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2011 flat season. Background Excelebration is a bay horse foaled on 13 April 2008. Bred by Owenstown Stud, he is the son of Exceed and Excel, an Australian horse that won the Newmarket Handicap. Exceed and Excel's sire was Danehill, winner of the Sprint Cup and a British Champion sire. Excelebration's dam, Sun Shower, only raced once and is the daughter of Indian Ridge. Racing career 2010: two-year-old season Excelebration finished fourth in his first racecourse appearance in a maiden at Nottingham. He then won a Doncaster maiden and a class 3 race at Newmarket. 2011: three-year-old-season Excelebration started his

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three-year-old season in the Greenham Stakes, starting at 25/1, and finished second, four lengths behind 1/4 favourite Frankel. He then went to Germany for the Mehl-Mülhens-Rennen (German 2000 Guineas), which he won by seven lengths. He returned to England for the St. James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot. After his win in Germany, he started the 10/1 second favourite and finished in third place behind Frankel (won had won the 2000 Guineas since the two last met) and Zoffany. Excelebration then went to Newbury for the Hungerford Stakes, winning by six lengths. After the Hungerford Stakes, Coolmore Stud purchased an

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interest in Excelebration. He travelled to France for the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp. Starting as the 11/8 favourite, he won by 1½ lengths from Rio De La Plata in a field that also included Dubawi Gold and Planteur. His last race of the season came in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Champions' Day at Ascot. The race was won by Frankel by four lengths from Excelebration, with Coronation Stakes and Prix Jacques Le Marois winner Immortal Verse a further 3½ lengths back in third place. 2012: four-year-old season Excelebration started the 2012 season by easily winning the Gladness

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Stakes. He then took on Frankel in the Lockinge Stakes. He finished second to Frankel, who won by five lengths. At Royal Ascot he took on Frankel again in the Queen Anne Stakes. Frankel started at 1/10 and Excelebration was priced at 5/1. Frankel won by eleven lengths, with Excelebration again in second place. Timeform rated Frankel's performance as the best in their 64-year history. Excelebration's next start came in the Prix Jacques Le Marois, which he won by 1¼ lengths from Dubai Duty Free Stakes winner Cityscape. The field also included Prix d'Ispahan winner Golden Lilac, Prix Rothschild winner

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Elusive Kate and Prix Maurice de Gheest winner Moonlight Cloud. On 20 October at Ascot, Excelebration won the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. Starting as the 10/11 favourite, he beat Cityscape by three lengths, with Elusive Kate a further three and a quarter lengths behind in third place. On his final appearance, Excelebration was sent to California to contest the Breeders' Cup Mile at Santa Anita Park. He started favourite but lacked his customary turn of foot and finished fourth of the nine runners behind the US trained horse Wise Dan. Excelebration earned £1,692,792 during his racing career. Assessment Excelebration was

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officially rated as the joint seventh best horse in the world in 2011, with a rating of 126. He was rated the third best miler behind Frankel and Canford Cliffs. At the end of 2012 he was ranked as the joint-third-best horse in the world with Black Caviar, behind only Frankel and Cirrus des Aigles. Stud record Excelebration was retired from racing to become a breeding stallion for the Coolmore Stud in Ireland. His covering fee for the 2013 season was set at €22,500. In his first season at stud he sired Barney Roy. Pedigree Note: b. = Bay, ch.

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Hapoel F.C. Hevel Modi'in () is an Israeli football club based in Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. The club is currently in Liga Gimel Central division. History The club was founded in 2005 and joined Liga Gimel. The club made their only promotion to date at the end of the 2007–08 season, when they finished third in Liga Gimel Central division, and were promoted to Liga Bet after a spot was vacated in that league. However, the club spent only one season in Liga Bet, as they finished the 2008–09 season in the second bottom place of the South B division

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The suborder Lari is the part of the order Charadriiformes that includes the gulls, terns, skuas and skimmers; the rest of the order is made up of the waders and snipes. The auks are now placed into the Lari too, following recent research. Sometimes, the buttonquails are also placed here, but the molecular data and fossil record rather suggests they are a quite basal offshoot along with the snipe-like and aberrant waders. The larids are generally larger species that take fish from the sea. Several gulls and skuas will also take food items from beaches, or rob smaller species, and

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Fatso The Bear is a Walter Lantz character, who made his first appearance in the cartoon "Hunger Strife", in 1960. His final appearance was in 1961, in "The Bear and the Bees". The bear is essentially a "clone" of Disney's Humphrey the Bear, in terms of physical appearance, gruff voice, and personality. This makes sense, as the character was created by Jack Hannah, who had directed some Donald Duck cartoons at Disney back in the mid-1940s into the 1950s. List of appearances: "Hunger Strife" (10/05/1960) "Eggnapper" (02/14/1961) "Bear and the Bees" (05/01/1961) See also List of Walter Lantz cartoons List

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The Selling of the President 1968 is a 1969 book by American author Joe McGinniss. It was published by Trident Press in October, 1969. The title is a play on the Making of the President books by Theodore White. The book describes the marketing of Richard Nixon during the 1968 presidential campaign. It has been described as "a classic of political journalism" and a "classic of campaign reporting that first introduced many readers to the stage-managed world of political theater." It was reprinted in 1988 under the title The Selling of the President. McGinniss became an overnight success when the

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book, his first, landed on The New York Times bestseller list. He was 26 years old, making him the youngest living writer with that achievement. The book was on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list for 31 weeks from October 1969 to May 1970. The idea for the book came to McGinniss almost serendipitously: [He] stumbled across his book’s topic while taking a train to New York. A fellow commuter had just landed the Hubert Humphrey account and was boasting that 'in six weeks we’ll have him looking better than Abraham Lincoln.' McGinniss tried to get access to Humphrey’s

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campaign first, but they turned him down. So he called up Nixon’s, and they said yes.". The book was very well received by both critics and the public. It "spent more than six months on best-sellers lists, and McGinniss sold a lot of those books through television, appearing on the titular shows of Merv Griffin, David Frost and Dick Cavett, among others." Conservative writer William F. Buckley "assumed McGinniss had relied on 'an elaborate deception which has brought joy and hope to the Nixon-haters.' But even Buckley liked the book." In 1972, the book was adapted into a short-lived Broadway

