that the flash grenade subsequently blinded his view of the person on the couch in the living room.
Police officers, bystanders, and residents of the home disagreed about the events that followed. According to reports, seconds after entering the house, Weekley fired the fatal shot. He pushed his way inside, protected by a ballistic shield. Weekley claimed Aiyana Jones' paternal grandmother, Mertilla Jones, attempted to slap his MP5 submachine gun, causing it to fire. The bullet struck Aiyana killing her. Weekley stated, "A woman inside grabbed my gun. It fired. The bullet hit a child."
Mertilla Jones said she reached for her granddaughter when the grenade came through the window, not for the officer's gun, because the flash grenade had set the child on fire. She said she made no contact with any officers.
After the shot was fired, Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. Police arrested Mertilla, administered tests for drugs and gunpowder, and released her Sunday morning. At Weekley's retrial in 2014, it was disclosed that Mertilla's fingerprints were not found on Weekley's gun. Geoffrey Fieger, the family's lawyer, said the police fired the shot that struck Aiyana from outside the home, possibly through the open front door.
Weekley was a member of Detroit's SWAT team and a frequent subject on the A&E Network (A&E), whose film crews were also filming the investigation for the documentary TV series The First 48.
Chauncey Owens, the suspect who the raid was intended to apprehend and boyfriend of Aiyana's aunt LaKrystal Sanders, was found in the upper-floor apartment of the duplex and surrendered without incident.
After a one-year internal and federal investigation, on October 4, 2011, a grand jury indicted Weekley on involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment with a gun. He admitted in his first trial that, "It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl." His trial was scheduled for October and finally took place in June 2013 but resulted in a deadlocked jury. A fresh trial was scheduled for December 2013, but actually began in September 2014.
Allison Howard, a videographer and photographer with A&E who was also present at the raid, was indicted on obstruction of justice and perjury for allegedly "lying to prosecutors about copying, showing or giving video footage that she shot of the raid to third parties causing a significant delay in the investigation of the case". In June 2013, Howard pleaded "no contest" to the obstruction of justice charge, and the perjury charge was dismissed. Allison Howard was sentenced to two years of probation in July 2013, and fined $2,000.
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Weekley's first trial ended in a mistrial in June 2013. Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway presided over the case. Aiyana's case would be the longest presiding case that Hathaway had in more than 20 years of being on the bench.
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Weekley's retrial started in September 2014.
He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and "negligent firing of a weapon causing death".
On the second day of trial, September 24, LaKrystal Sanders, who lived on the upper floor of the house where Aiyana was killed, testified.
Sanders was Aiyana Jones's paternal aunt, the girlfriend of Chauncey Owens, and the daughter of Mertilla Jones. While Sanders was on the stand, Judge Cynthia Hathaway told her that she (Sanders) was being "disrespectful."
Aiyana's mother Dominika Stanley, and paternal grandmother Mertilla testified, and both had "emotional outbursts." After the grandmother's outburst, the judge ordered the jury out of the room and the grandmother was escorted from the court room screaming. Because of Mertilla Jones's outburst, the judge stopped the trial until September 29.
On September 29, Weekley's lawyer asked the judge for a mistrial, citing Mertilla Jones's conduct on the stand the week before. The judge denied the motion for mistrial, saying she believed the jury could still be "impartial." However, the judge also said if Mertilla Jones and the other relatives continued to have outbursts on the stand, then she would declare a mistrial.
On October 3, the judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charge against Weekley. On October 10, the judge declared a mistrial due to jury deadlock. On January 28, 2015, county prosecutor Kym Worthy dismissed the last remaining charge against Weekley, the misdemeanor of 'careless discharge of a firearm causing death'. Weekley will not go to a third trial.
Jurors
The jury claimed that race did not affect the decision of their verdict. The jury stall resulted in seven voting "not guilty" and five voting "guilty".
Aiyana Jones' funeral was held in the Second Ebenezer Church on May 22, 2010, in Detroit. Reverend Al Sharpton gave the eulogy. Charles Jones, Aiyana's father, wore a black suit, pink tie and pink handkerchief in remembrance of his daughter as pink was her favorite color. The casket was white and was afterwards driven to the grave by horse-drawn carriage. She was buried on the grounds.
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A civil rights lawsuit questioned Weekley's account of the incident, claiming the grenade had gone through the window and struck Aiyana. The lawsuit asserts that police were outside of the home where they "blindly fired random shots," and one of the bullets fatally struck the 7-year-old child in the neck. The lawsuit charges Rowe and Weekley for the unlawful use of excessive force. Furthermore, the police department and unnamed supervisors of the Special Response Team in the city of Detroit were being sued for violating the civil rights of Aiyana Jones through their training and policy procedure. The family is seeking $7.5 million in damages and a jury trial conceded by the court filing. Two days after Jones's death, on May 18, 2010, attorney Geoffrey Fieger filed lawsuits on behalf of her family against A&E and the police.
Fieger video claim
Attorney Fieger claimed that footage, from an undisclosed source, showed that the lethal bullet came from outside the home, rather than inside, as police said. A spokesman for city police demanded that Fieger share the tape's contents with Michigan State Police investigators. Fieger responded by saying he does not have the supposed video, which he claims was made by the A&E Network reality show The First 48. Michigan State Police Detective Tawana Powell testified during the 2014 trial that the investigation discovered that the video Fieger was talking about did not exist.
Joseph Weekley Follow-Up
The Detroit Police Department had decided to withdraw Officer Weekley from active duty shortly after the shooting on May 16, 2010. On April 2, 2015, nearly five years following Jones's death, Officer Weekley was returned to active duty as a Detroit police officer in the Criminal Investigations Bureau (he had been on the Special Response Team). Police Chief James Craig stated, "He'll be in a limited duty capacity. He won't be in the field."
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In September 2013, J. Cole published a music video dedicated to Jones for his song Crooked Smile, featuring TLC on YouTube.
In May 2016, BlackMattersUS held a small rally in memory of Jones. Families of people killed by police officers and activists gathered at the feet of the Spirit of Detroit statue in front of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in Detroit. On July 20, 2016, Detroit police arrested six unknown individuals for chaining themselves to a precinct of the Detroit Police Department, their protest honoring Jones. The Detroit chapter of the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) and Black Lives Matter Detroit organized the rally on what would have been her 14th birthday. Protestors pleaded for the termination of Officer Weekley as he had been selected to co-chair the Detroit Police Department's Committee on Race and Equality. Grandmother Mertilla Jones said, "Accountability needs to be expected from cases like this, because cops can't keep killing people and getting away with it." |
27223178 | Murder of Yeardley Love | 2010-05-04 14:40:23+00:00 | The murder of Yeardley Love took place on May 3, 2010, in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. Love, a University of Virginia (UVA) women's lacrosse student-athlete, was found unresponsive in her Charlottesville apartment, and later that day, UVA men's lacrosse player George Wesley Huguely V was arrested by Charlottesville police. Huguely was tried and found guilty of Love's murder, receiving a 23-year prison sentence.
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Yeardley Reynolds Love was born on July 17, 1987, in Baltimore, Maryland, to John and Sharon Love. She resided in Cockeysville, Maryland. At Notre Dame Preparatory School, Love was a member of the varsity lacrosse and field hockey teams all four years, and was an All-County lacrosse player in 2006. She was admitted to the University of Virginia (UVA), where she majored in political science and minored in Spanish. She was also a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta. As a member of the UVA women's lacrosse team, the Cavaliers, Love scored her first goal in her first game, playing against Virginia Tech. She started in nine of her sixteen games in 2009, and in three of her fifteen games in 2010.
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George Wesley Huguely V was born on September 17, 1987, in Washington, D.C., to George Wesley Huguely IV and Marta Sanson Lavarraque, who was first married to Andrew Murphy and whom she subsequently divorced. Huguely attended the all-boys Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland, and resided in Chevy Chase, Maryland. At Landon, Huguely played football, and was an All-American lacrosse player. During his senior year at Landon, he was the quarterback of the football team.
In 2007, Huguely was charged with underage possession of alcohol in Florida, where his family owns a vacation house. In 2008, he was arrested for public drunkenness and resisting arrest outside the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity house located at Washington and Lee University. Police tased Huguely to subdue him. In that incident, he received a suspended sentence of sixty days and six months of probation, was fined, and was ordered to perform community service and participate in a drug treatment program. He did not disclose this arrest to UVA, despite a requirement to do so. During the 2010 season, Huguely was a midfielder for the Virginia Cavaliers men's lacrosse team. He majored in anthropology.
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Love and Huguely met their freshman year, and were often seen hanging out together with their teammates. They had been dating for more than two years by the time of spring 2010, just prior to her murder. It was Huguely's aggressive behavior, triggered by alcohol, that caused their relationship to be on and off. In 2009, Huguely attacked a teammate after hearing that he had kissed Love. Before her murder, Huguely sent threatening text messages and emails to Love.
Around 2:15 a.m. EDT on May 3, 2010, Charlottesville police were called to Love's apartment on 14th Street in the University Corner district. At the scene, Love was found unresponsive, and was pronounced dead. The 9-1-1 call from Love's roommate reported that she suffered an alcohol overdose, but detectives noticed "obvious physical injuries to her body" upon arrival. The suspect, George Huguely, was living next door.
On May 4, Huguely was charged with murdering Love, and was held in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. At a May 6 court appearance, his attorney, Fran Lawrence, stated: “Ms. Love's death was not intended, but an accident with a tragic outcome.” Huguely appeared at the hearing via video.
Huguely and Love dated over the course of two years, but had broken up. At the Charlottesville police station, Huguely waived his Miranda rights, and narrated graphic details of his assaulting Love, stating that he kicked open her locked bedroom door, and “shook Love, and her head repeatedly hit the wall.” Huguely admitted that he took, and intended to destroy, her Apple laptop computer when he fled her apartment. Evidence that police seized from Huguely's apartment included two Apple laptop computers, a spiral notebook, two white socks, bathroom and entryway rugs, and a Virginia lacrosse shirt with a red stain. Investigators also followed leads of domestic violence between Huguely and Love, including threatening email and text messages that he sent to her post-breakup; a violent encounter between the couple that was broken up by several visiting lacrosse players from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and an incident in which Huguely attacked Love while drunk, whereafter Huguely claimed he did not recall hitting her. An unnamed student reported that the couple broke up after the drunken Huguely assaulted Love.
A preliminary hearing for Huguely on a first-degree murder charge was held April 11, 2011, in Charlottesville District Court. Huguely continued to be held without bond at the Charlottesville jail. On January 7, 2012, prosecutors added five additional charges: felony murder, robbery of a residence, burglary, entering a house with an intent to commit a felony, and grand larceny. On April 18, 2011, a grand jury indicted Huguely on first-degree and felony murder charges, and a trial date of February 6, 2012, was set.
Closing arguments were made on February 18, and jury deliberations began on Tuesday, February 22. After deliberating for about nine hours, the jury delivered a verdict of guilty of second-degree murder and grand larceny. After a further two hours of deliberation, the jury recommended a 26-year sentence: 25 years for second-degree murder, and one year for grand larceny. The jury ruled out the "heat of passion" clause that characterizes voluntary manslaughter. A few of the jurors who spoke to the news media cited the importance of the videotape of Huguely's police interrogation, which was a central part of prosecutor Dave Chapman's case; the jury found that “pretty much every opportunity he had, he lied first. He was not telling the truth on several occasions.”
On May 8, 2012, non-jurors for the first time were able to see Huguely in a 64-minute video, in which he was told of Love's death. As he was interrogated by police, Huguely admitted, “I may have grabbed her neck,” and “maybe I shook her a little bit.” He then retells the argument and fight that happened in Love's bedroom, demonstrating how he shook her and kicked her door. Eventually, the detective informs Huguely that Love is dead. Huguely reacts in disbelief, and laments, “Kill me.” Because of the raw emotions seen in this tape, the jury was convinced that Love's murder was not premeditated.
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On August 30, 2012, Huguely was formally sentenced to 23 years in prison by Judge Edward Hogshire, with sentences of 23 years for the second-degree murder conviction, and one year for the grand larceny conviction to run concurrently.
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The Court of Appeals of Virginia issued a ruling on April 23, 2013, which granted Huguely an appeal based on two key issues. The court agreed with the defense's argument that Huguely's right to counsel was violated when one of his attorneys, Rhonda Quagliana, fell ill and missed a day of trial. The court also granted the appeal based on the failure to exclude "Juror 32," because of possible doubts about that juror's impartiality. The Court of Appeals then heard oral arguments from Huguely's new lawyer, former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, on December 11, 2013. Clement argued for a new trial, arguing Huguely was denied his right to an attorney when one of his two lawyers fell ill during the trial. Nine days into the trial, Huguely co-counsel Quagliana became visibly ill with stomach flu, but the trial judge refused to grant a continuance, even though Huguely objected; co-counsel Frances Lawrence was asked by the trial judge whether he could proceed without Quagliana, and affirmed he could. In addition to raising questions about "Juror 32," Huguely's appeal team also objected to the trial judge's refusal to allow "blame the victim" questions of jurors, and said the jury was not properly instructed on the definition of "malice," an element in a second-degree murder conviction. The Court of Appeals ruled against Huguely on March 4, 2014, affirming the second-degree murder conviction. In November 2014, the Virginia Supreme Court declined to consider Huguely's appeal.
More than four years after Huguely was sent to prison, his mother, Marta Murphy, spoke out. Murphy said that her son should have been convicted of a lesser charge and face less prison time, as the murder was a "drunken accident." Murphy concluded that Huguely had no intent to murder Love, and that Love's death was caused by injuries sustained from falling off the bed. Marta Murphy claimed she waited to speak out in respect for Love's family. Murphy believes that the criminal justice system has proven to be wrong, and did not come to the correct verdict concerning her son.
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In late September 2012, Huguely was moved from the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail to the Powhatan Reception and Classification Center. On October 15, 2012, he was assigned to Keen Mountain Correctional Center, a high-security state prison in the far southwestern corner of Virginia; Keen is a Level 4 facility in Virginia's six-tier system of rating prison security. A spokesperson for the Virginia Department of Corrections said Huguely must serve at least a year of his 23-year sentence with no major infractions before the state would consider allowing him to transfer to the Maryland prison system (where he could be closer to his parents' home in Bethesda). In early November 2013, Huguely was transferred from the Keen Mountain Correctional Center to River North Correctional Center in Independence, Virginia. The River North facility opened in October 2013, and is a Level 4 facility meant for long-term prisoners. As of December 2016, he was being held at the Augusta Correctional Center in Craigsville. Huguely is currently held at the Beaumont Correctional Center, a level 5 facility, which requires no disruptive behavior for at least past 24 months prior to consideration for a transfer to any less secure facility. His release date is June 17, 2030, at which time he will be 42 years old.
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On April 26, 2012, Sharon Love filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Huguely, asking for $29.45 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages. On May 1, 2012, she filed a $29.45 million wrongful death lawsuit against UVA, men's lacrosse head coach Dom Starsia, associate head coach Marc Van Arsdale, and UVA director of athletics Craig Littlepage, alleging gross negligence on the part of the coaching staff. The suit alleged: “It was well known to the players and coaches on the UVA men's and women's lacrosse teams that Huguely's alcohol abuse and erratic, aggressive behavior was increasingly getting out of control, especially his obsession with Love, and his aggressiveness and threats to Love.” But despite this, no action was taken “to discipline Huguely, to suspend or remove Huguely from the lacrosse team, to refer Huguely for treatment or counseling for alcohol/substance abuse or anger/aggressive behavior management, or to subsequently report Huguely's potential risk of violence, pursuant to the UVA Policy on Preventing and Addressing Threats or Acts of Violence.”
The Love family dropped its suit against UVA and its coaches on July 23, 2013, with no reason given. The wrongful death suit against Huguely was scheduled to go to trial September 29, 2014, but after multiple delays, was pushed back to a trial date of July 30, 2018; ultimately, shortly before the scheduled trial date, the civil suit was dropped (dismissed without prejudice) by Love's family on June 11, 2018.
The Love family refiled its suit against George Huguely in 2018, and a trial began in Charlottesville District Court on April 25, 2022. On May 2, a jury found Huguely liable, and awarded $15 million in compensatory damages, split evenly between Sharon Love and Love's sister, Lexie Love Hodges.
At a May 6, 2010 candlelight vigil, UVA president John T. Casteen III said: “My hope for Yeardley, and for you, is that her dying inspires an anger, a sense of outrage that engenders determination here; and wherever Yeardley's name is recognized, that no woman, no person in this place, this community, this state, our nation need either fear for her safety or experience violence for any reason.” On May 8, 2010, a funeral Mass for Love was held at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen that was attended by around two thousand people.
On May 10, 2010, UVA women's lacrosse coach Julie Myers explained the team planned to go forward with its role in the NCAA tournament: “Let's do it the way that Yards would want us to do it.” In their respective tournaments, the men's team advanced to the semifinal, and the women's team advanced to the quarterfinal.
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Following her death, UVA retired Love's jersey number 1. Within months of her murder, her family established the One Love Foundation to raise awareness about domestic violence, especially relationship violence.
In 2014, the One Love Foundation released a film titled Escalation that has since become required viewing for student-athletes at a number of universities. Since 2016, the One Love Foundation has collaborated with the National Football League (NFL).
Wertheim, L. Jon (May 17, 2010). "Why Did Yeardley Love Have to Die?". Sports Illustrated. Vol. 112, no. 21. pp. 28–34. Archived from the original on May 4, 2017.
Three years after her daughter's murder, Sharon Love steadfast in her faith Catholic Review May 3, 2013 |
27434082 | 2010 West Memphis police shootings | 2010-05-22 04:23:37+00:00 | Two police officers in West Memphis, Arkansas were shot and killed during a traffic stop on May 20, 2010. Police killed two suspects, 45-year-old Jerry R. Kane Jr. (b. 1964), and his 16-year-old son Joseph T. Kane (b. 1993). The two were later identified as members of the sovereign citizen movement. Footage of the shooting and ensuing shootout with police was shown in a season 5 episode of World's Wildest Police Videos.
Around 11:36 a.m. CDT, a white Plymouth Voyager minivan traveling east on Interstate 40 toward Airport Road was pulled over by West Memphis police officer Bill Evans. According to a spokesperson for the Arkansas State Police, Officer Evans was "running drug interdiction"; the vehicle, driven by Jerry Kane, had unusual Ohio license plates. Sergeant Brandon Paudert provided backup for Evans. As a sovereign citizen, Jerry Kane did not have a driver's license and his van was not properly registered. He was also carrying a brick of marijuana and there were two arrest warrants for him, one in Ohio and one in New Mexico.
Upon Paudert's arrival at the scene, Evans attempted to frisk Jerry Kane. Suddenly, Kane turned and attacked Evans in a scuffle down an embankment into a ditch. At that moment, Joe Kane emerged from the passenger door of the van and opened fire with an AK-47 variant. Paudert ran to the rear of Evans' police cruiser and returned fire with three shots from his .40-caliber Glock 22 handgun through the windows and taillight of Evans' cruiser, in an attempt to hit Kane firing from the other side. He then took cover behind the hood of his cruiser which was parked directly behind Evans' cruiser. Paudert fired four more times at Kane, but missed. Kane then fired multiple shots from his AK-47 variant through the hood of the car, striking Paudert in the head with a ricochet.
Both officers were fatally wounded; Paudert, 39, died at the scene, and Evans, 38, died at the hospital. The suspects returned to their van and sped away. Vincent Brown, a FedEx driver from Houston, witnessed the shooting and called 911; neither officer could make an "officer down" call due to their fatal injuries.
Approximately 2 hours after the incident, Crittenden County Sheriff Dick Busby and Chief Enforcement Officer W. A. Wren stopped a minivan believed to be the suspects' at a Walmart Supercenter. Officers Busby and Wren were wounded in gunfire exchanged with the suspects and were later hospitalized in critical condition.
Wildlife Officer Michael K. Neal, responding to the brief standoff, rammed the suspect's vehicle, preventing their escape and saving the lives of Busby and Wren. Officer Neal exchanged fire with the Kanes through his windshield using his patrol rifle, killing Jerry Kane and wounding Joe Kane before exiting his vehicle and continuing the gun battle. Dozens of officers then surrounded the van, and after several more minutes of gunfire, Joe Kane was shot to death by police. For his heroics, Officer Neal was awarded Law Enforcement Officer of the Year by the National Rifle Association of America (NRA). Michael K. Neal's Truck is on permanent display at the National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington D.C.
Jerry Kane and Joseph Kane were identified by Arkansas State Police the day after the shootings.
A lifelong resident of Ohio, Jerry Kane ran a debt evasion business and traveled the country giving paid seminars on methods of "forestalling foreclosures", lecturing that money and home loans are fictitious, and that people can simply sign a quitclaim deed and live in their houses mortgage-free. His concepts were based on the fraudulent schemes advocated by the redemption movement.
According to his girlfriend, Kane's resentment of the government began in the late 1990s, when one of his daughters died at the age of six weeks of infant death syndrome and an autopsy was performed against his wishes. Kane grew distrustful of authorities, gave up his driver's license and employment as a trucker, and became increasingly antagonistic toward Ohio law enforcement. Based on a 2004 conversation with Jerry Kane, Clark County Sheriff Gene Kelly had expressed concern that Kane would pose a dangerous threat to law enforcement officers. According to Kelly, Kane had complained about being "enslaved" by a judge who had sentenced him to serve six days of community service for driving with an expired license plate and no seat belt.
In 2006, Kane was indicted for forgery and theft of a car by deception in Montgomery County, Ohio, and there was an outstanding warrant at the time of his death. Kane had said that driver's licences were a "debt contract", and a month before the shooting, he was arrested in New Mexico for driving without a license. On an internet radio show, Kane said he was picked up at a "Nazi checkpoint", spent 47 hours in custody, and planned to sue for $100 per hour of custody. In fact, he was released on $1,500 bond and did not appear for his court date three days before the shooting.
Around 2006, Kane started posting about "redemption" theories on a sovereign citizen forum. In 2007, his wife died of pneumonia. Around 2008, at the height of the mortgage crisis, Kane shifted from being an Internet poster to starting his own debt-elimination seminars business.
Joseph Kane traveled the country with his father, whom he assisted on his seminars. He was homeschooled and by age 9, could recite the Bill of Rights and carried a toy gun everywhere he went. According to Sheriff Kelly, "the child had been taught not to trust law enforcement."
Jerry Kane had recently begun a relationship with a Florida woman whom he had met at one of his seminars, and who also adhered to sovereign citizen ideology: shortly before the shooting, she had been involved in a protracted legal battle with her county of residence because she refused to pay a $20 dog-licensing fee.
Jerry Kane was unsuccessful as a motivational speaker; his seminars were sparsely attended and he had not gained much notoriety in the sovereign citizen environment. He had decided to cut his tour off early and, when the shooting took place, was en route to Florida where his last seminar was scheduled. After that, he planned to settle in Florida and start a new life there with his girlfriend.
According to the autopsy, officers and eyewitnesses testimony, Officer Evans was shot 14 times in the chest, back, and arms. Sgt. Paudert was shot 11 times in the head, arms, legs, both hands and shoulders. Officer Neal shot both Kanes multiple times: Joseph Kane in the chest, head, back, and arms; and Jerry Kane Jr. in the back, arms, and legs. Crittenden County Sheriff Dick Busby was hit once in the left shoulder. Chief Enforcement Officer W. A. Wren was hit multiple times in the abdomen. |
36300702 | 40 y Tantos | 2012-07-01 23:13:16+00:00 | 40 y Tantos (International Title: 40 Something) is a Chilean telenovela produced by TVN and directed by María Eugenia Rencoret and Ítalo Galleani. The series was written by Marcelo Leonart, Ximena Carrera, Andrea Franco, Carla Stagno and José Fonseca.
Diego (Francisco Melo), Rosario (Francisca Imboden), Marco (Francisco Pérez-Bannen) and Miguel Elizalde (Matías Oviedo) are four siblings who live the crisis forty and have just lost their father. Diego, who is the oldest, is in charge of his father's company, Elizalde Communications, where he works with his two brothers, Rosario and Marco, and his assistant and lover, Susana Jerez (Mónica Godoy). After Loreto Estevez (Paola Volpato), his wife, caught him in the act of infidelity with his lover, he tries to win her love over again but Loreto asks for a divorce.
Rosario is a working single mother who has to deal with Diego as the chief of the family business and has to raise his son Cristóbal (Nicolás Brown), who is addicted to drugs and has connections with Joaquin Sarda (Andrés Velasco), his best friend and partner in the firm, who is going to marry Renata Santelices (Katyna Huberman).
Marco is a married gamer, who supports his family, and is immature as well as the only witness to the relationship between his niece, the daughter of Diego and Loreto, Fernanda Elizalde (Juanita Ringeling) and a professor of the university, Gaspar Mellado (Bastián Bodenhöfer), who is 30 years her senior.
Finally Miguel, the youngest brother, returns from abroad and learns of the death of his father. Miguel is supported by his brothers because he does not work and has to deal with the demons of a relationship he had with the wife of Marco, Tatiana (Claudia Burr), before he went abroad and which had a daughter, Camila (Javiera Osorio), which is supposed to be his brother.
Francisco Melo as Diego Elizalde
Paola Volpato as Loreto Estévez
Francisca Imboden as Rosario Elizalde
Francisco Pérez-Bannen as Marco Elizalde
Matías Oviedo as Miguel Elizalde
Claudia Burr as Tatiana Arizmendi
Nicolás Brown as Cristóbal Cuesta
Mónica Godoy as Susana Jerez
Andrés Velasco as Joaquín Sardá
Katyna Huberman as Renata Santelices
César Caillet as Génaro Monckeberg
Juanita Ringeling as Fernanda Elizalde
Bastián Bodenhöfer as Gaspar Mellado
Javiera Osorio as Camila Elizalde
Jorge Velasco as Damián Elizalde |
44898075 | Alguien que me quiera | 2014-12-31 02:47:26+00:00 | Alguien que me quiera (English: Someone to love me) is an Argentine serie tv produced by Pol-ka and broadcast by El Trece from February 1 to November 15, 2010.
Osvaldo Laport as Rodolfo Rivera
Andrea Del Boca as Rocío Mosconi / Ana Insúa
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez as Armando Cutuli
Viviana Saccone as Katia Pérez Alfonso
Susú Pecoraro as Paloma
Luisana Lopilato as Bianca Rivera
Marco Antonio Caponi as Renzo Peralta
Calu Rivero as Lola Rivera
Ludovico Di Santo as Teo Carrasco
Gerardo Romano as Roberto
María Leal as Malvina Andrade
Nacho Gadano as Mauro
Jorgelina Aruzzi as Josefina "Pepa" Andrade
Julia Calvo as Rita "Pina" Ayala
Francisco Donovan as Guillermo "Willy"
Sofía Elliot as Olivia.
Alejandro Awada as Sandro
Juan Palomino as Gastón Pineda
Vivian El Jaber as Brenda "Coca" Reinoso
Michel Gurfi as Nicolás Vega
Paula Morales as Lisa
Florencia Torrente as Mandy
Gastón Ricaud as Máximo
Chino Darín as Stuka
Diego Bugallo as Leonel
Andrea Campbell as Alicia Cutuli
Salo Pasik as Carmelo Vega
Natalia Lobo as Carola
María Fernanda Neil as Tasha Nuñez
Nicolas Pauls as Gonzalo
Diego Olivera as Bautista/Lucas
Pepe Monje as Nito "Super Nito"
Florencia Otero as Lucía
Tomás de las Heras as Tomás
Andrea Estévez as Analía
Sabrina Carballo as Jade
Nicolás Pauls as Pablo
Gustavo Conti as Pucho
Manuela Pal as Carolina
Luis Sabatini as Aguirre
Alejandra Darín as Clara
Luis Machín as Gustavo "Bambi" Melgarejo
Daniel Casablanca as Chito
Uruguay: Teledoce
Paraguay: Unicanal
Premio Martín Fierro 2010
Nominated - Best Original Musical Theme - Palito Ortega and Hilda Lizarazu
Nominated - Revelation - Calu Rivero
Kids' Choice Awards Argentina 2011
Nominated - Best Actress - Luisana Lopilato
Nominated - Favorite Villain - Calu Rivero
Nominated - Revelation - Calu Rivero |
28073855 | Alguien te mira (American TV series) | 2010-07-18 12:28:38+00:00 | Alguien Te Mira (Someone's Watching You) is an American Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo. This thriller/mystery film is a remake of Chilean telenovela Alguien te mira produced by TVN in 2007.
Telemundo aired this series during the 2010–2011 season, from Monday to Friday over about 26 weeks. As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. The series was filmed and set in Chicago, although some scenes were filmed in studios in Miami.
This show's jazzy, English-language recurring theme is You Still Love Me, performed by Ray Chang.
Chicago 2005—Rodrigo Quintana, Piedad Estévez, Julián García and Benjamín Morandé are inseparable friends. Full of ideals and projects for the future, they study medicine and dream of working together to help those most in need. Rodrigo (Christian Meier) is the most intelligent and natural leader of the group. His personality conquered Piedad (Danna García) with whom he lives an intense and stormy love, while Julián (Rafael Amaya) loves her in silence. But the intensity of Quintana added to its addiction to drugs and alcohol ended up deteriorating its relationship with Piedad. To the point that disappears of their lives after a confused incident that leaves a dead person and to Piedad hospitalized. Rodrigo left his friends and his studies to go to a rehabilitation clinic outside the country.
Chicago 2010–5 years later and when Benjamín (David Chocarro) married Tatiana Wood (Géraldine Bazán), Julián and Piedad have forgotten that time, Rodrigo returns to their lives. Members of the Clinic, Chicago Advanced Clinic, the three doctors discover that the return of Rodrigo Quintana, after years of residence in Europe, continues to disturb them. Friends have changed. While Quintana opted for an austere lifestyle in a rural office, his friends have accumulated a small fortune by operating the eyes of high society. His return also causes a break in the routine of Piedad, who will discover that, despite everything, Rodrigo is still the great love of his life.
Shortly afterwards a series of murders began to occur to women and all agreed that the murdered woman was single mother and of good economic position. Some begin to suspect others. Only one of them is the real killer.
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Danna García as Piedad Estévez
Christian Meier as Rodrigo Quintana
Rafael Amaya as Julián García Correa
David Chocarro as Benjamín Morandé
Géraldine Bazán as Tatiana Wood
Karla Monroig as Matilde Larraín
Angélica Celaya as Eva Zanetti
Rodrigo de la Rosa as Pedro Pablo Peñafiel
Ximena Duque as Camila Wood
Yul Bürkle as Mauricio Ostos
Evelin Santos as Luisa Carvajal
Diana Franco as Dolores "Lola" Morandé
Carlos Garín as Fiscal Ángel Maldonado
Alba Raquel Barros as Yolanda Montoya / Yoyita
Iván Hernández as Jiménez
Andrés Mistage as Amador Sánchez
Cynthia Olavarria as Lucía "Lucy" Saldaña
Roberto Gatica as Nicolás Gordon
Andrés Cotrino as Emilio García Larraín
Sofía Sanabria as Amparo Zanetti
Ariana Muniz as María Jesús Peñafiel Morandé
Nicole Arci as María Teresa Peñafiel Morandé
Natalie Medina as María Esperanza Peñafiel Morandé
Daniel Fernández as Benjamín "Benjita" Morandé
Emily Alvarado as Isadora "Isa" Morandé
Carolina Tejera as Valeria Stewart
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Arianna Coltellacci as Blanca Gordon
Yami Quintero as Angela Argento
Zuleyka Rivera as Rocío Lynch
Riczabeth Sobalvarro as Daniela Franco
Héctor Soberón as Daniel Vidal
Cristina Figarola as Fabiola Correa
Jorge Hernández as Edward James Sandberg
Victoria del Rosal as Amalia Vieyra |
29605136 | Las Aparicio | 2010-11-15 12:39:43+00:00 | Las Aparicio is a Mexican TV series, the first one produced by Argos Comunicación for Cadena Tres. It was released on April 19, 2010 and ended on October 15 of that year, being composed of 120 episodes. Episodes are streamed on mun2.
In Mexico City lives a family composed of women only, where births are usually single girls and whose husbands die suddenly.
The family consists of six women. Rafaela is the matriarch who has had three husbands, all dead. Alma, the eldest, is the widow of Maximo, whose memory is like a mirage to her and her mother. Mercedes, the middle one, is a lawyer who seeks justice and equality in all its meaning. Julia, the youngest of the three daughters, has doubts about her sexual orientation. Ileana, daughter of Alma, is against everything her mother does. Isadora, the daughter of Mercedes, just wants to know why there are only women in the family.
The lives of these women change with the arrival of Leonardo, a man who investigates the "Curse of Las Aparicio" and finds in Alma the ideal woman.
FyMTI 2010 awards (Argentina)
Best telenovela
Better integrated production
Best Author: Leticia Lopez and Veronica Maragalli Bellver
Best Director: Rodrigo Curiel and Moisés Ortiz Urquidi
Best leading actress: Gabriela de la Garza |
47159845 | Araguaia (TV series) | 2015-07-05 15:40:33+00:00 | Araguaia (English: Destiny River) was a Brazilian supernatural telenovela that ran on TV Globo from September 27, 2010 to April 8, 2011.
