Jose Canseco

Jose Canseco,

José Canseco Capas, Jr. (born July 2, 1964) is a former outfielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball and current designated hitter and bench coach for the Laredo Broncos of the United Baseball League. He is the identical twin brother of former major league player Ozzie Canseco. After retiring from Major League Baseball he also competed in boxing and mixed martial arts.

Early years

Canseco was born in Regla, Cuba, and left Cuba with his cousins and family when he and his brother were infants. They relocated to the United States, with José and Ozzie growing up in the Miami, Florida area, and attending Coral Park High School. Canseco did not attend college, having been drafted in the 15th round by the Oakland Athletics in 1982. He first received high regard for his remarkable power at his early minor league stops with the Idaho Falls A's, in Idaho Falls, Idaho and the Modesto A's in Modesto, California. Home run blasts of over 500 feet were common, and the fans would chant "Loot, loot!" to cheer him on.Canseco started the 1985 season with the AA Huntsville Stars and became known as "Parkway Jose", for his long home runs (25 in half a season), that went close to the Memorial Parkway behind Joe Davis Stadium.

Major league career (1985–2001)

Oakland A's (1985-92)

In 1985, Canseco won the Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year Award, and was a late season call-up for the Oakland A's, playing in 29 games in the major leagues in 1985. He gained notoriety in 1986, his first full season, being named the American League's Rookie of the Year, with 33 home runs and 117 runs batted in. In 1987, Mark McGwire joined Canseco on the Athletics; McGwire hit 49 home runs that year and was also named the American League Rookie of the Year. Together, he and Canseco formed a fearsome offensive tandem, known as the "Bash Brothers".

In 1988, Canseco became the first player in major league history to hit at least 40 home runs and steal at least 40 bases in the same year, by hitting 42 home runs and stealing 40 bases. After that, the street in front of his former high school was named after him. That same year, he helped the Athletics to the World Series but they lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games. Canseco was unanimously named the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1988, with a .307 batting average, 120 runs scored, 124 RBI, 42 home runs, and 40 stolen bases.

In 1989, Canseco missed all but 65 of the regular season games with a broken wrist, but he still managed to hit 17 home runs as the Athletics won their first World Series since 1974, beating the San Francisco Giants in four games. The 1989 Series was interrupted before Game 3 by a major earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Canseco came back to form in 1990, hitting 37 home runs despite being hampered in the latter part of the season by what would become a recurring back problem. The A's returned to the World Series once again, but were swept by the Cincinnati Reds in four games. Canseco continued to be productive, hitting 44 home runs in 1991, but his career hit a plateau, and in the face of frequent injuries and controversy he never accomplished what many felt he was capable of.

Texas Rangers (1992-94)

On August 31, 1992, in the middle of a game and while he was in the on-deck circle, the A's traded Canseco to the Texas Rangers for Rubén Sierra, Jeff Russell, and Bobby Witt.

On May 26, 1993, during a game against the Cleveland Indians, Carlos Martínez hit a fly ball that Canseco lost sight of as he was crossing the warning track. The ball hit him in the head and bounced over the wall for a home run.The cap Canseco was wearing on that play, which This Week in Baseball rated in 1998 as the greatest blooper of the show's first 21 years, is in the Seth Swirsky collection. After the incident, the Harrisburg Heat offered him a soccer contract. Three days later, Canseco asked his manager, Kevin Kennedy, to let him pitch the eighth inning of a runaway loss to the Boston Red Sox; he injured his arm, underwent Tommy John surgery, and was lost for the remainder of the season. In the 1994 strike shortened season, Canseco again returned to his former status of power hitter with 31 home runs and 90 RBI in 111 games. Canseco also stole 15 bases and posted a .282 batting average. He was named comeback player of the year in 1994, and finished in eleventh place in the American League Most Valuable Player voting.

Final seasons (1995-2001)

After playing with the Rangers from 1992-94, Canseco moved on to play with the Boston Red Sox from 1995-96. Following an unsuccessful return with the A's in 1997, Canseco did have a productive season again with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1998, when he hit 46 home runs and stole 29 bases, the most he had stolen since the 40 he stole in 1988. He won the AL Silver Slugger award, but his comeback was missed by most fans because of the home run race in the National League between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

Canseco went to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1999, where he hit 34 home runs in 114 games and was named to the AL All-Star team, until he injured his back and was lost for the season. He was claimed off waivers by the New York Yankees down the stretch in 2000, but was not a factor at all in the playoffs, making only a token appearance in one game of the World Series against the New York Mets.

Canseco played with the Chicago White Sox in 2001, after being cut by the Anaheim Angels in spring training and spending half of the season with the Newark Bears of the independent Atlantic League. In 2002, Canseco was signed by the Montreal Expos but was released prior to the regular season. Canseco retired in May 2002. He made a brief comeback attempt in 2004, but was not offered a spot with the Los Angeles Dodgers after a spring tryout. His 462 career home runs rank him 32nd on the all-time list. Canseco was at one time the all-time leader in home runs among Latino players; he was later surpassed by Manny Ramirez, Carlos Delgado, Rafael Palmeiro, Alex Rodriguez, and Sammy Sosa. Canseco has been distinguished four times with the Silver Slugger award: three times as an AL outfielder in 1988, 1990, and 1991, and once as a Designated Hitter in 1998.

Independent League career

On June 29, 2006, the independent Golden Baseball League announced Canseco had agreed to a one-year contract to play with the San Diego Surf Dawgs. The League said Canseco had agreed to be subjected to its drug-testing policy "that immediately expels any players found using steroids or illegal drugs."

On July 5, 2006, Canseco was traded to the Long Beach Armada after only one game. He requested the trade due to "family obligations." On July 31, 2006, Canseco won the Golden Baseball League's Home Run Derby. Other teams that Canseco played for in the minor leagues include the Huntsville Stars, Medford A's, Pawtucket Red Sox, Newark Bears, and Charlotte Knights.

Canseco signed a short team deal with the Laredo Broncos of the United Baseball League on Aug 14, 2010. He will serve as bench coach and designated hitter.
Steroids

In 2005, Canseco admitted to using anabolic steroids with Jorge Delgado, Damaso Moreno and Manuel Collado in a tell-all book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big. Canseco also claimed that up to 85% of major league players took steroids, a figure disputed by many in the game. In the book, Canseco specifically identified former teammates Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Jason Giambi, Iván Rodríguez and Juan González as fellow steroid users, and claimed that he injected them.Most of the players named in the book initially denied steroid use, though Giambi admitted to steroid use in testimony before a grand jury investigating the BALCO case and on January 11, 2010 McGwire admitted publicly to using steroids.

At a Congressional hearing on the subject of steroids in sports, Palmeiro categorically denied using performance-enhancing drugs, while McGwire repeatedly and somewhat conspicuously refused to answer questions on his own suspected use, saying he "didn't want to talk about the past." Canseco's book became a New York Times bestseller. On August 1, 2005, Palmeiro was suspended for 10 days by Major League Baseball after testing positive for steroids.

On December 13, 2007, José Canseco and Jorge Delgado were cited in the Mitchell Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation Into the Illegal Use of Steroids and Other Performance Enhancing Substances by Players in Major League Baseball.

On December 20, 2007, Canseco was also named in Jason Grimsley's unsealed affidavit as a user of steroids. Canseco and Grimsley were teammates on the 2000 New York Yankees.