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Sport Clube Beira-Mar () is a Portuguese sports club based in Aveiro, Portugal. Its football team currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, the third national level, having gained promotion by winning the Aveiro FA First Division 2018/19 championship season. The old Estádio Mário Duarte was the home ground from 1935 until 2019. From 2020, SC Beira-Mar plays home matches at Estádio Municipal de Aveiro. The club also has futsal, basketball, boxing, judo, handball, billiards, athletics, and paintball departments. Famous Portuguese players who have represented the club include Eusébio, António Veloso, and António Sousa. All three players have regularly been

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chosen for the Portugal national team and have played for the biggest clubs in the country—the former two with Benfica and the latter with both Porto and Sporting CP. After becoming a manager, Sousa also coached the team, guiding it to win the 1999 Taça de Portugal. History thumb|right|200px|Eusébio, one of the world's greatest footballers, played for Beira-Mar in the 1976–77 season. Beira-Mar was founded on 1 January 1922. It first reached the top division in 1961, only lasting one season. Subsequently, Beira-Mar reached the top flight several times enjoying a spell lasting from 1971 to 1974. In the 1976–77

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campaign, former S.L. Benfica and Portugal legend Eusébio signed up to play for Beira-Mar, requesting to be excluded in all matches against S.L. Benfica. Injuries prevented him from being fielded regularly, and the campaign ended in relegation. In 1988 Beira-Mar returned to the "Primeira Divisão" managing to remain there most of the following years and achieving a best ever sixth place overall finish in the 1990/91 top league season and also reaching the Cup final. In 1999 the club again reached the Cup final, this time defeating S.C. Campomaiorense 1–0 to win the Taça de Portugal. Beira-Mar's goal was scored

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by Ricardo Sousa, son of coach António Sousa, who played for the club in the 1970s. Despite winning its biggest honour to date, the team was relegated at season's end. As the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was discontinued in 1999, Beira-Mar participated in the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup, losing 1–2 on aggregate to Dutch club Vitesse. In the domestic league, the club finished second place in the second division, automatically returning to the top flight. On 23 February 2002, Beira-Mar achieved a 3–2 away win against FC Porto, which was managed by a young José Mourinho; it would be his last

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home defeat in the following decade. In 2006, former European Golden Shoe winner Mário Jardel returned to Portugal to play for Beira-Mar, signing a one-year contract. The Brazilian scored in his official debut, a 2–2 home draw against Desportivo das Aves, but gradually lost his importance in the team and later transferred to a club in Cyprus. In 2007 Beira-Mar was relegated in a campaign that included the sacking of manager Carlos Carvalhal, who was replaced by Spaniard Francisco Soler after the team signed a deal with Inverfutbol, a Spanish-based sporting company. In 2010, Beira-Mar finished the season as second

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division champions and returned to the top division after a three-year absence. In 2013, the team was relegated to the second division for finishing in last place. In 2015, Beira-Mar was demoted by administrative decree to the second-lowest league of the Aveiro FA district (Associação de Futebol de Aveiro), the fifth lowest overall level in the pyramid, despite finishing tenth, due to financial difficulties and debt. According to the FA legislation, the club was found ineligible to participate in national competitions and had to restart competitive activity from the bottom in the regional levels. Since then, mostly due to efforts

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by the club's supporters in conjunction with the city of Aveiro authorities and personalities like António Sousa and his son Ricardo Sousa, the club has returned to a more stable situation. After a five-year hiatus from the national competitions, S. C. Beira-Mar was promoted to the Campeonato de Portugal by virtue of winning the 2018/19 Aveiro FA First Division Championship and so far, has remained sufficiently competitive at the top half of the classification table. With the latest developments surrounding the fate of the old Mário Duarte Stadium, in late 2019 the city and regional authorities agreed with the club,

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to move all the football related activities to the Estádio Municipal of Aveiro complex, which includes training grounds and houses the Aveiro FA youth football development and sport sciences academy. With S. C. Beira-Mar being the most locally supported football club, it is hoped this recent development will help spearhead the Aveiro club and regional FA, propel all its associated clubs to a more prominent role in the national arena, both at youth talent development and club's role at the highest level. Current squad League and Cup history European record By qualifying to play in the 1999 edition of UEFA

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Cup, Beira-Mar became the second team from a second division to appear in the competition, after Bray Wanderers from the Republic of Ireland in 1990. Honours National Taça de Portugal Winners (1): 1998–99 Segunda Liga Winners (2): 2005–06, 2009–10 Segunda Divisão Winners (3): 1960–61, 1964–65, 1970–71 Terceira Divisão Winners (1): 1958–59 Other Taça Ribeiro dos Reis Winners (1): 1964–65 AF Aveiro Championship Winners (3): 1928–29, 1937–38, 2018–19 AF Aveiro First Division Winners (3): 1948–49, 1955–56, 1958–59 AF Aveiro Cup Winners (1): 2017–18 AF Aveiro Supercup Winners (1): 2019 Stadiums From 1935 until 2019, Beira-Mar played home games at Estádio Mário

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Duarte, a 12,000- seating capacity ground in the city center. However, during this time, there were exceptions to Mario Duarte stadium use exclusivity when Beira-Mar occasionally used the new Municipal Stadium, purpose built for the 2004 Euro Championship. After the 2015 relegation, due to the poor economic situation of the club, Mario Duarte Stadium played an important role in the team recovering their support base due to the ease of access by the local fans. Due to the stadium's ground being conveniently situated next door, the latest city planning and infrastructure developments require the area presently occupied by Mario Duarte

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Stadium for the long waiting expansion of Aveiro's main regional hospital. As a result of these developments, the city authorities reached a deal with the club for the use of the new Estádio Municipal de Aveiro by Beira-Mar S. C.. This modern 32000 seat stadium was purpose built to host some matches in the 2004 Euro Championship, is currently undergoing further development on its adjoining grounds by the Aveiro Football Association to establish new training facilities and a football academy. Nevertheless, due to the stadium's position being about 5 km outside the city limits next to the highway, does not

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enjoy public transportation accesses or shuttle services, thus, it never was very popular with Beira-Mar home or visiting supporters, who preferred the old historical stadium's cosiness and ease of access. To counter the stadium's lack of popularity due to accessibility problems, the local authorities are studying the implementation of a new shuttle service scheme incorporating the metropolitan bus services for match days, to help supporters reach the stadium easily. A passenger link from Aveiro railway station could also become a reality in the future by using the existing Vouga railway line that passes a few hundred meters from the stadium.