Created by Walther Negrão and co-written by Jackie Vellego, Renato Modesto, Julio Fischer, Alessandro Marson and Fausto Galvão. Directed by Marcos Schechtman and Marcelo Travesso.
Starring Cléo Pires, Murilo Rosa, Milena Toscano, Thiago Fragoso, Júlia Lemmertz and Lima Duarte.
In 2012, the show was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Telenovela.
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In 1845, before industrialization, women had to do everything to protect what they owned as they did not depend so much in men. One day an indigenous tribe, Karuê, launched an attack on the women's homestead and rob and grab their properties. Many are killed and Apoena, one of the attackers rescues Antonîa, a teenager and decides to take her to his community. Through the ventures, Antonîa and Apoena fall in love in and hence, she becomes pregnant. On arriving among the Karuê community, Antonîa's state (pregnancy) awakens Larú's hatred and therefore casts a curse on all Antonîa and Apoena's male offspring. The children die under mysterious circumstances on the banks of Araguaia river.
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In the 21st century, Fernando (Edson Celulari) receives the news that his mother Antoninha (Regina Duarte) is critically ill and nearing death. He sets a journey back to Araguaia together with his wife, son and her adoptive mother; Estela, Solano and Mariquita respectively. On arrival Antonîa dies after begging Fernando to take away his son away from Araguaia as the curse inflected by Larú is still effective. With the outgoing nature of Fernando he decides to sell Solano's horse in order to find money to take Estela and he back to Rio de Janeiro. He unfortunately dies on the eve of their supposed journey. Estela develops feelings for Solano while Solano has an irresistible attraction to Estela. A love story between Estela (Cleo Pires) a Karuê last female descendant and Solano (Murilo Rosa), the last descendant of Apoena and Antonia. This will put Estela on a quest of fulfilling the curse or living her own love story. The situation complicates when she becomes pregnant with Solano's son who is also affected by the curse. They must fight against all odds in order to get rid of the curse. |
26386472 | 30th Genie Awards | 2010-03-01 18:20:58+00:00 | The 30th Genie Awards were presented on April 12, 2010 to honour films released in 2009. Nominations were announced on March 1, 2010.
Despite having won three awards at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and having been selected as Canada's submission for Best Foreign Language film at the 82nd Academy Awards, Xavier Dolan's film I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) was virtually absent from the ceremony, winning the Claude Jutra Award for best film by a first-time director but garnering no other nominations in any category at all. Both Kevin Tierney, vice-chairman of cinema for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, and Martha Burns, the winner of the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress, openly criticized the shutout, with Tierney likening it to "being sent to the kiddie table". |
26976325 | 2010 Toronto mayoral election | 2010-04-16 13:43:20+00:00 | The 2010 Toronto mayoral election was held on October 25, 2010, to elect a mayor of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The mayor's seat was open for the first time since the 2003 Toronto election due to the announcement by incumbent mayor David Miller that he would not seek a third term in office. The nomination period for the 2010 municipal election opened on January 4, 2010, and closed on September 10, 2010. The result of the election was a victory for former city councillor Rob Ford. He received 47% of the vote.
In the 2006 Toronto election, David Miller was easily reelected as mayor, winning 57% of the vote and leading in 42 of the city's 44 wards. On September 25, 2009, Miller announced that he would not be running for re-election. Prior to Miller's announcement important figures had already been contemplating mayoral bids, most notably Deputy Premier George Smitherman and former mayoral candidate and Progressive Conservative leader John Tory. Miller's withdrawal created an open race and the possibility of a wide field of candidates contesting the position. While there was speculation that Tory and Smitherman would both be contesting the race, Tory announced in January that he would not be a candidate. Tory's 2003 campaign manager and Liberal fundraiser Rocco Rossi announced he was running on December 14, 2009. Smitherman announced on November 8 that he was resigning from the provincial cabinet in order to run for mayor. They were joined in the campaign by right-wing councillors Giorgio Mammoliti and Rob Ford.
The left was initially split between two high-profile candidates: Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone and TTC chair Adam Giambrone. Giambrone formally launched his campaign on February 1, 2010, but ended as sex scandal caused him to withdraw on February 10, 2010.
According to Ford campaign organizer Richard Ciano, the campaign disregarded "the conventional wisdom [that] conservatives don't win in Toronto". The campaign rejected the conventional strategy of focussing on specific areas. The campaign bypassed traditional media outlets and used telephone town hall events to call some 40,000 homes simultaneously and invite respondents to a talk-radio-style event hosted by Ford. This created grassroots momentum and facilitated small donations and grew the campaign's database.
Ford campaigned on ending wasteful spending at City Hall and campaign slogans such as "Stop the Gravy Train" and "respect for taxpayers" resonated with the public. His campaign's extensive internal polls showed that wasteful spending at City Hall was one of the biggest concerns among voters, although that "seemed to be the last thing any of the other candidates were talking about". Ford also pledged to do away with the city's century-old fair-wage policy, which required that private contractors be paid the same as union employees. It was said that Ford successfully tapped into recession-weary "ordinary" people who comprise the bulk of the population of Toronto, who were angry at perceived financial mismanagement at City Hall and powerful city employee unions with generous benefits and pension plans.
Ford's message of putting taxpayers' interests before that of labour and special interests was also said to have attracted wide support among diverse immigrant communities in the inner-city and suburbs (whose demographics contrast sharply with the "urbane creative class" of The Beach and the Annex neighborhoods). By contrast, "people knew precisely nothing about what George Smitherman stood for", according to a spokesman for George Smitherman, who was considered Ford's chief opponent.
Smitherman and other political opponents attempted to make an issue of Ford's past controversial statements and incidents. However, these did little to hurt Ford's popularity. A pollster found that "one middle-aged woman explained that she would overlook personality failings in a mayor – as long as he didn't waste her taxes". According to campaign staffers Richard Ciano and Nick Kouvalis, these personal attacks were turned into advantages by the Ford campaign, portraying rivals making these personal attacks as "trying to keep the gravy train going". The barbs directed at Ford generated more donations to his campaign, as did a deliberate lack of sophistication in style. According to Kouvalis "our polling said, don't put him in a $2,000 suit". The revelation of Ford's DUI conviction in Florida, and his subsequent public apology, led to an increase in support for Ford.
In June 2010, Ford and fellow councillors criticized retiring Councillor Kyle Rae for holding a retirement party at the Rosewater Club and billing the $12,000 cost to his office budget. Rae said that unspent campaign funds he was forced to turn over the city more than covered the cost, but critics pointed out that the campaign money was not his to spend. This example was used by Ford as an example of the "gravy train" at City Hall.
On August 17, 2010, the National Post reported that a computer user inside the Toronto Star company made edits to the Wikipedia article about Ford that his campaign considered "very serious libel" and copyright infringement. Bob Hepburn, a Toronto Star spokesman, denied responsibility for the edits. "The Toronto Star owns a couple of these IP portals and they come under Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, which is a broader thing. The Toronto Star itself has a separate portal", said Hepburn.
A Nanos Research poll, published on September 19, 2010, showed Ford doubling his lead from 12% to 24.5% over second-place candidate Smitherman (45.8% to 21.3% of decided voters). The Nanos Research Poll asked 1021 "likely voters" from September 14 and 16 with Rob Ford receiving 34.4% of likely voters, Smitherman 16%, Joe Pantalone 12% and undecided voters at 25%. A Global News Ipsos-Reid poll released Monday, September 27 showed Ford's lead diminishing at 28 per cent, with George Smitherman at 23 per cent, Joe Pantalone (who pledged to continue the policies of outgoing mayor David Miller) at 10 per cent, and Rocco Rossi and Sarah Thomson (who dropped from the race on September 28 and endorsed Smitherman) at seven per cent each. On October 22, an EKOS Research Poll found Ford with an 8 per cent lead over second place Smitherman in decided voters; 43.9% to 35.6%.
Ford also criticized Smitherman's previous record as provincial Minister of Health, where Smitherman had been responsible for approving most of the sole-sourced contracts before the scandal of eHealth Ontario erupted. A Ford spokesman said "the voters and the taxpayers of Toronto are going to get a very clear message from this information today that George Smitherman has no fiscal credibility to be mayor of Toronto. He is incapable of handling a budget".
On October 12, the campaign became nasty when signs were posted on University Avenue with the slogan "Wife-beating, racist drunk for mayor!" The anonymous signs were a veiled attack at leading candidate Rob Ford. All the leading candidates declared their disgust about the signs that were quickly removed. George Smitherman was also the subject of attack ads later in October, with a radio ad targeted to the Tamil Canadian community and a poster targeted to Muslim voters both suggesting that the communities had an obligation to support Ford, because he is married to a woman, over Smitherman, who is openly gay and married his partner in 2007.
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Ford spent $1,723,605.77 on his campaign, which exceeded the mayoral campaign spending limit of $1,305,066.65. Smitherman's campaign spent $2.2 million. Campaign rules exclude a wide range of fund-raising expenditures, accounting for the over-spending. At the end of the campaign, the Ford campaign was $639,526.60 in debt, the Thomson campaign was $140,000 in debt and the Rossi campaign was $60,000 in debt, while the Smitherman campaign was debt-free. A special "Harmony" fund-raising dinner was held in January 2011 and the $1 million in proceeds used to pay off the debts. Pantalone's campaign finished $55,000 in debt, and he held his own fund-raiser to cover the debt after he declined to participate in the "Harmony" fund-raiser because of former premier Mike Harris's participation.
In April 2011, John Lorinc of The Globe and Mail wrote an article about the Ford campaign finances, noting that $69,722.31 of campaign expenses were paid by Doug Ford Holdings, the Ford family firm. The family firm also paid for a $22,713.04 contract to rent the Toronto Congress Centre for a campaign kickoff event. Both expenses were repaid but the borrowing may have constituted an illegal corporate contribution to the campaign. Activist Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler and lawyer Max Reed filed a complaint about the Ford campaign's borrowing and over-spending to the City of Toronto Compliance Audit Committee. In May 2011, the committee voted to proceed with an audit of the mayor's campaign finances. Penalties under the Municipal Elections Act range from fines to removal from office. Ford first appealed the decision to audit the campaign, then dropped the appeal in April 2012. The city contracted the firm Froese Forensic Partners to conduct the audit. The audit found that the Ford campaign had overspent by $40,000, but the audit committee decided to not refer the violation to a special prosecutor.
Official results from the City of Toronto as of October 28, 2010.
Several issues emerged early in the campaign. Transportation was one issue with debates over cycling and public transit. Bike lanes on streets such as Jarvis Street and University Avenue were one issue. Rocco Rossi was strongly opposed to such bike lanes (insisting that bike lanes instead be placed on parallel sideroads) while Pantalone supported them, Mammoliti endorsed the bike lanes on Jarvis, and Ford stated he would not remove any such installations.
The debate over public transit focused on Mayor Miller's Transit City initiative. Rocco Rossi called for a halt to Transit City and instead pushed for more subways in a plan he called "Transit City Plus", and also for the completion of the Allen Expressway in a tunnel along the cancelled Spadina Expressway alignment, to the Gardiner Expressway. Ford had long opposed the Transit City plan. Pantalone supported continuing the Transit City project. Sarah Thomson proposed replacing the planned LRT lines with subways paid for with road tolls. Smitherman had an ambitious transit plan, calling for expansions both to subway lines and to the Transit City plan, though his projected funding sources faced criticism.
Another important issue was how to pay for municipal services. One proposal was to sell city assets. Rossi proposed selling Toronto Hydro. Sarah Thomson called for restructuring TCHC and a line by line review of every department at city hall.
Four mayoral candidates (Rocco Rossi, George Smitherman, Joe Pantalone and Rob Ford) signed a pledge to give faith-based groups a bigger role in municipal government.
There were six "major" candidates running who were included by the media in public opinion polls and mayoral debates during the campaign, although by election day only three remained as active contenders: Ward 2 councillor Rob Ford, deputy mayor and Ward 19 councillor Joe Pantalone and former Liberal cabinet minister George Smitherman.
Giorgio Mammoliti was also included in debates until his withdrawal from the contest. Magazine editor Sarah Thomson announced on September 28, 2010, that she was ending her campaign, and former Liberal fundraiser Rocco Rossi dropped out of the campaign on October 13, 2010. Due to their late withdrawal, Thomson's and Rossi's names remained on the ballot.
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Candidates listed as registered on the City of Toronto website.
Rocco Achampong
Date registered: January 4
Achampong, 32, was president of the Students' Administrative Council at the University of Toronto in 2002–03. Achampong is an alumnus of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
At 18, he drove a getaway car in an armed robbery. He spent a year in jail. He calls the incident the "mistake of his life" and is now a lawyer.
He was one of two candidates, alongside the six "major" candidates and Keith Cole, selected by an online poll to participate in a debate on municipal voting reform sponsored by the civic advocacy group Better Ballots. When Giorgio Mammoliti subsequently withdrew from the race on July 5, 2010, he encouraged the media to give Achampong his former space in the mayoral debates.
Michael Alexander
Date registered: September 9
Don Andrews
Date registered: January 8
Andrews, 67, is a white supremacist and perennial candidate for mayor. He has run for Mayor of Toronto several times, most recently in 2003 when he came in tenth place with 0.17% of the vote, and has registered to run again in 2014. In 2003, two other party members ran unsuccessfully for Toronto city council. On one occasion, Andrews placed a distant second in the mayoralty race as no serious candidate ran against popular incumbent, David Crombie. As a result, the municipal law was changed so that the runner-up in the mayoralty contest no longer had the right to succeed to the mayor's chair should the position become vacant between elections.
George Babula
Date registered: January 15
Babula was the candidate of the "Parkdale Party".
Christopher Ball
Date registered: July 9
Michael Brausewetter
Date registered: September 9
Douglas Campbell
Date registered: January 4
Campbell contested for the leadership of the federal and provincial New Democratic Party on five occasions, beginning in 1970. Campbell resurfaced in 1988 as a fringe candidate for mayor of North York. Most recently, Campbell has run for Mayor of Toronto in 2000, 2003 and 2006, receiving 1.2% and 0.3% of the vote in the first two contests respectively. During the 2006 campaign he was quoted as saying "the answer is public ownership of land. Businessmen are going to nuclearize the planet. If you vote for a capitalist candidate, you're voting to kill children".
James Castillo
Date registered: February 23
Castillo is a supporter of multiculturalism.
Kevin Clarke
Date registered: April 30
Clarke, 46, is a perennial candidate for public office in Toronto. For several years, he was also one of the most recognizable homeless persons in the city. He has over 90 convictions, with only two that weren't dismissed. The majority of these charges stem from his loud campaigns at large public events and busy street corners. He also claims to be the first arrest of the Toronto G-20 summit, a week in advance. Although he was taking off a rollerblade, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who claimed he was urinating against a wall near the Rogers Centre attacked him by surprise and violently handcuffed him. He was not charged, but was told to leave the area, or be arrested. He frequently sings and preaches on the streets of Toronto while wearing long, flowing blankets or robes, which he uses for warmth in case he is arrested and detained in prison. Clarke also campaigned for Mayor of Toronto in the 2000, 2003 and 2006 municipal elections. His primary issues are children's rights, homeless rights, street safety and water safety. He is also strongly against police corruption and abuse of authority. He ran the 2001 campaign out of a homeless shelter that he used every night. He is known for crashing political debates, and disrupting his opponents' campaigns, which have gotten him banned from many political events. Clarke originally registered in January but withdrew his candidacy on March 31 before subsequently resubmitting his nomination.
Keith Cole
Date registered: February 16
Cole is an openly gay performance artist and female impersonator associated with the Buddies in Bad Times theatre. His campaign focused on gay rights, cycling and the arts.
Charlene Cottle
Date registered: May 20
Gerald Derome
Date registered: August 25
Diane Devenyi
Date registered: September 10
James Di Fiore
Date registered: August 10
Di Fiore is a hip-hop artist and freelance journalist best known for the controversy following a piece he wrote for Now Magazine exposing poor security at polling stations against voting multiple times in an election, a point he demonstrated by procuring multiple ballots in the 2004 federal election. As a result, Di Fiore was charged under the Canada Elections Act and fined $250.
David Epstein
Date registered: August 25
Epstein, 32, is a Toronto business owner, director of a not-for-profit organization, humanitarian and human rights activist. His campaign slogan was "Lead by Example". Epstein supported dramatic tax reductions for Toronto citizens.
Selwyn Firth
Date registered: January 29
A chemical engineer by profession. His campaign slogan was "science should trump emotions". Firth supported completion of the Spadina Expressway and trash incineration.
Michael Flie
Date registered: June 30
Advocated European style bicycle lanes and better urban planning.
Rob Ford
Endorsements: Councillor Frances Nunziata, Councillor Mike Del Grande, Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti, Councillor Peter Milczyn, Councillor John Parker, Councillor Doug Holyday, former mayoralty candidate Wendell Brereton.
Date registered: March 25
Ford, 40, had been an Etobicoke North city councillor for 10 years, was a conservative and Miller critic. Campaign promises included repealing the vehicle registration tax, repealing the land transfer tax, making the Toronto Transit Commission an essential service, and working to cut the number of councillors on city council by half.
Abdullah-Baquie Ghazi
Date registered: January 5
Ghazi ran for councillor from Ward 28 (Toronto Centre) in 2006 and received 3.3% of the vote. He proposed a reduction in the price of Metropasses, introducing toll roads, reducing property taxes and increasing the size of city council.
Howard Gomberg
Date registered: January 15
Gomberg, 71, was an actor and rapper.
Barry Goodhead
Date registered: August 13
Goodhead proposed cutting the Toronto police budget and allowing residents to elect the police chief.
Monowar Hossain
Date registered: January 4
Hossain had previously campaigned unsuccessfully for mayor in 2006, receiving 2,726 votes, and for the Toronto District School Board in 2000 and for Mayor of Toronto in 2003. He moved to Canada from India in 1983 due to what he describes as "political issues". He trained as a lawyer, later worked as a security officer, and was studying to be an investment adviser in 2003. Hossain's first mayoral campaign was highlighted by a promise to provide food and housing for Toronto's unemployed to bring them into the workforce. In 2006, he described himself as the "Dealienation Advocate" and said that he would rescue people from "traps" like psychologists and laboratory experimentation.
Dewitt Lee
Date registered: July 14
Lee campaigned as the city's Christian candidate.
John Letonja
Date registered: January 4
Letonja wanted to overhaul the TTC and turn Toronto into a hub for recycling.
Carmen Macklin
Date registered: August 25
Colin Magee
Date registered: January 6
Magee was a Beer Store employee and supported increased civic engagement.
Jim McMillan
Date registered: July 19
Joseph Pampena
Date registered: January 13
JP Pampena, a blind public relations agent, ran on the slogan "the man with the vision". He promised to raise revenue for the city by selling the naming rights of pools and recreation centres. His ideas include listing the City of Toronto on the Toronto Stock Exchange. In the past he supported the vigilante Guardian Angels in their attempts to expand to Toronto.
Joe Pantalone
Endorsements: Mayor David Miller, Jack Layton, MP for Toronto-Danforth and NDP leader, Rosario Marchese, MPP for Trinity-Spadina, Councillor Howard Moscoe, Councillor Cesar Palacio, Councillor Gord Perks, Councillor Paula Fletcher, Councillor Sandra Bussin, Councillor Maria Augimeri, Councillor Mark Grimes, Councillor Janet Davis, John Laschinger, Mike Layton, Laborers' International Union of North America Local 506.
Date registered: January 13
Pantalone, 57, was deputy mayor under David Miller and had been a city councillor for what is now Trinity-Spadina for almost 30 years. He was also a former provincial NDP candidate. Pantalone highlighted his experience in municipal politics compared to other candidates saying, "people are looking around at the outsiders and think their experience does not match mine," and said the approach to the city's finances should be "clinical as opposed to a sledgehammer." He pledged to use the next four years "to solidify and protect our services". Said he would build Transit City and partner with the private sector but would not privatize services.
Vijay Sarma
Date registered: September 2
George Smitherman
Endorsements: Former mayors David Crombie, John Sewell, and Art Eggleton, Sarah Thomson former mayoral candidate, Councillor Pam McConnell, Councillor Joe Mihevc, Councillor Chin Lee, Councillor Adam Vaughan, Bob Rae, Liberal MP for Toronto-Centre and former premier of Ontario, Jeff Bangs, former principal secretary to Ernie Eves; Ralph Lean, Conservative and former fundraising chair for Miller and Tory; Former Ontario Conservative cabinet ministers Isabel Bassett, Dan Newman and Charles Harnick, Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth, Carpenters’ District Council of Ontario
Date registered: January 8
Smitherman was the former Liberal MPP for Toronto Centre and former Deputy Premier of Ontario. Resigned from cabinet to run for mayor. Former chief of staff to former mayor Barbara Hall. Smitherman said he would consider toll roads in order to raise revenue and the use of public-private partnerships in public works projects such as rapid transit expansion. He also called for the reduction or elimination of the city's $60 motor registration fee.
Mark State
Date registered: January 4
State, 67, ran for mayor in 2006 and placed last with 194 votes. A retired engineer, State wished to return Toronto to a state of economic self-sufficiency through capital investment and a more vigilant approach to planning.
Tibor Steinberger
Date registered: June 3
Steinberger advocated floating houses as a solution to the city's housing problems, more red light cameras to catch driving infractions and electronic transit fares.
Himy Syed
Date registered: May 25
Syed was a candidate for councillor in Ward 19 but withdrew to run for mayor. He was the founding editor of Torontopedia.ca, executive director of the Canadian Muslim Civil Liberties Association and described himself as an "Islamic banker". Syed advocated "citizen's rights" as part of his platform.
Weizhen Tang
Date registered: September 9
Tang was a former investment fund manager and self-proclaimed "Chinese Warren Buffett" who faced fraud charges for allegedly defrauding investors of $30 million in a Ponzi scheme.
Phil Taylor
Date registered: July 12
Taylor was described as a self-help guru. He had five core principles he wanted the city to adopt.
David Vallance
Date registered: June 10
Vallance advocated giving Toronto provincial status.
Ratan Wadhwa
Date registered: April 6
Advocated the construction of casinos and the creation of a red light district.
Daniel Walker
Date registered: July 6
Walker was a minister in the Church of the Universe and advocated the legalization of marijuana.
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The last date to withdraw from the election was September 10. Candidates who ended their campaigns after that date remained on the ballot.
Rocco Rossi
Endorsements: Councillor Mike Feldman, Councillor John Parker, Samuel Goldstein, former federal Conservative candidate and former adviser to candidate Sarah Thomson; Rob Sinclair, "Red Tory" and former David Miller campaigner; Andy Pringle, former provincial Conservative candidate and chief of staff to John Tory; John Capobianco; Peter C. Newman; IUOE Local 793; Warren Kinsella.
Date registered: January 4
Campaign ended: October 13
Rossi, 47, was a Toronto-based federal Liberal Party organizer and senior advisor to Michael Ignatieff. He issued a statement denying interest in running in October 2009 but changed his mind, resigning in December as Liberal Party policy director to run for mayor. He promised to reduce and freeze the mayor's salary and sell off Toronto Hydro and other city assets if he became mayor. Rossi registered as a candidate on January 4 becoming the first candidate to file papers. Rossi proposed to remove and prohibit bike lanes from major streets, freeze construction of rapid transit lines and replace the Toronto Transit Commission's board with private sector experts.
Sarah Thomson
Endorsements: Former newspaper publisher Conrad Black.
Date officially registered: January 4
Campaign ended: September 28
Thomson, 42, was CEO and founder of the Women's Post, a national magazine for business women. She proposed to open up city services to competitive bidding from the private sector and build subway lines instead of the TTC's planned streetcar-based rapid transit lines which would be paid by a $5 rush hour toll on the Don Valley Parkway and Gardiner Expressway. Previously, she ran unsuccessfully for city council in Hamilton, Ontario. She was endorsed by former newspaper publisher Conrad Black. An April 2010 poll by the Toronto Star stated that Thompson had the support of 7% of respondents. On September 28, Thompson ended her campaign and threw her support to George Smitherman in order to defeat Rob Ford.
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Andrew Barton
Date registered: January 11
Date withdrew: August 19
Barton, 27, is a science fiction writer and blogger.
Wendell Brereton
Date registered: February 23
Date withdrawn: August 4
Rev. Brereton was a fundamentalist pastor in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood and former 12-year veteran of the Ontario Provincial Police. Brereton was opposed to same-sex marriage and decriminalizing marijuana and believed the city had become too "progressive". Brereton withdrew from the mayoral contest on August 4, 2010, in order to run for city council in Ward 6, and threw his support to Rob Ford.
Mark Cidade
Date registered: January 11
Date withdrawn: July 9
Stephen Feek
Date registered: January 4
Date withdrawn: March 9
Mell Findlay
Date registered: February 25
Date withdrawn: March 25
Adam Giambrone
Endorsements: John Laschinger, Miller's campaign manager in 2003 and 2006. City councillors Maria Augimeri, Glenn De Baeremaeker and Howard Moscoe.
Date registered: February 1
Date withdrawal announced: February 10
Date withdrawn: March 10
Giambrone, 32, was city councillor for Davenport, a Miller supporter, and chair of the Toronto Transit Commission. Former president of the New Democratic Party. Giambrone announced his candidacy February 1 and announced nine days later that he was dropping out of the race after being involved in a sex scandal.
Naseeb Husain
Date registered: January 25
Date withdrawn: March 26
Ange Maniccia
Date registered: January 4
Date withdrawn: January 5
Giorgio Mammoliti
Date registered: January 5
Date withdrawn: July 9
Mammoliti, 48, had been York West city councillor since 1995. Mammoliti served on Miller's executive committee. The National Post described him as "a former union leader and New Democratic Party MPP, [who] has transformed himself into a 'right-of-centre' city councillor, who champions such law-and-order issues as calling in the army to crack down on drug crime and gangs." More recently, Mammoliti was a member of the Liberal Party but will allow his membership to expire in 2010. When announcing his candidacy he unveiled a platform that included building a casino, introducing a municipal lottery, reversing tax increases he had previously voted for and creating a red light district for prostitution. He also promised budget cuts and intended to target the $40 million in annual city grants to arts, cultural and community groups but was opposed to cutting salaries for elected officials. He also called for cars to be banned from the Gardiner Expressway, converting the thoroughfare into a garden, implementing road tolls. Mammoliti announced his withdrawal on July 5 and made it official four days later.
Sonny Yeung
Date registered: January 8
Date withdrawn: September 10
Yeung, 35, ran for council in 2003 in Ward 41 (Scarborough-Rouge River) where he won 25.4% of the vote losing to Bas Balkissoon in a two-person contest. He ran in the same ward in 2006 and received 2.5% placing seventh in a ten candidate field. Yeung withdrew from the mayoral election in order to run for public school trustee.
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Tom Sullivan
Date registered: February 17
Died: April 7
Sullivan died at the age of 75. According to his obituary, "Sullivan was born in London, Ontario on January 11, 1935 and moved to Toronto in the 1950s. He led a varied and productive working life which included accounting and taxi cab ownership."
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The following potential candidates ruled themselves out of seeking the mayor's office or failed to indicate interest following media speculation of their potential candidacy:
Shelley Carroll – Don Valley East city councillor, Toronto Budget Chief and Liberal. Considered a Miller supporter. She told the National Post in October that she was "definitely considering” running for mayor. On January 12, she told reporters that she will not be a candidate. However, with the withdrawal of Giambrone from the race she was reportedly reconsidering. She "couldn't be swayed to enter" the mayoral contest and was re-elected as the city councillor for her ward.
Olivia Chow – Trinity Spadina NDP Member of Parliament and former city councillor from 1991 to 2005. Expressed no interest.
Michael "Pinball" Clemons – ex-football player and currently vice-chair of the Toronto Argonauts. Neither a Canadian citizen nor a resident of Toronto. Has expressed no interest.
Doug Holyday – Etobicoke Centre councillor and conservative subject of a "Draft Doug" movement during the garbage strike. Says he is not considering a bid.
Gerard Kennedy – Liberal Party of Canada MP and former provincial cabinet minister, ruled out a run after rumours with his name surfaced.
Frances Lankin – president and CEO of United Way Toronto. Former NDP MPP for Beaches—Woodbine (later Beaches—East York) and senior cabinet minister in the Bob Rae government. Has expressed no interest in running and is not currently a resident of Toronto as she lives in Restoule, Ontario near North Bay with her husband.
Jack Layton – leader of the federal New Democratic Party and, formerly, a long-time Toronto city councillor and runner-up in the 1991 mayoralty election. Layton has ruled out returning to municipal politics.
Glen Murray – former mayor of Winnipeg and federal Liberal candidate, and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute. Has lived in Toronto since 2004. Ran for, and won, the February 4, 2010 byelection to succeed George Smitherman as MPP for Toronto Centre.
Peggy Nash – president of the New Democratic Party, Canadian Auto Workers official and former NDP MP for Parkdale—High Park. Nash instead decided to return to federal politics and was re-elected to Parliament in the 2011 federal election.
Robert Pritchard – former president of the University of Toronto. President of Metrolinx. Has denied having mayoral ambitions.
Karen Stintz – Eglinton-Lawrence city councillor and leader of the conservative oppositional Responsible Government Group. Dropped out October 19, 2009. Following John Tory's announcement that he will not be a candidate Stintz reaffirmed her decision not to contest the mayoralty.
Michael Thompson – Scarborough Centre city councillor, conservative, and Miller critic.
John Tory – runner up to Miller in the 2003 mayoral election, former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party and afternoon drive time host on CFRB radio. Tory announced on January 7 that he was not running in order to continue his radio show and also become head of the Toronto City Summit Alliance. Tory re-iterated his decision not to run on August 5, 2010, after a week of speculation that he was going to enter the contest. After the election, Ford's staff revealed a targeted campaign involving a fake social media account intended to convince Tory not to run.
Adam Vaughan – Trinity-Spadina city councillor and former municipal affairs reporter. In the wake of Miller's withdrawal from the campaign, Vaughan told reporters that he won't run for mayor because "I can't get inside the heads of those people who live in the suburbs", and because he wants to be around for his family.
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The 2010 election was also noted for the participation of two mock candidates who conducted satirical campaigns through social networking platforms. Murray4Mayor was spearheaded by National Post cartoonist Steve Murray, while The Rebel Mayor was written in the persona of 19th century Toronto mayor William Lyon Mackenzie. After the election it was revealed that The Rebel Mayor was written by Shawn Micallef, a journalist for Eye Weekly and Spacing.
Italics indicate those politicians who ended their campaigns before election day. |
53969116 | Intelsat 802 | 2017-05-05 20:17:08+00:00 | Intelsat 802 was a communications satellite operated by Intelsat. Launched in 1997 it was operated in geostationary orbit at a longitude of 174 degrees west for around fourteen years.
The second of six Intelsat VIII satellites to be launched, Intelsat 802 was built by Lockheed Martin. It was a 3,447-kilogram (7,599 lb) spacecraft. The satellite carried a 2xLEROS-1B apogee motor for propulsion and was equipped with 38 C Band transponders and 6 Ku band transponders, powered by 2 solar cells more batteries. It was designed for a fourteen-year service life.
The launch of Intelsat 802 made use of an Ariane 4 rocket flying from Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana. The launch took place at 01:07 UTC on June 25, 1997, with the spacecraft entering a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Intelsat 802 subsequently fired its apogee motor to achieve geostationary orbit. |
25981379 | The Bannen Way | 2010-01-28 15:47:04+00:00 | The Bannen Way is an American crime drama web series starring Mark Gantt as Neal Bannen, a third generation criminal who wants to get out of the con man lifestyle he's been living. The show officially premiered on Crackle on January 6, 2010, but the first three episodes began streaming on December 23, 2009 to qualify for the Streamy Awards.
The fact that this series, along with several others, were regionally geoblocked led to a controversy over eligibility for the Streamys because it was not made fully available on the World Wide Web. The controversy led to a ruling by the Streamys that geoblocked web series are eligible.
The Bannen Way is a production of Sony Pictures Television. The executive producers are Mark Gantt and Jesse Warren. Gantt's co-stars are Vanessa Marcil, Gabriel Tigerman, Michael Ironside, and Robert Forster. Episodes were streamed weekdays through January 22, 2010. It was not renewed for a second season. The entire series was released onto DVD as a movie on July 20, 2010.
Neal Bannen is a charming con-man with a police chief for a father (Michael Ironside), a mob boss for an uncle (Robert Forster), and a weakness for fine women. He wants to turn his life around and leave the criminal lifestyle for the straight and narrow, but after gambling away the funds he had earmarked to pay off his final debts, Bannen must accept one more job working for his uncle, Mr. B, to retrieve a mysterious box. To complete the job, Bannen solicits the help of his college-aged, techy sidekick Zeke (Gabriel Tigerman), and Madison (Vanessa Marcil), a beautiful and street savvy thief.
Mark Gantt as Neal Bannen
Vanessa Marcil as Madison
Gabriel Tigerman as Zeke
Robert Forster as Mr. B
Michael Ironside as Chief Bannen
Michael Lerner as The Mensch
Ski Carr as Sonny Carr |
29341947 | Compulsions | 2010-10-25 08:22:06+00:00 | Compulsions is a drama web series which debuted Dec 01, 2009 on Dailymotion.com. The show stars Craig Frank as Mark Sandler, an admitted Sadist leading a life with a dull desk job, alongside Justine Davis as Janna Bossier, Mark's friend and handler, and Annemarie Pazmino as Cassandra Morrissey.