On December 30, 2007, it was announced that Canseco has reached a deal for his sequel to Juiced. The new book is Vindicated, which Canseco's lawyer, Robert Saunooke, said would hit bookstores by Opening Day 2008. This book is said to have "stuff" on Alex Rodriguez, and Albert Belle as suggested by Canseco. The book will be a "clarification" of names that should've been mentioned in the Mitchell Report. On January 5, 2008, a potential editor for his upcoming book, Don Yaeger, a former Sports Illustrated associate editor, said he would not edit the book. He told the New York Daily News that he thought Canseco didn't have a book in the material he gave him. However, on February 7, 2009, Sports Illustrated reported that A-Rod did test positive during his 2003 season, which could make Canseco's book seem more real than it was believed. Finally, on Monday, February 9, 2009 A-Rod confirmed Canseco's previous allegations of steroids use in an exclusive interview; A-Rod admits to using steroids from 2001 to 2003. However, Rodriguez denied the allegations written in Canseco's book that Canseco introduced him to a steroid deal, calling that information "100% false".

After baseball

While still a player, he did guest star on The Simpsons and Nash Bridges. Since his retirement, Canseco has appeared on Late Show with David Letterman, 60 Minutes, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, " Boomer and Carton ", Howard Stern, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, CMI: The Chris Myers Interview, and Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List. In 2003, he was featured in the reality-TV special Stripper's Ball: Jenna Jameson with Dennis Rodman and Magic Johnson. He was a cast member in Season 5 of The Surreal Life with Janice Dickinson, Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa, Bronson Pinchot, Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, Caprice Bourret, and Carey Hart.

In 2007, he received 6 Hall of Fame votes. This accounted for 1.1% of the ballots, failing to reach the 5% threshold necessary to stay on the ballot for another year. However, he can be elected to the Hall of Fame by the Committee of Baseball Veterans.

In May 2008, Philadelphia sportscaster and former NFL football player Vai Sikahema accepted a challenge from Canseco to fight him for $30,000. Canseco claims to have earned black belts in Kung Fu and Taekwondo, while Sikahema fought in the Golden Gloves tournament won by Sugar Ray Leonard. The fight took place on July 12 in Atlantic City at the Bernie Robbins stadium. The 5'9" Sikahema knocked out the 6'4" Canseco in the first round.

On January 24, 2009, Canseco fought radio personality and former child actor Danny Bonaduce in Aston Township, Pennsylvania; the three-round match ended in a majority draw.

In 2003, Canseco would "rent" a day hanging out with him at his home in Southern Florida. It was said that for $5000 you could spend the entire day with him

Canseco made his mixed martial arts debut at Dream 9 where he lost in the first round against 7'2" K-1 fighter and occasional mixed martial artist Hong Man Choi as part of Dream's Super Hulk Tournament.

On November 6, 2009, Canseco defeated Todd Poulton in a Celebrity Boxing Federation bout in Springfield, MA.

Personal life

In 1989, his first wife, Esther Haddad, whom he married in October 1988, accused him of domestic violence after he allegedly ran his car into hers. They divorced in 1991.

In August 1996, he married Jessica Sekely, whom he met while she was working as a Hooters waitress. He was arrested in November 1997 for allegedly hitting her. In January 1998, he was sentenced to probation and required to have counseling. The couple divorced in 1999. They have a daughter, Josiphene Marie, nicknamed "Josie".

In October 2001, he and his brother got into a fight with two California tourists at a Miami Beach nightclub that left one man with a broken nose and another needing 20 stitches in his lip; Canseco was charged with two counts of aggravated battery.

In May 2008, Canseco revealed that he had lost his house in Encino, California to foreclosure, saying his two divorces had cost him $7 to $8 million each.

On October 10, 2008, Canseco was detained by immigration officials at a San Diego border crossing as he tried to bring a fertility drug from Mexico. He stated the drug was to help with his hormone replacement therapy, needed due to his use of steroids.

On November 4, 2008, Canseco pled guilty in federal court to the misdemeanor offense of trying to bring a fertility drug into the USA from Mexico. He was sentenced to 12 months’ unsupervised probation by U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruben B. Brooks. Canseco told the judge he had gone to Tijuana looking for a substance to restore his testosterone levels in an attempt to reverse damage done by his admitted steroids use. He was detained at San Diego’s San Ysidro border crossing in October 2008 after agents searched his vehicle and said they found human chorionic gonadotropin, which is illegal without a prescription.

The 2008 A&E Network documentary Jose Canseco: Last Shot chronicles Canseco's attempts to end his steroid use.

Mixed martial arts record

Professional record breakdown [show]

Result Record Opponent Method Event Date Round Time Location Notes

Loss 0-1 Hong Man Choi Submission (Strikes) DREAM.9 May 26, 2009 1 1:17 Yokohama, Japan DREAM Super Hulk Grand Prix Quarterfinal

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Juliana Paes

Juliana Couto Paes (born March 26, 1979 in Rio Bonito, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian actress of mixed Bolivian, Azerbaijani and Portuguese ancestry[1][not in citation given]. She became nationally-know in telenovelas and modelling. She also starred a local version of the musical The Producers, as Ulla.

Biography

Juliana is the oldest child of Regina and Carlos Henrique Paes. She has three siblings: Mariana, Rosana and Carlos Henrique Jr.
An actress, model and with a university degree, she became nationally known for her performances in soap operas of Rede Globo and for her beauty. She was cover of Playboy magazine on the 2004 May issue.
In 2006, Juliana was elected one of the sexiest one hundred people in the world by People Magazine. After that international projection, she hired an agent, showing interest in starting an acting career in the US.
Juliana starred in many commercial campaigns, such as Colorama's and Hope's. Currently, she is the face of Arezzo for the second time and will replace model Gisele Bündchen as the star of the campaign for the jewelry brand Vivara.
On September 9, 2008, Juliana got married to business man Carlos Eduardo Baptista, at the Itanhangá Golf Club. Her last work on television was the role of Maíra, on a João Emanuel Carneiro soap opera called "A Favorita", which had to be interrupted so she could play a leading role for the first time on "Caminho das Índias" in which she plays Maya.



Filmography

Novelas
2009 Caminho das Índias - Maya Meetha
2008 A Favorita - Maíra Carvalho
2008 Duas Caras - Herself
2006/07 Pé na Jaca - Guinevere "Gui" Ataliba dos Santos
2005 América - Creusa
2003/04 Celebridade - Jaqueline Joy
2001/02 O Clone - Karla
2000/01 Laços de Família - Ritinha
[edit]TV Series
2007 Toma Lá, Dá Cá - Suellen
2007 Dicas de um Sedutor - Vera Lucia
2005 Levando a Vida - Grace
2003 Os Normais - Marialva
2002 Sítio do Pica-Pau Amarelo - Jurema
2001 Brava Gente - Rosinha
1998 Malhação


Miniseries
2003 A Casa das Sete Mulheres - Teiniaguá

Cinema
2008 - Kung Fu Panda - Master Tigress (Brazilian dub)
2007 - A Casa da Mãe Joana - Dolores Sol
2006 - Seus problemas acabaram - special guest
2005 - Mais uma vez amor - Lia
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Emilio Botín

Emilio Botín (born 1 October 1934) is a Spanish banker. He is the Executive Chairman of Spain's Grupo Santander. In 1993 his bank absorbed Banco Español de Crédito (Banesto), and in 1999 it merged with Banco Central Hispano creating Banco Santander Central Hispano (BSCH), which became Spain's largest bank, of which he was co-president with Central Hispano's José María Amusategui, until Amusategui retired in 2002. In 2004, BSCH acquired the British bank Abbey National, making BSCH the second largest bank in Europe by market capitalisation. In July 2008 Santander was named the Best Bank in the World by Euromoney magazine.