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Notable players Note: this list includes players who have played at least 100 league games and/or have reached international status. Eugene Galeković Mário Jardel Fernando Aguiar Pavel Srníček Magdi Abdelghani Javier Balboa Nazmi Faiz Mourtala Diakité Andrija Delibašić Antolín Alcaraz Dinis Eusébio António Sousa António Veloso Fary Faye Marián Zeman Jan Lechaba Tobias Grahn Andy Marriott Former managers Fernando Vaz (1975–76) Fernando Cabrita (1977–79) Mário Lino (1986–87) Jean Thissen (1987–90) Zoran Filipović (1993–94) Rodolfo Reis (1994–95) Acácio (1995) António Sousa (1997 – 2004) Mick Wadsworth (July 2004 – Sept 04) Manuel Cajuda (Sept 2004 – Dec 04) Augusto Inácio (April

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2005 – Nov 06) Carlos Carvalhal (Nov 2006 – Jan 07) Francisco Soler (Jan 2007 – May 7) Rogério Gonçalves (May 2007 – Feb 08) Paulo Sérgio (Feb 2008 – May 8) António Sousa (June 2008 – Nov 08) Leonardo Jardim (May 2009 – Feb 11) Rui Bento (March 2011 – Feb 12) Ulisses Morais (Feb 2012 – Feb 13) Costinha (Feb 2013 – May 13) Jorge Neves (May 2013 – January 14) References External links Official website Category:Association football clubs established in 1922 Category:S.C. Beira-Mar Category:Taça de Portugal winners Category:1922 establishments in Portugal Category:Primeira Liga clubs Category:LigaPro clubs Category:Football

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{{Infobox television | show_name = Balaa | image = Balaa.jpg | image_size = | image_upright = | image_alt = | caption = Balaa title card | show_name_2 = | native_name = | genre = | creator = | based_on = | developer = | writer = Zanjabeel Asim Shah | screenplay = | story = | director = Badar Mehmood | creative_director = | presenter = Big Bang Entertainment | starring = | judges = | voices = | narrated = | theme_music_composer = Waqar Ali | opentheme = | endtheme = | composer = | country = Pakistan |

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language = Urdu | num_seasons = | num_episodes = 40 | list_episodes = | executive_producer = | producer = Fahad MustafaDr. Ali Kazmi | news_editor = | location = Karachi, Pakistan | cinematography = | editor = | camera = | runtime = 40 mintutes | company = | distributor = ARY Television Network | budget = | network = ARY Digital | channel = | picture_format = 1080i (HDTV) | audio_format = | first_run = | released = | first_aired = | last_aired = | preceded_by = Bay Dardi | followed_by = Bandish | related = | website =

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| production_website = }}Balaa ( Evil) is a 2018 Pakistani thriller television series aired on ARY Digital. It is produced by Fahad Mustafa and Dr. Ali Kazmi under their banner Big Bang Entertainment. It stars Bilal Abbas Khan, Ushna Shah, Azekah Daniel, Samina Peerzada, Sajid Hassan, Ismat Zaidi and Mehar Bano. The series follows the story of a limping girl who destroys the lives of people around her due to her own insecurities and imperfections. Synopsis Nigar (Ushna Shah) is a selfish and cruel girl who is impaired from her leg by birth. She never lets her imperfection be an

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obstacle in her way instead, she intends to harm others to fill her ego. Her cruel attitude is just because of her father, Zafar (Sajid Hassan) who has also the same mindset as Nigar and has spoiled her because she has been lucky for him since her birth. Zafar also has a son, Junaid (Asad Siddiqui) who is not so special for him as Nigar is. Junaid has married an orphan girl Zeba who is unattractive most of all, she doesn't have a wealthy background as greedy Zafar has always wanted. Nigar also mistreats her and uses Junaid every single

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time to make her live with trouble. Zafar and Nigar has always wanted to get rid of her. Nigar is in love with her cousin, Taimoor (Bilal Abbas Khan), a handsome and family-oriented man whose family she and Zafar has had been degrading for their low status in the past but not for long as now Taimoor is living a successful life. Taimoor loves Saba (Azekah Daniel), the only daughter of his mother's friend (Ismat Zaidi). This makes her become Nigar's second target. Fortunately, she catches Saba with her boyfriend, Mateen and provokes them to elope, on the day of

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nikkah as she will aid them. On the other hand, she uses Mateen to make mute calls to Zeba (Ammara Chaudhary) so Junaid suspects that she is having an affair. So, as planned, Saba elopes with Mateen on the day of nikkah with an apologize note and her poor mother dies of embarrassment. Taimoor also gets badly heartbroken. Nigar succeeds in clearing the second target and has also partially clear first target. The leftover part is done by Zafar who bribes Mateen to be in Zeba's room when she's home alone. Plan is followed with perfection and Junaid arrives at

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the moment. Zafar and Nigar succeed in making Junaid divorce Zeba although she tries her best to prove her sincerity. Next morning, Zeba is found dead in the washroom. The cause is revealed to be a brain hemorrhage. Mission accomplished. Now, Nigar heads for heartbroken Taimoor. She gradually lures him out of his sorrow and makes him like her. Although Junaid is also badly suffering from the trauma of his wife's death, she doesn't care at all. She has her eyes fixed on Taimoor. She eventually starts mixing up with Taimoor's family. Taimoor's mother, Shama (Samina Peerzada) is a very

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gentle and caring woman who easily agrees accepting Nigar, although Nigar has been rude to her in the past. Taimoor's younger sister, Batool (Mehar Bano) resists Nigar's presence but her mother won't consider her objection as she wants her son's prosperity back. Sauleha (Mehwish Qureshi), Taimoor's older sister, is also an unadorned lady just like her mother but her simplicity is way too elaborated that she can't differentiate what's bad and good. In simple words, she is a type of immature. On the other hand, Batool is a clever, liberal and sensible girl who easily indicates Nigar's intentions. Somehow, Taimoor

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gets affectionate towards Nigar. Zafar conditions the marriage to be a watta satta. Batool doesn't want to marry a heartbroken Junaid who has also become bad-tempered and got in drinking. So, Nigar assures her father that she will marry Batool with Junaid after she marries Taimoor. So, Zafar agrees. On the wedding night, Taimoor describes his family's importance to her and she should also give them priority. As it was against Nigar's aptitude, she is overwhelmed and resists in her own gesticulations. Now, Nigar's pivot motive was to get rid of whole of Taimoor's family. She uses Shama's submissive attitude

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as her base. Nigar emotionally forces Shama to be a bit distant from Taimoor so he could spend more time with her. Shama foresees heartbroken Taimoor's prosperity in this so she starts being distant from Taimoor. At first, Taimoor objects the weird attitude of his mother but later, he accepts that as a regular fact. But Nigar won't let the candle blown out easily Cast Ushna Shah as Nigar; Disabled (limps from birth), Taimoor's cousin and later wife, Shama's niece Bilal Abbas Khan as Taimoor; Nigar's husband, later married Saba Azekah Daniel as Saba; Taimoor's love interest and later second