The series is the internal character story of Mark Sandler (Craig Frank), an admitted Sadist leading a life with a dull desk job. At night, he channels his inner compulsions as a professional interrogator, brutally and psychological extracting bits of crucial information from his "clients". Mark's one true friend and handler is Justine Davies (Janna Bossier) a compulsive Trophy Hunter and ruthless Retrieval Specialist who feeds Mark's compulsions with fresh interrogation subjects. Mark's world is threatened with the introduction of compulsive voyeur Cassandra Morrissey (Annemarie Pazmino).
Mark Sandler - Played by Craig Frank
Justine Davis - Played by Janna Bossier
Cassandra Morrissey - Played by Annemarie Pazmino
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2010 Streamy Awards – Best Writing for a Drama Web Series (Bernie Su)
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2010 Streamy Awards – Best Drama Web Series, Best Directing for a Drama Web Series (Nathan Atkinson), Best Male Actor in a Drama Web Series (Craig Frank) |
26574300 | I Heart Vampires | 2010-03-16 08:33:12+00:00 | I Heart Vampires (Often stylized as I <3 Vampires) is a web television series produced by Take180 (a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company). The series consists of a first season of 22 episodes which ran from March 19, 2009, until September 11, 2009, a second season of 20 episodes which premiered on January 28, 2010, as well as two derivative series that run concurrently with the second season, and concluded on June 4, 2010. The series is well received, and is the first non-variety sketch show on the site to make it past a first season. The show, like many on the site, took fan submissions and integrated them into each episode.
The show is a parody of the fandom that surrounds popular vampire franchises like Twilight.
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Corbin and Luci, two best friends, run "I <3 Vampires" - a fansite for their favorite book, Confessions of a High School Vampire, for which Corbin makes daily vlogs regarding the book series. When Luci receives an anonymous e-mail containing the first six chapters of the upcoming book in the Confessions series (derived from the online leak of part of the fifth Twilight book, Midnight Sun), the best friends are so excited that Corbin posts the chapters on "I <3 Vampires" without thinking about the consequences. When the books' author, Siona McCabre, learns that chapters of her new book have been leaked, and announces that she has halted the publication of the book indefinitely, Corbin and Luci take it upon themselves to find Siona and apologize, hoping that Siona will continue with the book's publication. With the help of Corbin's annoying neighbour, Wyatt, the three go on a quest to find Siona, which proves to be more difficult - and much more complicated - than they had originally thought.
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A year ago, Corbin and Luci found out that their favorite book, Confessions of a High School Vampire, was more real than they ever could have imagined. Now the two are no longer friends, and have abandoned "I <3 Vampires," the fansite they created for Confessions. They have also broken up with their supernatural boyfriends, Nick and Wyatt, and so Corbin is surprised when Siona McCabre, author of Confessions and mother to Corbin's ex-boyfriend Nick, asks Corbin to help her find Nick, who has been missing for several weeks. Corbin refuses. Three days later, Corbin learns that Siona has been killed, and so she makes her first vlog since abandoning "I <3 Vampires," in which she apologizes for leaving the fansite without an explanation. Corbin then goes missing, and it's up to her college roommate, Confessions fan Sam, to reunite Luci and Wyatt so that the three of them can find Corbin together.
At the conclusion of the second season there was not any news on whether or not there would be a third season. Cherilyn Wilson and Alli Kinzel later stated in a YouTube video that there would not be another season coming in the foreseeable future as they have not been contacted about continuing the series, despite high fan demand. On June 15, Josh Nuncio announced on Twitter that both seasons with cast commentary and alternate endings would be available on Amazon.com.
In 2011, Disney Publishing Worldwide published I Heart Vampires: Birth (A Confessions of a High School Vampire Novel) which was written by Siona McCabre. It is the same book that Corbin and Luci read in the series. The book is about the student Noah Vance who discovers two bite marks in a morning after a high school party. He realizes that he is turning into a vampire.
Cherilyn Wilson as Corbin
Erin Way as Luci
Adam Chambers as Wyatt
Alli Kinzel as Sam
Josh Nuncio as Nick McCabre
Martha Hackett as Siona McCabre
Sarah Butler as Paige
Hayley J Williams as Aradia
Ross Marquand as Siona's Publicist
Ian Fisher as Victor
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Webby Awards:
2010: Online Film & Video Best Use of Interactive Video (T180 Studios / The Walt Disney Company)
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2010: Best Interactive Experience in a Web Series (T180 Studios / The Walt Disney Company) |
26189425 | 2010 in LGBT rights | 2010-02-13 21:48:21+00:00 | This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 2010.
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2 – The United States Tax Court ruled in O'Donnabhain v. Commissioner that taxpayers may deduct the medical costs associated with treating gender identity disorder from their federal income taxes.
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1 – Crime Decree 2009 decriminalises in Fiji. Fiji became the first Pacific Island country to formally decriminalise homosexuality.
2 – The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously against "a blanket exclusion of persons living in a homosexual relationship from succession to a tenancy" in Kozak v. Poland.
4 – Mexico City's same-sex marriage and adoption laws come into effect. This follows 22 couples' taking part in a symbolic marriage ceremony in Tlaxcala on February 26 to highlight the issue.
9 – The first same-sex marriages are performed in the District of Columbia, with licenses having been available since March 3.
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The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopts a recommendation on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity.
In Fields v. Smith the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin strikes down the state's "Inmate Sex Change Prevention Act". Passed in 2005, the law barred doctors in Wisconsin prisons from prescribing hormone treatment or sex reassignment surgery to transgender inmates. The court finds that denial of treatment absent a medically necessary reason constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
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8 – Portugal abolishes the ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood.
16 – Arkansas Proposed Initiative Act No. 1, banning adoption by same-sex couples (but not LGBT individuals) is overturned in state court for violating the Constitution of Arkansas right to privacy.
29 – The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopts a resolution and a recommendation along lines similar to the March 31 recommendation of its Council of Ministers, "calling on member states to address" an array of issues related to LGBT rights.
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17 – Amid controversy, a law enabling same-sex marriage in Portugal is promulgated by president Aníbal Cavaco Silva, although adoption is ruled out. The law comes into force on June 5, with the first marriage on June 7.
18 – Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza are convicted in a Malawian court or having committed "unnatural offenses" and "indecent practices between males" under sections 153 and 156 of Malawi's criminal code after local newspapers reported that they had participated in a public same-sex chinkhoswe, or engagement ceremony. Monjeza, who identifies as male, and Chimbalanga, a transgender person who identifies as female, are each sentenced to 14 years hard labour on May 20, but are pardoned by President Bingu wa Mutharika following international pressure and an appeal from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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2 – United States President Barack Obama issues a memorandum ordering federal departments and agencies to extend spousal benefits to same-sex couples to the extent permitted by the Defense of Marriage Act.
24 – In Schalk and Kopf v. Austria, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously finds that a State not legislating for, or recognising, same-sex marriage is not in violation of Article 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). By four votes to three, it ruled that the non-recognition of same-sex relationships was not in violation of the ECHR.
27 – Same-sex marriage in Iceland is legalized with Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir and her partner, Jónína Leósdóttir, among the first to make use of the law.
28 – The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez that public universities may refuse to recognize student organizations with policies that discriminate against LGBT people.
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1 – Ireland's Dáil Éireann passes the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 without a vote. It passed the Seanad Éireann the next week by 48 votes to 4, completing its passage through the Oireachtas. On July 19, President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, signs the bill into law, creating a form of civil union for same sex couples with most of the rights and duties of marriage, except that civil partners may not adopt or jointly be guardians of a child. The act also provides rights for participants in long-term cohabiting relationships who have not entered into a civil partnership or marriage.
6 – Hawaii governor Linda Lingle vetoes Hawaii House Bill 444, which would have established civil unions for same-sex couples in that state.
7 – The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, in HJ and HT v Home Secretary, ruled that the asylum claims of two men based on their fear of being persecuted in their home countries (Iran and Cameroon) because of their homosexuality may not be denied on the basis of their ability to conceal their homosexuality in the so-called "discretion test".
8 – United States district court judge Joseph L. Tauro ruled in two separate cases that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. In Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health and Human Services Tauro says that the definition of marriage enacted by Congress for federal purposes violates the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and "encroaches upon the firmly entrenched province of the state" by treating some couples with Massachusetts marriage licenses differently than others. In Gill v. Office of Personnel Management brought by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, he says the law violates the equal protection of the law guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
15 – The Argentine Senate passes (despite the General Law Committee recommending rejection of the bill) a same-sex marriage bill that had passed in the Chamber of Deputies on May 5. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner signs the law on July 21. Argentina becomes the tenth country in the world, and third Roman Catholic country, to legalize same-sex marriage, despite heavy criticism from the Church in Argentina amongst others.
19 – The United Nations Economic and Social Council voted to accredit International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) as a non-governmental organization granted consultative status, allowing IGLHRC to attend UN meetings, contribute statements and collaborate with UN agencies.
22- The European Court of Human Rights holds, in P.B. and J.S. v. Austria, that lack of access to insurance for same-sex couple on equal terms with other marriages violates the ECHR.
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4 – In Perry v. Schwarzenegger, District Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage, violates the "Equal Protection Clause" and the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution because there is no rational basis for singling out homosexual couples for denial of marriage licenses. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit then issued an emergency stay without explanation on August 16.
10 – The Supreme Court of Mexico ruled in quick succession that Mexico City's same-sex marriage law is constitutional, that the same marriages contracted in Mexico City must be recognised throughout Mexico, although no other state is required to perform them, and that it is unconstitutional to bar these married same-sex couples from adopting children.
9 – A judge in New Mexico ruled that a marriage license issued to a lesbian couple in 2004 is valid, though she declines to rule on the broader constitutional question of same sex marriage.
17 – The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany rules that the surviving partners of registered partnerships are entitled to the same inheritance tax laws as the survivors of marriages. Surviving marital partners previously paid 7–30% inheritance tax while surviving registered partners paid 17–50%.
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The Parliament of Tasmania approves legislation to recognise same-sex marriages and registered unions performed outside Tasmania.
The Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas, Texas, reverses a 2009 ruling in a same-sex divorce case, ruling that the Texas constitutional ban on same-sex marriage does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and that district courts in Texas do not have subject-matter jurisdiction to hear a same-sex divorce case.
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9 – Judge Virginia A. Phillips of the United States District Court for the Central District of California ruled in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States of America that the "don't ask, don't tell" policy violates the Fifth and First Amendments to the United States Constitution. On November 2, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal indefinitely extended a temporary stay of the judgment.
13 – Chief of the Defence Force of Australia Angus Houston issued an order lifting the ban on transgender personnel.
21 – New York Governor David Paterson signed a bill into law allowing unmarried couples, including same-sex couples, to adopt children. The new law also replaces the term "husband and wife" with the gender-neutral "married couple".
22 – In In re: Gill, a three-judge panel of the Florida Third District Court of Appeal unanimously strikes down the state's ban on homosexuals as adoptive parents as violating the "equal protection clause" of the Florida Constitution. Florida state attorney Bill McCollum later announced that he would not further appeal against the ruling.
29 – Tasmania passes a bill recognizing legal same-sex marriages performed outside Tasmania.
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5 – Court of First Instance of Hong Kong dismissed a judicial review in W v. Registrar of Marriages filed by a transsexual person, which concerned the constitutionality of marriage legislation and the interpretation of the "one man and one woman" clause.
10 – Belgrade anti-gay riot failed to prevent Pride parade in Belgrade from being carried out. Unfortunately, the riot caused serious damage to many individual businesses and to some of city infrastructure.
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2 – Voters in El Paso, Texas, pass an initiative that strips health insurance benefits from the unmarried partners of city employees. Supporters say that their intention was to target gay city employees and their partners.
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22 – Following its passage by the United States Congress, President Barack Obama signs the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 into law.
September 22 – Tyler Clementi, American student, died by suicide after a video of his sexual encounter with a man was streamed over the internet without his knowledge. |
30135617 | Alekseyev v. Russia | 2010-12-21 03:38:31+00:00 | Alekseyev v. Russia is a case before the European Court of Human Rights concerning the prohibition of the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Moscow Pride gay rights marches in Russia's capital. The case was brought by Russian LGBT activist Nikolay Alexeyev, organiser of the marches, who claimed the banning of the marches had violated Article 11 (freedom of assembly) of the European Convention on Human Rights. He claimed furthermore that he had not received an effective remedy under Article 13 against the violation of Article 11, and that he had been discriminated against by the authorities in Moscow under Article 14 in their consideration of his applications to hold the marches.
The First Section of the Court, sitting as a Chamber, found unanimously that there had been violations of Articles 11, 13 and 14 of the Convention. Their judgment was issued on 21 October 2010 and a referral by the Russian government to the Grand Chamber of the Court rejected on 11 April 2011, at which point the judgment became final.
The Applicant, Nikolay Alexeyev (spelt by the Court, Alekseyev), born 23 December 1977 in Moscow, is a Russian LGBT rights activist, lawyer and journalist.
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In 2006, the Applicant along with several others began organising a march in Moscow, the capital of Russia, to demonstrate against discrimination against LGBT people in Russia. The march was to be held on 27 May that year, the anniversary of the legalisation of homosexuality in Russia. On 16 February, a statement was released by the Mayor of Moscow, Yury Luzhkov, stating that any proposed LGBT rights march would not be permitted to go ahead.
Notice was given by the organisers of the march to the Mayor on 15 May 2006, that around two thousand people were expected to participate in a march from the Moscow Post Office along Myasnitskaya Street to Lubyanka Square, on 27 May starting at 3pm and lasting until 5pm. On 18 May, the organisers were informed that the Mayor had refused permission for the march on grounds of public order, for the prevention of riots and the protection of health, morals and the rights and freedoms of others.
The organisers submitted an alternative application involving only a picket in Lubyanka Square and also appealed the original refusal to a judge, however both were unsuccessful.
On 27 May 2006, when the march was intended to have been held, the Applicant along with several others attended a conference in honour of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, which had been on 17 May. The announced their intention of go to the Alexander Garden along the Western length of the Kremlin Wall, and lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as an act of remembrance to victims of fascism, including LGBT victims. They intended to follow this with a protest against the banning of the march with a fifteen-minute picket at the office of the Mayor of Moscow on Tverskaya Street. When the Applicant and fifteen others arrived at the Garden, they found the gates locked and some hundred and fifty policemen from the OMON riot police unit patrolling, as well as around one hundred individuals protesting against the planned flower-laying. The Applicant was arrested and the other demonstrators proceeded to the Mayor's office. Around one hundred arrests were made by the OMON police officers of people attacking the LGBT demonstrators. The Applicant's account of events on this day was corroborated by reports from the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) and Human Rights Watch.
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On 15 May 2007, the Applicant and other individuals submitted another application to the Mayor's office to hold a similar march to that proposed the year before, this time with an estimated attendance of five thousand one hundred people. This application was refused, and an alternative submitted proposing a picket before the Mayor's residence in Tverskaya Street and another in Novopushkinskiy Park, both of which were denied. On 27 May, the Applicant along with around twenty others attempted to deliver a petition against the prohibition of demonstration to the Mayor's office, but was detained by police along with two other men. He was convicted of the administrative offence of disobeying a lawful order from the police and fined one thousand roubles.
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On 18 April 2008, the Applicant along with other organisers submitted notice of ten intended marches to be held on 1 and 2 May 2008. All were refused on public safety grounds, and the organisers submitted another fifteen applications for marches on 3 and 5 May, all of which were refused for the same reasons. The Applicant then submitted a raft of other proposals, including one to the recently elected President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, stating his intention to hold a march in the Alexander Garden on 31 May 2008, to which he received no reply.
The Applicant appealed all of the refusals unsuccessfully, and attempted to organise a picket for 17 May calling for criminal charges to be brought against the Mayor for banning the marches. Permission for this was refused on 13 May on the same grounds as previously, however the organisers managed to hold a picket for around ten minutes on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street near the Mayor's residence.
Alexeyev applied to the European Court of Human Rights, claiming the events surrounding the attempted marches in 2006 - 2008 had violated his right to freedom of assembly under Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights. He also claimed that he had not been able to access an effective remedy for the violation of Article 11, a violation of Article 13; and that the refusal to allow the marches to go forward had been discriminatory, in that it was made on the basis of his and other participants' sexual orientation, a violation of Article 14 in conjunction with Article 11.
The Court unanimously found violations of all three articles.
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Government's submissions
The Government claimed that domestic law allowed for the restriction of assembly on safety grounds, and that the circumstances of the Applicant's proposed marches and strength of public opinion against them would have meant a high risk of violence. They claimed Article 11 must be interpreted as allowing governments a broad margin of appreciation, as this was required to accommodate the cultural situation of homosexuality in Russia. The Government also claimed that it had been necessary to ban the event for the protection of morals, referring prominent religious organisations' opposition to the march, and that, as there was no consensus between member states as to the legitimacy of homosexuality within society, national authorities were better placed than the European Court to determine the conditions for such events.
Applicant's submissions
The Applicant responded that the provisions used to ban the marches applied only to the safety and suitability of proposed venues rather than to a general risk of violence, and that the authorities on refusing an application for these reasons were obliged to suggest an alternative venue, which had not been done. He further contended that the Government's definition of morals was incorrect, as it referred only to majoritarian public opinion without regard to the concepts of pluralism or diversity. Furthermore, the proposed marches would not have been a threat to morals as they were concerned with human rights and civil liberties and would not have involved any sexually provocative content. He claimed the Government's references to public safety were unsubstantiated as they had not demonstrated an assessed risk of violence. He claimed finally that the sweeping nature of the ban was disproportionate and could not be justified on the grounds that it may have shocked or confused some parts of society (Bączkowski v Poland).
Findings of the Court
The Court found it unnecessary to consider the legitimate aim or domestic lawfulness of the ban as it had found the ban did not satisfy the requirement of being necessary in a democratic society.
The Court reiterated that Article 11 includes within it protection for assemblies which may be at risk of attack from groups who disagree with or are offended by the assembly's aims or purpose. (para.73) The Government had referred inter alia to a statement opposing the ban by the head Muslim cleric in Nizhniy Novgorod (Russia's fourth-largest city), that, "as a matter of necessity, homosexuals must be stoned to death", as evidence of the likely public disorder which would result from the march. The Court found that, "[b]y relying on such blatantly unlawful calls as grounds for the ban, the authorities effectively endorsed the intentions of persons and organisations that clearly and deliberately intended to disrupt a peaceful demonstration in breach of the law and public order." (para.76)
The Court found the ban disproportionate to the Government's stated aim of protecting children and vulnerable adults from homosexual propaganda. It also dismissed the Government's claim that the march should have been banned for conflicting with religious doctrine and the moral values of the majority. It stated that, if a minority group's exercise of rights guaranteed under the Convention were made conditional upon acceptance of that group by the societal majority, it would be "incompatible with the underlying values of the Convention" (para.81).
The Court responded to the statement by the Government that there was a lack of consensus between member states as to the legitimacy of homosexuality, stating there was a long-standing consensus on such matters as legalisation of homosexual activity (Dudgeon v United Kingdom), homosexuals in the military (Smith and Grady v United Kingdom), parental rights, succession to tenancies (Karner v Austria), and equal ages of consent (S. L. v. Austria). While issues such as adoption by same-sex couples and access to same-sex marriage were yet to be brought to consensus, the Court found there was "no ambiguity about the other member States' recognition of the right of individuals to openly identify themselves as gay, lesbian or any other sexual minority, and to promote their rights and freedoms, in particular by exercising their freedom of peaceful assembly." (para.84)
The Court found that the Government had taken no steps to assess the risk posed should the marches have gone ahead. It stated, "The only factor taken into account by the Moscow authorities was the public opposition to the event, and the officials' own views on morals." (para.85) The Government had failed to demonstrate any pressing social need to ban such demonstrations for any of the reasons it had given. The Court therefore found the ban not to have been necessary in a democratic society, and to have been a violation of the right to freedom of assembly under Article 11.
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Article 13 requires that within a member state a competent national authority must be able to provide a suitable domestic remedy to an aggrieved party, both to deal with the substance of the relevant Convention complaint and to grant appropriate relief. As the Applicant's Article 11 right had been violated, he was entitled to such relief under Article 13.
The Court stated that, in the circumstances, an appropriate remedy would have been for the Applicant to have been able to obtain a court ruling concerning the authorisation of the march before it was intended to take place. The Court found that the judicial remedies which had been available to the Applicant in the circumstances were of a post-hoc nature and could not have provided adequate redress to the Applicant, and that there had therefore been a violation of Article 13 (para. 99).
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Article 14 protects against discrimination in access to rights under the Convention. Because it relates to access to rights, it can only be used in conjunction with another article, in this case Article 11.
Parties' submissions
The Government claimed that the antagonistic nature of the relationship between sexual minorities and religious groups in Russia meant it was necessary to place restrictions on the exercise of certain rights. The Applicant responded that the ban was discriminatory as it had been put in place due to the government of Moscow's disapproval of the participants' homosexuality. He referred to reference made by the Government to the disapproval of religious groups towards the march, and to comments made in the media by the Mayor of Moscow which were unfavourable towards homosexuality.
Findings of the Court
The Court stated that homosexuality was a ground for discrimination under Article 14, and that the margin of appreciation afforded to member states in this regard was narrow. It was necessary to show not just that measures taken were "suitable in general", but that they were "necessary in the circumstances" (para.108), and that if the sole reason put forward by a member state for restrictions on access to the Convention rights were the victims' homosexuality, it would amount to discrimination under Article 14. The Court found on the facts that the march participants' sexual orientation had been the main reason for banning the events, and that there had therefore been a violation of Article 14 in conjunction with Article 11.
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The Applicant had claimed €40,000 in non-pecuniary damages, of which the Government was ordered to pay €12,000, as well as €17,510 in costs.
Fedele, Giulio. "The (Gay) Elephant in the Room: Is there a Positive Obligation to Legally Recognise Same-Sex Unions after Fedotova v. Russia?", EJIL: Talk! (July 23, 2021). |
29148132 | Belgrade anti-gay riot | 2010-10-11 01:21:08+00:00 | The Belgrade anti-gay riot was an incident of violence against LGBT people that occurred on 10 October 2010 during a pride parade, organized to promote LGBT rights in Serbia. The gay pride parade has been the first in Belgrade since 2001; a planned parade in 2009 was cancelled due to the threat of violence.
Anti-gay and anti-government protesters fought with about 5,000 armed police, throwing Molotov cocktails, bricks, stones, glass bottles and firecrackers; the police used tear gas and rubber bullets. There were no fatalities.
Police said that 78 police officers and 17 civilians had been injured, and 101 people had been detained for violent behaviour. The garage of the building of the ruling pro-European Democratic Party was set ablaze, and the state TV building and the headquarters of other political parties were also damaged. The parade was viewed as a test for the government of Serbia, which has stated it will protect human rights in Serbia as it seeks to become an EU member. Jelko Kacin, presiding over the European Union's evaluation of Serbia, said that Serbia's failure to stop the riot could damage its bid to join the EU. During a visit to Belgrade two days after the riot, US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, praised the Serbian government for protecting the human rights of the parade participants. |
63781256 | Ministry of Security (Argentina) | 2020-04-27 01:32:45+00:00 | The Ministry of Security (Spanish: Ministerio de Seguridad; MINSEG) of Argentina is a ministry of the national executive power that oversees public safety and security. It co-ordinates the country's national security policy and oversees the Federal Police, the Airport Security Police, the Naval Prefecture, the National Gendarmerie, and the Penitentiary Service, as well as the newly created Federal Council for Interior Security.
The Ministry was created in 2010 by decree of then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner; matters of national security had previously been part of the Ministry of Justice's portfolio. The current minister of security is Patricia Bullrich, who assumed office in 2023 under President Javier Milei.
The responsibilities and attributions of the Ministry of Security are outlined in article 22 bis of the Ley de Ministerios, which states that it is the ministry's goal to assist the President of the Nation and the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers in all matters pertaining to national security, the preservation of liberties, life and the patrimony of Argentina's inhabitants, as well as their rights, within the Argentine Republic's democratic framework. |
33418994 | Department of Community, Culture and Leisure (Isle of Man) | 2011-10-15 15:45:54+00:00 | The Department of Community, Culture and Leisure (often abbreviated to DCCL) was one of nine departments of the Isle of Man Government. It was created on 1 April 2010 taking over the leisure functions from the former Department of Tourism and Leisure along with the community and culture functions from various other departments. It was dissolved on 1 April 2014.
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Public transport
Bus Vannin
Isle of Man Railway
Manx Electric Railway
Recreational clubs
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Manx culture
Arts
Management of the Villa Marina complex
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Leisure
Sports
Management of the National Sports Centre (NSC)
Curraghs Wildlife Park
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Arts Council
Manx National Heritage
Manx Heritage Foundation
Office of Fair Trading
Sports Council
Swimming Pool Authorities
David Cretney MHK, 2010–11
Tim Crookall MHK, 2011–2012
Graham Cregeen MHK, 2012-2014
Chris Robertshaw MHK, 2014 |
40563732 | Department of Infrastructure and Transport | 2013-09-18 04:31:31+00:00 | The Department of Infrastructure and Transport was an Australian government department. It was formed in September 2010, following the federal election in August 2010. The department absorbing parts of the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Regional development and local government functions were sent to the Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government. Following the 2013 federal election, the department was renamed on 18 September 2013 to become the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, regaining regional development and local government functions.
The department was headquartered in the Canberra central business district at Infrastructure House and the neighbouring building.
Information about the department's functions and government funding allocation could be found in the Administrative Arrangements Orders, the annual Portfolio Budget Statements, in the department's annual reports and on the departmental website.
According to the Administrative Arrangements Order made on 14 September 2010, the department dealt with:
Infrastructure planning and co-ordination
Transport safety, including investigations
Land transport
Civil aviation and airports
Transport security
Maritime transport including shipping
Major projects facilitation
The department worked to help the Government of the day achieve its policy objectives by contributing to, and reporting against two key outcomes. The 2011–12 departmental annual report identified the two outcomes as:
Improved infrastructure across Australia through investment in and coordination of transport and other infrastructure.
An efficient, sustainable, competitive, safe and secure transport system for all transport users through regulation, financial assistance and safety investigations.
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The Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) within the department provided economic analysis, research and statistics on infrastructure, transport and regional development issues to inform Australian Government policy development and wider community understanding.
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The department coordinated transport and other infrastructure investment to support Australian economic productivity.: p.24 The department worked with states and territories on transport and infrastructure planning to inform investment priorities of the day.: p.24 : p.23 A major component of infrastructure investment for the department was the Nation Building Program, with an annual administered expenses budget of $463 million in 2013–14.: p.30
The Major cities Unit (MCU) within the department contributed to infrastructure investment by providing advice to the Australian Government on issues of policy, planning and infrastructure that affected Australian cities and suburbs.
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The department aimed to ensure a secure Australian transport system against the threat of terrorist attack. Legislation administered by the department mandated risk-based preventive security outcomes in the aviation, air cargo, maritime and offshore oil and gas sectors.: p.40
The Office of Transport Security (OTS) within the department was the Australian Government’s preventive security regulator for the aviation and maritime sectors, and its primary adviser on transport security.
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Through the surface transport program, the department sought to improve the performance of the surface transport industry.: p.50 Some of the activities undertaken by the department as part of this program included:
working with state and territory governments to implement single rail, heavy vehicle and maritime national laws and national regulators;
protecting sealife and the maritime environment through regulation and stakeholder engagement;
establishing road safety policy aimed to improve heavy vehicle productivity and safety;
administering several Tasmanian transport schemes, including the Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme;
conducting a review on Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport; and
working towards implementing mandatory CO2 emission standards for light vehicles from 2015.: pp.50–51
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Through the road safety program, the department aimed to contribute to the development of a safer road transport system by working to make vehicles and occupants safer, and drivers more informed. A key component of the road safety program was vehicle safety, the department regulated standards for road vehicles first entering the Australian market and through regulation delivered improved levels of vehicle safety, environmental performance and anti-theft protection.: pp.57
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The department undertook a range of functions to ensure the aviation industry operated within a clear and robust safety regulatory environment and that Australian businesses and consumers had access to competitive international and domestic air services. Functions included supporting the aviation safety framework, expanding aviation markets and managing the Government’s interests in airport infrastructure.: pp.63
The department was an Australian Public Service agency administered by a senior executive, comprising a secretary and two deputy secretaries.: p.11
The secretary was Mike Mrdak, appointed to the preceding Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government on 29 June 2009. Mr Mrdak began his public sector career in 1988 as a Graduate with the then Department of Transport and Communications. He holds a bachelor's degree in arts along with a graduate diploma in economics.
In mid-2013, the department had a staff of around 994 people, of which around 836 were employed in Canberra and 15 were based overseas.: p.123 Staff were employed as part of the Australian Public Service under the Public Service Act 1999. The workforce of the department had a reasonably even gender distribution (54% male, 46% female), but at more senior levels that ratio decreased. Around two-thirds of the department held a bachelor's degree or higher.
The department worked closely with several Australian Government agencies within its portfolio, including:
the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB);
the Australian Rail Track Corporation;
Airservices Australia;
the Australian Maritime Safety Authority;
the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA); and
the National Transport Commission.
In the Department's 2013–14 budget statements, expenses were categorised as either departmental or administered expenses. Departmental expenses were those within the control of the relevant agency, whereas administered expenses were those administered on behalf of the Government. Expenses could be broken down as follows:
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34513980 | Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government | 2012-01-27 12:15:03+00:00 | The Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government was an Australian Government department that existed between September 2010 and December 2011.
In an Administrative Arrangements Order made on 14 September 2010, the functions of the department were broadly classified into the following matters:
Administration of the Jervis Bay Territory, the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Territory of Christmas Island, the Coral Sea Islands Territory, the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands, and of Commonwealth responsibilities on Norfolk Island
Constitutional development of the Northern Territory
Constitutional development of the Australian Capital Territory
Delivery of regional and rural specific services
Planning and land management in the Australian Capital Territory
Regional development
Matters relating to local government
Regional Australia policy and co-ordination
Support for ministers and parliamentary secretaries with regional responsibilities
The department worked to help the Government of the day achieve its policy objectives by contributing to, and reporting against two key outcomes. The 2010–11 departmental annual report (which was the only annual report released by the department during its short period of operation) identified the outcomes as:
Coordinated community infrastructure in rural, regional and local government areas through financial assistance.
Good governance in the Australian territories through the maintenance and improvement of the overarching legislative framework for self-governing territories and laws and services for non self-governing territories.
During its life, the Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government was accountable to Simon Crean as the Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government.
The department was staffed by Australian Public Service officials and headed by a Secretary, Glenys Beauchamp. The department's staff numbered approximately 330. |
40773832 | Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities | 2013-10-12 11:37:40+00:00 | The Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities was an Australian government department that existed between September 2010 and September 2013.
Information about the department's functions and government funding allocation could be found in the Administrative Arrangements Orders, the annual Portfolio Budget Statements, in the department's annual reports and on the department's website.
At its creation, the department was responsible for:
Environment protection and conservation of biodiversity
Air quality
National fuel quality standards
Land contamination
Meteorology
Administration of the Australian Antarctic Territory, and the Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Natural, built and cultural heritage
Environmental research
Water policy and resources
Ionospheric prediction
Co-ordination of sustainable communities policy
Population policy
Housing affordability
Built environment innovation
The department was an Australian Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. |
26568381 | 2010 Newry car bombing | 2010-03-15 21:48:07+00:00 | The 2010 Newry car bombing occurred on the night of 22 February 2010. It exploded outside a courthouse in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, damaging the building and others in the area. There were no fatalities or injuries.
The car bombing happened on the evening of 22 February 2010. Seventeen minutes before it exploded, a telephone warning was received saying it was in the centre of Newry and would go off in half an hour. The police evacuated people from their homes and the town centre. The car was a Mazda 6 loaded with 115 kg of explosives. The car exploded next to the gates of the courthouse. The bomb was felt and heard from two miles away. The blast damaged the courthouse and other buildings in the area. A 170-year-old church had its windows blown out; three people were inside the church when the bomb exploded, but they were uninjured. The bombers phoned in a warning that police should clear the area because a bomb would go off in 30 minutes, in fact it went off in 17 minutes. Because of the size of the bomb, the police termed it a "sheer miracle" that no one was injured.
According to the BBC, it is thought that this was the first "large car bomb" to have exploded in Northern Ireland since the 2000 bombing of the Stewartstown police station. Other car bombs have failed to explode, or have only partially exploded.
The bombing is thought to have been an attempt to undo the 2010 Hillsborough Castle Agreement, although the fact that it came two weeks after the Agreement was signed is thought to reflect the militants' limited operational capacity.
According to Fachtna Murphy, Commissioner of the Garda Síochána, this was "the first bomb that exploded in the North in 10 or 11 years."
A warning call was made prior to the explosion, no one was hurt in the attack, several buildings were damaged, and arrests were made, including that of a man suspected of driving the taxi used to transport the bomb. Local residents and politicians expressed shock and anger over the attack.
The next day the area was sealed off as police investigated. Shops were closed and traffic backed up on the motorway between Newry and Belfast. The large explosion caused "traffic chaos" across the city.
The church was reopened in February 2011, after £350,000 of repairs and restoration.