Background and personal life

Botín, Marques Consort of O'Shea, was born in Santander, Cantabria, on the northern coast of Spain. After attending as a boarding student the Jesuit school of Colegio de la Inmaculada, in Gijón, he studied Law at the University of Valladolid in Valladolid and Economics at the University of Deusto in Bilbao. In 1986 Emilio Botín, then aged 52, took over from his father as president of the Banco de Santander, one of many banks that existed in Spain at the time. Botín was no newcomer to the banking world. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all bankers.
Botín is married to Paloma O'Shea, Marquess of O'Shea, a patron of the arts, and they have six children. Botín's favorite pastimes are hunting, fishing and golf. In 2005 Forbes put Emilio Botín's net worth at $1.7 billion.[citation needed] Botín's daughter, Ana Patricia Botín, is now President of Banesto, and widely viewed as his probable successor as President.
On 25 April 2008, two people died in a plane crash south of Madrid at a property belonging to Emilio Botin. Neither was a member of the banking family. The light aircraft, which was attempting to land at an airstrip on the Botin property known as El Castano, was transporting 441 pounds of hashish.



Banco Santander

The 1999 merger between Santander and Banco Central Hispano (BCH) was designed to be a “merger of equals” in which the top executives of the two pre-existing firms would share control of the merged entity. Soon after the merger former BCH executives accused Botin of trying to push his own agenda and threatened to take legal action against him. This post-merger squabbling was resolved when BCH executives Jose Amusategui and Angel Corcostegui agreed to accept severance payments, retire and renounce to control to Botin, at an expense to shareholders of €164M. The large termination payouts generated negative press and Botin was eventually brought to trial on criminal charges of “misappropriation of funds” and “irresponsible management.” However, in April, 2005 he was cleared of all charges. The verdict said the €164M retirement payments made to the two former executives were legal, “made as compensation for the services provided to the bank.”
In 2005 the anti-corruption division of the Spanish public prosecutor's office cleared Botin of all charges in a separate case in which he was accused of insider trading.[citation needed]
In January 2006, a Santander, Spain court dismissed a lawsuit stemming from the cancellation of agreements reached by the SCH board in 2004. In his ruling, the judge said that the case brought by the plaintiffs was 'merely an excuse to vent personal differences between them and the [Banco Santander] chairman. The plaintiffs were ordered to pay Botin’s legal fees.
Then, in November, 2006 Botin was brought to trial along with four other company directors for allegedly falsifying official documents and helping clients evade taxes. Spanish press sources reported that although Botin was accused of crimes against the state, the public prosecutor resisted bringing the case to trial. Private prosecution was brought by a prominent shareholder rights group, the Association for the Defense of the Investor and Clients (ADIC), which claimed that the charges against him constituted the "biggest fraud ever committed in Spain.” Botin evaded serving a jail sentence after the case was dismissed, and an appellate court rejected an appeal brought by ADIC.[citation needed]
Subsequently Botin’s legal troubles continued. Most recently Botin’s name has been in the news because of allegations that in 1999, at the time of the BCH merger, he bribed Spain’s economy minister, Rodrigo Rato, in order to seek favor with government officials. Botin and Rato, alongside a group of former associates have been accused of engineering a deal in which Banesto, a Santander subsidiary currently controlled by Botin’s daughter Ana Patricia Botin, purchased a €6M stake in a bankrupt water utility owned by the Rato family. Rato, Botin, and Alfredo Saenz, who was then serving as Banesto’s CEO, are accused of misappropriating funds, breach of fiduciary duty, falsifying documents, and bribery. The case is ongoing.
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Bob Marley

Robert Nesta, "Bob" Marley (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands The Wailers (1964–1974) and Bob Marley & The Wailers (1974–1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.
Marley's best known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, together with The Wailers, "Three Little Birds",as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album, Legend (1984), released three years after his death, is reggae's best-selling album, being 10 times Platinum (Diamond) in the U.S.,and selling 20 million copies worldwide.

Early life and career

Bob Marley was born in the small village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica as Nesta Robert Marley.A Jamaican passport official would later swap his first and middle names.His father, Norval Sinclair Marley, was a Jamaican of English descent, whose family came from Essex, England. Norval was a captain in the Royal Marines, as well as a plantation overseer, when he married Cedella Booker, an Afro-Jamaican then 18 years old Norval provided financial support for his wife and child, but seldom saw them, as he was often away on trips. In 1955, when Marley was 10 years old, his father died of a heart attack at age 60.Marley was teased as a youth because of his mixed racial origins, and faced questions about his own racial identity throughout his life. He once reflected: "I don't have prejudice against meself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white."  Although Marley recognized his mixed ancestry, throughout his life and because of his beliefs, he self-identified as a black African. In songs such as "Black Survivor", "Babylon System", and "Blackman Redemption", Marley sings about the struggles of blacks and Africans against oppression from the West or "Babylon".
Marley became friends with Neville "Bunny" Livingston (later known as Bunny Wailer), with whom he started to play music. He left school at the age of 14 to make music with Joe Higgs, a local singer and devout Rastafari. It was at a jam session with Higgs and Livingston that Marley met Peter McIntosh (later known as Peter Tosh), who had similar musical ambitions. In 1962, Marley recorded his first two singles, "Judge Not" and "One Cup of Coffee", with local music producer Leslie Kong. These songs, released on the Beverley's label under the pseudonym of Bobby Martell,attracted little attention. The songs were later re-released on the box set, Songs of Freedom, a posthumous collection of Marley's work.
Musical career

The Wailers
The Wailers (reggae band)
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In 1963, Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith formed a ska and rocksteady group, calling themselves "The Teenagers". They later changed their name to "The Wailing Rudeboys", then to "The Wailing Wailers", at which point they were discovered by record producer Coxsone Dodd, and finally to "The Wailers". By 1966, Braithwaite, Kelso, and Smith had left The Wailers, leaving the core trio of Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, and Peter Tosh. In 1966, Marley married Rita Anderson, and moved near his mother's residence in Wilmington, Delaware in the United States for a short time, during which he worked as a DuPont lab assistant and on the assembly line at a Chrysler plant, under the alias Donald Marley.
Upon returning to Jamaica, Marley became a member of the Rastafari movement, and started to wear his trademark dreadlocks (see the religion section for more on Marley's religious views). After a conflict with Dodd, Marley and his band teamed up with Lee "Scratch" Perry and his studio band, The Upsetters. Although the alliance lasted less than a year, they recorded what many consider The Wailers' finest work. Marley and Perry split after a dispute regarding the assignment of recording rights, but they would remain friends and work together again. Between 1968 and 1972, Bob and Rita Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer re-cut some old tracks with JAD Records in Kingston and London in an attempt to commercialize The Wailers' sound. Bunny later asserted that these songs "should never be released on an album … they were just demos for record companies to listen to." Also in 1968, Bob and Rita visited the Bronx to see Johnny Nash's songwriter Jimmy Norman. A three day jam session with Norman and others, including Norman's co-writer Al Pyfrom, resulted in a 24-minute tape of Marley performing several of his own and Norman-Pyfrom's compositions which is, according to Reggae archivist Roger Steffens, rare in that it was influenced by pop rather than reggae, as part of the effort to break Marley into American charts.According to an article in The New York Times, Marley experimented on the tape with different sounds, adopting a doo-wop style on "Stay With Me" and "the slow love song style of 1960's artists" on "Splish for My Splash". The Wailers' first album, Catch a Fire, was released worldwide in 1973, and sold well. It was followed a year later by Burnin', which included the songs "Get Up, Stand Up" and "I Shot the Sheriff". Eric Clapton made a hit cover of "I Shot the Sheriff" in 1974, raising Marley's international profile. The Wailers broke up in 1974 with each of the three main members going on to pursue solo careers. The reason for the breakup is shrouded in conjecture; some believe that there were disagreements amongst Bunny, Peter, and Bob concerning performances, while others claim that Bunny and Peter simply preferred solo work.