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wife Samina Peerzada as Shama; Taimoor's mother, Nigar and Saba's aunt Sajid Hassan as Zafar; Nigar and Junaid's father Mehar Bano as Batool; Taimoor's younger sister, Junaid's wife Asad Siddiqui as Junaid; Nigar's brother, Batool's husband Mehwish Qureshi as Saleha; Taimoor's elder sister Ammara Chaudhary as Zeba; Junaid's ex-wife Ismat Zaidi as Saba’s mother, Shama's friend Farah Nadeem as Saleha's mother-in-law Reception It gained acclaim for its unique storyline. Sadaf Haider of DAWN praised the series saying, "So far Balaa has been an entertaining with some tight direction and intriguing characters", she further praised Shah's character calling her "highly developed

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female character". Reviewer from Daily Times praised Khan performance saying, "The actor has left people awestruck with his intense acting". The show has gotten a good response from the viewers; being the top drama series in monday slot airing in Pakistan. It also faced competition with Aatish of Hum TV and Tum Se Hi Talluq Hai'' of Geo Entertainment and became a slot leader instantly, and got high TRPs as high as 11.2 weekly. It was also criticized of its unnecessarily killing many characters. Khan and Peerzada won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively at annual ARY Social Media

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Thithi (Funeral) is a 2015 Indian Kannada drama film co-written and directed by Raam Reddy. Consisting of a cast of non-professional actors from villages in the Mandya district of Karnataka, the film is a (semi-) light-hearted story about three generations of men reacting to the death of their 101-year old patriarch. It is an Indian-American co-production, jointly produced by Pratap Reddy from Prspctvs Productions and Sunmin Park from Maxmedia. Thithi premiered at the 68th Locarno International Film Festival on 8 August 2015, where it won the Golden Leopard in the "Filmmakers of the Present" category as well as the First

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Feature award. Consequently, it was screened at various film festivals around the world and won numerous awards including the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada at the 63rd National Film Awards. It was released in Karnataka on 6 May 2016 and in the rest of India on 3 June 2016 to generally positive reviews. Plot Thithi is a dramatic comedy about how three generations of sons react to the death of the oldest in their clan, a man named Century Gowda: a locally renowned, highly cantankerous 101-year-old man. Set in a remote village in Karnataka, the three

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storylines intertwine before converging at Century Gowda’s ‘thithi’ — the final funeral celebration, 11 days after a death. Century Gowda’s eldest son, Gaddappa (literally translating to "Beard Man"), is himself a little old man who spends his time nonchalantly wandering the village fields, puffing cheap cigarettes and swigging brandy. Gaddappa’s far more materialistic son, Thammanna, plots to illegally sell Century Gowda’s five-acre property, even though the land officially belongs to his father. At the same time, Thammanna’s confident pubescent son, Abhi, shrugs his responsibilities to relentlessly pursue a shepherd girl, Kavery (Pooja S.M.) Cast Channegowda as Gaddappa Thammegowda as Thammanna

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Abhishek H.N as Abhi Pooja S.M. as Kaveri Singrigowda as Century Gowda Development And Production The seed that gave rise to Thithi was planted during a visit that Reddy made to Nodekoppalu village in the Mandya district of Karnataka, the home town of the film's co-writer Eregowda. Reddy found the village, seen through the eyes of an insider, to contain within itself a highly cinematic world. Reddy then did a year-long stint at Prague Film School. Upon returning, re-visited the area frequently, conducting a three-month exploratory process to better acquaint himself with the world. During this process, Eregowda and Reddy

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met and decided to revolve the film around three protagonists, Channegowda (Gaddappa), Thammegowda S. (Thammanna), and Abhishek H.N. (Abhi), even before the idea for the story of the film had taken shape. Keeping the true life personalities of these three leads in mind, Reddy and Eregowda then began developing a screenplay that revolved around the death and thithi of a 101-year old cantankerous centenarian, Century Gowda. After Reddy and Eregowda finished the script, they had an ambitious 160 page screenplay with over a hundred characters. They then moved into pre-production work which included an eight-month long casting process to find

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actors to fill out smaller roles and putting together a crew for the film. At this stage, DoP Doron Tempert, Reddy's batchmate from Prague Film School, joined the development process and started building the story-telling style and approach with Reddy. Production started in Nodekoppalu in January 2014. The film was shot in multiple schedules split over a period of five months, the longevity of the shoot owing to the logistical challenges of working with non-actors. When the film was in the rough cut stage, the film made it into NFDC's Film Bazaar where it was adjudged as the Best Work

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In Progress fiction feature and awarded a free Digital Intermediate at Prasad Labs, Mumbai. The film, still a work-in-progress, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in August, and then went on to have its Indian Premiere at the Mumbai Film Festival. The film was finally completed in December 2015. Reception Thithi has received largely positive reviews on the International front with The Hollywood Reporter calling it "a whimsically enjoyable encounter with some slippery backwoods characters." Clayton Dillard of Slant Magazine gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and said that "the film packs in a miniseries worth of conflict"

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and that it "possesses the spirit of Yasujirō Ozu." In an enthusiastic review, Daniel Kasman from MUBI had this to say: "A film that is funny, humane, and seemingly effortless, this young director has coaxed from a massive cast and a specific setting a great deal of character, an evocation of a locality and its society, and wrapped it all in a Renoirian understanding of human behaviour. The film is a real pleasure." The Variety review by Dennis Harvey praised the film for being "a clever social satire" that is "complexly plot-driven yet never hectic or over-contrived." The review went

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on to commend the performers by saying that "they’re all such naturals it’s almost hard to believe they came to the project as amateurs." The film was received with utmost enthusiasm by the Indian press on its release in Karnataka as well. In a 4.5 star review for Times Of India, Sunayana Suresh compared the film to the classic The Gods Must Be Crazy "as a film that triumphs as both a clever narrative and a hearty entertainer." In yet another 4.5 star review, Shyam Prasad S. of Bangalore Mirror called the film "an experience to savour." The film was

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called "a milestone for Kannada cinema" by Deccan Herald, while The New Indian Express declared it to be "one of the finest films to come out of India in recent times." Awards and nominations Thithi premiered at the 68th Locarno International Film Festival on 8 August 2015, where it won the Golden Leopard in the "Filmmakers of the Present" category as well as the First Feature award. It has also won numerous other awards at various film festivals including Mumbai, Palm Springs, and Marrakech. It was also invited to be a part of the 45th edition of New Directors/New Films.