The Real Irish Republican Army was blamed for the bombing in Newry. On 27 May, a 32-year-old man was arrested for the bombing. A day before that a 51-year-old man appeared in the same court charged with the car bombing.
A 45-year-old man was jailed in 2017 for being a member of the IRA, because of DNA evidence he left on the car bomb.
Hillary Clinton, the United States Secretary of State, condemned the bombing but insisted that it would "not destabilise the peace process".
The Newry car bombing is taken as evidence that "hardline Republicans" continue to have the ability to carry out terror attacks in Northern Ireland, although they no longer have the operational strength to do so in Britain itself. The Newry car bombing was one of several cross-border attacks into Northern Ireland in 2009–10. Others included a car bombing of the Northern Ireland Policing Board. There are fears that the terrorists will be able to use these "successful" bombings to recruit.
The operational strength of dissident republican groups as demonstrated by this bombing continues to concern Irish security forces as of September 2010. According to Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy, "A bomb exploded in Newry some months ago and that's the first bomb that exploded in the North since Omagh. That is significant in itself in that it tells us they are endeavouring to improve their capability all the time."
Politically, the attack was alleged by the Belfast Telegraph to have led some loyalists "to believe the older leadership called it wrong—that they decommissioned far too soon."
Writing in the Boston Globe, Kevin Cullen cited the Newry court bombing as evidence not only of the continued existence of an "irredentist rump", but of the continuation of a social situation in which the two groups are still "bitterly divided" and "deeply segregated." |
28959294 | Palace Barracks | 2010-09-26 16:07:51+00:00 | Palace Barracks, Holywood is a military installation and the Northern Ireland headquarters of MI5, in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Palace Barracks occupies the site of a palatial house known as "Ardtullagh", the home of the Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore until it was bought by the UK War Office in 1886.
In 1933, five children of Lance Corporal Harry Poole and his wife, Mary, lost their lives from asphyxiation following gas poisoning in the married quarters of the barracks.
During the roughly three decades of "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland, the barracks served as the home base for battalions rotating through the province, especially those on a two-year "accompanied" tour with their families. A wide variety of facilities are available for soldiers to use off duty, including a swimming pool, squash courts, saunas, bars and a gymnasium.
Palace Barracks became the Regimental Headquarters of the Royal Irish Regiment in 2008.
In March 2010, it was the site of a bombing. An elderly man was blown off his feet and had to be treated in hospital. The bomb was allegedly driven towards the base in a hijacked taxi. The Real IRA claimed responsibility for the attack.
In 2014, it became the base for the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland.
In November 2021, 1 SCOTS was disbanded, and reformed to become 1st Battalion, Ranger Regiment.
Current units stationed at the camp include:
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1st Battalion, Ranger Regiment
Regimental Headquarters, 152 (North Irish) Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps
227 (Belfast) Headquarters Squadron
220 (Belfast) Tanker Squadron
400 Petroleum Operator Squadron
Regimental Headquarters, Royal Irish Regiment
Holywood Troop, 321 EOD & Search Squadron RLC
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Belfast Detachment, Royal Marines Reserve
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Northern Ireland Headquarters
Palace Barracks is the declared headquarters of MI5 for their investigations into Northern Ireland-related terrorism. |
29543044 | Stabbing of Stephen Timms | 2010-11-09 22:20:29+00:00 | On 14 May 2010, Stephen Timms, the Labour MP for East Ham, was suddenly stabbed whilst holding a constituency surgery by Roshonara Choudhry, a 21-year-old British student and an Islamic extremist, in an attempt to kill him. She was found guilty of attempted murder and jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years. Choudhry was the first Al-Qaeda sympathiser to attempt an assassination in Britain.
Choudhry stated that she had been influenced by online sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki, the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Following her trial, such material was removed from YouTube.
Choudhry was born to a Bangladeshi family in Newham, East London, and lived in East Ham. She was the eldest child and attended Plashet School in East Ham, later studying for her A-levels at Newham Sixth Form College. She had been in the final year of a degree in English and communications at King's College, London, but had dropped out shortly before the attempt on Timms' life. In a police interview, she stated that she had left because she found the university to be anti-Islamic, since they had given an award to the Israeli politician Shimon Peres, in addition to running counter-radicalisation programmes.
Choudhry was inspired to attack Timms by the online lectures of Anwar al-Awlaki.
On 14 May 2010, Timms was approached by Choudhry, during his constituency surgery at the Beckton Globe Library in Kingsford Way, Beckton, East London. She acted as though she were going to shake his hand, and then stabbed him twice in his abdomen with a 6-inch kitchen knife, before she was disarmed.
She made "very full admissions" to the police, saying that she had been influenced by dozens of hours of sermons that she had watched of Anwar al-Awlaki, a leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. She said her attack was to punish Timms for voting for the Iraq War, and as revenge for the Iraqi people.
Timms suffered "potentially life-threatening" wounds: lacerations to the left lobe of his liver, and a perforation to his stomach. A senior police officer said he "was extremely fortunate not to have been killed". He underwent emergency surgery at the Royal London Hospital, from which he was discharged on 19 May.
Choudhry chose not to attend her trial for attempted murder at the Old Bailey, saying she did not recognise the court's jurisdiction. The prosecutor ruled out any suggestion that she suffered from a mental illness. On 2 November, Choudhry was found guilty of Timms' attempted murder. She was subsequently given a life sentence, with a recommendation that she serve a minimum jail term of 15 years. After the sentence was announced in court, a group of men in the public gallery began shouting "Allahu akbar" and "British go to hell." A small demonstration took place outside the court.
After the court case, Timms said he was not bitter, but that forgiveness was not possible until his attacker showed remorse. He was seeking the banning of incendiary material on popular internet sites "to protect other vulnerable young people from going down the same road."
The Revolution Muslim website described Choudhry as a heroine for stabbing Timms, posted a prayer to destroy the "enemies of Islam", naming Timms, and responded to her conviction for attacking Timms by publishing a list of MPs who had voted in favour of the Iraq War, as Timms had, giving advice on how to find details of their constituency surgeries.
Choudhry is incarcerated at HM Prison Bronzefield in Ashford, Surrey. As a Category A prisoner, Choudhry must be strip-searched before and after being visited. For religious reasons, she opposes this, and instead chooses to remain in solitary confinement. |
29416816 | 2010 transatlantic aircraft bomb plot | 2010-10-31 01:13:49+00:00 | On October 29, 2010, two packages, each containing a bomb consisting of 300 to 400 grams (11–14 oz) of plastic explosives and a detonating mechanism, were found on separate cargo planes. The bombs were discovered as a result of intelligence received from Saudi Arabia's security chief. They were in transport from Yemen to the United States and were discovered at stopover locations: one at East Midlands Airport in the UK and one in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
One week later, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) took responsibility for the plot and for the crash of UPS Airlines Flight 6. American and British authorities believed that Anwar al-Awlaki of AQAP was behind the bombing attempts and that the bombs were most likely constructed by AQAP's main explosives expert, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. The bombs were probably designed to detonate in flight, with the intention of destroying both planes over Chicago or another American city. Each bomb had already been transported on passenger and cargo planes at the time of discovery.
On October 28, Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister of counterterrorism Prince Mohammed bin Nayef called John Brennan, the U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and former Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Riyadh, to warn him of the plot. The Saudis provided the U.S. and Germany with the tracking numbers and destinations of the packages and informed them to look for toner cartridges. The packages had been deposited by a woman at FedEx and UPS offices in Sana'a, Yemen on October 27, and were scheduled to arrive in Chicago on November 1.
Saudi Arabia had reportedly learned of the plot through Jabir Jubran Al Fayfi, a former Guantánamo Bay detention camp inmate who had been remanded to Saudi Arabia for rehabilitation in 2006. Al-Faifi had escaped in 2008 and rejoined AQAP, but surrendered to Saudi authorities on October 16, 2010 and provided them with information about the plot. Yemeni officials suspected that al-Faifi had not actually rejoined al-Qaeda but had become a double agent. They said that his tip appeared to be based on more recent information than al-Faifi could access, and that the information must have come from a Saudi double agent in AQAP.
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The first package left Sana'a, Yemen, on a passenger plane, flying to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It then was next placed on a UPS cargo plane to Cologne/Bonn Airport in Germany, where UPS Airlines has a hub. There, it was placed on UPS Flight 232, a Boeing 767 cargo plane bound for East Midlands Airport in Leicestershire. From there, it was to fly to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago via Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The UPS plane landed at East Midlands Airport at 2:13 a.m. local time on October 29. British military and police explosives experts had been alerted to the existence of the bomb, and conducted an initial search of the plane's cargo in the airport's UPS parcels distribution depot. Officers from Scotland Yard Counter Terrorism Command joined them.
U.S. authorities provided the tracking number of the package, and the computer printer inside was scanned with explosives detection equipment, x-rayed, subjected to chemical swabs, and sniffed by sniffer dogs. No explosives were detected. Removing the suspect package for further examination, the authorities allowed the UPS plane to proceed to Philadelphia at 4:20 a.m. local time. At 10:00 a.m. the British gave the all-clear, and removed safety cordons from the airport.
Later forensic examination indicated that the bomb was inadvertently disarmed by Scotland Yard explosive officers, who took the printer cartridge out of the printer during their examination that morning, around three hours before the bomb was due to explode at 10:30 a.m. (5:30 a.m. Eastern time). The officers were unaware when they took the device apart that it was a bomb.
British officials continued to believe that there were no explosives in the package, but U.S. authorities insisted that the package be inspected again. British authorities then consulted with officials in Dubai, who had discovered a similar bomb in a printer cartridge, and MI6 spoke with the Saudi tipster. Scotland Yard explosives officers flew the printer and the cartridge in a police helicopter to the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Fort Halstead near London, and discovered the bomb at around 2:00 p.m.
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Qatar Airways said that the package with the second bomb had been carried on two of its commercial passenger jets. The first was a 144-seat Airbus A320 that flew from Sana'a, Yemen, to Doha International Airport in Doha, Qatar, on October 28. The second passenger plane was an Airbus A321 or Boeing 777 flying from Doha to Dubai. The seating capacity of the second plane was anywhere from 144 to 335, depending on which aircraft was used.
The second package was discovered on a FedEx Express plane at the FedEx depot at the Dubai airport at around 9:00 a.m. GMT on October 29. The plane was scheduled to fly to Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, and then on to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.
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The packages were addressed to former locations of two synagogues in Chicago. Investigators believe the terrorists used outdated information that they found online. One package was addressed to a church in Lakeview that had once been the meeting place of Congregation Or Chadash, and the other had been sent to a closed synagogue in East Rogers Park. Simon Calder observed in The Independent:
Yemen is not a natural provider of office supplies to organisations such as synagogues in the Chicago area. Therefore, you might fondly imagine that the staff in the parcels offices in the capital, Sana'a, might have checked the despatches more closely before allowing them anywhere near an aircraft, cargo or passengers. But they didn't.
The packages were addressed to specific people at the addresses—the names used were those of historical figures from the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades. One package was addressed to Diego Deza, a Grand Inquisitor during the Spanish Inquisition. The other was addressed to Reynald Krak (Raynald of Châtillon), a French crusader who was beheaded in 1187 by Sultan Saladin of the 12th-century Muslim Ayyubid dynasty.
Brian Fishman of the New America Foundation said the choice of names was an inside joke. "The jihadis ... narrative is that non-Muslims are always on the attack, always trying to take Muslim lands. The jihadis like the narrative, because it justifies violence, since they claim that they’re only defending Islam," he said. He felt the destination of Chicago may have had meaning as well, as the latest edition of Inspire (AQAP's online magazine) may have had a photo of Chicago on its cover. Fishman points out that this parallels Osama bin Laden posing in front of a map of East Africa shortly before the 1998 United States embassy bombings. U.S. and UK officials believed the planes, and not the addresses on the ground, were the targets.
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Each package contained a Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet P2055 desktop laser printer. Inside each printer's toner cartridge was a sophisticated bomb. The cartridges were filled with pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN). The bomb found in the UK contained 400 grams (14 oz) of PETN, five times the amount needed to destroy a house. The one found in Dubai contained 300 grams (11 oz) of PETN. Hans Michels, professor of safety engineering at University College London, said that just 6 grams (0.2 oz) of PETN—around 2% of what was used—would be enough to blow a hole in a metal plate twice the thickness of an aircraft's skin. The PETN was of "an extremely high concentration", according to British criminal investigators. German investigators felt the device's construction would require "logistics that only state facilities should have access to".
The package intercepted in Dubai was shipped in a cardboard box that also contained souvenirs, clothes, compact discs, and several books written in English.
The bomb found in the UK was sent to the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Fort Halstead in Kent, and American technicians in the United Arab Emirates examined the other bomb.
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Detonators
Each bomb was triggered by a cell phone alarm, which activated a phone battery to send power through a thin wire filament inside a syringe containing 5 grams (0.18 oz) of lead azide, a powerful chemical initiator. Once hot, the lead azide would ignite, causing the PETN to detonate. The device's wiring was set up so that all the printer components would appear to be correct if the device was x-rayed. Features not relevant to the alarm timer function, such as the display, had been removed to extend the battery life. The device was reported to carry markings resembling a Bird D736 cell phone.
There had initially been speculation that the bombs might be detonated by receipt of a telephone call or text message, but the SIM cards necessary to receive calls had been removed, rendering the phones unable to receive any communication, but increasing battery life. U.S. officials said that the bombs were set to go off shortly before the planes landed.
Mid-air capability
British Prime Minister David Cameron and officials in the U.S. believe that the bombs were designed to detonate as the planes were in flight, destroying the planes in mid-air. Britain's Home Secretary, Theresa May, said British investigators concluded the UK device was a functional bomb powerful enough to bring down the aircraft, causing a "supersonic blast". Brennan agreed with this assessment.
Cargo vs. passenger planes
Brennan said it was not clear whether those attempting the bombing knew whether the packages would be carried on cargo or passenger planes. Since Yemen does not have any regularly scheduled cargo flights, the perpetrators likely knew the bombs would end up on passenger planes. Most of the air freight arriving in the U.S. is on passenger flights. James Halstead, a consultant with Aviation Economics, said "In a worst case, it would stop world trade. UPS and FedEx would probably go bust. We'd have a full-disaster scenario."
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Like many explosives, PETN has a low vapor pressure. This makes it difficult to detect, because the chemical releases little vapor into the surrounding air. Frank Cilluffo, the director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University, said: "It is evident that had we not had the intelligence, our security countermeasures would not have identified these improvised explosive devices." Qatar Airways said that "the explosives discovered were of a sophisticated nature whereby they could not be detected by x-ray screening or trained sniffer dogs", and were only discovered after intelligence services received a tip.
Both packages were x-rayed in Sana'a, and the one in Dubai was x-rayed there, without the bombs being spotted. A spokesman for the German Federal Criminal Police Office, where the Dubai x-rays were reviewed, stated they would not have detected the bomb. When X-rayed, PETN would resemble the cartridge's powdered ink, and the timers resembled the normal printer cartridge electronics.
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Previously, in mid-September 2010, U.S. intelligence intercepted three packages linked to AQAP that had been shipped from Yemen to Chicago. They searched the packages, but did not find any explosives. One of the packages included the 1860 novel The Mill on the Floss, by English novelist George Eliot, a woman who wrote under an assumed identity. The packages, addressed to "random addresses" in Chicago, were not confiscated.
Authorities surmised, after the October incident, that the September parcels may have been a test run. The September packages may have been used as a way to test the accuracy of tracking information available online from carriers such as UPS, information that could potentially be used to time the detonation of the October bombs.
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On November 5, 2010, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) took responsibility for the plot, posting on a number of radical Islamist websites monitored by the SITE Intelligence Group and the NEFA Foundation. "We will continue to strike blows against American interests and the interest of America's allies," said the perpetrators. "Since both operations were successful, we intend to spread the idea to our mujahedeen brothers in the world and enlarge the circle of its application to include civilian aircraft in the West as well as cargo aircraft." U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, British Home Secretary Theresa May, and Dubai police had noted that these types of explosives are "hallmarks" of AQAP, and had suspected they were behind the attack.
AQAP also claimed responsibility for the crash of UPS Airlines Flight 6, a Boeing 747-400 cargo plane that crashed in Dubai on September 3. U.S. and United Arab Emirates investigators had said they had not found any evidence of an explosion or terrorist involvement in that incident, and were skeptical about the claim. They suggested it was probably an attempt by AQAP to bolster its image. On September 10, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed that the AQAP was not involved in the September 3 crash.
On November 21, AQAP provided a detailed account of the plot, including photos of the printer bombs, in its English-language magazine Inspire. The article said that the mission was a success, because it caused a huge amount of disruption to the world's air traffic and security systems at the very low cost of $4,200.
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The Guardian reported that unnamed U.S. counter-terrorism officials suspected that Anwar al-Awlaki of AQAP was behind the plot. "Anybody associated with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is a subject of concern," Brennan said. The New York Times reported that "some analysts believe the [attempted Chicago bombing] may also be linked to Mr. Awlaki". The Daily Telegraph reported that "U.S. and British security officials believe" al-Awlaki was behind the attack. U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein said "al-Awlaki was behind the two ... bombs."
Al-Awlaki had also been linked to the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, the failed 2009 Christmas Day bombing, the failed 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt, and other terrorist incidents, and had been placed by U.S. President Barack Obama on a targeted killing list. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights sued in an attempt to prevent his death. Al-Awlaki was killed in a targeted killing in September 2011.
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US officials suggested that Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, the main explosives expert for Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, likely built the bombs. He has a history of creating explosive devices using PETN. Brennan said that the evidence pointed to the bombs having been built by the same person who made the device worn by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted to detonate a bomb on a plane on Christmas Day 2009. One of the detonators was almost identical to the one used in that attack.
Al-Asiri had previously recruited his younger brother Abdullah as a suicide bomber, hiding a PETN bomb in his rectum in an attempt on the life of security chief Mohammed bin Nayef. Abdullah died in the attempt, but Nayef survived with minor injuries.
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On October 30, 2010, a 22-year-old female Yemeni engineering student was arrested in Sana'a, Yemen, on suspicion of having shipped the packages. Her mother was also arrested. Both were released the following day when it was determined that the woman's identification had been stolen.
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Obama and his administration reacted quickly to the incident, making public statements that it was a "credible threat". A New York Times opinion piece suggested that the quick response would be well received politically for the 2010 U.S. elections.
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Security alerts were triggered in the U.S., the UK, and the Middle East. An Emirates flight containing a package in transit from Yemen to the U.S. was intercepted by Canadian CF-18 and U.S. F-15 fighter jets and escorted to New York as a precaution. Two FedEx planes containing packages originating from Yemen were also searched.
The UK, the U.S., Germany, France, and Belgium stopped accepting freight package cargo shipments from Yemen, and the Netherlands and Canada suspended all cargo flights from Yemen. Germany suspended passenger flights from Yemen until November 15. Britain and the U.S. stopped accepting air cargo from Somalia, and prohibited passengers from carrying certain printer cartridges on flights. The Swedish government recommended that its citizens not travel to Yemen until further notice.
FedEx, UPS, and Mideast-based shipper Aramex suspended their shipping operations in Yemen. Emirates Airline and Air Arabia stopped carrying cargo from Yemen, and Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways stopped carrying cargo from Yemen and Somalia.
The U.S. increased air passenger screenings and initiated a more detailed passenger search procedure. American Civil Liberties Union counsel Chris Calabrese said that "Americans now must choose between a virtual strip search and a grope."
The incident was one of the factors leading the European Commission to review the European Union's approach to customs risk management and supply chain security in 2012-13.
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On November 2, four days after the bombs were discovered, al-Awlaki was charged in absentia in Sana'a with plotting to kill foreigners and being an al-Qaeda member in an unrelated matter. On November 6, Yemeni Judge Mohsen Alwan ordered that al-Awlaki be caught dead or alive. |
70903696 | 19th Actors and Actresses Union Awards | 2022-05-30 00:27:53+00:00 | The 19th Actors and Actresses Union Awards ceremony was held on 29 March 2010 at the Teatro Circo Price in Madrid.
In addition to the competitive awards Sahrawi activist Amainetu Haidar received the 'Mujeres en Unión' award, Aurora Bautista the 'Toda una vida' career award and the Special Award went to the Instituto Cervantes.
The winners and nominees are listed as follows:
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74338410 | 2010 WhatsOnStage Awards | 2023-07-13 17:46:11+00:00 | The WhatsOnStage Awards, founded in 2001 as the Theatregoers' Choice Awards, are a fan-driven set of awards organised by the theatre website WhatsOnStage.com, based on a popular vote recognising performers and productions of English theatre, with an emphasis on London's West End theatre.
The 2010 WhatsOnStage Award nominees and winners were: |
26653699 | 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards | 2010-03-22 11:15:34+00:00 | The 2010 Olivier Awards were held on 21 March 2010 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.
The following 25 productions, including one ballet and four operas, received multiple nominations:
7: Spring Awakening
6: Enron, Jerusalem
5: A Little Night Music
4: A View from the Bridge, Hello, Dolly, Sister Act
3: A Streetcar Named Desire, Burnt by the Sun, Oliver, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Red, The Misanthrope, Three Days of Rain, Tristan und Isolde
2: Afterlight, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Der fliegende Holländer, England People Very Nice, Hamlet, Lulu, Morecambe, Peter Grimes, The Mountaintop, The Priory
The following five productions, including one opera, received multiple awards:
4: Spring Awakening
3: Hello, Dolly
2: A Streetcar Named Desire, Jerusalem, Tristan und Isolde |
27534999 | Deaths in June 2010 | 2010-05-30 07:20:13+00:00 | The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2010.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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Omar Andréen, 87, Norwegian painter, graphic artist, and illustrator.
Freddie Burdette, 73, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
Vladimír Bystrov, 74, Czech writer and translator, recipient of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
Chinook Pass, 31, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
Arturo Falaschi, 77, Italian geneticist.
John Hagart, 72, Scottish football player and manager.
Heather the Leather, 50, British scaleless carp, old age.
Arthur A. Link, 96, American politician. U.S. Representative (1971–1973), Governor of North Dakota (1973–1981).
Roger Manderscheid, 77, Luxembourgian author.
Miss Ellie, 17, American Chinese Crested Dog, winner of title World's Ugliest Dog.
Kazuo Ohno, 103, Japanese dancer, respiratory failure.
Frank Pike, 80, Canadian football player and manager, heart failure.
Joseph Strick, 86, American film director and producer, heart failure.
Lobi Traoré, 48, Malian musician.
Andrei Voznesensky, 77, Russian poet and writer.
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Dick Bird, 77, British Anglican priest.
Eleanor Taylor Bland, 65, American crime fiction writer.
Floribert Chebeya, 46, Congolese human rights activist.
Dorothy DeBorba, 85, American actress (Our Gang), emphysema and lung disease.
Tony DiPreta, 88, American cartoonist, (Joe Palooka, Rex Morgan, M.D.), respiratory and cardiac arrest.
John W. Douglas, 88, American civil rights advocate, complications from a stroke.
Joe Gardi, 71, American football coach, stroke.
Kovilan, 86, Indian novelist, respiratory disease.
Marguerite Narbel, 92, Swiss biologist and politician, member of the Grand Council of Vaud.
Garry Purdham, 31, English rugby league player (Workington Town), shot.
Ri Je-gang, 80, North Korean politician, First Deputy Head of the Organization and Guidance Department of the Workers' Party of Korea, car accident.
John Richardson, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Perth—Wellington—Waterloo (1993–1997); Perth—Middlesex (1997–2002), Alzheimer's disease.
António Alva Rosa Coutinho, 84, Portuguese admiral and politician, Governor-General of Angola, after long illness.
Michael Schildberger, 72, Australian journalist, prostate cancer.
Gabriele Sella, 47, Italian Olympic cyclist.
Giuseppe Taddei, 93, Italian opera singer.
Yoo Chang-soon, 92, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1982).
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João Aguiar, 66, Portuguese writer and journalist.
Vladimir Arnold, 72, Russian mathematician, peritonitis.
Frank Bernasko, 79, Ghanaian soldier and politician.
Bill Clark, 80, New Zealand rugby player, after long illness.
Frank Evans, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado (1965–1979).
John Hedgecoe, 78, British photographer.
Robert Hudson, 90, British broadcaster.
Paul Malliavin, 84, French mathematician, creator of Malliavin calculus.
Rue McClanahan, 76, American actress (The Golden Girls, Maude, Starship Troopers), Emmy winner (1987), stroke.
Luigi Padovese, 63, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar of Anatolia and chairman of the Turkish Bishops' Conference (since 2004), stabbed.
Pance Pondaag, 59, Indonesian pop singer and songwriter, complications from a stroke.
Pétur Sigurgeirsson, 91, Icelandic prelate, Bishop of Iceland (1981–1989).
Emory C. Swank, 88, American diplomat, Ambassador to Cambodia (1970–1973).
Hasan Tiro, 84, Indonesian politician, founder of the Free Aceh Movement, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
Leonard S. Unger, 92, American diplomat, Ambassador to Laos (1962–1964), Thailand (1967), and the Republic of China (1974–1979).
Charlie Wedemeyer, 64, American football player and coach, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Raymond Allchin, 86, British archaeologist.
Bill Ashenfelter, 85, American Olympic athlete.
Frank Ballard, 80, American puppeteer and educator, complications from Parkinson's disease.
Himan Brown, 99, American radio producer (CBS Radio Mystery Theater).
Jim Copeland, 65, American football player, cancer.
Marianne Elser Crowder, 104, American oldest Girl Scout, pancreatic cancer.
Amado Crowley, 80, British occult writer and magician. (Death announced by this date)
Richard Dunn, 73, American character actor (Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!), stroke.
David Foster, 90, British naval pilot.
Jack Harrison, 97, British air force officer, last survivor of Stalag Luft III.
Richard P. Lindsay, 84, American Mormon leader and politician (Utah House of Representatives, 1972–1977), cancer.
Syd Luyt, 84, South African Olympic runner.
David Markson, 82, American writer (Wittgenstein's Mistress).
William Miranda Marín, 69, Puerto Rican politician, mayor of Caguas (1997–2010), pancreatic cancer.
Andi Meriem Matalatta, 52, Indonesian pop singer, complications from diabetes.
Carlos Francisco Martins Pinheiro, 85, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate.
Hennadiy Popovych, 37, Ukrainian footballer (Zenit, Shakhtar), cardiac arrest.
Norman Rothfield, 98, Australian peace and labour activist.
Ray Smith, 80, Australian Olympic athlete.
Chuck Taliano, 65, American marine, featured on recruitment poster, multiple myeloma.
Eddie Washington, 56, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (2003–2010), heart attack.
John Werket, 85, American Olympic speed skater.
John Wooden, 99, American basketball coach (UCLA, 1948–1975).
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Esma Agolli, 81, Albanian actress, cardiac arrest.
Braulio Alonso, 93, American educator.
Sir Neil Anderson, 83, New Zealand admiral, Chief of Defence Staff (1980–1983).
Danny Bank, 87, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist.
Robert C. Bergenheim, 86, American founder of Boston Business Journal.
Angus Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton, 71, British peer and racing driver, dementia.
Robert Healy, 84, American journalist, executive editor (The Boston Globe), stroke.
Stephen Clancy Hill, 34, American pornographic actor and murderer, suicide by jumping from cliff.
Jacob Milgrom, 87, American rabbi and biblical scholar, brain hemorrhage.
Finian Monahan, 86, Irish Roman Catholic friar and priest, Superior General (1973–1979), pneumonia.
Arne Nordheim, 78, Norwegian contemporary classical composer.
Tony Peluso, 60, American musician and record producer (The Carpenters), heart disease.
Steven Reuther, 58, American film producer (Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman, The Ugly Truth), cancer.
Robert Wussler, 73, American businessman, co-founder of CNN, after long illness.
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Mabi de Almeida, 46, Angolan football manager, after long illness.
Jack Beeson, 88, American contemporary classical music composer, heart failure.
Marvin Isley, 56, American bassist (The Isley Brothers, Isley-Jasper-Isley), complications of diabetes.
Dana Key, 56, American musician (DeGarmo and Key), ruptured blood clot.
Abraham Nathanson, 80, American graphic designer and author, co-inventor of Bananagrams, cancer.
Robert B. Radnitz, 85, American film producer (Cross Creek, My Side of the Mountain, Sounder), complications from a stroke.
Ladislav Smoljak, 78, Czech film and theatre director, after long illness.
Jerry Stephenson, 66, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), lung cancer.
Paul Wunderlich, 83, German artist.
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José Albi, 88, Spanish poet.
Paul Bell, 59, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (since 1993), stomach cancer.
Stuart Cable, 40, Welsh drummer (Stereophonics), accidental asphyxiation.
Chai Zemin, 93, Chinese diplomat.
Mordechai Eliyahu, 81, Israeli rabbi, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel (1983–1993).
Jorge Ginarte, 70, Argentine football manager.
Ndoc Gjetja, 66, Albanian poet, after long illness.
Alex Hastie, 74, British rugby player.
Eric Mason, 83, British actor (Hot Fuzz, A Man for All Seasons, Doctor Who).
Arsen Naydyonov, 68, Russian football coach (Zhemchuzhina, Novorossiysk).
Oliver N'Goma, 51, Gabonese singer and guitarist, renal failure.
Omar Rayo, 82, Colombian painter and sculptor, heart attack.
Viana Júnior, 68, Brazilian comedian, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
Adriana Xenides, 54, Argentine-born Australian television personality (Wheel of Fortune), ruptured intestine.
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Tony Cennamo, 76, American disc jockey (WBUR), after long illness.
Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn, 94, British politician and life peer.
Dan Eastman, 64, American politician and businessman, Utah State Senator (2000–2008), heart failure.
Joan Hinton, 88, American nuclear physicist, abdominal aneurysm.
Porfi Jiménez, 82, Dominican-born Venezuelan musician, arranger, composer and bandleader.
Plamen Maslarov, 60, Bulgarian film director.
Stephen Rivers, 55, American publicist and political activist, prostate cancer.
Ismael Blas Rolón Silvero, 96, Paraguayan Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Asunción (1970–1989).
Crispian St. Peters, 71, British pop singer ("The Pied Piper", "You Were on My Mind"), after long illness.
Andreas Voutsinas, 79, Greek actor and stage director.
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Epaminondas José de Araújo, 88, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios (1978–1984).
Ken Brown, 70, British guitarist (The Quarrymen).
Fadzil Mahmood, 73, Malaysian politician, speaker of the Perlis State Assembly (1986–1990).
Melbert Ford, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
Christine Johnson, 98, American opera singer and actress.
Bobby Kromm, 82, Canadian ice hockey coach (Detroit Red Wings, Winnipeg Jets), complications from colorectal cancer.
Joseph Crescent McKinney, 81, American Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Grand Rapids (1968–2001).
Marina Semyonova, 101, Russian prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet).
Mohamed Sylla, 39, Guinean footballer (Willem II, Martigues, Guinea), cancer.
Oleksandr Zinchenko, 53, Ukrainian politician.
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David Ellison, 70, British actor (Juliet Bravo).
Ginette Garcin, 82, French actress, cancer.
Ferdinand Oyono, 80, Cameroonian writer and government minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1992–1997).
Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter and photographer, cancer.
Basil Schott, 70, American Byzantine Catholic friar, Metropolitan of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (since 2002), cancer.
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Bernie Andrews, 76, British radio producer.
Maria Aurora, 72, Portuguese journalist, poet, novelist, children's writer and television presenter.
Henri Cuq, 68, French politician.
Shunsuke Ikeda, 68, Japanese actor (Kikaider 01, Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers), stomach cancer.
Kip Deville, 7, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
Norman Macrae, 86, British journalist, deputy editor of The Economist (1965–1988).
William J. Mitchell, 65, American architect and urban designer (MIT Media Lab), complications of cancer.
Johnny Parker, 80, British jazz pianist ("Bad Penny Blues").
Andrzej Piątkowski, 75, Polish sabreur, Olympic medallist (1956, 1960 and 1964).
Fred Plum, 86, American neurologist, developed the term "persistent vegetative state", primary progressive aphasia.
Badal Rahman, 61, Bangladeshi film director and political activist.
Dariusz Ratajczak, 47, Polish holocaust denier (body discovered on this date).
Bus Whitehead, 82, American basketball player (Nebraska Cornhuskers)
James N. Wood, 69, American museum director.
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Anne Chapman, 88, French-born American ethnologist.
John Crampton, 88, British RAF pilot.
Daisy D'ora, 97, German actress and socialite.
Richard Keynes, 90, British physiologist.
Rik Levins, 60, American comic book artist (Captain America, The Avengers).
Chuck Lyda, 57, American slalom and sprint canoer, stomach cancer.
Félix Maldonado, 72, American baseball player and scout (Boston Red Sox), cancer.
Fuat Mansurov, 82, Kazakh-born Russian conductor (Bolshoi Theatre).
Les Richter, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), member of Pro Football Hall of Fame, and auto racing official, NASCAR head of operations, brain aneurysm.
Egon Ronay, 94, Hungarian-born British restaurateur and restaurant critic.
Philip Selznick, 91, American lawyer, author and sociologist.
Grizzly Smith, 77, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.
Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, 88, Polish screenwriter and film director.
Al Williamson, 79, American comic book artist (Secret Agent X-9, Superman, Flash Gordon).