Bob Marley & The Wailers

Bob Marley & The Wailers live at Crystal Palace Park during the Uprising Tour

Despite the breakup, Marley continued recording as "Bob Marley & The Wailers". His new backing band included brothers Carlton and Aston "Family Man" Barrett on drums and bass respectively, Junior Marvin and Al Anderson on lead guitar, Tyrone Downie and Earl "Wya" Lindo on keyboards, and Alvin "Seeco" Patterson on percussion. The "I Threes", consisting of Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, and Marley's wife, Rita, provided backing vocals. In 1975, Marley had his international breakthrough with his first hit outside Jamaica, "No Woman, No Cry", from the Natty Dread album. This was followed by his breakthrough album in the United States, Rastaman Vibration (1976), which spent four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. In December 1976, two days before "Smile Jamaica", a free concert organized by the Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley in an attempt to ease tension between two warring political groups, Marley, his wife, and manager Don Taylor were wounded in an assault by unknown gunmen inside Marley's home. Taylor and Marley's wife sustained serious injuries, but later made full recoveries. Bob Marley received minor wounds in the chest and arm. The shooting was thought to have been politically motivated, as many felt the concert was really a support rally for Manley. Nonetheless, the concert proceeded, and an injured Marley performed as scheduled, two days after the attempt. When asked why, Marley responded, "the people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?" The members of the group Zap Pow, which had no radical religious or political beliefs, played as Bob Marley's backup band before a festival crowd of 80,000 while members of The Wailers were still missing or in hiding.
Marley left Jamaica at the end of 1976 for England, where he spent two years in self-imposed exile. Whilst there he recorded his Exodus and Kaya albums. Exodus stayed on the British album charts for 56 consecutive weeks. It included four UK hit singles: "Exodus", "Waiting in Vain", "Jamming", and "One Love" (a rendition of Curtis Mayfield's hit, "People Get Ready"). During his time in London, he was arrested and received a conviction for possession of a small quantity of cannabis . In 1978, Marley returned to Jamaica and performed at another political concert, the One Love Peace Concert, again in an effort to calm warring parties. Near the end of the performance, by Marley's request, Michael Manley (leader of then-ruling People's National Party) and his political rival Edward Seaga (leader of the opposing Jamaica Labour Party), joined each other on stage and shook hands.
Under the name Bob Marley and the Wailers eleven albums were released, four live albums and seven studio albums. The releases included Babylon by Bus, a double live album with 13 tracks, was released in 1978 to critical acclaim. This album, and specifically the final track "Jammin'" with the audience in a frenzy, captured the intensity of Marley's live performances. Survival, a defiant and politically charged album, was released in 1979. Tracks such as "Zimbabwe", "Africa Unite", "Wake Up and Live", and "Survival" reflected Marley's support for the struggles of Africans. His appearance at the Amandla Festival in Boston in July 1979 showed his strong opposition to South African apartheid, which he already had shown in his song "War" in 1976. In early 1980, he was invited to perform at the April 17 celebration of Zimbabwe's Independence Day. Uprising (1980) was Bob Marley's final studio album, and is one of his most religious productions, including "Redemption Song" and "Forever Loving Jah". Confrontation, released posthumously in 1983, contained unreleased material recorded during Marley's lifetime, including the hit "Buffalo Soldier" and new mixes of singles previously only available in Jamaica.
Later years

Illness
In July 1977, Marley was found to have acral lentiginous melanoma, a form of malignant melanoma, in a wound reportedly picked up in a friendly football match.After the album Uprising was released in May 1980 the band completed a major tour of Europe, where they played their biggest ever concert, to a hundred thousand people in Milan. After the tour Marley went to America, where he performed two shows at Madison Square Garden as part of the Uprising Tour. Shortly afterwards his health deteriorated and he became very ill, the cancer had spread throughout his body. The rest of the tour was cancelled and Marley sought treatment at the Bavarian clinic of Josef Issels, where he received a controversial type of cancer therapy partly based on avoidance of certain foods, drinks and other substances. After fighting the cancer without success for eight months he boarded a plane for his home in Jamaica.
Death and posthumous reputation
While flying home from Germany to Jamaica, accepting that he was going to die, Marley's vital functions worsened. After landing in Miami, he was taken to hospital for immediate medical attention. He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami on the morning of May 11, 1981, at the age of 36. The spread of melanoma to his lungs and brain caused his death. His final words to his son Ziggy were "Money can't buy life." Marley received a state funeral in Jamaica on May 21, 1981, which combined elements of Ethiopian Orthodoxy and Rastafari tradition. He was buried in a chapel near his birthplace with his red Fender Stratocaster (some accounts say it was a Gibson Les Paul ). A month before his death, he had also been awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit.
In 1994 Marley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 1999 Time magazine chose Bob Marley & The Wailers' Exodus as the greatest album of the 20th century. In 2001, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and a feature-length documentary about his life, Rebel Music, won various awards at the Grammys. With contributions from Rita, The Wailers, and Marley's lovers and children, it also tells much of the story in his own words.A statue was inaugurated, next to the national stadium on Arthur Wint Drive in Kingston to commemorate him. In 2006, the State of New York renamed a portion of Church Avenue from Remsen Avenue to East 98th Street in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn "Bob Marley Boulevard".
Religion

Rastafari movement


Main doctrines
Jah · Afrocentrism · Ital · Zion · Cannabis use
Central figures
Queen of Sheba · King Solomon · Haile Selassie · Marcus Garvey · Leonard Howell · God
Key scriptures
Bible · Kebra Nagast · The Promise Key · Holy Piby · My Life and Ethiopia's Progress · Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy
Branches and festivals
Mansions · United States · Shashamane · Grounation Day
Notable individuals
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Bob Marley was a member of the Rastafari movement, whose culture was a key element in the development of reggae. Bob Marley became a leading proponent of the Rastafari, taking their music out of the socially deprived areas of Jamaica and onto the international music scene. According to his biographers, he affiliated with the Twelve Tribes Mansion. He was in the denomination known as "Tribe of Joseph", because he was born in February (each of the twelve sects being composed of members born in a distinct month). As genuine Rastas practice a diet excluding meat, which is known as Ital, Marley was a vegetarian. He signified this in his album liner notes, quoting the portion from Genesis that includes Jacob's blessing to his son Joseph. Marley was baptized by the Archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church in Kingston, Jamaica, on November 4, 1980.


Wife and children

Bob Marley had a number of children: three with his wife Rita, two adopted from Rita's previous relationships, and several others with different women. The Bob Marley official website acknowledges eleven children.
Those listed on the official site are:
Sharon, born November 23, 1964, to Rita in previous relationship
Cedella born August 23, 1967, to Rita
David "Ziggy", born October 17, 1968, to Rita
Stephen, born April 20, 1972, to Rita
Robert "Robbie", born May 16, 1972, to Pat Williams
Rohan, born May 19, 1972, to Janet Hunt
Karen, born 1973 to Janet Bowen
Stephanie, born August 17, 1974; according to Cedella Booker she was the daughter of Rita and a man called Ital with whom Rita had an affair; nonetheless she was acknowledged as Bob's daughter
Julian, born June 4, 1975, to Lucy Pounder
Ky-Mani, born February 26, 1976, to Anita Belnavis
Damian, born July 21, 1978, to Cindy Breakspeare
Makeda was born on May 30, 1981, to Yvette Crichton, after Marley's death.  lists her as Marley's child, but she is not listed as such on the Bob Marley official website.
Various websites, (for example ) also list Imani Carole, born May 22, 1963 to Cheryl Murray; but she does not appear on the official Bob Marley website.