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At the 19th Shanghai International Film Festival, Thithi won the Best Script Writer and the Best Film awards under the Asia New Talent Awards Category. It won the German Star of India award for the Best Feature Film at the 13th Indian Film Festival Stuttgart, Germany. At the 63rd National Film Awards, the film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada It bagged the First Best Film, Best Supporting Actress and Best Dialogue awards at the 2016 Karnataka State Film Awards. References External links Category:2015 films Category:Indian films Category:2010s Kannada-language films Category:Kannada-language films Category:Golden Leopard winners

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Caitlin Greiser (born 17 February 1999) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the St Kilda Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Greiser signed with St Kilda during the first period of the 2019 expansion club signing period in August. She made her debut against the at RSEA Park in the opening round of the 2020 season. Greiser earned the nickname "G-Train" (a nickname also used to describe former St Kilda footballer Fraser Gehrig) after kicking a long-range goal in the Saints' round three victory over at Moorabbin Oval. She was the AFLW's leading goalkicker in 2020 with 10

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Dream 14 was a mixed martial arts event held by Fighting and Entertainment Group's mixed martial arts promotion Dream. The event took place on May 29, 2010 in Japan. The event aired live in North America on HDNet. Background This event was originally expected to be held in Seoul, South Korea on April 24, 2010. However, many factors, including the issue that many top Korean stars such as Denis Kang and Hong Man Choi were not available in April, contributed to the Korea event being cancelled. This was the second Dream event to take place in a cage. Results References

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Irene Lange Nordahl (born February 11, 1968 in Sørreisa) is a Norwegian politician representing the Centre Party. In the 2009 election, she was elected to parliament from Troms, and serves on the Standing Committee on Business and Industry, and is the Center Party's spokesperson on commerce issues. Prior to her election to parliament, Nordahl served in the county council for Troms, and was the county councilor on commerce between 2005 and 2007. She has ten years of experience in the municipality council and chairmanship in Sørreisa. In the 2009 election campaign, Nordahl was nominated as her party's top candidate. She

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Mango Yellow () is a 2002 Brazilian drama film directed by Cláudio Assis. It stars Matheus Nachtergaele, Jonas Bloch, Dira Paes, Chico Díaz, and Leona Cavalli as working-class people who engage in amorous and social encounters, with most of the action taking place in a hotel and a bar. The directorial debut of Assis, the film was partially inspired by his previous short film Texas Hotel. It was filmed on a low budget in the suburbs of Pernambuco. Mango Yellow received several awards at various film festivals, both in Brazil and abroad, including Festival de Brasília and the Berlin Film

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Festival. The film was generally praised by domestic reviewers for its characters, soundtrack, cinematography, and depictions of Brazil. Brazilian Film Critics Association selected it as one of the best Brazilian films of all time, while English-speaking critics were more mixed in their response. Plot The film opens with Lígia, a barmaid who is fed up with her grueling routine and who is forced to routinely turn down the sexual propositions of the bar's customers. One of the men who hits on Lígia is Isaac, a necrophiliac who enjoys sodomizing corpses and drinking their blood. He lives at the Texas Hotel,

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where Dunga, a gay man, works as a handyman. Dunga is attracted to Wellington, a butcher who delivers meat to the hotel. Wellington, however, is married to Kika, a woman who is proud to be an evangelical Christian. However, Wellington cheats on his wife with a woman named Dayse. Dayse tires of being Wellington's mistress and tells Dunga about the relationship. Dunga anonymously reveals to Kika that her husband is cheating on her, thinking that if he can destroy their marriage, then he and Wellington can become lovers. Kika finds Wellington and Dayse together, attacks them, and then leaves for

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good. Wellington goes to the Texas Hotel to seek solace. Dunga wants to take Wellington up to his room, but Wellington is put off by the funeral of the recently deceased owner of the hotel. Meanwhile, Isaac is thrown out of the bar after trying to forcibly grab Lígia. He is then seen driving his car and when he meets Kika, he takes her to his apartment and they have sex. As the film concludes, Lígia is shown again complaining about her routine. This is followed by a montage of everyday city life, ending with Kika deciding to dye her

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hair in mango yellow, the same shade that made Isaac so attracted to Lígia. Cast Matheus Nachtergaele as Dunga Jonas Bloch as Isaac Dira Paes as Kika Chico Díaz as Wellington Leona Cavalli as Lígia Conceição Camarotti as Aurora Cosme Prezado Soares as Bianor Everaldo Pontes as Rabecão Magdale Alves as Dayse (or Daisy) Jones Melo as priest Themes Writing for The New York Times, Stephen Holden interpreted the film's message as follows: "This is how the lower half lives in Brazil, and by extension, humanity at its most basic, getting along without the rose-colored protections that affluence affords." As

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it deals with these kinds of themes, the film was labeled as "violent". In response, Assis said that he "films life as it is". Jose Solis of PopMatters declared that "despite its sorrowful appearance, the film is a celebration of life". Assis tried to contrast the violence depicted by the Hollywood action films with the "small violences" which people face everyday, making it "poetic and violent at the same time". Bloch's character shooting corpses represents "a harmless, symbolic addiction" in the same way other aspects of the film "come from it, this violence within us". Writing in The New Yorker,

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Michael Sragow said that "The human content ... is the stuff of art-house exploitation." IstoÉ Gentes Domingas Person wrote that the phrase "the human being is stomach and sex", which is said by the priest in the film, is an apt summary of the film's "spirit". Writing in Diário de Pernambuco, Luciana Veras declared that the film "talk[s] about the excluded [people] who also crave the same as the characters in the [tele]novela[s], from Hollywood films or French novels: love and happiness". Assis criticized the fact that several directors like to "glamorize poverty," and as such, he characterized his characters

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to show the people's vice. José Geraldo Couto of Folha de S. Paulo wrote that the film shows that "the miserable are not dear waiting for the mercy of others, but are full of life, willing to kill or die to fulfill their desires and instincts". Deborah Young of Variety opined that the mango yellow color represents both "the jaundiced shade of their broken dreams" and their sense "of nonconformity and feeling alive." Background and production Prior to Mango Yellow, Cláudio Assis worked as a production director on the 1996 film Perfumed Ball and as director on three short films.