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Combo Ayouba, 57-58, Comorian army officer, Coordinator of the Transitional Military Committee (1995), shot.
E. F. Bleiler, 90, American science fiction author.
Thomas S. Buechner, 83, American museum director, lymphoma.
Dave Broda, 65, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1997–2004), car crash.
Jimmy Dean, 81, American country music singer (Big Bad John), actor and businessman (Jimmy Dean Foods), natural causes.
Abbas Djoussouf, 68, Comorian politician, Prime Minister (1998–1999).
Ernest Fleischmann, 85, German-born American impresario, executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Ernie Johnson, 84, American football and basketball player (UCLA).
Emilio Macias, 76, Filipino politician, Governor of Negros Oriental, liver cancer.
F. James McDonald, 87, American businessman, President of General Motors (1981–1987).
Tom Stith, 71, American basketball player (New York Knicks).
Sergei Tretyakov, 53, Russian intelligence officer and defector, former SVR agent.
Nelson Wallulatum, 84, American Wasco tribe leader, chief of the Wasco Indians (since 1959), founder of The Museum at Warm Springs.
Jonathan Wolken, 60, American artistic director, co-founder of Pilobolus, complications from stem cell transplant.
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Oscar Azócar, 45, Venezuelan baseball player (New York Yankees, San Diego Padres).
Teshome Gabriel, 70, Ethiopian-born American cinema scholar, cardiac arrest.
Resi Hammerer, 85, Austrian Olympic alpine skier, bronze medalist (1948 Winter Olympics).
Richard Herrmann, 90, Norwegian journalist, writer and radio personality (NRK), after long illness.
Jiří Kavan, 66, Czech Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) handball player.
Leonid Kizim, 68, Ukrainian Soviet cosmonaut.
Ted Lowry, 90, American boxer, heart failure.
Manohar Malgonkar, 96, Indian author.
Luis Arturo Mondragón, 53, Honduran journalist, shot.
Giacinto Prandelli, 96, Italian operatic tenor.
Damian Silvera, 35, American Olympic soccer player.
Jaroslav Škarvada, 85, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Prague (1982–2002).
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Thomas L. Ashley, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative for Ohio (1955–1981).
Charles Thomas Beer, 94, Canadian chemist.
Brian Bethell, 45, American spree killer.
Bekim Fehmiu, 74, Serbian actor (I Even Met Happy Gypsies), suspected suicide by gunshot.
Phil Gordon, 94, American character actor and dialect coach (The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction).
Charlie Hickcox, 63, American Olympic swimmer, gold and silver medalist (1968 Summer Olympics), cancer.
Heidi Kabel, 95, German stage actress.
Tadashi Kawashima, 41, Japanese manga artist (Alive: The Final Evolution), liver cancer.
Arnold Kramish, 87, American physicist, neurological disorder.
Wendell Logan, 69, American composer.
Busi Mhlongo, 62, South African musician, cancer.
Natalia Tolstaya, 67, Russian writer and translator.
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Joselito Agustin, 37, Filipino journalist, shot.
Marc Bazin, 78, Haitian politician, Acting President and Prime Minister (1992–1993).
Peter Brunette, 66, American film critic (The Hollywood Reporter), heart attack.
Bill Dixon, 84, American jazz musician.
Maureen Forrester, 79, Canadian opera singer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
Amedeo Guillet, 101, Italian army officer.
Bob Hartman, 72, American baseball player, post-surgical infection.
Allen Hoey, 57, American poet, Pulitzer Prize nominee, heart attack.
Ronald Neame, 99, British film director (The Poseidon Adventure) and screenwriter.
Jim Nestor, 90, Australian Olympic cyclist.
Corso Salani, 48, Italian actor and film director, stroke.
Garry Shider, 56, American musician (Parliament-Funkadelic), complications from brain and lung cancer.
P. G. Viswambharan, 63, Indian film director, after long illness.
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Hannah Atkins, 86, American politician, Secretary of State of Oklahoma (1987–1991) and State Representative (1969–1981), cancer.
Elżbieta Czyżewska, 72, Polish-born American actress, esophageal cancer.
Hans Dichand, 89, Austrian journalist and newspaper publisher.
Sebastian Horsley, 47, British artist, heroin overdose.
Anjali Mendes, 64, Indian model.
K. S. Rajah, 80, Singaporean juridical official, Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court, cancer.
Andy Ripley, 62, British rugby player, prostate cancer.
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Trent Acid, 29, American professional wrestler, accidental drug overdose.
Marcel Bigeard, 94, French general and politician.
Bogdan Bogdanović, 87, Serbian architect, urbanist, and politician, Mayor of Belgrade (1982–1986), heart attack.
Waldemar Ciesielczyk, 51, Polish Olympic fencer.
Joe Deal, 62, American photographer, bladder cancer.
Bidya Debbarma, 94, Indian politician.
Robert Galambos, 96, American neuroscientist, discovered how bats navigate, heart failure.
Ronnie Lee Gardner, 49, American convicted murderer, executed by firing squad.
Tom Nicon, 22, French model, suicide by jumping.
Kalmen Opperman, 90, American clarinetist, heart failure.
José Saramago, 87, Portuguese novelist, playwright and journalist, Nobel Prize winner for literature, cancer.
Hans Joachim Sewering, 94, German physician, member of the Waffen-SS (1933–1945).
Hadelin Viellevoye, 95, Belgian footballer [1]
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Manute Bol, 47, Sudanese basketball player and activist, kidney failure and Stevens–Johnson syndrome.
Anwar Chowdhry, 86, Pakistani sports official, President of the International Boxing Association (1986–2006), heart attack.
Jack Cloud, 85, American football player.
Ned Endress, 92, American basketball player.
Marvin L. Esch, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1967–1977).
John Ferruggio, 84, American in-flight director, led evacuation of Pan Am Flight 93, organ failure.
Mohammed Ali Hammadi, 46, Lebanese militant (Hezbollah), drone strike.
Robin Matthews, 83, British economist and chess problemist.
Carlos Monsiváis, 72, Mexican writer and journalist, respiratory failure.
Vince O'Brien, 91, American character actor (Dark Shadows, Guiding Light, Law & Order).
Alfred Parsons, 85, Australian diplomat, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (1983–1987).
Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, 85, British philosopher and life peer.
Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, 48, Mexican politician, mayor of Guadalupe, Chihuahua, shot.
Dame Angela Rumbold, 77, British politician, MP for Mitcham and Morden (1982–1997).
Nico Smith, 81, South African minister and anti-apartheid activist, heart attack.
Ken Talbot, 59, Australian businessman, CEO of Macarthur Coal (1995–2008), plane crash.
Paul Thiebaud, 49, American gallerist, colon cancer.
Ursula Thiess, 86, German artist and actress (Bengal Brigade).
Jack Tobin, 90, American anthropologist, expert on the Marshall Islands.
Chris Welles, 72, American business journalist, Alzheimer's disease.
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Dwight Armstrong, 58, American anti-Vietnam War protester, Sterling Hall bomber, lung cancer.
Sir William Boulton, 3rd Baronet, 98, British barrister.
Vladimír Dlouhý, 52, Czech actor.
Lai Sun Cheung, 59, Hong Kong football coach, lung cancer.
Raymond Parks, 96, American auto racer, two-time NASCAR car owner points champion.
Abdolmalek Rigi, 27, Iranian Sunni Islamist militant, leader of Jundallah, execution by hanging.
Roberto Rosato, 66, Italian footballer.
Gundibail Sunderam, 80, Indian cricketer, after a short illness.
Albert Webster, 85, British Olympic athlete.
Harry B. Whittington, 94, British palaeontologist.
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Jesús Álvarez Amaya, 84, Mexican painter and graphic artist, cancer.
Russell Ash, 64, British writer and publisher (The Top 10 of Everything).
Irwin Barker, 58, Canadian comedian and television writer (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Rick Mercer Report), leiomyosarcoma.
Wilfried Feldenkirchen, 62, German economic historian and project manager (Siemens), car crash.
Rosemary Gillespie, 69, Australian human rights activist and lawyer, stroke.
Bob Greene, 92, American Makah tribe elder, natural causes.
Hector Laing, Baron Laing of Dunphail, 87, British businessman and life peer.
Allison Parks, 68, American model (Playboy, October 1965) and actress.
Ingeborg Pertmayr, 63, Austrian Olympic diver.
Henrique Walter Pinotti, 81, Brazilian physician, cancer.
William S. Richardson, 90, American jurist and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (1962–1966), Chief Justice (Hawaii Supreme Court, 1966–1982).
Hermann Gonçalves Schatzmayr, 75, Brazilian virologist, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz researcher, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
İlhan Selçuk, 85, Turkish lawyer, journalist and writer, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
Chris Sievey, 54, British comedian and musician (Frank Sidebottom), lung cancer.
Tam White, 67, British musician and actor, heart attack.
With Approval, 24, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, Canadian Triple Crown winner (1989), euthanized.
Larry Jon Wilson, 69, American songwriter and musician, stroke.
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Pamela Ascherson, 87, British sculptor, painter and illustrator.
Peppy Blount, 85, American football player (Texas Longhorns) and line judge.
Robin Bush, 67, British historian (Time Team).
Gerald Heaney, 92, American jurist, United States Court of Appeals (1966–2006).
Marie-Luise Jahn, 92, German activist, member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose.
Aileen Osofsky, 83, American community leader, philanthropist and bridge player (ACBL), complications from leukemia.
Amokrane Oualiken, 77, Algerian footballer.
Pennant Roberts, 69, British television director.
Manfred Römbell, 68, German writer, after long illness.
Wayne Stephenson, 65, Canadian professional and Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) ice hockey player.
Levern Tart, 68, American basketball player (Oakland Oaks, New York Nets).
Tracy Wright, 50, Canadian actress, pancreatic cancer.
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Anthony Adrian Allen, 96, British entomologist.
Ron Atchison, 80, Canadian football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders), heart failure.
Jörg Berger, 65, German football manager, bowel cancer.
John Burton, 95, Australian diplomat and academic.
Michael Cobb, 93, British Army officer and railway historian.
Dermot Earley, 62, Irish Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces (2004–2010), after short illness.
Allyn Ferguson, 85, American television composer (Barney Miller, Charlie's Angels), natural causes.
Frank Giering, 38, German actor (Funny Games).
Pavel Lyubimov, 71, Russian film director.
Vernon Mendis, 84, Sri Lankan diplomat.
Mohammed Mzali, 84, Tunisian politician, Prime Minister (1980–1986).
Hiromu Naruse, 66, Japanese chief test driver for Toyota Motor Company, car crash.
Pete Quaife, 66, British bassist (The Kinks), kidney failure.
Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, 78, British politician and life peer, MP for Worcester (1961–1992), cancer.
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Toni Adams, 45, American professional wrestling manager, former wife of Chris Adams, heart attack.
Sadri Ahmeti, 71, Albanian painter and poet.
Fred Anderson, 81, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
Rawshan Ara, 69, Bangladeshi film actress.
Armand Bernard, 82, Canadian Olympic wrestler.
JoJo Billingsley, 58, American back-up singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd), cancer.
Elise M. Boulding, 89, American sociologist, liver failure.
Lorn Brown, 71, American sports commentator (Chicago White Sox), heart failure.
Shirley Carr, 81, Canadian president of the Labour Congress.
Cherubim Dambui, 62, Papua New Guinean Premier of East Sepik (1976–1983), auxiliary bishop of Port Moresby (since 2000), kidney failure.
Digvijay Singh, 54, Indian politician.
Francis Dreyfus, 70, French record producer (Disques Dreyfus).
Harry Enns, 78, Canadian politician, MLA for Rockwood-Iberville/Lakeside (1966–2003).
Don Enoch, 94, American politician, Mayor of Wichita, Kansas (1969–1970).
Bill Hudson, 77, American photojournalist, heart failure.
Alan Krueck, 70, American musicologist.
Kazimierz Paździor, 75, Polish Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) boxer.
Jean-Léonard Rugambage, Rwandan journalist, shot.
Walter Shorenstein, 95, American real estate developer and baseball team owner (San Francisco Giants), natural causes.
Ben Sonnenberg, 73, American journalist, multiple sclerosis.
Jean-Luc Tricoire, 57, French Olympic sports shooter.
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Viveka Babajee, 37, Mauritian-born Indian model and actress, suicide by hanging.
Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers, 85, British physicist, academic and life peer.
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, 62, Welsh science fiction author, suicide.
Robert Nyman, 49, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (since 1999), drowning.
Alan Plater, 75, English television writer, cancer.
Richard B. Sellars, 94, American Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson.
Peter Sliker, 86, American bass-baritone at the Metropolitan Opera
John A. Willis, 93, American editor of Theatre World.
Wu Guanzhong, 90, Chinese painter.
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Algirdas Brazauskas, 77, Lithuanian politician, President (1993–1998); Prime Minister (2001–2006), lymphoma.
D. Page Elmore, 71, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (2003–2010), cancer.
Aldo Giuffrè, 86, Italian actor, peritonitis.
Alberto Guzik, 66, Brazilian actor and writer, stomach cancer.
Paulo Teixeira Jorge, 82, Angolan politician, Minister of External Relations (1976–1984).
Charles Spencer King, 85, English automotive engineer (Rover SD1, Range Rover), complications following a traffic accident.
Harald Keres, 97, Estonian physicist.
Shoista Mullojonova, 84, Tajik singer, heart attack.
Akira Nakamura, 76, Japanese historian.
Adoor Pankajam, 81, Indian actress.
Conrad Poe, 62, Filipino actor, stroke.
Benny Powell, 80, American jazz trombonist (April in Paris), heart attack following spinal surgery.
Jonathan Smith, 43, British games developer.
D. Sudarsanam, 68, Indian politician, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
Sergio Vega, 40, Mexican banda singer, shot.
Stanley Wagner, 83, American winemaker.
Sir John Ward, 85, British politician, MP for Poole (1979–1997).
Vasyl Yevseyev, 47, Ukrainian football coach, suicide by jumping.
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Corey Allen, 75, American actor (Rebel Without a Cause), film and television director, complications of Parkinson's disease.
Leif Alsheimer, 57, Swedish lawyer, lecturer and author.
Dolph Briscoe, 87, American politician, Governor of Texas (1973–1979), kidney failure and pneumonia.
Ken Coates, 79, British politician and writer, suspected heart attack.
Édgar García de Dios, 32, Mexican footballer, shot.
João Gonçalves Filho, 75, Brazilian Olympic swimmer and water polo player.
Martin D. Ginsburg, 78, American attorney, husband of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, cancer.
Edo Mulahalilović, 46, Bosnian musician.
Andreas Okopenko, 80, Austrian writer.
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Claude Anderson, 86, Australian footballer.
Bill Aucoin, 66, American band manager (Kiss), complications from prostate cancer.
Leo Bernier, 81, Canadian politician.
Peter Bowers, 80, Australian journalist, Alzheimer's disease.
Robert Byrd, 92, American politician, U.S. Representative (1953–1959), Senator from West Virginia (1959–2010).
Clement Finch, 94, American hematologist.
Nicolas Hayek, 82, Swiss entrepreneur, founder and chairman of The Swatch Group, heart failure.
Kirsten Heisig, 48, German politician and juvenile magistrate, suicide.
Willie Huber, 52, German-born Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), heart attack.
Chandrakant Kamat, 76, Indian Hindustani classical tabla player, heart attack.
Louis Moyroud, 96, French-born American inventor of phototypesetting.
Rammellzee, 49, American hip hop musician and graffiti artist, after long illness.
Joya Sherrill, 85, American jazz vocalist, leukemia.
William L. Taylor, 78, American attorney and civil rights advocate, complications from a fall.
Rodolfo Torre Cantú, 46, Mexican politician, candidate for Governor of Tamaulipas, shot.
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Blair Barnes, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings), heart attack.
Ron Gans, 79, American voice actor (Transformers, Welcome to Pooh Corner, Dumbo's Circus), complications from pneumonia.
Rudolf Leopold, 85, Austrian art collector.
Doug Ohlson, 73, American painter, complications from a fall.
Queen Jane, 45, Kenyan musician, meningitis.
Chandgi Ram, 72, Indian Olympic wrestler, cardiac arrest.
Frank Rigney, 74, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
Pietro Taricone, 35, Italian actor and reality show contestant (Grande Fratello), parachute accident.
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Brian Ash, 73-74, British writer, scientific journalist, and editor.
Bruno Côté, 69, Canadian landscape painter, prostate cancer.
Ditta Zusa Einzinger, 79, Austrian singer (Lolita), cancer.
Elliott Kastner, 80, American film producer (Where Eagles Dare), cancer.
Harry Klein, 81, British jazz saxophonist.
Juhani Kyöstilä, 78, Finnish Olympic basketball player.
Noel Marshall, 79, American film director and producer.
Serigne Mouhamadou Lamine Bara Mbacké, 85, Senegalese Grand Marabout of the Mourides.
Denny Moyer, 70, American world light middleweight champion boxer.
Gordon Mulholland, 89, British actor.
Park Yong-ha, 32, South Korean actor and singer, suicide by hanging. |
28047228 | GRB 100621A | 2010-07-15 17:53:28+00:00 | GRB 100621A was a gamma-ray burst observed on June 21, 2010, by the Swift spacecraft. It is the second brightest gamma-ray burst yet observed, after GRB 130427A. The distance is reported to be approximately five billion light years, far outside our own Milky Way Galaxy. |
27633391 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 1926 | 2010-06-07 16:00:32+00:00 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 1926, adopted unanimously on June 2, 2010, after noting the resignation of International Court of Justice (ICJ) judge Thomas Buergenthal with effect from September 6, 2010. The Council decided that the election to fill the vacancy would take place on September 9, 2010 at a meeting of the Security Council and at a meeting of the General Assembly.
The vacancy had to be filled in accordance with the Statute of the ICJ. Buergenthal had served at the ICJ since March 2000. He was re-elected in 2006 to serve a nine-year term beginning in February 2006. |
27634075 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 1927 | 2010-06-07 17:11:56+00:00 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 1927, adopted unanimously on June 4, 2010, after recalling previous resolutions on Haiti, including resolutions 1542 (2004), 1576 (2004), 1608 (2005), 1658 (2006), 1702 (2006), 1743 (2006), 1780 (2007), 1840 (2008), 1892 (2009) and 1908 (2010), the Council authorised an additional deployment of 680 police as part of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
The Security Council was concerned at new challenges and dangers in the aftermath of the earthquake in January. The presence of MINUSTAH peacekeepers would continue to focus on the security and stability of the country. It also noted that there were more international efforts to ensure the functioning of state institutions and basic services. At the same time, the Council welcomed the Haitian government's "Action Plan for National Recovery and Development" and contributions presented at the International Donors' Conference "Towards a New Future for Haiti" on March 31, 2010 that totalled around US$15 billion over a decade. It was stressed that the Haitian government had a leading role in the post-disaster recovery, protection of human rights and holding general elections in a timely manner.
Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the Council authorised a temporary surge of a further 680 police with a focus on building the capacity of the Haitian National Police. A report by the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recommended the increase after a number of dangerous criminals escaped from prison during the earthquake. MINUSTAH would consist of 8,940 military personnel and 4,391 police where numbers would be kept under constant review during the electoral period. It was to continue assisting the Haitian people, especially vulnerable groups such as displaced persons, women and children due to risks from gang violence, organised crime and child trafficking, and support the relief operations. Finally, MINUSTAH was also required to support preparations for the general elections. |
26860611 | 2010 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres | 2010-04-07 05:32:13+00:00 | The men's 100 metres at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 27 and 28 July.
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26996678 | 2010 European Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres | 2010-04-18 06:38:25+00:00 | The women's 100 metres at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 28 and 29 July.
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26997144 | 2010 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres | 2010-04-18 08:10:44+00:00 | The men's 200 metres at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 29 and 30 July.
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26997345 | 2010 European Athletics Championships – Women's 200 metres | 2010-04-18 08:49:16+00:00 | The women's 200 metres at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on July 30 and July 31.
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38604177 | A*G*A*P*I (Crashing Down) | 2013-02-22 13:14:59+00:00 | "A*G*A*P*I (Crashing Down)" (Greek: Α*Γ*Α*Π*Η; English: L-O-V-E) is the debut single by the Greek Cypriot singer Ivi Adamou from her first album Kalokairi Stin Kardia, written by Leo Chantzaras, Keely Hawkes, Bruce Howell and Giannis Doxas. It was released on January 25, 2010.
After her elimination from The X Factor, she signed a contract with Sony Music Greece and released her first single a few days later. On 25 January 2010, the single was released. Adamou first performed the song in Aksizei na to deis, a program in ANT1.
Digital download
"A*G*A*P*I (Crashing Down)" – 3:44
"A*G*A*P*I (Crashing Down)" (Karaoke version) – 3:44
"Crashing Down" – 3:44
Lead vocals – Ivi Adamou
Producers – Leo Chantzaras
Lyrics – Leo Chantzaras, Keely Hawkes, Bruce Howell, Giannis Doxas
Label: Sony Music Greece/Day 1
The video music was published in Ivi's official channel in February 2010. The video was later blocked by SME and was published in November 2011 on Ivi's VEVO channel. It was the first video in the channel.
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29295071 | All I Want Is You (Miguel song) | 2010-10-21 21:56:14+00:00 | "All I Want Is You" is the debut single by American R&B recording artist Miguel released as the lead single from his debut album of the same name (2010). The song features rapper J. Cole and was produced by Salaam Remi. The song was released as a digital download on May 25, 2010.
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26176130 | All the Way Turnt Up | 2010-02-12 16:07:12+00:00 | "All the Way Turnt Up" is the first single by rapper Roscoe Dash released from his debut album Ready Set Go!. The song features rapper Soulja Boy and was produced by Vybe Beatz and K.E. on the Track.
The video features Roscoe Dash and Soulja Boy performing the song alone in some sort of stadium. The song features a skateboarder trying to jump a gap but continuously falling each time, until the end of the video, in which he jumps and clears the gap. Also, the song features the Joseph Wheeler High School basketball team, coming off a loss and needing inspiration.
The original version was named "Turnt Up", produced by Vybe Beatz / DJD and features Atlanta rap group Travis Porter and rapper YT. This version started the feud of Travis Porter and Roscoe Dash because Travis Porter made Roscoe Dash (ATL was Roscoe Dash's stage name at the time) a featured artist of the song on one of the group's mixtapes in 2009; after finding this out Dash removed the group from the song and re-recorded it with Soulja Boy.
Multiple remixes have been made by different artists, including Machine Gun Kelly, Hodgy Beats, Nappy Boy, Fabolous, Ludacris, and Lupe Fiasco.
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27877132 | All Time Low (The Wanted song) | 2010-06-28 12:23:48+00:00 | "All Time Low" is the debut single of British-Irish boy band the Wanted, written by Steve Mac, Wayne Hector and Ed Drewett. It was released on 25 July 2010 as the debut single from their self-titled debut album The Wanted, via Geffen Records. The song peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart and number 19 in Ireland. "All Time Low" is upbeat with prominent dance-pop musical characteristics. It has so far garnered a positive response from contemporary music critics.
The song was accompanied by a music video which was released on 3 June 2010. The Wanted have performed "All Time Low" live at the Summertime Ball, Arqiva Awards, and on various television shows including: GMTV and The Hollyoaks Music Show, and online shows such as SBTV and The 5:19 Show. On 2 July 2010, BBC online magazine Slink used "All Time Low" in their 'Snapped' feature. "All Time Low" was also released as the band's debut single in the United States on 1 July 2011, also becoming the lead single from the group's debut stateside release, extended play The Wanted.
After forming and being signed to Geffen Records in 2010 through mass auditioning, the Wanted recorded "All Time Low". It was one of six songs recorded by the band at the time for their debut album due for release in late 2010. The track was co-written by its producer Steve Mac in collaboration with Wayne Hector and Ed Drewett. It was mixed by Dann Pursey and Ren Swan. Lyrically, "All Time Low" is written in reference to rising from the difficulty of having someone special constantly on your mind. Speaking to Orange UK, Max George interpreted what the song was about: "It's basically about a girl you can't get out of your mind - whatever you do, you just can't - and it describes how to get up from this all time low." Orange UK described "All Time Low" as having a "lovesick" theme to it. The lines "Waiting at the station/I'm late for work, a vital presentation" were said to take reference to Microsoft PowerPoint by music website Popjustice, while the line "I'm in pieces, seems like peace is the only thing I'll never know" was highlighted by Fraser McAlpine of the BBC as being the most memorable in the song in addition to having a devilish internal rhyme. "All Time Low" acts as the Wanted's debut single and first single from their debut album.
The single was first released on digital download format in Ireland and the United Kingdom on 25 July 2010. The following day, "All Time Low" was released on CD single format in both countries on 26 July 2010. In August 2010, they performed the song in Hannover, Germany at the Dome 55. On 11 September 2010, they performed the song at the Freedom Festival in Hull alongside "Heart Vacancy" and "Lose My Mind". In the United States, the single was released on 1 July 2011, however, it did not achieve any form of commercial success in the country. However, it did peaked within the top 20 of the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.
"All Time Low" received critical praise from Ryan Love of Digital Spy who gave the song a four out of five star rating. The song was performed on Channel 4 on 15 August 2010. Love described the song as "a bit of a surprise" and gave praise to its opening "quite simply immense" strings. Love went on to call the song a "fresh 'n' fizzy indie-tinged pop gem". "All Time Low" received its second four out of five star rating after a review by Fraser McAlpine from the BBC. McAlpine reviewed the track mentioning: "Now, for a transparent piece of silly old pop music, this has class cooties. The telltale signs are there in the string riff, and the mature, subtle way they approach the singing, and the restraint with which they have applied the autotune." He went on to say that the song was good despite sampling a melody from Coldplay's "The Scientist" (2002). McAlpine added that the song boasts a memorable line with a devilish internal rhyme: "I'm in pieces, it seems like peace is the only thing I'll never know".
"All Time Low" entered at the top of the UK Singles Chart on 1 August 2010 – for the week ending dated 7 August 2010 – with first-week sales of 84,174 copies. It became their first number one single on the chart. In Ireland, the single peaked at number 13 on the Irish Singles Chart. In the United States, "All Time Low" peaked at number 19 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.
UK digital single number one
"All Time Low" – 3:23
"All Time Low" (D.O.N.S. Remix Radio Edit) – 3:39
UK digital single number two
"All Time Low" (ForGold Remix) – 4:59
"All Time Low" (Daddy's Groove Remix) – 6:57
UK CD single
"All Time Low" – 3:23
"Fight for This Love" – 3:26
U.S. digital single
"All Time Low" (Single Mix) – 3:22
U.S. digital remix EP
"All Time Low" (Single Mix) – 3:22
"All Time Low" (Ralphi Rosario Radio Mix) – 3:44
"All Time Low" (Digital Dog Radio Edit) – 3:18
"All Time Low" (Single Club Mix) – 6:27
"All Time Low" (Ralphi Rosario Club Mix) – 8:01
"All Time Low" (Digital Dog Club Remix) – 6:02
"All Time Low" (Single Dub Mix) – 6:27
"All Time Low" (Ralphi Rosario Dub Mix) – 6:58
"All Time Low" (Digital Dog Dub Remix) – 6:17
U.S. promotional CD single
"All Time Low" (Digital Dog Radio Edit) – 3:18
"All Time Low" (Digital Dog Club Remix) – 6:02
"All Time Low" (Frank E Radio Edit) – 4:14
"All Time Low" (Frank E Remix) – 7:22
"All Time Low" (D.O.N.S. Radio Edit) – 3:40
"All Time Low" (D.O.N.S. Club Remix) – 7:44
"All Time Low" (Ralphi Rosario Club Mix) – 8:01
"All Time Low" (Ralphi Rosario Dub Mix) – 6:58
"All Time Low" (Daddy's Groove Remix) – 7:24
"All Time Low" (ForGold Remix) – 4:47
U.S. digital live EP
"All Time Low" (Live) – 4:57
"Glad You Came" (Live) – 3:20
"Gold Forever" (Live) – 4:24
"Heart Vacancy" (Live) – 4:25
"Animal" (Live) – 2:38
"Lose My Mind" (Live) – 4:13
Vocals – Tom Parker, Nathan Sykes, Jay McGuiness, Max George, Siva Kaneswaran
Guitar – Dann Pursey
Drums – Chris Laws
Production, arrangement, keyboards, bass and strings arrangement – Steve Mac
Songwriting – Steve Mac, Wayne Hector, Ed Drewett
Engineering – Chris Laws, Dann Pursey
Mixing – Ren Swan, Dann Pursey
Mastering – Dick Beetham
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28002445 | Am I Crazy | 2010-07-11 07:52:06+00:00 | "Am I Crazy" is a single from the Oxford, UK alternative rock band Little Fish. It was released on 6 May 2010.
It's also featured as one of three Little Fish tracks available for download in Rock Band, along with "Darling Dear", and "Bang Bang". "Am I Crazy" is a free track, and the other two are being sold for half the normal price.
Julia "Juju" Sophie: vocals, lead guitar
Neil "Nez" Greenaway: drums |
41224287 | 2009–10 IWBL League | 2013-11-29 17:23:16+00:00 | The 2009–10 IWBL League was the ninth season of the WABA League. The study included ten teams from five states, and the winner has become the team Gospić Croatia Osiguranje. In this season participating clubs from Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and from Slovenia.
IWBL League for the season 2009–10 has begun to play 10 October 2009 and ended on 22 February 2010, when he it was completed a Regular season. Final Four to be played from 12–13 March 2010. in Gospić, Croatia. Winner Final Four this season for the team Gospić Croatia Osiguranje from Croatia.
The League of the season was played with 10 teams and play a dual circuit system, each with each one game at home and away. The four best teams at the end of the regular season were placed in the Final Four. The regular season began on 10 October 2009 and it will end on 20 February 2010.
Final Four to be played from 12–13 March 2010. in the Gradska Školska Sportska Dvorana in Gospić, Croatia.
Player of the Year: Jelena Ivezić (184-G-84) of Gospić Croatia Osiguranje
Guard of the Year: Jelena Ivezić (184-G-84) of Gospić Croatia Osiguranje
Forward of the Year: Mirna Mazić (188-F-85) of Medveščak
Center of the Year: Natalia Terglav Tratsiak (195-C-80) of HIT Kranjska Gora
Import Player of the Year: Carla Thomas (191-F/C-85) of Gospić Croatia Osiguranje
European Player of the Year: Jelena Ivezić (184-G-84) of Gospić Croatia Osiguranje
Defensive Player of the Year: Mirna Mazić (188-F-85) of Medveščak
Coach of the Year: Stipe Bralić of Gospić Croatia Osiguranje
1st Team
G: Jelena Ivezić (184-84) of Gospić Croatia Osiguranje
G: Anda Jelavić (175-80) of Gospić Croatia Osiguranje
F: Mirna Mazić (188-85) of Medveščak
F/C: Carla Thomas (191-85) of Gospić Croatia Osiguranje
C: Natalia Terglav-Tratsiak (195-80) of HIT Kranjska Gora
2nd Team
G: Brankica Hadžović (175-81) of Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje
F: Lamisha Augustine (186-82) of Gospić Croatia Osiguranje
F: Stanecia Graham (185-86) of Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje
F/C: Nikya Hughes (191-85) of Merkur Celje
C: Emina Demirović (186-85) of Mladi Krajišnik
Honorable Mention
Ljubica Kure (178-G-81) of AJM Maribor
Eva Komplet (182-F/C-86) of HIT Kranjska Gora
Luca Ivanković (200-C-87) of Šibenik Jolly
Nataša Popović (190-C-82) of Šibenik Jolly
Jasmina Bigović (174-G-79) of Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje
All-European Players Team
G: Jelena Ivezić (184-84) of Gospić Croatia Osiguranje
G: Anda Jelavić (175-80) of Gospić Croatia Osiguranje
F: Mirna Mazić (188-85) of Medveščak
F/C: Eva Komplet (182-86) of HIT Kranjska Gora
C: Natalia Terglav Tratsiak (195-80) of HIT Kranjska Gora |
26890841 | 2010 Montreal Impact season | 2010-04-09 09:35:06+00:00 | The 2010 Montreal Impact season was the 17th season of the franchise and the team played in the USSF Division 2 Pro League.
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25655255 | 2010 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts | 2010-01-02 15:17:05+00:00 | The 2010 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts was held January 4-10, 2010 at the Montreal West Curling Club in Montreal West. The winner represented team Quebec at the 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
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27437389 | Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 | 2010-05-22 15:27:31+00:00 | The Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 started on 24 June 2010 and ended on 20 March 2011 with events held in Sheffield and Europe. The televised finals took place between the top 24 Order of Merit players, who have played at least 6 events (3 PTC and 3 EPTC).
The Finals of the Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 took place from 17 to 20 March 2011 at The Helix in Dublin, Ireland. It was contested by the top 24 players of the Order of Merit, who have played in at least 6 events (3 PTC and 3 EPTC). |
27437559 | Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 1 | 2010-05-22 15:50:23+00:00 | The Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 1 (also known as Star Xing Pai Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 1 for sponsorship purposes) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place over 24–27 June 2010 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England. It was contested by 75 professional players and 73 amateurs.
Kurt Maflin made the 71st official maximum break during his last 128 match against Michał Zieliński. This was Maflin's first official 147.
Mark Williams won the final 4–0 against Stephen Maguire.