Discography

Tours

Apr–Jul 1973: Catch a Fire Tour (England, USA)
Oct–Nov 1973: Burnin' Tour (USA, England)
Jun–Jul 1975: Natty Dread Tour (USA, Canada, England)
Apr–Jul 1976: Rastaman Vibration Tour (USA, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, France, England, Wales)
May–Jun 1977: Exodus Tour (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, England)
May–Aug 1978: Kaya Tour (USA, Canada, England, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium)
Apr–May 1979: Babylon by Bus Tour (Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii)
Oct 1979–Jan 1980: Survival Tour (USA, Canada, Trinidad/Tobago, Bahamas, Gabon)
May–Sep 1980: Uprising Tour (Switzerland, Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, USA)



Awards and honours

Marley's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1976: Band of the Year (Rolling Stone)
June 1978: Awarded the Peace Medal of the Third World from the United Nations
February 1981: Awarded Jamaica's third highest honor, the Jamaican Order of Merit
March 1994: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1999: Album of the Century for Exodus (Time)
February 2001: A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
February 2001: Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
2004: Rolling Stone ranked him #11 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time
"One Love" named song of the millennium by BBC
Voted as one of the greatest lyricists of all time by a BBC poll.
2006: A plaque dedicated to him by Nubian Jak community trust and supported by Her Majesty's Foreign Office.
2010 "Catch a Fire" inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Reggae Album).


Film adaptation(s)

In February 2008, director Martin Scorsese announced his intention to produce a documentary movie on Marley. The film was set to be released on February 6, 2010, on what would have been Marley's 65th birthday. Recently, however, Scorsese dropped out due to scheduling problems. He is being replaced by Jonathan Demme.
In March 2008, The Weinstein Company announced its plans to produce a biopic of Bob Marley, based on the book No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley by Rita Marley. Rudy Langlais will produce the script by Lizzie Borden and Rita Marley will be executive producer.
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Jenny McCarthy

Jennifer Ann "Jenny" McCarthy (born November 1, 1972) is an American model, comedian, actress, author and activist. She began her career as a Playboy magazine model in 1993, before launching a television and film acting career. Most recently, she has written books about parenting, and has become an activist promoting controversial claims that vaccines cause autism and that chelation therapy is effective against autism.

Early life

McCarthy was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her middle-class Irish Catholic family lived in the West Elsdon neighborhood of Chicago. She is the second of four daughters; her sisters are named Lynette, Joanne and Amy. Her cousin is Melissa McCarthy of Gilmore Girls fame. McCarthy's mother, Linda, was a housewife and courtroom custodian, and her father, Dan McCarthy, was a steel mill foreman. She attended St. Turibius Grade School on Chicago's South Side. As a teenager, McCarthy attended Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School (whose school sweater she donned in the pages of Playboy) and was a cheerleader at both Brother Rice High School and St. Laurence High Schools, although she has referred to herself as an "outcast" at her school.After McCarthy graduated from high school, she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale to study nursing. She needed money to pay for college, so she decided to submit her picture to Playboy magazine to make money. She was accepted and became a model.

Career

[edit]Modeling and acting

Jenny McCarthy

Playboy centerfold appearance

October 1993

Preceded by Carrie Westcott

Succeeded by Julianna Young

Playmate of the Year

1994

Preceded by Anna Nicole Smith

Succeeded by Julie Lynn Cialini

Personal details

Born 1 November 1972

Measurements Bust: 38 in (97 cm)

Waist: 24 in (61 cm)

Hips: 34 in (86 cm)

Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)

Weight 120 lb (54 kg)

After getting accepted by Playboy in 1993, the magazine wanted her to pose for the October issue. McCarthy was paid $20,000 for the photo shoot. McCarthy became the Playmate of the Month and later the Playmate of the Year. In 1994, thanks to this newfound attention and popularity, McCarthy moved to Los Angeles and, for a time, hosted Hot Rocks, a Playboy TV show featuring uncensored music videos.

In 1995, MTV chose McCarthy to be the host of a new dating show called Singled Out, for which she left Hot Rocks. Her job as a host was a success, and Playboy wanted her to do more modeling. That same year, she also appeared at WrestleMania XI as a guest valet for Shawn Michaels. She left after the match with the victor, WWF Heavyweight Champion Diesel. She returned to the WWE on the August 2, 2008 edition of Saturday Night's Main Event to thank the fans for supporting Generation Rescue. In 1996, McCarthy landed a small part in the comedy The Stupids. In 1997, McCarthy launched two shows. The first one was an MTV sketch comedy show The Jenny McCarthy Show, which was sufficiently popular for NBC to sign her for an eponymous sitcom later that year, Jenny. The latter show is generally considered a disappointment and was quickly canceled. Also in 1997, she appeared on one of two covers for the September issue of Playboy (the other cover featured Pamela Anderson). McCarthy also released an autobiography: Jen-X: Jenny McCarthy's Open Book.

In 1998, McCarthy starred in BASEketball. In 1999, she starred in Diamonds, a movie which was directed by her husband John Mallory Asher. The next year, she appeared in the horror movie Scream 3. Since 2001, McCarthy has guest starred in such shows as Stacked, Charmed, The Drew Carey Show, Wings, Fastlane, and Just Shoot Me!.

In 2003, McCarthy appeared in Scary Movie 3 along with model and actress Pamela Anderson. In 2005, McCarthy produced, wrote, and starred in Dirty Love along with Carmen Electra. The same year, McCarthy hosted a new show on E! called Party at the Palms. The reality show, which is filmed at The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, features hotel guests, party goers, and celebrities. In March 2006, she was given Razzie Awards for "Worst Actress", "Worst Screenplay", and "Worst Picture" for her work on Dirty Love, which also netted her then-husband, John Asher, a Razzie for "Worst Director."

McCarthy has continued her work with Playboy over the years, both as a model and in other capacities. She appeared on the cover of the magazine's January 2005 issue wearing a leopard skin bunny suit and was featured in a pictorial shot at Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion in the same issue. She was the second woman (Carmen Electra was the first) and first Playmate to become a celebrity photographer for the Playboy Cyber Club, getting behind the camera to photograph model Jennifer Madden, who is not a Playmate.

Jenny's younger sister, Amy, has also posed for Playboy. She was a Cyber Girl of the Week and the Cyber Girl of the Month for January 2005.

She is the voice of Six in the third season of Canadian CGI Sci-Fi cartoon Tripping the Rift.

McCarthy currently stars in an online five episode series, called In The Motherhood, along with Chelsea Handler and Leah Remini. The show is on MSN and is based on being a mother where users could submit their stories to have it made into real webisodes.

She also plays the role of Agent Tanya in the video game Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, replacing Kari Wührer. McCarthy's body was used for a character in a video game called, Your Shape.

Public persona

April 4, 2005

McCarthy once modeled for Candie's, a shoe company. In one magazine ad, McCarthy posed on a toilet seat, with her underwear near her ankles. Cultural scholar Collin Gifford Brooke wrote that the ad's "taboo nature" brought it attention, while noting that the ad itself helped to weaken that taboo. Another Candie's ad depicted McCarthy passing gas in a crowded elevator.

A sketch on her MTV show centered on her character, a well-coifed business woman, answering the question of "What did you have for lunch?" by seeming to force herself to vomit all over a table which she then ate on-screen. This was faked using special effects. The direct contrast of McCarthy's reputation as a sex symbol and this often grotesque humor is closely associated with her image. This image was taken to a new extreme in her film Dirty Love, which featured McCarthy's character sitting in a massive pool of her own menstrual blood.