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One of them, Texas Hotel, served as an inspiration to Mango Yellow; Alessandro Giannini of O Estado de S. Paulo said Texas Hotel is "a kind of 'privileged test' of Mango Yellow", while TV Guides Ken Fox described Mango Yellow as an "expanded version" of Hotel Texas. Couto wrote that the "gratuitous series of aberrations" presented in Texas Hotel was turned into an "articulate narrative and full of meaning". The production cost was R$450,000. Assis was happy with this, noting that Brazilian films cost an average of R$3 million at the time. The filming took place in the suburbs of

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the cities of Recife and Olinda, both in the state of Pernambuco. It was shot with 35 mm cameras brought from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and filming took place in five weeks between September and October 2001. One of the first ideas Assis had for the film was to show the mons pubis of a waitress he knew. Though he was unsure how to include this element, the yellow-colored pubic hair matched the book Tempo Amarelo ("Yellow Time"), by sociologist Renato Carneiro Campos. The title of the film was borrowed from the book, in which the author describes

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the "rotten teeth of children, the color of poverty in the country". Assis wanted to create a film to show "the face of the Brazilian people. We are from the Third World and we need to look at ourselves". Release Mango Yellows premiere was held at the Festival do Rio on October 4, 2002, while it was released on domestic theaters on August 15, 2003. Despite receiving praise by film critics, it was moderately received by Brazilian audiences. Mango Yellow grossed R$769,750, with a viewership of 129,021 people in the sixteen Brazilian theaters in which it was shown, representing the

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twelfth largest audience for a domestic film in 2003. Accolades At the 35th Festival de Brasília, Mango Yellow was selected as Best Film by the official jury, the popular jury, and critics alike; it also received the awards for Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Cast, and Best Actor (Díaz). Assis won the award for Best Debut Film at the 25th Havana Film Festival, where the film also won the award for Best Cinematography. It also won for Best Cinematography at the Seventh Brazilian Film Festival of Miami. Mango Yellow won in every feature film category at the 13th Cine Ceará—Best

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Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score, Best Actor (for Nachtergaele), and Best Actress (for Paes)—and also received a special prize for its costume design. Although nominated in 13 categories at the 2004 Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro, it only won for Best Cinematography. At the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival, it won the award for Best Film in the Forum section, and received the Grand Prix at the 15th Toulouse Latin America Film Festival. It was also nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Ibero-American Film. Critical reception The film received generally positive

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reviews in Brazil. The characters, the actor performances, and the soundtrack were praised by Person and Veras, with Veras noting that the film's characterizations avoided stereotypes. The film's cinematography was praised by Person and Veras as well as by Marcelo Hessel from Omelete and Alcino Leite Netto from Folha de S. Paulo, with Netto appreciating that the imagery was neither "decorative" nor "spare", but a part of the film. The film's depiction of real life in Brazil was praised by Hessel and Veras, with both of them commenting that City of God is "cosmeticized" if compared to Mango Yellow, and

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the Hessel stating that Mango Yellow is "a testimony of documentary and sociological value". Cinepop critic Andrea Don declared it a film that viewers would either love or hate, concluding that "you will not leave the cinema's room the same as you entered". In 2015, it was recognized by the Brazilian Film Critics Association as the 86th best Brazilian film of all time on its Top 100. Mango Yellow received mixed reviews from English-speaking reviewers. On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 60% rating based on five reviews, with an average score of 5.6/10. On Metacritic, which

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assigns a normalised rating out of 100 based on reviews from critics, the film has a score of 40 (indicating "mixed or average reviews") based on five reviews. A The Village Voice reviewer described the characters as "babbling caricatures" and the film as a "shallow Brazilian trifle". Young called Nachtergaele a "standout" as "He embodies the film's savage over-the-topness without flattening out as some of the other characters do." Although praising its cinematography, Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club said it is "a film that has nothing to say". Sragow, Young, and Fox also praised cinematographer Carvalho's work; Fox said

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it is "[t]awdry stuff ... but it's glorious to look at". In Sragow's opinion, the penultimate scene—the montage—"boasts an eloquence that eclipses everything else in the movie". Holden found the characters to be "robust, full-dimensional people" and praised the film's "surreal flavor". Solis praised it, saying "the real pleasure" in the film is that Assis "doesn't recur to exploitation to make these people memorable". Home media The film was released on DVD in Brazil by Califórnia Filmes in 2004, while in the United States it was released by First Run Features in partnership with Global Film Initiative on the "Global

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Shesh Paul Vaid also known as S. P. Vaid, was the Director General of Police (DGP) of Jammu & Kashmir from 31 December 2016 till 6 September 2018. Early life Born in 1959, Vaid grew up in the Kathua district in Jammu and graduated in Veterinary Science (B.V.Sc) from Madras Veterinary College. He qualified for the Civil Services and was allotted the Indian Police Service (IPS) on 25 August 1986 with Jammu and Kashmir cadre. Career From 1988 to 1990, he was the Additional Superintendent of Police in Badgam and was promoted as Superintendent in the same district in 1990,

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the year when he faced maximum militant attacks. He also topped the International Commanders' programme at Police staff College at UK. In the course of his career, he has served as Deputy Inspector General of Police of Jammu, as Inspector General (Crime), IGP (Home Guards and Civil Defence), as Inspector General Modernisation Police Headquarters, as Inspector General of Police of Jammu, as IGP Crime and Railways (2008) and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Traffic Jammu & Kashmir. In 2009, he was sent on deputation to Bureau of Police_Research and_Development(BPR&D) in New Delhi where he was initially posted as Director of

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Special Policing, then as Director of Training and in the last few months of his deputation as the Director of Administration In February 2010, Dr. S P Vaid was also appointed as the new Secretary of Central Indian Police Service Association (CIPSA) as an additional central charge besides his assignment in Bureau of Police Research & Development. in June 2011, Dr Vaid was promoted to the senior Indian police rank of Additional Director General of Police. Consequently, he returned to his parent cadre in September 2011and in November 2011, the J&K State Cabinet ordered the posting of Vaid as Additional

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Director General of Police (ADGP), Headquarters (PHQ). On 3 March 2016, Vaid was promoted to the grade of Director General (DG), and was subsequently appointed as Director General of Police (Prisons). On 8 September 2016, Vaid was transferred and posted as Special DG (Coordination and Law & Order). The post of Special D.G Coordination held by S.K Mishra had been re-designated as Special DG (Coordination and Law & Order) till held by the officer. On 28 December 2016, The State Cabinet confirmed the name of S.P. Vaid as new Director General of Police (DGP) of Jammu and Kashmir Police. The