The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below:
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28344509 | Euro Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 1 | 2010-08-12 17:42:46+00:00 | The Euro Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 1 (also known as the 2010 Paul Hunter Classic) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 26 and 29 August 2010 in Fürth, Germany.
Judd Trump won in the final 4–3 against Anthony Hamilton.
The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below:
A non ranking EPTC Plate Trophy was added to European PTC's for player that went out early to get a trophy and money that would not count towards the rankings.
1 Only professional players can earn ranking points.
A new non-ranking EPTC Plate Trophy was added for the player than exited the main event early.
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27891824 | Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 2 | 2010-06-29 21:00:48+00:00 | The Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 2 (also known as Star Xing Pai Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 2 for sponsorship purposes) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 8–11 July 2010 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England.
Mark Selby won in the final 4–3 against Barry Pinches, despite at one point trailing 1–3.
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28632079 | Euro Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 2 | 2010-08-30 08:12:04+00:00 | The Euro Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Event 2 (also known as the 2010 Brugge Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 30 September–3 October 2010 at the Boudewijn Seapark in Bruges, Belgium.
Shaun Murphy won in the final 4–2 against Matthew Couch.
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27509322 | Tropical Storm Agatha | 2010-05-28 19:02:08+00:00 | Tropical Storm Agatha was a weak but deadly tropical cyclone that brought widespread floods to much of Central America, and was the deadliest storm in the eastern Pacific tropical cyclone basin since Hurricane Pauline in 1997. The first named storm of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season, Agatha originated from the Intertropical Convergence Zone, a region of thunderstorms across the tropics. It developed into a tropical depression on May 29 and tropical storm later, it was dissipated on May 30, reaching top winds of 45 mph (75 km/h) and a lowest pressure of 1000 mbar (hPa; 29.53 inHg). It made landfall near the Guatemala–Mexico border on the evening of May 29. Agatha produced torrential rain all across Central America, which resulted in the death of one person in Nicaragua. In Guatemala, 152 people were killed and 100 left missing by landslides. Thirteen deaths also occurred in El Salvador. Agatha soon dissipated over Guatemala. As of June 15, officials in Guatemala have stated that 165 people were killed and 113 others are missing.
In all, Agatha caused at least 204 fatalities, and roughly $1.1 billion in damage throughout Central America. Despite the catastrophic damage in Mexico, along with a high fatality rate, Agatha was not retired, and therefore was used again in the 2016 season.
Tropical Storm Agatha originated from an area of convection, or thunderstorms, that developed on May 24, off the west coast of Costa Rica. At the time, there was a trough in the region that extended into the southwestern Caribbean Sea, associated with the Intertropical Convergence Zone. The system drifted northwestward, and conditions favored further development. On May 25, the convection became more concentrated, and the National Hurricane Center (NHC) noted the potential for a tropical depression to develop. The next day, it briefly became disorganized, as its circulation was broad and elongated; however, the disturbance was in a very moist environment, and multiple low level centers gradually organized into one. The low continued to get better organized; however, there was a lack of a well-defined circulation. On May 29, after further organization of the circulation and convection, the NHC initiated advisories on Tropical Depression One-E while the system was located about 295 miles (475 km) west of San Salvador, El Salvador.
Upon becoming a tropical cyclone, the system was located in an environment with little wind shear and waters of 30 °C (86 °F). As such, it was expected to strengthen, although the mountainous terrain of the Central American coastline limited significant intensification. The depression moved slowly northeastward around the western periphery of a ridge located over northern South America. Several hours later, satellites monitoring the system discovered tropical storm-force winds, prompting the NHC to upgrade the depression to Tropical Storm Agatha. Around this time, it was noted that there was a 40% chance of the system undergoing rapid intensification within the following 24 hours as the only limiting factor was its proximity to land. However, the storm failed to intensify much, peaking in intensity with winds of 45 mph (75 km/h) and a barometric pressure of 1001 mbar (hPa; 29.56 inHg). Within two hours of reaching this strength, Agatha abruptly relocated northward and made landfall at 22:30 UTC near Champerico, Guatemala.
After landfall, Agatha continued to cause floods and landslides, however it did not bring a lot of tropical storm force winds on shore. The system weakened quickly after coming on shore, dropping its winds to 25 mph (20 knots, 40 km/h) and its pressure to 1007 mbar (hPa; 29.74 inHg) before dissipating. A burst of convection re-emerged east of Belize, in the Atlantic basin, on May 31. On June 1, the National Hurricane Center stated that the remnants of Tropical Storm Agatha had only a low chance of regeneration in the western Caribbean Sea.
Upon the formation of Tropical Depression One-E on May 29, the Government of Guatemala declared a tropical storm warning for the entire Pacific coastline. Due to the system's proximity to land, tropical storm force winds were expected to reach the coast by the evening hours, making outdoor preparations difficult. Additionally, the depression's slow movement was expected to lead to enormous rainfall totals, exceeding 30 in (760 mm) in some areas. This rain was expected to produce large-scale, life-threatening flash flooding and landslides across Guatemala, El Salvador and southeastern Mexico. Once the system intensified into Tropical Storm Agatha, the National Hurricane Center expected areas to the south and east of the landfall location to experience storm surge along with destructive waves. By the late morning of May 29, Guatemalan officials placed all hospitals on high alert and declared a state of calamity. President Álvaro Colom also began to use some of the $85 million allocated as emergency funds by the World Bank. After the storm moved over land and weakened to a tropical depression, the tropical storm warnings along the coast were discontinued.
Throughout El Salvador and Nicaragua, emergency officials evacuated about 2,000 residents due to the threat of flash flooding. In response to the approaching storm, a yellow alert was declared for all of El Salvador and it was estimated that roughly 89% of the country was at risk from flooding. Roughly 52,000 police, emergency rescue personnel and soldiers were placed on standby by the Dirección General de Protección Civil.
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Prior to becoming a tropical depression, the system produced torrential rainfall in Nicaragua, resulting in the death of one person after she was swept away by a swollen river. Many homes and bridges were destroyed across the country. In Estelí Department, the Nicaraguan Air Force had to rescue 24 people trapped in their homes.
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Two days before landfall, on May 27 the Pacaya volcano, roughly 25 mi (40 km) south of Guatemala City, erupted, killing one person and forcing over 2,000 people to evacuate, and causing the temporary closing of the main international airport. Excessive rainfall from Agatha in the region could exacerbate the situation and trigger lahars. However, people working in coffee fields considered the rain brought by the storm to be helpful, removing ash from their trees. According to meteorologists in Guatemala, at least 14 in (360 mm) of rain had fallen by the evening of May 29. Several landslides blocked roadways across southern areas of the country, hindering traffic. Following the storm, a three-story building was swallowed by a 30-meter (100-ft) diameter sinkhole caused by Agatha's rainfall.
A mudslide coming down the Agua volcano left 9 deaths and 12 disappeared in the town of San Miguel Escobar.
In the town of Almolonga, department of Quetzaltenango, a mudslide triggered by the storm killed four people after destroying their home, and in total twelve people were killed in Guatemala, while another landslide left 11 people missing.
Officials in the country declared a state of emergency during the afternoon of May 29 as conditions worsened. Many rivers in the country were already swollen and close to over-topping their banks. Many other homes were destroyed in widespread floods and dozens of emergency rescues had to be made.
By the afternoon of May 30, reports from the region stated that 15 people had been killed and 22 others were missing throughout Guatemala. Preliminary damage assessments showed that at least 3,500 homes were damaged. A total of 112,000 people were evacuated. Additionally, at least 20,000 people have been left homeless as a result of the storm. Some areas recorded the heaviest rainfall in over 60 years, measuring more than 36 in (910 mm). This also ranks Agatha as the wettest known tropical cyclone to ever strike the country, surpassing Hurricane Mitch. By the next day, the death toll had risen to 92, with another 95 people injured.
In Guatemala City, a sinkhole 30 stories deep collapsed, killing 15 people and placing a further 300 residents in danger. A three-story house and telephone poles were also swallowed, along with a security guard. The sinkhole was formed due to sewage pipes leaking, and flooding from Agatha only exacerbated the problem.
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Throughout southern Mexico, Agatha produced strong winds and heavy rain, as well as high waves, estimated between 2 and 4 m (6.6 and 13.1 ft) high. At least 120 families were evacuated from southeastern Chiapas, near where the storm made landfall. A yellow alert was also declared for the state as significant flooding was anticipated.
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After moving inland over Guatemala and Mexico, torrential rains from the remnants of Agatha triggered flash flooding and landslides in parts of Honduras. At least 45 homes have been destroyed and one person was killed in the country. On May 31, the presidents of both El Salvador and Honduras declared a state of emergency for their respective countries.
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In El Salvador, widespread flooding took place as heavy rains fell across the country. Throughout San Salvador and five other cities threatened by flooding, emergency officials urged residents to evacuate to shelters. A total of 140 landslides occurred. The highest known rainfall total in the country was 400 mm (15.7 in); however, further rains have fallen since this total was reported. A total of six people were killed in the country. At least two other people are reported missing in the country. By May 30, President Mauricio Funes declared a country-wide state of emergency due to the widespread damage caused by Agatha. According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, a total of 12 people were killed by Agatha throughout El Salvador and roughly 120,000 individuals were affected across 116 municipalities. At one point, more than 15,000 people were housed in emergency shelters; however, by June 9, this number decreased to just 712. A total of 3,162 acres (12.80 km2) of farmland was flooded by the storm, leaving $6 million in losses. Unlike Guatemala which suffered extreme damage in its educational sector, most schools in El Salvador were functional after the storm's passage. Of the 378 schools affected, 63 sustained severe damage. Overall, Agatha wrought $31.1 million in damage across El Salvador.
Immediately following reports of fatalities in Guatemala, a state of emergency was declared for the entire country. Later on, President Álvaro Colom stated that, "We believe Agatha could wreak more damage in the country than Hurricane Mitch and Hurricane Stan". These storms were two of the most devastating tropical cyclones to impact the country, killing 384 and 1,513 people respectively. On May 31, national aid started to be deployed by the government and donation centers for victims of the storm were opened across the country. According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), schools in Guatemala were to be closed until at least June 4. However, due to the large number of severely damaged or destroyed schools, few buildings can actually allow for classes to take place and 144 of the schools that are intact are being used as shelters.
By June 1, the Government of Guatemala sent an appeal to the United Nations for roughly $100 million in international assistance to deal with damage wrought by Agatha. On June 14, President Colom stated that it would take at least five years to recover from Tropical Storm Agatha due to the widespread nature of the catastrophe. To obtain the necessary resources to recover from the storm, Colom implemented a substantial tax increase. His goal was to increase the revenue from taxes in the country to 9.8% of the gross domestic product.
Throughout the country, roughly 392,600 people were left in need of humanitarian assistance in the wake of Agatha. Most of these people live in rural areas which became isolated from surrounding areas after flood waters washed out roads and destroyed bridges.
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As Agatha dissipated over Guatemala, the Government of Mexico expressed their sincere condolences to the two countries and offered to provide the necessary support for them to recover. During the afternoon of May 30, as the true scale of the disaster became apparent, Álvaro Colom requested international assistance. However, due to the eruption of Pacaya, the country's international airport was closed and would remain so for at least another week. In an agreement with the president of El Salvador, it was decided that aid would be flown into El Salvador and transported by ground to Guatemala. However, later reports revealed that two of the four land crossings between the countries were closed off due to flooding and landslides. On May 31, Colombia and the United States offered their assistance by sending aid or helping evacuate residents. By the late morning, six United States military aircraft were en route to Honduras. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taiwan also stated that they would provide aid to Guatemala if necessary.
The Government of France also passed on their condolences to the countries suffering from the disaster and pledged to send emergency humanitarian aid to the region. This was eventually followed up by June 14 when the French embassy in Guatemala provided $50,000 in relief supplies. The initial response from the World Food Programme was to allocate $500,000 to feed 10,000 over a period of 15 days. Other United Nations departments provided much assistance to Guatemala within two days of Agatha's landfall. UNICEF donated roughly $50,000 to support water and sanitation; UNDP allocated $50,000 for assessments and early recovery; the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development provided roughly $185,000 in general humanitarian aid; and the IFRC and UNFPA planned donate $50,000 each. The United States provided immediate funds of GTQ 900,000 (US$112,000); USAID also planned to deploy relief teams with food and emergency supplies to bring to those affected by the storm. Additionally, several helicopters from the United States Southern Command were to be deployed in the region.
By June 1, the European Union had sent $3.7 million in aid to Guatemala as well as Honduras and El Salvador. The Save the Children organization began distributing hygiene kits and other relief supplies on June 4. Over the following weeks, they planned to provide 46 metric tons of supplies.
Extensive losses of the country's food supply left tens of thousands of residents without sustenance, leading to fears of widespread hunger in the nation. In attempts to lessen the severity of the hunger outbreak, the WFP set up over 200 shelters across the country and was estimated to be serving 50,000 people a day by June 9. On June 11, the United Nations made an appeal to supply Guatemala with $14.5 million to aid survivors of the storm. This appeal followed a $34 million request for the country prior to the storm for malnutrition incidents. By June 14, the Government of Japan had provided roughly $220,000 worth of equipment and building materials. Around the same time, ACT Development announced that it planned to assist roughly 2,000 families with all basic life necessities for a month. To start this operation, a preliminary appeal was made to the United Nations for $881,000; a second, full appeal was planned to be published on June 20. |
27845546 | Hurricane Celia (2010) | 2010-06-25 02:44:15+00:00 | Hurricane Celia was the second-earliest forming Category 5 hurricane in the Eastern Pacific on record, after 1973's Hurricane Ava. The fourth tropical cyclone, third named storm, first hurricane, and first major hurricane of the very inactive 2010 Pacific hurricane season, Celia formed from a tropical wave about 370 mi (595 km) southeast of Acapulco, Mexico on June 18, Celia quickly organized as deep convection consolidated around the center, attaining hurricane status by June 20. Over the following days, the hurricane's winds fluctuated as wind shear impeded significant development hindering it from becoming potentially dangerous. Once this shear lightened on June 24, the storm rapidly intensified to attain its peak strength with winds of 160 mph (255 km/h) and an estimated barometric pressure of 921 mbar (hPa; 27.20 inHg). Not long after reaching this strength, wind shear increased and the system entered a dry, stable environment. Over the following 42 hours, Hurricane Celia's sustained winds decreased to tropical storm force and the system began to stall over the open ocean by June 27. Despite highly unfavorable conditions, the storm managed to retain tropical storm status through June 28 and degenerated into a non-convective remnant low that evening. The remnants of Celia drifted northward, completing a counter-clockwise loop, and dissipated on June 30, 2010.
Although Celia remained far away from any populated landmasses, waves from the storm prompted storm advisories along the southern coastline of Mexico. Additionally, its outer bands brought moderate rainfall to parts of Oaxaca and Guerrero. Due to the high intensity and longevity of the hurricane, it significantly contributed to the record-high accumulated cyclone energy value for June 2010 in the eastern Pacific basin.
The precursor to Hurricane Celia was first identified on June 5, 2010 by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) as a disorganized area of disturbed weather associated with a tropical wave off the western coast of Africa in the Atlantic Ocean. Tracking westward, little development took place and the system eventually crossed Central America and entered the Pacific Ocean on June 17. Situated several hundred miles south-southeast of the Gulf of Tehuantepec, the disturbance moved slowly towards the west-northwest and little development was expected to occur. By June 18, scatterometer data of the system indicated that a surface circulation had developed and the system's overall structure had become increasingly organized. Later that day, a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert was issued for the system as it was now anticipated to become a tropical cyclone within 48 hours. At this time, convective banding features had begun wrapping around the system; however, it lacked deep, central cloud cover. Further development was expected to be slow due to moderate wind shear in the region of the low. Around 1800 UTC, the system had become sufficiently organized for the NHC to designate it as a tropical depression. At this time, the depression was situated roughly 370 mi (595 km) southeast of Acapulco, Mexico. Operationally, the depression was not warned upon until early the next morning.
Roughly 18 hours after being classified a depression, deep convection wrapped around the center of the system, prompting the NHC to upgrade the depression to a tropical storm, and to give it the name Celia. Satellite overpasses of the storm revealed that Celia had already begun developing an eye-like feature at the surface, an indication that rapid intensification may ensue. The storm tracked relatively slowly towards the west-southwest in response to a mid-level ridge to the north. By the evening of June 19, Celia displayed a well-organized structure with an eye beginning to appear within the storm's central dense overcast. Due to the presence of easterly wind shear, intensification was briefly stalled for several hours; however, at 1800 UTC on June 20, the NHC upgraded Celia to a minimal hurricane as it attained winds of 75 mph (120 km/h). An intermittent eye was seen on visible satellite image throughout the day, but it failed to fully consolidate by the afternoon of June 21, by which time the system appeared to be vertically tilted, having the low-level circulation displaced to the northeast of the mid-level circulation. Only modest strengthening took place during this time as the system's outflow was being restricted by continuing easterly shear.
Late on June 21, Celia turned due west as it moved around the south side of the ridge previously steering the hurricane to the west-southwest. A secondary eyewall was noted as it made the turn, indicating that the storm would further intensify once this feature further developed. Several hours later, the storm intensified into a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale. After briefly developing a prominent central dense overcast, the storm's structure began to degrade for unknown reasons. By the evening of June 22, Celia was downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane and the eye was no longer apparent on satellite imagery, mainly due to cirrus clouds over the system. The following morning, the eye reformed and the storm became more vertically aligned, allowing Celia to re-attain Category 2 status. Throughout the day, Celia became increasingly organized and intensified, nearly attaining major hurricane status during the afternoon. Operationally, the hurricane was thought to have reached this intensity but post-storm analysis indicated that winds did not exceed 110 mph (175 km/h).
Although there were no factors inhibiting the development of Celia, the storm unexpectedly weakened again later on June 23. The storm's eye rapidly dissipated and the central dense overcast became asymmetric. Forecaster Todd Kimberlain at the NHC referred to the unexplained shifts in strength as "puzzling." However, as suddenly as the weakening took place, strengthening ensued. Very strong convection formed over the center of the storm, with some cloud tops being as cold as −86 °C (−123 °F), but no eye had reformed by the morning of June 24. Throughout the day, Celia became increasingly organized, with the eye fully reforming and the structure becoming more symmetrical. Rapid intensification soon followed as the storm reached Category 4 status, becoming one of only a handful of tropical cyclones to do so during the month of June in the eastern Pacific. That evening, the storm further intensified into a Category 5 hurricane, the second storm to reach this strength during June in the Eastern Pacific basin on record. Hurricane Celia attained its peak intensity around 00:00 UTC, with sustained winds of 160 mph (255 km/h) and a barometric pressure estimated at 921 mbar (hPa; 27.20 inHg). The storm also displayed a well-defined eye estimated to be 17 to 23 mi (27 to 37 km) in diameter.
During the late morning of June 25, Celia started rapidly weakening as it began to take a more northwesterly track into a more hostile environment, with cooler water temperatures and higher wind shear; all of these conditions are highly unfavorable for tropical cyclones. By June 26, convection associated with the hurricane had substantially lessened and cloud tops warmed. The storm also began to resume a westward track as it moved into an area of weaker steering currents. Traversing water temperatures estimated at 25 °C (77 °F), Celia continued to degenerate as it weakened to tropical storm status, by which time it was situated about 955 mi (1,535 km) southeast of the southern tip of Baja California Sur. Most of the convection associated with the system had dissipated and the center of circulation became exposed, with only a small area of showers and thunderstorms to the north. Throughout June 27, the system gradually lost its forward momentum over the open water of the Pacific Ocean but managed to maintain minimal tropical storm status longer than initially anticipated.
Intermittent bursts of deep convection kept satellite intensity estimates at 40 mph (65 km/h) through the morning of June 28. After becoming embedded within a low-level westerly flow, the system began to slowly execute a small counter-clockwise loop. That afternoon, Celia degenerated into a non-convective remnant low-pressure system; operationally, the system was monitored as a tropical depression for an additional six hours before the final advisory from the NHC was issued. The remnants of Celia continued to drift towards the north before finally dissipating on June 30, about 990 mi (1,590 km) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California Sur.
Throughout the hurricane's track, it posed little to no threat to any major landmasses or populated islands. During Celia's early development stages, it brought moderate rainfall to parts of Oaxaca and Guerrero; however, no loss of life or structural damage was reported. Beaches in both states increased the number of lifeguards on duty since the threat of rip currents would remain high for several days. On June 22, the Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil (National System of Civil Protection) in the Mexican state of Jalisco raised the alert level to stage two for coastal areas. People were urged to be cautious about venturing out into coastal waters as the storm produced rough seas near the coast. The alert was later expanded upon to include coastal areas of Michoacán and Colima. Although out of the storm's projected path, a precautionary alert was issued for Socorro Island. However, between June 22 and 23, the outer bands of the storm brought unsettled weather to France's Clipperton Island. Since this island is unpopulated, the NHC did not issue any warnings for it.
During the evening of June 24, Hurricane Celia intensified into a powerful Category 5 storm, further solidifying it as the strongest storm of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season. At its peak, the cyclone attained winds of 160 mph (255 km/h) along with a minimum pressure of 921 mbar (hPa; 27.2 inHg). This ranks it as the second-strongest June hurricane on record, as well as the eleventh-strongest in the basin, and the second known Category 5 hurricane to develop during the month on record. The strongest and first known storm of this intensity in June was Hurricane Ava in 1973. Additionally, it also marked the first time on record that two consecutive seasons featured Category 5 hurricanes, with Hurricane Rick in October 2009 reaching this intensity, the second time two consecutive seasons had a Category 5 hurricane was when hurricanes Marie and Patricia formed in 2014 and 2015 respectively. In the National Hurricane Center's monthly tropical weather summary for June 2010, it was stated that the accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) for the month was the highest on record, most of which is attributed to Hurricane Celia. |
27555318 | Effects of Tropical Storm Agatha in Guatemala | 2010-05-31 15:36:21+00:00 | The effects of Tropical Storm Agatha in Guatemala were some of the worst from a tropical cyclone in the country on record, which included 182 deaths and nearly a billion dollars in damage. The storm rapidly formed and make landfall as a weak tropical storm on May 29, however, destructive floods contributed to mudslides and sinkholes affected the country until June 1, causing extensive damage.
Tropical Storm Agatha was first identified as a trough of low pressure of the western coast of Costa Rica on May 24, 2010. Over several days, the system gradually developed deep convection around its center and was declared a tropical depression on May 29. Within hours, the depression intensified into a tropical storm and was given the name Agatha. Later that day, the system intensified slightly before making landfall near the Mexico–Guatemala border with winds of 45 mph (75 km/h). Once over land, the system began to weaken as convection waned. By the morning of May 30, the center of Agatha moved over the highest terrain in Central America, resulting in the dissipation of the low-level circulation. At this time, the National Hurricane Center ceased advisories on the system but warned that its remnants would continue to produce torrential rains throughout the region.
On May 27, two days before Agatha became a tropical depression, the Pacaya volcano, located about 25 mi (40 km) south of Guatemala City, erupted, killing at least one person and blanketing nearby areas with layers of ash. The eruption prompted officials to shut down the country's international airport for at least five days. Upon the formation of Agatha, people feared that excessive rainfall from the storm could exaggerate the situation and trigger lahars.
Upon the formation of Tropical Depression One-E on May 29, the Government of Guatemala declared a tropical storm warning for its entire Pacific coastline. Due to the system's proximity to land, tropical storm force winds were expected to reach the coast by the evening hours, making outdoor preparations difficult. Additionally, the depression's slow movement was expected to cause enormous rainfall totals, exceeding 30 in (760 mm) in some areas. This rain was expected to produce large-scale, life-threatening flash flooding and landslides across Guatemala, El Salvador and southeastern Mexico. Once the system intensified into Tropical Storm Agatha, the National Hurricane Center expected areas to the south and east of the landfall location to experience storm surge along with destructive waves. By the late morning of May 29, Guatemalan officials placed all hospitals on high alert and declared a state of calamity. President Álvaro Colom also began to use some of the $85 million allocated as emergency funds by the World Bank. After the storm moved over land and weakened to a tropical depression, the tropical storm warnings along the coast were discontinued.
As of June 15, the Government of Guatemala confirmed that 165 people died as a result of Agatha and 113 others were missing. Initially, the death toll was reported to be 174; however, this was revised after the government determined it had counted some persons twice. In terms of infrastructural damage, more than 18,700 were destroyed throughout the country and damage was likely to exceed $1 billion. According to Reuters, more than 100,000 homes were destroyed by the storm, a significantly higher number than stated in other reports. Due to the extensive damage to Guatemala's coffee farms, the crop was expected to be reduced by 3%.
Following the catastrophic damage caused by Agatha, Guatemalan officials began evacuating numerous residents from areas at-risk from flooding and landslides. By May 31, an estimated 150,000 people were relocated, of which 36,000 had been placed in shelters. The number of evacuees gradually rose throughout the following weeks, with a total of 162,857 people having been evacuated.
In Guatemala City, poor drainage in combination with torrential rainfall led to the formation of a massive sinkhole in the middle of a four-way intersection. The geologic formation appeared suddenly and two structures, a three-story building and a home, fell into it. Initial reports stated that a security guard died after falling into the hole; however, Guatemalan officials deny this claim.
Across the country, 1,283 schools were badly damaged or destroyed, leading to concerns of when students could actually resume classes.
Immediately following reports of fatalities in Guatemala, a state of emergency was declared for the entire country. Later on, President Álvaro Colom stated that, "We believe Agatha could wreak more damage in the country than Hurricane Mitch and Hurricane Stan". These storms were two of the most devastating tropical cyclones to impact the country, killing 384 and 1,513 people respectively. On May 31, national aid started to be deployed by the government and donation centers for victims of the storm were opened across the country. According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), schools in Guatemala were to be closed until at least June 4. However, due to the large number of severely damaged or destroyed schools, few buildings can actually allow for classes to take place and 144 of the schools that are intact are being used as shelters.
By June 1, the Government of Guatemala sent an appeal to the United Nations for roughly $100 million in international assistance to deal with damage wrought by Agatha. On June 14, President Colom stated that it would take at least five years to recover from Tropical Storm Agatha due to the widespread nature of the catastrophe. To obtain the necessary resources to recover from the storm, Colom implemented a substantial tax increase. His goal was to increase the revenue from taxes in the country to 9.8% of the gross domestic product.
Throughout the country, roughly 392,600 people were left in need of humanitarian assistance in the wake of Agatha. Most of these people live in rural areas which became isolated from surrounding areas after flood waters washed out roads and destroyed bridges.
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As Agatha dissipated over Guatemala, the Government of Mexico expressed their sincere condolences to the two countries and offered to provide the necessary support for them to recover. During the afternoon of May 30, as the true scale of the disaster became apparent, Álvaro Colom requested international assistance. However, due to the eruption of Pacaya, the country's international airport was closed and would remain so for at least another week. In an agreement with the president of El Salvador, it was decided that aid would be flown in to El Salvador and transported by ground to Guatemala. However, later reports revealed that two of the four land crossings between the countries were closed off due to flooding and landslides. On May 31, Colombia and the United States offered their assistance by sending aid or helping evacuate residents. By the late morning, six United States military aircraft were en route to Honduras. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taiwan also stated that they would provide aid to Guatemala if necessary.
The Government of France also passed on their condolences to the countries suffering from the disaster and pledged to send emergency humanitarian aid to the region. This was eventually followed up by June 14 when the French embassy in Guatemala provided $50,000 in relief supplies. The initial response from the World Food Programme was to allocate $500,000 to feed 10,000 over a period of 15 days. Other United Nations departments provided much assistance to Guatemala within two days of Agatha's landfall. UNICEF donated roughly $50,000 to support water and sanitation; UNDP allocated $50,000 for assessments and early recovery; the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development provided roughly $185,000 in general humanitarian aid; and the IFRC and UNFPA planned donate $50,000 each. The United States provided immediate funds of GTQ 900,000 ($112,000 USD); USAID also planned to deploy relief teams with food and emergency supplies to bring to those affected by the storm. Additionally, several helicopters from the United States Southern Command were to be deployed in the region.
By June 1, the European Union had sent $3.7 million in aid to Guatemala as well as Honduras and El Salvador. The Save the Children organization began distributing hygiene kits and other relief supplies on June 4. Over the following weeks, they planned to provide 46 metric tons of supplies.
Extensive losses of the country's food supply left tens of thousands of residents without sustenance, leading to fears of widespread hunger in the nation. In attempts to lessen the severity of the hunger outbreak, the WFP set up over 200 shelters across the country and was estimated to be serving 50,000 people a day by June 9. On June 11, the United Nations made an appeal to supply Guatemala with $14.5 million to aid survivors of the storm. This appeal followed a $34 million request for the country prior to the storm for malnutrition incidents. By June 14, the Government of Japan had provided roughly $220,000 worth of equipment and building materials. Around the same time, ACT Development announced that it planned to assist roughly 2,000 families with all basic life necessities for a month. To start this operation, a preliminary appeal was made to the United Nations for $881,000; a second, full appeal was planned to be published on June 20. |
28565577 | Hurricane Frank (2010) | 2010-08-26 19:53:00+00:00 | Hurricane Frank was a Category 1 hurricane that caused minor damage in Mexico in late August 2010. The ninth tropical cyclone, sixth named storm, and third (and final) hurricane of the inactive 2010 Pacific hurricane season, Frank formed from an area of thunderstorms from the Caribbean Sea, and became Tropical Depression Nine-E on August 21 while located just south of the Mexican Coast. It moved northwest, and became Tropical Storm Frank only 12 hours after it was declared a depression. It strengthened to its initial peak as a moderate tropical storm, and weakened due to increasing wind shear late on the August 23. It later recovered, and became a hurricane on August 25. After peaking as a strong Category 1 hurricane, it rapidly weakened, and dissipated on August 28. Although Frank never made landfall, it did impact western Mexico. A total of six people were killed with over 800,000 people affected.
Frank originated from a difficult to track tropical wave that moved off the west coast of Africa. A large area of thunderstorms formed near the Windward Islands. Atmosphere convection fluctuated as its associated tropical wave moved across the Caribbean Sea and a mid-level circulation developed. Shower and thunderstorm activity increased as it crossed Central America, and a broad area of low pressure formed about 115 mi (185 km) south of the Mexican coast on August 19. The system was in a favorable environment, thus gradual development was anticipated. On August 21, the atmospheric convection had become better organized, and it develop curved rainbands. On 1800 UTC August 21, advisories were initiated on Tropical Depression Nine-E while located roughly 205 mi (330 km) southeast of Salina Cruz, Mexico.
Upon becoming a tropical cyclone, the storm was located in a favorable environment with sea surface temperatures near 30 °C (86 °F) and fairly weak wind shear. As such, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) anticipated the storm to reach minimal hurricane intensity. Due to weak steering currents, the depression drifted westbound. Initially there was no change in organization, but on August 22, the cloud patterns improved. Based on estimates from the Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch (TAFB), the depression was upgraded into Tropical Storm Frank on 1200 UTC August 22. Although deep convection had weakened, the NHC re-assessed the intensity at 60 mph (95 km/h) later that day. However, high levels of northeasterly wind shear caused the system to weaken slightly the next day, and by early August 24, the NHC was no longer forecasting the storm to become a hurricane. Despite the shear, there was a burst of deep convection later that day and a gradual increase in organization. Microwave imagery at 0834 and 1714 UTC showed a closed ring of thunderstorm activity that resembled an eye and by early August 25, the cyclone was just below hurricane intensity.
During the next six hours, Frank became much better organized with a large area of very deep convection near the center. Based on this, the NHC upgraded the system into a hurricane. Gradually intensifying, an eye became intermediately visible on infrared imagery and a persistent eye was visible via microwave imagery. On 1800 UTC, Frank reached its peak intensity of 90 mph (150 km/h) and 978 mbar (hPa; 28.88 inHg) while located 350 mi (560 km) south of the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula. While at peak intensity, satellite imagery showed a small but distinct eye surrounded by a central dense overcast, or a large area of thunderstorm activity. Moving west-northwest, Frank began a weakening trend overnight as the eye became less defined. Continuing to weaken, Frank became less organized and its eye collapsed. On August 27, the NHC downgraded Frank into a tropical storm, with poorly organized convection located west of the center due to strong wind shear. As such, the agency predicted the storm to weaken into a tropical depression within the next 36 hours. Frank rapidly lost all thunderstorm activity because of cooler water, and the storms intensity was reduced to a swirl of clouds while it turned towards the north due to a mid-level trough. The cyclone weakened back into a tropical depression early on August 28. Frank degenerated into a remnant low while located 230 mi (370 km) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. The remnant low dissipated early on August 29.
Although Frank never made landfall, it did come very close to the Mexican Riviera, and upon development, a tropical storm watch was issued for parts of the Mexican coast by the local government. On 1800 UTC August 22, a tropical storm warning was issued. These watches and warnings were dropped on August 24 as the system moved away from the coast. The National Hurricane Center noted the possibility of up to 10 in (250 mm) in the high terrain of Mexico. These rains had the potential to produce life-threatening flash floods and mudslides. Officials gave Frank a hazard rating of intense for the Mexican Pacific, and strong for Baja California Sur. In Guerrero, Michoacán, and Jalisco, alerts were issued due to the threat of torrential rainfall. Forecasters also noted the possibility of the storm affecting Sinaloa, with high waves being the main threat.