Personal life

McCarthy dated her manager Ray Manzella for a short time in 1998. After breaking up with Manzella, McCarthy began dating actor/director John Mallory Asher. The couple became engaged in January 1999, and married on September 11 of that year. They have a son, Evan Joseph, born on May 18, 2002. Evan was diagnosed with autism. In August 2005, McCarthy and Asher filed for divorce.

In December 2005, McCarthy began dating Jim Carrey. They did not make their relationship public until June 2006. She announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on April 2, 2008 that she and Carrey were then living together, but had no plans to marry, as they did not need a "piece of paper."[citation needed] Carrey almost made a mock proposal to McCarthy as a promotion to the film, Yes Man for Ellen's Twelve Days of Holidays. McCarthy and Carrey announced that they had split up in April, 2010.

Her brother-in-law is former NHL hockey player Dan Hinote, now playing for Modo Hockey. Dan is married to her younger sister, Amy McCarthy, a former Playboy Cyber Girl. She is also an avid Chicago

White Sox fan.

McCarthy is a vegan.

Activism and autism controversy

In May 2007, McCarthy announced that her son Evan was diagnosed with autism in 2005. Evan's disorder began with seizures and his improvement occurred after the seizures were treated; these symptoms are more consistent with Landau–Kleffner syndrome, which is often misdiagnosed as autism. McCarthy served as a spokesperson for Talk About Curing Autism (TACA) from June 2007 until October 2008. She participated in fundraisers, online chats, and other activities for the non-profit organization to help families affected by autism spectrum disorders. Her first fundraiser for TACA, Ante Up for Autism, was held on October 20, 2007, in Irvine, California. She is a prominent spokesperson and activist for the Generation Rescue foundation.Before claiming that her son's autism was caused by vaccination, McCarthy wrote that he is a "crystal child" and she an "indigo mom".

McCarthy's book on the subject, Louder than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism was published September 17, 2007. She has stated both in her book and during her appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show that her husband was unable to deal with their son's autism, which led to their divorce. In 2008, she appeared on a Larry King Live special dedicated to the subject, and argued that vaccines can trigger autism. No scientists were invited to speak in response. McCarthy is also the spokesperson for Talk About Curing Autism (TACA), and is a member of the board of Generation Rescue.

Although McCarthy's claims on television that vaccines cause autism are not supported by the medical evidence, they have contributed to parental concerns about a possible link;parental concerns have led to decreased immunization rates and increased incidence of measles, a highly contagious and sometimes deadly disease. Producer and post production supervisor on various television programs, Derek Bartholomaus maintains "body count" statistics, with her being held "indirectly responsible for at least some of these illnesses and deaths."McCarthy has stated at many talk shows and rallies that chelation therapy helped her son recover from autism; however, the underlying rationale for chelation, which is that mercury in vaccines causes autism, has been roundly rejected by scientific studies, with the National Institute of Mental Health concluding that autistic children are unlikely to receive any benefit to balance the risks of cognitive and emotional problems posed by the chelating agents used in the treatment.

McCarthy's public presence and vocal activism on the vaccination-autism controversy, led to her being awarded The James Randi Educational Foundation's Pigasus Award (awards granted by Randi for contributing to pseudoscientific ideas) for the 'Performer Who Has Fooled The Greatest Number of People with The Least Amount of Effort'. Randi stated in a video on the JREF's website that he did sympathize with the plight of McCarthy and her child, but admonished her for using her public presence in a way that may discourage parents from having their own children vaccinated.

In an April 27, 2010 PBS Frontline documentary, she was interviewed about the controversy.

Publications

Jen-X: Jenny McCarthy's Open Book, an autobiography (Harpercollins, ISBN 978-0-06-039233-8).

Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth (ISBN 978-0-7382-0949-4)

Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth about the First Year of Mommyhood (ISBN 978-0-525-94883-4)

Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On (ISBN 978-0-525-94947-3)

Louder than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism (ISBN 978-0-525-95011-0)

Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds (ISBN 978-0-525-95069-1)

Healing and Preventing Autism Co-written with Dr. Jerry Kartzinel. Dutton Adult, March 31, 2009. (ISBN 978-0-525-95103-2)

McCarthy is also an occasional columnist for FHM magazine and has also recently appeared in a commercial for Weight Watchers after successfully losing and maintaining her post-pregnancy weight by following the program.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes

1995 Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead Blonde Nurse

1996 The Stupids Glamorous Actress

1998 BASEketball Yvette Denslow

1999 Diamonds Sugar

2000 Scream 3 Sarah Darling

Python Francesca Garibaldi made for TV

2001 Thank Heaven Julia

2002 Crazy Little Thing Whitney Ann Barnsley

2003 Scary Movie 3 Katie

2005 Dirty Love Rebecca Sommers

2006 Lingerie Bowl - made for TV

John Tucker Must Die Lori

Santa Baby Mary Class made for TV

2008 Witless Protection Connie

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Agent Tanya video game

2009 Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe Mary Class made for TV

Television work

Mr. Show (1995)

Singled Out (host from 1995–1997)

Wings (1996)

Jenny (1997–1998)

Home Improvement (Guest Star) (1998)

The Big Breakfast (1998)

Honey Vicarro (2001) (unsold pilot)

Untitled Jenny McCarthy Project (2003) (unsold pilot)

Charmed (2003)

Hope & Faith (2004)

What I Like About You (2005)

The Bad Girl's Guide (2005) (canceled after 6 episodes)

Party @ the Palms (2005–2006)

One on One (2003–2004)

My Name Is Earl (2006)

Tripping the Rift (Voice of Six) (2007– )

Two and a Half Men (2007-2008)

Just Shoot Me (season 5 episode 6)

WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (Saturday Night's Main Event XXXVI, August 2, 2008, edition)

Chuck (Chuck Versus The Suburbs) (2009)

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Katrina Kaif

Katrina Kaif,

Katrina Kaif (Kashmiri: कैटरीना कैफ़ (Devanagari)) (born Katrina Turquotte on 16 July 1984) is a British Indian actress and model who has appeared in Bollywood, Telugu and Malayalam films.

Early life

Kaif was born in Hong Kong to a Muslim Kashmiri father, Mohammed Kaif, and a British mother, Suzzane Turquotte.. Her parents separated when Kaif was very young. Kaif has seven siblings. She was raised in Hawaii, United States and later moved to her mother's home country, England.

Career

At the age of fourteen she was approached by an agent and she began modeling; her first job was for a jewelry campaign. She continued modeling in London, under a contract with the Models 1 Agency and did campaigns for houses, such as La Senza and Arcadius and even walked on the London Fashion Week.

Kaif's London modeling-work led her to discover by London-based filmmaker Kaizad Gustad, who gave her a part in his film Boom (2003). She moved to Mumbai and was offered a number of modeling assignments. However, filmmakers were initially hesitant to sign her because she could not speak Hindi.

Kaif saw success with the 2005 film Sarkar where she played the bit part of Abhishek Bachchan's girlfriend. Her next release, Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya (2005), where she was paired opposite Salman Khan, earned her the Stardust Breakthrough Performance Award.

In 2007, Kaif appeared in the hit movie Namastey London, wherein she starred as a British-Indian girl alongside Akshay Kumar for the second time after the box office dud Humko Deewana Kar Gaye (2006). Her hit films stride continued with Apne, Partner and Welcome.

In 2008, she played a negative role for the first time in Abbas-Mustan's hit action thriller Race. She played the role of Saif Ali Khan's secretary who is secretly in love with his hostile stepbrother played by Akshay Khanna. Kaif's second release of the year was Anees Bazmee's production Singh Is Kinng, opposite Akshay Kumar. Upon release the film was a big success at the box office. Kaif's final release of the year, Subhash Ghai's Yuvvraaj, was a commercial failure, but its script has made its way into the Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for artistic merits, original screenplay with a substance and the film as a whole.

