Sonny Black is the 12th studio album by the German rapper Bushido. It was released on February 14, 2014 and it reached No. 1 on the German, Austrian and Swiss music charts.
Amy Sedaris
Amy Sedaris (born March 29, 1961) is an American writer, actress and comedian. She played Jerri Blank in "Strangers with Candy" on Comedy Central and The Powerpuff Girls. She played Rachel Hoffberg in "Maid in Manhattan".
Sedaris was born in Endicott, New York. She grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Nicolas Wadimoff
Nicolas Wadimoff is a Swiss director and producer. He was born in 1964 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Wadimoff was born in 1964 in Geneva, Switzerland.
1983: Graduated from the Collège de Genève
1987: Degree in Communication from the University of Quebec, Montreal (UQAM, specialisation in cinema).
1983-1990: Guitarist in an alternative rock group and toured round Europe.
1985-1990: founding member of the association État d'Urgences (State of Emergency), alternative cultural action group, and management of USINE, cultural centre.
Between 1992 and 1996, worked at TSR (French language TV network in Switzerland) as a director for different news magazines, including the programme Temps Présent. During this time, he filmed in Libya, Algeria, Palestine and Israel, Yemen, Rwanda, Chiapas, etc…
1994: Actor directing class with Judith Weston
1996: Directed his first feature length fiction movie, "Clandestins", winner of more than fifteen awards at international festivals.
1997-2002: Co-founder of the movie production company Caravan prod. for which he produces and directs adverts and movies to order, documentaries and fiction movies, including the TV movie “15, rue des Bains”, the feature length cinema movie “Mondialito” then in 2002 the TV movie “Kadogo, l’enfant-soldat” for France 2 and TSR.
In 2002, he left his role at caravan prod. to dedicate himself exclusively to being a writer-director. Through Akka Films, Nicolas Wadimoff started up and developed the project “Swiss Palestinian Encounters”: five short documentaries were borne out of a documentary workshop in which young aspiring Palestinian movie directors took part. The world premieres of the movies, presented under the title “My Home”, took place at the Visions du Réel Festival in April 2005 before being shown at international festivals.
In 2005, he brought out “L’Accord”, a feature length documentary that tells the behind the scenes story of the Geneva Initiative; the movie had its world premiere at the Locarno festival.
In 2006, together with the Palestinian Filmmaker’s Colllective, Nicolas Wadimoff co-produced “Summer 2006 in Palestine”, a collection a 13 short 3 minute movies by Palestinian filmmakers.
In autumn 2006, Nicolas Wadimoff directed the fictional part of a docudrama for the Franco-German TV network Arte, “Les Mystères de Monte Sana”, a science-fiction movie on stem cell treatments.
Between November 2006 and May 2007, he also directed two 26 minute episodes for the “Toutes les Télés du Monde” series, again for Arte.
In 2007, he produced “5 minutes from Home”, a documentary by Nahed Awwad, which had its international competition premiere at the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon, Switzerland.
In 2008, while still developing his own projects, Nicolas Wadimoff produced the 13 episode 6 minute “Futurofoot” series for TSR, Direct 8 (France) and Orange TV, then the movie “Dowaha” (The Secrets) by Raja Amari, shortlisted at the 2009 Venice Film Festival and “Fix Me” by Raed Andoni, shortlisted at the 2010 Sundance Festival.
In February 2009, following the War in Gaza, he shot the documentary “Aisheen” (Still Alive in Gaza), shortlisted at the 2010 Berlin Festival, then entered at the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon in April 2010.
His next feature length fiction movie, “Libertad”, based on a script written with Jacob Berger, was premiered in Director’s Fortnight in Cannes Film Festival in 2012.
In 2015, he won the prestigious "Prix de Soleure" award with "Spartans". Documentary about Yvan Sorel, who runs a MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) club in Marseille's “Quartier nord”, a district of the city mainly known in the media for its drug trafficking, gang shootings and kalashnikovs.
2003 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup was the fourth FIFA Women's World Cup. It took place in the United States. The winners were Germany.
Wangen im Allgäu
Wangen im Allgäu is a city in south Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is north-east of the Lake Constance.
The city was first called "Wangun" in the year of 815. During the Middle Ages, the city growed a lot thanks to its location near many Alpine cities. The extra money that the city earned from its trade helped expand its borders.
In 1802, Wangen joined the Kingdom of Bavaria and lost its independence. Wangen was put into the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1810.
In 1936, the city was officially named "Wangen in Allgäu."
From 1938 to 1972, Wangen was the capital of the Wangen rural district. It then joined the Ravensburg district after the Wangen district broke up.
The city has been flooded a few times, most notably in 1999 and 2006.
During the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the Togo national football team stayed in Wangen.
Wangen im Allgäu's climate is humid continental (Köppen: Dfb) with cold winters and warm summers.
Nadine Angerer
Nadine Marejke Angerer (born 10 November 1978 in Lohr am Main, Germany) is a retired German association football goalkeeper. She last played for Portland Thorns FC of the NWSL and the Germany women's national football team. She was the 2013 FIFA World Player of the Year, which also means that she was the first goalkeeper to win that award.
Angerer made her debut with Germany in 1996. She won the 2003 and 2007 World Cups with them. She also won the UEFA Women's Euro in 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, and 2013, along with bronze medals at the 2000 Olympics, 2004 Olympics, and 2008 Olympics.
Julian Castro
Julián Castro ( , ; (born September 16, 1974) is an American politician. He was the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2014 to 2017. Before that, Castro was the Mayor of San Antonio, Texas, from 2009 to 2014. He held that office for three terms.
In January 2019, Castro announced his campaign to run for President of the United States in the 2020 election. He ended his campaign in January 2020.
Julian Castro was born in San Antonio, Texas, to Maria "Rosie" Castro and Jessie Guzman. He is the identical twin brother of current United States Representative Joaquín Castro. His mother was a Chicana political activist who helped start the Chicano political party, La Raza Unida. She also ran for the San Antonio City Council in 1971, but she did not win. Castro once said, "My mother is probably the biggest reason that my brother and I are in public service. Growing up, she would take us to a lot of rallies and organizational meetings and other things that are very boring for an 8-, 9-, 10-year-old".
Castro graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio in 1992. He had played football, basketball and tennis. He got an offer to play tennis at Trinity University, an NCAA Division III school in his hometown. He decided instead to go to Stanford University. He graduated from Stanford in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in political science and communications.
Castro entered Harvard Law School in 1997 and graduated with a Juris Doctor law degree in 2000.
On May 22, 2014, the White House said that Castro had been nominated by President Barack Obama to be the next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He was approved by the Senate on July 9, 2014, by a vote of 71-26. He took office on July 28, 2014. After the announcement, Castro has been talked about as a possible 2016 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee.
On July 28, 2014, his first day in office, Castro was honored at a reception called "Celebrating Latino Cabinet Members". It was hosted by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.