The maximum 24-hour rainfall total was 14 in (360 mm) in Miguel de la Madrid, Oaxaca. In addition, seven other sites received more than 4 in (100 mm) of rain in a 24-hour period. The storm also produced gusty conditions along the Mexican coast. In addition, a total of six deaths were reported. A total 30 homes were destroyed with 26 others damaged due to flooding. Two major roads were damaged with another road blocked due to a landslides. Several rivers overflowed their banks, thus causing 171 rural communities to be flooded in seven municipalities. In the state of Tabasco over 800,000 people were affected. The city of Villahermosa received the worst flood since 2007, and a total of 8,500 people were victims of the storm. To prevent the situation from getting worse, residents piled up sandbags. In Oaxaca, four people were killed. A mudslide in the municipality of Totontepec Villa de Morelos caused two farmers to die. Another mudslide in Oaxaca caused six vehicles to drive off Federal Highway 182, causing two more deaths. A total of 60,000 people were homeless. Many communities were isolated as several bridges and roads were destroyed due to the heavy rainfall.
In the aftermath of the storm, the Mexican Army provided aid for the people affected. A total of 110 communities requested assistance from the government. By September 14, an estimated 200,000 food packages were distributed to the region. Damage repairs from Hurricane Frank totaled to 100 million pesos (US$8.3 million). |
28384273 | Alfa Radio | 2010-08-16 17:14:28+00:00 | Alfa Radio (Macedonian: Алфа Радио) was a private radio station broadcasting in the Municipality of Radoviš, North Macedonia, with its headquarters located in the city of Radoviš. It started broadcasting on 1 May 2002, and since then it is one of the most listened radios in Radoviš. Alfa Radio is broadcasting on 98.3 FM in the Radoviš municipality and live on the internet.
The radio stopped its program on 7 October 2010. |
69535174 | CFTC Whistleblower Program | 2021-12-17 19:54:03+00:00 | The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Whistleblower Program was created with the 2010 passage of the Dodd-Frank Act. The program rewards individuals who report possible Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) violations. The program also extends anti-retaliation protections for whistleblowers who file claims.
Whistleblowers who voluntarily report Commodity Exchange Act violations and whose information leads to a successful enforcement action that result in monetary sanctions exceeding $1,000,000. Awards to whistleblowers are paid out of the Congress-established CFTC Consumer Protection Fund. The Fund is financed by money seized by individuals who violated the Commodity Exchange Act. As of October 2021, the CFTC Whistleblower Program has awarded $300 million in whistleblower awards since it issued the first award in 2014.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Act was passed in 2010 after the 2008 Great Recession. The Act aimed to reinforce financial regulation and empower the CFTC's authority to oversee the swaps market. The Dodd-Frank Act amended the Commodity Exchange Act's with adding Section 23, named the "Commodity Whistleblower Incentives and Protection." Section 23 and the rules and regulations the CFTC has issued to implement the section's provisions govern the Whistleblower Program. The section also sets out the rules and procedures prospective whistleblowers must follow to obtain an award. The Whistleblower Rules went into effect in October 2011 and were amended in July 2017.
According to the CFTC's 2021 annual report to Congress, the agency doled out 6 whistleblower awards that totaled over $3 million in the 2020 fiscal year, which ranged from October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021. During the 2021 fiscal year, the CTFC Whistleblower Program issued 65 Final Orders addressing 74 whistleblower award applications and noted that numerous award recipients first made their disclosures to other agencies like the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
All CFTC whistleblower awards are paid out of the Customer Protection Fund. On July 6, 2021, President Joe Biden signed emergency legislation into law that saved the CFTC Whistleblower Program from collapse. The program was on the brink of collapse because of a large whistleblower award that threatened to deplete the Customer Protection Fund. Thus, the emergency legislation addressed the crisis by creating a separate fund specifically for the CFTC's Office of the Whistleblower's operations. This new fund is separate from the fund out of which CFTC whistleblower awards are paid, ensuring that the Office of the Whistleblower can continue to function even if a whistleblower receives a large award.
The CFTC provides confidentiality and anti-retaliation protections to whistleblowers.
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There are numerous violations on which individuals can blow the whistle to the CFTC. Below is a list of examples of violations that CFTC whistleblowers have blown the whistle on.
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The CFTC states that the agency "will enforce the CEA provisions that encompass corrupt practices," which can include actions that "impact the prices in commodity markets that drive U.S. derivatives prices or that are used to manipulate benchmarks," "corrupt payments used to secure business in connection with regulated activities like trading, advising, or dealing in swaps or derivatives, paid out of funds investors believed were being used to invest," and "corrupt practices used to misappropriate material nonpublic information that traders would want to know." Other examples of corrupt practices include cases of bribes or kickbacks. In this section, the CFTC reminds readers that per the Whistleblower Rules, a whistleblower is defined as one or more individuals: thus, this excludes "a company or another entity" from the Rules' definition of "whistleblower." The CFTC provides instructions for individuals who want to report fraud in each individual section.
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Spoofing is a practice in which a trader "places an order in a futures market with the intention to cancel the order prior to execution." The intended outcome of spoofing is to manipulate the appearance of supply or demand and lead other traders to make decisions in the spoofer's favor, and spoofing "is a federal crime punishable by up to 10 years' imprisonment per violation."
To blow the whistle on spoofing, an individual does not have to be working at the company they are blowing the whistle on: "victims of fraud and other market participants who observe misconduct committed by others may be best situated to identify spoofing and qualify as whistleblowers."
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) regulations "pertaining to the BSA" require Futures Commission Merchants and Introducing Brokers to comply with the Bank Secrecy Act, which compels these entities to comply with a series of regulations. Individuals can be on the lookout for a variety of concerning behaviors, including:
"Improper supervision and records violations," "Failure to diligently supervise officers’, employees’, and agents’ opening and handling of accounts," "Failure to protect customers and the markets from fraud and corruption," "Improper enforcement of trading limits assigned by regulators," "Inadequate construction of a customer identification program as part of the firm’s compliance program," and "Failure to file suspicious activity reports."
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Section 6(c)(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC Regulation 180.1 makes illegal, "among other things, trading on the basis of material nonpublic information (MNPI) in breach of a pre‐existing duty or trading on the basis of MNPI that was obtained by fraud or deception. In addition, market participants are required to safeguard client or counterparty information in many circumstances, and failing to do so may violate CFTC Regulations 23.410, 155.3, or 155.4."
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Individuals can blow the whistle on CEA violations "connected to bribes of foreign government officials or similar conduct." The webpage states that companies and individuals who engage in practices that "seek to improperly influence foreign officials with personal payments or rewards" could be liable "for fraud, manipulation, false reporting, or a number of other types of violations under the CEA and Commission Regulations."
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The IRS' definition of a virtual currency is a "digital representation of value that functions as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and/or a store of value." According to the CFTC, virtual currencies qualify as commodities under the CEA. "When a virtual currency is used in a derivatives contract, or if there is fraud or manipulation involving a virtual currency traded in interstate commerce, CFTC enforcement of the CEA comes into play."
The CFTC lists some types of misconduct relating to virtual currency, including "Price manipulation (like pump-and-dump schemes) involving virtual currencies and other virtual assets," "Pre-arranged or wash trading of virtual currencies, or swaps or futures contracts based on virtual currencies," "Virtual currency futures or option contracts or swaps traded on an unregistered domestic platform or facility," "Certain schemes involving virtual currencies marketed to retail customers by unregistered persons, such as off-exchange leveraged, margined, or financed commodity transactions with persons, even without direct evidence of fraud or manipulation," and "Supervision failures or fraudulent conduct (e.g., creating or reporting fictitious trading) by virtual currency exchanges."
The CFTC reminds individuals that they "do not need to be an 'insider' (like an app developer or employee) to be a whistleblower. Victims of fraud and other market participants who observe misconduct committed by others may also qualify as whistleblowers."
Prospective CFTC whistleblowers should submit a Form TCR (Tip, Complaint, or Referral) after they identify a potential Commodity Exchange Act violation and they understand the anti-retaliation and confidentiality protections that the Whistleblower Rules offer. The CFTC Whistleblower Office will then confirm receipt in writing of the Form TCR and provide a confirmation number. The webpage states that because investigations are confidential, someone who submitted a Form TCR should not expect to receive updates on their complaint's status from the Whistleblower Office.
There are detailed requirements for prospective whistleblowers who want to make their disclosures anonymously. Whistleblowers can file anonymously with or without legal counsel; if a whistleblower who wishes to remain anonymous uses an attorney, the attorney can file the Form TCR to the CFTC on behalf of the whistleblower. However, when the agency decides to make a whistleblower award payment, the CFTC can require the whistleblower's attorney to confirm the whistleblower's identity. |
71494418 | Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010 | 2022-08-10 04:42:16+00:00 | The Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010 (c. 10) received royal assent on 25 March 2010. Its long title describes it as An Act to make provision about the rights of third parties against insurers of liabilities to third parties in the case where the insured is insolvent, and in certain other cases.
It came into force on 1 August 2016, removing a provision in the Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 1930 which required a third party claimant affected by the insolvency of an insured party to obtain a judgment on the insurer's liability before being able to issue proceedings. Since 2016, the third party claimant has been able to issue proceedings directly against the insurer. Schedule 1 to the Act also established a regime under which information about the insolvent party's insurance could be made available to a person with a "reasonable belief" that they had a transferred right to claim.: Schedule 1
The act came into force over six years after its royal assent. The delay holding back its "long-awaited" implementation was related to certain shortcomings concerning business insolvency, administration and dissolution, which were addressed in the Insurance Act 2015.
The Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5. c. 25), and its Northern Ireland equivalent, the Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act (Northern Ireland) 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5. c. 19 (N.I.)), were repealed by the 2010 act.: Schedule 4 In 2001, the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission reviewed the 1930 legislation and found that it was not working as well as it should. The two commissions' final report set out proposals for reform which were largely reproduced in the new Act.
The 1930 acts continue to apply in certain circumstances. |
26418017 | 2010 Kaohsiung earthquake | 2010-03-04 03:02:52+00:00 | The 2010 Kaohsiung earthquake, measuring 6.3 Mw, occurred on March 4 at 8:20 a.m. local time. The epicenter was located in the mountainous area of Kaohsiung County (now part of Kaohsiung City) of the southwestern Taiwan. It was the most powerful earthquake in Kaohsiung since 1900. The earthquake did not cause any deaths, but 96 people were injured.
Taiwan lies on the boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate, which are converging at 80 mm per year. The island is the result of uplift caused by the collision between the northern end of the Luzon Arc and the continental margin of China.
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The earthquake caused the tripping of several power stations in Taiwan, leading to a loss of 1,860 MW of electricity. Some transformers and substations on the electrical grid caused power outage to 545,066 houses on the island. Electricity was fully restored before 11:30 a.m.
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A bridge which connects Kaohsiung and Pingtung was blocked when it sank after the earthquake. Some THSR trains were disrupted, and one was de-railed while emergency braking.
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340 buildings and several schools were damaged by the quake. A religious building and some old structures collapsed.
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A fire, which cost about 100 million TWD (US$4 million in 2023), occurred at a factory of the Everest Textile Co., Ltd (宏遠興業) in Tainan County (now part of Tainan City), The quake also caused around 1 billion NTD in losses to several manufacturers in a high-tech industrial park.
The earthquake was followed by several aftershocks; the largest had a magnitude of 5.7 on the Richter scale on April 25.
While the government continues to monitor the situation, Taiwan's Ministry of Defense dispatched troops to Jiasian. |
27203221 | Caribbean Netherlands | 2010-05-03 13:18:41+00:00 | The Caribbean Netherlands (Dutch: Caribisch Nederland, pronounced [kaˈribisˌnedərˌlɑnt] ) is a geographic region of the Netherlands located outside of Europe, in the Caribbean, consisting of three special municipalities. These are the islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, as they are also known in legislation, or the BES islands (an acronym of their names) for short. The islands are officially classified as public bodies in the Netherlands and as overseas territories of the European Union; as such, European Union law does not automatically apply to them.
Bonaire (including the islet of Klein Bonaire) is one of the Leeward Antilles and is located close to the coast of Venezuela. Sint Eustatius and Saba are in the main Lesser Antilles group and are located south of Sint Maarten and northwest of Saint Kitts and Nevis. The Caribbean Netherlands, which should not be confused with the more comprehensive Dutch Caribbean, has a population of 25,157 as of January 2019.
The three islands gained their current status following the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010. At the same time, the islands of Curaçao and Sint Maarten became autonomous countries (Dutch: landen) within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The island of Aruba is also a constituent country of the Kingdom located in the Caribbean. The term "Dutch Caribbean" may refer to the three special municipalities (e.g. for stamps), but may also refer to all of the Caribbean islands within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The population of the Caribbean Netherlands is 26,706. Their total area is 328 square kilometres (127 sq mi). These figures are not consistent with the table below.
In 2012, the islands of the Caribbean Netherlands voted for the first time, due to being special municipalities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the 2012 Dutch general election.
The special municipalities (Dutch: bijzondere gemeenten) carry many of the functions normally performed by Dutch municipalities. The executive power rests with the Governing Council headed by an Island governor. The main democratic body is the island council. Dutch citizens of these three islands are entitled to vote in Dutch national elections and (as all Dutch nationals) in European elections.
Officially the islands are classed in Dutch law as being openbare lichamen (literally translated as "public bodies") and not gemeenten (municipalities). Unlike normal municipalities, they do not form part of a Dutch province and the powers normally exercised by provincial councils within municipalities are divided between the island governments themselves and the central government by means of the National Office for the Caribbean Netherlands. For this reason, they are called "special" municipalities.
Many Dutch laws make special provisions for the Caribbean Netherlands. For example, social security is not on the same level as it is in the European Netherlands.
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The National Office for the Caribbean Netherlands (Dutch: Rijksdienst Caribisch Nederland) is responsible for taxation, policing, immigration, transport infrastructure, health, education, and social security in the islands and provides these services on behalf of the Government of the Netherlands. This agency was established as the Regional Service Center in 2008 and became the National Office for the Caribbean Netherlands on 1 September 2010. The current director is Jan Helmond. The Representative for the public bodies of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba represents the Government of the Netherlands on the islands and also performs tasks similar to a King's Commissioner. The current representative is Gilbert Isabella.
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The islands do not form part of the European Union and instead constitute "overseas countries and territories" (OCT status) of the Union, to which special provisions apply. The Lisbon Treaty introduced a procedure where the European Council may change the status of an overseas territory of Denmark, France, or the Netherlands regarding the application of the EU treaties to that territory. In June 2008, the Dutch government published a survey of the legal and economic impacts by a switched status from OCT to outermost region (OMR). The position of the islands was reviewed after a five-year transitional period, which began with the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in October 2010. The review was conducted as part of the planned review of the Dutch "Act for the public bodies Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba" (Dutch: "Wet openbare lichamen Bonaire, Sint Eustatius en Saba (WolBES)"), where the islands have been granted the option to become an OMR – and thus a direct part of the European Union. In October 2015, the review concluded the present legal structures for governance and integration with European Netherlands was not working well within the framework of WolBES, but no recommendations were made in regards of whether a switch from OCT to OMR status would help improve this situation.
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The Kingdom of the Netherlands has overarching responsibility for foreign relations, defence and Dutch nationality law in the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom. Units of the Netherlands Armed Forces deployed in the Caribbean include:
32 Infantry Company of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps on Aruba;
a Marine Corps detachment on Sint Maarten;
a Fast Raiding Interception and Special Forces Craft (FRISC) troop (fast boats) on Curaçao and Aruba;
a company of the Royal Netherlands Army on Curaçao on a rotational basis;
a guardship, normally a Holland-class offshore patrol vessel, from the Royal Netherlands Navy on station on a rotational basis;
the Royal Netherlands Navy support vessel HNLMS Pelikaan;
Arumil (Aruban) and Curmil (Curaçaoan) militia elements;
a Netherlands Armed Forces Royal Marechaussee brigade.
Additionally, the Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard is funded by the four countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Coast Guard is managed by the Ministry of Defence and is directed by the commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy in the Caribbean.
The Caribbean Netherlands form part of the Lesser Antilles. Within this island group:
Bonaire is part of the ABC islands within the Leeward Antilles island chain off the Venezuelan coast. The Leeward Antilles have a mixed volcanic and coral origin.
Saba and Sint Eustatius are part of the SSS islands. They are located east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Although in the English language they are usually described as being part of the Leeward Islands, in French, Spanish, Dutch and the English spoken locally, they are considered to be part of the Windward Islands. The Windward Islands are all of volcanic origin and hilly, leaving little ground suitable for agriculture. The highest point is Mount Scenery, 887 metres (2,910 ft), on Saba (also the highest point in all the Kingdom of the Netherlands).
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The islands of the Caribbean Netherlands enjoy a tropical climate with warm weather all year round. The Leeward Antilles are warmer and drier than the Windward islands. In summer, the Windward Islands can be subject to hurricanes.
Until 1 January 2011, the three islands used the Netherlands Antillean guilder; after that all three switched to the U.S. dollar, rather than the euro (which is used in the European Netherlands) or the Caribbean guilder (which is being adopted by the other two former Antillean islands of Curaçao and Sint Maarten).
The telephone country code remains 599, that of the former Netherlands Antilles, and is shared with Curaçao. The International Organization for Standardization has assigned the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code ISO 3166-2:BQ for these islands. The IANA has not established a root zone for the .bq Internet ccTLD and whether it will be used is unknown. |
25699562 | Oldambt (municipality) | 2010-01-06 09:05:43+00:00 | Oldambt (Dutch pronunciation: [ɔlˈdɑm(p)t]) is a municipality with a population of 38,277 in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. It was established in 2010 by merging the municipalities of Reiderland, Scheemda, and Winschoten. It contains the city of Winschoten and these villages:
The name "Oldambt" from "Ol dambt" meaning "the old fill" is derived from land reclamation efforts, starting after the catastrophic floodings of the 13th century.
The municipality of Oldambt was established 1 January 2010, as a merger of the former municipalities of Reiderland, Scheemda and Winschoten.
Oldambt is located at 53°9′N 7°2′E in the northeast of the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands on the border with Germany. Near Bad Nieuweschans is the easternmost point of the Netherlands. The municipality falls within the region of Oldambt and the western part falls within the region of Rheiderland.
The municipality is bordered by the Dutch municipalities of Delfzijl (in the north), Slochteren (northwest), Menterwolde (west), Pekela (southwest), and Bellingwedde (south), and by the German municipalities of Bunde (east), Jemgum (northeast), and Emden (north).
The municipality contains the city of Winschoten, the villages of Bad Nieuweschans, Beerta, Blauwestad, Drieborg, Finsterwolde, Heiligerlee, Midwolda, Nieuw-Beerta, Nieuwolda, Nieuw-Scheemda, Oostwold, Scheemda, 't Waar, and Westerlee, and the hamlet Hongerige Wolf.
In the north of the municipality is part of the Dollart in the Wadden Sea, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2009. In the center is the Oldambtmeer, an artificial lake of more than 800 ha.
As of 2021, Oldambt has a population of 38,277 and a population density of 169/km2 (440/sq mi).
Oldambt is a developing municipality, in the heart of the region it is building a new housing area with more than 300 houses already: Blauwestad around the artificial lake Oldambtmeer of 800 hectares.
The government seat is in the city of Winschoten.
The highway A7 (E22) connects the municipality to the city of Groningen in the west and Leer (Germany) in the east. The Harlingen–Nieuweschans railway runs through the municipality with train stations in Scheemda, Winschoten, and Bad Nieuweschans. The trains are currently operated by Arriva and the busses by Qbuzz.
The train stops Heiligerlee and Ulsda were closed in 1934 and 1938.
The municipality has the most modern hospital of the province of Groningen, the Ommelander Ziekenhuis Groningen in Scheemda.
Wiebbe Hayes (born in Winschoten ca.1608) a colonial soldier and national hero re the Batavia
Dirk Stikker (1897 in Winschoten – 1979) a Dutch politician, diplomat and Secretary General of NATO 1961/1964
Bernard D. H. Tellegen (1900 in Winschoten – 1990) a Dutch electrical engineer and inventor of the pentode and the gyrator
Herman Makkink (1937 in Winschoten – 2013) a Dutch sculptor, graphic artist and illustrator
Bas Jan Ader (1942 in Winschoten – 1975) a Dutch conceptual and performance artist and photographer
Jos Silvis (born 1953 in Winschoten) a judge at the European Court of Human Rights 2012/2016 and then attorney general at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands
Marcel Hensema (born 1970 in Winschoten) a Dutch film actor
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Levi Benima (1838 in Nieuweschans – 1922) a Dutch chess master
Rynie Wolters (1842 in Nieuweschans – 1917) the first Dutch professional baseball player
Jan de Bruine (1903 in Winschoten – 1983) a Dutch equestrian and silver medallist in show jumping at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Arie Haan (born 1948 in Finsterwolde) a Dutch football manager and former player with 419 club caps
Jurrie Koolhof (1960 in Beerta – 2019) a Dutch international football striker with 417 club caps and manager.
Marnix Kolder (born 1981 in Winschoten) a Dutch professional footballer with over 500 club caps |
25700034 | Peel en Maas | 2010-01-06 10:45:37+00:00 | Peel en Maas (Dutch pronunciation: [peːl ɛn ˈmaːs]; Limburgish: Pieël en Maas) has been a new municipality in the southeastern Netherlands since 1 January 2010. It is situated in the province of Limburg. The municipality is formed by the towns of Panningen, Helden, Kessel, Kessel-Eik, Maasbree, Baarlo, Beringe, Egchel, Grashoek, Koningslust, and Meijel. It has a population of more than 40,000 people from various backgrounds. The municipality has several facilities such as a high school, public library, swimming pool, and a well-connected public bus transport system.
Each town has its own characteristics. The municipality's official slogan is: "beleef de ruimte!" (experience the space!).
The towns are situated in the Dutch province of Limburg. This province was part of the southern Catholic parts of the Low Lands. Through history, the towns have been under Belgian, German, and eventually Dutch rule. Each town has a strong local identity and there is a healthy rivalry during the annual carnival festivities.
The municipality has several noteworthy places to visit.
To the right is the Maas river with a boulevard in the city of Kessel
To the south is the Musschenberg and the Weerdbeemden natural reserve. Along this path is a former Roman street where Roman coins have been found.
Castle the Keverberg (Kessel)
Sint Antonius Windmill (Kessel)
Castle the Berckt (Baarlo)
Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Peel en Maas, June 2015
Johannes Eillebrecht (1888 in Helden – 1954) a Greco-Roman wrestler, competed at the 1912 and the 1920 Summer Olympics
Jan Hendrix (born 1949 in Maasbree) a Dutch-born artist, lives and works in Mexico
Leon Thijssen (born 1968 in Baarlo) a Dutch show jumper
Mustafa Amhaouch (born 1970 in Panningen) a Dutch politician
Mark Verheijen (born 1976 in Baarlo) a Dutch former politician
Brennan Heart (Fabian Bohn (given name) born 1982 in Helden) a Dutch DJ and hardstyle producer
Martin Porter (born 1983 in Maasbree) a Dutch artist and songwriter
Bert Selen (born 1985 in Kessel-Eik) music producer, TV/film composer, instrumentalist and songwriter
Jorrit Hendrix (born 1995 in Panningen) a Dutch footballer |
25700403 | Zuidplas | 2010-01-06 11:37:06+00:00 | Zuidplas (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈzœytˌplɑs]) is a municipality in the Netherlands located in the province of South Holland. It was established on 1 January 2010 by the joining of Moordrecht, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, and Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle. It had a population of 41,753 as of August 2017.
Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Zuidplas, September 2014
Claes Michielsz Bontenbal (1575–1623) Secretary of Zevenhuizen and conspirator
Lia van Rhijn (born 1953) ceramist and sculptor
Arie Slob (born 1961) politician and history teacher
Angela Visser (born 1966) actress, model and beauty queen, Miss Universe 1989
Hans Spekman (born 1966) politician
Dirk Bruinenberg (born 1968) musician, former drummer of metal and power metal bands
Tamara van Ark (born 1974) politician and minister
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Jan Bazen (born 1948) former speed skater, competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Brecht Rodenburg (born 1967) retired volleyball player, team gold medallist at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Sjoert Brink (born 1981) professional bridge player
Lars Elgersma (born 1983) short and middle distance speed skater
Ronald Hertog (born 1989) amputee and Paralympic javelin thrower, flag-bearer at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Raymond Kreder (born 1989) professional road racing cyclist
Bastiaan Lijesen (born 1990) swimmer, competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Memphis Depay (born 1994) professional footballer, over 200 club caps |
47037543 | Ilorin Sallah stampede | 2015-06-21 11:46:39+00:00 | The Ilorin Sallah stampede was a crowd crush that occurred at Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, North-central Nigeria on Eid al-Fitr (Sallah day) at the end of Ramadan in 2013. The crush resulted in the death of 20 people and left several others severely injured. Four people died the first day, and 16 more over the next few days. The incident occurred on 16 October 2013 at Senator Bukola Saraki's house. Saraki is the two-term governor of Kwara State and the incumbent President of the Senate of Nigeria.
Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki's father, the late Alhaji Abubakar Olusola Saraki, was a philanthropist who often gave food and clothing to the needy, especially at the Eid al-Fitr celebrations at the end of Ramadan. Saraki gave rice, chicken and sometimes money to the widows, the aged, and the poor before his death on November 14, 2012. On every Sallah day, thousands of people would queue at his residence at the Government Reservation Area, Ilorin, Kwara State, to receive the annual gifts.
Following the death of Alhaji Olusola Saraki, his son Bukola Saraki decided to continue this philanthropic act on every Sallah day. This philanthropic act was aimed at providing succour to the needy in Kwara.
This was not the first time that crush events had occurred at his residence. A similar crush occurred on November 17, 2010, during his campaign for election as a member of the 7th National Assembly, and at least eleven of his campaigners died. On May 27, 2011, during his inauguration ceremony, 25 people were reported dead following distributions of clothing and money to his electoral supporters.
A spokesperson has said that although some in the press had blamed the deaths on the disorderly behaviour of the crowds, efforts would be made to improve the distribution of the gifts. Since then, they have kept to their word. |
26278038 | Kor Royal Cup stampede | 2010-02-21 04:00:07+00:00 | The Kor Royal Cup stampede was a crowd crush that occurred on 20 February 2010 at Suphachalasai Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand during a Kor Royal Cup match between Muangthong United and Thai Port.
Koné Mohamed scored with a header from a Piyachart free kick in the 67th minute, his first goal in a Muangthong United shirt after he moved from Chonburi, and Dagno Siaka scored with a header in the 81st minute.
Thai Port's Pongpipat Kamnuan attempted to convince his fans (the Khlong Toei Army) that the second goal came from a handball; they agreed with him, and feeling that the second goal should have been disallowed, they started throwing firecrackers and bottles onto the pitch, and a pitch invasion then occurred in which Thai Port fans attacked fleeing Muangthong United fans (the Ultra Muangthong), Muangthong United players, officials and stadium security.
Thai Port fans later set fire to Muangthong United's team flag and a team shirt in the centre of the pitch.
The match was abandoned and the Kor Royal Cup was awarded to Muangthong United. The actions of the Thai Port fans could not have come at a worse time for the club, as they were preparing to host the Vietnamese champions, Đà Nẵng in their 2010 AFC Cup Group H opener at the National Stadium on 24 February.
At least ten fans were injured, nine from Muangthong United and one from Thai Port.
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Disturbance: MTUFC VS TPFC from YouTube
Thai Port rebellion from YouTube |
28140022 | Love Parade disaster | 2010-07-24 17:02:43+00:00 | On 24 July 2010, a crowd disaster at the 2010 Love Parade electronic dance music festival in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, caused the deaths of 21 people from suffocation as attendees sought to escape a ramp leading to the festival area. 652 people were injured.
The Love Parade was a free-access music festival and parade that originated in 1989 in Berlin. The parade featured stages, but also had floats with music, DJs, and dancers moving through the audience. The Love Parade in Duisburg was the first time that the festival had been held in a closed-off area. Between 200,000 and 1.4 million people were reported to be attending the event and 3,200 police were on hand.
As a consequence of the disaster, the organizer of the festival announced that no further Love Parades would be held and that the festival was permanently cancelled. Criminal charges were brought against ten employees of the city of Duisburg and of the company that organized the event, but eventually rejected by the court due to the prosecutors' failure to establish evidence for the alleged acts of negligence and their causal connection to the deaths. In 2017, the prosecution of 10 event planners on charges of negligent homicide and mayhem were reinstated, but the trial was ended without a verdict in 2020.
With the slogan "The Art of Love", the event was a prominent part of RUHR.2010, a campaign to celebrate Germany's Ruhr valley as one of 2010's European Capitals of Culture. The festival which had previously been a parade through Berlin was staged on the grounds of a former freight station in 2010. The confined area had a maximum capacity of 250,000 people; the average turnout of the previous years would have suggested a number of close to one million attendees for the event.
Bruce Cullen of Parker, Colorado, and founder of Trance Elements, a LoveParade artist/performer on float number 7, "The Ship of Fools", mentioned that he and other performers were concerned before the event that there would be problems, stating "we all said it seems like this is not going to work". Although Cullen did not witness the actual event, he stated: "These guys didn't have this planned out right", "They didn't have enough police at the entrances in that tunnel. I am just really upset because people died. Everybody was there to have fun".
Admittance to the festival grounds was supposed to begin at 11:00 but was deferred until as late as 12:00 CEST. At the convergence of a 240-meter (260 yard) long tunnel extending from the east and a series of underpasses from the west, was a ramp that served as the only entrance and exit point of the festival area; that is, excepting one smaller ramp between the westerly underpasses. In an effort to relieve overcrowding, police at the entrance began instructing new arrivals by loudspeaker to turn back. Despite being told that the tunnel's only exit was barred off, one which would have otherwise led to the parade area encircling the festival, people continued pushing on into the confined space of the tunnel from the rear. The fatalities occurred when the ramp between tunnel underpasses and the festival area overcrowded until there was a crush. One police officer reported that;The atmosphere was explosive. Many in the crowd seemed to be intoxicated. When people started falling off the stairs and pulling others with them, it became just chaotic. They just couldn't be stopped. It was a living hell.
I will never forget the sight. There were all these twisted-up bodies of those who had been crushed. They were lying at the tunnel exit. Their faces had all turned blue.
There was some debate as to how the deaths occurred. Some reports suggested they were caused by people falling off a staircase as they tried to escape the tunnel. However, autopsies showed that all of the fatalities were due to crushed rib cages.
A 2012 scientific analysis of the causes of the disaster dismissed the earlier descriptions of the incident as a "human stampede" or crowd panic, and instead found evidence of a phenomenon called "crowd turbulence". The study stated that most people died between the staircase and the billboard on the ramp.
Lopavent GmbH, the organiser of the Love Parade, released a film, depicting an explanation of the events. The film is based on CCTV recordings, explanatory animations, documents, press reports and eyewitness accounts released by the organiser.
A total of 21 people died, 13 women and 8 men, aged between 18 and 38 years. Fourteen of the fatalities were German, including seven men and seven women. Among the seven casualties of other nationalities were two Spanish women aged 21 and 22 years, a 38-year-old Chinese woman living in Germany, a 22-year-old man from the Netherlands, a 21-year-old woman from Italy, a 21-year-old woman from Bosnia-Herzegovina, and a 27-year-old woman from Australia. Fifteen died at the site, six died in hospital.
Police chose not to close down the event, fearing that doing so could spark another panic. Nearby motorway A59, which was closed during the whole Love Parade, functioned as an access route for emergency services.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German President Christian Wulff expressed their sorrow and condolences for the victims.
During a press conference on 25 July, organiser Rainer Schaller stated that there would never again be another Love Parade, out of respect for those who lost their lives, and the festival was permanently cancelled. Schaller blamed the deaths on police mistakes in crowd control. The North Rhine-Westphalia interior minister rejected this and assigned all the blame to Schaller, his company Lopavent, their security concept and the festival personnel.
A local resident published internal documents of the city administration regarding the planning of Love Parade. The city government reacted by securing a court order on 16 August forcing the removal of the documents from the site on which it was hosted. On 20 August 2010, WikiLeaks released a publication entitled Loveparade 2010 Duisburg planning documents, 2007–2010, which comprised 43 internal documents regarding the Love Parade 2010, from the Duisburg police, contractors at the parade and other parties involved from 2007 to 2010.
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The German police and State's Attorney (Staatsanwaltschaft) opened a criminal investigation. In 2016, a Duisburg court rejected the case, stating that the prosecutors had failed to "establish proof for the acts of negligence the defendants have been charged with, and for their causality". Central to the court's concerns were numerous flaws in the report by professor Keith Still, a British crowd safety expert from Manchester Metropolitan University, which formed the basis of the charges.
The report's initial version from 2011 was described by Süddeutsche Zeitung as "sloppily written and full of errors"; the judges subjected it to more than 70 follow-up questions over the next few years and eventually called it "unusable due to professor Still's serious violations of the basic duties of an expert witness." Keith Still was also criticized by newspapers and the victims' attorney for disregarding possible mistakes by the police, causing the prosecutors to only include staff of the event organizer and the city among the ten defendants it charged.