Kaif's first release for 2009, New York, with John Abraham was a critical and commercial success.[10] Kaif's performance was highly appreciated with the critic Taran Adarsh writing, "Katrina gives you the biggest surprise. Known for her glamour roles, Katrina proves that she can deliver if the director and writer offer her a role of substance. She's outstanding. In fact, people will see a new, different Katrina this time." She next appeared in a bit role as a biker chick in the multi starrer action film Blue, popularly known as India's first underwater thriller, performed averagely at the box office. At the year's end, she appeared in Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani with Ranbir Kapoor and De Dana Dan with Akshay Kumar. Both films were commercial successes.

In the year 2010, she is set to appear in the multi starrer film Raajneeti that opens on 4 June 2010. She is currently filming for Farah Khan's Tees Maar Khan along with Akshay Kumar, which is set to release on 24 December 2010.

Awards

Nominated

2005: Zee Cine Award for Most Promising Debut, Sarkar

2008: IIFA Award for Best Actress, Race

2009: Apsara Award for Best Actress In Supporting Role, Race

2009: IIFA Award for Best Actress, Singh Is Kinng

2009: Stardust Award for Star Of The Year, Singh Is Kinng

2009: Stardust Award for Best Actress In A Negative Role, Race

2010: Screen Award for Best Actor In Popular Category, New York

2010: Stardust Star of the Year Award – Female for New York & Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani

2010: Filmfare Best Actress Award for New York

Winner

2006: Stardust Breakthrough Performance Award (Female), Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya

2006: Idea Zee F Awards, Fashion Diva of the Year

2008: Zee Cine Awards, British Indian Actor Award

2008: IIFA Awards, Style Diva of the Year

2008: Sabsey Favourite Kaun Awards, Sabsey Favourite Heroine, Singh Is Kinng

2008: Apsara Film Producers Guild of India Awards, Style Diva of the Year

2009: Rajiv Gandhi Award

2009: Golden Kela Awards, Dara Singh Award for the Worst Accent

2009: Sabsey Favourite Kaun Awards, Sabsey Favourite Heroine

2009: ASSOCHAM Award, Performing Excellence

2010: Star Screen Awards, Entertainer of the year

2010: Stardust Awards, Best Actress - Popular Award for New York & Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes

2003 Boom Rina Kaif/Popdi Chinchpokli

2004 Malliswari Princess Malliswari Telugu film

2005 Sarkar Pooja

Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya Sonia

Allari Pidugu Shwetha Telugu film

2006 Hum Ko Deewana Kar Gaye Jia A. Yashvardhan

Balram vs. Taradas Supriya Malayalam film

2007 Namastey London Jasmeet Malhotra (Jazz)

Apne Nandini

Partner Priya Jaisingh

Welcome Sanjana Shetty

2008 Race Sophia

Singh Is Kinng Sonia

Hello The Storyteller/God Cameo

Yuvvraaj Anushka Banton

2009 New York Maya Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award

Blue Nikki Cameo

Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Jennifer (Jenny)

De Dana Dan Anjali Kakkad

2010 Raajneeti Indu Pratap Post-production

Tees Maar Khan Filming

Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara Pre-production

2011

Untitled Anurag Basu Project Pre-production

Aarakshan Pre-production

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Vatertag, Father's Day

The importance of Father's Day , and the exact date of the German-speaking regional differences. As an official holiday it has its roots in the USA . There the Father's Day as a day of honor for fathers like the Mother's Day celebration. Is due to the holiday Louisa Dodd, whose father was in the Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865. In 1910 she called a movement to honor fathers in life. President Calvin Coolidge in 1924 was a recommendation for the introduction of a special holiday to the states of the United States issued a. President Richard Nixon in 1974 elevated him to the rank of an official public holiday for each third Sunday in June.

Germany

The Father's Day is popular in Germany at the Christian holiday Ascension celebrated, the 40th day after Easter . He is also known as Men's Day or, especially in front of East Germany than Lord's means. Since 1936, the Ascension is a public holiday in Germany (in East Germany was the day only to 1966 and in 1990 a public holiday).
The current form of the Vatertagfeierns is the end of the 19th century in Berlin and the surrounding area come up and is popular with men is still very popular. Key element here was the inauguration of the younger ones in the good and bad manners of masculinity.


Carriage ride on Father's Day 2008 in Nuthe-Nieplitz in Beelitz , Brandenburg
The Father's Day is all in from the north and east by the so-called Mr. match marked. The participants (traditionally exclusively male - young and old) make this mostly a hike or a common exit, where much alcohol is often consumed (Father's Day tour). This one has more points than traditional common goal or one tour of restaurant to restaurant. When walking, are often handcart handcart or wheelbarrow carried, the better to be able to transport beverages. For the trips are usually bikes (some with trailers), Kremser car carriages) or older tractors with trailers used (. The vehicles or cars are here in part, to this day use only and specifically for rebuilt, for example, special bicycle tandems or bikes with more than a dozen seats. Often with the companion lilac and birch branches decorated.
Due to increased alcohol consumption, and the often carried out mass events (this may include social trips, such as barbecue trips, trip to the fishing pond) there is, if one looks at the statistics, on Father's Day a lot more fights than usual to other days. According to the Federal Statistical Office , the number of alcohol-related traffic accidents in Christ's three times the average of the other days of the Assumption with an annual peak.
Today is Father's Day is often celebrated as a family, shared by about day trips to make, but also over the long weekend (with Friday as a bank holiday , many of the schools is released in a short vacation to take).
Austria

In Austria we mean by the Father's Day the second Sunday in June, the analogy to the Mother to buy flowers and small gifts to offer one occasion. The Father's Day was celebrated in Austria for the first time in 1955 and is still perceived more. 2009 reached the Father's Day in Austria with € 108 million already two thirds of the Mother's turnover (2009: 156 million €)[2].
Switzerland

In Switzerland, the Father's Day was not celebrated universally. Only in migrant families, and in border regions, he was committed singly.
2007 this action was fixed, and Switzerland also introduced: the so-called Swiss Father's Day is on the first Sunday, June celebrated nationwide. According to the initiators of the Men's Movement ( maenner.ch ) to the Swiss for Father's Day father's commitment to express appreciation. In contrast to Father's Day in other countries, Father's Day is the first in line at a children's fathers Action Day and also focuses on a political dimension: the framework for a committed fatherhood in work, family and society should be improved. In the first implementation on 17 June 2007 events were held regional and the media was in the political demands reported. [4]In the second development on 15th June 2008 focused on the challenges around the reconciliation of family and career center.
In Ticino , the Father's Day, as in Italy, on 19 March celebrated (St. Joseph / San Giuseppe).
Liechtenstein

In Liechtenstein, Italy is the Father's Day as celebrated on March 19. This day is also the official St. Joseph (St. Joseph). The day is a local holiday. Even in the Catholic south, Liechtenstein, the day as usual in the non-"Lord batch 'as committed.
Luxembourg

Pappendag - In Luxembourg, the Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday in October. The children give their father flowers or small gifts or crafts. In the primary school are partly prepared at home Father's Day songs and then put forward.
Rest of Europe