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decision was taken in the State Cabinet meeting headed by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti in Jammu. On 31 December 2016, Vaid took over the charge of Director General of Police from K. Rajendra Kumar. Notable contributions to law and order in Kashmir Vaid has played a role in many notable events in the state and made attempts to facilitate the improvement of law and order and police-community relations. In December 1999 Vaid supervised the release from Kot Bhalwal jail of Pakistani mujaheddin leader and the founder of the militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed, Azhar Masood, who was exchanged for passengers on the

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hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 (IC-814). On January 29, 2002 there was a specific information that a group of Al-Badr militants were waiting for other terrorist associates to conduct a meeting to plan subversive activities in Srinagar. Vaid, then DIG of Police Range Srinagar planned a joint operation along with BSF and J&K Police SOG to apprehend the militants. The same night Vaid got the area cordoned off with the help of BSF/SOG and local police so as to ensure that militants do not escape during night taking the advantage of darkness. The held up militants tried to take the

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BSF personnel hostage who were trapped inside but an assault was launched by Vaid along with other officers and in the process managed to rescue one BSF Jawan. In an official statement from the President's Secretariat, the President of India awarded Vaid the Police Medal for Gallantry: In August 2006 the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported about Vaid's involvement in a project with state-owned Bharat Petroleum to employ family members of the approximately 1,000 Jammu and Kashmir policemen who have died fighting separatists. In December 2006, as IGP Jammu, Vaid supervised the operation against the militants and regained control of

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the Kot Bhalwal prison following seven-hour clashes with more than 300 prisoners after the situation within the jail went out of control. Vaid served as a chairman of the session, "Regional Cooperation to Fight Terrorism", at the March 2009 Asia Pacific Regional Conference of The World Federation of United Nations Associations. In December 2011, Vaid inaugurated 2nd Police Martyr's Memorial North Zone Inter Club T-20 Cricket Championship 2011–12 in Kathua district of J&K. This tournament is said to have served the dual purpose of better Police-Public relations and honour to Martyr's families. In the Burhan aftermath of the killing of

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Hizbul Mujahideen Commander, Burhan Wani in 2016, law and order situation in the Valley had spiralled out of control and the state government, while taking a serious note of it, shifted Vaid from the position of DG (prisons) and to Special DG (Law and order). After taking over the charge, Vaid camped in the Kashmir region and initiated various measures to make optimum use of the force so as to check rising casualties of both civilians and security forces through police-public interaction programmes in almost all districts of the Valley. Vaid has been credited for playing an important role in

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restoring peace and normalcy in the valley. Assassination attempts While Deputy Inspector General of Police, Baramulla range in the Kashmir Valley, Vaid suffered a severe hand injury in March 1999 when 25 militants ambushed his car and two escort gypsies on the national highway, on his way to Baramulla after a review meeting at Srinagar where he was officiating as Inspector General. The militants, aware that his car was bullet-proof, hurled hand-grenades and used powerful universal machine guns which pierce through bullet-proof glass, instead of the commonly used AK-47s. In 1990, while Superintendent in Badgam, Vaid was accompanying his wife

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Mind of Mine is the debut solo studio album by English singer and songwriter Zayn, released on 25 March 2016 by RCA Records. Primarily an R&B and alternative R&B, the album blends elements from a number of genres, including pop, folk, dub, soul, funk, electronic, Qawwali, hip hop, reggae, classical and soft rock, among others. The album was preceded by the release of two singles: "Pillowtalk" (which debuted at number one in a number of international charts, including the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100), and "Like I Would". "Wrong", featuring Kehlani, was also subsequently released as

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the third single. Kehlani is the only feature on the album. The release date of the album marks the one year anniversary of Zayn leaving the boy band One Direction. Mind of Mine has received generally positive reviews, with praise for Malik's new musical direction and his vocal performance. Mind of Mine debuted at number one in several countries including the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, and Sweden, with Malik becoming the first British male artist to debut at number one in both the UK and US with a debut single and debut studio album.

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Background Following Zayn Malik's five-year stint with English-Irish band One Direction, he quit the band after signing off from the band's On the Road Again Tour for an indefinite period six days prior due to stress. Shortly after, Malik began working on solo material. After sessions with various producers, Malik eventually went on to meet James "Malay" Ho, who would become his debut album's main collaborator. On 29 July 2015, Malik shared a photo on social media of his official signing with RCA Records. Throughout the rest of 2015, Malik gave interviews with several music magazines, during which he spoke

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about his debut solo studio album and revealed part of the track list. He stated "life experiences have been the influences for the album and just stuff that I've been through, especially in the last five years". Furthermore, he explained his reasons for leaving One Direction: "there was never any room for me to experiment creatively in the band." Malik originally auditioned to be a solo R&B singer with Mario's "Let Me Love You" in 2010 before becoming part of One Direction, but with the band headed in a pop rock direction. Due to the band's musical direction, Malik was

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unable to sing or write the kind of R&B music he had originally pursued before joining the band. He elaborated, "If I would sing a hook or a verse slightly R&B, or slightly myself, it would always be recorded 50 times until there was a straight version that was pop, generic" and that "Whenever I would suggest something, it was like it didn’t fit us. There was just a general conception that the management already had of what they want for the band, and I just wasn’t convinced with what we were selling. I wasn’t 100 percent behind the music.

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It wasn’t me. It was music that was already given to us". He told Complex that "It was about denying the authenticity of who I was, and what I enjoyed about music, and why I got into it." Despite his comments regarding One Direction, he told Ryan Seacrest that he is "massively grateful for that, and if it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t be here," adding that "It’s not because I’m trying to be more successful or as successful as what was going on before, because there’s no comparison." He told The Fader that "it wasn’t actually about [being the

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biggest] anymore" but "It was more about the people that I reach. I want to reach them in the right way, and I want them to believe what I’m saying." He added, "I just want to make music now." Conception and influence In March 2015, Malik was seen at a London recording studio with producer Naughty Boy, leading to speculation of the pair working on music together. Following his departure from One Direction, Malik alluded to the potential of a solo career, with the release of his first solo studio album to be released under the Syco label in 2016.