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In April 2017, a Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) decided that a criminal trial against 10 festival organizers and city employees should go ahead. It ruled that there was a "sufficient probability" of convictions and that the lower court (Landgericht) had set "overly high demands" of the chances of conviction to make its decision. The Higher Court dismissed several key aspects of the lower court's judgment, including ruling that evidence from Keith Still was admissible.
The trial started on 8 December 2017 in Düsseldorf. Six Duisburg city officials and four LopaVent festival organizers were charged with negligent manslaughter and inflicting bodily harm. In February 2019, charges against seven defendants were dropped. In May 2020, the court terminated the trial of the remaining defendants without a verdict, finding that their alleged culpability was minor and that the 10-year statute of limitations might lapse before the completion of the trial, especially given the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions.
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Duisburg's mayor Adolf Sauerland was widely criticized in the aftermath of the disaster. In July 2010, several hundred people rallied at Duisburg's city hall, demanding his resignation depicting him at the gallows. The protesters claimed that Sauerland had been aware of sub-standard security provisions for the festival, but pushed his administration to approve the plans nonetheless. Sauerland refused calls for his resignation.
An attempt to oust Sauerland as mayor failed in September 2010, because the required two-thirds majority of the city council did not vote for his removal. Opponents then collected signatures, forcing a recall election. Sauerland, a member of the Christian Democrats, was removed at the 12 February 2012 election. The recall was supported by labor unions and by opposition parties (the Social Democrats, Greens, and Left), who blamed Sauerland for flawed planning of the festival, charges that Sauerland denied. In the recall election, 130,000 people voted to recall Sauerland, while 21,500 voted to retain him in office.
The incident is directly referred to with footage in the 2011 documentary Life in a Day. In 2010, a song titled "Remember Love" was produced by Paul van Dyk, Paul Oakenfold and Armin van Buuren with the proceeds going to the families of the victims of the disaster.
In 2014, German rock band Axxis released a song titled "21 Crosses", which demands the truth about who was to blame, with the names of the killed victims being recited at the end of the song.
The German television drama film Life Afterwards (German: "Das Leben danach"), filmed and edited by director Nicole Weegmann, is from the perspective of a traumatised survivor, portrayed by actress Jella Haase. The 90-minute feature film was first broadcast on ARD on 27 September 2017. |
29704279 | Phnom Penh stampede | 2010-11-22 19:06:43+00:00 | The Phnom Penh stampede occurred on 22 November 2010 when 347 people were killed and another 755 injured in a stampede and crowd crush during the Water Festival celebrations at Diamond Gate Bridge of Diamond Island, in Cambodia.
The stampede occurred at the end of the three-day Water Festival to celebrate the end of the monsoon season and the semiannual reversal of flow of the Tonlé Sap river. Initial reports suggest that festival-goers had gathered on Koh Pich ("Diamond Island"), a spit of land stretching into the Tonlé Sap, to watch boat races and then a concert. Around four million people had attended the festival.
It was the third incident in the festival's history resulting in fatalities, though it was by far the worst; five rowers on a boat drowned in 2008, and another drowned in 2009.
The stampede began at 21:30 local time (14:30 UTC) on a bridge across the river, though witnesses said that people had been "stuck on the bridge" for several hours before, and victims were not freed until hours after the actual stampede occurred. 347 people died, and upwards of 755 more people were injured, some seriously, and many local hospitals were pushed far beyond capacity by the influx of victims. At one point, the death toll had been listed as being 456, but on 25 November, the government decreased its official death toll to 347, based on the total put forth by Cambodian minister of social affairs Ith Sam Heng.
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A witness said the cause of the stampede was "too many people on the bridge and...both ends were pushing. This caused a sudden panic. The pushing caused those in the middle to fall to the ground, then [get] crushed." While trying to get away from the stampede, he said that people pulled down electrical wires, causing more people to die of electrocution. These claims were backed up by one of the doctors treating patients, who said that electrocution and suffocation were the primary causes of death among the casualties, though the government disputed the claims of electric shock.
A journalist from The Phnom Penh Post said that the stampede had occurred due to police forces firing a water cannon into people on the bridge in an attempt to force them to move off the bridge after it began swaying, which had triggered panic among those on it.
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said that the stampede began when panic broke out after several people fell unconscious on the crowded island.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said that "with this miserable event, I would like to share my condolences with my compatriots and the family members of the victims." He ordered an inquiry to be conducted in response to the incident, and declared 25 November to be a day of mourning. The government said that the investigation would be conducted by a special committee that would take evidence and testimony from witnesses to the incident. The preliminary reports of the investigation, released on 24 November, said that the stampede had been triggered by the swaying of the bridge, which had caused panic among many of those on it.
The government said that it would pay five million riel, or US$1,250, to the families of each of the dead, as well as paying a million riel ($250) to each of the injured. On 24 November, the government announced it planned to construct a stupa as a memorial to those killed in the incident.
On 23 November, the day after the incident, around 500 Buddhist monks visited the site of the stampede to chant prayers for those who had died. |
26421941 | Pratapgarh stampede | 2010-03-04 11:21:29+00:00 | The Pratapgarh stampede was a crowd crush incident that occurred on 4 March 2010, at Ram Janki temple of the Kripalu Maharaj ashram in Kunda, Uttar Pradesh, India, that killed 63 people and seriously injured 74 more. The incident occurred as 10,000 people attended the temple to receive free items, such as clothes and food, on the first anniversary of the death of the wife of Kripalu Maharaj.
An unfinished temple gate fell, which may have led to a panic among the crowd and to the stampede. Some were crushed beneath the gate while others were trampled by other members of the crowd. The cause of the gate's fall was not immediately clear, but it may have been torn down by the crowd. This year's lunch had increased attendance due to "the prior announcement that some utensils would also be distributed along with lunch", a lawmaker said. A nearby tea stall owner, witness to the stampede, reported people fearing electrocution may have caused panic. As rumours broke out that a live electric wire was in the area and had already electrocuted someone, the crowd rushed towards the under-construction gate causing it to crash.
Of the more than 63 deaths, there were at least 37 children and 26 women, who collapsed onto their children and were trampled themselves. There are no reports of any deaths or injuries to men. Many of the dead were poor villagers taking advantage of the offer of free food. Witnesses said police exacerbated the incident by beating people with lathis.
Indian television aired images of stones being thrown. People and media complained about the lack of crowd control techniques at the temple thereby exaggerating the death toll. Many hundreds of weeping friends and relatives went to a local hospital upon hearing of the stampede. An inquiry was asked for by the Uttar Pradesh state government. A report is expected to be finalised within 48 hours. The ashram remained closed since the incident and large number of policemen including armed personnel were stationed outside its gates. President of Indian National Congress and chairman of ruling United Progressive Alliance, Sonia Gandhi, condoled the deaths of women and children in stampede.
On 5 March Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced a compensation of ₹200,000 (US$2,400) to relatives of those died in stampede and ₹50,000 (US$600) to those who were seriously injured. On 10 March Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati announced "...compensation of Rs. 2.50 lakh [(250,000)] each for the next of kin of the 63 persons who died ... [and] Rs. 75,000 ... for each of the 74 who were injured." It's not clear whether this was (or was intended to be) in addition to the Prime Minister's announced payments.
On 7 March, spiritual guru Kripaluji Maharaj's Bhakti Dham Ashr announced that it would pay a lakh (100,000) rupees each to the families of the 63 dead and Rs. 50,000 to each of the 64 injured. The funds were given to the district magistrate to distribute to the correct parties. |
47134741 | Abu Sufian Shakil | 2015-07-02 11:23:01+00:00 | Shakil Abu Sufian (born 1980) is a Bangladeshi chess player International Master and National Chess Coach.
Md. Abu Sufian earned the FIDE Master title in 2001 and International Master title in 2011. Both of his title he got from Asian Zonal Chess Championship from Colombo, Sri Lanka. He represented Bangladesh in several chess competitions from 2005 to 2015.
he is also doing a job as a National Chess Coach of National Sports Council of Bangladesh since 2006. he was elected as General Secretary of Association of Chess players, Bangladesh at 2014 and currently he is the President of this (ACPB) organisation. He participated three times in Chess Olympiad (Turin, Italy in 2006; Dresden, Germany in 2008 and Khanty-Manshisk, Russia in 2010) on behalf of the Bangladesh Chess team. |
40261520 | Adhiban Baskaran | 2013-08-16 21:29:01+00:00 | Adhiban Baskaran (born 15 August 1992) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He was the 2008 World Under-16 Champion and the 2009 Indian champion. He is currently the 21st highest rated player in India.
In 2007 he won the Asian under-16 championship in Tashkent. Adhiban played on the first board for the gold medal-winning Indian team at the Under-16 Chess Olympiad of 2007 and 2008.
In 2011, he won the Cultural Village tournament in Wijk aan Zee which qualified him for the 2012 Tata Steel C tournament. In this latter event, he tied for 3rd–4th with Daan Brandenburg with a score of 8.5/13. In the Chess World Cup 2013, Adhiban caused an upset in the first two rounds, beating 2710-rated Russian GM Evgeny Alekseev in the first round, and Alexandr Fier in the second one.
Adhiban won the 2013 Sants Open in Barcelona with a score of 8.5 points out of 10. This event included 23 GMs and 28 international masters (IMs).
In July 2014, he won the Masters open tournament of the Biel Chess Festival. In the following month, he contributed to India's bronze medal at the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø scoring 7/11 on board four.
He was also a member of the winning team of the Spanish League 2015, Solvay, along with teammates Pentala Harikrishna, Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Aleksander Delchev, Sergio Cacho Reigadas, Jesus Maria De La Villa Garcia, and Elizbar Ubilava.
Adhiban competed in the Chess World Cup 2015, where he was knocked out by Vladimir Fedoseev in the first round after the rapid tiebreaks.
In January 2016, Adhiban won the 2016 Tata Steel Challengers Tournament in a 3-way tie. The co-leaders were GM Alexei Dreev and GM Eltaj Safarli, all of whom earned 9 points out of 13 (+6-1=6). Because Adhiban defeated them both, he had the better tiebreaks and was therefore awarded the spot in the next Tata Steel Masters tournament.
Despite being the lowest rated player at the 2017 Tata Steel Masters Tournament, he managed to finish third with a score of 7.5 points out of 13 (+4-2=7). He defeated Sergey Karjakin, Dmitry Andreikin, Richárd Rapport, and Radosław Wojtaszek.
Adhiban won the 2018 Reykjavik Open, scoring 7½/9 (+6–0=3). He recorded victories over Alejandro Ramírez, Maxime Lagarde, and Richárd Rapport.
Adhiban also won the historic Tournament of Peace-Zagreb held in Croatia, 2018 that was renewed after 33 years.
He was also a part of bronze winning Indian team in 2022 Chess Olympiad held in Chennai, India. |
28537821 | 25 August 2010 Iraq bombings | 2010-08-25 12:47:19+00:00 | On 25 August 2010, a string of attacks in Iraqi cities including Al-Muqdadiya, Kut, Baghdad, Fallujah, Tikrit, Kerbala, Kirkuk, Basra, Ramadi, Dujail, Mosul and Iskandariyah targeting mostly Iraqi security forces and checkpoints left at least 53 people dead and more than 270 injured.
Following terms agreed to in the Status of Forces Agreement between the United States and Iraq, American combat forces were withdrawn from the country leaving less than 50,000 troops in the country. This was the lowest foreign troop count in the country since the 2003 Iraq War. There were concerns that the drawdown could lead to a rise in Al Qaeda-linked attacks. A scheduled speech by U.S. President Barack Obama will take note of the withdrawal of U.S. forces on the planned date of 31 August; the next day the U.S. mission will officially be renamed 'Operation New Dawn' from 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' in a ceremony at a U.S. base near the Baghdad airport.
The attacks also came amid concern that the 2010 Iraqi general election was so inconclusive that a new government had not yet formed nearly six months after 7 March 2010 election date.
Most insurgents are Sunnis, whereas the majority of the population, including the acting Prime Minister, are Shias. Quoting what it called a "prominent insurgent website" on the day of the attacks, The New York Times said the Sunni insurgents stated that "the countdown has begun to return Iraq to the embrace of Islam and its Sunnis, with God’s permission."
The attacks were made in 13 cities and spanned the length of Iraq, from Mosul in the north to Basra in the far south of the country. The attacks demonstrated the ability of insurgents to make coordinated attacks across the country. The 25 August attacks included a full spectrum of types with over a dozen car bombs, hit-and-run shooting attacks and roadside bombs.
A list of the attacks included:
In the southern city of Kut, a suicide car bomber killed at least 19 policemen and wounded 90.
A car bomb also hit a police check-point in Ameiriya wounding three people.
In Kerbala, at least one person was killed and 29 people were wounded when a car bomb went off near a police station.
In Kirkuk, one person died and another eight were wounded by a bomb attack.
A parked minibus packed with explosives blew up near a police station in the southern oil hub city of Basra, wounding 12 people.
A car bomb struck a bus station in Ramadi, killing 3 policemen and wounding 9 civilians.
Car bombs in Dujail, Mosul and Iskandariyah killed 5 and wounded 21.
The Iraqi political leadership alleged that Al Qaeda and the remnants of the Iraqi Baath party carried out the attacks. Islamic State of Iraq organization claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying that during "the month of fasting and jihad [we launched a] new earth-shaking wave [targeting] headquarters, centres and security barriers for the army and apostate police."
Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, issued a statement laying blame for the attacks. "Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and its allies from the Baath party, have once again committed an ugly crime against innocent civilians and the institutions of the state...to destabilise security and shake the confidence in the Iraqi security forces who are getting ready to take over security at the end of this month as the Americans withdraw." |
26255583 | 2010 Austin suicide attack | 2010-02-18 17:42:19+00:00 | The 2010 Austin suicide attack occurred on February 18, 2010, when Andrew Joseph Stack III deliberately crashed his single-engine Piper Dakota light aircraft into Building I of the Echelon office complex in Austin, Texas, United States, killing himself and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) manager Vernon Hunter. Thirteen others were injured, two severely. The four-story office building housed an IRS field office occupying the top three floors, along with a couple of private businesses on the first floor. Prior to the crash, Stack had posted a suicide note to his website, expressing his disillusionment with corporations and government agencies such as the IRS. Stack is also suspected of having set fire that morning to his two-story North Austin house, which was mostly destroyed.
In the aftermath, there was increased debate over the policies of the IRS, and different forms of protest. In response to the attack, the IRS spent more than $38.6 million, with $6.4 million spent to recover and resume work at the building, and over $32 million spent to increase security at other IRS sites in the U.S. However, the spending on security changes was questioned as being ineffective, as none of it would actually prevent airplanes from crashing into the buildings. The building was repaired by December 2011.
Andrew Joseph Stack III (August 31, 1956 – February 18, 2010) lived in the Scofield Farms neighborhood in North Austin, and worked as an embedded software consultant. He grew up in Pennsylvania and had two brothers and two sisters. Stack was orphaned at age four, and spent some time at a Catholic orphanage. He graduated from the Milton Hershey School in 1974 and studied engineering at Harrisburg Area Community College from 1975 to 1977, but did not graduate. His first marriage, to Ginger Stack, which ended in divorce, produced a daughter, Samantha Bell. In 2007, Stack married Sheryl Housh, who had a daughter from a previous marriage.
In 1985, Stack, along with his first wife, incorporated Prowess Engineering. In 1994, he failed to file a state tax return. In 1998, the Stacks divorced, and a year later his wife filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing Federal tax liabilities totaling nearly $126,000. In 1995, Stack started Software Systems Service Corp, which was suspended in 2004 for non-payment of state taxes.
Stack obtained a pilot's certificate in 1994 and owned a Velocity Elite XL-RG plane, in addition to the Piper Dakota (aircraft registration N2889D) he flew into the Echelon building. He had been using the Georgetown Municipal Airport for four and a half years and paid $236.25 a month to rent a hangar. There has been speculation that Stack replaced seats on his aircraft with extra drums of fuel prior to the collision.
Stack's accountant confirmed that at the time of the incident, he was being audited by the Internal Revenue Service for failure to report income.
About an hour before the crash, Stack allegedly set fire to his $230,000 house located on Dapplegrey Lane in North Austin; the house was mostly destroyed in the fire. He then drove to a hangar he rented at Georgetown Municipal Airport, approximately 20 miles to the north. He boarded his single-engine Piper Dakota airplane and took off around 9:45 a.m. Central Standard Time. He indicated to the control tower his flight would be "going southbound, sir." After taking off, his last broadcast words were "thanks for your help, have a great day."
About ten minutes later, his plane descended and collided at full speed with Echelon I, a building containing offices for 190 IRS employees, resulting in a large fireball and explosion. The building is located near the intersection of Research Boulevard (U.S. Route 183) and Mopac Expressway (Loop 1).
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On the morning of the crash, Stack posted a suicide note on his website, embeddedart.com. The HTML source code of the web page shows the letter was composed using Microsoft Word starting two days prior, February 16, at 19:24Z (1:24 p.m. CST). The document also shows that it was saved 27 times with the last being February 18 at 06:42Z (12:42 a.m. CST).
In the note, he begins by expressing displeasure with the government, the bailout of financial institutions, politicians, the conglomerate companies of General Motors, Enron and Arthur Andersen, unions, drug and health care insurance companies, and the Catholic Church. He then describes his life as an engineer, including his meeting with a poor widow who never got the pension benefits she was promised, the effect of Section 1706 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on independent contractor engineers, the September 11 attacks, airline bailouts that benefited only the airlines but not the suffering engineers, and how a CPA he hired seemed to side with the government to take extra tax money from him.
The note also mentions Stack's having issues with taxes, debt, and the IRS and his having a long-running feud with the organization. While the IRS also has a larger regional office in Austin, the field office located in Echelon I performed tax audits, seizures, investigations and collections.
The note ended with:
I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
Vernon Hunter, a 68-year-old Revenue Officer Group Manager for the IRS, was killed in the incident along with Joseph Stack. Thirteen people were reported as injured, two of them critically. Debris from the crash reportedly shattered the windshield of a car being driven on the southbound access road of Highway 183 in front of the building. Another driver on the southbound access road of Highway 183 had his windows and sunroof shattered during the impact, and had debris fall inside his car, yet escaped uninjured. Robin DeHaven, a glass worker and former combat engineer for the United States Army, saw the collision while commuting to a customer's house for his job, and used the extension ladder on his truck to rescue six people from the 2nd floor of the building. By coincidence, the Travis County Hazardous Materials Team — an inter-agency group of firefighters from outside the City of Austin — had just assembled for training across the freeway from the targeted building, observed the low and fast flight of Stack's plane, and heard the blast impact. They immediately responded, attacking the fire and initiating search-and-rescue. Several City of Austin fire engines for the area of the Echelon building were already deployed at the fire at Stack's home at the time of the impact.
Georgetown Municipal Airport was temporarily evacuated while a bomb disposal team searched Stack's abandoned vehicle.
An inspection into the Echelon building's structural integrity was concluded six days after the incident and a preliminary decision was made to repair the building rather than demolish it. Those repairs were substantially complete by December 2011.
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The IRS spent more than $38.6 million after the suicide attack.
For the immediate response, document recovery, and to resume operations at the center, the IRS spent USD $6,421,942. Of this amount, USD $3,258,213 was spent on document recovery.
Also, the IRS spent a total of USD $32.3 million to improve IRS building security across the United States, with USD $32.2 million ($43.6 million in 2023) "to evaluate and enhance employee safety and physical security at IRS facilities", although it was not explained what physical security measures were intended to preventing airplanes from flying into buildings. The IRS said, because of the 2010 Austin terrorist attack and the emergency plans in place, there was no direct budgetary impact on the IRS's ability to provide taxpayer services or enforce tax laws.
An additional $1,236,634 was spent on a security risk assessment to be performed by the private Georgia based logistical and engineering services firm Unified Consultants Group, Inc. A July 25, 2012 audit, released shortly after the incident cost analysis, performed by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, determined that the contract was mismanaged by the IRS. The security-review process was determined to have had multiple problems, and many of the sites were not inspected by the contractor. The audit placed the blame on the IRS agency's individuals responsible for defining, negotiating, and administering the contract, with potentially 100% of funds being used inefficiently and the security improvements of IRS sites may have been ineffective.
The United States Department of Homeland Security issued a statement saying that the incident did not appear to be linked to organized international terrorist groups. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs reaffirmed what Homeland Security said, and that President Barack Obama was briefed on the incident. The President expressed his concern and commended the courageous actions of the first responders. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) launched two F-16 fighter aircraft from Ellington Airport in Houston, Texas, to conduct an air patrol in response to the crash. That action was reported as standard operating procedure in this situation.
The company hosting embeddedart.com, T35 Hosting, took Stack's website offline "due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas this morning and in compliance with a request from the FBI." Several groups supporting Stack on the social networking website Facebook appeared following the incident and the news of the accompanying manifesto. These were immediately shut down by Facebook staff.
Austin police chief Art Acevedo stated that the incident was not the action of a major terrorist organization. He also cited "some heroic actions on the part of federal employees" that "will be told at the appropriate time."
The Federal Bureau of Investigation stated that it was investigating the incident "as a criminal matter of an assault on a federal officer" and that it was not being considered terrorism at this time.
However, two members of the United States House of Representatives, both of whose districts include the Austin area, made statements to the contrary. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) stated, "Like the larger-scale tragedy in Oklahoma City, this was a cowardly act of domestic terrorism." Mike McCaul (R-Texas), told a reporter that, "it sounds like it [was a terrorist attack] to me." Georgetown University Professor Bruce Hoffman stated that for this to be considered an act of terrorism, "there has to be some political motive and it has to send a broader message that seeks some policy change. From what I've heard, that doesn't appear to be the case. It appears he was very mad at the [IRS] and this was a cathartic outburst of violence. His motivation was the key." A USA Today headline used the term "a chilling echo of terrorism."
Citing the copy of Joseph Stack's note posted online, blogger Joan McCarter observed on the Daily Kos website that, "Obviously Stack was not a mentally healthy person, and he was embittered at capitalism, including crony capitalism, and health insurance companies and the government." She also stated that Stack could not be connected with the Tea Party movement, but argued that the incident "should inject a bit of caution into the anti-government flame-throwers on the right." The website Ace of Spades HQ disputed any connection to the movement and additionally stated Stack was not "right wing", citing Stack's criticism of politicians for not doing anything about health care reform.
In an interview with ABC's Good Morning America, Joe Stack's adult daughter, Samantha Bell, who now lives in Norway, stated initially that she considered her father to be a hero, because she felt that now people might listen. While she does not agree with his specific actions involving the plane crash, she does agree with his actions about speaking out against "injustice" and "the government." Bell subsequently retracted aspects of her statement, saying her father was "not a hero" and adding, "We are mourning for Vernon Hunter."
Five days after her husband Vernon Hunter's death, Valerie Hunter filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Sheryl Mann Stack, Andrew Joseph Stack's widow in federal District Court. The lawsuit alleges that Sheryl had a duty to "avoid a foreseeable risk of injury to others," including her late husband and failed to do so by not warning others about her late husband. The lawsuit also mentions that Stack was required by law to fly his plane at an altitude 1,000 feet (305 m) above the highest obstacle. At a March 8, 2010, benefit event, Stack's widow, Sheryl, publicly offered condolences for the victims of the attack.
Former Iowa congressman Steve King
(R-Iowa) has made several statements regarding Stack including,
I think if we'd abolished the IRS back when I first advocated it, he wouldn't have a target for his airplane. And I'm still for abolishing the IRS, I've been for it for thirty years and I'm for a national sales tax (in its place).
Academic and activist Noam Chomsky cited Joe Stack's letter as indicative of some of the public sentiment in the U.S., stated that several of Stack's assertions are accurate or based on real grievances, and urged people to "help" the Joseph Stacks of the world get involved in constructive popular movements instead of letting the Joseph Stacks "destroy themselves, and maybe the world," in order to prevent a process similar to how legitimate and valid popular grievances of the German people in the 1920s and 1930s were manipulated by the Nazis towards violence and away from constructive ends.
The Internal Revenue Service formally designates certain individuals as potentially dangerous taxpayers (PDTs). In response to an inquiry after the attack, an IRS spokesperson declined to state whether Stack had been designated as a PDT. |
27856033 | Viveka Babajee | 2010-06-26 09:43:12+00:00 | Viveka Babajee (27 May 1973 – 25 June 2010) was a Mauritian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She held the titles of Miss Mauritius World 1993 and Miss Mauritius Universe 1994. She was best known for her KamaSutra condom advertisements in the 1990s, and for her involvement in the 1994 Manila Film Festival controversy.
Babajee was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her apartment on 25 June 2010, at her Bandra residence in Mumbai. The police reports stated that she committed suicide due to depression.
The youngest of four sisters, Babajee was born in Port Louis, Mauritius on 27 May 1973. Her mother is Maharashtrian and was born in Hyderabad. Babajee moved to India in the mid-1990s.
Babajee achieved success in India with KamaSutra condoms commercials. She also participated in music videos for Daler Mehndi's "Boom Boom", Harbhajan Mann's "Hai Meri Billo" and Abbey's "Phir Se". In 2009, her company, Cream Events, achieved success with the help of her ex-boyfriend and business partner, Kartik Jobanputra. She later broke all ties with Cream Events.
As a model, Babajee walked the ramp for top designers including Ritu Kumar, Ritu Beri, Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla, Rohit Bal, Suneet Varma, JJ Valaya, Tarun Tahiliani, and many others. In January 2010, she started her own event management business and managed projects like the Arjun Khanna show by Taj Colaba. Her company was named "VIBGYOR ENT" (Lifestyle and Boutik Events). VIBGYOR is an acronym for the seven colors of the rainbow (Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange & Red).
Viveka Babajee had been an anchor for FTV India. She made her debut film appearance in Yeh Kaisi Mohabbat, co-starring with Deeksha and Krishna, released in 2002. Even though the movie did poorly at the box office, Babajee's performance did not go unnoticed.
She was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her apartment on 25 June 2010, at her Bandra residence in Mumbai. The police reports stated that Babajee committed suicide due to depression. The last entry in her diary, which was found next to her body, said, "you killed me, Gautam Vohra," and unconfirmed reports stated that she became depressed after separating from her boyfriend, Gautam Vora. However, in 2012, the case was re-opened by police after Gautam Vohra was arrested in connection with a murder case. |
33371382 | Hao Jie | 2011-10-11 01:51:37+00:00 | Hao Jie (born 16 October 1984) is a Chinese former professional tennis player.
She won two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her career-high singles ranking is No. 329, achieved on 21 May 2007. Her best doubles ranking was 307 on 1 November 2004. She has been part of the China Fed Cup team.
Hao played at the Guangzhou International Open doubles event with Sun Tiantian, but lost in the first round. She played on many other WTA Tour and ITF events.
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59853473 | Vere United F.C. | 2019-02-04 11:41:26+00:00 | Vere United F.C. is a Jamaican football team based in Clarendon. They currently play in the Jamaica Premier League after being promoted in 2019.
The club was formerly named Jamalco F.C. Jamalco played in the Premier League in 2016–17 after being promoted, finishing last, and was relegated.
As of 23 November 2023
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. |
49750428 | Tommy (King poem) | 2016-03-12 19:21:23+00:00 | "Tommy" is a narrative poem by Stephen King, first published in the March, 2010 edition of Playboy, and later collected and re-introduced in the November 3, 2015 anthology The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. In the new introduction King disputes the famous adage (attributed to many celebrities, including Grace Slick, Robin Williams, Paul Kantner, Joan Collins, and Dennis Hopper): "If you remember the Sixties, you weren't there."
The poem is free verse and steeped in the slang and cultural references of the 1960s, a decade which encompassed all of King's teenage years. It describes the unique burial of the titular young man, a hippie who died of leukaemia, and the subsequent lives of his closest friends. |
40889398 | 2010–2011 Angola Basketball Cup | 2013-10-25 15:27:17+00:00 | The 2011 Men's Basketball Cup was contested by 12 teams. Recreativo do Libolo, beat Petro Atlético in the best of three games finals, to win its second straight cup title.
The 2011 Women's Basketball Cup was contested by four teams, with Interclube and Maculusso, playing for the title, at the best of three games, on November 10 and 12 2010, with Interclube winning the title by beating Maculusso 86-35 and 75-41. |
39171225 | 2010–11 BAI Basket | 2013-04-20 22:46:46+00:00 | The 2010–11 season of BAI Basket (33rd edition) ran from November 26, 2010, to May 28, 2011, with 12 teams playing the regular season in a double round robin system (regular season). The six best teams played a double round robin tournament for the title in serie A and the last six did the same for the consolation group, serie B.
The home team is listed on the left-hand column.The rightmost column and the bottom row list the teams' home and away records respectively.
Regular season standings
The home team is listed on the left-hand column.The rightmost column and the bottom row list the teams' home and away records respectively.
Interclube vs. 1º de Agosto
R. do Libolo vs. Petro Atlético
R. do Libolo vs. 1º de Agosto
Petro Atlético vs. Interclube
Interclube vs. R. do Libolo
1º de Agosto vs. Petro Atlético
2011 BAI Basket MVP
Olímpio Cipriano (Recreativo do Libolo) 280pts
2011 BAI Basket Top Scorer
C.Morais (Petro Atlético) 209
2011 BAI Basket Top Rebounder
Miguel Kiala (Petro Atlético) 75/48
2011 BAI Basket Top Assists
Olímpio Cipriano (Recreativo do Libolo) 44 |
39637606 | 2010–11 Angola Basketball Super Cup | 2013-06-10 19:48:40+00:00 | The 2011 Angola Basketball Super Cup (18th edition) was contested by Primeiro de Agosto, as the 2010 league champion and Recreativo do Libolo, the 2010 cup winner. Primeiro de Agosto was the winner, making it its 10th title.
The 2011 Women's Super Cup (16th edition) was contested by Interclube, as the 2010 women's league champion and Primeiro de Agosto, the 2010 cup runner-up. Interclube was the winner, making it its 4th title. |
39206117 | 2011 Supertaça Compal | 2013-04-24 13:07:01+00:00 | The 2011 Season of the Supertaça Compal (2nd edition), took place in Lisbon, Portugal from February 11 to 13, 2011, in Portugal and was contested by four teams in a single round robin system. Primeiro de Agosto of Angola was the winner and Felizardo Ambrósio from Primeiro de Agosto, the tournament's MVP.
1º de Agosto vs. R. do Libolo
FC Porto vs. Benfica
1º de Agosto vs. Benfica
R. do Libolo vs. FC Porto
R. do Libolo vs. Benfica
1º de Agosto vs. FC Porto
2011 Supertaça Compal MVP
Felizardo Ambrósio (Primeiro de Agosto)
2011 Supertaça Compal Top Scorer
2011 Supertaça Compal Top Rebounder
2011 Supertaça Compal Top Assists |
39630075 | 2010 Victorino Cunha Cup | 2013-06-10 03:32:14+00:00 | The Victorino Cunha Cup is an annual Angolan basketball tournament held in honour of former Angolan basketball coach Victorino Cunha. The 2nd edition (2010), ran from October 6 to 9, and was contested by four teams in a round robin system. Petro Atlético was the winner.
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58337916 | Yuriy Fedechko | 2018-08-30 21:14:13+00:00 | Yuriy Fedechko (Ukrainian: Юрій Федечко; born 15 August 1992) is a Ukrainian modern pentathlete. He competed at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics where he was 12th in individual competition. He is 2015 European champion in men's relay and 2018 European bronze medalist in men's team competition. |
51222518 | Zsófia Földházi | 2016-08-01 21:42:41+00:00 | Zsófia Földházi (Hungarian: [ˈʒoːfiɒ ˈfølthaːzi]; born 9 June 1993) is a Hungarian modern pentathlete. She has qualified for 2016 Summer Olympics. |
51222796 | Gulnaz Gubaydullina | 2016-08-01 22:15:49+00:00 | Gulnaz Radikovna Gubaydullina (Russian: Гульназ Радиковна Губайдуллина, Tatar: Гөлназ Радик кызы Гобәйдуллина; born 14 February 1992) is a Russian modern pentathlete. She has qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics. At the 2017 World Modern Pentathlon Championships, Gubaydullina won the gold medal in the individual competition, becoming the second Russian woman to do so (the other being Elizaveta Suvorova in 1997).
Gubaydullina was born to a Bashkir father and a Tatar mother. She started swimming in Novy Urengoy at the age of six. When she was thirteen, she participated in the double-event, winning gold in a local tournament. Gubaydullina is a four-times junior and youth European champion, and a world youth silver medalist. She is a bronze medalist in the mixed event at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.
The Russian became fourth at the 2015 European Modern Pentathlon Championships, giving her a place at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Although Gubaydullina set a new record in 200 m swimming (2:07.94) at the Olympics, she finished just 15th (following the disqualification of Chen Qian she took the 14th position).
Gubaydullina and Belyakov won the mixed event of the 2017 European Modern Pentathlon Championships in Minsk, Belarus.
At the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in 2021, Gubaydullina started off by showing the best result in swimming, setting an Olympic Record (2:07.31). However, she was eliminated in the third stage, after her randomly assigned horse 'Saint Boy' refused to continue jumping, leaving her without a medal at the end, although having the 6th best time in the final stage.
She won the 2021 Cup of the President of the Russian Federation (former Kremlin Cup), after winning the fencing, swimming and the final laser run stages. |