Bulgaria
On 26 December is celebrated Father's Day in Bulgaria.
Belgium
On the second Sunday in June (except in Antwerp ) in Belgium celebrated Father's Day.
Denmark
In Denmark, Father's Day is on 5 June, who is also the day of the Danish constitution is celebrated.
Finland
In Finland, the Father's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in November.
Italy
In Italy , the Father's Day, festa del papà , March 19, celebrated on. As a Catholic country is at St. Joseph the father figure revered tradition that Joseph of Jesus was. The Father's Day is here, unlike for example in Germany , not a day for Mr. lots or "day for men," but a deeply rooted family holiday, as a counterpart to the Mother and committed is celebrated. The children make or buy small gifts for the father to learn or perform poems in kindergarten and school in small pieces.
Netherlands
In the Netherlands, the Father's Day (vaderdag) 70er/80er years on the third Sunday in June has been celebrated for. Typically, the fathers of that day, breakfast in bed brought in and there are "men's gifts" presented typical (ie ties, socks, cigars, razors, electronics or own homegrown). Some divorced fathers to take the opportunity to sign up for the movement of Fathers 4 Justice set.
Poland
In Poland, which is Dzien Ojca celebrated on June 23.
Portugal
Father's Day In Portugal, the Dia do Pai on March 19 celebrated.
Romania
In Romania, the Father's Day since 2008 on May 5 is celebrated officially. The decision was reached in 2007, connected to the initiative of the brewery Interbrew Romania SA with the brand mountain beer.
Sweden
The Swedish fars dag is celebrated on the second Sunday in November. USA 1931 came the tradition of the first to Sweden and was also celebrated in June. But later, Father's Day was at the request of nordiska handelssamfundet Nordic trading community) on the November-Sunday transferred (to his Mother comparable status to give the one. Also has been increased commercialization of the holiday reached one.
Day Father's Day is all over Scandinavia and Estonia held on the same date, apart from Denmark, where he held on June 5.
Slovakia
Originally, the Father's Day in Slovakia on St. Joseph, celebrated on March 19 also. In the meantime, however, U.S. version was adapted. Now Sunday is Father's Day celebrated on June 3.

On March 19 the Spaniards celebrate their Vatertag El Día del Padre . This day was chosen, therefore, because it is the Joseftag , the day of Saint José (Jesus' father) is. In Spain, it is customary to receive gifts from children, which she painted at school or have tinkered often.
Hungary
Father's Day in Hungary on the 3rd Sunday of June at the. However, he plays in society, in contrast to mothers , who on Sunday in May is celebrated there first, hardly a role.
Africa

South Africa
In South Africa, is the Father's Day on the third Sunday in June.
American

Brazil
In Brazil the annual Father's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in August.


United States
In the U.S. Sunday is Father's Day celebrated on June 3. In 1909, Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd first brought the idea of a "Father's Day" on to William Smart, a Civil War veteran, to honor their father. His wife was at the birth of sixth child died, and Mr. Smart took the baby and the other five children alone on a farm in the east of the State of Washington on. Mrs. Dodd wanted to honor the strength and selflessness that his children had met with her father. The first Father's Day was June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washington, watched on. At the same time appeared different U.S. cities on Father's Day celebrations in. 1924 supported President Calvin Coolidge , the idea of a national Father's Day. And in 1966, signed by President Lyndon Johnson a proclamation , the third Sunday in June Father's Day declared.
President Nixon in 1974 rising to the rank of the Father's Day an official holiday for the third Sunday in June.
The Father's Day in the U.S. is primarily the day on which the children meet their fathers with gifts, poems and flowers. Joint excursions are on the program and many, particularly male Americans are the forgotten Father's Day trips and activities, with their fathers. In addition, there is also a day for men, similar to the as in Germany the idea of a man's cult is celebrated.
The U.S. President George W. Bush announced on June 13, 2003 a "President's Father's Day Proclamation out.
Asia

China (Republic)
In the Republic of China on Taiwan on 8 August, the Father's Day celebration. This is because the "eight" in Chinese ba ( Chinese: 八 , psr is pronounced) and the eighth day of the eighth month in so short baba is, what both the Chinese pronunciation for "father" ( Chinese: 爸爸 , baba ) is similar .
China (People's Republic)
In the People's Republic of China is the Father's Day celebrated on the third Sunday in June.
Japan
In Japan, the Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June.
South Korea
The Republic of Korea there is no "Father's Day," but a "Children's Day ' on May 5, the holiday is to serve as legal, that fathers have time for her family. On top is May 8, but not legally, as "Elterntag".
Thailand
In Thailand , the Father's Day Wan phosphorus mentioned and is a national holiday. It is the birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej on 5 December, committed. On this day the country will be "outstanding fathers of the (changing number) awarded in. In 2004 there were 327 fathers. December 5 should fall on a Sunday, so Monday is the Father's Day on the following from the King's birthday celebrated independent.
Turkey
In Turkey, the Father's Day ( "babalar Günü" ) celebrated on the third Sunday in June. It is "Day of the men," but the equivalent to celebrate Mother's no.
Oceania

Australia
In Australia, Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday in September.
New Zealand
In New Zealand, the Australian Father's Day as celebrated on the first Sunday in September
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Niecy Nash

Niecy Nash profile,

Niecy Nash (born Carol Denise Ensley; February 23, 1970) is an American comedian and actress who has hosted Clean House on the Style Network and played Deputy Raineesha Williams on the Comedy Central television series Reno 911!.

Life and career

Nash was born in Palmdale, California. In addition to her acting endeavors, she is the spokesperson of M.A.V.I.S. (Mothers Against Violence In Schools). M.A.V.I.S. was founded by her mother, after the 1993 shooting death of Nash's younger brother, Michael. M.A.V.I.S.'s mission is to inform the public of the violence children encounter on school campuses. Nash is a graduate of California State University, Dominguez Hills. She was married for 13 years to Don Nash, an ordained minister, before filing for divorce in June 2007. They have three children.

Niecy Nash portrayed Deputy Raineesha Williams and T.T. on the Comedy Central television show Reno 911!. In addition, Nash is the host of Clean House on the Style Network, as well as providing the voice of Mrs. Boots on the ABC Family animated series Slacker Cats, and starred as Rhonda, opposite Jerry O'Connell, in the short-lived Fox sitcom Do Not Disturb.

Nash has guest starred on The Bernie Mac Show as Bernie's sister Bonita, and on That's So Raven as a public-access TV psychic named Madame Cassandra. In 2006, she began work as a correspondent for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She is also a regular on The Insider television program. Nash also appeared in the movie "The Cleaner" with Cedric the Entertainer and Lucy Liu.

Dancing with the Stars

On March 1, 2010, it was announced that Nash will be a celebrity contestant on Dancing with the Stars for the tenth season and will be partnered with Louis van Amstel. The season premiere was on Monday, March 22, 2010. On May 11, 2010, Nash and van Amstel were eliminated from the competition, taking fifth place.

Filmography

Boys on the Side (1995)

Cookie's Fortune (1999)

The Bachelor (1999)

Popular (2000)

Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)

Hair Show (2004)

Jepardee! (2005) (short subject)

Guess Who (2005)

Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie (2005) (voice) (direct-to-video)

Code Name: The Cleaner (2007)

Reno 911!: Miami (2007)

Cook-Off! (2007)

Horton Hears a Who! (2008)

G-Force (2009)

Not Easily Broken (2009)

The Proposal (2009)

Television work

Dancing with the Stars (2010)

The Insider (2009) (celebrity panelist)

Reno 911! (2003–2009)

Clean House (host) (since 2003)

The Bernie Mac Show (Bonita) (2003)

Kid Notorious (2003) (voice) (canceled after 9 episodes)

Slacker Cats (Mrs. Boots) (since 2006)

Do Not Disturb (Rhonda) fall 2008 (canceled after 3 episodes)

Monk

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Snuff Film Manager) (Season 3, Episode 08, "Snuff")

One on One (Darla, 1 Episode, 2001)

Reba (Maya, 1 Episode, 2002)

The Mighty B! (Miriam Breedlove voice) (Season 1, Episode 14, "To Bee or Not To Bee")

My Name is Earl (Mayoral Debate Host) (Season 1, Episode 9, "Cost Dad the Election")

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