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On 31 March 2015, Naughty Boy released on SoundCloud an early demo of Malik's song "I Won't Mind". In June 2015, UK rapper Mic Righteous leaked Malik's "No Type", featuring Mic Righteous and produced by Naughty Boy, a cover version of Rae Sremmurd's hip hop song. With Naughty Boy as his producer, Malik also worked with grime rappers Krept & Konan during this time, recording a song together with an unfinished music video, but the material was never released after Malik parted ways with Naughty Boy. Though unreleased, his work with Naughty Boy and Krept & Konan helped Malik gain

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a new urban audience in the UK. He stated musically the record leans towards R&B, and described his album as "weird, alternative R&B", stating that "It's all very sparse and random," and "They're all kind of different thoughts. The music reflects that as well because they're different emotions, so you feel different things through each song." He also said it would incorporate different genres of music, such as soul, reggae, and an R&B-rock fusion, stating that "all the songs are different genres," and that they "don't really fit a specific type of music. They're not like, 'This is funk, this

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is soul, this is upbeat, this is a dance tune.' Nothing is like that. I don't really know what my style is yet. I'm kind of just showing what my influences are. Depending on what the reaction is, then I'll go somewhere with that." The album was influenced by the music that Malik grew up with, primarily his father's urban music records, including R&B artists R. Kelly, Usher, Donell Jones, and Prince, rappers Tupac and Biggie, and reggae artists Gregory Isaacs and Yellowman, as well as Bollywood music. He cited rapper Tupac's All Eyez on Me as the album that

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had the biggest impact on him, stating that it is "so real, and from a perspective of a place where somebody is not afraid to be completely 100 percent honest." He said, "as I grew up, it really helped me to understand that it’s OK to be honest with your art, because people appreciate that." In an interview with NME, Malik explained the album's title: "It's really reflective of the whole experience that I want to give the listener. I wanted it to be almost like a brainstorm. It’s just music and it’s just whatever you’re feeling at that moment

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in time." Writing and recording Teasing what can be expected of his first solo LP, Malik told Billboard: "once they [the fans] hear it, I feel like they will understand me a little bit more. For 10 years, this album has been in my brain, and it's just been there, sat with me, needing to be out." Talking about the recording sessions with Billboard, Malik's main collaborator for the album James "Malay" Ho said they have gone to unusual lengths in pursuit of inspiration, for one "we went camping for a week in the Angeles Forest – set up a

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generator and a tent so we could track in the woods." James Ho is a Grammy Award winning producer, whose past work includes Frank Ocean's Channel Orange and Big Boi's Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. "I'll come down here [the recording room] and record maybe seven songs a night," Malik told the magazine. "I’m enjoying what I’m doing. I’m not censoring myself anymore." Ho described Malik as "pure genius" and noted that most of the vocals were recorded in just a few takes. According to Ho, Malik was heavily involved in every aspect of recording, stating

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that, "Even if there were co-writers involved, all the direction for the songs and all the lyrics and everything pretty much came from him".<ref name="ew-making">{{cite web|url=http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/25/zayn-malik-mind-of-mine-behind-scenes-malay-ho|title=Inside the making of Zayn Malik's debut album, Mind of Mine|work=Entertainment Weekly|author=Amanda Michelle Steiner|date=25 March 2016}}</ref> The song titles are rendered in a stylised manner, reminiscent of Prince. Malik said the stylized capitalization reflects the way he used to like capitalizing letters when he was at school. Malik said that, after his debut album releases, he plans to pursue an academic degree in English or literature (which he originally intended before his music career), while

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at the same time working on writing his next album. Malik said that "Pillowtalk" was written about sex, stating that "everybody has sex, and it’s something people wanna hear about. It’s part of everybody’s life, a very big part of life. And you don’t want to sweep it under the carpet." "It's You" was inspired by the breakup of a relationship (possibly from Little Mix's Perrie Edwards), with Malik stating, "It was a form of therapy for me, and it did help me get through" some personal issues, while he was writing it. According to Ho, "Befour" was conceived when

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he and Malik were in the VIP area of a Las Vegas club where Big Sean was performing in August 2015, and Malik said, "It's crazy being here in Vegas. I’ve literally been all over the world with One Direction. I’ve done this before, but not like this. Not by myself, not this way, not here with the intention of working on my own music". The Qawwali Urdu song "Flower" was inspired by Malik's upbringing as a British Pakistani Muslim. Referencing the recording, Ho stated that Malik "knows how to sing like that and he’s always been able to do

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it, but he just never took it that seriously" until one day he "just picked up the mic and tracked that whole thing basically live, in one take." Ho said he "was just blown away" and "didn’t know he could sing like that," and that "he told me he was in a super spiritual place, and that the saying is something one of his family members had told him that had always stuck to him." Ho said the session was like jazz "where a singer will have a concept or a melody and then the rest of it is just

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improv." Malik sung and wrote one of the songs, "Wrong", in collaboration with American R&B singer and songwriter Kehlani. According to Malik, he "reached out to her, played a couple of songs for her in L.A. and she's really cool, she liked the music, so she got in the studio within a couple of days, she gave me a song back that she wanted me to do, and we just got it done straight away." Malik originally wrote "Wrong" as a rap, which he then used to create lyrics for the song. "Fool for You" is a pop ballad inspired

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by The Beatles, particularly John Lennon, citing the songs "In My Life" and the Indian-influenced "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". Malik sang "Lucozade" in a freestyle manner and recorded the song in one take. Composition Music Primarily R&B album the album blends elements from a number of genres, including alternative R&B, pop, folk, soul (including British soul and neo-soul), dub, funk, electronic, reggae, Qawwali ghazal, hip hop, classical, and soft rock. The album also channels different eras of music, including modern, retro, 1980s, and 1990s, while the moods of the album vary from slow ballads to thumping club jams.

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Despite the variations in the sounds and genres, Mind of Mine is structured in an "album-as-complete-work" form, maintaining a tightly knit cohesion throughout the record, with an almost seamless transition between and across songs, while maintaining a recognizable, mostly downbeat, "hazy" tone throughout. This gives the album a continuous flow, and gives the impression that it all came from one person's "mind". The album largely foregoes radio-friendly "pop bangers" in favour of "sexy, seductive R&B" that focuses on "moods and textures and creating an alluring, provocative vibe", while maintaining an almost seamless cohesiveness throughout the record. The album showcases Malik's

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vocals, tackling different moods such as smitten, libidinous, and ethereal, and using vocal techniques such as intricately voiced chords and falsettos throughout the album, ornate vocal runs in "Fool for You", vibrato in "It's You", Qawwali singing in "Flower", freestyle singing in "Lucozade" and reggae singing in "Do Something Good". The music production is similarly detailed, complex, and deeply textured, ranging from elaborate synth swirls in "She" to the careful layering of soft-funk guitar lines in "Borderz". There is sonic experimentation present throughout the album, experimenting with elements such as the minimal and moody tones of contemporary R&B, reverberated funk

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